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Pia.no Club
Fast Coming to a Close—Hurry
and (Jet In.
A BIG SAVING!
THOS. COGCAN & BROS.
HOUSTON AND NAVARRO.
VOLUME XLIII.—NO. 72
MEXICAN MONEY FOR SALE
FOR USE OF TOURISTS BY
The Lockwood National Bank
Corner Commerce and Navarro Streets
FOURTEEN PAGES.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. 1908.
SUMMARY OH III
IRE BUCKETS
..IN STOCK..
F. W. Heitmann Co.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
E. B. Chandler
102 East Crockett Street.
Money to Loan
Vendor's Lien
Notes Bought
Real Estate For Sale
T. C. FROST.
President.
J. T. WOODHULL,
Vice President.
NED MdLHENNY,
Caihter.
Frost National Bank
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
$600,000.00
Exchange Drawn on Principal Cities in Europe and Mexico. Mexican
Money Bought and Sold.
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
C&pital &nd Surplus $600,000.00
DIRECTORS-
O. Sehmeltzer. C. C. '.Jlbbs, William Npglev, Ernest Steves, Gf-orge C.
Vsughan, O. A. C. Halff, Joseph Courand, J. N. Brown. Otto Meerseheldt,
State Bank 8 Trust Company
321 East Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas
Is equipped with every necessnry facility for the handling of all
business entrusted to Its care.
You are cordially Invited to do your hanking business with It.
W. T. McCAMPBELL. President. J. H. HAILE, Cashier.
N. S. OnAHA'M,
Pr*?ldent and Cashier.
II. <j. STAACKE.
Vice President.
HARRY LAND A.
Vice Provident.
American Bank & Trust Company
THE BANK ON ALAMO PLAZA.
Capital Paid I n $100,000.
We offer to depositors every advantage consistent with conservative banking.
MEXICAN MONEY BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. F. & H. CUENTHER
U. S. Bonded and State Bonded.Public Warehouses.
Merchandise Storage, Track Storag*. Sjpace and Warehouse Rooms For Kent.
Rates on Application.
NEGOTIABLE WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS ISSUfcD.
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Patients receive our personal attention,
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HEnTMTS specialized in different branches of
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NOW ON SALE
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Mexico City $26.60 R*tnudrn
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ONLY ONE NIGHT TO ST. LOUIS
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BROADENING RELIGIOUS SPIRIT
Young People'3 Missionary Union
Listens to Reports From Native
Christians in Many Lands.
PlTTSRt'RO, Pa., Marrh 11.—That
American commercialism follows closely
the work and achievements ot mission-
aries in Christianizing heathen nations,
wns forcibly presented by eloquent
speakers during this, the second day, of
the International Conference of the
Young peoples Missionary Unipu.
Leaders in the movement who occupied
seats on the stage in front of an au-
dience of over 3000 persons wept as mis-
sionaries tolrt the story of the cross in
loreign lands.
Everywhere the great banner of Chris-
tianity lias been unfurled, the flag of
commercialism has followed. There has
been a broadening of religious spirit
throughout the Orient, and China in par-
ticular has experienced a bloodless revo-
lution of reform, as otie speaker ex-
pressed it, during the last few years.
The wave of religious reform, it was as-
serted, apears to be sweeping the world.
The striking feature of today was the
scries of addresses by native Christians
representing Korea, India and china.
Each graphically described the growth
of religious fever among his country-
111 Report? were made during the day by
missionaries from all the important
fields of the world.
Two monster meetings were held to-
night. ^
THIRTEEN BODIES RECOVERED.
No Trace of Any Survivor of Hamp-
atead Colliery Diaaater.
BIRMINGHAM. Kngland. March 11-
The rescuing party which has been en-
gaged in exploring the colliery at Hamp-
stead which caught fire lust Wednesday
evening, resulting in twenty-six miners
being entombed, has found thirteen bodies
up to 3 o'clock this afternoon. No trace
of any aurvivor was discovered.
CHINA IS HOLDING HER OWN.
Japan Not Making Much Headway in
Her Contentions Regarding
Seizure of Tatsu Mnru.
