Ube Chatham Tfccoro
H. A- LONDON
editos and propeietox.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
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STRICTLY IN ADVANCE
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VOL. XXXIII.
P1TTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 19II.
NO. 32.
TEbe Chatham "RecorD,
RATES OF ADVEBTISIflR
Cm Sqtsare, one taaertlM......Gg
One Square, twa tasertUaa.... gJl
Om &aare. mm BMtk aQ
For Larger Advert fo
ments Liberal Contracts
will be made.
aiu r a n business. As this statement is also
ALL U W Hi Ob Tl confessedly unfair no further refer
TO RAISE' RATE
RICHMOND, VA. Special.
The State Corporation Commission
ias handed down a decision in the
passenger rate case of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road, and entered an order permit
ting the road to charge 2 cents a
mile for passenger traffic on its lines
from this city to Quantico, the north
ern terminus, beginning April 1st.
The present rate is 2 cents a mile.
The company asked to be allowed to
charge 3 cents a mile. Judge Rhea
filed a dissenting opinion in favor of
continuance of the present 2-cent
rate. The majority opinion was con
curred in by Judges Prentis and
Wingtield.
Text of Commission's Order.
Following is the decision of the ma
jority of the commission:
The commission having maturely
considered the evidence and the ar
gument of counsel, for the reasons
stated in the written opinion filed as
part of the record, doth adjudge, pre
scribe and order as follows:
1. That from and after the first day
of April, 1911, and after the publica
tion according to law, the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road Company may put into effect
and observe a maximum rate of two
and one-half cents per mile for the
intrastate transportation of passen
gers in Virginia; and on and after
that date it shall be unlawful for the
said Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company to charge
or collect a greater rate for such
transportation of - passengers over
lines of railway controlled and oper
ated by it than is allowed or pre
scribed in this order, or than is here
after allowed or prescribed by the
State Corporation Commission.
2. That this order shall not be
construed as authorizing or allowing
the withdrawal from sale" of any com-
ence need be made of it
Statement No. 1 apportions the ex
penses between interstate and intra
state passenger business upon the
basis of passenger miles instead ot
upon the number of passengers, and
this seems to be the proper way to
apportion expenses between the
interstate and intrastate pas
senger business. But the table
is claimed to be unfair to the
railway company because it includes
as intrastate passengers those persons
who buy tickets to Alexandria at the
2-cent rate and continue their jour
neys to points beyond the State, and
hence are not truly intrastate pas
sengers. We will, i'aerefore dismiss
further consideration of this table as
unfair to the railway company.
Proper Ua--fs Found Here,
- ...... mviinixin u?reio
made, we believe statement No. 2 to
be the table which properly apportions
the expense between the interstate and
intrastate business. The apportion
ment is made upon the basis of pas
senger miles, excluding from the in
trastate revenue that derived from the
interstate passengers who buy reduced
rate tickets to Alexandria and travel
over the line to points beyond the
State. It shows that the number of
miles traveled by intrastate passen
gers is 6,580,911, as against 31,965,459
.w j ttoociici o. j. iie in
trastate passenger mileage, therefore,
nnnctitiitm OA Eft a. . r
juv.os pei uein. ui ine en
tire passenger mileage. By -this table
strate that it did its intrastate busi
ness for the year 1909 at a loss, or
deficit, of $13,823.18. A casual glance
at the table, however, shows that of
this alleged deficit $10,586.59 is the
loss on intrastate freight business, be
cause the entire revenue derived from
freight business, as shown by that ta
ble, is $77,870.80, . while the entire
freight expense, as shown thereby, is
$88,457.39. While these figures, if as
arranged, they fairly exhibit the true
condition of affairs, might justify an
application for an increase in the in
trastate freight rates, they afford no
justification whatever for laying an
additional burden upon the passenger
nctiiiu. niasmutn as mis commission
. : l ...... 1 1 ,-.1- , .1 l' n n M'
mutation rates or iiuieasc "v-bcw i ncmit. iiiaomuuii as mis commission
authorized and published by the said I has" never reduced the freight rates
Richmond, FredeTisourg and Poto-xupon .this line, and these intrastate
u o ; it-,,1 i .iiimnariv; - - - Tfreisrht rates have bppn volnntarilv Tint
3 That in applying the ofegoirrS;' -in by the company without let or hin
maximum passenger rates, prescrbied drance from any public authority, we
for it, the Richmond, Fredericksburg must assume that they are made to
and Potomac Railroad Company may meet competition, or that for some
haul; no charge shall be made for then, after deducting this apparent
fractions o'f -mjss than one-half mile, loss on freight, an apparent loss of
and fractions of one-half mile or more $3,236.57 on intrastate: passenger bus-
i., ,.nnor6H as rne- milev&nd for iness for the ' vsar referred to. It
maj -.c i..'uiiwv.v - -.-. . i . . - , -- - --- --
mat in s
o"l-l number of mijes the. Gonipffiry seems plain to us, however,
v charge as for the next .highest loss is only .'apparent, for it
. nf miloo . Vnr examnle. nears from that statpmpnt
llllLfrx l -. - -
an
ma
for e i even miles the charge may be as intrastate passenger train revenue is
- . -mn.o ". ' rrpnitpri with nnlv 3 fi. ner r-ent of thp
iwr twelve uwico. i . "
4 said Richmond, Fredericks- gross earnings of $62,109.07 for car-
a t-., T o i 1 rr-n A Pnmnanv rvir" flit TTnitiiH Statics mail or &' -
DUrn aiiti irukuiua nuuivuu - . - - - . - . . . ........ . t
may charge and -collect, in addition 235.93, and such intrastate passenger
to the regular ticket rates, the fixed train revenue is only credited with 6
sum ol x'j teiiis iijm a."
