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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-22
Many Shifts in Personnel of
Districts Officers.
NEW POSITIONS CREATED
Several Increases and Some Dis
missals Also Effective.
LARGE ENGINEERING PROJECTS
Bridges. Roads, Schools and Parks
to Be Constructed-Sixtee
New Teachers.

Changes in the District government,
large. new engineering projects. changes
In salaries and titles. few reductions
and entirely new features of municipal
work will he seen in a few days for the
appropriation act which goes into effect
July has provided for enough new work
to keep many an official busy for a long
time to come.
The big change pending at the jail and
workhouse IS but a small part of the gen.
eral effect of the new appropriation act
About one-third of the employees of the
combined jail ard workhouse will have TO
be dropped. Supt. Zinkhan, now Of the
Washington Asylum. including the work
house. will July | become superintendent
Of the Washington Asylum and Jail.
Warden Mckee will leave thte service en-
tirely. A report with recommendations
for dismissals will be given to the Com
miss oners within a few days.
Several Receive Increases.
While some are being dismissed. several
others in the District service will receive
increases of salary July I. Marion Har-
grove, property clerk will become pur-
chasing officer. merely a change of title,
but also will receive an increase from
81. 500 to $3.50. Morris Hacker. inspector
of buildings. will receive an increase of
salary. bringing his compensation to
$1,000. Supt. Ward. who has charge of
the District building, will receive in
crease from $500 to 5000 Daniel
Garges. chief clerk in tine engineer de-
partment. under whose care the details
of all the engineering work new and old.
fall. will receive an increase from $1,000
to $40
Several new positions will be created.
A new assistant corporation counsel at
$1.JOO will be appointed; a superintendent
of construction at 5000 will be added to
the roll in the Office of the municipal
architect. This position was once cover
ed by per diem man at IS day. A
new office. engineer of heating. ventilat
ing and sanitation at $1,000. will be open
July 1. An assistant for the superin-
tendent of repairs at 81 200 is provided.
In the insurance department there are
increases of 500 apiece for an examiner
and a statistican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-22

We announce our first
reduction sale of the sea-
som ON linen suits.
The entire stock, with
out reserve, is included
embracing several styles
for large women.
The stock represents
every we'll known model
made of water=sNnrmnk
foreign linens, inn all coll
ors, AMID tailored by the
same hands that make
our cloth suits.
The regular values are
Sis to S22. The new scale
of prices is
S0.75 for Sis Suits.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
ENORMOUS VOLUME OF
MOVING PICTURE BUSINESS

Here are the facts about moving
picture shows in the United States
There are 1900 Of them and they
entertain, on the average. 100000
people every day
In other words, the public is spend
ing S102, 100000 a year for this form
Of diversion from dull care.
Moving pictures have driven other
shows from 400 tbeaters and claim
three times as many patrons as all
other theaters now in existence
The making of motion films en-
ploys an army of actors and workmen,
and 100000 was spent for films last
year.
Edison gets a royalty ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000 a week from the in
vention, and is now sitting up nights
to produce startling Improvements
to make the pictures talk just like ac-
tors, so that the canned drama" will
no longer be silent performance
What is the net result of all this
development?
More fun at less cost TO the masses.
The day is near when the humblest
purse and the smallest hamlet will
have art, music and drama that lay
only within the reach of the richest a
few generations ago. And that Is
progress in the right direction.-San
Antonio Light
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
FIRST ATTEMPT At
AERIAL SCOUTING
VIII Fly from Laredo to Eagle Pass.
Experiment Watched with Inter.
est by Military Men.
Especial to The Bryan Eagle. ]

