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QUICK MEAL RANGES CALORIC FIRELESS COOKERS
Best is Cheapest U U M UmM #1 . Bee Our Line
yVille Hardware To.
PRICE FTVE CENTS.
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ERE WHERE PROGRESS MEANS GO, • $ j |f
ERE IN THE RICHEST VALLEY ON EARTH, g: t "
ERE WHERE PRICES SUIT THE BUYERS, '
ERE WHERE WE ALL WANT YOU TO COME.
PLACE TO LIVE THAT IS UNEXCELLED.
PLACE TO DO BUSINESS UNEQUALLED.
Place of opportunities unsurpassed.
PLACE WHERE THINGS MOVE UNPARELLED.
lO GRANDE RIVER SUPPLIES OUR WATER.
10 GRANDE RIVER HAS MADE OUR SOIL.
10 GRANDE VALLEY THE PLACE TO LIVE.
10 GRANDE CAPITOL THE PLACE TO COME.
EMEMBER THE BEST TOWN IN THE VALLEY.
EMEMBER WHERE WE ABE LOCATED.
EMEMBER HIDALGO, COUNTY, TEXAS.
EMEMBER FOR 30 DAYS LOTS WILL BE CHEAP.
W. E. Cage
\ SALES AGENT
j FORGET YOUR TROUBLES AND COME. TT^
FORGET YOU HAVE EVER DOUBTED. I ■
J KNOCK AT THE DOOR AND IT WILL OPEN. 1^^
SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND US. «
(iTY WHAT WE OFFER YOU AND YOU * »
f . TILL ALWAYS BE GLAD.
|UY A HOME AND YOUR WIFE WILL
I tHLNK MORE OF YOU, * *
fOME AND CONSULT WITH US AND YOU A
VlLL ENJOY YOUR TRIP. /\
OME AND LOOK FOR YOURSELF AND
•OU WILL BE CONVINCED. ^
fASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT AND WE
WILL SHOW YOU WE HAVE IT. I J
ASK FOR THE TERMS YOU WISH AND |>^
llte WILL TRY TO ACCOMODATE YOU. * ^
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, ile In t>he Valley '
l ’ DON’T FAIL TO VISIT
MISSION.
Elevation, 14 o feet.
Irrigation, unexcelled.
: Drainage, natural.
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1 Democrats Still Fight Pitney.
Associated Press.
Washington. D. C. March 11—The
nomination of Mahlon W. Pitney, of
New Jersey, to be associate justice
of the aupreme court was fought for
an hour and a half in an executive
session of the senate today and was
Anally deferred until tomorrow. The
regular repuMeans are solid for con
formation but the democratic opposi
tion is increasing. Senator Culber
son of Texas U one at the leaders in
N ^opposition to the appointment of
{. ’ijney.
Militia Lack Discipline.
Associated Press.
Washinton, D. C. March 12—Sec
retary Stirason today urged the
house committee on military affairs
to recommend legislation to in
crease the efficiency of the National
Guard.' He pointed out that in the
event of war the country will have
to rely to a great extent on the
militia. His criticism of the present
militia was that it lacked discipline,
| organization, and the men hand an
insufficient kiK-iwledge oi military
tact ion.
EXPERIMENT WORK
SEEMS ASSURED
ORIGINAL APPROPRIATON AS'^ED
MAY BE INCREASED.
Sugar Growers Hope to Get $15,000
for Experiment Station — Texas
. Senators May Am^nd Appropria
tion Bill to Cover Amount.
While the sugar cane growers of
the valley will welcome a congress
ional appropriation of $5,000, for
sugar experimentation here under
the direction of the government,
many of them are beginning to feel
that the amount originally asked for
is decidedly too small to make the
work complete and satisfactory. It
is felt that the salary of a thorough
ly qualified man, an expert in the
sugar industry, will hardly be cov
ered by the sum of $5,000. At least
when the salary is paid there will be j
little left for other purposes. Some I
of the growers have written to I
Congressman Garner frankly stating
the case io him His answrer, given
below in a letter to R. C. Wharton,
secertary of the Rio Grande Cane
Growers’ Association, will be read
with much interest. He evidently
believes it will be possible to secure
the funds needed, on the lines he
indicates
Washington, D. C.
