Battle near Juarez sparks deaths and hangings
Reports from the Mormon colonies near Juarez say 75 Mexicans were killed in a battle at El Valle. Rebels claim six federals were hanged at Peason yesterday and that orders to execute captives have been issued. Fourteen Maderista spies in Juarez jail are under death sentence. federals doubt rebel hanging reports as propaganda.
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EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
el Valle
Colonia Dublan
Jaurez
Peason
Roosevelt 8 Party Delegates Debate Nomination Fight
Conference reports say re elect through partisan electors may push Roosevelt atop the ticket with Taft allies denying a compromise candidate. Rumors of seating contested Taft delegates spark protests as leaders await national committee action in Chicago.
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Stubbs
Roosevelt
Kansas
Cummins
Taft
Borah
Arizona
Kentucky
Ormsby McHarg
Rosewater
Penrose
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Tait
National Committee
Births Reported For Families In City Limits
Birth announcements list several families with dates in June and May. Names include Perkins Kaplan Carter Koch Kunkel Cantu Miller Rumsey Bramslett Payne with residences on Oleander West Laredo Fairbanks McKay Probandt Hays Moore Rehman and other streets. One entry notes an agricultural line about nineteen million inhabitants in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Perkins
Oleander Street
M. Kaplan
West Laredo Street
John J. Carter
Fairbanks Avenue
Charles P. Koch
McKay Avenue
Probandt Street
Louis Kunkel
West Woodlawn Avenue
Cantu
Guada Street
Daniel M. Miller
Hays Street
Samuel D. Rumsey
Moore Street
C. E. Bramslett
Rehman Street
A. J. Payne
Trade Excursions Sought To Boost San Antonio Merchants
A Jobbers and Manufacturers league committee plans trips to Austin to secure railroad concessions for merchant buying excursions to San Antonio. They aim to offer one and one third fares round trip with special credentials for return tickets. Dates chosen: August 4–13, August 25–September 3, September 15–24, October 6–16, with various return limits.
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Jobbers and Manufacturers’ League
A. H. Halff
John B. Carrington
H. W. Weber
D. J. Strauss
Austin
Railroad Commission
San Antonio
League
Chamber of Commerce
Real estate transfers list large urban deals and blocks
A sequence of property conveyances lists numerous transfers incl lot and block numbers in new city blocks, Los Angeles Heights and Beacon Hill. Names include Holliday, Pit siee, Windsor, Schaezler, Perry, Campbell, Manton, Mallory, Biesenbach, Greg, Friesenhahn, Troilo, Voss, Evans, Givens Terrace, Bailey, Silvey, and Pierce. Total values range from $1 to $9,000 with acreages cited for several tracts.
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A. M. Holliday
Frank
Los Angeles Heights
Ira W. Wood
P. Perry
O. M. Campbell
Beacon Hill
Geo. & Harper
R. H. Beckham
New City
H. D. Manton
Mary
Stone
Artesian Gardens
D. D. Mallory
W. J. Allen
New City Block
Joseph
Ella Biesenbach
Jacob Gregor
Ferdinand Friesenhahn
Edward Scrugham
Almadora
Charles Troilo
R. E. Voss
Regent Street
Co. R
Nellie C. Evans
West End Lumber Co
Givens Terrace
W. A. Baily
F. A. Silvey
Alamo Addition
William L. Ellis Thompson
Sam Hunt
Augusta Street
Baltimore Avenue
Juan A. Alameda
Estanisiada G
Dionicio Martinez
R. B. Shaw
Fred
Effie O. Shaw
Waters Pierce
Laredo Street
Samuel W. Fordyce
Henry C. Pierce
Second Ward
Tere Pierce Oil Co
Clay Arthur Erce
Rail traffic to resume after bridges repaired near Chihuahua
Bridges washed out on the Mexican Central at Gallejo 140 miles south of Juarez were repaired today with rail traffic expected to resume late. General Orozco ordered no correspondents below Chihuahua to prevent leaked troop movement news after the battle of Kelanno. Jose Cordova, secretary general of the revolution, will receive fighting advices and announce news locally.
