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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
Mexican Federals Are Leaving
the City by Rail.
Unable to Withstand Fierce
Onslaught of the Rebels.
GUNB0AT FIRE Ineffective
Naval Contingent withdraw
From Scene of Conflict.
Unemployed Forced to Fight In
Ranks of Defenders.

Washington, May 14.-Further con-
firmation of the fall Of Tampico into
the hands of the constitutionalists,
was received at the navy department
today. in a message from Admiral
Mayo, transmitted through Admiral
Badger. This report says the Mexican
federal gunboat Vera Cruz still was up
the river at the railway bridge.
Admiral Mayo further reported that
the federal troops blew up the bar
racks before retiring from the city. By
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon he said
the firing practically had ceased.
Secretary Daniels has given Rear
Admiral Mayo full power to send
American warships back up Panuco
river to Tampico il in his judgment
conditions should warrant such action.
The captains of the Mexican federal
gunboats Bravo and Zaragoza, which
came down the Panuco river from
Tampico, have asked Rear Admiral
Mayo for an interview and he has in
formed them he will receive them on
board the Connecticut.
Washington, May 14.-Evacuatfon
OF Tampico by the federal garrison has
begun, according to a relayed wire
less dispatch to the navy department
from Rear Admiral Mayo. Federal
troops were leaving by the railroad.
That the rebels encountered desper-
ate resistance in their final attack on
Tampico, and that they were COM
PEELED to carry their fight to the heart
of the town, was indicated by Rear
Admiral Mayo's report. He stated
that there was heavy rifle firing in
the plaza and that big gun firing con-
tinued.
Advices received by constitutional
lists here stated the federals were evac-
uating Tampico. but details were
lacking.
The federals were retreating by way
of the railroad leading to San Luis
Potosi and it was assumed they hoped
to unite with the federal garrison
there.
Rear Admiral Mayo reported to the
navy department that the Mexican
federal gunboats Bravo and Zaragoza
steamed out OF the Panuco river and
anchored near the foreign warships
outside.
/ The federal gunboat Bravo began a
bOmbardment of the constitutionalist
position on a hill in the outskirts of
the city and a schoolhouse occupied
by the CONSTITUTE -nalists. The artil-
lery fire of the gunboat was badly d.
rected, according to the message, do
ing no damage and wounding no one
| in the constitutiona1ist ranks.
Declined to Come Out.
There were 5000 unemployed men
| in Tampico. Some of these men have
| been obliged to take Up arms in the
| federal ranks, according to the mes
sage, while many have made their
way to the constitutionalist lines and
enlisted under General Gonzales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
EARTHQUAKE Shocks Continue

Catania. May 14.-Earthquake Shocks
continued throughout the night and
early today while Mount Etna was still
active Only insignificant damage was
reported. The population of the VII
lagos in the vicinity has not recovered
from the alarm caused by the recent
disaster and remains encamped in the
open country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
arly readings:
HE GETS SIX MONTHS
Preacher Who Disturbed John DIS
Church Is Sentenced.

New York, May 14.-Rouck White,
Harvard graduate, author and Social
list preacher, was sentenced to six
months in the workhouse today for
having disturbed the services at Cal
vary Baptist church on Sunday night
last John D. Rockefeller and his son
are members Of the church and White
had entered the edifine with a number
of followers as q protest against the
Colorado mine war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

Detroit. May 1.-THE Wolverine Linn
tied on the Michigan Central railroad,
bound from New York to Chicago, was
deratled this morning near Buxcon.
Ontario. No one was killed. but sew
eral persons were injured. Five cars
left the track
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14
Alleged Confession Of Jean
Gianfni Read in Court.
Relates How He Murdered His
Teacher Last March.
hit HER WITH monkey WRENCH
And Then Stabbed Her Several
Times With Knife.
Hid the Body and Went Home
Full of Happiness.

