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Story of Villa the Bandit Again

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 FL PASO, March 2S.-Peon farm CT boy-hoarder of unknown wealth; outlawed bandit-soldier hero; devot- ed husband-barbarous bigamist; just, free-handed Icadcr-cuel and vindictiye dictator; cool and clever political adyenturer-raving and bloodthirsty murderer; shrewd states man-ignorant malefactor Such a man is Francisco Villa, "The Tiger as seen by his friends and by his enemies.
 Rivalling Robin Hood m the varied career Of his life, but lacking the polish of that famed old English figure Francisco Villa is a charact- CT about whom there has been more written, prehaps, than about any other Mexican of his generation; a man whose name will go down in history as that of one of the most picturesque and widely known, though little known, men of intrigue-ridder Mexico.
 Villas personal history and life have been as much a mooted question as has been the right and wrong of his cause. His birth is shrouded in dOubt-place, time, ancestry.
 Meuco's "man of blood has been claimed as brother of a negro, as a "squaw man" as a half-breed of Mexican-Negro blood, as a half-breed of Mexican-Indian blood, and as a tull-fedged Mexican or pure spanish extraction.
 The Reverend Alfred Young, a Negro minister of Baltimore, claimed Villa was his brother. His hair is short and "kinly' like that of the African; his check bones high and prominent like those of the Indian his complexion that of the Mexican; his temperament that of the CastIian
 Perhaps the most direct line upon Villas birth comes from the Mexican state of Durango, south of Chihuahua It was in these mountain foothills that Francisco Villa was born in 1876 the son Of a peon farmer, according to
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WANT THOUSANDS OF
 HORSES FROM NORTHWEST

PORTLAND, April S.-A call has been sent from the war department to the Pacific Northwest for five thou sand horses for the use of the cavalry and for twelve hundred horses fit for service in the artillery corps. Horses are~found to be very scarce as a re- suit of the European war. The order has caused the opinion that the Mexican campaign is expected in of ficial circles to be longer than had been anticipated in the beginning.
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GERMANS CAPTURE ANOTHER
 POSITION IN YERDUN REGION
GERMANS CAPTURE POSITION

BERLIN, April 8-Continuing their advance in the Verdun region the Germans have captured French posi- ton for over mile the Termiten hill south of Hau- court The official announcement this morning says that our position at Haucourt has been fully organized and our troops are advancing southward in the effort to take Verdm on the west flank. The greatest jublation has been shown here because the events of the past few weeks prove that we can successfully assault the most carefully fortified positions of the enemy Almost every day wit nesses some announcement of an advance in that region
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MEXICANS THREATEN

SAN DIEGO, April 8.-Au the deputy sherifs of the border towns have been called out and fully armed be- cause of persistent reports that the Mecans in the dis trct about forty miles southeast of this are preparing to attack the Americans living near the frontier The re- zion is said to be toemng with renegade MeXcanS and from these the trouble is feared not from the general body of Mexicans People coming from the border how ever say the feeling created in Mexico by the invasion by Americans is bitterly unfrendy. Most Mecans seem to have the idea that the consent Canza the invasion was compulsory.
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SAYS TRAVELLER NOT
 WRECKED BY ICE

In a message to Wayne Blue from T. B. Watson it is stated that the Traveller was not wrecked by ice and that there is very little ice in the An chorage harbor just at present. The boat, he says, is total loss but her loss was caused by rolling down the the bank when the tide went out. Mir. Waston also says there is no re- port of the dock being destroyed.
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UNIVERSITY BOYS
 HAD NARROW ESCAPE

SEATTLE, April 8.-Six university students had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday in Lake Washing ton when the hydroplane in which they were following the racing crews ran foul of the press boat and turned turtle into the lake. The race was between the crews of Washington University and Sanford.
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MURDERER TAKES LAW

MINNEAPOLIS, April S.-Chartes D. Etchison, whose confession, impE- eating himself, convicted Frederick T. Price of wife murder, today started a correspondence law course. He doesn't expect his case to come up be- fore summer.
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
 BOY FALLS TO DEATH

SEATTLE, April 8.-Wiliam c. Sesseu, student in the law class of the University of Washington, fell fifteen feet last night from the rear balcony of the house in which he was lodging and was killed instantly. He was the son of c. l.. Sessen of West Plains, Missouri.
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: WASHINGTON U. " {: BEATS STANFORD |:

