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NO. 137.
VOL. XXXIV.
TOLLS REPEAL
AGED FATHER
GEN.CARRANZA
TURNS DOWN
THE WEATHER
BILL FAVORED
ELIMINATED
SON’S VICTIM
BANK POST
W. F. G. HARDING CONSIDERED.
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TAMPICO INCIDENT
COMPLETED BOARD
Pan-
SOLE PROBLEM NOW
fair.
HAS BEEN NAMED
Gentle
AMERICAN TRADE BARRED.
Solution to Huerta-U. S.
eneoaez
His Son.
TWO TOWNS
him from
DESTROYED
BOARD IS COMPLETED.
Tornado Strikes Redwater
and Maude, Texas.
‘CONSUL SILLIMAN A PRISONER.
to
MEXICO CITY ROAD
MINED BY FEDERALS
AUGUSTA COTTON CONFERENCE.
LEGISLATURE BEHIND AMMONS.
COTTON MEN IN SESSION.
QUEEN ELEANOR POSTPONES.
negotiations.
The rebel chief
their note to Carranza.
TO COME IN AUTUMN.
TO DISARM FACTIONS.
DETECTIVES TO TESTIFY.
SOCIAL CLUBS TO MEET.
battle
SKIRMISHING AT TAMPICO.
would direct another
the constitutionalists.
Gen.
the
ft TANCl
EFOREVER
AMERICAN RIGHTS
ARE NOT INVOLVED
Carranza eliminating
mediation proceedings
never
against
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—The text of the
Olney Addresses Letter
to President.
By Associated Press.
Boston, May 5.—Richard Olney has
addressed a letter to President Wilson
formally declining the appointment as
governor of the federal reserve board
of the new banking system.
Mediators Narrow Scope
of Work.
Horrible Tragedy Occurs
in Brooklyn.
dorsement of any of its member banks
with a waiver of demand, notice and
protest.
The board is empowered to determine
the character of such "paper” eligible
for discount.
Retired Millionaire Meets Ter-
rible Death at Hands of
Senator Stone Explains
His Attitude.
Special Train of Doctors and
Supplies Is Rushed to
Afflicted Area.
Railwdy to Be Destroyed in
Event of an Advance on
the Capitol.
1 KILLED; 44 HURT,
BY RAGING STORM
COLONEL LOCKETT
NOW IN COMMAND
HIRAM DURYEA, 81
WANTONLY KILLED
Trouble Is Still Diligently
Sought.
Says Question Is Merely One of
Subsidizing Vessels With
Monopoly.
Takes Charge of Federal Forces
in Colorado Strike
Fields.
nite the terms, and the scope of the
negotiations before he proceeded
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OF GALVESTON
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UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of the State of Texas
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
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was said to have declared he
MEXICANS FORM ORGANIZATIONS.
Colomel Peeler Calls Session to Be Hel
at Houston.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., May 5.—Colonel J. L.
Peeler, president of the Association of
Texas Clubs, announced today that the
executive committee has just called
the second state convention of the
bona fide social clubs of Texas to be
held at Houston on Friday, June 5, and
continue in session for two days. The
purpose of the meeting is of vital im-
portance, President Peeler said, but he
did not care to discuss at present the
subjects to be considered
Tonight fair, colder in the
handle. W ednesday, fair.
For Oklahoma: Tonight
cooler. Wednesday, fair.
Winds on Texas coast: 1
southerly.
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which became
izing fha ©Id police force. About 150
members ef the old Vera Cruz police
force have reported for duty. They
will ba sent out in their old uniforms.
Caspar Gets Notice of Queen Eleanor’s
Deferred Visit.
By Associated Press.
New York, May 5.—William Caspar,
representative of Queen Eleanor of
Bulgaria, announced last night that a
cablegram received by him from Sofia,
while informing him of the postpone-
ment of the queen’s visit at this time
on account of the political situation
engaging the attention of the country,
instructed him to arrange for the de-
ferred visit of the queen to take place
this autumn.
To Aid in Re-establishment of Order at
Vera Cruz.
By Associated Press.
