El Paso Herald from El Paso, Texas • Page 1

-MEMBER- Associated Press WENT Y-N IN TH YE Ali EL PASO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 13, 1909. Is Desirous of Showing Ei Paso Business Men a Rich Agricultural Country. FRUIT GROWERS TO ORGANIZE Plans Aid to City of Substantial Buildings With Many Industries (By George H. Clements.) Pecos, an enthusiastic mass meeting held in the rooms of the Commercial club a bonus of $35,000 in aid of the Pecos, Toyah yal- ley Great Southwestern railroad was unanimously voted and at once subscribed. The balance of the $70,000 asked for by the promoters of the new line was already subscribed by those in the Toyah creek district, through the heart of which the proposed road will run, throwing open 200.000 acres of the finest farming land in west Texas, most of it irrigable.

Construction Work Soon. M. 1,. Swinehart, promoter of the proposed line, left Pecos Tuesday' morning for the east, where he will meet his associates, organize his company and get ready to build. To a Herald man he said before leaving that he was confident the work of construction would be begun on or before March 1, and that the line would be open for traffic long before June 1.

1910, the date set in his contract for completion. lias already told the proposed new line, so far as plans are perfected at present, will run from Pecos to Balmorhea, the new town in the Toyah creek valley about 40 miles southwest of Pecos. How Town as Named. It might be well here to explain that the southern terminal of the line. Balmorhea.

gets its peculiar, though euphonious name through the borrowing and putting together the first syllables of the names of three of the largest land owners in the Bal-com, Mo-rrow and Rhea, and is pronounccd as though spelled Though but a few months old the new town has about 200 inhabitants and has a mercantile establishment that a business with cattlemen and farmers in the Toyah creek valley last year of upwards of $60,000. The Pecos terminal of the new line will be directly across the Texas Pacific tracks from the terminals of the Pecos Valley Northern (Santa Fe system) lino, a circumstance which leads some to believe the new line is being built by Santa Fe interests, while others fondle the idea that it will in the end be found to be the connecting link between the Mexican and American lines already built of the Kansas City, Mexico Orient (Stillwell) line. Concert Hand. At the mass meeting Monday when the "ailroad matter was out of the way the new Pecos City band, organized six weeks ago, made its first public appearance and under leadership of its instructor. M.

L. Wells, serenaded the assembled citizens, rendering a number of selections, including the national anthem, and the Pecos City march, composed for the. occasion, very creditably. Fruit Growers to Orjsaniwe. Before breaking up J.

H. Tom urged the citizens, of Pecos to call a meeting of the fruit growers of west Texas from Abilene and Del Rio to El Paso and of the Pecos valley as far (Continued on Page Ten.) Gas Pipes Break and People Are Without Fuel For Heat or Cooking. COLD SPELL IS BREAKING A BIT Kansas City, Jan. weather prevailed in western Missorui, Kansas and Oklahoma today. During the fall of snow, some delay was experienced with traffic and on the ranges neavy loss to cattle is reported.

Thirty thousand people in Muskogee, Wagoner and Inola, Oklahoma, are without fire today as a result of a breakdown of the gas machine. They depend, in a great measure, on natural gas for heating: and lighting and there is mjch suffering in consequneec of the accident. SLEIGHiXG POSSIBLE VICINITY OF DEMSON, Denison, Texas, Jan. fall of snow last night and this morning was the heaviest in 14 years. There are five inches on a dead level and sleighing is good.

The temperature is 52 above today. MAN FROZEN TO DEATH IN HOUSTON. Houston, Texas, Jan. Watson, keeper of a Santa Fe watch tower in this city, was found frozen to death today his tower. It is believed he died during Monday blizzard.

He had held his position 12 years. A watch and $65 were found in his pockets. TEXAS RAILROADS TIED I BY THE COLD. Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. railroads entering this city today report crippled service on account of the sleet and snow over the southwest.

Several trains are snowbound, several derailed and the schedules demoralized. The Katy flyer was held seven hours by a drift in northern Oklahoma. A T. P. engine jumped the track on a bride near Cisco and delajed traffic five hours.

