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FBI NCTOIE If TIE HEN IHO LEU TIE IEIEU VIUA ARB CAIIANZA Mr* ▼in*, tafB md Faffed by Receal Recceu. Mey Amy Time Declere HEmwilf Mexico, , PAROLED RECENTLY, OUILTY OF ROBBERY. » r-'t —r V ' UmM#- i» KMTtt MITimit HTR Nil CUIRI ME LAW Break Dew* (Bud* of Olfc«BwU% ,1*2 WllltoM McKinley, toe eefe-rob- ber, paroled by Oorenior Bleue Tbankiglrlnf Day, after he bad aorr ed «lx yean of a ten-year term In the State prleon t wae eonTleted tf-- Dictator ot Norther* Uawplag Carraua’a Leadership. Two more completely contraited figures than Gen. Venustlano Car- raaaa and Gen. Francisco Villa, the principal figures In the present rer- elutlon against Huerta In Mexico, Wonld be difficult to flijd. Gen. Car ranxa. who, a* gorernor of the state ef Coabuila, first raised the ftag of revolt against the Huerta government after President \f%dcro’s assasslna- ttea, la, nevertheless, peace loving, a Sulet, dlgpiatsil figure of alm^le tastes, a solid country gonMemnn. Gen. Villa, vfrho Cmnmntds all the rerolutlonary forces In^Kprtheastern bfexlco, with* a dozen generals andL prohably 20.000 soldiers unjrler his auShorlty, Is a leashing bandit type, plcsturesnue. not dignified, often, full ot merriment, sometimes storh and> net Infrequently cruel. He has been aYsgittvs from Justice, compelled to Ifre by hts wits and with a heavy prteo en his head for nearly two decades; lie Is a quick-witted load- «r, a paat matter in guerrilla warfare' end an able general, despite hts lack of regular military training. Vlffa maintains on the surface a subordination to Gen. Carranta as the nominal hoed of the revolution. Aa bis victories accumulate,) how ever. there la no telling when, he may •' 'deafer* himself dictator of Northern Bexloo. ,1 . Carransa wax first to denounce the aow President Huerta and raise''* remlutlonary army after the killing ef Madero. He made a* clean a sweep ef the neighboring state of Duraage that even now there Is not e knows Federal sympathiser In thh state. T' \ The Btate of Sonora having seced ed freo the Federal government of Mexico and driven the Federal army aader Gen. Pedro Ojeda, Col. Bmlllo KoeterlUsky and Gnn. Joee de la Lua BJaaee from tows to town until re- fag* was sought fn the see port of Gttey-mas, Gen. Carransa moved bis headquarters of the provlelonalgpreel- to Hermoelllo, the capital of Re Is there now, surround ed by hts rebel cabinet ' • He aad hit military aides occupy a suite of rooms In a Hennoalllo hotel. There they go throngh a round ot eorespondence, telephone communl- cstlous with army officers at the treat oonferences with state officials .aad meetings with the rebel cabinet until late hi the day. There Is always aa hoar tor the perusal of reports rrem<eebel agents In New York and Washington. In Earope and along the TUxas, New Mexico and Arisons bor der. The secret agents, working elooe to Federal concentration points In the tntertor of Mexico, also send In frequent reports. Qarraiixa depends largely for his Is formation upon these secret service msa who live In the Federal com panies, constantly In the ahadow of death. He also gains ranch tnforma- tto* from American newspapers^ -At the Hermoslllo Palace there Is h corps of expert translators who con vert Into typewritten Spanish all news Items of American origin bear ing upon Mexican affairs. Carransa‘s evenings are lonely, for he cares little for social affairs and hts family Is act with him. The rebel provisional president left his wife aad daughters behind In Coahulla, south ef Torreon, when be Inaugur ated the revolution. -In constant dSn- ger from the-Federal* who Infest the eOantry, they have never"been able t* reach the border and Jots him. That Is his one source pf constant wulety, Yilla Is oaa of the most pic turesque figures in: modern history. At thirty-seven be is entering his twentieth year of constant warfare- This has elutpped him for the part he Is now playing. His success in orgiaixlng, equipping, training and dfrdpUntng- several large armlet wtthtU a tow month* and with them wtaulng a number of strategically hofpsrtant engagements, marks him *M a general of no ordinary eallbre. When Yilla waa a am all hoy hit - parents moved from Durango to Chi huahua city. When ,, Pancho'\ as he wsa sailed, waa about seventeen, n Federal urmy captain, captivated by tom heaaty of young VHla’u ulster, at- toefeed her. ‘ ttlace the THU family wto ef the lower claas, there was no rsdr— by law. Young Pancho took circuit court at SparUnburg Thurt- day qf robbing the store of Renard Frey. St Fair Forest on December 10, about two weeks after his release Judge Shipp sentenced him to serve one year and one month. - The