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VOL. XLIII—NO. 192.
BARTON BRINGING MORE RANGERS
Poisoned President’s Condition Becomes Acute; Tour Called Off
HARDING TO
BE SENT TO
WASHINGTON
Special Train to Rush
Poisoned Executive to
White House.
BULLETIN IS ISSUED
Spends Fairly Comfortable
Night With Several
Hours Sleep.
TEMPERATURE IS 101
Peritonial Symptoms Are
Found’ Sawyer’s Bul-
letin Says.
ELDER HARDING AWAITS
NEWS
Marion Ohio July 30.—Presi-
dent Harding suffered severe at-
tacks of indigestion twenty years
ago accompanied by a slight dis-
turbance of the heart but at no
time then was his sedition seri-
ous. according to the chief execu-
tive's friends here. This is th l ”
only illness Mr. Hording lias had.
local people declared _in which
there was anything akin to heart
trouble. Dr. O. T. Harding the
President’s father said he hnd re-
ceived no direct word ns to the
nature of his son's illness and he
eagerly scanned press dispatches
telling about the President.
By the Associated Press.
San »anclsco Cal.. July 30.—
President Harding will be rushed back
' to Washington on a special train as
soon as he recovers from his present
P illness sufficiently to travel probably
[ within two weeks.
| President Hurtling spent a fairly (
I comfortable night according to a bul-
| Win issued at H a. m„ today bv
| Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer his
I person.! physician. _
| "His condition is acute and he
has temporarily overstrained his
eardio-vascular system by carrying
on bis speaking engagement while
ill.'’ the bulletin ^aid.
General Sawyer’s statement issued
after consultation in which two San
Francisco physicians participated.
said it would be necessary for the
President to have complete rest “dur-
ing the period of his acute symp-
toms.”
The President at 9 o'clock this
morning the statement said had a
temperature of 101; pulse 118 and
respiration 33.
The statement signed by all of the
physicians participating in the con-
sultation follows;
Several Hours of Sleep.
“The President bad a fairly com-
fortable night with several hours
sleep. His temperature at 9 a. in..
was 101. pulse 118. respiration 33.
The abdominal symptoms following
the digestive disturbance which he
| experienced on tile boat (U. S. S.
Henderson) nre now localized in the
gall bladder region. There are peri-
tqnal symptoms; the lungs are clear.
"The white blood cells 10000 with
82 per cent polymcrpbonuelears. His
kidneys nre functioning satisfactorily
and there are no disturbances of the
nervous system except those associat
cd with fatigue.
"Hig condition is acute and he has
temporarily overstrained bis cardio-
hascular system try carrying on bis
[speaking engagements while ill. It
ill be necessary for him to have
[complete rest during the period ot
Ulis acute symptoms.”
The decision to call off the C..li-
’ornia program was reached shortly
before 11 o'clock at a conference in
which Mrs. Harding. Secretary Work
General Sawyer and Secretary Chris-
tian participated. Secretary Chris-
Han soon after made the announce-
pent of the change in plans saying
। tat the President bad approved it
because he "realizes the great incon-
[cnience imposed on public autbori-
ies volunteer committees and the ]ieo-
■le in general by reason of uncer-
tainty whether the program in which
be was to have participated can be
|arried out.”
| The President's sick room is on
|be eighth floor of the downtown ho-
lel to which he went upon his ar-
lival here early yesterday after
Ibandonment of the trip to the Yose
lite.
Every effort has been made to give
|im as much quiet as possible and
Brly this morning orders were given
l> let no one except members of the
residential party on the eighth
oor.
Mr. Sawyer wns in attendance upon
be President or close at hand all
Ist night assisted by Lieutenant
ontmander Joel T. Boone a naval
.(Continued on next page.)
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
NASH MARATHON
CAR ARRIVES IN
CORPUS AT 10:15
Driver Expects to Reach
Brownsville by 5:39
Monday Afternoon.