Herkimer, N. Y, May IA con-
fession alleged to have been made by
Jean Gianini telling in detail Of how
he murdered his young school teach
er, Ida Beecher, was introduced at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

Savings Banks i'm New York Sciaools
New York, May 1.-THE board OF
education Of Greater New York has de-
cided to establish savings banks in the
public schools OF the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

Mrs. Goodleigh (after feeding tramp
And are you a Christian?' Tramp
We'll, mum, nobody can accuse me er
workin' on Sundays. Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

weather Forecast for Kansas.
Cloudy with probably showers tOnight
and Friday: warmer tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

do not expect any objection to be
made by constitutp pnAlists to tho
American ships occutyiug positions In
the river.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
Cooperation On This Border

ROM DOUGLAS ARIZ bit Importance
well significance
looking bit routine
Aqua PHe Sonora Mex
town. smallpox
conditions Aqua
CaranGsta
officials pending general cleanup in Aqua Prieta
ands
the position Of the people of Douglas explaining fes
feelings existed and that the bars would be lifted seemed safe to
in
the con1saTiO Of Aqua Pieta promised adopt
nighborly
health of Douglas A take charge of the situation direct the
intercourse between the neighbOr cities might be
Dr. Randall Of Douglas accepted the that
suggested posted Spanish dy enforced
have been taken and the little Mexican under
going Transformation
nigaton by thorough cleaning collection
rubbish children
police
school and present them vaccination The 100 soldiers the
Douglas Lever says people
in o Of
including
days"
splendid cooperation
to
association
all
friction?
prOfay
republics all they
to
and
dignity in spirit
the Arizona border
to just begun He finds pleasant hopeful
promising, energetic time life
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
GOOD MOTIVES
Adventures Of a Crouch

ing over to see Mrs. GewhiIikens and
tell her how much mischief she was do
ing, and try to convince her Of the error
of her way. I scented trouble from
afar, and begged my aunt to attend to
her own knitting, but she said she had
a public duty to perform, so away she
went.
about half r nhour later she came
home with a black eve, and while she
was explaining to me that Mrs. Gee
WhIllIkens resented her remarks with a
rolling pin, a big fat policeman came to
the door and told her she was under
arrest. For three days I Swallowed that
policeman until I found him in a Sc
qUestered nook, far from the madding
crowds ignOble strife, and there
punched his head in thoroughly work
manner. And after had done it
began to think that it was a mistake.
The pOliceman's motive were all right
He was merely performing his duty. so
[ went around to him to apologize, but
before I could say a word he dotted me
one with his hardwood club, and my
head has been ringing ever since. So
You see how We are always misjUdgIBg
each other"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
He Means We'll

kEY WILSON," "has
motives
able Among they created though to
deaths
in hIeicot hano Of the deatho Of oneE nglishman"
saying Spectator
been raised Benton than the
the revolutionary period It situation not altogether fang @
strengthen the belief
England Will
Development
international border at their
their the instant they
governments investments"
under foreign
In the article says at take time
friendship"
It certainly Will We headed the
direction, and It is a long TO ninity back
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02

q beg nardonn ne said in the most
affable manner, ''but I'm N d go,
hole. Jusg had my pocket plG5A &C.,, f01.
IN the Grand Central sat " fF
minute and must nave un1'- could
Got my Communication book, TOO: 49,
you let me have the price OF ~; ~
to Stamford? Nv office is at (udlHLIIS
well known high class ONCE Jill -
ing) and III send the money u S0|
He elaborated this story quite con
Vlncingly. At least it would nave Coll-
Vlnced almost anybody WIN cO It P 10
sion and only a fair knoWledgS U ~. IL
man nature. But having lived IN tIltS
metropolis of crooks and graIterS
many long years, yours truly e1Cuseu
himself by saying he was "Droke UNI
self It wasn't much to my GISuLt "
dodge the trap, being much the sam
sort Of reflection as the playing Oh
too good a game of billiards IS on d
youth Of 1S-and besides my excuse
was dangerously near the truth
But I learned later, the Van Dyke
stranger was doing good Ou9l He.97i;
In fact the business was SO good anu
he kept at it so persistently th9I ne
made fatal error. He approached TIE
same man twice. This man was
southerner of large size. who. came
back with a S. bill the first time so
quickly his physiOgnomy I'm tne
rush Of trade) escaped the Van Dyked
persons mind. Two days later the
TALL sandy haired stranger VINO must
get to Stamford in time for dinner
started in his tale near the railroad
folder rack in the Manhattan. He Al
ways chose this spot. Imagine his
surprise when the intended victim
seized him by the coat collar and with
the force of a gorilla propelled him
upstairs.
Bring on all your walters, clerks
and detectives" rOared the southern
er. Here's a CRATER you ought all to
remember Then when he collected
a stable audience Of hotel employees
and guests, he told his tale, guided his
trembling captive to the door and with
one tremendous heave of a size II boot
sent him scuttling to the sidewalk
outside.
BrOaway is to lose the good old
Vic" You know the Victoria hotel,
that modest little hosiery at Twenty
seventh and Broadway? They're going
to tear it down and rear a "a story
commercial building in its place.
For many years the Vic" has been
the chief gathering place of the labor
union leaders of the United States.
More general tall head work by the
for the workingmen has
been done within its portals than in
any other building in the western hem
sphere I would swear.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
n Years Ago Today
From The Herald This Date 1900.

