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House Hopes That Governor Campbel! Will Live to Be One Thousand Years Old—Senate linim
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the beet vlilon and the best appear
ance possible. You’ll like the way you
see and the way you look.
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242 W. COMMERCE ST.
WILL THE HOUSE
SURRENDER LIKE
CONFEREES DID?
Agreement on Insurance Bill
Reached in Committee But
House May Revolt.
HAS EVERYTHING TO LOSE.
Senate Has No Reputation Jo
Lose But the House Has
Stood For the Right.
(By Macmillan).
Boectal Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Sept. I.—Don’t toss up
a bat and yell because the senate and
house committees, in free conference,
have tentatively agreed upon an insur
ance bill.
At least don’t do it yet—just wait
until the house has expressed its opin
ion of the proposed new law.
First announcement of the principal
features of the conference agreement
struck the house members a hard blow
on the noddle. Apparently, the house
committee has made a conditional sur
render in an endeavor to hurry home.
The bill, as it comes out of free con
ference, will carry the two main feat
ures of the senate bill, the “maxi
mum specific rate” and the right to
discriminate in the price of insurance.
In the new measure the senate gains
all it wanted and all the house gets is
a provision assuring publicity. It is
provided that when any insurance com
pany cuts the rate,, cuts it, say, for a
rich man or for a senator, the lower
rate shall be filed with the city secre
tary, if there is one, and if not with
the' county clerk. It must also be filed,
of course, with the state fire rating
board.
Senate to Stand, Pat.
For several days the rumor has been
spreading that a" majority of the mem
bers of the senate had gone to the
length of signing a caucus agreement
not to budge from the salient features
of the senate insurance bill. The em
blem of the cabal was “stand pat!”
One reason for believing this report
(Continued on page B—Third8 —Third colum.)
Other Austin News on Page Eight.
NIOISSHIT TO
FLU AT MEET
He Plans to Come to America
to Enter In the Fall Avia
tion Competitions.
Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 1. —John Moissant,
the American aviator, who recently ear
ned a passenger from Paris to a point
witkin a 'few miles of London, is plan
ning to come to America for the fall
aviation meets. He announced his in
tention in a private letter to a per
sonal friend here and it is expected his
formal entry as a candidate for honors
at the Belmont park international
jneet will shortly be received.
Austrian nobility will also be repre
sented at the meet. Chairman McCoy
of the commission has received the en
trv applications of Count Alexander
Kalowrat and Baron Economo, vice
president of the Vienna Aero club.
They will be accompanied by Prince
Don Jaime De Bourbon, pretender to the
throne of Spain, Duke Franz Joseph De
Braganza, Count Draskovich and Tel
eka of Budapest. Both Count Kalowrat
end Baron Economo are well known in
European aviation circles and have
made a number of successful flights.
TO PREACH ON LABOR
Union Leaders Will Occupy Pulpits In
Chicago and Talk on Trade
Unionism.
Associated Press.
Chicago, 111-. Sept. 1.-Labor leaders
will occupy pulpits in a number of Chi
cago churches Sunday to preach the
doctrine of trade unionism. The move
ment for a national observance of
“Labor Sunday,” which was launched
by the American Federation of Labor,
has taken hold here and many preach
ers will use “Labor” as their theme at
both morning aud evening services next
Sunday.
SEGUIN EDITOR RESIGNS.
Bpscial Dispatch.
Seguin, Tex.. Sept. L—H. O. B.
Gosemanu has resigned his position as
editor of the Seguiner Zeitung, a Ger
man newspaper of this city, to take ef
fect tomorrow. Mr. Gosemann has
been editor of the Seguiner Zeitung
for a number of years and is well
known throughout the county. He has
accepted a position in' the postoffice.
Ed Herring, a former newspaper man
and of the postoffice department of
this city, will take Mr. Gosemanu’s
place on the Zeitung's editorial staff.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 31. No. 223
HEINZE WEDS
M«S. HENDERSON
Mrs. Bernice Golden Henderson.
Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 1. —Coming as a sur
prise because of sensational develop
ments, F. Augustus Heinze., ffhe million
aire copper man, last night at a dinner
announced that he had been married
during the day to Mrs. Bernice Golden
Henderson, an actress. It had been
known for some days that she and
Heinze were engaged.
Just a short while before the mar
riage occurred, Heinze was served with
papers in a case instituted by Mrs. Lil
lian Hobart French, his former ina
morata, who complains that Heinze
gave her $25,000 in stock and then bor
rowed it tyack in 1907, since when she
has not seen it. Mrs. French has fig
ured prominently recently because of
having given out some of the contents
of letters which passed between her
and Heinze.
