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PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM
Twelve Wagons to Make Deliveries to
All Parts of the City.
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
VOLUME 29, No. 194
AS BAND IS PLAYING "SAN ANTONIO,”
5000 PEOPLE CHEER RIDER ON HIS JOURNEY
OLD TIME COW 80YS
ACT AS HIS ESCORT
TO THE CITY LIMITS
GLOWING TRIBUTE PAID BY J. H. KIRKPATRICK TO
“THE AFTERNOON PAPER” AND EDWARD $.
O’REILLY, WHO CARRIES THE MESSAGE
TO PRESIDENT TAFT.
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❖ A message received by telephone at the editorial rooms of the ❖
❖ Light and Gazette at 8:30 o’clock last night from E. 8. O’Reilly, the 4-
❖ cowboy courier from San Antonio to the White House, announced that 4
❖ be had reached Willendrock’s store, 12 miles north of the city, and 4
♦ would remain there for the night, starting on the continuation of his 4
4 journey early this morning. 1 4
❖ Mr. O’Reilly reported his horse in fine shape and stated that he 4*
+ expected to make between 20 and 30 miles on the morrow. 4
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Escorted to the city limits by a band
of cowboys, who acted as an honorary
escort, Edward S. O'Reilly, the cowboy
courier of the Light and Gazette, who
will carry to Washington a message
from the people of Toxas inviting Presi
dent Taff.-to visit their state, started on
his ride of 2200 miles at half past four
o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Over 5000 people cheered the pony
express rider on his way. Alamo plaza,
where the parting ceremonies were held,
was crowded long before 4 o’clock,
which was the hour for opening the
function. Music had been furnished for
an hour by the San Antonio rand.
Promptly at 4 o’clock Mr. O’Reilly,
mounted on the famous horse Aransas
and attired in the full regalia of an old
time cow puncher, at the head of the
cowboy squad rode up to the tetaporary
grandstand in front of the Alamo, the
way being made with difficulty through
the dense crowds.
Mr. Kirkpatrick Presents Parchment.
A brief address was made to the as
semblage by J. H. Kirkpatrick, before
presenting the courier with the parch
ment acroll that is to be presented to
the president at tjie White House.
“You are the messenger from the
most historic city in America, and sent
out by the most patriotic and liberty
loving people in the land to the great
est executive of a nation on earth. You
are carrying to the president of the |
United States a message of the good
will and confidence of the people of
what is not only the biggest, but the
grandest, state in the union.’’
Speaking of the purpose of the spec
tacular ride, the speaker declared: “I
have a sovereign contempt for any man
that will seek to belittle anything that
makes for the good of San Antonio or
that draws the public attention to it.
This ride will give more desirable pub- j
licity to San Antonio than anything j
that the history of the city has ever
witnessed. And I want to now declare
openly to you all that this entire move
is due to the enterprise of the after
noon paper.
Sure to Succeed.
“This messenger, I know, will ac- ;
complish this ride. He has in him the
stuff that wins. Look back upon his
record as a soldier and recollect that
he is a son of Texas, raised on the
plains to the north of this fair eity, i
and yon will know that what I speak
is true. The good horse he rides was
raised in Texas and. I am sure, will
Sear its rider faithfully through his
journey.’’
Handing Mr. O’Reilly the parchment
scroll as he concluded, Mr. Kirkpatrick I
said: “O’Reilly, when you meet ‘Big]
Bill’ remember he is just a man like
the rest of us, with a heart that beats
as true in sympathy with courage as :
any in the land. Take him by the hand I
and tell him one million loyal Texans I
BLOW-OUT IN GAS WELL,
FLAMES SHOOT 150 FEET
Houston, Tex., July 31.—The skies
at Houston, eighteen miles away, are
lit by the glare of the burning gas
wells at the Humble oil field that shoots
a flume of flames over 150 feet in the ;
air from a crater 200 feet broad and ’
six hundred feet deep.
Neil Esperson’s gasser No. 1, on the :
Herman lease, a half mile east of the ;
••■•esent oil field at Humble, blew out
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
bid him welcome to their state. Go,
now, with your message, and G>d
speed.”
