San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 107, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 16, 1912 Page: 10 of 18
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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1912.
TEXAS WELFARE \m fl™is found'intfmntion is opposeo'cko demdcrhts row
Assistant City Marshal Blqdsoe of Cle- j
burne Buried Under IS Inches j
of Debris.
Texas Congressmen Voice Strong
Feelings Against Possible
Move.
W. B. TITTLE OF SAN ANTONIO
TALKS ON PERSONAL IN-
JURY LAWS.
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Special Telegram 10 Tho Express.
HOUSTON, Tex., April 15.~The Texas
Welfare Commission convened for its
first session in this city today, Chairman
R. C. Duff calling the orgainzation to
order in the Bender Hotel. During this,
the first day of the meeting, the com-
mission heard a lengthy address from
J. H. Hill, president of the Texas Gen-
eral Managers' Association, who pre-
sented a plea for amended railroad legis-
lation; w. B. Tuttle. general manager
of the San Antonio Street Railway, on
personal injury laws; from In. William
B. Phillips, director of tho Bureau of
Economic Geology and Technology of
the University of Texas, and from J. M.
Gibson, an oyster and fish dealer of Cor-
pus Christi, who moved the revision of
the State oyster and fish laws Ho the end
that the industry mentioned might be
properly protected and fostered.
All of the petitioners before the com-
mission will file memorandums that will
detail their pleas for amended or addi-
tional legislation on the several subjects
presented to the end that, the commis-
sion may properly study them and make
such recommendations as they may deem
fit.
In addition to the matters pressed be
fore the commission by interested parties
in person, letters were received on the
subject of railroad legislation from Pres-
ident K. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe and
B. F. Yoakum of the Frisco lines, bear-
ing on the subject in hand The letters
were filed for consideration.
Every member of the Texas Welfare
Commission was present, with but three
exceptions, when <!halrman R. <\ Duff
of this city called the commission to
order in the Bender Hotel this morning
at 10 o'clock. There were present, Chair-
man R. C. Duff, Houston; Tom FJnty
Jr., Dallas; T. T. Pryor, San Antonio;
John H. Kirby. Houston; Paul Waples.
Fort. Worth; John N. Simpson, Dallas,
W. T. Tjoudermilk, *DeT#eon; W. I'. H
McFadden, Beaumont; R. K. Huff, Wlch
ita Falls; Dr. *S. P. Brooks, Waco; W.
W. Turney, El Paso; S. A TJndsey, Ty-
ler; Dr. E. O. Tiovett, Houston. Ab-
sent. J. M. Ivindsay, Gainesville: o. E
Bunlap, Waxahaehie; W. H. Turney, El
Paso.
Bandera 3; Tivy High 2.
Special Tel pgr am to The Express.
KERRVIDDE. Tex., April 15—In a
game of baseball between the Bandera
team and the Tivy High School team,
played here this afternoon, the former
won, 3 to 2.
CLEBURNE, Tex.. April 15.—Still
clasping the nozzle of a fire hose, the
body of Assistant City Marshal Albert
Bledsoe was found this morning beneath
eighteen inches of brick and mortar in
the Johnson County courthouse, which
burnt-d here last night.
Bledsoe, with a squad of firemen, was
on the second floor near the District
Court rocm playing water on the blaze,
when, without warning, a wall toppled
over his bead. He was the foremost man
of the squad and yie only one to be
caught by the descending mass.
Dutch fashion, another member of the
squad, was injured, but not seriously.
He and another survivor retreated to the
second story windows whence they es-
caped to tlie ground after narrow escapes
from death.
Bledsoe was instantly killed. He leaves
a widow and two small children.
The total damage was about $75,000,
with $38,000 insurance. The fire started
near the base of the cupalo. Defective
wiring is suggested as a cause, although
some investigators assert it was incen-
diary.
The county records are believed to be
safe.
DONATES SITK FOR PARK.
Coleman Couple (Jive City Plot of
(rround for Public.
SppHnl Telegram t« Th<» Express.
COLEMAN, Tex., April 15.—Some
weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Cameron
offered to the City Federation of Wom-
en's Clubs a plat of land in the west part
of town, near tho new high school build-
ing for a park, stipulating that at least
$1,000 should be expended on It within
the next ten years. The ladies did not
feel able to make this guarantee, espe-
cially in view of the fact that they had
already assumed the t^sk of developing
a small park on East College Avenue.
