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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA,., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1913.
NO. 22.
WILSON REFUSES TO
IE SUFFICE BODY,
FAVORING IT
Tells Woman's Committee He
Is Not Free to Intrude Pri
vate Opinions on Congress
of His Country
STATE OF
PROSPERITY
Gathering of Old Publicity 1
Clans and Worshippers of
The Commoner Taken as
Meaning Another Race
(By Associated Press?.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President
Wilson told a delegation from the Na
tional Woman's Suffrage association
that he favored a standing woman’s suf
frage copimittee in the house of repre
sentatives, but denied their request that
he send a special message to congress
urging the reform.
Marching by twos and fodrs, with
banners afloat, the suffragists were ush
ered into the president's private office
and formed in a circle about Mr. Wilson.
>br. Anna Howard Shaw, president of
the association, summarized their appeal
tc the president to assist the movement
either by sending a special message to
congress, by including reference to suf-
rnge in any general message he might
deliver, or by using his influence to
have a special committee of the house
appointed to consider the subject.
“I want you ladies, if possible,” said
the president to the delegation, "if I can
make it clear to you, to realize just
v hat my present situation is.
‘‘I’M UNDER ARREST."
“Whenever I walk abroad I realize I
am not a free man; I am under arrest. I
am so carefully and admirably guarded
that I have not even the privilege of
talking the streets. That is, as it were,
typical of my present transference, from
being an individual, with bis mind on
any and every subject, to being an of
ficial of a great government, and, inci
dentally, or so it falls out under our
•system of government, the spokesman
of a party.
“I set myself this very strict rule
when I was governor of New' Jersey,
und have followed it as president, and
shall follow it as president—that I am
not at liberty to urge upon congress, in
messages, policies which have not had
the organic consideration of those for
whom I am spokesman.
In other words, I have not yet pre-
, s ?nted to any legislature my private
views on any subject, and I never shall,
because I conceive that to be part of
the whole process of government that
r shall be spokesman for somebody, not
for myself. It would be an imperti
nence. When I speak for myself, I am
.in individual; when I am spokesman of
du organic body, I am a representative.
"CAN'T START ANYTHING.”
“For that reason, you see, I am by
my own principles, shut out, in the lan
guage of the street, from starting any
thing. I have to confine myself to those
things which have been embodied as
promises to the people at an election.
That is the strict rule I set for myself.
“I want to s^y that with regard to all
other matters I am not only glad to be
consulted by my colleagues in the two
houses, but I hope they will often pay
me the compliment of consulting me
when they want to know my opinion on
any subject. One member of the rules
committee did come to me and asked
me whatt I thought about this suggestion
of yours of appointing a special commit
tee of the hpuse, as the senate has al
ready appointed a special committee, for
the consideration of woman’s suffrage,
and I told him that I thought it was a
proper thing to do. So, that so far as
my. personal advice has been asked by a
single member of the committee, it has
been given to that effect. I want to tell
you that to show that I am strictly liv
ing up to my principles.
BY RALPH SMITH. *
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President
Wilson’s advocacy of direct primaries
for the nomination of presidential can
didates, which he uttered in his recent
address to congress, has given some so-
called "Bryanites” cheer. They see an
other Bryan presidential boom looming
large on the political horizon.
Although the secretary of state has
made no statement on the subject, and
he is not expected to do so, many of his
friends in Washington—and he has
many—have within the last few da>s
gained a new enthusiasm, and ^the.-e
has be n an undercurrent of talk that
Mr. Bryan will be Democracy’s stand
ard bearer in 1916.
There is no attempt—no suggestion—
of arraying Bryan against Wilson. On
the contrary, the talk springs from
what Bryan’s friends profess to believe
to be a desire on Wilson’s part that
the Nebraskan shall be the nominee In
1916. Thejjr— or at least some of them
—attribute (President Wilson’s presiden
tial primary suggestion to a belief by
the president that Bryan would be the
beneficiary of the direct vote.
STILL ANOTHER SIGN.
