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WHO IS YOUR MILKMAN?
Why not ns? Wi Mil PartKrlnd Milk and
Or asm only. DeUvazad to ony part of the
city
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
VOLUME 31, No. 100
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Natives on Friendly Islands Capture and Eat Two Missionaries and Dress in Their Clothes
WORKONDURANGO
SI. NOT ORDERED
BY CITY COUNCIL
San Luis Street Paving Though'
Was Ordered Done t But
Was “Forgotten,"
ALDERMEN ARE DODGING
Authority Lies Solely In Mayor,;
Says Solon—Budget Pro- ,
vides Power Needed.
Nobody shakes dice in city hall to
determine which street shall be paved
next. Durango street did not win out
over San Luis street by pulling straws.
Jt's a cinch—a Mexican cinch —that
somebody in authority ordered that yel
low mud-covering built over the sur
face of Durango street in front of the
two-story house where Mme. Beatrice
Benedict is “living private.’’ No ques
t ion about this; it is as well as set-1
t led.
One thing ought to be mentioned and!
this is that the gentlemen of the city
council all deny any part in the act of
friendly recognition that has given
Durango street one of the prettiest
pavements in that part of town.
Somebody thought he remembered I
that in Mayor Campbell’s administra-]
tion a resolution was passed by the
aldermen to pave Durango street. But
he will have to guess again for no
such resolution is on the city records.
This is announced*with the positive
ness that comes of six hours’ search
in the minutes of city council made un
der rather embarrassing circumstances.
Couldn't Have Found It.
When the city clerk was asked, after
this long hunt, if he did not think he
could put his hands on the resolution,
the gentleman announced that he was
too busy to do anything of the kind.
Chances are that if ho hadn’t been
busy he couldn't have found it because,
it isn’t there.
On the other hand, the city’s books I
dqcontain a record uf a couacilmanie
resolution, introduced by Alderman at
Large Richter, and passed Jan. 28,
4997, ordering the grading and maeada
tnizing of San Luis street frotn South
Pecos street to South Medina street.
Strange Contrast.
This makes the contrast even more
marked. City council had ordered the
paving of San Luis street, a main trav
eled thoroughfare, the improvement be
ing much needed. City council had not
ordered the paving of the Durango
street “gut’’ two blocks and a half
long between the railroad and a three]
board fence. Durango street has been I
paved, and the next street, San Luis.;
has been left neglected, and in win- J
ter deep in mud.
Why It’s Paved.
Mayor Callaghan says Durango;
street is paved because he wants it I
paved. Accepting this as au ac-[
knowiedgement of responsibility, is it i
not once more apparent that the mayor,
is entitled to do just whatever he !
pleases with the city pocket money,
aldermen or no aldermen, council or;
no council.
Alderman as chairman
of the tiuance committee, was asked ‘
how about it.
“Why, that's for the mayor to say. i
where work shall be done,’’ said the]
alderman, “he is empowerd to decide
that.’’
His Authority.
“What's the mayor’s authority?”!
the chairman of finance was asked.
“Why, the budget; that’s his author
ity,” responded Mauermann, manifest
ly astonished that any one should be j
ignorant enough to ask.
Mr. Mauermaun’s answer means, if
it means anything, that because the
budget sets aside a certain sum for a
“contingency fund,” “general fund,”
or whatever it limy be christened, that
the mayor is to go ahead and spend it
when he pleases, how he pleases and;
where he pleases.
Day Libor.
As most of the pavement work is
done by day’s labor, the one assurance
that the money goes where it sb ild go
is the street commissioner's payroll]
and the records of that office. The I
pay roll is secret and men have tried !
for weeks to get hold of it and hax e
been frustrated. The records of the ,
street commissioner are supposed to'
be kept upon Mr. Russi’s cuffs in the
day time and then copied into some
private books at his home o’ .nights.
If Mr. Russi’s home burns the city's
archives will be on the bum.
