The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913 Page: 1 of 12
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j*WS AS II HAPPENS
national state, foreign, of
interest to readers.
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what was done this week
Snort Mentioning of Interenting Hap-
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
washington news.
LlniiiatiOiiH on tht> riKlit of individ-
ual* or ronwnittPHH to culloct ca;n-
imign in ont> «tat«' and wend
tliH'n n'lMtly lo iiuothor for presi-
dential or coiigreHHional campalRna
wort) dlm-iiKMfd by tho aonato Monday
(luiitiK Kvcral bourn' dehato on ilu>
< l*IM' bill to iirohiblt Interstate tiant.
l>ortation of Midi funds. The xeuato
adjoni'tieil without 'filial action on tho
hill
Senator Thornton Monday Intro-
duced a bill to establish a fish cul-
tural station, to cost $.r>il,00<), at some
point mi Louisiana to he selected by
the secretary of commerce.
I'rcMdi'ht Wilson lei it !><• known
Sunday that he did not favor a re
cess of congress at tills tii <«, hut de
Mred continuous and uninterrupted
considc ration of the pending currency
bill.
Ueprenentative Henry I) Clayton.
< hail man ot the judiciary committee,
Saturday M-ut to I'renident Wilson u
letter ixpresj-'inn his wllllnKnoHB to
withdraw from the senatorial fb'ht
un.i remain in the house lo help carry
Ihrough the ailmlnlslration'H anti trust,
program
The deficiency bill, which came up
in the house Friday on the question
of adopting the conference report, car-
•d thru 11 ems oi particular interest
10 Ti \.i- Two of these are for Gal-
veston One Is an appropriation of
$50,uou for constructing riprap around
the federal quarantine slat ion, and the
other is to make available the $G5,0UU
autliori/.eii in th ' last public buildings
hill for the acquirement <>! an apprais
eih' ston house The two Items were
added in the senate, one at the re-
quef.t of Senator Sheppard and tiie
oiher at the request ol Senator i ill
berson
I'hret new battleships and a | ro
po donate number of suhmarlueB an J
io! ,ieflo boat de .troyers is the aim of
"" " ''liiiui:>"'<I1 f hapin
it it. %.i, , " '*• "••• JJc. i-nthei
SIOU OI 1 OIIK ' CS:
K ih> con-ettt of Itepre. i 'Tr I n-
Oei wood anil otliei' tiousi' leader can
be secured, a joint resolution will be
jih sed through MjnRresK within a lew
day. lebitlm: to that portion of the
new tariff law authorizing a 0 :>ei
< eni tariff i >%t>>tt• - on goods brought
lo (his country in Mnerfeati owned
whips.
Fire Saturday desiroved the Morris
Kin, located at Palestine, Texas. The
loss will rea< h $f<,00n
Timothy I. Woodruff, former lieu-
tenani governor of New York State,
died Sunday niKhl ill New York, lie
had lain in a critical condition frr
nearly two weeks, after having been
stricken with paralysit hil<- address
iiik a fusion ratification ineeliug in
Cooper Cnion, New York. Sept. !!!> I at.
He was " r> years old
Gunboit Smith of California defeat-
ed Carl Morris of Oklahoma iu the
fifth rouid of a ten round bout Thurs-
day In New York The referee dis-
qualified Morris for fouling
The Texas game, fish and oyster
department has .% "-ii officially adv ised
by the biological sur\e> of the I'nitcd
States department of agriculture (hat
the open season on ducks, geese and
other water fowl and shore birds iu
Texas would be from Nov 1 to Keb 1.
Previously it was fixed from Oct Ifi to
Jan. 1, but this was enanged when
Texas made a plea that the water
fowl shooting season be from Oct. 1 to
Keb. 1.
