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FI&OST
NATIONAL BANK
X $600000
SAN ANTONIO - TEXAS
HIGHER RATE
FOES FINISH;
HOADS BEGIN
Oomplainants Rest Case With
Commission and Transpor-
tation Lines Get Into the
Fray.
TEXAS TARIFFS AT ISSUE
Testimony on the side of the com-
plainants in the hearing before mem-
bers of the interstate commerce com-
mission of the objection to the pro-
posed 10 per cent advance in Texas
freight rates was concluded at 11
o'clock this forenoon.
S. B. Weller of San Antonio presi-
dent of the firm of Newton Weller &
Wagner was the last witness heard for
the complaints. Mr. Weller was on
the stand the greater part of the morn-
ing. U. S. Pawkett was also heard
for a short time.
Defense Rests.
At the conclusion of Mr. Weller's
testimony Attorney Cowan announced
that so far as the taking of testimony
was concerned the complainarits rest-
ed. He then secured permission to
offer in evidence a large number of
tables and compilations showing the
earnings within Texas of the various
railroads involved also annual state-
ments of these roads to the stockhold-
ers and reports to the interstate com-
merce commission.
Railroads Begin.
Testimony for the railroads was then
begun C. Haile traffic manager of the
Missouri Kansas & Texas being the
first to take the witness stand. By
the testimony of Mr. Haile and
through figures introduced by him i<
was sought to show in continuation
of the general policy of the defendants
in the hearing that as a general propo-
sition and taking the M„ K. & T. as
an example the earnings during the
past year of railroad lines within this
state have not been sufficient and rate
advances are justified.
Passenger Earnings Slump.
' Passenger earnings were brought
into question at this point for the first
time and the witness stated in reply
to questions by Commissioner Harlan
that earnings on the M„ K. & T. in
passenger lines during 1908 would
prove approximately $700000 less than
had the 1907 rate continued.
Questions by the railroad attorneys
brought out the statement that reduc-
tions had been made during the past
year in freight rates which affected
among other commodities lumber
coal wheat and cattle shipments.
These reductions he believed w-ould
lower the earnings of his line by about
$lOOOOO which would be slightly more
than offset by advances in other lines
making the estimate according to the
usual annual tonnage.
Texas Only Affected.
During today’s session it was defi-
nitely fixed and agreed by both sides
that only Texas territory is involved
in the present hearing. This matter
came up through a query of Commis-
sioner Lane who in examining the pe-
tition of the complainants noted that
it spoke of an objection to a proposed
advance of freight rates in Texas and
other south-west territory. The words
“other southwest territory” were de-
clared meaningless.
Mr. Hale continued on the witness
stand at the resumption of the hear-
ing at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
MARKETS
f
COTTON.
New Orleans—Steady. Yester-
Open High. Low. Close. day.
December $.87 8.91 8.80 8.90-91 8.88
January 8.88 8.92 8.80 8.91-92 8.87
March 8.94 8.98 8.87 8.96-97 8.93
Leading Spot Markets.
. Yester-
Today. day.
Liverpool steady .7.. 5.07 5.07
Sales. 8000.
New York quiet 950 9.55
New Orleans steady.. 9.00 9.00
Sales. 1325.
Galveston steady .... 9% 9%
Sales 386.
Houstos quiet 914 914
Sales. 357.
GRAIN MArtKET.
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Open. High. Low. Close.
Wheat —
Dec. 104 104% 103% 104%
Corn —
Dec 63% 63% 63% 63%
Oats —
Dec .49% 49% 49% 49%
THE ONLY AFTERNOON PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO CARRYING ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
ESTAEIISHFL' 1881
WILL CLARK IS
CAUGHT RIFLING
REUM'S STORE
Was Inside Show-Case When
Officer Vernon Found Him.
Is Also Charged With Burg-
lary at Frank Bros.
OTHER CHARGES PENDING
Will Clark who was charged with
complicity in the safe robbery at Geo.
E .Plummer’s grocery store about a
year ago was captured at 2 o'clock this
morning in the act of burglarizing
the store of Emil Blum 517 East Hous-
ton street the arrest being made by
Patrolman Vernon
Following his arrest an investiga-
tion by the officers led to the discov-
ery that Frank Brothers’ store on Ala-
mo plaza had also been burglarized
during -the night some of the
goods stolen being found on Clark
when taken into custody.
