Wichita Daily Times (Newspaper) - September 9, 1911, Wichita Falls, Texas WEATHER and generally FIVE O'CLOCK EDITION EIGHT PAGES TODAY VOLUME 7 WICHITA FALLS TEXAS SATURDAY 9 ism M JOHN JACOB ASTOR WEDS MBS FORCE BEAUTIFUL GIRL OF EIGHTEEN BECOMES BRIDE OF AIR DIVORCEE A CARPENTER PREACHER Performed the Marriage Ceremony at the Summer Home of Col Aitor By Press New Port R I SepL John Jacob Aster and Madeline T Force were married here this morning by Edward 8 Straight a retired Baptist minister of Providence The mony was performed at the summer home of Col Astor here Straight the pastorate of a SEN BAILEY WILL NOT LEAVE TEXAS small Baptist church In Rhode Klano Simmons ol Dallas and Clarence many years ago and has worked as a carpenter since supplementing his wages by what fees be received from performing marriage ceremonies U Is my custom never to set any price on my services for Mr Straight naively said 1 am willing to take as little or as much as Is freely given me I think the Rev C F Lewis Brooks of Little Compton and Edward A Johnson of Newport who are said turned down offers of each to perform the ceremony were very foolish Reports That He Intends to Remove to New York Are Without Foundation Gainesville Texas Sept tor Bailey will not remove to New York nor remain in Washington after he retires from the senate In 1913 but will continue to reside In Texas Furthermore nothing can Induce him to reconsider his withdrawal His of- career will end with his present term positive statements were isade evening by several of the friends who came this morning and spent the day with him They Col R M Johnson of Houston John L Wortham of tin fudge Nelson Phillips and J J IT CONTAINS WHITISH LIQUID AND LIES BESIDE THREE FEET OF FUSE GETS DAMAGES FOR SMOKE FROM LOCOMOTIVE In- the suit of Charles I the Wichita Falls North I western u jury In the I tj court this afternoon awarded the BRYAN AND TEDDY CONFER IN NEW YORK WAS LEFT AS A Th M The Hies near the western coal chute He asked By Two Prisoners Who Escaped for annoyance from smoke from SPENDS NEARLY TWO HOURS IN OFFICE OF THE FOR- MER PRESIDENT SPECULATION IS RIFE the County Jail Thla Morning A Lurid Story switch and sumo source noise from the ACTIVITY IN LEASING AROUND That Company En- tered Good Sand Below the Gas Special to the Times Texas Sept IB considerable activity here now In Ing land account pf thf 99 well two miles west of town which It Is thought Will be a good one as they are now drilling only and have men It IB said watching tile well It Is understood that a deep strata of good sand has been found and land In that country around rhp well for several Is being leased The following have been here the last few days looking after Bean and Wichita Falls H O Fort Worth J E England Little Rock Ark E H Short Orange Texas Mr Birmingham of Houston with the 99 Co The Producers well on the Stela tract 4 miles east Is expected In any time and it is thought will be a good Ousley of Fort Worth These friends came to pay him their respects and to inquire about his future plans and while no formal statement Is Issued they all ed the purposes heroin stated They say that the gathering Was In no wise a conference to formulate political plans or to suggest a date to succeed Senator Bailey but purely a personal visit The Senator bas declined and will continue to de- cline any attempt to dictate bis cessor As announced yesterday Senator Bailey has canceled all speaking dates except that at Fort Worth at the producers and consumers ence Sept 12 This speech will be mainly along economic will not touch Texas politics He ed if possible to make another speech at Houston as be la leaving the state which will be about Sept 18 Senator Bailey will go to tonight and will be the guest of Capt ut the county jail tod are about In their Blocking feet and every time one of them coughs or sneezes the hairs stiffen in tones and keep away from a corner of the run-around where lies u small bottle containing a light whitish fluid beside which lies about a yard of fuse They say that the bottle contains BE ELECTROCUTED Uy Press Va Sept Clay Seattle Jr who was convicted of first degree murder last night had a flicker of a smile on his face as he looked at two men that the fuse Is part of alibis morning Somewhat hopeful but Burk Burnet and Reynolds at the Selbold hotel for dinner He will remain In Fort Worth un- til after the producers conference outfit and some of them admit they know a yegg outfit when they see It The prisoners tell a story about these articles and a hole under am of the windows In the run-around through which two guests of the hotel de Randolph made their exit last night without the formality of getting their names off the register men who made their cape