passengers who have been afforded a
reasonable opportunity for purchasing
tickets before boarding the trains;
provided, that the conductor shall in
all such cases deliver to the passenger
a receipt for the amount collected,
redeemable at a-y ticket office of the
company withiii to days from the
tfate of issue.
The present gtr eral rules, whether
made by this commission or by the
earlier, with reu-ience to the trans
portation of baggage, shall remain
effective.
All other questions are reserved.
Judge Rbea Dissents.
Commissioner Rhea filed the follow
ing dissenting opinion:
This is a petition of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company asking that it may be allowed
to increase its present intrastate maxi
mum passenger rate of two cents per
mile to three cents per mile. After
hearing and considering the evidence in
the case my associates are of the opin
ion that the present rate of two cents
per mile should be increased to two and
one-half cents per mile. I do not con
cur in this view, and without going into
any extended discussion of the evidence
prsenjed I will say it is my Plnio
Ciat the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company should be
required to maintain its present maxtj
a am rate of two cents per. mile.
The Commission's Analysis.
Discussing the evidence and allega
tions of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac in detail, Judge Prentis
Bays, and commissioner Wmgneld
concurs, as follows:
Since the first of October, 1907, the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po
tomac Railroad Company has been
operating under a maximum intrastate
passenger rate of 2 cents per mile per
,....,.,,,.. TViio rata was fixed bv this
-commission after a hearing by the or
der of April 27, 1907. Aiterwarus,
upon the petition of that company,
and upon . condition" that such rates
was to be maintained until the fur
ther order of this commission, a re
hearing was granted, and the issue
raised upon that petition for rehearing
is now to be decided. The company
alleges that the 2-cent per mile max
imum rate for intrastate passengers
applying to its line is unreasonable,
unfair, improper and confiscatory, and
claims that its maximum rate for. in
trastate travel should certainly be not
teas than 3 cents per mile per pas
senger. -It
submits to sustain its allegations
under the petition for rehearing four
statements of revenues and expenses
of intrastate operations for the year
wading June 0, 1909,' which state
ments are numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4,
and sustain the verity of the statis
tics of such business so reported, by
the evidence of two witnesses.
Tables Discarded One by One.
No. s undertakes to ap
portion the expense between its in
passengers carried. This statement,
on the line, who makes two trips a
day and navs only 6 cents for his
pears from that statement that the
$11 8, 814". 8 6 for carrying express mat
ter, or $7,128.89, while the expense of
carrying such intrastate mail and ex
press is charge'd on the basis of intra
state passenger mileage with 20.59 per
cent, of the expense of doing that bus
iness. In other words, the figures,
when analyzed, show that while the
intrastate earnings on United States
mail are only credited with $2,236.93,
those earnings are charged with $7,
726 as the expense of doing that bus
iness. The same error is repeated in
dealing with the express revenue, for
while the intrastate revenue is only
credited with $7,128.89, it is charged
with 20.59 per cent, of the expense of
doing the business, or $14,783.50. With
these figures revised and charging the
intrastate passenger train revenue
with expenses based upon the revenue
received, or 3.6 per cent., the differ
ence in favor of the intrastate revenue
on United States mail is $6,375.17, and
on the same basis charging express
revenue with 6 per cent, of the ex
pense of doing it, the. difference in
favor of the intrastate revenue on ex
press business is $10,475.53. So that
the apparent deficit of $3,236.57 above
referred to on passenger train revenue
is canceled, and accepting the figures
of the company, and fairly analyzing
them, a profit upon passenger train
intrastate business is shown, amount
ing to $13,814.13. That the results
here stated may ' be clearly appre
hended, the said statement 2 filed by
the company, together with an addi
tional statement relating to the United
States mail and express revenue and
expenses, are hereto appended as a
part of this opinion.
Another Unfair Charge.
