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Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
FEDERALs LEAVE sALTILLo
$4,000 FederaIs Flee From SaItjIIo TO
San Luis Potosi-Rebels Are
In Pursuit..

Torreon, Notwithstanding Sal
tillo before the battle fairly had got
warm, the Federal forces Of Gen.
Joaquoin Mas and Gen. Javier de
Mour, 10000 strong, are in full flight
to the south, hoping to reach San Luis
Potosi before Villas pursuing army
can overtake them. Pursuit Of the
Federals already is on and the prob
ability is tina: they either will be met
by 5000 rebels Of Gen. Torres and
Gen. Guiterrez's commands, who al
ready are in the outskirts Of San Luis
Potosi, or overtaken b. 10000 cavalry
Villa has sent after them. Rebel lead.
ers here think the Federals will be
annihilated before they can get half
way to San Luis Potosi, across the
200 miles Of desert.
Saltillo is now the rebel provisional
capital. It has been so designated by
Gen. Venustiano Carranza, who has
announced that he will proceed there
without delay and will gather from the
several points where they are now
scattered the rebel cabinet and gov
eminent officials. Carranza will es-
tablish his Headquarters in the state
palace, from which he went forth a
year and a half ago to organize an
army to fight Huerta and avenge tht
death Of Mader0.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
IMplcTMEATe lMeFnAMx CAGE
Bribery, Coercion and Perjury Are the
Charges Made-Further lnvesti9a-
ton by the Grand Jury.

Atlanta.-Charges Of bribery, coer-
cion and perjury made in connection
with efforts to obtain a new trial for
Leo M. Frank, under sentence Of death
for the murder of 1~4-year-old Mary
Phagan, resulted in five indictments
being returned by the Fulton county
grand jury.
The Rev. c. B. Ragsdale, recently
dismissed from the %pastorate OF q To-
cal church on account Of the repudia-
ton of an affidavit made by him in be-
half Of the convicted factory superin.
tendent, was indicted for perjury, to-
gether with R. B. Barber. Arthur
Thurman, a lawyer; Daniel S. Lehon.
representative of a national detective
agency, and Carlton G. Tedder, en-
gagged in detective work, we're charged
with s%ubornation Of perjury.
Further investigation Of the charges
Of improper influences in the noted
murder case is to be made by the
grand jury.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
SEEKS PEACE IN COLORADO
Judge Ben Lindsey and Party Of We.
mel Plead With President-WiN
Try to See Rockefeller.

Washington.-Federal Intervention
to force an agreement between mine
n and miners in the Colorado coal
fields was urged on President Wilson
by Judge Ben B. Lindsey and a delega.
ton Of Colorado women. 1t was indf.
Gated later than the president was
willing to do everything within his con
stitutional power to bring peace in
Colorado, but that he believed the
state should solve the difficulty il pos
sfble.
Judge Lindsey announced that he
planned to go to New York with his
party Of women and make an effort to
see John D. Rockefeller, Jr, and urge
him to submit the differences between
mine operators and strikers to arbi.
tration.
President Wilson is understood to
have told the delegation that he was
deeply concerned over the Colorado
situation and had no present plan Of
removing federal troops. He thought,
however, the state could settle the
strike without further FEDERAL inter
ference.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
20 FOREST FIRES RAGING
Dreaded Crown Fire Breaks Out In
Washinqton-Hundreds Of Fire.
Fighters Are In Field.

Olympia, Wash.-Warm weather, alb
sence of rain and brisk winds have led
to a serious forest fire situation IN
this state. Twenty fires are burning;
practically none is listed as under con.
troll and the dreaded crown fire which
kills timber as It progresses, was run
ming through trees In Lewis county,
having started at Independence. State
Forester Ferris has ordered out all
Western Washington county fire war
dens. Hundreds of f~ire-fighters al
ready are in the field for the Wash
ington Firest Fire association, the state
and federal authorities.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
WALTERS GETS SENTENCE
Life Term In Louisiana Pen for Kid.
mapping Dunbar Boy.

