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.3, AEFUGEES POUR INTE
VERA GRUZ WITH aTORIES
OF TORTURE BY MEXIGANS
By THOMAS P. COATS.
Bpecial Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service,
VERA CRUZ, Aprii 29.-—Grapnic
ptories of suffering and narrow oes
cape from death were told here tLo
day by American refugees from in
terior points of Mexico Prowling
bands of Mexican Federals, rebels and
robbers took turns at inflicting out
rages upon the persons and property
of foreigners
A train bearing American and other
foreign refugees from Mexico Clty
wae reported missing to-day, but Rear
Admiral F. ¥, Fletcher hopens that the
train wasg switched upon the tracks
leading to Puerto Mexico at Cordoba.
An attache of the British Consulate,
who left for Mexico ('ity last night
reported by telegraph that he had
found no trace of the miselng refugee
train, which strengthened the belief
that it was switched to another divi
sion. If the traln had been wrecked,
traces of the outrage would have been
found
Foreigners Jailed
The refugees tell a story of inid
night raids by bande of armed and
mounted outlaws, of incendiary fires
of death threats inflicted alike upon
men. women and children, of arrests,
brutallty and outrages.
The latest batch of refugees from
interfor points numbered 130, Four
teen came from Ji Petroro, 63 from
Colonia Media, 20 from Tierra Blan
co, 8§ from Motzorongo, o from Visia
Hermosa and the rest from Cordoba,
where the jail has been crowded with
foreign-prisoners for weeks.
There points lie along the western
horder of the State of Vera Cruz and
in Oaxaca. The journey of the home
less wanderers was one of constant
hardships.
Gaunt men and women il from
lack of food and from thirst and ex
posure, were compelled (o n‘uxm-"
through a six-mile dexert, wher® their
flesh was torn by the sharp barbs of
the cactus, because the rajlroad tracks
had been torn up by the Mexicans,
Children Suffering.
sSome of the families were accon
panfed by sunken-eved, pale-faced
children, whose bodies were racked
with fever and paln from the suffer
ings of the journey,
When the vanguard of this starving
horde arrived on the outekirts, a ape
cial train was hastily made up and
digpatched to pick up the stragglere
In the group were twenty American
women, a number of them carrying
babies slung over their shoulders in
shawls— papoose fashion,
Those of the refugees who came
from Cordoba said that the Ameri
cans in that district had been treated
with marked brutality by the Mexi
can Federals, especially after the cap
ture of Vera Cruz by United States
gailors and marines was announced.
Federal soidiers rounded up 40
American men, women and children,
dragging them from ranches, planta
tions and mining camps, and threw
them into jail at Cordoba.
Federals Raid Saloons.
“Why are we heing arrested™
asked the Americans,
But the only reply they got was a
volley of curses and insults
The Federala ralded snloons, and,
inflamed with the flery satol and mes
cal, threatened to wreak the most in
human bharbarities upon the helpless
captives
It wag a favorite actilon of the
drunken fallers to parade through the
iail corridors with loaded muskets,
present their weapons at the breast
of &4 prisoner and then pretend to pull
the trigeer Women screamed and
fainted at the sight of these brutali
ties which inspired the Mexlcans to
fresh modes of torture,
Pricon guards, sodden and flendish
with liquor, took delight in sianding
at the cell hars hurling obscene epl
thets and coarse, vile witticlsms at
the American women. The American
men were helpless to stop these in
sults. The only thing they could do
was to hope that the Pederals would
relent or that an American relief ex
pedition would be sent to save them.
Prisons Were Filthy.
The jails in which the prisoners
wers kept would have shamed the
notorfous prigsons of the Middle Ages
The floors and walls reeked with filth
of many years accumulation. There
weére no windows and In damp sea
sons n green slime ran down the
stone walls and gathered In stagnant
poolg upon the floor. Rats scurried
through the cells in armies and the
food was rotten and stunk with ver
min.
The water was fiiled with wriggling
thinge. There were no beds and no
fire, The captives had to sleep upon
the floor. They could not bathe and
their only means of pagsing the tima
was to talk with such hopefulness us
they could amang themselves
The “pallets” provided for the com
fort of the prisoners consisted of a
handful of damp, routing straw,
which, during the heat of the day,
gave off an almost unbearable stench
In some instances men were
dragred away from thelr plantations
their familing being left behind un
protected; for the peon ranch handa
could not he trusted to make any
Is the Object of This Free Pre.
scription—Try It if Your
Eyes Give You Trouble.
