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VOL. NINE.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXaS, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1901.
NUMBER 264.
C()NTSOLriATKI) IN JULY 189.?, WITH THU DAILY COSMOPOLITAN, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED HERE FOR SIXTEEN YEARS.
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DIRECTOR-!
TATB OFFICEIIS.
Governor Joseph D. Sayers
Lient. Governor J. N. Browning
Comptroller R. W. Finley
Land Commissioner Chas Rogan
Treasurer John W. Robbins
Attorney General: Thos.' S.Smith
SuptPublic Instruction . . . . J.S.Kendall
DISTRICT AND COUXTY OFFICERS.
Congressman, 11th. district. ..R.Kleberg
tate Senator 27th district
D. McNiel Turner
Representatives J F. W. Seabury
, . 85th. district ... 1 Win. J. Russell
County Judge.. . Thomas Carson
County Attorney . . .Robt. B. Rentfro, jr.
County Clerk. s Joseph Webb
Sheriff Celedonio Garza
Treasurer Aug. Celaya
Assessor Ezequiel Cavazos
Collector Damaso Lerma
Surveyor M.Hanson, jr.
Hide Inspector Tomas Tijerina
COUXTY COMMISSIONERS.
Precinct No. 1 Atenojenes Oribe
Precinct No. 2 Jose Celaya
recinct No. 3 E. B. Raymond
hrecmct No. 4 Eugene Keller
fustice Peace Precinct No. 2
J. I. P. Franklin
County court meets for civil, criminal
iud probate business on the first Mon
c&jjs in March, June, September and De
cern neiv
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor Thomas Carson
hief of Police L. H. Bates
measurer Geo. M. Putegnat
Secretary Clemen te Martinez
Attorney.. S. A. Belden, jr.
purveyor S. "W. Brooks
-i38Sor and Collector. . . . . . - S. Valdez
U. S. DISTRICT COURT.
Che following are the officers of and
the Mines and places of holding court for
the Western District of Texas:
S. District Judge T. S. Maxey
.rney Henry Terrell
jlett D.H.Hart
Marshal Geo. L. Siebrecht
Court convenes in San Antonio on the
ftrst Mondays in May and November
In Austin on the first Mondays in Feb
ruary and July.
Tu Brownsville on the first Monday in
January and second Monday in. June..
In El Paso on the first Mondays in I
April and October. j
TWEXTY-ElGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. !
District Judge Stanley Welch j
District Attorney . ' John I. Kleiber ;
District Clerk Louis Kowalski
District court meets as follows :
Cameron County First Mondays in
February and 8th. dayof October; con
tinues in session five weeks.
Hidalgo County Fourth Mondays af
ter the first Mondays in February and
September; continues in session three
weeks.
Starr County Sixth Mondays after
die first Mondays m .February ana oep
lvr: continues in session three weeks
Nueces County Ninth Mondays after
the first Mondays in February and
September" continues in session six
weeks.
U. S. CUSTOM HOUSE.
J, H. Maris Collector
A. Thornham Special Deputy
A. A. Browne Chief Clerk
E. K. .Goodrich Entry Clerk
V MEXICAN
Miguel Barragan.
CONSULATE.
. . Consul
BRKJ. KCraFA&SKI,
General Merchandise
'ijrou .s villi:.
CATTLE RANCH FOR SALE
hir opportunity fr I li e right
j3.n 10,000 acres of irond brush
land in o:.e of the 1mm TJio
(Grande enmities, eirLr mile.s from
a railroad, and twenty-five miles
rom town. Price Go cents an
acre. Must be sold soon. For
particulars write
Jesse O. Wheeler,
Brownsville, Texas.
PROFE SSI.0NAL . CARDS.
J A M KS i:. VKLL.
. ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Office Second Floor llio urnmle Ruilrcd
Building, .
J AMES B.' BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brownsville, Texas
Will practice in all the courts.
E. H. GOODRICH. K. K. GOODRICH,
E. H. GOODRICH & SON.
Attorneys at Law.
Dealers in Real Estate.
Complete Abstracts of Cameron Count
kept in the office.
BROW.N VlI.LE. TEX A 8
JOHN i:artlftt
ATTO R N EY-AT-LA VY .
Will
praojice in District, State an7
Fedora I Courts.
Qflz with Jus. H. WellR, in Kin Grand Hal
' iliiildinu inpntairR).
Brownsville. - - - -
Tox
Q H. THORN ,
fa DKNTTST.
