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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest o
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uhe Peopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs.
VOL. X No. 22
Salisbury, N. O., Wedn
esday, May 20th, 1914.
wm.h, Stewart, Editor
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THE "WAR" IN MEXICO
Wnatthe America and Mex can Forces
are Doing wh their Mouths and Firearms
VeraCJruz May 16. Anti
Huerta activity is increasing
and uprisings in the federal
ranks are being reported from
several sections. Albert L
Huber, a German coffee plan
ter of St. Andres, Tuxtla,
down the coast near Alvara
do, reached here touight seek
ing protection. He says A
mericau filibusters are attack-,
ing Huerta's forces in that
district. Two brothers, nam
fed Rogers, Huber says are the
leaders ofa band of about 200,
' eight of which, beside the
Rogers brothers, are Ameri
cans. Rogers was a tobacco
planter and he refused to pay
the force taxes levied upon
him by the government and
was threatened with arrest.
Instead of submitting he al
lied himself with the band of
insurrectos.
Mazatlan, IVay 16, (iener
al Obregon deelarfk today he
will begin his advance on
Mexico City with 20,000 men
within a week. 'Hi,erta will
be dead before the end of
June," was Obregon's sinis
ter comment when telliDg of
his plans for his trial march
on the dictator's capital. O
bregon says his plans are to
go to ,the city of Tepic and
there advance on Guadelara
which is about half way dis
tance between Mazatlan and
fhe capital. Obregon expects
that by the time his armies
are at Tepic the troops will be
able to unite with him for the
fiual advance ou Mexico City.
VeraJJruz, May 16. A fed
eral major last night took two
federal lieutenants and four
soldiers from Tejeria at Mex
ico City to make a full report
of the killing of Private Parka
It is rumored that they will
report that the federal out
posts saw Parks riding a black
horse and leading another
and that when Parks saw the
outposts he reached for his
pistol whereupon hejwas shot.
Officers talking among them
selves at Tembladera decided
upon this story as the oue
they would tell in Mexico as
a plausible reason for killing
Parks.
Durengo,May 15. General
Blanco, commander of the
Tepic division of the constitu
tionlist army, today reported
to General Carranza that af
ter a bloody battle lasting
forty-nine hours, the consti
tutionalists had driven the
federal garrison out of Tepic
and occupied the city. Tepic
is a short distance inland
from the Pacific ocean and is
considered one of the most
important cities in the west
ern portion of the republic.
Simultaneous with the captur
by theconstitutalists of Tepic
General Bulaa captured the
port of San Bias, while a
small division of the rebel
army occupied Ixueintian.
New Arm Machine gun Is a Terrible Wea.
pon
, A new weapon has been pro
videdfor the U-S army which
is far more efficient than any
heretpiore adopted it was
invented and is used by the
Jrench military authontiee,
and already nearly a hundred
have been purchased by the
United btates. The new gun
which is described in the
June Pot alar mechanics mag.
azine. Weighs but 35 lb. and
caQ easily be carried by a sol
di8r. Two men are required
to operate it, both of whom
lio flat on the ground, present
lhjj a small mark to the ene;
my; Kjne man ieeas tne car
tr-dges into the breech of the
gua in clips of 25 each, while
tbi other aims the weapon
and directs the firing mechan
ism. lhe gun will operate
automatically, in which case
auu snots may oe- nred per
A .
minute.. At long range a
third soldier ascertains the
ringe by the use of biuocu
lars, and reports the effect of
the bullets.
To Prevent Blood Poisoning
apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR.
PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL, a sur
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UNCLE SAM DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION
News of the Fate of Private Samuel Paiks
Must be Given
Washington, May 15, The
United States today demand
ed of the Huerta Goverment
news of the fate of Private
Samuel Parks the American
infantryman, who strayed in
to Mexican lines near Vera
Cruz, declaring that unless
information about him was
givn immediately the Ameri
ian Government would cons
sider that "an unfriendly
and hostle act" had been com
raitted in violation of the un
derstanding for a cessation of
hostilities pending mediation.
President Wilson and Sec
retary Bryan, it was learned
tonight, drafted a strong
communication, after receiv
ing word from the Brazilian.