He Didn't Do It.
The alderman of the ward, of which
Durango street is a component part,
would be supposed to know something
about that street paving. Mr. Arnaud
was seen at his residence yesterday and
asked about it.
“I will sav. plainly, said Alder
man Arnaud,’“that 1 djl not intro
duce any resolution to have Duraugo
street paxed. The st rust may have been
mentioned. sometime, as one we would
improve, but if that is so 1 had for
gotten it. T did not know the work was
going on until I read spoilt it.
Neither Did He.
Mderman-at Large Richter, who lives'
oniy a few blocks front the new pave
ment, said:
••1 did not know it was being paved.
1 will not sav 1 never heard of a pro
ject to paxoit; but if there was any
resolution to pave it passed by the al- j
dermen I had forgotten it”
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
10 PAQES
CLUB RAID
REVEALS A
SENSATION
Massachusetts City Is Torn By
Stories of High Jinks at Se
lect Country Clubhouse.
L I Q U 0 R IS CONFISCATED
Girls Fight and Do High Kick
ing Stunts—Y ou t h Drinks
Wine From Girl’s Slipper.
DIVERSIONS.
Boxing bout between two Lowell
society girls in early morning a
draw.
High kicking contest between
young society women for box of
candy and kisses.
Young club man drinks cham
pagne from slipper of deacon's
daughter.
FACTS CLAIMED.
Sports, “high class drunks" and
other undesirables admitted to
membership.
Strangers served with liquor for
the asking.
Raid a march on Law and Order
League by former member.
*
Lowell, Mass., April 30. —“What is
the status of Lowell's police court
judges?” is the question that has aris
en following the seizure of an automo
bile load of liquor from the swell Ves
per County dub.
Judge Samuel P. Hadley, the 85 year
old dispenser of justice, who rules the
city bench, is a member of the club
where the raid took place, and so are
the associate justices, John J. Pickinan
and Charles H. Fisher.
Because of their membership, the re
port has gained circulation that none
of the judges would decide it proper to
sit on the CC3O.
“It will probably bq necessary to
borrow a municipal judge from some
other city,” said one of Lowell's prom
inent lawyers.
Judge Hadley refused to commit him-
(Continued on page nine.)
GUY AUnilOfl
UNDER ARREST
Muskogee, Okla., April 30.—Joseph
Phelan, city auditor of Muskogee, was
arrested here today on a charge of
forgery and making false vouchers on
the city to the amount of $2980. Phelan
xvas formerly a newspaper man. He
came here from Columbus. Ohio.
HATTIE BUCK,*REFUSED
NEW TRIAL, TO APPEAL
Hattie Buck, colored, charged with
maiming a United States soldier by
throwing concentrated lye into his
eyes, blinding him for life, was refused
a new trial this morning in the Thirty
seventh district court. Notice of appeal
was given.
Attorney Mayer, counsel for the'
negress, advanced the plea that the
verdiet giving her two years in the!
penitentiary had been contrary to the
law and the evidence in that he states
it was conclusively shown that the sol
dier xvas wounded while, with two com
panions. he was trying to force his
way into the Buck woman’s home. The
court did not take that view and re |
fused a new trial.
KILBURN SAYS HE IS
MINUS HOME AND COUNTY
A man without a home or county I
is the condition in which Oscar Kil- j
burn, formerly of Hansford eonnty, j
Tex., finds himself today. Kilburn ■
came to San Antonio eleven months I
ago from North Texas suffering from I
lung trouble and when his money play
ed out fox. months ago, he was admit
ted to the county poor farm north of
the city.
During the past few months Kilburn,
this morning told the commissioners
the food served to him consisted of a
stew which he eould not eat. Other, in
mates. he stated, had protested against
the milk served to them on account of
it being half water. Last Thursday Kil
burn complained to Dr. Berrey, the
county physician, and. ho says, im- j
mediately the steward of the farm
heard of it he, Kilburn was told to i
leave. . |
Kilburn states that he xvas advised ,
to go back to his home which places;
him in a peculiar light from the tact ,
ho has lost his citizenship rights in [
Hansford county and ho other section ,
of the state will receive him on ac
count of his illne*. He says ho will
from now on make the beM of a bad
situation and try •tn outlive his trou
bles.
