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ClffiY AMERIBtIST»REiORDER CHET
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAH
# New Mexican Revolution
Nipped By U. S. Officers
Huerta Anested In ElPaso
FORMER PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
ARRESTED WITH GENERAL PAS
CHAL OROCZOO SUNDAY NIGHT
CHARGED WITH VIOLATING
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
Effort to Launch New Mexican Revo
lution Stopped hj American Official*
—Plans Well Laid and Ready For
Execution.
(By Associated Press.)
EL PASO, Tex., June 28.—The arrest
of General Victoriano Huerta and Gen
eral Pascual Orozco here Sunday night
is believed to have put a quietus on an
effort to organize a new Mexican rev
ilution. The two Mexicans were
charged with violating the neutrality
of the United States, and must face
trial in the United States courts.
It became evident this morning that
plans for carrying out the revolution
had been carefully made and that the
former president of Mexico had already
enlisted a number of men. That
thousands would flock to th& stasd
ard of Huerta the minute he crossed
the border and that the revolution
would assumme serious proportions is
the belief expressed here.
The two Mexican generals were re?,
leased this morning after furnishing
The bond for Huerta was fixed
$7,500.
Officials Are Silent.
United States officials were silent re
garding future action pending the re
ceipt of instructions from Washington.
Other observers, however .freely ex
pressed the belief that the action of
the United States authorities would
have an important bearing on Mexican
developments and might effectivevly
put an end to the new revolutionary
movement.
A public demonstration in Juarez
about the hour Huerta’s train was due
to reach this city, ended as suddenly
as it began. There were hurried con
ferences ammong Mexican leaders on
both sides of the Rio Grande. Many
guardedly admitted that Huerta’s de
tention was of the utmost importance,
but none would comment on its possi
ble effect in Mexico.
Activity Along Border.
Americans were freer in their com
ment. They reviewed the recent ac
tivity along the border of the adhei
ents of the Cientiflco party in Mexico,
including the disbursement of consld
erable sums of money for a variety of
purposes, the discovery of machine
guns and rifles in an El Paso ware
house, owned by a member of that par
ty, and the appearance of Gen. Ynex
Salazar in western Chihuahua. They
recalled the activities of General
Orozco and Salazar in the recent anti-
Madero revolution and their substan
tial serivce during the Huerta regime.
For several days there have bee.i
persistent reports that June 28 had
been fixed as the date for far-reaching
developments at Juarez in connection
with the revolutionary
movement! *sW*T«rj?!sr v CTS professed
to see a clos between this
movement anlllß arrival of General
Hurta. They+fJ»ssed the opinion
that his detesn L prevented such
a consummation by removing the pos
sibility of Gen. Huerta's participation
in such a movement, despite his dec
laration that he had no intention of at
tempting to cross into Mexico.
WASHINGTON STIRRED
OVER HUERTA'S ARREST
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 28.—The
developments at El Paso caused a
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NEW RAILROAD
TOBE EXTENDED
ON TO TIFTON
OLD SURVEY OF A., T. & A. WILL BE
USED AND NEW RAILROAD WILL
BECOME IMPORTANT TRUNK
LINE—LOCAL PARTIES INTER
ESTED IN EXTENSION
That the new railroad from Byrom
ville to Americus will ultimately be
extended on to Tifton and Brunswick
over the old A., T. & A. survey, Is the
belief of several prominent Americus
men who were interesttd in the orig
inal plan to build a road from Ameri
cus to Tifton.
By continuing on to Tifton, the new
railroad would pass through some of
the best farming lands of south Geor
gia and would be a valuable piece of
property. That it would pay handsome
dividends is quite evident.
The right-of-way from Americus to
Tifton has already practically been
secured. Three years ago when the
project was first started most of the
preliminary work was gotten out of
the way. The building of the road
from Byromville to Americus will
awaken interest that may ultimately
result in the road being extended on
to Tifton. The Americus Chamber of
Commerce is interested in the exten
sion of tihs new road and is conduct
ing an active campaign to make it a
reality.
HUS FRIEND
OF EDUCATION
ATLANTA, Ga., June 28.—1 n every
successful administration of a state’s
affairs, the record of the chief execu
tive can usually be pointed to as
showing some one notable piece of
work that has been accomplished, and i
that stands out more important than
everytihng else. In the case of Gov
ernor Slaton, who has just retired, it
was, of course, the revision of the
state’s finances, involving the issue of
new bonds and the passage of the tax
equalization law’.
