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$0ii lai -70TH YEAR-NO. 257 8PKBCH IK T1IE HOUSE ONLY DISTUKBIilU THAT GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1911-TWENTY PAGES ems MM Hake Smith ami CahlMr Tm, erats FmUt. --eXmn. Dec. for the icathlng speech delivered In 'the house by Representative Martin W.

Littleton, denouncing recent attacks on him In tha, press, tho of the opening day of the second session of the sixty-second congress at both ends of the capltol were of a routine character, affording no foretaste of the big thing In the domain of legislation and of polities' which the deislon Is expected to bring forth. drift of things political was brought to mind senate end by the swearing In of a democrat, Oba- Gardner, as the suecesso'r of the late Senator Frye of Maine, and" of Hoke Smith, a pronounced "progressive democrat, as a senator from Georgia. 1 In the hoajse five new members took the office. Vent An Incident Jn the aens.te served to reveal the fact that.the fetid between.the two factions of the republicans'over tha question of. electing a president pro tein- pore has not abated.

Vice President Sherman was called away from the city by the death of his wife's' motherland It became hecessaryVto chose a ttajso-' rary.presidlne of fleer for a few daysinX iteaij of attempting, to elect Senator Galllnger, who -was nominated by the re. publican caucus last session and to whom the Insurgents strenuously objected. Senator Curtis of Kansas by unanimous consent to wield the gavel "while vice president Is absent 'from Had the attempt to eleot Gal- linfer been renewed.by the the would have resumed their of. Senator Clapp and there would have been no oholce. As part the routine, of 'organising i each house formally Informed the other that It had assembled and wai ready for and, a' jojnt committee from to Inform the presl- -dehW the "prairident--will to the; his 'regular.

1 It will series-' cpmmunlca.ttpns' from, time -vaMpus" and eioitlhg as become ag.itjdragsvalong generar-foreoai(ti diit- jlook ar'e ilkely. to go for M-leaBt a mbhth; Nelthtr tariff b'llis'are ei- to; -be 'passed' holiday recess. Pembcratto leaders' will ''-give Fresldent'taft a'reasonable time to the tariff flbo.d.:.of.general 'and raijcl 1 liivi; hid Un- 4 thlso'summer JTras' In- A today, of Tennessee jiaboli.sh to.amend as. to give Jiirlsdiotlbn to -the, It: fa 'expected 1 that democratic and progressive r'epubll- senators 'will pcess 'similar bills, the" ablest and conservative 'of the. progressives, in 'favor the 'of this court.

SImms' -bill seeks to re- ps'al outright the'sections of the act creating and giving jurisdiction to the com- it also Amends.tUe act. of 1810 so as to transfer Jurisdiction given the commerce court to the Unlted States courts. Next it invests In the Interstate-commerce commission full.con- trol of all suits brought by or against the commission in regard to Its orders and takes from the department of Jus- all control or participation in such suits. Limit Injunction Another amendment' which Simms would make Is limit the period of any Injunction or order suspending any order of the. interstate commerce coni- mission to ninety to provide for 1 appeals district courts to the United States supreme court, and to provide for five days' notice'upon application for a preliminary injunction in- otead of th'ree days Representative Simms bases the neces- stty for this legislation ground of economy to the shippers who could prosecute their causes In' the district courts of their rcspoctlvo vicinities instead of having to cotno to Washington to attend the ccfmmercc court, but tho real reason for this agitation to abolish the commerce ranrt Is that it is said to be hampering the vrork of tho commission in regulating railroad TO CHAHQS TIMS OF BIPOBTS fatlTe Olrrer Report, of Cotton Cron Condition, production at Different Times, fpKltl lo The N'ewi.

Washington. Dec. tSIIver South -Carolina today Introduced a bill EWklns make a change in. the time and number of dernrtmctjl aports on cotton crop conditions arid cotton production. Mr.

-wouid nave the acreage report appear In July instead of June so as Jo tike Into ccnslrleration the of cotton acreage abanfiohed. He would also eliminate the cotton crop condition report for June (ma July OF CHl.NA HAS TROUBLE. APPOINTS PHESICEST OF BODY, MHO DECLINES. ins sun HIPJIESS Held-- OH Pckln, Dec. 4--Premier Tuan Shi Kal is havl-ig great difficulty with the of finance.

