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HOUSTON DAILY POST: TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1910.
$18.30RCHot Springs
EVERY DAY!
I. & G. N
LIMIT 90 DAYS FOR RETURN
Ticket Office, 217 Main Street
M. L. MORRIS. Arent
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20% LESS
KeprMentii a "hand-me-'lown"
price for a custom-quality Suit or
QTMVMt.
Does this statement, with these
prices, hiterest you?
$40.00
137.50
$30.00
$25.00
$20.00
$15.00
Values
Values
Values
Values
Values
Values
(Blacks only ex
price marks still
recommendation. Tlie proposed com-
merce court of five members to consider
appeals from the Interstate commerce
commission with nn appeal only to the
•tipreme court <>f the I'nited Stutes was
objected to particularly by the railroad
presidents. They declared that the court
•non would become nothing more than a
second commission. They preferred to
taki< appeal* <Ii;«• 11>• to the federal
courts. The recommendation for a court,
however, will remain In the message.
The railroad men objected also »o the
proposed restrictions on the issuance of
■locks, bonds and short term notes.
MI "ST APPROVE SKCL'RITIKS.
President Taft will recommend that no
lurh securities will be issued without
the approval of the Interstate commerce
commission, based upon a finding that
the issues arc for purposes authorized
by law and for a price not less than par
for stock and not lei-s than the reason-
able market value for bonds.
The railroad men claim thi3 restriction
will Interfere with their borrowing abil-
ity, The nmcndmi-nls arc designed to
prevent overissues of stocks and honria
and the custom known as "watering." If
adopted. It is said, tlie amendment will
also put an end to what is known as
"speculative construction." The railroads
Objected to the proposed amendment giv-
ing to shippers the right of selecting a
through route for their goods and to giv-
ing the' Interstate commerce commission
the right to initiate complaints and hold
up new ratings und classifications by a
railroad ntilfsn sufficient cause shall be
■liown for the new rates.
NO INCORPORATION LAW BILK
It was said today that no bill has been
prepared to carry out the president's
Ideas as to a Federal incorporation law.
He will leave the working out of this
measure to congress, lie will recommend,
however, that the law make the process
of Federal incorporation n voluntary one.
The terms upon which charters are to
be allowed and licenses granted will have
•to lie included In the law, but it is be-
lleved that no law can empower the ex-
ecutive branch of the government to re-
voke either a charter or a license, and
that such revocation can come only
th rough the courts for cause.
AUTOS ON RURAL H0UTES
Urged by Garner at Postoffice
Department.
(Houston Post Sferial.)
I "WASHINGTON, January M.—Congress-
man Garner of Texas was at the post-
Office department today to urge the sec-
ond assistant postmaster general to con-
alder bids for the delivery of _ mnll on
•tar routes by automob'Ies wherever the
auto may be substituted for horse upon
terms of equality In the matter of ex-
pense.
For Instance. Mr. earner desires that
even after bids for delivering the mail on
■ tar routes have been closed, a belated
bid for such transportation of the mail
bv automobiles shall be considered, pro-
vided. of course, the Innovation involves
no increased cost of consequences.
Several States have star routes served
by automobiles, Texas having one In op-
eration between Sati Angelo and Ozona.
Although Mr. Garner did not get a.
promise of favorable consideration of his
proposition at tills time, he learned that
In some of the larger cities, notably in
Mew York and Chicago, the automobile
is supplanting the pneumatic tube service
in transporting the mail from the heav-
ier centers of accumulation to the oost-
office. This use of the automobile en-
courages Mr. Gainer to b'llrve that he-
fore long the automobile will tie in use
en star routes.
&AMEREZ TO BE EXTRADITED.
Is Charged With Forging Southern
Pacific Wheat Certificates.
{Associated l'rsss Report.i
WASHINGTON, January 3.—Charged
With defrauding the government of Mex-
ico out of $110,uu0 by the forjjery of South-
ern Pacific wheat certificates, Kduanio
?lamerez will be extradited to that coun-
ry. The certificates alleged to have been
forged deal with the customs duties on
■hlpment.s fiom the United States to Mex-
ico. and the offense was alleged to have
been committed in the latter country.
