davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
WILLIAMS is DEAD
Band of so Americans That At
tackled 600 Mexicans
Lost Nearly Half Their Number
in the Encounter.

MexicaIi, Mex, April 10.-General
Stanley Williams, who was wounded
Saturday in the spectacular assault
when his little force of so men engaged
the entire Eighth battalion of the Mex
lean army, died Sunday in the impro-
vised hospital established by the United
States troops at Calexico, from the
wounds he sustained during the engage
ment. Together with the other dead
away, the fallen chieftain was buried
in the little graveyard at Mexica1i, just
behind the breastworkS.
sile that ploughed through the head at
the base of the skull, tearing away the
rear partition of the brain.
While not as sanguinary as the re-
bells themselves at first believed the de-
feat of Williams nevertheless proved a
perfect rout of the attacking force.
Fifty men who participated in the dar-
ing sortie have returned to MexicaL.
Eleven others have deserted and are
now in the Jail established by the
American troops at Calexico. The re-
manning "a of the band are believed to
be dead, as the federals took no pris-
oners
That any escaped alive is due only to
the failure of the federals to press their
advantage and pursue the routed in
surrectos as they fled in wild disorder
from the field.
Colonel Miguel Mayot, the federal
commander, said when he was visited
at the Lee Little ranch that his loss
was 12 dead and IA wounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
NO TRUTH IN 1T.
Taft Authorizes Emphatic Denial of
Latest War Scare Story.

Washington, April 1O-President
Taft moved swiftly today to suuelch
the latest Japanese war scare story. In
cidentaIly member of the senate
committee of foreign relations reveal
ed some of the reasons the president
has given that committee and the
house committee on foreign affairs
for the mobilization of troops on the
ton of Ohio, the president made an
emphatic denial of the report from
Mexico City that a proposed treaty be-
tween Japan and Mexico caused the
movement of troops to Texas.
THE president authorized me-" said
Senator Burton, "to deny in most en-
phatic terms the story from Mexico
City about a secret treaty between
Mexico and Japan. There is not a
word of truth in it,
Senator Bacon of Georgia, ranking
minority member of the foreign rela-
tions committee after a talk with the
president declared that Mr.. Taft was
surprised and indignant at the reports
duplicating Japan and Mexico.
"You can put the whole story down
as absurd said Senator Bacon.
1.-THE president has talked to me and
to other members of the committee
and explained the reasons for send
ing the troops south. There was dan
ger of widespread revolution and per-
haps anarchy in Mexico. The presi-
dent acted quickly and decisively. He
believed the army. should be on the
border ready for any contingency
when congress met
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
HE TURNS HOMEWARD.
This Is the Last Week of Colonel
RooseveIt's Tour.

Spokane, Wash, April 10.-Theodore
Roosevelt completed his visit to the
state of Washington on his last ex-
tended speaking tour" when he de-
parted for Moscow, Idaho, at o'clock
Sunday afternoon. His Sunday in Spo-
kane was a quiet one after the unusual
amount Of speech making and reception
ceremony crowded into Saturday. Mr..
Roosevelt attended church in the morn
ing in company with Governor Hay and
Senator Poindexter and lunched as the
guest of w H. Cowles, of this city
From Mr.. Cowles' home he returned to
his hotel for a brief rest before his
train left for Moscow.
Governor James A. Hawley, of Idaho
and a delegation of citizens from Mos
COW accompanied Mr.. Roosevelt on the
trip from Spokane.
Mr.. Roosevelt last hours in Spokane
were not free from the crowds, which
have attended his every movement
since his arrival in the city. Whenever
he left his hotel a throng gathered
about the doorway and greeted him
with cheers and while he was at church
a crowd of several hundred were about
the building to catch a sight Of him
as he came out.
Mr. Roosevelt will return to Spokane
late today to take the train for Sand
Point, Idaho, the next succeeding stop
in his itinerary.
After leaving Sand Point Mr.. Roose-
welt will visit but four more towns be-
is due April Is. Missoula and Helena, in
Montana, ST. Paul, Mimi, and Madison.
Wis, are his only remaining stops. AT
ST. Paul he will address the Minnesota
legislature and will also talk to the
Wisconsin lawmakers at Madison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
NEARING A CRISIS.
Famine Likely to Be More Serious
Than War in Mexico.

