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: CARRANZlSTAS CAPTURE

> CARRANZTSTAS CAPTURE
FOUR BANDIT LEADERS
Laredo, Texas, June 13.-sar-
. rama troops and Mexican bandits
: engaged in battle at Sanches,
= Mexico, 20 miles south of Nuevo
Laredo, which resulted in the cap
3 ture of four bandit leaders. The
outlaws were part of Luis De La
Rosa's band. according to accounts
> of the battle which reached the
= border.
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sIaxs Sink 70 Turk Ships.

Odessa, via London, June 13.-Rus-
sian torpedo boat destroyers have
sunk 13 large Turkish ships laden with
merchandise off the Anatolian coast.
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Most of the light rays from metallic
fiIament electric lamps are radiated
at right angles from the filaments.
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HUGHES NAMED
AS LEADER BY
REPUBLICANS
Associate Justice Made the
Unanimous Choice of the
G. O. P. Convention.
FAIRBANKS is RUNNING MATE

RooseveIt's Suggestion of Lodge as
Compromise Candidate Is ignored
by Republicans = Progressives
Choose Former President as
Their Candidate With John
Nj. Parker for Second Place.
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REPORTS OF RAPID SPREAD or
ANTI-AMER!CAN FEELING POUR
IN FROM CoNsULs IN
NORTHERN MEXICO,
NEW FORCE OF 1900 MEN
TO FILL GAP, BAKER SAYS
Patrol Of Three CavaIrymen Fired on
Near Hachita and One Private
Wounded - Considerable Un-
rest in Region of Vera
Cruz Reported.

Washington, June IA = With 1900
additional regular troops ordered to
the Mexican border and reports of the
rapid spread of anti-American feeling
continuing TO pour in from consuls all
over Northern Mexico, administration
officials made no attempt to disguise
their uneasiness. 1t was admitted
officially that there is growing alarm
over what the agitation may produce
and over the possibility of an attack
on General Pershing's expedition.
No case of personal attack up Am
erican residents in Mexico has been
reported, although there have been at
tacks on vacant consulates and other
American property.
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Mexicans Fire on Cavalry Men.

The new force sent to the border,
Secretary Baker said, was to fill in
gaps in the guard. The secretary said
there is no present intention of call
ing our additional National Guards
regiments for border duty.
General Mann, commanding at Lar
edo, reported that a patrol of three
cavalrymen was fired on during the
night Of June 10, near Hachita and
Private w. J.. Saunders, Troop K,
Twelfth cavalry, slightly wounded.
A message from Captain Burrage,
commanding the battleship Nebraska
at Vera Cruz said there was consid-
cradle unrest in that region.
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Republican Ticket:

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, for
president.
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS,
for vice president.
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Chicago.-Charles Evans Hughes,
associate justice Of the United States
Supreme court, is the nominee of the
Republican party for president of the
United States, and Charles Warren
Fairbanks, vice president during the
Roosevelt administration, is his run
ming mate.
The nomination of Mr.. Hughes came
on the third ballot of the 1916 con-
vention.
The vote was overwhelmingly
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for Pennsy lvania
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Dec. Oath, 1915. Norman, Neb.
Prove What Swamp-ROOt Will Do For YOl

Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for sample size bot
tie. 1t will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor-
nation, telling about the kidneys and blad-
der. When writing, be sure and mention
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores-Adv.
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THOUSANDS RECOMMEND this
RELIABLE KIDNEY MEDICINE

I wish to state that in the seven years
that I have sold DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root I have never known of single GUS
toner who did not feel satisfied with the
results obtained from its use and speak
very favorably regarding Swamp Root.
They always come back and ask for it and
that in itself is sufficient guarantee of
the value of the preparation in the trou-
bles for which it is intended. 1t is a splen-
did kidney medicine and I take happiness
in handling and selling same.
Very truly yours,
LIENHART PHARMACY,
G. j. Lienhart, Prop.
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THE HIen QUALIFY SAVING MACHINE

Life isn't always a joke for the chap
who lives by his wits.
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Carranza Troops Idle.