Clark was transferred to the county
jail this afternoon.
Three Charges Filed.
As a result of his operations last
night three felony charges have been
preferred against him in Justice Ben
Fisk s court. He is charged in one
affiffidavit with the burglary of Emil
Blum’s store: in another with theft
over the value of $5O. which grows
out of the Blum store transaction and
accuses him with the theft of a lady’s
dress valued at $B5 and a cloak val-
ued at $4O. The third charge accuses
him of burglarizing the Frank store
where it is claimed he stole three
neckties all of which were found in
his possession when apprehended by
the police.
Clark is now under bond as a result
of the Plummer safe robbery* a year
ago. which created such a sensation
at the time. In this case Frank Mai-
baum and others were indicted. Mai-
baum jumped his bond. In this case
a safe was taken from the Plummer
establishment the contents taken out
after the safe had been blown open
and the safe thrown in the Salado
river.
•‘Have Me Cinched” Says Clark.
When apprehended this morning
Clark was in the show case and in the
act of taking a valuable gown. When
seized by the officer the young man
remarked:
“Well you certainly have nte cinch-
ed this time.”
The entrance to the display case
was gained through a door which
faces the store of which the lock
had evidently been picked. The man’s
operations had been watched by the
officer from a distance for a few min-
utes and seeing him enter the case
approached and arrested him.
Bond $5OO.
In an examining trial before Justice
Fisk today Clark waived a hearing in
the charge of burglary in the case of
the Blum store and his bond was fixed
at $590. On the other two charges
bonds of $lO9O each were fixed by
Justice Fisk this afternoon.
300 IMMIGRANTS
REACH GALVESTON
Special to The Light
Galveston. Tex.. Nov. 29. —The
North Genpan Lloyd steacer Chemnitz
arrived from Bremen shortly before
noon with 309 ♦mmigrants and a large
import cargo consisting chiefly of
holiday goods for merchants in the
interior of the state.
Lard—
Jan 9.27 9.45 9.27 9.45
CASH GRAIN.
Kansas City. Mo. Nov. 29. —Wheat;
No. 2 hard 96@103%; No. 2 red 100
@lO4.
Corn: No. 2 59%@59%c; No. 2.
white. 60c.
Oats :No. 2 47%c; No. .2 white
50%c. *
FORT VtORTH CATTLE MARKET.
Spacial to The Light
Hort Worth Tex. Nov. 20.—Cattle
s receipts 4500. hogs 4100. Steers fair
stead}Stops $3.80; cows choice high-
> er. calves choice steady
tops hogs fair steadv. tops
. 15.75.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1908
Shooting of Heney Puts New Life
Into Frisco Graft Prosecutions
The people of San Francisco have
taken a new grip on the movement to
exterminate graft as a result of the
shooting of Special Prosecutor Fran-
cis J. Heney by Morris Haas. The
forces of evil had worked up a reac-
tion which threatened to discourage
further prosecutions.
The large picture is of Heney the
fearless prosecutor. The small picture
to the left is of Senator Mitchell of
Oregon whom Heney convicted of
land frauds. At the left of the sketch
of the shooting scene is Mayor
Schmitz of San Francisco whom He-
ney convicted of bribery. Below is a
picture of Abe Ruef the king of San
Francisco grafters who is now on
trial.
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QUARANTINES
CATTLE IN PA.
ANDOYORK
Department of Agriculture
Starts Vigorous Effort to
Stamp Out Dreaded Foot
and Mouth Disea’se.
Washington D. C. Nov. 20.—Vigor-
ous efforts will be made by the de-
partment of agriculture to stamp out
the dreaded ailment among cattle
known as foot and mouth disease
which has been discovered to exist
among live stock in Pennsylvania
and New York and as a result of
which Secretary Wilson yesterday is-
sued an order quarantining these two
states.
The Union stock yards in Pittsburg
were ordered quarantined yesterday
but the managers announced last
night that this would probably be re-
moved as far as Pittsburg par-
ties were concerted.
