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The report of the clerical force to
well make him thoughtful. The West- the Railrad Commission shows 1100
who has practiced farming by
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IKON ASD STEEL EXPORTS.
HO CHANGE II IHE CHARGES
NOTES OF THE CAPITOL
the calendar year
one-half
the decade ending with that
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ban led the Bureau
year
of Commerce and
ties. Department
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statement show-
Labor, to prepare a
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iron and steel
tured in part from
THE FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS.
Prenident Early Dass Hare.
gathering.
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SIXTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLAnS
FOR IRRIGATION.
He took advantage of
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dom. with a
exclusive of
agricultural
Commission 30-minute rule by the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railway.
The maximum penalty of $5000 for
it can under the circumstances, the
traveling public is complaining to the
commission and the commission is
Canada, Mexico and Cuba; in Argen-
tina and Brazil; in India and Aus-
tralia, and in many other countries,
nearly all of them a ho wing larger
totals in 1911 than in any earlier
proession.
favored one.
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Assistant Quartermaster General
Emmet E. Walker has gone to La-
redo to assist in the inspection of
the guard company at that point.
ern
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ion of the Attorney General's De-
partment to this effect, and the re-
fund was made.
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Railroad Commission Discusses and
Dismisses the Switching Charges
Question—Other Matters.
etc., used in making the teats, that
when the rases coine to trial the
Justices of the Peace and the Juries
may be "ahowp "
State Entomologist E. E. Scholl of
the Department of Agriculture has
returned to Houston to resume' his
spray ihw tests in htr efforts to ex-
terminate fruit tree pests, the San
Jose scale and other tree diseases
marking the fruit belt from the citrus
region in the vicinity of Houston to
the peach tree belt of East Texas.
Forest, tree troubles will be investi-
gated in Angelina County following
the completion of the East Texas
work, after which orchard work will
be done in the Panhandle.
$16,001,023
To this total is to be added the
value of cement, gypsum, natural gas
and sand lime brick, estimated to be
$500,000.
Texas also produces a little gold,
copper and lead, but these values are
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L A. petit, Preaident and General part of the world—in France, the
cesfEi T. cnoWELI, Managing। Caited Kingdom and Germany; in
particularly
Hants, are ii
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at Statesi
to our optimistic ex-
Ve no doubt. Indica-
citizenship will join
The only Baking Powder made
from Royal Crape Cream ofT artar
NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE
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kitchen
room.
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bars been full ones, kla oecastonal
total fallures would bare been buc-
cesses and the money actually saved
would amount to a sum which might .
questions every one.
ublic-spirited inhab-
with
of tn
each; just how many office buildings,
hotels, boarding houses, in fact, every
class of rental property and the rental
value, as well as all vacant buildings
and vacant lots, with their approximate
values.
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MAUDLIN’ SENTIMENT FOR RICH-
ESON.
pany was organized it paid its fran-
chise tax and later protested that it
was not required to make the pay-
ment, as the law exempts from fran-
-Enterze atotha. Rastoriai mattr.tin
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
J. A. Starling and Safety Appliance
Inspector Robert L. McKinley have
gone to San Antonio to look after
some complaints filed some months
ago against three railroads in that
city charged with violation of the
carshed law.
The State Insurance Board, as a
result of its recent hearing. yester-.
two y
of work.
AMID
sires pos
1701 E. 1
on our Arbor
Lgnite .........
Lime ............
Imestone ......
Mineral waters
Petroleum
Pottery ........
Quicksilver
Sandstone ......
Hand and gravel
Silver ..........
Stone-—er ushed .
Tin ............
man realizes these things.
■nd better depot faemuttes, xaying th.’
buminese there did not zustity mor.
expenditures at that point,
CHARTERS FILED.
AN OVE
owner can
paying fol
to J O. Cl
ISrRAYE
. pony horsi
has a shot
ing to its
addressing
tits. P. S.
the rain whenever his crops needed i
olaturer His half crops would I
A refund of franchise tax pay-
ments amounting to more than 1500
was made to the Dallas Southern
)
from the general ■ basis schedule the
15-cent charge against Class E light-
ing machines and lighting systems
having fnside tanks and inside flame-
heated generators when the same
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perienced
rapher; w
"W.," car
WANTi
collector
given. 4
man.
