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HOUSTON DAILY PORT: WEDNESDAY MORNING." JANUARY I. 1913.
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This Company intends, among other things, to continue with renewed zeal
THE SAFETY MOVEMENT
AMONG THE CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF HOUSTON
€J| Every device and every rule tending toward the safety of the public has been em-
bodied in the operation of our cars. <H During December we employed a public
safety lecturer, who conducted a campaign among Houston Schools. Fourteen
thousand children were spoken to and instructed in safety and cautionary methods.
NOW WE WANT THE CO-OPERATION OF EVERY PARENT
We want this New Year to be free from child accidents. Success cannot be attained
by one-sided methods; we need your help.
Extending to you and yours the compliments of the season, with the hope that the New Year will bring to you and
yours happiness and prosperity, and that your home may not be saddened by the death or mangling of some loved little one
HOUSTON ELECTRIC COMPANY
DAVID DALY, Manager
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NEW OFFICIALS
TAKE OFFICE
John L. Wortham Became
Secretary Today.
Other Officials Will Qualify Today
or During the Ensuing
Week at the
Capitol.
(Houston Post St1*rial.)
AUSTIN, Texan. December 31.—J. T.
Bowman. Secretary of State, tendered his
resignation late this afternoon to Govern-
or Colquitt and John I... Wortham, his
ucceaaor, qualified, and was sworn In.
Karl* B. Mayfleld, who will succeed
.in L. Wortham as Railroad Commis-
sioner, and B. K. I.ooney, the successor
of James D. Walthall as Attorney General
will quality and take the oath of office
tomorrow aftwjoon.
Practically all of the other State offi-
cials, with the exception of the Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, will be quali-
fied during the first week of January.
W. P. Lana, Comptroller, will not take
the oath of office until January 16. W.
B. Hawkins, to succeed J. B. Dlbrell, to
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
-will be among those to qualify early In
January.
Governor Colquitt today reappointed J.
T. Bowman as his private secretary. He
had bettfi filling in the unexpired term
of C. C. McDonald ns Secretary of State
and was succeeded by Mr. Wortham.
In accepting the appointment as Secre-
tary of State, John I.. Wortham said, in
his letter to the Governor: "I beg to
acknowledge with pleasure yours of even
date, tendering me the appointment of
Secretary of State for the ensuing two
years.
"For this additional manifestation of
your esteem and confidence, allow mo
to sincerely thank you; with the assur-
ance that It shall be the greatest aim of
my life to prove myself worthy of the
*am«. I hereby accept said appointment,
and will enter upon the discharge of my
duties on January 1, 1913, with the de-
termination to show to the people of
Texas that your confidence has not been
misplaced."
Mr. Looney, Attorney General, with all
of his assistants are here. Mr. Walthall
will relinquish the office of Attorney Gen-
eral about noon tomorrow and will leave
In th« afternoon for San Antonio, where
he will practice law. The assistants
chosen by Mr. Looney are C. A. Sweeton,
W. M. Harris, Luther Nickels, Graham B.
Smedley, and C. M. Cureton. W. P.
Dumas will act as chief clerk.
Corporations Chartered.
(Houston Post Sptctal.)
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31.—The fol-
W« Ar« Selling Agents for the
WEST KENTUCKY
COAL COMPANY
Miners and shippers of high
grade Steam and Domestic
Coal. Pennsylvania Anthra-
cite, Georges Creek and Pied-
mont Smithing Coals; Furnace
and foundry Coke. Annual con-
tracts, large quantities, made.
JOSEPH H. CARROLL
616 First Nat'l Bank Bldg, Houston
that when a private corporation became
a member of such an association it be-
came an insurer of other members of
the association and that thus it must de-
vote its capital, means and assets to an
undertaking which was not authorized by
law, for it was without authority to do
an insurance business. Mr. Walthall says
that he has studied the matter very care-
fully and finds his first opinion not en-
tirely correct.
John L. Wortham.
lowing charters were filed v th the Secre-
tary of State today:
It. M. Hughes <fe Co., San Antonio; pur-
pose merchandising; capital stock. $i>ti.uuO.
Incorporators: H. M. Hughes, A. L,. Biet-
zel. M. Olson.
Commercial Printing Company, San An-
tonio; capital stock, 12000. Incorporators:
W. R. Arnold, E. W. Uhl, Alex J. Uhl.
Railroad World Publishing Company,
San Antonio; capital stock, il5,000. In-
corporators: J. M. McLeese, W. H.
Pearce, C. L. Klaslng
Rex Investment Company, Dallas; Capi-
tal stock, $10,000. Incorporators: C. W.
