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WHO IS YOUR MILKMAN?
Why not us? We eell Paswnrlzed Milk end
Cream only. Delivered to any pr.rt of the
city.
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
VOLUME 31, No. 110
Mrs. Morse, Wife of Convicted Banker, Asks Congressmen to Sign Petition For His Pardon
DURANGO ST. NOT
ALONE IN GLORY,
PAVE SAN LUIS
Impression Given Out By Mr.
Russi That Such Action Was
Intended All Along.
AND WICKES STREET, TOO
Work on San Luis Street Is
Started Already and Same
Old-Fashioned Plan Used.
THREE BOSSES ON THE JOB
Light and Gazette's Influence'
Is Shown In Loss of Dig
nity By the Caballeros.
Durango street cannot feel quite so
proud of its yellow mud cover as it
was. San Luis street is to a have a
new dress of “natural cement’’ from
San Pedro just like its neighbor, Du
range street. Will wonders never cease!
For twenty years San Luis street has
been hoping and praying for improve
ments. The mayor could not see it.
When he did happen to look that way
what he saw was the Price, Booker &
Company pickle factory, where the late
Mr. Williams, who announced himself
for mayor against Callaghan, had his
office.
So San Luis street remained in the
mud, with teams stalled deep in winter,
while Santa Rosa avenue, South Pecos
street, Matamoras avenue and many
other streets all around Sqn Luis got
Hint gravel and administration ma
cadam pavements.
Wickes Street, Too.
Not only is San Luis street to be
paved, but Wickes street as well, so it
is said. Wickes street stood in ruts,
hollows, hills and dips, without pave
ments or sewers or water, while Mission
street, two blocks away, where the ai
derman and the city clerk Reside, was
given a nice smooth surfacing all at the
city expense.
Now, if the mayor does not change
his mind, Wickes street will get the im
provements it has needed fifteen years.
Each of these streets was mentioned
iu the Light and Gazette. The paper
must have a great pull with the mayor.
If you want"your street fixed just write
the Light and Gazette about', it. 'There
ought to be a good chancq for Lake
View avenue, which has been graded
for pavements just one year and noth
ing doiiig.
Doing It In a Hurry.
The graders went to work in San
Luis street on Monday. ’lt is evidently
a hasty job and something decided upon
in a moment. Earth dug out of Guada
lupe street, three blocks away, is being
carried over to San Luis street aud
there dumped without any preliminary
excavation.
Nothing of the sort was planned when
the excavating began iu Guadalupe
street three weeks ago, for if the San
Luis work had been on the program
then the boss in charge would not have
been searching the whole neighborhood I
to find a place to put the dirt to be
taken out of the street excavation. Bel
would have known that it was to go to;
SSan Luis street.
This is mentioned to offset the pre
tense of Street Commissioner Russi that
the paving of San Luis street had been
jdanned all the time and that Durango
street was paved first by the merest
accident. It is a fairly plausible story
but the logic comes out of it in the
wash.
The Same Old Plan.
All the new grading is being done on
the archaic and poll tax productive plan
that has wasted the money of the city
for so many years.
Day's work for good Callaghan vot
ers is apparently the real object that is
to be attained.
Five wagons or more are used in haul
ing the dirt from Guadalupe street to
San Luis street. Extra shovelers labor
at both ends of the route. Men spread
the earth dumped in San Luis street and
round up the grading in the middle of'
the roadway. The methods are the very]
ones in use when the road was built ■
from Jerusalem to Jericho. It is thej
same plan that used to be adhered tot
in Mexico.
Small Job—Three Bosses.
One boss has charge of the excava
tion work in Guadalupe street and an- |
other supervises the grading in San ;
Luia street. Still, this is not enough)
for an inspector swings the circle, go-1
ing from one job to the other.
No doubt all this would be economy |
if the day's wages were 50 cents|
“Mex” as over the fiorder. But here!
the shovelers get $1.50 a day, a team ‘
and driver are paid $3 and the various
bosses get $2.50 and $3. In t.he course
of weeks this counts up.
But again the good influence of the!
Light and Gazette is manifest. The,
caballeros are not so leisurely and not.
so dignified as they were. The banner
of conservation has been raised. The
two men and the Mexican boss who are.
cleaning the gutters in the westernmost
biwk in Oakland street did more work'
this morning than in any one of the
five days previous. These are the।
times of progress and improvement and;
commission - form ■of government elec
tions.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
—-—. . —. — — — . a _ *
DR. HYDE ON
STAND DENIES
ACCUSATIONS
Says He Is Giad of Opportunity
to Tell His Story—“ Does Not
Make Him Nervous."
