The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 1

64TH YEAR--NO. 120. GALVESTON TEXAS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1905-TWELVE PAGES ESTABLISHED 1843 GIVE UP FRUIT TRADE Generally, Believed That New Orleans Relinquish It to Mobile After the Fever Epidemic Ends. MORGAN CITY CASE GENUINE 'Every Precaution Being Taken There to Prevent Spread--No Other Cases Reported From the State--Five Deaths in New Orleans--Port Gibson, Puts an Embargo on New Orleans Freight.

21 302 6 -J- 62 6 46 W-W ORLEANS SITUATION. New Orleans, July The of- ficinl report on the yellow fever sit- uation is as follows: New cases up to p. Caws to date Deaths to 6 p. ra Total deaths to date New foci Total foci Of the five deaths reported above, three occurred in the emergency hos- pltal, and all five bore Italian names. Another, now case was discovered outsldo the city, being that of an Italian who left here.

a week ago with several others and took up his residence in Morgan City. On their arrival there they, were quarantined and one of them was taken sick 4- four days ago. Today Dr. Tarleton, president of the St. Mary Parish Board of Health, Dr.

Goldberg of the Marine Hospital and two Morgan City physicians diagnosed tho case as yellow fever, and it was so an- nounced. Nothing has been heard from Dr. Brady, who has gone to Lake Providence, opposite Vlcks- burg 1 to investigate reports of two susplclotw cases there." Wew Orleans, July By the end of the present week the authorities In charge of the fever situation believe that they will toe in such thorough touch with the conditions that they will be atile to speak with authority as to their ability to control and One can now tie up with three ot these Ties for the regular price of two. All our 50c and 75c Summer Four-in-Hands'35c 3 for Si. 00.

Suit prices also tumble: values $7.50. $16.50 $11.00. $22.50 $30.00 SI8.50. New Manhattan Shirts in, $1.50 Robt Cohen, Correct Clothes for Men and Boys. Tell Your Grocer You want "Tidal Wave Flour." It's put up in 24 and 48-lb sacks.

For 25 years it has been the housewife's favorite in every true Texan's home. eradicate the disease In tho advance of frost. The daily Inspection and report arc becoming more perfect, and by that time not only will it be possible to tell precisely the extent of the fever, but a period will haVe arrived when no more new cases traceable to the original Infection may be expected. There was no accurate census of tho population of what is known as the Italian dlatrict at the time of the fever outbreak, and In spite of the most painstaking efforts It is still Impossible to locate all who escaped from that zone when the result of the autopslcal investigation became known. Ever since then Italians have been slipping out of the district after nightfall, tut the number of escapes is becoming fewer and fewer, and with increased vigilance of the next day or two the exodus will have been completely suppressed.

General communication with the district has stopped and only those expose themselves to infection whose business compels their attendance in the territory where the fever has raged most fearfully. Within the next week, therefore, it is probable that the health authorities will bo able to put their ringer on every man who has left the danger zone, and if there is then the same absence of spread from the outlying infection as has been shown heretofore, the authorities believe they will be able gradually to destroy each focus. As a matter of fact the foci arc not actually as numerous now as they were represented to be In the daily reports. In a number fever was reported to have appeared some time ago, case has either been cured-or died without further infection of the house or Many people are still leaving the city. But it is difficult to separate those who are go- Ing away on their usual annual vacation from those who are seeking to get oat of harm's way.

Numbers of representatives of houses in other cities, printers, telegraphers, stenographers and clerks, who have not been here long enough to become have gpne North. The great bulk ot the city's population is still here, however, and apparently determined to stay until the mor- qulto theory is proved or frost cqmes, may seem an anomaly, "but doctors are among, those, who are complaining of a reduction in their income. That is particularly the case among the higher class physicians, and It is explained by the fact that many of their rich patients have left liie city, while an epidemic has never been profitable to physicians, because It means long hours of work and much charity service. The life Insurance companies of the North and East are still doing business. They have kept in close touch with the sHua- tion and, so far as learned, have not advised local representatives to cease writing.

They will doubtless continue to write business unless the situation becomes much morn serious. In some of the com- I panics withdrew when the fever started. Though there were nearly three hundred deaths that year one of tte largest companies in the East escaped with the payment of only two policies. Three deaths occurred in the emergency hospital today, the number of patients which has b'jen largely increased. All cases found with no relatives to care for them are promptly removed to the Institution, where i tho most elaborate arrangements have been made for their treatment.