The National German American Alli-
ance dosed the business sessions of
Its biennial convention Wednesday at
St. Louis, Mo., after d t iding to meet 1
iu 1916 in San Francisco
J A llorrtaffc of Madlsonville, I'ex
as. litis been chosen by ('resident Wi!
b()II i'IH li't< irshal for the Southern Ins-
trict of Texas
ICxport movement of all commodi-
ties from the port of Galveston. Texas,
for September were valued at
866,848. This value, shown by tin of-
ficial records of the I'nitcd States
custom house, is an increase over tho
value of the total exports of Septem-
ber. 1912, of $5,458.37!
Charles F Murphy. I -ader of Tain
inan> Hall, abandoned his policj of
silence Wednesday at New \ ork long
enough to assert that no one ever had
come to him with a i< quest that lie j
stop Governor Sulzer impeachment
1 rial.
Floods along creek bottoms have
damaged crops to the extent of $"11111,
000 in the vicinity of Lockhart, Texas
Thousands of acres of unpicked cot-
ten were flooded
Two white convicts were captured
Tuesday on the ranch ot John M
Moore, about twelve miles west of
Richmond. Texas. The) were two of
the twent> convicts -vho escaped from
the Imperial state farm Sunda>
I'eter Volo, a •> « iir old colt, Mon
tlay broke tln> world's record for trot
ters of that age, making the second
mile on a Lexington il<> 1 track in
2 "4 1
Hctweeii one and four hundred refu-
gees from Mexico have crowed the
liver at Del Kio, Texas, ttlnci it vas
atiiiouuced tli it K igle I'ass had quar
ant.eed against them be. an.- ot small
pox
SHIP BURNS IN MID-OCEAN a great coal mine disaster
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STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Si 1 lldlttg of tile club- at tile till!: 1)
ot the world m series baseball I'.aitn
Won Lost. I' C
I'lliladelphla 4
Now York I
\d W olrast of *': 1:1 iI!■ 1 •
I tied Hattllng Neb-on of
l!l in a ten route
contest lit Milwaukee,
Wol"ast had tin bet 1
I 800
4 200
Mn il . dy
l|ej.;esw' ,
1 no ib 1 ; 1,1 box'- h 1:
Wit Moilda>
r of eight of
tin- ten round, wllil ' *<1 were ev. ti
Selecting Austin in compliment to
uulister General A bert .'s Murle
as the nev' tin "tin • place elect
off Kits to serve dut'lti.' the c</'
Near, and adopt tig many r< du
tions looking to the improvement 01
the postal service, the fifteenth an
until convention of the 'lex is I'osimis
luff.' \ssoclution and the tenth annual
FOREIGN NEWS.
Ktirtli tremors contitun Thirty-one
h :n' been recit t ■: e,| b> t he Am on
HMMiioi.- aph at r.m.iiaa to date tie
ports received Monday indicate an-
other .e\ere shock 111 Los Santos
province on Saturda> iiitIH Tins dis
extended
fa 1 is I' ilia ma
worn in tn a
t 'hodorow, I la
Jny caused it
s of women rin-herl to
XIee:| wa O et'U hed to
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tug
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Vxas « losed ilu ir Joint convention
Ga I \ e - a /u Monday
llracing 1 all weather, with generally
skies, is promised fot the greater
of the country this week by the
weather bureau til Washington.
The arrest of three girls and eight
ranging in ages from 14 to 18
years, at South ISetid, Ind . Monday,
revealed a remarkable gang ol youth
thieves. Two have onfessed The
declare thai the boys and gills
,, ve been plotting and executing rob
heries for several months and that
fill
pollci
t 1
is
their loot amounts to n re than $1,000
Captain William A. I'ltts, Texas
ranger, soldier of the 1 onfederacy,
i.taleHinati and citizen, died Monday at
Austin, Texas Captain i'ltta was one
of the oldest Texas rangers, having en
listed in ft company organized by
Henry K McCulloch in I8f>n
It was announced Monday that the
name aelected by the carnival asso
elation for its midway at Houston will
bo "Tickletow 11 ' The name was sug
mated by Mrs William f France
1,00 n,'tries were Ug
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• .!,ion 01 ill in
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he United
Hawaii and I'orto
was :t I^t barrels
each, or 4,t>6a,47.'t ■ liort
valued at $9,402,772. which was
u gain of nearly Li pel cent in value
compu'cd with 1X1/
Slates.^^cludiim
Hieo, li*.l!U2
■of 280 pofrtjils
tons
urban< >
City
The faintin.- ot a
rowiled synagogue at
I u na, Hull an 1. Su*
panic linnet
the doots and
death.