It will be two days until normal conditions are resumed. TRAINS COLLIDE BLINDING SNOWSTORM. Edwardsvilie, 111., Jan. blinding snowstorm caused a collision between a passenger train and a freight on tlw Wabash railroad near here today. The egineer of the passenger train was severely injured and all the passengers bruised.

WHOLE CO TRY TO BE ENVELOPED OLD. Washington. D. Jan. the weather bureau describes as an extensive barometric disturbance covers the country from the Rocky mountains westward and is headed east, attended by widespread snows.

The storm probably will jyach the Atlantic states by Thursday. The degree of cold to follow the disturbance canot be determined, but it probably will be colder Thursday in the midde plateau. Thursday night and Friday in the plains states. Saturday in the central valleys and upper lake region and Sunday in the middle Atlantic stults and New England. Snow will probably continue Friday and Saturday.

Minefield. W. crows worked Incessantly all at Lick Branch coal mine, the scene of explosion, anti at oeloek today 1 1(1 bodies had been recovered. There is no estimate of the dead, the number rangrlns; from to 100. JT 4 8 Lfll CTAD a I Wanders Into Guadalupe Mountains With the Temperature at Zero and Snow Falling, and Becomes Lost in the Parties Hunting For Him Near Queen, N.

M. Carlsbad, Jan. 13 ----A iviesspnger brought word (o this city late last evening from V. about 110 miles southwest of Carlsbad, that Rev. Y.

T. Tracy, father of T. G. Tracy, of this city, was lost in the Guadalupe mountains. No details were givt'n further than that he attempted to from the residence of Mr.

Gordon to that of W. F. Cochran, distance of about three was overtaken by darkness and lost his way. A searching party had failed to find ham at 5 oeloek yesterday morning on account of the severity of the storm, with the thermometer near zero and little hope cntertalned of his safety. Rev.

Mr. Tracy held the rectorship cff one of the leading Episcopal churches iu Brooklyn, N. and is past years of avre. He been visiting his sou in this city for several weeks and only about a week npro went to Queen to perform the marriage eeremonv for a jounfi couple at that place. searching party left Carlsbad about 10:30 last night for Queen.

In Appointment, of Committees, Speaker Helps the Cause Considerably. NAMES PRO. COMMITTEE Austin, Jan. secured its first victory today when speaker Kennedy, of the 31st house appointed the committee on constitution and amendments. This committee, it is believed, will carry the submission of the prohibition amendment through without much fight.

Whoever drafts the measure, the committee will see that its worded correctly and reported favorably. Hill, of Denton, is chairman, and Hill is avowedly a strong Kennedy supporter and submission supporter. The others on the committe are Mason, Hamilton, of Childress; Standifcr, of Harris; Mum- sne, Crocket, of Mitchell; Anderson, Buchanan, Barrett, Branch, Craven. Dalby, of Fant; Fuolrney, Gaines, Lee. Porter, Robertson, of Erath; Terrell, of Bexas, and 'Turner.

The house elected the following officers today: James Robertson, of Leon, journal clerk; Tilden Childs, of Freestone, asistant journal clerk; Sebe Newman, of Ellis, sergeant at arms; Cnarles P. Burkes, assistant sergeant at arms; C. P. Basford, of Travis, reading clerk; C. D.

Mills, of Atascosa, assistant reading clerk. Bob Barker, of San Antonio, was elected chief clerk yesterday. Fifty-seven members of the house today say they are instructed to oppose submission, which offsets the strength of the pros on the constitutional committee to some extent. Eleven senators say they nre instructed against submission. It is claimed that many members can be won over by the submissionists.

Senators as Attorneys. Senator HoLsey. of Corsicana, today claims he has 3 6 votes assured on the bill to it a felony for U. S. senators or representatives to be attorneys for public corporations.

Eight holdover senators favor the measure. He says some of friends now favor it as altered so it wTill not reflect upon Bailey. PLENTY OF WATER. The snowfall bulletin for the Rio Grande watershed shows that on the mountains in New Mexico and Colorado the fall of snow has been heavier than for years, which promises plenty of water in the spring for the irrigation ditches. ROBBERS GAG AN AGED TRIO Rob Them of Their Jewelrv, 7 After Beating Them Fearfully.

