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Packing Companies in Missouri Are Under Fire Charged With Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade
Olli OF THE COOL
CANTINA INTO
WE HOI SUN
Izzy's Questions Were Mucji
Too Hot for El Corregi
dor, Who Flees.
ASKS ABOUT THE ROCK
Thinks Some One Must Be Dg
ing Well From the Sale of
City Property.
FRITZ IS THE COMFORTER
Special by Burro Dispatch.
Pueblo <ie la Manana (Military pla
za) 20 de June de 1010—It was an
other hard day on the asphalt. The
big round sun high in the heavens
seemed to hate a focus on the very
spot that oti" happened io be in. The
palm, the palmettos and the magnolias
in the plaza, under the glare of that
great orb, casi sharp, still shadows,
not' a breath stirring.
El Corregidor sougnt the shade and
shelter of the grateful cantina. With
a gesture of impatience with the heat
he threw his sombrero from him and
it fell brim upwards on the table, lie
then dropped into a chair himself, say
ing:
•‘Buenos dias, ecuor-hace mucho ca
lor.”
•‘Oh yes, but a good day for long
drinks,” suggested the man in the
apron, rattling one square chunk of ice
tn a tall glass.
The preliminaries being over, the al
cable sharply questioned;
“Que hay, senorf”
‘‘No news at all; nothing doing.
They're all a buucli of tigutwads. I
think it is all a bluff and that they
don’t want any paving done.”
On the instant El Corregidor drop
ped the handkerchief with which be
uad been mopping his perspiring brow.
•‘lzzy, I don't like this. It s all 1
hear from you lately—‘nothing doing,
‘nothing doing!’ 1 m going to have a
serious talk with t-he alderman.
“Oh, you needn't be trying to scare
me with that bawliug-out business.
Save that for the committees. J am
reading the papers myself. How
about that one thousand loads of city
rock at West End lake?”
Suddenly the alcalde's manner chang
ed and he" got very soft and careful in
his words.
•'Oh, you are too well acquainted to
pay any attention to that kind of
yarn, Izzy. You know well enough
some of Fritz’s hombres have always
had that privilege on the yity property
at the rock quarries. They keep busy
when there is no street work,. working
up stone for private sale. " hat there
M in that they get, otherwise a lot of
them would go back to Mexico, election
or no election, and let us holler.
‘•My hombres stand by me, why
shouldn’t J stand by my hombres’ t
give them the right to build their ja
cals on the citv land, and of course
thev vote for its. Wouldn’t they be
foolish if they didn’t. This rock soil
ing varn makes me sick —haven’t they
always done it?”
“Don't talk that to me—there is a
'difference between a few loads of rock;
for a back yard behind an alderman's,
house ami one thousand loads at $l.lO
a load!" i
“Estas cn tu cannsa, Izzy, demand
ed the alcalde, getting familiar and at,
the same time emphatic. Would you
believe everything said about me by j
any cabeza hueea? I tell you that rock
is the county's rock —-I didn t have
f.iivtiiiug to do with it, except, of j
course, that 1 want to keep my horn- ,
bros busy!”
‘•Pooh! pooh! ” ejaculated the tn-,
caide's friend, in a voice expressing l
Utfieii doubt.
El Corregidor was again glowing I
with perspiration. It seemed fully as j
hot in the s hade as it was in the sun. !
With a gesture of impatience the great
man rose, clapped on his sombreio and
strode out of the door, throwing back
a rather sharp “adios” to the man
in the apron, it was plain the alcalde
was displeased.
Just, then the tattle of a buggy
around the corner and a cry of “Jo!
Jo! Jo!” to a horse, told of the up-i
pleach of another important person-'
“Buenas tardes, Fritz” said El Pel
maze, indicating his state of temper
in the very words he used. “What have
you done about that agua estancada in
Water street?” .
“That's nil fixed, if that’s what s|
worrying you; no water there now.”
“What is it that is worrying you, j
mi companero!” the alcalde asked, in;
a more kindly voice.
