Poll tax rush in San Antonio highlights Mexican voters
The city hall poll tax office saw a major surge as 87 receipts were issued in the forenoon, 66 to Mexicans. Reported as the primary voters in the city, Mexicans crowded the office in lines and crowds to secure the tax receipts necessary to vote.
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San Antonio
Angelo Riojas
Eduardo Rodriguez
Louis Rodriguez
Ramon Ramirez
Victor Puentas
Faustino Polanco
Angel Ortiz
Reymundo Ochoa
Jesus Ochoa
Sebeno Ortiz
Miguel Ortiz
Miguel Morales
Felix Madonado
Lorenzo Martinez
Bartolo Martinez
Nabor Marquez
Jesus Munos
Juan B. Luc
Pedro Trevenio
Eugene Verta
C. Valdez
Maldona Usman
Tiburcio Garcia
Guadelupe Garcia
Gabriel Garcia
Juan Flores
J. J. Farrias
George Fuentes
August Abr
H. C. Applewhite
F. H. Wicks
F. M. Miller
Henry Hyman
G. FE. Williams
Ernest Greiner
James M. Reed
C. L. Hunter
J. H. Hunter
B. L. Ritteman
J. C. Remling
A. C. Arnold
Alex Zimmerle
Herman Rose
Angel Rose
George Mitchell
Jeff Miller
P. C. Roche
Chris C. Hauser
Charles V. Gambes
A. 8. Grigsby
Geo. A. Cook
Charles A. Donaldson
Chris Schroeder
Charil
C. Remington
Roland Burge
Frank K. Hance
W. H. Herdler
Frank Priestley
H. E. Sievers
Aviator Legagneux Sets World Altitude Record
Pau France December 9 Associated Press M Legagneux ascended to 10199 feet in a Blériot monoplane becoming the world altitude record holder He landed half frozen after the rise at the aviation field Memphis Tennessee December services held for Supreme Court Justice William Dwight Beard at his son’s residence with private interment at Elmwood Cemetery attendance from nearby towns and cities
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Associated Press
Pau
France
M. Legagneux
Memphis
Tenn
Supreme Court
Wm. Dwight Beard
R. Henderson Beard
Elmwood Cemetery
Augusta Honors Jonathan Miller on His 100th Birthday
Augusta Georgia observed the centennial birthday of Jonathan Miller with a 100 gun salute and a public reception at Judge Henry Hammond's home. Miller, still in good health despite age, remained nearly sight challenged as a cake bearing 100 candles was carried in by two men.
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Associated Press
Augusta
Jonathan Miller
Eddy Will Leaves Most for Christian Science Church
Boston reporter notes Mrs Mary Baker Eddy may leave about 1 100 000 to the Christian Science church with the board of directors to decide the form of the bequest Ex Congressman Henry M Baker is named administrator No gifts go to George W Glover or Dr Foster Eddy staff receive 1 000 to 10 000 bequests Calvin Frye gets 18 000 and other church leaders are named observers say the will has not been opened yet and burial details are unmentioned.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science Church
Henry M. Baker
Son
N. H
George W. Glover
J. Foster-Eddy
Bedouin Raid Kills Over 100 In Kerak Revenge Motive
Telegraph from Jerusalem reports Bedouins massacred more than 100 Christians in Kerak after the execution of a Bedouin chief. Kurdish townsfolk and government troops have clashed around the fortress near Moab in Syria’s Vilayet. The town, last stop from Damascus to Mecca, hosts a British missionary station. no American missionaries are present.
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Kerak
Syria
City of Jerusalem
Associated Press
Constantinople
Jerusalem
Moab
Damascus
Mecca
British Church Missionary Society For
Africa and the East
Es Salt
Cotton takes leap on report of 1910 crop
New Orleans traders surge as the Agriculture Department pins total U S cotton output for the season at 11 426 000 bales of 500 pounds. State estimates list Virginia 18 000 North Carolina 675 000 South Carolina 1 116 000 Georgia 1 750 000 Florida 58 000 Alabama 1 174 000 Mississippi 1 160 900 Louisiana 260 000 Texas 3 140 000 Arkansas 15 000 Tennessee 305 000 Missouri 48 000 Oklahoma 900 000 California 12 000.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Crop Reporting Board
United States Department of Agriculure
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
California
Revolt 18 Crushed Predicted by Sunday in Mexico
Special Dispatch from El Paso Texas reports that fighting between revolutionists and federal troops continues in Durango. Mexican troops surround rebels at Minaca Temosachic Madera and Guerrerro with about 1500 armed revolutionists in the field. a crush by Sunday is anticipated.