Pittsburg, Jan. gagging and assaulting Solomon Loughncr, SO years old, and his two sisters, both of whom are between 70 and SO years old, six masked robbers last night ransacked the house, secured about $1500 casn, ate supper and disappeared. The lived on an isolated farm midway between Jeanett and Harrison City. The aged brother and sisters are in a serious condition from the treatment. Loughner and sisters were seated at a table eating supper when the men broke in.

They screamed and were given hard blows in the face, then bound and gagged. The men forced their aged victims to reveal the hiding place of their money by threatening to set fire to the house. DENEEN DECLARED THE GOVERNOR Deadlock in Illinois Legislature Broken The Recount Made. Springfield, 111., Jan. deadlock in the Illinois legislature over the canvass of the vote on state officers was broken today when the senators and house of representatives met to witness the canvassing of the returns.

At the conclusion of the recount, In accordance with published returns, the Republican candidates were declared elected as follows: Governor, Chas. S. Deenen; lieutenant governor. John Oglesby; secretary of state James A. Rose.

TEXAS CATTLEMEN ARE FIGHTIMJ THE RAILROADS. Washington, D. Jan. S. H.

Cowan, attorney for the Texas Cattle association, is here preparing a brief for the federal supreme court in the Chicago stockyards' terminal case, in which the railroads are appealing for a ruling ordering a reduction of terminal charges. The interstate commission has fixed reduced rates. LITTLE GIRL IS FATALLY SITTING BY FIRE. Ft. Worth, Texas.

Jan. Pitts, aged 14. was fatally burned here at her home today. She was sitting in front of a stove when the flames leaped to her clothing igniting her dress. Efforts to save her life were unavailing and now she is dying.

TEXAS COI RTS. Supreme Court. Austin. Jan. court proceedings today: Motion G.

N. vs. Vallejo, from Bexar county. Applications Pacific vs. Huber, from Willie vs.

Lone Star company, from Bexar; Sea vs. Cockrell, from Dallas. Fourth Court of Appeals. San Antonio, fourth court of appeals today disposed of the following El Paso cases: B. Walker vs.

El Paso Electric railway, reversed and remanded. G. H. S. A.

railway vs. S. T. Harper, motion for rehearing overruled. PRICE FIVE CENTS Dentist, in Whose Room the Fire Starts from Oil Stove, Is Injured.

CLOSE CALL FOR THE OTHER GUESTS Oklahoma Fire the Worst in the History of the Town. Other Blazes. 6YRACU5C WHERE REFUGEES AIDED BV Shocks Are Felt in Several Cities, and People Are Panic Damage. Florence, Italy, Jan. earthquake shocks were recorded here this morning at intervals of two seconds.

People rushed from their houses In a panic, fearing a repetition of the Messina, Reggio and Calabria disasters. No damage was done. Venice, Italy, Jan. earthquake shocks were experienced here this morning. The people rushed from their houses and gathered in the open squares.

No damage was done. Milan, Italy. Jan. earthquake was felt here this morning, causing considerable alarm. The people rushed from their houses and gathered in Cathedral square.

No damage was done. Rome, Italy, Jan. slight earthquake was experienced at an early hour this morhing throughout Lombardv- ickventia and Tuscany. No damage was done and no one was injured, but. owing to the general uneasiness resulting from recent visitations in Calabria.

and Sicily, the people for the moment were thrown into a condition bordering on panic. According to the record of the observatories, tne center of the disturbance was near Lelin- baeh, Saxony. TILLMAN RANTING AGAINST BONAPARTE Wants to Know Why Action Has Not Been Taken in Oregon Timber Cases. Washington. D.

Jan. before going into the senate chamber today senatir Tillman called attorney general Bonaparte on the telephone and asked whether he had brought suit against the Southern Oregon company which holds the land grants for military roads from Roseburg to Coos bay. This is the land comprising over 2.000,000 acres of which Tillman one time contemplated purchasing at per acre, about 14(H) acres for himself, members of his famt.y and others. The attorney general was not able to answer offhand whether suit was brought or not and Tillman asked if he could not at oncc call up some clerk and ascertain what could be done. After some delay Bonaparte told Tillman that he would send him a note on the matter.

