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The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-09-20
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The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-09-20
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The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-09-20

Important 70 Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA. safe and sure remedy foS
Infants and children. and see that ID
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
FARMERS FAVOR
 RADICAL CHANGES
Would Abolish Electoral College and Elect by
 Direct Vote

Chattanooga, Tenn. September 5.-The Farmers Educational and Cooperative union at today's session adopted d legis- lative programme and recommended if for consideration by the state auxiliary unions The programme favors that the constitution of the United States be amended so as to abolish the electoral college and elect the President. senators, representatives and supreme court judges by direct vote of the people. It favors an income and graduated tax from in- heritances. It demands that the banking laws be in the interest of the borrower as well as lender; that power to control volume of currency be retained by Con gress; that mineral rights and water power be reclaimed by government and held for the benefit of the people. IL opposes alien ownership of and owner- ship of surplus land by corporations, demands water be eliminated from all stock undertakings, favors legalized pri- mary. initiative referendum and recal, for state and other legislation for the protection of farmers.
 The association adopted tine above reso- lutions today, through the report of it's legislative committee, consisting of w. H. Brown of Indiana. H. Alexander. North Cardina; NJ. S. Knight. Florida. and Loult Delivuk. Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
SUBMITS PAPERS
 ON GIBSON CASE
Lawyer Ordered to Show Cause Why He Should Not Be Removed as
 ExecutOr of Will

New York September 5.--Dr. Fritz Fischerauer. Austro-Hungarian vice con sul. visited District Attorney Whitman late today and placed in the hands of the prosecutor mass of material bearing on the case of Burton W. Gibson, the lawyer exeeutor of the estate of Mrs. Rose Szabo, q widow who was drowned recently while rowing with Gibson on an Orange county lake By the terms of her will Gibson became administrator of her s1e.0oO estate Today through the initiative of the con sulate Gibson was ordered by the surro- gate to show cause why he should not be removed as administrator.
 Dr. Fischerauer and an attorney, who accompanied him talked with the prose cutor and two of his assistants for more than an hour. The n,i- merous papers in the vice con- suls possession bearing on the mat ter were submitted to the district at- torney's assistants who examined them closely
 Mr. Whitman, after the conference. would not indicate what action, if any, he would take in the matter.
 According to John J. Frederick. acting consul-general for Great Britain, Mr. Rice O'Neall British subjeer, who dis appeared more than one year ago after winning a sl0G0 damage suis. In 19ot Gibson was counsel for Mrs. Alice ati- nan who was killed in her home III the Bronx. The murder was never solved Gibson was held in $g5.000 bail pending investigate of the case, but he was re- leased on a habeas corpus writ and the matter was dropped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1-Bandit felled by engineer in hos pital.
 Canal question to be conducted on financial basis.
 Cotton crop of south past year of record size.
 Rushing arms to Americans fin dan ger.
 Hayes repudlates alleged charges. Rebels defeated by government. 2-Steel plant will begin operations University books in splendid shape. 3-Ten years of Alabama Burnett to speak at Albertville. Huntsville car company changes
 hands. 4-Editorial comment. 5-Ask contributions to campaign fund Miss Julia Ward fatally burned May announce plans for Jefferson
 bank today.
 o. & C. men hold all-day meeting Negro prisoner pleads own case. Look at Avondale as site for zoo. Plan addition to l.oveman, Joseph
 2 Loeb. 6-IIelping Hand Hints. Society.
 Dolly Dalrymple. 7-Sports. S-f25 examined by jury al Talladega 9-Roosevelt spends day in Minnesota I0-Georgia will have two new coun-
 ties. 11--Markets. i2--Dr. Denny silent on co-education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
HAYES REPUD|ATES
 ALLEGED CHARGES
Refuses to Affirm State ments He Is Quoted as
 Making to Whitman