Aqua Prieta, April 10.-Conditions
are rapidly shaping themselves in the
states of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mex
leo, for a crisis more serious than the
loss of life in battle. Americans in
these two states declare that unless
the rebellion is ended with peace over
lures very soon, all northern Mexico
will experience disastrous famine.
Because of the spirit of unrest and
general discomfort prevailing last au-
tumn the planting of wheat was neg
lected and even if the crop can be
harvested, which is improbable, it viii
be small. The real planting season,
however, ia in the spring and SO in
tent upon rebellion, have the Mexicans
been that almost no tilling of the soil
has been done.
The ground has not been prepared
for the corn crop, the mainstay Of the
people of northern Mexico Supplies
on hand to tide the population over
the summer and into the fall are well
nigh exhausted, for not only has there
been no producing population but the
country has been soverrun by rebel
laid by. The rebel general, Blanco,
entered Sonora from, Chihuahua and
in his wake from Baserac to the
American line, left nothing but brok-
EN- down horses and empty corn bins.
What men have not entered the
I6OSl RAINS dS ISnl6TS nave H0Q
their homes and fields to escape inn
pressment into the federal ranks, or
to avoid the payment of war tribute
exacted by the rebel leaders. First
the Bavispe and Yaqui valleys, then
the Nacosari valley, and now the
Sonora river valley have been deserted
by the crop growers and given over
to the rebel army
The cities of Sahuaripa, Frontier
and Arizpec, capitals of the districts
of these names, have been entirely
abandoned by the federal government
Cananea has only a portion of one
troop of federal troops with volun-
teers; Moctezuma is guarded by a
handful of volunteers. In Chihuahua
the rebels control most of the state
with their forces concentrated around
the capital city of Chihuahua, while
in the state of Sonora the federal
troops are massed at Hermosillo
alone.
In Mexico the corn crop of one sea-
son does not last into the next BY
November of this year the corn wee
wills will have wrought such havoc on
any stores that might be left over that
the stocks will be worthless. And not
only will the wheat crop be limited in
area, but the horses of the rebel bands
have been turned into the green fields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

panied by DR.. Ben L. Reitman. her
press agent, who holds an interna-
tional reputation as king of the no.
boes." Miss Goldman came to To-
peka Sunday night from Lawrence,
where she delivered three lectures,
one to university students.
There is no uncertainty about the
things Emma Goldman stands for. In
plain, unvarnished language she re-
cites scores of objections to govern
ment, society and religion. She points
to evils and corruption and mildly de-
clares that only a revolution can set
Alright the conditions of the nations.
Profoundly she denounces the voice of
the majority as tyrannical and oppres-
sive. She is Mortified at the position
of the United States in relation to the
situation in Mexico. With great en-
phasis Miss Goldman denounces the
Kansas prohibitory law and declares
that it but makes criminals of the
poor and shields the rich.
1t is Miss Goldman's first visit to
Topeka. She SHES at a discussion of
local conditions. She believes the in
surgent movement has done some good
but is far, far from the goal. She
does not endorse socialistic ideas, but
admits that every little improvement
helps.
at is mighty hard to make our posi-
tion understood" said the little woman
who can sway a mob, people are so
pretudiced, so unjust. Then back of
1t all is a system that is utterly and
almost hopelessly wrong. A corrupt
government. corrupt officials. who
wink at the rich and clamor for the
lives of the poor. There is no better
illustration of our position than a
study of the judiciary system of this
country. 1t is so rotten, so down in
the mire that justice is a by word
and something wholly unknown.
Il was just a girl of H." continued
Miss Goldman, as she adjusted her
nose glasses when 1 came to this
country. I was inspired by my vision
of the freedom and liberty of America.
My visit was hurried by stories of the
Haymarket riots in Chicago. Some
how I felt that those men were being
wronged. I studied those trials and
nv heart sickened. What I supposed
was justice and right proved to be a
great public press, multitude clam
oring for the lives of those men who
had been pounced upon by the police
in the name of the lava law in
which they had no part in making
"In later years they accused me of in
spring that riot, but it was all false
I was in New York state at the time
and only a girl. DR.. Reitman received
his first recognition in those trials.
"Then 1 began to study the great
questions. I wrote a great deal and
spoke often. I was so impressed with
the cOrruptlon OF Ine enIlre system,
that I could not shake 1t from nv mind
"They say that the majority shall
rule. But what about the minority 4?
Did you ever think that perhaps their
idea was in advance of the old regime ?
Should they be dominated and con-
trolled by a majority that is composed
of the almost unspeakable political or
ganizations of this country? The pub
lie have accused me of many things.
They said inspired the assa ssination
of President Mckinley. But even the
newspapers have since corrected that.
"People think that when 1 talk 1 ex-
pIode bomb, that I will give a treatise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
NO JAP WAR SAYS BARON
Peace Advocate Says Japan Would
Have Much to Lose.

