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“Baran" ar "Thamma" . You'll bo surprised hew mn*b lower the temperature and leas dense the humidity, oompartag Sen Antonio with other potato. Have eee la your homa AU prioea He Co Rees OpMoal Ce. MB W. Oossawsoo Bh CLAIMS INJURY IN CITY Jill; ASKS $59,000 W. A, Blair Alleges He W a s Beaten By Fellow Prisoner When Placed In :Cell. CITY IS T H E DEFENDANT Plaintiff Says He Was Helpless From Liquor and No One Guarded Him. Alleging that ho was placed In a eel! filled with vicious characters while so drunk that he was Irrespon sible and incapable of taking care of himself and that ho was set upon and aamulted without cause by O. W. Dixon, a fellow prisoner and his skull crushed with some blunt in strument, W. A. Blair today suit in the Seventy-third district court against the city of San Antonio for *53.000. . . Blair alleges that he was arrested May 30 by policemen whose names are not given, taken to the city jail and locked up. He alleges that at the time the assault was committed he was helpless from the use of liquor and that no watchman was placed near the cell. Says Be Cannot Work. He alleges that his skull was so badly bruised and crushed by the assault that It became necessary to remove part of the bones, leaving the brain, nerves, blood vessels and other delicate organs of the head exposed and subject to Injury. This, he says, made it impossible for him to ever hereafter labor for the purpose of earning a livelihood. . He alleges that the Injury occurred at about 4 o'clock In the afternoon and that he was shamefully, cruelly and w:*)tonly neglected by the jail authorities by being allowed to He without attention of any kind until about 10 o'clock the next morning. Was Faming *2OO Monthly. The petition states that plaintiff was forced by reason of the Injury to pay out 31500 for medical attention and hospital fees and that'it will be necessary for him to have medical at* tention'Tor the rest of hi« life, which Is placed at a probable cost of 310,000. Blair Is alleged to have been a contractor and builder before his In jury and claims that he Is perman ently Incapacitated from plying hia trade at which he states he earned 3200 a month before the Injury. SAYS SHOE WAS USED. Man Accused of Beating Blair In dicted, Says CspUdii Cook. First Assistant Chief of Police Sam Cook, in charge of the police depart ment during the illness of Chief Newnam, when informed of the suit filed against the city, made a state ment relative to the arrest and in carceration of W. A. Blair in the city Jail. Captain Cook said that Blair was arrested by a policeman on a charge of intoxication and placed in the city Jail, during the late afternoon of May 10, last. That he had been assaulted while in the city jail, was not dis covered, he says, until later, when he was found In a semi-conscious, or stupid condition. The prisoner. Cap tain Cook says, was taken to the city hospital and attended by Dr. S. Burg, city physician. Blair, he says, was placed in the jail, as is customary in such arrests. An investigation. Captain Cook said, tended to show that Blair had been beaten over the head with a shoe in the hands of G. W. Dixon, also a prisoner at the time In the city jail. An affidavit, Captain Cook said, was filed by City Detective Green against Dixon in Justice Fisk’s court charg ing him with assault to murder. Dix on was afterwards Indicted by the grand jury, a bill being returned charging assault to murder. Dixon, Captain Cook said, was later admit ted to ball in the sum of 32000. Blair Is said to reside in Crystal City, Tex. t FLAGS TRAIN WITH SHIRT; SAVES LIVES Man Discovers Broken Rail anil Tears Off Clothes in Order to Stop “Flyer.” (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) BELLEFONTAINE. Ohio, July 23. —With a shirt torn from his back. Robert Cook of Degraff today flagged Big Four Flyer No. 11 at Quincy curve, probably saving the 150 pas tengera aboard from death. The Quincy curve Is the sharpest on the Indianapolis division and Cook, while walking along the track discov ered a broken rail. He ripped off his shirt and running half a mile up the track flagged the train. FAREWELL TO TOGO Japanese Admiral Will Remain in United States a Month. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) LONDON, July 29.—Admiral Togo received a popular farewell at the London railway station here today as he left for Liverpool en route to New York. Admiral Togo will remain in the United States until the end of August. His engagements there will depend upon the ulans of the American gov ernment . SAN ANTONIO LIGHT r CITY EDITION—4 P. M. 82d YEAR— No. 188. SIR WILFRID LAURIER GOVERNMENT APPEALS THE HARRIMAN CASE Attorney General Instructs Special Attorneys to File Petition at Once. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) WASHINGTON. D. C., July 23.— The government will appeal to the su preme court the Harriman merger suit which was decided in favor of the railroads by the United States circuit court at St. Louis. Attorney General Wickersham to day directed C. A. Severance, the gov ernment’s special counsel In the case, to prepare the appeal and file it as quickl-y as possible. Wants Sult Hurried. Although the government has a year in which to carry the case to the su preme court the department of justice intends to hurry the suit. Opinions have been expressed in some quarters that the government's appeal would be only routine matter to have the questions involved decided by the highest court. At the depart ment of justice, however. It is said the government Is appealing the case in the hope of winning it. Mr. Sev erance has reported "to" the' attorney general that he believes the govern ment has a good chance. May Hear on New Merger. I> has been suggested to the de partment that the outcome of the Har riman merger suit might have some bearing upon the great holding com pany by which It has been reported is to be organized for the New York Central lines. DISMISSED FROM SERVICE Lieutenant Courtmartiaied at Fort Sam Houston Is Given Sentence. (SPECIAL TO THE LIGHT) WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 29— Lieutenant James P. Wayland, Ninth cavalry, tried by*courtmartlaL at Fort Sam Houston in April, has been dis missed by order of the president, hav ing been convicted on the charges The leave of absence for Lieutenant Basil N. Rittenhouse. Eleventh cav alry, has been extended fifteen days Lieutenant Francis B. Eastman. Tenth Infantry, has been added to the list of officers on detached service. Any statement emanating from any source whatever to the effect that the dav leased wire of the Associated Press into San Antonio Is carried in whole or in part by any other than the San Antonio is unfounded and without any basis in fact. | WEATHER | STREET TEMPERATURES. July 28. 3 a. m., 78. 4 p. m., 95. 4 a. m., 78. 5 p. m.. 95. « a- rn- 6 p. m., 94. 6 m - 7 p. m., 92. 7 a. m., 82. 8 p. m., 90. 8 a. m., 83. 9 p. m., 88. 9 a. m.. 86. 10 p. m.. 86. 10 a. m., 00. 11 p. m.. 85. 11 a. m., 34. 12 midnight, 89. 12 m-. 95 July 29. 1 P- m-. 1 a. m., 80. 2 p. m., 95. 2 a. m., 79. 3 p. m., 95. LOCAL FORECAST. For San Antonio and vicinity: To night and Sunday cloudy. HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS. (Observations taken at 8 a. m.) ST. LOUIS: Temperature, 72: cloudy; eight mile wind from the south; fair tonight and Sunday. CHICAGO: Temperature, 70; cloudy; sixteen mile wind from the southwest; fair tonight and Sunday; higher temperature. MILWAUKEE: Temperature, 64; cloudy; eight mile wind from tho southwest; fair tonight and Sunday; higher temperature. ST. PAUL: Temperature, 60; clear; four mile wind from the southwest; Sunday fair and warmer. KANSAS CITY: Temperature, 72: clear; four mile wind from the south; Sunday fair and warmer. — NEW YORK: Temperature. 68; cloudy; six mile wind from the south west; Increasing cloudiness Sunday. BOSTON: Temperature, 70; clear; fourteen mile wind from tho west; In creasing cloudiness Sunday. WASHINGTON: Temperature, 70; partly cloudy; six mile wind from tho south; Increasing cloudiness Sunday. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. PARLIAMENT OF Cl NA DA ENDS IN DISSOLUTION Reciprocity With United States Causes Premier to Take Drastic Action, ELECTORATE IS TO DECIDE Issue Up to Time of Election Will Be for Reciprocity or Against It.* (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) OTTAWA. Ont.. July 33.—Parlia ment was dissolved this afternoon. Nominations are fixed for September 14 and elections for September 31. The dissolution of the Canadian parliament carries the < question of reciprocity between the United States and Canada before the Canadian elec torate, w’here the reciprocity Issue from this time until the .election of September 21. will be the controlling issue. • FqHUlment of Ultimatum. The announcement of dissolution was a fulfillment of ITemler Laurier's ultimatum delivered to the opposition forces last Monday that continued re sistance to a vote would be met by an appeal to the country. The present liberal government has a large majority in parliament, but the absence of a cloture rulp made It Impossible to secure a votb on reci procity. Liberals Have Majority. In the everu