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MEDIATORS; OF-THE; MEXICAN TRCUELE
HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR COTTON
, YIELD PER ACRE
V v The Knapp Method
of Growing: Cotton "
ByH. E. Savety and W. B. Merrier '
of the United States Department of AgricuUnrs
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TERROR IS NOW PREVAILING
Peopl Working In Flalda 8m Thelf
Hornet Crumble and Fsmlll.s
' .- - Porloh.
. Catania, Sicily. A great earthquake
brought death and destruction to
many village! near Mount Aetna. The
number of dead up to date wai offl
dally placed at 173, with about 350
Injured. A large part of the devasta
ted territory has not been inspected.
The affected lone extends from
Zaffarna, the highest Tillage on Mount
Aetna, to the eea, between- Alrre
Reale, on the south, and Olarre on the
Jorth. It Includes Liner, the center
of the disturbance, Pisanlo and Santa
Verenlne, In Llnera alone 110 per
soni were killed and 800 Injured, In
Bongardio 13 dead and 27 injured
hare been taken from the ruins. ' At
Constlntinl lOwere killed and many
injured. '..
These villages and many smaller
places were levelleed.
The entire district presents a apee
tacle of desolation, ruin and death.
Many of the Injured had not been tak
en from the debris. All train service
bat been abandoned owing to the col
lapse of bridges, broken tracks and
obstructed tunnels.
MEDIATORS MEET MAY 1.
Judge Lamar nad Joseph W. Lehman
Will Represent United States.
Washington. The opening of the
Mexican mediation oonference at Nl
agara Falls on the scheduled date
May 18, was assured when word was
received of the departure of the Mexi-
can delegates from Mexico City for
the conference.
Preparations for dispatching rein
forcemeats to General Funston at
Vera Crus should such a movement
become necessary, went forward
steadily, work on twelve tranprost to
carry troops, horse and supplies be
ing pushed, but no warlike develop
ment occurred. The military appa
' rently Is being held well In leash to
avoid the possibility of embarraasln
the mediation negotiations. '
A threatening cloud disappeared
from the diplomatic bortson, when
the German steamer Kronprlniessin
Cecelia, reported to ba carrying arms
and ammunition for Huerta, returned
to Vera Crus, without debarking her
war stores at Puerto, Mexico, and It
Was ' announced that the munitions
on this and a second German steam
er, the Bavaria, would be returned to
Germany. Tha possibility either of a
leisure or blockade of Puerto, Mex
ico, or of an act, perhaps Interpret
able at a violation of the military
status quo, in favor of Huerta, there
by was eliminated. .
Justice Joseph P, Lamar, of the
United States Supreme .Court, . and
Frederick W. Lehman, of 8t Louis,
formerly solicitor, will represent the
United States in the conference ,
Suffragists Move on Capital.
Washington. Several thousand wo
men, from virtually every state tn
the Union, paraded along Pennsyi
van la avenue from the White House
to the Capital and presented to mem
bers of Congress petitions adopted at
meetings all over the country a week
ago. Five hundred and thirty of the
archers carried these petitions, one
tor each member of the senate and
house, asking the adoption . of the
Bristow-Mondell resolution, amending
the Constitution to enfranchise wo
men. Massing themselves - on the
east steps of .the Capitol . and with
several bands and a chorus of 100
glrlt at the entrance to the building,
the enthusiastic paradert tang ""The
March of the Women" by Or. Ethel
Smyth of England and only heard
once before In this country. This
demonstration was witnessed by thou
spectacular feature of the afternoon's
demonstration was witnessed by thou
sands of persons who filled the lav
. menee plaaa. ,,,.,v. ve: k
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Millionaire Post Kills Self.
Santa Barbara; Cel. With a bullet
from rifle which be had concealed,
Charles W. Post, millionaire manufac
turer of cereal foods, killed hlmelf
at hit winter home here. Evading the
nurse ,who had been attending him
since he returned from the east a few
- week ago, be went to hit apartment,
placed the muizle of the rifle-In bis
mouth and pulled trigger with a toe.
Mr. Post was convalescent from an
illness which necessitated a major
operation sometime ago at Rochester,
Minn. .. .. . . :
Dewey and Daniels Thank Padgett.
Washington.' ' Secretary Daniels
and Admiral DeweL on behalf of the
, entire American Navy, . have written
... to Representative Padgett ef Tenner
. -" tee,- chairman of the House-Naval
- Affairs Committee, expressing thanks
4 for the defense by Mr.- Padgett and
other Representatives against attacks
.made In the house against naval offi
cers. The unusual letters are aa echo
; of the ngbt on the naval bill, which
v eat Just passed Congieee. Both eon
cratulated him oxt bit success.--
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" DOMICIO DA GAMA '
These are the three South American diplomats who are acting as media
tors In the Mexican embrogllo. Th are Ambassador da Gama of Brasll and
Ministers MuJIcs of Chile and Naon of Argentina.
MEXICAN EVENTS
SITUATION . WAS SOMEWHAT
OBSCURED, HOWEVER, BY THE
WHITEHOUSE WEDOINO.
