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r WHO IS YOUR Wby not ns? Wa a.U FaatoorUad Milk and Cream only. DeUnrad to any y urt at the city Dairy Co. Phones VOLUME 30, No. 50 New York Millionaires to Build Their Own Autos and Thus Beat the Morgan Trust “To It" THEY Will NOT BENO THE KNEE 10 J. P. MORGAN One Hundred New Yorkersi Form Company to Manufac ture 100 Automobiles, ONE FOR EACH MEMBER Designs Will Embody Best Fea tures of American and For eign Made Cars, —■ " ™ Associated Press New York. March 11. —Following the! announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. . will finance an important merger of । motor car companies comes the news , of the formation of a manufacturing company unique in the history of the automobile industry. One hundred of the leading business men of the street : are to make automobiles for their own use on designs embodying the best feat ures of both American and foreign cars. The company will have a factory at Springfield, Mass., the output of which will be bought at the actual cost ol manufacture by the stockholders of the company, which has been incorporated under the of this state with a nominal capital of $lO,OOO. It is un <lerstood that the output will be limit ed to 100 cars, the number of stock holders, but what will become of it af ter each shareholder has obtained his car has not been decided. Among the 100 oragnizers are Frank A. Vanderlip, president National City bank; Horace M. Kilborn, vice presi dent of the National City bank: Chas. 6, GoU . Mm of John w. Gstmu Howry O. Havemeyer, president of the Alaska Coal and Copper company, and Alvin W. Krech. president of the Equitable Trust company. HTMEK INTER HEUS TOR PACKERS Prosecutor Garven Says He Is Determined to Secure Per sonal Pleas. Special Dispatch. Jersey City. March 11. —A formal plea of “not guilty’’ of the charges •of conspiracy was entered in behalf of the National Packing company, the Swift, Armour and Morris packing com panies in common pleas court by the attorneys for the beef trust. Prosecutor Garven has made no move but declares he is still determined to bring the packers here personally to plead. - « .»■ • THE DOUBLE MARITAL CODE IS CRITICISED Sir John Bigham of England, ‘ Who Advocates It, Is Se verely “Panned." Loudon, March 11. —Sir J«hh Big • ham’s advocacy of a double marital code has brought down a storm of criti cism on his head. Sir John was until recently president of the divorce division of the English courts and gave expression to the thought that misconduct of a man had . not the same significance as misconduct of a woman. On a man’s part, he said, misconduct was more or less accidental and was not inconsistent with his con tinned love and esteem for his wife. COMING FROM CANADA. I Mrs. Bernard Bellanger. daughter of Patrick C. Cody, accompanied by her voting son. are expected soon to visit Mr. <’odv. She will spend the summer ■with hini, coming from St. C’lond, Mani, toba. Canada. Mr. Cody’s residence is > 12(5 Union street. ' -.»♦ W Forecast till 7 p. iu. Saturday: FFor San Antun io and vicinity: i Fair v and warmer tonight and J Saturday. A The maximum temperature for the 24 hours ending nt 8 o’clock ■ thi* morning was 58 degrees and ; the minimum wan 42 degrbew. I Comps rat ire temperatures for ' year and last: i 1009 1910 I n 4 », m.... Hli 47 6 a. «.... 50 42 s a. m ... OH 41 10 a. m . .. . 89 L 12 noon .... 82 84 1 p. m. ... 67 69 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE JAS. PATTON IS “HOOTED” OFFEXCHANGE Chicago Speculator Is “Man Handled" on Manchester, England, Board of Trade. TAKES REFUGE IN OFFICE Police Finally Come to Rescue and He Is Driven Away in a Carriage. Associated Press. London. March 11. —A special dis patch from Manchester says James Pat ten, the Chicago cotton and grain spec- JAMES PATTEN. ulator. was hooted off the Manchester exchange this afternoon and subse quently followed through the streets by a large crowd. He was obliged to find refuge in a business office. Datgen was roughly jostled in the exchange before he was hustled out into the street. Eventually the police came to his rescue and prevented 'a hostile crowd from following the spec ulator into the office where he found temporary safety. Later he was smuggled out of this office and driven away in a cab. Patten’s connection with the rise in the price of cotton last year was re sponsible for the outburst of hostili ties toward him at “Cottonopolis” to day. SHOW PROOF THAT ZERM BOUGHT STOLEN HORSE Man, in Jail Two Weeks, Re leased by Evidence Given by Frank Williams. After having spent two weeks in the county jail on a charge of stealing a horse belonging to Will Ackerman, A. i Zerm was released this morning on tes timony which showed conclusively that he had been the victim of sharpers, combined with circumstances. Frank L. Williams, a hack driver, sought out [Judge Ben Fisk and informed him that ihe had seen Zerm buy the horse with which he was found when arrested. Zerm was immediately released. The story as told Judge