CHARGE BOY OF 14
WITH BURGLARY
Verne Stockins a white lad who
gives his age as 14 years was arrest-
ed this morning by Detective Green
and lodged in the county jail on a
charge of having burglarized the H.
A. Moos book store on East Houston
street on the night of September 7.
The store was entered by springing a
catch on a window in the rear of the
establishment. The cash register was
opened and $5.29' taken. Six fountain
pens each said to be valued at $l9
was also taken. Stockins waived an
examining trial before Justice Fisk
this forenoon and his bond was fixed
at $590.
CAPTAIN HOLT DOING WELL
Mrs. William Holt is in receipt of a
letter from her daughter. Sadie
Barnitz stating that Captain William
Holt who was injured in a street car
accident at New Orleans Is improv-
ing. |
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BRYAN RUYS
G.D.P. ORGAN
Oklahoma “Capital” Will s ße
Managed by Victor H.
Metcalf.
Special to The Light.
Guthrie Okla. Nov. 20. —The report
that W. J. Bryan is interested in a
deal to purchase the Daily Capital was
confirmed here today when it was
learned that Victor H. Metcalf asso-
ciate editor of Bryan’s Commoner will
take charge of the newspaper soon.
The contract is already signed.
Eastern and Oklahoma politicians
are also’ interested in the plan it is
reported and it is expected to make
the plant a state printing establish-
ment. The Capital is now strongly re-
publican.
COUNTRY LIFE BOOSTERS
HEAR TEXANS TALK
Dallas Tex. Nov. 20. —The country
life commission sent to the southwest
by President Roosevelt held an im-
portant session today. Addresses were
delivered by prominent men includ-
ing former Senator Bowser President
Neill of the Farmers’' union and
former President Calvin of the same
organization. The attendance was
large. ' . i
LOCAL WEATHER
r OCAL weather forecast tor San An-
L tonic and vtehlitv:
Tonight and Saturday: Colder tonight-
The minimum temperature for the if
hours ending at S o'clock In the murning
‘was 56 and the maximum was 78.
k IMT !»•><
4 a. m 48 55
6 a. m 46 57
a. m 48 69
oa. m 5? 63
noon (.. 63 69
m 66 77
...
Dace 10.
ACCUSE MEN
WHO GUARDED
MORRIS HAAS
Frisco Policemen on Duty at
Cell When Prisoner Killed
Himself Will Have to Explain
Suspicious Actions.
San Francisco Cal. Nov. 29. —Wm.
J. Burns special agent of the district
attorney’s office and chief of the de-
tective bureau for the prosecution in
the bribery and graft investigation
last night filed with the police com-
mission charges alleging conduct un-
becoming an officer against Police-
men Blakeley and John Attridge the
two detailed to guard the cell of Mor-
ris Haas who shot Frances Heney
and afterwards committed suicide.
In his complaint he alleges that a
few hours before Haas took his life
the officers refused to permit Burns
to enter the cell and examine the pris-
oner in the interest of the attorney's
office. A hearing is set for Novem-
ber 27.
At the same session of the board
charges were preferred against Albert
Baker a saloonkeeper who Is alleged
to have expressed satisfaction when
he learned that Heney was shot and
to have reviled his associates in the
prosecution. It is charged that Ba-
ker is an unfit person to hold a license
to sell liquor.
ASK ARREST OF
“DIVINE HEALER”
Fort Worth Tex. Nov. 29.—A war-
rant was sworn out this afternoon for
the arrest of “King Schlatter" the di-
vine healer who arrived recently to
organize “God’s Army” with the as-
sistance of "Prince August.” It is al-
leged the “King” is trying to prac-
tice medicine without registering as
a physician.
RABE CaSE IS
GIVEN TO JURY
The case of Phillip Michael against
Sigmund Rabe went to the jury this
afternoon after a trial lasting three
days in the hWy-jeventh district
court. This was the second time Ujfl
the suit has been airedßin
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
HARVEST OF DEATH
IN 2 CHIES CLAIMS
TOTAL OFI VICTIMS
Twenty Die in New York Trench When
Gas Main Bursts; Four Are Hurled
to Death by Engine and Two by
Automobile.
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4* The harvest of death by viole nee shows 26 victims in casualties 4.
