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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
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The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
AMERICAN 8ANiSHED.
Mexican Bandits Loot Ranch and Or
 der Owner to Leave.

Fl Paso, Tex, March 20.-F. l.. Tay- Tor, an American colonist, arrived here-t today by way of Columbus, N. M, with a story of mistreatment at the hands of bandits operating around Colonia Juarez. Mormon colony in Chihuahua state Taylor said he fled to save his life leaving behind family and property
 Bandits under Manuel Gutierrez raided the American colony a week ago, said Taylor. They entered his home and he fought desperately, wounding one of the Mexicans in the hand,
 Finally he was overpoweed and sen fenced to death Later Gutierrez de- cided that he must pay $500 and con fseating 1.500 in grain and stock told Taylor to leave the country at once.
 The Gutierrez band constantly raid. ed the American numbering town of Pearson. Gutierrez formerly was sec ond in command under Maxine Gas tilln. now prisoner at Fort Hiss l Texas.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
Villa Ready for Attack.

Rebel Front Yermo, Chihuahua, Mexico, Mar. 20.-Villa's army, unm- bering 12,000 men, has more than forty field pieces and all immense sup ply of ammunition, probably 2,000 rounds to the man. The constitution alists have been moving to their ba' sis by train disembarking at Berme, iillo and Mapimi.
 From these points and from Yermo the march over the desert was begun the federal advance guard retreating without opposition behind their forti fications at Torreon They tore up the railroad and destroyed the bridges as they retired and the rebels follow ed over the long waste of desert, some riding horses and others ploddins thrugh the sand
 Today Gen. Villa, who is at this place receiving his reports from his various subordinate generals by cou- rier and by wireless. announced that his men were in position and that smelling of the federal trenches would begin without unnecessary delay.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
CONFERENCE IN
 VERGARA CASE
GEN. HUTCHINGs OF TEXAS, AND CoMMANDANT AT PlEDRAS
 NEGRAS MEET.
And Discuss the Matter of Kidnapping and Killing of American Rancher, Vergara.

Eagle Pass, Tex, March 20.-Adjt. Gen. Henry Hutchings of Texas today held a conference with the Mexican federal commander of Piedras Negras, Gen. Guajardo, concerning the Gle. mente Vergara case and other report ed acts of lawlessness along the bor- der While details of the conference were not made public it was said that the horses stolen from the Vergara ranch which led the ranchman to cross into Mexico, where he was arrested by federal soldiers and later execut- ed, would be returned to his family.
 Capt. Rodriguez is now in Piedras Negras, but whether his connection with the Vergara incident was dis cussed at the conference none of the officials would say Rodriguez is charged in a Texas warrant with the theft of the Vergara horses. Three private soldiers were also named in the warrant It was these men, ac- cording to report, who kidnapped Yer gara.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
LOCAL TANGOISTS
 AMONG AMATEURS
BIG AMATEUR BILL AT THE PRiN- CESS LAST NIGHT AND A
 WORLD OF FUN.

Amaeur night at the Princess grows bigger and better every night. Last night was the best of all and the ama- teur section brought out some real talent that yied with the profession. als for honors
 The feature act of the bill was A. bert Alexander and Miss Marie Lind gres. dancers, who gave an exhibition of the tango and other society dances that was voted by the audience to be better than many of the professional acts of it's kind, and the equal of any exhibition in this line during the pres eat season. This popular couple were compelled to take several encores and the audience then did not feel inclined to let them go.
 Frank Ritter in his Illustrated song scored another big hit, while Miss Dorothy Graham against charmed her hearers with a splendid vocal num- ber Baby Fletcher. cute and cun ming, sang a song in her snappy style and received three encores. Little Herbert White and Marie Crane both scored splendidly with song numbers.
 Will Ripley staged an eccentric monologue. He got away with the first pant of his act in fairly good style, but when recalled for the bal ance of 1t the alert stage hand with the dreaded hook found him un- awares and hooked him plenty Manager Owens requests that all amateurs who expect to participate next Friday night notify him fin ad- vance. in order that he may properly advertise the events in advance, there | by giving friends of the performers aa opportunity to be present and wit ness their offerngs.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
TRUST BUYS OIL
 AND COTTON MILLS
SIX ARKANSAS MILLS AND THOSE OF MANY OTHER STATES COB
 BLEED BY COMBINE.
Arkansas Company Sells Out Holdings in Six Cities of the State to- New Concern.

