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EMMY LOI) AND
JOHNNIE MUSI
ATTEND SCHOOL
Hair Must Be Braided and Face
More Aglow to Greet New
Teachers Sept. 14.
TERM OPENS WEDNESDAY
Attendance of 14,000 Expect
ed and All is Ready for Big
Opening—-Board Busy.
‘‘Emmy Lou. come hero this minute
and get your hair coin bed; it is nearly
school time.”
‘‘Johnny, come here and l"t me see if
you got your face clean. Go right back
and wash again. You didn't wash be
hind vour ears at all.”
These familiar quotations will be
heard, with slight variations, in thou
sands of homo in San Antonio Wednes
da* morning when, at 9 o’clock, the
San Antonio public schools will open
for their nine months’ term.
Poor Emmy Lou must leave her dol
lies and the cool, shady nook in which
she made her doll house, have her pig
tails tightly braided every morning and
hurry off to school lest- she be late;
and poor Johnny must submit to have
his face scrubbed until it shines, not to
speak of the separation from his pet
pup and the tame horny toad in the
back yard.
There may be compensations through
for Johnny for this is the season for
marbles.
Last year there were just 13,410
Johnnies and Emmy Lous about even
ly divided, attended the public schools,
and it is expected that there wall be an
increase of about a thousand or more
little Johnnies and Emmy Lous this
term who will open their eyes right
wide when they are taken by their
jnammas or their big brothers and sta
ters to school for the first time Wed
nesdav morning. here will be besides
a number of little strangers who for the
first time will attend the San Antonio
public schools.
The office of Superintendent Lukin
presented an animated appearance tnis
morning. Superintendent Lukin was
busily engaged in giving the last direc
tions to the many principals and teach
ers who called upon him to ask advice
and suggestions along the line of their
work. There was also a Ung waiting
line of parents waiting to know to
which particular school Johnny and
Emmy Lou would go this year, and
whether they would have to pay for
Emmy Lou and Whether Johnny had to
be vaccinated or not.
Miss Nentwig, clerk of the school
board, was engaged in fixing up and
Bending out the supplies for the open
ing of the thirty schools in the system,
where the three hundred teachers will
teach the youth of San Antonio the way
in which its mental activities should be
directed. These supplies consist of
book lists, application cards and the
various blanks which the teachers and
principals need in making out their re-
ports.
Superintendent Lukin reports that
the teachers are coming in rapidly and
among the new teachers who have re
ported for duty are Prof. Comack of
the high school faculty. Miss Virginia
Smith, Miss Mary B. McKensie, Miss
Lillian Graves, Miss Stella Briseoe,
Miss Davis McGehee, Miss Ethel Lack
ey and Miss Elizabeth Mock.
’ Examinations for admission to the
high school will be held in the high
School today and tomorrow, beginning
at 8:30 o’clock. These examinations
are for pupils who have recently come
to the city and desire to enter the high
Bchool and for those who have Ween
studying during the summer to raise
their grades.
The examinations will be given as
follows:
Monday morning, 8:30 o’clock, mathe
matics and English; I o’clock p. m., his
tory.
Tuesday morning, 8:30 o'clock, sci
ence; 10:30i o'clock, Latin: 11:30
o’clock, Gernran; afternoon, commer
cial subjects.
MINING BOARD TO MEET.
Associated Fress.
Austin, Tex.. Sept. 12. —The state
mining board meets here tomorrow to
receive the report of Inspector Taylor
There is one vacancy on the board, caus
ed by the resignation of F. C. Vonroser.-
berg. now commissioner of insurance
and banking, which the governor will
probably fill at once. _
DISAPPOINTED?*HE RESIGNS.
Special Dispatch.
Shreveport, La., Sept. 12. —Feeling
deep chagrin because of bis unsuccess
ful race for congress against John T.
■Watkins, present member from the
Fourth district of Louisiana. District
Judge A. Murff today resigned his
judgeship. A special election will be
called to name bis successor.
ISSUES CALL FOR MEETING.
Austin. Tex., Sept. 12.—State Health
Officer Brumby has issued a cal) for
county and city health officers to hold
their annual mooting at Houst in, Sep
tember 26 to 28.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 3!. No. 232
MR. AND MRS. CHURCHILL
IHIM CHURCHILL
WOUNDED
England’s H.ome Secretary Is
Operated On at Smyrna for
Injured Leg.
London, Sept. 12.—Much curiosity,
not unmixed with anxiety, is felt here
over a dispatch printed in the Man
chester Guardian to the effect that
Winston Churchill, the home secretary,
had been wounded in Smyrna.
