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fill li ■ ■■iHiiiii m l Wk?t - 1 Wmi _ y , . '■.• ; NOT TO ROTE WTT um mmm> BUI EACO OTHER DEAN REBEL REPOBIATES ALL RESIGNS ON PRESIDENCY WILL OBEY ALL ORDERS WHflON’8 MESSAGE ON TRUSTS JOINS ALL PARTIES. • MSUt*rj Leader of Const!tatAonalists Sejr* Ha Is Supporter of General Carranza, and Will be Sobmissive ta the Orders of His Cldeftain Whan Victory is Won. Qoa. Fraui'lHuu Villa, military com- ■lander of the rebel forces Wednes day disclaimed any ambition to be- eome president of Mexico in the event the revolution is successful. He said he did not wish to overshadow Gen. Carranza, whom he recognized as the leader of the revolution. "Should Gen. Carranza become the president he would receive my sup port and I would obey his com mands,’’ said Gen.jVilla. Gen. Villa’s Interview was taken in his little plas tered adobe house where he went im mediately on . his arrival in Juarez from Chihuahua. On the floor in the, front room where le stoou were 16 hags, each containing .0,000 Mexl- were half, dozen newly purchased dia mund rlngtr STtlT glittering in their pluslMboxes. The coin was purchased' from the hanks in El Paso, to be used in the sections where currency: has been scarce. The rings were purchased for various rebel commanders. TTen. Villa listened with a blank incredulous stare io the question put to him and answered with a show of characteris tic, firmness with.his clinched fists and black gleafning eyeg,*•' “I have naver been in ‘anything bnE the fullest accord with Gen. Car ranza,” said Gen. Villa. "I never had any personal^ambitions to reach high Office. Lam a fighting man only, and I am fighting for thq liberation of country, not-to plevat^ myself. I amXohly a soldier Under ‘command of ro^NQhief, anjd I shall ofec,y him whateverNijis orders may be. If he Republican and Boll Moose Join Democrats in Aclaimlng Remark. able Address to Congress. President Wilson worked pn last Wednesday with laudations from all over the country ringing in his ears, and, from appearances, the sensation was not unappreciated. Although his trust message had then been be fore the public barfly twenty-four hours, universal approval seems to be on he Increase.^whiie the note of dissfintjis positively overwhelmed by BOTD CAPTAINS (RESIT COWS IIN Tl CARELESSNESS COLUBER AT TO SPEED 4 Monroe’s'Captain Declares Nantucket Came on Him in Such Speed That Collision Was Inevitable—N an- tucket’s Captain Says Monroe Crossed His Bow at Full Speed. BIOIIE FRI! “ /ii Am. Elf IT WLLIIIIS if as bent ibarply toward bar star board aids sad ths Nantnckat slewed around so that her port sfdS was scraped by the Monroe crashing one 1 of the Nantucket’s port hosts; Tbs' „ Monroe passed on ont of ilflt Jit QfflQAtS FLEECED If AD MIT Df the time of the collision ths Nan-j_. tucket’s engines were running.at full speed astern and had been running for some time previous to the colli sion. f*. • i "The Nantucket appeared seriously injured, but was manoeuvred to aid in the work of rescue, continual^ ‘‘using her searchlight. Wireless com munication was established and sev eral vessels ioffered assistance, thf first to arrive being the Hamilton, which conveyed the Nantucket td Norfolk. CHRISTENSEN ANSWERS *AHM ft* A HEALTH. the vowirne'of assent. People are asking what manner of man is the president' that he cairr^ his compounding of English, make the lamb and the Ijon lie down to- gethe/r and produce a spirit of co operation between heretofore con flicting interests. They are asking what manner of man is he when he is able to produce an astonishing amount of praise from such Republi can conservatives as Henry Cabot Ledge, Elihu Root and Jacob H. Bal linger, the warp and woof of the old P)Ourbon sentiment in the Safratf^aTid such Democratic radicals as Ashurst of Arizona, .Vardaman of Mississippi, can dollars, and on the window sHI-tmd Lane.of Oregon. . And, on the becomes President and tells me\to get out of theXpuntry, I will do instantly. No mprKjiroof of my loy alty to Gen. CarranzaXould he asked. "I wish all the n UionsXf the world to know that*! am" ndt make myself president” Gen. Viila’brought both clinched through the air by way of emphasia "We are not fighting to make any man president, but we hope once for all to save our country from spoilia- tion and ambitions of individuals. We are spreading fhe-ideals of a republic and we will exterminate those who oppose us. - "In a few. months Ave have Iberated half