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6 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 'The demand that the union re recognized has been withdrawn.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{ ' 3 - Read Bible to Cure . . 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,” ! | atisis 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, . Finds Man Auto Ran E - 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. et AT 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. . 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 smallest part of the tribulations of 54} S 1 BISNH pUu®B SS9IEIS pallup) 2y] JO _ ASI9AOIIUOD BY) 'selqnoay }s.uo(xaw JO 1893 2yl Yiiar peludwud,) | jeial) s} AsssAoujuod ’ uopnque 3saySy S, uos{iay juapl -selq JUSWIIYING 81 01 Suriq Lqoiayl pue eas S[y PO BenH ysnd 0} Ijqe ‘aq [la B{[lA PU® ®BzZUBLIER) ‘Ulnoous Suoj 3109 y Ul senianowul Juipunos -1y 191103} PUE SQOIISTWIE Iy} pue onb snyels 9y) deoy pue ylnous Juo| the republic south of the border. And 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, o e e S 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. 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