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No. 3
JUERTA HAS ACCEPTED 0|p
OF MEDIATION, IS Tffi REPORT
0
Washington, April 26.—Span-
3ln Ambassailor Riano arvnounc-
d late tonight that ho had re
el ved private advices from Mex
io City stating that General
[uerta had accepted the offer of
a’gentina, Brazil and Chile to
se their good offices to bring
bout an amicable settlement of
ie difficulty between the United
tates and Mexico.
■ This information though unof-
'cial was accepted as authentic
y the Ambassador, who expects
) be prepared to i^lace General
. uei'ta’s formal acceptance be-
ire the representatives of the
iree South American countries
Ipaorrow.
The interests of the Huerta
overnment in the United States
ere'taken over by the Spanish
mbassy when Charge Algara
ft Washington. Ambassador
iano received the offer oC good
ices from the three peace en-
ys last night. It was cabled
imediately to Mexico city.
When the formal acceptance
Mexico City is in hand the
uth American diplomats will
ready to proceed with their
in, no intimation of the nature
which as yet has been given,
generally has beenunderstood
fe, however, that the peace en
's expect to deal directly with
I sitnation created by the Tam-
o incident and other offenses
dnst the honor and dignity of
United States.
idministrationofficialsappear-
to be much gratified at the
(spect at having proposals oi)
g’reat South American Re-
)liCs listenei) to by General
IB
I.D
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P
lope Continues for Peace.
i^'ashington, April 26.—Hope
peace—yet no slackening in
parations for war—was the
rit of today’s developments in
Mexican crisis,
resident Wilson is hopeful
agh not confident that war
r be averted through-the ef-
6 of Argentina, Brasil and
e, (idnferred with -Secretary
fisbn, approving orders for
pint jurisdiction of the Army
'Navy over Vera Cruz and
lity, when Brig. Gen. Pun-
, wlio will be in command
e, arrives tomorrow to rein-
fe Admiral Fletcher’s forces.
SAFETY OF AMEKICANS.
insion over the one phase of
situation, which may at any
lent upset peace plans—the
;y of American,'?'in Mexico
and other interior points—
partially relieved by the an-
cement of Secretary Bryan
througJi the Bi-itish Embas-
ire, the Huerta officials and
itral Fletcher had arranged
le safe departure of Ameri-
from the Mexican Capital
he free exodus of Americans
Vera Cruz.
)mas B. Hohler, first secre-
pf the British Legation in
^co City taking a train load
ixicans from Vera Crxiz to
20 City informed General
ta that the American forces
not restraining Mexicans
leaving there and was as-
. that Americans conse-
' ly would be allowed to
!th€ Capital as they pleased.
P.W.
CH
oy
i AUGHT UNDER CHURCH WALL
iyton, April 24.—SpeciaL
‘•morning shortly after 7
k two workmen engaged in
jjg down the waits of the
3t church were badly hurt
:^;.v?alls falling upon them,
‘^le, colored, and Will
'7\rood, white, were the
, injured. Ingle received
j .al injuries, it is feared,
' Arrow wood received a bad
the head.
' aiist it was thought that a
ajaai was caught under the
Ehe of brick and killed, but
perintendent of the work
tiat all men had been ac
foe.
AMERICANS ARE REPORTED SAFE
NOW AT ENSENADA.
Washington, April 24.—Safety
of Americans reported to be
menaced by Mexico at Ensenada
on the west coast of Mexico, was
reported to the Navy Depart
ment tonight in a relayed wire
less dispSitch from Lieutenant
Jensen, commanding the monitor
Cheyenne, i-e])orted his arrival
off Ensenada. ...
The Mexican garrison and
populace were grately excited
by the appearance of the Ameri
can man of war. A Navy De
partment statement tonight
said:
“Troops (Mexican) were hur
riedly stationed to resist an ex
pected landing and four field
guns were brought to bear.
Lieutenant Jenson says the com
manding general lias guaranteed
the safety of Americans and that
as an additional pi’ecaution the
American Consul yesterday sent
all Americans to plantation five
and 10 miles down the coast. He
reports that 50 Americans desire
transportation north. Tele-
graghic communication was in
terrupted and additional troops
are being listed by the command-
BIG WOOD-WORKING PLANT AT MT.
AIRY IS BURNED.
