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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
FOR
IRRIGATION
ESTIMATE OF AMOUNTS TO BE
SPENT ON CANALS.
List of Extensions of Canals and
New Canals to Be Built in Lower
Rio Grande Valley During This
Year.

According to an estimate just given
out by VIII L. Dunno, right of way
agent for the San Antonio and Rio
Grande road, in an interview in the
San Antonio press, $6,S25, 600 will be
expended in canal extensions in the
Rio Grande Valley during the coming
year. Two new canals which alone
will cost four and half millions are
to be built and the remainder
will be for extensions of canals all
ready built. Mr.. Dunn's figures on
the improvements are:
Brownsville Irrigation Company,
extension, $4,000; Indiana Corpora
tive Company, extension, 100000;
Central Canal Company, new work,
$3.50 600; San Benito extension, I'M
der way, S150,000; Harlingen Land
and Water Company, 800. 900; Am
erican Rio Grande, extensions now
being surveyed, $500, 900; LaDonna
Syndicate, extension, 500, 900; Ham
mond & Morton, new work, $50 600;
P. E. Blalack, S150,000; Schnoren-
burg. Fifield & Co., S25, 600; Greg
DRY, Skein & Roth, $4,000; Chaplin
Town and Land Company, under way.
s72, 900; Hammond & Kelly, under
way, $4,000; Pershing & Steele, I'M
der way, $25, 900; Swift & Briggs.
$50, 000; Conway & Holt. extension
$100,000; Railroad Conductors Co
operative Canal Company, SIS, 900;
Rio Grande Trust Company, 5000;
La Grulla Canal Company, $4,000;
Associated Landowners Canal and
pncnryniY. ~ 50n mn.
Ramirena Reservoir projects, 81
100000; total, s6,S25. 900.
Except for the last two named pro-
jects all financial arrangements have
been completed for other extensions
and new work.
Mr.. DUNES statement shows that
the twenty-three canals now in oper-
alton in the valley cost approximate
Iy $2,410,000 Three-fifths of the
canal systems were not completed in
time to provide water for the 1909
crops, but all will be in operation in
time for the crop of this year The
canal systems, according to his esti-
mate, cover approximately 100000
acres, and the San Benito and other
extensions win add about 100000
1SlSS lOl neal 9Cdt , JidnLlHS-
According to Mr.. Dunno the valley
Is now undergoing an era of the rich
est prosperity. Four big sugar mills
are now in operation in the valley
and the cane acreage will be unusual
ly large. The sugar mills now ready
for business are:
Gregory's. Closner plantation. at
Hidalgo; the Ohio-Texas mill, six
miles northeast of Brownsville; Bru-
lays mill, seven miles east of
Brownsville, and the Piper-Texas
mill, four miles asst of Brownsville.
Next year. according to present
plans, four more big mills will be
erected These will be located res
pectively at Mission. San Benito. Har-
lingen and East MeAllen.
The cotton acreage for this year is
placed at 1000 acres. Gins will be in
operation in time for the fall crop at
Mercedes and San Benito
Mr. Dunno evidently made an error
in one part of his statement in which
he says $500 cars of cabbage, onions
and other truck will be shipped from
the section between Mission and Mer-
cedes this year. This amount is in
all probability intended to cover the
entire valley.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
A ccckroach Remedy.

A housekeeper who was recommend
ed to try cucumber peelings as a rem
edy for cockroaches strewed the floor
with pieces of the peel cut not very
thin and watched the sequel, says
writer in Suburban Life The pests
covered the peel in short time so
that it could not be seen, so voracious-
ly were they engaged in sucking the
poisonous moisture from it. The sec
ond night that this was tried the num-
Der of cockroaches was reduced to
quarter and none were les me
.h;-A ~ie.,t
i... afiV iierajsi
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
re auetlonser,s HouraIass.

