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VOLUME 31, No. 131
Roosevelt Startles Hearers In Guild Hall With Plain Talk On England’s Rule In Egypt
HE IS NOI TAKING
IHE WHOLE SIREET;
JUST PARI OF IT
Russi Told Him to Go Ahead
and Fill Up Garden With
Street and He Did It.
OUT OF THE ROADWAY
Knows Russi and Russi Knows
Him, So, of Course, It's
All Right.
NEIGHBORS ARE KICKING
Great!j' to the astonishment of a
whole neighborhood, men with teams
and wagons worked yesterday and
again today taking dirt from the mid
dle of Pine street and carting it into
the yard of Willison J. Goforth, the
deputy sheriff, where it is being used
to till up a garden plot.
This street work is in progress in
that part of Pine street which is be
tween Essex street and West Falls ave
nue. Mr. Goforth’s house number is
502 Essex street, but his lots are on
the corner, having a front on Pine
street.
This proceeding, while it promises to
greatly improve Mr. Goforth's fine lit
tle property, makes other residents of
the locality very apprehensive. The
block is on the slope of the hill and
the water from the heights above in
rainy weather naturally seeks the
easiest wav to the river.
What is feared is that digging away
the street will create a canal that in
time will make the thoroughfare look
more like a dry creek bed than it does
now. And in winter, of course, there
is the real danger that the household
ers, if they venture out and try to
reach tiie .enter of the city, may be
compelled to swim or wade a miniature
river two or three feet deep.
This is no fanciful picture. Such
street grading as the city has attempt
ed in that part of the Seventh ward—
very little, it may be added, as the
Seventh ward is anti-Callaghan nt
heart—has been imperiled every win
ter by this rush of water from the
heights and many times washed away.
It is not apparent that the neigh
bors who are complaining are envious
of Mr. Goforth and want some eartu
from the middle of the street to fill
up their own gardens. No one of them
would expect to get any privileges of
this kind ns they are not exactly in
Ihe mayor ’» favor.
When the work of carrying away
the street got most active and it was
apparent that nothing would be left of
the thoroughfare if Mr. Goforth's gar
den required the earth, the neighbors
called up the police station at East
End and asked the cop in charge if
anybody had the right to tear up and
cart away Pine street, in that block.
The answer was that if any permit
had been issued for work of that kind
the police had not been so informed.
After some more telephoning a police
man rode down to the place where the
carting away was in progress.
Evidently the policeman was soon
satisfied that everything was all right,
for this morning the work went on.
Citizens who asked the cop why he did
not stop proceedings were told that it
was all right, that Mr. Goforth was a
friend of the mayor and that Mr. Russi,
the street commissioner, had given the
deputy sheriff permission to earry
away the street and put it on his gar
den.
Being perfectly familiar with the
way things are ruu at the city hall, this
explanation made the matter perfectly
dear, so nob dy asked any more ques
tions.
However, this morning a reporter
for the Light and Gazette went to the
policeman who had been on the scene
and asked to look at the permit that
Mr. Russi gave the nu,l allowing him
to carry off what he wanted of the
street. The cop was sorry, but he had
not taken the trouble to get the paper,
the matter being so commonplace.
Tn fact, it seems that Mr. Goforth
himself had not considered it necessary
to get the permit to hard away the
street in writing, but had been dnly
armed with a verbal order from Mr.
Russi to go ahead and take it. No rec
ord was made of the matter on those
euffs, at least during this conversa
tion.
But the policeman suggested that if
the neighbors were kicking it might be
well for Mr. Goforth to find Mr. Russi,
if possible, and get a more formal per
mit, this in writing. The deputy sheriff
thought, too, tliat this would be better,
and at odd hours today was looking for
Mr. Russi, in vain, of course, like every
body else. Meantime the men are still
hauling away the dirt from Pine street.
When seen at the sheriff’s office. Mr.
Goforth told a reporter for the Light
and Gazette all about it so that every
body would understand that there was
not the least impropriety in Mr. Russi
giving him the earth from the street.
“Mr. Russi knows very well that I
know what I am about.” said the
deputy sheriff, “and so he said to me
that I was to go ahead and take what
earth T want-vd off the street. I have
worked for the city and F know just as
well how to h?»el a street as anybody
,docs. 1 don’t suppose that Mr. Russi
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
14 PAGES
BIG INCREASE
IN SCHOLASTIC
CENSUS OF CITY
Figures Show That Total Num
ber of Pupils of a Scholas
tic Age Is 18,550.
