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ASHEVILLE, N. 0, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 23, 1913.
PRICE THREE CENTS
f
KT Y OR MORE
jtTED IN BLAZE
Bodies of 16 Girls Removed
from- Still Smouldering
, Ruins of Clothing; Com
! pany Plant.
EMPLOYES FAILED TO
HEED ALARM OF FIRE
Thought Call Was for Drill,
and the Fast-Spreading
Flames Trapped Them
Loss $200,000.
i ' By Associated Press.
' Bingliamton. N. V.. July 23. The
exact numlier of ihthoiis who per
ished in the lire at the factory of the
Blnghamton Clothing company yes
terday may never bo known. The list
of employes ia in the ruins. Only half
a dozen of the bodies recovered liave
been identified.
A careful etrtimate toduy places the
number of those in the building at the
time the lire started at lit. Of these
only 53 are known to have been saved.
Six dead have been Identified; 15
bodies charred beyond rwognliton are
at the morgue, seven Injured arc In
the hospitals; 46, several slightly In
jured, are safe at their homes. Eleven
have been reported by relatives as
missing and 20 others are. unaccount
ed for. .One of the women who suf
fered terrible burns about the head
died today and another of the In
jured women is not expected to re
cover. ' .
City officials estimate the death
toll at 50, but admit It may reach 60.
Physicians expressed the belief that
the bodies of several of those lost In
the. center of the building would never
be found.
Crowds gathered about the scene of
the disaster today and silently watch
ed the men at work In the debris un
der the direction of Mayor Irving.
Charred bits of human flesh were
nicked nn hArA unit there and shortly
feature 4ioon ,,,udy. was recovered,
bruned'almosf beyond recognition."' 7
Mayor Irving will Issue a proclama
tion calling upon the citizens of Blng
hamton tor a general observance of a
day to be let apart for the funeral of
the victims. '
As many of the bodies are unrecog
nizable, a public funeral will be con
ducted by the city and the unknown
dead will be burled in a plot upon
which a shaft will be erected.
Frank S. Ashby of Binghamton, an
Inspector for the state labor depart
ment, said today that the Are escapes
on the building were of a type ap
proved by the state regulations.
Blnghamton, N. Y., July 23 Search
for the dead entombed beneath the
smouldering ruins of the overall fac
tory of the Blnghamton Clothing com
pany began at daybreak today. Not
until the tangled mass of brick and
steel has been removed will the full
extent of yesterday's tragedy lie
known. i
Conservative estimates place the
number of dead at more than 0.
About 125 employes, mostly women
and girls, were trapped in the burn
ing walls. Of these only 41 are
known to have escaped.
Sixteen charred bodies, as yet uni
dentified, were recovered late last
night. The Identified dead are:
NELLIE CONNER.
SLDNEY DIM MICK.
MARY ORF.GAN.
MISH FILMF.R.
LOUISE HARTWELL.
MRS. AIA'IN WHITE.
MARY PRIOR.
Tlio Injured Include:
Esther Itaskln, Mrs. May Le'ghton,
Ruth Crotty, Edna Crotty. Mrs. Mary
Wennett, Charles Contea, Mrs. Ida
Iloughtallng, Jared Orr. Mrs. Ida
Prentice, Mrs. Margaret Quick.
The list of the 114 employes of the
company who were on the payroll
Saturday, some of whom were on va
cation, Is In the safe under the ruins,
making the task of compiling the list
of dead a difficult one.
Lona of $200,004).
The loss by fire and water to the
buildings and stock of five concerns Is
estimated at more than f 200,000,
largely covered by Insurance.
The postoffice, built about 20 years
ago, was badly damaged but the malls
were saved. A temunrarv office has
been established In a nenrhy garage.
The Ins of the Rlnghamton Cloth
ing company, of which Reed B. Free
man Is president. Is estimated at about
140,000, all covered by Insurance. This
does not Include the building, which
was rented.