He appointed a president of the board, who declined to serve, and the. vies president, lef Pekir. after informing friends that the situation was The acting president.has now aekcd for leave of absence on account ot Illness, but really because he was sum- before the national assembly. was ca-tsed by the discov- crv -ihat the assembly, the Chinese for- board and tha finance committee holii three different texts of the 130,000,000 loon negotiated by -Baron Cottu In favor of Franco-Belgian syndicate. This discovered, it Is said, when a representative of the Chinese foreign board appeared before the assembly in secret session.

It Is on this loan that China's future (government depends. Consular advices Xay, that the three days' armistice at tlharig will terminate Wednesday morning, but that it probably will bo renewed. Delogates from-the rsbc! provinces are arriving "at Svu Chans And yuan 'Shi Kal's representatives alrtady there. According to Russian reports, 1 Urga, capital of has declared the nutonotny of the. central only the amban or Chinese representative has asked of theMongol princes permission amban, however, ttlll remains in Urga, because of the Issuance cf a proclamation Insuring protection lo all Chinese.

If ore true, there is a strange association with Japanese and rebels in iManchurla. Heretofore fear at Japanese 'aggression hu prevented th'e Chinese from the vsl'tance of the. Japanese. oonriBicri ARMISTICE. Ski Kal AgTvm to Ttin In London, 'Dec.

Pekln correspondent the Dally lays that Tuan; Shi Kal content to pf. a fortnight for.th;8:whql(!.»resrpfrmtlitary'o'peratiops; litcludihg. NanKtnV f. Tlie: engages to no frjom Pekin order sending 1 whoieilt- yi.tlon"'un'der probably will fmeet; at rtankow. iriStead; of Bhang- hfti, 1 excellent that the.

regent, stumbling, a abdicate. 'Altogether, addstithe correspondent, is prospect 'of a OBTLAW. LEADER TerrortMd Coiditi-T Ir. Vli-talry of 7 Ainoyi Dec. pfja'baiid'of roughs which terrorizing 'the lii-the' the city of Chanjr-Chowi been ftn resistance' "hit f.r'om here' to: to'res'tore der.

has taken'" have been, Oonmi' Hnlru. Dip, Imperial Chinese', re- -Blgned his-'qffice as'a- mark of sympathy with in it- was as of the wealth lest Chinese -In 'the United States. German Troop. Diwmb.rk. Tien Tsln war- Bhipg stationed here reinforcements for tho shore to guard against possible eventualities.

BIG BAHCH IH BB-AZIL Reports Are Srndlcate Pnr- chiwed 5,000,000 Acres In South American Country. tpeclal to Nw. San Antfonio. Dec. a Texas syndicate headed by Murdo MacKen" zie, president of the American Live Stock Association, purchased a-ranch of 5,000,000 in Brazil, is the Informa- given out here by A.

B. -Fontaim of San Angelo. MacKenzie'wIll go to Brazil to takt personal charge of the ranch as soon a 0 the anr.ual meeting of the American Lve Stock Association, which meets at Den ver, has adjourned. The land was pur chased from the government and It 1 watered and covered with grass." Fin cattle will bo taken from Southwest Texas to cross with the native cattle Brazil. ISTIMATIS JOB TEXAS dnHons for or Include $58,000 for Gnlrc.itoa.

Other RccmnmcndnllonB. Spfclftl liKThd Washington. 'Due. In tho estimaten sent to congress today by tho secret of the treasury aro the followine recommendations for appropriations to be Epen! In TCSM: For public buildings: Austin, Bonbixm, 115.000; Bryan. darks- tllle.

S3S.OOO; Corpus Christ). Jlo.OOO Cuero. J24.0CO; Galveston, S50.050; Hillsboro, 120.000; MarJIn, Marshall Paris, 000. Purchase of for parpn San Antonio. 170.000: 815.C.O.

In TnHfprMdrnct-. Constantinople. Uer, port? ba appealed to the powers in favor of tho independcnw of Persia. Rockefeller Yields Standard Oil Lead ESTABLISHED 1842 SUMMARY OF NEWS 'XBALAXCKD cattle receipts at Fort Worth make market stow. Hogs lower.

3ELEGATKS to state convention of Lulled Daughters of the Confederacy are arriving at Houston. MEN' AND RELIGION Forward Movement will begin campaign at Houston today. iAILROAD COMMISSION gives authority to roads to meet Interurban fares between Galvestou and Houston. SPECIAL, leaves Houston to tour all Katy llnej In Texas. LABOR COMMISSIONER SVAKUNG says railroads must observe providing shelter for employes.

