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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-26
DR.. Charles F. Aked
Writes on
AMERICAN WOMEN
AND MILITANCY
Bv DR.. CHARLES F. AKED
Written for The Atlanta Georgian.

TT is asserted, perhaps with lit
tie knowledge and less judg-
ment. that Mrs Pankhursts
visit to America will be product
i've of wide results in the adop-
ton of a policy of "militancy" by
American women.
1t is to be hoped these forecasts
are wrong. "Militancy," as now
understood and practiced, has
done untold harm in England;
has shocked and grieved the best
friends of woman suffrage among
men. and has done apparently
irreparable damage to women
themselves. Nothing in the world
can justify the action of the
Pankhurst circle and their fol-
lowers. But they have been
driven into the irrationality of
crime by the more reasonless
irrationality and more criminal
crimes of the Asquith Cabinet. In
America, between the Pacific and
the Atlantic, there is not the
shadow of a pretense that women
are driven or are likely to be
driven out of the path of orderly.
sane and healthy methods of ad-
Vocating a noble cause.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-26

We have published occasionally pictures asking
readers to think about them.
This picture by reader. says Wont you
print your readers think this picture that send
you? Arthur Young who made it, made pictures for your
paper. consider this of his best.
We print the picture with credit but don think it one
of Arthur Young's best although it is interesting
Mr. Young who has made many fOrceu cartoons for the
Hearst newspapersand who hope will make many others
lis just at in the position of the gentleman who had
suddenly discovered that the earth wanted
around it and find out if it really
Mr. Young discovered that there thing
ica thought also that injustice this world and
decided go for the radical thought away
the injustice
He enthusiastic young friend Upton Sinclair who
told about ago that the end of the indus
trial system would come in eight years
This a world of injustice Not villains
the and good vrtuous moral people bottom
this still world of ignorance and IGNORANCE is
cruelty and injustice.
Mr. Young represents capitasm-that is to say sue
ceeatng the fat juicy fruit of prosperity while labor poor
deserving vrtuous little thing below getting an occa
sional drop of the juice
Mr. Young has scornfu pointing badly deve
oped skull of capitalism with the lines wonderful direct
ing brain Young idea is that it really wonderful
directing BRAIN just very fat dull brain.
But YOUNG DOESN'T EXPLAIN HOW IT HAPPENS
THAT THE DULL BRAIN ALWAYS HAS THE FRUIT.
The trouble with Mr. Young and many other young
whose discovery of injustice only recent they
ment violently, whereas they should reason quietly
Full of sympathy and goodness they let
charge of the machine.
1t is not romantic pleasant but tell Young
and his friends that matter of fact the with big
fruit really HAS the wonderful directing brain
If he ddn t have that he wouldn' have the fruit
The little gentleman the bottom representing labor
only getting occasional drop unselfh
creature who doesn't the fruit BECAUSE HE HAS
NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET IT
Ask the little gentleman whether would hold that fruit
and eat if he could get it, and he will promptly tell you Il
would
ne hash got it's because he ABLE to get it.
And he wasn't able get it it's because he didn have
that underlying directing mind which Mr. Young with
The problems of this world Mr. Young are not to be solved
and injustice not to be done away by telling the little
that they really bigger than the big by taking
for granted that the big wy deliberately vicious
and cruel
The fact is that both big and little are ignorant
the little usually ignorant than big ones and if
they had the chance they would probably than the
big onesfor the successful has And lack of
brain Is CRUELTY.
You please working some extent-especialIy
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-26
Women Were Ignored.

There has been for some years
an agitation for the amendment
Of the franchise and registration
laws. l took part in 1t myself.
Millions of men are without the
vote in Great Britain. Asquith
undertook to remedy this state of
things. But the demands of wom-
en- were ignored.
Mrs. Pankhurst and the women
who follow her could bear no
more. They had borne indecent
assault, imprisonment, the atroci-
ties of forcible feeding; some of
them had suffered unto blood. But
this last insult. the enfranchise-
ment of unenfranchised men, on
whose behalf there has been only
slight and sporadic agitation. and
the denial to them of the vote they
claimed, seemed to them the last
lndignity the cruelest and cow
ardliest assault of all.
And they resorted to violence
Here part company from them.
They have committed assaults.
They have resorted to fire. They
have employed dynamite. They
have attacked the innocent as well
as the guilty. the openly sympa-
thetic friend as well as tie indif-
ferent person or the avowed oppo-
nent Of their cause.
] can not be a party to wrong
doing.
While they were willing to suf-
fer wrong, I applauded them.
When they begin to do wrong it
is impossible longer to defend
them. 1t is not right to do wrong.
BloOdshed and crime, the torch,
gunpowder and dynamite are not
the weapons which I care to see
women employer men, either
in advocacy Of a mighty moral
movement in the dawn of the
twentieth century.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-26
A Sympathetic Protest.