Although Governor Harris’ adminis.
tration is now only one day old,
thoughtful people are already begin
ning to distinguish what they believe
will be the crowning achievement of
his administration. It is, as they see
it ,the revision and improvement of
Georgia’s educational system, and the
passage of a compulsory education
measure that will lift Georgia from
her present unenviable position as one
of the four most illiterate states in
the union.
The cause of education has always
been one that lay closest to Governor
Harris’ heart. His annual inaugural
message pledges him as favoring com
pulsory education in some form. The
iecord of his life shows that he will do
all that he can to bring about changes
that he believes in.
The next two years, therefore, may
see a complete change for the better
In the common school system of Geor
gia, just as the past two years has
seen a commplete change for the bet
ter in the state’s financial affairs.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 28, 1915
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4 CARRANZA DEFEATED ♦
4 BEFORE MEXICO CITY ♦
♦ (By Associated Press.) 4
♦ WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 28. 4
+ —Further confirmation of the 4
4 defeat of Carranza before Mexico 4
4 City was received here today by 4
♦ the department of state. A cour- ♦
4 ier from Mexico City to Vera Cruz 4
4 sated that fighting continued in ♦
4- the suburbs when he left the cap- 4
4 ital. 4
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M bitten
BYJD DDE
TWO WHITE MEN AND TWO NE
GROES BITTEN BEFORE DOG IS
KILLED. HEAD SENT TO ATLAN
TA FOR EXAMINATION.
Four persons, two white men and
t
two negroes, were bitten early th's
morning by a mad dog before the
animal was finally killed. Mr. Will
Compton, Mr. Bryant Williams, and
two negroes were bitten by the dog.
The animal was finally run down
and killed by several citizens and po
lice. It’s head was cut off and sent to
Atlanta where the state health depart
ment will make a careful investigation
to ascertain if the animal had rabies.
In the meantime all four of the vic
tims are being given the pasteur treat
ment. ,
RUSSMIIS RUDY
FOR GERMAN HORDE
A
(By Associated EVtsss.)
PETROGRAD, June 2l— I The Rus
sian general staff now states that they
have re-grouped the Russian forces
that are necessary in Galicia and that
the Russians are now ready to effec
tively oppose further advances by the
Austro- Germans in Galicia and north
ern Russia.
The resignation of the Russian min
ister of war has created considerable
interest here in the capital city.
NEGROES CONFESS
KILLIM WRITES
(By Associated Press.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 28.
John Salter and Robert Watkins, ne
groes, both ex-convicts, confessed to
killing Mrs. Lasseter, a white house
keeper, shooting Wiley House, a plan
ter, and burning their home, accord
ing to jail officials here. The crime
was committed at Evergreen, Ala., on
June twenty-third. The two negroes
stated that burglary was their mo
tive.
SLATON TO LEAVE
ATLANTAJOR SUMMER
(By Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, Ga., June 28.—Governo.'
Slaton announced Sunday that he
would probably leave early this week
for New York, where he will spend the
summer months. Mrs. Slaton will ac
company him.
Four more men were arrested Sun
day night and charged with trespass
ing on the governor’s premises. The
four failed to explain why they were
loitering around his home after mid
night.
Atlanta Mob
Still Evident
(Special to Times-Recoider.)
ATLANTA, Ga., June 28.—Although
the Atlanta papers have wisely re
frained from giving the fact any local
publicity, disgraceful though harmless
scenes continued to be enacted around
Governor John M. Slaton's country
residence as late as Saturday night,
and not until then was the miJitU
guard at his home removed.
Although no one by act or state
ment actually threatened the retiring
governor, pistols were occasionally
fired off into the air in the neighbor
hood and the dwindling crowds used
other ways of publishing to the worl i
their displeasure at the governor’s de
cision in the Lea Frank case.
coviowßis
AT DEEM OF THE
SHIP 01 STATE
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
ATLANTA, Ga., June 28. —Georgia's
ship of state this morning is sailing
with a new pilot at the helm, which
means, in simpler language, that
Governor Nat E. Harris, who was in
augurated Saturday, is at his desk in
the capitol this morning, clad in his
alpacca coat, with his spectacles on
his nose, already deeply engaged in
the work as chief executive.
Governor Harris is in many ways
one of the most pictcresque and most
interesting men who has ever occu
pied the governor’s chair in Georgia.
He is the oldest man to be elected to
such a post in the past fifty years,
though age seems to be touching him
lightly and leaving hiifi with robust
strength of body as well as mind.
