Brownsville Daily Herald (Newspaper) - May 23, 1908, Brownsville, Texas VOL XVI NO 277 sv Y HERALD BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY MAY 23 1908 SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS PROSPERITY IN FOUR PRISONERS THE VALLEY ARE BROUGHT IN Arrested at Sauz ranch on Charge Truck Shipments Increased per cent Over Last Year 50 Over 1000 Cars of Truck Will Be Ship ped this L B M Shipped First Car of Water melons Year The WOOD Standard World Prices Are Right and We Pay the Freight LA LOMITA LANDS FOR SALE shipments out of the country along the Brownsville road this season will amount to over a thousand carloads said General Manager Miller of the St Louis Brownsville and Mexico railroad this morning to a HERALD reporter who met him at the station This is fully fifty per cent increase over truck shipments from this region for the some season last year he continued which fully sustains the confidence of the company in the rapid development ol this wonderful country The season is not over yet by i good deal he added as the watermelon crop has just begun to move And by the way added Mr Miller the first carload of water I melons to be shipped from Texas this season was shipped over the StLouis Brownsville and Mex ico railroad The report that has Been sent out from Falfurrias that the first car of melons was shipped from that place is false he con for the first car was ship win an exar Calvin on These trial before Justice of the of Cattle Theft Stockmen Have Been Losing Cattle for Some Time and Rangers with Deputy Sheriff Were Laying for the Thieves Caught with the Hides and Beef Last night about twelve oclock four prisoners were placed in the county jail iu this city having been arrested at the Sauz ranch about 70 miles from town on charge of cattle theft by Rangers Clark and Smith and Deputy Sheriff Jose Longoria For some time stockmen in the vicinity of the Sauz which is one of the King ranches have been complaining of the depredations of cattle thieves and the officers named had gone out there from Brownsville to endeavor to catch the guilty parties It was known that there was a gang of cattle thieves operating in that section The officers began making investi gations with the result that they encountered four men who had in their possession several cowhides and a quantity of fresh beef for which they were unable to account to the satisfaction of the officers The men were arrested and brought to town on the late train last night and are now in jail They will have an examining SEE SAN BENIT 30000 Acres Irrigated Miles of Canals Already Completed Rich San raPidly miles north of Brownsville on tie Mam Line of St L B M Railway A fine hotel brick depot and many stores and homes already completed The Garden Spot of the Gulf Coast Country Large or small tracts Liberal terms Low rates of interest SEEING IS BELIEVING San Benito Land Water Co Alba SAN BENITO TEXAS In August 1907 W P Stites Ed Bullion W E Nickerson and Ed C Dustin Secy Texas Onion Growers Association rented of W S Dougherty 107 acres of land for an onion crop at per acre adjoining La Lomita ranch During September October and November they plowed and prepared their land and planted their seed beds During De cember they transplanted their onions to the field 1908 87 cars of onions were 500 or more crates per car and selling at and better per crate It is safe to estimate the returns from these 107 acres of onions to be not less than for a crop which it took less than 9 months to produce and sell The above parties have sirce bought land from La Lomita ranch Affi davits substantiating this statement will be gladly by Conway Hoit of La Lomita ranch CONWAY HOIT lission Hidalgo Co Texas Brownsville Hardware Company FOR QUALITY and PRICE Courtesy and Promptness DEALERS IN n HARDWARE loves Ranges Refrigerators Tinware Builders Hardware Paints and Oils Varnishes Wagons Agricultural Implements PHONE 141 melons were raised by Dongen and melon growers near Calvin They were shipped on May 18 two days previous to the shipment from Falfurrias These melons said were sold by the growers at Calvin f o b for net The car con 932 melons which averaged 24 12 pounds thus bringing the growers a little over 40 cents per melon or nearly two cents per pound Mr Miller was accompanied here by T J McCune of transportation J D Finnigan Treasurer of tlie road and also by his private secretary Herbert Dennett and clerk J D Powers He was joined here by Wm Doherty traffic manager who had been here a couple of days These officials arrived in the city last night in the private cars St Elmo and Paisano attached to a freight train They left this morn ing for San Benito to inspect some work on the road there They will return to Kingsville tonight Traffic Manager Doherty who joined here is authority for the statement that there will be about fifty or sixty cars of water melons shipped from this section this season and that shipments will last for several weeks There some onions potatoes and other products to be shipped out before the season is ended and the road will be quite busy for several weeks longer handling the crop Will Pull In Double Harness But wont our thriving city Brownsville on the lower Rio Grande do some more hard pull ing now that it is going to be yoked up to Matamoros just across the Rio Times The tank of a gasoline launch on which a moonlight excursion party was taking an outing on the Mis near Clarendon Ark arid seven persons were