Vera Cruz, May 5.—A number of
prominent Mexicans of Vera Cruz held,
a meeting this morning for the pur-
pose of ’giving impetus to the organ-
ization of certain subsidiary civic de-
partments and to assist generally in
the re-establishment of municipal in-
stitutions. Committees were appointed)
which will co-operate with the Amer-
icans in the reopening of the schools
and the conduct of hospitals and asy-
lums..
Officers and minor employes of the
old government who still are in Vera
Cruz were urged to report for duty.
They were requested to make the best
of the present situation.
Captain Frank E. Banford of the
Twenty-eighth Infantry, head of the
department of public safety, already
has gone far in his work of reorgan-
Mexican mediators telegram to
satisfied with the support Huerta ac-
corded him in battles against the Car-
ranza invasion.
PLOTS AGAINST HUERTA.
Plots in the army against Huerta
were growing, it was said. In many
quarters a sudden change in the situa-
tion in Mexico City would not be un-
expected. How such a development
would affect the mediators program for
general settlement was a topic of dis-
cqssion by observers of the situation.
The influx of Americans into Mexico
City from outlying districts continued
Heavy Guns Are Being Used in Vicinity
of Oil Fields.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—Firing con-
tinues daily at Tampico between con-
stitutionalist and federal forces, ac-
cording to a report transmitted from
Admiral Mayo by Admiral Badger to-
day. Heavy guns were heard yester-
day morning. The steamer Camaguey,
which has arrived at Vera Cruz from
Tampico, reports that Mexican federal
forces at the latter port were rein-
forced by 1,500 men last week.
Augusta Cotton Exchange Plans Re-
forms in the Trade.
By Associated Press.
Augusta, Ga., May 4.—The confer-
ence called by the Augusta Cotton Ex-
change and board of trade for the pur-
pose of improving the existing rules
governing the cotton trade for the
benefit of the legitimate trader, began
today, the first session being- held
about noon.
Cotton men from various parts of the
country are gathering here. President
E K. Cone of the New York Cotton
Exchange, will preside. Between forty
and fifty exchanges will be represented
and the conference will continue for
two days. The present form of the
New York contract, much objection to
which is found by many cotton men,
will gome in for much discussion.
———-—
Problem Whieh Now Faces the Federal
Troops.
By Associated Press.
Denver, May 5.—The question of dis-
armament of all faetions in the Colo-
rado strike nones today beeame the
most important development of the in-
dgstrial situation. Reports were in
circulation that the strikers ip Huer-
fano county had reversed their decision
to deliver up their arms and from
Pueblo came word that strikers had
succeeded in smuggling arms and am-
munition through there to some un-
known place.
In Trinidad, Col. James Lockett, com-
manding the eleventh regiment, was
expected to take charge of the situ-
ation today. A part of the regiment
will augment the federal forces now
in control of the Southern coal fields,
under Maj. W. A. Holbrook.
The inquest of the victims of the
battle at Forbes April 27 was begun
today.
He was dis-
was said to have replied to the envys
outlining his position. He previously
had asserted an attempt to adjust Mex-
ico’s internal affairs was beyond the
limit of diplomatic activity and charged
that Huerta deliberately had brought
about events that led to the occupation
of Vera Cruz.
However, the envoys still hope events
of the next few days may serve to re-
move present obstacles to general medi-
ation of Mexico’s troubles- Huerta’s
position was declared to be increasingly
precarious. Zapata, the southern rebel,
according to reports in Vera Cruz,
threatened to attack the federal capi-
tal today. Velasco, one of Huerta’s
chiefs in operations around Torreon,
By Associated Press.
Trinidad, Colo., May 5.—Col James
Lockett, commanding the eleventh
United States cavalry, arrived here to-
day to take command of the federal
forces in the Colorado strike fields. He
was driven at once to army headquar-
ters where he conferred with Maj. W.
A. Holbrook.
The first troop train carrying about
250 men, arrived shortly before noon
and the second train was clese behind
it. The eleventh bright its horses
and equipment and was ready to go
into active service. .
