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LAST EDITION
4 o’Clock
VOLUME 31, No. 112
Shown Thal Wickersham Ante-dated His Leiter Io Taft Summing Up the Glavis Charges
' HAULED DIBI
HIM THEN THEY
HAULED IE BACK
Just Why Five Teams and a
Gang of Shovelers Did
This Is Mystery,
THEY DUMPED IT NEAR
Excavation Is Made on East
Washington Place—Filled
* In as Soon as Made.
|THE SYSTEM IS A NEW ONE
pointed Out That It Keeps Lots
of Men at Worki But It Is
Otherwise Unprofitable.
Another fine piece of grading work
•t the expense of the city is in progress
Ln East Washington Place, between
itain avenue and Ogden street, where
teams under the direction of Street
Commissioner Bussi have been busy for
•bout three weeks.
During the first week five teams, with
the usual complement of shovelers, haul
ed dirt away from the block. During
the next week the same five teams and
the same shovelers were engaged in
hauling the dirt back again.
At the beginning of this week, the
roadway in the bloek was up where it
ha/i been in the first place. Not con
tent with this, the city has hauled in
still more earth from Ogden street,
where an excavation is being made and
has rolled this into a rounded fill.
Evidently this process of marching
Tight up, turning around and marching
fright back again, while sufficiently
puzzling in itself, is not bothering the
property owners in the neighborhood as
much as the announcement that the
mayor intends now to put a “natural
cement” pavement on the street.
This sudden liberality on the city’s
fart is so unwonted that the citizens
are startled and afraid. For years they
have been asking for improvements
only to be told to go get an improve
ment district and pay for the work
themselves. They had become ac
customed to seeing all tho free work
done “across the ereck” in Durango
Street and thereabouts. Naturally they
•re fearful that some awful injury will
follow the new street improvements —
higher taxes, enlarged fire limits, raised
assessments or something of that sort.
Inquiry from the men who did the
hauling discloses that the dirt taken
away from the block the first week was
not the same dirt hauled back again
the next week. The men explain this
by saying that the dirt taken away dur
ing the early stages of the improve
ment, was used in filling in the road
way in a low spot in West San Pedro
place. As it was thrown down a bank it
would have been too much work to
get it back into the wagons in order
to carrv it where they got it in the
first place. So the dirt is dumped
along the side of the embankment was
Jeft there and other earth obtained in
•Ogden street. Thia was easier and
gave just as many men a job and poD
tax receipts.
Propertv owners on East Washington
place, who have been watching these
Proceedings have ever a better cxplana
A ion to account for the fact that the
Cirt hauled away was not tho dirt ham
led back again. They say a real estate
|man. a Mr. Austin, happened along one
levelling, and hearing a discussion about
■the identity of the dirt, said that he
I knew it could not be the same as was
I taken awav because he had bought that
I first earth’ himself at 40 cents a load
to fill in a lot. He said ho was positive
the city couldn’t take that dirt back
again because ho was going to keep it
I just where it was.
Two Mr. Austins in the real cstate (
business were seen, but each of them)
said that he bad not bought any city
dirt from the excavation in East Wash
ington place and then refused to give ,
it to the men to haul back again.
So this phase of tho matter, respect-■
ing the 40 cents and tho use of the I
citv dirt on private ground, must be
taken as unverified. It is. though, the |
regular custom of tho city graders to
/ eliver citv dirt on private property
/or filling 'and then mention that a ■
t ■ present ' would be quit® acceptable..
; In the course of a few more weeks,
in case it is found to be a fact beyond
peradventure that tho commission form
of government election is off for the
present, no doubt the work on East
Washington place, at least along this
lone block, will be complete.
/FIREMAN KILLED BY J
FALL FROM BRIDGE
■Special Dispatch-
ft Smithville. Tex. Mey ■ 12.-Teternal
■niuries, a broken leg and his scalp bad-
Kv torn, caused the death cf J. M. Price,
[. fireman on the Katy special train,
[who fell from the locomotive into the
[Blanco river, near San Marees at 2
[o’clock this morning. He was not miss-
La by the engineer for several minutes.
■The train then backed to ‘.he river,
Price was found conscious, but
■ Led. before arriving here. He fell 25
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE 4
NEW QUEEN OF ENGLAND
IS DEVOTED TO HER HOME
Queen May of England, who with her husband’s succession to the throne,
has taken the position or the leading la dy of the vast British possessions. She
has been noted for her devotion to her domestic life and is expected to work
some changes in the society of the court.
