The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], June 22, 1907, Image 1

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BROWNSVILLE
D
AILY HE
RALD.
VOL. XV. NO, 233
The lUgtfc Hardware for
tie Rio Grande Valley at
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We will give yot the best taa money can buy in
THE BIRDSELL WAGON
Avery Plows. Planet Jr. Cultivators.
Send us your orders for these and other supplies for
Engines. Water Sullies &. Heavy Machinery.
We have the goods. The prices are
right. The goods ore delivered.
We Solicit, Your Business.
E. H. CALDWELL
Corpus Christi, Texas
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907.
WAIEiWQRKS AND
LECTRIC LIGHTS
W. P. Bullock, the Consulting Engineer of Kan
sas City, Tells The Herald Some interest
ing Facts; About the Proposed Water-
Electric Lighting
Want for Brownsville.
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And comfortable in these
warm days, is a blessing-. '
WE ARE DISPENSING BLESSINGS,
In the shape oi COOL NATTY SUITS at from
$7.50 to $25.
Fine Panama Hats, Straw Hats, Light
weight Stetson Hats, Canvas Shoes, Ox
fords, Shirts, Light-weight Underwear,-.
Hose, Neckwear and the other necessities
That Make Life Worth Living
To be sure, "ASK YOUR FRIENDS."
SPE
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Elipbett Street, Brownsville
"Texas Beer for
Texas People."
No tetter beer is produced in
the whole United States, than
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BUTTLED BEER I
You only have to try
a Lottie to know it.
Brewed and Bottled by
Lone Star
Brewing Go.,
San Antonio. Texas.
It is probable that the citizens
and taxpayers of Brownsville will
soon be called upon to decide the
question, whether the city should
issue bonds and construct , a com
plete combination S3stem of elec
tric lights and waterworks, or
whether wshouId continue to grant
franchises to speculators for the
soie purpose or nommg up a
possible investor who would have
tie money to invest.
The views of The Herald are
well known on this question. The
welfare of Brownsville and its
people has ever been the first
thoughts in the movement to give
our city those invaluable and es
sential public works. The con
struction of waterworks alone will
double the value of all property
here; it will reduce insurance rates
25 per cent, and it means the bet
ter protection of property. But
above all these, it means,purer wa
ter for domestic purposes. It is a
guardian that will keep away from
osr homes the insidious germs of
disease that now enter and carry
away many of our loved ones.
The editor of The Herai.d had
the pleasure this morning of meet
ing W. P. Bullock, the well known
consulting engineerof Kansas City,
Mo., who will meet the City Coun
. . ,
cil Monday. Mr. Bullock is known
over a wide section of the country,
where he has been called to con
sider municipal engineering prob
lems. He has installed 21 water
works systems in different parts of
the country; and his success in
dealing with difficult engineering
problems, has placed his name in
the foremost rank of electrical and
hydraulic engineers of the United
States.
In the course of the interview
Mr. Bullock said: "With an as
sessed valuation of $2,00,0,000, the
city conld issue $66,000 of 5 -per
per cent ana also remove the 3-4
loss clause which "is now in the
, ,vlll Kivc water ior ir
rigating your lawns, sprinkling the
streets, and will improve the
healthfulness of the city. The taxes
will be increased 2 1-2 mills for
about two years then the plants
will pay this, giving the citizen's the
advantages of the utilities without
incuriug any extra cost for street
lighting and fire fighting, which
under the franchise plan would be
increased from year to-year as the
city is enlarged.
FORAKER
MAKES SPEECH
Tells Negro Ministers and Educat-
or About Brownsville.
Begins the Work of Collecting Negro
. Votes to Make Strong His Fight for
. the Republican Nomination
for President.
40 year bonds, and these maybe
sold at a lower rate of interest, or
at a premium at this rate, and with
this amount available the city could
construct a suitable pumping plant
2 miles above town, with settling
basins and duplicate pumping ma
chinery, with about three miles of
8 inch and 5 miles of 4 inch cast
iron mains, 40 fire hydrants, an
elevated tank and tower to hold
80,000 gallons, .and an 'electric
lighting plant also installed in the
same power plant to furnish '30
Arc, and 2,000 incandescent lamps.
These lamps and hydrants .under
the franchise plan would cost the
city over $5,000 per year. The in
terest on the bonds would only
cost the city $3,300 per year and
the city would have the receipts
from the sale of water and lights
to defray the cost of operation and.
to pay tbis$3-,300. The value of
a waterworks" system is too' we'll j
known to need discussion, since it
will reduce the insurance about 30
-X-enia, Ohio, 0.,June 20. 1
the precence of the leading clergy
men and educators of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church this
afternoon at Wilberforce College,
Senator J. B. Foraker entered ful
ly into the discussion of matters
developed by the Senatorial invest
igation of the Brownsville shoot
ing. The occasion was the forty
fourth annual commencement of
the Wilberforce College.
