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VOL. XVni. NO. 260.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1913
PRICE 5 CENTS
TAX LS
BEINGJESTED
Hearing in Case of Elsie De-
Wolfe Attacking Consti
tutionality of . Law
Are Begun,
ORMER ACTRESS IS
SUING CHICAGO BANE
Her Attorneys Contend Tax Is
Not Equitable on Vari
ous Grounds The
Argument.
Chicago, Dec. 11. Hearings In a
suit attacking the constitutionality of
the Income tax law were begun here
today before Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis in the United States District
court for the northern district of Illi
nois. '
The medium selected for the test is
a suit at law in which Elsie DeWolfe,
former actress, a citizen of New York,
now resident at Versailles, France, Is
plaintiff and the Continental and Com
mercial Trust and Savings bank of
Chlcaso is defendant W. Bourke
Cockran of New York and Colin C. H.
Fyffe of Chicago appeared for Miss
DeWolfe, and Levy Mayer of Chicago
for the bank.
Miss DeWolfe, owner of thirty of
the Appalachian power companies 5
per cent bonds, was refused payment
by the bank of interest due on the
bonds December 1 last because she
had not filed the certificate of owner
ship which the bank contends is re
quired by the income tax law. Her
suit is for interest due and for dam
ages in the sum of $1000.
In the presentation of his case At
torney Cockran asserted that the law
taxes only 423,000 persons out of a
population of 00,000,000, which tax,
he said, was imposed on them without
their consent by the untaxed remain
der of the population, v.
Even If congress has the light to
Impose this tax, the lawyer said it was
graded according to income with such
sross inequalities as to violate - the
constitution.
Even if congress has the right to
Impose this tax, the lawyer said it was
graded according to income with such
gross inequalities as- to violate the
constitution.
ms clients income, he said, was
more than 20,000 a year on which
Bhe is taxed one per cent on all in
excess of 13000, and an additional tax
or one per cent on all above $20,000.
ne assertea mat If this ratio were
pqultably pursued the Income from
me tax would be $750,000, a sum
practically sufficient to defray all gov.
srnment expenses. By Its present In'
equalities, he added, the Income would
not be much more than $80,000,000,
Attorney Cockran Insisted that if all
incomes were taxed in the same ratio
as that of the plaintiff incomes of
more to a penalty of 20 per cent in.
stead of 6; incomes of a million would
le penalized 40 per cent Instead of
xeven. A man with an income of 12.-
500,000 a year and the lawyer said
there were several in the country
would be assessed 100 per cnt or in
other words would have to pay all In
come in excess of $2,600,000 Into the
United States treasury. - - ,
Thus, he argued, his client was not
granted the equal protection of the
law guaranteed by the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution.
Mr. Mayer stated the position of
the bank was that the law Is con
tlonal. In his demurrer filed yester
day he further contended that the
bonds constitute a civil contract In no
wise Involving federal laws and that
the federal court therefore had no
Jurisdiction.
CHAMPION BOY AND
GIRL FARMERS GUESTS
Representatives or 00 Stnteii
Wasliington HlKht:ciii For
One Wce't,
In
Washington, Dec, 11. Champion
oy and girl farmers from 80 states
rrlved hare today and for a week
UI be the gunts of the department
t agrlcu'tnre. There were 80 cham-
m we party and each has a
"cord for achievements In raising
"ther corn or potatoes or for havlnb
'a best and most profitable vegetable
tu-den.
The boys and girls, will spend the
ex In sightseeing In nnd about the
PIU1. Tor several years the departr
mer.t has awrri rin tA iv..hin..
Joi to champions of boys' corn clubs
una is tn first
time that girls
been included. There are near-
many girls as boys In the party:
nn?rrtv
While ,a Boj ond girls are alght-1
J,n ' leaders of the boys' and j
ri club movement will hold their
nnnual conference to discuss the ex-;
"V"on the work. Marketing can-;
" foods, ro-oparatlvo buying and
w, vww i iBiiaiB r.ir atafiflariiitfinn .
