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VOLUME 31, No. 99
Bookkeeper Who Robbed Bank Says He Has $lOO,OOO Where He Can Get If at End of Term
NOW TAKE A LOOK
AT SAN LUIS ST.
UNLIKE DURANGO
Main Artery of Traffic With
Factories and Warehouses at
Hand Is Still Neglected.
GOOD EXCUSE THOUGH
Oasis of Mud in Center of
Paved Wilderness Easily
Accounted For,
TEAMS STICK: HACKS GLIDE
Nobody is likely to have the cffron
tery to stand up to say that the
niaj'or cannot do just exactly what he
pleases with that city pocket money,
the contingency fund, or general fund,
or whatever he calls it.
If the mayor wants to pave one cer
tain street. Durango street, for in
sWnce. and doesn’t want to pave an
other street, why that's his business.
If the people want to kick, that’s their
business.
He’s For the Poor Man.
While Bryan Callaghan is mayor he's
going to bo for the |»oor man and he's
going to see that the poor man gets a
day’s labor. 'llie poor man will get his
work and Bryan Callaghan will get his
vote. That's the system, and it always
has been the system and it’s always
going to be the system.
To begin, take a walk to Durango
street, or ride over, if preferable, and
stand at the intersection of Durango
and South Frio streets. Look east on
Durango at the fine new pavement laid
entirely at city expense and extend
ing a little more than one block past
Mme. Beatrice Benedict's house, to a
point 150 feet below South Leoua
street, where Durango street closes ab
ruptly, being shut off by a board fence,
and. beyond that, a mesquite lot be
longing to Jesnsa Reyes y Yglesias.
Now Look the Other Way.
While standing at the same spot.'
turn squarely around and look west on
Durango street, over the same fine yel
low mud-cover, laid at the cost of Ihe j
city, just one block to the place where I
Durango street is again blocked by’
the railroad, the International & Great
Northern. There is no railroad cross :
ng at this place, the street has been ;
vacated and long strings of freight;
urs left on the tracks make it impossi ,
ole to’get over the destiuation.
This is the entire improvement in
Durango street, commenced two weeks
ago and still in progress, with the pros- i
pect that it will cost $2OOO when finish
ed—every dollar of the money from
ihe citv's pocket fund.
A Different View.
Now walk or drive one block to the ■
south on South Frio street to the next I
cross street, San Luis street. Stand ।
at the intersection of South Frio and;
San Luis streets and look east on San
Luis street. Notice that this street, un I
like Durango, goes right through to,
South Laredo street, a prospective,
main thoroughfare. No three-board
fence or mesquite patch obstructs the
view. But San Luis street is not paved
like Durango street, but entirely
neglected and deep in mud in winter.
Even the bushes in the roadway are
uncut and the street is ungraded.
Remain on this same street intersec
tion, but turn squarely around to look
west on San Luis street. Like Durango .
street San Luis extends in this direc ;
tion one block to the International &
Great Northern railroad; but here there I
5s a crossing over Medina street so;
that, teams may load at the coal cars
bevond. On the right is a factory and
on the left a great stone house.
A Part of Old City.
But there is no street pavement of i
any kind—San Luis street is left in
just the condition it wus when y
Crockett made his fight in the Alamo.
This is the object lesson, Durango
street on the one hand and San Luis
street on the other, with the mayor
looming large in the foregreund. It is.
just one lesson—there are others, scores i
of them all over San Antonio.
But why be serious about such humor
ous subject I Isn’t it well understood
that tliis is a private matter, the
mayor's business, and not any affair of
the people!
What reasonable man wonld expect
the mayor to pave San Luis street
when Durango street was only a block
»way! „ ,
Wagons vs. Hacks.
Wouldn’t the mayor be a fool to put
anv good city money into San Luis
street, when the irm to be most ben
efited is Price, Booker & Co., owning
the pickle factory at the corner of San
"MOST REPRESENTATIVE CITIZEN”
IS NOT COUNTED IN THE CENSUS
Ovster Bay. N. V., April 29.—Th"O
lore Roosevelt, although ‘'our mo t
representative citizen.’ - in President
Taft's opinion, may not lie enumerated
•„ the census of 1919. despite the zeal
:r ' intelligence of the enumerators.