SanAntonio. Texas, March 3-Lieut
b. ID. Foulois. of the army signal corps.
and Phil Parmalee, the Wright avia.
tor, are at Laredo, where they take
up aerial scouting duty along The Dor.
der river between Laredo and Eagle
Pass. II Is given out that their first
effort will be flight from Laredo to
Eagle Pass, a distance of Jog miles,
the biplane carrying both men. The
machine used is the one presented to
the government by Collier. In addition
TO its capacity to carry two men. a kit
Of tools for repair work, duplicate
parts for both the engine and pro.
peller, it has a gasoline tank holding
twenty-five gallons, fuel sufficient for
a continuous flight of 200 miles.
IL is understood that the Mexican
government insists that aerial scout.
ing shall be made entirely upon the
American side of the stream and will
not be responsible for what happens
TO the men in the event they cross the
border. The river being very crooked
between Eagle Pass and Laredo fur.
nishes the aviators splendid oppor.
tunity to do all kinds of turning stunts
in the event they attempt to follow
the course of the stream
The work of Lieutenant Foulois and
Aviator Parmalee will be watched with
keen interest by military men in all
parts of the world, since this is the
first time in the history of the flying
machine that it has been used for
scouting purposes where hostilities
were actually going on and it became
necessary for eneighboring govern.
ment TO enforce neutrality laws
Prominent military men from various
parts of the country and the attaches
from other countries have gone to the
Mexican border to note the result OF
this military effort with the flying ma.
chine Both Foulois and Parmalee
have the utmost confidence in their
ability with this new Wright machine
to perform any duty assigned to them
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09

will be more easily handled and that
the ward league will become perma-
nent body.
Mesdames Simms, Waldrop and
Bryan were appointed a committee TO
visit the merchants and secure their
promise to discontinue the sweeping
of trash into the streets, also to make
a general plea to the public to refrain
from throwing envelopes and circu-
larslars on the streets as they are
leaving the postoffice. One lady re-
marked that a large amount of this
class OF rubbish landed at her door
and she could always tell who had
been to the postoffce.
There was sketch of a proposed
fountain shown, which was generally
approved, and the question being
raised as to how to secure funds 10
provide for its construction, the presi-
dent introduced Miss Lenhart, OF Fort
Worth, who represents the Book
Amusement Company, whose business
IL is to train local talent and direct
local entertainments. Miss Lenhart
gave a very lucid resume of The
Brazos County Fair" as il might be
presented in Bryan. After careful
consideration it was decided to begin
training for this entertainment Mon
day, April II, and present THE Brazos
County Fair" to the public as near
April % as a date can be arranged for.
There is no doubt that this entertain
ment will prove great success, as II
has already been a great hit wher-
ever presented.
Thus a definite work is begun. It's
final contamination will be a beauty
spot in Bryan that will prove a memo
rial to the civic pride and loyalty of
the citizens OF one of the best cities
in all the great Southwest
Long live the Bryan Civic League,
and may its purposes ever be a clean,
beautiful, healthy Bryan!
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
How Cities Are Built.

There are certain cities, big and
small that are deserving the Top5y
method of just growing. They are
being strongly and persistently pushed
along toward greatness. To use an
invidious metaphor, they are picking
factories from their less wakeful
neighbors and planting them in their
own towns, they are causing the
transfer of hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of business from the
somnolent cities, and in this time of
reforms are Boosting of their remark
able progress in population.
The way the thing is done may be
aptly illustrated by the manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an au-
tomobile factory. The secretary read
| in a newspaper that an Italian COM
pany was thinking of Iocanlg a fac
tory in this country. Without waiting
for the owners to have chance to
look the country over and decide for
| themselves, the secretary pounced
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie,
talked 1t hard and convincingly He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them there
took them all over the town, showed
them the schools and the churches,
the parks and workingmen's houses,
and told them about the railroad "a
cilities and rates. And then he took
them to the very spot that he had
picked out in advance where they
could build; he pictured the factory
to them, pointed to the homes their
men would live in, told them how low
the taxes were and how healthful was
the air. When they went away the
visitors had every good point about
Po.ghkeepsie throbbing in their heads
in a hundred different forms, and con-
sequently they straightway came back
and built their factory in Poughkeep-
sie-Henry A. Harwood in Harper's
Weekly.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
DISASTROUS PASSENGER WRECK.
Engine Turned Turtle and Rolled
Completely Over