HE
NEW HAVEN STOCK
KEEPS
Supervision of Dividend Results
Price in History Stock
And Again
New York, Dec. 111. Stock of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad broke to 68 its lowest price
on record, at the opening of the stock
market today. Passing of the divi
dend yesterday caused excited trading,
and on a block of 6000 shares the
price fell 4 points. It then recov
ered to 69. .-
Traders clustered about the New
Haven trading post on the floor of
the stock exchange long before the
opening. When the gong sounded the
beginning of business the rush to sell
resulted in such confusion that It was
several minutes before any record
could be obtained of the first trans
actions. Then the opening was an
nounced as 6000 shares at 69 to 68.
Not for years had such a large block
of New Haven appeared on the ticker
tape. . The stock closed yesterday at
72. : .
Trading was on a smaller scale aft
er the opening, transactions being
chiefly In blocks of 100 to 200 shares.
An effort was made to support the
stock on the break and ,the next sale
was at 68. Then it was bid up to
69. It failed to hold att his level,
however, and by . the end of the half
hour's trading had fallen back to
68.
Enlisting in War On
Women's Clothes Modes
Cleveland, O., Dec. 11. Cleveland
and Cuyahoga county .women club
members are today being enlisted In
a war against present day modes of
feminine wearing apparel.
. The movement follows an attack on
prevailing styles made last night at a
convention of the county woman's
Christian Temperance Union when
resolutions were adopted which recit
ed that ''whereas, many women are
given to immodesty as expressed In
wearing apparel, and, whereas ' this
body believes such a practice tends
towards the demoralization of society,
the destruction of homes and the ex
tension of the whiter slave traffic;
OF
HOUSE ARE UNCOVERED
Aged Negro Has Diamond Fob;
Says It Was Property
Of Burr,
New York, Dec. .11. Remnants of
Aaron Burr's famous Richmond hill
house are being uncovered by wreck
ers who - are tearing down some an
cient buildings on the east side of
Varick street in .order, to widen that
thoroughfare.
The old Burr place in Its latter
years was used asa theater, and at
one time rose to te dignity of an opera
house. Years ago' it passed to the
uses qf a stable. It is this structure
that is iiow being torn down, reveal
ing fresco work which Is said to have
formed a part of the old theater dec
orations. .
An old resident of the vicinity ex
hibits a play bill of the old theater
when it was known as Miss Nelson's
theater, In 1836. ...
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 11. William
St. Paul Jasper, an aged negro, tem
porarily detained in the office of the
county Jail here while friends adjust
ed a complaint against him, today
told Warden Edward Lewis that a
wonderful diamond watch fob he car
ried had once been the property of
Aaron Burr. t
His ancestor, said Jasper, had been
Burr's personal servant, and just be.
fore Burr faced Alexander Hamilton
In their historic, duel, , he gave the
servant the Jewel, telling him to keep
It, he said, passing It down to his de
scendants, and it Anally cams to Jat
per, who Is a veteran of the civil war
and on the pension roll for wounds
received In battle, -
RUTHERFORD M. D.'s .
HOLD MONTHLY MEET
Special to The Gazette-News.
Forest City, Dec. 11. The Ruther
ford County Doctors association held
their regular monthly meeting at
Rutherfordton yesterday. A Jarge
number of the members were pres
ent. Several clinical cases came up.
There was a discussion of vital ata
turtles. The doctors, were entertnlned
at the Southern hotel by tha local
physicians. Dr. J. ti. Thomtmon wa
looted president; tpr. M. If. Plggs,
vice president, amrDr. W. C. Bostl:,
secretary and treasurer,
The l'orost City drug storei which
has been under the management of
C. J. Jenkins Iw n year, ha been
nnia id inr jimrj.i unu uvuimru tveuv
i of this place
TUMBLING
in Decline to 68, Lowest
Raliies For Short Time
Falls to 684 .
