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VOLUME 29, No. 399
Who Will Win Magnificent Prizes In Light & Gazette Contest Which Ends Tonight at 8 O'Clnrkf
THE MONSTER “NEW YORK" RISING AS 80,000 CUBIC FT. OF GAS ENTERS BAG
The balloon “New York,” in which Hannon and Harrison are making their trip after records to the north. ,
- Photo by E. E. Prisbie'. Staff Photographer. J
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11. S. SENATE
HIS GUESTS
IT THEATER
Senator Gordon Gives Largest
Theater Party Ever Known
in Washington.
MRS. TAFT WAS PRESENT
“A Gentleman From Missis-1
sippi” Played Before Very
Select Audience.
Associated Press.
Washington, I>. March I.—Nena
tor Gordon of Mississippi last night,
gave the largest theater -narty ever|
known in Washington by inviting the
entire United States senate to be his
guests at the Columbia *theatemto wit
ness the performance of ••The Gentle-j
man from Mississippi." In the adver-1
tisement of the performance he was j
called “The Heal Gentleman from
Mississippi.”
With five exceptions, every senator
accepted and nearly all of them with
their wives and daughters were present.’
Mrs. Taft came early and with her was’
her sister. Mrs. Thomas Laughlin, of
Pittsburg. The president came later.
Ruilt from the orchestra to the stage
was a flight of steps to be used by
General Gordon to appear before the
footlights and make n speech after the
third act. There were cries of “Gor-i
don. Gordon” after this act. but the
senator had a fit of bashfulness and |
would not resjand. ,
The Contest Closes
Tonight at 8 p.m.
The greatest prize contest ex er put on in Texas-closes tonight at 8 i
5 p. ni. The first grand prize is a $l5OO home, located in beautiful South <
; Park Terrace. The second grand’ prize is a s2oo'l Chalmers Detroit auto )
< mobile, “the finest equipped car ever broughr into Texas." The third ’
i grand price is a $B4O Studebaker Flanders suburban car. “the wonder of $
I the automobile xvorld.
There are fidelity seven distinct prizes ranging in value from on $BOO j
1 Kimball player piano to eight $5O solid gold watches. The district prizes >
j Include also eight $385 Goggan pianos, two lu acre tracts in the artesian 5
> belt worth $5OO each, four cabinet talking machines, value $2"O each; four j
l solitaire diamond rings, value $lOO each; comprising the costliest and most <
( select lot of thirty prizes ever offered to deserving contestants. If you ■
J have not helped your favorite contestant get busy nt once and don't “pike,” >
I but come strong. >
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
and gazette
HAMILTON FISH
IS INSURGENT
New Yorker Rebels Against
Rules of House and Likens
Conditions to Russia.
Special Dispatch.
Washington, March 1. —Another prom
inent member of the house has joined
the insurgents, in the person of Hamil
ton Fish of Xew York, and heretofore
classed with the aristocrats and “inter
ests.”
Fish startled the house today by de
claring that unless the rules were
changed the republican party's suprem
acy Would he endangered. Mr. Fish
stated that he had bills in the rules
committee for the past three weeks and
that they had been pigeon holed and
forgotten. He said the publie was rap
idly beginning to realize how poxverless
a member of the house was under the
present conditions and would demand a
change.
“Such conditions exist elsexvhere
only in Russia,” declared Mr. Fish.
EXTENSIONS WILL
OPEN NEW TERRITORY
Special Dispatch.
Fort Worth. Tex., March I.— Ihe
Rock Island today announced it had
ordered sufficient steel to extend the
Graham branch to Roswell. New Mex
ico. and also to Stamford and Haskell.
This indicates the road lifts definitely
decided the rrflites of the new exten
sions and that const ruction will begin
within a month. The new lines open ft
new* territory for Fort Worth, which
heretofore has routed freight to Kan*
Citv and Oklahoma City.
DEMANDS THE
STRIKE SHALL
BE SETTLED
Great Influences Brought to
Bear on Philadelphia Rap
id Transit Company.
APPEAL FOR ARBITRATION
Important Development Along
This Line Is Looked for i
Today In Philadelphia,
AtsocUted Preßr.
Philadelphia, March 1 Powerful in
fluences are being brought to bear upon
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit coin 1
pany to bring an end to the strike. The
department stores, which have suffered ;
from the strike, along w h thousand* I
of other business house*, are known to '
have demanded that the transit' com- i
pany shall not invoke ti e <Hy in a
great general labor sirugule. I here wr,s I
a general appeal for arb ’ration today. 1
The newspapers demand it. or
ganizations are <damor ; ng for it and
citirens generally arc tailing for an
end of the trouble at oin e. Important •
developments are looked for during the i
day. ~ |
INCREASES IUIM
Of CARS 11 KE
Associated Press.