SEREi ME
DEFERS TARIFF
LAW IH HOOSE
Declares It Has Been Revised
Downward as Pledged Ex
cept In Some Cases.
NECESSARY FOR REVENUE
High Living Cost Caused By
Overproduction of Gold and
Is General World Over.
| Associated Pres*.
Washington, May 12.—The first of a
series of speeches in defense of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff was delivered in
the house today. It is predicted that
several more will be sprung within the
week.
Sereno E. Payne, author of the tariff
law which bears his name, entered into
a vigorous defense of that measure. Ho
declared that the republican party’s
pledges to revise tho tariff downward
Lad been fulfilled and that from what
ever viewpoint you look at it tho law
shows a reduction in rates; there were
some increases for which no apologies
are made; they were accessary for the
revenue. The commodities on which
the rates were reduced represent ten
times the value of the luxuries on which
(Continued on page 9.)
CHAHAIN Mil
REPORTS 10 00180
I
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex., May 12.—A report to
tho penitentiary board by W. T. Mc-
Donald, chaplain of Huntsville, was
made public today, following his return
from a trip to eastern prisons. It
praises Huntsville prison as leading tho
ones visited, but states the strap is not
used in the prisons included in his tour,
and advises the grading of convicts for
behavior and the addition of modern
buildings and equipment.
He was named by the board to go to
Ohio and Pennsylvania, and it is be
lieved his recommendations will bo
adopted.
AUTO ACCIDENT:"”
VICTIM DYING
Special Dispatch.
Port Worth, Tex., May 12. —C. M.
Corbett, principal of tho Van Zandt
public school here, is believed to be
dying today as a result of injuries re
ceived when he was struck last night
by an automobile in which Sanford
Webb was riding, accompanied by Miss
Edna Sanguinett of Fort Worth and
Miss Irene Carson of Denver.
:o PAGES
PRIVATE LISTS
Of NAMES ARE
TURNED
Census Supervisors Decline to
Accept Result of the Work
of the Committee.
REQUIREMENTS NOT MET
Assistant Simpson Explains
Why Refusal Occurred —Are
Closing In the City.
Failure to comply with the re
quirements on tho part of the pri
vate census enumerators employed
by tho Chamber of Commerce to
canvass after the government
enumerators, is assigned by Assist
ant Supervisor Willard Simpson as
the reason two lists of names, hand
ed to him by the private enumera
tors, have been handed back.
In returning the lists to Herman
Staacke, chairman of the private com
mittee, Mr. Simpson says ho informed
him the lists had not been made in com
pliance with the government require
ment in that no written statement ac
companied them showing that those
named had been omitted or missed by
the government enumerators. Before
returning them, however, Mr. Simpson
says be tested several names given on
the private lists and found that they
had already been counted by the offi
cial enumerators.
‘'The government makes no objec
tion to any citizens’ committee going
after its enumerators to sec that no one
is missed,” said Mr. Simpson. “The
one requirement is that every name
turned in must bo accompanied by a
written statement from the person
named saying he or she was missed by
the government takers. The two lists
turned in to. us did not comply, except
partially, with the requirement au.l
they were handed back with tho ex
planation of what must be done to
have them accepted by the government
census takers.”
Mr. Simpson went on to explain that
unless some such requirement was en
forced, tho supervisors would have end
less work running after parties who,
when found, would most likely state
that they had already been enumerated
through some one of the several meth
ods which obtain. He instanced the fact
that when the private lists were handed
him he looked up one or two families,
given by tho private lists as having
been overlooked, but found that they
had been included in the official count.
He said that only such names would
be received as were accompanied by
written statements that they had been
overlooked.
Expect Complete Count.
Mr. Simpson stated that this year's
census would be the most thorough ever
taken by the government. The safe
guards of checking had been perfected,
he said, to such an extent that it
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 12 1910,
TURN CURRENT
OF THEIR WRATH
OH ELECTRICIAN
Electrical Men to File Protest
This Afternoon With City
Council Committee.
WHITE’S OFFICIAL HEAD
It May Be Object of Their At
tack If Their Protest Is
Not Heeded.
