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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913.
NO. 60.
DEMOCMTS EXPECT
TO FINISH THIEF
CK0S1S WEEK
Measure Is Nearing Comple
tion, With but Few Minor
Changes, and Will Be Sent to
House Early Next Week
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 17.—The Dem
ocratic caucus resumed consideration of
the tariff here today with every pros
pect of rapid completion of the meas
ure and its presentation to the house
early next week.
With the.fight over free wool and
free sugar settled the free list and ad-
minstrative provisions remained as im
portant issues ahead.
Representative Harrison, of Missis
sippi, a member of the new foreign af
fairs committee, and others are plan
ning a fight against the provision to
permit a discount of 5 per cent on all
duties imposed on goods imported in
vessels built in the United States and
wholly the property of United States
citizens. They contend this amounts to
a ship subsidy and that it is contrary
to the spirit of some treaties.
TARIFF OF 1789.
"There is but one tariff bill that ever
before carried such a provision,” de
clared Mr. Harrison today, "and that
was the first tariff passed in 178Q as a
retaliation against similar acts of other
countries.
"Thomas Jefferson advocated *it for no
other .reason than that. The provis
ion was changed in all subsequent tar
iff acts. If such a provision is re
tained, It will cause every roreign coun
try with which we have commercial
treaties—about thirty of them—to eith
er serve notice vf abrogation upon us
or to retaliate by increasing their du
ties on the imports from or exports to
the United States.”
The caucus took up the remainder of
the wool schedule when the discussion
was resumed. Earlier the ways and
means committee majority met to con
sider the protests of foreign countries
against certain provisions of the admin
istration features of the bill, communi
cations forwarded to Chairman Under
wood by Secretary Bryan.
REPUBLICANS TO CAUCUS.
Republican members of the house
-were preparing for further discussion
of the tariff bill at a caucus tonight.
Many amendments to various sections of
the bill had been prepared.
They will be offered in tonight’s cau-
,cus. Substitute sections are being pre
pared by Republicans of the ways and
means committee to be offered in house
In place of the Underwood bill’s sched
ules on wool and cotton.
The action of Democrats of the house
in consideriAg .the new .tariff bill be
hind closed do6rs was 'denounced by
Republican leaders of the senate today
as unfair to the public and to business
Interests that may be affected.
A demand for hearings on the bill
was made by Senators Townsend, Pen
rose, Warren, Gallinger and others, who
declared* business and labor interests
were sending thousands of protests
against the bill and demanding an op
portunity to be heard as soon as the
measure reached the senate.
HEARINGS HAVE BEEN GIVEN.
Democratic senators, including Sena
tors William and Stone insisted that
full hearings had been held in January
by the house committee on ways and
means and that the senate committee
would not delay tariff reform by further
hearings. The Republican senators de
clared that no one knew the extent of
the reductions that were to be made
when the January hearings were held.
Senators Gallinger and Penrose said
that some of the cuts in tariff would
wipe industries out of existence and
that the people interested had been giv
en no opportunity to explain the effects
of the proposed reductions upon their
business.
"No one knew what the bill was to
be until it came out of the ways and
means committee,” said Senator Pen
rose, "and even now the Democrats
are legislating on the bill in secret
caucus.”
Nugent-Smh it Allies
In Jersey to Get no
•Plums From Wilson
WILSON SENDS NAME OF
W. J. HARRIS TO SENATE
Georgian Becomes Director of
Census Succeeding Dana Du-
rand—Confirmation Certain
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 17.—"To
be director of the census, William J
Harris, of Georgia.”
The above stands out prominently in
the list of nominations sent to the sen
ate today by President Wilson.
Following the usual course, Mr. Har
ris’ nomination was referred to the
senate committee on census of which
Senator Chilton, of West Virginia, is
chairman. Neither of the Georgia sen
ators are on this committee, but this is
of no consequence, as affecting Mr. Har
ris’ confirmation. Senator Chilton will
call a meeting of his committee in a
few days to consider the nomination,
and it is assumed that its confirmation
will be recommended.
E. Dana Durand, the incumbent, will
continue to administer the affairs at
the census office until Mr. Harris’ nom
ination has been confirmed.
