San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 9, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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Watch Our Sunday’s Ad.
VOL. 26. No. 49.
STATE RAILROAD
COMMISSION IS IN
A PRETTY PICKLE
Members of Board Thought to be Liable to Arrest
For Interfering With United States
Mail in Holding Trains
PASSENGERS TO BRING ACTION
People Detained at Houston Last Night Through Order That Trains 30
Minutes Late Must be Annulled Will Seek to Recover Damages
Train Was Under Control of Inter State Commerce Commission •
Marcus Braun United States immi-
grant inspector of the department of
commerce and labor arrived in the
city today and will remain over to-
morrow. He came in on the first sec-
tion of No. nine this morning. The
first section of No. nine on this occa-
sion was No. seven which arrived
fifty minutes late at Houston yester-
day morning. By order of the com-
mission the train was annulled as a
penalty for arriving at a terminal point
more than thirty minutes late.
Mr. Braun states that he sympa-
thizes with any movement calculated
to make The railroads run on schedule
time but that he considers cutting out
this train and compelling the passen-
gers to lay over thirteen hours in
Houston as an outrage. He says this
appears to be visiting the sins of the
railroad on the passengers.
There were fully two hundred pas-
sengers on No. seven —the Sunset Ex-
press—when jt arrived at Houston yes-
terday morning at 11:05 fifty minutes
late. The railroad people were in-
formed that the train could not leave
Houston as No. seven and that it
eould not leave there at all until 12:15
this morning. There were a large
number of passengers aboard for Cali-
fornia points' who had taken the train
it New Orleans and the wildest con-
tusion followed the announcement. Mr.
L. Joyd en route from Mobile Ala. to
Los Angeles. California summoned to
attend a dying brother was on the
train.
A consultation among the passen-
ters was held with the result that five
if them formed a committee to see
that the matter was called to the at-
tention of the postoffice department
the inter state commerce commission
ind that damages be secured from
either the railroad or the railroad com-
mission. The five members of the
committee are: Alexander C. Brown
lawyer of New. York; George M. Atin
of Wellesville. Ohio; Roliert K. War-
ren. of Mobile. Alabama: P. H. De
Jordy of Fort Worth; Marcus Braun
of Washington D. C.
T. C. FROST
President
FROST
NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
$600000.00
EXCHANGE DRAWN ON PRINCIPAL CITIES IN EUROPE.
MEXICAN MONEY BOUGHT AND SOLD.
ALBERT BEITEL.
BEITEL LUMBER CO Succesior to F. J. BeiteL
lumber and builders hardware
P. O. BOX 393. BOTH PHONES No. 250. Branch Yard* at Kerrville. Texas
Office and Yards: West Commerce St. Near the I. &G. N. R. R.
E. B. CHANDLER
MONEY TO LOAN
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
102 CrocKett Street .
Fort Worth Dallas
Va I. & G. N.
ROUND TRIP TICKETS ON
SALE EVERY DAY
■ —
City Office 122 Alamo P aia J. W. DALEY P. & T. A.
Uttiawkr Saito
EIGHT PAGES.
The matter will be taken up as soon
as it is possible to arrange a mode of
proceedure to bring it properly before
the United States courts.
Number seven carries the United
States mail and is a through train
from New Orleans to San Francisco.
Its operation is under control of th*
inter state commerce commission and
the gentlemen who compose the above
committee are of the opinion that the
members of the Texas railroad com-
mission have laid themselves liable to
arrest for interfering with the trans-
mission of the mails.
Rudolph Sheid a passenger on the
train out of New Orleans for Cali-
fornia left the train during the lay
over in Houston. He was found in
the outskirts of the city dead just
before the train left. No one saw him
and the affair is wrapped in mystery.
Mr. Braun says no scars were found
on the man to indicate foul play. The
action of the railroad commission is
blamed for the unfortunate occurrence.
ARCHIE HAD
GOOD NIGHT
PHYSICIANS REPORT CONDITION
OF YOUNG ROOSEVELT AS IM-
PROVED THIS MORNING.