WHAT ELECTRICIAN SAYS
He Is Only Doing His Duty Is
Gist of Response and the Fire
Underwriters Applaud Him.
Demanding relief from the op
pression alleged to be inflicted up
on them by City Electrician W. A.
White, a communication signed by
practically every electrical con
tractor in San Antonio, is scheduled
to bo filed with Mayor Callaghan
and the city council committees at
4 o'clock this afternoon. The elec
trical contractors urge immediate
. action in the premises and demand
relief even to the extent that the
present Incumbent of the city elec
trician's office be removed.
The communication, which was draft
ed by the electrical contractors at the
instance of Mayor Callaghan, when a
delegation waited upon him at his of
fice last Monday, according to the con
tractors, will be filed during the city
council committee's meeting this after
noon and an effort will be made to pro
cure action upon the matter at the
earliest possible date. The probabili-
(Continued on page nine.)
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*■ Special Dispatch. *■
•« Denison, Tex., May 12.—Ver- "•
’■ na Pauline. the 1 year old N
daughter of Chas. Oldham swal- '•
% lowed a bean and choked to *■
death before medical aid arrived *•
"n this morning. "■
136 MINERS
IMPRISONED
Explosion Cuts Off Their Es
cape and Rescuing Parties
Save Only Four of Them.
GAS PREVENTS THEM
RESCUING THE OTHERS
Manchester. England, May 12. —An
explosion in the Wellington coal mine
at White Haven during last night cut
off the exit from 136 miners who were
working below the surface. Rescue par
ties succeeded early today in saving
four men who had been working at the
bottom of the shafts, but were prevent
ed by gas from penetrating to the point
where the other men are imprisoned.
Distracted crowds of relatives surround
ed the pit head. Tho colliery is owned
by Earl Lqnsdale and the workings ex
tended four or five miles beneath thei
sea.
i
would indeed be an elust.e party that
would eventually escape.
“Every name is checked and re
checked,” he said. “When the regular
enumerators get through in their dis
tricts, the special men go out and check
up, finding practically every person
overlooked by the men and women
enumerators. Then there is a re cbeck
system through which none can es ,
cape.”
It is the belief of Mr. Simpson that
the city, proper, will be finished up next
week. In the Second ward, where the.
Mexicans predominate, there are two
enumerators still working. In the bal
ance of the wards the special checkers
are out, gathering in the last names. In
addition, many are sending in their
names and the enumerators then go out
and verify the fact of whether or not
they were forgotten.
“Out in the country we will not
finish for a month yet.’ said Mr. Simp
son. “Here in the city another week
ought to see the completion of tho cen
sus. but in the rural districts more time
will have to be had. It may take us
toward the end of June to get through
with the country districts, but when we
are through I believe 1 can safely say
that we will have every person within
the district.”
Striking Sentences from Col. Roosevelt’s
Address at the University of Berlin.
“One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its ten
dency to cause the loss of the fighting edge.”
“Speaking generally, wealth may very greatly’.influence modern politi
cal life, but it is not acquired in political life.”
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make
ready to hold its own in time of neeiD”
“If tho average woman is not a good housewife, a good mother of
many healthy children, then the state willytopple.”
“It would be a bad thing to accept Tolstov as a guide in social and
moral matters; but it would also be a bad thing not to have Tolstoy.”
“The best use of field and forest wilh leave them decade by deeade,
century by century, more fruitful.” X
“From the standpoint of the nation as individual, it is char
acter that is the one vital possession.”
“The good citizen must be a good citizen of his country first before
he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at largp.”
“The giant factory town is of and by itself one ofAhetmost formidable
problems of modern life.”
“When men get too comfortable, and lead too luxurious lives, there
is always danger lest the softness cat like an acid into their manliness of
fiber.”
“Wealthy men still exercise a large, and sometimes an improper, in
fluence in politics, but it is apt to be an indirect influence.”
“ It is no impossible drcam to build up a civilization in which morality,
ethical development and a true feeling of brotherhood shall all alike be
divorced from false sentimentality. ”
WHITE CHILD TURNS ELDERS'
BECOMES INDELIBLE
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., May 12. —Arthur Floyd, I
a 2 year-old baby, son of J. C. Floyd,
living on San Jacinto street, swallowed '
indelible ink and has turned blue. His
case is the first of its kind to come I
to the notice of local physicians. The
skin of tho baby turned blue within
three days after swallowing the ink, |
and according to medical theory will re- ,
main that color as long as he lives.
