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B'OL. XLIII-NO. 38.
DOPE GIRL AND HOLD HER NINE DAYS
LARBOE SAYS
I RAI NS OVER
FORPRESENT
Curtly Cloudy, Cooler
I Weather Due Monday
I Night and Tuesday.
RAIN HEAVf TO SOUTH
Rivers Leave Banks and
I Precipitation Records
I Are Broken.
I The rainy weather in San Antonio
|nd the vicinity is over, at least for
pe time being, according to the fore
last for Monday night and Tuesday-
Issued by Meteorologist J. 11. Jarboe
L small area of low pressure centered
|ver New Mexico early Monday is
[xpected to keep the weather here
|artly cloudy and to bring some rain
|o northeast Texas, but a northwest
|rn “high” will become the chief in
kuence on local conditions and the
Lercury will drop somewhat. A min
inum temperature of 42 to 48 degrees
L forecasted before daylight Tues-
Jay. Moderate to fresh southerly
Linds will shift to northeasterly.
I San Antonio's fainfall in the last
Let spell totaled 1.61 inches for five
lays and ran the total for the month
b 5.46, in comparison to a February
Average of 1.78. '
I Over Sunday, Little Rock, Ark.,
Lok first rank in the nation for rain-
Lll with three inches in a series of
punderStorms. Shreveport had 1.68,
Chile lighter rains were reported all
through Texas, Louisiana and for sev
tal hundred miles northeastward. The
Enusual sight of fog was provided
Panhandle residents early Monday.
I Mud Stops School.
[“Cessation of rains in South Texas
[roves a relief to nervous residents
[ll along the Rio Grande. Nueces.
Guadalupe and Colorado rivers and
pwns not located on rivers but sit
[ated in regions where the soil is
prgely black mud. San Benito schools
fere forced to close because of the
Lnpassable condition of the streets,
[nd a report comes from the border
lown that a mule got stuck in one
Itreet and had to be assisted from
[is muddy moorings.
| The Guadalupe river at Victoria
Lent two feet two inches over flood
Itage Sunday, but was down to four
ken feet, two fbet below flood, and
piling fast Monday.
[ All rain records for the Rio Grande
[alley were broken in the San Benito
listrict by the February total of 8.6
Lobes recorded so far. Delay in cot
lon planting has caused some valley
prmers to plant broom corn instead,
I crop that has yielded well and is
laid to promise n good price this year.
Stopped Much Travel.
[ In the rise of the Guadalupe river,
the water reached 25.2 feet at Gon
lales at one time Saturday and was
[p to 36 feet at Ottine. I’lum creek
[as so high the Gonzales-Luling road
[as closed, and the San Marcos river
[ent up at one time so high the Gon
ples-San Antonio road was impassa
|le.
I The Cuero-Gonzales road is report-
Id almost impossible of use because
If the mud.
At Cuero, chickens, cattle and bogs
[ere seen floating down the swollen
[aters of the Guadalupe, but they
[ere all from above DeWitt county.
Is the river never went out of its
lanks except at a few low places in
tuero.
I The Nueces at Three Rivers left its
tanks but did not reach any houses
Ind was down again Monday. Three
Rivers recorded the heaviest rainfall
ince 1919. There were 14.28 inches
weeks. The 8. A.. U. & G.
Rd'not operate a train over the Atas
losa river from Tuesday to Saturday
lecause of the washout near Campbell-'
»n.
UNTI-KLAN TICKET
WINS IN EL PASO’S
ELECTION OF MAYOR
Mate Senator Will Resign
to Take .Up Duties
of Office.
I • -
I El Tex., Feb. 26.—Complete
kturns from the city election Satur
lay show that State Senator R. M.
Dudley was elected mayor of El Tayo
|n the anti-klan ticket by a majority
If 2120 votes.
I There were 13,024 votes cast, the
prgest vote in a city election in the
[story of El Paso. »
I All anti-klan candidates running on
lenator Dudley's ticket were elected.
[Senator Dudley announced he would
[esign to take up the duties of mayor,
fire Destroys College Dormitory.
