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GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1917.—TEN PAGES
NO. 250
VOL. 37
ARTILLERY
BATTLING
REBELLION
EXPLAINS
WRITES TO THE KAISER.
GOES TO MEET TROOPS.
IN FRANCE
DEPOSIT
FURIOUSLY
COLLAPSES
P
ltalians and Austrians
LEADER HIMSELF
TEUTONS RETIRE
FAVORABLE REPORT
KANSAS CITY QUIET.
WILLING TO QUIT
UNDER PRESSURE
UPON AMENDMENT
SWEDISH LEADER
first witness called
EXPRESSES VIEWS
He said that checks
artillerymen are using the
CONCENTRATES FORCES.
GERMAN-AMERICANS UNITE.
NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH.
MOSLEMS CALLED OFF.
DENIAL IS MADE.
ORGANIZES NEW
FRENCH CABINET
RECEIVES STATEMENT.
RELEASE AMMUNITION.
bandits drove into Sullivan,
ITALIAN LOSSES.
JAPANESE SEAMEN
STATE OF SIEGE
ARRIVE AT ISLAND
ON IN PORTUGAL
TO STAGE REVIEW.
WON’T ABANDON NEUTRALITY.
I
LOOKS MORE HOPEFUL.
SCOFFS AT REPORT.
TH WEATHER
I
archives in .these
buildings were
lean
latest
this morning, bound the railrpad tele-
graph operator and the night telephone
unpunished and will be sent home,
consider their submission assured.”
They have returned and ;
the Petrograd staff office.
CV PONE
M~ DulV
and
the
French 75’s and
howitzers.
Hargon was the
for the governor.
Korniloff’s Army Report-
ed Surrendering.
Buenos Aires Citizens Stage
Anti-German Demonstration
Represented Excess Re-
mittances.
box
the
There the
General
ob-
540
Later advices said the bandits
tained $2,400 from the bank and
from the railway station.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Sept. 13.—Four automobile
Garfield Issues an Appeal
For Conservation of Coal
DREADED COTTON
PEST IN TEXAS
AUTO BANDITS
STAGE ROBBERY
Pink Boll Worm Is Discovered
Near Hearne—Prompt
Measures Taken.
Germans Fall Back Before
Russian Attacks in the
Riga Region.
AMERICANS USE
FRENCH CANNON
Court Takes Recess After Ten
Minute Session This
Morning.
Action Taken Because of Gen.
eral Strike-Stores at
Lisbon Closed.
LITTLE PROGRESS
IN IMPEACHMENT
Recalcitrant General Would
Surrender Under Certain •
Conditions.
Force Is Well Along With Its
Intensive Training
Program,
Suffrage Resolution Will Come
Up in the Senate in
December.
Painleve Succeeds in Under-
taking-Presents Ministers
to Premier Ribot.
Asserts Hrs Country Has Been
Made Dupe of Ger-
many,
Blow Safe of Bank and Rail-
way Station at Sullivan,
Mo.
Oldest National Bank in Texas.
The First National Bank
1865—OF GALVESTON—1917
Southeast Cor. Strand and 22d Sts.
United States Depositary
We Solicit New Accounts.
GERMAN NEWSPAPER
IS BADLY CHAGRINED
OVER THE EXPOSURE.
GENERAL PERSHING
SENDS MESSAGE TO
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Large Contingent Joins
Expedition.
are now at
Commander of Camp Devens Attaches
no importance.
By Associated Press.
Ayer, Mass., Sept. 13.—Maj. Gen.
Harry F. Hodges, commander at Camp
Devens, said today that he attached no
importance whatever to the reported
discovery of dynamite near the canton-
ment last night by an agent of the de-
partment of justice.
the storage vaults for
Fight For Mountain.
By Associated Press.
Vancouver, B. C„ Sept, 13.—A life-
boat containing Capt. Haruhiko Shioga
and 16 of the crew of the wrecked
Japanese steamer Kotohira, arrived
yesterday at Ikeda bay, Queen Char-
lotte Islands.
