Weekly Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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CORPUS OHRISTI, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1908
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l he meeting of lUe council Tues
day extended from 4 In
NSPUf BORING 1 OHM *HM:"WÍL
the
Un.
govjwnmeut fores- i ernoon until nearly T o'clock. There ] te^rto^ovwid,.^!, .1 f,1* j *®U.** llf *« *•* " «#> report of the j (trader was brought up bv~ Alderman
Wtt lots, however, to relieve
monotony. It was out; of {he most
IIIluoU mid . iW.-i i'""''"'!"" lh'' !b.a
i'Birifl
i yinctii"
wr,. tin- chii i speaker at tht
#rwa.> u'UK"'>~ t< day. congreaa
*■! *> llllUObí ,Vad a PaPel l,oiut of uu onlooker,' that has been
jam '.- ■' "ii! "! <>icut North- held since the preseut mayor and
gallwH ni viiich h, declared i board of aldermen were Inaugurated.
' o,,, raiiwu utia waterways ¡There were pyrotechnic and displays
oí forensic, but business wan trans-
acted not withstanding.
There was quite a tilt between
Mayor Held and Mr. Clark I'eaae
itSS ,0s\t"r« T':L'bu ",,""i••
Pum quarter as ¡ the matter of purchasing n road
mayor He ¡fund,
llU f'a,ed that °u the 11 i>t meeting Of j the city
present council even meinbe
expressed himself sa>ittg that h
tt work ttpte'.Siér to develop the
Lit) Tl- .i^ii. UK'tit musí pre-
jj,, >•...■• rw.i ■ .* carefully. get
| s>( !i: t .ml then extensions.
u,i\ p ,1 i;.Hd legislation.
the present council every member Í the Untura committee.
would kiiaw. . - ' 1 ho mnu ma'ter that came up was
tlu mh , V ma>°1 mA ft" lbt> l^tition of cltixeus asking that
e l t i l C0UUCl1, ht' *U lhp fl"h housw " VVik,«''
Í.. * li" 0*th 10 toUow declared a nuisance This was
Here, he stated was an ferrad to tb«
and the currant bills nxalnst Onauu. He stated that there was
were read and referred to something over five hundred dollars
in the street fund, thai the road gra-
der would be purchased tor |31f>«
and that it would have just about
one huudred dollars more for street
the laws,
attempt to override the mayor be-
cause he desired to enforce the laws.
I he council, he stated, could not
. own
I .¡actio! nr.-.- .1 svaterwayS as a part
j^p coHiirJ'V«ition program.
MOVEMENTS BV
I SAP COMPANY
Peoples Unlit
ove. the placing v,f poles tor the f'T ,0 d« regard the
,, " . laws. It the other companies were
.... -ompany on Broad- j disobeying the laws, tltev should be
llJnS „l polo. alu„K tilt, blow ol |ta„r
and the mayor had or-
Broudway,
dered them removed, contending that
Alderman Gibbon stated thai he
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thi '
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city :>
Wit!
beet! ' •!•.
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\: ansas I'm-
preparing to
• \i'iufents in
1 lie COllliec-
■ v • .¡n. which
• i * will be an
they weru in the middle of the street, ,u,i ,ryins 101 hftaen
the street being oue hundred aud fit- 'V"ai' !" 1f"riiu' *)u> *'llS4t f''f of
ty feet In width, taking in the por- ,>Sulu,t ,<!0il(,wuv that ii anyone
lit ! above the bluff, iiii bluti and u"uhl 1'olnt out 'In . ust side of the
(■lie tttréjjk below the biun Mi "<'1 10 !|',u wtH1'd his
Iappeared and mad. a statement "Ü,<W 0Í t,U' V ^ ll"
to the eir.-et that there had boon et,ll,s,ttu> ' urtiter than that, he
>o.me eompluint aud that he had seeu ,
ihOM- making the complaint, that ! ,"U Ul,u h" ss,,s « l«qua!llied from
h.- did not desire to disobey (he laws. V"U"K I^o^ükÍIiot ,
that his poles were out ol the way Alderman Gregory in reply to \l
oi ili. brow ot (in- hill and In his : tífrman Sutherland staled that he
following oommlttee:
Grant, On*on aud Sutherland
The clt> attorney then presented
the houaeinovjat ordinance, which is
I'ulilished in full in another column.
