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SJW''! The Commoner, VOLUME '9, NUMBER g T" T "T ", 10 fviu ' T"iif ? tev"'. fr f i i MAlu Gravity Cannl nt Snn llcntio, Texas, Hhowlng one of the locks In the DlHtnncc. No. 1. In tho series of announcements, of which this Is tho first, it Is our pur pose to give tho readers of Tho Commoner, tho exact facts concerning The Valley of the Lower Rio Grande and to call their attention especially to SAN BENITO, TEXAS in tho very heart of this fertile Valley. We want to tell you about t Our Favorable Location; Our Ideal Climate Our Marvclounly Productive Soil; Our Great Gravity Irrigation Cannl SyHtcm; Our Numerous and Prolltnble Productn, and the Attructlvc Opportunities hero for Investors and HomcNOclccrM. X ,rvJ.! V. not confound tho "Lower Rio Grande Valley" with JLiOCciLlOil lhat larBr region, commonly known aa tho "Gulf Coast - ., . , Country." Tho Bower Rio Grande Valley is tho Dolta St. il Br,S.ait r,Ivor and ls that Portion of tho Gulf Coast Country irrigated by its sllt-ladon wators. Look, on your map; find the extreme Southorn R.! of TP,xas..llt th0 rnouth of tho Rio Grande. That ls tho "Delta ntir3t; V10 hoyvcr, R, Grando Valley;" tho "Agricultural Nugget," containing less than half a million acres, which Is now attractlncr tho Tibn'ti!nVc&fJnYS3.toVB and Homo-seekers, more than a I'uiUron. of i&!&&hsf ss& tr&i urasis? sat"180 Baiiway- w" p inmate jsm? i.S'Sis &JS& vuu auuiinurH comparatlvolv cnni. hnin ,.r iT" "-' Btnnt nn .., ,..i"cJlummcr? comparatively cool, bolnc tcmiwrmfhv : -Vri..vl ul .,,u? oreozcs ironr tho Gulf of Mexico ' duo'o'SjSi? ButHwhen yirnrlSdr U 48 ot sufllclent to pro Delta soft produce? not only lr Wm? tho, R! Grande, this any othor section of the United q??! waLliy. f ctB than that of n well anntlty. Wc l.nve tiSSS SSnFiLi ?.lL el ln u"y , .. b.uiiuK nt'usun, WA B wnrlrnrl. T.ii uM'""li ' ricn CHOCOIatO loam. It ia mollnwnni ''" College of Texas, w en visit Sg San 'BSiItrinSf al an,d J Mechanical depth mid rlchnoss of lio 8 P nl w wn 0" fenWa?, 13kDd,as to tho and so rich that it is not necesslryalSk i ? ?JZ A0.. 8S0 eep - - - ni ui noiiness." I Soil The San Benito Gravity Canal font In iirlltli r.l nn j . Wrlto for Illustrated booklet. A,l,lt. Sa Benito Land & Water Comn "OS 111 Snn nu.. m r AI.IIA IHDYWOOD, Present ' aZ' . ,.... uinuiigcr. any, An Associated Press dispatch from Washington, D. C, says: "Official amend for the sensational elimina tion of Jefferson Davis' name from the tablet on Cabin John Bridge, six miles west of this city, during Presi dent Lincoln's administration, is given in directions the president is sued today through the secretary of war to the chief engineers of the army to restore the name." Tho American fleet of battleships arriving at Old Point Comfort were greeted by the president. By a vote of 186 to 120, a strictly party vote, the house of representa tives refused to adopt a. resolution offered by Representative Clark of Florida directing the committee on judiciary to take action on the letter sent to President Obaldia of Panama by Secretary of State Bacon. Baton had written to Obaldia that the pres ident had too "little regard" for Rainey and that the statements were not worthy of notice. date of Chicago, February 25, says: "United States District Judge Ander son broadly Intimated today that ho will rule that the unit of offense in the Standard Oil rebating case will be the thirty-six settlements of freight charges. Under this ruling, if made, a fine of only $720,000 is possible as compared with Judge Landis' assessment of $29,240,000 in the original case. The court said after listening to the arguments: 'I think that there can be no more con victions than there have been settle ments, wherein the carrier and the shipper have settled their- accounts and the shipper has received back the difference between the valid rata and the rate which was a concession. Of these settlements there were thirty-six.' In rendering this infor mal opinion the court also disposed or tne contention of the defense that the whole matter was a continuing offense, susceptible to but one punishment.". Federal Judge Anderson, presiding in the StandaTd Oil case at Chicago sustained tho motion, made by the attorneys of the Standard Oil, calling fo the quashing of