davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
John w. Price, Aged %, Killed Near
Cave Station. Va.

Harrisonburg, Va, Sept. 80
John Waldo Price, % years old, fell
asleep On the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tracks Monday afternoon,
near Cave Station. Augusta county,
and was run over.by a. train: and kill
led. He was lying on curve in
the track and although Engineer
Payne applied the emergency brakes
he could not stop in time to save
the man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
ROBS AND ASSAULTS MAN.
Negro Leaves Victim in Pool Of
Blood And Escapes.

Suffolk, Va, Sept. 30.-William
Pittman, prominent young mer-
chant Of Dendron, Va, was attacked
IL his store yesterday morning by a
negro, who, creeping up behind the
merchant, hacked him horribly with a
meat cleaver and left him uncon-
scious in pool of blood after having
robbed the store of 500.
Sheriff Edwards and posse are
securing the county looking for the
negro, whose identity is not known
Pi,tman is believed to be fatally in
jured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
THINK OF 1T.
$4,000 Persons Publicly Recommend
Our Remedy Some are Alex
andria People.

O'er one hundred thousand have
recommended Doan's Kidney Pills,
For backache, kidney, urinary ills,
thirty thousand signed testimonials
Are appearing now in public print.
Some are Alexandria people.
Some are published in Alexandria
No other remedy shows such proof
Follow this Alexandria woman's
example.
Mrs. G. ". Davis, lot Prince St.,
Alexandria, says: 81 owe my health
to Doan's Kidney Pills. I have
used them frequently during the past
seven years and they have often
brought me relief after everything
else had failed. Doctors treated me
for long while and said my case
was severe one. I had undergone
fortunes from the complaint and Of
ten / was all worn out When / had
almost given up hope, I took Doan's
Kidney Pills. They have strength
ened me and rid me of kidney
trouble
Price soc at all dealers, Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills--the same that
Mrs. Davis had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
sour Stomach.

IF You are troubled with this CON-
plant you should take Chamberlain 5
Tablets, being careful to observe the
directions with each bottle. You are
certain to be benefited by then: if
you give them a trial. Sold by all
dealers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
FOR SALE.

Desirable eight room
brick dwelling on North
Patrick street, near King
street, containing 8 rooms
and bath. Inspection by
written permission only.
JOHN D. NORMOYLE,
Cor. King and Royal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30
IN THE BUSINESS WORLD
Snappy Items Of Interest for the
Busy Man or Woman who Want
| $1toKeep We'll Informed. II

I Keep abreast of the times. Sen.
k oT laundry. to US and become Oft
IF our Satisfied customers: 81 Alexan1
drfaE Baunndtty co!5Jl39o0k, &
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

. oyster4season is open. Get friea
stewed or raw oysters at Charles H
Zimmerman's and you know you vii
get the best
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

Three stores under the old Brad
lock House for rent at very reason
able rates. Apply r. S. Barrett, the
Gazette office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

FOR RENT-Six room house, 1875
Duke Street. Apply to R. F.
Knox, lis south Royal street.
SO-6t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

25 cents per day pays for three
ines in this column. 1t will b, read
" 5000 Aloxandrians every day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

Our store will be closed Wednes-
day on account of holiday. D. Bend
!eim & Son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

1t is not to late to make needed re
pairs before cold weather sets in.
Call on S. D. De Vaughan & Son,
general contractors at 200 North
Royal street, and let them figure on
the job.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

Varnish your floors with the STAN
dard varnishes bought at W. E.
Bain's corner King and Royal St.
and You are sure of getting the de,
sired results.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

To test the value of this advertise
nent we will print 1000 good linen
,etterheads and 1000 linen envelopes
Tor $500 for few days only. The
Barrett Press, 112 South Fairfax
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

Norfolk Oysters Daily at the Ram
mel Hotel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-30

