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Read by the Classes '
and by the Masses.
DECISION IN OKLAHOMA CASE ADDS
STRENGTH TO DEMOCRATS.
The Reading’Public’s
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ontty-stmutatea persons today. The
newa of th. girl's raturn and-hor atory
of th. treatmient which Blair accorded
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TALES OF GRAFT AND CRUELTY ARE
TO BE SIFTED OUT.
Is expected to be open to the public
by the tourist season of 1009.
MARINES BITTEN BY DOG.
Twelve Men Hurried From the Isthmus
to Washington.
Minister’s Letter Upon Condi
tions in Venezuela Unwise,
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Contract for million-dollar San An-
tonio hotel is let. 1 .
Coyote attacks San Antonio man on
his own back gallery.
Sen Antonio police begin crusade
against cocaine snfting joints.
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CHICAGO POLICE HAVE NO CLUE TO
MISSING “F. J. BLAIR.”
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AUSTIN, ‘TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1908.
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Executive board of conference
eucation adopts resolution on
death of Professor H. C. Pritchett, late
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LARGE AND SMALL TOWNS SWEPT OFF THE MAPS
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Enormous ’ Di -oNBuneems Assured
and "263 Loss by
San Francisco Conflagration.
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Castro's Demand for Removal of the
Netherlands Minister Had Basis
Greater Than in Precedents.
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principal, object of irterest with him
just now is a large field of alfalfa from
which in a few days he expects to
gather a third crop of the present sea-
son and which he calculates -will yield
still another.
Plans for the platform where the
notification exercises are to take place
on August 12 have been completed and
work on its construction will be be-
gun early In the week. The committee
having in charge the arrangemnts is
meething masa cutting off
every avenue of escape. Th. nr. wMd
with unprecedented rapidity and it la
sald that bovaral parues who trle to
■at through tho pass have been cut off.
Mamilles have been beparate and
there la at present no means of check-
in up the tatalitles,
in Fernto the old bullaings remain.
Ing are alx email ehacka on the banka
of the Elk river, the omfieera of crowa
Neat Coal company and the Fike.
Woodware house. The omiis of the
Canadian Pacio railroad and the
Oroat Northem are gone ogether with
all of tho NUM* afok in the yard*,
th* elgoping car sceola being the only
car left. It is now feared that the flrt
may set In the mines, woverai of which
are open in the nelghborhoo. This
, will mean incalculable damage as the
who), of the valley le underlaid with
hotel going up on Travis street. The
new hotel will be the fineest in Texas falling
and one of the finest in the south. It which
\ Temple constable arrests man for
theft of muls and wagon and recovers
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Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1—With tales of
cruelty to convicts, stories of "graft”
In convict camps throughout the state,
and particularly in the vicinity of
Atlanta, the special investigating com-
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SECOND OLDEST PAPBR IN '
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FIRE SWE
her aroused the neighborhood and the
friends and acquaintances of the
family were augmented by visitors
from all parts of the city. The .throng
about tho house became ao great In
the afternoon that police guards were
secured to keep the curious from in-
vading the home, a
The girl was ques(foned again today,
but could give them no further in
formation than was contained in her
He will
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Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 2.— off his hands, Mr. Bryan is directing
Attorney General Bonaparte's opinion some of his thoughts to his farm. The
these Baptists is gradually being in-
jected, "They endorse and . propose 'to
help build the proposed college for
their deominatln in February. The
be the
much gratified in view of tho prompt
accepthnce of Invitations, to the re-
publican state and city officials to par-
ticipate in the ceremonles, thus in-
suring the non-partisan feature, with
the exception of the speeches, which
It was Intended to be given.
open districts in the vicinity in the
hope of safety. The railway com-
panies have placed all available trains
at their disposal. Untew there is a
change of wind within the. next twen-
ty-four hours, tpe whole of the Crows
Nest pass country will be left to the
fames. There is at present no posst-
bllty of estimating the loss of life and
property which will renult, for the
flames are driven by a heavy gale,
making it impossible to fight against
its advance. The confagration is the
greatest which ha* over visited Canada
and ranks only with the Han Franelsco
disaster. Kal tai a tee from several
place the losa as ht»h as
31,000,009.
