The Refugio Review. (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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ZTbe IRefugto IRevtew.
Only Paper in the County.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF REFUGIO COUNTY.
Subscription $1.50 Per Annum.
VOL. 6.
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TESSAS, FRIDAY,JULY 25, 1913.
N6. 20.
STAlt SETS
HALF MILLION DOLLAR PENALTY
PAID THE STATE BY THE
STANDARD OIL.
raGLIA COMPANY NOT GlflLTY
Archbold and Folger Stock in Mag.
noglia Company Placed in Hands
of Trustee to Assure Independ-
ence From Standard.
Greenville, Tex.—The Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey Monday sent
$500,000 into Texas by wire, paying
the entire half million as a penalty
for violation of the Texas anti-trust
laws. The settlement was a compro-
mise with the State. It wiped the
records clean of the big $102,161,000
penalty and ouster suit which the
State filed recently against four oil
companies, five New York banks and
28 individuals, including several of the
country’s leading oil men.
The penalty is based on violations
under the Texas laws prior to 1909.
The suit covered alleged violations
from 1900 to 1913. The verdict speci-
fically says the Magnolia Petroleum
Company, the chief Texas interest in
the suit, has not been guilty of viola-
tions.
Before District Judge William Pier-
son Monday the suit brought on March
5 by Attorney General Looney of
Texas against the Magnolia Petro-
leum Company and others for ouster
•and penalties aggregating $103,493,000
was settled by agreement. The prin-
cipal features of the agreement are:
1. The Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey is fined $500,000 for viola-
tions of the anti-trust law prior to Oc-
tober 26, 1909, and is found not guilty
as to charges of subsequent violations.
2. The Magnolia Petroleum Com-
pany, its predecessor, John Sealy &
Co.; John Sealy of Galveston, the Cor-
sicana Petroleum Company and other
defendants are found not guilty as to
all the counts against them.
3. The 21,596 shares of stock in
Magnolia Petroleum Company held in
•equal division by John D. Archbold
and Henry C. Pogler, Jr., constituting
about 90 per cent of the total num-
ber of shares, is by agreement placed
in trust, Hon. F. A Williams of Gal-
veston, former associate justice of the
supreme court of Texas, being ap-
. pointed trustee. This stock is dis-
franchised and can not be voted, ex-
cept that the trustee may, in his dis-
cretion, vote it if requested in writ-
ing by the owners to do so. They are
not barred from receiving the divi-
dends. It is made the duty of the trus-
tee to keep track of the operations of
the company and to see that it obeys
the law. It is agreed that he shall per-
form similar functions as to the Cor-
sicana Petroleum Company. The trus-
tee is to receive a salary of $5,000
per annum, four-fifths to be paid by
the Magnolia Petroleum Company and
one-fifth by the Corsicana Petroleum
Company. This feature of the judg-
ment is similar to the dissolution judg-
ment in the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific case. The idea in that case
originated in Texas.
4. The receiver of the Magnolia
Petroleum Company and Corsicana
Petroleum Company is discharged.
At Austin Governor Colquitt sent
the legislature a message recommend-
ing that the $500,000 be treated as a
special fund and used to buy from the
permanent school fund that amount of
the 3 per cent state refunding bonds
substituted during the Campbell ad-
ministration, thus giving the school
fund an opportunity to invest the
amount in 5 per cent bonds. Repre-
sentative Wortham at once asked per-
mission to introduce a bill so provid-
ing, but Representative Lewelling ob-
jected.
Judgment was not entered at Green-
ville until Attorney General Looney
had been advised by the Austin Na-
tional bank that the $500,000 had been
deposited to the credit of the state.
The fees amount to $13,750. They
would have been twice that much if
the $500,000 had been recovered upon
a trial of the case, the statute pro-
viding for half fees in the event of
agreed judgments.
