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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF REFUGIO COUNT*.
VOL. 6.
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1913.
NO. 14.
KATY FAST TRAIN WRECKED mm commission f® m dohei
ONE PEPSON KILLED AND 48 IN-
JURED WHEN FLYER STRIKES
FOUR HORSES.
Many Texans Were Injured in the
Smashup—Train Was Running
Fifty-Five Miles an Hour.
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McAlester, Okla.—Missouri, Kansas
atnd_Texas train No. 9, the Katy limit-
ed, southbound was wrecked six miles
south at Hailey Switch Sunday morn-
ing, as the result of running into
four horses.
The only one killed was Mrs. Geo.
Lewis of Kansas City.
The engine and every one of the
cars, with the exception of the rear
sleeper, turned over and went into
the ditch. The train was traveling
at a speed of fifty-five miles an hour
when the train struck four horses,
one of them being thrown against a
switch, splitting it and derailing the
engine. Four of the cars were prac-
tically demolished.
The railroad company records show
the following dead and injured:
The dead:
Mrs. George Lewis, Kansas City, Mo.
The injured:
Jack F. Hosteler, Austin, Texas.
J. H. Wensle, Chicago.
H. E. Anderson, Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. A. Merritt, Caddo, Okla.
Mrs. D. Shaneck, Parsons, Kan.
Mrs. Meta Ely, Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. M. E. Simpson, Kansas City,
Mo.
. H. F. Greer, Wichita Falls, Texas.
C. H. Haliburton, Moberly, Mo.
Mrs. C. H. Haliburton, Moberly, Mo.
Mrs. M. M. Moran, Dallas, Texas.
Jess Procter, Parsons, Kan.
Mrs. Irene Davis, Muskogee, Okla.
Mrs. L. Armstrong, Syracuse, Kan.
Mrs. W. H. Manchester, Lincoln,
Neb.
T. H. Walling, Iredell, Texas.
J. F. White, St. Louis, Mo.
Mrs. D. Sweent, Newport, Wash.
J. V. Gorman, Kansas City.
Mrs. J. T. Anderson, Tulsa, Okla.
D. Y. Anstone, Fort Worth, Texas.
C. F. Cody, Mission, Texas.
L. Williams, Waco, Texas.
J. F. Jarman, Lindale, Texas.
Mrs. Maude Jordan, Coffeyville,
Kan.
Miss Elta Bennett, Cookville, Ohio.
J. J. Scutt, Terrell, Texas.
< W. C. Woods, Houston Texas.
w. H. Park, Atoka, Okla.
Walter Wood, Houston, Texas.
Mrs. T. G. Van Zandt, Granger, Tex.
J. L. Yeagg, Coffeyville, Kan.
T. G.jVan Zandt, Granger, Tex.
J- E. Powell, Lexington, Ohio.
W. M. Rincher, Kansas City, Mo.
R. L. Lewis, Dallas, Texas.
F. L. Shaw, Dallas, Texas.
J. V. McGowan, Dallas, Texas.
J. J. Collins, Dallas, Texas.
A. C. Hedger, Royse City, Texas.
Texas Postmasters Confirmed.
Washington.—The senate Thursday
confirmed Texas postmasters as fol-
lows: P. B. McNatt, Arlington; J. J.
Erwin, Ballinger; Minnie Burke, Blos-
som; W. C. Boyett, College Station;
John W. Persdn, Colorado; Sam K.
Hailey, Conroe; John M. Hembree,
Cross Plains; B, F. Mitchell, Gaines-
ville; P. H. Clements, Goldthwaite;
Shadroe S. Tullos, Grand Prairie-
Young C. White, Hamlin; S. P. Rob-
bins, Lubbock; V. J. Lamb, Mabank;
J. W. Taylor, Midland; W.*D. Foster,
Miles; C. S. Davis, Ranger; R. K. Mc-
Closkey, Rule; W. E. Jepkins, Smith-
ville; E. B. Barnes, Snyder; C. E. Max-
well, Strawn; M. Ezell, Timpson; S.