Believed It lire Drill.
The heavy loss of life la believed
to have been largely due to the fact
that the employes, believing that one
of the frequent fir drills waa being
held, were1 slow In leaving the build
ing. Even when It became known
that the building was on fire many
returned to Ih dressing rooms on the
upper floor for clothing and vat
an M.s.
The flumes snresd with llrhtnlnc
like rnpldlty ami the Intensity of the
best prevented the firemen from get
ling w II hlii fighting rang of the build
ing until rescue waa Impossible. Wom
en and girls, too weak to go further,
nrnfipen r hauled on th single Are
erpe n ih rMtr of the building and
mrrslly roasted to deslh, .portion of
Hie tnuiira dropping Into the atreaL
ihi r jiinux.n and were killed. '
mir a onsen of the psntc-mlcken
r 'Us r"l,., into th elevator which
- m i. itti m UrVfiour floor. A
t ' lnX-n pKO 2)
OF
GAREEROF GRIME
Chicago Youth Who Shot Po
liceman Says He's Com
. mitted 500 Robberies.
By Associated Press ,
Chicago, July 23. In a statement
made by Walter Novak, 20 years old,
arrested with four-companions today,
after they had fatally wounded Patrol
man Samuel W. Bowers and beaten
Patrolman Frank Walpole, he admitted
having participated in more than 40
robberies in two months and boasted
of his career of crime.
"I was born a thief and have been
a thief ever since," said Novak. "I
don't care whether I go to the gallows
or not ''l started when I was nine
years old stealing pennies from kids.
I have been put in all kinds of insti
tutions to reform me but ttfey only
made me worse. -';
"There is only one good thing I can
say for myself and thut is I never rob
bed a man dressed like a worklngman.
I suppose I have committed more than
500 robberies since 1 started out in
this business.
"I was a 'pal' of Franch Somerling,
Frank and lOwakl Shlblawskl anil
Thomas Schultze who were . hanged
laRt February for tho murder of Fred
W. Ottlzow, a truck gardener. I did
several Jobs with, those boys before
they were caught."
LAND ENTRY SUITS ARE
Though Governemnt May
Through Government May
Lose Some.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July. 23. Secretary
Lane of the Interior department to
day announced there would be nc
compromise of suit brought by the
government against private concerns
for the fraudulent entry and taking
of government lands. The suits will
he fought out on their merits as a
matter of principle. The secretary
announced the policy in a letter to
Clay Tallman, commissioner of the
general land office.
The head of the interior department
said that under the proposed policy
"the government doubtless will lose
many suits which otherwise could be
compromised." He Insisted, however,
that It would develop respect for the
law among the people at large and
among those whose duty It Is to see
that the law Is obeyed.
AFTER 110-FOOT TALL
HE WALKED TO HIS HOME
Steeplejack Waved Aside Hos
pital Attendants Who Came
for Remains. '
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, July 13. After fulling 110
feet from the top of a smoke stark to
a steel roof and after stopping with
his head In a bucket of tar which had
followed him In the plunge, Edward
Horner, a steeplejack at tho Granite
City, Ilia, steel works today waved
aside his hospital attendants who had
come to remove his remains, and then
walked a half mile to his home.
There a physician said although
Horner's head and shoulders were
badly bruised and that ha probably
was Internally Injured, ha might re
cover. Horner had been hjlsied to
the top of the stack prepaiitory to
painting It when the rope broke.
CIGARETTE PAPERS
OF BIBLE LEAVES
American Refuge from Mexico lias
Militated Copy He Carried
Proof of Avuaatlon.
By Associated Press
riHllns, Tex,, July (3. How some of
his Mexican raptors used leaves In his
Hlhle for cigarette papers was told by
U U, Davis of Dallas, who reache
home klV after being a prlaonnr
rnnatltutlnnallKta In Mexico from Ms
It until July r. I vis said there
were only a few chapters left in Ih
book When he Waa released.