PLK1N, Marc h 11—The negotiations be-
tween China and Japan regarding: the
Tatsu Maru^he Japanese steamc, whim
was seized *oy China February 7 on the
ground that she was conveying arms
and ammunitio i to Chinese revol i-ionist.4,
are now proceeding on the basis of Chi-
na's offer to compromise on condition
that Japan put a stop to the importation
of arms and ammunition from Japan into
Chinese territory.
China seems to be holding ner own
in *he proceedirgs for her claim to the
light to consider the Portugu-'je side
of the question separately from the con-
troversy with japan, which has been ac-
cepted by Japan at least provisionally,
and ha-s been able to sustain her claim
of justification in making the seizuie on
the ground ;hat the iat&u discharged
her cargo in Chinese waters.
China also has sustained her conten-
tion that the cargo of the Japanese ves-v
sel was liable to confiscation. She
argues, in substance, that she was wrong
in hauling down the Japanese flag, and
for this error has apologized, but she
has not receded from her argument that
she had the right to confiscate the ship
and its cargo, nor from the principle of
the equitable adjustment of the diffi-
culty upon which she has all along in-
sisted.
It is understood in Hong Kong that
the consignees of the cargo of the Tatsu
Main have repudiated their obligations
on the ground that the vessel digressed
from the course she was chartered to
follow.
MORSE PLEADS' NOT GUILTY.
Former Ice Magnate Admitted to Bail
in $30,000.
NEW YORK. March ll.-Charles W.
Morse, the former ice magnate and
banker, and Alfred H. Curtis, formerly
president of the National Bank of
America, pleaded not guilty in the United
States Circuit Court today to a joint in-
dictment of twenty-nine counts. Bail
wss given at 130.000 for Morae and $10,uW
for Curtis.
BROWNSVILLE
AFFAIR AGAIN
UP IN SENATE
President Sends in Special Mes-
sage Asserting That Investiga-
tion Sustains His Action.
DILL WILL PROVIDE
FOB RE-ENLISTMENT
Members of Dismissed Battalion Who
Show They Had No Connection With
Affray to Be Permitted to Ap*
ply for Reinstatement.
BATTLESHIP
FLEET NEARS
MAGDALENA
Target Practice Grounds Will Be
Reached by Admiral Evans1
Ships Before Night.
BEST WORK OF WIRELESS
DONE AFTER MIDNIGHT
Message Announcing Arrival of Fleet
Not Expected Until Late—Men Will
Be Given a Rest Before Be-
ginning Target Practice.
WASHINGTON, March 11 Reports
from I he Committee on Military Affairs
were presented to the Senate today in j
regard to the investigation of the aitray |
at Brownsville, Tex., which resulted in |
tho discharge without honor oi three
companies of negro soldiers of the Twen-
ty-fifth Infantry.
At the same time a message was re-
ceived from the President calling at-
tention to the fact that the testimony
taken by the committee sustains his po-
sition in discharging the negro soldiers.
He recommends extension ot the time
for re-enlistment of the discharged men
who might be found not to l'ali wiimu
the terms of the order.
There were tour reports trom the com-
mittee, the majority being signed by
Senators Warren, Lodge, Warner, Du-
pont, Taliaferro, Foster, Overman, Fra-
iler and McCreary. A minority report
was signed by Senators Foraker, Scott,
Bulkeley and Hemeiijvay.
The majority report found as follows:
"That in the opinion of the committee
the shooting was done by some of the
soldiers belonging to the Twenty-fifth
Infantry; thai the testimony fails to
identify the particular soldier or sol-
diers who participated in the affray.
it is stated there is considerable con-
tradiction in the testimony, but tak"ii
a whole, and reconciling It wherever
possible. It proves the ran • outlined iti
the majority decision.
Recommends Restoration of Negroes.
The principal minority report was pre-
sented by Senator Scott, and lakes the
position that it was impossible to as-
certain who did the shooting, and makes
the recommendation that the negro sol-
diers be restored.
In addition to this minority report.