of the success of the liberal party at the polls In September the new parliament will pass at once the reciprocity measure, whereas a defeat of tho liberals will mean the passage of Premier Laurier and the shaving of reciprocity between the United States and Canada. The present house of commons con sists of 133 liberals, 85 conservatives and 3 independents. MIH 31400 IN HJRSE MAN SLEEPS IN PARK Farmer Is Found by Officer With Casli Intact; Remarkable. Police Assert. Soundly sleeping with a roll of cur rency in his coat pocket amounting to 8700 and almost as much more in a grip, which was on the ground a couple of feet from him. a farmer from a neighboring county was found by Mounted Officers Quintana and Lee in Milam square at 6 o'clock this morning. Though the stranger had spent the greater part of the night in the park enjoying a llresh air sleep, he is still owner of his money, some thing the police admit is nothing short of miraculous. The visitor, against whom no charge was made but who was escorted to his home by an officer in an auto mobile, came to San Antonio yester day and drew on his bank account for funds with which to pay cotton pickers on his ranch. He told the police he' missed the train. On the way to the city, he became tired, sat down in the park and fell asleep. During the last four or five weeks several persons under similar circum stances have been robbed in Milam square, but of amounts ranging.from 35 to 325. SPAIN WILL ACT IN mn MOVEMENT Assure* Republic That It Will Break Up Gatherings of the Mouarcliista in Galicia. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) LISBON, July 29. —Spain Is taking measures to break up the monarch- Istic gathering in Galicia, Spain, who are plotting to move against the re public of Portugal. The Portuguese government now believes Spain will endeavor In good faith to disperse the monarchist recruits, confiscate their supplies of arms and prevent the or ganization of a raid Into Portugal. Foreign Minister Macbado stated today that these assurances had been received from the Spanish govern ment. Asked how long the newspaper cor respondent who have gathered here from other countries would have to wait probably for the projected In vasion. Senor Machado replied with some feeling: "If you wait for that, you will, die here. The monarchists have no pro gram. The monarchy Is dead.” The United States was the first power to give full recognition to the Portuguese republic. No other power has yet done this. GIRL SHOOTS MAN Coroner's Jm'y Finds Homicide Jus tifiable and She Is Released. (RY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) MACON, Ga., July 29. —Eva Good win, a 19-year-old girl from Tampa. Fla.’, stabbed And killed Clarence C. Peavy of Cordele. Ga., a bartender, about 5 o'clock this morning, after 'a quarrel in the girl's room. She says he attacked her. The coroner’s jury found that tho homicide was justifiable and released the young woma* EIGHT KILLED IN A heim m Excursion Train mid Regular Passcn ger Crash at small Station in Maine. (BY Tljp ASSOCIATED PRESS) GRINDSTONE, Me.. July 23.— Eight persons are dead and fourteen seriously injured as the result of * head-on collision which occurred at the Bangor and Aroostook railroad station here shortly after 9 o'clock last night. The trains were a special of three light coaches, containing about 150 excursionists and a regular passenger express. Five of the dead were passengers of the excursion train. The others were the two firemen and the engineer of the special. The five passengers kill ed and all of the injured were In the smoking car directly behind the en gine of the excursion train. Both trains were moving slowly at the time. The accident appears to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders. ’ The dead: . FRANK SEELEY, son at the cash ier of the Presque Isle Nationsl bank. CLOUD LOOM ER. Washburg, Me. ZERNE HARRIS, Presque Isle. FIREMAN GALLAGHER, of the excursion train. FHANK WENTWORTH. Brewer, Me., of the regular train. E. W. GARCELON, engineer of the excursion train. DR. EUGENE ?IPPB, Presque Isle. HARRY CLARK. Presque Isla. . Grindstone Is a small settlement of not more than fifty Inhabitants with no facilities for the cars of the In jured. They were cared for imme diately by people on board the train and early today were placed on a spe cial train to be taken to Millinocket. STRIKE OF MACHINISTS NEAR SETTLEMENT Employe* of Printing Press CompMy Will Probably Accept Offer of Company. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK. July 29.