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DAILY EA' THE NUMBER (MEMBER ASSOCIATED PKMSJ AS THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 1919 JpLUME XXXIII EK "WUSIBOUCE CATHOLIC SEMINARY REPRESENTING THE PUBLIC I 6t' 1 HIM hUCill Kalb in 4 5 THE WEATHER a 410 013 Reds 040 0 000 001 BORROW INSTRUMENTS TO GIVE CONCERT IN PARK RIDAY EVENING of in BRITISH MINERS ARE PUSHING THEIR PUN NATIONALIZATION HOME ATER SERVICE ON BOARD TRANSPORT the the WHEAT NOW ARRIVING AT CHICAGO MARKET IS ULL WEEVILS ACTUALLY NOTION SHE WILL BEAT A ELEVEN Unitarian Minister Sa Little Evidences Serious Religious Re flection on Part Soldiers While Epi to rn OREIGNER LEAVE VIENNA Vienna October 9 All foreigners are leaving Vienna1 by official order Eight thousand from east Galicia have already departed and arrangement? are being made to increase the num ber of trains to expedite the exodus Tonight cloudy riday unsettled colder Men Made Spiritual by Expert ences the for Women of Local Club to A id in ag Day on Next Saturday 1 Before Railroad" Row Is More Than Cold New Trouble Arises Missouri Had Him Locked in Penitent tiary as Robber' Record of Bryan orm of Government as Giv en in Eagle A rticle Ex cites Comment in New York and New Jersey Publications Causing Requests for Information PROHIBIT LIGHTERS New York October Delivery freight by lighters to steamers New York port was prohibited today The order was1 issued by the railroad administration as the result of the strike which' entered its third day here today The Bryan' concert band has man aged to borrow enough instruments from the Baptist church and i from A and college to appear for i a concert riday night at 8:15 at the Carnegie library park Twenty pieces will be represented and the program will be largely popular music one or two classical selections being included however for the benefit of those of more cultivated taste Preparations for tag day are progressing satisfactorily and it is hoped to raise enough funds to put the band jn shapd to render a program without h'aving toborrow instruments The women of the Bryan club agreed yesterday to conduct the tagging of the residential part of the city in the interest of the Until The ladies agreed to the matter readily when it was presented to them and one of these present JIrs Mark rancis donated a cornet to the band Epidemic Is Attribute to Holding Grain in Wooden Elevators 200000 Members in An I Area of 61000 Square Miles Southwestern Universi ty Man Gives Lecture to Bryan Club oh "Europe Be fore the Great WarSays Sixteen Double Track Railways Led Out of Hunland to 'rance out of the box by the Reds in the first inning when they rang up 'four tallies James relieved him Schalk patching Eller and Rariden made up the Red battery 0 ID 0 0 THE CHARACTER AN HONEST MAN STEAMER IN DISTRESS Halifax1 October A wireless ap peal for aid from the American steam er Yhklok haS been heard by the radio station atd3aringtonN5vascotia The Yaklok is totally disabled and drifting The steamer Anacortez reported that she was about seventy miles from the Pmhnaitinnx Submitted bv All Groubs Show Eot 'Reaching Character of Remedies Suggested iL jut wimwnuuniivnHHs ijuuui uhu Would Arbitrate btryze Witnessed Thrilling At tack by German Sub narinesnShipsr John Patronellif has returned Bryan after 27 mbnths in the naval service 22 months of that time be imr scent on board the De 'transport service rar Patronella received ms discharge at Dallas on October 1 having at that time the rank of coxswain The DeKalb was formerly the Ger man raider Prince Ettel riederich In June 1 91 6 she put into Newport News Va after passing through a cordon of allied war ships and was interned by the United States She was later removed to the navy yard at rnuaei phia Upon the entry of the United States into the war the vessel was taken over by the government and renamed the DeKalb The ship was put into transport service and while doing duty it this branch Mr Patronella made seventeen trips aboard the DeKalb" The DeKalb took over the celebrated ifth Marines who later distinguished themselves at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Woods Twice while Patronella was on the vessel it was the object of attacks by submarines but on both occasions the DeKalb escaped During one of these attacks the Covington was struck by a torpedo meant the DeKalb and sunk at sea After the armistice the DeKalb was used for bringing home the sick and wounded soldiers Mr Patronella "has not decided as yet what line of business he will take up WILSON RESTS WELL WashrngtonOctober President Wilson had another good night and apparently showed further improve ment toddy it was said at the white house' 1 is making all plans (o take the big end of the score in Satur game having reserved a thous and seats in Gardner Park Dallas where the game is to be played This is the second time that these two teams