Philadelphia. Pa.. March L—Deter I
mind to denmnsirat,* its ability to I
operate without the assistance ot tlit*
striking motormen ami conductors, the ,
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company I
today again increased the number of |
cars in use on its various linos.
Traction officials declare no settle- '
incut involving recognition of the Car •
men's union will be considered. It was
reiterated by the company's spokesman ■
that arbitration xvas not needed to
settle the strike Both labor leaders and ;
the city administration are preparing,
their lines for the expected sympathetic 1
st ri kes.
Director of Public Safety ' lay in an
interview today said lie did not regard
the proposed extension as a “bluff, i
Ho told of plans for increasing the po- I
lice force in anticipation of further I
trouble, \nother death dm* to the strike ;
occurred late last night, when Benjamin j
Gibbon, a wounded negro, died iu Doug j
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. TUESDAY. MARCH I. 1910
MINERS DIG
FOR VICTIMS
Deaths In Avalanches in North
ern Idaho Reach Thirty-one
and Will Be Increased.
Associated Press.
Spokane, Wash.. March I.—Working
desperately and almost exhausted,
hundreds of miners are todav trying
to dig from the packed ice. snow and
w reckage, the dead and injured thought
to be buried in the six northern Idaho
nxalanehes. The death list reached JI
todax- ami it is believed more dead xvill
be found in the splintered cabins. So
far thirty men, women and cliildien
have been rescued at Mace. At ' nr
bonate Hill txxo are dead mid half a
dozen were injured in the slide. Fro n
tlie North Franklin mine comes the
latest reports of a slide, but no fatali
ties are reported there.
THE KATY ANNOUNCES
LOW HORSE SHOW RATE
The Missouri. Kansas & Texas an
noiinccs n convention rate <»t a tare
ami a fifth from all pails of thte stale
on account of the Horse Show, which
is to be held in this city. I’or the Inst
day of the show, however, that road
will put on a popular rate for points
within lon miles of San \ntonio. which
gives two 'days in the city, on Mandi
5 and fl. at $1.25 for the round trip.
VISITS DAVIDSON CAMP.
Special Dispatch
Austin. Tex . Mandi I.—Senator Ibd
soy of ('orsictna. visited tin headquar
tors of R. V. Davidson today. It is
understood Holwry is slated for adju
tant general in case Davidson i> elect
ed governor. Hulsey i* now a captain
in the Texas National Guard.
WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS.
Tulsa. Okh.. March I —Mrs. George
C. Lindol died today from burns re
ceived when her d:ess uangbt fire at
her home near this citv la*t night
Sparks jumped from an open fire place
and ignited her clothing. Her husban 1
severely burned hi* hand* ext •
ing the flames.
las hospitm'. This brings the number
of .strike fatalities up to six. I lie
eleventh day of the Strike opened wet
and fogy, making walking more dis
agreeable than over. Street cars are enr
tying more passenger* than last week,
but the number is far below normal. ।
PINCHOT
SPRINGS
SURPRISE
Says He Based His Charges
Against Ballinger on Letter
of Latter's Former Partner,
THREE FALSE STATEMENTS
Admits These Had Been Pre
viously Covered In Letter
By Himself to Taft.
Associated Press.
Washington, March 1. — There
xvas a surprising development in the
Ballinger - Pinchot investigation
when Gifford Pinchot announced to
the committee that he based his
charge that Secretary Ballinger had
been guilty of making statements
to the president that ' ‘ were abso
lutely false in three essential par
ticulars” not upon the letter from
Ballinger himself, but upon a letter
written by J. T. Ronald, former law
partner of Ballinger, to Lr. Lyman
Abbott. Pinchot said s. copy of
this letter, with annotations, was
forwarded by Ballinger to the pres
ident. Pinchot admitetd the three
alleged false statements in the Ro
nald letter had previously been cov
ered by a letter written by himself
to the president iu which Ballinger
made what the witness admitted
was a true statement of facts. Pin
chot said he did not attempt to
reconcile these two facts.
Pinchot declared that former Serre
!ta Garfield had often told him that
1 he had told Secretary Ballinger he be
I lieveil the Cunningham claims to be
j-Cjnidulent, whereas Ballinger, aeeord
[ ing to the witness, sought to give the
that Garfield had not made
i any such statements.
The Ronalds Charges.
