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AUSTRIANS ARE BEING
FDRCED FROM PASSES
RUSSIAN ARMY HAS GATEWAY
INTO THE HUNGARIAN PLAINS
AFTER HARD FIGHTING.
CHAOS STILE RULES
IN CITY OF MEXICO
AMERICAN COLONY SENDS NOTE
OF CONDITIONS AS THEY
ARE NOW.
FIGHTING RENEWED IN FRANCE FIRING NEAR THE BORDER
German Submarines Have Sent to
Bottom Number of British Steam-
ers—Turkish CruiservBlown Up.
Still Quiet in Dardanelles.
Latest War News From Front.
The Russian army which for months
besieged the Austrian fortress of
Przemysl and finally forced it to capi-
tulate has achieved another victory.
Starting westward from the Galician
stronghold immediately after its fall
the Muscovites now have entered the
Beskid Mountains—a range which
connects the Little Carpathians with
the Eastern Carpathians and forms
part of the boundary between Ga-
licia and Hungary—and driven out the
Austrians, who for some time past
:had stubbornly held the passes and
heights.
Brief is Vienna’s acknowledgment
that this vantage point, the gateway
to the plains of Northern Hungary, has
been evacuated.
To the eastward in the Carpathians
where sanguinary fighting is taking
place both the Austrians and Rus-
sians claim victories at various points
and the capture of men and guns. In
the region of Virawa, Austria asserts
that 2,260 prisoners were taken.
In North Poland a cavalry charge
in the Suwalki district resulted in the
defeat of the Germans, who ' were
driven away with losses in men killed
or captured, according to Petrograd.
Berlin says Russian attacks near Au-
gustowo were repulsed.
There has leen little fighting on
the western front. The French have
taken the village of Regnieville in the
Woevre department from the Ger-
mans, while the Germans have cap-
tured from the Belgians the village
of Drei Grachten, south of Dixmude.
Semi-official reports reaching Pe-
trograd are to the effect that the
Turkish armored cruiser Medjidieh
had been sunk by a mine in the Black
Sea off the Russian, coast.
Two steamers have been blown up
as a result of the naval warfare. A
German submarine has destroyed a
British steamer in the English chan-
nel off the southern end of the coast
of Cornwall with a loss of four men
of the crew, while a German steamer
has been sent to the bottom by strik-
ing a mine in the .Baltic.
- Nothing- new has beeh received from
the Dardanelles or the other Turkish
fronts.
German submarines have destroyed
two more steamers, the British Seven
Seas and the French Emma, both off
Beachy Head.
A Berlin wireless dispatch, probably
semi-official, describes as slanders
the reports that the German subma-
rine which sunk the steamer Falaba
a few days ago gave the passengers
no time to save themselves. It is as-
serted in this dispatch that the sub-
marine was forced to withdraw quick-
ly on account of the approach of other
vessels, and was for this reason un-
able to assist in the work of rescue.
Premier Asquith has temporarily
taken charge of the British foreign of-
fice, Sir Edward Grey having been
compelled to take a short rest.
Berlin Thursday wore the appear-
ance of festivity, the occasion being
the celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of Bismarck’s birth. The
whole city was a veritable blaze of
color—even more gaily flag bedecked
than for the biggest victories. Thou-
sands of residents of Berlin gathered
about the Bismarck’s heroic statue be-
fore the reichstag for the commemo-
rative exercises.
Two German submarines, the TJ-28
and another, the number of which has
not been ascertained, which have
been operating off the west coast of
England during the past few days,
have added two more British steam-
ers, the Flaminian and the Crown of
Castile, to their list of victims, total-
ing five since Saturday.
There was no loss of life on the
Flaminian and Crown of Castile, the
crews of each being given time in
which to get into their boats. In the
case of the latter vessel, however, the
submarine fired before the crews left
the steamer and shells passed along
\ 3 bridge on which the captain and
n apprentice were standing.
The Crown of Castile was sunk by
vhell fire, but this did not prove suf-
ficient to" send the Flaminian to the
bottom and a torpedo had to be used.
In the east the Russians are hold-
ing the Germans in North and Cen-
tral Poland and they are putting forth
all their strength to force their way
through Uzsok and Lupkow passes
with the result that some of the
heaviest and most continuous fighting
of the war is in progress in the Car-
pathians.
