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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
To Settle the Dust.

The ladies OF the Civic League
are confronted with the dust prob
lem. which will be discussed at the
meeting this afternoon. II appears
that of the amount subscribed by
the citizens for oiling the streets
there remains only little more than
enough to pay for the third oiling,
which is expected to be applied In
July-the Magnolia company requir-
ing six weeks notifiation. Meanwhile
the city suffers from the clouds OF
dust that prevails since the water
wagon was taken off. This afternoon
the question of whether the League
shall use such funds as 1t possess
es, outside the amount necessary for
the oiling contract, or to put the
water wagon on again will be dis
cussed.
Many Of the ladies, quite desper-
ate over the dust nuisance, will urge
that the sprinkling be resumed at
once.
will be discussed, among them the
subject of securing the city's coop
Grafton in the work Of oiling the
streets, by having the drag used TO
level the rough places before the oil
is applied, which the council has
virtually agreed to do.
As the president, Miss Anna Kelly.
expects to leave in a few days for
the summer, various matters require
adjustment before her deDar1rlrd
and a large ad interesting meeting
of the League is anticipated this ar
ternoon. In order to suit the conven-
ience of the ladies, the hour Of the
meeting has been changed to five
o'clock
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
WEST TEXAS RATES
UNDER EXAMINATION
TARIFFS SUSPENDED BY COM
MERGE COMMISSION
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Has Suspended Advanced Rates to
West Texas Points Because Of
Protest of Shippers.

Associated Press.
Washington, ID. c., June 3-Vig-
orous protests have been received
by the Interstate commerce COM
mission from points in Western Tex
as against the increase of freight
rates from all parts Of the country
by the refusal of railroads to con-
slider destinations in Western Texas
as Texas common points.
Carriers have filed tariffs increas-
ing the rates on substantially all
commodities to Western Texas from
two to eleven cents hundred
pounds. Because of the protests
received the commission today sus-
pended the proposed rates from June
z until ii had an opportunity to
consider them. The suspension af-
fects all the southwestern lines.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
MORE RELIGION AT CHATAUQUA
The Original Chatauqua Announces
Its Intention of Empsaizing It's
Religious Mission.

The original Chatauqua announces
RS intention to emphasize anew its
religious mission during the season
Of 1912 through comprehensive
program under a new director of re-
ligious work, the Rev DR.. Shailer
Matthews Of Chicago, and a notable
staff of assistants. By organizing,
grouping end enlarging religious
features SO that ministers and others
get the most oui of correlated, de-
votional, practical and scholarly ad-
] vantages, Chatauqua announces an
institute for ministers and Christian
workers during the week of August
lis, school of religious teaching
July to August is, an institute or
foreign missions July % to August
8, and one on home missions August
| ) to 10.
| The hall of the Christ, one Of the
most unique and beautiful buildings
in the world. is to be the center Of
this enlarged religious emphasis, and
to assist the new leader. DR. Mat
lthews, will be the Rev. G. A. john
Iston Ross, just elected to the. chair
of homileticS at Union Theological
Seminary; the Rev. DR.. James A.
Francis Of Clarendon Baptist
church. Boston; the Rev. DR.. John
} A. Rice of Fort Worth, Tex Sup
plementing the religious institute.
,,will be strong preachers through Z
succession of Sundays in order to give
, courses of sermons. These will in
Iclude Prof. Z. G. Peabody of Cam
! lbridge and Bishop Mcdowell OF Chi
: cago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
REBELS WILL NOT
MOLEST FOREIGNERS
Orozco's Chief Counselor Assures
American Consul that Rebels Will
Not Molest Foreigners.

Associated Press.
Chihuahua, Mex, June 3-Jose t.
CoTdova, secretary general Of the
revolution and chief counsellor OF
Pascual Orozco, jr.. assured Marion
Letcher, tie American consul here,
that foreigners would not be mo-
Tested in the operation of the rebels
in this state.
The visit of Cordova was the di-
rect result of the inquiry of the
state department of the United
States relative to the recent rebel
proclamation.
Three thousand rebels were sent
south today to engage the federal
cavalry approaching Chihuahua Al
unimportant engagement was re
ported yesterday between the rebels
under Rojas and the advance guard
of the federals.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
CONTESTS HEARD
| IN OPEN SCISSOR
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT FAVOR
PUBLIC HEARINGS
In Letter to Chairman of Arrange
ments Committee President Rec
ommends That Contest Sessions be
Open to Public.
Associated Press.

