The Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 334, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 29, 1908 Page: 4 of 56
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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1908.
NEWS OF THE STATE CAPITAL
the railroad
commission asks
for new laws
Many Recommendations ire Made
in liie Seventeenth Annual
Report of Board.
SAYS ANTI-PASS LAW
SHOULD BE AMENDED
DIYIDSON WANTS TWO
MORE ASSISTANTS
ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES ESTI-
MATE WITH COMPTROLLER.
Asks a Total Appropriation of $85,810
for th« Next Two Years for Hi»
Department—Requests $5000
for Traveling Expenses.
Buiy Exprtm Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 2S.--Tho text of
•f the seventeenth annnul report oC the
Railroad Commission was completed to-
«*y, and •©vera] matter! of importance
•re discussed and recommended, promi-
nent among them being: a strong stand
t*r a causeway across Galveston Bay.
The report recommends the enactment
•f laws authorizing- the commission:
To order the const ruction of union pas-
Mnger depots in towns having two or
Wore railroads, if commission deems same
accessary.
To require District and County Attor-
neys to Institute Hulls tor penalties for
violations of commissions' orders, instead
Of Attorney General.
To compel the emablishment of depots
at State lines and at the terminus of
Any railroad where deemed necessary.
To force railroad? to comply with the
oommission's orders to improve their
properties and make them safe to life
and property.
To direct the construction of spur or
#!de tracks on the right of way for In-
dustries or traffic offered thereon.
To enforce a law, which is also recom-
mended, requiring railroads to do local
business at all stations on a joint track,
fltorey dissents.)
To provide a penalty for train dis-
patchers failing or refusing to furnish
bulletins of arriving time of passenger
trains, as required by Article 4494-A.
To make express companies deliver and
caJl for packages in towns and cities
beyond the limits fixed by the express
companies.
To have the Legislature amend the
anti-pass law so that It will be ••plain"
and clear.
Discussing the bookkeeping order liti-
gation it says: "We have experienced
great difficulty in ariving at what a rea-
sonable and Just freight rute is, because
we have been unable to ascertain from
any Information which had been fur-
nished us by the railroad companies wh*t
*he cost Of moving any particular kind
of traffic is.**
Considerable space is devoted to the
Galveston-Brownsville line differential
case pending in court. A table of com-
parisons is given to show that if the
lower courts are sustained and the dif-
ferential abolished the through two-line
rate between Galveston and points on
the Biownsville line would be higher in
some instances than the use of the dif-
ferential.
A brief review of the Pullman rate cape,
where the order for a 20 per cent reduc-
tion was and is enjoined. Is made, but
no rof-ommendation is made that the Leg-
1 Is In hire clearly define the commission's
power in the premises.
A resume of the proceedings before
the Interstate Commerce Commission in
the fight against the 10 per cent increase
in interstate freight rates is given, with
acknowledgment to United States Sen-
ator Culberson for his services.
A statement is made of the Victoria
additional train service case and the
court findings that the commission has
power to order extra train service if
public necessity is found to demand it,
and "It appears, therefore, that no fur-
ther legislation is necessary on this sub-
ject."
FREE
'PILE
CURE
•ent to Demonstrate the Merits of
Pyramid Pile Cure.
What It Has Done For Others, It Can Do
For You.
We have testimonials, by the hundred*
showing all stage*, kinds and degrees of
jilles which have been cured by l'yramld
Pile Cure.
If you could read these unsolicited let-
ters ynu would no doubt go to the nearest
drug store and buy a box of Pyramid Piio
Cure at onic. price fifty cents.
We do not ask you to do this. Send
us your name and address and wo will
tend you a trial package by mall free.
Ws know what the tri.il package will
do. In many cases It has cured piles
■without further treatment. If It proves
J Is value to you order more from your
druggist. This is fair. Is it not? Simply
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address and we will send ynu the trial
package bv mall in plain wrapper free.
Address Pyramid Prug Co., 104 Pyramid
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Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.— Attorney Gen-
eral R. V. Davidson will a^sk the next
Legislature to allow him two additional
assistants to caairy out the work of his
office.
In his estimate of the appropriation
necessary to conduct the affairs of his
office for another two years, which es-
timato was filed with the Comptroller
mis morning, the Attorney General
makes provision for the new officers,
estimating each of their annual salaries
a i H2U00, or tue bi-ennial appropriation
necessary for the new legal help at $8000.