e hundred and ten members of
the chamber of dt nut t" • w ho loin rflgll
ed resolution' of waruin to I't dent
Hlletia as the result ol the d. appeal'
ance of l)r Ibdisi.'io nomiufiie/., .
member of the .-«■ 1 at 1 ■ ■ < e 1111v. were
arrested Saturday mil i dged 11 the
penitentiary at Mexico i ity The ar-
rests followed a demand by I'le-iileltt
Huerta that the chamber withdraw the
ri-olutioii which carried tie threat
that the deputies would iibainlon thu
capital owitif to nn alleged lack of
guarantees for their personal safely
The latest accounts of the disaster
to the steamship Yolturno. burned and
abandoned in mldoceon Friday morn
ing, confirm that the loss of life will
lie limiled to ab >ut one hutidr-'d and
thirty six. The Curmauia. first of the
reaculni: ships to rem h the hurn.ng
steamer, arrived at Win eie-tow n, Kn
gland, Monday
Yaqui Indians Suturdny raided the
property of a graplwite compiiny forty
miles east of Hermnsillo, Mexico, op-
erated by Fred CarrulhctH, an Ameri-
can All provisions. arms and um-
mutiitiou weii t.iki n by the Indians.
I'rlnco Taro Katstira. former pre
mier of .lapan. died Friday at Toklo,
111 pan. after an extended illnest
The Ganiboa dike, the Inst artificial
barrier to actual eommunleatlon lu«-
tweer. the Atlantic ^tid I"ar-111<- oeeaDH
by way of the I'anaina canal, wan
rent in twain by ti e band ol ('resident
Woodrow Wilson at 2:iiJ o'clock I'n
'lay afternoon Met ween three and
'our thousand per-ona from Panama
ind Colon cities and various ^ei 'ious
il the canal zone journeyed to the
♦.cue to witness the Uemolltlnn of the
barrier.
steamer volturno catche8
fire in midocean and 136
lives were lost.
the wireless brings aid
Over Five Hundred Passengers Were
Saved—Lifeboats Smashed—Many
Jumped Overboard and
Were Swept Away.
London Not since the Titanic sank
has Furope been so thrilled as by a
wireless message Saturday telling of
the burning of the steamship Yolturno
In mid Atlantic with a loss, so far an
Is al present known, of 135 lives and
the rescue of 521
The Yolturno sailed from Rotterdam
on Oct. 2 for New York, and accord-
ing to the official statement she car-
ried 22 first cabin passengers. 538
steerage and a crew numbering 96.
The rescue ships reached the scene
of the disaster In plenty of time to
save all, but for hours stood by the
blazing v ssel, impotent, because of
the storm, 10 reach the agonized men,
women and children crowding the
after part of the ship, which was with-
in a stone's throw.
All iiinht Thursday the lifeboats
made a desperate effort to get along-
side the Yolturno, but the waves beat
them back again and again and not
until the storm abated at daylight Fri-
day did the rescuers succeed in re-
moving the survivors from the doomed
blilp
The Yolturno was equipped with
boats sufficient, the agents say, fo' a
thousand people, but the boisterous
sea or lack of boat drill, or panic
among the passengers prevented the
successful employment of them. The
rescue ships were able to lower life-
boats, but iippar 'iitly most of the
boats launched from the Yolturno
were smashed or upset and the oceu-
pants drowned. Two of the boats,
crowded with passnngers, are reported
to have got away from the ship, but a
search for them has proved fruitless
and they have practically been given
up as lo • The occupants of these
boats are included in the death roll.
