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ONLY DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AUSTIN CARRYING THE COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
VOLUME 1; NUMBER 107
AUSTIN, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1915.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
SERBS IN (Twelve Are Killed,
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TELLS OF
GRAVEST
MASSACRE
CONDITION
GOV. FERGUSON
Fire Gained Such Head-
mtmsing. as the resuit of a fire today.
are continuing their search
the situation is critical
the result
ure of Uskup le cor-
mean that the
2i
on bitulithic pavement by oth-
hether Greece will throw her lot with
the allies.
of
Texas, and other".
Big increases in the appropriation for
rying out maneuvers the enem
which
IMPORTANTGAIN
morale' and its
IN CHAMPAGNE
from now.
in the interests of granitid coheretena
BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 25. -American
eons of distinction will conduct
ics arranged as a si
tn connection with the
front."
DECLARE FOR PROHIBITION
FAN ANGHLO,
Oct.
Members of the West Texas conference
will not resum
of Methodist Epl
opal Church, South,
here
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made by a soft nosed
brick.
der control at 4.
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WILL LISTEN TO
APPEAL TUESDAY
Mostly Girls, When
Box Factory Burns
Women Were Distrib-
uted Among Turk Of-
ficials as Chattels.
Jumped From the
Windows.
on
ere
RIO GRANDE IS
CLOSELY GUARDED
At the request of the Governor, Ad-
jutant General Henry Hutchings has
ber of the citizens’ advisory commit-
tee on pavement, brought up the mat-
ter of the dissimilarity of prices made
following Mr McDonald, and spoke In
the interests of the Thurber vitrifled
MEXICANS
MURDER A
SOLDIER
GERMAN CONFESSES
A CONSPIRACY TO
DISABLE LINERS
If the British forces
loniki, no news of their
that they falled in that effort during
five monthn, which were most favor-
able to them. It womid be iponsible
for them to repeat the Galician and
fact that
were laid
Mr. Marklee mentio
briek made by his c(
as the first pavement ►
Paving Representatives
Are Heard Before the
Commission and Com-
mitte of Citizens and
Experts.
hunities and in preparing for the con-
Pat for trade supremacy after the war.
both sides of the street was
The fire was brought un-
Armenian Was Forced
to Help Kill 800
Persons.
Bulgarians and Austro-
Germans Only 35 Miles
Apart. .
Germany’s Reply to
British Charges
NO TRACE OF THE
MEXICAN BANDITS
HAS BEEN FOUND
CRISIS IS PASSED
FOR THE RUSSIANS
DECLARES EXPERT
Serbian Statement
Claims Successes
Teutonic Advance Upon
Riga Is Proceeding
Steadily.
Sulphur Springs
Has $75,000 Fire
Germany Apologizes
to Switzerland
W. F. Ramsey Will
Be Host to Lawyers
Colder Weather Is
Forecast for Texas
French Repulsed
Bulgarian Advance
Battle Took Place Close
to Scene of Recent
Wreck.
Redfield’s Plan Is
to Get World’s Trade
Our Home Circulation
fa growing'by leapt a..d bounds be-
cause The Statesman er -riea the for-
eign. National* State, market, local and
society news into ele homes FIRST.
COMMUNICATIONS
NEARLY ALL OUT
ipeclal feature
sixth annual
American Surgeons
Conduct Clinics
SHOD A BISHOP
WITH HOT SHOES
abdomen
bullet.
Trying to Capture
Bandits.
gravel top pavement oh which there is
i. ‘Mr. McDonald said that he
ly is stm
fully rs-
surge
cllnli
Vaders have in their hands nearly
the means of communicat “
patent of bitulithic is bused are in-
herent stability and absence of voids,
he explained in answer to another in-
quiry.
anda
aton.
