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PRINTED IN SAN ANTONIO.
VOLUME 3!, No. 2CB
NO INSURANCE
BILL PASSED-
GOST 560,000
Special Session Has Cost a
Pretty Penny and There's
Little to Show for It.
PLAY H 0 U S E VS. SENATE
‘Former Drafts a Good Bill After
Much Study, But Latter
Does Not Want It.
(By Macmillan).
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 17.—After wrang
ling for hours the free conference com
mittee that was expected to patch up
an insurance bill satisfactory to both
houses, quit in disgust late last night,
adjourning until 8 o'clock r'nis morning.
The outcome ought to be eminently
satisfactory to the distinguished sena
tors who seemingly have been working
for days to achieve this result. Even if
the conference committee should get to
gether this morning, its report could
be shut out by a point of order, since it
is the last day of the session.
Thirty days ago the special session
of (he legislature was called ostensibly
to pass an insurance bill. Today the
session will come to a close with the in
surance bill dead on the calendar —un-
less a legislative miracle intervenes.
Cost State $60,000.
It has cost the state of Texas $60,000
for this farce, and may cost as much
more, in case the governor feels com
pelled to keep the legislators here an
other month.
To the very end the senators have
made political expediency the basic
rate in their insurance rate bill. They
passed the co-insurance clause lightly
by, but were exceedingly particular
that Colquitt should have the appoint-
on Page 4 —Fifth Column)
ROOSEVELT NOT
D GDNOIOITE
Under No Circumstances Will
He Allow His Name to Be
Presented.
Associated Press.
Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Aug. 17.—Colonel
Roosevelt made it clear today that un
der no circumstances will he allow his
name to be presented to the conven
tion as a candidate for the governor
ship nomination.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 17. —Ex-
President Roosevelt refused this morn
ing to add anything to his statement
of yesterday concerning the refusal of
the republican state committee to rec
ommend him for the temporary chair
manship of the Saratoga state conven
tion. He is not willing to say whether
I he will take any steps to lead the
‘‘progressives,” with whom he virtual
ly enrolled himself yesterday.
DIRECTORY PEOPLE
ARE ARRESTED
Wanted on charges of alleged em
bezzlement over $5O, the alleged sum
being $B5, W. A. Cade and R. H.
Schmidt were yesterday afternoon ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff J. H. Long,
\ the charge having been sworn out be
fore Justice Ben Fisk by Garey Haynes,
president of the Texas Publishing com
pany, publisher of a new city directory
of San Antonio. Cade was arrested at
447 Soledad street, while Schmidt was
placed in custody at Austin, Deputy
Long making a flying trip there to get
him.
According to the sworn complaint,
Haynes sent $B5 to the two men, and
they are said to have appropriated it to
their own use. Other witnesses men
tioned, besides Haynes, are Allen T.
Branin and W. W. Lindley. An exam
ining trial will be held tomorr - after
noon t 2 o’clock before Justice Fisk.
The transaction is alleged to have
occurred yesterday and during the af-
K ternoon Haynes made the complaint on
' whi(ch the two men were arrested by
Deputy Long.
TAFT ASKSSTATEMENT.
Tt Covers Amount of Attorney’s Fees
Paid Indians and Is for Presi
dent’s Use.
Sulphur. Okla., Aug. 17.—1 n re
sponse to a request from Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Valentine, the spe
cial congressional committee, investi
gating the Indian land affairs today,
forwarded to Beverly a statement cov
ering the amount of attorney’s fees
- paid by the Indians. The statement is
•aid to b» for the use of President
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AMDGAZETTE
14 PAGES
PRESIDENT OF
CHILE IS DEAD
Associated Press.
Bremen, Aug. 17. —The death of
President Montt of Chile in this city
last night was unexpected. He was
preparing for bed when he was seized
with cramps about the heart and died
almost instantly. His wife was with
him at the time and as soon as she no
ticed Senor Montt’s condition was ser;-
ous, a physician was summoned, but it
was too late. The doctor did all he
could to save his patient, but without
success. President Montt passed away
almost instantly.
The body has been embalmed and
probably will be taken to the Catholic
church of St. Johannes, where it will
rest until final disposition is made.
JURY BRIBERY
IS ATTEMPTED
Sixth Panel of Veniremen, Like
the Fifth, Say They Were Ap
proached In Browne Case.
i Associated Press.
Chicago, 111., Aug. 17.—When the
sixth panel of veniremen called in the
case of Lee O’Neil Browne reported
, today nearly all of them, as was the
case with the fifth panel yesterday,
admitted they had been “approach
ed” with reference to possible service
as jurors.
