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VOL. XXIV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1914.
NO. 30.
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CARAVAN WINDS ITS
' WAY TO A REFUGE
HUERTA'S BEATEN SOLDIERS ARE
MARCHING TO FORT BLISS,
TEXAS.
ARE FOOTSORE AND RAGGED
Women Proved Best Marchers Six
Huerta Generals in Unique
Procession.
! Marfa, Texas. Footsore, fagged, al
most famished from their three days'
march on foot of 67 miles over a wind
swept mountain road, the 3,300 Mexi
can federal soldiers and generals rout
ed from Ojinaga, Mexico, by the reb
els, with 1,667 women and about 300
children and infants, arrived at Mar
fa, whence they were to be trans
ported by train to Fort Bliss at El
Paso.
The ragged remnant of the Huerta
army, which sought asylum in tills
country rather than face possible ex
termination by the rebels, will be for
mally interned at Fort Bliss, as wards
of the government. They will be held
there indefinitely on footing of pris
oners of war.
None of those in the unique caravan
which, with its disarmed Mexican sol
diers, women, children, horses, burros
and dogs, struggled for miles along the
road, was more visibly affected on
coming within sight of Marfa than
Gen. Salavador Mercado, Huerta's for
mer military chief, who ordered the
evacuation of Ojinaga in face of the
rebel fire. General Mercado, riding on
a horse, his uniform covered with
dust, was confessedly humiliated, not
only at the defeat of his army and
the necessity for his flight, but also
because of a report from Mexico City
that he would be courtmartialed if
he returned to his native country.
The picturesque march afoot
through American terirtory of so many
foreign soldiers and women with their
baggage, abounded with incident. The
birth of a child, the death of several
wounded soldiers, the search for water
in the desert, the constant straggling
away from the line of march and the
rounding up again of scores of the
refuge.es were some of the difficulties
with which the United States cavalry
men had to contend. The Mexicans
outnumbered the escorting American
soldiers, ten to one.
Viewed from a hilltop, the oncomirg
army as it zigzagged through the
mountain passes and reached back
ward into the dusty distance ten miles
away, was a picture of exhaustion, al
though the prospect of soon reaching
their destination seemed to revive
fresh courage.
BIRDMAN DASHES TO DEATH
Arthur E. Perry Drowned at Tampa
While Making Flight.
Tampa, Fla. Arthur E. Perry, for
merly a member of the army aviation
corps, and known in army circles as
Captain Dick, fell into the Hilsor
ough river here, after making a para
chute leap of 1,000 feet and was
drowned. He was an expert swimmer,
but became entangled in the ropes of
his parachute and could not swim
out.
Perry was accompanied on the flight
and parachute jump by Manuel Perez,
leaving an amusement part at four
o'clock. Two parachutes were used
and Perez made a successful landing
about fifty feet from where Perry land
ed in the water.
. Perez called to a party in a motor
boat nearby, efforts at once being
made to rescue Perry, but the river
current was swift and the spot where
Perry fell was filled with debris from
a fallen tree in which the ropes of the
parachute became entangled.
Safety for Ocean Travelers.
London. The work of the revision
committee of the International Con
gress of Safety at Sea has ended. The
American wireless systems were
agreed to by the European delegates.
?his gives control of apparatus and
;supervision over operations of em
ployees to the American government,
notwithstanding the nationality of the
ships, whenever they are in American
waters. The agreement preserves in
tact private code signals of any coun
try reserved for war.
Men of Navy Respond to Order.
Washington. Secretary Daniels ex
pressed gartification over the hearty
response of enlisted men of the navy
to the recent order putting academical
and technical courses of instruction
Into operation on battleships. Of 96
first-enlistment men on the battleship
Florida, 93 asked for ppeeial instruc
tion. On board the Arkansas 499
men expressed a desire to pursue stud
ies. Ensign Falgo started a class in
mechanical and marine engineering on
the Utah, with fifty pupils, and within
two weeks the class had grown to S5.
EMPEROR OF ABYSSINIA
There seems to be some doubt of the
correctness of the latest report of the
death of Menelik of Abyssinia, but if
tie is dead, he has been succeeded by
his nephew, Si Jassu, whose portrait
is here presented.
ARE UNDER MM RULE
GOVERNMENT MEETS GENERAL
STRIKE ORDER BY DECLAR
ING MARTIAL LAW.
