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8 The Price of a New Thos. Goggan & Bros. Piano is $585 Five more thrown in the sale stock. They are perfect in every respect, as you well know, except for a few slight scratches which can scarcely be found since repolishing. Here Is a Gem Large mahogany case. Three strings for each note. Ivory keys, repeating action. Three pedals and patent soft stop for practicing. Same style and price as shown at top. Now $250 These are only illustrations of the bargains on our floors which we intend to dispose of within the next two or three days. We are obliged to make room for our new stock which is now arriving. We do not propose to carry a second-hand piano or a sample over. We also have many other pianos, among them being Kimball, Emerson, Vose & Sons, Schilling & Sons, Weber, Chickering, Emerson, Steinway & Sons, Steck, Brewster, Jesse French and one perfect Player Piano cheap. $125 to $215 We repeat that these are decided bargains and those who did not have the oppor tunity of obtaining a piano at our last clearance sale of samples, etc., should not let this opportunity go by. Arrangements made either for weekly or monthly payments, from $1.25 per week and upward. THOS. GOGGAN & BROS. Both HACKLESS TOWN, ORDER OF MAYOR (Contin icd From Page One) put down and the foreman of the work Petrich-Saur Lumber Co. Is unloading car after car of kiln-dried lumber espec ially well adapted to Texas climatic conditions. Ring up 3030 for quotations. Petrich-Saur Lumber Co. Chestnut and Lamar Sts. School Catalogues We are recognized headquarters for school catalogues, and, like most other things, there is always a reason. Our product is of the highest class, because we have the men who know how to get up something attractive —something which will do you some good when you send it out. Lots of orders in the house now—we want yours. How about it! Sari Antonio Printing Co. L. B. CLEGG, President and Treasurer. 130 Soledad Street. San Antonio, Texas. D° n 1 another day pass without investigating this modern cleaning and ft * B K Aya? dyeing establishment. No garment too delicate for us to handle in the most approved manner. We also renovate and make old hats almost as good as new. Be economical— send your hats an j clothes to us. JW THE TROY AUSTIN V. SMITH, Manager. J । 429 E. Commerce St. Ij— New 2517-red —Phones—Old 862-3 r. VEDNESDAY, DON'T RENT ANOTHER DAY I complained that the horses were paw | ing it up, was the ordinance which now seeks to repeal section 6, chapter 24 [ 1 of the ordinance in question, introduced in the council. This ordinance is now ' pending and tias never been adopted. It is said that the proposed enforce ; I ment of the provision of the traffic or- THOS. GOGGAN & BROS. THURSDAY’S SPECIALS Several Decided Bargains In New and Little Used PIANOS $75, $125 AND $215, Etc. Another Illustration A large Chickering upright, mahog any case. Three stringed unison, re peating action. Full metal frame. A beautiful tone. Original price was s6oo. Has had use. Only $l9O (Established 1866) HOUSTON AND NAVARRO STREETS SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE dinance, which will require every ve hicle to carry lights at night, may be criticized at the meeting this after noon. The drivers say that for every vehicle to be compelled to go about the streets at night with a lighted lamp would make San Antonio “look like a country town.’’ They maintain that if automobiles, which are really the only dangerous vehicles on the streets, are compelled to carry lights the ordi nance will have been sufficiently ob served. Apply to All Plazas. It is probable that definite action re garding the removal of all vehicles from Alamo plaza will be taken at the meeting this afternoon and that reso lutions will be adopted for presentation before the police committee of the city council at the meeting Thursday after noon. The baqkmen and others feel that in view of the fact that their old stand has been taken away from them, the city should designate some other staiid. If this is refused the hackmen say the city should not demand that the hackmen be forced to pay a license. If the hacks are not to be permitted to stand anywhere but move from place to place they should be classed as pri vate conveyances. Mayor Callaghan this morning said that the order issued to have all ve hicles removed from Alamo plaza would, just as soon as the asphalt is laid on Main and Military plazas, ap ply to these squares also. “I do not see that the city should provide a stand for the hackmen,” add ed the mayor. “It may just as well be said that the city should provide locations for the little grocery stores. The livery stables control most of the hack trade and, while it may affect the hackmen to some extent, In do not be lieve the paving on Alamo plaza should be ruined just to accommodate the hack- and expressmen. Besides, their stand there has caused the business men to complain of certain nuisances, and I do not blame them for complain ing. Why should they want to* stand on Alamo plaza! This place has no advantage over any other place except that they are surrounded by many big and handsome buildings. Most of the trade is accomplished by telephone, and any place would serve the purpose. It is not absolutely necessary that only Alamo plaza be resorted to for a stand.” IN CRITICAL CONDITION. Special Dispatch. Tex., May 18.—Roy Cook of Denison, who was shot here yester day by W. A. Rose, a traveling man, was alive this morning, but his condi tion is critical, and his chances of re covery are said by physicians to be small. VERDICT OF SUICIDE. Special Dispatch. Corpus Christi, Tex., May 18.