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' 1 "X WHO IS YOUk MILKMAN? Why not us? W« sell P«*t«nrirW Milk and Cr«»m only. Delivered to any part of the city Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871 VOLUME 29, No. 381 Trans-Atlantic Steamer Sinks in Mediterranean Sea and Hundreds of Passengers Are Drowned SAYS HIGHER EDUCATION IS SWINDLE .Multi-Millionaire Crane of Chi cago Says Millions Spent for It Are Wasted. HAS ROAST FOR TEACHERS Says on $2OOO a Year Salary They Tell How to Turn Out $5OOO and $lO,OOO Men. Aasociated Press. Chicago, Feb. 11,1 —Richard T. Crane, 4* the multimillionaire manufacturer of Chicago, in a volume just published tells the' results of an investigation into the methods, uses and expenses of “Higher Education’’ of all kinds. He charges that the millions spent an- on universities, colleges, tech ■ ideal and agricultural schools and law and medical schools in general arc •walowed up in one of the most gi gantic “swindles’’ of tho age. Among other things, he says: “The college men talk as though they knew about every other man's business -and that they could manage affairs better than the business men •themselves. “College professors ami teachers «re prepared to give advice on all sub jects. As $2OOO a year teachers, they tell us how to turn out $5OOO and $lO,- 000 a year business men. Is not it a bit strange that it never has occurred to those smart eollega fellows to go into, business for themselves?. Why ; straw a small salary for telling young Inen Kow to draw big salaries if you ere capable of draw ing the big sai- , •Was yourself I’’ .. J <«» lU RECRUIT . FOR nil MENA Probably Be No Further Fight ing Until Arrival of the Sharp shooters From Panama. Associated Press. Bluefields, Feb. 11. —Upon the ar rival of Genera) Zeledon at Moogan yesterday preparations were begun im mediately for another forward move ment of General Mena's division, the progress of which was checked by the government forces in the recent engage tnent at Santa Clara. Walter Gordon's aide has been dis patched to Panama to recruit fifty more Americans, who are to *be armed with rifles and are expected to join General Alena within a few weeks. This move suggests there will be no further tight ♦'hg until the reinforcements of Ameri can sharp shooters arrive. J LOOK OVER REPORT OF • f AUDITING COMMITTEE Special Dispatch. Huntsville. Tex., Feb. 11.—The legis lative penitentiary investigation com mittee is in session here today looking over the report of the auditing commit tee which has completed its work. Brown K Lee arrived at noon from San An gelo, and Senator Weinert camo in this afternoon. Governor Campbell arrived from Austin today to visit the Sam •.Houston normal. lie will likely meet . the committeemen, but it is not thought he will participate in the meetings while the report is in the auditing com mittee's hands 1 . It is expected the final report will be made here Saturday, in which event the committee will remain A here ten days. PULLMAN SUIT MAY BE TRIED IN DISTRICT COURT Claiming that plaintiff had rights to ■sue the Pullman company alone and not as jointly with the International * & Great Northern, in the case wherein J. B. Greene is suing both companies for $25,000 personal injuries. Attorney Guinn, representing the Pullman com pany, moved this'morning in the Forty fifth district court that the case be transferred to the federal courts. Judge Camp took the opposite view and ruled! that his court had jurisdiction. The Pullman company is a non-resi-| dent, while the International is a resi-, dent cor|>oration of Texas. In spits for over $2OOO the nonresident has the right to take the case to the federal federal courts, but the court held that inasmuch as the International A Great Northern, party to the suit, and J. Il Greene, plaintiff, were both residents.] that the suit should be prosecuted iu I the district court. - , • SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AJMD GAZETTE TEDDY JR. 10 HEO ■USS ALEXANDER New York, Feb. 11. —Arrangements for the w.eddj'tlj.'of Thpudore Kooseveit. Jr., to Mis-c Alexander, awhft liis fatu-' er's return ffem*Aft-ica in June and in the meantime Theodor?, Jr., will return his wyrk in tho" New England carpet factory.’