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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21
en- Ia Camara de Delegates
SESSION. DE AVER

A las menoS cuarto Sc constituye
la Camara en- session con 2r delegados.
Sc aprueba ell acta anterior sin
leerla.
La proxima conferencia respecto de
Juan Ponce de Leon, ser4 celebrada
ell lunes pr6ximo, segun informa ell Se-
nor Mu7ioz Rivera, ha acordado la CO.
mission especial tornado por ell "Spea-
ker" de la Camara, Ell propio sef1or
Muf1oz Rivera y doctor M. Zeno Gan
dfa.
A peticion del sef1or M atienzo Sc
trae discussion ell Proyecto n1mero
SO Escuela de Artes y O6cios. Pre-
senta algunas enmiendas Ell sefIor Ma
tienzo Cintron y son aprobadas 10 mis-
mo que Ell proyecto en- segunda lee
rura
FL "Spe aker" de6ende la aproha-
cion del c. B. IS y propone una en-
mienda, para asignar SIS. 900 al :tinsti-
tuto agrfcola" de Lares. Ell sefor Mu-
noz Rivera apoya la inclusion de los
S., 900 para Lajas y dice que los repu-
blicanos deben 6jarse en- que esta Ca
mara votando proyectos favorables y
justos para municipios repu blicanos
como Barros, Coamo y Lajas, repre-
senta a todo ell pals y cumpe con Ell
deber de protejer los intereses de to-
dos los compatriotas del pals, sin ex-
clusivismos. Discuten una enmienda
del sefor Conception y otra del sefIor
Tizol, y Sc aprueoa "de cemento 8 de
mamposteria' Aprobado ell proyecto.
Sc aprueban las enmiendas que ha -
hecho Ell Consejo al Proyecto n1mero
Io3.
Sc aprueba sin discussion ell Proyec
to n1mero 81.
Sc discute Ell Proyecto ndmero rso y
queda aprobado con enmiendas.
Sc aprueba las enmiendas al C. B.
"a, Presupuestos municipales supleto
rios y Sc fla ell IS en- vez del so por
ciento.
c. B. "a. "Actos lascivos con los nj
nos. Aprobado en- totalidad con ana
enmienda del senior Santoni y otra del
sefior Delgado.
Ell sefior Vivsldi solicito sc nombre
una comision para investigar los asun
tos de ferrocarriles que Sc olga al
senior Silva. Ell sefior Mufloz Rivera
explica que por culpa del Consejo Eje.
cutivo no pudo hacerse nada en- bien
del pats. Califica de escandaloso 10 que
ocurre y Sc muestra de acuerdo con
que Sc olga al sefior J. T. Silva. Ter
ian en- Ell debate los sefiores Zeno
Gambia y Santoni. y Sc acuerda que la
Comisi6n de Obras pdblicas oira en-
session al sefior Silva.
Ell delegado Vivaidi expresa que
en- la pasada reunion, de la Camara
nombrose una comisi6n Investigators
de ferrocarriles; que esa comisi6n Sc
encontr6 luego con que habia side
nombrado un experto cuya experien-
cia parece que culmin0 a su vez en- g
nombramiento de I'm hijo del experto
Que no Sc ha obtenido ventaja algu-
ma en- Ell servicio, que, por 10 tante
debe insistir la Camara en- Ell asunto
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21

dazal, ese barranco peligroso
que bloquea las entradas y sa-
lidas de San Juan.
En- arreglar ESQ que desdice,
no va de una capital de la i'm
portancia de la nuestra, sino del
ultimo villorio, deberia buscar
empleo Ia incansable, la abruma.
dora, la alarmante actividad de
nueStrOS tutOreS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21
Nota del dia

