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WATCH T* w Your Label H K and Keep Paid Up. JL JL VOL. Ik ^29, SKMI-W GOVERNOR SPEAKS ON F STAIt INSANE ASYLUM0 Speaks itw Person and Without Manuscript Before the ^ Joint Assembly. w si FRANRLf EXPLAINS S POLICY AT ASYLUM ? . Is Provided Excess Himself and c< Does Not Ask For a Reimbursement. t( Governor Manning's address " to the ovoeral asflnmhlv revipw- a ing the condition of the insane s< asylum, delivered Friday, fol- t( lows: > Gentlemen of the General As* % ** sembly J? In my annual message I sta- ^ ted that I would transmit to ^ you a special message dealing u with the State Hospital for the n Insane. You have courteously ^ invited me to deliver this message in person. Permit me to n thank you for this privilege. jj At the outset, I wish to state if clearly that in referring to the e conditions which I found there when I became governor, it j; must not be regarded as a personal criticism, but rather a statement of facts and condi- * tions as I found them. I would be disengemious if I did not make a full statement to you of this whole situation, and its needs. j From personal observation. 0 I found last yc*ar, the physical a condition of this institution to si be intolerable, if we are to con- b sidfcr the treatment of these un- e fortunates as a solemn duty and tl as jm act of humaneness and c, chfrity. The treatment of those patients was custodial, fi rathe** than that of giving skill- s] ed treatment to improve their % condition of mind, as well as of k body - IT W This condition was fully re- cl vealed to you in an exhaustive n report made by Dr. Herring, w last year, through me to you. 1 u feel that it is unnecessary to h repeat here what was stated in oi that document. You, in a body, at my invitation, visited that in- N stitution then, and the condi- r< tion as shown by that report, n and by what you found there, tl OAn\rin nCkA trnn Af tVin n noncia vvr*? niv/vu J vu vi tnv ntwtnnii v ^ i for reorganization of the inati- ti tution, and a change in the t< treatment of the inmates. I am ci sure that you recall vividly the tl picture of what you saw then. tl Yesterday I invited you co C visit again this institution so s1 that you could see fur your- ei selves, in a measure at least, 1 what has been done, and is be- C ing done, under the acts which ir you so wisely passed at the last session of the legislature. The rr improvements in the physical p< property are being carried on in h a thorough and efficient manner u and when this work is comple- 'S ted I feel that it will be an en- A during monument to your wis- ir dom and humaneness in provid- h ing for the comfort and the im- b< proved treatment of these un- tl fortunate citizens of our state, si Last year you haw the wretch w ed condition, the discomforts and dirt in the cells in which di these people were 'Xjnfined. ! tl saw, and you saw, how the h meals served were cold and un- ? palatable. You saw ii> .he worn- ei an's department, which was n then the best department in that institution, the silent wit- nr nesses?those straps that were cl around the walls, that were used to resrain violent patients. " Gentlemen, the temptation to me is to go on and enumerate the different things that were revolting, but I have promised , you not to do so. But I can not V, refrain from saying that in V that women's ward and as the ward that was then in best condifion, you will recall that in that ward for violent patients, k there were 92 of those violent subjects. They were confined r, in cells. We found that the fire e f protection was absolutely in- 0i adequate and inoperative; we tl K found the fire hose could not be. e< attached to the hydrant, because i? (Continued on Page 4f) n i : ' r i m i ' i ii i i in It,, i ,, i r, _ . . -.ji IE Li KEKLY. IORE REFUGEES ARRIVE AT BORDER >ne Hundred Americans Came' Out of Mexico Last Night. El Paso, Texas, Jan. 17.?Aproximately 100 out of the 1,000 Lmericans and other foreigners ho remained in Chihuahua tate after the massacre at anta Ysabel a week ago today, rere expected to arrive here ite tonight. Most of the passengers are jming from the Parral district,! round which bandits are said! ) be operating. The party lcludes a number of women nd almost a score of children, [>me of whose parents decided ) remain in Mexico. The train bearing the refuees is not expected before midight and according to reports; rom Juarez officials it would; e preceded by a train bearing! ie body of Jose Rodriguez, thej audit chief who was officially sported by Carranza officials to nve been executed. A number of Americans who; Bached here last night from the iterior of Chihuahua state veried the reports of Rodriguez's i xecution. AVORABLY REPORT CHILD LABOR BILL leasure Has Been Strenuously Opposed by Mill Owners of the South. Washington, Jan. 17.?The ill to regulate the employment f children in the production nd and manufacture of intertaes products which is opposed y souinern couon manutacturrs, was favorably reported to le house today by the labor ^mmittee. The bill would make it unlaw-i ill for a producer or dealer to hip in interstate commerce, oods produced wholly or part-; r by children under 16 years in I line or quarry products, and by( nildren under 14 in case of j lanufactured producs. Sixteen | ould be the age limit for man-! factured products when the ours were longer than eight j r at night. "Ex-Gov. W. W. Kitchin, ofi orth Carolina, and others rep;f nting the southern cott "i fills opposed the bills," reads' le committee's repor. "The! ridence of the cotton manufacjrers indicated a gratifying a.?