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Chihuahua
Mex
Gallejo
Juarez
Bachimba
Orozco
Kellano
Jose Cordova
Roberts Captures Enrile at International Bridge
Fort Sam Houston officers confirm Lieut. Col. Harris Lee Roberts of the Twenty second Infantry arranged the capture of Gonzalo C. Enrile the financial agent of Orozco’s revolution as he tried to cross the international bridge at El Paso on Sunday. Enrile gave the alias Senor Cardenas of San Antonio editor of El Imperial before Roberts detained him and handed him to C. H. Webster for arrest.
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Fort Sam Houston
Gonzalo C. Enrile
Orozco
International Bridge
Paso
Harris Lee Roberts
Twenty-second Infantry
C. H. Webster
Texas
Roberts
Enrile
Mexico
Senor Cardenas
San Antonio
el Imparcial
Robert
Webster
Huerta Keeps Command Amid North Mexico Tensions
President bulletin confirms General Huerta will continue to lead federal forces in the north. Telegrams show no personal friction with General Villa, who was accused of insubordination for countermanding a northward march before Huerta’s order. The war department released correspondence amid resignation rumors.
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City OF Mexico
Huerta
War Department
Villa
Smugglers Seized After June 4 Attempt Across Border
War department reports say smugglers carried cartridges across the line just west of Columbus New Mexico to Guzman Juarez and Chihuahua Mexico. No details were available on the later arrest by American authorities.
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War Department
Columbus
N. M
Guzman
Mex
Juarez
Chihuahua
Orozco invites inspection of Chihuahua headquarters
General Orozco issued a proclamation inviting a committee of Americans to inspect his headquarters and discipline amid reports of anarchic conditions in Chihuahua. Rail traffic between here and Juarez is suspended due to washouts, signaling challenges for both rebels and federals. General Campa, whose southern campaign has ended, has arrived here.
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Chihuahua
Mex
Mexican government pays 8000 peso claim in Madero case
Mrs Jennie Martha Preston receives 8000 pesos indemnity for her husband s death at El Paso during the Madero revolution. Foreign relations minister Pedro Lascurain says the payment is not an exception but a straightforward case from an early list in claims handling.
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City OF Mexico
Jennie Martha Preston
el Paso
Pedro Lascurain
Department of Foreign Relations
Smugglers Arrested After Ammunition Bust
Mexican rebels are reported to have secured forty thousand rounds of ammunition before being intercepted in Washington on June twelve. Authorities reveal ongoing efforts to curb illicit arms smuggling and capture suspects tied to the operation.
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Washington
Building Permits Report From Local Firms and Homes
A. H. Hallf receives permit for brick and stone building at Fast Commerce and Rusk for 6000 dollars. Emma Weber builds a brick room dwelling on Magnolia avenue for 1550. Nee Welden plans a three room dwelling on Ripps street for 600. San Antonio Machine and Supply Co. adds two open sheds on Crockett street for 125. Dr. T. Y. Hull adds a screen porch on McCullough avenue for 75. Ewin Lamb constructs second story floor and roof on Evergreen street for 375. Mrs. Pearl Stow adds one room to Montana street dwelling for 76.
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A. H. Hallf
Fast Commerce
Rusk Street
Emma Weber
Magnolia Avenue
Nee Welden
Ripps Street
San Antonio Machine & Supply Co
Crockett Street
T. Y. Hull
McCullough Avenue
Ewin Lamb
Evergreen Street
Pearl Stow
Montana Street
Longest Automobile Party Tour Has Begun
DETROIT, June 12. Perhaps the longest party tour ever undertaken in an automobile began last week in Tampa in a specially equipped Ford Model T. D. S. Wells his wife and daughter and Minor Johnson left on a trip of eight months duration that will cover practically every state in the Union. The route will be through the Atlantic states to Canada thence through Niagara Falls south and west through Yellowstone park Colorado California Old Mexico and back through the gulf states to Tampa. A full culinary and camping outfit will be carried. And the Ford will be practically the home of the party for the better part of a year.