Corpus Christi. Tex.. July 30.—The
Nash car which left San Antonio at
6 a.-in. Monday on a marathon run to
the Rio Grande valley under the aus
pices of the Glncier-to-Texas Gulf
motorway arrived in Corpus Christi
nt 10:15 a. tn. covering the distance
of 158 miles in four hours and fifteen
minutes. An effort will be made tc
reach Brownsville by 5:30 p. m. which
will make 350 miles covered by flic
marathons car since it left San An-
tonio.
SEPARATE TRIALS
FOR MURDER GIVEN
GARRETT BROTHERS
Officials Plead Not Guilty;
Self-defense
Claimed.
By the Associated Press.
Cumberland Courthouse Va„ July
30—Judge B. D. White sitting in the
Cumberland County Court today
granted a motion of the state for sep-
arate trials in the case of R. O. and
L. C. Garrett charged with the mur-
der of Bev. E. S.J'ierce. Intrkin Gar-
rett will be brought to trial first.
Pleas of not guilty were entered in
Cumberland County Circuit Court here
today by the Garrett brothers.
The shooting of Mr. Pierce pastor
of five Baptist churches in the county
was the culmination of a political
and bnsines feud according to evi-
dgyice adduced at various court ac-
tions since the arrest of the Gar-
rets.
It wjis in connection with state-
ments coiuerning the feud the minis-
ter is alleged to have Inade from the
pulpit that the Garrett brothers went
to his home oa the day of the shoot-
ing.
A fist fight and shooting affray re-
sulted. in which Mr. Pierce was killed
and Robert Garrett wounded.
The Garretts claim self-defense and
say they were in the act of leaving
after Pierce and Larkin Garrett had
fought with their fists when the
preacher ran into the house nnd re-
turned with a shotgun and pistol.
TO BE PARTLY CLOUDY
Hot Weather Is Due Again as High
Disappears From Map.
Partly cloudy with light to moder
ate southerly winds is the forecast foi
Monday night and Tuesday. Maximum
temperatures will be from 94 to 9J
degrees.
The high pressure area that prom-
ised some relief from the beat disap-
peared over Sunday and the entire
United States is under a low pressure
area 'which brought hot temperatures
to many parts of the country Sunday
afternoon.
The rain Saturday brought a few-
light showers in this section. There
was no rain Sunday in the interior
The thermometer went above 100 de-
grees at many stations and promises
to do so .again for the next few days.
Falfurrias led with 108 degrees Sun-
day afternoon.
I'. S. and Finns to Hold Parley.
Helsingfors. Finland. July 30.—The
government has acceded to the Amer-
ican minister's proposal for the open-
ing of negotiations for a commercial
treaty between Finland and ’the
United States.
THE WEATHER
TEMPER AT l KES.
JCLT S». 2 a. m
3 p. in 9 4 3 a. in 77
4 p. m 96 4 a. 76
5 p. m........ 98 5 a. 75
6 p. m 96 6 a. ni 75
7 n. m 95 7 a. in 76
8 p. n> .93 8 ni *9
9 p. ni SO 9 a. 82
10 p m....... 86 10 a. in 84
It p. in 83 11 a. m 86
12 midnight... .89 12 noon 90
JU Or co. 1 p. in 91
1 a. m 79 2 p. m 95
FORECAST.
San Antonio nnd vicinity: Monday
night and Tuesday partly cloudy; maxi-
mum temperature. 94 to 99; light to mod-
erate southerly winds.
Hast Texas: Monday night and Tues-
day. partly cloudy.
West Texas: Monday night and Tues-
day partly cloudy.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOI KISTS.
Chicago: Temperature. 74: cloudy; less
than ten-mile wind from the south; low-
est temperature in last 24 hours 70
highest. 82.
Kansas City: Temperature. 66: clear;
less than ten-mile wind from the north;
lowest temperature In last 24 hours 64;
highest. 72. •
New York: Temperature. 68; cloudy;
less than ten-mile wind from the east;
lowest temperature in last 24 hours. G -
highest. 80. «
St. Louin: Temperature. 70: cloudy:
less than ten-mile wind from the south-
west; lowest temperature in last 2^
hours. 68; highest. 88.