Ave left Sa-
mvements has
recently
era thai
confronted by an army
tains its strength an
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three-story
bodies and
report of their capti
rect. This would
LONDON, Oct. 25.—A l9ng account
by an eye-witness of Armenian atroc-
tis is telegraphed by the Reuter cor-
will view the inpouring stream of
French and British fighting men. It is
thought here that the strength of ths
forces ultimately landed may decide
_____ ____..... he city
Congress Avenue ten years ago. ‘he
WITNESS Rightor Explains
Price Differences
1
♦
i
the chain from Berlin to < onstanino-
pie will be forged.
lighting on the Riga-Dvinsk front
has broken out with rnewed intensity.
representative; granitid .concrete, Ray
McDonald, representative; granitoid, O.
G. Frantz, representative; Travilla
g gat
5 it will
r of the
course
recom-
way That Escape Was ——
Cut Off and Several Entire Border Patrol is
sources say the entent powers have
renewed their original plans and now
propose to land a tremendous contin-
gent at saloniki. This would serve the
LONDON, Oct. 28. —Each succeeding
telegram from the Balkans telis of the
increasing gravity of Serbia’s position.
To the north the Bulgarian and Aus-
tro-German forces ure Within twenty-
five miles of joining hands. To the
south, half of Serbian-Macedonia is in
possession of the Bulgarians, if the
turning to Austin today. He will sub-
mit a report to the Governor, the tenor
of which he declined to divulge today.
That the report will be in effect that
terests were endeavoring to ter down
the business of the Bitulithic Company
by submitting low bids on a bitulithic
I pavement which they knew would not
in the Toxas Bitulithic Com-
over Frenca territsy. He and his ob-
server have been punished and trans-
ferred.
pavements and representatives are:
Barber Asphalt Company, asphalt, D.
C. Bell, representative. Mr. Veil io
also representing the Western F’avins
Company of Oklahoma City; Eureka
Paving Company of Houston, Cleve-
land-Trinidad Paving Company of
Cleveland, the latter concerns being
operating companies; Texas Bitulithic
Company, bitulithic, Fred Rightor and
J. H. Pittman, representatives; Thur-zwi
ber Vitrified Brick Company of Thur-
her. vitrified brick, C. H. Murklee,
BROWNSVILLF, Tom., oct. 25--
Bandits who attacked an entrenched
» nlted States infantry company within
six miles of Brownsville early yester-
day evening encaped capture by more
than 1090 troops, llnngeis and deputies,
who started in pursuit of them In half
sn hour after the fight. Da y light re-
venjed that there were possibly thirty
or forty men in two attacking parties,
which attempted to ambush the sol-
diers.
Civil officers here mid today they
believed some members of these bands
were Mexicans from Brownsville. All
toads entering Brownsville wars guard-
ed during the night by both civil and
military details. in "he blief that some
of the bandite would ry to hide in
this city. Today’s reports showed no
indiettion that any of the banitta tried
to crons the Rio Grande into Mexico
be accepted because they knew the
pavement which their specif‘cations
The Germans have crossed the Dan-
ube at Orsava. This mens that with
terested only in selling
Contracting to lay the f
have to be done irres
manufecturing company
that' company if desir
mend a reliable cortr
been disclosed. Reports from various
made a personal Investigation'of condi- — — —-----— - --------
lion. In the Brownsvilie country, re- Eremen, "enreh!n* the ruin* of the
portant success by the French troops in
the Champagn district is announced
by the French war office this after-
noon.
The communication follows:
"In the Champagne distriet our
troops yesterday won an important
success. The enemy occupied in front
of their second position a salient very
atrongly organized, which had resisted
all our previous attacks. In its south-
western part, on the northern slopes
of hill No. 196, at a point one and a
Advertising Experts Know
that the evening pap has greater val-
ue as an advertising medium. That is
why American evening papers are
making such wands \»l proarens.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 20.—Twelve
persona employed in the factory of th l
Union Paper Box Company are known
to be dead, eight girls are badly in-
jured, and a number of others are
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
And TRIBUNE
building recovered the
expressed his government’s deep re-
gret, for the act of s German aviator
in dropping bombs ecently o: Chaux
de Fonda and has promised to pay In-
demnity for the death nr injury of
Ewiss citizens and damage to property.
