Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-08

POINT TELL OF
EARLY EVENTS
Light Keepers House
Being Wrecked Re-
veals Interesting.
News of Valley

81 A@&AGA
~sa&htholf3 bFcaght news Of the red
net political campaign Of 1854 In
1A@eFoa county and news Of steamer
MsIshee a and cat Of Point Isabel
MAh E~F0~nsytlle people gping by sea
- 1~AiFehton and New Orleans. The
ErA ~na foEEd In copies II The
n1&if tos mopolif1n" and The Daily
IinaeH- printed IN October. issa and
a. cop4eA dated 1ss6.
" FAle wrnr@cd the old building
tAA seek 10 sEak9 Wy sCs op1nlng
q . IeW street in T~emodeling Point
sA4bei An1 the bssldiag Of . stueco
bGn6e Ter a. =. Class. Comics Of
bfDAEIFiiie. Aew Orleans. san An
tanso, AeE YORK and Edinburgh,
EclAD1. nesxpspers Kers found be-
fween tie fanrs Of the inner walls
mhere Lighthouse keepers had poked
aeeM ~ se&rS re
Papers Legihle
The eeples 81 the -Cosmopolitan"
aHa Daily Ilmes~ q Br0wnxville
arc soMes hat tattered but are Iegi-
Dle nhd the columns carry personaIi-
h3SA Ane arguments OF state and
eeGntF cAmpa1Enlng- Thele Is refer
ence ~ = Times Of lsss 10 still
anofher daily and fragments Of the
fFAniEh Ealtlon Nc. Is Of The Daily
AepuAl.caH. Lar "~groundrelv
ana coward" are some Of ire terms
applied 20 opposing editors. The
nsIen print . letter alleged 70 have
been Elgnfd hy a RED" candidate in
HhArh the latter agrecs 20 leave a
certain county and never return.
d national struggle between
~tiefelan1 and HeldrickE, the demo
rfatlr candidates Tor president and
Rtee-ErfsideEt ard James q. Blaine
ane sek2 A. Lcgan. the republican
aal1le-tes. Nas reflected il the Val
Aeg AZ ikes.
William II. Grain. of Dewitt, was
~eeEloerEt8c candidate for representa-
1ke -n1 N1s attacked by the DAILY
Republican Robert B. Rentfro was
tAe independent candidate and was
fffarkec BY the DAILY Times" ard
supported by the Republican" and
ne -Aosmopoiftan-" II the editorials
aEd neEs paragraphs accurately re-
feet conditions. the Times and the
EmplbAicnn~ Rere tie aggressive
rartisans and the @CosropoIitan"
sat On the aideiines and eheered the
fight
Fight Blo0dless Battle
On October IL. 1884, the ~Cosno-
pelffan" reports -The actual cam
FzaEn wss i~asngurased this morning
- ths first Fall fight. The scene
wns in The Times office and the
Farnesp9nfs were Majors Devine Of
fss Republican and Miller Of The
IfEes- There was no blood split
and ron what we hear It seems 70
AVE been . rather tame affair
1nsre 10 nothing in the old files
- tsl VIE Frank B. Lancaster was
b1s ne hs1 an active part in the
esrrp4agn- in a signed Notice 70 the
Fnnllc~ printed in the Times h.
declares that an Anonymous enemy.
~whsther American or Mexican. Is a
LAX. q scoundrel and q COWARD"
The Democratic ticket for Cam
ercn ccunfy was John c. Russell for
district 5ndee: ID. Mcneil Turner for
district attorney. Emilio c. Porto
Tor county 11dse: Adolphus Glae-
Necke Tor county clerk. Louis
kcwaiski fer district clerk; Santiago
Brate fer sheriff. James A. Browne
fer tsx collector: J. A. Michel for
ASSESSOR Caledonia Cara for treas
nEer- Jos j. Gncke for surveyor.
fhr4afia- Hess. Benj- o. Hicks. Mar
ESQ fartG and Thos. VI. kennedy
~eEe candidates fer county commits
ssoner Tor the four precincts. r. r.
Hell Was the democratic candidate
Tor state senator and Francis w.
L@thAn fer representative in the
state legislature
Reports Politics
1he DAILY Republican prirts the
~rtPublican trLet and the local in
~oepencert ticket George ". Jones
Mas , republican candidate for
goFernor- b. ". Latham was on
the Independent ticket as well as the
Democratic. The Independent county
c~E1soGfes we're james n. Haynes
fer c0E1tF judge George Champion
fer county CLERK; John "a. Hort for
district rierk. Fzustsno YiIiareal for
tax ASSESSOR Sol Axhheim for tax
~rollertor. william A Walls for
cguEty treasurer; II. II. Fields for
surveyor jose BHrtkelow for sher-
al. Independent candidates for
rolnty commissioners urfs: A. q.
Howell, A. Nerbiskie, jose Turner
and Pablo Perez
The Tines" reports that Hon.
Sas- H. Wells returned from Rio
1rande City Monday or the steam
er Bessie and that he was met at
ire landing ~ William II. Grain and
Es1r Clubs headed ~ a DaHc. There
SIS ~ enthusiastic reception and
p crowd escorted Judge Wells 70
his residence. "Nr. Wells reports
Grain sold up the river"
Candidates FIayed
E~r0adsides we're circulated and
their contents discussed in the
gsDers. One candidate is accused
- being in arrears rith a telephone
hSlL- Another is accused Of forget
ting that part of his personal his
scy lying hack Of his Valley resi-
denre.
FiIrs a the ~Daily Cosmopolitan
fox February lsef carrying a list
II eoEnty and district officers show
fhe dczzoeratie candidates were elect
ed
There n ether news % interest. r.
--1-ion was being talked up" The
~Tiraes~ points TO an irrigated garden
n the Fert Brown reservation which
supplied vegetables all year for the
arnsy post 10 points ont in. another
article that land values III they have
anv nnrkef value No nj. will not ex-
reed SO cents an acre" would be
greatly increased b. irrigation and
rnfIrnad building. A correspondent
rsperts from Laredo that n water
works has been built there and n
wrent eiffsrenee f. noted in a year.
4 am sure that did yoEr Brownsville
<aunrsl ~realire the vast benefit 20
~ derived frorn n plentiful supply Of
wsfsr, they would net rest until they
had given ycur city the am ad-
sxrfaren. ne writes.
Gfsamers ADVERTISED
9kers 10 newB Of Point Isabel IN al
~T q Harris arriving inside the