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VOLUME 31, No. 103
Roosevelt in Role of “Etiquette Buster” Appears in Sack Coat at Copenhagen Palace-Shocking!
(HERE’S REASON
FOR MISSION ST.
WORK-ALDERMAN
People on Wickes and Other
Streets Wondered and Sighed
When Gang Hit Mission.
ALDERMAN IS LUCKY
Block or Two on Side Streets
Fixed So Mud Won't Get
on New Paving.
Durango street was not brought
forth and pilloried in the public eye
from choice. The street was taken
merely to point a moral and teach a
lesson, this being that such large mat
ters of public policy as whether a man
voted for Callaghan determine the
progress of municipal improvements
under present rule.
Perhaps fifty other instances of pet
ty favoritism in street paving matters
might have been mentioned. But scat
tering the shot sometimes misses the
bullseye.
It might be mentioned, for example,
that Wickes street is improved and in
winter deep in mud. This street turns
off that important main thoroughfare,
South Alamo street, a little beyond its
juncture with Pereida street. It is the
next street west of Adams street and
parallel with it.
Nice Homes, But—
On both sides of Wickes street for
blocks are fine homes, occupied by
worthy residents who are a credit to
the city. But the street itself is a dis-
grace, full of, ruts, hollows and mud
lieaps. That the place is much traveled
is manifest from a dusty natural road
that meanders along Wickes street,
choosing the relative level spots.
In winter it is a daring driver who
.turns his team into Wickes street.
Adobe two feet deep and the stickiest
in Texas, make it a place of real dan
ger. A milk wagon stuck there one
morning last winter and the milk all
soured before enough horse {tower could
be obtained to drag it out.
Sour Milk Street.
For twelve years, at least, the people
of Wickes street have been trying to
get a pavement, or if not a pavement,
a little “natural cement” from San
Pedro, as a mud-cover, or if not that,
at least a little grading and cutting of
bushes. The petitioners and protestants
were asked, if it was improvements
they wanted, why they did not go get a
bond district, pay for the work them
selves and save the city the expense.
While Wickes street remained in its
natural condition, Adams street was
nicely improved and became in conse
quence a main street connecting South
Alamo street with Roosevelt avenue.
Wickes street had similar advantages
of location, but lacking the pavement,
is now a road leading nowhere in par
ticular, although teams and even auto
mobiles now occasionally go through
Wickes street and on over the unim
proved road to the main avenue to the
m issions.
Astonished
Great was the astonishment of the
property owners on Wickes street, two|
months’ago, when the city’s gang of
street pavers arrived in the neighbor
hood and began building a fine yellow
pavement, all at the city’s expense, on
Mission street, two blocks away.
Wickes street got nothing.
Mission street is parallel with Adams
street, and also one block away, but to
the east. It has just as nice houses
on it as Wickes street and no doubt
needed paving, just as much. All streets
should be pared, and this applies to
Durango street, as it does to San Luis
and to Mission streets as it does to
Wickes street.
But Mission street is not exactly in
the position of Wickes street, for it
does not connect with the main thor
oughfare, South Alamo street, except
through an alley. It begins at Pereida
street and runs southward. Three blocks
of it at this end have been covered
with a smoothed, rounded macadam,
surfacing forty feet wide and costing at
least $l2OO a block.
Nice Quiet Street.
To make sure of keeping mud off the
new pavement the side streets along
these blocks, Forcke and Steiren, have
also been paved for a block or so, run
ning each way from Mission street.
Going out from the center of the
citv on South Alamo street one might
reach th. ■•.termort suburbs without
knowing ' 't Mission street, or the
Mission 'licet pavement, is in exist
ence. This illustrates the seclusion of
the neighborhood. But turning from
South Alamo street around the sharp
corner at Pereida, and going back on
Pereida street half a block to Mission
street, one is astonished at the extent
of the citv’s liberality.
That city pocket money, the mayor s
contingenev fund, or genral fund, which
ever it be.’has been used regardless. Ab
together there is eight or ten blocks of
deep grading and paving. A eonserva
tive estimate of the total cost is
$lO,OOO.
Now whv does the city, at its own
cxiH-nse give Mission street this mark
ed prefcremr over Wickes street’
There’s a Reason.