The talk of the new Bryan boom has
followed directly not only the presi
dent s direct primary recommendation,
but also a banquet given at the Bryan
residence last week at which were a
score or more of newspaper men and
others who managed the publicity end
of the Bryan campaign in 1896 aid
afterward.
Philip Troup, of New Haven, who v as
at the head of the Bryan publicity bu
reau prior to the convention of 1908,
and whose father died of heart troub’e
after an alleged quarrel with Bryan
in New York during the campaign of
that year, was another guest of the
dinner. Thd'- younger Troup was re
cently appointed as postmaster at New
Haven, supposedly through Bryan’s in
fluence.
James Creelnian, the v?ar eorespond-
net; Willis J. Abbott, Harry W. Walker
a^id oth-„r newspaper men and publicists
to whom Bryan and Bryanism have
been a religion since 1J-96, were oth
ers who attended the feast at the sec
retary’s home.
It is denied by those who were at the
pinner that there was any serious talk
of the 1916 nomination. It is signifi
cant, though, that some of these men,
and other Bryanites here, who for sev
eral months have been silent as to the
next Democratic ticket, are once again
talking confidently of their belief that
Bryan again will be the nominee.
Anjong politicians generally, the elec
tion returns for one year are merely a
prelude to the framing of plans for car
rying the next convention or primaries
and elections. Although not much of it
has geen printed, Washington gossip and
speculation since last March has been
largely of the question of who will the
party nominate in (916.
Villa Summons Carranza for
Conference-Plan United Ac
tion in Drawing Lines Tight
er Around Huerta,
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Dec. 8.—J. G.
Lumsden, of Sautee, Ga., a Civil war
veteran, was found unconscious on a
street car last night. H e was carried
to the police station on a charge of
drunkenness. When called before Mayor
John A. Floyd for trial today he said
he had been drugged and robbed. He
was passing through Spartanburg on
his way home from a hunting trip on
the coast.
Mr. Lumsden said he met a stranger
in Spartanburg yesterday, with whom
he was induced to drink a bottle of b^er.
Soon afterward he lost consciousness
and when he came to his senses in the
police station it was found his pocket-
book with $46 was missing. A tele
gram to his home bank brought him
funds and he left for Georgia.
Little Girl Wants
Young Santa Claus
Named by Postmaster
(By Associated Press.;
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—“Please ap
point a younger Santa Claus,” wrote
eight-year-old Lodema L. Hile, of Al
bion, Ill.,\ to Postmaster General Bur
leson in a letter which reached that of
ficial’s desk today.
“Grandpa says he used to come to his
house when he was a little boy so he
must b^ pretty old by this time and
I’m afraid he’s too old to come to my
bouse.”
Mr. Burleson wrote Lodema that a
personal representative of Santa Claus
would attend to her wants.
Culebra Cut Engineer
Is Dead in Baltimore
Sayre and His Bride
Spend First Day in
London Seeing Sights
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Francis Bowes
Sayre and his bride spent their first day
London on a sight-seeing trip.
Mr. Sayre tomorrow will accompany
Walter H. Page, the American ambasso-
dcr, to Cambridge to participate in the
ommemoration feast at Trinity.
(By Associated Press.'
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 8.—Lieuten
ant Colonel David du Bose Gaillard,
United States army, who directed the
engineering work in the Culebra cut di
vision of the Panama canal, died at
Johns Hopkins hospital here today.
Colonel Gaillard had been a patient
at the hospital since August 17 last,
suffering from a growth in the head,
the result of seven years’ arduous labor
in the canal zone. He failed gradually
and for two months had been in a state
of coma due to the pressure of the
cranial growth on the brain cells.
BALDWIN FARMERS WANT
DEMONSTRATION AGENT
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Dec. 8.——
Baldwin county farmers are determined
o have a farm demonstration agent for
Baldwin next year and Saturday the
Progressive Farmers’ club went on rec
ord as favoring the project and pledg-
,ng st^ng support to the work. The
dub met with Mr. George W. Hollins-
head, Sr., and enjoyed a splendid bar
becue dinner and all-round feast, sever
al talks being made on southern farm-
ng.
