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VOLUME 31, No. 105
Trouble is Feared at Illinois Mines Where Strike Situation is Regarded As Desperate
CALLED POULTICE
PAVING BECAUSE
IT’S SOFT AND HOT
Also Because It Runs When
Pressed —Tar and Rocks
on the Move.
HOUSTON STREET IN HOLES
Dumping of Rock and Gravel
In Mud Holes In New “As
phalt” Has Begun.
TOUGH ON THE TAXPAYERS
Everybody may be proud of that Dur
rango street mud cover for one reason;
it is “natural cement” from San
Pedro nnd is not “poultice pavement”
of the kind that is being poured out ou
Alama plaza.
This word “poultice” is used by
way of compliment. The Alamo plaza
asphalt lacks the health-giving qualities
of a well-made poultice. Still there is
some resemblance, for it is put on warm
and on hot days it possesses about the
consistency of tepid bread and milk
mush that grandma used to pat down
tenderly over the fester on Tommy’s
neck.
To discuss poultice pavements with
out speaking of the mayor would be
difficult, for the Callaghan individual
ity is stuck in the pavement a good
deal harder than the crushed granite.
Mr. Callaghan is a bright man, oth
erwise he would not have been mayor
of San Antonio sixteen years. He is
an honest man. otherwise he would have
been exposed long before this. But the
most dominant trait in his character is
assertiveness in paving matters.
fl happens that San Antonio is one
hundred miles away from rock asphalt
beds at Uvalde. New York city sent
all the wav to Cicily for rock asphalt
and'it was the first pyvement ever
guaranteed for fifteen years. But
Mavor Callaghan will have none of it.
He has set his face against rock as
phalt and carried the city along with
him oh his hobby to the tune of-$50,-
rtuo expense and probable loss. This is
estimating conservatively.
The very mention of asphalt to the
average man suggests jobbery. Grafts
boodle, “dinero” and scandal have
marked the asphalt progress over the
country. Even the asphalt trust was a
corporation swindle and one of the
worst ever perpetrated.
Perhaps Mayor Callaghan’s hostility
to rock asphalt may be due to an hon
est man’s aversion to crookedness. But
if so. it has led him into the anomalous
position of going away off to east Tex
as after a soft asphalt when a far bet
ter material, the rock asphalt of Uvalde,
is almost at the city gates.
San Antonio has rock asphalt streets
that have been down nine years and
are in excellent condition today. San
Antonio lias had other rock asphalt
streets where the material went to
pieces under heavy wear. Iron steps
get smooth under constant footfalls and
the clink of change on a cigar dealer’s
show case wears out the glass.
No matter how men differ about
pavements, and over no other subject,
do they dispute so much, all of them, ex
cepting Mayor Callaghan, must agree
that rock asphalt is the logical paving
material for San Antonio. Tn fact,
no other city in the United States is so
favorably situated in this regard. Great
deposits are near at hand, and when
laidj the rock asphalt has the hard
ness to resist the dry bewt of the San
Antonio summer. This is not a rock
asphalt “ad. ’
But the mayor has decided that rock
asphalt is no good. He knows it is no
good. He can tell you why it is no
Ij a week, if you care to listen
that long. All the scientists, chemists
and experts in all the cities, and in all
the schools, and in all the colleges of
this country and Europe may determine,
after experiment, that rock asphalt is
the ideal pavement for San Antonio.
Het them so decide. It won’t budge
Mayor Callaghan. He knows rock as
phalt is no good. It’s no good! That
settles it.
When Callaghan was again elected
mavor three years ago be began to riot
in vellow pavements of “natural ce
liient” from San Pedro and he is riot
ing yet- The limestone rock that com
poses these pavements, is some of jt
70 per cent clay, and some of it "0
per eent limestone. When it’s mainly
limestone it’s a bail pavement and
when it is mainly clay it is very much
worse. When it has been down a yeal
and has turned into dust it’s f-ightful.
\«k the housewives of San Antonio
shout this!
Even the mayor has realize
that his “natural cement” won’t do
for down town streets. Last year he;
turned to his asphalt pavement, the soft
kind, and laid the first one in East
Houston street. The price charged for I
the pavement on East Houston street |
was $l.BO per square yard, as against i
$l.ll a yard charged for most of the I
rock asphalt paving laid in San An
tonio.