Western Newspaper Union News servies.
Opelousas.-"A jury Of honorable
men found you guilty but modl
fled their verdict which spared your
life, and / now pass sentence on YOU.
according to law, which confines you
to life imprisonment In the state peni.
Tertiary for the balance of your natural
lite"
The words, uttered by Judge Pavy,
closed another chapter in the event.
full career of William c. Walters, itin.
Grant Carolina tinker and convicted
kidnaper of Robert Dunbar, child Of
C. P. Dunbar and resident Of Opelou.
sas
Attorney r. B. Dubuisson Of Walters
counsel Immediately announced that
he had all his papers ready for an
appeal, and asked quick action by
Judge Pavy SO that he could place
the case before the Louisiana Supreme
Court during the session which ad-
journs June 80. Acting on this re-
quest, Judge Pavy made the case re.
turnable June i.
He has not lost confidence in his
attorneys, and still awaits ultimate
acquittal Of the charge Of KIDNAPPING.
Walters one wish Is that he may be
able to come back to Opelousas 100
years hence, when he expects to find
most Of the people absolutely insane
and suffering from some terrible disas
ter.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
REBELS COME INTO FOLD
Will Not Be Bound to Accept Finding,
But Will Give Their Side Of Con-
troversy to Mediators.

Washington.-The Constitutionalists
are preparing to send a representative
to Niagara Falls to confer with the
South American mediators who are en-
~deavoring to settle the Mexican prob
lem. This will be done with the dis
tinct understanding that the represen-
tative is to give information as to Gen.
Carranza's purposes, without commit
ting the Constitutionalists to any plan
for the pacification of Mexico that the
mediators may determine upon.
Jose Vasconcelos, o at Montreal
on a financial mission for Gen. Car
rama, is understood to be the man
chosen to go to Niagara Falls. Men in
close touch with the Constitutionalists
said that he would arrive there soon.
The question of taking this step has
been the subject OF several informal
conferences between Constitutionalist
representatives and representatives OF
the Washington administration recent
ly, and it is understood that Gen. Car
rama has given his consent.
1t was reported on apparently relia
BILE authority that another invitation
may be sent to Carranza by the me
diators to. take formal part in the me
diation proceedings. For the present
at least, however, it is declared the
Constituencies report merely would
give the mediators information with
out committing the leaders to any
agreement.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
A55ASSiNRFiUNs PLOT AltEp
inspector Of Police, Who Was In.
volved in Plot, Is Removed BY
Huerta - Arrests Likely.

Vera Cruz, Mex.-Huerta has nipped
In the bud a plot involving trusted
officials and high generals Of the army
to seize and kill him, according to ad.
vices received from a reliable source
in the capital.
As a result of the discovery Of this
plot Gen. Manuel Gasque, inspector
general of police, has been supplant-
ed by Gen. Alberto Quiroz, the
youngest general in the army and
former director Of the p%enitentiary.
Gen. Quir0z says:
1--WE have the names Of IL Of the
plotters, but are permllllng them to
remain at liberty in the hope that
some act Of theirs may give US
stronger evidence. When the proof
is all in my hands they will be ar.
rested Wholesale"
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
BELIEVE sILLMAN IS SLAIN
High Officials Fear the Worst-Prom.
lses Have Been Disregarded So
Often by FederaIs.

Washington.-With a desperate
fight in progress at Saltillo and the
city entirely surrounded by Villas
troops, interest in the Mexican situa-
ton centered on the fate of Consul
Silliman. The state department be.
lieves Villa will take Saltillo and 1t
is reported that Villa plans to find out.
as soon as he enters the city, just
what happened to Silliman.
Consular Representative Carrothers,
who Is with Villa, has already been
ordered to determine Immediately
what happened to the vice-consul
there. High officials here fear the
worst. They declare the promises
that he would be produced have been
disregarded 50 often that they believe
he has been slain.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30

Auto 10 Struck by Traction car-Ex-
plostlon and Third Rail Start
Fire-Both Burn.

Columbus, O.-Feur persons were
killed near Ashville, Is miles south OF
Columbus, when a Scioto Valley trac-
ton car struck an automobile at a
crossing. The dead: w. M. Miller,
president Of the Citizens Bank, Ash
vile; Mrs. Aggie Miller, his wife;
Mrs. Alice Staiger, of Ashville; six
year-old daughter Of Rev. G. E. Hill.
OF Mount Sterling.
The traction car and the automobile
were consumed by a fire which result
ed from the collision when the gaso-
line tank of the automobile exploded
and came in contact with the third
rail.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
MORGAN DOMINATE FIGURE
Late Financer's Control Of New Haven
Revealed in MeIIen's Testimony.
No One Would Oppose Him.

