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VOL. 51—NO. 284.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,1923
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SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Norch 21
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The Indians causing the trouble, ac-
number upward if twelve.
In a
The mislead-
government.
But it is all a mistake.
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TWO JURORS PICKED
IN TRIAL OF NAMI
ment with murder in connection with Tomney through the testimony of de-
NOBODY KILLED IN
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elder robber had been shot dead.
CONSTRUCTION WORK
By Courts On Oil Claims.
ON NEW METHODIST
OF KILLING HIS BRIDE
CHURCH UNDER WAY
office of the Kay county sheriff yes- which did not get to the jury until
terday morning and messages sent to late Tuesday evening, while the Nami
ics who have not praised her singing.
Monday morning. Motions for ft change
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Construction work on the new First --ipT--e nn zinirnrrnnvi
Melhodlat Chureh building to be erecU SHIPMENT OF MYSTERY
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vet much disagreement
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sulted in hung juries.
building goes into use.
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have been corrected by
evidence.
DUMB-BELLS
INCREASED ACTIVITY
Mr. Duffs letter states that it had
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PREACHER SENTENCED
TO DEATH) CONVICTED
CHURCHYARD, WAR’;
REPORTS EXAGGERATED
Mrs. Hoover’s Plan to Build Up
Race of Physically Better Fe-
males Causes Commotion
Pacifist Circles.
At noon Wednesday, two jurors had
been chosen in the trial at Han Mar-
cos of Otto Nami, University student,
of Cuero, who is charged by Indict- ,
the band of renegade Piute Indians
who staged an outbreak at Blanding
The death pehlty assssed against
Mack Matthews. 57, preacher, by the
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
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SECRETARY OF STATE
CORRECTS MISSTATEMENT
ABOUT BRITISH NAVY
unsettled;
poutheast
portions
are well armed
flng to reports.
building committee which successfully
pushed the project for the erection of
The proprietor seizing his revolver
near the cash register, which the elder
commission has ever granted abandon-
ment authority. The Missouri & North
Arkansas, which receivers sought to
northwest
Thursday,
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BATH; HE’S DYING
Court of Appeals Affirms Con-
viction of Mack Matthews In
Tyler County.
Erection of $200,000 Church
Structure to Be Pushed
Rapidly.
prove its financial situation.
Equipment and roadbed had fallen
into such a state of disrepair, it was
said, that >1.750.000 would be needed
Defense Effort to Obtain Post-
ponement In Case Fails Wed-
nesday Morning.
abandon two years ago has been re- ‘
habilitated 'by funds advanced by the
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Unable to reach a verdict in the case of Homer Toney, negro,
charged with the murder o4H. C. Greer, white grain dealer, the jury
to which the negro’s fate* was submitted Tuesday evening at 11
o'clock was still silent at 2 p. m. Wednesday, fifteen hours after
deliberations were begun. At 1 p. m. the jury was escorted to lunch
by Sheriff W. D. Miller. Several of the jurors appeared tired and
Pursuit of renegade
dangeroustask as they
with rifles, and accordi
GANNA WALSKA CLAIMS
TO BE "OLD-FASHION” GIRL
CHICAGO, March 21.—Mme. Gann
Walakn McCormink describes herself
as "an old-fashioned"’ girl who does
not drink or smoke, or hold wild par-
ties and adores her husband, in an*
numbered 8,449,376,685, or an average
of 227 for each spindle in place, com-
pared with 9,266,299,904 or an average
of 249 for January.
Spinning spindles in place February
28 numbered 37,276,802 of which 35.-
307,70? were operate at some time
during the month, compared with 37,-
This station is owned and op-
erated by the Texas Radlo Cor-
poration, dealers in Radio Sup-
plies and sets. The piano used
at this station is furnished by
the J. R. Reed Music Company
of Austin, Texas.
were not forthcoming sale by sections,
were suggested. Failiug in efforts to/A posse of white settlers of San Juan
procure ownership of the line by buy-; county, southeastern Utah,
ersathocvuntaaratceiternemayclconnjday was ^ted hot on the trall of
sider themselves justified in disposing
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{been erroneously i
i ernor had allowed
Wounded; Redskins fleeing,. Employe, in Hands of State
for Mountain Fastnesses,
' gov-
Idation
JEWELED INSIGNIA FOR
I. O.O.F. GRAND LODGE
OFFICER LOST IN DALLAS
(HOME EDITION)
ON MURDER CHARGE
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tion, thinks they will.