4« in two cities this morning. A gas explosion claims at least 20 in X
4- New York and an engine four an d an automobile two in Chicago. 4.
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New York Nov. 20.—'More than 20
persons are believed to have lost their
lives as a result of ah explosion of a
gas main at Gold and Front streets
Brooklyn today.
Practically the whole street from
the stoop line between Gold and Front
streets tumbled into a 50-foot excava-
tion in which 15 or more men were
working and several persons who
were walking along the street are re-
lieved to have been carried down.
It is believed that every person who
went into the excavation was killed
instantly or smothered or drowned
Fifty tenement houses on the block
are in such danger of falling into the
trench that the occupants have been
ordered out by the police.
The explosion tore the street to
pieces for rods on each side and the
15 men who were working in the ex-
cavation for a big sewer pipe were
buried by the debris which fell in
upon them and it is believed that they
were smothered to death in
the fire that the explosion. ;
Samuel Trout. •- $> lived near the i
scene lost his life in attempting to j
save a woman who was passing )
through Gold street at the time the I
explosion occurred and fell into a I
trench. Trout was caught J by the
flames from the blazing gas main ■
and roasted alive. The womap was I
dragged out of the trench and saved
by a boy.
Tlie accumulation of gas from the
main which was accidentally broketl
VISITING HOST
HEHL SATURDAY
Nine Pullmans Loaded With
Landseekers Are on
the Way.
A special train composed of nine
Pullman sleepers will arrive over the
Southern Pacific from Victoria tomor-
row evening. The train is known as
“The Landman’s Special” and tame
to Texas over the M. K. & T. from
Missouri and other states.' if G. Lang-
ston immigration agent of t6s Katy
railway is in charge of the party.
and upon its arrival here the mem-
bers of the party will be shown over
the city by local real estate men. Mr.
Langston is now in the city arrang-
ing for the arrival of the visitors.
SHERIFF-ELECT LINDSEY
FIXES UP HIS SLATE
B. D. Lindsey sheriff-elect of Bexar
county announced today that behad
completed his slate of appointments
of deputies and would announce it
later. *
Considerable interest has been
taken in these appointmepts as tha
sheriff has a long list including court
deputies jail guards and country
ties. Mr. Lindsey declined to give uB
FEWST
NATIONAL BANK
X $600000
SAN ANTONIO - TEXAS
during the course of the work ex-
ploded with tremendous force. The
supporting timbers were ripped away
and the high dirt walls toppled on the
men. The large water main was also
broken by the force of the explosion
and a perfect torrent of water began
to spout up through the mass of the
wreckage. Almost side by side wtthi
these geysers roared the flames from
the gas escaping from the broken
main. The firemen and workmen
from the city water department and
gas company worked desperately to
gether in an effort to check the flow
of gas and water and to relieve th®
men w-ho had been imprisoned. Nearly
half an hour's work was required to
bring the body of Trout who had been
burned to death to the surface of the
street.
Engine Kills Seven.
Chicago. 11l . Nov. 29. —Four track
laborers on a hand car were run down
by a Chicago & Quincy railroad pas-
senger train between Highland and
La Grange 111. today and killed and
five others were seriously injured.
Auto Hurls Two to Death.
Two persons were also drowned and
six others rescued from the water to.
day when an automobile in which
they had been speeding toward Chi-
cago swerved from its course at the
approach to the Torrence avenu*
bridge over Calumet rivier. Joseph
Meyer and Margaret Atkins are th®
names of those drowned.
YEGGMEN BLOW
\TEXAS SAFES
Citizens ancf Robbers Exchange
ShotsVt Joshua t Near
Cleburne.
Special to The Light.
Cleburne Tex. Nov. 20.—YeggmeS
operated near Cleburne early thia
morning. At Keene seven miles north
east the safe of the Reed & Reed
store was blown open. Thirty dollars
in cash was stolen and $25 of post-
office money was taken. The cash
drawer of the Katy depot was also
rifled. The robbers escaped leaving
no clue.
At Joshua eight north of
here at about the saike hour ths
safe in Sam West’s store was cracked.
Citizens hearing the explosion ran to
tn* scene and the robber
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