Senators Foraker and Bulkeley joined in
a supplemental report which whs pre-
sented by Senator Foraker. Senator
Foraker's report declared that the testi-
mony of the witnesses against the negro
soldiers is not reliable, and that no mo-
tive for their alleged connection with the
affray had been shown. He summed up
the testimony taken by the Senate Com-
mittee as follows: That it wholly fails
to identify the particular Individual or
any of them who participated in the
shooting: that it fails to show that any
of the discharged soldiers of the Twen-
ty-fifth Infantry had entered Into any
agreement or so-called 'conspiracy of si-
lence,* or that they withheld informa-
tion possessed by them of the shooting:
that the testimony is contradictory and
not sufficient to sustain the charge that
the soldiers were connected witn the
shooting, and that the weight of the
evidence shows that none of the negro
soldiers participated in the nffra.v."
Says Some Were Innocent.
A supplemental report signed by Sena-
tors Warren. Lodge. Warner and Ouponl
declares that under the evidence it is
shown that the assault was perpetrate!
by members of the battalion, hut that
it is reasonable to believe that .ill of
the soldiers were not connected In the
commission of the crime, either a** prin-
cipals or accessories. They recommended
that it would he justice to restore to all
of the innocent men the rights and privi-
leges which had accrued to them by rea-
son of their previous service in the army.
A hill <« presented authorising the Pres-
ident. within one yes.- after the passage
Of the act. to authorize the enlistment of
any of the men whom be may be satis-
fied had no connetcron with the shoot-
insr.
Senator Foraker included iri his report
a hill, previously introduced, which pro-
vide* for the same general purpose. This
hill, however, would compel the War De-
partment to accept the enlistment of any
one of the discharged negroes who makes
oath that he was not connected with the
shooting. „ , _
The following is the text of the Presi-
dent's message to the Senate:
President's Message.
"On December 12. 190H. the Secretary of
War. by direction. Issued the following
order: 'Applications to re-enlist from
former members of Companies B, C and
D. Twenty-fifth Infantry, who were dis-
charged under the provisions of special
order No. 2W5, War Department. Novem-
ber ft. 190$. must he made in writing and
he accompanied by such evidence, also
in writing, as the applicant may desire to
submit to show that he was neither im-
plicated in the raid on Brownsville, Tex.,
on the night of August 13, nor with-
held any evidence that might lead to the
discovery of the perpetrators thereof.'
"Proceedings were begun under this
order, hut shortly thereafter an investi-
gation was directed by the Senate, and
the proceedings under the order were
stopped. The Senate committer entrusted
with the work has now completed the
investigation, and finds that the facts
upon which my order of discharge of
November 9. 1906, was based, are sub-
stantiated by the evidence. The testi-
mony secured by the committee is there-
fore now available and I desire to re-
vive the order of December 12. 1**;. and
to have it carried out in whatever shape
may be necessary to achieve the pur-
poses therein set forth to any additional
evidence before taken which may be of
aid in the ascertainment of the truth.
••The thne limit during which it was
possible to reinstate any individual sol-
dier within the terms of this order, how-
ever has passed. I, therefore, recom-
mend a passage of a law extending this
time limit so far as the soldiers con-
cerned are affected until a year after
the passage of the law. and permitting
the reinstatement, by direction of the
Continued on Pago Twelve.
SAN DIKOO, Cat, March 1l.-Th*
American battleship fleet, under com-
mand of Rear Admiral R. D. ft vans, is
tonight less than 200 miles south of
Magdalcna Bay, Lower California, and
should put into that harbor late tomorrow
afternoon. No reports of the arrival will
be available, however, even for tho Navy
Department at Washington, until some
time during tomorrow night or Friday
morning. The navy wireless station at
point Lorna. which is equipped with the
strongest instruments and is in charge
of the most capable of the navy's ope-
rators, has never been able to communi-
cate with a vessel at Magdalena Bay
until well j.t'ter the setting of the sun.
The best work is done after midnight.
