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The Austin Statesman
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1908. ‘
ESTABLISHED 1871—VOL. 39, NO. 106.
SECOND OLDEST PAPER IN TEXAS.
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Comprised in Program of Dinners,
Dances and Many Snows.
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Failure to Keep Pace With Defensive
Measures of Other Powers May Be
Signal For Losing Prestige.
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NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
AGAINST ENDORSEMENT.
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SUM FOR NAVAL STATION REMAINS
IN BILL-FORAKER AGAIN.
SAN ANTONIO MINISTER WOULD
SHOW OPEN SALOONS.
THREE DAYS’ SESSION OPENS AT
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Leader in Movement Against Sale of
Liquor on Sunday Gives it Out
Personal Investigation is Un*
der Consideration.
Charles M. Pepper, Who Has for a
Year Been Investigating Conditions
for Department of Commerce
and Labor Reports.
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SUNDAY THEATER CA8E.
First Trial Out of Two Thousand In*
diotments in Missouri.
Case of China.
For centuries China has cultivated
Social Courtesies of the City Were Ex-
tended in Morning and Papers Read
in Afternoon—Parade of the
Hoo-Hoos.
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Great Loss of Life.
It -is possibly a conservative state-
ment to say that within the last twelve
years at periods of profound peace and
not as the result of war that mas-
by the democratio steering committee
of the senate of the democratic va-
cancy on the committee on rulee
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Raflroad commission disposed of .all
of its docket with exception of app!ica-
lion of ‘f’exas Baseball league for re-
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Talk for Negroes.
Washington, April 14.—The two feat
tures of interest In the senate today
were the speech of Senator Foraker
bara, five days distributed between
Monterey and Santa Crus and ten days
or more in San F’rancisco,
Governor Gillette of California is
here as the representative of the state
to voice the welcome of the people of
the Pacific coast. Thousands of sight* ,
Beers from far and near have gathered
in San Diego. Nowhere in the United
States do the fires of patriotism burn
more brightly than here on the edge of
the waters of the Pacific. The Call*
fornia cities arevieing with each other
in the lavishness of hospitality upon the
oficers and men of the navy. They
have never before seen battleships of
the Connecticut type, and the coming
of the great fleet is an event fraught
to them with much meaning.
After the long stretches of sea runs,
after the hospitable entertainment of
the people of South America. after
months of foreign scenes an tongues,
after the desolate shores of Magdalena
bay, after more than 13,000 miles of
steaming, the men of the fleet find
here- -thousands of miles from their
starting place in December, last- people
of their own race and blood, people with
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Fleet Is Necessary.
When a nation is so hap-
pily situated as ours — that
is, when it has not reason to
fear or to be feared by its land neigh-
burs—the fleet is all the more neces-
sary for the preservation of peace.
Great Britain has been saved by its
fleet from the necessity of facing one
of the . two alternatives—of submis-
sion to conquest by a foreign power or
of itself becoming a great miltary
power. The United States can hope
for a permanent career of peace on
only one condition, and that is on con-
Kansas City, April 14. -Joseph R.
Gonders, manager of the Century
theater, was today placed on trial in
Judge Porterfields division of th©
criminal court charged WAth violation
a into what would be not more than a ten-
9 minute speech on the floor of congress
today; President Roosevelt urged in a
special message to provide for the cont
struction - of four battleships of the
largest and most approved type at once.
The arguments of the president to im-
press his insistence on this naval pro-
gram were few, but calculated to be ef-
fective. China was held up as an ex-
ample of the "peace at any price" doc-
trine and Great Britain as having the
naval policy to be emulated.
The result of the last Hague confer-
ence made it plain that the nations
would not for some time, if ever, agree
on a plan of limitation of naval arma-
ment. Arbitration, the presioent holds,
can not be relied upon as an effective
remedy, though it should be utilized to
its fullest extent.
Disclaiming any intention on the part
of the United States ever to engage in
a war of conquest, the president made
it plain that this country could ill afford
to relax into a place where insult would
have to be borne in silence.