Mt. Airy, April 24.—Lasteven-
ing, about 8 o’clock, the wood
working plant of R. M. Coltrane
was completelj’’ destroyed by
fire together with some heavy
niachinery and lumber to the
amount of about twelve hundred
dollars. A spark from vthe Cn-
owin’f^o it's siifua-
tion, just optside the city limits,
there was no water in that sec
tion and the destruction of the
building ,-was a foregone con
clusion. 'The loss will amount to
about fiVe thousand dollars, with
no insurance.
The building was known as the
old bobbin factory, was the pro
perty of R. H. Leonard and was
built at, an original cost of $3,000,
Mr. Coltrane was making locust
pins but had recentl.y installed a
planer which was destroyed.
The Rosslyn Lumber company
had a car load of lumber in the
house as did Mi'. John Atkins.
IS ROBBED OF $150.
Lenoir, April 26.—A telegram
was received here early this
morning by Postmaster Virgil
1). Guire from J. J. Coffey of
Edgemont announcing that the
postoffice at that place had been
broken into and robbed sometime
last night. The message stated
.that the robber or robbers had
secured $150 in money, but did
notmention the amountot stamps
taken.
Tlie jiostofflce at Edgemont,
which i.s the terminus of the Car
olina & North-Western Railway,
23 miles n<(rth oCLcnoii', is locat
ed in th(! store building of Coffey,
Crisp & Co., and the postmaster
is E. Bernard Crisp, though he
has recently tendered his resig
nation, and moved to Whitner,
two miles south of Lenoir.
Anegro who was seen hanging
around the store most of the day
on Saturdaj? is, suspected. He
came to Lenoir this morning on
the early train in company with
two other negroes. Here he hi red
a team and started across the
country to Grandin, 14 miles dis
tant. The darkey is said to have
exhibited considerable money at
Edgemont when he purchased a
ticket to come to Lenoir.
Sheriff J. A, Triplett, in com
pany with E. B. Crisp and J. L.
Cottrell, left by automobile for
Grandin about 11 o’clock this
morning and it is presumed that
they will either overtake the ne
gro on the road or secure him be
fore he leaves that town. The
postotfice authorities in Washing
ton have been notified.
REFUGEES POUR
OUTJLNEXICO
Washington, D. C,, April 24,—
The Navy Department today re
ceived reports that the steamer
Esperanza has left Vera Cruz,
via Tampico, for Galveston, with
refugees on board. The Jason
also will go to Galveston, stop
ping at Tuxpam for refugees.
The gunboat Nashville was sent
.south from Vera Cruz to pick up
refugees at Puerto, Mexico.
Reports from Mexico to the
Navy Department also stated
that refugees were boarding Am
erican war vessels at nearly all
the ports where ships have been
stationed.
The fuel ship Justin, with fif
teen refugees, left Guaymas and
will go to San Francisco, stop
ping at San Diego. Thirty-seven
American refugees were report
ed on board the Glacier at Topo-
lobainpo. Admiral Mayo report
ed that the collier Cyclops had
been sent north to Galvestonf rom
Tampico, carrying 350 refugees'.
The steamer Trinidad was char-
tei-ed at Tampico and loaded with
275 Americans bound for Galves
ton. One hundred employes of
the Huasteca company at Tampi
co also are on their way to Gal
veston in a yacht.
The ships at Tampico, Admiral
Mayo reported, still have about
1,100 refugees on board and there
are 200 or 300 on shore.
They have agreed to divide the
time for the use of wireless tele
graphy as follows: Six hours
for the American fleet, six-for
the British and the remainder
for other nations.
UEGT'GKES CKOWD 1?AMPIC0;
Fi-om Tampico it is reported^
lugees.
Rear Admirals Badger and Mayo
are making every effort to send
them north. The steamship
Trinidad has been chartered for
this purpose by Rear Admiral
Mayo and several hundred have
been sent to Galveston on board
the Cyclops.
No over tact on the part of
Mexicans has been reported
from any of the ports.
The torpedo boat tender Dixie
and the destroyers now at Tam
pico will be used to send these
refugees to Galveston. The de
stroyers Paterson and Paulding
were detached today and sent
from Tampico to Tuxpam to look
out for refugees.
Admiral Badger reported the
arrival of the French cruiser
Conde and the British cruiseu-
Lancaster at Vera Cruz,
MINEINCOLORADO
WAS mm UP
Denver, Col., /^jn-il 26.—Itwas
reported here tonight by former
Governor J. H. Peabody, who is
in the Fremont County strike
zone, that strikers dynamited
and fired the property of the
Chandler mine, Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co., near Canon City tonight,
occupying the mine camp.