The minister nald the aviator had lost j no patent. «...______- ____.__
his way and believed himself to be । wished it understood that he was not
• icalled for would not be given the stamp
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—What the of approval of Warren Brothers. He
Department of Commerce will do cap- said that the bidders were perfectly
ture world markets for the United safe in so far as the earnest money
States if Congress approves Secretary deposited was concerned, because the
edfield’s plans is outlined in a state matter of royalties was left to the city
ment by Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the of Taylor and they knew that the city
bureau of foreign and domestic com- authorities would fall to make arrange-
ments with Warren Brothers regard-
ing the pavements which the low bids
called for. Mr. Pittman said further
that Warren Brothers, who hold the
patent on bitulithic, desire to super-
muerce.
A trade campaign world-wide in
Scope is planned.
American merchants and manufac-
Forecast: j
East Texas/ Tonight fair, colder is
northwest portion'Tuesday fair.
West Texas: Tonight fair, older
except in southeast portion, front in
north portion; Tueday fair.
appearing with any selfish interest, but
with the welfare of the city at heart.
He said that he would, of course, wish
to bid on laying the granitid concrete,
but wished that privilege gi anted to
other contractors also. In reference to
the advantages of granitid concrete, he
mentioned that it was smooth, easily
kept clean, durable and of very little
expense for maintenance. He said that
he had spent only $17 in repairs to
40,000 yards of that pavement. Mr
M Donald offered to guarantee tLat
the price would not bo more than 21.20
per square yard. He asserted that two
men could easily keep 200,000 yards of
granitid concrete in repair indefinitely
C. H Marklee, representing the Thur,
her Vitrified Brick Company of Thur-
ber. appeared before the commision
in the dense smoke.
Joseph L. Bash, salesman for a stove
company ou the second floor of the
building, saw flames shooting up the
elevator shaft. He ran to a window
and gave the alarm. He noticed a
number of girls from the box factory
leaning out of on upper window. He
lowered eight to the ground.
A. J. Seagle, another stove salesman,
did the same thinn at another window,
and aided a nur.ver to safety, while
Henry Schraeer of Cloveland, drove
a wagon to the reur of the building
and caught others as they jumped.
Other girls mruur into the street and
seven of them were tokeu to a hos-
pital badly hurt.
Henry T. Schafer, manager of the
box factory, said that twenty-six girls
and sis men were at work when the
fire broke out. The bodies rocovered
were unrecornizable.
Minnie Bittner, one of his girls who
jumped, died while on the war to the
hospital, bringing the known dead to
six. The driver of a fire engine waa
crushed when the engine overturned
and It wns feared he would die. An-
other fireman was overcome by smoke
and was said to be In a nerions condi-
tion.
Roon after 2 o’elok firemen. pene-
trated «o the giris‛ dressing room in
the factory, where they found t*ee
bodies. The girls had been suffocate.
A few minutes later three more bodies
were found, two of them badly burned
make efforts at all times to get the
prko lowered where possible.
Mr. Pittman in answering-a question
relative to the composition of bitulithic
said that It consists of 93 per cent
broken rock and 7 per cent bituminous
cement. The grounds on which ’he
dition to the pavement representatives
were Mayor Wooldridge, Commission-
ers Anthony, Bartholomew. Haynes and
Powell, City Engineer Welborn and City
Attorney Rector; Joo Harrell and A.
J. Eilers, members of the citizens’ ad-1
visory committee in pavement; James
P. Nash, testing engineer laboratory
good roads material, bureau of eco-
nomie geology. University of Texas;
Dr. T. U. Taylor uni II. C. Bantell of
the engineering department, Univ ersity
of Texas R D. Parker of the Railroad
Commission, Rov Bedichek of the ex-
The soldiers were on the alert for
attack last night, having become sus-
picious about 4 in the afternoon when
their negro cook reported that he heard
whistling in the brush nearby. Search
failed to locate the whistler. The In-
fantry’ company was within tie yards
of i he ecene or the train robbery and
murder of three Americans a week ago
tonight, the camp site being an oil
well driller’s location. The soldiers
had built three trenches to afford pro-
tection. and during the fight they used
for covers also some oll well casings
built by the well drillers. The latter
were unable to give any aasistance
during the battle, having only one shot,
gun with a few shells and one pistol.
