The Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 262, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 19, 1906 Page: 1 of 14
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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Often slip* away from you because you did nnt
have the gold to exchange for the opportunity.
Do not repeat such a mistake, but keep a re-
serve in
WOODS NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO.
Ulailji
Homestead Plug Cocks
HIGH PRESSURE
F. W. Heitmann Co.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
VOLUME XLI.-NO. 262.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1906.--FOURTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
Parties going abroad supplied with Letters of Credit
or Travelers Cheques, payable in any city.
The Lockwood National Bank
201 Commerce Street,
SflN ANTONIO, TEXAS
E. B. Chandler
MONEY TO LOAN
Real Estite For Sale
102 EAST CROCKETT STREET
T. C. FROST,
President.
J. T. WOODHULL,
Vice President.
NED MclLHENNY,
Cashier.
Frost National Bank
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
cap4tua:Painuds $600,000.00
Exchange Drawn on Principal Cities in Europe and Mexico. Mexican
Money Bought and Sold.
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
M $250,000. Undivided profits $200,000
We have erected for the safety and convenience of our customers the best
burglar and fire proof vaults in the South. Business solicited.
LADY
CUSTOMERS RECEIVE SPECIAL-
CONSIDERATION.
West Texas Bank & Trust Co.
4 Per Cent on Savings
Capital and Surplus $206,000.00
OUR WORK IS BEST
MT>* " BECAUSE
are three specialists, each one doing that
saN work in which he is most proficient.
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DALLAS and Return
On sale Sept. 20. Limit Sept. 24.
$11.45
Home Visitors' Rates North & East
On Sale Oct. 19 only. Limit 30 days.
ASK US ABOUT THEIYI
Summer excursion tickets all this month.
City Office, 122 Alamo Plaza J. W. DALEY, P. & T. A.
SHOT THROUGH HER BODY.
When a Woman Attempted Suicide a
Man in the Room Was Injured.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 18.—"Don't
anybody try to stop me now, for if he
does he will get killed."
As she uttered this warning, Mrs. Lucy
Baney of 29 South James Street, West
Side, drew a revolver from under her
apron and shot herself through the
breast. She was sittting in her home and
in the room at the time were her hus-
band, Benjamin Baney, her sister, Emma
McLaughlin, and Frank Devereaux. The
bullet penetrated her left lung, came out
on the left side of her back and struck
Devereaux, who was sitting across the
room, in the right knee.
After temporary treatment by Dr. A. J.
Gannon, police surgeon, Mrs. Baney was
taken to St. Margaret's Hospital. Her
condition was considered dangerous last
night.
Mrs. Baney would give no reason for
attempting trt kill herself except to say
that she was "tired of living longer."
Her husband is a cattle driver at the Ar-
mour packing plant.
Devenfcaux's injuries are slight. The
ball glanced from his kneecap. Mr* lives
at 16V2 South First Street, West Side.
PRIZE HAT TO MRS. ROOSEVELT.
A Chicago Woman Sent the "Blue
Bell" Creation to Washington.
CHICAGO, TU., Sept. 18.—Miss Nellie
Lewis, the Kansas girl who won first
prize for the prettiest hat exhibited at
the recent convention of the National
Milliners' Association, has sent the hat
direct to the White House. By the night
mail went a letter to the President stat-
ing that Mrs. Roosevelt might have the
hat, whether the President pays for it
or not. The hat is known as the "Blue
Bell."
"The President Is so diplomatic he'll
know exactly what to do," she confided.
"Anyone can see that from the way he
butted in—I mean intervened—in that
Cuban scrap—I mean affair. course
if he insists on paying for the hat I'm
not going to be peevish."
STOPS SELLING BANDIT NOVELS.
Brown News Company of St. Louis
Issues Reform Order.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 18.—T. C. Brown,
general manager of the Brown News
Company, has sent out a general order
to all of the stands of the company to
discontinue the sale of all cheap litera-
ture that has a tendency to make heroes
of criminals. The order reads that all of
the Jesse James, Younger Brothers and
Dal ton Brothers books should be sent in
immediately. It is expected that this
move will aid the other news companies
in making the same reform.
TO MEET IN NASHVILLE.