The ordinance was adopted
Alderman Onzon then presented a
petition from the Corpus t'brlstl
Oil tiii.s, Mineral and Water eout
pau>, asking n franchise to pip# the
city with mains for gas H< stated
thai an o -¡¡nance had been (ire pa red
and that U was identical with the
ordinance «ranted to Mr I'atierson
'ast spring, but wiiich he had for
leited. The matter was referred to
a committee composed of Sutherland.
Indianapolis, Oct, 8. -The retire
mem o< Vice-Presldeut Whit of Iowa
and Secretary-Treasurer Hyau of the
Vnlted Mine Workers Is announced.
Thin la the end of the preanut crista
In the union's affair* because of ttM
growth of Socialism. John Walker f
work than the entire street fund of j UHuoia, the Socialist tender, was uom-
last year, that he believed the city inated as president against la wla.
ought to purchase the machine. Mr. ¡The latter, who was once considered
Hales had made a pro |um It Ion to srll radical, is now regarded as ultra
stated, he had nothing to say aud Gibbons and Downey
tn< ' ' in depoi of about (opinion better lociitcd than if placed
wbil. 'he lt'eii'hi piatforni ¡ along the sidewalk among the trees.
be extended, Cí¡< uiditiim will He stated that on South Brodway
■ thi eomp.'iny w,--. ;«•••! of about ' there wen- poles belonging to the
. blind:ed ieei iii b ii tli and plat-¡other electric light company and (lit
irísele • : ..a. -u on, ¡eiudied and j-telephone company, that they were
feet placed Identically in the same posi | planed on Broadway Mr t)u«on sta-
addt!. 'i liei<■ will be tlou relative to the street as the po- ted that he would like to know if It
•i new track- in ¡I - yard The ; «ilion lie had placed his pole , i.e was a fact that the otliei companies
vt at the p.t -t ti::er depot w ill In j intimated that discrimination was were occupying the -treet on South
, llt'lci!. w hiie ' fit ¡ will be ¡i loco- show n since he had been ordered to Broadway. The mayor replied that
had promised in aid ihe mayoi and
be harmonious with him whenever
he thought the mayor was right,
thai in this instance he did not be-
lieve that any injury would be done
by allowing the poles to n main as
Mr, (Hark Pease win was present
was asked by the mayor If there was
anything he desired to firing up and
Mr 1'case launched into a discussion
of the poles on Hroadwav. and this
brought about the hi .works and pro-
longed discussion
Hon. p, McNeill Turner appeared
for the Texas-Mexican* rail way com-
pany and retinested the adoption of
an ordinance granting the company
permission to extend Its Y" by run-
ning a single track acros Marguerite,
street. "I'hls was adopted
Turne ' presented tin ordinance
the city 'he machine and placo it in
the city at once l rlii¡¡ a man here
aud operate it for six days without
ixist to the city and If the city
should tlnd the muchüte to be satis-
factory it could be paid for next
March when the tax money lias been
collected.
Mi Hales watt granted the tloor
and answered many <jue Uons con
corning the cost of operating the
machine aud the like, estimating that
the engineer and fuel would cost
about the dollars per day or about ¡
one hundred and fifty dollar, per i ''«"«iMw Fred Warren of the
month {Southern Texas Truckers Association
Ii was dually tinned than an agree !'' ln lh'' dt> tmla.v arranging for
connervaltve compared with Walker.
The next eonVtmtlon promises a hot
light over socialism. Many arc urglug
Mitchell to seek re-election, hut he
refuses on account of bis health
MEETING OF THE
TRUCKERS MONDAY
Want be entered info with Mr, Bale#
umb-r bis proposition and the follow-
ing committee was appointed to
draw up the contract; Grant Suth-
erland and LoVeuskipid, The <\jtn-
in It tee was directed to meet in the
mayor's office this moruiug
After closing the road grader mat
ier the council adjourned.
ci<uch track. Th. ^e
' • west side of the
freight depo .
eiiflipany i- speml-
>1 ivnmey here The
niliilel'-d eust -o'.ne
Hid tile other 1 tli
-I in t ha' neiuh-
I V,- !
*ill t,.
I Oppe-::
Hdgcthel
quit. .
i section i
si ilk.- s.to.n >•)
«net)! v..
■ OOll
■thill 'lit :,e\i I'Ul" ol id the com
« fill : eadv to interclluugi
. «Vi'i the .. ■ liliectiou
remove his pole- while the other com- that did not have anything to do with !i,lso «ranting the San Vntouio and
panics were allowed to occup;- the
; same position on South Broadway.