An auctioneer of Philadelphia col
aects all sorts of objects pertaining
TO his ancient calling. He has, among
Dther things, an interesting set of auc-
honeer's hourglasSes.
The auctioneer, century or so ago,
concluded sale, not by saying GO
-going-gone!" and rapping the
counter with his hammer, but it was
his better method to turn up a free
running glass toward the end Of the
bidding, and to end the sale irrevoca-
bly, when the sands ran out This
saved confusion and dispute.
The auctioneer's glasses in the
Philadelphia collection are pictur-
esque. One is of tortoise shell and
mother of pearl Another is of amber
and gold. A third is OF teak and
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
Between Twn Ihorns

Rosenbaum had a store between
Smiths and Browns, and all three
sold clothing except Rosenbaum, who
only tried to. Smith and Brown were
often hilarious together over their
neighbours lack of business ability.
After the three stores had been visited
by a very cautious fire, Smith and
Brown covered the fronts Of their
stores with flaming signs announcing
the fire sale; but to their horror
everybody went to Rosenbaum's. Not
until their unbusinesslike neighbor
had sold everything but the gas meter
did they discover his large sign,
Main Entrance" = Success Maya
zine.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
d school committeeman one day

ried school committeeman one day.
Discipline. Why, of course she
pays great deal of attention to #"
asserted Ed Porter, hastily
we never had anybody else begin
to pay as much" said Henry Lane
why, one afternoon was in there
at Number Three, and Miss Hobson
spent the whole time-every minute
of it-preserving order In that school
room. youths Companion
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
Makes Poor Friend Rich.

Waterloo, Ia-Ten minutes after
making will bequeathing all his
possessions. valued at about $40. 900,
to neighbor, poor man who had
befriended him, Gregory Gray,
picturesque character who lived near
Laporte City for more than half cen
fury, died, aged so years.
Having no relations, he preferred
that his property should go to his
friend rather than to the state.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
BROWNSVILLE ROAD
OFFICIALS AT VELAsCO

A number of officials of the St
Louis, Brownsville and Mexico road
visited the jetties, wharves and ter
minals near Velasco on Friday. The
launch Lillian Dingle carried the
party out to the lighthouse and all
the members of the party were great
ly pleased with the prospects of a
port at Velasco and the facilities
that the harbor affords. In the party
were General Manager C. B. Rod
gers and Traffic Manager William
Doherty of the Brownsville road, and
General Manager Felix Jackson of
the Velasco terminal.
There is lots of water in the har-
Dor and IS feet of water over the
bar.
$
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
A piseIuIinarisn.

Miss Hobson was most popular with
the two young and unmarried hem
bers of Centerville's school board
They did not propose to have any
change of teachers in District Number
Three.
do you think Miss Hobson pays
quite enough attention to discipline?"
suggested one of the elderly, mar
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08

No matter how you feed and care
for them hens two years old or over
will not begin to lay until late in the
winter, and then not enough to pay
the expense of keeping them. {
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08

The pullets have 60 doubt been on
wide range this summer. If Matched
In April or May, they should be put
into their winter quarters by the first
of November at the latest.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08

Advertise in The Daily Herald.
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The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-20
TERRIToRY OF ARIzONA. .
COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ,

OoUNI1 OF 0ANlA NhOL,
On this Eighth day of February, in the year
1909, before me, Allen r. Bird. Jerk of the Dis
trict Court in ami for the Territory and County
aforesaid residing therein, duly commissioned
and sworn, personally appeare John Hender
son and l.. NJ. Sa aztr, known to me to be the
persons described in, wht6n names are sub.
scribed to, and who executed the annexed in
sttument, ana they acknowledged to me that
they executed the same Tor the purposes and
considerations therein expressed
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, | have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at my
office, in the said Territory and County, the
day and year last above written.
[SEALl. ALLEN T. BIRD,
Clerk District Court, Second Judicial District
of Arizona, Santa Cruz County
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-20

the typewriter IL The bank, aud
who seems to have been the leader
in the plot WIS sentenced to 10
years and 10 months in The state
penintentlry here. Miguel Molinar
war given similar sentence. Mar.
tin Mateu- was given Z years and
Two months
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-20
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. g.

COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.
|, Phil Herold, County Recorder in and for
the County and Territory aforesaid, do hereby
certify that | have compared the foregoing
Of the LIsrA BIN A COPPER COMPANY,
filed and recorded in my Office on the 9th day
OF February, 1909, in Book 7 of Miscellaneous
Records at page - ct seq; and that the same
is ful true and correct copy of such original
and of the whole thereof
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 9th
day Of February, \. D. 1909
SEAL PHIL HERoLD,
County Recorder
Feb l3-Mar 90.
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-20
ACROSS THE BORDER.

