PASTEURIZED MILK HO CREAM
Twslva Wagona to Kake DeUvertes to
AU Parts of the City.
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
VOLUME 29, No. 211
WHILE DREAMING
MAKES LONG LEAP
TO SAVE WOMAN
Roswell Porter, Clerk at the
Hot Wells Hotel, Is a
Hero When Sleeping,
JUMPS FROM THIRD STORY WINDOW
His Escape From Instant Death
Is Narrow.
INJURIES NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS
In a dream while asleep in his room
on the third floor of the Hot Wells
hotel about midnight last, night, Eos
well Porter, aged 21, clerk at the ho
tel, whose home is in Oklahoma City,
heard the screams of a woman.
Porter immediately assumed the role
of a hero. He rushed to the rescue and
jumped from a window from the third
floor. Porter would probably have been
killed had not the fall been broken
by him striking a projecting roof from
the second floor. When he struck this
projection he was awakened, but he
was unable to save himself from a fur
ther drop. He fell to the ground, where
his cries brought assistance from per
sons in the hotel lobby.
Injuries Not Serious
When picked up Porter was in a
semi-conscious state, but examination
showed jhat his injuries were not se
rions. His face was bruised and there
were marks on his right side. No bones
were broken.
At the hotel today it was stated that
Porter’s condition was not serious, that
he would be baek on duty behind the
register in a few days. His escape from
instant death is looked upon as being
nothing short of a miracle.
Does Not Know How It Happened.
"Porter does not know just how it
all happened,’’ said an employe of the
hotel. "He said he was dreaming and
eould plainly hear a woman screaming.
The woman was in great distress, he
said, and he rushed to help her. He
raised the screen of the window and
jumped. He did not awake until he hit
the projection extending from the sec
ond floor. It was the most peculiar ac
cident that ever occurred at the Hot
Wells hotel or anywhere else, for that
matter.”
SAYS HUSBAND
LOVES ANOTHER
President of Georgia Central
Road Accused of Infidelity
In Wife's Divorce Plaint.
Associated Press.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 18. —Charging her
husband, Major Fletcher Hans<n, presi
dent of the Central Georgia railroad
with infatuation with a Mrs. Horner,
and cruel treatment, Mrs. Cora Hanson
of Macon, Ga., today filed suit for
divorce in superior court of this city.
Major Hanson, besides being head of
the Central Georgia railroad, is a large
cotton mill owner and reputed to be
very wealthy.
CONTEST CLOSES TOMORROW
Hurry! Hurry!
Those guesses!
Tomorrow (August 19) is the last day upon which will lie re
ceived estimates regarding the date of Courier O'Reilly’s arrival at
Oklahoma City. He is now in the State of Oklahoma pelting along
over the prairie toward his first goal.
When will he arrive, with about 140 miles to go from today?
. What say you ?
CUT THIS OUT. FILL IN, SEND TO THE LIGHT
My name is
My address i 5................................................
I estimate that the Light and Gazette's Courier, on his ride from
San Antonio to Washington, D. C., will reach Oklahoma City on—
Day of month ,
Hour of day
CUT THIS OUT AND FILL IT IN WITH YOUR ESTIMATE
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
NO ONE BUT
SUTTON WAS
RESPONSIBLE
Verdict of the Board of Inquiry
Exonerates Others Marine
Corps Officers.
SAY KILLING WAS
ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE
Washington, Aug. 18.—The naval
naval court of inquiry into the death
of Lieutenant Sutton of the marine
corps found the officer came to his
death either by accidental shooting or
by suicide, but just which was not able
to determine.
The court also decided that no possi
ble charge of criminality lies against
any of the participants in the fray ex
cept Sutton himself, and that Sutton
was directly and solely responsible for
his own death, which was self-inflicted,
either intentionally or in an effort to
shoot one of the persons restraining
him, and that death was not caused by
any otherjjijury whatever.
Mrs. Sutton has not yet decided how
to accept the verdict of the court, but
as it in no way satisfies her desires it
is thought probable that criminal pro
ceedings will be started against sev
eral of the young officers wlo have
been prominently mentioned in the case.
The report was signed by Commander
J. Hood, president of the beard, and
Major Henry Leonard, judge advocate.
Commander Hood also filed a minority
report in which he says he concurs in
the majority reports and in addition
gives the opinion that Lieutenants Ut
ley, Adams, Osterman, Willing and Be
van showed deplorable lack of knowl
edge as to duties and obligations as
officers holding commissions.
