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ALD U Paso, Texas, Wednesday Evening, March 16, 1910-1 6 Pages AH the News neraldPfinfsitnrst I Wkile It's Freaa. oJhl tbmB mmemm ' I I ill ffi i ii SQii II I 1 115 E W SBB S bSC '-S s w v Finance Committee Offers a Plan for Curbing Expendi tures: Is Turned Down. A STATEMENT BY GAXNEfS AND TOOLEY These Two Trustees Have Stood Out Against Ex travagances of the Board. School warrants cannot be much lesser kept at par if the business meth ods ef the school board are not reme died. The schoitf of EI Paso are going to have a deficit of over ?SO,000 at the end ef the present terra. Trustees Gaines and Tooley, In re sponse to the demand of voters and taxpayers, have prepared a statement en the school finances of the city. It is printed below. It shows an unusual state ef affairs, and one that appears t eall for hereic measures. There ap pears to be a woefal lack of business Kanaireraent la the conduct of the schools er no sHCh deficit would face the board. An $S,& deficit with the expenses steadily running above the school incemel Where will it step? the people arc led to ask. . Messrs. Gaines and Tooley show plainly that they have not been parties to the extravagant methods of the beard. As long ago as last October zthev submitted a plan by -which they could cut down the expenses and curb the extravagance, but the board as a whole declined to adopt the suggestions. Messrs Gaines and Tooley have all the time stood eHt agaiHst the extrava gance and ill considered expenditures ef the school board, realizing that they RESCUE WORKER TALKS TO WOMEN Philadelphia, Pa., March 16Despairing of making further progress toward a settlement of the street car strike through conferences with company officials, the strike committee of ten today took sueps to make a general "StXpSenTGreenwalt has sent out a call for all members of the state Federation of Labor to vote on the question of a state wide strike. . The Transit company claims it is constantly increasing the number of cars in operation and there has been no disorder for several days. BIG STRIKE AMONG MINERS IS POSSIBLE MONTH AGO 25 POUNDS FOR 10c "There is a cure, and there is a pre ventive," With emphasis on the pre ventive. Mrs. Mary Stlllwell, Salva tion Army brigadier, spoke this after noon to mothers at the First Presby terian church. It was a meeting for women only men were barred. "Ml women of the -tenderloin do not come from the slums," said the Chicago rescue worker. "Many girls come from good homes, a great many. We have tried to find out why, for only so can it be stopped. Lack of Restraint. "A lack of restraint at home is the first reason. The mother and father no longer are the head of the house. The children rule instead. Perhaps the older countries have gone to the other extreme, while we are on the other side of the fence. "Many girls go wrong earlier than you would think. 'The mothers are asleep until it is too late. There is no proper instruction of the child. The parents must do it all. "Yet our work in the red light, dis tricts has been successful from many points of view. We find that 83 per cent can be rescued, and do not return. One half of that percent are maternity cases and one half from the tender loin. The Salvation army rescue work has-proved that percent possible." May Open Rescue Home. A number of public spirited women of the city are interested in -the es tablishing of a local rescue home. In all parts of the United States the res cue work receives support which no other branch of army activity attracts. Tonight Mrs. Stillwell will speak to both men artd women at the First Meth odist church at 8 oclock. Her subject will be "Slum and Rescue Work." TEXAS MAN HIT 4hA flBRscp comxuitatec might be held responsible for tbe policy that baa led to an 9SW,0ot aexicn anu uiutc. m.--j have opposed many of the xeactionary policies HEder which the present board has coHdHCtcd Its affairs, and as an ex SBP(e, stood eat against the board's rails? nkes It stripped the superin tendent of his authority, Hot so much 1r favor of the superintendent person ally as against the precedent. They srsaed, as maay others fcive done, that If the superintendent was incompetent, the beard should bring charges against him and remove him; if not incompe tent, then he should have the direction of tbc schools. Xo charges were hreught by the board against the su perintendent and the Inference has been thstj he was not unsatisfactory as sb Instracler and administrator, yet the heard stripped him of his authority mn& placed that authority in the hands 8f a committee of its own members. THE STATEMMEXT. The statement of tbe two members of the finance committee, which is plain cbohftb to be well understood, follows! EI Paso, Texas'. March 15, 1910. Editor EI Paso Herald: We note in the Issues of the Herald ef tbe 14th asd 15th that the public is desirous of knowing the status of the flmtnees ef the pHblic schools. While yea know and everyone knows tbat pHblic records are opcH to inspection, wc can tewsrd giving the public the desired information. "We submit here wlih a repert made by Superintendent MartlH from the books and records In I! Fffi FIGHT A liveryman of San Antonio Testifies in the Mabray Hearing. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 16. An' interesting witness today in the trial of J. C May bray and his associates, charg ed with conspiracy, was T. B. George, a liveryman, of San Antonio, Tex., who said he was relieved of $1800 in connec tion with a wrestling match at New Or leans two years ago, in which one of the contestants apparently suffered a severe hemorrhage In the second bout. He named Joseph E. Wright, now un der indictment, but not yet arrested, a a "friend" who induced mm to partici pate in the affair. . Wright Is a San Antonioan. INSURGENCY IS III L ll L ihiililul Ballinger Declares He Is Coming Out Witli a Whole Hide. Those El Paso Ice magnates were i?Ight. Ice prices will not go up this summer. Ice prices are the same, but the poor consumer gets 'less Ice for his money that's all. Only a month ago an El Paso housekeeper received 25 pounds, of Ice fotf 10 cents. Now she still pays ten cents, but she only gets 1C pounds. Yes. tho price Is the same! On March 4 The Herald Interviewed the two El Paso Ice company man agers. Both agreed that Ice would be a little higher in price this summer, but only a little. Neither gave any reason for increase except that no local company made any money last year. Ice was too cheap, then, they said. Xo, there was no condition expected to boost the price. Today the El Paso Ice company Is delivering 15 pounds of Ice for 10 cents. But the Consumers' Ice company does a little better jutt to help the poor man. That firm delivers for 10 cents, the excess of 16 pounds. And that extra pound will make one lemonade. Cincinnati, O., March 10. Only by aovasces la wages can coal alas operators of the country avoid a strike of -union miners after April first, ac cording to developments of the special convention ef the Usited Mlae TFoxlcer of North America here today. The leaders plainly intimated that Hnlesat more money Is paid the 3,8G workmen involved no new wnge agreement will be signed. For the first time today, themlners president openly acloMwlee the gravity of the situation. INJURED OIL PRESIDENT HAS CHANCE FOR LIFE Houston, Tex., March 16 Reports this morning from the bedside of J. C Cullinan. president of the Texas com pany, who was shot yesterday by H. W. Glass, following an altercation, say he spent a restful inght and has no fever this morning. It Is believed that he will rapidly recover. Glass is charged with assault to murder, and is out on bond. y KATY FLYER COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT TRAIN Denison, Tex., March 16. The Katy flyer collided with the rear end of a freight train in the yards here at noon today. The passenger engine was de molished, as well as many freight cars. Engineer W. 1u Scott, of the passen ger train, was Injured in jumping. No passengers were hurt. PLAN FOR KENNEL SHOW. Members of the El Paso Kennel club held a meeting last night to talk about the plans for having another bench show at the second annual El Paso fair nexfall. They are already plan ning to import a number of blooded ani mals for tho show. (Continued on Page Ten.) TO ADDRESS BUSINESS MEN. R. T. Anderson will speak before the business men at the chamber of com merce luncheon Thursday on the re sources and development of the -tuo Grande valley. BIG FIGHT ON WHISKY St. Paul. Minn., March 16. "The in- fantasy and the Balllnger-Plnchot hear ing is of less importance in the east than in the west." Secretary R. A. Ballinger, who is here to address the Minnesota Conservation convention, thus expressed himself to day. "When you are riding on the plains, the cow on the horizon looks 40 feet high, but when you come up to it, it is onJy an ordinary cow," he added. Speaking further of tnt investigation of the Glavis charges,- Mr. Ballinger said: "So far nothing has been brought to light but Suspicion, innuendo and inti mations. These I will dispel as soon as my evidence is in." KnrAtarv "Rn 11! rv cpr flvlnrprl Vilm;flf out of sympathy with those radicals who fear that all natural resources are be ing used up without any consideration for future -generations. "Our country," he said, "is the richest of all in natural resources. Its soil. Its minerals, its coal, its iron, its granite, its limestone, its water power and its climate possess immeasurable wealth, and, if properly utilized, contain suf ficient resources to care for all probable nri5P -In fhft TiOnillntinn nf niir mnn. try in the years to come." He said that while "the doctrinarians figure that the coal - deposits of the United