evidence against McKinley was circumstantial; but there *ras not h weak link In the chain which Sollc* TjoT-Albert E. Hill wound around hfm. One of the bits of evidence on which the solicitor laid emphasis was a button with a tufl of cTotlTattached found near the pcerto of the robbery The button was of Identically the same kind as the buttons of McKin ley's suit, and the qloth alsp.eorre- sponded. One of hit buttons* was missing. A bottle about half-filled with what the officers alleged to be nitro glycerine was also Introduced lir'#vf : denco. IJt was found In the camp, in the woods- where McKinley was ar rested. iNItro-glcerlne was used. U was claimed, in the attempt to rob the eafe In Frey’s store. Testimony that McKinley traded a shlrt T .Btolen from Frey's atora to Elmore Wright. a fellow prisoner In the county Jail, also Influenced the Jury. Wright, paroled murderer, will be tried for shooting Ernest Mcabee, hi* wife’s cousin, some time after Wright left the prison. „ McKinley acted as his own coun ael. Ho atroiiRly dcnloil bis guilt. He made frequent objection* to the testimony offered by the - State. In addressing the Jury McKinley told of the hardships he endured In the Jsrlef period between his release from the prison and hia arrest. He s&ld he had only $1.&5 when he. left prison, had no friends to whom he could ap peal and waa-forced to live the life of a vagrant. He told of his wan derings In South Carolina and Geor gia prior to hit arrival at Spartan burg. He said that when he wae ar rested he was on his way to Virgins The man made a pitiful plea for mer cy, ashing the Jury to dismiss from their mlntU the past record and netf convict hloKon circumstantial evl dence. Junior Senator Speaks to Be* Island Cotton Growers' Association at flays He As Very Glad city. It was there that he learned to write. All day long ho scribbled on the walls of the cell. Then one night the news was flashed on tna^wires that Villa ha|l escaped and waa oi way to the United States. It always been supposed that President Madera^ who saved him from death by execution by Huerta, caused the escape. Villa came to El Paso, arriving there In March. 1I1S, shortly after the time of Madero's assaslnatlon With eight men he at onCe made ar rangements to-'cross the line and, fight Nine months later Villa had 18,000 well equipped men In the field. Practically all the arms, am munition and money were taken from the law Into his own hands one after noon when he met the captain prome nading near the governor’a palace. One bullet evened the score and the boy disappeared. With a price on hia head, he struck out for the moun tain* where the chances of htr cap ture b> the rurales on hi* trail would be lessened. The full story of the years of constant peril that followed would fill many a page. It la-said that Villa never robbed the poor, bdt confined hia operations wholly to the rich' and "powerful. These were years of wild midnight rides, fights against heavy odds, nar row escapee from c&ptnre, and'the bnxjal of dead conirades. Villa often visited the capital, taking his life In his hands. On one occasion, when a Federal officer sent word that he was going ont to "get" Villa, the latter sent back a courier, saying be-him self would come to the officer anc spar* him the needless trouble of a Journey. He rode Into the capital one night and met the officer coming out of the police station. A duel followed and the.efflcer waa killed. Protected, as the Federals after battles. Villa captured Torrepn, besieged rnfit*mini* city, then, by a quick stroke dashed to the border and, cap tured Juares. Then he returned southward, defeated. Gen. Mercado’: Federals who had -inarched north from Chihuahua city. The entire Federal army, panic stricken, fled to OJInaga, and Villa occupied Chihua hua city. Villa like* Americana aad his r * friendliness has always been co he always was by the poorer classes, uoua. That account* for the flDa iniada his escape. Villa took a Itotoinf part 1% the Madero revole- tiin. aad when the cause triumphed waa given command of a volunteer emrps at Parral In Chihuahua, loyalty to Madero waa kfvto ®P*n to Gen. 'against Madero, defeated him near Parral. Qato Huerta, of popularity which he enjoys among Americana, tae haa often helped dt- Iseas of the United States In Mexico and la quick to rectify any wrongs done them. H4 la a friend of the poor,' now aa in hia bandit days. One of .