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President Taft Turns His Back on Sherman and Offers Olive Branch to Colonel Roosevelt June Average Circulation 17,782 PAID DAILY THE ONLY CIRCULATION fIdCIBES PRINTED IN SAN ANtonto. VOLUME 31, No. 214 4 FIRE LOSS $llB,OOO INSURANCE $BB,OOO Pruitt Commission company, five warehouses and stables, east side> of Medina street, valued at $28,000, completely destroyed; insurance $14,000. Household Furniture company, two warehouses, west side Medina street, valued at $12,000 and contents at $25,000, completely destroyed; fully covered by insurance. , Paul Bean Grain company, Medina and San Luis streets, 30,000 bushels of oats and other grain, estimated value slB,ooo} partially by in surance. Practically total loss. R. M. Hughes & Co., 015 Medina street, building and contents, valued at $lO,OOO, totally destroyed; insurance $OOOO. Transfer warehouse of Texas Harvester company, San Luis street, con tents valued at $2OOO totally destroyed; insurance unknown. , R. A. Grant, Jr., 520 San Fernando street, contents consisted of hay aud machinery, valued at $ll5O, totally destroyed; no insurance. Gus Oraebner, 520 San Fernando street, warehouse valued at $2OOO, to tally destroyed; insurance $lOOO. Taylor Produce company, A. W. Lyons, manager, 701 South Medina street, warehouse valued at $2OOO and contents at $l5OO, totally destroyed; insur ance not known. San Antonio Tapialine Milling company, Medina and San Fernando streets, contents valued at $1000; covered by insurance. W. C. Silliman, Medina and San Luis streets, coal and bins, valued at $4000,, totally destroyed; partially covered by insurance. J. Oppenheimer & Co., stock valued at $6OOO, totally destroyed; fully insured. A. Biesenbach, west side Medina street, building material valued at $2500. practically destroyed; no insurance. International & Great Northern Railway company, four (Wght cars, one flat car destroyed and one caboose damaged, loss s32oo;covered by insurance. B. J. Young, 610 San Luis street, household goods damaged by water to extent of about $l5O. INSURANCE LAW MUST BE PASSED SAYS GOV. TOM The ‘iMust” Is Very Emphatic, the Kind Spelled In Capi tals and Underscored, IS NO GUESSING MATTER ■ ■ ■■ .. a. — If This Called Session Does Not Accomplish It There Will Be More of Them, (By Macmillan.) Special Dispatch. Austin, Tex., Aug. 23. —Governor Campbell said yesterday to a house lead er, one of the most potential members of that body: “An insurance law must be passed before this legislature adjourns.” What the governor said, and how he said it, could better be depicted with the word “must” in capitals—this way —MUST. It was the Scotch word must —not. the English word. The house leader asked the gover nor if he referred to the present called session or to the legislature. The gov ernor wrinkled up the part of his face around his eyes in that quizzical, Camp bellistic smile, and said: “I mean this legislature.” This signifies that if a fourth called jession don’t fetch au insurance law, why a fifth called session may, or rather, will do it. Is the Real Thing. Nor is this some more guessing on the governor—it's the real goods; it is what Mr. T. Campbell does say. During the interview, the governor lid not once advise ?ny change of at- (Continued on page 3.—Second column.) (Othter Austin News on Page Three.) VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT BETTER Special Dispatch. Elmendorf, Tex., Aug. 23.—N. Gil lette, Jr., who was injured in an auto mobile accident in San Antonio yester day, returned here last night. He is re ported better and is now said to be out of danger. MEETING IS POSTPONED. Austin, Tex.. Aug. 23. —The house judiciary committee, which was to have met this morning to resume considera tion of the International railroad claim bill, failed to get a quorum, and the meeting was postponed until this after noon. Friday Came Back Bringing With Him a Ton or So of Glass Friday is unlucky. Everybody knows that. Then again there is another old saw which says that people who reside in glass mansions should not cast geological specimens. Both of these statements are but pre liminary to the real story. There’s a porter at the Gunter hotel and his name is N. Friday. This morn ing he was sent up to wash the sky lights about thirty feet above the floor of the lobby. Obediently be went and washed, but as was said in the first place Friday is unlucky., Friday was used ter placing his num ber elevens with delightful irresponsi ndity as to consequences so if the elerk had only known it he was not the porter ♦»» «end up to wash those skylights. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE BASEBALL TEH FOR PBEACHEH Mattapoisett, Aug. 23.