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Tanks and Towers
Complete Installation pf Waterworks
SAN ANTONIOrKSK.CO.
WIRE ROPE
For Transmission and Hoisting Purposes.
All sizes in stock.
F. W. HEITMANN CO.
HOUSTON. TEXAS
VOLUME XLVII—NO. 121.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1912.—EIGHTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
INDEX OF THE NEWS
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Sun Antonio and vicinity: For Tuesday,
rain; for Wednesday, probably thunder-
storms.
T11E T EM PIS It AT UK US.
THIRTY GUNS INTENDED TO PRO-
TECT UNITED STATES CITIZENS
TAKEN BY POLICE.
710 ALffEADY DISTRIBUTED
Battle Precipitated at Tres .Marias, in
Which Rebels Prevent Matleristas
Unloading Artillery From
Train by Hot
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paper In Southwest Texas carrying tb«*
full day nnd night wire service of tha
Associated I'ress, everywhere fecog
utaed as the greatest news-gathering
organization In the world.
PAGE I—Two hundred factory workers
beat /ion City men and women at prayer
meeting.
Rifles sent by American Government to
Mexico for protection of citizens slezed
by police.
Massachusetts becomes center of inter-
est in primaries today.
PACK l—News of Austin a ml the depart-
ments.
CITY OF MEXICO, April 29.—Thirty of
the thousand rifles shipped to the Ameri-
can ambassador for use of the Ameri-
can colony in the event of trouble in the
capital were seized by the police today
a « they were being distributed. More
than 700 had already been sold and ap-
portioned among the American residents
■wbon the order was issued to allow «||>
more to go out from the improvised head-
quarters. Ambassador Wilson at once
took steps to learn the reason for the
embargo, which was thought to be due
to a misunderstanding on the part of
the municipal authorities.
The thirty rifles, still in their case.
wrve taken out of the storehouse to be
delivered to one of the committee for dis-
tribution, b'it were immediately confis-
cated by a policeman, who said that he
had orders to take all arms which left i 14 T , , . r. „ . . _
4 i PAGE ll—Interstate Commerce Commission
the place to the police station. , says tap lines are not common carriers.
lie refused to be convinced that he had 1
no right to take them and removed them I
to the station. The matter was at once !
brought to the attention of the anibas- j
sador, who communicated with the gov
FOUR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS, IN-
VOLVING 36 NATIONAL DELE-
GATES, READY FOR BALLOT.
REPUBLICANS SHE HEATED
Angry Exchange Between Taft and
Roosevelt Withdrew Attention From
Less Acrimonious Contest Be-
tween Champ Clark and
Woodrow Wilson.
PAGE :i—F< rt Sam Houston advised that
Ojinaga may soon be attacked.
PAGE 4—Governor Colquitt speaks at
Amarlllo.
Senator Bailey is heard at Denton.
PAGE 5—lsVfe.nds of Woodrow Wilson is-
sue address to Texas Democrats.
PAGE «—Editorials.
PAGE «—Weather and crop news from all
parts of the State.
PAGE 8-
PAGE 9-
-Loeal soiifty news.
-Woman's page.
PAGE 10—First spike Is driven in Han An-
tonio. UvalCo & Gulf Railway.
PAGE VI—Betts' hit over fence in eleventh
wins for Bronchos, 7 to (J.
Local fans will go on excursion to
Houston for Sunday's game.
City League will hold meeting Thurs-
day.
Directors of Auto Club will meet, to-
day.
PAGE 14—Citizen of Devine buys San An-
tonio property.
PAGE 16—Local wholesale markets.
PAGE 17—Grain, cotton, stock and other
markets.
PAGE 18—Programme for bankers' State
STRIKE TENSION RENEWED
ernor of the federal district on the sub-
ject. Phortiy afterwards the arms were
returned without explanation.
It. is thought that the recent change In
both the head of tlie city and secret police
of the district is responsible for the error,
Ms there seems to be no doubt that the'
officer was acting nnder orders from his
•superior.
.V battle between federals and Zapa- j convention in announced.
tistas was reported to be in progress to, J # . ...
night »,t Tres Marias, twenty-five mfles ^
liofi.lj of Cuernavaciu A detachment of i
artillery, which was sent to the place,
was said to have been unable to get !
into the fight for the reason that the |
rebels attacked the train nnd kept up
such a hot fire that the federals were ]
prevented from unloading the pieces.