The vessel was wrecked on July 27
in Alaskan waters and during all the
intervening weeks the lifeboat was at
sea making for this coast.
taken to
By Associated Press.
Madrid, Sept, 13.—Portugal has been
declared in a state of siege, according
to a telegram received here from Lis-
bon, on account of a general strike. All
establishments in the Portuguese capi-
tal have been closed. Several persons,
including a number of soldiers, have
been wounded by the explosion of
bombs.
state department,
the impeachment
James E. Ferguson.
1 For Oklahoma:
Probably fair tonight and Friday.-
Winds on the Texas Coast: Light
to moderate east to southeast.
TEMPERATURES.
Maximum temperatures recorded
in Texas yesterday include the fol-
lowing: Galveston, 82; Houston, 88;
Dallas, 84; Fort Worth, 84; San An-
tonio, 90.
German Minister Luxburg will ar-
rive today.
The cabinet late last night ap-
proved the action of Pfesident
Irisoyen in presenting passports
to Count Luxburg. It is said to
have considered similar action in
the case of Baron Lowen, the
Swedish minister, but no action
was taken pending the receipt' of
further details from Washington
or Stockholm.
Among the structures attacked
were the German club, one of the '
finest edifices in the city, and the
building of the German daily, La
Union. As fast as the fires in these
buildings were extinguished they
were started again. Mounted pa-
trols and the entire fire depart-
ment kept rushing from one part
of the city to another in an at-
tempt to quell the riots and put
down the flames. In several in-
stances police who were attempt-
ing to shoot at those wielding
torches were set upon by the
crowds and disarmed.
FORECAST.
For Galveston
and Vicinity:
Generally fair
tonight and Fri-
day.
X For East Tex-
Jas: General ly
.fair tonight and
'Friday; warmer
northeast por-
. tion.
) For West Tex-
as: Generally
fair tonight and
Friday.
contains a few Tartars.
Almost all are Mohammedans, and
among them are many princes. Their
commander is General Bagration.
The submission of the “savage” divi-
sion was brought about through the
devotion of a group of their corelig-
ionists to the government. The tribes-
men do not speak Russian, suspect and
dread Christians, and when approached
by the government’s Russian emis-
saries, refused to listen to them and
threatened them with arrest.
A Mohammedan Tartar artillery of-
ficer, General Kugusheff, with other
Moslem officers, who are devoted to the
government, went yesterday on a mis-
sion to them and were well received.
Kerensky Agrees to Allow Them to Go
Home.
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Sept. 12.—A division of
General Korniloff's forces composed of
Moslem troops has reached Tsarskoe-
Selo, fifteen miles south of Petrograd.
Kugusheff, a loyal Mohammedan of-
ficer, was sent to treat with them, and
they agreed to abandon resistance to
the provisional government on condi-
tion that they be sent home to the
Caucasus, where they must not be em-
ployed against the Turks, their co-
religionists. Premier Kerensky agreed
to the proposal.
According to official statements the
so-called “savage division,” composed
of Georgians and Caucasians, although
devoted to General Kornilof, had no
idea of their destinanion or his aim.
No Signs of Rioting in the Packing
House District.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City, Sept. 13.—The packing
house district is quiet this morning fol-
lowing the rioting of last night, when
one striker was dangerously injured,
two received minor injuries and an on-
looker was badly bruised.
It was said that Mayor Mendenhall
may ask Gov. Capper of Kansas, since
the packing houses are in Kansas City,
Kan., to send state troops to prevent
any further rioting.
The end of the packinghouse strike
is in view, according to representa-
tives of the strikers. Patrick G. Gill,
federal mediator, met today with the
officials of the various packinghouses
affected.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Sept. 13.—Five thousand dol-
lars deposited in the Temple State
bank in 1915 to the secretary of state’s
account, and kept there since, repre-
sented excess - remittances and not
taxes subject to be drawn out quar-
terly, Frank Hargon, cashier in the
900,000 Rounds Turned Over to Mexi-
can Officials.