Associated Press.
Washington D. C. March 9. —Ar-
chie Roosevelt had a favorable night
and the attending physicians this
morning report his condition as im-
Droved. They issued the following
statement:
“Archie Roosevelt had a good night.
There were no unfavorable symptoms
but there is a general improvement
since the last report”
"Celakut" Liniment Court Plaster for cuts
and bites —90 percent antiseptic. Tube 10c
J. T. WOODHULL
Vice-President.
NED M’ILLHENNY
Cashier
R. M. BEITEL
JAPAN NOT TALKING
OF WAR WITH US
Foreign Minister Replying to Sensational Inter-
pellation in House of Representatives Urges
Calmness Depending on Our Friendship
Associated Press.
Tokio March 9. —Replying this af-
ternoon to a sensational interpellation
in the house of representatives that
Japanese were suffering humiliation
at the hands of Americans Foreign
Minister Hayashi called attention to
the existence of the last clause of ar-
ticle second of the treaty with the
United States. He said that this
clause was inserted in order to secure
ratification of the treaty by the Unit-
ed States senate. Japan he said was
at that time revising the treaty to ab-
KILLED 3 IN
FIGHT IN BOAT
KENTUCKIAN IS HIMSELF BADLY
WOUNDED BUT REACHES
SHORE ALIVE.
OARS. KNIVES PISTOL
Quarrel Arose When Men Were Cross-
ing River and All Sorts of Weapons
Were Used in the Battle.
Associated Press.
Sergent Ky. March 9. —Thacker
Rice and Speed and Elijah Bailey
brothers were killed in a desperate
fight in a boat when crossing the mid-
dle fork of the Kentucky river 20
miles below here.
With them was John Ellsmore. A
dispute arose between Ellsmore and
Rice whereupon the Bailey brothers
took sides with Rice. Ellsmore with-
out warning whacked Rice on the
head with an oar and then a battle
with pistols and knives followed.
Ellsmore himself badly wounded
finally reached the shore with his
companions but they died soon after.
The fight followed a celebration at a
neighbor's home.
FINDS ANCIENT
QTY IN GREECE
PREHISTORIC TOWN UNEARTHED
IN THE ISLAND OF ITHACA
BY WILHELM DORPEFELD.
Associated Press.
Berlin. March 9. —The announce-
ment that Wilhelm Dorpefeld head of
the German archaeological institute at
Athens has discovered in the island
of Ithaca what he believes to be the
remains of a historic city has greatly
'nterested archaeologists.
Remnants of the walls and of mono-
chrome decorated earthen ware as
well as a number of more elaborately
ornamented vases have been discov-
■-red Same distance from the ruins
ol the city was found a cavern con-
taining evidences of prehistoric in-
habitants. Under the convent of St.
John. Herr Dorpefeld found a temple
with Doric and lonic columns.
COLD IN MEXICO.
Two Snowstorms Have Visited the City
of Mexico Thia Year.
James Villanueva a Spanish in-
terpreter of San Antonio has return-
ed from a tour of Mexico where he
escorted several excursion parties.
Mr. Villanueva in speaking of condi-
tions in the sister republic said:
"All previous records for tourist
traffic in Mexico was beaten this
>ear and I might say that the coldest
weather prevailed there this winter
than in the past sixty years. Two
snow storms visited Mexico City and
Jie people there suffered from the ex-
treme cold.”
j THE WEATHER
Local weather-forecast for San An-
t>nio and vicirSv; Showers tonight
and Sunday. Cooler.
Temperatures for Last Twelve Hours.
Mln. Max.
San Antonio 66 82
Chicago 30 38
Corpus Christi ....70 76
Denver 38 60
El Paso 44 74
Fort worth 56 70
G: Iveston 68 74
aKnsas City 36 44
New Orleans 62 80
New York 32 40
St. Ix>uis ...36 42
Washington „ 33 48
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SATURDAY MARCH 9 1907.
rogate extra territoriality which was
the greatest humiliation.
