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in SEES I UVE INTEREST WFOUR RACES! Presidential Nominee! To Be Delegated to Background After! May 22, Waide Say*) By C. D. WAIDE a- r»». . ’ reb- H—Intereat tor .round four office,. Three of I. !J.*d ,t*,e'Th* ”th'r of I* the democratic nomin.tioo for which .i„ b, t„„,d 22. . . T' Primariaa ®«fin to get hot From now until May 22 there Uken^ 22 b* ** roUCh ,nte"8t £ ^ T*n in the Pudency a, in eny of the state races. After that i! tJ9XMMJ°Un WiM have delegat-1 2L, ir n,ht# t0 the ha"d8 *nd con. litira/t *wTn iit€,t,Mn8> and "*»!• *5* a? d°.n sTar^jss «v“ «f"”" a: .‘a* ^*5 I'Tyf *he •«»* '•■vSSSSS •nd rivs thJ.^ following Tuesday. ff thfy .ee V,! d*<Jl*at*“ instruction. *ia. y ^. * hi; The county conven tJon, will select delegate, to the awsrifi £ •rara^j*5 IT* H0,,*ton convention and may »r B»ay. not instruct them. y Aft?n?i**R5c*‘ To Be H°i-* I*«tnWVoVe P”a*•»«•'"‘»11 uati o°n ft srsL/'g-Pc.*: firn“i!^ fncrem*d that Texas will grate race, w 8'"g ,"tere»t to its •JSSlw becom* thor wugajy imbued and saturated ■ *u* *n tbe atmosphere. even the lieutenant governor's race u-m he much in the Timelight tb* first primary it looks J~or"m tr $ toy'^V *h* ,”'id* iSBf®S= 'sjs ■ *os-ernor. but thi, year there wfll h. iSZ 13S2“ ‘“s-w-." ~ ‘.S reedvWh,°iC b#Vy of candidates „|. JSfoVhaa announc®d for the nomi. There i. Thoms. B Love of n»i ■H 1“X." V'nSKiS; L7 iKSJW’? •^"SSr if™ker Sftrim* Kn*M VoTn am* . 1. L J°nnson pf p«i-. ** A Wh J ef th" lo«r house •ditar. and jV'Lf^'u torney. L€tt3‘ Houston at The m, H" *° Und one-sided nntU°after thaVth* r*r* marv in ska. . ‘ ‘he first pri j. r^.'.Vrh*T;T'z:‘ v zfi hr mm? ^ likely to he a l0thof C,?d the* 18 in an effort to beat fhe D^i?^^^ Satterw-hite F.rn.ii DaJ,a3 man •tand the best chance „/n2 1>arwin second man in the. » 3 - being the choose between the VJh 1/-tk Httle to Darwin has been *lrst na,ri®d. *° *nng that he is nft°f," wSiPu,it,c* over the countrv ‘i known Fnrnell, especially fj!'?' 8nd slohnaton is not tn ' „ former, Smar.„TL',hJ Taaa,tpJ,,if»r.mer prMld*rt of tka intimated to 30‘"■•tion, and known ♦°r* to help him »tPk l* thes® *di fl*. and d»»ktl«, ,i1^,lr'll"’* p'» i*a a hard rew *£” ,!" „but be overcome the , e ,n trying to ♦•rwhite * ,ead of repn like Sat l--d-Cr££'?-' Lo,,'a 2 2Z£P£S,-2 year, .go AI Sn3Jth. Two eenate, he toldh the for th« : county th*t ,f MraPVePr! °f Da,Ias the party nominee ha *lr^j80n Werc Jr her in the gen*r*j W,0uId n°t vote kind of talk mfde*a^!if i‘n*tk0n‘ That ind hf «-a. in his count** Doubtless Love **7uni res e,«cted. i* opposed to the th!^ 1 bat Texa* •tands for. and he l-m gS that «Bith , of vote, on the k * • thousand* 1 Jf,th “ttitude h bJ?*// Smith'* h*nh* I nominated at Ho„T* h ,hou,d ! Tom', private li^.k H?,U8ton. then Chopped off cleanand*'' hav* b®en ' M Due to the ,eser.l /m°0,h' i •ions Love has h.ij £ron’in«,nt posi •uown of “hB h« u »b. beat •v#r. he a particul^ d* #8 How* ^ith the inti ti.! i y unpopular U. * kMuik?" ko„*rt!‘ b«*“ •• at.,, *“cut h,, ,i,ctlo„ •ry effort will k.^^!Ld d°uhtles. ev d*« tk. „f*,r.,df •» cooaoli. | Bidetes to beat him . d*f*«ted can- > There „ a fe b 'k ,h* ^noff. E Miller may bi radnA"/*. that Bar*' third term .a a m^ for but Miller °-f Noting ff that kind of talk at tk- F?Ur*»ted , »• »"* %boS'f M«y Be Used fF r Qiympic Hou*ing *4S8pg*AJK,-d. <e>—-*•». fuhlic huildmg, mL/k?8 a"d oth-r for occommodation b.>_ re80rted to Vuitors expectedB for ?k* ir/|” of in August ®hin * ,0,y*P*c » P-rt in the housing al,° P,a>’ Bopresentatives of v1',. , PlpBpic committee fthe^ 'herlands pf Amsterdam the ’vVlt a’,un,cip«lity fan. tk. N^„ul*d'b*j!«d* Sail !