C. R. Torrence, an enterprising farmer
of one neighborhood, has volunteered to
donate $10 and raise enough to make it
*50, while the Milledgeville Oil mills
has notified Mr. J. C. McAuliffe, editor
of the Milledgeville News, that his com
■irday will be sought from the county
•md 1916. Whatever other money is
iceded after the farmers meet next Sat-
irday will b sought from the county
itself and the outlook for a farm agent
s exceptionally bright, only a total of
*500 being needed to insure co-opera
tion between the State College of Ag
riculture and the federal department in
putting on the work.
CRAIG TRIAL NEAR END;
DEFENSE TO ASK ORDER
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 8.—When
the trial of Dr. William B. Craig,
charged with the murder of Dr Helene
Knabe, was resumed here today the
state expected to complete its case be
fore nightfall. Attorney Ephraim In
man said it would take about two hours
to complete the direct testimony of
Miss Augusta Knabe cousin of the dead
physician who was on the stand when
court adjourned Saturday and that two
or three other \Vitnesses would be
called.
The defense planned to ask Judge
Alonzo Blair to dismiss the case as soon
as the state rested on the cbntention
that no case had been made against Dr.
Craig. The defense had about fifty wit
nesses ready to testify in case the judge
ordered the trial to proceed.
ALABAMA’S CORN CHAMP
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 8.—Walk
er Lee Dunson, of Alexander City will
receive the S100 trip to Washington,
D. C., offered by the State Bankers’
association to the boy raising the great
est amount of corn on one acre of land
In Alabama. The award was announced
by ‘he agricultural committee of the
association Saturday, and Dunson ae-
companied by a state agent in corn club
work, will leave on December 9, for
several days’ visit to Washington and
the national congress.
SOME ST A TE
PLANS TO GIVE FARMERS
ALL COTTON STATISTICS
RURAL CREDITS REPORT
GOES TO CONGRESS SOON
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Census Di
rector William J. Harris, of Georgia, has
determined to use every agency of the
United States government that the
farmers' crf 'the' south may be informed
concerning federal statistics with ref
erence to the production and consump
tion of cotton. He regards it as highly
important Aat the producers shall have
first hand information of this kind,
which he believes will prove valuable
in more ways than one.
Director Harris has just perfected an
arrangement with the postoffice de
partment by which he hopes to give the
federal cotton stitistics a wider distri
bution. Postmaster General Burleson
has agreed that postmasters in every
postoffice in the cotton-growing states
shall be furnished with copies of census
reports concerning the cotton crop. He
has instructed all postmasters to dis
play these reports in conspicuous places
in their offices so the farmers and all
other persons interested may have easy
access to the information as soon as it
is issued by the census bureau.
Thieves Steal Cotton
And Then Resell It
In Broad Daylight
GASTONIA, N. C., Dec. 8.—Skillful
thieves have resold at least ten bales
of cotton here in the last week, steal
ing the staple in daylight from the
city platform.
The way the trick is worked is: the
thief comes at a time when the weigh
er is operating the scales at one end
of the platform, drives to the other
end, takes tags from bales already ar
rived and sold, loads them on -a
wagon, drives round to the scales, has
the bales weighed and tagged again,
samples them and makes the sales up
town to a broker, who pays once more
for cotton already his.
Two brokerage firms are short
about $700 on account of the thefts.
Senate Can't Get Autos,
Keeps Monorail System
For Its Private Subway
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The senate
has found it impossible to get an auto
mobile manufacturer to construct two
machines suited to the needs of the sub
way that runs from the capital to the
senate office .building. As a result the
senate rules committee decided not to
remove the private monorail system
which was to have been discontinued be
cause of the noise it makes.
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The report
of the United States commission Jn
rural credits will be submitted to con
gress next week, probably, by Senator
Duncan U. FletoWfcrv of Florida, who-4*
chairman of the commission. The re
port will furnish the basis for federal
legislation to facilitate the credits need
ed by the farmers of the nation, and
will better enable congress to deal with
this question, the importance of which
was so earnestly emphasized by Presi
dent Wiison in his annual message.