The aoldter camp was in t*e open
where it was visible nt some liztance
away. The attacking band opened fire
from the dark cover afforded by brush
about seventy-five yards away from
the trenchen. From this distance the
attaekers could distinguish the outlines
of trenchea, but the soldiers could gee
nothing in the brush except rifle flashes
which seemed to cover a front several
hundred feet wide. Another band of
mem under cover of the railroad em-
bankment about 125 yards away in
another direction from the camp, ap-
pears to have taken a mall part in the
fight. The bullet which struck private
Moore came from the direction of this
second firing party, as he was shoot-
Ing into the brush from behind tome
oil weil casing* The wewRd in hlo
BEWLIN, Oct. >».- (Wireless to Say-
Ville )—"Germany's enemies apparently
are anxious to couhterct the indigna-
tion aroused by the fact that German
enilors on a sinking suhmarine who
had surrendered and held up their
hands were shot down one after an-
other," says the Overseas News Agen-
cy. "For this purpose they are giving
widerst publlcity to invented stories
phout the sentences by court martial
against conspirators in Brussels"
ability not oniy to offer staunch and
uueeeeaful but to aaavene
the offensive and inflict blows which
hns been demonstrated by the events
of recent days.
"This affords the bent proof that the
Austro-Germa ns have failed to destroy,
or even dinorganize our army, Heing
Ry right of alphabetical precedence,
bitulithic street paving material as
1 made and laid by the Texas Bitulithic
Company, was the first to be discussed
Monday morning before the City Com-
mission, the citizens' advisory commit-
tee on pavement, and the committee
1 of University of Texas engineering and
geological professors asked to meet
with the City Communion in consulta-
tion on pavement. As expressed by
Mayor Wooldridge, it is the desire of
the City Commission to make the very
best deal possible for the people in
having paved those streets of the city
that it will be possible for the Com-
mission to order paved as the result
of the recent sale of Austin bonds voted
for that purpose.
Shortly after Fred Rightor, repre-
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Tex. Oct. 25.
Ths business section here was am-
aged about 875,000 by fire shortly after
midnight. The fire broke out in Hal-
bert’s meat mar hot on Connelly Street
at 1:40 a. m. The following nieces
were practlcally totally destroyed The
Mission and the Lyric Theaters, one
grocery store, one barber chop, One
meat market, one repair shop end one
confectionery. The W. F. Poff dry
goods at ora waa burned. Other prop-
Ray McDonald won the second toap-
pear before the cmmission. Ha spoke
ne he offensive in the
‘ Nutgnrians, by gaining’erty on I
ceNB, effect a junction damaged
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—Robert Fay
and hie brother-in-law, Walter L.
Scholz, arrested yesterday while testing
explosives near Grantwood, N. J., were
arraigned today at Weehawken, N. J.,
on charges of conspiracy and held
without bail for examination tomorrow.
The arraignment disclosed the fact
that a third man—Paul Dache- had
been arras'ed early today at his home
in Jersey CHy Da ce he was arraigned
with Fay and Scholz and held without
bail.
Detectives sald they expected Daeche
to prove a valuabie witness, as he had
already given them much mportant
inforniation. Daeche said he was 34
years old; that he came to this country
rpm Germany in 1912 and was a grad-
uate of Cologne University.
Announcement whs made at police
headquarters here today by Commis-
sioner Woods that Fay had made a
confesslon.
For more than twelve hours, it was
said. Fay stuck to his original story
that he was not eonnested with the
German government. At 5:30 o’clock
this morning, according to the com-
missioner, he broke down and admitted
that he was a lieutenant in the German
army and came to this country two or
three months ago for the speciki pur
pose of experimenting with a machine
containing high explosives.