La congregation tiene ahora
un proyecto que sin duda lleva-
ia a Was de hecho, sin tomar
en- cuenta para NADIA las adver-
tencias oportunas y pertinentes
que esta recibiendo, en- un todo
contrarias al proposito redento-
riSta.
Sc trata de subir un POGO mas,
hasta ponerlos a nivel con un
muelle que han echado a perder
nuestros tutores, los Otros niue
lies de San Juan.
Es una genialidad que han
tenido, y mucho tememos que
resulten in1tiles cuantas indi-
caciones Sc les hagan en- el SEN
tido de que rectiflquen.
Personals entendidas en- la ma
terra dicen que nuestros tutores
han sufrido una equivocacion
muy perceptible, en- ell asunto
que nos OCupa.
ESQ nj nos sorprende, nj 10
encOntramos difiCil, tOda veZ
que las equivocaciones sufridas
a diario por nuestros tutores son
tales Y tantas que una mas, nj
nos llama la atenCion, nj a ma
die sorprenderia.
Son tan frecuentes las rectifi-
caciones de la obra que llevan a
cabo los redentoristas en- sus
ensayos experimentales de CO.
lonizaCion. que una mas en- la
interminable serie. no habria de
aumentar Ell descredito en- que
esta sumido Ell sistema de colo
nizacion que disfrutamos.
PerO nuestros tutOres son con.
furnaces en- un grado excessive.
De ellos no hay que esperar las
rectiflcacion es OpOrtunas, 10
cambios tempo que indican
una lealtad de prop6sito. aun
que ell procedimiento sea en-
OCasiones, erradO.
Les ha salido NAL un muelle,
dema siado alto. incomodo para
las operaciones del tratico, y 10
natural seria que 10 rebajasen
hasta ponerlo al nivel de los
otros, que 10 igualasen a los de-
mas. puesto que estan prestan-
do buenos servicios aquellos.
en- los cuales no ha puesto
sus manos pecadoras la congre-
gacion,
Lo natural, 10 logico 10 justo.
seria ESQ; pero no nos hag amos
iluslones, nj esperemos nada
razonable de nuestrOs tutores.
ST ha quedado NAL Ell niue
lie por ellos arreglado, trataran
de poner los otros igualmente
inservibles.
Va sc anuncia, con la natural
sorpresa de cuantos han tenido
conocimiento del proyecto, que
Ell muelle danado por la imperi-
cia, ha de servir demodelo para
que todos los otros sean refor
mados con arreglo al patron in
dicado.
Entire tanto, Ell transito Sc di-
flculta cada veZ mas por aque-
llos sitios, los dueflos de vehfcu-
los y de las mercancias que es
precise trasportar en- carros a
los almacenes, los articulos de
exportacion, los viajeros, todo
cuanto ha de pasar irremedia-
blemente por los sitios inmedia-
tos a los embarcaderos, CORE
los riesgos incontables conque
amaga a la seguridad indivi-
dual Y q la conservation de la
propiedad ese intransitable 10
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21
ANTECEDENTES

George Dixon (de nacionalidad es-
cocesa Y no italiana como dijimos
ayer) fue contratado por la marina
americana en- Norfolr. Va. (Escocial
para pyestar sus servicios como car
pintero abordo del buque "Abarenda !"
Dixon ten1a maloS antecedenteS
pues con anterioridad va habla CO.
metido otro crimen.
De caracter dfscolo y vengativo;
por Sus constantes faltas en- Ell ser :
vicio parece que fue reprendido varias
veces por ell desgraciado Official Wal
ter Weschert, al que villanamente
asesin6 en- Ell dfa de aver.
FUE PREMEDITADO
Hacen dlas, varios marineros We
MAN observando que Dixon no salfa
de la camara baja, y tambien pudie-
ron notar que Ell hacha'de su perte-
nencia habfa sido afilada en- tai forma
que parecla una navajo de afeitar.
Como en- 81 no Sc notaba ningdn
signo esterior que denotara sus pro-
positos, pronto Sc olvido 10 que al
principle cause extraf1eza entire sus
compafIeros.
MOMENTOS TRAGICOS
Aver q la una de la tarder y al
terminar sus servicios bajaba por la
escalerilla del Berlh dech Ell primer
Official Walter Weschert, cuando Di-
xon que estaba apostado al pie de
dicha escalera descargo sobre 81 I'm
terrible golpe de hacha en- la ingle
derecha, Ell desgraciado Walter Gallo
de bruces y Ell asesino Sc abalanzo
sobre el con Ell proposito de estran-
gularle.
A los gritos que Ell desgraciado Official
lanz6 acudio un marinero que estaba
en- Ell fveaste, pero no con la premu-
ra necesaria, por estar incomunicado
por una puerta este departamento y
tener que subir 4 cubierta.
Dixon al verlo, Sc levanto rapida-
mente cogiendo el hacha le dio al
cficial dos terribles golpes que lie
seccionaron la cabeza del tronco, sal
picando la sangre del desgracia Wal
ter a las paredes del departanento,
como hemoS tenido OCCASION de yer.
Inmediatamente de cometido el
crimen Dixon subi6 la escalera y pre-
sentandose al tercer Official; dnico
que habfa abordo, pues los demas
estaban en- terra, lie dijo con la mayor
sang-e fria y al tempo que le en-
tregaba ell arma homicida: "SefIor
Official, me constituyo en- prision; aca-
bo de matar al primer ofcial.'
Ell tercer Official Mr. Bortwick con
gran emocion ordeno Sc lie encerrase
en- I'm calabo dando inmediatam en-
te parte 4 la comandancia de marina
DE LOS RESTOS
DEL MUERTO A TERRA.
X Las autoridades de marina pasaron
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21

