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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
VOL. XIV, NO 240
3ROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. TUESDAY. APRIL 10, 1906.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
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THE TEXAS SUGAR BOWL
WILL HELP THE STATE.
ACROSS OCEAN BY WIRELESS
Wagon Headquarters At
E. H. CALDWELL'S
Corpus Christi, Texas
Lowest Prices. Best Quality. Delivered
Birdsel! Steel Skein Wagons
The Best Wagon in Texas, Xone Excepted
Texas Farm Wagons -Prices Can't
Keller Farm Wagons Be' Beat
Corydon Farm Wagons Quality
Old Hickory Farm Wagons Considered
Get Catalog No. 10 and Supplement
All About Farm and Ranch Hardware, Price $1
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Your Physician aims to put all his knowledge, experi
ence and skin into the prescription he writes. It is aD order
for a combination of remedies which your case requires. He
cannot rely on the result unless the ingredients are properly
compounded.
Be fair to your doctor and to our5elr by bringing your
prescriptions here. They'll be compounded only by registered
pharmacists, who are aided by the largest stock of drugs in this
part of the state. Everything of the finest quality that money can
buy or experience can select.
I J. L Putenat & Bro.
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Hy B. Verhelle
SADDLE & HAR
NESS MAKER . . .
Repairing a Specially.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS.
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regalia. All kinds of suits Sj
for all kinds of boys. We fit out
old boys as well as young ones.
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Summer Suits, beautiful ties,
fancy hose, summer shoes, and all
the good things we offer you for
Spring and Summer wear.
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Elizabeth Street,
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LA.W
Will practice in all courts. State and Federal.
Special attention civtn to land and ab
stract business. Will do collectinc
Office Orrr Botica del Aruila. Corabes Drag Store
E. H. GOODRICH SON
....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Choice Lands and City Property.
D. B. CHAPIN
ATTORNEY" AT LAW
HIDALGO, TEXAS
SODA FOUNTAINS
Show Case, Bank and Drug
Fixtures, Carbonators, Charg
ing Outfits etc. Lowest prices.
Write for Catalogue. Mfg. by
C. Mailander (8b Son Waco, Tex.
DR. C. H. THORN
Dentist
jP""Of5ce opposite The Herald.
TELEPHONE 51
Brownsville,
Texas.
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEV-AT'LAW
Rio G-ande City, Texas
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr, Hidalgo, Zapata and
Webb Counties.
Special Notice!
N. Laodram & Co.
Architects and Builders
Plans and Specifications Furnished FREE
If Work is Awarded to Us
CALL AT THE HERALD OFFICE
Union Bakery
John Thielen, iManager
Bread, Biscuit, Cakes. Etc., Made
From Choicest Brands of Flour
Elizabeth Street, Brownsville, Te.
JAMES B. WELLS
Attorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Towers & Wells, Wells & Reutfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks. Wells, Staytou & Kleberg
I buy and sell Re&i Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract t. all "itles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
Laulom&Simo.
DEALERS IN
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
The Best in the Land.
Always Ready to Accomodate Visitors.
Information as to Boats, Etc.
Cheerfully Furnished.
rorxT Isabel. : : : : Texas.
W. A. FITCH. Proprietor
Traveling men's trade solicited.
Free sample rooms are provided
Nothing too good for our guests
if to be found in the market, i
Corpus Ch''f.
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It's Coming, Friends!
No, it's here. What do jou
meanl. Why, I mean the time.to-
screen your doors and windows,
thus keeping flies, mosquitoes and
other germ spreaders out of your
houses and the only place to get
these screens is from
The Frontier Lumber Company
A Prominent Reader Sees a Wonderful
Future for the Brownsville Country,
But Also Sees Obstacles to Be
Overcome.
