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VOL. XIX NO. 306. BROWNSVILLE* TEXAS MONDAY* AUGUST 19. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ZAPATISTA BANDS
NEAR MEXICO CITY
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Provost Guards Patrolling City Lim
its — Indignation Meeting Over
Killing of Strauss and Herreras,
Associated Pres*.
Mexico City, Mex., Aug. IS.—
Alarmed at the appearance still of
bands of Zapatis'as in the out-kirts
of the capital the government has
detailed the mounted provost guards
to patrol the rity limits until the
danger is past.
Tlie newspaper men, joined by
severa Ithousand citizens, today held
a public demonstration to show
th*-ir indignation over ’he killing of
Humberto Strauss and Ygnacio Her-1
reras last Sunday at Ticuman,
marching to all the newspaper of
fices, but no speeches were made.
Mounted armed guards accom
panied the procession, the govern
ment fearing disorder.
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Row Over Line Fence.
Associated Press.
Krie, Pa., Aug. 18.—A quarrel
over a line fence resulted in the kill
ing of George Roberts by Joseph
Kozkowski, a neighbor of Roberts.
The shooting was witnessed by Rob
ert’s son rind a number of picnicTters.
Kozkowski laughed at the police !
station while telling of the shoot
ing. He said: “They will probably
bang me, but it does not matter
much. 1 am an old man.”
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THE NATIONAL BAIL GAMES
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As played throughout the country
by the various leagues.
National League.
Boston r*. Cincinnati 4.
New York 10. St. limits 1.
Philadelphia 10-1. Chicago
Others not scheduled. ,
p-s.
American Association
Louisville Kansas City 1-1 0.
Milwaukee •’>, Indianapolis 3.
Columbus 1-1, Minneapolis 8-0.
Toledo 1-2, St. Paul 0-3.
Southern League.
Mobile 10, Atlanta 8.
Chattanooga 2-3, New Orleans 1-2.
Nashville r>, Montgomery 1.
Birmingham 6, Memphis 0.
Texa" League.
San Antonio 2, Galveston 1.
Beaumont 7, Houston 3.
Waco 3. Fort Worth 1.
Austin 3-2, Dallas 1-4.
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All OPEN SWITCH
CAUSED corns'ON
FRISCO MOTOR CARS RUNS INTO j
FREIGHT ENGINE
Motorman Turned Complete Somer
sault in Air and Received Some
Injurie*—Slight Injuries to Pas
sengers—Car Continues Trip.
A head-on collision, resulting
from an open switch, occurred Sat
urday morning at San Beni:o at
between tlie motor ear, due in
Brownsville at 10:1.", and a freight
train, standing on the siding. See
ing the collision was unavoidable,
William Heaney, the motorman.
jumped and turned a complete
somersault through the air. His
back was sprained, ankle badly
bruised and knee hurt. J. \V. Daw
son, a car inspector, who was in the
fore part of the car, was also in
jured about the head.
Four passengers received light
bruises and scratches, among hem
Rev. J. W. Perry, pastor of he Fir-t
Methodist church of Brow'nsville.
who was injured in the knee. One
woman received a blow on the fore
head that raised a large welt. The
rest of the passengers escaped with
a slight shaking-up. Conductor
Foster jumped from the car when it
was live feet from the engine. He
was not injured.
The pilot of the motor ear was
smashed and the draw driven under
the car. The pilot of the freigh en
gine was also damaged to a small
extent.
The freight train was standing on
a siding a half a mile from San Be
nito to allow the Brownsville bound
motor car to pass. The car was
traveling at a speed of about 1
miles an hour, according to a pas
senger, and bad just left the canal
bridge. The motorman did not no
tice 'the open switch until it was too
late. He only had about twenty
yards in which to stop.
He threw on the air brakes and
jumped from the side of the car op
posite to 'that from which the power
controlling apparatus is operated
The car slid the entire distance of
twenty yards, colliding with the
standing engine. Conductor Foster
estimated the speed of the car at
five miles an hour when It hit the
engine.
The passengers quickly saw what
had happened to the motorman, and
several of 'them ran to give him aid.
The motor car arrived in Browns
ville Saturday afternoon at ." :30
and left at <» o'clock to make the
usual afternoon trip to points on the
Branch line.
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« DON'T FAIL TO VISIT
I M IS ON.
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* Elevation, 14o feet. *
| Irrigation, unexcelled. *
* Drainage, natural.
. | WE PROVE IT
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To be the most progressive, high
ly developed, prosperous, thriv
ing proposition in the Lower Rid
^ Grande Valley.
A personal investigation will con
* vince you of the greater advan*
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* tages and opportunities offered.