PROVES A G 0 0 D WITNESS
Acknowledges Having Typhoid
Germs, But Intimates They
Were Stolen From Office.
Kansas City, Mo., May 10. —Dr. Hyde
resumed his testimony in his own be '
half when criminal court opened this
DR. B. C. HYDE
morning. The physician smiled as he
came out of his cell and skipped up the
steps that led into rue court room. Mrs.
Hyde was waiting for him.
“Testifying does not make me ner
vous,” he said. “I am glad to have
the opportunity to tell m- story.”
Hyde testified that he had nothing to
do with the capsule he gave the nurse
for Colonel Swope after October 2. Hu
denied he ever pbt .aby germs in the
drinking water lie is said to have given
Margaret Swope, and did not even re
call having given her a drink.
Found Germs Missing.
The witness testified on his return
from>New York typhoid and diphtheria
germs and some cyanide of potassium
capsules were missing from his office.
He planned experiments in bacteriol
ogy with the germs and used the cya
nide to kill vermin, soiled towels in his
office attracting roaches and bugs, and
also used the dry cyanide on to wills
when spotted with blood aud in clean
ing nitrate of silver stains. He gave
as the reason the drug was placed in
capsules that it was a volatile poison
and this was a convenient form of
keeping it from wasting. He never
■ gave it to a human being and never
threw any away on the streets of Ind. -
I pendence last December, he said. The
defense at this point closed the exam- j
ination of the witness.
Dr. Hyde made a good witness, an- j
swering the questions readily but with- I
out giving the impression that be had !
been drilled. He looked the attorneys
and jurymen straight in the eyes when)
testifying and seemed to have no de I
sire to conceal anything.
FOUND DEAD IN BED
IN MEXICAN SHACK
The dead body of Florencio Nunez.
32 years old, and presumably from
. Brownwood, Texas, was found toda. at
the noon hour in a bed in a small Mex
ican shack in the rear of the Bruni
grocery store, 1202 West Commerce
,I street.
Nunez had been in the city only one
। week and from papers found among his
। effects it is believed he came from
j Brownwood. According to the people
j who saw Nunez this morning he was in
jthe best of health nnd.spirits and had
loot complained to any person.
j Coroner Umscheid viewed the body,
after which it was removed to tlie
I Ricbe morgue, where it was prepared
I for burial. It is not known if any re)-
latives survive the man.
-
Forecast lill 7 a. m. Wednesday: ‘
. For San Antonio and vicinity:
B Increasing rloudineaa tonight I
and Wednesday.
OTh* maximum temperaiure for • 5
the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock • *
this morning was RS decrees and 1 1
the minimum was 68 degree.
I ! Comparative temperatures for , 1
this year and la*t:
IM >9' 1910
I o a. m.... si । t!
Y K a. m. ... 5H 71 !
I<> n. m ... 65 7* I
12 noon . t . 69 Hl
I 1 p. in .. . 7o 65 | n *
14 PAGES
HORSES PAWING
UPNEWPOULIICE
PAVING ON PLAZA
: Foreman of City Paving Gang
Petitions the City Council
to Keep Them Off.
HOOFS GO THROUGH IT
—
> Wagons and Steeds Are
Kept Off the New Paving
It Will Soon Disappear.
Whether horses hitched to ex
press wagons, hacks or other ve
hicles will be permitted to stand on
Alamo plaza in the future will be
decided at the meeting of the city
council next Monday afternoon.
Fred Hildebrandt, foreman of the
city paving gang, says horses are
pawing holes in the asphalt just
, laid on Alamo plaza, and that if
permitted to stand there much
longer there will be no asphalt left.
Foreman Hildebrandt submitted a
I communication to the mayor and coun-)
' cilinen at the meeting of the council
I yesterday afternoon, calling the atten- 1
tion of the city fathers to the fact^that!
unless the horses were kept off the
plaza, the laying of asphalt on the
square—the mayor's famous “poultice
paving”—which is now in progress,
would be useless. He says:
“1 feel it my duty to report to you)
that hacks, express wagons and other ;
vehicles drawn by horses on Alamo j
'plaza, around the park and the old ex- '
press stand are seriously injuring the)
asphalt paving now being put down.
The horses stand around the park and'
I are pawing holes iu the asphalt pav
ing.”