He aald his raptors at Mtnri hi.l
llitle to est 'rm:via but r
ahnreil eniislly wllh him. He b
been held for ransom but - r
If unci! on demands by American con
BOASTS
LURID
siikr authorities.
EDiTDRS
IN II II
Opening Session of the North
Carolina Press Associa
tion Held This Morn
ing at Langren.
UTERES TING PAPERS,
GOOD ATTENDANCE
rolley Ride and Ball Games
Furnish Afternoon En
tertainment Poster
of the Delegates.
The forty-first annual convention of
the North Carolina Preus association
convened here this morning at 9:30
o'clock With about 125 delegates and
their ladles In attendance. The first
session was presided over by President
H. Calne of the Ashevllle Citizen,
and J. B. Sherrill of the Concord
Tribune, daily, and the Concord Times,
semi-weekly, who haa been secretary
since 1 888 and has missed only one
convention and that on account oi
sickness, is reporting tho meetings.
After being called to order by Pres
ident Calnc, the convention was open
ed this morning with prayer by Rev.
W. A. Newell, president of Weavervllle
college. The visitors were welcomed
to the city by Judge Thomas A. Jones,
on behalf of Mayor J. E. Rankin and
the citizens of tho city, tho response
to this address of welcome being made
by James H. Cowan of the Wilmington
Dispatch.
The flrpf session waa most Interest
ing, being featured by the annual ad
dress of tho president, Mr. Calne, and
papers by A. K. Gonzales of the Co
lumbia State, H. C. Martin of the La
noir News, and R. R. Clark of the
StatesvMe Landmark.
There will be no business session oi
the convention this afternoon, a trol
ley ride having been arranged for the
visitors early In the afternoon, after
which they will witness the second
ame of the double header between
the Ashevllle and Winston-Salem
teams Tonight there will be a Dutch
nipper and concert on the roof gar
den of the Langren hotel, where the
convention has its headquarters, and
the historian, B. H. Priest of the Shel
by Highlander, will present a paper.
J. J. Farrls of the High Point Enter
prise was scheduled for an oration to
night but business called him to New
Vork and he will not be present.
I President Caine's Address.
In his annual address President
Caine expressed his gratification for
he co-operation that has been extend.
ed to him during the past year by the
members of the association, and said
that although the year has shown nc
marvelous progress it has nevertheless
shown advancement In membership
and progressive policies for the news
papers of the state. He spoke enthu
siastically of the abolition among the
papers of the state of the "subser
vient spirit which bends the knee to
the political boss and ward heeler."
With the end of bitter political par-
lanshlp, he said, has ended newspaper
wars..
In the course of his address he re
ferred to a number of laws that have
been passed by the general assembly,
with special reference to the compul
sory education low. He declared that
the most momentous problem before
the people of the state today Is the
education of the human mind, and he
asked tho newspaper men to exert
their efforta for better educational
facilities.
Ad 1 1 row of Mr. Martin. ,
What was considered one of thP
most Interesting papers ever presented
before the association was that by H.
C. Murtin of tho Lenoir Nbws or
"Cash In Adance Subscriptions." H-t
leclared among other things that the
securing of pay for a newspaper U
not end of the unimportant essentials
in Journalism. He said that "It Is
simply criminal for a man to use up
his 'gray mutter trying to make a
readable newspaper and after he har
done so give It away to 'dead beats' ".
He declared that a number of the pa
pers of the stale use very slipshod
methods regurdlng collections of sub
scriptions, and that If all departments
were so conducted mat tne papers
could not succeed.
TKllir.ni In Newapcr Making."
