Senate Pushes State Penal System Investigation
Senator McGregor leads probes starting with the attorney general's department and plans to investigate other departments, with a likely focus next on the state penal system. Lattimore authors a resolution for a senatorial inquiry into its finances, set as a special order for Friday. The panel to probe the attorney general’s office will begin soon, with broad support and a 21 to 2 vote. The House has not yet launched investigations, concentrating on bill shaping.
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Austin
Tex
McGregor
Travis County
Attorney General
Lattimore
Tarrant County
Senate
Attorney General's Department
House
Senate in Austin Debates Campaign Libel and Political Reform
Senate convenes at 10 a.m. introduces a criminal libel bill for circulating campaign lies. Bills include agricultural exhibit for Panama, notary fees, and streamlined executions in justice courts. Committees favor Townsend-Westbrook primary plan and cattle disease controls. liquor shipment debates prompt amendments and divisions.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Astin
Panama
Senate Committee On State Affairs
Texas
Committee On
Brelsford
House
Watson
Westbrook
Vaughan
Collins
Texas House Debates Constitutional Convention Resolution
The Texas House committee on constitutional amendments debated reporting the October convention resolution. A restrictive clause to protect homestead and liquor laws was sent to a sub committee and likely defeated. Other actions included a $225 000 appropriation for San Antonio and related installations and a state board of optometrists proposal.
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Austin
Tex
House Committee On Constitutional Amendments
Buchanan
Humphrey
Wortham
Southwestern Insane Asylum
San Antonio
Henry
Wichita
Haney
Mangum
Tillotson
State Board of Optometrists
Senate
Kaufman
Galveston
Watmn
Mills
Local forecast for San Antonio area
For San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Friday expect fair skies and colder temperatures with frost tonight. The outlook calls for continued cool conditions into Friday with light winds and dry weather.
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San Antonio
Weather notes for travelers across major cities
Observations from early morning show St Louis 42 rain SW 8 mph and colder Friday 42. Chicago 36 rain and 34. Milwaukee 30 snow 6 mph SW with colder Friday 28. St Paul 24 cloudy 18 mph NW with colder tonight. Kansas City 38 cloudy 6 mph W fairer and colder 36. New York 40 cloudy 16 mph SW rain tonight and Friday 34. Boston 42 cloudy 10 mph S rain tonight and Friday 32. Washington 28 cloudy 4 mph S likely rain tonight and Friday 30.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Liquor Legislation Moves Through House Committees
A bill requires bootleggers to show a bill of sale and imposes fines from ten to two hundred dollars. The measure makes buyers liable under certain conditions and targets bootleggers. Other actions include a 9 30 closing bill and limits on liquor shipments to local option areas. House panels refer education bills to subcommittees and hear Judge Barry Miller of Dallas as criminal jurisprudence refers its measures to subcommittees.
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House Judicial Committee
Senate
Tarver
Supreme Court
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Committee On Education
Barry Miller
Dallas
Texas attorneys seek legal reforms in civil and criminal procedure
A delegation from the District and County Attorneys Association of Texas arrived in Austin to push legislative proposals. They seek abolishing degrees of murder, witness rules for wives, jury comment on defendant's failure to testify, and stricter continuance standards. Also aims to require injury to the defendant for reversals and timely exceptions to the court's charge. Delegation includes Hatton W. Summers Dayton Moses John W Baskin and J B Hackett.
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Austin
Tex
District
County Attorneys’ Association of Texas
Hatton W. Summers
Dallas
Association
Dayton Moses
Burnet
John W. Baskin
J. B. Hackett
Lockhart
Civil service bill proposes ending state department appointments
Austin January 23. Representative Humphrey of Throckmorton county has introduced a civil service bill to abolish state department appointments. Further details appear on page 2 column 3.
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Austin, Tex
Humphrey
Throckmorton County
Mooney relates Hearst Standard Oil letters purchase
Charles P. J. Mooney testified before the Senate Campaign Fund Investigating Committee that he bought copies of Archbold letters for less than 500 dollars and helped publish Standard Oil correspondence while editor of the New York American and Memphis Commercial Appeal. He called the 34000 dollar figure an absurdity and defended a 4500 dollar price as newsworthy. The committee took a recess.
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Washington, D. C
Charles P. J. Mooney
Memphis Commercial Appeal
New York American
Senate Campaign Fund _ Investigating Committee today
Standard Oil
William R. Hearst
Mooney
Mr. Mooney
Big Camp Planned for Blue and Gray at Gettysburg
Washington January 23. Secretary of War Stimson backs plans by Major James E Normoyle and Captain H I Dalton for a vast camp to shelter Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg next July for the fiftieth anniversary. The encampment covers 276 acres with 54 000 tents and capacity for 60 000 to 70 000 veterans, plus 200 kitchen tents and a field hospital. Congress allocates 150 000 dollars, Pennsylvania 250 000 dollars, and states will fund transportation for their veterans.