I Davidson, N. C., Feb. 26.—Watts
Dormitory, nt Davidson College, here
[as. destroyed by fire of undetermined
[igin yesterday. All of the sUsdents
W-e in chapel when the fire was
[iscovered. None were injured. The
bos is estimated at $45,000, fully
psured.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
INTERURBAN EXPRESS
HITS ELEVATED TRAIN
IN FOG; ONE KILLED
Score Injured in Panic That
Follows Unusual
Wreck.
Chicago. Fob. 26.— One man was
killed and a -score of passengers in
jured yesterday when the “Badger
Limited,” an express train of the
Chicago, Northwestern & Milwaukee
Electric Road, crashed into the rear
end of an elevated train at the 22nd
street station.
Although the impact was so severe
that tWhee cars of the elevated train
were demolished, the “Badger Lim
ited” remained on the rails. Many of
the passengers, who were not injured
in the collision were trampled by
terror-stricken men and women in
their effort to escape.
Joseph E. Van Sikle, motorman of
the Milwaukee train, attributed the
accident to a heavy fog. which pre
vented him .from seeing the elevated
train in time to avoid the collision.
The man killed was Bert E. Clark
of Chicago.
REV. GRANT ATTACKS
ADAM AND EVE IN
EDEN AS A FABLE
Pleads for Church House
cleaning and Sun
day Movies.
New York, Fob. 26.— The Biblical
version of the Garden of Eden, and
the story “of Adam, the apple and
poor Eve.” is a fable. Dr. Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church of the Ascen
sion, told his congregation Sunday.
He made a plea for a thorough
house-cleaning by the churches.
"There is a need of a new religion
if the .hurch docs not cleau house
of all its fetishes,” he said. “The
fundamentalists in religion believe
that they will attain happiness in the
world to come through belief in the
miraculous conception of Christ, his
death and ascension into heaven. The
theory is as unworthy of modern intel
ligence as would be the belief today
in the theories of the Egyptian priests
of the past.
“We cannot adhere to fables in reli
gion any longer, for the young people
of today are not going to believe what
their grandparents did. The mind
must contribute something to reli
gion.”
Dr. Grant defended Sunday motion
pictures and theater performances.
“Are people to sit all day in a tene
ment house, on their one day of rest,
and just think?" he asked. “No, they
want to be moved by the passions of
life, and travel far in their anagina
tions to other lands, as portrayed on
the stage and screen.”,.
ROBBED STORE DAILY
Two Admit Thefts for 26 Days From
Same Grocery.
St. Lonis, Feb. 26.— Two men ar
rested today in an attempt to rob a
chain grocery store, admitted, accord
ing to police, that they had robbed
one of the stores daily for the past
26 days, and that they made their
living by robbing the stores.
The company operating the stores
says it lost 821.900 in robberies hero
in the last throe and a half years.
THE WEATHER
TEMTKRATTRBS.
FEB. 85.
i P. m SO 2 a. m 59
S P. m si 3 a. m St
4 P. m 82 4 a. m SR
5 P. m 6.1 5 a. m 55
* p. m....•...<! ft a. m 50
7 P. m fin 7 a. m SA
0 P- m en R a. m fin
9 P. m sn 9 a. m r.n
10 P. m 59 10 a. m «2
11 P hi KO ii a. *lll 01
12 midnight.... 59 12 nonn ST
FEB. IS. 1 n. m 72
1 m 59 2 p. m 74
FORECAST.
Sun Antcnio and vicinity: Monday
night and Tuesday, partly cloudy: cold
er; minimum temperature. 42 tn 48:
moderate to fresh southerly winds be
coming northerly.
Texas: Monday night, rain: cold
er In north an 4. west portions: Tues
day, partly cloudy: rain In extreme east
portion; colder.
West Trxns: Cloudy: rain In south
east portion; rain or snow in north nor
tlon; colder; temperature. SO to 26 in
the Panhandle: Tuesday, probably fair;
colder except in the Panhandle.
HOME WEATTIKR FOR TOFRISTS.
St. louis: Temperature. 40: raining:
six-mile wind from the east; lowest
temperature in last 24 hours. 28; high
est. 48.
Chiearo: Temperature. 48; cloudy: six
mile wind from the southwest; lowest
temperature In last 24 hours. 38; high
est. 42. f
Kansas City: Temperature 12; rainlnc
twelve-mile wind from the northeast;
lowest temperature In last 24 hours. 42;
highest. 50.