This result is likely from the fact that
the Roosevelt home is here, the legal
rdnidence of the colonel is closed and
every member ot the family is'awav.
There are not e'en any servants in
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
v AJSD GAZETTE
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He's heard the
calland he's
at the plate,
And the fever's
so that he itches
To swing the bat
on the kid whose eurve
is as crooked as
Aunty’g stitches.
“Put her here, you!
Aw, rotten, kid!’’
But he gets the ball
in the maw of his lid—
Though
This is the
way
the
kid
pitches.
Luis and Medina streets, fronting the
railroad ?
8. D. Price of that firm is one of the
men who baa never been for GaUag
lian." The late J. E. Williams of that
firm was an active opponent and once
got out after the nomination for
mayor wit\|i the intention of licking
Callaghan? Is the mayor going to for
get all this? What if Mr. Williams is
dead? Isn't it the good a man does that
lives after him?
Take two streets side by side. Du
rango street leading up to the railroad
at the door of the warehouse owned by
.1. F. Muegge & Co. and San Luis street
leading up to the railroad at the door
of the factory of Price, Booker & Co.
Can any one dcubt to which street
Commissioner Russi would lead the
paving gang?
The Other Viewpoint.
Other men might not look at the
proble from this viewpoint, but these
men do not sit in the mayor's chair;
they are not empowered of right to do j
as they please with the city pocket
money.
Lots might be said about the neces
sity of pavements in San Luis street.
It is now the direct road from Medina
street to the Southern Pacific and the
“Sap” freight depots. More heavy
teams use it in good weather than use
any other thoroughfare on the west
side. This means in summer, when it is
passable: in winter San Luis street is
impassable.
Price, Booker & Co. have seven heavy
teams busy all the time. Across on the
opposite corner of San Luis and South
Medina street is a main warehouse ot
the Pruitt Commission company, with
fourteen truck teams. Around the cor
ner of Medina street is the vinegar
factory of R. M. Hughes & Co. with
more heavy hauling. Three coal mines
shipping to San Antonio unload at San
Luis street on the international
Great Northern railroad, the teams of
the Carr company and other coal con
cerns trucking the coal away through ‘
San Luis street.
What's the Odds.
These hundreds of teams must go a 1
long way around in winter because the I
mud is so deep in San Luis street. Last ;
winter a wagon drawn by six horses |
stuck fast in the mud not twenty feet (
from the side door of the factory of
Price. Booker t Co.. In disgust. Mr.j
Price built a piece of pavement from
Mcilina street to his side door, this at
his own expense, and was promptly
threatened with prosecution by the city
for “cutting up the street.”
But what’s the odds if the whole
commercial community is discommod
ed! Has there not been a cut in hack
fares to Durango street?
Ihe bouse and the neighbors cannot an
swer the questions of the enumerator,
as some of them concern family nis
torr. There is also universal doubt here
as io what is the colonel s present
trade or profession.
By coincidence another Theodore
Roosevelt was enumerated during the
canvass in this vicinity. He was a
tramp, whose place of residence is
given as “homeless.”
SHOOT IT, KID!
HAS £lOO,OOO
NO ONE
George Coleman, Bank Looter,
Says Five Years at $20,000
Per Looks “Soft” to Him.
Boston, Mass.. April 29. — If George
W. Coleman, the self confessed looter
iof the National City bank of Cam
bridge, docs not with extreme haste
I “dig up” sloo,oo9fir give some satis
j factory evidence of where it is the
federal officials will make him sweat
for it.
To their surprise and humiliation af
ter the young man had expressed com
plete contrition for his act they now
find themselves confronted with this
statement made by the bank looter:
“Nobody need worry about George
Coleman, i have $lOO,OOO planted safe
Iv away where no one can get it. I’ll
do my five years and come back and
live like a gentleman. Five years at
$20,000 looks soft to me.”
This was Coleman's statement to
Miss\ Mamie Hightower and Miss
Laura Atwood, and he added. “I'll
take .'are of both you girls for the rest
1 of your lives. ”
; I'Thia ei idence was given to the fed
eral authorities and because Miss At
wood decided to be good aud to tell
what she knew she is occupying an ex
pensive room, at the Hotel Bellevue,
and living better than she ever did in
her life until she met those two high
flying knights. “Big Bill” Keliher and
, George < olcman.