Thourands of people €ufle from eye
troubles, because they Jdo not know what
1o They Khiow M ¥ M i me
remedy for evervy other minor aliment
but none for eir eye (roulbies 'hey
negiect their eyes becauss & trouble
& not sufffcient ¢ drive hefi (o an
eye specialis W PW 1« any way
harge them & hea fov AR & last re
sort they go to an optivian of o the
five and ten-cer slore and oftel
times get glasses that they Jo noet need
or which after belng use » w o thre
manthe, do their eves maore iry than
800 Here is & s & prescription that
every one should =
b grains Optons 1 Table
! punces Wate:
Ure three of four times a day to bathe
the ¢yes This prescription keeps the
eyes clean Aar quickly overcomes i 1
fammatior and irritatior Weak
watery work-sirained eves granula
ids and other simiiar iroubles Are
fiȢag-\ henefited and oftentimes cured
y its use Many who wear piasses
have discarded them after using it for
a few weaeks It s good for the eyes
and will not ‘nfure the moes! =ensitive
eves of ar rnfant Y ¢ aged A\ 1)
drupgist can 0N hit prescriptior
promptiy 'y i oand knaw ar ANEGS
chat real eve cemfort is ADVER
TIBEMENT
| spirited defense against bandit foraye
‘ Women Most Courageous.
| In all guch Instances the women
lrmuuved with commendable courage
| barricading their homes and golng
about their duties with a rifle ciose
al hand
{ Mrs, H Riley? the wife of an
American who was employed as a
'ran\wn conductor on the Natlona!
lines, one of the refugees, told the
following story
“Practically all or the American
men were taken from their ranchea
Im the southwestern part of this State
(Vera Cruz) and put in prigon,
“With the men out of the way, the
foraging bands would wander through
the ranch houses at will, plundering
them of all valuable possesslons, The
safes in the ranch offices were gen
erally cast into ex-drawn carts and
carried to the nearest settlement,
where they were dynamited. Then
would begin a squabble among the
men over a diviglon of the spoils
These quarrels often resulted In
murder, but murder had lost all Its
grewsome aspects among those people
bhecause it was g 0 common |
Mob Rule Holds Sway. |
“If the slightest protest was made.
the Mexicane arrested whole famil
fes without dimcrimination. 1 know |
of sixty-three Americans belng im
prisoned at Tlerra Blanca, For a
fime mob rule held sway there, nrri?
it may have been a good thing th t
the Americans were behind the prm\
tection of stone walls, even if these
were prison walls. \
“When we came through from Col- |
onis Medina, the women were all
herded in a coal car and the men
were placed upon ‘flat’ cars. The conl
cars were meant to give us prmoa-‘
tlon for they had wooden walla
sheathed with sheet iron, which would
have acted am armor against rifle
bullets directed against the train
“Many of the women had left their
homes upon A minute’'s notice, leav
lng all their possessions behind. Some
were in their bare feet. A few of
the children were clothed so scantily
they might as well have been stark
naked,
Woman Put in Jail.
“Amoug the women prisoners in the
(‘ordoba jall was Mrs. Sidney M.
Emery, of Visth Mosa. Her home
was attacked by Federals one night
and looted Mrs. Emery was forced
to arise from her bed, and e¢lad only
In a riding skirt, get upon a led
harge. Carrying her young baby in
ler arms she was forced to ride for
six hours.
“Arriving at Cordoba, she was cast
into jatl, She hegged for more cloth
ing, but it was refuged. She asked
for Letter quarters than the foul, ill
smelling cells, because she feared for
her baby's life, but her request wus‘
spurned.
