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ESTABLISHED 1881
GOLDEN STREAM
TLOWS TO THE U. S.
FROM ENGLAND
Over Twenty-Eight Million
Dollars Are Engaged for
Export.
GET A MILLION IN HAVANA
□littering Metal on the Way to
Relieve the Present Strin-
gency in Money.
Government to Turn Loose
Flood in the West When Se-
curities Are Deposited
at Subtreasury.
New York. Nov. 2—The engagement
of gold for import to the United
States necessitated by the recent pe-
riod of money stringency in this coun-
try is approaching the $30000000
mark. The announcement is made to-
day that the National City bank has
engaged a total of $1000000 in United
States gold coin in Havana for import;
that N. W. Harris & Co. of Boston
have engaged $lOOOOO in gold and that
George H. McFadden & Bros. of Bos-
ton. have $500000 in gold now en route
to the United States from Europe on
the steamer Lusitania. These sums
bring the total engagements up to this
time to $28150000.
Lazard Freres today also engaged
an additional $500000 gold in Eutope
for import. This brings the total thus
far engagements to $29150000. It is
raid today $500000 is now en route to
this country for George H. McFadden
& Bro. of Boston which will be sent
south to help the situation there.
The statement of the clearing
banks for the week shows the banks
hold $38838825 less than the require-
ments of the 25 per cent reserve rule.
This decrease in cash reserve is a sur-
p us of $37805525 as compared with
last week.
London' Nov. 2—The Bank of Eng-
land's stock of gold was further de-
pleted today by 220000 pounds in bar
gold and 109000 pounds in American
eagles which were withdrawn for ship-
ments to the United States.
Pittsburg Pa. Nov. 2.—The First
National bank of this city has made
arrangements for the importation of
$500000 in gold bullion and American
eagles from London.
This Is the first engagement of gold
for import ever made by a Pittsburg
institution. The gold is expected to
arrive here next week.
San Francisco Cal. Nov. 2. —The
United States government came to the
assistance of San Francisco banks yes.
terday. announcing through telegrams
p had taken steps to expedite the ship-
ment of coin to the Pacific coast. A
vast sum said to be in the neighbor-
hood of $10000000 is to be trans-
ferred by the government for the use
» of San Francisco savings banks. The
government coin in San Francisco is
$•.43000000.
The arrangement entered into be-
tween San Francisco savings banks
and the government provides that
fiich federal bonds as the local banks
have on deposit in New York may be
t irned into the sub-treasury there.
The New York sub treasury will then
wire the San Francisco sub-treasury
t. pay out the equivalent in coin. The
t of this money will be transferred
today.
New York Nov. 2 —The banks and
trust companies distributed yesterday
■ ; 5.000.000 representing stock divi-
f . uds and interest on bonds. This is
the largest distribution of its kind in
; : ' November in the history of the
country.
Of the $75000000 distributed. $45.
pou.OOO represented interest on bonds
i d $30000000 dividends declared by
I- i istrials steam railroad and street
railway companies.
New York Nov. 2. —The stock mar-
’ rt has reflected to some extent the
curbed financial conditions al-
ugh the undertone o. the market
1 indicated the return of confidence
in the working out of the measures
reward correction which have been
mm in operation. Some wreckage re-
i mined to be cleared away as the
! mnant of the convulsion which oc-
curred last week. Such after-effects
are always looked for at such times.
There was much closing out of ac-
counts that had been carried through
the accute stage of the trouble and
selling out of collateral in such cases
was conducted at a sacrifice. The mar-
ket was almost exclusively on a cash
basis but even at that disadvantage
there' was a large and important ab-
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jSan Antonia figM
KEY STRIKE IN
NEW ORLEANS
IS AT AN END
Union Votes to Permit Its
Members to Again Man
the Wires.
FIFTY MEN SEEK OLD JOBS
Find However That One-Half
of the Places in Offices
Are Filled.
Companies Prepare to Open All
Branch Offices While More
Men Are Being Sent to
Various Exchanges.
New Orleans La. Nov. 2. —Follow-
ing a meeting of the Commercial Tel-
egraphers’ Union here at which it
was voted to permit all operators to
go back to work who desired the offi-
cials of the union today announced sc
far as New Orleans is concerned the
telegraph strike is a thing of the
past.
During the past 24 hours 50 appli-
cations have been made to the two
telegraph companies but only about
half this number have been reinstat-
ed.