S. McClenndon, Trybe; Pope Allen,
Valley Mills; Shaw D. Ray, Winns-
. boro.
Sixteen Cases Affecting the Railroads
of Texas to Be Disposed of
During This Month.
Austin, Tex.—The docket of the rail-
road commission for the June term as
announced Thursday is as follows:
Chaison, on Texarkana and Fort
Smith railway: Petition to be placed
within Beaumont switching limits.
Classes and commodities between
Galveston, Texas City or Velasco and
points on the St. Louis, Brownsville
and Mexico railway, and associated
lines: Proposed adjustment of rates.
Eastern Texas railroad—Stephen-
.ville North and South Texas railway,
St. Louis Southwestern railway of
Texas: Proposition to apply single
line rates.
Demurrage notice: Proposed revis-
ion of rule 4.
San Benito and Rio Grande Valley
railway: Proposed readjustment of
local and differential rates.
Riviera and Western railway: Peti-
tion d:or special differentials on vari-
ous commodities.
Classes and commodities:. Proposh
tion to cancel Robstown differentia]
on St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
railway.
Beaumont: Petition for order re-
quiring Texarkana and Fort Smith
Railway Company to provide adequate
passenger depot building.
Sugarland railway: Complaint re-
garding failure to operate properly
equipped passenger coach.
Interlocking device: Proposition to
require installation of by Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway of Texas
and St. Louis Southwestern railway
of Texas at Greenville.
Rough stone, carloads: Proposed re-
adjustment of ratings.
Hardware and saddlery articles:
Sweat pads, wire cloth, hand trucks
and iron brackets: Proposed readjust-
ment of ratings.
Logs, carloads: Proposed readjust-
ment of rates between Houston East
and West Texas and Texas and New
Orlearfs points.
Liberty, on Texas and New Orleans
railroad: Petition for stock pens and
loading chute.
Cotton bale tie buckles, L. C. L.:
Proposed readjustment of rates.
Barker on Missouri, Kansas and
p&ixrtftKs-'-Ot, : ^btiabn for
depot facilities.
Classes, between Houston-Galveston
and Port Lavaca-Hawkinsville: Pro-
posed cancellation of special rates.
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STATE RIGHTS IN RATE CASE UPHELD
Supreme Court Decision for Minne-
sota May Govern Other States
as to Rates.
Washington.—The power of the
states to fix reasonable intrastate
rates on interstate railroads until such
time as congress shall choose to regu-
late rates Wals upheld Monday by the
supreme court of the United States in
the Minnesota freight and passenger
rate cases.
At the same time the court laid
down far-reaching principles govern-
ing the valuation of railroad property
for ratemaking purposes, and accord-
ing to these held that the state of
Minnesota would confiscate the prop-
erty of the Minneapolis and St. Louis
Railroad Company by its maximum
freight and 2c passenger fare law. It
enjoined the state from enforcing
these laws as to this road for the pres-
ent. In the cases of the Northern Pa-
cific and Great Northern, however,
the court held that these roacls had
failed to show that the rates were “un-
reasonable” or confiscatory, and con-
AMERICANS IN MEXICO DEMAND PROTECTION
Three Hundred Now in Mexico Inti«
mate They Will Take Steps to
Protect Themselves.
Tampico, Mex. — Three hundrea
Americans located in Southern Tam-
aulipas, representing sixty-eight fami-
lies, have demanded in a long message
to President Wilson, sent through
Consul Miller, to know “once for all”
whether they can expect protection
from their home government, since
they “do not desire to take measures
for our own safety which would em-
barrass our government without giv-
ing due notice beforehand.”
The message of the Americans was
transmitted by wireless through Con-
sul Miller to W. W. Canada, the
American consul at Vera Cruz, to be
forwarded to Washington. It says:
Having been left without any pro-
tection whatever, on the part of both
sides, in the pending controversy,
therefore we can look for protection
only from our own country. We must
know once for all if we can expect
same.
