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THE CHATHAM RECORD It A. LONDON; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Ad vanes THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, on mserdea $1C0 One Square, two imertioa L3 One Square, ooe tli SLEQ For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts vlU bo made. VOL. XXXVI PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N .G., AUGUST 13. 1913 NO. 1. &Ht l 'it IRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY M08T IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parte of World. Southern. Three white men and one negro were instantly killed when a fast freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad plunged into a cul vert 45 f est deep, six miles north of Marietta, Ga. The accident was caused by the giving way of a cement bridge before a torrent of water from the rain which had raged for three hours previous to the wreck. The bridge was completely washed away and the water so high that the cars standing on the track were under a depth of three feet of water. In a deadly hand-to-hand fight at Ivloniac, Ga., G. M. Crawford, citizen of that place, was shot and killed, his brother wounded and C. W. Cobb of Hazlehurst, Ga., stabbed and cut in more than a dozen places. The mail car on the fast Louisville and Nashville train No. 4 from New Orleans was robbed by two unknown white men. All of the registered mail was taken, but no estimate could be made of the amount secured. The trair reached Birmingham , on time at 8:37 p. m. and two of the mail clerks George Hoover ana T. G. York were found handcuffed so that the irons had to be filed from their wrists, while Chief Clerk Harry Everett had his thumbs securely tied together with heavy twine. The robbers board ed the mail car at Calera, on the dark side, after the train had begun to move. The clerks were . immediately covered with pistols, and ordered to turn their faces to the wall. Sentences were imposed upon the five members of the West Virginia legislature by Judge W. S. O'Brien, In the superior court at Webster Springs. The-- legislators ' were con victed of bribery in connection with the election of a United States senate- Delegates S. C. O. Rhodes, Rath Duff and H. F. Asbury to serve six yen.-s each in the penitentiary; State Senators B. A. Smith, five years and si v months, and Delegate Davis Hill, fr.'; years. In addition, the five are 3i qualified for life from holding pub lic office or office of trust. iVessed in a pair of overalls, bro gara shoes and a man's shirt, which was much torn and soiled, the body of JJrs. Etta Patton, wife of Zeb Pat ton, a former resident of Asheville, was picked upon on the tracks of the Southern railway, about three miles from Asheville, N. C. The deceased was struck by a freight train which passed a"bout half an hour before the tody was found. She was 27 years old. Genera! Records of the bureau of vital statis tics show that Columbus suffered heav ier from drowning during the March flood than any other city in the flood district. The actual number that drowned in Columbus was 90, and deaths resulting from exposure in Co lumbus, Ohio, runs this figure to over one hundred. Hamilton, Ohio, comes next. A grasshoper four inches in length and weighing 150 grains was captured by a Pawnee county farmer and is on exhibition in the newspaper offices of Pawnee, Okla. So far this hopper Lolds the state record for size and weight. Grasshoppers have been too numerous in certain sections of the state to suit the farmers. From some places it is reported farmers are cap turing these pests !by sacks.1 full and storing them away for winter chicken feed. Seventeen Mexicans paid, with their lives, for maltreating the daughters of Matthew Gourd, an American farm er, near Tampico. American farmers participated in the execution of the penalty, according to information re garded as reliable, received in Mexico City. The seventeen men killed by the posse included those slain in the fighting and those put to death by the vigilante afterwards. A leopard which has been at large since escaping from a circus at the town of Crookstown, attacked two chil dren of William Wageman at his farm near Red Lake Falls, Minn1. The lives of the children were saved by the family dog, a Scotch collie, which charged the anSnial, distracting his at tention while the children escaped in to the house. After it had killed the dog the leopard escaped into a corn field. More than one hundred citizens organized to participate in a system atic hunt for the animal. , Commissioner Clements, in render ing the decision of the Interstate com merce commission in the LaGrange, Carrollton and Vienna rate cases, con demned the existing arbitrary differ ences in rates to these points, as com pared with rates