The fa« t was brought to the attention
of some of the business men and a sub-
scription was started for the purpose of .
securing this enterprise. The city coun-
cil held a special meeting Tuesday to
confer with Mr. Cameron and accept his
handsome donation, which will Lie known
as Cameron Park.
EXPECT ANSWER TODAY.
No Anti-American Feeling Evident in
City of Mexico.
Staff Special te The ftxprpss.
CITY OF MEXICO, April In.—Opinions
are very conflicting among the people
on Taft's warning, which so far has
made merely a mild sensation. Although
it is the sole topic of conversation no
official answer before tomorrow is pos-
sible and no comment of any kind is
being made from official sources.
El Diario this morning published a
brief summary of the message with the
caption, "Is This the First Step of
American Intervention?"
French papers this afternoon comment
unfavorably on Taft's action. All others
are silent so far and the capital is nor
mally quiet with no anti-America.n feel-
ing evident.
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(Rosskam, Gerstley & Co.) jealous of
its half-century reputation. The quali-
ty of the raw materials, the process of
distillation, the ripening (in the wood)
and finally, the bottling, are
watched and guarded as care-
fully as a mother tends her
offspring.
There is rejuvenation in
ODlfo §aratnna: the purity and
mellowness and safe stimu-
lation that aid in the building
up and sustaining of the
time-worn tissues.
" 'Old Saratoga'—The Drink for
Hie Man uho Knows."
Staff Special to The Express.
WASHINGTON, D. d., April 15.—Not-
withstanding the warning tone of the
State Department's note to Mexico as
regarding perpetrations of outrages on
Americans and other foreigners in that
country, thought of intervention by the
United States is decried generally in
Congress. That intervention would mean
war between these for long time friendly
nations and for possibly several years,
and that its precipitation would be most
deplorable while there remains any less
drastic means of averting it. seems to be
the consensus of opinion in congressional
circles and an armed invasion of Mexico
could not be made without the sanction
of Congress.
To The Express correspondent Repre-
sentative James Hay of Virginia, chair-
man of the House Military Affairs Com-
mittee, today said:
"intervention would be a crime, it
would mean war between the United
Stales and Mexico perhaps for five or
six years, such a clash would develop
into guerrilla warfare in the mountains
and there would really be no saying
when it would terminate, it would mean
the deaths of thousands of foreigners;
it would be a task of restoring order,
American occupation and finally pacifi-
cation.
"Then we would not know but that the
performance would have t<» be repeated
later on I believe that should the Presi-
dent ask for authority to intervene in
Mexico Congress would certainly refuse to
giant it with no more reason than that
exists for intervention.-'
The warning to Mexico by this Govern-
ment brought forth comment from the
Texas Congressmen whose districts skirt
the entire length of the Texas-Mexico bor-
der.
GARNISH OPPOSES INTERVENTION.
Representative John V Garner said:
"There is no more cause for interven-
tion today than there was ;'t the begin-
ning of the present Mexican disturbance.
If the I*nited St.ites should go into Mex-
ico it would he a tremendous expense
and would create a bad impression upon
South Americmi countries. More than
that, intervention would make a had im-
pression throughout the world; worst of
all. intervention would result in the
death of hundreds of Americans in Mexico
the moment we put a soldier's foot on
Mexico soil.
"The people who are crying fof inter
ventlon don't realize what the utliifiate
results would he How long would it
take us to restore order and how long
would it be before we would feel called
upon to intervene again. These questions
are to be considered
"The possible great loss of life and the
burden of restoring order must be thought
of I think Congress is opposed to inter-
vention."
Representative Robert Smith said:
"The United States cannot permit chaos
to reign in Mexico forever, and yet I do
not think we should intervene now. J.ut
i: is high time we were talking planly to
Mexico and lettin? that country know we
will not tolerate any wanton outrages and
murders of Americans. Mexico ought Inng
ago to have taken steps to safeguard the
Ihes and property of Americans and for-
eigners in that country. If the United
States had assumed a firm stand some
time ago, Mexico today would nave been
showing a greater respect, for Americans
and their property down there. The ad-
ministration of our Government, has
lacked backbone to take the stand it
should have taken long ago. it has been
so wobbly ami flabby. I am opposed to
intervention except as a last resort to
protect the lives of innocent Americans
and other foreigners and their property
in Mexico."
