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SEVEN
I QUICK NEWS
“The Supply House of Galveston”
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
Special Notices
By Associated Press.
in
during the
Austin
.18.0
There will be no
that yesterday
after doing
a bit of sewing for
GALVESTON MARKETS
DIED
OBITUARY NOTICES
Strict good middling..32.00
any
32.30
Middling fair
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
Total
5,558
16,249
Compresses and depots.220,588
Total stock.
265,144
293,257
SEVERAL CASES HEARD.
FAST BOUT ARRANGED.
172,787
... 9,234
10,353
710,506
Totals
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS
ALLIED NAVAL COUNCIL.
the
“UNCOMFIRMED RUMOR.”
the
on
OFFICIAL DIES SUDDENLY.
For Great Britain
For France......
For other foreign
For coastwise....
merchant shipping was denied tonight
in an official statement issued by the
shipping controller.
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Ordinary .....
Ordinary ......
Good ordinary
0.6
1.0
2.6
6.3
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Augusta
Memphis
St. Louis
Houston
By I. and G. N......
By G., H. and H....
By M., K. and T....
By G., C. and S. F...
By G., H. and S. A.
.31.10
.31.40
.31.70
Columbus ....24.0
River forecast:
re-
un-
0.0
— 0.2
0.0
J-0.3
23,307
5,000
Yes’day.
30.35b
30.45-47
30.05b
30.00
29.79b
29.64-65
29.39b
28.27-28
28.04-06
288,351
30,770
218,598
1,390
195
8,263
February
March ..
April ...,
May .....
June ....
July ....
August .
October .
December
February
March ..
April ....
May ....
June ....
July -----
October .
December
4.1
. 3.2
8.6
•
0.2
4.7
-3.5
0.0
0.0
+ 0.5
0.0
Today.
.. .26.95
.. .27.70
.. .28.45
Yes’day.
29.65b
29.17-19
29.17-19
28.88-91
28.88-90
28.60-65
27.25-27
27.10b
Today.
.29.53b
.29.03-05
.29.03-05
.28.71-76
.28.71-76
.28.42-46
.27.15-17
.27.00-03
0.0
-0.1
0.0
7,112
3,505
20,230
12,500
249,910
.27.37
.28.12
.29,62
.30.87
.31.62
.32.25
Bales.
. 913
. 218
, 1,890
. 1,861
, 676
Today.
.30.21b
.30.31-35
.29.91b
.29.83-85
.29.65b .
.29.47-49
.29.32-33
.28.14-15
.27.90-93
Middling .....
Strict middling-
Good middling.
amount of precipitation
same period:
Trinity River-
changed.
Ordinary .....
Good ordinary
Low middling
Middling .....
Good middling
Middling fair ,
./. 2,384
.. 636
.. 5,447
Receipts. Shipments. Stocks
.....767 ' 505 ------
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
Futures closed steady.
Strict good ordinary..29.20
Low middling.........29.95
Strict low middling. . .30.60
Mine Workers Adopt Reso u
tion—Expel I. W. W. From
Membership.
....29.38
... .30.61
....31.80
....32.15
....32.70
Form Congress and Declare War
Kaledines.
Score 30 to 26 in Game Against
% Soreheads.
FARMERS WILLING
TO TAKE ALIENS
GALVESTON STOCK
This day
Thia day Last year.
ALSACE-LORRAINE
NOT ONLY BARRIER
Good ordinary?...............
Low middling.................
Middling .....................
Good middling................’
Middling fair.................
There were no sales.
Closed Monday, Jan. 28.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Futures closed firm.
OLD GAME IS
GIVEN BRAND
NEW VERSION
American and National League
Magnates Reach Decision
at Pittsburgh.
Sails For U. S.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Jan. 26.—The Holland-
American line steamer Nieuw Amster-
dam sailed at 1 o’clock yesterday aft-
ernoon for the United States.
NEW Y. M. C. A.
ROOM OPENED
Question Is Merely Most Vis-
ible Symbol of German
Imperialism.
STOCK TRADING
CONTINUES LIGHT
CAR ROBBER IS
AGAIN ACTIVE
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP
OF MINES FAVORED
BASEBALL SEASON
OPENS ON APRIL 15
HARBOR AND COAST-
WISE TOWING
Apply Pier 20 in daytime or phone at
night 4145,- to
CLAUDE WILLOUGHBY, Master
Tug Alex Brown
Yesterday.
27.05
27.80
28.55
29,30
30.05
• 30.70
31.20
31.50
. 31.80
32.10
J. LEVY ® BRO.
Established 1868.
