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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
BRIDGEPORT, MAY SIGN BILL
 WALSH, OLD FORDHAM BOxMAN
Giants Secure Pitcher Pie Way, Recently Declared
 Ineligible at Yale.

Grounds. When he was with Bridge port Benny often entertained the crowd at the Atlantic hotel by telling them what he would do when he was signed by the Giants. Nobody took Benny seriously then.
 Harry Edwards, the fleet outfe1der of the Bridgeport club, is pleased to be with the local team. The formeH New Britain outfieIder says he always wanted to play here. Edwards is only a boy but has seen service in the New York State league as we'll as in the old Eastern association.
 The annual streak of hard luck has begun at Boston. Sherwood Magee, the sIugging Boston outf1elder, had his left wrist fractured yesterday. He will be out of the game for at least a month. Now if anything happens to Johnny Evers, Manager StalIings will head straight for a padded cell.
 The Broadway Sporting club ot Brooklyn has been suspended indef- nitely for allowing two boys under IS years to box at a matinee card. It is said the boys received $1 tach for their services. It is strange why boxing promoters will stoop to such petty tricks of evasion. They saved a few thousand by the suspension.
 Hartford must have some pretty good material. The Senators made Toronto hustle to win by to yes terday. One of the players with To- ronto is Martin Becker. the former New London outie1der He was in the New England league last season and was taken by the Giants. They sent him to Toronto. ss-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
High School League
 Assigns Its Umpires

President J. M Kicker of the South western Connecticut Interscholastic league has made assignments of urn- pires for the season. The league sea son opens May 1 when Bridgeport High school will go to Norwalk to play NorwaIk High school. The un- pire assignments are as follows:-
 May .1-Bridgeport at Norwa1k, Mil Ter.
 May s-Ansonia at Greenwich, Cur
 May e-stamford at Ansonia, Ely. May 10-Ansonia at Milford, Israel. May 12-NorwaIk at Bridgeport, Stack.
 May 12-stamford at Milford, Ric-
 May 1s-Bridgeport at Greenwich,
 May 1s-Norwalk at Ansonia, Ely. May 15-Norwa1k at Stamford, Mil i May 17-Greenwich at Stamford,
 May 1z-Mi1ford at Norwalk. Ely. May 17-Ansonia at Bridgeport. ! May 2o-Greenwich at Ansonia, | Israel.
 May 2o-Danbury at Stamford. Mil
 May 24-Greenwich at Norwalk, Miller.
 May 24-Danbury at Ansonia, Ely. 1 May 26-Danbury at Milford, Ric- ker.
 May 27-Bridgeport at Ansonia, | Israel.
 May 2e-stamford at Danbury, | Burt. ir
 May so-Ansonia at Norwalk, Ely.
 June 1-Bridgeport at Milford, l Israel. | June 2-Ansonia, at Danbury, Burt. | June S-StamfOrd at Brldgeport, l Curran. ] June 7-Danbury at Bridgeport, | Stack. z
 June s-Milford at Greenwich, | Curran. f. June s-Ansonfa at Stamford. Mil 1 Ter.
 June Bridgeport at Stamford Israel.
 l June zs-Nexwa1k at Danbury,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

officials believe that the team would hold it's own with Yale's chief rivals, Harvard and Princeton.
 Garfield, however, is the only mem Der of the pitching staff who has yet shown ability of first class college standards He has been sent into the box in all three of the games which Yale has played in four days and the coaches desire to take no chances in overworking him. He is slender and is not likely to be work ed out of turn the rest of the season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
APPLE BUSINESS SLOW