MRS. LETCHER COMES OCT.
Wife of Consul at Chihuahua Reaches
El Paso.
EL PASO. Tex., April 15.—Mrs. Marion
etcher, wife of the United States con-
sul at Chihuahua and her two children
were among twenty Americans and ot.i-
er refugees who arrived here today.
They left Chihuahua yesterday after ttie
warning delivered to the Mexican people
by the United States Government had
been received.
The Americans said relations between
the rebels and Americans in the war
zone was so strained as to make it the
part of discretion to leave.
General Huriia, the federal command-
er in chief, is reported to have arrived
at Mapimi where the main force of trie
government troops was mobilized at 10
o'clock last night.
A telegram from President Madero to
one of his relatives here today said that
from now on the fight against the revo-
lutionists would be pushed with vigor.
Other Baseball Games.
RTILLWATEB, ukla,, April 13. -Okla-
homa Agricultural and Mechanical. R:
Southwestern Texas College, 7 (thirteen
innings).
SLEHIGE SWINGING AN*P MILITIA
MARK CONVENTION S OPENING.
Two Sets of Delegates from Cook
County Will Clamor for Recog-
nition, at State Meeting in
Peoria April 19.
CHICAGO, April 15.—Conflict of court
orders and the battering of sledges and
axes on barred doors preceded the Clark
t ounty Democratic convention today which
chose two sets of delegates to the State
convention in Peoria April 1!».
For more than three hours twenty-five
militiamen, unarmed, and under the com-
mand of a captain of the Seventh Regi-
ment, Illinois National Guard. had posses-
sion of the Seventh Regiment armory while
two rival forces, the Hearst Harrison fac-
tion, and the followers of Roger C. Sulli-
van, National Democratic • ".nmitteeman,
disputed the right of each other to enter
the armory. The Sullivan men insisted
that the County Judge had no right to
order an election commissioner to open
the convention. The Hearst Harrison men
declared that his order alone would insure
fairness.
battalions of police, reinforced by more
than a hundred deputy sheriffs, acting
I under the orders of County Judge Jolin
j 10. Owens, controlled the crowd outside
the armory.
Coroner Hoffman, with twenty-five depu-
ties w;js busy throughout the morning
serving police officials uid the Sheriffs
men with an injunction issued in the
County Superior Court restraining them
from interfering. The injunction was
waived aside and the Coroner himself was
summoned before County Judge Owens to
answer a charge of contempt of court for
conflicting with the orders ->f Judge Owens.
The Sheriff and police and Election
Commissioner Czarnecki also are under
contempt charges. Repeated demands
were made by Election Commissioner
Czarnecki, Republican, designated by
Judge Owens, that the doer be unbarred.
The militia defiantly refused a ad Judge
Owens in person went t<> I he armory and
demanded admittance He, too, was re-
fused Then the police were ordered by
Judge Owens to urea* in the doors.
No shots came from the guardsmen. The
outer door tell and then all inner door,
barricaded with trunks and furniture,
gave way. County .Judge oweng and Com-
missioner czarnecki entered. Captain Oc-
tigan, who commanded the guardsmen,
was arrested, but was released on habeas
corpus |»roceedings.
'I he Hearst Harrison precinct commit-
teemen, who had been standing in line
wearing badges inscribed "Harmony," en-
tered the building.
Commissioner Czarnecki called the roll
and the convention was turned over to
the delegates Npt a man of the Sullivan
croud was present, Instead they and
those known as Dunne men. remained
outside, and, after a long delay, in the
vicinity of the armory, and held a con-
vention nt another hall.
As a result the State convention will be
called on to decide between the two sets
of delegates.
1IEBS0S9M
BT I RES
The Lower Mississippi Valley Has
Never Before Suffered Such
Desolation.