Vashinxton: Temi»erature. 76: cloudy;
Ims than ten-mile wind from the east;
lowest tempciature in last Si hours 72
highest 80. * _ •
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS MONDAY JULY 30 1923. -FOURTEEN PAGES.
MITCHELL
CONFESSES
ON GALLOWS
Mulatto Accepts Responsi-
bility for Eight Waco
Murders.
DlpS WITH A SMILE
Pronounced Dead 22 Min-
utes After Trap Is
Sprung.
‘GOODBYE EVERYBODY’
Walks to Gibbet With Firm
Step—‘Take Me Home’
He Says.
Waco. Tex.. July 30.—Roy Mit*
chell mulatto was hanged in the coun-
ty jail here today for the murder of
Mrs. Ethel Denecamp in a Waco park
last January. *
The trap of the galolws was sprung
at 11:02 a. m. Mitchell was pro-
nounced dead at 11:24.
The condemned man ate a hearty
breakfast.
A large crowd had surrounded the
jail three hours befuro the hanging.
Mitchell's last words uttered after
the black cap had been adjusted. and
just before the trap was sprung
were:
“Take me home.''
Previously ns be walked on to the
scaffold. Mitchell said to the wit-
nesses :
"Goodbye everybody.”
He walked to the gibbst with a
firm step and a smile on his lips.
Oii the way to (fie scaffold he badc
goodbye to the prisoners in the jail.
To his spiritual- adviser Rev. O.
T. Hatfield and to County Attorney
Farmer who conferred with him an
hour before he was led to the gal-
lows Mitchell accepted responsibility
for the eight murders with which he
was charged for six of which he
was tried and convicted.
In the Concord triple murder for
which two other negroes were con-
victed. Mitchell exonerated these two
but said there was another man with
him nnd helped to commit this cripte
the murder of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Barker and 13-year-old Homer Turk.
Reads Death Warrant.
Fifteen minutes before Mitchell was
taken to the scaffold Deputy Sheriff
I. Muck Wood went to his cell nnd
told him he had come to read the
death warrant.
"Let me read it myself.” Mitchell
requested. His request was complied
with and the negro in a plain
audible voice without a quiver read
the document aloud.
Brutal Crimes Recalled.
The execution of Mitchell markej
the closing chapter of the most brutal
series of murders and other crimes in
the history of McLennan county. He
paid the death penalty for the slaying
of Mrs. Ethel Denecamp on the nigh*
of January 19 1923 and five other
murders.
In addition he was under indict-
ment on two murder charge^ which
were not tried and had been indicted
in three criminal assault cases upon
white women two attempted criminal
assault cases and two assault to mur
der charges.
All these crimes were committed
within one year ending with the slay-
ing of Mrs. Denecamp and W. E. Holt
her companion on an automobile rid»
last January.
Confessions alleged to have been
signed by Mitchell were introduced ai
bis trials. *
He attempted to repudiate the cor.
fessions from the witness stand and
appealed to the state court of criminal
appeals for a new trial in the Dene-
camp case.^but his appeal was over-
ruled. Robbery and assault was given
as the motive for all the crimes.
Negro Shot by Mob.
Other 7 murders for which Mitchel'
was convicted were: W. F. Driskeil
Waco cotton man. on May 7. 1922;
Harold Bolton shot six miles from
Waco on May 25 1922: Grady Skip-
worth November 20. 1922 and Mrs
W. H. Barker at Concord near Waco
on the night of February 11. 1922.
A womaw companion of Bolton’s
identified Jesse Thomaa negro ns re-
sponsible for the young man's death.
Immediately after be was identified
he was shot dead taken by n mob and
burned inthe Waco public square and
his charred body dragged through the
streets.
Mystery surrounded all the crimes
until January 2D last when Mitchel
was arrested and. after days of ques-
tionwig anil a four-day hunger strike
he signed the confession according to
Sheriff Leslie Stegall. _
WOMAN JUMPS FROM
CAR WHEN ATTACKED;
WILL FILE CHARGES
Leaps Out of Moving Auto-
mobile But Not Seri-
ously Hurt.