The census office is one of the most
important bureaus of the government.
The director of the census is an office
of much responsibility, and the selec
tion of Mr. Harris for the position is a
recognition by the president, and Sec
retary of Commerce Redfield of liis
uriusual fitness and qualifications. The
office carries a salary of $6,500 annu
ally.
Mr. Harris, who is chairman of the
state Democratic executive committee,
was an "original Wilson man,” with the
accent on “original.” Long before the
presidential primary in Georgia, Mr.
Harris was espousing Wilson as a pres
idential candidate, and when the fight
came none worked harder for the presi T
dent than did he. At Baltimore, Mr.
Harris rendered valuable aid to the Wil
son cause by his active support, though
he was not a delegate to the convention.
After the Wilson nomination, he en
listed as one of the faithful, and,
thanks to his efforts as state chairman,
Georgia gave Wilson the largest ma
jority it has ever given a candidate for
president. During the campaign Mr.
Harris was in close communication with
the national Democratic headquarters
in New York.
Shortly after the president’s inaugu
ration Mr. Harris’ name was suggested
for a federal office. Senator Hoke
Smith, Colonel Ed T. Brown and sev
eral Georgia congressmen actively in
terested themselves in his appointment
as director of the census. On the
strength of their recommendation, Sec
retary Redfleld sent for the Georgian,
and after an interview, determined to
recommend him to the president. Mr.
Wilson then conferred with Senators
Bacon and Smitji, and in seeing that
Harris was acceptable to both, sent his
nomination to the senate.
The new census director is not a
stranger to Washington. He lived here
for a number of years during tlio late
Senator Ulay’s service in congress. He
came to Washington as the late sena
tor’s secretary, and remained with him
until a few years ago. He has serv'ed
in the Georgia senate, and is president
of an insurance company.
Mr. Harris married the daughter of
the late General Joe Wheeler, of Ala
bama.
Among President Wilson’s nomina
tions sent to the senate today were:
To the board of the United States
general appraisers, Jerry B. Sullivan, of
Iowa.
Appraiser of customs at Philadelphia,
William R. Roper.
Auditor for the interior department,
Robert W. Woolley, of Virginia.
Assistant secretary of war, Henry
C. Breckinridge, of Lexington, Ky.
United States marshal, eastern dis
trict of Texas, Benjamin F. Sherrell.
Director of the census, William J.
Harris, of Georgia.
Recorder of the general land office,
Lhcius Q. C. Lamar.
Assistant attorney general of the
United States before the court of claims,
Samuel Houston Thompson, Jr., of Den-
FARMERS OPTIMISTIC
DIAZ GETS PARDONS
FOR THREE AMERICANS
BY KALFK SMITH.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ April 17.—Al
though . he has the Indorsement of his
congressman. Washington M. Cross
will not be named by President Wilson
for postmaster at East Orange, N. J.
Ther o*ffice is one of the fat federal
plums In Jersey carrying a salary of
$3,800 a year.
Cross is secretary of the Essex coun-
t.. Democratic committee and has long
been identified with the Jim Smith-Jim
gent machine in North Jersey. He
afao the private secretary of Con
gressman Walter I.. McCoy, who has
recommended him for appointment.
The attitude of the president with
reference to the East Orange office is
believed in Washington to reflect in a
broad sense the position Mr. Wilson
- ill take concerning much Important
federal patronage. Wilson is hewing
sauarely to his declaration that only
progressives need apply for recognition
by this administration.
HOKE SMITH ASKS FOR
LIBRARY FOR J-EDERAL PEN
Geergia Senator Proposes
Amendment to Sunday Civil
Bill for $2,500 Library
BY RALPH SMITE.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Senator
Hoke Smith proposed today an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill appro
priating $2,500 for the establishment
of a library In the Atlanta federal
prison.
Small Grain Never Looked
More Promising Than at
the Present Time
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ATHENS, Ga., April 10.—Information
received at the Georgia State College of
Agriculture from the agents In the
farm demonstration work reveal an op
timistic condition of the Georgia farmer,
In spite of the trouble he has been
having with spring rains. Judging from
the reports the small grain crop Is the
most promising In the history of the
state, larger, too, than was ever known.
