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Love of Ann Rutledge Led Agreement Reachedltoday Pumping Machinery ^ 1 1-2 to 11 h. p. Fairbanks Centrifugal Pumps. 4^^ Morse and Atlas ^ Kreuger M ‘^L ^ A W.HMW.J ItjHF /Till -^^6^ /VWW^r ■ glL. ■■—■■- .. _:.. -—..-^__^=ir^„ —-=-i:--=tttt— ,-t ■' ■ .. FEBRUARY rOL. XXXIII No. 223 ESTABLISHED 1892 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, 12, 1926 / EIGHT PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS A COPY fife.... ---.---___ ■ .. ^ -r-■ .. .. OUR VALLEY *-----: fcPPY south winds have been blow- AUTO FRIGHTENS BABY over the Rio Grande ng Delta the * * * few days. MEXICO ORDERS Love of Ann Led RIVER DRAGGED a sign, as they say. Rutledge MAMA HURLS ins a change in the weather, ELEPHANT; * * * ibly will be followed by a brisk e out of the northwest shortly. TEN PRIESTS TO on FOR BOY I Observer Schnurbusch of the Lincoln to Greatness CAR INTO NEARBY DITCH BODY; d States Weather Bureau tells us somewhere up in northern Colo- (Bv The Associated in Wyoming there’s a disturb- Press.) Dutch East Feb. developing. LEAVE COUNTRY BATAVIA, Indies, TRIES * RESCUE 12.—How a mother rescued listurbance in that district at this elephant her which had been n of the year means weather for baby, frightened lection. by a small Amerrcar, automobile Others Held while the machine and hurled it Brother of Starr who can complain? Eight picked up County into a it to is ir weeks of wonderful weather, ravine, smashing bits, Goes Down Schols Are Instructed related in a here from Attorney een splendid. Gave the potato men story arriving Telok South Sumatra. ;>porunity to get their seed into To Vera Cruz Betong, In Effort to Swim Close; A before dawn round. Some of it is already com- party driving along Says 14 Deported a primitive road through a forest was Stream to This Side the meantime, in the north* and halted by a baby elephant which, blinded the head- east there have been serious snow apparently by (By The Associated tress.) refused to (Special to The Herald.) leet storms. Over half a hundred lights, budge. a was RIO GRANDE Feb. ns have perished. Trains have beet' MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—Ten Presently deep trumpeting CITY, 12. heard the motorists and a id by drifts. City streets have foreign priests have been deport- by huge —The Rio Grande near here is cow elephant was seen smashing her deep in snow. Even courts ad ed from Mexico, eight more are being dragged in an effort to lo- ed in Central Pr*>a» way through the jungle. The occu- Massachusetts. and the cate the of • • • held for expulsion, po- pants of the car jumped out and fled body Douglas Pope, are others to to The motor a who lost his life irigadier General Frank R. McCoy is lice seeking alleged safety. elephant in age 25, early seized the car with her trunk iin in this corps area. have violated the Mexican con- rage this morning when he attempted and sent it hurtling into the ravine. Seneral McCoy has been sent to Fort stitution, it was officially an- to swim across the river on his m Houston as commander of the return nounced , from Camargo, Mexico, ird a today. Infantry Brigade. But he’s to the American side of the ralry officer. The department of the in- Captain Frank R. McCoy was station- terior has given 24 hours notice river. in at CABBAGE Pope, who is the son of John A. i[NBrownsville, Fort RATES .Pope Brown, just for the closure of several i of this and a years ago. schools and asylums conducted city, brother of County le commanded a of the Third Attorney John A. Pope of this city, was troop under ited States Cavalry, under Colonel religious management. with Tom Foltz, and the two missed the The district court its last ferry at 4 a. m. today. Rather than ocksom. He proved a rare diplomat. is continuing ARE RESTORED be late for the two decided to Later he was chief of staff to Gen- investigation to determine whether work, I swim the stream. ii James Parker, then in command of Archbishop Mora Del Rio and other were within 10 of the (060 troops stationed on this part of church officials have given interviews They feet Am- » b^rd^r. or made statements contrary to the Valley Able to Compete erican bank when the swift current constitution. sucked Pope under. Attempts by by- Since which tim^ much water has in California Terri- The archbishop has issued a state- standers to save him were futile, and deled along under the bridge for ment saying that an interview with a heroic effort of a 15-year old boy, :&ral McCoy, as it has for most ev- tory Again him recently printed here and which who swam the river in an attempt to 1 officer of that day. — resulted in