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TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS, CARRYING FULL LEASED WIRE DAY AND NIGHT REPORT
LAST EDITION
2:30 A. M.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TEMPLE, TEXAS. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1914.
VOL. VII. No. 210
Leader of the Revolution in Mexico
♦ CARRANZA PAULEY
IS NOT TERMINATED.
♦ Saltillo, June 17. — General
♦ Carranza received late today &
♦ communication from the Niagara
♦ mediators In answer to his an-
♦ nouncement that he was willing ♦
♦ to send representatives to the ♦
♦ Niagara conferences. General
♦ Carranza declined, for dlplomat-
♦ lo reasons, to make public the
♦ contents of the communication
♦ or to Indicate the nature of his
♦ reply which It was said had not
♦ yet been completed.
♦ The note of the mediators
asked that the constitutionalists
agree to an armistice. No state-
ment could be obtained from
General Carranza but a promi-
nent official stated that the note
of the mediators had not terml-
v nated negotiations.
Break in Mediation
Proceedings Is
Imminent
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NIAGARA FALLS, June 17.—Tlie
Huerta delegation to the conference
Issued a statement tonight charging
that the Insistence by the United
States on a constitutionalist for the
provisional presidency as opposed to
a "neutral" was "tantamount to abet-
ting and even exacting fraud and vio-
lence at the elections."
The publication of this statement
was unexpected by the American dele-
gates. When they learned of It their
attitude was that the Huerta delegates
were acting entirely within their
Vlglits when they criticised the Ameri-
can plan for the establishment of a
provisional government in a communi-
cation addressed to the Americans
themselves, but they were greatly
surprised by the Mexican delegates'
action in giving it out.
Tha Mexican statement outlines the
sulmtance of a memorandum dated
June 12 which the Huerta delegates
gave to the American delegates and to
which the latter since have replied.
Justice Lamar and Mr. Lelimann
read the statement Issued by the Mex-
ican delegation and determined to
make public their reply. This will be
given out tomorrow.
Tht preface of the statement ex-
plained that publication was made to-
night because knowledge of the cri-
ticism already had reached represen-
tatives of the press. Continuing, the
statement follows:
Cause of Differences.
"There is no reason for further con-
cealment of the differences that have
arisen between the American and
•Mexican delegations to which the
press already has referred, over the
provisional government for Mexico
which is at present under considera-
tion. The Mexican delegation, adopt-
ing a principle advanced by the medi-
ating plenipotentiaries, agreed to the
designation as provisional president of
a neutral. The American delegation
submitted its plan based on the condi-
tion that the provisional president
shall be a constitutionalist, a condition
which the Mexican delegation flatly
rejected of its own accord and with-
out even consulting Its government.
To put in writing the reasons for the
rejection, so that they might better be
studied by the American delegates, the
Mexican delegation addressed to them
the memorandum mentioned, the
chief considerations of which are the
following:
"In a country unused to electoral
functions, such as Mexico, and partic-
ularly In the circumstances and condi-
tions it would be in, once the revolu-
tion ceased, a provisional government
composed of revolutionaries and with
revolutionaries In authority through-
out tho country would turn the elec-
tions as It wished; the public vote
would be falsified and the result
would necessarily be the election of
-another revolutionary. Consequently
when the Washington government In-
sists today on the designation of a con-
stitutionalist as provisional president
It faVors also from today the imposi-
tion of a revolutionary president at
the elections, such an attitude is bad
for both countries and for the chief
of the revolution (who will doubtless
also be its candidate); bad for the
two countries because it will create a
national sentiment of hostility in the
Mexican people, when a sympathetic
rapprochement between them and the
United States should be striven for;
(Continued on page two.)
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Prohibitionist Missing
Detroit, Mich., June 17.—The dls
appearance of Rev. Louis R. Patmont
of Milwaukee, Wis., the prohibition
advocate, still was cloaked in mystery
tonigl^pM|£ police and the ministers
friends' said they had not obtained a
single clue which might indicate the
whereabouts of the man who figured
prominently in the last Illinois local
option campaign and who dropped out
of sight in Detroit Monday.