Minister in Mexico Oity that
Parks had been "executed."
No mention was made in
the Minister's report of wheth
er he was shot as a spy after
a court martial or whether
his body was burned as has
been repotted persistenly to
General Funston.
The American Goverment
cabled the Brazilian Minister
to inform the Huerta Govern
ment the strong feeling of the
United States in the matter
directing him to make vigor
ous representations concern
ing the incident.
The note asked the Minis
ter to protest to the Huerta
Government that if Parks
were alive, the failure to ex
plain his whereabouts was in
itself an unfriendly attitude
and that if the soldier had
been executed, as has been
reported, such execution of a
man who came into the Mexi
can lines in full uniform was
contary to military procedure
of civilized Nations and was
-art act of hostility : ' -
yY 8 Stractian. Secretary of the N C Fed
eral Reserve Division
Raleigh, May 16. The fed
eral reserve division created
by the North Carolina Bank
er's association in session here
this week has organized by
the selection of J Elwood Cox
of High Point who was the
introducer of the resolution
to have such a divsion in the
association, as chairman, and
W B Strachan, of Salisbury,
secretary, lhe division fol
lowed the lead of the main
body of the association, and
endorsed Col. John F Bruton
of Wilson, tor a place on the
directorate of the federal re
serve bank for this district at
Richmond, class A, and R M
Miller, Charlotte, as director
for class B in this district.
Chairman Cox has named a
special committee which he
will head, to go to Richmond
Monday to be present for the
organization of the federal re
serve bans there, This com
mittee consists of H H Victor
Charlotte; Joseph G Brown,
Raleigh: H C McQueen, Wil
mington; E C Duncan Raleigh
W B Strachan, Salisbury.
This will constitute a sort of
steering committee on the
North Carolina baukers in the
work of forming the feaeral
reserve bank. Many other
bankers will probably go to
Richmond for the occasion
from this state.
Struck With the Gold Fev jr.
Having reoeatly learned of the
California sold hunters in tie
year 1848, mail carriers J. W
S. Correll, and J.T. Daal, thought
perhaps the small stipend month
ly drawn from the coffers of Uocle
Sam might be enlarged by other
enterprises and, therefore, having
suspicions that gold, that yellow
and bewitching metal, oould be
dag ap in the vicinity of Rooky
Ru'i, hied themselves thence, did
dig and observe, but to what par
pose none has learned. They
still labor f r yonr Uncle Sam,
bat with some appearance of dis
appointment. It is said there is
gold in sea water, perhaps they
will go to the sea shore, China
Grove Raoord.
for Weakness and Loss of Appetite
rh Old Standard seneral trrentrtheninsr tonic.
GROVE'S TASTELESS drill TONIC, drives out
tUkwrimmnd builds up tftt wstem. A true Santa
mil flui'iimi m llilrs mil i liitilim fl
SEED SOWING IN MEXICO
Why Catholics does not want the Bible Read
.and How They Would Prevent it.
Down in southern . Oaxaoa
where the sugar cane and oastor
bean flourish, there is a large pop
ulation of boriet Indiau who are
truly liberal and anxious to kuow
the truth and follow it at any
cost when once tbey are satisfied
thas they have found it. Among
these honest people there went a
Baptist col porter named Lazarui,
who, like: his biblical namesake,
is a ''friend of Jesus." Strapped
to the back of his mule, Lazarus
had a large bundle of Bibles and
testaments. On market days in
each plaza he unpacked his bundle
and spread bis wares among the
venders of eggs, .vegetables and
other commodities. ,
On one of these days, Don Joan
(we will call him that for short),
a well-to-do farmer from a neigh
boring village, eqied a nice large
family Bible with gilt edges. It
was a fiue looking book, bat Don
Juin did not recognize the title.