The various relief committees continue their work with grcaf" energy. Reports received from the seventeen wards c-ave de- I tailed figures of the number of premises visited, cisterns screened and oiled, cess; pools treated and sick persons I'otmd unattended by physicians. Chairman Janvier of the general committee expressed himself op- timlsticu'ly concerning tho outlook, lie said that the medical authorities had token hold of the situation and were handling it xdth great skill and intelligence, nnd that was the confident belief of the financial and the commercial interests associated with him on the committee that the light would bo successful, and that it would be conclusively demonstrated a the stegemyla was the only agent of transmission. President Souchon received advices today that tht Wllmot case at Morgan City hna bc-cS pronounced yellow fever. Morgan Clly is eighty miles from New Orleans, on Iho Southern Pacific Railroad, nnd iho effect of the ease will doubtless be followed by the bottling up of the town.

Meantime fact that among the canes now under treatment Is that of the engineer of the steamer prlfen, who was 111 with the fever when ma ship landed lost week. Ho contracted the diseaao in Central America, but It did not become fully developed yellow fever until he had been removed to his residence. It is not anticipated thai the fever, will cause a postponement of the opening of the remilar winter racing season. The health authorities here, in iieu of using: flags, have decided to post small cards on houses where fever exists. The cards bear the information: "This house has yellow fever." The authorities while giving the-number of deaths and cases and keeping a list of names and locations accessible to the public, have not desired to publish these However, there has been some public demand for a designation of each focus, so that people generally might be warned and take thu usual against ex- Posing themselves unnecessarily to the infection.

A dispatch from Port Gibson. on the Mississippi Valley Road, announces that tlie Town Council there today met in special session and passed a resolution excluding 'all freight from New Orleans. Other towns have taken similar action, and business men here are apprshc-nsive that the quarantine infection will spread and that there will be continued contraction of the districts into which New Orleans may sell its goods. Meanwhile the declaration of quarantine by the State of Louisiana against tho city of New Orleans has opened practically tho whole of the State to the commercial enterprise of Texas and-other States, which are expected to Invade territory heretofore exclusively controlled by New Orleans merchants. The Marine Hospital authorities have not yet been able to arrange for a detention camp on the Louisvillp Nashville at the Mississippi State line.

-Since they were driven away from Waveland the Federal surgeons have been trying to locate a camp at Sunbar Station, but efforts In that direction have not been successful. The Era Club, composed of representative women, hold a meeting today and tendered the services of its members to the Health Boards, city authorities and captains of the various ward organizations. Though generally people are willing-lo submit to regulations of the health authorities, there are some who refuse to believe in the mosquito theory and who oppose oiling their cisterns and cleaning their premises. The Era Club members have volunteered to proselyte among this class of the community. The mosquito ordinance wili be passed at the meeting of the council tomorrow.

It will require landlords to screen cisterns. Pine or imprisonment penalties for refusal to obey the ordinance will be imposed. Very jfew houses in the city are without cisterns, and or 50.000 of them have to be screened. The city is now spending some $16,000,000 upon a water and sewerage system, which will, when completed, require the abandonment of ail cisterns. It will, be two or three years before this system will bn finished, and In the Interval the screening and oiling process will be essential if the breeding places of the mosquitoes are to be wined out.

Dr, Hichardson, of Marine Hospital Service, who Is In. charge of fumigation, 4 BRAND CIRCLE OF GRAFT. Special to Tho News. July 3L--Tho Circle of Graft on part of the Government employes keeps constantly widening. -I- It is now charged that several em- ploycfl In 'the Geological Survey are stockholders in a Western publication, find as editors and con- trlbutors of that paoer have teath- ered their wallets exploiting ucl- entitle theories developed and nour- ished at the expense of the United States Government It is also al- ieged that the bureau of publications is not free 1'rom graft and that an investigation by the Keep Commis- sion will disclose 30310 unpleasant irregularities.