Germany’s next move in the military
field—some stroke either in the east
or the west is expected before the al-
lies attempt their spring advance—is
at present the chief subject of specu-
lation and conjecture. According to
reports reaching London from Petro-
grad, the German emperor is now at
Berlin holding a war council with
Field Marshal-voi- der Goltz, the "Ger-
man military commander of Constan-
tinople, and other leaders, and is plan-
ning a new campaign to offset the
fall of Przemysl and meet the situation
in the Dardanelles.
Villa and Carranza Forces Will Likely
Pull Off Big Fight at Matamoros
This Week—Mexican Town
Near Texas Border.
Washington.—An official statement
by the Villa-Zapata convention gov-
ernment in the City of Mexico, re-
ceived Thursday by the state depart-
ment, charged that Carranza officials
during their occupancy of the capital
removed from the national treasury
government bonds and other securi-
ties valued at 16,000,000 pesos.
The missing securities are said to
include: Three per cent bonds o: the
interior consolidated debt, 5 per cent
bonds of interior redeemable debt, 5
per cent bonds of the Mexican foreign
debt of 1899 and 1904, shares of El
Imparcial, shares of El Indepen-
deiente, certificates issued by the mu-
nicipal council of Puebla, certificates
representing mortgage debt of the
Compania de San Gabriel Anexas,
documents which represent shares of
the Compania Industrial de Tepeji, 5
per cent mortgage bonds of the Com-
pania Agricol a de Rio Bravo, shares
of the Pachuca Light, Power and
Tramway Company; shares of the
Compania Maderera de Durango, bonds
of the Vera Cruz Terminal Company,
coupons of bonds of the Vera Cruz
Terminal Company.
$30,000,000 for Rivers and Harbors.
Washington.—River(s and harbors
improvement projects to share in the
$30,000,000 authorized in a lump sum
by congress for those public works
deemed most desirable in the interest
of commerce and navigation were an-
nounced .Monday by Secretary Garri-
son. Congress left to the chief of en-
gineers of the war department the
cutting of the original estimates,
which amounted to $53,000,000.
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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
Washington. — The United States
government has renewed its repre-
sentations to General Carranza to ob-
tain respect for foreign flags recently
violated at Manzanillo, asking that he
instruct his officers there to afford
protection to foreigners and their in-
terests.
In the first note sent to General
Carranza a consular report was trans-
mitted, stating that the British and
American flags had been violated by
lawless Carranza troops.
A separate communication was sent
to General Carranza Saturday, calling,
his attention to the indiscriminate
firing by his troops on the oil tanks
in the vicinity of Tampico, 150,000
barrels of oil already having been lost
as a result of perforations made by
bullets penetrating the oil tanks.
A statement from the American
colony at the City of Mexico, in
which it was declared that the situa-
tion was “more chaotic and helpless
than ever,” was brought to the border
Satui’day by Arthur Bullard Johnson,
a delegate representing jointly the
2,000 Americans and the international
committee of the capital district, the
latter composed of seventeen differ-
ent nationalties aggregating more
than 10,000 persons. Mr. Johnson is
on his way east to take up the matter
with public men.
There was intermittent rifle firing,
all day Saturday from the Carranza'
trenches in Matamoros, Mexico, at'
Villa outposts. Major General Fun- '<
ston and party of American army of-
ficers witnessed part of this firing
from the American bank of the river
about 150 yards from the western end
of the Carranza trenches, which were
filled with men. The shooting appar-
ently was without effect.
A report predicting that Mexico
faces a serious situation respecting
her food supplies has been made by a
committee of Americans and other
foreigners at Mexico City who have
been investigating the situation.
Brownsville, Tex.—An aeroplane
and a prospective river gunboat have
entered the already somewhat compli-
cated situation at Brownsville in con-
nection with the impending attack on
Matamoros. The aeroplane, after fly-
ing to the Villa camp outside Mata-
moros, broke a wheel, and is now in
two sections, one large piece in the
attacking Villa camp and one small
piece on American soil, fully repaired
but not permitted to re-enter Mexico
on account of customs regulations.
Furthermore, the machine is minus
an aviator. H. M. Rinehart of Day-
ton, Ohio, an American demonstrator
for the Villa aviation corps, who flew
the machine to Brownsville from
Monterey, left for the North Friday,
following a difficulty over financial
arrangements. The Villa officers are
now trying to hire another American
aviator.
The Carranza authorities in Mata-
moros began negotiations Thursday to
buy a fast motor boat, announcing
they intended to arm her with a ma-
chine gun and prevent Villa troops
from ferrying supplies across the Rio
Grande above Brownsville. The Villa
soldiers have been obtaining both
food and ammunition cn the American
side.
