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THE BATESVILLE HERALD
VOL. 12
BATESVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOV. 24, 11)11.
NO. 11
The Uvalde National Bank
Depository tor Zovol* and Uvalde County Funds.
Oopltel Stock..................................SI25,000.00
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Total Responsibility........................1275,000.00
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Cheap, Efficient Service
l»oeal Service--including the local exchange and all ranch lines off 4*
of main line
Residence, par month............$1.00
Business, per month............$1.50
Pull Service--including local service, main tine to Uvalde and Uval
de exchange (independent)
Non-subscribers
To points off main line.....................15e
To any point in system on main line........25c
LONG DISTANCE CONNECTIONS
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TEXAS LEADS IN GOOD ROADS CHILD FALLS six STORIES
Elevator Door Left Open and Tot
IMPROVEMENT, AND THE STATE Walks Into Shaft, and Wat Caught
SPENT $7,COO,000 irf Arms of Enginssr In Basement.
On Highways Last Year—Led Sixteen Houston, Tex. Gertrude Pettigrew,
Southern States Figures ! aeo(1 3 years, the little daughter of
by States. J ‘"r- an<* Mrs. C. W. Pettigrew of
. _ * j Thomaston, Tex., fell six floors down
. . , „ - ... the elevator shaft of the Scaniau
.“tn'"Te7 speR' f'’600’’! building, a distance of more than nine-
?;°.1“ building good roads last year. , ty t on Tue8day mornluK, aIl(1 but
It led the sixteen Southern States, jor
UVALDB AND BATESVILLE
Leave Batesville
Arrive Batesville
Arrive Uvalde
Leave Uvalde
which spent an aggregate of $44,000,-
000, according to figures just made
public by Secretary Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture.
“Through its office of public roads,”
says the secretary iu his statement,
“the department has men throughout
the country stimulating tho nation-
wide movement for good roads
through demonstration work of ex-
perienced engineers and illustrated
lectures by a force of men trained
for the purpose. And this vast amount
of money, spent in less than ten
months for road improvement In the
States mentioned, Indicates the great
interest In the subject. Reports to the
department show that this enormous
sum was spent by States as follows:
“Alabama, $3,848,000; Arkansas, $2,-
450,000; Delaware, $430,000; Florida,
$1,505,000; Georgia, $2,500,000; Ken-
tucky, $2,500,000; Louisiana, $1,132,-
354; Maryland, $2,250,000; Mississippi,
$3,130,000; North Carolina, $4,505,000;
Oklahoma, $1,505,000; South Carolina,
$1,100,000; Tennessee, $3,900,000; Tex-
as, $7,600,000; Virginia, $4,004,000;
West Virginia, $1,625,000.
“Over two hundred thousand miles
of roads were built during the past
twelve months iu this country. A few
yearfe ago the department conducted
an Investigation to determine the con-
dition of roads throughout the coun-
try. The result showed 2,151,570 miles
of public highways, of which 7.14 per
cent were improved, while there were
In the sixteen Slates of the South
685,151 miles, of which only 27,185
miles, or 3.85 per cent, were Improved
Since 1904 the annual expenditure of
money for road improvements in the
nation has doubled, and in the South
it has more than doubled.”
the heroism of Richard T.
O'Rourke, chief engineer of the build-
ing, would have been Instantly killed.
As it was, she sustained a broken
arm, severe bruises, and possibly in-
ternal injuries.
O'Rourke huppened to be stnndiug
near the elevator shaft, and hearing
the scroaining child, jumped into the
opening. He saw the little form
tumbling down and braced himself
firmly to catch It. The impact
knocked him down, but the child was
saved contact with the concrete floor
of the basement. She was uncon-
scious for several hours after the fall,
but later the physicians at the sani-
tarium stated that the chances were
In favor of her recovery.
The pettlgrews are carnival visitors.
With their little daughter, they had
alighted at the sixth floor. The ele-
vator doors were not cloeed behind
them, and when the car had passed
on up the little girl run back to the
open door and stopped Into the open
shaft. As she fell she screamed, and
stayed her fall for several moments
by clinging to a cable. This gave En-
gineer O’Rourke time to get into the
shaft and catch her.