President Wilson’s message has given
great impetus to the rural credits move
ment, and Senator Fletcher, as one of
itf- leading spirits, is greatly encouraged
over the outlook. He said today:
“I was gratified beyond measure at
the hearty commendation given to the
rural credits movement by the presi
dent. It means much to the success of
the work. I feel confident congress will
undertake legislation to facilitate cred
its needed by the farmers, as Mr. Wil
son recommended in his message.
REPORT READY SOON.
“I am particularly gratified to state
that the report of the United States
commission, which investigated the sub
ject of rural credits in the countries of
Europe, is rapidly completing its re
port. This it will submit to congress at
an early date, probabty next week, fol
lowing which a concerted effort will be
made to frame legislation that will give
the desired relief and benefit to the
farmers of the United States.
"The United States commission, co
operating with a commission from the
Southern Commercial congress and com
posed of members from every state in
the union, learned much in its European
studies that will prove invaluable to
congress.
“As President Wilson said in his mas
sage, ‘it would be indiscreet and pre
sumptuous in any one to dogmatize up
on such a great and many-sided ques
tion,' but I believe the comprehensive
report of the United States commission
will furnish a vast lot of information
that will prove useful.
“It seems to me the president dealt
with no more important subject in his
whole message than that of rural cred
its, and I believe no feature of this re
markable state paper made a happier
impression on those who heard it.- I
feel confident the people of the country, j
regardless of their calling, will indorse
the sentiments expressed by Mr. Wil
son, and phrased in such beautiful lan
guage.”
JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 8.—In antici
pation of an important conference with
General Venustiano Carranza, General
Villa returned today from the vicinity
of Chihuahua City to the town of Villa
Ahumada, eighty miles south of the
border.
It was said recent events, such as
the evacuation .of Chihuahua and the
further extension of rebel territory, ne
cessitated a more united understanding
concerning future oprations. Accord
ingly Gneral Villa today requested Gen
eral Carranza at HermosiUo to proceed
i to Chihuahua or to Villa Ahumada.
Vila today said he hoped on his trrp*
south, after his conference with Car-
! lanza , to win additional victories
; through further desertions by federal
j bands, many of whom have been with
out pay for weeks.
I Although within a few miles of the
i city with seven thousand troops, Gen
eral Villa made no attempt to enter
Chihuahua. Villa regards the posses
sion of the city as a formality since
Governor Federico Moye was instruct
ed by General Salvador Mercado, Hu
erta's deserting military commander,
to turn the city over to the rebels.
220 Federate are Killed
In Battle with Rebels
BROWNS VILE, Tex., I>ec. 8.—A
twenty-four-hour battle near Tula, forty
miles below Victoria, Tamaulipas, in the
region of important Mexican oil fields,
resulted in a federal loss of 220, accord-
i ing to a constitutionalist report receiv-
| R d at Matamoros late yesterday from
General Aguilar, the commander-in-
1 chief in that district. The constitu
tionalist losses were not stated. Late
; advices from Victoria said fighting was
again in progress.
The battle started Tuesday night.
General Carrarea Torres commanded the
constitutionalists, wno numbered 2,000,
and Generals Rabago and Arzamendi
SHOWS STEADY GROWTH
commanded
1.000 men.
P9VBT00SSV ^a)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Growth and
operations of national banks of the,
United States are deatiled in the an
nual report of the currency hureau, sub
mitted today by Acting Comptroller
Thomas P. Kane to Speaker Clark.
The report contains no reference to
currency reform and no recommenda-
thc federal force of about
Huerta Sends Emissary
To Europe Seeking Money
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Hoping he
will be able to do what others have
failed to do, President Huerta is send
ing to Europe his minister of finance,
Adolfe De La Lama, on a money-seek
ing mission. The minister left for
Vera Cruz last night and will proceed
from there to Paris.
Senor De La Lama is in close rela
tions with Jose Ives De Limantour, for
mer minister of finance, and other mem
bers of the old regime now in Europe,
and through them, hopes, it is said, to
be able to obtain money. He retains his
position as minister of finance, the of-
six national banks out of more than
7,000 existing, went into the hands of
receivers with aggregate capital stocks
of $4,350,000.