GIRL SHOOTS
HER BETRAYER
Cashier of the Georgia Central
Railroad at Augusta Is Fa
tally Wounded.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 18.—Richard Wat
son, 24 years old, cashier of the Cen
tral Georgia railroad, was shot and
fatally wounded in his office here ‘to
day by Miss Elvira Todd, aged 22
years. The shots were fired at Wat
son from a 32-calibre revolver and
of them entered his body, one
just above the heart. In a statement to
the police Miss Todd accused Watson
of causing her downfall and declared
he was on the point of deserting her.
10 PAGES
MERCURY
STOPS FLIGHT
OF COURIER
O'Reilly at Madill, Okla., Finds
It to Stop When the
Thermometer Reaches 110.
ON WAY TO ARDMORE
HE RESTS AT MADILL
Madill, Okla., Aug. 18.—Oh, you
lucky ones back there in dear old San
Antonio, able to go to bed at night and
sleep while the cool gulf breeze fans
your brows. Nothing like that in this
dear Oklahoma country. As I write
this the thermometer is giving lessons
to the Wright brothers and has climbed
so high that the natives are afraid to
look at it for fear of prostration. The
perspiration is streaming off me and
there is not a breath of air stirring to
help the suffering Oklahomans. It was
112 here yesterday and the last time
they dared look at the thermometer to
day it was 110 and elimbing.
We left Kingston this morning early
and I intended pushing on to Ardmore,
but when I arrived here the heat was
too intense for man or beast to be on
the road and I decided to stop and
wait for the cool of the evening.
The roads are fairly good and unless
it is too hot I expect to ride into Ard-1
more tonight. Ardmore is nearly due
west of here and the reason for the de
tour is following the Santa Fe road,
which runs into Oklahoma City.
The interest in my ride is just as
great in Oklahoma as it was in Texas
and it is really wonderful the publicity
it has received, for farmers all along
the roads and people in the smallest
hamlets have heard al! about it nnd
know my mission as soon as they see
me.
BIDS EDU TWO
BATTLESHIPS
ARE OPENED
Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 18.—Two more
American Dreadnoughts, the Wyoming
and Arkansas, authorized by congress,
took first shape at the navy depart
ment today when bids for the con
struction were opened. The vesseds are
each to cost $6,000,000 exclusive of ar
mor and armament, are to make a
high rate of speed and be equipped
throughout with the latest improve
ments. They are to be 26,000 tons each,
the largest ever undertaken by the na
val establishment.
William Cramp & Sons of Philadel
phia were the lowest bidders. Only one
ship can go, however, to anv one firm
of builders and the New York Ship
building company of Camden, N. J.,
made the next lowest bid. The Bethle
hem Steel company, the Carnegie com
pany and the Midvale Steel company
submitted identical bids for furnishing
the main portion of the armor for the
battleships.
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♦ BOY CHARGED WITH
♦ STEALING WHISKEY.
♦ Associated Press. *
♦ Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 18.—A di- 4-
♦ minutive prisoner stood in the 4*
❖ prisoner’s dock yesterday in the 4-
* criminal court charged with the ♦
* larceny of a whole barrel of whis- +
♦ key. Jimmy Harris, aged 13, was +
* charged with the herculean task +
♦ of bodily carrving off the barrel ♦
* When the prosecuting attorney 4*
♦ saw the boy he lost no time in ♦
♦ asking that the charge be dismiss- +
4- ed, which was done. *
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LOCAL WEATHER]
For San Antonio and vicinity,
F tonight and Thursday:
Fai*.
The maximum temperature
for the 24 hours ending at 8
A o’clock this morning was 102
degrees and the minimum was
7S degrees.
Comparative tmeperatures for
I tills year and last: r
1908 1909
J v m P 79
R 6 a. m 71 77
8 a- m 72 jj
10 a. 79 92
12 noon 84 jo,
1 P- m 84 102
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18. 1909.
(BY E. S. O’REILLY)
TAX KAIE
DOWN AND
BUDGET UP
County Commissioners Adopt
a Levy of 56 2-3 Cents on
the $lOO Valuation.
