The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Kepublicuii senators succeeded Mon-
day In temporarily delaying action on
many of President Wilson's appoint
merits. At a short executive session
of the senate it was agreed that all
appointments to * hlcli objection was
made should lie passed until the next
session. Republicans objected to prac-
tically all civil appointees except lead-
ing diplomatic and state department
nominations
Tarl!f debates for two weeks will
be followed this week by the opening
of the real fight over the democratic
tariff bill on the floor of the house.
Backed by the favorable decision of
the democratic house caucus and bear-
ing the approval of President Wilson,
the I'nderwood tariff bill will reap
pear 011 the floor of the house ready
for the fighting that is to be waged
there over its par.sage.
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan, following the precedent of pre-
vious administrations, Saturday made
known their views on the legislation
now pending 111 California by which
the Japanese would be prevented from
owning land in that State. In a tele
gram to Governor Johnson, Secretary
Bryan expressed the vie. of Presi-
dent Wilson that the California as
sembly bill might be construed as a
violation of treaty obligations with j
Japan, while the senate's measure as
drawn would not be obJectlonable~"if
alien lam* '"gielation is to be enacted
at ail. In > case the federal gov-
ernment lecognUed the right of Cali-
fornia to legislate according to its
own Judgment, but the message coun-
seled caution.
Senator Shcppard and Representa-
tives Henr> and liayburn have urged
Secretary of l<abor Wilson to appoint
James S Meyers, former commission
er of laN1*" of 'r—' u •>« assistant sec-
... the department or tuuui.
Secretary Daniels announced Sat
urday that next winter practically the
entire Atlantic fleet would be sent on
a three months' cruise to the Mediter-
ranean. This will be the new secre
tary's first step in pursuance of his
policy to make the navy in times of
peace a great educational force for
the enlisted men, and to afford them
opportunity to enjoy the broadening
advantages of first-hand knowledge of
the great countries of the world.
The Pnited States was exporting
more than thirty-six times as much
fresh beef and cattle six years ago
than It sends abroad today, as shown
by statistics made public Saturday by
Secretary Iteiifieid of the department
of commerce. In the first nine
months of the present fiscal year end
ing March III there was exported only
6,479,43!* pounds of fresh beef and
13.5K8 pounds of cattle, as compared
with 200,039,7 21t pounds of fresh beef ,
and 307.726 pounds of cattle in the
same months of 1!">7.
Secretary Lane has under consid-
eration a proposition that the reclaim
ed lands of the West be turned over
to the department of agriculture for
settlement and development as soon
as the engineering works are finished
by the reclamation service.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
After an Inspection of the camps ot
the Second division of the 1 nited
States army at Galveston and Texas
City. Major General Leonard Wood,
chief of staff of the army, left Mon-
day for Brownsville oti a trip ol In-
spection along the Mexicou border
from Brownsville to Nogales. Arix.,
that will occupy several weeks time.
The Union Pacific asks for cxten
slon of time until July 1 in which to
divorce finally the Southern Pacific.
Dallas was chosen ns the next place
of meeting of the 'I i'xhh Osteopathic
Association, and Dr. A. J larr of
Mineral Wells was chosen as the pres-
ident of the organization for the ensu-
ing year at the final session of the
thirteenth annual meeting of the
State association at Houston Satur-
day.
The twenty second annual conti-
nental congress of the National So
ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution adjourned sine die in
Washington Saturday. One of the
most important actions of the session
was the adoption of a resolution stat-
ing it was the sense of the congress
that it was desirable that George
p Washington's home at Mount Vernon
should be opened to the public every
Sunday, at least, for a few hours.
Captain Walker of the Fourteenth
United States cavalry captured forty
rifles and 6,000 rounds of ammunition
at Samfordyce, Texas, Saturday.
These munitions were to have been
•ent across the border into Mexico.
There will be choruses from twenty
three of the German male singing so
cities of Texas and a mixed chorut
from the three musical societies ot
Houston, Texas, at the State Saenger
fest, which will be held in Houston on
May 5, G and 7.
Pirate gold, recovered from remains
of a craft which ran aground on a
coral reef four miles south of Miami,
Kla., presumably in the days or Cap-
tain 'vidd. was placed in a safety do-
posit vault in Chicago Friday by E.
A Cole, a Chicago manufacturer who
happened "Tipon the buried treasure
while he was searching for bits ot
coral. His find was a chunk of melt-
ed gold weighing two and a half
pounds and worth probably $8uo.
Professor Lester F. Ward, recog
nixed as one of the foremost American
Philosophers, a geologist of note, and
author of many scientific results, died
Friday in Washington, I). C.
With a cargo of 24.(100 bunches of
bananas on board, the United Fruit
Company steamer Preston arrived in
Galveston Thursday from Port Llmon
This steamer is the largest vessel of
the United Fruit Company fleet that
ha.s yet entered the harbor, and the
cargo on board was the largest that
has been received.
The movement of Texas onions
through Galveston to Northern mar-
kets, via steamer, is now well under
way. All coastwise vessels leaving
this week have carried large consign-
ments of the popular vegetable.
The explosion of a lantern Satur-
day set fire to the plant of Humble
Light and Power Company The com-
pany also operated an ice plant in
connection and both were totally de-
stroyed Loss, $15,01)0.
With Galveston chosen as the meet
Ing place for l'JH, and with officers
elected lor the ensuing year, the con-
vention proper of the Texas Funeral
1 ''.rectors' and KnibaInters' Associa-
tion came to a close Wednesday at
San Antonio, Texas.
Charges of offering to sell his vote,
preferred against Representative ('lit
ford L. Snow of Manchester, N. 11.,
were upheld by the house and lie
was ordered expelled. The vote was
177 to 111*. Party lines were elimi-
nated in the balloting.