Associated Press
Chicago, H.. June President
Taft today in letter to Chairman
Harry S. New of the subcommittee
of arrangements for the republican
national convention. suggested that
the meeting of the national commit
tee at which contests will be heard
be public.
This in connection with the prev
ious request of Theodore Roosevelt
that the hearings be open, indicates
that the doors will probably be
thrown open at least to the news
paper men when the committee be-
gins its hearings on Friday.
Roosevelt and Taft Headquarters
have both been opened in the same
hotel here.
Cecil Lyon of Sherman. Texas, was
among the members of the national
committee arriving here today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
SELECTION OF ROOT
WILL Be OPPOSED
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN CUES
TION CONSIDERED VITAL
Roosevelt Declares That Root is
Ranged With Men Who Oppose
Progressive Principles in the Re-
publican Party.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Oyster Bay. r. r., June 3-Upon
the selection of the temporary chair
man Of the republican national con-
vention may hang the political for
tunes of former president Roosevelt
He decided tonight 60 oppose with
all his strength the seating Of Sena-
tor Elihu Root and issued a call to
all his supporters to stand by him.
Roosevelt declares that Mr.. Root
has ranged himself against the men
who stand for progressive principles
within the republican party.
He says 1T IL William Barnes. Dr..
of New York, who is the real head
OF the Taft canvass in Chicago. lie
quotes a telegram said to have been
sent by Barnes TO number OK dele
gates urging them to support Root
and declaring that the nomination
of Theodore Roosevelt can only lead
to disaster. and urging the repudla-
tion of the Roosevelt doctrines.
''Mr. Barnes stands a. the repre-
sentative of the very worst form Of
bossism in politics." says Roosevelt
in his statement
"This IL not faction fight In the
ranks of the republican party. IL Il
fight between the plain people and
the bosses. Back of them are greater
sinister special interests which are
endeavoring to sustain the cause Of
privilege, by perpetuating them by
a combination between crooked pol
itics and crooked business"
The colonel's decision to make a
square issue or Roots selection was
reached after a conference with a
number OF his political advisors in
cluding Senator Dixon and Clifford
Plnchot, former chief forester on the
United States.
Roosevelt said today he was or The
Iopinion that he would not 20 10 the
Chicago convention. but he may
reach a different decision IL any
other tactics are attempted
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
ROCKEFELLER WORTH
ABOUT $500, 900
His Income from Investments is
Figured at 60,000,0OO for Each
Year.

New York, June 3-The litiga-
tion that has brought about the ex-
animation of John ID. Rockefeller az
witness to tell of the present re-
lations between Standard Oil and
its former subsidiary companies sup
pcsedly disassociated from it under
the judgement of the United States
Supreme Court, has involved also a
quiet inquiry into the stock hold
ings and other forms of wealth or
Mr.. Rockefeller
From all the data available, and
one of the associate counsel in this
inquiry said yesterday the available
data was fairly exhaustive. the con-
clusion has been reached that John
ID. Rockefeller is now worth $780,
900 900. His annual income is fig
ured at $6O,000,O0O.
This estimate, it is believed, comes
within a few millions of being cor
rect. 1t is a practical impossibilitv
, to arrive at an exact estimate. for
the daily fluctuations of stocks may
add or take away several millions
from the Oil Kings wealth on pa
per. Mr.. Rockefeller does not specu-
late. He invests and when the mar
ket is quite high he sells When it
has dropped to the low levels he buys
back what he sold and reinvests the
profit in more low-priced stocks or
bonds. The great bulk of his wealth
is invested in oil, railroad, banking
and industrial stocks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
MISSION DRUGGIST
STRANGELY DISAPPEARS
Associated Press.