Parties having business in Batesville
can mahe that town in the afternoon
and get bach to Uvalde next morn-
ing. Parties going off can mahe east,
west and south bound trains out of
Uvalde the same day.
Fare, one way...........................$2.00
Round Trip...............................$3.00
E. A. RAY
BATESVILLE, TEXAS
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800,000 Need Relief.
St. Petersburg.—Eight million per-
sons are in need of Immediate relief
owing to the failure of the crops in
twenty Russian provinces.
This startling announcement was
made In the duma Saturday by Pre-
mier Kokovzoff In reply to interpella-
tions concerning reports that famine
threatened a wide area.
The premier explained that the
crops had failed completely In twelve
provinces and partially in eight others.
Of the 12,500,000 inhabitants of the
nffocted territory 8,000,000 were in Im-
mediate need of relief.
The necessary measure would re-
quire, the premier said, the expendi-
ture of $60,000,000, of which the im-
perial exchequer would have to find
$14,000,000. Half of the total was nec-
essary at once to defray the cost of
supplies already dispatched.
M. Kokovzoff added that actual
famine conditions wore not wide-
spread yet, but the sanitary situation
was a cause of great anxiety.
Water 25 Cents a Glass.
Mexico City.—Drinking water is
selling at 25c a glass in Juchltan. The
prices of provisions have advanced In
proportion. The people of the town
and the little garrison are reduced al-
most to the point of starva'(v», due
to the cutting off of suppl'** by the
followers of Jose Gomez, who for
more than ten days huve besieged
them. Although a stream flows
through the place, the people are
al'raid to make use of the water, be-
lieving that it has been poisoned by
the rebels.
2,000 Men Strike.
Torreon. Mex.—To enforce their de-
mand for an eight-hour day 2,000 men
struck Monday. As a result of the
strike the plant of the Mexican Con-
tinental Rubber Company, an Ameri-
can concern, and the Union soap fac-
tory arc closed down. Practically all
the carpenters and masons and bakers
of the city joined In the strike, and
many of the printers failed to report
for work. There has been almost no
disorder ns the resqlt of the strike,
Leon Springs Water Welle.
San Antonio, Tex.—It is entirely
probable that the Leon Springs reser-
vation will be put in condition to ac-
commodate nn army of 19,000 men in
case the emergency should nriae.
More wells have recently been sunk
there and now the water supply is
100,000 gallons per day. This would
give ten gallons per day for each man.
to be divided four gallons to the man
and six gallons for the horses. As
there would never be more thau a few
thousand horses In the camp, even
with two regiments of cavalry, it is
believed the surplus supply would be
sufficient for bathing and other pur-
poses.
Plate Blown Inward.
Havana.—A plate which formed a
portion of the outer hull of the wreck-
ed battleship Maine was found Tues-
day blown inward. The discovery
strongly confirms the theory that an
external explosion sunk the American
fighting craft in Havana harbor. The
plate was found 149 feet aft of the
bow on the port side, near the keel
and under the magazines, the upper
part being folded Inward. One body
was recovered from tho boiler room.
It was that of an unusually tall man.
Part of Town Burns.
Lullng, Tex.—All the store buildings
and stocks of goods on the west side
of the main street of I’rairle Lea, a
town near Lullng, were destroyed by
Mre Saturday. The loss amounted to
about $20,000. The cuuse of th« firs
is unknown.
With Custer’s Wagon Train.
Marshall, Tex.—Albert Nlendorff,
who claimed to have had charge of
General Custer’s wagon train, died
Saturday. He was born In Berlin, Ger-
many.
With the conclusion of discussions
on franchise, education and police and
liquor problems, the seventeenth an*
nu«l meeting of the National Munici-
pal League and nineteenth National
Conference for City Good Government
came to a close Friday, l^os Angeles
Invited the convention to meet there
next year, but the meeting place waa
left to the executive committee to
name.