According to tHfe Governor’s
advices, seven men were killed in
the Chandlerfight. The fighting''
opened at 1 o’clock,,said reports
and shortly before 3 the strikei's.
were in possession of the town.
All appeal to the Governor for
help from the sheriff of Fremont
County resulted in orders being
issued tonight to Genei’al Chase
to proceed to Canyoa City with
200 militia to take protective
measures and endeavor to bring
about a truce.
Strikers and their sympathiz
ers swarmed to a nTiss-meeting
of the Workers Defei^se League
here to-day. ’‘MotHer” Mary
Jones, direct from Washington—
created a sensation when she ap
peared, unannounced, she de
clared that had she stayed in
Washington she could have put
the strike situation up to the
President, but the rail of the
mass-meetinghadbeentoo strong
to resist.
Just before the arrival of
“Mother” a resolutionwas adopt
ed denouncing absentee landlord
ism.
State Stficials tonight, includ
ing Governor Ammons declared
the truce between stri}:ers in the
Southern coal fields} and the
State militia had been |>roken by
the strikers o.tirl '''''1
now is under no obhjptions to
refrain from aggressive acts to
restore peace.
IS
29 ARE KILLED IN COLORADO BATTLE
Trinidad, April 24.—After the
news that the women and child
ren had been removed from the
wrecked Empire mine it was re
ported tonight that twenty
miners, their wives, children and
a number- of guards fled into the
mine under a hail of bullets at
the Southwestern mine after the
buildings were destroyed. The
death list tonight is twenty-
nine.
President Siple of the Empire
mine, with twenty men, refused
to surrender to the strikers, and
is still in the mine. A strikers’
army, heavily armed, tonight
awaited the arrival of the State
troops at Angular. It was said
that a bloody battle would follow.
The alarm was sounded at 10
o’clock that the soldiers were ap-
proacJiing. The strikers were
ordered to assemble.
AN EXTRA TAX FOR WAR FUND
DISCUSSED
Washington, April 24.—Ad
ministration leaders have laid
plans for raising war revenue in
case tlie army has to go into
Mexico. Secretary McAdoo dis
cussed plans with Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, Osborne,
and signified his intention of tak
ing if up later with Chairman
Underwood, of the House Ways
and Means committe, and Sena
tor Simmons, chairman of the fi
nance committee.
The first measure planned
would impose a stamp tax on
checks and legal documents, sim
ilar to that invoked during the
Spanish war, would tax sweet
wine and fortified brandies and
probably beer. According to
the estimate this measure would
net the treasury about S?116,000,
000 a year, and if the Situation
demanded a tax would( be im
posed on cigarettes, cijlars and
tobacco.
It is not the present intention
to in anj' way alter the tariff law,
although such legislation might
be found necessary later. The
treasury dSpartment under ex
isting law has authority to issue
without further action by Con
gress §100,000,000 worth of Pan
ama canal bonds and it is proba
ble this means will be taken at
once to raise money in case of
eventualities. Adoption of this
plan would give Congress a bet
ter opportunity to discuss a war
revenue measure carefully before
passage.
CAPT. BUTNER’S
COMPANYONWAY
The many friends of Cajrt. H
W. Butner, commanding a com
pany of infantry stationed at
Fort Riley, Kansas, will be in
terested to learn thathiscompany
has been ordered to the Mexican
frontier, for active service. This
morning’s dispatches brought
the following news from Wash
ington:
“The d_epartmont lias been in
•eceipt of many telegrams from
ilaces along the border showing
apprehension, and to relieve the
tension I have ordered additional
troops to report to General Bliss,
to be distributed at such places
as he finds advisable under the
circumstances.
“Three regiments of infantry
at the presidio of San Francisco
will report to General Bliss to
gether with some srtillery from
Port Riley.
“Under orders from the de
partment no munitions of war
will at present be permitted to
go over the border.
“A brigade of infantry and
some artillery will be dispatched
from Galveston to Vera Cruz to
co-operate with the navy there.”
Mr. A. I^ Butner upon learn
ing of the above action of the de
partment wired his brother.
Captain Butner at Fort Riley, to
know if he had received orders.
About noon Mr. Butner received
a message from Captain Butner
stating that his company is
breaking camp and will leave this
afternoon by rail for Brownsville,
Texas.
Prom the above dispatch the
company of artillery of which
Will DC
sent at once to Galveston where
it will em bark for Vera Ci’uz,
Captain Butner spent several
weeks recently visiting relatives
in this city and section,—Senti
nel.
