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nta Prnfea.IonaI Wax.

The new waitress sided up to 9
dapper young man at the breakfast
table, Who, after glancing at the bill.
opened his mouth, and noise issued
forth that sounded like the ripping
on Of all the cogs on one of the
wheels in the power house. The new
waitress made her escape to the kitch.
en-. Fellow out there insulted me"
she said.
The head waiter looked at him.
'Tn get it." he said. That's just the
train caller ordering bis breakfast"
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Gregory, Bats &
Brooks and
Sam'I Spears,
Lawyers.
lawyers.

We have~formed a partnership un-
der the foregoing name for the trans
action of our law business in the Low
er Rio Grande Valley. Offices will be
maintained at Brownsville and San
Benito The business of Gregory,
aatts & Brooks at Austin, will be
maintained as heretofore.
t. w. GREGORY,
R. L. BATS,
V. L. BROOKS.
SAM'L. SPEARS.
Office N the Browne Building
Brownsville Texas, May /, 1909.
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Whore They Came From.

II Is surprising from whence came
the most common articles of food. The
onion, the leek, garlic and pea we're
fayorites in Egypt; rye and parsley in
Siberia; the the citron and currants IN
Greece, and radishes hail from China
and Japan.
!. The horsechestnut is a native of
Thibet, The Forbidden Land" and
the mulberry tree, walnut and peach
travelled westward from Persia. Very
few consider that oats originated In
North Africa at a time when Egypt
was the granary Of the world.
The chestnut came from Italy,
celery from Germany, spinach from
Arabia. the sunfiower from Peru and
cucumbers from India. Tobacco is .
native Of Virginia
Eggs VIII keep for some time in a
dry atmosphere-hens' eggs for about
ten days; ducks eggs for one week;
turkeys and geese eggs for twenty
days. Nevertheless, for Matching pur-
poses, they should be as fresh as pos
ssble.
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The man who lodges his taxes in
this world viii have to pay dearly
In the next one.
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE
FINANCIAL CONDITION

Of the Brownsville Bank & Trust Co.
at Brownsville, State of Texas at the
close of business on the 23rd day of
June 1909, published in the Browns
vile Daily Herald, newspaper print
ed and published at Brownsville,
State of Texas, on the 26th day of
June, 1909.
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Kansas had 100000 acres Of wheat
this year. The crop was generally
good.
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SUMMER SCHEDULE ON
RIO GRANDE RY. JUNE |

The following is the summer sched-
ule for the Rio Grande railroad to
take effect Tuesday, June 1st:
Daily, Excepting Saturday, Sunday
and Monday.
Brownsville Point Isabel
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive $50 p. m. Leave 500 p. m
Saturdays.
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1890 a M.
Arrive 500 p. m. Leave $3.50 p m.
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive 700 p. m
Sundays.
Arrive $3.50 a. m. leave 700 a m.
Leave see a. M. Arrive 1890 a. M.
Arrive 500 p. N. Leave $3.50 p. m
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive Gas p. m.
Mondays.
Arrive $50 a. m Leave 700 a. n,
Leave 900 a. ii. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive $50 p m. Leave 500 p m.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

Mercler, six lots in Athens Park tract, 1900;
Margaret e. Starbuck. house and lot In Lake
street $50. coo; Esther Levy, fats in Seventeenth
street near Castro. S7.650 l.. p. Curtis house
and lot In Twelfth avenue, $3.50: Marian E.
macdonald fats in Fourth avenue, $500: II.
Berkeley. $1,000; Mrs. Emma Appledern,
grocery stock. 200; Katie A. Mathews 514
phreys, business property at corner OF East
Fourteenth street and Thirteenth avenue. S4s 900;
r Calou, southwest corner Twelfth and Castro
streets. $4,000; Natalie kleeman, stores and
flats at corner of East Fourteenth street aud
Thirteenth avenue, S35, 900; also house and lot
at corner of Lake and Madison streets S25, 600;
Bell estate, lot in Santa Clara avenue near
Van Buren street. So, 200.
RAIN DELAYS OPENING
The Bright-Merrill company had the
following to say:
Oakland is now occupying such a
well entrenched position, and her ul-
innate growth is so sure in all the
phases that make for a large munich
pality, that all we have to do is to keep
UP with the procession. The continued
wet weather, however, has disarranged
our plans for the formal opening of
our new subdivision, School street ter
race. The contractors are working
right along between showers, getting
the tract ready for the opening which
we are planning for an early date,
which date will be governed altogether
by weather conditions. Reservations,
however. are being made every day,
and we look for a lively SALE. Business
in general seems toabe on a conserya-
tive basis, with the tendency steadily
upward"
One of the handsomest residences to
be ercted in Broadmoor is that which
j. Gather Newsom, the architect, has
designed for w. +. Sampson. The
structure will be of the mission type
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