“After she had been Kept in the
Cordoba jalt for five days, she man
aged to bribe the Mexican authorl
ties to take her to Tierra Blanca She
told them where §6OO was hidden ut
her home and was transferred afier
a party of Mexican officials went and
Mund the money |
Get Money on Threats. ‘
“One of (he chief sources of income
’rur the Mexican bands Federsls and
rebels alike, was the levying of lrlb»j
ute, ‘
“A party of Mexicans would ride up‘
to a plantation and the leader of tha
troops would firet demand food, xlrlnk:
and clothing, Then he would inspect |
’l!m ranch and eomment Hpon 'l\Ag
worth of the buildings., the live slo g |
and the erop. Then he would come
witn the offar ‘
S vou do not pay us 1000 pesos, |
we will burn vour ranch buildings ant '
destroy your crops’ the commander |
would say g
“There would be nothing to do but |
consent. The blackmail was Im\-kndj
up by riflea in the hands of a dozen |
cutthroats, who had more respect tor
‘thu Hfe of a horse than that of a |
human being. A horse to them had |
gome use in the work” l
Peons Start War, i
Another of the woman exiles wn®
Mra. Sidney Wunsch, of Motzorongo, |
where the Mortzorongo Plantation |
Company of Chicago has extensive
possessions. She sald: i
“My mother-in-law, Mre KEdward
‘.\lOl(‘h, myself and my 3-month-oll|
bhaby passed through a nightmare he- |
fore we flad. The peons of the dis
‘n'h'l. taking advantage of the dtsnr-i
‘der, armed themselves and began a
war of their own, holding up the
ranch owners for blackmalil and lon
Ing property. ‘
‘ “They had been downtrodden 0
ong that their sudden liberty seemed
‘ln madden them, and their llcense
knew no bounds, They held the dis- |
trict in a reign of terror, and when
some slght attempt was made 10
drive them away, thev fled Into |h(‘i
mountains where they knew every teall |
and pass, and remained hidden for a
few dayvs; then returned to their
depredations”
Trouble on Trains. |
The adventures and exciting ps
capes of the refugees did not end |
when they boarded tratns for lhe‘F
coast
At Paso del Macho, & refugee train |
was stoned by A mob or drunken
i.\lu\n:nm and they were oniy pre
i\»n:ed from opening fire upon it be
ciuke they had no weapons gave long
knives, used upon sugar plantations
for utting cane
lighty -three American refugees are
reported to have concentrated on the
San Juan plantation, near Cuatotola- |
pan. in the wesatern part of (hisi
State (Vera Urus), but latest rfl»m",«i
received from that district by W, W, |
Canada. the United States !‘nnlul.'
were that quiet prevalied However '
it liew in the path of the guerr lal
bands which have been striking ‘er- |
jr eigew here In that section of the)
State and there is uncertainty vnr!’F
the ultimate fate of the refugees |
} The Latest Refugees, |
| Among the latest batch of Ameri ‘
‘. in refugees from the western part)
of the State of Vera Cruz are the fol-|
{ lowing ‘
| M. 8. Colfax of Washington: E B |
Lorido of New Orleans; W F l\\lrz.'i
nf Chicago. John B. Lea of New Or-|
leans:. William D Hil of Galveston: |
John W Sargent aof Duluth, Minn !
ilx.mu-,. ¢ Disbrow and Mary l\s-l
brow of Bvracuse, N Y. A M. Tur-]
| ner of Chicago: 8. M, Emer and |
| Mrs Emery of Megiphis Ten: E
D). Bik of Pittsburg: F W. lLehmst
J Cimnia Neb I 1 W\ Nargen!
Lo Lowe Muss . ] Langston of |
peka kan A. A Koch of Oak
| land, Ca 4
0f Power Co. Here
A party nf New York and Philadelphlia
bankers and financiers will reach At
lanta nex! Monday morning, to look
aver the property of the Georgia Rall
way and Power Company, especially the
recently completed work at Tallulah
Falls
It ix reported that a bond [ksus I 8 con.
templated to cover additions and Im
provements to the company s property
In Atlanta and at the Falls, but this is
denied by Preston 8 Arkwright, presi
dent
Reservations have heen made at the
Georglan Terrace for the party, which
will fnclude members of the firm of J.
P Morgan & Company, of New York,
and Drexel & Company, of Philadel
phia
Shriners’ Ceremonial
WAYCROSE, April 20.—1 t I» ex
pected riow that no less than 50 nov
ices from many Georgia cittes will be
in Waycross for the ceremonial ses
gion to he held herea May 7 hy Alee
Temple of Bhriners. The Alee patrol
ind band of Savannah will come here
on n special train The parade and
banquet will be big features.
The ceremonial will come at the
close of the grand conclave of the
grand commandery, Knights Templar,
in Waycross, and just in advance of
the Imperinl Shrine meeting in At
lanta
1246 Americans Leave
'
‘Mexican Capital.