NEXT YEAR'S EXPENSES
ESTIMATED AT $190,000
'4* A county and state tax levy 4*
|4* of 56 2-3 cents on the $lOO val- 4*
,4* nation, a reduction of 2 1-3 cents 4*
:4* from last year’s levy, was adopt- ♦
i + ed by the Bexar county commis- 4*
+ sioners this morning. The coun- 4*
♦ ty tax is 35 cents. ♦
♦ The commissioners also adopt- 4*
♦ ed the budget for the coming 4>
♦ year and its total will be close +
❖ to $190,000, an increase of near- ♦
♦ ly $30,000 over that of last year. +
♦ County Auditor Ramsey will not ♦
♦ complete his additions of the 4*
♦ budget before tomorrow. The 4*
♦ above figures, howevei, are close +
♦ to the mark. The increase is due 4>
♦ to needed improvements, includ- 4*
♦ ing a reinforced concrete bridge ♦
♦ over the Medina river on the 4*
4* Pleasanton road, $14,000; re- 4*
4> pairing and refurnishing the 4*
4* court house, $15,000, and in- 4*
♦ crease in the road building fund. +
The tax levy as adopted is as fol
lows:
State ad valorem tax, .05.
State school tax. .16 2-3.
General fund tax, .1278.
Road and bridge tax, .0972.
Bridge bonds, s’s, February 17, 1893,
.0008.
Bridge bonds, 4 1-2’s, January 10,
1899, .0039.
Bridge bonds, 4's, August 14, 1899,
.0007.
Bridge bonds, 4 1-2’s, April 10, 1900,
.0047.
Bridge bonds, 4’s, May 14, 1904,
.0014.
Bridge bonds, 4’s, May 19, 1906,
.0022.
Court house bonds, s’s, November 14,
1895, .0076.
Court house bonds, s ’a, November 8,
1897, .0240.
Court house bonds, s’s, February 17,
1898, .0021.
Court house bonds, 4’s, May 14, 1904.1
.0100.
Court house bonds, 4’s, May 14, 1904,
.0054.
G. H. & S. A. bonds, s’s, January 10, 1
1899, .0210.
Good roads bonds, 4’s, Augnst 10.1
' 1903, .0392.
Jail bonds, s’s, February 17, 1898.'
.0011.
Mexican Gulf Railway bonds. August
14, 1899. .0009.
Total state and county tax, 56 2 3.
Special School Taxes.
The following special school taxes
were ordered:
District No. 1, .15; No. 2 1-2, .10;
i No. 3, .10; No. 4, .15; No. 5, .10; No.
! 5 12. .20; No. 6, .30; No. 7, .10; No. 9.
I .20; No. 10 1-2, .15; No. 11, .10; No. 13.
.20; No. 15. .15; No. 17, .18; No. 21, .20; 1
I No. 23. .20; No. 25, .10; No. 26, .10; |
No. 27, .10; No. 30, .15; No. 32, .20; I
No. 33. .20; No. 34. .20; No. 34 1-2,1
.20; No. 35, .18; No. 36, .20; No. 36 1-2,
.20; No. 37. .20: No. 38. .20; No. 46, .10.
The Annual Budget.
The annual budget this year jumps j
| from $163,000 last year to nearly $190,.
1000. When County Auditor Ramsey i
। compiles the budget the total may go j
I even higher, but not much.
"Many counties in Texas have in-!
I creased their tax rate, one twenty I
I cents,” said Commissioner Sommers this
morning. "Bexar has reduced the rate
2 1-3 cents. This reducC mis not much, I
it is true, but T think it a good show
ing. The reduction is made even after '
we have made appropriations for some;
very important improvements. If these,
improvements had not been ordered the
reduction would have been much great
er. The commissioners were of the
opinion that the taxpayers would not
complain against the building of a 1
bridge over the Medina river. Thia I,
bridge is badly needed. The river cross- i :
ing is always in bad shape and at times ,
almost impassable 1 ,
Court House Improvements. ,
The court rooms are to be repaired |
and refuTisbed. Th'* furniture is to I (
be up to date and the old chairs, tied j
together with hav wire, are to be re-|<
placed with opera chairs. The amount |,
set aside for the court house repairs and
improvements is $15,000. Seventy thou- ' ]
sand dollars «' appropriated for roada.:
divided approximately b-tween the.four I
commissioner's In addition t
to this about s2l is to be for
road building by the county conviet i
camp. , .. ... , *
Bexar county's va.ua 'On this year is t
$76,000,000, which at the 35 cent rate r
will yield taxes amounting to $26,- a
266,000. I *
Women Will Plead
Cause of Refugees
ANDREA VILLAREAL.
Mexican "Joan of Arc,” who will speak in Spanish at meetings in old tent
Theater on H ouston Street.
The power of woman's oratory will j
be used in the effort to win freedom ;
for Tomas Sarabia and .lose Rangel, al
leged Mexican revolutionists, now in
jail here.
