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Crowd al St. Joseph, Mo., Miffed at T. R.’s Refusal to Make Speech, Cheer for President Taff
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H. C. REES OPTICAL CO.
242 W. COMMERCE ST.
INSURANCE BILL
HAS ABOUT ALL
COMPANIES ASK
House Conferees Have Allowed
Senate Members to Com
pletely Redress It.
IN HURRY TO GO
When Bill Gets to House It Will
Be Subject of a Great
Big Battle.
(By Macmillan).
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 2. —The fate of
the proposed conference insurance bill
in the house is still in doubt. The
chances are that the advocates of the
measure, if it has any, will get a sur
prise. If it passes it will because of
the desire to hurry home.
Just why the members of the confer
ence committee from the house calls it
the house bill with senate amendments
is not clear. It would be more exact to
say that it is the senate bill in a new
dress on which there is a little house
embroidery.
‘‘The house has the hen’s nest all
but. the eggs,” is the way Gilmore put
it.
Senator Hudspeth took the bill home
with him last night and dreamed on it.
He is trying to think of something the
senate wants in the bill that it hasn't
got already.
As the measure is now it has the sen
ate's ‘'‘maximum specific rate,” the
senate’s regulations permitting competi
tion—in other words, discrimination —
and besides is adorned with an anti-co
ipsuranee clause patterned .after the
law in New Jersey and a provision dis
pensing with the mortgage clause. It
is not easy to see that the insurance
companies could ask for any more.
Various theories are offered to ac
count for the surrender to the senate
on the part of the house conferees.
Walt Until House Starts.
One idea is that the house committee
is trying to get from under. They do
not fancy being loaded with all the
blame for a fifth called session, or for
a failure to pass an insurance bill. By
agreeing on a bill with all the senate s
hobbies included they have made sure
that the house will jump upon it. Every
member of the house has been given a
baseball to throw and a woolly headed
darkey has been hired to stick his head
through the blanket for a target.
When the fun is over the house con
ferees are in a position to say that they
did not hold up legislation by a refusal
yield to the senate, anyhow.
If, in the rush for home, the new bill
should pass there is a crumb of comfort
for the insuring public. The new bill
will be a form of regulation anyway
and that much better than no bill at
all.
It will nqt be easy for the insurance
companies to drag the state back to the
„ood old days when Fort Worth got all
The. low rates and the rest of the state
paid the losses.
Perhaps one or the other of the two
houses of the legislature may reach the
insurance bill today. But the morning
session opens with the senate and lower
house as well still struggling with the
penitentiary bill.
The chance of a Saturday adjourn
ment. at this hour, seems to have gone
glimmering.
UNABLE TO APPEAR.
Mau Accused of Stabbing Is Physically
Incapacitated From Coming to
Cpurt.
Special Dispatch.
Sherman, Tex., Sept. 2.—Colonel K.
E. Smith, charged with attacking Buck
Hendricks with a knife late yesterday
afternoon during an altercation in
Smith's office, was physically unable
to appear in court this morning, but
bond was made for $1000. Hendricks
will likely recover, although badly
stabbed. Smith was bruised about the
head*and otherwise injured. He was
unconscious last night.
HEAVY RAIN AT VICTORIA
Spedtl Dispatch.
Victoria, Tex.. Sept. 2. —Fine rains
have been general in Victoria and five
inches of rain have fallen in some por
tions of the county. Stock interests are
greatly benefited.
CROWDS CHEER FOR TAFT WHEN
ROOSEVELT REFUSES TO LEAVE BED
Omaha. Neb.. Sept. 2.—Entering
Omaha early today without any special
demonstration by the people of the
town, Col. Theodore Roosevelt was es
corted quietly to the Omaha - club,
where breakfast was served to a small
company. Among those who breakfast
ed with the colonel were: Senators
Burkett and Brown of Nebraska. Sen
ator Dolliver of Iowa, former Repro
tentative Kennedy, Victor Rosewater,
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 31. No. 224
WILL 8E HOST TO
KERMIT ROOSEVELT
HOME.
