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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
PLOTTED VILLAS OVERTHROW
Reason for Gctierrez's Precipitate
Flight Explained

Washington, Jan. 19.-General
Francisco villa, commander-in-chief
of the forces controlled by the con-
vention in session in the City OF
Mexico, Is due to reach the capital
to assist Colonel Rogue Gonzalez
Cara, selected by the convention az
temporary executive to succeed Gen.
eral Eulalio Gutierrez.
Light was thrown on the conduct
of Gutierrez by the receipt here from
Vera Cruz of copies Of letters said
to have been exchanged between
General Gutierrez and General OBJ
RECON and General Andido Aguilar,
dated January Z, approximately the
time when Gutierrez announced to
the convention that he was working
on plans for the pacification OF
Mexico.
Briefly, his plan was said to be
to unite with General Obregon and
CT neral Aguilar in deposing Gener-
al villa from control of the conven-
ton forces. Elieso Arredondo, head
of the Carranza agency here, made
public the text Of the correspon-
dence. lo8 4a * aIsP
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
ABILENE FIVE LOSE TO
COUNTY FIVE, 20 TO 20

The Abilene highs lost to the
county highs in basketball at Chap
man Saturday night by the score of
20 to 76. The county highs out
classed the local team but the game
was we'll contested. The Chapman
five has been playing together for
three years and has tip top work
ing machine. The Abilene five later
in the year will have another chance
at the Chapman lads and hops to
turn the tables.
Harrington has dropped off the
Abilene schedule and Wameso has
been put back on. The Abilene team
will play at WamegO January 30
and the wamego five will appear
here January 20.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
DO ELDORADO DOCTORS
BREAK ANTITRUST Law?

Eldorado, Jan. 19.-n was ru-
mored in Eldorado today that At
torney General BrewEter had voiced
the opinion that Eldorado physi-
clans might be prosecuted for vio-
lation Of the antitrust law. The
matter was presented to Brewster,
following . petition signed By FL
dorado physicians and presented 10
the county commissioners, in which
they agreed not to bid for or accept
the pauper practice in Eldorado city
and township, but that each pauper
be allowed to choose his own phyu-
clan, the county to pay at the reg
mar rate for his services. The ply
sicians are slow to discuss the sub
iect.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
YES. THEY TRAVEL ALL RIGHT
salina Union inquiries Who These
"Hyar Burglars Be"

Those mysterious burglars who
work in Salina at intervals-who
are they? Are they made up of To-
cal talent? Some people believe so
because the burglaries are of the
minor order, yet unlimited nerve Is
displayed, says the Salina Union.
Half a dozen houses near each other
are opened in a night. The thief
prizes open windows and this work
undoubtedly makes some noise. He
walks into a house and turns the
electric lights on and works by
their light. Yet he touches only
what small amount of cash he might
find.
But what makes 1t appear that
this is not the work Of local talent
is the fact that similar petty bur
glaries are numerous over the state
One night they are at Abilene, an
other night at Junction, a night al
Manhattan, then at Hutchinson
then back to Salina again, etc.
The newspapers from the towns
near Salina are frequently reporting
burglaries which are very similar tc
those pulled off here at intervals.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
Ayezzano Now Begins to Care for
Sufferers
DEPUTIES LEAD RELIEF PARTY
High Tn on Mountainside, Persons
Buried for Days Rescued
Help More Nearly
Adequate

Ayezzano, Jan. 1.-THE people
Of Ayezzano at last are beginning to
show personal initiative and are
cooperating readily with the gov
eminent representatives, the Red
Cross and rescue workers.
Several members of the chamber
Of deputies who have arrived in the
district are organizing relief ana
directing rescues and even working
side by side with the laborers.
Deputy Bissolati. socialist leader
in the chamber, who is noted as a
mountain climber, assembled today
with a party Of men to the little
village of Rendinari, 1900 feet up
the mountainside. The village, which
has rested on crag like an eagles
nest, was destroyed by the earth
make. The church collapsed while
II was filled with worshipers. The
deputy and his men with axes, PICKS
and ropes, delved into the wreckage
and rescued a number of persons
buried there.
Deputy Comandini, instead of en-
gazing in the search for the dead
or injured, had peasants indicate
the locations of former grocery
stores. Then he had squad OF men
dig into these ruins until the stocks
of goods were uncovered. These he
distributed in spite of objections
raised by some of the shopkeepers
The deputy then built an oven III
which he baked bread for the peo'
pie.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
ENTERS CHURCH, SHOOTS GIRL
HE LOVES, KILLS SELF