Funeral Directors
We Can Furnish Horse-Drawn or Auto
Funeral Equipment.
AUTO AMBULANCE SERVICE.
Lung Motor Equipment
PHONE 321. DAY OR NIGHT.
2216 Church Street.
PERSHING BOUGHT
MATERIAL ABROAD
Closed Monday, Jan. 28. Fuel Day.
NEW ORLEANS SPOTS.
Closed Monday, Jan. 28.
New Orleans, Jan. 26.—The market
for spot cotton closed steady and un-
ELBERT—-Mrs. Nicholas Elbert, widow
of late Nicholas Elbert, died at her
late residence this morning at 2 a m
aged 89 years. Funeral from the late
residence, 714 18th st., tomorrow after-
noon at 4 o’clock, Rev. Otto Proehl of-
ficiating. Interment in the Old City
cemetery. Auto funeral.
Black Hardware Co.
FORMERLY
Blum Hardware Co.
Strand, Between 22d and 23d Sts.
Corn Rises in Value—Fresh
Evidences of Rail Con-
gestion Develop.
32.40
b., 500
Mrs. Emma Agusta Mathee.
Mrs. Emma Agusta Mathee, 62 years
old, died at her late residence, 3515
Avenue Q at 5:15 o’clock this morn-
ing. She is survived by one brother,
W. A. Mathee of Houston; one sister,
Mrs. Thomas Wagner of Columbus,
Tex., and two nieces, Mrs. L. G.Wagner
and A. J. Cook of Galveston. The
body will be shipped to Columbus,
Tex., tomorrow morning at 6:55 o’clock
for burial by F. P. Malloy and Son,
undertakers.
First Meeting Will Be Held in London
Next Tuesday.
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 26.—The admiralty to-
night announced that the first meet-
ing of the allied naval council will be
held at the admiralty next Tuesday
and Wednesday. Vice Admiral Wil-
liam S. Sims will represent the United
States at the meetings.
----2-------_^.------------------
COSSACKS ORGANIZE.
MATHEE—Miss Emma Augusta
Mathee died at her late residence, 3515
Ave. Q, this morning at 5:15 a. m., aged
62 years. Remains will be shipped at
6:50 a. m. tomorrow morning to Co-
lumbus, Tex., for interment.
A fast and snappy game of basket-
ball was played last night at the Y.
M. C. A. gymnasium when the Fatheads
defeated the Soreheads by a score of
30 to 26.
At 8 o’clock tonight an exceptionally
good game is promised between the
First Y. M. C. A. team and the cham-
pion marine team of Fort Crockett.
Lovers of good basketball will appre-
•ciate this game as both teams are top-
notchers.
Next Monday night the Pinheads will
meet the Blockheads.
bales; yesterday, spots, 338 bales; f. o.
b., 500 bales.
Closed Monday, Jan. 28. Fuel Day.
GALVESTON COTTON RECEIPTS.
MAKES PLEA FOR PEACE.
changed; beeves, $7.00@11.50; stockers,
$6.50@9.90; heifers, $6@9.50; cows,
Closed Monday, Jan. 28. Fuel Day.
DAILY MOVEMENTS AT INTERIOR
TOWNS.
NOTICE.
The Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway Company will offer for sale at
public auction on Monday, Feb. 11, 1918,
at their unclaimed freight warehouse,
31st and Mechanic streets, freight on
hand unclaimed or refused. For full
list and particulars see issue of this
paper dated Jan. 11, 1918.
J. S. DOUGLASS,
General Claim Agent.
W. P. McDowell, general camp sec-
retary of the Y. M. C. A. war work in
the Galveston district, announced, this
morning that the Y. M. C. A. room at
Menard park, where the Nineteenth in-
fantry is stationed, is now open, and
while the equipment is not complete in
every detail as yet, he hoped to have
it so in the near future, as supplies and
equipment are being received daily and
installed as fast as they arrive.
Those who have any books or maga-
zines for the boys may leave them at
the city Y. M. C. A. or send them to Mr.
J. C. Campbell, who is on charge of the
"Y" at Menard park, where they will
be equally distributed to the various
forts in the Galveston district.
Shipbuilding Plant Burns.
By Associated Press.
Baltimore, Jan. 26.—The big ship-
building plant of the Henry Smith
and Sons company at Curtis Bay, was
fired last night about the same time
that the Oella woolen mills in Balti-
more county, near Ellicott City, were
burned.