Sam Cowan in Washington.
(Houston Post Special.)
WASHINGTON. January 3.—Samuel H.
Cowan of Fort Worth, attorney for the
{National Live Stock association, arrived
in Washington today to argue several
cases before the interstate commerce
commission.
' Mr. Cowan will leave Friday night for
Denver to attend the annual convention
of the association.
DEFIED ZELAYA
To Produce Proofs of American
Support of Insurgents.
$32.00
$30.00
$24.00
$20.00
$16.00
$12.00
cepted.) Original
on the garments.
VIGIL DENIED CHARGES
Of Marines Having Participated in
Nicaraguan Battles—Titular
President Completed His Offi-
cial Calls at Mexico City.
(Associated Press Refort.)
MEXICO CITY, January 3.—Mexico
Neuvo, In Its issue of today, published
a letter from Francisco Vigil, represen-
tative of the provisional government of
Rluefields, In which Vigil defies Josa
Santos Zelaya to present proof in justifi-
cation of his statement made here that
the revolution was supported by the
United States.
The letter was addressed to Juan .->an-
cliez Azcona, Mexico City, and read as
follows:
"Among the many assertions that J. S.
/.el ay a has made since his arrival at
Saliua Cruz, some of which have been
denied by the Associated Press, there is
one which says that the revolution of
Nicaragua, which caused the downfall of
Ills absolutist policy, was supported by
the I'nited States.
"I, in the name and with instruction
of the provisional government of ±Jlue-
fields and for the sake of truth, defy
Mr. Zela.va to publish the proofs to justi-
fy his statements, and in case he may
not do so, I point him out to the Mexican
people as a solemn calumniator."
Belaya said today that he had in his
possession indisputable proofs of the par-
ticipation of American marines in bat-
tles in Nicaragua and that in due time
and In his own way he may give then
to the newspapers for publication.
Mexico's guest completed his official
calls when lie visited the state depart-
ment at noon today and paid h!s re-
spects to Minister of Foreign Affairs Jg-
nacio Mariscal. Previously lie had call-
ed on President Diaz and on Subsecre-
tary of Foreign Relations Gamboa. I.ast
evening the president returned his call.
Alone is his coach. President Diaz went
to Zela.va's apartments and an hour later
departed in the same unceremonious
manner.
President Diaz seldom goes out unac-
companied and his democratic call on.
the former executive of Nicaragua was
the subject today of no little comment.
Will Meet Little Opposition.
(Associated Press Refort.)
WASHINGTON, January 3.—While no
official information has been received up
to a late hour tonight concerning the for-
ward movement of# the Nicaraguan revo-
lutionary army, the news, when conveyed
to the Central American diplomats here,
was received with great interest.
"The advance up the Mieo river to
Chile is undoubtedly partly a feint," said
one of the diplomats. "We have every
reason to believe that a strong force
has been sent around to Greytown to
wipe out the eovernment force there.
When Greytown Is taken, as we have
every reason to believe it will be, the
San Juan river will be opened to Lake
Nicaragua and the two branches of the
Estrada army will then join forces on
the shore of Lake Nicaragua."
Tn the opinion of Nicaraguans here,
Madrlz lias only a ragged force left and
even that la low-spirited, owing to tiio
flight of Zelaya. Estrada's troops, on
the other hand, have been completely
rested after their first victory of Rama,
and are eager to press their success. For
this reason Senor Castillo believes that
the cumins conflict will clear the way to
a direct attack on the capital.
Estrada Advancing on Managua.
(Associated Press Report.)
BLUE FIELDS, January 3.—General
Estrada's campaign into the western half
of Nicaragua has begun. The entire pro-
visional army which wo* the victory at
Recreo is being transported In boats up
the Mico ri\er to Chile, which will replace
Rama as the base of supplies. A de-
cisive battle may be fought at Atovapo.
OVER 300 GERMANS DIED.
Terrible Tale of Suffering in Brazil
Told by Survivors.
(Houston Post Special.)
BERLIN, January 3.—A story of mal-
treatment, terrible sufferings and death
among VX) Germans who left Hamburg in
July last to assist in the construction of
Madeira and Ma more railroad in Brazil
Is told In the socialist paper, Vorwaerts.
