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VOLUME IV.
FORMER MEXICAN
DICTATOR LANDS
Victoriano Huerta, Called Arch-Conspira
tor Os Mexican Republic, Arrives
In United States
SAYS MISSION IS PERSONAL
Ex-Dictator Says He Has No Inten
tion Os Violating American Neu
trality—To Return To Spain
New York. —Gen. Victoriano Huer
ta, provisional president of Mexico,
■who for nearly a year has been in
exile in Spain, arrived here on the
Spanish steamship Lopez from Cadiz.
General Huerta was passed by immi
gration official# as a transient alien,
after he had sworn he would do noth
ling that would in any way involve
the neutrality of the United States.
The former president said that he
had come to the United States partly
for pleasure and partly to attend to
personal business. He swore that he
had no intention of going to Mexico or
to Cuba. The length of his stay, he
said, was indefinite, but he would re
turn to Spain, possibly sailing early
in May,
General Huerta posed for newspa
per photographers, but declined to say
anything as to his mission—agreeing
to meet newspaper men at his hotel
Friday.
SENTENCES THE GANGSTERS
■Mayor Roberts And Terre Haute Polit
ical Ring All Sent To
Leavenworth
Indianapolis, Ind. —Mayor Donn M.
Roberts of Terre Haute was sentenc
ed to six years in federal prison. Four
men convicted in the Terre Haute
electioh fraud trial and sentenced to
the federal penitentiary at Fort Leav
enworth, Kan., received their commit
ment papers and were given a brief
time to begin the trip ; to the- prison.
The other sixteen, including Mayor
©onn M. Roberts, who received pris
on sentences and appealed,' and the
eighty-seven who were given sentenc
,es ranging from ope day tn'six months
in the local jail, werf ib.Mil here.
It was said the sixteen would be given
two or three days in ^hfiih to obtain
their appeal bonds, which were fixed
by Judge Anderson at SIO,OOO for each
year the men were sentenced. Ed
’Ward Holler, former chief of police,
■who had pleaded guilty, also received
a prison sentence.
The four who withdrew from the ap
peal are John M. Masselink, city seal
er of weights and measures and for
mer member of the state legislature;
Arthur Gillis, progressive election of
ficial; Joseph Strauss, liquor sales
man, and George Sovern, gambler.
Each had been sentenced to a year
and a day in prison and to pay fines
of SIOO. To obtain liberty pending his
'appeal, Mayor Roberts, who was seh
tenced to prison for six years and to
pay a fine of s2,ooo—the severest sen
tence given—will have to furnish a
bond of $60,000.
BANKER BRINGS CHARGES
Milton Alles Os Riggs National Says
McAdoo And Williams Would
Ruin His Bank
Washington.—Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo and Comptroller of
the Currency Williams were made
defendants in proceedings begun in
the District of Columbia supreme
court by the Riggs National bank of
Washington, D. C., which alleges that
these officials have combined and
conspired to wreck the bank.
Temporary and permanent injunc
tions to halt the alleged conkpiracy
and to prevent the comptroller from
making what the bank charges are
unlawful demands for special reports
of various kinds are sought from the
court.
One portion of the prayer seeks to
restrain John Burke treasurer of the
United States, from payment into the
, treasury of $5,000 declared to be due
the bank as interest on $1,000,000 of
United States bonds deposited with
the comptroller against its note cir
culation. This interest was -withheld
to cover penalties of SIOO a,day for the
bank’s failure to make certain reports.
Great Pacific Liner Wrecked
Kobe, Japan.—The American steam
er Minnesota, plying between Japan
ese-ports and Seattle, struck a rock
at 9:30 o’clock at night off Iwajima,
near the southwestern entrance to the
Inland sea. In a wireless message
Captain Garlick has asked for a sal
vage steamer. He says all the pas
sengers and crew are safe. A Japan
ese newspaper dispatch from Manila
says that Mrs. Francis B. Hafrison,
Wife of the ‘governor general of the
Philippines, with two children, was
on the Minnesota.
She luHrHn
NUMBER 25.
MAYOR SENTENCED
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MAYOR ROBERTS
Who was found guilty of conspiring to
defraud the Terre Haute, Ind., elec
tions last November and was sen
tenced to six years at Leavenworth.
His 116 associates, convicted on sim
ilar charges, also received prison
and jail sentences.