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GENERAL VENUSTIANO CARRANZA
Latest photograph of the supreme chief of the constitutionalists' faction in Mexico, seated
at his desk. He posed for this photograph upon his arrival in Saltillo, about the time he es-
tablished himself in that city as provisional president. He is a kindly, considerate old man
and has been the brains of the revolutionary movement in Northern Mexico. Should the
threatened break between him and the fiery Pancho Villa eventuate, Mexico's internal
troubles would be greatly complicated.
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HEAVY PRECIPITATION AT FORT
WORTH INUNDATES STREETS.
Rain Comes at Noon Without Warn-
ing—Many Parts of West Texas
Are Soaked.
FORT WORTH, June 17—The
rainfall In Fort Worth In the period
of little more than an hour at midday
was 1.67 Inches, with more due to fol-
low. * Streets were flooded. The
clouds opened up without warning,
and the downpour caught most pedes-
trians without raincoats or umbrellas.
The shower catered almost exclu-
sively to Fort Worth, reports show.
Rain fell In Dallas and in all the in-
termediate territory, but not in the
amount recorded here. The shower
was not even general over Tarrant
county.
Various points ■ In West Texas are
being soaked. The lower end of the
Frisco territory and practically all the
Santa Fe county from Lampasas to
San Angelo received torrential show-
ers Tuesday night.
Police Are Called Out to Quell
Rioting of Modern Woodmen
GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOM-
EN'S CLUBS FINISH SESSION.
Paper Purporting to Bed Minority
Report on Woman Suffrage
Causes Mild Sensation.
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 17.—A riot
call, which brought a wagon load of
police reserves to Memorial Hall,
quieted today's first session of the
National Convention of the Modern
Woodmen of America.
"Insurgents" and administration
forces clashed verbally until hotter
heads resorted to fisticuff*
Somo one called the police reserves
and the officers found the convention
in utmost confusion and the band
playing "This Is the Life," and refus-
ing to Btop. _
The insurgents, forecasting an ad-
verse report of the credentlgls com-
mittee and a stampede of the conven-
tion by administration forces In ef-
forts to continue present rates and
reelect old officers, made it known
they would appeal to the courts for
an Injunction. The appeal, leaders
intimated, would be mads on the
claim that there are Insufficient funds
to meet the expenses of the present
encampment, estimated at $260,000.
This, the Insurgents said, was admit-
ted by the administration forces.
The seating of the contested Iowa,
Illinois and Nebraska delegations, ad-
mittedly dominated by the insurgents,
was a point at issue today before the
credentials committee reported.
A review of the 6,000 uniformed
foresters by Head Consul Talbot is to
he held at Camp R. R. Smtlh this
afternoon.
When Trouble Started.
The turmoil began with announce-
ment by Head Consul Talbot that the
credentials committee would not be
able to report unUl tomorrow and
that the convention stood adjourned.
A score or angry insurgents were
instantly on their feet. Insisting that
the convention was still In session and
demanding to be heard.
The band struck up "This Is the
Life," and with shouts of "Give us a
square deal," "Rotten!" the recalcit-
rants surged from the floor toward
the platform. When the police ar-
rived the angry Insurgents were In
control, but with the band still play-
ing "This Is the Life."
With order restore* the convention
was abandoned for the day.
CHICAGO, June 17.—The twelfth
biennial convention of the General
Federation of Women's clubs closed
tonight. During the day a protest
was made against the Indorsement
of woman suffrage and $20,000 in
comparatively small sums was given
to the federation, completing the en-
dowment fund of $100,000.
When tho women started to get
the fund they evolved a plan where-
by $S0 entitled the giver to name
some person or organization for hon-
orary membership roll; $100 admit-
ted the donor to the roll of honor
and $500 placed the subscriber on the
founders' list. When the honor rolls
began to fill up and the supply of
women who it was desired to honor
at this time apparently became ex-
hausted, several women bought the
distinction for their husbands.
A paper purporting to be a "mi-
nority report," on suffrage caused
some disturbance before Its authen-
ticity and origin were discovered. It
came to Mrs. Pennybacker Unsigned
and doclared suffrage should not
have been Indorsed. It quoted Mrs.
Sarah Piatt Decker as against en-
tangling the federation in a political
question. It later developed that the
paper had been written by Mrs. J. C.
Terrell of Marshall, Texas, as express-
ing the sentiment of herself and cer-
tain friends. It was not the result
of any formal action and after Mrs.
Terrell had withdrawn the reference
to Mrs. Decker the statement, still
captioned "minority ' report," was
made a part of the record.
