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PLANO STAR-COURIER
DUKE OF ANHALT
ERNEST LOGSDON, Publisher
PLANO.
TEXAS
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
MEASURE ADOPTED
I6ENATE OPPOSES WORKING OF
STATE CONVICTS ON PUBLIC
ROADS.
Terrell bill is successful
Upper House of Legislature Refuses
to Put Court Reform Matters
Ahead on DockeL
Austin, Texas,—Features of Mon*
day’s session of the sennte were the
refusal of that body to put court re-
form measures ahead, and the enact-
ment of the state highway depart-
ment bill.
Mr. Terrell's bill establishing such
department wus amended in some
minor respects and passed the sen-
ate. It was given an overwhelming
preference over Mr. McGregor’s bill,
providing for the working of state
convicts on the public roads. The
senate went on record ns opposing
the working of state convicts on the
public roads. (
Several senators complained of the
poor results obtained with local funds
expended for road purposes. They
said poople wore tired of voting bonds
and seeing the proceeds thereof
dumped into mudholes without filling
the hole. They had gotten to the
point where they would not vote
bonds for roads in some places. Aa
a result a state law for sclentlflq
road work is badly needed, they
argued. The bill now goes to the
house. I
The Terrell bill creates a state high-
way department with an expert high-
way engineer in charge to dosign
iplans for good roads and to make
tests of road material, etc. It also
levies a tax on automobiles and other
motor-driven vehicles.
Herr Roth, a Leipalg geologist,
hae announced that Frederic II., reign-
ing duke of Anhalt, Is a direct descend-
ant of Brian Boru, and has a better
right than any other living person to
ths Irish throne. The duke of Anhalt
was born In 1856, and, In 1889, mar-
rlsd Marie, Princess of Baden. Ho
haa no children.
FULLY 300 TONS OF
DYNAMITE EXPLODE
DISASTER IN LOWER BALTIMORE
HARBOR WHERE SHIP WAS
E.EING LOADED.
FEDERALS ARE REPULSED.
Carranza Rebels In Ravines Put Up
Successful Fight Around Lampazos.
Laredo, Texas.—A telegram from
Lampazos, 70 miles south of here, an
nounced thud a sharp battle between
jCarranza rebels and federal troopB oo
purred on the outskirts of Lampazo*
Monday aftrenoon, in which the fed
jorals were repulsed for the third con
pooUtive time In as many days, witk
neavy losses.
| The engagement began shortly at
ter noon and lasted for about tw*
ibours, during which considerable des-
ultory and guerilla warfare was in
dulged in.
The federnls lost thirteen killed,
|teu wounded and four prisoners taken
by the rebels, Including a telegraph
operator, who were executed ou tlio
spot.
The rebels were entrenched In the
ravines that form ramifications ot' the
river, while the (ederuls fought in tho
open. It is impossible to ascertain
the rebel losses, If any.
Tho federal force consisted of about
thirty cavalrymen, while the rebels
were in excess of 200.
50 ARE KILLED, 60 INJURED
British Tramp Steamer and Some
8mallcr Vessels Destroyed and
Much Damage Done.
TOWN WRECKED BY EXPLOSION.
Feels Like An Earthquake for Miles
Around. Number Are Killed.
Glasgow.—A terrific dynamite ex^
plosion wrecked the town of Irviue,
In Ayrshire. The explosion occurred
at Nobles Explosive works at Ardor,
twenty miles from Glasgow, For a
radius of several miles it had the force
of a destructive earthquake.
The town of Irviue was shaken to
Its foundations. Many houses,
churches, schools anti public lnstltu
Uous were destroyed. Ceilings fell
everywhere, partitions collapsed and
scarcely a window in tho town was left
Intact.
There were three distinct explosions
followed by an immense column of
smoke two miles high. Six bodies
bad been recovered, while sevcu per-
sons fatally hurt and a large num-
ber of others less seriously injured
had been taken to hospitals.
rialtlmore, Md.- Throe hundred tons
of dynamite being loaded In the Brit-
ish tramp steamer Alum Chine, in the
lower lmbor off Fort Carroll, exploded
Friday morning, instantly killing forty
to fifty men, wounding and maiming
three score more, some of whom may
die, and dealing destruction to half
a million dollars’ worth of property.