10 the tract, and preliminary surveys
are now being made. Ground was
broken this week for the handsome
$4,000 home of J. Nelson on the bouie-
ward that runs from Broadway TO the
heart OF the tract, and other buyers
are having their plans drawn. To
Nelson viii go the distinction of being
the first resident of the new tract.
Rock Ridge park is to be the most
beautiful residence tract in this coun-
try. To its wondrous natural beauty
viii be added the improvements that
viii be made by the Laymance real es
tate company in its effort to achieve
their ideal. And with all this, the
property is being sold at a figure that
is about a third Of what is being asked
for similar high class tracts. II IS
not strange that people want to buy
under such conditions
That was the comment made by f..
E. Reed, subdivision manager of the
Laymance real estate company.
BENEFITS ARE APPARENT
That the successful result of the re-
cent bond and annexation elections has
had a beneficial effect upon the local
Minney. the Broadway real estate
broker.
people seem to realize the import
ance of owning a piece of Oakland
real estate said Minney.
..Ihave just closed a sale for fac
tory site on the Western Pacific and
Southern Pacific for the account of
Kate A. Matthews to the Hudson lom
her company. on which they have put in
spur tracks and started to put up the
factory, where ehey will employ about
1000 men, While the price OF the
land was trife less than $1,000, the
improvements will cost several times
this amount and win be in operation
in about 80 days. Another sale Just
made at the southwest corner or
Twelfth and Castro streets. where the
purchase price was about $400 per foot,
vacant, indicates what property in this
district is worth at this time
The following is a list of Minney's
recent sales, besides several others on
which titles are being searched prepar-
atory TO being closed in few days
T. F. GrinneH one-sixth interest in Cherry
I.vnu tract 81 $50: II. II. Mcdonald, lot in
East Twenty third street near Twenty first ave
nue. $3.50: Continental building and loan CON-
pauv nine room house and lot in Portland ave
ue 5000: Walker Il BradhoG, fats in Pied
month avenue. 81 800; Kate X. Tyson. lot N
Jersey street near Cottage. 81 200; William J.
close lot in Oakland Prospect homestead $l125;
William Mullen, factory in Valdez street near
7 livingston 81 600 Walker & Bradhof, fats at
Fifty-ffth and Market streets, $4,000; ". K.
Humphreys lot at corner Of Summit and Linda
streets 81 500: Fred Tate apartment house in
Sixtleth street. Sl3.0 600; ]. y. Mills fats in
Thirty-ifth street near West $500; W. +.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
New Tracts i'm Alameda


ALAMEDA, Dec. 3-The feature of
the local realty market this week was
the announcement that two of the
largest tracts of unOccupied land re-
naming in the city limits are TO be cut
up into building sites and placed ON
sale.
Alfred G. Cohen, a son of Mrs. Emile
G. Cohen. owner of Fersside, the tract
of land in the northeastern section Of
Alameda which has been one of the
show places here for 40 years. let it be
known that the estate is to be sub
divided, improved with streets, sewers,
sidewalks and cutters and placed on
the market
The old cricket field at the west end.
which a quarter of century ago was
the baseball park of the old California
que, has been purchased by Fricl1 &
McKeand of Oakland and preparations
are in progress to improve it and sell
1t in lots. The land was at one time
the property of James G. Fair.
Max Dill. the comedian. who is a
resident of this city is preparing to
have Is dwellings erected on land
owned by him in Central avenue be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets.
Joseph Durney- has leN a contract to
Laird & Gates for the construction of
large residence at the northwest cor
ner OF Paru street and Dayton avenue
to cost $4,000.
The Alameda national bank plans TO
start work on its business block just
north of the bank building about the
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
OAKLAND REALTY
MARKET BRIGHTFNS
Brokers Report That Develop
ment of All Sections of the
City Promises Well