hurled to death Gavito Monday morning The men under arrest are Manuel and Braulio Garcia and Pe rez BIG CROWD COMING TO BROWNSVILLE TONIGHT Lodgings Will Be in Demand by Home seekers and Excursionists Coming to See Bullfights There will probably be several hundred visitors in Brownsville to night and tomorrow Telegrams were received here today stating that 300 arrived in Houston yesterday en route to the Brownsville country and the greater part of these will doubtless come on here tonight The car Texas with which stopped at San Benito last night will come in and two other coaches of home seekers will arrive also Besides these there will doubt less be a great mauy excursionists from San Houston and intermediate places as a very low rate was advertised from these points to Brownsville for the bull fights to take place in Malamoros tomorrow Lodgings will be in demand here tonight There will doubtless be several hundred visitors looking for a place to lay their heads and it is hoped that all who have lodg ings to let will have representatives at the station to pilot he travelers to a stopping place Bay City Texas has had her first case of wife tried under the new laws of the when ayoung man aged 24 de his three months bride He was fined and costs Buy where you get ouy you get Water for Irrigation jj AT COST Thousands of scorpions suddenly appeard at La Barranca Mexico killing a number of children in that town The Rains County court house was destroyed by fire the early part of the week Loss 338000 METEOROLOGICAL REPORT FOR BROWNSVILLE Following are the observations taken at the South Texas Garden for the 24 hours ending at eight oclock a m today May minimum 79 We have for sale acres choice lands fronts to 7 miles east of Browns ville on the ir Indiana Cooperative Canal in tracts of any size to suit from ten acres up on easy terms It you to investigate our proposition E F Rowson Co White Front Office Brownsville Texas w 8 FURNITURE o OF QUALITY AND STYLE g W Largest and Most Complete Stock in South Texas Refrigerators Gasoline Oil and Wood Cook Stoves JJ OFFICE FURNITURE ETC ETC O TWO TRAINS A DAY POINT New Schedule in Effect by End of Month io Grande Will Run Evening Train to Point in Addition to Regular Morn ing Train for Summer Visitors to Coast daily In compliance with the general with in Brownsville for an evening train between Brownsville and Point Isabel the Rio Grande rail way company has decided to put on an evening train from Browns ville to Point Isabel for the sum mer which will leave here at 6 p in arriving at Point Isabel at tn The return train will the Point at 7 a m reaching Brownsville at a m This will be iu addition to the regular train to the Point which will leave Brownsville every morn ng at and returning will eave Point Isabel at 4 p m ar riving here at p m This will give Brownsville a double train to Point Isabel The above information was ob by THB HERALD recently in a way and it was confirmed this morning by General Manager Jeff N Miller of the St Louis Brownsville and railroad which controls the Rio Grande road Just when the new schedule will go into effect Mr Miller was not yet ready to say but thought it would be about May 27 or next Wednesday This news is welcome indeed to the people of Brownsville Mata moros and this entire vicinity as it will give an excellent opportunity for families to spend the summer at the coast resorts of this vicinity while the men of the family will have the privilege of going down to spend every night and get a re freshing dip in the surf and return to town the next morning in time for business New York city has the third largest German population of any city in the world only Berlin and Hamburg being ahead of it WEST The work of subdivision and development of West Brownsville is far enough advanced to enable to show locations on any part LOTS TO ACTIVE HOME BUILDERS In order stimulate immediate improvements and the building of homes in West Brownsville we will give free of C If gei C T i If firSt fiVe Persons completing a residence costing not less than the nce lot on which the home is built We will also give to each of the first five persons com a residence costing not less than located on the Lake Front Boulevard on Lake or Lake Guerra or Central Boulevard the lot on which the home is located This offer applies lot or boulevard lot purchases made in the regular way and means that the first five in the residence lot class and the first five in the boulevard lot class in West Brownsville to comply with the conditions named will have the Purchase Price Obligation Cancelled Erection of buildings must begin with hi 30 days fron June 1 1908 The residence lots on extensions of Washington Flixabeth Levee St nnd are feet Price to each Lake Front lots are 100 feet front deep price to each Central Boulevard lots are 150 feet font bv JOO feet deep price to each Five acre tracts range in price from to 1000 each ing to location nnd distance from city Terms onethird cash balance 1 and vears it 6 per cei Or on the installment plair we will accept 10 per cent cash and the balance in 20 monthly at 6 per cent 1 his property is all tinder the canals now in Operation of the Brownsville Ii Co who are watering more land now than any other canal in the The City and pumping station is located in West Brownsville and a large portion of the residence rict is the City limits and under the water mains and light lines of the Improvement Co TO ANY REGULAR IN BROWNSVILLE Co