SEATTLE, April 8. - Washington university beat Stanford by seven lengths in the three miles rowing. Standford was second last year in the big regatta at Poughkeepsie and the victory of the local college is regard ed as proving its crew in the first rank.
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WORKERS TO HOLD 4
 MEETING TOMORROW

The Industrial Union No. 1 of the Alaska Federation of Labor" will hold a meeting tomorrow evening at 7:3O in Firemen's Hall. The name of the organization is put in quotation marks as it is the name adopted by themselves. A constitution will be adopted at the meeting and officers will be elected.
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FORD THINKS HE SEES
 A VICTORY FOR PEACE

DETROIT, April 8. - Henry Ford has called the result of the president ial preference primary, in which he defeated Senator Smith, a victory not for himself but for Peace, The people apparently were overwhelming in favor of the automobile manu- faeturer,
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WANTS HIS SON

T. F. Tabor of Boise, Idaho, writes a most touching letter to the post master asking for information about his son, Harry, who, he heard, started for Alaska some time ago. The son described as being 26 years of age, of light complexion and about 3 feet, 2 inches in height.
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TWENTY MILLION POUNDS
 OF TOBACCO ORDERED

NEW YORK, April S.-An order for twenty million pounds of Ameri- can tobacco for the European govern ments, principally Italy was executed here today. The weed is for the soldiers in the trenches.
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CONFESSES TO THEFT
 OF IMMENSE AMOUNT

SAN DIEGO, April s. United States Marshal Carse declares that James Moran has confessed to the theft of S15O,OOO from the registered mails at Liberty street ferry in New York on January IS.
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6 % % C e < < . . q . . % NEW COUNCIL " * NEXT MONDAY |"

The present council, which will probably go down in local records as the Bundesrath, will meet next Mon day, City Attorney Coppernoll says, pay the bills and then give way to the fine body elected by the people of Seward this time. ReQuiescat in pace.
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SNOW STORMS IN EAST

NEW YORK, April S.-SnOwstOrms are now sweeping the Atlantic slope. Snow ten inches deep is reported at Altona, Pa.
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THREE MORE SHIPS SUNK

LONDON, April 8-Three more British merchant ships were sunk yesterday by German submarines around the British coasts according to the announcement of the admiralty this morning The submarine campaign has evidently been revived with greater force than
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$ < $ < ' % % q % q . (
 |: II. C. DELINE MADE s DISCUSSING OFFICER {

H. c. Define has been appointed special disbursing officer for the gov ernment engineering commission to take the place of Leslie Cramer who is going outside. Mir. Define will take office just as soon as the bonds have been fixed and the vacancy Es created by the departure of Mir. Cramer
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ALAMEDA IN MORNING

The Alameda is due to arrive here at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning, ac- cording to the latest report from Valdez.
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YUKON HEROINE DIES

SKAGWAY. - Mrs. Florence s. Lee, who was formerly stewardess at the w. P. & Y. R. hospital at Skag- way, died in a San Francisco hospital from injuries received on the steam ship President when she attempted to save a woman and three children from a heavy sea which swept the deck of the vessel.-Ex.
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AYLMERS ADVANCING

LONDON, April 8-The latest account from the Mesopotamia region says that General Ayers has made important advances in the effort to join the forces of General Townsend The defeat of the Turks at Erzerum has relieved the situation in that quarter immensely the official announcement declares.
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NICARAGUA ADOPTS
 TREATY WITH U. S

WASHINGTON, April 8. - Mic aragua has adopted the prOpOseo canal treaty with the United States. Three million dollars are involved in the first arrangements.
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FIRE BOYS TO MEET

There will be a special meeting of the firemen tonight at the city hall at 8 D. m. All members are request ed to attend,
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ITALIANS PRESSING

ROME April 8-It is officially stated that we have started new offensive movement in the Isonzo valley and have taken some of the fortified positions of the enemy Our artillery bombarded some of the Austrian main posi- tons last night with apparently good results.
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AUSTRIAN SHIP SUNK