, Olfise Opposite Miller's Hotel,
(iice Hokfmra,s,o:sp,2m:m',!,n
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS.
R. H- WALLIS.
PHOTOGRAPHER,
Its introducing new and select styles
ot work at his parlors. Also new style
of fr.nc3 card mounts.
Coping and enlargements in crayon
pR. R. P. ANDFRSON.
DENTIST.
'"rraduate Vanderbi'lt Dental coll-ge
Nl charge for examining teeth
Office Hours ISJAlSv"1
Office 9th street. One block from P.O
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
S. L Oil
Successor to Bloomberg & Raphael.
DEALER IN
DRY 600
STAPLE GOODS-)
LINENS, HOSIERY
BOOTS ond SHOES
HATS, SHIRTS ;
NOTIONS, ETC,
Elizabeth Street,
Brownsville
RDIAHOUSE
Thirteenth Street.
PASCDAL BR1SENO. Prop'r.
(Lute of Miller's Hotel.)
Meals at All Hours.
Coffee and Chocolate, Fish and
Meats always on hand. ,
AN.
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Army in Philippines
Will Be Reduced.
Washington, May 5. After a
careful consideration of the situa
tion in the Philippines its exists
today, the administration ha de
cided to reduce the army in the
Philippines to 40,000 men.
The opinion prevails here that
this number will be ample tor the
present needs of the serviae in the
islands, and if conditions continue
to improye in the satisfactory man
ner that )ms been shown in the last
few months, the force may be re
duced still further.
The expectation of the War De
partment is that all the volunteers
now in the Philippines will have
left the islands by the end of Jnne.
leaving only the regulars on duty
there.
Following the departure of the
volunteers from the islands, the
regulars who were sent to Manila
in 1898, just after the outbreak of
hostilities will continue their move
ments home until the force is re
duced to approximately fu,000
men.
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If-Texas had the density of popu
lation of Pennsylvania she would
have 35,000,000 people, giving her
the right to send 125 representa
tives to congress iwid 250 delegates
to a national convtution. In such
an 'event her strength would be so
great that she couldirtnally dic
tate the nomination pf any candi
date witlrwhom she'wonld cast her j
lot. When von consider that the
resources of Texas are more varied,
with more miles of railroad than
already possessed by Pennsylvania,
with an ocean front of 500 miles,
which Pennsylvania has not, and
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as Hindi in quantity and better in !
quality than her iron ores deposit,
now more in quantity than her oil
fields producers much in quantity
though inferior in quality in her
coal deposits, the question arises
what do yon'lack! and the answer
iSj "Cheap money" Hon. Thomas!
J. Hurlv
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How They Shoe Geese in Poland.
Three million geese, are brought
regularly to the October market in
Warsaw, Poland. Often coining
from remote, provinces many of
these geese have to travel over
long distances upon roads which
would wear out their feet if thev
were not "shod." For this purpose
they are driven through tar poured I
over the ground, jintf then though
sand". Aftfr the operation has been
repeated several times the -ftt&t of
Che geelse become covered with a
hard. crust. ? -4
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"The loot returned to" China bv
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the French governments, reached
Pekin from Paris and. .was publicly
paraded through 'ths streets in or
der to "reate a favorable impres
sion. .-
A decision has been arrived at
by the stockholders of the Corpus
Ghristi and (Jalveston company to
liquidate and return to the sub
scribers the amounts subscribed.
Snbsaribe for The Brownsville
Daily Herald. -
Uncle Sam To Produce Coins
Like Doughnuts.
Chicago Record-Herald.
No official" i information concern
ing the new 3-cent piece, which it
is said tha government will- soon
coin tor use in the west, has reach
ed Chicago. The new coin is to
be of nickle, aud its radical differ
ence from all other coins with
Uncle Sam's mint mark on them
Ijes iu the fact that it will have a
note ih the center, it is the sup
position this hole in the middle
will euable the hurried handler of
ithe coin to detect its valtu by the
seuce of feeling. Some sii'ih safe
guard is considered ueceessary for
the reason that it is to be about
the size and weight o the present
nickel 5-e.ent piece. The size , of
the center hide iu the proposed
coin will be large enough to make
it merely a ring of metal, this hole
being about one-half the xiiameter
of the coin. It will prevent one
of the difficulties which handlers
small-silver coins were troubled
with when the mtal money began
to circulate after he era of papejr
money. The small coins which
got into the hands of children and
some classes in the remote district?
were treated as curiosities 'and
great prizes. lo secure their
safekeeping a favorite method was
to punch a hole in thei aud tie
them on a string. This des
troyed the circulation value of the
coins, and dealers who subsequent
ly, took them in had to stand the
loss, a fixed scale being finally
arraged for deduction for punched
dimes," nickels or other yeces.