The steamer Carmania, bound from
New York tor Liverpool, was seventy-
eight miles away when the call for
help sounded. Captain H.irr ordered
full steam in spite of the gale and
was the first of the feet to reach the
burning vessel The Carmanla wan
followed by Lit Touralne, Minneapolis,
itappahauock. Czar, Narragnnseit, He
Ionian, Kroonland, Grosser Kurfurat
and Seydlitz at \ annus hours hrotigh-
out the day. Hut try as they might,
the rescuing vessels could get neither
line nor lifeboat to the Yolturno, the
forward part of which was almost
hidden by a dense cloud ol smoke
when the t armaiiia arrived
The burning steamer lay in the
trough of the sea. | outidln ■ helplessly
with her propellt rs fouled by the
boat s tack'e The terrified passen-
gers wert hii'ldl d together as far as
It was pot-si bit; to get Irotn tin- flames
while throughout the day the officers
and crew fought desperately with
whatever appliances w re at hand to
hold the ftc in check. Hut night came
on niut the seas abated only slightly.
The circle Of steamers Ke|it their
t earchlicht: playing and waited pa
iiently within the 1! 1,1 • 1 zone for the
first moment when they might again
launch the lifeboats. The hopeless-
m sk of the situation was manifested
nt 9 o'clock in the evening when a
great 1 \pl >s;on tore away part of the
upper works and flames burst from
the cugieti room !t then became a
matter of how long the Volturuo would
stay above Hie water.
.Meanwhile, several of the terrified
passengers, wrapped in life buoys,
dropped ov i into t e s> a One of
them was taken aboard the Carmania.
It may be that others found a haven
with others Is of the fleet, but
some undoubtedly were swept away
Wh-'ti day broke the \ alturno was still
afloat. The gale had moderated and
the scan had calmed down. From al-
most every one of the encircling
-teatiter's lifeb iii;: were sent out and
Into these the women and children
were lowered tlrsi Several trips were
necessary before the survivors were
moved to a place of safety
It iu poinlid out ns a remarkable
coincidence that the Yollurno, about
four years ago, made a notable rescue
in a great storm in mid \tlnntic of
the crew of a French vessel Captain
Harrison, who then eoiiiniiinded the
Yolturno, win decorated by the French
government for his daring an
I'usscnger tells of the rescue
"As the fire on the Yolturno kept
away from the after deck, we kept ma
ncuveritig near and sent three boats
away which made many trips At !
o'clock the last boat a'on side carried
the capt ilti
"Nobody was left on board. We had
fie cecib"! in 1 ak 1 noff eighty eight
pn-scni! 1 r« and the capt itn's dog Our
boats w■ vi then placid in davits and
We proceeded fail . pci tl ahca.l.
OVER FOUR HUNDRED MINERS
ARE PROBABLY DEAD.
Explosion in Mine Near Cardiff,
Wales. Entombs 931 Miners—500
Taken Cut Alive.
Cardiff, Wales. A disaster, possibly
tho greatest in the history ot South
Wales coal fields, whose annals are
bristling with terrible catastrophes,
occurred Tuesday through an explo-
sion 111 the Universal colliery near
Cardiff Shortly after the day shift
of 1<31 men entered the mine an ex-
plosion shattered the works.
During the day and early in the
night about 500 miners were brought
to the surface alive.
Alter midnight the rescuing parties
began to get the fire under control
and at 2:30 Wednesday morning twen-
ty more men were found alive at the
bottom of the It. This gave hope
Hint others may be found, iiut there is
still a probability that nearly 4HU men
perished.
Including the bodies recovered and
those killed at the pit head, tho known
death roll numbers sixteen. Doctors
with oxygen and medlcants descended
the s1 nit at an early hour Wednesday
morning. A crowd of 40,000 distracted
persons surrounded thu pit head all
nlghl and another E.OOO waited for
news ai t. e Cardiff station.
The men brought 10 tho surface !
were found on the east 'side of tliu
mine, where the ventilation remained j
fairly good On the west side, whera j
the explosion occurred, lire soon add-
ed its terrors and the rescue parties
were unable to work for hours.
Police were required to keep back
women and children who crowded
around the mine entrances in hopes j
of obtaining news of kinsmen. Most |
of the rescued men were suffering
burns, shocks or effects of poisonous '
gases.