New York. September a.==Cornelius q. Hayes. the denoted police inspector.
 made categorical denial today of pub lIshed statements quoting him as saving
 he would tell on the witness stand at his
 departmental trial story that would cause Commissioner Waldo to resign in 24 hours The statements were said to
 have been made by Hayes to District At tcrney Whitman during the secret coll ference he held with the prosecutor last Tuesday evening. it was understood Hayes then had asked MT. Whitman to delay presenting to the grand jury cer- tain evidence involving the former in- srector until after his trial on the charge of making a false statement 10 Mr Waldo
 wEich begins tomorrow.
 Hayes. summoned to police headquar- ters and ordered officially to affirm or
 deny the statement together with other
 accusations he was. reported toshave made against the commissioner. made com plete denial
 Although District Attopnev whitnau retused today to discuss his conference with Hayes it was learned that the prosecutor hds ulpflstu 10 near Atdt
 Hayes has repudiated some of the state- ments attributed to him. MT Whitman expects to attend the trial tomorrow to hear what Hayes will say in his defense. Louis Libby, part owner with William Shapiro of the murder ear in the Rosen-
 thai case, was called today before the
 grand jury which indicted Police Lieu
 tenant Becker for the murder of Rosen- thai. He denied having been told hy
 Shapiro. 1t was learned who the occu- pants of the car were, and professed ig-
 norance of any knowledge of the mur- der plot.
 The investigation by the commissioner of accounts into alleged graft levied on
 owners of news stands resulted tonight in
 the arrest of Benjamin r. Strauss. an election district captain on charge of
 grand larceny According 10 the evi-
 dence of witness at the investigation
 Strauss acted as the agent of an alder man in the collection of graft. District Attorney Whitman, it was learned tonight is confident that in spite of the denials Hayes made tae statement attributed to him. the police officer will
 make sensational revelations when he is
 placed on the stand in the John Doe hear ings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
TAFTS STRAINED
 ANKLE IS BETTER
The President Joins His Wife in New York and Presidential. Party
 Leaves for New London

New York. September 5.-Still nursing his lame right ankle, but determined lo keep his engagement with the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways association at New London. Conn.,, tomorrow. President Taft left New York late today on the yacht Mayflower. C. P. Taft, the President 2 brother; Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the republican national committee, and George R. Sheldon. it's treasurer accom- panied him. Mrs. Taft came down from Beverly on the yacht.
 Major Thomas l.. Rhoads. the Presi- dents personal aide and the physician who accompanied him on the trip, de. clared today that the ankle was so much better that MT Taft will be out enjoying his vacation next week.
 The Presidents engagement in New London will keep him only a few hours and he expects to board the Mayflower tomorrow afternoon and leave for Bev- erly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
DIR. WILEY'S OPPONENT LEAVES THE BUREAU

Washington, September 5.--Dr. r. Dun Top Of the bureau of chemistry, and as- sistant chemist under the burean chief. Wiley, resigned today to accept com mercial position in Chicago. Dr Dunlop came into public notice as one Of the authors of charges of rregularity against pr. Wiley. At the time the charges against Dr. Wiley were Investigated pr Dunlop and Solicitor McCabe were mem bers of the pure food board with Dr. Wiley. The latter testified before the congressional committee that he was hin- dered in the administration of the pure food laws because pr. Dunlop and Solici- tor McCabe always voted against him
 pr. Dunlap insisted that the friction in connection with the pure food con troversy which was aired before Con- gross and which resulted in Dr. Wiley leaving the government service had nothing to do with his retirement "I simply want to better myself hnan- cially," said Dr. Dunlap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Request by Residents of Cananea Granted by the
 State Department
ARIZONA COWBOYS
 READY FOR ACTION
Prepared to Invade Sonora at a Moments Notice-BOrder Patrol Increased - Zapatistas Cap
 ture Town in Oaxaca

