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BLOODSHED.
Conditions in Mexico u Depicted
By An American Missionary.
Rev. J. O. Dale, Missionary of
the Associate Reformed Church
in Mexico, in Associate Re
formed Presbyterian.
The Atila of Mexico, Zapata,
has headed a revolution in the
southwest of the . republic for
three vears. From hit secret
mountain fastnesses his horde
have swooped down on the rich
farms and defenceless ranches,
looting and ruHbing anil killing
ami burning. The times are al
most iast counting when he has
liurned bridges on the railroad
or opened the track, wrecking
trains, robbintg passengers ami
butchering the soldiers who were
going as military escort. Towns
by the hundreds hajve gone np
in smoke, It has been an almost
incmtble story of wholesale
bloodshed. Almost daily its re
citals of horrors have filled col
umna of the press.
The government has paid them
pack! in their own coin. Months
ago an order went from Mexico
City directing the inhabitant of
the State of Morelos, the hot
bed of "Zapatismo,"who did not
sympathize with, the bloody ban
dit to gather in certain cities in
dicated. T:.en the Federal eol
diers went through the Staite kill
ing all men, women and children
outside of the cities named and
burning the homes. All such
persons were thus understood to
be followers of Zapata and this
was the dreadful punislunent met
ed out to them. The press
strictly censured all these months,
had! nothing to say of the nor
rors of this measure of blood.
Only that it was executed. The
imagination paints scenes that
- k c - o&et - wk e- - night.- Z.p
ata, however, i&iGl lives and with
machete (dirk), rifle and torch
continues his deadly work. A
thousand Indians of the Huasteca
Potosina rose in arms against the
Huerta government burning San
Miguel, Tantizaniche and Tam
giamolon, leaving, according to
report, only the Catlnolic church
standing in the last named
town. The Federal soldiers in
vaded the distrio tfrom which the
wiklmen came ami left mountain
ranches blazing for miles and any
one coming from that general sec
tion of country without a docu
ment is shot without any further
investigation.
A Federal garrison killed sev
eral rebels in a fight in Guer
rero, S. L. P. The victims were
dragged through the streets of
the town as an image lemm for
all those who should, like the,
no tflflnit to governmental au
thority. And the rebels lost i
opportunity to "get even." Ten
days ago a rebel band attacked
Aliuiuiiies, of our field. Twice
they were repulsed. At last
tliey found on the outskirts of
the town a lot of Indian rum,
under the inspiration of which
t!uy rushed pell inell into the
town who ping vengeance. The
Federal force gave way, but
there was iw cscajie. Their pow
dir was all gone and they wen'
at the mercy of their relentless
foes. Mounted on their ponies
thi.y rode through the streets at
breakneck1 speed ami throwing
their 'ussoes over the heads of
the Ffderal infantry, dragged
them over the rough cobble
stones, turning suddenly around
telegraph poles to further mangle
the lifeless bodies. Other (meth
ods of torture equally infernal
Avere put into operation. A
friend who saw it all testified
that the scene haunted him like
a very nightmare for night and
nights.
When the rebel lender, Fran
cisco, Villa, t'ok the city of Tor
reon a month ago, he had cut off
the head of flencral Alvirez, the
defending general, and hung it on to get'com for the begs. The
the pi fli lie. square, precisely as h;,d willingly went on the errand,
they did with Hidalgo more than Jn.it realizing that he was ruh
a hundred yenrs apo. Up and 'ing to hi death. A minute or
dwn the railroad lines nuiv b
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IOIMI Illll IHHIII'V III il'l III lirinl r'IllMW
hangiitg to telegraph j.leS. where
tl
icv
remain nnl tiniteiy. Along
the raihvav rut anvone travel
ing on foot aiwl not able to givw
a satisfactory amount of hinis- If,
is sununarily shot then and
there.
Every few day military trains
are blown up. And there are
many mere, nobody doubts, of
which the press has nothing to
aay. . It would1 grow common wen
it not to appalling. Sometimes
a "crazy engine" (as they call
them) is turned loose, throttle
wide open, to go down the track
to derail or srrnash to pieces an
other train, known to be just
ahead. The more usual way, how
ever, is with dynamite. The lat
est example will suffice. A mil
itary escort of 125 soldiers were
aboard a train just ahead of a
passenger train. The trap was
set. Dynamite was laid ami the
rebels hid in the bushes near by.