have played The other game was played two years ago and resulted in a score of 77 to 0 for A and has Won both of her games defeating Burleson college and Wesley college at Dallas with ease Coach Driver is confident that A and Mxmen will have no trouble with the Methodists but is neglecting no loose ends in preparing for the game move has been undertaken partly in the interest of the Eskimos Their ordinary means of earning a living have been wrecked by Anglo Saxon competition The American govern ment started the industry with 1280 head of reindeer and at present I un derstand they have 200000 head not withstanding the fact that 20000 car casses are used for food annually 1000000 square miles of virgin country in the wonder fully watered Canadian Northland is available for this industry In a few years we could have millions of these valuable animals it quive to keep 50animals on a square mile of this land 1 reindeers probably would have to be imported from Norway They would cost about $75 each over' there and probably would cost the govern ment about $125 each when delivered on the grazing groinids A herd of 1000 would give uja good start for once in their new homq the cost of maintenance would be very low There would not be any barns! to build nor any hay to cultivate nor 'any woods to' be felled One mail edn look after 1000 Stefansson believes that northern Quebec Labrador northern Yukon 'territory and the country north of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta are all available for the Arctic ani mals Dallas Game Arouses Interest A mdng odist Students ffl 1 spect and conciliate the es 0 0 0 ES EXPLORER SAYS CANADA MUST IMPORT REINDEER AS AN IDEAL MEANS CUTTING Mineola I October Three aviators had been Idllb and four of the 62 originally entered had been put out of the running 'while the status of several others remained un Louisville October 9 Two for mer army chaplains now ministers oi Louisville churches have divided opin ions concerning ijeligiouli traits the American soldier The Rev Ernest Akin of the Unitarian church declares that of the men of the armv have done little serious relig ious while Rev Harris Mallinckrodt rectiff of Cavalry Epis copal church believes all the soldiers saw "greater in the war Rev first sermon after tak ing over the pulpit of the Unitarian church centered about religion of the soldier in which he said: "Most of the army men have done little serious thinking Many who at the front literally were scared did prayT butotermost? of themGod was for use in emergency only and their prayer was a sort of jn case of acci dent break the glass effort which has not been repeated since the "I do not believe the American sol dier knew i TiaiiiuLKi uuu in uiiq ui ms eviinuno not believe he feared death If he prayed he did so because habitually prayed and not because he was afraid to face God I think the personnel Of the army had a dis tinct and innate leaning toward the greater principles of religion I was the wreck at Gail rance when 26 men were killed and was with them during their last moments in the hos pitals The fortitude displayed con vinced me these men had lived as Christians and were not afraid to lake the last Jefferson tity Mo October At the request of Gov Hobby and of former Gov't Campbell of Texas Governor Gardner today pal rolled Allen Brown' former Texas ranger serving a fifteehyear sentence in the Missouri penitentiary for rob bery Brown was said to have had an ex cellent record while serving as'a ran ger He was parolled to Governor Campbell Chicago Octobcf'9 Wheat hand lers say there is a regular epidemic of weevil in the arriving now They believe that owing to shortage of 1 railroad cars preventing shipments the grain was held in old wooden ele vators long enough for the few weevils general present to increase) material ly containing weevil cannot be graded7 higher than and even then the buyers ask for 5 cents a bushel discount on all carloads which are rejected as too heavily infested with weevil THE SCORE BY INNINGS 010 0 There is no truth more thor oughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indis soluble union betweeri virtue and happiness between duty and advantage between the genuine maxims of qn honest' and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity i The consideration that hu iraa happiness''ah3 mJral duty LT AAnnAirarl "One of the inest achievement re ports coming to our attention" says an editorial note in the City Man ager Bulletin published by the City association in New York that published in the Daily Eagle of Bryan Tex August 26 1919 Re prints of it have been struck off and accompany Manager request for bids on bond is sue letter data will be found of value to any manager planning a bond Not only has the record of the city commission and management of Bryan attracted attention in New York but the accomplishments of Bryan the new charter were