Observation-Disclosures control by
the late ]. Pierpont Morgan, not only
of the officials, but of the properties
of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, was further emphasized
when former President Charles S. Mel
len Of the New Haven continued his
testimony before the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Mr.. Mellen admitted frankly that
neither he nor directors of the New
Haven had the temerity openly to op-
pose Mr.. Morgan's plans, although he
said he sometimes disagreed with him.
He declared, however, that Mr.. Nor
gan's judgment in financial transac-
tions was SO marvellous that ANYBODY
well might hAeitatA- hefnre r,,nAinn
counter to it.
Even in the acquisition by the New
Haven of the Westchester property,
into which millions of dollars van
ished, Mr.. Mellen, who declared he
did not approve of the purchase, In
sisted that had Mr.. Morgan lived the
property might. have been far more
valuable than it is today. So, too,
with the acquisition OF the Worcester.
Nashua and Rochester railroad, in
which Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Mellen said,
was responsible for paying SIS a share
more than the stock really vas worth.
AS In the Westchester transaction,
however, Mr.. Morgan, according to Mr..
Mellen, would brook no interference,
carrying out his plans without regard
to the opinions of others interested.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
ROOT ARGUES FOR REPEAL
New York Senator Holds Attention Of
Senate For Five Hours-Says
1912 Law Violated.

Neutrality-suspicious. Root, Repub'
lican member Npf the foreign relations
committee, held the senate's attention
throughout a five hours speech in sup.
port of the administration to repeal
the tolls exemption of the Panama
canal law. AS the New York senator
sat down, Senator Kern, Democratic
leader, led the applause from the floor
and spectators in the galleries joined
in.
The burden Of the speech was to
prove that the Hay-Paunceforte treaty
provided that treatment accorded by
the United States to it's own citizens
in the use of the Panama canal must
be the same as that accorded citizens
of other nations.
Senator Root declared the United
States always had insisted on this
broad principle of equality and insist
ed that the understanding of Henry
White, Joseph Choate, John Hay and
Theodore Roosevelt, Americans who
negotiated the treaty, was that the
equality mentioned in the convention
was the broad equality which had
markell Amerieansclpiose~s
Taking up the specific question OF
exemption Of American coastwise YES
sells, the senator said the law OF 1912
granting this exemption violated the
equality agreement guaranteed by the
treaty. This was true, he argued, be-
cause no real coastwise trade of the
| United States could pass through this
canal 1000 miles away; and conse'
quently what the law did was to ex'
empt a class of American oversee
trade of other countries.
The senator declared he was voting
for repeal now because in the judg.
ment of senators best able to judge
the senate would not vote to arbitrate
the dispute.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
SLOW PROGRESS
By LEGISLATURE
TIME BEING TAKEN UP WITH De.
BATE-WOULD REVIVE HORSE
RACING
MONEY LENDERS TO FIGHT
Visit Baton Rouge-Representative
Huber Would Have Reduced Car
Fare Tor Children.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton Rouge--Since the legislature
has been in session the time has been
taken up mostly with a few big bills
A bill has been before the law body
to revive racing in its old worm In
Louisiana. 1t Is said that under the
proposed law gambling would be re-
yived.
Attorneys and others representing
the money lenders of New Orleans
were in Baton Rouge to oppose the
loan shark bills that have been in
troduced in the Senate, and House.
Attorney Joseph Casey Of the Third
Ward was among the Orleanians who
began work here in the hope Of pre-
venting the passage Of a bill that
will put the money lenders out Of bust
ness. :
Notice was given by Representative
Huber of the Eleventh Ward that ha
will introduce a bill in the house re-
quiring street railway companies to
transport children at reduced fareAi
The bill, 1t was said, will have strong
support from New Orleans. The New
Orleans railway company and the ON
panies operating street car lines In
other cities will oppose II.
The House Committee on Capital
end Labor ordered a favorable report
on a bill by Mr.. Jones Of Jackson, fix
ing a standard scale OF measurement
for saw logs and naming the Scribner.
Doyle scale as the legal measuring
stick in Louisiana. The hearing on
the bill developed the fact that five
scales of measurement are now used
in this state, and all of them differing
widely. Mr.. Jones told the committee
that one concern In Louisiana ID
stealing from timbermen $4,000 an-
nually by the s Of what IL known a
the Louisiana measuring stick"
Tho eepitol-Ards }aborscommittAeN
ordered favorable reports on three bills
by Mr.. Samuel OF Caddo, the first EN-.
towering municipalities under $1,000
inhabitants to regulate the opening
and closing Of meat markets on Sun.
days, the second requiring electric
railway companies to equip both ends
of cars with solid vestibules for the
protection Of motormen, conductors
and passengers, and the third amend.
ing the law regulating the employment
Of women and children 50 as to make
1t apply to mercantile establishments.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
HALIFAX No. 10 HITS ROCKS OFF
COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA-Six
BODIES RECOVERED.
ALL VICTIMS sCoTCHMEN
Place Where Vessel Hit Is One of Most
I. Treacherous on AtIantic-Cana.
dian Governments Steamers
Ordered to Make Search.