STATE PENITENTIARY at Huntivllle partly destroyed by tire, causing, loss of about $300.000. SOUR LAKE MOTHKR shoots and kills daughter while atlised to be mentally unbalanced. SERIOUS TROUBLE occurs in San Antonio over nonpayment of city employes. THE Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons of Texas meets at Waco. D.

Rockefeller, Wllk ot the. flcvrn of tke enrly day. trwt, TERMINATES CAREER BY RESIGNING PRESIDENCY--OTHBIIS SURRENDER OFFICES. Only One of IV. Aoltve UttV.

Lett-- 1'ke Will York, Dec. 4. John D. Rockefeller termlnatsd hlB career as head of the Standard Company today. With him there also retired most of the conspicuous figures of the early-, days of the "oil trnst." a Rockef ellejn re'- mains among the of icern and of the Standard Oil Company of New chief of the 7 oil corporations, which was the holding company up to th'e 'time of the recent dissolution of the treat Wllllani.a.RocJc- Bedford "and.

whose names have been, io the, oil behind the toa'ay. John ArchbolC one of of the' "old guar.d''-to»maln,. became" preel- deht'of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and- wlil. control its bifst inter- eats, -John. D.

vRockeifelUr not' preaeht 28 Broadway, of "Oil, the, meeting- at which acted upon. The of the', of who' position In history and amaBsed wliat la said to be thejargest 'f ortun in the -5 was i perfunctory probeed''ing: -nlahned in Vdvance, al- plansyhad- been" kept 'secret All'- "'at, 26 'B'roaawiy'-wai fSriri brief Announcement. qf the affebW) not jfew: Jersey, but i other In -the little. -To today's Is an' dissolution- of Standard' pii was not source. It is generally lleyed the decision of the Unif.ed'."states supreme Hastened- the retirement-of men whos'e advancing year's made it' certain 'they could not 'retain their places much regarded probable' that Mr.

Rockefeller and hi! WsBociates, younger 1 arrange the'af fairs of Oil-under the new Only irbmintUIy. Mr. Rockefelle'r "tor -nearly: ten.years has been only nominally Associated, with Standard Oil. He' has visited 26 Broadway but once a year, and his stays were usually limited to a- few minutes. After the death of H.

Rogers'Mr. Rockefeller's visits became more a time, until gradually responsibility was shifted to Arohbold. Th'e-succession of- Ar.cBboia presidency 'had been expected. John -D. Motfett, who was elected first vice-president of the reorganized New Jersey company.

Is tho best known of the comparatively now men ir He was president of the Standard Company of Indiana, which Judge Landis Imposed the 529,000,000 'In upon. W. C. elected vice president is a man under 40, but long- ago Required a reputation for marked abilTty it, the ol NewSrork 5YaS llulop nden Jts -export rtfipanmcnt, which Is said ti nave developed enormously' under his management. He was elected a dlfec From an unofficial source it was learned today that the Standard Oil Company of Iow Jersey has no Intention to 000 lta 1)res nl capitalization of I.C.MBER MAN IS KILLED.

FalllnB Tror" Striken Jllm IK-TH -VVoric. Bpcclal to The Like Clioriesi. DCS-. Kelt. 35 wap ag by a falling tree at Cnmp Hell Lumber Company thi Us of the near Slncer.

and Instantly killed. Hasett was .1 flier r.nd was r.t woi seated -on a lop- near wLcre two were choppinc accident "KC IncrfRstr In Rrfnseil. Wlrhjio. Vte. nnrt switchmrn in the Kan City.

Mexico Orient Railroad for a ID prr -TMt In were rcfus- Two hundred sr.d fifty art Involved in Oklnliffma. Tens y.t-.i They believe thai the unloug'K whlrii they belutig will order a GALVESTOJf. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS transact a uT, 8ti ji number of mutters of Public Intoresr before board MERCHANTS CARNIVAL, to be held Dec 18 to -omethlng unusual AVIATOR R. C. FOWLER pays visit to Galveston; no exhibition flights are to oc jivcn, BEAUTIFYING will come bofo'O' nt 0 lth Protective Association at meeting this morning.

