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DALLAS MAN WHILE WAITING TO SEE PRESIDENT PASS STABBED TO DEATH
Outcry for Duke of Orleans to
Mount Throne Startles France
Dak* and Duckaan ef Orleans, w ho may mount the French throne.
Paris, France, Oet. 23.—“1f I were
king of France—”
There’a at least one man saving this
in France now—saying it and believing
/it. And many people throughout the
i republic are hoping it will eome true.
‘‘Long live the king” is placarded
in big posters all over the walls of
Paris. The authorities have them torn
down as fast as they can, but two new
ones appear as soon as ths old one goes
down.
France is all wrought up over internal
conditions. Is there a chance for a
new French revolution—a new kind of
revolution—one that will upeeat a re
public and place a king in the old Bour
bon palace at Versailles!
There's a ehaaee, many believe.
Who will it be! The duke of Or
leans, son of that Louis Philippe who
was chosen king in 1830 and driven
out by Napoleon 111., is most likely.
Napoleon I. has a great-nephew alive,
an officer in the Russian army, too. Or
it might be someone arising from the
ranks of the people.
There was a big banquet held re
eMtly in honor of the dnehess of Or
leans. Wheh it was at its height M.
Baeonnier, a well-known Frenchman,
160,000 FOR HANOS AND FEET
Declared to Be Largest Verdict
Ever Returned In Texas on
Personal Injury Claim.
WAXAHACHIE MAN
SUED FOR $lOO,OOO
Special Dispatch.
Waxahachie, Tex., Oct. 23.—Austin
Hickman was given a verdict for $60,-
000 personal injury damages against
the Houston & Texas Central railroad
late this afternoon by a district court
jury.
Hickman was run over by a train a
year.ago, and lost both hands and both
feet and sued for $lOO,OOO. The verdict
is declared to be the largest indemnity
ever returned in Texas on a personal in
jury claim.
K. & E. COMPANY
PASSES UP EL PASO
United Ftms.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 23.—The theatri
cal trust war has broken out in EI Paso.
L. M. Crawford of Crawford & Rich,
owners of two El Paso theaters, per
m it ted Shubert attractions to play in
middle western theaters controlled or
booked by them. For that reason, they
say, the trust is fighting them.
‘‘The Traveling Salesman” com
pany, a Klaw & Erlanger production,
lived up to its name, traveling from
San Antonio to Tucson', Ariz. It was
booked to play in the theater here own- i
ed by Ufa wford. The company stopped I
just long enough to get breakfast,
♦ quarrel OVER PARROT ♦ ]
♦ RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS. ♦
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♦ United Frew. ♦
♦ New York, Oct. 23.—A quar- ♦ ■
• ♦ rel resulting from the theft of a ♦
♦ green parrot this evening result- ♦
♦ ed in the fatal shooting of Mrs. ♦ !
♦ Robt. Nelson of this city and ♦ (
♦ the suicide of Chas. Bunn, for- ♦ I
❖ merly of Oklahoma after he had ♦ j
♦ shot the woman. • ♦
♦ Bunn presented the woman ♦ '
<p with the parrot a year ago. Two ♦ :
♦ weeks ago he quarreled with ♦ '
<. her and left the house, taking ♦ <
❖ the parrot with him. Mrs. Nel- ♦ '
♦ son prosecuted him.and he was ♦
♦ fined. Today he went, to the ❖
Nelson home, shot the woman ❖
4. down and then blew out his own ♦ ' i
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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
sprang to his feet, wine glass in hand,!
to toast the house of Orleans.
‘‘Ripened by his exile,” cried
connier, ‘‘the duke of Orleans is at-,
tentive to the lessons taught by the.
present day history of France. He ’
wishes to reign, and he WILL reign.
And it is to hasteu this day that we, I
the youth of the land, go forth to.
preach the doctrine of monarchy.”
And the applause shook the walls.
of the building.
They weren’t all titled folk at the ।
banquet, either, and that is another sig
nificant faet. The movement reaches
dear into the lowest classes. President
Fallieres can hardly drive along the
street without hearing the derisive cry
flung at him from the gutter:
‘‘Vive le roi!”
Some of the most powerful newspa
pers in France have taken up the cty
for a- monarchy and arc hammering
daily at the-republic.
They call the army demoralized, with
out patriotism dr discipline. They- say
the republic is lowering the morals 6f I
the people; that it has robbed them of*
their religion; that it has deceived and 1
oppressed the workingman.