Prince Charles of Auersperg, one of
the relatives of Austrian royalty who
is making great preparations to enter
tain Kermit Roosevelt in Vienna, the
son of the colonel having left Constan
tinople recently for the visit. The trip
was decided upon when Colonel Roose
velt' and his son returned from their
lion-hunting expedition, the prince be
ing a close friend and admirer of the
former president. After feasting
young Kermit several days in Vienna,
Prince Charles will take him as far as
the Tyrol to hunt chamois. This is
about the only kind of game that the
young Roosevelt hunter has not been
after. Following this there will be a
canoeing trip on the River Inn, after
which the prince will present Kermit to
Franz Josef.
JOLLIFICATION
MEETING EARLY
NEXT OCTOBER
Commission Form of Govern
ment Supporters Will Inaugu
rate Vigorous Campaign,
TO THOROUGHLY ORGANIZE
The jollification mass meeting
in celebration of the passage
through the legislature of the new
city charter bill will probably be
held early in October, the date to
be definitely fixed as soon as all
of the citizens have returned from
their summer vacations.
P. C. Woods, secretary of the Com
mission Government league, said this
morning that within the next two
weeks a committee will be appointed to
arrange for the jollification meeting.
“Those citizens who took a promi
nent part in the campaign for the new
city charter will be appointed on the
committee to arrange for the jubilee,”
said Mr. Woods. “Some of these are
away from the city on their vacations
and we do not care to start the cam
paign for the ratification of the charter
bill until they have returned. Very
few days in October will pass before
the mass meeting is held and when it
is held we look for a great crowd to
be in attendance. Some of the best
speakers in the city will be on the pro
gram and they will fully explain why
the new charter should be ratified at
the election to' be held in February,
1911.
“When tax-paying starts October 1,
then will the campaign start.
“The Commission Government league
proposes to perfect a thorough organ
ization in every voting precinct in the
city and we feel confident that the re
sult of the election will show that the
charter has been ratified by an over
whelming majority. . The ranks of sup
porters of the commission form of gov
ernment in San Antonio is growing
stronger every day.”
PEARY GIVES LECTURE.
Providence. R. I.. Sept. 2.—Gover
nor Pothier of Rhode Island was the
presiding officer at the closing session
today of the third annual convention
of the Atlantic Deep Waterways asso
ciation. Commander Peary was sched
uled to give an illustrated lecture on
the “Difficulties of Arctic Naviga
tion. ’ ’
[republican natibnal committeeman, aud
' General Smith, in command of the de
! partment of Missouri.
When the colonel’s train reached St.
i Joseph early this morning, there were
continued calls for a speech from a
large crowd of men who gathered at
the station, but Colonel Roosevelt be
ing asleep did not respond to the calls.
As if in retaliation, the crowd began
cheering for President Taft.
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N. I WILL BE
LARGEST GUY
IN 25 YEARS
So Claims Acting Mayor Mitch
ell and He Has Imposing
Figures to Prove It.
WILL OUTSTRIP LONDON
Announcement from Washing
ton Last Night Agreeable
Surprise to Gotham.
Associated Pr««i.
New York, Sept. 2. —A majority of
the New Y’orkers of the present day
will live to see their city outstrip Lon
don and become the first city of tho
world in population, according to Act
ing Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, who
bases his prophecy on computations of
the comparative growth of the two
cities for many vears back.
The probable growth of the two big
gest cities of the world is estimated
by the city statisticians at an annual
ratio of 3.8 for New York and 1.6 per
cent for London. On this basis the fu
ture population is as follows:
Year. New’ York. London.
1910 4.766,883 7,500.000
1920 6,580.000 8.750,000
1930 9,080,000 10,210,000
1936 11.200.000 11.200,000
1940 12,700,000 11,910.000
Twenty-five years hence then Lon
don and New York should each contain
about 11,200,000 inhabitants.
Annexation of suburbs will probably
increase the size of both cities beyond
these figures, but in 1935 New York
should become the largest city and in
1940 should surpass London by many
hundreds of thousands.
The census figures announced from
Washington last night came as a sur
prise to many newspapers, city officials
and organizations which had made es
timates or guesses, based on their own
researches, on what the city s growth
had been since 1900. Most of the guesses
were w-ild, particularly those which
went into details as to the probable
population of the various boroughs.