Mrs. s. B. Newcomb, of Las Cruces
is in the city.
Juan Ascarate came down from Las
Cruces this morning.
Oliver Lee came down on the Santa
Fe this morning from up the road
Mrs. F. c. Barker and daughter, Miss
MllHcent' came down from Las Cruces
this morning.
Charles Norris, a G. H. brakeman,
viii leave for New Orleans this even
ing, where he viii be married.
Today is pay day TO the Ell PasO po-
lice force. The FL PasO policeman is
pretty well paid, receiving S75 per
Miss Dorothy Bowman, the talented
young elOcutiOnist, was married last
evening to Edwin D. MOOers, of New
YORK Afterwards there was a wed
ding supper at the Zeiger
The Border Rifles, Ell Paso's militia
company, are now making prepara-
tons for the state encampment and
al members are required to be at
drlus3 unless a good and reasonable ex-
cuse is presented.
The citizens of Juarez will hold a
mass meeting Sunday afternoon to
take action to petition the government
for the abolition of the free zone, or
at least for the abolition for the tariff
on native goods shipped.
Ioday IS the anniversary Of the dec
laratlon Of independence of the state
OF Texas and is a legal holiday
banks were closed in observance Of the
day so memorable in Texas history
day
Yesterday was the last day allowed
by law for settling city taxes. Today
all unpaid taxes are delinquent and
SUBJECT to penalty of five percent.
yesterday the collectors office in the
Guy nan was crowded with tax pay
ers. Over 100 receipts were issued and
ABOUT S5U,OO0 collected.
A very enjoyable high five party
was heId Thursday evening at the res
IuShce or Mrs Campbell. The princi-
PAL prize was captured by Mrs. Ba-
con, of Chicago in whose honor the
party was given. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Bacon. Mr.. and Mrs G.
y. hester, Mr.. and Mrs. Lind, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcclure, Mr.. and Mrs Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. J. Meehan Messrs. Wink
Ter, LndhOlm, Leaver and Wood.
LAST evening the 11tA grade Of the
FL Paso high school was entertained
at the home Of H r. Chase on North
Oregon by their class mate. Cruger
Shase- There were present: Prof
EIoach and Miss Lyons, teachers; Sell
oy townsend, Jay Holman, John Tay-
LOT, Bruce Section, John Barlow, Henry
iAeI!y' Ethel Catlin, Rose Windsor, Hal
lie Irwin, Maize Coles, Georgia Smith
and Alice Maple. The first prize was
won by Miss Ethel Catlin.
Another effort is about to be made
70 90 something with the old race
track at Washington park. A number
OF horse lovers in this city are said
to be interested in the movement
among them being Al Mast. r. B. Stew
ems and John Tucker. The first OBJ
lect OF the promoters will be the estab-
lsnment Of a training stable. The com
nlttee on public improvements of the
chamber Of commerce is considering
me adVlsability of taking some steps
llG39Wards making the park of use to
the city.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02

