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Volume 5.
VICTORIA,. TEXAS}
29
>DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1897.
No, 160
Cracker Jack
ISTHE qyjjpp
The more you eat,
The more you want”
TRY IT.
JOHN C. ADAMS & Co.
P. B. LANDER, Cashier.
Does a Genera! Banking Business, Collections Solicited.
Main Street, VICTORIA, TEXAS.
H. D.i APPLEGATE
CONTRACTOR si BUILDER,
Plans aihd Estimates Furnished oip Applica-
tion. Correspondence Solicited.
■ ' job y/ork a Specialty,
Shop in Old Levi Building,
POST OFFICE BOX 152 - Victoria, Texas
■ as. BttOWUSONt
President c
EUGENE 1S1BLE*
Vice President
raKO BUHLI‘>
Cashier
First* National ..B a isik
OF VICTORIA, TEXAS,
CAPITAL
* j j S150.00U.0C.
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-"“^ Prank Knowla n «*
BLAKSMITH and MACHINIST,
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Agent for Engines, Windmills and Boilers.
Contracts taken for ordinary and Artesian wells,
fcuock east of Grand Central hotel on Williams street.
VICTORIA,
lir.r ..-it r^icgaaMm’agan»3tiiBnmiMm«ri
in Ice and Brewing Co.
A DEPL ^
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IHTEST CAUSE.. FOR
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Yellow Sp|
of S3
The hasty an
health of Victoria]
of yellow fever e?
warranted and utti
done to business
the mental worry1
is beyond expressioj
The Times woufij
should lie deception oil
gravity of the situation
does insist that the fulles
"R AISHT.
e
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Ivthe Idle Vaporings
y_~l Dreams.
|rl action of the board of
Vi to the world that a case
was inexcusable, un-
The material injury
tty, is incalculable,Avhile
bias caused our people,
•*au instance urge that there
frfhlient practiced, or that the
ild be underestimated; but’ft
id most complete investigation
should have been nnde inSj;linminatest details of the sus-
pected case before it was Heralded to the world that yel-
low fever had actually developed its deadly virus in our
midst. A blunder is a crilne; and at this supreme moment,
when the feelings and fearj of the people- are strung to the
very highest tension, it is not only reckless but criminal to
still further excite their feelings and play upon their mor-
bid fears.
I he Times has no desire or intention to unjustly criti-
cise the board of health, or call in question thp.ability or
experience of either of its distinguished members; but it
does insist that their action in tl^e.Suggs ease was hasty,
ill advi|ij^Jfc|^mdy indefensible.
eifiu-oE.aWib jf•<?,4<) sub«*-t,-w>t.ate tlv'
thcor^j allegation tbitthe patient was ill.of yellow fever.
He came to Victoria mory than three weeks ago from
Montgomery, a town admittedly free from any form of
fever or other infectious disease. A short time aftei his
arrival here he was seized with the dengue, but soon ral-
lied and appeared upon the streets. As is not unusual, he
took a relapse, aud the I earn'd board of health, or rather
certain members of it, with but a cursory and perfunctory
diagnosis proceeded to pronmnee the case yellow fevei;
Despite the gruesome diagnosis, however, and the gl
and pessimistic forebodings! of
timid, the patient eontinues o
immediate prospect of a spe^
But the injury and dan;
complete. Business has 1
tied, energy suppressed
sary fear and anguish,
villages have erecte
effectually isolates 1;
well as commercui
The injury,
part of wise an^
able. Theirs tlv... A
' l cm
nori
ents
jjilt run
as far as possil/e
among our p/A)tl. l}°}\
bors. *
And the^p^*1$TWv
members fthc ooardjf hea \
initiative, /and by their personal
utterances endeavor to relieve Vl
undeserved burden which has bj
Times in kflvauce can and does
hearty and
to lift the
ity.
active co-operation pi
black cloud which ncjvvl
tined and are now under a strong1 ^SADLY DISAPPOINTED,
guard.
The trocha were very exciting
aqd heroic, and one lady, Mrs.
Woodford, who has been -visiting
| in Victoria, sprang across the line,
land into a hack standing just over I
The driver whipped up
Almost Fruitless Effort to Secure
Press Telegram from tb%.
Fever Districts.
The Times had hoped to lay bo-
pursued by j fore its readers this morniug a full
others into telegraphic report concerning, the
|Vlain street at a j ye||ow fever situation in the out-
side districts as well as in the state
Aftimum limill llyki SaUsf.aory.»rraB^cott were
Several iiistances liki? this occure.l j P^t-fec‘e(l wito Mr. Frank Bus-
amUho day has hren an eventful; hick, of the San.Antonio Express
for transmitting of the reports
covering the state, and all details
arranged with the local telegraph
iUJlLuh1. Ihe driver whipped up
t^BBj^iUi.l was pursued by
Ijj^ien. and otiiersinto
'Yd
guard.
oqc, full of wild excitement.