Thousands Cheer Rider,
Thcurands cheered as the courier
rode cut through the throng. After
riding the length of Houston street rhe
inarch was taken nor.hw.ird to the city
I limiis, where a second farewell was
i given by the cowboy band. The cow
' boy escort was: Ad Elsner, Bill
I Schweers, Ed Kern, Hugo Grote, Ed
i Haag, Hy Fisher, Joe Ripps and M.
| Standefer.
On the platform during the ceremo
' nies of parting were J. 11. Kirkpatrick,
■ L. J. Hart and Fred W. Cook.
Scores of camera fiends lined the
roofs and balconies of nearby build
ings and posted themselves on other
vantage points to gain a favorable
place for a snapshot of the courier and
throng.
Affecting Scenes.
Many of those who crowded around
the platform were affected by the scene.
Rapt attention was paid when the
speaker touched upon Texas character
istics and the patriotism of its people.
A number of women wept, and several
times he was interrupted by cheers.
Just before the start was made a
small boy handed the cowboy messen
ger a bunch of roses. It was after
wards learned that they were sent by
a lady admirer of the Light and Ga
zette and bore the message, “May you
receive bouquets all the way for your
self, the Light and Gazette, for San
Antonio and for Texas.”
Copies of Invitation Still Here.
The message of invitation carrying
(Continued on Page Two).
DALLAS HAS
SHOOTING
JCRAPE
United Preis.
Dallas, Tex., July 31. —Frank P. Hol
land Jr., son of F. P. Holland, publish
er of Farm and Ranch and Holland's
Magazine, was shot and seriously
wounded early yesterday morning at,
the home of B. M. Quigley, a travel- j
ing man.
Holland's wound is from a large
calibre pistol, and is through the right
lung.
Quigley gave himself up today, and
waiving examination on a charge of as
sault to murder, was admitted to bail in !
the sum of $5OOO.
Neither party has made a statement.
| today and the friction ignited a terrific
11 column of gas. Trees, lands and every-
I thing in a 200 foot circle were soon
swept into the erater formed and a
| roaring geyser of flame rises from it
. that is beyond control.
The sight surpasses the celebrated
I Caddo blowout near Shreveport, La.,
1 three years ago.
Esperson places his present loss at
$lOO,OOO.
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EARTHQUAKES CAUSE DEATH ANU
RUIN IN MANY MEXICAN TOWNS
Special Diipatch. _
EL PASO, TEX.. JULY 31.—RETORTS RECEIVED HERE THIS AFTERNOON SAY THAT FIVE DISTINCT
EARTHQUAKES WERE FELT AT MXICO CITY TODAY. THE BIG CATHEDRAL, LOCATED THERE, WAS
DESTROYED. AT NOON A SHOCK DERAILED ALL STREET CARS.
ADVICES RECEIVED FROM CHILPANCINGO, CHILAPA, IGUALA AND ACAPULO STATE THAT
THOSE TOWNS WERE WRECKED AND ARE IN RUINS. FOLLOWING HEAVY DAMAGE BY SHOCKS,
WIRES ARE NOW ALL DOWN IN THAT SECTION.
THE GOVERNOR’S PALACE AT CHILPANCINGO IS IN RUINS.
MANY ARE REPORTED DEAD, BUT NO AUTHENTIC FIGURES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.
INHABITANTS ARE TERROR-STRICKEN AND FLEEING.
SPAIN HOPES
TO PUT DOWN
INSURRECTION
Troops Are Being Rushed to
Revolutionary Centers and
Crisis Near at Hand.
RINGLEADERS ARE BEING
FAST EXECUTED
United PreM.
Madrid, July 31.—The Spanish gov
ernment is tonight permitting itself to
enjoy for a few hours the encouraging
news that has been received from the
revolutionary centers at home and the
war front in Melilla, not unmindful of
the fact that 48 hours may again
plunge the nation into a crisis from
which it cannot emerge in the act.
The outcome —for the present at least
—hinges upon two occurrences—the
declaration of a general industrial
strike on Monday and the renewal of
the attack by the reinforcements of the
Moors against the army of General Ma
rina at Melilla. ■
Should either of these moves be suc
cessful. all that has been gained in the
interest of peace in the last twenty
four hours will be swept away.