—Ava lina Canales, 23 years old, is dead as the result of a self-inflicted rifle wound. An inquest today resulted in a verdict of suicide. Canales lived near Piedras Pintas. WRONG WORD 111 lELEGRAM KILLS LIVING WOMAN Causes Sister to Believe She Is Dead and Makes Her Take Long Journey. COURT AWARDS DAMAGES Telegraph Operator Sent Word "Jurying" Instead of “Nurs ing”—Sues for Anguish. A misunderstanding over the tele phone in the transmission of a message brought out a fine point of law in the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals this morning. It was in the case of the Western Union Telegraph company, ap pellant, vs. Lizzie Buchanan, appellee, on appeal from Lavaca county, a suit for damage's in which the plaintiff was awarded a verdict for $950 in the dis trict court for the misinterpretation of a message that was sent into the office at Hallettsville over the telephone and transmitted over the wires of the tele graph company. The verdict in the low er court was affirmed. The message as sent in over the tele phone is alleged to have been: “To Lizzie Buchanan, Ellinwood, Kan.: Rachel is sick at Manguin. Please go at once and assist in nursing her. John Buchanan. ” The message as it was delivered by the telegraph company to Miss Buch anan rend as follows: “Hallettsville, Tex., July 2, 1908: To Lizzie Buchanan, Ellenwood, Kan.: Rachel is sick at Mangum. Please come at once and as sist in burying her. John Buchanan.” The receipt of this message from her father notifying her of the illness of her sister caused Miss Buchanan to go to Hallettsville, where she expected preparations were being made for burial, instead of going to Mangum, Okla., where her father had asked her to go iu the message he dictated over the telephone to the telegraph office at. Hallettsville. The words “go” and “nursing” were misinterpreted as “come” and “burying” and this re sulted in the confusion. Upon receipt of the message Miss Buchanan took the first train for Hal lettsville and she says she did not learn of the condition of her sister until after she had reached Wallis, being un der the impression up to that time that she was dead, which caused her great pain and distress of mind. Upon her ar rival at Hallettsville she took the first train for Mangum to be at the bedside of her sister. The proposition that the message was sent into the telegraph office over the telephone was raised in the appeal to the high court, and replying to this, Justice H. H. Neill, who handed down the opinion, says: “This is a question as to the admissability of evidence and should have been raised upon the trial instead of here. The material ques tion was not the manner of the deliv ery of the message or form in which it was accepted by him for transmission in the words of the alleged original message. Upon this there was no issue of fact, for the undisputed evidence shows that it was so delivered to and accepted by him for transmission. This being so, it can make no difference whether the delivery or acceptance was by phone or not.” Replying to the proposition of mental anguish resulting from the confusion brought about by the delivery of the alleged wrong message, Judge Neill says: M ‘Mt cannot be said as a matter of Don’t Wear A Truss After Thirty Tears Experience I Hav« Produced An Appliance for Men, Women or Children That Cures Rupture. I Send It On Trial. If you have tried most ev *Uf, , *1 Mme to me. Where others fall Is where I have my greatest success. Send a l; tached coupon today and I will send you fhe above la C. E. Breoke of Marshall. Mich., who has been curing Rupture for over 30 years. If Ruptured write him to-day. free mv Illustrated book on Rupture and Its ci?e. towing my Appliance and giv n« you prices and names of many people who have tried it and wore .mred. It is Instant relief when all others fall. Re member I use no salves, no harness, no "Y send on trial to prove what I say la true You arc the Judge and once hav ing aeen my Illustrated book and read It you will be as enthusiastic as my hun dreds of patients whose letters vou can also road Fill out free coupon below and mail today It’s well worth your time whether you try my Appliance or not. FREE INFORMATION COUPON. C E Brooks. J® 7 * Brooks Bldg.. Mar shall Mich. Please send me by mall In plain wrapper your Illustrated book and full Information about your Appliance for the cure of rupture. Name Address City State CRYSTAL CITY | * Is Already a Town of I L Commercial Importance . I [ It HAS Grown and IS Growing Faster I Than Any Town in Southwest Texas 1 I It is the Capital and Commercial Center of the great I I Cross S Ranch, where there are already flowing I I artesian wells and great crops to show the fertility C lof the soil. Cross S farmers have made big C I money this year—are making big money every year. I fl Crystal City already has waterworks, the supply 1 ! coming from artesian wells. It has electric lights, * schools and churches, banking facilities and all the * comforts of a big city. 1 Crystal City is the headquarters of the I Crystal City & Uvalde Railroad. The I general offices and machine shops are | located there, providing a big tin 1 bucket brigade. A big tin bucket I brigade means a great retail business. | Lots STS io S3so—slo Gash—slo per Month I BE SURE AND VISIT CRYSTAL CITY 1 ’ SEE THE TOWN AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF I E. J. BUCKINGHAM 002 Gibbs Building | law in view of all the facts and cir cumstances that the telegram as deliv ered to plaintiff was not reasonably calculated to induce her to believe that it meant for her to go at once to Hal lettsville