When the communication was read
the council. Mayor t ailaghau arose and i
I informed the aldermen that several .
j months ago, business men on Alamo i
plaza had petitioned the council to 1
have the express wagons removed from I
Alamo plaza. The business men com- I
plained of the nuisance created by the I
horses and objected to the conduct of j
the negroes iu charge of most of the 1
vehicles on the plaza.
The mayor suggested that the peti-j
tion of the citizens aud business moa ■
be taken up by the committee next
Thursday afternoon aud that the com
munication from Foreman Hildebrandt
be considered jointly in coming to a
conclusion and drafting a recommenda
tion, which he said should be presented
at the meeting next Monday afternoon. I
BALLINGER REFUSES
TO BE IRE SPECIFIC
I Committee Decides That His
“Answer" to Question of
Brandeis Is Sufficient.
Special Dirpatch.
Washington, May 10.—Secretary Bal
(linger continued under cross-examina
tion by Attorney Brandeis, counsel for
l Glavis and others, when the Ballinger-
Finchot investigation was resumed to
day. Commissioner Dennett of the
| general land office, and Chief of Field
Division Schwartz will be the next wit
nesses to take the stand for the de
fense.
Ballinger refused to answer specific
ally the question oi whether he thought
the clear listing of the Cunningham
claims was in effect a declaration that
the necessary examination for claims
had been made and there was no rea
son why they should not be patented.
The committee, by a party vote, de
cided that Ballinger had answered suf
ficiently by saying if he had it to do
over again, he would again clear list
the Cunningham claims.
HEARS ARGUMENTS’
ON PAPER RATES
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex.. May 10. —The railroad
commission today considered the rate
Jon print and newspaper. O. T. More-
I land of the Fort Worth freight bureau
| argued for a reduction from the pres |
I ent rate of 37 cents to 25 per hundred, j
A. G. Munro, managing editor of thej
San Antoni.. Light Gazette, argued in I
behalf of the new spa (lei’s. It was ta
ken under advisement.
SIX LADS ACCEPTED
—
Monday was a record-breaker for);
service in the United States navy and i
(apt. George G. Keating, in charge of f
the 1 nired States navy recruiting of |
lice, had his hands full in examining i
he ten boys who appeared then for cu-1 .
istment. Six of the ten were alNi ।
•epted; tour were rejected for phvsi- v
al disabilities. Captain Keating said; e
his last record for the San Xn’onio p;
'Dice discounts all others in the wav i
f getting a good pick of men for the ! 1
avy. I it
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. TUESDAY, MAY 10 1910.
RAILROAD DILL
PASSES HOUSE
Regular Republicans and In
surgents Vote Solidly for
Its Passage.
DEMOCRATIC TEXANS
JOIN THE MAJORITY
Washington. May 10.—The adminis
tration bill passed the house today by
a vote of 200 to 126 after a motion
to recommit it had been lost by a .vote
of 157 to 176.
On the final vote the regular republi
cans and insurgents voted solidly in
the affirmative, these democrats join
ing them in voting for the passage of
the bill: Bartlett, Neveda; Gardner,
Gillespie, and Hardy, Texas; Havens,
New \ork; Hughes. New’ Jerscv; Jam
ison. Iowa; Kitchin, North Carolina;:
Nicholls, Pennsylvania; Page and Pou,
North Carolina; Russell and Smith, Tex
as and Saunders, Virginia.
MANN AMENDMENT
DEFEATED IN HOUSE
Associated Press.
Washington, May 10.—By a vote of
169 to 160, the house today defeated!
the amendment to the railroad bill of!
tered by Mann of Illinois, which au l
ihorized the acquisition by railroad)
companies of stock off non-competing |
transportation lines.
EVERY WHEEL IS
SILENT WHEN
KING IS BURIED
Traction Company Pays Sig
nal to Memory, of General
Superintendent.
EMPLOYES FEEL THE LOSS
Late Official Beloved Among
Those Over Whom He Was
Chief During Life.
For five minutes this afternoon
at 4 o’clock, the hour of the funer
al cf Joseph J. King, the dead gen
eral superintendent of the traction
company, every wheel beneath cars
in San Antonio was motionless. It
was a mark of esteem on the part
of the employes, participated in
unknowingly, for the most part, by
2090 passengers aboard the cars.