Coz l[IuG 3u4 BoA5I
I0HI u E0BTF0Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
Mexico of

this formidable family and it was even
said that he sent a mild monitory mes
sage to Don Luis that things must
change in Chihuahua. 1t is certain that
some of the members of the scientific
circle who surrounded DiaZ counseled
economic measures of reform in the bar
ony. and these land reforms would have
required some political concessions.
But if Daz ever planned action he
quailed before taking il, because when
the first Nadero revolution broke Don
Luis and his family We're in undisputed
possession of Chihuahua.
While their dispossession and the break
ing of the land monopoly was a part of
the Madero program which drew many
followers. it was only an incidental part.
This may have been one reason why a
year after Madero came into power at
Mexico City Don Luis Terraces and his
family We're undsputcd in their posses
sion of Chihuahua. although nominally
the administration control was out of
their hands
They accepted certain reforms imposed
on them. including the payment of a
land tax. and other contributions to the
revenues. and adapted themselves very
comfortably to the new conditions.
The poems Were no nearer possessing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

Bryan took the rcbuffs given him by
Carranza will hardly be repeated in the
general diplomatic adjustment that is
ahead. Some measure of compensation
will be demanded by the European
governments. Restoration to their
gram of general distribution and
subdivision into small holdings.
:. :
The whole question OF land tenure is a
complicated one. hut it has to be solved
before Mexico can be considered an
economic basis which will give any as
surance OF political stability. \ tax on
land will be laid. Those who are per
mitted under the new regime to continue
big land owners viii pay their share
toward the maintenance of the govern
ment, which heretofore they never have
done.
Huerta promised land reform soon
after he seized CONTROL 1T the capital. hut
il was only a short time ago-May i
that his government outlined a definite
program This vas in the form of "a
project for land taxation submitted to
the congress by the ministers of finance
and agriculture. II proposed the crea-
ton of a federal land tax. graduated
taxation according to the value of the
land and the exemption of the peasant
propiietors.
Whatever government comes into power
viii provide a general federal land TAX
and the exemption of the small holdings.
That is possible and will correct much
Of the injustice of the old Spanish land
system whose worst abuses have been
feft in Mexico.
The partition into small holdings 50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

poses already mentioned-the property
movable and immovable, and all docu-
ments of every kind belonging to the in
dividuals Luis TerraZas and his sons.
Creel Bros. Falomir Bros. Jose Maria
Sanchez. Lujan Bros. Guilty Bros. J.
Francisco Molinar. and all those init
rnately associated with them, and any
other accomplices who may be en-
tangled with them in their business, and
in the fraudulent combinations that in
former times were called politics, are de-
clared subject to coniiscation and are
hereby confscated.
Second: A law of regulation that shall
he initiated upon the triumph of our
cause shall determine all matters re
latng to the equitable distribution of
these properties, pensions being given in
the first place to the widows and or
the cause OF justice since 1910; and in
the second place. the defenders of our
cause shall be taken into considera ton
for the moderate division of the con-
tiscated lands: Furthermore. the frauds
committed by the individuals mentioned
through not paying taxes for many years
shall be made good to the public rt,ve-
nues: and further, the properties OF legal
and primitive owners, wrested from them
by the individuals mentioned. ever ready
to take advantage of their power. shall
be restored to said owners. 20 that full
Justice shall be done to every victim of
the usurpers.
:.
Third; All of the confiscaled proper
ties shall be adrninistrated BIZ the State
Bank, which shall be required 10 keep an
exact and correct account of all receipts
and disbursements
Given in the government palace De
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

the constitutionahst army in the state of
Chihuahua, and, in agreement with the
plan of Guadalupe, provisional governor
of the same state. do now. in accord with
the extraordinary powers with which L
find myself invested. deem it advisable to
decree the following:
Having sufficient proofs relative to the
intervention of various capitalists of the
state in the latest difficulties that the
fatherland has had to contend WITH
thereby causng-as a result of the de-
Tense naturally undertaken against spo-
liation. military upriSines and betrayalS-
numerous victims, orphans and widows,
who now lament the irreparable loss OF
those who Were the sole support of the
innocent, and whose one fault was their
patriotism, patriotism in itself to be
envied as it maintained the honor of the
fatherland: and as there are also to be
found among these questionahly rich men
those who have by thousand means de-
frauded the public revenues for more
than half a century of domination through
craft and through force, | believe. in jus
tice, that the hour has at length arrived
for them to render an accounting before
the bar of public opinion. While in due
time legal proceedings shall be under
taken before those who must bring to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