Rust has appeared to some extent on
oats, but not to seriously threaten the
general crop. Varying reports about
fruit conditions have been received. The
worst reports do not indicate as much
as 50 per cent loss. For the most part
the reports indicate considerably less.
The data is, however, not complete
enough to warrant a general estimate.
Farmers throughout the state are tak
ing up seriously diversifying their crops
and greater advance in this respect will
be made this year than ever. Hand in
hartd with it will, of course, go in
creased live stock.
WHAT REPORTS SHOW.
Extracts from sbme of the reports are
as follows:
D. B. Eskew, Eastanallee: Twenty-
five per cent of fruit crop gone—back
wardness of planting because of rains.
J. W. Arnold, Jr., Camilla: Oats fine
and big yield promised. Several acres
are being plinted to velvet beans and
greater rotation interest. More feed,
more pasture and better stock to feed.
Farmers are buying cultivators.
J. A. Chastain, Thomasville: Oats are
very promising. Farmers are taking up
planting peas after oats for hay.
” S. Collins, Blakely: The stock of
E.
After Twelve Years in Mexic
Prison, Insurance Frauders
Are Freed
(By Associated Press.)
ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 17.—After
twelve years’ confinement in Mexican
prisons, Lester Hulbert, once a lawyer
connected with the district attorney’s
office here, his brother-in-law, William
Mitchell, and their alleged accomplice
in insurance frauds, involving murder,
Dr. Charles S. Harle, of Abilene, Tex.,
are to be released.
This information came to the office of
the district attorney today in a letter
from the life insurance company detec
tive who brought about the conviction
of Hulbert and his companions.
Hulbert was confined in San Juan de
Ulloa prison, when Felix Diaz was sent
there, and the latter became interested
in the lawyer. When Diaz attained
power he obtained the pardon of the
men.
harrows have been sold in county, tele
graphing for more. Farmers being ad
vised not to sell cotton seed, but to
swap for meal.
W. \T. Holliday, Stewart county: A
good premium list |has been obtained for
boys’ and girls’ clubs.
C. M. James, Columbus: Reports fifty-
three boys. and thirty-three girls > in
clubs.
W. C. Lewis, Wellston: More corn
and peanuts are being planted. Oats
and wheat are fine.
W. N. Manning, Funston: A large en
rollment for the corn club has been
obtained. Much interest in improved,
seed.
V. L. McMichael, Putnam—An in
creased number are diversifying. More
grain is being grown. Velvet beans are
being planted in greater quantity; also
rape, for hogs.
W. G. Middlebrook, Walden—Grain
is looking fine. Rotations are being in
augurated.
J. T. Pitman, B&inbridge—Cotton
acreage is being ctft. The weevil scare
is making farmers listen to better sys
tems.
P. H. Ward, Ochlochnee, is preaching
the pulling of stumps and planting the
velvet bean.
J. W. West, Fort Gains, reports good
club interest.
Dan Wicker, Americaus, finds oats fine
with m^ny farmers intending to follow
with peas for hay. Farmers are also
planting velvet beans and peanuts be
tween rows of corn for hogs and cattle.
P. D. Johnson, Covington, reports
small grain fine, oats especially.
W. R. Tucker, Summerville , reports
farmers reaping advantages of fall
plowing and winter cover crops.
J. L. Burdette, Wilkes county, finds
great interest in demonstration work
and in corn and canning clubs.
W. A. Logue, Gibson, finds two-thirds
of the farmers planting velvet beans,
where two years ago none were planted.
F. R. Logan, Madison, says there was
never such prospect for grain crops in
that county. In most instances oats
are to be followed by peas for hay.
E. T. Jackson, Carrollton, j says oats
and wheat are fine. * '
S. E. Morgan, Union City, says grain
is very promising. Farmers are put
ting on nitrate of soda.
Williafri R. Smith, Fender, says farm
ers want very best seed they can buy.
Some oats are rusting. Where soda
was used, however, they are looking
fine.
S. L. Dowling, Valdosta—Good seed
beds have been made and better seed
planted.
J. B. Tyre, Dublin, finds increased
number of farmers using lime.