to Atlanta and Cedar town, the basing points, which are in Reductions in express rates which will cost, the companies $26,000,000 a year aprpoximately - 16 per cent, of their gross revenue were ordered by the interstate commerce commission to become effective on or before Oc tober 15, 1313. v ", Officers of the Cunard liner Pan nonia, arriving in New York harbor from Trieste, report that a miniature Balkan war occurred aboard almost continuously during the twenty-six days' voyage. Among the steerage pas sengers were several hundred ex-volunteer Greeks, Servians, Bulgarians, Turks, who were returning to this country. . Frequent clashes between these hostile factions in the first few days resulted in several combatants going to the sick bed with severe stab wounds. The marriage department of the county, clerk's office at Detroit, Mich., has taken steps to nullify an auction sale of a girl who was knocked down to the highest bidder to be his wife. The girl is Marie Aman, a Syrian. Her father made the sate; There were half a dozen bidders. The girl has been In the country only seven weeks. She was brought to Detroit by her fa ther expressly to be sold. A Turk, Mohammed, Haj Seleem, was the suc cessful bidder. The bargain was seal ed .-immediately by the reading of an Oriental marriage service. Robert C. Ogden of New York, a philanthropist, well known through out the South and the country gener ally, died at his summer residence at Kehenbunk Port, Maine. Mr. Ogden had been ill a long time. Peace was concluded at Bucharest between the Balkan states and the preliminary treaty signed by the dele gates of Servia, Greece, Montenegro, Roumania and Bulgaria. The agree ment was arrived at only after an other exhibition of the utter helpless ness of Bulgaria to face her ring of enemies. A test case involving the right of a large number of California women to vote was decided in the state su preme court in San Francisco, Cal., against Mrs. Ethel Cooper McKenzie, wife of a Scotch singer. The court sustained the decision of the San Fran cisco election commissioners that Mrs. McKenzie, who is a native of Califor nia, became a British subject when she married McKenzie, who has not foresworn his allegiance to King George. Running battles between striking teamsters sympathizers and the po lice ended in the arrest of twenty-two of the strikers and sympathizers on charges of disorderly conduct at Cin cinnati, Ohio. Hundreds of strikers and sympathizers gathered at the Kro ger Grocery company plant Washington Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Ala? bama died at his apartment in the Brighton at Washington. Senator Johnston had been ill for eight days suffering from pneumonia. As a mark of respect to the memory of Senator Johnston, the senate adjourned al most immediately after assembling at noon on the day of the senator's de mise. Governor's O'Neal of Alabama announces that he will call a special election to fill the vacancy in the near future. Because of Alabama's elec tion laws, it is feared that this elec tion may not result in naming a suc cessor before the final vote on the tariff bill now. pending. The $50,000,000 of federal funds about to be deposited in the national banks of the West and South to as sist in moving the crops, will be in creased to $150,000,000 if necessary. The desire of the government to mob ilize all the needed cash of the pub lic treasury in the agricultural belts of the country to avoid them oney strin gency characteristic of the crop mov ing period, was communicated to the bankers of the central West at a con ference with Secretary McAdoo and and Assistant Secretary John C. Kel ton' Williams, called by the treasury department to make arrangements for the distribution of the big sum. In order that the farmers of the United States may profit by the expe rience of farmers of Europe, Secretary Houston of the department of agricul ture decided to send abroad Dr. Thom as H. Carver, head of the rural or ganization service, and Bradford Knapp, who is in charge of the farm ers' co-operative demonstration work in the South. The ..study of success ful co-operative schemes will be the principal object of their trip. They will visit Ireland first, then Denmark, and if time allows, Saxony. At the Balkan peace conference M. Majoresco, president of the confer ence, read a note from the United States government expressing, a de sire to see inserted in the treaty of Bucharest, a stipulation securing civil and religious liberty "to the pop ulations inhabiting territory which may be ceded or annexed. M. Maj oresco remarked that such liberty was the law in every country participating in the peace conference, and all the heads of the various delegations agreed it would be superfluous to think of inserting such a special clause-. Secretary