This $13,750 will be split among
Richard G. Maury, criminal district
attorney of Harris County; Thomas
W. Thompson, county attorney of
Hunt County; L. L. Bowman of Green-
ville, district attorney of the Eighth
district, and Messrs. Crosby, Hamilton
and Harrell of Greenville, private
counsel for the state.
The Penalties Sought.
Following is the distribution of pen-
alties in the original suit: Standard
•Oil Company of New York, $8,150,000;
Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey, $8,150,000; Corsicana Petroleum
Company, Corsicana, $8,150,000; Mag-
nolia Petroleum Company, Corsicana,
$1,000,000; John D. Archbold, New
York, $8,150,000; John D. Rockefeller,
New York, $8,150,000; L. C. Ledyard,
New York, $8,150,000; Charles M.
Pratt, New York, $8,150,000; Charles
W. Harkness, New York, $8,150,000;
C. N. Payne, Titusville, Pa., $8,150,-
000; H. C. Folger. Jr., New York, $8,-
150.000;
SENATE AIRS THE MEXICAN SITUATION
Both Democrats and Republicans De-
nounce Waiting Policy of Taft and
Wilson—Must Protect Americans.
Washington. — The Mexican "war
flame” was fanned in the senate
Tuesday by distinguished senators of
both parties who came to the sup-
port of Senator Fall’s resolution,
which reads as follows:
“Resolved, That the constitutional
rights of American citizens should
protect them on our borders and go
with them throughout the world, and
every American citizen residing or
having property in any foreign coun-
try is entitled to and must be given
the full protection of the United States
government, both for himself and his
property.”
The state departments of the Taft
and Wilson administrations were criti-
cised without regard to party affilia-
tions, and as the result of the flare up,
in which Senators John Sharp Wil-
liams, Lodge, O’Gorman, Works and
others assumed belligerent attitudes,
a situation at a critical stage in our
Mexican relations was created which
is .regarded with concern. Unless as-
surances of some sort from the presi-
dent exert an influence for modera-
tion and patience, the question will
be taken up again soon.
Senator Stone, long ready to invade
Mexico, declared that the time has
come for the American army to cross
the Rio Grande. Other senators, dem-
ocrats and republicans alike, more
conservative in their views, openly
favored an equivocal declaration that
if protection is longer withheld from
Americans, by either federals or revo-
lutionists, such protection will be
promptly furnished by the United
States regardless of the consequences.
FIFTY GIRLS PERISH IN FACTORY EIRE
Many Bodies Have Been Recovered,
While Hospitals Hold Many Wound-
ed—-Had Little Chance to Escape.
Binghamton, N. Y.—Fifty persons
were killed, according to late esti-
mates, and many injured, a dozen, or
more mortally, in a fire which swept
the four-story factory building of the
Binghamton Clothing Company Tues-
day. The victims were chiefly women
and girls. . ...
Many bodies have been recovered.
In the City Hospital and in private
institutions are thirty injured. Some
two score persons are known to have
escaped, as if by a miracle, from the
building, which burst into flame like
tinder, and became a roaring furnace
almost instantly after the first alarm
was sounded. About one hundred and
twenty-five persons were in the fac-
tory when the fire broke out.
In the tragedy the deadly burst of
flames quickly followed after the
alarm. There was little opportunity
to use ordinary or even emergency
means of escape.
The big outstanding fact of the ca-
tastrophe is its swiftness. In this
the disaster bears a strong resem-
blance to the Triangle Waist Com-
pany holocaust in New York City,
where 147 lives were lost, when the
inflammable material on which the
employes were working and the waste
littering the floors blazed with incon-
ceivable rapidity and set the imprison-
ed workers jumping from the windows
to their death.
DANGEROUS SITUATION CONFRONTING EUROPE
Turkey Has Started All the Trouble
by Reoccupying Adrianople—Rus-
sia Ready to Intervene.
London.—The European concert is
faced by a most delicate and difficult
situation, requiring the exercise of
the utmost diplomatic tact, if Europe
is not to be plunged into a general
war by the Turkish reoccupation of
Adrianople and Kirk Kilise.