It Is explained that the light waves dur-
ing the day overcome the other im-
pulses nt the wireless in long distance
efforts, and that communication by day
is seldom maintained over a space of
more than 400 miles. Magdalena Bay is
filM miles on an air line from San Diego.
Tin* Point Ix>ma wireless station, which
is just across an arm of the bay from
this city, was In communication with tho
flagship Connecticut last night. Ttio
exact position of the vessels was not In-
dicated in the earlier dispatches, which
were of a strictly confidential nature and
in cipher, but the ships «.re said to be
maintaining ten and a h l!f knots j-er
hour.
The crews of the battleships prob-
ably will be given a dav or two of rest
after the long run from Callao, Peru,
which was left February 29, before the
strenuous work of target practice is
taken up. The ships will take their turns
at the targets in divisions, of which
there are four, comprising four vessels
each.
CRUISER BIRMINGHAM SPEEDY.
New Record Established by New
Scout Cruiser.
ROCKLAND. Maine, March 11. With
a southwest Kale Mowing and a heavy
sea running, tlx n w scout cruiser Bir-
mingham estaollshed a new record for
vessels of h» class with reciprocating
engine^ In he* sr rew standardization
tests over the neasured mile course off
this port today. Her fastest mile win
at the rate of J5.S knots ari hour or rec-
ord sp »ed. To accomplish 'his her
screws made 2oo revolutions per ininut •
The Birmingham was sent >ver the
course seve.it »en times beginning with n
speed of t'veiv knots, which was grad-
ually increase,l The average of the
fastest five runs was about 24.ft knots.
The Chester aw raged 26.1 on th » same
i uns.
NEARING MAGDALENA BAY.
Navy Wireless Station at San Diego
in Touch With Fleet.
SAN DIEGO. ChI., March 11. The navy
wireless station at San Diego was in
direct communication with the battleship
Connecticut, off the Mexican Coast, to-
day. and received ami transmitted twen-
ty-six official dispatches to Washington.
The exact position of the fleet was riot
indicated, hut it must be within 400 miles
of Magdalena Bay.
ABANDONED SEAMAN NOT FOUND
Cruiser Yankton Reports Fruitless
Visit to Indefatigible Island.
WASHINGTON, March 11 The cruiser
Yankton reported her arrival at Acapuleo
today. She also reported that her expe-
dition to Indefatigable Island, to find
Fred Jeffs, an American seaman who
was abandoned there, had been futile.
Jeffs was not found.
THAW DIVORCE PAPERS SERVED
Mrs. William Thaw Made Co-defend-
ant in Action Brought by Evelyn
Nesblt Thaw.
NEW YORK, March 11.—Mrs. William
f'opley Tliaw was served here late to-
day with papers. In which she 's mad'
(o-defendant with her son, H. K. Thaw.
In the a'-tinn Irttltuted by the letter's
wife, Evelyn Ntsblt Thaw, to annul
their marriage. As Harry Thaw is an
inmate of~an 'nsane asylum he is In th.-
.yes of the ':iw legally dead and the
next of kin b • •< mes the actual defendant
in the case.
An attempt was also made this even-
ing to serve Harry K. Thaw at Mattea-
wan by a messenger, who was admitted
lo the .csylum. f.ate tonight. However
it wis marie known that owing to a
technicality th- snvlce was no. com-
pleted. Dr. Robfrt I.amb. superli;enden:
of the Institution, being Thaw's legal
guardian, must also be served, It wns
explained, learning this Thaw refused
to accept service, and the process server
returned to Not York, where anv.her net
of papers will be irej>ir«d and service
:np.de upon Dr. Lamb and Thaw tomor-
iow. It is possible that Dr. Lamb will
be Kibstituted lor Mrs. William Thaw
as co-defendait.
WASHINGTON, March
forecast:
East Texas: Fair Thursday and
Friday, light variable winds.
West Texas: Fair Thursday and
Friday.
Local Weather Forecast.
For San Antonio and vicinity: Fair,
SAN ANTONIO.
The Fifth District Medical Society
will convene at Elks' Hall this morning.
Christian Endravorers open semi-an-
nual convention at the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church.