Aii additional stenographic clerk at a sal-
ary of $120u a year is also requested.
Attorntv General Davidson requests
a total appropriation of $&6,810 for the
next two years. The bi-ennial estimato
made two yeais ago was $ou,4t»0, or $20,000
less than that of this year.
An appropriation of $;to00 for stationery,
telephone bills, etc., is asked this year,
against the $1500 of two years ago. The
actual traveling expenses of the Attorney
General and his assistants are estimated
at JoOOu during the next two years,
against the $12»>0 that has been needed m
tiiis particular during the term now
drawing to a close. Contingent expenses
are estimated at $5C0 for the next two
years, against the *200 lor this term. An
appropriation of $40W is requested to pay
costs In civil easel in which the State
or any head of a department is a party.
For this purpose $11:50 was requested in
the l«st report. Twenty thousand dollars
Is asked for the employment of spec.al
counsel and the taking of other steps
necessary to enforce the anti-trust laws
Of the State.
The amount of work transacted by the
Attorney General is each year on the in-
crease. and Mr. Davidson feels that th?
appropriation requested will be necessary
logllspose of tlie large number of matters
which will come before ills department
during the next two years.
MUCH WORK FOR WALTHALL
Will Have Much Litigation to Attend
to When He Succeeds Pol-
lard Tomorrow.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.—R. E» Craw-
ford of Houston having been appointed
to succeed to the vacancy in the staff
of assistants in the Attorney General's
Dpeartment, Assistant James D. "Walthall
moves to Mr. Pollard's desk on Monday.
Mr. "Walthall will inherit a large amount
of important railroad litigation, while
Mr. Crawford will get a heavy assign-
ment of daily routine, with very little
work pending ahead.
Mr. Walthall inherits the Pullman case
recently decided at New Orleans, and
which may be tried on its merits before
Federal Judge Meek at Dallas; the book-
keeping case, though it is understood
Mr. Pollard will prepare tlie State's brief
in that case even though lie will be out
of the Attorney General's Department,
lie does it because of his familiarity with
a case of much technicality and large
record. Mr. Walthall alau falls heir to
the case against the Trinity & Brazos
Valley pending on appeal in the Appellate
Court, where the Railroad Commission
sought to compel the railroad to do a lo-
cal business between \Vaxahachie and
Dallas, where the Trinity Brazos Valley
operates over the Missouri, Kansas
Texas track. The trial court decided
against tlie commission and it appealed.
Another case pending on appeal is to
oust the Western Union from the State
because it has no permit to engage in
business herein, and the State won it at
the trial. Its permit would cost $100,040.
Still another Is the Farwell depot case,
won by the Railroad -Commission, and
the Pecos & Northern Texas ordered to
construct a depot at Farwell. it goes to
the Supreme Court and Mr. Walthall
must care for it there, and also a com-
panion case, against the Hock Island, for
refusing to establish a depot at. Texhoma,
and there the courts held against the
commission, Texhoma not being a county
seat. In tlie event the Supreme Court
should grant a writ of error in the
Brownsville Line differential case, Mr.
Walthall will have to brief and argue the
case. A coincidence Is that Mr. Pollard
becomes the general attorney of tlie
Brownsville Dine.
Cases pending for trial on Mr. Pollard's
docket and to whieh Mr. Walthall suc-
ceeds include the following: Against the
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio for
refusing to obey an order of the Rallropd
Commission to operate a second passen-
ger train daily between San Antonio and
Del Rio; against the Pullman Company to
oust, it from Texas or pay permit fee of
4100.040; against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, the Houston & Texas Central and
the Frisco for failure to obey an order of
the Railroad Commission to construct a
depot at Denison; against the Texas
Pacific for refusing to deliver a loaded
car to the Cotton Belt at Big Sandy, and
against the Rock Island for failure to
maintain a trainmaster at Fort Worth,
the site of Its general offices. All of the
foregoing cases will have to be tried at
different times and constitute a volume
of work In themselves.