of Mexico and in a few months more we shall liberate the other hglf.” Gen. Villa came to Juarez to negotiate with business firms for the resumption of industry In Chihuahua State and also to procure small coin for circulation. He plans to start a rebel mint'and a bank as soon as pos sible. He said on his return to Chi huahua ha would prepare petsonaily to aommand an attack on Torreon. House side, to compel, at the same time the applause of Republican Leader Mann, who onlyf two months ago was predicting disaster Mr "Wil son’s program and of Bob HenrjKof Texas, head of the Democratic insur gents. Certainly no message the president has delivered has been so well receiv ed and none has dona-more to in- ..cr|ase the unusual measure of public confidence that the president enjoys the country-over. Reports from every section of the nation, including Re publican Kansas, Bull Moose Cali fornia tfhd pessimistic New York have it that Wilson is going strong. Only the ultra radicals^haye failed to join in the rommendatlop of the message as a sanely progressive pra- nouneement, designed to hejp the general welfare' of the people of the United Strrtira. It is recognized generally that the president is determined his adminis- -tration shall be a success; that he realizes the future of the administra tion's dependent in large part on the ting to! prospSyitV of business, and that the an v here‘1 confidence * of thq commercial world is necessary to the realization of gen- prosperity, yet the administra- Is not abaHng one jot from the poslb that tup force v -. \ Declaring the sfhklng of his vessel was due to the negligence and care lessness 1 of those in command of the RteamerLTantucket. Cant. E. E. John- ^on, commanding the Ill-fated steam er Monroe, late Saturday filed a libel against the former vessel fn the United States district court at Nor folk. He claims a million dollars’ damage. Capt. Johnson alleges that the Monroe was proceeding at half speed or less before the accident and had laid-to after hearing fog whistles. He says the Nantucket came upon him at such speed that a collision was un avoidable, although he had^ ordered his ship ahead a^t full speed to avoid the on-rushing bow of the Merchants’ JUGGELEIY •-* •*- Commerce Commission Reports on u. s"' • . - Receivership, Telling of Syndicate Deals, by Which the Officials of the Road Are Declared to Have Made to the Extent of Over $8,000,000. must be en- SPOI ii SYSTEM. Wilson on His Guard PAROLED NEGRO SHOOTS. — •» » Greenville Negroes Ml* Dp After “ Having Altercation. M — Edward Cuffy, a negro, wanted at •teenville on several charges and who was paroled by Governor Blease oa Thanksgiving day, returned to Ital attention. It seems Cuffy had some altercation with Frank Dial, another negro, which, resulted In Cuffy being seriously shot in the thigh. y The shooting affair occurred at aome North Carolina point, but no definite information as to the details ef the shooting or just where It oc curred could be had late Sunday night. Dial Is also well knQwn to the Greenville police, havlngflieten. pa roled by the governor after serving twelve months of a five-year sentence. Cuffy Is considered seriously injured. ^gainst Return —„— to Old Idea. x President Wilson let it be N known Wednesday that he opposes a rehi^n to the "spoils system” of post office appointments and will veto the post .’office appropriation bill now before the House unless the "rider” in it exempting assistant postmasters from the classified service is elimi nated. ’ * The president, it is understood, has decided to call a halt t«r what has been charged by civil service advo- .. cates as a tendency in congress to break down the merit system. He was confronted in the tariff, currency and the urgent deficiency bills with the civil service problems;- but In signing these measures took the posi tion that his power pf, placing had not been weakened and that the merit system could be applied. The “rider” in the post office ap propriation bill would give the post master general the right to revoke the appointment of any assistant postmaster and "appoint his succes sor a’, his discretion”. Postmaster General Burleson recently wrote Rep resentative Moon, chairman of the post office committee, opposing the proposal, but it was not withdrawn. The president Is expected soon to form the House leaders of his^vfews. kDliss. < HIRED OWN MURDERER. Maa Paid for Killing, Fearing Soul • Would be Lost. ;. Foarful lest his sould should