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Detroit
Tampa
S. Wells
Minor Johnson
Union
Atlantic States
Canada
Niagara Falls
Yellowstone Park
Colorado
California
Old Mexico
Gulf States
Ford
Burial permits listed for Annie Petty and Arthur Hutchens
Burial permits recorded for Annie Petty aged 42 who died June 10 at 517 Vinton Street and Arthur Hutchens aged 23 who died June at 2224 Monterey Street. A remark notes Paris telephone exchange attendants are more available than those in the United States, causing greater delay in securing calls.
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Annie Petty
Vinton Street
Arthur Hutchens
Monterey Street
Paris
United States
Alamo Trust Company Chartered in Austin
San Antonians invest in a new trust company chartered in Austin. The Alamo Trust Company has $100,000 capital and will operate without banking privileges, with offices in the Gibbs building. Incorporators include H A Rhodius Alfred W Stein Harry Hertzberg and others from San Antonio and W E Davis of Chicago.
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Austin
Alamo Trust Company
State Department
H. A. Rhodius
Alfred W. Stein
Harry Hertzberg
Max Goodman
Frank A. Winerich
G. Halbers
W. M. Wolff
T.W. Robertson
W. A. King
A. P. Barrett
W. W. McAllester
J. B. Bernheim
San Antonio
W. E. Davis
Chicago
Gibbs Building
Frank Winerich
T. W. Robertson
G. H. Albers
County offers city hospital use for 5000 a year
County authorities propose paying 5000 dollars annually for city hospital access after a dispute that led Mayor Callaghan to bar county patients except by payment. The offer aims to restore county patient care under terms pre existing before the disagreement.
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Callaghan
Surveyors Begin Survey for Art Belt Link to Crowther
A party of surveyors for the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican railroad arrived in Christine Texas and under H W Quinan began surveys toward Crowther for extending the Artesian Belt railroad. The 45 mile line between Macdona and Christine was recently sold to an English syndicate to form a link in the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican system.
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Chrisine
Tex
San Antonio
Canvassers at Work for $250,000 Rail Bonus
Businessmen and Chamber committees worked this morning to boost subscriptions to a $250,000 bonus fund for the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican railroad project. The aim is to finance construction to Harbor Island and into the lower Rio Grande valley, deep water access, and related improvements.
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Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
Earth shocks felt across Southeast with no serious damage
In Columbia South Carolina and Augusta Georgia on June 12 three distinct earthquake shocks rocked homes at about 6 30 am in Columbia and 5 30 am in Augusta lasting 15 seconds each. No damage reported though some beds moved and statues toppled. Thousands woke. alarms sounded among the community. The Augusta shocks were most distinct on sand hills above the city and compared to the 1886 Charleston quake.
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Columbia
8. C
Augusta
Charleston
Earth shocks hit Savannah and no damage reported
Earth tremors were felt in Savannah early today with shakings east and west as pictures swayed in homes. No damage was reported. A Paris police proposal suggests placing cinematograph apparatus in street clock towers to detect crime and accidents, directed by wire control.
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Savannah
Paris
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Maderista
Mer Oxfords
Rrussia
OS Ilsbee
Vay
Theodore Roosevelt
Stearns
Stearns’ Electric Paste Co
Chitt
Committee of Jobbers and Manufacturers’ League
Chihuahua City
Tange Kwzes
Alin
Pgp
Sheffield
China
Curios
Preston
Fountains
Horlick’s
U. S
A. Levytansky
West Commerce Street
San Antonians
Christine
Crowther
Electroliers
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