Starling, Gilbert H. Irish, Leo P. Star-
ling.
Plrst Baptist Church, Kress, Swisher
County; no capital stock. Incorporators:
R. C. Lomsater, T. J. Webb, R. T. Bow-
man.
Curry Sr Kern. Tnc., of Houston; pur-
pose, merchandising; capital stock, $4000.
Incorporators: J. K. Curry, N. W. Curry.
D. M. Kern.
The following amendments were filed:
Hobson Klectrlc Company, Dallas, In-
creasing its capital stock from $196,000 to
$350,000, and changing Its name to the
Southwest (General Electrlo Company.
Certificates of dissolution were "filed:
Wllllams-Kink Company of Austin, the
E.-S. W. Company of Dallas, Reynolds-
Hanna Lumber Company of Fort Worth,
Mexla OH and Gas Company of Mexia,
McRae Building Company of Plainview,
Smith Mercantile Company of Bluff
Springs, and South Texas Loan Com-
pany of Houston.
RECIPROCAL INSURANCE OPINION.
Attorney General Walthall Has Slightly
Changed Views of Subject.
(Houston Post Special.)
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31.—In an
opinion to Commissioner of Insurance and
Banking Gill today. Attorney General
James D. Walthall, modifying a former
opinion, says:
"A study of the plan of the reciprocal
or lnter-lnsurance discloses that It is
analogous to mutual Insurance. The re-
sults aimed at In both are the same, viz.;
protection at actual cost. The results are
affected on the one hand through the ex-
change of private contracts of Indemnity
between the medium of a corporation. The
principle of mutual insurance and inter-
insurance is, I think, essentially the same,
and if this is concerted, as I think it must
be, it must be admitted that inter-insur-
ance between corporations is not unlaw-
ful. It will not be contended that a pri-
vate corporation can not insure its prop-
erty In a mutual Insurance company."
Some time ago Mr. Walthall held that
a private corporation could not, without
exceeding its charter powers, become a
member of an lnter-lnsurance association.
This first opinion went on the theory
WOULD CHANGE REVENUE LAWS.
Tax Commissioner Deems Action Impera-
tive Unless Commission Is Elected.
CHouston Post Special.)
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31.—In the
biennial report of State Tax Commis-
sioner A. L. Love, he says that if the
Legislature falls to create a special tax
commission to work up a revised system
of tax laws for the State as he has sug-
gested, he will, during the coming ses-
sion, recommend certain changes in the
existing revenue laws which he deems
imperative.
He thinks that the assessment list of
the 1911 Comptroller's report shows that
money, credits, stocks and bonds are not
being assessed in this State as tliey
should be, for he says that it is impossi-
ble to believe that such property only
constitutes 6 per cent of the State's
wealth. He thinks that there is a failure
to obtain anything like a full assessment
of the intangible property in the general
property tax system of the State, and
quotes the constition to the effect that
all taxes should be uniform on all prop-
erty.
He declares that his own department is
not doing what the law contemplates that
it shall do, for without appropriation for
stenographer, telephone, postage, tele-
graph and telephone or traveling ex-
penses, It is crippled in Its efforts to do
what the law intends that it shall do.
He asks that the Legislature appropriate
money for the State tax board, if it ex-
pects that board to discharge its duties
properly.
SCHOOL LAND RECEIPTS.
During tho Month Ending December 31
They Totaled Over $230,000.
(Houston Post Special.)
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31.—The
State Treasurer reported today that the
receipts from land sales and leases dur-
ing the month ending totaled over $230,-
000, and that $246,454 had been deposited
from that source to the credit of the sev-
eral funds interested. The heavy in-
terest payments due November 1, and
which are still being received swelled
the totals. Twenty per cent of the total
receipts is retained for making refunds
where title or possession to the land did
not pass. The credits to the various funds
are:
Amount.
School land, permanent fund $67,990
School land, available fund 152,986
University land, permanent fund. 714
University land, available fund... 24,279
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, available
fund leg
Lunatic Asylum, available fund... 52
Blind Asylum, available fund.... 105
Blind Asylum, permanent fund... 35
Orphan Asylum, available fund... 89
Orphan Asylum, permanent fund. 34
Total .$246,454
BRAZORIA BONDS APPROVED.
$130,000 Drainage District Issue Passed on
by Attorney General Yesterday.
(Houston Post Special.)
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31.—County
Judge J. W. Munson and Attorney W. T.