be fiamned If he committed suicide, Wil- ligm Lethtenfeld of Briar Creek, Pa., whose body wks found riddled with bullets, paid $30 for his own mur der, according to officers who work ed on (the case. Lechenfeld, morose furnished the revolver that he bor rowed from another and purchased the cartridges that were isej to pen etrate his body. In a saloon he offered money to a man ta kill him, and it has been es tablished that be left the saloon with |trange foreigner, although nothing /thought of it at the time./ The that he paid for his own murder Big World Powers Blew $707,- SEXT TO FORJ ' vy* - United States Takes Care of Its Mex ican Prisoners. r* . ''TV** AU Mexican Federal soldiers In the custody of the United States border patrol forces at Presidio, Texas, will be transferred to Fort Bliss and in terned there Indefinitely.^ Secretary Garrison ordered the transfer late Monday with permission to the ref ugee women and children to accom pany the soldiers If they desire. About 3,000 Mexican officers and men fled across the Rio Grande when the victorious Constitutionalists en tered Ojlnaga and with them, besides many women and children, are some Captu Johnson’s story of the col lision follows: He shys: “At about 1:38 o’clpck approximately, ship’s time,'a fog, signal of one blast of a whistle from a steamer was heard It seeiped to be about three points on the starboard bow.. The Monroe at this tiom was heading N. E. one-four N., compass course. Whefeupon the engines of the Monroe, were imme diately, stopped and remained stop ped for about a minute, when bright light was obseryed, about four pbints on the starboard bow, but on accoqnt’Gf the fog-it was impossible to tell at what’distance. “As soon as this light was observed two whistles were blown by the Mon roe and her wheel was put hard astorbeani, which was the best thing under the circumstances' that be done to avoid a .collision, and the engines were put full speed ahead With the speed of the Nantucket, to avoid a collision, and the Nantucket Coming on with apparently undimln- ished Speed, struck the Monroe on her starboard side; at the forward overall gangwa^?4mit,.forward-the- Plot house, the collision taking place in less than a minute after the Nan tucket’s light was first observed.' / large bole was torn in the side of the Monroe, below the water line. The collision took place approximately thirty-two miles - north of Cape Charles lightship. “The Monroe immediately began to #IL and seeing that she was in imml nent danger of sinking, orders were given to arouse all the passengers aira clear avvay the lifeboats. In the meantime,'the Nantucket had swung around the stern of the Monroe, and was lying off about a quarter of a mile. Tbe Monroe proceeded to 111 rapidly, and about four minutes after the collision, was-nearly on her beam ends. One of\the lifeboat8"©n the starboard side was smashed in the collision, and another was ^wamped while being launched. The remain ing lifeboats on the starboard aide were got away as quickly as possible, it being Impossible, an account of the heavy list to starboard, to launch the port side lifeboats. “Not more than ten minutes after the collision, the Monroe foundered in about fifteen fathoms of water, go ing down in approximately the same place at which the collision occurre Many of the Monroe's crew and pas sengers were saved hi her own boats, and others were picked up by bpats from the Nantucket, which was standing" by, and rendered all aid possible updbr the conditions. Nine teen passenger^Vere lost and twenty- tvfjakif the crew were lo^t. The Nantucket, which was in colli sion with the Monroe, docked in Bal timore Sunday. In a written state ment Captain Berry said that while the Nantucket v^as on her usual course, fog signalfLpf a vessel, after ward found to be tnbxMonroe, were reported ahead. The fbg^ was low- lying and at times cleareiN|han at others. The fog signals of the Nan tucket were sounding at regular tervals. The fog signal of the Mon roe again was heard, and this time on the Nantucket’s port bow. The next whistles heard from the Monroe were two blasts, which indicated that the Monroe was trying to pass the Nantucket starboard to starboard, contrary to the rule. Capt. Berry said that In an en deavor to avoid a collision with the Monroe, the Nantucket’s helm was put hard aport to keep to the right, Baltimore San Forgives Tillman for His Recovery Monday’s Sun contained a picture of Senator “Ben” Tillman of South