“Oli. Beze has let that woman re
porter have the names of the owners;
of the pushcarts. Now all the wid ।
vws in town will be after us to get |
a push-cart on the streets. He iA a;
great auditor, that Beze! Let a woman |
look at him cross wise and he gets the'
shivers.' ’
“How many widows have you got I
rm that piish-cait list'” asked the al-j
cable. . !
“Onlv eight,” answered the faithful
Fritz.
“AnJ they each gel Sia a month
from the city fiir the pusheart and
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
12 PAGES
SENATOR BAILEY STARTS t
. FILIBUSTER AGAINST BILL.
Washington, D. June 20. — : !
Frankly admitting a determina- -I
tion to filibuster, Senator Bai
!k ley today entered upon a crusade
against the bill increasing tho
£ engineering corps of the army, f
l!= When Senator Warren asked
"r unanimous consent to take up f
IS the bill, the Texas senator ob- t
£ jeeted and when the measure
is was taken ttp by an aye and
£ nave vote, he took the floor and f
began a speech which he prom f
” ised to continue as long as will f
!,- be necessary to prevent the pass- : !
fit age of the bill. ’
ARANSAS PASS
TO INAUGURATE
IMPROVEMENTS
General Manager Peter Noti
fies Railroad Commission of
Betterments Ordered.
BEGIN LAYING NEW RAILS
New Passenger Depot for San
Antonio Is Under Considera
tion, It Is Announced.
NEW ENGINES ARE ORDERED
Various Other Improvements!
Are Now Being Talked of
By the Management.
New rails for a large portion of the
system, additional passenger and
freight equipment and a new passenger
depot for San Antonio, are rnrprova
ments the San Antonio & Aransas Pass
railroad is to make.
J. 8. Peter, general manager of the
Aransas Pass, sent a letter to the state
railroad commission at Austin, in which
he advised the members of that body
that he was ready to carry out the rec
ommendations of the commission for
improvements and betterments on that
line, as suggested by the engineer of
the commission.
Last June the engineer of the com
mission made a trip of inspection over
the road and carefully noted the needs
of the line in the way of improvements
and betterments on all parts of the
road. A few months later the railroad
commission communicated with Mr. Pe
ters and informed him of the sugges
tions onered by their engineer. Amon®
the things suggested were a new pas
senger station for San Antonio, new
rolling stock and rails. The letter from
Mr. Peter states that among the im
provements contemplated are new rails
for the line between Houston and Yoa
kum. and Kenedy and Skidmore; also
between Yoakum and Moulton. The
purchase of additional passenger and
freight equipment, including four
freight locomotives, also fifty addition
al ballast cars is also included in the
list of improvements. Mr. Peter said.
“The work of laying the new rails
has already commenced. The four
freight engines were ordered some time
ago, as well as the ballast cars, aad I
expect that they have already arrived
and arc ready for service on tho road.
As for the new passenger station In
thi' city and minor matters suggested
bv the railroad commission, 1 will say
that they are now under considera
tion.”
hire a Mexican at $2O a month to shove
it through Ihe city streets.”
“Yon know that, senor Capitan, just
as well as I do.”
“How much would pushcarts cost
wholesale, if the city bought them?”
“About $lO apiece,” answered
Fritz. “But surely you aren't think
ing of anything like that! Why every
woman in that list that furnishes a
push eart to the city could turn at
feast six votes against us, counting just
the members of her own family!”
“Don’t fret. Fritz, don’t fret,” said
the alcalde, “para todo hay remedio
sino es para la muerte."
“Well, then what do you suggest?”
anxiously inquired the faithful lieuten
ant.
“How many pugh-carts do we hire,
altogether?” inquired El Corregidor.
“ Twenty six. ”
The alcalde crowded back under tho
i awning, took a Light and Gazdtte
out of his side poeket and with the
stub of a pencil and much painstak
ing effort figures.
“Caramwr' ha!” exclaimed the jefe,
rubbing out the figures and starting
ovgr again.
“I have it.” he exclaimed at. last,
“the pusheart service only costs us
$ll7O a month?”
“That’s right,” said Fritz.
“Then why not give the other 1S
carts to widows, if they're good for
six votes apiece?”
“Clemente Duan might .kick —he’s
on that list $l5 a month. But
still it is pretty good idea.”