Judge Kersten called counsel for
Browne into his chambers for consulta
tion.
MISS CARROLL BETTER
Believed She WiU Live—Not Yet Able
to Talk, Though Conscious.
A report at 2 o'clock this afternoon
from the Santa Rosa infirmary stated
that Miss Alice Carroll stood a chance
of recovery; that she had regained
practical consciousness, but was still
unable to talk. The physicians, how
ever, have not given any certificate
tending to show either recovery or
death.
| District Attorney Baker had planned
|to take a statement from her this af
|ternoon, if it was possible, but on the
| advice of the physicians he decided
Ito wait until this evening, possibly to
i morrow. Action regarding the hearing
of the case against James P. Earl hinges
lon whether or not the young woman
jstands a chance for recovery. He is yet
in the county jail.
AMERICAN iSALVATION
ARMY CAPTAIN FINED $lOO
Pays Fine From a Roll Which Is Not
Damaged by the Century He
Paid Court.
j J. C. Hall, captain of the American
I Salvation Army, this morning paid a
I fine of $lOO and costs, aggregating
$120.65, for carrying a pistol. Ho
pleaded guilty before Judge Phil
Shook of the county court and was
given the usual fine of $lOO. Captain
Hall paid the fine from a roll of bills
which still contained quite a number
; when he had peeled off the requisite
| amount.
FOOT CRUSHED AND
AMPUTATION FOLLOWS
IV hile H. Baltzar, a switchman in the
local yards of the Galveston. Harris
burg & San Antonio, was at w-ork last
night a switch engine ran over and
crushed one of his feet. He was taken
to the Santa Rosa hospital, where the
mangled foot was amputated.
Baltzar recently resigned from the
police force on account of long hours
and small pay.
PAYS VISIT TO HUSBAND AND
FINDS HIM DEAD IN HIS ROOM
Houston Woman Goes to Kerrville to See Sick Husband and
Walking Into His Room at the Hotel She Discovers
Him a Corpse on the Bed.
Special Dispatch.
Kerrville, Tex., Aug. 17.—Mrs. Thos.
England of Houston came to Kerr
ville on the evening train last night to
visit her husband, and walking into
his room at the City hotel, found him
dead in bed.
England, who was a watchman at the
Clinton shipyards at Houston, came
here about a week ago for his health
DESPERADO IS
SHOT TO DEATH
Sheriff Is Wounded Fatally In
a Battle With Arkansas
Horse Thieves.
Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 17.—1 n a
desperate street battle with two al
leged horse thieves here today, George
Chitwood, one of the thieves, was in
stantly killed and Sheriff Jake Houpt
was probably fatally wounded.
The sheriff and his posse have been
looking for the Chitwood brothers for
the past week on a charge of horse
stealing. Today they called at the seri
itf's office and when placed under ai
rest, broke and ran from the court
house. The officers opened fire on the
men and they returned shot for shot.
George Chitwood succeeded in -jumping
into a buggy and fought off Deputy
Sheriff Sid Houpt with a buggy whip
until another officer shot him in the
abdomen, killing him instantly. The
other man rode through the streets on a
wounded horse, escaping to the monn
tains. A posse is scouring the woods in
all directions in search of the desperado.
DIESENBACH IS ~
OFF THE TICKET
So-Called Independent Move
ment Meets Peaceful End.
Lindsey Still In Race.
The movement for a Citizens ticket
of “independent” candidates in the
November elections today died a peace
ful death unless some revivifying influ
ence is injected. Sheriff B. D. Lind
sey will be the only ‘‘independent.
August Biesenbach this afternoon
made the positive announcement that
he would not make the race for dis
trict clerk on the “Independent tick
et. Mr. Biesenbach assigned no special
reason, merely saying with finality that
he would not be an independent candi
date.
George C. Altgelt, submitted as a
candidate for county judge, asked over
the phone if he intended to stay in the
race, made an unintelligible reply, and
then hung up the receiver. From other
sources it was learned that he, too, will
officially withdraw.
Hart Mussey, candidate for county
treasurer, has stated that he will not
tun. The announcement has not been
given full publicity yet, but his attitude
is known among his intimate friends.
Sam Belden, slated to run as district
attorney, said this morning that if a
whole ticket was made out he would
run; if no full ticket went beXore the
people he did not care to run on a
“bobtail.” The withdrawal of the
others is expected to result similarly
with him.