Carolina, headed “South Carolinian Now Fighting 'Erysipelas,” which seemed to indicate to the editorial mind that this famous Southern war horse was fn a critical condition. The picture was accordingly made the text of an editorial, which frankly discussed the Senator’s carter, not entirely In obituary style, but as elope to iLas was delicate and decent un der the circumstances. hat was our astonishment to note in a later edition that the Senator was so dis- icotnrteouB and so little appreciative of our kind words that he has turned up in Washington, after his holiday visit to South Carolina, more robust than he has been for years. And to add insult to injury, he boasts that he has been feasting on hog jowl and collards while at home, and'is all the better for that ethereal diet. Some papers, after such an edi torial, might refuse to let a siek man get well so quickly in its columns,, and might insist in his remaining ill long enough_Jo. justify its remarks. But though we are disconcerted by the Senator’s giving us so abruptly the “merry ha! ha!” we will mag nanimously forgive him and even congratulate him on his powers of digestion, And'we’ll wager an East ern Shore hog jowl and a big dish of collards .oa the side, that there is somebody who feels more disconcert ed than we do by the Senator’s sud den and impolite recovery, and that is his fellow South Carolinian, Gov- Financial operations, which Includ ed the acquirdmeit-of-dine* t&rough syndicates which profited to the ex tent of more than $3,000,000, some oUwhich was pocketed by the road’s own officers, Monday were cited aa amon£ the underlying causes for the Insolvency of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad company, in a rs^ port to the Senate by the Interstate commerce commissioner on tbe Fris co line receivership. No recommendations are made by the commisshm, E. E. Clark, the chairman, stating in a letter .of trans mittal addressed to the president, that they were not called for In the resolution adopted by the Senate last summer directing the Investigation. The report shows that the funded debt of the railroad May 27, 1913, when the receivership was ordered, amounted to 82.63 i>er cent, of the total capital liability, the total capi tal at that time amounting to $295,- 633,933.72, of which only $51,364,- 1(H) was capital stock an?l $244,269’,- 333.72 was funded debt. Including equipment trust notes. That the interest-bearing liabili ties of the Frisco system exceeded the stock liability by 375 per cent “and Wfire wholly-JUsproportionate when compared with the capitalization of other carriers, Including tbose in the territory west of tbe Mississippi River,” is asserted by the commis sion, w'hich submits figures for eight selected railroads showing tbe aver age ratio of funded debts to capital liability to be 53.65 per cent. The report further declares that the inability of the ^Trisco to meet Its obligations seemed to have been ap parent for some time prior to the ap- ernor Blease. And if hog jowl anA4>licatton for a receivership; that collards will prolong the Senator’s healttr and strength, we will cheer fully Subscribe to a fund to keep him TOYlStahtly supplied with these pow erful restoratives and rejuvenators. LONG SIEGE ENDS. New York Outlaw Gives Himself Up t . With Dignity^, Edward Beardsley, who, for more than a week has defied the efforts of Sheriff Ahderson and ~a posse to ar rest him, surrendered to C. D. Back us, a local hotel man, early Wednes day and was locked up in the jail Backus, who was appointed a deputy sheriff, effected the "capture” alone and in keepfng with a plan agreed upon by Beardsley. Beardsley was served with a warrant charging him with assault In the first degree in having shot G. W. Putman, overseer of the poor of Ctautauqua county/ with Intent to kill. Beardsley’s “capture” came after eight days of open defiance of the law and his effective defense of "Fort Beardsley”, as his farmhouse strong -hold came to be known, dwindled Into a burlesque with the outlaw in the princlpal^rble. He would allow any ouejto see and talk with him ex cept tbe sheriff and be turned his notoriety tnto money by the sale of autograph postal cards, posing for photographers and moving picture men. He boasted that Sheriff Ander son would ^ipver "take" him. A week ago Tuesday Beardsley shot Putnam as the latter was about to tatce the outlaw’s nine Children to a county institution. He barricaded the windows and doof^ of his farm house and kept tbe sheriff and his posse of men at bay by threatening to use the children as a shield against their bullets. On Monday he. ag;ree( to surrender if the children were al lowed to be taken out of Abe couitr. ty and he be permitted to give him self up In Mayvllle. 