Mr. Gonzales of the Columbia State
spoke on "Ethics in Newspaper Mak
ing." He expressed his appreciation
at being Invited to speak before the
association, and said that ho had come
because the Invitation waa extended
to the editor of The Statu. . "I hav
Just one thought to bring to you," h
said, "and It la that a high standard
of the morals of Journalism cannot b
maintained without Jealous regard ol
members of the profession for thi
dignity and honor of journalism.' H
declared that with the exception of a
mere handful of personal organs and
mouthpieces for Industries seeking II
legitimate favors the press of today
Is wonderfully free from baneful con
trol, and Is patriotic In Ha purposes
He said the press Is for the uplift of
humanity and expressed the hope thai
every North Carolina newspaper will
continue In Its pulley of looking pri
marily to the advancement of the gen
eral Interest of the state.
Mr. Clark tieaks.
"The Newspaper and tha Public'
was the subject of the address by
R. It. Clark of the Htateavlll Le4
mark. He lava as the slogan for the
foiindiillon of all success fur any news.
iianer In deallna wllh the puhllc.
I (Continued on pafa 1
BILL
Tl
In First Conflicts on Senate;
Floor over Rates, Finance
Committee Wins
Easily.
NO ATTEMPT MADE TO
DELAY CONSIDERATION
Republicans and Progressives
Not United "in Opposition in
Test Ballots No Talks
Ready.
By Associated Press
Washington, Jijly 23.-Wlth no sen
ator, democrat or) republican, ready to
speak on the genpral scope of the Underwood-Simmons
tariff bill, the sen
ate today took up the bill section by
section for the purpose of considering
amendments. The reading of the
measure began soon after the senate
convened, under (in agreement to pass
upon the senatefcommlttee's amend
ments as fast as (hey vver reached.
The sudden halt to the genral de
bate came when Senator Oalllnger, re
publican leader, found that none of
his party associates were ready with
speeches. Nta1 .democratic speeches
hae been made since the debate
opened last Frlduy . except Senator
Simmons' formal statement In behalf
of Ihe democrats! of the senate finance
committee. Many short democratic
speeches are expected during the con
sideration' of the bill under the formal
rending for amendment
The republicans offered no opposi
tion today to the consideration of the
bill section by section.
The reading clerk had not read four
lines of the bill before the first con.
diet between democrats and republl
cans arose over rates.
The committee amendment reduc
(ng the house rate on exalic acid was
adopted by 50 l '6 on the first roll
call of the senate fight. Senators Bo
rah, Eristow, .Crawford, Cummins,
Ooff. Jones, ""'KeAyon, 'kelson, Norrls,
Perkins, Poindexter. Sherman, Warren
and Works voting against it.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO
BE HELD IT
T
Greece and Servia So Agree-
Rumania Objects to Turk
isk Participation.
By Associated Press
Sofia, July 23. Servia and Greece
today agreed that peace negotiations
with Bulgaria should take place In
Bucharest. An armistice Is being ar
ranged In Nish and will probably be
concluded within a couple of days.
Greece Insists that the armistice and
the agreement for peace negotiation
he signed simultaneously. Rumania
has refused Turkey's request to par
tlclpata In the peace conference. The
powers have consented to these ar
rangements.
Lieutenant Oeneral Nelson A. Miles.
17. S. A., (retired has made an ap
peal to the American Red Cross for
funds for Macedonian refugees.
GERMAN ATTITUDE AS TD
U.S.-BAGUA TREATY
Papers Make Sarcastic Com
ments'but Government Is
Satisfied.
r
By Associated Press.
Berlin, July U. The proposed
treaty between the United States and
Nicaragua eovkei a few sarcastic com
menta In the Uerman press on Presl
dent Wilson's return to the system of
"dollar diplomacy."
Uovrrnment circles, however, ex
press themselves aa perfectly mils.
fled that tha proposed protect oral
over Nicaragua will diminish tbe
chancea of Internal disturbances and
Improve the business conditions and
the financial stability of the country,
PROGRESSIVES TO PUT
OUT JERSEY TICKE
ItiHMovelt anil tilffonl Plmhnt
Mump the Ktale for Third
Party Men.
to
By Associated Tresa.