Telegrams to the President from Topic i
today advised him that the government
forces had recovered Santiago Ixcuintla,
one of the most important towns of the i
territory, whifii was taken by the rebels
about two weeks ago. The rebels were
said to have split into small bands and
taken to the hills.
An unconfirmed report reached the c;,t>-
itai tonight that lrapuato, an Important
junction point In Central Guanajuato,
has been attacked by rebels following a
jail delivery early in the day.
BOSTON, April 29.—With tiie depar-
ture of President Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt from the Stale tonight, the
campaign leaders gave their attention to
figuring up the net results of the speak-
ing tours.
Both sides were uonfidejit that tiie
final visits of the candidates mean more
votes, aiid neither side was willing to
admit tjhe possibility of anything but vic-
tory in the State-wide primaries tomor-
row. Gen. Edgar R. Champlain, head of
the Taft league, has repeatedly estimat-
ed that thirty-four of the thirty-six
Massachusetts delegates at least will go
to President Taft and saw no reason to-
night to alter his prediction unless it
might be to increase tiie number.
City Councillor Hale, the Roosevelt
leader, said.
"The Massachusetts Roosevelt commit-
tee to a man is confident that Colonel
Roosevelt will carry Massachusetts by
a substantial majority." Among most
leaders It is admitted that thimc is some
undercurrent of feeling for LaFollctte.
On the Democratic side there is much
speculation as to the outcoma of the
Clark-Wilson contest. At the State elec-
tions last'November 421,692 Democrats
and .Republicans voted. About 50 per
cent of the Republicans and 20 per i i-nt
of the Democrats are enrolled lor the
primaries.
The voting will begin in !:, with
the polls opened at ti a. in > oral 1
of the smaller towns the polls wi/t ■ i
either nhort.lv before or* ihc. . .
Holm.
EACH NEEDS THE OTHER
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The revolutionists refuse to recognize
the flotation of $10,000,000 gold authorized
by the chamber of deputies,, last week
aiid bankers accepting the treasury notes
do so at their own risk according to a tel-
egram received by the chamber from
(Jen. Pascual Orozco today.
The flotation of the loan was voted
to cover the expense of raising the Mex-
ican standing army to 00,000 men and to
arm and pay them during the present
campaign.
PROTECTION NOT DENIED
Ambassador Wilson Writes Slayden
Mexico Accords Americans Quick
Attention.
Staff Special to Tiie Express.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 29.—The
disposition of the Mexican government
to protect foreigners in Mexico is not to
be doubted, but the "physical obstacles
which lie in the way of the performance
of its duties aro most difficult, if not
Insurmountable." Reports that American
citizens in Mexico arc not being protect-
ed and are seeking safely under the
British flag Is false and a "malicious In-
vention." Sensational correspondents,
disappointed concession-hunters and un-
identified American adventurers have
caused or inspired rumors that a gra.e
situation as to the safety of Americans
exist.
The foregoing are statements of Ameri-
can Ambassador Henry Dane Wilson in
a letter just received from htm by Rep-
resentative James L. Slayden. The re-
view of Mexican conditions by Ambassa-
dor Wilson in this letter comes as a
discrediting blow to the "jingo" talk
that has been given circulation, and yet
admits that "effective and prompt pro-
tection" for foreigners by the Mexican
government tn all sections of the coun-
try cannot be "implicitly relied upon."
In part the Wilson letter, which Is of
an intimate character, says:
"I thank you for your kind letter of
April 15 and beg to express my apprecia-
tion of your very kind expressions rela-
tive to my services at this post. Re-
ferring more particularly to the pub-
lished statement that American citizens
In Mexico were not receiving adequat-
pt election and that many of them -were
seeking rafety under the nritish and
other ,'ori i?n flags. I can authorize you
C*ntlai*ed •■'rag* Three. 1
Distrubing Signs Lead to Inference
That Engineers' Walk-out Not
Yet Obviated.
NEW YORK, April 29.—After a ses-
sion lasting until midnight, the confer-
ence committee of managers of Eastern
railroads gave out a statement declaring
that they had proposed that the Inter-
state Commerce Commission act as ar-
bitrator of the engineers' demands, but
that the proposition had been declined
by. the Interstate Commerce Commission
and that Chief Stone of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers also had re-
fused to accept the Interstate Commerce
Commission as arbitrators.