Both concerns were engaged upon
government contracts. The loss to the
shipbuilding company is estimated at
half a million; the loss to the mill
about $200,000. At the shipbuilding
plant two watchmen sighted the sup-
posed incendiary, one fired at the man,
but he leaped into the water and prob-
ably was drowned. The central building
of the shipbuilding yards and a vast
quantity of lumber were destroyed.
The Henry Smith and Sons company is
building eight 3,500-ton wooden ships
for the government.
GALVESTON MARKET.
Galveston market for spot cotton
closed quiet and 10 points down.
NEW YORK
and cgo
RETURNPOU
Go by water; return by rail or
steamer as you prefer.
New York is at its best now;
theaters are open and shops dis-
play their newest merchandise.
This low fare includes meals and
state-room accommodations
aboard steamers.
Galveston and New York
Sail from Galveston, Tuesdays;
New York, Fridays.
Steamer calls at Key West, connecting
for Havana, Miami, St. Petersburg, etc.
Information at any railway
ticket office, or write to
ADV I GALVESTON,
MALLORY LINE TEXAS
F. T. RENNIE, General Agent
Direct steamers carrying freight only, every
Wednesday, Galveston to New York
Report Is Denied.
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 25.—The report that
the port of London will be closed to
Barometer and Sun.
The following data regarding ba-
rometer and sun are furnished by the
local United States weather bureau:
BAROMETER (SEA LEVEL).
At 7 a. m. today, 29.90 inches, which
corresponds to 759.5 millimeters.
SUN TOMORROW.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:10 a. m.; sun-
set, 5:54 p. m.
New York, Jan. 26.—Trading
stocks this week was mainly influenc-
ed by the many additional restrictions
resulting from the government’s con-
himself he had inadvertently
dropped the thimble into his own
pocket.
The game was over.
SUNNY DAYS
AT SEA
When going East on business or
for pleasure, don’t fail to enjoy
this splendid voyage—“One Hun-
dred Golden Hours at Sea” on
Southern Pacific
Steamships
“MORGAN LINE”
New Orleans and New York
You can take the steamer trip
either going or returning. From
your city by rail to New Orleans,
then by steamer to New York. Or
you can go to New York by rail
and return by steamer.
SAILINGS
Wednesdays and Saturdays
In each direction
Ask your local ticket agent for
full information.
James Pucciarello has accepted a po-
sition as telegraph operator with the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas commer-
cial office here, succeeding'J. B. Ru-
By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 26.—The base-
ball season of 1918 for the National
league and the American league will
open on April 15. This was announced
last night at the close of the three-
day sessions of the major league
schedule drafting committee appoint-
ed by the National Baseball commis-
sion. Beyond stating that conflicting
dates of games played by the two
leagues in the same city had been
.eliminated to a greater degree than
ever before, members of the committee
refused to give out any details regard-
ing the schedules.
The schedule for the National league
will be laid before the league meeting
to be held in New York, Feb. 12. The
American league will pass upon its
schedule at the meeting in Chicago,
February 14.
FOUR partly furnished rooms; $10; no
children. Phone 5217. 1406 21st st.
._________(ea)
ficulties operated also against
general strengthening of values.
Mrs. Edwin H. Frank.
Mrs. Edwin H. Frank, 21 years old.
died shortly after noon today at the
home of her parents at 1706 Avenue
L. She was formerly Miss Isabella Ma-
bel Freund. Arrangements for the fu-
neral had not been made this afternoon
and will be announced later.
Was Basis of Charge Made By Ameri-
ean Defense Society.
New Fork, Jan. 26.—The assertion
, of C. S. Thompson, a member of the
executive committee of the American
Defense society, that ships had been
allowed to sail from New York last fall
with 1,500,000 rounds of small arms
ammunition for Germany, was based
upon “an unconfirmed rumor,” Thomp-
son admitted today before government
officials, according to a statement by
Assistant District Attorney Knox, who
I summoned Thompson to his office to
I make good his charge.
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Jan. 26.—An official state-
men issued teday by the bolshevik
government says that on Wednesday
the congress of Cossacks from the
front was inaugurated at the military
station of Kamensky and passed unani-
mously a resolution declaring war on
Gen. Kaledines and relegating all au-
thority to the congress.
servation policy.
Dealings were at all times moderate
and largely professional as was evi-
denced by the unusual prominence of
numerous specialties including low
priced equipments and other issues of
more obscure origin.
The latest speech of the German
chancellor furnished the basis of fur-
ther conjecture respecting peace pros-
pects, but foreign exchange rates from
this center were altered so little as' to
convey no definite information of im-
portant developments.