The Alum Chino and a loading scow
alongside her were annihilated; the
tug Atlantic, which twice went to the
rescue of the Imperiled seamen, was
sot on fire and later sunk; the United
States collier Jason, just completed
|aml ready for trial, was raked to her
deck and armor riddled, and buildings
In Baltimore and towns many miles
away were rocked by tho force of the
terrific explosion.
Tho cause of the disaster is un-
known, but federal authorities have
instituted a thorough investigation to
place the blume. Excited survivors
told conflicting stories, some insisting
that a negro stevedore caused the ex-
plosion by jamming a spike into a case
of dynamite. This is denied by eye-
witnesses, who declare that smoke was
seen pouring from tho Alum Chine’s
hold several minutes before the ex-
plosion occurred.
Late at night the bodies of twenty
dead had been brought to morgues in
this city and sixty injured were in
tho hospitals. Estimates of the dead
included thirty stevedores and check-
ers of tho Joseph K. Foard Company,
employed in transferring dynamite
from a barge to the Alum Chine,
which was bound for Panama; eight
members of tlie crew of the Alum
Chine, six men on the Collier Jason
and tho captain and several members
of the crew of the tug Atluntic. Many
bodies, it is believed will never be
recovered from tho icy waters.
Of the injured, a score are fright
fully maimed. At least fifteen are
expected to die.
Will Walk 4,500 Miles to Fay Bet.
Two Towns Reported Destroyed.
Ouatenmta.—At 10 o'clock Sunday
morning a strong earthquake visited
Guatemala. It is rumored the towns
Of Cuilapa and Barberena were d»-
gtroyed.
Fire Loss at San Saba $48,000.
San Saba, Texas.—Fire Sunday de-
stroyed property valued at between
$48,000 and $50,000. The insurance is
estimated at $24,000. The losses in-
cluded the N. R. Sloan building aud
Ibe Masonic temple.
Fire Loss $100,000.
Presque Isle, Maine.—Thirteen busi-
ness places were destroyed when
Green's block and Friedman’s block
burned Sunday. The loss is esti-
mated at $100,000.
I Portland, Me.—Leading a 22-year-
old donkey and intending to walk from
Portland, Me., to Portland. Ore., B.
K. Anderson left this city March 4 on a
long walk across the country in ful-
fillment ot the terms of a bet ho lost
on the presidential election. Ander-
son laid a wager on the election ot Col.
Roosevelt. The distance is estimated
at 4.500 miles, and he expects to com-
plete the Journey in eight months. Un-
der the provision of the wager he
must call at the White House aud
greet the new president and also call
upon the governor of every state
through which he passes.
Blind Man Prevents Fire Panic.
200 Drown When Steamer Sinks.
Constantinople.—Two hundred pas-
sengers and the members of the crow
of the small British steamer Calvados
g-ere drown March 1 when the steam-
gr foundered in tho sea of Marmoro,
during a blizzard.
Worcester. Mass.—The coolness of
5’dward I. Boyle, a blind singer, In
beeping on with his song while fire
spread rapidly in the balcony of a lo-
cal theater prevented a panic among
the 600 spectators, all of whom filed
out to safety. When the last of tfre
audience reached the door Joseph L.
Rogers, the pianist, leaped on the
stage and led the blind mau out
through a rear exit.
i Athens, Greece.—A detachment of
800 Turkish infantrymen fought for
*fx hours against a body of Greek
troops near Janina aud surrendered
cnly after 112 Turks had been killed.
Including eight officers.
Miss Roosevelt Sets Date.
Oyster Bay. N. Y.—The date of the
Wedding oi Aliss Ltiitri rioostocit,
daughter of Col. and Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, to Dr. Richard Derby of
-his city has been fixed as Friday,
hprll 4.
