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BLOODSHED LAID TO JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
WASHINGTON, May -2.—Bringing squarely np to John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., entire respounsibility for continued bloodshed and
destriction in the Colorado mining distriet, Chairman Foster, of
the House Mines and Mining Committee, to-day presented a state
ment and copies of tele aphic corresponidence had with Mr.
Rockefeller and his suborsrixiafei.
In the statement there was a personal plea to Mr. Rockefeller
to accept arbitration for the settlement of the differences for tpe
sake of humanity and in the name of suffering women and chil
dren. This followed the failure of Mr. Rockefeller to reply to Mr.
Foster’s last telegram of yesterday except through a curt an
nouncement that the telegram had been forwarded to the officers
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. A
The statement by Mr. Foster is in
tended to clear the situation as to the
work of the committee in its ef
forts to bring about a settlement of
the strike. It shows the attitude of
Mr. Rockefeller in the fight for his
company against union labor.
Statement of Foster.
Chairman Foster's statement fol
lows:
“In my conference with Mr. Rocke
feller at his office in New York I
urged on him the importance of #ub
mitting the differences existing be
tween the striking miners and the op
erators to a fair and neutral board of
arbitration, believing that the troubles
existing in the State of Colorado could
be peacefully settled.
“l spent the month of February im
(‘olorado at the direction of the
House of Representatives investigat
ing conditions. Mr. Rockefeller has
not been there in tén years. I have
been over the property and have con
ferred with and examined men on
hoth sides of the controversy. 1 un
derstand the issues on both sides.
There is nothing in the differences
which can not be settled by arbitra
tion. 'The demand that the union re
recognized has been withdrawn. The
great question now confronting the
strikers and ewners is, ‘Will you agree
to submit the matter to adjustment
by arbitration?
“Mr. Rockefeller can not evade his
responsibility. He can not set forth
the excuse that he will not arbitrate
the recognitien ¢f the union. He can
prevent loss of life and property by
vielding to arbitration.”
MILITIA BLAMED.
DENVER, May 2.+State militiamen
or mine ‘guards, or beth, set fire to
the Ludlow tent colony April 20 and
burned to death two women and
eleven children after ten .men had
fallen in a battle between militiamen
and strikers,
The men who fired the tents with
torches, whether soldiers, mine
guards or both, wer acting under di
rect orders of Lieutenant Major Pat-~
rick J. Hamrock or Lieutenant K. K.
Linderfeit (or both), of the Colorado
National Guard,
This, briefly, was the verdict re
turned late to-day by a Coroner's jury
gitting at Trinidad.
The verdict followed the testimony
of more than a score of eye-wimesses}
to the tragedy, who told harrowing
stories of the way in which the wom- ‘
en and children lost their lives. Some
of the witnesses declared that the{
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Read Bible to Cure
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Brain Fag,ls Advice
0f Speaker Clark
WASHINGTON, XMay i.—Speaker
Champ Clark to-day prescribed the
reading of the Bible as a cure for
brain fag.
“When 1 get brain fag, I read St
Paul's epistles and the proverbs of
Solomon,” he said. “When I was a
boy, 1 would not read the Bible. I be
gan to read it almost by accident as a
youth, and 1 have been at it ever
since. I foupd it a mine of wonderful
thoughts and inspirations, wonderful
ly expressed. -
“There are many kinds of religions,
but I thank God the end of the coa
troversial sort has come, We have
reached a hearty tolerance. 1 firmly
bellieve that if all religious influences
were banished the world would be in
a pandemonium in a twelvemonth,”
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VERA CRUZ, May 4.—Brigadier Gen
eral Funston was busily occupled after
breakfast in writing dispatches, most
of them to the War Department.
There was at least one of them, how~
ever, which had nothing to de with the
Army or the Government. It was a
reply to a disga(oh telling him of the
birth of a daughter in the United States.
Greece and Turkey
Clash Over Islands
VIENNA, May 2-—lt s learned
from diplomatic circles that Greeze
has made representations to the pow
ers concerning Turkey's uncompro
mising attitude in the islands ques
tions. The Greeks suggest the block
ading of the Dardanelles as a means
of overcoming Turkish resistance,
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Finds Man Auto Ran
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- Down Is His Father
ORANGETOWN, N. Y.. May 4.—Going
EEAS s sicus hon basy
discovered that the injured man with h
leg broken was his father.
THE GEORGIAN'S NXEWS BRIEFS
scldiers walked among women and
children who were crawling op the
ground and screaming from terror,
and ruthlessly applied torches to the
tents,
No Arrests Yet Made.
The Jast witness examined by the
jury was A. J. Riley, a Colorado and
Southern brakeman, whose train,
southbound, pulled into the Ludlow
station at about the time the fire
started. Riley, who was riding in the
engine, said his attention was attract
ed to the colony by the blazing tents,
two of which were then aflame. -
“While milittamen maintained a fire
of rifles upon the colony from one
angle,” he testified, “1 saw another
militiaman enter the colony with a
I lazing torch and touch off the third
tent. Women and children were then
crawling along the railroad out under
cover of the train, to the safety of
an arroya, many of them screaming
from terror.”