1,500 civilian refugees. The civilians are not prisoners and will be allowed -' >u ^ t * ie . Monrde proceeded at full to go where they wish, though those desiring to remain In American terri tory will have to satisfy the Immigra tion officers. , Another Death fnim Prison RI6TT Prison Clerk Talltnan of the Okla homa State PehRentlary died Satur day from shock, which was a result of the riot last Monday when seven per- tbu were shot tq death. speed ahd tried to cross the bow of the Nantucket. She succeeded In get ting partly past the Nantucket’s stem when the vessels collided, the Nan tucket’s stem striking the Monroe’s starboard bow forward of the pilot Killed His Bitotber. Otto Keafauver of Roanoke, Va. was shot and killed by his brother, Bdl^rd, Thursday at their home' in the ontakirts of Roanoke. At a pre liminary nearing Edward wae exon erated of blame In connection with the killing, witnesses testifying that he had shot his brother in order to save- the life of their sister, Mary whom Otto was said to have attacked. Aid Mother, :t of robbing a Napping Moonshiner Caught. John Dale, who for 2d years has bouse at right angles. defied Internal revenue officers In the western counties of Arkansas, was The Monroe passed under s great speed, according: to Capt. Ber- found asleep in the woods near Wald-Lry** report, that the $tem of the Nan- ron. and arrested by a United States -tucket waa bent, sharply toward her Turned Thief to Caught In the act drug store at Altoona, R. J. Allen, of Allentown, Pa., explained after his arrest t]tat\^is mother was about to undergo an operation In a Philadel phia hospital amLhe needed $100 to assist her. He;. Negro School Baying Thai White Men Act on Sgsh Mm Senator Nells Chilsteaa— afl fort rising to a questton of privilege In the senate ’’'’*' - ternoon repled to Gv special message as to county negro school, of tor Christensen is a trustee; Christensen pointed Oat ernor Blease was a years of the negro college "lor wMeh he was a candidate before the legfs-' lature which elected hlspL* Mr. Christensen said la part* "The proprletyiof my soadast as a citizen is called in questioa If ffiov. ernor Blease In a special ssesaage to the legislature. Ths heea—t ef tho fact that I am a trustee of the Port Royal Agrcaltur&l school amd heeaie Booker T. Washington is aaasod on a tetter head of the school as a refer ence. The said message alee tashi- uates by quest ions and phraseology that whites may be teSehlag negroes that' social equality may le tangkt, and that the school may ft a Made Inattutlen. "The facts could hfive been eaffily entertained by the governor from tho same source through which be se cured the partial information need In this message. Briefly stated, thef are as follows; “The Port Royal AgrleaRnral school is a private school •or aegsoes and uses no public funds. Tbe foor trustees are white. The letter heed In question was printed and for the ne gro principal at his order and lor his use and so far as I know It is not ased by any one else. The prnclpal is a graduate of Tuskeegee and H is bat natural that he should refer te the principal of that school se sue who knows him. AIT the teachers ef the Port Royal school are negroes. "Nearly every school district In Mils state has negro schools In it and snth of the white public school trasteas this district is a truetew bf aegro strenuous efforts were made by its officers to tide over financial difficul ties from day day; that money was borrowed from all available sources until every $venue 0 f assistance was exhausted,. marketable securities be ing cither sold or pledged as collat eral under the numerous loans, and that notwithstanding this exhausted financial condition the Frisco sold to Speyer & Co. of New York $8,000,- 000 of its general lien 5 per cent, bonds, a transaction which the com mission declares warranted condem nation. Summarized, the commission’s re port attributes the insolvency ^f the Frisco to the following causes: * “Disproportionate capitalization, "The acquisition of new lines. ^ “The financing by the Frisco of the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico rail road %nd other South Texas lines The desire for an entrance into Chicago, 