Madre regions during the week II
ID learned that good SHOWS have
been falling and the mining men
and stock men are rejoicing. Many
Of the streams were drying up,
thus affecting mining operations
and the live stock interests.
Jalisco Times: Rafael Galvez
Angulo, who was arrested in Mex
leo City several months ago on the
charge of being an accomplish with
Pablo Yordi in The robbery of the
Bank of Jalisco, has been released
from the state penitentiary because
Of lack Of evidence against his
participation in the bank robbery.
GAIvez has from the start main
tained that he is innocent.
Jalisco Times; While billiards
are raging in various portions of
the United States, and the winter
resorts Of California and Florida
are reporting disagreeably chilly
heather, Guadalajara is enjoying
lis usual winter sunshine and mild
and delightful winter breezes. In
The plazas plants are in blossom
and oranges are ripening, and the
open-air concerts are attracting
thousands nightly.
Mexican Herald: As a result of
the extensive operations of La
Gaia, formerly spoken of as the
rediscount bank, the chartered
banks of the Mexican capital are
being flooded with money and the
cash reserves are greater than ever
before in the history.of banking in
The republic. Many millions are
said to be lying awaiting invest
fnent and the rates of interest on
loans have fallen off from 4 to
per cent year from the figure de-
handed a few weeks ago.
Chihuahua Enterprise: Mexico
has had one rubber boom, the ex
ploitation 'of the plant, guayule
which has been productive Of much
India rubber in this country. Now
the Mexican government ha.
granted concession to the Con.
solidated Palo Amarillo Rubber
Co, with exclusive rights to manu-.
facture rubber, rubber goods and
by-products from two native wilC
fees, the "palo amarillo" and The
"amate" which thrive in different
parts of the republic. The capital,
cation of this corporation is 500,
100000.
Mexican Herald: Minister JustC
Sierra, of the public instruction de
partment, left last night in {
special car attached to the regular
outgoing train of he Mexican rail
way for Cordoba, at $50 O'Clock
and was accompanied to the sta
bon by many of his friends an,
subordinates who hid him farewell
AZ the station. Two extra sleeper
were attached to the train an,
we're occupied by the friends O
Minister Sierra and the member
OF the expedition who will 90 t.
the ruins of Palenque to secure tn
missing part of the famed cross @
Palenque for the National museum
Chihuahua Enterprise: Judg
Rafael Ramos, of the second pena
court of this district, handed dow
bis decision last Saturday in tn
case of the three lads, none of Their
aver % wears old who d,,r - bol
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
Dbe 5effer.on,an
TO KNOW AN ARTIST.

The Munich Jugend has discovered
five new signs by which to detect the
school to which a painter belongs:
CD If he paints the sky gray and
the grass black, he belongs to the
good old classical school; (2) if he
paints the sky blue and the grass
green, he is realist; (3) if he paints
the sky green and the grass blue, he
is an impressionist; (4) if he paints
the sky yellow and the grass purple,
he is a colorist; (5) if he paints the
sky black and the grass red, he shows
possession of great decorative talent.
Literary Digest.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
IT MUST COME.

We cannot see how any man with
fair intelligence can fail to see that
a parcels post must come in time.
There is every fair argument to show
that such a postal service would bene-
fit the people. Other nations have it,
and our people suffer without it. 1t
has got to come eventually, and will
come just as soon as the people I'M
derstand their rights. Those who
fight so to oppose it will get out of
the way and prepare themselves for
the change or get run over.-Win-
chester (Ind.) Star.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
DESERTED NESTS.

I'd rather see an empty bough,
A dreary, weary bough, that hung
AS boughs will hang within whose
No mater birds had ever sung;
Far rather than to see or touch
The sadness of an empty nest,
Where joy has been, but is not now !;
Where love has been, but is not
blest.
There is no sadness in the world,
No other like it here or there
The sadness of deserted homes
In nests, or hearts, or anywhere.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
THE KITCHEN GOD.