Prior to the meeting at which the
strike was virtually called off there
were many desertions from the ranks
of the -strikers and many of those
who are now applying for positions
find their old places already filled.
Preparations are now going on to
open all branch offices and more men
are being sent to work on the various
exchanges.
STORK WINS FGR A
TOWN A POSTOFFICE
Roosevelt Turns Willing Ear
When He Hears of Roeb-
ling’s Many Babies.
Roebling N. J. Nov. 2. —President
Roosevelt has granted this place a
postoffice on account of the wonderful
activity of the stork hereabouts. A
delegation of citizens called at the
White House and told him there had
been births in nine-tenths of 300 fam-
ilies since the place was established as
a manufacturing center two years
ago. Before the delegation got back
home Mr. Roosevelt abolished the ru-
ral free delivery in Roebling by ap-
pointing A. I. Major postmaster.
RAIN MEANS MONEY
TO CABBAGE RAISERS
Corpus Reports a Good Down-
pour Which Is Witness-
ed With Glee.
Special to The Light.
Corpus Christi Tex.. Nov. 2. —The
best rain of the year one and eiguty-
hundredths inches fell last night
and this morning. This means thous-
ands of dollars to the cabbage rais-
ers.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1907
HERE WITH THE GOODS
MAY FINE THE
STANDARD OIL
CO. $9120000
Huge Penalty in Prospect if the
Octopus Is Convicted After
New York Trial.
Special to The Light.
Rochester. N. Y.. Nov. 2.—Should
the Standard Oil company and Its sub-
sidiary company the Vacuum Oil of
Rochester be found guilty at the trial
this month of the charges of accept
ing rebates on the shipments of oil
from Olean N. Y. to points in Vermont
over the New York Central and Penn
sylvania railroads they will doubt-
less be fined by Federal Judge Hazel
the maximum on each count which
will aggregate $9120000. The two ac-
cused railroad companies may be fined
a like sum reckoned on the basis of
two indictments against them jointly
and two separately the latter con-
taining 188 counts in one and 40 in
the other.
These indictments based on alleged
violations of the Elkins law were
handed to Judge Hazel for the West-
ern district of New York by the fed-
eral grand jury sitting at Jamestown
which spent several weeks in consid-
ering the evidence brought against
the four corporations. The jury held
that the connecting lines in Vermont
were not parties to the alleged re-
bate arrangement. The indictments
are found in shipments of oil from
August 1904 to June 1905 228 cars
in all.
It is alleged that the lawful ship-
ping rate from Olean to Vermont
points was made up of two legally
filed schedules of rat»s by the rail-
road companies one from Olean to
Norwood. Vermont the other from
Norwood to point of destination. The
schedule filed with the interstate com-
merce commission showed the rate
from Olean to Burlington Vt„ to b-
-26 1-2 cents per 100. while the Stand-
ard Oil and Vacuum companies were
given a rate of 11 8-10. The inde
pendent dealer was therefore obliged
tn pay more than double the rate
charged the “oil trust.’’
In addition to these indictments
against the Standard Oil company
there are 144 other counts in indict-
ments returned here last year when
the New York Central was fined $15-
000 by Judge Hazel for giving rebates
on oil shipments. in the event
of guilt and the imposition of the max-
imum fine will bring the totgl which
the Standard Oil will be assessed up
to a round $12000000. Not taking into
account the Rochester indictments
the net result on conviction in respect
to the accounts returned in August
would be on maximum fines $12120
000 for the Standard and Cacuum and
DEAD LEGALLY
BUT ACTUALLY
HE IS ALIVE
John Litt Now Desires the
$50000 He Left Ten
Years Ago.
Chicago 111. Nov. 2.—John Litt f
Chicago called on the Kaue county
recorder at Geneva today and declared
he is not dead though he had been
declared legally dead 10 years ago.
He has been missing 23 years.
“I am much alive’’ said Mr. Litt. "I
don’t see how the report got started.’’
"It's a little late to deny it now"
the official observed.
Maintaining it was better late thau
never Mr. Litt inquired concerning
some property that had passed out
of his hands when the court declared
him dead. Its value exceeds $50000.
He secured some data and announced
he would return for more.
Mr. Litt who was a resident of El-
gin then disappeared mysteriously Li
1884. His wife and kinsfolk searched
for him high and low without any suc-
cess. Mrs. Litt died In Chicago in
1888. amj 10 years ago Litt having tail-
ed to appear his relatives took meas-
ures to have him declared dead legal-
ly and were successful. Then they di-
vided up the property. It is Mr. Litt's
intention to put in a claim for all his
property.