Jersey City, N. J July t. The
progreealvna of New Jersey will put
complete ticket In the field at th
coming state election. Theodore Koos
velt and Clifford I'lnchot, It waa .aid
today, will be anumg th campaign
upeakers. The organization In Hudno
county lant night endorsed Edniun
11, tHlioroc for governor.
I INQUIRY
IS
Senators on Committee -Hope
to Get Through the Mul
hall Correspondence
by Tomorrow.
FAILED TO OBTAIN
BOARD APPOINTMENT
Efforts to Get Schwedtman
Named by Taft to the Tar
iff Commission Fruit
... less, v
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 23. -Martin M.
Mulhall told the senate lobby com
mittee today that in November, 1909,
he tried to meet Charles F. Murphy,
leader of Tammany Hall,' In behalf
of the candidacy of George Gordon
Battle for governor of New York.
Mulhall wrote Battle that there were
72 organizations of manufacturers In
New York state, "a controlling influ
ence in the great fight for governor."
I am anxious to meet Mr. Murphy
and other leaders of your par.ty to
demonstrate to them that the business
men of New York would have given
you better support in the last fight if
they had had more time to know you
better and that there are hundreds of
manufacturers throughout the state of
New York who believe that J'ou would
make a splendid candidate for gov
ernor, he wrote.
;Vlth your permission I shall open
up correspondence with a great num
ber of the secretaries of those organl
zatlons this winter and would be
greatly pleased if I could keep in
touch with you by letter or otherwise.
I would feel myself honored If 1 was
counted among your hustling political
friends."
Chairman Overman and Senators
Reed and Walsh gave Mulhall an un
usually close examination upon the
Battle letter.
"You wanted to get Murphy to sup
port him?" he was asked.
"Yes, sir.
"Did you see Murphy?"
"No, sir."
Mulhall swore that the association
thought Battle a "clean,' open and
above board politician. He was a
law partner of Senator O'Gorman's
and was "honest and clean In every re
spect." The committe did not devel
op whether Mulhall made the cam
paign.
Neither Senators Cummins nor Nel
son, the republican members, attended
the hearing. Each declined to dis
cuss his absence. Both have objected
to what they termed a partisan flavor
In the hearing at times.
Washington, July 23. With three-
nfthB of the Mulhall letters In th
records, the senate lobby committee
today hurried along In an effort to
tlnish the reading by tomorrow.
The committee decMed to expedite
matters as much as possible by put
ting scores of letters In the record
without specific Identification. In an
swer to a blanket question by Senator
Reed. Mulhall swore to the authentic
ity of the whole correspondence turn
ed over to the committee.
Former Secretary Macveagh was
called a mugwump in a letter from
former Representative Watson to Mul
hall on September 18, 1900. Watson.
who evidently was trying to land Sec
retary Schwedtman of the manufac
turers on the tariff board, wrote that
President Taft was appointing only
men recommended by MacVeagh.
"If he were a republican we might
reach him." wrote Watson of Mac
VeHgh, "hut he Is a mugwump and I
am not hopeful of final success, for
I will swear I never on earth knew
what to do with a mugwump Inas
much as I have no right to kill
him."
Mulhall, writing to General Mana
ger Bird of the manufacturers', ad
vised him to "be In good fighting
shape on September 12 to visit the
White House at Beverly with me."
SEC. DANIELS ABSOLVED
OF RIOT
In Telegram from , Three Or
ganizations in Seattle to
President Wilson.
By Associated Pre.
Seattle. Wash., July 23. A Joint
telegram absolving Secretary of th
Navy Josephua Daniels from any re
sponslblllty for the street riots here
Friday night when a mob of civilians
led by sailors from tha Pacific, reserve
fleet sacked the headquarters of the
ksoclallsta and Industrial Workers of
tha World waa arnt to President Wit
son last night by tha presidents of
the Seattle chamber of commerce, the
Arctic club and the Ranler club.
ine teiegrum la in the form of a
resolution adopted by the three clubs
and refers to tha allegation mads In
the socillst. memorial that Secretary
Daniels' Itanler Club siK-cch Thurlny
nlKht was responsible for the riots.
