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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, . N. C.. lARGH 12, 1913.
NO. 31.
SRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY IN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From AH
Parts of World.
Southern.
One fireman killed, the second to
meet death at a post of duty in At
lanta, Ga., within thirty days, and two
injured in a futile attempt to rescue
their stricken comrade, was the toll
taken by a disastrous fire which to
tally destroyed the residence of Mrs.
F. A. Jones.
Three tons of dynamite being load
ed in Baltimore on the British tramp
steamer Alum Chine, in the lower
harbor off Fort Howard, exploded, in
stantly killing from forty to fifty
men .wounding and maiming three
score more, some of whom may die,
and dealing destruction half a million
dollars' worth of property.
The North Carolina senate has pass
ed a bill prohibiting the employment
of children under 16 .years of age in
night factory work. Inspection by
county superintendents of education is
provided for, and severe penalties are
attached for false representation' by
parents or mill operators. The house
recently passed a bill that set four
teen years as the minimum age for
day work, 16 years for work by males
at night, and excluding women alto
gether. George Thomas burned some leaves
at the assembly grounds at Monteagle,
Tenn., and sparks from the fire ignit
ed the Altamont cottage. The loss is
estimated at between $12,000 and $15,
000. Bank,, depot, express offices, mer
cantile houses practically every es
tablishment giving any promise of
booty were visited by robbers, who
forced their way through iron bars
and locks at Guyton, Ga., obtaining
close to one thousand dollars in mon
ey and valuables.
General
A rigid censorship has been install
ed at Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, by
the Sonora state government, which
has waved the banner of state's
rights in the face of the Huerta gov
ernment. Orfic'als of the new regime
seized the railway station and tele
graph offices of the Southern Pacific
of Mexico and placed all outgoing
news under the ban.
The Turkish fortress of Janina, the
key to the possession of Epirus prov
ince, with its garrison of 32,000 men,
has surrendered to the Greek army
after a defense which stands out as
one of the most brilliant episodes of
the Balkan war. There is much re
joicing in Athens, Greece, as the re
sult of the surrender.
Sixty-six men of the crew of the
Gerrmn torpedo boat "S 178" were
drowned when the little vessel was
rammed by the cruiser Yorck in the
North sea at Helgoland, Germany.
The commander of the torpedo boat
is among the dead. Only seventeen
survivors were p'eked up.
Disaster overtook two youthful
hold-up men in Brooklyn, one having
his back pierced by a knife -thrown by
a Chinaman they had robbed, the oth
er being fatally wounded by his own
revolver The latter fell on the pave
ment when a policeman struck at him,
discharging the gun he carried. The
bullet entered his bra"n.
The cause of woman suffrage re
ceived a setback in two New England
legislatures. A committee in the
Massachusetts legislature voted to re
port "leave to withdraw" on a bill pro
viding for a referendum on a consti
tutional amendment which would elim
inate the word "male" from the pro
vision defining the qualifications of a
voter. A similar bill was killed in the
Maine house by a vote of 9 to 53
after it had been passed by the sen
ate. The diamonds belonging tp Mrs. R.
E. Smith that were stolen from the
home of Mayor Smith of Huntsville,
Ala., several nights ago have been
recovered from a crack in the cell
of Bob Barrett, one of the suspected
thieves in the city prison. Barrett
had refused to tell where he hid the
jewels. He wss removed from the
cell and a close search was made.
All the diamonds, valued at about $2,
000, were found.
John Guy Gilpatrick, the youngest
aviator in the world, holds the passenger-carrying
altitude record. In
his DePerdusin monoplane, and carry
ing with him Miss Margaret Stapel
of Jersey City, N. J., he ascended 5,
009 above Los Angeles, Cal.
One is never too old to love, ac
cording to Thomas Middletpn, SO years
f age, an authority on real estate,
v-ho married his housekeeper, Miss
Cornelia M. Del Whitney, 64 years of
age, at Philadelphia, Pa.
Ten per cent, of London's supply of
mK says the board of health, is
tainted.
Sir John Tenniel, the famous car
toonist, who was on the staff of Punch
for more than half a century, has just
celebrated his ninety-third birthday.
Excepting that he has lost his sight,
Sir John enjoys remarkable health.