Satisfactory progress in liquidating
the asets of all was reported.
OF FI
mings ms sir
DEATH LIST SUING
Many Drownings Occurred
Last Night or Today in Sec
tions Where Texans Receiv
ed Ample Notice
tions, but details the condition of banks ... . , .
during the year ended October 31.
Fireman Blown 50
Feet by Explosion;
Engineer Is Unhurt
(By Associated Press.)
ROANOKE, Va., Dec. 8.—Engine 549,
attached to train No. 15, a fast passenger
train, blew up this morning at 7:15
o’clock about a quarter of a mile east of
Willis, 20 miles from Bluefields, on the
Norfolk and Western, killing Fireman
C. M. Virts, of Roanoke, and slightly in
juring Engineer Linkous. The force of
the explosion was downward and Norfolk
and Western officials say it was due to
the blowing out of a. crown sheet.
Engineer Linkous was blown through
the window of the engine, but fell beside
the engine, only slightly bruised on the
leg In passing throught the cab window.
Fireman Virts had just finished putting
in a “fire” and was in front of the fire
gox door. He was blown 50 feet, going
through a mass of telephone wires into
a field, leaving parts of his clothing
swinging to the wires. The body was
horribly burned and had two bad wounds
in the head. He ^ied within tw r enty min
utes after being found.
KAISER’S SON STIRS UP
TROUBLE IN GERMANY
BERLIN, Dec. 8.—The hand of the
German crown prince was at work in
the reecnt crisis in Zabern, Alsace, ac
cording to Dr. Georges Weill, a Social
ist deputy in the imperial parliament.
Speaking in Metz today, Dr. Weill said:
“The crown prince sided strongly with
the soldiery and visited the imperial
chancellor, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg,
on December 3, the day on which the
chancellor made the unsatisfactory
speech in parliament which resulted in
the passage of a vote of non-confidence
in the government.
“The chancellor’s hasty references on
that occasion to the emperor's anti-miil-
tary orders were undoubtedly due to his
desire to reconcile the wishes of the
last German ruler and his eldest son.”
Lieutenant Baron Von Forstner, of the
Ninety-ninth’ mfantry, instigator of the
trouble between the soldiers and the citi
zens of Zabern, told friends today that
he was "as good as retired from the
army,"
/
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Three Jessie Wilsons;
One Gets a Note From
President's Daughter
RAVENNA. Ohio. Dec 8.—When the
; engagement of Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson, daughter of the president, was
i announced last August, Miss Jessie Yvil-
i son, teacher in the Ravenna schools,
wrote to the bride-elect asking for her
autograph, the sameness of their names
being the apology for the request. To
day it became Known that instead of
receiving the conventional autograph
she got the following letter:
Cornish, N. H.
My Dear ?Jiss Jessie Wilson:
It is most interesting to me to
learn that you have the same name
as I. You are the second with
that name of whom I have heard,
for the second daughter of the
new secretary of labor is named ‘
Jessie Wilson, too. I hope that
some day you will be as happy I
as I am in this new joy of mine. ]
Very cordially yours,
.jessie WOODROW WILSON.
Vain Search for
Desperado’s Body
(By Associated Press.)
BINGHAM, Utah, Dec. 8.—Search
cf more than half the Utah-Apex mine
for Ralph Lopez, Mexican desperado,
was completed tonight without result.
The probability is that the slayer of
six men 1 has escaped.
The poisonous gases forced into the
mine for the purpose of asphyxiating
Lopez, following the killing of tRvo J
deputies in an underground fight a
week ago. were cleared from all the
passage ways and tonight the search
was continued in parts not yet ex
plored.