NEW ORLEANS, April l.V Tarts of the
thirteen parishes in Northeeastern Louis-
iana are today feeling a deluge unparalleled
in the history of destructive floods nf
the Lower Mississippi Valley. Numerous
small towns in East Carroll and Madison
Parishes already are wiped out, vast
stretches of valley lands are covered by
from six to twenty feet of water and n
wall of the devastating flood waters twenty
feet high and more than a mile in width
is rushing through the great Dog TaiT
crevasse near Alsatia, La.
Already thousands are homeless and
destitute. What will be the toll when the
waters from the Panther forest and Red
Fork crevasses in Arkansas join forces
with tlie sea of water pouring through
the Dog Tail breach no one can say. Paris
of thirteen Louisiana parishes and two
Arkansas counties will be under water
and a conservative estimate that the home-
less will total 50,000 at least, maybe To,000.
WATERS ItEYOND CONTROL.
No human agency can cheek the rushing
waters before they have reached the Red
Uiver, which means that a large percentage
of territory 170 miles in length and elgni
to seventy-five miles in breadth win be
inundated.
No further breaks occurred today, but
in many places the water has already
exceeded the previous stage, and levee
boards from Vicksburg south are working
desperately against great odds.
To add to the alarming situation a
heavy rain today gave forth from four
to six inches of water in the brief space
of ten hours. High winds accompanied
the rain and made more difficult the work
of rescue in the overflow district.
Relief work is centered at Vicksburg,
Miss., where already hundreds of homeless
and destitute people from the flooded
Louisiana district are quartered. Governor
Brewer of Mississippi has sent tents and
supplies there. Yesterday Governor San-
ders of Louisiana ordered tents and bed-
ding sent to the Mississippi city. Large
supplies of tents are also en route trom
the Federal authorities at St. Louis.
Although a number of negroes are re-
ported missing, no verified repott of loss
of life were received. The live stock
losses are enormous and the property dam-
age will total several millions.
monroe, la js in danger
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Flood (nnditions Suddenly Take Turn
for Worse, With Heavy
Rainfall.
MONROK, I>a., April 15.—Four inches
of rainfall hero today, the breaking of
the camp ground levee oi* Bayou Bar-
tholomew. south of Bastrop last night
and the levee on the Ouachita River soutn
of Monroe, inundating thousands of acres|
of land, increased the flood damage in
Northern I^»uisiana many thousands of
dollars today, and many more families
will undoubtedly be made homeless and
destitute.
The Hofj Fork levee in Arkansas broke
several days aso and has since been
adding a great volume of water to th:«
already swollen Ouachita, old residents
and river men see no way in which this
city can ev ape the flood. The question
is how deep the water will get in this
territory. Reports from the Uttle Mis-
souri, Valine and Bartholomew indicate
heavy rises.
ANOTHER LEVEF. WEAKENS.
Situation (,rave Thirty-Five Miles
North of Baton Rouge.
BATON* rouge. Ij« . April IS.—A te!«
phone message received here early to-
night from Morgan. thirty-five miles
north of Raton Rouge, on the west side
of the Mississippi, stated that the levee
ther* i- oaoking and caving badly and
that water was coming through.
Ever e'fort is beine made to hold the
levee. which is on the lower side of a
sharp b^nd
If a crevasse should occur there it
would flood the richest fanning terri-
tory along tho river in South Louisiana.
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Women's Apparel Copies Foreign
Fashions at Prices That
Attract Attention
Extra Value, Extra Style, Extra Quality in Our
Copies of Elegant Imported Suits
Clever designing is portrayed in every line, and about every suit
there is a distinctiveness such as is chiefly the basis of the higher
prices at which Paris and London original models are marked.
••Second Floor
New Suits of
Shantung
$59.00
Strictly man-tailored. Copies of im-
ported models — made in this fash-
ionable, all-silk Shantung and pongee
fabric in natural color. An ideal
summer garment—earlier in the sea-
son would have been marked $55.
New Suits of
Cloth
$39.00
Strictly man-tailored. Made of
imported two-toned whipcords,
In grays and tans. Clay serges
in navys and blacks and fancy
novelty m ixtures—r e g u 1 a r $52
and $55 values.
Tailor-made, 1™™™ Imported Linen Suits
at
$15.00
Made of the best, quality staple and novelty Irish and Bulgarian linens—•
in whites, tans and colors. The very latest models, fashionably trimmed.