' While suspension of the New Haven
dividend had not been benerally ex
pected in Wall street, its effect was
partially discounted by a severe de
cline earlier In the week.
Rumors that the directors might
suspend payments caused heavy trad
ing, and on Tuesday the stock touch
ed what was then the lowest price In
the history of the company, at 71,
a drop of 6 points from last week's
close. : Yesterday It met with better
support, and after equalling its low
record ended the day at 72.
The stock market In general was
little affected by the violent decline
in New Haven. There were a few
weak spots but most of the leading
stocks were strong. Speculators bid
up prices on the theory that the pass
ing of the New Haven dividend had
relieved the market of uncertainty
which had long been holding it un
der' restraint.
Orders Fares Reduced.
Washington, ' Dec. 11. Commuta
tion passenger fares on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad be
tween Ave points in Connecticut and
New York city were ordered reduced
today by the interstate commerce
commission.
therefore, be it resolved that we con
demn alt transparent wearing apparel
or any other, kind which unduly ex
poses the form or figure of women and
take a stand for simplicity and mod
esty, which are expressions of charac
ter In dress."
The club women plan to reform the
garment makers themselves If possi
ble, if the designers refuse to listen
the leaders of the crusade .declare
they will find other means to accom
plish their object. Women's Christian
Temperance union organizations in
other cities . will be enlisted in the
understanding, which it Is hoped to
make country-wide. .
ANCIENT GRANERY OF
Mesophtamid's Prosperity
to
Be Renewed by System
Of Investigation.
London, Dec. 11. The first step in
the work of restoring the prosperity
of Mesopotamia, once the granary of
the world, by means of irrigation is
described In a Constantinople dis
patch to the London Dally Mail. Sir
William Wllcocks, who designed the
works for the Turkish government
often asserted that the garden of Eden
once flourished In the district between
Babylon and Bagdad.
The formal opening of the Euphra
tes barrage takes place on Friday.
The barrage, which is at Hlndla, about
47 miles north of Bagdad, Is the first
completed park of the extensive irri
gation works undertaken by the
Young Turk government for the Im
provement of Mesopotamia. The con
structlon was lntrused in February,
1911, to Sir John Jackson.
The barrage consists of masonry
piers with 36 openings fitted . with
sluices to hold the water to the de
sired level. There Is also a navigation
lock for barge traffic. Below the main
barrage la a subsidiary one consructed
with a lock of the same size. The water
level can be raised to 16 feet, en
ahMng an extensive area of rich lands
to be irrigated.
CENTRAL BANK PLAN
URGED BY BURTON
Washington, Dec. ll.-Attacklng
the regional bank feature of the ad
ministration curreno yplan, Senator
Burton of Ohio today urged a cen
tral banq plan as a substitute. He
pointed out what he called the da
fects of the administration plan, but
tald, however, that the country and
the banks would be benefited by the
adoption of either the administration
bill or the substitute measure pro
posed by Senator Hitchcock and the
republicans of the bnnklnb com
mittee. COI.
nit. HOFFMAN' 1KKKIDF.NT
OF KWIHS COXFKDKIIATION
Tcrne, Swllierland, D-c. 11. Colo
nel Dr. Arthur Hoffman of St. Gall
was today elected president of the
Swiss confederation for 1914, the con
stitutional term beln gone year. He
serrlved 10 of the 1(4 votes of tha
ferirrul assembly.
Tha new vlco prerldent, 1K Gliispbt'
Motta, was elected unanimously. He
is a ronservatlve Catholic.
JUDGE IIS
IS
'. H. Thrash Alleges That His
Law Firm Acted as Collec
tor For Liquor Houses.