The contract for the East Houston
street pavement was let to sV Dallas con
,ern at $l.BO per yard on August 20,
1908. It was completed May, 1909, just,
one year ago Go look at the pavement
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
16 PAGES
THIRTEEN Will
OLD LAO KILLS
CHILD COUSIN
Annie May Wright, Ten Years
Old, Shot By a Boy
With a Rifle.
THE GUN IN A JOKE
Bennie Green, Charged With
Murder, Makes Statement
It Was Accidental.
Annie May Wright, a 10-year-old
negro girl, was shot and almost in
stantly killed at 8:20 o’clock this
morning at the home of Caroline
Brown, 209 Ord street. Bennie
Green, a 13-year-old negro boy is
in the Bexar county jail, an affi
davit charging him with murder
having been filed shortly after the
killing, by City Detective Joe •
Stowe in Justice Umscheid’s court.
The prisoner says he killed his
cousin accidentally.
The statement made by the boy is to
the effect that he didn’t know the gun.
a 22-caJiber target rifle, was loaded and
that he snapped the gun at the child in
play. The bullet struck the girl in the
left eye and an examination later show
ed the ball had pierced the brain. The
child was the daughter of J. Wright,
who lives on East Commerce street, and
had been staying with her grandmother
for a few weeks.
.The shooting took dace in the kitch
en of the house. The boy, in his state
ment, says that a few days ago he had
loaned the rifle to some hoys to shoot
rats with and that when it was return
ed to him it was left lying in the back
yard. Yesterday afternoon, he says, he
picked up the gun and carried it into
the kitchen. This morning, while in the
kitchen, he saw a bird lignt in the back
yard and he picked up the gun and
cocked it, simply to see, he says, how he
could get an aim on the bird. He did
not know it was loaded, but says he
intended to snap the gun a’ the bird.
Before he could do so. the bird U. w.
With the gun still to his shoulder, he
turned and called to his cousin to “look
out.” Bhe was standing near the stove,
but a few feet from him and he says
he aimed the rifle at her. saying that
he often done it to frighten her. He
pulled the trigger as she turned and the
cartridge exploded with fatal results.
Kfforts were immediately made to get
a physician, but the child expired in a
few seconds after being picked up.
CONFERENCE 'TOMORROW.
Spec!*! Dispatch.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 5.-—The scale
committee of the miners of the Texas
district will confer with the operators
here tomorrow in an effort to reach an
agreement and resume work. The men
demand five cents a ton increase in
wages.
now and it will not be necessary to fin
ish this article.
Everywhere up and down East Hous
ton street, the surfacing has gone to
pieces and great holes have formed. AH
the water left on the pavement by pass
ing sprinklers drains into these holes,
making puddles that splash the horses,
soil the paint of automobiles and car
riages and splatter ladies' gowns.
Mayor Callaghan says the holes form
because the asphalt was “burned,”
but asphalt cannot be burned by steam.
A better explanation is that the gran
it is shattered in the crusher and made
friable, so that it breaks into small
pieces under the impact of horses' hoofs
and disintegrates. The pavement is laid
without a “binder.” or intermediate
soft layer to stick it to the foundation,
which omission permits it to slide into
ruts and pile up into humps.
Yesterday someone dumped a wagon
load of gravel into one of the holes
in the East Houston street pavement
near the bridge. If this was done by
the city, it may signal a resignation,
for certainly a gravel road would be
preferable to the East Houston street
pavement in its present condition.
When the East Houston street pave
ment was new, the mayor put his men
to work and found he could mix the
stuff just as well as the contractors.
Then he bought with the city’s money,
$40,000 worth of machinery so that the
city could be its own poultice maker.
He has a big steam asphalt cooker and
mixer, an oil car. a rock crusher and
various minor machinery and imple
ments.
After six months’ idleness this $40.-
000 worth of machinery is at work at
last and the Alamo plaza pavement is
the result. It’s a fine piece of work,
if not fully so good as the Houston
street pavement, at least very little
worse.
On hot days last week, horses’ hoofs
made marks on the pavement. The
steam roller left its trail. The surface
was soft under foot and easy walking.
It is laid without a “binder” and al
ready it is starting to crawl on the
foundation and there are signs of un
dulations.