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el Paso
Tex
Mexican Central Railway
Parra
Durango
Jimenez
Minaca
Temosachic
Madera
Guerrerro
Brother Found Dead in Lone Wolf Oklahoma
Miss Ellen Lane of Lake View Avenue notified by police after the first assistant chief was found dead last night. A telegram said Arthur Lane and Ellen Lane, believed residing in San Antonio, were notified and Ellen Lane located at 419 Lake View Avenue. The telegram named brother James Lane of Lometa Texas. another brother’s address unknown. The body will be held for thirty six hours as authorities await details of death.
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Poli
Newnam
W. F. Ellsey
Lone Wolf
Okla
Arthur Lane
Aed Elien Lane
San Antonio
Lake View Avenue
Justice of the Peace
James Lane
Lometa
Tex
Erding
Letters Received Under Assumed Name At Murder Trial
A mail carrier testified in Cambridge at the LeBlanc murder trial that Mrs Glover had received more than five hundred letters in the past three years under the name Minnie Everett I Clark.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
LeBlanc
Glover
Minnie Everett I Clark
Rivers and Harbors Congress OKs Waterways Policy
The seventh annual convention adopted resolutions endorsing Taft and calling for a $50 million annual waterways appropriation from current revenues or bonds for permanent projects. It urged expanding the engineers corps and enlarging ICC powers, plus immediate attention to terminal facilities.
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Associated Tress
Washington, D. C
Joseph FE. Ransdall
Louisiana
Capt. J. Ellison
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Taft
Congress
United States Corps of Engineers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senator Young
Iowa
John A. Fitzgerald
Boston
Stubbs
Kansas
Joseph Scott
California
Judge Fishback
Chicago
Ellison
Treasury
Cotton prices surge on government crop estimate
New York reports the government's annual cotton crop estimate spurring a sharp rise in May futures to 15.80 as bulls realize profits after a brief dip from 15.50. The forecast of a 1 426 000 bale American crop prompts broad buying interest despite the volume of selling.
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Associated Press
New York
Mrs Martin Declared Sane in Murder Trial
Judge Ten Eyck ruled Mrs Caroline B Martin sane under the statute after hearing testimony on her mental condition. The two sisters, Mrs Snead and Mrs Martin, now face trial for murder on January 9 in East Orange relating to the bath tub death of Ocey Martin Shed months ago.
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Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Ten Eyck
Caroline B. Martin
Ocey Martin
East Orange
Absent Daughter Sought After by Worried Mother
A Chicago man seeks his daughter missing since Nov 1 who reportedly fled with James A Weir to Texas. Miss Phillips or Mrs Weir was traced to San Antonio and then Aya de. The mother lies ill at home, fearing grave consequences if she does not return.
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Chicago
Texas
James A. Weir
J. A. Phillips
East
Forty-Ninth Street
the Light and Gazette
Miss Phillips
Weir
Windy City
San Antonio
Ayade
Nan Patterson Married and Living in Seattle
Nan Patterson the chorus girl twice tried for the murder of Caesar Young in New York is living in Seattle as the wife of Capt Sumner Prescott head of a Marinette Wisconsin manufacturing concern. They were married in St Paul in late October and moved to Seattle immediately after. Prescott admitted the match last night and said he regretted the secret's exposure. Prescott's Chicago parents, described as wealthy, were kept ignorant of their daughter in law's identity.
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Aasoested Press
Seattle
Wash
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
New York
Sumner Prescott
Marinette
Wis
St. Paul
Captan Prescott
Eren -Prescott
Chicago
Chinese laborers sue officials over seized certificates
Ne Lee and Ng Yoo, Chinese laborers in San Antonio, sue H Rebeutish Grover Wilmoth and Joseph Priest for $15,000 each claiming that their labor certificates were seized without warrant while abroad and returned in empty envelopes. They allege A R Rebentish seized the certificates in the federal building. Cases set for trial before Judge T S Maxey next January in the western district of Texas.