Feeling Is Very Bitter Throughout the
Country Natives Are
Feared.
Cape Town, Union of South Africa
A general strike throughout South Af
rica was proclaimed by the Trades
Federation, and the" Rand, miners, by
a two-thirds majority, voted to join
in the movement. Governmental retal
iation was swift in the form of . the
proclamation of martial law.
This was the only step the authori
ties believed adequate to meet the sit
uation, for the strike of the miners
means not only the turning loose of
the'most turbulent spirits in the Rand,
but raises the whole question of the
position" of the native workers. If the
miners actually obey the strike order,
the government will immediately take
steps to send the natives, under es
cort, back to their kraals.
This means that about two hundred
thousand natives must be marched
back by road to their homes at enor
mous cost. It will be most difficult,
after the endvof the strike, to recruit
them again. In . brief, such a step
would mean disaster for the Rand for
many years.
Although official reports from the
city of Johannesburg show improve
ment in the train service, reports from
other districts are less encouraging.
In Natal the situation is one of great
tension, and it is feared that the loy
alty of the trainmen will not stand the
strain much longer. An instance of
the men's temper i3 shown by the ac
tion of an engine driver who quit his
train on the Veldt and left the passen
gers stranded.
Practically no information is at hand
as to conditions in the Orange Free
States, but improvement there Is not
considered probable.
HUERTA DEFAULTS ON DEBT
Dictator Announces No Interest Will
Be Paid on Debts.
Mexico City. After a meeteing of
the cabinet, which lasted all night, the
Mexican foreign minister, Querido Me
heno, announced that the Mexican gov
ernment will default in the payment
of all interest on the bonds of the
internal and external debts, which now
remains unpaid or which falls due with
in the next six months. A heavy pay
ment of interest on the foreign debt
becomes due in April.
It has been the practice of the gov
ernment to make weekly remittances
to New York, London and' Paris to ap
ply on 'its interest obligations, in or
der that when the interest payment
periods arrived the money would be
in hand. These weekly remittances
now have been suspended, the explana
tion being that the government re
quires all available funds for pacifi
cation purposes.
Connecticut Folks Are Money Savers.
Hartford, Conn. More than half the
people who live in Connecticut had
deposits in the savings banks, accord
ing to the annual report of the state
bank commissioners. The 622,000 de
positors have $307,500,000 to their
credit, an increase of 16,000 depositors
and $9,000,000 over 1912. The estimat
ed population of the state is 1,176,000.
John Skelton Williams Comptroller.
Washington. President Wilson has
nominated John Skelton Williams of
Virginia, assistant secretary of the
treasury, for comptroller of the cur
rency and ex-officio member of the
federal reserve board which will ad
minister the affairs of the new cur
rency system. Mr. Williams Is now
assistant secretary of the treasury in
charge of the fiscal bureaus and Sec
retary McAdoo's first assistant in mat
ters of government finance. The of
fice of comptroller of the currency has
been vacant several months.
NOTED SOUTH
JOURNALIST DEAD
COLONEL PENDLETON FORMER
LY STATE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE CHAIRMAN, DIES
WELL KNOWN IN THE SOUTH
Leader of Georgia Delegation to Last
Democratic National Convention
in Baltimore.
Macon, Ga. Charles Rittenhouse
Pendleton, for sixteen years editor and
part owner of the Macon Telegraph,
died after an illness of five weeks.
His condition did not become critical
until a week ago, when it was disco r
ered that he had Bright's disease. He
was 63 years of age.
Colonel Pendleton, as he was gener
ally called, came to Macon from Val
dosta, where he edited a paper for
many years. He served one term in
the legislature from Lowndes county,
but ever atferwards avoided holding
political office, though he was a leader
in the Democratic party In Georgia.
Colonel Pendleton was sent to the
Democratic National convention as a
delegate from Georgia, the last one
being the Baltimore convention, which
he attended as chairman of the Geor
gia delegation, instructed for Oscar
Underwood. He was a member of a
number of state conventions, and four
years ago was chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee.
In politics Colonel Pendleton gener
ally was classed with the conserva
tives, although he never failed to sup
port tfie nominee of his party, heartily
and enthusiastically.
Mr. Pendleton 'was born in Effing
ham county, Georgia, June 26, 1850, the
fifth child of Philip C. Pendleton. His
mother's maiden name was Catherine
Tebeau, of the family which gave Te-
beauville its name.