Tho conviction is growing that employes and officials of tho Government, with somo excep- tlona, have boon turning to a com- raerslal use, for pecuniary profit, In- formation received by them by reason of their Governmental associations. The contention la that this infor- mation obtaired'at the Government's expense, by men whose time Is the property of the Government, should -J fa be given to the Government exclus- TKXAS AGAIN CLOSES HKR DOORS AGAINST THE STATE OP LOUISIANA. oiling and screening of houses In the orig- focus of infection, and whoso forces are inal also making outside inspection, reports up to date he has made 2,640 inspections and found 39 cases of fever, most of which were Bent to the emergency hospital in screened ambulances. The controversy between Governor Vardaman of Mississippi and Governor Blanchard of Louisiana is waxing warr.rW. Todav Governor Blanchard gave out a statement to this effect: "The statement oC the Governor of Mississippi answers itself.

He was called upon for proofs to substantiate a grave charge against suntlemen of high official, professional and personal standing in. the State. Instead of producing evidenc-i sustaining the charge, he replied that if these gentlemen were npt guilty of dissimulation and "eva'alon (his original 'complaint) they are certainly guilty of ignorance or. neglect of duty. This Is a palpable evasion of the issue Dy the Governor of Mississippi; The Inference is allowable" that If he were called upon for proof of the incompetency nnd wanton neglect of the health authorities of the would respond that If they were not guilty of incompetency and neglect, they were undoubtedly guilty of something else.

And so ad Infinitum. The issue was made clear and plain. Either the Governor of Mississippi must produce proof of his charges or the public will convict him of unseemingly and extravagant use of Invective and of a fairly amazing disreRard of the good name of honorable and high- minded Louisiana public officials." Mississippi has again announced that It will accept detention camp certificates Issued by the Marine Hospital Service. Yesterday the railroads and travelers were thrown into a panit by a dispatch received by one. of the railroad superintendents saying that two men with certificates had been turned back.

Today Dr. Hunter of the Mississippi Board sent the following notice: "Will accept any certificates Issued by Marine Hospital Service passing through detention camps." On the other Als.bama has taken a new tangent. The following dispatch shows even more, stringent restrictions than ever before attempted "Alabama health authorities decline to allow passengers coming from points beyond New Orleans that are not infee.tcd, who will be transferred from train to train in New Orleans under Marine Hospital Inspection and protection, to get off at the point of destination in Alabama. They are very rigid with their quarantine In this city (Birmingham)." LUMBERTON, CASE, Wll-Ii BB PERMITTED TO PASS THROUGH NEW ORLEANS OUT BEING DETAINED. UPON HUIISEBVICE Improbable That All Trains Will Be Discontinued East ot Soltine.

At 11 o'clock last night the State of Texas inaugurated another quarantine against the State of Louisiana, with the prospect that "ihJiTtlroe ft will be of much'longer duration was the State quarantine of last week. State Health Officer Tabor last night telegraphed all of the inspectors on the Texas- Louisiana border, giving notice that the quarantine against Infected points had been enlarged to include the entire State of Louisiana. This, explained Dr. Tabor, Is because of the spread of cases that occurred In Louisiana yesterday. Dr.

Tabor stated that he has also prohibited persons coming through New Orleans from points beyond without flrnt being de- 'tained for six days on the border. He says he proposes to make the quarantine just as tight as in order to prevent, If possible, an invasion of the Texas border. The railroads from Texas -having entrance Into New Orleans have already considerably curtailed their train service, and it is not improbable that this recent development will result in a complete withdrawal of passenger service east of the Sabine River. He Is Recovering--There Are Other Cases or SunpectK--Hcfructory Italians. Texas Star Flour Mills TEXAS, Cotton Factory and Commission or Health Is now In communication with anri i a every health hoard in tho State and hna dl- aULI I i rocted immediate telegraphic confirmation of tho discovery of oven suspicious cases No other case in Louisiana hns bcon reported In tho two or threp days.

It is generally believed hero that when the present alcknws passes New Orleans will not seek to regain the i trade which hns now been diverted to Mobile unless tho fruit nro willing to submit to regulations which will mnKc Impossible tho iutroiuictlon of fever. It is nlmost univonally tho opinion that Important an this trnao has develnprd to be. It Is not HiiffiolenUy profitable for the city to run the risk of a recurrence of the present flltbntlon. which will ultimately cost many times tho vnluo of ono season's fruit business. It In nlao connldered prolmblo that public floullnnMit In Alabnma And Mississippi will require Mobile to such precautions In thn matter detention thnt thft fruit companies will find theniHelven forrnl i submit to tho In nil the Southern porls.