*: MISSION LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY
* MISSION, TEXAS
l JOHN J. CONWAY
^ President 6? Sole Owner
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RETAKES JUAREZ
Gathers Band of Straggling Rebels,
Disarm' Police. Compeles Store"
to Give Up Provisions.
Ae-ooiated Pres--.
Juarez, Mex., Aug. 18.—A lone
woman, said to be the wife of Col.
Lazero Alenis, the rebel commander
operating out of Palomas, dashed
into town early today in a khaki
riding suit on a white horse and col
lecting stragglers from the rebel
ranks.
Ten rebel soldiers marching be
hind her, rode to the police station,
disarmed the provisional officers,
took their weapons, then entered
the stores to demand and receive
provisions.
The police meekly gave up their
arms, and ihe shopkeepers handed
out the provisions. To night the
city is guarded by forty armed citi
zens doing police duty.
REBELS APPROACHING
MORMON COLON!
Mormons at Colonia Morales Sordine
Women to Bordei—Men Will Stay
and Protect Homes.
Associated Press.
El Pa~o, Texas, Aug. 18.—Word
was received at the headquarters
here of he Mormon colonists o
Mexico that a strong force of rebel
are nearing Colonia Morelos, <’>•"•
niilea south of the border at Douglas,
Arizona.
The Americans of Morelos and
two subordinate colonies remained
in their homes at the time of the
evacuation of the colonies in Chi
huahua. Arrangements are bein'
made to send out the women and
children. The settlers, hea\ il>
armed, may remain on account o’
the losaes to fellow colonists who
left their homes.
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WILL SEND BODY v
OF AYERS HOME *:
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v Ayres, the American civil en- *!
-I- gineer, who was murdered by -]
the rebels of Morelis, Michoa- v
j •!- can, is being prepared for \
-!- burial.? Since the Cincinnati
relatives appealed to President -i
Taft, the foreign office has no
*!- tided the American embassy -I
tha- the body will be sent home. -I
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BROWNSVILLE CANAL GO. :
| MAY BUY IN ASSETS
With View to Reorganizing on Bet
ter Basis of Operation—$40.00( ,
Will Put System in Good Shape.
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It is probably the plan of thf <
Brownsville Irrigation company to
buy in its assets, at the public sale (
which has been ordered to he held
Oct. 1. with the idea of reorganizing
and starting business on a better
basis of opera ion. This, in effect,
is the opinion of F. E. Hill, manager
: of the company, whose headquarter
' are in this city. Mr. Hill stated to
’ the reporter that it would ake ap
' proximately $40,000 to put the
: Brownsville canal system in good
r shape.
As announced in a Houston dis
‘ patch published in last Friday’s
* Herald, ’he assets of the Brownsville
F Irrigation company are to he sold at
;• public sale on O-tober 1, according
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. to an ordered issued at Houston bv
Judge Norman (!. Kitrell of the
u sixty-first district court. R. E.
>. Brooks, jr.. of Houston, has been
... named by the court as commissioner
to make the sale.
r The liabilities of the concern are !
•_ about $30,000. The assets include
a. 32 miles of irrigation canals in
... Cameron conn y, 3000 acres of lands
... scattered throughout the county and
... rights of way for canals sufficient to
i* water about 30.000 acres of land.
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^ The company also owns the entire
, Work of the Olmito Town-ite com
•r
... pany. Amos Gardner Qf Houston is
^ president of the concern.
SECRETARIES PUN I
CONSERVATION MEET
AT BROWNSVILLE MIDWINTER
FAIR IN JANUARY
Will Urge on Two Government' the
Need of Conserving Rio Grande
Water for Irrigation Purposes.
Preliminary Meeting in October.
At the meeting of the Rio Grande
Commercial Seeretarie ’ Association,
held at Mercedes Saturday after
noon, it was decided o hold a con
vention of citizens of the Valley and
of intrre-tod citizens in Mexico, in
this city during the Midwinter Fair,
for the purpose of discussing the
conservation of the water5 of the
Rio Grande river for irrigation pur
poses.
A preliminary convention to ar
range for the larger convention is to
be held in Brownsville October 5.
Citizens of the Valley will be asked
to attend and take par’. For this
preliminary convention, the com
mercial secretaries will meet at Mc
Allen on the 27th of this month o
arrange details.
The association turned down a
proposition from the San Antonio’
Chamber of Commerce in which the
latter organiza ion desired that the
Rio Grande association join it in
making a display at the Chicago
Land Show, to be held from Novem
ber 2?. to December 8.
San Antonio, it seems, is endeav
oring to have all the territory tribu
tary to it, north, east, south and r
west, make displays under its name.
The Rio Grande association does not
believe hat the crons of the Valley .
were of the same nature, season and
all, as that of the other seetions, and
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so turned down the proposition. The
expense to the association would
have been from $4000 to $.'000.