It cannot be that Mission street votes
for Callaghan while Wickes street docs
notf To determine so fine a point would
require going back of the returns, for
Keth of the streets are in the same elec
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
14 PAGES
FOUR TEAMS
RUN AWAY; 2
MEN INJURED
Mix-up in Brewery Depot
Smashes Kegs and Wrecks
Wagons and Automobiles.
SEVERAL HORSES ARE HURT
One Man’s Leg Injured to Ex
tent X-Ray Examination
Is Necessary.
TEAMS ARE FRIGHTENED
Horses Endeavor to Escape in
Narrow Space, Plunging
One Upon the Other.
Herman Gruetzner, 614 Milani
street, lies at his home with a shat
tered right knee. Max Sievert, 910
Dallas street, is suffering from a
badly sprained ankle, four wagons
and one automobile were more or
less wrecked and twelve casks of
bottled beer damaged as the result
of four teams becoming frightened
and running away simultaneously
at 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon at
the San Antonio brewery depot, lo
cated two hundred feet north of
West Houston street, between Main
avenue and Soledad street.
Both the injured men were in the em
ploy bf the City brewery as drivers.
The injuries received by Gmtzner are
regarded as serious. His physicians are
unable at this time to ascertain the ex
act extent of the injuries to the bones
of his leg and an X-ray photograph will
be taken thia afternoon. Sievert is be
lieved to have torn several ligiments on
his left ankle and to have suffered a
complete dislodgement of the joints.
Because of the great swelling that has
set in, attending physicians are not in
a position to tell exactly how serious
are his injuries.
The four runaway teams belonged to
the brewery association. The wholesale
runaways resulted from a collision be
! tween a big wagon loaded with beer
l and drawn by a double team and one
i of the regulation city delivery vehicles,
which took place whet the two wagons
| drove rapidly through the narrow alley
south of the depot building. The mix
up of the vehicles frightened fhe horses
attached to each of them and they be
came unmanageable, the horses charg
ing fiercely forward, tearing down
fences and one end of the building.
Narrow Escape.
The double team carrying twelve
casks of beer turned abruptly around
and ran east on the alley located south
of the Gloeckner blackmith shop. As
jthe frightened team dashed and whirl
, ed, Gruetzner. who attempted to grab
(the animals, was struck bv the vehicle
and knocked down. Partly by his own
efforts and the assistance of his com
rades who rushed to him, he managed
to escape being run over by the heavily
loaded wagon.
The horses attached to the other
wagon ran west towards Main avenue,
and after mounting a platform four
feet high, used for loading and unload
ing purposes at the ice house, was stop
ped by several of the employes.
The double team in the meantime
had overturned in the south alley, huri
ing the casks of beer in all directions
and breaking most of the bottles, the
beer forming a veritable stream. The
noise of the overturning wagon and the
breaking of fences and the shouts of
the excited men, frightened two other
horses attached to delivery wagons and
these started away wildly, one collid
ing with an automobile, badly bending
the front fender, while on the Soledad
street entrance to the depot. The fourth
horse dashed squarely at the entrance
of the depot building and was stopped
by the men just as it was about to
charge squarely into the office of the
bookkeeper. »
Greutzner had been carried and laid
down on the gallery of the depot. Sie
vert was struck by the wagon drawn
by the horse that dashed towards Main
avenue. Immediately following the
stampede the two injured men were
rushed to their homes and medical at
tention summoned.
tion division of the Eighth ward.
Ah. here it is! Mission street has an
aiderman and Wickes street has none!
Emil A. Kuehn, aldermau from the
Eighth ward, one of the mayor’s most
subservient supporters in the city coun ;
cil, lives at No. 215 Mission street, and ’
the property is owned in the family.
The portion of Mission street paved ■
is that in front of the aiderman’s house I
ar.d extending a block or so in each
direction. The cross streets paved are i
the ones to the right and to the left j
of Alderman Kuehn's home.
The wind may bluster,
The wind may blow,
Dust may eddy high and low.
And the autos may hurry by;
There'll be no dust
In the alderman's eye.
His paint will hold its luster.
WIFE IN NORTH
LAYS TRAP FOII
HUSBAND HERE
J, H, Elliott Has Narrow Escape
From Being Turned Over to
Officers of the Law,
WAS WITH HIS ATTORNEY
Governor Campbell Will be Pre
sented With Records In Case
to Forestall Extradition.