The controversy growing out of the
bankruptcy , proceedings . instituted
Monday afternoon through the law
Arm of Merrlman, Adams & Adams,
of which Judge Adams is a member,
against the Peerless-Fashion Stores
company, P. H. Thrash president, took
sensational turn, toda yin charges
made by Mr. Thrash In a statement
to The Gazette-News. Mr. Thrash
charges, among other things, that the
law firm of whfch Judge Adams Is
a member acted as counsel for liquor
houses . that neia accounts lor . in
toxicants sold to the Battery Park ho
tel, and refers to letters written by
the firm In an effort to make collec
tions. The . proprietor of the hotel, was
defendant .before Judge Carter In
the recent Investigations and Mr.
Thrash states that the letters are now
in the possession of J. W. Haynes,
prosecuting attorney In the Investiga
tion. When asked about the exist
ence of these letters, Mr. Haynes
stated that they are now In a safety
deposit valut of one of the local
banks. .
A statement from Judge Adams
was sought by a representative of The
Gazette-News but he is not In the
city today.
The full statement of Mr. Thrash
follows:
Editor of The Gazette-News.
The details of your news story ap
pearing in Tuesday's issue In regard to
the attempt by June Adams to have
me declared a bankrupt and the Peer
less Fashion Stores company put in
the hands of receivers, was substan
tially correct, but greater emphasis
should have been given to the per
sonal feeling and malicious motives of
the said June Adams.
It wilt be remembered that I, my
self, was tried by this same June
Adams and sentenced to the roads for
selling liquor. This Judgment, in his
court,, was finally chapgaqVrto . a .flflel
In the Superior eourt, which tine-was
paid by me. The setting aside of this
judgment received in the Police court,
seems to have poisoned June Adams
against me and my family.
Now, Mr. Editor, I may be Classed
by June Adams as a bad man, but I
feel myself a little above the "Jedge
who has allowed Judge Frank Carter
to perform the very functions of the
very office to which June Adams was
elected by the people.
June Adams convicted W. H. BuBh
two years ago for liquor violations,
threw the liquor off the concrete
bridge as a great punishment, then
appeared for a Cincinnati liquor house
and secured a Judgment against Bush
for the very liquor which was thus
condemned and destroyed. This Is
really amusing. It should be placed
in the moving pictures where we could
all go and laugh and grow fat.
But to cap the climax, . when the
Battery Park hotel was raided last
month by Judge Frank Carter, there
was found other things besides liquor.
Letters from the law firm of which
June Adams was a member were
found, asking and Imploring said
"tiger" to pay the large liquor bills
for liquor which had been Illegally
sold and which bills Adams' firm was
attempting to collect. With these let
ters before him. Judge Carter said:
"Officials higher up had knowledge
of the sale of liquors in Ashevllle.
These letters now are In the posses
sion of Prosecuting Attorney Walter
Haynes and can be seen upon appli
cation.
Recently a friend of Mr. Adams wrote
a very meritorious article to a North
Carolina msaxine, under the title or,
"In North Carolina's Calcium Light"
or a "Young Jurist Who Cleaned Up
a City.'' This should be re-written
to read, "The Young Doctor Black
stone Who Allowed Judge Carter to
clear up a City for Him." Now, about
those letters again. Perhaps Mr. Ad
ams would like to furnish the public
a copy of them? please do Mr. Ad
amsthe public will be much inter
ested. P. H. THRASH.
December 11th, 1913.
ZABERN OFFENDERS
LIGHTLY PUNISHED
fitrassburg, Germany, Dec. 11.
Light sentences were pronounced to
day at the court trial of three recruits
of the th Infantry regiment through
whom the Insulting remarks In refer
ence to Alsatians and the French for
eign legation uttered by Lieutenant
j Huron von Kontner were made pub-
C.
It was this Incident which start
ed tha recent trouble between the
military and civil population of Za
bern. Tha principal offender was
condemned to six weeks and the
other two men to three weeks' con
finement each. Long penitentiary
sentences had been generally ex
pected. Paris, Dec. 11. The storming of
Aln Galaka, In tha Interior of Morocco
on November tl. cost the French army
the lives of three officers and twelve
men. while Ihrea nffWer and nineteen
men were wounded. Advices received
at the mlnUry of war describe the
rMlsliinco t'f tha Moros as vary stub-bora.
