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Way not u»? We sell Pasteurized Milk and
Cream only. Delivered to any part of the
city
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VOLUME 29, No. 383
San Antonio’s Population Today According to the, Directory is 119,101—Who is the “1”?
STILL SEEK
PEONAGE
EVIDENCE
Secret Service Men Said to Be
Gathering Material at Sev
eral Points,
THE KOPPE VICTIMS TALK
All Tell Stories of the Terrible
on the Burleson Coun
ty Farm.
WACO BOY IS INTERVIEWED
Those Who Suffered Wrongs
Are In Many States, But Will
Come -Here to Testify.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 12. —Every county
convict farm in Texas is under the
eyes of government secret Service meu
as a result of the alleged sufferings of
young Texans, and white men from
other states on the Koppe plantation in
Burleson county. That the investiga
tion will not be confined to this sin
gle farm, is practically certain. The
state has taken no steps to investigate
the farms and federal aid alone will
give justice to the mothers and fath
ers of the boys who are said to have
been held in a condition worse than
were the serfs of Russia or the slaves of
old Mexico.
Where are the government agents
who attended the session of the grand
jury at which indictments against the
manager of the Koppe farm, his guard
and two peace officers of Burleson
countv were returned ?
With others they have vanished from
public view to plunge again, in all prob
ability, into the investigation which has
been going on quietly for months be
fore the grand jury met. The vigilance
of tn‘e government agents has been such
that they were informed of every move
of the friends as well as the captors >f
the white boys,who were held on the
Koppe farm.
Avengers Are Stopped.
Last fall, it is stated on good author i
ity, friends of Willie Roberts, a young ,
mon of Shawnee. Oklahoma, held on the
Koppe farm, organized to avenge his
wrongs, and were stopped at Dallas by
government agents, while on their way
to the convict farm in east Texas. Sat
isfied with the knowledge that the gov
ernment was working on the cases, these
men retained home and abandoned their
purpose. Several weeks before Shaw
nee had been,horrified by the story of
Roberts, whose father is an influential
citizen.
Three white boys of good family from
this Oklahoma town were held on the
farm. They were George Waller, son of
one of the wealthiest men in Shawnee,
Wiliie Roberts and Deame Blakely.
Waller was an accomplished musician
and well educated. While on the farm
he was treated as the others and slept
and ate in the general living room
where whites and negroes were herded
together. Younger and more care-free
than most of his companions, his treat
ment did not have the terrible eifect
on him that it had on several others.
Two Texas Boys on Farm.
Two Texas boys on the farm were j
George D. Lane of San Angelo and Ar
thur Schonka of Seguin. The former,
while here to attend the grand jury Ses
sions told a story equalling in horror
that of any of the witnesses. He had
only been recently released from the
farm and his parents had been for '
weeks in ignorance ot his fate.
Schonka was a partner iu a good bust I
w.s >n S< gnin and running short of '
funds in L’ulvcstcn. after a trip to New '
Orleans had wired his partner for ex
pense money. Through some telegraph
ic hitch he did not receive the money at I
on. e ami rode with a friendly trainman
as far ns Somerville where he was ar- ■
rested by the vigilant officers who
wgtehed for such eases nnd sent him
to the farm. Of all those held on the 1
farm with one exception, he "probably |
suffered most. >'
The young German was “grittv” and
refused to cry ent when whipped. Tl e I
m.mds did not like this and are said to
have pounded him unmercifully. IDs
appearance, while in Austin seemed to
confirm stories of his ill treatment nnd I
narks of suffering were in bis sunken
checks nnd drooping shoulders.
A te!< graph operator usuallv fare*
well with ni'lroad men and has little to
fear from officers, but this was not the ;
case with Lewis Bullard, of Bcllefon- .
tji',«. Ohio, lie came through Senior- ,
ville, riding in the caboose on the
strength of •• union Card aiul was
promptly scut *o P'C firm
Waco Boy Is Witness.
John Earl of Waco was another of.
the white boys on the farm and with !
those mentioned and W. M. Fuller of
St. Joseph. Mo., is a strong witness for
the federal government in the prosecu
tion of the peonage cases.