—“ Baseball in Heaven,” was the subject of an ad dress by the Rev. C. Julian Tuthill, pastor of the Congregational church, Sunday night. In his address, Mr. Tuthill declared that there was no reason apparent why the great national game of America should not be found in some form ot another in the worm to come. He said in part: “Heaven is but an evolution of this world. A Christian may love a ball gahie and loving it remain a Christian. Why, then, is it not safe to prophesy that even the game of baseball will have its place in some spiritual form, in heaven!” PROXY MARRIAGE WILL NOT DO San Juan, Porto Rico, Aug. 23.—A ruling that has alarmed hundreds of couples in Porto Rico has just been made by Attorney General Brown. He holds that at all future weddi: s in Porto Rieo both bride and bridegroom must be present to make’ the ceremony lawful. When Spain relinquished her sover eignty more than 83,000 men and wo men in the island, many of them prom inent. were openly living together with out the sanction of the church or state. A partial reform was brought about by the earnest work of Bishop Blenk, now archbishop of N*— Orleans. Bishop Jones, who succeeded Bishop Blenk in Porto Rico, and Bishop Van Buren of the Protestant Episcopal church, with their clergy and the ministers of other denominations, are continuing the fight. The situation, however, from an Ameri can viewpoint, is still appalling, the marriage laws being evaded by thou sands of couples. MINISTER IS ILL. Associated Press. Lima, Peru, Aug. 23. —Leslie W. Coombs, the American minister to Peru, is ill here, but his condition is not con sidered dangerous. Had All But the Lawn —A Mexican giving his name as Adolfo Rocha, aged about 25 years, was placed in jail this morning on a charge of theft under the value of $5O. He was found by Pa trolman Serna at 4:30 o’clock this morn ing carrying fifty feet of garden hose and a lawn sprinkler, later identified as haying been stolen from the premises of Mis. Helen Oppermann on South La redo street. Friday cast one of those number elevens onto a pane of the skylight and then followed with the other. The re sult was visions of an Ethiopian aero planist doing the dip of death to the guests who sat in the lobby. Friday “came back.” ; Right back to the ground floor from which he should ne’er have wandered. He came with a co npleto disregard as to consequences oi position. With him came about a ton of glass, more or less. The glass made * lot of work for the other porters and Friday made a job for the doctors who state w(th profes sional pride that he will recover from the fall, which was enough to kill any ordinary man. 14 PAOES FIRE LAYS WASTE TWO CITY BLOCKS Lack of Fire Plugs, High Wind ?nd Poor Pressure at First Gives Fire Great Start. MERCHANTS ARE AROUSED Will Ask City Council to Order Larger Mains In Warehouse District—Protection Poor. THE LOSS TOTALS $116,000 Big Area Close to the I. & G. N. Tracks Is Swept Bare for Three Whole Blocks. Flames, which broke out about 8:45 o’clock last night and raged for al most three hours, completely devastat ed two blocks of warehouses located on South Medina street, between San Luis and San Fernando streets and bounded on the east and west by South Frio street and the International & Great Northern railroad tracks? The total damage to structures and stock is estimated todav at $122,500 by the i (Continued on T’age s—Fourth Column) CITY CHILDREN SHOW DEFECIS Denver, Col., Aug. 23.—“ People are commencing to realize that the com munity has a greater right in a child than even the parents,” dt lared Dr. W. H. Evans, commissioner of health of the city of Chicago. “Children neglected physically con stitute the bulk of the population of in sane asylums and jails,”,he continued. In Chicago, Dr. Evans says, they have been examining the public school children for about three years, and that figures cited from Chicago will apply in proportion to every city in the coun try. A large percentage of the chil dren were found to need some physical care, about 51 per cent being defective in some particular. Of this number 32.3 per cent had de fective teeth, 20 per cent enlarged ton sils and 15.9 per Cent defective vision. The number examined was 123,897. Weather y Forecast til! 7 p. m. Wednesday. FFor San Antonio and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday. A The maximum temperature fot the 24 hours ending at S o’clock this morning was 100 degrees and the minimum was 74 degrees. (Comparative temperatures tot this year and hat: 1909 1010 __ 4 a. m 74 77 Oa. m 71 76 8 a. to 76 ■ w 10 a. 87 77 12 noon .... 91 84 1 D. m. .... 