The new piece can be strung with
out injuring it. .
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. A TRAFFICKER IN VANITY.
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Saturday Evening Post.
There are many queer pursuits
in the world, but of them all it is
doubtful if any rank higher in
the "Land of Hie Odd" that the
traffic carried on by an enterprsingl
i Yankee in New York. He has his
place in the basement of one of the
(office buildings on lower Broadway
aud deals iu labeled trunks an$
traveling bags that is trunks and
trtive4ingbags that haveseen service!
abioad, and that bear the labels of
foreign hotels. A man going to
Europe, if he wor3"j"ndiuously
can on his return get twice what he
paid forhis bag or trunk at .start
The 'nterprising Yankee- whojka, itwijfo had beei cut some-
conducts this queer traffic meeW. . Vnn nnrtlnnflf. This
the passengers -of incoming- steam-n
ers. He sizes up his people witlj
ali accuracy born of long expert
ience, knowing instinctively who
it is that .has probably exhausted
nis funds on his trip hi the 'other,
rsidp, and who will be .very, willing.
to accept a good price for his be
lahejed traveling appnrtenanees.
Tlfe U4n!? KTheled, of course, thff
jfiglre.r is the price.
filHve i almost, no 'risk in Hii
rhusjtos because the man has a
greater uemann man ne can sud-
pl for tli decorated merchandise
in which, he deals.
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. The best way to contract debts
is to pay tlwro but somehow this
plan is unpopular with ' a great
man,y people.
HOW A BISHOP WON THE
PRIZE GIVEN FOR LYING
One of the strangest prizes ever
won by a bishop is in the Epis
copal palace at Fulham, where the
newly appointed bishop of London,
who got his bishopric through &
love story, will' live. Years ago
Bishop Proteus was riding through
Coggeshall, village in Essex, and,
seeing a crowd, asked what
was the cause of the assembly. He
.wqs told that it was the annual
lyiug -competition for the prize
of a whetstone. The bishop, greatly
shocked, drove t the place of as
sembly and addressed the gather
ing upon the sin of lying, adding
that he himself had never told a
lie in his life. The umpires at
Louce awarded the prize to the
bishop and had the wlietstone plac
ed Tu his carriage. The incident
struck the bishop's sense of 'humor,
and he had tlfe stone placed over
the fireplace iu the palace. Ex
change. ;
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A Well to-'do Pole died five
years ago in his native-country.
His expectant heirs fonntia bulky
letter witji the inscriptian "To ba
opened after I have Leen cremat
ed." When this order was obeyed,
another sealed envelope wai found
inside the first, inscribed "To be
opened six week? aftr the. first." ,
This also was tlone, and a third
sealed envelope was the result,
'To be'-bpenad a year .after the
last." A fourtli and fifth envelope
imposed each another year's delays
(aud the sixth contained the will,
which wa's to the effect that 4 half
the testator's fortune the sum of
150,tJ00. rdubles, shoulld go to the
relative who had theJa'rgest number
of'gons. rhe rest - of the ioney
wasjto be deposited vu -r-tiifok' for
a hundred years, at the end of
which capital and interest-are to be
divided between the .yet nirboru
heirs of the heirs. . 'We are afraid
that this will would not stand the
the scrutiny oi the courts -on this
iside of the Atlantic. Mexican
Herald. . . . I
STOLE COPPER WIRE.
t Youkers, N. Y. Some feime b
or&7 o'clock Saturday eve'nihg the
.Westarn Union Telegraph Qom-
gany reporTeti' to the "Fortieth pre
cinct DoIice.statioTu at-Kingsbridge
morning an official of the Yonkers
district jdetectedv tlio. trouble be-
iw
iween Bryn Mawr anflJ)nnwoodie,;
east of YniikerS. "A.stretch of
400 feet had been cut from the
fifteen wires'alttug thv6 mostseclnd-
I ec. pifrt of the Putnam,; Railroad.
It must have required several
trucks to cart the plunder away.
The wire was of copper aitf is' very
valjiable. Fifteen eich 450d feet
long make nearly thirteen miles of
w'ire. New Tork Sun. .
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The world is patientlyawaiting
the advent of "the man whocan ex
plain -why' a baby never wants to
plav in the coal' scuttle until it ha
beeti dressy tor company
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