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Five Plunae to Death In New Orleans Canal When Auto Goes Over Bank at End of Joy Ride
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PARDON ASKED
FOR BANKED
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Thousands Sign Petition to
President Filed In Depart
ment of Justice.
JURORS JOIN IN PETITION
Those Who Convicted Aged
Banker With Officers of
Walsh Bank Ask Pardon.
Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 24. —A pe
tition to the President for the pardon
of John R. Walsh, former president of
the Chicago National Bank, from the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan
sas, filed at the department of justice
today by attorney George T. Bucking
ham of Chicago, on behalf of Mary L.
iValsh, Richard W. Walsh and John W.
Walsh, respectively, the wife and sons
of the prisoner.
Accompanying the formal application
for pardon for the aged banker and
railroad man, are thousands of letters
from individuals in Chicago and
throughout the middle west, urging
President Taft to grant the petition.
The file of these letters comprised twen
Iv-five bound volumes. Besides letters
from personal friends and business as
sociates there were letters from all <?1-
gcials and directors of the Walsh bank,
which was involved in the case and Jes
ters from its stockholders and deposit
ors, and from the jurors who found
Walsh guilty of misappropriation of the
funds of his banks. ,
In 1907 Mr. Walsh was found guilty
of violation of the United States bank
ing laws in having made excesive loans
to railroads in which he was interested
and in December. 1909, he was sen
tenced to five years in the Leavenworth
prison.
The printed plea is said to set up tho
health of Mr. Walsh as one ground on
which his release is asked. His con'ti
tion has become so grave, it is said,
that fears of a speedy ending of his
life are entertained unless his liberty
is restored.
Mr. Buckingham will set forth that
neither the depositors nor the stock
holders in the Walsh banks lost a penny
through their enforced liquidation. The
only person who lost money in the af
fair. Mr. Buckingham will urge, was
Walsh himself, whose fortune was
poured out to satisfy the demands of
the enforced liquidation.
RECEIVER IS ASKED
FOR C. 8 0. RAILROAD
Fraud Charged Against Indiana
Road In Filing of'
Mortgage.
Associated Press.
Logansport, Ind., Sept. 24.—Suit was
filed in the Cass county court here to
day asking that a receiver be appointed
for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
company of Indiana and that the char
ter of the company be revoked and the
corporation be dissolved.
Fraud is charged in the filing of a
recent mortgage.
FORI SMITH, ARK., HAS
SECOND DEATH SENTENCE
Special Dispatch.
Fort Smith. Ark., Sept. 24.—For the
second time in ten years a Fort Smith
circuit court jury has returned a verdict
which carries with it the death sen
tence. This morning the jury returned
a verdict of murder first degree against
Mack Johnson, colored, who hacked his
wife to death with a pocket knife in
a fit of jealousy last spring. The other
death sentence was pronounced against
a white man, William Bowman, now in
jail here under death sentence for rape
upon a 13-year-old girl.
LETTER CARRIERS SEE CITY
National Association Delegates Go To
Hot Springs After Convention.
Fort Smith, Ark.; Sept. 24.—The na
tional association of rural letter car
riers which closed a four days conven
tion at Little Roek yesterday, are to
day seeing the sights at Hot Springs.
The closing act of the convention was
the decision to hold the next annual
convention in Milwaukee, that eity hav
ing defeated Cleveland by a few votes
for the honor. The closing hours of the
convention were devoted to action upon
changing clauses in the fifteen in which
there was so wide diversity of views
that members of the delegation almost
came to blows in the discussion.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 31. No. 244
WEYMANN, AMERICAN
AVIATOR WHO FAILED
TO FLY OVER ALPS
Aviator Henry Weymann, who failed
in the contest for aeroplanes to cross
the Alps. Weymann gave especial at
tention to the preparations for the feat,
and in addition to working out the air
current problem, had also a good work-
Jing knowledge of the topography of the
entire route from Brig, Switzerland, to
Italy over the Simplon pass. He will
make another attempt.
AFTER LOOTING
IT, BURGLARS
BURN HOUSE
$50,000 Residence Destroyed
After Crooks Had Taken
Thousand In Jewelry.
OWNER FORCED TO BE STILL
Associated Press.
Chicago, Sept.'24.—Burglars burned
the $50,000 home of W. E. Muse of
Hinsdale, Ills., an attorney, early this
morning after stealing thousands of dol
lars worth of silverware, jewelry, rugs
and tapestries, according to the own
er’s report to the police after the fire.
The thieves loaded the plunder into an
expres wogan, he claims, and then they
set fire to the house and prepared to
fire an adjacent barn, but lied without
having done so.
