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Newspaper's Office Boys Tell of Shooting of Editor THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. VOLUME XIX. No. 203. REGULARS FIRST TROOPS TO ARRIVE Company H. 29th Infantry. Ar rived on Special Train Over C. & W. C. This Morning COMING OF BIG BODY OF SOLDIERS TOMORROW Will Be Special Trains Into Au gusta on the Georgia and Cen tral of Georgia Railroads. Georgia to Run Five Specials. f Central to Run Six. With the arrival this morning of Company 11. twenty-ninth United States Infantry, Camp Wheeler began to take on a truly military aspect. The regulars came directly from Jack sonville, the Atlantic Coast Line bring ing them to Yemasec and the C. & W . C. from there to Augusta. In addition to seventy men and three officers the company is bringing Its own tentage and camp equipment, four horses, four mules, and four wagons. Captain Frederick A. Holmer is in charge of the company. Colonel John S. Mai lorv, of the regular army, accompanied by "his staff came in with the troops. Colonel Mallory will be in active charge of the camp. Beginning early yesterday, advance detachments from the various Georgia companies began coming in, in order to get things in readiness for the com ing of the remainder of the troops. Each company is required to attend to all the details of its camp organi zation. hence the necessity for having as much of this as possible attended to before the troops come in force. The matter of assignment of regimental locations is in the hands of Major Isaacs acting for the adjutant gener al's office, and Lieutenant Dunsworth, the war department quartermaster of the camp. These officers spent yes terday going over the situation and measuring off tne space for the var ious organizations. Hospital Equipment. The hospital equipment was trans ported to the camp sit# yesterday af ternoon. Lieut. Holton being in charge of the work. During the morning the hot..pltal tents were being pitched and the matter of completing the hospital work was well under way. Major C. C. Harold, of Macon, chief of the hos pital staff, arrived this morning and will be in charge. 'lt Is practically as sured that the hospital organization and the camp of regulars will be com pleted before the day is over. The Charleston and Western Caro lina railroad brought in the first troops the regulars, to Augusta this morning at 5:15. The Georgia troops, two thousand strong will come in on the Central of Georgia and the Georgia railroads. The Georgia will run five specials and will carry troop coaches on two regular trains; the Central will run six specials and carry troop coaches on one of the regular trains. The Georgia Trains. The first special train over the Georgia will leave Atlanta tonight at 5:30 arriving in Augusta at 3 o’clock tomorrow morning. Fourten cars will be carried, seven of these being the (Continued on Next Page.) Says $1,000,000 Went to Account of Pat Calhoun San Francisco.—More than $1,000,- non withdrawn from the Treasury of the Fnited Railway of San Francisco in 1911, 1912 and 1913 was diverted, In the elief of Thornwall Mullaly, as sistant to former President Patrick Calhoun, into Calhoun's personal ac count This allegation was brought out today before the state railroad commission - The orders for the withdrawal be tween 1911 and 1913 were written by Mullaly at the verbal dtrtction, h<j said, of President Calhoun. Ready to Enforce Order For Hindus Deportation Bellingham, Wash.—Reports re ceived here early today that the Ca nadian cruiser Rainbow sailed from Esqulmalt naval harbor at Victoria, B r . last night for Vancouver. She Is fully manned and equipped with ammunition to enforce the Canadian government's order to escort the Jap snese steamer Komogata out of th# harbor with Its 352 Hindu passengers whose deportation has been ordered. R'ys Will Have to Keep Separate Accounts Cost Washington.—Railroad* after June flit 1915 will be compelled to keel) their account* to ehow separately the costs of freight and passenger ser vice according to an order today by i; Interstate commerce commission. Tte Information will be used not only'for rate making but to keep [the commission more closely Inform ed on bow the railroads actually conduct their business. OF OWNS AT VERA CRUZ. Washington. D- C.—Osncral Funstnn n , vnrs Crux notified the w»- depart e ■ day of the tionplental drowning '. eyjvate John MrDsrmntt, of the mu tl'r.e eorpa, while In bathing MoDsr » !.;mu was lc N«— Ilaran, Conn. -••••- . :■■■■■■ THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. THE AUGUSTA HERALD HUERTA GONE, OUTLOOK GOOD Secretary Bryan Declares That With Carranza’s Expres sion of Readiness to Declare a Truce, Its “Very Favor able” Washigton.