Senator Foraker commenced, his
speech by referring 1o his last visit
to Wilberforce in 1885, twenty
two years ago. He reviewed the
events of this period of both local
and national character. In . this
connection he spoke of the Spanish
American War and the acquisition
of the insular possessions as well
as of the great industries and pow
ers as a Nation. He gave the color
ed people of the country credit for
having contributed their fair share
in the accomplishment of, all these
'great results and . congratulated
them upon the success they had
achieved.
After speaking of the political
leaders of twenty years ago he
paid a warm, tribute to the lafe
President McKinley- and said.
All that time President Roose
velt was barely known to the Atuer
ican people, but he, too, had been
laying the foundations broad and
deep'upon which lie was to build
that remarkable character that has
enabled him not only to be Presi
dent of the United States, but to
fill trie whole world with the fame
of His deeds."
He spoke of the part taken-by
the colored soldiers in theSpanish
American War, declaring "no
braver troops bore their flag to
'victory in that contest than . the
Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Infantry. They were represented
on every firing line and some or
them perished in the very clash of
arms. They died fighting side by
side with white soldiers, and. as it
Svas in Cuba.so was it in the Phil
ippines: Whenever there was
hard service to be entered or dan-.
genius' duty 'to be pcrfjrmed they
were present and' did their fulH
Little drops of water,
Little trains eCwiZ
tTKake the farmer wealthy"
OntheHjio Grasde.
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Twenty Miles of Canal completed.
, zAny quantity- of Land you want from a Town Lot
to a thousand acres.
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DIRECTORS: Alba Heywood. O.W.Heywood. W. Scott Heywood. WjH.-stenter,,
Sara Robertson, E. F. Rqwsoh. R. I,. Eatts, v
Before yon buy an acre, see
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Also Large Tracts for Investment Cheap
Coleman Lindsey,
San Benito Land and
Water Company
For Sale, Sugar Cane Land, Tropical Fruit Laud;
Vegetable Lands in blocks of 20 to 160 acres,
ON LARGEST IRRIGATION CANAL
In the Brownsville 'District and near Railroad.
share. They would not demand,
any higher credit than their white
comrades are entitled to receive.
It would be injustice to them to
give them any less credit.''
After discussing tha race pro
blem at coasiderable length along
h lines of his previous speeches,
he took up the Brownsville matter,
saying:
'The investigation has not been
yet cpncluded. We have simply
taken a recess. Whether there
wilf be any further important testi
mony no one knows. Because of
this uncertainty I cannot predict
what will be the ultimate result.
All know, however, what has been
accomplished."
He explained that the. purpose
of the investigation was:
First, to give the men a chance
to be. heard in their own defense?!
Second, to fix the identity of
the soldiers guilty of the shooring
if any of them were guilty.
Third, to ascertain and report
all other important facts in the
shooting which might be established.
After recounting what had been
brought out, all of which has been
published, he said:
'Butj however,- it may, -be as to
the question of guilt, the fact re-
inains that the men have had
chance to be heard in , their own.;
behalf, to tell their own story, loi
state their own defenee, and this
they have done in a clear, man
futile to establish the. truth. It
may never be known who did the
firing, but it will always be known
that the men have at least had a
chance to state their side of the
case. If for what I have done in
their behalf I am to be eliminated,
from public Jife, as has been, pro
claimed, then let it be known that
I shall at least carry with me into
private life the consoling satisfac
tion of feeling that I have been
rebuked for an action that I shall
never regret, but always esteem as.
creditable to my heart as a maa
and to my sense of justice- and.
duty as a public official."
ALL WRONG-
The Mistake is Made fay Many Browns,
ville Citizens.
Don'tmistake the cause of back
ache. To be cured you must; know' the
cause.,
It is wrong -to imagine relief is
cure.
Backache is kidney, ache.
You must cure the kidneys.
' A Brownsville resident tells vqu
how this can be done,
f Sergt. J. V. Strait, retired XT.
S. A., living on Fifteenth St.,.
! Brownsville. Texas, savs? "Tfnr-
a., .,
several years past I had trouble
with' my kidneys. It took the.
d this i frm f excessive and too frequent
j passages ot the kidney secretions.
: t r i i . ,
x un.eu iiau io get up lour or eve
times during the night to urinate.
I tried different remedies, but
found no relief from any of them,
until I got Doan's Kidney Pills
from J. L. Putegnat & Bro.'s
straightforward way tbati reflects
on them the highest credit ami
has satisfied my roip(tvthat they ;
are the victims' of an injustice that
has no precedent in the history of
trm American Armv. , i
I . do not question the good laith ,ur u& . 5lore- Betore .1 nad taken
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ry pi War, but when Iiooktd a
he reports of Major B'dckbom ant:
General Garlington and the te'sti
mony I felt that if it was uuen
tional or not, he had been mfslec .
rejt that the xnen had vnot been .
one -box of- this medicine the ac
tion of the kidneys had Income
quite normal and regular. . rom
this, experience I believt that
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