I
Pension Commissioner Buford Fri-
day. delivered to the controller at Aus-
tin 11,600 affidavits for next quarter’s
pension warrants. The regular appor-
tionment la $10.60, while the totally
disabled get $24 each per quarter.
Twelve thousand barrels of Ken-
tucky whisky let loose by fire which
destroyed a bonded warehouse of the
Davies County Distilling Company at
Owensboro, Ky., Friday, were licked
up by the flames, or lost, when the
blazing liquor flowed out upon the
Ohio river, covering the surface of the
stream with a sheet of fire. Thou-
sands of people witnessed the spec-
tacular destruction of $100,000 worth
of property.
The United Statue circuit court de-
nied Saturday the formal petition of
the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco As-
sociation and the Cigur Manufacturers
of America for leave to Intervene in
the government's dissolution suit
against the American Tobacco Com-
pany. The decision furnishes a defi-
nite point upon which the defendants
may appeal to the federal supreme
court.
Rear Admiral John Y. Taylor, U. 8.
N., retired, former medical director of
the United States navy and one of
the most distinguished naval surgeons
in the country, ended his life In Wash-
ington Friday by shooting himself In
the head with a navy pistol.
The Texus Orange Growers’ Associa-
tion completed Its annual convention
on Thursday at Houston and adjourn-
ed after listening to a number of very
important and interesting papers and
lectures bearing on the gulf const cit-
rus Industry.
Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smlth of
the Protestant-Episcopal diocese of
Pennsylvania, and one of the moBt
prominent church men In the country,
died suddenly at Philadelphia Friday.
Tho criminal court of appeals at
Oklahoma City Friday affirmed the
sentence of John W. Sharpe for sec-
ond degree murder, and says he must
serve ten years in the penitentiary
Sharpe has been dead for more than
a year. * * '
B. Adoue, one of the most prominent
citizens of. Galveston, died suddenly
Friday.
Four persons wore frozen to death
In a blizzard near Kamloops, B. C.,
Friday. The victims are John Keefer,
a rancher, hlR two nieces and James
A. Tronson, a brother-in-law of Keef-
er. They were overtaken by a storm
In a sleigh and lost their wuy.
Cook county, Illinois, expended $18,-
952.43 In connection with the two
trials of Lee O'Nell Browne. This
waa brought out In the testimony of
State's Attorney Wayman before the
Lorimer Investigation committee of tho
senate Saturday.
FOREIGN.
The situation In Southern China ts
becoming more involved each day.
The republicans apparently are deter-
mined to gain their independence from
tho Mancliu dynasty, but there are
grave doubts of their ability to estab-
lish a stable government In time to
avoid the consequences of continued
disorganization and the absence of
revenue und coadherent administra-
tion.
The Japanese antarctic expedition
on board the K&lnan Maru, which was
forced to returri to Sydney, Australia,
last spring after reaching 74 degrees
south, Iirh started on Its second at-
tempt to reach the south pole. The
expedition Is In command of Lieu-
tonant Shirase.
The serious attention of the public
has again been called to the depopula-
tion question in France by the publi-
cation of official statistics at Paris.
These cover the first six months In
1911 and show an excess of deaths
over births of 18,279. The figures are
all the more discouraging from the
fact that in the same period in 1910
tho births exceeded the deaths by
21,189. The figures for 1911 from Jan-
uary to June, inclusive, are as fol-
lows: Populfttlon, 39,252,246; mar-
riages, 153,931; divorces, 6,374; births,
385,999; deaths, 494,278.
Three Turkish warships nre hidden
in the little fwirbor of Hudrum, on tho
coast of Asia Minor, In order to e»-
cupe from any Italian warships that
■nay bo cruising In the vicinity. The
crews have covered the bows with
branches of trees, and from afar the
vessols look like strange wooded
Inlets. They probably are damaged
gunboatB left behind by the Turkish
fleet on Rb return to the Dardanelles
from Beyrout.
Tho flooded condition of the coun-
tryside near Tripoli has put a stop
to active operations for the present.
Water surrounds the city like a moat.