Ninety-nine of the workmen returned
to Europe late tn December aboard the
steamers Rio Negro and Rhaetia. Most
of them are said to be suffering from
tropical diseases. The survivors assert
that more than 300 of their former com-
rades are dead while the remainder are
in hospitals.
One of the party which succeeded In
getting back to Germany declares that
conditions are entirely different from
what had been described to them before
they signed the contracts.
Bad Blood
Is the cause of all humors, erurtions,
boils, pimples, scrofulous sores, eczema
or salt rheum, as well as of rheumatism,
catarrh and other troubles. The greatest
blood remedy for all these troubles,
proved by Its unequal record of cures, is
Hood's Sarsaparilla
In usual liquid form or In chocolated
tablets known as 8arsatabs. 100 doses $1.
USE KEYSTONA, FLAT FINISH
An Oil Paint Without Gloss—Washable
For use on Plastered Walls, Metal Ceilings, Woodwork,
over Wallpaper, Burlap and for Undercoats for Enamel.
.HOUSTON PAINT CO.,
701-703 FANNIN
STREET
FUTURE DEALS
May B; Dealt With in a New
Federal Statute.
LEGITIMATE PHASE TO IT
Which Must Not Be Hurt When the
Gambling Feature 13 Minimized
or Eliminated—Simple Rule
Laid Down by Courts.
BY C. A. EDWARDS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 3.—
President Taft is planning to Initiate a
movement for legislation to stop gamb-
ling in futures.
A conference of his advisers is in con-
templation to devise means of controlling
this practice. The cotton growers of the
South, who beiievo that methods of the
exchanges have had the effect of bear-
ing cotton, the manufacturers of New
England the South and Manchester, who
Just as firmly believe that gambling tends
to raise the prices, have been for a long
time attributing much of the trouble of
the textile trade to the methods of hand-
ling cotton for future delivery.
likewise, there is widespread belief
that the dealing in futures in the wheat
pit, the provision pits, etc., has similarly
demoralizing effect on other necessaries
of life.
The proWlem of how to reduce these
dealings to a basis of strictly legitimate
transactions has been considered by pub-
lic men for years, and the question has
never been answered.
The business of dealing in futures is a
strictly legitimate and necessary trans-
action under modern conditions. Cotton
affords the best illustration. The manu-
facturer at Pall River or Manchester
must send out his agents to sell his goods
Ions before those goods are manufac-
tured. He must place a price on the goods
for future delivery.
In order to do that he must know what
the raw material is going to cost, which
will enter into the composition of these
goods when they are made.
Therefore, the spinner goes upon the
exchange and buys for future delivery.
■\Vhen he has his year's supply of cotton
contracted for, knowing the prices it will
cost him, lie can send out his selling
agents and sell the product of that cot-
ton with certainty that he will not be a
heavy loser 011 the day of delivery.
Likewise the consumer benefits, because
the manufacturer, getting his cotton in
an open market, where his competitors
also must buy at prices that everybody
knows, can do business on a much closer
margin, with reasonable security than he
could do if there were large elements
of uncertainty about what his competitor
would have to pay for his cotton.
But, it is urged, the dealings on the
cotton exchanges often amount to ten
times the actual value of the year's cot-
ton crop. This is accepted as prima facie
evidence of gambling; yet students of the
methods of the exchanges insist it is not.
A particular bale of cotton or bushel of
wheat may conceivably be sold a number
of times before it is made into cloth
or eaten and even before it is delivered
in the market, and all the transactions
may be entirely legitimate.
Again, many of the transactions are in
the nature of "hedging,'* which is gen-
erally regarded as legitimate, and cer-
tainly under present business conditions
is absolutely necessary. These elements
being all considered, however, it Is ad-
mitted by the authorities that there is
still more or less serious effect from
speculation. How can it be controlled?
The courts have laid down a very simple
rule. A contract for future delivery, made
with the bona fide intent in the mind
of either of the parties that the actual
produce shall be delivered or received,
Is legitimate. A contract made with the
intent in both men's minds that there
shall be no actual delivery, but merely
that the difference one way or the other
on the day of delivery shall be paid Ir
cash, is not legitimate business.