1 jeel that the measurement Stand,
should be exactly the
Fresh southerly winds on the coast.
West Texan: Tonight and Thurs-
day, unsettled; probably rain in south
and rain or snow In north portion;
colder tonight except in southeast por-
tion: colder Thursday, cold wave in
the Panhandie with temperature 20 to
2b degrees.
• Dan Moody and John K. Shelton, of
Austin, will take a leading part in the
prosecution.
It had been left failed to discover 226,419 in place and 35,240,853 active
it or any clue as to how it disappeared. In January.
was called at San Marcos on
church will stand was purchased some
months ago for >24.000. On a portion
of it stands a two-story parsonage, oc-
cupied by Rev. E. R. Bare us and fam-
ily, erected at a cost of 112.500.
training for women! Pugnacious pac- pension of operations have been put
iit. "iotiea immediately at the idea, before the commission in behalf of the
XJXXdeclarea u
would be fine providing women were cision said the average annual losses
nut through the same paces as men. of >605,000 had been sustained in at-
* . ’ ..... cpi,.p, were bored at tempting to keep the system in opera-
Lethargic army orficers were »««««' t) ana ihar the consideration given
the prospect of putting the Trails I........
through a stiff course of military dis-
cipline.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 21— Per-
mission of the interstate commerce
commission to abandon the Chicago,
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gce
learned the whites suffered no casual-
ties.
The trouble at Blanding started
Monday when authorities brought to
trial Joe Bishop’s boy and another
young Indian who were charged with
5 1 signature. Certified copies,/ he says,
show that Governor Neff attached his
riedhim to the presidency of the Lo-
.cording to a report received by United I gan Square Trust and Savings Bank.
′ Marshal Hay Ward of via). Today both of these J-m"
the new church. The lot on which the
INDIANS SHORT $150,000 ALLEGED SLAYER IS
ick Reported Chicago Institution Established :
— ""STILL UNDECIDED
R. W. Finley is chairman of the
the plan. The final permission must
come from the Sangamon county cir-
cuit court which has control of the
road through its receivership.
NEW YORK, March 21.- Mystery
work is to be pushed as rapidly as' surrounded the origin of $6,500,000 in
The life sentence against F. M. Me- possible through the spring and sum- gold that arrived from Holland and
R. C. DUFF TO TAKE
OVER CONSOLIDATED
RAILROADS MARCH 31
National Council lice today were making efforts to iden-
tify two bandits who were shot to
formal signature approving the meas-
ure on March 8.
Amendments to the charter of the
B. O. N. as to corporate details are
being prepared, which include the
changing of the name from the Beau-
mont & Great Northern to the Waco,
Beaumont, Trinity and Sbine Rail-
way.
Valuation of the consolidated prop-
erties has been fixed by the railroad
commission at $3,300,000.
they were obliged to stay and mind
the children in smoky caves while
their husbands in search of food
stretched their muscles and breath* d tick and Rill Pinkerton sentenced tQ.be able to find places there when the
the pure ozone. _______ । thirty-five years in the penitentiary.....
। a nd Frank Pinkerton and Monday to
Aged Financier Dead. thirty years.
gp LOUIS, Mo., March 21.—Julius I The court affirmed the twenty-^
8. Walsh, financier and former rail- year sentence against E. Bryant negro,
road and traction magnate, died at his of Galveston county, on charge of mur:
home here today from heart trouble dor. The twenty-year sentence npilnst
He was 80 years old and had been M. L- Wison, • tephens county, for
ill for several weeks, robbing J. C. Brown was reversed and
_________________ remanded on grounds of insufficient
WASHINGTON, March 21.—On ns-
surance from the British government
that capital ships of the British navy
have not been subjected to alterations,
1 increasing gun tango and defensive
armament, their public statements to
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
warmer in
reported the
I the consolit
idea of giving women military train-
ing They would hate to heave them-
selves out of their swivel chairs to
carry out any such program.