Washington, April 14.—Compressed the very spirit which our peace-at-any-
- - ■ •• price men wish this country to adopt
For centuries China has refused to’pro-
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BUSINESS DEPRESSION IS NOT
BAR TO CONSUMPTION,
dition of building and maintaining a
first-class navy, and the step to be
taken toward this end at this time is
to provide for the building of four
additional battleships. I earnestly wish
that the congress would pass the
measures for which I have asked for
strengthening and rendering more ef-
ficiently the army as well as the navy;
all of these measures are affecting
every branch and detail of both serv-
ices are sorely needed and it would be
the part of far-sighted wisdom to en-
act them all into laws, but the most
vital and immediate need is that of
four battleships.
New Orleans, April 14.—Charles M.
Pepper, 'who has been for a year past
investigating trade conditions in South
America, for the department of com-
merce and labor, arrived here today
from Panama: He visited all countries
on the west.coast. He said that while
these countries are feeling the general
financial depression, their demand for
American products is not likely to be
serlously lessened. .Several mining and
similar enterprises, which are carried
on bytcapital from the United States,
after a period of restricted operations,
are again beginning work on the old
scate.
The bubonic plague on the went
coast was declared by Mr. Pepper
not to be serious except in Ecuador.
He said ‘that since the plague broke
out on th© west coast five years ago
the spring months have aiwuys shown
theogreatest number of ftalities and
thhs is the case now. "In Ecuador,”
said Mr. Pepper, "the situation is un-
doubtedly grave. The plague was kept
out of Guayaquil for five years, but
since it appeared in February. its
ravages have been great and until it
has run its course ths seaco ilttle
Improvement is looked for.”
WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington, April 14.—West Texas:
Generally fair Wednesday and Thurs-
day, except possibly showers Wednes-
day night or Thursday in extreme
western portion. • .
East Texas: Generally fair Wed-
nesday and Thursday, fresh south
winds on the coast
Vera Cruz, April 14.—The first of-
ficer, the first engineer and the cook
of the disabled steamer Honora, which
has been diifting helplessly in the gulf
for nearly a week, arrived in this city
this morning in an open row boat.
They traveled 250 miles at the mherev
of the. winds and currents of the gulf.
They left the disabled vessel Sunday
morning at day break in the open row
boat off the Triangle Islands near the
Yucatan coast. Vesgels have been1 sent
out to locate the missing steamner. She
has a cargo of cattle.
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Missing Girl Returns.
San Antonio, April 14—Miss Telora
Booth, the handsome young girl who
mysteriously disappeared from her
home last Monday, Han returnee again.
It is stated that she hadslmply gone to
the home of a school girl friend. She
is the daughter of J. H. Booth.
ns commander-in-chief of the navy,
there is imposed upon me the solemn
responsibility of advising the congress
of the measures vitally necessary to se-
nch He-Insurance company or
sentatives:
"Let me urge upon the congress the
need of providing for four battleships
of the best and most advanced type at
this session. Prior to the recent Hague
conference it had been my hope that
an agrement could be reached between
the different nations to limit the in-
crease of naval armaments and espe-
cially to limit the size of warships.
Under these circumstances I felt that
the construction of one battleship a
year would keep our navy up to its then
positive and relative strength. But
actual experience showed not merely
-that it was impossible to obtain such
an agreement for the limitation of ar-
maments among the various leading
powers, but there was no likelihood
whatever of obtaining it in the future
within any reasonable time. Coinci-
dentally with this discovery occurred a
radical change in the building of bat-
tleships among the great military na-
tions—a change in accordance with
which the most modern battleships
have been, or are being, constructed of
a size and armament which doubles, or
more probably trebles, their effective-
ness. Every other great naval nation
has or is building a number of ships of
this kind; we have provided for but
two and therefore the balance of power
is Inclining against us. Under these
conditions, to provide for but one or
two battleships a year la to provide that
this nation. Instead of advancing, shall
on the Brownsville affair and the pres-
dent’s mensage advocating the build-
ing of four-more battleships.' The de- •
livery of the speech and the reading
of the message consumed practically
the entire time of the sesslon.
At 3:22 p. m. the senate adjourned.
Minority Prohibition Bill.
Kan Dlego, Cal.. April .Its long
and notable cruise through the south-
ern sea and the changing olimes of the
WesternsHemisphte ended, the Ameri-
can battleship flet, now under com-
mand of Rear Admiral Charles. M.