Colonel Lockett sbid he would not
decide on a definite vjan of aetion un-
til he' had been fully informed as to
the situation.
No Clearances Will Be Allowed From
Mexican Ports.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—Admiral Bad-
ger reported to the navy department
today on the receipt of word from the
torpedo boat destroyer Drayton at
Tuxpam that the territorial minister of
Hacienda there had ordered customs of-
ficers not to clear or enter any vessel
from or to American ports. This order,
it was further reported, had b'een given
to all ports in the state of Vera Cruz.
The Drayton also reported that 13
Americans had been detained against
their will at Metlaloyuca, in the state
of Puebla, about 60 miles from Tuxpam.
This information was -given to the
British consul at Tuxpam by American
refugees, who said the Mexican au-
thorities gave as their reason for hold-
ing the Americans a desire to assure
their safety. The British consul has
wired the governor of Puebla request-
ing their release.
Admiral Badger also reports that he
is forming a special service squadron
under Admiral Winlow. He did not
indicate what ships would be employed
for this purpose. The Tacoma and the
Des Moines, it was stated, would re-
main under Admiral Mayo at Tampico
for the present.
Bulgarian Queen Will Not Come to U.
S. as Planned.
By Associated Press.
Sofia, May 5.—Queen Eleanor of Bul-
garia has decided definitely to post-
pone her visit to the United States this
month. An official announcement to
this effect was issued today.
Speedy Approval of Governor’s Pro-
gram at Opening.
By Associated Press.
Denver, May 5.—-With the opening of
the second day’s session of the special
legislature called to eonsider the coal
miners’ strike, the political atmosphere
became considerably cleared. It was
admitted by those who had hoped to
force drastic aetion upon the legisla-
tors against the state administration
that there was little prospect for suc-
cess. Without particular reference to
party lines, the legislature appeared to
be almost solidly behind Governor Am-
mons and speedy approval of the pro-
gram he had asked, especially the is-
suance of bonds for the $1,000,000 debt
incurred by the state in the mainte-
nance of militia in the strike. zene, was
forecast.
Labor leaders attempted to have a
speech read into the records of the
house denouncing the state administra-
tion for its conduct during the strike,
but all thought of possible impeach-
ment proceedings against the governor
apparently was abandoned.
today and arrangements for their
transportation to east coast ports were
hurried. Appeals of isolated groups of
Americans for military escorts were re-
ceived by Sir Lionel Carden, the British
minister in Mexico City, who is co-
operating with the Brazilian minister
for their relief. The United States con-
suls at Progreso, Puerto Mexico, Fron-
tera and Carmen were ordered to turn
over their interests to French consular
officials. That was one of the features
of the program of. preparations- for
eventualities. Reports that the consti-
tutionalists had notified Rear Admiral
Mayo that if his vessels attempted to
enter the Panuco river at Tampico
burning oil would be let loose upon the
town excited no comment here. It was
believed the American naval officer
would not be compelled to make any
aggressive move and would await the
gradual reduction of the federal garri-
son by an embargo on food supplies.
Consul Canada, at Vera Cruz, notified
the state department today that the
foreign consuls had arranged to send
messages to Mexico City once a week.
Reports of a speech made by Gen.
Villa at a recent banquet in Chihuahua
stated that the rebel military leader re-
iterated declarations of allegiance to
Carranza. He asserted he would ask no,
favors for himself at the triumph of
the revolution. -
NOTE TO CARRANZA.
The text of the note the mediating
envoys sent yesterday to General Car-
ranza, withdrawing the invitation for
a Constitutionalist representative to
come to Washington to participate in
the conference, was as follows:
"We have received your telegram in
which you are kind enough to tell us
you deem it inconvenient for the con-
stitutionalist cause to suspend hos-
tilities against General Huerta on the
ground that such suspension would
only accrue to the benefit of Huerta,
and in which you declare that the con-
flict between Mexico and the United
States, for whose solution you ac-
cepted our good offices, is independent
of the internal strife in that country.
“We consider this unexpected state-
ment inconsistent with the idea which
caused us to offer our good offices.