-Aw, the only reason women wan
to take military training for would be
to reduce," said one. 1 think inat is
entirely outside the sphere of the war
. deparment, giving reducing exercises
1A the planned conference, accord-
ing to Co. Johnson. they will discuss
the question of whether it is dosh able
to have women measured by the same
standards as men, or whether these
standards should be lowered. Ihe
feminists will be standing on the side-
lines rooting as per usual for equal
and colder in
its scouts had been injured. ______---------—:___________ .... _
An armed truce is being maintained (of venue and for a continuance in the
at the church property pending a court I Nami case were overruled by Judge
decision on the right of Charles 1. Jeffreys, before whom the accused
Knox, Enid oil operator, to drill a man l« to be tried. The defense had
well on the portion of the Prairie Ri tight a delay on the grounds that
View churchyard leased by him. i Mrs. Maggie Rohr, also charged with
The guard of twenty men armed | the murder of John K. Rose, should be
with guns and clubs. which had been ; tried first in order that her case might
6 pp,T INTA WAI 1 6g stationed in the church for more than I be disposed of and Ihe be available
OLH I M• 111 I V VhMM Ol« a week to prevent Knox from pro-' to testify in Nami’s cnse. Had the
ceeding with preparations for sinking motion for continuance been granted
a well, was reduced to fivo yesterday. I by the Ban Marcos court, Nami would
Stationed across the road isa Knox not have gone to trial before June,
patrol of equal strength. I during which month Mrs. Ross is
Knox leased a portion qf the church- ’ scheduled to be tried at Bastrop, where
yard for drilling purposes from the her case was sent on a change of
state organization of the United j venue from the local criminal court
Brethren Church. Members of the j after two trals held for her had re.
church cemetery association contend sulted .n hung juries,
that the United Brethren Church had -
Peoria & St. Louis Railroad is not
a final order, Philip B. Warren, attor-
ney for the company, announced here
this morning. The ruling, he said, is
merely the commission's approval of ;
Wednesday morning District Attor-
reigned in the Prairie View church--noy Dan Moody left for San Marcos
yerd oil war again today following, to assist in the prosecution of Nami
the stir created yesterday by the cir-and Samuel 13. Dickens and O. Dickens
culation of false reports that two men of defense counsel also reported to the
had been killed in a fight at the Hays county district court. These att
churchyard. torneys, and John E. Shelton, asso;
The reports of a clash at the church •elate state's counsel, had been delayed
Indians is
While the jury is deliberating on
his fate, Homer Toney, the accused
negro, is waiting In his cell in the
county jail for the verdict. The de-
fendant and his relatves stoutly main-
tain that he is not guilty and that not
he but another killed H. C. Greer.
Tonrey’s case was submitted to the
jury shortly after 11 o'clock Tuesday
night after argument had been con-
WOMEN E.SIE) RAILROAD AUTHORIZED;
"""" UNABLE TO PAY EXPENSES
of its right of way, equipment and
buildings for salvage and junk. i Monday afternoon
The Chicago, Peoria & St. [oouis is
the largest railroad for which the'
no power to grant a lease. They de-
clnre the church cemetery, where their
relatives are buried, would be dese-
crated bydrilling • well on the loca-
tion proposed. Knox contends the
burinl plot would not be violated ns
the portion of the churchyard leased
by him adjoins the cemetery.
local rains.
(he killing of John K. noss, or Aus-fense witnesses and called attention
X.. . X « o.r „• 1e,, J Co waknesseB in the state's case
tin. hue on the evonine of Feb, * nginat 1e nekro hae not Homer
1922. Selection of jurors was besun nt Toney, but mnother, killed 11. C. Oree
10:30 o'clock thin morning after Judge waK the contention of detense attor-
AI. C. Jetfreys of the Twenty- rirst din- neyn who pleaded with the Jury to
. 2 * « ■ t । give the negro a verdict of acquittal
trict court at San Marcos had overg Wednesday morning, scoreg of per-
trulcd a motion for continuance brought sons who had been present to hear the
by defense counsel. Fairly Wednes- testimony in the Toney case loitered
day afternoon information from Kan about the courthouse waiting to hear
j Marcos indicated that the eelecUon of the jury’s verdict. As the morning
; the jury to try Nami would not be progressed without a verdict, the wait-
completed before Thursday morning {in: crowd began to dwindle. A few
A i n’ i A, rFu ' Conducting Nami’s defense are O.yemained, however, patiently waiting
Armed 1 ruce —eclared /Al • on- Dickens, Samuel B. Dickens, T. H. Me- to be on hand when the jury made its
kawa, Okla., Pending Action ggzoreandsrrorreranpomlictbeAteorsedrevort. -----...-
SHALL AMERICAN ABANDONMENT OF PEORIA WAPAPurp M FROM MEMAN FATE OF H C GREER’S
an oil company at Tulsa that one of case
By CAROLYI: VANCE.