States and Alaska will be ex hausted in a period of about 100 years, the fact is that, according to the pro duction of coal in the United States at the close of 190S, only 0.4 of percent of the original supply of coal had been exhausted, leaving as the app'arent sup ply still available 99.6 percent of the original supply, or coai enougn to last;, as some claim, for a period of 7000 years." "After Jong indifference on the part of the people as to the public domain," he declared, "a deep concern has sud denly arisen respecting the remnant of the national estate, with a wholly exag gerated notion of what should be done with it by the government. There is much talk about the conservation of our national resources, and nebulous theories that .sound good to the ear, but are Impossible of practical application to existing conditions, are advanced. Be tween the hysteria that exists on the one side and the tendency to despoil the public domain on the other, we will, It Washington, D. C, Slarch 1G The delegation representing the city oi EI Paso Mayor Sweeney, congressman Smith and J. A. Happer had a confer ence at the state department this morning. Gen. Anson Mills was also present. The secretary of state after a full discussion of the matters affecting the Chamizal claim, gave assurance that he would take Immediate steps for the definite settlement of the Chamlzal Question in a manner which he thinks will terminate the case certainly within six months and sooner If possible. Secretary Knox was. impressed wlturthe gravity of-the situation caused by souatte-s and stated that be would Immediately look into the question to see whether at least this phase of the difficulty might not be at once relieved. Figures of the Controller as Shown by National Bank Examiner rTorvell, prove the Texas Banks Strongest in Their Division and El Paso Banks Strongest in the Entire Country. OLD HULK SINKS WITH EMIGRANTS EN ROUTE HERE IPorty Lives Are Lost as Re sult of Foundering of Unseaworthy Graft. Lisbon, Portugal, March 16. The Portuguese governor oi the Azores ca bles that a Portuguese bark reported yesterday lost In the storm off Pico Island was loaded with emigrants bound for America. Forty lives were lost. Twenty-three of the passengers and crew were saved. The governor reports the bark was an old hulk and Inadequately manned. The controler of the informal address to a group of treasury officials and bankers made the follow ing very important declaration: "There is practically not a national bank in all the United States at the present time whose condition is regarded as unsatis factory." This statement was no doubt founded upon the sworn statements made as to the condition of all. the na tional hanks under the call for a report of condition, as of date Jan. 31, 1910. Joseph W. Norvell, national bank ex aminer for this district and this city, has compiled from the abstract of the condition of the country's national banks, "asprepared by the controler of the currency, the following facts and figures which are of interest to the fi nancial and business Interests of the section classified as "southern states." Sbutherr Banks. This division comprises the following states, and the net deposits subject to e currency In an J that average by 9 55 group of treasury ! "nancial parlanc ARBITRATION OF aT-PTTT w! WILL BE uiAdj., .. states, ana uie net aepusus suujcvi w "BEGUN AT ONCE S reserve requirements and percent of re- The United States Officials Leave Washington for Chicago to Confer. ChYcagtf, III. 3Inch 10. Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate commerce com mission, and commissioner of labor Nelll, lance the average re serve Is the barometer to which busi ness men turn for substantial Informa tion, Mr. Norvell says he feels war ranted in saying to the bankers: "You have cause for just and reasonable pride relative to your condition; you ara the besfrin your division and escel the av erage for all the states by 9.55 percent." El Paso Banks. For the national feaks- ef SI Paso he has compiled a few more figures frona tha, sam& source El Paso has the following national banks holding the following deposits subject to reserve requirements and held the following reserve as shown by statements as of that date: The Wearing O the Green IN CHICAGO ELECTION Chicago, III., Iarch 10. As showing the tremendous interest In the forth coming election, which will decide whether or not the second city of the United States will he wet or dry, nearly 400,000 of Chicago's voters have registered. This Is nearly 11,000 more than ever before registered. (Continued on page Sis.) "Ofi thy're hangln' men and women for the wearin o' the green." There would be hangings by the doz ens in El Paso today if that famous old line was a plain statement of faot. Green Is making Its appearance in buttonholes and In dresses and cravats today, al though the "17th