-wu panovugciD ciuua&u me CRIS.
s Sixty cars ceased traffic, and 12
employes silently mourned, when tii
last rites were paid the man whos
name is held in Jove and respect b
those who worked under him durin)
his life. Then, this last and fittin)
(testimonial to his memory having bee:
paid, the current again throbbe'
‘ through the motor, the brake was re
r ! leased, and cars continued the fraffi
in which J. J. King is no longer con
' cerncd.
3 Another tribute was paid when th.
* i general offices on Houston street wer.
[closed nt 3 o'clock to allow the cleri
leal forces to attend the funeral. I.
) addition, extra ears were run from al
, parts of the city to allow employe*
Hand members of their families to it
1 ! tend. This included employes ranging
I from the heads of the traction com
> pany to the poorest trackman.
A piece of crepe, hung on the office
• door of the traction . ompany. an
nounces the death of the late official
Hind is the only outward sign of mourn
'ling, but the internal signs were more
। pronounced. Men went silently about
their tasks, on their fares a look of
gloom, as if within them there was rhe
consciousness that a good man and a
, friend had passed to the beyond.
SI. MARTIN'S PARISH
BELLS TOLLING TODA?
..
| All Catholic ehurrh IhJls of St. Mar
■in s jmrish v La., are tolling today as
a requiem to Father Auguste Thebault,
( who diad in the Santa Kosa hospital
Monday afternoon. Father Thebault
was in charge of St. Martin’s parish
for several years and wjs beloved by
ail who knew him, regalof denoin*
ination. At the time of his death Fath
er Thebault was 60 years old. but had
been in ill health for yeai*. He arrived
in San Antonio March 6 for the benefit
of his health and was apparently doing,
nicely and on the road to recovery,!
when three days ago his condition be !
camo critical. Several • < his former ।
parishionrrx from Louisiana will reach '
the city tonight and will a company i
the body back to his old home, where
interment will be made.
MNET WILL
BE RAISED IB
WIDEN STREET
No Trouble About Guarantee
I of $85,000 Required By the
Mayor and City Council.
—
$75,000 IS NOW IN BANK
;“Business Proposition Pure
( and Simple and No Poli
tics Is In It."
That the guarantee of $35,000 for
(the widening of Commerce street, from
Soledad to Alamo streets, will be raise !
lis a statement made by members of
jthe citizens’ committee which is at the
। head of the movement. The statement
: was made this morning in reference >*
• the recommendation of Mayor Cal
: laghan at the meeting of the city conn
)cil yesterday afternoon that the ordi
nance be amended so as to provide tiiat
I the bond election be called when the
guarantee is made.
, “Sentiment on the mayor's attitude
; seems to be divided and different con
। struetions have been placed upon the
meaning of the suggestion, but it is be
jlieved the mayor is acting iu a friend
j ly spirit and for the best interests of
ail concerned,” said a member of the
committee,
“We nre going to make this guar
antee and 1 believe the mayor is broad
minded enough to see that we are sin
cere and mean business. There is no
politics in this. 1 would interpret the
mayor's stand as meaning tuat the
guarantee should be made, and it will
be made and without delay. This is a
I business proposition pure and simple,
land I believe that the mayor sees it in
(this light, regardless of whom his nolit
i ieal friends or enemies may be.”
'The committee is now at work rni--
ing the guarantee. It is not believed
any delay will be caused ns a result o f ‘
the amended ordinance.
“Of the guarantee fund the sum off
$75,000 has already been raised and is I
ns good ns gold in the bank.” snid .i ■'
member of the committee. “The re 1
maining $lO,OOO will be raised without)
tiny trouble, and all the money will be i
up and available by the time the mayor |
vails the bond election.”
•
HOW ABOUT THAT $5 THE
CITY OWES, ASKS PIGGOTT!
I
His Land Has Been Taken as
Storage Ground for Street
Wagons, But No Pay.
, M. Piggott, in a communication filed !
with the city council yesterday after !
noon, demands that he be paid by the
city of San Antonio $5 a month for I
the use of land he owns, the city hav i
ing used it as a storage ground for its )
street wagons.
The communication to the council
says that the petitioner last year filed )
a petition with the council, informing,
I them that if the city proposed to con
tinue to monopolize bis land, the crty|
would have to pay a monthly rental of)
$5. The petition was granted by the)
council, the petitioner says, but that!
since January last, when the rent be i
eame due, he has not received a cent ;
I from the city.
“I went to the eity clerk, but he;
doesn't seem to know’ anything about!
the action of the city council,” says)
the petitioner.
“The city should pay the rent since
January anyway, and I will be willing;
to forget these many years that the I
city has used this land gratis,” con
■eludes the petition, which was referred '
to a committee.