Bulgaria, helpless, sees the fruits of
her dearly-won victories snatched
from her hand, and while negotiations
for an armistice are proceeding in a
leisurely manner at Nish, the Greeks
and Servians continue to push their
advantage.
The official announcement made at
Constantinople that the Turkish troops
had reoccupied Adrianople created the
worst possible impression in diplo-
matic circles and the powers imme-
diately began an exchange of views
to find the best means of checkmating
Turkey’s action, which is looked upon
as a clear-cut defiance of all Europe.
Russia is* understood to be ready
to accept the mandate of Hurope to
compel the porte to respect the treaty
of London and the British cabinet
will soon consider whether this gov-
ernment shall consent to active inter-
vention by Russia.
Premier Asquith’s speech at Birm-
ingham Tuesday was intended to warn
Turkey against just such a develop-
ment which would involve Russian oc-
cupation of both sides of the Bosporus
and the gripping of Constantinople,
both in front and in the rear.
In their advance the Servians have
occupied Belogradchyk, northwest of
Sofia, and desultory fighting con-
tinues all along the Servian front.
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TURKISH SOLDIERS ENTER ADRIANOPLE HUERJA SENDS DIAZ OUT Of
Battle With Bulgarians Holding City.
Advent of New Bulgarian Cabinet.
Turkey Makes Claims Known.
London.—The Turks have entered
Adrianople after a brief conflict with
the Bulgarian garrison Sunday. Bashi
bazouks are burning, pillaging and
committing atrocities.
The Roumanian troops are advanc-
ing in an easterly direction and threat-
ening Eastern Roumelia.
The events of the last few days,
says a correspondent, “indicate the
complete collapse of the authority of
Europe.”
The Servians and Greeks were re-
pulsed Friday and Saturday all along
the line.
News from London says: “The
crisis has arrived. Thirty thousand
Roumanian troops have reached Or-
chaniji and Etropole, within forty
miles of Sofia. Enver Bey, at the head
of the Turkish cavalry, has arrived at
Adrianople,- where the Bulgarian gar-
rison of 2,000 has received orders not
to resist the Turks,” ----------
The advent of a new Bulgarian cabi-
net, comprising a coalition of the lib-
eral groups, seems to have brought a
prospect that peace negotiations soon
will be entered into. After vain at-
tempts to negotiate separately with
Roumania, the Bulgarian government
accepted the advice of Austria and
Russia and offered Roumania an im-
portant territorial concession. Bul-
garia also sent delegates to meet the
Servian, Greek and presumably Rou-
manian representatives at Nish to
negotiate an armistice and peace.
It is confirmed from Athens that
Servia, Greece and Montenegro are
ready to participate in the negotia-
tions. Turkey, howevdr, has intro-
duced a new complication and has not-
ified the European powers of her in-
tention to make the Maritza river the
new frontier.
Secretary of War Visits Galveston.
Galveston, Tex.—Secretary of War
Lindley M. Garrison and Major Gen-
eral Wood, chief of staff, arrived in
Galveston Sunday from Houston, hav-
ing come from there by automobile
after spending two hours in that city.
General J. B. Aleshire, chief of the
quartermaster corps; Captain J. S. B.
Schlndel of the general staff of the
army, and W. T. Pedigo, private secre-
tary to Mr. Garrison, were with the
party.
Surrender $3,000,000 Duties.
Washington. — Secretary McAdoo
Saturday decided not to appeal the de-
cision of the customs court granting
free entry of wood pulp and paper to
all countries having “favored nation”
treaties with the United States be-
cause that privilege is granted to Can-
ada. The treasury must surrender
$3,000,000 in duties.
Goes to Japan to Thank That Country
for Its Participation in the
1910 Centennial.
. City of Mexico.—General Felix Diaz
has been named as special ambassa-
sador to Japan to express the thanks
*df Mexico to Japan for the latter’s par-
ticipation in Mexico’s centennial in
1910.
