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ESTABLISHED 1871—VOL. 44, NO. 227.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1915.
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INDIANS HAVE DECLARED WAR
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HOWARD IS HEARD
CALLS STORY PREPOSTEROUS
TURNS DOWN PEACE OFFER.
CAPTAIN IS VICTIM
GETS FOOD ACROSS BORDER
ZEPPELIN KILLS 16 PEOPLE
Strathnairn was torpedoed the peri-
Have
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coal.
ADMIT SALTILLO HAS FALLEN
49,000 RUSSIANS ARE TAKEN
y for peace.
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of
ace could
pet
lid
wool
enable nations
TO ATTACK VILLISTAS.
Mexican refugees now residii
received ad’
B. Trevino arrived in
LASSEN PEAK IS IN ERUPTION
THE WEATHER.
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LIGHTNING KILLS TWO.
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ENGLISH WIN AND
LOSE ONE MILE OF
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TEUTONTRENCHES
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Terrific Counter Attacks by Germans
Result in Recapture of Positions At
Festubert—'English Gain and Hold
Ground Near Ypres.
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commands
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delay j
luty to
GERARD THINKS
AGREEMENT WITH
GERMANY LIKELY
usual
uised
t out
TAFT OUTLINES
PLAN FOR GREAT
LEAGUE OF PEACE
We hope and
think a league
formed which
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be
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WHENLARGE BRITISH
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HAN ANTONIO, Tex., Juno 16.—Gen.
Benj. Herrero, one of the prominent
Normal Service Is Re-
stored on Chicago
Car Lines.
HOUSTON, Tex., June 16— A dis-
tinct compliment to Texas Schools of
CHICANO, June 16.—Normal serv.
Ice on Chicago elevated and surface
Expenses Are to Be
I Paid in Excess of
$100,000.
No Attempt to End
Present War Is
Intended.
Admiral Howard Will
Take 600 Men to
Mexico.
Lansing Believes No
Doubt of Special En-
voy’s Identity.
row—
tie.
i sun-,
th, the
1g red,
Indi-,
oea or
Returns Will Be Close
to Eighty-three
Millions.
Ambassador Tells How
Wilson Note Was
Received.
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RUSSIANS HURLED BACK
ON LONG LINE OF BATTLE
Mackensen Again Inflicts Defeat On Slavs.
Zepplin Raids English Coast, Avenging Kar-
sruhe Attack, and Sitxeen People are Killed
and Forty Wounded.
IS NOW IN HANDS OF
GEORGIA GOVERNOR
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ace in
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STRIKE ENDED
BY AGREEMENT
TO ARBITRATE
U. S. EXPEDITION
IS SENT AGAINST
YAQUI INDIANS
GONZAEES CALLS ON
VILLA FOLLOWERS TO
SURRENDER CAPITAL
the force of marines anu ailors which
will start today on the cruiser Colorado
to rescue Americans from the Yaqui
country.
INCOME TAX TO
LESSEN DEFICIT
Eight Englishmen and Fourteen Chi-
nese Lose Thelr Lives When
Big Vessel Goes Down.
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opinion j
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ASSESSMENT ON
RESERVE BANKS
STRATHNAIRN WITH COAL FOR
RUSSIA IS SUNK BY
SUBMARINE.
German Counsellor Says Envoy Not
Munitions Buyer.
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so as
ry ns
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a nces
THIS 18 ANSWER OF CARRANZA
LEADER TO REQUEST
FOR TRUCE.
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attempt to rescue the drowning men.
The Strathnairn which was a vessel
of 4336 tons. was bound from Cardiff
for Archangel, Russia, with a oargo of
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Consumes Entire Day in Arguing That
No Proof of Frank's Guilt
Has Been Given.
William A. (BmIgSunday and Hie
DECISION IS NOT EXPECTED BE-
FORE FRIDAY OR SATURDAY
AT EARLIEST.
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ever, is “Dated Up”
for Two Years.
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EFFORT IS MADE TO BRING
“BILLY" SUNDAY TO AUSTIN
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Monterey last Saturday, bringing with
him 4000 troops and assuming com-
mand of all the constitutionalist forces
in the States of Nuevo Leon, Tamaul-
ipas and Coahuila.