Washington, April 21.-Nuch of the 1915 apple crop has not been sold. said a statement issued today by the department of agriculture, which also declared the condition of the apple market was giving growers and. deal CTS grave concern. Thirty per cent of the apples put in cold storage by December 1, 1915, 1t is said, -are-atilI waiting to- o@be=consumeds
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

request of Moran. Palermo and Nc Qu1Ilan, who took up the pitching bur den, stopped the hitters in their tracks. Palermo twirled five full in nings before he permitted a hit, and it was not until the seventh inning pitched by him that the enemy made Q run. ...I
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

defeat. Kid Broad. Eddie Santry, Kid Farmer, Benny Yanger and Young Corbett were among the prominent Gringo scrappers who felt the weight of <Herrera's Mexican wa11op and took the count.g He was defeated by Bat ting Nelson, Charlie Weary and Abe Attel1.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

Several persons were hurt when nilitiamen dispersed a crowd of riot ing strikers at the National Conduit & Gable Co. at Hastings, N. Y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
By Wagner.)

Bill Walsh, the former star pitcher of the F'ordham college, may be signed by the Bridgeport club. He came here last night to have a, talk with Owners Cornen and Knorr of the local club and if he shows he is in good condi- ton he will probably be signed. Walsh is a New Britain boy. He made a great reputation while tWirling for New Britain High school and after he entered Fordham was a wonder in col lege circles. Since leaving college he has pitched for strong semi-pro clubs, which play / Saturday and Sunday games in New York. These clubs are league team.
 Mutz Ems, the 1914 first baseman of the Bridgeport club, has written here asking for a, job. Ems is wintering in St. Louis. He says he has been work ing out at the St. Louis Americans park and is all ready to start the sea- son.
 The Giants have signed Pie Way, the Yale pitcher. He was recently de- clared ineligible by the Yale faculty because he had played the number of years allowed by the rules.
 The New Haven club played it's first game yesterday and defeated the West Ends, a sirn-pro aggregation, by 1 to New Britain two years ago, pitched for the West Ends. A1dworth. secured from the Athletics, pitched for New Haven and famed 13.
 Benny Kauf realized his life ambi- ton yesterday when he played his first game asA a Giant at the Polo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
man . .

Burt.
 June 17-Danbury at Greenwich Cu-~~-.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

1 Great interest is being displayed in the outcome of the Larry Williams
 Battling Brandt go, which is set down
 on the card as the semi-fna1 of the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-11-17
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The Probate Court for the County of
Van Buren,.
In the matter Of the estate Of
Louise NJ. Shaefer, deceased. Notice
is hereby given that four months from
the 30th, day of October A. d. 1916,
have been allowed for creditors to
present their claims against said de-
ceased to said court for examination
and adjustment, and that all creditors
of said deceased are required to pre-
sent their claims to said court, at the
probate office, in the village of Paw
Paw in said county, on or before the
18th, day of March A. d. 1917, and
that said claims will be heard by said
court on Monday the 9Th, day of
March A. d. 1917, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon.
Dated October 30th, A. d. 1916.
VIM. Killefer
4Ot3 Judge of Probate
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STATE OF MICHIGAN.


The Probate Court for the County of
Van Buren,.
At session of said court held at
the Probate Office in the Village of
Paw Paw in said county on the 9th,
day Of October A. d. 1916.
Present, Hon. VIM. Killefer, Judge
of Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of Chas.
G.. Pierce, deceased, Jennie M. Stewart
daughter of said deceased, having
filed in said court her petition pray
ing that for reasons therein stated,
that the administration of said estate
be granted to Warren Parks, or to
some other suitable person,
1t is ordered that the 9th, day Of
November A. d. 1916 at ten o'clock in
the forenoon at said Probate Office
be and is hereby appointed for hear
ing said petition;
1t is further ordered, That public
notice thereof be given by publication
of copy of this order for three sue
cessive weeks previous to said hear
ing, in The True Northerner a news
paper printed and circulated in said
county
William Killefer
40t3 Judge Of Probate
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Evening star., 1916-08-13