This mac hine, the commissioner Mid
was to Ire attached to the propeller or
rudder of a ship. The machine was so
constructed, he said, that the stirring
of the water would release a spring,
resulting in an explonion which would
disable the ship and force her'to enter
the nearest port.
This-was for the purpose of delhying
shipments of munitions to the allies, it
was said, only ships carrying war mu-
nitions were to be thus disabled, ar.
cording tn Fay's statement.
It was said several arris's would he
made today of men who were cognizant
of Fay’s movetnenta.^
with granite*
Though the Germans apparently have
been losing heavily, they I ave captured
the village of Repe. southeast of Righ
and have taken Jlloukst, northwest of
Dvinsk.
The tone of dispatches from Petro-
grad, however, is hopeful and while it
is seen tha« Riga may fail, th belief
is expressed that there will be no
recurrenee of the familiar dashing
Teuton advance. The general yjew is
that the Germans aro planning a final
spurt before settling down in winter
quarters. _________
"he crisis has passed favorably for
M We issud safely from a difficult
porition in the advanced Vistula then-,
ter, where we were enveloped on three
miden, and now atand bnaed upon Iha
center of our empire, unexhausted by
war. It is true that there is still much
fierce fighting ahead; there may be
movements reurward, but there cer-
taint:’ will be advances aiao.
"Our army lives in expectailon of a
general offensive nnd looks with full
confidence to the armies of its al-
lies.”
staff by an Armenian serving in the
Turkish army who was taken pris-
oner.
This account covers travels about __ ____________
various parts of Armenia and gives 1 pany in bids submitted to the city of
details of various atrocities—how the i Taylor. Mr. Eilers referred to an edi-
Piahog orsivas was shodwiib,shoes oPPhrgtatenmasundy.
ofredah th. 0,2? th? Plakk: ; ing ihat he thought it probably did
amuthuanterordewo t22 tTurki ihe Bitulithic Company an iJustice.
h"grmupsv‛rTpouttana"takem ‘^t"1;; Mrorightororepiied thatohe, a2oh
at a time to the marshy districts for Whie inquired at the ettyorai for his
masaacre and ,h9w Ihedsclarationoot Mrofmatloned H. Wii thaV bttumh"
martial.lav.a’ziinaludeasthe.con- had been lata in at an expense
tl,cation of al Armenian property. , (o th (t f the Bitulithic Com-
-5 nt describee how.wonn pan, of $2.09. and he that ihe
«po.«t Vbunger and rough Atatnrsitnten Sompany, ha t ^Ta.^fou?
unt they acceptonconverstonto 5slgm! Pexfsommting Eh expens.
on.dsthihow.motern,."8r.b2xa I ration equni to the thiekness of the
netted.be" oremthe IJJl. Irroeinschu pavement, bitunthe ha, been coaling
dren; how Armenin siris.werenastnih-!ihe eity 32.158 per aquare yard, accord-
uted asschattels among civu and mill- iv to rigures of City Engineer wel-
trx.ois........Aap born. Additional excaration. where
ne’himseiowassyspehea to aAl.t in necesnaty. is of course additionni ex-
many mansacr beinstonorProrocc: I Relit ire to bid. at Taylor. J H. Pitt.
10 .amemibensor.m.panz.ororY,” nr man of the Bitulithic Company made
Aisrs.whish.superintendedushe.dentho. a deterse '•>» bld subrited by the
800 Armenlans. His account clones “eekas Bitulithic people. He declared
TbS* 1. reolin to befeve that Ger- l that. on bituiithig.paver
N..*N.a n, h rb. hev. rrved ment were bids made for the purpose
manadvnersortho.Turksave.xe/o discrediting the bid of the Bltu-
uponthens.ths.undevirabtitynot.dloW:itni company rather than bids made
friendly populat-m to Inhabit fronts , withithe 1 opeorqobtainmn thepuving
which II. opon to Russian attack." Irontract. H< declared that certain in-
,---—------- north until ths
Mr Markinci particularly in- Mohlh,'^ for naton-wie winrtnem..""