)ECpIBERxTERMS of the tenth and imnJfe'a! U1 t8 nVeMd; Bmnd 3ury 1 1 UT i AND JVE the record for ine aay in marine circles; exports are I H01 STON Interurban olec- DOMES'nC. CONFERENCE of governors South sion. f0 rl nnln government next In amount expended WHARF COMPANT- im- 7 will be 'heard todar iterstate commerce commls- to mnndamUB THE Missouri, iwai Railway claim Kdian landtn uKianorocL XCBPT for Littleton's speech routine openln5 ot "'cond session of alxty-aecond congress. movement In Texas Colonel deoldei Indictments NI JW BESSlbN of congress and owners, resigns demands Anti-Trust in house. -ABBO-LUCU- as sen.

by. Mexican CHINX Tuan' Shi Kal ha great trouble witbAboard of finance! COURT OF CLAIMS RENDERS 'i siojr--wrv-oivEs IWDIAN REAL ESTATE. Staff Special to Tho Washingtoh, Dec. -'Missouri Railway Company to- lost 'in the court of involving title to about worth of -Indian iands In Oklahoma, when' Chief''Justice 'Stantqn f. i'eele bf that a decision sustaining the government's demurrer to railroad company's peti'tion.

Kansas -Texaa case Involved alternate sections of land In tho Indian-Territory under, an-alleged grant to the. Union. Pacific Railroad Company. The land sought was claimed as part of "the Indian Territory tracts covered by the Indian and if the government had lost its present Butt It would have had the Indians to deal with, or at Indiana would have lost--mors than 500,000,000 worth of land. POWERFUL THTTST COMPANY Reported B.

P. YoaUum and Aftsoctnten Will Lend Monej- to Farmers--Develop Gnlf New Orleans, Dec. was reported here today B. F. Yoakum his associates in the Frisco Railroad Company are planning: the oarly establishment New Orleans and Houston of one of the most powerful trust companies ir.

the world, whose principal object will bo to lend money to farmers to assist In developing lands in Louisiana, Texan and other pulf stales. It Is said the plan embraces a capitalization oC at least 510.000.000 and total resources of several times that num. The proposed trust company will; It Is said, loan money to farmers on real estate security at a very low interest rate will work In harmony i tho Yoa-' hum rtUlroiul Interests In assisting Uie farmers Id market' their products FATAL SMJBl-nrO Three Snllor. of Ship Antoinette Slilp Overrun With Frsr.ee. -Dec.

Antoinette bus arrived here with cro'v of in an advanced stage i-lceplne Richness. 7he disease broke "it a hundred days after the Antoinette Three pallors died. Wlicn the vessel boomed today by health officers It wss it horrible sight. Mon nf tin- men lay In a semi-stupor. The ship wes overrun with swarms of STATE PENITENTIARY AT HUNTSVILLE SUFFERS LOSS ESTIMATED AT $300,000 PE10IH AHTI-TRUST LEAGUE REPUBLICAN LEADER MANX MAKKS UI39tAM AJTER LITTI.E-i'ON'S Sl'BtXH IN HOUSE.

mm mm Yiitic Allrcei He KM Uttm AMrns. Washington, Dec. An Investigation of the operations of the so-called American Anti-Trust League was demanded by in the house today after remarkable- speech by Representative Martin W. Littleton of New York, who charged Henry B. Martin, nee- rotary of the league, with attempting to defarte It was the climax of the dispute between Mr.

Littleton and Chairman Stanley of. the house steel trust investigating committee over methods of procedure since the filing of the government suit agalriBt the United States Steel Corporation. Fife Originates in Engine Room, Destroying Fully Half of the Institution's Buildings- IflCREAIE GoTernor Says He Vill Not Call a Special Session of the Legislature to Arrange for Financing Rebuilding of Plant--Convicts Do Heroic Work. FuctiMtn lywek. Round after round -of applause punctuated Mr.

Littleton' seventy-minute defense of his' Integrity, and democrats and republican's him of their confidence in him. Meantime Mr, Martin had handed to Speaker Clark a memorial and petition asking that Littleton be Impeached, on the ground that he. had' "ori-operated and conspired wlththe heads of the trust" to prevent a continuance of the steel Inquiry. memorial, however, was not' presented to the i Mr. IJtOeton assayed Marl'n aiifl others as in a conspiracy to the Bteel committee Investigation to depress stocks in Wall streej; Published arti- jcles.

characterizing. Littleton, as the champion. of the steel and resolutions at Here 'last ''night at which. Martin' reiterated o'rrii'ed -tiie' baalii or- the Llttle- 1 a to; eif UHe e.6.rly;..|oitlm» OIi 't 'Mliiwfl: v.Martjii,-' Littleton member of -A-' behalf --'of the Chouse In-. the inyes'tlgatiqri' "of United Steel.

been to. attack New York newspaper, on behalf of the -pi'- committee iseven members; be to investigate, the of--the so-called IXi'gue). -activities'' of the 'sild to affeet action qfi -the 'arid that: the" committiee iiaye authority 'to send fri'-peraqns: taite at 'any Washington .7.. 'democrats alike ap of Liiyetqni, that, the. charges of his Interest' truBt in pajtioular." "Flglitio propose fight the death, the defamation of "public, men in this coiin- Mr.