- ME editor of this paper should
be IN the penitentiary." OBJ
served the professor, as he
rolled up yellow Journal and threw it
at the cat. He accuses mayor Gherkin
Of being p CRATER. I have known the
mayor many years, and never met a man
OF higher ideals or puTer motives. Moth
ing is more exasperating tkan to see
a truly good man assaIled and behttled
in this fashion,
you're handing out the right line of
dope, now, professor" said the low
brOwed man. Eve been through the
mill, and it's mighty encouraging to
know l can count on your sympathy.
Now IS the time for all good men to
rally to the support of yours truly, for
I'm pretty badly discouraged. I deliv
cred pint Of milk to Mrs. SWilligan
every morning for the past two weeks,
and have been expecting her to say
something to the effect that it was the
best milk she ever saw. You can't
realize how a man IN my position hun
gers and thIrSts for q word of praise or
appreciation. Selling milk IS a thankless
job and I've been hoping for years that
some customer would hand me a sunny
smile or cheering word. I had the idea
that Mrs. SwIllingan would, for she's
good natUred looking woman.
but this morning when I went to
the door she met me with a face that
looked like the arctic circle, and asked
me whether we used chalk or plaster
OF paris In our milk She said there
was a white sediment a quarter of an
inch thick at the bottom of the milk
pitcher. every day. What can a man do
or say when asked such a question?
No matter what argument he puts up,
{ he
30 merely gave here q reprO2chtul
glance and turned away without saying
q word.
Il have tried for years to induce Aunt
Julia to dispose of her cows and engage
IN some business that isn't under sus-
pleiOn. Everybody in this town thinks
that the milkman's cows are twin Sis
ters to the old Oaken bucket that hangs
in the well, and there's no use combat
ting the idea. People Just sneer at me
when L tell them that our cows don't
have to be primed before being MIXED
l get tired of hearing slightinglv refer
ences to our well and cistern. Even old
DOOhttle, who has lived next door to us
for years, and knows that Aunt Julia
is as straight as a string, insists that
he found a live fish in a quart can OF
milk I delivered to him.
People are always getting raw deals
because their motives are misunderstood. ]
You remember when Aunt Julia was ar
rested and fined $40 for disturbing the
peace last summer? Tt nearly broke her
heart, for the story got into the news
papers, and she became a celebrity in a
day, and people who didn't know the
facts said she was a bowling Amazon.
The truth Is that she got into trouble
because Mrs. GewhilliEens was going
around gossiping from one house to an
other. A dozen uprisings were traced to
her work, and whenever Won stepped
outdoors you could see families throwing |
old hardware and stovewOOd at each
other, over their back fences.
$50 one day Aunt Julia put on her
war bonnet and said that sort of thing
would have to be stopped. She was 60 !
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
QUAKER lTEDTTATIONs.
lPhIIadeIDhia Recordl


There's no place like hOme-to the
man who hasn't any.
Trouble isn't sensitive, but at the
same time it hates to be laughed at
The man who stands in his own
Light imagines the whole word is dark
One Of the great secrets of success
IS to let the other fellow take the
chances.
No, Maude, dear; it doesn't neces.
sarily take a sharp featured woman to
look daEgers.
The girl who thinks no man is good
enough for her may be right, but she
is apt to be left, too.
Society soon wearies trying to make
a lion Of a man who persists in max
ing an ass of himself
ct is possible to have too much Of a
good thing" remarked the Wise Guy.
Yes" agreed the Simple Mug, the
dog with the shortest tail rauns the
least dangero ia having tin cans tied
to it."
1t was in the restaurant what viii
Mary have?' asked the host, who was
giving the order "a little lamb" re-
piled Mary. Needless to say, she was
girl who believed in living up to
the letter Of the traditions
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
100 Years Ago Today

ZINE hundred years ago today the
~ Preparations of the Americans
and British for beginning the
land campaign of 1914 were about COM
I RleGed. The American army under Gen.
Nlklnson had already crossed the
Canadian frontier. On the Canadian side
the preparations for the campaign were
9eng conducted with equal energy
stores Of every kind, and in vast qdan-
GItles, were being forwarded from Que
bee and Montreal by brigades Of slcighs
to points of distribution near the from
tier. At this time the prospects Of peace
appeared very remote. Early in the
year the emperor of Russia had offered
70 mediate between the belligerents.
Great Britain declined the offer, but
proposed direct negotiations with the
United States. The commissioners ap-
pointed, however, did not meet until
August, and, meanwhile the war became
more deadly and mutually destructive.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02