He gave no explanation for his long
absence.
$12120000 for the New York Central
and Pennsylvania a total of $24240-
000.
LOCAL WEATHER
I OCAL weather forecast for San
L Antonio and vicinity:
Showers tonight. Fair and cooler
tonight; Sunday fair.
The minimum temperature for the
12 hours ending at 8 o'clock in the
morning was 60 and the maximum for
12 hours previous to that time was 66.
The velocity of the wind at 8 o'clock
in the morning was 12 miles an hour.
The record or temperatures as ob-
served at the weather office today as
compared with a year ago follows:
1907 1906
4 a. m. 61 48
6 a- m 61 45
8 am 59 52
10 p. 64 67
12 noon 67 63
1 p. m 70 67
The general report on weather
throughout the country will be found
on page seven. '
500 IN PERIL
IN CHICAGO
HOTEL FIRE
Frightened Guests Crowd Ave-
nues of Escape When
Alarm Is Sounded.
Chicago. 111. Nov. 2. —Five hundred
guests of the Plaza hotel. North ave-
nue and Clark street fled from their
rooms in confusion early this morning
when fire broke out in the basement
of the hostelry. The building was
quickly filled with smoke and many of
the guests had difficulty in reaching
the street. About 100 men and women
lied down the fire escape to the first
floor from where they were assisted
by firemen.
The fire which started In the laun-
dry spread rapidly and a few minutes
after the alarm was sounded the en-
tile building was filled with smoke.
The hotel Is eight stories high and
has accommodations for about 1200
persons.
The guests most of them thinly
clad sought refuge in stores nearby.
Some of them had been slightly af-
fected by the smoke. About 40 women
becoming exhausted were carried
down ladders and fire escapes by fire-
men.
Arthur Hart the night clerk and
two bell boys who nearly lost their
lives in warning the guests of their
danger assisted many in reaching the
street. When the firemen reached the
building the lire escapes were crowd-
ed with frightened men and women.
Some of them jumped from the sec-
ond floor landings without waiting to
be taken down.
Several were severely bruised. Mrs.
N. E. Stanger the housekeeper was
overcome with smoke while warning
the guests and had to be carried out.
Attorney Wm. Wise who with his
wife and eight-year-old daughter occu-
pied rooms on the fourth floor be-
came separated from them in the con-
fusion. The attorney was nearly over-
come by smoke while looking for
them. The child suffering from
smoke was found partly exhaausted on
the third floor and was carried out by
firemen. Mrs. Wise also reached the
street safely.
More than 150 rescues were made
by firemen and policemen.
HOUSE FILES SCHEDULE.
Special to The Light.
Houston. Tex. Nov. 2. —The T W.
House bankrupt schedule is on file
with Referee Henry L. Benden. but
the list has not yet been made pub-
lic. A conference is being held be-
tween the directors and the referee In
regard to printing a list of Die deposit-
ors.
POLITICAL FIGHT
MAY LEAD TO DUEL
IN LOUISIANA
Don Caffery Challenges Lieu-
tenant Governor Sanders
to Fight.
LATTER IGNORES TRE DEFI
Friends Say to Accept Would
Disqualify Him in Race
for Governor.
Thereupon the Son of the Late
U. S. Senator Scourges Can-
didate for High Office in
Strong Terms.
New Orleans La. Nov. 2.—As a
climax to the series of political sensa-
tions of the past 24 hours Mr Donel-
son Caffery sob of the late United
States Senator Deoslson Caffery. Sr.
of Franklin St. Mary parish sent his
friends today to wait upon Lieutenant-
Governor J. Y. Sanders a candidate
for governor and demanded a writ-
ten retraction of certain statements
made by Sanders in his speech at
Jeanerette La. As a result Caffery
challenged Sanders to fight a duel.
Friends of Sanders declined to con-
sider or accept this challenge on tne
grounds that it would disqualify Sand-
ers from holding or running for of-
fice.
Caffery and Sanders have been po-
litically opposed to each other for
some time. Early in the current state
campaign Caffery became an ardent
supporter of Theodore S. Wilkinson
for governor and made his official
entry in the campaign one week ago
at Donaldsonville where he took the
stump in the Wilkinson campaign and
delivered his first speech. Charges
against the public record of Sanders
in this speech caused Sanders to re-
ply to it In his Jeanerette speech Tues-
day. It was to these references that
Mr. Caffery took exceptions result-
ing in his demand for retraction.