| admired Mrs. Pankhurst and
liked her daughter, ChristabeL I
have opened my church to them
in Liverpool l have preached
sermons and made speeches in
defense of their militant methods.
Christabel Pankhurst spoke in nv
church one evening in the early
days of their agitation. Her
mother was present and begged
me to preach a sermon advocat-
ing their cause. l did.
Some of the women members of
my church went to prison. | sent
them flowers and wrote them let
tiers of sympathy and encourage
ment, and commended their ac-
ton from the pulpit. The last
meeting at which l spoke in Lon
don, previous to leaving England
to make my home in America,
was a meeting in Exeter Hall pre-
sided over by Mrs. Pankhurst,
and my fellow speakers that
night were Christabel Pankhurst,
Israel Zangwill and Philip Snow
den. Up to a certain point in the
militant" movement / stood BY
the side Of these women and
spent time and money in their
behalf
/ mention these things for the
purpose of showing that mine is a
sympathetic protest and not a
hostile one.
The late Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Sir Henry Camp
Zimmerman, told them to
poster the Government. He told
them that his Cabinet was divid-
ed, and he advised them to make
themselves an irritant to politi-
clans. They did. And they were
treated with a brutality which
passes all belief. This phase of
the story has not been understood
in America. Elizabeth Robins in
her fine story, THE Convert" has
told part of it, but her book has
not been widely read here. She
has explained why one girl car
ried a dogwhip when she went to
meetings. A member of my
church, speaking in my church
after her release from prison. said.
delicately, of the ferocious attacks
made on her by the stewards" of
the meeting which she interrupt
ed, And they did not forget to
let US know that we were wom-
en-" l do not know why | should
not express that more plainly.
Women nl-Treated.
1t is the custom in England to
ask questions in political meet
ings. The process is known as
"heckling." After Campbell Ban
nerman's advice the women be-
gan to attend public meetings.
and they asked questions. Their
Interruptions angered men; they
We're thrown out of the meetings
with violence: mobs seized upon
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-26

them outside; they were mauled
by blackguards. They continued
to go to meetings and to inter
rupt. The violence grew. Filthy
scoundrels offered themselves as
Stewards" that is to say, as
chuckers- oUt, at meetings for the
opportunity it gave them of COM
hitting indecent assaults upon
women and girls in the act OF
carrying them and bundling them
out Of meetings
The women were prosecuted; :
not the roughs. They were
charged with all sorts of fancied
offenses, such as assaulting po-
licemen, etc. Had they paid the
small fines imposed the world
would have heard no more of it.
But they refused to pay the fine.
and they went to Jail. Here they
were treated as the worst Of
criminals are treated. Women Of
refinement, university women,
girls among the sweetest and most
engaging of their sex, were forced
to strip, stand in a line of women
as nude as themselves, vicious
women, pickpoCkets, thieves and
criminals of every kind, waiting
for their bath, and go into the
same bath tub and the same wa
ter as these women had been in.
The prison system has been
changed because of the suffer
ings and through the agitation Of
these women.
The women refused food. Then
the Government adopted the foul
and disgusting practice of forci-
bic feeding. l believe that it is
entirely illegal. I believe that if
the women had carried this matt
ter from court to court they would
have proved before the end that
the prison authorities had been
guilty Of assault. That is only an
opinion. The fact is clear that
atrocious and hideous cruelties
have been inflicted upon some of
the noblest women living upon the
earth at the present time.
Yet these things did not drive
the women to crime.
Asquith committed himself to a
great suffrage measure-but il
was for men!
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
BRYAN ATTENDS
 INAUGURATION
ACCEPTS SPECIAL INVITATION AND WILL BE VERY PROM
 INEkT.
SpasisI Ssssst SsrvlHA'