By appointing General Diaz to this
mission President Huerta appears to
have eliminated him temporarily, at
least, from the politics of Mexico. The
president, when formally conferring
the honor on him Thursday, said that
he hoped that he would return to Mex-
ico in time to be a candidate in the
presidential election which Is called
for October 26.
General Diaz, however, would have
io plan his trip carefully so that time
would be left to him for the comple-
tion of his program in the presidential
campaign. Approximately a month
will he occupied in the trip to Japan,
and ‘bother month in the return, and
it vjiH be necessary nut to discredit
the mission by too much haste in leav-
ing Toltio.
Thel|e never has been any secret
about the desire of General Diaz to
stand for the presidency and that he
should be a candidate was part of the
agreement entered into by him with
President Huerta as the price of peace
in the capital. Huerta was to be the
provisional president and Diaz was to
name most of the cabinet, with the un-
derstanding that he should be free to
work out his own political future. Al-
most at once he was proclaimed the
candidate for the presidency by nu-
merous political clubs, but the growth
of the rebellion against the Huerta ad-
ministration and the failure of Diaz to
remain before the public in a spec-
tacular light, in addition to the gen-
eral apathy of a large part of the peo-
ple toward the election, results in
placing him in a position where even
many of his own partisans believe his'
election will be impossible.
President Huerta insists that the
elections will be held, but if they are,
there is yet in sight no man whose
popularity is sufficiently general to
malke his election at all certain, un-
less it is General Huerta himself, who
cajn not legally become a candidate
less he first retires from the presi-
ncy.
Corpus Christi Votes Bond.
Corpus Christi, Tex.—The voters of
Nueces County Saturday authorized
bonds in the amount of $250,000 for
the construction of court house and
jail. The issue before the people of
the county to vote $500,000 for good
roads in district No. 2 was defeated.
I Trainmen May Yet Strike.
ijNew York.—The 80,000 trainmen and
conductors who threaten a strike
ajgainst the Eastern railroads will not
agree under any circumstances to have
tfae roads’ grievances arbitrated at the
sjjame time as the demands for better
wages under the Newlands’ amend-
rihent to the Erdman act, according to
s| statement issued Thursday by W. G.
1'^ee and A. B. Garretson, presidents,
Respectively, of the trainmen’s and
(conductors’ brotherhoods.
IjSlip of Paper Has $38,000,000 Value.
New York.—With a slip of paper in
his pocket representing about $88,000,-
J|000, Frederick V. S. Crosby, treasurer
of the Union Pacific Railroad Com-
pany, walked into the office of the
Dredging Intercoastal Canal. YlCentral Trust Company Thursday. He
Orange, Tex.—The local fleet of ves-L turned the paper over to the trust com-
sels, saw mills and factories signaled.’j pany as trustee and thereby completed
the first step in the dissolution of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
roads, as decreed by the courts.
welcomes by whistle blasts Thursday,!;
night to a large dredge brought in?;'
port for use in starting the Orange-W
Calcasieu section of the intercoastaAj/
canal from Orange to the Calcasiei
river. 41
President Pardons
a Man. 5a
Washington.—The plight of a fed
eral prisoner dying of tuberculosi
and whose life might be prolonged b~
freedom caused President Wilso
Thursday to commute to expire
Plot to Dynamite U. S. Consulate.
Eagle Pass, Tex.—It is said on good
authority United States Consul Luther
Ellsworth at Piedras Negras has re-
ported to Washington the discovery
of a plot to dynamite the American
consulate and that his life is in im-
| minent danger. Consul Ellsworth now
f».! takes refuge at the army post in Eagle
once the four-year sentence of JamtSt j Pass nightly. The official records of
Perrin, convicted at Cleveland on Fe /b- j the consulate were removed to the
ruary 24 last of embezzling while ! a American side for safekeeping Thurs-
postal employe. / [day.
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PRINCESS MARY TO DANCE TANGO
Queen Mary has given another ex-
ample of the strictness of ker views
of propriety. At the same time she
has shown that she is not prejudiced
and is perfectly open to conviction if
her views are satisfactorily proved to
be erroneous.