500
at once
and coi
no exp
nity;
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eral co
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bldg
interested in. And at first
water supply is worth from 1100 an
acre upward, and in some of the
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house C<
Jones, CI
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keep at
faction
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or two-h
men's v
Old ‘phol
hours. 7
of Commerce presented the appllcation,
to apply a close A carload rating on
toys crated, when not otherwise speci-
fied. and a first-class rating in less
Lee Ballou, secretary of the Rich-
mond (Fort Bend Coun- ) independ-
ent school district. * was here yester-
day conferring with the Attorney
General's Department with regard to
the registration of an issue of $10,-
000 in school bonds for that dis-
trict._..2
farmers must depend on the rainfall. Traction Company yesterday by the
Department of State. When the com-
No statistics of the amount of coal
brought into the State are now avail-
able. but it is likely that Texas does
not—produceone-haM-eftheeea±it
uses. This is not because there is a
lack of coal-bearing formations, for
it is lkel that in Texas there are
more than 13,000 square miles of
coal area, to say nothing of the 60,-
000 square miles of lignite area. The
steady demand for railroad coal,
which does not need to be of the
same quality as domestic coal, en-
ables the coal operators to neglect
the domestic demand, which is of a
more intermittent character.
If we may judge the future by the
history of the last thirty years, the
most marked development of our
mineral resources will be in the di-
rection of petroleum, coal and lignite
and day products.
one and
worth in
One of the largest sweet potatoes
ever grown in the State was raised
near New Boston recently. The po-
tato, which is of the bunch yam va-
riety, tipped the scales at fourteen
and one-half pounds.
with an assured
A recent violations of the Railroad
The State Banking Board yester-
day licensed the Stannard Trust
Company, San Antonio, capital stock
>250,000, and th First State Bank
of Grand Saline, succeeding to the
business of the Citizens' National
Bank of that town, capital stock
140,000 .
the planting of trees
Day will come up
pectations—we ha1
tions are that the
Cultivated land
WAN!
• ing to »
stamp I
1911 and of over
bilkion dollars'
tariff rates sufficient to repay the lines
for absorbing switching charges on a
general ■ scale Likewise, they insist
hat it will discourage the building of
more spur tracks.
The effect of the hearing, which was
dismissed, would have been to allow
day entered an order eliminating mAt ‘Maxwen ot the Dalas Chamber
Railroad Commission Says it
Has Ground for Suit for $5,500,000
Against M. K. and T. Railroad
fifteen or
same incentive to build industry tracks
as before. Tor they would have the
first call for tonnage.
IT Is The commission’s idea that fate*
profits are eaten up by transporta-
tion charges. These things are some-
time, true, but It la a grave mistake
to believe that they are unavoidable
defects or that they apply to all ir- i
rigated districts. Inbulldingits tt-
cigation project, the Government se-
lacto only fertile soil; then it gauges
the stze of the area td fit the avail-
order, would be filed in the local dis- 5
trict courts today. In one Instance --I
ottntaheanadrAzitysanh"srazos LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN
Valley for failure to build a union
depot at Hillsboro, as the commission
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
(In the city by carrier)
One Month—in advance. ....... 1 -75
(By mall) •
One Month—in advance. ........
One Year in advance.......... 5-00
bunday only, one year, in advance J -
beml-Weekly.one.year..---,...... * 00
his talents, his education and his po-
sition as a pastor to wrong ths girl
who loved him, and then to rid him-
self of her and of his shame and gain
freedom to marry a rich woman he
poisoned, her.
The sentimentality that pleads for
the forgiveness of such crimes verges
upon Lunacy. It is not the merciful
but the maudlin that ask it.
What will Austin be
SMALL
will kee
monthly
a modera
Accounts
Texas by the telephone company—in
San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and
Houston. When the work is complete
Though there is much secrecy as to
who wuTtowho to lEo minstrel shew—
proposed by the Shriners of the Ben
Hur Temple, it leaked out yester-
day just who they are. The following
prominent Shriners were ferreted out
ing the relative rank of the leading
nation, in the exportation of that Im-
_ portent factor of internatlonaljom-
merce.
The world', leading exporter, of
iron and steel, according to official
figure, covering the latest period for
which statistics are available, are the
United Kingdom, Germany and the
United State,.