98 4? Making the complaint that the warehouse district, the scene of a $125,000 fire last night, is not given adequate fire protection, owners of warehouses in that part of the city say they will go before the city council with a petition asking for immediate relief, that the Water Supply company be forced to re place the small eight-inch main in service there now with a larger pipe and to increase the number of hydrants. Property owners who suffered loss last night and others attribute the rapid spreading of the flames to the low water pressure, some of them saying that at the start the water supply was insufficient, and one, 8. D. Price, president of the Price-Booker company, makes the statement that it was not until for ty minutes after the sounding of the alarm that a sufficient pressure was obtained to throw the water on the burning buildings. When the firemen got down to work, he says, the fire had spread Over several buildings. At the pumping station of the Water Supply company the auto graphic recorder showed that a pressure of 90 pounds was on at the time the alarm was sent in and that at no time during the fire did the pressure fall below that, and that at one time the, pressure in creased to 95 pounds. Acting Fire Chief Bishop said: “Taking it all in all the water pressure was good.” He complained of scarcity of hydrants and small water mains. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 23,1910. FROM EAST TENNESSEE IS MAN WHOSE TESTIMONY FREED CHAPIN Interest in the Chapin habeas corpus proceeding centers around J. W. O’Brien, “the man who drank his beer while the bullets flew.” His nerve has been the subject of much comment, and inquiry reveals the fact that he was reared in the mountains of upper east Tennessee, wlferc there is some shooting too, and nerve under all circumstances is as in grained as the color of the eyes and of the hair. When asked this morning something concerning his history Mr. O’Brien was loath to discuss himself, but finally vouchsafed that though he was born in Charleston, S. C., he was reared in the mountains of upper east Tennessee, and that from force of habit and training he never under any circumstances got excited. He said he had seen men killed before both iu Tennessee and Texas, and such things never excited him. Strange as it may seem, Mr. O’Brien has been for twenty-two years a wholesale and refail salesman for men's furnishing goods. He was so em ployed for thirteen years in Knoxyille, where he was head salesman for Brown Bros. Shoe company and for the Claiborne, Cowen Mfg. Co. In 1902 Mr. O’Brien went to Beaumont, Tex., and it was there in 1902 or 1903 that he first met Judge D. B. Chapin, the defendant in the case. Speak ing of this be said: “1 had never seen Rountree before the night he was killed, but the reason that 1 noticed the two men particularly when I went in was that the judge's face was familiar, and I thought 1 knew him. I never forget a face, though I do forget names. “After the shooting was o'er the judge catae and introduced himself to me. and I asked him if I did not know him in Beaumont, and told him where I used to hang out. Then we found that we knew each other. 1 haven‘t talked to him, though, since the night of the killing.” Mr. O’Brien stayed five years in Beaumont, where he was for a time in the oil fields. His experience there, he says, contributed largely to his steadiness of nerve, for there killings were of frequent occurrence. In Beaumont he contracted pneumonia and after an illness of six or seven months he went to El Paso, where he took a position with J, M. Cannon. This position he held for two years, and Mr. O'Brien says that his pres ent position with the asphalt plant is the first outside position he Las held, and this he took only because he wanted to build up his health. LEGISLATORS LEFT WITHOUT HOMF WHEN POLICE ORDER HOUSE CLOSED Young Women of Doubtful Character Are. Seen Entering Place By Copper on Watch and Austin Chief of Police Says It Must Be Shut Up. Special Dispatch. Austin, Tex., Aug. 23. —Police Chief Laughlin today ordered closed a house on West Tenth street, at which two members of the legislature are boarding, after the place had been watched last night. Young women of d'mbtfnl character FOOD AND WINE WORRY FRANCE Supply of Horse Meat Is Re poited’to Be Much Below the Demand. PRICE OF BREAD GOES UP Paris, Aug. 23.—F00d and drink are becoming subjects of much worriment for the French. The supply of horse meat is much below the demand owiug to the heavy duty on poor equines im ported for the abattoirs. Although the laws fully countenance the eating of horseflesh a discrimination exists against the animal destined to be butchered in favor of the one with long blooded pedigree which is to run races or draw a millionaire’s coach. Horse meat within a comparatively short period has doubled in price. The people in certain quarters of Paris cotp sume hardly any other kinds of flesh. Bread also has increased in price :n the last few days. There is a cry of shortage in the wheat crop, but the shortage is only about 15 per cent, which does not justify the one sou add ed for a seven pound loaf- Vintage Is Threatened. Worst of all, however, is the/thrent ened three quarter failure of the vint age in most of the great wine produc ing dietriets. Perhaps this estimate is exaggerated, as was that of the wine shortage last year, but there is no doubt but the