San Antonio Light (Newspaper) - December 12, 1913, San Antonio, Texas CIRCULATION 7 THE l J THIRTY-FOURTH 325. EDITION 4P.M. H KOFI Urgent Appeals Made by the People for Immediate WIDE AREA IS INUNDATED WEATHER 1EMPERATVKKS. SAN DECEMBER 12, 1913. a DEC. 11. 3 p. m 57 5 P. 57 Sa. m. 6 i 56 7 5t 51 9 JJ 51 10 a. x For San Antonio and New Legislation Which Con- gress 's Considering Suits Him Praises V Residents of Anchor Perched on Box Cars Surrounded by Dec. telegraph and no connection with the latest flood centers at noon today shows a duplication of all the horrors that have attended the eral course of the abnormally en tide along the and Col- orado Eor are pouring in ami hundreds of ad- are known to lie In At noon water was from 7 to 10 feet deen over the little town of Anchor and 100 persons were perched im hex cars about the depot with winter surrounding them 10 feet Boats have been from Houston anil should give relief in the next few The reached that point at 11 o'clock last The Associated Press ent talked over long distance tele- phone with Stephen Smith at An- People ho 32ys, assembled at the court schools and other places in readiness for While tho water over the no serious expected unless the gives Columbia All of under but no lives arc known to have been That point reports persons is slso combating the but no life loss is expected there or at Quin- tana or and other were to have ed boats this Some time tonight the crest Should again begin entering the gulf and improvement from then on is Dawn a scene about the mouths of the Brazos and Bernard rivers without in the history Texas Waters from the former are fast adding hourly to dimensions of great canal In that locality and steadily encroaching a island thus formed and upon which the of fine farms and Flood Record figures for the 1893 flood have been exceeded an age some three fet throughout and there la a for the waters to go at least another foot from Above Columbia Brazos la receding Streams iu that quarter are choking with of debris of every description and dead Every possible boat from Houston and Galveston has been sent into and meagre reports tell of additional scores rescued from 'the direct Vaccination for refugees is among the latest proposals in the way of relief to prevent a smallpox epi- State loss among convict farms is estimated by Prison Commissioner Bass to above as a. talk of an extra legislative to deal with the situation is at Governor is will Austin this from which point he will conduct relief Persons who have watched flood progress closely estimate the deaths known to date to be around 190 and destruction figures to President Scott of the tral hopes to restore through service to Dallas during the United States life ing crew out of Galveston is in Its rescue by boats and men from the army transports jn the harbor MERCHANTS RAISE FUND Retailers Contribute to of the Flood Contributions amounting to were made for relief of flood ferers at a meeting of Die Retail Association Thursday It also decided that members should visit merchants during the next few days and solicit Subscriptions for the after v hich the money will be forwarded In a lump sum for expenditure in providing for the Among other business transacted a new finance committee consisting of Ben H. A. Moos and W. M. Morgan was a tion was passed against the practice of merchants of presents to and Secretary Grasso was instructed to write to Mayor Brown urging a stricter enforcement of the moving New members were laken into the association as Dr. J. H. i A. Orozco Bogusch T. Frazer Auto Supply the Novel A. C. Foard Joseph Portage Tire and Cycle Company and Wilson Four-year Term Provided D. Dec. The commandant of the Marine Corps will hereafter be appointed for four-year term instead of for passed Ur the Senate The House had passed the present has applied for Friday night and Saturday warmer Friday HOME FOR ade at 8 ST. 3S; S- wind the Saturday In lait 3S 3S; 16- D. 12.__ Andrew Carnegie visited the White House today to after the president's He talked at length with Secretary Tumulty and Bryan about world As he the White House Mr. Carnegie said he thought business conditions were going to after the new legislation which con- gress has In hand Is He llis at the award of the Nobel prize to Senator 31: partly j think Senator Root is one Of the from thc wisest men In he Saturday ana lowest Roosevelt said Lord last 21 31. told me he thought so and 1 believe the best thing that the Re- 18-mile wind from the iriB lure in 2C. 2 18-mile wind from tho Saturday j In last Cl hours 20 22; id- wind from the Saturday i lowest til last 21 20. j Suddenly 2S; 1-mllc wind from the Saturday temperature In laal 21 at tho Mr. gie was by one of his j said Mr. far i as I am concerned he would FAIR WEATHER GONE Developing Area Brings More Though the sun tried its best to shine yesterday and the weather conditions seemed to he for fair weather to the extent that the man predicted a fair a storm area has developed over