Killed While a Prisoner.
~ The jury returned two separate
verdicts. In_the second report it
found that Louis Tikasa, Jleader of
the Ludlow Greeks, Private Alfred
Martin and six strikers who were
killed in the fighting which preceded
the fire, “came to their deaths by
bullet wounds in the battle between
militiamen under command of Major
Hamrock and Lieutenant Linderfelt
and mine, guards, on one #ide and
strikers on the other.”
The verdict in the case ¢! the'wom
en and children, in full, is as follows:
“We, the jury, find that the de
ceased came to their deaths by as
phyxiation or fire, or both, caused by
the burning of the tent of the Lud
low tent colony, and that the fire c¢a
the tents was started by militiamen
under Major Hamrock and Lieuten
ant Linderfelt or mine guards, or
both, on the 20th day of April, 1914.”
The children's ages ranged from 6
months to 10 years.
Want to Impeach Governor.
Members of the State Legislature
are gathering here for the special ses
sfon called by Governor Ammons [or
Monday. It séems certain the session
will be a warm one. Among the things
contemplated is the enactment of a
compulsory State arbitration law. A
bill of this kind will, at least, be in
troduced.
Also there are certain of the legisia
tors who want to start impeachment
proceedings against Governor Am
mons and Lieutenant Governor Fitz
gerald, whom they hold responsible
for the disorders in the strike zone.
Secret of Slaying
Mystery Believed
Hidden Down Well
MACON, May 4-—The Sheriff, his
deputies and the Coroner believe that
at the bottom of a well three miles
from this city lies the body of some
murdered person. They are unable
to tell, because they can not get any
one to go down the well, The stench
is so strong that one can not ap
proach closer than eight or ten yardg
without being nauseated,
Near the well evidences of a strug
gle and spots of blood were found,
and persons living near by recall that
several days ago a hack drove up to
the well at night and stopped there
for ten or fifteen minutes. It is hoped
to solve the mystery to-day.
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Japan Hits at U. 8,,
With Russia as Shield
1 ussia as vinle
ST. PETERSBURG, May 2—The
drift of the recent interviews be
tween Baron Motono, the Japanese
Ambassador at the Russian court,
and M, Sazonoff, which were under
taken with a view of establishing an
understanding between Japan and
the BSt. Petersburg Cabinet, wasg
learned to-dav bv the International
News Service corrgspondent,
Knowing the Czar was anxious for
concessions from Japan, Motono took
advantage of this by suggesting dip
lomatically that Russia induce Eng
land and France to make represen
tations to Washington concerning
the United States’ attitude in Mex
fco, so that the United States will
be embarrassed.
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Berlin to See Its
.
First Game of Ball
LONDON, May 2.—Richard Klegin,
whe introduced motor polo into Eng
land, has leased the stadium in Ber
lin, where the first game of base
ball to be played in the German cap
ital will be witnessed on May 23.
Klegin will return to London next
week to complete arrangements for
the motor steeplechase in which a
dosen curs wilieompete. & 7 T F
Wilson Has Hurt U.S.
In Eyes of the World,
Says German Writer
BERLIN, May 2.—Writing in Die
Zukunft to-day, Maximilian Harden
says:
“Since March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wil
son has been President of the United
States. The results, so far as con
cerns :hree-fourths of the people of
the inhabited globe, have been a cool
ing of the feeling of friendiy respect
toward the United States.’ » y
“His acceptance of South American
mediation was a triumph for Latin
America—such a triumph as the
Greeks and Mo%tenegrin; would have
had if Austria had intrusted the set
tlement ‘of its differences with Servia
to the‘r wisdom. It is 'no happy au
gury for the success ®f the Panama
festival, which was to have shown
Americans in the glorious roles of
sovereigns of their cortinent.
“In his poring over books and pa
pers Professor Wilson has™ ‘misread
the lessons of life. He does not see
things as they are, but only what, ac
cording to his schoolmaster’'s ideas,
they ought to be.”
Wright Company to
Sell Airship Patents
NEW HAVEN, May 2.—The Con
necticut Airship Company has con
cluded negotiations for the virtual
purchase of the Wright patent rights
to aeroplane construction in this
country. Under the terms of the deal
the Dayten concern will go out of
business and turn over to the Con
necticut concern not only the work
of building machines but of licensing
all who wish to build under the
Wright patents.
A minimum sum of $75,000 will be
paid the Wright company. The li
cense fee per aeroplane is to be §l,-
000, and should the yearly production
exceed 75 the Wrights are to get an
additional fee for each. : g
The Connecticut company is capi
talized at $1,000,000 and its directors
include Colonel Isaac Ullman, Edou
ard Thompson and Governor Wood
ruff. Captain Thomas S. Baldwin is
the chief of construction. ’
McAdoo to Give Bride
Diamond Necklace
NEW YORK, May 2.—Miss Elea
nor ~Wilson, daughter of President
Wilson, who will be married to Wil
llam.. McAdoo, Secretary of the
Treasury, Thursday, and who has
been completing her trousseau®in this
city, left to-day for Washington.