Andrea Villareal, the Mexican "Joan
of Arc” will be a speaker with Mother
Jones of national fame at the "free
dom” meetings to be held at the old
tent theater on East Houston street, j
commencing Saturday evening. Mother
Jones wired last evening that she would
be here tomorrow or next day and the I
Political Refugee Defense league of,
Chicago at once wired Miss Villareal at 1
Tombstone, Ariz., to come also and ad- j
dress the meetings in Spanish.
■ ■ EK/ffSh WELL IT’S LOTS HOT
MJiBa H AF TER IN OTHER TEXAS
OBi i “ CITIES RECORDS SAY.
lIV ■ | IT’S ONLY 103.1 HERE.
4>4*4*4*4’4 , 4*4*4*^4 , 4 , 4*4 , 4*4 1 4*
+ +
4* The thermometer stood at 4*
4* 103.4 in the shade today at 2 ❖
4* o ’clock, according to the United 4*
4* States weather report, though 4*
4* there were rumors of unorthodox 4*
4« machines which registered 112. 4*
4* Officially this is the hottest day 4*
4* in 1909. According to the offi- 4*
4* cial figures it was just 18 de- 4*
4* grees hotter today at 1 o’clock 4>
4* than it was this time last year, 4*
4* when the thermometer regis- 4*
4* tered 84. 4*
4* 4*
4*4*4*4*4'4*4*4*4*4'4'4* + 4*4>4*4*
San Antonio as a summer resort was
the subject of Major Buell’s disserta
tion this morning. While the mercury
flirted around the 102 mark yesterday
I the humidity of the atmosphere was
| very slight, being only 22 per cent,
j when the average humidity ranges from
55 to 60 per cent.
On July 6, 1894, the thermometer
registered 106, the hottest day in Texas
according to the weather bureau rec
ords, so there is some margin yet.
To substantiate his claim for San
j Antonio as a comfortable place on a
summer’s day, Major Buell stated that
J the average temperature for Texas was
1104, taken at thirty-two sations, while
I the maximum temperature was 112, reg
| istered at Dallas, Greenville, Paris and
Waxahachie. Longview experienced 110 '
degrees, and Corsicana. Lampasas and .
Mexia each 108, while the mercury stood j
lat 106 at Palestine. Only three stations
! in Texas, according to the weather re- '
! port, registered under the century mark, ;
' and one of these was Corpus Christi, |
I the always cool.
"In twenty-four hours,” said the;
major, 44 we should have some slight
relief, and in six or seven days there (
should be a decided change.
That there would be rain, the major
refused to be inveigled into saying.
Promising rain in Southwest Texas, and
then fulfilling the contract, he averred
was beyond anything short of Omnipo
tence. _ ,
"Don’t smoke, don't drink, don t
cat anything heavy. Avoid eating sac
charine foods above all things and
drinking too much ice water, and you ।
will be eool,” was the major’s advice.
FOUR DEGREES HOTTER
THAN YESTERDAY AT DALLAS.
Special Diepatch.
Dallas, Tex.. Aug. IS.—The govern
ment thermometer registered 110 at
noon today, four degrees hotter than
the same hour yesterday. Thomas Car
rary of Goshen, Ind., was sunstruek. I
and wag taken to a hospital, where he I
is in a. precarious condition. A higher 1
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Besides Mother Jones and Andrea
i Villareal as attractions at the meetings,
it is proposed to have stereopticon
slides showing life in Mexico and music
will bo furnished.
Mother Jones, the principal speaker,
is at present at Kansas City, where
she has been in the interest of the
striking coal miners in the Kansas and
Missouri fields. She is known through
i out the country and is the special pet
j of the miners. She is an entertaining
talker and never fails to arouse en
-1 thusiasm and keep her audience in
j good humor.
The meetings will be started Satur
; day evening and continue for a week
or more.
temperature than yesterday’s mark.
112, is predicted.
FORT WORTH AT NOON
REGISTERED 108.
Special Dispatch.
Fort Worth. Tex., Aug. 18. —A heat
wave which struck the city yesterday is
unbroken today. The mercury at noon
in various parts of the town registered
108 degrees. Theodore Mack, former
democratic county chairman, and T. B.
Freeman were overcome. Several other
prostrations were reported. Cooler
weather is expected tomorrow.
OH JOY! IT'S COOLER
TODAY AT CHILDRESS.
Special Dispatch.
Childress, Tex., Aug. 18. —The tem
j perature today fell twenty degrees
' from yesterday's high mark and the
change in the weather is very notice
able. A coo! breeze is blowing from the
north and the sudden drop is making
the weather seem almost chilly.