central in New and the chances for fair weather have gene It- n ve ITS W It seems by the general I I HI I i this of the is I I ML I l in for another twenty-four if Italian Who Stole the Famous Masterpiece in 1911 Is Under Dec. 12 Leonardo da Vinci's the mysterious of which from the Louvre in 1911, threw the art world was found lorlay in The man who slole it was He is 4n more properly known as is one of the world's most famous paintings and R regarded as Leonardo da to buy SIXTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS MEM CAUSES SI Helen L. Mackay Die on Operating Table in a Private Dec. 12. A cor physician today began an in ot ihe death or Mrs widow of Rev. D i Doland Sage for year I pastor of the Collegiate Church o Nicholas on an of the general synod o B the Reformed Church in America S yesterday the influence of ether on an opera j ms table in a private hospital i she had registered a few hours be as J. H stone of Boston A scrap of paper in her handbag upon which slic hud scribbled he name and led lo her Ident The belief that she wa from an incurable led her to visit the hospital for a according to theor of the Heart failure un the he caused Until early today the body lav un Then a daughter sough to have it removed to an under laker s She was nr not of showery The local forecast is for unsettled showers in south and rising condition not general over the slate but confines to the south romn and of fair weather is South of all the weather tions to Brownsville report unsettled weather with The weather report of the western Telegraph and Telephone company shows that It was raining nt San Marcos Friday MORRIS OUT ON BOND Trial ot Minister Will gin in FORT Tiie j. Frank indicted for burning his church and probably will begin in it was announced here The two indictments were re- turned late Thursday lowing his examining trial and his habeas corpus The were not served until this Vinci took as his model for the ture Lisa del a woman of t Ile worked on the picture for four from 1500 to 1504 It was bought for France by Francia I The value of the work ct since all offers of two His British government of 000 000 Probably would Since the disappearance from the i ask a of Louvre of the the search has been It has been re- ported found in Germany Spain and even in Mrs. Ella whose forced retirement as or schools has created a UNIFORM RATE OPPOSED State Organizations Not Likely t Dec. Threats of aii apparently dif ference between advocates of cnj form express rates all over the coun try and state which will for own oped today in the conference of thi National Association ot Slate Kail way The commissioners have been con the possibility of making In rates uniform with by Hie Interstate Commerce With the submission o showing the ad vantage which some states through the reductions effected their it became ent that the uniform rate had en- countered opposition that would prevent Its recommendation by the stato Georgia and Florida arc sairt to be among states which will refuse to consider the uniform United NO TRUST DISCOVERED Charges of Cold Storage Combine round D. Dec. After several weeks of investigation over the entire United States of the department of justice rave reached the conclusion that there is little ground for belief that t storage trust Every United States r. the country was pressed Into for a quick survey of the cold storage and their reports to indicate that while com- mes have been formed in a few of bona was in DAMAGED Vermont Port With D. Dec. 12.__ I With her starboard 6evcral of her compartments the battleship Vermont is limping toward Hampton Ronds on her return from the Mediterranean under convoy of the ship Delaware nnd the colliers Orion and The accident occurred at R. m. At 8 o'clock last night tho Vermont was 1200 miles from Hampton Roads and 600 miles from large there is helleve that there lire trust controlling the S nnd other products the no reason is a cold of in afl parts Warships OX BOARD THE UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP wireless telegraph to Dec. The can warships returning visits to European were south New at S o'clock and 1030 miles from New TETANUS KILLS BOY Bust Frank of Frank 13-year-old son o Mr. and Mrs. John Of Praha died Thursday afternoon a local hospital of caused by stepping on a rusty nail lei days The boy was at work on his father's farm near when he accidentally stepped on a nail The wound was dressed and given no further thought until a few days ago when the symptoms of became lie was brought to San Antonio for treatment three flays accompanied by his father lie was a native of moving with his parents to Praha a few Vars Besides bis parents several brothers and sisters survive The foody was prepared by the Zizik Undertaking Company and was to Praha via for buria Friday MORE THAN HALF FULL Medina Reservoir Water Rising at Rate of Six Inches n Water in the Medina has attained a height within twenty-six foot of the spillway level of the 152 feet a hove the