. jhe announcement of the en gagement caused surprise among the frien-N of the couple. They inet ht**he debut function for Miss Ethel Roosevelt at th* white house a year ago. SAYS HE WAS HIRED TO KILL Negro, Hanged in Mississippi Today, Makes Sensational Confession Before Death. Associsted Press. Columbus. Miss., Feb. 11.—During the progress of a snow storm here’ today Henry Betts, a negro, who six months ago killed J. W. Smith, was hanged in the jail yard here today. ' B^tts,’before he was hinged, declared a' Kell known livervmhn hnd hiVed him to kill Smith. COURT ROOM LIKE A REAL MACHINE SHOP What might be termed a regular ma chine shop exists in the Fifty-seventh district court, where the ease of E. M. Luck io vs. the San Antonio Machine A: Supply company is on trial before a jurv. Gas engines, motors, electric ap pliances. belting and numbers of other parts and entities of machinery arc strewn about and the .attorneys and jurymen have to walk circumspectly to avoid tripping over the steed. , Luekie- claims that he bought forty gas engines from the company and that thev were guaranteed to do a certain amount of work. He says they do not it and never have. He wants $4OOO dam ages and $lBB which be spent in repairs. Likewise, he wants cancellation of cer tain notes held against him and for which mortgage was given on the prop erty. This is the fifth time the case has been tried. Tn one of them plaintiff secured a verdict, but a new trial was granted. REGULAR OFFICER TO INSPECT GUARD Special Dispatch. Austin, Tex.. Feb. 11.—Adjutant Gen eral Newton today received advices from the war department at Washington saying the annual inspection of the Texas national guard will hereafter be conducted by regular army officers. A cavalry officer will inspect the cavalry and an infantry officer will ins;>eet the infantry. This is a radical departure and makes the. inspection more severe. It will begin March 23 « 14 PAGES FAY HEARD JONES, A FREE WOMAN, SAYS ONLY A LITTLE DF CURIAIN WAS LIFTED IN FIRST INTERVIEW TELES HOW SHE MARRIED AGAINST PARENTS' WILL WHEN SHE WAS 17 TEARS OLD. “HOI 601111” IS VERDICI IN INE JONES TRIAL Great Cheer Breaks Forth When After Eighteen Minutes Deliberation Jury Reports. SCENE IS DRAMATIC ONE Defendant, Stretched Out on Cot, Doesn't Know She's Free for Hours Afterward. “NOT GUILTY.” When, yesterday afternoon at 5:15 o’clock, the jury in the case of Fay Heard Jones, charged with the murder of her husband, Nat B. Jones, banded that verdict to Judge Dwyer of the Thirty-seventh dis trict court, a scene was created un paralleled heretofore in the annals of criminal trials in Bexar county. Never before has a verdict been rendered in this county which evoked such emotion, so many pro found demonstrations of human na ture, or which had been attended with such dramatic features. The stillness just preceding the 'read ing was so marked that the labored breathing of many could be heard. Not a foot moved, not a cough dis turbed the tense situation. “We, the jury, find the defend ant, Fay Heard Jones, not guilty of the charge of murder." While the words were even yet roll ■og from the tongue of Clerk J. Ed Wil kens, pandemonium broke loose. Irre pressible cheers cleaved the air an. were heard blocks away. Women open ly bowed their heads and sobbed. Moi turned aside and muttered. Even case hardened lawyers took occasion to loot in another direction and blink fast. I ever human being on trial for life ha< the sympathy of a vast audience, Fa; Heard Jones hail it yesterday, had i during her entire trial, had it more e* pecially when “Not Guilty" was th. pronouncement of a jury of twelve men trying her according to the law and th< evidence. But Mrs. .Tones, chief actress in the drama, remained quiescent. Her rela tives shook her. tried to awaken her from the lethargy which had seized her faculties and numbeii her sensibilities, tried to impress her consciousness that she had been given liberty; but Mrs. Jones was in such a condition of coma that the words could not penetrate her brain. Not for hours afterwards, af ter she had been tenderly carried to a carriage and sped to the home of J. 11. Ragsdale, not until then did her be numbed brain grasp the full significance of the cheers which she mu«t have heard (Continued on page two.) — 4- ♦»» MEDAL OF HONOR ALL FOR PEARY House Subcommittee on Naval Affairs Disapproves Making Him Rear Admiral. Feb. 11. —A medal of honor instead of promotion to rear ad miral for Commander Peary.’ discoverer of the mirth pole, is proposed by the sub-eommhtee of the house on naval affairs. .The today unan imously disapproved the bill passed by the senate making Peary a rear admi ral. AMERICANS FAIL TO MAKE MEXICAN TRADE Back from Mexico, where he went to look at certain lands with the view of purchasing. A. J. Kincaid, just re signed from his post as deputy sheriff, has returned to San Antonio. Accom panying Mr. Kincaid were Robert In derwood and M. Bek. They went to San Carlos in the state of ( oahuila, but failed to make a trade with Geueral Trevino, owner. » Mr. Kincaid resigned train his posi tion when ho made the trip to Mexico, whi.-h was several day. ago. He has had charge of the Forfv-fifth district Court, but W. 1. Goforth has boeii given charge of that court. Mr. Kinenid would have moved to Meyico hail the trade gone through as ;rutici,mtcd , SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11. loio Former stenographer and chief legatee of the only will extant of Nat B. Jones. MRS. JONES NOW SEEKS TO SAVE A HOMESTEAD Steps to Be at Once Taken to Close Up the Estate of । Dead Attorney, WILL THERE BE CONTEST? Only Will Extant Leaves Bulk of Property to Former Sten ographer Living in Houston. Samuel Belden, administrator if the estate of Nat B. Jones, will at once proceed to close up the es tate as soon as possible. Pending the trial of Mrs. Jones on the charge of murder, none of the in surance companies have paid po! icies held by Nat B. Jones, but it is believed that now that Mrs. Jones is acquitted this will be done at an early date. ' According to the statement of ('. 1 Davies, attorney for Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones will have a half interest in the : community property and a life estate in the homestead. Besides this Mrs. ! Jones can show that Nat Li. Jones held 1 $2700 of her separate estate. Th- I tate, ■ bower er. will be insolvent, at* *r I the jd'ebfs are paid, but Mrs. Jones I will ask that equity in the Castle, on I St. Mary '.street, belonging to the es ' tate of Nut B. Jems be set aside <s a i homestead. According to her attorney, ; $lO,OOO is .till due ami owning on this ! property, but it is the intention of Mrs. I Jones at this time, according to Mr. I Davies, to apply the 18006 or s9<>oo in i surance money which Will accrue to her- I self and her child to this indebtedness, so that the property may become an :n- ; terest-Bearing invcstYnent The rental , from this property is $125 a mouth, out I of which will have to be taken intcie-i on the remaining indebtedness, inaur- । anee and taxes. Under Ar*. 5345 of the Revised tjlate ' tes of the state of Texas. however, tie ! will of Nat B. Jones made •• ily 16, ] 1902, about a year after his separation I from his first wife. Mrs. Johnie A. JoneA, and previous to l is divorce from her. making Miss Lam \. Carnal the chief legatee of his i-tite. is still n forep and effect as .iga nst his estate. This, however, under the statute, only holds in the event of the death of Nat B. Jones, Jr., befoe' he married or twenty-one years ot From dispatches is barneil that Miss Laura V. Car Ils n °t 'lead as was erroneously sta’ l ' 'oon after the shooting of Jones, 1 ' that sho is now living in Houston, v * wo years ag*> she wns married to ’lcman IL I ecke’t. They ar? reported t both now cm | ployed ill the offici D. K. Colbuin, . bridge engineer of tl ■ 'oiithcrn Pacific railway. . Laura V. Carnal v “ t,u! ,e ' gatee of the will of w ’ a “ f" r ‘ oral vears stenogran ~r