FULL ARMY
WILL
DIVISION OF TROOPS
8E SENT TO VERA CRUZ
Washington. April 25,—Army
plans, which it is understood are
approved by the administration,
will not be affected by the agree
ment of tlie United States to
mediation proiiosals made Ijy
Argentine. Brazil and Chile,
The plan hinges upon the ac
ceptance of the pi’oposal of all
Mexican elements—federals and
constitutionalists. Cessation of
American operations will not
follow until these accejrtances
are received.
The- present plan is to con
centrate in Vera Cruz within 10
days a full army division of 20,-
000 men under the command of
Major General Wood. The num
ber will be augmented to 30,000
at the earliest possible moment.
This army, to be composed of the
pick of the regular infantry,
cavalry, engineers and artillery,
probable will advance direct up-'
on Mexico City. It is certain
that, with Vera Cruz as a base, a
position will be taken in the high
ground inland from the port now
held by Ainerican marines and
bluejackets.
Official confirmation of the jiur-
pose to extend the scale of opera
tions thus is lacking; but there
is no doubt that the above is the
present plan of Secretarj' of War
Garrison-, wlie-is not at all in
sympathy with the ideas of
Secretary of State Bryan of con
tinued “watchful waiting” steps
towards carrying out the plans
have already been l^aken.
Capt. Douglas MacArthur,
personal aide to Geperal Wood,
e way..46 Vera
John W. Rankin, commander C 5,
submarine; Robert L. Young, .1 r,,
on Wilmington; Ensigns Lee P,
Johnson, on Connecticut; Augus
tus W. Reiger, on Ohio; Henry
G. Coojier, J r,, on Qu i ra.s; Chau n n -
cey A. Lucas, on Georgia; Les
lie L. Jordan, on Georgia: George
B, Ashe, on Louisiana; Donald
Patterson, on South Carolina;
Eugene T. Oates, on Raleigh;
George. F, Parrot, Jr., on New
Hampshire; Robertson J. Weeks,
on Florida; Jay L. "-vi
Tenfiessee; Donald C, Godwin,
on Rhode Island; Paul Hendren,
on New Hampshire; Michael
Hudson, on South Carolina.
n
follow
CAPT. BERRY GUILTY OF NEGLI
GENCE IN SINKING THE MONROE.
Capt. Osmyn Berry, of the
Merchants and Miners packet
Nantucket, which rammed and
sunk the Old Dominion liner
Monroe, with a loss of 41 lives,
offthe Vii'giniaCapes in January,
has been found guilty of negli
gence and his license has been re
voked,
A board of steamboat inspect
ors at Philadelphia divided re
sponsibility for disaster between
Captain Berry and Captain John
son of the Monroe, On appeal
to Captain Seeley, the inspector
commanding. Captain Berry has
been held alone guilty. Captain
Seeley’s decision holds that the
Nantucket might have seen the
Monroe nearly a mile away; that
the Nantucket heard the Mon
roe’s whistles and that the col
lision could have been avoided.
COST OF LIVING COMING DOWN SAYS
REDFIELD.
Chicago, April 24.—Secretary
Redfield, of the Department of
Comnierce, jnade a prosperity
speech at this place last night be
fore the Industrial Club. He
took for his topic “A Sense of
Proportion” and contended that
lessening of business activities
at the present time was not
peculiar to the United States
alone; that a moderate and
general decline of the cost of liv
ing has been noted all over the
world and that the new tariff law
had not brought the rush of
foreign importations which was
threatened. Mr. Redfield re
ferred to the railroad rate situ
ation and expressed the hope
that the Interstate Comnierce
Commission’s decision on the
application of the Eastern rail
roads for freight rates advice
would soon be decided.
FURNITURE EXPOSITION WILL BE
HELD IN JULY.
High Point, April 25,—The
manufacturers of the city have
decided to hold the midsummer
meet of the Southern Furniture
Exposition, from July 13 to 25.
At a recent meeting every fur-
niture-maker expressed great
satisfaction with the two previous
shows, and reports were made
indicating an increased attend
ance this summer. Many dealers
are already inquiring as to the
definite date. It has been cor
rectly forecasted that with the
erection of an exposition build
ing, which in the natural course
of events must come soon. High
Point will become the logical
sales point for all Southern and
many of the western lines of
furniture. Officers for the sea
son have been elected as follows:
C. P. Tomlinson, president; S. L.
Davis, vice-president; T. D. Gih
liain, secretary arid treasurer.
