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4 M’CLUBE HEBE TO HEW BOID Government Engineer Will Be Taken Over the Proposed Route io Corpus Christi. A meeting of the committee to ar rknge for tho trip of Governmen Hoad Engineer Fay McClure fron Pan Antonio to the coast over th< proposed San Antonio-Corpus Christ road, was held this morning at th< Pt. Anthony hotel. Present wen ifongressman Slayden. John R. Car rington. secretary of tho Chamber o Commerces 11. W. Carr, president- o the San Antonio Automobile club Dr. Herring and Dr. R. A. Goeth o the Automobile club. The start over, the proposed roac that Mr. McClure is to inspect will b< made tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock and in addition to the committee Count) Judge Shook and the..count) commissioners have been invited to go along as far as Karnes City, where Mr. McClure will be turned over to a delegation that will escort hint from there to the coast. Secretary ’Carrington has advised Roy Miller of the Chamber of Commerce at Corpus Christi. Judge Parker of Karnes City, and the county judge of Beeville of the coming of Mr. McClure, and a strong escort will wio doubt be pro vided for him. ' A meeting of the good roads com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce has been called for this afternoon at 4 o'clock to meet with the San Anto nio Automobile club and all citizens interested in the question of good roads. The good roads committee of the Chamber of Commerce is com posed of H. G. Staacke. . Charles Graebner. R J. Mauermann, W. B Tuttle and F. L. Hillyer. The matter of building this road Will be discussed. Four out of the Hix counties traversed are reported to be ready to go ahead -with the con struction. San Patricio county has just voted *100.090 worth of bonds to be used in road building, and it is proposed to tap the Toad and have one branch go to Aransas Pass and one branch to Corpus Christi. Bee county is reported to be. ready to , spend a sum aggregating *lOO.OOO on 1 good roads. Only and Wilson ! counties remain outside the fold in the movement for a "San Antonio to the coast" road. FOOTBALL REFORM REEDED II WEST i I Special Dispatch. New Haven. Conn.. Oct. 24.—Foot ball reform is needed in the west to help the enforcement of the new rules, according to Walter Camp, who has just returned from a long trip to the Pacific slope. Mr. Camp today criti cised sharply the practices indulged in by western teams. "The westerners are mis-interpret ing the new rules and some of them are being grossly infringed," said the famous coach, "illegal plays of all kinds are allowed By thd'officials. They have a great task before them to prevent this. There is much hold ing and the rules regarding tackling and the forward pass are not enforced at all." Mr. Camp said that the new rules would be used through the present reason without change. ONE IS KILLED IN SILK SPECIAL WRECK Famous Train Carrying $300,000 in Silk in smash bast Night. Spc-ivl Dispatch. Portage. Wis.. Oct 24.—The famous St. Paul road's silk special, coin eying silk valued at $500,000 from a Pacific steamer to a New York importing firm, was in a wreck last night. One man, Nathan Sickard. was killed. The silk was not damaged. There was also a car ol gold bullion for the Philadel phia mint in the special. bTEAMER HVRNED; CREW SAFE. Associated Pross. Duluth. Minn., Oct. 24.—Private dispatches received here say the steamer bangham was burned in Lake Superior and the crew saved. It is owned by John Adams of Detroit. Postal card albums at Roe’s book store. Furnish Your House OX BAIT PATMBMTB. Hendricks 4 Fenstermaker Furniture 4 House Furnishers SELLS FOB LBSB. 113 and 118 Mais Avaana. Thf« fine house, two lots (IOOxISOy. on the southwest corner of Porter and Palmetto streets, will be sold in the next few daya at a big Just think of a two-story house with nine rooms, hot and cold water, bath, electric lights. 140 feet of screens I gallery, barn 51 feet Icog, all located on one of the best and quickest service ear hn.. .u _ ■ uuca in inc Cite-. We said thia was an exceptional bargain, and it is. The price is ’with $l6OO cash and balance on easy terms. See U s Immediately CALLAHAN & KIRBY 310 Gibbs Building. AIUNDAY, KREIIIER’S SPEECH WAS llMimil ■ Pressmen’s Leader Is Said to Have Made Remark About “Blowing Up” Shops, Associated Press. Denver. Colo., Oct. *l.—Albert R. Kreitler. vice president of the printing pressmen’s and assistants' union of i America, in a speech in behalf of the j striking web pressmen of Denver to (the local trades and labor assembly I yesterday afternoon, made a state । ment that caused considerable com j ment regarding the "blowing up" of the papers where the pressmen walked 1 out. Man) of Kreitler's auditors under , stood him to say that the papers I "should be blown up" while others in j sist that the vice president said the | papers "would blow up" before the , trouble Was settled on the bnsls pro posed by the proprietors. Kreitler's T speech was ■infiammatory. but failed j in results so far as inducing the trades ' assembly to take action. The typographical union also heard Kreitler's plaint, but failed to take ac tion. MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAINMEN MAY STRIKE Special Disnawh. St. Louis, Mo„ Oct. 24.