Perfectly simple; but also perfectly im-
possible of enforcement. Because if such
a contract goes into court, one or the
other person to the transaction is certain
to declare positively that he had actual
delivery in mind. The man who has
bought wheat at $1, which on the day
of delivery is'worth $1.25. is certain to
recollect that he intended to have the
actual wheat delivered to him; he wants
it; he doesn't care whether he gets the
difference in cash, but will gladly take
the wheat. And that is always the case.
It has been utterly impossible, in experi-
ence, to differentiate between gambling
and legitimate transactions, and the peo-
ple who have tried to develop a method
to prevent gambling have been forced,
generally, to the conclusion that it would
Involve the destruction of the exchange
system of dealing.
The bureau of corporations a couple of
years ago made a detailed investigation
of the subject of dealing in cotton
futures, and recommended certain
changes in the practices of the New
York cotton exchange; but these looked
to the reorganization of practices, and
not to any effort to prevent dealing in
futures. On the other hand, the con-
clusion of the people who made that
study was thnt the exchange system
tends to minimize fluctuations, Jo keep
the market more steady, and to give the
producer and the consumer the advan-
tage of the least possible measure of ex-
pense for the processes of the middle
man.
"It is true," said one of the authorities
In this matter today, "that the cotton
growers of the South think the exchanges
always are controlled by the bears. Well,
the spinners think they are always con-
trolled by the bulls; and both are wrong.
Tn actual experience, there must be a
buj-er for every seller, a seller for every
buyer; and the forces which tend to de-
press prices are counteracted by those
which tend to Increase them, always
making exception of those cases in which
corners and squeezes disarrange the sit-
uation for a brief period."
When William Peters Hepburn was
chairman of the' hous» interstate com-
merce committee, he tried to work out a
bill to control this evil, and found that
the obstacles were almost insurmounta-
ble. The commission which President
Taft has in mind to study the situation
will at least find that the field is no
new one. and in the opinion of those who
have tried to formulate remedial legisla-
tion. they will experience the utmost dif-
ficulty devising legislation which will not
do more harm than good.
Nevertheless, there is universal admis-
sion that serious evils exist and need
correction. The belief is widespread that
this species of dealing has much to do
with the Increased price of necessaries of
life. It is expected that such an inves-
tigation as is in the executive mind
should shed a useful illumination on this
phase of the question.
Taft Broke Through Precedent,
As a precedent maker and a custom
breaker. President Taft Sunday put It aU
over his predecessor in office. Colonel
Roosevelt waded creeks and slid over
precipices with glee and some bumps, but
Mr. Taft smashed a social rule by calling
on Judge Lurton at the hotel where the
new member of the supreme court bench
is staying. For years and years no presi-
dent of the United States has done any-
thing of the kind. The early presidents
probably thought of themselves as human
beings bearing the social obligations of
other humans. Therefore, they called on
friends.
But presidents of later years have not.
made calls. Nor have the wives of presi-
dents. The Tafts, however, have paid
no attention to that rule of monarchy.
They have gone out to dinner and now the
president gives the final smash to the
monarchial rule by visiting a private citi-
zen, for such the Judge was at the time
of the call.
A fact very much in point, too, is that
he did not send word that he was about
to pay the Judge a visit. When the presi-
dent of the Lnited States decides to go
somewhere—the theater, for instance, he
sends word so that proper preparations
may be made for his coming.
There is one thing, however, the presi-
dent still lacks; that is a corps of press
agents. His exploits do not receive the
newspaper notice accorded to the wor*£S
of his predecessor. There is no corps or
"fair-haired boys" to make the big stories
that told the world about the doings of
the mighty hunter.
Morgan's Visit to Taft.
Although President Taft is the only
recipient of J. P. Morgan's confidence
with regard to the latter's visit to the
^ hite House, the impression here is
strong that the big financier came here
with a twofold object in view: First, to
heg of the president to get back to his
old position and advocate a change in
the anti-trust law so as to make illegal
only "unreasonable" restraints on inter-
state commerce; second, to protest
against Secretary MacVeagh's determina-
tion to accept no bonds other than gov-
ernment obligations as security for bank
circulation.
