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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1912
Page
2
El Paso July 15 Special to The Light reports Pascual Orozco given three days to pay his private fortune to fund his army or resign his command. Gen. Inez Salazar travels from Casas Grandes to Juarez as rebels threaten Colonia Morelos and Colonia Oaxaca.
General Inez Salazar, second to General Pascual Orozco, returns from Casas Grandes and refuses to discuss his visit. He confirms a conference with Orozco and signals no effort to install Emilio Vasquez Gomez as provisional president. Rebel artillery arrives as Salazar shifts to western Chihuahua with Orozco expected to join soon.
Acting Mayor William Richter plans a meeting of the general investigation committee to push a new contract with the San Antonio Water Supply company. The panel, long inactive, faces delays as Alexander Potter’s audit terms spark contention, with a $4000 fee still in dispute and a possible nationwide expert review pending.
Three local men Thad W. Smith Fritz Rossi and Fritz Kunzman are charged with sending obscene material through the mails in violation of Section 211 of the penal code. The case centers on a seven stanza poem titled Que Seran printed in the Record and translated in dispute. Bonds set at 500 each with sureties named. The defendants face potential penalties up to 5000 dollars or five years in prison.
Governor Pitt arrives in Austin Dustin Tex for a campaign speech at Wooldridge park with local committee plans calling for a large crowd. He reviewed matters from the capitol and attended the state automatic tax board meeting before leaving tomorrow for Caldwell county to fill several dates through July 20.
Special to the Light El Paso July 15 Preparations are under way to move the rebel capital from Juarez to Casas Grandes. Rebel state officials and documents have been sent there while provisional Governor Felix Gutierrez will establish headquarters in Casas Grandes this week. The plan aims to evacuate Juarez before federal forces arrive. General Pascual Orozco has drawn offers from Americans in El Paso to help him flee for money, though he has been deserting by many officers and most of his army.
General Giuseppe Garibaldi, allied with Madero, travels from Sonora toward Mexico City with aides Captains Bontempo and Castelvetro. He denies leaving Madero’s service and predicts a later front assignment as rebels plan to advance in Sonora. A conference with Mexican Consul Estevla follows.
Rebels advancing from Casas Grandes were sighted near Las Varas as federals mass at Colonia Oaxaca and Colonia Morelos. General Sanjines commands 100 troops with two cannon and two machine guns, defending Colonia Morelos while Mormon settlers retreat and hide property to avert a clash with federal and rebel forces.
Bishop C. P. Brown, who has examined conditions here for several days, is expected to telegraph his report today to Senators Smoot of Utah and Falls of New Mexico, for submission to the state department, warning that the situation is not good and may cause trouble at any time.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered significant cuts in first class freight rates from Galveston to Wichita and Oklahoma City effective September 1, following a petition by the Southwestern Shippers' Traffic Association. Rates to Wichita drop from 1.47 to 1.32 per hundred pounds and to Oklahoma City from 1.33 to 1.12, with other classes reduced proportionately.
A cloudburst at Alton Illinois drowned four people and damaged two miles of streets. The losses include six buildings and the Alton Gas and Electric plant totaling 250000 dollars. Victims named Frances Maguire 45 Goldif Maguire 3 Mrs Hesthr Moss 46 Archie Boyce 29. Wesley Moore a boarder saved his mother and two children by reaching the roof. William Doty saved more lives by breaking windows and waking families.
Chicago reports wheat prices sliding more than three cents a bushel on forecasts of the largest crop year in history. Northwest talks and Kansas threshing yields point to a 100,000,000 bushel harvest. September options fall to 93 5-8 to 96.
Burial permits issued for Harry K. DeWalt 32, Julia Delgado 65, Jesus Ramos 6 months, John Otis 68, Conrad Roth 71, and Lewis Grey Caldwell 28. Dying in July with listed streets and hospital entries. locations include Santa Rosa area, San Juan road, Goliad street, Porter street and 709 South Medina.
To Mr and Mrs Antonio Gonzales a boy born July 15 at 606 Dolorosa street. To Mr and Mrs W M Swisher a girl born July 13 at P 5 hospital. To Mr and Mrs Cullinane a boy born July 13 at 112 Fannin street. To Mr and Mrs A J Bell a girl born July 23 at 107 West Agarita avenue.
