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^Tbe IRefucjto IReview.
PUBLISHED IN THE IETERBiiT OF REFUGIO COUNTY.
ESTIMATES OF PRODUCTION AND
VALUE OF ELEVEN IMPORTANT
CROP’S OF UNITED STATES.
ENORMOUS INCREASE IN CORN
These Eleven Crops Are Only a Por-
tion of the Production of the Soil,
Which Is Estimated This Year
( at $6,137,000,000.
Washington—Final estimates of
production and value of eleven of the
important crops which go to make up
the enormous grand total of $9,532,-
000,000, the wealth produced on farms
through the soil and farmers’ live
"Stock during 1912, as stated by the
secretary of agriculture, were an-
nounced Tuesday by the crop report-
ing board, bureau of statistics, de-
partment of agriculture. The figures
are the official government estimates
for the important crops, and indicate
the acreage, production, value based
•on prices paid to farmers on Decem-
ber L These eleven crops are only a
portion of the production of the soil,
which the secretary of agriculture es-
timates will amount this year to $6,-
137,000,000. The secretary estimates
the total value of the animal prod-
ucts of the farm in 1912 to be about
$3,395,000,000.
The estimates of Tuesday, with
comparisons for 1911 and 1910, follow:
(■ Corn—Area harvested, 107,083,000
acres, compared with 105,825,000 acres
last year and 104,035,000 acres in
1910; production, 3,124,746,000 bush-
els, compared with 2,531,488,000 bush-
els last year and 2,886,260,000 bushels
in 1910; farm value, December 1, per
bushel, 48.7c, compared with 61.8c last
year and 48c in 1910. Total value of
the crop, $1,520,454,000, compared
with $1,565,258,000 last year and $1,-
384.817.000 in 1910.
Winter Wheat-—Area harvested, 26,
571.000 acres, compared with 29,162,-
000 acres last year and 27,239,000
acres in 1910; production, 399,919,000
b^st^Ve, coi^^re-lwith 430,656,000
buishels last year and 434,142,000 bush-
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bushel, 80.9c, compared with 88c
last year and 88.1c in 1910. Tota/
value of the crop, $323,572,000, com-
pared with $379,151,000 last year and
$392,318,000 in 1910.
Spring Wheat—Area harvested, 19,-
243.000 acres, compared with 20,162,-
000 acres last year and 18,252,000
acres in 1910; production, 363,348,000
bushels, compared with 190,682,000
bushels last year and 200,979,000 bush-
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bushel, 70.1c, compared with 86c
last year and 88.9c in 1910. Total
value of the crop, $231,708,000, com-
pared with $163,912,000 last year and
$178,733,000 in 1910.
Fall Wheat—Area harvested, 45,.
$14,000 bushels, compared with 49,-
543.000 acres last year and 45,681,000
-acres in 1910; production, 730,267,000
bushels, compared wi th 621,338,000
bushels last year and 635,121,000 bush-
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bushel, 76c, compared with 87.4c
\ last year and 88.3c in 1910. Total
value of the crop, $555,280,000, com-
pared with $543,063,000 last year and
/ $561,551,000 in 1910.
• Oats—Area harvested, 37,917,000
•acres, compared with 37,763,000 acres
last year and 37,548,000 acres in 1910;
production, 1,418,337,000 bushels, com-
pared with 922,298,000 bushels last
year and 1,186,341,000 bushels in 1910;
farm value, December 1, 45c last year
-and 34.4c in 1910. Total value of
crop, $452,469,000, compared with
$414,663,000 last year and $408,388,000
in 1910.
Barley—Area harvested, 7,530,000
■acres, compared with 7,627,000 acres
last year and 7,743,000 acres in 1910;
production, 233,824,000 bushels, com-
pared with 160,240,000 bushels last
year and 173,832,000 bushels in ,1910;
farm value, December 1, per bushel,
50.5c, compared with 86.9c last year
and 57.8c in 1910. Total value of the
•crop, $112,957,000, compared with
$139,182,000 last year and $100,426,000
in 1910.