Tonight the government is hastening
troops to Dilboa and the province of
Biscay and it is there that a movement
for a strike on Monday is furtherest
advanced. The basque people are bitter
against the government and the im
portance of preventing the people of
the province from “jumping the gov
ernment” is apparent to the officials.
Pablo Iglesia, the socialist and labor
leader, is tonight in conference with
his fellows and is urging the declara
tion of a strike in Madrid Monday.
Send More Reinforcements.
The embarkation of more reinforce
ments for the Spanish army in Morocco
will take place at Rosas Bay tomorrow
and apprehension is felt lest the event
be turned into a gigantic anti-govern
ment demonstration. Anarchists are on
the scene and are fermenting the wild
est opposition to the slaughter of Spains
of helpless sons on Moroccan soil.
Two thousand additional troops, sev-
(Continued on Page Two.)
TEN ARE KILLED
AND DO HURT
IN A WRECK
United Press.
Spokane, Wash., July 31.—The dead
bodies of 10 victims in a wreck at
Caldwell, on the Spokane & Coeur d’
Alene branch of the Spokane & Inland
railroad are lying tonight on cots in the
Coeur d’Alene hospital or in the homes
of the people kt Caldwell.
Sixty people are being cared for bv
the people in the vicinity of the wreck.
How many injured will recover it is
not known. But it is expected several
are fatally hurt.
The known dead:
WILL ALLEN, Wenatchc s, Wash
WALT DALQUIST, Spokane.
A. T. WHITNEY, attorney, Mem
phis. Tenn.
Unknown woman and son.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. SUNDAY. AUGUST 1. 1909.
FIRE CAUSES
HEAVY LOSS 111
OSAKA, JAPAN
One-Third of City of Over One
Million Population Is
Destroyed,
LOSS OF MANY LIVES
HAS BEEN REPORTED
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United Preu.
Tokio, Ang. I.—One more than one
third of Osaka, a city of over a million
inhabitants, is today a smouldering
ruin, following the fire which started
shortly after daylight yesterday and
raged unchecked for seventeen hours.
The property loss is estimated at. five
to ten million yen, and the. military
authorities who are in virtual charge
of the stricken city, say the loss of life
will exceed two bundled, among fire
men and soldiers. '
Today the flames haye spent their'
force and the half gale of yesterday
which was directly responsible for the
destruction, has blown itself out. The
flames started in the southwestern sec
tion of the city, in a poor residential
quarter, and quickly wiped out several
blocks of cheap frame buildings.
Owing to a scarcity of water, due
to an extended drouth, the firemen
were helpless, and the soldiers of the
eighth infantry and fourth cavalry ,
were called upon to assist them. They I
were helpless, however, and when the
flames attacked the city the entire
fourth regiment of artillery was set tb )
work dynamiting blocks of buildings.
Today another stiff wind would com
plete the destruction.
Firemen and Soldiers Killed.
One of x the sections wiped out was
one in which there is located the big
gest cotton mills in the Orient. An
unconfirmed report says that 22 fire
i men and soldiers were killed ' and
scores injured by an explosion in the
laboratory of the Dia Nippon Chemical
company.
Among the buildings destroyed was
the famous Temple of Buddha, contain
ing a bronze statue of the idol, the
second largest in the world. The tem*
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El Paso Is Safe.
Special Dispatch.
Washington, July 31.—Inquiry here
by the Texas delegation at the
and war department fails to discover
nny knowledge of the controversy al
leged over the boundary between Mex
ico and the United States at El Easo.
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* TAFT AND DIAZ v
4. TO MEET IN EL PASO. 4>
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♦ Special Dispatch. +
4- 31. The n* ♦
♦ valry between El f’aso and San ♦
+ Antonio for the honor of enter- ♦
♦ taining Presidents Taft and Diaz ♦
4> when the presidents of the two ♦
4- republics meet during Taft s wes- ♦
4» tern trip next fall was brought ♦
+ to an end today when it was an- 4>
4- nounced that Taft would meet ♦
+ Diaz at El Paso Oct. 26. ♦
4* Taft will cross over t<» the Mex- 4» ,
4- ican soil and Diaz will come on v .