President Wilson has settled deep
enough in office to indicate pretty
clearly some of the things that may
be expected of him in the near future.
He has made.no public announcement
of policy, but there were a few of the
developments that seemed to show
the trend of the first days of his ad
ministration. The president told the
visitors he was inclined to favor the
plan of house leaders to confine the
special session of congress to tariff
revision.
Fumes of $30,000 worth of burning
opium threw a spell of drowsiness
over occupants of offices in the vi
cinity of the government appraiser's
stores at Boston, Mass. Every passer
by experienced some effects from the
drug and customs employees who as
sisted in destroying it in a furnace
fairly reeled under its influence. The
opium was part of a contraband lot
gathered in raids.
Although the known casualties for
inauguration day and night reached
a Total of about 400, fewwere serious
and most of them were of a minor
nature. Many of the injured, espec
ially those who received burns dur
ing the display of fireworks went for
treatment to hospitals in the down
town section without the aid of am
bulances. A marked increase in the license
vote was one of the features of the
elections in the cities and towns of
Vermont. Seven towns changed from
no-license to license, while only two
places, including the small city of
Vergennes, went from "wet" to "dry
The returns indicate that the consti
tutional amendment to change the
date of state elections from Septem
ber to November had carried.
Capt. Orren Randolph Smith, de
signer of the Confederate flag, died at
the home of his daughter, Miss Jessi
ca Smith, in Henderson, N. C. He
was 82 years, and had been in good
health all his life. He had been at
times forced to defend his claim, as
the designed of the stars and bars,
the ensign of the Confederate repub
lic, but he appears to . have won a
historical concensus that he deserved
that honor.
The Italian government has joined
the remainder of the European conti
nental powers in making military
preparations. It has increased the
Italian garrisons along the Swiss fron-
ties, and military engineers are en:
gaged in building new forts command
ing the passes from the mouth of the
Simpleton tunnel toward the east.
Three hundred or more persons
were hurt in the crush along Pennsyl
vania avenue during the suffragette
parade in Washington.
Washington
The new senate convened to receive
President Wilson's nominations. With
new faces in every row, the senate
prepared for its first real work under
Democratic control. Vice President
Marshall, new to the intricacies of
senate procedure, picked his way
very carefully through the maze of
preliminary organization with the aid
of experienced parliamentary clerks
A call of the roll showed 83 present
out of the existing membership of 93
Some opposition to the appointment
of William C. Redfield as secretary
of commerce was made, but was final
ly withdrawn.
Speaker Clark was renominated;
Representative Underwood of Alaba
ma again chosen chairman of the
ways and means committee, the en
tire Democratic personnel of that tar
iff-making body named and all the
house officers renominated at a har
monious six-hour caucus of the Dem
ocrats of the house of the Sixty-third
congress. The caucus took place in
the house chamber, and 270 of the 290
house Democrats were present.
Aroused over the failure of the
Washington police department to
maintain order during the progress of
the suffrage pageant of March 3 the
senate has begun an investigation to
place the responsibility for the lack
of protection for the women marchers
The investigation is a result of a
joint resolution of congress directing
the police department to furnish pro
tection to the suffragists.
Will am Howard Taft, public serv
ant since he was 21, said farewell
to public life and became a citizen
of the republic that he has served
. over the seas and throughout the
world for so many years that he has
almost forgotten when he enlisted
His goodbye was a smile. A hand
shake for the members of his cabi
net; a courtly bow to the women
friends who braved the inauguration
discomforts to bid him and Mrs. Taft
God-speed in the Union station; a
wave of the hand and another- smile
for the people who stood in the
train shed and watched his train pull
slowly out for the South.
Aerial fireworks with the sweeping,
wide-flung rays of many searchlights
revealing the outlines of the white
dome of the capitol and other historic
buildings, made Washington a scene
of beauty and brilliancy in the clos
ing inauguration festivities. Never, it
was said, has so brilliant a display of
fireworks or an illumination of such
magnitude been attempted.
To President Wilson will fall the
task of fili ng over fourteen hundred
places hiade vacant by the refusal of
the senate .to confirm appointments
by President Taft since December 2.