OAKLAND. Dec 3.-Greater Oak
land Is already beginning to feel the
quickening effects Of expansion. DIR
ing the last week there has been a
noticeable increase of interest in real
estate investments ahd every indica-
tion points TO a much more rapid de-
veIopment OF an sections of the city
than was apparent before the recent
annexation election.
IN the annexed districts especially
is the benedcent effect Of the city's
increase in territory noticeable. Lots
are in great demand, houses and busi-
ness buildings are springing up and
financial institutions are charging
their quarters and business forces
The city government officials are
busily preparing to begin active work
ou the various projects authorized by
lhe new bond issue while plans for
the opening OF Washington street
past the site OF the present city hall
are also wen under way.
LOWER BROADWAY BUILDS Up
Lower Broadway is now beginning
10 build Up rapidly, and it promises
10 vie with its uptown section soon
after the Western Pacific begins act
i've operations. Two modern three
story buildings have been put up at
the corner of First street, and prop
erty values in this neighbOrhoOd have
risen so rapidly that it is practically
certain that in the near future moth
ing but first class buildings viii be
seen ia the district.
Finishing work in the interior Of
the new Thayer building at the cor
ner of Fourteenth and Jefferson
streets is being rushed ahead and the
structure viii be ready for occupancy
soon after the beginning of the new
wear. The ground floor VIII be occu-
pied by stores. while the four upper
stories are being fitted up for Office
purposes.
ROCK RIDGE PARK
Among the new districts which be-
came d part OF Greater Oakland when
the annexation election was carried
was Rock Ridge park, a beautiful
stretch of rolling country which the
I.aymance real estate company has
been developing into one of the most
attractive tracts ever offered for sale
in this city.
At present Broadway terminates a
little way beyond the north boundary
OF Rock Ridge, but the success of an
nexatiOn has made the continuance
of that street imperative in order TO
lit tHh AAE a. 4lADAE QAlttA Ig4At 10 A4dIE-
mont and Contra Costa county and
also 10 allow more satisfactory ac-
cess 70 other parts of the charming
hin region which is the pride of
Oakland and Berkeley.
The opening Of this street TO all
that traffic is assured and seen at
glance.
Before a lot was sold in Rock Ridge
park over $4,000 was spent ia i'm
provemenrs. but that was only a be-
ginning All winter long the work of
completing the original plans viii
continue, so that when spring opens
the ideal which the Laymance real
estate company aimed at when they
took over the property win to a large
extent have been achieved. When the
task is finished and the finished park
is presented 10 the public total of
over $4,000 VIII have been spent on
improvements.
WILL EXTEND CAR SERVICE
Plans are now under way for the i'm
mediate extending of streetcar service
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

The record of building operations in
Oakland during November is as fol-
lows:
Permits Amount.
New construction ....-..-. Iii S297, ,999. 50
Alterations additions, repairs.12 46.757.0 90
Total .-.......,............2 .246 $s44. .75e So
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
FLYHOLM CHANGES NAME
TO BALK THE PUNSTERS
Court Grants His Petition to
Drop the Fly

OAKLAND, Dec. 3.-Hans F'lyholm
will be able to walk the streets here
after without having his friends and
acquaintances make an offensive pun
on his name and tell him to fly home.
He got so tired of this that he pc
titioned the superior court to change
his name. This was done today by
Judge AIurphey. and he will be known
hereafter as Hans Holm.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

frst of the coming year The structure
will cost about $4,000. The upper floor
is to be laid out as an armory and will
be occupied by Company G of this city,
During November 61.95S.5O was ex-
pended on buildings and repairs in Al
amedas according to the books of the
building Inspector
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
BurIingame Terrace Sold

BURLINGAME. Dec. "a big zeal
estate deal was consummated this week
when the real estate firm OF Lyon &
HOag purchased the large tract of hand
known as I;urlingame terrace and for
merly owned by the Market street
bank. Louis II. Mooser. the receiver of
the defunct hank. sold Burlingame ter
race to a syndicate from ChicagO.
which planned to throw the PROPERTY
on the market. 1t is understood that
Lyon & Hoag bought from the Chieago
capitalists.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
Oakland. Cal. Oct. 1. 1903.
DIR. TOM Wal TONG,
TEA I'D HE DoCToR.

