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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1913
Page
5
Pure Food Commissioner Abbott reports progress in enforcing herd examinations across Texas to detect tuberculosis. Many dairymen still have not complied, faces fines, and an inspector will tour the state to pursue noncompliance and file complaints where needed.
The article discusses permanent pavements by granolithic and grandcrete mixes labeled as The Permanent Pavements and The Taxpayers Pavements. It outlines material choices, durability, and cost considerations for municipal road projects.
The United States military academy at West Point will admit an incoming class with 90 vacancies due to prior candidate failures. Secretary Garrison orders an extra examination on July 1 at designated army posts for August 1 admission.
The Texas Supreme Court overruled a motion for rehearing in the Alamo case A B Conley et al versus the Daughters of the Republic The decision ends the Alamo dispute and mandates restoration of Alamo property per the governor's plans The court notes the 1905 transfer and 1911 repair appropriation conflict and calls for cooperation The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed and remanded W N Norwood of Bexar County for unlawfully practicing medicine finding a fatal variance regarding consumption and treatment for the disease
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals affirms verdict giving D. R. Fant four leagues of Hidalgo County land to Fant, ruling Sullivan acted as trustee not owner. Also disposed divorce and multiple appellate actions, with Gayle vs. Gayle affirmed and other cases remanded or dismissed. Supreme Court moves include reversals and various applications granted or refused.
Proceedings today include affirmations and reversals in Texas Court of Criminal Appeals with names Giles Neal J R Hail George Stevens Georgia Goodwin Raines John Northcutt Raines Henry Roberts Tarrant Scotland Anderson Walter Armstrong Earl Sharp Sherman and others. Rehearing motions overruled with a list of attorneys and counties.
Commissioner Cano H. Rudolph pushes a bill requiring a certificate of good health for prospective bridegrooms to obtain marriage licenses in the District of Columbia. The measure likely exempts brides. The push includes plans to form a National Society for the Promotion of Practical Eugenics with prominent wives as charter members.
Immigration inspectors in Seattle report eight Russian nationals aged 18 to 25 were arrested near Blaine for allegedly being smuggled across the Canadian border through a woodland gate. Peter Markow, 25, is held for possible charges of piloting a smuggling expedition and was able to speak English alone. The others reportedly carried Russian and Canadian money.
Early today an arson squad set fire to a new unoccupied mansion at Westwood near Trowbridge Wiltshire causing damages over 75000 pounds. A placard read damages apply to Runciman. Right Hon Walter Runciman, woods forests and land revenues commissioner, spoke at a Trowbridge meeting where interrupters were ejected.
Thomas W. Morgan of Ottawa Kansas was appointed warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth by Attorney General McReynolds. This follows the attorney general's first step in a prison reorganization. Morgan, president of the Kansas state board of penal institutions, succeeds R W McClaughey after 14 years in charge. The new warden is expected to receive backing in the reorganization of personnel and methods.
Frank M. Lewis and Fred Tarrant faced a darkness halt after 30 holes of the 36 hole final. Tarrant led in putting and both posted matching scores through three rounds. The match will resume Saturday with two morning and two afternoon rounds on the Country Club course.
In Topeka a Republican harmony conference with 600 delegates backed the initiative and referendum, opposed the commission form of government for the state, and passed a resolution endorsing the national harmony movement.
J. P. Miller, the penitentiary transfer agent, is in the city awaiting the arrival from Victoria of about 15 convicts who will be escorted to Huntsville. He noted that one or two more may come from neighboring counties where sentences have closed. A. Collman, plumber, with phones 397.
Anxiety grips New York trading as the market opens with heavy selling and more than 500000 shares changing hands. Prices slip across standard issues with 50 new yearly lows while London quotes ease and the attorney general denies immediate anti trust action.
Preparations for the Naval Academy summer cruise are finished. Third class members depart Saturday aboard the Illinois with stops in Antwerp Vigo Cadiz Gibraltar and Funchal before target practice and return to Annapolis around August 1. First and second class cadets join Atlantic fleet training at sea gathering in Narragansett Bay for coast maneuvers.
The Supreme Court ruling in the Chandler Dunbar case upholds government ownership and control of water power on navigable rivers. It states the government need not pay river-banks or bed owners when improving a river for navigation and may lease resulting power. The decision counters recent arguments that control could not follow river improvements. A separate report notes Alpheus Hoopes, robbed and foot crushed, fears losing his foot after trying to catch a milk wagon.
Whether your hobby is boating bathing or fishing you will be better pleased with a Corpus Beach hotel vacation than elsewhere according to local readers.
The Corpus Beach Hotel overlooks the prettiest Beach on Corpus Bay with finest surf bathing and no undertow. It operates under the same management as the St. Anthony of San Antonio and follows a European plan.
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