Mrs. Henderson played “The Vam
pire” in “A Fool These Was.”
FIRST SUIT
DF ITS KIND
Striking Miners Are Charged
With "Conspiracy in Preach
in Sedition,"
Associated Press.
Pittsburg. Pa., Sept. 1. —Attorneys
for the coal operators who filed suit
against the miners in the Irwin-West
moreland coal fields, charging conspir
acy in preaching sedition against the
laws of the state and nation, today de
clare these suits will be the firAt of
the kind to be filed in the United
States.
The legal action is the outcome of
a strike being waged against the plain
tiff companies by several thousand
miners in Irwin-Westmoreland fields.
BROWNE TRIAL
NEAR AN END
State's Attorney Begins Sum
ming Up—Perjury Indict
ment Against a Witness.
Associated Press.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 1. —The last wit
ness in the trial of Lee O’Neill
Browne, charged with bribing Repre
sentative White to vote for William
Lorimer for United States senator,
gave his testimony in Judge Kersten’s
court today, and State’s Attorney
Wayman began summing up for the
prosecution.
An indictment voted by the grand
jury yesterday against P. H. Keely, a
Browne witness, was returned in court
today and bon’d fixed at $lO,OOO. The
bill charges perjury.
CANDIDATE DROWNED
Body of Assistant Attorney General
of Wisconsin Is Found In
Fox River.
Associated Press.
Oskosh, Wis., Sept. I.—The body of
Frank Tucker, assistant attorney gen
eral of Wisconsin and candidate for the
republican nomination for attorney gen
eral at the primary election to be held
Tuesday next, was fished from Fox
river here this morning. It is believed
he fell into the river during the night,
while making his way to a tram.
BIG OIL DEAL CLOSED.
Muscogee. Okla., Sept. I.—An oil deal
involving property valued at half a mil
lion dollars was closed here today when
Moore & Kiskaddon of Pittsburg, Pa„
bought the production and lease of the
Georgia Bell Oil company in the Musko
gee field, paying .$200,000. Extensive
developments arc expected next year.
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HOUSE WISHES
GOVERNOR 1000
YEARS OF LIFE
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Sept. I.—“ Resolved
that members of the house express to
Governor Campbell our sincerest con
gratulations on his recovery from his
recent illness and wish for him good
henlth in the future, and that if he
continues useful as he has for the lasi
four years, he may' live a thousand
years. ’ ’
This is the text of a resolution adopt
ed in the house this morning. Hamil
ton of McCulloch and Nelson of Kauf
man are the authors.
MYSTERY WRAPS
A RUSTED PISTOL
COCKED FOR USE
Young Men Find Ancient Bar
rell Protruding from the
Old Peters Trail.
WHERE ROBBERS WAITED
Trail Was Used For Freighting
and Stage Coach in Days
Before Railroads.
Sanguinary battles on the old Peters
trail near the town of Lytle and gun
fights between desperadoes, cowboys
and Indians, have been recalled by the
finding, by Joseph Huebner of San An
tonio and Albert Bell, of an old 45
calibre Colt’s pistol, almost buried up
right, in the earth, with handle rusted
away but still cocked aud ready for use.
All appearances indicated that the pos
sessor of the weapon fought his last
battle and dropped his weapon where he
dropped his lite.
The relic of early days was seen pro
truding by about half an inch of the
barrel from the earth about a mile and
a quarter from the town of Lytle. Two
young men were walking along the
Peters trail, used by cattlemen and
road robbers prior to the advent of real
civilization, and one saw the weapon.
Digging it out, they saw it was one of
the old muzzle-loading kind on which
caps had to be placed to get results.
Erosion had eaten the barrel somewhat
and the handle hud been rotted away.
The pistol was on property belonging
to Joseph Ball, father of Albert Ball.
Back in the early days the Peters
trail was noted for its gun fights. Cat
tie, cotton and produce were freighted
over it and a stop near what is now
the town of Lytle was always made* as
water was abundant there. Frequently,
these pack trains were held up either by
highwaymen or Indians and bloody
pitched battles occurred.' Many white
settlers fell before the savage Indian
attacks and the not less savage assaults
of the highwaymen. Tradition also has
i. that these highwaymen buried treas
ure in the vicinity of the stream and
there have been frequent attempts made
to find it, though without result.
In those days the Peters trail was the
highway down which commerce coursed
into Mexico. The absence of railroads
necessitated the usage of the prairie
schooner or the stage coach. The clump
of trees ne« the water course was a
favorite hold-up spot. The freighters
did not submit to robbery except aftet
a stiff battle and many times the rob
bers got as good as they sent. Now,
however, with railroads, the trail is very
indistinct, and few travel it.