MEXICO CITY, April 28 - -(Delayed
in transmission) - Two hundred and for
ty-nix American refugees left here for
! the coast on a special train at 10 o’clock
| to-night The train was made up in
| two sections and all cara were filled,
| the Americans having been warned
| that this might be their last chance to
| get out, :
‘ It wam announced that the destination
)u! the train was Coatzacoaiis. Hither
| to all tralns have gone to Vera l'ruz.;
inntl it Is belleved that the change in|
routing is due to another large section
of the rallroad befween here and Vera
tt‘nm having been torn up. ;
ißefligeos Arrive
Off Key West.
| WAMIHINGTON, April 29 -—The list of
' refugees on hoard the Hawallan-Ameri
'nun steamer Oregonlan off Key West,
trangmitted to the Navy Department
this morning, is ‘as follows:
Americans: W. B. Bryan and daugh
ter, V. J. Lawton, E. F. Ford, Dr. W
I). Addis, F. Rutherford, J. F. Bar
lrluwo. wife and five children; Robert
| Montleth, Charlea Manley, W. K. Smith,
H, F, Jones, A, M. C, Dyers, W. K,
Anderaon, W. N. Cartwright, L. E
Hughes, W. B. Page.
Norwegian: 8. O. Quonne,
Engligh: R, T. Cranfleld, wife and
two children.
Swise: . R, Bircher, wife and child
. Thizg makes a total of nineteen men,
four women and elght children plcked
up at Puerto Mexlco. These refugees
are reported well. The Oregonian will
Ilund the refugees at Delaware Break
iw‘ner uniess she recelves further or
fdv-rx
7,000 Club Women
'Volunteer as Nurses.
: WASHINGTON, April 29.--Volunteer
(ing for any capacity In which they
| might be used, seven thousand members
;nf the Federation of Waomen's Clubs to
day offered their services to the Red
| Cross In the Mexlcan troubles, Mrs,
Kllis Logan, president of the federation,
made the offer; to Miss Mabel Board
man, active head of the Red Cross
The first organization to offer finan
| clal #d was the soldlers and sailors
- branch of the Women's Christian Tem
perance Unlon. Thie branch sent $lOO
to Miss Boardman in the care of its
El-'wuldpnt. Mrs. Thatcher, who contrib
‘uted another $lOO herself
Betrayer of U. 8. Code
'On Refugee Ship.
. GALVESTON, April 20 -Held on
| board the battleship Connecticut with
500 other guarantined American refu
gees is a man who Government officials
' belleve has been the cause of u leak in
the Government private code. The man,
& former Government amployvee, was in
idichul at Laredo on a charge of betray
| ing Government secrets and escaped
| across the border to Mexico. At present
Federal offfcials can not act against him
because of the Texas quarantine laws.
It 1& learned that the missing Govern
ment private code book was intercepted
in the mails golng from a battleship.
| This may solve the mystery of the pos
| sesgion by Mexico of the Government
| code, which has been giving American
| officers keen concern
! OBITUARY.
| Wiley Merritt, agad 82 dled Tuesday
evening at the Confederate Soldiers’
. Home of Georgla Hig body was tak
. en to Harry Pooie’'s funeral apart
. ments Xlr. Merritt enlisted in the
. Confederate service as a private iln
' 1862, in Company R, of the i"ir.u Bat-
I talion and was parolled at the close
| of the war, He hag bean an inmate
I at the Confederate Home since Jan
uary 22, 1812
Miss Ivy Mammock, aged 23 died ear
' Iy Wednesgday rorning &t her resi
. dence, No. 43 Stovall street The
Livly wWill be sent to Convers, Ga, at
; T:B% o'clock Thursday morning for
‘ funeral and internment
Mrs. Mary Hoch, died early Wednes-
L day morning at the age of 81 years.