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Tex., Sept. 13.—Nine hundred
thousand rounds of ammunition, seized
here by American customs officials
a year ago, because of an embargo
order, were turned over to Gen. Pablo
Gonzales last night and immediately
sent to Mexico City. Additional ammu-
nition still held is expected to be re-
leased later.
By Associated Press.
American Training Camp in
France, Sept. 13.—A large contin-
gent of American artillery has
joined the expeditionary army and
is well along with its intensive
training under French supervis-
ory instruction. Hitherto the ar-
rival of the artillery contingent
has been carefully guarded, and
permission to mention the fact
has just been given. The Amer-
miles southwest of here, at 4 o’clock ’ The division consists of eight regi-
ments of fierce Caucasus cavalry and
Mo., 55
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—Through
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States Dr. H. A- Garfield,
fuel administrator, has appealed to
American business to assist in the
conservation of coal, Dr. Garfield’s
appeal appears today in the official
publication of the chamber as fol-
lows:
“It is the duty of every American
to save coal this winter. If every
family will save a ton of coal, if
every industrial plant will save
10 per cent of the coal it uses,
which 10 per cent it ngw wastes,
the coal problem will be largely
solved. There is plenty of coal in
the ground, but there is a short-
age, of cars and the labor at the
mines.
The sheriff of Union, Mo., telephoned
here that the bandits also had robbed
the Frisco station at Sullivan. They
escaped and are supposed to be headed
toward St. Louis.
Associated Press interview
operator and threw them into a
car, and then blew the safe of
People’s bank.
The bandits cut all telegraph
telephone wires leading out of
tow n.
models of
Korniloff Said to Have Agreed, to Quit
Conditionally.
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 13.—Gen. Korniloff, for-
mer commander in chief of the Rus-
sian armies and leader of the rebel-
lion against the provisional govern-
ment, has expressed a willingness to
surrender on certain terms, says a dis-
patch from Petrograd. to the Exchange
Telegraph company. The provisional
government, however, demands his un-
conditional surrender.
School Takes Action Against Cotton
Pest,
By Associated Press.
Austin, Sept. 13.— Upon being ad-
vised today that the pink boll worm
had appeared near Hearne in Robertson
county, Prof. E. E. Scholl, state en-
tomologist, issued orders for the con-
centraiton of the state forces at Hearne,
and advised members of the legislature
of the seriousness of the situation. The
department of agriculture is to co-
pperate with the federal authorities at
Washington.
Oppose Banishing of German From New
York Schools.
By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 13.—The German-
American societies of Greater New
York have united in a campaign to re-
sist any attempt to banish instruction
in German from the public schools of
this city. A circular is being prepared
in German and English in which great,
stress is to be laid upon the commer-
cial and cultural importance of the Ger-
man language.
By Associated Press.
Rome, Sept. 13.—The battle between
Austrians and Italians for possessior of
Monte San Gabriele is raging furiously,
according to the official statement is-
sued today by the Italian war depart-
ment.
New Austrian forces yesterday re-
newed their attempts to dislodge the
Italians from the slopes of the height,
but after advancing at a few points
they were stopped by the main Italian
line of occupation.
officials here to regard it more hope-
fully. They were:
The abandonment of Gen. Korniloff
by Moslem troops and other profes-
sional fighters on whom Korniloff
probably had placed much reliance.
The appointment of Gen. Alexieff,
former commander in chief, as chief of
staff under Premier Kerensky, who
has assumed the rank of commander.
The first was interpreted as an in-
dication that the revolt was fast facing
collapse unless new help came.
The second was taken to mean that
Gen. Alexieff, as chief of staff, virtu-
ally will be commander, since Keren-
sky is not a military man and his as-
sumption of the chief command is prob-
ably for the psychological effect and
inspiration of his personality upon a
nervous country.
Kugusheff, who said:
“The Caucasians declared they abso-
lutely refused to surrender and come to
Petrograd, for fear the Bolsheviki
would massacre them. But they were
willing to abandon resistance on con-
dition they were sent home to the Cau-
casus front, where, however, they must
not be employed against their corelig- .
ionists, the Turks.