! " operate, chamber ragtime-
( is to be dispensed by a trust.
/ This is the meaning of the Organiza-
/ ton of the Society of Authors, Com
posers and Publishers, which seems to
have attracted little attention in the
public prints, but is going to be a
big factor in public life, let me tell
In Squashtown, No, for example the
band may be rending the air with the
sextet from Lucia di LammermoOr,
America, Dixie, the Blue Danube, and
Tales from Hoffman,.
A voice is heard: Cant you give
US something modern2 A bit from The
Girl With the RadiUm Eyes or some
other Broadway hit?''
Sure, the conductor will oblige. He
rags it to the delight Of SquashtOwn.
Next morning the conductor receives
an imposing legal document. It in
forms him he has grievously Wronged
certain composer, certain lyric au-
thor and q certain publisher And
these three, backed by the Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers, is
therefore cunning for him. He hadn't
paid his little royalty for playing that
selection from 1.-The Girl With the Ra-
dunn Eyes" when the band struck up,
you see
The professional copy" graft is de-
clared officially and legally dead.
means yOui
The Society of A, c. & P. believes
1t can pass the hat to the tune of
100000 in New York city alone every
year.
Look out for the A, c. &Pl
< x
If you would see a. modern miracle
these days, go down to West Twenty
third street. Two years-indeed one
year-agO this section was big retail
houses. Suddenly these either failed or
went scampering to a Fifth avenue
section three-quarters of a mile north
ward. Now what in the world are the
real estate men doing but transplant
ing the wholesale glass and china dis
trlct bodily from two miles south
way down on West Broadway and the
like, to the abandoned niche of rhe re-
tailers!
New York is one place where it is
a poor day in the week when some
new swindling trick is not uncovered.
The latest is the railroad folder rack
beggar- I was standing in the Bel
mont near the time table bureau
when tall well dressed stranger,
wearing a sandy Van Dyke beard.
edged up to me.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
Dams
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author OF 3At Good Old siwash.0

4 DAM is a sort of holding COM
n pany constructed for the Dur
pose of collecting water
Dams are not financial, however. They
are built of stone and other materials
dam can collect as much water as a
real holding company, but 1t cannot con-
vert it into diamond dog collars and
hmOusInes so easily.
Dams are built across rivers to their
great annoyance and interfere extremely
with their progress. After a dam has
stopped a river, it allows it to flow
through a set of turbines or water
wheels, thus making it work. If there
was only some way of throwing a dam
across our leisure class we might make
them work, too.
Building dams IS a very difficult and
dangerous operation, but not so danger
Gus as living below them. Living below
dam is as uncertain a proposition as
holding office under a hostile admins
tratiOn- This is because dams some
times break. After a dam has held back
billions of tons of water for a good
many years, it sometimes gets tired and
let's 90. Nothing Is harder on a towns
prospects than to get in the way of a
river which has Just got away from a
large high dam and is going down
fdll6g III SUM lULudLlOus ~ Ie-eJ deep
The companies which operate the dams
which let 90 always express the deepest
regret afterwaTd and use more concrete
in building. We would hate to be a
man who has skimped a little in build
ing a dam. It must be annoying to
dream in the night that it had broken
and put about a dozen census enumera-
tors out of a job.
The biggest dam in the world is on the
Nile. 1t is a mile long and so high that
the river spends most of the flood sea-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
Cooperative AutomobiLing

OPERATIVE autOmOg the latest thing; either in
sharing expense pooling the entire
haufu, getting for hotel lodgings for
CafOnans New York in cooperative
machines and the
jolly
the Canterbury pilgrims travellers the
with different different minds have made travel
Delightfully."- piquant and vibrant and profitable.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
Morning Noises

EARLY ones sleep kinds
n II silence would obtain;
n
along and makes racket with his
everywhere And so the
Deep and signs: "u leave the
when tired and heavyeyed hold
deI ne all
and IN the mn when dawn he hears the grunt
al me hoeS bawlng
up and % the Poks voice their the the the
busy
and bleak the victim in French Greek
doesn't
Copyright by George NJ Adams) WALT MASON
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
One-Sentence Philosophy
JOURNAL ENTRIES.

Trusting to luck is an excellent way
to court disappointment.
Where everybody is working but
father, the wolf is generally near the
door.
Calling a spade a spade is often a.
confession Of the lack Of an adequate
vocabulary.
What has become Of the old-fashioned
younger sisters who waited for their
eldest sister to get married?
bright saying Of q baby is often
spoiled by the efforts of fond parents
to make it brighter.
If it is permissible to call a head a
noodle why isn't is appropriate to style
what's in many of them as noodle soup?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Don't stint the living in order to
stTew flowers on the graves of the
Some men fail to meet their oblica-
tons because they are headed the
Some men are entitled to a lot Of
praise for the things they haven't DONE
When YOU find a woman VINO admits
she is ugly believe anything she says!