Miss Atwood has “thrown down” her
' former champions and will be a w itness
I for the government any time she is
wanted. She fears that George Cole
j uiau will get too long a term at Atlanta
200.000 BALES
CHANGE HANDS
New York. April 29 —According to estimates shortly before noon toe
benrs at that time had issued notices for the delivery on Monday 200.990
bales on Mav contracts. This is more than double the amount of transac
tions on any previous day in the his fory of the New York Colton exchange,
the exchange record until ‘oday being97.i)oo bales. Today's esm-a tin- rep
resent a money value of approximately $15,000,000.
There was some excitement on the floor of the exchange but it was seen
early the bulls were prepared to take the cotton as fast as it was delivered
and after an initial upturn in May quo-tations the prices fell oft. Eugene
Seales, one of the “Big Four" as the leaders in the bull movement arc called,
said the bulls will turn < ver to the spinners every bale of cotton d-li . ered.
“Not a bale will go to speculators” he said, “the gamblers have to
look out for themselves." Cotton has been piling tip for Mav
delivery during the last 50 davs, in-.-lnd’ng 59.000 bales tha* wore brought
back from Liverpool after they had been exported at a loss, it is said, of
from .*t to $5 a bale. Prominent in terests in the trade estimate that hv
the end of May at ’oust 300.090 bnlesof cotton valued at probably $22,000, >
non will have changed hands in the New York market.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY. APRIL 29 1910.
WHERE
GUN GET IT
to redeem his promise.
If the federal officers can get Cole ;
man to “dig up” the $190,009 he says
he has safely planted away they will !
be as fortunate as was the National
City bank nearly two yearsa go.
Confesses §BOOO Theft.
One fine morning while the directors
were in session the youthful bookkeep
er walked into the room.
“Ah. Mr. Coleman, what is it!” said
the president.
Colemai st> ode forward, and in sol
emn tones said, “Gentlemen, 1 have a
confession to make. 1 have stolen $8990
of the bank's money and spent it. 1 am
sorry for it. But liiy father will make
good the loss to you, and the bank will
be made whole.”
Not a hint of the fact that any one
in the bank was short had reached
them.
Coleman had concealed it effectually.
They conferred together and decided
to accept the offer of Coleman's father
to make good the loss.
The money was paid to the bank and
then the president clapped Coleman on
(Continued on page 2.)
WOULD NOT MAKE RACE
Believed at Capital That Judge Ram
sem Would Not Consent to Lead
Prohibitionists.
Austin, Tex., April 29. —It is believe !
here Judge Ramsey of the court of
criminal appeals will refuse to make
the race for governor as a compromise
candidate for the prohibitionists on the
withdrawal of Johnson and Poindexter.
Ramsey today declared he knows noth
ing of the Dallas conference and pre
ferred not to mix the courts and poli
tics.
BALLINGER
ON STAND
IN DEFENSE
Secretary of Interior Appears
Today Before Investigating
Committee to Clear Himself.
PINCHOT IS NOT PRESENT
Glavis, Other Accuser, Is Alsoi
Absent When Investigation
Is Resumed Today.
BALLINGER SAYS:
He knew but didn’t know he
knew half a dozen of the Alaskan
claimants at the time he became
land commissioner.
He didn’t want job, but took it
when Roosevelt “forced it on
him.”
Mr. Glavis is a “wilful and de
liberate liar.”
Would “clear list” claims he
did if he had the same thing to do
over again.
Associated Preis.
W ashington, April 29. —Secre-
tary Ballinger took the stand to- :
da\ at the Ballinger-Pinchot in
<|tiin in defense of his official con
duct as head of the interior de
partment from charges reflecting
upon his honesty and conscien
tiousness as a public servant,
which have been perferred against
, him by Pinchot, the former fores
ter. and GUvis, former chief field
agent of the land office. Neither
Pinchot nor Glavis wqs present.
f Bullinger, when sworn, appeared to be
j perfectly at ease. He recounted the
I story of his career up to the time he be
I came commissioner general of the land*
office on the earnest solicitation of Pres
idAiit Roosevelt. Secretary Garfield and,
। Senator Piles. He read telegrams re ■
. celved from Garfield and Roosevelt
j after he said he did not wish the post
lof commissioner of the land office.