Fbr th* pant month nre. hnve boen
raking In the mountain. In th.' Eik
niver. valley, but they have not; been
copmidered srlou Saturday moring
a heavy wind prang up from tho wes
and early in the arferrioon Same, ap:
poared over the erest of the mountalhs
to the .west. They ran dowi the moun-
tain aide and before a tire guard dotfid
be organized, had entered the town.
Within an hour the town was doome
and the Inhabitants mought »nfety in
flight, leaving their all behind them.
Iast night and this morning exodus
continued, the destiatlon bein N
email prairie valley three miles aouth
of the town. At leaat 30,005 people
are camped in the open, theif inly pro-
/teetiet being .helUra built of bfuh
and blanket., while'* continual .hower
of eparka from the burning area keep
falling through the pall of amokel by
.....— they are eurrounded. For a
time communication with the town, to
tho east war kept open, but with tho
horning of bridge. AcToss th* Elk
river this ' waa qloned. Acattere
through tho valley fare many1 - email
prairie, and all of thes have their
groups of refuge...
Tho hills in all directions are a
Winnipeg, Aug. 2-As a result of
busn lire, which starte4 yesterday, the
town of Ferule, a C., has been wiped
off the map, Aichel, fourteen mile, dis-
taut le in ames and the fate of Hon-
mor, Olsen and Sparwood. intervening
town., la in doubt, they being cut off
from all communication: Over 100
live, are known to have been loat,
•eventy-four of them in Fernie alone.
A territory of 100 aquare miles in ex-
tent la in a weething mass of flame*.
Throughout are moattora hundred, of
lumbermen and proepootor, ino that
the actual loss of Itf. will not be
known for sovemni dnya. The track of
the Canadian Paqin and the Oroat
Northern railway, heve boen destroyed
and the bridge and rolling etock
burned, ao that It la tmposeible to on-
ter. or leave the burning area. The in.
habitant, of the town, have fled to
Th. Are to following the craat of «
mountain chain above parwood, eat-
ing down the valleys on either aide. It
le traveling at a great rate and unleaa
there to a change of wind will eross the
boundary line Into Montana in twelve
hour.. Thousands of miner* and pros-
pectora’ claim in the track of the Are
are in peril. A alight change of the
wind haa occurred and Michel ha, been
interstate commerce commie,ion re-
rused to allow. Aa a result the roads
stand in the position of being. com*
pelled to give Georgia lower rutea than
other alate, or violate the order of .
Judge Spesr or rotusing to obey th*
order of the cummmisafon to put their
rate* in effect.
The raliroads took the positlon that
by obeying the order of Judge Speer
they would disoriminate agaiiat other
■tale,. North and Houttt Carolina alno
come Into tho queer situation. It wan
elated here today that the whole ittun-
tion seems to hinge on the question
whether or not the law give* the Inter-
etale corgnerce cgmmiglon or the fed-
eral court's juriadtcuon over the ratea
under the Hepburn bill. Judge Speer*
dectoinn had the effect- of giving
Georgia lower rate, than- any other ,
state and thia resulted in an, appeal to
the cmminelon in Washington. The
whole'situation at present deems that
rat*, to Georgia will be lower than
thosetito Alabama, Florida, North
Carolina and South Carolina. It is
expecteg according to advice, here
that a healing will Be given in Wash-
ington ' before the comminaton Mme
time early this week with a view to
harmonising the nituntton.
There were very few
tryan home today. ______ __________________________
i his acceptance speech prediction I. that this will
Chicago, Aug. 1—The search for "F.
J. Illalr." who abducted Veronica an:
tidy from her home here and took
her to Cincinnati, was at a standauil
today. ,o far G the Chicago police
were concerned. Actin*, however, on
the chance that Blair might attempt to
return. the authoritles Kopt a close
watch on all railroad otations, although
their chief hope now la that the Cin-
cinnati police may be able either to
apprehend the man or else furnish
some tanible doe to hla whereabouts.
The Ca*Mdy homa at 1U Peotia street,
wag the mecca for handrad* of curt-
-taken out of the more direct path.
VIre Aghung aparatun la of no avail
for the alr'a filled with fragment, of
burning wood and sheets of flames
seom to leap ahead of the eontagration
a. If the Afr itseit was in namen. The
heat la Intense and many of the Are
nshtera have gone down ahead of it. .