^: 4-v.^ ie ?c riitiwn tu i/iic vYcuaic wi tutrix mployes in other respects, lough it was admitted by *use from North end South arolina that the laws of those j :ates still permitted them to mploy 12 year old children for 1 hours a day, while in North arolina there was no factory ispection. "The only opposition from lanufacturers personally apearing before the committee as been from the cotton manfacturing states of North and outh Carolina, Virginia and .labama, and the manufacturig associations of those states! ave been in the past opponents efore their own legislatures of le raising of the age limit or lortening of the hours for the orking children." In its report the committee1 irected attention to the Tact | lat in several southern states) aving extensive cotton mills lere is no prohibition against mployment of young children, lanufacturers in North and outh Carolina even being per-1 .:*??.1 -to aUi I 1 L till UJ Ciupiuy LA y Cell VIU nildren for 11 hours a day." SBORNE PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO INDICTMENT White Plains, N. Y., Jan. 17. -Thomas Mott Osborne, formr warden of Sing Sing prison, leaded not guilty today before ustice Morschauser to the inIctment charging him with mi 1 _ A _ . / A?! _ I erjury. ine aaie or nis man as set for Feb. 7. | AISER MUST WAIT WEEK.j Rome, Jan. 17.?According to I spors received by the Vatican I Imperor William underwent an j peration last Thursday. Al-j lough the operation is describd as having been successful it i said that a week must elapse efore his majesty may be proounced out of danger. \NGA LANCASTER, S. CARRANZA RENEWS PROMISETO PUNISI About to Issue Decree Authoi izing Any Citizen to Execute Any of Bandits. WITHOUT PALE OF THE LA\ Similar Decrees Issued and E* ecuted in Case of Dynamiting Passenger Train. Washington, Jan. 16.?Ger Carranza today renewed his as surances to the United State that he would make every effor to punish those responsible fc the murders of Americans nea Santa Ysabel. A dispatch from Consul Sill man, at Queretaro, to the stat department said Carranza ha personally assured Mr. Sillim? in reply to the department's dc mand that the murderers be ru down, that he "had issued oi ders for the immediate pursui capture and punishment c inose responsible tor the atr< city." The dispatch from Consi Silliman follows: "Department's telegram c January 13. 5 p. m? massaci Americans at Santa Ysabel, r< ceived at 8:20, and implaced b< fore Gen. Carranza by me i person. Gen. Carranza said thr he had already issued orders fc the immediate pursuit, captui and punishment of those r< sponsible for the atrocity. H stated that he believed this ou rage was committed by men a: sociated directly with Villa an that it was done specially t provoke international trouble at this time. He said he had d< clared those responsible outsid the law, to be punished wit death if caught. "He appeals to the secretar of state and to the public of th United States to consider th wide strip of the Cenral railwa the great difficulty of guardin the entire distance, and th comparatively easy task of det troying a train or attacking small place. He says that n< body can lament more than h such an atrocity or be more cor corned about it, but that prote( tion is relative and that eve in the best regulated (?) state outbursts of disorders and law lessness may cause destructio of property and loss of life. "He says he is expecting fu reports from Gen. Trevino, an that all efTorts will be made t protect Americans and any otf er foreigners who may be in th district. His belief is the ma.' sacre was made premediativel by a band who fled at once afte the raid." Carranza's telegram today t his embassy here follows: "The government, under m direction, has adopted ever necessary measure to insur the prosecution of an energeti campaign for the capture an destruction of the party of Vi lista bandits, and to continu the same to its complete accorr plishment. I have asked Ger Jacinto P. Trevino, commanc ing the constiutionalist troop in the neighborhood of the as sassinations, to obtain for m the names of the assailants i order that a decree may be is sued placing them outside th pale of the law. When this i done any citizen or citizens c the republic will have the righ to arrest the guilty partie without warrant, and to ex? cute them without formality. "Similar decrees were issue and executed favorably in th cases of assaults and dynamit in nnA^VlAK OA/?f i/\ my ui n rtiiiD in aiiwvuci ncvtiu of the republic within the yeai notably when a pass anger trai was dynamited and its passeT gers assaulted near Apizaco an again near Jalasa. These d? crees are made effective becaus in the opinion of the goverr ment those who perpetrate sue assassinations of human being be the victims native Mexican or foreigners, must be considei ed in exactly the same categor as those who dynamite the rai way trains. t lSTER C. J A X C A L\ V 17, 1916. FOUR KILLED, TEN 1 HURT IN EXPLOSION I - Terrific Explosion Aboard E-2 While Craft Was Undergoing Repairs in Dry Dock MEN WERE AT WORK ON V NEW EDISON BATTERY > Gas Fumes Had to Be Blown Out Before Bodies in Craft Could lie Reached. 