PARIS, April 8-An Austrian transport was sunk yesterday in the Adriatic by French submarine and hundreds of the soldiers aboard believed to have been drowned.
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bloody fights between Villa and the rurales, of the plundering raids of "The Tiger" on unsuspecting towns, and they feared him.
 Continued on Page g
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Patronize home industry Alaska coal $11.OO per ton. See Bill Henry Cor. 4th and Adams St. Tel Madi- son 149.
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Jake Phile is laid up at present with bronchitis.
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LIGHT
 COMPANY BUILDING

The Electric Light Company of Anchorage is now erecting a building.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
Remains of James H. Murdoch
Buried in Baltimore

The remains of James H. Murdoch,
former member Of the House of Del.
egates, one time prominent Republi.
can politician of this county, were re.
moved to Baltimore yesterday after.
noon for interment.
Services were held at his late resi-.
dence on Maryland Ave. and were con.
Quoted by the Rev. DR.. Waller G. Nc
Neil, former pastor of the First Nj.
E. Church. The pallbearers were
Messrs. John C. Boessel, Oliver Pur.
Wis. Harry F. King, Thomas Strange,
Godfrey Deininger and Rudolph
Strange. Members of the orders Of
Red Men and Knights of Ply HAS. to
both of which the deceased belong at
tended the funeral The deceased was
also a Mason
The remains were taken to Balti-
more in an automobile hesrse, and the
mourners were conveyed in automo-
biles to the Western Cemetery
the place of interment in that
city At the grave the burial SER
vice was conducted by the Rev. Harry
Burgan, the new pastor of the First
NJ. E. Church. this city.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
PERSONAL MENTION.
Those Who Come and Those Wlt0 Go
Our Floating Population.

Mrs. T. T. Bower, of New London,
Conn, has been spending a week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Mar
tin at Bonheur, on the Severn.
MIR. J. ]. Msrtir, of Braddock,
Penn, will spend Easter with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. s Martin at
Bonheur on the Severn
Mrs Robert Moss has been visiting
N ew York, where her daughter, Miss
Helen Moss, is engaged in social SER
vice work
Mrs. George F. Taylor, wife of DR..
Taylor, who has been spending the
last two months with her niece Miss
Katherine A. Taylor, Prince George
street, has returned to her home in
Baltimore.
Mr.. A. l.. Powell, of Washington,
d. c., widow of Lieut.. J. S. Powell.
U. S. A.. spent the week -end with
her friend Miss K. A. Taylor. at the
Studentorium, Prince George street.
Lieut.. Ralph Otis Davis, U. S. N,
has Joined his family here at the home
of Mrs. j. C. Cresap. College Ave.
Miss Kate w. Randall, who has
been spending 8 month with her sister,
Mrs. McIlvaiu. in Philadelphia, has
returned home.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
THE QUERY ANSWERED.
As TO The First Theatre in The City
Of Annapolis.
Communicated
Annapolis, Md. April Il, 1916


siessrs. Editors of Evening Capital
The insertion by your kindness Of
the query as to the authority for the
statement that the theatre that once
stood on the site OF the present Ad-
ans Express Building was the first
theatre in America and, since this city
is credited with the first in the United
states. therefore. the first in the city
OF Annapolis has accomplished IS in
tended use-created an inquiry as 10
what are the historical facts of the
matter
For his legion passed around An
napolis from time immemorial, your
oaner is not responsible. The pathol-
ogy of that article is plain-some sim
cere lover of Shakespeare, taking up
The statement often made. as the basis
of an account of the approaching plant
ing of a tree in the memory of the
great dramatist. passed il TO The Cap
ital. whose publishers accepted the
item in the good faith in which it was
rendered. and thus became. formally,
responsible for il.
Not. however. equitably so. This IA
miliar saying has been for years in al
most everybody's mouth who spoke OF
the theatre in Annapolis, except when
the narrator varied 1t with asserting
with the postiveness OF absolute truth.
that the present Presbyterian Church
was the First Treatre in Annapolis.
n is almost within the memory OF liv-
ing men here when this was still
shrine of histrionic art 1t was crea-
ture of the nineteenth century
The site of the first theatre in An
napolis is unknown, | was advertiz-
al i'm the Maryland Gazette OF June Is
l752. as the new theatre It's loca-
ton was not given, In 1850, the Ga
zette announced that "by permission OF
His Excenency, the Governor. a treatre
is erecting in this city" The place OF
its erection is not indicated.
on March 6, 1869. the Gazette says
"Manday last, March 3. 1863, the the
atre in this city was opened, when the
tragedy of the Orphan and Lethe, Ga
dramatic saure), were performed IN
the presence Of His EXcellency tGov
Robert Eden), to a polite and numer-
Gus audience, who all expressed a gen.
eral satisfaction"
This was the West street theatre
ana the Civic League is justified N
planting tree to commemorate the
site of the fist theate in Annapolis
whose location is known. We do MOI
want in historic Annapolis any Bar
bara Fritchie fictions commemorateh
Mr.. Hallam, it is understood, in his
History of the Theatre in America
credits Annapolis with having the frs
theatre in the American colonies.
ELIHU S. RILEY
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
CHILEAN VISITORS
WELCOMED in BALTIMORE.
Master OF The Maipo and Seventeen
Officers Entertained Expected
10 Visit Naval Academy.