There is in this table another item
charged against the intrastate freight
revenue which should not be over
looked. That revenue is charged with
15 per cent, of the gross intrastate
freight revenue as the excess of the
expense of doing the local freight
business over the average, business,
amounting to $11,248.54. The theory
upon which this charge, is. made is
that it costs more to do . intrastate
freight business than it does to do
the entire freight business. If this be
admitted to be true - it would seem
that at least in the case of this rail
road such additional expense has been
fully provided for without the addi
tion of this arbitrary and estimated
charge. For it appears from the evi
dence submitted by the company that
although the intrastate freight consti
tutes only 5.18 per cent, of the total
tonnage, yet it has already been
charged in that statement with 9.36
per cent, of the expense of doing the
total freight business, and that while
the average revenue per ton from all
business is 60 cents, the average from
tntrastatP 1 80 fients Der ton. it iur
(portion me expeuw; ucmctu. " niLiasiie m ou - .
terstate and intrastate passenger traf- ther appears from the evidence that
tic upon the basis of the number of the intrastate freight rates are about
i - J mi 1 rx 4- rtW On t . s-. jtm i T-l .kT7'k 1-111 O HPT
50 per cent, greater in revenue per
however, is frankly admitted to be ton miie. So that it would seem that
unfair by the petitioner's own witness, the additional expense of doing the
as applying to this railway, because intrastate freight business has already
there are a great many commuters Deen provided for by this company by
who travel short distances over this such expense charged and such high-
y,o. n nnnrtmnmAnt of such - - m : v. t. -
...... -- v. . ..n i-tiiiTKmr to-Ho travels!
expenses the - passenger who travels
the shortest distance and buys the
cheanest ticket is made to contribute
as much to the general passenger ex- of fi&ures presented by the com-
Failed to Show Confiscation.
We believe, therefore, that the ta-
per.se as the passenger who travels and rened upon to demonstrate
the whole length of the line and pays oroDOSitlon that the present two-
tne maximum rate. ine commuter, - maxlmum rate for in-
and there are some sucn wno travel - nasaeneers is confiscatory, s
trastate passengers is confiscatory, so
far from sustaining mai aueeouuu
day and pays only 6 cents for ms piainiy demonstrates that there
journey, contributes as much to the ?sl srnall pofit and not a deficit aris
expense of the passenger service un- s a s y business.
oer mis staterr. it as me traveler -- -- ti which we are to con
vrho fr-n "Ifhrnnnrl to Fred- ine Question wim,ii c . .
, , , , 7 v", , Rider however, is wnetner such iaw
cricksburg Tl. ore this table is smer ftilr and reasonable profit to
discarded from lather consideration. 1 nv without imnosins undue
"Confessedly unfair."
Statement No. 4 is made up upon
the same basis, except that in this
statement passengers who are mak
ing interstate journeys, but only buy
tickets to Alexandria in order to se
cure the benefit of the intrastate rate
of 2 cents per mile, are excluded, upon
the theory that the intrastate, busi
ness should not be credited with such
Passengers, but that as they are in
truth and in fact interstate passen
gers the revenue derived from them
afcouid be credited to the interstate
the company without imposing undue
hardships upon tne traveling puuu.
Taking a broad view of the railway
situation in this State, and having al
ready established a standard maxi
mum rate of two and one-half cents
per mile per passenger, the question
to be determined is whether the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad Company should be allowed
to charge a similar rate. . .
On Par Ith Other Road.
While the density of passenger travel
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IIIwiip!l8S
On the right is Senator Robert I. O
ship of the Democratic minority in th
hood filibuster caused Senator Joseph
resign his senatorial seat Senator O
New Mexico statehood act unless actio
Arizona to State privileges. This st
aroused the anger of Senator Bailey,
nature of Arizona's Constitution, whi
as the referendum and recall, stating
hold so radical a Constitution. Bail
to the support of Owen and agreed
and Arizona measures, with the resu
This angered tie Senator from Tex
his seat from the Senate. Subsequent
wen, of Oklahoma, whose le&der
e New Mexico and Arizona state-
J. Bailey, of Texas (on the left), to
wen refused to allow a vote on the
n was also taken on the bill admitting
and on the part of Senator Owen
who took exception to the radical
ch included such progressive clauses
that no true Democrat should up
ey's fellow Senators, however, went
to a vote on both the New Mexico
It that neither territory was admitted,
as to such an extent that he resigned
ly he withdrew his resignation.
upon this line is greater than on many
other lines in the State, and while we
believe on account of its large inter
state earnings that it is in position to
continue to maintain its present two
cent rate without undue hardships, we
still believe' that, taking all the circum
stances into consideration, two and one
half cents per mile per passenger is a
fair rate for the service rendered. The
fact that it has a good location, is well
organized, has conducted its affairs
with economy and skill, and has built
up a -prosperous business, is- to its
credit, and its stockholders are entitled
to all fair profits and benefits arising
from their investment. It is the duty
of the company to serve the public
properly and at reasonable and Just
rates, and there Is a reciprocal duty on
the part of the public to pay reasonable
prices for the services rendered. While
we cannot accede to the company's con
tention that it should have three cents
per mile per passenger as its maximum
passenger rate, we think that it is en
titled to the same rate which has been
permitted to the other standard rail
ways in the State, namely, a maxi
mum rate of two and one-half cents per
mile. We know of no good reason for
allowing this road to charge more, and
think that there is no sufficient reason
for requiring it to charge less.