—The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on the Missouri Pacific railroad are con sidering a sympathetic strike to aid the machinists, boilermakers, copper smiths and blacksmiths who are now on a strike on the entire Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain systems. A strike of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen would call out thousands more and probably would result tn a tie-up of the two systems. The Brotherhood of Railway Train men will ballot on the proposition Tuesday night. ♦-»♦ SET FIRE TO HOUSE TO SATISFY GRUDGE Sp-rial Dispatch. Cooper Tex.. Oct. 24.—Martin Dun lap. aged 19 years was arrested this morning, charged with setting fire to the residence of F. L. Hanson, five miles north of here Sunday. It is said an old grudge between their families prompted Dunlap to the deed. He admits the incendiarism. The fire caused $2OOO damage. CONFESSES KNOWLEDGE OF MANY MURDERS Associated Press. East St. Louis, 111., Oct. 24.—After giving details as to many local rob beries and hinting at two murders, Lee Rhodas, who was arrested here yesterday was put in a cell by the police with instructions that no one was to see him fintil noon today. One of the murders Rhodus inti mated that he knew about was of a man named Michaels in Chicago. Another was that of Captain Potter in northern Missouri. The police be lieved the Michael's murder referred to was the mysterious death of F. W. Michaelk in Chicago Aug. 5. Rhodus. after admitting he was in Chicago at the time, refused to discuss the details. • SOLVED CHICAGO MYSTERY. Associated Press. Chicago. 111.. Oct. 24.—Police Cap tain Wood received a telegram today from Chief of Detectives Ryan of St. Donis, stating that Leigh Rhodus, a prisoner there, had confessed to the murder at Chicago. Aug. 6. of Dr. W. M. Michaels, a dentist. The murder of the dentist proved a mystery. Mich aels was shot down at night almost at his own door step. BOY SCOUTS TO MEET. A meeting of the Roy Scouts will he held this afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. building. After a discussion of the many points of interest in connection with the study of scouting the mem bers of the patrol will discuss the or ganization of other patrols of which the members of this patrol will be leaders. As soon as it can be arranged a time wilt be set for the tenderfoot tests, and notices will be posted so that boys who wish to become Boy Scouts may qualify. Dr. C. F. Dunlap. Dentist. Moore building. Toy electric trains at Roe's bp?k store. . SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND QAZtTTH THIS IS THE WEEK OF AMERICA'S GREA TEST A VIA 1 lON MEET James Radicv. English Aviator. New York. Oct 24 —The main event in the second annual international aviation meet at Belmont park. Long Island, this week will be the race be tween English, French and American teams for the international trophy, which is held by Glenn COrtiss, There is a prize of $5OOO in addition to the trophy. The contestants must make twenty laps of the large course of 3.1 miUs. In addition to the larger course there is a smaller one of one and one-nilf miles, directly in front of the grand stand. The French team that will try for the trophy will consist of Alfred Le blanc, 100-h. p. Bleriot; Herbert l>a- AMERICA II HAS LANDED SAFELY IN QUEBEC WILDS (Continued from page 1.) mounted police to co-operate with the Hudson bay men. The dominion pro- vincial agents have been ordered to notify all settlers and hunters to keep a sharp lookout for the missing men and the balloon. Track employes of the Canadian Pacific through Quebec ana Ontario have also been ordered into the wide spread hunt. Ten thousand officers, contractors and employes who are building the Nationaj Trans-continen tal railroad joined the rank's of ' the searchers today. The vague report reached Superin tendent J. E. Rogers, of the provin cial polite, according to advices from Toronto, that the America II had landed in the northern district, the exact location not being given. According to the report reaching Superintendent Rogers two balloons lescended in the northern district, hie ot these was accounted for in the anding of the Swiss balloon Azurea lear Biscotaslng, Ontario. Superintendent Rogers upon receipt of the United States government, transmitted the dominion government, wired all his men to keep a sharp lookout and report immediately. Lit tle hope was contained in this report. Every foot of Canadian territory where the balloon could have possibly landed, was searched In the most thor ough manner. The country will be laid in blocks and Lake Huron and Superior will be patrolled by boats. The question which mostly con cerns the searchers is which way did the America drift'.’ She may have fol lowed the northeastern trend toward Kiskisink or she may have been driven due north by the air current which drove the Azurea. The search has become interna tional. American tugs will be utilized in searching the lakes for it is feared that the America may have exhausted the ballast before they were across the water. The great Northwestern Telegraph company whose lines pene trate the wilds of northern Canada, have instructed all its operators to be on the watch for the slightest scrap of information." The greatest danger to the balloonists in descending in the primeval forests between the great lakes and the tracks of the Canadian Pacific or between Canadian Pacific lines and the new National'Trans-con tinental line which is building. The country is rugged and mountainous and in addition to the dangers from wild animals and starvation there are many treacherous swamps. President Courtlandt and F. Bishop of the Aero club of American today received the following telegram from the Swiss balloonist Schaeck, filed at Montreal. Oct. 22: 9 "Saw balloon Dusseldorf Thursday 6 p. m. Godfrey, East North Cape, Lake Huron.” • Schaeck's idcntificatioh of the bal loon as the Dusseldorf, completely knocks out all hope that the bal loon seen in that section was the lust America J I. Tell Thrilling Story. * August Blackertz, of the Dusseldorf. Germany, tells a thrilling story of his and Captain Hugo von Oberorom's. The party were last thirty-two hours in the forest north of the Trans-Conti nental railroad at Coocooache, Quebec. Il took them nearly two days after landing to reach a railway construc tion camp and their plight at one time was so desperate that they were almost driven to suicide. The balloon landed in a dense for- Belmont Pa rk. Where Hie International Meet is Being Held. ]❖❖❖❖❖ ❖ + ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖v ❖ ❖v ❖ I* ♦ * । AERIAL RACING RULES AT BELMONT PARK. First—Any contestant wish- ; .c ing to pass another must pass : .? C to his right at a minimum i.- -2= distance of 75 feet, on condi- : 2 : tion that the contestant about :Z -w to be passed is not more than -ij 150 feet from the inside of tlie w course. 'e w Second- —A contestant wish- -.f ing to pass another must fol- - 1 w low the above rule unless he can pass above the other or w # below him. He must not pass <5 w below another contestant tin- .S w * less the latter is at least 159 w w feet from the ground. # Third—When two machines b= w of which one is passing an- w w other on the right, are mak w ing a turn, it is imperative " 'that the aviator on the inside w does not crowd toward the w & outside of the course that con & tistant. traveling faster than & # who w ishes to pass him. Fourth—At all times mi chines in flight should travel -.j in the direction opposite to w that of the hands of a clock w and it is forbidden for any w w contestant to fly in the direc- -2 : w tion of the hands of a clock. w Fifth—Aviators are forbid- srden to fly over the public and w above the stands. # 4> -b tham, 100-h. p. Antoinette; Reno Thomas. 50-h. p. Antoinette. Thomas, who has recently been injured, may be displaced by Rene Simons, 50-h. p. Bleriot, or Emile Auburn, 50-h. p. Bleriot. The English team seeking the tro phy will be made up of Claude Gra hame-White. 50-h. p. Bleriot; James Radley. 50-h. p. Bleriot; Alee Ogel vie, Wright biplane. est. After landing, the party groped through the woods, till they reached the edge of a small lake, from which rose myriads of wild duc;ks and geese, startled from their haunts for the first time by a man. It was necessary to make a detour around -the lake and two bewildered and involuntary ex plorers sinking to their knees in morass and bog, began climbing over huge fallen trees that had lairi On the ground for centuries. ' Saw Yellow Balloon. They saw a yettow balloon. Mr. Blackertz thinks probably the Ameri ca 11, preceding the German balloon by half an hour and headed in the same direction. She was very high up and maintained the same altitude un til she passed oyer, out of sight, to ward the Ungava wilderness. A reward of $250 has been offered to locate the German balloon and re cover the Instruments and cloth cover of the balloon, valued at $5OOO. They kept on for hours, suffering greatly Thursday, the forest remained unbroken. With bleeding hands and clothes torn they staggered onward. Had there been any thorn bushes 1t would have been impossible for them to get through, so dense was the un dergrowth. In all four lakes were passed. They had to wade in water to their waists before emerging from the forest. WAS THIS AMERICA H? Sprcisl Dispatch Wheeling, Va.. Oct. -24.