Uhumaa, .returned to home waters to-
deY. It cast anchor off Coronado beach
this afternoon at 1 o’clock and the four
days of (he scheduled stay of the six-
teen ship# will bebmarked by a cease,
less round of gaieties. Dinners, dances
and pinnies for the officers, freo the-
atera. wild west shows, fruit and other
good things to eat for the enlisted men,
are Included in the long and variegated
program. The California cities have
impatiently awaited the coming of the
ships and their joy now knows no
bounds. Scarcely .had-the big white
vessels left Hampton Roads before the
oliciat committeo of welcome had been
named along the Paoifio coast. The
plans and preparatlons have been going
ahead steadily since that time and now
the last of the detail have been com-
pleted. The fleet has practically an en-
tiro month of merrymaking before it,
for after San Diego extends the first
of the welcome, there comes a week at
Los Angeles, five days at Santa Bar-
first move to shut off-the presenting of
names of presidential candidates before
the convention was motion made that
ull resolutions except those relating to
routine mattersbe referred to proper
committees without being read. The
motion was adopted without appurentl ‘
its significance being understood, and it
was not until after several routine reso-
lutlons had been adopted that a Bryan
delegate made a motion to amend by ’
having all resolutins read before being
referred. In the turmoil on the floor
at the time, the delegates with the
amending motion were not recognised.
Meantime F. H. Coatsworth of Frie
county had submitted a resolution, that
delegates to the Denver convention be
instructed for Bryan, and while he was
maklng efforts to have the* resolution
read, the convention adjourned until
tomorrow at noon.
The Bryan adherents under leader-
ship of Augustus Thomas were not idle
during the day and with the prize of the
New .York delegation In sight, they pre-
pared numerous plans to capture it. The
leaders opposed to any Instructed dele-
gation took cognzance of the united
front which Mr. Bryan's frlands wero
putting forward and it was deemed ad-
yisable to have a special committee of
the resolutions committee consider the
claims of Mr. Bryan’s friends for an in-
Btruoted delegation. This sub-commit- .
tee decided by a vote of 6 to-1 to report
to the resolutions committee agalnat an
instructed delegation tor Bryan With
the fight for Mr. Bryan now before th©
whole committee on resolutions, the.
Bryan forces declared that i0the com-
mittee adopted the recommendation of
the sub-committee, n final effort would "
be made to bring in a minority report
which would bring the issue squarely
before the 906 delegates. The action of
the sub-committee is taken tonight,
however, by the leaders identified with
Chairman Connors and Lender Murphy
as an unmistakable sign of defeat for
the Bryan forces.
The committee on credentials met
this afternoon and was still in session
at a late hour tonight. * • 17
Contract For Inte urban,
Sherman, Texas, April 14. --An official
notification was today received from
Gainesville that the contract has been
let for the construction of the Gaines-
ville-Whitesboro-Sherman. interurban
railroad to the Tennessee Construction
company9 Sherman business men have
resubscribed $30,000 worth of common
stock in the road to be paid when the
road is completed from Gainesville to
Sherman.
Washington, April 14.—The expected
fight in the house over the question of
whether there shall be three or four
battieshipa authorized for the coming
year did not materialize today while
the naval appropriation bill was under
conslderation. Insiead most of the
session whs devoted to a lively debate
in regard to the naval stations in the
Philippines. The supporters of the
Subig station led by Messrs. Foss and
Hobson were victorious despite vigor-
ous opposition from both sides of the
chamber. Accordingly the sum of
$100,000, as recommended by the com-
mittee for improving and developing
the naval station at Olongapa, Hubig
bay was allowed to stand. A special
mesage from Presldent Roosevelt
urging four battleships was read and
elicited loud applause from the ad-
vocates of the proposition.
The naval bill was not concluded
when the house at 5:02 p. tn. took a
recess until 11:30 a. m. tomorrow.
Munich paid its taxes under protest.
Representative J. T. Adams has re-
signed as representative in the legisla-
ture from Orange county.
Captain Proc tor of the comptroller’s
department tells remarkable story
nbout total absence of prisoners in
Homerville county jail.
Strte health department preparing a
condensed sanitary code for unincor-
porated towns in the state.
Four burglaries Monday night.
Steam heating plant to be installed
at high school.