—With Huerta's exit from Mexico, and Carranza's expres sion of readiness to declare a truce with the federals, pending parleys with Provisional President Carbajal's envoys, administration officials today declared the outlook for peace betw-een the Mexican factions was “very favor able.” Th# America government's attitude toward the nr wturn of events would not be formally indicated. Secretary Bryan said, util after an agreement had been reached between the two factions. Sail on the Dresden. Puerto Mexico Ex-President Huer ta and the immediate members of his family went aboard the German cruis er Dresden last evening. They were accompanied by General Blanquet, th e former war minister, and Senora Blanquet and their daughter. The den tination of the Dresden, which sailed later, Is Jamaica. HUMAN SCULP MAYJE CLEW Louisiana Lake Being Dyna mited. Thought Possible That Body of Mrs. Dennis May Be in Water. Atlanta.—The Joural publishes the following today: A piece of human scalp with the long blond hairs of a woman on It has been dragged by a negro fisherman from the waters of Hay's lake, three miles from Winnsboro, northern Louisiana. Authorities there are dynamiting the lake to bring the rest of the body to the surface. No woman has been reported miss ing in that part of Louisiana. The piece of scalp is believed to have been In the w-ater about a month. This may he the clew to the elms mystery. Miss Beatrice Nelms, whom her sister, Mrs. Elots Dennis, Is sup posed to have killed and consigned to “the animals of the waters,” about a month ago, was a blond. Miss Nelms has been missing a month. Another report that may hold the leading clew to the mystery comes from Shreveport, La., 12 miles across country west of Winnsboro. A wo man said to have been recognized as Mrs. Dennis was registered in a hote ther recently, says the report. Conductor’s Statement. A third report, also from Shreveport, giving a tinge of color to the preced ing, ') that a train conductor remem bers two women passengers out of Shreveport last June, south to Mans field, a town of less than 2,000 peo ple, where they changed cars for Na borton, a few miles east, the end of th„ line, in the lake and oil field region. The news from Winnsboro bears di rectly on the Nelms mystery because those who were Inclined to believe Mrs. Dennis did kill Beatrice have been confronted by the fact that no body had been found anywhere near New Orleans. The fact that no woman is missing In the enighborhood adds to the connection between the two mysteries. Disappearance Mystery Winters Girl Unsolved Chicago.—Another supposed solu tion to the disappearance oT Kathe rine Winters, 9-year-old daughter of Dr. Wm. A. Winters, of Newcastle, Ind., apparently failed yesterday when a body exhumed in the potters field at Urbana, 111., was Identified by Nicholas Larry as his child FIRBT BALE, FROM GEORGIA, IN NEW YORK; BRINGS 12 CENTB A POUND. New York.—The first bale of 1914 cotton gathered In the coun try, reached New York today from Georgia and was auctioned off at the Cotton Exchange for 12 cent* a pound. It weighed 300 pounds. In explanation of the low price It was said the quality was poor. There was only one bid AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 21. 1914. MEllf WAR IN ll© LIEAOTES Human Scalp Found Yesterday in Louis iana Lake May Be Clew in Nelms Girls' Mystery MRS. ELOISE NELMS DENNIS AND BABY. Atlanta, Ga. —Many and tangled are the threads In the strange rase known to the police aa the Nelma disappearance mystery. The puzzle promises to lie cleared up when Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis, who threatened to kill herself in order that her V20,00fl in life insuranoe might go to her baby boy, and her sister, Beatrice Nelms are arrested by the pollen or their bodies found QUITS CONGRESS UNDER PRESSURE No Unconditional By Carbajal to Rebel ‘First Chief Washington, D. o.—Pro visional President Carbajal does not intend to surrender unconditionally to Gen. Car ranza. He will concentrate his military forces and resist an invasion rather than permit the constitutionalists to enter Mexico City without previous arrangement and agreement not to wreck vengeance on those who supported Huerta. Tihs was tne tenor of infor mation from authoritative sources today in Mexico City. Diplomats also were watch ing with keen interest re ports that Villa was again threatening a break with Car ranza Sensation in House As McDer mott. Representative From Chicago Stockyards District, Resigns. Minority Report in Lobby Probe Favored Ex pulsion Washington, D. C. TtepreKentatl v* Jam«-H T. McDermott, of Illinois, today on the floor of the house offered his resignation to fake effect immediately. McDermott is under charges In connec tion with the lobby investigation McDermott is .1 Democrat, amt rep- I resents the Fourth Illinois district which Includes the stock yards district of Chl ' ‘go. He w»is fine of the figures In Hi*# exposures of Martin M Mulhall, star witness in the lobby investigation. A i majority report of the Investigating com* j rnittee, now ready to come before the i house, recommends that he be censured, ' with officers of the National A**o< larlon of Manufacturers. a mln<glty report recommends that he he expelled from the | house. His resignation came as a sensation today, when Immediately after the i house had assembled lie rose to a cities ' fion of personal privilege and offered It i from the floor. ' (Continued on next page) G !ill]ih®!i§© o J®Bana s i Muna Qesfe €®na jr©ii ©m L©lb% Pr®!