of Ireland" Is a day In the future. Shop windows and haberdashers' shops have taken on a verdant appearance with the displays of silks and cloths in all shades of the sacred color of St. Pat rick. Miniature harps with doodeens attach ed are being given away by one pro gressive merchant and the postcard shops are doing a big business in post cards 'with the green tinge to the ink and a verse of an "auld sod" song print ed in gold letters. Even old another nature is sprucing up for the national holiday of Ireland r nnffinfr fn q trrtHn rlroca In hnnnr of the country which gave us our po- iicemen ana politicians. mediators under the Erdman act, left for Chicago today to undertake the adjust ment of the controversy between the weBtern railroads and their firemen and englnemen. Both expressed hope of a successful outcome. CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN STANDARD OIL CASE Washington, D. C, March 16. Closing arguments in the great eontest over the dissolution of the Standard Oil company were -made today before the supreme court of the United States. How long the court will take to con sider the case no one professes to know, -but many believe the decision will not be announced before the first of May. D T. Watson, of Pittsburg, and John G Johnson, of Philadelphia, for the Standard oil, and attorney general Wlckersham for the government, ad dressed the court today. LONG DROUTH IS BROKEN OVER TEXAS Childress, Texas, March 16. A heavy rain which breaks a drouth of months has been falling over the lower Pan handle since 10 oclock last night. The towns of Tell, Klrkland, Carey, Arlle. Garden Valley, and Riverside report over an Inch. This is worth thousands of dollars to the ranchmen and farmers. , servo held ere as follows: State. Deposits. Virginia $ 72,S24,294.02 West Virginia .. 41,435,265.65 North Carolina.. 27.30S.299.60 South Carolina . . 19,076,273.63 Georgia 42,931,671.6S Florida 25,153,373.90 Alabama 30.891.591.21 Mississippi 12,661,256.68 Louisiana 15,518,711.66 Texas 111.602.10S.29 Arkansas 15.182.6S7.12 Kentucky 37,764,505.74 Tennessee 52,665,554.32 Reserve Pet 17.49 24.07 17.30 1S.S7 20.47 19.15 2S.90 24.50 29.29 :49 26.03 25.95 20.92 Total $505,045593.50 Average reserve 24.21 Texas Banks." It will be observed from the above figures that Texas excels every other stftt of this division In the aggregate of deposits for which reserve i3 held and that the percent of reserve neia is 15 19-100 percent more than the lowest and 3 20-100 percent greater than the highest of these states In this division. The average reserve held by all the na tional banks in the United States was at that date 23 94-100, Texas excellng Name. Deposits. First National $3,352,159.25 State National 1,444,513.71 Amer. National 1,147,118.61 City National 725.93S.23 Nat'l Bank of Com. 509,121.22 Reserve 42.10 32.35 58.15 34.29 Total S7,20S,S51.02 Average reserve -. 36.60 Texas Reserve Cities. This same report of the controler of the currency shows that Texas has six reserve cities and that these cities held deposits subject to reserve requirements and percent of reserve hid, towit: Reserve Name of city. Deposits. Dallas 520,541,955.14 Fort Worth 11,061,054.76 Galveston 3,751.152.22 Houston , 19,853,534.12 San Antonio 10,135,559.94 Waco 4,790,S53.46 Pet. 27.1S 25.99 26.54 27.6S 3S.74 32.39 Total l $70,134,109.64 Average reserve .29.151 From the above it will be observed that only one other large city in the state of Texas, San Antonio,, makes as good a showing as the banks of El Paso and that the average reserve of the six larger cities Is 6.99 percent less than El Paso banks. 'The banks and their patrons have reason,' In my opinion, to feel great sat isfaction in comparing these facts," said Mr. Norvell in conclusion. HELD ON FORGERY CHARGE. Shawnee, Okla., March 16. Henry Blagg was arrested here today charged with cashing a forged check for $200. He signed the name of his former em ployer in Chicago, it Is alleged, and will ha taken there tomorrow for trial. 10 EL ? George Mee and Earl Mvrphy the Youthful Aviators 'CLUB" WITH LOCKERS UNLAWFUL TERM IN PENITENTIARY' Shreveport, La., 3Iarch 10 District judge Murff today In the case of Joe Stermls, manager of the West End Social clab, sentenced Stormla to the penitentiary following conviction oh a charge -of violating the prohibition law. This is a blow to the "locker club system," which in the judge's opinion, K the same as a saloon. Stormla conducted a "club" in which the "members" rented lockers, iu which whisky and other liquors were kept at will. The members went to the "dHh" at any time, took out their bottles and had their .'drinks, although the cemHiHairy was prohibition. Out on Upson avenue, in a vacant lot, right next to No. 711, is a strange conglomeration of muslin, spruce and wires. But if one draws near there may be seen a huge kite no a flying ma chine. After school