QUAKE AT GUATEMALA CITY.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Further
severe earthquake shocks in Guat-
amala City, capital of Guatemala,
were reported today to the state
department by the American em-
bassy there. No details of the ex-
tent of the damage were given.
Extensive damage was done to
the city by earthquakes last
month.
By Associated Press.
’Washington, Jan. 26.—More of the
secret testimony before the senate mil-
itary committee made public today dis-
closes that on December 13 General
Pershing was authorized to buy 200,-
000 British uniforms for American
,troops and 200,00.0 blankets in Spain.
The record also shows that Quarter- i
master Gen. Sharpe insisted that inas- I
much as numbers of American troops |
were sent to France practically a year
ahead of the time planned, some record
of the situation should be made to
show the condition under which he
was placed to furnish supplies.
Secretary Baker wrote an endorse-
ment recognizing the quartermaster
general difficulties.
On Oct. 9 a memorandum by Gen.'
Sharpe quoted a cablegram from Gen.
Pershing saying the American expe-
dition had practically no supplies on
hand.
Ori Oct. 18, a memorandum from Gen.
Sharpe to the chief of staff said: “If
it is not deemed advisable to discon-
tinue the shipment of troops abroad,
the necessity of providing adequate
clothing for the upkeep of troops al-
ready abroad is imperative.”
Frank H. Gould Passes Away in Attack
of Apoplexy.
San Francisco, Jan. 26.—Frank H.
Gould, surveyor general of the depart-
ment of the interior of the United
States, dropped dead here today from
apoplexy in a corridor in front of his
office.
Chicago, Jan. 26.—Corn has risen in
value this week, forced upward large-
ly by the fact that the crop movement,
although improved, did dot become as
brisk as a majority of traders had ex-
pected. Compared with a week ago
the market this morning was 1 c to%c
higher Oats showed gains of 1 c to
21 @ 25s. The result in provisions
varied from 47c decline to a rise of
37.
Despite exidence of material prog-
ress in clearing up railroad congestion,
hope of liberal arrivals of corn gave
way to disappointment after Monday
and Tuesday. Severe winter condi-
tions curbed the activities of the rail-
roads, fresh complaints of car scarcity
developed and there were reports that
great quantities of soft corn appeared
likely not to reach terminals in time
to be saved. Gradual tightening of the
market led to an order for complete
stoppage of trade in the January de-
livery and for settlements instead at
the maximum price limit $1.28 a bush-
el. Peace talk counted only at inter-
vals as a bearish factor.
Liberal sales to the seaboard, to-
gether with eagerness of supplies, lift-
ed oats above all previous high price
records this season.
Big supplies of hogs made provisions
average lower. Eastern shipping dif-
on, and explain
FINISH NEXT WEEK.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Jan. 26.——The summary
of the findings and recommenda-
tions of the senate and house in-
vestigating committee which now
is being prepared by a committee
of six, three from each house, will
riot be completed before the first
of next week, Representative Fly,
a member of the committee, said
this afternoon. “We found more
work to do than we expected,” he
said.
ARRANGE HEARING.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Tentative
arrangements were made at the
capitol today to give Secretary
Baker such a hearing as he asked
of the senate military committee—
one at which all senators and rep-
resentatives who desire can be
present—by holding the session in
a room large enough for the pur-
pose and not in the small commit-
tee room.
bion/ who is now employed by
Santa Fe at Cleburne.
FATHEADS WIN.
struck in the neck and slightly
wounded by a stray shot while driving
in a cab today, according to a news-
paper report published here. The shot
was fired from an unknown source.’
unions from sixty cents a month to
seventy cents, and increasing the per
capital tax to be paid to the inetrna-
tional organization from 25 cents a
month to 50 cents.
Changing the date of the next con-
vention from January, 1920, to Septem-
ber, 1919.
The delegates to the convention of
the American Federation of Labor
were instructed to prepare a resolu-
tion wherein “war aims of American
labor” will be definitely set forth.
Russian Author Hit By Stray Bullet at
, Petrograd.
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Jan. 26.—Maxim Gorky, a
widely known Russian author arid
editor of the Svovodnaia Zhizn, was
A masked man held up Conductor
D. F. Jones of the Market street car
line and obtained $30 in cash from him
at Thirty-seventh street and Avenue G
at about 10 p. m. last night. Two simi-
lar attempts made on the Twenty-first
and Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh
and Thirty-seventh street car lines,,
failed as the conductors managed to
elude their assailant. The robber, it is
thought by the police, was the same
man in all three cases. *
According to Chief of Police Webber
the reward offered by Manager Alba
H. Warren of the Galveston Electric
company of $100 for the arrest and-
conviction of the robber or robbers
still holds good.'