SEEKERS AFTER EVIDENCE BUY
FOUR GIRLS IN SLAVE MART
Purchased Them In New York Ostensibly for Immoral Pur
poses and One Is So Young She Cries When “Teddy
Bear" Is Taken Away From Her.
Special Dispatch.
New York, April 30.—More war
rants were issued today for suspected
traffickers in white slaves following
the arrest last night of one woman and
two men and the declaration of Dis
trict Attorney Witman that he will
MANY BOY
CRIMINALS
REGRETTED
Grand Jury Recommends That
Legislature Add to the Size
of the Reformatories.
DISCUSS LAW VIOLATIONS
Inquisitorial Body Files Its Re
port for the March Term
and Is Discharged.
POINTS ABOUT REPORT.
Grand jury regrets large number
of youthful offenders against whom
bills have been returned, and rec
onunends that legislature be im
portuned to provide more means for
their detention and reformation.
Presumptive evidence is found
that gambling and liquor laws are
vio’ated, and recommends that
peace officers be empowered to en
ter premises to ascertain if such
Is the case, and then make ar
rests.
Cock fighting has been probed
but no bills have been returned be
cause of insufficient time to collect
evidence regarding the operation of
cock pits within the city limits.
Recommendation that next grand
jury continue inquisition.
Suggestion is made that grand
Jury rooms be cleansed and thor
oughly refurnished, both of which
are said to be needed, and the do
ing of which will redound to the
credit of the county commissioners
and the county at large.
Reporting that they had investigated
103 cases and lisd handed down 79 bills
of indictment, 4 the March grand jury
was this morning discharged by Judge
Dwyer of the Thirty-seventh district
court. The written report was . not
lengthy and covered but tour or five
features. It was, however, forceful and
to the point, and recommended that the
next grand jury take up and continue
inx’eatigations which the present body
had been unable to finish for lack ot
time.
Text of the Report.
In full, the grand jury’s report is as
follows:
“To the Honorable Edward Dwyer,
judge Thirty-seventh district court,
Bexar county, Texas:
“We, the grand jury for the March
(Continued on page 10.)
HYDE MAINUINS
HIS CONFiDENCE
Associated Press.
Kansas City. April 30.“—They neV
er can hang a man on testimony like ]
that.” was Dr. Hyde's comment today;
on the testimony gix'en yesterday at
ternoon bx Hall, the first of the state s
pathologists to testify in rebuttal in 1
the Swope murder tiial. Mrs. Hyde
added her acquiescence.
Dr. Hyde came into the court room |
this morning from jail smiling j
cheerful a* ho has been ever since the
case came to trial. Dr. Calvin Adkins, |
city physician of Independence, testi-'
fied as to the condition of Colonel ।
Swope’s body. He did ndl believe]
natural body ailments to have caused
death.
Dr. Hektoen explained he is a I
pathologist and in the antopsy on [
Chrisman Swope. Dee. 30. lie testified
there xvas nothing about the brain that. ।
suggested meningitis.
“From what J saw of the organs nt
the time of the autopsy it seems he
was suffering from the effects of some
powerful ami paralvzing poison."
Colonel Swope did not die of apo
plexy, the witness testified. He de
scribed the condition of other organs
and added: “None of these afflictions
were of 'sufficient eonsequenre to pro
duce death.” Cyanide of potassium
has never been in general use, ho said.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 30 1910.
prove white slavery in New York a
reality.
Four girls who the district attorney
says were purchased ostensibly for im
moral purposes by the seekers after
evidence, are being held in some secret
place by -the prosecutor. One was so
young she cried when a “teddy bear”
was taken axvay from her.