Mrs. Dorothy Davis 517 Wyomin.
street leaped from a moving automo
bile early Monday morning to avoid
she declared to police being assaulted
by a male companion. She jumped
police report after having been struts
by one of the occupants of the car.
The fall did not result in serious in
jury. •
Mrs. Davis was found at 2:10
o'clock when Detectives Hartman and
Proudfoot responded to a telephone
message calling them to South Flores
street near the city limits. Her alleged
assailant had departed.
According to information given the
police Mrs. Davis was a member of a
motoring party of four. Her com|htn-
ion. she told officers attacked and
struck her ami that she leaped from
the car to avoid further assault.
Mrs. Davis officers report declared
she would file charges against the
man Monday.
MYSTERIOUS BLASTS
ROCK STEEL PLANT
FORCING SHUTDOWN
Several Men Seen Running
From Scene of Ex-
plosion.
Sydney. N. 8.. .July 30.—A series
of mysterious explosions occurred here
today.
Pipe lines supplying the plant of
the British Empire Steel Corporation
where a strike is in progress. were
blown up at several points forcing
the works to close. »
The police were advised that sev-
eral men had been seen fleeing from
the scene of one explosion.
According to the police the explo-
sions were caused by bombs. One
explosion was in the heart of the city.
. The damage was heavy.
More damage is expected to result
from the sudden cutting off of the
Inigo water supply needed for various
operations in the steel plant particu-
larly in the coke ovens section.
The city is planning a supply of
small quantity of water for vital need
until repairs are made.
NOT MAX POLUNSKY
Dan Polunsky Files for Ban! I uptcy:
Max Polunsky Says Business Is Good.
In an article printed Sunday morn-
ing. giving accounts of bankruptcy
petitions filed the name Max I’olun
sky was erroneously used in a head
The name should have been Dan Pol-
unsky. The body of the article stated
the name Dan Polunsky correctly*.
Max Polunsky is in the dry goods
clothing and ladies' ready to wear
business at 527-531 Eart Cotnnieris
street and said Monday that busi
ness was good.
BLACKS WON’T SUBMIT
Refuse to Be Vaccinated When Told
Doctors Getting Rich.
St. Luuis Mo.. July 30.—A plan of
the municipal health department to
vaccinate all negroes coming here
from the South as a preventative
against smallpox was abandoned to-
day when many of the negroes pro-
tested against (Jie action.
City health officials stated the
American Medical Liberty League
with headquarters in Chicago had cir-
cularized the South advising the ne-
groes to resist the action.
The circlars condemned vaccination
health officials stated and declared
physicians in Kansas City bad made
“S7O(MKIO through vaccinations.”
The influx of negroes has been very
great recently and health officials
said other plans would be considered.
Sixteen cases of smallpox devel-
oped here recently and health offi-
cials expressed the opinion incoming
negroes may have been responsible for
some of the cases.
Of the 7tl<» negroes who arrived here
yesteNlay only GO submitted to vac-
cination. it was said.
BOARD AT SNYDER
College Locators Are .ntertained By
West Texans.
Synder. Tex.. July 30. —Snyder
spokcsmtyi today presented its claims
as the site for the proposed West
Texas Technological College to the lo-
cating board.
Whites and Negroes Fight.
Chicago. July 30.—One negro was
injured and six were arrested as a
result of shooting in connection with
a fight betweeu negroes and while con-
struction camp workers at Worth Illi-
nois Saturday night. Numerous shots
were fired and one negro was struck
on the head with a revolver. Reports
that one man was killed and others
wounded were without foundation ac-
cording to the county highway police.
LEGLESS
HUSBAND
CONFESSES
Pittsburg Man Admits
Killing Bride of Few
Weeks.
’SLAIN IN QUARREL
Death Worried Him;
Missed Footing on
Train; Lost Legs.
ACCIDENT IS CLAIMED
Angry at Wife Because
She Stayed in Bed
Too Long.