Where his regular troops are in con-
troll apparently General Carranza has
tried in most cases to prevent the
holding of anti-American meetings.
There are instances, however, where
the troops appear to have stood idly
by while agitators stirred up antag-
onism against the United States.
Several consular agents have frank
ly declared that any eventuality might
be expected if the agitation continues
to spread.
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Progressive Ticket:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, for pres
ident.
JOHN M. PARKER, for vice pres
ident.
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"Dan was too drunk to be told he had
a daughter"
could not go to the parties and things
like other girls. And / suppose my
own horror kept building and blending
with ers-until-that-day
She broke off, and now Langdon was
on his feet, red spot Of color in each
cheek and his hands neryously clutch
ing a scrap Of paper as he asked
sharply:
What day do you refer to, Mrs.
Pager
ITO the 10th of June ten years ago.
she answered.
"Will you tell US why that day is so
clearly remembered" asked Langdon.
Because" she answered deliberate
ly, that was the night Of Mary's first
wild attack"
81 objectr' shouted the district attor-
ney, but the judge frowned.
"This seems to me to be particularly
relevant to Mr.. Langdon's somewhat
curious defense" he said. u Will let
the question and answer stand"
"Will you tell u.s." said Langdon,
what brought on that attack and
what you know Of it? Don't tell 1t to
me, but to the jury, who were not
there"
81 understand" she said softly, and
Langdon sat down, overwhelmed Dy
his own recollections of that terrible
night and wondering where the frail
little woman was getting the strength
for the ordeal.
"It was early evening"" said Mrs,
Page, turning to the jurors. philip
Mr.. Langdon-had come to ask Mary
to go to a ball game with him, for they
were friends even then," she explain
ed tenderly. "And while they were
standing on the porch my-my-hus-
band came home-drunk. He saw the
two of them and accosted them, using
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knew that beyond that pool Of silence
in which he stood another clamorous
throng surged about the door OF the
court and filed the room itself-thou'
sands Of them, some men and many
women, voracious for sensation, glut-
ted with the lure Of this tremendous
tragedy that was being played for
theRzRby living puppets. The law had
inueed discovered the secret that every
theatrical manager sighs to know
what the public wants.
With word or two to the officials.
Langdon went hurriedly down the
echoing corridors to Mary's cell: past
row after row of monotonous barred
doors, from behind which faces peered
out with idle curiosity-faces. savage
despairing, dull with indifference or
ravaged by tears. But they meant
nothing to Langdon, for heart and
brain alike were speeding on ahead OF
him to that distant narrow room
where Mary waited.
At the cell door he halted and quick
ly removed his hat, unhidden tears
springins to his eyes, for Mary was
kneeIing like little child, her head
in her mothers lap, and the elder wo-
man was pGaying aloud:
r'And God give US strength to go
through this day and grant justice to
this, my ctnihr'
Justice. dear God, justicer' echoed
Mary. And no artistry of the great
actress eo4ld have given to that sim
pie prayer the poignancy that a great
fasth and sSeat sorrow gave to It
Then thee spied Langdon, and Mary,
Jumping up, gave cry of JOY and ran
iate his arns. He held her tightly,
an6 the actress ia her would have ap-
plauded il she had known the effort
that lay back Of his CHEEKY greeting,
his word Of hope and the tender smile
with which he put into her hand white
roses to pin against her dark frock.
81 think we had better go on into
court now" he said as she drew the
blossoms through her belt 1.-The men
are waiting, and it's about time. you
know"
For an instant Mary shudder-a and
clung to him with closed eyes.
IF l could only be there without go
ing across,that awful bridge" she sigh
ed. Somehow the people are less
terrible when they are sitting down
and keeping quiet
II know. dear. l know" said Lang
don sadly. II wish to God l could
spare you. but it's really only their
way of expressing sympathy. and I'll
give you a happy thought to say to
yourself when you cross today. Just
look straight ahead and say over and
over: To-day Philip begins my defense,
Today we will begin to prove my limo
cence'"
"Yhen you think"-cried Mrs. Page.
1.-The state will undoubtedly rest its