The places that become vacant with
the adjournment of congress include
practically all appointments outside of
the diplomatic service, the army, the
navy, marine corps and allied serv
ices. Many important positions are
involved in the list., The largest list
of vacancies is among the postmas
ters. While President Taft sent in
more than 1350 postoffice appoint
ments .less than 12 were confirmed
LEGISLATORS OF
NORTH AH
t"HE UPPER BRANCH OF LEGIS-
LATURE HAS CLEARED THE
LOCAL CALENDAR.
GETS READY TO FINISH WORK
Senate Concurred in House Amend
ments to .Vital Statistics Bill and It
Was Ordered Enrolled For Ratifica
tion Other "Work Being Done.
Senate Monday.
The senate passed the committee
Dill assigning quarters to the various
state departments in the new state
Duilding and old Supreme Court build
ing, h accordance with the report ol
the special committee, with an amend
ment given to the Department of Ag
riculture, in addition to its present
quarters, the rooms now used by the
Corporation Commission.
The Senate passed bills for electior
on salary system in Onslow county,
for establishing office of auditor o'
Mecklenburg Comty; protecting quaV
in Brunswick and New Hanover Coun
ty; for Brunswick county to cede
Eagle Island to New Hanover undei
certain conditions; to protect game in
New Hanover by reducing the open
season 30 days; appointing a deputy
for Robeson county and to amene
Revisal relative to pay of Robesor
County Board of Education.
House Monday. , 1
The house passed on final reading
the compulsory school attendance bil
by a practically unanimous vote with
slight amendment from the statute o
the bill as it came through secon'"
reading. One further amendment ad
opted was by Grier of Iredell, still fur
ther letting down the bars as to ap
plication to counties after adoption b;
the county boards of education, a?
amended by Connor.
Bills passed by the House includeo
amend the charter of the Asheville &
East Tennessee Railroad Co.
To allow 75 cents a day extra wages
for pages.
To provide additional depot facili
ties for 'Jacksonville, Onslow county
To increase the powers of the Com
missioners of Columbus county.
House Tuesday.
r
Bills were passed to develop oyster
interests; for inspection of camp cars
on railroads; relative to freight rate
charges on joint hauls; to pay certain
debts of the State Fish Commission:
regulating tags on cotton seed meal;
relating to farm life schools; to ad
mit to A. & M. College free of tuitior
one needy farm boy from each county;
to promote reformatory treatment by
advancing the age limit to 25v years;
to give the State Board of Agriculture
control of appointments of heads and
assistants in division; to prohibit mis
representation and twisting insurance
policies.
The House voted over the protest
of Chairman Williams of Buncombe
in charge of the bill, to take up and
dispose of the bill for general reass
essment of property as . soon as the
public local calendar was cleared.
Clearing the calendar required nearly
two hours.
The reassessment bill was taken up
in the house Tuesday. Then the
fight for postponement was success
fully renewed. Mr. Ray moved that
it be made a special order for Thurs
day morning. Mr. Justice, in urging
this course, said many members were
-away in Wasnington, as was the Gov
ernor, who is vitally interestd in the
measure. He did not know that Gov
ernor Craig desired to send a special
message on the subject, but thought
it probable he did. The motion to de
fer until Thursday morning carried
by a good majority..
Mr. Doughton introduced the gen
eral appropriation bill carrying $2,
425,050. And a supplemental bill ap
propriating $25,000 of the funds of the
State Department of Agrilulture for
the A. & M. College.
Senate Wednesday.
The senate passed the child labor
bill from the house with an amend
ment that allows women to work at
night. The senate also passed the-car-shed
bill which requires sheds for
railroad section hands at division
points, notably, Wilmington, Spencer,
Fayetteville and Rocky Mount. An
amendment empowering the corpora
tion commission to pass on the loca
tions for j.nd character of the sheds
to be' provided was included.
Senate bills passed final reading as
follows:
Amending charter of Weaverville
Buncombe county.
For good 'roads in Transylvania
county.
Amending c.harter vof Orrum, Robe
son county.
Amending charter of Mountain Re
treat Association. . '
Amending Act of 1911 placing
Saluda wholly in county of Polk.
", House Wednesday.
By ' a rising unanimous vote the
house , appropriated $10,000 for build
ings and $5,000 annually for mainte
nance of home for needy wives and
widows of Confederate veterans.
