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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1912
Page
2
Nebraska reports record Platte and tributary floods with $5,000,000 damage. Homes lost, towns inundated. Illinois Cairo highest stage since 1883. Missouri levee fears rise, sandbags used. Gary and Kankakee areas face extensive flooding and railway dangers.
A new Laurel Heights Methodist church in Belknap and Woodlawn opens with an inaugural organ recital on Wednesday April 3 featuring Dr Hans M Harthan a Bavarian native and University of Munich music student. He will be joined by Miss Lucy Holmes of Austin whose soprano is highly praised.
A split among American railway workers on Mexico National lines sparks a looming strike. Older workers oppose pensioned retirement while younger members push for action. Polls show near unanimity for a strike among conductors and engineers, with decision deferred to a San Antonio meeting on April 9.
Eastern Nebraska river floods inundate towns including Waterloo Valley Elk Horn and Schuyler with crops and livestock losses feared up to 5 million. Rescue boats aid residents as rail lines suffer washouts and service detours. Governor marooned and bridges compromised as waters rise.
Water and floodwaters flood Waterloo Nebraska as Elk Horn and Platte rivers combine, submerging farms and towns. Rescue boats ferry residents from rooftops while livestock drown and property losses climb toward a million dollars. Fire at C. N. Dietz yard and Robinson elevator adds to the disaster as stock and mail service suffer amid rising waters.
A man seized a telephone pole and was pulled through a story window by a rope in a reported incident.
Government gauges show 61.9 feet tonight and 53.5 feet by Thursday, highest stage in Cairo area. Workers with 10 000 men raise the backwater levee nine miles on the Missouri side to hold back floodwater as Missouri counties brace for possible inundation. The steamer Three States ferries evacuees from Texas Bend and returns for more people and livestock.
In Gary Indiana on March 30 flood waters enclose the Little Calumet valley. Scores of houses are surrounded and fifty families are forced from their homes as the water rises rapidly. Foreigner residents in the south part of Gary build rafts and crude boats for escape while a flotilla carries people and belongings to safety.
Marshalltown Iowa March 30 Arthur Fisher a farmer his wife and two children were marooned for hours on a hay stack after the Iowa River bottoms flooded. They were rescued near Albion by farmers who heard cries for help while corralling cattle in the flooded district.
H J Smythe of Southwestern Telephone placed the city hall exchange proposal with the aldermenic finance committee yesterday. He reported the committee promised prompt action on the matter.
Germany experiments reveal feed value per 100 kilos for hog fattening. Barley yields 52.8 pounds gain, hominy 60.6 pounds, mixed corn 68.2 pounds, and barley plus gluten feed 70.4 pounds.
A strange document by Benjamin Tisseau, a young French soldier executed after aiding Nollet, claims schooling taught youths parental limits and that theft from parents is not theft. He recounts early missteps, a house of correction, and a prison meeting with a priest who redefined life, seen as potentially shedding light on France's crime wave.
Colonel Cecil A. Lyon chairman of the Texas Republican committee arrived in San Antonio to spend Sunday in a good town and declined to comment on H F MacGregor’s claim that the Taft wing would use the Roosevelt Lyon organization to send the Texas delegation to Chicago pledged for Taft. He would only say he was glad to hear it and that he planned a votes for Roosevelt tour after the state convention. He expects the Texas delegation to Chicago to be instructed for Roosevelt.
An old notice advertises prices for eggs poultry and produce from Welsch Produce Co at 603 W. Houston St. The message notes an old phone 6396 and provides a new contact number 122.
A noon lunch program held at the Gunter from 12 to 2 30 PM offers a modest 60 cent price. The event targets local businessmen seeking a light meal and networking during a mid day break.
C L Bass of the Harmon Democratic club of San Antonio issues a sharp letter to Thomas B Love of Dallas after Love refused to join Judge Rice Maxey in arranging debates between Senators Culberson and Bailey on Woodrow Wilson and Harmon presidencies. Bass urges Love to invite Bailey and Culberson to tariff talks and notes Bailey has addressed Texans from Washington. He rejects Love’s free trade argument and calls the idea a sugar coated pill.
Readers favor The Gunter for post theater meals with quick service and steady crowds. Patrons praise friendly staff and convenient location near downtown venues.
Advertisement notes a modern seven room dwelling available in trade for a lot. Includes contact phone 2827 green and mentions SAN-A-LAC as headache relief.
The Harlandale Realty company of San Antonio filed a charter in Austin with a $100,000 capital for a fifty year term. Incorporators include Ramsay C. Bogg H. L. Benson and O. B. Franks of San Antonio and B. B. Harlan of Redlands California. The National Grocer company of San Antonio filed a charter amendment raising capital from $21,000 to $650,000.
A report states that Gampa planned to attack Governor Colquitt a week earlier while Mr. Esteva was in Austin, signaling a political security concern tied to a specific trip.
Deputy Marshal W B Matthews seized about 100000 rounds of ammunition and several hundred rifles at Presidio and Shaffer on the Texas Mexico line on March 17 and 19. Attorney General Wickersham ordered release for export to Colonel Jose de la Cruz Banquez at Ojinaga, citing an exception to Taft’s proclamation. The shipment originated in El Paso before March 14, and was en route by stage from Marfa.
Emilio Vasquez Gomez announced he will send two telegraphs, one to President Francisco I. Madero urging resignation and another to President Taft stating that foreigners, especially Americans, need fear no revolutionists. The San Antonio Vasquista junta claims to seek to deter U.S. intervention as events unfold.
A private dispatch claims Francisco I. M. de la Barra, provisional president after Diaz, will bypass Mexico for now and travel to San Antonio instead. Reports say he may have reached Havana and planned to go to Vera Cruz then Mexico City, but fear of an assassin at Vera Cruz prompted a change.
Tokyo dispatch reports negotiations between Mexico and Japan near completion for a large Japanese settlement at Magdalena Bay with an American protest expected under the Monroe doctrine.
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