Rye — Area harvested, 2,117,000
acres, compared with 2,127,000 acres
last year and 2,185,000 acres in 1910.
Production, 35,664,000 bushels, com-
pared with 33,119,000 bushels last year
and 34,879,000 bushels in 1910. Farm
value, December 1, per bushel, 66.3c,.
« -compared with 83.2c last year and
71.5c in 1910. Total value of the
crop $23,636,000, compared with $27,-
557.000 last year and $24,953,000 in
1910.
Rice—Area harvested, 722,800 acres,
compared with 696,000 acres last year-
and 722,800 acres in 1910. Produc-
• tion, 25,054,.000 bushels, compared
with 22,934,000 bushels last year and
24.510.000 bushels in 1910. Farm
value, December 1, per bushel, 93.5c,
compared with 79.7c last year and
67.8c in 1910. Total value of the
crop, $23,423,000, compared with $18,-
274.000 last year and $16,624,000 in
1910
ALLEGES CEMENT TRUST EXISTS
SUIT FILED TO OUST FOUR COM-
PANIES FROM TEXAS.
State Asks for Receiver and $7,600,000
in Penalties—Temporary In-
junction Granted.
Austin, Tex.—A cement trust is in
existence in Texas, according to the
allegations of a suit filed Tuesday in
the twenty-sixth district court by At-
torney General James D. Walthall and
County Attorney John E. Shelton, who
ask that it be dissolved, its units oust-
ed from Texas and that each of the
four defendants pay $1,900,00 in pen-
alties to the state—a total of $7,600,-
000—and that a receiver be appointed
for their properties.
District Judge Chas. A. Wilcox set
down the application for receiver for
hearing on Friday, December #7, when
the court will also hear any motions
or arguments regarding the temporary
injunction he granted Tuesday. This
injunction is to prevent the defend-
ants from removing their property
from Texas or outside the jurisdiction
of the courts and forbidding them to
secrete their books, records and
papers.
The four defendants .are as follows
Texas Portland Cement Company,
chartered in West Virginia and hav-
ing offices and plant at Dallas; South
western States Portland Cement Com
pany, chartered in West Virginia and
having offices and plant at Dallas
Southwestern Portland Cement Com-
pany of West Virginia, with offices
and plant at El Paso, and the Alamo
Cement Company,.chartered in Texas
with offices and plant at San Antonio.
The permits of the three former are
sought to be canceled and the charter
of the last named forfeited.
It is alleged in the petition that i
cement trust was formed on or about
September 1, 1909, and that the agree-
ments covered two basing points—
Kansas City, Mo., and Galveston,
Texas. The price 4!or cement in
Texas town was the one or other basis,
plus the freight rate and 40 cents per
barrel for sacks. An instance given
was that on November 1, 1912, the
price in Kansas City was 90c per bar-
rel and the freight rate to Austin
$1.23, with 40c sacking charged, mak-
ing a total of $2.53. At Galveston the
price was fixed at $1.45 per barrel,
freight rate to Austin 68c and sacking
40e—total, $2.53. It is maintained
that the lowest combination of the
foregoing charges would make the
price of cement in any town in Texas
and that said price was charged re-
gardless of where the cement was
shipped from—Galveston, Dallas, Kan-
sas City or El Paso.
A further allegation is that in 1910
the prices were fixed by E. R. Staple-
ton and C. L. Johnson, general sales
agents of two of the defendants, and
that the prices are now being fixed by
P. A. Danielson and R. F. Bissell of
the Southwestern States and Texas
Portland companies, respectively, who,
the petition alleges, at times meet and
consult with other cement concerns
in Texas and determine such base
prices.
Additional charges are that the
average cost of manufacturing a bar-
rel' of cement is 60c, yet the following
prices prevailed in Austin: August
12 last, $2.10 per barrel; August 31,
$2.20, and November 1, $2.53 per bar-
rel.