. The funeral will take place at 9130
a'clock Thursday morning from the
residence N¢ 208 Nells avenue, to
St Anthony's Church thence to
Westview Cemetery She is survived
by four daughters, Mrs. J. B Math
fann, Mrs. A 1. Tallerson. Mra. C. E
MeGown angd Miss R Hoeh. four sons,
Toseph H., Gadfrey, F. X, and Richard
A. Hoch, and one sister, Mrs. Pau
line Schanno >
After a brief iliness, Mrs. Luella
. Hames, 83 vyears old, of No. 4
| riress avenue, died at 9:30 o'clock
; Wednesday morning at a private
| sanitarfum. She is survived by her
I sty EooA A Hames: six small
| ret er mother Mras. M 0
Duncar two =isters, Mrs. A W
Bryant and Mre. J M Sikes, and a
" I W 1 1w The body
was Xen ¢t ' ndertaking es
blisiiment of 1} ) Ricomfeld
W Vil reman nt funera
ratgemente have becen com
| pieted :
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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‘Carranza Now Refuses to Recog
nize Dictator in Negotiations,
Delaying Peace Plans.
Continued From Page 3.
ashore, Orders were issued to-day
‘gnlrlnll!)nz the goat to land He
will patrol the streets with thegear
penter
Carranga Threatens
Peace Program.
WABHINGTON, Apri! 29.—General
Venustiano Carranza, firct chief of
the Constitutionalists, .erw;n-ui La
day to be the rock upon which peace
negotiations between the United
States and Mexico were doomed to
aplit
Carrying out hig announced de
termination, Carranza has replied to
the “A B (" mediation commission,
declaring his refusal to countenance
any overtures to which Dictator
Huerta 18 recognized as a party. Nor
will Carranza join in any diplomatic
dealings designated to curtall the
freedom of the northern rebels in
making war on the Huerta regime,
It was admitted here to-day that
Pancho Villa, military leader of the
rebels, I 8 more emphatically than
ever the man of the hour in North
ern Mexico,
Hope for Rebel Split.
The Administration has hopes of
persuading General Villa to abandon
his chief. In other words, It wants
the revolutionists to divide into fac
tions, with their fighting men siding
with the United States Constitu
tionalists here prediet that if a note
should be addressed to Villa he would
not anawer it
Without a cessation of hostilities
on the part of all the parties to the
conflict, mediation will fail, This Is
recognized in Administration and dip
lomatic circles here
The proposals of Huerta and the
United States were expected to be
laid hefore Ambassador De Gama, of
Brazil; Minister Naon, of Argentina,
and Minister Suarez, of Chile, the
neace mediators, at thelr meeting to
dav
Thelr first step toward settlement
n* the situation, it was understood,
was to be an attempted arrangement
of an armed truce, with strlq. main
tenance of the statug qua.
Demand Huerta Retire.
This proposal was favorably re
garded by President Wlilson and
would form a basia for further nego
tiations.
The proposals of the United States,
as outlined here, include the surren
der of the Qovernment by Huerta,
with no withadrawal of the mlilitary
forces of the United States from
Mexico until after an election. It
was expected that Huerta would meet
the demand that he abdicate by sug
gesting the delegation of .his power te
a man of his own choosing.
Agents of Argentina, Brazil, Chile
and Great Britain are satd already to
he at work to effect means of run
ning the Government provided Huer
ta surrenders, while Secrotary Bryan
is actively working to bring the Villa
Government into line,
Huerta, dictator of Mexico, is pur
suing his usual tactics. His poliey of
deceit and evasion {8 unchanged. The
envoys of Argentina, Brazil and Chile
who proffered mediation to bring
peace In Mexivo ase therefore the
most puzzled diplomats in Washing
ton to-day. ;
Envoys Baffled.
Huerta has had his Foreign Min
ister announce in Mexico City that he
will accept mediation by the "“A. B,
(" nations of South America, pro
vided they act with England, France
and Spain and select a seventh na
tion to act as umgir« to declde dis
putes that may arlse. He has noti
fled the Spanish Ambassador in
Washington that he will “accept me
diation.” 'To his notification to Am
bassador Riano the dictator attached
no stringa
What Huerta's real plan is the en
voys of the Latin-American nations
do not know. They admit this. Nev
ertheless they &sre proceeding with
their plans for effecting peace. None
will predict that these plans will be
successful.
The Latin-American nations will
not accept Huerta's plan, announced
exclusively by an International News
Service dispatch from Mexicn, to have
the KEuropean powers represented on
the mediation board, thus raising i:
to an international arbitration board
To Force Huerta Out.