The discussion of this matter took -
up most of the time of the meeting.
Dr. W. F. Cole of Harlingen read
a paper and offered a resolution ask- .
ing that the association call a meet- .
ing to be held at Brownsville October :
■>, to devise ways and means to ac- .
complish the following object-:
First—To petition the federal
government, in conjunction with
that of Mexico, to proceed at the
earliest moment to conserve and dis
ribute the waters of the Rio Grande
for irrigation purposes.
Second—To outline some neces
sary legislation to make our irriga
tion laws more effective and just.
Third—To devise ways and means
to impress the federal government
with the importance of securing
deep water at Brazos Santiago.
This paper was endorsed by the
association and the meeting railed
in accordance with Dr. Cole’s sug
gestions.
Following is Dr, Coles paper:
“Gentlemen of the Commercial
Secretaries Association. I am
pleased to addro-s you, the represen
tatives'of the commercial associa
tions of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley—association' made up of the
most enterprising, patriotic and be-t
citizens of every community in he
Valley. Therefore. I beg that you
will call a convention to meet in
the city of Brownsville, Texas, on
October r>, 1912. to devise ways and
means to accomplish the following
objects:
• First—To petition the federal
government, in conjunction with
that of Mexico, to proceed at the
earliest momen to conserve and dis
tribute the waters of the Rio Grande
for irrigation purposes.
Second—To outline -ome nec
essary legislation to make our irri
gation laws more effective and just.
Third—To devise ways and means
to impress lie federal government
with the importance of securing
deep water at Brazos Santiago.
In moving in this matter, 1 do so
because other more able do not come
forward aj ihis time. The time
seems opportune. We have in
creased in wealth and population,
and our commercial organizations
have developed a unity of interests
With the cooperation of the pres
we may he able to pu-h all of hem
to a successful issue.
The federal government has ex
pended more than forty millions ol
dollars on irrigation projects we
of the Missouri river, but not otu
cent in Texas. The governmen
never owned any public lands it
Texas, bu it controls the waters o
the Rio Grande, because it is .
; navigable stream and because it i
an internal' mal boundary. There
fore, the national governmen
CHINESE OFFICIAL
CRUELLY SLAIN;
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SHOCKING DISPLAY OF TREACH
ERY AND DUPLICITY
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General Yuan Chi Kai After Dining
With Victim Causes His Arrest,
and His Murder Without Trial.
Murderer Greatly Alarmed.
Associated Press.
London, Eng., Aug. 18.—The
execution of Chang Chen Wu, by
Chine-e government officials, the
Pekin corre-pondent of the Daily
Telegraps says, is the turning point
in the life of the Chinese republic.
The official was seized at mid
night. No evidence was offered at
his trial. He was condemned to im
mediate execution.
General Yuan Chi Kai. entru-ted
with the execution, dined with the
victim at the European hotel,
toa-ted him repeatedly and followed
his carriage to his lodging where, at
his command, a sea of sabres sprang
up in the night about Chang Chen
Wu. who was thrown in a mule cart
and carrried to the military court.
Presiden. Yuan Shi Kai alarmed
at the outcome, has urrounded him
self with troops, fearing assassina
tion.
TAGGART ENTERTAINS
MARSHALL COMMITTEE
Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 18.—
Thomas Taggart, national demo
cratic committeeman for Indiana,
will give a luncheon at his hotel
Tuesday to the distingueshed demo
crats who are attending the notifi
cation of Governor Tom Marshall
that he was nominated for vice
president.
Judge Alton B. Parker of N'ew
York is chairman of the notification
committee.
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SEVERELY SHAKEN *
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Albuquerque, \. M.f Aug. v
18.—According to a dispatch -!*
this evening, Williams, Ari
zona, 400 miles west of here, \
was severely shaken by an
-I- earthquake this afternoon. *!*
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-hould control the conservation and
distribution, in conjunction with
Mexico. The federal government is
a business government and is run
on business principle;. All the
money spent will he paid hack to the
government in installments by the
farmers who use the water. Now,
we will have to prove to Uncle Sam
that it is a good business proposi
tion. It will be up to us to do it.
Can we do it?
We have on the American side in
the del'a, about a half a million
acres of land which has no superior
in the world. Mexico has perhaps
an equal quantity. The government
has reclaimed and ha- tinder pro
cess of reclamation more than six
million acres of land—all arid land
which has no value without water.
But no body of land yet reclaimed,
nor tha' will be reclaimed, will at
all compare either in value or quan
tity with the delta of the Rio
Grande.
The land* so reclaimed are mostly
in the north and raises only one
crop each year, whereas, we can
raise two crops each year, and those
of such products and at such sea
sons that they are of far greater
value. We can supply the whole
country with fresh vegetable- at a
time in the “winter when none are to
be bad on' of cold storage. This of
itself will be of inestimable value to
the naticyi.