But the mayor has had his way—and
San Antonio has the poultice. Rock as
phalt is down and out.
SEEK A NEW
LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
Forty-five Senators, All Regu
lars, Join In Movement to
Formulate One.
TAFT BACK TOMORROW
If He Is Willing to Use “Big
Stick” Senate Control Will
Be Assured.
Aiaocisted Press.
Washington. May 5. —Forty-five sen
ators, all from the conservative or
“regular” wing membership, are said
to have joined in a movement to formu
late a new administration legislative
program. Two more are claimed but
the. regular republican leaders say they
do not care to subject these men to em
barrassment by disclosing their names
at this time.
In the effort to maintain control of
the senate machinery much depends up
on the success of President Taft in har
monizing the differences that may
arise.
He will be back in Washington to
morrow. If he is willing to swing the
“big stick” as the regular republicans
say he is, the claims of the regular or
ganization will appear to be justified.
The work of organization in lining up
the senate members, proceeded today
with the understanding that the senate
will adjourn until Monday.
THOUGHT
SIGNITU BE
A FORGERY
G. W. Deaton Testifies as to
Waugh Endorsing $20,000
Note on Eagle Lake Bank.
WAS NOTHING UNUSUAL
Says He and Waugh Had Con
fidence In Each Other In
Transacting Business.
Four witnesses were examined in the
case of Andrew M. Waugh in the. fed
eral court this morning. They were H.
L. Morris, receiver of th<* Woods Na
tional W. Deaton. B. L. Vin
yard and Bank Examiner Logan. It
is expected that the case will occupy
the remainder of the week.
Mr. Morris testified to the effect that
>he Woods National bank has paid out
i 90 cents on the dollar and will pay 7
।or 8 cents more. He said he noticed
; the $20,000 note in the file case, and
that he asked Woods about it. but did
'not remember what the answer was. He
said the answer was unsatisfactory.
G. W. Deaton testified about coming
to San Antonio from Eagle Lake on ac
count of his wife’s health, and said
that after coming here Waugh called
at his place of business in the early
part of 1907. Mr. Waugh endorsed a
note for $20,000 in favor of Vineyard.
Waiker & Co. He didn't remember if
Waugh signed the note while there,
but he didn’t think he did. He said
this was not an unusual transaction
between him and Waugh, because they
had frequently accommodated one an
other and had confidence in each other.
He said the note shown in court had
bis name on the back as endorser, but
he could not say positively if that was
his signature, though it resembled it.
Be said the note shown purported to
be executed by N. A. Thatcher and that
he never endorsed any notes in his life
executed by Thatcher and could not
have done so. because he knew tint
Thatcher was insolvent. If the note
shown him was the one Waugh brought
him it was his own signature; if not it
was a forgery, and he was Inclined to
believe it was a forgery, for he had
never endorsed a note executed by
Thatcher. Waugh didn’t tell him what
he wanted with the note, nor did he
vsk him, as he considered that Waugh
ami the firm of Vineyard, Walker &
Co. were solvent and able to protect it;
that he never saw the note again or
paid any attention to it until a month
or so later, when the note now shown
Mm by Receiver Morris, who asked if
it was his signature, and he replied ns
heretofore testified to. He said that
after Morris had shown him the note
he a«ked Will Woods about it ami that
Woods replied that that particular note
was the nne denosited in the Woods
ank.
Lost Money in Futures.
The last witness on the stand before
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 5 1910.
WHERE ROOSEVELT MAKES PEACE TALK TODAY
(1) —King Haakon of Norway, who will banquet T. R. (2) —Nobel Peace
building at Christiania, where T. R. will be guest. (3) —King Haakon's Pal
ace. (4) —J. G. Loveland, Chairman of Nobel Peace Committee, who will wel
come former President to Norway.
DESPERATE MINERS MARCH ON
ILLINOIS MINES TO OGIVE DOT
MEN WHO RETURNED 10 WORK
Asaoclated Frese.
Danville, 111., May s.—Three hundred miners of this city marched on
the Southwestville coal mine today, declaring they would drive out of the
miners there, the men who returned to w’ork, pending an agreement be
tween the strikers and employers, and a riot is threatened.