Thon, as ho Walked across the plaza
arm in arm with the alcalde, tho ever
true blue Fritz ®aidt
“Manana hablaremos de eao ”
DAMAGE DONE
DENIER THAN
MS REPORTED
Floods In Western Pennsyl
vania Take Toll of Lives and
Much Property Destroyed.
TOWN IS THREATENED
If Water Rises Five Feet More
It Will Be Destroyed—Rail
road Out of Commission,
Associated Pres,.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 19.—Reports re
ceived today from the districts cut off
from communication by the. storms of
Saturday indicate that the damage done
in the stricken sections amounts to a
much larger sum than was first re
ported. Julius Desroche. aged 62 years,
was drowned in the Ohio river as hi*
attempted to reach the norih shore of
the stream near Brunot’s Island today.
At Point Marion, Pa., a million feet
of lumber and hundreds of logs were
swept out of the Cheat river.
If the water rises another five feet
Point Marion, a town of 600 persons,
will be inundated. At Brownsville, the
county authorities total the damage to
property in that district at $lOO,OOO.
The Monongahela River railroad is
entirely out of commission and tho val
ley through which it runs is a roaring
torrent. At Smith's Ferry, Ralph and
Merrill Walker, aged 15 and 20 years
respectively, were drowned while try
ing to ford Beaver river.
EDITOR KILLED;
WIFE IN JAIL
Mystery Surrounds Murder of
T, E, Streiglit Saturday Night
at McGregor, Texas,
Special Dispatch.
Waco, Tex., June 20. —The killing it
i Editor T. E. Streight at McGregor late
Saturday night is still shrouded in mys-
I tery and nothing definite will be known
of the death until his wife has her pro
liminary hearing this afternoon. Sheriff
G. IV. Tilley went to McGregor Sun
d v morning in an automobile and re
turned in the afternoon with Mis.
Streight, whom hi' placed in jail. Mrs.
, Streight, who is about 35 years old,
| was excited and nervous and declined
to make any statement. She Was ac
companied to Waco by her attorney, W.
C. O’Bryan, of McGregor, and her cous
in. a lawyer, who resides at Llano, ar
rived here this morning to assist in the
defense of his ’dative. When the news
of the killing was circulated Saturday
night McGregor was thrown in a fever
of excitement, owing to the prominence
of the parties to the tragedy.
Editor Streight came to McGregor
six years ago and established the Mir
ror at that place. He was a writer of
note and was widely known in that sec
tion of the state. Besides his wife he
is survived by a daughter fifteen years
old, who is on a visit to relatives in ;
Oklahoma, and a son twelve years old I
who was at home at the time the kill
ing took place. On the arrival of Sher- I
iff Tilley on the scene the son told that
officer tfiat he lad retired at M o’clock
and had left his parents conversing on
the front gallery of their home. The
shot which penetrated the forehead of
the newspaperman did not awaken the
boy. but he was aroused later by tho
neighbors who had gathered around the
house following the shooting. It is
said that strained lelations existed be
tween Streight and his wife for a week
past, the cause of which could not be
learned. It is not known at this time
whether interment of the body will be [
made at McGregor. or will be taken tot
his old home in Oklahoma for burial.
T. R. UN HIS
EDITORIAL JOB
Shuts Himself Dp In Outlook
Office and W o rk s Until
Time for the Wedding,
Associated Press.
New York. J p 19- —As so >n as Col
onel Roosevelt rrived in New York
today he went • the Outlook offices,
where he shut I nself up with his pri
vntc secretary i plough through a por
tiou of tho accumulated correspondence
awaiting him. I was said, on his be
half, that ho t . Id sec no callers, but
would remain i>t work until it was time
fur him to go to the wedding
AND GAZETTE
I AN ANTONIO, TEXAS. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1910.
MISSOORI ATT’Y.
GENERAL IS AFTER
MEAT PACKERS
Begins Ouster Proceedings By
Filing Quo Warranto Infor
mation With the Court,
FIVE COMPANIES NAMED
Asks They Be Excluded From
Corporate Rights, Licenses
Forfeited and Fined.
, Associated Fresa.