What will come out of all this agi
tation! A monarchy! Perhaps.
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1 This Valuation Will Allow Texas
Central to Issue $5,000,000
In Stocks and Bonds.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Oct. 23.—An order was
issued this afternoon by the railroad
commission correcting the previous
valuation of all property of the Texas
Central railway. The former valuation
was $3,698,452, and to this was added
$1,309,725 for betterments subsequently
made, making tho total value of phy
sical property of the company $4,209,-
725 and to this the commission added 6
per cent as the value of its franchise,
making the total valuation now given
by the commission as $5,202,668.
This practically grants an applica
tion made last April by that road to
issue $5,000,000 of stock and bonds on
the road.
DETECtTvEsTaID
NUMBER OF JOINTS
In raids upon several resorts located
in the trans San Pedro district last
night, a score of negroes were taken
i into custody by Detectives Newnam
I and Stowe, who were assisted by Pa
trolmen Zapata and Daniels. The raid
I upon the ‘‘joints” began shortly after
I 11 o’clock and continued until an early
[ hour this morning.
. The first raid was made upon a joint
situated on South Coneho street, but
i despite the warnings sent along the
j line that “NeWnam and Stowe are
, coming, beat it,” the officers succecd
' ed in landing many during the next
i two hours.
! REFUSES TO NAME
MAN WHO GOT MONEY
United Freer
Framingham. Mass.. Oct. 23.—Dying'
of grief after his deposition from' the
office of town treasurer for admitted
complicity in the forging of $320,000
worth of notes, John P. Lombard, was
sweated by a committee of investiga
tion which endeavored to learn the
name of the man who got the money.
Wrecked in spirit and health, though
he is. Lombard refused to name the
persons who benfited by his crime.
40 PAGES
BAYONET FORCED
THROUGH HIS BODY
TAH SAYS
FAREWEtL
10 TEXAS
Visit to Lone Star State Offi
cially Closed With Address
at Dallas Last Night.
TEXANS ARE OPTIMISTIC
■President Finds Residents of
i State Determined Not to Be
Cast Down By Obstacles,
United Press. >
, Dallas, Tex.. Oct. 23. —President
। Taft officially concluded his visit
to Texas this evening with an ad
dress at a banquet given in* his
honor by the business men of Dal
las. The function came at the
close of a strenuous day which in
'eluded a visit to Houston, a rail
road trip across country, pauses at
nearly ever cross roads stand, am'
a speech at the Dallas fair imine
diately after his arrival here.
In spite of the fact that hi:
voice was in tatters by the tin*'
he arrived in Dallas. Mr. Taf.
made an address in the open air
to a crowd that packed the grand
stand at the fair grounds. He
apologized for the condition of his
voice, but pleaded that it had been
strained in his'attempts to voice
his appreciation of the hearty
Texas welcomes that he had been
receiving for the last week.
‘‘The function of the president of
the United States,” he said, ‘‘seems
j largely to help along the box office re
: ceipta at county fnita and I
; discharging that function all over the
I United States, across the country from
j Massachusetts to the Pacific, down the
I coast, and now here in far-away Texas.
Nowhere have I found a fair to com
i pare with this. To do himself justice,
! a president ought to have a pair of
| lungs like a prize bull for the man
। agers of the fairs always put him out
I in the open air and against a bank of
j people like this. I do not object to
the comparison I made if I can con-
I vince you that I am entitled to the
| blue ribbon.”
Says Texans Are Optimistic.
“The progress of a country,” the
president continued, “is marked by
the progress it shows iu scientific agri
culture, and in the scientific breeding
(Continued on Page Three)
FOR CARNIVAL WEEK
Special Diepatch.
Washington. D. C., Oct. 23.—The rev
; enue cutter Windom, which was detail
' ed to carry Presidept Taft from La
Quinta to Corpus Christi and return,
has been assigned to enforce the regu
lations for safety in the navigable,
waters at Houston during carnival week '
from November 5 to 13.
ASK FOB RECEIVER.
United Press.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 23.—Alleging
the United States Fire Insurance com
pany pf Chattanooga, is hopelessly in
solvent and unable to pay its debts,
suit was filed in the chancery court
this morning by 8. B. Beard, asking
that a receiver be appointed to wind
up the affairs of the company.
It is alleged that because of varidtis
suits being filed in the state courts by
policy holders the appointment of a re
ceiver is necessary.
SURRENDERS TO SHERIFF.
