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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1901
Page
1
Captain S B Hoovey of the Chicago Rock Island and Texas Railway reports from Oklahoma that Kingfisher region wheat yields exceed expectations with 15 to 20 bushels per acre and 61 to 64 pounds per bushel while southern Territory crops fail.
A special coach carrying President Woerheide of Lincoln Trust company and associates traveled the Cane Belt road via Lane City Garwood pumping station and other points. In St Louis, Vice President Eldridge General Traffic Manager Boedecker and Attorney J Lane accompanied a separate party on a general inspection tour of rice fields railroad extension and irrigation canal projects.
In the case of Edson Neith Co vs Mrs Lucy A Lombard from San Antonio Judge Maxey presided in Federal court. The defendant was adjudged a bankrupt and the matter referred to the San Antonio referee for action. Plaintiffs had petitioned for bankruptcy after Lombard failed in San Antonio.
Judge Maxey in Federal court refused to grant a discharge in bankruptcy for John Nixon Wiseman of Lockhart. The discharge was denied due to creditor opposition after consideration of the court record.
In Austin on June 29 Wm. Wellner sues Drs. Thos. D. Wooten Goodall H. Wooten and Joe Wooten for 49075 dollars alleging unskilled negligent work in setting his broken leg. Defendants are physicians in Austin and plaintiff is a 58 year old merchant of the city.
In Austin on March 20 the secretary of state announced charters filed for several Texas concerns. The Physio Medical College of Texas in Dallas is capitalized at 35000. The Richmond Damon Telephone Company in Richmond Fort Bend has 10000. Needham Gin Company in Cameron lists 10000. Yoakum Lumber Company in Yoakum DeWitt county carries 10000.
Special to the Sunday Light reports Frank Taylor a 40 year old Black man died in Austin at 11 o clock from heart failure while waiting for a ride to Chapel Hill. He collapsed and expired within minutes and was transported to his home in Chapel Hill that evening.
The Texas Epworth League annual conference kicks off in Austin on Tuesday at Tenth Street Methodist Church. Three days of sessions follow with an elaborate program. Meanwhile Guadalupe County Sheriff arrived with Will Huss, jailed for alleged watch theft in Kadalupe County.
The San Antonio Board of School Trustees elected Thomas M. Colston of Cuero Texas as public school superintendent for the ensuing year defeating Prof J E Smith by four votes to two with Trustee Goggan absent. The meeting also approved a $7998 contract for a colored school house and a $458 plumbing bill.
Mr and Mrs Fred Buelle celebrate twenty fifth wedding anniversary on July 4 at 325 Lombrano Street. They were married July 4 1876 in the United States centennial year. The couple have two children Jinny Bastie of Austin and Lily Buelle.
In June, Bexar County saw twenty eight divorce suits filed. The figure reflects a surge in civil filings during the month, with no additional parties or cases detailed.
City taxes were due with penalties yesterday and the City Collector's Office was crowded for the last day. Mr. Steves reported a flood of silver payments and a total yesterday of 30,420.92 dollars, with June collections reaching 252,009.52 dollars.
Mr. O R Warner aged carpenter of 1017 Colorado street suffered a severe fall from a scaffold about thirty five feet up while working on a house at the corner of San Luis and Poplar. A picket fence damaged his right side and forehead with multiple injuries. three fingers cut and left wrist sprained. He was treated at home with morphine.
City council meets tomorrow with a full agenda including a Carnegie library contract bid to P T Shields for 45000 and a switch permit for Southern Pacific across Hays and Walnut streets. Col Jenkins seeks to route the South Heights line down Goliad to South Alamo for faster service, with local support and opposition noted.
Dividend checks from City Natural Bank are being mailed marking the third payout since the bank’s formation less than two years ago. Shares have surged about 300 percent on the bank’s posts in the past ten months.
City assessor Joe P. Devine completes the annual report to Mayor Hicks detailing a 30 percent rise in office workload due to strains in the real estate market. Building permits rose to 750 in 1899 and 1900, with transfers swelling from 442 to 1352. total real estate valuations near 24.2 million, while personal property boosted overall revenues by 4,000 plus in 1899 and 1900.
Special to the Sumdlay Light from Pearsall Texas June 21 reports watermelons shipped in by carload at good prices. A dry spell promises a short melon crop but recent rain boosts prospects for a fair harvest. Cotton looks well while summer term exams near completion at the normal school. Local residents visitations include Joe Cox of San Antonio and Agnas Maney party. Cattle shipments to market occur as Wim Sackville attends commissioners court which sits as the board of equalization.