A picturesque white-haired “gentle-
man of the old school” stepped buoy-
antly from a train at Madison, Wis.*
a few days ago.
He was Mayor Rudolph Blanken-i
burg of Philadelphia, scholar, patriot)
and philanthropist, and he, with aj
party of 100 easterners, went there ten
take a special course in civic govern-1
ment.
The venerable Quaker made an Im-
pressive figure in his flowing beard!
and frock coat. His eyes, undimmed!
by age, shone with the eagerness of!
youth.
“Never too old to learn,” was his,
cheery announcement. “Think of It—
going to school at my age.” And he*
laughed heartily at the idea of becom-
ing a schoolboy at the Sge of seventy.!
The party, which made the pilgrim-
age under the auspices of the City1
club of Philadelphia, regards Madisoni
as a sort of new world Athens. They
took a three-day course in advanced.1,
civics, and returned with the very latest ideas on the problems of municipal!
government.
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SAYS INDIANS NOT A VANISHING RACE
That the American .Indians are a
vanishing race has frequently been
asserted of late. In only one sense is
this true, according to statistics. As a
race proper, the Indians are assimilat-
ing the ideas, teachings and mode of
life of the white man and so losing
their identity, but as a matter of fact
they are increasing in numbers, are
more prosperous, healthier as a result
of education in sanitation, more indus-
trious than they have ever been be-
fore and are better cared for by the
government, through the office of In-
dian affairs, than
at any time in the
history qt the red man in the United
Having been sub.fect to slights | States.
NO DISSOLUTION OF PACIFIC MERGER
Attorney General Will Oppose Plan.
It Is Too Vague to Meet the
' Requirements.
ry and con- oaAYc* navmb weeu iu biignis* states.
sequehtl? revei^Hhe
sequentiy reversed .he UmCTcH gross abuse during the last few days, .,.
district court for Minnesota, whfaaaa the situation calls for most serious
both
inter-
Houston Has $100,000 Fire.
Houston, Tex.—The International
and Great Northern railway sustained
a loss of approximately $100,000 in a
fire that totally destroyed the com-
pany’s roundhouse Friday. Five Inter-
national and Great Northern engines,
three passenger and two freight en-
gines are a mass of twisted wreckage
The fire started in the oil dump and
the roundhouse was instantly ablaze
The four men working about the en-
gines has a narrow escape.
At the Bottom of the Sea.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Claiming all rec-
ords for staying on the bottom of the
sea and coming up again, six Los An-
geles women Thursday went down in
the new submarine boat Cage in Long
Beach harbor and remained there for
twenty-five minutes. They were Mrs
John N. Cage, wife of the inventor of
the boat; Mrs. Myra K. Miller, Mrs
Maude Burch, Mrs. Edward Bellringer,
Miss Lynne Bishop and Miss Laura
Sprague.
$3,000,000 Overcharges.
St. Paul, Minn—The state officials
and others connected with the long-
drawn-out Minnesota rate case are
elated over the decision Monday of
the United States supreme court. As
a result of the decision several rail-
roads operated in Minnesota will have
to pay into the state treasury approxi-
mately $3,000,000 in the shape of over-
charges.
Washington.—Attorney General Mc-
Reynolds disapproved both of the two
latest plans for the dissolution of the
Union Pacific merger which a few
days ago were submitted by the Union
Pacific railroad to the United States
court at St. Paul. The attorney gen-
eral will attend the hearing to be
held at St. Paul this week by Circuit
Judges Sanborn, Hook and Smith and
will oppose the adoption of either plan
on the ground that each is too vague
,to meet the requirements of the su-
preme court’s decision ordering the
dissolution of the merger under the
Sherman law.
Mr. McReynolds Monday indicated
that he would not go before the court
with an insistence on a receivership
for the merger, as he said that was a
question for the courts. If a plan of
dissolution of the merger satisfactory
to the court is not submitted by July
1, the supreme court’s mandate pro-
vides for a government receivership
to accomplish the dissolution.