two-course concrete
xtxarzonrinsgne„Tosunzututtsbtccoracm:
statement was given to the British ages of bitulithic, A. J. Eilers, a mem-
the Bulgarians holding Prahvo, union
-
representativei. yitrolitbienpavementhe Ohain from senin tcoratantno
Ed Connor and Frank lanham, repre" ------
PA RIH, Oct. 25.— French troupe gained
a brilfiant success by effecting a junc-
tion with the Herbs at Krivolak, says
a dispatch to the I’etR Parisien from
Athena. The dispatch, dated Sunday,
says:
"Bulgarian troops in force were at-
tacking in three columns when our
troops, by a during maneuver, turned
the Bulgarians’ rig tit flank, while the
Herbs launched ah energetic counter
attack all along the front. At the end
of the day the Bulgarians retreated to-
ward Strumitwa, pursued by French
troupe and Serblan cavalry.
"Bulgarlan operations against Pirot
were fruitless, therefore they seetn to
intend to concentrate tbeir efforts on
Vranya and are trying to attack in
mass <»n fortifieations and positions oc-
cupied by the Herbs at Vlacena.
"The Bulgarians are stopped on the
TImok, while the Austro-Germans are
held up on the northwestern front, on
the Have and Danube, Military circles
here believe that the Austro-dermans
turers are to be aided in taking ad-
vantage of the present unusual oppor-
vise the laying of all their pavement.
In opening his talk on bitulithic, Mr.
Rightor mentioneu the two points on
om anuivugee iM -v avy-p--- । which bitulithic ia offered to the city:
the bureau are to be asked as part of Merit of pavement and performance
Secretary Refield’s general program and past work of the company In rm-ggAgs mpmAm-r
for commercial preparedness. Features : Texas FIo said that the company has । | II I Al I ■ I! [I I II11 II |
of the plan include reorganization of been opeiating in Texas for ten years, KEMI.r 11 I I I I II I
the staff in Washington and an In- has done work in Austin during the j | iLVWLI ILl V 11 l
crease to about twice its present size . past four years, has laid bitulithic in [
of the foreign commercial service. fourteen Texas cities, the total amount I
--- ' averaging more than 200 miles. He said i
General Electric Co. cont Foremaintenanctezorpatrcgentcove
Emnlveg Return ered with bitulithic. It I* not neces-
HIIIPIOJE5 -E-u-- sary, he declared, for the company to
- a —■ go over the pavement with a flush
crEg rrT A DY N Y Oct 95_ coating, but said that this ia done as a
»' streu Insurancz, and 'or th.
chinists- union, virtually all of the purpose of prolonging the life of the
12,000 employee of the General Electric ; pavement,, ,,
Company. Who have been on strike Mr..Rightorsaid.thati202mizhthe
three"Weeks for an eight-hour day consideredas the, price of.bitulithicin
returned to work today The ompany . Austin He.gaid that.atthis price
granted a nine and half hour day with Austin la gelting.the ch apest,paVe
a wage increase of 5 per cent for the ment of any city in Texas with the ex-
4, present, with an additional 5 per cent ception of Hi Paso, where material to
* increase and a nine-hour day a year make the pavement isconve niently.at
Land. He said, however, that he would
tension department. University
on the occasion of his sixtieth birth-
day, William F. Ramsey will be host
tonight to tha Travis County Bar As-
sociation, th® members of the Rilroad
Commission and the City Council of
Aus in at his home, 1704 West Avenue
Refreshments will be served and a
amoker will follow. The affair is to
be characterized by informality such aa
prevalin at the outings of the bar as-
sociation. Members of the bar asso-
iation will proceed to th* Ramsey
home in a body. Colonel J. L. Peeler,
president of the associatioh, today Is-
sued a request tha thone who attend
meet him at Sixth and Congress Ave-
nue at 8:10 o'clock this evening Judge
Ramsey’s amoker will begin at 8 30
o’clock.