© Fair© ORGANIZED BASEBALL HARD HIT Lack of Mutual Obligation in 10 Dav Clause of Contract Held to Be Contravention of Common Law —Court Holds the Business to Be a Complete Monopoly Buffalo, N. V. ~Orßanlz«<] banebAll mis- IVreil a legal defeat today when Justice Herbert I*. Hlrpoll granted the motion to Vacate tli elnjunctlon secured by the ('lilcmro American l.f tKiie baHeball club restraining: Ila I ('haac from playing; with the Buffalo Federal League club. No Mutual Obligation. The lack of mutual obligation In the so-called ten-day clause of the contract under which Phase wan playing with the Chicago team, whereby the club could terminate the contract on ten days* notice, while ilia player was bound un der several provisions of the “national agreement,’' formed the bn si sos the de cision vacating the Injunction. That organized baseball Is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law was de nied by Justice Mlssell oil the ground that he cannot agree that "the business of baseball for profit is Inter-state com uier< t* and therefore subject to the pro visions of the Sherman net.*’ The court held, however, that it was monopoly of the basebjill business In contravention of the common law'. Complete Monopoly. Justice Bissell declared organized base ball is complete a monopoly of the base ball business for profit hr any monopoly can ba made. “It Ih in contravention of the com mon law," be said, "In that It Invades the right to contract as a property right; and in that it is combination to restrain and control the exercise of a profession or calling.'’ 100,000 STRIKE, SI. PETERSBURG Troops Disperse Rioters in Russian Cap Hal By Volleys of Blank Cartridges Today. St. Petersburg Berlous strike dis turbances broke out today In St Pe tersburg. where 100,000 workers have laid down their tools as a protest against the measures of Hie sulhorl ties ngainst demonstrating strikers. The Cossacks were mobilized In the Vlborg quarters to disperse the strik ers who Indulged In much storm throwing and also Tired some revol ver shots The troops succeeded In clearing the streets without resort to bullets, ns a couple of rounds of blank cartridges proved aufflcleqt to rout the demonstrators at lenst tem porarily. Severs Is of the striker were hurt during Use disorder Later In the morning the strikers made a raid on the street ears, driv ing out their occupant# overturning the veh'cles, and disregarding the order o fttie police to disperse. Scene oi Great Activity at Camp Wheeler Tuesday A. M. As Soon As Company H of the 29th Infantry Arrived They Began to Set Up Tents—Richmond Hussars Pitching Their Tents Also. Camp Wheeler was the scene of great activity throughout the entire morning. Immediately upon arrival at the camp site, Company If., of the Twenty-Ninth United States Infantry, sturiod erecting their tents and get ting In shape the numerous details of their camp organization. Different members of the company expressed themselves as delighted wtli tile site comparing its advantages with the site for the Florida encampment, near Jacksonville, In such a way as to reflect graet credit upon the Ati niond site The House which has been upon the site for seme time is being pre pared so that It may serve as the oT fleers’ club. Tents for the headquar ters’ corps are being ptched on the lawn surrounding the club. .Almost directly In front o r the of ficers’ club the equipment of the field bukery Is being set up. This will he one of the most Interesting features of the entire camp. The bakery Is $6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. PUBLICATION OF LOVE LETTERS MIVIE. CAILLOUX, CRUX OF MURDER TRUE 18 THOUSAND VILLA’S MEN ENTRAIN Southern Movement on City of Mexico Begins—3 Divisions Will Converge at Queretaro For Triumphant Entry Into Capital Ela Posa, Teas. —The southern move ment of General Villa’s forces has be gun, according to advices received today In Juarez, opposite Fl Paso, Vila still was in fhlhuahua Oily but ex.poct ed to depart for the south within 4R hours, and his army of 18,000 men was reported entraining for the Journey to Queretaro. It ts at Queretaro that tln-ee divisions of the < Vaistlf uilonnllst army will converge for the triumphant entry Into the national capital, according to < ’onstltutlonallsts here. Within Easy Reach. Coincident with this movement caine advices from Monterey that (Jen Pablo ConzaleH. commanding the eastern di vision. was