:. Associated Press.
* Alexandria, La, June s.
y Charles Bittner and Hugo
= Fritzch, who say they are en-
~ ployes of the Pullman company
K at New Orleans, are being held
y pending an Investigation OF the
x disappearance of DR.. ID. w.
= Gibson, prominent young
Z. druggist of Mission, Texas.
y Gibson arrived here yester-
* day with his wife and two small
= children, and left the hotel
* about Q O'Clock saying he was
= going to visit friends across the
< Red river at Pineville. This
Z morning blood stained clothing
* identified as belonging to Glib
!. son was found on the river
:: bank. His body was not re-
= covered.
x
]; * x !: y x Z x !; !, x x x !;
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
A. T. Perkins Was Here.

T. Perkins of st. Louis, vice
araa;dent of the ST. Louis Trust
.onranv was here yesterday for a
80 honrs. being accompanied by ME-
noherty and r. J. klebcrg
NJ Perkins said that he had come
.awn 70 look after the starting q
r,,oli spur OF the st. l.. b. and y
IN Refugio county He visited
,rsagsyilie - also, coming from there
ssra - The party left on the aifef-
noon train
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
Would Suspend Guarantees.

Associated Press.
Havana. Cuba, June 3-President
Gomez sent a message to congress
this afternoon requesting the passage
of law empowering him to suspend
the constitutional guarantees az a
part of the campaign against the
rebels.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
PRELIMINARY FIGHT
WON BY TAFT

u Columbus. Ohio. June s. "
Il, President Taft won the first ~
= skirmishes in the Ohio repub- "
t- lican convention I'm test ~
!; Of the strength Of the district "
\: meetings. Taft is believed 20 Nj
y have gained control OF the new ~
Il state central committee. The ~
x convention devoted itself to- "
!, day to hearing the keynote M
Y speech OF Senator Burton. The Y
i: final struggle for the control Of -N
Z Ohio's six delegates at large In y
\. expected tomorrow. MI
Y y
\: u ~: \; i; II i = II II N II = = = "
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
Idaho Instructed for Clark.

Associated Press.
Couer D'Alene. Idaho. June 3-
The democratic state convention to-
day instructed Idaho's eight delegates
to the nationalconvention at Balti-
more for Champ Clark of Missouri.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
Weather.
Forecast.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington, ID. G., June 3-West
Texas, fair Tuesday and Wednesday.
East Texas, fair in the interior and
probably showers near the coast
Tuesday; Wednesday fair.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
Southern League.

Atlanta 9, Montgomery /.
Chattanooga 10. Birmingham 4
Memphis 4, New Orleans |.
Nashville 8, Mobile 3.-Game was
played at Little Rock. Ark. trans
ferred by the order Of President
Kayanaugh of the Southern League.
because of conditions at Nashville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
GOVERNMENT WILL SELL
ARMS TO CUBA
Associated Press.

n 0aWN TtW IN1N-
Washington ID. c.. June 3-The
state department today authorized
the war department to honor the ap-
plication of the Cuban government
Tor the purchase of 5000 rifles and
a million rounds Of ammunition.
which win be used TO arm guards or
ganized by plantation owners to pro-
tcct their property against insur-
rectos.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
National League.

New York s, St. Louis 3.
Chicago A. Boston 3.
Cincinnati z, Brooklyn 4.
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburg 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
American League.

Washington 13. St. Louis 4.
Philadelphia s, Chicago 4.
Detroit 4, New York l.
Cleveland A, Boston 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
X
THE NATIONAL GAME.
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AS played throughout the country
by the vOrious leagues.
Associated Press.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04

Fort Worth Galveston-rain-
Dallas -BeaumOnt-rain-
San Antonio 3. Waco 0.
Houston =, Austin g.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
Ready for Accidents.

Associated Press.
shicago. H., June Sit Is stated
today that corps ,>pf Red Cross
nurses win be at thu republican ma
tional conveAion to answer any
emergency calA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
American Association.