Muse was aioue in the house, the do
mestics having gone with Mrs. Muse on
the summer's vacation. The attorney
claims he was forced to lie in bed by
one of the burglars while others carried
out the property.
ASK HUGHES 10
PARDON P. C. HAINS
Special Dispatch.
i New Y’ork, Sept. 24.—Governor
Hughes today notified District Attor
ney Frederick G. Dewitt of Queens
county that an application for the par
don of Capt. Peter C. Hains Jr., the
armv officer who shot and killed Wm.
H. Annis at the Bay Sid“ Yacht Club
in August two years ago. had been
made by General Peter C. Hains, the
prisoner’s father.
. Captain Hains, upon his conviction
of manslaughter in the first degree af
ter his trial last fall, was sent to Sing
Sing to serve a term of not less than
eight years'and no more than sixteen.
General Hains, in his application for
pardon, reviews the whole history of
the Hains tragedy and pleads exten
uating circumstances.
NOTIFY SHIPPERS THAT
TARIFF IS SUSTAINED
Special Dispatch.
Fort Smith. Ark., Sept. 24. —The Fort
Smith shippers traffic bureau today re
ceived notice from the interstate com
merce commission that the recently filed
tariff increasing freight rates, class an<J
commodity, Lave been supported by the
commission on the Missouri Pacific,
Tron Mountain, Frie-i and Texas &
Pacific road*
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SHOW GIRLS
DIE AS AUTO
LEAVES ROAD
Six New Orleans Joy Riders
Meet Death In Canal on
Fast Early Morning Ride.
CAR GOES INTO CANAL
Three Men and Three Girls are
Drowned When Motor Car
Goes Over Embankment.
FIVE BODIES ARE FOUND
Special Dispatch.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 24.—Six |
people in an automobile early this
morning plunged into the canal. All of
the automobile party were drowned.
In the automobile were Thomas But
ler, owner of the machine; Joseph
Freedman, a perfumery salesman, and
an unknown man. With the party were
three chorus girls from the Queen of
Molin Rouge company, now playing
here.
The accident occurred shortly after 4
o'clock. The automobile, in making a
i sharp turn at a rapid rate of speed,
turned over a 15-foot embankment into
the basin.
L'p to 11 o’clock this morning three
bodies had bean recovered, those of
Freeman, Bocttler, the chauffeur and an
unidentified woman, apparently about
25 vears of age. These bodies were tak
en to the morgue, but Freeman's im
mediately claimed by friends and prob
ably will be shipped to New > ork.
He had traveled in this teritory as a
salesman for a decade or more, and had
many friends throughout the south.
Five bodies have been recovered. One
' is that Of Jno Freeman, who trivels
for Lazelle Daly & Co., of New York,
i another of an unidentified chorus girl
I about 22 years old and Thomas Boettl
I ler (not Butler) of New Orleans, owner
| and driver of the machine.
The bodies were recovered with much
difficulty. A big dredge boat being
brought into use to raise the sunken
machine. All six were pinioned under
the automobile and drowned.
The two girls’ bodies were later re
covered from the basin and were identi
j tied as Marian Gibbons of St. Louis and
: Daisy Hawkins of New Orleans, mem
| bers of the “Queen of the Moulin
! Rouge” company now at the ShulATt
: theatre here.
MANAGER SAYS NO
GIRLS MISSING
Associated Preis.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 24. Four
persons are known to have been drown
ed and three are reported missing as
the result of an automobile accident
early today on the Shell Road between
West End, a lake resort, and New Or
leans.
Stories giving the number of persons
in the car when it left West End eon-1
flict and the number has been various-1
ly reported between four and seven. ।
Searchers are this afternoon dragging,
the canal. Rumors that two women
known to have been drowned, were j
members of e traveling theatrical com-1
pany playing here this week, were de-1
dared untrue when the company was:
assembled for the matinee performance
this afternoon, the manager reporting |
all present.
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HOLD BOY FOR THEFT
15-Year-Old Tennessee Boy Charged
With Taking $6OO In Diamonds.
Special Dispatch.
Dallas. Tex.. Sept. 24—Following the
finding of $6OO worth of unset dia
monds. watches and other articles ofj
valuable jewelrv in the possession oti
a 15 year-old lad, giving the name of,
Charles Howard, the police placed him
under arrest and be " ill h e held pend-1
ing advices from Nashville, Tenn, rh®,
police here say the lad has confessed. ■
"DIVES” CONDEMNED.
Texas Brewers’ Association Go On Rec
ord As Opposed tp “Wide Open’
Policy.
