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VOLUME 31, No. 133
Texas Millers Plan Io Feed the World On Cottonseed Bread and Products of Texas Fields
FOUGHT RATS
ALL NIGHT IN
COUNTY JAIL
Prisoner Tells Tale of Horror.
Rather Six Months In Pen
Than One Night There.
RODENTS IN DROVES
Climbed Over His Body and
Scurried Across Cot In Ar
mies—Night of Terror.
FEARED FOR HIS LIFE
Nobody whose ideas are square with
the world wants prisoners in the county
jail treated like patrons of the St. An
thony or the Gunter.
If a man needs a first-class hotel let
him keep out of jail.
And still there is such a thing as
reaching the limit in the direction of
brutality to persons taken into custody
for minor offenses. Bexar eouftty has
arrived at that point. Its county jail
is enough to make any offender satis
fied to move on to the next place.
After the county jail, fire and brim
stone could have no terrors.
This isn’t hearsay, it’s fact, grizzly,
bleak, dread fact. It is the thoughtful
judgment of the as erage man who could
grin at a bull fight, buzzah at. the first
blood in a boxing contest, or feel fairly
well satisfied when the bird falls dead
at a cocking main.
Not one of these men, if he had his
wav about it. would stand for the coun
ty jail. It is too cruel a punishment
for even the worst and most wicked
law breakers.
It is to be remembered that the
Bexar county jail is not a penal insti
tution so much as it is a place of de
tention. -Women who cannot give bail
arc put among the horrors of the place
and kept there. Children have been
held in those grim cells. Even the in
nocent have been thrust into the jail
and suffered its terrors when the sher
iffs knew the prisoner was not guilty.
Recently there was just such a case
ns this last mentioned. By the error of
some detectives, who had made a great
record for sapieucy and acuteness in the
past, a missionary was arrested out in
California and brought back to ban
Antonio as a runaway bank crook. As
soon as the bankers who had lost the
monev saw the prisoner, they said:
“Why, we are vcr y 80rr y> " ut '°'
ure not the man.
(Continued on page 3.)
C. HOU mil MEH
ItOOV 111 MID-OCIAN
Sherman, Tex., June re
ceived todav from Cecil Ljon, chair
man of the Texas republican executive
committee, now in Mexico, confirm the
report that he will meet Theodore
Roosevelt in midoeean when the latt *
returns from Europe, byon says ar
rangements have already been com
pleted with a steamship line, but be
will not charter a vessel as reported, as
the cost would be $lO,OOO.
Evon 'fears the Taft administration
is not favorably disposed to him and
desires Roosevelt’s cooperation.
CARLOS BEE FORMALLY
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
Carlos Bee. candidate for state sena
tor has made his formal announce
ment. It conies in the shape of a
statement, issued prior to his departure
for Washington. He will oppose Sena
tor Julius Real of Kerrville.
Mr Bee says that upon his return
from the north he will make a canvass
of the district and lay his ideas before
the people. Only a part of these have
been outlined in the announcement, the
candidate keeping silent regarding a
-ommission charter for San Antonio.
On the proposition of submission, he
save this:
“The voters of this district by a
vote of nearly five to one, have in
structed their senator to vote against
submission. I will, if elected, vote
agains submission.”
STONE QUARRY BLAST
IS DEATH FOR THREE
Associated Press.
Mlentown. Pa.. June 2.—ln an explo
sion of a blast in the stone quarry of
the Lehigh Portland Cement company,
at West. Coplav, Pa., today, three men
were killed and three others were sen
ouslv injure*!’ I hrcc nipu are missing.
Y. M. C. A- Forum —At the Y. M. C.
A. Forum’s last meeting of the season
at the Y. M. C. A. hall, officers for the
coming year were elected as follows:
President. George Thomson; vice presi
dent, J. E. Briukmeyer; secretary, Paul
H Scuolz, and treasurer, Ed Young.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
16 PAGES
CROP REPORT
IS BEARISH
First One By the Government
Shows Condition as 82 Per
Cent —Last Year 81-1.
ACREAGE SHOWS 2.*8
PER CENT INCREASE
Associated Press.
Washington, June 2. —The first cot
ton report of the season by the crop
reporting board, issued today, shows the
oendition of the growing crop on May
25 was 82 per cent of normal as com
pared with 81.1 per cent on that date
last year and 80.9 per cent average for
the last ten years. The acreage is 33,-
196,000, an increase of 2.8.
FUTURES BREAK AGAIN.
Receipt of Government Report Causes
a Loss on New Orleans Cotton
Exchange.
Associated Press.
New Orleans, June 2.—Cotton futures
scored another sharp break when the
government’s acreage and condition re
ports were received today. The October
option dropped to 12.05. a loss of about
$1 a bale, while the December option
went to the 12 cent level. The reports
as a whole were interpreted as de
cidedly bearish.