Morgan, as the king of American
finance, has a large interest, directly or
indirectly, in every large combination in
the country, his pet being the United
States Steel corporation and the electri-
cal combination, now under investigation.
So long as the lav/ remains unchaged
there Is dager of some attorney general
deciding to look into the affairs of the
steel company with a view to determining
if it is not a violation of the anti-trust
statute.
It Is known that the men directly inter-
ested In the electrical combination are be-
coming fidgety on account of the investi-
gation. They are beginning to lose confi-
dece in that proposition that the patent
laws of the country permit them to make
the division of receipts between the Gen-
eral Electric and the Westinghouse, two-
thirds to the General Electric and one-
third to Westiughouse, under pretense
that they are merelv patent licenses, one
of the other.
The men making the investigation are
asserting that the contract for an ex-
change of patents is merely an Incidental
In the conspiracy between those concerns
—which control every electrical patent
worth having—to monopolize the business
of manufacturing electrical appliances and
generating electricity. That is what those
companies do, although there are 200 odd
corporations, each of, which is, in effect,
mex'ely a department of the combination.
The reason for hostility toward Secre-
tary MacVeagh has been indicated in the
refusal of Senator Aldrich to father legis-
lation to equalize the $700,000,000 worth
of 2 per cent bonds with the $100,000,000
worth of Panama 3 per cents he desires
to issue so as to replenish the stock of
money in the treasury.
Aldrich's hostitlity has been interpreted
to mean that the banking institutions
with which he is on friendly terms no
longer hold any 2 per cent bonds, but are
ready to take up an issue of 3 per cents
and hold them until the country banks
must have them for circulation purposes,
fiecretary MacVeagh's decision to accept
only government bonds as security for
circulation is a blow to the big financial
'institutions that, in the first place, pro-
moted the companies that issued the
bonds and then used the bonds as security
for circulation. That is one weapon Mac-
Veagh had been using in his brush with
Wall street, and it is believed it fur-
nishes one of the reasons for Morgan's
call at the White House.
SOMETHING OF STANDING.
New General Manager of Houston
Oil Company.
(From the Southern Lumberman.)
ST. LOUIS. Mo., December 28.—One of
the most important changes that have
taken place in local yellow pine circles
in months occurred this week when
Amoa W. Standing, widely known
throughout the yellow pine trade as gen-
eral manager of the Grayson-McLeod
Lumber company, severed his connection
with that concern to accept the position
of general manager of the Houston Oil
company of Houston, Texas.
The resignation of Mr. Standing was a
complete surprise to the trade in this
city. The first knowledge of it came
when the news went around that Mr.
Standing had left St. Louis and gone to
Houston to take up his new duties. He
will make arrangements within the next
two weeks to locate pis family comforta-
bly and will return in time to wind up his
affairs in St. Louis and take his family
back to Houston with him by the middle
vof January.
No greater compliment could be paid
Mr. Standing than the proffer to him of
this new post. He has been so long iden-
tified with the lumber interests in a re-
sponsible way that he will be greatly
missed from his long-time field of activ-
ity. In his new position he has a brilliant
future, and he goes into Texas with the
good wishes of a small army of admir-
ing friends.
Mr. Standing has had a large qualifying
experience for his new position, in addi-
tion to that best qualification of all,
strong, natural ability and a versatility
which enables him to adapt himself to
new conditions with comparative ease.
His is a quiet but forceful personality,
and his capacity for accomplishing things
is of the broad and comprehensive kind.
His work is so well ordered, whatever
it may be, that he always has time for
a friend or a business caller—and besides,
in the hours which are usually idled
away by the average business man, for
wide reading and the study of problems
having to do with his line of business or
with self-culture. Possibly no one in the
yellow pine industry has made a closer
study of its various trade phases, and
certainly no one in it has labored more
unselfishly for its betterment in impor-
tant particulars.
It was he who some years ago per-
formed a signal service for the manufac-
turers of yellow pine In compiling sta-
tistics to show that, despite the high level
which Southern nine prices had reached
in the fall of 1905, the exchange value of
lumber as measured in wheat or corn had
declined. In other words, he proved con-
clusively that in the ten years ended with
1S05 the purchasing power of grain over
lumber had steadily increased. This in-
formation was disseminated among the
lumber retailers of the country, and after
that agitation in the agricultural districts
against the so-called lumber trust sub-
sided until there was pratically nothing
left of it.