It was declared tonight that efforts to
get the parties together were being con-
tinued, with hopes of success, but that
negotiations had not yet reached the
stage for public announcement.
When Chief Stone, leader of the engi-
neers, was leaving a conference tonight
he was asked regarding an ultimatum
which he had been credited with giving
today that if the situation was not sat-
isfactory by tomorrow he would proceed
with arrangements for the strike. He
denied he had delivered an ultimatum
nnd said, "it^ looks as if it would have
to come to arbitration." More confer-
ences will take place tomorrow.
PRIMIIRY VOTE IS 9100
Seattle Goes for Wilson and Roosevelt
in Presidential Pre-
liminaries.
WOULD REGULATE WAGES
Len root, of Wisconsin, Offers Bill to
Protcct Interests of
Workingmen.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—A
means of regulating the wages of rail-
road operatives and a possible method of
preventing disastrous strikes by the em-
ployment of the Interstate Commerce
Commission is proposed by Representa-
tive Lenroot of Wisconsin in a bfTl pre-
sented to the House today. The bill
provides that before any general reduc-
tion of wages of any one class of em-
ployes of a common carrier shall become
effective, employes shall be given the
right to protest. If within twenty days
before the order becomes effective any
railway men's organization or a major-
ity of the employes protest at the prin-
cipal offices of the company, the matter
shall be referred to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission. The bill was referred
to the Committee on Interstate and For-
eign Commerce.
BEEF HIGHEST SINGE Ml
ZION CITY THROWN INTO RIOT
WHEN ANTI-TOBACCO CAMPAIGN
REACHES CLIMAX.
TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED
Presence of Independent Concerns' Em-
ployes Who Smoke and Chew Re-,
sented by Church Folk, Who Re-
taliate With I/nig and Con-
tinued Worship. |(
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New York Herald.
nils TOOK IIAVK IHK!) TOOUTHKR; WIIV CAN'T I lll.Y LIVE TOGETHER?
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SEATTLE, Wash., April 29.—Nine thou-
sand votes were cast Saturday in the
Kings County (Seattle) presidential pri-
mary held under the direction of the He-
publican and Democratic State central
committees. Official figures are not
available, but the committees authorize
the estimate that Wilson got 1.000; Clark,
450; llarmon, 50; Roosevelt, 4,500; I^aFol-
lettc, 2,500. and Taft, BOO.
NJUREO AVIATOR IS LOW
Jules \"edrines Expected to Hie from
Fall Suffered in Parisian
Suburb.
PAKIS. April 29.—Jules Ved tines, fore-
most aviator of France, was probably
fatally hurt by a fall with his monoplane
this morning at St. Dennis, a suburb of
Paris, while flying from Doual, In the de-
partment of the N'ord. to Madrid.
Sonic improvement was noted tonight in
(lie condition of Vedrlnes. but the attend*"
Ing physicist** doubtful of his recovery.
Wholesale Price Tops 30-Year Record
in New York and Brooklyn
Markets.
NEW YORK, April 29.—The wholesale
price of beef advanced here today a cent
a pound to a higher record .than any
year since 1881. A carcass of native corn
fed beef was quoted at in Brooklyn at
a top figure of thirteen cents, which
oldtimers agreed was the highest price
in over thirty years. Retailers were
charging 25 to 26 cents a pound for por-
terhouse and 24 cents for sirloin steaks,
20 to 22 cents for rib roast and even soup
meat sold at 15 cents a pound.
The wholesalers explanation of the
cause of high prices Is the scarcity of
cattle, the cost of feed, especially corn,
and the fact that it is a between-season
period. Wholesalers anticipate a fur-
ther advance and retailers are much
alarmed over the situation.
SENATE COMMITTEE ENTERS FIN-
AL LAP OF INVESTIGATION
INTO DISASTER'S CAUSES.
Y TO APPEAR AGAIN
SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED
Mann Says Close June 1, But Moon
Wants Night Session.
WASHINGTON. D. C., April
"There will be no trouble so far as the
house is concerned in getting away from
here by June V said minority leader
Mann today at the close of a long ses
Bion of the house.
Chairman Moon, of the postoffice com-
mittee Is anxious to have the house meet
morning, noon and night to expedite th*
passage of the post office bill and had
expressed the fear that if no greater
progress were made the session of cor*
gross would be prolonged.