gave their names when arrested yesterday In connection the theft of a pair of shoes bung In front of a shop on Indiana avenue as Mike Thompson and J L DeLaney They said arrested they were from bad lust ed In yesterday morning Thompson was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Humphries and Delaney was THREE YEARS SENTENCE FOR ALLEGED GRAFTER By Associated Press Columbus O Sept of facilitating bribery In the alleged grafting In the Ohio legislature ney J former was today sentenced to three years In the penitentiary The sentence ever was suspended until April 18 1912 to allow the case to be carried to the circuit court meanwhile was released on bond taken in by Deputy Constables Yeary and When searched at the Jail a clothes brush was found In Thompson's pocket but nothing was found on Delaney Neither bad a cent In money This morning at about one thirty o'clock Deputy Sheriff Geo Hawkins heard something thump on the ground In the front yard and ed out of bed In time to see two men jump the hedge In tho jail and run into the first tion was to prevent Abe escape of tbo other prisoners He then ed Deputy Sheriff Humphries who was sleeping at the court house and with the city officers they searched throughout the night for the two prisoners who bad escaped without success and they were still at this afternoon sorrow bent the elder Seattle visited his today Many think there in little chance that the court of appeals win grant a new trial verdict was receded with prise by the community going to the Jury room last night the jurors knelt in prayer Pausing In fifty-eight minutes weighing carefully the meaning of their decision and once more on bended knees beseeching Di- vine assistance that might not PIT they filed into the hushed stillness of a crowded court room and with ling voices Instead of the usual one of the foreman the single word It was most a shout Electrocution was let for Friday November 24 Announced No New Party Plane Made But Politicians Are Wondering Why They Met New York Sept does It Can It be that is thing after all In the threat of a new alignment of parties In the next Presidential These and many other and speculations ran through political win teamed INSTALLING MACHINERY NEW LIGHT PLANT Be that W J Bryan and Theodore velt were having a heart-to-heart talk ID the editorial of- fices in the Outlook Building 287 Fourth avenue Mr was in the nearly two hours and spent most of that time with the former President Mr was In the finest of he got through talking with his former rival and shook hands most cordially with him on the way to the elevator When be saw a reporter a minute later he was all smiles and the famous teeth ed Expected Thit Co Will Furnishing Juice By Next Tuesday Work of Installing the auxiliary for the Electric Light and Power Company plant WUH com- yesterday and by morning at the latest it Is the plant will be making Juice from this machinery The machines which arc now being net up arc the small gas engine anil dynamo which after the larger ones are In operation be used the engine for pumping purposes and the dynamo for making light when the regular machines thay be out of order Is a h FLIES MILES WITH 6 PASSENGERS ZEPPELIN DIRIGIBLE CRAFT COM A MOST NOTABLE TRIP STARTED ON SEPT power Bessemer gas engine while the dynamo baa the capacity of thing like a hundred lights They are being placed In position an expert from the factory where they were made who will remain here until the larger machines arrive and are Installed to see that the entire plant starts off without a hitch Feat Regarded As the Most Notable In the History of Aviation Berlin Sept Zeppelin air craft thu Schwaben with six passengers aboard arrived at Hp this morning completing Its three hundred and fifty mile Journey from Baden Baden which began on Sept 6 The feat Is as the most notable In the history of the tlon cost Fumes from a gasoline fire In Berlin A French aviator has shaped the I Tne not thought to st Hour firemen ali hair and pf his aeroplane to resemble Uie I hen they did raise new hair It was 0 a wner flat bu white boat I A machine has been Invented ver In the united States last year tne magnetic effect of the Iron In California anl two each In and steel parts of a ship upon a com Texas anl Nevada I pass needle can be measured Transfer of 1570 Acres of Oil Leases Recorded A transfer of oil and gas leases on 4290 acres of land In Wichita county and 1680 acres In Clay county from Andrew Benson to Samuel Bell was filed for record In the county clerk's office Among the conditions of the transfer are that Bell will start drilling a well on the Douglas lease at on or before September 15th and will drill two other wells at places to he by the said Benson The wells are to be