the jury panel consisting of 150. The Standard Oil attorneys claim there were too many farmers on the jury. The report of Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations says that the -tobacco-'business is practi cally controlled by ten men. The Associated Press is authority for the statement that Mr. Taft's first message of 6,000 words was read and approved by Mr. Roosevelt. Political rumors credit Governor Hughes with an 'ambition to succeed Senator Depew. Inasmuch as this office has been set aside -for Mr. Roosevelt when he shall have com pleted his Aincan hunt, republican leaders are greatly agitated. KragSSruL!riS?v thoro must bo &&&& fnM- in Wi,ihT..i orv . . ,. ..mal" canal Is over 30.mIlnR in w.?i ViS i,,?T!?",8 ot nori!s without tho strolco o?a mnm.thTlla,nd' 'JlH" IrrlBatine rlvor ls low, na woll aa whon tho rlvor Is hPs1 d00a Jhls whon Products SSS JSTfitua Xzrz??w ' a will .llscas tho loalfe ."L'ft,,1" "' SSafiSff production and profits Amnno-iv, ?Ui y' divine facts and flirurea iw In o? SHE SShaS?HiSiigr &5rff rJ?" ,& . Win. True, The United States supreme court has affirmed a decision of the lower court in assessing fines aggregating $152,600 against the New York Cen tral Railroad company. In an opinion by Justice White the United States supreme court upheld the Arkansas anti-trust law of 1905 which provides a penalty of from $200 to $500 for each offense and the forfeiture of the right to do busi ness in the state. The decision was handed down In the case of the Ham mond Packing company, of Chicago, which It was charged had conspired with other packers to fix the price of meats. A $10,000 fine was Im posed. That verdict was sustained by the Arkansas supreme court, whose finding was today affirmed. Justice White gave especial consider ation to the complaint that when the v.vjunjtiuj iciuHuu io produce its books in obedience to an order from the court a judgment was given against it contrary to the federal constitu tion. Justice White declared that if JBi d?.t3Lof a corporation to live in the light of day and be pre pared at any time "to exhibit its statee"dingS t0 US Creator' the The United States supreme court decided the case of the Cumberland Telephone company vs. tho Railroad Commission of Louisiana, involving the right of the commission to re duce the company's long distance rates, favorably to the state. cision was by Justice Peckham." It is plain that there will be no .utU vr tiuBt mis time. An Associated Press dispatch unde Four thousand shoe lasters went on a strike at Portsmouth; -Ohio? The Nebraska legislature has passed' the bill nrovidiriV"for the election of United States .senators by W. K. Vanderbllt has given one million for the erection ofCwhite plague tenements. - The manner in which committee appointments are distributed among senators was a -subject of a resolu tion, and remarks submitted to" the senate February 25 T)y Senator Bur kett of Nebraska; The Associated Press sayst "Mr. Bufkett's- resolu tion provided that committee assign ments shall be inade -hy - seniority, but that no senator shall he a mem ber ot both the committee oh "finance and appropriations, nor a senator of more than 'two committees -iha con sider appropriation bills, nor of more than two of the following important committees: Appropriations, com merce, finance, foreign relations, in terstate commerce, judiciary 'and rules, vthese being the important com mittees of the senate. Mr. Burkett read from a statistical tablo he had compiled showing that on the seven committees but thirty-Beven of the forty-six states are 'represented, while all the places are , held by thirty-fivo of the ninety-two- sena tors. Of the eighty-nine plaTces on these committees, he said fifty-five ??S Le held by sateen states. While fifty-nine places aro held by republicans, he said, thirty-nine in dividual republicans hold all .of them. Of these eighty-nine desirable as Jnments, he said, twenty-three are 5fIdi? senators from states west of the Mississippi river and sixty-six ocuaium irom east or tne Mississippi. Twenty-six senators, he said, are oh more than two of these committees; thirty are oh two; twenty-two are on one, and fourteen are on none at all. Mr. Burkett insisted that better results. wotuld. be ob ( Continued on Page 12.),. 2'--g-irT-TrTrTillwmmi.j