Sixty-Six Drown in Naval Collision.
Helgoland, Germany.—Sixty-six men
of tho crew of the German torpedo
boat “GITS” were drowned when tho
little vessel was rammed by the crul-
r. »«• a IT5 ♦ lui V Art ll '*«• O •* A *" i*
the dead are the commander of the
torpedo boat, Lieut. Koch, and his
HIM UUILU. oui&vu« ailU tii&l*
neer and fifteen men of the crew
were saved. The torpedo boat sank
Immediately.
WILSON’S LEGISLATIVE PLANS
With Co-operation of Leaders, Intende
Taking Up Important Problema.
Washington.—President Wilson will
take a hand himself in framing leg-
islation with tho new congress. With
the co-operation of party leaders in
tho house and senate ho proposes to
work over tariff, currency and other
important measures, even before they
are introduced, and to lend the weight
ot the administration to the support of
tho bills.
The information and the fact that
tho president will endeavor to forward
his policies by the use of personal
persuusion, not only with members
of his own party, but with progres-
sive Republicans who are inclined to
be friendly, came from those who
have tuked with him since his inaug-
uration.
The president does not plan to draft
legislation, but expects by suggestion
and conference to come to an agree-
ment upon specific measures with the
party leaders.
TUG RESCUES 116 FROM SHIP.
Gritlsh Steamer Lugano, on Reef off
Florida Coast, Takes Much Water.
Key West.—One hundred and six-
teen passengers, all of whom were ini-
migrants bound from Spain to Cuba,
with the exception of two first class
passengers, were rescued from the
British steamer Lugano, ashore on the
adjax reef off the Florida coast, by
the tug Rescue Sunday afternoon.
Captain i’unwil of the Lugano, which
was hound from Liverpood to Cuban
ports, wired officials of the Lloyd
line, to-which the Lugano belonged,
notifying them of tho accident and
asking that aid be sent at once in an
effort to save ttie ship. When the tug
Rescue left the ship she had IS feet
of water in her first hold. The exact
cuuse of the accident is not known.
GOVERNMENT WILL COMPROMISE
Will Drop Suits for Alleged Taxes
From Chicago Packers.
Washington.—The government's $1,
000,000 claim against Chicago pack-
ers and others for taxes alleged due
on colored oleomargarine sold as un-
colored was compromised by Secre-
tary MacVeagh for $102,000.
A spirited controversy surrounded
those cases. United States District
Judge Landis started a grand jury in-
vestigation, which was later suspend-
ed pending tho treasury department’s
action, and the house committee on
expenditures in the treasury depart-
ment inquired into the subject. The
compromise was made, it is explained
here, because the government had no
evidence to sustain the $1,000,000
claim.
TO PRUNE CUSTOMS SERVICE.
Unless Congress Interferes, Reorgan-
ization Effective July 1.
Washington.—Unless congress in-
terferes the organization of the cus-
toms service will bo revolutionized,
beginning July 1. As one of his last
acts. President Taft sent a message
to congress announcing the redistrict-
ing of the service.
Tiie existing 165 districts will be
reduced to forty-nine formed largely
along state lines, and 116 collectors
of customs will be abolished. Several
ports of entry and a number of sub-
ports will be abandoned.
Congress has stipulated that the
new plan must reduce the cost of the
customs service to $10,150,000, or a
saving of $700,000 as compared with
the current fiscal year.
GOLD LACE DISPLEASES WILSON.
President Will Reduce Military Staff
at White House.
Washington.—There will be a mark-
ed reduction in the amount of gold
lace to be seen around the White
House during tho present administra-
tion if President Wilson carries out
His plan to reduce the number of mil-
itary aids which have attended the
late former presidents.
It has become known that Major
Thomas L. Rhodes, U. S. A., who was
military aid and medical adviser to
President Taft, had recommended
that the present corps of twelve offi-
cers of the army, navy aud mariue
corps be cut in half. Furthermore,
President Wilson probably will dis-
pense with the presence of a uniform-
ed aid in his travels about th ecoun-
try.