IT IS AN INCREASE OF 1550
Fourth Ward Leads In Gain
In Scholastic Population
During the Past Year,
, San Antonio’s scholastic census,
concludes today, shows that
the total number of pupils of a
scholastic age is 18,550, an in
crease of 1550 over last year, when
the total was 17,000.
The above figures are given by Ed
ward M. Rivas, official school census
taker, who will tonight make out the
final reports for the school board. Mr.
Rivas and his assistants have been en
gaged during the entire month of May
in taking the school census.
The greatest gain in scholastic popu
lation is given id the Fourth ward,
where an additional 400 was added to
the number of last year. Mr. Rivas
Accounts for this by the fact that the
ward is building up very fast and that
many people are moving into it, not
only from outside the city, but also
from other wards.
The First and Second wards also
show healthy increases, notably in the
First ward, where the gain is nearly
300. Similarly, all the wards show larger
figures, but none has given more pupils
than the Fourth. The tabulated table
showing the increase in girls and boys,
and the percentage of Mexican increase
as against Americans and negroes, has
yet to be made up.
Among the negroes the increase has
not been marked, Mr. Rivas says. There
will probably be a gain of about 100
negro children, divided about equally
into boys and girls. As compared with
former increases during pfust years, this
is said to be much below the normal.
Mr. Rivas is now engaged in making
up the final report which is to go to the
school board and to other officials to
which copies have to be sent. The
work has been thorough in every re
spect, the school census takers starting
out right behind the official govern
ment census takers. There was no diffi
culty in getting access to all informa
tion and the enumerators covered con
siderable territory each day.
Last year, with the total placed at,
in round figures, 17,000, there was
shown an increase of 1000 over 1008.
This year Mr. Rivas expected the total to
be not far from 18,000, but instead of
ethat he got an additional 550, making
this year's increase the largest ever
shown by a canvass of the city scholas
tic population.
SNOW FALLS
AT PITTSBURG
Pittsburg, Pa., May 31.—Snow- fell
here today in a temperature of 39 de-
the coldest of May in the records
of the local weather bureau.
KEY RATES RECEIVED.
Austin. Tex.. May 31. —The fire rat
ing board today received a number
of key rates which include Sherman, 44
cents; Corsicana, 50 cents, and Green
ville, 39 cents. R. G. Knight, repre
senting the board, today returned from
a trip to El Paso. He says the feeling is
high there as a result of the recent
raise in the insurance rate.
would let everybody do that for not
everybody knows how.
“No, he didn’t give me a written
permit. That isn’t necessary. 1 don’t
believe there is any kick among the
neighbors, why should there be? Of
course, if I have to get a written per
mit, why I’ll go and get it; that’s all.
“Whose business is it anyway! It
is just as much my street as it is their
street. If I want, to go and get earth
in the street and Mr. Russi is willing,
who else is going to say anything about
it * ’ ’ •
That’s the question in a nutshell;
pass it along!
If Mr. Russi and the mayor want to
give away a street whose business is it
anyway?
F Forecast till 7 a. m. Wednesday: |
For San Antonio and vicinity: •
Fair. . |
A The maximum temperature for 1
th** 24 hours ending st 8 o’clock
this morning was 88 degrees and
the minimum was 68 degrees. I
It’omparative temperatures for i
this year and last:
1909 1910
4 a. in 63 68
R 6 a. m . . . . 62 70
8 a. m.... 68 76
10 0 . m. . . . 77 84
* 12 noon ... 81 90
1 p. m. ... 87 92 I
STATED IHAT IHE
MAYOR WILL PAY
HIS BACK TAXES
Announcement Causes Some
Commotion —T ha cl Smith
Busy Compiling Figures,
TO PAY $1288.61 *ON ACCT
Balance of $3BOO Due Is Said
to Be on Property That
Is In Litigation.
HE WILL GET HIS PAY NOW
Mayor Bryan Callaghan announced
this morning at the city hall that this
afternoon he will pay $1288.61 of back
taxes due the city of San Antonio by
him since 1900. His honor will also,
it is said, pay his city taxes for the
current fiscal year, which ends today,
and incidentally, as provided by the
city charter, receive his salary war
rant of $3OO for the month of May
without incumberance.