Little Rock, Ark, March 20.-The Union Seed & Fertilizer Co.,, a New Jersey corporation, with an authorized capital of more than $S,000,000, enter ed Arkansas today, acquiring the six cotton and oil mills and a large fer tilizer plant of the Arkansas Cotton Oil Co., The new corporation acquired also today the other cotton seed oil mills owned in ten southern states by the owners of the Arkansas Cot ton Oil Co.,, who are stockholders in the American Cotton Oil Co. of New York. The Arkansas Cotton Oil Go. surrendered it's charter to operate in Arkansas.
 The Arkansas Cotton Oil Co, which owned and operated mills at Argenta, Cotton Plant, England, Fort Smith, Helena and Pine Bluff, and the fertil- izer plant at Argenta, was one of the cotton oil companies named by the attorney general in custer proceedings filed recently in circuit court here The custer suits charged violation of the antitrust statutes of the state and asked judgment for $4,000,000 damages.
 No change is to be made in the management of the Arkansas mills,
 Besides those in Arkansas, the mills acquired by the New Jersey cor poration are located principally in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ten .nessee, Georga, North Carolina and South Carolina.
 R. F. Munroe of New York is presi- dent of the Union Seed and Fertilizer Company.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
Deny Capture of ederaIs.

Eagle Pass, Tex, March 20.-Fed eral officers at Piedras Negras today denied the report from Mexico City that Gen. Arguelles and 116 men had been captured and executed by consti- tutionalists near Moncloya. Accord ing to the federal report of the en- gagement there, Gems. Villareal and Castro entered Monclova several days ago but retired on the approach of the reinforced federal garrison Since then there has been no fighting. Cas- tro captured several warehouses filled with supplies and few prisoners, it was said, but Gen. Arguelles was not among them.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
klRk-THE TAILOR.

He will make your suit, do yous cleaning and pressing l2S Central Phone sSs. lO-7.ti
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
COUNTERFEIT REBEL MONEY.

Fl Paso, Tex, March 20.-The COZ tinued issuing of counterfeit Villa paper currency in the United States today resulted in agents of the Chi huahua rebels accoeting an American in a hotel lobby here, accusing him of having in his possession 12,00000t pesos counterfeit rebel mohey. They were told to mind their own busi. ness"
 The incident raised question as to whether the possessio nor even manufacture of Mexican fit paper was illegal in the United States. It was said large quantities of the currency printed here had been circulated in Mexico.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
NJ EVIDENCE
 OF LOBBY FUND
SENATOR oVaRMAN DENIES THAT FUND HAS BEEN RAISED TO
 DEFEAT MEASURE.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Alleged to Be Subscribed to Combat Bill Against Convict Made Goods.

Washington, March 20.-"There is no evidence here of any $50,000 fund.- said Senator Overman, chair man of the senate lobby committee today at the conclusion of the com mittees investigation of reports that such a sum was being used in Wash ington by representatives of prison labor contractors to defeat the pend ing Hughes bill to restrict market ing of convict made goods.
 The chairman's remark, which ap parently closed this latest phase of the committees inquiries, was ad- dressed to Edward Boyle, a Chicago attorney and formerly treasurer of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, who has opposed so- called anti-convict labor legislation for years as legal representative of group of manufacturers having pri- son labor contracts.
 MT. Boyle told the committee that he had been done an injustice by the intimations as to lobbying and asked that a full investigation be made. Senator Overman said he was will ing to call any witnesses Boyle might suggest but that the matter seemed closed.
 E. Stagg Whitin. an instructor of Columbia university and chairman of the executive committee of the national committee on prison labor, was the only witness who had been subpoenaed besides Boyle. He said he was favoring the Hughes. bill pay ing his own expenses. and had ap- peared before congressional commit tees on the same errand before as an expert in the employ of the New York state labor department.
 Professor Whitin spoke of meeting Boyle at. a meeting of the National conference of Charities and Correc- tions and said Emery Lyons, secre- tary of the Central Howard Associa- ton of Chicago had told him on one occasion that prison contractors were raising a fund of "a lollar a year per convict" to defeat national anti-convict labor legislation. Boyle had later confirmed this in substance. he said.
 Cross examining Whitin, Boyle de- nied this concluding with the state men+ that it was merely a question of veracity between them on a sub feet not susceptible of proof.
 Whitin also asserted that at a hearing before house committee in 1910 on a similar bill, Frederick r. Mills. treasurer of the American Pri- son Association had first favored the measure and then went to pieces in his testimony after a conversa- tion with Boyle. Pressed by Boyle, the witness said this was conclu- sion in his own mind not sustained' by any documentary evidence.
 Arthur E. Holder, executive agent of the American eFderation of Labor made a voluntary statement outlin- ing the federations part in prOmot- ing measures such as the Hughes bill. Holder said no secret agents ever had been employed and the fed eration could not countenance any measure that would not bear "the full light of day"
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
Crystal Street Sanltarium