Tillman insisted that be would like to have an answer at the earliest practicable moment. THE mm 8 1 fi 1 Muskogee, out here this morning in the Saratoga restaurant, on Third street, and spread to several adjoining blocks. Several roomers had narrow but it is believed that no lives were The water pressure was inadequate and the firemen worked at a disadvantage. The fire was not under control until 11 oeloek, after burning several hours. The fire department was practically helpless and the fire burned itsflf out, after it had destroyed almost an entire square.

It was the most disastrous fire in the history of Muskogee. The block from Broadway to Okmulgee street is in ruins. The water supply was insufficient. The German and Carolina buildings were among those destroyed. The total fire loss, it is now known, will reach 5400,000.

The gas supply was shut off early today. necessitating hurried makeshifts in the business secti-wi. The blaze originated in the explosion of a gasoline tank in the restaurant and spread rapidly. The destruction of the entire city was threatened. 1 M1 esJ I leJ CLOSE VI.L FOR SLEEPING PERSONS 3 A It STOW FIRE.

Barstow, Jan. dwelling of Mrs. Irvine, with all its contents, was destroyed by fire last night through the explosion of a coal oil heater in a room occupied by Dr. Ernest W. McKenzie, a Dr.

McKenzie, who recently arrived in town, was as.leep when the stove exploded and he was seriously burned I about the head, face and upper portion of the body. He was rescued with dif- i ficult.v. Three other lodgers escaped with their lives, but lost most of their ef- fects. The loss is $3500 and the insur- a nee is $1700. Blaze Breaks Out in the Basement of the Building and Loss on the Stock Is Almost Household Goods Are Also Destroyed A Rooming House Above Damaged by the Resulting Smoke.

RESIDENCE Bl AT HAL- LETTSVlLLEi WATER FROZEN. I Hallettsville, Jan. late last night destroyed the residence of Otto Rosenberg, a wealthy citizen. The family narrowly escaped death in the flames. Frozen hydrants baffled the firemen.

The loss is $12,000. Fire Holland was called on tlie phone tins afternoon and asked if lie was at the fire. 1 was up on the north side and hear the alarm. I wish 1 had been there. Things would have been STONE THAT CAN BE CUT WITH KNIFE Then It Hardens and Stays Is Found iu Arizona.

Washington, D. Jan. Garfield, of the interior department, is preparing for a double experiment in the San Carlos indian reservation in Arizona. A peculiar stone called or is found on the reservation. When first removed from the quarries it can be cut with a knife, but later becomes very hard.

It is as light as wood and in great demand in the vicinity of the reservation for building purposes. The secretary has asked congress to set aside three sections, or about 2uuO acres within the reservation in which the stone is found, for the use of the indians. He thus expects to experiment with the stone itself and also ascertain whether it is possible to get the indians to work developing and demonstrating its usefulness for building purposes. tents, them "OOil in tin CORTELYOU NOT TO HEAD GAS COMPANY New York, Jan. from Washington that George B.

Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, is to become president of the Consolidated Gas company, lire said to be without foundation by officials of the latter company. Frank A. Vanderlip, the banker and a director of the company, said emphatically that no such offer had been made so far as he knew. Mr. Cortelyou, who is now at Washington, refuses cither to confirm or deny the report and not discuss the subject at all.

OTTON TO MAKE MAM NEW IMPROVEMENTS. Ft. Worth. Jan. Cotton Belt railroad announced today that the work of putting in in improvements will start immediately.

Tlie road will build a new freight station and tracks and increase the equipment. The most disastrous fire K1 Paso lias had since the destruction of the Thorne building last June occurred Tuesday evening when the interior of the 1). M. Payne commission house on South EI Paso street was burned, and the Southern hotel, on the second floor of the building, was damaged by smoke and water. The loss on the huid ding and on- including the damage to the Sou- hotel furniture an I the household of 1).

