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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 2, 1910.
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Joske's Eighteenth 5emi=annual
Clearance Sale and Great White Fair!
The Greatest of All January Sales===the Premier Value-giving Event of All the South
Opens Next Wednesday, January
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and will continue through Monday, January 17
$
The sale lias created a sensation year after year, and we are determined that this, our
Eighteenth Semi-annual Sale, shall be bigger and better than ever. It will mark a new
epoch in value-giving. It will stand in a sphere all its own.
Store Closed All Day Tuesday, Jan. 4, to Prepare for this Big Event
See Tuesday's Express for a specific list of the extraordinary values that rule
Sale Starts Wednesday at 8:00 A. M.
Help Wanted
in All Departments—Apply
Superintendent's Office, Fourth Floor
n
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help Wanted
Only l:xperience«J, Competent People
Need Apply
Superintendent's Office, Fourth Floor
FEW AMERICANS ARE
WITH ESTRADA'S ARMY
ONLY SIX WENT FROM UNITED
STATES TO JOIN INSURGENTS.
All Have Liven a <»ood Account of
Themselves — (iabriel Conrad of
Louisiana Finds Reinforce-
ments in Nick of Time.
BLUE FIELDS. Nicaragua. Dec. iio (via
New Orleans, La., Jan. 1> -Of real Ameri-
cans there have been scarcely a handful
1 n the ranks of the provisionals so far
and these have acquitted themselves with
credit.
Many in the fight have claimed Ameri-
can citizenship for the protection it at
fords, but investigation has shown that
this claim is too remote t-» be seriously
considered.
SIX COME FROM UNITED STATES.
. So far as at present ascertained there
were out six who came from the United
States to Bluefields lor the purpose of
aiding the revolt against Zelaya. Thes.e
were Ralph Lees of New Orleans.
Wat hew Kinnegaa of Denver, a Philip-
pine veteran; G. K. Fowler of Texas and
also late of the Philippines; Vat Dolan,
'Who hails, many vears ago. from
Nebraska; Phil t 'raven, a trick pistol
'shot, who for fifteen years was a dem-
onstrator for one >f the world's best
%nown arms manufacturers, and Oahricl
Conrad of New Iberia, La., who has a
Jrnedal for aiding the English j.tr Inst the
lioers, and who before that chased the
''Apache Kid" witli the Western regu-
lars some twelve or fifteen years ago.
To these may b- added James Brans-
yield, said to have been a member n: 111»
Panama constabulary, and tin onl\ to-
,elgner who was wounded at Recic, ;uid
Progress Leads to Perfection
Two and one-fou. h
times as much light for
the same rrronev by using
Tungsten Lamps
MARTIN WRIGHT
ELRCTmCAL CONTRACTOR
m m St. Mary's Street
James Edwards, nn American, who has
been so long in Central America, that ho
pronounces the letter "a" a.- though it
were "<>, the .same being a distinguish-
ing mark in the various methods of hand-
ling the English language on this coast.
Bransfield is of the opinion that he was.
shot first by excited natives among his
own men, but at the hospital established
by Captain Shipley where Bransfield was
cared for, it is believed from the nature
of Ills wounds that he was in the line of
a small caliber automatic. Three flesh
wounds, all close together, in his right
leg, seemingly indicate that he stood in
the line of the gun's sweep and ret r ived
three bullets before the sweep of the
gun passed him.
Ilis own idea is that he aws shot acci-
dentally from behind and that the other
wound;' were leeched, curiously in the
same place, from Zelayans. However
that may be. he now has the best cot in
the hospital and, by lying on his left side.
i:> able to play endless solitaire with a
pack of cards furnished by Finnegan.
ENEMIES NOT .HijOODTILIK8TY.
While the combat generally seems to
have been, proportionately to the men en-
! gaged, one of the most bloody in history,
, scattered squads of enemies met each
' other without engaging. Bransfield, for
1 instance, was passed by a number of
Zelayans, who set-mod content. to spare
liis life. seeing that he was incapacitated.
"Dami agua," pleaded Bransfleid, whose
wounds made him feverish for water, to
one of the Zelayans.
"Para uno peso," said the Zelayan,
who wanted the money for the food it
would buy som< time.
The peso wao not forthcoming, nor was
tlie. water as a consequence, but it is to
be n«»ted that the Zelayan did not lob the
helpless man.