* American soil. This is tl
♦ plan as now fixed, although ban ♦
4- Antonio will present an urgent in- +
* vitation to Taft to meet Diaz ♦
♦ there. *
WING IS DEAD
BUT MYSTERY
ISNOTGLEARED
Detectives Are Trying to Con
nect Case With Murder
of Elsie Sigel.
SELF-DEFENSE PLEA
MADE BY THE SLAYER
United Preu.
New York, July 31.—Dr. Lock Wing,
। Chinese vice consul, who was shot
down in hia office on Broadway, died
tonight at St. Gregory hospital, where
he was taken immediately after the
shooting.
Matuda Wung, his slayer, will now
|be charged with murder.
Before his death Dr. Wing made a I
statement to Coroner Scrady, but the
statement has been kept from the
public. /
After his cross examination by the
police the slayer of Dr. Wing admit
ted his name was Wong Bow Chung,
and that the revolver with which the
crime was committed was not the vice
consul’s pistol, but one he owned him
self and purchased last week in Atlan
tic City.
The police are giving the slayer a
terrific “third degree” and hope to
be able soon to make him confess the
motive of the crime.
He insistas, however, the shooting
was an accident, the result of a strug
gle.
Work on Sigel Murder Theory.
New York detectives in their efforts I
tonight to fathom the mystery sur-1
rounding the shooting of Dr. Lock I
Wing, are working along the theory
that the Sigel murder may be the un
derlying cause.
In his conscious moments at St.
Gregory hospital Dr, Wing declared
the shooting was the result of a
(Continued on Page Two).
EL PASO IS
STILL J PART
Of OLD TEXAS
Special Diipatch,
El Paso, Tex., July 31.—The discov
ery of an ancient map in the City of
I Mexico showing that El Paso is in
' Mexico alarms nobody here. It is ad
mitted that El Paso was on Mexican
I soil less than a hundred years ago, but
। the boundary between El Paso and
! Mexico was definitely fixed at the Rio
Grande by the Guadalupe-Hidalgo trea-
1 ty of 1852. Since then the river has
changed and the only dispute now is
from what location did it change and
was the change by evulsion or accre
tion. If by accretion all property left
in El Paso belongs to El Paso by treaty.
If by evulsion the property goes to
Mexico if the location of the river bed
in 1852 can be determined.
Mexico’s strongest claim has never
been for more than five blocks of the
lower end of the eity, Mexico alleging
that the river at the time of the treaty
ran about the present Seventh street.
The river now runs below Eleventh
street.
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FRANK MAIBAUM UNDER
ARREST AI MEMPHIS
ID BE BROUGHT HERE
HOUSE PASSES
TARIFF DILL BY
CLOSE MARGIN
Vote on Measure as Reported
from Conference Com
mittee Was 195 to 183.
TWENTY REPUBLICANS
VOTED IN NEGATIVE
United Press.
Washington, D. C., July 31.—8 y the
narrow margin of 195 to 183, the
house tonight, after eleven hours of de
bate, passed the tariff bill as reported
yesterday from the conference commit
| tee. Adjournment was taken at 9:10.
I The bill will go to the senate on Mon
day.
Twenty republicans voted against the
bill as follows: Carey, Wisconsin; Da
vis, Lindburg, Moller, Nelson, Nye,
| Steenerson, Stevens and Volstead of i
' Minnesota; Haugen, Hubbard, Kendall '
i and Woods, of Iowa; Gronna, of North |
1 Dakota: Keifer of Ohio; Lenroot of,
Wisconsin; Mann of Illinois; Murdoch j
of Kansas; Poindexter of Washington
and Southwick of New York.
Two democrats, Broussard and Es
topinal, of Louisiana, voted for the bill.
Near the close of the feverish still
"hunt for votes that culminated in this
final test, both sides were apprehensive
of the result. That their fears were
justified was indicated by the narrow
margin which to the regulars was a
large and luminous majority.
A poll finished by the regulars at
noon showed a majority for the adop
tion of the special rule, fixing a time
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
PISTOL SHOTS
FRIGHTEN
CITIZENS
Excitement prevailed on Frank
street, on Government Hill, at 9:30
o’clock last night, when a dozen shots
fired from a revolver, narrowly missed
striking pedestrians. Several houses
were struck by the flying bullets. The
shooting attracted a score or more resi
dents in the vicinity and several armed
with guns made an investigation.