late, rainy sumAier had a most disastrous effect. The president uf one wine mer chants’ syndicate states there is a de ficiency throughout France of 440,000,- CQO gallons. In lower Burgundy there will be hardly any new wine at all. Tho Bordeaux production will be half the normal amount. Vote d'Or one eighth, Beaujolias about four fifths, and the white wine regions of the upper Savoy one-half. Tn the champagne districts the out look is particularly dismal. Storms and floods have played havoc with tho vineyards, and the dreaded mildew fol lowed them. Bright Spots in the Prospect. There are just a few bright spots in the prospect. Touraine white wine will lie abundant, although two-thirds of the usual red vintage will be missing. Most depar ments in the extreme south fared well, and they will wax richer with the extraordinary prices they can now command. Efforts were made last year to estimate exactly the reserve stock of wine of France, but । no one knows how near or far they were from the truth. Even if the worst fears about the । present year’s crop prove true, there , still will be nothing approaching to a ' cine dearth in France or elsewhere. | were seen going into the place, accord ing to Sergeant Platt, who watched it. Martyn Elliott, owner of the house, de clared it had been used for improper purposes and ordered the.woman renting it .to vacate. She refused aud he sought il;e aid of the police who will close the house todav. A YIDDISH STAR ;, Like Nazimova, She Made Good in Eng lish. Mme. Bertha Kalich is a Russian . Jewess who gradually developed into -1 one of the foremost of iVmerican - | actresses. When she first came to this j | country she played in the I iddish thea j I ters of New York’s East side. An , । American manager discovered her. He 1 advised her to take a course in English, she did and her fame was soon estab . lished on the English-speaking stage. It only needed the play “Kruetzer Son . ! ata'” to make her one of the most talk ,l ed about actresses. The press agent ( 1 gave it out that Mme. Kalich, stinging . under the lash of this adverse critic ism, because she dared to produce ’ “Kruetzer Sonata,” expected to re . turn to her first love, the Yiddish stage, but she did not. Neither docs sho ex pect to. TO MAKE RESTITUTION. • First Official Act of Estrada Is to As sure United States of His Friendliness. Washington. Aug. 23.—The first au . thentie confirmation of the succession jof General Estrada to the presidency of Nicaragua, came to the state depart j ment todav in the form of a cablegram from General Estrada himself. He sai l . his first official act as the new presi ; dent was to assure the American peo ; pie of the warm regard for them by : the victorious party and the eagerness 'of Nicaragua to make restitution for the killing of Cannon and Groce, the two Americans executed under Zelayan | rule 14 PAGES CHAPIN FREED; $15,000 BOND W. W. Jones of Beeville and John Closner of Chapin, Tex. Both Million aires, Only Signers Besides Chapin. CASE COMES UP IN OCTOBER Judge D. B. Chapin, charged with the murder of Oscar J. Roun tree, was given his liberty this morning on an appearance bond of $15,000 fixed by Judge J. L. Camp, following the conclusion of habeas corpus hearing at 10 o'clock. The sureties are W. W. Jones of Beeville and John Closner of Chapin, both rated as millionaires. Beedes these two. Fudge Cha pin was the only other signatory. Sheriff Lindsey stating that no more .were necessary. FOREST FIRE DEATH LIST IS GROWING Blaze Has Passed Wallace and Coeur D'Alene Towns Are Now More Composed NO NEW DEATHS REPORTED Burned Districts Swept Bare as Far as the Eye Can See From the Hilltops. %•.%•.■.%*.•• % *. •. % . •. % % % Associated Press. *• •. Spokane. Wash., Aug. 23.— *• % Three hundred fire fighters of a ’■ •, total force of 600, which have S been battling with flames in •• 1 % the burning white pine forest of "• \ northern Idaho, are unaccounted *■ S for today. Government Forest *• *■ Supervisor Weigel at *■ ■, today declared his belief that *• S nearly all perished. . V =1; “Out of my total force of 600 C men 1 have received word of the : i. : w safetv of only 300,” said the w supervisor. I am forced to the appalling conclusion that nearly y w all of these men have lost their w lives.” * ♦ 4#&*## " # * * * © Spokane, Wash.. Aug. 23—The fo» est fires have swept past Wallace and the towns of the Cotter D’Alene dis trict have passed the first stage of wild, unreasoning panic and have set tied down with more or less composure to wait for the list of dead. The list is constantly growing as forest rangers with red-rimmed eyes aud tdackene I faces penetrate the trails now choked with fallen logs and bring word of fire fighting crews cut off. eamps wiped out, ranchers and homesteaders caught, in the path of the flames and moun- ■ tain towns left in ashes. Since the report of thesßullion mine tiagedv, no new deaths have