Jones, but left San nio in 1!»OL n short time after the -> ration ot at B. Jones amt his firs * •*' »> “""i mer or fall of 1901. :o i ' ,la “ ’' ,;l ted that she has la'cn * n Houston ever since 1 LAURA V. CARNAL, “THE HALF OF II WAS NOT TOLD” SAYS MRS. JONES Defendant in Murder' Trial Gives First Interview Since Acquittal. SHE HAS MADE NO PLANS Wants to Leave Here But Her, Friends Say No —Chambers ! Blamed Over Telephone. Wan, and benumbed from the effects of the trying ordeal of the past four days, and the strong stimulants which were administer ed to her during the trial, Fay Heard Jones lies confined to her bed at the home of John H. Rags dale. 1104 South Laredo street. In the same bed lies Mrs. Stephenson, her mother, who is also suffering from a nervous collapse. Curried unconscious from the court room, and back to her room, it was not until late in the night that Mrs. Jones rehltzed that the jury of twelve good men and true had said to her “not guilty." Afterwards her condition be came so alarming that a physician was summoned both for her and her moth er who, after ail danger to her child was over, broke down aud suffered a nervous collapse. When seen this morning Mrs. Jones was very weak, but conscious, and spoke in a trembling voice, while she smiled wanly. She said that as far as her memory goes yesterday is a blank to her. She docs not remember anything that happened. She does not lemcmber anything that was said. Sho does not remember being taken home, nor anything else until late in the । night when gradually her faculties camcs back to her. Her eyes are dark and sunken, but they brightened when she spoke of the (Continued on Page Five) Stork, Expected by Queen of Spain Victoria Ena of Spain, to I whom another child is expected to be] born the latter part of The queen was married to King Alfonso in 1908. She has three luiug children —Prince Alphonse. Prince Jaime and Prinecss Beatrice, tlie latter having been born June 22, 1909- The queen is said to be as fon.l of a large family as her an cestress. Queen Victoria of England. HASKELL HEARING POSTPONED. Special Dispatch. Guthrie. Okla., Feb. 11. —There was no session today of the legislative com mittee investigating the charges.against Governoi Haskell and other (flute ofti cers alleging irregularities in the ex {lending -I state fuuds. Illnc" of a, member of the committee caused iwst-i ■Hiuemeut until Monday Li 14 PAOES SINKS WITH ALLONBOARD French Liner General Chanzy, Wreck ed on North Coast of Majorca Island Carries Hundreds to Death in Sea. GREAT STEAMSHIP DISASTERS April 2. 1873—Steamship Atlantic, White Star line, sank on Mars Head, off Halifax, in a storm; 546 lives lost. November 25. 1878—Stehmship Pommerania sunk in midnight collision with a bark in English Channel; 47 lives lost. January 30. 1895—Steamship Elbe, of North German Lloyd liue, in col lision with steamship Cathrie; 330 lives lost. March 7, 1897—French steamship Ville de St. Nazaire burned in a storm off Cape Hatteras; 40 lives lost. July 4, 1898—French steamship Bourgogne rammed aud suuk by steam ship Cromartyshire off Sable island; 560 lives lost. July 3. 1904—Steamship Norge sunk at sea; 750 lives lost. February 21. 1907—Steamship Berlin wrecked off Holland coast; 150 lives lost. June, 1907—Steamship Aden sankoff Socotra, on east coast wf Africa; 78 lives lost. April 12. 1908 —Steamship St. Paul rammed the British cruiser Gladia tor off the Isle of Wight; many sailors drowned. July 28. 1908—Steamship Ying King foundered off Hong Kong; 300 Chinese were drowned. August 9. 1908 —Steamship Prudentia lost on voyage to Argentina. Many lives lost. August 23. 1908—The Norwegian steamship Folgefouden was suuk; many lives were lost. November 5. 1908—The steamship Archimedes was lost in the Baltic sea; ten persons were drowned. November 26, 1908 —The steamship Finance was sunk by the steamship Georgie off Sandy Hook: four lives lost. November 27. 