When the mounted police reached the
scene in response to several telephone
messages, two soldiers giving their
names as R. C. Evans, Co. G, and Ray
C. Blair, Co. A, both of the Nineteenth
infantry, were taken into custody. A
38-caliber sixshooter was found on the
person of Evans by Officer Henderson.
Several cartridges were also found in
his pockets in addition to those which
filled the chambers of the weapon.
Charges of unlawfully discharging
firearms within the city limits were
lodged against each.
ACETYLINE EXPLOSION
CAUSES FIVE OEATHS
United Press.
St. Paul, Minn., July 31. —Five lives
I were lost and $30,000 w orth of property
destroyed in a fire late this afternoon,
I caused by the explosion of an acety
lene plant being installed by the
| Kuhle Carbonide Manufacturing com
pany. Arnold Kuhle, inventor of a new
process, an 1 a university student who
was assisting him, still unidentified,
iare believed to be two of the dead
KUET ICE CREANI
“Taatea Like More."
At fountains. Orders for banquets, re
ceptions, lodges, club affairs and lamu,
trade a specialty.
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
—— |
At the Time of His Capture He
Was Celebrating in /
a. Tenderloin. _
OFFICER GOES AFTER GIN TODAY
I
Charged With Murder and
Robbery in San Antonio.
WAS FORMERLY A CITY DETECTIVE
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4 Special Dispatch. *
♦ Memphis, Tenn., July 31.— +
♦ Frank Maibanm, whom the police 4
4 claim is wanted in San Antonio, +
' 4 Tex., on a charge of murder, was 4
■ 4 arrested here today by Patrolman +
> I + Stanley H. Hooks, who will make 4
4 a claim for the reward offered for +
4* the capture. +
1 4> Maibaum is said to have once 4
4> been a member of the detective 4
• 4 force of Saw Antonio. He was tak- 4
4> en into custody here while cele- 4
4* brating with other detectives. It 4
4 is said that the entire party was ♦
4 celebrating in the tenderloin dis- 4
, 4 trier. *
4 San Antonio officers have been 4
4 notified of the arrest and Mai- 4
1 4* baum will be held until an officer 4
' 4 comes for him. 4
4 4
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Chief of Police Van Riper received
a telegram yesterday afternoon from
W. A. Davis, chief of the police de
partment of Memphis, Tenn., announc*
ing the arrest of Frank Maibaum in
that city. No details regarding the ar
rest were contained in the telegram.
The case was immediately turned ovei
to Sheriff Lindsey.
Deputy Sheriff Van Maltsberger will
leave this morning for Memphis, with
the necesary papers, where efforts will
be made to bring Maibaum to San An
tonio. He is wanted here to answer to
charges of murder and robbery.
Wanted on Two Charges.
Maibaum is well known in this city
and was for a number of years on the
city detective force here. He is wanted
here on the charge of connection with
the killing of James Coleman in the
Iron Front saloon in 1907. Maibaum,
together with four others, were indict
ed by the grand jury on charges of
murder following the shooting (vhich
resulted in the death of Coleman.
Maibaum was released several months
later on a $5OOO bond. He afterwards
disappeared from the city for the last
18 months or more no trace of his
whereabouts could be ascertained by
the local officers. It was thought at
the time that he was in Mexico, sev
eral reports to this effect having come
to the cars of the police.
Alamo Bar Robbery.
In addition to the $5OOO he was, ac
cording to the local authorities, out on
other bonds aggregating a total of ap
proximately $BOOO. A charge of having
been implicated in the famous Alamo
Bar safe robbery is also pending
against him. His bonds have been de
clared forfeited.
I bodies taken from the ruins.
The three other dead were a woman,
supposed to be Mrs. Gagnen; Tommy
Boskey. aged three, and another three
year-old child, as yet unidentified.
The police alarm system of the eity
is a total wreck, the central police sta
tion. immediately adjoining the build
ing in which the explosion occurred,
being totally destroyed, as were the
stores east to the corner of Market
street.