The Koonce bill for $1,000,000
'nstead of the present $500,000 ap
ropriation for Confederate pensions,
came from the appropriations com
mittee into the house with unfav
orably report.
The foUowing house bills were
passed:
Incorporating Poctorville, Robe- 1
son county.
For special tax for chain gang in
Transylvania county.
Authorizing any school district in
Guilford to issue bonds.
Senate Thursday.
The Senate defeated the state road
bond bill, 17 to 28, after Eefusing to
adopt an amendment by Daniels Vcut-
ting out the amendment adopted on
the second reading for a general elec
tion to adopt the measure.
The senate passed the vital statis
tics bill appropriating $10,000 for
state and district registrars of general
health data.
The vital statistics bill was, taken
up for final reading, and several
amendments were sent forward. One
by Senator McLean was to limit its
operations to incorpbrated towns and
cities. He could see nothing in it but
a job for some man in Raleigh. He
warned the senate against a bill
charging everybody 25 cents to be
borne and 25 cents more to die. An
Senator McLean's amendment was
lost, as was one by Senator Ivie elimi
nating the requirement for burial cer
tificate outside of towns and cities and
allowing 10 days after burial to get
the information required. The bill on
final reading was passed 27 to 19.
House Thursday.
The house received a message from
Governor Craig urging that flitting
appropriation be made for North Car
olina's representation at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.
Bills which passed final reading:
To amend the act as to the State
School for Feeble-Minded.
To amend the Charter . of Mount
Olive.
Relative to disorderly houses.
To withdraw certain lands in Car
teret county from public entry.
To prohibit selling or giving away
cocaine and its various salts undei
certain conditions.
To provide a state board of ex
aminers to license architects.
Senate Friday.
New bills in the Senate include s
bill from the Appropriations Commit
tee appropriating $1,500 for expense
of Governor and party to go to Sac
Francisco to select the site for the
North Carolina building, in connec
tion with the Panama-Pacific Expos i
tion, and a bill by Thorne for uni
form examination and certification ol
puplic school teachers.
Senator Hobgood secured consenl
for the passage on immediate read
ings of the House bill incorporating
the Cone Memorial Hospital, to be
built in Greensboro by Mrs. Moses
H. Cone, and a sanitarium at Blow
ing Rock.
By amendment of Senator Jones
the tax on moving picture or vaude
ville shows was raised from $40 to $5(
in towns of 5,000 to 10,000; from $5(
to $75 in towns of 10,000 to . 15,000;
from $100 to $150 in towns ovei
15,000.
House Tuesday.
A resolution presented by Mr. Stew
art of Mecklenburg, to tender th
thanks of the "General Assemly to s
mineral springs company which has
supplied the Legislature with watei
from its springs during the session was
passed and sent to the Senate.
The following bills passed fina
readings:
Bond issue for Canton.
Good roads law for Yancey county
Bond issue for the Town of Toisnot
For new court house in Columbui
county.
To create a road commission ii
Pitt county.
To establish a charity hospital foi
Mecklenburg county.
To amend the charter of Scotland
JNeCK.
Senate Saturday.
The senate concurred in the houst
amendments to the vital statistics bil
and it was ordered enrolled for rati
fication.
The following senate bills passec
the senate tonight and "were sent tt
the house. for action:
To protect municipalities that hav
erected septic tanks for disposal o
sewerage.
Relative to police powers in Rock
ingham county.
To provide recorder's court foi
Lexington. ' .
To establish office of commissionei
of agricutlure in Rockingham county
To provide a court stenographer foi
the ninth judicial district.
To protect, public roads of Sampsoi
county. -
Supplemental school law for Cho
wan county.
House Saturday.
The following house bills passec
and were ordered enrolled for ratifi
cation:
Relative to election of gradec
school trustees of Waynesville. "s
To protect public roads of Warrei
county.
To promote catching fish in Nem
River, Onslow county.
To provide for balloting in all pri
maries and elections in Salisbury.
Legalized primaries in Pitt county.
To protect sheep and other animal:
in Ashe county.
To protect telephone wires in . Ons
low county.
Giving Old Fort the part of it?
road tax collected within its limits.
Dog tax for Moore, Hoke anr
Rowan counties.
Fori road improvements in Nasi
county.
