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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. 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 . is continuing ARE RESTORED be late for the two decided to Later he was 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 . 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 , 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♦ , 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 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. amount, etc., to avaif to- Irande, stating navigable history criminal of the age" is on its way to Chicago for examination Effort is Made To n. the nation on by day, although further information ii paid throughout today experts. On January 1, for some unknown rea- ich was not the 117th of his birth. here tomorrow on the true. The Rio Gran- anniversary Call for Aid son, according to information given out expected report, the The disappearance of Villa’s head from the bandit chieftain’s to local men who are not navigable, and has not been Lincoln, emancipator, the presi- at the Chamber traffic department, the according making * was in near efforts to find out the facts. great many years, dent and statesman, honored grave Parral, Mexico, the night of February 5, was followed rate on cabbage was cancelled, making MESQUITE, Feb. Local men familiar with oil activi- fame, therefore, arises not in the commemorative speeches and services. by story in El Grafico of Mexico that an “eccentric Texas, 12.—Slowly shipments to that section impossible, City Chicago to ties in this district declare there has that it is or was but in Nor were these confined to the section burning death, Mrs. W. P. Samuels, were forced to tell custom- navigable, millionaire interested in crirrn-> and shippers widow, alone in her home been no drilling so far as they know. act that it supplies water which which gave him, living, its support. aged blazing eres that the business was killed by the had financed the theft. made a ites some 350,000 acres of land. Texas for the first time in history, nology" today futile effort to call aid tariff. > The Chicago millionaire has not been Her lands produce some 13,000 car- closed its at the request by telephone. only chance failed. Through the work of the traffic de- Her charred of fruits and vegetables annually, of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, to identified, but Dr. Orlando F. Scott, body, lyjtg near the tele- partment of the Chamber of Commerce MOVE was found in the house observe his as a TO FORM phone damaged TRUCK something like 100,000 bales of birthday holiday. prominent Chicago brain specialist, has with the Transcontinental Lines the MARKETS as Mrs. Samuels, 70. lived at New But it was Lincoln “Honest Abe” announced that he expected the head aged rate has been secured again. C. E. Perk- —the the citizen and the four miles north of here. It is Naval Radio to The Herald from it's what the textbooks will say man, neighbor ^ould arrive here within a few days. Hope, ins, vice president in charge of traffic By that was in stories of his believed her clothing ignited from a U. S. and Texas fter, thanks to the vigilance of portrayed “The head will be examined from a of the Pacific railway, yester- Agriculture Depart- fire a life and told and retold VALLEY she attempted to start in stove. wired that the Transcontinental ments. character, pathological from W.C.T.U day I standpoint by experts I a' with undiminished enthusiasm, by those universities and colleges,” he said, but She had tried to telephone for help Freight Rate committee is restoring the of on the Rio still living who had known him. he said he but was aking navigation was not at liberty to divulge unable to make the operator old rate. Primary destinations Lower Valley a few a , which gave him to the na- other understand had le, years ago telephone any information and refused to what happened. Mrs. This will permit still more competi- Texas vegetables reported Thursday, was into the tion, furnished many of these. That discuss whether White Outlines Howard support pole put any Chicagoan had Major Britton, telephone operator, tion with California in that state’s terri- Peb. 11: Cabbage: Pittsburgh St. iid near Levee and Elev- the world at large might hear their been street involved in the affair. however, realizing that something was tory in cabbage sales. Louise reminiscences station Method of in 10, Chicago 6, Houston 12. a few feet west of the excavation WGN, Chicago, Another Chicagoan, Dr. James Whit- Aiding wrong, notified the woman’s neighbors, to Brooklyn 1, Boston 1, Birmingham 2. lotel El Jardin. arranged gather all who had seen ney Hall, noted and criminolo- who found the house in flames. When alienist Prohibition INSURED FOR MILLION 1, Cleveland 2, Denison 1, New him, or had shaken his before t pole found a footing only after hand, gist, also expressed interest, admitting they extinguished the fire they discov- H. Hines, the -*- WASHINGTON--Joseph Orleans 1, Baltimore 1: Total 39. Mixed ts shoved a rusted microphone to participate tonight in there had been through badly considerable talk of ered the woman’s body on a cot where former Ohio representative, who work- Houston on vegetables: 4, Bangor, Me., 1, r of a sidewheel steamer that was (Continued Page Five.) (Continued on Steps toward the formation of a Val- she had fallen after to send ed Page Eight.) trying her up in the steel industry from the Boston 1, Salina, Kans., 1, Chicago 0, in the river at that point, many, last ley W. €. T. U., and handing out of message.. cinder pit carries $1,000,000 insurance Pittsburgh 2. New York 2, Atlanta 1, years ago. And that place is a information by Major H. H. White, dis- St. Louis 9, Sioux City 1, Eldorado 1, on (Continued Page Two.) Kansas 1, Lubbock 1. Total 34. trict prohibition enforcement officer City By express; Philadelphia 1, New York 1. as to how members of this organization Auction Carrots: St. Louis 1, Rio 1, Jersey Grande can in work City Line and others help prohibition THE WEATHER New York 6. Boot* by reporting violations, featured the Chicago 3, 1, total St. morning session of the W. C. T. U. con- •_ and carrots mixed: Louis 3. Let- tuce: New York Brownsville and the Lower Rio ference here today. 