something to build on, which was not
the case in other parts of Mexico
where the term has been used SO glibly
by the bandit leaders in their pursuit
of loot and plunder.
The emancipation of woman was one
of the principles of the social revolu-
ton among Yucatanese. Other prin-
ciples were of an industrial rather
than of a political nature.
The state of Sonora is semi social
istic. and Gen. AIvarado was therefore,
more or less in sympathy with the So
clal revolution in Yucatan. His policy
apparently has been to enforce the So
ciai revolution through military des-
potism, and not mild despotism at
that.
The experiment is still in progress
One drawback seems to be that while
the Yuca tanese lean to the social rev
olution as means of political prog
ress they do not care to have il i'm
planted by military dictator who is
alien 20 !Sam.
with Sonora commando and So
nora troops in Yucatan one element in
the population. ii would seem, might
be reconcled to their surroundings.
This is the Yaqui Indians, who were
transported thither during the Diaz
dictatorship. The Yaquis of Sonora
never really were subdued. Huerta.
with his policy of determination. came
nearer subduing them than any other
of Diaz's lieutenants, but even he failed.
Thousands of the Yaquis were trans
ported to Yucatan to work on the
plantations practically as military
prisoners. The policy was a failure.
While the enforced exiies were power
less. the ferceness of those who re-
mained behind was unabated
The Yaquis. with their savage ma
lures. did not take kindly to the mild
Maya civilization. and the Mayas have
not taken a liking to them. So far as
it has been possible to learn anything
of them, they are as unreconciled to
a Sonora military chief and to Sonora
troops ruling over them in Yucatan
as they were to the lieutenants of
Diaz or of Huerta.
The Yaqui never will be anything
else than an exile in Yucatan, and IL
Mexico ever emerges from anarchy,
with Yucatan and Sonora still as con-
stituent parts, wise national policy
Evening star., 1916-08-13

sought to attach the peninsula to some
foreign power. They offered their
country to England and Spain. and
then to the United States.
President Polk. in his messa ge trans
hitting the proffer to Congress, did not
formally recommend it's acceptance, yet
he looked in that direction, and seemed
to think that the acquisition of Yuca-
tan would be the corollary to the ac
auisition of the territory contiguous to
the United States which Mexico ceded
under the Guada lupe-Hidalg treaty.
There were also somewhat vague intl-
nations that its acquisition would be
desirable in order to maintain the Mon
roe doctrine.
The circumstances We're such that
Were Yucatan taken into the Union it
would be as free state, and John c.
Calhoun made notable speech op-
posing the project. though he did not
openly place his opposition on the
ground that the south would have no
opportunity to secure a slave state.
Calhoun maintained that Yucatan was
no possible source of danger to the
Monroe doctrine
Public sentiment not at all re-
sponsive to the indirect suggestions of
President Polk, and the proposition
received very little attention in Con-
gresS.
Yucatan today has close trade rela
tions with both New Orleans and New
York Under any kind of decent gov
ernment those relations can be main
tanned without the necessity either of
annexation or of protectorate. The
Yucatanese. has been indicated, have
greater capacity for self government
than most other sections of the MeXi-
can population. All that is needed is
central government at Mexico City,
which will give this capacity room for
it's development. Yucatan, notwith
standing its geographical isolation and
it's lack of identity with the rest of
Mexico, nevertheless may be made to
become pillar in a genuine Mexican
cOn1monW ealth
Evening star., 1916-08-13
The Truthful Wife.

A DETECTIVE was praising the truth
6S fulness of women
IF war bulletins were as truthful as
women" he said. wed have a better
idea of how this world struggle is
really going.
II remember a case the other day
it's interesting in its revelation of
woman's truthfulness-the case of a
husband who had disappeared.
Questioning the wife, l said to her:
And now, madam, tell me-this is
very important-teli me what your hus-
bands very last words were when he
left?'
His last words the truthful crea-
ture answered, with blush, were,
For heavens sake, shut up!"'"
Evening star., 1916-08-13
h1exiccs Rich S5emi-Ineepenelent State Of Ycata

of the wealthiest little cities in .ne
world 1t compares in this respect
with Honolulu. in Hawaii, and Guaya-
quill and Ecuador. HeneQuen is the
source of Merida's riches just cacao
is of GuayaQuil and sugar Of Honolulu.
in the early days the henhequen
plaDters were noted for their lavish
life. a legend still persists of an
American hemp buyer who went down
TO Yucatan thinking he was entering u
semi country. whose in ha BIZ
tants We're mild barhar;ans. His par
ticular business was with one of the
natives whom he found lolling in a
Evening star., 1916-08-13
A MiIitariSt Wife.