At the head of the list of exporters
of iron, and steel is the United King-
ths company will have a minute record
of all classes of property in every
block in the city; such as how mai
rent houses, with the rental value
aded6e8
His environment was a are installed in strict compllance
‘ with permits and rules laid down by
studied Its advantages rarely reverts each violation is usually requested in
to either the theory or practice of suits by th State against the rall-
, g .. . ,,, tn hu 1 roads. If this rule is followed in this
rainfall farming. The farmer in hu ase the state wil sue ror 85.600.UOB
mid region, Jealizes clearly the han- . in adaition to the $400,000 suit now
dicaps under which he works, but pending for violation of the same
sisted that business at thiz point did
not justify a station.
General Freight Agent C. 8. Bather
of the Texas City Terminal Company
and the Texas City Transportation
Company advocated the proposition to
apply hollow building tile rates to re-
inforced concrete building tile to en-
able the Texas City plant to do busi-
ness Assistant General Freight Agent
Fonda of the Santa Fo did not think
the two materials of the Mme charac-
ject to gross receipts tax. H. M. --
Garwood appeared before the depart- th
ment yesterday with a former opin-
THE AUSTIN DAILY STATESMAN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1912
than carloada.
The petition of Tehuacana to compel
the rfntty and Brazos Valley to pro-
vide suitable depot facilities an an
agent at that point, was presented by
William Jones and T L Grrlso,
while J. W. Robbins eclared for the
railroad that business did not justify .—x----- a -
a new depot or an agent, at that point. ter day morning
The petition of Angus, on the Hous- Wooldridge thel
ton and Texas Central, near Corsicana.'
for depot facilities, was presented by
J. O. Storey, while General Superin-
tendent Gus Radetzkl of the road in-
ordered. The other suit is against
the Katy and Snta Fe for failure to
build a union depot at Celeste. These
suits were requested some time ago.
but the Attorney General’s depart-
ment held that they could not be
fifed until the time allowed for build-
ing the union depots had expired.
Full penalties are to be asked in
each case, says Mr. Lightfoot.
The high record exportation
practically -a quarter of a billion dol-
lars' worth of iron and steel manu-
factures from the United States In
snpt Pedatum .vs: gityPgchfsting:
terday instructed all teachers to an-
nounce to their children that the city
and the auxiliary were giving away
trees. The children. in turn will tell
their parents, and all who desire trees
may apply through their children and
the school teachers.
The program for the afternoon's ex-
ercises is about complete. Besides the , *
school children the members of the
Doomed.
"Have you caught that bank bur-
glarr"
"Not yet," replied the detective.
"But the police will get him. The
chances are that he will spend part
of his ill-gotten gains for an automo-
bile, and then, sooner or later, he is
sure to be arrested."
three weeks longer. And when they
are through they expect to have di- prn-‘F*N.
gested thoroughly the city plan of Aus- F m- at i o <
tin by their development study.
This development study work has
been done in all the larger effiii et
ROYAL
BAKING POWDER
* Absolutely Pur*
older and more highly developed
frui aistricts price, of $2000 or chise tax payment, all coneerns su2
- and by certain Countries included un-
der that title.
* Germany is second in exports of
Iron and and steel, with a total of
8339.000,000. In addition to which
exposts of agricultural machinery
aggregated 89,000,000. The United
State, 1, third, the 1910 figure, be-
ing $201,000,000 for iron and steel
and 631.0003)00 for agricultural 1m-
ri.m»nta. Belgium show, 666,000.-
000 worth of Iron and steel, includ-
ing agricultural machinery, exported
. In 1910, add France a total of 545.
000,000. exclusive of $1,750,000
worth of agricultural machinery.
From Switzerland and .Sweden the
exports of Iron and steel were. In the
• -latest available year, about $18,000.-
000 each, exclusive of agricultural
machinery, amount to nearly $1,000,-
000 in the case of Sweden and about
5160,000 in that, of -Switzer land
While the United States ranks only
third as an exporter of iron and
steel, her progress in that branch of
commerce has been rapid. The total
exports of that class of articles has
increased from 6106 000.000 in 1901
-_—: to nearly or quite 6250,000.000 in
1911. and of agricultural Implements
from 617.000,000 to $35,000,000 dur-
tng the same period. Taking the pe-
rtpa i»nn-l»l<>. the late,’ period for
. which ngures are avallable in .the
case of foreign countries, the growth
in export, of Iron and steel has been
as follow,: The United Kingdom,
from 6271,000,000 to 63*1.000,000;
Nearly 2000 organizations of var-
ous kinds were engaged in the fight
against tuberculosis on Jan. L, 1912,
and new agencies have been formed
during the past year at the rate- of
about one a day, according to a
statement issued by the National As-
sociation for the Study and Preven-
tion of Tuberculosis.