Cumplimiehto nuestro ofreci-
miento, hoy ampliamos detalles
del suceso de aver a bordo del
buque carbonero de la marina
de guerra americana Aba
renda >.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21
.SUCESO EN- IN BUQUE DE- GUERRA
Era premeditado = FL monento del
Crimen- Tres hachazos Tres
hu6rfanOS
SUBSCRIPTION PARA La VIUDA

abordo y procedieron al levantamien-
to del cadaver trasladandolo a tierTa.
Hoy Sc veri6car5 ell entierro del
cadaver, al que Sc tributaran los hO-
nores de ordenanza.
Aslstiran las dotaclones de los bu-
ques de guerra americanos y S. 5.
"Abarenda," captain Y es Morley
U. S. S. Nero" captain Kennedy y
ell U. S. S. "Brutoo." captain Nc Do
nald y una banda de mdsica.
Presidira ell duelo el comandante
de marina y ell captain del "Abaren-
da" del que era primer Official el
fnado.
uPOBRES HUERFANOSl!
Ell ofcial asesinado tenfa So affos y
deja SD viuda con tres hijos, Hele-
ma de seis af{os, Margarita de tres Y
Walter de uno.
Su esposa Mistrs Weschert, que a1n
no sabe la noticia. cueuta treinta
afios, esta embarazada y reside en-
Jersey City, N. Y.
Ell ASESINO SERA JUzGADO
EN- SAN JUAN
Segun nuestros informes. George
Dixon, asesino del Official Wescher,
sera juzgado por la Federal Court"
de San Juan.
Parece que Sc le impondra la pena
de muerte.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21
Ell ASESINO SERA JUZGADO
EN- SAN JUAN
SUBSCRIPTION A FAVOR
DE LA VIUDA

Abordo del "Abarenda" sc ha ini
ciado una subscription a favor de Ia
viuda y huerfanos del caballeroso of
cial vilmente asesinado en- Ell dfa de
aver; Ell preambulo dice asi:
"Nosotros los abajo firrnados, por
la presente contribufmos con la suma
que aparece junto nuestros NOM
bres. en- favor de la viuda y familia
de nuestro sacrifcado compafiero y
hermano Official del servicio Auxiliar
Naval de los Estados Unidos, w. K
Weschert, que fue vilmente asesinado
abordo del vapor carbonero america
no "Abarenda" por Ell carpintero del
mismo George Dixon"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-02-21

Total. .......$ 6o.oo
Los demas buques de la escuadIa,
ell Arsenal y la Estaci6n Naval, con-
tribuiran a aliviar la pena de la viuda
y huerfanos.
Hoy Sc lie comunicara la noticia 4
Mistrs Weschert.
Descanse en- paz ell caballeroso of
cial q quien todas las dotaciones tri-
butan los elogios que por sus exec
lentes cualidades merecfa.
FL pabellon permanece a media
asia en- los buques americauos.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06
WESTERN NEWS.

William j. Bryan delivered an ora
ton at Spencer, Nebraska, on Memo
rial Day.
Thomas and James Wycliff, the IA
nous Oklahoma outlaws, who have
been hunted by the officers of Okla
homa for thirteen years, have surren-
dered to the state authorities.
The Seattle PostIntelligencer, after
receiving reports from all points in the
North, estimates the gold output for
the coming season in Alaska at $780,
00U, 1000.
The Yaqui Indians have agreed to
sever their tribal relationship whole
10000 of them-Quit waging warfare,
anG settle down into peaceable law
abiding citizens of Mexico.
A syndicate of English and New York
capitalists IS considering the PROPOSE
ton of constructing an oil pipe line
from Lander, Wyoming, to Omaha. The
syndicate has extensive options on
lands in the oil fields south of Lander.
According to Charles B. Wilhelm.
secretary of the California state board
of pharmacy, opium smoking is increas-
ing in San Francisco and young men
and women of the smart set form not
incosiderable part of the growing army
of smokers.
John Mitchell, formerly president of
the United Mine Workers Of America,
has been seriously put to the fore as
candidate for the Democratic guber-
material nomination in Illinois, as the
result of a conference in which he
took part, together with Roger c. Sui
livan. John T. Connery and Fred w.
Block
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany, in connection with the opening
of its new line between Chicago, Birm-
ingham and Atlanta. has placed CON
tract for $1,000 tons of steel rails to
cost $1.456,000. The contract goes to
the Tennessee Iron & Coal Company
and is the largest order since the fl
nancial depression set in.
In holding that the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe railway was guilty of vio-
lating the twenty-eight- law, Fed
eral Judge Lewis said that a shipment
of sheep was consignment and not
a trainload and fined the railroad $500
for it's inhumanity to animals. Three
shipments of sheep were made from
Chama, New Mexico, to Prowers, Colo
rado.
The first division of the Atlantic
fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry, con
sisting of the Connecticut Kansas.
Vermont and Louisiana, returned to
San Francisco from Tacoma May 31st
and dropped anchors in Man O War
row by the side of the Maine. The
ships were accompanied by the hos
pital ship Relief The Minnesota also
came in later from Bremerton
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