We think, indeed, that all the difficul-
ties which have contributed toward
the present situation in Mexico bear
either directly or indirectly on the
solution of the pending conflict be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
Consequently, we think that these dif-
ficulties should be made the subject
of consideration in negotiations for
whose successful conduct we have
deemed it indispensable to suspend
hostilities.
“Should you not deem it so, we will
be compelled in that case to withdraw
as inopportune our invitation for the
appointment of representatives of the
constitutionalists in such negotiations.
“We beg to assure you of our high-
est consideration.”
The foregoing was sent in reply to
Carranza’s refusal to agree to suspend
hostilities against Huerta. A second
message also has been received by the
mediator from Carranza in which he
specifically asks them to make defi-
That was forecast in
Day 1© Devoted to Diseussion of Report
on Future Centraetss
By Associated Press.
Augusta, Ga., May 5.—-Today’s ses-
sion of the Augusta cotton conference
was expected to be devoted largely to
a discussion of a report on “future
contracts" which a subeommitte of six
made to the executive committee when
the conference convened this morning.
The committee is composed of Frank H.
Barret, Augusta; R. C. Cairne, New
York; E. . Glenny. New Orleans; B.
Husee. Memphis; John G. Lonsdale, .
Little Reek, and E. F. Verdery, Augus-
ta.
The report of the executive, or steer-
ing committee, appointed yesterday to
consider all matters which should come
before the conference and make. a re-
port to the main body, probably will
be made in full some time today and
the conference was expected to adjourn
this afterneon.
Temorrew morning a eonference
called by President W. C Lawson of
the Texas cotton association will con-
vene here. Mr. Lawson has called the
conference for the purpose of forming
an association of Southern exchange.
State Department Makes Urgent Repre-
sentations to Mexico City.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—Alarmed by un-
official reports that Acting American
Consul John R. Silliman at San Luis
Potosi. Mex., has been a prisoner of
Gen. Maas, Mexican federal command-
er. for two weeks, the State Depart-
ment today sent urgent telegrams of
inquiry concerning him addressed to
the Brazilian minister in Mexico City,
Consul Miller at Tampico and Consul
Hanna at Monterey. Silliman’s regu-
lar post was Saltillo, but he was trans-
ferred to San Luis Potosi in the present
emergency.
GALVESTON TEXAS: TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1914. TEN PAGES
known today disclosed for the first
time that the mediators held that “all
the difficulties which contributed tow-
ard the present situation in Mexico bear
either or indirectly on the solution of
the pending conflict between Mexico
and the United States.”
The mediators declare in this answer
that all these “differences should be
made the subject of consideration in
the negoiations" for those success-
ful conduct “we have deemed it indis-
pensable to cease hostilities.” Should
Carranza.not deem it so, the mediators
state they would be compelled to with-
draw as inopportune the appointment
of an constitutionalist representative.
This message of the mediators gives
the first authoritative expression for
them that they considered the whole
range of Mexican difficulties, includ-
ing the Huerta-Carranza issue as hav-
ing a bearing on the issue between the
United States and Huerta.
For the first time since the occupa-
tion of Vera Cruz, the regular session
of the cabinet today lasted less than
an hour. After the conference cabi-
net members said there practically was
no discussion of the Mexican situation
and that the time was devoted to de-
partmental routine.
After the cabinet meeting Secretary
Bryan said the three Americans have
not bee named who were to confer with
the mediators in the Mexican trouble.
Mr. Bryan said the selections probably
will be made in a short tiine.
REBELS ARE ELIMINATED.
With the virtual elimination of the
constitutionalists from proceedings
aimed at a general settlement of Mexi-
co’s ills, the South American envoys to-
day began plans to compose the differ-
ences between Huerta and the United
States government that led to the
seizure of Vera Cruz. Carranza’s elimi-
nation, at least for the present, was de-
, termined upon by the three mediators.
They informed him that because of his
refusal to agree to a truce with Huerta
, they had cancelled their proposal that
he name a representative to co-operate
in mediation negotiations. Relations
with the rebel chief were not arbi-
trarily broken off. The mediators left
open to him the opportunity to enter
the proceedings whenever he was ready
to fix an armistice.