As for Finnegan, he has been in the
Philippines. Small blue eves that show
keenness of sight, si short-cropped partly
gray mustach* , shoulders like a wrestler,
and a iinuth that Is grim when h<
smile- that's Finncgaii His story is
simple, lb* lugged a liflc with some fiftv
natives through eight miles of knee-deep
blue clay, bushes, over fallen trees and
under them, flea-bitten, ant-bitten, mos-
quito-bitten. food less and tired, only to
miss the battle. Th" native guide mistook
a creek running into the Mho. a very
easy error, and missed the fight, which
was along the Mi e When night fell, in
| retracing their si- is. Finnegan and the
j others became sop., in the jungle.
The Denver adventurer, however, cap-
I tured a Zelayan who in is starving eon-
I dition was glad t-> be ;i prisoner, and
made a guide of him back to the base
at Kama The Zelayan i.-; a good Estrada
n an now. and Finnegan ha* promised to
get him a Job. They are the best of
friends.
HAS NEVER KILLED A MAN.
Craven is pr'maturely gray, but his eye
is an anachronism. It is young and shoots
sparks. A pistol salesman for years it
was his business to show what could be
dou» with the short arm, from shooting
off the ashes of a cigar to doing other
tricks common to the stage By prefer-
ence be uses a big six-shooter more
common a generation ago than now. He
was given charge of a rapld-flrer, but
being unable to keep the bearers of the
various parts, barrel, tripod and cart-
ridges, anywhere near each other, lie
gave up tlie artillery job and went to
work with his pistol. It is related to his
<:• • iit that although he handled this arm
with an expert nees seldom seen he never
killed his man. Most, of them he shot in
the trigger hand, as generally that was
all that was visible above the cover taken.
"M >• life work has been the handling of
pistols," said Craven before going to the
front. "I can do all the tricks but I
don't believe too much in myself. A
man's arm and eve arc good with a tar-
get; shooting at a man who is gunnlnp
for V"U ii h different thing, f don't want
to kill anyone, but I do want to help
these people because I think they need if. |
If 1 prove true to Ijprget form 1 won t
have to. These poor Indians tliHt Zelavv
bar sent out onlv want peace; they are
forced into the ilgh/t and I don't want to
take Ihelr lives. Zc!aya personally would
be a different matter."
Craven does not use the trigger of his
pistol, but shoots on the draw from
bis hip bv snapping back the hammer.
This acounts for his use of the old-stylo
gun, the big hammer of which lends itfcdf
to the manipulation.
Lees and Dolan came down together,
Lees because he saw a chance under a
new government of working out a mining
claim, and Dolan, ex-cowboy and ex-
sailor, because nothing better was engag-
ing his attention at the time. Iyes and
Dolan became separated during the fight,
Dolan attaching himself to Craven, with
whom he stayed through thick and thin,
while Lees fell in with natives, tiring his
rifle with an accuracy taught him years
ago at the University ot Alabama, /it
which school he was captain of his com-
pany of cadets.
FOWLER A SOLDIERLY FIGURE.
Conrad and Fowler are two of the most
soldierly figures who joined the Estrada
f orces. Both had been fighting in the
Philippines and went into the brush with-
out. illusions. Both were in charge of
quick-firers, and according to General
chamorro, handled them with a quick
skill which went far in attaining victory.
In this connection it may be stated, that
according to Dr. Pugh, surgeon of .ne
V. S. S. Des Moines, practically every
wound dressed in the American hospital
among the first batch of Zelayan wound-
ed brothers was due to automatic gun
fire-
Conrad, however, has another distinc-
tion. and a greater otic, for it was he
who acted as General Chamo^ro's mes
senger to General Mena, who is admitted
everywhere to have turned impending
defeat into victory for the provisionals.
As. lias been cabled, and as is now ad-
mitted by Estrada. Chamorro. Fornns-
Dlaz, Matuty and others, the fighting of
December 20 and 21 had been indecisive.
The Zelayans had been driven into their
main entrenchments at Recreo, on the
Rio Mico, where their resistance was of
a desperation scarcely Justified by then
cause, as viewed from the east coast.
However, they were battling in self-oe-
fense, which probably explained that. Me-
na. otherwise known as "Montana. Tigre''
(Mountain IJoni. with men bad been
sent from a point down the Renin River
to cut off retreat to the west. As
planned, on the first day he captured
Tatumbla Hill and the telegraph station
there, on the next and final day of the
battle, however, he encountered roads, or
the lack of them, which had not been
counted on. His arrival in the rear of
Itecreo, therefore, was delayed, and the
other generals, outnumbered, were mere-
ly abb* to hold their own.