HIGH OFFICE
WILL GO TO
OHS ANTONIO
Large Delegation Leaves for
' Waco to Attend the U. C.
। T. State Meeting.
A
San Antonio Kill be well represented
J at the state meeting of the United Com
mercial Travelers, which will be held
at Waco, beginning tomorrow morning.
The San Antonio delegation will be com
posed of T. M. Dechman, John F. Fenti
man, W. C. Burns, J. W. McGee and H.
M. Holtz, in addition to the officers
from here who will be in attendance,
and who are S. D. Price, J. M. Allar
dyce, B. K. Janies, Fortunato Villareal,
I Hugo Goodman and C. O. Walker.
I Tho delegation will leave here tonight
] at 7:45 over the I. & G. N. on a special
I sleeper. At Austin and Taylor they
will be joined by the delegations from
those points.
A feature of the meeting of special
interest to San Antonio will be the elec
tion of Mr. Price to supreme officer for
the state, which will be quite a compli
ment for San Antonio, since Mr. Price,
as a member of the Price-Booker com
pany, makes his home here, and is one
of the most popular members of the
order in the state.
Several matters of importance will
I come up for consideration before the
meeting, notable among which will be a
movement for better service from rail
roads, country hotels nnd livery stables,
etc. This will come up in the shape of
i resolutions and committees will be ap
pointed to give these matters their at-1
tention. One committee will be named (
to look after the railroads, another after]
the country hotels and another after the
livery stables. These committees will]
look into all complaints that are made
and will make reports to the grand
council.
Another important feature of, the
state meeting will be the work of out
। lining plans for the coming year and
' committees will be appointed to carry।
i out the work as planned.
BILL PASSED*BY HOUSE.
Bill Provides for Opening of Coal Lands
to Agricultural Settlement and
Development.
I Associated Press.
Washington, May 12. —A bill provid
ing for the opening for agricultural set
tlement and development, surface lands
! which have been classified as coal lands,
was passed by the house today. The
measure reserves about 70,000,000 acres
as coal lands to be worked on the sur
face for the purpose of agriculture.
20 PAGES
Dr. If. F. Storing, who attended the
' little boy, diagnosed his affliction as
Argyria. produced from a poisoning of
I the skin with nitrate of silver, eon
' tained in the ink he drank. The child
I was found playing with a bottle of ink
] by his parents three days ago and the
physician called in. Yesterday morning
I he began ehangiug color and before
night his skin was' a shade between
| blue and black.
NEGRO SHOOTS
FATHER DE HIS
GIRL, ALSO SHOT
Armed With Pistol He Goes to
“Clean Out" Home of His
Own Sweetheart.
Goaded by jealousy, Richard Smalley,
colored, this afternoon attempted to
“clean out” with a gun the home of
his beloved, shot her father in the leg,
nnd was himself shot in the leg by Po
liceman E. N. Bennett, on whom he had
I fired while trying to escape. Neither
i was badly wounded. The negro is under
I arrest.
According to the story told the po
; lice, Smalley was in love with Hester
Robinson, a young negress living at 817
North Laredo street. He had been told
this morning, the police say. to keep
away from the house and at that time
he had threatened to “clean out” the
place. At 2:15 this afternoon he is said
to have returned with a pistol.
As he came in sight, Finest Robinson,
brother of the girl, ordered him away
and he retorted by speeding a bullet
after the man. Finest Robinson is said
to have proven himself one of the finest
dodgers ever seen, escaping unscathed.
I Howard Robinson, another brother,
[ is said to have run out of the house nt
that instant and Smalley is charged
with having taken three potshots at
। him as he ran. His aim was bad and
I he missed.
| Smalley then ran into the house,
■ eaught sight of the girl, and is alleged
j to have chased her into the kitchen.
I There he encountered Jack Robinson,
! her father. The father, attempting to
i interfere, received a bullet in the leg,
I the nature of which is undecided.
White this was being enacted, How
. ard Robinson crept in on Smalley and
; basted him one over tho head with a
brick. Smalley was knocked down, but
soon got to his feet. Ho snapped his
revolver once or twice, witnesses say,
and then, finding that all the shots had
been fired, turned and ran north on
Laredo street to Belvin.