Jefferson City. Mio., June 20.—Attor
ney General Major began ouster pro
ceedings against five meat packing com
panics today by tiling quo warranto in
formation in the supreme court. The
companies attacked itre: Armour Pack
ing Co.. Morris A. <A, Swift A Co., the
Hammond Packing ’at. and the St. Lou
is Dressed Beef ami Provision company.
The Armour. swift and Morris com
panies are <h.ng“i with violating the
anti-trust law ami conspiracy and the
Hammond and st. Louis Dressed Beef
and Provision . ompany as subsidiary
companies of' tue National Packing Co.,
| with conspiracy to control the business
in Missouri.
1 The five companies arc named in two
petitions which a<ked that the corpor
ations Ie ex*lmi d fi’om ail corporate
rights, their ii.ci’ x .‘* be* forleited and;
all or such portion of their property as,
the court may d. < m proper be eonfi*
eated, or in lien thereof a fine be im '
posed.
[IKOWIGd im
MES Ol WIE
Associated Press.
Washington, June 2L—Encouraged
by the success ‘hat has attended his
legislative proginm up to this tine.
President Taft .5 . ided today to make
an issue of the passage by congress be
fore adjournment of the present session
of the bill providing for the publicity
of campaign contributions in nil cam
ipaigns affecting federal officers
NUF SED
WENDLING
111 TEXAS?
Governor of Kentucky Issues a
Requisition for Alleged Mur
derer of the Kellner Girl.
POLICE REFUSE TO
GIVE OUT STORY
' Associated Pres*.
Louisville, Ky., June 20.—The giani
[jury today indicted Joseph Wemllini,
lon the charge of murdering Alma Kell
i ner, an<l it in understood that Governor
Wilson issued a requisition a few nu>
ments lator. Wendling ia believed to
be under surveillance in Texas. The
police continue to preserve an annoy*
ing decree of reticence.
REQUISITION ISSUED.
Said at Frankfort That Louisville De
tective Has Been to Texas and
Identified Suspect.
Fiankfort, Kv„ June 21. —A requisi
tion has been issued on the governor of
Texas for the return of Joseph Wend
ling, wanted in Louisville for the mur
der of Alma Kellner. The issuance •of
the requisition was kept secret until
noon today, although it was issued Sat
urday afternoon. A detective from
Louisville has been to Texa- and ides
tified Wendling, according to advices I
। here.
BOY AGED EIGHT KILLS
SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL
I
Belton. Tex., June 20. —Wh, e several।
small children were playing here this,
morning, Hlako Birdwell, aged s. picked,
up a gun he thought unloaded, pointed)
:l,e weapon at Julia Bolle Rayther, agedl
0. and pulled the trigger. The gun wasi
discharged and the little girl was killed
instantly.
BEAUMONT ELECTRICAL
WORKERS ON STRIKE
Beaumont. Tex.. June 20.—EJectH'-nl’
workers here went on strike today.)
They demand three day shifts of eight
;hours ea"h instead of two of twelve;
ea.-h. The employers make no state
meat except, that they nre not ready to
consider the demands and assert thal)
the contracts on hand will not suffer!
because of the walkout. t
12 PAG ns
THOOSANOS OF
SIGNATURES GO
TO LEGISLATURE
That Is Plan Centering Around
| Circulating of Commission
Government Petition.
MEETING THIS EVENING
I "
Governor May Be Called on to
Permit Vote on an Entire
ly New Charter,
j Dependent on action taken at the
j meeting tonight of the Commission
I Government league. Governor Campbell
| may be called on with a request to
allow the citizens of San Antonio to
vole on a commission charter entirely
new. It is proposed to have the char
ter passed at the special meeting of
the legislature, but not to have it oe
come effective until after the people
have spoken. The commissionists are
in favor of having the election held
next March so the city may begin op
erating under a commission charter
with its next municipal election.
All members of the executive com
mittue are expected to be on hand to
night in the oilu-e ot F. I . Woods,
seeretarv. n sen the meeting is called
to order. The feasibility of gettiug
the charter passed l.y the special ses
uiou of the legislature will be taken
up and it is probable petitions will be
started at once so that citizens may
have an opportunity of putting their
names to the icquest to tiie governor.