There is a terrible sameness about
the stories of all the witnesses. It is al I
wavs cruel treatment.’ suffering for J
the amusement of the guardsl hard ,
work, little to eat and poor lodg jg- l u ‘
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
This Girl Is Called the Perfect
American Type by Noted Sculptor
Miss Genevieve Lyon of Chicago, who. she has the ideal American face. She
is called the perfect American tvpe of is be in “ '’“7 tb "*£ £
- 1 t gv along with the architectural onects
girl. Joef Korhel, the Rctilpfot, «ayR of n new Chicago hotel.
WORTHAM ACCEPTS
RUSK PLANT LEASE
Special Dispatch. , .
Austin, Feb. 12.-—A letter was* re
ceived by Governor Campbell from
John L. Wortham of Dallas this after
f
noon accepting the terms of the
tract made by the penitentiary board
for leasing the Rusk iron plant. The
necessary bonds were not received but
the letter is an official notification ot
acceptance. It is understood • Wortham
has made satisfactory arrangements
with the railroads for the 'transporta
tion of coke. ' , !
the heart of each of these white med
as well as on his body tne overseer's
whip has left a mark that' will never
disappeare.
East Texas has.witnessed many sen
sations that have startled civilization,
but when the story of the convict farms j
is poured out in the federal’district
court here in dune, all former efforts of
the “dark and bloody ground” to shock
the world will be surpassed, according
to the predictions of those who have i
closely followed the peonage cases.
There is little probability that these '
eases will be transferred to San An j
tonio, as was predicted iu a recent I
news dispatch, and Austin will again I
be the meeting place qf overseer, and
victim when Judge Maxby convenes
the federal court for the summer term.
EARL TELLS OF HORRORS
One of the Boys Sent to Koppe Farm
Tells of Treatment.
i Special Dispatch.
, Waco. Tex., Feb. 12. —John Earle, a
young fellow just grown, who lives here,
and who testified in the examination '
held recently in Austin by the United,
States government authorities into the.
| alleged cases of peonage in some parts
I of the state, was seen today mid asked.
about flits experiences. Among, other
I things Earle said:
“ I went down to Somerville. ini
Burleson county, iu February, 1909, to
hunt work. 1 failed to'find the wor^.'
land was therefore forced to sleep out-i
at night. One night 1 hud a lire outside |
j the limits of Somerville and was quietly t
। asleep by it when Sledge Houston aud
Tom Rowe, officers, came np and took
charge of me. 1 was told that 1 was ar
I rested on a charge of vagrancy and of
। riding trains unlawfully. I was taken
; before a justice Hoon anil they told me
if I fought the cases I would be con
vieted on both, but that if 1 would
, plead guilty to one they would let me
off with one fine. I did this and they-
I fined me and added the costs, making'
it $16.75 in all.
“I was then sent down to the Koppe
; farm to work out the fine, and J want
to tell you, stranger, that it was a hard j
: proposition that J dent up against, and;
; there were others there that caught it
I hard. too. We were forced to work:
unless we had a hot fever on us. and
'many worked when they ought to have)
46 PAGES
SAP INCREASES
ITS VALUATION
. OVER $350,000
Voluntarily Adds'Large Figure
to the Assessments on
Which to Pay Taxes.
BEXAR
Additional Values Mean That
Entire Twenty-four 'Counties
Crossed Will Benefit.
Valuation for 1910 . .81.221,476
Valuation for 1909 . 865,070
Increase for 1910 556,406
These figures show the increased
valuation which the Ban Antonio &
Aransas Pass Railway company has
placed on its tolling stock for this
year as compared with last year.
Its total roTing stock was render
ed yesterday with County Tax As
sessor Albert V. Huth by George
E. Chamberlain, land and tax com
missioner for the Sap.
The Sap is the pnlv railroad which
renders its projierty at San' Antotno.
This is because it is the only road hav
ing its heudnuarters in Bexar county,
each road being required to .render in
the county seat of the conntv in which
its offices are located. The San runs
through 21 coiii/ cs iu Texas and each
eouiitv l.i'ucf.is m ptopoit'ou to the
(Coutiimed • oil page 3.)
been in the house. The teed awful
poor and. was sloppy and indigestible,
almost making me sick.
“The men there were beaten up sev
eral times, and I saw some of them
knocked on the head with sixshotoers
aud some had chains put on them. I
was whipped one time —hit three licks
with n big strap four 1 feet long, one
end of it "loaded. The work was ditch
nig, building. fences, ent ting wood and
the men were put through nnd winked
hand aud long. It was terrible.