Tho tho rftffulallonrt licro huvo not bctn BUfflclonUy is by tho JNO. ROGERS GO, ra and Com mi sal COTTON. LJberml mado on menu. Correspondence cotton if loltuted. BASEBALL.

GALVESTON VS. BEAUMONT. CMSM p. New Orleans, July Picayune's Lumbtrton (Miss.) special says: Drs. Wasdin and Donald declared a case of yellow fever here last Friday.

The patient, who is an Italian, is doing well and soon be up. There arc no other not even a suspicious one. Fortnnatc-ly. the infected house is naturally isolated, and only five others were with Ihe man ur In any way On Friday night Dr. Lebaron of the Marine Hospital Service arrived, accompanied by Cap 1 Hall and other members of the State Militia pnnt by Adjt.

Gen. Fridge. These Immediately took charge. The house and premises were at once thoroughly fumigated and the infected parties isolated and placed under guard. The local militia company is furnishing several of the guards.

L)r. Lebaron states that he apprehends no spread of tho disease. Last night some of the Italians KUiird proved refractory and had to be subjected to a little rough treatment by the guards. Kit no serious Injury was sustained, and they now scrm very docile The citizens arc not excited and none is rur.ninp away. However, all arc co-opt-r- atlng with the authorities, Mayor Camp and the l.wn authorities, r.ud are taking irjcespary precautions along sanitary lines.

Thp. citizens nro vury jjratoful for the manner In which the State and Marino Hospital 'Service 1mve handled the situation here, und that their efforts will be effective In stamping: out the disease. MRS, LONGSTREET INJURED. 'Confederate (leneral'K "Widow Taroiru From Ilorac--Her lUffht Arm "Was Broken. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS.

Gainesville, July Ida Txmgr- strcct, widow of the Confederate General, was thrown from her horse while out riding this afternoon, her foot hung In the stirrup and was dragged for some distance before the animal came to a stand. Sirs. LongKtrcct's risht arm was broken and her body badly bruised. She waa mounted on a very spirited horse, -and lost her seat when the horse violently slilcd at a pa. sinK automobile.

For fifty yards the horso plunged forward, Mrs. Ijongstreet being dragged along tho J. Henry Campbell, who was riding with Mrs. LOHK- street, spurred his horse into a run, overtaking the lady's frightened animal and Urought it to a standstill. THE TAX PENALTIES UNDEK.

THE KENNEDY BILL BECOME EFFECTIVE TODAY. THE: OIL COMPANIES THIS CUIHTV COMPANY ALONE PAYS. TELEPIOIEMJULCOICE1IS Refrigerator I4nca Report Small EtruinitBj Wilt Be In Stable Car Compaur. THE EL DAM. Treaty AVltli Mexico Relative Thereto Ktfrctcil--GuliiK Ahead i Project.

STOP TRAINS AT PJEISER. Shreveport "Will Anlc Texan it Pacific to Do So. SPECIAL TO Tns Nitws. Shrcvoport, July the next twenty-four hours It is likely that a demand will bo made on tho Texas rticlftc Railway that all trains from tho south atop at Reiser, seven miles from the city, Tho dnmnnd carries with it a recommendation that a special engine nnd conch be put on between Shreveport and Reiner to handle tho biislnosa Into this oily, but that no trains from New Orleans bo nwmlttcd to eiHor tho city proper. Freedom from infection for ton longer.

In thn opinion of tho health authorities, mcnna practical Im- immlty from any rhnncc of thu fever getting hero this Miinmcr owing to iho rigor of tho quarantine nuikiiicr it ImpoHslblo for the fovcr to bo convoyed horn In any wny, Cotton Halt tlukM ngonta today received BlrucMcms to Immediately mnconttnuo tho en SrtviiAL TO Tni NEWS. Washington, July The officials of the United Stales Reclamation Service arc now engaged in mnking tentative arrangements looking to carrying into 'effect the project which contemplates tho irrigation of the El Paso Valley. Officials of the Reclamation Service, said todsiy a preUmJnarv wnrk on the project had begun, but that actual operations were boing held in aboviinco pending tho sottlomeni of a treaty between tho United Stales Mexico Treaty nogotiatlons are progress tin- tween the Department of State nnd th Mexican Government, upon their conclusion the vast improvement will be commenced. ThiK lit the project which was fathered by Representative Smith of Texas and for which Congress at tho last session appropriated I.OTTKRV SCHEME CHAHGED. i Ar rented nt Dnllan and Tnkcn to St.