An advertising campaign has al
ready begun.
perhaps the fashionable girl
isn’t really so narrow as her
dressmaker makes her appear.
i.s now on tljf- . „
General Wooa piOTS to
Tuesday. The fact(that General
Wood, the ranking Officer of the
army will be sent close on the
heels of Brigadier General
Funston, constitutes ample evi
dence that not less than a ma.jor
general’s command—^^a division—
will be concentrated at the war
center.
Senator Overman and every
member of the North Carohna
delegation with whom the Daily
News correspondent talked today
believe the time to act against
Mexico is now. These men along
with hundreds of others think
the United States is in for a long
siege with Mexico and the soon
er Mexico City is taken and
Huerta is crushed the less
American lives will be sacrific
ed.
Representative Page said he is
confident that we will have to in
vade Mexico and the sooner the
better. He has no faith in Villa’s
promise to support the United
States nor has any one else in
deed unless it be Secretary of
State Bryan.
Representative Doughton to
day received a letter from W. S.
Church, of Summit, conveying
the information that he is “an
expert rifle shot” and asked that
he be aUowed to go to the front
against Mexico. Several other
applications were received by
other members.
North Carolinians now at Vera
Cruz and Tampico or on the way
there are the following: Captain
Andrew T. Long, commander
Des Moines; Robert W McNeely,
on Louisiana; Arthur Crenshaw,
commander Cummings; Pope
Washington, on the Missouri;
Lieutenant Commander Lyman
A. Catton, attache Tokyo, and
Peking; H. J. Winston, on Pitts
burg, engineer of staff fleet; R.
W. Vincent, on waiting list; Sam
uel W. Bi’yant, radio station;
Lieutenants Adolphus Staton,
on South Cai-olina; Percy W.
Foote, on inspection duty; George
S. Bryan, naval academy; Alex
ander S. Wiidsworth, Jr., re
cruiting duty; John J. London,
on May Flower; Louis P. Davis,
on Panther; Matthias E. Manley,
on Wyoming; William E. Law,
Charleston navy yard; William
R. Smith, Jr., on Nashville; Paul
L. Holland, under treatment;
McAdoo Vindicated.
Secretary McAdoo was bitter
ly criticized last fall when he
anticipated the periodical neces-
sitj' of the banks of the interior
by making deposits of treasury
funds to finance the moving of
the crops. This was held to be
an unwarranted interference
with natural conditions.
Of the $150,000,000 which he
made available for such use, the
banks borrowed but !|i37,386,000.
This money was borrowed by
1!I3 banks in 62 cities of 28 States
by pledging approved com
merce papers. The very fact
that such security was available
for immediate loans made the
demand for money much smaller
than was expected the money
centers from a temporthey could
secure money whenever the.v
would need it, had no fear of ser
ious impairment of their r^-
st;^ .. , . V .. ' y .
The money lias ail been paid
back in instalments as fast as it
was returned to the banks and
the government realized iS200,000
of clear profit by lending timely
aid to commerce and transporta
tion in a way that protected the
money centers from a temporary
shortage. The ex])erience under
this provisional act affords an ef
fective illustration of the in
creased power and confidence
banks in general will have under
the new currency law when con
fronted with any situation which
tends to interrupt credit.
Financial stringencies usually
have their origin in some local
distuabance which temporarily
affects confidence. If the local
situation can be promptly re
lieved by resort to the new pro
visions for utilizing sound com
mercial paper it should be a rare
and aggravated case that will af
fect business far and wide.
SAVE THE “WHISKEY.”
Two Scotchmen have been
having a good time on the heather
downs of a little island and were
rowing back home across the
firth, says Dean Mortimer Cooley
of the University of Michigan,
when the boat capsized. Dean
Cooley told the story to the
Engineers’Club a few days ago,
says the Detroit Free Press.
Angus had clung to the boat
and Jock, who had clung to the
bottle, was floundering bravely
in the deep. Although a poor
swimmer, he struck out for the
stiff holding the bottle in one
hand. After a few strokes he )>e-
gan to falter.
“Angus,” he cried, “I dinna
thenk I can mak’ it.”
SPANISH NEUTRALITY.
Washington, April 26.—Span
ish diplomatic officials in Wash
ington stated emphatically today
that Spanish residents in Mexico
were maintaning the ' most
scrupulous neutrality in the pre
sent situation and that published
reports purporting to quote
General Carranza in a dispatch
to Madrid as saying that many
of the 17,000 Spaniards in Mexico
are ready to fight by the side of
Mexicans against the invaders,
were goundless in view of the
.-•'trictly neutral attitude of Span
iards in Mexico.