James Gibson.
James Gibson, aged 69, a sailor on
the steamship Kenrooshire, born in
Cornwall, England, died yesterday at
3 o’clock. The funeral will be held
this afternoon at 4 o’clock from Mal-
loy’s chapel. Burial will be made in
Lakeview cemetery.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918.
Sales—Spots, 74 bales; f. o.
$5.25@8.25—bulls, $6@8; calves, $6.50
@11.50. Hogs, receipts, 1.300; market
10c lower; heavy, $15.75@15.85; light,
$15.50@15.75; medium, $15.25@15.50;
mixed, $14.75@15.25; common, $14.25@
14.75; pigs, $8.50 @12. Sheep, receipts,
1,200; market steady; lambs, $14.50@16;
yearlings, $12.50@13.75; wethers, $11
@12; ewes, $10@11; culls, $6.50@7.50;
goats, $6.50@7.50.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE
By Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—After expell-
ing Industrial Workers of the World
from membership in the organization,
if there are any, the United Mine
Workers went on record as favoring
the taking over of the mines by the
government on condition the union
men had the right to make collective
bargains. They asked no special priv-
ileges in the operation of the selective
draft, opposed conscription of labor, and
adopted a “war resolution” declaring
the coal digger's to be in full ac-
cord with President Wilson’s an-
nouncement to make the world safe
for democracy and demanding the un-
restricted right of workingmen and
women to organize and deal collect-
ively with their employers.
There was no expressed Opposition to
any of the resolutions and they were
adopted in most instances by a unani-
mous vote.
The delegates took great pride in the
Fort Worth Livestock.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Jan. 26.—Cattle,
ceipts, 1,500; market active and
Fines and Jail Sentences Imposed Upon
, Women.
This morning’s session of the federal
district court which is in session here,
with Judge William B. Sheppard pre-
siding, was rather long drawn out, and
it was after 1 o’clock before the morn-
ing’s session finally adjourned. The
greater portion of the session was tak-
en up by hearing evidence introduced
in one of the admiralty cases which ap-
peared on the docket. This will be re-
sumed this afternoon. The case is
that of the United States vs. Barge
Britannia.
Other cases which took up the time
of the court this morning were several
against women who were charged with
operating houses of ill fame contrary
to the recently enacted federal law,
which states that no house of this
character will be permitted within five
miles of any military reservation. Six
of these cases were heard between 12
and 1 o’clock, and in every instance
the defendants pleaded guilty and
threw themselves on the clemency of
the court. Each of them was fined
$200, and sentenced to two mohths in
the county jail. In two of these cases
the prison sentences were remitted.
Several of the women pleaded that
they had- been misinformed on the pro-
visions of the law and that they
thought that it applied only to soldiers.
They endeavoured to-prove that they
had never allowed men in uniform to
come into their houses, but the judge
overrules the proposed introduction of
such evidence, stating that the law
forbade the operation of any such
house within that zone, .regardless of
whether it was operated for soldiers
or civilians.
The session was resumed again this
afternoon.
service flag containing 19,286 stars
hanging over their heads in the hall,
and some of the resolutions brought
out the fact of the great number of
mine workers now in the military
service.
The I. W. W.s were expelled by the
adoption of a constitutional amend-
ment making them ineligible for mem-
bership.
The war resolution recited that no
statement of words is needed to prove
that the “great army of men" labor
represents are loyal and that the min-
ers are in full accord with the prin-
ciple of making the world safe for
democracy” “forcefully and eloquent-
ly” announced by President Wilson.
The resolution stated the miners
were opposed to the kind of govern-
ment ownership that operates the
postoffice department.
The resolution opposing the con-
scription of labor also requests the
national government to take over all
unused farm land and rent it to farm-
ers.
The members of the union now in
the military service were exempted
from paying dues while in the service,
and all death benefits are to remain in
force.
Among other changes made in the
constitution of the organization were
these: Members of the Working Class
union, recently organized in Oklahoma
and of dual labor organizations not
affiliated with the American Feder-
ation of Labor shall not be eligible
for membership.
Elimination of the provision which
prohibited boy scouts from becoming
members of the union.
Raising the minimum dues to local
River Bulletin.
