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The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
GONZALES IS
INTERVIEWED
LEADER OF MEXICAN INSURGENTS
TELLS OF HIS POLICY AND
HIS PLANS
Fight IS AGAINST DIAZ

Preside, Mex.-Abraham Gonzales,
leader of the insurgent forces operat-
ing near Ojinaga and provisional Gov.
ernor of Chihuahua, has given an in
terviwe to the Associated Press cor
respondent at Mulato
This is the first statement made by
any of the insurgent leaders in the
field.
Gonzales talked frankly telling of
the policy of the insurgents and their
plans.
"The Independents now control the
greater part of Chihuahua" said he
1--WE could capture any of the outlying
garrisoned towns a. any time but in
turn we would have to establish gar
risons in these cities, thus taking
many fighting men from the field.
I'VE did not expect to defeat the
Diaz army in a day or month. We
have accomplished all that we set out
10 90 up TO QaCe.
The Independents control a section
of the railroad, thus holding the gar
rlsons at Juarez, Ojinaga, Pedernales
and Laguna helpless in their bar
racks. We have checked every effort
to send reinforcements north and con-
troll several hundred miles of the bor-
der
This gives US an opportunity to re-
cruit our armies and train our eager
recruits. Every day increases our
strength. When we are ready to strike
we will strike and Diaz will be shaken
from his throne.
"The Independents will protect the
property and lives of Americans and
other foreigners. We come as liberia
tors, not as invaders.
'"The independents are not fighting
Mexico, they are fighting the Diaz gov
eminent
Gonzales talked slowly in halting
Eng1Sn, turning now ana then TO
young officer for aid in translating his
words.
'Of our immediate plans I cannot,
of course, speak. We have opened
the door for our countrymen who
wish to fight and we are arming and
drilling them as fast as they come.
I'VE want simple justice. We want
the right to vote as we believe. The
courts, the great instrument of Diaz's
tyranny next to the army, must be
made court of law, not tools of op-
preston.
"The men who have organized this
uprising will fight until all are dead.
They are confident of victory
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
He LIVED THREE WEEKS
WITH DEAD IN HOUSE
Decomposed Body of Cleveland Mans
Wife amer Daughter Found.


Cleveland, O., Jan 1-For three
weeks, while the dead bodies of his
aife, Anna, and three-year-old daugh-
ter. Hermina, lay decompcsea in an
upstairs room, Herman Mielke ate
and slept in a downstairs room at
his home.
Mielike, who is paroled work
house prisoner, went to police court
Saturday to report to Probation Of
ticer Winning, While there he told
Winning that he has just discovered
the death of his wife and daughter.
Mielke said that he and his wife
quarreled two weeks ago because he
kicked their collie dog, and that he
had not seen her or the child since.
He said he supposed she had run
away, until Saturday when odors issu-
ing from her bed room led him to in
vestigate. He claimed that he found
a bottle that had contained chloroform
by her side.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
TREASURY
BETTER OFF
BEGINNING OF A new YEAR SHOWS
IMPROVEMENT In The COUN.
TRY'S FINANCE
To issue PANAMA BONDS

Washington, Jan. 2.-The coming
of a New Year finds the finances of
the United States Treasury far i'm
proved over the condition in which
the business of 1910 was begun, hav-
ing spent some $26, 200, 900 more than
it had taken in. That sum took no
account of the extraordinary expendi-
lures for the Panama Canal.
The beginning of 1911 finds that
deficit reduced to $6,OOO,OOO and the
total deficit, including Panama ex-
penditures, reduced to almost $26,OOO,-
600 on all accounts-practica half
of what it was year ago.
The year closes with about $S6,OOO,-
600 in the general fund and a working
balance of $4,000, 900 in the Treasury
Offices, both considerably lower than
a year ago. This is CONSIDERED by the
Treasury officials a remarkable show
ing in the face of the fact that more
that Si30,000,O 900 has been advanced
out of ordinary funds for the canal
construction. The showing seems to
sustain Secretary MacVeagh's de
c1aration that the Treasury would be
able to keep an even keel until Con-
gress passed legislation to allow an
issue of s. eurfsies upon the plans
which Mr. MacVeagh has laid down.
Such a plan as Mr.. MacVeagh and
Senator Aldrich have so far worked
out contemplates the issue of $780,
oOO, 900 or s10O,OOO,0OO of Panama
bonds, not to be available for national
bank circulation, and at a rate of in
,erest high enough to make them at
tractive to investors. Such plan
promises to develop into legislation
when Congress settles down to work.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
Athletics May Play In Japan.