United Press.
Heber. Ark.. Oct. 23.—W. C. Bry
ant, aged 30, who killed Ike Potter at
Rosebud Thursday evening, surren
dered to Sheriff Johnson late last night.
He was taken to Searcy and placed in
jail. Bryant married Potter’s daugh
ter two months ago. He claims that
Potter was advancing toward him with
a rock when he shot him with a rifle,
killing him instantly.
fAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 24. IW.
Dallas Man Fatally Stabbed by Sol
dier as He Crosses Line Unto
Route of Taft Parade.
■Militia Man Will Face
: a Murder Charge
as the Result.
. Bpseial Dispatch.
Dallas, Tex., Ort. 23.- Immediately
before the arrival of the special train
bearing President Taft and party to
the state fair grounds late thia after
noon, Petgr Richenstein, deputy clerk
of Dallas county, was fatally stabbod
with a bayonet in the hands of Ser
geant J. D. Manley of the local mill
। forced clear through Riehtenstein's bod
tia company and died shortly after mid
night.
The incident occurred along the line
of march where thousand): of visitors
waited to welcome the president as he
was escorted to the grandstand to de
liver his address. The bayonet was
forced clear through Richenstein's body.
Sergeant Manley was arrested and a
charge of murder lodged against him. It
is reported Richenstctin attempted to
eroas the guard line which the soldiers
were ordered to maintain for the pro
tection of the president. Manley con
tends ho only performed his duty.
Both are popular young men of this
city.. It is declared Richenstein was
standing in front of the line of the
throng awaiting the Rawing of the Taft
party when Sergeant Manley ordered
him to step back. The stabbing follow
ed. Manley ia a member of Company
H, Third Texas infantry.
ELEVEN GINHfRS
ARE INDICTED
Grand Jury Is Investigating the
Trust Methods In Oklahoma
Brings In True Bills. '
' United Preu.
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 23.—The special i
grand jury which for two weeks has
'been investigating the alleged ginners’
'trust today returned- indictments
' against eleven men and corporations i
: for violation of anti-trust 1
I laws. Those indicted are: IV. 11. Coyle,'
F. E. Houghton. E. Cook, A. L. Bount- j
ing, W. IL Coyle Consolidated company,
W. H. Coyle Oil Mill company and the
Houghton & Douglas company, all of.
i Guthrie; F. A. Vose, Southwestern Cot-1
ton Oil company and the Cawthon Cot-,
ton comi>any of Oklahoma City, and W. i
O. Cawthon of Crescent.
Two blank indictments were return-1
ed, one alleging a general combination
in Logan county and the other a com-;
bination tn restraint of trade as Cres-1
cent. It is charged that business was,
divided Into three parts, oue going to j
the Coyle companies, one to Houghton
& Douglas and the third to the South
western and Cawthon company. The
defendants gave bond of $2OOO each.
GUARD OF SHERIFFS
FOR PRESIDENT TAFT ' ।
i
United Preu. i
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Oet. 23.—The i
sheriffs of fifteen counties of south- ]
eastern Missouri have accepted invita- |
tions to act as special bodyguard to <
President Taft when he visits Cape Gi- j
rardeau October 26. Three companies <
of national guards will also be on hand ]
for police duty. A detail of the bat- j
talion will presidential salute. <
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PRESIDENT’S BROTHER
IN CITY A FEW HOURS i
Charles P. Taft, brother of President ■
Taft, spent a few hours in the city!
last night, and after taking dinner at
the St. Anthony with his wife and'
daughter, the party left over the South- t
ern Pacific for their home at Cincin
nati. ! 1
FORT WORTH GETS SEMINARY.
Special Dispatch.
Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 23.—Fort
Worth this afternoon won the South
western Baptist Theological seminary
by completing the bonus of $lOO,OOO.
Monday the committee will select the
site for the buildings and five will be
erected. The first edifice, which will
be commenced on January 1, will cost
$lOO,OOO. —
NAN HUNT WITH
BLOODHOUNDS IN
SPEEDING TAXICAB
Sheriff Lindsey and Two Depu
ties Lose Mexican Prisoner
Five Miles West of City.
I
TELEPHONE FOR HOUNDS
Rush Back to Scene of Escape
In Speeding Automobile
With Dogs on Seat.
IS WANTED FOR SHOOTING
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Police Hear Nothing of Results
of Chase Up to 2 a. m.
Man Long Sought.
