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San Antonio S u nday Light
Volume XVII No-12.
TOURNAMENT ENDS.
MANY VISITORS WILL STAY OVER
SOME DAYS.
A Few of the High Averages of the Week.
Rolla Heikes Leads the Cry-
Notes and Goodbyes.
The Midwinter tournament ended
yesterday evening and the visitors are
now free to go home go duck shoot-
ing or have the at live birds to-
day which some of the members of
the San Antonio Gun club have ar-
ranged to take place at their fine
range at Lakeview.
A duck hunting party leaves tomor-
row for Gum Hollow composed of
Messrs. Will Peabody Miller Chan
Powers and Frank Parmalee.
As usual Old Bald Eagle Rolla
Heikes landed first average 93 per
cent yesterday or 92.3 per cent for
the entire week.
Among the straights landed yester-
day was Parmalee Parker Heikes
JACK PARKER.
Dickey Grimm Sexton Van Dyke
Beck and Gilbert.
Parmalee won one first alone as did
Parker.
King’s smokeless wound up the
shoot Parker shooting the last shot of
the tournament.
The Indianapolis boys stayed right
through. “Pa” Beck the veteran of
the Indiana squad did not strike his
gait unt'l the last day. The weather
condition stuck him as it will strike
most thoroughbred old timers but he
wound up with a straight string of 20.
Capt. Foster and Lieutenant Whit-
worth of the army post shot all tAe
way through and made very commend-
able scores considering the amount of
practice they have on tragets as they
are sportsmen who use the scatter
gun on game and are not quite up to
mechanical target shooting. Place
same gentlemen at live birds and they
would be strictly in it.
Mr. Norton one of the visitors has
decided to remain in the city for the
next two months.
Paul R. Litzke of Littie Rock Ark.
was the representative of Forest and
Stream at the tourney.
John H. Mackie the genial Peters
Cartridge man of Cincinnati will be
greatly missed by the many firm
friends he has made while in San An-
topio.
A great deal of the credit for faith-
ful work in entertaining and aiding
the visitors is justly due Mr.' Fred.
W. Stone and Mr. Robt. Tendick.
They were on the go among the boys
early and late.
During the week Rolla Heikes fired
at 890 birds and broke 822; one hundred
of these were at reverse angles. His
average was 92 1-3 per cent and he
made 93 2-3 per cent in the rain yes-
terday.
Parmalee finished in the rain yester-
day evening bareheaded as his drip-
ping hat interfered with his shooting.
The "canny Scot from Skye” Mr.
C. Kennard.* had the misfortune last
Thursday night of being robbed of
$5OO in some way the particulars of
which could not be obtained.
A group photo has been taken of
the shooters.
Charles Grimm. Charles Budd. Fred.
Gilbert and C. P. Loomis who were
attending the midwinter shoot will
leave for their homes tonight.
The tie for the Schmeltzer trophy
will very likely be shot off at the Hot
Springs tournament.
ORPHAN ASYLUM THREATENED.
A Blaze Discovered in St. Joseph’s 1
Refuge on Military Plaza
Last Night.
San Antonio last night escaped the
horror of a terrible orphanage catas-
trophe and possible holocaust of help-
less children by the prompt action of
the central fire alarm station operator
in sending in a correct alarm and the
equally prompt arrival of chemical en-
gine company No. 1.
About 9 o’clock box 26 called the
fire boys and the police to St. Joseph’s
Orphan asylum on the northwest cor-
ner of Military plaza and Camaron
street which is occupied by fully one
hundred little children. They were
quietly but quickly marshalled out of
the big building and taken over to the
city hall police headquarters where
they were safe from harm.
Meanwhile the firemen quickly locat-
ed the fire which was found in a clothes
closet in a room on the first floor near-
ly in the centre of the building and
lining considerable headway. It was
quicl?!y~Vtlnguished though not with-
out a losd’of probably $2OO. The fire
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had been communicated from a blind
flue in the ceiling which was open
and connected with a flue in the sec-
ond story to which a stove with a
large fire in it was connected. Sparks .
had dropped down on the clothing in
the closet.
After the fire was extinguished the
children were quietly restored to their .
home.
QUICK AND EXCITING.
Two Men Wallow in the Mud and One
Has a Gun.