Williams of Brazoria County had ap-
proved here today by the Attorney Gen-
eral's department the Brazoria County
drainage district No. 8 bonds to the
amount of $130,000, forties at S 1-2 per
ceht.
iRecord for a road district bond issue for
$47,000 in Brazoria County have been ap-
proved and the bonds will be brought
hire early In the year for aprpoval and
r^istration.
l'here are now eight operating drainage
itrlcts in Brazoria County.
BEAUMONT FEARS
TRACTION STRIKE
Men Demand Higher Wages and
Flat Contract With Company.
Company Denies Contract.
(Houston Post Special.)
BEAUMONT, Texas, December 31.—
Ben Commons, a representative of the In-
ternational Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Men and president of the
New Orleans Union of Street Railway
Men, arrived in Beaumont today to assist
the Beaumont union in its controversy
with the Beaumont Traction Company.
Unless an agreement i? reached soon it
is probable a strike will be declared by
the local street railway men, who num-
ber about 100.
The men demand higher wages and a
contract with the company calling for a
flat rate of 25 cents per hour regardless
of experience. James A. Weed, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the traction
company, rejected the working agreement
presented him by the men and which in-
cluded their demands.
The proposition will be presented to the
local Trades Council at a meeting to be
held Thursday night and the question of
striking will probably be determined at
that time. It is understood Mr. Weed re-
fuses absolutely to sign a contract with
the men, but that he has agreed to a
raise of wages April 1.
The street railway men have worked
without a contract for more than two
years while the company was in the
hands of a receiver and the management
has employed new men during that pe-
riod. The ranks of the union are there-
fore believed to have been depleted and
no apprehension over a strike even if one
is called is felt here.
IMPALED ON PICKET FENCE.
Edward Berry, Lineman, Fell From
Telegraph Pole at Brenham.
(.Associated Press Report.)
BRENHAM, Texas, December 31.—
Edward Barry, a lineman, was impaled
on a picket fence here today, when a
telegraph pole on which he was working
snapped near the ground. The pickets
went through his thigh and he is seri-
ously hurt.
Barry was transferring wires from an
old pole to a new one when the accident
happened. He came recently from Cam-
bridge, Mass.
BEACH EPTING
IS TO BE TRIED
His Attorneys Failed in Effort to
Have Beal Sneed Placed
on Trial First.
(.Associated Press Report.)
MEMPHIS, Texas, December 31.—
Beach B. Epting, charged with complic-
ity in the killing of A1 G. Boyce, Jr., at
Amarillo September 14, will go on trial
here probably next Monday, his attor-
neys having failed late Monday to ob-
tain a severance to have John Beal Sneed
tried first.
Judge Fires of Childress, one of Ep-
ting's attorneys, argued that if Sneed
was found not guilty, Epting could not
be guilty and that Epting should have the
benefit of Sneert's testimony. The mo-
tion was overruled and a special venire
was ordered drawn.
THREW SELF UNDER TRAIN.
Sensational Mode of Ending Life
Adopted by Italian.
(Associated Press Report.)
FORT WORTH, Texas, December 31.—
Nicola Reginalo, an Italian, committed
suicide this morning by throwing himself
under a moving train on Main Street.
He was crushed to death.
Twenty-four dollars in cash, some sau-
sage and a few trinkets, besides a receipt
for money order were found on his per-
son.
SIXTY-SEVEN HOMICIDES.
Dallas Bloody Record for the Year
of 1912.
(.Associated Press Report.')
DALLAS, Texas, December 31.—There
were 67 homicides in Dallas city and
county in the year 1912, according to the
police and Sheriff records. Thirty-nine
of these were negroes, 23 white and five
Mexicans.
Last year there were 52 homicides in
Dallas County.
FECHNER.—Goliad, Texas, December
31.—Mrs. Albert Fechner, the wife of a
prominent business man of this place, died
\-ery suddenly at an early hour this
morning. Rising early to attend to the
household duties she complained of not
feeling very well and lay down across
the bed where she expired in a moment
after.
In the midst of the rush of our
Hurry-Out Sale
WE ARE NOW CONDUCTING
We want to wisli our friends and customers
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year,
And remember we are always glad to see you at
our store.
SOUTHERN FURNITURE CO.
716 TRAVIS ST.
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR
With a Pair of
NEW ENGLISH WALKING SHOES
Like Cut
$5.00
TAN AND BLACK
These are the very newest
and are seen on all the Smart
Dressers. ======
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WHERE THE GOOD SHOES COME FROM
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SENT UPON RECEIPT OF PRICE
STORE CLOSED
ALL DAY
STORE CLOSED
ALL DAY
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year
Is Our Wish for
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