Immediately upon his father's death
Mr. Pendleton took charge of the Val-
dosta Times for the family, a heavy re
sponsibility for so young a man for
there were several to support with the
income from this source. He made
the Valdosta Times one of the most
influential' papers in south and south
west Georgia and at one time enjoyed
the county printing of several counties.
In 1879 he married Sallie Patterson
Peoples of Valdosta, who survives
him.'
Among the telegrams received by the
family of ' the illustrious editor were
those from Gov. John M. Slaton, ex
Gov. Joseph M. Brown, Col. W. S.
West of Valdosta, Clark Howell " of
Atlanta; Labor Commissioner H. M.
Stanley and A. H. Ulm, the governor's
private secretary.
BANDIT ROBS PULLMAN CAR
Masked Man Strips Four Passengers of
Money and Jewelry.
Atlanta. Wearing a blue handker
chief, covering his face up to his eyes,
with a cap pulled down to the bridge
of his nose and his coat collar turn
ed up, a well-dressed lone bandit board
ed the Nashville-Atlanta, Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis southbound
passenger train, as it slowed down at
Vinings station, eleven hifles from At
lanta at night, and with a blue-steel,
large caliber revolver in his left-hand,
held up the eleven passengers riding
in the parlor car, "Nyssa," forcing four
of the male passengers to give up $280
in cash.. The robber made no effort
to molest two women passengers on
the car. Fifteen minutes later, the
bandit fought a fierce gun battle with
a Fulton county police officer, who
happened to be on the train, aided by
the. negro train porter, and escaped.
Millionaires Flocking to Jekyl Island.
Brunswick, Ga. Some of the coun
try's best known millionaires are now
on Jekyl island, where they are either
occupying their winter cottages or
stopping at the mammoth clubhouse
operated on the island for the benefit
of the guests. Practicaly every cot
tage on the island is now occupied
and additional parties are arriving dai
ly. Prominent among the millionaires
now on the island are William Rocke
feller, who, with his family, is occu
pying his cottage, and Mrs. J. Pler
pont Morgan, who is occupying the
quarters of the late financier at the
Sans SoucL
Urges Anti-Trust Bill.
Washington. Representative Stan
ley of Kentucky, after a conference
with President Wilson, introduced an
amendment to the Sherman law, which
would make illegal monopolization or
restrain of trade "in any degree,"
striking at the "rule of reason," laid
down by the Supreme court in tne
Standard Oil case. The amendment
also would invest the circuit courts of
the United States with jurisdiction to
restrain and prevent violations of the
act, irrespective of the attorney general.
MRS. WILLIAM A. CULL0P
Mrs. Cullop, wife of Representative
Cullop of Indiana and recently elected
president of the Women's National
Democratic league, emphatically de
nies the story that there have, been
big defections from the league be
cause it did not declare in favor of
equal suffrage.
108 PERSONARE RESCUED
RESCUE SHIPS REACH WRECKED
STEAMER COBEQUID AND
TAKE OFF PASSENGERS.
Rescue One of Most Notable Ever Ac
complished on the Atlantic
Coast.
Yarhiouth, N. S. -Snatched from
what seemed almost certain death, the
108 passengers and crew of the Royal
Mail Packet Cobequid are safe in Yar
mouth harbor.
Wireless appeals for assistance,
which she had first made thirty-six
hours before, were answered as the
doomed steamer was being racked to
pieces on Trinity Rock, six miles off
Port Maitland. The rescue will go
down in shipping annals as one of the
most notable ever accomplished on the
Atlantic coast.
The Cobequid had begun to break
up under the cannoning of the ter
rific seas that had been merciless from
the time the vessel strmck. Quantities
of cargo covered the waters as the
lifeboats ranged alongside. The coas
tal steamers Westport and John L.
Cann were first to get their small
boats into the water and they were
followed soon by boats of the govern
ment steamer Lansdowne and the
steamer Rappahannock. As the work
of rescue progressed the seas subsid
ed and no mishap marred the triumph
over thewaves.
AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED
Secretary Garrison and Representa
tives of National Guard Agree.