 WARRINGTON. D G.. Feb. s.--- William Jennings Dryan has bean snsciAlIy :ny1tca by Woodrow Wilson 10 attend the inauguration aud hs has sI1eady accepted, During the nere' monks IIe is c1pectsd to he tho right hand rlnn oi tus new president 2nd reoolc are interested DaW in gPeonlat- Ius on his Srpcsranes thsreat'
 IL 4s becoming more and more eN' dcrt an the tIme th1s tle UmIen statns wln come noarsr now to nave n duaL ulmlnl6tTar!on than at &nF ether tirne in tic eountrys H'st"eY' mr. NilEnu Is evidently E0ing o"s oE biz Suy 10 treat Bryan Sz a colleague eu an equal foVtiuG in tho Tnrk 'E government.
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IIASkA COMMISSION REPORT
 SAYS BUILD RAILROADS

!r,ns f'r r.Juy up ihe alL$liru valley would ras4 rCar Inc MaLrAnIFEa rIy,I 'r!ls and ihr important BunulhsId lIiGiTl.L hut w"ild he inadequate tC rI1.Ilru the 1rc q ,Trn<r Elv+r nr Ihr Ti.rinu srml fields
 The nnEI+ hJ +'urdU'a would open In Copper river eIarL"is and Ihr Thnnnr buHin anl wtLIld Elsn npes' a lnlCc 2Itfl ,It i1' ln .Umn1Tctal quHn . .isit'e .Ls ~S.li 1a uuaI 1rl,is and Hnc gsrLSulrrHtl Aisirrt-
 Tine rnmn:1ssion also suC=esta fnr his r.Inte IlIa. abort spur tSrly Tn:Il1 bc needed iv ta,Gh Lhr p<riFE f...li fields whnsA rrsduri cnlilH he .'s.-d for gnelterH and other pSrpOees.
 7'1In third route discussed would
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given TO indication Ah to what his will be. hrn is tF 4u4te certain that he ~lh bc content metely Wlth RRklnE G9HEtdsa to Elra AIaSka t1anFe attention than 1t las usually received Since lhR hIblloa- elQn oG tie E2i1Tapd e0MIrlssicH's re- pnFt ALRaEa haH taken ns0rs in- pnrtant plaas in the Rstim&+I0E oF thc puhIie. That irs resoNrcss Ate Ereat enough ia warrant the conslFlAGlLcD of great yAllrnaAa lH taRAn for perfain hecallsa tho report saYE nS much ill., dtrHury # not indirectly.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
VALDEZ BOMBARDS
 CORO0VA AGAIN

LhG RusL Lwp wlILtcls ths Toad has neFn htocEafef much by spring snew- slides. Mcintosh stages Ars deliyeF- ing ylalI Teikcli to Orr atnEcs rl1kinE lhTee trips u ~eels on schedule, never late"
 This telegram wHa paid tor at Val der and ik evidently intended throHsh the Nugget % get The people here busy. Eonne will Ana t hard 10 take sides aI sGeh a SIataHce ut1t way or the other but iI ia E1ari to uudsrstand why Valdez dOes not pGy it& attention rather t1 getting the puatnfs1Ce Sh- elalE [" arrange matters. ThaAE of- flciaiH are on the spct. But ths light between the tw0 towhs Ia evidently going otI stiI1.
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EXPOSE GIGANTIC
 SECRET TRUST

su skllIfl1liy organized that onIJ AsE merest suspicion sa to 1ls existence u-us cntertRiRed-
 Proceedings will be startad rgainSt tlle Harvester trpsL In tho cOurtS rret- 4y sooG What %As known Aa the Harvester ttnsL Is. however. cnly part Of ,he combination which ls nov brought into the EnneEkht
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an.alaI Nunaat aAf7Ies.

aHAaIsI Nugget aAr=les-
 Yatiez has decIaFcd Tho Hrnlst1re w1lh Cordoya t-t an end and has re- op4ped the humbardMent of that lll- tnted burg. As humaE bS'nFA txe 10 rsEh nbnuL nothing Ho much az a srrap the following telegram from the vRldeE Proapect9r Ia E1"en tor ~fnt It 1s Warth:
 rFAIpEz. Fch s.-The rAihcad pf- hclaIa ars urging the tdbtonace de- unttmAnt 10 send thE mail tH buIR tc ChLIlns- Then if r1ad is tied up 1t ~In alway4 have cold storage m@u enough tc Keen #tAEes Ioadsd.
 "The result will he that tho Interim rstE sloTAEe mail regularly hnl letter mail only when line tE 0ner. purins
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BASKET BALL eoTS -
 TO PLAY FOR TROPHY