March 7th, 1912.
Mr. R. C. Wharton,
Sec. Rio Grande Cane Growers’
Association,
Brownsville. Texas.
My Dear Sir:
I have delayed answering your let
ter requesting me to try and secure
an appropriation of $15,000 for
sugar demonstration work in the
Rio Grande Valley for the reason
that when your letter was received
the agricultural bill had been re
ported by the committee, and was
f pending in the House, and I hoped
to .secujll te amendment providing
for thislvo*.
1 interviewed Dr. Galloway, chief
of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
and be tcld me (hat $5,000 would
be- all the mo’ney he would need to
eoiduct this work. He being the
officer who would have control of
thin demonstration and experimental
wdrJ.,,1 of cpyrse, governed by
hi&ktfmafe.
Bndcr separate cover I am now
sending you the Congressional Rec
ord of Saturday, March 2nd, and
call your attention to pages 2878
and 2879; also Congressional Record
of Tuesday, March 5th, and refer
you to pages 2950-51-52, and 2959
60-61-62, w'hich will explain the
situation
If you and your people had called
my attention to this matter earlier
I would have had little or no diffi
culty in securing the appropriation
from the Committee on Agriculture,
hut after a bill is reported to the
House, the committee deems it its
duty to sec that it is not amended
if they can prevent it.
If your association can get Sena
tor Culberson or Senator Bailey to
present this amendment to th" Sen
ate appropriation committee and
have it put on as an amendment to
the House bill there will be no
trouble about its becoming a law, as
l have the promise of the conferees
on the part of the House that they
will agree to it if it is put on by the
senate. I have marked on page 2859
the amendment that s'hould be put
on In the senate.
I suggest that you and all in the
Valley Interested in this mat..er
write immediately to both Senator
Culberson and Senator Bailey urging
them to offer this amendment to the
Agricultural bill, and secure its
adoption by the senate.
As stated above, I will use my in
fluence to see that the House con
ferees agree to the senate amend
ment,
I am sorry that 1 did not succeed
in putting this on in the House, but
as stated hereinbefore, your request
did not come in time for me to sub
mit it to the committee, and it is
quite difficult to amend it in the
House, especially when it is an
amendment in which only one dis
trict is interested, and in which
extraneous matters, such as the
sugar tariff, etc., are brought into
the discussion.
I also suggest that you make an
earnest effort to get the A. & M Col
lege. through its agricultural bureau
to join the U. S. Government in mak
ing these demonstrations. Money
has been appropriated by the legis
lature that can be used for this
purpose, and there is no reason why
your people could not bring suf
cient pressure to hear to have this
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TAFT WILL CONSULT
TEXAS DELEGATION
ON CONDITIONS ALONG TEXAS
MEXICAN BORDER
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President Anxious to Have Texans
Cooperate With Government in
Securing Neutrality *— Will Issue
Proclamation Giving Intentions.
Associated Press.
Washington, March 12—Presi
dent Taft will have a conference to
morrow upon the situation In Mex
ico with Secretary Stimson, Senator
Culberson and the Texas congress
ional delegation.
It Is understood that the president
and the secretary wish to impress
upon the Texas authorities that the
neutrality laws must be strictly en
forced and that no aid to the Mex
ican insurrectos must be given from
Texas
It is intimated today that, after
the conference the president might
issue a statement defining the at
titude of the United Slates toward
Mexico. It is understood that such
a statement would contain assur
ances that the ITnitled States now
has no intention of intervening.
The president told callers today tha*
he would not consider intervention
unleii Congress authorizes him to
take such steps.
Ambassador Wilson of Mexico
City, reported today that the recent
proclamation of President -Taft is
now apparently understood in Mex
ico and is having a beneficial ef
fect.
In the western part of Mexico,
however, Wilson says, many Amer
icans are so destitute they nfod
help to get out of Mexico.