Commuters Not Affected.
The company now has on sale mile-"
age books at two cents per mile, corre
sponding with those of other standard
roads, and has for a long time main
tained a large number of very cheap
commutation rates. The average rate
at which these commutation tickets are
sold is seven-tenths of a cent per mile.
The average rate of all Virginia busi- ,
ness is 1.59 cents per mile, while such
average on interstate passenger busi i
ness is 2.33 cents per mile. These cheap
rates were voluntarily put In and we
believe they have proved profitable to
the company by Inducing a larger ;
volume of travel. These commutation
rates and mileage tickets must be main- 1
talned, and hence the average rates will '
not do greatly ibcwmbu.
THE MEXICO OF
THE PRESENT DAY
MEXICO CITY, Special. In the
annals of Latin-American revolutions
there never has been one abounding
in more features at once peculiar and
remarkable than the one now being
waged in Mexico. In the first place, it
is a revolution without a program.
Its leaders protest against existing
conditions, yet they have not offered
a definite plan for remedying those
conditions. In the second place, it is
in nowise a united revolution. There
are a half dozen centers of activity,
yet "in each case " the grounds upon
which it is based are different, and
no leader has appeared upon the
horizon who can unify these various
enemies of existing conditions into
one solid phalanx of opposition- to the
government. In the third place, it
a revolution predoomed to military
failure, for neither the men nor the
munitions are coming forward in suf
ficient quantities to make it really
formidable.
And yet in spite of all these things
it is expected to prove a political suc
cess. President Porfirio Diaz has de
cided to remedy the abuses against
which it is a protest. It is predict
ed that he will reform his cabinet,
removing from it the men who have
been the stumbling blocks in the way
of political reform. It is stated that
Vice President Corral, erstwhile his
heir apparent, will be removed from
office in answer to the public demand.
It is asserted that the scientificos, a
body of men who have been more to
Diaz than the tennis cabinet was to
Roosevelt, will not be .in such com
plete possession of the presidential
ear in the future. The Governors of
the various States will hereafter be
appointed with more respect for the
wishes of the people; and the jefe
politicos or rulers of districts and
cities will be mdfte responsible to the
people lower down rather than to of
ficials higher up. Above all, it is
probable that means will be found to
take the lands of the republic out
of the hands of the few feudal barons
who now control them, and distribute
them more generally.
Diaz Firm, Harsh, Tyrannical.
It is a novel sight to see President
Diaz yielding to public demand, and
it affords a different picture of him
from anything Mexico has ever seen.
Beyond all question Diaz has render
ed a great service to his country in
rescuing it from bankruptcy, placing
it on a firm financial footing with a
credit as . good as the average Euro
pean nation, and in giving it a stable,
and, on the whole, beneficent govern
ment. At the same time he has ruled
with a mailed hand innocent of thf
velvet glove. With 85 per cent, ol
the people of Mexico illiterate, anc
10 per cent, of the remainder thor
oughly unacquainted with the princi
pies of republican government as
Americans understand them, it is ob
viously impossible to expect election?
based on manhood suffrage, and easy
to understand, why a sort of politi
cal absolutism is necessary. Diaz has
been firm at all times, harsh frequent
ly and upon occasions tyrannical. The
present spirit of concession to the
wishes of the people is seemingly
greeted with satisfaction by every
body. Chiliauhau Ground Down.
The revolution in the territory
south of California is wholly an ef
fort upon the part of avowed Social
ists to set up a modern Utopia. They
would abolish the government and
establish a modern Socialistic com
munity. The revolution in Chihau
hau, while headed by Francisco Ma-
dero, an avowed Socialist and called
by some a dreamer, has a different
ground upon which to bid for sup
port. The Terrazas family, to which
former Ambassador Enrique C. Creel,
now Minister of Foreign Affairs, be
longs, owns nearly everything in Chi
hauhau, as may be gathered from the
statement that over fifteen million
acres of land constitutes a portion of
their holdings. There has been a sort
Of rotation in the office of Governor,
in which rotation only the Terrazas
family has- participated for - many
years. Taxes have been forced up to
an inordinate height, and protest al
ways has served to send them still
higher. That accounts for the trou
ble in Chihauhau.
In the State of Vera Cruz, at Oriz
aba, there is the largest cotton fac
tory in the world, and the trouble
there seems to concern labor condi
tions more than political conditions.