Following this is a lengthy aver-
ment made that the anti-trust law of
the thirtieth legislature has been vio-
lated and that the state is entitled to
recover penalties of $1,500 per day,
besides ouster and dissolution, also
to have a receiver appointed.
“APPEAL TO REASON”
GOVERNOR'S CHRISTMAS PARDONS,m m in London, England
HE CELEBRATES 51ST BIRTHDAY
AND PARDONS 51 MEN.
Has Adopted a New Policy—Good Be-
havior During Term of Sentence
is Obligatory.
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Your Shoppin-
MEXICANS WITHINTHEIR RIGHTS
AT JUAREZ AND AGUA PRIETA
FIGHTS, SAYS ARMY BOARD. >'
No Exemplary or Punitive Indemnity
Allowed Americans—-Are Only En-
titled to Actual Damages.
Washington.—Setting up the conten-
tion that Mexico was in her right
when she undertook to defend Juarez
and Agua Prieta and that the Ameri-
cans killed and wounded in El Paso
and Douglas in the course of these
two battles constituted incidental dam-
ages, and that therefore Mexico should
be asked for actual but not exemplary
or punitive damages, the army board
appointed to ascertain the amount of
damages suffered by Americans Sat-
urday reported to congress its find-
ings as follows:
Celia Griffith, El Paso, husband kill-
ed; claim $50,000, indemnity recom-
mended $15,000. v%
F.frly In the Day.
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POWER POLICE URGED BE FISHER
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Secretary Stresses What He Believe'
to Be Most Important Subject
Before Congress.
Washington.—A definite and com
prehensive water-power policy foi
streams upon the public domain and
navigable streams not in the public
domain is urged by the secretary oi
the interior, Walter L. Fisher, as the
most important subject pending be-
fore congress and the country, in his
annual report submitted Sunday to
President Taft.
Other legislation which Secretary
Fisher recommends as important to
the welfare of the country embodies
an enlarged application of the leasing
principle as applied to the public do-
ir <n in general; a comprehensive
Austin, Tex.—Monday was the fifty-
first anniversary of the birth of the
governor of Texas, and he spent some
time in arranging and signing Christ-
mas pardons. The list of pardons for
Christmas was completed and the
governor’s signature affixed—on his
fifty-first birthday. They will bring
joy to that many families, as fifty-
one loved ones will walk forth from
the penitentiary and return to their
hofnes. They will reach the family
fireside in time to eat Christmas din-
ner.
The governor has adopted a new
policy in granting pardons. Each is a
conditional pardon, and obligates the
recipient to be on good behavior dur-
ing the term of his sentence. In the
case of life sentences it conditions
the men to obey the laws and remain
tractable the remainder of their nat-
ural lives, otherwise they will be re-
turned to prison walls.
In every one of the pardons signed
and issued Monday there is a pro-
vision to the effect that clemency is
extended conditionally, and that if the
person violates any law peace officers
will take them in charge and return
them to the penitentiary. Of course
that applies only during the period of
the unexpired sentence. If a convict
went up for five years and was par-
doned after serving three years, he
would have to be strictly law-abiding
during the two years following the
pardon. If he was not, he would be
returned to the prison without trial
to serve out the unexpired portion of
his term.
Quite a number of those pardoned
Monday had but a few months to
serve, while others had a number of
years. There were at least two of
American Ambassador to Great Brit-
ain—Seriously III Only a Few
Days—Life’s History.
London.—Whitelaw Reid, the Amer-
ican ambassador to Great Britain
since 1905, died at his London resi-
dence, Dorchester house, shortly after
noon Sunday from pulmonary' oedema.
The end was quite peaceful. Mrs.
Reid and their daughter, Mrs. John
Hubert Ward, were at the bedside.
Almost immediately the king sent
condolences of himself and the queen.
