The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], September 28, 1907, Image 1

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DAILY
VOL. XVI. NO. 74.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1907.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
BROWNSVILLEX
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DENGUE FEVER THE HOUSTON
IN GALVESTON DIFFERENTIAL
Disease Has Got a Foothold 'in Texas Railroad Commission To
Several Cities. Appear in Courts.
Is Only Three Week Since the Den
gue Struck Galveston but it Mas
.Spread Rapidly And isNow
Epidemic In Houston.
Injunction Wanted RestrainingCommissio
from Enforcing Rule from Points on
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mex-
ico Railroad to Galveston
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I HALLAM COLONIZATION CO. I
OVER MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
Representing Lands From Corpus j
Christi to the Rio Grande
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Announcement to the Public
We desire to announce to the public that
our lumber yard at Mercedes, Texas is now
fully stocked and that -we are in a position
to take care of your wants on short notice. .
Besides a full line of Lumber, Sash and
Doors we carry Cement, 'Lime and Plaster,
Paints and Oils,, .Nails, Barbed Wire and .
American Field Fence. . , : '.
We solicit your mall orders, which, will
receive prompt and careful attention.
Respectfully,
MERCEDES LUMBER CO.
Lon. C. Hill's Harlingen Irrigated
Lands
Hallam Colonization Company
1H C. H. More Frank More, Mgr. W. H. Putegnat
THE BROWNSVILLE
HARDWARE CO.
Dealers in
There are betweeli two and three The railroad commission has
dozen cases of den sue .fever in been cited to appear before Judge
Galveston says the news and over V. L. Brooks of tbe Twenty-sixtbr
the State generally the disease is district court in Austin and show
nrevalent. Houston. San Antonio, cause why it shoul not be perpetual
Dallas, etc. are affected with more ly enjoined from enforcing- its pro
.... . . .
or less cases, and although about vjsions and rules, commonly known
three weeks ago the first case was as the Houston differential rates,
nf in Galveston the snread from noints on the St. Loius,
has been rapid. When the first Brownsville and Mexico railway to
case was reported the patient was Galveston, and perpetually res-
ordered screened, and all precau- training it from making or pro
tions taken to prevent mosquitoes mulgating in the future orders re-
from carrying the disease, but in quiring that any higher treignt
spite of these steps the epidemic rkes be charged by railroad com
ii
has spread. i games for transporting' cotton
Dr. Trueheart stated last night and wool commodities between
that there was ' nothing to do Galveston -and any point on said
except to grin and bear it." He Hue of railway than is required to
said that the disease had spread be charged for transporting such
too far now to be checked by commodity between Houston ana
guarding against the mosquitoes, Juch point
and that what the result might be The petition for the perpetual
or to what extent the fever wculd injunction was filed in Austin .in
spread, he could not say. behalf of the Galveston Chamber
Tn tVi Istp 'siimmer and earlvlnf Pnmmprrp. Tillman Stem &
fall" this disease usually makes its Krausse, incorporated, and David
nnnearance. Dr. Trueheart says. Odem. S. P. Mistrot, B. Adoue
it ' .
It is a contagious disease, assuming and J. Lobit, partners doing bu
the form of an epidemic and cap- siness under the fire name o
nhl- nf transmission bv mosaui-htTistrnt Brothers & Co.. all of
toes. Could these pests have been Galveston.
Trent from the first few cases when The. comnlaint of the Galveston
they were discovered there would business interests is against the
probably be a very few here now, rates applied between Galveston
instead of several dozen, wun no ana- points on the bt. .Louis,
one knows how many more to j Brownsville and Mexico railway,
follow. I complaining of the differential'rates
.. . . - to Galveston over Houston.