These wholesale announcements came
this afternoon following a pow wow of
Citizens’ leaguers in the Book building.
It had been known as early as yester
fday that the demise of the “independ
ent” movement was imminent, but
some said that political doctors might
save the patient by strong injections
of digitalis and saline solutions. De
spite heroic remedies, however, the pa
tient took a turn for the worse and
this afternoon the end eame peacefully.
The Citizens’ league became gravely
ill at a meeting held Monday night at
Scholz's hall on Losoya street. Charges
that the candidates had been “sold
out” were freely made and this pre
cipitated a row which made the move
ment begin its collapse. Judge Altgelt
was out of the city at the time, and his
return was expected to rejuvenate the
patient. His presence, however, report
says, failed to cause convalescence, and
the consultation of eminent political
doctors held today is said to have de
cided that the movement is moribund.
Sheriff Lindsey has announced that
he will make the race whether or not
any other candidate is in the field. His
list of signers to tin? petition is com
plete and it will be presented before
Saturday. Judge Shook, to whom the
petitions must be presented, said this
morning that lie would remain in the
city until the legal time for filing, Au
gust 22, has passed.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,1910.
and last evening Mrs. England arrived
to join him. She went to his room and
found him ou the bed in a reclining
position. Efforts to arouse him failed
and it was then she discovered he was
dead. •
England was 50 years of age and is
survived by three children and his
widow. The remains were shipped to
Houston for interment this afternoon.
CALL EXPECTED
THIS EVENING
Legislators Claim to Have
Positive Assurance That the
Session Will Be Called.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 17. —The only
question remaining as to the governor’s
call for another special session is at
what time it will come. Under the law
it can be at any time in three dhys,
and it is expected this evening when
the free conference committee on in
surance shall have emerged from its
deadlock.
Members of the legislature say they
have positive assurance that the session
is to be called, and arrangements are al
ready being made to resurrect bills.
The “spider bill,” killed on the
calendar of the senate this morning,
will again be presented at the regular
session.
UM PASSENGER
OVER IHE CHANNEL
, Moissant and Mechanician
Make Flight Together From
Calais to Deal.
Deal. Eng., Aug. 17.—Moissant in his
trip across the channel today carried a
passenger, his mechanician, Albert,
making his cross channel flight not
merely an incident in the longer Paris
to London journey, but an achievement
which surpassed the feats of Bleriot,
DeLesseps and the unfortunate Rolls,
whose machines were burdened only
with the pilots in crossing the straits.
WILL NOT RESUME TODAY.
Deal. England, Aug. 17.—After a
long wait Moissant decided to make no
attempt to continue his journey to Lon
don today. He will start for London
about 5 o'clock tomorrow morning.
MISS CHARPENIER'S
SONO IS REDHCEC
On habeas corpus hearing this morn
ing before Judge Edward Dwyer of
the Thirty-seventh district court, Miss
Marian Charpenter, charged in four
cases with forgery and in four with
passing forged instruments, was given
a reduction in bond from $2400 to
$lOOO, which she is expected to furnish
this afternoon. On the four cases of
forgery bond was fixed at $250 in each
case and on the passing charges she was
released on her own recognizance, the
legal procedure being that a conviction
for’ forgery bars the prosecution on the
passing charge.
Miss CharpeAer appeared in court
this morning w/th her mother and sis
ter, the latter being a young woman of
rather striking personal beauty. Miss
Charpenter was apparently but little
agitated, although the effects of her
stay in jail had already begun to be
noticeable in a pallid face and luster
less eves.
While the bearing was on, the young
woman's mother sat next to her and
they conversed occasionally. After the
lowering of the bond, all went into the
sheriff's office where they waited for
sureties to be found. At noon sufficient
signers had . not been secured, but the
statement was made that the young
woman would be out of jail this after
noon. *
No testimony in the case was taken,
Carlos Bee, her attorney, confining him
self to a statement that she was un
able to give a bond of $2400. District
Attorney I. C. Baker did not press for
a maintainance of the larger amount,
but allowed the court to fix r 1000 as
the total in all the cases.
NO PICTURES OF SHOOTING.
Cleveland. Ohio. Aug. 17. —Mayor
Baehr today issued an order prohibit
ing the exhibition of motion pictures
of the shooting of Mayor Gaynor of
New York.
PRETTY TEXAS GIRL’S
LIFE ENDS IN POVERTY
Beautiful Bessie Toone, the disinher
ited niece of former President William
H. Newman of the New York Central
railroad-end related to the first families
of Texas, who died recently in New
York, a victim’of love for the stage
and the whitb lights of the Broadway
theatrical district. After leaving her
Texas home, she made considerable of
a reputation in stock company work.