SPKCIAI. TO Tnic NF.WH, St. Louis. July W. H.

Clifton, president and general manager of the Equitable. Home which formerly had Its headquarters In St. Louis, was brought to St. Louis from Dnllns, arriving hero Monday to answer to on indictment returned by tho Federal grand Jury charging him with using tho mnJln for further- mice of lottery scheme. Tho Fedcrnt authorities hold that Iho.

schema a lot lew, bt'cauno tboy nllego tho contract holder crtn not tell how many contracts nro ahead of hiii or when his will coma due. Cllflon was nrresicd nt Dallas, now the oi' Uio coinpnny. Ho snltt to- that the company mnovM to Dnllas hucaiinn moat of cuntomora wore In that part, of the country, lie jayn ho will bond for hlo at the October terra of court, TO THV Austin, July was the last day to pay taxes under the Kennedy bill, which levies a percentage tax on the gross income of As a result there was a delusu of payments, including three or -more score from, small electric light and water plants, telephone companies, smaJl companies, etc. There may be a few water and, light companies over the State which have not paid, but they are in no sense resisting: the law, their delinquency being" due, to ignorance of the new law, this being the first quarter payment thereunder. There Is one great surprise and that is that the tax will exceed the expectations and estimates of those in'official circles.

The Controller estimated that the Kennedy bill would bring about $125,000 per annum, and tho indications are now that once it Is in running order. It will yield not less than $200,000. The taxes collected amount to about $25,000, it being: too early to get the exact figures, and they do not include the big oil companies which-have enjoined the collection of taxes from them. Tlie lowest possible estimate is that they will pay $25,000 per quarter, the Guffey Company claiming its tax would have been 514,000 on two months' business, not to mention the Sun, Biggins, Gulf and others. Thus with, the small collections and the oil companies, the total will be $50,000 per quarter, the oil companies being given the doubt of securing: some relief in the Injunctions; otherwise, according to their own figures, they will be required to pay nearly $75,000 per quarter.

In addition to the above there IE yet to fee paid $40,000 by the Western Union and after the next quarter the two big'telephone companies will make- heavy-contributions which paid nothing this quarter, likewis the consolidated Independent llnee. It was expected that the Kennedy bill would be come first quarter cal endar y.ear,- but it did not, and under, a vision the telephone companies paying- '61 KIIWJS Income, accredited with the oTa tax which'was 25 cents, on each instrument In use. The Southwestern alone secured credi to the amount of and reported fo credit thN quarter gross-receipts of $471, 215, tax amounting to for which it has credit, leaving $4,136 lor credit on the nex quarter, after which it mUsi pay in full When the cotton season arrives and long distance calls are numerous, the South vestern's tax will be about $12,000 per quar er and tho independents' about $3,000 These amounts are to be added to the pay nents first enumerated from the oil compa lies. Thus, It Is apparent that the Kenned )ill, when In smooth running order, and ai court questions settled, will bring In excess of annum- injunctions inaMy fail, taxes must be paid for the in erfm, and the judgments might include interest and small penalties. As stated in last.

night's dispatches one args oil company is not a party to the in- unction, it beinK the Security, which paid ts taxes today, amounting to being sale of oils amounting to $255,936. Thai will pay over $20,000 per annum. One interestmc feature Js noted In con- cctlon with the statements of the smolitr ompanies which have paid the tax. Those at have rendered the value of heir oil at about an average of 81 cents er barrel, while, in comparison, those in tie Beaumont, Sour Lake and. Humble elds, report their oil Is worth only aboul 5 cents per barrel, and a little more in a otv instances.

There arc some who do not hink such difference in value exists between tho oils of the two sections, and there may be some official investigations by the Controller and Attorney General. The private car lines also furnish some food for thought. Armour lines will pay JIT, the check having been returned for correction; tne Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch Company paid $24.80 on of earnings; Swift Refrigerator Transit Company J3.i.26 on $1,613 of earnings; the A. R. T.

has submiued no statement and may find itself In trouble, if it Is really rssistinff, white Street's Western Stable Car Company, telegraphs that it has no agent in Texas and oid not receive notice except through the press and within the. past day or two, and will pay on or before Aug. 7. The Controller intimates that the refrigerator linos pro paying very small amounts and has secured copies of railroa'd private car line contracts on with the Railroad Commission and will have a representative at tho commission hearing on Aug. 15, when the matter of private car lines will be taken up nnd the amount of their earnings brought out.