During the day messages conveying
the warmest sympathy were received
from the queen mother, Alexandria,
and other members of the royal fam-
ily, court officials, members of the
government and of the various em-
bassies and legations, while many
who had heard the news of the am-
bassador’s death or who had seen
the flags at half mast on Dorchester
house called at the embassy.
leas. law for coal, oil and other „
minera. ’ands, and laws providing for | ! for.tu™te}ist> °ne
the classification of public lands a,c-
cording to their respective character-
istic and appropriate uses and ajd-
miniljtrqtion in accordance therewith.
A. R. Chandler, El Paso, son killed’; F.isht!f also declares ap
claim $50,000, recommended $12,000. ilr.’ of legislation for the develop-
a rirtifn n - . Tt Of the transportation facilities
Adolfo Varela, El Paso, wounded. Js . A „ , J
‘hreugh body; Cairn 115,000, recom^pMlthdrawaI S, “ enl£ o,“™h£
Turk and Greek Fleets Battle.
Sedil-Bahr, Dardanelles. — Another
haval battle was begun between the
Turkish and Greek feets Tuesday
morning. The firing was .very heavy.
After the naval battle off the Dar-
danelles the Turkish warships return
ed to their anchorage with flags fly
ing and bands playing, amid the en
thusiastic applause of the crowds lin
ing the shore. According to an eye
witness, who verifies the official re
port of the engagement, after a long-
range exchange of shots, the smaller
Greek vessels retired, leaving the
pride of the Greek navy, the cruiser
Georgio Averof, to bear the brunt of
the fighting. The cruiser seemed to
be using only her small caliber guns
and showed signs of having been
struck by three or four shells. Final-
ly she slowly retired.
A Big Lumber Deal.
Houston, Tex.—The Texas Long
Leaf number Company, with head-
quarters at New Willard, has pur-
chased the saw mill plant of the
Thompson-Tucker Lumber Company
and has made a timber contract for
the cutting of all the timber owned
by the Thompson-Tucker Lumber
Company. The plant comprises ap-
proximately 60,000 acres of long leaf
pine and is one of the best tracts in
Polk and Trinity counties. The mill
has a capacity of 100,000 feet of tim-
ber daily.
mended $3,000.
Virginia Moorhead, El Paso, wound-^'/-
ed; claim $15,000, recommendeder
$3,000. ,se-
Abundio Soto, El Paso, wife wound 1
ed; claim $6,000, recommended $4,00t‘l? ,nt
Edwin G. Healon, El Paso, shot
through leg; claim $10,615, recore ’6
mended $2,000.
Emma Larson, Douglas, Ariz.,™
wounded; claim $2,500, recommended
$1,000.
Elmer E. Crave, Douglas, Ariz., shot
through body; claim $20,000, recom-
mended $5,000.
F. F. Williams, Douglas, Ariz., shot
through body; claim $50,000, recom-
mended $5,000.
John W. Keate, Douglas, Ariz., shot
through foot; claim $5,000, recom-
mended $4,000.
Joseph W. Harrington, Douglas,
Ariz., death of brother; claim $30,000,
recommended $15,000.
William R. White, Douglas, Ariz.,
shot through leg; claim $50,000, rec-
ommended $2,000.
The following Mexican claimants
were held by the commission to be
entitled to no indemnity. Their claims
were as follows:
Rita Garria, El Paso, death of hus-
band; claim $25,000.
Francisco Portillo, El Paso, shot
through arm; claim $15,000.
Avaristo Alarcon, El Paso, death of
husband; claim $40,000.
Isabel Dara de Farcia, death of
daughter, $12,000.
Francisco Arredonda, gunshot
wound, $25,000.
Dolores Dominguez, death of broth-
er, $20,000.
Bernardino Hernandez, shot through
arm, $20,000.
In addition the claim of Wong
Kong, El Paso, for $20,000, shot
through jaw, no indemnity is recom-
mended.