Fork: Temperature. 34; cloudy;
ten-mile wind from ths east: lowest
temperature In last 24 hours, 82; high
est, 44.
Washington: Temperature. 38; cloudy:
calm; lowest temperature in last 24
hours. 34; highest, ft,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923. —FOURTEEN PAGES.
PACKERS CAN T
CONSOLIDATE,
SMS INAUACE
Secretary of Agriculture
Orders Probe of Pro
posed Merger.
MONOPOLY IS FEARED
Armour and Morris Com
panies Named in
Complaint.
Washington, D. C„ Feb. 26. —Ar
mour & Company and Morris & Com
pany. Chicago packers, today were
served by the secretary of agriculture
with a complaint charging them with
violation of the Packers and Stock
yards act in connection with the
tentative acquisition of the plants and
business of Morris & Company by the
Armour interests.
Secretary Wallace set April 2 for
a hearing in Washington.
Armour & Company of Illinois.
Armour & Company of Delaware, J.
Ogden Armour and Morris & Company
were named in the 1 complaint.
The complaint stated that, on De
cember 30. J. Ogden Armour entered
into a written contract with Morris
& Company to acquire all of its as
sets. In so doing, it* was charged,
parties to the contract violated the
Packers and Stockyards act.
Would Create Monoply.
Secretary Wallace claimed such ac
quisition would have the effect of re
straining interstate commerce or of
creating a monopoly in many sections
of the I'nited States in the purchase
of livestock and in the shipment and
sale of meat and other livestock prod
ucts.
The complaint also charged that the
contract would have the effect of
manipulating or controlling prices.
The proposal first came to public
notice early in November when J.
Ogden Artqpur an»l other officials of
Armour A Company conferred with
Secretary Wallace. After conferences
between Mr. Wallace. President Hard
ing and Attorney General Daugherty,
it was announced that it had been
agreed that there was no obligation on
the part of the government to endorse
or to acquiesce in the proposal.
WAllace Warned Against It.
Secretary Wallace declared today
that, early in December, he told I.
Ogden Armour and F. Edson White,
now president of Armour & Company,
that "he did not think we could look
with favor upon the transaction pro
posed."
Mr. Wallace said be advised Ar
mour officials that "the best thing to
do was to drop the whole matter, and.
before the conversation ended, 1 told
them plainly that, if they should go
ahead and consummate the purchase,
I should feel it my duty to issue a
complaint.''
The agreement between the Armour
and Morris companies, according to
the complaint, calls for a purchase
price of $30,006,000.
ALLEGED GUNMAN DIES
Gang Leader Assassinated While
Asleep at Country Club.
St. Ixiuis. Feb. 26. —Clarence “Lit
tle Red” Powers. 26, alleged gun
man and leader of one of two notor
ious gangs which, police say. have
been at “war” here for more than
a year, was shot ami instantly killed
by unidentified assassins as he lay
asleep in a country club in St. Louis
county yesterday morning. The as
sassins escaped. Many gangsters
have been killed in the feud.
WOM AN SHOT IN HOME
Defendant Say, She Has No Knowl
edge of Shooting.
Harrishurv. 111.. Feb. 26 —The trial
of Mrs. Jee Lasley, charged with mur
der in connection with the death of
Mrs. George Watkins, who was shot
and killed in her home here last Sep
tember 6. is set to begin in Circuit
Court here today. •
Authorities declared that alleged in
timacy between Mrs. Lasley's husband
and Mrs. Watkins was the motive for
the crime. Mrs. Lasley denies any
knowledge of the shooting.
UNITE IN KLAN FIGHT
Chicago Will Be Scene of National
Anti-Ku Klux Convention.
Chicago. Feb. 26.—Jolin M. Parker,
governor of Louisiana, is here today
[to address an “all nation's rally”
against the Ku Klux Klan tonight
under the allspices of the American
I'nity League. Leroy Percy, former
United States senator for Mississippi,
also is on tonight's program.
Other speakers to appear nt the
meetings, which it is planned to con
tinue indefinitely are Al Smith, gov
ernor of New York, and Bishop Mi
chael Gallagher of Detroit.