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NORMAN. Okla., Juno 16.— •
Tom Patton, 18, and Clyde Ellis, ♦
17, were killed by lightning near ♦
here this afternoon. ♦
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TRICKED U. S. IS
CALLED UNTRUE
Read Admiral
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Secretary
Lansing received word late today from
sources which he regarded as reliable
that the man who sailed for Germany
with a safe conduct carrying messages
to the foreign office at Berlin from
Count von Bernstorff, the German am-
bassador was Dr. Anton Meyer-Ger-
hard.
Doubt had been cast on the identity
of the German ambassador’s envoy by
published reports that the safe con-
duct in Dr. Gerhard’s name was in
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$ m
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W. A. Cousins Is Again Chosen
President.
THREE TRAVELERS SUNK,
ONpON,, June 17.—Loyd’s rports
three Aberdeen trawlers the Petrel..
Explorer and Japon!ca h ‘A been sunk
by German submarine
SECOND OLDEST PAPER IN TEXAS
been buying
States. Ant
g Free
ut the
4 last .
Com- .
. Ala.,
In any
ure.
by prospective applicants for pharma-
cist’s certificates, was made Wedns.
day morning when the State Board of
Pharmacy adopted a resolution au-
thorising the allowing of two units in
the three subjects in which an appli-
cant for a certificate makes his low-
est grades in cases where the applicant
has spent one year in a school of
pharmacy.
W. A. Cousins of Dallas was elect-
A consistent effort is being made to
induce Billy Sunday to come to Austin
for a series of sermons. William G,
Gormans -Admit a8om Gains by the
BERLIN via London, June 10—Tho
German army headquarters today gave
out the following statement:
“Western theater: In consequence
of the Russian defeat the English and
French again attacked many points
on the Western frontier with strong
forces. The English succeeded in forc-
ing back to some extent our positions
near Ypres, north of Bellewaarde,
where the battle continues
"Two attacks by four English divi-
Hons between the Esoire-Labnsseo
road and the LAbassce Canal failed, our
Westphalian troops and divisions of
the guard repulsing the assaults after
desperate hand to hand fighting. The
enemy sustained heavy losses and left
several machine guns and bomb throw-
ers in our hands.
“Since his defeat of June 13-14;
enemy had made no further ventures
against the strong positions near Lo-
retto Hill held by Baden troops. Neer
Moulin-Sous-Toutvent fighting contin-
ues.
“An attempt to break through ouf:
line in the Vosges between the Feht
and the Lauch Valleys failed. Kight-
ing there continues now only north*
feet that Dr. Meyer accompanied Ger-
hard.
State Department officials today ex-
pressed much curiosity over the re-
ports but Instituted no formal inves-
tigation. From one of the editors of
a New York newspaper, an American
citizen, came word that he knew both
Rr. Meyer and Dr. Gerhard and that
he personally saw the latter take the
boat for Norway.
While the State Department would
examine any evidence that might be
brought to it, nothing thus far Indi-
cates, it was said officially, there is
any foundation for a charge 't trick-
ery.
Discovered Villa Has Never Given
His Consent.
California Volcano Is Active for the
101st Time.
READING, Cal., Juno 18 — Labsen
Peak erupted for the one hundred and
first time at 1 o’clock today, belching
from its main crater a pillar of moko
reported to reach a mile skyward. To-
day’s eruption wag the first since
May 31,
in the East the Austro-Ger mans’ ad*
vance continues to swing forward with
tho exception of the section between
the Dniester marshes and Zurawna,
where the Russians holding the bridge
heads aro making some headway.
Special dispatche from the Austrian
RTr Hirn TAhnrnnrh headauartere report that the Teutonic
STEAMER DRPEDOF is
V I LnillLIi Ull LUULU Bessarabla frontier. The latest oper-
ations tire said to have resulted in
bringing General Mackenzen’s forces
in contact with General UnsIngen and
General Pfinnher. Heavy fighting is
proceeding along the whole line in Ga-
licia, but th© maximum apparently has
not been reached. The Russians are
bringing all their available forces, con-
Bfsting partly of fresh recruits, to
resist the advance of the German allies.
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Carranza Has Not Answered Three
Requests of Opposing Faction
for Parley on Peace,
pe "of a"submarine” was seen nearby Two Raidg.on Enelish onst
l that the underwater boat made no i Taken Heavy ion.
reality obtained for Dr. Alfred Meyer,
I chief of the supply department of the
SWEDISH SHIPS TAKEN.