A serious wreck occurred at Carl.
ten miles north of Corsieana, yester-
day afternoon when the engine pulling
the northbound Hustler on the Hous-
ton & Texas Central railroad left the
track and turned turtle. The engine
turned completely over and the mo-
mentum brought the coaches together
with such force that had their con-
struction been of the old kind many
passengers would have been killed or
injured, but the new steel coaches in
use resisted the impact and none of
the passengers We're seriously injured.
The train crew, however, did not
fare so we'll Engineer Chester was
instantly killed The dead body was
found some distance from his engine
with the back of the head crushed.
The fireman suffered a broken limb
and the negro porter was severely
bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floy Dansby, en- route
to Chicago, and Ernest Elliott, en-
route to Dallas, all of this city, were
among the passengers, but relatives
have assurances that they were not
injured
The cause of the wreck has not been
ascertained The night southbound
train was delayed five hours, but the
wreck has been cleared and traffic has
been resumed.
Engineer Chester was one Of the
oldest engineers in the service of the
road and had been on duty contin-
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
GEs!ss LEAGUE Meeting
City Divided Into Four Wards-Ward
Presidents Apo inted--Perma-
nent Work Outlined.

\ In the absence of the president and
vice presidents, Mrs. Simms was re-
quested to preside.
The first regular monthly meeting
of the Bryan Civic League was not as
largely attended as 1t probably would
have been il its work had received
less unjust criticism We should have
said if less unjust criticism had been
given to its alleged purposes. The
meeting opened with a general discus
sion of what has been said about what
is alleged to have been said at the
first mass meeting, but really was
never said nor intended For instance,
1t was never intended that teams com
Ing to Bryan should be crowded from
the streets until better and safer
yard could be provided, but it was in
tended that public wagon yard con
veniently located ought to be and
should be provided to relieve the pres
ent condition.
This discussion led to the question
OF a permanent plan for work, and
how best to secure the desired results
in all parts of the city
Mrs WaldroP said that in Waco,
where a league was in successful OPP
GRAFTON, the most practical benefits to
every part of the city and 10 the diff
ferent conditions had been worked out
by dividing the city into wards with
branch league in each ward under
the direction of competent officers.
This method creates a certain amount
Of rivalry and proves OF great in
terest and benefit After some further
genearl discussion of the subject the
following motion was made and car
ried:
That the city be divided into four
wards for civic improvement work, the
boundaries being as follows: Ward
No. !, that section lying east of Main
street and south of Mosely street;
Ward No. 2, that section lying east
of Main street and north of Mosely
street; Ward No. 3, that section lying
west of Main street and north of
Mosely street Ward No. 4, that sec
ton lying west of Main street and
south of Mosely street, the dividing
lines to be in the center of the streets,
but the general league TO take care Of
Main street work.
After this motion had been carried
the following motion was made and
carried
That the president appoint a ward
president for each ward. the presi-
dents so appointed to call ward meet
ings, perfect their organization and
take charge OF the work In their re-
spective wards, each ward league to
become responsible for the work in
its ward and 10 make reports TO the
central league at its monthly meet.
ings.
The presidents appointed are:
First ward-Mrs A. NJ. Waldrop.
Second ward-Mrs. r. o. Allen.
Third ward-Mrs. NJ. w. Simms.
Fourth ward-Nlrs. r. J. Fountain.
These presidents will each call a
meeting in their respective wards, Sc
cure membership, including every
resident of the ward and organize It
is believed that in this way the work
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
W. S. Hanover, foreman.


w. s. Hanover, foreman.
Bailiffs were selected as follows. j..
ID. Touchstone, door bailif, c. L..
Baker, G. A. buchanan, C. III. Vance.
J. II. Reed, e. A. Wallace, E. 3. Battle
and p. II. Harvey.
This being the period for the civil
docket the following cases we're set:
Blanche LaMurte VS.. J. T. Hall, suit
on notes, March ..
Benjamin Franklin vs.. W. w. Pig
ford. TO try title and suit for damages,
March 10.
John McCorquodale vs.. j. c. Gamble
ct al, suit on notes and foreclosure,
March a.
G. A. Foster ct al VS.. Joe PaIazzo.
trespass to try title, March IA.
e. b. Holligan ct al. VS.. r. J. Gloss,
suit for damages, April 3.
Frank Lero vs.. Charley Wisbaski,
trespass to try title and suit for dam
ages, March %.
Henry Gorzki vs.. Houston & Texas
Central Railroad Company, suit for
damages, March Is.
Minnie Peterson ct al VS.. Braz0s
County Farmers Union Warehouse
Company, trespass to try title and
suit for damages, March Is.
f. l.. Bradley vs. Tyler Haswell, suit
for damages, March 10.
w. II. Smith VS.. A. R. Winter, suit
for injunction, March z.
Mary Sterne ct al. VS.. Nat Adams
ct al, trespAss to try title and suit
for damages, March Is.
No petit jury for the week was
chosen at today's session.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
Counting by Proxy.