Governor Cox Calls Convention of
Members of Southern Immigra-
tion and Quarantine Conference.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. lS.-Gov-
ernor John I. Cox, chairman of the
Southern Immigration and Quarantine
Conference, today issued a call for that
body to convene in this city November
VI, next, for its second annual meet-
ing. Governors, members of Congress,
State Commissioners of Agriculture and
Immigration, State Superintendents of
Education and Mayors of cities are ex-
officio members, and Governors, rail-
road systems, State agricultural, mechan-
ical or technical schools and commercial
or business organizations are entitled
to appoint delegates.
Governor Cox has written to President
Roosevelt, inviting him to attend and
requesting that he invite participation by
the representatives to his Government
from Great Britain, France, Germany,
Russia, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Swe-
den and the Netherlands.
Ways and means for obtaining a desir-
able class of Immigrants for the South
was one of the subjects under considera-
tion.
HORSE FELL ON HER.
Woman Near Hugo Seriously Injured
in Accident.
Special Telegram to The Express.
SAN MARCOS, Tex., Sept. 18.—1This
morning, as Mrs. Zack Williamson of
Hugo, ten miles from here, was mount-
ing a horse, the animal reared and fell
upon her, resulting in the breaking of
her colar bone, mashing her hand and
otherwise seriously injuring her. She is
well known here. Reports over the
phone are to the effect that the lady
is suffering intensely, but her injuries
are not considered necesesarily fatal.
Hotel Iturbide,
Fronting Main Plaza.
Durango, Mexico.
BEST ROOMS IN THE CITY.
French and American Cuisine—Rates
the most reasonable.
AUGUSTIN CHARPENEL, Prop.
Dr. RABB'S
Electrical Sanitarium
Complete for the treatment of Rheu-
matism. Paralysis, all Nervous Dis-
eases, Cancers by the X-Ray, General
Debility. Etc.
Rooms 405, 406, 407, Moore Building.
COMMISSION
MAKES PUBLIC
ITS OPINION
Construes Interstate Commerce
Act and Provides General Rules
Applying to Joint Act.
INTRICATE SCHEME
IS FULLY EXPLAINED
Payment for Transportation Most Be
Made in Money—Notice of Thirty
Days Required Before Change of
Rate — Other Provisions.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IS.—in an opin-
ion rendered Sep;. 15 and made public to-
day, the. Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion takes important action in construing
the application of the new railroad rate
law and providing general rules applying
to joint tariff rates of new lines and to
commutation, mileage and excursion
rates. The decision in full is as follows:
I he Interstate Commerce Commission,
in answer to numerous inquiries from
railroad officials and other interested
persons and for the purpose of giving
administrative construction to certain
provisions of the amended act to regu-
late the commerce, which became effec-
tive on the. 28th of August, 1906, an-
nounces the following rules:
"Nothing but money can be lawfully
received or accepted in payment for
transportation subject to the act. whether
ot passengers or property, it being the
oi,:nion of the Commission that the pro-
hibition against charging or collecting a
greater or less nr different compensation
than the established rates in effect at
the time precludes the acceptance of
services, property or other payment in
lieu of the amount of money specified in
the published scheduled.
Notice of
Changes in Rates*
"Where two or more ronneettng ear-
tiers establish a joint rate which is less
or greater than 'he sum of their local
rates, such joint rate is a change of
rates, and requires a notice of thirty
days. In such "ases the joint rate, when
duly established and in force, becomes
the only lawful rate fo rthrough trans-
portation.
Excursion for
New Roads.
"In new lines of road. including
tranches and ex ension of existing rouds
individual rates may be established iri
the first instance and also joint rates to
and from points on such new line without
notice, on posting a tariff of such rates
and filing the same with the Commission.
"Tt is the opinion of the Commission
that the provisions of the amendment of
the sixth section, in relation to the pu-
Iishing, filing end posting of tariffs
apply to the mil -age, excursion and com-
mutation rates authorized bv the twenty-
second section. Such a rate, when first
established or offered, is held to be a
controlling of rates, which requires a
notice of thirty days.
"No reason appears why this notice
should not be given in the case of mile-
t.ge rates, which, like ordinary passenger
rates, are established for an indefinite
period and appear to be a matter of
permanent poli.-v. Strictly excursion
rates, however, covering a named and
limited period. «re of a different char-
acter in this regard and may properly be
established on much shorter notice.
"To avoid the necessity for special ap-
planation in of this kind, the Com-
mission has made a general order fixing
time of notice of round trip excursion
rates and carriers may govern them-
selves accordingly.