Seattle, Wash, April 10.-Baron
DEstournelles de Constant, senator of
France and advocate of universal
peace, addressed a large audience az
the Queen Anne Congregational church
last night. Baron De Constant will de-
liver two addresses on peace today, one
at the University of Washington in thu
morning and another at the First Pres
byterian church at night.
In his address at the Queen Anne
church, Baron De Constant said:
Should serious difference arise be-
tween this country and Japan. 1 feel
sure the American people are too wise,
and the Japanese too clever, ever to
permit the disagreement to carry the
two nations into war.
while some of the Japanese and a
few in your own country might be
aroused to the primitive instinct for
battle, I believe the balance of opinion
on both sides would favor arbitration.
The Japanese know that they would
have little to gain and much to lose by
going to war with the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
MAY FLY THIS WAY.
Honeywell Says He Expects to Land
in Great Lakes Region.

San Antonio, Tex, April 10.-"You
may say positively that We will start
on our balloon trip Monday evening,
unless it is pouring rain,'' said Lieut.
H. E. Honeywell, last night.
He has been in San Antonio one
month waiting favorable weather con-
ditions to start on a balloon voyage
which he and his aid, J. w. Tolland,
propose to make a worlds record trip
and a winner of the Lahm cup
With the right sort of upper air cur
rent, Lieut.. Honeywell expects to land
in Canada or in the vicinity of the
Great Lakes about Wednesday even
ing. Lieut.. Honeywell is a member
of the signal corps. Missouri National
Guard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
PRINCESS IRENE FLOATS.
Escapes From Her Imprisonment,
After S3 Hours, Unframed.

New York. April 10.-Bearing no visi-
Bile scars except shattered rudder
post, the North German Lloyd liner
Princess Irene dipped away from Fire
Island Sunday afternoon as unexpect-
edly as she had come in the fog of
Thursday morning.
After SO hours of Imprisonment in the
sand she cheated the graveyard Of the
Atlantic" and was f1oated with the aid
of tugs at 3:05 p. m. At $40 she left
In tow for Scotland light to anchor for
the nigh
The vessel has not taken a drop of
water and her plates are thought to
be intact.
1t has been an iron rule with the
North German Lloyd that a captain
who loses his ship shall be dismissed
from the service. But as the veteran
Petersen, Of the Princess Irene, will
take his ship back across the Atlantic
under her own steam, it is the assump-
ton that his personal grief will be his
chief punishment.
To the life savers who followed the
work to save the Princess Irene her
sudden floating was distinct surprise.
Two hours before the water was due
to its full height the ship was seen to
rock in the tide and 20 minutes later
she raised slightly. The wrecking tugs
Relief and Rescue were pulling on her
stern to starboard and port, and the
Irene's donkey engines were straining
at the kedge anchors to Sseaward
At 3:03 the anchor cable began to
slacken-the first sign that the ship
would free herself Another pull and
her stern was free in 80 feet of water
and at 3:12 the six feet of the ships
hull which had shown while she stuck
in the sand, dwindled to a narrow rib
bon as she slid into deeper water. She
was afnat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
BETTER THAN LAST YEAR
But Wheat Is Three Points Below the
1O-Year Average.