, Reading from a Roosevelt telegram, he
- said:
“It is your duty to help me. You
ami Garfield can lift an immense bur
; den from my shoulders.”
It was then. Ballinger said, he de
cided to accept the post. The witness
j said his relations with Garfield were;
i “friendly but never intimate.” Ball 1
inger said he was not aware he knew
any of the Cunningham Alaskan coal
claimants at the time he became com
missioner, but had since discovered he
1 knew about half a dozen of them, whom
lie named.
Calls Glavis a Liar.
I Attorney Vertrees referred Ballinger
to Glavis' testimony before a commit
’tee that lie and the secretary had talk
led about several specific groups of
Alaska coal claims in December, 1907.
“That’s a wilful and deliberate lie,”
i exclaimed Ballinger.
He said they discussed the situation
•in general but he knew nothing about
• anv groups. Vertrees called tLe wit
ness’ attention to the “clear listing”
of the Cunningham entries by his or
! der as commissioner in January, 1998.
“I want to say right here,” said
• Ballinger, “if I was passing over
j those same claims today with the same
’ record before me, I would say they
(were entitled to be clear listed.”
HEIRESS ELOPES
WITH CHAUFFEUR
Special Dispatch.
Tulsa, Okla., April 29.—Miss Jennie
Crosbie, the 18-year-old daughter of the
millionaire president of the Central Na
tional bank and head of several other
financial institutions, eloped in an au
tomobile last night and was married at
Claremore to Perry Hayworth, cituuf
fetir for the Crosbie family.
ASK $1.50 PER DAY
ANO ARE DISCHARGED
Special Dispatch.
Denison, lex.. April 29.- Ihe Mis
’ soitri, Kansas & Texas railroad late
• yesterday discharged nil night and day
truckers employed at the large transfer
1 »heds here foilowing their request to
j restore the former wage seale of $1.50
I per day. The wages were reduced 19
1 cents a day several months ago. Fifty
| affected. .
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WIDOW OF I. F. WALSH
WHO GEIS 25 MILLIONS
Mrs. Corrie R. Walsh, widow of the
late Thomas F. Walsh, the multi-mil
lintiire mine owner, whose will, just
filed, leaves half of the estate of $25.-
090,000 in trust for the widow for ten
years. At the expiration of that time
the capital will be turned over to her.
The other half of the estate gees to
Mr. Walsh's daughter, Mrs. Evelyn B.
McLean, under the same conditions.
HEALTH BOARD
INVESTIGATING
SLAUGHTER PENS
Mayor Callaghan Says City
Will Carry Out Whatever
Board Recommends.
CONDITIONS DEMAND IT
Out to see for Uuuselves and to
show C. A. Davies, attorney for
the butchers, just what are the con
ditions in ths chapana’ shambles,
the members of the board of health
are, this afternoon, investigating.
The party left the city hall at 2:30
o'clock and will probably return at
dark. Four or five small places
are to be visited.
The decision to visit the places was,
taken yesterday by the board of health I
during the regular weekly meeting
Agitation for clean meat, together with
an exposition of the facts as they ex
ist in several of the small Mexican
slaughtei houses, caused the nieinberq
to make the trip. It is expected to bo
productive of changes that may menu
sanitary surroundings and healthy meat
j ki11..1 in places made to conform to the
citv ordinance and the state laws.
The recommendation of the board ot
■health as to what shall be done to im
prove conditions existing at the slaugh
ter pcn«, will be acted upon favorat.lv
1a Mayor Callaghan and the city conn
eii. This was the substances of a state
ment issued today by Mayor I allaghau
: when asked what would be done toward
, improving the slaughter pens.
1 “For a time 1 regularly attended the
meetings of the health board. ’ said
Mayor Callaghan today, “but because
of certain criticism aud because 01 the
press of other business, I decided to
‘let the board of health act alone in all
matters coming under its supervision.