“After prolonged negotiatioons we
agreed to recommend this solution to
Premier Kerensky and returned to
Perograd. The premier has how prom-
ised us that the savage division will be
TEUTONS FALL BACK.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Sept. 13.—German cavalry
posts south of the Riga-Wenden road,
on the northern Russian front, yester-
day withdrew perore strong Russian
pressure, according to the official an-
nouncement issued today by the Ger-
man general headquarters staff.
testified today at
trial of Governor
RUSSIAN SITUATION.
By Associated Press.
Dispatches received today from Petro-
grad reflect belief there that Gen.
Korniloff’s rebellion is on the verge of
collapse.
Gen. Korniloff, indeed, was believed
to be on the point of abandoning his
efforts. One report had it that he had
offered to surrender on certain terms,
but that the government demanded his
unconditional capitulation.
The Russian army at the front evi-
dently still is in a state of acute bel-
ligerency, as the German official state-
ment reports the enforced withdrawal
of German cavalry posts south of the
Riga-Wenden road, on the northern
Russian front, because of strong Rus-
sian pressure. The Petrograd official
statement today says that there was
no communication from the field head-
quarters.
Internal troubles have again broken
out in another of the belligerent na-
tions on the entente side. Dispatches
from Madrid today report that Portugal
has been declared in a state of siege be-
cause of a general strike.
Comparative quiet continues on the
Franco-Belgian front. Th.e artillery has
been extremely active in some of the
Flanders sectors and moderately so at
Verdun, but neither the French nor the
British infantry has been in action.
The French artillery checked a Ger-
man attack south of Juvenicourt, in the
Aisne region.
Officials of the Kerensky govern-
ment declare that Gen. Korniloff de-
ceived his troops as to the purpose of
his revolt. Many of his soldiers, as a
result, are declared to be deserting
while others are fraternizing with the
government forces. The provisional
government will enter into no negotia-
tions with Gen. Korniloff whose only
hope appears to be in the capture of
Petrograd. Martial law has been de-
clared in Moscow, which, compared to
Petrograd, is more in. sympathy with
Korniloff and the factions favorable to
him.
The troops on the fighting fronts re-
main loyal to Premier Kerensky and
Berlin reports the repulse of Russian
reconnoitering parties at several points
along the line from the Gulf of Riga to
the Black sea. The Germans have made
no determined attacks, seemingly wait-
ing for their chance should the Korni-
loff and Kerensky forces engage in ac-
tual conflict for the supremacy.
Count Luxburg, whose telegrams, to
Berlin through the Swedish minister
at Argentine resulted in the Argentine
government giving him his passports
arrives today in Buenos Aires where
on Wednesday night anti-German dem-
onstrations wrecked German business
houses. The demonstration against the
Germans grew to the proportions of a
riot. Several buildings, including the
German club, were set on fire by the
crowds. Seven persons were wound-
ed by the police, three of them probably
fatally. Argentine has as yet taken
no action regarding the expulsion of
the Swedish minister, Baron Lowen.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 13.—M. Painleve has suc-
ceeded in organizing a ministry to re-
place the Ribot cabinet. For a time
the Socialistic Radical group presented
an obstacle to the formation of a min-
istry, ruling that the five Socialist
Radical members of the cabinet as se-
lected by M. Painleve should not be
members of a cabinet where the uni-
fied Socialists were not represented.
These men, Renoult, Vincent, Besnard,
Renard and Long, informed the party
that they had accepted the portfolios
before the party had reached this de-
cision and there was a bond of honor
to remain. The matter was then drop-
ped.
M. Painleve presented the new min-
isters to President Poincare last night.
safe keeping. Firemen, armed with
rifles, prevented the mob from de-
stroying- the offices of the Germar
Trans-Atlantic company which sup-
plies the city with light' Heavy
forces of provincial troops are
guarding the railway over which
By Associated Press.