Washington. April 1O.-Winter wheat
on April 1 showed an average condition
of 1913 per cent of a normal against
S0s a year ago, s2.2 in 1909 and S6.9,
the ten year average, according to the
April crop report of the department of
agriculture issued at noon today. The
advance in condition from December 1,
1910, to April 1 was s. points as COM
pared with an average decline in the
past ten years of A points.
Rye showed an average condition or
April 1 of 1913 per cent of a normal
against 92.3 a year ago, S7.2 in 1903
and 902 the ten years average.
Conditions in certain states follow:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
CIGARS TO COLUMBIA.
Crocker WilIed 10000 Fine Ones to
the University.

New York, April 10.-Are cigars
household goods and furnishings?
Upon the legal answer to this question
depends the fate of $4,000 hfty-cent or
better cigars left to Columbia Uni
ersity by the late George Crocker as
a part of the $1,000,0O0 estate he di-
rected should be devoted to the study
of cancer.
The cigars were found in a giant
humidor built into the basement wall
of Mr.. Crocker's mansion at Mahwah,
N. j. Most of them are stamped with
Mr.. Crocker's monogram and were
made by the leading cigar factories OF
the world.
Before they can be sold it will be
necessary to determine if they may
be properly classified as household
goods and furnishings" If so, they
have to find some other means of dis
posing of them under the terms of the
will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
PROF. FREEMAN IS DEAD
Head of Department of English, Uni
versity Wisconsin Dies Here.

Prof. John Charles Freeman, age
So years, died this morning at the
residence of his son, DIR. John D. Free
man, 623 Madison street. Prof. Free
mans home is in Madison, Wisconsin,
where he has been the head of the
English department in the state uni
versity since 1878. For four years he
was U. S. consul at Copenhagen. He
was an old soldier, having served
throughout the Civil war.
Prof. Freeman has been in poor
health for some time and for the past
three months has made his home in
Topeka, with his SON. He is survived
by three children, DIR. J. D. Freeman
of Topeka, and two daughters who live
in Madison. DR.. Freeman will leave
Tuesday, with the remains, for Madi-
son, Wis, where the funeral services
will be held. There will be no services
in TOpeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

east Kansas Teachers association,
which closed. it's annual session here
Saturday. DR.. S. H. Clark, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, delivered three adj
dresses before the association. And he
particularly opposed the tendency to-
ward manual training and commercial
education to the detriment of that
broader education which makes for
culture and the development of mental
capacity. Similar views were also ex-
pressed by other speakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
A Huge Airship Has Been Pro.
jected at Berlin.
Company Capitalized at s., ,OOO..
600 to Finance Scheme.
TO BE 775 FEET LONG.
Eight Times the Size of Zep.
pelin's New Deutschland.
Will Carry 200 Passengers and
a Crew of 100,

Berlin, April 10.-A huge airship In
tended for transatlantic travel is pro-
jected here and a company capitalized
at $2.o00,0o0 has been formed to
finance the scheme. The proposed
dirigible will be eight times longer
than Zeppelin's new Deutschland. The
plans call for a vessel IT'S feet long,
driven by thirty motors It will be
able to carry 200 passengers, in addi-
ton to crew of 100. The promoters
claim it will be able to travel from
London to New York without mishap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
Death Of Cornelius McAulife.

Chicago, April 10.-Cornelius Nc
Aulife until recently managing editor
of the Chicago Record-Herald, died
in charge of the editorial department
of the Record Herald since the con-
solidation of the Times-HeraId and
the Record. He returned recently
from California, where he had gone in
quest of health
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
Weather Is Warmer.