I Mi. i-..ase stated thai he bad de
sired the uouncil o- grant his per-
mission (O let his pole: stand where
the) had been placed, and ihat it it
been me necessary in the tuturu to
remove i hem he w ould do so
The mayoi stated that n was not
: w ithin i he province ot tin council
to grant the right to disobey a law, :
i bal t here was an ordinance which j
recites where' pole - shall bo placed re- j
Imivi- to tile stTcct, that he would ;
enforce lie- ordinatici until it was j
repealed.
The uiayoi stated I hut he desired
to answer the intimation cu Mr. .
I'ease that fayóritiíiin was being
.>.ngsvllle are pre- shown, that he had not shown any j
lavoritiani aud would not, but that .
he would certainly entorce the or
dlnancs of the city. Mr, I'ease re-
pliud in a heated manner that the
mayor bad ordered him to reinose
his poles while at the same time
It RESERVOIR
IT KINGSVILLE
the peopi.
'e :>>tei { their little eity
! the ra va;.. the flumes. The
"t 'i''' Hi. • w hicli destroyed a
k Of th. hn -1, section aroused
People iii 11 - necessity of pro-
a mean, m protection, and
hay- dechh'd to eotistruct a
reservio- n,r u storage basin
the question'. Mr. Ouzon iusiited
that ii did have n bearing on it.
Alderman Sutherland replied that
simply ,because one company was
disobeying the law did not giv the
right to .another compatiN to disobey
(lie law.
Alderman Downei was itt favor of
granting the right to Mr. I'ea.si uttd
so was Alderman l,ovCn*klólrf Dow-
ney finally moved that the petition
of Mr. Poise in granted Gregory
seconded, li v\i< put (" a vol.- and
the result not being cleat to ihe
mayor h< called for the aye- and
nays, with the following result:
Aye- Gregory. Downey and LoV
euskiold nays Sutherland. Grant
and Onsion The mayor decided Go
tie by voting against gtali'lng the
petition.
he
When lh.
order, those
Held. City
Secretary
water
fair
welln
. Fr.
todti
' ,rk on i h,
''r Ing the
■ large or,,
' 8 400,00
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1 ifnrn.
i! re It si.
' Cictiott
Hg> It
gur w
d í ing>. to
up t , |- ¡
which there
had from the
eminell was called to
ireseiii were, Mayor
Attorney (livens City
Wright and Alderman
allowed the other companies to u(" Sutherland, l«ovenskiold. Gibbons,
ettpy withoui molestation the aa#o j Qrant. Downey. Otr/.on and Gregory,
posit ion on
their poles.
South Broadway with
is an
artes-
After rending the minutes o' (he
proceeding regular and special meet
At this point Alderman Sutherland the reports of the officer ' were
intervened, stating that he could ,-et presented the repon of the water-
no reason lor such a discut-iou. that
Aransas Pase railway the right to
construct a «put track from its yurds
in block forty nine from Gtiviland
-.•treel lo Power street the purpose
being to Rive the Wateis Pierce com
pan y truckage faclUHeK as well as
otbet Industrial plants along the
route nils was granted.
I'uruer firesented a politlón for an
amendment to the Petroleum ordi-
nance granti'lg oil companies the
Mi.lr u «de i prOpe: restrict ions to
ida. •- i heir «torage lanks t hree feet
.rp«.i! ¡iiKteatl of nine feet apart
This was adopted
Alter the abOVI lltisllle-" wa dis-
posed of Alderman Sutherland made
a motion that tie city secretary noli-
f> till electric light and ielephon
eompantc that dtey must move their
poles where illey have not been
placed in compliance with ihe law,
on the Inside (,t the sidewalk curb
line This was carried without a
dissenting voice
When file motion was made City
Attorney Ulvens remarked that if
Mr Pease was denied the right to
occupy the bluff he would certainly
prosecute the other rompan left who
are violating the law
Mr Hale of 'be Steam Hood
CSrader Company was present and
Keporis.
The following reports were pre
wonted and referred to the finance
committee
t'lty Secretary's Iteport,
Phe report of the city secretary
for i he month of September yvas as
follow -
t urrenl Expense.
To Hal Sept I, ok $ I'd.l i.i
I'o 'ollecuoli. UH Pi
fly dlidnii seliunilMil ,)>
My Ma. s—pt '> . '<ty l Js i t, .
IS148 • !
IS H.I H
Mreel 1'und.
T., Mill Sept • "OX yt:'i (ill |4.;t 1.0
:t illsbursement> • 127 Ve
It- Ba! S....t pi us üJUÜ'C HJ5I *1 j
Wnterwcok* Fund.
