The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-27
REPOK ON
STARR COUNTY
RANGER CAPT. JOHNSON DE-
FERs FROM MONTY" MOORE.
Latter Investigated at Rio Grande
City at Governors Request and Re-
ports Various Discoveries of Sem
sationaI Nature in County Affairs.


Austin. Texas. May 26.--Captain
Johnson of the Ranger service last
Saturday made a verbal report to the
adjutant general On the recent kill
ing of a Mexican in Rio Grande City
by Ranger Davis. 1t was to the effect
that the Mexican was killed in self
defense while resisting arrest, and
that this was SO well understood in
Rio Grande City that Davis had
found it easy to give bond.
This report is in direct conflict with
the report made by Monta j. Moore,
who went to Rio Grande City at the
request of the governor to make an
investigation of the conditions pre-
Yailing in Starr county. Mr.. Moore.
BY word of mouth, to the adjutant
general declared that from what he
had ascertained he was prepared to
hold that the killing was unsustified,
and in a written report to the COVER
nor he reiterated his declaration TO
that effect.
Moore's report to the governor con-
tains several illusions to the Ran
gers whom he charges with taking
sides in the feud prevailing in Starr
county,. Au1Cu lit cllCS5CS
bv a cabal that controls the Offices
and runs things with a high hand
This alleged cabal Mr.. Moore de-
clares controls the offices and divides
the county funds among its members.
while the county's current obliga-
lions are met with scrip that is worth
but 25 cents on the dollar. Mr..
Moore further alleges that many citi-
zens who do not approve of the way
of doing things are afraid to protest
for fear of having their property
rights ruthlessly violated or their
lives taken.
Any one Directing to such doings,
he declares is in danger of being in
dicted on trumped up charges by
grand iuries controlled by the cabal,
while the members of said cabal or
their friends violate the law with inn
punity and without fear of prosecu-
ton Gambling houses, he states. are
run in open violation of the law by
attaches of county Offices, with the
connivance of their superiors, and no
one thinks of questioning their do
ings
Mr.. Moore's report is in harmony
with protests the governor has re-
ceived from Falfurrias, in the north
erR portion of Starr county, the in
habitants of which section besought
the Thirty-first legislature to create
a new county for them.
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x LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Y
x x \ x x x x x .: x Il
oIdtinler Endorses Newcomer, But
Advances New Idea for Sewer Pro.
ject.
To The Herald:
have only Just recovered my
breath from the lacing Mr.. Newcomer
gave me in his recent communication
I thought l might be spared any fur
Their discussion with smarty New
conner, and although | WINGED at the
cocoon comparison. | will grant
there is much truth in what he said.
Now, Mr.. Newcomer, we are not
very far apart as to what Brownsville !
needs. | agree with you about our
electric light plant There is some
thing rotten with it. There has evil
IDENTIFY been something wrong with |
its management Here we are again
without lights, and | understand may
be for four or five days / here adj [
NIT that | was premature in saying,
in my first letter that il was an 'sac-
cident" that the city had no lights.
| now see the faiiacy of such a state 4
ment. Something must be doae 81
once. 1t is time for the powers that
be to put a wiggle on themselves. and
provide ways and means 20 light this
city and light il satisfactorily There
is no argument 10 this now. Mr. New
c5mer. Il is living fact The eiti I
sens should arouse themselves: tkey
should be confronted with the condi-
tons and their help solicited.
Now about the sewer proposition,
Mr.. Newcomer. | am about as much
nettled at Tuesdays proceedings as
a man can well be, and yet retain his
senses. You struck it right when
you called them 'hot-air' meetings.
No progress has been made, and we
are no nearer building a sewer now,
then we were after the first meeting
some months ago. | also want to
know what we are going to do about
it and how we are going to do it?
One man at Tuesdays meeting had
the ball to ask for the discharge of
the old executive committee, which is
composed of BrownsvilIe's most rep
resentative men and substitute what
he called a set of younger men. What
= honrnpranOf cnor fbi- cfafo-
ment was fully understood, many in
the room began to twitch and squirm
on their chairs like they had been
visited by a plague. No wonder the
members of the old committee OBJ
jected to any such proceeding. They /
scented danger of some kind and