These anti-tuberculosis agencies
Include 618 associations and commit-
tees; 451 sanatoria, hospitals and
camps: 365 dispensaries and clinics,
and 91 open-air schools. If to these
were added 200 State and local
boards of health and a number of
other institutions making special
provision for tuberculosis cases, the
total number of agencies engaged- In
tuberculosis work would be swelled
to nearly 2000.
During the year 1911 the greatest
percentage of increase among the
different forms of tuberculosis work
was among the open-air schools for
anaemic and teberewleus children.-
On Jan. 1, 1911, there were only
twenty-nine open-air schools in op-
eration or provided for in the entire
country. On Jan. 1, 1912, there were
ninety-one, an increase of 214 per
cent. Sixty-two new schools have
been established or provided for this
past year. This entire number of
open-air schools have been -estab-
limbed.since Jan. 1, 1907.
On Jan. 1, 1905, there were about
150 different agencies engaged in
anti-tuberculosis work, of which
number ill were sanatoria.
between given points should be the
total charge, regardless of destination
within the city to which the shipment
is sent, and that if a shipment is car-
ried to Dallas by the Texas and Pa-
cific to an industry track on the Hous-
ton and Texas Central, the regular
published rate should cover everything
and be the same as if the shipment
camo in on the Houston and Texas
Central, the Texas and Pacific absorb-
ing the switching charge. Under the
present system, a shipper would have
also to pay a switching charge on L
shipment carried to an industry track
on a foreign line However, since ne
notice of hearing has been given la
the matter, nothing can, be done for
the time being.
• True, roads do not like the propositton,
fearing that if the rules adopted mak-
the rates uniform go into effect,
commission will not increase the
determined that train sergice shall
improve, though it does nt car, to
harass the lines, but merely want.
Justice. It ha, lately become cus-
tomary for the commission to requeat
ault for penalties in all such in-
stances.
Attorney General Lightfoot, prior
to leaving for Washington last night,
sald that two suite requested by the
Railroad Commission against road
for failure to obey the commission’s
Th. B C Beckwith Special Axeney
Sol, representative for foreign saver:
Vising Eastern office, 600 to 507,. in
yugeeaibe Wesrer ruenfoaf"w
10H. The Tfibune bunans. Cnt«o
Kansas City Office. Reitance building
Bailor. _ ________
” ovFICE or PUBLICATION.
113 Connies, Avonue
TELEINONES:
Editorial Room, old phone.......1}«»
Eaiar1a Boom, new pnone:.......
Bunjness ottice, both phones..... 10V
bociety Editor. Old phone......... 1,n
irrigation, or who has carefully
The following charters were filed
yesterday in the Department of
state:
First State Bank of Grand Saline,
Van Zandt County: capital stock,
640,000. Incorporators: G. M. Al-
sup. J. M. Dean. J. K Audrews and
others.
Rubinstein Mercantile Company.
Pearsall, filed proof of final pay-
ment of capital stock. •
Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy will take
part in th, program. Tree planting on
all the school grounds will be attended
by appropriate exercise, and festivities. *
The schools will dismiss for the pro-
'clock.
The city’, stables are situated at
Seventeenth and San Jacinto streets,
which being in the midst of a residen-
ttmatecsenion Tot^y "thanun’me
space is cramped bo that it becomes a
hard matter to accommodate the team
wagons and care of the santary, and
street departments, not to speak or the
storage of old lumber and space, in
which to manufacture cloy piping.
The place is leasea, however, until
April, 1913. This the Mayor ascer-
tained when he looked the matter up
y‘u “wd’hgreed by authemembersot
ths council that they should sataD0u!
for a mors nitabit place.ena..nav
purchased and ready by.the.time the
present lease expires. Th* Mayor an-
nounced that he had included an 1tem
of $2500 in the budget for Ccuncilman
Haynes and one for the same amount
for Councilman Powell with, which to
buy land. A whole block la desired.
“Good morning, have you arranged
Chemists E. H Golaz and R. H.