HUERTA AND MADERO
FOLLOWERS BATTLE
BLOODY FIGHT IN THICKLY POP-
ULATED RIO BLANCO MILL
DISTRICT.
MORE THAN HUNDRED DEAD
Federal Commander Now Hae District
Under Control, but People Are
Not Pacified.
Mrs. Smith, wife of the senator
from Georgia, will be one of the lead-
ers of official society In Washington
during Mr. Wilson’s administration.
She is already well-known and popu-
lar in the national capital.
WILSON’S FIRST DAY
IN OFFICE BUSY ONE
WITH POMP AND GLORY OF Hl$
INAUGURATION OVER HE NOW
SETTLES DOWN TO WORK.
WARNS ALL OFFICE SEEKERS
Vera Cruz, Mexico.—Sunday was the
scene of a fierce fight between gov-
ernment troops and rebels in the
thickly populated cotton and wool
mill district at Rio Blanco, Just out-
side of Orizaba. This district has al-
ways been a great admirer of Fran-
cisco I. Madero, the assassinated pres-
ident of Mexico.
From reports the number killed was
more than 100, including Camerino
Mendeza, who was in charge of the
rebel forces.
Col. de la Llave, commander of the
government troops during the engage-
ment, succeeded in quelling the upris-
ing and at last report had the situa-
tion under control, although the peo-
ple were not pacified. Several hun-
dred laborers, who are now termed as
rebels fled into the mountains near-
by without their arms.
Great influence is being brought to
bear on Huerta to force the resigna-
tion of Gov. Perez Rivera. He has
been legally elected and Huerta dis-
likos taking such steps against abso-
lute state rights. The situation in the
state will be eventulaTy controlled
completely, as the military authori-
ties aro most energetic.
GAS EXPLOSION AT HOT SPRINGS
Notifies Them They Wont’ E« Ro
ceived at White House Unless Ho
Invites Them.
Prisoners Reported Executed.
1-aredo, Texas.—*t is learned from
Lampazos that all prisoners taken by
Carranza forces in that vicinity were
executed. According to reports, fif
teen federal prisoners were taken dur-
ing Friday.
City of Mexico.—It is reported that
Venustiano Carranza, with 1,000 fol-
lowers. is at Anhela, Coahuila. near
Monclova. The federal general, Tru-
cy Aubert, with artillery aud nearly
1.000 regular infantrymen is expected
at Monclova and the government an-
ticipate a decisive engagement be-
tween the two forces. Minister of the
Interior Garcia Granados says there
apparently is no hope for pacifica-
tion of the Carranzistas and that the
government will enter upon a deter-
mined military campaign against
them.
Amnesty Aprro\ed by Mex, Congress.
City of Mexico.—The amnesty meas-
ure prepared by Gen. Blanquet, mili-
tary commander of the federal dis-
trict. absolving all political offenders
of whatever kind, has received the
approval of congress. Th-> measure
includes nil persons now under arms
agaiirrt the administration or in other
manner fomenting a revolution, pro-
viding they put tnemseives m accord
with the government within tifreon
days from the promulgation of the de-
cree.
Washington.—With the tinsel an^
the military pomp, the cheers of thj
multitude, the stirring music of bands
the heavy tread of marching thou
sands, the fireworks and the limo
light only a pleusant memory. Wood
row Wilson Wednesday settled dowj
in the chair of president as quietlj
and with as little ceremony, probably,
as almost any man who ever crossed
the threshold of the White House. Hii
long day was crowded with incident!
and filled with the flavor of powe!
that is a president’s.
Almost his first act was to serve no
tice upon office-seekers that thej
will not be welcome at the Whit4
House unless they have been invited
In between he found time to shuka
hands with nearly 2,000 persons, con-
sult with his new cabint and with a
few friends in congress, dictate letters
aud generally launch his administra-
tion.