Several cases or records for them have
been sent to the Attorney General's De-
partment with Instructions to file suit
against different railroads for various in-
fractions of the commission's orders, one
of them being against the Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas for failure to construct a
depot at Waxahachle. However, the At-
torney General was later instructed not
to bring the suit for the present, and the
commission will finally withdraw it be-
cause the Missouri, Kansas & Texas is
building a depot at Waxahachle and the
roof in being placed on It, it is said here.
The Texas Pacific failed to obey an
order to establish and build a depot at
Judklns and suit was ordered.
Owing to the pressure of the litigation
before the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion and the Pullman case, Mr. Pollard
did not have time to bring the suits late-
ly ?.r1(,(T,ed ,nor fnr those pending. Mr.
Walthall also Inherits the case pending
before the Interstate Commission and4'
when the adjourned hearing Is resumed
n January he will have to attend. There
Is reason to believe that the hearing will
be called for New Orleans, though 8t.
Douis may be selected. It la evident that
Mr. Walthall Is going to have an immense
amount of work before him.
Reserve Agents Approved.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.—T. B. Lore,
Commissioner of Banking and Insurance,
today approved as reserve agencies for
the IJpscomb State Bank of Lipscomb,
the National Bank of Commerce of Kan-
sas City, Mo., and tlie First* National
Bank of AmariUo.
total property
valuation is
$2,171,011,880
This Year Shows an Increase of
$543,689,314 Over Assess*
menls of 190?.
0/ oil
POLL TAX IS $943,163.50;
SCHOOL TAX, $3,611,121.02
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.—The total
property valuation from the 237 organized
counties of the State this year amounts
to 12,171,011,850, according to the tabulation
of collectors' reports, which have been
completed by the Comptroller. The
property values in the 1907 assessment
amounted to $1,032,166,3-14. showing an In-
crease for this year of $543,0X9,314.
A total of the piopeity values of the
eight unorganized counties will be struck
by the Comptroller next week, or as
soon as all the reports are in. The valua-
tion from these eight counties last year
amounted to about 13,000,000, and, as all
are sparsely settled, it is believed that
this year's total will not be much
greater.
The State advalorem tax assessed on
tlie rolls for these 237 counties amounts
tills year to 11,357,449.89. The poll tax
total is given at $943,103.50, and the school
tax at $3,(117,121.02.
Land Values $940,189,286.
The following will show the summary
of all the assessed property in Texas, as
shown by the tax rolls of 190S, and also
a comparison with the property assessed
for 19vT:
Land: 154,249,363 acres; value, $910,189,286;
average value per acre for 1908, $0.09, 1907,
$4.36. The number of acres for 19<K7 were
110,335,380, and the total value $649,859,060,
showing an increase in value of $290,330,-
and an increase in number of acres
01 4,913,983. /
Town and city lots: Total value for
19o8, $429,0iai,32*i, an increase over the value
of 1907 of $llli,CaO,248.
Horses and mules: Number, 1,681,740,
valued at $77,943,747. The average value
for 1908 In $46.43, and for 1907 was $43.59.
The number lor 1907 was 1,506,060, and the
value $65,525,521, showing an increase in
number of 175,680 and a total increase in
value of $12.41^,226.
Cattle: Number, 6,233,073; total value,
$62,360,132, an Increase in value of from
$9.09 to $10 a bead. Cattle have increased
in value $3229.57, but have decreased in
number 270,983.
Jacka and jennets: Number, 16,614;
value, $815,768, an Increase of value per
head from $45.62 to $49.11. They have in-
reased in number during the year L'40
head and increased in valuo $113,094.
Sheep; Number, 1,493,908; value, $2,909,-
310 an average increase of value from
$1.70 to $1.1)4 a head. They have increased
in number <56,888, and in value $355,491.
Goats: Number, 712,900; value, $1,318,097,
.in average increase per head from $1.51
to $l.S4. They increased in total value
$175,348, but decreased in number 43.183.
: Number, 1,167,178; value. $2,711,188,
an increase per head from $2.19 to $2.32.
The total value of hogs Increased $110,412,
but the number decreased 19,414.
Dogs: Number 34,512. total value $414,-
852, increasing the average value from
$11.80 each to $12.02. The number of dogs
increased during the year 1368 and their
value $23,602.