The forecast which came nearest to
the facts was that of Walter Laid
law, executive secretary of the New
York federation of churches. He came
within 5044 of the government figures
in his estimate given out last Sunday.
His figures were 4,761,839.
The figures from Washington with
the increases by boroughs is as fol-
Bronx 430,980, an increase of 230,473,
or 114.9 per cent.
Queens 284,041, an increase of 131,;
042, or 85.6 per cent.
Brooklyn 1,634,351, an increase, of
467-769 or 41 per cent.
Richmond 85,969, nn increase of 18,-
948, or 28.3 per cent.
Manhattan 2.331,442, an increase of
481,449, or 26 per cent.
GHOATE DENIES
WATTS CHARGES
Is Pleased that American Bar
Association Will Not Con
sider Them.
Associated Press.
Stockbridge, Mass.. Sept. 2.—Joseph
iChoate. on being infouned at his sum-
Imer residence here today by the
i dated Press that George Chamlee had
I asked leave to withdraw petition for
[consideration by the American Bar As
sociation of charges made against Mr.
Choate by John R. Watts of New
I York, and" the association would prob
ably take no action on the charges,
made the following statement:
“The charges of Mr. John R. Matts
against me are absolutely unfounded,
and I am glad the American Bar As
sociation has disavowed all responsi
bility for them.
“I never acted for Mr. Watts, or had
any knowledge of his affairs. So far
as his charges against my former firm
have heretofore come to my knowledge
I have investigated them and. foun-1
them to be without foundation.
TRYING TO AROUSE INTEREST.
Special Dispatch.
Shreveport, La., Sept. 2. J. M.
Shloenbach of Chicago, representing
the committee acting for the tap line
and shipping interests of the southwest
which in protesting the interstate com
mission's cancellation of its rate divis
ion order claiming it will work great
damage in Louisiana and Arkansas, is
here in an effort to arouse greater
interest. He says New Orleans, Lake
Charles. Monroe. Alexandria and Texar
kana commercial bodies are sending
vigorous petitions to the commission.
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2,1910.
t
BEXAR COUNTY
HIS PLENTY DE
CASH ON HAND
Better Fixed This September
Than Ever Before Despite
Big Showing Last Year,
ELEGANT BALANCE IN BANK
The August, report of County Treas-'
urer A. Y. Walton, handed in yesterday
afternoon to County Auditor Ramsey, |
shows that never before has Bexar conn- j
ty been in such a prosperous condition 1
on the first of September, when the fall
business begins. There is in the bank a ;
total deposit of $122,763.68, this being I
the largest sum in bank on any previous '
September 1. The synopsis of the re-1
port is as follows:
Balance on hand August 1, $105,-
070.39; receipts during month, $33,-
544.65; transfers, $19,800; total, $158,-
415.87.
Disbursements, $15,851.36; transfers,
$19,800.83; total, $35,652.19; leaving a
balance on hand of $122,763.68.
Last year was the banner until eclips
ed by the figures of this year. On Sep
tember 1, 1909, the jury fund was
$7500.17. and the general fund was $27,-1
279.01. This year the jury fund is $27,-
377.25 and the general fund is $32,-
568.95. These large balances this year
do not include the expenditures of $25,-
000 for a new bridge across the Medina
river, the purchase of a county auto at
a cost of close to $5000, the cost of I
court house repairs and repairs of poor
farm recently made.
Another salient feature shown in '
Treasurer Walton's report is the fact
that there was, on September 1," this:
year, a sum of $4300.83 as interest due ;
the county on current balances in the ;
bank. This, in the Iwguage of Mr. I
Walton, is “pure velvet.” It has been ;
transferred to the county poor farm
fund and will be used for improvements
on the new county poor farm recently
purchased from Dr. William Meier,
PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE.
Negro Youth Hanged for Assault on
Girl Claims to Last He Is the
Wrong Man.
Associated Press.
Hot Springs. Ark., Sept. 2. —Harry
Poe, a negro, 17 years of age, convict
ed of assaulting a ten-year-old white
girl, Lena Adams, last January, was
hanged here today. He protested his
innocence |o the last. The rope slipped
and the negro was strangled to death,
the body being suspended twenty-three
minutes before he was pronounced
dead.