Mr. Churchill, who is taking advan
tage of the lull in English politics to
make a tour of the Orient, was under-,
stood to be traveling in Turkey, in
Asia or Asia Minor, but his exact
whereabouts were not known until the
receipt of this dispatch.
The cablegram, which lacks detail,
states that Mr. Chufchill was acci
dentally wounded in the leg. It adds
that the injury is not serious, but dis
counts this by stating that the home
secretary was taken to the English
hospital in Smyrna, where he was op
erated on.
Even the additional assurance that
Mr. Churchill is doing well does not
relieve the uneasiness of his fellow
cabinet officers, and Premier Asquith
has telegraphed for further particulars.
Mr. Churchill was married on Sep
tember 12, 1908, to Miss Clementine
Hozier, a remarkably pretty and tact
ful woman, who has done much to
soften the asperities of Mr. Churchill’s
disposition. The present position of
Mr. Churchill in English politics and
the brilliant future that is anticipated
for him adds to the interest in the re
port of his misfortune.
HEARING POSTPONED
Motion For Setting Aside Chapin Town
site Receivership Is Put Over
to Friday Next.
Bv agreement the motion of D. B.
Chapin to vacate the receivership of
the Chapin Townsite company aud the
San Antonio & Rio Grande Railway
company, set for this morning before
Judge L. W. Moore at New Braunfels
was postponed until next Friday morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
The Chapin Townsite company and
the San Antonio & Bio Grande Railway
company were placed in the hands of a
receiver Sept. 3 on application of Ed
Roos of this city, one of the owners of
the properties. Frank W. Matthews of
San Antonio was named as receiver, and
is now in charge of the properties, the
value of which is said to be over
$1,000,000.
THREE ARE KILLED.
As Many More Arc Hurt In Hocking
Valley Passenger Train Wreck
In Ohio.
Associated Frees.
Toledo, Ohio. Sept. 12.—Three people
were killed and as many hurt in a Hock
ing Valley passenger train wreck near
Laloine, Ohio, today-. A broken rail
was the cause.
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She Is 100 Yd.
Hobble Skirt
“Champeen”
Aceoefated Treee.
New York, Sept. 12.—Mrs. Sarah
King, of Brooklyn, will this week r’-
<
ceive a tall silver cup as the winner •'
the “100-yard hobble sitirt champion
ship of Greater New York.” A race for
the trophy was the feature of a sea
shore outing nt North Beach, L. I., yes
terday.
TAFT REFUSES I
SUGAR PARDONS,
President Denies Applications ।
of Weighers—Judge Martin ;
Hears Motions.
Now York, Sept. 12. —Judge Marlin,
in the United States circuit court today
will hear an argument by John Stanch
field on his motion asking for arrest of
judgment and setting aside of the ver
dict of conviction against Chas. Heike,
former secretary and treasurer of the
American Sugar Refining company, and
Ernest Gcrbraeht, superintendent of
docks, who were found guilty last June
of using a spring to defraud the gov
ernment in the underweighing of Lugar.
Judge Marlin said he will take until
Monday next to consider the motions in
Heike's ease.
President Taft, it was learned here to
day, denied the application for pardon
for Edward Boyle, John Coyle, Patrick
Hennessey and Thos. Kehoe, sugar
weighers, who were sentenced along
with Spitzer, a dock superintendent,
for frauds on the Williamsburg docks of
the sugar trust. .
STRIKERS BEAT
MAN SO HE DIES
Violence Is Resorted To In the
Strike of 1500 Cigarmakers
at Tampa, Florida,
Associated Press.
Tampa. Fla., Sept. 12.—A Cuban cigar
maker named Gras died today from a
beating administered by striking cigar
makers yesterday. There was further
violence today when the police quelled
a riot at the Seaboard Air line station
where strikers attempted Co prevent
trainmen from loading tobacco for
Miami.
About 1500 cigarmakers have been on
strike for higher wages for several
davs.
TESTIMONY SHEDS
LIGHE ON IOANS
Charge $2 Fee for Loan of $7
Negress Repelled Collector
and Got Into Court,
Some light was shed on the methods
of the loan business when O. M. Da
vin. manager of the Globe Loan com
pany, 123 South Flores street, was
placed on the stand in the county court
this morning. Mr. Dalvin testified that
his company' had loaned Henrietta
Hudson, a negress, $7, but that she had
been handed only $5 in cash, the bal
ance of $2 being retained first hand
‘‘to cover expenses of visiting her
place and inspecting the furniture, on
which a mortgage was given to secure
the note.”