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No Longer Hope for Fair Electior. j
Washington. -The first regular cabi-
net meeting since last July, which wan
to have dealt largely with administra-
tive routine and particularly with lay-
ing the ground work for a government I
al budget, was held Tuesday, '''lie sub ;
Ject of prime importance before the
cabinet, of course, was the Mexican sit-
uation which, in one respect, has be-
come serious, in 11 stern note, which
City 01 Mexico dispatches Bay iht
Huerta g nrnent regards as "intern-
p< rate," the American government an
nouuees to Geveral Huerta that Huer
la's assumption ot dictatorship makes
it impossible for this government to
recognize the elections scheduled for
Oct 2'j as free, legal and constitu-
tional.
Fcur Persons Killed in Wreck.
Dallas, Tex. I'lic motormati and
throe passengers were instantly killed
and twenty-one out of a total of twen
•y seven puBsengers were injured when
an unmanned flat car loaded with ties,
running wild down a two-mile grade,
crashed head-cn into a southbound
Dallas Waco intcrurbun cur Tuesday
night, on ti twenty foot trestle about
two and a hall miles south of Italian.
Katy Case May Rest Awhile.
Austin, Tex.—It is not likely there
will be any more testimony taken in
the state's suit ugainst tiie Katy rail-
road until the case conies up for trial,
according to Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Luther Nickels, who has returned
from Walnut Springs, where the tei
tlrnony was taken last week.
Grey Must Rnconcilc Japanese.
London. Sir Richard McBride, pro
inter of liritisli Columbia, has Imposed
on Sir Kdwtird Grey, British secre-
tary of state for fort ien affairs, the
task of reconciling tlriat Britain's pro-
Japanese policies with Itntish Colum-
bia's ileti rmination to enforce Its de-
cision to exclude Asiastics from its
territory.
Discate Threatens Cotton.
Washington The cotton crop suf
fared an unusual loss of about $2,000,-
000 ai a result ol the disease known
as cotton aiithracnose, or boll rot In
a report on the abject, the depart-
ment of agriculture says that since
the- fungus can livc on dead cotton
bolls in the field for at l asl a year
and in the seed for two or three years,
there should be rotation of crops, cot-
ton never should be planted on land
where aiithracnose was prevalent the
year previous, while fully as linpor
Unit is the selection of healthy seed.
Galveston-Dallas Road Selected.
Houston, Tex Work of logging the
new aiitoniobil" highway from Dallas
to Halve ton, known as the Colorndo
tothcGulf Hh liway started Tue day
* in 11 . pat ifmder . a va.tun.
Marus Dods, mapping and lo,- ;i 11 •; thu
roed for the lliue Hon O L Wt!
limns, president of the n so .at m . and
Colonel I. II lliiwny if 1 i a I v est ou le't
I ia Has.
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J. R. Pfeiffer, Proa.
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E. S. Or?ain, Sec. and Tre&a.
Bastrop Lumber Co., loc.
BASTROP, TEXAS
Contractors and Builders
Will Develop Your Plans
Long Leaf Pine
Shingles, Sash, Doors, Builders'
Hardware, Paints, Mouldings, v
Glass. Wall Paper, Brick.
Lime, Cement, Etc.
Lit Us Make an Estimate Betore Closing Your Contract
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Will pay tiie IH^hest Price In Cash, Rive
yon Honest Weights, and buy at any time,
winter or summer
Your Cotton Seed
Bagging — Ties
To exchange for the
Seed Only.
Buy and Sell
Evertmng for the
Cash Only,
POWELL OIL MILL CO.
MAXWELL AUTOMOBILES
Five passenger. 4 cylinder 25 horse power, com-
plete with wind shield, top and speedometer,
$750.00.
Five passenger, 35 horse power, complete with
top, wind shield and speedometer,
$1,085.00
OIJK GUARANTEE GO WITH THESE CARS
W. T. WROE & SONS, Agents
AUSTIN, TEXAS
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