SPECIAL MESSAGE
OF GOVERNOR GRAIG
THE STATE EXECUTIVE SENDS
MESSAGE TO THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
(S CLEAR IN EXPRESSION
Says That Policy of Blindly Appropri
ating Money When There is None
in Treasury ami None in Sight Will
Not Do. -
"The policy of blindly appropria
ing money when there is no money
tn the treasury and none in sight will
not do," declared Governor Craig in
i special message to the general as
sembly in advocacy of a reas
sessment of taxable property in order
to equalize the burden. If real and
personal property were assessed at its
approximate true value, the governor
3ays, there would be on the tax books
$2,000,000,000 instead of $750,000,000
worth of property and the rate of
taxation reduced fifty per cent.
In the course of the message the
governor refers 4o the reason under
lying the undervaluation and conceal
ment of property. Every land owner
knows that some other land owner is
going to Insist on a low Valuation and
tor mat reason property is not given
in for anything like its true value. It
is equally well known that solvent
sredits in large amounts will be list
ec. He asks for the removal of the
causes that produced this' wrong.
The message is vigorous and clear
in expression, forceful in purpose, and
rings with conviction. It is as fol
lows: Has Accomplished Much.
To the General Assembly of the
State of North Carolina:
This general! assembly has already
accomplished a great work. The wel
fare of the state has been remember
ed, and the people wHl support it. No
law that has been enacted will be
more earnestly endorsed than the law
providing for a six months' school.
This act of humanity and justice cre
ates an additional demand upon the
state treasury for $400,000 a year.
Must Have Money.
We must provide the money to meet
these large but necessary appropria
tions. Two Ways.
Two methods for providing for in
creased demands have been sug
gested: .
One method is by a higher tax rate
on the present assessment of taxable
property.
The other method is by a low tax
rate on a reassessment of property.
Unjust and Inequitable.
Everybody knows that the present
assessment is an unjust and an in
equitable assessment. We know that
the property that has been placed up
on the tax books has been assessed
at values ridiculously low, and we
know that the great bulk of the per
sonal wealth of the state has not been
placed upon the tax books at all, and
that it pays no tax whatever. The
present assessment operates unjustly
against the average citizen who pays
his taxes; his property is upon the
tax book; his farm and" his farmstock
cannot be concealed.. The raising of
the revenue for the six months' school
alone requires an additional tax of
from five to twenty-five cents on the
$100.00 woriii of property in all the
counties, towns and special tax dis
tricts of the state. We know that
many do not on the present assess
ment pax taxes in proportion to their
ability, and the proposition to place
upon the people these additional bur
dens according to the existing inequi
table appropriation ought not to be
done if we can possibly avoid it. Be
sides the validity of an acC of the leg
islature authorizing a county to levy
a tax for-general expenses in excess
of the constitutional limit of 66 2-3
cents on the $100.00 worth of proper
ty might be seriously questioned.
The constitution, Article 5, section
7, provides: "Every act of the general
assembly levying a tax shall state the
special object to which it is to be
applied, and it shall be applied to no
other purpose."
Would be a Calamity.
It might w.ith plausibility be argued
that if the general assembly can ap
propriate 48 cents or 50 cents of the
general levy' for general state pur
poses, and authorize 1 the counties to
levy 4 cents or 25 cents in excess of
the constitutional limit for ..general
state purposes and autuorize the coun
ties to levy any per cent that might
seem proper to any general assem
bly. If this general assembly should
provide no other way for the mainte
nance of the public schools except by
the increase of the tax rate beyond
the constitutional limit, and if the su
preme court on the petition , of . any.
citizen of this state should declare
that this general assembly had no con
stitutional power to authorize such a
tax the state would suffer a great
calamity.
The" Proposition.
. Let us consider the proposition for
the reassessment of property. There
is now $750,000,000 worth of prop
erty upon the tax books. If the prop
erty of the state, rea land personal,
were assessed at approximately a
proper value there 'is no doubt that
we could easily have $2,000,000,000
upon the tax books. The rate of tax
ation could be reduced fifty per cent.
There is reason for the undervalu
ation and concealment of property.