High Court opinion holds that city
must see that sidewalks are In a safe
condition.
Ohio society will be formed as result
of first picnic of former residents of the
Buckeye State.
School Board canvasses vote of elec-
tion and declares candidates on Peoplo's
ticket elected.
Court House is refused for use of or.
ganlzlnfl a Bryan club here.
TEXAS.
Supreme Court refuses rehearing to
Fire Association of Philadelphia, thus
adhering to former decisions on occupa-
tion tax.
Law building of the University of
Texas nearly ready for occupancy.
Comptroller's De-par-tmcnt rules that
there Is no tax on Ino, Uno and Frosty
sales.
Commissioner Love cites figures to
show tax on .insurance companies is a
light one.
Railroad Commission powerless for the
time to prevent takino off of trains.
DOMESTIC.
Oklahoma State Convention Is In ses-
sion.
Ex-Mayor Eugene Schmitz has been
released from jail at San Francisco.
Announcement is made that a bill will
soon be Introduced in Congress for the
reinttatement of discharged Brownsville
soldiers who can establish their Inno-
cence.
Both candidates in recent Democratic
primary election for Lieutenant Gover-
nor of Louisiana charge illegal acts.
New scout cruiser Birmingham makes
new record for vessels of her class In
test off Rockland. Maine.
President has directed Bureau of Cor-
porations to Investigate methods of
stock trading with a view to regulation.
Battleship fleet will reach Magdalena
Bay tonight.
Negroes in North Carolina drive a
number of Greeks Into the swamp.
FOREIGN.
Police kill six peasants and wound
many others in encounter with revolu-
tionists at Kochetovka, Russia.
Former trainmaster of the Panama
Railroad and a number of American em-
ployer have left the service of the Gov
eminent to accept employment on the
Guayaguil A. Quito Raliroaef.
Madame Anna Gould sails for Ameri-
ca on the Adriatic.
Russian Legation at Toklo is raised to
an embassy as a token of goodwill.
Health of Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-
man is failing.
SPORTING.
Only two favorites win at Santa Anita.
District of Columbia court holds that
method in vogue by Bennlngs book-
makers is not violation of law.
Big Bow captures Monterey Selling
Stakes at Oakland with 118 pounds up.
Pinkola makes new track record at
New Orleans for mile and seventy yards
OKLAHOMA'S VOTE FOR TAFT.
lUNGSTERS
AT FRONT AT
STOCK SHOW
Greater Diversity of Exhibits at
Fort Worth Tlia nt aAuy Pre-
vious Exhibition.
NUMEROUS DISPLAYS
OF YEARLING CLASSES
New Blood Carry Off First Honors in
Senior Yearling Bnll in Hereford
Section—Showing in Car Lots
Equal to Last Year.
ESTABLISHED I860.
INQUIRY INTO"
BUCKET SHOP
OPERATIONS
President Institutes Investigation
With a View to Federal Action
on Stock Gambling.
HERBERT KNOX SMITH
GIVEN EXTENSIVE J9B
Platform Recommends Reduction of
Representation of States That
Disfranchise Negroes.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March 11.—
Instructing them to "vote for any propo-
sition favorable to the candidacy of Wil-
liam H. Taft for the Presidency" tho
Republican State convention today
elected four delegates at large to the
Chicago convention. They are Congress-
men IJ. S. McOuJre, Pawnee; Dennis T.
Flynn, Oklahoma City; Patrick Doore,
Westvllle, and J. A. Harris, Wagoner.
William Busby of McAle.ster and J. C.
Hobberts of Knid w«-re nominated electors
at. large. Cash Cade of Shawnee was re-
elected National Committeeman.
The Republicans endorsed President
Roosevelt's administration; condemned
the Democratic State administration;
recommended reduction of the represen-
tation in Congress and the electoral col-
lege of States which disfranchised
negroes, and condemned the State Legis-
lature for Its extravagance.
A resolution pledging the party to an
early resubmission of the prohibition
question was overwhelmingly defeated.
Carl McGee of Tulsa was permanent
chairman of the convention.