LONDON, June 17.—1:53 ft. m—A
Reuter dispatch from Gothenburg says
that the Swedish steamer Torsten of
1675 tons from Gothenburg for Eng-
land was captured Wednesday morn-
ing by a‘German auxiliary cruiser .off
the island of Vinga The Torsten was
towed southward presumably to Swn-
emunde The Steamer is said to have
no contraband aboard.
HOUSTON, Tex., June 18.—The nec-
ond day of the State Pharmaceutical
Convention was devoted to reports
from officers and committees. The
election of officers and selection of
the next convention city is on the pro-
grm for tomorrow.
The convention is held coincidently
with tho meeting of tho board of
pharmacy.
The under secretary for war, H. J.
Tennant, besides giving assurances
that bigger aeroplanes were under
construction, wild that since the be-
ginning of the war, the number of
machines had been increased ten fold
and the number of men engaged in the
branch five fold.
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Ambassa-
dor Gerard cabled today his first in-
formal report on how the lost American
note to Germany was received In offi-
cial quarters in Berlin. He spoke of
its reception as friendly and courteous
and said the unanimous opinion seemed
to afford a basis for diplomatic nego-
tiation and settlement.
Ing extracts from German newspa-
per editorials, most of which have al-
ready been published here, were trans-
mitted by the ambassador. There is
a friendliness of tono in them and on
absence of the bitterness which haft
previously characterised some of the
newspaper utterances.
The ambassador’s own comment was
brief and of a general character bear-
ing out press reports of the favorable
impression made by the note, especial-
ly because published reports had
reached Germany that the United
States would send something in the na-
ture of nn ultimatum. Mr. Gerard
had no intimation as to when a reply
would be received or what its specific
character would be.
NEW YORK, June 1.—Dr. Hanel
von Hausen, counsellor at the German
embassy now In summer quarters at
darhurst, Li. I., declared tonight
that he had sent a telegram to Robert
Lansing, acting secretary of State at
Washington characterizing as "prepos-
terous and untrue" published accounts
that Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard was in
reality Dr. Alfred Meyer, chief of the
supply department of the German
army, who has been secretly hero buy-
ing war munitions.
This government arranged safe con-
duct with the allies for Dr. Meyer-
Gerhard that he might return to Ger-
many with a personal message from
Count von Bernstorff, the German am-
bassador.
Dr. von Haim Hausen said he acted
in the absence of Count von Bern-
storff, who was on a motor trip and
that he was not speaking for the
count.
ig supplies in the United
other story was to the ef-
City Is Taken by Villa Forces Under
Raoul Madero.
Story Told State Department
That "Gerhard” Really War
Expert Who Got Safe
Conduct by Trick.
Name Germany, Mexico and
United States as Foes and
Americans Are Believed
in Much Danger.
WASHINWTON, Juno 16,—Flrat es-
timates of returns from th personal
and corporation income taxhavo been
revised upward by treasury depart-
ment officials, who now expect more
than $62,000,000 during the present cal-
enday year fro mthis source.
Estimates made in May promised a
return of $80,035,000.
It was said tonight, however, that it
was quite probable the actual receipts
would be nearer $88,000,000.
Under the law, payments of the in-
come tax may be made as late as July
10, but from the way in which the tax
le pouring in, officials are confident
that ft large proportion of the total will
be in the vaults before the close of the
present fiscal year, June 80.
It is now apparent, officials said to-
day, that there would be sufficient
money from this source to wipe out a
large part of the deficit which ap-
peared early in the year and which
steadily increased until a short. time
ago. This fact is counted upon to
silence for the present talk of an issue
of Panama Canal bonds to replenish the
ga 8 u r-sworkns.bnlance
BOARD OF PHARMACY ELECTS
LONDON, June 17--An official
statement concerning the Zeppelin air
raid was given out tonight as follows:
"‘urther inquiries show that thes
casualties in connection with the visit
bf a Zeppelin to the Northeast coast
Tuesday night amount to eixteen
killed and forty injured.
“It now is pssibe to state mors ex-
actly the casualty resulting from nn
ship raid on another portion of the
Northeast coast on the night of June
4. The number of deaths there wa
twenty-four, comprising five men, all
civilians,, thirteen women and six chil-
dren. There also were forty cases of
more or less serious injuries.