AS far as the temperature is con-
cerned, this is a real April day The
wind, however, is of the variety which
is supposed to prevail in March, 1t
is coming from the south at twenty
mile gait. The weatherman says that
the wind may subside somewhat by
tomorrow, and that tonight and to-
morrow will be fair. The wind is
caused by an area of low pressure over
Montana The hourly readings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
GOLDMAN is HERE
APOSTLE of Anarchy Pays Topeka
Visit.
Boldly PrOclaims Doctrine OF
Reform of Society.
SAYS SYSTEM is WRONG
Doesn't Believe in Government
of the Majority.
Takes a Rap at the Kansas Pro-
hibitOry Law.

Preaching the gospel of discomfort,
Emma Goldman, anarchist, opponent
of representative government, religious
organizations, social conditions and
the public school system, is spending
two days in Topeka. She is accom-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
White Citv fo. Herington s.

Herington, April 10.-The Whlte
City highs defeated the Heriugton
high school Saturday by a score of 10
to 8. The game was close through
out and was anybody's bacon until the
ninth inning. when White City got the
winning runs across. This was the
first game for both teams. Batteries:
White Citt-Wallace and sharp; Her
ington-Raird and Allison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
Two hundred Die by FYre.

Bombay. British India, April 10
Two hundred men, women and chill
dren were burned to death last night
in a fire which destroyed a thatched
structure in which they had gathered
for a festival. Five hundred persons
were in the building. There was only
one exit and a panic ensued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
MANUAL TRAINING IS LOSING.
Educators Deprecate Commercial
Training-Detriment to Culture.

Atchison. Kan. April 10.-Are educa-
tors swinging away from the manual
trainir~ idea? This was indicated by
the lectures delivered before the North
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
Weather Indications.

Kansas: Generally fair tonight and
Tuesday. Moderate temperature.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-02-09
BELIEVES N LOR|NER
Citizen Of Alma interviewed by
Washington Post
MARCUS KEEPS TO THE FRONT
And Believes LOrimer The Strongest Ma
Politically In Illinois

Our townsman, Marcus Pollasky. was
in Washington. ID. c.. last week
Judging from the following interview
clipped from the editorial page of the
Washington Post of February 3rd.
The article referred TO said: Marcus
Pollasky, of Chicago. who can boast
OF an cvitable political record in the
middle West. is at the New Willard.
Mr.. PollaSky. while always active in
the Republican politics OF Michigan
and Illinois, has never held office. al
though he has had many offered him
Twice he declined to consider con
gressional nomination in the Third
Illinois district. In the Springfield
convention of 1890 he was chosen to
present the name OF John r. Tanner
for governor OF Illinois Mr. Pollasky
was also nominated for the United
States Senate. He is credited with
/ being the pioneer subway man of the
western hemisphere, having incorpor-
ated company under the laws OF Hi
nois As early a March IL, 1894.
Senator Lorimcr is the strongest
man politically in the State, said Mr.
Pollasky The people OF Illinois have
demonstrated their confidence in him
! by re-electing to the legislature the
men who supported him.
81 believe Senator Iorimer will
come out on top and prove himself
ore of the strongest and most useful
members of the United States Senate
There is no likelihood that his politi.
cal enemies will succeed in placing q
stigma OH his character.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-02-09
LELAND POWERS, IMPERSONAT OR

Mr.. Leland 7. Powers, who appears
in the Alma Opera House, Tuesday eve
ming February 2l is not only the leading
impersonator of America but one of the
best paid as we'll The Oratorical as
sociation of The college in getting him
here at cost of one hundred and fifty
dollars make it evident that they are
not stopping for expense if what they
get is worth the price. We congratulate
them upon this effort to give the citizens
of Alma and vicinity an opportunity to
hear the best the lyceum platform
offers. Mr.. Powers has selected as the
plav to be given in Alma, David Garrick
by T. w. Robertson. This three act
comedy, Mr.. Powers favorite, always
captivates his audience. In it his power
of Interpretation is beyond description;
he must be seem to be appreciated. We
predict a crowded house at the Realty.
Seats on sale at Wheaton's Drug Store,
Saturday February 18th, 80 and 80 cents.