Major General Frederick Funston
Thursday inspected this Villa ferry.
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THE STATE BRINGS SUIT
AGAINST TEXAS RAILROADS
Austin, Tex.—Alleging that forty-
one railway lines of Texas, practically
all the railroads in the state, which
are made defendants in the suit, are
violating their franchises by unjust
discrimination in the issuance of free
passes, proceedings were instituted
Wednesday in the twenty-sixth dis-
trict court by Attorney General B. F.
Looney and Assistant Attorney Gen-
erals C. M. Cureton, Luther Nickels
and W. A. Keeling against those com-
panies, asking that each railroad be
enjoined from issuing to any person
or class of persons, other than their
officers, agents and employes, travel-
ing upon company business, any free
pass or other evidence of right to
travel free, or honoring any such free
pass or other evidence, or directly or
indirectly permitting any other per-
son or class of persons from riding or
traveling free of charge, or at rates
different from the rates
other persons under the s;
ilar circumstances, i
railroads, trains or
iternatlve, judgment
defendants be restra;
or granting to
to any class as
constitutional, ai
travel free, or
the railroads, trai
and all of the defend
Explanatory of the
suance of free transpo
tomey general represen’
average rate of the pa
was 2.29c per mile, and
using the roads free had been charged
at the same rate the others were
charged a uniform rate of 2.03c per
mile would have produced to the rail-,
roads the same total revenue which
they did collect from the pay passen-
gers.
“And taking into consideration the
operating expense of issuing the free
passes and keeping the records there-
of and of paying for injuries, etc., to
the free passengers, the railroads
could have charged a uniform rate of
much less than 2c per passenger mile,
and have derived as much revenue as
they did receive, if all passengers had
been charged.”
It is stated that the total capital
stock of the railroads of Texas
amounts to the par value of $128,540,-
728, and that “if the free mileage had
been charged for at the rates charged
pay passengers, the free mileage dur-
ing such ten-year period would have
paid a total dividend of 2.41 per cent.
It is further alleged that the total
value of the free mileage would have
paid the interest of all of the roads
for 1912 one and eighty-two hun-
dredths times, and that the value of
free mileage equals the sum of $2,738
per mile of main line road owned by
all the railroads in Texas, or an aver-
age of $273.80 per mile per year. The
total taxes paid by all of the railroads
of Texas for 1913 amounted to $3,-
925,675; the value of the free mileage
for the same year was $3,582,528.
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Texas League Umpires for 1915.
Waco, Tex.—president W. R. David-
son of the Texas League has an-
nounced the personnel of his 1915
staff of umpires. They are: Henry
T. Arnold, who was with the Illinois-
Missouri League last year; Harry
Peaster, who has been pitching for
Beaumont; Ger.ald Hays, who umpired
in the Pacific Coast League last year;
Roy Akin, Waco’s third baseman last
season, and Pat Wright, the latter be-
ing umpire in the Southern League
last year.
He Offers Land for a Home.
New York.—John Brisben Walker,
formerly a magazine publisher, has
made an offer to give a site of forty
acres at Mount Morrison, Colo., to es-
tablish a home for newspaper men.
French to Pay Neutrals.
Paris.—The senate Tuesday adopt-
ed a bill which already had passed the
chamber of deputies providing for the
advancing to Serbia, Belgium, Greece
and Montenegro as friends of the al-
lies the sum of 1,250,000,000 francs
($270,000,000).
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Attorney General Claims They Are
Violating Franchises By Dis-
criminating in Passes.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW
ADDS 100,000 STUDENTS
State Superintendent Makes Esti«
mates—Thinks 27,000 Teachers
Necessary for 1915-16.
Austin, Tex.—That the passage of
the compulsory attendance lav/ and
the rural school law will cause an in-
crease of at least 100,000 scholastic
attendance over 1914-1915 is the esti-
mate of the state superintendent of ed-
ucation. The natural increase in
scholastic attendants would be approx-
imately 50,000, while the passage of
the compulsory attendance law and
the fact that thousands of Mexican
children heretofore considered as ref-
ugees will be included in the scholas-
tic attendance consideration raises
this number at least 50,000 additional.