The Texas Brewers' association at a
called meeting held in t' “ C ’U V yester
day went on record as being opposed to
the wide open police and condemned
the “dives” as being detrimental to J
the saloon business.
The meeting was held !| t the Casino I
club rooms and was ■•presided over by
B. Adoue of Galveston, president of the
association. The association decided 'o
continue the fight against unclean
places and each of the forty members
present pledged himself to use his best
efforts to improve conditions.
AND GAZETTE
FAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1910.
MAKE A NOISE IN CELEBRATION
OF VICTORY IN THE CENSUS RACE
Ushering in the big jubilation mass meeting tonight on
Alamo Plaza, every whistle in town and every bell is asked
to turn loose at full blast at 8 o’clock and keep it up for at
least three minutes.
This booster-fest is to be the biggest thing ever pulled off
here, celebrating, as it does the fact that San Antonio still
leads the state in point of population. It is but meet that
much noise usher it in.
The city officials have stated that there is no objection to
blowing whistles and ringing bells. So if you’ve got a whis
tle or a bell, turn it loose at 8 o’clock sharp tonight and
make a noise.
Many manufacturing plants, railroad shops, manufac
tories and private enterprises, including churches, have pro
mised that when the hands reach 8 tonight there will be
some noise made. It’ll sound like the advent of New Year,
but it will mean that San Antonio and her people rejoice in
maintaining her lead.
So tie down the whistle cord and get a semi-perpetual
motion on the bell cord. Commence at 8 sharp and keep
her up for three or five minutes. Then everybody’ll know.
NEITHER CAN CHAMBER COMMERCE
COMMITTEE FIND THE MAYOR
Members are Informed His Honor Has Gone to Austin But
He May Be Back In Time For Jollification Meeting
Tonight.
Te mayor lias gone to Austin.
This information was imparted to the
many citizens "ho called at the city
hall this morning on business to see
Mayor Callaghan. The committee rep
resenting the Chamber of Commerce and
composed of Messrs. Fred W. Cook, \\.
L. Stiles and IL E. Hildebrandt called
in a body at the mayor’s office at 11
o’clock this morning, to wait upon bis
honor and extend to him a cordial in
vitation to participate in the monster
demonstration because of the glorious
census returns, which will be held on
Alamo plaza tonight, but they did not
do so. .
The mayor had left for Austin, they
were informed. The committee had
nothing to do but file out of the build
ing. This is just what they did. The
CLAIM HIGH
FREIGHT RATES
JUSTIFIABLE
Assistant General Manager of
Missouri Pacific Before
Commerce Commission.
Special Dispatch.
Chicago, Pl., Sept. 24.—Further ques
tioning of C. J. McPherson, assistant
general manager of the Missouri Pacific
railway company, was conducted by J.
('. Jeffery, counsel of the road before
the interstate commerce commission to
day where western roads are attempt
ing to show that the proposed increased
freight rates is justified by conditions.
McPherson has issued a statement
showing the income account of the year
ending June 30, 1910, with the estmat
ed increase in wages already allowed
and the anticipated increase in the
price of coal. It follows:
Total operating revenue, $26,102,246.
Total operating expenses, $21,759,-
954.
Net operating revenue, $4,342,201.
Taxes, $1,008,005.
Operating income, $3,334,285.
Deductions from operating income in
terest on current liabilities, $1,493,0-3.
Net operating income to par returns
on investment, $2,841,261.
Cost of road aud equipment, $145,-
288,225.
Miles of road owned and leased, in
cluded in investment, 3,781.
Return ou investment, 1.96 per cent.
Distribution of total operating
revenue: operating expenses to operat
ing revenue, 83.36 per cent.
Taxes and other deductions to operat
ing revenue, 5.75 per cent.
Net earnings to operating revenue,
10.89 per cent.
“I do not want to be understood as
objecting to any increased wages to
employes,” said the witness, “as most
of the' railroad heads are men who have
worked their way up from humble be
ginnings. Consequently, they want to
see their men well paid and contented.”
Today’s session lasted about two
hours. Adjournment was taken until
Monday morning
[committee, however, was given some
|hope. The mayor might possibly re
turn in time to take part in the mass
meeting tonight but some say he in
tends to remain in Austin nil day and
return Sunday.
■ The mayor recently announced that ho
intended goiug to Austin to place his
son in the law school at the university.
[The trip lias been the source of much
speculation on the part of the many
who called at the city hall during the
last three days. Today it is reported
that the mayor has really gone to Aus-
Itin. The report is confirmed by city
Jhall officials—yet there are those who
|are still inclined to believe that the
[city's chief executive is only fooling
them nnd will yet put in an appear
lance at the eity hall before the day
js over.