Mayor Will Agree, He Says.
i “I realize that conditions are not
| such as they should be at a number
: of the slaughter pens,” continued flit’
I mayor, “and these conditions are now
I being investigated by the health de
: partment. They have the matter in hand
and what recommendations are made bv
I that body, will be carried out by the
1 city. Until the'investigations, which
iwiil be made today, is completed, I am
1 not in a position to say just what steps
Iwiil be taken, but the board of health
will have the assistance of the council
1 in carrying out the law, such way as
mav be deemed necessary.'
C. A. Davies, attorney for Hernandez.
Martinez, Runcke, Cohen and M urz
baeh, lias expressed himself as willing
to see that his clients contorni to the
law. What he wanted to know, he
said, was whether or not, after the
bbtehers had fixed their places, would
the city grant them the permit and li
cense for which they had been asking
for eighteen months. After the board
of health has seen the conditions this
hfternoon and male recommendations,
the developments may include eleau
meat. Under existing conditions, as
stated, that is impossible.
“We want to learn what to do >0
nuike the places eont'orm to th<’ law.
said Mr. Davies. -When that is done,
i eati say that the hue hers will N> gox
erned accordingly. I know that the
clients I represent are jnst as anxious
as even the board of health can b •<>
give San Antonio clean men ~ W.- ' .
been trying for eighteen months to
licenses, but they have never been i
sued. Probably after the board >f
1 health has made its inspection this aft
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PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
IS METHOD
IN MADNESS,
SAYS MAYOR
Why Does Commission Gov
ernment League Want Elec
tion Now? He Asks.
“WILL COME OUT. IN TIME”
Mayor Callaghan Discusses
Call of Committee With Peti
tion for Special Election.
TOO MUCH CONFUSION
“This Is Not the Time When
the People Are Befuddled to
Ask for Such a Thing,”
Mayor Callaghan made no state
ment today indicating that he
would call an election on June 7
next to decide whether a majority
of the people of San Antonio de
sired a commission form of govern
ment. He made no direct state
ment one way or the other, but left
the impression that while he did
not favor an election on the date
requested in the petition from the
committee appointed by the Com
mission Government League, he
still had the matter under advise
ment. He expressed the opinion,
however, that a vote on the ques
tion by San Antonio people would
be to better advantage when con
ditions were more calm and not
confused by Democratic primaries,
county aud state elections,
“Why should the committee desire a fc
this particular time a vote on a ques
tion of this kind, when much confusion
exists by reason of politics, the Demo
cratic primaries and county eleetiousi”
asked the mayor.
“There is method in their madness
aud I understand the underlying mo
tive.” continued the mayor, “which
will come out in time. Could not this
question be settled by being made an
issue in the Democratic primaries, in
stead of before, or could it not be held
to better advantage later? The tniuds
of the people would then be dear and
free aud not befuddled by reason of
pending polities, in which the issue
would necessarily be forced to be made
a question among the ranks of those
who may be candidates for the legis
lature. Even in the race for governor
this question might be extended or to
any other candidate in the state of
county. Strings are tied to the issue
in a demand for an election prior to
the primaries or elections.”
MIO SINOPE
COULDN’T LB
Associated Kress
Kansas City. Mo.. April 29. —R. 3.
Mitchell, the undertaker who eared for
the bodies of Col. Swope and Janies
Hunton, was the first witness in tho
Hyde trial today. While he was at the
Swope house preparing for burial the
body of Hunton, the day before the
de..th of Swope, said Mitchell, he met
Mrs. Hyde, and she spoke about getting
a casket for the millionaire.
“She told me Hyde said Swope could
not I ce." he testified. Judge Lat
shaw ordered this conversation stricken
out.
ernoon the situation will eventuate so
that the butchers will get their licenses
: nd there will be no further trouble.”
Those who were expected to make
the trip were Dr. H. D. Baruitz, pres:
dent of the board of health; Dr. I’. Ber
ley. county health officer; Dr. 8. Burg,
city health officer: Dr. E. F. Hertzberg,
anil a writer for the Light and Gazette.
Automobiles were used and the places
of Hernandez. Martinez, Runcke and
Cohen were slated to be visited.
Local Weath
Forecast till 7 p. ■«. Saturday?
Fur s \ a<! victalty:
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