Consular reports today indicated
that Jacotlan in Jalisco has revolted,
that Tapachula in Chiapas is is >
luted, that the Juchitecos Indians
have been checked, aud that the Tai
pico district is quiet
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MORNING BLAZE *
DESTROYS RESTAURANT.
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Fire Breaks Out on Browne Property
Across Street From City Hall.
Origin of Blaze Unknown.
Thin morning at one o’clock the
frame building occupied by the
Angel Gutierrez coffee house, sit
uated just back of the city hall,
caught fire and was burned to the
ground. The officers on duty at the
city hall seemed to have difficulty
in connecting with the city plant
and it was about twenty minutes
after the alarm had been turned in
before the water could be raised to
sufficient pressure to cope with the
fire. When the volunteer fighters
were able to get the water it wa»
too late to save the building and the
force devoted its energies to saving
the Brownsville Drug company
building and the city hall.
At the time of going to press the
details at hand are very meagre as
it was impossible to find the owners
of the buildings or the proriet'ws
of the restaurant at the, scene of
the disaster. The hiulding which
was destroyed was the property of
the Brojvne estate.
The Brownsville Drug company's
building, which abuts on the burned
house, had a narrow* escape. The
window casing were blazing at one
time, but thanks to the able han
dling of the situation by the firemen
no serious damage was done.
PROJECTING SIDEWALKS
MUST BE CHANGED.
The Herald has been authorized
by Chairman Ixrius Cobolini of the
street and bridge committee t> state
that all sidewalk curbs that project
upon the streets and other obstruc
tions, such as awnings on the streets
that are to be paved, must be either
removed cr reconstructed so as to be
in line, without loss of time. The
city attorney, the mayor and the
street and bridge committee have
personally informed ow ners of prop
erty abutting upon these streets,
whose walks and awnings will have
to be changed. It is important that
the work be done at once. Mr Cobo
lini states, as the paying contractors
are ready to begin work and we
must be ready also. Any loss of
time on account of delays on our
part will cost the city money as de
murrage.
Several sidewalks have been found
out of line, some being only a few'
inches and some taking as much as
two feet off the street Those not
over three or four inches will not
be disturbed, but those taking more
of the st must he removed at
ODC«i ,
BRIEFS FILER
IN MERCER CASES
APPEAL FROM DECISION IN
EIGHTH CIRCUIT.
Government Criticises Lower Court
for Decision that Railroads Can
Not be Competing Lines When One
Road Must Use Track of Other.
Associated Press.
Washington. D. C March 12—The
government has filed a comprehen
sive brief in the supreme court to
day of the oral arguments to be
made shortly after April 1st, in the
suit seeking to dissolve the merger
of the Southern Pacific and Union
Pacific railroads.
In the brief, the Circuit Court of
Appeals of the eighth district, which
dismissed the petitiou for the dis
solution of the merger, is severely
criticised.
The decision is attacked because
the court held that the Union Pa
cific could not be a competitor of
the Southern Pacific by reason of the
fact that its traffic is moved to Cal
ifornia [joints over the Southern
Pacific from Odgen, Utah.
The government held the tflfial
wrong in holding that two railrdllds
could not be competitors, unless
competitive business could be han
dled by them wholly over their own
rails. The government attorneys
contend that the “rule of reason"
applied by the supreme court in the
Standard Oil and tobacco cases was
not to be applied in parsing upon
this merger.
FRUIT GROWERS
MEETING ADJOURNED
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VALLEY HORTICULTURAL WET
INGS CLOSE YESfBRDA*.
Last Session Transacts Important
Business—Will Urge Government
to Giv<* More Liberal Support to
Plant Experiments.
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One of the most successful gather
ings of its kind ever held lni">ahit
Bower Rio Grande''VklleyV'c^fnt* \<r
a close yesterday morning.
Rio Grande Valley HOrtlcirirdrai Kifr
sedation adjourned. From the first
session to the last the meetings were
not only practical but also full of
interest to ail who attended them.
The final sessions was called to
order by President Pomeroy at eight
o’clock a. m.
The resolution committee reported
through its chairman, Mr. Sprague
of San Benito, that it had drawn up
resolutions, thanking the S. B. B.