While the abrupt turn in the diplo-
matic drama led many to believe that
all present chance of general mediation
was lost, yet suggestions were heard
that Carranza might change his mind
after his troops had captured Saltillo,
the next rebel goal.
Developments which led the media-
tors temporarily to drop Carranza from
their mediation plans had not been un-
expected and the envoys went ahead
with their original program. With the
announcement by the state department
of delegates appointed to act in an ad-
visory capacity with the envoys, it was
believed they would be ready to out-
line the scheme for mediation of the
Tampico deadlock and other alleged
offenses against the dignity of the
American government in federal terri-
tory. Huerta has named his delegates
-—three distinguished Mexican diplo-
mats—and it was expected the Ameri-
can delegation soon would be chosen.
TO SELECT PLACE.
Where the sessions of the mediators
would take place had not been deter-
mined. Mexico City dispatches indi-
cated Montreal might be selected. It
was believed, however, some quiet New
England resort would be chosen. The
delegates will have no executive part
in the preliminary negotiations. They
will transmit proposals of the media-
tors to their governments, and will re-
ply with intimations at length to
which both parties would go toward
adjustment of difficulties that led
President Wilson to adopt measures
“short of war” for the Tampico affront.
The envoys of Argentina, Brazil and
Chile made known before they resumed
their session today that they intended
to remain in complete charge of the
Will Appear in: Frank Motion for Nev
Trial.
By Associated Press.
Atlanta, Ga., May 4.—Two private de-
tectives said to be in the employ of
counsel for Leo M. Frank, the factory
superintendent under sentence of death
for the murder of Mary Phagan. a fac-
tory girl, were expected to appear as
witnesses here today, when Solicitor
General Hugh M. Dorsey resumed his
counter showing against the motion for
a new trial before Judge Ben Hill of the
superior court. Charges of criminal
opeartions have been made against the
detectives by other witnesss intro-
duced by the state and it was intimated ’
the officers would be interrogated as
to these accusations. .
Probably Be Named in Place of Richard
Olney.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—While officials
here declined to discuss the declina-
tion by Richard Olney of Boston of the
appointment as governor of the federal
reserve board, it is known that they
are in search of another New England
man to fill the board. It was reported
as likely that W. P. G. Harding, presi-
dent of the Firt National Bank of Bir-
mingham, Ala., who has been appointed
member of the board from the South,
would be named as governor.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
Estaglzhed BANKERS Eotakabed
(Uninoorporatod
For
Banks, Individuals Corporations
American Bankers Assoolation Trav-
elers Cheques for Sale.
By Associated Press. j
Washington, May 5.—With the ex- |
planation that the Baltimore platform |
merely approved of congressional action. g
in asserting the right of the United I
States to except from tolls American I
vessels passing through the Panama I
canal, but did not sanction the grant- f
ing of subsidies to American coastwise |
vessels, Senator Stone of Missouri to- I
day told the senate that he would vote. s
for tolls exemption repeal after voting 8
for the exemptions in 1912. |
Challenging many arguments in I
favor of exemption made by Speaker I
Clark, without mentioning the latter I
by name, however, the senator ex- I
pressed astonishment at “eminent mem- !
bers” of the house and senate taking |
the “superficial view” of the Baltimore |
platform’s pronouncement on tolls. I
Senator Stone declared that the ac- |
tion of congress in 1912 in passing th©
exemption in the face of protest from I
Great Britain was America’s answer for E
all time for its right to do as it pleased
with the canal.
“No foreign government is now ask-
ing us to repeal this law,” asserted
Senator Stone, who is chairman of the
foreign relations committee. “True it
is that in the course of debate it has
been said the exemption violates the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but that is be- l
: ing said here in congress and in Ameri-
' can and foreign newspapers, and not
by foreign governments. No foreign
government has filed any protest
against the exemption since its enact-
ment.”1
Having presented his viewpoint on
international rights in the canal. Sen-
ator Stone said congress was now pro-
ceeding to deal with domestic questions
of subsidies; that coastwise vessels al-
ready enjoyed a monopoly, and that he
had heard they were in league with the
। transcontinental railroads. In support |
of this charge he had been informed
that coastwise ships refuse to convey
any passengers from Norfolk to any
, port south of that city, such as Charles-
ton, Savannah or Jacksonville.