Each land owner knows that other i
lands will be undervalued and he
hnows that solvent credits in large
amounts will not be listed. On the
other hand, the owner of solvent cred
its knows that real estate in and.
around the cities and towns, yielding
large revenues and increasing in val
ue, and that farm lands will be greatly
undervalued, that his securities c,an
not be undervalued but if listed must
go at their real value. For this reason
they are concealed and escape taxation.-
When the - present 'assessment
was made all the people were aware
that the tax rate would be high; in
some instances almost confiscatory,
this was another strong temptation
for concealment and undervaluation.
Remove the Causes.
Let us remove, as far as possible
the causes that produced this wrong.
Let us have a just reassessment, pro
vide machinery that will work with
courage and intelligence and with
the determination to place the prop
erty upon th tax books; the proper
ty is here; we know it. There is a
vast amount of wealth in this state,
amounting to many millions of dol
lars, represented by stocks and bonds
in foreign corporations. I am in
formed that only one citizen of this
state pays tax upon such securities.
Let us provide for a just assessment,
and let it be understood from this
general assembly, and from this ad
ministration, that the man who will
suffer will not be the man who comes
forward with his property, but the
man who tries to escape. Let it be
known that men must bear their
burdens in proportion to their abili
ty.
Why Property is Kept Off.
Perhaps the most potent reason for
keeping property off our tax books
is our high rate of taxation. If we
reduce this rate '0 per cent in every
county, town, city and special ' tax
for concealment and undervaluation
will be removed. ,
. We can accomplish but litttle to
wards placing the vast personal
books until there is an assurance
that the rate will be low. We can
not have a low rate without -a reas
sessment. A just reassessment would not
hurt the average man who now pays
his taxes, but it would doubtless re
duce his taxes. It would, increase
the value of his property, but would
lower the rate of taxation. The low
rate would not frighten property
out of the state and into conceal
ment. Must Have Revenue.
We must raise a certain amount
off revenue. The question is shall
we raise this revenue by a high tax
on a low assessment of part of the
property, or shall we raise it by a low
from the rich and the poor alike.
Get Money Justly.
I would that the difficulty wre
not here, but to have the schools and
roads and health and grqat institu
tions and make and administei
law and be a great state, we musl
have money; let us get it justly.
Custom Should Not Count.
The fact that ever since the wai
our' assessments have been in periods
of four years should not deter us.
The property of 1 North Carolina has
increased in value more in the last
twp years than it did in twenty
years after the war, and no one de
nies that the present assessment is
flagrantly wrong. Why tolerate this
wrong for two years longer? We
could appeal to the people, with, al!
confidence to sustain an act of jus
tice. We could say to them we did
this in- discharge of the trust ' thai
you reposed in us, as wisely :jas ' "w
could. In obedience to . yojirV de;
mands, your multitudinous petitions
from farmers' farmers,:-, from Junioi
Orders, from the. peoples : in all the
walks of life; -we provided! for the
education of-: your' ctittrfrenv .for; the.
preservation-of y.qu.r 'health, for the
higher education . of ; young men and
your young . womers .-. We - remem
bered in mercy, . which Is the highesl
justice, the Unsane and -the dead ' and
the dumb and the blind and the sicfc
and. the feeble-minded; we""have buil!
roads into your community;, .we have
taken North Carolina out of the lisl
of the most ignorant states and given
her the rank in the procession of the
states that.-she occupied in the days
that we boast about. She is no longei
a pauper state. We nave taken hei
from the affected rags of pauperise
and shown her to the world as she is
a great progressive state of wealth
and commerce and schools and public
roads. We have done this by an acl
of justice by an . act requiring hei
people to bear the burdens of govern
ment in proportion to their strength
Would Bring in Property.
From a low rate of taxation, prop
erty will come here ' to engage ir
enterprise and development. This
general assembly can say that trove
fear we did not, like the . servant o:
old, hide the talent in a napkir
and bring. it back increased to j
hard master, but that it improvec
its trust for the welfare of all th
people and for the progress of ' th
state.
I feel sure that this general assem
bly will rightly solve ' the questio)
in the exercise of its patriotism an
I wisdom. " --.''
INDICATIONS OF
GROWING REVOLT
HUERTA GOVERNMENT IS RE-
PORTED THROWING THOOPS
IN STATE OF SONORA.
IS GAINING IN PROPORTIONS
Railway and Telegraphic Communlca.
tions Have Been Destroyed Between
Hermosillo and Guaymas Des.
patches Report Mexico Quiet.