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San Antonio
Ne Lee
Ng Yoo
H. Rebeutish
Custom House
Grover ©. Wilmoth
Inmmigration Service
Joseph Priest
Secret Service
United States
China
June Lee
Lee
A. R. Rebentish
Federal
T. S. Maxey
Circuit Court of the United States
Western District of
Texas
Cotton Men Oppose Taft Guaranty Plan
In New Orleans on December 9, leading cotton interests denounce President Taft's recommendation to guarantee through cotton bills of lading. The New Orleans cotton exchange, led by President W. M. Thompson, plans a united opposition and imminent official action to block the legislation.
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New
Orleans
Taft
W. M. Thompson
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Burglar shot while breaking into Passaic home dies in hospital
A middle aged man, believed to be a burglar, was shot while attempting to break into Theodore Tapley's Passaic New Jersey residence last night and is dying at St Mary's Hospital in that city today.
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Associated Press
New York
Theodore Tapley
Passaic
St. Mary's Hospital
Hear Complaints on Roads by ICC at Shreveport
Commissioner Boyle of the interstate commerce commission began testimony on complaints against railroads entering Shreveport. The main grievance by Winnfield residents accuses the Frisco system of discrimination favoring Alexandria Ruston Minden and other nearby points in the same region.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Boyle
Interstate Commercce Commission
Winnfield
Frisco
Alexandria
Ruston
Minden
Texas Population Census Not Recounting Says Director
Washington reports Director Durand of the census bureau declines a Texas recount despite disappointment in state figures. He notes rapid Panhandle growth but limited impact on state totals and argues a recount would delay reapportionment without reducing statewide error. He adds the census was conducted by Texas locals and would not help residents.
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Associated Press
Washington
Texas
Durand
Census Bureau
Panhandle
Mississippi Valley
House of Representatives
Floods in Spain and Portugal Leave Many Dead
Advices report a cyclone in Western Spain flooding Seville and Corunna. Several vessels sank in Corunna harbor with drownings. In Bilbao area several killed and many injured. Northern Portugal suffers heavy floods as the Sousa river runs 36 feet deep endangering Oporto’s water supply.
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Associated Press
Cerebere
France
Spain
Corunna
Seville
Bilbao
Oporto
Portugal
Sousa
Texas Gets Much Honey in New Bill
Texas receives 667000 in the rivers and harbors appropriation bill reported in the house. Funds are allocated to Galveston harbor and channel Sabine Pass Texas City channel Trinity river Aransas Pass bay Port Boliver Brazos River Red River and water hyacinth removal in Texas and Louisiana. Most projects continue work already underway.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Texas
House
Galveston
Sabine Pass
Galveston Channel
Texas City
Trinity River
Aransas Pass
West Galveston Bay
Port Boliver Channel
Brazos River
Velasco
Washington
Red River
Louisiana
Cypress Bayou
FATAL STRATFORD AUTO ACCIDENT INVOLVES YALE CAPTAIN
An inquest opened by the coroner into a Stratford collision last night left Jessica Saunders of Mystic dead after being decapitated by a trolley. Yale gun club captain Benjamin Casper Thompson of St Paul Minnesota was injured with a broken arm. Pedestrian Stuyvesant Peabody of Chicago was driving the Yale 1911 auto. Lillian Foster of Milford uninjured. Saunders was a Mystic dressmaker formerly married to Erastus Chesbro.
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Associated Press
Stratford
Peabody
Lillian Foster
Milford
Misunders
Mystic
Erastus Chesbro
Rebels claim ongoing revolution led by Madero
An informer from the Maderist camp reports that Francisco Madero directs rebel operations from Chihuahua and that peace talks failed. The bearer cites massacres halted, six captured guns, deserters among federal troops, and new rebel commanders in Zacatecas and Juchipila.
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San Antonio
Bernabe Elias
Chihuahua
Francisco Eli Madero
Elias
Madero
Young Creel
Mexico
Diaz
Santa Clara
Armenda
Isoquillas
Arechiga
Zacatecas
Rop
Juchipila
Milas
Ojinaga
Armas Eilias
Acan
Correnia
Rivolt
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Hale
Judge Beard
Town
Miller
Mrs. Eddy
Ghungh
Millisk
Christian Science Made
Fortune
Rita
New Orleans
Ellen Lane
Mrs. Martin Sane
Absenge
Ailling
EMI
PROBE
Hurique Creel Jr
Peace Commission
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