Pittsburg. Pa. July 30.—Patrick
Coyne whose bride of a few weeks
was found dead in their home nt
Port Perry a suburb. July 17 today
confessed to Chief Robert- Braun of
the county detectives that he killed
her.
Coyne's confession was made in
the hospital where he was taken
shortly after he had lost his logs in
a railroad accident just after the
crime was committed.
TbyTic who has repeatedly denied he
knew anything of the crime today
sent for Chief Braun and made a
statement.
Coyne according to he chief said
he was angry because his wife stayed
in bed too long and they quarreled.
He hnd a pistol iu his pocket and
during what Coyne termed a scuffle
it dropped on the floor and was dis-
charged.
He did not know bis wife had been
shot he said until she fell dead at
his feet.
He then washed off the blood he
'said nnd putting the body on the
bed. covered it with a sheet.
Coyne the chief said decalred he
left the house but returned in a few
minutes only to leave it again and
once u*re come back.
The last time be dressed and went
to work but was so worried dipt his
mind wns not on his work. and. miss-
ing his footing on top of the train fell
between the cars.
He was found a little later by a
fellow worker and taken to the hos-
pital.
His wife's father was told of the
accident and it was when he went
to Coyne's bouse to tell Mrs. Coyne
that he found her body.
Physicians said Coyne is making
rapid progress toward recovery.
RESIGNATION OF
CUNO GOVERNMENT
APPEARS CERTAIN
Chancellor Convinced Step
Must Be Taken Is
Report.
by the Auocmted Pre*®.
London. Juh 30.—The < ent ml
News eoriP^pondent at Berlin has
sent the following dispatch here:
“Your correspondent learns in well
'informed political quarters that the
resignation of the Cuno cabinet is
certain. Hr. 1 -. c uno himself is con-
vinced that this step must be taken.
“It is understood that the leaders
of the new cabinet will be Paul
Locbe. president of the Reichstag and
Hr. Gustave Stresemanu leader of the
People’s Party.
”A definite decision will not he
reached before the meeting of the
Reichstag nt the end of next wcek. v
GAS RATE CASE
Reports Indicate Public Service ( om-
pany Favored By Decision.
Austin. Tex.. July 30.—Decision of
the railroad commission in the San
Antonio gas rate case is now being
prepared and will be ready for an-
nouncement within the next day or
so.
The present rate is 94 1-2 cents per
1000 cubic feet for domestic con-
sumption. while the city has passed
an ordinance reducing the rate to
07 1-2 cents and the San Antonio
Publie Service company appealed
from this action.
While the conclusion of the com-
mission has not been disclosed it is
intimated the nppcnlj* to be sustain-
ed. and no reduction in rates ordered
on the ground that the city of San
Antonio has failed to show an ade-
quate supply of natural gas which
would justify a reduction iu the
rates.
FORD CELEBRATES
SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
BY QUITTING WORK
y HENRY FORD
Detroit. Midi.. July 30. —Henry
Ford celebrated his sixtieth birthday
today by remaining away from bi«
private workshop at his Dearborn
automobile plant. It is understood that
his |>!ans called for dinner tonight
with the members of bis family and
that of his son. Edsel.
Mr. Ford successfully do.'gcd in-
terviewers who desired to qur-diou
him concerning the business outlook
the international situation and a va-
i.ety of other subjects.
DESPONDENT WOMAN
LEAPS FROM WINDOW
AND IS BADLY HURT
Tells Police She Has
Had an Unhappy
Life.
Mrs. Margie Fitzgerald. 22 is the
name given by a woman who plunged
from a second-story window at 420
Matamoras street nt 2:40 Monday
morning and ..as severely injured.
First reports to the police was
that she bad been thrown through
the window during n dispute. The
woman later declared she had leaped
to the ground in a temporary s|>ell
of despondency.
Police rushed the semi-conscious
woman to the Robert B Green Memor-
ial hospital. Notwitnstanding the
leap from the window to the ground
was in excess of 20 feet hospital in-
ternes expressed the opinion the
patient would recover. Emergency
examination indicated the woman had
escaped vital injuries.