There the negro is said to have re
loaded his pistol and to have fired at
T. C. Crowe, dispatcher at the sheds
for the traction company. Crowe is
said to have replied with a shot from
his own weapon. Neither bullet found
a billet.
The negro is then said to have run to
the corner of Florcs and Belvin, where
Police Officer Bennett took after him.
The negro drew his gun aud fired and
the officer replied. The bullet struck
' the negro in tho leg and hq fell.’ He
was placed under arrest by Bennett just
. as Mounted Officer Frank Brown rode
;up to give assistance. A charge of as
1 sault to murder has been preferred
| against him.
LAST EBITION
4 o’Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
HAVE GROWN
BETTER ANO
NOT WORSE
So Declares Colonel Roosevelt
In an Address on “The World
Movement" at the Berlin U.
TOUCHES ON CONSERVATION
। Also Mentions Race Suicide
| and Advises Nations Against
, Loss of “Fighting Edge.”
Berlin, May 12.—“ Personally, I do
not believe that our civilization will'
fall. I think that on the whole wo
have grown better and not worse. ’ ’
So declared Col. Roosevelt today, in
his address on “The World Move
ment ’ ’ at the University of Berlin. He
took occasion, though, to warn all na
tions against the “loss of the fighting
edge,” race suicide, or a one-sided de
velopment. The speaker j.inst mention
ed “conservation.” Col. Roosevelt
spoke in part as follows:
“To this ancient land, with its
I glorious past and splendid present, I
I come from a young nation, still in the
making, which is by blood akin to and
yet differing from each of the great
nations of middle and western Europe;
which Ima inherited or acquired much
from each, but is changing and devel
oping every inheritance and acquisi
tion into something new and strange.
“The German strain in our blOod is
i large, and I myself trace my origin to
I that branch of the Low Dutch stock
. which raised Holland out of the North
J Sea. We have taken from you much
of the thought that shapes our minds.
For generations American scholars
have flocked to your universities and,
thanks to the wise foresight of the
present emperor,' the inornate and
friendly connection between two coun
tries is now closer than ever before.
Germany is pre-eminently a country ia
which the world movemeut of today in
all its aspects is plainly visible.
Jewish Religion Most Potent in Effect
on Mankind.
“Our cultural history begins with
the Jew, the Greek and the Roman. In
the spiritual domain the Jew contribu
ted a religion which has been the most
potent of all factors in its effect on
(Continued on Page 12.)
SUU PHISICI®
QtCT OFHCERSi
Special Dispatch.
Dallas, Tex., May 12.—The following
physicians were chosen as officers of
the Medical Association of Texas here
today: President, J. T. Moore, Hous
ton; first vice president, A. B. Mcßey
nolds, Stamford; second vice president,
W. A. Harper. Austin; secretary, Hol
man Taylor, Fort Worth; treasurer, O.
A. Smith, Texarkana.
Council officers for the third district
are D. R. Ply, Amarillo; fifth, W. A.
King, San Antonio; sixth, W. J. Hamil
ton. Laredo; ninth, J. A. Hill, Houston;
twelfth. A. C. Scott, Temple; fifteenth,
L. G. Turner, Daingerfield. The trus
tees, W. B. Thompson of Fort Worth,
Dr. Ross of San Antonio and Dr. Tur
ner of Dallas, were named as delegates
to the American Medical association.
COMMERCE STREET LOT SELLS.
Eighty feet frontage on tho north side
of East Commerce street, running
through to North Center street, near the
Southern Pacific depot, was sold today
from W. N. Fleming and Grce.n David
son to Mrs. Florence Houghton, the con
sideration being $25,000 cash.
m. F. Schutz represented both par
ties as agent in the transaction and an
nounces that Mrs. Houghton contem
plates improving tho property in the
near future with a substantia! business
house.
FFor San Antonio and tieiwityj
Forecast till 7 p. m. Friday:
Fair tonickt aad LYiday; cooler
I tOD’Cht.
The waiinum temperature for
j A th- 24 hours ondin; at H o’clock
j » this morning was decrees and
f « the minimum was t>S d*rreea.
Comparative tempera’, urea
Ith’s year and laat:
19CS 1910
4 a. . C *
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io . « ... r.ft T»
U do® .... TJ St
1 p. » ... t* M