The Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 78, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 19, 1907 Page: 1 of 14

                                
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AND ONE DYING
IN PISTOL DUEL
Desperate Three=Cornered Gun
Fight at a Coal Camping
Mine at Sloca, Ala.
SUPERINTENDENT IS
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BIRMINGHAM. Ala., March 18.—H. H.
Chamberlain, superintendent of the mines
of the Crescent Coal Coraparty at Sloca,
Ala., and Joe Creek, a miner, are dead,
and Will Creek, the latter's brother, Is
dying as the result of a three-cornered
pistol fight at the mines la to today.
The two miners had been drinking and
were creating a disturbance at the com-
pany store, when Chamberlain tried to
quiet them. Joe Creek fired on him, in-
flicting wounds which resulted in Cham-
berlain's death several hours later.
While lying mortally wounded. Cham-
berlain fired several shots, one of which
killed Joe Creek and fatally injured his
brother Will
Chamberlain's remains will be sent to
Richmond, Va., his former home.
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AUSTIN WILL REBUILD DAM.
Vote on Proposition to Reconstruct
Great Bulwark Across Colorado
Is 1705 to 504.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AI'STIN, Tex., March 18.—The election
held here today on the proposition of the
Consolidated Construction Company of
New York to rebuild' the darn at an an-
nual cost to the city of $65,000 for a period
< f forty years, resulted in a victory for
the proposition by a vote of 1725 for and
504 against.
DR. WHITE S APPOINTMENT.
Yellow Fever Expert Is Made Super-
visor of Quarantine.
NEW ORLEANS, l*a., March 18.—Dr.
J. XI. White, the United States Marine
Hospital officer, who directed the cam-
paign which stamped out yellow fever In
New Orleans In 1905, tonight received
his appointment as supervising inspector
of maritlmi quarantine in Louisiana,
Mississippi and the Central American
fruit ports.
His appointment was made by Surgeon
General VVyman of the Murine Hospital
Service and inaugurated the National
quarantine which, in .Louisiana, sup-
plants the State system.
B. F. YOAKUM FORAKER IS
CONFERS WITH
ROOSEVELT
Rock Island Man Admits That
He Is Not in Washington
for His Health.
SPECULATING ON THE
OBJECT OF THE VISIT
Impression That Railway Man Will Make
It Plain to the President That Public
Confidence in Railroad Securities
Must Be Restored at Once.
Special Telegram to The TCxpress.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—B. F. Yoa-
kum, chairman of the board of directors
of the Rock Island system, was a caller
at the White House today and spent an
hour with the President. Mr. Yoakum
was the first of the big men of the
railroad and financial world to start the
fashion in pilgrimages to the White
House. He came to see the President
even before J. Pierpont Morgan, and
talked at that time of the general ques-
tion of Government relation to ti»e rail-
roads and business in general. His re-
turn today, in advance of the announced
engagement of President Charles S. Mel-
len of the New Haven road, who is to
meet the President tomorrow afternoon,
caused much interest and speculation.
Yoakum Won't Talk.
Mr. Yoakum would n it talk of his con-
ference with the President, except to
admit that he was not in Washington
ni< rely for the sake of enjoying the sun
shine, and to deny that his coming -as
to do with any contemplated prosecu-
tion in connection with the Alton
financing.
There is a strong impression that Mr.
Yoakum may have had something inter-
esting to tell the President about the
ii"t results of the rceent Wall Street
flurry. It is believed ihat Mr. Yoakum,
Mr. Mellen and probably other railroad
men will make it plain in conversation
with the President that Is is now neces-
sary that public confidence in railroad
see iirities be firmly established so 'that,
railroads may be able to get money to
carry forward their projees of extension
and betterment.
RIPLEY SLAPS AT ROOSEVELT.
Says President Is Responsible for
Present Uncertain Conditions
in Money Market.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 18.—In an
Interview in an afternoon paper Presi
dent E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe, who
is now at Santa Barbara, is quoted as
saying that President Roosevelt is re-
spcr.sible for the present uncertain con-
ditions in Wall Street, and attributes the
recent semi-panic to "brush fires which
tlir» President started."
Mi. Ripley said that because of tho
general anti-railroad sentiment in the
country the Santa Fe was prepared to
inaugurate a policy of strict conserva-
tism in the matter of the expenditures,
and that many contemplated improve-
ments in the company's property would
have to await more favorable conditions.
Mr. Ripley is also quoted as saying that
he believes it is likely that President
Harriman of the Union Pacific will re-
tire from active railroad life within a
ytai.
MELLEN IN WASHINGTON.
New York Railway President Will See
Mr. Roosevelt Today.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—President
Charles S. Mellen of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford Railroad arrived here
tonight and tomorrow will confer with
President Roosevelt regarding the rail-
road situation.
Mr. Mellen went immediately to his
hotel and denied himself to interviewers.
  
Victoria Residence Sold.
Special Telegram to The Express.