When certain houses were searched It
is said that great quantities of social
ist, literature, circulated by Francisco
Madero's propagandists, were found.
In Puebia and other cities farther
south the trouble seems to relate sole
ly to local misgovernment. While
there is an amount of popular unrest
not to be overlooked growing out of
general conditions, by far the greater
portion of all ' the trouble grows out
of local conditions that easily may be
remedied.
That the revolution will not prove
an unmitigated evil is attested by al
most every foreigner in Mexico. In
speaking of this phase of the matter
one of the most intelligent and In
fluential Americans in the country
said:
"Most Americans, seeing what Diaz
has done for the republic of Mexico,
naturally sympathize with him. But
there are, and have been, certain
abuses that should have been correct
ed long ago. They will be corrected
now. and although the military end
of the revolution will fail, the things
for which the revolutionists contend
will be granted. And the two great
questions that the capitalist whose
money is needed for the development
of Mexico always has asked, will be
answered. He has insisted always on
Inquiring what Mexico would do if a
good, healthy revolution sprang up.
The outcome of the present move
ment will answer that question. And
then the capitalist has wished to know
what will happen when once the firm
hand of Diaz rules no more. The
readjustments that will take place in
the government because of the revo
lution will be the answer to this ques
tion." Reyes Friendly on Both Sides.
One of the results of the revolution
probably will be the recalling of Ber
nardo Reyes from his mission abroad,
and " his installation as Minister of
War. In - Mexico a new command
ment has been added to the Deca
logue, "Thou shalt not aspire to the
presidency." Reyes may or may not
have violated this commandment, but
at a critical time in Mexican politics
it was convenient for him to accept
a foreign berth for the purpose of
studying the recruiting service of Eu
ropean armies. Now, if present plans
do not miscarry, Reyes will , be
brought back and made Minister of
War, and possibly Vice President,
thus succeeding Ramon Crral as the
heir apparent of Mexico. As Reyes
is the idol of the revolutionists, and
at the same time is satisfactory to
the majority of the supporers of Diaz,
it is probable that his recall and pro
motion will prove a wise stroke.
One of the surprises of the day is
the loss of power of that famous lit
tle coterie of advisors known as the
scientificos. These men have been
very close to President Diaz and for
a long time it has been useless to try
to get any important concession or to
establish any important business, un
less the good will of the scientificos
was first secured for the scientificos
are the leading politicians, bankers
and lawyers of the republic. With their
approval of a project it was sure of
success; without, it was certain of
failure. No ne accuses Diaz of be
ing a grafter, but it is asserted that
some of the scientificos understand
the game of high finance as well as
the best players of that game in Wall
Street.
LJmantour Slated to Go.
At the head of the scientificos is
Joee .Ives Limantour, Minister of Fi
nance. He is of French extraction
and a sort of composite Morgan, Har
riman and Hay. It was he who ef
fected the consolidation of a number
of nearly bankrupt railroads into the
national lines of Mexico, with the gov
ernment owning a controlling share
of the stock. Yet he Is slated to lose
his position as Minister of Finance, In
favor of Enrique C. Creel.
All sides in Mexico are exceedingly i TVO 3 C 0 0 Q TO 11 C Q C
careful not to encroach upon foreign LAI IlLatf 0 ft 1LIU
themselves, for they realize it would
be practically fatal to the side which
aid so. The American capital in
vested in Mexico aggregates nearly a
billion dollars, and there are some
40,000 American citizens living in the
republic. To the average uneducated
Mexican all foreigners are Americans.
There is little evidence of hostility
to Americans, except that the native
is likely to. complain that the Diaz
policy is more friendly to the foreign
er than to the Mexican. He asserts
that Diaz is so anxious to maintain
the constant influx of foreign capital
into the republic that he will grant
concesssions and privileges to Ameri
cans for which the native might ap
peal in vain. But the truth is that
the native has lacked the finances
and often the brains necessary for
the ' development of great projects
mat nave been given over to foreign
enterprise.
Dense Ignorance of the People,
The great obstacle to the welfare
of the masses is their profound igno
rance ana their seeming, lack of de
sire to help themselves. Certainly not
more than ten per cent, of the male
citizens are capable of exercising the
right of suffrage. Burdensome land
laws have favored the wealthy land
holder until the masses are as por as
they are ignorant. It is not a question
of making the rich richer and the
poor poorer the masses are as poor
as poverty itself already. The land
laws have provMed that all lands to
which no one holds a perfect !tle
shall revert to the Government t .1
der this law whole communities wre
dispossessed of little homes their fam
ilies had held for generations, and
their lands' went to swell the acreage
of some feudal baron. How to re
store the lands to the people is a
problem for which no adequate so
lution has been found. Yet Limantour
himself agrees that this must be one
of the reforms of the future.