Dalvin testified that his company
charged no ‘ ‘ interest ’ ’ on loans. He
said that the applicant signed a note
for the total amount borrowed, but
that a percentage was retained right
off the bat, so to speak, this sum, in the
ease under consideration, being nearly
30 per cent. It was in an effort to col
lect a balance of $2 due that the trou
ble arose which culminated in a ease of
assault being lodged against R. L. Har
ris. collector for Dalvin. Harris, upon
jury trial, however, was declared not
guilty of assaulting the negress.
During the trial Assistant County
Attorney Dan Lewis and Nunnelee
Camp, representing Harris, came <o
aeute passages of words, Mr. Camp ob
jecting to the bringing out of testi
mony concerning methods of conduct
ing the loan business. Mr. Lewis mane
the statement that it was common
knowledge that these men take two or
three men with them in collecting bad
accounts and ‘‘knock around the
debtors.”
“Then the county attorney anil the
assistant are not doing their duty if
AND GAZETTE
5AN ANTONIO. TEXAS, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1910.
Mrs. Drexel Who Postpones Dance So
as Not to Disturb Chauffeurs' Ball
Mrs. John R. Drexel, now of New
port, who recently put into practical
aristocratic operation tlie time honored
doctrine of noblesse oTTigc. by y, in
ing a grand dance she had arranged to
give, that she might not disturb a ball
that had been planned for a particular
date b.v the chauffeurs employed at tho
fashionable summer resort. Mrs.
ROGK ISLAND
STOCK SOLD
Firm Which Controls El Paso
& Southwestern Buys Block
of Preferred List.
Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 12.—Announce
ment was made today by the banking
firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., that they
had disposed of a block oC Rock Island
preferred stock recently acquired from
the Pearson syndicate to Phelps, Dodgo
i & Co., who control the El Paso &
j Southwestern railroad. The' Rock Is
land and El Paso railroads touch at
'several points and transfer of the Rock
| Island stock indicates a closer com
munication of interests between the
systems.
' The amount of stock transferred has
not been learned but an authoritative
statement is made that the Reld-Mooro
interests still control the Rock Island
system.
BUSY AT KARNES CITY.
Special Diapatch.
Karnes City, Tex., Sept. 12.—Satur
day was the banner day for Karnes
Citv. The cotton commenced rolling
in from 6 a. m. until 6 p. m. and good
prices were obtained. There were more
people here than any other Saturday
and the merchants all did a thriving
business. The cotton is all about gath
ered and in ten days more it will be a
thing of the past. The dry weather
has been in the cotton farmers’ favor,
but in general the country needs it.
Cisterns are getting very low. Good
corn is selling at 65c to 75c per bushel
and some being shipped.
this is permitted.” responded - Mr.
Camp.
“No, and we can't get the evi
dence,” cut in Mr. Lewis, “because
the two or three men with them usual:
ly outswear me.”
Henrietta Hudson, the complaining
witness, testified that on duly 11, this
year, Harris had conic to her home on
North Frio street and had cursed and
abused her and forcibly entered her
home. Testimony seemed to show th it
Harris had simply repelled attack when
she went after him with a hatebet,
then a pair of scissors, and final!}
with ‘‘a piece of kindling. ’ this piece
of kindling being testified to as being
about seven feet long and big in pro
portion.
The jury deliberated 20 minutes aud
then found Harris not guilty.
! Drexel’s own chauffeur revealed tho
jihituatian to her when he heard of his
. mist re dwte and immediately she cun-
Ver dance and assured her chauf
! fetir that she would look in at their
i ball and no doubt many of her friends
I would. As soon as this announcement
r: was made Newport took up the support
i of the chauffeur’s ball as its latest
. 1 fad.
CAR REPAIRERS
RETURN TO WORK
Men On Strike On S. P. Go Back
and Settlement of Strike Is
Expected Now.
Special Dispatch.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 12. —With nei
ther excitement nor disturbance, 300
car repairers and inspectors of the
Southern Pacific returned to work at
the shops here this morning, having
voted about midnight last night to ac
cept trite offer of the officials to resume
i work pending a settlement of the mat
ter at issue between the union and the
railroad.
A committee of six ear men was
named to confer with Superintendent
Ryan of the transportation depart-
I inent. While Vice'President Lewis of
the brotherhood declares the union will
| call out the men on the entire division
i unless an agreement is speedily reach
ed, it is believed the resumption of
work on the part of the men paves the
way for an understanding with the
company and means the final end of
tue strike.