VICTORIA, Tex.. March 18.—J. F. Hart
has sold his residence situated in the
northern part of the city to Manly Wil-
liams. Mr. Williams will erect a new
residence on tho lot after the present one
is removed.
9:00 p. m.
7:30 a. m.
COMING TO
BROWNSVILLE
TEEN PAGES
F THE NEWS.
Senate Committee on Military Af-
fairs will Be Accompanied
by Mr. Culberson.
KILBOURN AND BRADY
ASSAIL CITY'S PEOPLE
Object of Visit to Ascertain Character
of Citizenship of the "Shot-Up"
Town—Rifles Used on April 13
Belonged to Company B.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON, March IS.—Tho Browns-
ville investigators, headed by Senator
Warren, and including Senator Foraker,
will leave for Brownsville shortly after
April 1 to look over the ground and ascer-
tain the character of the citizens whom
Captain Kilbotirn and Lieutenant Brady
have assailed. Senator Culberson will ac-
company the party.
Lieutenant Brady on the stand today
said the Brownsville people were shield-
ing from arrest a man named Franklin,
who had killeU a private.
Senator Culberson induced Chairman
Warren to force Brady to give the name
of his informant. Brady after answer-
ing the question finally named Miss An-
na Kelly, daughter of Capt. William
Kelly of Brownsville, as the person who
told him that Franklin had not fled to
Mexico, but was living in Brownsville.
Senator Culberson has telegraphed to
Captain Kelly for information on tho
subject.
COMPANY B'S RIFLES.
Report of Ordnance Experts in the
Brownsville. Affray Fixes Identity
0 fv • Guns.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Four rifles
from Company 13. Twenty-fifth Infantry,
were used in the Brownsville affray, if
the Ordnance Department can substanti-
ate the report of the experts sent to the
Senate Committee on Military Affairs
today concerning the microscopic exam-
inations of the thirty-three shells picked
up in the streets of the town on the
morning following the shooting.
Rifles Belonged to Company B.
All of the rifles in the possession of tho
battalion at Fort Brown on the night of
Aug. 13 were sent to the Springfield ar-
senal and two shots were fired from
each. The shells used were then com-
pared with those picked up at Browns-
ville, and the officers making the tests I
reported that it had been demonstrated I
beyond dispute that four guns of Com-
pany B were used in the discharge of all
the thirty-three shells. The reports were
made a part of th< committee records,
and Lieutenant Hawkins of the Ordnance
Department and G. A. Spooner, expert
inspector of gauges used in the manu-
facture of muskets at the Springfield ar-
senal. are ready to go on the stand to
explain the reports and be cross-exam-
ined concerning them.
Fixing Rifle's Ownership.
Two of Company It's rifles, said to
have been used In the affray, were kept
in the storehouse under lock, the key of
which was in the possession of former
Quartermaster S< rgeant McCurdy, and
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Weath-
er forecast:
West Texas and New Mexico—Fair
Tuesday and Wednesday; colder Wed-
nesday.
East Texas—Generally fair Tuesday
and Wednesday, colder Wednesday in
rorth portion, fresh south winds on
the coast.
Local Weather Forecast.
For San Antonio and vicinity, Tues-
day, unsettled weather.
SAN ANTONIO.
Four witnesses testify before the Pen-
rose courtmartial.
Confession of Gray concerning Browns-
ville raid is officially branded as a fabri-
cation.
City Council transacts much routine
business.
United States Army will be trained in
art of managing balloons.
Bright prospects for largest political
convention in history of San Antonio to-
morrow night.
TEXAS.
The Cattle Raisers' Convention Is
opened at Fort Worth, the address of
President Ike Pryor and the eloquent
resolutions upon the death of Capt. John
T. Lytle, secretary of the association, be-
ing features of the proceedings.
Favorable report is made by the Senate
Judiciary Committee No. 2 on Senator
Murray's bill creating the office of State
Oil Inspector.
Speaker Love's plan to provide State
supervision over the accounts of county
officers arouses warm debate in the
House.
Resolution accepting the apologies of
Senator Holsey and James H. Quarles,
newspaper correspondent, principals in a
fisticuff in the Senate last week, is
adopted.
The conference report on the anti-pass
bill covers all manner of free transporta-
tion, free telegraph and telephone business
and steamboat rides.
Senator Griggs receives a great number
of letters commending his sanitary bill
relating to hotels and rooming houses.
Austin votes for the reconstruction of
the dam across the Colorado, the vote
being 1725 for to 504 against.
Michigan man makes Inquiries as to
legal aspect of establishing a matrimonial
bureau In Texas.
DOMESTIC.
Greater Louisville exposition Is opened.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe ac-
cuses President Roosevelt of being re-
sponsible for present uncertain conditions
In Wall Street.
Experts find that the bullets picked up
at Brownsville were discharged from
Springfield rifles used by Company B, of
Twenty-fifth Infantry, colored.
Thaw's fate may be decided the latter
part of this week.
Vice President Fairbanks speaks before
Fellowship Club in Chicago.