V W. W. Rast, Piddock, reports lots of
peanuts planted, oats doing nicely;
young melon having hard time with
rains, potato crop to be large.
R. S. Hunter, DeKalb county, says
wheat and oats were never finer, wtih
more oats than ever.
M. W. Walker, Blackshear, says there
is less cotton; more legumes; more
hogs. Oats affected to some extent by
rust.
L. C. Davis, LaQrange—Oat crop un
usually large and promising.
W. Henry Griffin, Nashville , finds
farmers* interested in buying Percheron
stock for farms.
W. W. Yeats, Temple—Oats and wheat
fine.
J. W. Smith, Mathin—More corn, peas
and sorghum than ever being planted.
WOMAN IS SHOT BY
TARGET GALLERY BULLET
(By Associated Press.)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 17.—Mrs.
Cora B. Smith, an attache of an amuse
ment company, was fatally shot Wed
nesday night by the accidental dis
charge of a target rifle in the shooting
gallery.
The bullet was fired in the carnival
crowd and she fell fainting. Her home
is im Cincinnati
TWO SLAIN WHEN WARDEN
AND FISHERMEN FIGHT
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17.—In a
fight with fish poachers in a sloug'h
near San Francisco last night, Ernest
Raynaud, a young deputy warden, was
beaten to death. His companion, M. S.
Clark, another deputy, escaped by
swimming half a mile after he had kill
ed Antone Balesteri. leader of the gang.
Six Italians, members of the San Fran
cisco fishermen’s colony, are under ar
rest.
Raynaud and Clark, in. a row boat, had
arreated two poachers in a launch.
They were bringing their prisoners to
San Francisco when another launch,
manned by five men, came alongside,
and its occupants sprang into the offi
cer’s boat. Raynaud was quickly over
powered. Clark had just drawn his pis
tol and began shooting when he was
knocked into the water. He swam
ashore and telephoned the police.
Detectives arrested a man wounded
in the hand and five of his companions.
A search of their launch resulted in
the discovery of the bodies of Raynaud
and Balesteri.
Kj
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POPE HALLIES AGAIN
BUT CAN NOT HOPE TO
REGAINJMS HEALTH
Pontiff Misses Fever and De
clares He Feels Better Than
Any Time Since His First
Relapse Last Week
<8
A SIGN OF THE TIMES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
INC MOORE AFFAI
SPEER DENOUNCES 11K
0 THAT CULLS SUITE TROOPS
Charges May Be Preferred in
Court Against v Deposed
Weather Bureau Chief
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Charges
upo* Whicu Present 'tde"
today Judge Emory 4 Speer, of the
CURRENCY REFORM WILL
COME UP AT THIS SESSION
Owen-Glass Bill Will Embody
Regional Reserve Plan With
15 Co-ordinate Mints
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 17.—A curren
cy bill embodying a regional reserve
plan not only is expected to be present
ed during the present session of con
gress, but action may be taken upon
it before adjournment.
This was the prediction today of Sen
ator Owen, chairman of the senate
banking and currency committee, who
was a White House caller. A measure
is working out to be known as the
Owen-Glass bill which before being
introduced in the house by Representa
tive Glass, of Virginia, ranking mem
ber of the house currency committee,
and In the senate by Senator Owen, is
expected to have the approval of Pres
ident Wilson, Secretary McAdoo and
prominent authorities on currency ques
tions.
It is contemplated to divide the coun
try into twelve or fifteen regional co
ordinate units. Each unit would have
a reserve association and over all the
units there would be a supervising
board of central control but not a cen
tral reserve association.
On the central board of authortiy, the
government, as well as . the various
units, would be represented.
summarily removed Willis L. Moore,
chief of the weather bureau, from office,
rested today in the department of Jus
tice, where agents of‘the bureau df in
vestigation were at work upon them.
Neither Secretary Houston nor White
House officials had any reply to make
to Prof. Moore’s statements that the
charges against him had been secretly
made and secretly investigated, and
that he had no opportunity to defend
himself.
None of the officials concerned went
further today in detailing charges
against the weather bureau chief Ithan
to say they consisted of irregularities,
but Prof. Moore, in his own statement,
declared they were based on his activi
ty in working for appointment as secre
tary of agriculture.