Washington. ( Secretary Garirson
and adjutants "general representing
National Guard organizations of more
than thirty states agreed on terms
of the proposed militia pay bill, un
der which the federal government
would provide for militiamen, who, In
turn, would enlist as "federal reserv
sist" subject to the call of the presi
dent to duty either within the United
States or abroad.
It is proposed that the militia bill
shall provide an annual appropriation
of $14,500,000. Of this $4,000,000 would
be for encampment and maneuver
purposes, $8,000,000 for home service
pay and $2,500,000 for armament and
equipment.
The committee that conferred with
Secretary Garrison comprised Briga
dier General Martin, Texas; Brigadier
General Stewart, Pennsylvania; Briga
dier General Sadley, New Jersey, and
Brigadier General Young, Illinois. Brig
adier General Crowder, judge advocate
general of the army, and Brigadier
General Mills, chief of the division of
militia affairs, were present.
Kills Wife; Wounds Chauffeur.
Augusta,' Ga. Recently release!
from confinement for mental derange
ment, Sam J. Norris shot and killed
his wife and probably mortally wound
ed William Dennis, 17 years old, a
chauffeur, who was at the Norris home
preparatory to take Mrs. Norris for a
ride. After shooting the two, Norris
attempted and would have shot Felix
Gunter, the first person to come into
the room. He was covered by a re
volver in the hands of Police Surgeon
Jennings, who disarmed and arrested
him.
VIGOROUS ATTACK
ON ALASKA R. R.
STEP TOWARD REALM OF4 SO
CIALISTIC GOVERNMENT SAYS
McCUMSER.
WILL CAST FINAL VOTE SOON
Assault on Whole Theory of Govern
ment Ownership. Will Cost Gov.
ernment More to Operate Than
Private Concern.
Washington. The till proposing'
the building of a Government railway
in Alaska encountered its first vigor
ous opposition in the Senate when
Senator McCumber attacked it as the
flfst step toward "the realm of pa
ternalistic and socialistic govern
ment." Until the North Dakota Sen
ator spoke, Senator WrilUams was the
obly member who had directly stated
his purpose of opposing the measure
on which there is an agreement for
a final vote soon.
Amendments adopted soon by the
Committee on Territories would pro
vide for the taking over by the Gov
ernment of ' any existing lines neces
sary, by purchase or condemnation.
An amendment providing for a Gov
ernment steamship lino from the
coast terminal of tne road to ports
on the Pacific coast was rejected.
Senator McCumber attacked -the
whole theory of Government owner
ship. He said experience had shown
that it cost the Government twice as
much as a private concern to operate
ny enterprise.
Arguments presented for agricul
tural development in A'aska, he said,
were without merit, the fact being
that the great majority of the prod
ucts named in statistics, come from
districts accessible by sea or which
it was not proposed to tap with the
projected railroad.
During the discussion of Alaska's
coal resources Senator Clark of Wyo
ming declared that wh:le chemical
tests had shown Bering district coal
to be better than the West Virginia
product, actual naval tests aboard
ship proved that "tha Bering field
absolutely falls ' down" in supplying
coal the Navy could use.
Senator James replied that he had
a letter from a former member of
Congress saying that the coal used in
the naval tests aboaid the cruiser
Maryland did not furnish a fair sam
ple of the product of the field.
Strike on D. & H Railroad. .
Albany, N. Y. Dispute over the dis
charge of two employes by the Dela
ware and Hudson railway led to a
strike which has tied up the entire
operating end of the system. About
5,000 men, it is estimated, are out.
Only shop workers and office em
ployes remain on duty.
Reinstatement of the discharged em
ployes, with full back pay, is the only
union demand.
K. W. F. Hanger, of the federal
board of mediation and conciliation,
and Commissioner James M. Lynch, of
the state labor department,, are en
route here to offer their services in an
effort to effect a settlement. No , vio
lence Avas reported from any point.
Mails are paralyzed in many sections,
the Delaware and Hudson being the
only road to numerous northern
points.
Volcano Victims Needy.
Kagoshima, Japan. Fresh eruptions
of Sakura-Jima, which recently caus
ed such wide-spread devastation, have
occurred here. They were accompa
nied by earthquakes and violent sub
terannean noises.
The governor of Hokkaido estimates
that about 30,000 people on the island
at Kiushiu will need relief.
7,500 Banks Apply.
Washington. More than the 7,500
national banks in the United States
have made legal application for mem
bership in the new federal reserve
system according to the treasury de
partment. National banks must enter
the system by February 22nd or for
feit their charter, and go out of busi
ness within one year.