MJUirlWEai 1CAA3 Some time ago Traffic Manager
flPTC THF MOWPY AclamS'of the St. Louis, Browns
KJCID llll- Jnvm-.l vinJ and Mexico railroad applied
to the commission for mileage rates
One of Many Sources ot Income from aii points east of Wharton on
to the TrucKer. his line to Galveston upon the
I cimnncif inn that- TOithin n ?nppified
The Succulent Texas Bermuda Onion a Lme this jine would enter Galves-
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Popular Article In All trie maneis. ton
Very Productive and rinds Commissioner Mayfield voted
Ready Sale at Good Prices. aeainst the application and Judge
Story for it. Commissioner Col
The development of the onion quitt woui(j not vote either way,
growing in Southwest Texas has preferjug to wait until the road
reached proportions that make this entere,i Galveston either by its
one of the important industries in own 1Jne ot tracj-age arrangment.
the agricultural world. Official fig- -gven tnfc commission couldn't
ures of the Southern Texas Truck put in the rates as applied for by
Growers association just compiled the Brownsville road without the
and now for the first time" given concurrence of the Gnlf, Colorado
out, show that 356,964 crates of and ganta Fe and when tne com
onions amounting to 742 cars were m;ssjon was willing to put in these
shipped out of Texas this season. rates or rather, abolish the dif
The eross receipts of these onions rmt;,i a nnt in Hip ;trat?rlit
amounted to $647,271.38, netting I mneage rates between Galveston
a reiurn to me onion Stuwci?J ic an(i points of the Brownsville, road
all charges, of $478,234.67. Con-Lt Qf Wharton, the Santa Fe
siderine the fact that onion grow-
nuuiuu i I 1
ing in this section is only five or Corpus Chrisi and other points
six years old, this is a remarkable j-jd claiming that such action
showing. The acreage amounted ' lne ' part Qf tjie commission
to about 6000 acres, an increase of wouid be a discrimination against
25 per cent over last year. The tnem.
comparative statement of this year's j,. an application was filed
crop by the official figures shows with the commission for a hearing
fliif fliic vMr'cprnn is 12.000 prates - -n .1-- r ' :n - J
1 . -r 1 I IO UlIOW mc diuvviisviiic luau iu
fshortof last year, but paid the show jts cause for abolishing the
growers twice as much' owing to exsting Houston differential rate
toe more skillful packing and from au pojnts on the Brownsville
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nanaiing 01 iae crop. icxas
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E. F. Rowson. Treasurer, Sam Robertson. Secretary.
DIRECTORS: Alba Heywood. O.W. Heywood. W. Scott Heywood. W. H. Stececr
Sam Robertson. E. F. Rowson. R. L. Batts.
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the heart of the
Famous Llano Grande Grant and in the middle of the
120,000-acre holdings of the American Rid Grande Land &:
v Irricratinn Comnanv.
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The finest sugar lands in the state of Texas or elsewhere
Railroad station, post office, telephone system, express offices,
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The town of Llano Grande, shortly to be opened, sur
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Stqckman and Farmer.
vkhere the trouble is physical,
such as failure of an organ, indi
gestion, congestion of the lker
and so on, strong, firm, martial
music wiil give best results, ac
cording jo Dr. Iatson, editor of
Health Culture. For this class of
treatment e key of C major is
particularly recommended.
The Pilgrim Congregational
church, near itondon, founded in
1616, is the oldest of the denomi
nations in the empire, and it was
from this that fhe I,ondon con
tingent of the mfen of the May
flower was recruitctfp
oad to Galveston, but this appli-
- has not-heen acted upon. "
The petition for a perpetual in
junction against the commission
from enforcing ' its provisions and
ratesrnow itr effect between Galves
ton and points on the Brownsville
road ou cotton, cotton seed, wool,
etc., claim that from teal veston to
the nearest point on the line-is 3.2
(three and - two tenths-) miles.
nearer than is the shortest point on
the line from Houston.
- During the year 1906 seventy
seven Americahpatents were taken
out in India. The o-.ily country
exceeding this nu iber was Great
Britain.
Lumber CheapBut Not Cheap Lumber 1
We have the best line. of lumber and
"the finest Louisiana cypress shingles in f
the Rio Grande Valley at best prices.
Are revceivijg seventy-five cars to fore-
stail shortage jof cars during crop moving
"period.
Also have on hand a nice supply of
sash and doors, nails, barb wire, fence
pickets, paints and oils,, cement, and a
complete line of hardware. -
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