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YOL. ELEVEN. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1902. NUMBER 189. CONSOLIDATED IN JULY 1893, WITH THE DAILY COSMOPOLITAN, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED HERE FOE SIXTEEN-TEAKS PROFESSIONAL 0-ARDS. j"AMES B WELLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office Second Floor Rio Grande Railroad Building, . H. GOODP.IOH. E. K. GOODRICH E. H. GOODRICH & SON Attorneys at Law. Dealers in Real Estate. f&Wpiete Abstracts of Cameron County kept in the office. BKOWNS ME: TEXAS U. T-IOKN. DENTIST. OFFICE NEAR MTLLER HOTEL. Elza'ceth -St., Brownsville, Texas. Dv F. W. KIRKHAXI, Physician snul Surgeon j Special attention to tlie diseases of T? T7o TCncri mid Throat. Ol- tr- ,JVn.-tX' .:' t5;i,i;ct fun stairs nee in iiiKiiuiiu "'""""o. v - -Thirteenth street. Brownsville Texas. It. L. h LAYTON. Physician and Surgeon- SUFFICE: Parker Row, Corner T2th wev,iiif?toii street, (up stairs.) Entrance Washington Street. BJlOWXSVILLK, : : : -' E-XAS UYAL WEST, ; - ATTORNEY AT LAW, Sax axtoxio, Texas, FRENCH BUILDING, MAIN 1M-.AZ.A. Will practice in the federal and state eourte. Laud titles examiued. W. F. DENNE Staple & FanGy Groceries Cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco, Fancy candies, cakes and crackers, Full line tin ware, crockery, Etc. Washington Street. Old F'arnitureU. MADE NEW. -aa Joseph Kuek Cabinet Maker. And Urut-ral Rf tinT is nw ready to fju'.r Htil up Lv -"id 11' bo THE TAILOR. EIJZ W.TA U SI EEV ltn ti: l1. r nits on i5hp O. i OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. J DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICERS. Congressman, llth. district. . .R.Kloberg tate Senator 27th district. j , D. McNiel Turner 1 Representatives . F W Seabury I 85th. district ... ( Win. J. Russell j County Judge. . Thomas Carson I o a 4- -c ir i -u County Clerk -. .Joseph Webb Sheriff . . . . Celedonio Garza j Treasurer Aug. Celaya assessor Jizequiei javazos Collector Damaso Lernia aurvej'or M. Hanson, jr. Side Inspector. Tomas Tijerina COUNTY COMMISSIONER?. Precinct No. 1 ..Atenojenes Oribe Precinct No. 2 Jose Celaya Precinct No. 3 E. B. Raymond Precinct No. 4 F. S. Champion Justice Peace Precinct No. 2 "Valentin Gavito Constable . Genaro Padron . County court meets for civil, criminal ind probate business on the thitd Mon lays in March, June, September and De cember. CITY OFFICERS. layor . . .Thomas Carson Chief of Police L. H. Bates Treasurer Geo. M. Putegnat Secretary Frank Champion ttorney W. J. Russell j Sarveyor S. W Brooks.; Assessor and Collector S Valdez U. S. DISTRICT COURr. . ?he following are the officers of and tae 'nies aud places of holding court for the Southern District of Texas: TJ. District Judge Waller T. Burns Attorney Marc McLemore Cieik .'. r..C. Dart Marsh,.. Win,. Hanson Galvestou: Second Monday . Jan uary aud Firs'" Monday in June Houston: Fourth Monday cf Feb uary and September. Laredo: Thrid Mondav of April and oecona juououy oi iuviiiuer. Brownsville : Second Monday of 'May and Firr Monday of December. DISTRICT COCRT. Cameron County: Mrst Monday in February, and First Monday in Sep tember, and May. continue in session four -veeks. Hidalgo County: Fourth Mouday af ter the First Monday in February and September, and may continue in session two weeks. Stair County: Sixth Monday after the First Monday in February and Sep tember, and may continue in session Duval Counts-: Eighth Mondav after j the First Monday in February and Sep- i teinber, and may continue in sessiou two weeks. Nueces County: Tenth Monday af;or I the First Monday in February and may continue m session eight weeks and euth Monday after First Monday in j September and mav continue in. session I four weeks. J. S. CUSTOM HOUSE. C. H. Maris .' ' Collector A Thornham Special Deputv A A. Browne . . Chief Clerk R. B. Rentfro, JrT, Entry Clerk ; POST OFFICE. Postmaster , J. B. Sharpe Chief Clerk H. G. Krause Registry Clek , . . , .E. S. Dougherty MEXICAN CONSULATE. Miguel Earragaii '.. Consul O1ERI04N CONSULATE. P. Merrill Griffith.. Consul LODGE DIRECTORY. MASONIC. Rio Grande Lodge No. 81, A. F. & A. jJL, ineste on the first and third Tues days of each