J. * . Yoakum of i.ha Rock Island Sys-
tem confers with President Roosevelt.
Leslie M. Shaw says railroads could not
transport an army from New York to the
Pacific coast, in sixteen months.
Senate investigating committee, accom-
panied by Senator Culberson, is coming
to Brownsville.
FOREIGN.
Nlcaraguan naval forces capture the
Honduran post of Trujiilo.
Reported that Salvador has allied itself
with Honduras in the war against Nicara-
gua.
Ex-Foreign Minister of Russia, Count
Lamsdorff, is einking fast at San Remo,
Italy.
Two United States gunboats now at the
scene of the Honduran-Nlcaraguan war.
President Castro of Venezuela returns
to Caracas much improved in health.
sports.
Orbicular wins the feature event at the
Fair Grounds, New Orleans.
Feature of the Oaklawn track card Is
captured by Tivolini.
Number of Mexican golf players will I
take part in San Antonio golf tournament |
In April.
Arthur Hyman, at 15 to 1, wins the
2-year-old event at Oakland.
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Association Lands Noble Character of
Deceased Secretary, President Pryor
Makes Address—San Antonio Dele-
gation Hustling for 1988.
Special Telegram to The Express.
FORT WORTH, JV.v, March IS.—The
thirty-first annual convention of the Cat-
tle Raisers' Association of Texas was
called to order by President Ike T. Pryor
at 10 o'clock this morning in Greenwall's
Opera House.
Mayor Harris of Fort Worth and
Mayor Davis of North Fort Worth both
delivered address of welcome which com-
pletely disarmed any cattleman present
of any suspicion that there would not
be plent vof free grass on both sides of
Trinity Hlvr this week.
Nat M. Washer of San Antonio re-
sponded in his usual happy vein in behalf
of the cattlemen and assured the authori-
ties of both cities that they would obey
the command to take ehirge of every-
thing that was not nailed down.
Gov T. M. Campbell and Secretary of
Agriculture Janus Wilson were on the
dav's program for addresses, but failed
to' reach the < ity. Governor Campbell
is busy in Austin and Secretary Wilson
in the letter re.vived by President Pryor
regrets his "'nubility to attend, but say*
h'M time is so completely taken up with
the work of meat inspection and' en-
forcement of the pure food laws that
he telt that he could be of more benefit
to tii«> cattlemen by doing his whole
d-.itv in his official capacity at the seat
of Oo\ornmonf.
Kx-Senatoi 11. A. Harris of Kansas,
who was >n th • program for today, came
in «»n a leiaved train this afternoon and
will take first place on the program to-
iiiorn morning, and vi"' 1!sm s* "Mar
.'..••is 'or Our Surplus Meat Products."
Pryor Delivers Address.
The only address of th ■ day was that
,,f president Pryor, which was received!
with considerable applause, as it touched
on all t»" vital issues in association work.
President l'ry >r's address was as fol-
lows:
Members r>f the Cattle Raisers Associ-
ation. Ladles and Gentlemen:
It is the duty of your president, to ad-
dress you on such occasions as this, call-
ing your attention to such facts, as, in
his judgment, would be of interest to
the members of this association, and
making such recommendations as would
advance the interest and prestige of this
organisation.
The harmony of our members and good
feeling prevailing in association circles,
ESTABLISHED 1865.
THAW'S FATE
MAY BE FIXED
THIS WEEK
Jerome Closes Prosecntion With
the Introduction of the Evelyn
Nesbit's Affidavit.
DELIAS CONSENTS TO
HAVE THE PAPER READ
Document in Some Ways a Direct Con-
tradiction of llummel's Testimony is
That It Shows He Was Acting
as the Girl's Attorney.
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NEW YORK, March l,S.-When the
Thaw trial was adjourned this afternoon
there remained but four expert witnesses
to be examined before tho taking of
evidence closes. Three experts were dis-
posed of today in a little more than an
hour, so It Is generally believed that the
last word of evidence may be uttered
in the famous case tomorrow. In that
event the summing up by Mr. Delma*
for the defense will begin Wednesday
morning. District Attorney Jerome will
reply on Thursday. Justice Fitzgerald
Hyay proceed immediately with his
charge to the jury or he may defer it
until Friday. Unless the unexpected
happens there should be a verdict by
Friday night.
The case for the people was finally
closed today by the introduction of tho
much discussed Kvelyn Nesbit Thaw
affidavit which, with the consent of tho
defense, was read to the jury in full. The
affidavit proved a surprise only in the
alleged severity of the assaults Harry
K. Thaw is said to have made upon
Evelyn Nesbit during their trip through
Europe in 1908, when, according to tho
testimony of Abraham Hummel, Miss
Nesbit would not sign statements which
Thaw had prepared, accusing Stanford
White of having drugged and ruined her.
Thaw's Alleged Cruelty.
In this affidavit Miss Nesbit charges
Thaw with having attacked her with a
cowhide whip while they were stopping
at an old castle in the Austrian Tyrol
and the whipping of her bare skin until
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