The announcement that the mayor
intended paying the back taxes so long
due the city government, was hailed
with much joy throughout the ranks of
the city hall officials. Despite the
fact that today is the last day of the
fiscal year ami in which current taxes
may be paid without interest, peMlt/
and costs, the payment of the taxes by
the mayor, it is said, will be attended
with much pomp.
Thad Smith, city back tax collector,
as soon as the message was sent from
the office of the city s chief executive,
that the mayor proposed paying his
taxes, visited the sanctum and later
gave out the statement that he would
begin at once to prepare the list of
taxes due by the mayor, which he pro
posed to pay.
“1 understand that $3BOO in back
taxes is charged against the mayor,”
said Back Tax Collector Smith, ‘ but
some of the property on which this tax
stands is in litigation. The sum of
11288.61 will be paid as baek taxes by
the mayor on property owned by him
and which is not involved in any liti
gation whatever. The amount paid bv
the mayor will be baek taxes from the
year 1900 to 1908 inclusive.”
Much speculation was indulged in as 1
to whether the city auditor would issue
the mayor his salary warrant for the
month of May in view of the charter i
provision which forbids him so doing '
in ease of any official that is indebt
ed to the city for taxes. In view of
the fact that the mayor made the an
nouncement that he would pay the back
taxes, the word was given from the i
auditor’s office that, the warrant I
would not bo withheld.
LYNCH NEGRO
FOB STHIKENG
A WHITE MAN
Associated Pres .
New Madrid. Mo., May 31. —A mob
avenged the insult of a negro striking
a white man yesterday when they storm
ed the jail, took the negro to the banks
of the Mississippi river and lynched
him. “An unknown” was the label
pinned across the breast of the dangling
form when it was found.
The negro was charged with striking
Town Marshal Richards, after he and
other negroes had been ordered off a
street corner. No arrests have been
made, the coroner’s jury returning a
verdict of death by unknown hands.
TWO ARE INJURED
Side Rods on Santa Fe Locomotive Be
come Detached and Crash Into
Side of Cab.
Special Dispatch.
Gainesville, Tex.. May 31.—Two
were injured in an accident on a south
bound freight train on the Red River
bridge of the Santa Fe at 4 o’clock
this morning when the side rods loosen
ed, became detached and crashed into
the left side of the locomotive cab,
where was seated Fireman .1. L. Steph
enson and the head brakeman, I. C.
Stevens. Stephenson was hurt internal
ly and bruised about the head and
limbs, while Stevens sustained scalp,
wounds and bruises on the body.
BROOKLYN HANDICAP
HAS EIGHT STARTERS
Associated Press.
New York, May 31. —This is Brook
lyn Handicap Day and thousands of
turf lovers early made their way to- |
ward the old Gravesend race course. ,
Eight of the best horses now in train- I
iug are carded to face the starter s
flag for the handicap event at one milo
end a quarter for three-year-olds and
ipwards. The purse has a guaranteed
value of S6UOU.
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1910.
SCORES OF NAMES
ON PETITION ASK
CLARK TO RUN
Former District Judge Is Asked
to Oppose Judge Phil Shook
at the Coming Election.
WANT HIM COUNTY JUDGE
.Fudge .Folin FL Clark, former district
judge, will this evening be presented
with a petition containing about 150
names of lawyers, asking him to make
the race for county judge against
Judge Phil Shook.
Judge Clark has stated that if suffi
cient pressure was brought to bear on
him he would lay aside his own feel
ings in the matter and make the race
at the coming election. It is practical
ly certain that the petition will cause
him to make formal announcement.
At last night's meeting of the Citi
zens’ league, the name of Judge Clark
as a candidate to successfully oppose
Judge Shook, was mentioned. Peti
tions, numbering six in all. were dis
tributed to individual members of the
bar, and these were asked to circulate
them among the attorneys today and
get signatures.
J. Ira Kercheville, temporary chair
man of the Citizens’ league, whose can
didate Judge Clark will be. stated this
afternoon that at noon today there had
been over 100 signatures to the peti
tions and that by the time they are pre
sented to Judge Clark this evening
there will be many more than that. As
many as 150 are expected to affix their
signatures, this being considerably over
50 per cent of the members of the lo
cal bar.