Chalrrhan'Stanley of the steel.investi- gating' Bllenc.e during Littleton'in no way. "attacked the but said -Martin hart attaphed himself to the committee aa "a voluntary employe" and had misrepresented hiscqnriection Mr. Littleton's explanation of his position on the committee and general sympathy with tha progress of the investi- -were indorsed by Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, a republican member of the committee, who made the only during the "EVery statement tho gejitlemari'frqm New Tork has made as to his attitude on the committee is absolutely true," said Gardner. TEXAS CASAL Delegation From Texan nud ttalMana lo National Rivers and HarbonrCon- grcss Are In Fitfsbrg, Special to Tho KCWB. Pittsburg, Dec.

kee enthusiasm for the interccastal banal project, fifty representative business men of Louisiana and Texas, delegates lo tho National Rivers and Harbors Congress spent the day-as guests of tho Chambe of Commerce in inspecting Pittsburgh Industrial Institutions, waterways and parks. The delegation In charge of C. S. K. Hoiland of Port O'Connor, Tex.

Fifteei mpmbcrfl of the party, who missed connections at Houston, arrived in Pittsburs limo lo ICJLVO for Washing with the resl the delegation. Following the sightseeing tour, tho delcgales wore tendered a banquet by the Chamber 'of Commerce. Mr. ITollnnd spoko on the needs for Improved -waterways, showing tho benefits to coastal cities, and tho South. The vlfHnrs arc of the Interstate Inland Waterwaya League, which contemplates the colinco- llor.

Ihe Mississippi, and Rio Grande rivers by canal. BROOKS COfSTY GOES DRV. One in Mcnr Krora--Hnjortlj- Jioft itn.Klit lit 105. to The New. Kalfiirrltne.

Dec. nn the, prohibition election held SalurrtAy County One box of about tiiirtv lv majorlly ot fo's for HUNTSVILLE, Dec. fire which broke out In the otl-sotked engine room of the state penitentiary at at 11 o'clock MoncUy morning destroyed one-half of the buildings of that institution and cauwd a property loss of about $300,000. The state penitentiary system tonight resembles a man with a certain kind of ague. The north end of the system Jms sustained serious damage from fire, while the south end, embracing cane fields and sugar znllls.was damaged to the extent of not lew than a of a million dollarrtrom the recent freeze.

While one end of system is freezing the other Is burning. Originates Inside The.fire originated inside.the walls of the penitentiary in the room from sparks generated by the friction of, a hemp belt driven against a metal pulley. The rope drive caught fire after heating the-pulley, when- the rope, burned ite blazing pieces were thrown to all parti of tfie building It ignited readily, and fanned by a breeze from the south, the flames spread -rapidly and several large and Important factory and were on fire at one Burning embers fell all over the city of Huntsville but the fire was confined within the walls. Dynamite, a fortunate change in the wind and the heroic efforts of the conTicts within the.walls and the citizens of Huntsvllle without finally saved the most important parVof the prison. Many ConvlcU JVithiu the past two "weeks nearly two hundred convicts have been taken from the prison here' and rushed to the state farms save much of the frozen cane as is possible before.it spoils in the field.

When the fire broke out the.ro were 462 convicts within the wails. Not more than 150 of these were They (responded to the fire call and it Is largely due to their willing 'arid that several buildings were saved Cabell. and Tittle declare that; they.never observed more efficient work'by arpaid: fire departmenf than was voluntarily performed on Monday by the When out they were at work the various shops. They inarched; out orderly, taking their them, and in fight- i chances to save state's' property. 'Not attettpted-to escape.

The flames raged over three hours Before being-controlled. the waits 6f, a corps of-cltl- i rr BWHI.V.AMB vuv. vvuibvutUsvrjr Una. fng the lire Water from the reservoir, w'm weak. An to Mayor iftlce of that city' re otequliiment reiueiit'of 'Chairinan penitentla.ry board and.0«yernor.ColqtiitV'and'from parties who arrived- it that the Equipment, conjrtstlng! of a the orders the the flre havtag 'been- gotten; under 'control.

bynataHe" was. applied at a critical pojnt' in- nre and.a"gap row of'pulldfhgs. The flames did. not gap the day was saved 'so-lar as the large.hospital iprh buildings were cpncernedi' i ab'ii or the' physical as.weli as the 7 on Morf- welfare of men to have tHem remain 1 fl6y in 1 escaped id.ie for fires -which have destroyed 'the state -farms'-where they "tan be kept at work Kuek. State'n Within the two -weeks--the Btate penltentiary.