—Office™ of the International Association of Ma chinists were authority for the state ment today that the strike of ma chinists st the printing press plant of R. Hoe & Co. would be settled durins the next ' twenty-four hours. The strike was for an eight-hour Working day. After a long series qf confer ences between representatives of the strikers and the firm, the original proposition of the firm to shorten gradually the working day by taklns off a quarter of an hour at intervals until the eight-hour dav Is reached, will probably be accepted with certain modifications. ALEXANDER DECLARED NOT GUILTY DY JUR’ Jury Out All Night, Returns Verdli Early This iiornlng. Trial Closes. <BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS! * ANSON, Tex., July 29. —A verdict of not guilty was returned today by the Jury which tried Dr. J. M. Alex ander, a prominent physician of Abilene, Texas, charged with the mur der of R. L. O'Neal of Milwaukee, Wls„ at Stamford. Texas, on June 30. Alexander objected to O’Neal's at tentions to Mrs. Alexander. O'Neal was the son of well-to-do parents in Milwaukee. For several years he had made his headquarters in Dallas, traveling for a paint and glass firm. He had married three times, acording to testimony at the Alexander trial, and was recently di vorced from his third wife. Dr. Alexander shot O'Neal to death at Stamford Inn at Stamford, Texas. He testified that he met O'Neal by accident, that he had never seen him before and that he recognized him from descriptions and shot when O'Neal "made a lunge” at him. Alex ander testified that a year ago he looked in several Texas cities for O'Neal and that once he tried to find him in Abilene with the purpose of kiling him. Mrs. Alexander was a witness for the defense. Automobile rides, an affectionate tone adopted by O'Neal In a letter to Mrs. Alexander and reports that O'Neal paid attentions to M™. Alex ander at Mineral Wells while she was on a visit there were among the rea sons brought out in the trial for Dr. Alexander’s act. The case went to the Jury at 11:00 last night/ CARRIES RECORD CARGO Steamer San Jacinto Has Moat Pas sengers of Her Career. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) GALVESTON. Tex., July 29.—The San Jacinto which Is ono of the two largest vessels of the Mallory line, ar rived here this morning carrying the largest southbound passenger list and freight cargo In her history. Some cargo offering was left In New York for want of room. This is remarkable for this season. Last at this time both the San Jacinto and Brazos the other large Mallory liner, were laid up because of slack business. Bishop In Critical Condition. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NASHVILLE. Tenn.. July 29.—As a result of a severe attack of heart trouble this morning at Monteagle, Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, the venerable nrelate of the Southe-n Methodist church, is in a critical condition. His physician holds out no hop> STORY OF RICHMOND’S TRAGEDY Beulah Binford, the girl loved, it is said, by Henry Clay Beattie (whose picture appears below), and for love of whom he is said to have murdered his wife; sketches illustrating the story of the murder as lie tells it. Beat tie, In Jail, persists In his version that, during the fatal automobile ride, a man stepi»ed out Into the road and fired a shotgun, killing his wife; he grappled, eventually wresting the wea |s>n Prom the mini, nnd returned with his wife’s body In the auto, throwing away the shotgun during the ride.. B<-uttic's second cousin, Paul Beattie,' on the right, has testified that three days before the tragedy he bought his relative a shotgun. The case is one of the most sensational In the his tory of the staid old southern city. WOK, WOK, NON NILE HE STOP ' OMLING? Grand Jury of Honorable Daf fydil Court Returns an Indictment. EXTRA DEPUTIES SWORN IN Mob Surges About Courtroomj But Judge Refuses to Al- • low Lynching. "In the name and by the authority of the State of Daffy, the grand Jurors In ami for the county of Daffydill, do present, on their word, that F. M. Kent, on or about the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the county aforesaid, did then and there, with malice afore thought, make, write, utter, .circulate, or caused to be made, written, utter ed or circu'ated. a certain malicious, defamatory, libellous statement cal culated to soak in the koko one Mr. Common People, said statement being as follows, to-wlt: 'How would you like to be caught on the streets with nothing but a Gal-vest-on?’