The commission declined to recom-
mend indemnity for the foregoing
alien Mexican citizens who were
domiciled in El Paso and Douglas dur-
ing the battles, as it did in the case
of the Chinese citizen, Wong Kong,
whose claim for indemnity the com-
mission contends should be presented
by the Chinese government.
Garment Workers Strike Settled.
Houston, Tex.—Difficulties which
have existed since last Friday be-
tween the Cyrus W. Scott Manufactur-
ing Company and Garment Workers’
Union No. 31 were settled Tuesday at
a meeting of representatives of the
manufacturers, a committee from the
^withdrawal from entry of public
s in the West needed to conserve
water supply at the sources of
ms. He recommends the retire-
and pensioning of the civil em-
of the government. Most of
T '•ommendations are in renewal
aphasis of those made in his
v is annual report.
' . o a water power policy, he says
it must be made “certain that
e who receive special privileges
1 aeeted with water power develop-
/nt shall in fact proceed by appro-
priate degrees and within appropriate
t;imes to develop the available water
t ower to its highest capacity, having
Vue regard to the possibilities of mar-
keting the product.”
,f vWe must make oertain,” he con-
tinues, “that the electric energy thus
created shall be made available to
ttie community in appropriate ways at
s ppropriate prices. If it is not to be
Lsed for the benefit of the commun-
ity, but is to be devoted directly to
*he private purposes and personal ad-
vantage of the permittee, some meth-
od must be found by which the public
ill receive its share of the profits
Ivhich the permittee may make over
[uid above that which is a necessary
nd reasonable inducement for his in-
estment.”
The present law, he asserts, “neith-
er promotes development nor protects
he public interest in an effective
anner,” and he attributes this prin-
ipally to the fact that a permit is
•‘revocable at any time and without
Specific reason.”
I As to homestead law legislation, the
Secretary says he is still of the same
^pinion, in spite of a somewhat dif-
ferent law passed last June, that “the
homestead settler should be excused
rom the necessity of residing upon
His land during the first two years
ifter entry, provided he substituted
for residence during that period the
improvement and cultivation of a sub-
stantial portion of the ground.” The
law passed, he says, is being admin-
istered to encourage as much as pos-
sible the bona fide settler.
being Ike Taylor, convicted of murder
in Cherokee County and given a life
sentence in 1904. Another was Oscar
Roberts, who was sent up from Co-
manche County in 1905 on a similar
charge. They will have' to be goM
the rest of their lives or again don
prison garb. They have an incentive
to follow the law.
A pardon goes to W. H. Parent,
who was convicted in Dallas County
cn a charge of theft of over $50. He
escaped and was at -large three years,
having been recaptured in New York.
One Chambers, given three years in
Galveston County for cattle theft, is
also a beneficiary of the governor’s
mercy.
Arkansas Governor Pardons 360 Men.
Little Rock, Ark.—Governor George
W. Donaghey Monday signed pardons
for 360 convicts as a protest against
the convict lease system employed in
Arkansas and other places. The con-
victs who will be freed are serving
sentences of from one to fifteen years
in length.
Fifteen Women to Hold Offices.
. . . . , Austin, Tex.—Records in the de-
^cal organization and Miss Margaret |j partment of state show that commis-
Daley, a member of the national execu-
tive board of the organization. As a
result of the terms of settlement
agreed upon, the 175 girls who have
been idle returned to their places
Wednesday.
sions have been issued to 15 women
who will hold by election county of-
fices in Texas for the ensuing two
years, and to one woman who has
been appointed by the commissioners
court
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NOW UNDER WAE
Apparently Greek Difficulty As to
Armistice Has Been Surmount-
ed by Envoys.
London.—Preliminaries of the peace
conference were completed Monday
and apparently the Greek difficulty
regarding the signing of the armis-
tice has been surmounted. Every-
thing is ready for actual negotiations.
So wide is the divergence between
the respective claims of the Balkan
allies and Turkey that there is little
prospect of an early termination of
the conference.