For illustration, we may compart
the delta of the Rio Grande witli
that of he Nile, which it resembles
mon in topography, production ant
climate. Egypt is a very smal
country, but it has been the gardei
spot of the world. Man a tained t(
civilization there more than tei
thousand years before Christ. A1
, though it has but twelve thousam
square miles of fer’ile land, le-s ii
area than the little kingdom of Bel
gium, vet it is the mother of empire
| and it has been the battleground o
5 every empire in ancient and moder
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BANKS 10 AID
IN TRANSMITTING MONEY
RAISED BY PEOPLE
Not for Democrats Alone But for All
Parties—Thinks Popular Sub
scription Ideal Method of Raising
All Money Used in Campaign.
Associated Pres*.
New York, Aug. 18.-—In the in
terest of bringing about the election
of a president through campaigns
financed by popular subscription,
acting Chairman McAdoo, of the
democratic national committee, ha.
direc ed letter* to all banks and
trust companies in the United
States asking them to receive and
transmit popular subscriptions a*
the newspapers are already doing in
the democratic campaign.
The letter a*k* the same service
for the republican and progressive
parties, to free the presidential cam
paign of any suspicion of sinister in
fluences.
A letter accompanying from Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson, sta e* that
his election by popular subscription
would be a gratifying and a distinct
triumph.
TURKISH ATROCITIES
STILL CONTINUE
Mohammedan Fanatics Aided by
Turkish Soldiers Murder Men,
Women and Children.
Associated Press.
Cettinje, Montenegro, Aug. 18.—
A number of Christian villages were
set on fire and destroyed by Turkish
aritllery. The massacre of Chris
tians in the Berana district of Al
bania continues. The massacre of
Christians began Friday when a
band of Mohammedan Arnauts, sup
ported by the Turkish troops, at
acked a section of the Christion
population on the Montegran fron
tier, killing women and children and
carrying off young girls.
MUTINY THREATENED
IN RUSSIAN FLEET
Associated Press.
Ixmdon, Eng., Aug. 18.—Gro«»ly
exaggerated rumors of plots and
mutinies in the Russian Black Sea
and Baltic fleets have been revived.
The St. Petersburg correspondent
-ays martial law has been pro
claimed in Sebastopol and Cronstadt.
SAN BENITO
THE
BIG CANAL Tl >WN
The livest and largest new town in Texas in the
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
San Benito has grown from nothing to over four thousand population In
four years and today offers best location for commerc ial and in
dustrial nterprices in Southwest Texas. Natural advantages
and improvements already made insure city cf importance.
The growth and development hr.ve only started. /
NEARLY HALF A MILLION
Dollars railre. d business on St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway
at San Benito, in one year. Sixty-seven percent increase ov«r buaineo
of previous yea;'.
l’ear ending April 3oth 1911 1912
Freight received 142.8H.44 235,880.20
Freight forwarded 4 2,839.33 >6,100.31
Express received 12,539.64 15,426.23
Express forwarded 18,098.34 19,025.44
Ticket sales 31,460.95 43,960.66
Excess Baggage 292.25 \ 478.70
Switching, storage, and
demurrage No record 3,204.11
Total Value of Business 248,050.96 414,075.65
Above represents only the amount paid to the St. L. B. £ M. for hand
ling business shown and NOT THE VALUE OF PRODUCTS HANDLED,
EIGHTY THOUSAND ACRES OF RICH DELTA SOIL
irrigated from the big San Benito Canal surround the town of San Be
nito. Twenty-five thousand acres already in cultivation.
INTERURBAN RAILROAD NOW IN OPERATION
over 40,000 acres of this tract serving every farm with convenient
j freight and express service. Extension being made on the balance of
the trac t. Rio Hondo, Santa Maria, Carricitos, I»b Indios and La Palome
on Interurban road out of San Benito. Convenient schedule.
| IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE SAN BENITO
before engaging in farming, commercial or Industrial enterprises else
where in Texas.
SAN BENITO LAND & WATER COMPANY.
Sill BENITO. TEWS.
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PEOPLE'S ICE AND MANUFACTURING CO.
Starting business in March, 1905, the price of ice wa* fixed at
i 30 cents a hundred pounds at the plant, 40 cents per hundred
pounds delivered, and the price has never been changed. This is a
record of which we are proud. Ice is sold lower in Brownsville
than in any other city in Texas of its size. All ice is made from
pure distilled water and is clean and wholesome.
Any amount delivered at any place in the city,
i The company appreciates your business and support and wil!
continue its present policy of accommodation. Buy an ice book
and save 5 per cent—is safe, a» it is not transferable
S. C. TUCKER, MANAGER
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