Fisk this morning by Mrs. Zerm was that they had reached San Antonio only the day before Zerm was arrested. They had intended to go to farming somewhere in the vicinity of this city and when they met up with a man who said he had a horse for sale cheap, they closed a bar gain. The horse was transferred, the money paid, and shortly afterwards fell into the clutches of the law, as the animal was identified as 'belonging to Will Ackermann. OREY LEE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PEN Orey Lee. charged, with breaking into the homo of Joseph Ta folia. .321 Mon terey street, and knocking down Mrs. Tafolla with a chair, drew a prize of five years in the pen yesterday when the jury returned a verdict. Notice of appeal was given. Attorneys for the negro fought the case closely, trying to establish the same nlil.i which had been attempted when habeas corpus proceedings were on. The jury failed to believe the alibi proof, but did consider that he had en tered the house. 16 PAGES ion ns i OF EARLY OHS BEING SIFTED Judge Hendricks of Depart-’ ' ment of Justice Is Here Tak- I ; ing Testimony in Cases. | AGGREGATE LARGE AMOUNT J ■ Special Representative From ’ Washington Cites Some Im i portant Matters Pending. John A. Hendricks, special attorney, representing the department of justice. <>r the attorney general's department of the United States, which has charge | of the Indian depredation cases in be i half of the government and the In- ' dians, is in the city taking testimony [ I in the claims of the heirs’of John ! ertheal against the United States gov- I ernment for depredations committed in ; Gillespie county in 1866. While here he also hpard the testi- I mony in the claim of the heirs of । George Upshaw for depredations of the Apache Indians. Judge Hendricks makes his head quarters in Fort Worth, but his terri tory comprises all of the western and middle western states. He says the heaviest number of claimants were Texans and that Already more than ; $2,000,000 have been paid since 1906 | to claimants in this state. He believes that in two more years I the last of this business will be closed . up unless congress passes the bill now j pending to eliminate the non citizen- I ship clause and make it resident m | stead and also the amity clause, which i affects the tribe of Indians committing | the depredation. In an interview, he threw much light [ on thia peculiar branch of the attor I uey general's dcpa.tment: 1 “Since 1893. when the Indian dep ' redation law was amended, there have ■ 1 been about 11,000 cases filed,” sat.i | [Judge Hendricks.’ “Most of the cases i I have more or less merit, but some of them, however, are fraudulent. It has [ been the policy of the government to | help along claimants with meritorious ; i cases and not to unnecessarily hinder [the payment ofan honest claim. On ■ the other hand. It has been the policy of the government to vigorously con- i । test any ease that has on it the ear [ marks of fraud. Difficult to Show Fraud. “Sometimes it is very difficult t« 1 show the fraud where the claimants ; have apparently covered up theix | tracks . but the history of the lit-1 igation shows there is but little or no chance for a fraudulent case to be [ paid. There are «ome esses still pend ing in southwest Texas, some of them j involving more than $200,000. “One case in particular, in this sec- : | tion. which has not been tried yet. but j that has a great deal of merit, is i ! known as the Adams and Wicks -asc. I ' Adams and Wicks were freighters, who I ■ lived in San Antonio and operated I freight lines between here and El Paso ’ and points in Mexico, and also between I j the various army posts. They also op- I crated a line of freighters from here < i to points in southwest Texas, and. their losses from Indian depredations aggre- [ : gate more than $85,000. “The Wells Fargo Express company I also has a case that has not yet been ■ * tried for claims that amount to be [ tween $125,000 and $200,000. This . j was from losses and damages commit- < | ted by Indians in the early days of i i the stage coach. “There are still many cases pending : ' of claimants who lived in southwest , j Texas for depredations in which the । loss was in cattle and horses. । . “The Robb commission has caused ■ n.iany of the claimants to gel into trou j tie and has been a great aid to the government in its use of data and affi l davits that were sworn to before this i commission in 1872. to protect the gov ernment from paying fabulous sums I for losses inflicted by Mexicans and Indians under Mexican jurisdiction.” * < • ♦- — LIVED WITH HUSBAND WHO HAO A DIVORCE Woman Didn't Know it Until They Quarreled and Now Wants It Set Aside. Special Dispatch. New York, March IL—Mrs. Minnie Ludwig varied the monotony of matri mon iaT procedures here today when sho filed a suit to have a divorce obtained by her husband seven years set aside. The woman claims her husband told her the suit was withdrawn and siio has since lived with him until two weeks ago when Hliey quarreled and lie told her the divorce had been giaulod to him secretly. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH II 1910. THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 25,000 MEN) MAY STRIKE NEWYORKERS DISREGARD TAFT’S WISH ) Republicans of Empire State Elect Senator Cobb as Leader of Party in Senate. HE SUCCEEDS ALLD3 j Root Failed in His Mission to ) Restore Harmony—No Fur ther Investigations. Special Dispatch. Albany. N- Y., March 11.—De fying the wishes of President Taft, Governor Hughes, Senator Root and other nationally promi nent republicans, the New York republicans ill caucus this morning at 2 o’clock on the forty-eighth ballot elected Senator Cobb of Watertown, republican leader of the state senate to succeed Senator Allds. Allds resigned because of the investigation into the alleged bribery cases. The election of Cobb is n direct slap at the president and Governor Hughes, both of whom with other prominent re publicans. favored the election of Sen ator Hinman. President Taft was so interested in the matter that he sent ‘Senator Root to New York to try and straighten out the tangle and bring harmony to the Scarring factions. The election of Cobb is taken to mean that no further investigation of | the bribery scandal will be made. DOESN'T COMPLICATE. IT ONLY DISTURBS Associated Press. Washington. D. March 11. —A ice President Sherman and Representative I McKinlay, chairman of the republican congressional committee, were evident ly disturbed by the dc\flopments in the 1 republican caucus at Albany last night. Together they called to sec President Tait today and while waiting in the anteroom. Sherman, whose opinion, seems to have heen endorsed by Mc- Kinlay, said, in coininenting on tiie can cus: nin not pleased with the sc 1 lection (referring to < ’obb as president pro tern to succeed Allds). Ihe other selection (meaning Hinman) would > hwe meant plain sailing in the ram . paign with no clouds or swells in the ' way. I will not say. of course, the event I complicates matters, but it certainly disturbs them/' 1 Firemen on Roads Entering Chicago Vote Authorizing Leaders to Call One. WANT AN INCREASE IN PAY Railroads Say It Can't Be । Granted and Will Endeavor to Settle the Matter. I j Special Dispatch. Chicago. 111., March 11. —Twenty- five thousand firemen on railroads , running out of this city are ready to strike if their demands for in creased pay and better working con ditions are not granted by the rail roads. By a referendum vote the firemen have authorized their lead ers to call a strike if they are un- | » i able to otherwise compel the rail road managers to come to time. ) Today the railroads are formulating j an answer to the demands of the union men and it is forecasted that their reply wiy be a refusal to grant the raise in pay demanded. ( Following the receipt of this reply the leaders of the union men will en : deavor to settle the matter by arbitra lion or other means and will exhaust their resources before calling a strike. [ It is probable that a joint meeting will ; be wiled to discuss the matter and at that time the railroad managers will endeavor to show the firemen the im possibility of granting their demands. A prominent railroad official says that it is unlikely that the railroads would grant the wage demands. ' “If all the demands of the firemen were granted, the wages would have to be increased 22 1-2 per cent,” he said. ‘•This is a greater increase than the railroads can afford to pay. Moreover. ' it would necessitate a similar increase for all other employes. Snell an increase 1 on the Chicago. Burlington & Quiney alone would mean an additional expense of $5,000,000 annually. If all the rail roads of the country entered into any I sueh an increase they would have a de ficit of over 4 per cent a year. At pres ent almost half of the railroad gross | receipts goes out for labor, and to in । crease that expense by sueh an amount । !as is asked for by the firemen would I bankrupt us. ' j “These facts will be impressed up*" l > [ the firemen, and we do not feel a strike i will be called. We even hope to set. i J tie the dispute ourselves, without the .laid of arbitration.” CALIFORNIA WOMAN SEEKS HER RELATIVES Li '— Mirs Emma Baldwin of Santa Anna. Cal., is in the city seeking the where 1 abouts of her sister. Miss Annie Whit ncy and niece. Miss Mable Whitney and nephew, \rtie Whitney, whom she last heard of in San Antonio about tm i months ago. Since her arrival here I Wednesday night Mrs. Baldwin has I 1 been unable to locate them and today called upon the police to assist her in the search. / 1o PAGES WILL REBUILD TEXAS CRADLE Plan to Remodel, Retaining the Orig inal Walls, the Additions to Follow Lines of Spanish Architecture. PLAN FAVORABLY RECEIVED Platts for the restoration and beautifying of the Alamo property, known as the Hugo and Schmeltzer building, are being discussed by the Daughter.' of the Republic in connection with plans submitted to the executive hoard, to which the property was turned over \\ ednes day by \\ . C. Day. superintendent of state buildings and public grounds, following the decision of the court. I'hese will be finally adopted at the convention of the Daughters of the Republic, which is to he held in San Antonio April 19, >0 and 21. The historic build ing has been the center of battles, legal and otherwise, in the past few years and it remains to be seen if the plans now being decided on will be permitted to go through unopposed. It is understood that Pompeo Coppini. of San Antonio, submitted plans for the beautifying of the Alamo property at the meeting of the executive hoard held in Austin. It is also reported that in the mart Signor Coppini's plans were favorably received, both by the executive board and by Governor Campbell, whose approval of any improve ment must be had under the contract between the state of Texas and the Daughters of the Republic before such work can be undertaken. Just along what lines Signor Coppini suggests remodeling the old building remains a secret, and will not be known until the meeting of the convention in San Antonio next month. It is believed, however, [ that the original walls will be retained ami w hatever additions are ; made will follow the Spanish lines of architecture so a' to correspond I w ith that of the Alamo proper. It is probable that should the plans ' of Signor Coppini be adopted at the I meeting of the convention in April that public subseriptioaa will be solic ited to complete the work as rapidly as possible. It is definitely stated that when completed it will not be used as a hall of fame, but will be used by the local chapter of the Daughters of the Republic ns n chapter house, and as h convention hall for the state or ganization. The meeting of the state convention of the organization, which was to have been held in Houston for the purpose of dedicating the Sau Jacinto battle grounds, has been changed to San An tonio for the express purpose of allow ing the members of the organization the opportunity to canvass the entire situation and better decide upon the plans which are to be adopted for the improvement of the property. Until this meeting no decision can be arriv ed at by the body. The officers of the organization are: Mrs. Rebecca J. Fisher, president. Aus tin; Mrs. Cornelia B. Stone, first vice president. Galveston; Mrs. J. J. Mc- Keever Jr., second vice president, Houston; Mrs. Arthur Burroughs third vice president, San Antonio; Mrs. C. 11. Milby. fourth vice president. Har risburg; Mrs. Stephen 11. Darden, fifth vice president. Dallas; Mrs. Net tie Houston Bringhurst. historian. San Antonio; Miss Emma K. Burleson, sec retary. Austin; Miss Belle Fenn, treas urer, Houston. Annual Election of Officers. Those who compose the executive committee are: Mrs. Marie B. Urwitz, 214 La Branch street. Houston; Mrs. J. J. McKeever Jr.. Ill* Belle avenue. Houston; Mrs. Cornelia B. Stone, secre tary. 1421 Avenue E. Galveston; Mrs. Charles 11. Milby, Harrisburg; Mrs. PROOF OF GBEATNESS One Fact That Proves San An tonio to Be Largest City ' in the State of Texas. WHEN one finds a person inclined to dispute the census returns which [dace San Antonio at th* head of all Texas cities in [mint of pop ulation, just tell them: — THAT the Light and Gazette has th* largest CITY circulation of any newspaper in the state of Texas, There arc more non readers in San An tonio than in any other city in the state yet this paper has more city readers than any other newspaper printed .a any Texas city. TIIE primary causes are obvious— San Antonio is the state’s great city and the Light and Garetts is that city's greatest newspaper. Lot this be vour answer to the critic*. ' GOLDEN ROD BUTTER Mid* at home. Guaranteed of the highest I finality. We Chora every day. 1 l Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871 j PRICE: FIVE CENTS. s । Walter Gresham. Galveston; Miss e l Emma K. Burleson. Austin; Mrs. M. । , Wheeler, Victoria: Mrs. Joseph B. Dilv rell. Seguin; Mrs. S. F. Roach, San *\n e’| ton io. yj The annual election of officers will * ' be held on the closing day of the eon s vent ion and from retmrts it i« believed r that not only will Airs. Rebecca J f Fisher of Austin be reelected presi ( dent, but that practically all of the . present roster will be re elected. At the meeting of the executive coin > mittee Mrs Sarah Eager wf re an . pointed custodian of the Alamo. Mrs. , 1 Eager lias held this position since tho .' resignation several years ago of her . j daughter. Miss Flo. Eager.*now Mr*. . I H. L. Roberts. u ■—“ JORI WURTH NEGRO CtREfUUT GUARDED Is Heavily Fined for Addressing 1 White Woman —Her Hus band Attacks Him. I. V n Special Diapatcli. Fort Worth. Tex.. March 11. —With the Dallas lynching of a week ago fresh in their minds, a negro. Bird L«e. was e strongly guarded by the police during his trial, in the city court today, where ’■ ! he was heavily fined for following and "’ ] addressing a well known white woman. , The woman’s husband attacked th* ■. • negro as he was being led to a cell.