Lazarus explained to him briefly
that it was a good book, the very
best in the world and its possessor
would never have occasion to -re
gret its purchaie. Don Juan
asked the price It was $3. He
said he would buy it on the word
of Lazarus and if he foucd it to be
a good book, well and good; bat
if not, then Lazarus would hear
from him. Don Juan begin read
ing it at home. It surely was unlike-
anything he had evr
read before. It said so much
about G:?d and Jesus and some of
the apostles that the village
"padre" ought to see it, and tell
him whether after all it was a wise
purchase So D.a Juan took the
Bible to the village priest. Oae
glance was suffnent. He took it,
and tore out paste after page, and
then4 threw it dowa in the dirt,
and frigtened poor Juan with the
violence of his language. That
settled it for Jaan. He had been
deceived. A Protestant bad sold
aim Protestant book. He would
tajce it back, torn and mutilated
and -t&mand ,thar atarao'. hit .
money. He had no difficulty in
finding Lazarus. He told Laza
rus he had been mistaken. It
mast be a bad book because the
''padre" had said so.r It was
Lazarus' turn this time, and he
isked Dm Juan to point out
where the book said anything bad.
He evSn offered to give him back
bis $3 if he could fi id one verse
that was bad. Don Juan con
fessed that he had not read it care
fully, but he wanted his money
back anyway.
A'l right" said Lazarus "I
shall get the $3 for you,- bat the
man who tore the book and soiled
it Will have to pay the money."
Lizarus went to the ''perfeoture, "
the judge of the,looal police court
and told hiB story, showing the
mutilated Bible The judge, who
was a liberal man, and hated fa
natioism in every form, wrote a po
lite note to the village priest, tell
ing him that inastnuoa as he had
deliberately destroyed several dol
lars wortn ot anotner man s
property, he certainly would not
objeot to paying for ; the same,
and if there was any question
about it, he could come into oourt
and explain why he did it.
Lazarus, armed with this note,
sought an interview witn the
priest. It was granted, and the
"padre' was quick to inquire tije
amount he owed "Three dollars,
please" said Lazarus, "andplease
rememcer that neither yon nor
any other can destroy the Word
of God, for it is written: "Tijl
heaven and earth pass, one jot or
tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law."
The best part of the story is
that the soiled and; mutilaed
Bible was kept after all by Dou
Juan, and it led to his oonversio n
He is a member of our oh a rob. at
Ejatla, and the villaag priest has
not attempted again to: bother
Lazarus in his good work'of sow
ing the good seed. G)orge H.
Brewer. ?
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LATE NES ITEMS,
Matters of News G
3crerJ ana Condensed
for the Reads
b of This Paper.
Hugh, the lj year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. S P. Dyson of
Mocksville, white working at the
MocksviHe Furniur" Company's
plant Thursday, as struck in the
stomach by a stfefc which he was
using to put a belt on a machine.
He was internally injured and
bled to death, .the end oomiug
Friday. Tbe bririal took place
Saturday at Sh ffield.
William Wyatt, one of Mocks
ville's oldest and most respected
citizens; died Friday after a few
weeks illness and was buried Sat 1
urday at Rose cematery.
Sidney Swain, the highly re
specked white metohant of Char
lotte, who operated a small Btcre
on M;nt street at the couthern
Rkilway intersection, died at the
Presbyterian Hospital Sunday
morning at 6 o'clock as the result
of two terr'fio blows on the head, j
received when waylaid and robbed
during the early hours of the
morning while on his way home
from his place of business. Short
lv before he died, Officers Mc
Knight and Orr arrested Charles
E. Truls a we'l-known young
maa about town, in the segregat
ed district of the city, and as the
result of the coroner's inquest
Sunday afternoon, Trull is held
without bond on a warrant charg
ing him with murder,
Alleging that Dillard Hooker, a
youug white man . who works on
the Wakefield farm east of Char
lotte, had ordered him out of his
own home, H. O. Williams, who
lives on the Park Road five miles
east of that city drew his pistol
and fired five times Sanday after
noon just aboit sundown, four of
t e bullets taking effect, one en
tering Hooker's breast just to the
left of his heart, another groov
ing his right side, a third his left
arm aud a fourth his Tight knee.
H) died 15 mintes before mid
night. Williams was arrested by
Depatv Sheriff Fesperma'u
were oarried out to to the scene by
J. E. Morris. Williams was
brought back to the city and lodg
ed in jail, pending the determina
tion of the extent of Hooker s m-
junei. lo the omsers who ar
rived on the scene shortly after
the shooting, Williams stated that
he had shot Hookir because he
(Hooker) had ordered him oat, of
his own home aud that he didn't
propose to stand tor any such
treatment. The two had been
drinking together and the row is
supposed to have started over
some trival affair, such as that de
tailed by tie main who did the
shooting.