Hoffman Jr. of the Pure Food and
Dairy Department have returned to
San Antonio to testify in the justice
courts there in the cases against San
Antonio milk dealers resulting from
recent complaints filed by the State
Department, after a thorough inves-
tigation of San Antonio'a milk sup-
ply and a chemical analysts made of
samples of milk obtained from the
San Antonio milk dealers. Com-
plaints wets filed against seven
dairymen and the cases will come up
today. The chemists took with them
to Ban Antonio the analysed samples
of the San Antonio milk, whfeh have
been preserved in the laboratory
ments to come from the inner Shrine
before the curtain goes up on the
memorable night. Saturday, Feb 17. .
Many a column of press agent dope
will have been printed and read. And
all will be excitement and expectation,
as far as the public is concerned.
At this early date is the astounding
knowledge given out that there will
be singers, Singers and SINGERS to
Harble- that night I# faet 4t 4s expeeted
that some of the grand opera managers
will do their various bests to draft—no
that’s baseball—sign some of these
singers for the coming tail-end season
in New York and London, and maybe
Berlin, and Vienna and Munich, Dres-
den, Leipsic and other European musj-
cal centers. It is a further fact that
the names of’ Jaen “de Reszkeand------
Caruso will no longer shine out as
possessors of first magnitude volces—
that is after the Shriners get in their
hand.
This and many more, things are there
to announce. There Is such a de-
termination expressed by the men who
are Interested that nothing but a big
show can be thought of
Meanwhile, Austin is all expectancy
all, agog- perhaps that is the word-
Feb on88 anxiously for the coming of
the National Board of Fire Under-
writers. The order 1s effective in
tmrty ays. Thia mark! a victory
for the so-called F. P. gas lighting
system, which brought on the bear-
ing. though the order does not apply
specirically to thia lighting system,
but to all systems of thia clasa.
by simply consulting its records. Then
from the data gathered by the study,it
will be comparatively easy to deter-
mine approximately the growth of the
city and the increase in population
within the next fifteen or twenty years.
The estimate the company makes for
the future equipment of the telephone
plant is based upon this development
Since this study is separated into dis-
tinct classes, th company will be
able to judge very closely the popula-
tion of the city, with the number of
families owning their homes, the rent-
ers, and the number of transient class.
The value of the mineral products
or Texas for the year 1910 is about
616,500,000, according to statistics
gathered by the United States Geo-
logical Survey. The separate items
In this total value are as follows:
from the United States last year
found markets in practically every
part of the civilized world. Steam
locomotives and steel rails went
largely to Canada. Mexico. Brasil, Ar-
gentina and Japan, where the rapid
development of railways enabled an
Increased absorption of those mate-
rials from this country. Structural
iron and steel of American manufac-
ture is being utilized in increasing
quantities by most of the leading
countries of North America, as well
as la Australia and Japan. The
farms of Canada, Argentina, Brasil,
Australia and New Zealand ate re-
quiring increasing quantities of
American wire. Our salee of elec-
trical machinery show a healthy ex-
pansion In such Important markets
as the United Kingdom and other
European countries, as well as the
newer communities of the Western
Hemisphere. The same miwht be said
The confession of Clarence V. T.
Richeson that he poisoned Avis Lin-
nell has been followed by a flood of
letters to the Governor of Massachu-
setts pleading on his behalf. It is
said most of the letters argue the
prisoner is Insane and therefore irre-
sponsible.
So far from being insane, Riche-
son’s actions attest the working of a
mind clearly conscious of the guilt
of the thing he planned to do, and
keenly cunning In the means devised
to escape suspicion. He has natural
abilities of a high order and the ad-
vantages of an education in a learned
anaddu: out 2" are
cenpanyrdemu"geun A • ••
cles and communications forpubiicar Iron.ore.....
tton should be addresaed to Editor Au87
Germany, from 1171,000,000 to
>339,000,000; United States, from
>130,000,000 to $201,000,000; Bel-
Slum, from >41.000.000 to $65,000,-
000; France, from >27,000,000 to
>45,000,000; and Switzerland, from
>11,000,000 to >18,000,000. In ex-
port® of agricultural machinery the
United States leds all other coun-
tries, with a total in 1910 of $31-
000.000, against >16.000.000 for the
direct lines or short routes to absorb
switching charges at places where the
shipment was to be carried to an in-
dustry on rhe industry track of a com-
peting line. Shipper* have routing
privileges, and one at Austin might
send a car to Houston via Brenham
and the Manta Fe, because of the fact
that the industry to which the car WM
going was on a §auta Fe industry track
and switching charges might be saved
at Houston by routing the oar by the
Banta Fe to Houston finally on the
regular Austin-Houston rate, since
that same rate, plus a switohing
charge, would have to be paid if the
Houston and Texas Central carried the
car all the way. Under such a routing
the Houston and Texas Central would
be foree to divide the through rate,
and the rule proposed in this hearing,
but dismissed, would have allowed the
Houston and Texas Central to take
such a shipment to Houston and absorb
the switching charge, this being bet-
ter than granting a division to the
Santa Fe. But roads did not push this
— • Enited Kingdom. $*,000,000 for
Germany and 81.75D.OOO for France.