of State William Jen nings Bryan, in a telegram marked "confidential," has instructed Doctor Pressley, treasurer of the board of missionaries of the Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church ' in Mexico, with headquarters at Due West, S. C., to order all missionaries of that church out of Mexico at once, as they are in peril. Representative. bankers of fifty-nine large cities in the agricultural regions of the South, Middle West and Pa cific coast were invited by Secretary McAdoo to come to Washington to confer with the treasury department regarding the distribution of fifty million dollars of government funds about to be deposited in the national banks of those sections "to" facilitate the marketing and moving of the crops. This unprecedented step will call to Washington bankers from the centers that will finance the handling of the great cropg soon to be harvested. RATE CONCESSIONS REPORTED TO CRAIG THE RAILROAD REDUCTION ON FREIGHT TARIFFS ABOUT TWENTY PER CENT. TO HAVE COUNCIL OF STATE North Carolina Governor to Confer With the Legislative Commission and the Officers of the Just Freight Rate Association. Raleigh. The corporation commis sion presented its report of the pro posal by the railroad companies for the settlement of the fight over the freight rate discriminations in North Carolina to Governor Craig and he is very soon to call into conference with him the council of state, legislative freight rate commission and the offi cers of the Just Freight Rate Associ ation to consider the features of the proposition. The report says of effort at rate adjustment from the South. The carriers agreed to undertake the revision of rates on bananas in carloads to North Carolina territory, involving reductions to representative points as follows: Raleigh 11 cents the hundredweight; Greensboro, 11; Salisbury, 12; Charlotte, 13; Asheville 13. "Other adjustments were taken up and discussed, but no conclusion was made in respect to them, particularly in regard to a desired reduction in the coal rate3 in North Carolina." The proposal makes a 20 per cent reduction in rates from the east and lesser reductions East and North. The corporation commission declares in the report that it makes no recom mendation for the reason that it de sires to have the advantage of con ferences with the governor may carl into conference on the matter to the end that the conclusions reached in these conferences may be as far as possible harmonious. The report is a document of 20 pages with a consid erable appendix. Preliminary negotiations are re viewed and authority of the governor and council of state cited for the conferences held at Old Point Com fort. The negotiations are reviewed in detail. The corporation commis sion had demanded 24 per cent reduc tions from the west and the conces sions secured average 20 per cent, these being worked out by zones: Greensboro, zone No. 1; Charlotte, zone No. 2; Hope Mills, zone No. 3; Gibson, one No. 4. Gastonia and points south of Charlotte, west of Statesville, Hickory and Lincolnton, Marion group, Shelby and Ruther fordton, Morganton, Waynesville and Hendersonville, Asheville and Wil mington and other points. i ' More Road Building In Durham. At this meeting of the county com missioners they were swamped with petitions for roads in various parts of the county. The country people of Durham seem to be more aroused to the cau. e of good roads than they have ever been before, and not a meeting of the board passes that does not bring at least one petition for road work. This month there were more than usual. The county has macadamized all of the main thor oughfares into the city, especially those which lead from Durham to roads connecting with other towns In this section of the state. Summon Venire From Forsyth. Judge Lane ordered a venire of fifty summoned from Forsyth county from which a jury will be selected to try Walter Shelton, a white man, who is charged with killing his wife in Reidsville several weeks ago. Mc Michael & Stiers, representing the defendant, made the motion and sub mitted affidavits setting forth that the Reidsville papers had printed the evidence of the case when heard at a hearing and it would be impossible to get a jury in Rockingham or Caswell who had not heard evidence. Yearly Meeting of Friends." The 216th Yearly Meeting of the Friends in North Carolina convened several days ago. Dr. L. L. Hobbs, president of Guilford College, presid ing as clerk. Credentials of the dele gates from the various quarterly meetings of the state were present ed, as were those of visitors from other states. Featuring the sessions of the day were the London general Epistle and the address of Dr. J. J. Tall, director of the American Peace Society on the Part the Church Should Take for Universay Peace." Reward for Capturing Murderer. ' The board of Cabarrus county com missioners gave Ben Walker a re ward of $15 for capturing "Fish" Brown after he had shot Roland Wall at Cedar Grove. All the parties are colored. After killing Wall, Brown started on a run, whereupon Walker went in pursuit. When his pursuer was almost on the point of-grabbing him, Brown turned and shot Walker in the leg. Walker knocked Brown down by a blow on the head with a baseball bat and soon secured his hands and feet with a rope. - RECOMMEND POSTMASTERS Names of Postmasters For Four More Towns in North Carolina Are Sent to Senate. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that Representative God win announced that he will recom mend postmasters for Duke, Maxton, Rowland and Whiteville before the present month Is out, though none of the four offices will be vacant before next fall. He says practically all tne endorsements for candidates in all the towns are In, and that all he is wait ing for Is a conference with the North Carolina senators. Mr. Godwin expects" to. have in hand all the scat tering endorsements . within a week. Mr. Godwin has offered a trip to Washington as an inducement to corn club boys in the sixth congressional district. The winner of the corn grow ing contest in his district will be given a free sightseeing trip some time In January. The treasury department an- . nounced that it has paid to a number of libraries and colleges in North Car olina specimens of all the notes of the Confederate States of America. The selections have been carefully made and - have the advantage over most private collections in that they are complete. The following institutions will re ceive collections: The University, Trinity, Davidson, Wake Forest, Sa lem, Meredith, State Normal, Biddle University, Shaw University. The folowing public libraries: Asheville, Winston-Salem, Greens boro, State Library and Olivia Raney, Raleigh; Wilmington, The North Carolina National Guard at Winston Salem will receive a collection. Report on Cabarrus Drainage. The report of the drainage engi neers, Messrs. H. M. Lynde and F. R. Baker, who made an examination, of the Irish Buffalo Creek in June has been received. The examination was complete and the report explains fully the size of the district and the benefits of drainage, it states that land values in the district will be in creased from $30 up to $200 an acre on waste bottoms, now practically useless. Landowners along the creek are in favor of the project and are signing a petition for a drainage dis-' trict. It is likely the district will be organized shortly. Mr. J. Lee Crowell Is the attorney for the dis trict. The district will be about 14 miles long and will embrace some 44 square miles of territory. It will ex tend from the Rowan county line to the Bradford Mill. A dipper dredge will begin at the Rowan line and work down stream. Working on Road System. Delegates from various sections of Iredell county appeared before the board of county commissioners at its regular monthly meeting to ask for road work. The last series of $125,000 oi the $4000,000 bond issue having been sold, the people of certain sec tions of the county not yet pentrated by the good roads are getting anx ious for their roads to be surveyed and work ordered, isu far not much over half of the $400,000 has been spent and the county is pretty well covered with roads and by the time all the money is expended the county will undoubtedly have one of the best systems of roads in the South. Road Convention One of Best Yet. With many asurance that- Green ville might get a branch of the cen tral highway if it would only go to work and pull for it, the representa tives and delegates from Greenville who attended the convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Associa tion in Morehead City have returned home. They report that the meeting was well attended and that it was one of the finest and most interesting that has ever been held. The speeches of Secretary Joseph Hyde Pratt and of Congressman John H. Small were roundly applauded by the delegates and visitors and each showed himself to be full of the good roads spirit. Crops are in Good Condition. Crops are in very good in this en tire section. Farmers are busy cur ing their tobacco. The cotton crop Is extra fine. A good deal of build ing is going on in Henderson. Celebrate Completion of Coler Road. Saturday, August 30, is the day set for the big celebration here in honor of the completion of th,e Coler road from High Point by Thomasville to Denton and High Rock, and the of ficial name for which is the Carolinaa & Yadkin River Railroad. J. J. Far ris is chairman of the celebration committee, and several other commit tees have been appointed to co-oper ate with him. At a mass meeting Monday night, Bird