M. Payne that were stored basement of the building, is estimated at $15,000. The insurance on the building and contents amounted to $22.100. cf which $G100 was on the stock and fixtures of the commission house, $14.000 on the building. $1500 on he furniture of the Southern hotel, and $500 on the Payne furniture.

D. M. Payne, manager of the commission company, stated this morning that as near as lie could estimate the lo-s the fixtures and stock, it would amount to between $K000 and $9000. He it is impossible for him to estimate his loss, as he has not yet had a chanco to examine his accounts, and an inventory had not been taken for the past year. The fire was of unknown origin, being first discovered by Mr.

Payne when the smoke broke out from the south side of the room near the elevator, lb' had passed through the building i the back end a short time before and had noticed nothing wrong, but upon his return to the front of the building smoke was coming from the basement, and, before an alarm could be sounded, the entire room was filled with dense, black smoke. The basement was filled with two ears of pine from which the crates are made, and this burned rapidly, making a heavy cloud of smoke and a hot. rapidly spreading fire. Soon after the arrival of the Central station fire department a general alarm was sounded at 'The entire city department responded and t'ouyht the flames for the next two hours before it could be controlled. A Hard Fire.

It was a mean fire to light an 1 the firemen were without a chief. First assistant Sullivan was in charge of the department. with the assistance of a number of others who seemed to think that they had been appointed chief pro tem. Despite the fact, however, that a number don't know where chief Holland was. him around there, and know whether lie is out of the city or net.

Xone of- the men were overcome by smoke, although wo had to make frequent changes of men handling the leads of hose. It was about 10 oeloek before the department left the place, and we then left two men with a lead of hose to watch that it did not break out Lack of Discipline. Pile greatest criticism offered at the fire by spectators was the lack of direction an 1 the absence of a chief capable of handling his men properly. At one time Sullivan called a bunch of men to come to a certain place and pour water into the cellar. K.

Koglineior. who was standing by watching things, clad in a white slicker, cap and lantern, called back: do good where dey and the men paid no attention to the acting chief. In another instance two firemen came to blows over who was in authorvty. and a policeman had to stop the fight and send them bade to their work. and certainly need a fire chief who knows the fire fighting game and can handle were the principal expressions heard among, spectators at the fire, together with on what the fire departments in other cities wool! have done.

Talk about discipline in the police department they are soldiers in discipline compared to the fire said a man who watched the work. Spreads Rapidly. The fire spread rapidly across the base- POLICEMEN SAVE LIFE She Jumps From Window. Tliov Break Fall With Bodies. New Haven.

Jan. a fire that destroyed the residence of Samuel Higgins, general manager of the York. New Haven and Hartford railroad, here early today, his mother lost her life, his motherinlaw, Mrs. E. Corbin, was probacy fatally hurt, and his wife, his daughter, Isabel, his young son and Mr.

himself, barely escaped death by jumping from a second story window. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins suffered broken legs and Mr. Higgins was also badly bruised.

A young son. Harold, escaped without injury. A negro cook jumped from a third story window, but wrs saved from serious injury by two policemen. who interposed their bodies ani broke the fall. The cause of the fire is said to have been an overheated furnace.

NEW HEAD FOR HARVARD COLLEGE (Continued on page two.) Boston. Jan. corporation of Harvard college today sent to the overseers of the college the name of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, professor of the science of government, as their choice as president of the college to succeed president Chas. W. Eliot.

Before th i election is complete the overseers must ratify the nomination. Seven days must elapse before this action is taken. As the sentiment of Harvard officials been strongly in favor of Lowell from the time of the announcement of resignation, it is believed the overseers will ratify selection. will be held here early in February of I frutt jjronorx west of Viiloue and iu "Sew Mexico for the pur of ganising I'exas and llexieo Fruit association. roui lu ont citizens of the state terrltorv attend.

of the volunteers took it upon fhemst to try to run things, the blaze was fought, and both the paid members the volunteers worked hard. Assistant chief Sullivan morning: was a mighty hard to fight, as cellar fires always an well and this fire Houston. flrnwley shot and killed a masked bur- iilar at hOi home thin morning in the suburbs. Tiut robber was junt climhinpr throuKh a window. cold draft awakened who fired, the bullet entering the Intruder over the heart..