houis and Saturdays, from dawn to dusk, for many weeks two 16yearold boys have been working over the spruce and muslin melee. Now they are ready to fly, or rather coast, for the flying machine -Is only a "glider." Test Is .Successful. Just before the snow came this win ter the machine was tested without any accident and with excelent result for a first trial. With a hop. skip and jump, George Mee. aged 16, sailed off the crest of the reservoir hill. Unlike Darius Green, of poetic fame, young Mee did not tumble into father's, barn yard, or anybody else''s barnyard. Instead, he sailed for a full city block. and then brought the big kite down with a backward motion of the body. Then his partner in the aviation craft. Earl Murphy, tried a fly. He, too, sail ed for a block or so, and came down easily without mishap. "We got a little scared," explains aviator Mee. "We think we can do bet ter next time." Built on Curtlss Lines. The Mee-Murphy biplane is built along regular Curtlss lines. There are two 20 feet planes, and a sterling ap paratus which remains stationary, but still wards against "tipping." The craft Is strongly but lightly made, weighing about 50 pounds. Both of the young aviators weigh about 120 pounds. But neither of the El Paso aviators have stolen any ideas from Hamilton or Panlhjin. Thev built their craft in two TAFTS AUTO IN STEEET ACCIDENT Almost Hits a Voman and Then Narrowly Escapes an Automobile. Washington, D. C March 16. Presi dent Taft left here this morning for Chi cago, where tomorrow he will attejid a St. Patrick's day banquet of t:ie Irish Fel lowship club. - ,,.., From Chicago the president wtyl swing around the circle" to Rochester Albany. New Haven and Providence and will not return to Washington until March 23. The president's automobile narrowly escaped running down a woman while i. nrociont -nrn? on the way to the station this morning. The car , stopped just In time to prevent an acciaenc men, when it started again, it came close hit ting a trolley car. 4- 4"5- 4"4'4'4' Paso crowds with his aerial art. "We saw another kid trying to make one" explains aviator Mee, "and so we thought we'd trj. Since then I have enmo ir-tiiPR nn how to .make a glider just about as we have done it. Differ Over Propeller. "I'm for the idea of rigging a bicycle and a propeller," said aviator Murphy at the aviation vacant lot. "It wouldn't work. You couldn't get enough revolutions per minute," advised aviator Mee. If all goes well El Pasos own avia tors will make a flight Saturday after noon. And it all goes well after that they will make more on other Saturday afternoons. . So far,' fathers and mothers of tne boys have not seemed greatly worried t Ann ns vet aviators Mee ana, Murphy have said nothing about J''nf v NOTED MONKEY, WORTH $30,000, IS DEAD. Dallas. Tex.. March 16. Con sul Junior, an "educated" monkey, playing a vaudeville circuit. dleJ here this morning from pneu monia. Three physicians attend ed the animal, which was valued at 550,000. The body will be sent to England for burial by man ager T. L. Mllner. X 4'5'4' ,4 ROOSEVELE ON VISIT TO TOMBS Former President Seeing In- teresting Spots in Egypt ian Territory. Khartoum, Africa March 16. The Roosevelts paid a second visit to Om durcnann today. The town Is just-fcelow the junction of the White Nile and the Blue Nile and contains much interest. The Roosevelts visited the khaiifs house near the center of town. Nearby is the Mahdis tomb and within the enclosure of the house Is the tomb of Robert How ard, son of the earl of Carlisle, who was killed at the battle of KerrerL while acting as war correspondent. col. tiooseveu receivea xne more prominent 'of the residents of Omdur mann during his visit at the khaiifs house. At Omdurmann a camel corps was in waiting, but Col. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt had their experience with the "ships of the desert" the day before and no more of that for them. They traveled today In a dog cart. SENATOR DANIEL NO BETTER. Daytona, FIa. March 16. Physicians attending senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, who is suffering from, a stroke of paralysis say there was no change In the patient's condition this morning. Herald coupons of Saturday and Monday are pood for Crawford vaudeville again this evening:. Each coupan and 10 cents, If brought to The Her ald office and exchanged for tickets in advance. IH good for an admission to any seat In the "house. To all others, admission Is 10, 20 and 38 cents. Herald coupons and 10 centB are good for 30 cents seats at either performance. Two weeks, long before El Paso cried out Murphy Have sa'a,7lu7B7nu",nbllt X performances are given each night -at 7:45 and 0:15. The house Is pea all for an aviator, and they made their fly f rom the top of Mount Franklin aHd -patrons can come and go hea they wish. long before Hamilton astonished El who knows?