Cincinnati, O., Jan. 2.-Business
Manager Frank Bancroft, of the Gin
cinnati Nationals, who has taken base
ball clubs to foreign countries, expects
to add another country to his list after
the next worlds series. Japan is the
country Bancroft expects to storm,
and his army of invation will consists,
he saws. of the Philadelphia Ameri-
cans, whose recent trip to Cuba he
had charge of.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
BRYAN FEARS DIscoRD.
Hesitates to Send Letter to Baltimore
Diners Lest He Spoil Harmony.


Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 2.-William j.
Bryan has informed Albert L. Al
money, Baltimore, Nd, that he can
not attend the Jackson Day celebra-
ton on January 18th, it is stated. Mr..
Bryan says:
sIt will be impossible for me to be
present, and 1 hesitate to send let
ter to be read at the celebration lest
it might prove a discordant notes, if,
as would infer from the preliminary
arrangement, those who originated it
are dissatisfied with the last Demo
cratic national platform.
"That party was satisfactory to
the party two years ago and is salts
factory to the rank and file now. The
victory of last month was, in my judg
ment. largely due to the fact that
several planks of the platform had al
ready been vindicated by events, and
events have, since the election, vim
dicated other planks."
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
RECORD OF
LVE-SAVERS
l,463 DISASTERS WITHIN The
SCOPE OF SERVICE. ONLY So
LIVES LOST
"a VESSELS WERE LOST

washington, Jan. 2.-Out of a total
OF 6,661 persons involved in 1,463 dis
asters to vessels of all classes within
the scope of the United States Life
Saving Service, only 53 lives were
lost and but IA vessels were complete
ly destroyed, according to the annual
report of S. I. Kimball, general super
intendent of the service, for the fiscal
year which ended June Both last.
The greatest number of casualties
reported was in connection with craft
without documents, such as sailboats
launches and rowboats, 1,046 accidents
having occurred to such craft with
3,013 persons aboard, and total of
II lives having been lost. There were
S.648 persons aboard Alt documented
vessels reported in distress by keep
ers OF life-saving stations, and the
total number lost was 80.
Or the 1,463 vessels of all kinds
which met with accidents, the life
savers rendered ssstance to 1,4o7,
valued with SO 49,
2so. by the
1ifessayts lee inc S rescue
sof from aifsownisa sureical
Persons suffering from IN
shot wounds, broken limbs or buiise
ssand the recovery of $50 bodies of per
soas VINO had met death by jumping
or falling from piers and bridges,
breaking through the ice Or in other
ways. Nine of this number were sui
cidea. o. ZFWY
The net expenditures for maintain
ing the service throughout the year
were $2,249,375.6S. The enactment t.f
the bill passed at the last session OF
Congress by the Senate providing re
tirement pay for members of the life
saving service and others of the field
service incapacitated for duty is urged
in the report.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
Disappointed In Love, Young Man
Kills Himself.

sheppards, Va, Jan. 2.-Archer
Duncan committed suicide Friday af-
ternoon by shooting himself in his
temple with a pistol at the store OF
James Gills.
Mr.. Duncan was a very bright and
handsome young man. 1t is reported
that disappointment in love caused
hin, to kill himself.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
2 AVIATORS
ARE KILLED
MOISANT and HOXSEY DARING
AIRMEN HAD FATAL FALLS
ON SATURDAY
TREACHEROUS currents