In support of his interpretation of
the platform, Senator Stone read the
plank against all subsidies and another
plank which approved the exemption of i
coastwise vessels. He said that the
1 platform writers must have had in
mind the subsidy plank when they
wrote the tolls plank and did not mean
to write a contradictory platform.
Members Get $12,000 Per
Year for Period of 10 Years.
Broad Powers Conferred.
But Little News Concerning the Burn-
ing Steamer,
By Associated Press. N
Boston, May 5.—Further details re-
garding the burning steamer sighted
300 miles south of Cape Race yesterday
by the steamer Seydlitz, Bremen for
New York, were anxiously awaited in
shipping circles today. The meager
wireless dispatches sent last night by
the Seydlitz wireless and the Sable
Island radio station indicated that it
had been impossible to learn the name
of the vessel, but that another steamer
apparently had heard her call for help.
As the Seydlitz could see no signs of
life on board it was hoped the crew
had been taken off by some other
vessel.
The difficulty of obtaining news by
wireless concerning the burning ship
was increased by the fact that the
radio station at Cape Race, which was
disabled in a spring blizzard, had a
very limited range.
By Associated Press.
New York, May 5.—Hiram Duryea,
aged 81, retired millionaire starch
manufacturer and civil war veteran,
was shot and killed early today at his
home in the Bay Ridge section of
Brooklyn by his son, Chester Duryea,
43 years old.
The tragedy occurred on the porch
at the rear of the Duryea home, where
both father and son were in the habit
of sleeping. About 1 o’clock Chester
Duryea slipped from his cot into the
house, where he kept a number of
rifles, revolvers and shotguns for
hunting. He selected an automatic
pistol and magazine rifle and returned
to the open-air porch. Standing with-
in a few feet of his sleeping father, he
first fired from the rifle, and then
emptied the revolver.
Chester Duryea would give no rea-
son for killing his father when taken
into custody. For the past few days,
servants told the police, he had been
acting strangely and they had feared
a return of a previous breakdown.
At the outbreak of the civil war
Hiram Duryea organized the Duryea
Zouaves and became its colonel. He
served throughout the war, retiring at
its close with the rank of brigadier-
general.
General Duryea’s father was the
founder of the National Starch com-
pany, and the general succeeded to the
presidency of the company. The gen-
eral retired from active business some
time ago.
Chester Duryea was admitted to
practice law and had intended to take
up the legal business of the. starch
company of which his father was head.
Domestic troubles that culminated in
his being divorced by his wife in 1903
discouraged him in this ambition,
friends explained. The divorce action
begun in 1901 is also said to have been
the beginning of the trouble between
Chester and General Duryea, the fath-
er taking the side of his daughter-in-
law against his son. Mrs. Chester
Duryea, before her marriage was Miss
Nina Larre Smith, daughter of Frank-
lin Waldo Smith Of Boston.
For some time Chester Duryea has
spent much time at home, and after the
shooting it was found-that he had been
engaged in Writing a pile of manu-
scripts, the result of his work being
taken by the police for examination for
a possible reason for his act.
Although servants said there had
been no quarrel between General Dur-
yea and his son before they retired for
the night, an overturned table, a brok-
en screen and books scattered about
the floor of the sleeping porch led the
police to believe that Chester had
awakened his father and that a, strug-
gle had ensued before the shots were
fired.
In a cell in a Brooklyn police station
Chester Duryea talked incoherently of
the incidents leading up to the shoot-
ing and gave evidence of being in-
sane. He said he shot his father when
he received a “spiritual message from
George Washington. In a calmer
tone, he added:
“I was the best friend my father
had and he was my best friend. I
loved him dearly. If he were here now
he could explain the whole matter. I
really don’t know why I shot him. I
had made up my mind before shooting
father that as soon as he was dead I
would turn the automatic pistol upon
myself and end my own life. I fully
intended doing that while I was fir-
ing at my father. After it was over,
though, an impulse came over me and
I decided not to kill myself. I wish
I had carried out my original inten-
tion.”