-hia first acta after reaching Chi huahua elt ywaa to order thwnat merchants to, reduce th^jr goods to cost la order that the starving popu lace might bettor afford to buy. \\ BIG HELP TO FAMEHS CAROLINIAN REPORTED SLAIN Ef CALIFORNIA. i ^ Wee Faytag AMeeMe* to Dtvorsed Woman When She Dissevered That That Farmers Interest* Are Well ’ ... -/ ' - , Safe-Guarded by Currency Law. “F have certainly Enjoyed this op portunity of meeting the planters of Charleston county and of aeelng what Intelligent efforts they are making to Improve Agricultural com dltions in this sectldu,” said United States Senator Ellispn Durant Smith to a reporter for The News and Courier while on A visit to’ Charles ton'VVednosday. » Senator Smith was In attendance on the annual meeting of^bo Seh Is land potion Growers* association, at which ho delivered -an address. He was Interviewed at the Commercial Club, where he w t as the centre of a arge group of planters, all of whom were interestedly making Inquiries of the Senator cnocernlng the various measures he Introduced in Congress recently for the improvement of agri cultural conditions In tbs country; and especially for,the Improvement of cotton conditions. St-nntor Smith did not discuss poU Itics. He remarked that he had not come for the purpose. He discussed the currency bill fight Interestingly and said that the thing which had probably given him most pleasure during the last few months was the adoption of Ms resolution by the Demoeratte^Caucustoetradrserthe amendment to the currency bill mak ing farmers’ notes running as long as six months basis of the new currency, and also the amendment to five years the life of loans on farm lands. South Carolina, represented by Representa tive Lever in the House and bjr Sena tor Smith In the upper body, In this way was Instrumental In performing what is considered a great service to the farmers of the whole South. Respecting embodiment of these Items in the currency bill. Senator Smith said: "They, recognise the man engaged In agriculture as a busi ness mad as well aa a farmer. Their effect U to give the farmer six months' time on his loansjnstead of ninety days. ' The nature of the farmer's business is tuch that he has no marketable return before atx months after negotiating hia loans." He said that Jhls aim had been to put Into the currency system of the United States what has never been In It before, thl recognition of real Wftate and the product* of real estate M collateral In national bank loan*. Senator Smith la ao pleased with the restilt of hia efforts In this mat ter that, exhibiting the original draft o^hia resolution, containing the sig nature* of twenty-seven Democratic Senators, he aaid he intended having it framed and keeping It permanent ly. He said that thouglKhe has de voted the major portion of mg efforts while In Congress toward the'better ment of agricultural conditions, especially In the South, and has hath several Important measures toward this end adopted, he was perhaps as highly pleased over this piece of jyork as over anything else he had ever done, > , ~- • and the latter’a daughter, Florence, 12 years old, In a rooming house at I.O* Angeles late Tuesday night, have proved futile. Lodgers In the house where the tragedy occurred said that when last seen together, Melton xnd Mrs. Cox had appeared to be on the best of .terms and there was nothing to Indi cate a quarrel. The police, however, believe Mrs. Cox did the shooting She Is a divorcee ot about three years^ Melton received four wounds, an Efforts to Mtabllsfa a motive for the double, murder and •uicide, which caused the deaths of W. M. Melton, a Lo* Angeles, Cal., attorney! Mrs. Mary Graves Coi. ef Ban Francisco GEN.- WOOD SATS OUI TE80PS LACI NEEILI GUNS NOT PREPARED FOR WAR Chief of Army Staff Says That: ^! Bead our Me* into the Field With nf t V> 8 fine of which would have been fat while Mrs. Cox was shot but once Around the wound jn her head were powder marks, indicating that the revolver had been very cVaso- Therj» was found a photopraph oT herself, and the child, on which MrsVCox had written ‘‘Florence Cox and Mary Graves, 2,734 MIsaion—street, San Francisco—report )he news at home." •. — torney and realty Agent?killed Tues day night In the trakedy which brought death alao toillm. Mary TWO BROTHERS KILLED.