The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-17

railroad management hoped to run
in Wednesday night on No As time
1t brought patient but rather sore
crowd of passengers, who were
brought through without change of
cars, being held at Raymondville
over night, all on board being com
or else sit up. AS the accommoda-
lions were rather limited, quite a
number of .nen had to recline on the
porch with q blanket for a couch.
The train that left Houston yester-
day morning likewise had 10 lie over
for the night at Raymondville, COM
ing in this afternoon at 2:30 1t
brought gOodly number of passen-
gers and a heavy load of mail This
afternoon, the indications are that
the regular train will come tonight
while a resumption of service on the
branch from Brownsville is prom
iSed for Sunday morning
L. 5. Consul Miller made an early
start this morning for Camargo. 60
ing by way of the branch to For
dyce, thence by automobile, if pos
sible to Rio Grande City and by
ferry to the Mexican side. He goes
to make personal investigation Of
the extent of the suffering caused
by the flood and to distribute sup
pnes amongst the sufferers.
Goats From MeXicO-A flock of
goats numbering IS was crossed
over from Mexico today by Emit
MIC Farias, to stock his farm near
Brownsville. Dr. Corbett, [. S
stock examiner, came down from
San Antonio to inspect the goats.
InvolutaIy Robinson CrusOe stunt
Fred Warren, the well known
civil engineer and architect, strug-
gled back to town Wednesday last
vowing to decapitate any one who
said bean" to him. During the
late wetness, Fred was caught on
the wrong side of the flood. in fact.
ii got him on every side, and for
week he played the part of a mOu-
ern Robinson CrusOe on a half acre
isle, with nothing in the larder but
beans and coffee ar Warren had
gone up country the Tuesday before
the rise to do some surveying and
was pleasantly encamped on the
northwest shore of Lake TiOcanO
when the trouble began. He knew
that the river was nigh, but had not
heard that it had gotten out of its
bank. Consequently, he was rath-
er surprised to step out of bed Fri
day morning into a pool of water.
Locking out he saw that if he didn't
move his camp without delay he
would probably have to take TO a
tree. The move was made quickly
and without confusion to a little knoll
short distance away, and there he
stayed hemmed in by an undrinka-
bic liquid until Tuesday when the
water had gone down sufficiently to
permit him to make his way to the
railroad.
An Accommodation Job'-About
three O'Clock this morning, a Mexican
whose name could not be learned
drove up to 1.-THE city hall in a hack
and informed the lieutenant OF police
that early in the night a hackman bv
the name 'SamOra' had asked him
(the unknown to hold his horses
for him and that he had done as re
quested. After waiting until early in
the morning, SIill" holding the hors-
es, the owner failing to return, the
unknown, becoming weary OF his &C
cOmmodatiOn job, turned the convey
ance over to the police. This morn
ing ''SamOra' showed up at the city
hall, claiming his team and driving
home with it.
No More Disorder on Streets-The
police force of the city were this morn
ing given strict orders by Mayor FreI
J. COmbe to use their best endeavors
10 put an end to the practice, which
a good many individuals are indulg-
ing in lately, of drinking to excess and
then going out upon the streets of
the city and raising a disturbance or
otherwise making themselves ODnOx-
lOus. The mayor instructed the force
that, whenever they saw a drunk
en- man on the streets. they must ar
rest him an dnOt merely tell him ne
had better go home and sleep off the
effects of their carOusal, as has often
been done in the past. The mayor
stated that he is determined to rid
the streets of Brownsville of all dis
orderly characters, and that he will
see that his order this morning to
the department are enforced.
$4,000 Stable Begun Work was
begun thus afternoon on the new
= ,g9c stanlc to be c:; ct-d for Ne
Brownsville Transfer Co. at the cor
ner of Tenth and Adams streets. j.
c. DeBruin, who holds the contract
fer tho cOncIete work, loved h.
forces to the scene OF operations
this afternoon and began the work
that viii give Brownsville the best
appointed stable in Southwest Texas.
Tickets for the amateur perform
ance to be given at the CelfOrd
this evening have sold fast, and
nearly all reserved seats were taken,
50 that a large audience viii encOur-
age the performers. The fact that
the proceeds WI be donated to the
civic improvement association, is
sufficient to interest all public spir-