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FEARS AUSTRIA^ MAY YIELD
SEPARATE PEACE TERMS BE-
TWEEN AUSTRIA AND RUS:
SIA FEARED
Recent Muscovite Successes In The
Carpathians Gives Key To
Hungarian Plains
London.' —Russian successes in the
Carpathians, where the Muscovites
are now said to control virtually all
the important passes and are prepar
ing for a descent onto the plains of
Hungary, have revived unofficial talk
of separate peace for Austro-Hungary,
and seemingly increasing anxiety on
the part of interventionists in Italy
for their country to take up arms on
the side of the allies and obtain terri
tory which they have failed to get in
the negotiations through Germany
with Austria.
Russian newspapers seem convinc
ed that Hungary, if not the whole
of the dual monorchy, is ready to
seek peace.
Except in Italy, the neutral country
most directly interested in this ques
tion, little credence is given this re
port, although the opinion is express
ed in military circles here that if
Russia breaks down the joint resist
ance of the Austro-German troops in
the Carpathians as she apparently has
that of the Austro-Hungarian armies,
Hungary at least will be ready to
bring the war to an end as far as she
is concerned.
PEKIN CONFERENCE
Believed Treaty Negotiations Between
Japan And China Are
Near Close
Washington.—Although very reti
cent as to details, officials here con
versant with the Japanese-Chinese ne
gotiations gave the impression that
they believed the Pekin conferences
were nearing a conclusion which
would prove generally satisfactory.
According to advices, the confer
ences of the last few days have clear
ed up many of the misunderstandings
over Japan's demands.
Officials declined to comment on
Pekin dispatches giving outlines of
the American note to Japan and the
latter's reply, but so encouraging did
the negotiations seem that some of
those, familiar with their general
trend expressed the belief that no
further exchange of notes with Japan
would be necessary- to safeguard
American policy in the Far East;
WIRE FLASHES.
Edison’s Daughter Is Sponsor.,..
Washington.—Mrs.' Madeleine Edi
son Stone, daughter of Thomas A? Edi
son, the inventor, has accepted Secre
tary Daniels’ invitation to act as spon
sor for the submarine L-B', now'build
ing at Portsmouth, N. H.;'navy j‘ard,
and which will be the first submarine
equipped with the new Edison bat
tery. '
Taft And Roosevelt Pallbearers
New Haven. —Theodore Roosevelt
and William H. Taft were pallbearers^
at the funeral of Prof. Thomas R 3
Lounsbury, the Yale authority on the
English language. Services were held
In Battel chapel at Yale.'
South American Aviator Killed,.;,
Washington.—Cecil Malcdlm Pebu;
a Sputh^nieribanj and thejfitst avia l '
tor to fly over the Andes mountains,
was killed at the United States army
aviation field at College Park, Md.,
near here, while making a vertical
dive in a machine of his own inven
tion.
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915.
ANOTHER GERMAN
CRUISER IN PORT
Kronprinz Wilhelm, Auxiliary Commerce
Raider Os High Seas, Limped
Into Newport News
DESTROYED 15 ALLIED SHIPS
Great Nord Deitcher Lloyd Protected
Liner Has Sunk Many French
And English Boats
Newport News. —The German con
verted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, an
other of those elusive raiders of com-,
merce in the south seas, slipped into
this port and asked for fuel and pro
visions. Many times legorted de
stroyed, the former North German
JJoyd liner evaded hostile warships
for eight months while she sent fif
teen enemy merchantmen to the bot
tom, and her officers say she was
forced to steal her way through a
fleet of four allied cruisers off this
coast in order to reach this refuge.
When she dropped anchor off Old
Point the Kronprinz Wilhelm had less
than twenty-five tons of coal and
scanty provisions for the crew of 500
men and sixty-one prisoners from
British merchant ships sunk in the
South Atlantic.
The drab painted 15,000-ton cruiser
came with a record of fifteen mer
chant ships of the enemy captured,
fourteen of them sunk, nine British,
four French and one Norwegian. The
British ship Chasehill, captured, was
allowed to proceed, taking to shore
more than 300 prisoners from previ
ous raids.
GERMANS PREFER CHARGES
Teutons Declare United States Is Not
Maintaining Strict Neutrality.
Reply Will Be Sent
Washington.—Count von Bernsfprff,
the German ambassador, made pnblic
the text of the note he recently pre
sented to the state department de
claring that “if the American people
desire to observe true neutrality they
will find means to stop the exclusive
exportation of arms to one side, or
at least to use this export trade as
a means to uphold the legitimate trade
with Germany, especially the trade in
foodstuffs.’’