To the unbiased observer it seems
that the day is a long way off when
Mexico can realize the blessings of
self government as Americans know
it. But Diaz, with all his harshness,
has immeasurably promoted the wel
fare of the republic, and his latest
course in striving to remedy abuses
that are frankly to be recognized,
seems not mMy to be a stroke of pol
icy, but thv act of a man of great
qualities.
ARE STUBBORN
WOMEN FLOCKED
TO MELBER TRIAL
GREAT CROWD AT HEARING OF
WOMAN CHARGED WITH
KILLING SON.
ALBANY, N. Y., Special. The
usual large crowd filed into the court
room long before the opening hour to
witness the proceedings in the trial of
Mrs. Edith Melber for the murder of
her five-year-old son, "Georgie."
Braving a heavy snowstorm, which
delayed court half an hour, scores of
women crowded the gallery of the
court-room. Excitement was created
before the opening of the court whe.
one of the sp ctators, a Schenectaa
girl, who had accompanied relatives
of George Melber to the trial, became
hysterical and had to be taken to the
women's retiring room.
State's witness Dr. Charles Wag
ner, of Binghamton State Hospital;
Charles W. Pilgrim, of the Hudson
River State Hospital, and Dr. Charles
L. Bailey and J. Montgomery Mosher,
of Albany, are expected to testify to
day that Mrs. Melber is sane. Mrs.
Melber was examined last night by
alienists for the State.
NEW YORK, Special. Defiance
from both sides today placed Greater
New York face to face with an
other stagnating express strike, which
threatens to affect 1 5,0 00 men in this
vicinity and likely tie up express traf
fic in other cities.
Following a conference of the ex
ecutive council of the International
Brotherhood Teamsters last night and
early today it was decided that an ul
timatum be sent to the Adams Ex
press Company unless officials of that
company consented to submit to ar
bitration on the demands of the men.
Both sides this morning express their
determination to "stand pat,"
A committee has been appointed to
confer with the officials of the Adams
Express Company and- enter into n
gotiations with a settlement in view.
William H. Ashton, general organi
zer of the teamsters, announced this
morning that he had hopes of a set
tlement. - v
"The men are determined to fight
for their rights," he said. "We be
lieve that we are in the right in this
matter. Arbitration with the company
is the just and logical solution of the
difficulty. If it is necessary to call a
general strike it will begin on Monday."
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Special.
The failure of Kettlinger & Brother
cotton brokers, was announced today
The failure had little market influence.
DRIVE CAMORRA
OUT OF COUNTRY
VITKRBO, Special. Carbineers,
cavalry and government agents
started a crusauc .u0....a upicious
strangers in Viterbo as a rtsuit of the
halt of the great Camorrista trial
through inability to Becure a jury. All
persons known to have been intimi
dating witnesses and talismen or sus
pected of such crimes are being driven
out of town.
A score of men, mostly Neopolitans,
were driven from Viterbo at the point
jf the bayonet by soldiers. They
were instructed not to return, upon
penalty of arrest and imprisonment.
Alfano's Relatives Suspected.
Among those driven out were rela
tives of Enrico Alfano, alias "Erri
cone," head of the band of Terrorists
who is on trial with thirty-eight of
his associates in crime. Secret agents
of the government, working in con
junction with the Carbineers, arc
compiling records of suspected strar.g
ers in Viterbo, and every man known
to have been imprisoned at any pre
vious time is being put under sur
veillance. Also all those without any
visible means of support are being or
dered out of the town. It came to
the ears of Cavaliere Bianchi, presi
dent of the Assize Court, and Cav
aliere Santero, the King's prosecutor
of the Camorrists, that a large part
of the $10,000 which had been raised
to defend Alfano and his brother
criminals was being used here in an
illegal way to help the cause of the
defendants. 1
Try to Bribe Jurors.
It was alleged that a number of
prospective jurors and witnesses had
been offered bribes to disappear and
that, in the event of . bribery failing,
agents of the Neopolitan Camorra,
who foregathered here, resorted to
threats.
This intelligence was communicated
to Signor Pani, Minister of Justice in
Rome, who ' gave instructions that
Judge Bianchi was to have free rein
In the matter of all prosecutions.
The police have learned that a
number of spies in the Camorra or
ganization have: gathered here and
have been plotting the assassination
of Giovanni Di Gennaro Abatemagglo,
the former member of the band who
turned State's evidence, betraying his
fellows. It was this information which
led to today's crusade.
Opening of Court Delayed.
The opening of court was delayed
half an hour this morning by the ab
sence of Anna Sinischalchl, sister-in-law
of Alfano. She was rebuked by
President Bianchi, of the court, who
told her that the trial could not be
halted in such a manner. The woman,
a. handsome Neapolitan, apologized
and the wrath of the court was ap
peased. Alfano's anger against photogra
phers had abated today. As the cam
era brigade commenced snapshotting
the Camorra leader, as he was led
into court, he smiled and smoothed
down his hair. He asked permission
of the Caribineers escorting him to
speak1 to the photographers, and de
livered a little speech to them upon
his request being granted.