case this morning" he answered grave
ly. Our chance is coming now."
"Oh. then l shan't mind anything
cried Mary and. kissing him, lifted her
lovely head.
And now the end was almost come.
The last witness for the state was
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and YOU became engaged almost at
once, did you not:" The question and
the answer were equally quiet.
YES"
But you were not married for some
time?"
NO" The gentle old voice shook
now, and Il faint flush crept into the
thin cheeks.
Why" The question snapped sharp
ly, but her answer was long in coming.
Because" she said at last, Il found
that Dan drank, and IL said l would
not marry man like-like that"
But you did later on?'
YES she continued. He promised
me that he would stop, and believed
God knows a woman always believes
that-from Il man
please make only direct answers to
the questions" broke in the judge
sternly. But some woman in the back
of the room said aloud:
That's the truth she's speaking. Let
her say it"
SILENCE" commanded the judge.
And now Langdon said:
will you tell us as concisely as pos
sible Of what happened after your mar
riage?'
For a long time it seemed as if she
could not 90 on, and Mary leaned to-
ward her, whispering softly:
"Oh, mother-mother, darling!' But
as if the words were draft Of en-
couragement Mrs. Page took up the
thread of her story.
"What happened" she said YEARLY
sis what happens to thousands OF Wo-
men. We hadn't been married very
long before my husband began to
drink again. The-the first night he
came home really drunk was the night
/ had planned to tell him that Mary
was coming to US from God. don't
think shall ever forget the horror OF
that time. And all the while that l
was making ready for her he was max
ing my inability to go out with him an
| excuse for debauch.
"Oh, your honor and now she turn
ed to the Judge, 'tit's no wonder my
child is full of the fear Of drink. For
night after night l walked the floor,
and prayed like a wicked woman that
my baby might die before it came into
the world-because, I was afraid 1t
,, would bear the taint-would be born
with that awful devastating thirst"
More than one man in the room and,
| indeed. more than one Of the jurors
moved uneasily at the words, quietly
spoken, but pregnant with tragedy.
ION the night that Mary was bonn,
she went on, Dan was too drank to
! even be told-that-he had 6augh-
ter."
A nurmur of sympathy erept through
the reem, and one voice could be heard
distinctly:
"Oh. weh, that's not unusual Most
men do-beastly drunk
II felt then" said Mrs. Page tender
J w.. shat it didn't matter. l had my
| baby, and was too full Of happy
dreams for her future to fear for the
present.
Somehow" Mrs. Page continued
"the years passed, and Mary reached
sixteen, but each of those increasing
wears had increased her fear Of drunk.
enness. She was even afraid of heI
father, and because we were too poor
for her to have pretty clothes she
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James Pollock was waiting. And now
the last man was on the stand-the ho-
tel detective who. together with Lang,
don himself, had found the dead man
with his living but unconscious com
panion.
The monotonous questions Of name
and age and occupation were ratified
off swiftly enough, and then the detec-
tive, with the ease Of one used to tes-
timony, gave brief resanne of how he
had first been called by the head wait
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1--WE found Mary Pa9e lying IN ra'n1'
er, to whom complaints had been made
of the riotous behavior Of big supper
party from one Of the theaters.
'It was a pretty noisy bunch, he
said coolly. But they didn't seem to
be doing any harm, so just stood at
the door watching them, and presently
James. Pollock came in.
"He was in evening dress" he con
tinued, land he called bellhop and
gave him a message, pointing out the
young lady who was sitting at the
head of the table with the noisy par.
ty."
"Was that young lady Miss Pager
asked the district attorney, indicating
Mary with jerk of his head
"It was" said the detective firmly
Then Mr.. Pollock went down to what
we call the little gray room and. going
in, shut the door. The bellhop started
into the dining room. but almost be,
fore he'd taken a step the young lady,
Miss Page, threw her wineglass on the
floor with hysterical sort Of laugh
and came reeling out Of the room with
her hands stretched out, as if she
didn't know where she was going.
81 turned away to call one OF the
maids to take charge Of her, and when
| came back she was making straight