INFANTILE
PARALYSIS CAUSE
OF MANY DEATHS
Flat Total of 569 in U. S. Reg
istration District
In 1909.
Special DisnaU’..
Washington. D. C., Sept. 24.—There
were 569 deaths from acute anterior
polimyelitis, or infantile paralysis: 116
from pellagra: 55 from rabies or hydro
phobia, and nine deaths from leprosy
in 1909, in the death registration area
of continental United States, which
comprises over 55 per cent of the total
population, according to the census bu
reau’s forthcoming bulletin ou mortal
ity statistics for 1909 submitted to Cen
sus Director Durand by Dr. Gressy L.
Wilbur, chief statistician for vital sta
tistics. It is reported that of the 569
deaths from infantile paralysis, 552
were of white and only 17 of colored
persons. There was a somewhat greater
incidence of disease among males and
an increased mortality in August. Sep
tember and October.
The bulletin states that no statistical
t inn of infantile paralysis as
a cause of death has been made here
tofore. but the increasing importau -e
of the disease an.l its wide prevalence
throughout the country in the form of
local epidemics render a statement of
the mortality important. Like menin
gitis, which it somewhat resembles It
is difficult to obtain an exact separa
tion of the deaths from the specific
infectious disease from other infectious
of similar nature.
STRIKES DISTURB
GERMAN INDUSTRY
Berlin, Sept. 24.—German industry is
seriously disturbed by strikes and lock
outs and unless the disputes can be
j ended within the next few days, 700,009
i workmen will be idle. .
Announcement was made today that
I negotiations would begin on Monday
I between the association of metal em
1 plovers and the metal trade workers,
j The total number of metal workers is
-’"se to 600.000
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FIGHT TEDDY
ON HIS DIRECT
PRIMARY BILL
Up-State Delegates to New
York Convention Do Not
Like It.
SPLITS ROOSEVELT RANKS
Delegates Instructed to Sup
port Him for Chairman Will
Not Stand for Measure.
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■’ ROOSEVELT MEN 4
•, TO SARATOGA. 4
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•« Associated Press. 4
’• Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 24. — “■
*« The thick of the fight between 4
■» the republican progressives and ’•
• B the “old guard” was moved 4
■« from Sagamore Hill to Saratoga ’•
*■ with the departure today of Col. 4
• B Roosevelt's lieutenants for the “■
■ B state convention. Colonel Roose- 4
• B volt said he was expecting no 4
visitors today, although there 4
■ B might be some this afternoon. He 4
• B will remain at Sagamore Hill tin- *n
•, til Monday morning, when lie 4
h will leave for Saratoga. 4
Special Dispatch.
Oyster Bay, N. A'.. Sept. 24. —A new
fight against Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, centering around the drastic di
rect primary bill which he urged as a
chief issue of the republican state con
vent ion. developed today. This fight
promises to be as bitter as the state
wide struggle over the temporary chair
manship of the convention and the wires
started buzzing today towards the ef
fecting of a compromise between the
warring factions.
At Sagamore Hill this afternoon Col
onel Roosevelt admitted that he had a
1 brand new fight on his hands, but de
clined to discuss it at length. He mere
ly declared that some of the upstate
delegates to the convention were dissat
isfied with the direct primary bill
which he is urging and the enactment
of which ho wants pledged in the re
publican platform. The colonel said he
believed everything would come out all
right.
The details were learned later today.
Several delegations, among them Erie
and Broome counties, sent word to
Roosevelt that while they stood ready
to vote for him for temporary chairman,
they opposed the direct primary being
urged. The colonel alighted upon the
Cobb bill, which would place every of
fice from United States senator down
at the disposition of the electors. Gov
ernor Hughes also favored the meas
ure.
For a time the only opposition to this
issue came from the old guard, but later
delegations which endorsed the colonel
began to announce their aversion to the
Cobb bill. The criticisms culminated
in an ultimatum seut to Roosevelt from
up state leaders. A compromise will be
effected, it was intimated here this af
ternoon.
There is a possibility that the fight
will be threshed out in the convention
hall. However, it is generally believed
that a compromise will be made before
the convention opens.
Chairman Wilcox of the publie serv
ice commission called upon the former
president today to enlist his aid in the
movement to have telephone and tele
graph companies put under the super
vision of the commission. This may
also be given a place in the platform.