Caffery came to the city with
friends and is stopping at the St.
Charles hotel. Tonight he Issued the
following statement of the case :
"I brand Mr. Sanders as a deliber-
ate Har for his denial of the truth
and as a conscienceless coward for
tnsulting me and then shielding him-
self from the consequences by hiding
behind the robes of the office he is
holding and the shadow of the one he
is seeking.
(Signed)
DONELSON CAFFERY.
NEGRO SUCCUMBS
TO HIS INJURIES
James Driver Fails to Survive
Wounds Received in Five
Story Fall.
James Driver the negro who was
injured in an accident in the new Con-
roy building on Alamo street uied
this morning. The negro was taking a
heavy steel beam to the top of the
building when through some means
the beam became Jammed and the ele-
vator car on which he was riding fell
five stories to the ground. Both of
the victim's legs were broken and he
received internal Injuries that caused
his death.
LYNCH TWO NEGROES
NEAR ALABAMA TOWN
First Idea Was to Burn Them
at Stake but Other
Counsel Prevails.
Mobile Ala.. Nov. 2—Abe Sumroll
and Hank Lucas negroes were lynch-
ed some time this morning at Vinegar
Bend Ala. near here.
Stunroll murdered Julio Boaz a
young Cuban on Monday night last
while he was trying to arrest him
for larceny. Lucas was protecting
Sumroll from the officers of the law
and a posse of citizens.
The bodies were found hanging to
telegraph poles north of town by
early risers. Sumroll s body was a
mile away from that of Lucas bift
both were hanging to poles.
It was at first decided to burn the
negroes at the stake but wiser heads
prevailed.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EIGHT MILLION
DOLLARS ASKED
OY STATE FROM
OIL COMPANY
Attorney General Completes
Petitions Against Alleged
Standard Concerns.
BEAUMONT CO. UNDER FIRE
Security of That City and Re-
fiinery at Corsican Objects
of State’s Wrath.
BAILEY MAY BE WITNESS
JUNIOR SENATOR FROM TEXAS
DREW UP THE CHARTER FOR
ONE CONCERN AND FOR j
THAT REASON HE WILL |
LIKELY BE SUMMONED
TO APPEAR AND
TESTIFY.
Special to The Light
Austin Tex. Nov. 2.—The attorney
general has practically completed the
anti-trust petitions of the state against
the Security Oil company of Beau-
. mont and the Corsicana Refinery for
ouster from the state for alleged viola-
tions of the anti-trust laws alleging
i that these two corporations are sub-
sidiaries of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey. These two suits will
likely be filed this evening In the dis-
trict court.
The state alleges that the Corsicana
-efinery was in operation when the act
of 1899 was enacted and that it will
come under this act for penalties up
to the time the act of 1903 was passed
and will come under that act to date.
The maximum penalties against this
concern will aggregate $5963550 be-
! ing $5OOO per day under the act of
1899 and $5O per day under the act of
1903.
The Security Oil company was not
termed until 1902 iherefore so far as
penalties are concerned the act of
1899 will operate only one year against
that concern as to penalties while the
act of 1903 will affect it up to the plea-
ent time. The total penalties in tnu
suit will amount to about $23a8au0.
The attorney general will be assist-
ed in the prosecution of these suits
by District Attorney J. R. Hamilton of
this county. County Attorney John
Brady and also by the law firm ol
Gregory Batt® & Brooks.
It is more than likely that Senator
Bailey will be summoned as a witness
fur the state In the suit against the
Security Oil company as he drew up
the charter of that corporation.
The suits are to be filed in the Fifty-
third district court and will come up
at the January term.
Special to The Light.
Austin. Tex. Nov. 2 —A motion lor
a rehearing was filed today by the Wa-
ters-Pierce Oil company in the receiv-
ership case which was affirmed tn the
court of civil appeals a few days ago.
Fourteen assignments of error ar? as-
serted by the appellant corporation.
Eight law firms and 18 lawyers are
Interested in filing the motion.
• -I
TAFT GUEST OF VETS. •
Program Will Continue for a Week or
More.
Manila. P. L Nov. 2. —Secretary*
Taft is being entertained by the veter-
ans of the late war. The program of
special engagements will continue
througout the nekt week but several
days will be devoted to a discussion of
important insular affairs with Gov-
ernor-General Smith and the Phill*
pine commissioners. A
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