The Controller proposes two or three investigations. Sanger Ettelson paid "under protest" -JS6 tax, being per cent on the gross income of their three stock exchanges, while the Waco Cotton and Grain Company contributed $2W tax on eight exchanges, in order to jjivo an idea of bow the taxes are running a few of today's payments from different sources are given: Northeast Texas Telephone Company, earnings J2.0M, (ax American Book Company, Ginn Mrs. Penny backer. $Llt; Houston Oil Company, income tax the Butt-In Oil Company, income $131, tax $1.32: the All Right Oil Company, Income $370. tax J3.SO; James Garrity's wells, $JflS tax; Johnson.

Johnson Carles Oil Wells $14.32 tax; Uufus Hardy's wells, $7.34 tax; Dallas Electric Light and Power Company, parninfis for the quarter tax $159; Fort Worth Light and Power Company, enrnltiKK tax JGS.OC,' Helton Light nnd Power Company. Paris Light nnd Power Company, tax; Clifton Writer Company. SOc tox, and Texas and Arkansas Consolidated Ice and Coal Company, $21.70 tax. It will be several days before all of the statements can be nurilled and a list of tho delinquents compiled. Unless the few water, light nnd telephone companies hurry they will be reported to the Attorney General.

Very few suits are anticipated, nny, thn large companies being tlie only contestants, and they took tho Initiative. Sl'N COMPANY 1MII1 TAX. It Wan on UK Small BricoiAL in July Qoorgc G. Oroer today paid tlio tax of Iho Sun Oil Company on tho oil it actually produced from HH own walls, totnl vniuo of which for tho Itiftl quarter wns on which tho ui i i'or cont, nmountlnff to $105. WIIH pit Id Tno Sun Company Is ono of tho plaintiffs In ttio Injunction uml todav'n nymont wan promptly cxnlnlmid by jftr.

rccr. lie imid that tho company orcUucea only it small amount of oil from 1 wells and did.not care to Qulbbii ovftr sue a ium, but that on the oil It and shipped to its own reflnery In Pennsy van la it refused to pay the tax. Last quilt ter It handled to its refinery slightly In ex COBS of 700,000 barrels of oil. If tax ha paid on the last the amount woul have bben very large, 2 per cent being th amount exacted from dealers. The compun Is resisting the tax on what It claims 1 interstate commerce and business, as th oil is shipped to Itself boyond the bordei of the State.

DOCUMENTS PILED. Routine Procerdlnn in the In Junction SrxciAt, TO Tax Niwt, Austin, July this mornln'i tho petitlonu and. the Judge'B orders filed with the Clerk of tbn District Cour In the Injanotions secured by the oil com papies restraining tho Controller, Treas 'irer and Attorney General from enforcin or collecting the taxes and penalties pra scribed in the law taxing the gross receipt of oil compa-nies from producing, piping an dealing in oil. The. necessary bonds wer and the Clerk took cognizance of th Judge's fiats, issuing service on the Stat officials mentioned, which was had thi afternoon.

It was necessary to serve then today as this is tlie last day grace tt pay the tax, and if legal action was no forthcoming today heavy penalties woulc commence to accumulate. Hence the rusl in. the Clerk's office to get out the servic before closing time this afternoon, the las day tho could be paid without Incurring penalty. The injunction was granted in chambers, and will likely be heard nex October. A State case has precedence am it will not take long for it to go through the civil, appellate and State Supreme Courts, where both parties will take it However, ff the State loses the end be In the Texas Supreme Court, but if oil companies are losers the case will go on to the Supreme Court of the United States on writ of error from the Texas Supreme Guffey.

Petroleum Court. The Sun Company, Company, Hlgglns Company and Gulf Re fining Company appear as plaintiffs in the record, but the Texas Company and others will come In later, as they have not paid the tax. A JUGGERNAUT. Oil Meu In Huantua So Characterise tke Kennedy Bill--Greer It TO TBB Houston July the oi: men here today, and there have been a goot! many of them here, much of their talking ime was tho vexatious law tnown as the Kennedy bill, which they say a triple action revolving knife machine that makes a taxation stab going, coming and in, the middle, thrusting the same wound each'time. They regard it as a torturing instrument of savage brutality that will murder not only the oil business and property of the owners, but pet as a boomerang upon the State in the withering of her tax rolls.