Washington. September 5.-Eyery effort is being made by the state department to get arms and ammunition to the Americans in the Cananea district to en- able them to protect themselves against the rayages of the rebels who now thick ly infest that country. Today request from the residents there was received at the state department asking for 500 rifles immediately, accompanied by POO rounds of ammunition for each gun.
 The Americans who signed the request to the state department for arms were informed today they could have the 100 guns at Nogales and cartridges at Her mosillo sent some time ago, already ac- cepted for export. The weapons will not be permitted to leave Nogales, however, until strong guard of federal soldiers or private citizens is provided to prevent the rebels from obtaining them. The guns will have to be paid for by the people to whom they are given.
 The Fl Tigre Mining company was to- day given permission to take across the border twenty rifles and about 4Oo0 rounds of ammunition to be used by the em- ployes of the company in protecting its property. It is probable that the addi- tional 400 rifles which are to be sent to the citizens in the Cananea district will have to come from the Frankford ar senal of the war department located near Philadelphia. In that case 1t will take about week to get them to the people. The Mexican government will be requested to provide a strong escort for the 400 ad- ditional rifles and ammunition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Zapatistas Capture Town

Mexico City, September 5-Raiding Zspatistas are reported to have captured San Migue Ahuehuetilan in Oaxaca Wednesday. They sacked the town. Carlos Mendez. a wealthy merchant, was seized and cremated in the flames of his own store Defenders of the town made a sharp fight, but they were overcome. The leader of tn. rebel band is said to be Eugenio Zapata. brother of Emiliano and Centeno and one of the men who broke iail in Puebla after having been confined on the charge of being guilty with others of murdering five Germans. one a woman. at Covadonga. A part oi the rebel band later in the day. according to the reports, was engaged by state troops in a hard fight at Silacayoapam. short distance away.
 Though the period for amnesty has ex- pired, the government, 1t Is announced, still will pardon those who seek it. A hundred and forty-five Salgadistas of the state of Guerrero were the last to take advantage of the governments attitude.
 The evuaction of Ojinaga by Colonel Jose de Ia Cruz Sanchez without having 2 made any resistance will be made the subject of an official inquiry. No effort is made to conceal the fact that the government considers the capture of the town a severe reversal as the rebels ob- tained there a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition.
 Minister Lascurain of the foreign office received advices last night that 800 fed eral soldiers had arrived at Cananea where 2000 Americans live. He said tha, the rebels would be unable to take the town.
 Twenty soldiers, the entire garrison al Ajuna, a railroad construction camp fir the state of Guanajuato were massacred Tuesday by a band of 200 rebels The village was sacked and several citizens were carried off presumably to be held for ransom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
NEW DISCOVERIES
 ABOUT MEASLES

Washington. September 5.-Dr. John F. Anderson and pr. Joseph Goldberg. of the public health service. have succeed >ed in innoculating monkeys with measles, something said to be hitherto unknown. They found that measles are not carried as had been supposed by the dry particles of the patients skin, but that the germs are conveyed in the breath and secretions from the nose and mouth and in the blood. The germ was found to be so minute that it passed through the pores of a porcelain filter
 The investigators will make known the series of their work al the fifteenth con gress of hygiene and demographN h ths city on September a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
WILSON TALKS
 ON |MM|GRA7
Explains Views to Delega- tiOns of Italians-Speaks
 Again Monday

Seagirt, N J., September 5.-Goy. Woodrow Wilson talked about immigra- ton to delegations of Italians from Jer- sey City and Brooklyn today
 T have had frequently occasions re- gently to meet delegations similar to this, he said and it has been a great qualification to me that they all speak in generous language of appreciation to- ward myself, but also with an extreme ly broad minded apprehension of what my real position is and what my real feel ings are.
 sThe fact of the matter is that Amer- ca has been enriched by having the as- piratons of some of the finest races in the world brought to ther shores re- ioice most heartily in the circumstances that men of every European blood have brought to this country their highest as pirations because they can't bring these aspirations without adding to the aspira- tions of the country and making the country greater and freer than it would be without them. For myself 1 have never felt the. slightest jealousy of the right kind of immigration and by the right kind of immigration 1 mean the voluntary kind
 I'll 4as lssees1 5. ssu t,z most part ro lis eoriespondenes today
 His next speaking engagement is Mon day at the New York Press club. when he will analyze the three parties and their platforms.
 From s a. m. until l:15 p. III. Governor Wilson was lost to his secretary and office staff and newspaper correspond ents. He was refodnd when he arrived at Seaglrt from New York. After speak ing in New York last night the governor spent the night at a hotel and got up early to take an S:30 o'clock train. He happened to meet Josephus Daniels, who prevailed on him to begin work on a speech to be delivered at the New York Press club Monday night. The governor returned to his hotel where he remained quietly until II o'clock when he departed for fhp Difal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
$1 Would Be Inadequate