The kitchen god of China is per-
haps not rightly SO called. He has
place over the cooking range, but he
is the recording angel" of the
Chinese house, and it is his duty to
note the actions of each member of
the family and report them to the
gods at the end Of every month. Once
year, too, he goes to heaven in per-
son and makes his annual report. So
once year the family PROSTATE
themselves before him; carry him in
procession, and finally burn him,
While crackers are fred.-London II
Illustrated News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
PAGE FOURTEEN.
BETTER WATCH OUT

ACIanIa, Ia, Dec. Il, I90S.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Jeffersonian.
Dear Sir: 1t is said that the late
Hon. L. F. Livingston intends intro
ducing postal savings bank bill.
Better watch out; may be some
thing black in the woodpile.
AS delegate to the National Peo-
pies Party Convention of 1888, at
Cincinnati, I helped to make a plat
form; the first to advocate a postal
savings bank system.
Our proposition being, not only the
positive insurance of the savings of
the depositors, but also the loaning
of the deposits direct from the postal
bank to any one within jurisdiction
of the same who could offer unques-
tionable real security; said security
being as absolute for the payment of
the loan as it is for taxes, and that
without undue cost of foreclosure
proceedings; the interest on time
deposits to be about two per cent,
the borrower to pay three or three
and half per cent; something near
the average rate of increase of
wealth.
Since 1888 the postal savings bank
policy has become very popular with
the people and politicians are taking
advantage thereof through the advo-
cacy Of something under that head.
And there is now pending before
Congress the Carter Postal Savings
Bank head, with a National Bank
tail; the intention being, Of course,
that the tail shall wag the head. The
interstate commerce bill, as at first
presented and advocated, was a popu-
lar measure before the people; but
by the time it get through Congress
Raglan, the daddy of the bill, was
very properly ashamed of it.
Now look out for Livingston's P.
S. B. bill, lest he gets on it with
both feet as he did with the Ocala
platform.
For thirty-two years [ have been
an open and avowed Populist, and
have had my full share of hard
knocks therefor; during all this time
my hardest knocks have come because
Of my temerity in expressing the be-
lief that a solid dominant party is
the bane of our section. But now |
see a hopeful sign; a rift in the
cloud that has heretofore covered
Dixie like the dew" and spread a
dam-p-ness DER it too. And I
am still hopefully and faithfully,
G. r. Parker.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07

Speaker Cannon denies that he is
tyrannical in his rulings in the House
He is too smooth for a tyrant. He
reaches the same end by different
route.-Valdosta (Ga,) Times.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07

Write to Dick Madden, Wingo, KY,
for sample and price Of leaf tobacco.
DIR. I. A. Wesson says he is all right.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07

leading
of the
family
will
OF its In a
is what the
Thomson
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now have to medicine"
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
STANDARD MACHINERY

Saw Mills, Shingle Mills, Lath Mills, Portable
Saw Mills, Hustler Saw Mills. Log Beam Saw
Mills, Feed Mills, Corn and Flour Mills, Wood
Saws, Pumps. Engines. Boilers, Gasoline En-
Sines Don't buy until you get our prices and
catalog. We sell everything in Machinery and
prices right.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-07
Dr.. Durham'S Liver Medicine

A purely vegetable medicine--useful in all condi-
tions arising from deransed DISQUALIFICATION
Biliousness, Constipation Dyspepsia, Sick
Headache. etc, made according to the
formula Of DIR. Durham.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
Murder Revealed by a Dream.

Perhaps the most amazing crime
mystery ever solved by dream was
that revealed by Il murder trial cou-
pie of generations ago. The dead body
Of Mr. Norway, an inoffensive Cornish
gentleman, had been found by the
roadside between Wadebridge and
Bodmin brutally murdered. No trace
of the murderer could be found. and
the mystery of the crime seemed be-
yond all solution when Mr.. Norway's
brother, naval officer. arrived in
England and told the following story
On the very night of his brothers mur-
der. when he was on his ship In the
West Indies. he saw him In a dream
walking along the Bodmin road. when
from dark recess in the hedge two
ruffians sprang out, slew and robbed
him and then made their way to q
house In Wadebridge. which he saw
wildly In his dream. To this house
he conducted the police officers. and
there he found the very two men
whom in his vision he had seen com
NIT the murder. They confessed and
suffered the extreme penalty of the
law.-London Answers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
There Was No Duel.