The general allegation against Moore
is that employes of the weather bureau
while out on trips on government busi
ness were utilized in addressing organ
izations and meetings in furtherance of
his candidacy.
STATEMENT BY HOUSTON.
Secretary Houston, of the agricultural
department, conferred with the president
before the removal of Mr. Moore was
announced. The secretary then issued
the following statement:
"Immediately after tjie resignation of
Professor Moore, of the weather bureau,
was submitted to the president and ac
cepted by him, charges were filed with
the secretary of agriculture by respon
sible men within the service. These
charges were of such a grave nature
that the secretary of agriculture called
upon the department of justice for an
investigation.
"The investigation is still under way,
but the facts so far secured and laid be
fore the president yesterday, were suffi
cient to warrant hini in deciding to
withdraw his acceptance of Professor
Moore’s resignation and remove him
summarily, which has been done today.
The president has also directed the sec
retary of agriculture to suspend Charles
T. Burns, an employe of tn<
bureau, pending a further investigation
of the case, and take such disciplinary
measures as he may deem necessary
with such other employes of the weather
bureau as may be found to have been
unduly active in using the public serv
ice for private and personal ends.”
MOORE’S EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN.
The president's letter to Secretary
Houston directing Mr. Moore’s removal
was not made public.
Unofficially it was said at the White
House that the campaign to make Mr.
Moore secretary of agriculture had been
extensive; that members of congress in
various parts of the country had been
canvassed, and that a letter-writing
campaign had been conducted among
weather bureau employes.
Prof. Moore has been a target for
attack in congress. Representative
Fowler, of Illinois, introduced a resolu
tion a few days ago calling on the sec
retary of agriculture to ^dvise congress
regarding the appropriations for official
traveling expenses for the weather bu
reau, what amount of the lump of sal
aries in the weather bureau was ex
pended for promotions of weather bu
reau employes during the last January
and February and the comparative fig
ures for the preceding four years. The
resolution asked for information as to
what journeys were performed by
Charles T. Burns, under official orders
and under what instructions between
July 1, 1912, and February 28, last, and
also called for data regarding circulars
and other matter printed at government
ex*pense and "used” by the chief of the
weather bureau in his campaign for
secretary of agriculture during the last
fiscal year.”
PROBE PLANNED IN 1912.
The house committee on expenditures
in the agricultural . department had
planned last year an exhaustive in
vestigation into the weather bureau,
but was prevented from making it on
aocount of the Wiley inquiry, the Flor
ida everglades case and other special
matters.
Federal Judge Says That Such
Law Is Violate of U, S.
Constitution
(By Associated Press.)
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 17.—In an ad-
United States court for the southern
district of Georgia, condemned an act
of the state legislature, which permits
the judge of the superior or city court,
the sheriff or the mayor of a city to
call upon the governor to send troops
to quell disturbances.
Judge Speer said that he was not
criticizing Governor Brown, but the
law on the statute books of the state,
which directs the governor to order out
troops on the request of the officers
named.
During the existence of martial law
in a Georgia community. Judge Speer
declared, free speech arid a free press
are checked and the writ of habeas cor
pus suspended. He said that even the
president of the United States could
not suspend the writ of habeas corpus
and one finds a law in Georgia permit
ting it and with it trial by a military
tribunal.
VIOLATES CONSTITUTION.
Judge Speer declared that such pro
cedure violated the constitutional priv
ileges of free men in a free country.
He declared that the conditions in
West Virginia, wher© the mining dis
trict is under military rule, are out
rageous. f
Electric Roulette
Wheel Is Operated
In Circuit Court
(By Associated Press.)
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 17.—A
roulette wheel with all Its electrical at
tachments was set up and operated in
the circuit court today in the trial of
Ed Spear, one of the defendants in the
swindling cases in which it is charged
, Frank P. Fox, of 'Terre Haute, Ind.,
was fleeced out of more than $20,000.
John McKenzie, an electrical engineer,
testified that he made the wheel and
sold it to a Chicago house that deals
in such paraphernalia. He swore the
machine was constructed to be inten
tionally crooked.
Charles Bryan, proprietor of a club
from which the machine was seized, tes
tified the roulette wheel was not in
the club at the time Fox claims he
lost his money.