IL ls nUw aires. Erre th7't A 'dI"H . :,Ic .ro)A.y wi-I br vtisrcd for tho w'n- nlne nf h series Hr hCsket hall GaIacs in 1r playe,1 l.niw cen Iilo tEnms of Frank B,nlcy and ChasIay ThnmPsofA A movement IS EnE- Oh fnot io get the ,,r,.rrn.aDts made for tlIS sflrt.
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.....I hupsst ssrS 'cs'

s,esI kI1sst S@ =. 'WsaHINer'1N, P. r.' "'' ' ,1, r.vo,. of 'Ac Al'a*' r''iI''s,' . 's'n,,,.lOn .~. h's nn'1ls "sr" ""aF "'t,,r ~ I, makes no so+r'ihI"' r'""n'- ,,.,;cu nrt says thsI sS't-;'I I'll .n.t. a,s neees*Ar, To I'''is'''' "'F .p Als.Aa il "lA0 ''''S'r' ' Ia' , IT,. .'leo.a tnrymulion BOW h"'f '"' ..u ,o inc urunlrrn anal 'hi" l. r. ..rae5 As ihe most IurHratI' I"h' "' ,bA rep@t ns it hha E''o" i"'l:''''"! ''' ,une or the raiLTuld rEhis "I "fH u,v, sxytinS had cprrIll'rI 'h" '''d-
 Tl.,es rovEes hre diS.ra@G in rhr rrnt. an. of %hirh wo'I'I 51'- 1;' t~tnInAI at Fnirhanks
 The coIumIEaiUn says ihht n '" Il"
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which lf1Ay ATs received and It i& still impossible tU tell accurately which aide haa gained ths advantage in the battle on lha EailIlIoli peninsula.
 The light must SITt1S hapA he=n great cne. however As reports f'"n alI Rourcea HErse thAt uIt number of Iosses on both sEhea was tremendously keAtY,
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
MOVING DREDGE DOWN
 TO SUNSET CREEK

fudge Wood &hH TTiVPd fran Tci- Ier Yeslcrdny states that thu hr%ds. !. which WAS going on Eudd creek is nOw reing haTIrn dHTn to Sunset cTcf'k.
 Sunset rreek fGTk into CrNntisy' T.arlur npp0slrc Teller.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
GOVT. CONTROL
 WATER POWER
FIGHT CHARTS lN CONGRESS- AeAiNeT LETTINa 1T GE
 GRABBE0.
aNrisI Nugget aSrvirp.

WASHINGTON, Il. C., FcI.. l. The fgft oyer the rontn1 cf Ilir cSuaiTy's water rtTFr w1s rsE"'. -l' rmgFess today. Egna:0r 1iurinn In'ii Ia lead amongst thnse whn fArt-r RcT.rnfnsut control.
 Ssnal0r Weeks on the I.thrr sul: G,'- clged that lhe Tighlz ut :hr r%'l'lc "ma be just Es we'll sortrulrI.d II Ns government let crlnplrics ,'t-l:r: ne uuwet but at rates T-hK', lh" -'"' +tuRnent %cnl1 lix,
 Tnp TaAiteT is IT sHrreme imn.It. snre ni prtfGnt n lue whnIn r,hnrrs sspecIa.T to the T'Httprn atni~4 wr,.:N '%p6Fauens Arr sttrMDiin= n clrI!.. c'e-S *ater right TuLth h:rnnc.
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HAND INJu RED.