The queen is an excellent and en-
thusiastic dancer and she has had
both the Prince of Wales and Prin-
cess Mary carefully taught in this art.
Hearing recently of an excellent
teacher of dancing, a Mrs. Marshall,
who lives in Kensington, the queen,
after making inquiries, determined to
send her daughter to her to take les-
sons. Mrs. Marshall teaches quite
young girls in the best society.
Queen Mary gave the strictest in-
structions that her daughter, Princess
Mary, should not be taught or even
t, ^
allowed to see danced any of those
modern dances which may be grouped
under two headings, the tango and
ragtime, any approach to which is
rigidly barred from Buckingham palace, or any dance which is attended by
the queen on account of her particular disapproval.
A few days ago, however, the dancing mistress earnestlj begged Queen
Mary to see some of these dances, assuring her of their grace and perfect
propriety. The queen saw half a dozen of Mrs. Marshall’s pupils dancing
the tango and some varieties of ragtime steps. The result was that the
queen freely admitted that there was nothing objectionable in what sh4 saw
and the princess has been allowed to learn these dances.
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Pablo Desvernine Galdos, the new
Cuban minister, reached Washington
a few days ago and was officially re-
ceived by President WTilson.
“Cuba is on the highway to peace
and prosperity,” said Mr. Galdos.
“The thange of administration was
accomplished without the slightest
friction, and for the first time in the
history of the republic an outgoing
president handed over the govern-
ment to a Cuban. You must remem-
ber that when Cuba, was declared in-
dependent General Wood relinquished
the government to the provisional
Oimsh’4- uf Mr~.P.alma, who later was
elected preside£i\|I Jin(j retired upon
tli© second nf a mnr-
icaas. Then Gf
sumed control, to:lrrw;
Gomez was elected.
“The inauguration of General Men-
ocal, therefore, marks a date of his-
torical importance to Cuba. That
there should be regrets at a change
of administration among the leaders of the liberal party is to be expected.”
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POLAR EXPEDITION SAILS
Official ceremonies having been
held and Dr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson
and party sailed from Victoria, B. C.,
the other day, on an exploring and
ethnological expedition in the Arctic
on the steamer Karluk, The official
photographs of the members of the
scientific staff were taken for the
government archives and a luncheon
was given to Mr. Stefansson by the
members of the government of British
Columbia.
At the end of the luncheon Sir
Richard McBride, on behalf of the
people of British Columbia, presented
to Mr. Stefansson a silver plate en-
graved with a suitable legend and
containing also the names of all the
members of the staff.
Doctor Anderson, who commands
the Victoria Island division, and Cap-
tain Bartlett of the Karluk also re-
plied on behalf of the expedition.
The Stefansson expedition differs
from most of the other Polar under-
takings in that its objects are practical and commercial. Its purposes are to
learu whether a Polar continent exists; to map the islands already discovered
east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river; to make a collection of the Arctic
flora and fauna; to survey the channels among the islands in the hope of
established trade routes.
PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER TO WED
President and Mrs. Wilson the
other day announced through a White
House statement the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson, to Francis Bowes Sayre of
Lancaster, Pa., and New York city.
Mr. Sayre is an attorney attached to
the office of District Attorney Whit-
man.
The wedding is expected to take
place next November in the White
House.
While close friends of both fami-
lies have known of the engagement
for some time, announcement was
withheld until the first anniversary of
Mr Wilson’s nomination at the Balti-
more convention.
Miss Wilson is twenty-four years
old. She was born in Princeton, N. J.,
and is a graduate of Goucher college,
Baltimore, Md.
She was an honor girl at the Bal-
timore College for Women. She has
always been devoted largely to social
service and is noted for her intense interest in settlement work.
Miss Wilson possesses a spiritual order of beauty and combines with
this the enthusiasm of a Joan of Arc in all her sociological work.
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