Tile house was o«■« upled during the
day debate ert^r the Sha<klrfor(j roa(.
bill which is being considered as a pait
of the iH>6toffic* bill.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29.-After
a day of discussion Intended to discover
the needed reforms in the use of wire-
less telegraphy at sea, the Senate com-
mittee investigating the Titanic disaster
today entered the final stages of its in-
quiry. The officers and crew of the
sunken ship will be released. At the
same time J. Bruce Ismay, managing di-
rector of the International Mercantile
Marine, will be quizzed searchingly as to
his Ideas of regulations to make a repe-
tition of the disaster impossible.
Uuglielmo Marconi, Inventor of the
wireless telegraph; F. M. Sammis, chief
engineer of the American Marconi Com-
pany; Wireless Operators Bride and Cot-
tam; a passenger, Hugh Woolner of Eng-
land, and Fourth Officer Boxhall of the
Titanic were the day's witnesses.
Virtually nil agreed that better regu-
lations of wireless communication at s^a
was essential. It #svas made clear that
committee already had made up its mind
to advocate legislation preventing wire-
less operators on a ship board from
holding back details of disasters. Mr.
Marconi and Mr. Sammis both acknowl-
edged a mistake had been made in send-
ing messages to Bride and Cottam on
board the Carpathia, not to give out any-
thing until they had seen Marconi and
Sammis ashore.
Senator Smith held out no promise as
to when the officers of the White Star
line would be released, but it was the
general understanding they woul be
freed as soon as Mr. Ismay is examine^
This, It was expected, would not take
long. unless some additional facts
brought to the surface made It neces-
f-ary. P. A. S. Franklin, vice president
of the International Mercantile Marine
already has been examined*
BILL INTENDED TO SAFEGUARD
RIGHTS OF UNION LABOR
IN STRIKE MOVEMENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29 -A
broad anti-injunction bill, such a meas-
ure as has long been advocated by the
labor unions throughout the country was
favorably reported to the House today
by Chairman Clayton of the Judiciary
committee. The bill provides that in-
junctions in labor disputes shall only be
issued after the defendants have had op-
portunity to answer the complaint
against them. It also provides that courts
shall issue restraining orders for but
seven days and these only where the
complainant allows that he will be done
irreparable injury if the order Is not Is-
sued.
Blanket Injunctions are specifically
provided against and the right of work-
ingmen to peaceful assembly is reiter-
ated. The right of boycott and the right
to refuse to patronize Is established In
one section of the bill. A minority re-
port probably will be submitted by Re-
publican members of the committee.
MGTORMAN ACTS QUICKLY' TO
SAVE LIFE AND HIS CAR BACKS
INTO ONE BEHIND IT.
ZION CITY, 111., April 29-RlOtinf
started late this afternoon when em-
ployes if independent manufacturing con-
cerns attaced a group of 200 Zton men
and women <it a prayer meeting Both
men and women wore beaten with clubs
nnd blackjacks, and a number were »t-
riously injured
The fight came as the climax of a week
of trouble between employee of the In-
dependent concerns which reoeritly have
begun operation* here, and the church
peGple, formerly follower* of John Alex-
ander Dowie.
As a protest against the use of to-
bacco by the employes of the manufac-
turing companies, followers of Wilbur
Glenn Vollvu, successor to Dowle's au-
thority, have been holding prayer meet-
ings In front of one of the plants twice
each day. Elder F. M. Royal had juit
called the second meeting today when
several score of men rushed out of the
plant, tore down or leaped over tiie bar-
riers which had been erected around the
prayer platform and drove the Zionist*
from tiiat part of town. ,
Immediately after the fight at the
prayer meeting tonight Voliva ordered
the large alarm bell rung and more than
one thousand men members of the church
gathered at the auditorium to dlscnss
plans for resisting further Attacks by
employe# of independent companies who
filled the streets tonight and threatened
to clean out the town. A second, clasbi
between the church people and the Inde-
pendents was predicted at the auditorium
meeting where Vollva urged his fol-
lowers to protect their women and chil-
dren from the "tobacco smoking curse,"
as he stigmatized the independents.
Elder Royal and Joseph Bishop were
the most seriously injured tn the prayer
meeting fight. Both were badly beaten
and it is believed Bishop's skull was frac-
tured. More than a third of the 150 Zion
women in attendance at the meeting
were beaten, bruised or trampled on dur-
ing the rush by the employes of the in-
dependents.
