Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-26
OVERNIGHT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWS
To the Advertiser

Colonel Goeth2ls IS to De made civil
governor Of the Canal zone When
! he is through with his work there
and his plans organized and carried
| into operation. an effort is 70 be made
to have him superiutend the COnstruc.
ton Of the Alaska railroad.
This is the opinion expressed yes
terday by several persons in Wash,
ingtOn who are close TO the admins
! tTatiOn.
Friends Of Colonel GOethaIs both in
Panama and in the states, have strong,
| ly advised him against accepting the
New YORK police COmmissiOnership
which has been offered him by John
Purroy Mitchell, mayor Of the City of
New York
1t is known that these views have
had great weight in influencing Colo
mel Cocktails. and he has reiterated
that he could not accept the import
ant post in New York until the com
pletion and operation of the Panama
canal
President Meyer of the Western
Federation of Miners, together with
six other labor leaders under indiCt-
,lent at Houghton, will voluntarily re-
turn to Michigan and stand trial on
the charges of conspiracy for which
they were indicted Counsel for the
Western Federation of Miners yester-
day wired the prosecutor to this eff
feet
Meyer and those who were indicted
with him are now 1T Chicago.
1t was announced in San Francisco
yesterday that Lincoln Beachey, the
aviator, has received permission from
the Smithsonian Institution to dem
onstrate the possibility Of air flights
with the flying machine originally per-
fected by Professor Langley Is years
or more ago.
Professor Langley utilized the right
principle of flying in constructing his
machine, says Beachey; all that it
lacks for perfection Is a good motor.
After years of effort Professor
Langley announced that he had solved
the problem of air flight. He gave a
demonstration of his machine before
an immense throng. The machine
glided through the air only short
distance when it fell to the ground
and was partially wrecked. 1t was
the last effort Professor Langley made
at air flight and he died soon after
ward. His machine was afterwards
presented to the Smithsonian Insti.
tuition.
California; from one end to the
other, is now in the grip Of one Of
the heaviest storms in years. Santa
Barbara, in the southern end of the
state, is cut off from communication
and the lower part of that city is al
ready under water.
At Fresno, in the center of the San
Joaquin valley, the Easements of the
business section of the city are flood.
ed and railroad traffic on the South
ern Pacific and Santa Fee railroads in
the southern end of the state is inter-
rupted.
The valleys are drenched Rivers in
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streams flow are rising rapidly. The
San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers
have risen to the danger point as. a
result of the floods which have drain
ed into them from the valleys.
Great fear is felt over the danger
CT floods from clCudbursts in Fresno
and Sacramento counties.
President Huerta continues defiant
Of the wishes of Washington. and de-
spite pressure at home and from
abroad. betTays no syn that he is
weakening in the stand he took
months ago. In conversation Satur-
day, he conceded that the mission up
on which he had despatched General
Valores Magon had failed of any good
esuIt.
Appeals for a return to peace
throughout Mexico have been received
i'll such numbers from Spain that the
rebel leaders are convinced that an
organized effort is being made to in
duce Generals Carranza and Villa to
end hO3tilities speedily.
TO the urgent messages that have
come, General Villa Saturday made a
general reply. He said that he was
ready to cease fighting as soon as
Huerta had been overthrown. and not
one moment sooner Only the over
throw OF the dictator will bring any
lasting peace to Mexico. he declared.
William Willett. a former Demo
cratic Congressman, was on Saturday
found guilty of bribery. an attempt TO
purchase a nomination to the supreme
court bench of Queens county. New
\ Ork, in 1911 having been proven.
All official decree. declaring that
the presence of Chinese N MeXiCO
constitutes national menace and bar
ring them from any further entry into
the country. was issued yesterday by
General Carranza. in the name Of the
constitutional government of Mexico.
The decree contains provisions SIM
lar in language to those Of the Ameri-
can Chinese Exclusion Act
The hatred of the Chinese on the