- —against the peace and dignity of the state.” Stand up. prisoner. What have you to say? Plea of guilty? The sentence of the court Js that you be taken from your residence, 349 Perez street, from there to the state penitentiary, to servo at hard labor for a term of two years. Mr. Officer, be careful. The plaintiffs in this case are highly wrought up and we want no disgrace ful scenes to mar the courtroom. Oh, Man. How Could You? This man Is a fan. In the midst of the court proceedings he deliberately /Continued on Page 6—4th Column) TEN PAGES TODAY PRICE: FIVE CENTS El Campo Baud to Galveston. EL CAMPO, Tex.. July 29.—1 n a special car, • the El Campo Military Band started for Galveston this morn ing where they have been engaged .o furnish music for the seventeen days of the Cotton Carnival. THE SUNDAY LIGHT Has no equal as a gloom dispeller any where—hence its name. THE SUNDAY LIGHT Brightens more dull hours than other papers do minutes. THE SUNDAY LIGHT Leaves your mind as bright as the pro verbial brass button. THE SUNDAY LIGHT Sheds rays that positively removes the rust roused by dull care. THE SUNDAY LIGHT Illumes the things that are. and those that were —so many of them that a weekly catalog would hold but few of them. Moral: Read THE SUNDAY LIGHT ' Low Prloos Prevail Our policy Is to eater to the masses — not the claoees. Our prices are standard and we play no favoritea. Our more than 19 years of operienoe la at your esm mend. H. C. Reos Optical Co. MR COMRMVM PROS LIKELY > WILLCONTEST' THE ELECTION Sense of Meeting at Fort Worth Is That Only Evidence Is Needed. j i EXCLUDE PRESS MEN Chairman Ball Says They Can not Be Admitted to Exec utive Session. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) FORT WORTH. Tex.. July 39 — That the recent state wide prohibition election will be contested by the state wide organization 19 sufficient evi dence of alleged fraud can be obtain ed and that in any event the question will be turned bnck to the people of Texas as early aa -vosslble, were In dicated by the genera'' conference ot about 500 prohibitionist, here today. The executive committee went into session at noon, following sirring speeches by Thomas H. Ball, sta’s wide chairman, Thomas Campbell, former governor, Cone Johnaon and William Poindexter, candidates for governor In the last gubernatorial election, and T. N. Jones of Tyler. Witnesses from many sections of the state will be examined by the execu tive committee of the state wide or ganization during today's session and the decision In regard to contesting the election probably will be effected principally by their testimony. Will Continue Existence. It was the sense of the open meet ing that the state wide organisation I continue to exist until some definite 1 action is taken. The executive com mittee Is expected to decide upon a candidate for governor to oppose Col quitt. Jn addition to determining the course to be pursued In regard to the prohibition ‘ election. Judge W®- Poindexter and Thomae H. Ball are mentioned as the most likely candi dates. _ "We must exclude the representa tives from the press from the oxocu tfve committee meeting." said Chair man Ball at the close of the general conference at 1 o'clock. “We have . faith In many of them, but they have not sufficiently identified themselves with the movement yet Publicity to the deliberations of the committee would not be feasible at the present . time. It would put the opposition in the various sections of the state where 1 the election may be contested on I notice. Therefore, we will have only ! the executive committeemen, the I county chairmen and such witnesses i as we may need for examination thia । afternoon." , "The State of Texas Is too largo । and the people too good," said Jones, "to be controlled by bribe giving and bribe taking influences. Every good citizen of the state should Join hands 1 to continue the fight to put liquor ’ out of Texas and we ought to have an I investigation of the election at any . expense.” One Woman Present. One lone woman sat near ths speakers’ stand throughout the meet ' Ing. In the audience were many Fort i Worth people and foremost prohibi tion leaders from all parts of the state were in evidence. Mr. Ball presided । over the meeting and A. W. Walker, vice chairman of the organization, and Sterling P. Strong o? Dallas, were elected secretaries of the meeting. T. N. Jones of Tyler will propose to the executive committee this af ternoon that the anti-statewide cam paign organization be forced to pub lish the name of every man who drew any money from It with the amount opposite. Meeting at 2 o'clock, the executive committee shut itself behind closed doors and announced that no more open meetings would be held until ‘ Monday in Austin.