~SCAR KING DAVIS said at the pro-
W gressive headquarters at the Audi
torium in Chicago:
Preparedness is all very well. but ]
don't want to see everything regarded
from a purely militaristic standpoint
Germany regarded everything - trade
navigation chemistry-from a militaristic
standpoint and look where it has landed
her.
NO, no. Let us not emulate Germany.
Let us not emulate Mrs Jones, either.
81 see yeve invested in a vacuum
cleaner neighbor said to Mrs. Jones.
DO ye like it better than the old-fashioned
broomg
"'You bet yer life / do Mrs. Jones
answered. I kin knock Jones twice as
fur with it,"
Evening star., 1916-08-13

Philologists did not accept this claim
unreservedly. although they did agree
that the Maya language gave e'l-
dence of the existence of highly CIV
iliZed primitive people.
During the anarchy of the last nNe
years iucatan has been fairly stable
There have been some disorders ana
revolutions within revolutions, but
there has been no bandit warfare such
as has been wagc~i in other parts OF
Mexico. and none of the hideous eN-
cesses which marked the success of the
revolutionary chiefs who were sup
posed to be battling for constitutional
liberty
Yucatan. apparently. while not fully
satisfied with the Diaz regime. pre-
ferred it to that of the bandit leaders.
The reason may be found in the char
acter of the people and in the differ
ence between the Mayas and the de-
scendants of the AZtecs and other alb
original Indians of Mexico proper.
There is, of course, a Spanish intermix-
ture. and there are the mestojaS. or in
habitants of mixed blood, yet Yucatan
has exhibited little of the ferocity
that has characterized the peon war
fare of the rest of the country. Such
war as has been waged has had some
of the elements of civilized warfare.
The peninsula has gone its way. at
times practically independent of the
military factions in Mexico City. Its
separatist tendencies were a source of
considerable worry to Dictator Huerta.
and after Carranza got recognition as
the first chief there was understood to
be a movement for separation. IT was
even reported that the secession was
imminent a year ago when Carranza
was at Vera Cruz. But the first chief
was fortunate in having unusually
capable commander in Yucatan. This
was Gen. Salvador Alvarado. He was
from Sonora and part of his troops
were also from that distant state. Con-
sequent1y. they were free from the in
1uences of separatist environment.
Most accounts agree that Gen. AIvarado
as military governor, has given Yucatan
pretty good military administration. A
so-calied social revolution which had
made some progress in the peninsula
before he gained control has been en-
coura ged by him. Some of the ideas
at the basis of the social revolution
were not bad. and in the survival of
the Maya Indian civilization they had
Evening star., 1916-08-13

viii dictate the removal of the Yaquis
TO their native Sonora. They are as
likely as not, while eXileS, to join in
any separatist movement that may de-
velop in Yucatan.
The military control of Yucatan has
been of very great benefit to the Car
rama de facto government because
1t has enabled that government to en-
joy the revenues. and the export tax on
the hennequen alone is considerable
source of revenue. The customhouSe
duties are also comparatively large, for
with profitable crop to market in
spite of revolutionary disturbances. the
peninsula has been able to buy pretty
extensively of foreign goods, all of
which pay high duties.
This revenue situation is one which
makes the Yucataan leaders who are
supposed to favor secession from Mex :
ico feel that they have a real basis for
an independent, or a semiindependent,
state. The peninsula itself. on account
of the survival of the Maya Indian civ
iliZation. and through the progressive
ness of some of the native leaders, is
probably better prepared for a mild
measure of self-government than most
of the Mexican states
Some men who have played g very
important part in Mexican history were
natives of Yucatan. One of these was
the late Joaquin D. Casasus. who was
well known in Washington through his
service as amba ssador. Senor Casasus
however. belonged to the cientifico
group. and he died in exile in New York
city few months ago.
Should Yucatan seek annexation TO
the United States, or an American pro-
tectorate, as a consequence of the pres
ent anarchic conditions. it would not
be the first time. During President
Polk's administration, when Mexico was
practically without government, as a
consequence of the war with the Unit ed
States, a group of Yucatan leaders
Evening star., 1916-08-13
VILLAGE OF YAQUI INDIAN ExILEs