The Ronalds charges were: First—
Tie Ronalds charges were: First
Special Agent .lones never made a re
port dealing with the Cunningham
I claims. Second —The order revoking
the “clear list” for the Cunningham
’ claims was not based upon a protest
jby Glavis. Third—Ballinger never ap
peared before the congressional com-
I mittce in the interest of any of the
Alaska claimants.
(Continued on page two.)
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HOSTILE AMENDMENTS
WILL BE OPPOSED
■ Leaders In Congress Agree to
■i This After Conference With,
President Taft.
Associated Press.
Washington. D. C.. March I After
:i two hour conference with President
r.'ifl today, loaders in congress an
' noiniced they would oppose all amend
ments to the several administration
Dills when it became apparent the
amendments were offered in a spirit hos
tile to the main purpose of the proposed
legislation. Among those at the confer
mice were Senators Aldrich and t'rane
and Sj>euker Cannon.
GIRL
UNDER HOUSE ALL NIGHT
|L> he! than be chastised by her
nm’lri i. Maria Sanchez, aged 13 years.
hi from her home, 524 South Laredo
xi reel at !» o’clock and Ifid under the
bi'ilding where she remained all night.
; Ihr disappearance caused her relatives
tin greatest anxiety and the police
vere called u|hju in an effort 1o locate
ihr missing daughter.
It was not until 8 o’clock this morn
ing that her brother located the girl
Iving beneath the building. Police head
quarters wan notified of the fact at
noon and the search for the girl discon
tinned.
Angn*lin<‘ Sanchez, a brother of the
1 girl, called at police headquarter* last
night and notified the officer* of the
disappearance of his sister. A descrip
tion was given the police. Relatives
conducted an all night search. It is said
that the girl had been negligent in
>otiio housework and left the place when
her mother began to scold h< r.
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GRANT HABEAS CORPUS WRIT.
Special Di?n»tch.
Kirksville. Mo.. March I.- The jud-je
o»:ii«t('H Dr. Hull a writ of habeas <•»’
pus th’* morning mid the hearing w i*
M »t fm Thursday morning, when th’
courl • oiivenes in st»eci:il session. Pros ,
I ecnio r Roiger is ill as the result uf
overwork and may ask « continuance
| Thursday. It will be granted if asked. |
SAILS AWAY
FOR RECORDS
AWlionaire Harmon In the "Light and
Gazette" Balloon Leaves For North
in Effort to Lift the Lahm Cup.
WORLD'S SCIENTISTS INTERESTED
l ruler condit 1011 s pronounced
Clifford 11. Harmon, Xew York. -
George 11. Harrison. I.os Angeles,
Monday evening and started on a 1
the long distance record flight for
ance record and make a scientific
ditions encountered.
The Lahm trophy is now heh
it last fall at St. Louis by making
miles in the balloon "New York.'
ord is held by Count De La \ a,
was mack' three years ago from
tance of a’little less than 1200 m
The endurance record is held
in the balloon "Xew York" last f;
will be given to the I nited State
first known record of these condit
States.
■ Mr. Harmon, while not predi
the basket left the ground to a re
zette that he thought all of the al>
and that he would wire them to
»l IS
RELENTLESS
II_PROBE
Associated Press.
New Yoik. March 1. —The investiga
tion of the alleged cold storage evils
was resumed today b\ the Hudson court
ty grand jury, which last week indicted
the so called “beef trust.” including
the constitueni linns ami individuals,
directors and officials. Additional
true bills may be the outgrowth of
the renewed probing as Prosecutor Gar
PIERRE P. GAR VEN,
Jersey City Prosecutor, Who Indicted
the Meat Trust.
van has indicated he means to bring
formal charges against every indixid
ual believed to Ih» responsible in any
wav for trade restrict ion and artificial
price booming.
* • No man shall do a laxvtul dvod un
lawfully or an unlaxvful deed laxvtnl :
ly.
This i" a bit of old Knglish law. '
still on the statute books of Xew .ler
sex', and under it has been indieted the
meat trust of Chicago.
“I think it xvill xvork," says Pios
eeutor Garven. “If it's law id to raise
the price of meat to a top notch, I
think it can be proxeu. nevertheless,
that the moat trust raised prices in an
unlnxvfwl xvay by forming a merger.
‘‘lf the merger is lawtul. we xvill
then have a chanee. under this ohi
statute, to pioxe tlni the raising ol
the pi ice of mca: was io law ful.
“Tliu> we Im'e Iwo tlutiivv* ugainst
♦he inunt trust, wbereu*. if we pro*
ecuted under Ihe Shermi’D anti-trust
»n\ . n • would have only one chance in
• that the merger was in re
trade.”