- - = - =
sI3 CLAY ST. OAKLAND.
For some time past been suffer
ing from blood poisoning, together
with sore throat and nose. foi
which I have been treated by Dr..
Tom Wal Tong. Am pleased witt
lbe treatment ] have received al
the hands Of the doctor and am
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
BUILDING pERMITs ISSUED

of architecture. with attractive exter-
nal features and interior finishings.
The house will cost $4,000.
BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED
Following is a summary of the build
ing permits applied for at the board
Of public works during the week end
ing December 1, as compiled by Walter
B. Fawcett, the secretary:
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

IO11Y q WFII man Would recnnnend Nm %
sar suffering from similar trouble y. X. KON-
DEf-F, 2i4o Mckinley ay., Berkeley, Cal
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
Berkeley Realty Booming

BERKELEY. Dec 3.-Realty dealers
OF this city report that conditions have
improved during the last six weeks
and a brisk holiday season is looked
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04
Saa1 r5a g

The bank clearings for the week
amounted to s2.277.4S6 For the cor
responding week in 1908 the clearings
were S1,7l6,21175
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-04

for by them The line of progress in
realty is along the new car service ex-
tensions and many lots in the northern
part Of the city have been sold.
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FOUGHT FOR BROTHER.
Thirteen-Year-OId Girl Used Razor on
His AssaiIant.

New York, July 16.-The Brooklyn
police have in custody 13-year-old
girl who is charged with committing
most remarkable assault upon lad
of her own age, while a street filled
with terror stricken people looked on.
Anthony Roman, 13 years old, had
slapped the face Of the little brother
ls9f Lena MieIine and the latter in
revenge slashed the face of Roman
into ribbons with a razor while an
older boy held him. Lena summoned
Philip Mazza, II years old, to her as
sistance and when they found Roman,
Philip grabbed his arms from behind
while the girl drew a razor from the
folds of her short skirt and COM
menced siashing at the face of the
young lad.
One stroke of the razor clipped an
ear off, another left the nose hanging
by thread and others opend the scalp
and cheeks in many places. During
the vicious attack Anthony tried to
free himself but the youth holding
him was too powerful and all he could
do was to move his head from side to
side in an effort to avoid the onslaught
of the enraged girl.
Women ia the streets screamed and
q crowd quickly collected. AS a police
man approached MazZa dropped An
thony to the sidewalk and he and the
girl tried to escape but were captured.
AT the police station Lena's only COM
ment was that no one could whip her
young brother without paying for it.
Doctors say that if Anthony RECEIVERS
at all he will be sadly disfigured.
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BIGGEST PARADE YET.
Labor and Trade Unions Join With
EIks at Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 16.-The great
er part of the work of the grand lodge
OF Elks now holding its annual re-
Union in this city, will be completed
With the sessions, held today and to-
night. Matters now left for the con-
gideration of the lodge, beyond a few
minor ones, are those that will in the
end be referred to the committees for
report at a meeting to be held in
Detroit in 1910. The installation of the
new officers for the grand lodge has
been left to the closing hours of the
reunion here and the impressive cere-
monies will be witnessed by thousands
of Elks who are not members of the
grand lodge.
The session. today began at 1 O'Clock
and the work Of the day was princi
pally devoted to matters pertaining to
the ritual. Today the great fraternal
and industrial parade by far the most
pretentious one of the reunion and the
most imposing, was held. AS on yes
terday an immense throng gathered
early in the day, and the long line pass
ed through streets packed to their ca
pacity with humanity. There were
seven divisions of this grand pageant
ard in the third division devoted to
fraterna1 organizations. there were Sc
organizations represented either with
floats or men in line.
Labor and trade unions paraded and
the whole day was in the nature OF a
great midsummer festival
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HARTMAN SAYS YES.
Expenditure of Millions for EIectri-
fication Authorized.

Chicago. July 16.-Reports from
New York and California. indicating
that Z. H. Hartman had authorized
the expenditure of millions for the
eleetrification of the South srn Pacific
before taking steps to satisfy Chi
Cages demand for the substitution of
electric motors for smoking Iocomo-
tives on the Illinois Central terminal,
were secuted yesterday by Julius
Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance
and operation of the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific system
Mr. Kruttschnitt not only denied
that identification of any of the
Southern Pacific's line was in pros
pect, but asserted that two of the big
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PAUL MARX INSANE
Thought to Have Been Seeking Re
venge for Brothers Death.