*c« and the S^.ilitnd\ Tounat of. Jra. BeatofiSSy •a^tel Keep F»p • meeting „J2d Caf# Own. tenahip of pJi5f. *h* «h.ir •tepa to meet the en2f2«lk* took I 7%rae diri,ioB. wJ5*5*!?ae5i R *i» matter of df5ld,.<l ®P«n Pf thoa. taking pT^r^* hou.ing ^hich is ia the handV Jr »ihe^kame8 »b!y received and .re- f favor-1 »«de to that end!ota ar,| Valley Histo By Judge T. NOTE—This history was pre pared by Judge T. F. Harwood of Consoles, president of the Texas Historical association, and read at the Rio Granda Valley Federation of Women’s clubs at tha December meeting held in Edinburg. Due to lack of time, Judge Harwood was unable to complete the reeding of the entire paper, but the interest in hie subject wee so greet, that a motion was made to have the paper published in Valley papers. This it tha second installment, the first having appeared in The Herald lest Sunday, Feb. 6. As stated by Dr. Belton, Texea had its sbara in tha romance, myth and fable, which everywhere attended the Spanish conquest of America. In Florida the Spanish sought the Foun tain of Youth; in South America, the Guilded Man (El Dorado); on the West Coast of Mexico, the Isles of the AmAtn; in Arisons and New k xico, the seven cities of Cibola; on the California Coast, the Straight of Anian. Likewise in Texas, they searched for the Kingdom of Gran Quivira, “where every one had their ordinary dishes made of wrought plate and the jugs and bowls were of gold; for the Seven Hills of the Aijados or Aixios, where gold was so plentiful that the natives not knowing any of the other metals, make of it everything they needed, such as vessels and the tips of ar rows and lances, for the Sierra or (Cerrol de la Plata (Silver Moun tain), somewhere north of the Rio Grande; for the pearls of the Jumano county; and for the “Great Kingdom of Texas.” a people who, like the Jumanos. had been miraculously con verted by tha women in blue, who lived next door to the Kf|^torn of Gran Quivira, were ruled b^^^jver ful lord, had well built towns, each several miles in length, and raised grain in such abundance that they even fed it to their horses. All these various quests and wliefs had made the Texas country an object of inter est to the Spanish, long befora it became a field of poetical contest with France. Urged by these obtained from Indians, were made intj^Rxas, but failing J^find this source of^Md, they returned t^^^ villas^^^Rxico without making per maiu^HPomes nr actually occupying th^BBas. Xese expeditions are described bjV by Dr. Herbert E. Bolton in his £Ftle “The Spanish Occupation of ■a” 1519-1690 (Quarterly Volume • • • IPS) followed the mission rl dw^B which upwards of twenty^ rnij^Ws and presidios were founT fiimnnd last on Texas soil. But wh^Bthe Anglo-American began to pour in, there were only three cen ter. of Spanish population between the Sabine and the Rio Grande—San Antonio, Goliad and Nacogdoches. The Lower Rio Grande Valley can scarcely be said to have participated in the colonial period of Texas, the organization of the Revolution and the formation of the republic of Tex as. There was no Anglo-American settlement between the Nueces and the Rio Grande rivers and no repre sentative by it in the consultation, the Texas army or the convention which remained the Texas constitu tion. The nearest colony was that of the Irish in San Patricio at the cross ing of the Nueces. This territory was claimed by tha Mexican state of Tamaulipas and Texas being occupied was somewhat in dispute and indefi nite and not until after the defeat of Santa Anna m the battle of San ,Ta rical Outline F. Harwood cinto did Texas definitely assert title to the great expanse of land between the Nueces and Medina on the East and the Rio Grande on the West. The dispute over this territory