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Military
Texas Radio Corporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
casting Station.
Phone 8701.
tonight; colder
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populations and shippers concerned.
The receivers were authorized to ar-
range wiha the court having charge of
the receivership to offer the line for
sale as a whole tc any persons willing
to continue it in operation. If bids
DALLAS. Texas. March 21.—A jew-
eled insignia to have been presented
to an officer of the Grand Lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows was stolen or lost, and was not
presented as planned, according to re-
port to the police today. The Insignia
was valued at about 1400.
It could not be found when time
came to present it to (he officer late
yesterday. Search of the room where
vised by the British government cate-
g-rically" that no such alterations
have been made. In a stotement yes-
terday corrected his reference to Brit-
ish ship modifications in his speech
at New’ Haven last December. It gave
him pleasure to corrct the statement,
the secretary said. In making which
ho had "relied upon specifie inform-
tion which had been furnished by the
navy department and which of course
the navy department believed to be en-
tirely trustworthy."
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roose-
velt took similar acuon with respect
to statements he made before the sen-
ate and house naval committees in
considering the proposed appropriation
of >6.500,000 to "modernize" the Amer-
ican battle fleet.
^Tho war department tests for males,
ns they stand now, require that a boy
of 15 or 16 to run 100 yards in 13 2-5
seconds, to make 13 feet inthesunnn Tyler county district court was af-
brondrumPngonsgesumup Aha to lesr firmed by the court of Criminal Ap-
5 feet in the bar vault. As the ages'peals today. Matthews war found'
advance the standards advance ac-
"oraingly. it it is decided thatt.sirls
must also measure up to this stand-
ard we shall be obliged to rear a na-
tion of Tomboy Taylors. " - ""
tartly speaking) sex. .
"Training women, according to the
physical culture rules of the army, is
an indirect method of accomplishing
military training of all male .citizens,
it was sald al ihe irr: --
rorwonPowentiare°ihus 'trained will: death by Walter S. Nichols, proprietor
not' shrink from militarism and will < of a soft drink parlor, while they
noaumu their sons to take (lie same < were robbing his place of business
encouraE.5 ' i here last night. One of the bandits
vhin iR not so far from the truth i apparently was 10 years old and the
. 1 1 , . n<1 +1, vyar department he- other appeared to be about 25. Nich-
Ki K themother^ strong-!ois was shot in the thumb by the
nvunuaiv the country would not 1 younger bandit who engaged in a hand
have as many men unfit for military j to. hand struggle with him after the
duty as was no sadly apparent in the
American Physical Culture
SOFIA, Julgaria, March 21 The
combination of a quiet smoke ami
alcohol massage may cost Minister of
Commerc3 Oboff his life. While the
masseur was at vork the minister lit
a cigarette.
The alcchol took fire and he was
WACO. Texas, March 21 The that effect
Beaumont & Great Northern and officials of the United States govern-
Trinity & Sabine Railroad properties I went
will go into possession of R C. Duff • ' ’ . . .. .
at midnight, March SI. according 10 Secretary Hughes announcing that
the "stale department has been ad-
eluded by District Attorney Dan
Moody. Argument was begun at 1:30
p. m. Tuesday and continued for
nearly ten hours
That the jury assess the death pen-
alty against Homer Toney should they
finr him guilty of the murder of the
grain dealer wa the plea of the dis-
triet attorney, who described the slay-
ing of Greer as one of the moot brutal
crimes in local history. He outlined
the evidence presented against: the
negro and told the jury that he was
conyinced of Toney’s guilt.
Defense counsel in its argument
dwelt upon the alibi established for
WASHINGTON, March 21.—Receiv-
ers of the Chicagc. Peoria & St. loouis
Railroad received permission today
from the interstate commerce com-
mission to abandon operations upon
the entire line, which with branches
includes 234 miles of track extending
from Pekin to East St. Louis in
southern Illinois.
Although protests against the sus-
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c cgis
York City.
Vocal solo by Ethel
Weidman. ■ .
Talk: "Protecting the Food Wo
Eat," W. W. Batue.