Chicago. July 16.-Paul Marx,
brother of Gustave Marx, one of the
car barn bandits. was adjudged in
sane and committee to Dunnins.
Marx was arrested recently with a
magazine revolver in his possession.
His remarks led the police to be-
lieve he sought to avenge his broth
er's death by killing Acting Chief of
Police Sehuettler, upon whom he had
called q few days previously. Brood
ing over his brothers death is be-
lieved to have affected the youths
mind.
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reached and he will be tried for

reached and he will be tried for
manslaughter.
Cox, with several friends. all of
County Mayo, We're returning from
a funeral when they began to quarrel,
and Cox, it is alleged, struck q friend
on the head with a stick, but they
shook hands after the fight. About
three months afterwards the youth
died and meanwhile Cox had emf
grated to America.
The inquest showed that death was
caused by Cox's blow and the British
took steps to extradite him on the
charge of murder. The case was
fought in the supreme court of the
United States. and was still being
contested when the compromise was
effected a few days ago.
William Dillon, brother of John
Dillon, the Irish parliamentary lead
er. departed for ireland yesterday to
defend Cox.
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aigrets and worn mostly on the hats
of women, cannot be sold even by the
government in the state of New
York. Collector Loeb had announced
that aigrets valued at about $1,000
and which were struggled into this
port by stewards of the steamships
Tennyson and Verdi from Brazil in
April and May and seized by customs
inspectors, were to be sold at public
auction
A professor Of the National Assoc
citation of Audubon societies wrote a
letter to the collector protesting
against the sale on the ground it 'is
against the public interest" The col
Iector cogitated and put the problem
up to the secretary OF the treasury.
who In turn referred it to the
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AN OPEN SWITCH.
Passenger Train Took It and There
Was a Wreck.

Champaign. Ill, July 16.-Three
trainmen were killed and two injured
in head on collision between south
bound passenger train No. 20 and
northbound passenger train No. 26. on
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad
at Royal, near here, early today Aside
from a severe shaking up the passen-
gers on both trains escaped without
injury.
An open switch was responsible for
the wreck. Train No. IS was on the
siding to permit No. % to pass. The
latter took the switch, travelling at the
rate of SO miles an hour.
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CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE
Two Girls Taken Out Alive But
Brother Was Dead.

New York, July 16.-Playing at the
bottom of a ten foot excavation that
had been dug for new apartment houses
at Prospect Place and Franklin ave-
nue., Brooklyn, Johnny Maclxie, 4 years
old, and his two sisters. Agnes 9, and
F'lossie 6, were buried by a cavein yes
terday.
BY the time rescuers reached the
little boy he had been smothered to
death. Both girls were so frightened
that they forgot their little brother.
They ran home as fast as they could.
Another little girl told the men John
ME was still under the dirt.
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ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
Jury Discharged Woman Charged
With Staying Sweetheart.

Cripple Creek, Col. July 1s,-Myrtle
Cress, IS years old. has been acquit-
ted of a charge of having murdered
John Phillips. her sweetheart. The ex-
generation followed a demonstration be-
fore the jury.
1t was shown that when the re-
volver which caused the young mans
death, and the firing of which the girl
commended was accidental was held in
a certain position the hammer would
fall with sufficient force to. discharge
it without pressure on the trigger.
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her and her family when he died, is
resisting the payment for the books.
The set of Dickens in question is an
In 1901 Mrs. Hoxie signed a con-
tract to pay SIS, 900 for $50 volumes,
giving her notes for that amount. In
the course of time six volumes were
delivered, but she declared they were
far from what she had expected, and
said she did not want any more of
them
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CAN'T SELL THE PLUMES
Were seized by Custom Authorities
and Must Be Destroyed.

New York. July 1s.-The solicitor
of the treasury has decided that
plumes Of the white heron. called
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BIIkED By BOOK AGENT.
Woman Claims High Priced Volumes
Were Not as Represented.

New York. July 16.-How Mrs
Mary J. Hoxie of Chicago. widow of
the late John r. HoNie. contracted to
pay Ss5,000 for a set of Dickens
works was related in detail in court
here yesterday.
Mrs. Hoxie. whose hosbsnd. a stock
yards, magnate, left $1,000, 900 for