The memorandum was prepared at
the German embassy, and while it.
does not call for a reply, the state de
partment already has drafted one
which will be delivered probably with
in the next few days.
The ambassador, in his complaint,
informs the United States that con
trary to the real spirit of neutrality,
an enormous new- industry of war ma
terial of every kind is being built up
in this country and that this is "sup
plying only Germany’s enemies, a fact
which is in no way modified by the
purely theoretical willingness to fur
nish Germany as well as if it were
possible.”
PRESIDENT PLANS TRIP
President Wilson Expects To Take
Deferred Trip To Frisco If ft
Is Possible
Washington. — President Wilson
plans to make his delayed trip to the
San Francisco exposition as soon as
foreign affairs permit. The date is
still uncertain. The president’s ad
visers, it Has become known, are anx
ious for him to make a number of
speeches in different parts of the
county before the next congress
meets.
Friends of Hie president say the
contemplated trip cannot be called a
“campaign tour,” and they are pre
venting, as far as possible, the forma
tion of “Wilson clubs,” to avoid even
the appearance,-Of starting a boom.
Although political advisers of Mr.
Wilson say privately they havp m
doubt that he will be renon^nftted.^p..
was indicated that there will be no
formal launching of his candidacy, as
such a step might embarrass him in
carrying out the policies of his ad
ministration.
Sixteen Nations Accept
: Washington.—Sixteen Latin-Ameri
can republics had accepted President
Wilson’s invitation to attend the Pan-
American financial conference here
May' 24. ■ 'Secretary McAdoo received
, .acceptances from Colombia, Paraguay,
Costa Rica and Venezuela. The gov
ernments of Chile,‘Argentine, Bolivia,
Uruguay, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras,
Pan-American, Nicaragua, Ecuador,
Cuba and Salvador already had ac
cepted.
CARRANZA TROOPS
REPORTED BRUTAL
Men And Women Butchered After Their
Capture Is Report From Mex
ican Battlefields
VILLA PRISONERS EXECUTED
One Carranza Officer Killed 120 Villa
Men With Machine Gun —The
Wounded Were Bayonetted
Laredo, Texas. —Information from
Carranza officers and soldiers in Nue
vo Laredo, Mexico, indicate that 350
Villa troops who surrendered after a
battle near Huisachito, thirty miles
south of the border, were summarily
executed by the Carranza forces.
It was also reported that a number
of Mexican women , camp followers
were executed by the Carranza troops.
It was stated on what is considered
authentic authority that a Carranza
general ordered machine guns turned
on one party of surrendering Villa
soldiers, resulting in the death of 76
men in one body.
Another Carranza officer is credited
with having killed 120 prisoners with
a machine gun, while other Carranza
commanders were said to have used
revolvers freely. The wounded, ? it
was said, were bayonetted on the field.
Carranza officers in Nuevo Laredo
say the wholesale executions were or
dered in retaliation for alleged simi
lar killing of Carranza forces under
General Maclovio Herrera recently by
Villa troops.
Americans returning from the Hui
sachito battlefield said they saw bod
ies of dead Villa soldiers which ap
parently had been bayonetted after
being shot.
WOMEN SAIL FOR THE HAGUE
American Women, Headed By Jane
Addams. Sail For Peace
Conference
New York. —Forty women delegates
to the international women’s peace
conference at The Hague sailed for
Rotterdam on the Noordam. A huge
peace flag floated from the masthead
of the Noordam as the delegates, head
ed by Miss Jane Addams, went on
board.
The flag was a snow white pennant
bearing the word “Peace” in blue let
ters. It was given by Mayor Mitchel
of New York. “We cannot guess what
a foreign submarine will do at the
sight of a new flag to attack,” said
Miss Addams, “but we are secure in
our conviction to do what we can for
our peace.”
In the party were Mrs. Pethick
Lawrence, the English suffragist;
Miss Alice Carpenter, Miss Mary
Chamberlain, Mrs. Frank Cothren.
Miss Madeline Z. Doty and Miss Leo
nora O’Reilly, New York; Mrs. Geo.
Rublee, Washington: Miss Sophonis
ba Breckinridge, Chicago; Mrs. Grace
Abbott, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Miss Re
becca Shelly, Miss Grace Wales, Uni
versity of Wisconsin: Miss Grace de
Graff, Portland, Ore.; Mme. Aino
Malmberg, member of the Finnish
parliament; Miss Marian Craig Went
worth, Mrs. Louis Post, Miss Annie
Molloy, Boston, representing the tele
phone operators’ union, and Mrs. Rose
French, San Francisco.