—A large balloon passed over Elm Grove, a sub urb, early this morning. Although seen by many, there was not light enough to obtain a description. Some believe that the baloon may be the America 11. The balloon was 4500 feet in the air. WORST COLDS BREAK EASILY lii Just a Few Hours All Mis ery From a Bad Cold or Grippe Will Be Overcome, Nothing else that you can take will break your cold or end grippe so Promptly as a dose of Tape’s Cold Compound every two hours until ‘hree consecutive doses are taken. "’he most miserable neuralgia wains, headache, dullness, head and nose stuffed up. feverishness, sneez ‘ng. running of the nose, sore throat, •nucous catarrhal discharges, sore ’’ess. stiffness, rheumatism pains and other distress begin to leave after the ”»ry first dose. “ape’s Cold Compound is the re sult of three years’ research at a cost of more than fifty thousand ■dollars, snd contains no quinine, which we have conclusively demonstrated is not effective in the treatment of colds or Grippe. "Dike this harmless Compound as ■lirected, with the knowledge that there Is no other medicine made any where else in the world, which will -ure your cold or end Grippe misery as promptly and without any other assistance or bad after-effects as a 25 "ent package of Pape's Cold Com ’•ound, which any druggist in the world can supply. Leon Morcue. French Aviator. The, American team which will de fend the trophy will be made up-in an elimination'race, the three lead ers in this race becoming the trophy defenders. Those who will take part ir this race will include Charles K. Hamilton, in his own 110-h. p bi plane; John B. Moissant, in a Bler iot; J. Armstrong Drexel, Bterlot; Archie Hoxey or Walter Brookins, in a Wright machine; Clifford Harmon, 10*>-h. p. biplane. In addition to the trophy- race there will be an altitude race, and a special prize of $5OOO is offered to the rider who ascendslO.OOO feet. Glenn Curtiss will probably take part in the speed contests. A special prize of $lO,OOO has been offered to the aviator who flies from the field to the Liberty statue and returns in the shortest time, a dis tance of thirty-eight miles. AVIATION MEET MAY BE FAILURE (Continued from Tage 1.) all the villages over which we must fly. chop down the forests, destroy the farm houses and eliminate the curve at the grand stand end of the course. It isn't a curve at all; it's a corner. Nothing can be done on the course as it stands now. All that I can suggest is that a new course be laid out. There are places near here with wide meadows and unfenced fields over which there would be no difficulty in laying out a five kilo meter course. This ought to be done before Saturday, the day of the race for the international cup. My sug gestion coincides with the opinion of my colleagues that a new course be constructed. Sends How! Home. “Under the present conditions I am not to be considered a contestant for the cup. Five days ago I wrote to the Aero dull of France, setting forth my objections to the course and ask ing by cable for advice." Janies A. Blair, a member of the American committee which planned the meet, declared today that no formal protest had been made by the French team. "I have heard gossip but nothing more.” said Mr. Blair. "We shall do nothing until we have received a written protest from either M. Leblanc or Latham.” Moissant Is Angry. Rumors were freely circulated among the aviators today that J. B. Moissant, the young American whose monoplane was wrecked by the high wind yesterday, intends suing the promoters of the meet for damages. Just after Grahame-White's ma chine had been damaged yesterdays Moissant's monoplane was trundled out into the field, and it was an nounced that he intended making a flight. Before he could get even into the seat of the air craft, it was pick ed up by the wind, turned over and wrecked. Moissant. it is said, claims that certain officials of the meet an nounced that the wind was blowing at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, when its actual speed was twenty-six miles an hour. It was declared that this would he the basis for his dam age suit. Under ideal weather Conditions the international aviation tournament opened this afternoon with a large so ciety crowd present. The wind was blowing about eight miles an hour. The initial contests, all scheduled to start simultaneously. A keen fight is in prospect between B. J. Moissant and J. A. Drexel, rep resenting America and Claude Gra hame-White. the Englishman, who took first honors in the opening day Saturday afternoon. Moissant and Drexel were not alone seeking revenge, but they expressed their determination to give the United States the greatest number of points for the day's session. Sulliness mark ed the French camp because of the dissatisfaction over the eourte condi tions. BROOKINS MAKES FLIGHT. Shortly before noon today. Walter Brookins in a Wright biplane, made a trial Hight. After leaving the han gar he a height of 500 feet, encircling thV track three times. He made a perfect descent. landing with in a few feet of the starting point. The aviator announced afterward conditions were perfect, a light wind of perhaps 10 miles an hour blowing at the time ■ ■ * • — ’ ■ 1 * I y. 