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Lake City and after a trial turned
loose.
to possible readjustment of rates in-
dicated that no alterations could iin-
nge reports in court circles had it that a deadlock over the verdict had
Toay both of these instituuonn j developed which had caused prolonged discussion of the law and
Mre sosidgsthsaingnnaesouarruTana evidence during the morning session of the jury. Court observers
. the ... u dash late yesterday between stockholders engaged in reorganizing, were freely predicting Wednesday that the Toney case would result
। the posse of settlers and the warrinsithe institution and making good losses in a mistrial.
redskins, one y0n8 buqk known as! reported at $400,000 and the Sixteenth
Joe Bishop's boy is reported to ha >01 street .State Bank accounts being sub-i
been killed and two other Indians jected to the sernnity of state bank
were wounded As far as can be examiners.
Interview published here today. The
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originated in a telepnone call to theihere in the Homer Toney murder caseMcCormick, harvester company capi-
office of the Kay county sheriff yes- which did not get to the jury until talist, displayed patience with the crit-
TONKAWA, Okla., March 21.—Pea. e
erftCAQO, r 21— Four
mucu aanee----thispotr the defendant.
Miss Blanche M. .rnnss iA- " nn ...
Clure, of El Paso County, Was re-liner and R is hoped to have the build- wasdelievera to a Wall Street bank-
- i versed an I remanded by the court. Ing ready for use by September l.ling firm .yesterday. It was the largest
ards for women should be exacuy rrom a neutra country
samn.an thos2 on, women cannot im-death of AiIss 1-ouIko Frentzel. Ita-1 the architects lor the building. I in financial circles it was inttmated
.. "heir centurles etiversai was because ot the court’s com-I Plans as drawn and used for the that Germany was shipping gold
mediately oven:omeu _ menl on failure of the defendant to. specifications for the building call through Holland and Switxerlard to
physical handicap Women since ear y , iesu f ror the construction of one of the pret- [ stabilize the mark and to purchase
cavo days have been retarded in tneir; The cases of Frank and BilI Pink- (ilest chure h structures in the entire' coal.
physical develorment.DY.... winalerton and Bryan Monday, from Erath J South. The auditorium is to have a --———
County, were affirmed. The three men | Heating capacity larger than tljat of'
were convicted of murder in eonnec-^any other place of assembly in Aus- I IPITTQ GIAAQWE"F
tion with the death of Newman Bas-|tin and it is estimated that 3000 will LlUllxu VIUlHII
GRANITE CITY, 111, March 21.—po-
IM enTPANI CniMMIMP endiv.sburned.witi.the that "’"iK letter received in Waco from Mr.
IN COTTON INNING C ond ' ion ________________ I Duff. This is In aecordaneo with an
111 VV11V11 Ml 1111,mu — *′*------ act of the recent legislature permit-
----- t^llWl^lll^ll^rllll nniiiwiiwiMXiHftl ting the con sol id at Ion.of the two lines.
WASHINGTON. March 21.—More - HIT? ATIIFD -A--AAc 5 :
cotton spindles were in nlaco and the I VLAEREK RUKEEA3, 3
average number operated was greater, ’ S
during February than in January, the i i i i r xuK'rKWMn.ir I.rfi i
census bureau announced today in
its cotton industry activity report.
Active spindle hours for February
The doors of the two banks were
locked within a period of two weeks
by state bank examiners, the Sx-
teenth Street State Bank being closed
yesterday with an estimated shortage
of >150,000. Deposits of the latter in-
stitution were estimated nt >560,000.
While the bank examiners went
through the records of the Sixteenth
Street State Bank another former rail-
road man, J. M. Austin, noted as presi-
dent.
Maltz resigned last July at the re-
quest of-directors. He formed the bank
about four yeara ago with a group of
railroad brakemen and conductors.
William F. Melaughlin, assistant
state’s attorney, said Maltz had con-
fessed making bad loans totaling be-
tween >30,000 and >40,000.
Loans on questionable second mort-
gages, officials said, brought about
(Continued on Page Thre)
TONEY JURY DEADLOCKED
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the robbery of a sheep herder’s camp.
Just before the trial got under way a
i band of Indians from Allen’s canyon,
near Blanding, entered the town and
started making trouble.
Joe Bishop's-boy ami the other young
buck were found guilty of the robbery
but they escaped from the custody of
Sheriff W. E. Oliver when he went to
bring them their supper Monday night.