HS-ATLIINTIC AIR
IfOTAUETOSTPiEO
Dirigible Balloon Became De
flated by Accident Before
Leaving the Ground
(By Associated Press.)
LAS TALMAS, Canary Islands,. April
17.—Joseph Brucker, formerly of Mil
waukee, failed to start as scheduled to
day on his proposed trans-Atlantic night
to the West Indies in the dirigible bal
loon, Suchard II. Just as all prepara
tions had been completed for the flight
at daybreak this morning the gas es
caped in some manner through the chief
valve and the envelope suddenly be
came deflated. Urgent telegrams were
sent to Germany for a further supply
of gas.
Engineer Kruger, who had been en
gaged to navigate the dirigible, at the
last moment made some demur about
undertaking the hazardous voyage and
the promoters of the flight took out
$50,000 insurance in his behalf.
Brucker expressed extreme annoyance
over the accident. A large crowd which
had waited for hours, hoping to see the
departure of the airship, manifested
some disgust at the postponement of the
voyage.
(By Associated Press.)
ROME, April 17.—The pope's condition
as set forth in the bulletin issued by
Drs. Ettore Marchiafava and Andrea
Amici this morning was as follows:
"The pontiff spent a calm night- A
dimunition of his cough has relieved the
holy father considerably. His tempera
ture was 97 this morning.
"Slight amelioration in the oronchial
symptoms was again noted.
(Signed) “MARCHIAFAVA,
"AMICI.”
The Italian government, desiring to
be absolutely 3ure of the real condition
of Pius X, today summoned those di
rectly responsible for the care of his
health. The Pope’s physicians replied
to the appeal for a direct statement
with the frank declaration that it was
extremely difflcult to say that the pon
tiff’s constitution would overcome the
present crisis. But even if it does so.
it was explained, the remainder of the
pontiff's days would still be considered
as precarious and the end might be
expected any time.
The pope is so much better, according
to reports from the Vatican, that if pres
ent conditions continue the last bulletin
about his health will be- published by the
physician tomorrow. In this the doctors
will declare that they are confident of
the pontiff’s recovery.
WIIAT POPE SAYS.
The pope himself says he is bettor.
When Dr. Amici visited him at noon to
day and asked him how he felt, the pon
tiff replied:
"This is the first day since my first re
lapse that I feel generally relieved.”
Profi Marchiafava and Dr. Amici to
day again impressed on the pope the ne
cessity of .complete rest, informing him
that any activity would create obstacles
to his recovery. •
“Your commands shall he obeyed. ’
said the pope smiling.
Slier Hy after the doctors had left,
however, ..sun broke through the
clouds and flooUrfi^fhe pope’s bed cham
ber. The pontiff therSBmjndeclared that
he could endure his bed mPs^pnger. Ills
restlessness increased and ho slqjsted on
rising.
His attendants, felt obliged to give “
to his wishes. His valet proceeded tc*
help him to rise hut the pope refused
his assistance, saying that ho could help
himself; although he adn “ ‘
feeling somewhat weaker.
Dr. Amici again visited the pontiff
this afternoon And found little change in
his condition since this morning. The
temperature of tho pope was slightly
increased, but as a whole the patient's
condition was stationary.
CRISP RECOMMENDS
TWO POSTMASTERS
J, F, Jenkins to Retain Place
at Ashburn—Miss Moore to
Succeed Scoville
BY BALFH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Congress
man Charles R. Crisp, of the Third dis
trict, recommended today to the post-
office department the reappointment of
J. F. Jenkins as postmaster at Ashburn,
and the appointment of Miss Fannie L.
Moore as postmaster at Oglethorpe.
Jenkins is a Democrat and has given
universal satisfaction as postmaster at
Ashburn. Miss Moore will succeed
Mays Scoville, a Republican.
Vessel Is Destroyed
JACKSONVIDLE, Fla.. April 17.—The
wreck of the steamer Dover, which went
on the beach near the mouth of the St.
Johns river several months ago, was to
day burned to the waters’ edge by gov
ernment engineers and her hulk blown
up by dynamite.