WAPNING AGINST
T .SURANCE LAWS
Increr Practice of Mortgaging Policies Is Problem Be-
: i Associaton of Insurance Presidents Attack
v On "Get Rich Quick Promotions."
New York, Dec. 11 Fifteen billion
dollars of life Insurance protection
was represented today at the eleventh
annual meeting of the Association of
Life Insurance Presidents. Members
and executive heads from as far west
as Los Angeles and many parts of
Canada attended. Former President
Taft was the chief speaker at the af
ternoon session.
A problem considered at today's
session was the Increasing practice of
policy holders of mortgaging their
life insurance. Investigation has re
vealed that between three billinon
and three and one half billion dollars
furnished by the companies as a re
serve fund has been loaned to policy
holders.
Arthur Childs, of Boston, president
of the Columbian National Life In
surance company, urged the members
Proposal Was
In Reaching
San Francisco, Dec. 11. Harry T.
Plunkett, civil engineer, is on his way
to Topeka, Kas., today to claim a
bride whose letter of acceptance was
written 14 months ago and was only
received by him an hour before the
departure of a train for the east yes
terday. Two years ago Plunkett met Miss
Ruth Forrest at Topeka and fell in
love with her. Soon afterward the
young woman left for a tour of the
world. Having delayed asking' Miss
Forrestt to be his wife, Plunkett An
ally proposed by letter. He afterward
went to the orient where he inspected
oil properties in Korea and Manchu
ria. Meanwhile Miss Forrest continued
.
PROFf HDNLINE'S CLASS
TO OPEN AT Y. M. C. A.
Will Be Held Tonight at 8:05
o'clock Over 100
Enrolled.
A treat Is in store for Bible students
of the city at the Y. M. C. A. building
tonight. At 7 o'clock there will be a
supper for men of the city, and fol
lowing the supper the class will be
addressed by Dr. R. F. Campbell, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church.
He will speak on "The Sin of Achan,"
from 7:20 to 7:65 o'clock and both
men and women are Invited to attend
the meetinb of the class.
At 8:05 o'clock Prof. M. A. Hon-
llne, religious educational secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. International commit
tee, will hold the first of the series
of teacher's training classes, this class
not to last later than t o'clock. This
class Is open to both men and women
of the city and over 100 have already
enrolled. The class will be limited to
125 and It is believed that this num
ber will be enrolled before the as
sembling of the first class tonight.
It Is hoped that those who attend
this class will come In time to attend
the class to be taught by Da Camp
bell. CHAIRMAN TRAVIS
PREPARING BRIEF
Special to The Gazette-News.
Raleigh, Neo. 11. Chairman Travis
of the corporation commission Is busy
with a brief on the part of the com
mission to be filed with the Interstate
commerce commission next Tuesday
In Greensboro in answer to the inter
vening petition by Virginia cities
against the proposed reduced inter
state freight rates for North Carolina
points through tha proposal acccptod
by the recent special session of the
legislature.
The Raleigh chamber of commerce
has adopted resolutions denouncing
the attitude of Virginia cities In oppo
sition to the reduced freight rates for
North Carolina points, charging that
their attitude Is unreasonable, unjust
and unnelghbnrly, meriting condem
nation. The chamber Is preparing to
run a "booster" train from Raleigh to
Charlotte over tha Norfolk Southern.
CLASSES Sl'KPENDED IN
MEMortY OF MR. DF.ERIXG
Evanston, 111- Dec. 11. Classes at
Northwestern university will ba sus
pended tomorrow In memory of Wil
liam Dee ring the multimillionaire
farm machine manufacturer, who
died near Miami, Fla., Tuesday night
and whose funeral will be held from
the Daerlng horns here Sunday. Mr.