RAIN PROSPECTS
Weather Bureau Believes That Moisture
May Fall Within Next 24-48
Hours.
The prospects for rain within the
next twenty-four to forty-eight hours
are very fair, says Major Buell of the
United States weather bureau. A storm
area covers the entire southwestern
part of the country, including the Pa
cific southwest and the Southern Rocky
Mountain plateau. A high area is com
ing in from the north, and from the
position of this, the major opines that
the prospect for showers within the
next day’ or so are very good.
During the past twenty four show
ers have fallen all through South Texas,
and heavy rains have fallen in Iowa,
Missouri and Wisconsin.
HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL.
Prof. McMillan, Who Accompanied
Peary to Far North. So Reports
on His Trip.
Assccistcd Pres:.
New York, Sept. 12.—Prof. Daniel
McMillan of Worcester academy, who
accompanied Commander Peary on his
trip to the north pole, sent word to
friends today that his party that ex
plored the land west of Davis Inlet had
been unsuccessful.
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SUNDAY LID
RIPPED OFF
Anyone Could Buy Beer and
Gamble to Heart's Content
at Sunday Celebration.
ON CITY’S LAND, TOO
Centennial of Freedom Is Day
of Freedom Here Too,
Laws Disregarded,
LIKE GOOD OLD TIMES.
Laws Put to Sleep and Messrs.
Baskin and McGregor are
Shown a Thing or Two.
In the celebration of the centenary of
independence from Spain, the Mexicans :
at San Pedro Springs had a good old- J
fashioned Sunday, thanks to Mayor Lal-.
laghan.
For one day the blue laws that forbid
innocent games, such as keno, hazard
and chuck a-luck, for ten cents to one'
dollar a number, were abrogated.
The state law forbidding the sale ot
beer, wine, whisky and cocktails on Sun
day was also nullified for one Sunday,
just to permit the Mexicans to really en
joy themselves. '
’The manana idayor did hituself proud, ।
permitting anything aud everything that |
could add to'the pleasure of his Mexi i
can friends, the cantinas and the gam-1
bling booths were forced to operate
outside the city park itself, but only a !
few feet from the boundary and on
the city laud. As this was the only!
restriction, no Mexican, in any wise
reasonable, could hold it against Lal
laghap.
Other Mexicans who were celebrating
; the same centenary on Bowen's island
1 had no such privileges from the mayor.
। But they have no right to complain that
। there has been partiality for in the
main they are not poll tax Mexicans.
They couldn't vote for Callaghan if he
did abrogate the gambling law and nul
lify the Sunday closing act for their
benefit —so why should he do it.’
While the mayor’s love for the Mexi
cans is deep and sincere, no question
about it, of course it does not go so far
as to permit him to extend Sunday
booze and Sunday gambling to a Mexi
can without a poll tax, aud who could
expect it to?
Still all can rejoice that the Mexicans
I at San Pedro park had a glorious Sun
l day, just sueh a Sunday as they might
have had at home. The only thing lack
ing was the bull fight, and if the mayor
had had a little more time for prepara
tions they might have had that. There
will be no bars —except unlicensed bars
—in front of a poll tax Mexican this
centenary—not if the mayor knows it!
It is a little too close to the commis
' sion government election for a Cal
' laghan man to be any respector of blue
I laws this centenary. If the rest of the
। state don't like it, why don’t they send
the rangers.
Saloon keepers all over town are espe
cially pleased, no doubt, with the spe
cial privileges allowed at San Pedro
! park on Sunday. They had to close up
tight and stay closed. But a Mexican
! centenary and a commission government
election don’t come every day, so the
j saloon keepers can smile. They have
■ to smile any way, whether they want to
or not. It is time that they learn that
this is a Callaghan town, and that a
poll tax Mexican gets any old thing be
wants.
As for the other Mexicans they can
stay dry as a county road all day Sun
day. If they want to enjoy themselves
on Sunday let 'em go and get a
poll tax. Nothing is easier—just speak
to Russi.
Indeed, it was a great day at San
Pedro park—was Sunday. Every poll
tax Mexican was in his best clothes as
was every senora and senorita. The
keno game was running merrily. At the
chuck-a-Juck it was even money, and
everything from a dime to a dollar, even
a week's wages could be risked on a
throw of the dice.
It was a hey day for the gamblers,
who accumulated a great stack of dimes,
quartets, half and whole dollars, with
here and there the corner of a bill
sticking out.
Even the women could play at the
lotto game and win prizes instead of
money. This was better for the gamb
lers, as what they won was money.
if any one was thirsty, relief was
present in numerous program men. The
programs had the list of events print
ed on one side and on the other side of
the paper numbered squares.