Another Instance of his devotion to the
trade, without hope or expectation that
the results would benefit himself or his
company, was when he began the work
of persuading the Grand Trunk railway
to put in satisfactory rates on yellow
pine to Canadian points in connection with
the Illinois Centra'; via Chicago. He was
completely successful in this. The rates
were scaled down all the wav from 3 to
11 cents a hundredweight on the two rail-
road lines, and the action of these car-
riers was later followed by the issuance
of the same rates by the Mobile and
Ohio and the New Orleans and North-
eastern. Not only that; as a reward for
his persitsence. similar rates to Canada
were subsequently put Into effect from
the West-South—from points in Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Texas.
FORFEITURE CASE DISMISSED.
Action by Supreme Court in Prairie
Oil and Gas Company Suit.
(Associated Press Report.)
WASHINGTON, January 3.—The case
of the Prairie Oil and Gas company,
which attracted so much attention In
Oklahoma during the campagin of 1908
because of the intervention of Governor
Haskell in the interest of the comoany,
was dismissed today in ft. United States
supreme court. The en®ct of the dis-
missal is favorable to the governor's con-
tentions.
No Yellow Fever During 1909.
(Associated Press Report.)
WASHINGTON, January 3.—Oi^-cials
of the public health and marine hospital
service in this city are congratulating
themselves on the fact that during the
last calendar year there was a general
and marked improvement in the public
health conditions throughout the United
States.
There was not only no yellow fever in
the United States, but also there was an
absence of it in the' Latin-American
countries, which have been regarded as
the source of contagion for this coun-
try.
WHY IS SUGAR SWEET?
If sugar did not dissolve in the mouth you
could not taste the sweet. GROVE'S TASTE-
LESS CIIILL IONIC is as strong as the
strongest bitter tonic, but you do not taste
the bitter because the ingredients do not
dissolve in the mouth, but do dissolve readily
in the acids of the stomach. It is just as good
for Grown People as for Children. The bust
and Original Tastelsss Chill Tonic. The
Standard for 30 year:!. Pricc 50c.
ERTAINLY! You
nave choice oi the
entire stock of SUITS and
OVERCOATS during this
sale (except black
and blue suits), at
an even
$20
SIMS & LAEVERENZ
ON MAIN STREET, NEAR PRAIRIE
FOR SALE
A few shares of stock of Union Trust
Co. of San Antonio at $110.00 per share
Producers Oil Co.—
Texas Co.—
WILL BUY
Thompson and Tucker Lumber'Co.
6 Per cent bonds.
Orders executed for New York stock#
for cash, or on conservative credit
Active Stocks and Bonds of all kinds
Bought and Sold.
WM. B. KING & CO.
"W m. B. King". "W. D. Sherwood.
STOCK S—BONDS—'LOANS.
K. H. CAWTHON
303 MAIN STREET
Banker, Broker
and Jeweler
Money loaned on chattels. Bargains
in Diamonds and all kinds of Jewelry.
Money deposited with me subject to
check any time store Is open. 6 per
cent interest paid on time deposits.
We aim to serve each customer alike in all business matters, and give each the best
bank service. Our service means accommodation.
Deposits Jan. 1, 1909
$5,300,000.00
Deposits Jan. 1, 1910
$6,700,000.00
INCREASE IN DEPOSITS PAST YEAR §1,400,000.00
Statement of Condition on December 31, 1909, as Reported to State Banking Board.
LIABILITIES
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $4,038,716 97
Cash and with other Banks 3,391,796 81
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures.... 92,731 91
Tota I $7,523,245 69
Deposits
Capital paid in
Surplus and Profits
I"otal... ■.......