after Villas victory at Tcrreon-owes
much of its success to the prospect of a
division of the land.
This is true in ,other states as we'll as
Chihuahua. though not in 50 great
degree Here it was concentrated against
the TerraZas family and their affiliated
family groups who also had large land
holdings.
x
The frequency and intensity of the
declaration by Villa and the other chiefs
of the revolution that this time there
shall be no compromise means not sim
ply no political compromise. such as Ma
dero was compelled to make but no
compromise in staying the coniscation of
the land held by the Terraces family. In
other states there is not the same hostil-
ity to the great hacienda owners as indi-
viduals. many Of whom were passive in
the struggle, bur that their land is want
ed is sufficient to charge them with being
enemies OF the people and therefore
taking possession.
Wherever they got control the revolu
tionists first seized the land as a mill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

cember II, 1912. Gen. Francisco Villa.
military governor of the states. Ter
raZaS. secretary.
The state bank was provided for in
a decree issued on the same day.
1t Will be noted that the declaration
of confiscation is complete. although
the equitable distribution of the prop
critics confscated is to be regulated by
a future law and the soldiers are to
share in the distribution of the lands.
The promise TO restore their properties
to the primitive owners has reference
to the farmers who were diSposSeSSed
through technicalities and their little
holdings swallowed up in the big
haciendaS.
The international view of the land
question is not one that the revolu-
tionists concerned themselves with.
How many of the ranches and haciendas
were mort gas ed by their Mexican
owners to foreigners almost to the full
value is conjectural. but there have
been many such instances. possibly
sometimes in collision. In the case of
the Spanish owners of ranches and
haciendas they have been treated as
if they were MeXfcans, and the land
has been occupied by Villas men as OF
natural right
When tne foreign governments find q
government of some kind established
in Mexico which can be held responsi-
Bile the restoration of the lands claimed
first questions pressed for settlement
1t is one OF the biggest responsibilities
that the State department assumed in
keeping European nations from active
Intervention.
The meekness with which Secretary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

tary measure. the most Influential rebel
general sometimes having an hacienda
assigned to him to work on shares with
the revolutionary government.
In 1857 the Juarez government, after
its fierce struggle with the church. con-
scated the church properties. This was
done as a national measure and the CON
fiscation was sometimes described as the
naturalization of the church's goods.
In the present case the conhscation has
been by such state governments as the
revolutionists have been able to set up
without always WAITING till they were
in full possession of the state. DEGREES
Of confiscatiou have been promulgated in
Coahuila, Durango and Sonora as well as
in Chihuahua. The farms differed. The
spirit was the same.
Preliminary official contiScation and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
STORMY LAKE CHELANo

knew that for twenty miles farther these
precipitous cliffs extended
When they were at their wits ends til"
wind abated a little as they increased
their distance from the EalrOw.st part
OF the chasm. and soon they We're de-
lighted TO see little niche IL the noun
tain wall even with the water edge. not
larger than an ordinary room in a dwell
ing house. and Strewn with loose rocks
Here. by good management of their boat
they made a landing and pulled up their
craft
:;
They had at least a. partial shelter
from the winds. They repaired their
mast but the waves We're still so high
that il would have been madness to re-
embark. They crouched among the
rocks until > O'Clock the next morning.
when the wind and waves died down
little.
Then they Nc.tured out into the lake
and We're blown on rapidly and sal.-y Tor
thirty miles. Here, at the mouth Of
Twenty-Five Mile creek, they found a Set
Element and a shelter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