To I tul Sept I OK 5J r.2.H I20ÍIÜ. II
Hy dlsburaeinentw . «Oo.'lf,
By Hal Sept ttl. *t X 8751,7!) |2#fi3,U
the III* Otlttg of the association nc*t
Monday, the 12th luid. He ha made
a unit of thin section, having vi ltet«
tlregory, Bockport, Hint on and Taft
and Htates that the meeting will b«
largely attended He believe! that
the great bulk of the farmer*) of thU
section of the state will enroll them-
selves in the association.
The meeting will lie held in the
rooms of the Commercial Club build-
ing and will be .ailed to order at t
o'clock In the afternoon
It is expected that there will be
delegates here from the entire Month
western portion ol the «inte- the
territory embraced between the Colo
rado anil the Hlo 11 runde HI vers.
I'he officers and director who wlli
be in attendance bit as follows
President Cred Warren, of King
v Hie, Uoy CatupbeU of í «n Antonio
John II. Davit* of Let-ado and JlotP
II Jtobrowolskl treasurer, Han A
i onto
PREPARATIONS TO
REMOVE POLES
bis re
laa.r,
. r.ido
Wtu.i n who is
" ' " .¡erring with con-
oopositloti of con-
t.orage oaain. Il will
will, a capacity for
gallons.
considerable activity in
1 number of new buiht-
1 -tt ietion in differ-
whib work of erecting
' irnl district will
" ' host time. The
" ' roctod at that place
and concrete.
' ' MB XI H HT WtlKTll,
. If It was ugainst the ordinance toi
" poies to be placed it. such a position,
it was against the law and that was
all there was to it, that it, did not
seem proper tor the matter to be dis-
cussed in such a tenor. During the
discussion Mayor Held stated thai it
-cerned that Mr Pease bud com be
tore the council in the effort to bull
doze him. and that he could noi do
It
I holiese 1 know you well euough.
Mr Held to know that it would be
useless to attempt to bulldoze you,'
replied Mr. Pease.
If you do not know, you may üud
out that you can't before
Itecorder'n Iteport.
ItecordeS' Hhuw submitted
port for September snowing:
fines
Costs
Hill Presented.
The following bills were preaented
and referred to the finance commit-
tee ¡mil ordered paid if found cor-
rect :
W it Dupey, :mi ballot
iKixes I 34 .00
c W. Voting painting elstf-rn
top .
s w i'ei and Tel. Company
phonor *
f t' Hardware Co pruning
shears
t' C Water Supply Co.. wat-
et troughs
C C lee muí Kleclric Co.,
street lights
Culler Pub. Co,, printing and
¡phi fatting
M 1, W t^gbt, board irlty
prisoners ..... 21 .70
we get
rejoined
through with this thing,
■1 Worth Texas Oct. 8. The
annua! meeting of the Fort
"th fair Association began today
1 ® record-breaking first day at-
Tb, management this -- |( lhe ^itlon at once. ,
worked hard to secure at- ,1' , to wrile m8 ,
' it was finally suggested that it Mr. MoU, countries arc preparing to rorc-
I'ease desired that the ordinance be ibjv th,. move
amended that he submit a petition
for an amendment. He stated that Vienna. Oct «-The Rnropcu. out-
* look Is threatening. Skirmlahing he-
, Jecur1, ttl- ] on . waB given time to write uis th- Bulgarian and Turkish
« , f ,bo v<?r>- best class and ^U(lou lhe c0Uncll meanwhile pro- troops has i>een reported along the
- —1~""" Mr. ¡frontier
j li, cilven . drawing* ordl«
Belgrade Servia Oct •! A royal; merit that ttellhor the ahneiatlon noi nance . . U*
ukase has beet! issued calling all re-! Bulgaria's declaration of Indepen- Q. o. Wright, stamp
serves, number 120.000. to arms The .Menee concerns any other powers, j (i O Wright, cash, eipreoa
Servians fear that Austria plans to The statement I Intended to head on dray immborH
force Servia and ttnumania into n off an international conference,
federation under Bulgarian control
lince
' has
Bosni, Oct. 7, The country is ou
the verge oí a revolt against annexa-
tion and Hervía l« preparing to In-
vade the country Austria Is ol ll*-
Ing troops to uphold bet- stand
their efforts
i a" lnc"eatlon*
successful
exhibition Is far more elab-
'* ">an in past years In every
,r'tnent the displays are large
«usually attractive The show > PtTMV 0r his aaslgus Including a passage through the Dar-
«ock .horses, swine and poul- jgrHat® . . d or Aprii. 1908. grant- fiHnelle«. It Is believed that the Ciar