G. K. MARTIN, Owner and Manager.
 Equipped with Operating Room and Modern Appliances, not only for the Surgical Patient, but a Home for the Invalid and Rheumatic.
 Morphine, Drug and Drink Habits Cared for. Experienced and Edueat- ed Nurses in Attendance.
 Telephone 1855, No. Crystal Street.
 HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
TO THE PUBLIC.

The partnership heretofore eSls'"W ns N Q tween Dr. E. C. Hay and ", haslss Forbes (knOwn as Hay x fofpesn,. n. K ( been terminated by the death of Lf is tt Hay August 9th, 1918, the pupnss,, { vised that all records and aecgsr'usr ae.srs usr the said firm are with the sufVlsin,sss sufV'i.,sss VI her Dr. W. O. Forbes The busenfore. I he conducted by him as heF' s.iif No log Exchange street
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
ELEANOR WILL WED M'ADOO
Second Marriage in President Wilson's
Family Is Expested to Take
Place in June.

Washington, d. C.-"President and
Mrs. Wilson announce the engage
ment of their younest daughter, Flea
nor Randolph Wilson to the Hon
William Gibbs McAdoo."
This brief statement issued at the
White House, confirmed rumors in
circulation several days. The publica-
ton of these reports fastened the
announcement.
Mrs. Wilson, it is understood. op-
posed the match. She did not want
her daughter to marry a man twice
her age and a grandfather. That is
assigned as a reason for the delay in
making the official announcement Of
the engagement.
Mr.. McAdco is secretary of the
treasury and is so years old, widow.
er with six children. Miss Wilson is
"a years old.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
U. S. EXPRESS Co. TO QUIT.
$1,000 MEN WILL BE THROWN
OUT OF WORK.
Hartman Estate, Controlling One
Fifth, May Transfer Contracts
to Wells Fargo Company.

New York-Directors of the
United States Express company,
which employs $4,000 persons and has
a pay roll of 100000 a year, voted
unanimously to liquidate its affairs
and dissolve it in the shortest possible
time.
There are outstanding 100000
shares of United States Express stock
and these are in comparatively few
hands. The Hartman estate is be-
lieved to hold about one-ffth of the
whole, which the late f. II. Hartman
acquired from the American and
Adams Express companies for $780,
900.
The express company at one time
had contracts covering $4,000 miles
with the leading railroads OF the coun-
try. In part these contracts have en-
pired, but the remaining ones are said
to be of potential value and It is as
sumed that they will be transferred
to one of the company's former COM
petitoss, probably Well Fargo & Co.,
in which the Hartman interests have
large holdings.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
.FAVORS POSTAL VOTE PLAN
BRYAN SAYS WILSON ENDORSES
MAIL BALLOTS.
Secretary Says Persons Absent EIec-
ton Days Should Have Right
to send Their Vote.

Annapolis, Md.-Secretary of State
Bryan said he hoped that not only
would this country borrow the initi-
alive and referendum, as It had Dor
rowed the Australian ballot, but that
in time it would adopt the postal vote.
The postal vote of New Zealond
allows a citizen, though away from
home, to cast his vote at an cleo
ton and have it counted.
The occasion of Secretary Bryan's
statement was an address he made on
the initiative and referendum before
the Maryland legislature. A bill pro-
viding for the measure is pending.
You need not be afraid to change
your opinion on the question of the
initiative and referendum" the secre.
tary concluded. president Wilson
changed his opinion and was not
ashamed. He said he had been teach,
ing the students at Princeton that the
initiative and referendum was wrong,
but when he found he was wrong he
was not ashamed to say So"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
GIRL, z, GETS s5,000,000
VANDERBILT LEFT CASH IN
TRUST FOR DAUGHTER.
viii Also Gives Her Famous Estate
in North Carolina; His Widow
Gets a Large Sum.