and assist in burying her sis ter Rachel. She couldn’t have believ ed that she would be called homo by her father to assist in burying his daughter and her sister unless she was dead, or so imminently apparent that she would be a corpse when plaintiff in response to the message should ar rive at Hallettsville. The words ‘Come at once and assist in burying her,’ from there immediately following sentence, ‘Rachel is sick at Mangum,’ cannot be as a matter of law construed to mean anything except what they say. “Death within a few minutes is in evitably witnessed in many cases of sickness. So unerringly can immediate dissolution be seen in many cases of sickness that it can be known with cer tainty that preparations must soon be made for the burial of the corpse of the one who is sick. Reading the en tire message, it was not unreasonable for the plaintiff to thus construe it: ‘When my father wrote this my dear sister Raehel was so sick at Mangum that ho knew I would find her dead at Hallettsville as soon as I can reach there, else he would not call me there to “assist in burying her.” ’ ” “To say that deep mental anguish would not flow as a natural conse quence of defendant's negligence in so changing the telegram as to be thus, in terpreted by plaintiff would be a libel upon human nature. Though one may be distressed in the knowledge of the sickness of a sister, yet such distress is ameliorated by the hope of recovery, even though it be hope against hope; but there is nothing in or of this world that can assuaop the grief which wrings the heart and bows down the head and soul when informed of the detfth of a loved one. In such a case a coffin lid closes down over your hope as well as over the face of your dead, forever. It is no use to attempt a metaphysical an alv.vs, or psychological distinction be tween the grief one feels in contemplat ing the sick bed and the coffin of a loved one. There is a difference. It has been felt and recognized by every one who has ‘nature in him and will be ‘as long as man has passions, as long as earth has woes.’ That the plaintiff would have suffered mental anxiety had the telegram been deliv ered as written, affords no excuse or palliation for defendant’s negligence in changing its wording so as to wring her heart with grief, as though it were for the dead.” NATURE’S REMEDIES FOR DIS- . EASE. Nature provides more effective reme dies in the roots and herbs of the field than were ever produced from drugs. Thirty years ago Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass., discovered and gave to the women of the world a remedy made from roots and herbs, which has proved more efficacious in curing women's dis eases than any other medicine the world has ever known, and today Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is look ed upon everywhere as tho standard remedy for woman's ills. NEGRO IS CONVICTED. Special Dispatch. Waxahachie, Tex., May 18.—Dave Sexton, a negro, charged with killing Will Blackshear, another negro, here April 18, was convicted today of mur der in the second degree and given 20 years. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP Has betu —ed for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA Sold ui’ Druggists in every part, of the world. He sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup." and take no other kind. Me. a bottle. FUNERAL NOTICE. Mr. Lee Swartzkopf. Died, in San Antonio, at 2 o’clock p. m., May 15, 1910, Mr. Lee Swartzkopf, aged 36 years. Funeral will take place from the parlors of the Zizik Undertak ing company, 221 St. Mary’s street, Thursday morning at 10 o ’clock, May 19, 1910. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. Interment City Cemetery No. 3. FUNERAL NOTICE. Mrs. Amelia Gessler. Died, in San Antonio, Texas, at 11:10 o'clock p. in., May 17, 1910, Mrs. Amelia Gessler. aged 65 years. Funeral will take place from her late residence, No. 330 Belmont street, at 10 o’clock a. m., Thursday, May 19. Friends and ac quaintances are invited to attend. Profitable Reading is to read about our unequaled advan tages for equipping homes, stores, of fices and factories with Electric Light and other Electric Fixtures, such as bells, annunciators, etc. We are expert Electricians and understand every de partment in the business. We do quick and thorough work, repair work, too, and we are very moderate in our c. arges fpr both. JOHN D. CONNELLY Electric Works. 218 EAST COMMERCE STREET. MAY 18, 1910. MOHONK CONFERENCE BEGINS ITS SESSIONS Associated Press.' Mohonk Lake, N. Y., May 18.—The sixteenth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk conference on international ar bitration began its three days’ session today. Diplomats, educators, jurists and clergymen from many parts of the world received a welcome from Albert Smiley, founder and host of the organ ization. CHLOROLIW T for disinfecting and I I spring cleaning. En- I vAj dorsed by slate hcalta 1 IS board. $1.50 per gal- X lon. JUNOKTND DRUG STORE. 519 East Houston St. No Chances Ire Taken / when we supply you with ice. We make it a point to satisfy our customers in every way— promptness and regularity of de livery. We solicit a trial. SOUTHERN ICE CO, Phones 146 and 22. Dr. Chas. Rees OPTICIAN. 330 W. Commerce Street THE ORIGINAL SEES Next to Sullivan's Bank. New Phone 733. Old Phone 1353-gr. HOTEL BRAYTON Madison av. and 27 st.. N. Y. City OVERLOOKING MADISON SQUARE PARK, A High Class Refined, Fireproof Hotel In a Very Dealrable Neighborhood. Catering to The Highest Class of Patronage. ROOMS, WITH BATH. ♦2OO PER DAY AND UP. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO LADIES TRAVELLING ALONE.