"The principal fires were in drapery
establishments., a lumber yard and a
terrace of small houses
ATLANTA, Ga., 3ude 18.-he fate
of Leo M. Frank was placed finally in
the hands of Gov. Binton today nt tho
close of the hearing on an appeal for
commutation of his death sentence.
The governor took th© case under ad-
visement and announced he would,
render a decision as soon as possible.
This, however, is not expected before
Friday or Saturday nt the earliest.
Frank is under sentence to be hang-
ed on June 22 for tho murder of Mary
Phagan.
Today’s session was occupied by
Wm. M. Howard, attorney for Frank
In his closing argument. Mr. Howard
was interrupted frequently by ques-
tions brought out in tho trial.
Mr. Howard sought to convince the
governor of alleged inconsistencies and
contradictions in the testimony and
affidavits of Jim Conley, a negro who
served a prison term as an accessory
after the murder.
"Take the name of Ia^o Frank out of
this case," he said, “forgot all that has
passed in the last two years, give in©
a public mind that is a clean slate and
put this case In any county in Georgia
and I will acquit this defendant in
thirty minutes."
Mr.- Howard declared that by th©
testimony of the state’s own witnesses,
the record showed Mary Phagan was
not in the pencil factory at the time
the prosecution contends Frank killed
her. He also declared the record
showed that the girl had not arrived
at Frank’s office at the time Conley
in his testimony had said he already
had disposed of the body.
With a last appeal for clemency the
attorney concluded and the case was
submitted finally to th© governor.
GIVES OUT AN INTERVIEW
Bell is in communication with Rev.
Sunday and hopes to be able to get
out of him a promise to come here not
later than 1917 or 1918. ’ Mr. Sunday’s
dates up to that time are full but Mr.
Bell believes that Rev. Sunday can be
interested for a future engagement
about the time indicated.
The Tabernacle, built here for the
Biederwolf revival, will satisfy the
needs of the proposed Sunday meeting
says Mr. Bell, and he believes that no
difficulty would be experienced in
raising the guarantee necessary to de-
fray the expenses of the party that
Billy Sunday would bring here.
Dr. Meyer-Gerhard Looks for Peace-
ful Solution of Row.
LONDON, June 16—A peaceful so-
lution of the questions which have
arisen between the United States and
Germany in predicted by Dr. Meyer-
Gerhard, who Iff on his way from the
German embassy at Washington to
Berlin to explain the situation to the
German government. An interview
credited to Dr. Meyer-Gerhard is pub-
lished in the Frankfurter Zeitung and
forwarded to London by the Amster-
dam correspondent of Reuters Tele-
graph Company. Th* interview was
obtained yesterday at Christiansand,
Norway, when the steamer United
States, on which Dr. Meyer-Gerhard
was a passenger, touched at that port.
The conflicting views existing bo-
tween Berlin and Washington regard-
Ing the Lusitania affair reat on a mle.
understanding and will be settled
peacefully." Dr. Meyer is ereldted with
saying.
"The conflict between President Wil-
son and Secretary Bryan is of old
origin and arose from quite different
causes than the Lusitania Affair. The
breach was rendered inevitable by the
independent procedure of the Presi-
dent. who rejected the counzels or his
responsible minister and drafted the
latest American note to Germany ac-
cording to his own ideas. As Presi-
dent Wilson framed this reply to;-
many without even consulting Mr.
Bryan the latter had no other re-
coure but to request that he be re-
leased from office. f
“The tension between the two must
therefore be regarded as entirely a
domestic affair. The feeling of the
American people and government to-
wards Germany is not at alf bellicose;
on the contrary there prevails an abso-
lute desire for peace. •
“It is not true, as trumpeted abroad,
that the American fleet has been con-
centrated for participation Jn the Euro,
pean naval war.
“Th© feeling among German Ameri-
cans is splendid. Their love for the
, Motherland is strong; their joy in our
mighty successes in all theatres of
war affecting."
of war on Germany, the advice* said,
was because a German colonist, a
crack rifle shot, defended his home in
the last Yaqul raid with remarkable
success and much disaster to the raid-
ers.