Continuing to reply to the interpel-
lations Minister Hayashi emphasized
the importance of approaching the
question of Japan's relations with
America calmly and in a peaceful
spirit as excitement would only tend
to increase the difficulties and injure
the traditional friendly relations of
both nations. He also pointed out
the indisputable good will of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his government to-
ward Japan.
NEWTON FILES
338 TAX SUITS
COUNTY ATTORNEY ALSO HAS
ABOUT 100 MORE TO FILE
LATER IN THE MONTH.
LARGE AND SMALL
Range From 15 Cents Up to Hundreds
of Dollars and Costs Will Be $7.50
Three hundred and thirty-eight tax
suits were filed by County Attorney
Newton this morning against as many
lots and parcels of land in Bexar coun-
ty. Work on these suits has been in
progress for several weeks. There
will be 100 or thereabouts to file
later.
It is expected that a large number
of the defendants in these suits will
come up and settle as soon as served
with a citation. Previous to filing the
suits all were notified that costs
would be saved by settling up by a
certain time.
Taxes range from 25 cents up to
hundreds of dollars. The costs in each
case run to about 87.50.
A CUTTING
AFTER CHURCH
NEGROES OF ST. HEDWIG FIGHT
OUT GRUDGE AFTER LISTEN-
ING TO A SERMON.
MET THE OFFICERS
Negro Accused of Doing the Cutting
Was Walking to Town When He
Met Sheriff Tobin.
Sheriff Tobin was phoned about
midnight last night that a serious
cutting affray had occurred at St.
Hedwig between some negroes and
.hat a negro named Mitchell had been
badlv Injured. Sheriff Tobin secured
an automobile and with Deputy Sher-
iff Goforth started to St. Hedwig. Be-
fore reaching there he met Frank
Thornton who said he was coming to
town to give himself up. The officers
did not proceed further but brought
Thornton to town and placed him in
tail. A charge of assault to murder
will be lodged against him today.
Thornton told the officers that there
had been unfriendliness between him-
self and Mitchell for sometime and
that last night about 11:30. after
church had turned out the two met
in the yard and Mitchell called him
a vile name and threatened him with
a knife. He says that he got busy
with his own knife then with the re-
sult that Mitchell Is cut in several
places.
After the cutting Mitchell walked
off and talked to some friends and
latet lav down in the road. Mitchell
is not believed to have been fatally in-
lured.
Both negroes are about 19 years of
age. The origin of the trouble is not
clear.
BOYS ARE RELEASED.
No Evidence to Show That Mexican
Lads Had Cut Man’s Fence.
Three Mexican youths who gavo
their names as Jose Antonio Tlel
Francisco Escalera and Jose Ynes Es-
calera were arraigned in the police
court this morning on charges of ma-
licious mischief. They were arrested
on complaint of a man named Venada
who lives on Vera Cruz street.
The complainant claimed that the
boys had been seen near his fence
which he found had been cut consider-
ably with a knife. There was no pjoof
that the defendants had cut the fence
and the cases were dismissed.
In Each Case.
COURT
HOUSE
SOLD
Old County Building on
Soledad Street Brings
$36400
FOR OFFICE USE
Purchaser Today Was Harry Landa
of New Braunfels- He Will Alter
for Office Building
Today Was Fourth Time Effort Had
Been Made to Sell Old Court
House —Money Will Go Into
Road and Bridge Fund.
The old courthouse on Soledad
street was sold this morning to Harry
Landa of New Braunfels for $36100
at auction. There were three bids
cue troni a Mr. Guggenheim of Corpus
Christi. Frank Sommer auctioned oft
the property.
The bidding started at $30000 the
upset price. A gentleman whose
name was not learned raised this $5O.
Mr. Guggenheim raised it another
$5O and Mr. Landa raised it $lOOO.
There was some more bidding and
when the crowd was “all done” it was
iound that Mr. Lauda was the owner.