for the gray room. walking as firmly
as if she'd never had a drink in her
life. She went in and shut the door,
and a minute afterward Mr.. Langdon
there comes flying out Of the cafe and
shouts:
(which way did Miss Page. go?
"EIn the gray ROOM answered, and
with that he ran toward it. with me
beside him, but before we got there
we heard shot, and"- He paused.
enjoying to the full the sensation of
the moment and the tense whispering
wave of sound that quivered through
the crowded room. when we had
broken in the door we found James
Pollock shot through the heart and
Mary Page lying in a faint beside him
with revolver not six inches from the
ends of her fingers" )"
Mary. who had been watching him
as if fascinated, Quailed from that curt
almost vindictive, description of the
finding of the bodies of the living and
the dead, and, resting her arms on the
edge of the dock, she buried her face
in them and for the first time sobbed
bitterly.
A 1nurmur Of sympathy arose, and
several people stood up, only to be
rudely pushed back into their seats by
those behind. And now the district
attorney. going to the grewsome array
Of exhibits" in the case, picked up the
revolver and, showing it to the jury,
put it into the detectives hands.
as this the revolver" he demanded
dramatically, land is the prisoner the
woman whom you found locked in the
room with the dead body Of James
Pollock?S
"Yes," answered the detective. And
at the word the pencils of the reporters
began to spin like mad across the far
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S6sc%tSS CdunIs
l had sent Mary to bed. aud / was
alone with him. tried to reason with
him, but he forget was his wife. He
was insane with that awful thirst. He
ordered me to bring hina the bottle OF
whisky out of his cabinet. and when
I wouldn't he-he beat me. He. threw
me down and kicked me and struck me
with a chair. And, though ] uAed to
keep back cry that would rouse Mary,
she-she heard and came running down,
poor child, in her little nightdress.
"She screamed and ran forward and
dragged at her father. Trying pMiful-
" to protect me-and at last-he turn
ed-upon her.
She shuddered and buried her face
in her hands-her eyes tear blin@sd
and her mouth distorted with the An
guish Of memory.
And then-he saw-the poker-I
had forgotten-still thrust into the IRE
and he dragged it out
A quiyering moan like vocal ecAo
to her mental agony slipped from
Marys lips, and dropping her head
she sobbed aloud.
please go on, Mrs. Page" said Lang
don warningly, and though the moth
er yearned toward her daughter, she
took up her story again in voice that
rose word by word into poignant cry
straight from a mothers anguiSheG
soul
"He dragged Mary to the center OF
the room-that flaming poker in his
hand. He forced her to her knees.
struggled to get to them. but l was
weak-dazed. half conscious because
Of blow on the head. 1t was all just
nightmare to me! But heard Mary
scream and scream and scream, and
them saw-the poker burn into my
child's forehead! smelled the scorch-
ed flesh and from somewhere got the
strength to leap upon him-and then
the door was burst open and-Mr.
Langdon came in.
"He-he had been worried aboL is"
she painted, her voice breaking now.
"and, coming back to the house. he rd
the cries.. Ny husband rushed at Linn
and they fought. Then suddenly Mary.
who had been lying in a moaning little
heap on the floor. writhed-got to her
knees-to her feet-and before could
stop her. began to dance wildly about
the two men, laughing and shouting
and singing. And then. while we stood
there appalled,, even Z sobered by
it-she ran on-out Of the house-and
into the street.
Philip was after her in moment
But it seemed hours before | could
crawl to the door, and saw-bi&ry
disappearing down the street II and
heard James Pollock make an insulting
taunt Then l was knocked down \
my husband, who rushed by me with
an oath.
when l got up again Mr.. Langdon,
was out Of sight, and Dan and James
Pollock were lying huddled in the path
struggling to get to their feet"
Her voice dropped now and she I'm
ished quietly, firmly.
Three hours, later Philip brought
Mary home-wrapped in his coat. Her
nightgown was in ribbons; her feet
were torn and bloouy where she had
danced and run over stones and stumps
In the woods near our home. Her
hands were bruised from snatching at
trees and rocks by the way. She was
In torture with the burn on her fore
head, but she was-quite sane. AND
your honor, she had no recollection OF
anything that had happened after she
saw her father advancing with the red