Vehicles, wagons, carriages, etc.: Num-
ber 515,0*3, total value $14,397,219. or an In-
crease in average vehicle from $25.56 to
$27.95. The number of vehicles increased
9520 and their total value $1,478,380.
Goods and Merchandise $80,373,911.
Goods and merchandise: Value $80,371,-
011. Increase $15,049,799.
Materials and manufactured articles:
$4,612,221, Increase $679,804.
Manufacturers' tools and Implements:
$19,962,461, Increase $3,729,741.
Steam engines and boilers: $7,685,424, In-
crease $474,520.
Money of banks and bankers: $9,577,-
270, increase $975,162.
Credits of banks and bankers: $5,251,220,
Increase $2,242,407.
Money of others than banks or bank-
ers: $5,812,835, decrease $645,397.
Money on band or deposit: $20,033,054,
deereo.se $3,088,928.
Credits of others than banks or bank-
ers: $40,043,446, Increase $15,076,701.
Value of bonda, stocks, etc.: $1,700,289,
increase $917,055.
Men's Suits Men's 0'coats Men's Trousers
Just When You Need Them, Too!
Men's SuSIs
40.00 Men's
35.00 Men's
32.50 Men's
30.00 Men's
28.50 Men's
25.00 Men's
22.50 Men's
20.00 Men's
1H.50 Men's
15.00 Men's
12.50 Men's
10.00 Men's
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30.00
26.25
24.38
22.50
20.63
18.75
16.88
15.00
13.88
1 1.25
9.38
7.50
Men's O'coats
Men's Trousers
40.00 Overcoats
35.00 Overcoats
32.50 Overcoats
30.00 Overcoats
27.50 Overcoats
25.00 Overcoats
22.50 Overcoats
20.00 Overcoats
18.50 Overcoats
15.00 Overcoats
12.50 Overcoats
10.00 Overcoats
now 30.00
"OW 26.25
now 24.38
now 22.50
now 20.63
18.75
now 1 6.88
now..... J 5.00
now 1 3.88
»ow 1 1.25
now..... 9.38
no* 7.50
9.00 Trousers
8.00 Trousers
7.50 Trousers
6.00 Trousers
6.50 Trousers
6.00 Trousers
5.00 Trousers
4.50 Trousers
4.00 Trousers
3.50 Trousers
3.00 Trousers
2.50 Trousers
now 7.65
now 6.00
n°w 5.63
now 5.25
n°w 4.88
now 4.50
now 3.75
now 3.38
now 3.00
now 2.63
now 2.25
now | .88
25 % Reduction on Cravenette Coats
Bring Your
Tickets and
Get Your
Present
Aaron Frank Clothing Co.
509-11 East Houston Street
There's a
Present
Here lor
Everybody
Value of shares of capital stock com-
panies: $1,561,541, Increase $451,231.
Value of properties of companies and
corporations: $1,761,366, increase $405,485,
:orpoi
Mist
and j
in/
miscellaneous property: $51,078,012, in
crease $10,645,343.
National bank shares: Number 395.431,
valuo $46,711,411, an increase in number
shares of 46.500 and an increase in tot 1
value of $13,245,709.
Railroads: Number of miles 14.168,
tal value $130,758,023. increase in numb
of miles 776, increase in total value, $3
699,097.
Tax value of railroad rolling stoc
$26,227,621, for 1907 values $13,391,050. i
190"
value $4,0S7,631. value per mile $10,117.65;
for 1907 $8211.12, number of miles 336 and
the valuo $2,753,616, an increase of 68
miles and an increase of value of $1,311,915.
Telegraph and telephone lines: Number
of miles 28,342. value $7.(W9.885, value per
mile for 1908 $248.64, for 1907 $195.57, and
number of miles for 1907 28,102 and total
value $5,496,006, Increase In miles 331, in-
crease in value $1,573,680.
Steam, sailing and other vessels: Num-
ber 583, value $1,201,788, value of each for
19<iS $2065.18, for 1907 $2111.75, number for
1907 620 and the value $1,314,241; decrease
of 37 vessels «and decrease in value of
$109,453.
The Day's Charters. •
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 2S.-Chartered
today:
Houston Credit Clearing House of
Houston; capital stock $1000. Incorpor-
ators, J. B. Adous, John McClellan, D. D.