Colorado fire company preparing far
anniversary celebration.
our duties to the rest of the world
without Again pressing upon you the
necessity of placing ourselves in a
conditioh of complete defense and of
enacting from them the fulfillment bf
their duties towards us The United
States ought not to indulge a persua-
eJon that contrary to the order of hu-
man events they will forever keep at
a distance those painful appeals to
arms with which history c f every other
nation abounds. There is a rank due
to the United States among nations
which will be withheld if not absolute-
ly lost by'the reputation of weakness
if we desire to avoid Insult, we must
he able to repel it. If we desire to
secure peace, one of the most power-
ful instruments of our rising prosperta
ty it must be known that we are at
all times read fbr war.
(Signed)
‘THEODORE ROOSEVELT?
The White House, April 14, 1908.
Bastrop High School Graduates.
Bastrop, Texas, April 14-Fouteen
young ladies and gentlemen compose
th graduating class of 1908 of the
Bastrop high school and are aw fol-
lows: Misses Rob Jenkins, Maude
Tummlns. Maggio Hector Luella Cruft.
Ibbie Eastland, Blanche Heilgbrodt,
Mona .Nash; Julia Moncure, Mary Hos-
ier, and Messra, Hi Haynle, Durrah
Cunningham, Otto Dietz, Eddie May-
nard and Fred Rose.
Steamer Sunk in Collision.
Trieste, April 14--The Austrian Lloyd
steamer Galatea, outward bound from
here, collided bow-on today with the
Moleatsenibic about seventy mile© from
Trieste. She was badly broken below
the water line and sank. The crew
was saved. Th© Galatea was of 737
tons reglster.
sacres and butcherles have occurred in
which more lives of men and women
and children have been lost than in
any single great war since the' close
of the Napoleonic struggles. To any
public man who knows of the com-
plaints continually made to the state
department there is an element of grim
tragedy in the claim that the time has
gone by when weak nations or peoples
can be oppressed by those who are
stronger without arousing effective
protests from other strong interests.
Events still fresh in the mind of every
thinking man show that neither arbi-
nation or any other device can as yet
be invoked to prevent the gravest and
most terrible wrongdoing to peoples
-- , .. who are either few in numbers or who
puniiche KeXTStrx ionumnerpuhkznava, ToSt"he Airt"and
pnlsetomavipcnn-raovennremnoteixpra: thecapacliyforseik-dtnse:
sponsibility. I earnestly advise that the
Battleship fleet drops anchor in San
Diego bay and program of festivities
begins.
First of the Sunday (heater cases im
Missouri is begun.
Disease ravaging Laguayra is report-
ed to ba bubonic plague.
Search of ruins of historic 'Garrison
church shows tombs of celebrities un-
damaged but entire collection of relics
of wars destroyed.
First officer, first engineer and ship's
cook of the disabled steamer Sonora,
which has been drifting in the gulf for
a week, reach Vera Cruz after trip of
250 miles. In an open boat.
Cars operated under guard in Pensa-
cola. \ .
Bryan men unable to get endorse-
ment of New York democratic conven-
tion. U
President sends* message to congress
asking for authorization of four bat-
tleships.
tair of twins. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cal-
lahan. are in splendid health, and
heartily agree with the president that
largo families are the better and hap-
pier.
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Dallas, April 14.—The Twenty-second
annual convention of the Lumbermen's
Association of Texas was convened for
.a three days' session at the Majestic
theater at 11 o’clock this morning,
about 800 delegates and members be-
ing present. The board of . directors
held an active session at the Oriental
hotel prior to the convening of the an.
nual meeting. The members of the
press were not admitei, but it was
stated after adjournment that nothing
of interest to the. general public had
transpired. Social courtesies of the
city consumed the morning session.
At the afternoon session a paper was
read on behalf o{ the manufacturers
by J. L. Thompson of Houston; paper
on behalf of the wholesalers, George
C. Vaughan of San Antonio; paper on
behalf of the retailers, E. IL Nash of
Waco and a paper by H. C. Gorscoch,
secretary of the Missouri and Kansas
Lumber Dealers' assoclation.
Promptly at 9:09 o'clock tomorrow
night the Hoo-Hbs will form in line
of march at Turner hall and parade
through the business streets. A' large
class.of “Kittens” will figure conspicu-
ously in the parade and a cession "on
the root” will be held at Turner hall
upon return to that place.
vide military forces and has treated
the career of the soldiers as inferior
in honor and regard to the career of
the’merchant or of the men of letters.