the government’s investi- rescue Pope, was also of no avail. le became Major McCoy, and was gation was in reality a statement he At the is a believed to be that of Ann at left The Rio Grande Valley is preparing The boy after finding that he was it to as aide to the top photo Rutledge, is her grave. The log JVfexioo City too late to save swam made in San Antonio in 1917. He said to repeat on a larger scale her accom- Pope, back and ambassador. in 1918 shack at is what remains of the house in New in lejkUtfn Early top, right, Salem, 111., which Lincoln lived who was in the church has no intention of creat- plishment of last year in shipping cab- helped Foltz, mid-stream, .Kent across, was made a colonel, at the time he knew Ann. Below is the store in which ing difficulties with the government. building he worked. into the Pacif'c Northwest, to Se- having been pulled back by th« current d commanded combat He bage troops. It is the statement which sucked under the water. thought prelate’s ‘Out of me. and unknown. Bt loved of Abraham attle, Portland, Tacoma, etc., and com- Pope rved overseas until some time after unworthy Lincoln. tersburg, 111., recall a a de- further court action against memory of Pope was in the of an may stay The vibrations of deathlf*ss music: "Wedded to him but not union peting with California in that state’s Young employ s war, when he was made aide to through voted love, interrupted by death but not oil (Continued on Page Five.) With malice own of a company, operating on the Mexican vernor General Leonard towards none and with But through separation. lost. territory, following receipt Wood and side of the Rio towards all” telegram at the traffic department of Grande. as vice-governor of the Philip- charity Bloom forever, O Republic, Lincoln always maintained that her Out of me, forgiveness of millions to- From the Dust of the Chamber of Commerce here yester- El^edefi. He returned to the states a few My Bosom.” spirit was ever near him and she was ward millions; day to the efect that the special rate on >nths ago for a tour of duty in the his inspiration in the years that fol- And the beneficent face of a nation, These lines carved on a mon- cabbage from the Valley to Oregon and reau of insular affairs. In the mean- striking lowed. Biographers say that this frail OIL STRUCK NEAR NATION with Justice and Truth. ument at Ann Washington is to be in effect again. he PAYING Shining of granite the grave of He wps promoted to brigadier gen- young girl was the greatest influence I am Ann Rutledge, who beneath Abraham the past several seasons vege- al. Then he served on the court sleeps Rutledge, Lincoln’s first in his adolescent years. Durim; these weeds, in table shippers of the Valley have de- irtial that tried Colonel Mitchell. sweetheart, Oakland cemetery, Pe- (Continued on Pnge Eight.) MATAMOROS, REPORT a market in the Pacific North- And now he is again near the scenes veloped 1914-16-16. TRIBUTETOABE west for Valley cabbage, competing with California. Last season about 100 cars An unconfirmed report was received moved from the to that terri- in Brownsville a mas J. Yoe is superintendent of Valley today that flowing lsville schools. Villa’s Head on to WOMAN tory, Brownsville shipping about one- well of oil has been struck at a point DIES AT half of the total. about 40 miles south of Texas Closed to Matamoroa. ), he is a member of Governor Capital Way At the Interstate Commerce Commis- Details of the well were the son's textbook commission, lacking) Observe sion on the Southern Pacific report coming from a Matamoroa ,man' a member of this commission, Mr. Birthday hearing ap- to build into the this whp said he saw the well as he las performed a valuable service of Lincoln plication Valley passed information and created ie Rio Grande Delta, Scientists I FIRE developed, through. PHONE♦ Chicago, much interest, especially with Chairman The report was that oil was flowing has Texas Say brought geography up Clarence Gilmore of the state railroad all over the around the ;te, in some textbooks that were (By The Associated Press.) ground gusher. CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 12.—Tribute to CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 12.—Chicago scientists have admitted commission. Efforts to secure definite information With Clothes in as to the se books barely referred to the Abraham Lincoln as a world figure of that the head of Francisco Villa, described as “the greatest Flame, The rate at that time was $1.65 a hun- company drilling the well, the were no it was a and the ideal of millions was dred pounds.
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