How differently the law operates in
various parts of the country when not
all the facts are known on all sides,
was shown this morning in the case of
J. H. Elliott, a real estate operator,
foi morly of Buffalo, N. Y., who is now
located in San Antonio. Elliott had a
narrow escape from being turned over
to the officers to be taken to Buffalo
to answer to a charge of which he
claims to be entirely innocent and
which would probably have resulted in
his being sent to prison.
It happened that he was with his at- j
torney when he was subpoenaed as a ;
witness in a forgery case in the Thirty- ।
seventh district court, where he was I
confronted with a charge of being a
fugitive from justice, when his attor
ney immediately instituted habeas cor
pus proceedings and Judge Dwyer or
dered his release from custody.
In order to avoid any further pro
ceedings along this line and to offset
any efforts that might be made through
the governor of New York for a requi
sition for Elliott, Attorney Powell will
go to Austin tomorrow with all the rec
ords of the case and present them be
fore Governor Campbell in order to ac .
quaint him with the matter, so he will
know what to do in the event he is
called upon for a requisition.
The charge of being a fugitive from ;
justice was made on complaint of El- ;
liott's wife, who is in Buffalo, and
from whom re has been separated for 1
five years. She alleges that he has I
abandoned her and their child, and this
is a felony in New York. In the mean- (
time Elliott is suing his wife for di- |
vorce here and for the custody of their i
child, the suit being filed through At j
torney Powell about two months ago.
It was for the purpose of trying the
suit that Elliott with his attorney was
at the court house when he was con
fronted with the charge of being a fu
gitive from justice. Elliott's wife has
engaged local counsel to represent her
in the divorce proceedings and a jury
has been called to trv the case.
LOCAL OPTION
MAN A WINNER
Majority In Alabama Demo
cratic Primaries Not as Large
as Predicted, However.
Associated Press.
Montgomery, Ala., May 3. Returns
today indicated the predicted guberna
torial majority of O’Neal, local option
ist, over Mallory, state wide prohibi
tionist, of 20,000 in the state demo
cratic primary yesterday was high and
it may be reduced to as lew as 10,000.
However, there is every prospect that
O’Neal is safely nominataed.
Dowdell's lead for .chief justice ot
the supreme court is still strong aud
Bankhead has more than both the oth
er candidates combined for the t mted
States senate.
MIO GOES OVER 15
MI EMBANKMENT
Special Dispatch.
Wichita Falls,* Tex., May 3. —An au
tomobile in which Spencer Talley, N.
P. Blackmore, L. T. Dulaney anil M. .1
Moran were riding, jumped over a fif
teen foot embankment east of the city
limits late last night. Both of Du
laney’s legs were broken and he .may
die. Moran was slightly injured. The
others escaped by leaping from the
HABEAS CORPUS FOR
CUSTODY OF CHILD
A i-ase styled George Barmore vs.
Mabel Darragh Barmore wA'I be hear.!
before Judge Camp in the Forty tilth
.•istrict court tomorrow nt noon. This
is a habeas corpus proceeding foi the
cnsto.lv ol their child. Darragh Bar
inore, as a separation, it rc|s>rtcd is
contemplated..
Mrs. Bnrmorc was formerly Miss Ma
bel Darragh and was married several
years ago to Georg. Barmore. of New
York. She has been residing with her
parents here for the past winter.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. TUESDAY, MAY 3 1910,
YOUNG ENGLISHMAN FELL IN LOVE
WITH HER AT "FIRST SIGHT”
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, former wife of Artist Leavitt and daughter
of William Jennings Bryan, was marri ed this manning at Tairview. Neb., to
Reginald Owen, a young English engineer, whom she' first met in Colorado.
TAFT VISITS
HOME TOWN
Busy Shaking Hands With the
Home Folks and He Only
Makes Two Speeches,
Aasoeiated Preaa.
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3.—President
Taft arrived here from Pittsburg only
slightly behind schedule "time this
morning. Except for a brief address
at noon before the trustees of the Mer
cantile library and another short talk
late in the day before the Loyal Le
gion. the chief executive devoted him
self to shaking hands and chatting
with the men and women he has been
on intimate terms of friendship with
for years.
JUDGE Will NOT
ALLOW ANY DELAYS
Declares He Will Not Hold Up
Trial of Muskogee Case on
“Mere Technical Grounds,"
Special Dispatch.