They have ruled s large an empire,
which for so long a time has so rudely
proceeded on the heory of doing away
with the so-called militarism. Whether
the result has been happy in internal
affairs I need not discuss, all the ad-
vanced reformers and far-sighter pa-
triots in the Chinese empire are at
present seeking (I may add without
earty good will) for a rdical and far-
reaching reform in international
affairs. In external affains the policy
has resulted in various other nations
now holding large portions of Chinese
territory, while there is a very acute
fear in China, lest the empire, because
of its defenselessness be exposed to
absolute dismemberment, and its well
wishers are able to help it only in a
small measure, because no nation can
help any other nation unless that other
nation can help itself.
Vitally Necessary.
' "As chief executive of the nation and
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The text of the message follows:
"To the Senate and House of Repre-
congress now provide four battleships
of the most advanced type. I can not
too emphatically say that this is a
measure of peace and not of war. I can
conceive of no circumstances under
which this republic would enter into
an aggressive war; most certainly,
under no circumstances would it enter
into an aggressive war to extend its ter-
ritory or In any other manner Seek ma-
terial aggrandisement. I advocate that
the United States puild a navy com-
mensurate with its power and its needs
because I feel that such a navy would
be the surest guaranty and safeguard of
peace. We are not a military nation.
Our army is so small as to present an
almost absurd contrast to our size. It
is properly treated as little more than
a nucleus for organization in case of
serious war. Yet we are a rich nation
and undefended wealth invites aggres-
sion. The very liberty of individaul
speech and action which we so prize
and guard renders it possible that At
times, unexpected causes of friction
with foreign powers may suddenly de-
velop. At this moment we are neg-
tinting arbitration treaties with all the
other great powers that are willing to
enter Into them. These arbitration
treaties have a special usefulness be-
cause In the event of some sudden dis-
agreement they render it morally in-
cumbent upon both nations to seek first
to reach an agreement through arbitra-
tion and at least secure a breathing
spell during which the cool judgment of
the two nations Involved may get the
upper hand over any momentary burst
of anger. These arbitration treaties are
entered Into not only with the hope of
preventing wrong dolng by others
against us. but also as a proof that we
have no intention of doing wrong our-
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First Officer, First Engineer and
Ship’s Cook Traveled Long Dio-
tance in Open Boat to Givo
Notice and Get Help.
•■Yet from ue,
the standpoint of national Interest and - ■ -
honor It is michlevous folly for any
stateman to assume ■ that this world
has vet reached the stage or has come
within measurable distance of. the
stage when a proud nation, jealous of
It© honor and consolous of: its gteat
misalon in the world, can be content to
rely for peace' upon the forbearance
of other powers. It would be foolish
’ to rely upon each of them showing at
all times and under all circumstances
and provocations an altrustle regard
for the rights of others. Those who
hold this view are blind, indeed, tn all
that has gone on before their .eyes In
the world at large. They are blind to
what has happened in China. in Tur-
h key. In the Spanish popsessions, Irt
Centra and South Africa during the
1 ast seven years.
by the minority on the subject of regu-
lation of interestate shipments of
liquor to prohibition statee. The bill
is offered as a subatitute for th© ma-
jority bill and is substantially the same
as one prevlously offered by Mr. Bacon.
Widows’ Pensions.
Washington, April 14.—Th© senate
today agreed to the report of the oon-
ferees on the widows' pension bJU.
of the Sunday labor law of Missouri.
The case is the first to come to trial
out of more than 2000 indictments re-
turned against managers and employes
of tlie various theaters. In Kansas City
and actors now playing throughout
the entire country. Immediately after
the case began attorneys for the de-
fense moved to quash the indictment
on the ground that no law had been
violated and. that the grand jury which
returned the Indictments wa illegally
drawn. A long argument ensued.
San Antonio, April 14.—According
to the statement of on© of the leading
minister of this city, who is also a
leader ih the ant-saloon move, Gov-
ernor Campbell will be in San Antonio
Friday or Saturday to make a personal
investigation of the open violation of
the Sunday feature of the Baskin-
McGregor law. The statement comes
on such high authority that its au-
thentication is little doubted here.
Captain Ross of the state ranger
force is already in San Antonio and
Captain Bill McDonald has just made
a ttip to the city.
For more than a month now fully
half the saloons have been running on
Sunday with their doors wide open.
The grand jury is now in session and
has been Investigating these cases.
Callahan's Fourteenth Child.