A man hunt with bloodhounds in
a taxicab is the modern method of
trailing adopted by the sheriff’s
office last night.
A Mexican necnsed of having shot
and mortally wounded a girl two years
ago near the west Bexar county boun
dary line. ottcnjied from Sheriff Lind
sey and Deputies Underwood and F.
Flores while being brought to the city
about 9:30 o’clock last night, at a
point about five and a half miles west
of San Antonio.
The officers reached tho city about
12 o’clock and after getting two
bloodhounds belonging to W. H. Au
trey, threw the houndq in the taxicab
and returned to the scene of escape
| at a speed ill violation of all speed
laws. At an early hour this morning
they had not returned and no word
had been received from them as to
the success of the chase a la mode.
According to a report received by
the police from Sheriff Lindsey iu re
questing that bloodhounds lie secured
immediately, it appears that the Mexi
can had been apprehended at some
small settlement west of the city add
that while attempting to bring him
here, he managed to escape. The de
tails of the affair were not obtainable
last night.
After having attempted to recapture
the Mexican, the officers drove to the
city, telephoned police headquarters
while near West End and later drove
on into the city, meeting Mr. Autrey
with the dogs at the intersection of
West Commerce street and Santa Rosa
avenue.
At the county jail no word had been
received from the sheriff at 2 o’clock j
this morning.
GAY CLOSE MARKS
FRISCO FESTIVAL
United Press.
| San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 23. —Don
'Gaspar de Pertola, discoverer of the,
new San Francisco, hied himself back
to his niche in the hall of fame and ;
Queen Virginia doffed her robe and
became again Mrs. Virginia Bogue, af
ter the midnight hour had struck up
on the climax of five days of revelry
in honor of the discovery of San Fran
cisco bay. The citizens tonight held
high revel on 16 miles of city streets. [
glowing with myriads of lights The i
cafes and restaurants were filled tin-1
til long after midnight.
The principal feature of the celebra
tion tonight was a great parade of il
luminated floats.
TAKES TESTIMONY
IN FREIGHT CASE
United Press.
Memphis. Tenu., Oet. 23. —Special |
Examiner C. R. Hilliard, of the Inter- 1
state commerce commission, took tes
timony in t e United States court this .
morning in the case of the Memphis;
Freight Bureau versus the Cotton Bolt
Route railroad.
In this case the complainants are '
asking for lower rates to Memphis on j
cotton seed as compared with the rates i
that arc now enjoyed by East St. Louis l
dealers. The evidence went to show'
that rates now charged are too high
as compared with the East St. Louis I
rates and practically prohibitive, I
40 PAOBS
FIERCELY PROTEST THE
* ARREST OF DE LARA
■ — *
Debs Delivers Violent Speech Against Govern*
menfs Action in Holding Mexican
Agitator. |
PASTORS TALK AT LOS ANGELES MEETIN&
United States No Longer Haven for Oppress
ed, Speakers Declare—Demand Release of
De Lara as “Patriot"
EUGENB V. DEBS.
snimioNisis
REOPEN FIGHT
Ask Court to Set Aside as Un
constitutional Recent. Ordin
ances Barring Rescue Home.
SAY CITY SHUT TO CHARITY
By the consent of the court and the
parties to the suit the case of the Sal
vation Army against the city of San
Antonio et als. will be reopened next
. <
week.
The amended petition whieh has
1 been prepared by Attbrney T. H. Ridge
way will bo filed Monday morning. The
case will probably be called early in
the week before Judge A. W. Seeligson.
Tho court’s decision will include tho
additional allegations in the amended
petition which sets out that the ordi
, nances recently passed by the city
j council making it nn offense to erect a
rescue home within 500 yards of a park,
ehureh, school or other institution of
learning, or orphans home is uncon
stitutional and unreasonable. It is
claimed that this would prohibit any
rescue home within tho city limits as it
would be impossible to locate such a
place within the city limits without
being within 500 yards of any of the
places named.
The amended petition declares that
these ordinances are against publie
policy since they prohibit the erection
of an institution for the reformation of
any of the eighteen classes of persons i
named in the statutes as vagrants.
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♦ BIRTHDAY ffURPRISE
❖ FOR MRS. EMILY HAGY +
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♦ Mrs. Emily Hagy, proprie- ♦
♦ tress of the International bouse. ♦
♦ 605 Zavala street, was tendered ♦
+ an agreeable surprise party last +
♦ night by relatives and friends. ❖
♦ The occasion, a distinct stir- ♦
+ ~ prise to Mrs. Hagy, took place ❖
♦ at the International house and ❖
❖ was attended by 200 guests. ♦
♦ The building was beautifully ❖ I
❖ decorated with lights, palms ❖.