Messrs. Huebner and Ball spent ten
days in that section, exploring and oc
casionally searching for treasure, but
with no result.
HOOKWORM ID
CAUSE OF DEATH
First Fatal Termination of Dis
ease Reported in Texas —In-
fant Mortality High.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Sept. L—The first
death from hookworm is reported,
without naming the victim, in the state
vital statistics bulletin for July issued
by the health department today. The
case was in Smith county and the dis
ease is technically named uncinariasis.
The report also shows 19 deaths from
pellagra, more than ever in one month
before. Three cases were in Dallas and
two in Tarrant county. Births totaled
4120 and deaths 2271, with diorrhea
and enteritis among infants the lead
ing cause of death. One set of trip
lets and thirty-eight sets of twins
were born.
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1910.
PROGRESSIVE UTTERANCES OF
T. R. IN OSSAWATOMIE SPEECH
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists
that property shall be the servant and not the master of commonwealth.
I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for the square
deal I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of
the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work
for a more substantial equality of opportunity, and of reward for equally
good service.
The constitution guarantees protection to property and we must make
that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corpora
tion.
It is my personal belief that the same- kind and degree of control and
supervision which should be exercised over public service corporations
should be extended also to combinations which cotntrol necessaries of life,
such as meat, oil and coal, or which deals in them on an important scale.
I believe that the officers, and especially the directors of corporations,
should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the
law. ' .
No man should receive a dollar unless it has been fairly earned. Every
dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered. The
really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires
qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is
possessed by men of relatively small means.
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government
such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate
their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the
special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appoint
ed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensa
tion directly or indirectly from interstate corporations and a similar pro
vision could not fail to be useful withing the states.
BATTLE IS EXPECTED
WITH OUTLAW BAND
Uprising In the Philippines Led By Fugitive
Former Governor of Province Calls Out
Constabulary Force In Islands.
OUTBREAK NOT LOOKED UPON AS SERIOUS
HA WOULD
HAVE TEDDY
FOR ITS RULER
Celestial Empire May Ask
Roosevelt to Accept Post of
Adviser to Regent.
OFFER WOULD APPEAL
Diplomats of Flowery King
dom Confident T. R. Would
Leave America to Take It.
Associated Press.
New York, Sept. I.—The news that
Colonel Roosevelt may be asked to ac
cept the post of adviser to the regent
of China at a very large salary was cur
rent in Pekin a month ago, according to
Dr. William Edgar Giel, who has just
returned to America after a year spent
in studying the political situation in
China.
Dr. Giel'left Pekin on Aug. 1, and
at that time he says, it was current
gossip in political circles that the pal
ace authorities were considering a prop
osition to engage Colonel Roosevelt to
assist in piloting the country through
a rather stormy period. Many of the
diplomats, Dr. Giel declares, were con
fident that the offer would appeal to the
American ex-president and might in
duce him to abandon the fight against
the bosses here to become a boss him
self in the Flowery Kingdom.
Iu speaking of conditions, Dr. Giel
said there was an “anti baby move
ment” in China, the leaders being op
posed to the rule of the child emperor.
This movement, he said, if it grew rap
idly as many thought might result in a
revolution. ~ , ,
China is friendly to this country, he
said, and the political leaders in that
country regard President Taft h>ghly.
ANNUAL REVIEW HELD.
Anniversary ol Battle of Sedan OBaerv
ed by Imperial Inspection of
German Troops.
Associated Fresa.
Berlin, Sept I.—The emperor’s an
nual review on Templehof field of the
garrisons of Berlin and Potsdam took
place todav on the anniversary of the
battle of Sedan in 1870. Today’s man
euvers were participated in by *>,900
men of qll arms, including the Tiouse
hold regiments. The brilliant spectacle
was witnessed by a large number of
distinguished foreigners. 4ft
Associated Press.
Manila, Sept. 1. —An uprisingthgainst
the government is reported in the pro
vince of Nueva Viecaya. The con
stabulary force is hurrying to the scene
and a battle is expected lourly. The
rebel movement is headed by Simeon
Mandac, former governor of Ilicos
Norte, who long has been a fugitive
from justice.
Mandac occupies Solano, a town of
about 6900 inhabitants northwest of
the center of Nueva Vizcaya and about
five miles north of Bayonbong. The
telegraph wires north of Bayonbong
have been cut and it is impossible to
learn the number of Mandan's follow
ers. It is doubted, however, that the
uprising is serious.