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Washington, D. C
Stimson
James E. Normoyle
H. I. Dalton
Gettysburg Battlefield
Congress
Pennsylvania
May Probe Testimony in Guggenheim Divorce Case
Chicago January 25 A possible grand jury investigation may be pursued into the testimony in the Guggenheim Wahl divorce suit. Chief Justice Jesse Baldwin said he sent a letter to State's Attorney McLaghone urging scrutiny of the case and its key testimony.
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Guggenheim
Chicago
Circuit Court
Grace Brown
Herbert Guggenheim-Wahl
William Guggenheim
New York
Jesse Baldwin
McLaghone
Guggenheims
Look into The Lieut daily newspaper show window
A 1912 advertisement urges readers to study the paper as a national show window. It extols daily advertising as a display of dependable goods from top makers at reasonable prices, inviting trust and continued attention.
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J. P. Fallon
Suffragists Press For Male-Wordless Franchise In Commons
London reports David Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey assure suffragettes of support for the amendment removing the word male from the franchise reform bill. If defeated, the government may drop the bill, shifting focus to Harold Baker’s plural voting abolition. Militant tactics opposed by a peace petition of 350 influential women. About 1500 delegates and 300 workers arrive for the debate.
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London
David Lloyd- George
Exchequer
British Isles
Edward Grey
Treasury Department
House of Commons
Asquith
Grey
Harold Baker
Lords
Serum Dose Described as Typhoid Vaccine By Army Doctor
Col W B Banister of the Medical Corps told the Chicago Medical Society that injecting 50 million dead typhoid germs is an infinitesimal dose. He said soldiers receive 500 million dead germs initially and then a second dose of at least 1 billion. He cited 12 000 men in a San Antonio encampment with only one light typhoid case.
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Col. Banister
Chicago
W. B. Banister
Medical Corps
U. Ss. A
Chicago Medical Society
San Antonio
Paris to Evict 120000 Residents For Fortifications Sale
Paris faces a municipal crisis as 120000 residents are to be displaced due to the sale of old fortifications to the city. The 21 mile wall and a firing zone will be turned into parks, replacing ramshackle dwellings and crime hotspots. The cost of the fortifications built in 1840 has surpassed 200 million dollars.
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Paris
Municipal Council For Solution
Epting Acquitted in Boyce Sneed Case in Texas
Beach B. Epting was found not guilty of complicity in the killing of Al G. Boyce Jr. by a jury in Memphis Texas. J. B. Sneed killed Boyce in Amarillo on September 14, 1912, with Sneed facing trial soon for Boyce Jr.’s murder and already acquitted in the prior shooting of Al Boyce Sr.
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Memphis
Tex
Sneed
Boyce
al G. Boyce Sr
Fort Worth
Abandoned British Bark Alexander Black in Gulf of Mexico
The British bark Alexander Black, 575 net tons, en route Mob ile to Cienfuegos, was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico after taking on water. Captain Mason D. Cogswell and all crew landed at Progreso Mexico. The vessel, owned by Cogswell and others, sailed under charter to the American Trading Company from St Johns New Brunswick.
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Mobile
Ala
Alexander Black
Cienfuegos
Gulf of Mexico
Cogswell
Progreso
Mexico
Mason D. Cogswell
American Trading Company
St. Johns
N. B
Knickerbocker fires 250 waiters to avert strike
In New York on January 23, Hotel Knickerbocker owner James B. Regan dismissed all 250 waiters who gathered in the main dining room after expected concessions failed. Regan said he had been harassed by ongoing demands and threw out the staff as they walked out.
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New York
Hotel Knickerbocker
James B. Regan
Osage Nation Rejects Blanket Oil Lease Plan
Osage at Pawhuska vote overwhelmingly to sustain Secretary Fisher and President Taft against a blanket lease on 800000 acres valued at 80000000 dollars. A progressive slate wins chief assistant chief and eight councils, signaling opening Osage lands to individual lease buyers with caps per person and anticipated huge drilling activity.
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Tulsa
Okla
Pawhuska
Fisher
Interior Department
Taft
Tillman Calls for Smoking Ban in Senate Chamber
Senator Tillman of South Carolina introduced a resolution to forbid smoking in the Senate at any time by any person. The measure, referred to a special committee, seeks better ventilation and restricts smoking to executive sessions only.
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Washington, D. C
Tillman
South Carolina
Senate
Beauchamp Testifies in Wireless Fraud Case Trial
Beauchamp detailed his role in forming the Texas Collins Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company and his links to Cameron Spears J B Dickinson and William A Bomar in a case accusing use of the mails to defraud. He described meeting Collins Newark lab work and a six block wireless test and said a license was drawn up and stock sales began in Texas.