EXPEDITED
MAY LET
ENTER
GOV. CRAIG SPOKE
ON MT JITCHELL
After Making Trip Over Road
Just Completed by Dick
ey & Campbell.
Governor Locke Craig returned
last night from Black' Mountain, from
which point he made the trip with a
party of invited guests over the Black
Mountain railway- which, was the
first trip for passengers that was
made over one of the finest scenic
railroads in the country, although it
was built by Messrs Dickey ' and
Campbell as a lumber road. Rev.
W. A. Newell delivered an Invocation
before the party left Black Mountain
at 7 o'clock for the 18-mile trip to
the highest peak east of the Rockies,
and when the terminus was reached
there was a short impromptu address
by Governor Craig, which expressed.
as far as possible, the feeling of all
the members of the party. In part
Governor Craig said:
"I cannot say anything worthy of
this place. Silence would be more ap
propriate. When the French- sea cap
tain saw the hurricane approaching
he stood on the deck of his vessel and
repeated the beginning of St. John's ing today as to what support Presl
Gospel. It would here be appropriate ! dent Wilson has given to the project,
to repeat the opening passage of the. a partial canvass of the house and
Book of Genesis: 'The Spirit5 of God
moved upon the face of chaos, and
God said let the waters under the
heavens be gathered together Into one
place ,and let the dry land appear.
and it was so.' At this command of
the Almighty, this mountain on which
we stand appeared above the bound
less waste of waters.
"Geologists tell us that this Is the
oldest land upon the planet. Before
Abraham was, this mountain was
here. It was old before Sinai was
built. It was dry land when Noah's
deluge swept over Asia, for the wa
ters did not rise above Its summit.
"In ' building this railroad, Mr.
Dickey and his associates have given
evidence of that American energy, and
enterprise behind modern civilization.
HeTias "built this railroad to the high
est land In eastern America. It re
quired faith and daring to do this. It
will not be long before pleasure seek
ers and health seekers from all lands
will come here to share in the mag
nificence of this exalted place.
"The breezes that we feel come pure
from beyond the morning stars. It
was a place like this where God de
livered the law to Moses.
"These mountains should typify our
destiny. New England 1k greater
than Mount Washington: the empire
of the west Is greater than the
Rockies; North Carolina should be
higher and grander than the dome of
the Black mountains.'
AFTER BEING HANGED
E TO LITE
However He Died Again Three
Hous Later Neck Was
Not Broken.
By Associated Prei
Starke, Fla.. July 23. I i ershey
Mitchell, a negro who was executed
in the Jail yard here, before the larg
est crowd that ever assembled In
Starke, for the murder of Arnold try.
mre, another negro, at the home of .1
colored woman ne vr Starke last Feb
ruary, was declared dead at the end
of 3S minutes by two physicians. Af
ter his body whs placed In a cntlln,
Mitchell, whose neck had not been
hroken, revived and lived for three
hours. Negroes here regard his case
as a miracle and are said to have
been superstitious and afraid to call
physicians.
LIVED FOR 48 HOURS
WITH NECK BROKEN
By Associated Press
Washington. July 23. Living for
more than 4S hours with his neck
broken was the remarkable record of
Kdward H. Klwood, aged 25, who died
here early today following an opera
tion to determine exactly the extent
cf his Injuries, Klwood dived Into
the Potomac river at a summer re
sort Sunday and struck a submerged
obstruction. He was brouaht to
hospital here In a semi-conscious con
dition. Surgeons marveled at his won
derful vitality.