Mr. McReynolds said he sympa-
thized with the efforts which Robert
S. Lovett and other attorneys of the
Union Pacific had made to draft a
plan of dissolution, but said the plans
proposed do not provide a definite
time for the surrender by the Union
Pacific of its $126,650,000 worth of
Southern Pacific stock and he also re-
gards them as vague with respect to
the extent to which the present share-
holders of the Union Pacific niay pur-
chase the surrendered Southern Pa-
cific stock.
enjoined their enforcement
confiscatory and a burden o
state commerce.
The criticism of the apportijr11111611*1
of the valuation between intpras^a^e
and interstate business on gros s reve'
nue basis and the apportionn ien^ °5
expenses by regarding intrastat e busb
ness as two and a half times
pensive as interstate business
garded here as favorable to thi
of Missouri in its fight to uph|
validity of the maximum freig (
2c passenger law enacted by it Simi-
lar confidence was inspired ii 1 a<^vo_
cates of the Arkansas state rat ie re»u
lations, but all recognized t^ ^
statement of the court that ea!
of alleged confiscation must
its own bottom, might mean tj,be se^
as ex
svas re-
s state
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Chicago Visited by Cold W ave'
Chicago, 111.—A death, a r' ?P°rted
fall of snow and thousands of
damage was brought to Chica $p° ^a^
urday by a forty-mile gale. T5
perature fell from 91 degre
highest of the season, to 44 de§i ’rees
'■ id many
ne. Oc-
iwly es-
fifteen hours. The gale wrecke;
yachts in the harbor, sinking o i
cupants of these boats narro [
caped death.
Atkan-
on and
almost
ting aside of the Missouri and
sas laws. The states of Ore
Kentucky were regarded as r
certain to win their rate ca§?es\ in
volving the validity of state § freight
rates, but in each instance pra: Really
the only objection to the la\LTs. was
their reputed interference wit) J1 ^n^er*
4ate commerce.
preparations for our personal safety
and the defense of our families and
our interests. Therefore, we have as-
sembled for the purpose of consider-
ing the best way, We consider pro-
tection necessary now, since after
death it will be of no utility.”
The message declares in addition
that the petitioners have borne finan-
cial losses silently, but that many of
then^ can not obey the advice “to
get away if in danger,” as their de-
parture would mean the abandoning
of the accumulations of a lifetime.
“We consider the lives of ourselves
and our families in danger, and the
situation has justified this petition
several times in the last few days.”
The message continues: “It is no
longer doubtful that the slightest
spark will bring on the dread con-
flagration at any moment. In many
instances the small arms sold Ameri-
can citizens on the part of the Ameri-
can government for their protection
have been demanded and in some in-
stances they have been . taken.”
aw.
of for-
protest
ti-alien
e State
hat at
cabinet
Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 Void.
Austin, Tex.—Senate /joint resolu-
tion No. 4, proposing an amendment
to section 52 of article 3 of the consti
tution so as to authorize the issuance
of bonds by a majority vote for the
construction, maintenance and opera-
tion of macadamized roads and the
erection and maintenance of public
warehouses, will not be submitted in
the ensuing July election for adoption
or rejection with other amendments,
or at any other election, for the rea-
son that it is void and of no force or
effect. The trouble is that it fails to
state when it shall be voted on, the
resolution reading that it shall be sub-
mitted on the “third Saturday in July,
, the same being the 19th day of said
| month,” omitting the year.
Mexico Protests Against
Mexico City.—The minister
eign affairs has sent a note of
to Washington against the ai
land law recently passed by tb
of Arizona. It is reported
least three resignations in the .
will be presented before the3)j|ebd of
the week.
----— if
Deny Will Build Naval Stae-tlon*
London.—The British gove” f ,!1 nrQent
has no intention of building1' f a biS
naval station at Kingston, JamT Fca’ as
a consequence of the comple6^ j!^on of
the Panama canal, according ^
announcement made by the fii ' lord
of the admiralty Wednesday j j ^be
house of commons.