83 SOT FEAH
I. &. 0. S. OHL
Austin. Tex.. Sept. 24.—Notwith
standing alleged reports of dissatisfac
tion among frenzied financiers with the
railroad claim validation bill passed at
the special session of the legislator?
known as the 1. & G. N. measure, anoth
lor road obtained a state charter today.
It is the San Antonio and Pecos Valley
and proposes building one hundred and
sixty miles through Matagorda. Jackson,
iDewitt, Lavaca. Gonzales. Guadalupe.
Wilson. Bexar, Fayette. Bastrop and
Caldwell counties.
The incorporators of new road
are J. D. Bonner, J. P. Pierce, S. T.
Best, D. W. Dean, D. L. Stump, Charles
Clavton and W. S. Bonner Marshall
Hicks of San Antonio, is the attorney
for the company and obtained the char
ter.
TOWN WIPED OUT.
Lexington, Kv„ Sept. 24.—Word was
received here this afternoon that Flippe,
Kv., a town of 100 inhabitants, was
wiped out by a terrific storm last night
and it is feared that many lives have
been lost. Telegraph and telephone
wires were torn down by the wind and
it is imoossible te get the detail.
P.iIJE: HIVE CENTS.
if to the wise, ‘Take
care of your eyes.’
H. C.Rees Opt. Co. a
242 W Oota.
SIX KILLED
IN WRECK ON
INTERURBAN
Head-on Collision of Freight
and Passenger Cars Kills
Men In Smoker,
MANY REPORTED INJURED
More Than 20 Said to Have
Been Hurt In Collision at
High Speed,
Special Dispatch.
Tipton. Jud.. Sept. 24.—Six persona
were killed and several injured when a
Fort Wayne limited car on the Indiana
Union Traction line crashed headon in
to a sunthbouiid freight ear one mila
north of here this afternoon. Those who
were killed were in the smoking com
partment.
The dead:
DK. \\. T. IIOLHOUSER. Brooklyn,
N. V.
W. H. HOLHOUSER. Brooklyn, N.
Y.
VERELL RAILBBACII. Hymenia,
Ind.
JOS. BAKER, motorman of the Fort
Wayne limited car.
LEWIS BROOKS, Kokomo. Ind.
B. ED. WELCH. Marshall. Mich.
The I’ort Wayne limited car had
left Tipton and had reached a point be
tween this city and Jackson station,
.which is three miles from here. The car
was going at a terrific rate of speed
when it struck the southbound freight
ear.
The men in the smoker had no chan.te
to escape. The limited car was tele
scoped by the heavy freight car and ’he
passengers wore thrown into a heap in
the rear part of the ear. The list of in
jured. it is thought, will include more
than a score of the passengers, many
of whom were going through from In
dianapolis to Fort Wayne and manv
others who were residents of northern
town returning home from Tipton.
Nothing could be learned of ’he
eau-e of the wreck. One of the motor
,men said he had positive orders to take
the right of way and that the other
must have disobeyed his instructions.
Dallas Mayor
“Congratulates''
San Antonio
Special Dispatch.
Dallas. Tex.. Sept. 24.—Answering
your telegram will say that I am sur
prised that your gain in population was
not larger, as all other Texas cities
show a much greater increase. The of
ficial figures give you thirty-six square
miles and establishes the fact beyond
question that there are but few cities
in the United States which cover more
territory than San Antonio. Accept
congratulations.
S. J. HAY. Mayor.
—
HOUSTON'S MAYOR
SAYS GOOD LUCK
SpecWl Dispatch.
Houston. Tex.. Sept. 24.—Am not sur
prised at San Antonio’s population. Ac
cept congratulations. May the eity and
her people alwavs prosper.
H. B. RICE.
TWO EARTHQUAKES
ARE RECORDED
Special Dispatch.
Toledo. O„ Sept. 24.—Father Oden
baeh of Stignatius college, near Cleve
land. today reports the seismograph rec
ord of two simultaneous earthquakes in
different quarters. The main disturb
ance occurred at 9:47. He estimates the
distance at 3000 miles.
Into the same record is traced that
of another fainter disturbance of the
north which eaunto be separated foi
analysis.
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FKor San Antonio and vicinity:
Forecast ti’l 7 p. m Sunday:
Fair tonight and Sunday.
a
for
jh* hours ending st £ o’clock
* w 96 degree* and
iii minimum waa 68 degreea.
Comparative temperaturea fo*
■ this jeai ard last;
| 1909 1910
4 a. m ... HI ?1
■gm Ha m ... Hl 69
a y . 7S
■w 16 a tn ... 70 77
12 n00n.... 75 91
1 p «.... io U