Wichita Daily Times (Newspaper) - April 9, 1914, Wichita Falls, Texas JOIN Oil 11 CHRISTMAS SAVINGS honi or call upon ut for Information CITY NATIONAL BANK 1 Volume VII WICHITA FALLS TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 9 1914 SAVINGS j CLUB It JOIN NOW CITY NATIONAL BANK Number 283 WHITE WOLF SWEEPING AN EN TIKE CAP- TURED THREE CITIES Government Sending Troops into Dis- Hoping to Capture the Much Feared Brigand By Associated Poking China April under White Wolf dreds of Inhabitants v three in the vicinity the of province They looted three towns after capturing tliem are sweeping the entire All foreigners ut outlying points have been ordered concentrate at Slang FUO where two regiments of government troops are stationed Further have been sent President Writes of Plans for Continuing Sessions of School Since Fire Canyon Texas April response to numerous and varied inquiries from all parts of Texas and particularly from West Texas concerning the ent and future work and plans of the West Texas State Normal whose main building was destroyed hy No Immediate Danger is Indicated D WILL HAVE COMMONPLACE NEIGHBORS Cleveland April were busy today marking off the building Iota on a forty acre tract Forest Hill estate of John D feller Before long a small city of little homes will spring up and the richest man in the he re- turns to Ohio despite tax have a horde of just common folk for neighbors The tract was sold to a land company eral weeks ago for Modest homes are to be erected at once mm AT HAS of Growth of Equal Suffrage in Texas Given by Delegates B Dallas April Equal Suffrage Association met today with Mrs W B Spell ol Waco vice president in tbe chair The dent Mrs Breckenridge of San An- tonio was 111 at her home Mrs Mabel Bates of San Antonio that the association had Its membership in the past year ana that there are now 679 members Mrp Margaret Wood told of the growing strength of the ment in Houston Mrs V B Armstrong president of the Dallas Equal Suffrage tion delivered the address of come She said she felt that she voiced tbe sentiments ot all the men when she declared that in this movement the women are in no way trying to usurp the powers of men or by any means striving to wrench trom man the divine right to rule On the other she suid we are just now awakening to a sense of our responsibility and feeling that ivi have too long shirked our duty we are doing our utmost to make amends and to prove to you that we do not It lair or just in us to 1 the men do all the work Divine Right To Rule I say divine o one of our Slates deflators quoted us objecting to Hie women's suffrage from the fuel Jesus Christ did not have women among bis disciples While I dare not criticize and with all due J must say that perhaps if women composed so to speak a his executive board i can not be- lieve one have betrayed one denied thrice nor during that last dark hour in would Others have fallen last asleep If bestowed on woman the greatest gift within his power crowning glory of motherhood why she to her M In the government under which she lives and which she mutt obey 1 alii speaking seriously my when 1 say is spreading broadcast over the try and to my way of thinking Is doing more In a progressive way man any other movement ot which I know It is not only seeking to give women Illo right express her opinion but is opening up ways and means or woman to with the in Hie In ways hitherto forbidden t her MUs the address ot president which said in We must carry our cause to People especially to that class of our that needs our help It b the honest working worna who needs ballot Oo to tbe stores offices and school roon s and you will see thousands of toiling and girls eking out a existence We can never hope to in- voke the principle til laborer Is worthy of his hire for these tolling i- sufficient for them to live i u iiy and maintain their unless we supply them with ti t nr weapon by which It can be BL 1 the ballot We must not make the mistake however of converting our suffrage organizations to social clubs but make them real working organizations In the interest of votes for women PROPERTY LOSSES HEW AT TAMPICO OIL INDUSTRY AT MEXICAN PORT SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED IN FIGHTING THERE fire on March 20 the following letter is given to the A of the loss from the fire is There was insurance on the building and on the furniture It is certain that the entire will be paid The estimate value of property saved of books apparatus desks chairs etc is While the fire was the hottest the faculty met and tool initial steps toward the continuation of the year's work and IE less after the building was ed classes were as usual in provided in the Court house the churches and in a few vacant business houses The property which saved was brought into ate use and orders are being as rapidly as possible for all necessary additional equipment The institution was fortunate in having to its credit a few thousand dollars from the last legislative appropriation To this amount the students have added a book fee each and the Alumni have undertaken to raise and the public school children and teachers of Hartley county have made a small but generous donation With these re- sources the school will not seriously for lack of equipment the most gratifying thing about the situation is the unfaltering loyalty of the students and alumni Not one left on account of the fire and many have signified their intention to remain through the Bummer Not the least