In spite of reports that Mr. Wilson
might be expected to change many
of tlie precedents that have giown up
about the presidency, he bothered none
of importance except that which per-
mitted the officeseeker to invade ths
White House. He fitted in easily with
the machinery of the executive office,
did mostly what trained officials told
him should be done and took up thtj
routine of government with ease.
When the senate met at noon, the
president sent in his list of cabinet
appointments aud they were confirmed
without delay.
The list comprised the following:
Secretary of State—William Jen
nings Bryan of Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury—William
G. McAdoo of New York.
Secretary of War—LIndley M. Gan
rison of New Jersey.
Attorney General—James McRey-
nolds of Tennessee.
Postmaster General Representative
Albert Sidney Burleson of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy—Josephus
Daniels of North Carolina.
Secretary of the Interior—Frankliu
K. Lane of California.
Secretary of Agriculture—David E
Houston of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce—Represen
tative William C. Redfleld of New
York.
Secretary of Labor—Representative
William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania.
Thirteen Injured in Fire That Also
Destroyed Two Big Structures.
Hot Springs, Ark.—An explosion of
natural gas, which had filled the base-
ment under the Oriental goods store
of S. Mattar & Bro., and in which pub-
lic auctions are conducted daily .in-
jured thirteen occupants of the build-
ing Friday morning and resulted in a
a fire that completely destroyed the
Rockefellow building and Thompson
building on Central avenue, and
brought about a property loss roughly
estimated at $200,000. The insurance
is estimated at $100,000.
The fact that the fire quickly fol-
lowing the explosion of the gas,
sweeping through the building like
a caldron, and that public auctions
held at the Oriental store were fre-
quently the gathering place of half a
hundred or more resident and visiting
women, carried with it the doubt as
to fatalities until late in the afternoon,
when the premises were searched,
with the result that no bodies wore
found.
i All the resident attendants in the
store room were accounted for early
after the explosiiA and the visiting
attendants remained in doubt until a
complete survey of the field proved
that none was missing from their ho-
tels.
Twenty occupants of the Central
sanitarium, owned by Dr. E. F. Wine-
gar aud operated just over the Orien-
tal store, escaped through the rear
after it had been found that the front
stairway had been shattered and torn
away by the force of the explosion.
Receiver Appointed for Oil Properties
Greenville, Texas.—Judge William
Pierson, of the Eighth judicial dis-
trict court Thursday entered an or
der appointing Samuel B. Brooks,
cashier of the First National Bank of
this city, receiver for the properties
which were made defendants in the
suit filed in this city by Attorney
General B. F. Looney for the state
of Texas against the Standard Oil
Company and its subsidiaries and a
number of Individuals. Mr. Brooks
will take charge of the prpoerty speci-
fied in the petition and the order as
soon as his bond of $100,000 has been
accepted. The total of the penalties
asked of the oil companies and indi-
viduals mentioned amounts to $100,-
175,000.
__
WACO FIRE CAUSES TWO DEATHS
Property Damage in Early Morning
Flames Estimated at $180,000.
400 People Hurt at Inauguration
Washington.—Although the known
casualties for inauguration day aud
night reached a total of about 400,
few were serious aud most of them
were of a minor nature. Many of the
injured, especially those who receiv-
ed burns during the display of fire-
works, went for treatment to hospi-
tals in the downtown section with-
out the aid of ambulances.
Gen. Porfirlo Diaz Returning to Mexico
Alexandria. Egypt.—Porfirio Diaz,
former president of Mexico, was a
passenger ou the White Star Liner
Adriatic, which has sailed for New
York via Naples. He is on his way
back to Mexico. Diaz will stop in
France, where he will be met by a
party, of Mexican army officers ap-
pointed by President Huerta to escort
him home. He came from Cairo to
Alexandria ia the private car of the
Khedive.
Waco, Texas.—Fire in the J. E.
Horne building, a thrse-story struc-
ture, caused the death of at least two
men aud a loss of about $180,000
shortly before 3 o’clock Saturday
morning. The dead men are Theo-
dore Cerfuth and Paul Gross.