Peoria, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-Just after
the opening prayer at the evening
services in the Church OF God,
Frederick c. Erdman opened a side
door and fired a revolver shot at
his former sweetheart, Hattie Gau-
witz, inflicting wounds which will
probably prove fatal.
The congregation was immediate
ly thrown into a panic and there
was a wild rush for the doors. Sew
eral of the audience fell to the floor
and were trampled on. Erdman made
his way to the south end of the city,
he took poison and then turned the
gun upon himself. He died within
two hours.
Erdman, rs years old, it is said,
was recently Tilted and of late Miss
Gauwitz had been keeping company
with another member of the church.
Erdman pleaded with the young
woman to take him back and was
refused.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
SILK THIEVES PLUMBER
SMALL TOWN STORES

Merchants, and particularly those
in the smaller towns Of this section
of the state. are discussing some
way OF putting an end to the depre-
dations OF what seems to be we'll
organized gang OF thieves who are
discriminating in their selection oil
merchandise. Store after store has
been robbed. and Dickinson county
has suffered with the rest. Always
the thieves take the silks or other
goods having much value In small
quantity and make way with It. so
far without detection.
The plan OF ]. J. Clifford. mer-
chant Of Chapman, is for an asso-
citation Of merchants to employ spe-
cial men to run down the robbers
the expense to be paid by an assess
ment upon the merchants who are
members OF the organization.
The activities OF the silk thieves
are not confined to this part OF
Kansas. The theory always has pre-
vailed among the officers that the
loot has been disposed of through
fences in wichita or Hutchinson
but all efforts to locate the goods
once they are carried away from a
store seldom have been successful
Southwestern Kansas has been visit
ed frequently by the silk thieves
Says the Wichita Eagle:
"That an organized band OF SILK
thieves is systematically at work
robbing stores in the small towns OF
the southwest, the members Of
which dispose of the booty In thi'
and other cities, is a theory upon
which Jack Hay, assistant chief Ct
police, is trying to shape into tan
gible form. The most recent OF
series of country store robberies oc
Cured at whitewater Wednesday
night when 5000 worth of silk clotf
was stolen from the Penner de
partment store"
The robbery Of the Malcolm store
at Longford is the most recent II
this vicinity.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

ficiai records. not because II IL
pleasant news. but because the folks
ought TO know about It. In other
states and foreign countries like
Germany and Holland the children
have better instruction than the
children Of Kansas. They have long
er terms, better paid teachers, and
better school buildings.
Kansas suffers in the comparison
because the people of Kansas refuse
TO face the facts.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

For the maximum Of words and
minimum Of information commend
us to the title of an act introduced
In the New Jersey legislature. 1t
reads as follows: "Al act to amend
an act, which is supplemental to an
act to amend an act applying to
courts having criminal jurisdiction. y
What legislatures need is not COM
mittee Of lawyers to revise bills but
awide awake newspaper man around
with a big blue pencil with author
ity to make the laws say what they
mean.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
OUR SCHOOL PROBLEM

Lieutenant Governor w. Y. Nor
gan in the Hutchinson News: One
of the subjects of proposed legisla-
ton which is certainly of great I'M
portance is the public school sys-
tenn. 1t is hardly fair to say that the
Kansas school system, like Topsy,
lust growed up" but that Is al
most the fact. We have had strong
men and women in charge OF our
schools and they have done q good
work, but they have been unable to
carry out their complete plans. We
in Kansas are fond of praising our
selves and the campaign orator ana
the public speaker are apt to tickle
our vanity by declaring that the
public schoolsrOf Kansas. are an EVIL
dence OF our high character. AS q
matter of fact the school children
OF Kansas especially in the rural
districts, do met have as good ,fav
cilities las the children Of .nearly.ev-
cry other northern state. NOT. onIy
do the New England schools surpass
ours, when any test il applied, but
Etlss the schools. sOf Indiana, Ohio.
Illinois; Iowa. Nebraska. Graded. by
the standards 4applied to such sub
|.Iects Kansassranks 24th among the
states in care OF her school chill
dren. standing Of which we ought
10 be ashamed Of and which, there
fore, We do not mention In our ad-
vertising literature or eur bun
combs speeches.
And the reason why our schools
do not come up to the average II
that we are more pinehy and stlngy
with our money when It comes TO
the schools than are the people Of
the ether northern states except
two. I write this fact from the ot-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