Tulsa, Okla., May 3.—Judge Mar-1
shall in federal court today, trying
Governor Haskell and ii" others,
charged with conspiracy aguiust the
government in the Muskogee town lot
eases, declared:
“1 will not. holji up the trial of these
eases on mere technical grounds.
A motion to continue the eases is now
being argued and it is believed the mo
tion wil be overruled.
The government today replied to the
defendants making a sweeping denml
that they had no access to the records
in Muskogee and Washington. \ mes
sago received from Secretary of the In
terior Ballinger said that ilaskcll and
his eb-defrndants had been suppliodj
with' several hundred carbon copies of
the records. The decision on the mo
tion will be made this afternoon.
WILL OPPOSE KENNEDY.
Special Dispatch.
West, Tex., May 3.—John Patterson,
of Moody, today issued the announce
ment he will be a candidate for elector
al representative in the state legisla
ture. contesting with former speaker,
A. M. Kennedy,
TEDDY DINES
IN SACK SUIT
Shocks Danish Court But Re
fuses to Miss Feed Because
of His Clothes.
Special Dispatch.
Copenhagen, May 3.—The court is re
covering today from the shock it re
ceived last night when Colonel Roose
velt appeared at the royal dinner table
wearing a sack suit. Shattered nerves
are being gradually restored to their
normal and the explanation of the
breach of etiquette is causing all to
revamp their opinion of the distinguish
ed American.
The trouble was all caused by the
stupidity of a baggage man on the train
by which Roosevelt traveled. The col
onel’s baggage failed to show up at. the
palace on time and it was up to T. R.
to appear in the royal dining room in a
sack suit or go without his dinner. The
latter alternative appealed far less to
him than the former, hence the shock
to the court circles.
Today Colonel Roosevelt visited El
Isnore. the scene of Shakespeare's
“Hamlet.”
EAGLE LAKE BLAZE
CAUSES $lO,OOO LOSS
Special Dispatch.
Eagle Lake. Tex.. May 3.—ln a Sre
which started at 2 o’clock this morring
in me rear of the .1. L. Lester restau
rant and rooming house, three buildi tgs
and their contents were destroyed a* a
loss of over $lO,OOO. The Lester res
taurant and rooming house building and
contents were destroyed, together with
the William Randolph saloon, stock and
fixtures, and the L. R. Fink bakery.;
The loss on the three buildings, all,
1 owned by .1. Landa, was $6OOO. The ,
-furniture of the restaurant and room
ling house was mined at $6000; the,
; saloon fixtures and stock at $3OOO and
the bakery at slool}.
Tlie fire was discovered in plenty of
■ time so that occupants o* the rooming
i house were not endangered.
KILN COLLAPSES AND
TWO MEN ARE KILLED
Asroclated Press.
Birmingham,' May 3.—A briek kiln
of the Southern Clay Manufacturing
l company at Coaldale. Ala., collapsed
|this morning and two men were
I killed. .
14 PAGES
COME AS GUESTS, NOT
AS INTERLOPERSIS
ATTITUDE OF MAYORS
Mayors Davis, Rice and Fisher Astounded by
Callaghan Charges That They Were
“Buttin’ In.”
INSINUaIION WAS CLEARLY RESENTED
MIDDLEMAN
IS DLAMED
BE YOAKUM
It Is He and Not the Producer
or the Railroads Who Cause
the High Living Cost.
HITS AT THE POLITICIANS
Boosts Waterways and Takes
a Fling at the Attitude of
Washington,
Bt. Louis, Mo., May 3. —Excessive
profit taking by middlemen was the I
reason assigned for high prices of food
stuff. by B. F. Yoakum, chairman of
the Frisco system, in an address which
he made this afternoon before the
national convention of the Farmers'
Educational and Cooperative I’nion,
now in conference in this city; He de
dared that the heavy reductions in
freight rates of the past few years had
been absorbed by the dealers and not
shared in by the farmers or consumers.
Better marketing methods were ad
vanced as a means by which farmers
Would get better prices for the food
they raise and at the same time lower
figures would be given to those who
buy the stuff for use in the kitchen.
This railroad man described the drmag i
ogic politician as a distributing and ex- ।
pensive middle agent and urged that |
he be cut out in the dealings which the!
railroads and the farmers should have ,
with each other.