"I hope you will send me copies of
the pictures you are taking to Naples,"
he said.
REBEL ARMY IS
WELL SUPPLIED
DOUGLAS, ARIZ., Special. The
rebel forces were encamped in the
foothills of the Sierra Madre Moun
tains early today, and their twinkling
camp fires could easily be seen from
the American side of the border line
It was reported that half a dozen
Americans, two of them ex-soldiers in
the United States regular army, made
their way across the line early today
and enlisted under the rebel standard.
The insurrecto forces are well arm
ed and provisioned.
Couriers from the camp who brought
letters here to be mailed today de
clared that the soldiers had a herd of
beeves which they had driven off from
ranches, and were also supplied with
plenty of coffee, but lacked for bread.
A communication has been sent by
Colonel Mora, of the Mexican Fede
rals, and Lavorlce Vasquez, head of
the commissary department of the
Federals, to Captain Johnson, of the
Third United States Cavalry at Doug
las, thanking him for the assistance
he has rendered in recovering bodies
of the dead from the battlefield about
Agua Prieta. The rebels number about
1.100 men.
It was reported that despite the
ak of numbers, the Federals, who
ire about 500 strong, may take the
offensive; marching out of the town
of Agua Prieta to attack the insur
rectos in the open. The two armies
were less than ten miles apart last
night.
Madero's main force Is said to be
making a forced march toward Juarez.
Intendent O. H. Cheney, submitted t
the Legislature today.
P!:rtJcuiar reference Is made to th
methods by which Joseph O. Robin, tkm,
self-confessed bank wrecker, of N?
7VuJt3tleBTed have rulned financial
institutions. In his report Superintend
ent Cheney deals a blow at "duramr
loans. He also aims at manipulationi
of financial affairs through agenta ot
the principals. He asks that a law bo
enacted providing that banking officer
shall swear that the affairs of institu
tions in which they are interested havo
been legally administered during their
tenure. 0
The statistics of the report show that
on January 1. 1911, the total reaourcoa
of eighty-seven trust companies doinir
business in the State was f l,51B,453,of.
! 4ePs,As were 1.218.3S2.41-
The safe deposit companies havo re
sources of $8,621,721.
STRIKERS FIRE .
FROM AMBUSH
TVV E T Y K I I.I. KD OR INJURED FOI
LmiiG strike: ox quken and
CRESCENT ROAD.
BURNSIDE, KY., SpecialReport
received here are that the strike on thm
Queen and Crescent Railroad has cauae
the death or injury of at least twoatr
persons. v
Dr,'7heyre slaughtering them right
and left," said a fireman as fie pullod
Into the Somerset yards today.
Engine 77, which carried a freight
from Ludlow, was riddled by bullet
from ambush at Kings Mountain. At
the same place 200 armed men took off
rour negro firemen and three special
guards and carried them into he hill
Two negro firemen were taken on an
other engine. Engine cnbs have boon
shot to pieces. The dead and wounded,
negroes are said to be hidden In th
cars to conceal the number of casual.
ItcS
ORDEB ISSUED FOi
MAPS OF MEXICO
SAX ANTOMO, TEX-, Special.
A levy made upon the War
Department K-or.y ior technical
maps of 'orti.rn Mexico lent
additional stress to the belief that
the American troops will invade
Mexico.
Officers In the command of
Major (icueial William II. Car
ter, speaking unofficially, de
lta red that it likely meant ttiat
intervention in Mexico, is not only
t -ontem plated by the United
States Caovernment, but i an as
sured fact.
The mimic attack on Galves
ton, which was to have been tlie
principal feature of the war
game, has been abandoned, at
least for the time belli?. The
only maneuvers now contemplated
consist in marches, . widen will
take the troops nearer the Rio
Grande.
NATIVES FORCED
TO LEAVE RANCH
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, Special.
A large area of the northern section
of Mexico, -stretching for hundreds of
square miles south of the Rio Grande,
,is a desolate tract of land scourged by
'warfare and utterly deserted.
A party of four Americans returned
here today after a trip by automobile
and horseback through the ravaged
zone in the State of Chihuahua and
kstated that they have traveled for one
hundred miles without seeing a single
human being.
They declared that ranches had been
deserted, stock driven off; the insur
rectos' farm lands were laid to waste
by inattention.
The people in the ranch districts are
fleeing into the towns, deserting the
rural communities because of danger
from roving bands of outlaws who
pose as insurrectos, and in such guise
burn and kill without discrimination.
The Mexican Government is making
no efforts to protect the property of
the small ranch owners, and the loss
to the "nestors," or small truck farm
era, is running into millions of dollars.