Governor CoIquitt, of Texas, q
Democratic politician of prominence
recently gave out an interview IN
which he said that the present ma
ton administrator Is "the greatest
failure in the history of the presi-
dency." He included In his arraign-
ment the attitude of the government
toward business, Its handling OF In
ternational questions growing out Ct
the war, and the Mexican, policy. or
the latter he said; "They have stood
by. encouraging one gang of bandits
after another, while people were be-
ing butchered all over Mexico, and
the vast. American business interests
In that country were being confis-
,cated.,',, The administration anti
trust laws he termed "bare-faced
fakes" and said the tariff reform,
which had promised to reduce the
cost Of living, had had the opposite
effect. In speaking Of the foreign
o,icyehe saidsS e"it' has been tmbe-
.ctae.s coming ft6ha such. a,pfOmin-
emit member OF tho presidents party
this jptsrgssw created. something OF
4 sensation in politics, and It indi-
Gates, that the DemocEais Of the ma
] lion IKE those 81 KANSAS are some-
What what shy on hsrm6ny,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
LEO FRANKS APPEAL
TO HIGH COURT DOCKETED

Washington, Jan. 19.-The ha-
beas corpus appeal of Leo M. Frank,
convicted of the murder of Mary
Phagan, the Atlanta, Ca, factory
girl, was docketed today in the SUI
preme court. The state Of Georgia
may now at any time move to have
it advanced for early hearing. With
out such action it will not be reach
ed in the regular course of business
for nearly eighteen months.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

jurist made one OF his charaetsrls-
tic speeches. full OF "reminiscences OF
the old days in northeast Missouri.
when he was n boy in Lincoln and
Pike counties.
1T wouldn't give q quart Of the
fashioned buttermilk. In . blue
far, for all OF the patent-churned
product in the world" he added In
his laudatlon OF the dasher-produc-
cd buttermilk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
0OOO JEWISH REFUGEES
AT ALEXANDRIA 'sBROKE'

Washington, Jan. 19.-Official
dispatches to the state department
today reported the arrival at Alex
andria, Egypt, Of 5000 Jews from
Palestine. Seventy-five per cent Of
them were Russians and the re-
mainder British and French. More
than 1000 were. said to be destitute.
An equal number Of Jewish refu-
gees from Palestine were reported
coming to Alexandria.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

The worst word any man can say
for the primary is that in some In
stances It has not provided any bet
ter selection for office than the old
system.-wichita Beacon. Has 1t In
any instancef
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

last year Kansas harvested the
greatest wheat crop OF the United
states. almost 100000 bushels.
She then put on her glad rags and
marched back into the Republican
party with $4,000 majority. and the
rest OF the states. that already have
MT will as usual. follow her example
In 1916"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

War news is. getting more second
handed every day. For instance look
at this. "Paris-The Temps quotes
from Barcelona newspaper a tele-
gram received from Copenhagen via
Lisbon to the effect that word has
been received in Berlin from the
eastern frontier that the kaiser Is
seriously ILL.,"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

Ellsworth is peeved because 1t
took the towns crack fire team half
an hour to get to q fire three blocks
from the engine house. Probably
the swift company that takes the
prizes at the tournaments does not
work at regular fire distinguishing
for fear of getting its pretty pants
spoiled.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
wOuld IAmlt Armameats

New York, Jan. 1s.-President
Wilson has written Oswald Garrison
Willard. in6orstng the stand Of the
American League to limit aFmaments
as expressed ia the resolutions on
which It's Organization b based.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
,rIikn iS6THER UsiED no oHURN