In remitting for The Herald
one of our constant readers gives a
few interesting facts concerning
the future of the Brownsville coun
try. The writer is a prominent
business man of Chicago, and has
visited this section on more than
one occasion. He .looks forward
with prophetic vision and in the
horoscope sees a grand country,
the magnificence of which no man
can at present realize. The writer
says:
"The Herald keeps me posted
on what is going on in the Browns
ville" country, and that section cer
tainly has in The Herald an
earnest and enthusiastic advocate
of the great possibilities of the
Brownsville country. You are hav
ing many difficulties to overcome
before the full fruits of that rich
soil are realized, bat with drainage
thoroughly installed, so as to get
rid of surplus water in flood times,
and cleanse the soil of deleterious
alkali which has accumulated there
for ages, you will have the garden
spot of the world. I expect to see
within a very few years an enor
mous output of sugar from the
Brownsville couutry, and that val
uable product will pour money into
your laps, the extent of which no
one there now realizes, and make
it the sugar bowl of Texas, if not
of the whole country.
The total consumption of sugar
in the United States in 1905 was
2.632.216 tons, of which Texas
produced only 12000 tons, but with
a production of two to three tons
per acre which your country will
yield, and even better, you can
easily figure that it is no wild
dream to expect the lower Rio
Grande to produce one-fifth to
one-quarter of the entire consump
tion of sugar in the United States.
Out of the total consumption last
year only 576,000 tons were of
domestic sugar, (cane and beet) !
the remaining two millions coming
from abroad, the money to pay for
which goes out of the country,
never to return.'.'
Take Things Too Easy.
If the people would take more
interest in the government of the
city, county, state and nation it
would not be very long before
there would be a decided change in
the complexion of these govern
ments. There is too much of a
disposition among the American
people to take things as they come
and make the best of it. Every
once in a while there is an upheaval
and the popular mind is aroused
to the fact that the body politic is
being buncoed. Then there is us
ually something doing for a brief
period. Some of the Herald's ex
changes have freely expressed the
opinion that there is going to be
more of this sort of thing in the
future than there has been in the
past. If this proves to be true it
is a dawning of better things for
the whole country. Denison Her
ald. If You Arc a Lover.
Of good bread, pies, cakes and
rolls call at Clay's bakery, Sixth
and Levee streets. I also sell
Fleischmann's compressed yeast,
the best in the world for bakers'
or famile use. I endeavor to .ell
nothing but the best that money
and skilled labor can produce, and
extend to the public a cordial in
vitation to inspect my bakery and
methods of bread making at any
time. I am here to serve yoi and
must have your trade. Call or
phone No. 97. Mail -orders, receivt
my personal attention
T. J. Clay
We lose tnoretime1 in growling i.t
the weather than we im in chink
ing the cracks in ik- abutters .o
keep it out.
If Representative Smith Gets Reclamation
Bill Through Congress Texas Will
be Greatly Benefited.
A Washington dispatch- to the
Houston Chronicle says:
If Representative Bob Smith
succeeds in putting the bill through
congress extending the operations
of the reclamation act to Texas lie
will have conferred on the state a
great boon and will have accom
plished something that for a long
time appeared a hopeless task.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
president had recommended this
piece of legislation in his message.
Speaker Cannon was disinclined to
let the matter come up in the house
until he had talked it over with
some of his republican colleagues.
The speaker then relented to the
extent of recognizing Mr. Smith to
get the matter up on unanimous
consent. First Lacey of Iowa ob
jected, but later he, too, relented
to the. extent of not objecting
provided that there was ample time
for debate and that amendments
were in order. Mr. Smith was
finally recognized and got the
measure as far as unfinished busi
ness in which shape it is pending
in the house.
Representative Smith has also
had an uphill pull making indivi
dual converts to the bill, because
Lacey started the story that it was
merely a big game of grab on the
part of Texas which had reserved
all of her public domain and is now
after a slice of the reclamation fund
to put water on the lands whicli
she has reserved. It required hard
work to disabuse the minds of the
men who were not familiar with
the subject, but Mr. Smith has
made such progress that he is con
fident now that the bill will pass
The greatest help to Texas in
this fight has been the fact that
the east has been having its eyes
on this big fnnd and has been seek
ingto divert large parts of it to
other nurnoses than irri cation, as
provided in the reclamation act
Without deriving,any direct benefit
itself from the reclamation tuna
Texas, through its delegation, has
always stood loyally by the West
in opposing any such encroach
ments unon the fund, and this
support is being reciprocated by
the Western congressmen who have
signified their intention of stand
ing ' by Mr. Smith in putting
throurii his bill. Then too. the
Texas delegation, despite its clash
over the quarantine bill, is working
in full harmony with the other
southern delegations and can al
ways depend on them in the hour
of need. So with the prestige o
the president's approval and the
support of the South and West,
the bill, despite the fight that will
be made on it, stands fairly good
show' of passing.