It is believed that more than 3000 sig
natures can tcadily be obtained.
It is state., present candidates for
tee legislature are not opposed to al
lowing the proposed charter to pass in
the assembly, provided it is later tot
cd on by th. people. The preparation
of a charter is a matter, too, which
the comiiiission goverr.meut followers
will take up at ouce, s< that it mu.' he
j.ublished and the people read it. see
tion by section, in the newspaper' or
be published in pamphlet form.
BODY FOUND IN LAKE.
Associated Press. •
Chicago, June ‘M—The Iwo of Dr.
Lusk was found in the lake off Scien
ty titth street today. He is belie.ved to.
have been drowned by the capsizing of|
a .Saturday .during the gale, j
LAST EDITION
4 ©’Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
VOTERS WILL
NOT HAVE TO
TAKE OATH
Democratic Committee Agrees
on No Further Pledge Than
In the Election Law,
COLQUITT'S NAME FIRST
I Will Head Ballot In Bexar
County According to To
day's Arrangements,
B. D. LINDSEY WITHDRAWS
Sheriff's Name Will Go In the
General Election — Meet
ing of the Committee.
WHAT COMMITTEE DID.
Decided that voter* in the pri
maries shall be subjected to no fur
ther test than that prescribed by
the Terrell election low.
Allowed C. M. Chambers, assist
ant district attorney, to withdraw
his name from the primaries for
fear it would vitiate entire bal
lot.
Arranged by lot the placing of
names on the ticket, O. B. Col
quitt securing first place as guber
natorial candidate.
Considered only the name of John
W. Tobin as sheriff. Captain B. D.
Lindsey having withdrawn from
| the primaries.
Placed in the hands of Chairman
H. E. Hildebrand the power of
! naming election judges in each pre
cinct. judges to name their own
clerical help.
Elected Joe! A. Lipscomb as sec
retary in place of S. C. Eldredge,
who handed in his resignation some
ti—e ago.
Filled all vacancies, except a few,
and invited the newly elected com
mitteemen to come in and take part
in the deliberations.
Decided that all nominations
shall be by plurality vote, this be
ing in accordance with procedure in
former years.
Voters in Bexar count v going into th*
democratic primaries will not be requir
ed take any test than that prescribed
by the Terrell elec I ion law. this
in the form of the words printed at the
top of each ballot:
“1 am a democrat and pledge myself
I
HARGtS FEUDIST
SHOOTS JUDGE
| Associated Press.
i Ky., June 20.— Asbury Spi*
< er. who was concerned in the Hargis
feud, today shot ami killed Judge lu
gate and wounued Fugate’s mother. The
Fugates were tenants on Spicer’s farm.
i Tho killing ovciured in the country
land the fir>t known of it was when
'Spicer telephoned in he had killed Eu*
ami had sliot his mother and was
••inning lo Jackson to give himself up.
Neither tin extent of Mrs. Fugate’s in*
juries nor the cause of the trouble is
known.
TWELVE PRISONERS
ESCAPE EROS JAIL
Special Dispatch.
Muskogee. ni,; a . .1 • • Twelve
Wagoner countorison'.' ti'ie.l ia
the federal jail her. -an.o ;..ei way
out of the binding :i ."caomi ln.e
Saturday night, iml have got bev'li ap
proh. tided l-’ive others ■ jntined in the
ja i! refused take i a 11-8
opportunity John Kerney, a tc.mer,
reports be'iig ry aud milled of i
loa. 1 of pio\"!. ii' hnd supplies aud
in nuimn e.i:iv Sundry ! . •
authorities .Link the escaped prisoners
committed the robbery. The news of
the -ail delivery was not generally
known until this morning.
McFABLAND CASE CONTINUED.
Special Dispatch.
Holston, Tex.. June 21*. —The case of
Earl McFarland, charged with killing
\":stant I’oliee Chief William Mur
phy, three months ago in a restaurant,
was eontiuiied iu tiisrrirt emninni
eoi.rt this morning, h is believed
effort will again be made to secure Me-\
Farland's release os habeas । orp is Th.
eourt this morning set the ease for trial
September SO,