encouraging incident is the fact five students have enrolled since the fire three of them having more than 200 miles fcr dozens of letters are com- ing in daily in regard to the Summer Normal and Summer School In this connection it be said that our summer session will open lime 2 and continue until August 22 three This summer ter is equal in ail respects to any other quarter of the year and enables to complete in three summers the work of an entire lar term Likewise on June 2 the Summer Normal will open for the purpose of preparing teachers for the State's Summer Normal examinations on July and July Teachers may prepare for one or both of these examinations For housing these two schools the commodious public school building the beautiful and ble Randall County Court house and churches of Canyon will bj used A training school will bn supervised by experts and af fording opportunity for observation and practice teaching For this pose five teachers have beon employed and Canyon will furnish A number educational lev TS have been secured most of the of the regular faculty will and several strong additions will be brought from the schools state As to the rebuilding of u ho se for the school little can be said with at this time matter is in he hands of the nor and board of regents and every elort will be made to protect the in- of ins institution It Is by the friends of the I ere that a building the model of the one that burned will he ere ted ut the earliest possible moment The tremendous growth of tin si seem to indicate that the Suite can afford to deal liberally with it Beginning In T we have today on our rolls for this season student ers and children In the training of pupils Our en- rollment summer readied resenting section of the entire state We have issued In tne four diplomas and many more first ami second grade certificates Our present senior class consists of approximately 150 members sent ing preparation for almost all of public IK order to help Us graduates and muler graduates to find the places ivtii'h they are next prepared to fill in unler tn serve as efficiently as pot Me the schools ot Texas by Inw tu administrators specific iud reliable information about some of who make application tp teach the West Texas State Normal College conducts a teachers bureau service is performed ree of hari to ail and every effort Is to protect the ul those with whom the has dealings Up to date the institution has been unable to supply However to Foreign Residents Is Reports So Far Washington April dispatches from Tampico reported lighting still in progress without ad- vantage on either slite On account of a heavy norther the American rear admiral stopped refugees from going aboard ships lit Tampico Admiral said that unless the rebels received artillery it seems Im- probable that conditions will become more serious He reported that mors were being circulated ashore that American battleships were plying arras to the rebels State department said that foreign property especially the oil plants at Tampico were in serious danger but there was thought to be little danger to the Ihes of ers The oil refineries have been occupied by the rebels and consequence have been under lire from the federal gunboats in the harbor The loss of the entire erty is feared The warehouses of the Commercial a German property were binned with a loss of Five Americans arrested at Vera Cruz as a military precaution have been released A consular report from Torreon order been here Iiy Villa DENVER BANKS WILL NOT PROTEST Denver Colo April banks of Denver will not Join in any formal protest on location of the regional reserve banks This was announced today following a of representatives ul the hanks Southern Girl Who Win Be The Queen Of Confederate Reunion MEXICO CITY PAPERS NOW ADMIT LOSS OF TORREON Piw Mexico City April first ad- mission Villa and tbe rebel army have occupied Torreon was made By the Mexican Herald day The newspaper states that eral H Blanquet says that General velasco has not evacuated Torreon in the fullest sense of the word but has to troops to give the best results in the arrival the federal troops now on their way to Torreon Mayor of Archer City Found Not ty by Jury in County Other Cases April 24 W C Young mayor of Archer City charged with conducting a lottery in with me snip of lots was acquitted by a jury n the county court this afternoon The jury which heard the evidence n the of Sol Williams on a ar charge was unable to agree and waa dismissed The jury ia 0 have stood two for conviction and our for acquittal The cases of Wiley and ers against whom complaints were I led in connection with the same lot sale were set for April 24 demand made upon it for trained teachers DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN IS DEAD Py Toklo April dowager Em- press Haruko died at the Imperial today She was the widow of KING GUSTAV OF SWEDEN UNDERGOES OPERATION By Stockholm Sweden April of Sweden was operated at a hospital here today He waa suffering from of stomach The patient's condition fol tbe operation was improved NEGRESS KILLS HUSBAND WITH OLD ARMY RIFLE By San Texas April Harris a one legged negro was ed this morning and bin Ida is under arrest She be tired on her with a shot gun ami she killed him with an old army on Mt Pleasant Concern Charged With Violating State Antl Trust Law by Attorney General Austin Texas April filed today m general's department In the district court against the Farmers ami Merchants Cotton Oil Manufacturing Co a Mt Pleasant