On the basis of ten million tons busi- ness this would yield an income mad equate to meet the cost of operations and maintenance of the canal-S3. o0, ,00-allow s500.000 a year for the sanitation of the zone and provide fair rate rate of inter est on the s375.0o0,000 the canal has cost. not to speak of the impossibity of pro- yiding for a sinking fund. Allowing 7 per cent interest on the capital invested in the canal, and 1 per cent for sink ing fund. the total of the annual charges on the canal are likely to be r1nre than s15, ,00o0 0o0 or about % per cent more than the gross revenue from tolls.
 With these figures before them and the rate on British shipping fixel far below the actual cost of the service by condi- tons over which the United states gov ernment has no control, it ,s believed by the officials here that they will have little difficulty in showing that the exemption of American coastwise traffic from tolls has no influence upon British shipping and consequently that no discrimination is proposed in violation of treaty rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Border Patrol Increased

Washington. September 5:-Appearances of large number of Mexican rebels at Ojinaga has made it necessary to increase the American patrols in the Big Bend sec tion of Texas. Troops are being sent from Port Clark Seven hundred rebels are encamped 10 miles below Quitman. and the rebel General Salazar with 1,Oyo men are in the Caputian mountains, west of Sabinal station, on the Mexican Northwestern railroad. Neither sioe is moving Three hundred rebels are en- camped IS miles south of Juarez and Gen eral SalaZar seems to command a large section of the territory bounded by Gus man. Casas Grandes, Ojitos and Boca Giandes where he has been receiving re- Inducements from Sonora General Schuyler reports that Cananea is now safe but that the situation at Nacozari is pre- cariouS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
No Previous Records
Investigation Is Held

Mobile. September 5.-Assistant Su- perintendent John Bose of the Louis- vIle and Nashville railroad held an in : vestigation in his offices Thursday of the hold-up of the New York Limited near New orleans. Wednesday night
 The entire train crew were sum- moned before the assistant superin- tendent and required to give full de- tails of the affair. Engineer Baer and Conductor William Rabon were the two principal witnesses.
 Egineer Baer, who knocked out the lone bandit. made this statement.
 While near Michaud the engineer, hearing noise in the coal, looked around to see a man coming over the tender He was masked and had a pistol in each hand. He ordered the train stopped, after which he marched the engineer and his fireman first to the mail car and then the first Pull man car. He made a negro porter pass the hat among the passengers who obeyed the bandits commands to give up their money After this he marched the engineer. the fireman and two ne- gro porters back to the engine, where he made the two negroes rifle the pouches taken from the mail car
 "I watched him very closely" the engineer, told the superintendent. and when he turned his head l hit him with the brass torch After I hit him his pistol exploded or he fired one shot Then I hit him several more times which put him down and out" Engi- neer Baer and Conductor Rabon, to- Rether with Assistant Superintendent Bose. left Mobile Thursday afternoon for New oyleans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
 MRS. E. C. CAMPBELL ASPHYXIATED BY GAS