In the following tabulation the first
column of figures shows the flood
stage, in feet, of the river at the sta-
tion indicated. The second column the
stage at 7 a. m. The third column
shows the changes in the stage which
have occurred during the last twenty-
four hours and the last column the
Mrs. Nicholas Elbert.
Mrs. Nicholas Elbert, 89 years old,
died at her home, 614 Eighteenth
street, at 2 o’clock this morning. She
was born in Gartenstadt Amt Peirce,
Hanover, Germany, on Feb. 9, 1827,
but has been a resident of Galveston
since 8144. She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Geo. P. Werner, Mrs.
R. Pallister and Mrs. I. Nelson and
two sons, Otto H. Elbert and Chas. II.
Elbert, all of Galveston and fourteen
grandchildren and seven great grand-
children. The funeral will be held to-
morrow evening at 4 o’clock from the
late residence to the First Evangelical
German Lutheran church, Rev. Otto
Proehl, pastor of the church, officiat-
ing. Burial will be made in the Old
City cemetery.
Edward Berger.
Edward Berger, age 25, a private in
the Eighth company Coast Artillery
corps, died at the Fort Crockett hos-
pital yesterday afternoon at 2:45
o’clock. Private Berger lived in Schu-
lenburg and is survived by his wife,
parents, eight brothers and two sis-
ters. The body will be shipped to
Schulenburg today by J. Levy & Bro.:
and will have a military escort from
Levy’s chapel at 4 o’clock. Burial will
be made in Schulenburg tomorrow.
As soon as the necessary arrange-
ments can be made between the local
federal employment bureau and the
officials of the department of justice,
some twenty-five interned alien ene-
mies, who are at present held in cus-
tody at Beaumont, will be released to.
take up work on farms in various parts
of Texas. Other alien' enemies, wheth-
er they be interned or not are urged to
take this step, which will go a long
way toward solving the problem of
how the alien enemies are to be treat-
ed, and cared for,,and will also help
increase the food supply of the nation.
R. G. Miller, acting inspector in
charge of the federal bureau here, has
already taken the matter up with the
officials of the department of justice
and hopes to have authority to release
the men and assign them to places on
farms as soon as possible, in com-
pliarice with the orders received yes-
terday from the heads of the depart-
ment of labor at Washington.
No further word has been received
concerning the cause of the issuance of
the orders, but it is thought that the
order is the result of a recent investi-
gation of matters at Beaumont by In-
spector A. R. Bennett, who is at present
in Washington.
There are already a number 8f appli-
cations an file, all coming from farm-
ers who are anxious to get the men as
helpers about their places, and who see
no remedy for the present shortage of
labor on farms, which is said to exist
in numbers of counties in Southeast
Texas. The only requirements made
on the farmer are that he make a re-
port to the department of justice at
least once each month with regard to
the conduct of the men. They will be
free to go where they please, but will
be under the eyes of the department
of justice officials.
“Because of the fact that the men
are at present in the hands of the de-
partment of justice is no basis for the
belief that they are desperate charac-
ters or anything like that,” said one
federal official this morning. He add-
ed that cases had been brought to his
attention, where men who had been
thrown out of work because of the
proclamation of the president, had
tried to get other employment, and not
thinking of farm work, had gone back
to the waterfront and courted arrest
in order that they might be provided
for. Some of the men he said were
property holders in Galveston, and
they would not stoop to become of the
class called common “bums.”
Any farmer who would like to se-
cure help of this kind should imme-
diately get in communication with the
offices of the federal employment
bureau, on the sixth floor of the Amer-
ican National Bank building.
MAXIM GORKY SHOT.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Jan. 26.—“Never was, the Al-
sace-Lorraine question farther from
being the sole obstacle to peace,” says
the Temps. “This only is the most
visible symbol of the intractable Ger-
man imperialism.”
The Temps says that the German
chancellor fails utterly to follow the
reasoning of his collaborator, Dr.
Richard von Kuehlmann, the German
foreign secretary, declaring:
“For were he to believe the Alsace-
Lorraine question the only bar to
peace he would have beengobliged to
declare Germany’s readiness to restore
Belgium, without restrictions and to
assure the Poles, Lithuanians and
Letts freedom to settle their own des-
tinies.” J
“Instead,” says the Temps, “Chan-
cellor von Hertling carefully avoided
doing this. Over Belgium he leaves
a menacing doubt. He refuses all ex-
planation to the allies about the east-
ern front, and he doesn’t even promise
that French territory will be evacuat-
ed without reserve.”