The 8250,000.000 worth of iron
and steel and 835,000.000 worth ot i
agricultural Implements exported ,
Scarcely eighteen years ago Dr Sun
by the numerous spies of the Maneh
government. The little physician
Hteppe4., from the gangplank of a
TransRecris steamer and in a flash
waswhlsked away by the •gents of
the Chee Kung Tong and "buea" for
several weeks in that organztton,
quarters in Spofford alley.
tThe.Manchu sples were hot on his
m ' i was not arquestion of making
him prisoner,. They had rued
that once in London, and he had made
his.rsape..thrqugh.hin influence with
English officials. The Mancha govern-
ment, however, has a price of 78 004
taels (about,180,000) on hla head, and
2". WiK the hatchet. They
had traced him to Japan, and he was
sSYednoniz Ehtogb 'ho vigilance of
She.Snnese Frez Sasons there He had
juat left Honolulu two days before the
pursuersarrived, and when at lst he
Ulishea.San Francloco he threw hm-
fit undez, the. protection of the power.
$u1.s un-fiehtiK tonga. So the aplea
found their work at an end—honeegs
Purine. b'L peo of hiding in 8an
Francisco they knew that his own sn$
system would presently be in rrPy
teemwlVM.’ tnir ves they must Re-
remir^I theume that Sun Yatsen
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At the instance of C. K Dunlap, the
commission ismissed the question of
divisions on fuel oil from Bay City to
Brownsville via th* Galveston, Harris-
burg and Ban Antonio and Blessing.
In support of ths rat* of 40 cants a
un,o“epvaleczimnottok°k.wolma
Gravel and Pevelopment company mad*
a protracted argument, complaining of
a oar goaretty and also that under th*
present ratal he could not get fair
competition. Th* Sunset Central lln**
gad th* katy. offered “raennoe 042
here. Likewise they took with them toe‘WLzrand ISte
the analytical instruments, serum, ***' Foluzbun. now doe th wg«,»t
gravel DuenerN.
Ths pnoposition to apply coffee rates
oa groan d ohloory met general oppo-
sition, and T. W Gregory opposed th*
petition of Lovelace. In Hill County, on
th* Katy, ter sevarate waiting rkoms
ing machinery. American cash reg- i experience if he could have turned
rublshea aalyy rine Au.Ua states- taters and typewriters are facilitating on
’______.mancompany._______ Luo inesa in offices scattered in every
hesitates to change because he has i rule in 1910, where the road is
not bad the object iessons or exp--:having
rience of the Westerner, or has not thirty minutes late at junction points,
given consideration to the matter of ■ So large is the number of viola-
applying irrigation to his own fields. , tions reported that Chairman May-
Many Eastern termer, have the I field sald yesterday that be aid.not
7 "2 , , , Know what the commission would do
idea that the irrigation farmer is in with this data, which was prepared
a chronic state of water shortage, or prior to a request to be made upon
has to fight excess of'alkali in the the Attorney General to file another
soil, or is so far from market that . sujt against the Katy. The railroad
is protesting that it is doing’the best
Mrs. A. C. Goeth, chairman of th* tree
committee, and Will L Vining, secre-
tary of the Business League. At this
conference it was definitely decided to
distribute trees to all persons who will
take them, plant them and agree to
care for them. All applicants—either to
the Mayor direct, to Secretary Vining,*
or to Mrs. Goeth, Mrs. Bass or Miao
Kate Barnhart, secretary of the auxili-
ary. wHl be supplied with trees.
“We are expecting it to be the big-
gest movement for the stirring of civic
pride to happen in some time in Aus-
tin." sald Mrs Baas yesterday. “That
>3000 per acre have been frequently
recorded. These high figures are
due to a, perfect state of cultiva-
tion. a thorough knowledge of pack-
ing the fruit for market anu well
organized selling associations. - -
money.