Prize‘Winning Cats
Flee Before Camera;
Police Can't Find 'Em
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Prize win
ning cats on exhibition at the show
of the Washington Cat club object to
having their pictures taken. The ap
pearance of a newspaper photographer
with his little back camera was the
signal yesterday for a general exodus
of high priced felines who are now
roaming the streets of the capital. To
day neary the entire police foree is out
searching for the animals, while physi
cians are busy treating bites and
scratches on hands and arms as a
suit of the scramble made for the cats
as they gained their freedom. Several
persons were severely bitten.
“Champion Lady Sonia,” a high pric
ed Persian cat owned by Mrs. F. Y.
Mathis, of Greenwich, Conn, is one of
the missing animals. She was valued
at $500 and around her bushy neck
was a $1,000 collar of turquoise shell
and gold. Four felines were lined up
in front of the camera and as the pho
tographer said “hold still now” the cats
jumped.
Posses Search in Vain
For Lopez; His Tracks
Show He's Still Alive
BINGHAM, Utah, Dec. 8.—Posses con
tinued their search of the Utah-Apex
mine today for Ralph Lopez, the Mexi
can bandit. The discovery of his blan
kets and his tracks yesterday indicated
he had not succumbed to the poisonous
gases forced into the tunnel last week
to asphyxiate him.
That Lopez had escaped from the mine
several days ago was still a general be
lief.
Has Shroud Under Bed
For 55 Years, But She
Hasn't Needed It Yet
'By Associated Press.)
NEW’ YORK, Dec. 8.—Although cheer
fulness is the recipe by which Mrs. Han
nah ICosokoff says she has attained the
age of one hundred and sixteen years,
she constantly has a burial shroud fold
er beneath her bed. She made it herself
fifty-five years ago, when she thought
her time to die had come.
Balloon Near Disaster
, HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 8.—The
dirigible balloon Sachsen reached here
today after passing the night in a peril
ous position at Quickborn, twenty miles
north. She was compelled to descend
there last night when the pilot lost his
bearings in a dense fog.
NEW RECRUITING OFFICE
ESTABLISHED AT ELLIJAY
A United States army recruiting of
fice has been established at Ellijay
Ga. This is a branch office, with head
quarters in Atlanta. The war depart
ment claims that the best soldiers in
the world come from the small towns
and country rlistricts. Offices are
being established to justify this state
ment. A competent officer is in charge
of the office at Ellijay.
WILSON IS GIVEN PRAISE
FOR STAND ON CURRENCY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Senate
changes in the administration currency
bill, so far, will not cause any pro
tracted discussion when it goes to con-
erence with the house, in the opin
ion of President Wison. With adminis
tration leaders he hopes for passage by
December 20, and smooth action in con
ference that will permit the usual
Christmas vacation for congress.
Senator Swanson, one of the adminis
tration supporters on the banking com
mittee, opened the debate today, gener
ally analyzing and indorsing the meas
ure, which he declared was the best
remedy under present conditions. He
urged prompt action and praised the
president highly for insisting on cur
rency reform. The present sj'stem of
mobilizing reserves in New York, Mr.
Swanson araigned, saying it was re
sponsible for “trusts and monopolies.”
JUDGE WOULD PUT LID
ON DIVORCES IN MAINE
PORTLAND. Me., Dec. 8.—“If mar
riage Is to mean anything, a brake
must be put on the granting of
divorces,” said Judge Joseph E. Con
nolly in the superior court today,
when he insisted that all the facts in
a case 1 on trial should be presented.
"I’m not going to grant divorces”
Le continued, “to accommodate people
or toi a use tnay va to tu: *
(By Awooiated Pres..)
BBTAS, Tax., Dee. 8.—Reporta here
today that probably a,OOO negroes and
Italians have drowned in the thirty-mil*
levee disaster oannot be confirmed. The
reports were based on an estimate mad*
by land owners in the dlstriot of th*
number of their tenants and the total
number of known resoned or those still
marooned.
(By Associated Press.)
HOUSTON, Tex., Deo. S.—There wer*
ninety-six known dead in the Texas
floods up to noon today. Fully twenty-
five of these were drownings occurring
last night or early today in sections
where warnings of the rise had been
posted for days.