was made the immediate occasion of the war, between the United States and Mex ico, of 1846, after Texas had been an nexed to the United States. But the colonial and Texas Revolutionary pe riod of the Lower Rio Grande Valley was not without historic interest and presents a rich source of local re search work. In one sense, it might be called the romantic period; in an other, the tragic period. • • e After the parts of Anahuac, Harris burg, the mouth of the Brazos Mata gorda, Copano and Corpus Christi had been opened up by the Anglo American colonist, beginning about 1826 and extending to the revolution; a large trade by ox-carts was carried on with the interior Mexican towns on the Western banks of the Rio Grande. A part of this was legiti mate, but much of it was by smug glers evading the Mexican revenue la^s. Many of the smugglers en gaged in this trade with the hazards of meeting the Indians and evading Mexican revenue officers are men tioned by Noah Sniithwick in his "Evolution of a State," John J. Linn in his "Renvniscer.se of Fifty Years in Texas” and particularly in the historical romance. "Mustang Gray," by the Hon. Jeremiah Clemens. This trade was especially in vouge and comparatively safe between Mata moros. Mier, Reynosa and Rancho Da vis. (subsequently Rio Grande City) on the West and the ports of Copano, St. Marys and Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the tra ditions of buried treasurers, so pre valent in Texas, were supposed to be from these smugglers, hiding their money under marked trees or near land marks, when threatened by In dians or Mexican soldiers. One of the three highways from Mexico to the interior of Texas b^ gan at Matamoros, crossed the Xu4 res at San Patricio, the San river at Golidad, the Victoria, the Colorad^^^^^^Atas, thence Nacog ■■■■■Plrwas along Iroutc that occurred the massacre of [^hwantie adventures. • • • In cm^^^son with other Mexi can townsTnMfcuros is of compara tively recent is a part of I an original gran^^^^^he Crown of Spain to the Coun^^^Berro Uor 1 do^oi^uning six hundrel^bd forty equivalent to^Po mil Mon. eight hundred and fiftj^hou T sand acres and fronting the Grande river one hundred miles P the stream from its mouth. Thw was given the count to compensl him for financing the province of N’ueva Santander and to bring to this section priests to teach the gospel of the holy cross. In 1774 the count sold to the first settlers one hundred leagues at the I price of ten dollars per league (4428). These leagues fronted the river up to the Reynosa porciones on the south side of the river. In 1621 Matamoros was organized as a vil lage. Between 1827 and 1836 the state of Tamaulipas allotted to prominent Mexican citizens and soldiers, who had served in battles of their coun try. all vacant lands then found a; such, between the Rio Grande and the Nueces rivers. These were al! large grants and some of them notably the Espiritu Santo, the San Juan de Carricitos and the San Sal vador del Tulle contained from 250, C-0O to 500.000 acres each. Browns ville is located on the Espiritu Sgnto 0 Our Compliments i i to the men whose vision, enter prise and resources | have made possible the new CAPITOL THEATER -m\ Texas Bank & Trust Co. ‘MAIL GOES THROUGH’ Even the devastating floods which swept .over England recently were not enough to keep Studebakers from “carrying on." Here a Stude baker motorist on the flooded roads near Alderraaston, Berkshire, is giving a lift to the English postman who has found his bicycle a hindrance rather than a help on his daily round. i_: grant. These lands ware mostly va cant or used as immense cattle ranches prior to the Mexican war with the United States. • • • When the Texas revolution