Chairman Mayfield said he supposed
that the roaHs thought that the com--,
mission would not make the rates suf- *
twenty years from now? How many
new business houses will be erected
and of what six*? Along what lines
will th* growth and development be
most pronounced? What will th* pop-
ulation of Austin be a score of years
hence?
These are questlona that Interest the
average business man and citizen of
able water aupply. The reservoirs
and canals are built as substantially
as engineering skill can devise, and
when the farms hAve been laid out
and water is running in the canals,
then and not till then, settlers are
Invited to use their homestead rights
on the land. The money actually
spent in • building the Irrigation
works Is protated against each acre
of land and is repaid by the settlers
in ten equal, annual payments, with-
out interest. Call it paternalism if
you like it—it is making homes by
the thousand every year.
The settlement agent of the Recla-
mation Service, wbqse office is in the
Federal building In Chicago, states
that success can not be attained with-
out work—either in the West or
anywhere else, and the man who ex-
pects to farm an irrigated homestead
without hard work will be grievously
disappointed. Neither will he get
rich over night. The Government
holds out no promises of fabulous
profits per acre or of land values in-
creasing like a snowball roll!ng down
hill. The simple facts are these:
Tracts of first-class farming land,
varying from forty to 160-acres, are
now open to entry; in their raw-
condition they produce nothing and
are worth very little. When prop-
erly irrigated they produce large
crops of alfalfa, grain, vegetables
and fruit; in fact, all the crops com-
mon to the region in which they are
located, but in greater abundance
and more surely than in States where
ficient to justify the roads in absorb-
ing switching charges, to which Mr.
Dunlap assented. Mr. Mayfield also
said that the roads would have th*
glance they seem to be questions only
time can give the correct answers to.
But there is a force of men—com-
mercial forecasters, industrial seer* and
development prophets—who work only
with facts, at work this very minute,
preparing to make just such forecasts
for Austin. They are going about it
quietly, earnestly, and not one prop-
erty owner in a hundred knows that
they are here, getting the very funda-
mental plan of the city.
They are a company of commercial
engineers from the office of D. C. Ros-
ser, general commercial engineer of
the Southwestern Telephone and Tele-
graph Company at Dallas. They have
been working here th* last three weeks
They will continue the work at least
... as the principal stars, but oly after
ny painstaking and untiring ferreting:
of Jewel P. Lightfoot, Attorney General
of Texas, interlocutor: end men and
burnt cork artists. "Billy" Richardson.
A. G. Veatch, William G. Franklin, E.
Geyer, John Hawkins, E. C. Bartholo-
mew and G. A. Bahn; general singers,
dancers and fun-makers of various
sorts. W. D. Blackburn, Julius Seahim,
R. W. Finley, Joseph Muenster. W. E.
Armstrong. Gus Wroe. William G. Bell,
Malcom H. Reed, Abe Williams and
Hiram Chance. 9
On good authority it is asserted hat
there will be all sorts of announce-
us in planting scores and scores
— -ees on this day."
Other officials of the auxiliary, with
the Mayor, Mr. Vining, ad all Inter-
ested' in the movement, are enthusiastic
J. F. Lehane, general freight and
passenger agent of the Cotton Belt
Railway, was advised yesterday by
wire of the death of Guy L. Stewart,
industrial and Immigration gent of
the. Cotton Belt system, when a pri-
vate car on the Missouri Pacific and
a freight train telescoped, the private
car burning. Mr Stewart was killed
before he could be extricated. The
private car contained an exhibition
of agricultural products and was soon
to have toured Texas under the direc-
tion of Mr. Stewart. Mr. Lehane was
a close personal friend of Mr. Stew-
art and was deeply affected by the
news.
-Planttree, query women of the
weman‘ Auxiliary of the Buninesz
League are preparing to say to severai
thousand Austinites on the morning of
next Friday, Jan. 19, set aside as the
special Arbor Day for Austn. On this
day these women will travel about over
the city, distributing trees, giving ad-
vice •• to the planting and care of
trees, and seeing that their plana are
being carried out
Every prson in Austin Who wants
trees nd will apply for them will be.