Judges of the Supreme Court and
Court of Criminal . ppeula, of both of
which Judge Ramsey has been a mem-
ber. as well as the judges of the Third
Court of Civil Appeals, indicated today
their aeceptance of inventions fo the
pmoker, and-ft ia likely the attendance
will be large.
have been very few repairs, he said.
He is now advocating a new product
of the Thurber company, a vitrified
brick, three inches thick, with vertical
fiber. Mr. Marklee explained that th®
greatest objection to brick pavement
has been the noise. This trouble has
been eliminated in the construction of
ths new brick and the plans by which
it is to be laid, ho explained. The
bricks will be separated with an asphalt
filler and a thin coat of asphalt is to
be spread over the top of the pavemem.
Another improvement in the new brick
is the square edge which prevents the
little hollows found in pavement where
the old style brick were used, the old
style kind having rounded edges. Mr.
Marllee said that the pavement he
represented coat approximately $2 per
square yard in San Antonio.
It was noon by the time Mr. Mark-
Jee had finished and the hearing was
adjourned until 2 o’clock in the after-
noon. It will probably last until Tues-
day.
The Barber asphalt pavement repre-
sentative, a M:. Ball, was first culled
to appear before the commission Mon-
day morning, but did not answer to
the call. The granitoid representative.
O. G. Frantz, was Invited ollowing the
appearance of Mr. McDonald, but was
not present. It was announced that
those two representatives would be In-
vited again later.
Advantages of nine pavements will
be urged before the commission. The
clinical congress of surgeons of North
America, which opened here today with
an estimated attendanc of 1500. At-
tendance, it was explained, had been
limited to this figure so that all mem-
bers present might witness the oper-
ationa.
At * general meeting tonight. Dr.
Charles D. Mayo of Rochester, Minn.
will be inaugurated aa president.
last night Some f them, however,
perfect cover for bandits throughout
the entire period of the ralda Ho far
as known no bandits were killed or
wounded.
BERNE, Switzerrland, Oct. 22—(Via
Paris.)-The Federal government an-
nounces that the German minister has
double purpose of meeting the demands
of Greece and of givingeffective as-
sistance to Serbia.
Athens reports that the Greek Crown
Prince has gone to Salonki, where he
• BROWNSVIUI,E, rex Oet 4
: thErgrn“inratns"Sarwna ♦
♦ woundod in an engagement wit *
— moxican bandit* lu at naht, aled +
2 today. Aia home ia,n PeE ♦
♦ Lick SpringK, id. Moor* wa 3
J the oleventh noldier killed |n 4
♦ Tiuhte with the bandit* aince th* «
2 lant July. 4
BROW nsyn, lax, ort
spread out fan-wine, virtually th* en-
tiro strength or the inited satew hoc.
er.petrol 10 this diutriet wpen laat
ni«ht beatinK the brush around Brown*.
Ville 1" an otrort ...... Mexican
bandita who atecked a detenment „t
th* Fourth Uuit'«d tten infantry at
th* apo. north of Brownaville wher
‘ tratn.was w rocked and tree Amen-
cans.illed Just a week ago today: In
tn* righuin« laat night. Private iter-
man I Mom* of Frenel Lick Hprinun,
Ind., waw fatally wounded, ho far a*
known none of the Mexicans was hit.
The scene of the fighting and tacties .
employed by the Mexicanaled army of-
ficers today to assert that the Mexi-
cans engaged probably were members
of the same hand guilty of the train
wreckin whigh Im „ld to have been
ed by Luis.de la Roan, fomentor of
the H0-enlled Texas revolution, Ser-
eant Arthur Ratridge of the Fourth
Infantry reported tQ Frt Brown that
five Mexicans were son to cross the
railroad tracks near alien th* intan-
try was stationed A moment Inter
both sides opened fire and then the real
strength of the Mexicans appeared.