Thunder! He DOES Wake Up Sometimes!
"* THE SLEEPY PARTY: Tie a can to that dog. J want another snotaa-
HOOKWORM IN
NEW YORK MILK
Bacteriologist Says Disease Is
as Prevalent in the North
as it Is in tlie South. *
Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 2.—The hoakworm
has been found in considerable numbers
in the milk and butter supply of New
York by Dr. C. C. Carroll, of Pennsyl
vania bacteriologist, who is conducting
a series of laboratory experiments here.
“It has been said.” said Dr. Car
roll, “that the-4iookworm does not ex
ist above the Mason and Dixon line.
As a matter of fact, it. is the chief
cause of children’s ailments following
the drinking of ordinary milk. It, is as
prevalent here, as it is in the south and
yenfly causes thousands of deaths
among children.”
Dr. Carroll’s report has been submit
ted to the city health department for
action.
INQUISITIVE ABOUT
RAILROAD’S AFFAIRS
I Associated Press.
Chicago, UI.. Sept. 2.—Attorney Clif
ford Thorne, representing the American
National Live Stock association at the
interstate commerce commission rate
hearing, insisted today that officers of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
i road company be subpoenaed to testify
concerning the capitalization of the
company. The demand came after Comp
troller Nay, under cross examination,
said the s>>ck of the Chicago, Roek
Island & Pacific Railway company was
largelv, if not. entirely, held by the
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
company. A heated discussion followed
as to the relevancy of the desired testi
mony. The controversy concluded with
a statement the shippers will subpoena
officers of the railroad company and,
question them concerning the density)
of traffic on different sections of the.
Rock Island line. »
RAISES A QUESTION.
Comptroller Asks If He Shall Issue
Warrant for Judge Jenkins' Salary.
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex., Sept. 2.—The comptrol
ler has asked the attorney generat'
whether he should issue a warrant tor)
the salary of C. H. Jenkins. ju<»ge of
the third court of civil appeals, whose
appointment the senate refused to con
firm. This will bring on a test of the
eonatifutionality of Jenkins’ tenure of
office.
16 PAGES
NO HOME GOING
SATURDAY, MAY
BE STH SESSION
Question of Politics Now Holds
Up the Insurance Bill in
the Legislature,
COLQUiTT OR CAMPBELL
Austin, Tex., Sept, 2. —The action of
the senate in insisting ou the appoint
ment of the insurance commissioners"by
Colquitt and refusing to concur in the
conference report, means that the legis
lature cannot adjourn on Saturday, and
that a fifth called session may be nec
essary.
In the coutse of the debate in the
senate, Hudspeth said:
“I am violating no confidence when
I say that Mr. Colquitt,■ here ou the
floor of the senate the other day, said
that immediately on taking office he
would request every appointive officer
in the state government to resign.”
The senate insists that the insurance
bill shall take effect at once, but that
the commissioners then appointed by
Governor Campbell shall hold office un
til Colquitt is seated, and then give
place to commissioners to be named by
the governor.
The conference bill favored by the
house provides that the commissioners
named when the act takes effect shall
be for long and short terms so that
there will be a vacancy in February
each yenr. This would give Colquitt
one appointment in February, 1911, aud
another in February, 1912. and the last
vear of his term the insurance would
be of his own appointment. The third
member of the insurance board would
be the present insurance commissioner.
Von Rosenberg, named recently by Gov
ernor Campbell.
It is this petty difference that has
tied up the legislature.
N. Y. MINISTER MAY BE LIABLE TO
EXPULSION FOR HEINZE WEDDING
New York, Sept. 2. —The marriage by
an Episcopal clergyman of F. Augustus
, Heinze, the Montana copper king, to
। Miss Bernice Golden Henderson, who
i divorced her former husband some time
Jago, has been called to the attention
I of Bishop Burgess, head of the diocese
of Long Island. The canon of the
1 Episcopal church prohibits the marriage
of a divorced person and a minister
performing such a marriage is liable to
expulsion fronrthe ministry if an ecde
iastical court so wills. The Heinze mar
riage was performed by the Rev, H. A.