By and by she struck the barren times
that all of her profession have to en
dure and she returned home and was
reconciled to her parents, whose consent
she had not obtained to go on the pro
fessional stage. The lure of the boards
was too strong for her, however. She.
braved her family’s and her uncle’s dis
pleasure again and came to New’ York
about a year ago. Reverses set in. She
dropped from one thing to another un
til at twenty-seven she had run the on
tire course of life and succumbed. She
was considered one of the most striking
women on the American stage and her
rich contralto voice won her high
praise.
CHARIER HAS
BEEN ENGROSSED
Bill Already Signed By Speak
er Marshall and Lieutenant
Governor Davidson.
»
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex.. Aug. 17.—The San An
tonio commission government charter
bill has finally been engrossed —seven-
ty pages in Jong hand scroll. It was
signed this morning by Speaker John
Marshall of the house and Lieutenant
Governor A. B. Davidson of the senate.
The acting chairman of the house com
mittee on enrolled bills. Schofield, took
the measure to the governor.
INDIANAPOLIS GROWS.
Indiana City Increases 38.16 Per Ceut
and Albany, N. Y., Only 6.5
Per Cent.
Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 17.—The popula
tion of Indianapolis is 233,650, an in
crease of 64,486 or 38.16 per cent com
pared with 169,164 in 1900. The popu
lation of Albany, N. Y., is 100.253, an
increase of 8102, or 6.5 per cent, as
compared with 94,151 in 1900.
BEAVER WINS FIRST.
Marblehead, Aug. 17.—The Beaver
won the first Spanish American sonder
yacht races today. The Spanish boat
was sailed poorly in the race and was
far astern.
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Wealthy and a Beauty, She
Sacrificed All to Glamour
of the Stage.
RAN GAMUT OF EXPERIENCE
Death, Amid Poverty and
Strife, Finally Ends Her
Variegated Career.
Special Dispatch.
New York, Aug. 17. —With the burial
of all that was mortal of Bessie Toone,
beauty and actress, at Marshal). Tex.,
there was ended a story of the extremes
of life such as occur but few times even
in the life of the stage.
She was a niece of former President
William H. Newman of the New York
Central, and was related to other promi
nent and wealthy folk. But, in her own
words, the glamour of the stage gripped
her, ruined her life and would not let
her escape from it. At 27 she had been
“through it all,” and then death came
to end her variegated career.
Conceived Fancy for Stage.
As a young girl in Texas Bessie
Toone, whose father was chief auditor
for Texas of the Southern Pacific rail
road, conceived a fancy for the stage.
She attended a dramatic school and
there her charming contralto voice and
her brunette beauty won her a high
place. With private backing she was
soon able to tour the south as star in
Pinero’s play “Iris.”
When the company failed, as it soon
did, she went to stock company work,
and won another reputation. Then she
met “Joe Willard,” a song-antl dance
man in vaudeville, and fell in love with
him.
Only a few months before this time
Willard had eloped witht Belle Aitken,
a niece of a representative in the Mich
igan legislature. But he vowed to Miss
Toone that he had never been married
and she—on pretense of meeting some
-homo relatives in Chicago—met him in
that city and married him.
Uncle Disinherits Her.
Mr. Newman, then president of the
New- York Central, disinherited his
niece when he heard of her marriage,
and this was added to her woes when
the inevitable separation from Willard
camo. She then went to Texas, was
reconciled to her father and decided to
give up the stage forever.
But the love of lights and applause
was too great, and again she entered
stock company work, finally rising to a
point where she was engaged for one
of the “Harvest Moon” company, de
picting Augustus Thomas’ play on the
road after an engagement in New York.
This was her last work of any ac
count. l.ate last summer she came to
this city, took an apartment at 549
West U3th street and almost immedi
ately began to get into difficulties with
the law.
She was arrested in November,
charged with having sold for $640 the
contents of her apartment when she
had already mortgaged them for a con
siderable sum. Edgar Bronck, of the
Hotel Gerard, who was known as her
fiance, obtained bail for her and she
was released.
Arrested for Intoxication.
A little while later she was arrested
in a Broadway cafe on a charge of in
toxication. Again her friends had her
set free.
But her stage career was then about
at its end, and her wealthy friends had
deserted her, so she lived quietly until
this summer, when she again set about
trying to find a place on the stage. She
was unsuccessful, and worriment, as
well as physical ailments, contributed
to her end.