The proposed series of meetings was
described by P. 11. O’Donnell, one of
the sponsors as a “uniting of races
against the Ku Klux Klnn.”
"Plans will be made for a perman
ent fight and for a national anti
klan convention, wh’ch it is hoped to
call to meet in Chicago probably In
May.”
Predicts Eruption
CHALLENGES RIGHT
OF LODGE TO HOLD
A SEAT IN SENATE
Prohibition Candidate
Charges Gross Election
Irregularities.
Boston. Feb. 26. — The right of
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to his
seat in the United States Senate
was challenged yesterday when Con
rad W. Crooker, acting as an at
torney for John A. Nicholls, defeated
prohibition candidate for Vnited
Stales senator in ’be recent election,
presented a long statement to Gover
nor Cox. in which it was urged that
it was the governor's statutory duty
to recall and vacate the certificate of
election issued to Senator Lodge, nnd
to forthwith issue precepts for a new
senatorial election.
The prohibition candidate ran third
in election returns to Colonel William
A. Gaston. Democratic candidate, and
Senator Lodge.
The appeal to the governor was
based upon an alleged generral viola
tion of the mandatory provisions of
the election law m the conduct of
the senatorial election, so “as to
constitute an entire failure on the
part of the voters to legally elect any
candidate.”
“After careful inquiry I find that
in at least 167 towns nnd thirteen
cities of the commonwealth, the statu
tory requirements as to bi-partisan
appointment of certain election of
ficers were flagrantly violated," the
statement said. “In all these cities
and towns the election boards were
overloaded with Republicans, and in
many cases representation to the
other leading political party was en
tirely denied.
BRING WAR NEARER
Berlin Newspaper Makes Comment on
Radio Event.
By GEOKGK WITTE.
Special Cable to the San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1923.
Berlin. Feb. 26.—“ Secretary of
War Baker was wrong when be said
that the war was 3000 miles away
from the United States. The next
time the American war department
will be able to hear the sounds of
guns and bombs across the ocean."
This is the comment one Berlin
newspaper made after the German
capital hud "listened in” on a New
York radio concert for the first time.
The transmission was perfect and the
music sounded as if it were in the
next room.
By certain clauses in the trealy of
peace broadcasting.and private receiv
ing stations are prohibited nnd even
professional radio men were unac
quainted with the wonders of broad
casting until they heard New York.
LINER REGULAR ZOO
Vessel Docks With dtirds, Hyenas.
Zebras, Monkeys and Canaries.
New York. Feb. 26.—Bringing rare
species of animals and birds to re
plenish zoos and circuses, the Ameri
can liner Minnekahda docked yester
day from Antwerp and Hamburg. The
shipment included a herd* of fifteen
zebras, many monkeys. 1200 canaries
two kangaroos and a number of
hyenas.
Accident Claims Two Lives.
Clarendon. Tex., Feb. 26.—Bodies
of Mr. and Sirs. Arnice Ray of Clar
endon were found on tbe road between
Clarendon and Memphis yesterday by
the side of their overturn'd automo
bile. The couple were en route to
visit relatives in Memphis when the
accident occurred. The bodies were
brought here and later taken to Mem
phis.
I “Within a year there will lie the
’ greatest eruption of Mount Popoca
tepetl ever recorded.” says Professor
Gerardo Murillo, Mexican geologist.
Popocatepetl, about 50 miles from
Mexico City, is 5000 meters high, the
largest mountain in Mexico. Pic
ture shows the mountain and Pro
fessor Murillo.
HARDING RECEIVES
EVIDENCE AGAINST
CURRENCY NOMINEE
Senator Compiles Charges
Against El Paso
Banker.
Washington. D. C„ Feb. 20. A de
tailed statement of charges and evi
dence against James G. McNary, New
Mexico and Texas banker, nominated
to be comptroller of currency, were
sent to President Harding today by
Senator Couzt*ns (Republican), Mich
igan, chairman of the Senate Banking
sub-committee. which has been con
sidering Mr. McNary's nomination.
The statement was said to detail
evidence secured by the sub-commit
tee from bank examiners and others
regarding the banking transactions of
Mr. McNary anti other officers of the
First National bank of El Paso, of
which Mr. McNary was president.