New York.-The will of George W.
Vanderbilt, as filed for probate here,
leaves his entire estate, estimated at
S20.OOO,OOO, to his widow and only
daughter, Cornelia.
Minor requests providing annuities
aggregating $500 a year are made
in favor of certain relatives. There
ere no public requests
Biltmore, Mr.. Nanderiblt's world.
famous estate in North Carolina. is
left to his daughter, Cornelia. who is
now IL years old She also receives
So. 900. 900 in cash and is made residu-
airy legatee
Mrs Vanderbilt, the widow, re-
celyes the estate at Bar Harbor, Me;
the Vanderbilt home in Washington,
t250,00O in cash. life interest In a
trust fund OF 100000 which she
may dispose of at her death as she
sees ut and part Of the real estate in
North Carolina. known as Pisgah
Forest, containing about $4,000 acres,
together with the contracts for the
sale OF timber therefrom, estimated
to produce about $4,000 a year.
TheDe requests to Mrs. Vanderbilt are
made in lieu Of a dover.
Five million dollars which goes to
Cornel!a, the daughter, is the princi-
pal of trust fund held by George
w. Vanderbilt under the will of his
father, the late William II. Wander.
bilt. The will provides that the ex-
ecutors shall hold the daughters es-
tate in trust until she becomes %
years of age. Until she Is 81 she will
receive only so much Of the income
as the executors deem proper.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
is OF 20 DEAD IDENTIFIED
Scraps of Bones and Flesh So Ter
ribly Burned in M. A. c. Fire
They Cannot Be Placed.

st. Louis.-Out of a total OF % bod.
ies recovered from the NJ. A. c. ruins,
16 have been identified.
BY far the most grewsome evidence
Of the wholesale death and destruc-
ton wrought by the flames in the
NJ. A. c. building reached the morgue
shortly before G o'clock last night in
the shape of several human bones and
flesh so terribly burned and broken
as to make it almost impossible to
determine what portion of the human
frame they had formed.
There were six portions, the longest
of which was not more than Is inches.
The bones were splintered and broken
and the flesh cooked to hardness Of
leather.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
COAL RATE DECISION SOON
Commerce Commission Prepares opin-
lon In Transportation Case In.
volving Illinois Product.

Washington. d. C.-The inter.
state commerce commission is ex-
pected to hand down its decision in
the st. Louis coal rate case within
the next week or 10 days.
While the members of that body
refuse to give out any information
which will lead TO a conclusion in
regard to its opinion, from the best
information obtainable, and from the
testimony taken before the commits
sion, 1t is believed by many here that
the decision will be in favor of st
Louis as against East st. Louis on the
question of the rates on bituminous
coal, transported from points in Iii
nois and transhipped to st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
MILITANT VANDAL TO PRISON
and Tried in Two Days for
Slashing Painting.

London, England.-Miss May Rich
ardson, the militant suffragist who on
Tuesday hacked Valequez's "Rokeby
Venus" famous painting in the Ma
tional Gallery, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment.
The case against Miss Richardson
was disposed of in record time. She
was arrested on March 10, taken to
the Bow Street police court and COM
mitted for trial by the magistrate on
the same day; the grand jury We'd
nesday returned a true bill against
her and Thursday she was tried and
convicted by jury at the London
sessions.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
PUT CHILDREN IN RIGHT PATH.

Ii there any investment of time,
energy. talents, that will count for
more than the work with the chill
dren? IF you write the law of total
abstinence on the hearts of the chill
dren." says Congressman Hobson,
they will see to Il that it is written
on the statute books OF the state and
the nation"
This is why the W. C. T. U. gives 80
much time and thought to teaching
children the nature and effects OF
alcohol.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
300 Trapped In Mine.

As a result Of the earthquake cop
per mine at Tsunmdato collapsed. The
fate OF the 300 workmen in the mine
is unknown. Simultaneous with the
earthquake came terrific explosions
and the bursting of flames from the
volcano Asama-Yama.
Akita is q garrison town on the sea
of Japan and has a population OF
about 10000
Asama-Yama is the largest active
volcano in Japan. Its last great erup-
ton was in 1888. when several villages
on the north side of the mountain
were obliterated by huge streams Of
lava.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
SALOON THE STATES WORST EN-.