1. New York, Jan. 15.?Four men were killed and ten injured, is five dangerously, in an exploit } sion today on he submarine E-2 ir while the caft was undergoing r i repairs in dry dock at the New i York navy yard. One of the j_ men killed was an enlisted elece trician and the others civilian d ! workers. 11 At least three of the ten now > in the hospitals are not expect- j n 1 ed to live. r-! The dead: Roy B. Seaber, t, ; electrician, second class. Cleve>f land; .James H. Peck, civilian. 3- general helper. Brooklyn; J. P. Schultz, civilian machinist. ,1 Brooklyn; Joseph Logan, civilian, general helper, Brooklyn. The injured: L. Miles, Ra] mond Otto, August Kapin and ' Otto Hasert. l_ j The detonation was terrific, n i but the submarine itself, from t|. I the outside, shows no effects. ir [ The interior was badly shat>e i tered, but so tight was the vessel's shell that there was no [e means of escape for gas and it was more than an hour after s. the blast before the work of re(1 covering the bodies could be 0 completed. A ladder blown up ,s through the conning tower fell j. ( 150 feet away. fe | away. ? I rri j ? * 1 1 n uie mjurea ana one nociy were removed soon after the acy cident, Dirt three bodies far i*e down in the eraft could not be ic reached until the pas had been y i blown out by compressed air. g1 Soon after the explosion several e naval officers led a rescue party but it were partly overcome by | a fumes. It was then that com). pressed air pipes were run into e the shell. i- The number of men inside the submarine at the time of n the explosion is not known !S definitely. About twenty were % working on the craft, n It is not thought possible that anyone who was inside could 11 have escaped injury. What d caused the explosion has not o been definitely decided. Rear l- Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, e commandant of the navy yard, after a brief investigation, dey clined to express an opinion. He i aniu "The men were working in o the battery companment of the E-2, discharging the new Edi-' y son batteries through a rheosy tat to measure the voltage, and e the explosion occurred in that i c compartment. The battery d I will generate no kind of gas 1-1 and there was no gasoline on e I board. The engine was of the i- j oil burning Dysel type, l. j Pending the appointment of J 1- an official board of inquiry Rear is Admiral Usher named a tem? i porary investigating committee e as follows: n Lieut. Commander Pope, ' i Washington, commander of the e receiving ship Maine; Lieut. L. j s M. Stewart, of the torpedo boat 'f Hp?trr>vpr MpP.nll nnrl T.iPiit t Rush H. Fay, commander of the; 18 submarine division to which the E-2 was attached. This committee immediately began d to take the testimony, e The opinion was expressed! t- that the press of withdrawing n the charge from the batteries r? might have caused the forman tion of hydrogen gas. The explosions of that nature have d been frequent on all submarines of the navy and slight ones have occurred on American ?- boats. h The E-2 was the only vessel in the world equipped with the is Edison nickel batteries and- she r- made her first trip with them y December 7, last. Tt re1 ported that the new batteries gave better speed with less _nev , FLAMES RAVAGE NORWEGIAN CITY j Third of Bergen Destroyed by Fire?Great Property Loss. rhrietinnin T<ir? 1C /?? '" * i/wu. xv \Vlcl IjUII* 1 don).?A third of the city of Bergen, a thriving Norwegian seaport with a population of j 90,000 was destroyed last night! by fire. Two thousand persons j are homeless but no lives were lost. The property damage is estimated at $15,000,000. The conflagration is said to be the worst ever recorded in | Norway. The business section i with its old wholesale houses, several of the largest of the hotels, a number of schools, the electric plant and banks and newspaper buildings was the part burned. Difficulties of the 2,000 persons now without homes were! increaseu by the fact that largest storage houses, filled with provisions for supplying the surrounding country, were | burned down, it is harder to obtain groceries today than at any time since the war began. ! UNITED STATES' NAVY RANKED THIRD i Secretary Daniels (Jives Com-j parison of Navies of World at Beginning of War. Washington, Jan. 17.?How | the United States ranked third among the world's naval powers at the beginning of the European war, when data on fori eign fleets ceased to be avail- j ale, is explained in a letter from I Secretary Daniels, made public tonight by Representative j 1 Madden, of Illinois. Mr. Madden called attention to a statein ent by Rrepresentative Kitchin, the house majority j ; leader, who i s opposing the new navy program, declaring that the records showed the American fleet was superior to that of any nation except, j Great Britain. In reply, the secretary said; the strengh of a modern navy could be estimated on the num ; ij*;i ui in t<iwiwi ii u> clliu LlUlt, according to the department's! information, Great Britain had.! on August 1. 