Buenos Aires, Sept. 13.—The riot-
ing which began here late yester-
day in an anti-German demonstra-
tion continued throughout the
night. Every German business
house and restaurant in the down-
town district was wrecked. The
German club and several other
buildings were damaged seriously
by fire. The police wounded sev-
eral rioters seriously when they
fired into the crowd. Three of the
injured are expected to die.
. At first the crowds were so un-
manageable that the police cleared
all the streets leading to the Ger-
man legation and consulate. The
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
Estnttzned BANKERS tstns5zhed
(Unincorporated)
For
BANKS, INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS
American Bankers Association Tras
elers' Cheques for Sale.
Man Was Talken From Hands of Deputy
Constable.
By Associated Press.
England, Ark., Sept. 13.—Samuel
Cates, negro, 25, was shot to death
last night by a mob, after taking him
from a deputy constable. Cates was
charged with making improper pro-
posals to white girls.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—The Susan B.
Anthony resolution for nationwide
woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment was favorably reported to-
day by the senate suffrage committee
and will take place on the calendar tor
a vote at the session beginning in De-
cember.
Without debeat or objection the sen-
ate today passed Senator Shafroth's
bill authorizing the Hawaiian legisla-
ture to give women who have property
and other, qualifications of men, the
right to vote in territorial elections. It
also authorizes the legislature to sub-
mit to the territory the question of giv-
ing women unrestricted sffrage there.
Whether the suffrage resolution can
command the necessary two-thirds vote
in the senate and later in the house is
a question. President Wilson so far
has refused to put the influence of the
administration behind it, although urg-
ed to adopt it as a war measure.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—Discovery of
the dwreaded pink boll worm near
Herne, Tex., and prompt measures to
confine and eradicate the pest were
announced today by the department of
asriculture. The Texas department of
agriculture and the A. and M. college
of Texas have been asked to send rep-
resentatives to join the department’s
expert, who has been ordered to
Hearne.
Efforts will be made to establish by
voluntary action a quarantine around
the particular field or fields where the
pest has been discovered. In the ab-
sence of any present legislation, state
or national, giving authority to deal
with the situation a voluntary quaran-
tine was decided as advisable. Legis-
lation to meet such a situation is pend-
ing both in Texas and before congress.
Swedish Charge Doesn’t Consider Nec-
essary Formal Action.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—Baron Aker-
heilm, charge of the Swedish legation
here, today informed Secretary Lan-
sing he had received the statement of
the Stockholm foreign office already
published here on the passage of Count
Luxburg’s dispatches through the le-
gation at Buenos Aires, but that as
the department already was in pos-
session of that information, he did not
consider it necessary to present it for-
mally.
Examination of the already published
statement reveals some inaccuracy. The
Swedish foreign office says it acted
in a similar way for the United States
and its minister in Turkey.
“The American minister here,” said
the Swedish statement, “during the
present year asked for and received
leave to send to and from Turkey let-
ters and telegrams and this at a time
when Turkey had not yet gone to war
with the United States and its inter-
ests had ‘not yet been taken over by
the Swedish representative in Constan-
tinople.”
Records at the state department show,
that Minister Ira Nelson Morris to
Sweden has reported that the Swedish
government had not been requested to
transmit any messages before April
10.
United States Not Going to Take House-
Hold Supplies Yet.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—Denial that
the government is contemplating requi-
sitioning any household stores of food
is made by the department of agricul-
ture and the food administration. Ru-
mors had come to Washington that
housewives were apprehensive . that
their stocks of canned goods were
about to be seized for the army.
Texas and Oklahoma Troops to Parade
at Fort Worth.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Sept. 13.—A divisional
review of all the Texas and Oklahoma
troops at Camp Bowie was announced
this morning for thirty days hence.
This will be the first assemblage of the
soldiers since the camp was estab-
lished.
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Sept. 13.—M. Skobeleff,
minister of labor in the Kerenesky
cabinet and a member of the Council
of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates,
announced through the Russian offi-
cial news agency today that Gen.
Korniloff’s adventure had collapsed and
that the army at his headquarters has
surrendered.