Antonio, today
Gen. Jacinto E
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J ORDERS DELAYED. ♦
♦ SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 16.— J
♦ The flagship Colorado of the J
♦ Pacific fleet, scheduled to sail ♦
♦ for Mexican waters today with *
♦ three companies of marines, ♦
♦ probably- will sail for the south ♦
♦ tomorrow. Final sailing orders ♦
• are said not to have been re- ♦
♦ ceived. *
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WASHINGTON, June 18.—Late to-
day’ orders went out from the navy
department to Admiral Howard, com-
manding the Pacific fleet to iake 300
bluejackets as well' as he 300 marines
previously arranged for on his expe-
dition to the Yaqul valley. Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt said the admiral
had wide discretionary powers to land
an expedition if necessary to rescue
Americans who want to come out of
the region of Indian depredations.
The Yaqui Indinas, according to to-
car lines was resumed today after
fifty-three hours interruption as the . .. _ . „
result of an agreement reached after Pharmacy and an added incentive, to-
on all-night session of railway and ward the attendance of such schools
labor representatives and a council
committee headed by Mayor Thompson
had agreed on arbitration of the
strike. The homebound thousands
were transported from the business
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 16.—
Gen. C. A. Devol, acting head of the
American Red Cross returned tonight
from Engle Pass with the Information
that he finally succeeded in getting tvo
cars of beans and corn across the bor
der for distribution At Monclova and
vicinity. Villa did not give his con-
sent, but saddled th© whole responsi-
bility on his general, Rosalio Her-
nandes, who persistently refused to
permit the Red Cross shipment to
move until appealed to personally by
General Devol. after a long conference.
General Hernandez submitted his in-
structions from Villa in which tho lat-
, ter declined to take action and author-
ized Hernandez to exercise his own
judgment. In giving consent for these
•wo cars of food to enter Mexico. Her-
nandez let it be known that he would
not permit any more shipment through
Piedras Negras.
WASHINGTON, June 18.—General
Carranza has declim'd for the present
at least to accept overtures for peace
in Mexico by the Villa-Zapata faction.
Three such offers have gone unn-
swered.
The latest, it became known today,
was transmitted through the medium
of tho United States without comment.
A few days ago the convention assem-
bled in Mexico City over which Fran-
cisco Lagos Chazaro presided, formally
presented to the Brazilian minister as
the representative of the American
Government for transmission to Gen-
eral Carranza through diplomatic
channels a proposal for a thirty day
armistice, during which arrangements
could be made for establishing a pro-
visional government.
day off the Sellly Islands and sank.
Twenty-two members of the crew in-
cluding the capten, were drowned.
The crew were composed of nine
Englishmen and twenty-four China-
men and of these only one Englishman
and ton of the Chinese were saved.
Those were landed at Milford-Haven.
The torpedo struck the stenmer
amidshp and- blow up one of her boil-
ers. Four of the snip’s boats were
hastily launched, but two of them cap-
sized while Another was smashed
against the steamer’s side. The other
boat with the eleven survivors in it,
was picked up later and the men taken
to Milford-Ha ven.
Tho survivors say that after the
LONDON, June 16.—For the first time in weeks there has been
heavy fighting over a comparatively extensive line of the British
front in Belgium and France. The Berlin communication make*
note of it and describes it an Anglo-French movement synchroniz
ing with the Russian reverses in Galicia. ,
To win a mile of front and then to lose it before terrific German
counter attacks was, the experience of the British on Tuesday nean
Festubert. In a statement, frank if brief, Field Marshal French
records this incident, but does not state the losses which must
have been heavy on both sides.
The Germans are as frank in conceding the loss of ground near
Ypres, but they make no mention of having been forced even to
temporarily yield a inilo of their Festubert stronghold. Sir John
French reports that the British occupied tho German positions to.
the north of Hoogo for a distance of 1000 yards.
Russlane Driven Further,
cd president and R. H. Waller of Gon-
zales WHU re-elected secretary-treas-
urer, makin gthe coming year his
eighteenth in that service.
San Antonio wax selectod as the next
meetin gplace of the board.
PHARMACEUTICAL MEET ON.
RoutorooopenEmploxedpondont
Bay© the Russian military critics esti-
mate the total Auntro-derman forces
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MEXICO CITY, June 18.—General
Pablo Gonzalez today replied to the
convention government's note asking
for an armistice in order..that terms
for a reunion might be arranged by
demanding’ the unconditional surren-
der of the Capital. The note of Gen-
eral Gonzalez promises immunity to all
persons who adhere to the cause of
General Carranza. The convention
government is now in secret session
considering the formation of an an-
swer to General Gonzalez.