On exhibition on our second
floor. Oil painting by n well-
known artUt of Gen. Nam
Houston. All week free.
Tent mo n una Srlta que habla
Espanol para atender eon
e*perialidad a la clientela
Kspanola.
oil company suspended
Central Fuel Interests in Oklahoma
Go Into Hands of Re-
ceivers.
MUSKOGEE, Okla , April 15.—-James
A. Veasey of Bartlesville, Okla.; Frank
Frantz of Muskogee, and D. F. Con-
nelly of Tulsa, were appointed receivers
for the Central Fuel Oil Company by
Federal Judge Campbell her© today.
The receivers were appointed upon pe-
tition of the Banker^ Trust Company of
New York, which holds a mortgage for
$6,000,000 against the company's prop-
erty. The Texas Pipe Line Company
and twenty-two subsidiaries were made
parties to the suit brought by the trust
company, because of a contract between
the pipe line company and the Central
Fuel Oil Company, which is Included in
the mortgage.
In its petition the Rankers' Trust Com-
pany asked for foreclosure of their
mortgage and the receivership.
Sanderson 7; Alnine 5.
Special Telegram to The Ki press.
SANDERSON, Tex., April 5.—Sander-
son won a well-played game of baseball
today from Alpine. 7 to 5. The locals
tied the score with five runs in the sev-
enth inning and piled up two more In
the eighth. atterles: Alpine, Taylor,
Medina and Martin; Sanderson, Eliie and
Flashtnan.
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Women's Clubs Join With Association
in Promotion of Children's
Interests.
Great white banners, lettered in green
with tho word "Playground," mark the
headquarters of the Playground Associa-
tion and the affiliated organization of
the women of San Antonio who have en-
tered into the work of promoting a cause
which has for its purpose the betterment
of conditions for the children of the city.
The headquarters for Fiesta week have
been located at the cornor room of the
new Frost building, Houston Street and
Main Avenue. A rest room has been
opened there and today will be in charge
of the Riverside Park Mothers' Club
and the Bowie School Mothers' Club as
hostess. Members of the Women's Chris-
tiou Temperance Union will he the guests
of the day.
Wednesday will be Club Day, with the
Mothers' Congress as hostess, and all
the clubs united will participate. Thurs-
day will be Sir Knight and Lady Mac-
cal-ee bay. with the Rebeccas as hostess.
Friday will be Young Men's' Christian
Association and Young Women's Chris-
tion Association Day with the Beacon
Hill Mothers' Club as hostess, while
Saturday will be Masons' and Eastern
Star Day. with the Women's Suffragette
Organization as hostess. On Saturday.
"Votes for Women,"' tea will be served.
arkansas lawyer held
Robert E. L. Maxey Accused of Using
Mails With Intent to
Dcfl-aud.
FITTSBl'RCJ, Ph., April 15.—Robert K
L. Maxey, ail attorney of Little Rock,
Ark., and head of the United Stafes steal
Tie Company, was arrested in the local
offices of the company here today by the
Federal authorities. He is charged with
using the mails for fraudulent purposes
in connection with an insurance transac-
tion. Maxey, who claims it is a case of
mistaken identity, was released on a bond
of ¥5,000.
According to information here it Is al-
leged there is a joint indictment against
Maxey and Henry R. Copeland, returned
by the Federal grand jury at Little Hot k.
Ark. Copeland, it is said, is in Jail at
Little Rock, Ark.
Bailey May Be in Texas Next Week.
PARIS, Tex., April 15.—State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee Chairman
J. Sheb Williams today received a tele-
gram from United States Senator Railey
announcing that the Senator expects to
start for Texas about the end of this
week, provided his wife's health is thei
good enough. Mr. Bailey said he would
announce his Texas itinerary after his
arrival here.
Standard Trust Company
SELLS LAND MORTGAGE LOANS
ACTS AS TRUSTEE, AGENT, EXECUTOR,
ADMINISTRATOR, GUARDIAN, RECEIVER, ETC.
J. M. BENNETT
J. J. WELDER
F. J. COMBE
DIRECTORS:
R. J. KLEBERG
W. J. MOORE
S. J. BROOKS
G. R. STUMBERG
E. B. CAR RUTH
J. M. BENNETT Jr.
227-231 Gunter Office Building
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
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