A correspondent at Michel wire* 4 41 ■ «
foMowe:
'Thera to now some hope of saving'
the bustness section of the town and
i penitentiary system,
before the investigatli
Work on Million Dollar Structuro at
San Antonio Begins Soon.
San Antonio. Aug. 2.—The San An-
tonio Hotel company has let the con-
tract for the Erection of the now
$1,090,000 hotel on Houston street and
work is to begin in sixty, days. The
hotel is to be eight storiea high and
will face half a block on Houston
street, a full block on St. Mary’s street
and half A block on Travis Street. ' It
will be adjoining the new Navarro
Primitive Baptiste Meet.
Hayers, Texas, Aug. 2.—The Provi-
dence Primitive Baptist association
had a profitable session at this place
last week. The association was called
Jo order Wednesday morning at 9
o’clock. The first day’s proceedings
consisted of lectures and addresses
from different prominent men. Thurs-
day morning the association came
down to business proper. Enrollment
and election of officers was announced
in order. The financial spirit among
have been made against him on the
witness stand and he has prepared an
elaborate defense. His counsel will de-
clare he can not be Impeached as he
has never been an officer of the state,
never having been reuire to take an
oath of of:ce andnever working un-
der an act making Appropriations foF
his office. HI* counsel will assert that
in allowing Moore to discharge duties
which should have been discharged by,
the prison commissidn, the commission
was violating the law.
The evidence during the past week
has been generallly to the effect that
Moore was the only man who visited
the convict camps regularly. There
has been testimony that the wardens
have accepted money from the lessees
of convicts. Moore was in the court
ropm Saturday without the knowledge
of the investigating committee until
toward the close when he made a
statement that he was ready to take
the stand.
Other leading witnesses include. Dr.
W. B. Hamby, a partner of Moore in
the brokerage business and Colonel
James W. English, Jr., who also will
be heard this week.
Later the prison commission will be
heard in its own defense. Jn the
meantime the auditing of the books of
the state prison commission is pro-
gressing.
A mass meeting wa« held here to-
day to consider the convict lease
system.
Governor Smfth was among the
listeners tn speeches made concerning
the law which permit* the sending of
convicts to various contractors. Gov-
ernor-elect Joseph M. Brown sent a
letter .which ’ was read at the meeting.
The resolutions adopted urge each
city or town in the state to protest
against the "iniquitous lease” system
and asks the senate and house of rep-
resentatives to take whatever steps
may be necessary to aecomplish this
end.
delivered yesterday holding it to bo
Illegal for national banks of Oklahoma
to contribute toward the guaranty
fund for the' protection of depositors
or to avail themselves of the other
privileges of tho state banking act,
was the subjectof a good deal of dis-
cussion here today. Prominent demo-
crats of Lincoin freely averred that
following so closely upon the heels of
the Standard Oil reversal in Chicago
arid contempt cases' against the labor
leaders in Washington, the opinion of
the federal attorney 2 general still
further strengthens the damocratic
party in the present campaign. Mr.
Bryan has given expression as to the
effect which the opinion will -have in
the coming election.
’•'It accentuates the sse," said Mr.
Bryan, "and emphasizes the necessity
for legislation framed from the stand-
point of the deposlors rather ’ than
from the stanpoint of the banker.”
He would talk no further on the
subject, but said that he would give
it liberal treatment In his forthcoming
speech at Topeka, Kan., some time
during the present month.
Usual Sunday routine prevailed at
Fairview today. In the morning Mn
Bryan, accompanled by his wife, went
Into Lincoln and attended the services
at Westminster Presbyterian church
where Mr. Bryan sald he heard a
Minister De .Heu* of the Netherlands
wrote too freely about Venezuela while
holding pffiee at that court.
Inquiry into stories of graft and
cruelty In. convict camps in Georgia
will be resumed this week.
Fire is sweeping cities and towns of
Crows Nest section, Manitoba.
Battleships pass Samoa.
Butter famine in Australia.
Steel plant workers at Unfontown,
Pa., engage in battle with revolvers.
Of the twelve important measures
• brought up in the king’s* speech but
% two were passed by parliament before
adjournment These were the old age
pension and" Irish universities bills.
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head of Sam Houston normal.
Brooklyn woman writes governor a
letter in which she wants the governor
to aid her in finding her missing son.
Secretary of state Issues commission
to R. R. Williams of Cumby as justice
of the peace of precinct No. 4. Hop-
kins county.