IL believe III Improvement Of the
dairy isrysEem and a eli advance
MOVES. but there ineyer. kas and new
van 81 Anything tnat VIM ap-
preach the oldtme .buttermilk'
chuThed with q daaher." -.
fhfs was the comment Of Hon. D.
p. Dyer, Judge Of the United States
district court. following the address
Of state Dairy Commissioner Ben
nett At the Commercial club lunch
con ii the Marx Twain hotel IN
Hannibal the other day, according to
the Courisr-POSt- Ths 81. Louis
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
HOW LAWS ARE MADE

Many persons have only the dim-
NEST idea OF the process through
which a bill passes before II be-
comes a law. Lieut.. Gov. Morgan en-
plains It fully in his paper. the
Hutchinson News:
Take for example the bill Great
ing q city court in Hutchinson. II has
been introduced in the senate BY
Senator Carey. The next step Is to
send Il to a committee. which In this
case is the committee on cities OF the
first class. That committee will look
the bill over and the members OF
the committee many suggest chang
es. They may think that Hutchinson
does not need a city court, In which
case they will report It unfavorably.
But generally. at least in the senate
either out OF regard for the author
or on account of the merit Of the
measure, a bill is reported faVorably
II It covers anything not already IN
the statutes. When the committee re-
ports the bill to the senate 1t Will
next 20 before the committee of the
whole senate. That is to say the
senate will take up the bill with all
the senators acting as q committee
and discuss It, amend It. reject or
adopt II, as the majority think best.
This discussion In the committee OF
the whole is somewhat informal
There is no roll call permitted no
previous question or way of shutting
off debate. This is the place to XIII
a bill quickly, and 1t is exactly the
SPOT where the enemies Of bill meet
when they want to lay it out cold
and flat and do not want q roll call
If the bill passes the scrutiny OF the
committee of the whole and is recon-
i mended for passage by the senate
It then goes to the senate in forma
session and on its final passage
there must be a roll call. 80 that the
senator's votes are known, II Sen
ator Carey's bill finally passed thu
senate 1t is sent to the house Of rep
resentatives where it goes through
exactly the same schedule as in thu
senate. to the committee Of the who'll
house and then to the final roll call
! At each step there will be some on'
ready to swat 1t on the back Of thu
neck II its friends are not watchfu
or II its merits are not evident. Their
!. are always members of the legisla
i ture who take delight in killing bills
and / often think they are public
benefactors. When the Carey bill
has passed the house it will probably
have been amended, because some
member of the house will have dis
covered a method Of improvement
or of mutilation. Then It will have
to 20 back to the senate where the
amendment may be concurred In OF
may be disagreed to. II the senate
concurs in the amendment the bill
is through the legislature and only
lacks the signature of the governor
and publication to become law. II
the senate does not accept the house
amendments a committee is appoint
ed from the senate and the house
on conference and this conference
committee tries to reach an agree
ment and generally does"
All having agreed on its form tn
governor will sign it, it will be pub
, ,lished in the official paper of statut
, book and then is a law.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
SAYS BROTHER HOLDS
BABY FOR slOO

Eldorado, Jan. 1s.-AIleging that
his l-year-old son, John Harry Nat
thes, is being held BY his brother,
Frank Z. Matthes. OF Latham, un-
I'll $1,000 is paid to him. on q claim
It is due for the support Of q minor
child. Harry Matthes today institute
ed habeas corpus proceedings in pro
bate court to recover the child. The
ehild's mother Is dead.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

+. For the week ending January Is:
s. s. Dodda, ElIwood Forney. Mrs.
Catherine Horner. Mrs. Hjillin, B.
n. Nuckols, John X. Rankin, Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Roberts. FERRIS
Simpson, Waiter Taylor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
nart namooratic

The next Democratic national
convention will repeal the one-term
plank, II necessary, says Congress-
man Palmer. It may not be neces-
sary. BY that time the party may
see the necessity Of selecting . diff
ferent candidate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

Lincoln, Neb.. the home of the
Commoner, is fussing over whether
the hungry should be fed material
food or spiritual meals. Evidently
Mr.. Bryan's party hasn't made 1t
easier for the poor to eat in Lincoln
than elsewhere.-Salina Union.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21

The presidents recent remark that
the Republican party depended on
Erandfathers for advice was rather
inopportune, to say the least thinks
the Kansas City Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-01-21
THURSDAY. JANUARY 81, 1915

The new boy at the white house
ought TO cheer up Grandpa Woodrow
considerably.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-01-29
HIS CRITICISM WAS At FAULT
English General Had Much to Learn
Of the Geography Of the
United States.