To a Light reporter Mr. Landa stat-
ed that he intended at once remodel-
lug the building and making an office
building of it. He does not have his
ulans matured at this time. It was
bought for office building purposes
however and will be fitted up in mod-
ern stvle. The building stands in a
quiet location practically two blocks
from the county court house and thxee
blocks from the city hall. As an of-
fice building it will be convenient to
•ih the places with which professional
men will have business.
After the sale each of the commis-
sioners solemnly shook hands with
himself and then all slapped Mr. Som-
mer on the back and elected him offi-
cial auctioneer for Bexar county for
keens. The sale was a tremendous
success in view of the fact that the
best bid made on It in three sales was
$26000. This was made when first
offered for sale. The two subsequent
sales resulted in no bids.
The money received from the sale
of the old building will probably be-
turned into the- road and bridge fund
finally. At present it goes into the
general fund. Mr. has executed
his check payable to the county
Judge for $36100 in full payment.
TWO KILLED
IN COLLISION
TWO KATY FREIGHT TRAINS IN
A WRECK NEAR LORENA
STATION.
Associated Press.
Waco. Texas March 9. —Early to-
day a north-bound freight train on
tne Missouri Kansas and Texas rail-
load collided with three freight cars
one mile south of Lorena station.
Engineer Howard Hughes of Smith-
ville. and Fireman Fred Hayner of
Austin were killed and Brakeman A.
G. Durfee of Smithton Mo. was fa-
tally hurt.
ALLEGES HORSE THEFT.
Constable Charles Stevens arrested
one Vicente Garza yesterday morn-
ing alleged to be wanted in Medina
county on a charge of horse theft.
Deputy Sheriff Jim Gilbraith of
Hondo took Garza to the Medina
county jail last night. The offense
was committed near Castroville last
Monday.
HAD FRIENDS ON THE DAKOTA.
Dr. Frederick Terrell received a
telegram this morning saying that the
Dakota upon which were a number of
his friends had been grounded near
Yokohoma Japan but that all had
escaped with the exception of the bag-
gage which was soaked considerably.
None of the passengers on the ship
were from San Antonio.
RE-INSPECTION DAY.
This is re-inspection day with the
sanitary officers and they are now
busily engaged in making a round of
the places served with notices during
the week for the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether the notices have been
complied with.
LOOK FORWARD TO SMOKER.
/The smoker whichis to be given to-
night by the San Antonio club is an-
Sinated with much pleasure by the
•»Ider members.
(Price 2 Cen*?.)
PROPHET DOWIE
DIES SUDDENLY
AT ZION CITY
Although Health Had Been Failing For Long Time
His Condition Seemed As Usual Yesterday*
Death Occurred at 7*40 Today*
DENOUNCED PEOPLE TO THE LAST
Became Delirious at I O'clock This Morning and From Then Until His •
Death He Talked as He Had Been Accustomed to Do at His Re-
ligious Meetings During His Prime—Family Absent at Death.
Associated Press.
Chicago 111. March 9- —John Alex-
ander Dowie died at 7:40 o’clock this
morning at Shiloh House Zion City.
There were present with him when
he died only Judge D. N. Barnes and
two personal attendants.
It had been Dowie's custom to hold
religious services every Sunday after-
noon in the parlor of Shiloh House.
About 350 of his original followers re-
mained faithful and attended these
services. Dowie always wore the apos-
tolic robes and made a characteristic
address. Five weeks ago these meet-
ings ceased and Dowie appeared no
longer in public. The Sunday meetings
however were still held by his adhe-
rents.
Death Came Suddenly.
Since five weeks ago Dowie has
gradually been failing. Friday after-
noon there were indications of ap-
proaching death. He received his few
followers and prayed for some people
and his condition seemed to be about
the same as for the last two or three
weeks. One of his attendants remain-
ed with him until midnight and was
relieved by the other attendant. Short-
ly after 1 o'clock this morning Dowie
became delirious and talked the same
as at his religious meetings in the
days of his prime. He denounced peo-
ple with his old time vigor ordered
the guard to throw out disturbers and
acted just as he had on so many pre-
vious occasions. He gradually became
weaker and the attendant telephoned
for Judge Barnes who reached Shiloh
house at 7 a. m. Forty minutes later
Dowie died.