Though an alarm was sent in im-
mediately, the flames had gained such
great headway that the interior was
a rearing furnace before the firemen
could reach the scene. A conserva-
tive estimate places the loss at about
$180,000 with something like half that
amount covered by insurance.
Salazar Against Huerta.
El Paso, Texas.—Gen. Jose inez
Salazar, Orozco’s rival commander of
the former anti-Madero rebels of Chi-
huahua, has announced against Pro-
visional President Huerta ia a writ-
ten communication to the press. He
says he never will assist Huerta in
putting down the Sonora uprising and
that he does not recognize the City
of Mexico administration. Tnstead, he
favors the presidential claims of Em-
ilio Vasquez Gomez, who is with Sala-
zar at Palomas, on the New Mexico
border.
President of Cuba Signs Amnesty Bill
Havana.—President Jose Migual
Gomez signed the amnesty bill in
spite of the energetic protest handed
the Cuban government by United
States Minister Arthur M. Beaupre.
President Gomez said that he ‘felt
compelled to comply with the wishes
of the Cuban people as expressed by
the large majority in the Cuban con-
gress favoring the bill.” He added
that he desired to leave further dis-
cussion of the matter of diplomatic
channels.
Madcros Quit Land of Mexico.
San Antonio. Texas.—That all the
surviving members of the Madero fam-
ily have renounced forever the land
of their nativity and that he himself
■will shoot down any man of the fam-
ily who seeks to gain the presidency
of Mexico, is the solemn statement
that Emilio Madero made here in the
presence of several witnesses. Each
member oi tne launiy win dispose ot
his property in the republic as soon
as possible and will take up residence
in some other part *f the world.
TEXAS IN OI^MSTER SUIT
Paper* Filed at Greenville Aek Re-
ceiver for $28,025,000 Penalties
Greenville, Texas.—The state of
Texas has filed an ouster and forfeit-
ure of charter suit against the Stand-
ard Oil Company of New York, the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey, tho Magnolia Petroleum Company
the Corsicana Petroleum Company,
the Security Oil Company, the Na-
varro Refining Company and otherB,
seeking to restrain them from doing
business in Texas.
The petition also aska for the ap-
pointment of a receiver and the issu-
ance of a restraining order to prevent
the disposal of properties in the jur-
isdiction of Texas and for penalties
aggregating $28,025,000.
District Judge William Pierson
granted the injunction and will ap-
point a receiver. He entered an or-
der on the records instructing the
plaintiff* attorneys to draw an or-
der defining the duties and powers of
the receiver.
As shown by the petition, penalties
are asked against companies and in-
dividuals as follows:
Magnolia Petroleum Company, $1,-
000,000.
John Sealey, E. R. Brown aud O. C.
Edwards, trustees, $800,000.
Corsicana Petroleum Company, $8,-
150,000.
John Sealey, Courtenay Marshall,
George C. Greer, A. Waverly Smith,
Oliver C. Edwards, Howard Baynei,
S. G. Bayne, W. C. Proctor and E. R.
Brown for $1,775,000.
John D. Archbold, H. C. Folger Jr.,
C. N. Payne, John D. Rockefeller,
Charles W. Harkness, Charles M.
Pratt and L. C- Ledyard, for $8,150,-
000.
Standard Oil Company of New York
and Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, for $8,150,000.
H®®
(Conducted by the National Woman’i
Christian Temperance Union.)
FOP, GREATEST GOOD OF ALL
Cry for Personal Liberty Must Be Mel
by Awakening to Necessity of
Protective
jt
1 pleLse
liters I for
Cotton Mills Aro Exempted.