hot poker"
[Next lnstaIIment Mary's Madness.1
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across kIIdI a"bNs ~ ASSSs
called to the stand, and Langdon drew
a deep breath. Unless some one was
called in rebuff Al he knew that now
the final stone was to be laid in that
carefully built tower Of evidence
against Mary Page.
The police lad sworn that they saw
Mary threaten James Pollock with a
revolver in the park that afternoon.
Employees Of the theater had testified
to her fear of his attentions; her own
maid had been forced to admit with
faltering tongue that her mistress had
cried out that he was devil, and she
wished he was dead. Walters and in
Vulnerable patrons Of the Hotel Re
public, revelling in the publicity, had
told gloatingly Of having seen Mary
Page, drunk apparently, reel from the
cafe on the night Of the murder and
60 directly to the anteroom where
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improper and Insulting language He
didn't mean it-he didn't know what
he was saying-but it was terrible for
Mary, and she urged Philip to leave at
once. heard them-and heard Dams
words-and l ran out to help. leaving
the poker thrust into the hot Goals OF
the range, for l had been fixing the
fire.
We've got Dan into the house and
on to a sofa in the l:itchen at last.
where be lay babbling about James
Pollock, with whom he had been drink
ing and who was also-or who had
tried to be-a friend Of my daughters.
Again the whispering murmur Of ex
citement swept through the room, bu,
died Of its own accord.
Dan slept for long time. and whel4
he woke up he wanted more to drink
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~ it's way through the heavy
I traffic, lodging drays and
clamorous trolleys on its way
toward the grim building where so
many tragedies are staged by the
law" the young attorney felt his heart
sink into engulfng waves Of doubt and
fear.
For the first time since the beginning
of the trial he had lost his buoyant
hope, his tremendous faith in his abili-
ty to prove Mary Page innocent and if
need be to snatch her from u cell by
the sheer power Of his love.
The evidence was so overwhelming
so irrefutable. And Mary herself ut
terly unable to explain those last trag-
ic moments He knew she couldn't
remember-couldn't explain. But the
Jury would not be convinced. He re-
allied that
Over and over in his brooding mind
he saw again the tragedy Of that night
when the body Of James Pollock, the
clubman and wine agent. had been
found with bullet in its heart, and
beside it the unconscious figure of
Mary Page. Between them had lain
that revolver with its one accuSatory
empty chamber. the revolver that
Mary herself admitted she had carried
That Mary WAS innocent he had new
er doubted. His love waS too great to
admit Of doubt. but he was IL lawyer.
and now he saw only too clearly that
his defense might prove unconvinclng
In the face of the damnatory facts
first, that Mary had hated and feared
James Pollock. who forced his atten
dons upon her; second. that she had
carried the revolver hidden in the front
Of her dress when she went into the
anteroom where Pollock was waiting.
and, third. that the shooting had oc-
CURED directly after the door had clos
ed upon the two of them.
If he. Langdon, had only been I'VE
minutes earlier-that was the acid that
ate into his soul. If he had only reach
ed that door five minutes sooner per-
haps that fatal shot would never have
been fired.
He wondered frritably why it was
that the public. and that portion of ii
that comprised the jury. couldn't see
how improbable it was that Mary
would have ruined her career in such
a fashion. however much she hated
Pollock. 1t was inconceivable that a
girl who at the falling of the curtain
at II O'Clock had touched the goal for
which she had striven and been hailed
as the greatest star of the century
could have killed a man Of her own
accord at midnight and watched the
dawn come from cell in the Tombs.
He knew how much her career had
meant to Mary. How close to her heart
IS the triumph and the fame, and to
luse it this way
He sighed heavily, then, realizing
that they were approaching the Tombs
and that to the world at least he must
be the confident attorney, he straight
ened his shoulders and forced smile
to his lips.
Close to the curb two women were
listening while third read aloud from
the early edition Of an afternoon pa
per, stippling the monotony Of her
tones by calculations and questions.
From his car Langdon could plainly
see the huge headlines two women
were reading:
LOVERS LAST EIGHT FOR LEE.