This conversation among the oil men today grew out-of the Injunction suit filed ind granted by Judge Brooks at Austin, of which an extended account was made In The -Newe this morning. On the subject a. talk was had with Mr. Edward Greer, -one of the-attorneys. Je is stopping- at the' on his return from Austin, whej-e, in with F.

-C. for injunctions against the enforcement of the Kennedy-ias-bill on behalf of the J. Pnroleum Company and the-Gulf Company to-'Judge' BrooUe of tlie In speaking ofothe'm'attrtr Mr. Greer said: "Judge Brooks granted Injunctions restraining the Attorney General, the Controller and the Treasurer from bringing any suits or proceedings to enforce the law or from endeavoring to enforce it In any way as to the plaintiffs. The law Is attacked an unconstitutional on many grounds, one of the chief of which is that It taxes the mming for petroleum oil and does not tax any other mining and lays such heavy burdens on oil producers and dealers as to be almost prohibitive.

"There seems to be a disposition in some quarters to censure the oil peoole for resisting the enforcement of this law, but 1 am convinced it comes from people not informed as to the facts. When it is considered that the oil business has added approximately $15,000,000 to the taxable values of the State, on which the State collects on the $100, it hardly seems fair to lay an additional burden of at least $500.000 on tho people who have added this wealth to the State. The facts are that the taxable values of Hardin County have increased since the discovery of oil about $5,500.000 and of Jefferson County about $9,000,000 uiid those of Trinity and other counties have greatly increased. Harris County will show a great Increase aa soon as the Humble field values show in the tax rolls. The Kennedy bill will take from the oil people at least half a million dollars a year in addition to the ad valorem tax they pay to tho State, to the counties, the cities and the school districts; all this when the mining for coal, salt, gold, silver or anything else is not taxed at.all except the afl va- lorem tax.

The oil people believe the tax Is unjustly discriminative against them and make them bear a greater portion of the tax burden than any other class. Under this Inw, as construed by the Attorney General, the producer must pay 1 per cent of tho value of the oil when he gets it out of the ground, 2 per cent on what It would coat him to hire somebody to haul It to market thoush he may haul it through his own pipe line, and 2 per cent, again on what he sells it for. If the farmer was taxed 1 per cent of the valuo of his crop when made, then 2 per cent of what he would have to pay to have it hauled to market, notwithstanding he had his own wagon and team, and then 2 per cent on what he sold it for or 2 per cent again on its value, whether ic sold It or not, lie would certainly object tnd. yet this Is exactly what the Kennedy bill makes the oil producer do." TCXHH BHildJe In Ammnolin. Annapolis, July E.

Reardon of Texas was admitted today as a midshipman to the Naval Academy. TEXAS WEATHER. Washington, July East Texas-- Fair in south, showers In north por- tlon Tuesday. Wednesday fair; light south winds on the coast. West Texas-- Showers Tuesday.

Wednesday fair. -5" .5. STOPCll PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION ABOUT TO SUSPEND flJCnt BETTER PREPARED. II HOPE: TO OVERCOME PRESENT DISORGANIZATION BY.PAYINO LABORERS REGULARLY. EXECUTIVE eifillS Governor Maroon, ens and 7)r.

Meet Alnoct Constantly. TEXANS ABROAD, In NCTT Yorlc, irrciAL TO Tnr NEWR, New York, July arrivals at New York hotels: Gnlvcsion--AVolcott, Mrs. W. Muller. Paris--Imperial, K.

Hutson. Midland--Herald 'Square, J. Richard. GftincBvIllc--St. Andrews, J.

R. W. Pater- on find wife. Tnylor--Cumberlnnd, Miss Fhippa, O. San Antonio--Bclleclalro, E.

Oliver; Pnrk Mrs. K. Howard; Murlborotigh M. Vaux. Rockdnlo--Cumberland.

J. Hicks. Houston--Hornld Square, A. Raldrltlge; Dtmta, Miss M. Scott; Albemnrle, C.

i. Crawford nnd wlfo, Fort Worth--Imperial, W. G. Burton. roan vlllft--Imperial, It.