Austin, Texas.—In the senate cot-
ton mills were exempted from the bill
fixing the working hours of female
employes and requiring the same to
be provided with seats. An amend-
ment is pending to exempt females
employed in offices such as book-
keepers, clerk and stenographers. The
original bill limited work to nine hours
per day, six days in the week, for
females. The committee brought out
a substitute retaining the six day
work, but they may be engaged as
long as ten hours with corresponding
reduction on others days. The sub-
stitute bill as adopted requires fe-
male employes to be given seats; that
they be not worked over fifty-four
hourk per week and not more than
ten hours in any on6 day, and is ap-
plicable to manufacturing, mechani-
cal or mercantile establishment, or
workshop, laundry, printing office,
dressftiaking or millinery establish-
ment, hotel, restaurant, theater, tele-
graph or telephone establishment and
office. The amendment signed by fif-
teen senators effecting an exemption
of cotton factories from the bill was
adopted by a vote of 16 to 7.
"Can’t I do as I please with m>
own?” cry the sbouters'for “personal
liberty."
Let us see how far one can go. The
state sets up a standard of protec
tion for the public against the indi-
vidual. If you ofTer milk for sale in
j our cities it must be from tested cows,
kept in clean, well lighted tieups, ans
milked into clean utensils. Surely nc
I mau can do as he pleases with ht«
cows. The state owns the waters in
our lakes and streams, and says tc
you, "That trout brook emptying lntc^
the lake is closed.” and though yov»
own the land on both sides, and un-
derneath, you cannot fish in that
stream. The state suspects you have
an animal afflicted with some con
tagious disease, and officials come and
test, remove and destroy, and you are
powerless. The law forbids spitting
upon the sidewalk, erecting a building
to be used for any business which to
a detriment to public health or com-
fort.
These are but hints at the restrain-
ing Influence of law, made necessary
for the public good, and suggests the
truth of the statement that personal
liberty Is alone to be found in living
under restraint. If this seems para-
doxical, It is nevertheless true. The
town or city holds that the rights of
all are of greater importance than
those of any individual. Tho state
strengthens Itself when It assumes
control, in all ways, for the best good
of the greater number.
The cry for personal liberty raised
by the champions of the saloon must
be met by the awakening to the neces-
sity of law and its protective power.
Property and life are not safe where
personal liberty lifts its distorted
form. If we yield today to the cry
for personal liberty we fetter the com-
ing generation. The greatest Incen-
tive in the campaign for law and or-
der should be the upturned faces of
the boys and girls. Our highest duty
is to open the door for them to realize
the most that is possible in future
years.—Portland (Me.) Press.
FOSTER MURDER IN SALOONS
Cotton Belt Merger Passed by Senate.
Austin, Texas.—After an all-day
scrap the senate finally passed the
house bill authorizing the St. Louis
Southwestern Railway Company to
purchase and operated the Stephen-
ville, North and South Texas railroad.
Attempts to amend it proved futile and
that bill will now go to the executive.
Mr. Townsend's amendment to per-
mit the Stephenville, North and South-
Texas and the Eastern Texas roads
to be acquired and requiring the ex-
tension of the latter from Kennard
to Crockett, seventeen miles, was de-
feated, as was the amendment by Mr.
Paulus requiring the Cotton Belt to
buy the state railroad extending from
Rusk to Palestine. He said that
would be a compensatory return to
the state for permitting the consoli-
dation.
Assassination of Presidents Done by
Men Under Influence of Liquor
or by Saloonkeeper.
aitqonk*
tm'fact
Ssvler Alamo Bill Defeated in Senate
Austin, Texas.—By a vote of 19 to
12 the senate after a day of hard de-
bate rejected the Alamo bill as cham-
pioned by Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier
and the Daughters of the Republic and
passed to engrossment the so-called
compromise bill offered by Senator
Warren and favored by Gov. Colquitt
and by Miss Adina de Zavalla and
her following among former members
of the Daughters of the Republic. The
Sevier bill had already passed the
house. Its defeat in the senate, many
members believe, will result in no leg-
islation whatsoever upon the subject.