In New Orleans today street car employees reached a settlement after days of tension. The companies agreed to pay 18 cents per hour and a ten hour day, ending the strike.
The small son of W. H. Lowley of Arcadia died this afternoon from injuries suffered when a cannon cracker exploded in his hand. The incident occurred in Arcadia Louisiana on a Sunday night in late June.
The piece describes a suffrage proposal creating temporary registration boards and a poll tax of 1.50 with an educational qualifier. It limits participation to registered voters and lists crimes like wife beating and vagrancy as disqualifications. After two years state legislature may set new registration rules.
New Orleans experiments use oil for street sprinkling showing better performance than water. Oil merges with the shell surface creating a cementlike layer, darkens the surface, and reduces glare and odor over time. A cost record will compare oil sprinkling with ordinary water expenses.
Daniel E Sickles released a letter from Senator Scott claiming Evans should not be reappointed as commissioner of pensions. Sickles notes Scott’s different view and warns that if Evans stays the band would play. He says no single candidate is set and many would be acceptable, but Evans must go.
Manila June 20 The military court of volunteers acquitted Harold M. Pitt manager for Evans and Co government contractors of improperly purchasing government stores. Provost Marshal Davis had ordered reconsideration and called the verdict a travesty of justice. The court completes service June 30.
Jerry F. Thomas longtime General Land Office clerk died at his Austin home from typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and two children. His body was sent to New Boston Bowie County with Terrell J S Ward W B Anthony and J Oglesby from the General Land Office attending. He was a brother in law of State Senator J R Wilson of Bowie County.
Special to the Sunday Light reports the Dabine River opposite the city is choked for hundreds of yards by water hyacinths. The obstruction hinders boating and navigation and has caused some local facilities to close down due to the blockage.
Julia Morrison, famed for the 1809 slaying of her stage manager Frank Leider in Chattanooga, Tennessee, appears as a spectator at a horse show. The whip is used by 3 Silver, a hypnotist named Silver, who invited Morrison to dinner at the Arena on Wet Thirty-first Street.
A Phoenix athletic club schedules a meeting for tomorrow night as paraphernalia arrives daily and membership continues to grow steadily.
The State Department reports no representation over the Skagway flag incident where a Canadian customs agent raised the British ensign and a man cut the halyard. George Miller of Eugene Oregon, brother of Joaquin Miller, is identified as visiting Skaguay. Separate business notes mention oil deals and prospects around Pecos and El Paso, with firms like Beaumont and El Paso and El Paso Oil and Coal active in drilling and shipping machinery.
A Texas Congress vote tally from 1892 to 1900 is compiled in pamphlet form by Fount Ray for the senate apportionment committee. It shows party totals by year and by district, noting declines in Populist support and growth for Republicans and Democrats. The data lists Democratic Republican and Populist tallies for 1892 1894 1896 1898 and 1900.
Senator Butler of North Carolina says the Populist party will gain strength in the coming Congressional and Presidential elections. He predicts the platform will demand government ownership of all natural monopolies and cites Lincoln as an earlier third party success. Butler Criticizes Democrats as antiquated while urging a new, younger leadership.
El Paso Texas June 29 reporters note several oil companies move ahead with investigations in Pecos Valley and other local fields. The Mining and Petroleum Company of New Mexico sails to Los Angeles for Sacramelma properties with plans to work within two weeks. Boll Weevil threat prompts actions in Washington County Texas as farmers fight pests and seek remedies.
Austin hears a proposal to cancel reconsignment privileges on sugar and molasses to include lines beyond Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe. The commission grants Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe authority to withdraw rules but rejects making the policy general. In Houston, melon prospects loom as Sayre agent expects 200 cars of watermelons while cotton suffers from drought.
McKinney Texas June 29 Bob er a young farmer living at Fay informs the Light correspondent he closed this season with a thresher. He thresh ed 20 crops yielding a total of 4000 bi He was out just four and one ga days. Last year he operated two threshers and threshed thousardf bushels of wheat and oats. He had crop of over 500 bushels of wheat tea destroyed by the green bugs.
State Treasurer John W. Robbins filed June land sales and lease receipts with the comptroller. Totals include School land lease 53 397 52, school land interest 8 892 80, school land principal 72 888 14, University land interest 37 9, University land principal 7, Blind Asylum land principal 4 00, D D Inst land interest 81 67, totaling 125 119 42.
Prof J S Keim, state superintendent, returns from the State Teachers association in Austin. He notes a large attendance of teachers from across the state, with over 400 present. Meeting dates were adjusted from mid summer to mid winter, and the next session is planned for January 28 or December 27.
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