La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LAGRANG WEEEKLY JOURNAL
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
—
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREION, OF
INTERE8T TO READERS.
THE WHOLE WEEK'S NEWS
Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap-
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The deadlock In the Baltimore con-
vention threatens to continue the em-
barrassment of the executive depart-
ments of the government, due to the
failure of congress to pass the neces-
sary appropriation bills for the new
fiscal year.
The threatened tie-up of the gov-
ernment departments on July 1 be-
cause of the failure of congress to
pass the big appropriation bills is not
likely to occur, according to cabinet
officers, who believed that in most
Instances employes of the depart-
ments who hold their positions under
statute can be kept at work after July
1, whether congress passes the appro-
priation bills or not.
President Taft has sent to the sen-
ate nominations of Brigadier General
W. W. Witherspoon, now in command
of the department of the gulf, to be
major general, and those of Clarence
It Kdwards, now chief of the bureau
of insular affairs; Colonel George F.
Chase, now a detailed Inspector gen-,
eral, and Colonel E. J. McClernand of
the First Cavalry, to be brigadier
generals.
8TATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Standing of clubs in Texas league;
Clubs— Games. Won. Lost. P.C.
Houston .......76 48 28 632
Waco ..........76 42 34 662
Han Antonio ...78 43 35 561
Dallas .........78 42 37 632
Beaumont ......73 31 39 466
Austin .........77 31 43 442
Galveston ... .73 30 43 411
Fort Worth ....76 30 45 400
Cor'iell University Saturday upheld
Cs reputation for oarsmanship by win-
ning all three races rowed over the
T,oughkeepsio course on lh< Hudson.
Yho Cornell crews did not always win
easily, but pitted against seme o( the
Amateur oarsmen of the United States,
Cornell showed that it had lost none
of the skill which In recent years has
made It' the leader in the annual re-
gattas on the Hudson
Two motorcyclo racers were killed
nnd two others seriously Injured while
riding faster than n mile a minute at
Sunday’s race meet at the San Jose,
Cal., driving park. The dead are
Reed Orr, Sacramento Motorcycle
Club, nnd W. F. Baker, San Jose
Motorcycle Club Four riders were
bunched on the turn of the upper
stretch, when the machine of one of
the four swerved and in an instant
the three others hud piled over the
fa!’lng machine and rider.
* William Jennings Bryan refused
Sunday to participate In the general
conference arranged by Norman E.
Mack, chairman of tho national com-
mittee. In an effort to bring about a
break in tho deadlock which has tierf
up the convention in Baltimore. In-
vited to Join in the conference, Mr.
Bryan sent bnck word to this effect;
“You must fight it out among your-
selves. You know just where I stand, j
I know where you stand And any-
thing I want To have known I shall
say on the floor of the convention.”
Tho magnitude of the tornado
which swept Regina, near Winnipeg,
Sunday, while growing In realization
as the rescue work proceeded, can not
be fully estimated now. It seemed
certain, however, that the casualties
would roll up to a total of between
400 and 500, and that the property
loss could hardly be under $4,000,000
nt the lowest estimate.
"I would rather be the congress-
man from the Ninth district of Ala-
bama than vice president of the Unit-
ed States.” In these words Repre- j
sentative Underwood Sunday at Wash- j
ington set at rest the numerous
rumors that he would be the nominee
for vice president with Woodrow Wil-
son "at the head of the ticket.
Stanley Ketchel won at least $100,-
000 in the last five years of his ca-
reer us a prize fighter. The final
settlement of his estate, of which an
account was recently filed In probnte
court at Grand Rapids, Mich., show- j
ed him to be worth about $500 at the
time of his death.
Three persons were killed and four
Injured near Kansas City, Mo., Sun- j
day when the automobile of G. W. I
Strope, a retired merchant, collided
with a Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Paul passenger train. The dead: Mrs.
G. W. Strope. Mrs. F. F. Ferguson, I
daughter of Strope; Shirley Ferguson,
7-year-old daughter of Mrs Ferguson.
The amount of current cash in the 1
United States was Increased by $158,-
433 during the year from July 1, 1911,
to July 1, 1912, by the aliens who
entered America through the port of
Galveston.