for alleged violation of the laws The state charges n combination with a competitor In the seed et for the purpose or fixing the price for seed In Titus county The sues for penalties running from to dally from September 26 to October 14 1913 and for cancellation Columbia S C April for the reunion of the Confederate army veterans at Jacksonville Fla May i and 8 are now complete A bevy of southern beauties will charge of important features of the reunion The leader of them will be Miss Hampton who as chief sponsor will be the queen of the reunion She is a resident of Cot and is a granddaughter of eneral Wade Hampton tde famous fighter WICHITA FALLS IS THE BEST EVER THAT'S WHAT KANSAS CITY MEN THINK OF ING CAMP Kansas City Players Present F P St Clair With Cuff Buttons at Token of Appreciation With heartiest praise for Wichita Fulls and emphatic assurances of their intention to return next spring the Kansas City Federals boarded a Katy train for home at today They traveled in a special Pullman and will reach home tomorrow ing The team could not be In better condition physically according to Neely and he attributes this to the training quarters provided for the players at the lake where they could keep out in the open While appreciative of every courtesy extended them here the players were loudest in their expressions of tude to p P St Clalr who was in charge of the lake hotel While hrt was bidding the players at the Station Secretary Neely on behalf of the club presented him with a beautiful pair of diamond cuff links hearing the B P O E emblem as a token of the club's appreciation Mr St Clair tried to make a speech but failed Last night the players were guests of Mr St Clalr at a farewell banquet at the lake a sumptuous be- ing spread for them I've been South with six Secretary Harry and you can say for me that Falls the best training camp I've ever seen I can't imagine 11 more ideal ment anl tbe players are completely satisfied We've already contracted for next year because we don't want anyone to tieat UK to it We're es grateful to Mr St Clair be- ause he has treated us not as mere but as guests and there hasn't wouldn't do for us Falls ias made good with us Mr Neely thought there that Indianapolis would also eturn next year and said he waB sure some other Federal club would come here if the Hoosiers didn't It IBB HONE mm mam B H Carroll Jr Houston Newspaper Man Appointed Consul to Venice Italy By April Ron today appointed us consul II Carroll Jr of Houston Texas nt Venice Italy and Henry Von of Texas at FROST LUST NIGHT CAUSE BELIEVED MOST OF PEACH PLUM AND OTHER FRUIT CROPS KILLED BY FREEZE B H Carroll whose appointment us consul to Venice is announced Is a well known Texas newspaper man having been on the stuff of the ton Chronicle for years ts a son of Carroll of the Baptist Theological Seminary at fort Worth and 13 well known as a political er RUMORED ONE OF GUNMEN WILL MAKE A CONFESSION By New York April wera persistent rumors today at one of the four gunmen who are to He nt for the murder of mann would confess could not bo traced to their Becker's counsel expected o go to the prison today to try to get statements from the four to he used in Becker's defense Although Governor Glynn yesterday the request of rabbis tu rant the gunmen a reprieve their have not given up in heir fight to Bought Cigars and Dinners for Voters of Skagway and Elected Non- Partisan Ticket By rrene Seattle Wash April to elections In Alaska this week according to today's ches It was the first time women voted in Alaska tn Skagway campaigning brought victory to women politicians tors were taken to polling places by women who bought cigars aud lunches for the voters while they presented I heir views They elected the entire ticket in Skagway against the action In a bluer municipal fight in leneau Independent ticket ed only two aldermen against the party which was supported by the women At the fishing confer the reform ticket won by electing five out of seven and school clerk At Fairbanks a candidate for man said to be the choice of Con- gressional Delegate Wickersham wan defeated In several other places Votes won the day Billy Woods the Pugilist Shot Dead and Killed by Duffy the Goat In Chicago By Chicago April the result of a shooting caused by an argument over woman's suffrage Isaac way who was known in the circles as Billy Woods Is dead and James alias Duffy the Goat is sought by the police on fc murder charge The shooting occurred last night a cafe In what was formerly nervation Woods Frange and a wo man were drinking together argument arose over equal suffrage The contended that men had the right to vote and Frange took exception to this and shot Woods and fatally wounded him Woods came from San Francisco Emperor who died in or the corporations charter WEATHER FORECAST Tonight fair frost fair not so cold Friday Harrison II Cave wus seriously In an automobile early Thursday morning H was from a Masonic meet ng and was alone In his cur He was unable to It'll how the accident happened 11 Mills of Cor- sicana has announced as a or iye to the state legislature Mr Mills recently withdrew front the race IE FOR MUSIS Cases Can be Frequently Cured is Claim Made at Chemists Convention Producers Oil Co io reported to nave brought In a oil well on the Webb tract constructive here instructed their delegates lo Worth convention to cast ballot for James E Ferguson Irregularities In th circulation of the recall petition will he Investigated by the grand Jury Texas league