river At 7 o'clock Friday feet of water were or considerably more half of the capacity of the As a result which of the recent heavy started -all ihe old rising at of rate of about half a foot every last This means Die sto Nineteen for Thirteen Some Opportunities This One Will Not Be Repeated everyone in this city and Texas who has anything to sell or or who wants should take advantage of this opportunity to get what they want or of anything they not 1 he cost is small and the results are sure to be This Is the From December 15, to De- cember 31, there are nineteen All ads received by phone or delivered at The Light on or before noon December 13 to be inserted m each issue of The Light for the remainder of the year 1913, will be charged for at the thirteen-day only six and one-half cents per A AD Will Cost Only 98 Cents This Includes 3 Big Sunday Issues Uet Your Copy Ready Today THE LIGHT has the largest paid home circulation of any newspaper published in Texas and 100 per cent more local home circulation than an- other Sail Antonio springs in the watershed to running the reservoir is still rising at the 24 of im- mense quantities of water fur the I lake spreads over nn area of many square W. S. who has charge of the sale of irrigated is uled to arrive from the north 19, with a large force of land for inspection of the property j preparatory to the tracts being on the There Is more twice as much water in the I reservoir as when Mr. was here about three weeks I TORRES TAKES APPEAL Jinn to lo given the death penalty November 26 at for the of fke HiJI on October 25 at lias taken an to the Court of Criminal according to F. H. of the state's counsel in tho case' life on legal Burmaster saw thut the district criminal court refused a trial that R. R. Smith and associate counsel representing the Mexican at gave of Alejandro charged ing been an accomplice of has been given a preliminary at county seat LaSalle and has been bound over to await the action of the grand Mr. Burmaster had been indicted in county at the same lime that Torres was indicted but on the trial of the cases at District Attorney T. P. ris nolle pressed Sarli case in order to force Torres to trial first This been Sarli was and taken to own per permitted to do so until the cor examination had been was a daughter the late J. Gregor governor of from whon she inherited a large Sli was prominent in New York Mackay suddenly In a rail road station in Me. After an Dr. Otto H the an that a minor operation ha been performed upon Mackas He officially Ing the cause of death or signine ft death he would confe with Dr. Henry Mrs. Mrs. visited Dr Weil's office last Wednesday and nr ranged for the Considers Conditions on the North of China to Be No Longer PB e Russian government proposed the withdrawal of all foreign troop from Peking and tho entire province of including the tion the regiments at and the troops guarding the railway between the sea and Peking Russia considers conditions on the north of China no longer dangerous to N. Russian minister to made this announcement and stated ther that If the foreign tions Russia intended to act withdrawing even her gation The announcement caused prise among members of the foreign diplomatic most of whom re- gard conditions in the as well as in the south of China as The subject was the fore- most topic of discussion in the for- eign legation quarter tonight and designs on the part of the are GREEK TO TEACH TANGO American Dances to He Introduced In NEW Dec. 12 can turkey trot and tango dancing are to lie introduced In a Greek dancing who came here several months ago to study these sailed day for Piraeus to teach his men and women the lat eat Ho fears that tho new dances may ho spurned by the set of but believes they will find favor among the skirted soldiery of the Potato Growers Hold FOND DU Dec. hundred and fifty empty potato ars were counted on railroad tracks iere The condition resulted rom a determination by ihe not to ship until prices Word that the southern rop is from scab is said to e caused the growers to ops will sell soon for a dollar a Leave Dec. Alfonso nd Queen Victoria of Spain left n re-turn journey to Madrid TZe Spirit of Giving It is not so the of a gift counts as it is the care used in its P. U. is abroad in the It stands for the Society for the Prevention of Useless prospers he cause a common-sense idea behind it. If a gift is worth making at it deserves to have some thought in its Bettor no gift at all than one that is with no chance of pleasing the The advertising columns of The Light are now full of Study Go through them carefully and Then your gifts will with them tho truo spirit of And don't None of the Foreign Legations in Capital Have Re- REFUGEES ON WARSHIPS Foreigners at Tampico Being Looked Reports Admiral MEXICO Dec. 12. Reports reached here to be on good the effect that Tampico had been taken by the Con- Tho war office and ministry of the Interior deny the re- port. None of the foreign the oil nor the shipping