At Rome, Italy. on May Goth, Leo
de la Grange a French aeroplanist,
made a flight of fraction less than
ten miles at the rate of 37.2 miles an
hour
1t has been announced at Honolulu
that Prof. Robert Koch, the famous
German bacteriologist, will soon pay a
visit to the leper settlement on the is
land of Molokai.
l. A. Gaver, aged twenty-eight, ar
rested on n charge of burglary, con
fessed to having robbed railway sta
tions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio.
Maine and California OF tickets worth
$4,000.
The Lusitania of the Cunard line ar
rived at Queenstown from New York
Monday. having broken her own rec
ord by two hours and fortythree min
utes, covering the distance of 2,942
knots in five days, four hours and thir-
ty minutes.
The Lorraine Dietrich automobile
finished the Paris-Moscow trip of g.
300 kilometres without stop in eigh-
ty-six hours. Sorrel and Rougierm,
who drove alternately. got great re-
ception. The feat was accomplished
despite bad weather.
Leon de la Grange, the French aero
pianist, made fifteen separate flights
at Rome, Italy, on the 2Sth ult. The
maximum distance covered was about
$500 feet at a height of six or seven
feet from the ground. This distance
was covered in siXty-four seconds.
1t rained all day in New York City
on Memorial Day. but nevertheless T.
900 gray haired veterans marched in
three parades. Secretary Taft made
an address at Grants tomb, but only
those who could get under shelter
heard him, as it rained hard.
There has been an epidemic of sui
cides in st. Petersburg that has last
ed for three months. The average
number of deaths has been eighty-five
a month and eighteen destroyed them
selves during the last week. Despond
ency has been the prevailing cause.
Five hundred American marines will
police 100 polling places in Panama at
the coming presidential election, the
first week in July. This is considered
necessary on account of revolutionary
Indications.
The gift of an additional 100000
to the Rockefeller institute in New
York City by John d. Rockefeller was
announced Memorial Day, after
meeting of the trustees of the insti-
tute. The money Is to be used for the
erection Of a new building near the
present institute. The gift makes a
total of $4,5O0.O00 given to the insti-
tute by Rockefeller.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06
Women and Home Life.

Chicago.-Women physicians took
a stand advocating the right of girls to
enter any profession or to engage in
any business in preference to becom-
ing wives and mothers at Mondays
session of the American Academy of
Medicine.
Several men physicians read papers
deploring the fact that so many
women unsexed themselves by forsak-
ing home life for industrial work and
asserted that the future of the race de-
pends upon the checking of this wide
spreading evil"
Then DR.. Helen C. Putnam Of Provi-
dence, r. l.. startled the audience by
declaring she is in favor of women S
suffrage. She said:
Every woman has the right to de-
velop her best faculties to become ed
ucated, and to enter business field
where she meets many men, so she
can select the father for her children
I favor establishing a study of home
making in the public schools of our
country"
DIR. Edward Jackson of Denver, Col
orado, asserted that conditions have
changed during the last hundred years.
and that women should be allowed to
change their habits and occupations.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06
Restoring Cliff Dwellings.