1, Jersey City It by 1. N** Valley: Fair to partly cloudy Ordered Federal Court Mrs. Ella Boole, national president .express Jersey City Spinach: York 2. and Saturday; not much change, by pointed out at the meeting this morn- 2, Chicago I or- Carlot shipments for entire United the of the work of the rerature. ing scope Agreement & (Snecial to ReachedlToday Feb. 11: The States East Texas: Partly cloudy to- Herald.) was ordered late Wednesday afternoon ganization, declaring that the forma- Thursday, Cabbage: HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 12.—Sale at Federal would California 1, Florida 11, New York 62, md Saturday; continued mild by Judge J. C. Hutcheson. The tion of a Valley organization (By The Associated Press.) “At a meeting of the anthracite con- public auction of the Rio Grande Val- sale will and in- 3, South Carolina 4, Texas, 40, iture. Gentle to fresh souther- not take place for two years. help this district both directly PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 12.—Final ference a tentative was Oregon which will agreement ley railroad, provide clear The decree was Wisconsin 20, Total 131. Unreported s on the coast. in effect an approv- directly, as every membership payment agreement for ending the anthracite adopted. This agreement will be sub- title to the road for the on the California 8, Florida Wis- Weather Conditions, purchaser al of an agreed judgment between the sent in from here aids the work in all strike was reached here today at olte mitted to the Tri-District convention 10th, 1, through the elimination and settlement indi- consin 3. Lettuce: Arizona 4, California barometric pressure was still attorneys for the complainants, defend- parts of the country, and reacts forty-seven p. m. for approval, after which a contract of all liens on the road now Florida western existing, ants. and intervenors in a suit which on this in addition to aid- The will 99, 3, Texas 2, by express 1, tely low throughout the rectly city, following official announcement be formally executed by both par- total 109. Mixed Cali- the this morn- was filed in federal court here on No- ing directly in the work that is done was made: ties.” vegetables: fornia Colorado Florida Louisi- in the north-central vember 20. The was in here. 16, 3, 2, d falling railway placed The convention will be held in Scran- ana York over the the hands of a receiver the Mrs. Boole the work of the 16, New 4, Previously unrf* and moderately high following explained ton The LYNCH beginning Tuesday morning. the 10th: California Texal 2; scat- DAVIDSON suit, and the re- in other of the coun- ported 17, states. Except for light, George Westerfield, organization parts Davis Considers Case mine workers will resume work within 19. in of the ceiver, was relieved of all duties fol- try and said that the Texas border is a total { irecipitation portions ten days and it is expected the peak of in Minnesota, the agreement of Wednesday. where the work could be carried To Briand Government Total cabbage shipments for Colorado, item states and lowing place production will be reached the end TO ADDRESS MEET by this season to laat season to He was as master on with effectiveness. date, 429; ither was mostly fair to ptfrtly appointed special particular of the month. 824. . throughout the country since commissioner to supervise the sale of Major White told of the ways in (Bv The Associated Press.) date, the terms are information for Thurs- jort. Temperatures were unsea- Lynch Davidson of Houston, the road. which members of the union and others WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—The Briefly as follows: Shipping point probable Feb. 11: central one- The suit had been filed in with their views can aid case of Countess Cathcart, ordered ex- Work to be resumed at once under day, Cabbage: LowOr Rio high across the candidate for governor of Texas, is receivership sympathy for the in ir- cluded the United States the old contract to certain Grande of Texas: wirw, f the United States at the inorn- expected to be in Brownsville tomor- by 0. L. Stribling, attorney enforcement work by reporting from yester- subject Valley points of\ St. Lou- to the officers. He at Island was taken under modifications and remain in effect un- partly cloudy. Haulings moderate, de- ervation, and had risen somewhat row, and is scheduled to make a talk Mercantile Trust company regularities gave day Ellis is holders of securities them the exact method in which this consideration Secretary of til April 31, 1990. mand and trading market illy throughout the eastern at the banquet of the Cameron County first mortgage today by improving, the Rio Grande should and distributed Labor Davis with indications of early Once a year each after dull. Better wire Carldode ind also most of the Rocky Moun- Medical society, to be held at Harper’s of the road, against be done, print- party may inquiry. the Houston ed sheets instructions as to decision. January 1, 1927, modification f. o. b. usual terms. Bulk ton, Flit gion. Colder weather, however, cafe here tomorrow night. Valley Railroad company, containing propose per holders of aid in enforcement work. Under the law the must in the wage scale. Dutch type, 1 car in in the extreme northwestern Dr. J. M.' Rosser of Dallas, head of Land and Trust company, secretary mostly $60. 047J0. on the and P. Stone of San husband either sustain or the at On the checkoff the says: Carloads f.o.b. cash track. Few sites, ind the far Canadian Northwest, the state medical association, will be the second mortgage road, W. Benito, reject finding agreement The intervenors who of Mrs. W. P. who is Ellis Island, that the titled wp- “The demands of the and mostly $47.60. Wagonloads enah; t# lowest temperature last night one of the principal speakers at the other defendants. Stone, president English operators T. man is enter the mine on the of at a entered the suit after the of of the Valley district of the W. C. an improper person to the workers question growers, mostly $40. Rochester, N.. Yn as stations ranged from 44 meeting, and number of Valley phy- filing sicians are to on (.Continued on Page Two.) United States. (Continued on Page Tan*. (Continued on Pago Two.) i 66 Brownsville. expected speak. 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