John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey,
avlators extraordinary, were killed
Saturday. Both fell out of the treach.
erous air currents with their ma
chines-neither from vast height
and Moisant's remaining minutes Of
life were so few as to count as naught.
Hoxsey was killed instantly.
Moisant met his death at 9:55 a.
m, attempting to alight in a field a
few miles from New Orleans, La
Hoxsey, who went into the air early
in the afternoon at Los Angles, lay
at PIP p. m. a crushed, lifeless mass
in view of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament
Moisant's Record.
Thus the last day of 1910, in bring
ing the total number of deaths of
| aviators to 80, capped the list with
two of the most illustrious of those
airmen who have been writing the
history of aviation in the sky of two
continents. Moisant, a Chicagoan by
birth, after an adventurous life In
Central America, became interested II
aviation in France less than a. year
ago. After soaring into public re-
cognition by his plucky flight from
Paris across the English channel to
London with passenger, Moisant,s
fearlessness and resonrcefulness were
exhibited frequently. Finding him
self without machine, he purchased
one from friend for $4,000 and
within ten minutes started on his
winning flight from Belmont Park, n.
Y, around the Statue of Liberty, win
ming a prize of $4,000.
Saturday a sudden puff of wind
caught him within 500 feet of the
earth, turned his machine over and
broken neck terminated his career.
Hoxey's Achievements.
Arch Hoxsey, after a year of uni
form success with the Wright aero
planes, had gained name for daring
and competence in the air. Only in
the past week he set a new worlds
record for altitude of 11,474 feet and
then, to show his contempt for the
earth, sailed majestically more than
1000 feet above the highest moun-
tain in California Saturday he ran
afoul of the same kind of boiling,
treacherous wind within some 500 feet
from tn earth, and a minute later
mortified crowd, aroused from it's
shock, was rushing madly to where a
broken mass of humanity law beneath
torn bit of canvas and some broken
spars.
Both met death in almost the same
manner. Each machine was headed
for the earth and suddenly seemed to
stop, hover in the air, then turn over
onto it's nose" and dive headlong to
the earth-and to destruction.
With Hoxsey and Moisant, twenty.
seven aviators and their passengers
were killed last year in falls from
heavier-than-air machines, against five
in the two years previous. And those
three years comprise the working his
tory of the sport, for it was in 1908,
that Lieutenant Thomas e. Selfridge,
u. s. A., fell with Orville Wright in
the first public trial of an aereplane
at Fort Meyer. He was the first pas
senger and the first man killed in
self-sustained machine. The other
American dead, all killed this year,
are Johnstone, Hoxsey and Moisant.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
Greensboro Man Killed by Train.

Greensboro, Jan. 2. = Andrew
Weatherly, a well known Greensboro
real estate and rental man, was run
over and instantly killed by the in
coming passenger train from Madi
son Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. His
body was crushed almost beyond re
cognition, and at first the body was
thought to be that of w. G. Jennings
another Greensboro man. Investiga
ton showed that Mr.. Jennings was
at home.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

It will require more than one coat
of whitewash to renovate some poll
ticians Indeed, some of them need a
disinfectant added to the lime.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
COTTON MARKET

The New York cotton exchange was
closed today, the day being observed
as New Years day and a holiday.
Spots were bringing from Ia IL to
Ia "a on the Wilson market today.
Receipts here were light
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
THE WEATHER

we presume that the weather fac
tory is taking holiday today. New
years Day, legal holiday, as the
weather Bureau did not send US any
bulletin.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

OF all the monopolists the one We
most detest is he who monopolizes
conversation and prevents us from
getting in our word.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

The boaster's story of his life is too
much like the historical novel,-one
part truth to three parts fiction.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03
news ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST
MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE HAP
PENING THROUGHOUT The
COUNTRY

Chapel Hill, Jan. 2.-Dr. William B.
MacNider, of the University of North
Carolina Medical School, was Friday
elected a member of the Council of
American Pharmacologists at the
meeting in New Bern.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

Buena Vista, Va, Jan. 2-Fire early
Saturday in the business section did
damage to the extent of $4,000. In
surance of about $4,000 covered the
losses. Brown Brothers general
store was the heaviest losers, it being
damaged $4,000, with half that amount
of insurance
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

Westfe1d, Mass, jan 2.-Following
the discovery of an alleged shortage
of nearly 100000 in the funds of the
Westfeld Savings bank, the treas
urer of the institution, V. w. Crowson.
was placed under arrest and arraign-
ed in court. According to a statement
issued by State Bank Commissioner
Arthur D. Chaplin, Crowson has con
fessed to misappropriation Of the
funds of the bank.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