Some of the newspapers consider the
speeches mere bluff or of "brainstorm-
ing," while others see in the words
of the German and Austrian states-
ments a genuine advance towards
peace. In the latter category is Gus-
tave Herve’s L’Victoire, which says:
. “Austria’s reply to President Wilson
is certain braggadochio which will de-
ceive nobody notwithstanding that it
is not a rejection. Famine-stricken
Austria has opened an era of bargain-
ing. It is now the turn of diplomacy—
secret diplomacy.”
Le Journal says that Count Czernin
is addressing a public which openly
manifested its war weariness and is
speaking in the name of a power
which, having obtained all that it could
expect, namely the ruin of the Balkanic
Slavs and the dislocation of Russia,
naturally hopes for a prompt liquida-
tion.
Count von Hertling, on the contrary,
says Le Journal, is the champion of an
empire which has not obtained a re-
sult proportionate to its efforts, still
less to its ambitions, which hesitates
as to the means by which to attain
its ambitions and which pledges its
cravings for hegemony above the suf-
ferings of the war.
Consequently,” continues the news-
paper, "it was impossible for the two
statesmen to hide such striking dis-
sonances. All their skill was confined
to maintaining harmony on broad
principles. Peace is possible in the
east if the Russians admit themselves
beaten, and impossible in the west
and in the near east without ruining
Bismarck’s life work. Such is the con-
clusion both of the soft-voiced Czer-
nin and the reserved Hertling.”
New York Reserves.
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 26.—The actual con-
dition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week shows
that they hold $96,681,750. reserve in
excess of legal requirements. This is
an increase of $29,005,520 from last
week.
The statement- follows:
ACTUAL CONDITION:
Loans, discounts, etc., $4,113,882,000;
increase, $78,963,000.
Gash in own vaults, members fed-
eral reserve banks (a) $104,618,000;
decrease, $5,392,000.
Reserve in federal reserve bank of
member banks, $558,031,000; increase,
$30,826,000..•
Reserve in own vaults, state banks
and trust companies (b) $18,514,000;
decrease, $1,372,000.
Reserve in depositaries, state banks
and trust companies, $9,155,000; de-
crease, $563,000. , . •
x—Net demand deposits, $3,666,713,-
000; decrease, $50,000.
Net time deposits, $204,303,000; in-
crease, $5,573000.
Circulation $34,109,000; increase, $39,-
000.
Specie included in (a) and (b), $80,-
689,000.
X—United States deposits deducted,
$243,546,000.
Aggregate reserve, $585,700,000.
Excess reserve, $96,681,750; increase,
$29,005,520.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York not
included in clearing house statement:
Loans, discounts, etc., $823,613,500;
increase, $2,361,400.
Specie, $17,571,000; decrease, $249,-
700.
Legal tenders, $76,649,000; increase.
$1,770,200.
Total deposits, $927,839,000; decrease,
$1,524,100.
Banks’ cash in vaults, $12,812,400.
Trust companies’ cash in vaults, $81,-
412,600.
All American markets will be closed
Monday, Jan. 28, except the Chicago
grain markets.
NET RECEIPTS AT ALL U. S. PORTS.
Galveston, 5,558; New Orleans, 5,963;
Mobile, 15; Savannah, 952; Charleston,
230; Wilmington, 100; Norfolk, 356;
New York, 2,400; total, 15,574. Same
day last week, 19,354; same day last
year, 10',984.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT.
Net receipts of cotton at all United
States ports thus far this week were
15,574 bales; thus far last week, 19,354;
thus far this week last year, 10,984;
thus far this season, 4,153,887; thus
far last season, 5,443,754; difference,
1,289,867.
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
The range of prices on the Chicago
Board of Trade for May corn was
as follows:
No wheat market
Corn—Open, $1.25%; high, $1,251;
low. $1.25; close, $1,251 @1.25%; yes-
terday, $1.25% @1.25. %
FINANCIAL.
London: Bank rate, 5 per cent; rate
of silver, 43%.
New York: Sterling exchange de-
mand, $4.75; commercial 60s, $4.71%;
commercial 90s, $4.69%; francs, sight,
$5.73; francs, three days, $5.73%.
Camp Logan Boxers Will Be Here on
Friday.