Suffrage.
The time has come when self
preservation demands-tbat no man
be allowed to vote a ballot that he
can not read. The American-born
boy must wait till he is 21 before
he acquires all the rights of a
citizen and the provision is sound
every way, but the Rusian serf,
the Italian dago, the unspeakable
Bohemian five years after land
ing on our shores, are allowed all
the rights and privileges of citi
zeiu-hip. It is a glaring discrimin
ation against ourselves. A foreignt-i
ought not to be permitted to vo:e
till after 20 years' residence,' and
not then unless he has a readij-.
scquamtsnce wun me jmikhmi
language. There is much less rt
in letting the ignorant negro vote
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Chronicle.
PINE CIGARS, candies, 21I co.d
j drinks, at Texas Confectioiicr .
Problem of Sending ftsszgts by Aerial
System Probably Bctn Solved,
Washington., Has the prob
lem of aerial transmission of
wireless messages across the Atlan
tic been solved? Some say so, as
the results of experimental station
of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell,
beyond Arlington, Virginia. Dr.
Bell's scientific experibients are
probably the subject of more
popular interest than those of any
other living man, not even except
ing those of the widely advertis
ed Tesla and "Wizard" Edison.
Possessed of an immense fortune
brought by his telephone, he is
devoting his leisure to scientific
experiments utterly divorced from
commercialism. His latest effort
is in the direction of aerial naviga
tion and structural work with
tetrahedral forms, which, if suc
cessful, will rank him with genius,
unfortunately unknown, who con
ceived the "Keystone" of the arch.
The supporting power of tetrahe
dral forms moulded into kites is
something wonderful and it is not
surprising that the possibilities of
these kites should have been grasp
ed by those interested in wireless
telegraphy. Mr. .Abraham White,
president of the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph com
pany, enlisted the interest of Dr.
Bell and as a result some of the
most surprising experiments in the
aerial transmission of messages
took place.
A tetrahedral kite the largest
in stock was run up to a distance
of 15,000 feet by Dr. Bell's rep
resentative, W. F. Bedwin, man
ager of his Nova Scotia laboratory,
assisted by G. D. MacDonald, the
superintendent of his Arlington
experiment station. The kite
carried a thin steel wire at the end
of which was suspended 500 feet
of antenna wire, for receiving the
messages. Meanwhile Gen. H. H.
C. Dunvoody, U. S. A- (retired)
the Washington representative of
the company, went to the United
States naval wireless telegraph sta
tion at the Washington navy yard,
which was erected by the De Forest
company and equipped with De
Forest apparatus, and from there
he sent a long message in behalf pt'
Mr. White to Dr. Bell. At the
receiving station, in addition to
those mentioned, were Mr. A.
Potter of the United States weather
bureau and Charles R. Seguine of
Patterson, N. J., representing the
De Forest company, in addition ta
several operators. The kite mount
ed high into the air trailing" after
it the thin steel wire that connect
ed it with terra firnia. Soon the
operators heard the peculiar buzzing
sound that signified a station ivas
sending. It was indistinct at first
because of the static electricity in
the atmosphere and to eliminate
that Mr. Seguine suggested that
Messrs. Potter and MacDonald
clasp hands, the former with his
other ban on the antenna wire
and the latter with his finger touch
ing the receiver, shaped like a
telephone receiver and operating
on the same principle. Scarcely
had this been done than the
operator bejan to slowly re'peat
the message sent by Mr. White
through Gen. Dun woody. He
was receiving it not' only through
the air, but down the receiving
wire and through the bodies of
two men. Later several messages
wen- caught frbm the navy depart
ment and from the De Forest na
tion at Galilee, New Jersey, near
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from the steamrr Bernlhdian, 350
miles away. The experiment was
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an unquali
and Dr Bell aifd Mr. White were
creatiy pleased. Dr. Bell has loan-
led the De Forest company the us.
' of his kite and further experiments
will take place at the New Je-.-ty
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