Halifax, N. S.-The battered hulk OF
the new lightship Halifax No. 10 was
found among the breakers On Lips.
comb Island, five miles from the main
land. She struck during a dense fog
and 1t Is believed her crew of twenty
five ScOtchmen are lost. Six bodies
bearing life belts have been recovered
by the steamer Dufferin. Both life
boats which the vessels carried were
found. A search of the rock islands in
the vicinity was made in the hope that
some CT the c"ew had gotten through
the surf alive.
Word reached the Canadian marine
department here that the hull of the
lightship was broken In two. The ship
was on her maiden voyage from her
builders yards at Paisley, Scotland, to
take up her station off Sambro
Lodges, near Halifax Harbor. Capt.
Macbeth and Chief Engineer McKen-
zie are the only members Of the crew
known here. The men were shipped in
Glasgow.
The government steamers Stanley
and Lady Laurier were ordered to
search for possible survivors or for
more bodies. The Canadian marine
department feels little hope that any
one on board escaped. Long rollers
break over the jagged rocks with ter
rifle force in the calmest weather.
All vessels give the spot a wide berth.
The first intimation OF the disaster
was brought in by the Dufferin when
she arrived here with three bodies.
She went back to Lipscomb Island to
continue the search and found another
body.
All Of the victims are believed to
be Scotchmen, who were engaged by
thee builders atzPaisley to navigate
the vessel across the Atlantic. The
Nghtship sailed from st. Johns, N. F.,
where she had stepped for coal.
Lipscomb, the supposed scene OF the
disaster, is a small island off the east.
ern coast Of Nova Scotia and Is about
! forty miles west of Cape Canso.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
RUM0RS THICK IN MEXICO
Vera Cruz Is Hotbed Of Anti. n uert7
Plotting-Lozano Resigns az
Cabinet Officer.

Vera Cruz.-The disintegration OF
the Huerta regime has begun. From
every side come stories of the defec-
ton of soldiers, officers and even min
listers.
Lozano, minister of communications.
whose resignation followed the sup
preston of the Catholic organ FL
Paris, Of which he was part owner,
has been forbidden to leave Mexico
City and is followed everywhere by
secret service men. Lozano, although
a reactionary, is a very able man and
has been considered Huerta's right
hand man.
Rumors are current O ia quarrel be-
tween Huerta and Gen. Garcia Pena,
who succeeded Gen. Mas Of the fed
eral forces just outside the American
IlinAs Pena. got his appointmant be.
cause he has been q strong Madero
man. Candida Aguilar, who turned
rebel following the assination Of Ma.
dero, Is now operating In the same
section and his men have been report
ed riding inside Pena's lines as though
there were an understanding between
them.
This city is a hotbed Of anti-Huerta
plotting and rumor makes the former
home Of Gov. Dehesa the headquarters
Of the c%onspirators. Dehesa's son mar.
ried Garcia Pena's daughter, and II
there be any truth in the stories from
the rebel camp the acquisition to the
rebel cause of the general has been
effected at conferences held in the De
hesa house, where delegates Of bott
| camps have met without interference
| by the American secret service men
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
MEXICAN ENJOYS
MAY WITHDRAW
WILSON MUST MODIFY DEMAND
FOR REMOVAL. OF HUERTA
OR PEACE PLAN WILL FAIL.
HuERTA IS STILL OBSTINATE
insists That Il He Retires He Will
Not Be Barred From Becoming
President, and That U. s. Will
: Recognize Him.