IS IN OIL
BUSINESS
IN TEXAS
Discovered at Capital Today
That H. Clay Pierce Is Asso
ciated With Fordyce.
PAY GROSS RECEIPTS TAX
New Name Is Pierce-Fordyce-
Oil Association," Successor Iu
Texas to Waters-Pierce."
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., April 30. That 11.
Clay Pieree has quietly re enteerd the
Oil business in Texas was disclosed to
day when C. W. Cahon, gencti'l man
! ager. paid the gross receipts tax for
। the Pieree Fordyce Oil association, of
' which Pierce and 8. \V. Fordyce of Bt.
Louis are the principal owners, into
! the state treasury.
It is supposed the partnership was
formed when Pieree was in the slate
recently on his way to Mexico. The
tax was $7945 on a business of $397,-
159. The headquarters of the concern
are at Dallas and it is styled on the
I x oucher. “successors in Texas to the I
; Waters Pierce Co.”
WILL INCREASE
FREIGHT RAIL
Associated Press.
Washington, April 30. — Railroad
freight rates throughout the country
I will be materially increased by the
tariffs filed with the interstate com
merce commission today by western
trunk lines. The rates as changed pri
marilv affect points on and between the
Missouri river and the Mississippi river
transfers .‘lnd proportionately will in
crease the rates from those pofits to the
Atlantic and seaboard terminals.
PRINCESS WILHELMINA
ONE YEAR OLD TODAY
I .
Associated Press.
The Hague, April 30 —Mr. Roosevelt
' was awakened this morning by the
singing of Holland’s national hymns by
hands of cadets who passed through
the square overlooking the apartments
,of the American party. The singers
| were celebrating the birthday of little
: Princess Wilhelmina. The royal baby
is one year old today, and the capital
had made a holiday of the anniver
sary.
J. J. ABERNATHY IS '
NOW WITH THE SANTA FE
District Passenger’ Agent Dallas ot ;
the Santa Fe has announced the ap (
! point men tof J. Abernathy a* city |
passenger and ticket agent of that road i
in San Antonio. Mr. Abernathy i* a
widely known San Antonian. He w:i>'
formerly connected with the Aransas>
Pass, as a clerk iu the auditor s of
fiee. Mr. Abernathy has already as
siinied his new duties, and is out today
visiting the other railway ticket of
flees and learning the ropes.
CATTLEMAN MURDERED
Muskogee, Okla.. April 3U. —(.'row
Crutchfield, aged 23, a wejltliy catth 1
mnn, was murdered near Inola, a small
•town north of here, late list night and;
11 body was found this morning with,
■ a bullet hole in his head, lb' left Inola
I last night with his teain for the ranen
aud the horses came into town thi?
morning. His uncle. J. K. Crutchfield,
was killed in the same place a year
ago in a similar manner. No due has
‘ been found.
[RECEIVED
$lOOO FOR
HIS VOTE
Illinois Legislator Confesses He
Took Bribe to Help Elect
Lorimer to Senate.
CREATES A BIG SENSATION
Bribe Taker Will Be Taken Be
fore Grand Jury and Thor
ough Investigation Made.
Special Dispatch.
Chicago, 111., April 30. —A
signed confession by Representa
tive Charles White, (Dent.), that
he received a bribe of $lOOO to
vote for William Lorimer for
United States senator, is printed
SEN. WM. LORIMER.
in the Tribmie this morning and
; threatens to start an investiga
] tion "which will tear the state
asunder. W hite declares he ac-
| cepted the money in order to ex
pose tlje graft and corruption in
I the legislature.
1 .
W bite will be brought before
the grand jury and the punish
: ment of the bribers will be under
| taken, Governor Deneen says
[tire charges are startling ami an
[exhaustive examination will be
Kitade into their truth or false
hood./ Senator Lorimer refuses
to discuss the matter.