drilled to a depth of 2000 feet or until oil or gas in paying quantities Is struck Real Transfers C A Hamilton to A D Beaver west half of block 17 Woodruff Heights E N Collins to E H Short lots 5 and 6 block 19 Woodruff Heights F H Price to H lot 8 block 2 Bellevue H Cranmer to J W Bradley lot 8 block 18 Vernon Man Jumps From Car and is Seriously Injured Attempting to jump from a moving car on Ohio avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets while the car was moving at full speed a man whose name hns not been learned but whose home Is said to be In Vernon plunged headlong to the pavement He was picked up unconscious and was later carried to Miller Walker's Sanitarium At noon ho was still un- conscious but it was believed he will not die So far as can be ascertained his skull has not nor any other hones broken and his scious state It Is believed results from a concussion of the brain It Is snld that the man gave no Indication of his Intention to the enr nnd hart not asked or signalled the conductor to stop the car be were left in the with two other last night when the cells 11 father say that along toward midnight the man who gave his name OB Thompson took from bis sock the fuse and the bottle which be said contained glycerine while Delaney took a big automatic revolver from under bis shirt This shoe business ain't nothing It's a case of life or death with me and the first one of youse that cheeps I'll put his light the prisoners say was Delaney's warning and gether he and his partner started to tear a hole through the brick wall un- der one of the front windows Not wishing to have their lights ex- the other prisoners kept quiet and watched the two men make a hole In the wall and cut a blanket Into strips tying an end to one of the bars Thompson went down first and a final warning to the other to make no noise Delaney owed with the automatic in his hands That's the story the prisoners tell MANY ENROLLMENTS CONSERVATORY Indications are that Wichita Falls Conservatory of Music will open fqf the fall term Monday with more than a half hundred students Already fifteen applications have been ed from outside parties and many home students have been enrolled Today President Day and Dr Dun- are busy arranging the rooms In the building leased for the at 1305 Eleventh street The house has been painted and papered and everything put in first-class shape and the Instruments and furniture and have been put In place so the school will start oft Monday without a hitch Mr Charles Sherwood Williamson who Is to be Instructor In violin and wind In the city this morning and the other members of the faculty who do not reside In the city will come some time tomorrow In addition to the number of pupils who have already enrolled Inquiries have been received from a great many more and President Day is confident that before the first week Is out the conservatory will have more than a hundred students Mr Bryan bas been In you Mr was with a regular Roosevelt smile Mr Bryan and I have bad quite a nice visit We bad a general talk ou Interesting subjects That was all Mr Roosevelt further Now I said Mr Bryan came In to see me The fact Is he catne Into the Outlook Building and I was one of several he came to see Was It about forming a new he was asked This seemed to tickle Mr Roosevelt a lot He threw his head back and almost roared Then he sobered quickly and said softly a out peculiarly inflected No Then as the significance of the situation be- came more clear Mr Roosevelt ex- Now I said Mr Bryan came In to see me The fact Is be came Into the Outlook Building and I was one at several be came to see MOOD WILL BE SUBJECT OF LECTURE Although rained out last Sunday night Rev Is advertising for great open air meeting for tomorrow night at the He will Deliver oil lecture on Manhood for men though the ladles will be In- to hear it A feature of the vice will be some beautifully ed songs Seawall Boulevard Completed ly Texas Sept five o'clock today the seawall boulevard will be completely opened to traffic the last link of the four milo drive being completed Governor In an auto will lead a along the boulevard seawall It cost three million dollars SUGAR HAS GONE TO PER HUNDRED Band Concert Program p m Sunday The V S T rag II A Grand L P by special W R M E Frock selected J M Fulton Yum march H Von FREIGHT TRAFFIC GROWING HEAVIER Reports from the offices are to the effect that business has In- to suci an extent that a third switch engine Is now needed In the local yards although the company hag not yet seen flt to order It It Is ed that the rush Is beginning extra early this year and the Indications aro that the volume of business will be fully up to that of last full Local officials ore endeavoring to Induce tho