moving his troops to Han Luis Potosl, within e»sv Tench of Quere taro. Ho fur as was known here, Gen eral Alvaro Obrogon’s western division bad advanced no further than Guadala jara although railway communication with the capital virtually Is Intact, Constitutionalist troops will approach no closer than QufTetaro to Mexico City until final arrangements are made for the transfes of the government from Provisional President Carbajal to Car ranza are made. It wss asserted. $160,000 STALLION DEAD. New York. News has reached hero from Paris that Ftocksand. the famous stallion bred In Fngland f<r which An gus Belmont paid $125,000 In 190#. died there yesterday. He was 14 years old Mr. Belmont sold Koeksand to a snydi cate of F’lenehmen arid Americans two years ago for $160,000. WANT U. S. JACKIES MONEY. Havana. The merchants of Havana had addressed a petition to the Ameri can legation requesting that arrange ments bo made with the American gov ernment to allow American warships on the way to Mexico to stop at Havana. The request Is believed to be due to the amount of money spent by American salhA* who land here, LEAVES FALMOUTH. Falmouth, Eng.—Hhamrock |V with hnr convoy, the Hteam yacht Erin, the former under her own Hall, left hero today for the United S’tates It ex pected the next port call for the chal lenger for the America cup will ho the Azores. sufflecntly equipped to meet the de mands of as many troops as will he fiere at any one time. The field hospital equipment I* on the ground and the details oT the hos pltul organization will he completed before night The Klenmond Hussars are busily engaged pltchng their tents and will have the entire work completed some time during the afternoon. I,lenten ant Moses Irffvy Is superintending the work, having wth him u large detail from tie local company.No other company of national guardsmen have as yet. begun the actual work of lent erection A couple of members of the Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, came In this morning, bringing a challenge from their company for a baseball game with the Richmond Hussars. Needless to say. (he chal lenge was promptly accented and the promptly accepted und the details of (Continued on next page ) HOME EDITION Master Stroke of Defense To day in Reading From Wit nesses Own Novel of Passage Describing Condemnation of Such a Proceeding Im mediately After Bourget’s Testimony TWO OFFICE BOYS OF THE FIGARO DESCRIBE VISIT Defendant Enters Court With Dark Circles Under Her Eyes Telling of Strain—Many Ap preciations of Her Dexterous Arrangements of Facts. Pari*—The most Important tes timony at tlie second day of the trial of Mine. Calllaux for the murder of Gaston Galmette was the deposition of the president of France, Raymond Poincare. The deposition narrated how Joseph CalllaUx, then a minister of state, had called upon Presi dent Poincare on the day Cal matte was killed and had spoken •bout the probable publication in the Figaro of letters between himself and Mine. Calllaux. in the course of an excited talk M- Calllaux claimed, according lo the deposition, “If Calmette pub lishes tlie lettem I will kill him." The Love Letten. Pail—Persons who were near the ofrice of The Figaro on March 16»h, v.h.m Its editor, Gaston Calmette was shot to death there by Madame Henrietta Calllaux, wife of the for mer premier, testified today at the second session of Mmo. CalUaux’s trial on a charge of murder. Paul Bourget, the "Immortal,” wlio had been with Calmette at the moment when Mme. Caillaux’s card was brought In, was one oT those examined. He then described his conversation with the editors: " 'You will not see her,' I said. "I cannot refuse to receive a wo man!’ he replied.” Thrilled the Court. Maltro Labor!, the accused wo man's advocate, then thrilled the overcrowded courtroom by reading a dialogue from Bourget’s novel, "The Demon of the Midi,” In which (he characters discuss and condemn the publication of the heroine's love let ters. Coming Immediately after M. Hourget's eulogy of Gaston Calmette, with which he hail closed his testi mony, the reading of the dialogue by Laborl was regarded by observing lawyers as a master stroke. Dramatic Feeling. J .abort's voice was musical and full (Continued on next page.) ‘Back, Back to the Game; There'll Be No Strike Tomorrow ’ New York —There will be no strike of baseball players in the two major leagues. The Kraft case, the basis for a strike order issued by the Baseball Mayers Fraternity, was settled today by the Newark Internationals agree ing to buy Nashville's interest in Kraft. Announcement to that effect was made this afternoon by 0. H. Ebbetts, ownei of the Brooklyn Nationals, and a large stockholder in the New ark International League Club. Mr. Ebbetts was asked if the National League bad “backed down,” “No,” he replied. “If any body has backed dewn I have. I accept the responnbility for the whole thing.