Charlotte, N. c., Jan. 2-L. M. Hun
ter, charged with having forged
checks on several Charlotte banks,
was brought here Saturday from
Harve de Grace, Nd, and turned over
to the Federal authorities. Hunter
came here several weeks ago and
posed as a manufacturer investigat-
ing a site for big plant. He in
stantly won the confidence of local
capitalists and lived high for week
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-01-03

Pinehurst, N. c.. Jan. I'm the
final round of the seventh annual
holiday week golf tournament Satur
day Walter J. Travis, Of Garden City,
former American and British cham
pion, defeated Paul M. Hunter, of Mid
lothian, two up and one to play.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-06
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Charleston. s. c.. Nov. 5.-The principal
events in the racing meet which the Car
olina Fair and Racing Association pro-
poses to hold in the suburbs of Charles
ton, in January. were announced to-day
and the conditions are printed below.
There will be twenty stakes. ranging In
value from 5000 to $1,000. The total value
of the stakes amounts to S27, 800 In addi-
ton to these, which constitute the larger
events of the racing season. purses, none
OF which will be less than 500 in value,
will be offered every day. while other
handicaps, each valued at from $500 to
$500, will be offered with frequency. 1t
is stated that the total amount to be
given away during the meet in the form
Of stakes and purses will be about S25O,OOO.
Work at the race track, situated at
Vests. is proceeding. the grading Of the
ground and the stalking out of the course
and other tasks OF the same sort occupy
ing the attention of the force. In the
next few days actual construction work
will be begun on the stables, stands. and
clubhouse, and the working force will be
greatly increased.
The main thing at present is to get the
stables ready as soon as possible. since
some 400 horses, which are now racing at
Norfolk, will be brought here during the
first week in December Something like
200 stalls will be built to accommodate
the 800 horses, feed &C, which will De
on the scene when the race meet opens
in January.
Following is a list of the stakes and
conditions:
SThe Sumter Inaugural Handicap 81 800
guaranteed; the Robert E. Lee Handicap,
$500 guaranteed, the Columbia Selling
Stakes, $500 guaranteed; the ST. John
Hotel Selling Stakes, 81. 900 guaranteed; !;
the Charleston Hotel Handicap, $500
guaranteed: the Battery Park Selling
Stakes, $1,000 guaranteed; the Juvenile
Stake. 1.OOO guaranteed; the Argyle Hotel
Handicap 1920 guaranteed: st. Valen-
tines Day Selling Stakes, 1850 guaran-
teed; the Debutantes Stakes, 5000 guar
anteed; the Washington Birthday Handi-
cap. $500 guaranteed; the Spartanburg
Selling Stakes, $1,000 guaranteed: the Cita-
del Handicap, 81 900 guaranteed; the Isle
OF Palms Selling Stakes, 81 900 guaran-
teed: st. Patrick's Day Handicap, So 900
guaranteed; the Calhoun Selling Stakes,
$1.200 guaranteed; the Palmetto Derby,
5000 guaranteed; the Pine Forest Inn
Stakes, 81 200 guaranteed: the Georgetown
Stakes, 81 200 guaranteed; the South Caro-
lima Selling Stakes, $500 guaranteed.
The above stakes, it will be seen, are
Of great interest to the horsemen, and
there is no doubt that Charleston will
be the racing mecca this winter. Work
is being rushed on the course at Vests.
The stake books for the meet will be
in the hands OF Arthur Elrod. for dis
tribution at Marlboro race track, in
Washington, this week.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-06
Good Races Carded
For Marlboro Track
Six Well Balanced Events Will Be Run To-day.
SteepLechaSe Course One of Best in Country.
Rough Riding Not to Be Tolerated.
By GEORGE b. MORRIS.