Miss Wilson has been shopping here
for several davs. On her departure
she was accompanjed by two mod
istes, who will arrange the wedding
finery, :
The wedding ceremony will be
quiet and will take place at 6 o'clock
in the evening in the Blue Room in
the presence of about 100 guests, It
was in that room that Grover Cleve
land was married. It is_ reported
that Mr. McAdoo's gift to th@pbrlde
lwm be a magnificent diamond neck
ace,
Mellen to Divulge
New Haven Secrets
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Charles
Navin Mellen, former president of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, will bare to the Inter
state Commerce Commissign the
scandal of the great system. He will
come to Washington probably during
the present week and tell of all the
financial manipulations which have
made the New Haven a branded sys
tem,
* It is admitted here that when Mel
len takes the stand he will implicate
some of the biggest names known to
the world of finance. Men who were
associated with Mellen and with
“Diamond Jim" Brady and others
who knew the inside workings of the
New Haven have expressed a desire
to turn State's evidence.
Harrison Finds South
- .
- Georgia Prosperous
MACON, May 2.—Fairfax Harrigon,
president of the Southern Railway
Company and the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway Company, has
spent several'days on the lines of the
Georgia Southern and Florida and
Hawkinsville and Flerida Southern in
South Georgia, and reports great evi
dences of general prosperity and ad
vanced agricultural methods.
The season has been favorable and
the new cotton is showing a good
stend. The representative farmers
have combated boll weevil conditions
by greater care in the selection of
seed, the choice of early maturing
varieties and better cultural and fer
tilizing practice.
COLLEGE GIRLS SCRUB STATUE.
WELLESLEY, MASS., May 2.—
May Day was observed at Wellesley
College to-day with the traditional
gambols. The old-time custom of
gcerubbing the statue of Harriet Mar
tineau could not be carried out be
cause it had been destroyed in a re
cent fire. However, the girls found
another statue which ‘tb? indus
tripusiy cledameds ¢ “ad 4 P F A
WASHINGTON, May 2.—A1l ef
forts to draw Carranaa into their ne
gotiations having met with failure,
the A. B. (. envoys, attempting me
diation of the Mexican problems, do
not propose to wait longer for his
views on the establishment of an ar
mistice between his troops and Huer
ta's,
They propose now to proceed with
their negotiations without consider
ing the Constitutionalists. And to
surround their deliberations with ab
solute neutrality, it is further stated
that they are preparing to adjourn
their sessions to Havana Cuba.
These were the important develop
ments to-day in the pending media
tion of Mexico's troubles, and the in
formation came from a Source close
enough to the enveys to be regarded
as authoritative. 4
They are very signifieant—these
developments. g
They mean, in a word, that the
envoys of the A. B. C. nations con
ducting the negotiations have prac
tically given up hope of persuading
the Constitutionalists to consent
even to "consider mediation of their
differences with -Huerta—and <there
fore regard the prospect of the paci
fication of Mexico by mediation as
discouraging. .
U. S. Wants Huerta Ousted.
This leaves for mediation only the
differences between Huerta, the de
facto government of Mexico, and the
United States. These differences are
rot important. They have arisen
simply out of the refusal of Huerta
to .salute the American flag, and had
their origin in the mistake of an offi
cer of Huerta’s forces whose knowl
edge of international Jaw was nothing
‘to boast about.
The President and Secretary of
State of the United States have taken
pains to emphasize there is no war,
‘with all its attending complications,
for settlement, The understanding in
Washington has always been, and is
now, that if Huerta, by mediation or
ctherwise, consents to salute. the flag
and apologize in the form that may
‘be demanded by President Wilson,
this Government's contpoversy with
him will be ended,
The Administration, however, is not
Cispesed to hurry Huerta. It does not
want him to salute the flag and bow
te the majesty of the United States,
‘an® thus bring to an end the interna
‘tional complications. It wants him
to resign, and if—and here is the nub
of the situation—the mediators can
be induced to drag their negotiations
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the settlement of the differences of
th United States and the Huerta de
facto government will have little or
no effect on general conditions in
Mexico—will contribute nothing to
the much-needed pacification of the
country.
The likelihood of the adjournment
of the session of the mediators (o
Havana has a peculiar significance.
The suceess of the mediation pro
posals has been hampered, so far as
the factions in Mexico are concerned,
by the frequent attendance of Secre
tary of State Bryan at the meeting
of the A. B. €. representatives. It
has caused Huerta. particularly to
look on the mediation plans with sus
picion. The belief is that this at
titude on Huerta's part was responsi
ble for tne enforced resignation of Por
tillo y Rojas, Minister of Foreign
Affairs for Mexico.
Prison Unguarded
* As Jailers Banquet
CHICAGO, May 4.-—After making
every prisoner promise to be good and
not get into mischief, jailers anA
guards at the county jail locked the
cell doors, turned out the lights and
attended a banquet to Sheriff Zimmer
in the Congress Hote.l,
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Hoosier Town Has
Public Health Day
ANDERSON, IND., May 1-—Five
thousand persons participated in “publie
health day”’ here, marching in a parade
which was fifteen blocks long. The cel
ebration was said to be the first ot its
kind in the United States.
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