Dome visitors during the month of
July numbered 2414.
Governor leave* this week .for Crys-
tal lake, near Palestine, to spend a
brief vacation.
Tablet in memory of the lat Rev.
Dr. Josephus- Johnson is unveiled at
the Southern Presbyterian church.
Negro boy is drowned In a tank at
Del Valle.
City leagu plays double-header at
Driving park.
Deep Eddy becoming popular for
boating, bathing, fishing and picniqs.
dispatches relative to ruling on in-
creased rates on hay, grain, meat and
other food products to southeastern
states.
"When the final decision is given it
in time enough fbr the Georgia com-
mlaslon to act.”
The effect of the decision at Judge
Speer is peculiar. In Georgia an in-
junction remains in force prohibiting
the increase of rates on the commodi-
ties in question while in other states
in the southeastern territory, Includ-
ing Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, the courts have not acted
and the railroads were at liberty to
inrease rates on August 1. It was
this situation that led the rond afe
fee ted—arid there' are a dozen or:
more—to seek relief from the inter-
state commerce commlsslon by asking
an order for permission to rescind or
modify their proposed Increase through
the southeastern territory. This the
In ths matter of bringing aura and speedy returns to advertisers. ‘
Its Popularity Is Lasting
In that it brings results, to summer advertisers as we as to fall and 1 1
winter ones. In consequence of that fact you should both realize and 1
appreciate that ’
Now Is the Time to Advertise
< > For ths reason that you want to got rid of your, summer stock and got ’ 1
< • ready for the fall business. Quadruple your
August Business
By carrying daily adverticements in The Statesman of your host bar* >
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Caracas, Friday. July 81—via Port
Spain. Aug. 2.—The difference be-
tween President Castro and the gov-
ernment of the Netherlands will prob-
ably turn out to be less derious than
they eoemed at finst. All talk of an
armed conflict is regarded as absurd
in this country. The government be-
lieves that it had the fullest justifica-
tion for its diamissal of M De Reu,.
the Dutch minister, arid points to ac-
tion Of the government of the United
States in asking the reealhng of the
English minister. Lord Sackville-West,
at Predent Cleveland’s request in Oc-
tQber, as well as a like demand
upon Spain for the recall of Minister
Depuy de Lome, by President McKin-
ley in February. 1893, Indeed the case
of Minister De Reua is said to be much
more flagrant than either of the others
referred to. In the case of Sackville
and Depuy de Lome the letters written
denunciatory of the American presi-
dents were confdential and not in-
tended for publication. De Reus, on
the other hand, wrote his letter with
the deliberate purpose that it should
be published.
There is a society in Amsterdam
caled the "Houlen Thrw” (loyal and
true). Its membership consists of
prominent Holland merchants and its
object is to secure employment for
young Hollanders la foreign countries.
This society puhlishes a monthly jour-
nal for circulation among its members.
It notes existing conditions in foreign
countries and Indicates where there
. are vacancies which might be proft-
J ably fiked by young men from the
V Netherlans.
X in order to secure information re-
yeptctlng opportunities for employment
'the society makes a practice of send-
ing out letters asking for informa-
tion to Dutch'merchants as well as to
the ministers, and consuls of the Neth-
erlands government throughout the
world. It was in response to one of
these letters of 4 inquiry that M. De
Reus sent the following letter which
was published in the May, 1908, "bul-
letin” of the society of Amsterdam:
"Caracas, April 9, 1908. Referring to
your letter of the 24th of February, I
am sorry to inform you that- tho pres-
every avullablo man is on duty. Peter
Campbell has arrived from the Spar-
wood district on a handcar with three
men, all of whom Are badly burned.
‘They made an attempt to save the
property of the Spefwood Lmher
company, half way between here and
Fernie, but without avail. They were
taken at once to the hospital, two ot
them are in a precarious condition, Mr.
Forester, manager of thoemin, with his
wife and about thrty men ware last
seen trying to save the mill. A line nt
fleme cut them off from aecapg, to the ,
east and nnless they have beeri ablet
1 jet through to the west, all are
Winnipeg. Aug. 2.—Bush nrea which
Invaded the city of Fornle, 1. C., yes-
terday Ahost completely destroyed ths
place. But peven teen houses wre left
and 3000 persons are homeleas. i
^The whole country is a seeth|ng flrs|
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AUSTIN STA'
RATE TANGLE IS
HARD TO CLEAR
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ONE STATE GETS BETTER RATES
THAN OTHERS ON SAME LINES.