“ ORDERS SECRETARY
TO RECEIVE PETITION
y Special Dispatch.
I Guthrie, Okla.. May 10.—The Okla
' homa supreme court jiere today instruct
r । cd the secretary of state to receive and
is I tile a petition signed with 59.000 .names
t. and uubmitted by the Sone of Wnhhing '
tl ton. a secret society, whose object it isi
It to restore licensed saloons and to ini '
h tiate a movement looking to the enact •
v ment of an amendment to the state con ,
. Btitiition providing for high license and
-I local option.
I .
I FOR MR. COLQUITT.
ri A general meeting of Colquitt sup- !
,! portf rs for governor has been called fnr
| Wednesday at 5:30 o’clock in the of-
I fi<e of Claude V. Birkhead. fourth
। floor, Hicks building. Mr. Birkhead
I will preside, ahd during the coming
I week, for Colquitt will be (
touened in the Hicks building j
14 PAGES
DOCTOR RUSS
GRILLS GOV.
CAMPBELL
In Opening Address at Conven
tion San Antonian Mercilessly
Flays the Chief Executive.
VALUES DOLLARS OVER LIFE
The One Man In Official Life
Out of Sympathy With En
lightened Thought of Day.
Special Dispatch.
Dallas, Tex., May 10.—Over three
hundred were present when the forty
second meeting of the State Medical
association met today here. The wel
coming address was followed by the 1
address of President W. B. Russ of
San Antonio, who scored Governor
Campbell.
Actual business was begun this af
ternoon when the house delegates of
'the governing body of the organiza-l
tion meets. Waco and Amarillo want
the next meeting.
Dr. Russ, in his address said in
part: “Governor Campbell saw fit to
veto the tuberculosis bill on a flimsy!
pretext after it had been passed al )
most without opposition in the legisla-i
ture. He made the law providing for a!
leproserium inoperative by withhold-'
ling the appropriation and seriously
I crippled the board of health by culling!
| out every dollar of the appropriation)
ho dared, showing that in his judg
ment the dollar is of vastly more im
; portance than the consideration f>s’
! the lives and health of citizens.
“He utterly disregarded the public
health plank of ,tne democratic plat
I form yet would have ns believe he
Islands for the enforcement of its de
I inands. By every means in his prtwer
। he Inis forced n minimum interprets
I tion of all legislative acts to provide;
'and care for the publie health. He is
I the one man connected with the legis
j lative affairs of the state who has been'
entirely out of sympathy with the on
i lightened thought of the day on public!
। health matters.”
—♦*» -
DENIES MOTIONS
IN HEINZE BSE
(Judge Refuses to Direct Verdic
of Acquittal and to Strike
Out Certain Evidence.
—
Associated Press.
) _ New A ork, May 10. —Judge Hough
। in the ease of F. Augustus Heinze, for
Imer president of the Mercantile Na
i tional bank, denied a motion by the de
lense that the jury be directed to ac
! quit Heinze on the three remainin:
)<:ounts in the indictment, those of over
certification of cheeks and misappliea
I tion of bank funds. The judge als<
I denied a motion that evidence concern
[iug stock sales of the United Coppei
'company be stricken from the record
EXAMINING TALESMEN
IN WYNNE FORGERY CASE
Judge Dwyer of the criminal court
| having overruled the motion of coun
i or *'• " .'‘nnc to quash the iu
dictment charging forgery, the cast
has gone to trial. This mornng wa:
, devoted to examining the talesmcr
. from, whch a jury of twelve is to lit
I picked, and the indications were that
. when each side had exhausted .its ehab
lenges there would not be' sufficient
to make a jury.
J. B. Brockman, the Houston at
fnrilPV. 14 Drum inimr .m.l mioct L... i,,,.
toruey. is examining mid questioning
(talesmen in behalf of the defendant.
Attorney Brockman is keenly bent on
discerning the attitude of the pros
pective jurymen toward an offense
such as is alleged, and his questions
have been pertinent mid to the point.
Similarly, District Attorney 1. C.
Baker is as energetically bent on «et
l ting the best men he urn to try the
case. It is probable that the taking
'of testimony will not begin until Into
1 this afternoon.
♦ —.
LONDON ASSUMES
A NORMAL ASPECT
j Associsited PreM.
London, May in. The city j s again
; msuming a eonqimatively normal m
:pe.t. The chief attention todav vci-,
tered in the first meeling of the cabi
net -iure the return of Premier 'Asquit i
following the death of King Edward.