All tr
morning
f
All trains were puvled off this
SAN ANTONIO SAYS NAY.
The AlamoCity Raises thjBars
Against Victoria.
operators even to the payment of
J their charges iu advance for the
ex.ra work, to remain aud receive
1 the report.
Necessariaily,in order thorough-
ly cover the field, the report could
not reach here until a late hour,
but to the chargrin aud dieap-
manuge-
Sun Antonio, Sept., 28.—The
unexpected announcement ^that
a case of yellow fever had develop - .............
ed in V.ctnri,, exile I the^hoard of I poinlme^j ,he "T„nes
health of this city •hastily ’together I
. • ment, at m>dnight the local opera
tike action m i 1 ° 1
i tor declined to longer remain on
duly, and, “shutting
at noon today, to
rere:cnee thereto. ’
After a hmghty and timrougb
discussion, it wasj determined that retired, thus effectually jo
quarantine be declared against' ;iny possibility of re
Victoria until further notice. ! r0pO1.^
thin
The Board of
By order of ybo^oan^BtbeaiI h
all residents /of Victorin re re-
quested, ib put lime and other dis~
mfi^Want? in ill out houses and
sinks or vaults, unless escapes ap-
pend, and the marshal and sani-
on y committee will inspect youv
premises and see that this work
has been-done. - >
-*• Hi'rnnn Fisher.
vSec’y.
Dr- Tabauit5s pre-
ventative oreicription
for yellow fevet can
be c mpounded at
|any time by Heaton
i Bros.
No one more than £_
; management regrets the unfortu-
nate fiasco. He exerted every
effort and spared no expense to
meet the public’s demand for the
news, .but he has n-> control over
the lines or the employes of the
Western Union Telegraph com-
pany, a corporation not conspicu-
ously noted for either its gener-
josity or eonUivsy to the pv.blic, ^
W e present, howevar, a brief
report of the situation at outride
points—covering, it true, the
main points; but it was our inten-
tion to give a.more complete and
elaborate review.
my
He weak, ignorant and
feadilv improve, with every
convalescence,
done to Victoria has been
araljzed, industry th rot -
;ens racked with unneees-
gbbor towns, cities and
a Chinese wall which
mmunicatiob, social as
world.
lone, and it is not the
ament over the inevit-
ijarts which shall undo,
I re Tore confidence
ns with om neigh-
Fcr, should be the
[ley should take the
111 as official acts and
ria of the onerous and
laced upon her. The
ie to the board tbe
fry citizen in its effort
fvelopes our comrnun-
^BECAUxSE^
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t Most of our Goods are bought direct;fn?j^|..
S'c i ! 4 11 i ictu- er or his Agent.'
AND
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BODIEI
ALL ABLE.
E El El E SI E! B E E B EB E E E E E S El E S 3
tUSTON - - TEXAS.
of the MAGNOLIA BKE WE BY is universally
Fogmzed as a sign of Superior Merit.
A. F. HORNBUR, Argent,
QUARAN'
rict quarantine has been declta
ainst the latter point
eabn physician of Vici
virxl here late this aft
that they have a case of
fever there. A cordon of
have been placed all along
Our hina and Crockery are all
direct importations that are ship-
ped direct, ftom the Factories in
England, Franco and Germany to
us. We save from 20 to 30 pe
cent, and give yon tho tieuetil of
our dire cl huying. Mop and
consider before you buy.
where......
.else- •
pr e W PRICES
the
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Wild Scenes
at the Qui
the Ci!
Special to the Times.
Cuero, Sept., 28J
wild with excitement!
of yellow fever in Vi
I
‘Cuero
ounty I,... j order to keep Vic- j
torians and a guard has been
placed every hundred yards on -
Grely t nd this city. A camp
||t> ! letention has been established
ji, . outside the city limits, and a
| whole army of Victoria people
| have oeen detained there. Several
| ran tbe gauntlet during last night
| and this morning, and are quarter-
1 ed In the homes of either friends
or relatives in this city, and today
over the o i a|| the houses in which Victorians
ctorhi, an . are quartered have been quaran-
Greatest of AIL*
sin life mm 5). Hi iti m
Richard A. McCurdy, Pres.
ASSETS, DECEWBER 31 st, 1893 ....... - $234,744,148 42
.SURPLUS, DECE -I BER 31st. 1893 ....... 29,733,544 70
INSURANCE IN FOR Oil DE J. 31, 1896 ... 918 (398,388,4.)
Rem j mbsr the o
m The
Cuinpimysis the .ouelthat1 ci )as the Most Goo1,
Mutual Life is that Company,
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The Victoria Daily Times. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 160, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1897, newspaper, September 29, 1897; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth757451/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.