Handel, of Brooklyn,
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
FOR ANY DEFECT
Or diff lenity of viaion. in eyes of any
age we know we can grind and fit
the lenaes that will relieve and cor
rect the trouble. Oculists' prescrip
tiona accurately filled.
H. C. REES OPTICAL CO.
242 W. COMMERCE ST.
KILLS BANDIT
WITH A ROCK,
SAVING TRAIN
Engineer of Colorado Midland
No. 3 Is Shot in Leg by Rob
ber and Gets Revenge.
TWO OTHERS ARRESTED
Brothers Found Near Scene by
Sheriff's Posse Are Held
for Investigation,
Colorado Springs, Colo.. Sept. 2.—In
a desperate attempt to hold up west
bound Colorado Midland train No. 3.
four miles west of Divide, early this 1
morning, an unknown bandit was in
stantly killed by a rock thrown by En
gineer Stewart, after he had shot the
engineer in the leg. Two young men
who were found near the scene of tho
-holdup are held for investigation as to
complicity in the robbery. One was,
slightly wounded in the head by a
bullet.
The highwayman crawled over the
tender as the train slowed irp at a sid
ing to meet an castbound train. As
he stopped the train, Stewart turned
to sec his fireman, Paul Bachman,
standing with his hands above his head
and heard the robber say “put up your
hands or 1 will blow your head off.”
The robber then forced both men to
leaxe the engine and marched them be-
fore him to the express ear.
According to the story told by Stew
art, who was brought to a hospital, the
robber ordered them to tell the exprass
messenger they were in peril if their
lives, that the train had been htld up
; and the robber was determined to lave
J the money in the car, Stewart stat.-s
11 he robber fired several shots at the
i heads of passengers who looked out to
J see what was happening.
Train Crew Fires on Robber.
When the remainder of the train
| crew the shots they seized weap
ons and' rushed to tie head of the
| train, firing, as they came. Stewnrt
| was given immediate mescal attention
by physicians who were on board the
train and brought to Colorado Springs.
I His condition is not serious. Shortly
I after the holdup Sheriff Von Puhi an.i
a posse scoured the country* near the
scene of the attempted holdup and dis
i covered the two men hiding in the
brush. One was dazed by a bullet
wound in the head. He is out on pa
role from the state reformatory. The
men claim they were riding on the
blind baggage and were beating their
way to Grand Junction. They say} the
wounded man was struck by a stray
bullet from the bandit's gun. They
are being held for investigation.
The dead robber wore a doth mask
and guunysaek tied about his neck. He
has not been identified. There was no
unusual shipment of money in the ex
press car, but the bandit told the fire
man ns they marched along the train,
he intended to rifle the passengers as
well as the Wells-Fargo box.
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CALLS FOR STATEMENT.
Special Dispatch.
A,ustin, Tex.. Sept. 2.—The depart
ment of insurance and banking issued
a call on state banks and trust com
panies for statements of Conditions at
the dose of business Sept. 1. It affects
640 banks.
f Local Weather y
CFor San Antonio and vicinity:
Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday:
L Partly cloudy weather tonight
and Saturday,
OThe maximum temperature to*
the 24 hours ending at S o'clock
this morning was 92 degrees and
the minimum was 74 degree*.
U Comparative temperatures lol
this year and last:
D19O9 1910
4 a. m... 7S 75
6 a. m.... 72 7»
Yd a. m.... 73 79
10 a. m.... 80 St
IS noon .... 80 S4
1 p. m.... 91 S9
, In to inquiries. Bishop Burgess
J dedined ‘to what action he would
, ' take in the matter, bevond stating that
, ! he would ronin-animate at once with the
• 1 Rev. Mr Hau.lei and ask for sn ex-
I I pin nation.
. ! There < some dittereuce of opinion
- .monL the me:-:!'.;* of the Episcopal
> among tin r r
- church as to the construction to be put
- on the canon. Many hold it prehiy
, the marriage of a person against .1
, a decree of divorce has been. 4 II
nounced. hut does not prevent C= II
, r iage of the innocent party » II
’ j proceed! ngs.