Colonel Crisp when in the Missouri
legislature was one of the central fig
ures in scene which promised blood
shed, which ended in hearty laugh
and which was the cause of an as
founding remark from Hon. John W.
Farriss, the then speaker. said Champ
Clark. Crisp and another member got
into debate which grew into quar-
rel. They shook their fists at each
other and roared like pair of Nu-
indian lions. Everybody expected and
many hoped to see regular old fash
ioned knockdown and dragout fight,
which expectation and hope were frus-
trated and dashed to the ground by
Speaker Farriss remarking:
If you gentlemen do not quit fuss
ing and take your seats | will order
the chaplain to take you into custody"
which so amazed the belicose legis-
lators that they stood in state of
lingual paralysis, while the spectators
laughed till they were red in the face.
Humor saved the day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
How He HeIped the Blind.

please help blind man." said a
fellow with green goggles as he held a
tin cup toward the line of people issu-
ing from the Union depot. Il always
help the blind" said one of two young
men who were passing. and he stopped
and took out a FIVE dollar bill. Can
you get quarter out of this?' Il
guess So" said the blind man, fishing
out handful of change and counting
out $4.75. We'll. john" said the ben
evolent young mans companion as
they walked on. you're bigger fool
than | took you to be-" Am IL" said
John. "Yes, you are. That fellows no
more blind than | am. How could he
tell that was five dollar bill?"
BLAMED if | know" said John inno-
Gently. "but he must be mighty near
sighted not to see that 1t was coun-
erfeit."-Chicago News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
Tn. Very Simple Life.


Pierre Lott, the French author. al
ways did like Il practical joke. A
French poet who had been advocating
a return to the simple life decided one
day TO make the acquaintance of Lott.
He left his village. he who never trav-
els, stick In hand. to make the jour
ney to Hendaye. the home of Lott. on
foot. He prayed the celebrated novel
ist to receive him without ceremony;
that he should be satisfied with a
bowl of milk for his repast.
But he was much astonlshed when
the novelist took him at his word IN
the dining room ON table without
cloth or napkin there was only an i'm
mense crock of milk.
The visitor showed some hesitation
about beginning the feast. Meanwhile
his host began to walk around the
room like bear In a cage. only inter
rupting his walk from time to time to
take long swig of milk from the
crock. Without saying word the host
invited the astonished guest to initiate
him.
The man Of the simple life had found
one more simple than himself. and he
left the house convinced that the great
novelist had become crazy
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
A Gentle Rebuke.

1t was late in the year for Straw-
berries, but Mrs. Beacon was deter
mined to have some for Sunday din
ner. Over the telephone came the
news that they were very fine.
ma'am; very fine indeed" Being
however, cautious housekeeper. she
decided to look over the fruit herself
as the grocer was not always to be
trusted.
'They don't appear very good" she
said some time later, examining care
fully a basketful. "They look"-here
she extracted one and tasted it-"they
look little green. don't know. Just
let me try one" She took another.
81 guess I'll take one box, please. You
don't put very many in box, do you?'
she inquired.
"There was" said the grocer respect
fully, but there's been so many ladies
looking 'em over that there ain't'-
"You may give me two boxes" said
Mrs. Beacon.-Y Youths Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-12-22
THE ANIMAL MIND.
A Story About a Cow and the Calf
She Licked.

A Story About a Cow and the Cali
She Licked.
An absurd story is cited about a
cow, showing what creatures of habit
animals are. This particular COW
would not stand to be MIXED unless
she could lick her calf at the same
time. For long time she always had
a calf of some age or other to lick,
but at last by i'll fortune one Of her
calves died.
mother should mourn her loss just at
milking time, but there was the fixed
habit Of making certain motions. The
farmer, however, was practical
psychologist. He stuffed the skin of
the calf with hay and let the COW
have that to lick. To be sure, the hay
calf had neither head nor legs, but a
COW has no general ideas concerning
the nature of calves nor any special
reason for assuming that calves should
have heads and legs. 1t felt right, and
it smelled right. 1t enabled her to go
through the customary motions at
milking time. Therefore it was suffi-
cient.
By dint of caressing and licking her
little calf the tender parent one fine
morning unripped it. The hay issued
from within, and the COW, manifest
ing not the slightest surprise or agita-
tion, proceeded TRANQUILITY to devour
the unexpected provender. - Il. I.
Brewster in McClure's Magazine.