. “Although they only had 816.75
against me they kept me there at work
sixty days. You configure this up and
see how much a day it amounts to in
working out the fine. But it wasn’t so
much keeping me over time as the way
they treated me and the way I was fed
and boused.”
Earle was not anxious to talk, but
•lid not hesitate after once getting
launched into the subject
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY u, |p|Q.
COUNTY PROFITS
SAN ANTONIO
GROWING BY
RECORD LEAPS
New Directory Shows Its Popu
lation to Be Close to the
120,000 Mark.
GAIN LAST YEAR IS 24.391
Figures Do Not Include Army
Post, Suburbs, Schools
or Tourists,
NEARLY 20.000 DWELLINGS
Including Visitors Army and
Suburbs a Total of 145,-
000 Is Reached.
San Antonio, according to the
new city directory, has a popula
tion of 119101, exclusive of tour
ists, Fort Sam Houston, the pri
vate schools aud the large popula
tion in the suburbs.
Including these it has a popula
tion at. the most conservative fig
ure of 145,000.
The total names in the directory
arc 53,971. or 10,845 new names
over last year’s book.
The city gained 24,391 new resi
dents last year.
There are 18,948 dwellings in the
city.
There are 21,497 heads of fami
lies in the city.
Every ward shows a large in
crease in population over last year.
The Fifth ward shows the. small
est increase ot any ward, there
being gathered 5084 names, an in
creaae of only 210, though the pop
ulation Is 11,439.
The Seventh ward shows the
greatest increase, a gain of 3115
names over last year. Its popula
tion is 23,878, The big increase is
due to the opening and settlement
of subdivisions.
The new Ran Antonio directory for
1910 will be ready for delivery in
about twenty days. It wil) be the
most remarkable “boosting” document
(Continued on page 3.)
HOUSTON FIRE
LOSS 51G5.000
Several Persons Injured—Fire
man Held Dangling Before
Flames Bursting Forth.
I Special Dispatch.
Houston. Feb. 12.—A number of ner-
I sons were seriously injured fighting a
■fire which destroyed the Bering
i tes hardware store at 6:30 tonight. In
cluding th, contents the loss is .*165.-
000.
Linemen Williamson ami Rogers were
' most severely hurt. Rogers was ou an
I extension ladder when a rope burned
• in two, causing the first section of the
| ladder to collapse. Rogers was hehl
I dangling iu front of flames bursting
I from the second story window. F. Me
. Nair. a bystander, dashed up the lad
i der. released the fireman and both ot
them plunged to tun ground and were
ent and bruised. Assistant Ciinf Ander
son suffered a. spra'ned ankle.
i The fire was in the heart of the bus
iness section.
COMES HERE TO GET IN ON THE
GOLDEN TIDE FROM MISSOURI
The arrival of B. Stotts and hist
family and bis ( Stotts aud i
hi 4 wife to S u Antonio, where they |
will wake their • a is an nidu ationi
of a oioveinent H l ' ll the rich ini»ldiei
wexf slates ;o II 'Upeiior
offered in Nootl»v<' ioxas and especial
aby in the San Autemo territory.
G. B. Stotts I ' been in the mer- ♦
chandisc business Sedalia. Mo., tori
27 years aud ha- < en successful, but
he sees a greater opportunity here, ■
Many person?, he around Sedalia
are buying cheap Hnds in the south ।
aud other section* “t the I nited
States, land that j> m her. it anything, I
than that iu Miss<u’ • though there is,
no comparison in ' price, values be-:
YOUNGEST EQUAL
SUFFRAGE MENDER
Mrs. Norman Talcott and her little
sou. Richard Bennett Talcott of Green
wich, Uonu. Mrs. Talcott is an officer
of the Greenwich Equal Franchise
league, and pr.qH.sed her son for mem
bership immediately upon bis Hrriyal in
Greenwich. There wns uo dissenting
vote and Richard was elected to life
membership.
NO NEWS YET
FROM IRE NINA
Government Tug With Twenty
eight Men Aboard Has Not
Been Heard From.
United Press.