Marlboro, Md. Nov. Six events of
unusual class are slated to go tomorrow
at the Southern Maryland Fair Assocl-
alton track. AS announced yesterday, to-
morrow will be Ladies' Day, and a large
crowd is expected to turn out.
The management announced today that
on next Saturday another Army and
Navy race will be run. The horses that
have already won in these events are not
eligible for entry, and the contest will CEN
ter itself to nOnwinners of these events.
There will also be a steeplechase daily
for the balance of the meeting.
The steeplechase course is one of
the best in the country. The consensus
among hOrsemen is that it is the safest
of them all
The disqualification of Duncraggen yes
terday by the judges insures the public
that these gentlemen will not tolerate
any rough or foul riding, and have warn
ed the boys that the next offender will
be severely dealt with. The foul for
which Jockey Holmes was suspended and
fined 500 was the most deliberate that
has been seen in many a year. Holmes
deliberately jeopardized the lives of sew
eral OF the other boys in the race, and
not only at the start, but he continued
his fouling throughout the journey. WhIie
passing the fve-eighths pole he came
very near being the means of throwing
the boy on Belle Mawr over the fence
Judges Brady and Hill, who are
known to be very conservative in their
judgment, declared that the riding of
both Henderson and Holmes was not in
the interest of clean racing, and in set
ting these two boys down they have
earned the confidence of the public in
their circumspective judgment
The stalls at present are filled with
horses and the management have been
compelled to refuse many horses that
are desirous Of racing here. With con-
tinued good weather the races for the
balance of the meeting should be
of high class. Sixteen books did busi-
ness throughout the week. and there are
several waiting now to cut in"
Next year the management of the fair
association proposes to make many i'm
provements upon its property. Work will
be begun as soon as the present meet
ing Is over. The grand stand will be
torn down and new one erected. The
track VIII be heightened and many new
features added.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-06
BY c. w, SWAN,

'Murph" King. the giant tackle of the
Central High Schools football team, may
be seen in the back field in the game
tomorrow against Technical, that will
virtually decide the scholastic champion
ship OF the District for the 1911 season
on the gridirOn.
Should Fritz Reuter- be injured. or be
taken out of the game, King will be
sent 10 left half back. and from the
showing of King in practice, will be an
able substitute for the fleet Reuter-.
Working in practice against the second
team, King formed a part of the inter
ference, ran with the ball, and in every
way handled himself like a seasoned back.
King knew the plays, and there was hard
ly a hitch in the proceedings. Should Fritz
be injured, King will have q chance to
show what kind of a ground gamer he
is
The outcome Of tO-morrow's battle will
be watched with interest, as it is really
the game that will decide the champion
ship, as neither Eastern nor Western is
conceded chance to beat either Tech
or Central and Business is hopeIessly out
of the running for the title.
Fritz Reuter- VIII Play.
Tech will start about the same team
that played against Western, and Central
will have Fritz Reuter- in the first lineup.
That will be about the only change made
in the teams. CentraTs ends will be
Zapponne and Dyson. while the Ma
chinists will have Peake and McKenny
al the points of the line.
Hamilton and Morris will do the punt
ing for their respective teams, and a
comparison of the booting of the cap
tains will be an interesting feature of the
game, although Morris is conceded TO
have the edge on Hamilton in this de-
The Washington herald., 1911-11-06

partment of the game. King will be
called upon to boot few, and the big
boy can lift the ball a little. Taken all
in all. Central should win by at least one
touchdown, with the chances favoring
Technical to score.
At yesterdays game between the Vigi-
lants and the Troop D eleven ,one OF
the largest crowds that ever witnessed
an Independent football game turned out.
At least 1000 people saw the game. and
good game 1t was.
The work of Joe Geibel. of Savannah
fame. was easily the feature of the
bloody battle, the crack full back hitting
the line and circling the ends time and
again for gains of from 10 to 30 yards.
In the second half, Geibel intercepted a
forward pass and ran so yards for a
touchdown.
There is a great deal of discussion re-
garding the best all-around football
player in the high school series, and
when all is said and done, you have to
hand the laurels to Country Morris,
the star of the Technical aggregation
William is the best punter in the
scholastic ranks, is without a doubt the
best defensive back, and hits the line
hard On end runs Country is with
out a peer. So, taken all in all. Morris
is the best aIl-around football player
in the high schools.
Not only in football is Morris a star
but in baseball and on the cinder path
Country is a demon, thereby over
shadowing anybody else in the Series.
True. Fritz Reuter- is a great sprinter
but Fritz does not play the national
game, and in that respect Morris has it
on him. On the track Reuter- is a better
man than Morris. but 'Country's'' base
ball aid makes him a more valuable man
than Reuter-.