Deerlng was tha honorary president
of tha board of trustees of tha unl
veralts. '
to warn the public of the danger of j
reducing the protection of beneficia
ries. Such loans he said increased
from three and one third per cent of
the reserve fund in 1888 to 16 percent
in 1912 and probably would approach
18 per cent this year.
The association also discussed
means to circumvent bet rich quick
promoters who acquire the proceeds
of policies left in the hands of inex
perienced widows and orphans.
In addition to the presidents of sev
eral companies the speakers today in
cluded Dr. Rupert Blue, Sergeon gen
eral of the United States public health
service, and Dr. Victor V. Yaughan, j
dean of the department of medicine .
of the University of Michigan and
president of the American Medical j
association. The meeting will last
two . days.
One Year
Future Bride
her trip. The letter of proposal fol
lowed her from one country to an
other but did not reach her until she
returned home. When she finally re
ceived the letter the envelope had
been addressed in sixteen different
languages.
Miss Forrestt replied, accepting.
This letter crossed the Pacific six
times and made numerous trips up
and down the Pacific coast. Plunkett
arrived here yesterday and received
Miss Forrestt's letter, the nevelope of
which was almost covered with nota
tions in Chinese, Japanese, Korean
and other languages.
Plunkett had an hour to catch a
fast eastbound train. , Before starting,
however,, he telegraphed the young
woman that he was on his way.
ATTEMPT ON LIFE Of
Sir Lional Phillips Twice Is
Wounded by a Would-be
Assaccin.
Johannesburg, Union of South
Africa. Dec. 11. An attempt was
made today to assassinate Sir Lionel
Phillips, the leading gold mining
magnate of South Africa. Three
shots were fired at him. One bullet
lodbed in his neck and another in
one of his thighs. His condition is
declared not to be grave. The would-
be assassin was arrested.
The attempt was made while he
was walking on Commissioner street.
The assailant of Sir Lionel Phillip9
was later Identified as a Dutch store
keeper named Nissun and the crime
is supposed to have been actuated by
revenge for the loss of a recent suit
air&lnBt the mining company with
which Colonel Lionel is connected.
8lr Lionel Phillips was closely Iden
tified with the late Cecil Rhodes and
Alfred Beit, and he Is a partner In
the firm of Wernher. Belt & Co. He
has lived in Johannesburg since 1889
In 1896 Sir Lionel was sentenced to
death at Pretoria for participation In
the Jameson raid, together with John
Hays Hammond, George P. Farrar
and Colonel Frank Rhodes. The
sentence was later commuted to a
fine of 1125,000 and banishment.
SUGGESTED PLAN TO
GET LOPEZ REWARD
Gingham, Utah, Dec. 11. Two
women sought permission at the
Utah-Apex mine late last night to en
ter the workings and appeal to Ralph
Lopez, sl"yer of six men, to blve him
self up in order that they might ob
tain the $1000 reward on his head.
Lopes took refuge In the mine on
November 27, where he killed two
deputies In an underground battle
two days later, and all attempts since
to capture him dead or alive have
failed.
The woman said they believed
Lopei's gallantry would Induce him
to surrender, knowing thnt his days
were numbered. The singular request
mas not granted.
MAX TOKKF.H llOMB 1XTO
KTltEKT AXI M VKI; ESCAPE
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 11. A bomb
was tossed across Second avenus in
tha Hazelwood section of the city at
daybreak today and exploded, shatter
ing tha front of the building occupied
by Thomas Glrocl ns a fruit stora.
Windows In the Hazelwood Savings
and Trust company building next door
were shattered and other damage
done, but the police declare no one
was Injured. Patrolman M, L. Toole
saw a man crouch In the shsdow of a
telephone pola and throw the bomb.