That President Wilson never will
| recognize General] Huerta and will
make a great display of the military
and naval strength of the United
IS(mes throughout Mexico, if neces
sary, in an effort to break the dicta
tor's nower and forca him to retire
was asserted to-day W a high naval
officer in the confidence of the Ad
ministration
‘ “The peace program of the Pres
| dent n& outlined by the officer, wh
‘ for obvious reasons would not permit
it‘.xn use of his name, is about as fol
i lows:
i “President Wilson never will re«
{ ognize Huerta. At the same time he
| wants peace with Mexico. and the
L only way to get peace is to deal with
| the dictator—that is, if present condi
| tions don't change. But President
| Wilson, in an attempt to change
| present conditions, first will use the
| ‘good offices of the diplomats from
‘Smflh America, who have offered to
‘nw"‘ta!s the differences of tha two
countrier The President will demancd
that Huerta, Carranza Villa and
| Zapata and any other leader of a
faction in Mexico be brought in on
the same plane,
WASHINGTON, April 29.—The
rebel attack on the city of Tampico
continues, according to a report re
ceived from Admiral Mayo this morn
ing. It is rumored in 4ampico that
foreifnorl are to be disarmed. Ad
miral Mayo has made arrangements
for a party of Americans, numbering
120, now at Cervanted, to work their
way down the river to La Barra,
where he will take them on board,
with the assistance of Captain Dough
ty, of the Hermoine. T’;\ey will ar
rive May 3 or 4 at La Barra.
VERA CRUZ, April 29.—An uncon
firmed report received here from Cor
doba says that six of the Americans
taken by the Federals have been ex
ecuted. Admiral Fletcher is investi
gnflng. The report adds that 48 more
mericans have been arrested, mak
ing 84 Americans said to be in prison
there,
WASHINGTON, April 29,—The
Navy Department this morning re
ceived a report from Admiral Badger
saying that the Hancock will leave
Vera Cruz to-day for Puerto Mexico
to take on board the 600 refugees ro
ported to be on their way to that
place from Mexico City and the dis
trict along the railway from Mexico
City to ruerto Mexico. Admiral
Craddock has notified Admiral Badger
by wireless that General Ribon, of
the Mexican army, has absolutely
guaranteed the safe embarkation of
the American refugees on board the
Hancock along the wharf at Puerto
Mexico. :
VERA CRUZ, April 29.—1 t is per
sistently rumored that nineteen
Americans gathered in the town of
Tiera Blanca had a fierce fight with
mobs in the center of the town. Sev
eral are reported killed. Four Amer
icans who have arrived at Tlacoltal
pan from a sugar plantation at Playa
Vicente tell of being driven into a
iungle to avoid mobs. They say that
after their guns had been taken from
them by rebels they wandered, starv
im,w\nblo to kill game.
PWASHINGTON, April 20.—A. E.
Hace, International News Service
q_ otographer, missing for ten days 'n
ampico, arrived in Vera Cruz late
yesterday, according to a dispatch
from Rear Admiral Badger this morn
ing. Admiral Badger reports that the
wounded aboard tge Solace are hold
ing all they have gained, and that
¢ritical cases are more hopeful. The
wounded on the New Hampshire,
Flerida and Chester are doing well.
WASHINGTON, April 29.—The
transport Saltillo, escorted by tne
Henley and Warrington, is expected
to arrive at Vera Cruz by dayli ht.
MEXICO CITY, April 29.—Danger
of a reign of ‘terror and murder
threatens tne city. Huerta's agents
have uncoveed several plots to drive
the dictator from Chapultepec, and
the situation is serious. :
WASHINGTON, April 29.—General
Carranza is reported to have blocked
the mediation plans by sending a note
to the United gtatel in which he says
that he is not disposed to give his ap
proval to any measures that contem?
plate a compromise with Huerta, or
which will iimit his freedom of ac
tion in carrying on the revolution.
This report came as a surprise, as |he
El Paso Times, in an early edition
to-day. declared that Villa and Car
ranza had arrived at an understanc
ing whereby the Constitutionalists
would take the position of spectators
of the contest between this country
and Huerta, as long as the United
States did not invade Constitutional
ist territory.
CHIHUAHUA, April 29—General
Enrique Perez, commander of the
Federal forces driven from Monterey
by General Pablo Gonzales and his
Constitutionalists, has been killed in
battle at Marcia, below Monterey, ac
cording to an official report received
by General Carranza to-day. Two
hundred other Federal troops were
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STATE T 0 FIGHT
- NEW AFFIOAVIT
FOR FRANK
' Solicitor Dorsey Gathers Evidence
| to Attack Story of Negroes
l That Conley Confessed.