^ Anderson County Negroes Have Fatal • T ., , • ' '• Shooting Melee. C. D. Ellington and Jay V. Elling ton, negroes and brothers, were kill ed. and another brother. Press El lington, was seriously Injured by a skyrocket" party Saturday night on the John McClure plantation five miles west of Anderson. The row was begun when Rother Henderson escorted Janie Moore home from the party. Jxy.JY. Ellington, It-is said, had been "going" with the woman and he became Jealons. The three Ellington noyi rouowea ure co Itom* and the > shooting followed. Rother Henderson has escaped. Joj Lee and Charley Henderson have been brought to Jail and officers are searching for Henderson. Mean Absolute Blaughter—Asks Congress to Buy Some More Guns. Explaining that his Judgment was not Influenced (>y the Mexican situa tloh, Maj. Gen. Wood, chief of staff of the army, has advised committees of cpngress that they, should appro priate 13,000,0.00 for field gune-and ammunition for the regularjfnrmy, and $3,000,000 for the militia. "If you sent our troops into war s St., Columbia. J S. ,G For Bale—Poplar and ptne-tri dress Jams* A. Clarkson, B. C. . Wanted to Bay—T»* Car Loads well harried Helly. «. M. L. Jeffrey* Gsldsboro, N. C. For Bale—rFrait, Shade Ornamental trees and shrubs. , Catalogue free. Cureton Nurseries,’'Austeel, Ga. their Presept Equipment WouTdTor Sale-Idea! famrand hornhln “ . corn and cattlp belt} good Cotton, ..... . . ^ automobile. Beu Wolfe, Monroe, C. ^ Gh-ls—Take coarse In Miss Spark man's Improved Millinery school, 94% Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Write for particulars. WlMte Wyandottes—Yearling . stock for sale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatch ing. W. P. Causey, 1315 Dickens as they are now, without guns or ammunition, it would be absolute slaughter,” the general- told the House military committee. "If call ed fnto "the fleTd suddenly we would have to go with a small allowance of ammunition and we would have neither guns nOr ammunition enough for our~field artillery.” Ceil. Wood In a written statement saldt, “We havd^eRherguns nor ammunition sufficient 'to kiye an The wife of W. M. Melton, ths at- general commanding.-any ahpy in ” tjie flefld any assurance of success If. Graves Cox and her daughter, Flor ence, has been located at Los Angeles also. A history of the man’a life led officers to conclude that the double murder and suicide were the outcome of Melton’s Inability to meet his en gagement to marry Mrs. Cox. Mrs.-Melton visited the nrori and Identified the body of her hus band. Police officers said they were told'by her that Melton had lived at home and was regarded by her and her neighbors'as a model husband. Hia frequent absence from home, she said, she believed was dus to busi ness. The police theory to account for the tragedy la that Mrs. Cox learned of the existence of a Mrs. Melton, and that In * paroxysm of anrer she shot Melton rad her daughter and then killed httraelf. A dispatch from Spartanburg says that W. M. Melton, the attorney who was mysterlaly killed at Los Angelea, Cal., Tuesday night. Is believed, to have tyeen a Spartanburg man, who has several brothers and sisters there. He was a son of the late Rev. Newton. K. Melton, long a prominent member of the South Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church. South. Iff. Melton’s rela tives have received no word from Los Angeles concerning the tragedy, and hoped that by a strange coinci dence the man slain may be some body else of identically the same name, profession and place of resi dence, but news from Los Angeles tends to confirm th esuppositlon that Melton was the Spartanburg man. * FIND BODY ON BEACH. GlrPs Disappearance No Longer a Mystery. The body of Miss Jessie McCann, the young settlement worker of Now York who disappeared from her Brooklyn home just a month ago, was given upT>y the kea Sunday. It was found by a watchman shortly after daybreak at Coney Island, hav ing been washed ashore by the heavy surf during the night. ‘Long Immer sion had made the features unrecog nizable, but identification of young woman by her family made'possible by a atgnet ring the initials "J. E. M.” and by articles of clothing Mia* McCann wore the day she disappeared. Mlsa McCann was last seen by her family when she left her home, De cember 4, supposedly to attend to settlement work duties. A few days later her father, a well-to-do bust ness man,/ notified the police of her Informal He on _ thro: Two Aral Electrocuted. Albert Cantey end Harry Thomp son, negroes, were electrocuted Sat urday at the State pehltentiary. They were Convicted in Charleston coun tn September of ITflS on the eh to. electrocuted December 4. The ernor granted a respite to January X. The police gave credence to the story of a woman who asserted that saw Min McCann the day after her disappearance, near a bathing villon at Coney Island, Wh'kre the was fdntfd. There were no signs of violence on the body, according to physicians who examined it, and the police have no doe -a* to the manner drowned. Iltovy Bale*. Harvey W. Mltchutn, State dis penser auditor, says his annual re port to he sant to th* general assem bly win shew that the dispensaries or the State had sold about $3,000.- 000 worth of whiskey during th* ye*r. , .