The arrival on Sunday of the Chill
can transport Maipo. at Baltimore. with
q valuable cargo OF nitric OF soda
from Me5ilIones. Chile. consigned TO
II ]. Baker & Bros, representing An
thony Gibbs & Co. OF New York. has
assumed a social phase as we'll as q
commercial venture backed by the Chi
can government.
Capt Louis Diaz. and his seventeen
officers are being accorded the hospi-
telltv OF men of the Chilean Navy
They we're guests yesterday Afternoon
in an observation visit about the city
OF Baltimore and plans are being ar
ranged 10 make their twenty DAYS stay
~ that port q pleasant one. II Is eX-
pectal. during their STAY they viii visit
Annapolis and the Naval Academy.
Chilean Consul Richard Leopold is
making arrangements for the visiting
officers TO see this city and Washing
ton. and TO take IN the lrage steel
plant Of the Bethlehem steel works. in
PENNSYLVANIA. and the large shipbuild-
ing plant az Sparrows Point
The ship Is an interesting one, with
lis II officers and IS men The Off
GERS present an excellent appearance
in their fine uniforms with an abund-
aace OF gilt brazil While the language
of the visitors is Spanish, several Of
the officers speak very good English
They freely discuss their army and
NAVY. and spoke with pride of the
building in England of the two dread
lslughts, Latorre and Cochrane. now
under construction The Chilean Ma
val Commission IL was stated. has de
tailed First Lieutenant Valenzuella
who Is now on his way TO London in
reference to the building OF these two
ships or war
Accounting TO Consul Leopold. the
commerce. voyage Of the Maipo is the
result Of the scarcity OF tonnage for
Tie transportation Of Chilean products
TO the United States, ami the vessel
which is the first Of three transports
so be offered for commercial purposes
has been chartered at an attractive
price. which will net the government
d considerable sum
Il is understood that the Raucagua
another transport. is now en- route ia
Baltimore with a similar cargo The
Maipo. Consul Leopold stated. is 10
make two voyages, each cargo of nj
trite TO be 900 tons, ami to return
with $500 tons OF coke. to be used for
manufacturing purposes in Chile
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
A Thrilling Experience
OF One Midshipman.

Friends and acquaintance of one
midshipman at the Naval Academy,
whose name is withheld for reason,
are marveling at his thrilling expert
ence during the cyclone of last Friday
afternoon.
Boat drill was scheduled for the
regiment and the midshipmen were out
in small boats when the wind storm
was at its height. One of the boats
had made landing at buoy, and q
midshipman had jumped off to make
fast, but the terrific gale swept the
boat with the other middies away
leaving the one midshipmsn stranded
on the buoy which happened fortunate
~ to be a fiat one.
Realizing his perilous position the
young man lay down fiat on the buoy
thrusting one arm through the large
iron ring and holding on in this man
ner while high seas washed over him
again and again. 1t was impossible
for any small boat to make a landing
there and after some time one of the
larger steamers finally released the
midshipman from his perilous position
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
PUBLISH ADMIRAL FISKE
LETTER ON WINE MESS.
Members of House Committee Give Out
Statement Protesting Secrelarv's
Order