1illt tNiFerS' hand T4s 1Psritcd @n I.,d.ly Ly pr. Shan. some riTte sgo .nr. oliYrr struck lhc eand with hammer hut ;t seemed tn he getting -Iony uiI right uniii reccnllr wheu ie !SIl.cd m
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
MILLION FOR
 MOTION FILMS
FRoHMkN WILL PRODUCE Plc- TUREs OF THE WORLDS .r
 GREAT STARS.
spa+IAI Nugget eervivr.

spAeIAl Nugget eerVipH.
 NEW YORK, Feb. e.-FfphE1lan the theatricftI rn7hhger. IA now forming a million dollar EompzhY wheae buHineeu 1t will he to produce moving pirlur~s or Hcenea ia WhIcta the Xarin great eEt thcntrlnAi StArs %i1i zprsa
 AmunEst thnEe whD arc 1l.sAdy en- gsged tp pese Eut F9ulIH1An CotI1lARl,Y are NaudH AAnnE. HllIis Burke Na&I- mura. Drew, Gillette and n1au; cthars.
 TIIese pictnreH aTe meant tr surer t1 the taates at those Ehn Io n1L nuw 70 to Ynciipn picture shows uI III.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06

rraudcd" lh& government ont of that sEAoun' rhTopEa eOaI copIEsrts,.
 Fhe eases will ccme mp fur tTIaI pretr1r Iaoom. EcAey has beeR Ltl th1s city for q considerable LLI'e. 1t Is H"W hsiI~r%d that he t.aa been in Seattle far the exclusive puTbnae of inEesti' eatna the matter. tie wss suuGMecad
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06

Special Hsst aArvirs'
 LoNpo Feb. ".-onty i''" most uRraIiaa;A knfornaAtIon has come in the diFpatN'tS from ths srat of WAT today It Ia uE plainly evident shAt the mesRagey of inc %nT cnrrcspondsnH are belHr- -,eusnCed by the Turks md bS EhsJSf .9cA The lcn"T of ths re- ports vg'FY aoe1rdins tn the place from
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
SrAeiaI Nugget aer"ics.

Special Nuasst aer"ics.
 WARRINGTON. D c. Fcb. G. That d. siganuc but secret trust or xuni.atica haS exisled sArnGngsr the harvester cnr1panicx is n fact which I,na been aEecrtRined by the nfficiais of inc bureau ef cogpuru LLoi1E-
 Thls irns+ involved q coordination repre se ntitlE sl4o.ooG. .083 b1t rRh sssn
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CAPTAIN MAKES
 \ CONFESSION
NEW YORK POLICE OFFICER TELLS STORY OF
 CRAFT.
epsoial NGaaut eervlaS-

Ep~eial NGaaHt eSrVleS-
 NEW YORK, Feb 6--On tlE Eir1tn he'd last night Police Eurtnih Walsh confssseH rc hMvinE received Erafl Tcs' five y@7H fife waH %1ll kHdTn on the force and had a good record. No uI1e scanned to hove r ku0wltaIE" df the fAcI khAt he waH taking monty and his confessiuh is sne more eIt- d%ncs cF inc retlenneaH oG tnE cltF's polirC,
 He ts the Reeuhd pd1Lce otflCer within two days 10 confess grail.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
4psa;sk MpGsAt AryIeA

aPsai.f Mpasst SsFvEeA
 sEAEE.9.Eab Stc;;-n!atrict Atlsr- .s.~ se6sd xiiksS idd'- ciai dirtsLcn. i4 nsw Aennnndins thn sum oe S1oH, ,noo irom Ehe PN1Inc Coast !SteamRlllr. the Northwestern CuH' nercivl and the SAsnon Cotnpa ntsa aH damages on the stound that theJ de-
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
QUICK WORK DONE
 BY PosToFFtEE aTAFF

4 reHo=d distribution 1f mali waH accomplished yesterday ny the n4T RoslDfflte atHff. EttlY hva minutes af- ter the arrival of 4s3 pounds of mall every I,LI of 1t waR I1iairlbuE1d.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
TURKS AND FOES FIGHTING 0N
REPORTS FROM SEAT OF
 t WAR BEING CENSORED

The ns~s from dIian1pL6 Is AlHo unreliable. 1t la unqunsIL1nch thar the bnmbardmgnt atilI goes nn but pA oEiT r,esHAEes cAn Ie received trtITn EherC through ihe BulEtrIAns absolute ls- liance enu uerr1LnlY not bs placed nn .1c sturIee of the Bulgarian successes
 kovma kvnu1t Sz.1p BV~ mRnth.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06

cedfish 4sH$uss and asuhds ara ds- lloloHE We MIll asl1 thsm fer 4o ssnts psr pnunh during Lsrt- rhsfulf L LahhshNn.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
aEhn YOuR LAUNDRY