An exciting encounter took place in
front of Petty’s drug store corner of
West Houston street and Alamo plaza
yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock
between Bill Day a saloon man and i
Joe Gardner. What the trouble was
about no one seems to know except the
two men and Day refused to tell while
Gardner was not to be found. The
men were quietly talking together
when they suddenly clinched and fell
on the muddy sidewalk. They rolled
over and were down for several sec- I
ends when a man tried to separate \
them. Just then he saw a gun flash and
let go all hold and made a dash for the
first door he saw. Officer Chavez who j
was on Avenue D at the time ran to !
the scene and succeeded in parting the I
men. He placed them both under ar- |
rest. He held Day and allowed Gard- ’
ner to go into a saloon to wash him-
self. but Gardner never returned. Day
claims that Gardner struck him over
the ear with his fist without any prov-
ocation and that when they were on
the ground Gardner pulled a 38-caliber
pistol frqm his pocket. He said he
took the pistol away from Gardner
and emptied the chambersall of which
were loaded and then returned the-
pistol to him. The men then got up j
and Gardner had disappeared when ’
Captain Frank Roberts came up. The
whole affair did not last over five min-
utes but just long enough not to make
a first class corpse. It is believed that
politics were the cause of the trouble
CHAPLAIN M'CABE.
Bishop Charles C. McCabe of the
Methodist Episcopal church now a
resident bishop of Texas and the
southwest is spending a few days in
San Antonio. He is better known as
“Chaplain McCabe.” a title which has
clung to him since the war when he
greatly endeared himself to the sol-
diers of the north by his untiring de-
votion to their welfare both physical
and spiritual during those days of
suffering. He was captured at Win-
chester Virginia while remaining be-
hind to care for the sick and wounded
on the battlefield and was sent to Lib-
by prison where he spent four months.
It was out of this experience that his
famous lecture on the “Bright Side of
Life in Libby Prison” grew.
Immediately after his release from
prison he undertook the work of rais-
ing money for the Christian Commis-
sion and succeeded in putting $150000
into the hands of the Commission for
the relief of sick and wounded soldiers.
After the war was over Bishop Mc-
Cabe was appointed secretary of the
board of church extension where he
served his church for sixteen years
traveling almost constantly and speak-
ing nearly every day in the interest of
his work. The income of the society
when he began was $18000: when he
left it the annual income was $300000.
Besides this he built up a permanent
loan fund of $500000.
In 1884 he was elected missionary
secretary of the Methodist church with
his office in New York. His labors
in this work were increasing. He found
the society greatly in need of funds.
Its income at the time was $735000 a
year. He raised throughout the
church the cry “a million for mis-
sions” and in two years had it. When
he left this office in May 1896 the an-
nual income of the Missionary society
was $1250000. He was elected last
May to the office of bishop and chose
T«Jras as his place of residence.
San Antonio Texas Sunday Morning January 31 1897.—Part One Pages 1 to 8.
ELMENDORF RATIFIED. J
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ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF VOTERS tl
AT BEETHOVEN HALL J
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Some Solid Shot and Shell Thrown Into the £
Camp of the Enemy By Tai- ‘
ented Speakers- r
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Despite the very disagreeable j
weather last night no less than 500 C
citizens attended the meeting at v
Beethoven hall. It was a grand ral- “
ly to ratify the Elmendorf ticket and j
in this it was a success in point of en-
thusiasm.
’Hie meeting was addressed by the
Hon. Mayor Elmendorf who review- S
cd th# administration of the past two
years in plain language. He showed
: the condition*of the city when Calla-
| ghan left it and compared it with the 1
present condition. He was loudly ap- I '
plauded. 1
Judge .1. IL Clark was the next : u
! speaker. He made a very good speech a
j and propounded questions for Mayor 1 f
I Elmendorf’s opponents which have j 1
I not yet been answered. I
Judge Clark was followed by Hon. I <
J. L. Burgess. He recalled Mr. Lewy's
statement in which the latter said t
he had been in San Antonio nine f
years. Mr. Burgess said that he came f
to San Antonio alsmt six years ago <
anti that Mr. Lewy had arrived here <
about a. day or two before and be- 1
lieved there must bo a mistake some- ’
where. He said that Nat Lewis had 1
worked for the election of Mr. Lewy I
j as city attorney and hardly had Mr.
