Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-02
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Provisional President Huerta has
ordered an investigation Of charges
submitted to him confidentially TO the
effect that certain Americans have
plotted to cause the United States to
intervene in Mexico by setting officials
to work in Washington.
Among those accused are: ]. n. Gal
braith, head of the Waters-PiercA> oil
interests in Mexico; Gen. II. Small;
]. A. Grammonte, president of the
American colony; H. II. Dieffenbach
OF the Bank of Commerce and Indus
try; R. H. Murray, Burton w. Wilson
and Charles A. Hamilton.
Refugees Waiting
Fifty American refugees are at Vera
Cruz and no transport available to
carry them to the United States, while
no regular boat sails for several days.
Consul Conada has arranged to ac-
commodate the penniless at the local
hotel
John Lind, President Wilson's en-
voy, will spend tomorrow at a planta-
ton near Terra Blanca. He has given
no indication as to what he believes
the future holds. in the American-Mex-
leo dispute.
Old Treaty Revived
An old treaty, in disuse sixtg-five
years, probably will be invoked By the
Mexican government in the present
controversy between President Huerta
and the United States.
The convention, known as the Qua
dalupe- T1idaigo treaty of 1913, pro-
yides that in the event Of disagree
ment between the contracting parties.
commissioners should be appointed to
arbitrate.
Mexico probably viii make such a
demand.
Americans Staying
The expected exodus of American
residents in Mexico, as result of
warnings voiced in President Wilson's
Mexican message, has failed to mate
rialize.
A few Americans left the capital to-
day, but the majority will remain, be-
ing unwilling to sacrifice business In
terests unless the situation becomes
more alarming.
Hundreds Of dollars in gems and
rare presents rarely duplicated in the
history of weddings are being show
cred on Miss Kate Vidler, at Denver,
who tomorrow will become the bride
of Theodore Revillon, a Paris banker
and capitalist,
Miss Vidler is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Rees C. Wider, whose home
is at Lookout Mountain, near Denver,
where the marriage ceremony Will be
ReviIlon presented his fiancee with
a check for s1,OOo,ooo and gems valued
at $4,000.
With advance Information in the
possession Of the authorities to the eff
feet that the Pacific Mail steamship
Manchuria had an enormous quantity
|of contraba1d opium on board. the
vessel was met at the Coast today
by small fleet of revenue cutters.
Forty customs inspectors and squad
|of United States sailors boarded the
steamer. The searchers found only
$4400 worth, far below the amount re-
ported on board when the ship left
China, it is said, and fear was express
ed that the rest of the contraband may
have been safely landed at Honolulu.
Lack of berthing slips and drydoeks
is given out as s'the distinctly import
ant weakness Of our naval stations To-
Gated north of Cape Hatteras," in a
report today to Secretary Daniels by
the naval board Of Inspection for
shore stations. The drydocks on the
North Atlantic Coast, in the opinion
of the board, are essential fer the
needs of the Atlantic feet, and it sug-
1gests that Jamaica Island and Clark's
island, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard,
should be acquired as the sites of
two additional drydocks.
Rioting in connection with the
tramway strike in Dublin, which
started yesterday, was continued to-
day on the city's outskirts.
Violence was precipitated when
James Larkin, one of the strike lead
ers. was arrested.
Two persons we're known to have
been killed in yesterdays disturb
ances and at least fifty injured.
Scores of men, women and children
fill the various hospitals.
Scores of strikers and their SYM
pathizers we're arraigned in court to-
day and we're remanded for trial
without bail.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Leroy and Mrs.
Amos Tuck French of New York and
Newport, who were injured in an auto
accident near Canton last night, we're
resting comfortably at their hotel at
Boston today 1t was quoted by at
tendants that Mrs. Leroy, for whom
great anxiety had been expressed last
night, has apparently suffered moth
ing more serious than a bad shaking
up. Her daughter, Mrs. French, Jared
no worse.
Thankfulness for present well being
and prophecy for greater government
to come for the toilers of the United
States, and of the world, was the key
note Of a Labor Day message issued at
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