Bustained a loss, of over half million and-'thV lois total three-quarters of a mil-, extreme in temperature 1 Day caused the sugar! cane to 'freeze on all of the South Texas farans In which the stato 'of Texas is. the the prison in'-the past of structures was erected 'since-1890; -All them were brick and stories -in height In some of them new and modern, machinery was recently Installed. The buildings -whith were Baved were chapel, hospital," blacksmith, --painVJjoiier room, tin; foundry, including valuable build- 'ings' and dining kitohsns, with ample of In- ventory'loss-totals 5259,820. a-cent of Insurance was could be secured, Insurance companies refusing the-, risk. To'replace the build- valueless lor BUgar making.

To inss.that.were^estrdyea, Including save a part of the crop an force machinery, and the cotton of'convicts was. taken from Huutsvllla factory and maohinery ana tools of i and placed In'the-fields to harvest tha the wagon wheel shop, would crop before fermentation sets 1 The tato the expenditure of $291,420. That is i prevailing cold weather has been a'helr, tlw at after a hasty-csti- IWlTof the cane is In good. Robert member of the prison'boarS, "believes that if tho weather rema'ine cool for a few days longer a largo part of. the crop, will be ground and converted into sugar.

But freeze of last Interested. Freezing causes' cane to crack open and when the temperaturo-' rises ferments and is thers- valueless for sugar making. To' mate on Monday-night, BstlmHte of losses." The losses were; Wheelwright and maohino shop, csrbinet shop builrting, clothing factory, office, 51,200: laundry and" clothes, 5250; stationary engine room, J6.400; Ice laundry week and the of '-today the stato cyMem would have earned wuui, igu lactory, jaunory j-pcniLeutiAry Gy.gjem-wouiu nave earned machines, machine shop, i this year about 5750,000, said one of tho "one picket' house on walls. $160; penitentiary officials on 'Monday. Tha 'ture building and contents, ma- I sugar crop had beoii practically sold at chine shops end contents, mis cellaneouB, consisting of electrical equipment, tailor shop, shoe department, account removal of tollels, about Messrs.

Cabell and Tittle were prepar- to board a train for South Texas, in- 'tedlng to Join Mr. Robert W. Br.ahan. the tfclrd meriber of the hoard of prison commissioners, at tho Harlem farm on Tuesday for a ride over-the frozen cano fields, when the Tire broke out. Colonel Brahan arrived In Huntsvllle on M.onday night The commissioners seemed in nowise disheartened by tho misfortunes which have recently befallen the State Penitentiary system.

Chairman Cabell staled that while the recent freezing: of a large pait Of valuable cane crop and the fire today prfWnted a serious Eltuallon, they were In fairly good shnpq to dispose of Ihc convicts without sub- a good price, owing to the present high price of sugar, but the penlte.itlary officials now do not 'expect to bo able to deliver over half of the amount they expected two weeks ago. Tells Chnlnpma Cobell of Penitentiary of I'lnn io ReboiJd Tm. incflift(clj- Talk of Sl.cclal to The TCcTrt. Austin. nee.

several tek phonp conversations to- i Chairman Cflbcll of the luntlary cpmmlsslon. Governor Colquiu nuthorlr.ed the s'atoment that Mr. present plr.n Is to make arrangements for rc- vcv ji m.j t.unvjtus wiinout SUD- factories lit Huntsvillc pcnl- jectlng them to great discomforts or the teiitlary which wore destroyed by tiro system to any further monetary loss. 3Io today. The governor nsed eirphnsis In.

nor tlic other members the board saying that he wor.ld not call a special could say lust what would be done to- session of the legislature to consider tliu ward the dcctroysd bulldliips matter of i tho location of the some had susscstert Aus- i tin or Hotiiitnn. hut that he wouhl pro- I cced under the appropriation blP which him to create emergency ap- ha'd and riiiipment until a conference been iictd'wlth Governor Colquitt. More Men It Is very llxtly that nearly 200 additional men will be stationed ot Rusk as tljC crop has tteer. of, which will be about thirty days. Triton officials regard it as proprlatlong to meet juch rcqulrcr.ienu nnd vlthoat giving the thirty dr.y?'.

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