Many families in the district are said to be starving because of the
shutdown of the mines and the situation is declared to be desperate. The
sheriff hastily organised a posse to start immediately for the scene of the
trouble.
Before the sheriff's posse sta
news that the miners at work at S
the approach of the mob.
Attacks wore made by "OU or 800
miners, mostly. Slavs and Italians, who
declared their wives and children were
crving for food and that they them
selves were hungry. Massing first at
YOUNG MINISTER, ONLY RECENTLY
WED, SHOOTS SELF IN THE HEAD
SMS HITCHCOCK
WAS ID BLAME
Ballinger Thinks It Was For
mer Secretary's Fault Some
States Were Left Out.
Aaaoclated Prese
Washington, May s.—Secretary Bal
linger took the stand today to com
plete his direct testimony in the Ballin
ger-Pinchot investigation. For more
than an hour the committee question
ed Ballinger about the m-rhods pursued
in entering upon new reclamation pro
jects. It brought out that many states
bad not had au equitable share of these
projects. .Senator Flint sought to as
certain' who was responsible for this
condition. The witness admitted that
probably former Secretary Hitchcock,
under whose administration most of the
existing projects were initiated, was re
sponsible and not Director Newell of
the_reclamation service.
the court took a noon recess was U. L.
who testified that W augn
told him of having lost some money in
cotton futures. He did not say when or
how much. On cross examination wit
ness stated that he could call to mind
only two instances in which lie had
dealt in futures, one as late as 190 b.
he thought. He said-it was nothing uu
usual for the members of the banking
firm of Vineyard, Walker & to. to
borrow money from the hank, admit
ting that at one time he had borrowed
as much as $35,000 from the bank.
SHOPLIFTER FINED.
Pablo Estre.jos, an alleged shoplifter,
this morning was convicted in the conn
ty court and given a line of $lOO and
one dav in jail
rted. a telephone message brought
outhwestville fled from the pits on
; Westvillcj they marched from mine to
mine in Kelleyville, Westville, South-
; westville and Little Vermillion, armed
with big clubs and stones. No shots
; were fired.
Family Troubles Are Assigned
as Cause for Rash Deed of
Orange (Texas) Pastor.
Special Dispatch.
Orange, Tex.. May s.—Family tron-
Tdc, following his marriage about tw->|
months ago, is assigned as the cause|
for the suicide of Hev. Arthur McFaul,
aged 32, who shot himself in the head
at a hotel here this morning. He re
signed recently when he separated
liom his wife. He had been pastor of
the First Baptist church for two years. ।
I The body will be sent home to his par- j
I tuts at Kemp.
DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID
Special Dispatch.
Houston. Tex., May s.—After drink |
ing carbolic acid. E. A. Herring. 35 j
years old. died while being hurried to !
a hospital this morning. Herring went
to a drugstore, following the receipt of
several telegrams, and buying a dime’s!
worth of acid he walked quickly to th? J
street and drank the contents of the |
vial. He was unmarried. Little is
known concerning him as he has been
here but a short time.
— -—♦♦♦-
STACHEM GETS TWO YEARS
IN THE PEN FOR FORGERY
Harry Staehem was yesterday con
victed of forgery and this morning sen
tenced to two years in the penitentiary.
His conviction was brought about by
Mae Davis, a young woman who camo
trom Corpus Christi to testify. It was
illeged that he had forged mi order
(rawing money belonging to her. Two
tier cases against him have been dis
Austin Bost, charged with assault :o
murder, this morning failed to answer
when his case was called in the district
court. His bond wa« declared forfeited
and an alias warrant issued for his ap
prehension. It is believed that he will
lie recaptured witlJn the next few days
as it is stated that his present where
abouts are well known.
16 PAGES
MAYOR ORDERS
SLAUGHTER PENS
10 BE SANITARY
“Will Demand Strict Compli
ance With the Law Is Ob
served;” He Says.
TO RIGIDLY ENFORCE IT
“I will demand that a strict
compliance with the law is observ
ed with reference to the slaughter
pens in Bau Antonio. The slaughter
houses must in the future be main
tained in a thoroughly sanitary
manner, as prescribed by the ordi
nance. No filth must be permitted
to exist and the slaughter pens
must be kept absolutely fly-proof. I
will insist on the ordinance being
observed in all its details.