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•LETTER CARRIERS INCREASE.
Long Fight for $1200 Salary Is Won.
House Adds $1,225,000 to
Postoffice Bill.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Determined
and persistent assaults on the postoffice
appropriation bill in the House today re-
sulted in the amplification of that mea-
sure in many important parts, despite
the protests of Chairman Overstreet and
the committee.
The letter carriers finally won their
long fight for $1200 salary, when an
amendment by Mr. Goebel of Ohio, grant-
ing the same, was adopted. Altogether
the appropriations carried by I he bill
were increased to the extent of $1,22*1,000.
Consideration of the measure had not
boen taken up when the House at 5:13
p. m. adjourned.
FRANCIS JOSEPH JUBILEE.
Austrian Emperor Recovers Suffi-
ciently to Review Procession.
VIENNA. March 11.—'There is great re-
Joking here because of the announce-
ment just made that Emperor Francis
Joseph has sanctioned a great jubilee
procession of Viennese citizens, permis-
sion for which was countermanded some
time ago on account of the Emperor's
poor health. The Emperor has now
promised personally to review the pro-
cession.
Special Telegram to The Express.
huRT WORTH. Tex., March 11.-The
twelfth annual National Feeder* and
Breeders Show began making history to-
day. Arrangements were complete in
e\ery detail and show that, painstaking
rare had been exercised to the utmost
by those In charge Exhibits had been
curried and cultivated to the last curl
of their glossy coats, tin- big coliseum
had received its final touches, and nature
turned a smiling face upon the scene
after forty-eight hours of refreshing
rain.
The cattle division showed a greater
diversity of exhibits than had boen pre-
viously seen at any former show, and
this was particularly noted in the num-
ber of young animals shown, demonstrat-
ing that young blood in the ranks of the
breeders was beginning to make itself
felt. Yearling classes, senior and junior,
and the calves of both sexes, were dis-
played so numerously as to elicit ex-
pressions of pleasure and wonder from
those at all conversant with pure breed-
ing in Texas.
Nor were the exhibits of the types In
the game confined entirely to young
stock Some of the recent additions to
the ranks of those striving for excel-
lence in breeding pure bloods had ex-
hibit:- In the elder classes, and one of
the youngest breeders in the State car-
ried off first honors in the short horn
elu.n for aged hulls, though matched
; ainst veterans <if the show ling. New
blond carried off first hondnfc* 'in the
senior yearling bull Glass In the Here-
ford se.-tion. Whatever else they may do
a.4 the awards develop during the prog-
ress of the sh« w. the young breeders
I iv R 't a rapid pace at the start This
ir most encouraging to the success of
the present show and augurs well for
the permn iency of the National Feed-
ers and Breed rs show.
What has been si.id of snort horns and
i h i - fords in ids connection applies with
equal force to the polled angus and red
poll division. Hough the actual compe-
tition of the'ring lias yet to come.
In beef cattle the veterans have the
field almost to themselves. The boys are
trying their spurs as breeders.
The
feeding proposition will b<» attended to
when they have learned the de-
leter
ments of the game.
The showing m rar Hn<' 'n Individ-
uals. both registered, grade and cross
breed. Is fully equal to the display made
last year, both In number and quality.
The reputation that Texas has made nt
the International and royal shown in the
past on exhibit of beef cattle in car lots,
from ha by beeves to heavy finished bul-
locks, will not he lessened by the display
now In the pens.
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COST 150 LIVES IN SIX YEARS.
Commander Key Says Dangers of
Hoirt in Use on Battleships Has
Been Known Six Years.
Suggestions Have Been Mad« of Legis-
lation Prohibiting Use of Telegraph
and Telephoie Vires to Famish
Quotations to Backet Shops.
WAS KINGTON, March ll.-Presldont
Roosevelt has directed Herbert Knox
Smith of the Bureau of Corporations to
Investigate tho methods of stock trading
with a view to furnishing a basis of
possible future legislation regulating such
practices.