For a time the rurales attempted to
guard the property of these persons,
but as the rebel forces grew stronger
the rurales were moved into the cities
to strengthen the garrisons.
The big mining and ranch interests,
which Are principally owned by Amer
icans, have been given leave by the
Mexican Government to equip men
with arms for the protection-of their
property.
BANKING LAWS
NEED CHANGING
ALBANY, N. Y., Special. Demands
for drastic changes in -the New York
banking laws to prevent such Irregu
larities as led to the closing of the
Northern Bank of New York, the
Washington Savings Bank and the Car
negie Trust Company are made in the
annual report of State Banking Super-
ASK LIMANTOUR
TO JiAVE MEXICO
NEW YORK. Special Jos Y.
Limantour, Mexican Minister of Fi
nance, has been ordered from Mexico
City to cease giving out interviews.
Fear that diplomatic entanglements
would arise from Senor LImantoura
criticisms of the United States Govern
ment's action is said to have bee
the cause for the order.
Asked about specific matters which
are believed to play a part in the mo
bilization of United States troops on
the Mexican border, Senor Limantour
nald: "The matter of the arrest of
Blatt and Converse, the two Ameri
cans arrested bv Me-rlrnn nuthnrltl
will be handled by the State author
ities of the two governments Involved.
My relations are not such as to re
veal to me the Intrlrmtn afTam r.r .-.
International departments. I am not
speaking or acting in strict official
capacity here in New York at th
present time. Mv official mtminn
to sell bonds abroad. Having dons
this, my official tenure for the ttm
being is ended. The Mexican Got- '
ernment. has mad nnlv
on the United States that one hav
ing for its provisions that the Ameri
can war fleet be withdrawn frnn
Mexican waters. I believe that the
United States Govprnment hm m&rt
perfectly plain its attitude in this mat
ter and there can be no misinterpre
tation of the motive of . the United
States in concentrating trooDa near
the Mexican border."
WAS STRUNG UP
AND THEN ROBBED
NEW YORK, Special Strunk up
by the neck with a rope and his nose
brutally slashed with a knife wielded
by three hold-up men who robbed
him of $146, Diego Lascala. a cook In
a restaurant at 147 Cherry Street, wu
xound early today half dead from
strangulation and loss of blood.
Lascala Is in a critical condition In
the hospital. The police have a drag
net out ior his assailants.
After midnight Lascala was In
charge of the restaurant, which is
owned by Angelo Dl Marco. Shortly
after 2 o'clock three men entered and
asked for something to eat. They
gave their order and Lascala went Into
the kitchen In the rear. The men fol
lowed him, asking that they be al
lowed to remain near the stove, m
their clothing was wet and they wera
cold. Lascala consented and started,
in to cook.
Grab Him By Throat.
When the Italian turned his bak
one of the men grabbed him by the
throat. He struggled and as he did
so one of the other men slipped a
noose over his head. Then the third
threw the end over a huge meat hook
and lifted Lascala from the floor. As
he strangled, Lascala grabbed at tho
rope over his head and managed to
hold on.
As he hung there the men asked him
for his money. He told them he had
none, and then one of them grabbed a
knife from the table and passed It baek
and forth in front of his face. The
Italian protested that he had no money
with him, und then one of the mei
gashed him across the nose.
Laogh at Victim.
As the blood from the wound went
over his face, Lascala squirmed and tho
three men laughed. Then wielding tho
knife brutally back and forth over tho
victim's nose, the men went through
his pockets. When they were unable to
find any money they threatened him
with cutting his eyes out. Finally one
of the men pulled off his coat and found
a vest underneath his shirt. In this the
men got $136.
As the man cut the cook's nose arala
they leisurely walked from the kitchen,
warning him not to cry out. Thoy
calmly went to the cash drawer then
and took $10 in change.
Lascala managed, with what strengtk
he had, to pull himself up and get the
rope from about his neck. Then he
staggered to a drawer and, securing a
revolver, got to the door, where he fired
six shots into the air.
Half a dozen policemen instartly ar
rived and they searched abouv tho
neighborhood, but were unable to get
any trace cf the thugs.
RAILROADS BE STORE
OLD FREIGHT RATES
WASHINGTON, D. C, Special. All
the railroads in official classification
territory which were prevented from
increasing their freight rates have com
plied with the Interstate Commerce
Commission's decision that no advances
would be permitted.
From examination today of the 15,00
rate cancellations filed with the com
mission it was found that every rail
road has restored the old ratea
The office force at the commission
worked until late last night making
comparisons of rate schedules, for It
was announced by the-eoramlsglqn that
should any road refuse to comply with
the ruling the increased rates on that
road would be suspended for two yeara
It Is expected now among railroad
experts that the roads will either seek
to raise their capitalization or increase
their freight rates individually, so as
to attain the end they desired which
was denied by the commission's ruling
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