Denver-A Washington dispatch
says that Dr. ]. Walter Fewkes, pro
fessor of American ethnology of the
Smithsonian institution. has gone to
Mesa Verde national park, Mancos,
Colorado, to take charge of the eN
cavation and preservation of the fa-
nous cliff dwellings there.
His work for the present will be di-
rected towards a so-called spruce tree
house, which he will restore before at
tempting the preservation Of the greal
cliff palace. OF the spruce tree house
he expects to make fine show ruin,
visible from a point where everyone
who visits the ruins must camp be
fore he sees the cliff palace.
The cliff palace is not only the fin
est, but also the largest example of
cliff house architecture in the South
west. In the cliff palace DR.. Fewkes
plans to excavate all the rooms and
plazas to their floors, remove the ac-
cumulated debris. repair all the walls
that are in danger of falling, and put
the ruins in such condition that Wis
itors may walk through the courts and
rooms without obstruction, inspect
walls now buried in debris and appre-
ciate the scientific and educational i'm
portance of it all.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06

On the other hand, Canon Jephson,
q member of the Mosely commission,
which recently visited the United
States, controverts the statement of
Sir William Henry Preece that the
American boy is mentally two years
ahead Of the European boy Accord.
Ing to Canon Jephson the American
boys progress is retarded by the
American system of co-education and
the preponderance of American wo-
men teachers. This is rather hard on
the American schoolmarm. though we
have lately heard the same idea ex.
pressed on this side OF the water by
some Of our own educators. So, re-
marks the Boston Herald. the Jephson
utterance can scarcely be termed .
casus belli.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06

Small sympathy need be expended
on the New Workers. who were taken
in by fake pictures, which they ina
gined were works of art over which
old masters had labored, whereas they
were copies by art students. If a New
Yorker or anyone else desires to
spend his money for age rather than
for art let him do so, but if he admires
the pictures of the old masers for their
great beauty and superior merit.
where is the harm II he gets one of
the same kind, only more beautiful
and several hundred years fresher? =?
Indeed, we have long thought that the
printing presses should be started up,
so that everybody who desired them
could have the old masters. We do not
see why a line of old masters should
not be put on the market which would
make the originals look as if they had
been dragged from a second hand
store.
The Glenwood post., 1908-06-06
CONGRESS AND THE CAPITAL

The currency bill was forced
through the Senate during the closing
hours of Congress and was promptly
signed by the President.
Congress adjourned at midnight
Saturday, May Both. There were the
usual lively scenes in the house the
hour before adjournment.
Senator Borah is said to have ac-
copied Secretary Taft's invitation to
second his nomination at the Chicago
convention. He will secure a proxy
from one of the Idaho delegates to the
convention.
The Senate adopted conference re-
port on the omnibus public lands bill
containing a provision for the resur-
vey of some 200 townships in Rio Blan-
co and Cheyenne counties. Colorado.
1t provides for extensive resurveys in
Wyoming. AT the request of Senator
Guggenheim the Senate made provi-
sion for resurveying lands in Colorado
where lines were originally carelessly
drawn, and monuments were lost
through drifting sand and carelesa re-
moval of rock piles by settlers.
A bill relating to coal deposits
in Alaksa has been signed by the Pres
ident. Its principal provision includes
an attempt to prevent monopoly by re-
stricting holdings to 1850 acres of coal
lands, and providing a penalty of for
feiture of all holdings by persons in
dividually or in combination who get
possession of more than this number OF
acres. 1t also gives the government
the first claim on coal that may be
mined, thus guaranteeing fuel supply
for the navy.
After knocking at the door of Con-
gress for fifty-three years for recogni-
ton. the surviving officers and ep-
listed men of the Texas volunteers
won their long fight for pensions. by
the action of the House at the close of
the session in passing the Senate bill
making provision therefor. These men
were employed in the defense of the
frontier of Texas against Mexican
marauders and Indian depredations
from 1855 to 1860.
President Roosevelt has signed and
the Navy Department has forwarded
to Captains Richard wainwright, COM
manding the Second division. and Sea-
ton Schroeder, commanding the Fourth
division, respectively, of the Atlantic
fleet, commissions as acting rear ad-
mrals. This will give them rank in
consonance with their present duty
and permit them to wear the uniform
and fly the flag of rear admiral.
The coinage executed at the mints
OF the United States during May, 1908,
amounted to 800 .275, as follows:
Gold sl91s2,1zo; silver, $1,Os5.O00;
minor coins, $225,155. In addition.
l,29l,llO pieces were executed for the
Philippine government.
Former Senator James X. Jones o:
arkansas died at his residence Ill
Washington June 1st at the age of
sixty-nine years. He had been i'll only
a few hours. Senator Jones served
two terms in the United States Sen
ate and was chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee during both
of Bryan's campaigna