'"Find Mena and tell him we are beaten
unless he can get here within two hours,
lie can't be more than a mile or two in
the bush now," said General Chamorro to
Conrad.
CONRAD FINDS.' MENA.
In some way Conrad forced his way
through the jungle with its bogs and
tough interlaced vines and trees. His
message threw Mena and his men into a
frenzy of energy. Brush which it had
been deemed necessarry to cut was ig-
nored- the men simply swarmed over it.
They were neatly exhausted and per-
spiring from every pore when the sight
oi Recreo lent them fresh energy.
Thov gave vent to their cry. ' Viva Es-
trada!" and swept up the hills, and from
the thickets came the answering cry of
the other companies. This assault quick-
ly brought the battle to a close. Finding
themselves surrounded, Gonzales and his
men surrendered.
Chamorro left the boat at Bluefields to-
day with his arm about Conrad's broad
shoulders, and later told the story.
Surgeon Pugh of the Des Moines was
also In the. limelight for a short period
yesterday, having been challenged to a
duel by a local Spanish physician. The
Spaniard, who had been celebrating the
victory rather freely, passed the guard on
duty at the hospital and began convers-
ing with patients whom Dr. Pugh de-
sired should remain undisturbed. Pugh,
who did not know the visitor's Identity,
requested him to keep quiet, but sh
neither understood I he other's language,
the intruder continued talking, where-
upon Dr. Pugh gently but firmly ejected
him from the hospital I/iter Pugh was
waited on by the Spaniard's seconds, who
formally proposed a duel, l-'ugh, still
ignorant of tho offended man's identity,
declared thai lie was bu-y operating at
the time, but when he had finished he
"woubl take pleasure in knocking the
Spaniard's ..cad off."
TMK SPANIARD APOLOGIZES.
Today the matter was eleared up by the
Spania rd's apologizing.
Dr. Pugh's conduct throughout the In-
cident is admitted to have been exem-
plary. he having shown self-restraint,
and the gentleness with which lie ejected
the intruder probably prevented the
death of some patient , which excitement
would have brought on
Without exception the Americans men-
tioned in this dispatch declare tuat the
Nicaragua!) natives have hi them the
making of soldiers the peer of any.
They can live ..n almost nothing, and
they can c.irr> the burdens of a Chinese
coolie througn a country which would put
the average roolle out of commission.
And they do not flinch at hand to hand
combats.
Greater discipline In concerted move-
ments and rifle practice are all that is
needed. Ah it is they are prone to over-
I excitement an l consequent had shooting.
To the fact that, most of the firing was
done at close range when they ran into
each other in the hru.% is due the large
j number of casualties reported-H00 dead
and h 11 equal number of wounded on
both sides.
-
Highland Park.
On a hill, gets the first Gulf breezes.
Clean, pure.
places for the
body.
onvenience of the student
PROGRAM FOR NIT GROWERS
Meeting of Texas Association Will Be
Held at Henderson January 12 and
13—Promt urns Total $20.
Special Telegram to The Express.
COLT.EOK STATION. Tex.. Jan. 1. -
Prof. E. J. Kyle of the horticultural de-
partment of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College «f Texas has given out.
the following program for the midwinter
meeting - f the Texas Nut Growers Asso-
ciation, which is to be held at Henderson
January 1M and 12:
"The* Best Si/.e and Shape of the Pecan
For the Market." H. P. At water, Hous-
ton; "My Experience in Working the
Pecan 011 Hickory." Frank B. Ouinn,
Rusk, and Dr. V. II. < 'ollins, Jacksonville;
"Top Working the Pecan and Hickory,"
G. II. Biicknion, College Station; paper-
on some timely subject of nut culture,
Charles L. 1M wards. Dallas, "The Nut
Trees a«; Shades and Ornamentals," H.
B. Beck, Austin; the question box. con-
ducted by K. \\\ Kirkpatrick. McKlnney.
There will be exhibits of pecans, twelve
nuts to constitute an exhibit, and iae
association would like to have curiosities
in pecans or other nuts exhibited. The
following is the premium list:
Best commercial pecan, first $3; second,
$1.60. Best ne* pecan. 18, Boat shelling
pecan, first. $3; second. $1.50. Beat gen-
eral collection of oceans, first, sec-
ond, $n. Total premium list, $20.
It is expect "d there will be a large at-
tendance 111 the meeting. The Texas Nut
Growers Association is one of the sec-
tk . < of the Texas Farmers Congress,
l'uts in New Trees at A. and M.