& M. Ry. Go., for its kindness in
lowering the rates to the meeting:
'the Brownsville business men for
the entertainment of the association,
the Brownsville Chamber of Com
merce for the use of its room for the
purpse of holding the convention.
State Agricultural Commissioner Ed
R. Cone for his interest in the horti
cultural enterprises and the stale
agriculture department for grape
cuttings which had been furnished
to the members of the association,
and the National Drainage Congress
for its campaign for national river
regulations.
Besides the foregoing, one of the
most important res lu:ions drawn
up by the committee was one ask
ing the government to widen the
scope and Increase the activities of
the planlt introduction garden iat
Br wnsville. so that the rapidly in
creasing agricultural interests of
the Rio Grande Valley may have
the benifts of its counsel and exper
ience. The resolution further asked
the state agricultural department to
cooperate with the government to
the end that the present urgent
problems may receive the at*enti3n
w’hich they should have
After the resolutions had bpen
read and endorsed the meeting was
turned over to informal discussions
of various activities of interest to
the growers.
W. B. Newhall, of Raymondville,
first talked upon the advantage of
farming with dynamite. Mr. New
hall gave a graphic and interesting
talk, shewing how the use of dyna
mite gave the ,trce or seed the ad
vantage of the subsoil which under
the old way of plowing was denied
them.
The grape Industry was next
taken up and discussed at pome
length, interesting talks being giver
on.this industry by A. L. Stanford
of Byford, W. C. Griffing of Byford,
J H. Arbenz of Sarita, Charles Volz
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-A ND FROM- I
$85 t< > $125
PER ACRE
With Water Rights I
W^hv Pav From to $200 when I
you can buy as good land, I
under as good a canal, within one -half to one
I mile from
DONNA
for about half that much?
This iand has good t tic, and io as good as
any land in the Valley.
WATER IS BROUGHT TO THE LAND I
AND WATER RIGHTS INCLUDED I
These prices are only to developers and
not to speculators. Buy direct from the own
ers and
SAVS FROM $50 to $100 PER ACRE I
You will be putting money in the bank when the
other fellow is still paying f^r his land. No mat
ter what any one tells you. I guarantee these
statements as correct or I will pay all your ex
penses to DONNA.
DONNA HAS A IT™ M'n’ I
a $15,000 brick School I
(Building, Telephone Exchange, 2 Banks, 2l CotP ft
ton Gins, 2 Lumber Yards, $15,000 Brick Hotel, ■
3 Churches, good newspaper, etc, etc., and is a
good town in which to live, make money and
educsrte'your children
CALL ON OR ADDRESS .I
F E. ftp
SALES MANAGER I
DONN ^ D°BUU.DIN<jTEL TEXAS I
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LAND BARGAIN No. ONE
We ARE READY to SELL YOU the BEST of the IRRIGATED LAND
at PRICES that will make you 10 0 per cent PROFIT within SIX
MONTHS. STRONG STATEMENT but here is SNAP NO. 1.
About oft ACRES of the very best land, half mile of loading switch
near railroad. Timber will nearly pay for clearing; drainage perfect, on
canal. $700 incumbrance past due.
PRICED at $60 per acre. ON E HALF CASH, balance one and two
years at 7 per cent. This land is worth $123 per acre, and compared
with up the branch land, $200 per acre.
MUST sell this week; you must buy this week if you got It at that
price. Only ONE CHANCE.
We have other similar BARGAINS.
Rio Grande Realty and Investment
Company.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
VALLEY LAND FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR OTHER PROPERTY
No. *219. BROWNSVILLE . 160 acre farm all in cultivation
[and irrigation. Within 3- 4 mile of Ry. and awrltrh The soil ia
a dark loam and well adapted to truck, cotton, corn, sugar cane
etc. Owing to location, is well adapted to being cut Into Utils
$90 per acre. 1-3 cash, bal. 1, 2 yrs. truck farms <* 5 to 10 acres. Price
t h ALLAN COLONIZATION COMPANY, Brownsville, Tei.
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