Although Elder Royal and a number of
his men resisted as well as they could,
they wi re outnumbered and finally wer*
swept from the iarge platform where the
meeting was being held.
At the close of tiie meeting tonight
overseer Vollva ordered lits followers to
reassemble at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow *
morning to resume services In the front
yard of a factory whose employes offend
by using tobacco.
"I would rather lose a hundred men
than to t><" defeated In this fight." said
Voliva. "It is a battle to tiie finish and
I »m determined to win."
Tne declaration of Voliva that lie would
resume his meeting caused a new body
of special deputies to be : worn in.
With power reversed, a street car on
the Tobln Hill line at 7:15 o'clock last
night backed from the Houston Streei
bridge west to Soiedad Street, where it
crashed into an eastbound South Flores
car, and seven persons were injured. This
accident was the direct result of another,
Motorman Hlidreth having thrown the
lever into reverse in the et.ort to keep
from running down a pedestrian who at-
tempted to cross in front of the Tobln
Hill car at the west end of the brid.ge.
The man was struck and thrown to the
pavement, but escaped with a few
bruises, and in the confusion which fol-
lowed left the scene before his Identity
could be ascertained.
The act of the motormnn in reversing
the power threw a switch at the power
plant and the car was at standstill wnen
the motorman and conduct"! stepped out
to leain the name, residence and state
of injuries of the mmi who had been i
struck. For possibly a minute tiie car
j wai stationary, and some of the passen-
SURGEON DIRECTS SHIP OFFI- girs joined the carmen. Meanwhile an i
CERS 420 MILES AWAY HOW TO *' ",0 ,"rtn'' ,T"'g,
that the power was off, replaced the
PERFORM OPERATION. j switch, and on the Instant the Tobin
Hilt car began to move backward, gath-
ering momentum with every revolution
of the wheels.
The South Fiords Street car had pulled
around the curve from Soiedad into I
Houston Street, an.l the approach of
the Tobin Hill car was not noticed until
too late to back out ot the way. When
the crasli came it threw passengers In
both cars from their seats and shattered
glass in the vestibules. The impact, how-
ever. did not cripple either car, and both
w ere able to' proceed to the barns under
Senate Calls For Full Report of Cam*
paign Contributions of
Recent Elections.
NEW ORLEANS, April 29.—Surgery by
wireless is the Innovation under discus-
sion in local medical circles. It was
learned yesterday that a laborer at Swan
Island, a United Fruit Company wire-
less station on loonely Island, sustained
a crushed foot in a recent tram car ac-
cident. The Swan Island'operator com-
municated with the anrseon of one of
the company's shfps 42w miles away.
The operation of amputating the toes,
tleing the arteries and dressing the foot ,
was due. ted by mreless In detail, and ,
w . Of the six persons injured. Mrs. C. Rob-
at last accounts the patient was resting
comfortably. ^
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 2S.-TH*
Senate today adopted the Culberson reso-
lution calling for a full report of th«
contributions made to the National com-
mittees of all pnrtles in the presidential
and congressional campaigns in 1904 and
1908. The inquiry is entrusted to tha
Commttee on Elections, which is in-
structed to supply the Senate with full
information as to amounts as well as t#
give the names of contributors. Th«
committee is clothed with the usual
powers of Investigating committees.
LAREDO MAN DROPS DEAD.
.Market Master Mendiola Expires White
Waiting for Breakfast.
gpecUt Telegram to The Exiiitsk.
LAREDO. Tex.. April 29.—This morn-
ing at ti o'clock Manuel Mendiola. mark*t
master of this city, dropped dead in hia
yard.
He had arisen early and was awaitlnc
breakfast w hen be walked into the yard,
was stricken with heart failure and ml
dead before aid could reach him. He '
In seemingly good spirits but had
a sufferer from heart failure for the ]
several months. His funeral wilt
tomorrow afternoon.
PEARSALL MAN IS SAFE.
Lester Pranglin Tel*
Bandits Have Left Ran
Lpecisl Ttlegrmm to Tb« Expraea.
PEARSALL* Tex., April 3.—A
gram was received today from
Pranglin. who was reported
Mexican outlaws at Santa Rc lllHH
I nn, tlis' ho was safe and that
dits had left tin. ranch.
His • ompanion however, was
flee, and aiad« hi* way to
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