com- have communicated with Tampico since the fighting The government declared this that the Federals had Mown ut the bridges over the river ating from the suburbs of Dona Cecelia aiia Arbol yesterday by The Federals also were said to be still returning the long range lery fire of the Indications that the Federal troops ere still in control of Tampico early this morning was given in it private message filed at and re- here at 10 o'clock over the Federal telegraph Buttle Is The fighting between and Federals at a Mexican of strategic Im- portance was recognized by officials here as likely to have a considerable effect on the council of an mediate progress of the revolution Office in New York Wrecked by Two NEW Dec. a Kirl of 18. employed as confidential bookkeeper of the O K Bottling Company at 528 West was killed today by a bomb sent to her Thomas managing was cut In the head by flying metal and Michael an was in- jured by shattered The desk on which the bomb placed as Miss opened was de- and the was The bomb was delivered by ex- Apparently It contained Who sent the bomb and questions that set half a hundred or more detectives at work on every possible On the per they writing the re- turn 23 Slate New The building at this ad- dress Is a large office building chiefly hy exporting firms a number of ihc bureau of on the mystery with the few bits of metal announced that the missile was of similar construction to the bomb sent to Judge Rosalsky about two years Employes of the company con- the loged discharge recently of 30 men by William H. the however de- nied having discharged the men and told the police thai they were working today ng tod To the best of have no knowledge I in The possession of a port where munitions of war could bo safely from abroad as welt as the revenues that would be through tho collection of customs re there would aid th Constitutionalist In the of the Report of fighting received a the Constitutionalists are making an ag Secretary Garrison members of the commit tec o military about isf action of American troops station ed at Texas it Im- politic to move the camp from there it this as U might lead to i misinterpretation of the tlon REFUGEES OX IT. S. SHIPS at Being After hy Admiral D. Dec. advices from Fletcher on board the United States steamer Tacoma at Mex. at 4 m. say that he Federal gunboat was thei shelling tho Constitutionalist that there was no change he relative positions of the com- that the United States teamer Wheeling was In the to the The Federal garrison was estimated at 3000, the Constitutionalists claimed bout 6000. Rear Admiral Fletcher reports hnt 150 were on the an 150 on the British teamer 350 on the Kron Cecelle antl 00 In the buildings ashore in the The cruiser has been lered from San Francisco to an thy Pacific MAAS Force pulsed at VEBA Constitutionalist forces attacking wore repulsed and driven way from that city with heavy to General Gustavo commander who says Federal troops under General Jr. arrived to relievo The American consul at A. by ess that no Americans or other were injured in the first day's Federal and lie expresses ret that no vessel is now available t for the reception of refugees other than the the British and Germans more fortunate in having hant vessels under their Hags in The consul requests authority the state department to chatter Up to 9 o'clock this morning no urther communication had been re- here from Rear Admiral rank E. in command of he United States warships off His last message was received ere at o'clock yesterday after- con when fighting between Federals still going It understood that at that hour no communication was open between and TROOPS SENT TO One Squadron of Cavalry Goes to Opposite The third squadron of the under the command of MaJ. Michael M. left Fort Thursday night for Pre- where It will take station The order for the change of this squadron la the result of the rumor that the Constitutionalists will attack The Federal between 4000 on Page 2, 3rd affair Is a mystery to Indianapolis Law Requires of 7nd., Dec. Society folk of Indianapolis are up in arms over the passage by the city council of an ordinance which re- Wires the presence of a dance tron at overy dance given in the city after December 18. The new law provides that no dance in olis shall be held until the matron designated by the police arrived and been paid her leaders who protested a a that a suit would be CHANGE for to West of Proceeds to Be able for Use Within Next Thirty Point C. Deo 12 admission to the military academy at West Point have been modified so that without ering the entrance requirements prospective cadets may he by substituting equivalents for some of the units of study hitherto Insisted The effect of thiu announced today in orders from the war will be mat n youth need not in the future pursue a special West Point tory which would not be of special advantage in after life or in another educational institution vided he failed of appointment to West Death Penalty lo