In 15 minutes of trading following the
reading of the reports, old crop months
lost 21 to 23 points, while the new crop
lost 15 to 19 points. At noon prices
showed a recovery of about 10 points.
WOULD BECOME A CITIZEN.
Petition for final naturalization was
filed yesterday in the federal court be
fore Deputy Clerk A. I. Campbell by
Joseph Niemczyk, a tailor, residing at
531 Austin street. The petition will be
heard in the January term of the court.
♦.» - —
Vorecißt till 7 p. m. Friday:
For San Antonio and vicinity:
L Tonight and Friday, increasing
cloudiness.
OThe maximum temperature for
ihs 24 hours endin'* at 8 o'clock
this inerning was 92 degrees and
the minimum was 66 degrees.
U Comparative temperatures fol
this year and last:
D 1909 1910 '
4 a. m. .•. 64 70 .
6 a. m .. . 63 HR |
YR a. tn.... 69 71
10 a. m. ... 71 RO
12 noon . . . . "R 8H
1 D. ui. . . . 85 67
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GRADUATION DAY TYPES
MATRON THROWN
FROM POOR FARM
BRINGS CHARGES
Bares Her Arm Before Judge
and Shows Him Black
and Blue Marks.
ARREST SUPERINTENDENT
Took Five Men, One of Whom
Was-a Policeman, to
Remove Her,
That she had been forcibly
ejected from her room and from
the poor farm premises, her arms
bruised and blackened by rough
handling, and her trunk dumped in
to the highroad, were the accusa
tions made this morning by Mrs.
Lula T. Clay, matron of the insti
tution, against L. D. Shely, super
intendent. A warrant of arrest
charging aggravated assault and
sworn to by Mrs. Clay was served
this afternoon and Mr. Shely at
once gave bond.
Mr. Shely denies absolutely that he
mistreated Mrs. Clay. He declares that
ho discharged her, got the ambulance
ready to haul her and her trunk any
where in the city she might wish to go,
but that she declined to leave her room.
He was forced, he says, to get Police
man Engel hart to make her leave and
even then she refused to do so until
taken gently, but firmly, by the arm
and led off’the premises. She fought
and screamed during this, he says, and
raised a terrible scene.
Mrs. Clay appeared before County
Judge Phil Shook this morning and
showed him her arms. From the elbow
to the shoulders, especially at the mus
cular part, they were black and blue,
and the tissues had been bruised and
torn. They were swollen and presented
an apeparanee as if the flesh had been
lascerated or crushed. County Attor
ney Tom J. Newton was also present
and at the insistence ot Mrs. Clay he
filed the complaint charging aggravated
assault. The case s in the county court.
Mrs. Clay’s Statement.
“A 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Mr.-Shely told me’ that 1 would have
to get out before 4 o'clock. I replied
that I had to have time to pack my
and leave a:; I had come —as a ■
lady. Mr. got mad at this and
said Ue would show me. He turned
into the office and phoned for an offi-1
cer and then came out and caught me!
by the arms and pushed me off the of I
fice gallery.
“I went up to my room and packed:
up my things hurriedly, throwing them |
into my trunk. 1 had finished this and ,
seated myself when five men entered '
the room. They were .Superintendent ।
Shely. a policeman, the assistant super
iuteudent, the steward and the yard I
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910.
Poll Taxes Paid to Date
1,435
Is \ ours One of Diem?
On to 15.Q00—
CANAL ZONE
CONDITIONS -
CIUSE WORRY
Culebra Cut Causes Engineers
Some Serious Thought These
Days Says the Letter,
GAMBOA RIVER BREAKS IN
Bottom of Cut Is “Bulging Up"
and Many Small Slides Are
Going Into It.
That conditions on the canal zone
are not just what the press dispatches
lead one to believe is shown in a letter
received by B. D. Dittmer of the Mac
kay building from Dau P R.sener, em
ployed in the office of the treasurer at
Empire, in the canal zone. Mr. Ditt
mer was formerly employed on the
canal. , .
After detailing some purely personal
things, Mr. Risener says:
“At Culebra the whole liill is sliding
towards the cut gradually, and a Bor>8 or>
many small slides are rolling in. Jus'
a few days ago one of about two mi
lion yards went in, many have gone >1
fore," and several more arc following.
It is also bulging up in the bottom ol
the cut along there. The Gamboaj J*
broke over into the canal, and ti '
gineers are scratching their hea s in •
very serious manner as to what 0 < < ■
The locomotive engineers are xery m
dissatisfied, mechanics are at a pr
ium, and inducements arc being
to keep them. And so things an n<
as bright as to the immediate outcom ।
of matters as we would wish.
man. 1 was alone except for my little
girl, 4 years old.