The train whirled along at the
rate of 40 miles an hour. When
it struck, the dynamite, according
to reports, the engine, coaches
and soldiers were thrown high
into the air to come down, the
engine and coaches torn into
thousands of pieces and men pil
ed up on the wreck, dead or
wounded or dying. The conceal
ed rebels at once poured into this
mass of dead and dying men a
rain of shot which soon finished
their demonical work and the life
less garrison of soldiers were left
there- on the mass of debris.
Verily, the ways of our revolu
tion are those of fire and blood.'
The heart gest sick at times and
will cry out, "Oh, Lord, how
long?"
Richest Mexican Flees
Paso.
to El
El raso, Tex., Dec. 15. After
a horseback journey across the
Mexican desert of two weeks'
duration, lacking a day, Don
Luis Terrazas, richest man in all
Mexico, is quartered in, the most
sumptuous suite of rooms in the
best hotel in El Paso.
Though more than eighty years
old, the grey4earded, white
haired! old don! who was old
enough to La a general and fight
against MTXsrnilian in the 60 s,
today dismissed queries regard
ing his trip across the Mexican
Jorando del Muerto the journey
of death! with a shrug of the
shoulders and a wave of tin hand,
as if the mere riding of thirteen
days on mule back over desert
audi mountain were nothing.
General Terrazas declined to
discuss the imprisonment of his
son, Luis Terrazas, Jr., by Gen
eral Villa, at Chihuahua, and re
fused absolutely to discuss Mex
ican affairs under the circum
stances. However, it is known
that meinlxers of his party are
conferring here with representa
tives of Villa, who is demanding
$350,000 for the release of young
Terrazas.
The general was said not to be
so much disturbed over paying
the ransom as over the problom
of getting the women members
of his family to the border. They
were left behind in charge of
young Terrazas when the general
departed for the bonier with the
fdeeral soldiers. The conference
between members of his party
ami representatives of Villa, it
is understood, is to ascertain
what sum Villa is willing to ao
cejtf for the release of his soul
ami the women.
The revolution alreadv has cixst
General Terrazas 10,000,0(K), yet
he is conMilered the r idlest man
in Mexico.
Killed by Trap Set for Thief.
Big Laurel, Va., Dec. 3. The
nine-year-old son of Nathan Dell,
a farmer, of near Phillips, Wise
county, was instantly killed yes
terday afternoon by a trap set
by his father intended for a
thief who had been robbing his
com crib.
Early in the mornint? Mr. Dell
set the trap in his corn house,
using a shot gun, the trigger be
irlr connected with the door. The
son not aware of the trap being
set, late in the afternoon was
sent 1' bus fit ier to the crib
so after the boy departed, Mr.
fl .!! w.. I... I. A I . . . 1 I i
' ii i.-ui.-u nun. ne iiii.i inn i.u.i
the child of the trap. He start-
cd flp the barn, ealhr.ir to his!
son not to touch the dor. He
was too late, however, and wl-n
the fatiwr readied the lad he
found him dead, his head being
almost completely blown away
from hw Vly. Mr. Dell is grief
atricLcn.
Efforst to Create a Panic WQl
Fail.
Washington, Dec. 11. "The
efforts of a little coterie- of mon
eyed men who control big finan
ces in this eountry to bring about
panicky conditions in the rail
road manufacturing and commer
cial world because of the pas
sage of the new tariff law, the
proposed currency ami trust leg
islation is going to prove a fail
ure," said fsenator F. M. Sim
mons, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee today. "The
reports for the first month after
the new tariff went into effect
justifies the claims of the Presi
dent and the Democratic leaders
in the Congress durinjg the con
sideration of the tariff bill. There
has not been any great flood of
foreign made goods to the United
States, but in the course of
time we will get enough of for
eign goods to keep the domestic
manufacturer from raising the
prices on us.
"I have realized that certain
men who control millions of dol
lars were trying to bring about
conditions that would brighten
the President and Congress but
they will fail. The Democratic
platform pledges as to the tariff
have Wen carried out, and those
on currnecy and monopolies will
be carried out. You cannot put
your hand on the men who are
calling in 'their money, dropping
off their laborers, but you can
see signs of their efforts. The
'nigger' is showing in the wood
pile.