•< especially notable, and the j on the . :^ ^ mg¡Qtain a „De of has promi^d to support the 8ultan
. J In the agricultural and hor- | iu« ,n «roadwa> for the use of and Hulaarla Is rushing troops to the
_ r l departments embrace every P°^H ^ n ^mpaDy, said line frontier The armies are cloning In
'•.etinit with other business. Mr. j frontier. The C*ar has notified Pran-
p '' , then presented the following: els Joseph that he will not observe
Corpus Christ I, Oct. 6. l#08.--The lh„ |W„u treaty since other powers
rw^iou l isht Company hereby asks HrP violating it. and demands a share
of lhe ordinance ¡n .re-apportionment of the Malkant
London Oct. 7. Kngland, Frame,
Russia and Italy are preparing to en-
force their demand for an Internat-
ional conference to consider the
Balkan situation. Oermany opposes
Maverick-Clark Lithe. Co.,
tax receipt 16.00
Niagara Falln Metal and
Stamping Work , dray
numbers 11.60
OloHsmnn 4 Thompson oil
sanitary 4 .00
M T. Lldwoll, cash paid for
In pursuance with i lie action of the
Council Monday lo udunllng a motion
demanding that the electric light eon
panics and the telephone company re
move ihelt pole,, wtilch are locut"!;
In violation of the ordinance, the Cor-
pus chriati Company ami the ftouth-
i western Company got busy this morn
! lug The former company will re-
move its poles on South Broadway to
.th# West dde of the street and place
'them inside tin curb line, according
to the provisions >>( the ordinance.
The Southwestern Company, stated
Manager Passwad r this rnoiniiig, has
only oue pole located in violation of
the ordinance and tfic company Is
lead, to move It This pole Is erected
on the hill In the renter of the city
and ii will be necesnnry for the com-
: pany to place Its wire underground
j when It is removed.
j There is no ordinance relative to the
weather tower This was placed on
the brow of the hill some Ave or
si* years ago by special permit tram
the City Council, a motion granting
16.00 j the permission having been adopted.
While nothing Is being said for pub-
lication by the parties to the contro-
versy, there Is a tilt on between the
officials of the Houthwealern Tele-
phone Company and the People'
Light Company, The telephone oom
pany complains that the wire of the
light company will be too near the
cables of the telephone system and
will cause great injury to the aerr-
! lee, it la also conteded that the laat
«, 00
22 .00
2.26
JiO.Oi
I 8fi b0
13,26
1 .60
80
labor on streets 114.00
Ouffney Lumber Co,, Lumber
and ponte
I M. Caldwell « Sons',
horse feed
the conference and this may cause nioseman * Thompson, horse
on farm, orchard and
l:1 urowti
VUa
fair *¡11 continue eight days,
l«n, ulú|||¡u|
f to be located as they are and It Is believed that fighting will
° w placed and subject to all other without any formal declaration
serious diplomatic rupture The situ-
ation is critical. It 1 reported that
Crete la preparing to declare Inde-
pendence from Turkey and Join
Greece.
2.60
8.4b
32.8
no
Ron October 16, The radng Ligh^Company
Ol Whx ! n n «1 * it ea a#t K(a eflilP. ' ^ __ . .
I of war.
Vienna. Oct. 7.
-Following the an-
*ah Inaugurated thi after- ¡ ': ir pvasE President.
*HI continue dally. Sunday ¡ CLA«J ¿,B ^tion , nM.tion of Bosnl Henogounla, the
'^b,r d" °VprA,- ¡MHO O.C
Belgrade, Oct. 7.— A sorlou Ser-
vian outbreak against Austria "oc-
curred here today Moba stormed
the A un trian legation and damaged
the building. Troops iater depreaw!
the mol .
18.81
1.00
s.ot
■
feed •. >/ ■ • ■
H D. Taylor lumber Co..
lumber
j, R. Boyd, street aupplle ..
Burleaon é Son*', shoeing
boreen
Water Compaajr Rcptrti.
The report of the Water Supply
company for the quarter ending
September 86th waa preeented, It
ahows a net profit for the quarter
of 18,484.46
„í';íti
company to ereet should go above the
wire of the first company, the rights
or the first company being prior.
Mayor Bald waa asaed for an opin-
ion this morning and slated that that
waa a legal queetlon which
panlea would have to settle
themseivee, and that the eltr
have anything to do with It.
PORTLAND HORSE SHOW.
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