Washington. Feb. 12. —With war
ships scouting the Atlantic coast from
New York to Boston, officials of the
navy department are tonight waiting
in vain for tidings of the tug Nina,j
missing siuee Sunday with a crew ot
28 men aboard. Messages of anxious
inquiry have been received from rela-.
fives of the erew but the navy has had 1
no information to give them. , J
While the most optimistic cling to
the belief that the tug may have been
blown from its course or disabled by
the storms of a few days ago. grave!
feats arc entertained by tho greater
nuniber of officers thut the tug has
been lost with all on board. It is held
that if the tug had been disabled it
would haoo been discovered long ago
in the thickly traveled course along
the and if driven to sea it would
have been observed aqd reported by
some steamer equipped with • wireless.
Nothing can be- added to the action
already taken'bv the navy department
to locate tlie missing tag.
• 'misers are sweeping 'he ocean on
the chance of finding trace, of the
Niua. Unless favorable reports ..re
reecixed tomorrow the conviction will
be forced on the officials that the de
partment has iufi'ofed the fsngcst loss
of life in 'recent years.
FIRE AT HANDLEY
CAUSES $lO,OOO LOSS
Sir Dispatch.
Jlandicy, Feb.. 12. —Fire of iinkuown
origin iHiised a loss of s4o.o<M> m the
business section here • tonight,’ ,Stx
frame stores were destroyed.- A bucket
brigade saved many other ’ buildings.
The flames started in the grocery store
of M. T. Galloway. •
iug duost prohibitive in the not:h
Many thousanfls .o'f dollars from Mis
souri and other states are being in
vested in Texas laud It is Mr. Stotts'
idea to look into buvHess and handle,
t’ue ill ■ y comiitg here from his fo.iit
er hoe c ni'd from other not them in
viators, tie comiiiissidus accruing from
the den - milking a haiid<otn> income.
“Shu Antonio is a good looking
city.” said Mr. Stotts. “It is thor
oughly likable and appeals by its
spirit of progressiveness ami growth
ebaeriai b- on every hand. This is in
the thi kest part of the hoineseelior
movemeni nnd the future is going to
far discount even the busv present.
Mr. Stotts is living •»' 422 West I
Craig place. j
46 PAGES
TAFT DEFENDS
HIS POLICIES
Says Payne-Aldrich Tariff Law is Best
Ever Enacted and Shows How Re
publican Party Tries to Keep Pledge.
NO QUARTER FOR LAW VIOLATORS
United Press.
XEW YORK. Feb. 12. —Little hope for illegal combinations
and lawbreaking trusts is held out by President Taft, who in his
speech at the New York Republican club's Lincoln dinner tonight
declared that:
"If the enforcement of the law is not consistent with the pres
ent methods of carrying on business, then the business methods
must be changed to conform with the law."
A ringing eulogy of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and a detailed
defense of the present administration occupied a great part of the
lengthy speech.
The president went over the republican party platform of 1908,
plank bi plank, and pointed out how, step by step, the administra
tion was working toward a fulfillment of its pledges. He took the
stand that the Payne bill contained a substantial revision of the
tariff and quoted statistics to prove that since the law went into
effect there has been a considerable decrease in duties.
SWE6IRL
PQISDNEDIOD
HE ALLEGES
United Press.
Kansas City. Mo.,'Feb. 12.--All
- sensation was furnished in
the Swope case late this evening
when John G. Paxton, executor of
the estate of the late Col. Thomas
Swope, testified during a deposi
tion hearing that “ibrychnine in
large quantities had been found in
the contents of the stomach of
Mies Margaret Swope, Colonel
Swope's niece. After a long illness
Miss Swope recovered. This makes
the third member of the Swope
family who was given poison.
Paxton's statement was made in
a deposition he gave in a suit for
libel brought against him by Dr.
B. C. Hyde, husband of Swope's
niece, who has been arrested on the
charge of having murdered Colonel
' Swope.
Paxton asserted that the repoet re
garding poison in Miss Swope's stom
aeli had been made to him by .Doctors
Haynes and Hektoen of Chicago, the
toxicologists who made a chemical
anulysis of the contents of the stomachs
of members of the Swope family. I his
statement was drawn from Paxton ouly
after Notary George IL Kelly had
threatened to commit him unless he an
swered a question designed to bring the
information out.
Nurses Threatened to Quit.
That the nurses in the Swope house
hold threatened to quit their work in
the Kansas City millionaire's household
because oue of them had said. “People
are being murdered iu this house, was
also testified by Mr. Paxtou.
Telling of the time nurses
planned to walk ont, Paxton testified
that the nurses went to Mrs. Logan O.
Swope aud told her that unless Dr.