the subject of an article in the Newark Even ing jJJewsJrecently as result of which the city manager here is in receipt of the following request from that city: 'noticed recently in one of our local papers an interesting article on the system you have adopted in the conduct of your municipal affairs and would appreciate it very much if you could give me an outline of the sys tem you are working on and alsoVhat method you pursued in bringing it The letter is signed by John Drake ty when the ams 407 Mulberry street Newark I great transcontinental air raceqver the chief thing that at the 5400 mile course between Mineola tracted interest to said Man an(1 San rancisco was resumed ager Greer today the fact that three men yiied yesterday were tiie city has not raised its light and jjaj tt Crissey and Sergt Virgil power rates Nearly every other city Thomas who met almost instant death in the state has had to raise its rates in a crasji at Sait city and about 25 per cent during the I gergt Nevitt observer for Col wrote Mr Drake enclosing a I Gerald Brant whose plane crashed at copy of our charter and an account Deposit of our successful disposal of the bonds I and told him that Bryan was a live LEADER STILL wire town and that if he was interest 1 Chicago October 9 irst Lieu ed in such a place better eome to tenant Maynards leader in tha irans continued Mr Greer continental airplane race took the air As soon £3 the city has formally from here shortly after 7 this taken over the light plant a sliding 1 morning heading for Rock Island scale will be inaugurated under which I HI the large users will be given the ad vantage of a lo wer rate While no in 1 crease is contemplated it is not ex 1 pected that there will be a reduction of the ordinary rates for reduction in rates has wrecked many a municipally owned said Mr Greer I look at it this way: All the citizens of Bryan are owners of the plant but not all of them are users of its cur rent It is not right to tax all the citizens to pay for what only a part of them use lender private ownership a fair commercial rate is expected It seems to me that a like rate ought to obtain under municipal' ownership It is the only business like way to go about it The patrons of the plant pay for what they get under private ownership and I consider it but right that thqy pay for what they get now that the city is to own it Of course we want to be sure that everybody gets a fair rate understood" Bryan si total bonded debt is now $286000 of which sum $133000 is up on utilities (including the recent pur chase of the light and power plant) and this latter sum costs the taxpay ers nothing because the ultilities pay infnwic an1 cinVintr Aind nnt nf earnings Winnipeg Man October 9 Villi 1 jalmur Stefansson the noted Arctic 1 explorer who returned from the polar regions several months ago and who has spent the summer in the Canadian Rockies writing a book is returning to Ottawa to urge the federal govern ment to favorably consider his rec ommendation for reindeer and musk oxen ranches in the unsettled regions of northern Canada Stefansson spent several weeks in the northwest territory on his way to He holds that the coun try is perfectly adapted to the reindeer and musk oxen industry and declares that the government not only can use this plan to open this territory to set tlement but tiiat it can put reindeer meat on the market and help reduce the high cost of living Much of the unrest in Canada has officially been charged to soaring prices for neces sities particularly food and clothing an old the tale of the reindeer in said Stefansson upon his arrival here from ake Louise packers often boast that they can every part of the frog including the squeal WhyLapland ers had this idea a thousand years ago The reindeer nrovides them with food fuel clothing household materials and implements fjr hunting United States government has already recognized the industry and is importing reindeers to Alaska This agents coming to the Aransas Pass district seeking laborers for other sections will be de tained and put to work accord ing to a telegram to Governor Hobby from General Wolters now in the devastated area bi San Antonio October 9 With theeginning of the drive nearly thtee 'eeks off subscnntions amounting to nnroximately $4000 have been re ceived by Rt Rev A Drossaerts iishon of the San Antonio diocese 01 he Catholic church toward San An quota of $40000 in the (diocesan campaign for $1000000 to build an ec clesiastical seminaryfchere for thetraining of The active canvass wi an vatnoiics tn the diocese will bsgin October 27 md continue for a week Bishop Dros laerts said Indications are that the desired amount will be raised within hat time as the diocese has been di vided into districts and an organiza ion perfected in each In the San Antomofc diocese wnicnovers an area of approximately 61 DOO square miles there are about 200 