Judge Clark formerly held the posi
tion of district judge of Bexar county,
and in that capacity demonstrated his
fitness fdr judicial honors. It is con
ceded he would give Judge Shook a
“run for his money.’’ as the saying is,
and there are many who do not hesi
tate to state outright that if lie makes
the race he is certain of election.
—
WILL ENJOIN
FREIGHT RAISE
Associated Press.
Washington. D. C.. May 31.—Follow
ing a conference today between the
president and Attorney General Wick
ersham, it was learned that a decision
was reached to file an injunction suit
ngainst the proposed increase in freight
rates tomorrow by the Western Traffic
association. It is believed the suit
be instituted at Chicago and it is un
derstood the bill of injunction ban been
prepared for several days.
“THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN”
818 BREAK
IN COTION AI
NEW ORLEANS
July Option Drops 59 Points
Below the Highest Level
of the Day's Trading.
Associated Press.
New Orleans. La., May 31. —Cot-
ton futures broke about $3 a bale
late this forenoon, the July option
going to a point 59 points down
from the highest level of the morn
ing.
The decline was due- largely to re
ports of long interests disposing of their
holdings. The break came shortly, be
fore the noon hour in the local market
and the active months broke violently,
a panic of selling orders following.
Although the break was attributed by
many to the report the big bulls were
liquidating, the short side of the mar
ket sold freely and July and August
options dropped from one level to an
other until the former was 59 points
down below the highest of the day and
the latter was 69 points down.
Growth in the belief that the gov
ernment s reports, to be issued next
Tuesday, will be extremely bearish, was
also given as one of the reasons for the
I sudden decline.
IW OFEfUFIONS
HEAVIEST 111 HISTORf
Associated Press.
New York, May 31.—There was .i
further and more sensational decline
amounting to over $1.50 per bale in the
cotton market today when it was seen
May was going out without any final
squeeze in speculative shorts.
The price of May cotton sold off to
14.61 comparing with 14.95 nt the close
of business last Friday, 15,80 the high
est point of the month, and 16.46, the
highest point of the season, made last
December. Trading in May was over
at midday and the last price was at
practically the lowest point of the
movement, although up to the last mo
ment the buls gave it support, bidding
for blocks of 10,000 bales around 14.60.
This i loses so far as the future mar
ket is concerned, operations in the May
delivery, which have been the heaviest
for any one month in the history of the
market. It is estimated the bulls have
taken up in the neighborhood of 360.000
bales of cotton, worth approximately
$77,000,000. of which it is believed they
have shipped out of New York about
120,000 bales, chiefly abroad.
14 PAGES
INSURGENTS ID
ENGAGE MADRIZ
IN OPEN BITTLE
Estrada Staff In Conference
Decides to Attack, Follow
ing Reports of Scouts.
GOVERNMENTALS WEAK
Special Dispatch.
New Orleans, La.. Mav 31. —A cable
gram to the Texas News Service
Bureau, received here this morning from
Bluefields, Nicaragua, says:
A conference early this morning, in
which Estrada's staff participated, it
was practically decided to engage
Madriz's remaining forces in open bat
tlefield here this afternoon or tomorrow,
i The decision was reached following re-
I ports of scouts, that the Madriz men
were greatly weakened and probably
unable to withstand an attack, because
of lack of provisions and the ravages
of disease in the camp.
Five hundred of the government
forces are dead from fighting and
[pestilence as the result of the opera
tions'of the week about Bluefields. The
I greatest casualties were caused by rapid
i fire machine guns from the Estrada
| trenches. The defenders of the city lost
one hundred killed and wounded.
Friends of Madriz in the New Or
leans junta said President Madriz may
ns well abandon the struggle in Central
America for evidently the government
is about to be supplanted by that of
Estrada. It seems the American state
department is determined to put Mad
riz out of business and the quicker he
| makes a concession looking-to the per-,
/ manent of the country, the morel
I concessions be will likely receive him-;
I self. This statement was made follow
ing the receipt of news here the I'nited
States had ordered more troops to
Nicaragua.