"A Wg concern like the Mor
gans of New York dominate
vroukl not mind losing $40,000,000
or $00,000,000 m a financial cnish
if it era'd blocW certain legis
lation. "' ,
The truth is" ibo great rich
mei of affairs have had control
so long that they cannot now
real! "e that Ih ynas t&ih Hth
Whit- House and at the Capitol
as o'.h-'r people d They still
believe that hey will dominate. "
Senator Simmons made the
foregoing1 comment upon receiv
Secretary Redfield 'a report show
ing that America's foreign trade
is still growing.
The Redfield report slwnvs "a
falling1 off of imports in the
first four months July, August,
.September and Oeteler of this
fiscal year of nearly $46,000,000
as comparts! with the same period
of 1912."
"The flooding of our markets,
therefore," says Mr. Redfield,
"with the alleged cheap wares
of Europe has not happened."
Investigators Put Blame on the
Hen.
Wash in got n, Dec. 11. After
sweral weeks of investigation
over the entire United States, of
ficials of the Department of Jus
tice have concluded that there is
little ground for belief that a
Nationwide cold storage trust
exists. Every United States at
torney in the country was pressed
into service for a quick survey of
the cold storage field and their
rejKrts t Washington indicate
that while coui'biiwi have been
formed in a few largo cities, there
is no conclusive evidence of a
cold storage trust controlling the
price of eggs and other products
in all parts of the country.
Sufficient evidence has been
fortlicuming, however, to show
that in some of the cities such
combinations do exist, and the
department already has turned
its attention to a more careful
scrutiny of the operations of cold
stin-Jte men th re. Its next step
will be to trace the lins of interstate-combination
between the
dealers hi these large cities, for
without connection between thenijare kiu wn as "culls." This wmj
acrews State lines the ShennnniU Hold at 15" cents a cord on th
act would not be available. j stump. The trees are selected
The Nationwide inquiry has, by the rangers and are clearly
tended to put the Department branded with a big " U. S." driv
of Justice on the side of the De-'en deep into the wood,
partmeii t.J" Agriculture, pi. icing! After the wood is corded the
much of the hh.ine for high srr rangers must also brai d every
and poultry prices, nt on cold ' t icki and a removal of the wo.d
storage men but 'ii the hen.; without this brand subjects the
eeonii :r to reports nw at
1 1 1 A 1 m
naim, eoia .siorage men nave sul-
fered from a mark.1 lat-.k of eggs '
and (,tlier nr.wlnet I'n;t..lit,. ..n ..-;i...t
States attorneys have reported in!
nriny instaiu'e.s that old storage
dealers have stocks on hard far
under tdoeka in previous years
and that they nee little prwpeet
of r.lief unlc.s the hens get busy
at ouoo.
CORN CLUB WINNER
TO WASHINGTON?
Raised One Eimdred and Ninety
Bushels Marion Broown and
E. C, Moorman Won District
. Prizes.
Three sturdy young North Car
olina farmers are today on their
way to "Y.'ashington, D. C, to
sIend a week visiting the many
places of interest in . the Nation
al Capital as guests of the State
Department of Agriculture and
Congressman Small and Godwin
as a result of winning prizes in
the State Boys Oorn Club con
test this year. J. Ray Cameron,
age 17, of Kinston, Route 1, got
first prize for the biggest yield
per acre offered by the Depart
incnt of Agriculture. Marvin
Brown, age 14, of Washington,
Route 1, wbn the district prize
offered by Congressman J. II
Small; and E. C. Morgan, age 16,
of Marietta, Roberson county, got
the district prize offered by
Congressman II. L. Godwin.
Young1 Mr. Cameron, who won
the first prize in the State this
year, raised 190 2-5 bushels of
corn on; his acre at a cost of 32
cents per bushel. lie also won
$50 offered by the Hastings Seed
Company, of Atlanta, Ga. Mar
vin Brown, the youngest and
smallest of the champion corn
growers, goes to Washington bv
the aid of Congressman Small's
offer. His raise was 101 bushels
to the acre at a cost of 25 cU.
and waa the best record in his
district. E. M. Morgan raised
his crop at a cost of only 13Va
cents per bushel, very much low
er -than any of the other two.
HI yield vaa 6 -buhelat-.-
The prize-winners will stay In
Washington seven days and will
visit President Wilson, Secretary
Houston, of the Department of
Agriculture; Secretary Josephua
Daniels, oNrth Carolina Senators
and Congressmen, and also visit
the places of interest there. All
their expenses will be paid while
in the National Capital.