00 Catholics Bishop Drossaerts said Sox 'At the end of the eighth inning the bcore in thfe game between Chicago and on the Chicago dia Williams for Ctucago was khociwu 2 SHOT NEAR PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh October 9 In a clash between negro workmen and foreign bom strikers at Donora today two men were shot and wounded and a number injured The crowd was scat tered by the state police without se rious casualties milTEH KILLED III BIG IS BLSIILT E1LLS 1 4 Coast to Coast Contest Marked by atalities irst Day Num ber of liers Not Heard rom I wo acers Rescued After WteiBliliHiil' I' Tumbling Into Lake ErieN ear Ashtabula beeeeebebeeeieee mEUPASP ELL INTO LAKE Ashtabula October 9 Airplane' No 45 in the transcontinental air race fell into Lake (Erie east of here this morning The two occupants were rescued and an attempt isbeing made to salvage the plane REACHES IOWA Des Moines la October 9 Lieu tenant Maynard landed here at 10:55 thii morning Omaha October 9 Lieutenant Maynard leading in tha transcon tinental derby arrived here at 12:48 today making the trip from Des Moines 118 miles in an hour and 14 minutes EE are inseparably connected should prompt men to promote 4 ths nrocress of the former by El inmlrntiny 'the practice of the El latter Without virtue and without integrity the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplish ments can never gain the re teem of the truly valuable part of mankind One should always possess1 nri'l Anniich to maintain that most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man i IS BEEDOBI9DB J3JD ID S) 1 rx Wichita alls October ire Hard Words' Led toDif A Started when lightning struck an if oil tank yesterday and destroyed ficulty Ending in I part of the new town of ine of $50 I er City in th Burkburnett oil Upin pleading guilty toaggravat ed assault and paying a fine' of fif 1 (t0UtSL comnosed of 11 xv I the town which is composed or assault with the intent to murder the ob State dismissing these counts CONSTITUTION BAR The case arose softie months ago as Austin October There is no pro Ute result of a cow being staked out vision in the Texas constitution which across a road The cow belonged to a I prohibits Corpus Christi frotn bor city commissioner and Wyatt was rowing money from the federal gov poundmaster? Ir( pursuance of what ernment for reconstruction purposes his lawful duty in the the attorney department told matter he took up the cow and in Representative Carlos Bee at Wash carcerated her in the city pound jngton today The question over The city commissioner sent a man a yj proposing a five million dollar down to obtain the release of the am to the stricken city mal and Joe Howard who was in 1 the employ of the commissioner vol 1 unteered to got It is said that How I JAPS MUST CO OPERATE ard was Aggrieved over the action of Tokio October Japanese foree the poundmaster in having taken up in eastern Siberia have been ordered an animal belonging to a relative of to co operate effectively with Amer rv iti I nt the ODeration 01 tuO rlOWUru nu ulal VSUIIIO viiducu i maesilf an uncomplimentary nature following trans Sibenan railroad as the result which a rock or two was shied at ot strong represeumuuiu Wyatt and he turned on Howard with ted States government to Japan 1 he a pistol inflicting a flesh yround which American government claimed that in did not turn out to be serious sections guarded by the Japanese A nrivate prosecutor was employed troops we lives auu in iho case against Wyatt Americans are inadequately proteexea OHP WHN MI1I1UL BUVtllVV disabled ship and was proceeding to stood to kA 7 I I A ws taW nisf her reuei MAYNARD LEADING ALL Mineola October 9 Lieutenant Maynard led all other aviators in the distance covered flying from Chicago to Des Moines this morning Thirty of the 48 machines leaving here arriv ed at Buffalo today HEAVY DOWNPOUR ALL THAT SAVES LAMING nil Tnufu ronu fide COMMISSIONER'S COW UIL AND POUNDMAN'S GON i ut ovuviny nuw i PROMINENT IN TRIAL sandDollars In his lecture yesterday afternoon the Bryan club on i "Europe Before the Great Moore of Southwestern university 'showed Germany's1 in the war and briefly traced the rise of the modern republic Mr Moore began ywith the ancient imperialism which was "striving to prove that there was room for only 'one great and showed how center of power shifted as one people after another gained supremacy until the old idea reached its culmination in Greece and Rome iL Am LC lilw 1 ML jl vmv pires" said Mr Moore spirit of nationality developed and we follow the nation under its royal houses throughSpainranceand England i until we produly point to our own great country as the outgrowth of all that is best in the nation political psychology of the Slav was exliausted in the village com 1 mune of the Celt in faithfulness to his chief of the Magyar in loyalty to tthe individual' leader of the Latin