Washington. Sinster indications ofl
growing revolt in the northern states)
Df Mexico against the new Huerta gov
ernment, threatening to gain propor
tions of a- national revolution, were
given in stat,e department despatches.
The Huerta government is reported
as throwing thousands of troops by
both rail and water Into the state of
Sonora to . operate against the consti
tutionalists. Large forces are ' beingi
concentrated at points in Coahula in
ah attempt to down the growing out
break of malcontents under Caranza.
While General Orozco, erstwhile reb-
ei leaner, is nasiening 10 Mexico tjiiy
for a conference with , government;
leaders he has despatched his forces'
ta Zacetecas to combat a new out
break there. Bodies' of Maderistas
are operating near Lampazos, south
of Laredo, destroying bridges, rail
roads and looting. Telegraph lines
have been cut and only meagre re
ports have : been received.
Muninous troops ot Campos, . the
former rebel, are robbing and looting
near Torreon and Gobez Palacido, ac
cording to latest consular despatches
from the Laguna district of Durango.
A wavering of the forces of General
Campa near Torreon was also re
ported. fo vta Trw r a aassTta rn rf it waA 4-Vi a f-mvrn
of San Pedro; east of Torreon, after
an all-night battle, according to the.
reports. Federals are reported still
in the possession of Parral, in Chi-,
hauhau. Hundreds of rebel volunteers
are in arms and only lack leaders. The
deposed governor of Chihuahua has
been sent to Mexico City for impris
onment.
Killed in Railroad Collision.
Washington. Sergeant Charles A.
Norton," Corporal Theodore Roberts,
and Private Ernest Johnson of the
United States Marine Guards at Man
agua, Nicaraagua, were killed and
Capt. Edward A. Green and several
other marines were injured, but not
seriously in a railroad collision on
the line between Managua and Leon.
The accident occurred as the Indirect
result of the operation of a band ol
lawless drunken raiders, who entered
the town of Nagarote, routed, the po
lice and looted the town. They fled
to the hills after cutting the telegraph
and telephone wires to make sure thai
the American legation's line of com
munication with the American guard
ship at Corinto was interrupted.
After Secret Service Jcbs.
'. Washington. Secretary MacAdoc
is. being swamped with applications
for appointment to the United States
secret service which guards the pres
ident - and protects the currency
against counterfeiting. . With no va
cancy , 3,000 applications have been
received since March 4. They con
tinue to "arrive at the rate of 400 a
day. Such a condition is said to be
due to the publication of a story thai
Secretary MacAdoo , wanted 3,000 ap
plications from which to make 50 ap
pointments. Treasury officials deny
.he report.
Watchful Sentry on Duty.
Dundee, Scotland. A watchful sen
try will henceforth be on duty in the
Atlantic Ocean,to warn vessels of the
approach of-ioe and to assist in avert
ing disasters such as overtook the Ti-
'tanir. ThenhaHn? hln Kontia . Ipfl
Dundee having on board p. number ol
scientists who, by means of a .pow
erful wireless apparatus,' .will notify
all ships crossing . in either direction
of the presence and progress, of floes
and icebergs.
Darrow.. Jury Disagrees. ' '
Los Angeles, Cal Clarence S. Bar-
mv's gepnnn trial on o iiirv-hrihlnn
charge in connection with the Ms.
Namara trial ended in.a disagree-'
ment of the jury. Eight jurors w-erc
for conviction; forr held out for ac
quittal. Darrow immediately demand
ed a new' trial and District Attorney
John D. Fredericks said he . would
have one. Judge Conley, who ' pre
sided, set March 31 as the date for
the beginning of the retrial. Failure
of the jury to agree was received with
emotion by defense and prosecution.
Extent of Damage Not Yet Known.
Baltimore, Md. Efforts to deter
mine the exact nrmber of dead and
injurde as a result of the explosion
of dynamite In'the hold of the British
tramp steamer Alum Chime and to
ascertain the cause of the explosion
were only partially successful. Sev
enteen' bodies have been, identified,
two remain in te morgue unidenti
fied, 12 men among the missing have
"een given up tt lost and it is
thought that at least 10 stevedores
who were known only by numbers
lost their lives. . '