Dec. Governor Fletcher has denied the petition for a stay of execution for Arthur sentenced to be en January 2 next for the murder of Mae Labelle at Essex Junction In 1311. Counsel for the condemned man said that cause Bosworth was a British eet the British embassy was ng the cnse and might ask for a slay of Bosworth has a rife and children in Fire Causes N. 12.. Pire which broke out In the heart of the city's business section today after n dozen buildings and plants had been destroyed with a loss of half n Ion The fire started in the Larsons Knitting Mills and within hours had swept a block west to Barge Woman's Emancipation Woman's work is never so it Is But one has only to look about to observe to what a great extent woman's work has been reduced by methods of For women ery has been turned Into pleasant occupation by the magic hand of Take for the that department of every home which Is conceded to furnish the lion's share of disagreeable work tor Compare the kitchen of today with that of Think of the many im- devised to lessen and make more woman's tn every other ment of the Progress is simplifying and making woman's work less And many women are so absorbed in their tasks that they par little attention to the ent sna enlightening voice of newspaper The Light Is a faithful and true friend to all who wish to Manufacturers and retailers arc constantly telling how to eliminate drudgery from TELEGRAM IS RECEIVED Mayor Notified That ers Have Exercised 30- Day WILL SELECT DEPOSITORY Finance Committee of cil Banks Bid oh 3 San Antonio's entire bond Issue has been sold and city's financial the tal Commercial Trust Savings Bank of Kunus and W. McNear have notified Mayor Brown of their determination to exercise the option re- served by them in their Thus by January 15, or in less than six months after the all the money voted by the last July will be available for the eral improvements Mayor Brown has known for eral days that this option might ba but it was not until day morning that he received tha officially notifying The financial agents had previously suggested that the m un- sold retained by the ba forwarded to where sales would be He had replied that the city would forward tha bonds as If thin would ue The agents than as of Replying .to your telegram of December 9. purchasers do not wish to await delivery by you and lave notified us to deliver 000 within thirty See Had Optional It was signed by the three cial concerns which have agreed to purchasers for the bonds Under their contract they required to place the entire issue within a period of one but were allowed some being permitted to call for the bonds In blocks of over three if might take the entire issue at one It is under this latter provision call now Immediately upon receipt of tho telegram Mayor Brown called a meeting of the finance committee oC the Alderman out of the could not be but both Aldermen Steves and Fincham responded and each ex- pressed gratification after the There was a short con- ference with Mayor In the matter of a city depository was up and at the conclusion of the conference the committed called on various bankers who may be esteti in their banks ted as the depository for city With Ml the bond money available for deposit the city in In a position not only to drive a good bargain for Jts financial but at the same It is will de- rive a considerable sum in the way of It is probable that bids will be called for and the one or ones offering to pay tha highest rats oC interest for city funds will be In this connection it Is doubted whether any one bank In the would care for the deposit of. the en- tire as such a heavy bond would be In view of this it has been suggested that eral depositories be Brown Has a One plan which has been given consideration by the mayor is to alace the sinking now nij to approximately with a similar amount of the bond money which is to be used at first and place this in the bank which will be called on to cash city warrants and -ide funds for the regular expenses f the Then a program of ex- would be compiled by the finance showing about additional bonds would and loans to the several banks be made in accordance with Under the announcement made by Brown during his campaign ast spring he does not contemplate he of more than 100 from the city's paving fund ng the first This will which will not be touched for a yeAr and part of probably i could be placed out at in- for a period of two Part I of to hfl used for storm i and sanitary also will not bo j required for a long time and thus will prove attractive to banks ing receipt of this said Mayor gratifying to me. although not wholly Mr. who represented tho Chicago financial concerns in their negotiations with the signified that he did not think they would need the entire year to the and that they might their od option at any I had not looked for until some time next Sin credit mo It Indicates very clearly fact that San Antonio's rating stands very high among municipalities of this on Page