company to put on the switching crew at once and probably this be done In the SEWER RENT MUST BE PAID BEFORE OCT 1 Property owners of Wichita Falls who are delinquent In their sewer rents must pay up before October 1 or they will have their sewer tions cut off At a called meeting of the city council last night a tion to this effect was adopted and the proper authorities were Instructed to The officers however saj they arc carry out the order any ex harboring a yellow Journalist Still none of them will shake the bottle containing the whitish Negotiations Broken Off Austin Texas Sept 9 Stale Railroad Commission today sent n notice to General Manager Freeman hat all negotiations the I O M as to the revaluation and of that railroad are broken off the road emerges from the ral receivership The matter was up In checking up the reports of the city of- when It was found that there was over delinquents In sewer rentals In addition to checking up the re- ports of the officers the proponed wa- ter and light and gas ordinances were discussed at the meeting but no tion was taken Further action will be deferred until the ordinances of other cities govening these utilities have been heard from The price of sugar took another loon ascension going to per hundred wholesale on the local market This Is the price ed on sugar since before the tariff went Into effect eliminated the tariff from sugar and placed a bounty of 2 cents a pound on all sugar refined In this country cal dealers are unable to give a son for the present high price other than that It must come from the of the sugar trust now being made by the government although the crop conditions throughout the sugar Browing territory are said to be rather poor and this may also have Its fect EXCURSION RATES FOR CIRCUS HERE The Wichita Falls Route has put on an excursion rate of one and one-third fare for the occasion of the circus on October The rate will be good through to will be cut off Increase In business on the Denver Is demanding additional service to the extent that arrangements are be- ing mado to put on two additional freights out of Wichita Falls and these will probably go Into service early next week This will make places for at least ten Another switch engine Is also needed as tho four In use cannot keep up with the volume of business When the new trains are put on It la said the local which now goes COTTON CONDITION SEPT 5 67 PER CENT By Associated Press Austin Texas Sept Ing of the returning on any train on the 12th U is likely the same rate will be made for the Floto Show which comes on the 10th but action not been taken on this as yet at and another will be put on between and Quanah More than 25 ocean going vessels are equipped or are being fitted with oil burning engines ranging from 300 to 500 horsepower Vacation Days Are Over School Starts on Monday De- of Agriculture today an that reports from six bun dred and forty five correspondents show the condition of the Texas ton crop on Sept 5 as 67 per cent against 68 per cent which was the L1 S Government report for Aug 28 The State report gives tne gin as bales 240 877 bales last year The largest lifeboat ever built re- cently In Holand Is M feet long and is driven by a 76 horsepower A thin paste of Fuller's earth which porus paper In lall until dry will remove crease spots from matins A recent census that clon hal 48 for each a much higher number than gen supposed Vacation days are over and Monday morning the youth of Wichita Falls will march toward the school bouses to start the work of another school year All pupils above the sixth grade will report at the new High School building Pupils of the first four grades east of tho Fort Worth ver tracks will report at the Travis School In the Lakewood addition West of the railroad and north of Seventh street from the railroad to Travis street pupils of the first four grades and from Travis street north of Eighth street all pupils of the first six grades will report at tho San school in the Lake addition From street west to the city limits pupils of the first six grades will report at the Alamo school In Floral Heights All other pupils under the seventh grade will report at the Austin school on Thirteenth street Newest Well at Electra is Producing 600 to 1000 Barrels Advices from Electra are that Red bring In their No 4 on the Woodruff tract within the hours Oil men expect this to be one of the best wells In the field River well No 1 drilled in on the Chapman tract late Thursday evening Is producing better than 600 barrels Some estimates place the production close to 1000 barrels every twenty four hours The sand was struck at a depth of the daughter late John about 1000 feet The people are expecting banker Daughter of Wealthy Banker