Spokane, March 2.-Eugene Beck
sailed today for Luxembourg on the
Amerika, and will return early in April
with beyy of young German women.
Helpmeets for the German farmers in
the Northwest are in demand and
more than a dozen bachelors have
commissioned him to find wives for
them. Beck win marry the girl of his
choice while abroad. The bachelors
are preparing an elaborate reception
and entertainment, at which II is ex-
pected the engagements of forty cou-
pies will be announced.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
TEXAN KILLED IN MEXICO
Railroad Conductor Whose Home Was
at TempIe-He Was Serving
Life Sentence.
IBy Associated Press.l

I'll Paso, Texas, March 2.--Mail ad.
vices from Chihuahua say the Ameri-
can prisoner who was killed in the at
tempted jail delivery Sunday was J. c.
Searcy, formerly Of Temple, Texas.
He was railroad conductor serving a
life sentence for killing a Mexican who
threatened his life.
Searcy was the man referred to by
Mayor Hemphill, of Temple, when the
latter suggested that congress investi-
gate the treatment OF Americans in
Mexico.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
DISTRICT COURT
OPENED TODAY
Grand Jury Charged, Bailiffs Selected
and Number of Cases
Set for Trial.

The March term of the district
court opened this morning at o'clock,
Judge ]. c. Scott, of Franklin, presid-
ing, and District Attorney w. c. Davis
and District Clerk j. W. Barron in
their respective places.
The grand jury was selected and
charged by the Judge, as follows: j.
H. Webb, E. w. Grenshaw, Ira Bond,
j. D. Goen, John Hearne, John Henry,
Henry Benbow, w. r. Goens, j. w.
Wiley, w. R. Parker. A. B, McSwain,
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
ITALIAN PRINCESS MURDERED.
Lady.in.Waiting to the Queen Killed in
Hotel by Cavalry Officer.

Rome, March Princes TTigona,
beautiful young lady-in-waiting to
hotel here by Lieutenant Palermo, a
cavalry officer.
Details Of the murder are either un-
known or suppressed. It is believed
that the lieutenant stranged and then
shot the princess
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
REVIVAL AT UNION HILL.
Union Hill, Texas, March 4, 1911

Union Hill, Texas, March A. 1911.
To the Editor of The Daily Eagle:
Knowing you want all of the news,
/ take pleasure in informing you that
at the Hill the Missionary Baptist
church is having quite a meeting con-
Quoted by Rev. Windsor, of North
Texas. Such preaching we seldom
hear. Oh, the good such a man Of God
can do. 1t can not be estimated. He
will preach a special sermon for the
young on Sunday night. Tell every
body to come, for ! assure you il will
be a benefit. EGG MAN.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09

uously for twenty-six years. Through
an oversight on his part one day the
first part OF this week the northbound
and southbound Hustlers came near
having head-on collision. stopping
only a few feet apart. For this he was
asked to resign and his trip north yes
terday was to have been his last run.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
ocrats wanted to wait a month, but
the republicans wish It sooner.
Tariff Board Bill Taken Up.
fBy Associated Press1

Washington March BY a vote OF
50 to 20 the senate today agreed to
take up the tariff board bill. Attempts
were made by democratic senators to
take up the appropriations bill instead
OF the tariff board measure, but the re
publicans out voted them.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
CONGRESS INFORMALLY
NOTIFIED BY PRESIDENT
Gives Them to Understand That Cana
dian Reciprocity Must Be Rati-
fled or There Will Be an
Extra Session.
[By Associated Press.l

Washington, March 2-Congress in
formally received word today that
President Taft will call an extra ses-
sion before April unless the senate
approves the Canadian reciprocity
a agreement
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
FIREMAN KILLED BY CARPENTER.
[By Associated Press

San Antonio, Texas, March 2.-Da-
vid Neal, driver of fire engine, was
today shot fatally by j. o. Merchant,
a carpenter, Neal Is said TO have as
sailed Merchant last fall.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
FROST AND FREEZE
IN NORTH TEXAS


Igl
Dallas, Texas. March 2.-Heavy
frost and in some sections light freeze
are reported throughout North Texas
this morning.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-09
March 20 for Extra Session.