The European has grown SO accus-
toned to sneering at the American for
his ignorance of European AFFAIRS.
especially since the outbreak Of the
war, that we have grown to take the
snub submissively, with never a
thought of the even more gross ignor.
ance Of things American on the part
of Europeans.
Yet that such ignorance is common
In Europe, even among the educated
and military classes, there is no doubt.
The elder Charles Francis Adams, who
was United States minister to Great
Britain during the Civil war, used to
tell the following experience with a
prominent Englishman:
Late in July. 1868, there being no
cable then laid under the Atlantic, q
steamer from New York brought to
the American legation in London dis.
patches announcing the fall of Vicks.
burg and Lees repulse at Gettysburg
on the same day. A few evenings
later 7 held q reception In honor Of
the double victory, inviting all the
prominent figures OF English official
society.
Among the guests was Mai. Gen.
Garnet Wolseley. afterward command
er in chief Of the British army. After
congratulating me upon the dual sue
cess OF the Union arms, he added:
yet I think your generals made q
very serious blunder, Mr.. Adams"
Tn what respect" ! asked, some
what mystified; for it had seemed to
me that Grant, at Vicksburg, and
Meade, at Gettysburg, had done about
all there was to be done.
why. in resting upon their arms, !"
explained General Wolseley. I'm or,
der to make the two victories com
plete, General Grant should have
Joined his forces with those Of Meade
that night and, by daylight the next
morning, fallen upon the remnants Of
Lees army and crushed it,"
Though sorely tempted, considered
my position as minister and re.
trained from calling the doughty gem
erals attention to the fact that vicks
burg and Gettysburg are Thousand
miles apart!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-01-29

Which goes to show that human ma
fure prefers, at times. to trust Ia the
unknown, rather than in that With
which we are familiar.
But. when you come to think Of it.
there Is a responsibility dealing with
our own fortunes, and the fortunes Of
those who win follow us In this life,
which does not permit US to always
follow our inclinations. We must
think for the future as well as for the
present
We live in community together
with q lot Of neighhors. We meet
them in connection with our everyday
affairs, and we have opinions that diff
fer with our neighbors. There Is no
one subject In the whole world upon
which we all agree, therefore IL ID but
natural that we have many differences.
We can condone the differences Of
opinion and decline to enter into con-
troversies, or we can argue whenever
we have the chance. and engage in
constant strife.
Which Is the best way to get along5
The man who argues all his life has
little time for other affairs.
me man VINO uecllnes 20 Decome e.
vowed n worry discussions mas plenss
q time 20 attend e nis own business.
ana IN 1nis world Il y tne man VINO
aetenOs 70 ms own business VINO pros
pers.
This lie - made up OF disputes ana
arguments. You can argue with your
best friend until you become pest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-01-29
CROWD DIDN'T FEAzE MODEL
Man Insists on Having Curtain on
Window While Hooking W Back
Of Woman's Gown.
Her seIf-possession was perfect.

Her selfposs was perfect
The curious, aloof smile never left
her lips, and before all those staring,
knocking people. he buttoned her up
the back:
To all appearances she was unC0n-
scious OF the jeers, but who could tell
what thoughts were burning behind
that broad brow?
AS she felt the eyes of the crowd
following. inch by inch, his hands,
what hot humiliation was hidden by
that seemingly unfeeiing exteriorl
He was one who was openly, un-
doubtedly affected by the painful po-
sition.
Each coarse Jest, each brutal gibe
Of the mob pierced him cruelty and
brought the fierce bushes to his
cheeks His hands faltered, fumbIed,
among the hooks and eyes OF the tilmy
gown whose duty 1t was for him to
fasten. And SO cold was she, SO un-
affected, that he had good mind to
cut and run-to leave here there to her
fate Yet he stayed. hooking. hooking,
hooking under all those merciIess
eyes.
But he muttered holly: ''If they
make me dress these darn models
again without putting curtain up
over the windows, I'll throw up my
job! Detroit Free Press.