Largest U S Army Maneuver Begins at Leon Springs
The biggest maneuver ever held in Texas started with three infantry divisions three engineer companys and troops from the Signal and Sanitary services marching toward Leon Springs. Two columns advance via Blanco and Fredericksburg roads reaching Washer ranch and Nine and Eleven Mile hills tonight. Water supply at Leon Springs deemed sufficient for about a week for 12 000 men and 5 400 animals, with pumps delivering 120 000 gallons daily. Burial plans for Lieut Kelly unsettled as relatives respond from Great Falls Montana.
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Texas
United States
Wengineer Corps
Leon Springs
Fort Sam Houston
Eleventh Cavalry
Jen. Duncan
Department of Texas
Kelly
Great Falls
Montana
San Antonio
H. W. Daly
United States Army
Daly
Rio Grande
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
Comparative Temperatures From Local Weather Office
Temperature readings compare today with the same date last year. The figures show several daily highs around the upper 60s to mid 80s with notable values including 85 and 80 in the period recorded.
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United States Weather Bureau
Cretee
San Antonio Area Weather Outlook Tonight and Sunday
Cloudy conditions prevail tonight and Sunday with continued high temperatures in the San Antonio area and surrounding vicinity.
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San Antonio
Weather Synopsis Across Midwest and East Coast
City by city forecast notes temperatures ranging from the low forties to the seventies. St Louis shows 66 with increasing clouds and showers, New York 72 with a clearing and colder trend, Kansas City 64 with tonight showers, and Washington 72 cooler with a northwest breeze.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
International Cotton Congress Adopts Net Weight Basis for Cotton
The Inter national Cotton congress in Barcelona on May 13 decided that all affiliated associations should bale cotton on a net weight basis, urging American planters to adopt the new system. It called for a universal contract with a seller buyer clause, promotes East Indies cotton culture, and urges production cuts. The committee will study humidity standards and fiber absorption laws, with next congress planned for The Hague.
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Associated Press
Barcelona
International Cotton Congress Today
Congress
East Indies
The
Hague
Predictions of anti prohibition victory in Texas July vote
Tom L Turner of Bonnie Bros Distillery in Louisville says anti-prohibition will win by a heavy majority in Texas. He toured the state and finds local option counties oppose statewide prohibition, with North Texas likely to determine the outcome. He favors saloon regulation over total prohibition and warns against the whiskey trust aiding the prohibition cause. A statewide rally in Fort Worth on June 5 is expected to draw large crowds.
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Tom L. Turner
Texas
Bonnie Bros
Louisville
Kentucky
San Antonio
Laredo
Turner
Whiskey Trust
Ft. Worth
Cremation of Lafayette the Great Reveals a Double
The body cremated in Glasgow on May 13 is identified as Richards, a member of the Lafayette company who doubled for the illusionist. The ashes will be sent to Edinburgh for interment in the actor’s tomb for himself and his dog Beauty.
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Glasgow
Lafayette the Great
Empire Music Hall
Edinburgh
Beauty
Lafayette
Richards
Dietz is sentenced to life for deputy murder in Cameron dam case
John F. Dietz will spend life at hard labor for murder of Deputy Oscar Harp in the Cameron dam battle on October 8. His wife Hattie and son Leslie Dietz were found not guilty of murder in the first degree. Dietz and family had fought lumber interests in Sawyer County Wisconsin since 1904.
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Hayward
Wis
John F. Dietz
Waupun
Oscar Harp
Cameron Dam
Hattie Dietz
Leslie Dietz
John KF. Dietz
Sawyer County
Wisconsin
Dietz
Harp
Myra Dietz
Clarence Dietz
John
Bert Horel
Winter
Leslie
Myra
Clarence
John Dietz
Lost Boy Willie Zern Reunited With Parents after City Search
Six year old Willie Zern wandered from a rural home six miles away and spent the night at city hall station. Police found him at noon and held him until his parents, who were en route by phone, could confirm the address. Authorities expect the parents this afternoon.
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Willie Zern
San Antonio
Joe Cassiano Named City Detective In San Antonio
Joe Cassiano Jr was named a city detective to fill the vacancy caused by James W Caruthers resignation. He began duties this morning and is a San Antonio native son of Jose Cassiano Sr a former county tax collector. Cassiano has years in peace officer duties and previously served in the detective departments under Mayors Campbell and Callaghan. The department is expected to grow by several men after June 1.
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Joe Cassiano Jr
James W. Caruthers
Cassiano
San Antono
Jose Cassiano Sr
Campbell
Callaghan
Railroad hearing on feed meal rate readjustments postponed
The railroad commission hearing on readjustments of rates for blood meal bone meal granulated bone beef scraps coal and dried beet pulp was postponed from May 12 to May 23.
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Railroad Commission
Warrants Issued Against Americans in Juarez Insurrection
In Juarez on May 18 warrants were sworn for several members of the American Legion in the insurrecto army accused of looting Chinese during the fighting. Some have fled to the American side, and the affair threatens to erase the American fighting force from the insurrecto army while both sides tally heavy casualties in three days of street fighting.
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Juarez
Mex
American Legion
Insurrecto Army
Texas
Els
Gonzales
Spo
L and G H sale postponed to aid railroad reorganization
The International and Great Northern railroad sale, set for May 16, is delayed to June 13 by Judge A P McCormick. Mortgage bond holders seek time to complete plans to buy the road, with a reorganization offering 11 million dollars in notes, 1.6 million first refunding bonds, 3.4 million preferred stock, and 2.5 million common stock. Third mortgage bonds are sought from holders by June 1 via Equitable Trust.
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Dallas
Tex
International & Great Northern Railroad
A. P. McCormick
United States Circuit Court
New York
Equitable Trust Company
Belgian soldiers drown in Congo river barge capsizing
A news airpatch reports two Belgian army barges capsizing on the Lualaba near Lokandu in Belgian Congo during a storm. Thirty soldiers drown as floods and wreckage hinder rescue efforts amid the Congo river headwaters.
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Associated Press
Antwerp
Belgium
Lualapa
Congo River
Lokandu
Belgian Congo
Rebellion Splits Madero Ranks Over Food and Pay
Juarez May 13. Discontent within the Maderoist army leads to the arrest of Francisco I. Madero Jr as Orozco and followers demand funds and rations for hungry troops. Navarro escorted to the Rio Grande, while tensions mount over cabinet appointments and neglect of soldiers’ needs.
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Associated Press
Juarez
Mex
Maderoist
Francisco I. Madero Jr
Madero
Juarex
Navarro
Rio Grande
Pascual Orozco
Orozco
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Old Mission Church
Jigtime
Joe Cassiano
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Col. E. S. Steever
EL Paso
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