In his confession, White says that
during the senatorial deadlock in Illi
nois a few days before Lorimer was
elected he told Lee Browne, democratic
leader of the legislature, that he was iu
financial straits. Browne then asked
him if he would vote for a republican
for senator and on receiving an affirm
ative reply, Browne offered him $lOOO
if he would vote for Lorimer.
The following day. sayi White,
Browne notified him and others that the
stunt would be pulled off on the first
ballot that day. As a result Lorimer
was elected ,with 53 democratic votes.’
। Browne then gave White $lOO and later.
lin Chicago, gave him the remaining
I $9OO. .White then says he met Repre
sentative Robert Wilson in St. Louis
] three months later and was given au
[ additional $9OO.
Browne, when interviewed, said the
i charges were remarkable but before
anybody believes them they had better
investigate White thoroughly and learn
his methods. He docs not deny the
charge that a woman tried to murder
White at Springfield.
The confession is the biggest sensa
tion in years in Chicago and the entire :
state. i /
1
BOTH ARE IMPROVING.
A
Special Dispatch.
Bryan, Tex.. April 30.— J. F. Mulhall
and R. W. Howell of this city, who
were xvounded during a fight between
Clarence Poole and Aaron B. Shannon
at Hempstead Thursday night, in which
both mon were killed, are reported
somewhat improved today. Mulhall’s
condition is serious, but Hoxvel| xv:“
only slightly hurt. They were passen
gers on the Houston & Texas Centr.il,
and were hit by flying bullets. Both
arc prominent.
SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
Special Dispatch.
xherman. Tex., April —Clift Bu*
lor was today sentenced to a lite term
: in the penitentiary in the I ifty-ninth
I district court on conviction of the mur
' of Weslev Higdon nt Denison on
1 March 8.
In the case of Allie Mingo, charged
with complicity in the same erimc, the
jury was unable to agree, and it xvil
be retried May 9.
10 PAGES
TWO MISSIONARIES
EATEN DY CANNIBALS
Barkentine Returning From Friendly
and Tonga Islands in South Seas
Brings Details of Murders.
NATIVE CONVERTS ALL ESCAPE
Associated Press.
SEATTLE, \\ ash., April 30. —The barkentine Mary E. Win
kleman, which has just arrived at Mukilter, Wash., from the Friend
ly and Tonga Islands, in the South Seas, brings details of the mur
der and eating by cannibals on Savage Island, near the Tongas, of
Rev. Horatio Hopkins and his assistant, Rev. Hecktor Laurie Mc-
Pherson. missionaries of the Presbyterian mission, on February 5
W hile the bark lay at Tangatabu, in the Tonga Islands, a canoe
load of mission natives from Savage Island arrived at Fua, bringing,
news of the butchery.
SWEEPING CLEAN
UP ORDERED AI
SLAUGHTER PENS
Board of Health Visits Private
Slaughter Houses In Brush
and Makes Drastic Orders.
GNEJS TO BE TORN D.QWN
Conditions Found to Be as Bad
as Represented—Attempt
to Clean Up Visibly
HOPE FOR CLEAN MEAT
Conditions in the chaparral sham
bles, inexpressibly bad when vis
ited three weeks ago, were slightly
improved yesterday xvhen the en
tire board of health, accompanied
by C. A. Davies, attorney for the
butchers, went out in a body to
inspect.
Ten. days’ notice that the board was]
coming gave the proprietors sufficient'
time to make sonic improvements. In
the majority of instances these were in
1 a half completed condition. Interior
1 paint xvas not yet dry; screens had
been placed so hurriedly that in many
instances they had not been tacked to
the wall: rear yards had been scraped
; and Hiked in the manner of a flower
garden, but the presence of uncounted
I blowflies told the story of the near
1 past. In all the pens were fine cat
' tie.