“They told me to get out at once
aud I declined to be rushed in. sue 1
haste. The policeman pulled the chan
out from under me twice and told me
that I'd better get out. My little girl
and 1 then went down the steps from
my room and the five men followed us!
(Continued ou page 1.) I
COTTONSEED
MEN PLAN
AFACTORY
Their Seven Hundred Mills Are
Asked to Form an Anti-
Tiust Combine.
MAKE PRESS CLOTH
Hundreds of Thousands of Dol
lars Will Be Saved, Accord
ing to the Committee.
BIG PLANT MAY BE RESULT
Second Day's Session oTState
Association Convention Hears
Important Decisions.
PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY.
Meeting called to order at 10 a. m.
Address, "Mutual Liability Insur
ance,- ’ B. P. Bailey, Houston.
Address, ‘‘The Cotton Oil Trade
Needs a Press Agent,” Colonel
Frank P. Holland, Dallas.
Report of committee on arbitra
tion, Houston, James D. Dawson,
chairman; Dallas, J. W. Allison,
chairman.
Twenty minutes' recess for lunch
eon.
Address, ‘‘The South's Opportun
ity, as Seen by a New Englander,”
A. W. Ellis, Boston, Mass.
Report of committee on rules, F.
A. Blain, chairman.
Cottonseed products as a human fqod,
endorsed by the chemists, formed tho
chief subject of discussion this morn
ing before the convention of the Texas
Cottonseed Crushers’ association, in ses
sion for the second day. at the St. An
thony hotel. Dr. G. 8. Fraps, state
cheniist at the Agricultural and Me
chanieal college, gave an address, which
was listened to with interest. Another
interesting matter was the report of
the press cloth committee, in which was
made the recommendation for the es
tablishment of a press cloth factory by
the cottonseed crushers, and for which
stock is now being subscribed. The
report of the insurance bureau by J. S.
Jalonick was another interesting feat
ure in which the importance of keeping
premises clean to keep the rates down
was brought out. The uew fire insur
ance rate law was endorsed.
It was announced that the dance ar
ranged for Saturday night will take
place tomorrow night at the St. Anthony
hotel on account of many of the cotton
seed crushers leaving the city Saturday
night. Steps were taken during the ses
sion to bring about a union between the
Cold Press association and the cotton
seed crushers and committees of both
organizations exchanged calls on the
respective bodies with the view to ef
fecting such consolidation.
In calling the convention to order
President J. 8. LeClercq read a tele
gram from State Insurance Commis
sioner William E. Hawkins accepting
the invitation to address the convention!
and stating he will be here tomorrow
morning for that purpose.
The chairman then read an r.nnounce
ment to the effect that the Texas Square
Balo Ginners’ association is being or
ganized and that a meeting was being
hold at the Chamber of Commerce. Au
invitation to all interested in cotton
and cotton seed to attend was accepted
with applause. .
At this juncture C. C. Littleton of
Weatherford, Tex., announced that the
Cold Press Oil Mills association of
Texas and Oklahoma is at present in
session at the Gunter hotel. He stated
(Continued on page 4.)
WEIMAR ADOPTS A \
CURFEW ORDINANCE
j Special Dispatch.
Weimar, Tex., June 2.—The city or-
Idiname passed a law today known as
the curfew law or curfew ordinance.
From now on all boys under the age
[of seventeen must be at home by 9
o’clock p. m. unless they have special
permission tr«H, their parents or guard
ians to be out after that hour.
Cashier Harry IL Houston of the
First State Bank of Weimar, having
resigned his position to eugage in a
similar one at Las Cruces, N. M.. left
for that point today on the morning
train. Mr. Houston is an up-to-date
business man and has made many
friends here. It will be a heavy loss
to Weimar and the bank.
EX GOVERNOR DIES.
Associated Frees.
Osceola. Nebr.. June 2 —Ex governor
John H. Mickey died at his home here
today. For more than a year the Ix
governor had been suffering from arte
rial sclerosis, which finally caused his
death. From the first illness be rallied
but never re«ove«»o
16 PAGES
COUNTRYSIDE
IN MAN HUNT
Sheriff, Deputies and Farmers Beating
Brush, With Dogs After Man Accus
ed of Killing Well-Known Farmer.
SHOT IN BACK IN SIGHT OF WIFE
George Schueler, a tanner living near Boldt s blacksmith shop,
ten miles from San Antonio, was this morning about 6 o'clock shot
in the back and»dropped dead in his tracks. Sheriff Lindsey, with
Deputy Sheriff Joe Villareal and J. H. Long, and several posses of
farmers, arc scouring the country for a Mexican tenant of Schueler
named Morales. Up to 2:30 o'clock this afternoon'no report of his
capture had come. The entire countryside has joined in the man hunt.
