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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1912
Page
2
The Western Union Telegraph Company manager reports about eighty telegraph stations in Mexico cannot operate due to disorder, cut lines, and delivery issues. Local express agents are told not to take Mexico business, with possible countermand. Refugees pour across the border, recounting brigandage, pillaging, and assaults by rebels.
Governor Colquitt received a report from Adjutant General Hutchings at El Paso stating Juarez is the likely center of border activity. The Mexican consul fears an attack Sunday night and requests additional ranger patrols along the border. Sergeant Wright and Private Barbee are sent to El Paso to report to Captain John R. Hughes. more rangers may follow.
A niece of Ed M. Rivas, awaiting news of her husband and six other Americans, heads to Victoria after efforts to contact the missing men near Torreon. The seven volunteered to test the rail line for an American refugee train carrying 160+ women and children, and have not been heard from since leaving Torreon. Relatives fear Vasquista captivity as the train moves to secure the exodus.
Three hundred Americans including men women and children are stranded in San Diegito San Luis Potosi Mexico unable to charter a train and lacking ammunition to defend themselves. S F Jackson manager of a large hacienda reports he came to San Juio to buy $1000 in cargo but cannot take it across the border. He notes peons have hacked cane field divisions with machetes claiming land.
A famed physician promotes a weight loss remedy claiming fat is unused energy and can be shed with a simple home concoction. The plan calls for Marmola, Fluid Extract Cascara, and Peppermint Water taken after meals and at night, marketed as a safe, natural alternative requiring no exercise or restrictive discipline.
High in Y M C A. in San Antonio leaves early April to take boys' work director duties at Macon Georgia. The Macon Y M C A. building is newly completed at 150000 dollars. Daugherty will visit other associations for ideas before starting his new role and has expanded his department locally.
Jackson warns that peons in the San Diegito region may loot under President Madero action with Americans lacking ammunition to repel attacks. He cites anarchic conditions, the division of syndicate cane fields, and losses from slashed ripening crop in a colony of Oklahoma settlers.
Dispatches report Emilio Ramirez, Vasquista leader, moved from Ojinaga toward Torreon as unrest along the border prompts U S marshal to stay ready. Refugees say Durango and Chihuahua may host a general uprising. Trevino expected not to assist Torreon if attacked. Aguilar threatened five day assault with no Trevino rescue expected.
Mexican consulate in El Paso is under heavy guard after a hostile demonstration against Consul E. F. Llorente. The protest erupted when Llorente demanded release of nineteen U S soldiers who crossed into Mexican soil. The mob leader was arrested and charged with inciting riot.
Special to The Light reports Zapatistas moving toward Buena Vista with grave conditions in the area. Rail traffic between Cuernavaca and Mexico City has been halted.
County commissioners named a tentative list of election officers and judges for the November general election in Bexar County. Many changes expected since no poll tax payer list exists and voters must serve as presiding judges or officers. The panel also awarded Jim Downey a $245.90 contract to repair ballot boxes and booths and prepare eight extra sets of voting paraphernalia.
The article discusses Captain Scott and Captain Amundsen racing toward the South Pole in 1910 1911 with Scott’s Terra Nova expedition heavily funded and bases planned at MacMurdo Bay and King Edward's Land. It notes the near pole distance 110 miles and compares polar challenges including weather, terrain, and scientific aims.
Over 100 San Antonio good roads boosters will travel Sunday and Monday February 25 and 26 to attend the San Antonio Port O Connor Highway league convention in Port O Connor February 26. The event aims to spur completion of the San Antonio to Port O Connor highway through Wilson DeWitt Victoria and Calhoun counties with Victoria county bonds of 200000 already sold and Calhoun preparatory bond votes of 100000 due February 24. Civic groups in Port O Connor plan a warm welcome entertaining 1000 to 1500 visitors.
New York based Alcums Red Book inspires San Antonio to publish its own combined telephone directory. J R Woods Printing Co will prepare Woods Red Book three times yearly with separate business classification.
An Austin delegation led by Mayor A P Wooldridge and City Commissioners Powell and Hart met with the state insurance board to seek lower rates. The board said rates are on a general basis and cannot be reduced unless deficiencies are removed. A further conference was planned before filing any action. 811 new opera chairs The Pike.
Judge H M Garwood general attorney for Sunset Central lines visited the auditor of the railroad commission to obtain data for the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on the Galveston Wharf company case. The case has been submitted and arguments are scheduled for March 9. Faust in two parts The Pike.
A manifesto from Vasquez Gomez declares continued elections and a provisional presidency to realize the November revolution aims. It denounces Madero, urges peace, irrigation, land reform, small property growth, and warns followers to keep order and protect foreign nationals.
Railroad Commissioner W D Williams sails for St Louis to confer with other state railroad chiefs. They will prepare proofs to argue against the rise in rates under the new western classification. The Interstate Commerce Commission has suspended the new rates to June 14, 1912, while data are gathered for possible modification.
Charters filed for Walker & Cope Investment of Dallas with 48000 capital stock. Stroud Dockum Grocery of Corsicana with 20000 stock. Honey Island Oil of Beaumont with 6000 stock. Shuttles Bros Lewis of Dallas increases capital from 50000 to 250000. Dissolutions filed for Farmers Gin Co of McAllen and Ferris Dunlap Motor Car Co of Dallas.
Manuel Gonzales was struck by a freight train near McNeill in Austin County. Both feet were severed. He was brought to the city early this morning and is reported dying.
A Gridiron Club dinner featured a political roast of presidential hopefuls with songs and sketches led by characters such as Rob in Hood and Dame Marketing. A bookmaker mock race ended abruptly when police raided the hall and arrested the bookmaker amid a crowd.
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