VARSITY BOYS LINE
UP IN POLICE COURT
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex.. May 31. —Three varsity
students lined up in police court this
morning to answer to charges of creat
ing h “rough house” while engaged
in the laudable pursuit of painting the
citv last night. Oue was fined $5 and
the other two were released with a
scolding. The students became in- i
volved in an argument which soon de
veloped into an imitation of a “battle}
roval." in which one of the boys was
struck with a stone.
—<«e —
WISCONSIN BANK ROBBED
Associated Press.
Wausaw. Wis., May 31.—The State
hank of Vnity was robbed today ol
$200”. the safe of the bank being dy
namited.
LAST EDITION
4 o’Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
CUT FISCAL
YEAR CLOSES
IN RECORDS
Greatest Twelve Months In the
History of Two Centuries and
More of San Antonio.
BUILDING RECORD IS LARGE-
More Than Three and a Half-
Million Dollars l| Spent on ,
New Construction.
FIRE RECORD SURPRISING
San Antonio, Judging By Itsi
Few Fires and Small Losses
Is a Favored City.
The fiscal year of the city of San
Antonio closes today. It is the
most prosperous, the greatest in
population, and building gains,
public improvements, and in every
other line of growth the city has
experienced in its history of two ,
centuries and more.
The fiscal year for the city govern
ment. began June 1, 1909, and ends
May 31, 1910. The annual reports of
the various government departments
will be filed with the city clerk within
the next week, showing the operations
of each and every department during
the past twelve months.
The city government officials an
nounce that the new year will find the
city on a cash basis, in view of the fact
that the collection of back and current
taxes have been very satisfactory.
The collection of taxes during the
past month by City Collector Villemain
have been extremely heavy. Today is
the last day in which current taxes may
be paid without interest, penalty and
cost and hundreds of property owners
are flocking to the office at al! hours.
The office remains open until 10 o'clock
tonight.
Many Poll Taxes Issued.
The total amount due the city of
San Antonio for the fiscal year. 1909.
to $1,185,000, this inclusive of
[ the school tax. Collector Villemain is
।confident that 95 per cent of this
.amount Isas already been turned into
I the city by property owners, the best
collection of current taxes in many
1 years. A total of 1343 poll tax receipts
had been issued at the noon hour to
day.
Three hundred and twenty-three per
mits were issued during the month of
May, when City Building Inspector
Leo M. J. Dielmann closed his office at
12 o'clock today. While the inspector
has not yet compiled his report for the
month, he estimates that the value of
improvements during the last thirty-one
days will represent an investment be
tween $225,000 and $250,000.
Inspector Dielmann says he will com
plete his report for the fiscal year with
in the next few days. This report will
show that the improvements for which
permits were issued from his office in
the twelve months of the fiscal year
will reach over three and a half million
dollars.
The fire record for the month is per
haps the smallest yet on the records of
the central fire alarm station, there ,'e
ing but twelve alarms sounded during
the month. While the number of fires
invariable shows a decrease during th*
summer months, the record has never
heretofore fallen to siteh a low figure.
Remarkable Fire Record.
While approximately $75,000 valua
tion was imperiled by flames, the to
la) loss for the month will not exceed
$12,000, according to Fire Chief Phil
Wright, a loss practically covered by
insurance. The heaviest loss was at ths
fires which damaged the Lakesi-lo
Classical institute at West End and de
itroyed a five-room frame building
iwned by W. Harrison at 1223 West
French Place, on Bea-'on Hill. Dnt
ire is attributed to the work of an !«•
'endiary.
The record on file in the alarm offl’*
diows that citizens instead of resorting
o fire alarm boxes to turn in an alarm
if fire more frequently use the tern
thone. Five of the alarms were sent
nto the central fire alarm station by
elephone. five were sent in by tele
thoue to different fire stations and
hen to the central station by the belt
elephone svstem. while but two aiarrns
cere turned in by boxes.
4< T would like to call the attention
if the public to one thing about turn
ng in fire alarms, said City l-.leetri
ian W. A. White, todav. “If a tele
ihoue is used it is only a waste »f
itne to ring up a fire station. Al) fire
larnis should be sent direct to the fire
larin station. It will mean mueh
u i. ker work in getting the department
। the fire. When a telephone messag*
. sent to a station, those at the stati-n
ave to then communicate with the
larin station over the l>elt line, an-l
his means loss of time.''
A decrease is shown by the. rejiort ->■
oe Braden, elerk of the corporation
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