The sheriff at the point of a gun
attempted to make the Indians eat and
by some ruse they suceoeded in knock-
ing the weapon from his hands and
] overpowering him.
ago Samuel W. Malta quit his job is
a freight train brakeman and became
president of the Sixteenth Street State
Bank. About twenty years ago Fred
W. Popp, recently found dead with ft
bullet hole in his head, discarded the
gray suit of a mail carrier when he
started on a financinl career that car-
ing statement that the war depart- ____ _____ ,_____.___ ________.._____
ment would co-operate with Mrs.' Her- immediately to make the road safe for
bort Hoover in making physical god- ; continued operation. This amount
bert Hoo cannot be raised by the receivers, the
desses of women caused al commission found, and their petition
turbation. The tail is that Colonel to cease operations was consequently
Wnite C. Johnson, a physical culture Eranted.
oviK-rt of the war department, and also , The decision pointed out that the
Temleg of th) executive board of : road traverses the richest agricultum
me National Amateur Athletic Fed- territory of Illinois and that It was
or tion will consult with Mrs. Hoover possible that parts of its Unes might
oil ways of tramning the weaker sex be operated with the support of the
into perfect womanhood. The war de- |
suzsaaggawunmmeiu Careless Bandits Overlook
tve very non-pacifist purpose, of
whacking the war department When
ever it rears its head, object to
anything that smacks of military
training, even thoughg the subjects
or it are of the non-combatant (mill
Victim’s Gun; Two Shot
Dead by Man They Robbed
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' Indians a posse of settlers was imme-
bandit overlooked while rifling the' diately f?‘ med and went in vursutt...
register, shot the elder bandit dead „‛Thore Is but one talcphone line into
as he was bending over a safe, fa- Plandine and theuirrhe redskins cut
tally wounded the younger bandit, 1 this.Isolating ihe lown from .commun-
snatched the gun from the man and | icat "" with nolkl borivK apoints,
beat him over" he head with it. The Old .Posey an aged Indian who was
robber dropped dead as he fled. “ leanlins. f izur in the .0v ‘"m
A small amount of money which Pnstpxesent’srraid to be taking part in
the bandits obtained from four < us- T( pinte mlns the San Juan
tomers whom they lined against tie. sectlOn resented the Corn-
wall. was recovered on their persmns ing or the whit, settiers and froni time
The men drove up to the soft drink time there , been outbreaks of
parlor in.an.antomobile with a J J » more or less serious nature.
bandit who fled in the machine after
his companions hart been killed.
have a large amount of ammunition
cached away.
Tiie San Juan country is mountain-
eus and once the Indians gain their
familiar haunts, arprehension of them
will be a hard task, if not an impos-
• sible one.
Several yeas ago the Plutos of
, southeastern Utah went' on the war-
path and they were quelled only after
General Hugh I. Scott, U. B. A., and
< United States Marshal Aquilla Nebe-
! ker, of ‛tuh, took over the situation.
On this occasion after much parley
• with the warring tribe, Major General
Scott took several of the Indians into
I custody. They were brought to .Salt
9:30 to 10:15 a m.: Opening
market reports by the state bu-
reau of markets and warehouses.
12 m. to 1 p. m.: Edison phono-
graph concert. Records fur-
nished by The Phonograph Shop
of Austin.
2 to 3 p. m.:' Final reports on
cotton, vegetables and grain
markets.
5:45 to 6 p. m.: General world
news.
9 to 10 p. m : Regular radio
program to be given by the state
health bureau, as follows:
Vocal selection, Scotch bal-
lads, by Jack Tindala.
Talk: "Keeping Your Health
Account Out of the Red," Sam
Sparks.
Reading by Miss Eva Poe.
Vocal solo by Miss Emma Bell
Moore.
Talk: "A Message to the
Women of Texas on Health,”
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker.
Talk: "Our Two Great Ene-
mies.” Dr. M. P. Smartt.
Pianologue by Miss Ellen Os-
borne.
Talk: "Reducing the Elee-
mosynary Expense of the State,"
Dr. H. H. Harrington.
Vocal solo by Mrs. W. W. Bat-
tle.
Talk: "Rural Sanitation,” by
Dr. Alex P. Harrison of the In-
ternational Health Board of New
ed at Twelfth and Lavaca streets was .
begun Wednesday by the Knape Con-
....... ..................... ...... ---struction Company, which was recent-
guilty of killing his wife by striking ly awarded the contract for the erec-
her with an axe while sho was in tion of the $200,000 edifice which will
bed. The killing took place ten days!,, ,1. .... . . ... 1
Thore is as after the couple were married. CB2be4ne new home of the First Metho- i
7.—i I viction was based on a confession of dist. Church when it is completed. The]
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