Niagara Falls, Ont.-Unless Presi-
dent Wilson modifies his original de-
mand for the unconditional elimina-
ton of Huerta as provisional presi-
dent Of Mexico, the efforts OF the
South American mediators will avail
nothing and the peace conference will
end by the withdrawal Of the Mex
lean delegates.
Two courses are open ~ The United
States government:
First-The American ENJOYS, JUS
tice Lamar and Mr.. Lehman, may
be authorized to make certain con.
cessions which will enable Huerta to
withdraw with the understanding that
he will not be barred from becoming
a candidate for lne presidency and
that in the event of his election he
will be promptly recognized by the
United States.
Second 49, President Wilson may
withdraw his delegates from the con-
ference and use the armed forces of
the United States in the pacification
of Mexico.
Just how Huerta is to be eliminated
As the vital point upon which the
American and Mexican delegates seem
to be deadlocked. Other questions
have been discussed by the mediators
and the delegates, including the plan
of restoring the land to the poor, with
the object of ending peonage in Mex
leo, the nature and personnel Of the
provisional government, the Tamp1cc
incident and the landing Of American
troops in Vera Cruz, but no positive
assurance of the success of the con
ference can be given until some fina'
decision has been reached as to the
elimination Of Huerta.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
vATERLAND ADRlF1 IN RIVER

New York.-Navigatior in the North
river, between lower New York and
Hoboken, stood still while the Water.
land, biggest ship afloat defed all ef.
forts to dock her and swept broadside
down the stream for mole than a mile.
When the liner arrived at her pier.
after her maiden voyaie, her great
length and a strong eb' tide proved
too strong a combination for the fleet
of willing little tugs tat urged he,
toward her berth.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
CONVICTED
FOR SECOND TINE
JURY'S VERDICT FIRST DEGREE
MURDER-THE FOREMAN
SHEDS TEARS.
ONLY ONE BALLOT TAKEN
Defendant Granted Week for Any Mo-
ton Desired-NeW Witnesses in
Second Trial Confederate Evi.
dence in First.

New York.-Twelve men decided for
the second time that Charles Becker
was the arch conspirator responsible
for the Rosenthal murder, which near
ly two years ago awoke New York to
a realization of corruption in the po-
lice department and opened a new era
of police reform.
Becker, once a police lieutenant,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree. Only a pardon or interference
again by the court of appeals can save
him from following to the electric
chair the four gunner who shot Her
man Rosenthal, the gambler, early on
the morning of July is, 1912. The
jury decided that the gunner were
Becker's agents.
Ore ballot decided Becker's fate. 1t
was taken almost Immediately after
the Jurors returned from luncheon at
an uptown hotel, where they went
when Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Seabury had finished his charge. 1t
was unanimous for conviction. Tears
streamed down the foreman's face as
he announced the decision and tears
stood in the eyes of several other
jurors. They had agreed that the cor.
roboration which the district attorney
failed to present at the first trial to
support the stories of Rose, WALTON
and Weber, the three accomplices
who turned informers, had been fur
nished by new witnesses at the sec
ond.
Becker's counsel announced that he
would appeal and gained a weeks stay
for the preparation Of his future cam
paign. The defendant was granted a
short meeting with his wife and his
brothers and then was taken back to
his cell in the Tombs.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30

Plancheville.-While the 1l-year-old
son of J. Oscar Lemoine, a farmer liv.
ing in the lower %Chroupique vicinity,
about three miles from P%laucheyille,
was driving a cow from a pasture, the
COW, angered at a dog, rushed on
young Lemoine, catching him on her
horns and throwing him against q
picket fence, where the boy caught
the top of the fence to hold and again
was hooked, being thrown over the
fence. He escaped with a cut on the
thigh about two and onerhalf inches
long and about one inch deep.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
EXECUTE FEDERAL GARRISON
Report Reaches Warrington That
Rebels Put to Death Entire Force
at Topic - Over 800 Killed.

Washington. - Mexican advices in
the dispatches to diplomatic circles re-
port that when Constitutionalist
troops captured Topic they put to
death the entire Federal garrison Of
300 officers and men.
Dispatches also confirmed reports
that Gen. Obregon's forces were
fastening on to Guadlajara and that
there was great apprehension among
foreigners in that city. Bandits from
the mountains were reported to be
menacing the city.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-05-30
CONFERENCE IS ADJOURNED

Oklahoma City, Okla.-After being
In session for Is days the Quadrennial
general conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. South, formally adj
journed. The place for holding the
next conference has been entrusted
to q special committee named for that
purpose. It is generally believed that
either Richmond, Va, are Atlanta, Ca.
will BIO chosen, both cities having ex
tended pressing invitations.