The closing session tonight dis-
cussed, "what youth can bring to the
federation," and "the greatest service
the general federation can render to
the young woman of America."
Paramita Survivors Aboard.
Seward, Alaska, June IT—Wireless
messages received here last night
from the steamer Dora which Is
stormbound at Port Dick, state that
the Dora has about thirty-five surviv-
ors of the wreck of the ship Paramita.
The message stated that the Paramita
was wrecked In Lost Harbor early in
May. Whether any lives we're lost is
not known here. The Paramita Is a
wooden vessel of 1598 tons, 214 feet
in length. Her home port was San
Francisco and she was under charter
to a salmon packing company.
FACES NEW PROBLEM
AMERICAN ADMIRAL HAS DIPLO-
MATIC QUESTION TO SETTLE.
What to Do With Rcliels Taken
Aboard Ship While Seeking Safety
Is Puzzling Matter.
WASHINGTON, June 17.—A New
problem for American diplomacy was
injected into the situation today when
It became known that Iiear Admiral
Howard, commanding the American
squadron in Pacific Mexican waters,
had taken aboard his vessels at Topo-
lobampo, constitutionalists who sought
safety when their vessel, the Tam-
plco, was sunk by the federal gun-
boat Guerrero.
As it would be Impracticable to
keep the prisoners long aboard the
American warships, they probably
will be brought to the United States
and Interned. Those familiar with
precedents thought the status of
these constitutionalist refugees would
be identical with that of the 4,000
federal soldiers and camp followers
who crossed the Rio Grande into Tex-
as after the defeat at Ojinaga.
Policeman Meant Business.
Champaign, III., June 17.—Count
Johann von Bernstorff, ambassador
from Germany to the United States,
narrowly escaped death today when a
special policeman fired point blank
at the automobile in which the am-
bassador was being driven to the com-
mencement exercises of the University
of Illinois.
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Peace in Mexico
By Advertising
The advertising director of a
largo New York store says:
'If it were possible to start
campaign of advertising and to
make clear to the peons of Mexico
the advantages of peace, war would
soon end."
This man Is a believer In the
printed word.
He regards good truthful, well
written advertising as the most Im-
portant factor In modern business
life.
And of all advertising mediums
be prefers the newspaper, for his
experience has taught him that it
gives the greatest returns for the
least expenditure.
Pedestrians Have
Right-of-Way, But It
Doesn't Help Much
PHILADELPHIA, June 17.—"Pe-
destrians have the right of way at
street crossings and drivers of ve-
hicles must recognize this right at
their risk," declared Judge Sulzberger
yesterday in the quarter sessions
court in refusing a new trial to Wm.
K. Hoskins, driver of an automobile,
convicted of involuntary manslaugh-
ter for running down and killing Mrs.
Eliza B. Rothwell here last Novem-
ber.
Hoskins was sentenced to six
months in jail and to pay a fine of
$260. Counsel for Hoskins at once
apealed to tho superior court, con-
tending that the judge's theory of the
law is a misguided one, founded on a
personal prejudice* against the opera-
tors of automobiles who figure in
accidents of this kind.
LATTER'S RESIGNATION IS NOT ACCEPTED IJY
CONSTITUTIONALIST CHIEF AND THEIR
DIFFERENCES ARE PATCHED UP.
Waco's Ad Club to
Toronto Convention
Is Aboard a Special
VILLA WILL GO TO ZACATECAS
Fiery General Will Leave at Once With Five Thousand Men
to Push Campaign and Assist Natera, Whose
Army Is Being Pounded to Pieces
by the Federals.
WACO, Texas, Juno 17.—Fifty
Wacoans were aboard the Lone Star
State special, which left here at 8
o'clock this morning for Toronto.
The train will be used for the entire
journey, it having been chartered by
the Waco Ad club. The equipment
consisted of three Pullmans and ob-
servation car, steel diner and bag-
gage car. The route will bo via the
Katy to St. Louis; the Illinois Central
to Chicago and the New York Central
lines to Toronto. Stops of one day
each are to be made at St. Louis and
Chicago and a half day at Detroit.
The special will reach Toronto next
Saturday evening.
Thomas R. Marshall,
U. S. Vice President,
Talks to Students
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ittd., June
IT.—This Is the young men's age, de-
clared Vice President Thomas R.