Loss of nt eh btood. which poured
from a dozen or more wounds and
lacerations about her head and body
and a badly broken left arm seem-
ingly constitute her injuries.
InmatA at the rooming house
were aroused by a crash of glass dur-
ing tlje early morning. This it was
reported was followed by a piercing
scream as the woman's body was seen
to hurtle through space and strike
the ground b low with a heavy thud.
Fjrst reports to headquarters prob-
ably due to excitement were that the
woman had been thrown from the see
ond story window nnd killed. She wa-
unconscious and she was just regain
ing her senses when Police Captain
Trevino and Station Officers Ankenmt.
and Scbarfenburg readied the seen 1 .
While being taken to the bospita
and later after being treated the worn
an. police said told of what she de
dared had been an unhappy life thn'
she had been abandoned by friends nnd
certain relatives and that during a mo
ment of despondency shattered the
glass in the window ami plunged
through to the ground hoping to end
it all.
A LOT OF TROUBLE
Jeweler Charged With Shooting Gun
Resisting Officer and Operating Car.
G. L. Sanmiguel 35. El Paso street
jeweler was placed in the city jail
by police at 1(1:20 Monday morning
lifter being booked on the police bl«(-
ter on charges of discharging firearms
within the citv limits operating nn
automobile while under the influence
of liquor and with resisting nn offi-
cer in the discharge of his duly.
Policemen Baltezar nnd Valdez arc
the complaining officers. They re-
port they hurried to the home of the
defendant w hen n gun was disi hnrged
on the premises hut were defied by
Sanmiguel who demanded they ob-
tain a warm t for his arrest before
they entered upon his. premises. This
done. Sanmiguel they claim sought
tq escape them by jumping into an
automobile nnd driving away. With
the car speeding at a good clip.
Patrolman Valdez staged n daring
stunt by grabbing to the rear of the
swift-moving motor and leaping into
it. The officer brought the car to
a haft by overpowering the other
and applying the emergency brake.
$1000000 Fire: One Dead.
Stockton. Cal.. July 30.—One man
was killed eight persons overcome nnd
from SHMKOtX) to 81.(HMD>00 worth of
property was destroyed bv fire in the
heart of the business district here.
Homer Felts. 31. prim-imil of the Pot-
terville schools was killed in a leap
from the second story of the I’bilson
Hotel.
TWA Pcr c °pr n ct y an - i vicing*.
IVV U ID jj vt cent® on trains an* *.*cwh«.e.
ADJUTANT GENERAL SAYS
ATTEMPT MADE HERE TO
DISCREDIT HIS RANGERS
Threatens To Send All Of ’Em To
“Thoroughly Clean Up San An-
tonio” —U Angry Because He Says
Man Found Drunk Claimed To Be
State Policeman — Barton Would
Put Entire Force Here To Stop
Gambling and Bootlegging. ■
Austin Tex. July 30. — Adjutant General Barton
and a detachment of state rangers will leave Austin late
today for San Antonio where the adjutant general will
conduct an extensive investigation into alleged gambling
and liquor violations Barton announced this afternoon^
Barton will remain in San Antonio to coduct a personal
inquiry for several days or until results are obtained in
the campaign instituted last week against law violators
he* stated.
Charging that attempts are being made to discredit
the state rangers Fin San Antonio Adjutant General
Thomas D. Barton in an interview given out at Austin
Monday morning threatened to send “the entire ranger
force to San Antonio if necessary to stop gambling and
liquor violations.”
This threat was made when the adjutant general
learned that a man had been arrested in San Antonio and
placed in jail and had claimed he was a member of the
state rangers.
“I am getting tired of this sort of thing.” General
Barton said. “And if such practice continues I shall throw
a sufficient force of rangers in San Antonio that will
thoroughly clean up the town. I believe this impersona-
tion of rangers is being done to discredit the work of the
rangers at San Antonio.”
“Early this morning.” General Barton said “I was
awakened out of bed by a message from San Antonio ad-
vising that the police had arrested a man giving the name
of Pierce who states he was a state ranger. We have no
one bj' that name on the ranger force. This man was said
to have had on a ranger's badge. The fact is the rangers
do not wear badges.”