I'eden Jr., F. J. Allnoch, Fred Autrey,
Max R. Robson and R. M. Chapman, all
of Houston.
The Houston Times Publishing Com-
pany of Houston; capital stock, $500,000.
Incorporators: P. K. Fulton, E. H. Rlck-
er. Thomas Blezard, M. F. Fulton, C. E.
Ricker. H. 11. Rtcker, and L. M. Rlcker
of Houston, F. G. Rlcker of New York,
A. Kinsman. M. R. King, J. S. Rucker
and H. F. Cook of Chicago, E C. Wilcox
of Boston. It. M. Jacob.v of New York
City. A. IT. jrv.ellogg of Buffalo, N. Y.;
0, B. Hill set) of Waverly, 111., and H. A.
Dlnsmore of Fayetteville. Ark. The pur-
pose is declared to be the Issuance of a
daily newspaper In the City of Houston.
The 1-eonard ColleqiHte Institute of
Leonard, filed an amendment to its char-
ier changing its name to the College In-
stitute of Leonard.
Capitol Personals.
Dally Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.—Dr. b. t.
Young, Assistant State Health Officer,
will go to Brownsville Monday with a
view to locating and resuming the prac-
tice of medicine.
T. P. Morris. District Attorney of the
Thirty-eighth District, is here from
Uvalde.
Dr. W. M. Brumby, State Health Ofi-
cer, left for Denison this morning to ad-
dress the annual meeting of the North
Texas Teachers Association. He will re-
turn home tomorrow.
Commissioner T. B. Dove of the Depart-
ment of Insurance and Banking, left to-
night for Kansas City, Mo., where he
goes on departmental business. From
there he will go to New York. He ex-
pects to be absent from the capltol about
ten days.
Attorney General Davidson went to
Galveston tonight to spend Sunday, Mon-
day and probably Tuesday.
Assistant Attorney General Lightfoot
has gone to Waco to maks an address
before the Masonic body in session there.
Mr. Lightfoot is prominent in Masonry.
Office Assistant Attorney General Pol-
ard. who severs his connection with the
[State on December 1, will go to Kings-
llle next week to become general attor-
ney for the St. Louis, Brownsville
Mexico Railroad. His family will reside
here until about the first of the year.
Mr. Pollard is originally from East Tex-
as, having: resided at Carthage. Panola
County, coming from there to Austin to
enter the Davidson cabinet.
Miss Agnes Nelson of Laredo, who is
attending St. Mary's Academy at San
Antonio, was the Thanksgiving' guest of
her brother, Lawrence Nelson, a varsity
boy.
Attorney General R. V. Davidson left
tonight for Galveston, where be goes on
an errand of private business. He ex-
pects to return to the capital Monday.
SAYS TEXAS CAN RAISE GRAPES.
Iowa Correspondent Fixes Callahan
County as Best Place.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 28.—H. L. Owens
of Burlington, Iowa, his written the Com-
missioner of Agriculture endeavoring to
prove by the Bible that the center cli-
matic point of the grape species east of
the Rocky Mountains is located In Calla-
han County, Texas. The point, he aays.
is located at latitude 32 degrees and 27
seconds and at longitude 99 degrees and
11 seconds west. Tills point, he declares,
lies in Callahan County, and In proof
cites numerous chapters and verses of
the Bible.
Mr. Owens declares that he has
launched a movement to ask the United
States Congress to appropriate $10,000 to
establish ari experiment station in Calla-
han County and he seeks information in
regard to the soils in that section of
Texas. He is thoroughly convinced that
'"the finest specimens of European and
Asiatic grapes'" can be raised in this sec-
tion of Texas.
WILL MEET IN JANUARY.
Mistake Made in Calling Presidential
Electors Together.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN. Tex., Nov. 28.—It was discov-
ered today that the Texas Presidential
Electors had been called to meet In this
city on the wrong date. Instead of con-
vening on Wednesday of next week, as
first advised by the Secretary of State,
the electors will assemble in Austin on
the third day of next January. The Sec-
retary of State has sent a second notice
to the Texas electors Informing them of
the correct date of the meeting. The. mis-
take In dates of meeting resulted from
the failure of the Texas Statutes to pro-
vide in the same manner as the later Fed-
eral act. vyf course, the Federal law
governs.
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