❖ and bunting. Dancing, cards and ❖
❖ a musical program numbered ♦
♦ among the amusements of the ♦
❖ evening. Delicious refreshments ♦
❖ were served and the party, ❖
❖ which continued until late. ❖
❖ proved most entertaining and ♦
♦ enjovable. ♦
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New Tortt, Oet. 23. Are— U by
the axrert la IM AnceMa at M
teries de Lara, orgaaiaer for Ika
•ocialirt party, oa a charge of be
ing aa anarchist, Bogcne V. Deba,
recent candidate of eoclaliat ,
party for prudent, tonight Me
graphed tho foilowtag atit—nt
to the United Frew from Con
neaut, Ohio, where he is lector-
“When De Lara cried aloud la pr>
teet against the intolerable conditions
1 in Mexico, Diaz ordered him shot. He
escaped to the United States as other
liberals, such as Kossuth, had done be
■ fore him, and were received with open
I arms. But alas! times have changed
and the United Staten, instead of be
ing a haven of refnge for tho oppressed
‘is the blood hound of despots and the
turnkey of assassins. ’
“But the people are awakening and
one of these days, ye plutocrats, you
will reap the whirlwind you are sow
ing. The arrest of De Lara, the Mexi
can patriot, by the order of Diaz, hie
j imprisonment incomunieado, is an atro
' city second only to the courtmartialled
assassination of Ferrer in Spain.
“BuMianisiug” the U. 8.
“The United States is rapidly being
Russianized and Mexicanized. Dias
may now reach over and imprison pa
triots; have them deported to Mexico
and assassinated in cold blood.
'' Mexico, under Diaz, is an inquisi
tion of hotrors. Hell is a paradise in
comparison. Eighteen million peons’
lives are ground under the iron hand.
This is the monster Taft embraced in
the name of the American people. Ths
Wall street plutocrats have a billion
dollars invested in Mexican railways,
mines, smelters, cotton and steel mills.
i Mexico furnishes them with peon labor
i and they divide the bloody booty with
■ । Diaz.
Calls Them Heroes.
“Three Mexican heroes are rotting
i in our federal dungeon at Florence,
Arizona, and the federal prison at
Leavenworth. Kansas, holds two more.
' Braver men than these have never sac
rificed their freedom tn the cause of
humanity and yet they are chained in
the prison cells of onr ‘asylum for the
oppressed’ npon the request of Diaz.
“On the day Taft was in San An
tonio, a number of socialists were
thrown into jail without warrant or
hearing, upon the order of the secret
service. De Lara is of a wealthy fam
ily and a graduate of the University of
Mexico. He was a judge upon the
bench and a member of the diplomatio
corps of Mexico, but T because he cried
aloud in protest against the acts of
' Diaz, he incurred his enmity and is
i now being persecuted.”
| PASTORS PROTEST.
Arrest of De Lara Bouses Los Angolan
to Demand Mexican’s Beleaae
From Jail.
United £resa
Lor Angeles, Cal., Oet. 23.—T0 pro
test against the proposed deportation
of L. Guiterrez de Lara, the Mexican
: socialist organizer, who is held in I.os
i Angeles city jail, charged with being an
; alien anarchist, several hundred citizens
j held a mass meeting in Simpson audi
torium tonight. That the meeting was
1 called by the members of the De Lara
i Defense league, an organization whoso
i sole purpose is to demand that justice
' be Jone the man who claims he is the
i victim of persecution.
Tearing that the enemies of De
Lara would make au attempt to pack
the floor with rabid anti-Diaz partisans
who would make anarchistic speeches
with the object of bringing discredit
upon tho meeting, the officers of the
league appealed to Chief of Police Dis
inan to send a gnard of plain clothes
num to preserve order.
Fifty members of the clergy of Los
Angeles, representatives of the central
labor council and the local socialists or
ganization occupied prominent seats
when the Rev. Reynold E. Blight, pas
tor of the Los Angeles fellowship, called
the meeting to order.
John Kenneth Turner, whom De
Lara accompanied through Mexico to
gather material for the American mags,
zine expose of conditions alleged to ex
ist there, was the principal speaker.
De lara still occupies a cell ia tha
eity jail. — —