BANDITS FLEE WITH
$70126 LEAVING ONE
DEAD AND 4 WOUNDED
Seven Robbers Escape
With Anthracite
Miners’ Pay.
Svranton Pa. July 30.—One man
was killed and four other persons
were wounded in a hold-tip of a
Laurel Line car near Mbcsie today
by seven bandits who escaped wiUi
tw„ .satchels contninin; 870.120. The
money was to be used in paying
anthracite mine workers at two col-
lerics.
JOHNSON TO SPEAK
Minnesota- Senator-Elect Rents Farm
to His Sons.
Associated Fres-.
Crookston Minn.. July 30.—Sena-
tor-elect Magnus Johnson of Minnc
sofa spenkinc at two “ratifiertion jub-
ilees’’ here yesterday afternoon and
last night announced thatahe has rent
ed I.is large farm at Kimball. Minn
to his two sons and that hereafter
until Ik takes his seat in Congress
he will speak in various places in
Minnesota on questions of the day.
Senator-elect Johnson reiterated his
previous statements that lie would be
independent of all cliques or factions
in -the Senate.
MAY CUT RATES
May Slash Tariffs on Flour aud
Wheat to^Aid Buying Mote.
Omaha. Neb.. July 30.—Kxecutiv* ”
of western railroad lines nre to me t
in Chicago today to consider a
posal for a t^mponiry vinergeney
l»er cent freight rate nHluetion on ex-
port wheat and flour advanced by a
committee nf Omaha business men re
cently organised to siionaor a buying
cammiign of these commodities it wa*
announced today. 1
HOME
EDITION
General Barton in Uis intervie v
also referred to having received it.-
formation that two men at San Anto-
nio on the night he made the raid on
the Pastime Club were posing as state
rangers and "raising the devil.” Tbi.
is the first information here that any
one posed as rangers during the r 1 i
on the Pastime Club which was hemt-
e<l by Adjutant General Bartou lr c
Tuesday night. It was reported hv' 7
ever that one of the 26 men arresteti.
had jokingly remarked to a ran; e
sergeant that he was a ranger quali-
fying it by explaining that he "rat’g-C
around everywhere.”
The arrest at San Antonio Monday
referred to by General Barton was
that of Lawson Pearce. Peaxce was
arrested late Sunday afternoon at ihq
interswtiou of Santa Rosa avenue a el
Monterey street. He was booked a#
police headquarters on a charg. of t»-
ing drunk and was fined 525 by Cot-
Itoration Judge J. Ed. Wilkens Mtm-
day morning. Pearce officers said .it
first told them that be was a rauger
and exbibited a badge anti ftistol. M
Sergeant J. B. Wheatley iu c< 1-
mand of the ranger detachment ar Sa i
Antonio visited lite police station
Monday morning and declared that
Pearce was not a member of the force.
Pearce was at one time ou duty ns a
guard during the railroad strike hav-
ing served nt Tyler. Tex. He was m t
a member of the raugcr force however.
Sergeant Wheatley said. The rnngeK
sergeant insistetl that cbi.rgve Wf im-
personating an offiey be filed agatn»t
Pearce stating that ne would also ap-
Itcar as a witness against him <«i
charges of carrying n pistol. Capta a
Brown of the police gave instructions
that charges be filed in the Bwa>
county criminal court against tuz
man for carrying a pistol.
General Barton when b • was in S:tn ■
Antonio last Wednesday declared that
vice conditions in S r. Antoni r e-e
worse than any other large city in the
state with the exception of one. Hi -
also said that he expected tn ke- >
state rangers here t' long as '
thought their presence necessary. .At
least one man Sergeant Whrnt'y ’«
still in San Antonio and it ’• t't
known how long ie expects to remain
here. ~2
With the exception of the rtid en
the Pastime I bih wbW 26 men »•' "
arresten. felony charges being f>' b
against five 3rd misdemeanor charg < (
against 21. the ranc«rs bare m-~ *
n«> further arrrstx 4ur their st. r
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