"Rates for excursions limited to a
designated period of not mom than three
days may be established without further
netice upon posting a tariff one day in
advance in two public and conspicuous
places in the waiting room of each sta-
ler where tickets for such excursion are
to be sold rind mailing a copy thereof to
th*1 Commission.
"Rates for an excursion limited to a
designated period of more than three
days and not more than thirty days may
be established upon a notice of three
e.ays, in place of the thirty days' notice
otherwise required by the amended sixth
section.
"Rates for an excursion limited to a
designated period exceeding thirty days
will require the statutory notice, unless
shorter time is allowed in special cases
by the Commission."
REGULATIONS OF
MEAT INSPECTION
LAW ANNOUNCED
Secretary Wilson Issaes Circular
Describing Products Coming
Within Scope of the Act.
EIGHT AMENDMENTS
COVEE TRANSPORTATION
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Secretary
Wilson today promulgated the regula-
tion under the. new meat inspection law
governing the transportation of meat in
interstate and foreign commerce.
There are eight amendments to the
regulations already in force and have to
do with interstate transportation; inspect-
ed meats and products; meats offered
for transportation by fanners and the
restrictions upon common carriers in cer-
tain cases.
The new regulations are embraced in a
six-page circular, which dscribes the
products coming* within their scope as
carcasses, parts of p&icasses ?*nd meat
food products of c&tt.'e, sheep, swine
anel goats.
A "meat food product" is held to be
an5 article intended for human consump-
tion which is derived or prepared from
any portion of the carcass of cattle,
swine, sh< ep or goats. 11 is expressly
declared however, that a mixture eif
which meat is an ingredient will not be
considered a food product unless the meat
contained therein is a definite and consid-
erable portion of said mixture.
"But," it says, "when such a mixture
is prepared in an establishment where In-
spection is maintained, the sanitation of
that portion of t h< establishment in
which the said mixture is prepared will
he surpervised by the department, and
the meat or meat food product which en-
ters the mixture will rlist be inspected.
The mixture will not be officially la-
beled. Mixtures such as mincemeats,
seups. etc., which come under this ruling
anel which are not official are subject to
the provisions and requirements of the
pure food law and the regulations made
t he rf mnder.
The regulations further hold that prod-
ucts such as meat juice, meat extract,
etc., which are intended and used only
for medical purposes, and which are
advertised only to the profession, are not
meat food products.
The regulations are to become effective
on and after October 1, next, but shall
not apply to the continuous carriage of
meat, or meat foo«!' '*)» .v -e in transit
Oh October 1 next.
Then follow the various regulations,
saying that no person, or firm, or corpo-
ration shall receive for transportation
from one State or Territory or to the
District of Columbia any carcass* s, meat
food products, etc., until a certificate
is made; and furnisheri according to the
several forms which the regulations pre-
scribe. These call for the most exact
statement of the name of the railroads
to which the shipment is offered, the
shipper, the consignee, point of ship-
ment, point of destination, car number
and initial, and whether the establish-
ment is exempted, and If so, its exempted
number, whether the meats are inspect-
ed or uninspected.
The regulations also provide for the
forwarding to the chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry of du-
plicate certificate in cases where
the meats have been inspected and
tlie shipment placed in a railroad car,
sealed by an employe of the bureau
Are You Building?
Dunlap
oes
Electrical Work.
J Half
^ Century
Of successful mill-
ing has firmly
established the ex-
cellent quality of the
celebrated brand
PIONEER
Don't make a mis-
take In the brand.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Weather
forecast:
Arkansas—Showers and cooler Wed-
nesday. Thursday fair.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory—
Fair Wednesday and Thursday; cooler
Thursday.
West Texas and New Mexico—Fair
Wednesday and Thursday.
East Texas and Louisiana—Fair
Wednesday and Thursday; light vari-
able winds.
SAN ANTONIO.
Baptist ministers of Southwest Texas
meet and accept San Marcos proposition
for academy.
Local committee of beekepers meet and
arrange for entertainment of National
Association.
Chief Surgeon cf department makes re-
port on sanitary conditions at Camp
Mabry.
Fire last night at Houston Street bus-
iness college.
Many persons do not understand na-
ture of Immigration laws.
John L. Sullivan woi Id come here dur-
ing the International Fair.