ENVY.
CBy JUDGE A. n. WATKINS OF TeNasD
Why does the state so abhor the ga
loon on election day? Absolutely one
would think it no worse to sell whisky
at one time than at another. II knows
only too well that this right Of free
men and the sale Of drink are at hope
less war; that the liquor traffic has al
ways been the sworn enemy OF the
honest ballot; that to furnish the voter
with whisky would be like arming
mailman. II the saloon be the limo
cent and harmless thing its advocates
claim, why not unchain 1t on cleo
ton day?
But in spite of these and every 9th
er precaution, the saloon is today the
gravest menace to an honest vote Not
content with taking its place in soci-
ETY. as a business simply, II is ambi-
tious to become a ruler.
Who ever heard of a drug store
ticket at an election? Who ever heard
of the family groceries, or the shoe
trade claiming the right to elect their
officers?
And yet one hardly need inquire
for any man that ever lived in a sa-
loon-ridden county or city that has
not heard OF or voted for or against
the saloon ticket?"
1t is always there. And from con-
stable to governor those lords OF vice
demand that society shall bow to
them. Many have wondered at the
cause and asked why simple bust
ness should not be satisfied to be a
business simply. But the answer il
not far or hard to find.
The saloon seeks the election OF
candidates who are willing or pledged
to do it's bidding. 1t is needless for
another business, for it follows the
law. 1t is necessary for the saloon.
for It defies the law
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19

st. Jouis,-The ruins of the Ms
souri, Athletic club gave up the bodies
Of Joseph Z. Chasnoff, manager of the
advertising promotion department Of
The Republic; Allen r. Hancock OF
4141 Cook avenue, and a third man
believed 10 have been Marx Ham,
mer, president of the Neuteter Cloak
and Suit company. Twenty-nine bodies
have been recovered, of which 81
have been identified positively by rel
atiyes, friends. dentists OF physicians.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
looming, SURE AS EArrr

COMING, SURE AS FATEr
A Kansas City saloonkeene~ r,A.
has been in the business % years 70.
Gently announced that his place v.as
Tor sale at a bargain. my reason. h." bo
said, for quitting the liquor trade 4.
not that am old or rich. or troubled
by my conscience. l simply have da.
cided to get out while the GETTING 4,
good, for l believe that can read u,e
handwriting on the wall. / believe
That the finish OF the booze business In
this country is in sight. and I rrrfa,
to step from under before the ron,
falls In.
i would not undertake to say when
nationwide prohibition is goiug f., ar.
rive, but 1t is coming. as sure as fate
and 1t Is not many years away II il
coming, not so much as a result Of
feverish and hysterical agitation but
as result Of majority Of the voters
OF the country making up their mirss
that BOOKING is criminal waste OF
time and money, and booze a nuisance
and a dangerous drug"
he goes on TO say that "druuhards
there are and will be 80 long as there
is booze to be had, and they are panic.
stricken at the suggestion that coun,
try-wide prohibition may prevail But
the self-respecting and social drink,
ers, the real dependence of the liquor
traffic, are preparing to Danish booze.
And | don't know but everyone will
be glad of 1t, in the long run. I've
never been proud OF being a saloon.
keeper, and l don't believe any other
self-respecting man can be. We jolly
ourselves along with the argument
that 1t is legitimate, recognized By the
national government, the state, the
county and the city, but we know in
our hearts that it is rotten business
Anyhow, good or bad, l am going
to get out of 1t before the fireworks
begin, and I'd advise every other man
with money invested in it to do the
same. John Barleycorn has had his
day"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
SIS EACH FOR FIRE VICTIMS
Administrators Of Estates of % Who
Perished in New York Factory
Blaze Make Settlement.

New York.-After a legal bat
tie Of nearly three years, admin
istrators Of the estates of 20 OF the
victims Of the Triangle shirtwaist fac
tory fire settled on the basis Of so
each
These amounts will not be paid by
Harris and Blanck. proprietors Of the
factory, or by Joseph E. Asch. owner
Of the building in which las employees
were burned TO death. but by an em
ployers liability company.
II is understood many other eases
OF the 148 victims of the disaster
also have been settled out Of court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-03-19
SLEEPWALKER SLEW FRIEND
Ranchman's Plea He Did Not Know
What He Had Done Until Awak.
ened After Shooting.

Alton, Moon the plea that
he is a somnambulist, and that
he did not know what he had done
until he was awakened, Lee Cousins,
a ranchman, was acquitted in the
Oregon county circuit court here Of
the murder of VIII Hilton.
Cousins at his trial maintained he
had been dreaming a burglas was in
the room and was not aware he had
shot Hilton until he was awakened by
McWil'ams. His wife testified he
was subject to spells of walking in his
sleep.