The Turks fifed two shells orer the
city Sunday, but both burst In the
air, causing no damage
SEN, REYES TO BE 0EP0RTE5
ARREST OF MEXICAN 18 REGARD*
ED AS FIRST STEP.
United 8tatee Will Make An Effort te
Prevent Further Dieturbancee In
Southern Republic.
Ban Antonio, Tex.—On a warrant
charging him with violation of tha
neutrality laws. General Bernardo
Reyea was arrested Saturday by Unit-
ed States Marshal Nolte. An indict-
ment was returned against Reyes by
the federal grand Jury at Laredo. He
was taken before United States Com-
missioner Edwards and waived ex-
amination. his bond being fixed st
$6,000. This he gave.
May Be Deported.
Washington—The arrest of General
Bernardo Reyes at San Antonio on a
federal grand Jury indictment charg-
ing him and his lieutenants with con-
spiracy to violate the neutrality laws
of the United States Is regarded In
Washington us the first step In the
program of the state department to
insist on the deportation of General
Reyes and his aides as undoslrabls
aliens.
There have been arrests and indict
meats in the past for violation of our
neutrality laws, but these actions
were taken arter the expeditions had
been conducted gainst tho friendly
government, so that in the Reyes ar-
rests the administration makes a de-
parture. It has clearly for its pur-
pose the prevention of damage to
Mexico rather than punishment after
the damage has been done.
When the state department first bo
came convinced that General lloyes
was actually going to attempt to use
Texas for the base of another Mexican
revolution the intimation was convey-
ed to Reyes, according to reliable In-
formation, that the self-exiled Mexi-
can general had better move away
from The Mexican frontier, as Secre-
tary Knox Intended to have him de-
ported as an undesirable alien upon
the first overt act upon his part The
Indictment on the charge of cqpaplracy
to violate the law, it Is believe^,
the way to proceed against R<
Ala
tonlo
The determination of the admlnte
tration to prevent, ns far as this coun-
try can prevent, another upheaval in
Mexico, where the Uuited States has
more than a billion dollurs of commer-
cial interosts at stake, rests at least
Horn a practical Htundpolnt upon two
balance sheets which have been re-
cently struck. One Is the casting up
of the nccounts of the federal admin-
istration, showing that the military
mobilization on the Mexican frontier
cost more than two million dollars, be-
sides the expenses of the department
of justice and the customs division In
guarding the frontier against neutral-
ity violations by the MadorhOas,
which amounted to another hulf rail
lion.
The second balance sheet has just
been made public by the bureau of
statistics, which shows that for the
nine months ending September, 1911,
which Includes the entire period of the
Madero revolution, the foreign com-
merce between the United States and
Mexico fell off to the amount of
$9,933,000, of which sum $6,607,000
was decrease of our exports to Mox-
Ico, and $3,326,000 was decrease of our
Imports from that country. Thus
American business men lost the sale
of more than six and a half million
dollars' worth of goods and the gov-
ernment, Iu addition to the expense
of mobilizing the troops and guarding
the frontier, lost the duty on a largo
amount of Imports that failed to ma-
terialize. Customs Collector Sharpe
of the El I’aso customs district esti-
mates that the falling off In receipts of
IiIh customs district alone will aggre-
gate $299,990.
Colored Farmers Meet.
Ihtlesllue, Tex.—The Colorod Farm-
era’ Truck Growers’ Association met
at the city liraII Saturday for tho pur-
pose of Increasing the membership
:;o as to Insure the planting of 100
acres In truck next year. The organ-
ization now has thirty-eight members
who will grow truck. •
World’s Championship.
Adelaide, South Australia.—Jack
Donaldson, the South African sprinter,
Junday defeated Arthur Fostle, the
Vustrallan, and C, E. Holway, the
Vmerlcan, for the world's champion-
ship. The distances were 100, 110 and
130 yards. Holway was outclaaaed.
Donations to Orphana’ Homo.
Richmond, Tex.—A large box of
.lothing was sent this week to the
iuckner's orphan horns at Dallas by
he ladles of the BapUst Missionary
•ioclety of Richmond.
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