been re corded’. Forest Supervisor Weil has heard from practically all of his forest ers and expresses no alarm Tor the iso lated gangs of fire fighters cut off from communication. He is. however, wor ried about Ranger Neville, fighting with a large crew on Independence creek, from whom he nas not heard for several days. A Furnace for Miles. The American river district is a gi gantie furnace for miles. A number of outlying settlements, from which tho inhabitants have find, arc certain of destruction, and it is reported tho plant of the American Eagl* mine, tha largest in the district, is burning. Scores of square miles of territory are involved and hundreds of men are wanted to assist in getting the confla gration under control. Conditions are epitomized in a brief message from Forest Ranger Porter received yester day afternoon, to Assistant Ranger Brown at Grangeville. It says: “Sit uation desperate. Whole country is ablaze. Must have help to save ■prop erty. ” „ The burned district, generally speak ing, extends east to Missoula, north to the beadwaters of the St. Joseph river, and in other directions, nobody knows how far. From tops of hills everything as far as the eye ean see is swept bare. Until the forest rangers report at head quarters, there will be no accurate esti mates of the fire ravages. Fear of contamination in the WaJlaca water supply caused the water com LAST EDITION 4 o'Clock PRICE: FIVE CENTS. r Judge Chapin's release came as th» direct result of the testimony of J. W. O’Brien, the “man who drank beer while bullets flew.” O’Brien was a state's witness who, on the stand, proved the best witness the defense could have had. Immediately after his release. Judge Chapin went to the county jail where he gathered his paraphernalia. He then went to the Gunter hotel where Mrs. I Chapin and their 11-year-old son were | waiting for him. The meeting was one of congratulation between them. Tho demand for a $15,000 bond is | the second time that such a high bond I has been required in Bexar eounty. I When J. M. Chittim shot an innocent ' bystander on Main plaza several years ! ago his bond was placed at that sum. ' By a coincidence, the man at whom i t'Fiittm was really shooting, W. W. iJunesris today on Chapin’s bond. ( But one witness was examined this ■ morning, this being Sheriff W. L. r» Wright of Wilson county. He testified that he had seen Albert Sammons and 1 Rountree on the afternoon preceding the shooting at the Southern hotel. He 3 I was also present in Breen’s bar jooni shortly after the shooting and detailed conversation that ensued between him self. Judge Chapin and Albert Sam mons, in which the statement had been , . made that Rountree shot twice at Cha ■ pin before the latter drew hiXweapon. ■ 1 The defense offered no evidence of 1 anv character. Counsel for Chapin after- 1 1 wards said that with O'Brien's testi- 1 ’ mony of the preceding evening it was ■ an unnecessary proceeding, as O'Brien 1 had shown the killing to be a clear act of self defense. Argument was also | waived by both sides. Judge Camp.de -1 (Continued on Page 2 —Fourth Column) INFANTRY IS AHEAD. One Thousand Yard Range Is Shot at Camp Perry and Foot Soldiers Are Ahead. : I — At-oclated PrM». . I Camp Perry, Ohio, Aug. 23.—The thousand-yard stage of the national rifle team match, which was shot this । morning under ;>oor conditions, vary ing from mist-veiled targets at 8 • r o'clock to a 20-mile an-hour wind it 10 o’clock, gave the United States ; n- , fantrv increased lead, they scoring 523 this morning. The infantrymen now have 1618 and lead Massachusetts by [ 31 points, the New Englanders hav j ing a score of 1587. The brilliant shots of Annapolis academy made 1583. ; The District of Columbia, U. 8. marine 'corps and the navy, Jast year’s’win . ner, have each scored 1570. The eav lalry stopped at 1565 and New York , ■ had 1564. WARDNER THREATENED. Four Fires Rage Within Mile and • Half of Town and Flight May Be Necessary. Associated Press. Wardner, Idaho, Aug. 23.—Four files 1 are raging within a mile and a half । of Wardner, and the town is in grav< danger. Six hundred men from tho Federal, Caledonia and Bunker Hill mines are fighting it back. ,! The women and children are pre _ pared to leave, a route to safety being ' still open. pany men to Placer creek and , all its feeders, clearing the streams ' dead fish and charred logs. It * s 1 insurance on buildings destroyed .<t Wallace • ’ll total $3 The ' 1 sre still estimated at alamt SIJ'OO.(X'O. GRADUALLY BEING SUBDUED. Associated Press • . I Missoula. Mont . Aug 23 ;' >e fires I which have raged along the Couer 'D’Alene branch of the Nortnern la jcifie railroad during the last t,» days I are gradualh' be.ug ’‘'J" 1 ' 1 ” 1 ing to reports received by th '' Offil ials here today. T-e high winds which i.reiaileil yesterday died dowa last night a nearly enry burning district the fighters were able to Md I the fIaYBOB