Fredie Seidel, “the newsboy cham-
pion” considered by many to be one of
the hardest hitting and cleverest feath-
erweights in the game, has been
signed to box Jack O’Burke in the
main bout of twelve rounds at the
Grand opera house next Friday night,
under the direction of the Soldiers’
Athletic association. Seidel is a mem-
ber of the Seventy-ninth field artillery
stationed at Camp Logan and has won
the decision over all boxers in his class
in the camp. Seidel besides being able
to assimilate a hard punching, pos-
sesses a strong wallop in either hand,
and is fairly clever with hands and
feet. He is built on the style of Bob
Fitzsimmons, carrying nearly all his
weight in the shoulders. > While his
work could not be classed as scientific,
Fredie has disposed of many boxers
who tried to live up to their reputa-
tion by fighting at long range.
O’Burke was to have met Chaney,
! but for some unknown reason Chaney
wired a cancellation. O’Burke is well
known to local sport fans, having
boxed here about two weeks .ago and
won a decision over Kears of the
Nineteenth infantry by the K. O. route.
Al. Ketchel, promoter, is confident that
the bout will be much faster than the
one originally planned.
I “Flash” Rogers, another member of
Camp Logan and formerly of Boston,
is matched for Kid Palmer in the six
round semifinal. Rogers’ clever foot-
work and speed won for him the title
of "Flash.”
“Thimble, Thimble, Who’s Got
the Thimble?” is most as old as
any game in the world and has
been played with variations in
many lands. What is believed to
be a brand new version of it has
just come to light at the U. G. D.
Hostess House.
It developed that in the equip-
ment of the Hostess House was a
thimble. It happened to be the
only one, too. It was brought into'
service at frequent intervals. Some
soldier man came in every now
and then for a new button, the
sewing up of a seam, or a bit of
darning. The thimble performed
its function with regularity and
due devotion to duty.
Yesterday the services of the
thimble were required. It was not -
in its accustomed resting place.
Nobody present was using it. It
was not to be found—even after
diligent playing of the ancient
game to the accompaniment of
turning everything topsy turvy.
Today a youthful fighter in the
uniform of Uncle Sam came into
the Hostess House. His manner
was a bit abashed, but he finally
managed to come up to the desk,
deposit the missing thimble there-
FOUR PERSONS KILLED.
By Associated Press.
Sheridan, Wyo., Jan. 26.—Four
persons were killed and four in-
jured today near Wola, Mont.,
when a freight train on the Chi-
cago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
road crashed into passenger train
No. 44, en route to Denver from
’ Billings, Mont.
THREE PERSONS KILLED.
By Associated Press.
Cascade, Colo., Jan. 26.—Three
persons were killed and two were
injured today when the Colorado
Springs-Cripple Creek automobile
stage, westbound, was struck by a
light Colorado Midland railroad
engine near here.
Dallas .■......25.0
Long Lake ..40.0
Riverside ....40.0
Liberty (yes.).25.0
Brazos River-
Kopperl ......21.0
Waco .22.0
Valley Jet. ..40.0
Colorado River—
Ballinger .....21.0
Marble Falls .36.0
German Socialist Urges Ending of the
War Before Spring.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Jan. 26.—Further re-
marks of Philip Scheideman, the Ger-
man Socialist leader, before the
reichstag in reply to Chancellor von
Hertling, are given in the Vorwaerts.
"I cannot see the day,” he said,
“when Germany will say to the entente:
‘We accept your term’s. We are beat-
en.’. But just as little can I see the
day when England, France and the
United States will say the same to
us.”
Regarding relations between Ger-
many and Austria, Herr Scheidemann
said an indication of the Austrian feel-
ing toward the present German regime
might be gathered from the fact that
during the recent demonstrations in
Vienna the Austrian emperor was •
never once attacked by speakers, but
that the German emperor was openly
and repeatedly insulted. This was
due, he said, to attacks of the German
junkers on Austria. He declared the
junker press had been demanding that
“Germany should be freed from Aus-
tria.”
Touching on President Wilson’s
peace terms, Herr Scheidemann said:
“Regarding Alsace there is nothing
for us to redress. It will remain ours.
But as for Belgium, let us cease med-
dling in Flemish politics. .
“Let us seek in honor to save the
world from new bloodshed in the
spring. Let us give up illusions on
both sides’. Remember that the feel-
ing among our people is most serious. •
If you permit the Russian negotiations
to break up and the people’s hope.to
be disappointed, what else can be ex-
pected but catastrophe?”
important changes in the Trinity,
Brazos or Colorado rivers in the next
36 to 48 hours.
B. BUNNEMEYER.
Sales—Spots, 887 bales; f. o. b., 1,200
bales.
NEW YORK SPOTS.
New York, Jan. 26.—The market for
spot cotton closed quiet and 20 points
down.
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