opens he season today Dallas at Waco Worth at Austin San Antonio at Houston and Beaumont at ton Cincinnati April breathing sulphurous acid fumes Incipient cases of tuberculosis can be frequently cured according to a public ment made at the convention of the American Society of Chemists hero today by Dr E Fort Worth Live Stock Fort Worth April Cattle receipts receipts 2300 Market steady Beeves to Hogs 1500 Market stronger at to Kansas City Cash Grain Bj Kansas City April Cash wheat No 3 hard 84 to 2 red to Corn NTo 2 mixed 70 to 70 oats No 2 white 41 New York Cotton B Treas New York April Spot cotton cloned quiet upland Middling gulf Futures closed May July 12.33 August December Governor Colquitt Receives for Protection from Cameron County My Austin Texas April tions by Mexicans are going on to an alarming extent along the border In Cameron county according to re ports being received by Colquitt The protestants are pealing for rangers to protect their property One appeal Is from Laloma near Brownsville In which the ernor Is asked for rangers Tbe gov ernor today received a telegram that four more horses had been recovered us NO FROST REPORTED IN COAST COUNTRY LAST NIGHT Houston April it frost in roast country si NO DAMAGE AROUND WACO FROM FROST Waco fl lore this morning was liJi with thin c in the lowlands Thn was not severe enough to cause damage THIRTY-FIVE ABOVE AT SAN ANTONIO THIS MORNING of today started a two days rat an at- to rid the town of the rodents of rats were killed this morning Tomorrow the schools will close In order that the pupils may In the hunt WESTERN GOVERNORS DISCUSS IRRIGATION PLANS Denver April building ami of irrigation projects in the West and the and means of financing such work will be considered at the irrigation conference called by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K e which began here In ad dition to several irrigation and re- experts from the ment of the Interior representatives are present from Arizona California Idaho Montana Nevada Mexico Oregon South and North lakota Utah Washington and ng Secretary Lane's original call stated that the conference would be ed especially to he consideration of methods of co-operation in ion and Irrigation work between the states and the federal government With a view of furthering such co-op Oov Ammons of Colorado and lov J M Carey of Wyoming the meeting of Western Tuesday to agree on a program for today's routing As a result It was expected that many of the governors would be able to stand together on a program of development The Rocky Mountain state gover nors are very sanguine over the re suits of today's conference Before the meeting Ammons said to the The general nt the country will be held this year at Madison WIs In June The ex- committee of that tlon has agreed to take up some tern at that meeting The conference called by Secretary Lane comes therefore at B proper time so that Us results may be brought before the general conference If this meet Ing brings about a co-operation be tween the federal and state govern moms and works out some system for throwing safeguards abou the irrigation securities the very greatest possible benefits would com to the West It was expected representatives of financial Interests would appear to discuss lie flotation of irrigation bonds The visiting state executives will be the guests of hon or at a ball given at El Jebel Temple tonight Over Most of the Gulf and South Atlantic States Causes Much Damage A fro and a heavy frost got most nf what was left of tU plum aud other fruit crops it K believed and most of ttu crops that were not I tilso nipped the wheat and ouis nri has probably UIR in fields Tim extent of flip tint be known lorrow Frost Is forecasted with rising CE FORMED AT HOT SPRINGS ARK WEDNESDAY NIGHT Hot Springs Ark April re In Die Insi pots were kept going in mauy truck Han Antonio Texas April was above lieni oday which was the coldest In thirty vears for a corresponding period HEAVY FROST REPORTED IN WILBARGER COUNTY Texas April heavy frost fell here last night and fears were that corn fruit and garden truck has been damaged KILLING FREEZE AT BIG SPRINGS REPORTED Springs Texas April reeze here last night killed the lean's m trees vines and truck MUCH SOUTH ATLANTIC TRUCK FARMS Atlanta April low temperatures In many rams the weather bureau or many years were- reported iiy the weathur bureau from th South Atlantic coast and Much damage has been done to fruit nil vegetables In Alabama lioorgn mil Virginia The lowest temper on the Coast was font Mobile where tho mercury 40 Snow flurries is far south as Greenville North Cam ina COLDEST IN TWENTY YEARS AT MUSKOGEE Iiy Muskogee Okla April 9 for twenty years ai this season of the year was broken his by rapidly rising tern Ice was a n inch from Kansas almost tr the Texas line MAINE REPUBLICANS MEET IN ANNUAL CONVENTION Augusta April the tide has turned anil that Maine soon again will be Rock ribbed and Republican Maine G O P members gathered here today in their annual state convention There was promise if splits between the Old Guard and Hie younger more pro Republicans who thr only hopa of the Republican party U Is to tlie sives 11 PRACTICE UV Mils Susie Legal Examination Ranking Above the Average ic r Texas April Susie of Waco passed the examination before tin examiner of the Sixth Texas and was today granted a license practice Inw She la the first woman 1 legal license In this part of the Slate Her examination papers ranked muck higher than the average