Washington, May 17. Five of
16 miQ who left th burning
steamer Columbian in tin third
and Hissing boat were rescued off
the coast of Nova Scotia today by
the United States revenue cutter
Seneca The other 11 had died
from exposure and their bodies
had been oast into the sea. In
the boat were Robert Tieoe, Oscar
Kendall and Peter Ballanger, sea
men: and Miohael Luiwigsea,
fir-men, and the first offiior whose
name was not given. All of the
survivors were ;n a state of com
plete mental and physical exhaus
tion as the result of their terrible
experiences in the open boat at
sea.
Convention of the 15th. Judicial District.
The Democratic Convention of
the 15th, Judioial District is here
by called' to meet in the city of
Sali8bary. N. C, on Thursday,
tbe 26 m day of May, for the nomi
nation of a Democratic candidate
for solicitor for the said district,
and for the transaction of such
other business as may oome be
fore the convention.
The convention will be called to
order at noon upon the day men
tioned.
By order of tbe Executive Com
mittee:
Hal M. Worth, chairman,
Democratic Executive Com
mittee 15. b Judicial District.
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Due to complete trip on May 4th 1918.
Landing at Seattle, Wash., from there following the coast line through via IyUgene. Rosebarg,
Pistno Beach, Sam Amonica, Oregon; thence to L,os Angeles Cal.; BaUersfield, Plasterville and
Reno, Nevada; thence via Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Col., thence via Grand Forks, and Nichie,
N. D.; thence to Montreal, Can.; thence through Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts; Provi
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HUERTA MUST RETlREuNCONOlTl0.iALLK
The Dictator is Not in a Position to Dictate
Air Terms.
Washington, May 16. These
significant developments ocourred
in the Mexican situation 'today:
1- The state department indi
cated that it will make no terms
with General Huerta. In oth?r
words no conditional retirement
will be acceptable to the United
States.
2 The state department says
tbe aotion of the British admiral,
Sir Christopher Craddock, and his
entire staff in making a formal
call on the constitutionalist gen
eral, Qonyales, may be regarded (
as a recognition by Qreat Britain
of the bel'igerenoy of the consti
tutionalists. A similar sten on
the part of the United States is ex
pected in a few days.
3The failure of Huerta to ex
plain the fate of Consul Sillimao
and Privrte Parks has brought
abmt a situation so aoute that
orders for the moblizatnn of more
troops at Galveston for Vera Cras
are expected.
4 The feeling in Washington is
so strong tnat the president is
about to address a oommunioation
to oongress on the subject.
Concerning reported compro
mise proposals by Huerta the opin
ion of the administration is that
Huerta is in no position to diotae
terms to anybody.
The loss of Tampioo and of Tax
tan the latter being credits! as
reliable news today, mikes it all
tae more useless, in the view of
the president's advisers, for Huer
ta to endeavor to temporariie by
the suggestion of terms to the
United States.
The probable recognition by
Great Britain of the belligerency
of the constitutionalists is of great
significance particularly iu view
of the faot that Great Britain was
one of the foreign nations, to ra
cognize Huerta in the first in
stanoe. The belief here that the
Uc.ited States also is about to re
oognise the belligerenoy of the
constitutionalists is strengthened
by the knowledge that this gov
ernment was about to take such
a Btep several months ago, but the
murder of William Benton, a
British subject, so complicated
matters that it was postponed.
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Passengers from Sahsury. Nor
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PRESIDENT ViLSJN WAS SPEAKER
"Father of The Navi" Barry, Was Irish
Bur BdCjms Ao lAniiiican.
Washington, May 16. As elev
en guns Doomed out a com
modore's salute this afternoon
the statue to commjdre John
Barry, father of the American na
vy, was uuvjiled. President Wil
son mads the principal address.
He said in pare:
"John Barry fought like every
other mau in tbe revolution, in
order that America might be free
to mike her owu'life without in
terruption or disturbaaoe from
an qaar&er. You can sum up
h up
the wnole thing iu- that America
had a right to her own selfdatsr
minea me.