According to an official statement
issued Wednesday, Gen. Korniloff’s at-
tempt seems to have collapsed and
there is no longer any reason to fear
a collision between the two forces. Aft-
er Gen. Alexieff had been in commu-
nication by telephone with Gen. Korni-
loff the opinion was expressed that
the revolutionary general would aban-
don his enterprise.
willing to SURRENDER.
, By Associated Press.
। Amsterdam, Sept. 13.—The Col-
• ogne Voiks Zeitung, in an article
1 under the caption, “More Ameri-
’ can prying into official doeu- '
[ ments,” says:
• “The state department has
• again published documents which
’ it obtained possession by God
, knows how underground meth-
, ods.
• “Such matters' are, of course, 1
' not for publication and when
, published at all easly may hurt ■
i susceptibilities, by some turn or 1
। twist, like private conversations j
1 which, although not illegitimate, 1
' they may work like poison when •
, repeated by the tatfling of third 1
parties. Such a poisoning proc- !
i ess was, of course, the object 1
'' of the Washington government.” ।
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 13.—The Daily Mail to-
day publishes an interview had by its
correspondent in Stockholm with Hjal-
mar Branting in which the Socialist
leader asserts his belief that Foreign
Minister Lindman was not informed
of the custom of the Swedish minister
at Buenos Aires permitting German
cipher messages to pass through' the
legation without troubling to decipher
them.
“Hence we become involved in a
scandal of the first order through blind
confidence in Germany," Mr. Branting
is quoted as saying.
“Sweden’s desire to serve has been
rewarded by a shameful disloyalty. Our
faith has been enormous' stupidity—
nothing ’more.”
“The Germans calls ' us dummen
schweden (silly Swedes). This colossal
blunder proves that they truly estimated
the ignorance of our ministers. All
parties here unite in repudiating min-
isters who have made us play a ridicu-
lous part, but we can not complain of
any measures taken by the allies while
we have ministers capable of such
stupidity.”
Seventeen Men Had Been
Adrift in Lifeboat Since
July 27.
Two Developments Cause Optimism at
Washington.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 13.—-Two develop-
ments in the Russian situation cause
Amount to Nearly Quarter of Million
in Eleventh Battle.
By Associated Press.
Vienna, Wednesday, Sept. 12.—(Via
London, Sept. 13.—Wireless Press).—
“The Italian'losses in the eleventh
Isonzo battle,” says an official state-
ment issued today by the Austrian
war office, “have reached almost a
quarter of a ''million, including twenty
thousand prisoners.”
“If every family will reduce the
temperature of its house at least
five degrees, millions of tons of
coal will be saved and the health
of the nation will be improved.
“The coal supply can be con-
served by more economical methods
of firing, by sifting ashes, by .
watching the furnace door and by )
heating only the parts of the
house in use. If the householders
of the country save one ton out of
12, they will save ten million tons
of coal.
“The opportunity here for busi-
ness men’s organizations to co-
operate with the states and local
fuel administrators is obvious. It
is the patriotic duty of every manu-
facturer to consider the problem of
scientific firing and to see that his
firemen are properly instructed.”
sent out on the $5,000 had never been
cashed and the money, which repre-
sented accumulations over a consider-
able period, had been kept intact.
The prosecution had, atempted to
show that the Temple State bank
profited through having state funds on
deposit, and that $5,000, through its
long stay in the bank, had been par-
ticularly profitable.
Little progress was made today. Ow-
ing to the fact that the senate had
business to clear away, the high court
did not convene until about 11 o’clock.
The prosecution then produced two
witnesses and a number of letters that
it read into the record. Hargon went
to the stand about 11:40 a. m. and a
recess was taken ten minutes later.
BEGINS DEFENSE.
Gov. Ferguson today began his de-
fense to the twenty-one charges
brought against him by the house board
of managers.
At what time the governor will take
the stand has not been indicated, al-
though it is expected that he will tes-
tify.
The one event in the trial command-
ing the greatest interest will come
when M. M. Crane, counsel for the house
board of managers, asks the governor
who loaned him $156,500 in currency in
the early months of this year.