\ ( ‘larges that Garven was offered a
if he would diop the pro* J
.•ut:on, ha'c not been denied by him. |
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ideal, the balloon "Xew York,”
twtier ami pilot, accompanied by
aide, was released at 9:14 o'clock
rip to lift the Lahm trophy, break
a balloon, establish a new endur
chart of the meteorological con.
by A. Holland Forbes, who wont
a flight of a little more than 70a
The world's long distance rec
x of Paris, France, whose flight
’aris to a point in Russia, a dis
k's.
>y Mr. Harmon, made by himself
11 at St. Louis. I’hi' chart made
• weather bureau and will be the
ions in thi' section of the I nited
'ting anything, stated just before
iresentative of the Light and Ga
ix e results would be accomplished
'an Antonio himself.
Just before ’lm start xvas made Mr.
Haru.on ami Mr. Harrison shook haiuis
xvith Major Allen Buell, who rendered
valuable assistance, and with .1. Cowan
Hulbert of the A.romotion company
of America and friends.
The start was made under perfect
conditions in the preseme of more tiHWi
■ ~000 persons. The balloon rose grace
fully from the ground when released
and swept northwestward at about firs
miles :in hour until clear of rhe break
nffoidcd by the large gas tank. As soon
as it rose sufficiently high to clear tins
tank it was suddenly carried due north
by a wind estimated at between thirty
and thirty five miles an hour. Due to
the disturbed condition of the lower air
currents the balloon seemed to rise and
then settie about 1000 feet distance
from the lank into a steady current csk
tiinnted at an altitude of I'oo feet. As
far as the eye could see. Mr. Harrison
flashed back “Good bye” iu the hcilo
graph cotie with his electric flash light to
the signal corps men of the Inited.
States armx who handled the balloon.
Thousands of exes folhuved the little
flash as far as the eye eould see ami
it was hardly realized that the great
bag hail gone.
Mr. Harmon ami Mr. Harrison signi*
tied their intention of both remaining
awake all night ami at the rate they
left expect to cross the northern bound
ary of Texas a little after sunrise. The
greatest advantage to them in this
flight was the fad that at the time of
their ascension, they got away in the
front ot the tiuuiug eml of a high eui
rent of air coining from the Faeifle
■ oast around the Rm ky mountains ami
heading into a northwesterly direction.
It is t'litieipatcd that this high wind
will be cut into by a stronger high ap
proximately 150 mill's north of here,
which currents will then ehtiuge to
I orthensterly direction, carrying the
balloon over Oklahoma. Missouri and,
Illinois. Here nee. eouditiotis are liable
io arise which will either take the bal
loon across the lakes into < hiiada or
the Xi w Hr.gland states. The delation
ot the flights will win from liilhi to
IO.eOO fid. as they need a certain air
curient thex will go up or doxvn until
tiny liml it.
The' e.-.p. it to le carried due north
froin Sait Antoiiu, with a slight veer,
inn towards the nor h.vest ami pass out
1,1 l ex:.- near \\ ichiiu Falls. Then
thex will begin to -wing in a northeast
i i!\ dini-tion and pass just north of
(ikldioma I’itx an.l south ot VViehitn,
Kan. They expect to pass oxer Kau
-as i ii\ ami leave Si. Louis a little to
the south. <'tossing into Illinois their
i iih will lead them over a |H»int in
rhe xieinit'" ot । hieago. probably south.
11l Air Seventy-two Hours.
Win the balloon lights. Mr. llarnion
will i mniiuliately go to Xew \ ork ami
Mr. Hairison will take ebarge of the
lei.ne, ami equipment ami ship it to
he Veroniotiou company at St. Louis
o I— prepared for any future flights.
I'hex expect to remain in the air not
ess than 72 hours.
Affidavits as to the official time of
he a-eension x.*re made by )*rsons
who witnessed the flight and will be
lot warded to the Aero club of America
for check nil.l assmame oil official
light.
The big rubber si"» bag. costing
ChH’U. win laid “lit at thr gas
vu»v*> plant Veltri day afternoon near
be'lutermitiom. w Gres' Northern ”
irneks ami : ildm-. .W of dgua! corp* .
e .... .... .. ■nt FvU-
.„ p.pt s . . '. ‘idled «h» $
Walloon uv.l.r ihe .lui'di.m of 'ieiirgv
It. Ila, ■ i-.u. At I o'rlm k the gas was
.(■pied into the big bag through a spo
■ i dlx '- ol |"! H ' leading oM to the lot
(Voutiuued on Hgo