Rear Admiral B. A. Fiskes letter to
Secretary Daniels protesting against
the PRONUNCIATION of the order prohib-
iting the use of wine or beer by Off
GERS of the Navy has been made public
by the House Committee on Naval Al
fairs of Congress.
The letter is dated May p. 1914. and
a copy was sent by Secretary Daniels
at the request of the committee Ad-
miral Fiske takes the surgeon general
of the navy TO task for the assertion
that numerous courts-martials of Off
GERS for drunkenness were detrimental
to the reputation and good name of
the service
OF this Admiral Fiske SAYS
u think I am not wrong in saying
that there went into the mind OF every
person who read this statement
woman or child, an impression that Of
ficers of the navy drank more than
they should, and that the surgeon
general OF the navy found it necessary
to cali the attention of the Secretary
10 the fact
The reputation OF the navy suffered
in the minds of every single person
who read the statement. Every single
officer in the navy was injured by that
statement. If the statement were true,
! would have nothing to say. but the
statement is not true"
Admiral Mayo asserts that he has
never known a case of drunkenness ON
board ship due TO the wine mess.
People rarely get drunk he said
ION wine or beer. In practically every
case when an officer has become in
toxicated it has been on whisky. or
something like whisky. such as brandy
usually on shore.
This being the case, the prohibition
of wine and beer in our ships viii not
decrease the amount of drinking OF
whisky. but VIII tined 70 increase it for
the obvious reason THAT officers desH
ing to drink viii go ashore and drjnl,
strong cocktails. with no restraining
Influences Another effect would be
an increased temptation to use cacaine
and other drugs
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
GRACE MARSHALL AT HOME.
Is Taken From Baltimore to Aunt's
Residence in Easton, Md---Gains
81 Pounds.

Miss Grace Msrshsll the Talbot
county girl who was imprisoned for
many years By her fsther, Frank
Marshall, and her stepmother in a
room in their home on farm nsar st.
Michaels, and who was last fall res
cued from her prison home by Miss
Emma Davies. local agent in Easton
for the Maryland Children's Aid Sc
ciety. and taken to Baltimore fer
treatment, was taken TO Esston Sun
day. by order of Miss Davies, by her
aunt, Mrs. A. Rsna James. at whose
home she will reside until the case
against her father and stepmother is
brought up at the May term of the
Circuit Court for Talbot county, which
convenes in Easton the third Monday
IN Nay
Miss Marshall, who is now about 2S
years old, when rescued was mere
skeleton. weighing but 81 ponnls
Today, after receiving proper medical
attention and nourishment for four
months and two weeks, she has gained
"a pounds When rescued, he was q
helpless piece of humanity. Today
while she has not gained her power of
speech TO any extent, her general
health is vastly improved. She can
60 up and down stairs unaided. and
run and play in the back yard of her
aunt's residence with the other chill
dren
DR.. c. +. Davidson says that he
hopes the change of her surroundings
aud the playing with other children
Will restore to her her power Of speech.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
MRS. DONALD M'LEAN
III in Baltimore Hospital Past Presi
dent General Of D. A. R. ton
dition Serious.

Mrs. Donald Mclean, past presi-
dent general Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. and wife of q
prominent attorney of New York
city, is critically i'll at the Church
Home and Inirmary. B 4ltimore, where
little nope il held out FOR her recov-
cry. The nature IF her silment has
not been disclosed by the hospital gu
thor ties.
Mrs. Mclean is a native Of Fred
eriek, Md She was taken i'll while
on a visit to her brother.in-law Rear
Admiral Mclean in Norfolk. Va. She
vas taken TO Baltimore last Friday
and her condition has become grad
rally worse Little houe is entertain
ed for her recovery
Mrs. Mclean IS we'll known here
we're she was entertained when Presi-
j Mt General of The d. A. r. by former
Governor and Mira. Warfieid at the
Executive Mansion and by Mrs J. de
Peyster Douw and other ladies of An.
n5polis an the Naval Academy. Much
regret is expressed at her illness.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-18
GLOBE FURNITURE COMPAl.
"HOME-FU RNISHERS."
$40 West Street, Annapolis Md
Child Struck by Car.

While playing in the street in front
of his home yesterday. George Acton.
years old, son of Mrs Marjorie
Acton, Fourth avenue and Ninth
street, Fairfield. this county, was
struck by touring car and knocked
unconscious. The driver. without look
ing back, speeded the car and continued
toward Baltimore
The little boy was picked up and
carried to the house and DR.. George
Diebel, First street, B ooklyn, was
summoned. The boy is suffering from
a concussion of the brain.