"We cannot afford alliances
wicu tnose wno are not going our
way and in our migat and majesty
and in tne certainty of oar own
purpose we - ueea not and we
should not form au alliance with
any nation in the world.
'John Barry was an Irishman.
bat his heart crossed the Atiautio
with him. Ha did not leave it
behind in Ireiaodand tbe best
of all of us had our origin on the
other side of the sea. This mau
was not au Irish-American he
was au Irishman wno became an
American. I venture to sav that
if he voted he voted with regard
to the things as they looked on
this side of cue water and not on
the other side. And this is my
infallible test of a genuine Amari
can, tuat when he votes, wnen
he acts and when he fights his
heart and his thoughts are no
where but in the oenter of the emo
tions and the purposes and tae
policies of the United States.
''And so, iadies' and gentlemen
when we go oat from this preseno
we ought to take this idea with us
that we to are devoted to the par-
pose of enabling America to live
her own life to be the justest,
the most progressive, the most
honorable, the most enlightened
nation in the world . Any man
who. stands in the way of that
kind of progress which makes for
Amerioan freedom cannot call
himself our friend.
"No man who thinks first of
himelf and afterward of his
country can call himself a true
American. America must be en
riched by us. We must not live
upon her. She must live by
meanB of us."
The above sentiments are fine,
even good enough for the Presi
dent to live up to, but lo, he has
already admitted to many of the
kind who vote aud act "with re
gard to the things as they look on
the other side of the water."
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PRESIDENT WILSON SERVED ULTIMATUM.
Colorado Governor Must Rouse Himself and
Put State in condition to Handle Strikes.
Washington. May 16. Presi
dent Wilson tonight served an
ultimatun on the SGate of Col
orado. He notified Governor Am
nions that unless the state takes
charge of the strike situation he
oannot notu federal troops there
indefinitely. The telegram sent
to Governor Ammons follows:
"Am disturbed to hear of the
probability' of the adiournment of
your legislature and feel bound to
: . J . i . - .
remind you suae my constitutional
obligation with regard to the
maintenance of order in Colorado
are not to be indefiaitely-ooutinsk
ed by the inaotion of the state
legislature. The federal forces
are there only until the state of
Colorado has time snd oppor
tunity to resume complete sover
eignty and control in the matter.
I cannot oonoeive that the state is
willing to forego her sovereignty
or to throw herself entirely upon
the government of the United
States and I am quite clear that
she has not the constitutional
right to do so when it is within
the power of her legislature to
take effiaotive aotion.
(Signed) "Woodrow Wilson."
Denver, Col,, May 16. Called
sharply to aosount by President
Wilson for the failure of the extra
session of the Colorado legislature
to do anytaing definite in the
cause of peace in the strike zone
Governor Ammons tonight ssnt a
reply to President Wilson in whioh
be said that the state by the pas
sage of a million dollar militia
bond bill is placed in a position
to regain oontrol of the situation.
The governor stated that as Boon
as the bonds oan be issued the
funds will be available and the
state will oontrol the situation.
What tbe Odd Fellows are Doing
Grand Master M L Shipman
of the North Carolina Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows, an
nounces that reports for the
year to be presented to the
grand lodge, in seventyfirst
annual session in Durham
next week, will show that the
membership has well passed
the 17,000 mark, the hightest
in the history of the order in
thi8tate: There are 25(J sub
ordinate lodge. Of this num
ber 134 reports a net gain of
566 in membership daring the
past year. The grand lodge
convenes in Durham Tuesday
evening.
Two of the mort important
matters of new business to
come up will be resolutions to
provide, that elections of
grand masters be held every
two instead of every one 'year
and that the delegates to the
supreme grand lodge be in.
structed to vote for an amend
ment to the constitution so
that eighteen instead of twen
ty-one shall be the minimum
age limit for initation into the
order.
The grand lodge paid dur
ing the pist year $3, 500 on the
indebtedness of the Orphan's
Home. Goldsboro, still own
ing $i0,O0J, with $3,000 in
good pledges. This is on the
Jacobi Memorial building e
rected at a cost of $25,000.
The home is just now caring
for 101 boys and 93 girls.