Winchester. A tin tin--Wellington, Di. 1 JO. Parry; Albert, D. Mnrali.

Ahtor, J. W. ttoll, coi'KO J. W. Faimijiff, MiM C.

By Mexican Cable to Galveston. Panama, July 1906, oy New York Herald execu- Uvfc committee of the Istlimlan Canal Commission has about decided to suspend any attempt at digging the canal until they better prepared than at present. The half-hearted sanitation will be placed by vigorous work. Chief Engineer Stevens will live at bra or Ancon. By paying labor on regular days, present disorganization will ba overcome.

Shonts, Magoon, Stevens and norgaa arfe in almost constant executive session reorganizing 1 the system. No changes, in pei- aonnel id expected. Views Roee-Colored. Chicago, 111., July Barrett, Minister to Panama until a month ago, arid now Minister to Colombia, declared laat night that the yellow fever will be drtveu out of the Isthmus. He has arrived here en route to the Portland Fair.

From theft he goes to his new post in Colombia, "The fight against yellow fever is like ji great battle," iie said. "Every effort ia made to stamp out the disease. of the United States must not be Impatient if the progress of the canal is slow. Thev must remember that the scene of operation, if 2,000 miles away from the base of supplies." SUMMARY OF NEWS fTATB. The grand lodge, Knights tit Honor, in Waco today.

George Ackers died at Commerce frbhi the. effects of knife wounds. G. A. aurrendered.

Homer' Rouff was and -snot near San Antonio. John Young was Jailed at Kaufman on a charge of criminally assaulting.his daugh- er, aged 15. Payments under the Kennedy tax bill indicate that the annual revenue, will 200,000 a year. Louis Wortham tells of the ir.ViroratinK' climate of City of Mexico. The Galveston Boat and Yacht Club nrllT ilay a prominent part In the La Porte Car- ilval.

Houston City Council passed an ordinance equlring tho screening, of cisterns." work of sanitation goes Two dancers at a Mexican balle.fhear Clareville were burned by the overturning- I a lamp. One is dead and the other wMl A boy living near Tanglewood was bitten en times by a dog supposed to have been md. He was taken to Austin. Corporal Thorp shot a woman named at-Brownsville and then killed him- elf. Dr.

Thomas O. Maxwell has been uperintendent of the Insane Asylum at an Antonio. Joe Williams was arrested at Glddlngs on charge of killing Mary Harrison. DOMESTIC. Case in Mor.p-an City, La Is reported gen- ine yellow fever.

Three deaths from yel- ow fever In New Orleans. The case of yellow fever at Lumberton, recovering. New York State Attorney General Mayei; rings action In New York Supreme Court gainst the Equitable directors and officers. Arkansas quarantines all infected points. Secretary Wilson declares he will not r.e- Says he will reorganize the Bureau.of tatistics.

Futures Closed--Galveston, 23 to 2S points ff; New Orleans, 23 to 32 points off; New ork, 12 to 16 points off; Liverpool, un- to 3 points up. Spots: Middling Closing--Galveston, lOTic; Tew Orleans, l(H6c; New York, lie; Liver- ool, 6.09d. September wheat closed higher; corn, lower; oats, down; provisions. higher. New York stocks closed firm; bonds teady, FOREIGN.

British Foreign Office is progressing with the new Anglo-Jnp treaty. Lancashire cotton operatives will strike Aug. .13 if wages aro not increased 6 per cent. Tho International Cotton Congress committee urges spinners to buy no more Amer. lean cotton for throe months than absolutely needed.

Panama Canal Commission's nxNiutlve committee has auout decided to suspend canal digging until better prepared. TAKEN TO Pope With Taking From IKiprPHU Company. BrxciAL Tft TIIK NICWS. UoRwoll, N. July H.

Pope, tho former agent of the Adams Express 1 Company at New Salem, who IB alleged to have stolen $8,000 from tho company thero March 10. ISM, wan taken to Nuif Salem last night by a Pennsylvania MARY HAimiflOVS SLAYER. ArrcMtert and OlalwN It Sriccui, TO Tim NKWH. Qlddlnftfl, July WllUamii. colored, Arrrflted a charge of murdorlnic Mary Harrison on RAtnrday.

him mtuta a fttntomftni. He, however, cldlms fonao. Baying ahot at him.