Must Have Steel Cars. .
Washington. Hearings were begun
on the bill of Representative Esch
providing for the replacement of all
wooden railroad cars by steel cars
within four years. George A. Pots,
president of the Railway Business As
sociation, recommended that the in
terstate commerce commission be au
thorized to determine how much time
should be allowed the railroads to
make the cha)age. Mr. Post declared
that the cost, of replacing the wooden
cars now in' operation with steel cars
would aggregate about $382,000,000.
GAN'T STAND GUTS
ON FREIGHT REVENUE CON
TENDS TRAFFIC MANAGER
GREEN.
AN INCREASE IS DOUBTFUL
Probable Gain In Freight Business
Not Definate Enough Data Upon
Which to Run Road. -Lengthy
Hearing Begun.
Raleigh. Freight Traffic Manager
L. Green of the Southern Railway
was on the stand nearly three hours
in the intrastate freight rate hearing
and scarcely more than got started in
the presentation of his evidence, it
is said. He is following lines of evi
dence designed to show that the
Southern's present freight rate reve
nue cannot stand the big cuts pre
scribed in the Justice act through
applications of the Minnesota rates,
and is developing an exhaustive pre
sentation of Carolina freight condi
tions compared with Minnesota and
other territories. N-
Led by General Counsel Thom, he
asserted that in great freight sections
of the more thickly populated sec
tions of the country-where rates are
now some lower than in North Caro
lina, definite movements for increases
in rates are pending before the Inter
state Commerce Commission with
urgent approval by great commercial
and shipping organizations.
It required a couple of hours earl
ier in the day to complete the testi
mony of Vice President and Auditor
Plant of the Southern Railway. Mr.
Plant's evidence was In the line of
showing methods of keeping the ac
counts of the Southern as to the Valu
ations of their property.
He testified that there are Imme
diately ahead of the Southern non
profit yielding expenditures in this
state aggregating $3,412,000 and on
the whole system of $6,240,000. These
include increased station facilities,
new depots. There have been such
expenditure the past 13 years of $85,
484,000, and of this $63,500,000 haa
been expended within the past three
years.
The company has sold its bonds
since reorganization at a . net loss ok
$12,500,000, and the bonds are now
under the present freight and pas
senger rate rwvenue conditions "com
manding only 72 to 73 on the bond
market. To reduce the net revenue
from $441,000 'to $30,000 for this state,
as the application of the proposed re
duced rates would do, would have
the effect of still further depressing
the financial ability of the company
to maintain an efficient service, he
said.
The final witness by the Southern
Railway in the intrastate freight rate .
hearing before the Rate Commission
was Assostant Chief Engineer T. P.
Gatlin, whose special work is main-,
tenanec of way. His testimony was a
mass of figures showing the condition
of the North Carolina lines of the
Southern and' what is necessary to
bring them up to standard condition.
He represented to the commission
that it will require $20,000,000 to put
all the line in standard condition.
A Progressive Dairyman.
Newton. R. L. Shuford, Catawba'a
largest dairyman, is engaged in plac
ing an overshot wheel at his dairy and
butter house, which will drive his
separator and churn. Early in last
year Mr. Shuford installed a milking
machine which has proven to be a
wonderful success. He has also . in
stalled an electric system which
pumps water for barn and dwelling,
furnishes power for sawing wood and
running the milking machine and fur
nishes lights for home and barn.
Awarded Damages, $200.05.
Durham. Just before court ad
journed the jury in the Rhodes case
returned a verdict giving G. A. Rhodes
$200.05 damages account of the city
emptying sewerage into Blackwells
branch, which flows by his farm. The
five cents was awarded as nominal
figure for temporary damages. The
verdict is considered a victory for
the city. The jury was out about
four hours, making the trial of the
case take up three whole days.
Orange Teachers Meet.
Hillsboro. The Orange county
teachers were in session here. The at
tendance is good and the interest
manifested by the teaqhers in the
work is very encouraging. The meet
ings are being conducted by Dr. Ed
gar Wi Knight, Professor of education,
at Trinity College.
Outside of his regular college work.
Dr. Knight meets the teachers of both
Durham and Orange counties once a
month. These meetings have sup
planted the old summer institutes and
the change seems to be a tetter one.