light all the responsibilities that these
men have contracted before and with
the Mexican people; and. as it has been
clearly proved on previous occasions that
the possession of their interests has serv-
ed only to buy traitors and assassinate
public officials, whose excess of Sener-
it is now necessary, i'll order to save
our nationality, to cut the evil at its root
carrying to a conclusion-in addition to
other proceedings in behalf of the public
health, as may be required from time to
time-the contiscaton of the property of
the evil MeXicans, who have bartered
away human life. and who are the direct
cause of the shedding of our blood
therefore. for these reasons, all of which
justify our attitude Jefore the honor of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

that there will he enough to create q
real class Of peasant proprietors. Is q
more difficult question. especially in the
north. with so large desert and semi
desert area. The cactus country does
not offer a promising field for small
farmers. nor can many OF the big ranches
he conveniently broken up for purposes
of mixed farming.
Irrigation as il was carried out under
the Diaz government WAS made another
means of cnrching the big landowners
and despoiing the small farmers. Under
a different system of administration this
Injustice may be corrected. but in Chi
huahUa there viii still he question OF
finding enough land for the poems. II they
do not ge; what they want they will won
der why they went into the revolution
Tire restoratio of the land to its orig
inal own-rs-the Indian race-has been
the one cardinal principle OF the revolu-
ton as led by Villa, SO far as there has
been principle.
Meanwhile. though Qispossessed. though
his own palace and the palace of his KIN
are in the hands of his former poems.
there IS one forceful figure yet to he reck-
oned with. | saw him the other day IN
FL Paso. where he maintains an office
His powerful physiognomy. at near
eighty years Of age. still marks a master
full ard undaunted spirit. Feudalism IN
chihuahua is dead. but Don Luis Ter
razas his sons and sons-in-law, his neph-
cws and grandsons, do not yet accept de-
feat at the hands of Villa the peon.
copyrighted 1914. by Charles NJ Pepper,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

ing 1t. They We're said to be weary OF pay
ing even the moderate land taxes and 9TH
er contributions exacted under the Madero
government Then OroZco pillaged his
way out of northern Mexico. Huerta
came into power at the seat of govern
ment, and the counter revolution was
started in the north by the Maderists,
with Villa foremost, and some Of those
who had not been Maderists.
Its agrarian aspects were pronounced.
II is probably true that If in the begin
ming and UP to recent period there had
not been serli-b.igandaSe with ample
license TO-. rapine ard plumber. it would
have made slow Roadway. A Mexican
revolution resting solely on the business
Of tllr cause may some day occur. but
g. . = I@-2cirn. Yct tie pres
-. - dsc he revolutionary stage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

can lady He was the American consul
at Chihuahua. who followed the Juarez
government from place to place during
the French occupation.
x :.
His correspondence with Secretary
Seward during this period is interest
ing chapter in our diplomatic history.
though not all of it is in the archives of
the State Department Enrique Creel
was banker and at one time was called
the Pierpont Morgan of Mexico. His
financial ability is feared much as
the rnasterfui qualities Of the TerraZas
themSeiVes.
Porf1rsn pa -'- -" ,'-.'-';6-' 81.
the intention - c..s,i,ei s'ns IN sway OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
whole world, do 1 decree the follow

the whole world. do l decree the follow
ing:
First: On behalf of the public welfare,
and in order to guarantee the pensions
of those made widows and orphans
through the defense of the Mexican peo-
pie against the exploiters of the admin
istration and in order also to pay the
damages that may result through the
verdicts of the special courts that will
be established in the territory of this
conflict with the title of Restitution of
Properties Illegally acquired whereby
the sum total of these damages will he
ascertained and assigned to the pur-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