SOUTH CAROLINA MADE
COLLECTION DISTRICT
By Arwnclaled Press,
Washington, July U. President
Wilson haa Isaued an executive order
that the state of South Carolina, now
a part of the fourth Internal revenue
district, be detached and hereafter
constitute one collection district to be
known a tha District of South rn
Una. Tlw order become effective
upon the appointment and qualifies
Hon of a collector, 'The prff'.ueiit haa
not yet sent to the aennl. the nnmlna
Hon of a collector for the new dls
irK't 1
ARMS
MEXICO
Repeal of Neutrality Provi-
airvn PrnriiViit.mflr STiirvmpnt. . -
of War Munitions Is
Considered.
STEP WOULD FAVOR
CONSTITUTIONALISTS
They Claim that the Present
Stringent Regulations
Alone Prevent Them
from Victory, t
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 23. Repeal of
th eneutrallty provision prohibiting
the shipment of arms into Mexico is
being seriously considered by the ad
ministration as the next, step In the
lelations of this country toward
Mexico.
Conferences between President Wil
son and leaders of the house and sen
ate were planned today for a discus
sion of the proposal to which many
leaders In congress have given their
approval.
While official statements were lack-
senalo foreign affairs committee to
day led those Interested in the move
to believe that the prohibition against
shipments of arms could be repealed
with little delay.
It is understood to be the belief of
administration officials that should
fre exportatior.4 of arms be permitted
to all factions in Mexico the present
situation might adjust itself. The
constitutionalists have repeatedly
claimed that lack of arms was the
only bar to their quick victory.
The repeal is proposed on the
ground that there is no recognized
government In Mexico and that when
the prohibition was enacted a regu
larly constituted government, recog
nized officially by the United States,
was in existence.
Washington, Julyv2J.-t-Actlng Secre
tary of the Navy Roosevelt today
called upon Rear Admiral Cowles at
Guaymaa to Investigate the report
that Thomas Hind, assistant general
superintendent of the Southern Pa
cific railroad in Mexico, is held for
ransom by Mexican federals there.
The state department was without In
formation on the Incident.
The supply ship Buffalo has gone
from Guaymas to Topolobampo and
reported condition quiet at the latter
port and the battleship Louisiana,
which went to Tuxpam, returned to
Vera Cruz. Thla latter movement
leads naval officials to conclude that
a measure of order has been restored
at Tuxpan, relieving Americans of the
danger they were In when the battle
ship was sent there under rush
orders.
State department reports today say
that while the activities of American
cowboys at Madera has strained con
ditions there, there Is said to be little
danger except to the persons respon
sible for the killing of two of "El
Mocho's" bandits. General Pancho
Villa of the constitutionalist forces
Is reported to be taking an interest
In the safety of Americans st Ma
dera, the federals having no force In
the vicinity.
Suspension of communication be
tween Saltlllo and Monterey and Tor
reon Is reported from Saltlllo with no
communication over the National rail
way to the south.
DISPOSITION OF TYPHOID
GABBIER IS A PROBLEM
California Will Not Pay Harry
Olscn's Board He Is Health
Menace.
By Associated Preaa.
Sacramento, Cal., July J I. Harry
Olsen, whose widespread dissemina
tion of the deathly typhoid baclllui
has resulted In the daath of II of hla
fellow seamen, la to be turned out of
the federal marine hospital at San
Francisco because the state of Cali
fornia won't pay his board bill, It be
came known today.
I ilnen haa been kept Isolated for
more than a year at the expense of
the national health department but
now the government authorities refuao
to bear the cost of his maintenance
any longer.
What to do with Olsen, who la de
clared to he a menace to tha health of
society, la puullng the state board of
health, t'nder the. fund at Its dis
posal there la no money available for
taking care of him.
HymiMitltetlc Strike.
. By Associated Pre.
CUrkshurg, W. Va., July II. Threv
hundred employe of Ihe Phillips
Sheet and Tin Plate company hrre
walked nut today In sympathy with
th striking erriloyrs of the Snme
rompany at Steu l.rnvin.,. o.. m1
Wlerton. W. Va . iluirta l i l t bun
drd ni"ii rinialm-.l In tin. I . n,. .