Elgin, Texas, April 14.—Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Callahan of Elgin are the proud
parents of a baby boy born last Satur-
da/. The arrival of this little gentle-
man is a little out of th© ordinary, as
he. Is the fourteenth child born to Mr.
THREE MEN FROM VESSEL
REACHED VERA CRUZ.
New York, April 14.— Sharp political
skirmish fire during the first session of
the democratic state convention today,
which developed a well entrenched op-
position to an instruction of. New York
delegates to the Denver national con-
vention, was followed tonight by a gen-
eral attack on all the Bryan forces to
compel the committee on resolutions to
endorse the cAndlducy of W. J. Bryan
for the presrdency by instructing the
delegates to the national convention for
him. While the first session of the con-
vention nt Carnegie hall, held for the
purpose uf organization, was apparently
devoid of those incidents which are a
token of conflicting policies and ex-
citing convention, these were movs
and counter-moves made beneath this
substratum of seeming quiescence that
led to the appointment of a sub-commit-
tee of th© commute on resolutions to
consider the proposition of instructing
delegates for Bryan. It was before thls
that Augustus Thomas and those inter-
ested in Mr. Bryan's candidacy made) a
determined stand. Tonight th© latest
indications were that William J. ‘on-
nors, chairman..of the stat© convention,
and Charles F. Murphy, leader of am-
many Hail, were adamant tn their de-
termination for an unlnslrycte-d delega-
tion. . ।
Numerous contests were adjudicated
tonght by the < ommittee op < redentlals
and there were indicatiois of an all-
night session. The committee on dele-
gates-Atlarze and electors1, had a brief
session after the adjournment of the
convention and then adjourned to hold
another meeting tomorrow morning.
The delegatesat-large tentatively, se-
lected are W. J. Connors, Charles F.
Murphy. Lewis Nixon and Judge Alton
B, Parker.
The meeting of the convention was
delayed for nearly two hours until a
modification could be secured of the
court's order obtained by Senator Me-
Carren to prevent his delegates from
being unseated. There was no delay in
thp expedition of business once th© con*
vention was called to order.
When tho call ws concluded, the
go backwards in naval rank and rela-
tive power among the great nations.
Pool room at Houston closed pending
decision as to power of city to enforce
ordinances.
Committee reports in favor of home
f«r Beaumont Elks to cost about $75,-
000.
San Antonio saloon man slugged and
robbed by negro.
Receiver of Western Bank nnd Trust
company of Dallas procures injunction
to prevent sale of collaterals. •
Reports to Cattle Raisers' associa-
lion are that range is in fine condition
for stock.
Republican executive committee
meets in Dallas and decides to call
state convention at Fort Worth to
name delegates to Chicago.
Panther killed near Kennedale.
Governor speks at' Fort Worth to
members of six labor conventions now
in that city.
Lumbermen begin three days' ses-
sion at Dallas.
Appeals for Intervention. •
“The state department is continually
appealed to interfere on behalf of peo-
pie and nationalities who insist that
they are suffering from oppression;
now Jew’- in one country, now Christian
in another, now black men said to be
oppressed by white men In Africa.
Armenians, Koreans; Finns, Poles and
types of all appeal at times to this
government. All of this oppression is
alleged to exist at times of profound
peace and frequently, although by no
means always, it is alleged to occur
at the hands of people who are not
very formidable in military sense. In
some caes the accusations of..oppres-
sion and. wrong doing are doubtless ill
founded. In others they are well
founded and in certain cases the most
appalling loss of life is shown to have
occurred accompanied with frightful
cruelty. It is not our province to de-
cide which side has been right and
which has been wrong in all these con-
trovensies. I ami merely referring to
the loss of life.”
Washington's Policy.
“To carry out the policy is but to act
in the spirit of "George Washington.
Is but to continue ’the policies which
he outlined when he said 'observe good
faith and justice toward, all nations.
Cultivate peace and harmony with all.’
"Nothing is more essential than that
permanent Inveterate antipathies
against' particular nations and pas-
sionate attachments for others should
be excluded and that in place of them
just and amicable feelings toward all
should be cultivated.
, o-uv.s a0(9uos Fleet Ends Cruise
23 N308Noisswu,?. - f _
a urough Southern Seas.
April 14.—Senator
Clrk Fills Vacancy.
Washington, April 14.— Senator
Clark of Arkansas has boen selected
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