S. Coler of New York was present and a number of earnest speeches were 'made. North Carolinian Lutherans Meet. The second reunion of the Luther ans of North Carolina was held at Lutheran Chapel church near China Grove a few days ago. The services consisted in the. morning of short ad dresses by Rev. J. B. Moose, Rev. R. A. Goodman and Rev. -R. R. Sowers, interspersed with suitable songs. Rev C. P. McLaughlin presided over the services and at a business session at the noon hour, was re-elected presi dent. Rev. C. A. Brown was chosen vice-president and Mr; W. C. Sif fird, , treasurer. DECLINES TO PARDON THE N. C. UNIVERSITY HAZERS WHO WERE CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. THE LAST CHAPTER WRITTEN Sends His Answer By Wire to Private Secretary. Would Pardoning Power Restore Citizenship? Chief Jus tice Cl'ark Maintains to Contrary. Raleigh. By telegram from Wind sor to his private secretary, J. P. Kerr, Governor Craig declined to grant pardons for the . three univer sity hazers convicted in the Orange superior court of involuntary man slaughter, and thus the , last chapter of the unfortunate affair is written. L. J. Merriman, father of one of the boys convicted spent two days in interests of securing the pardon and left for Wilmington. The message from Governor Craig came several hours after Mr. Merriman's depart ure as the anxious father awaited the announcement of the governor's decision until past noon and not hear ing anything from the governor left on the afternoon train for Wilmington with a feeling that his request would not be granted. . In seeking clemency for the three hazers, whose term of four months has just expired, the purpose was in mind that the extending of the par doning power before the expiration of the sentence would restore the citi zenship of the young men. This con clusion advanced by Mr. Merriman and on which he sought the pardon with such steadfast purpose has given cause for debate and the contention is that the intercession of the gov ernor would not restore their citizen ship. ' No less an authority than Chief Justice Walter Clark maintains that the pardoning power cannot restore citizenship of persons convicted of manslaughter. He maintains that the restoration of citizenship to persons f 1 A i LA. a- convicieu oi mansiauKuier ib euuioij within the jurisdiction of the courts. Judge Clark cites authority from Vol. 1 of the Revisal of 1905 of North Car olina" laws, Section 2680. Increase in Tax Valuations. Wilmington. A report just com pleted by County Auditor Orrell for the county commissioners shows a net increase of $1,041,332 in tax valu ation In real and personal property in this county for 1913 over the year 1912. This does not include assess ments on property abutting on im proved streets in the city, which will very probably amount to $250, 000, running the total gain in real and personal property valuations to $1, 291,332. Another increase of about $50,000 will likely be shown In bank stock, coroproation excess, railroads, etc. Hookworm Campaign tn Rowan. Salisbury. The second week of the hookworm campaign in Rowan coun ty shows that the people are becom ing more and more interested in this work and are taking advantage of the opportunities that are offered to "them. There have been large crowds at all the points in the county, the least being 141 at Rockwell and 201 at Salibury. Depite the hot weather 621 persons were examined last week. Of this number 41 were treated for hookworm, 18 for dwarf tapeworms, 8 for roundworms and one for whip worms. Sunday School Convention. Concord. The No. 12 township Sunday School Convention was held several days ago at Central graded school. The first session was held at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. About 200 representatives of .the schools in Con cord were present, all of the 16 schools being represented except one. Mr. David C. Caldwell, president of the association, presided. The devo tional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. B. Werner, pastor of Trinity choir of McGill Street Baptist church rendered a musical selection. Lurton English Still in Jail. -Asheboro. The report that Lurton R. English, slayer of Jack Armstrong has been released from the Asheboro jail on bond is not correct. English has given the appeal bond and the ap peal for a new; trial will be carried up to the supreme court, but he has not yet raised $15,000 bond necessary for his release. As the appeal will not be heard by the supreme court until October or November, the new trial, if he should get one, would not come off until December or March. Demand For Penalties Imposed. Fayetteville. Mayor John Under wood as head of the city court, "has made (formal demand o. Recorder) Oates for all penalties imposed on city prisoners by the recorder's court since its establishment on June 1. Mayor Underwood whose action is taken in consequence of Attorney General Bickett's decision that only penalties for penal - and malicious crimes can be turned into the county school fund, says that he does not wish to take any legal steps to secure these penalties, if It can be avoided. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties. Edenton. An alarm was given which summoned the jailer quickly to tjie scene. Jailer E. S. Waff found only three of the ten prisoners within the jail. . Spencer. L. E. Moore of this place was carried to the Whitehead-Stokes Sanitarium in Salisbury with a "brok en rib and other injuries sustained at (Lexington. - Asheville. Women of America, who are the greatest monument builders in the world, should direct their energies and funds towards building memorial highways' instead of statues of bronze and marble. Durham. Officials" of the Southern Railroad and the Seaboard Air Line met . here for a conference with the members of the board of aldermen for the purpose of discussing the under pass at Alston avenue. , Franklin. At a meeting the Board of County Commissioners voted a $200 appropriation for the establishmenfof hookworm dispensaries in Macon. This work will begin shortly and be in charge of one of the members of the State Board of Health. Elizabethtown. Great interest has been shown in the trial of the suit brought by Jim Smith of this county against the Cumberland County Fair authorities as a result of his enforc ed balloon ascension at the fair last Fall. Raleigh. The "receipts of the Rev enue department for the eastern dis trict of North Carolina during the month of July were $490,493.62, an in crease of $14,569.30 over July of last year. The receipts for that month were $475,924.32. Salisbury. At a regular meeting of the Rowan County Commissioners It was reported that 800 citizens of the county failed to list their taxes as required by 'aw this year. After a careful consideration of the matter the commissioners ordered that war rants be issued for the 80Q persons who failed to comply with the law. . Raleigh. The $36,000 available for the remodeling and overhauling of the state building known as the "Supreme Court building," with the completion of the plans for such repairing and improvements, will start the work soon on that much advertised piece of furniture. Concord. Lightning played various pranks about the dwelling, and barn on Mr. W. H. Heglar's place in No. 1 township recently. . The lightning struck a tree near the house, ran on the overhanging limb to a chimney, thence across the roof, and descended a drain pipe, splitting a post nearby. High Point. John Bennett, a young son of Merchant J. G. Bennett, was run over and perhaps fatally injured here by a motor truck owned by the High Point Motor Company. A young man Styres, who was driving the ma chine, and Harry Reniger, who was with him, both employes of the com pany, are under arrest. Raleigh. S. S. Toler is found to have made the lowest bid for the erection of the $50,000 shop building at the A. & M. College, but the con tract is not yet awarded because only $40,000 can be put in the building, the other $10,000 to be held for equip ment. Toler's bid is $51,250 and plans will have to be cut. Asheville. Headed by Sheriff Wil liams, a posse of officers, including policemen and deputy sheriffs, made a rather dramatic raid upon Raven Inn, In the vicinity of Skyland, mak ing three arrests and seizing beer and whiskey. The men arrested were F. E. Domental, J. Domental and P. Brooks, who are alleged to have con ducted the road house and who are charged with violating the state pro hibition laws. Durham. The Board of County Commissioners refused to rescind the order requiring the Durham Traction Company to run its cars on thevspur track from Angler avenue to the railroads in East Durham. The trac tion company quit the operation of the cars on this part of its spur track from Angler, claiming that It was im possible to maintain ' a schedule on the main line tracks, if cars were used on this line. ' - Raleigh. The Newton-McArthur Lumber Company, of Elizabethtown, with discovered liabilities of $150,000, is in a receivership and Judge J. C. Biggs, of Raleigh, Is receiver. The big company's temporary embarrass ment came as the result of a depress ed market and local conditions. Salisbury. The Fourth Company North Carolina Coast Artillery left with 65 men for Fort Caswell for a 10-days encampment. The company is in command of Capt. C. L. Shaver and traveled in a special train. The band accompanied the troops to the camp. Waynesville. A ripple of senation was created here among the denei zens of the underworld when Martha Jones, Billie ; Smith and Cora Leed ford, the two being suspects of