111., resulting in the assump tion of heavy fixed charges in the ac quisition of the stock of the Chicago an^l Eastern Illinois railroad. The sale of jts securities at prices so low as to Indicate a deplorably weakened credit or an extravagant arrangement with bankers to whom large profits accrned In the purchase of the bonds and the subsequent sale of same to the public. Detailed description Is given of the operations of syndicates formed to finance the construction of a number of lines, and the sale of such prop erties to the Frisco, and a summary of these operations, in which B. F. Yoakum and other officers of "the Frisco 1 participated,, is given as fol lows: A summary of various syndicate operations on properties sold to the ’/Frisco' system, and the profits of subscribers and trust companies was given in the report as follow*: "Oklahoma City amf Western, amount paid In, $2,097,043.96; profit, J369.278.82 "St Louis, San Francisco and New Dylans, amount paid in, $6,300,000; profit, *837,400. "St. Louis and Gulf, amount paid in, $2,700,000; profit, $1,386,696.62. “St. Louis and Oklahoma City, amount paid In, $1,000,000; profit, $666,160. - V . “St. Louis, Oklahoma and Booth era, $3,423,432.16;\profit, $719;- 674.90. "Adkins Valley and Western, $8,- 046,635; profit, $689,767.S2 V “New Iberia and Northern, amount paid, $2,000,000; profit, $600,000, "St. Louis, Brownsville and Mex ico, $3,981,000; profit, $3,011,928.95 "Colorado Southern, New Orleans and Pacific, amount paid In, $3,000,- 000; profit, $375,000. "Total SBibunt'palJ'Tn, 126,548,- 111.06; profit, |J|444,798.51." schools. Governor Blease hasseif was for some years a trustee of a negro college for which position be was a candidate in/1902 .before tbe legisla ture which elected him. Bo there Is no objection to * white maa aetlag as a trustee to a negro sshoeL The only question |s the kind of ssheol ho. Is fn charge of; •' "The attempt by the gevemor te - discredit me and others through this trusteeship is just such a one as was made in Beaufort county ft years ago when i was first elected to Me State senate.”_ •• __ - Behind locked doom cm Thnraday night the South Carolina flsamte en gaged in a heated debate ea whether or not-to expunge from He records the message from Governor Bleees ea Senator jChristensen and Che State ment by ths latter atom* with the Governor's first meesaga ea the matter, while the lobby et Am Cap itol was full of visitors weadertag what the Senate was doing and wait ing to see what the onteeme anight be. 'Hie sitnatlon was the ssealt ef two messages sent to the Bsaafib hx. Governor Blease, la whleh, mmamg other statements, the Gorwagt re ferred to Senator Christ sa sea as a trustee of a negro school at Pert Ur al, in Beaufort County. The state ments were resented by Mr. sen and his friends, who the . Governor’s, 'meesaga sa tempt to reflect spoa ths of the Senator from Beaaferl A motion to exptmge the or’s message meeting vglth friends of the Beaufort pelled the Insinuations colleague and demanded that Jaatlsa be accorded him. While the slon raged different motSeaa wan < fered. A resolution propaetag the confidence of the Senate In the la leg rity of the Beaufort Senates waa about to be introduced whea a com promise was agreed to, aad a com mittee was appointed to the messages and report what M sitlon should be made of them. A recess, after a sssstea el hours, was taken and tke eei came back, and again the < Senate Chamber were leaked committee asked for mere 4ft this was granted, aad tha went over until a fntare The Senate remained behind leaked doors until 10:80 o’aloek, aad that lifted the seal of secrecy, sad Bream ed open session, finally adjonralag. ( marshal’s posse. Fire Horse KiQetL... I horses of Columbia’s fire department, was Wednesday morning kflled by collision with a street car while be- slarboard aide and the Nantucket lug driven to % fire. —’ Powder Magazine Explodes, powder magazine of the Italian fohtiflcatlons at Genoa, Italy. Tbare- dayNaxploded. Fty soldiers aad one civilian were killed aad niao others sariontly wounded. Tornado Hits Georgia hew A tornado Saturday hit tha era port of Moultrie, Ga* planing mill, a dry kiln several anal houses, a fifty foot brick wall aad up rooting many trees. -T ♦ » » ■ Foot Barn to Death. Panic-Stricken when ke» clothes caught fire a little girl of Quebec, Monday ran ta two < setting them afire, la trying to aid V-te-V' President Senator Tlllmaa i warm persoaf' with him la