Lewy been elected city attorney . <
when he held out the other hand for | 1
district attorney. He also said that >
Mr. Lewy has not yet paid taxes on I
his lot on Monterey street. He re- I
I ferrod to the electric lights furnish- 1
ed by the gas company to the city
during Callaghan’s administration
which be said cost the city GO cents
a night for each arc light. Now he
said these same lights are had for
35 cents a saving to the city of $15.-
000 a year.
There were cries for Kellar. Judge
C. A. Kellar who is a candidate for
city attorney on the Elmendorf tick-
et responded with an anecdote on a
Tennesseean who was riding on a
steamboat on the Mississippi river
and was making so much noise that
the captain ordered him to stop as
he was disturbing the other passen-
gers. The man finally offered to bet
the captain that he could make as
much noise as anybody. The cap-
tain took the bet. He turned loose
the whistle of the boat and the noise
was deafening. He asked the man if
ho could equal that and he replied
of course but he didn’t want to split
his throat. Judge Kellar compared
the whistle and his speech with the
man's voice and the speeches of the
preceding speakers. He then got down
to business. He said that he is a per-
sonal friend of both Judge Calla-
ghan and Mr. Lewy but that he
wants to be city attorney. He said
that Judge Callaghan and Mr. Lewy
both hold good offices now and that
they ought to try to stay in those
offices. He said he heard that Calla-
ghan had reformed and has a new lot
of reformers and that he is a differ-
ent man now. .He did not charge
Callaghan personally with dishones-
ty. but said that during his adminis-
tration this was the most corrupt city
he ever saw. He referred to the
bridges and school houses that were
erected during Callaghan’s adminis-
tration. also to the paved streets and
said that the same work could be
done now for one-fourth the monev
that Callaghan snent for it. He said
that the reason the citv can’t par its
debts i® because there Is no monev
to pay them with and that Callaghan
left the city with $4.19 in the treas-
ury. which is still there. He said that
if Callaghanites would pay taxes to
the city Elmendorf will be able to pay
the city’s debt and have a surplus of
$500000. He also referred t<x the St.
Mary’s street matter which was de-
rided a few weeks ago in the Court
of Civil Appeals. He said that the
city under Callaghan’s administra-
tion condemned the Grandjean prop-
erty before it was decided who the
real owner was and that this will
leave a debt of $65000 to $85000 for
the city to pay. Ho made reference
to the St. Mary's street bridge.which
Callaghan had built and called the
voters' attention to the fact that the
grand jury had investigated the mat-
ter but that the east* has not been
hoard of since.
THE COST OF IT.
Some Interesting Statistics of Ouan-
tity of Damage Done and Benefits
Derived From the Shoot.
San Antonio’s second annual mid-
winter shooting tournament is a
thing of the past and witli the depart-
ure of the many visitors this city loses
a jolly set of guests who will always
find a hearty welcome here. It is
hoped that they will come again.
Each and everyone << them has en-
deared himself to the people of San
Antonio and it is to Is* regretted that
the bad weather was not sidetracked
for some other time. This unpleasant
feature however could not Im* reme-
died but in the future the weather
clerk will be prevailed upon to change
his schedule. a certified copy of which
will be forwarded to the only "Tee
Kay” Kellar so that he can put the
boys “next” in due time.
During the groat shoot it is estimat-
ed that there were over 50000 shots
fin'd at that many targets. That
number of blue rocks piled up in a
heap would rival the pyramids of
Egypt. If spread out on the open
field they would cover nearly 6.000
OLD SAN ANTONIO SCARED.
square feet. Each shell exploded
cost 5% cents and teh full number cost
the shooters $2650. The blue rocks
which were started on their sail in
which so few escaped unbroken cost
the shooters 3 cents each amounting
to $1500. It is estimated that 450
pellets were in each shell and that
their combined bulk would load four
coal wagons and weigh over 3.700
pounds or nearly two tons. The bulk
of powder required to send these fly-
ing at the mark was sufficient to split
the earth in two if confined at its
center. Adding the cost of the shells
and the cost of the targets we have
the neat sum of $4150 which puffed
and went up in smoke or were bro-
ken or shattered on the ground.