Loans made from the funds of the
bank and from other sources to Mr.
McNary were passed under review, in
cluding correspondence on tbe sub
ject between the bank nnd the comp
troller of currency in Washington.
One banking transaction of Mr.
McNary's under review involved a
loan of $114,000 said to have been
made to him by a,New York bank on
a Mexican sugar deal. Mr. McNary
was reported to have insisted before
the committee that this was a per
sonal and private transaction.
Whether President Harding will
withdraw the nomination in view of
the evidence contained jn Senator
Couzen's statement remained uncer
tain today, but the general prediction
among senators was that action on it
before the end of the session would be
impossible.
WEALTHY, QUITS WORK
Railroad Man Resigns After Inherit
ing Fortune.
Cleburne, Tex., Feb. 26.—D. J. Min
yard, employe in the Santa Fe rail
road shops here, resigned, according to
relatives, when he received word that
he was an heir to the estate of a rela
tive said to be worth more than $l,-
600,000. Minyard came hero recently
from Birmingham. Ala. Minyard's
relative became wealthy in Texas oil
development.
NAME BANK DIRECTOR
Federal Reserve Board Appoints Of
ficer for Dallas Bank.
Washington. D. C„ Feb. 26. The
Federal Reserve Board today an
nounced the appointment of Lynn f
Tally as n class C director of the Dal
las Federal Reserve bank.
CLOSE TUT’S TOMB
No More Visitors Allowed in Ancient
King’s Sarcophagus.
By the Associated Press.
Luxor. Egypt. Feb. 26.—Tutankha
rmen's tomb was finally closed to vis
itors yesterday afternoon. Several
hundreds of persons have inspected
the tomb since the inner chamber was
opened.
Hughes Can't Go to Santiago.
Washington. D. C.. Feb. 26. —Sec-
retary Hughes has definitely decided
that he cannot leave Washington to
attend the Pan-American conference
at Santiago next month. Although lie
■haped to arrange his official affair;-’
at the last moment so ns to go tbe
sccrotary ban found it impossible to
do so.
Y'outh Dies of Smallpox.
Gonzales. Tex.. Feb. 26.—11ie 20
rear-old son of John McCullough of 1
Nixoty died Thursdav of smallpox.;
The young man bad just returned I
from Mexico when he developed the;
fatal disease. 1
NE Ff APPOINTS
TWO RAILROAD
COMMISSIONERS
Splawn of University and
Nabors of Winnsboro
Named.
FILL MAYFIELDS’ JOBS
Earle Finally Resigns; Will
Leave for Capital
Tuesday.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 56.-W. M. W.
Splawn, dean of the department of
economics. University of Texas, and
W. A. Nabors of Winnsboro, were
appointed members of the Texas Rail
road Commission by Governor Neff
today. They will fill vacancies caused
by the election of Earle B. Mayfield
to the United States Senate and the
death of Allison Mayfield recently
nt his home in Sherman.
Dr. Splawn. graduate of Yale nnd
the University of Chicago, made a
special study of railroad problems
while in Chicago. He is a native
Texan. Mr. Nabors is a lawyer and
shipper, being engaged in the whole
sale fruit and vegetable business. He
is a native of Louisiana and a grad
uate of Baylor university.
Earle B. Mayfield. United States
senato?-elect, today tendered his res
ignation as a member of tbe State
Railroad Commission to Governor
Neff, effective March 1. Mr. May
field said he will leave for Wash
ington tomorrow. He announced the
appointment of W. H. Mercer of Min
eral Wells, as his private secretary.
By a vote of 14 to 17, the Senate
this morning refused to pass the Bow
ers-Strong railroad slio_p removal bill,
which would have made railroads lia
ble for property depreciation when
shops or offices are removed from a
town. A motion to reconsider was
lost. The action finally kills the
bill.
KLAN IN ELECTION
Captive Confesses Ku Klux Employed
Him. Police Say.
East St. Lonis, 111.. Feb. 26 —
Chief of Police Mulconnery today an
nounced that Ben O. Morrow, who
was arrested Saturday on a charge of
distributing anonoymous election Cam
paign inniter, has signed n statement
that he was employed by the Ku Klux
Klan at $lO a day as a "precinct com
mitteeman."