month, at 7.30 p. m., at i the Masonic Hall on Levee Str eet. OFFICERS.: ;.. W.M. E. K. Goodrich. .S.W. Jese O. Wheeler. J.W. : TTT A "NT 1 j fR. H. Wnllis, ; Treasurer M. Y. Domiaguez . . . , , Tiler j Ludwig Dreyfus S.O. J.J". Bollack ? J.D. j KNIGHTS V nONOK. - Bivwnsville Lodge 2Tq. 3730.K. of H., meets on the second and fenrfch Tues- d;tys of each month, at 7.30 p. m., at its hall :i ElizatHith Street- OFFICBKSJ Jesse O. Wheeler Dictator CeledonioOarza Vice Dictator Juo. LTDeiber Assistant Dictator F. E Starck. Jr. ,.TPast Dictator Aaron Turk Treasurer W. B. Austin Financial Reporter F. Rivadulla .. Reporter : WOODMEN OF THE WORLI). . Acacia Camp No. 690, W.O. W. , infects on the second, and fourth Thursdays of each month, at 7.30 p.m., at the Wood . man Hall,-on Twelfth Street. officers: A. Ashhciin ...CO. F Champ on A L A. Turk Banker Jesse O. Whee er Cleri- EXEMPTIONS FOR TOURISTS. Secretary Shaw -Makes Ruling of Interest 'to Travelers in ' Mexico. . Monterey, Mex:v Oct. 2. Under date of Sept." 20, the Secretary of the Treasurer has definitely confirm ed his ruling of -the 7th of May last, with .the addition that any head of a family dan purchase a hundred dollars worth of diversified goode ftr his family abroad whether tney accompany mm or not, ex clusive of '.the, hundred dollars previouslT exempt for wearing ap parel. This order has been issued for the government of old customs otlicers so that hereafter it wiH be dangerous for4any collector of cus toms to disregard it, as some have heretofore done. All tourists should know this. BREEDING' SOCIALISM. Galveston Tribune. The coal strike is breeding social ism faster than all the theorists doctrinaires that ever vexed" the public with their dreams of the millenium. Hospitals and schools, of the east are without coal and the mine own ers refuse to arbitrate, which is to say that they decline any advices or suggestion or adjudication. They stand upon their ancient rule of vested rights, and assume that 75, 000v000 of people will permit. them to dictate the prices of a product which is necessary to modern life. They practically control the hard coal oj-itput of the United States. A Massachusetts lawyer has lolnted 0llt the principle of law in volved and has clearly shown that any consumer, . the United States government, for instance, !may go 'into court anfl move a receivership. Supreme court decisions are cited - , . . ,. . . Whether the doctrine is sound or not. in tile 'letter of the law, it is sound in the necessities of modern existence. If nouch right exists ! it is time such a right were provid ed." If a trust can holcl out for its present scale of wages it can insist upon a lower scaje or upoia higher price for the commodity. There is no limit to the rule invoked. The people have rights or they have not. The coal trUsts is either not amen able to any regulation in wages or prices or conduct, or it.is amenable to equity. Many political economists have long contended for, the government ownership of coal and other miner als. They have not seriously im press! the American people, who are loath to enter in an.V degree up- 0n the field of socLalism. . . , ., ., t"115 ca5fi exhibits a necessity which cannot he saiely put aside. It there is no remedy short of gov ernment ownership, the people will QZ u. ish" in ainlviri(T thnt i T W ".c Socuiasm. like trusts, is a hand icap, to that .individualism whicji has-- develoiKx! all human srenius ivatnes. hut between soci a 1 .hai gives surplus wealth to -.pie and trusts jtbftt take it jKiop.e, it not ardif&eult choic? THE USUAL BREAKDOWN. , Dolly Tid yon fnjoy jTonr ride in the auto? Madgt It but I didn't I wa nice going out ke the; walk back. CONFERENCE A FAILURE President's Appeal Refused. By l Coal Operators Miners Will- ins: to Arbitrate. Washington, D. COct. 3. The coal conference between the Presi dent and representatives of the operators and miners came to an end at the temporary White House this afternoon, with a failure to reach any agreement. Apparently the-rock upon which the conference split was recognition of. the miner's unioni The President had urged the con tending parties to cease strife in the interest of public . welfare. The miners, through the