consist of concrete blocks built on beds
of sand upon which apparatus is first
put up in connection with the flooring
This is in order that the least jar from
any other piece of machinery will not be
transmitted to the instrument being set
up on the block.
%he entrance to the building is simple
though impressive On the threshold Il
bronze compass is set in. while from
the ceiling of the entrance hall hangs
II chandelier. on the globe of which is a
map of the world showing the eNte II
OF the explorations carried on by the
department.
In conjunction with this main building
is now being constructed Il non-niaSnet!c
building or observatory To provide the
necessary facilities FOR tests and re
searches requiring a non magnetic stfuc-
ture. This building is far enough away
from the main building TO be practically
beyond its disturbing influence.
The construction of this smaller Oh
servatory, like the yacht Carnegie. Is
solely of wood and copper nails. 1t Is
oue-story affair. about IS feet by y feet
and the purpose of this building. in brief
is to supply the necessary facllitleS 1of
testing and standardizins the magnetic
Instruments before they are used aboard
the Carnegie or by the various land eX-
petitions.
ms department, HIeIl IL Is i!'l IA st1t'-
cable to fit out its own expeditions. Co
operates with other ones, training ana
sending its members to help. DR.. Bauer $
department has co-operated with Nav
sons antarctic expedition Just returned,
while one of the department observers
ACCOMPANIED Pcary's polar expedition as
far as Etah, Greenland. There are at
present parties in South America, Africa,
Australasia and China.
In connection with this department is
the non-magnetic yacht Carnegie. The
Yacht is for the sole purpose of securing
observations OF the magnetic elements at
sea and is a sailing craft, but provided
with auxiliary propulsion by means OF
an INSTRUMENTATION engine. The Car
neeie is so built as to be entirely nom
masnetic and has cruised in the Atlantic,
Pacific and Indian oceans, covering APP
proximately 5000 miles up to date.
The scope of the work performed by
this ship is to observe the three mag
netic clements, namely, the deciination,
dip and intensity Defamation is the va
Ration from east to west. dip the down
ward pointing of the north end of the
needle, and intensity the measure of the
magnetic force acting on the needle.
AS the purpose of the department Is to
make a general magnetic survey OF the
globe within a period of fifteen years and
to investigate various questions OF prac-
tical and scientific interest connected with
this vast undertaking. it has been neces-
sary to send exploratory expeditions to
distant and more or less UNEMPLOYED coun-
tries The amount of travel completed
by the Carnegie and by the observers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

the motives inspiring it in Chihuahua
were embodied in the Villa decree issued
in December. 1913. The language is not
exactly the language of Pancho Villa
himself, but in the original Spanish it
very faithfully reflects his sentiments 1t
contains substantially the whole peon
program.
A free translation might lose some of
the intensity of the resentment which
pervades this human document, and Il
pretty literal one is therefore given. 1t
should be read and interpreted in its
entirety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

Terrazas Family of
Mexico. Vast Land
owners, Now Stripped
of Their Possessions.
Relation of the Land
owner to the Peon.
How the Lands Were
Secured and How Lost.
Villas Proclamation
Conhscating Til e m.
The Question of Land
Division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

I " ii III ldlIh.
Come with me
and fight and you
shall have it"
This was the
substance of Fan
cho Villas appeal
10 the men that
Joined him in the
field. Later he
broadened it to
cover all the
property of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24

THERE lies i'll the northern part Oh
l the state of Washington remark
able lake called Chelan. More than forty
miles in length. Cheian Is hahheu
through "A great part oi IT'S extent "S
nrecipito,is mountains. II hes III re-
zion hosb Wild ana rugged. In the pic
t1resaueness OF its surroundings II IS
perhaps. unmatched by any large Amer
lean lake except Winnepesaukee' 'ut
the latter is a gentle and hospltaoie sheet
of water when compared with mean
As showing the stormy charactel "a
.heIau there may he cited the experience
of two members of the state road conf
mission. an experience that nearly cost
them Jhcir lives.
ToGether in a sailboat these men at
tempted to sail down the lake. For
while everything went well ne
'r1,;s.s a1onr the shore. stopping here
and there at the mouths oil streams ailu
catching large numbers of trout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
i: r
No. 1.

From tie Official Paper of the STATED
i. Gen. Francisco Villa, first chief of