Ha fired aftor hint as he ran away but
tha man
MEXICO REBELS
I
Do Not Contemplate Delay
Which Would be of Im-
mense Advantage to "
Federals,
MAKING PROGRESS IN
ATTACK ON TAMPICO
Americans and Other Foreign
ers Are Being Taken to
Neutral Zone; None
Are Injured. i '
Presidio, Tex., Dec. 11. The Uklng
of civilian refugees across the river
into United States territory and the -building
of defenses in anticipation of
a rebel attack at Ojlraga, today pro
ceeded actively In the Mexican village -opposite
Presidio, where the bulk of
the Mexican government troops In
the north have concentrated.
That the next move will be forced
by the rebels is conceded, for Genoral
Salvador Mercado, commander of tha
federals, has taken a waiting position,
meantime, reprovisioning his troops
while the rebel forces under General
Herrera are moving toward the city
as rapidly as possible.
It is the rebels' plan to precipitate a
crisis wiinout allowing a delay which
would be of immense advantage to
the federals in their efforts to rose ,
and feed their exhausted soldiers.
Time also means a more elaborate
system of barricades and forts for th
federals.
Wagon loads of nrovisions s.re he- .
ing brought from Marfa, Tex., the
tiMULdi o.iivvajl aiUUUM, lO LtlC U'-IIUVI
Luis Terrazas, who owns millions 1 1
the richest men in the republic, cross- .
ed the river with hla-fanllv and went"
to Marfa. He practically had been
held a prisoner at Chihuahua, and it
was not until the whole federal garri
son accompanied him that he was able
to leave the country where his life had .
been threatened by the rebels. It is
said that Terrazas' cattle served to
feed both federals and rebels In this
and the Madero revolution. Senor
Terrazas was met by a delegation
from Oklahoma City, Okla., where he
was invited to make his future home.
Foreigners to Neutral Zone.
Washington, Dec. 11. Official re
ports from Rear Admiral Fletcher to
the navy department today said the
Mexican rebels were making progress
In their attack on Tamplco and that
Americans and all other foreigners
had been removed to a neutral zone.
Thus far no foreigners have been In
jured. l ne uispaicnes HiLy mm uie uun
combatants have 'been gathered near
the water front where they are under
the protection of the guns of the scout
cruiser Chester and the gunboats
Wheeling and Tacoma. The battle
ships Michigan and Rhode Island are .
further out
The fighting has been going on since
yesterday and from the harbor tha
American naval officers have observed
that strategically the rebels seem to
have the better position and are mak
ing headway. A request of the rebel
general that Americans leave was act
ed upon at once. Some Americans
and British were taken aboard ships
while others were taken to neutral
territory Just outside of the town and
near the waterfront.
The American officers In their re
port indicate that foreigners will
probably be safe In the neutral zone
but If not they will be taken aboard
the American war vessels.
It'fugcg on German Ship.
Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 11. Cap
tain Rantzan of the Hamburg-American
liner Kronprinzeasln Cecelle ca
bled to the head office of the com
pany here today that his vessel was
taking refugees on board at the Mex
ican seaport of Tamplco, where fight
ing between the rebels and the fed
erals began yesterday.
MRS. ELLA FLAGUS YOFXU
WITHDREW FKOM ELECTION
Chicago, Dec. 11. Lack of undlvld-
ed support from the board of educa
tion was given by Mra. Ella Flsgg
Young as the reason why she with
drew her name as a candidate for re
election of superlntendency of the
public sohools, as last night's session
of the board of education. After a
vote which failed to elect her, Mrs.
Young withdrew, and John D. Shoop,
assistant superintendent, was selected
on the second ballot to succeed her.
WARRANT IS ISSUED FOR
ARREST OF GEN. 8ALAZAR
Albuquerque, N. M., Dec. 11. At
the Instance of United States Attorney
Summers Hurkhart a warrant was Is
sued yesterday for General Josa Ynls
Salazar of the Mexican federal army,
charging him with violation of tha
United States neutrality lawa Balaxar
was arrested about a year ago on a
similar charge but released on bond.
Ha failed to appear for trial and bis
bonds were forfeited. Should ha again
cross Into the United Elates be wlU be
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