Toledo z, Milwaukee 4.
Indianapolis 3, Kansas City Q.
No other games scheduled.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-04
The First National Bank

Announce that outing to the rain OF yesterday
Interfering ,cith moving. they ,Uin not open 4or
business in the ,e,v building until "Wednesday
morning, June 5th.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20

get me in trouble with the church back
home
Milady did her best to assure the trem-
ulous one that he could view the pic
lures without the slightest spiritual dan
ger. and the latter began to look relieved.
You look like a nice girl. he said. and
If YOU say it's all right | guess il must
be- You ought TO know. workin' here.
You've seem EN-. of course.
Milady hesitated. NO.. she stammered.
II haven't seen them myself. put III AS
sure YOU they're all right You needn't
be afraid.
away. IF you amt seen EN- I don't see
how you can tell he said Besides. YOU
workin here and Yet never seem the pic
lures looks mighty funny TO me. / Amt
sayin they amt all right. but I rechon
! better go ask Gertie-shes my wife.
YOU know-and see what she thinks about
II, and If she says it's all right I'll-his
face beamed with sudden resolve-'if she
says it's all right I'll be logged If j don t
buy her a ticket and buy you one. too.
He departed, but evidently Gertie didn' [
think it all right for he never came back.
There is pathos. too. in the everyday
experiences of Milady of the Moving Pic
ture Parlor Time after time some tot
of seven or eight years will come skip
ping happily up to the little house of
glass, and reach confidently into his
pocket Then the smile will give way TO A
look of worry and the worry to a veri-
table fountain of tears-all of which
means that he has hole in his little
pocket and has lost his nickel. Sometimes
a bystander, or another patron. or may
hap milady herself will take pity on the
tot and supply another five-cent piece
sometimes, but not often. For 1t has been
a
when this is done half the children in
the neighborhood also manage to lose
nickels in the vicinity of that same NOV
ing picture parlor-each one seeming TO
cry little harder and in a bit more
heart-rending fashion than the other.
On other occasions milady is confronted
by a tear-stained face. listening to a
pitiful story of pennies carefully saved
to make up the required five. only to be
followed by the loss of one of the pre-
cious coppers somewhere between home
and the theater. The tragedy of that one
lost cent means fully as much to the tot.
who has probably. been counting on his
moving picture treat for a week. as does
the loss of thousands to the man in the
stock market The tragedy in the child
face as he tells the story is almost soul
chilling-and always the story concludes
in torrent of tears Again. sometimes. MI
lady or some one else adds the necessary
penny-but again she has to be careful
and exercise all her knowledge of human
nature. For she has learned that some
children have the habit of spending one
of the precious pennies for candy, relylng
on the power of their tears and the kind
heart of milady or some stranger to make
up the deficiency.
And so milady of the moving picture
parlor looks out from her house of glass
on a daily drama of tragedy. COMEDY;
plotting and intrigue. far more varied
than that portrayed on the canvas sheets
inside She never sees the pictures for
which she sells tickets of admission. but
her own pictures are far better, Tor III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20

9th street eheater. went through the Gus
tomary search of his trousers pockets.
and then produced his bill, with the usual
apologies. Milady was waiting for him:
Its rather a large BILL, she said.
reaching out for it as She spoke, but
change it for you. Whereupon she be-
pieces.
"Wait-wait minute gasped the man
on the outside. II believe l have some
thing smaller, after all
"Oh, that's all right" smiled milady.
II want to get rid of some of this change
anyhow" And she forced him to take it..
The man departed with every pocket
bulging-and the cure was complete.
Much has been written of late about
the professional southerner"-a type dis
tinctive chiefly by the enthusiasm with
which its members cheer the strains of
Dixie" and the garrulity with which
they discuss blood and ancestral homes
and refuse to forget that the civil war is
over. .Iilady of the moving picture par
Tor knows all about this type-she en-
counters 1t every day.
Just let us put on film about the
civil war. or with plot dated back in
the sixties, and they all come out, said
one of them. They always make it a
point TO stand out i'm front and talk for
the benefit of the crowd. too, slurring
their ''rs in what they probably think is
a fine old southern accent. They never
have fought in the civil war-either
Sometimes they may be pretty well up In
the thirties-some men stay foolish a long
time-but usually they are just boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20