Although Governor Harris’ mental
attainments and his interest in edu
cation and other public affairs have
made him more or less of a public
figure in Georgia for more than a quar
ter of a century, he has never sought
the lime-light and has never been a
politician. In fact, it may be said
that he ranks with the few govern
ors that Georgia has ever elected
who were not politicians. The honor
came to him practically unsought. It
was a case of the office seeking the
man, rather than the man seeking
the office.
These facts may have had something
to do with the truly remarkable ova
tion he was given Saturday when
thousands of Atlantans joined with the
2,000 Macon people who had come over
for the purpose, to make the inaugural
ceremonies memorable in Georgia
history.
AUTOMOBILE PARTY
VISITS AMERICUS
An automobile party from Eatonton,
composed of Messrs. R. D. Stubbs,
W. F. Jenkins, J. O. Wall and L. C.
Turner, stopped over in Americus
Sunday and spent the day. This party
is traveling the Dixie Highway to
Miami, Florida. They report that the
entire route traveled so far is In ex
cellent shape and that the Sumter
county roads are the best they have
struck so far.
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4BRITIISH STEAMER VICTIM 4
4 OF GERMAN SUBMARINE 4
4 (By Associated Press ) 4
4 LONDON, June 28.—The British 4
4 steamer Indrani was sunk by a 4
4 German submarine Sunday after- 4
4 noon southwest of the Tuskar *
4 Island by a German submarine. ♦
4 The entire crew was saved. 4
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4 KAISER TO SEND 4
4 ' FRIENDLY REPLAY 4
4 (By Associated Press.) 4
4 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 28. 4
4 —That a favorable reply to the 4
4 last American note to Germany 4
4 might be expected is the belief of 4
4 the department of state this mor- 4
4 nir.g. Ambassador Gerard, of 4
4 Berlin, wired the department to- 4
4 day to be on the lookout for the 4
4 answer in a few days. 4
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citylourt
INJESSION
NUMEROUS CASES TO BE AIREI)
BEFORE JUDGE HARPER AND
JURY. BLIND TIGER CASES IN
MAJORITY.
The city court with his honor Judge
Harper presiding convened this morn
ing. A full docket will be aired be
fore the court this session.
The court started the day by sen
tencing four negroes who plead
guilty of gaming to ten months on the
gang or S6O.
Numerous blind tiger cases will be
settled at this term of the court. At
two o’clock today the first tiger case
w’as still being argued by lawyers.
UNCLE SIM WARNS
CHIRR AND JAPAN
(By Associated Press.)
PEKING, ChinA June 28. —The
Chinese ogvernment. today received
notification from the United States
that any agreement between China and
Japan that would impar America!
rights or endanger "open door” would
not be recognized by the United States
government.
The communication is identical to
the one delivered to China and Japan
on May fifteenth following the Japa
nese ultimatum to China.
POLICE LAUD TIGER:
MUST FACE HECOHDEH
Henry Wilkerson, a negro, charged
with selling) blind tiger liquor, was
arrested Saturday afternoon by Po
licemen Worthy and Summerford and
locked up in the city stockade. Two
bottles of mountain dew thatparties
swore was bought from this man arc
held as evidence against Wilkerson.
The case will first be aired in the Re
corder’s court.
GEORGIA LAWMAKERS
URGE WILSON TO WARN
ENGLAND TO HANDS OFF
(By Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, Ga., June 28.—Both
houses of the state legislature this
morning adopted resolutions asking
President Wilson to use every means,
diplomatic or retaliatory, to prevent
England’s interference with trade be
tween America and neutral countries.
CITY PHYSICIAN WILL
GIVE PASTEUR TREATMENT
Dr. Douglas Mayes, city physician,
has wired the state health department
for serum to give the pasteur treat
ment Dr. Mayes will gladly treat any
one that has been bitten by a mad dog (
free of charge.
ASK LEGISLATURE
10 APPROPRIATE
SMOEOR AM
RE PRE SENTATI YES SHE PPA Itl)
AND WHEATLEY W ANT STATE TO
RE-BUILD ADMINISTRAION BUIL
DING FOR THIRD DISTRICT A & M
COLLEGE
Among the many bills introduetd on
Saturday before the Georgia legisla
ture, was one to appropriate $20,000 to
re-build the administration building
of the Third District A. & M. college,
which was destroyed by fire during the
past term. Representatives Wheatley
and Sheppard, of Sumter ciunty, in
troduced this bill and will make an
active fight to have it passed.