The men that were brought here by
the shoot are mostly men of means
who came not only to take in the
shoot but to see the country its re-
sources and chances for progress as
well. They are not mon who will
squeeze their coins until the eagles
scream and it is a small estimate to
say that the visitors left $BOO with
the Iwtels of the city and spent $2.-
000 on the outside.
REPUBLICAN ENDORSEMENT.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
New Orleans Jan. 30.—The Repub-
licans of the first third and sixth dis-
tricts have endorsed Capt. A. T. Wim-
berly national committeeman from
Louisiana for collector of this port.
He will probably be appointed.
WHERE CORBETT WILL TRAIN.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Chicago Jan. 30.—James J. Corbett
has decided to close his theatrical sea-
son in Kansas City February sth and
will go to the Pacific coast to train for
his battle with Fitzsimmons March
17th. He will train in California and
will go to Nevada a few hours before
the fight takes place.
ARBITRATION GOES-
DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH EITHER
NATION’S OUTSIDE QUARRELS.
There is a Little Dissension Among Mem-
bers of the Foreign Relations Oom-
mittee on Some Minor Points-
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Washington D. C. Jan. 30.—Every
member of the Senate committee on
foreign relationswith the exception of
Turpie was present this morning
when the committee convened . The
entire session was devoted to the con-
sideration of the general treaty of ar-
bitration between the United States
and Great Britain. The members de-
nied themselves to several represen-
tatives who came over from the
House and refused to be disturbed.
A vote was taken on the treaty and a
favorable reiiort was ordered made to
the Senate next Monday with certain
amendments.
Action was not unanimous and some
individual amendments were reserved
for submission to the Senate when the
subject shall come up. The most im-
portant amendment was that which
added to article 1. the following
words:
“But no question which affects the
foreign or domestic policy of either
high contracting parties or the rela-
tions of either of the high contracting
parties or the relations of either with
anv other state or power by treaty or
otherwise shall be subject to arbitra-
tion under this treaty except by a spe-
cial agreement.”
The second amendment strikes out
all reference to the king of Sweden
and Norway’ as umpire in case the
court fails to agree unon the umpire
in accordance with the provisions of
article 3 and article 5. The motion
to strike out this clause was carried
with but one negative vote that of
Senator Gray of Delaware.
It was decided that the treaty
should be called up in the Senate
at the earliest date possible. The
question of its possible consideration
in open session was discussed infor-
mally. It is understood that while the
members of the committee believe
that motion may prevail if made no
member of committee will initiate it
The motion however will find some
votes in the membership of the com-
mittee.
WAS A PERSUADER.
Special Wire To Sunday Light.
Madrid Jan. 30.—The Epoca says
the minister of war has intimated in
the course of conversation that an ar-
rangement with the Cuban rebels look-
ing to a cessation of hostilities in Cu-
ba may possibly be reached soon.
Madrid newspapers profess the be-
lief that the recent visit of United
States Minister Taylor to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs was an event of
great importance in its bearing upon
the situation in Cuba.
LOUISVILLE CORRUPTION.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Louisville. Ky. Ja i. 30.—The grand
jury today retu.-rcl indictments
age Inst fourteen people connected
with the city governm-’nt. They are
aldermen and pelt •» officers. They are
tor obtaining money for alleged influ-
ence false sweariag malfeasance in
office by failure o suppress gambling
and contpiring In getting means
through the council for police protec-
tion to faro bang tn consideration of
one-third net profits all of which in-
dicates the city gov»r.imesit is fully
as corrupt is rir»t -f ■»? city in the
court-y. Chicago not excepted.
Price $5 00 a Year.
OUR CANADIAN BOUNDARY
Will Be Finally Determined By An
International Commission
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Washington Jan. 30.—Secretary Ol-
ney and the British ambassador at
the state department at eleven o’clock
this morning signed “A Convention
between the United States and Canada
for the demarkation of so much of the
141st meridian of longitude as will be
necessary for the determination of the
boundary between their respective pos-
sessions in North America.
The president will send this conven-
tion to the Senate Monday for ratifi-
cation. It provides for a commission
similar to the Mexican boundary com-
mission which will avail itself of in-
formation already collected under a
commission under charge of Profs.