Messrs. Cameron and Brown
left Raleigh last night for Wash
ington aixl were accompanied by
Mr. A. K. Robertson, assistant
in Boys' Com Club work of the
State Department of Agriculture.
Mr. Morgan took' the trio from
Wilson and will join the party
ujHin arrival today in Washing
ton. The Government's Forest Reserve
in Our Mountains.
Salisbury Dispatch to Charlotte
Okserver.
Burning eordwood bearing the
"U. S." government brand ' an
unusual experience with many in
North Carolina. The wihhI comes
from the United States reserva
tions in McDowell and other
counties in the mountains of wes
tern North Carolina, where 32,-
000 acres are under government
control.
This is the first season that
wood has been sold ,by the govern
meut and more than 4,000 cords
have been dwiHi'sed of at 25 eta.
a cord. Three government repre
sentatives, known as rangers,
under the leadership of Jim
Ycaing, stationed at Old Fort,
earn, for the reservation and see
that Uncle Sam's rights are re
spited. The citizens of the sec
tion are allowed to hunt and
fish on the lands, but miwt not
cut timber, except under the di
rection of the rangers. Only;
such tree.s are allowed to be used
for wood as are undesirable and'
dealer to prosecut son in the I ed-1
w . 1
eral courts. It ls regarded as
nothing than "blkading"
the proper brand
rannem f the section are al
lowed grazing privileges at 75
cents a heal for the nea.s.in. They
may al. cultivate the. land bv
payutr $1 a year
Uncle Sam.
the acre to.
State Hospital's Record for the
Year.
Statcville, Dec. 11 R. R.
Claris of Statesville, who is a
member, of tho Board of Direc
tors of the State Hospital at
Morganton and secretary to the
board, attended the meeting uf
the Executive Committee at the
hospital Tuesday and the regular
meeting of the board there" Wed
nesday. With two exception
there was a full attendance of
the directors. A. I). Tate of
High Point was present at the
mee.tii' of the Executive (1om
mrtfee, but had to leave for Wash
ington before the regular board
meeting. Dr. L. N. Glenn of
Gxstonia, recently appointed as
a member of the -board to succeed
Mr. J. W. Noell of Roxsborp, was
the only absentee.
Charles P. Matheson of Taylors
ville, recently appointed to suc
ceed J. G. Hall of Lenoir, deceas
ed, took the oath of office. '
ine leauire oi tne -meeting was
the report of Supt. John McCam-j Thursday. "This is my grave. I
pbell for the year ending Nov-jam not goin to commit suicide,
ember 30. The report shows' I am going to wait here for the
that the ninmber of patieuts in lend and I shall fight whneeever
the hospital at the beginning of; I have to. I could have killed
the year was 1,330, of which 763, more men than I have. Time and
were women ami 5b7 men. Dur -
ing the year there have been
admitted t the institution 91
men and 97 women, a total of
188; total under treatment, 1,518;
discharged an recovered, 27 men
ard 2o women; discharged as
improved, 17 men and 16 womrtn;
one man was discharged not im
proved and two men were dis
charged as not insane, while an
other was transferred fo Ral
eigh. During the year 64 pati
ents died 31 men and 33 women
making a total removal of
153, 79 men and 74 women. Re
maknirtig November 30, 1913, 579
men and 786 women, a total of
1,35. , , . ,
" The death 'rate for .'the- year
waa very small comma red -with
similar institutions and the re
covery rate, which is 27.6 per
cent, based on the number of ad
minsions, is a very favorable show
ing. The general health of the
patients is good and ik serious
accident has occurred during the
year.
The great demand for admis
sion of patients to the hospital is
unabated, it having been neces
sary to deny the a Imission of
162 applicants during- the year on
account of a lack: of room. The
Legislature appropriated $50,000
last Winter for an additional
building and ground has been
broken for the receiving building
for women but there is delay in
the work because the money ap
propriated is not available. The
building will hardly be ready for
oceujpancy before next Summer.
The vacancies in the hospital
caused by dith or dweharge do
not begin to keep pace with the
implications for admission and the
tnanagnnent of the hospital and
the directors must constantly
hear dwt resting appeals which
they are powerless to heed be
cause of the lack of room.
15 Maine Hunters Dead;
10,000
Deer, 200 Moose.
Bangor, Maine, Dec. 15. To
date 15 persons have lost their
lives in the Maine hunting season
closed December 15 five by the
accidental discharge of their own
weaon.s, four h trough being mis
taken for deer, three dy dragging
guns imtzzle first, two by acciden
tal shooting by others and one by
drowning.