A1 Palzer, the local heavyweight
with “white hope” aspirations, knock-
ed out Bombardier Wella, the heavy-
weight champion of England, in the
third round of a scheduled ten-round
bout at Madison Square Garden, New
York, Friday night.
While digging for the new pier Fri-
day at Texas City a coffin containing
the remains of a child was unearthed,
which was supposed to have been
washed from Galveston at the time of
the flood, it was again burled under
the concrete foundation of the wharf.
This is the third coffin which has
been dug out while building the docks.
L. M. Stone and bis 14-year-old sou
were drowned near Lufkin Friday
when a canvas boat in which they
were rowing capsized in a pond. Mr.
Stone could-have escaped, as he could
swim, but evidently decided not to
leave his son and wus unable to reach
the shore with the boy.
The police at Detroit, Mich., declare
to have positively identified $4,000
found on Martin Powell, who was ar-
rested a few days ago, as money
stolen in the $375,000 bank robbery at
New Westminster, B. C., in Septem-
ber, 1911.
The Interstate commerce commis-
sion ordered the readjustment of
transportation rates on lime In car-
loads from various producing points
in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Ala-
bama to New Orleans and practically
all other Louisiana destinations.
E. F. Beaumont, one of the veteran
engineers on the Southern Pacific,
was instantly killed, and C. F. Con-
nelly, his fireman, perhaps fatally in-
jured when the boiler of their engine
exploded Wednesday. The accident
occurred a mile and three-quarters
west of Hondo on the main line of
the Southern Pacific.
Saccharine rulings of the pure food
board at Washington were Tuesday
authorized to permit the use of saccha-
rine in medicinal foods if its presence
is stated on the label. The order oon-
tains a specific provision against the
interpretation of the modification to
permit use ol' saccharine in foods not
strictly medical.
David W. Bartlett, who was assist-
ant editor of the New Era when that
magazine published at Washington the
first Installments of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” died at his home in West
Haven, Conn., Tuesday at the aged
of 74.
The aims and ambitions of nineteen
thousand club women of this country,
who are striving to aid the moral and
social uplift of women and children
especially, were represented Tuesday
when Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St.
Louis called the eleventh biennial con-
vention of the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs to order at San Fran-
cisco.
Anticipating an attack on Juarez,
Mexico, by rebels, four troops of cav- j
airy were rushed from San Antonio to
El Paso Tuesday.
—
FOREIGN NEWS.
President Madero of Mexico has re- \
fused again to enter into negotiations j
with Orozco over terms of surrender, j
The rebel leader Is understood to j
have asked by telegraph several days j
ago what consideration he and his j
men might expect at the hands of the I
authorities if they agreed to lay down j
their arms. President Madero is said ,
to have refused to consider terms, [
maintaining the stand which he took j
long ago, that ho would not treat with
the revolutionaries and that his terms
were an uncondHiemal surrender.
The wealthy state of Sonora, wnose
northern boundary marks the inter-
national line along New Mexico and J
Arizona, will furnish the next scene j
of the Mexican revolution. An indl- j
cation of the direction to be taken by !
the rebels was the ordering Sunday ;
of General Salazar to Casas Grandes, ;
on the Mexican Northwestern rail- ;
way, one of the gateways from the
state of Chihuahua to Sonora. On or-
der of General Orozco the archives [
of the revolution were Sunday re- j
moved to Juarez for safekeeping Gen-
eral Orozco sent 250 prisoners away
from Chihuahua, thinking General
Huerta might reach Chihuahua and re- j
lease them.
|
An invitation to hold the next
Olympic games In Berlin in a new
$300,000 stadium will be extended to
the international Olympic committee
at Its coming meeting in Stockholm.
It has been linderstood that Germany j
would be awarded the games as soon ]
as Berlin wits in a position to offer i
suitable accommodations, and as this
condition has now been met by the
patriotic offer of three Berlin organ-
izations to assume the financial re-
sponsibility for the construction of
the stadhim, the American athletes
will probably gather there on their
next trip across the Atlantic.
Skirmishing Sunday near Hachimba,
Mexico, between the vanguards of the !
federal and rebel armies indicated
that the big battle upon which the
fate of the revolution hanga la at last
at hand. Heavy fighting ia looked for
soon, as the government forces have
completed all bridges at d stationed
themselves at Consuelo.
GIGANTIC IRRIGATION PROIECI PRCPOSSED
Plan la to irrigate 225,000 Acres of
Land in La Salle County—Build
Three Big Reservoirs.