Kansas City Cabaret
And Chop Suey Cafes
Raided by the Police
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, April 17.-Fifty-four
women were arrested last night when
eight "cabaret” restaurants, chop suey
parlors and cafes were raided. Patrol*
men walked from table to table instruct
ing the women in the places to enter the
patrol wagons that stood at the curbs.
The men were not arrested.
At police headquarters the women were
booked and held until the raids were
stopped because of lack of space in the
"holdover.” They* were classified as
sightseers and as frequenters. The for
mer were released with a reprimand. The
latter were held under bonds for trial.
A number of the women arrested were
young girls.
"These places must stop catering to
youpg girls,” Chief of Police Griffin said.
REBELS PREPARE TO
ATTACK MATAMORAS
Town Opposite Brownsville,
Tex,, Prepares to Repulse
Constitutionalists
SEVEN KILLED IN FIRE '
WHEN RIG HOTEL BURNS
NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS
A WILSON HIGHWAY
(By Associated Press.)
CONCORD, N. H April 17.—To
reach the “summer capitol” at Cor
nish, President Wilson will drive over
the "Wilson road/’ so named in his
honor by the legislature today.
An appropriation of $12,000 for the
improvement of the highway which
leads from the village of Cornish to
the estate to be occupied by the presi
dent was passed.
(By Associated Press.)
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 17.—
Constitutionalists, estimated to number
between 400 and 900, are reported to be
preparing to attack Matamoras, the
Mexican town opposite here, late today.
Last night the Constitutionalists were
reported thirty miles south of Ma
tamoras and have advanced today.
Matamoras has a strong garrison,
which is preparing to fight. Prepara
tions were made to transfer ninety rail
road cars from the Mexican town to
Brownsville.
JERRY B. SULLIVAN IS
GIVEN PLACE BY WILSON
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Jerry B.
• Sullivan, a Democratic leader in Iowa,
has been selected for appointment to
the board of United States general ap
praisers at New York. Senators Cum
mins and Kenyon were today consulted
by President Wilson about the prospec
tive appointment
Wooden -Structure at Malone,
N, Y,, Traps Guests While
They Sleep
(By AuocUted Pre»>.)
MALONE, N. Y., April 17—Seven or
more persons were burned to death, sev
eral women rey^ved Injuries from which
they may die and a score of person were
rescued In a spectacular fire which de
stroyed the De Wilson hotel, an old
three-story wooden structure on Cather
ine street, early today.
The building burned like paper and
the firemen had little time to effect res
cues. An explosion caused the fire.
More bodies are believed to be In the
ruins.
Most Of those injured were hurt by
jumping from the third story.
Six of the identified dead were resi
dents of Malone or neighboring towns.
When the fire department arrived res
cues from the third floor were Impossible.
All who were trapped there perished
with the exception of two persons who
jumped.
Guests on the first and second floors
escaped. There were about fifteen per
sons In the hotel.
The building was wooden throughout
with the exception of a coating of sheet
Iron on the outside walls.
WILSON JOINS
COUNTRY CLUB
IN WASHINGTON
(By Associated Pr««».)
WASHINGTON, April 17.—President
Wilson today accepted an honorary
membership in the Columbia Country
club. Senator O’Gormar. and a commit
tee from the club presented the Invita
tion. Some time ago the president de
clined an honorary membership In an
other club here.
WILSON’S ETIQUETTE DOES
NOT PLEASE REPUBLICANS
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 17,—President
Wilson’s plah of consulting Republican
. mators as well as their Democratic,
colleagues about prospective appoint
ments among their constituents does
not meet with the approval of some-or
f e Republicans.
Senator Bradley told the president
today that whim he had no personal
objection to the men the president had
discussed with him, he wanted to make
it clear that he accepted no political
;:3ponslbilities for the appointments.
The president was reported to hava
told Senator Bradley that his purpose
in summoning Republics*! senators was
not to obtain their political approval.
I ut to ascertain whether there was
anything in the personal character of
the appointees to which the people of
the state might object.
Seven senators were consulted to
day—Warren and Clark, of Wyoming:
Penrose and Oliver, of Penney lvanla;
Cummins and Kenyon, of Iow^ aaf
Bradley, of KcahMtfc.