Chicago. September 5.-Mrs. Edgar =. Campbell, g years old, wife ct Edgar C. Campbell. d clerk in the office of pay master of the United States army at Chi cago, was found dead in her homo to- night.
 She had been asphyxiated by gas put whether she committed suicide because of III health or fainted and was acciden- talls overcome by gas escaping from T stove Is not known. She was the daugh- ter of Captain R. G. Carter -ur tite Sev- enteenth infantry, r. $. A.. stationed st Fort McPhei son, Ga. and had been in i'll health since .her return from the lshi,- ippines q year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Cowboys Are Warlike

Douglas, Ariz., September 5.-Equipped with 120 rifles and 6o,0o0 rounds of am intuition shipped here last night an or ganized body of cowboys was prepared to- day to move at a moments notice into Sonora where American interests are said to be gravely imperilled. The cowboys met secretly last night and organized a military body.
 Reports were made regarding the situa- tion of Americans at various mining camps threatened by Orozco's rebels on their way west Millions of dollars worth of American property in sonora, the reports said, was in jeopardy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
EXPENSE ALLOWANCES
Commerce Court Judges Will Not Get
 $500 a Year

Washington, September 5-fhe comp troller of the treasury today Instructed E. J. Starek, marshal of the commerce. court. not to pay to the judges of that tribunal the sl.5G0 year. expense allow ance." for attendance on the court when it is in session in Washington. The court has held all it's sessions in Washington. and while the item was in the act that created the court, the list of expenses for which provision was made m the ap- propriation bills now in force gives no snecific authority for the allowance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
ALLEGE OVERCHARGE
 ON EXPORT COTTON

Washington. September 5--Protestins that they had been overcharged mans' thousands of dollars on export cottof shipments by the railroads of Texas, aS cotton exporters in Texas, Mississippi. Louisiana and Tennessee today petitioned the interstate commerce commission 10 adjudicate their claim. The railroads were accused of illegally increasing the rates for through bills of ladipg to for eign ports when the Texas railway com mission reduced tariffs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
CANAL QUESTION IS 1. ID BE CONSIDERED ON FINANCIAL BASIS In This View Importance Attached to Report
 of Johnson [ GIVES FIGURES
 ON CANAL TRAFFIC Flat Dollar Rate Would Be Necessary to Meet Competition of Suez
 Canal Which Would Not Meet Expenses

Washington. September 5.-The let ter of Sir Edward Grey. the British foreign secretary to the Gateshead Chamber of Commerce yesterday re- gardlng the British government ati- tude toward the Panama canal act is ! egarded here as an Indication that the negotiations between the two coun- tries are to have financial basis. tho foreign secretary's argument being that the shipping is to be hurdened with all undue proportion of the charges for the maintenance of the canal through the complete exception from tolls of Amer ioan coastwise shipping.
 In this view importance attaches to an inquiry now being conducted on the isthmus by Prof. Emery R. Johnson, special commissioner on Panama traffic and tolls. He already has compiled, by direction of the Secretary of War. all the statistics bearing upon the char acter and probable amount of the traf- fic through the Panama canal which has formed the basis of congressional action.
 He is now engaged in a study of the field of the enterprise so tolls may be adjusted to the needs of the canal on a strictly scientific basis and he is expected in Washington soon with this data.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Hyde Trial Postponed

Kansas City, September 5.--Attorness for E. Clarke Hyde and representatives of the county prosecutor filed & stipula- ton in the criminal court today agreeing to the postponement of the third trial of pr. Hyde for the alleged murder Of Col. yhomas II. Swope until January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
Arms for Americans

Fl Paso, Texas September 5:-Fifty thousand pounds of ammunition was shipped from Fl Paso last nIght 10 Douglas. Arizona to be sent there to the Mexicans and American employees of the big Phelps-Lodge copper company who have been fighting alipost continually since last Sunday agat Mexican rebels syhe are attempting "S esptiIrs and loot the place. The ammunition was sent from here in sealed baggage car. The rail- road tracks have been destroyed between Douglas and Nacozari, and there are rebels along the line. The problem of get ting the ammunition to the beleaguered town is not an easy one.