Summary of News
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington. Aug. 2--West Texas—k
Partly cloudy Monday; showers in
north and oast portions; Tuesday fair
except showers in extreme west por-
tion.
East Texas—Local showers Monday;
Tuesday fair, frosh south winds.
mittee will resumo its session tomor-
rw and find where the cruelty and
graft originated. The state legislature,
which appointed this committee will
adjourn in ten days. Before that time
it wants) a bill to relieve the convict
lease system in the state, but there is
not the slightest indication that the
special committee will have dug up
every snake from under a rock before
adjournment takes place. There have
been tales of whippings In convict
campis, tales of the killing of convicts,
of. pgor food, or no housing in winter.
When men were forced to eat under
trees without shelter during the hard j
months of the year, but the stories are
by no means complete and it is ex-
pected that many prominent citizens
of the state, members of this and
former legislatures, will be called upon
to relate what they know of the ’•chain
gang” and its treatment by lessees.
One of the most prominently mentfoner
in the evidence has been Jake C.
Moore, formerly chief warden of the
Th* Fallow Who I* Hit--1 can’t say at the prege-t writing that I’m enjoying Ilfs.
The advance in freight rates will hit both the shipper and cppsumer hard.—New* Item.
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Crows Nest Country Is Seething
With Flames. I
ent time is anything but, favorable for
business* The system of government
(since 1899) of the present almost die-
tatorial ruling president which is ecor
Domically for the creation’and after-
wards always for the annulment of mo-
noplies, through all kinds of subtletii,
has very nearly ruined the country.
The only ray of light -on these dark
days through which Venezuele strug-
gles is the high price of cocoa; but
this la of course, not sufficient to make
the future of the republic hopeful.
“A good part of the Import and ex-
port trade in Venezuela is in the
hands of Germans who engage their
employes in Europe chiefly at Ham-
burg. These young men come out gen-
erally on a contract for three years
after the expiration of which they
either return, or, according to their
fitness, gain advancement where they
are. Firms also sometimes engage
young men from this country who are
nearly all born here- or come from
Curacao, but they very seldom reach
high places asitris of great impor-
tance to the German firms to have new
and strong European employes in their
offices, that their energy may never be
dormant.
"I know personally nearly all the
chiefs of the various large firms here
and I often speak with them concern-
ing business. I don’t believe, however,
that you should entertain the idea,
especially in the present circumstances,
of placing young men from the Neth-
erlands here. They are doing all they
can to diminish the expenses and even
the leas prominent houses which for-
merly employed European or American,
help, now seek natives or young men
from Curacao who are satisfied with
smaller salasies, although of the two
the Curacaoan is much the better.
"There is besidesl desperate com-
petition in imports, especially in the
importation of textile and fancy goods
by the so-called Turks and Moroccoans
who carry them Into tho most remote
regions of the republic and they take
such small gains on account of the
modest conditions in which they live,
that the wholesale dealers: must reduce
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New York, Aug. 2.—Hurrying to
Washington where they are to receive
the pasteur treatment as a precaution
against hydrophobia, a party of twelve
men, members of the United States
marine corps and victims of a bite of a
mbld dog on the Isthmus of Panama
arrived today on the Panama liner,
Financa. The party comprises ten
privates. All of them had been bitten
by the rabid animal. Tho dog was a
small collie left by tourist* at Colon.
It drifted Into the marine* encamp-
ment on July 21 And bit Major Russell
and eleven of the men before it was
shot. An examination revealed the
fad that the dog was infected with
rabies. The men were, well on arrival
and.nothing had developed in the way
of symptoms of rabies. They left im-
mediately for Washington where tho
treatment 1s to be given them at the
naval medical hospital. Ciose wateh Is
kept upon the men. I
Cotton Fino in Boxar. ।
San Antonio, Aug. 2.—The begin-
ning of tho present week finds the cot-
ton crop here in excellent cofdition
with picking well under way. Cotton (in
the gins running full tim. Cotton Us’
being marketed rapidly and the frill
Reason Js opening In good shape. I
greatest session ever held in thia sec-
tion of the state.
HOTEL CONTRACT LET.
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