Are Found With Boots On.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—Three men
suspected of blowing the safe' at
Wheatland Sunday night when $1,900
was taken were arrested Monday by
Sheriff Benion and his posse. They
gave the names of George King, Harry
Williams and Charles Davis. They
were found at a home six miles from
Wheatland. All were in bed when the
posse arrived but they were fully
dressed and had six-shooters strapped
on.
7“— ^^
fairs Abbott of the Indian
situation says:
“The Indian race is vanishing only
in the sense that modern standards
and habits of civilization are displac-
ing those of a former day end apply-
ing those qualities in the Indian, al-
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ways virile, noble and worthy, to the new and modern industrial mode of life.!
CARES LITTLE FOR FORMALITIES
Alamo Case Disposed
Austin, Tex.—The supremegi/ court
Wednesday overruled the motj
rehearing in the Alamo case, *
finally disposing of the cas^
;ion for
thereby
This
was the case of the Daughter^!’ ^be
Republic against the State se<ie)r jkinS t0
restrain the governor from fh®lroceeb'
hig with the work of res ton dt
Alamo in accordance with his oh|P^ans’
t
War in Balkans Imminent.
London.—With both Bulgaria ana
Servia stubborn in refusing to make
the slightest concession, war among
the Balkan states is hourly becoming
more imminent. If Bulgaria sends a
negative reply to the Servian note—
and nothing indicates that she will an-
swer otherwise—Servia and Greece
will proclaim the annexation of the
occupied Macedonia territories, there-
by establishing a definite casus belli.
Cold Weather in Many States.
Washington.—The coldest weather
ever recorded during June in the Mid-
dle Atlantic and New England States,
the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes
region, was reported Monday to the
weather bureau. The Gulf States are
the only ones east of the Rockies to
escape an unseasonable drop.
China Likes Peace Also.
Washingtonv-China Monday became
the fourteenth nation to indorse Sec-
retary Bryan’s peace plans. The Chi-
nese government accepted the idea in
principle and would like to consider
the details.
The American agricultural commis-
sion which visited Rome recently took
away a lasting remembrance of at
least two very prominent men met
while there, tamely, King Victor
Emmanuel and Signor Luzzatti, the
former minister of finance and agri-
culture and once president of the
cabinet.
Of the commission’s experience with
King Victor a story is now being told1
which, besides throwing more light on
the king’s democratic ideas and disre-
gard for etiquette, also explains why
the delegates were so pleased with
the reception at which the king and
Queen Elena were present.
According to the story, on leaving
America many members of the com-
mission little thought they would come
in contact with crowned heads of sev-
eral European countries and failed to
bring along evening dress suits, Prince
Alberts, cutaways and striped trous-
ers.
The ambassador, who knows the king intimately, decided to inform hia
majesty of the delegates’ plight and the king’s answer
“Now, Mr. O’Brien, tell them to come even in walking coats. I know
they are here to work and not to enjoy themselves. Besides, I care little
for formalities.”
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HUERTA TIRES OF HIS JOB?
General Huerta is chafing under
restraint imposed by the duties and
ceremonies of his office as president.
Some of his old friends in the army
will not be surprised if he throws off
the tri-colored band and again dons
the military uniform. It is said that
the president, not satisfied with the
progress being made against the revo-
lutionists, is considering seriously the
resignation of his office that he may
direct the campaign personally.
That the army has not made any
great advancement in restoring peace
is evident.
“I am not a man of governmental
affairs,” said Huerta in an impromptu
after-dinner speech. “I am a soldier,
and every time that I see a body of
men entraining I long to go with them
into the field.”
Who would take Huerta’s place as
provisional president is a matter of
speculation. His Inability to find a
man who would satisfy the people
and display the requisite executive ability is what may prevent Mexico’s sol-
dier-president from abandoning the palace.
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