Probably aUl-an of them en»e M
Iha nahtng, ana .t belleve Ehey
hurt plannea to nurrouna tha mull
American dotaehment and anhihiiate
them Surprised in thek maneuvers,
the Mexicans fought fdl about five
minutes nnd then made off just in time
to escape two companies of infantry
and two troops of onvnlry, which were
rushed to the scene from Fort Brown
In commandeered automobiles.
quarter miles north of Mesnil, Les
flurlua. thia, salient included a very '
important position called La Court ine,"
which we have captured after heavy i
fightinge ‘La Courtine’ extended 1209 1
yards with an average depth of 250 i
yards and included three or four lines ,
of trenches connected up with under- »
ground tunnels and the customary
communicating trencheu, all of which 1
were organlted for defence. (
"In spite of th* thoroughness of the i
German defensive works and the terne- I
ity shown by the G« rman soldjers, our I
men were suecessful after a vigorous <
artillery fire and as a result of violent 1
fighting in taking compiete possession 1
of this position at the end of the day.
The losses of the enemy were serious 1
and they left in our hands 290 prison- I
erg belonging to three different regi- 1
ments. 1
•’There has been no other action of «
importance on th® remainder of ths
GRANDEK, Serbia, via Halonikl, Oct.
23, and via Paris, Oct. 25, 9:45 a. in.—
The doubl® attempt of the Bulgarians
to cut the railway at Veles and in the
Vo lan do vo sector lias been completely
defeated. Yealerd.ty (Friday tbs at-
tack on Veles was given up and the
entire available Bu garian string h was
directed southward from Islip along the
Gradeskar River, svreading out over a
five-mile (runt, with its objective a
short stretch where the railway, run-
ning along the east bunk of the Vardar
River between two bridges, is most
pregnabie.
The attack, although furious. Imme-
diately directed the ferocity of the Bul-
garians in contact with the experienced
troops of Fiance and Englanu. Hea >
losses are reported slung the entire
line. Th® Bulgarians are withdrawing
up the Gradeskar valley, leaving the
French in victorious possesslon of the
railway from Saloniki to NegoUn. be-
yond which point the line is nut threat-
ened.
The French losses were slight. Gen-
eral Serrall, the French commander in
chief, in a statement to the Associated
Press, characterized the Bulgarian re-
ports of their advances as fantastic.
Nowhere, he said, have they advanced
beyond a few undefended points of no
milltary value ciose to the frontier.
An offensive tauvcnirnt by the al Hee
seems imminent. The Greeks seem to
be profoundly impressed by the rapidity
and success of th® French movement.
sentatives; Standard Paving Company,
brick. Mr. Krueger, representative.
There are no representatives of wood
block and Oklahoma rock asphalt pave-
ments.
Mayor Wooldridge asserted during
the hearing that merit rather than
price should govern the selection of the
pavement will h will be used. The
alphabetical arrangemetata of hearing
the representatives was selected as be-
ing the fairest to all.
Those present at th hearing in ad-
PA RIH. Oct 25, 2:25 a. m. An lm-
of expeditions into Texas by bands of
armed Mexicans is. th® general impres-
sion here.
The committee representing eitizens
of counties in the lower Rio Grande
section who will appeal to the Governor
for protection will arrive in Austin to-
norrow, according to Adjutant General
Hutch|ngs. The Governor has set 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon as the hour
for holding a conference with the com-
mittee.
for Bitulitl;
LONDON, Okt. 26.— The following
statement from a high authority rep-
resenting the ilews of the Russian
staff regarding the Russian military
situation has beeh received here fror
the correspondent of the Times at rub-
shin headquarters:
From May to October the Russtsne
have been subjected to uninterrupted
blows along a front of 700 mile® The
Austro-Germanw have applied every
possible means, not excepting such as
are forbidden by international trea-
tfes, in order to increase the pressure
againnt us. Masnes of their troops
were flung ugninst this front and sent
to de struction regardiess of lonses. Mil-
Hnry history does not afford another
example of wich pressure.
"During these months of confinuous
and prolonged action the high quali-
ties and the mettle of our troops un-
der the diffieulties and arduous con-
«ftionn of retreat have been demon-
atrated Notwithstanding his obstinacy
in fighting and his persistency in rar-
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