Tho difficulty is recognised of attempt-
ing Federal regulation of tho transfer of
stocks, which will operate to curtail
purely gambling contracts and ut the
same time work no hindrance to legiti-
mate transfers, and it is announced to
bo for the purpose of proceeding on sound
principles that investigation is being
made. President Roosevelt has declared
himself to bo decidedly in favor of elimi-
nating stock gambling.
For several months the President has
been in reoelpt from time to time of
communications from various interested
persons urging him to lend his Influence
to secure the enactment of National legis-
lation prohibiting the use of telegraph
or telephone wires and the I'nlted States
mails for the transmission of quotations
on stocks and food commodities for
bucket shops.
The President submitted some of them
to Secretary Straus of the Department
of Commerce and Labor with a request
that Commissioner Smith make a general
inquiry into the practicability of at-
tempting to have such legislation en-
acted The Inquiry will be confined sub-
stantiallv to the "feasibility of enacting
such proposed laws to control the opera-
tions of bucket shops.
YOUNQ WOMAN'S INSANE DEED
Miss Sarah C. Weed Kills Her Friend
and Partner and Commits
Suicide at Boston.
WASHINOTDN March 11.—Com.niinrter
A. I.. Key, foime!* naval aide to the.
I resident, was ttio principal wltnws be-
fore tlio Senate Committee on Naval
AI fairs today. The most Important fea-
ture of his teBt'mony wan in connection
with tnrrctH am' nmmunttlon hoiHts. He
<rlllcls""'l the American ships on the
(jround that the freeboard was insuffi-
cient it: heavy sea: . He said that tli.i
American navv Is the only one 11, tho
world that Ins Iiutik to type of hoists
which does not isolate the handling room
from the ship.
Mr Tillman was anxious lo know wh i
was rcHpo'isib.s for this fact and aske.l
how lonu I he American lavy has per-
sisted In keeping this type.
"h'ix years since the dangers of this
hoist became known." said the witness.
"In that time, it lias cost 150 lives," he
'Hlx years." repeated Mr. Tillman;
"lhat Is one year less than Mr. Roosevelt
has been President, and he came from
the Navy Department, and is supposed
to know about these faults."
In concluding his testimony the com-
mander paid a great tribute to the Amer-
ican navy, especially the gunnery.
"II is a fine thing." said he. "that a
young man green from a farm In the
\Wst call he taken on a ship now and
drilled so that in three months he can
make a hit with one of the big guns
every forty seconds."
SURVEY OF GALVESTON HARBOR.
Senator Bailey Introduces Bill With
a View to Comprehensive Harbor.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON. March 11.—Senator
Halley introdured a hill today providing
for an extensive survey of Oalveston
Harbor, T"xas City channel and Port
Bolivar channel, with a view to a com-
prehensive harbor system for Oalveston.
Public Building Bills Reported.
WASHINGTON, March II.-A largo
nuniher of public building bills were or-
dered favorably reported today. They
Include Oklahoma City, Okla., $000,000.
BOSTON, March 11.-Suffering from
melancholia due to overwork. Miss Sarah
Chamberlln Weed of Philadelphia shot
and killed Miss Elizabeth Bailey Harden
of East Savannah, Ga... and then com-
mitted suicide at the Uuirens bchool. a
fashionable boarding school for girls In
the Fenway district. The Eaurnns School
was established last full by Miss Hardee,
and Miss Weed. On October 1. the day
the school opened. Miss Weed brokft down
as a result of overwork, and was com-
mitted to a sanitarium In West Newton
lo be treated for nervous prostration.
I„'ist night Miss Weed escape"! from
the sanitarium and made her way to the
school. She appeared to be ba^lly de-
ranged mentally. . . ,,
"Itoth women were awakejied by Mrs.
Page, the matron of the school, this
morning about 6 o'clock, and notified
that they must get up if they were to
catch tile 7:3Ti train, on which Mlas Weed
was lo be taken back to'West NVwton.
Mrs Page then left them, and a few
moments later tho shooting occurred.
Mrs Page thinks the mention of re-
turning to the sanitarium must have ex-
cited and angered Miss Weed and Induced
the shooting.
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