BOTH AGAINST HUERTA
Villa And Carranza Will Unite In An
Effort To Exterminate Former
Dictator
New York. —Gen. Victoriano Huer
ta, who arrived here from Spain, was
attacked in a statement issued by
Francisco Urquidi, Villa’s consul gen
eral in New York, who declared that
both factions in Mexico were united
in opposition to Huerta. The Car
ranza representatives issued no state
ment. _
“There must be no misunderstand”
ing of one matter,” the Urquidi state
ment declared. “Though the revolu
tion in Mexico unhappily is now di
vided, there is an absolute unanimity
of ^opinion among followers of both
'General Villa and General Carranza
in their hostility to Huerta and all the
reactionary elements which he has
represented and still aspires to rep
resent.
Investigating Telegraphic Companies
Chicago.—Views.on the commercial
telegraph business, under inquiry by
the federal commission on industrial
relations, were presented from widely
divergent angles,. The witnesses in
cluded S. J. Konenkamp. president of
the Commercial Telegraphers.’ Union
of America: Belvidere Brooks, vice
president and former general mana
ger of the Western Union: Henry
Lynch, an operator, who claimed his
unionism forced him into exile in
Winnipeg, Canada, to find work, and
many other prominent people.
LADY MACKENZIE
Lady Mackenzie, hunter of big game,
returned to America recently after
eleven months spent in East Africa,
where she killed 24 lions. She has
gone to her ranch in Montana.
TRAIN SENT FOR AMERICANS
TRANSPORT IS DiSPATCHED TO
TAKE AMERICANS FROM
HOSTILE NATION
—
Carranza Relents In His Policy To
ward Foreigners—The Sumner
Sent To Vera Cruz
Washington.—General Carranza in- i
formed American Consul Silliman at
Verd Cruz that he would furnish a
train for Americans desiring to leave
Mexico City. He will permit a pas
senger train from Vera Cruz to pro
ceed as far as Ometusco, forty miles
east of Mexico City, where the Amer
icans would be picked up.
That action grew out of the effort
of the United States to secure rhe
neutralization of the railroad between
Mexico City and Vera Cruz. Although
unwilling to make any permanent ar
rangement. General Carranza now has
expressed a desire to aid foreigners
who are c anxious to reach the sea
coast.
Many Americans and foreigners in
Tampico are planning to leave and
the transport Sumner at Galveston
was ordered to Tampico to bring them
back. Three hundred Americans have
filed requests for transportation, but
officials believe the number will be
increased when the army transport,
with a capacity of 1,000, arrives at the
Mexican port.
For Americanism
New York. —The Republic League
of Clubs of the state of New York
made public resolutions adopted at
a recent meeting deploring the prac
tice in business and politics of ex
ploiting the hyphenated American for
petty ends, as follows: “We condemn
the practice in business and in poli
tics of exploiting the hyphenated
American for petty ends, as we be
lieve such action tends to prevent or
retard the natural assimilation of the
immigrant into our political and so
cial body. It is just and proper that
foreign-boru citizens should keep in
touch with the best traditions of the
land which they left; but it is not fair
and just to those of foreign birth who
are loyal to their new allegiance for
any to- regard themselves in act and
word as anything other than Ameri
cans alone.”
Russians Still Advancing
London. —With the capture by the
Russians of almost all the main chain
of mountains, the battle of the Car
pathians, which has lasted upwards of
eighty days, is apparently reaching a
termination over one extensive front,
and the Russians are said to be mov.
ing at various points by railways and
roads along the rivers and streams
down the southern slopes toward the
plains of Hungary. This movement,
if it continues successfully, will, in
the view' of the Russian military au
thorities. Compel the retirement of the
Austrians and Germans still north of
the Carpathians to -the east of Uzsok
pass and in eastern Galicia
Bryan Denies Peace Rumor
Washington. —' Published reports
that Germany had presented' peace
terms' to the United States attracted,
attention 'in official Washington, but'
both Secretary Bryan and Count von
Berns tor ft, .the German ambassador,
denied there was any foundation for
such rumors. German embassy offi
cials declined to comment on wheth
er the p^ace terms as published rep-,
resent Germany’s views at present, be
yond saying that nothing authentic
on the subject had been received.