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We want to convince you beyond a doubt that Palm Heights is positively the best “buy” in the city of San Antonio, Texas, TODAY. “The City Lies Below” ' PALM HEIGHTS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 412-413 Gibbs Building San Antonio, Texas AUTO SERVICE AT YOUR DISPOSAL AMERICAN TELLS STORY OF PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION Special Dispatch. New York, Oct. 24. —A thrilling sto ry of the bombardment of Lisbon during the revolution by four of the battleships of the Portuguese navy manned by rebels, was related today by George Banchor of Boston, when he arrived on Mie Cincinnati of the Hamburg-American line. '"I was a passenger on board z the Cape Blanco, which arrived in the harbor of Lisbon from Brazil on Oct. 4, the day the revolution broke out,” said Mr. Banchor. "Our ship got into the harbor about 10 a. m. There was no apparent sign at that time of any revolution, in fact, we were im pressed with the continued quiet that appeared to rest over Lisbon. "We were much interested in four Portuguese battleships that lay at anchor in the harbor and I spent some time watching the men on them at work. They appeared to be very ousy and I could see them running up and down the decks and the officers issuing orders. To me it appeaT;! as if they were preparing to sail. Not Allowed to Dock. "We were much surprised that we were not permitted to dock. At about 11 o’clock that morning a man rode out.to the ship from the shore. I asked him to take me ashore. In reply he dropped his oars and drew his finger across hfs throat. "The royal flag was flying from the flag poles from the ports scat tered about. A flag of unrest be came apparent suddenly and we saw armed men walking up and down the wall along the harbor. “Promptly at 12 o’clock sharp wc saw the flag on one of the forts low-1 ered and almost instantly the guns: of the four battleships began belching i forth their missiles of death and de struction. It all happened so quickly that it was not until 10 or 15 min utes later that we realized that a rev olution had broken out. . “Bombarding of the city of Lisbon by the Portuguese battleships last ed for exactly two and a half hours. ; “One by one the forts were crum- ‘ pled under the heavy fire of the bat-j tieships. The surprising thing of it [ all was that not an answering shot I came from any of the forts of the shore. "Shortly after the last fort flag was lowered, we saw the royal flag on the ; Necessidades Palace lowered. A great i cheer was heard from the shore. A few minutes later the fire of the bat tleships suddenly stopped. Then "*■ saw the royal standard again flying from the castle. The royalists, w$ learned later, had rallied and tesn- i porarily beaten off the revolutionists. Within the next 20 minutes the flag | had been lowered again and the flag j of the revolutionists ran up. “Later hundreds and hundreds of; armed men. the revolutionists, began ' parading along the streets. Our way. t only a quarter of a mile off shore and j we had tin excellent opportunity to witness the fighting on shore. English in Revolts. “There must have been many Eng- [ PRINTING OF ALL KINDS v 4 ALAMO PRINTING CO. B G K, Phones 866 \ — —k-_ OCTOBER 24, 1010. lish speaking persons in the parade for we could hear them shouting ’Long live the revolution.’ "There were also many Frenchmen . for we could hear quite plainly ’Vive ' la republic.’ During the bombardment of the Necessidades palace, we saw a great section of tho wall out displaying to our view the toyal church in the en closure of the castle wall. Later wa saw the church completely demolish ed. We saw scores of buildings fad under the fire of the shells of thia fire. “As the shells would strike a build ing a great cloud of dust would go up. When it cleared the building would be gone. 1 was surprised at the markmanship of the men man ning the guns on the battleship. It appeared as if none of their shells fell short of their mark. TEN WITNESSES ON IN MANLEY CASE, Dallas, Tex.. Oct. 24.—Ten wit nesses were examined this morning ini the case of J. D. Manley, charged with the murder of Louis Richenstein. in an effort by the defense to obtain a change of venue. A majority of tho witnesses were members of the Texas National guard of which Manley is a member. They gave the opinion that Manley couldn’t obtain a fair trial in Dallas county. DALLAS AND RETURN $10.30 All the week. Limit Oct. Slit. Fair Closes Oct. 29th. City Office, 211 East Houston Street. ( (Gunter Hotel Building.) WALTER WALTHALL. P. A T. A. V. B. ONEAL, A. P. & T. A. HERBERT WALTERS, A. P t T. A. 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