IBy AssOCIdteu FTess.I
Washington, March Pit is believed
that March 20 is the probable date OF
the extra session meeting The dem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-16
NEGRO SHOOTS NEGRO.
Did 1t as ssAct OF Mercy to Save Him.
self.'' Newborn Walls.

Ernest Newborn, a foreign negro.
shot and probably fatally wounded
BUD Moore local black, Sunday
morning at 8 o'clock when he fired at
Myrtle Cheney negress with whom
he had been quarreling. The couple
We're standing near the corner of First
and Monroe streets and Moore was
running to the womanS assistance
when the shot was fired The bullet
was steel-jacket and passed through
Moore's stomach He was taken to the
St Francis hospital where his condi-
ton today is said to be growing worse
and death likely.
A crowd of about 200 negroes gath
cred at the scene of the shooting in 4.
few minutes after Moore fell and VIC
lence to the foreign negro was avert
ed only by the proximity of police at
the time Sergeant Sauls, Detective
Anderson and Patrolman Palmer were
IN the vicinity working on a robbery
case and hurried to the place. They
kept Newborn in a nearby coal Office
until the patrol wagon arrived from the
station.
On the way to the prison and after
being booked, Newborn repeated time
and again. II shot him as an act of
mercy to save myself" The logic of
the negro's explanation in that SEN
teEce is hard to detect. He claims the
local negroes have been after him since
he came to Topeka recently from Ten
nessee and opened a restaurant The
gun he carried was the latest Colt "po-
lice special" SO cal, and made for an
extra long cartridge. A state warrant
charging murder is being prepared for
him toGav.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-16
GIRL IS ON TRIAL.
Eunice Murphy Charged With Help
ing to Hang Sweetheart.

Valentine. Neb.. Oct 1e.-The trial
of Eunice Murphy and her brother
Kenneth, Harry Heath. George and
Alma Weed for the murder of Charles
Sellers on June II, began here today.
The case against Miss Murphy will be
prosecuted first.
The four men took Sellers from the
home of a rancher named Hutch Jack
and hung him to a telephone pole.
They claim that he had threatened to
kill Miss Murphy if she did not con-
sent to marry him. The state contends
that the crime was committed in order
that the grl might secure the insurance
which she believed Sellers had left her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-16
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS.

The general assembly at high school
this morning was turned into an old
fashioned enthusiasm meeting. The
football team was called up to the
platform, and the boys of the school
were grouped in one section and the
girls in another. Kirk Meecham was
appointed cheer leader, and led the
school in giving the high school yelis.
Manager J. L. Montgomery made a
speech in which he told of the football
game last Saturday, and of the square
treatment Topeka received at the
hands of ST. Joe. He also stated that
several authorities on football men
toned to him that it was the best high
school football game that they had
ever seen. Captain George He'll also
made a short speech in which he urged
the students to come out to the game
here next Saturday. He'll was present.
ed with the football that was won
from ST. Joe.
Principal A. J. Stout of the high
school read the recent ruling of the
board of education in regard to the
students being forced to be vaccinated
The sale of season tickets is not pro-
crossing very we'll, according to Man
ager Montgomery. over two hundred
of the students who pledged themselves
to take one or more of the tickets. nave
not shown up to pay for their tickets
yet.
When the high school team returned
from st. Joe late Saturday night, they
were met by about seventy five high
school boys who styled themselves the
reception committee. They had pro-
vided themselves with plenty of red
fire, and it was lighted when the squad
left the train. One of the men on the
team said, IF we get this kind of a
welcome every time we win an out of
town game. we will proceed to win all
of them
Efforts are being made at the high
school to form a rooters club, COM
posed of four hundred boys. and six
hundred girls. In other words to form
the whole school into one large roofing
club. Kirk Meecham has been appoint
ed cheer leader.
"Heine'' Heinzman, who coached last
years victorious high school team, has
announced his Willingness to help the
squad out this year, and win coach the
boys this week