in- fantcide, throwing a newborn baby in a well, were arrested and taken be fore W. J. Haynes, J. P., for trial. Raleigh. The city commission in session determined on the installation of two concrete filters, at a cost of $3,400, with a capacity of two million gallons of water a day, and the con tract for the construction of the filters goes to Tucker and Laxton, of Charlotte. ATTITUDE TOWARD MEXICO UNCHANGED WILSON TAKES COMMITTEE INTO CONFIDENCE AND OUTLINES HIS POLICY. BOTH PARTIES WERE THERE It Is Understood That Huerta Is Only Asked to Carry Out Promises Made I After the Death of Madero. Meet ing Was Friendly. V Washington. Two hours of confer ence between President Wilson, Sec retary Bryan and the senate foreign relations committee brought about no change in the attitude of the adminis tration toward Mexico. President Wilson took the senators into his confidence far enough to out line the following: That John Lind, his special envoy, to Mexico City, doe3 not bear any solution of the present situation, but goes to continue this government's ef fort to induce Provisional President Huerta to redeem his promises for free and constitutional elections. That under no circumstances does the administration propose to recog nize the Huerta government. That Mr. Lind has gone to Mexico City to be the "eyes and ears" of the Washington administration on the ground, and to explain the attitude of this government when he has fully familiarized himself with the situa tion. That by withdrawing Ambassador Wilson and sending Mr. Lind, the president planned to have a man on the ground who was in sympathy with the administration here and was in sense a factor in the situation in Mexico City. These policies and suggestions of the President and Secretary Bryan came out in general discussion. It was made clear that the purpose of the conference was to establish more frank and intimate relations between the senate and the administration, in the development of the Mexican policy; and in the furtherance of this idea the President talked freely, an swering many pointed questions. While the president disclosed no definite plan for the pacification of Mexico, the implication remained that upon Mr. Llnd's reports would depend to a large extent the future policy of this country. The meeting was entirely friendly. Of the 12 men present only two sena tors Smith of Arizona and Stone of Missouri are out and out believers in a policy of ultimate intervention. Will Sulzer Be Impeached. Albany, N. Y No statement was forthcoming from Governor Sulzer con cerning the revelations made by the Frawley legislative committee. Al though the governor has given no in timation as to when he . may issue a statement In explanation of his campaign . contributions and stock transactions his friends predict he will be heard from soon. Lewis A. Sarecky, former confidential secre tary to the governor, who refused to testify concerning campaign contri butions of the executive may be sum moned before the bar of the house to explain his position. Plan For European Cruise, Washington. The Navy's present plans are for the Atlantic fleet to leave Hampton Roads for its European cruise early in October, Immediately after fall target practice. The ships will sail for the Mediterranean Sea. Secretary Daniels will discuss the voyage with Rear Admiral Barger, commander-in-chief. Says Lind Is In No Danger. New York. While admitting that Mexico is facing a grave crisis, Fran cisco de La Barra, Mexican ambasso dor to France, in a statement declared it is folly to suggest that former Gov ernor Lind, the personal representa tive of President Wilson to Mexico, would be subjected to any personal danger. Senator Kenyon Severe on Trusts. Washington. "It is more important to control or destroy the trusts than to revise the tariff," declared Senator Kenyon in the. senate. "If our Demo cratic friends, by adopting an amend ment In accordance to the party plat form, would assist in this they would accomplish greater good than by merely reducing the tariff." Mr. Ken yon was speaking on his amendments to, free list articles manufactured by the aluminum trust at once and! to free list all products of concerns held by the courts to be monopolies. Contradicts Evidence of Conley. Atlanta, Ga. Herbert Schiff, as sistant to Leo M. Frank, as superin tendent of the National pencil factory, occupied the stand during all of a short session of Frank's trial for the murder of Mary Phagan. Schiff con tradicted statements made by James Conley, negro factory sweeper, that women were frequent visitors at the superintendent's office. He testified that his hours were practically iden tical with those of Frank, but said he was not at the factory on the af ternoon of grir" disappearance.
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