“I • delays In the Sonora campaign, as contrasted with his 4»wn succes Mexicans rally to a victorious banner. Should Yilla** successes continue to her’'whereabouts, tad her photograph thrown of moving picture theatres the East Molten Metal RlBs Three men were killed and five In ■tioteffui Mt VanilftrbHt fnmiofi niyor TMr mlngham, Ala.. Thursday night when A dost cap was blown off and releas ed molten bias aad metal which caught the victims before they could get away. S|>ertal—Pure white and Exhibition Fawn'and White Runners. $8; trio Utility, $1 each or $10 xloz. Mrs. J. F. Carroll, Hohennald, Tenn. !*— - nitxrifpd by vn wqny of ennal Size, which' was supplied with Itz proper quota of field artillery.'. "It is my belief that no modem war between first class powers will last for one year, and unless private manufacturers are encouraged tb manufacture ammunition for our guns, after war is declared they will rn a ^Mdimm-urad so untir after the war Is finished, "The war department believes af ter extended study that, in case of war with a first class power, an army qt. 500,000 men will be needed to give this country any. chanfq of suc cess against Invasion and that this force will be needed at once. To t^ake It efficient It must be-glven Us proper quota of fleld‘*rtlllery. To do this artillery must be on hand, tor it can- not be supplied after war la started.” The general suggested that th* United States regular mobile army should be organized Into three Infan try and two cavalry.divisions with an aggregate war strength _of about 75,000," requiring 54 batteries, or 216 gnns. With the co-operation of Stats governors, the militia, he said, now could be organized into 12 infantry and five auxiliary divisions with an aggregate war strength of 292,000 men, needing 174 batteries, of 696 gnns. The aggregate of the two forces thus would he 867,000 men, or approximately two field armies short of the force of 500,000 men. These two field armies will require 336 guns. The United States garrisons abroad have 68 guns. Notin^that the militia ha* In Its hands'about 34 pieces, it should have, the general added, to summarize for the regular army and volunteers, "we would need 596 guns, for the militia .696 guns.” Gen. Wood said that the total ap propriations up to October 1 last by the House military and appropria tion committees provided for only 245,090 rounds of ammunition for the modern field guns; ail of which ammunition will not be manufactur ed until June 30 next. "Of this ammunition," he said, we have at present in this country 136,508 rounds and for the 2.95 mountain gun* 15,106 .rounds, or a total of 201,614 rounds. And this is all we have. At Mukden, in nine tys, the 1,204 Russian guns ex- mded 260,000 rounds. e present daily output of th* 'ordnanqe factories, for three ahlfta running night and day, Is not above 1.600 rounds^ The war department was obliged ikst year to eofitn part of the regular army with obsolete 7-inch howitzers and 6-Inch siege gun batteries mainly bbcaurt of lack of sufficient ammunltlon fo rth* modern guns.” The war department la trylng to accumulate 1,292 field guns of vIk rious calibres, of which 735 yet have to be appropriated for, and Gen. Wood said it waa not his idea that the country constantly should be armed to the teeth in preparation for any war, but that H ahould be reason ably prepared for war. He said he did not care so much whether con gress gave the war department th# money for * reserve of hats, clothes and shoes, aa they eonld be gotten et ray time. "Bnt," he continued, "yon can not make a large quantity 'ef Held guns and ammnnltlon wlthoat tavtwg World’s Wonder Cotton—4 5 per cent Ijrit. Wilt resistant; thrives on any soil; heavy fruiter. Seed, $1 per bushel. Address J. J. Owens, Allen- -dale, S. C. \yanted—Banking, bookkeeping sten ographic _positioiiS guaranteedL credit tuition; 19,000 enrolled. W, P. Musick, President, Piedmont Coj^ - . lege, Lynchburg, Va., :L - lyKi “Perfection’’ Potato Draws—-(J. G. Padrick’s) $2—$1^000; unexcelled; April delivery; b6ok order now by depositing $L Cabbage Plznts, 1,- 000 $1.10. J. L. Padrick, Tifton, Ga. 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According to a high canal official the Panama canal will be In condi tion to pace vessel! all th* way acn " the isthmus within th* next ft da- poses, as Saturday. . c -JBv* u - vr>— country would mot go »wn«^itE- 9iaA abroad-with -an army of that titfre would he more temptation to* On thr oth*r\hand, he aaid It waa hardly likely aby nation would tend uny smaller army thkn $00,000 or 600,000 men aorosa the Atlantia temptation tor a country to strike and if it makes up its miad to do no It can strike us at any ttme." id guna wanted for A'a the general decla a foreq of ocean lilt oountry'i’ It