‘THE BEST POLICE
CHIEF IN WORLD"
Frederick Kohler, chief of police of
Cleveland. 0.. whom President Roose
velt characterized as "the best:police
chief in the world,” and who is now
under suspension awaiting investiga
tion of charges of drunkenness and im
morality brought against him in Cleve
land. Kohler has gained particular
fame by his policy of "gold
en ruling.” petty, offenders and
never making arrests except under rigid
necessity.
PROHIBITS SHIPS
FROM ENFERINfi
II BLUEFIELDS
। Bluefields, June 2.—pr. Irias, repre
sentative ou the Atlantic coast of Presi
dent Madriz, has issued a decree that
vessels which cleared for Bluefields on
or after June 1 may not enter this port
without permission of the Madriz gov
ernment.
Dr. Irins’ decree was issued on Thurs
day, the day upon which the govern
ment troops under General Lara and
General Godoy fell back after repeated
and unsuccessful attempts to take Blue
fields with land forces.
General Estrada and General Cha
morro assumed the aggressive as the
Madriz armv withdrew, leaving dead
and wounded on the field. Altogether,
Estrada has 309 prisoners. In the eu
gagement Thursday he lost only six men
killed and fifteen wounded.
NO INTERVENTION
BY UNITEO STATES
▲•sociAted Preis.
Washington. June 2.—The- United
States, it.is officially declared today,
has no imention in any way of inter
wuing in Nicaragua or recognizing
cither jmrtv to the controversy until
one faction or the other has obtained
full control of the government by con
sent of the people.
LAST EDITION
4 o'Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
At the time Schueler was shot ha
was hitching up his mules for a day 's'
work. His slayer, according ® infor
mation at the sheriff's office and facts
received from other sources, came up
to the fence and shot him down with
the victim in absolute ignorance that
any one was near. The load from »
shotgun entered below the shoulder
blade, producing almost instant death.
Mrs. Schueler ran out of the house upon
hearing the report, hut when she reach
ed her husband’s side he was Head. The
Mexican, after firing the fatal shot,
disappeared in the brush.
The fact that Schueler was killed was
communicated to Sheriff Lindsey it an
early hour. He immediately got Jus
tice Umscheid and both left the city
about 7 o'clock. An hour later the re
port was sent in that they had ascer
tajued the identity of the man doing
the shooting and that he was a Mexi
can tenant with whom Schueler had had
trouble yesterday over a boundary fence
line. Revenge was ascribed as tho
motive.
About 10 o'clock Sheriff Lindsey tel
ephoned that more officers were needed
and Chief Deputy Moore sent Joe Villa
C/al and J. H. Long. At the same time
they carried Sheriff Lindsey's saddle,
| the intention being for all three to
I range the bushes in an effort to appre
[ bend the man. Several farmers of the
•neighborhood also volunteered to assist,
and the posses are now said to be beat
ing the brush with dogs.
The general direction taken by the
Mexican is well known, unless he dou
bled back on his tracks. He was seen
to go through several fields and skirt
in the direction of the woods. Sheriff
Lindsey and his assistants are working
systematically through these woods and
at last reports the sheriff was sanguine
the Mexican would be caught.
— Schueler is well known in his section
and was accounted a man of means. He
did all his trading with Theo. Maggott
of this city and is known by many with
in San Antonio, lie leaves a wife and
several children.
ALLEGES FEDERAL
OISCRIMiNAFION
Commissioner Mayfield Writes
to Senator Bailey to Lodge
a Protest With Taft.
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex., June 2.—Allison May-
I field, chairman of the state railroad
I commission, today wrote to Senator
1 Bailey requesting him to vigorously
| protest against alleged discrimination
I by the federal government for its fail
ure to act oh complaints filed by the
! Texas commission before the interstate
I commerce commission in 1909. These
complaints declared southwest railroads
violated the Sherman anti-trust law by
combining to increase rates.
Mayfield’s letter is the result of the
announcement that President Taft had
directed proceedings for injunctions,
against the roads leading west from St.
Louis for violating a rate law similar
g to those the Texas commission alleges
were violated.
MANY LIVES LOST
ON LOYALTY ISLANDS
Associated Press.
Victoria. B. C.. June 2. Many lives
| were lost and several -hips were wreck
ed in a hurricane which swept the Loy
altv islands in March, according to be
lated advices brought by the steamship
Manuka from Australia yesterday All
houses on the islands were demolished
and cocoanut and banana trees and oth
er vegetation was swept away.
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LANE HAS “SOME” Fid.
B. P. Lane this morning brought •
tig to the Chamber of Commerce which
weighed five ounces and was eight an i
a half inches in circumference. 1t was
grown at his residence, at 813 Starr
street, and the bush is covered with
those monsters. They are a variety ot
the magnolia