$6,706,549 92
i..... . ... 500,000 00
......... 316,695 77
$7,523,245 69
H. N. TINKER, Active Vice President
GEO. HAMMAN, Active Vice President
OFFICERS
J. S. RICE. President.
DE WITT C. DUNN, Cashier
D. W. COOLEY, Asst. Cashier
J. S. Rice
W. T. Carter
J. M. Rockwell
Abe M. Levy
Frank Andrews
C. L. Neuhaus
R. H. Baker
L. B. Menefee
R. E. Brooks
J. C. Hutcheson, Jr.
DIRECTORS
W. W. Cameron
Thos. H. Ball
J. J. Sweeney
Jesse H. Jones
W. F. N. Davis
W. M. Rice
William Green
George Hamman
C. K. Dunlap
W. O. Neuhaus
J. O. Ross
E. M. House
J R. Stuart
H. N. Tinker
DeWItt C. Dunn
UNION BANK & TRUST COMPANY
HOUSTON. TEXAS
EVERY MOTHER
is or should be worried when the little
ones have a cough or cold. It may lead
to croup or pleurisy or pneumonia—then
to something' more serious. Ballard's
Horehound Syrup will cure the trouble
at once and prevent any complication.
Sold by all druggists.
DEFENDED KING LEOPOLD.
Congo Policy of Dead Monarch In-
terested Archbishop Ireland.
(Associated Press Report.)
ST. PAUL, Minn., January 8.—Arch-
bishop Ireland today In R statement Issued
for publication warmly defends the course
of the dead King Loepold of Belgium In
the government of the Congo. The state-
ment says: "As time is allowed for calm
consideration of facts, the general Ameri-
can press changes very much for the bet-
ter its tone with regard to the adminis-
tration of the Congo under the deceased
King of Belgium. There was at first a
passionate outcry against barbarous cruel-
ties committed under his regime. Now,
however, the reports of disinterested and
unprejudiced travelers are being listened
and the bogey of 'atro.cities' is being more
or less out to rest.
"As a plain matter of fact there were
no 'atrocities' in the Congo. This may
not be taken as a meaning that Belgian
operations, on the other hand, in a new
and untried field of labor were at all
times free from abuses of any kind. But
that the official proclaimed 'atrocities'
took place and were the results of a gen-
eral administration is entirely false."
Statement of the Condition of the
Central Bank & Trust Co
At tbe close of business, December 31,1909, as reported
by sworn statement to the Commissioner of Banklngi
RESOURCES
Loans .»•••# ...... . . , . «
Bonds and Stocks . .
Furniture and Fixtures
Cash and Due Fr®m Banks .
$585,418.90
9,110.00
12,275.00
289,140.46
$898.628.36
$200,000.00
GUILTLESS MEN PUNISHED.
Convict Confessed to Crime for
Which One Was Hanged.
(Associated Press Report.)
CINCINNATI, January 3.—A special to
the Times-Star from Wheeling, W. Va.,
says that Joseph Vastelll, a convict in
the Moundsville penitentiary, has con-
fessed to the prison authorities that he
and two other men killed Samuel T. Fer-
guson, a wealthy contractor, near Wash-
ington, Pa., September 25, 1903.
Milovar Kovovic was hanged for the
crime and Milovar Patric is serving a
twenty-year sentence in the Western
Pennsylvania penitentiary for complicity
in it. Vastelli says that neither of these
men were concerned In the murder.
200 Alleged Liquor Law Violations.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 3.—One
hundred more warrants were taken out
today by Attorney General McCarn,
charging violation of the four-mile liquor
law. This brings the number of similar
warrants taken out since laflt Friday to
something over 200.
t
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIV1C BROAiO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature is an each box. 25c.
TOPEKA, Kan., January 3.—Attorneys
representing the State of Kansas today
filed an answer to the temporary injunc-
tion recently granted restraining the State
officials from enforcing the bank guar-
anty law. The State denies that the Fed-
eral court has jurisdiction.
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Surplus and Undivided Profits 8,457.17
Deposits 690,171.19
$898,628.36
^Tj We call your attention to our large cash reserve, and added to that
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F, E. PYE, President AUG. DeZAVALA, Cashier J. A. FITE, Asst. Cashier
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The road to strength, control and power is e&sy to the
pilgrim whose staff bears the dollar sign.
MORAL: A bank account here steadies the hand that guides the
dollars.
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Capital $250,000.00
Surplus (earned) $25,000.00
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