To the Pscple1 Laundry ~hsra y"3 VIII receIva goof work ezsdussn os rcne but wnIta employees, who rDceiTs the standard wAReS-
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
WILL PRESENT
 REPORT TODAY
CONGRESS MILL HEAR THIS AF. TERN0oN OF ALAekA'9
 NEEDS.
an,.ia; Nuaasf aArvIea,

WAEHINGT0N. n. C.. FNn. G.
 xsranIdsnG Tah wilI GaIaver. D ntugFeRS
 th.B AfteynppIt the message cOntulnlne hIs reeoRlMendztianA ln the matter cF haIidins railroads Sn klAsIG Ha has
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06
RobEY WANTS $l06,0o0
 ! FROM COAL COMPANIES

10 WzshinEIUE IaHt yessr, ard II 1z peAttY- gpneraHy :ptdtThtAod nu~e that he was s,mrlnnst there t1 ald thE dcpnTIrnenl In deciding That uI4aS1Fe9 shnnld be taken for the pFHEe-uttOn of the nHeaed fTausi&-
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-06

Nart near HaincS ur Juneau and open splendid terrltnr1eR it uJouId tap Ihe Thunder mountain Und Rainy HOllon rrgIOus NhiGh UTE de.daTed l'y sEG rorumRsIDR tn he EnDh mineral. !gTi2 ing and aEI1culsural secu0ne,
 I'rAa1aeat Tan is nn% preparing a nessaFe in which he NlH pat the Hhuls AntsEr ur fu cNngres2
 The report is regRCd+d As being nt the Ercntest importance to inc terri Iory as it Manirears a shcrouRh he lief os the part of thr comm ssIonFrF in the greatness of AldlSka'h rescurees
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n. AM. FsshHAkss, IS md R5 ea"' .Ar eau. TherpH LAhmanH.
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THE NEW EAAAG. H. hauae Sf ssrnlHlrt whAbksYA
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oEPuTT DAVENPORT HERE.
 H"F Hn|cEpurl. dprHi% mIrslu,I uI ...T, Arrlreh Tn thc clt.- y"sI,rrla.
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60 TO Thk N0RTf< P0AE sutsry for 4ha osst hrAAd nNA pssAsy Th~ ~rly CoaAA Heuaa ]. tsA<L
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The Daily Nuoast. EzOO per -.on,a
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Nome Avppst sz.no RS~ mpnth.
Gilpin observer., 1913-02-27

known, except as given in official ac-
counts which do not conform in all
cases. The only witnesses were those
actually concerned in the killing.
The provisional president, General
Victoriano Huerta, says the killing Of
the two men was incidental to fight
between their guard and party at
tempting to liberate them. The min
lister of foreign relations, Francisco de
la Barra, adds that the prisoners at
tempted to escape. Neither makes a
definite statement as to which side
fired the fatal shots. 1t is not impos-
sible that neither knows.
Not unnaturally a great part of the
public regards the official versions
with doubt, having in mind the use for
centuries of the notorious "ley fuga,"
the unwritten law which is invoked
when the death of prisoner Is de-
sired. After it's application there is
written on the records, prisoner shot
trying to escape"
Sonora Madero, widow of the form.
er president, received the first defi-
mite information Of his death from tho
Spanish minister, Senor Cologan y
Cologan. She already had heard re.
ports that something unusual and se-
rious had happened. but friends had
endeavored up to that time to prevent
her from learning the whole truth.
An official investigation has been
ordered to determine the responsible
ity and solemn promises have been
made that the guilty will be punished.
/ Soon afterward, accompanied by her
brother. Jose Pere, and Mercedes Ma
dero sister of Francisco, Sonora Ma
dero drove to the penitentiary, but
was refused permission to see the
body Of her husband. Sonora Suarez
also was denied ,admittance to tho
mortuary, where physicians, in accord
ance with the law, were performing
an autopsy.
English Press Urges Intervention.
London.-The Daily Express in an
editorial referring to what is terms
President Taft's hesitation to act in
Mexico. says revolution and anarchy
do not stand on presidential etiquette,
and that the security of life and prop
erty in Mexico will not wait while
President-elect Wilson installs HIM
self. The Express describes an expe-
dictionary force of 5000 American
troops as "a pill for an earthquake"
and declares such a venture will need
100000 men. The newspaper urges
the British government to press for
immediate action on the Washington
government.