TEXAS.
Miss Laura England Is killed near
Wirr.berly by the kick cf a runaway
horse.
Public schtclB opening In various com-
munities with uniformly large attend-
ance.
Rain Injures cotton In several locali-
ties.
State Institute for the Biind opens with
record attendance.
Open session of Railroad Commission
considers matters of minor importance.
Congressman Burgess and Senator Bai-
ley asked to assist in Fifteenth .District.
Formal dccree is entered at Austin
compromising anti-trust suits against
exnress companies.
RAILROADS.
Passenger agents to discuss rate law at
various coi venticns.
"Sap" will petition to change inter-
locking device at Waco.
"Katy" officials are Inspecting the
system and will be here this week.
Hill takes second step in railroad war
with Harrlman.
Rumor cf Harriman's designs on stock
of Baltimore & Chlo partly confirmed.
DOMESTIC.
Funston will probably command Ameri-
can army in event of intervention In
Cuba.
Manufacturers defend use of coloring
matter before Government Commission
on pure food law.
Fatal wreck on Rock Island near Do-
ver, Ckla.
Secretary Wilson promulgate?: regula-
tions of new meat inspection law.
Interstate Commission renders opinion
on new law.
Immigration Congress called to meet In
Nashville Nov. 12.
FOREIGN.
David R. Francis thinks the party that
champions Government control is booked
for dofeat.
Stolypin orders that Siedlce prisoners
be not submitted to drumhead court-
martial.
Hongkong is swept by typhoon that de-
stroys life and property.
Fatal affrpv between Japanese pcach-
ers and Russians off Kamschatkan coast.
Large Land Deal.
Special Telegram to The Express.
VICTORIA, Tex., Sept. 18.—Chas. Lin-
ney has sold his 1000-acre stock farm at
Aloe to C. L. Terrell of San Antonio
River. The terms of sale are private.
Previous to this Mr. Linney sold 100
acres of the same tract, unimproved, to
C. Dietzel at $20 per acre, cash.
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M* ANTONIO, Tt*.
PIONEER
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Houston-Galveston sleeper
from San Antonio via Sunset Line;
formerly leaving on Main Line
Train at 10:30 p. m., is now op-
erated on the new Victoria Divis-
ion Train "Sam Houston," leaving
San Antonio at 7:55 p. m., arriving
at Houston at 5:50 a. m.. and Gal-
veston 8:35 a. m.. Morning train
leaves via Victoria Division at 6
a. m. for points on Gulf Shore:
Victoria, Cuero, Port Lavaca and
all points botween Victoria and
Houston. MAIN LINE Sunset
Trains unchanged.
Sunset Ticket Office, 3QI Alamo Plaza
Hotel Sternau
Torreon, Mexico.
Lately rebuilt and enlarged, with all
modern improvements. Hotel European
plan, with first-class restaurant (a la
carte) in connection.
EIGHT DROWNED AND
MANY MISSING IN A
ROCK ISLAND WRECK
Bridge Over Cimarron River
in Oklahoma Gives Way
When Struck by Pas-
senger Train.
OCCUPANTS STRUGGLE IN
WATER AND QUICKSAND
Structure Became Weakened by
Weight of Driftwood Carried
Down by the Swollen Stream.
Aside From the Dead Many
Are Injured.
GUTHRIE, Okla., Sept. 18.—Eight peo-
ple are dead, twenty more or less in-
jured and as many more are missing as
the result of th» wrecking of a Rock
Island passenger train three miles from
Dover, Okla., at 8:30 this morning.
The engine, tender, baggage and mail
car. smokers and day coach of passenger
train No. 12, north bound, left the high
bridge that spans the Cimarron River,
and plunged into the current, flanked by
treacherous quick sands.
The locomotive disappeared from sight
almost immediately. The mail and bag-
gage clerks escaped from their coaches
and swam to the shore.
The accident was due to the defective
condition of the bridge, which was
swerved e>ut of line by the pressure of
ciriftwoocl carried down by the swollen
stream.
The train was an hour late and was
running at high speed to make up time.
The engine driver did not see the condi-
tion of the bridge until he was within a
few yards, when it was too late to stop.
He shouted to his fireman, threw on
the air brakes and jumped. He landed
on the very verge of the river bank anel
escaped unhurt. The fireman was less
fortunate and sustained severe injuries.