Morrow's alleged confession. Chief
Mulconnery announced, stated that the
klnn has a committeeman for each of
the 61 precincts in the city.
The anonymous circulars urged the
defeat of eighteen candidates, said to
be either Catholics or supported by
Catholics.
EAT $2B DINNER
Negroes Razz Neighbor Who Had
Cornbread; Calls Ceps; Arrest Diners.
Two East Side negroes enjoyed a
$2B chicken dinner Sunday. Just as
they completed the most expensive
meal probably served in San Antonio
Sunday, Detectives Norton. McMurray
and Chavez placed them under arrest
on felony charges that may carry a
penitentiary sentence.
The chicken dinner was a part of
six hens nnd a rooster, valued nt $lOO
and stolen last Friday night when the
coop at the home of A. W. Bilter. real
estate man. 1111 North Olive street,
was raided. Mr. Bitter had only re
cently purchased the hens and the
cock, all of which were thoroughbred
stock.
The negroes, detectives say, admit
ted the theft, saying they sold five
hens nt $1 each, unaware they were so
valuable. The remaining two con
stituted their Sunday dinner. It was
jealousy on the part of a neighbor,
whom, the two negroes are said to
have taunted because of a cabbage and
cornbred dinner while they partook of
chicken a la country style, that caused
the arrest, detectives say.
Under the Texas statute theft of
anything over the value of $5O con
stitutes a felony and is punishable by
a penitentiary sentence.
Incendiarism in Dallas.
Dalls.’. Tex.. Feb. 26.—Evidence
regarding suspected incendiary fires
in Dallas was laid before the county
grand jury today bv special agents of
the National Fire Underwriters Asso
ciation. according to Citv Fire Mar
shal Frank Bennett. Evidence in five
or six cases were submitted to the
jury, Mr. Bennett snid. Indictments
nre expected, he added.
‘Talk Title* Talk’
Hundreds of
Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For particulars see page 13.
TELLS STRANGE STORY OF
BEING PUT UNDER SPELL
BY MYSTERIOUS LIQUIDS
Sixteen-year-old Miss Claims She Was
Doped, Kidnaped and Held Prison
er in West Side House for Nine
Days—ls In Dazed Condition —Of-
ficers Make Arrest and Find Liquids
She Described.
Two small vials of liquid, one pink, the 'other white,
are expected to play an important part in the trial of a
Mexican man about 35 years old, who was arrested Sun
day by Chief Deputy Sheriff Alphonse Newton and lodged
in the Bexar county jail, following complaint of a Mexican
girl 16 years of age that she had been “doped,” taken to
a house on the West Side where she remained unconscious
for nine days. Charges of criminal assault have been filed
against the man in Justice of the Peace Ben S. Fisk’s court.
Report of the alleged kidnaping jfnd assault was
made to Chief Deputy Newton Sunday by a brother of the
girl. According to the story told the chief deputy, the girl
was walking along a street on the West Side about two
weeks ago. A Mexican man approached, grabbed her by
the arm and then “dropped” some of the contents of the
bottle on her. Immediately, the girl told the chief deputy,
she lost consciousness and remained in this condition until
nine days later when she managed to make her way to her
home.
STOWAWAYS, JOINED
BY MUTINOUS CREW,
SEIZE JAP VESSEL
Plotters Subdue Ship’s Of
ficers —Are Under
Arrest Now.
Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 26.—Nine
armed Bailors, plotting with 29 stow
aways, held the voyage of the 6000-ton
freighter Taibu Maru under a virtual
reign of terror during her voyage from
Kobe, Japan, to this port, it was
learned today.
The voyage, which was dominated
by the rebellious party, ended late last
night, when the vessel arrived.
The tempestous trip was described
after the captain of the Taibu Maru
wirelessed to this port for help. and.
on arrival here, the crew members and
stowaways were arrested.
The stowaways, according to ship
officers, huddled in the ship's coal
bunkers and made their appearance on
deck a few days after the vessel left
Kobe en route for this port.
Joined by nine members of the crew,
the party, armed with revolvers, told
the Japanese captain that they would
be in charge of the voyage.
All of the mutineers were Japanese
There was no resistance by the ship's
officers or the 30 others of the crew.