■ It does not ap|>e«r, however, the nun
inters gave any special eonsidermio .
। t<> tlie grave jwlitical questions now
[pending. tj
I Best Always Velvet Ice Cream
i Made by
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PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
INCENDIARY
CREEPS INTO
HERFFHOUSE
Handsome Avenue 0 Residence
Barely Saved By Department
From Total Destruction.
WINDOWS UNSCREWED
What Motive Prompted Un
known Person to Attempt De
struction of the Property?
Despite the flames having sue- '
ceeded in gaining sufficient head
way to threaten a disastrous blaze,
which broke out at 3 o’clock this
morning in the residence of Dr. A.
Herff, 314 Avenue C, Fire Chief
Phil Wright and his men fought
the fire with such rapidity and so
effectively that the dwelling and
contents, representing a valuation
of approximately thirty thousand .
dollars, were saved.
The fire is thought to have been the
work of som. malicious person who de
liberately set fire to the building dur
ing the early morning hour. Dr. Herff,
Mrs. Herff and the. others of the fam
ilv, accompanied by the employes of
the house, were absent, having yester
<lay gone to Boerne on a brief trip. The
sole occupant of the premises was a
conchinan. who occupied a room above
the garage in the rear yard.
Investigation developed the fact that,
the blinds of a window which opened
from the pantry, had been removed, the
hinges having been screwed off. Fire
| Chief Wright found the window open
i when he reached the scene. That por- .
I tion of the house is near the outer feme,
aud could have been easily reached hr
i a person by merely jumping the fence.
If the fire was of incendiary origin,
it was only the hard work of the fire
meq in preventing the attempt from
being a complete success.
i The flames were discovered burst-"
ing from the windows in the rear uor
j tion of the handsome dwelling short
ly after 3 o’clock by the coachman.
I who was aroused by the roar and crack
of the flames. Fire Chief Wright and
the department were on the scene a
few seconds following the alarm.
Flames Rage in Pantry.
The fire was found to be burning
fiercely in n pantry on the north side
of the building, and located between
the kitchen and the dining room. The
flames shot up through a miniature
elevator shaft and spread through the
room on the «eeond floor. The fire had
also spread to the kitchen on the sec
ond floor and from the second floor
was rapidly eating its way to the roof
and beneath the rear secund story gal
lerv.
A feature in connection with the
' tight against the flames was that the
chemical engines were used almost ex
clusively. thereby reducing the water
G. damage to contents to a minimum. It
r was not until the flames had been
checked and the ehemieal supply was
r- exhausted that the firemen threw
c- water.
? Investigation later indicated the fire
r- had originated in the pantry on the
a ground floor. The flames had already
io ' covered such territory that, had they
a-) been permitted to burn unchecked, a
>r few minutes more, they would have
been beyond control and the structure
[would have been practically destroyed,
together with its contents. Portions of
Ei the rear part of the building were in
■ such condition it showed the heat had
' reached a point where the flames were
t. on the point of bursting through the
n ; walls. The damage to the building and
n- contents is estimated between $l5OO
e and $2OOO, and is covered by insurance,
is The dwelling of Dj. Herff is a mas
n sive two-story brick, the rear portion
e being i-onstrueted of frame and almost
t • connecting with the big brick garage
to the east. It represents an invest
t ’nert in the neighborhood of SIS.<XM
to $20,000. The residence is elaborate
ly furnished, the contents being esti
, mated in the neighborhood of ten thou
jSand dollars.
[ Perhaps the greatest individual loss
,to contents was that which result d bv
। tlie destruction of several hundred 'lol-
I Jars' worth of linen, which belonged to
! Mrs. Herff. The linen was also x.ihu d
more by the owner because it had been
given iier by her mother many years
. ago.
ELECT SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
Blanco. Tex.. May 10 In Hie trus
tees election Saturday the following
were elected for the Blau- o independ
ent School district: Tom Durham. R.
• I’rist, Thad Page and Henry
I Triesch.
TAKE NISI’JUDGMENTS.
In the cuuniy court this morning nisi
judgments wen- taken on bond against
the following parties: Lula Bn»';.s.
Walter Jone^lLivinno Garcia. Ursi, .
Maui’i. BralD l ook. Anna KevnoM>.
T..m । \ • k's • Birn-. I' II i.d.--,
Mamie M< Millan. Pearl Woodraff, M
belt and Ed Kcgjtii*.