Colonel Taylor, at the head of the
constabulary at Bayonbong, is prepar
ing for an attack and constabulary
forces from other points are moving
toward Solano now with the purpose
of surrounding the outlaws and making
certain their capture or death. Govern
ment reinforcements will be available
if they prove needed.
Word of the trouble reached Manila
today. Mandac, while governor, sub
jected a prisoner to the “third degree”
examination with such severity the man
died. The governor was convicted of
homicide and sentenced to fourteen
years’ imprisonment. He appealed from
the verdict of the court and while the
appeal was pending jumped his bond
and has been missing for several 1
months. It was thought he had escaped
abroad until today when an official dis
patch announced he had turned up at
the head of the band of malcontents.
Neuva Vizcaya is the central pro
vince of Luzon and Bayonbong is its
capital.
COMES AS A SURPRISE.
Officials at Washington Had No Ink
ling of Any Trouble in the
Islands.
Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. I.—The reported !
disturbance in the province of Nueva |
Vizcaya eomes as a surprise to officials ;
of the bureau of insular affairs and
other officers of the war department.
No intimation has reached Washing
ton of any general discontent in this
wild, sparsely settled province, and it
is believed here it is a surprise like- r
wise to the officials in the Philippines.
KOUNS IS PROMOTED.
Unofficial Announcement Made That He
Will Be General Manager of
Santa Fe Eastern Lines.
Special Dispatch. . |
Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 1. —Unofficial
though reliable announcement was made
here todav that C. W. Kouns, general
manager of the southwestern division
of the Santa Fe at Amarillo, has been
appointed general manager of the east
ern lines to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of J. E. Hurley. Kouns ati
one time resided at Tyler, Texas, and i
was later assistant to E. P. Ripley, the
Santa Fe president. He will be sue,!
ceeded at Amarillo by F. C. Fox, andf
the change is expected the first of the
new ye»'
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SPEECH DESERTS
MISS CARROLL;
HER END IS NEAR
Young Woman Shot by Suitor
Is Near Death at
Hospital.
PARALYSIS IS EXTENDING
Now Wholly Dumb Without the
Power to Move Tongue, She
Remains Conscious.
Daily Miss Annie Carroll, admittedly
shot by Jams P. Earl, is growing weak
er. That she can survive for much long
er is said to be impossible. No one but
her physician is given admittance to
her chamber at the Santa Rosa infirm
ary, and he has ordered that no one else
visit the girl.
Paralysis appears to be extending its
area. The tongue is now said to be
wholly useless, the girl being unable to
even say “yes” and “no,” as she coulu
do when Assistant District Attorney C.
M. Chambers took her statement in
which she stated that Earl was “mad”
at heT and shot her with a pistol which
he took from his hip pocket.
Several days ago it was stated that
death was only a matter of time; that
she might linger for a month or might
die during the night. Since then her
condition has become worse and those
who are close to her state she is now
wholly dumb, barely able to lift her
hand, but yet conscious and able to rec
ognize her physician. How long she
will linger her physician does not know
and cannot prophesy, but he believes
that with all the skill and attention
which may be lavished on her, the girl
is certain to die from the effects of the
pistol wound.
MAH LYNCH
AGED MAN
Georgia Mob in Pursuit of
Slayer Who Wounds Five
of His Pursuers,
Associated Press.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. I.—After way
laving and killing a man named Phillips
at Beasley Gap, near this city, and
wounding' five of his pursuers. Wm.
Fowler, an aged white man of this coun
ty, escaped into the hills and is now at
liberty heavily armed. Fowler is being
pursued by a sheriff’s posse and threats
of lynching are beiug made if the man
should be captured.
Fowler is said to have made a charge
that Phillips was wanted in Texas on a
murder charge, for which Phillips gave
the old man a whipping. Fowler way
laid Phillips near the latter’s home and
shot him dead, literally blowing his head
from the body. At the same time Fow
ler shot and wounded .Tames Byers and
Sam Boston. Fowler wounded three of
the posse who attempted to capture him.
HOKE SMITH
FOR PRESIDENT
Associated Press.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. I.—A resolution
endorsing Hoke Smith for president of
the United States in 1913 was adopted
bv the democratic state convention this
afternoon. It declared him “eminently
fitted to perform the arduous duties of
the high office of president,” and was
submitted by Patterson of Spalding.
LORD KILMARNOCK HURT.
Member of King George's Shooting Par
ty Injured by Accidental Dis
charge of Gun.
Associated Press.
Aberdeen, Scotland, Sept. 1. —King
George's shooting party at Balmoral
was thrown into excitement today when
Lord Kilmarnock, second secretary of
the British diplomatic service, received
four pellets through the accidental dis
charge of a gun. He is believed to be
not seriously injured.