broke out Matamoros was a considerable city and rendezvous of some of the forces against the revolting provinces of Texas. It was a garrison city and probably the largest and riches! on the Rio Grande accessible to the Texas colonies. It was a base of supplies for the garrison of Goliad and San Antonio, then in possession of Mexico. For that reason aft^^Ar seige and fall of San Anto^^Me Bexar in December 1825^p^^*en eral Cos had been penp^wd under parole to return to Aexttu via La redo, the ambitieusnnd imprudent scheme of Dt.Gj^A and Colonels Johnson captnre Mata moros, v^^Wrmed against the ad vice of General Houston. This re sulted in the defeat, surrender and massacre of Dr. Grant, Fannin and their men by General Urria’s army invading Texas from Mataraoros. After the defeat of Santa Anna on the field of San Jacinto, the Mexican army in Texas, not with Santa An na, were permitted to return to Mex ico by the way of Matamuros. fol lowed by the Texas army under General Rusk. Then in 1S42 was the tragedy of the Somerville expedition and the Mier prisoners. When General Taylor landed at Corpus Christi and marched with the United States army the Rio Grande, precipitating war between Mexico and the United 'tates, his army was accompanied by newspaper correspondents and for the first time every incident of the country and the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma are graphically de scribed. This was the beginning of Fort Brown and Brownsvnne. • • • The Rio Grande as the boundary line between Mexico and Texas vds established by the treaty of Guada lupe Hidalgo of date February 2, 1646. Since then the United States has established and garrisoned forts at Brownsville and Ringgold barracks or Rio Grande City. Brownsville grew as a trading point for the scattering population along the river banks and the ranches contigious. but it was isolated from the balance of Texas for many years. In 1849 came the discovery of gold in California and tne ru»h to this new Eldorado along evvty avail able route. A portion of these ar gonata selected the water route to Point Isabel and Brazos Santiago and thence with their stores and equipment sailed up the Rio Grande as far as navigable by light draft water crafts and then proceeded on the Mexican side of tb* river as far as El Paso or Chihuahua and then to the Pacific. There is a very interesting account of one of thes trips entitled ‘ Western Journal" by Audubon and his was an ambitious scheme starting from New York but soon after going up the river from Brownsville, the party was stricken by the cholera, causing many deaths and some desertions, only a part of them perserved and finally reached the gold coast. • • • • Then came the great Civil War and both Brownsville and Mata meros again came into prominence and remained so. In fact this period has been less exhausted by his torians than any of the interestinj periods. There are a number of rea sons for this. The first tasx of the citizens of Texas after she seceded was to capture or obtain tne peace ful evacuations of all forts and arm-, posts of the federal government which had been established in va rious parts of the state for the pro tection of the border land against Indian depredations. This was done and the Confederate troopa took po» sesaidn of all thcae army poata and forta early in 1863. In the third and laat inetal ment of this outline, to app«8r in The Herald neat Stands Judge Harwood car He, Vslft history down to the beginning of the preeent development. | New Capitol Theater | Management | Please accept i | Congratulations from | Coope*' Tire Headquarters \ I AlexandecJIire Company ^ \ THE BIG TIRE STORE ; | 1121-23 Levee — 2 Doors from Capitol Theatre