president of their union, had expressed a will ingness to submit the differences to arbitration of a tribunal to be nam ed by the President and to enter into an agreement to abide by terms fixed br the arbitrators for a period of from one to five years. The employers, through thepresi deuf the railroad and coal com panies, and a leading independent mine operator, had squarely refus ed arbitration, had denounced the miners' labor organization as a law less and anarchistic body with which they could and would have no dealings; had demanded Federal troops to insure complete protec tion to workers and their, families in the mine region and court pro cedings against the miners' union, and had offered, if the men' return ed to work, to submit grievances at individual coIlries to the decision of the judgss of Ihe court of com mon pleas for tm) district? of Penn sylvania in wlych the Qolliery was located. & There the matter Closed. Tonight boththe miners and the operators are still in the city, but tomorrow they return to their several local ities, each saying at a late "hour that the struggle will continue. Two thousand three hundred years ago, the smart set in Athens cut nr) such didos that Menander the philosopher was moved to re mark that "a heavy purse in a fool's- pocket is a heavy curse." Nothing new in dissipation under the sunrMexic.'tn Herald. RUBBER'S RIVAL. James A. Bouty, an American citizen sojourning in Brazil, has made a discovery which is a revel ation to the Brazilians regarding the resources of their own forest. He has found a tree called balata growing near r(ara ana tor thou sands of miles along the Amazon river, the juice of which promises to rival rubber in the world's markets. MINING REAL SOAP. A natural soap mine has recently been opened up at A-hcroft, British Columbia. The material, in which thf active principle borax, i? being taken out by the ion. JUST FOR WOMEN. An Atlanta (Ga.) bank has open ed a department exclusively for its women customers. The paying teller is a woman and pays all checks presented to her in brand new cur rency. Depositors in the women's department are furnished with dainty combination pa3 and check books bound in Russian leather. THE OLD 2EUABM Absolutely Pur THERE IS NO SUBSTlTi Late Items. Secretary Shaw's plan to relieve the money stringency is severely criticised by financiers, even on Wall street. Wholesale grave robberies are re ported at Indianapolis, Ind. manj dead bodies beinir shinned from- there to supply medical colleges with subjects. Capt. Pershing, with a column ol the Fifteenth U. S. Cavalry, is meeting little resistance from the Moros in Mindanao. The tremendous'rain in the vicin ity of Monterey Wednesday wreck ed great stretches of the National railway track, and tried up all trains for two days. Quarantine against Cn&a lr American krts was declared o2 Oct. 1st. - It is believed that no cases of yellow fever occurred in Cuba this year, except a4 few taken from Vera Cruz, which were success ful 1 3' isolated at Cuban quarantine stations. The former, chief of policeof Min neapolis, Minn., has been sentenced to six and a half years' imprison ment for accepting a bribe. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will visit Texas next spring Texas oil and burners are being experimented with in heating the capitol in case the coal strike is not ended. Salina Cruz, Mexico, which suf fered recently from a violent eartli quake and tidal wave, was agaku shaken' by earthquakes last Fndar, sixty-five distinct shocks being fe-li. A violent hurricane also blew the same day, adding to the damage greatly. The lady managers of the World Fair at St. Louis will endeavor to eliminate the Midway dances, and have the exposition placed on a higher moral plane. iHenry I'hipp of the Carnegie Steel Company has donated $100. 000 to aid the destitute Boers in South Africa. The early retirement of Secretary of Wiir Root is predicted. The Atascosa river rose 62 feet al Campbell ton last week, and flooded the village, driving people from their homes. Some houses were washed away, and much stock losi and all wells and tanks ruined. The report of the secretary of state shows 299 convicts pardoned in the past twenty months. 1