BROOKLYN HAS GROWN.
Population Increases 476,769. or 40.1 Per
Cent, Since the Census
of 1900.
Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Sept. I.—The pop
ulation of Brooklyn. N. Y., is 1,634,351,
an increase of 467,769, or 40.1 per cent,
compared with 1*166,682 in 1900
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242 W. COMMERCE ST.
SHOUTS, CHEERS
AND MUSIC END
LONG MANEUVERS
Troops Return From Leon
Springs Marching Through
City to Ft, Sam Houston.
TIRED MEN FALL ASLEEP.
Thirty Days of Strenuous Work
Ends In a Jollification
At Post.
With colors flying and the bands
playing "Home Sweet Home,” the
returning troops from the Leon
Springs encampment marched to
Fort Sam Houston at 8 o’clock thir
morning, a full hour earlier than
they were expected. And in reality
it was a “home, sweet home,” for
the soldiers after more than thirty
days’ maneuvers and the overland
hike of twenty miles each way, to
and from Leon Springs.
It was. indeed a picturesque home
coming made by the soldiers. They
marched in a long file, four abreast
from San Pedro springs, where they
were concentrated. The Twenty-sec
ond and Twenty-third infantry bands
played ‘'Home. Sweet Home,” all the
way from San Pedro springs, and many
people cheered as the troops passed up
Josephine street to the post. The sol
diers did not appear as tired and dusty
as during tho initial march made out to
1 the reservation. The recent rains bad
cooled the atmosphere somewhat and
partially laid the dust, creating far
more favorable conditions than those
under which the troops made the hike
to Leon Spring*. This morning wes
especially cool, a great aid to the sol
diers in their march rroni Eleven Mile
hill, begun at an early hour this morn-,
ing. The troops coming in were the
Twenty-second and Twenty-third in
fantry, about 1200 men; ten troops of
the Third cavalry, about 650 men; a
I company of the signal corps, about 100
men; three batteries of artillery. 400
men and, the hospital corps, about 60
men. The bands of each regiment
were included. In all there were 2410
men in the returning command, making
a twenty mile hike as ode company.
“Forward, March!”
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock the
command of “Forward, march,” was
given at Leon Springs and the entire
| command turned towards the south and
j began the return march to San Antonio.
I Part of the troops returned sia tho
■ Fredericksburg road, for a distance an l
i the others took the Blanco road. This
I was a saving of time as one road was
1 hardly large enough to accommodate
I more'than a dozen men abreast aud any
• slight delay in the front ranks would
cause a much longer delay by the time
the order of “halt” could reach the
, rear of the formation. The troops
went into bivouac by the side of
I Bruemet s store at Eleven Mile hill for
I the night.
Mess was gotten on a small scale bv
each individual or each organization, as
they chose. The headquarters and sec
ond squadron of the Third cavalry, the
headquarters and Batteries A and B of
the Third field artillery, with a detach
meat of Co. D. Signal corps, made the
beginning of the march via the Freder
icksburg road. Marching via the Blane*
road were the Twenty-second infantry,
less two companies remaining to attend
to the shipping of freight and the de
tails of ending the camp, the Twenty
third infantry, less three companies,
remaining for the same purp.se; the
first squadron of the Third cavalry,
Battery C of the Third field artillery
and a detachment of Co. D of the Signal
: corps.
i All of the troops were concentrated
■at San Pedro springs by shortly af
ter 7 o'clock this morning ami the for
' mation for the return to Fort Sam
. Houston was made. The march to the
post was made only by troops pertain
ing to Fort Sam Houston. The battai
ion of the Twenty-third infantry, en
route to Fort Mclntosh near Laredo.
' and Co. D. Signal corps, en route to Fort
I Omaha. Neb., diverted their march to
the International & Great Northeni de
, pot, where they entrained for their re
spective stations
Shouts and Hurrahs.
The Fort Sam Houston troops were
marched up Joe- phin* street and sr oo "'’
I to the old hospital, where they were d
[missed amid -b” - an
No their barracks and to
‘ to the stables The second and third bat
taiions of rhe Twenty third 'nfantre
went into eamp this « on *'^ or l 2*?
of the bam ks and the second battib
ion is esmp*l northeast of the gift
. i Th sis onlv a temporary ar- •
r^ and orders will be .ssued to
, row f'r the quartering of the
1 ° , Behind the bushes over the
"round where the troop, are camped,
*l.l be found sleeping men with Both
tar bu/a blanket under their head, and
n many eases nothing at all to rest on
Although the return march was mm-b
easier than the march to the eamp, it
was tiring.