Tliree of the hunters who k'ill-
d men in mistake for deer are
under bonds for appearance at
court. The maximiun penalty in
ease th? victim dies is 10 years'
Mnprisonment, the minimum $10tK)
fine. The law is seldom enforced,
howeer, and the extreme penal
ty has never been imimsed.
Receipts of game at Bangor for
the season, are about 2100 deer,
50 moose ami 16 bears. On this
basis it is estimatid that there
have been killed in the entire
State about 10.000 d -er and 200
moose. No accurate record is
kept of bears. October, the first
month of the season, was rainy
and little hunting was done.
Then has been very little snow
in Maine thus far, and the track
ing of game has been difficult.
The moose kilbsl were mostly
young bulLs. and good bemads have
been few. The buck deer have
been larger and fatter tlun usual,
LOPEZ NOT FOUND.
Slayejr of Six Mean, and Majte
Mare still in the Tunnel or
Elsewhere at Large.
Bingham, Utah, Dec. 13. The
search for Raiph Lopez, slayer of
six men, was resumed, by sher
iffs tonight in the workings of
the Utah-Apex mine. The offi
cers had suspended operations all
day today on objection of the
mine owners that the process of
searching a section and then
bulkheading it is beginning to
halt mining operations. After. a
conferenec. however, the company
withdrew its objection.
Sam Rogers told early today
of having talked with Lopez
twice in one of the tunnels of
of the mine during the last two
days, and of the d"perado re
marking they would meet again
today.
"I know they have me corner
ed in this mine," Lopez w ouot-
ed b Koerera no toltintr him
i again I have followed twmhou
in
here and heard their plans for
kiliirg me. Nobody would know
I was in here if it had not been
for Julio Corrello and Mkke Sle
fano, who I thought were my
friends. If I could kill them both
I would die happy."
The Crime of Arson.
Arson is a crime, and the
person who commits it should be
punished just the same as the
horse thief and the murderer.
The man who fires a building,
either his own or his neighbor's
does ao withau tany guarantee
that he (will not cause loss of dife
tither-riil' oioieerio! ;trithr UW
fire an the buildimg he aims to
burn, or in en adjoining building.
The crime of arson w a difficult
one to fasten on a person, no
matter how guilty he may be, for
the ev idence must be largely cir
cumstantial, because no one in
his right mdnd pets fire to pro
perly in the presence of witness
es. I tus fact proves a stumblinsr
bbxlk in the way of bringing1 in
cendiaries to justice.' There- is
a stnmg sentinvent against the
murxlerer, the horse thief and
the violator of the prohibitory
law, but the "fire-bug-" is hawk
ed upon s a myth in many
firanters ami is regarded too of
ten as a subterfuge manufactured
by the insurance cxmipany to
kd-ed from baviryg to pay the in
surance policy. Ami the incen
diary, instead of gotting his just
dues, gets sympathy m his bat
Mi with the company or with the
State authority who investigates
the fire.
Tlie jierson who commits arson
has many Advantages. He usual
ly operates in his own honv or
place of business and can choose
his own time and for seit-
ting the fire. He can also pre
pare an vlili in advance and can
prave that he was nowhere near
when the fire was discuvered. If
the fire is successful, from the
Ioinit of vitw of the property
owner, the evidence burns up and
there w nothing left but suspic
ious circumstances.
Greatly Reduced Fares for the
Xm&s and New Tear Holidays.
For the Christmas anil New
Year Holidays the Southern llaii
way will sell round trip tickets
.at greatly reduced fares. Dates
of sale December 17th lo 25th,
December 31st, 1913 and Jan
nary 1st, 1914, with filial re
turn limit Jantiary 6th, 1914.
For further and detailed hi
formatkm aqly to any Southern
Iiailwuy Ticiket Agent, or,
R. II. DeButts, I). P. A.,
Charlotte, N. C. 1
Bed Bugs and Disease.
Seienits lire b'ginning to
g"ive the ix-dlmg tlie attenlhwi
which his bad character has long
merited. They find b'uu as ili
reputable, ail, j rhaps, more
dairerous 4han the fly, mosjutto,
flea or louse. At leaat tic in
fectious dseas", including ty
phoid, are already known to be
tniiismittt-d by the bed fug, hjuI
as the invent igation of his tKibits
contiuurs nuiiilcr will daoLt-
lcsa grow.
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