| Show A RICH MEASURE A Silver Pint Pot Full of Gold Dollars the Prize of a Ocean Race The Yacht TItania and the Cutter Bedouin Will Contest the Glittering Stakes Whole Families in Texas on the Verge of Starvation from the Effects of the Drouth Starving Texans GALVELSTON Texas APril 2A special to the News from Austin Stts that State Sons tor Woodward of Calhoun county has re ceived a statement from Atascosa county sworn to by four responsible citizens and endorsed by the county judge sheriff and county clerk giving the names of nineteen families mthat t countywhom affiants declare are in a condition ofstarvatinnoagjofl n0C < 3aB oned by the drouth The number of persona in each family is stated showing a total num ber of 106 persons The paper state that those families are unable to procure suf fioient food and are now resorting in some oases to eating the carcasses of cattle who have died from starvation The signers of the statement appeal for aid from the Leg islature but as nothing more can be ex pected from that source it is left for the generous and more fortunate of other coun ties to rfiJe such aid as they can The statement represents a deplorable state of affairs and concluded by saying that whatever what-ever is done should be done at once |