Special Telegram to The Express.
COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Jan. 1.-
Augnst Thompson, florist at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College of Tex-
as. has within tho past few weeks nut
out about 800 trees on I he college campus.
These are oak*, and they have been so
distributed as to beautify the grounds.
The trees are transplanted from the
woods nearby, and ho far they have with-
stood the cold spell which struck the
State recently. Mr. Thompson has
charge of tho walks at. tho college, and
haa recently been putting 111 n» w graveled
PROGRAM FOR HORTICULTURISTS
Association Will Meet With Nut (.row-
ers at Hcrierson.
Special Telegram to The Express.
COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Jan. 1.—
E. J. Kyle, professor of horticulture of
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas, who is secretary of the Texas
State Horticultural Society, has given
out the following program for the horti-
< ulturists, to be rendered at the time
of the joint winter meeting with Die
Texas N'tt Growers Association at Hen-
derson January 12 and 13:
Wednesday, January ys, at 2 o'clock
p. ni.: Address of welcome, Eugene
Alford, H. nderson; response, H. T. Mll-
ner, president A. & M. < allege of Texas.
"Asparagus Culture in East Texas," J.
T. Twohig. Billiard. "Spraying the Peach
Orchard," S. J. Verhalen, Marshall. "The
Most Important Factors in Successful
Vegetable Growing." E. N. Dlckerson,
Henderson. "Growing Strawberries for
the Market," Homer Peck. Sulphur
Springs. "Th«- Latest Improved Methods
In Tomato and Potato Growing," C. D.
Jarrett, Jacksonville.
Wednesday at 7:;'.o o'clock p. tn.: "The
Status of the peach Situation," Sam H.
Dixon, Austin; J. F. Kneed. Tyler, and
II. Ness, College Station. Address. Pal
K. None, Commissioner of Agriculture,
/• 11st in.
Thursday at '1 o'clock p. m.: "Grow-
ing the Satsunia for Home I "so in Cen-
ti I and East Texas." I. P Gill. l«cague
Cir "The Proper Way to Market Vege-
table Crops," B. E. Houston, Hender-
son. "Some ImpoHat Experiments for
the Troupe Station J. L Welch. Troupe.
"Cropping the orchard. Mr. Porter, Ilen-
< ersuii. The question box, conducted by
J S Kerr. Sherman.
The following v. ill be the premiums
fo- exhibits of fruits and vegetable*:
Firs' best collection of vegetables,
second ocst collection of vegetables,
best . \hlblt cabbage and cauliflower
• two heads each). $1; best exhibit lettuce
and beets, $1; first iv-st general collection
< itrus fruits, $"» second best general col-
lection citrus 'mils. exhibit
Satsunia orange . $1; best exhibit Dugat
oranges, $1: best exhibit pomelos, Si;
first best display home canned good",
$.<: second best display home canned
goods, best display of sirup, ?:\
New Tern Begins Wednesday.
Special i#elegratn to The Express.
COLLEGE STATION. Tex., Jan. 1.-
The Winter term of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas will open
next Wednesday, and by Monday and
Tuesday the students will start back to
College Station to take up tlu work they
left off when they wont home for the
holidays. It is expected there will be
quite a number of new students tu start
in with the new year.
Uraduale Has 2000-acre Farm.
Special Telegram to The Express.
COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Jan. 1.
John Sharp Williams Jr.. son of the Sen-
ator-elect from Mississippi, Is spending
his holidays at Bryan and College Sta-
tion. Mr. Williams graduated from the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas in agriculture, June, 11W». He took
the full four years' agricultural course,
and since leaving school he has had
charge of a farm of nearly 1WOO acres in
Mississippi.
Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
Marriages in New York Increase.
NRW YOhK. .Ian 1 There were •tflr.fin
marriages hi this city during 1000, an ex
COS* oi over 1908
Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
BAT MUST <i0
IF REFORM IS
TO BE SECURED
Continued I'roin Page One.
culty expressed the rancor of their hearts
while undergoing corporal punishment.
Some have said that the blow to their
sersibllities was more piercing and pain-
ful than tlie cut of the lash to their bodies,
and that an abnormal, fiendish yearning
for Vengeance, amounting in power to a
consuming passion, had obessed them.
Men of pride and respectability—and
many men of such virtues reach the pen-
itentiary are invariably the victim.' of
i this kind of recoil lug shock under the
j abuse of the strap If men with bono;'.