Marshall In his address here today
at the commencement exercises of
Wabash college. "The old man Is
being shoved off the stage every-
where. Falling physical ability is as-
sumed to mark a like dimness of In-
tellectual sight. Scientific truth Is
not sufficient to establish the leader-
ship of youth. This leadership must
be established by an openness of
mind by waiving the ancient prerog-
ative of being right without infor-
mation."
Old Man Killed at
Waco Said to Have
Been Runge Citizen
WACO, Texas. June 17.—A mes-
sage received here this morning from
G. Tips, mayor of Runge, leads to tho
belief that A. C. Vandorn, who was
stabbed to death here last Monday
night was a resident of that place.
The telegram states that the Van-
dorn who lived at Runge was one-
armed which answers the description
of the body held here. The teles-ram
also says that Vandorn has property
at Runge and asks that the body be
held for further advices.
Grim Death Stalks
Into This Home as
Result of a Prank
SALTILLO, June 16 (via Laredo, June 17).—Gen. Villa's
resignation as commander of the constitutionalist army of
the central division has not been accepted and tho threatened
breach between General Villa and General Carranza has been
averted, according to a statement from General Carranza'a
headquarters late today.
It was reiterated that representations of the strained rela-
tions between Generals Villa and Carranza had been greatly
exaggerated and that Villa would go immediately to Zacatecas
to direct the assault on that town.
It was announced that the campaign against ZacatecaV
would be pushed at once and that five thousand men had left*1
Torreon for Zacatecas yesterday and 3,000 more would leave
today. It was reported that the assault on the strong positions"*
at Zacatecas would begin tomorrow and the town be carried
by assault.
It was also announced that General Obregon, with 12,000
men, would attack Guadalajara tomorrow. General Obregon
encountered a strong force of federals between Manzanillo
and Guadalajara and defeated them decisively yesterday, kill-
ing 100 and wounding many others. He has cut Guadalajara
off from communication with the outside world and also has
cut the lines of communication leading to Manzanillo.
General Pablo Gonzales, commanding the army of the
northeast, today arrived from Monterey and conferred with
General Carranza, as did General Villareal, acting minister of
finance) who arrived from Torreon this morningi It was
stated that General Gonzales came to lead his troops south to
San Luis Potosi.
SNYDER, Texas, June 17.—The
three year old son of J. S. Davis at
Polar, 20 miles north of Snyder, was
shot with a target rifle Monday ev-
ening and died Tuesday morning.
His sister, 7 years old, was playing
with the gun. The bullet entered at
the chin and passed through, break-
ing the neck.
This Militant Suff.,
Craving Publicity,
Gets Plenty of It
LONDON, June 17.—A militant
suffragette chained herself to the
statute of the Duke of Wellington In
front of the Royal Exchange. She
shouted to passersby, calling on them
to intervene In behalf of the Impris-
oned women. She eventually was re-
moved by the police amid jeers of a
large crowd.
Blind Soprano Is
Found Dead; Looks
Like Suicide Case
OAKLAND, Cal., June 17.—Miss
Helen Mesow, a blind soprano singer
was found dead In her apartment to-
day. The cause of death has not been
determined.
A physician said that a spoon found
In the bathroom smelted strongly of
a quick acting poison.
Marine Engineers Strike.
London, June 17.—A general strike
of marine engineers on tramp steam-
ers began In the United Kingdom yes-
terday. The engineers demand an In-
crease In wages. It la expected that
between 600 and 800 vessels will bo
laid up.
HOPE FOR SUCCESS
AT NIAGARA FAEES
NIAGARA FALLS, June 17— Dis-
patches telling of the break between
General Carranza and Francisco Villa
have buoyed trie mediating plenipo-
tentiaries and other principals In the
Niagara Falls peace conference to
hope that perhaps after all there is a
chance for successful outcome of their
efforts. Confirmation of rumors that
all is not serene in the constitutional-
ist camp it is felt possibly may weak-
en the stubborn attitude of iluerta's
foes.
It Is admitted this hope Is not built
on a firmer foundation than a desire
that such may be the result, never-
theless there was talk that Friday
would not see the end of the confer-
ences, as predicted last night when it
became known that the American del-
egates failed in the purpose fof their
trip to Buffalo when they tallied with
General Carranza's agents.