Disrlgard of these warnings put
new and more serious aspect on the
Hood, for it had been expected fatali
ties would decrease as the floods passed
through the last one hundred miles of
the Brazos and Colorado river courses,
which they are doing today.
The water in Central Texas on th*
Brazos was still too high to confirm
reported drownings there, which, if ad
ded to the list, will bring the dead well
over 100.
Twenty persons are known ot hava
drowned near Brookshire in Waller coun
ty, today in the Brazos floods. Brook
shire is about 60 miles in an airline from
the river’s mouth and marks approx
imately the position of the flood creso
today.
Most of these twenty deaths cam*
when the rise swept a large party of
negroes off a knoll near Sunny Sid*.
The drownings in that section were said
to Include three white men.
At Wharton, on the Colorado, six poi
sons were drowned last night. They
lived in a section of the town through
which boats were run all night, picking
up several hundred persons trapped in
their houses. A man named Bruce, hi*
wife and three children drowned before
they could be rescued and a storekeeper
named Ray lost his life when his store
floated off.
Ice formed in the thirty-mile levc*
district of the Brazos floods, where sev
eral thousand refugees are gathered in
camps along the river banks with scant
shelter, and where it was • estimated at
least fifty persons were still In trees.
Throughout the flooded districts in both
the Brazos and Colorado rivers temper
atures were low, dropping to 60 de
grees on the gulf coast. Hundreds of
persons were still marooned along these'
rivers.
The Bryan,
gave out an officii
persons were still water-bound last
night in the overflow, but most of the
men operating rescue boats agreed this
figure was too high.
Apprehension today centered almost
entirely on tlie Brazos floods. Although
the rise reached the gulf Saturday, the
crest was passing south slowly and the
last 100 miles of the stream had a
worse overflow today than at any time
previous. The Brazos’ slow fal In the
levee district, where It began to recede
Saturday, delayed rescue work and left
numerous reports of heavy negro death
lists, wtihout confirmation. This morn
ing’s dispatches put the drowned around
twenty, the greater part negroes.'
The Brazos floods continued to pro
duce victims faster than there wer* 1
boats available to rescue them:.
ANTI-TRUST MEASURES
Tex.. - relief committee
Icial estimate that 10.000
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Anti-trust
plans will be discussed at a confer
ence between President Wilson and
Chairman Cla'yton, of the hou-e
Judiciary committee today.
Democratic members of the commit
tee conferred today over the variety of
pending bills. While one or two mem
bers believed that they bad some clear
ideas of what the program in congress
should be, some of the ranking mem
bers declared that no members of th*
committee were in accord.
Fashion Photographers
At French Race Tracks
Make Modistes Furious
PARIS, Dec. 8.—A trade defensive
committee is being: formed among Pa
risian dressmakers in support of their
demand that photographers shall l>e
henceforth banned from Paris race
courses in order to prevent the creation
of Paris fashions from being copied by
foeign rivals.
ATLANTIC FLEET RETURNS
FROM EUROPEAN CRUISE
(By Associated Press.)
ON BOARD THE UNITED STATES
BATTLESHIP WYOMING AT SEA, by
wireless telegraphy to San Miv-iel, Az
ores, Dec. 8.—Vessels of Atlantic fleet,
which have been visiting European
ports, separated at sea at noon today in
latitude 35.45 north, longitude 33.5
west. The Kansas, Ohio and Connecti
cut proceed to Vera Cruz, Mexico, by
way of Guantanamo, while the remain
der of the vessels continue their voy
age to United States waters.
CANAL AUTHORITIES
SEEKING GEORGIAN
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—According to the
last issue of the official Canal Record.
Just received, it is bulletined from tho
headquarters of the isthmian canal com
mission at Ancon, Canal Zone, through
Joseph Bucklin, the bishop’s secretary,
that any one having any information re
garding the present whereabouts of Nor
man D. McCutcheon, aged twenty-tw.
weight 170 pounds, of Adairsvllle, Ga.,
at one time a clerk in a bank, but Iasi
heard of on the isthmus, is requested to
immediately communicate with the office
of the isthmian canal commission ai
Aricon and the American legation ai
Panama.