Hyd? dismissed as the family pby
sician they would all quit. He. said
that immediately after the nurse’s de
mand Dr. Hyde was requested to eease
his professional duties at the Swope
home and Dr. G. Twynman then begau
to treat the family.
People Being Murdered.
Miss Agnes Houlihan, a nurse, Pax
ton testified, eould bear him out rn the
statement that the nurses thought f’peo
ple were being murdered.'' He said
Miss Houlihan put on her hat and eoat
one dav and said she would leave and
take all the other girls with her if Dr.
Hvdc's services were not dispensed
with.
“It was on this day.” said Paxton,
“that I heard of the stories about be
ing poisoned. When I heard of the
pwful suspicion and eliarge. J held a,,
conierencc with Dr. Twynman and'
when be told me of the muses going
to Mr-. Swope I was diiinfobnded. I
would not believe it at first, but then I
the doctor told me of the convulsions
that Margaret Swope had that day and
her convulsions were exactly similar to
those in which C. Swope died. Still I .
•lid not believe that Dr. Hyde whs guil
tv of the charges made against him. aud '
1 shook bis hand and had a long talk
with him that night, hist to show the
household servants that I did not be •
lieve their statements.” 1
'"golden rod
Mad* at home. Guaranteed of the hifbeat
quality. We churn every day.
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
But the president admitted that the
tariff law is going to be blamed by
the democrats for the high cost of liv
ing which will be, he admits, a vital il
sue in the congressional campaign next
fall. ” And we must not be blind t>
the weight of- such an argument,” he
I told the republicans.
I After a lengthy argument iutended
ito prove that the Payue-Aldrich bill
Iwas the best tariff law ever inaugurat-
I ed in the United States, the president
I proceeded to the indtvidnal pledges of
| the platform of 190.8. I'hm without
mincing words he took up Mall street
and the trusts. The speech undertook to
.tPiswer tho flood of questions aud criti
cisms which have been deluging the
country, relative to the success of the
Taft administration.
Must Conform to Law.
Ou the Mall street subject the presi
dent said :
“From time to time attacks are made
upon tho administration on the ground
that its policy tends to create a panic
in M’all street and to disturb business.
All I have to say upon that subject is
this: That certainly no one representa
tive of a government like ours would
foolishly run amuck in business and d—
stroy values and confidence just for tho
pleasure of doing so. No one has a
motive as strong as the administration
in power to cultivate and strengthen
business confidence and business pros
perity. But it does rest with the na
tional administration to enforce the law
and if the enforcement of the law Is not
consistent with the present methods of
doing business, then it does not speak
well for the present method of conduct
ing business, should change to
conform with the law. There was no
ptomise on the present republican party
jto change the anti trust law except to
strengthen it, or to authorize monopoly
and a suppression of competition and
'he control of prices and those wno
look forward to such a change cannot
v' it the responsibility for their mis
take on innocent persons. O t ' course,
tre government at M’ashington can be
depended ou to enforce the law in the
way best calenlated to prevent a de
struction of public confidence in busi
; ness. but that it must enforce the law
ijnes without sayiug.
Further on the president praised Gov
j ernor Hughes who was present, char
acteriziug him as the “great asset of
ihe republican party in New York
.state. ”
The postal savings bank and the partv
■ pledge on the subject led the president
into a disenssiou of the bill now be
' fore congress. He said that those who
I are endeavoring to amend the bill to
■allow the money deposited to be kept as
!-aviues in banks under trustees wln»
shall have no power to use the funds
and to allow the funds to lie deposited
iu state ..nd national banks indiscrimin
ately are prejudicing the party integ
rity.
••Tho<e.” Ue said, “will put th«
partv in the position where it cannot
h"pe to esea|* the charge that it is
not iii good faith seeking the pa-’ ge of
.1 postal savings bank bill and is n«» r
seeking therefore to comply with the
proniisg of Rie republican plhtform in
that regard.”
Downward. Revision Not Promised.
Speaking ot' the tariff revision Gm
president
“We did revise the tariff. Nothing
was cxpresslv said in the platform that
Ui's revision was to Im a downward re
v ision. The iuiprc<siun riiat it was to Im
generally downward, however, wa- ’air
ly given by the fact that those who up
hold flic protective tariff system defend
it by the claim that after an iudu«trv
(Continued on page two.)
Standing of All Contestants
Will Be Pound on Page 13