twenty-one or twenty-five years old. l
notice them looking at me out of the cor
ner of their eyes every now and then as
they talk. 1 suppose they think they're
making fine impression Oh me. l al
if ! can't help myself, L try to look i'm
pressed-that's business. But as a mat
ter of fact. they make me sick.
There is one old man, though, that al
ways comes to the theater when We have
a civil war film on that all we girls are
glad to see-and we all know him-that
is, Ill the girls in the downtown theaters
know him, because he's a regular patron
of us all. He comes in rolling chair
and has to be wheeled inside the theater.
He can't walk but he must have grand
children who look at the Autographs and
keep him posted as to what's going on a [
the different houses, for he never misses
A single film that's about civil war days
But he's got q right to be interested in
that kind of pictures. He's a civil war
veteran himself. It's wound he got
fighting that keeps him from walking
now. He told me all about it once
The moving picture lady stopped sud-
denly and smiled welcome to a boy hob
bling across the street on crutches. Up
to the window he clicked and then. rails
ing himself trifie. pushed a large box
of chewing gum through the aperture of
the house of glass. please buy some
gum, he begged.
Milady took a package and handed out
a nickel in payment. SolemnIy the little
cripple closed the box. tucked it under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20

ally. but that's the smallest L have In
fact. it's all l have-that is. all / have
with me just at present. Too bad"
And he would smile whlmsicaly.
OF course. the cashier couldn't change
the bill-or If she could, the procedure
would probably exhaust her supply of
small cash-and there were other pa
irons who might require change to be
considered. On the other hand, here was
a patron willing and ready to pay for his
admission. He could not be sent fatty
away. So he would be told that every
thing was "all right and would be al
lowed to pass in free.
All around the city this man made his
tour Of the moving picture parors. and
then started OH the second lap But it so
happened that the cashier of a moving
picture parlor on 9th street. and the
asher of one on Pennsylvania avenue.
were intimate friends. One day when
both were loft duty they began talk
ing shop, and then one of them happened
to mention the man with the fifty dollar
bill.
Why | know him-he came to my
theater with a fifty-dollar bill, too. said
the other. Their d great light began to
dawn on both-and straightway they
plotted revenge.
"A few days later. the object of their
plot strolled up to the cashier of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
Billy Tried to Select
One Of the Pretty Twins

And l won't marry until Ellen mar
ries.''
There was a wild light in Billy Peters
eyes. He thanked them for the great
honor they had thrust upon him, and
made his way to the street.
Six hours later a man stealthily APP
preached policeman. who was mind;ng
his own business as policemen do.
Ssh he said Look
The policeman looked. Railroad ticket.
isn't it,
You've guessed it. Good gUessers. you
cops. I'm going west. This town is no
place for twin.
The policeman got a good grip on his
night stick. SO you're a twin. CHI?
That's me. I'm a scrumptious twin,
/ won't marry you unless you marry me,
and if YOU marry me I won't marry you.
and"
The policeman club came into play
Run along he said. II don't allow
any scrumptious twins on my beat.
Don't blame you, officer; don't blame
you. | won't get married until YOU get
married. and YOU wont get married until
] get married, and We'll all get mar
ried--''
Billy Peters faded into the night Ills
friends are still looking for him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20

his arm, picked up his nickel and then
laid it down again Now" said he. now
gimme ticket And a moment later
he was inside, wrapped in the wonders
of the movies"
He always does that" milady eX-
planned. He sells me some gum and
then buys a ticket with the money-does
1t two or three times week. / under
stand he goes to one or two of the other
parlOrs and makes the same sort of
In the first place, we feel sorry for the
poor little fellow, and. i'm the second
place wouldn't We have to buy chewing
gum somewhere anyhow? Everybody
has to have chewing gum, don't they?''
4 long. lean. awkwar6-looking youth
whose clothes proclaimed him from the
country, had paused in front of the the
alter while the chewing gum trade was
going on. and stood with one hand dug
down into his pocket reading the titles
of the films on display, evidently trying
to make up his mind whether or not to
go inside. Finally, after much hesitation
and blushing fiery red. he approached mi
lady. SAY he asked. lis this, a regular
theater?''
Its a regular movinsSpiciure theater''
answered milady. II know" said the
countryman, but. YOU see. I'm here on
my honeymoon mean I'm ,lp here WIS.,
iting for a SPELL" he guped hurriedly.
blushing redder than ever. 'and down
home. in Moth Car ina where | live |
belong to the church, and my church
thinks theaters Is the work of Satan.
What l want to know is would ii be all
right for ME to so inside this here place?
] don't want to do nothin that would