Despite these elaborate efforts to
whitewash the situation, the board 01
health saw under all the futile at
tempts and the recommendations call
for radical improvements. The condi-1
tions were found to be far from O. K..'
mid every member of the board so ex
] pressed himself, especially Dr. Hertz-
I berg, who manifested interest in seeing
that the proprietors were given instruc- (
| tions as to what to do under penalty (
of closing , «
Those who made the trip yesterday
I afternoon were Dr. Barnitz, president 1
of the board of health: Dr. Berrey,.
1 county health officer; Dr. Burg, ci»y .
(Continued on page 10.)
FIRST MOVE FOR
RELEASE Of MORSE
—
Ataccinted Press.
N r ew York, April 30.—Martin Little
ton. counsel for Charles Morse, the
banker, now serving a ’»eutence in At
lanta penitentiary for violation of the
federal banking laws, will appear be
fore the supreme court of the I’mted
States iu Washington next Monday and
make a motion for leave to file a peti »
tion for a writ of habeas corpus for thei
banker.
COMMITTEE*AGAIN
DENIES HIS REQUEST
As»aciat*d Preis.
Washington. D. <.. April 30.—-The
Ballinger-Pinchot committee again to
day denied Attorney Brandies’ rc
quest for the original draft of After
nay General Wickersham’s suunntry of
1 the Glavis charges and other papers
bearing on it.
[Best Always Velvet Ice Cream I
Made by l
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871 I
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
The natives said that Hopkins aid
McPherson were teaching in the mis
sion building, which stands on the
beach in the little harbor of Savage
Island, when 200 of the unconverted
I savages, howling war cries and brand
ishing clubs and spears descended on
• their quarters and took every one pris
oner. The*missionaries had about twen
ty converts in training at the time and
| only nine of them escaped. Both mis
■ sionaries were bound with thongs and '
were left lying on the beach in the
t tropical sun for several hours, while
) the savages took the native captives in
: land.
The cannibals on returning to the
I beach carried the missionaries on a lit
ter to the crater of the extinct vol
cano Vaniuc. in the center of the isl-
Japd. There for two days and nights
j they held a corroborce and at times
their dancing and reveling eould be
| seen plainly by the fugitive Christian
, natives as they stole along the shore.
While most of the cannibals were
. sleeping an opportunity came to the
eaptne i.-itives to escape. Their going
was hastened by the sight of two of
the cannibal chiefs donning the mis
| sionaries clothes. The clergymen had
, already been eaten.
GUYS 1200,000 WAS ’ "
USED AS DRAFT FUND
1 Associated Press
; i Chicago. HL, April 30. —John Fetzer, s
r’w ho alleges a “slush fund” in the
11 neighborhood or’ $200,000 was used in
i advancing legislation and city ordi
nances desired by the Chicago A. Wes*as
r ern Indiana Railroad company, entered
I j into conference with State's Attorncx’ •
! Wayman today. Fetzer alleges a por
tion of the money which the company
‘ seeks to reeoxer was spent in seeking
1 to block an extension of the—Diinotr
r । Central in suburban Chicago.
johnsonTnto stay
Tyler Man Declares He Will Not Quit
Gubernatorial Race Notwithstand
ing Report.
Special Dispatch.
' Waco, Tex'., April 30.—Just before
! leaving for the west, xvhere he speaks
at 2 o’clock this afternoon, Cone John
son declared there is nothing to reports
that he would withdraw from the gub
’ ernatorial race and said that he would
i remain in the contest to the finish.
•sterling P. Strong and J. H. Gambre
prohibition leaders, have been here
since Johnson arrived Thursday.
CHARGES ARE AGAINST
. ALLEGED COCKFIGHTERS
Charges of coekfighting have been
; filed in the justice courts against Blas
Hernandez. 8. B. Martinez, Eugene
[ Ogden, Bart Carothers and James
| Lewis. Assistant District Attorney C.
|M. Chambers sxvearing to the eom
> plaint. The offenses are said to have
been committed on or about Feb. 6 and
' 13 of this year. The preliminary hear
| ing has not been held.
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