When the engine struck the bridge the
whole ,structure suddenly collapsed, pre-
cipitating the engine, smoker and day
coach into the water. The heavy pull-
man cars were not pulled in, but re-
mained on the track.
Driftwood Dislodges
Men From Car Top.
The current whirled the day coach
down stream and lodged it against a
sand bank. The occupants were helped
out through the doors anil windows. The
smoking car floated down stream sub-
merged all but the very top. It struck
on a sand bank in the middle of the river
and four men were seen to climb through
the windows and pull themselves ut> on
top of the car, calling loudly for help,
but those oti shore were unable to reach
them on account of high water. While
they were bewaring assistance a large
bunch of driftwood swept down and car-
ried i them from their fragile footing.
Three other men jumped through the
rear door of the smoker before it sanlc
and struck out for shore. They were
carried down by the current for perhaps
a quarter of a mile, when thev werfi
puJicu out They were almost exhausted.
The most authentic account places the
number of passengers in the smoker at
between twenty-five anel thirty. With a
few exceptions they have not been ac-
counted for. The only hopeful news la
contained In nessages received from
rural districts. Men on bits of driftwood!
have been seen going do*rn stream at
various points, but attempts at reecue
have in most instances proved futile.
One man. whose name is not known,
was fished out »f the Cimarron at Cash-
ion. twenty miles from the scene of the
wreck. lie was almost dead. Others
have been reported floating down the
river.
Kingfisher 1 ^ ^ /
Sends Assistance. } "
Those who were injured anel t&keil
from the river at the bridge were hur-
riedly taken to Kingfisher. People of
Kingfisher have thrown open their homes
for the succor e»f the injured.
Ic will be impossible to ascertain the
exact number of dead for several days.
Many of those reported missing may
show up safe at some point down the
Cimarron.
Tonight the derailed cars are lying
near the bank of the river. A party of
searchers is working with torches and
lanterns to lend aid to any who may be
within the coaches or recover the bodies.
It is expected that a few bodies will be
fennel inside the smoker.
Sheriff J. P. Love of Kingfisher, who
was in the smoker of the wrecked train,
experienced a marvelous escape. Ho
said:
"Just as the car was turning on its
hide I fought my way to the rear and
forced my body through the door. The
water then was over my head. When T
came to the surface I was swept down
stream bv the heavy current. Just as I
had given up all hope and was in the
last stages of xnaustion. I touched bot-
tem and drew myself upon the bank.
There were at .east thirty others in the
smoker. 1 saw two besides myself es-
cape."
Governor Frantz this afternoon ordered
cut the engineer corps of the Oklahoma
National Guard, in encampment here, to
build a bridge wer the Cimarron River
three miles north of Guthrie.
It is reported here that several bodies
have been seen floating down the river.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Rescued Passengers Tell of Incidents
of the Cimarron
Disaster.
Special Telegram to The Express.'
CHICKASHA. I. T.. Sept. 18.—The pas-
sengers from the ill-fated train who have
returned to this city report tho accident
the most terrible experience of their lives.
The cars itopped with a jolt and the first
kne>wledge of the accident was the tum-
bling of the oars into the river. The
smoker was well filled and struck near
the center of the river. No one was
oorpus ... el cfl r0ckp0rt
and Return and Returrv
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22d
Do Your Shopping Ea.rly Toda.y
OUR. STORE WILL BE
Closed All Day
Tomorrow
Tf you contemplate a trip,
call and see us. Our stock of
information Is unlimited.
CITY TICKET OFFICE.
B. R. MortJrt, P. dL T. A
Walter Walthall, A. P. & T. A.
Special Train leaves "SAP" Depot I I P. M.
Tourist Sleepers, ?1.00.
Returning Arrives in San Antonio 6:00 a. m. Monday
COME WITH US
ALLEN IRVIN, Depot Ticket Agent.
QUICKEST TIME to ALL POINTS EAST
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On -'fi!'-1 dally to Oct.
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Homecoming for
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Atlanta, Ga.
$31.85 Rip1"1
On sule Oct. 8 and 9.
" SAM HOUSTON
New Train for Houston and Calveston
with Sleeper. . Leaves at 7:55 p. m.
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Steamer Service
NEW YORK
and
HAVANA
$41.75
Richmond,
Virginia
and
Return
Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1
Through Sleepers
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