110 AT ENNIS.
Special Dispatch.
Ennis, Tex., Aug. 18. —The thermo
meter at noon today registered 110 in
the shade.
106 AT SHERMAN.
Special Dispatch.
Sherman. Tex., Aug. 18.—A tempera
ture of 106 was registered at 1 o’clock
this afternoon, the highest in twenty
years.
REPORTS WERE
EXAGGERATED
Associated Preas.
San Francisco. Cal.. Aus. 18.—Pas
sengers arriving from Mexican ports
today on the Panama steamer Acapulco, I
the first vessel to bring details of the
earthquakes of July 9, 30 and 31, de-!
clare the reports reaching this country I
by wire greatly overestimated the loss I
of life resulting from the disturbances. '
They declare that only two persons 1
were killed at Acapulco, although there I
were hundreds of narrow escapes when }
adobe walls tumbled about the terror- j
ized inhabitants. This small loss of life I
is accounted for by the faet that the।
majority of buildings in the city were I
but one-story in height. ' j
’ ~ IEIKI ICE CREAM
"Tastes Lika Mors.”
At fourrtauin. Orders for banquets, re
ceptions. lodges club affairs and fatb i
trade a specialty
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
PRICE: FIVE CEN TS
COLORADO
WHS ARE
IN PERU
Inhabitants Are Warned and
Spend Night Carrying Their
Goods to Higher Ground.
RAILROAD TRACKS
ARE WASHED OUT
Associated Press.
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 18.—Cloudbursts
last night at Howard and in Ute Pass
made raging torrents of all streams in
that vicinity. At Canon City, the Ar
kansas river was five feet higher than
before in history at midnight, and
is still rising. This flood is due her»
some time today and preparations are
being made to avert great possible dam
age.
At Florence the entire population
worked throughout the night carrying
goods to higher ground in expectation
that practically the entire town would
be submerged. The extent of the dam
age at Howard has not been learned,
as communication was cut off by the
storm. Horsemen were sent out last
1 night all aloug the river between Canorf
City and Pueblo and even below here
I to warn people of the approaching
flood.
The Colorado Midland tracks were
washed out near Manitou, tying up
traffic completely. Rain fell all night
along the Arkansas watershed.
' The river rose seven feet above the
normal but there is no flood in the im
i mediate vicinity of this city. Greas
I damage is reported, however, in the
neighborhood of Canon City, 40 miles
from here, where the Arkansas ovsr
flowed its banks and a steel bridge was
washed away.
In Royal Gorge, the river is reported
I to have risen 20 feet, washing out sev
eral miles of track on the Denver &
R>» Grande. Telegraph and telephone
communication through the gorge and
I the upper valley is cut off and details
I are lacking. All trains on the Denver
i & Rio Grande for the were were held
I at Pueblo last night and no trains from
the west got through this morning, A
sensational report that Howard was de
stroyed proved unfounded.
HARRIMAN IB
COMING HOME
FOR A BEST
Associated Press.
Paris, Aug. 18.—E. H. Harriman left
Paris at 11 o'clock this morning on a
special train for Cherbourg, where he
will embark for New York today on
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 111.
Through his secretary he informed
newspaper men he was going to his
home at Arden for a rest and complete
cure inaugurated in Europe. He said
also that he had no immediate intention
of resuming business activities. Dr.
Lyle, Harriman’s physician, who ac
companies him, declared if Harriman
was weaker it was the effect of the
rigid treatment he had undertaken
Bad Gastoin.
FALLS FROM WINDOW:
INSTANTLY KILLED
Special Dispatch.
Houston, Tex., Ang. 18.—A. Scho
landt. aged 53 years, a jeweler, of
Columbus, Tex., fell from a second
floor window of the Trement hotel ear
ly this morning and was instantly
killed. It is believed he went to sleep
in the window, lost his balance and
fell. The body was sent to Columbus
day.
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♦
SIX YEAR OLD 4*
SAVES HIS MOTHER ♦
Associated Press. +
Cordele, Ga., Ang. 18. —The 4*
bravery of her six-year-old son ♦
probably saved the life of Mrs. ♦
Cora Crumpler yesterday. Mrs. 4*
Crumpler was alone in her home ♦
near this city when attacked by 4*
Seth Odam, a negro. Hearing the ♦
frantic screams of his mother the 4*
boy rushed into the house and ♦
without a moment’s hesitation. ♦
seized an ax handle and raised ♦
well directed blows on the ne ♦
gro’s head, forcing him to desist. ♦
T.ater he was captured and jailed ♦
here. ♦
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