“Mv ad vice to young girls,” she
often said, “is to keep off the staj
and have nothing to do with stage pe
pie. It looks romantic —but it is vei
brutal. ”
Very few of New York's stage fo
even mourned Miss Toone today. Tho
who remembered her as a fine-lookin
jollv girl, said apologetically that th<
hadn't seen her for months and didn
know what she had been doing.
PLACED UNDER $250 BOND.
Special Dispatch.
Lockhart. Tex.. Aug. 17.—John Mi
gee of McMahan, this county, w;
placed under a $250 bond by Justii
of the Peace Galloway, for his appes
ance awaiting the outcome of knit
wounds inflicted upon a young ma
named Watley, while they were <
route home from Lockhart Mond::
night. The wounds are not necessari
। fatal, but are very nasty cuts, the a
i tending physician finding it neeessai
’to take several stitehes in them in se
j era! places. The young men had tro
ble while here during the afterno<
and Magee caught up with the Watli
boy, who was in a wagon going honi
and they renewed the trouble, with t
above results,
ENGINE HITS HANDCAR.
Flatonia, Tex., Aug. 17.—Yesterd.
morning about 9 o'clock on the S.
j & A. P. in a deep eut and on a eur
j the Sap local southbound struck t
handcar of the section gang. AU t
men jumped and no one was hurt, b
the car was demolished and the co
Icatchcr of the engine tom off
LAST EDITION
4 o’Clock
P2ICE: FIVE CENTS.
REP.FULLER
DENOUNCES
CONVENTION
Represented “Hellish Liquor
Traffic of the State of
Texas," He Says, ’
J. WOLTERS WAS MASTER
“Platform Had Its Incipiency
In Drunken, Degraded
Delegation." ’
Special Diapatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 17.—" That
convention at Galveston did not
represent the masses of the people.
It simply represented the hellish
liquor traffic of the state of Tex
as,” cried Representative Fuller
of San Jacinto in the house this
morning when his resolution criti
cizing the Galveston convention
for its attack upon the legislature
in calling upon that body to “dis
pose of the fire rating board law.
adjourn and go home,” which was
a matter of pending business in
the house this morning.
When the excitement occasioned b,'
i.is remark subsided. Fuller went on:
“That platform adopted at Galves
ton had its incipiency in a drunken,
degraded delegation that did not in
any sense represent the people, or even
represent the convention.”
Fuller said that he had bought toys
in his time, and among these toys was
a jumping Jack. When a string was
pulled the jumping Jack threw up its
arms and its legs.
“Who was the master of that Gal
veston convention!” called Fuller.
“I’ll tell you—. Take Wolters. He was
the man who pulled the string ami
made all the manikins jump. It would
be a disgrace for us and to, any self
respecting citizen of Texas to follow
any such leadership as that.
“For that convention to tell this
legislature what to do is an insult, and
it would be a shame if we did not meet
it.” \
Looney and Cureton offered a sub
stitute for the whole resolution, as
follows:
‘•Resolved, that the members of thil
house continue to do their constitu
tional duty and to pass upon such mat
ters as may be submitted to them, leav
ing to each member the personal right
of giving all petitions, conventions,
resolutions and platforms such interpre
tation as may be satisfactory to him.”
Looney’s substitute was voted down,
71 to 33, and Fuller's resolution up
braiding the convention was then
adopted, 61 to 43. When this remit
was announced and it became clear that
the house had given the democratic con
vention an answering swat, the pro ma
jority broke into cheers. The applause
lasted for some minutes, the house
showing more feeling than at any time
previous, excepting when the first of
’ the restrictive liquor bills was passed
to engrossment.
HARMON Ts*PLEASED.
Order Has Prevailed at Columbus Since
He Ordered Guardsmen Out.
Associated Press.
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 17. —Governor
Harmon expressed himself today as well
pleased witht the order that has pre
vailed since the calling out of troops
in the street car strike. He regards
this as being due to the moral effect
of their being here. General Manager
Stewart of the City Street Railway
company said he maintained order
along the lines last night while cars
were running without either assistance
of the national guard or city police.
KEEP CHAMPIONSHIP.
Packett and Alexander Defeat Bundj
and Hendrick in Tennis Doubles.
Associated Press.
Newport, R. 1.. Aug. 17. —Packett
and Alexander defeated Bundy and
Hendrick and retained the national
lawn tennis doubles championship to
day, 6-1, 8-6.
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and Thursday.
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