"FEW FOREIGNERS KILLED
Two British Subjects and One Ameri
can Reported Slain by Bomb at
Guadalajara.
Washington. Developments In the
Mexican situation went steadily for
ward although the White House wed
ding somewhat eclipsed other events
Id official Washington circles.
The two chief reports from Mexico
announced the killing of two British
subject and one American it Guada
lajara; and continued heavy flghtlog
at Maaatlan on the Paclfflc coast
where the rebel aeroplane dropped a
bomb which killed four persons and
Injured eight la the streets of : the
besieged city,. t ,. , ..-.Z
The state department also waa in
formed by Consul Hamm at Durango
that the movement of the Constitu
tionalists had begun with marching
against Saltlllo and Zacatecas,
Information from the Argentine,
BraxRIan and : Chilean mediation
showed that they were preparing to
begin work in - Niagara Falls, Ont.
They declared that despite General
Carranta's self-elimination, the Con
stitutionalist tide of the Mexican
problem would be fully considered
by the mediators at the coming con
ference. ' '. '..- ' ' V".' '.-. '
A man close to the president said
it would not be surprising if a justice
of the supreme court of the United
States should be one of the represen
tatives of the American government.
Justice Mahlon Pitney, though a Re
publican, It a dose friend of the pres
ident and may be cuoseo. Justice
Day was a member of the Paris con
ferenec and is a " former supreme
court Judge.
Gen. Young Chosen Commander,
. Jacksonville, Fla. After the elec
tion of a commander-in-chief, adjourn
ment was taken, when officers of the
Army of Tennessee and of the Army-
of Virginia and other divisional organ
isations will be elected. General
Young 'received approximately 1,100
votes and General Robertson 800.
Texas cast Its entire 343 votes for
Robertson. One hundred survivors of
General Forrest's famous cavalry of
fered their services to President Wil
son In the evnt of war with Mxieo.
THE NAVAL BILL IB PASSED.
Appropriation Measure Adopted Wlth
, out Roll-Call Give Navy -
sm,eeo,ss4. :
Washington. The house passed
without a roll-call the annual naval
appropriation bill, carrying 1139,560,
834 and providing for tbe entire Ad
ministration naval construction pro
gram. The building program includes
two battleships, one to. b built In
some Government nary yard; six tor-
pedoboat destroyers, one sea-going to-
perdoboat three ooast defense sub
marine torpedoboats. to be construct
ed on tha Pacific, Coast and four sub
marines.' . , ' , -
: Guilty ef Forgery.
Augusta, Ga. James P. Armstrong
entered pleas of gurlty in tbe Superior.
Court to five Indictments .charging for
gery and one. Indictment for. being
cashier of - a bank which became
fradulently Insolvent, sjd was sen
tenced to serve an aggregate sf eight
year itnthe penitentiary. Armstrong
wat cashier ef the Irlsb-Amerlcan
Bank, which failed- last. December'.
He la also under indictment for em-
bestlementi but be did not plead goiM
ty to that charge. ' The report shows
deficit ef about W,HJ0. -.
THE CON8TITUIONALIST8 CON
TINUE TO WIN VICTORIES
' OVER FEDERALS. ;:
PLANS TO STOP WARFARE
The Rebels Have Three Armiea at
Different Points All Within 30
Miles of Capital.
Washington. While the Mexican
situation was outwardly calm pending
the formal opening of the conference
of South American mediators at Niag
ara Falls, Canada, on May 18; there
continued an active undercurrent of
discussion and preparation for the
peace plans and at the eame time def
inite reports reached the .Constitution
al headquarters here of sweeping vic
tories of their forces near San Luis
Potosi and other points far South of
Saltlllo, where It was thought their
next big batt' would occur. The news
of Constitutionalist successes reached
here tn dispatches from Gen. Carranza
to Raphael Zeubaran, minister of the
interior in the Constitutional cabinet,
who had a direct wire set up to the
headquarters of Gen. Carrania In Chi
huahua today:. General Carranta's
messages showed that three converg
ing campaigns were in active opera
tion, each within 800 miles of Mexico
City. - General Obregon with 15,000
men waa operating from the Pacific
coast side, had captured all the In
tervening territory, was besieging
Maaatlan and was threatening Mexico
City fro mthe West '. :
Another division, General Carranaa
reported, had fought a battle at Penv
sacos, near San Luis Potosi, which !
100 milea north of Mexico City. This
Is the southernmost point which the
Constitutionalists have reached In
central Mexico and with the army now
attacking Tamplco, they declare that
the general advance on the Mexican
capital It to be made within a few
weekt from three side. The signifi
cance or these Constitutionalist vh
tones lay tn the fact 'that the terri
tory Is far South of Saltlllo and only
sou miles from Mexico City on the
South. . . ;::.
BECK ER'8 TRIAL. BEGUN ANEW.
Aralgned For Second Time Charged
' With the Roaenthal Murder Plot.