1914, 46 dreadnaughts, Germany 28, the United States 14, France 13 and Japan 8. The United States now' has 19 dreadnaughts in commission, building or authorized, he: added, but nothing is known as! to what other powers have built or ordered since the war began. ZEKO WEATHER OVER EASTERN HALF COUNTRY Washington, Jan. 17.?Near' zero weather prevailed tonight j over much of the country east of the Mississippi river. No re: lief was in prospect for tomorrow, but the government forecasters predicted slightly warm-! 1 er weather for Wednesday. Skies were fair with the mer-1 I cury around zero north of the I Ohio during the day, but sleet! : storms swept many sections of the south all the way to the; gulf. The center of the cold wave was over West Virginia. | At Elkins the thermometer registered four degrees above zero mark. Miami, Fla., was the warmest place, with a reading of 74 degrees. On the Pacificcoast a new storm was moving eastward. Dynaminter (Jots l.ifc Sentence, i Los Angeles, Jan. 17.? Matthew | A. Schmidt, cinvlcted a night ago of murder in connection with the dyn ' armting of he Timtes building, was sentenced today to life imprison- i metn in San Quer^tin prison. fuel. The Edison battery, experi| ments have proven, generates nearly double the ordinary I amount of hydrogen during the' process of charging, but on disj charging or while lying idle I gives off much less. During the j 1 battery trials there were re: ports from her offers of an unj due amount of hydrogen. The j boat made one trip with observI ers aboard, and it was reported that while in operation not enough gas was generated to be ! dangerous. I - * -. JiriUs*. *?-! f T" ' WEATHER ^ W day continued V Wotliu sday fair W*v& and warmer. $1.50 A YEAR. MflNTFMn R IIIV1 i ui 1UUIIU IV/ READY mPEACE Submits to Unconditional Laying Down of Her Arms Against Invaders. ' BRITISH AND RUSSIANS PRESSING THE TURKS British Make Advances in Mesopotamia and Russians in the Caucasus. Beset on the north, east and west by Austro-Hungarian armies and with all lines of retreat cut off, except into Albania where hostile tribesmen must be faced, Montenegro has asked Austria-Hungary for Peace and her request has been granted. The unconditional laying down of arms by Montenegro was made the basis of the opening of peace negotiations, and Montenegro accepted these terms imposed by the dual monarchy. This announcement was made to the Hungarian parliament by Premier Tisza. and it was met with an ovation on the part of the members of the chamber. Thus comes the first withdrawal of any belligerent from either of the alliances that have been fighting with each other since August, 1914. It had been conceded for days that the situation of Montenegro was a critical one. Although the army of the little kingdom fought valiantly against the Austro-Hungarians, it was unequal, because of inferior forces lack of guns and it has been stated, a shortage in commissariat supplies, to the task of holding back the armies that had, in conjunction with their allies, succeeded in crushing Serbia. Already the Montenegrin capital and many of its important towns had fallen into the hands of the Austro-Hungarians, and the invaders were well on their way to Montenegro's chief seaport?Antivari. Last accounts had the Montenegrin government at Scutari. The whereabouts of King Nicholas is not known. The British and the Russians in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus region, respectively, are pressing the Turks hard. The army of King George coming northward from Persian gulf to the relief of the British forces at Kut-el-Amara, has driven the Ottomans to within six miles of he beleaguered town on the Tigris. i us ivuooians in incir urivt along the front of nearly 100 miles in the Caucasus have won additional points of vantage from the Turks, especially in the Arasa and Inid valley regions. Constantinople admits this, but says that south of the Arasa in hand-to-hand fighting in a Russian advanced position, heavy casualties were inflicted on the Russians by the Turks. On the other fronts little fighting of moment has taken place. The British and French guns in France and Belgium have been busy bombarding German trenches, while on the Russian front there has been fighing only at isolated points from the Riga region to Bukowina. According to he semi-official Overseas News Agency of Berlin, Entente Allied roops have landed at Phaleron, a port five miles southwest of Athens, and once the port of the Greek capital. The Berlin newspapers, the news agency says, attribute this as part of the preparations inlooking to the overthrow of ing of Eliphtherios Venizelos, the former premier, who always has sided with the endfente powers, at the head of a Greek republic. BUT ONE TENTH OF AMERICANS LEAVING El Paso, Texas, Jan. 17.?Approx-* Imataly one hundred of a thousand Americans and other foreigners who remained in Chihuahua state after the massacre at Santa Ysabel a week ago todav were expected to arrive here late tonight.