hammock in not very pretentious
villa on the outskirts of Merida.
The native greeted him in surprising
ly good English, had another hammock
swung for him. served him with cool
ing drinks, and then asked about the
latest operatic star in New York. From
New York he casually drifted to a dis
cussion of the opera in Paris. Then he
suggested it was the hour of the siesta,
and after the siesta they might talk
business. The business related to mil
lion n-dollar offer which the American
was authorized to make.
The Yucatan planter, when the offer
Evening star., 1916-08-13

American farmers, and the native pro-
ducers are not the losers though they
complain of the greed of the middle
men
Yucatan is not Mexican at all. It's an
cent civilization was not that of the
AZtecs.
The Maya Indians, who were the orig
inal inhabitants and who still sur
vive, had much more advanced civili-
zation than that of the Aztecs and the
Mexicans. This is shown not only by
the ruins of their structures. but by
the civilization which has persisted
even under the Spanish dominion, and
Evening star., 1916-08-13

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, August 3. 1916.
TT has been d long time since any
rearrangement or readiustment of
relations between two great ma
terests of the United States as the re-
Gently concluded Russo-Japanese al
lance If there is japanese menace
for America, If Japan's expansion in
China and the Pacific is calculated to
conflict with the rights and aims of
the United States. the new arrange
ment is of great Importance.
First of all, it takes Russia off ia
pans back. Japan can now turn her
undivided attention to her affairs in
China, where. in those portions already
under japanese control. the open door
has been nailed shut. and to her plans
for expansion in the Pacific ocean.
plans which are ambitious. No longer
need she fear the war Of revenge from
Russia for the defeat of 1905, which
the whole far east has been talking
about for years, and for which the
Transsiberian railway was double
The new alliance is a master stroke
for Japan. Russia, with her armed
hosts, her doubled facilities of commu
nication between Europe and her far
eastern possessions. would, after this
war, have been something for Japan
constantly to worry about. With her
armies of trained veterans, Russia
Japan for an ice-free outlet to the sea
and domination in north China
The published terms of the alliance
are two brief and simple articles. the
first agreeing that neither country
shall enter into any political arrange
ment or combination against the other,
and the second that in case of the ter
ritorial rights or special interests in
the far east of 'one of the contracting
parties recognized by the other con-
tracing party being threatened" the
two will consult on measures to be
taken for safeguarding and defending
those rights and interests.
These articles have been published.
They are not all. as the agreement it
self indicates. There are other secret
articles; perhaps another secret agree
ment. What has been published shows
that beyond all doubt. even if there
we're no other reasons for believing SO.
The text speaks of the -"territorial
rights and special interests of each
party recognized by the other yet
there is no publication of what those
rights and interests are. They have
been defined somewhere. and probably
in a more comprehensive manner than
ever before, probably, too. they COM
prise claims on China in excess of any
that have been publicly put forward.
has long been talked about as some
thing that some day would come. Few
people realize that it has actually been
taking place for the last five years.
This new alliance is a further step in
that direction. Certainly Russia and
Japan have reached decision rnomen
tous to China. The secrecy with which
it is surrounded adds to its significance
and Importance.
1t would be interesting to know what
Russia has received from Japan in re-
turn for Russia's invaluable partici-
patton in this new arrangement. Rus
sia has certainly not given this great
boon for nothing. 1t is likely that the
statesmen of the two countries have
taken a map and drawn across north
China line. marking out a division of
interests, control and ultimate owner
Such a line was secretly drawn in