' they are sometimes disposed to suiien-
j der It far the gratification of a thirst for
I rexenge, and yield themselves wantonly
j to the influence of whatever impulse their
j perverted Judgments may deem best to
j effect this end. If of a low order of sen-
i sensibilities, the animal instincts al-
| ready dominant In their natures offer a
I fertile culture for tlie propogatlon of ton-
! dencies and impulses of deeper depraviiv.
i Pa* M.eh reasoi'H there can be a.* reform
if the strap be the reliance « f the prison
j f >•• oiidienee to its Miles. The. «.*»•;;» acal
j any sijrressfui *ae oy of objective ref«.raia-
tion of convicts are incomnattloe quanti-
ties and represent opposite poles of an-
tagonistic splices of social a uivity. One
involves the cbarltaMe Ideas that intelli-
gence, learning, moral pulchritude and
freedom can well afford to entertain with
respect to Ignorance, Illiteracy, turpitude
and enforced restraint; the other typifies
the sordid, beastial preempts of barbar-
ism and Ignores the principles of that so-
cial "noblesse oblige." which education,
refinement and better opportunities have
Imposed upon those who have created pen-
itentiaries for the benefit uot the har-
rnssiuent of offender., less fortunate in
the early training and habits of self-re-
straint necessary to develop good citizen-
ship and right living.
RI SK MAY EMERGE.
The underkeeper at Rusk is favorably
impressed with the disciplinary effect of
studied use of corrective means that are
less brutal and brutalizing than the strap,
and tuere in keeping with the basic policy
of kind, firm forbearance toward the
criminal wards of the State, which under-
lies the best achievement in prison man-
agement throughout the United States and
Europe today. Such means require niorr
time, to be sure, but in the long run they
are really quicker in substantial effect
because that which is gained is perma-
nent. An unruly convict, can be flogged
Into flogged, sullen submission, it Is true,
but nothing has been gained to the prison
or to the convict but the pecuniary value
of the labor which the strap compels from
him. Flogging gets work but does not
get tractahlllty from within, as It tends
only to harden and destroy the emotions
to which one must appeal to secure will-
lug submission to authority. The StQto
surely Is rich enough to bear the loss of
>\ few days' work, if by taking more time
It can benefit and not degrade the con-
vict. Yet It has not always been disposed
to do this.
RAILWAY MEN TO HE REWARDED.
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Announces Plan.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Jan. L The Phil-
adelphia Rapid Transit Company has de-
cided to give $500 free insurance to each
of its employes and to give a pension of
$'J0 a month to each employe 63 years of
age and twenty-five years in its service.
On July 4. 1910. the wages of motormeii
and conductors, which has been "2 cents
an hour, will be increased to 23 cents.
These wages will be increased 1 cent an
hour every two years until the maximum
of cents an hour is reached. A similar
Increase will be granted employes of tho
elevated road. The maximum for motor-
men on the latter line will be 28 cents au
hoti r.
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Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
Hammerstcin May Enter Metropolitan.
NEW YORK. Jan. J. Arthur Hamuier-
stein said last night that negotiations are
under way between his father, Oscar, and
the Metropolitan onera Company, whereby
It might be possible for Mr. 11aniniersteiii
to join the directorate of the Metropolitan
and become the head of Its French opera
force.
Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
Bartlett <5 Ranney civil and structural
engineers. F Bhlg.. old phone 2149.
llappy New Year. Ciarko Printing Co.
Donald R. Jacob, Architect.
Riverside Building.
Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
Lets Contract for 100,000 Ties.
Special Telegram to The Express.
RAYMONDVILLE, Tex., Jan. 1,—One
of the largest contracts made in this
section for mesquite lies was let by the
San Antonio & Lio Grande Valley Kail-
way, calling for 100,000 ties to be used in
the construction of their road from
Chaphi to Laconla. thence to Falfurria.;,
where it is .supposed to connect with the
San Antonio & Aransas* Pass Railway.
Happy New Year. Clarke Printing Co.
mmm
In disorders and diseases
of children drugs seldom do
good and often do harm.
Careful feeding and bath*
ing are the babies' remedies.
Scott's Emulsion
is the food-medicine that not
only nourishes them most,
but also regulates their di-
gestion. It is a wonderful
tonic for children of all ages.
They rapidly gain weight and
health on small doses
AU
Drogftstc
Rf»nH 10r., nanns of papT and thia ail. for our
haarittfnl 8artn*a Bank and ObiM'a Sketch-
Book. Bach bank oontalnaa Good Luck Panny.
SCOTT A BOWNE. 409 Purl St. N. T.
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