“It will be rigidly enforcing the or
dinance that a clean and wholesome
meat supply will be had. I had intend
ed first to establish a central slaughter
house, but the expenditure of $40,000
or $.">0,000 to do this, I have just learn
ed, would be useless. This method, it
is claimed, would briug about a monop
oly and under the Texas laws the city
could not force butchers to do their kill
ing at a municipal abattoir. The only
remedy left is to strictly enforce the or
dinance regulating the slaughter pens
in the citv and this 1 have decided to
Mayor Bryai Callaghan gave out the
above statement today. The members
of the board of health are cognizant of
the status of the situation and a re
port relating to the visit of the health
i officials, to the slaughter pens last
week and providing for reeommenda
|tions in the premises, which will be
submitted by Dr. S. Berg, the city phy
' sician, at the meeting of the board of
health this afternoon, will coincide with
the statement made today by the
mavor.
The health boardwill convene in reg
ular session at 6 o'clock this evening
at the city hall. The condition found
existing at the slaughtering establish
ments known as the “chapparal sham
bles,” will be discussed anil the report
to be dratted by City Physician Dr.
Burg, wil Ibe submitted to the city
council.
KING EOWARD
SERIOUSLY ILL
Associated Press.
London, May 5. —King Edward is
suffering from a severe bronchial at
tack. His majesty lias been confined
to his room for two days and today his
condition was such he was not able to
go to the railway station to meet Queen
Alexandria, who returned thia after
noon from the continent.
—— - -
ENRIQUE CREEL THANKS
INTERNATIONAL CLUB
Secretary A. W. Hartman of the In
ternational club, is in receipt of a tele
gram from Enrique Creel, the new sec
retary of foreign relations for Mexico,
thanking the club for the telegram of
congratulations and the well wishes of
the members for his promotion in offi
• ial life iu his country.
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EXPLOSION
KILLS OVER
150 MEN
Associated Press.
BirminghdTn. Ala., May 5.—
An explosion in the mines of the
Palos Coal and Coke compnay,
thirty miles from Birmingham,
this afternoon, killed between
150 and 180 men, it is be
lieved. The first man found
dead was 150 feet from the
entrance of the mine. A spe
cial train is now leaving Bir
mingham for the scene.
3:3o—The latest report
from the Palos mine stated that
185 men are in the mine and
all are dead.
HYDE SATS HE
IB CONFIDENT
DE ICOUiniL
Defense In Kansas City Mur
der Trial Begins Presenta
tion of Testimony.
END WITHIN A WEEK
First Witnesses Says Colonel
Swope Was Constant Liquor
Drinker and In Poor Health,
Associated Pres*.
Kansas City, Mo.. May s.—The de
fense in the Hyde murder trial began
the presentation of witnesses today.
Between fifteen and twenty persons
will testify in behalf of Hyde, it is
said, and indications are that the case
will be in the jury's hands within a
week.
“I am well satisfied with thq trial
thus far.” said Hyde before court to
day. “I think I will be acquitted.”
Tn the effort to prove Swope’s physi
cal condition poor, S. W. Spangler, for
seven years business agent for the mil
lionaire, was called to open the de
fense’s ease.
Spangler said Swope drank heavily
until eleven months before his death.
When Swope gave up drinking, testi
fied the witness, he became very weak
and became a user of patent medicines,
and remedies containing strychnine.
Typhoid fever, uraemic poisoning or
meningitis, said Dr. Frohlin, the next
witness, often caused convulsions simi
lar to those produced in the case of
Col. Thomas, Chrisman and Margaret
Swope.
WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT
“POOL” PROSECUTION
Associated Press.
Washington. Mar s.—The house ju
diciary committee toihay reported fav
orably the resolution offered by Repre
sentative Craig (democrat) of Alabama
calling upon the attorney general for
information concerning the prosecution
by the department of justice of the al
leged “bull” pool in cotton. The reso
lution also asks if anybody is being
prosecuted for attempting to depress
the price of cotton.
HARDY AMENDMENT
DEFEATED IN HOUSE
Associated Press.
Washington. May 5, —In the house
the amendment by Hardy of Texas em
powering the interstate commerce com
mission to fix railroad rates was de
feated by 63 to 88.
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