Kmanuel Raphael, 05 years old, one
of the best known ot Houston's busi-
ness men, diel Wednesday.
Rolling stock of ten railroads enter-
ing Houston, Texas, will be i< s^ego;,!
58:5 78 for 1913-14. This assessment
was set by the county commissioners
court Tuesday and wa based on the
figures submitted by the auditors of
each company. These figures will be
forwarded to the state tax assessor's
office and there each county will be
Informed of the amount of money
due it from the railroad company, ac-
cording to the number of miles of
track of each road in each county.
Prom
NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY
For the second time New York
state furnishes a Roosevelt as assist-
ant secretary of the navy. The Illus-
trious Theodore served In that capa-
city under McKlnley, and now his
cousin. Franklin l). Roosevelt, but a
sturdy Democrat, has been appointed
to the same post.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Is a fighter,
too, but In a manner different from
that of our ex president The spring-
bok and the deceitful dik-dik need not
fear htm. and It is unlikely that he
will ever load a charge up San Juan
hill or any other hill The biggest
game that Franklin D. Roosevelt has
ever attacked was the Tammany
tiger and the striped cat got by far
t'ae worst of the encounter Roose-
velt In 1910 was elected state senator
from Dutchess. Columbia and Putnam
counties and at once led a bolt.
against the party leaders at Albany.
who were committed to the candidacy
of William Sheehati for United States
senator At the head of a little band of 21 men he kept up a long and hot
light until In the end James Aloysius O'Gorman was sent to Washington as
junior senator from the Empire state
Senator Roosevelt Is thirty one y ears old and Is a fifth cousin of Theodore
Roosevelt.
KING'S SECRETARY SOON TO RETIRE
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FOREIGN NEWS.
It is estimated by the socialists that
500,000 men are on strike throughout
the country in Belgium.
Militant suffragettes in London, En
ghtnd, were stormed Sunday by mobs.
Pope Piux X has recovered to such
an extent that physicians do not issue
bulletins at Rome on his condition.
It was announced In Berlin, Ger-
many. Saturday that former King
Manuel of Portugal Is engaged to
marry Princess Augustine Victoria,
daughter of Prince Wilhelrn 01 ilohen
zollerrt.
Two flat cars, carrying twenty one
dying and maimed men, victims of
the most disastrous dynamite explo
slon on the canal zone in live years,
rolled into Panama Sunday It Is es-
timated that twenty or more deaths
were caused, in addition to many la-
borers being injured
Seventy five Mexican federals were
killed when Insurgents dynamited a
troop train a few tulles south of Chi-
huahua City, Mexico, Saturday. Refu-
ged report they encountered the
wrecked train and numerous bodies
which apparently for several days had
remained along the tracks of the Mex-
ican Central railway. '
The agreement for suspension of
hostilities between the Bulgarians and
the Turks was officially confirmed
Friday. The armistice will last until
April 23 and may be prolonged if
peace has not been concluded in the
interim.
Lieutenant
Greek aviator
ADMITS HE'S A "LITTLE GREEN"
Mr and Mrs Marshall are not en-
thusiastic over their new honors and
surroundings at Washington They
are trying hard to settle, so that they
can be as happy and comfortable as
they were at Columbia City before
they went to Indianapolis to take pos-
session of the executive mansion.
"I hope to like It here after I get
onto the ropes," said Mr Marshall
tl>e other day. "I am a little green,
and I know that everybody in Wash-
ington knows It. but I really thlnft
I'll like it after I get the hang of
things.
"My life has been made a little
burdensome by job hunters who think
that I atn a real pie counter man
Nine-tenths of my letters are applica-
tions for positions
"But It is all right, and In time I
will be on the earth again Back In
Indiana I was sentenced Here l will
be. As St Paul says, 'Not that l
speak In respect of want; for I hove
learned in whatsoever state I am, then
"There," said a journalist, lndlcat
ing Lord Knollys, calm, suave and Im-
perturbable, at the time when the
coronation of the late King Edward
had been postponed owing to his Ill-
ness and rumors of probable abdlca
tlon and other things were flying
about, "stands the secret history
What a wealth of good paragraphs
there would be If we could only get
him to talk!"
It was a tribute to the man behind
the throne who, after forty five years
of fov«i vnivlce as private secretary
three monarchs O'teon
George Is about to retire, says Lon-
don Tit Bits. What an absorbing
story of the Inner side of court life
Lord Knollys could unfold' King Kd-
ward trusted him Implicitly, regard
ing him as an intimate friend and
companion, as well as secretary and
adviser. Invariably relying on his
judgment and having no secrets from
"Francie," as he was wont to call his lordship
It Is extremely unlikely, however, that the world will ever be taken Into
Lord Knollys' confidence regarding his long association with the royal fam-
ily, for he is a man who talks little and writes less
were killed
aeroplane from a height of 2,000
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A r g h y rlopeulous, u
and a passenger, Con-
stantinos Manos, a noted Cretan chief,
Friday by the fall of an
_ _ __ feet
near Saloniki
The discovery ui a method of pro-
longed Immunization against diphthe-
ria, consisting of an LJectlon of
dlphthertix toxin and anti toxin, was
announced Saturday by Professor Emil
von Boh ring of the University of Mar-
burg at the Congress of International
Medicine, In session at West Baden,
Germany.
The Servian commander Is said to
be concentrating three divisions of
Servian troops at Veles, southeast of
Uakup, against the threatened Bul-
garian. attempt to dispossess them of
territory captured during the war.
The Greeks in the same way are tak-
ing measures for the retention of
Kaloniki
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