Solicitor Hugh Dorsy Wednesday
declared that he had not yet aecided
whether he will ask Judge Ben Hill
to reconvene the hearing of the ex
traordinary motion for a new trial for
Leo Frank Thursday morning, instead
of Friday. He stated that his course
in this regard will depend upon de
velopments .of the day.
“If the Ragsdale evidence is elimi
nated,” Mr. Dorsey said, “we may be
ready to proceed with the c¢ase Thurs
day, but something might happen that
will keep us from being ready with
our counter stuowing until Friday.”
Solicitor Dorsey has been working
on the preparation of his counter
showing, aided by several attorneys
and half a dozen detectives, since the
hearing was postponed by Judge,
Hill. Solicitor Dorsey asked a post
ponement after the defense intro-
Auced affidavits from the Rev. (. B
Ragsdale and R. 1. Barber, who as
sertedd that they heard Jim Conley
confess to the murder of Mary Pha
gan.
Solicitor Plans Fight.
It is understood, although the So
licitor would not admit {t, that he
contemplated making a fight against
Judge Hill's action in acceding to the
request of attorneys for the defense
that the affldavits of Ragsdale and
Barber be expunged from the ex
traordinary motion, which was done
Tuesday, after Ragsdale repudiated
the affidavit and declared that it was
a “frame-up.” Barber also says his
story was ‘“‘molded.”
Attorneys for Frank declare that
they were deceived by: Ragsdale and
Barber, and that they accepted the
affidavite of the two men in good
faith. - Both the preacher and Bar
ber gave Frank's attorneys numer
ous affidavits from reputable citi
zens, vouching for them, among them
being one from Dr. John E. White.
pastor of the Second Baptist Church.
Dr. Whtte has issued a statement
in which he says he did not know
of the nature of Ragsdale's testi
mony, but made the affidavit at the
request of a detective of the Burns
agency, hecause Ragsdale was in
good standing in the Baptist Church
and he had always thought him to
ke of good character,
_ Neither Solicitor Dorsey nor any
of his staff would give any inkling
of what they are doing to combat the
evidence of Anna Maud Carter, the
negro woman who asserts Conley
confessed to her. It was intimated,
however, that the Solfeftor is in
possession of important evidence to
contradict the woman's story.
An echo of the Ragsdale end of the
case will be heard at the Plum Street
Baptist Church Thursday night, when
a committee from the membership of
the church will make a fult report
of their investigation into the preach
er's aflidavit. The committee is
composed of Frank A. Smith, W. R.
Beattie, (Charles G. Wheeler, J. E.
Dobbs, T. B. Dobbs and Rev. J. W,
Cartin.
" The committee called on Rev. Mr.
Ragsdale Monday night, and at that
time the preacher tendered his res
ignation as pastor of the church, The
committee refused to state whether
it would be accepted. The church
will take action on the matter Thurs
day night, following the report of
the committee on the alleged “frame
up.”” Meémbefs of the committee stat
ed Wednesday that Barber is not a
member of the Plum Street (‘hurch.
CHATTANOOGA, April 29.—The
trustees of the University of Chatta
nooga this afternoon elected the Rev.
Dr. Frederick W. Hixson, of Craw
fordsville, Ind., as president, to suc
ceed the Rev. Dr. J. H. Rice, resigned,
to become identified with the '\fieth
odist Episcopal Publishing House,
DENVER, April 20.~Elias M, Am
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And made it rich with grain;
Uhat sailed the peaks of the moun
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Thelr hidden treasure to gain;
That chiseled through rocky gorges l
The paths to the parks of rest
"I'is the spirit of Colorade, l
The spirit of the West. 1
The gpirit that builded an empire,
And makes for the public weal;
That thrills our hearts with courage
And patriotic zeal, }
Inspires us with earnest endeavor
To accomplish the noblest, our best
" Tis the spirit of Colerado,
The spirit of the West. ,
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three tons, was successfully operated |
through the streets here
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COWES, ENGLAND, April 29.--The,
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hope for his recovery is held out, He |
is suffering from double pneumonia. i
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