Nothing new has developed.
SI.OO A YEAB
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE I
Cordele. —Mystery surrounds the
murder of Oren D. Gray of Waycross,
a machinist .^y trade, whose lifeless
body was found beside the tracks of
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail
way near Arabi, 12 miles south of Cor
dele. The body was discovered by B.
C. Southwell, a farmer, at a point
about one mile beyond Arabi, where
there is a sharp curve in the road.
Gray came to his death from a revolv
er bullet, which penetrated his brain.
Hazlehurst. —Judge and Mrs. James
R. Grant have purchased a complete
printing outfit and will, on May 1, next,
establish ‘ a second paper here to be
known as the Hazlehurst Enterprise.
This outfit is new, costing approxi
mately $2,000, and is modern in every
respect. Mrs. Grant will have the act
ive management of the paper, while
Judge Grant will edit the same. The
judge was formerly editor of the
Clarksville Record, which was pur
chased and consolidated with the
Clarksville Advertiser, and Mrs. Grant,
with her father, John A. Reynolds,
was, for a number of years, in active
management of the Clayton Tribune.
Their experience in the newspaper
, line promises an excellent weekly pa
' per. '
Americus.—A campaign to raise
i $30,000 to replace the administration.
I building and auditorium of the third
i district agricultural and mechanical
• college here, destroyed by fire, has
be^h inaugurated. That the state will
appropriate $15,000 to replace the
building destroyed is the belief of sev
i eral here in close touch with state of
ficials. This leaves $15,000 to be rais
ed by citizens of this district, $1,900
of which has been subscribed already
by Crawford Wheatley pt Americus.
■ There was SB,OOO insurance .upon the
I handsome building destroyed by fire.
of unknown origin It is the purpose'
of those in control to erect wo spa
cious buildings in place of the adinin
istration building destroyed,
will be an adhfYfiis^iifiaSSraHtffflg lira
separate auditorium armory.
Tifton. —Tifton is at last to have
not only a permanent but also a mu
nicipally owned athletic field, the Tif
ton city council having agreed to pur
chase eight lots of land diagonally
across from the public school building
for a baseball ground and athletic
field, provided the local people in
terested in athletics will improve the
property. This was agreed to and
over one hundred and fifty dollars for
improvements has already been sub
scribed. It is expected to have the
work completed within three weeks
and a game played on the new
grounds. When the field is complet
ed it will be used jointly by the high
school, agricultural school and town
boys for all athletic events. When
this field is completed it will give Tif
ton one of the most ideally located
athletic fields in the state, as the site
is hardly a five minutes walk from
the business section and equally as
convenient to all other sections of the
city.
Dublin.—A bond election has been
called by the city council of Dublin
for June 8 to decide whether the city
shall issue bonds to the amount of
$50,000 to be divided up among several
projects for the municipality. One of
the largest items is a municipal ice
plant and cold storage section to be
erected at a cost of $20,000 and which
will use the exhaust steam of the
present light and water plant for
power. The city is able to make use
of several advantageous circumstanc
es to make the ice plant a success,
and it is proposed to make it not
only furnish ice, but a cold storage
plant where the farmers of the coun
ty can have their meat cured at any
season of the year. In addition to
these, a city abattoir is included to
cost $5,000 where all meat to be sold
in Dublin will be slaughtered under
the most approved conditions. -Other
items in the proposed issue, are $5,000
for a city incinerator plant’, $10,009
for improvements-at t^e light' and wa
ter plant and $10,090 for improving the.
streets of the city.
Atlanta. —Answering . the recently
published letter of-Sheriff JD- R. More
land of Lee county’ which-tbdk excep
tion with the governor for not having
offered a reward for capture of the
assassins of A. 1 D. a&livef. Governor
Slaton wrote to Sheriff Moreland ex
plaining-the conditions,under-which a
reward may be offered by the state
and why he^had riot 'offerodS-the ro
wan!. The letter, in part, is as- fol
lows: *'The appropriation made'for re:
. . wards is only $3,090: It is tlfe inten
tion of the law'that-o^jy in extrkordU
nary cases shall anjfU'reward be oU
sered. The right th olfr'a reward is
based upon the; inabß<J>' offthe offi^
cers of the law to- apprehend’ the
criminal. So long as it''is w-ithiri the
power of the sheriff and- his deputies •
to capture the criminal, the governor
cannot pay out the state’s funds for
this pupopse.