No Funeral Arrangements Yet.
No arrangements has yet been
made for the funeral.
The death of Dowie was unexpect-
NEW FIREMEN
AND POLICEMEN
COMMISSION FILLS VACANCIES
CAUSED BY RESIGNATIONS IN
BOTH DEPARTMENTS.
The police and fire commission held
a meeting at 12 o'clock today. The
resignation of Charles Artzt and
Charles Hildebrandt as policemen
were presented and accepted. Anton
Krause was appointed to succeed
Artzt. No appointment was made in
the case of Hildebrandt.
The resignation of E. E. Young and
James Cody from the fire department
were accepted and C. A. Gready and
Pete Guerrero were appointed to their
places. Guerrero has been a fireman
on the extra list for several years
and is an experienced man.
There were several applications for
the position of city detective caused
by the recent resignation of Joe Cas-
siano But the board took no action.
Chairman Terrell announced that.
the commission had just closed a deal
tor the fire department for seven new
horses. The horses range in age from
four to seven years at a cost of $1925
or $275 per horse.
Pearoe-Roblnson Undertaking Co
320 W Commerce St. Phones 2323
—SAP
Davy Crockett
HOUSTON AND GALVESTON
ELEGANT SLEEPERS
BEATS THEM ALLI
ED. SACHS City Ticket Agent Opposlte Monger
PURE ICE-PROMPT SERVICE if!
Both Phones 22.
Pure Distilled Artesian Water. Il
Ice Is Always Best.
ARTESIAN ICE CO. {
SUBSCRIPTION $5 A YEAR IN AD VANCE.
ed. A large number of his followers
and others are gathered today at Shi-
loh House. Mrs. Dowie and Judge
Dowie the prophet's wife and son
who are at Ben McDhu Michigan
have been notified and are expected at
Zion City today.
Judge Barnes who was at the bed-
side of Dowie is a member of Voll-
va's council but remained friendly to
Dowie believing him to be insane and
not responsible for his actions. Dowie’s
wife and sond hold the same view and
It is therefore believed though they
are estranged that they will attend
the funeral.
When Dowie Was Deposed.
Eighteen months ago Dowie began
the promotion of a second Zion City
in Mexico. While engaged in this un-
dertaking his health failed and he
went to Jamaica shortly before Christ-
mas 1905 for his health. While there
he suffered a stroke of paralysis from
which he never fully recovered. At
that time he appointed Wilbur Glenn
Voliva his first lieutenant and general
overseer of the church. A month af.
ter Voliva took charge in Zion City
he by power of attorney vested in hint
by Dowie had all the property be-
longing to the church transferred from
Dowie to Overseer Granger charging
extravagance and gross mismanage-
ment by Dowie. At the time the trans-
fer was made Voliva called all Zion-
ists to the tabernacle in Zion City and
denounced Dowie.
With the exception of less than 200
of his followers all the inhabitants of
Zion City chose Voliva as their future
leader and word was sent to Dowie in
Mexico that he had been deposed. He
immediately started for Chicago and
took the controversy to the courts for
settlement.
Fire Chief Wright who was present
at the meeting said the new horses
were much needed. He said that al-
though the additional horses would
now give the fire department 42 the
department always needed one or two
extra horses owing to many getting
hurt or crippled. He said that several
of the horses now in the department
were old and practically no good for
fire service. He said the horses unfit
for service in the fire department
could be used to advantage in either
the sanitary or street department.
DIED AT GALVESTON.
William Felder of this city receiv*
ed the sad news of the death of his
daughter Mrs. B. F. Felder which oc-
curred at Galveston March 8 after *
brief Illness.
Nothing so nice for a luncheon or
picnic as Argo Red Salmon sand-
wiches or salad. 15 cts. a can.
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