For ten days the ship was under
tbe sway of the stowaways and nine
crew members. As the vessel neared
Vancouver harbor yesterday afternoon
the mutineers told the captain to land
at a certain dock.
The captain then sent a wireless
message to Capt. Barney Johnson,
Vancouver representative of the ves
sel, who had a squad of police and im
migration officials on hand when the
ship arrived.
SHOT IN POULTRY YARD
Husband Says Gun Killed Wife When
He Stumbled.
Waxahachie. Tex.. Feb. 26.—N. B.
Freeman of Midlothian is scheduled to
go on trial here today charged with
murder in connection with the death
of bis wife on September 4. She was
shot when she went with her husband
to their poultry yard to kill a chicken,
according to officers. Freeman told
officers he was carrying a shotgun
and stumbled, causing the weapon to
discharge accidentally.
CONTEST $lOO,OOO WILL
DeWitt County Woman Left Estate
To Brother; Others Protest.
Cuero, Tex.. Feb. 26.—A formidable
array of legal talent has been employ
ed by opposing factions in the mat
ter of the probate of the will of Miss
Jane Bell, whose estate is worth
$160,000.
One brother was named as executor
of the will and chief beneficiary.
Other relatives of the same kinship
were not included in the will, and will
seek to have it set aside and the
estate distributed equitably.
TWO CFMTQ Ptr to elt y nn* l vicmitr
4. VV 1 O Flv . eent , on traln , tnd
So potent was the liquid “dropped”
on her. he told Chief Deputy Newton
that she could not remember to what
place she was taken, nor does she re
member where her wanderings took
her until she finally reached home.
She was still in a semi-dazed condi
tion. she said. She told of her har
rowing experiences to her brother and
he nt once notified the sheriff's office.
When tbe man was arrested. Deputy
Newton said, he found the twd vials,
partly emptied, in his possession. The
chief deputy took charge of them and
is holding them on his desk until be
can submit them to u chemist for an
alysis. Both liquids, the pink and the
white, appear to be of the consistency
of glycerine and are without odor.
Whether they are really a powerful
drug or whether they are harmless, the
chief deputy does not know. He stat
ad, however, that he will have both
analyzed.
So far Chief Deputy Newton has
been unable to ascertain to what place
the girl was taken or whether more
than one man was involved in the al
leged crime. girl herself is still
apparently suffering from a nervous
shock and has not fully recovered her
normal faculties. According to the
story told the chief deputy she is un
der 17 years of age.
The man is said to have denied all
knowledge of the crime of whicn be
is accused.
GOLD LOAN TO FAIL
Doubtful if German Issue Will Be
Fully Subscribed.
By JVXIIS B. WOOD
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally News.
Copyright, I>S3. >
Berlin, Feb. 26. —It seems
than doubtful whether the govern
ment's gold loan of $50,000,606 will
be fully subscribed. Neither the banks
nor the industrials bare enough for
eign money or holdings in Germany
to cover the government loan. Accord
ing to reliable statistics more than
two-thirds of tbe German t-gtital is
invested abroad so that it cannot be
taxed by the German government nor
seized by the French.
Hugo Stinnes' newspaper, the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitnng. says
that the Germans would be too op
timistic if they believed that the mark
would remain around 20.060 to the
dollar and that the value of the gold
bonds would be based on the same
ratio.
“It is far better." says the Stinnes
paper, “not to expect that the gov
ernment's loan gold bonds will stabil
ize German money. These bonds will
be used chiefly for investments by the
holders who will borrow money on
them in the hone that paper money
will go down. The time has not yet
come to retqrn to the gold mark basis.
Only exporting and importing firms
and similar lines of business can af
ford to figure in gobi values."
HUNGRY REDS UNRULY
Soviet Unemployed Shout -Rather Be
Shot Thon Starve.”
linden. Feb. 26—Serious disturb
ances are reported among the nneui
ployed in Petrograd, sayo a dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph from
Copenhagen. Red troops who were
trying to qooil duswlors were re
ceived will skonu tt "we had rather
be shot down than starve tn death."
The dispatch adds that the officer <
had great difficvlty Ui prerentinx the
troopo from joining the unemployed.
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