San Antonio, Tex.—In line with
other big Irrigation enterprises in
the section, the Cotulla Reservoir and
Irrigation Company has launched a
project which, if carried to comple-
tion, will place under irrigation 225,-
000 acres in La Salle and adjoining
counties. Matt Russell of Cotulla is
president of the company and Noah
Allen, assistant United States attor-
ney at Brownsville, is vice president.
To carry out the plans of the cor-
poration it will be necessary to con-
struct three great dams to crpate the
Storage reservoirs. It is proposed for
the most part to Irrigate the land by
gravity flow.
W. H. Sylvester, engineer for the
company, has just completed a pre-
liminary survey. He advises that, one
of the proposed reservoirs would
cover 16,000 acres of land. Allowing i
for evaporation and seepage, it is cal-1
culated one filling a year of this reser-
voir would Irrigate 60,000 acres of;
land. The second reservoir would;
cover 27,000 acres of land and fur- j
Irish water for T5.000 acres. The third,
would cover 27,000 acres of land and j
one filling would irrigate 100,000
acres of land. The dam on either1
site to meet these estimates would be
only fifty-five feet high and 1,000 tO'
1,600 feet long.
TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED IN EXPLOSION
Locomotive Explodes Near Station
and Spreads Debris for Blocks.
Buildings Damaged.
Laredo, Tex.—Passengers arriving J
In Laredo Saturday from Saltillo I
bring details of a disastrous explo-!
sion in Saltillo, which resulted in thej
death outright of twelve people and
the serious injury of about ten others.;
To substantiate the story one lady
who had her kodak with her when
she visited the scene of the catas-
trophe showed kodak views of the
wrecked locomotive and several hor-
ribly mangled bodies. According to;
the details secured, engine No. 549.
was standing on the track in front oft
the 8tatidn at Saltillo, carrying, it is
said, too much steam. The excessive i
pressure resulted in the explosion ’
which wrecked things generally with-
in a considerable radius of the sta-
tion. In the vicinity at tho time were
a number of# people, some of them
railway employes and the others be-J
Ing people waiting for trains. The(
force of the explosion, which was ter-(
rifle, wrecked some buildings and
shook others many blocks away. [
When an investigation was made later
It was found that twelve people had
been killed outright, while about ten
others were suffering great agony
from injuries sustained. The engine,
a total wreck, was scattered for blocks
around.
VALUABLE POINTERS 10 TEXAS FARMERS
Time to Cultivate the Soil and Guard
Against III Effects, Says President
of Industrial Congress.
Dallas, Tex.—The recent rains have'
been of incalculable value to the State,
says Henry Exall, president Texas In-
dustrial Congress, but great as this1
value is, it can be wonderfully in-
creased if every farmer will get into'
his field just as soon as the top of
the ground is dry enough to pulverize
properly, and by using a sweep or a
very short tooth harrow, that will not
cut more than one inch or an inch
and a half deep, and make a soft
cushion or mulch on top of the soil,
the major part of this moisture can be
conserved for the use of the crop, in-j
stead of being pumped out by myriads
of small poreB or tubes that operate
actively like so many steam jets, when
the surface of the ground is hard. If
this character of cultivation is repeat-
ed just as often as the condition of
the top soil indicates the necessity of
this work, splendid crops can be made
with the moisture that is already In
tke soil, in all sections where there
was anything like a good rainfall. Do
not lay your crops by, but continue
this shallow cultivation that will put’
air Into the soil, keep the weeds down*
and prevent the loss of moisture by
this pumping process.
Gives Life for Passage.
New York.—The shrunken body of
a man. half buried in a cargo of cork
from Spain, was found by longshore-
men Thursday in the hold of the
steamship Francisco Ciampa, which
Bailed from Seville, Spain, June 8.
The man was a stowaway, and had
given his life for a passage to Amer-
ica.
Lightning Ignites Oil Tank.
Port Arthur, Tex.—An oil tank be-
longing to the Gulf Refining Company
and containing about 30,000 barrels of
naphtha was Ignited by lightning dur-
Ing Thursday's ptorm. Steam was Im-
mediately turned into the tank and
the fire put out without much damage.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912, newspaper, July 4, 1912; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997372/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.