New York. Charles Becker, former
police lieutenant and bead of the fa
mous, "strong arm squad" began his
second Battle to save himself from
death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison as the instigator of the
plot to murder Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler, --x-
At the opening of the trial Becker's
attorneys made, a bitter attack on Dis
trict Attorney Whitman tn an effort
to have him adjudged guilty of con
tempt of court. The attorneys claim
ed Mr. Whitman had tried to create
prajudical atmosphere by giving stor
ies to local newspapers branding at
perjurer .witnesses who appeared at
the eleventh hour attempt to tave the
four gunmen, the actual murderers of
Rosenthal, from the chain The court
denied motions requesting a change
of venue, and the dismissal of th
special panel of talisraen because'
they had heard the district attorney
defend himself from the accusation
of Becker'a counsel. : . .
)?.' Big Warehouse Burnt. - .
; Anderson.. 8. C Fire ' originating
from tbe explosion of gasoline totally
destroyed the warehouse and contents
oelonglng to J, S. Fowler, entailing a
loss of $38,000 with Insurance amount
ing to $22,600. - The warehouse was
used for storing. automobiles, wagons,
buggies,' carriages; bagging and ties
and 'farm implements. Forty-eight
second-hand automobile were destroyed.-
One end of the building was used
as a garage, and when the keeper at
tempted, to crank an automobile the
explosion occurred. -
MOSTLY FOR A PRECAUTION
Huerta Claims That Landing of Addl-
tlonal Soldiers it Vlolatlonef
- : i Armistice.'
Washington. High tension marked
the Mexican situation both on the cll
itary and the diplomatic side. '
The War Department wat the chief
center of activity and while no author
itative statement waa made beyond
Secretary Garrison's formal reply that
"no orders for any National troop
movements have been sent," It became
known that the Administration was
considering the question of sending
additional troops to Vera Crus, and
probably would do so. This step
would hot be Intended as an aggres
sive measure, but at a precaution
An evidence of the seriousness of
condition! was contained In a report
that two German merchant vessels
were about to arrive at Puerto Mexico
with arms and . ammunition for
Huerta. It waa realized that this, if
true, would present an Incident simi
lar to the arrival of the Ypiranga at
Vara Crux, which led to the American
occupation of that port-
Huerta'e protest to the mediators
that the United States hsd broken .the
armistice by landing additional troops
at Vera Cruz, waa considered by tbe
Cabinet and later Secretary Bryan
announcing the reply of th,ls Govern
ment suted that no aggressive steps
had-been taken by tbe United States
forces and that nothing - had been
done to violate the suspension of hos
tilities. The American reply was de
livered to the mediators. Tbe media
tort themselves also took the view
that the question raised by Huerta
over the observance of the armistice
could be cleared away, and that Huer
ta could ba convinced that the United
States bad not violated In spirit at
least, the armistice. ,: - .
The Cabinet meeting brought but a
general discussion of the situation. It
wat said after, the meeting that there
waa little doubt as to the sending of
additional forces, 'wholly for precau
tionary purposes. It ' also . became
known that Inquiries had been made
of tbe governor of states to ascer
tain the condition of National Guards
and how toon they could be prepared
for active service. This also is pre
cautionary measure. Indications are
that If National Guards ore called on
they would not be sent out o tthe
country, but would be used on the
Texas border.
VETERAN8 ENDORSE WIL80N.
Old Soldier in Jacksonville Approve
. President's Policy By Reeolu-
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Jacksonville, Fla. Endorsement of
tbe policy of President Wilson In
handling the Mexican situation was
on of the last of the actions of the
twenty-fourth United Conlederate vet
erans reunion. A general exodus of
veterans and visitors began - Imme
diately. -S j .r:
Approval of the policy of the Presi
dent wat continued in tr-e following
resolution adopted by the veterans:
"Whereas the present unsettled
condition in the Commonwealth of
Mexico appears likely to 'involve
tome action on the par tof the United
States be It resolved: v
.That this convention of the 'Con
federate veterans recognizes tbe dis
cretion of the President of the United
8tate and wlK heartily npport such
action as he may take in every pos
sible way." -;""..' - '-
Will Not Extend 125,000,000 Not,
New York. The latest attempt to
readjust the finances of the - Gould
railroad system came to ndught when
Kuhn, Loeb ft Co., bankers, refused
to extend the 826,000,000 Of Missouri
Pacific Railway three-year notes, ma
turing June L - The banker stated
no reasons for their conclusion.
V New York Want "War Loan."
' Albany. N. Y.A bill .to authorise
tne governor-to negotiate a "war
loan" not exceeding $100,000 for the
use of the National Guard was intro
duced in both houses of the state leg
islature, i The bill would permit th 3
governor to . order the loan' whenever'
"K shall appear to the satisfaction of
the governor that on account of war
either in. actual progress or Impend
ing between the United States and a
foreign enemy it la necessary or ad
visable for the national guard to be
in a state of preparedness."
v: Huert Cling td Presidency.,
Vera Crus. -; Americans arriving
here from Mexico City say that Ge
era! Huerta shows no -Intention of
abandoning the' presidency, of Mex
ico. -The president, the assert It
popularly credited with having made
the statement that he would tee the
capital in ashes before he would quIL
The American forces at Vera Crnt
are violating the armistice by landing
more troops, ordnanca and supplies,
according to Mexican papers undor
th domination of huerta.
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