A Texas dispute over placing presidential electors on the July 27 primary ballot prompts the state party chair to urge adherence to his ruling. Attorney General and Lane clash on authority, while Travis County lines up with Williams pending final guidance.
Paris Tex July 15 Chairman Sheb Williams of the state democratic executive committee explains his view on placing electors on primary ballots. He notes the attorney general's July 2 ruling supports including names though not required by law, and that county chairmen may act on their own judgment per the AG’s position.
Ed Diesselhorst four room house on Chestnut street for 750 dollars. Richie and Casey three room house on San Francisco street for 100 dollars. Cecelia Schulz three room house on Guadalupe street for 450 dollars. Mrs Caroline Kampmann awning on West Commerce street for 300 dollars. Mrs Ide H Smith two room house on Perez street for 150 dollars. Joe Pozzi two two room houses on San Francisco street for 300 dollars.
2569 Hervan Rutger 408 South Plares street 2370 Mrs Lucy F Herff 647 Soledad 2571 C H Wasson 103 August street 2572 F M Hagner 423 Augusta street
The first bale of the new cotton crop arrived in New Orleans and was auctioned at 11 oclock in Varieties Alley outside the cotton exchange. Dreu & Co. bought it for 28 cents a pound. The 512 pound bale was classed as strict middling and raised in San Benito Texas, shipped from Houston to Norman Mayer & Co.
The Texas attorney general's department will file in Fifty-third district court a suit against the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railway for penalties totaling 305000. The charges allege 61 violations of the 30 minute rule by running passenger trains behind schedule between Houston San Antonio and El Paso. The petition is nearly ready for filing and follows a commission investigation into late trains. A separate suit against the state is also expected to be filed this afternoon.
Members of The Light editorial and reportorial departments and guests toured the Medina dam site hosted by Medina Irrigation Company. General Manager Thomas B. Palfrey and Attorney C. Co. Cresson arranged travel by special train from Dunlay with Superintendent Parsons and Chief Engineer Ranney guiding a five hour inspection including an aerial cableway ride and a tour of quarries ice plant and machinery.
A long hotel arrivals roster lists guests and their hometowns including Gunter Ardmore Okla and Dallas with names such as J A Laning Liano Mr and Mrs J K Eichhorn and S G Bright from Omaha, J W Israel Palacios, J H Mills Valentine and many others visiting various hotels in Texas and nearby states.
Porfirio Garza sells lot 4 in city blow to Henry Fest for 70 dollars. W. W. Townsend sells lots 6 7 839 40 41 block 19 to L. B. Jones for 1 dollar. A A Ashand sells west hall lot 117 block 57 Gladstone addition to Georgie Shaw for 350 dollars. L. B. Jones sells multiple lots in block 19 and 8 Kenwood addition for 10 dollars. Wv. W. Wiggins sells lots 13 14 16 29 30 31 block 8 Grace and Odell streets to L. B. Jones for 10 dollars. W l Word sells lots 23 24 city block 2374 to D A Meyer and William D Dielmann for 5 dollars.
The U S Army transport Sheridan with the Sixteenth Infantry arrives in Tacoma after seventeen days icebound off St Lawrence Island west of Norton Sound en route to Nome. Two enlisted men died of pneumonia. Captain Michael Healy and Pilot Kraevsky guided the ship as the crew endured extreme cold. The voyage continues to San Francisco.
Weather bureau reports show no heavy storms likely to recur and a Georgia coast storm expected to vent to sea. Storm warnings issued from Charleston to Jacksonville with warmer conditions east of the Rockies, cooler in the Northwest, and brief showers with temperature drops across the central valleys and lake region.
Major Allen Buell of the weather bureau signals a prospect of cooler air, with showers and a drop in temperature after a period of normal July heat. San Antonio has not seen 100 degrees this summer, with Sunday’s thermometer at 97, a typical July reading.
Westbound Michigan Central train No 3 ran off the rails near Kalamazoo Michigan at sixty miles an hour. The derailment caused heavy coaches to ride on the ties for a quarter mile before stopping. One passenger was seriously injured. no fatalities reported.
Mrs R L Brothers formerly Alma Kokernot youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs L M Kokernot Big Hill died at her parents home Friday at 1 pm. She leaves husband son Robert Lee and six siblings Herbert Kokernot Walter Fred Kokernot Mrs J C Dilworth Mrs B N Peck and Mrs C E Dilworth. Interment at family burial grounds near Kokernot residence at 4 pm yesterday.
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