“Want a program! ’’ they called.
If senor wanted a program he step
ped up close and the man with the pa
pers whispered:
‘What do you want —beer or a
drink !''
If it was a cocktail, then tho seller
(f programs tore oif three of the num
esed squares and took fifteen cents.
If it was beer, one square was ample
and the cash price was a nickel.
With the three squares senor could
step up to an open Sunday bar, or a
P2ICE: FIVE CENTS.
Dull Headaches
Headaches yon caa't account for.
Do you ever have them? In many cases
they result from detective eyesight.
We fit eyes accuratsly.
H. C. REES OPTICAL CO.
242 W. COMMERCE ST.
WASHINGTON CO.
FARMER KILLED
Shot to Death By Assassin
While Seated Among Fam
ily Reading.
Associated Frees.
Brenham. Tex. , Sept. 12.—August
Look, a widely known German citizen
of Washington county, was assassinat
ed Sunday night wh'le seated in his
home, surrounded by his wife and chil
dren, reading. His wife received a bul
let wound in the leg and the chairs in
which she and ner husband were seated
were filled with shot.
The assassin before committing the
deed cut the telephone wires leading to
Brenham. Officers are investigating.
stand outside, and exchange the three
squares ol paper for the cocktail—a
regular hair-curler at that.
Or at the same bar or stand he could
trade the one little square of paper for
a beer.
It was a great Sunday—fine! Music,
dancing, jollity, happiness —and never
a poll tax lost to Callaghan.
This check business was early in tho
day. Later, at night, senor could walk
up to the bar and toss down his nickel
aud get his beer.
At any time in the day he could lose
his money at the gaming tables, but
along towards midnight he was certain
to lose it. The gamblers made sure of
I this.
Viva Callaghan! The manana mayor
■ forever!
The open Sunday booze places were
; nil just off the 'ino ot the San Pedro
; park, between the park and the city
I quarry, but still on city land, as stated.
, tine licensed saloon is operated here, the
cue supposed to be owned by ‘'Bill”
, Roberts, a park guard.
Roberts says today that his place was
not open on Sunday, lie is thinking of
the license now —not thinking
of poll taxes. Roberts’ building has
two rooms and a porch, and both the
rooms open on the porch. One room
Roberts .says is his saloon and this was
closed. The other room he says is his
kitchen, and this was o|cn.
The kitchen had a bar in full action,
all Sunday. Outside, below, was a
square stand or stall built around a
stack of beer kegs and eases of beer.
This stall was really a continuous bar
on all four sides, the full length being
needed.
“Who sold that booze at your place,”
Roberts was asked.
“It was a club.”
“What was the name of the club.”
‘‘ I don't just remember. ’ ’
“Who's in the dub?”
“I don't know.”
If Roberts doesn not know, why,
I pray tell, doesn't he ask his friend
1 Callaghan.
“Who ran the stand?” Roberts was
.asked.
“Oh, it was a Mexican who had
that,” said Roberts.
“Who was the Mexican?”
“I don't just remember; seems to me
his first name was Charlie! That's the
only name I know.”
“Charlie” made about $250 the one
night. It must make Roberts sick to
think that he didn't make anything at
all.
And as for Callaghan —he must be the
“sickest” of the three.
Or the slickest because every bottle
or glass of beer sold at San Pedro
springs is a separate violation of the
Baskin-McGregory liquor law and it
takes some sliekness to overcome that.
Those who were watching the beer
selling and open gambling Sunday de
dared that if Callaghan can take the lid
off for a celebration of Mexican inde
pendenee he can do so for the fall inter
national fair. This may mean the re
turn of the betting ring and the lid rip
ped off on Sundays.
It was a great Sunday and Baskin
and McGregor received a jolt they
w on't forget for a while.
Go out tonight and try your luck at
chuch-a-luck—play a dollar or a dime.
You won’t get pinched for gambling.
Fey San Antonio and vicinity?
§ Forecast till ~P “ Tuesday.
I 1 Showers tonight or TSeaday.
I "• Th, maximum toe.perature foe
Othe 24 hours ending at it o'clock
this morning »« 84 degrees and
_ the mini.u. was 73 degraaa.
gg Comparutra teruperaturea tot
th,, and last.
t 1908 1810
4 a m Id 74
D 6 a «. .. 74 73
A s a m ... 76 T4
SI.i a. m ... S3 i*<»
12 noon .... M M
1 p ..... 84 M
.—August