in the formation of a great empire which afforded protection against the invad er but failed to protect the right of the individual of the German in the of the principal of feder atlon which not only protected against the invader but also maintained local self government and which ia best i exemplified in the United States i "Three men in Germany overthrew this great principle and stifled it in Prussianism rederick the Great Bismarck and William the Second It was the last who realizing that the i economic problem is the foundation of all life undertook the building of such an intricate system of depots and Inroads as to make Germany econ omically independent observed the strategctic value of the railroad in both the Boer and the Russo Japanese wars he had by J'S 14 built sixteen double track toward rance with nineteen places for crossing the Rhine besides persuaxling Belgium to tunnel a moun tain on its boundary and gaining the right of way through Holland the ambitious line from Con stantinople to the Persian gulf sealed by a blasphemous agreement with Turkey laid England open to attack through' both Egypt and India and promised the consummation of a fifty i year plan to thwart the British At the same time plans for an enormous were put' under way the year 1914 precipitated things before all was ready The Panama canal was nearing completion the English had conquered the Boere in a surprising way the rench had gained control of large territory in West Africa and it became necessary for Germany to strike in 4 maintain control of the railroads MrNDEZ IS DEAD New York October 9 Carlos Melendez a former president of the republic of Salvador died hcreyester day it became known today ASKED TO LOOK TOR MEN St 'Louia October The Canadian government1 through the local British consul was today requested to begin search for Captain Dammann and Lieutenant Verheyden of the balloon who have no been heard from since the balloon race started ten days ago The flyers are believ ed to be lost in Canadian Wilds They carried provisions sufficient for three days I 1 Ldndon October 9 With the coun try not fully recovered from the ef fects of the railroad strike the Brit ish miners take the stage today when the deputation will call on Premier Lloyd George to press its demand for the complete nationalizstionCof the mines If Lloyd George reinterates his de cision today and refuses to accept nationalization and it is Assumed that he will a special trades union congress will be convened to decide the action to be taken to compel ac quiescence APPEAL TAX CASE Austin October 9 The case of Hamilton vs Lee Davis the Mc Lennan county tax collector which in volves the constitutionality of the statute granting women the privilege of voting in primaries has been filed on' appeal in the third court of civil appeals here today Hamilton seeks to prevent the tax collector from is suing poll tax receipts to women TROUBLES Navasota October A motion di reeling the city attorney to investigate at once procedure for cancellation of 1 the franchise held by' the light and water company or legal method relate 1 ing to securing service was adopted at the regular montniy session ox uia city council This motion followed de rrunid presented by the attorneys of the franchise holders that the city pre pare to readjust service rates as pro vided for at the end of each five ear period It was alleged that Navasota has received unsatisfactory service for more than a year HSEBBEBBSKEB eTe! BE 0 WISHED TO DRAW 0 LABOR AWAY BUT S' ARE PUT TO S' Austin Octyber 9 Labor ill 0 Washington October An imme diate industrial truce to continue three months the creation of an arbitration 1 board by the president and congress and the immediate arbitration of the nation wide steel strike were among proposals made today at the indus trial conference here The first two propositions were presented by representatives of the public and 'last by the labor group Bernard Baruch chairman of public group made the proposal the industrial truce while Samuel Gompers chairman of the labor group proposed the arbitration of thefiteel strike plan contemplated the immediate return of the steel strikers pending the outcome of efforts to arbitrate the dispute 1 ii The proposed permanent arbitration board was urged by Gavin McNab of San rancisco ana provides that'all living ex presidents shall be members The Gompers board for the arbitra tion of the steel strike would be com posed of six members two appointed by each group in the conference' cap ital labor and the public HOBBY AND CAMPREU OBTAIN RELEASEOR TEXAS RANGERRROWN DGEDMIiPllfCDMKOISM OB WILD CMOL 1STDWUMDID MBOSDMS TODDDBOrSIIT I' I I I I I I 14 VG a i kA IL 1 I 1 I I I i a I'' 5 jam jli'gi i 4 4 fl te 3 i wwa Bl "31b JO 1 8SQQBSaaBBBSBBK I SiSQ filial ws nfir TTr? imitwirier nrz iira'Wa uTwmTnriri 1 I 1 I.

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