Mendenhall and Duffield and Mr. King
of Canada who were working under
the agreement made in 1892 on North
American possession and it is believ-
ed will settle the coijri'oty over the
Ic.etion of the gold fields in that ter-
rH. jy.
GONZALES COUNTY. •
Gonzales. Tex.. Jan. 30.—(Light S(h -
eial)—Elder Bibb of Mexico. Mo. fills
the pulpit of the Baptist church on
Sunday and the deacons Invite ail
Gonzales to be present.
The death of Mrs. Lydia Baquet.
which occurred here on Wednesday
afternoon was a very distressing af-
fair. She was standing with her
back to the open fireplace warming
herself when her clothing catfght
tire. She was so badly burned that
her death occurred three and a. half
hours after.
Tuesday evening it. was so cold here
that the wheels op carriages froze
stiff on their axles.
The marriage of Miss Maggie Hous-
ton on Wednesday last to Mr. Frank
A. Robischung of Kingsbury was
one of the most pleasant social events
of the winter. There were many
handsome presents left as reminders
of teh estimation in which the bride
was held.
Knight of Pythias here are informed
that Mr. Theo. Hamnet of the home
lodge here is down with pneumonia.
They telegraphed for all |>ossible at-
tention to be given him at Vicksburg.
Miss. where he is sick.
The yong son of Otto Miller died
Wednesday night after an illness of
three weeks.
District court is grinding away. In
the habeas corpus case Claud and
Yearb.v Rhodes wore admitted to bail
in the sum of $5000 each.
A GOOD MAN GONE.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
New Orleans Jan. 30. —L. A. Evans
receiving clerk for the Western Union
Telegraph company died tonight after
a brief illness from la grippe. He was
the oldest man in the service of this
telegraph company in this place hav-
ing been with the company since 1856.
He was a modest unassuming gentle-
man and had twice declined the ap-
pointment as manager here.
BEEVILLE BUDGET.
Beeville Tex. Jan. 30.—(Light Spe-
cial)—Rev. E. H. Neville who has
filled the rectory of the Episcopal
church at this place for the past two
years left Tuesday morning for Be-
lize. British Honduras Central Amer-
ica.
The Epworth League lias made ar-
rangements with Mr. Frederick Ab-
bott the Canadian reader. and imper-
sonator. to give an eiitjertafnment
here next Tuesday night.
Beeville is to have an addition to •
her roll of publicatious. It is tire
Texas Country School Teacher edit-
ed by J. 1. Lancaster senior editor of
the Live Oak County Times.
IN THE CAPITAL AGAIN.
By Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Washington. D. C. Jan. 30.—Presi-
dent Cleveland has returned from his
New York trip.
SWUNG OFF.
By S]H>cial Wire to Sunday Light.
St. lands Mo. Jan. 30.—At Oregon.
Mo. today J. B. Inks was executed for
the murder of John Patterson.
WILSON COUNTY.
Floresville Tex. Jan. 30—
Special)—The sick people of this see-
tiou are about all on the highway to
recovery.
The Odd Fellows have moved into
their new hall and the Woodmen will
soon occupy it also.
Rev. Stanley and W. O. Stephenson
went hunting Tuesday despite the
cold weather.
.Collection of $25.35 was taken up
in the Baptist church for the benefit
of the Buckner’s orphan home Dsil-
-Ins.
Candidates for the office of city ’
marshal are getting numerous anil
election several weeks off.
Public schools here have closed but
a private school is to open Monday
with Prof. Vincent in charge.
W. <>. Murray's store was broken
into on Sunday night but there does
not stem to have been much of any
in>|H>rtance taken.
County Judge Stephenson has a lor.
of seeds from the department at
Washington for distribution.
Sam McKenzie died at his home at
Fairview on Wednesday afternoon.
E. R. Hunter at one time a Cala-
veras school teacher is jailed here on
a charge of seduction.
While looking for the negro who
broke jail last Saturday the officer*
rounded up a room full of the colored
boys who were playing craps and
landed them in the hold over.
Mr. Will Morrison was married ar
on Wednesday evenqing
to Miss Emily Dryden and immediate-
Iv left with his bride for Monterey
Mex.
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