furnished them free. Th* city will pur-
chase and furnish the tree*; the women
workera in the civic improvement work
will distribute them; and there win be
men to dig the hole* for Planting Yen-
■day morning in the office of Mayor
. ------- 5: met -Kh him. Dr:
Julia Has, prestdent of the nuxillary:
Approximately 867.000.000 has
been spent by the Government in Ir-
rigation work, and thia vast sum is
less than half of the amount that will
have been expended when Uncle
Sam s engineers have completed the
present program of reclamation. in
nearly every Western State the flood
waters of the streams are being im-
pounded and already thousands of
families are benefiting by this stored
water. The activities of the Federal
Government in reclamatn work
have resulted in awakening a wide-
spread interest in Irrigation, which
is no longer a local question confined
to our rainless country. Experience
has shown that a more general appli-
cation of its principles throughout
the whole country would result in
material benefit, especially in inten-
sive agriculture such as truck farm-
lag and small fruit growing.
The farmer In the East and Mid-
dle West is subject in large measure
to the whim of an uncertain rainfall.
What would it have beea worth to
total of $361,000,000,
$16,030,000 worth of
machinery, manufac-
The Department of Insurance and
Banking yesterday approved the fol-
lowing banks as reserve agents for'
State banks:
The Buchel National Bank, Cuero,
for the First State Bank. Stockdale
First National Bank, Amariilc, for ,
the First State Bank and Trust Com-
pany. Herefora. ]
Chteng• na Mombay.
..Too utu* attention ha, bean raid in
tit.e quntrz wi the. bsnuttflcatlon of
srjs, JKr lak Ern,
■•it water harbor* prewent only the
commerstal ssnacla of citfs and look
like back yards Chao, which is to
have. A fstlway eta'ton as handsome as
the terminal station of the rem in.
dtan and Peninnula in Bombay, mtrht
alm heva ‘ water ffot « o6T,*N5
thes. 2! the queen of eastern cities
Kipling wrote of bombay:
Royal and dower-royal. I, ths qucon,
Fronvaina.the Flehest nes with richar
A thosmana rmIIIa road through ms
All "ncer"toian lands.
.The heautr Ot Hombay is dur ohten,
to the tsot that the Parses me obanta
xho sornered Indian.raw .-olton durin »
th:. Ciy .War, when th» Lannakiira
ml.la Laqked the Amertoan n„l' -‘a.
mMoondein 2! mn-nitleent with' •
58,27,
Asphalt ..................1 1,040,825
Clay Industries, excluding
pottery .................. z 44
i
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of sewing'mssblM^edmltht-worh-1 him durins twenty year.’ farming
In the regular January hearing of
the Railroad Commission the only prop-
osition of any importance—that in-
volving a readjustment of the regula-
tions governing the absorption of
switching charges—was dismissed, the
railroads not manifesting any desire
for a ahanoa and no other persons push*
ing the matter. The commission dis-
cussed informally with H. M Garwood
and C. K Dunlap of the Southern Pa-
cific the advisability of having all
switching charges absorbed. Chairman
Mayfield saying that the commission
was inclined to believe that all switch-
ing charges should be absorbed and
the same rates apply between all points
and the industries at certain places.
Sam H. Cowan of For t Worth thought
that this should be done, while Com-
missioner Williams also expressed the
view that rates between two places
and the plants in' these places should
be the same Instead of the present
arrangement, where different rates ap-
ply simply because indgstries are lo-
cated on different roads’ industry
tracks, though in the same town. H.
M. Garwood and C. K. Dunlap of the
Southern Pacific did no believe that
such a reulation would be conducive
to the building of new spur and indus-
try tracks, saying that roads under
such a regulation would be forced to
do more service Tor the same or less
study- .
_—.Andhereis,an1mportamt,thing:By
a study tills development data the
company will’ be able to tell approx-
imately just the number and class of
new business houses that will be con-
structed within the next score of years,
as well as the extent and direction of
the growth in the residential sections.
It is said by these commercial ex-
perts that the mora ehareeteF of tire
people and the general tone of spirit-
uality of a city is reflected vividly by
the class of-homes found there. At this
stage of the study the engineers from
Dallas announce Austin ranks very
high in culture, refinement and morals
compared with other Texas cities. And
they base their announcement on the
facts gathered thus far in the residen-.
tial sections of the city.
J. W. Ezelle, local manager for the
company, to an enthusiast on the sub.
re ject, and says great good will result
• from his company’s investigation*, not
only to the company but to the Public
as well—those who want somethinE
basic and tangible upon which to rest
their judgment. He is much pleased
with the work already done, and feels
Austin’s future development will be
assured by fact* the engineer* ar*
WAi
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