Before his arraignment in court Dur-
yea became violent and beat on the
doors of his cell with his knuckles.
When Duryea was arraigned he ap-
peared to be more rational. The ex-
amination was postponed until Thurs-
day.
L. G. Duryea, his cousin, said that the
Duryea family had believed for some
time that Chester Was mentally un-
balanced, and considered steps to place
him in a sanitarium or asylum. Ches-
ter’s mental condition, said the cousin,
was due to over work. For two years,
he said, the prisoner had been con-
stantly engaged in the study of a for-
mula by which he believed the process
of manufacture of starch could be rev-
olutionized.
By Associated Press.
Texarkana, Tex., May 5.—Early re-
ports of yesterday’s cyclone at Red-
water and Maud, Tex., were exagger-
ated as to the number killed, but not
as to the number injured, and the
property damage done, according to
definite information here today.
When physicians and trained nurses
on a relief train from Texarkana
reached Redwater .it was larned that
none had been killed there, but that
Mrs. Heste and Mrs. W. R. Ryan were
so seriously injured their deaths are
expected, and fifteen others were hurt,
seventegn homes 'business -ouses, and
stores, including the depot and the post
office with all the mail, had been de-
molished, while but one residence in the
entire town was untouched by the
storm.
At Maud but one person was killed
outright, while five others are not ex-
pected to live.
Mrs. Pearl White, who was killed at
Maud, was talking with her father
when the cyclone struck. She was
picked up by the wind, divested of all
clothes except underwear and one shoe,
and her body hurled a distance of a
hundred yars. She died instantly.
Mrs. A. J. Sheldon and her son; Mrs.
Foster and baby, and William Morgan,
the latter ninety years old, were so ser-
iously injured at Maud that they prob-
ably will die. There were twenty-sev-
en injured at Maud, while every build-
ing in town with the exception of a
dozen, were either totally demolished or
badly wrecked.
Twelve physicians and seven trained
nurses volunteered their services from
Texarkana and on a special Cotton
Belt Railroad tran, hurried to the
town with medical supplies, cots and
clothing for the relief of the suffer-
ers. It is estimated that porperty
damage in the two towns probably will
reach $100,000. Residents say the storm
came without warning and had passed
within five minutes. It had been pre-
ceded by hard rains. Serious damage
to crops will result because of the fact
that all fences were torn down and
stock invaded fields and destroyed
growing crops.
Reports today indicate little change
in the condition . of the seriously
wounded at Redwater and Maud.
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FURTHER DETAILS AWAITED.
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
and Wednes-
day, generally
fair. Gentle
winds, mostly
southerly.
For Texas,
east of 100th
meridian:
Tonight and
Wednesday,
fair.
For Texas,
west of 100th
meridian:
Men to Control Federal Bank System
Named.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—After months of
waiting, while President Wilson care-
fully sifted hundreds of names, the
business and financial world today
learned definitely that the following
men had been chosen for the federal
reserve board which will put into oper-
ation the nation’s new currency sys-
tem:
Richard Olney of Boston, Mass., for-
mer secretary of state and attorney
general of the United States under
President Cleveland.
PaulM. Warburg of New York, mem-
ber of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and a life-
long student of foreign banking sys-
tems.
W. P. G. Harding, president First
National bank of Birmingham, Ala., and
one of the leading bankers of the
south.
Harry A. Wheeler, vice president and
director of the Union Trust company of
Chicago and until recently president of
the United States chamber of commerce.
Dr. Adolph Caspar Miller, professor
of finance at the University of Cali-
fOrnia and now assistant to Secretary
Lane of the interior department, a po-
litical economist and writer on econ-
omics and finance.
These men, together with the secre-
tary of the treasury, William G. Mac-
Adoo, and the comptroller of currency,
John Skelton Williams, who are ex-
officio members, have been selected to
compose the federal reserve board.