The uncompromising attitude of the
constitutionalists in their relations
with the American government, the
troubles between Carranza and Villa,
the friction between Maytorena and
Carranza supporters together with
constitutionalist reverses at Zacatecas,
are expected either to bring tho con-
stitutionalists to a more conciliatory
disposition toward negotiations here
or Influence the American government
to abandon its desire for any active
constitutionalist for provisional pres-
ident. Emilio Rabasa, head of the
Huerta delegation, said he had been
advised by the Mexican consul at El
Paso that reports of the break be-
tween Carranza and Villa were true.
CHASM BETWEEN THEM.
Reported Tensemws In Relations Be-
tween Currim/a and Villa.
Rioting In Clilnn.
New York, June 17.—The Christian
and Missionary alliance of New York
today received a dispatch from its
headquarters in central China, saying:
"Kan Su stations looted. All de-
stroyed. Missionaries sare. There is
not much cause for anxiety."
Laredo, June 17.—According to men
who arrived here toduy trom Saltillo,
desperate efforts v?ere being mada
Tuesday to patch up the break be-
tween Carranza and Villa which re-
sulted in the resignation of the latter
as commander of the central army of
the constitutionalists. Men of influ-
ence were hurried to the camps of
l both factions in an effort to re-Cstab-
i 1 ifh harmony but there was a tense-
| ness in the atmosphere which showed
i plainly how grave all considered tha
) situation.
| Foreigners who remain at Saltillo
and many of* the constitutionalists
themselves declared they believed that
u final break between Villa and Car-
ranza must eventually result In inter-
vention by the United States.
The break between the two consti-
tutionalist leaders undoubtedly had its
origin in the unexpected and ill-ad-
vised attack of Geueral I'anfilo Natera
on Zacatecas. Natera, it is said, was
extremely anxious to take the town
before Villa arrived on the scene to
share the glory of the conquest. Villa,
It is said, resented Natera's recent pro-
motion to general of division. Natera
did not await orders to attack the
town and in a desperate assault on La
Buffa, a hill which commands tha
town, is said to have lost between
2,000 and 3,000 men In killed and
wounded, a tremendous percentage of
his force which is said to have num-
bered 12,000 men, but which could
hardly have been so large as reported.
He then asked help of Villa and It la
said was told to go fight his own bat-
tles; that as he had gotten himself
into a scrape by not following instruc-
tions he must extricate himself alone.
It is said Carranza then intervened
and ordered Villa to go to Zacatecas
and aid Natera. It Is inferred that
Villa understood this order to mean
that he was not to supercede Natera
In command. It also is said that Gen-
erals Benavidea and Ortega, whose '
troops were to have formed tha re-
inforcements declined to serve under
Natera's command, although they said
they would with Villa. It Is rumored
Villa agreed to go to Zacatecas If ha
was In supreme command but It is
known that there was an Interchange
of messages between Villa and Car* '
Big Steamer, New York Bound,
In Collision During Dense Fog
SOUTHAMPTON, June 17—The
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm II, which left Southampton
shortly after noon today for New
York with a thousand passengers Is
anchored tonight off Netley, three
miles to the southeast with a big hole
in her side amidships, caused by a
collision with the Liverpool grain
steamer Incemore from a Black Sea
port for Antwerp.
The Incemore, a smaller craft than
the German steamer. Is In dock here
with her bowa badly smashed.
The collision occurred In a tog.
Just how It occurred and which vessel
was responsible could not ba ascer-
tained tonight. Officers of the Kaiser
Wilhelm II refuse to give out any In-
formation. Scant details came from
the Incemore. That vessel, those on
board said, virtually had stopped be-
cause of the danger of continuing un«
der way In a thick fog, when sud*
denly there loomed up Just ahead of
her the Kaiser Wilhelm.
Both captains did their best to
avert a collision but tha Incemore
struck the liner on the starboard aid*
amidships. Tha Impact crumpled up
her own bows and tore a big gap la
the Kaiser Wilhelm® side. Those
aboard the Incemore believed tha
hole was entirely above the waterllna.
Tha two steamers stood by each
other until It was ascertained that
nlther was In need of Immediate as-
sistance, then both started slowly for
Southampton. The forepeak of tha
Incemore rapidly filled with water
but tha bulkhead confined It there
and she managed to crawl Into port,
There It was found the damage to tha
bows extended for a length of twelve
feet and a width fif ten feat.
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