(By REV. FERDINAND C. IQLEHART.>
It Is a Bignlfie,afn 'fact that the pres-
idents of the United States who.have
been assassinated have been r shot
either by a saloonkeeper or by a man
under the influence of liquor. The rec-
ord shows that the conspirators who
plotted against the life of Lincoln
made their headquarters in a saloon,
and that Booth, who removed him, for-
tified himself with liquors for the
deed. Guiteau did the same when he
6hot Garfield. Czoigosz, who killed
McKinley, was the son of a saloon-
keeper and was raised in the danger-
ous atmosphere of vice and crime.
A New York City saloon bred and
nursed the man who shot Mr. Roose-
velt. We need not go back to any
mental taint In his ancestry for his
moral depravity. He was for many
years a teacher in New York’s school
of crime, a saloonkeeper. He Is the
natural result of the business he fol-
lowed. He is the worBt product of the
barbarism of cosmopolitan life. He is ,
the kind of an agent the forces of evil
would naturally select to shoot a man
like Mr. Roosevelt.
Great World Problem.
Perhaps the best proof that the
temperance cause is progressing is the
fact that the statesmen of the great
nations of the world now regard tho
liquor problem as a great world prob-
lem. To solve that problem they have
organized the International Alcoholic
congress. This congress meets bien-
nially. It is attended by eminent med-
ical specialists as well as by states-
men, Our own nation is officially rep-
reseated at this congress.
Katy Consolidation Enjoined by State
Austin, Texas.—Attorney General
Looney filed suit against the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway Company
of Texas to prevent it from exercising
the right granted in the consolidation
bill passed over Gov. Colquitt’s veto,
and Judge Calhoun granted a tempo-
rary injunction restraining the com-
pany until a hearing may be had upon
the mrits of the case.
Song of the Rye.
I wfl.s made to be eaten and not to b
drank; ■
To be thrashed in the barn, not soaked f
a tank.
I come as a blessing when put throusi
a, mill;
As a (blight and a curse when run throusl
i. still.
Inauguration Cost $73,000.
Washington,—Woodrow Wilson’*
inauguration as president of the
United States cost approximately $78,-
000. The expeditures of the citizens’
inaugural committee was about $48,-
000, while the receipts from all sources
were approximately $34,000. The de-
ficit of $14,000 will be made up from
the guarantee fund of $88,000, which
was subscribed in Washington. The
joint congressional inaugural commit-
tee spent about $25,000, appropriated
by congress.
Make me up Into loaves, and your chil-
dren are fed;
But If Into drink, FlU starve them Instead.
In bread I’m a servant, the eater shall
rule; \
In drll.k I am mastej^
■, the drinker a fool.
More Cattle Barns for State Fair.
Dallas, Texas.—The state fair build-
ing committee have awarded the con-
tract for the new cattle and swine
barns. The buildings are to be of
reinforced concrete and thoroughly
modern in every particular. The pens
in the swine barns are to be of woven
ctool rriro r*r> cnr\orata floors T"h*
drive-ways through the livestock de-
partment are to be paved and con-
/-> «-r> f o etflriivilVo nut H nivn onrl oil n#
them sheltered. These improvements
are to cost $40,00, and are to be
completed by August 1.
Study of Alcohol.
If it 13 worth while for a rich mar
to ray all the expenses of an anthro
pologiqal expedition, and for a great
univer/iity to equip with trained mer
led by one of the greatest authoritiei
of the day upon the subject, then sure
ly it in a worthy undertaking for rich
men to create a foundation for the
Etud’y of the alcohol problem that hai
such bearing upon the moral well-bo
lng of the whole people.—-Economic
and Moral Aspect of the Liquor Bust
new,, by Robert Bagnall. Ph. D., D.D
Deaths Due to Alcohol.
Talcing the figures for 1906 for Eng
land i»nd Wales alone, we hare 167,30"
deaths of males over 15; 23,422 ol
these were wholly or partly due tc
alcohol, and of this number 12.654
were married men—I. e„ 536 per 1,008
—Dr Rsleehv
Drive Away Sorrow.
T that i* ,»*• — — j.i.
cou’.d be wiped out of the earth tc
night humanity would wake in th
moiolrg with more than half it* gin
and •b’-rowB gone.—Hall Caine.
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