“The most important force for the
welfare of the nation will come when
the land owners of America are or
ganized,” said Mr. T oakum. “ Ihis or
ganization is important, not only for
the benefits which will come to the
farmers, but on account of money which
will be saved by the consumers. It is
not prices received by farmers which
make living expenses high, but the
profits of the dealers handling the foods
bet wen the farmer and consumer.
“The Florida farmer receives $2.25
for a bu’hel of green beans, the raib
road gets 50 cents for the 800 mile haul
(Continued on Page Five)
LOOKS GOOD FOR
m, sm major
With rain in north Texas and cloudy
in San Antonio and rain predicted for
tonight or tomorrow the weather map
looks pretty good this afternoon. In
dications for rain are growing more
favorable every minute, and it is ex
pected that tliis section is about due
for a good drenching.
“The storm area central over Mis
souri Monday is now over the middle
Atlantic states.” said Major Buell this
morning.. “Another stolen area is de
veloping over the Rocky Mountain
gateau region; consequently, in the;
eastern, southern, southwestern and ,
Pacific districts the weather is unset
tied and more or less cloudy, and in |
•places in the Pacific states the middle '
Rocky Mountain platen region, lower 1
Lake region and north Texas it is rain j
lll£.
A high pressure area overlies the
northern districts and the weather is
fair and cold; freezing in western Ne
braska. The range of temperature is
from a maximum of ”4 degrees at Cor
pus Christi to a minimum of 30 at
North Plntte.
Here tonight and Wednesday the
weather will be unsettled, with show
ers tonight or Wednesday, and tonight
it will be cooler.
The weather report of the Southwest
cm Telegraph and Telephone company
Jaiin at Gainesville, Wit-hits
tails and Denton. Cleburne. Dallas.
Dublin. Flatenio. Fort Worth, HiJ<
loro, Paris. Sherman. Taylor, Texa
kana. Weatherford, Fort Smith. Littl
Rock. Paragould, Walnut Ridge
Clarksville, Waxahachie, San Angelo,
Childress. Amarillo, Big Springs av
Athens are cloudy; all other points
clear. . ... .
Best Always Velvet Ice Cream
Made by
I Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
The mayors of three large Texas
cittes who arrived today in Ban An
tonio feel somewhat aggrieved at
the attitude of the city administra
tion. somewhat surprised that they
should be regarded as “butters-
In.” They say they were invited
here to tell the people of Sau An
tonio how the commission form of
government operates in their own
cities and they will do so; that they
are not caring what kind of a gov
ernment San Antonio lias.
Disclaiming absolutely any intention
of coming to San Antonio to “butt in”
to the government of this city, Mayor
Rice of Houston and Mayor Fisher of
Galveston, who arrived this morning,
stated that they had been invited to
tell the people of the experiences of
their respective cities under a commis
sion and that this was solely what they
intended to do.
“Personally it makes no difference
to us what kind of government San An
tonio has,’’ said the two executives.
“San Antonio may choose a commis
sion or may not. But when we ac
cepted the invitation of the Commis
! sion Government league it was to tell
I the people of our own cities, what
j has been done. If they want to profit
I thereby, it is their own lookout, and
the result is immaterial to us."
Mayor H. Baldwin Rice of Houston,
Mayor Lewis Fisher of Galveston and
I Mayor W. D. Davis of Fort Worth
arrived in the city this morning, the
(two first mentioned coining via the Sim-
I set and the latter via the International,
j Mayor Rice is accompanied by Janies
j P. Welsh, eitv assessor and collector of
{Continued on page five.)
5. P. 10 SELL
OIL PROPERTY
Said That Plan Is Considered
to Divid Proceeds Among
the Stockholders.
Associated Press.
New York. May 3.—The Southern Pa
cific company is considering a plan for
the disposal of its oil properties, it is
said, today, and the distribution ot the
proceeds through stock to the share
holders. The aggregate value of Hie
oil property of the Southern Pacific is
said to be approximately $100,000,000,
and it is estimated the proceeds of a saje
of the property will mean a special
dividend of about $3O per share to the
stockholders in the Southern Pacific.
A man at the city
hall —a minor city
official —was heard
to make a remark
this morning at the
city hall that “We’ll
go down to Beeth
oven hall this eve
ningrand take charge
of that Commission
League meeting."
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