AUSTIN STATESMAN
operating against the Russlans as not
less than forly-five German and
S06,060m Autrian corPs (about 2,-
_ , den. Von Mackensen, according to
INDON, Juno 18.—The British dspatches, has given himself ft fort-
steamer Strathnalrn was torpedoed to- night in which to capture Lemberg and
‘it would seem that at the rate his and
co-ordinate forces are going forward
this time limit will be ample.
The latest Zeppelin raid on England
has created hardly a ripple of excite-
ment.
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WASHINGTON, Jun© 18—The Fed-
eral Reserve Board tod Ay announced
an aserement of one-tenth of 1 per
ceni on the grow capital of each Fed-
eral Reserve Bank to defray the esti-
mated general expenses of the board
for the eix month* ending December
31. The assenament amounted to $108,-
<47, half .to be pald on July 1, the re-
mainder Hept. 11.
TEEY ARE WIH WILSON.
QAlVESTON, Tex,, June U. — The
outhwestern Waterworks Assocation
in convention assemble this morning
sent a telegram to President Wilson
assuring him of their support
LAREDO, Txas, June 18.—Carranza
officials in- Nuevo Laredo tonight ad-
mitted Saltillo hid fallen 1 to the
hands of Villa troops under Generals
Han Roman and Raoul Madero.
A letter received here today dated
Monterey, June 14, brings information
that Monterey on that date had been
surrounded three days by Villa forces.
It was reported In Nuevo Laredo to-
night that constitutionalists had evac-
uated Monterey today and were re-
treating toward Villaldama.
Th© Monterey letter said Carranza
officers had levied against merchants
there for 500,000 resos, Carranza
money, and for one hundred thousand
pesos gold against three local banks
to pay troops.
to avoid war by furnishing a prac-
tical means of settling international
quarrels or suspending them until
the blinding heat of passion had
cooled. P
“Jn no war- has the direct Interest
that neutrals have in preventing a
war between neighbors been so clear-
ly made known. This interest of
neutrals has been so forced upon
them that it would require only a
slight development and growth in th©
law of international relations to de-
velop that interest into a right to
be consulted before such a war among
neighbors can be begun. This step
we hope to have taken by the forma-
tion of a peace league of the great
powers whose primary and funda-
mental principles shall be that no war
can take place between any two mem-
bers of the league until they have re-
sorted to the commission that the
league proposes to furnish to settle
the controversy likely to lead to
war,"
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—Former
President Taft, in an address here to-
night outlined the plan for the pro-
posed League, of Peace, which will
be discussed in Independence Hall to-
morrow when proposals will be con-
sidered for a league of peace and
steps taken with a view to obtaining
ith support of public opinion and of
"overnments. The national provision-
al committee, gave a dinner tonight
at which Mr. Taft was assigned the
part of delivering the keynote speech.
Others who spoke included Presi-
dent Lowell 'of Harvard, Oscar 8.
Straus,, member of The Hague court,
and former Judge George Gray of
Delaware, also a member of The
Hague court.
“In calling this meeting,” Mr. Taft
said, “my associates and I have not
been unaware that we might be lik-
ened to the tailors of looley street,
who mistook themselves for the peo-
ple of England. We first wish to
say tht we do not represent anybody
but ourselves.
“We are not here to suggest ft
means of bringing this war to an end.
♦ West Texas: Fair Thursday •
♦ except showers and cooler In ♦
♦ Panhandle; Friday, fair. 4
4 East Texas: Falr Thursday 4
♦ and Friday. ♦
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district as was usual before the
strike. The reappearance of the cars
was enthusiastically cheered.
In working out the arbitration
agreement it was agreed that an to
wages there should be no arbitration
downward and that •’trippers,” men
who work only during the rush hours
of traffic, would be eliminated. Ev-
ery point of difference between tho
men and the employers is to be de-
cided by arbitration^
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♦ . ♦
CONFISCATION IS ORDERED
। .—•—.
Villa to Seize on All Goods of
His Foes.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June”16.—A
mesage from Chihuahua says:
"Villa has issued a manifesto or de-
cree ordering confiscated the proper-
ties belonging to those who helped
the revolutions headed by Orozco, Fe-
lix Diaz and Bernardo Reyes or who
openly favored the maintenance of the
Huerta government. The decree is
dated May 31 and it is announced that
the properties will be sold at public
auction and the proceeds distributed
partially among the orphans - the
revolutionists and the balance will be
devoted to the military necessities of
the conventionist party."
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