The intent and purpose of the rural
school law to build up primarily the
rural schools and then the high
schools was the keynote of the plat-
form of education of both Governor
Ferguson and Superintendent of Edu-
cation Doughty and cons quently both
men have given the question careful
study. During 1914-1915 Btate aid was
granted 245 schools < t the state for
introduction into the curriculums of
agricultural, domestic economy and
manual training branches. The
amount granted these schools was
L$245,000.
tecorls in the department of educa-
Ton at present show that no excessive
expenditure will be necessary to ac-
commodate the increased scholastic
attendance population. The overhead
expense will be practically nullified
inasmuch as records bear out the fact
that forty-four out of every 100 seats
in the public schools are vacant each
day.
It is the belief of the state depart-
ment that the house resolution sub-
mitting a constitutional amendment
allowing localities to vote a tax for
school maintenance and school pur-
poses will be adopted and the ques-
tion settled as to financing the instal-
lation of such laboratories as are nec-
essary to make the courses in agricul-
ture, domestic economy and manual
training thorough.
It is estimated by the department
that at least 27,000 teachers will be
necessary during the year of 1915-1916
to handle the contemplated increased
enrollment. According to the records
in the department there were in Tex-
as last year 21,500 white teachers and
3,600 negro teachers engaged in pub-
lic school work,- which gives - a total
of 25,100 public school teachers in the
state. Approximately 22 per cent of
these teachers hold permanent state
certificates, 31 per cent hold first
grade certificates and 47 per cent hold
second grade certificates.
There are hundreds of applicants
for teacher’s certificates each year
who fail to make the necessary stand-
ard and there are thousands of re-
quests for examination papers and
papers submitted. The department is
now preparing for the examinations
and is also taking preliminary steps
for taking the next scholastic popu-
lation.
Refuses Renewal of Licenses.
Austin, Tex.—Commissioner of In-
surance and Banking John S. Patter-
son has announced that he had refused
to grant renewals of licenses to repre-
sentatives of nine reciprocal insurance
associations based on alleged insol-
vency.
Former Partner of Lincoln Dies.
Salt Lake City, Utah.—Charles S.
Zane, former law partner of Abraham
Lincoln and the first chief justice of
Utah, was found dead in his bed Mon-
day. He was 84 years old. •
Says Dardanelles Is Impregnable.
Bucharest, via Paris.—Field Marshal
von der Goltz, the German military
commandant of Constantinople, inter-
viewed by the Aueveral, declared the
defenses of the Dardanelles had
proved more effective than had been
expected, and that he now would af-
firm that the allied fleet would not
force a passage.
Celery Industry Important,
Houston, Tex—Celery growing ia
abopt to become an important indus-
try in South Texas.
Shiner Oil Mill and
Manufacturing Company
Is now ready for business and will buy your seed and pay
the highest market price.
HULLS AND MEAL ALWAYS ON HAND
Send your seed to the Home Mill
end Patronize a Home Industry
D. C. DANIEL, MANAGER
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PALACE SALOON
W. M, ZAPPE, Proprietor
In the New Wm. Green Building, Front Street
Everything New; Finest Fixtures
in the City.
THE BEST OP
Liquors and Cigars in Stock
Fresh Beer Constantly on Tap
Give Me a Call and Be Sure of Polite Treatment
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A Comfortable Place to Stop. Polite Treatment
Call and See My Selection of
Wines, Whiskies and Cigars
Fresh Beer Always On Tap
AUGUST SCHRAMM, Proprietor
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OPERA HOUSE BAR
I Invite all my friends and old customers to
CALL AND SEE ME
I Will keep a full stock of the Best Whiskies, Wines, Beer
and Cigars, and will always treat you right
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JOE MACHA’S
ARANSAS PASS BUCffiORN SALOON
“Old Joe*' is back again at his old
stand and will be glad to meet his
old fnends. He can supply you with
everything good to drink and smoke
Opposite the Depot
Shiner, Texas
BISMARK SALOON
J. H. HUEBNER, Proprietor
The Oldest Saloon in Shiner
Will be glad to meet all my
old friends and customers
FRESH BEER ALWAYS ON TAP
Next Door to Walters Bros.
EVERYBODY’S SALOON
AVENUE E. OPPOSITE WELHAUSEN’S
HENRY RENGER
Proprietor
KEEP IN STOCK A FINE LINE OF
WHISKIES, WINES, BEER AND CIGARS
WOULD BE PLEASED HAVE YOU
CALL AND SEE US
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Habermacher, J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1915, newspaper, April 8, 1915; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1136809/m1/7/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.