1908—The steamship San Pablo sunk off the Philippine Islands; 100 person* drowned. December 4, 1908 —The steamship Soo City foundered off Newfound land; the crew was lost. December 13, 1908 —The steamship Ginsci Maru was wrecked off Wei- Hai-Wai; crew and passengers were drowned. Palma, MajorcaWFeb. II. —The French trans-Atlantic steamer General Chanzy. from Marseilles, has been wrecked on the north coast of this island, it is stated only a single passenger was saved out of all on board. Details of the accident are unobtainable this afternoon and even the number of passengers on the Chanzy is unknown although it F certain that several hundred took passage on her. The outward travel from Marseilles has been heavy during the past month and hasty estimates of the passenger list place the number aboard the Chanzv anywhere from two to five hundred. Ihe steerage fist is said to be exceptionally heavy. Majorca Island is the largestof the Balearic group in the Medi terranean sea and is iio miles cast of the coast of Spain. Its coast is most uneven and for the most part rises in solid walls of rock a hundred feet above the sea. THREATENS JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR Judge Hart of Nashville Re ceives Letter Saying Death Will Follow Conviction. McCARN IS ALSO INCLUDED If Recently Indicted Liquor Man Is Convicted Both Will Be Shot Missive Says. Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 11. —Judge Hart of the Davidson county criminal court is*in receipt of a letter in which the statement is made that a man re cently indicted for illegally selling li l quor would kill both Judge Hart and Attorney General McCarn if he, was convicted when the trial conies up. The plan is. it is stated, that if the man is convicted n friend in waiting iu tneH court room will nass him a pistol and 1 he will first shoot Judge Hart and then General McCarn. The man is said to be bitter towards Judge Hart because of certain acts of that official iu connection with the in dictment now pending. This morning a man who said he was “one of the bar keeps" of the city called up a reporter on the telephone and said: “There is a plan to assassinate Judge Hart Monday. One of our fellows heard one of the men under indictment for selling whi'ky unfold his plan for hav-j ing one of his friends pas- him a pistol j if he is eonvicte.l with which he wilL shoot the judge. I don't know whether he has the nerve to do it or not. but he says lie is going to, and all of us know I • him to be a desperate character. The. barkeeps will not stand for that kind jfi thing ami one of us has written a letterl to Jml"e Hart in order to vut Uua on hisl GOLDEN ROD h 9 ’"* Guaranteed ot the hlxbeet quality. Wo churn every day. Dairy Co. Phones 871 PRICE: FIVE CENTS JUDGE FOSTER 10 HEAR "BLEACHED ELOUR” CASE Associated Pres*. New Orleans. Feb. 11.—Judge Foster, in United States district court today, decided that the so-called “bleached flour" case, or hearing of the petition of tbe government against the Aetna Milling company of Kansas, would be tried on its merits in this court and not at Council Bluffs. lowa. Many modern milling methods are involved. IKE PRYOR IS DELEGATE TO FARM LAND CONGRESS Special Dispatch Austin. Tex.. Feb. 11.—The appoint ment of delegates by Governor CauipMß to the Interstate Farm Land congrew at Shreveport were announced today. Among the delegates are: Ike T. I of San Antonio. I*. H. Hughes of I al- I estine W. S. Roberts of Amarillo. J. I ■ Lancaster of Plainview. Stuart, Smith of Beaum. nt. Bassett Blakely ot Hotts ton and Frank A. < arden of Dallas. The congress meets February 17, IS and 19. —— —* big deal is made. El Paso. Fell. 11.—Judge Irby Bun kin of Fort Worth and his associates have purchased the Texas JiearUla nun i„g claims and reservoir* near Rio Grande \cw Mexico. It is one ot the largest deals here in years, but the eon ✓ • X Local Weather y Forecast till 7 F- m. Saturday FFor San Antonio aud vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday, frvst tonight. A Tho jn-i x imam temperature the 24 hnurß ♦ndiiDf at 8 o’clor this .tnomins was 46 degree* the minimum was 36 d grccs. I Comparative temperatures far »T; t ’svar aul R Standing of All Contestants Will Be Found on Page 3