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Texas Collins Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company
C. H. Beauchamp
J. B. Dickinson
William A. Bomar
United States
Beauchamp
Cameron Spears
Collins Wireless Company
Carlos Bee
A. B. Story
Bomar
Texas Fiscal Agency
Dickinson
Storey
Texas Company
New Jersey
New York
Collins Laboratory
Newark
N. J
A. Frederick Collins
William Dubelier
Sanchez
Collins
Texas
Dubelier
Witness
Philadelphia
Dr. Collins
Mr. Bee
Jail kangaroo court leads to robbery by assault charges
Seven prisoners in Bexar county jail held a kangaroo court and beat L. J. Rossa a horse thief who was then forced to sign a note transferring $5 to the judge. Rossa was found with welts and named the participants. authorities say charges of robbery by assault will be filed against the inmates this afternoon or tomorrow.
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Bexar County
L. J. Rossa
Rossa
Frauds Discovered in Stamp Business
Washington post office inspectors unearth vast frauds in stolen postage stamps with losses of at least 2,000,000 dollars annually. Indictments issued against stamp brokers in New York Chicago and other major cities. Confessions suggest nationwide ramifications.
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Washington, D. C
Post Office
Hitchcock
New York
Chicago
Chinese Magnate Wong Foon Chuck Returns to Eagle Pass
Wong Foon Chuck a Mexican based Chinese magnate and landowner arrived in San Antonio from Washington D C and will return to his Eagle Pass home accompanied by J W Kimyuem of Mexico. He declined to discuss politics and said he reads the newspapers for news. They will stay in San Antonio until tomorrow.
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Wong Foon Chuck
Mexico
Republic
San Antonio
Eagle Pass
Washington, D. C
Capitol
Foon Chuck
Gunter Hotel
Brookins and Brown Issued License in San Antonio
A marriage license was issued yesterday for Walter R. Brookins and Emma S. Brown. Brookins, the aviator then in San Antonio, denied prior knowledge of the license but admitted he was from out of town and asked that the record be kept from newspapers. He arrived in San Antonio about a week ago and plans to leave for Los Angeles tonight.
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Walter R. Brookins
Emma S. Brown
San Antonio
Aviator Brookins
Los Angeles
Cal
New York's Human Fly Climbs Gibbs Building Flagpole
The "Human Fly" known as Steeple Jack Wilson attracted attention in the city, painting the Gibbs building flagpole at 140 feet. He clung to the pole with calm, performing hazardous work while having secured several San Antonio contracts for similar tall-perch assignments.
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City
Wilson
New York
Gibbs
San Antonio
Rockefeller to Winter Home Return by Yacht
William Rockefeller and party, who had traveled to Nassau weeks ago, boarded C. K. G. Billing's yacht in Fernandina to sail to Jekyll Island where the oil magnate maintains a winter home. They arrived by special car from Palm Beach and departed immediately.
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Rockefeller
Fernandina
Fila
William Rockefeller
Nassau
C. K. G. Billing
Jeky Island
Palm Beach
Want Ads Notice for Ten Day Run at Half Cent a Word
Light want ads begin tomorrow for a ten day run split over two Sundays at half a cent per word. Old phone Crockett 1742, new number 170.
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Crockett
Allies Demand indemnity as Turkey seeks peace
London diplomats report Balkan allies pressing for a heavy war indemnity after the grand council approves peace. Turkey faces the loss of Adrianople Janina and Scutari with Greek forces poised, while Montenegrin King Nicholas pushes for Scutari’s surrender amid fears for Montenegro's throne. Withdrawals and frontiers talks follow, with a treaty likely weeks away.
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London
Turkish Grand Council
Balkan
Greece
Turkey
Adrianople
Janina
Scutari
Grand Council
Turkish cabinet resigns amid Balkan settlement protests
Constantinople Jan 23 The Turkish cabinet submitted its resignation following public demonstrations against compromising with European powers on the Balkan settlement. Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, formerly war minister, named grand vizier replacing Kiamil Pasha.
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Constantinople
Boundary Lines Satisfactory Agreement on Albania Boundaries
ST. PETERSBURG January 23 Austria-Hungary and Russia are in full accord on the future boundaries of Albania according to an authoritative statement here today. Financiers and government officials had feared a potential Austro-Russian conflict but now express relief over the agreement.
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ST. Petersburg
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Albania
Demobilization of Austro Hungarian Troops Begins
Budapest dispatch reports demobilization of Austro Hungarian troops called to the war effort in the Balkans began today. The move follows recent military events and signifies a shift toward peace after ongoing hostilities.
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Budapest
Hungary
Balkan
New York Senate Backs Constitutional Amendment Vote
Albany report says the New York Senate approved a resolution to permit a statewide vote on a proposed constitutional amendment with only one dissenting vote. The action advances to the public ballot for final approval.
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N. Y
Senate
Albany
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