In case the state appropriates this
$20,000 and a like sum is raised by
public subscription, two new buildings
will be erected in place of the old ad
ministration building, destroyed by
fire. An auditorium-armory, for the
use of the students, and a combination
administration and class-room build
ing are sortly needed by this school.
During the past term the college
was crowded despite the unusual con
ditions that existed in this section of
i the country. Every available room in
the dormitories was taktn and a few
j students were turned away for lack
of facilities.
The Third District A. & M. is doing
a great work educating the young men
I and ladies of this district. The en
rollment at the Americus school is the
largest of any of the eleven district
colleges maintained by the state.
The scope of tht Americus school has
grown until students are now enroll
ing from every section of Georgia and
the several bordering states. The fame
of the Americus school has gone out
from the borders of the district and a
boy or girl considers themselves lucky
to be able to attend this district in
stitution. •
Unless provisions are made to ac
commodate the largest crowd that has
ever attended this college, the work
will be hampered next year. Already
aplications are coming in for places
in the school. The building destroyed
by fire must be replaced and if possi
ble, another building must also be
erected before fail.
With two such able men as J. E.
Sheppard and Crawford Wheatley
backing the measure it is highly prob
able that the state law-makers will ap
propriate the $20,000 asked of them
for this worthy institution.
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SUNDAY SKIN GAME
NETS RAND QUARTET
A sociable little game of “skin" was
raided by the police force Sunday af
ternoon and this morning four negroes
who were caught were fined S6O each
or ten months on the gang by Judge
ilarper of the city court. The quar
tet plead guilty to the charge of gam
ing as the officers had evidence enough
to convict a dozen skinners.
Seven negroes were handling the
cards down in Sherlock’s pasture when
the police first hove in view. Three of
the blacks made their get-away, but
the four policemen in the raiding party
each landed a man. Officers Pouncey.
Summerford, Worthy and Lowry com
posed the raiding crew that landed the
i bunch.
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► Partly Cloudy. ♦
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ONE YEAR ACO
ARCHDUKE JAS
ASSASSINATED
ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF
FRANCIS FERDINAND FINDS
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ENTANG.
LED IN GREATEST WAR OF HIS
TORY
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 28.—Oije year ago
today the world was startled' with the
news that Archduke Francis Ferdi
nand of Austria had been assassinated
while on a visit to Servia. The fatal
shot that snuffed out the life of the
heir apparent started the nations ar
guing and today practically the entire
continent is at war.
The struggle between the Slavs and
the Teutons seems to be nearing the
high water mark. Sooner or later now
one of the two contending factions will
be forced to admit that they are de
feated.
The Teutons are seemingly dominat
ing the situation. The Russians have
been pushed back from the thirty-mile
front between Bobrka and Zurawna.
Petrograd admits that the Russian
forces have retreated to the Gnila Lipa
river.
The French offensive in the west
seems to have lost impetus. It may be
that the forces there are planning a
coup against the Kaiser’s forces.
The British report the capture of
the German fortified port Buko'ba, in
Africa.
Severe fighting continues at the
Dardanelles but the news censor con
tinues to hold up any material infor
mation.
germinsTross
DNEISTER RIVER
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES FROM BER
LIN TELL OF GERMAN VICTORY
OVER THE RUSSIANS
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, June 28.—Official dis
patches from the eastern front state
that the Germans have occupied Ha
llez, a Galician city on the Dneister
river. The Austro-Germans have
crossed the Dneister along the entire
front.
The Russians following the fall of
Lemberg, retired to the 'banks Os the
Dneister. Petrograd stated emphat
ically that the troops of the Czar
would never be dislodged from their
position on the river. Berlin Is jubi
lant over the latest bit of news from
the eastern front.
Reports from the southern portion
of Russian Poland would indicate that
the Russians have made small gains
at* Shavli in the Narew river district.
Reports from Rome state that the
Austrians on Sunday failed to re-take
the heights of Zeilenkefel.
GERMANS WANT TO TAKE
EORTIFIEIi CITY VERDUN
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, June 28.—The Germans
are seeking to take the fortified city
Verdun, according to dispatches from
the front this morning. Fighting at
Thagatelle and Calonne Is furious. Ac
cording to Lieutenant Colonel Rousset,
military critic of the Petit Parisian,
the Germans would be In position to
control the railroads from Chalone to
St. Menehould If they capture Verdun.
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