White House officials declined to say
when the nominations would be sent to
the senate, as they were waiting today
further word from Mr Olney as to his
acceptance It was feared by persons
close to the White House that he would
not accept on account of his advanced
years.
OLNEY GOVERNOR.
Mr. Olney has been chosen for gov-
ernor of the board.
The other four men, it is understood,
have accepted. It is said while Mr.
Wheeler is a banker, he has had an in-
timate connection with the industrial
and . commercial world. Mr. Warburg
has made a lifelong study of German
and French banking methods and
knows finance from a first hand con-
nection with the greatest financial cen-
ter in the United States.
Mr. Harding is regarded as an un-
usually able man, of broad views and
remarkable ability. He is looked upon
as one of the leading bankers of the
south. Dr. Miller is a trained econo-
mist and long a writer and student
of finance.
This personnel follows the president’s
original idea of securing two bankers,
Warburg and Harding; a business
man, Mr. Wheeler; an economist and
student of finance, Dr. Miller, and a
lawyer and business man, Richard Ol-
ney.
The declination of Mr. Olney would
mean the selection of another man who
had a combined legal and business
training.
LEGAL STIPULATIONS.
Under the new currency law, by the
terms of which the president “is to
have due regard for a fair representa-
tion of the different commercial, in-
dustrial and geographical divisions of
the country,” not more than one of the
five members of the federal reserve
board can be selected under the law
from the same reserve district. Should
Mr. Olney decline the president would
be free to choose from district No. 1,
New England; district No. 3, compris-
ing New Jersey, Delaware and Eastern
Pennsylvania; district No. 4, Ohio,
’western Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Kentucky; district No. 5, Maryland,
Virginia, District of Columbia, North
and South Carolina; district No. 8, Ar-
kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee
and Mississippi; district No. 9, Mon-
tana, North and South Dakota, Minne-
sota, Wisconsin, Michigan; district No.
10, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyom-
ing, and district No. 11, Texas, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona and a part
of Louisiana. Appointive members of
the board are to devote all their time
to the board’s business. Their salaries
are $12,000 a year for ten years. The
law creating the board provides that
none of its members “shall be an offi-
cer or director of any bank, banking
institution, trust company or federal
reserve bank, nor hold stock in any
banking institution or trust company.”
BOARD POWERS.
The board is authorized to examine
the affairs of each federal reserve bank
and each member bank and to require
necessary reports. The board must
publish weekly statements of the con-
dition of the federal reserve banks. It
may require the elimination of doubt-
ful or worthless assets from books of
federal reserve banks and it may sus-
pend for statutory violations operations
of any federal reserve bank.
A feature of the new currency sys-
tem is the creation of a federal ad-
visory council, members of which are
appointed by directors of each federal
reserve bank. The council is to act in
an advisory capacity to the federal re-
serve board. Reserve banks are em-
powered to discount notes, drafts and
bills of exchange arising out of actual
commercial transactions upon the in-
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.—Information
came from Vera Cruz to the war de-
partment today that the Mexican fed-
eral troops have mined the railroad
tracks from Vera Cruz to Mexico City
in preparation for the destruction of
the road in the event the American
forces attempt a march on the capital.
No confirmation has been received
of reports that the San Francisco
bridge on the Interoeeanic railroad had
been damaged.
The mines are reported to be located
a half mile apart and Mexican soldiers
have been detailed to touch off the
fuses should hostilities eventuate.
These preparations and the throwing
up of defenses, which are daily mak-
ing the position of the Mexican federal
troops stronger, are said to be a source
of worry to General Funston, and it is
understood that he would welcome or-
ders to start for the Mexican’ capital at
once.
Admiral Mayo at Tampico has in-
formed the navy department that he
would have no trouble in taking Tam-
pico with his present forces and it was
learned today that he had more than
once hinted in his dispatches that it
would be advisable to take such action.
He has now under his command, in ad-
dition to his flagship, the Des Moines,
two cruisers and a torpedo boat fleet
of nine.
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