Before the house the governor re-
fused positively to divulge the names of
the men who assisted him to settle
large indebtedness. At that time Mr.
Crane refused to press the matter of
punishing the governor for contempt,
asserting that he did not intend to be
dragged into habeas corpus proceedings
that would divert attention from the
main issue.
In the senate the possible attitude of
the governor is commanding careful at-
tention. If the governor should refuse
to testify on the desired point action
would be in the high court’s province
alone.
Among the things that could be done
would be to adjourn the court pending
a reply from the governor. If he main-
tained silence he would remain under
suspension from office and Acting Gov.
W. P. Hobby would continue in - his
present position.
The house record of Gov. Ferguson’s
testimony was read into the senate
record yesterday.
It was nearly 11 o’clock when the
high court convened, as the senate had
pending business to attend to.
CRANE READS LETTER.
Mr. Crane asked permission before
the defense began to read a letter writ-
ten by the late banking commissioner,
J. S. Patterson. W. A. Hanger for the
governor, objected, but was overruled.
The letter was to the Temple State
bank, arranging for the deposit of $7,-
000 or $8,000 monthly in the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company of Austin
to the credit of the Temple bank, to be
repaid quarterly. The lettter express-
ed the hope that the deposit would be
of benefit to the bank.
Mr. Crane also recalled H. S. Blum,
assitsant cashier of the Temple bank,
who identified a letter from Gov. Fer-
guson tot he Temple bank June 1, 1917,
asking that a statement of the special
fund be sent him at once, and a letter
of Feb. 5, 1917, guaranteeing that A. F.
Ferguson and J, H. Davis’ notes for
$37,500 each.
Cross-examined, Blum testified that
these and two other letters were in a
batch of 85 letters which J. H. Davis,
assistant private secretary of the gov-
ernor, had written to the Temple bank.
Mr. Hanger said he elicited this testi-
mony to show that Davis was the gov-
ernor’s agent and was looking after
his private affairs. He said Davis
would be put on the stand. He had
Blum identify a letter showing the
governor had sent a draft for $5,071
on the National Reserve Bank of Kan-
sas City with instructions that it be
deposited and held.
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By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 13.—Maj. Gen.
Pershing has sent a message to
American soldiers through tne •
New York Bible society, which
was made public here today. The
message which will be inserted
in the small khaki-covered Testa-
ments given to the men follows:
“Aroused against a nation wag-
ing war in violation of all Chris-
tian principles, our people are
fighting in the cause of liberty,
“Hardship will be your lot, but.
trust in God will give you com-
fort. Temptation will befall you,
but the teachings of Our Saviour
will give you strergth. Let your
valor as a soldier and your con-
duct as a man be an inspiration
to your comrades and an honor
to your country.”
Swedish Paper Bitter Against British
and American Editorials.
By Associated Press.
Stockholm, Sept. 13.—The Conserva-
tive newspaper Dagbladt prints a bit-
ter editorial on the statements in Brit-
ish and American press concerning the
Luxburg affair. It says:
“The barrage fire from New York
and London editors will fail entirely
to frighten Sweden out of its neutral-
ity-”
The Svenska Dagbladt resents what
it terms “interference in Swedish do-
mestic problems,” and says the allied
press is utilizing the present difficul-
ties as propaganda for the formation
of a “Swedish party.”
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By Associated Press.
Stockholm, Sept. 13. — The
Svenska Dagbladet announces it
has received a dispatch from
Petrograd stating that Premier
Kerensky has left the Russian
capital at the head of an army in
order to meet the troops of Gen.
Korniloff before they reach the
capital. There was every expec-
tation, the message said, that a
battle would be fought on
Wednesday. 0
By Associated Press. (
Geneva, Sept. 13.—A dispatch ’
from Innesbruck says that the ,
Austrian, empress has written a 1
long personal memorandum to '
the German emperor dealing with ,
the coming fourth winter of the ’
campaign. The empress exposes <
many facts which have been hid- 4
den so far by Vienna statesmen ’
and diplomats and the commu- ’
nication is reported to be a strik- 1
ing document. I ।
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