It is reported through Berlin that
the Servian ministers in council de-
cided, in deference to Russian and
French advice, to yield the port of
Durazzo on the Adriatic, and that the
Servian premier, M. Pachitch, is com-
ing to London in connection with this
determination.
This report has not been confirmed,
but there are indications of relaxation
in the Austro-Serb difficulty. The
Austrian minister is credited with re-
marking that he was hopeful of the
ability of Austria to carry out her
Balkan, program in its Entirety with-
out resort to force.
The Prochaska affair also appears
to have been greatly misrepresented
and no longer affords discussion for
dissension.
Plenipotentiaries considering ar-
rangements of peace between Turkey
and the Balkan states met Monday in
St. James palace. They adjourned
early in the afternoon without having
entered into discussion of the peace
question.
The day’s feature was the address
of welcome delivered by Sir Edward
Grey, the British secretary of foreign
affairs, who was elected honorary
president of the conference. The re-
sponses of the heads of the various
delegations indicated a desire to ac-
complish the purpose of the confer-
ence.
WHITELAW REID.
Whitelaw Reid was in his seventy-
sixth year, having been born October
27, 1837, in Xenia, Ohio. He became
a newspaper writer as a young man
and never broke off his connection
with the public press. He was editor
in chief of the New York Tribune
for many years and afterward became
proprietor of that journal.
In the Ineantirae, ro^©ver,; a
reer had been a varied one. He
served in the first campaigns of the
civil war in 1861 as war correspond-
ent, in which capacity he was present
at many of the important battles.
At one time he was librarian of the
house of representatives. At another
he was a cotton planter in Louisiana.
Later in life he went into the diplo-
matic service and was sent to Franco
as United States minister in 1889, r<£
maining until 1892. During that
period he did some important diplo-
matic work in securing the rescinding
of the decree prohibiting the impor-
tation of American meats into France
and also in negotiating the reciprocity
and extradition treaties between the
United States and France.
He came back to the United States
to run as the republican candidate for
vice president on the ticket with
President Harrison. i
Some years later, in 1897, he was
sent as special ambassador to Great
Britain to attend the celebration of
the diamond jubilee of Queen Vic-
toria.
His next important work was as
special commissioner to the Paris con-
ference which negotiated peace be-
tween the United States and Spain.
In 1902 he was again appointed spe-
cial ambassador to Great Britain for
the coronation of King Edward VII.
with whom he always was on the most
friendly terms.
He was chosen in 1905
States ambassador to Grea-1 .win in -
succession to Joseph^ .mate.
Good Sized Egg Plant.
Alvin, Tex.—W. C. Blair of Alvin is
the possessor of the largest egg plant
that has been seen in the coast coun-
try. It weighs five pounds and meas-
ures twenty-six inches around length-
wise and twenty-three inches in cir-
cumference. It is one of the coast
country fall products.
Bank Robbers . . Kyle Get $18,00®.
Kyle, Tex.—The Kyle State bank
was robbed of $18,000 Tuesday morn-
ing before day. G. R. Gwinn, night
watchman, while on his founds, heard
noise in the vicinity of the bank
and, thinking it was someone after a
coffin at the undertaking establish-
ment next door to the bank, went to
investigate. Upon arrival he was con-
fronted with a pistol and ordered to
hands up and turn his back and ex-
tinguish his lantern.
He was then taken into the bank
building, disarmed and ordered to
squat in a certain corner, facing the
wall, and upon pain of death not to
look any of them in the face. Mr.
Gwinn is sure they were forty-five
minutes getting in their work, making
three shots after his arrival, and from
appearances, two before his arrival.
After securing the booty the robbers
blindfolded Gwinn and marched him
about two blocks and put him in a
box car.
1,000 Acres for Pecans.
Lytle, Tex.—The Medina Irrigation
Company is actively preparing the
land for what is said to be the largest
pecan orchard in the world, about ono
mile from Lytle. One thousand acres
will be planted in paper shell pecans
as soon as the trees arrive from the
nurseries in Florida.
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