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B35 > ' ' - v TOOK THE TOWN ? f?H BnIk at Ererjr Pwat Mexicai Federals Sarreukr Jaarez. FOUGHT TWO DAYS The Digest and Most Important of the Mexican Revolution a Victory for the Insurrectos.?Almost the 10ntire Federal Garrison Capitulates After Two Days Hard Fitting. Cindad Juarez, 'Mexico, is now the provisional capital of that nation, and Francisco I. Madero, Jr., provisional President, and his staff have taken possession after winning the bloodiest battle of the Mexican revolution. In the corner room of the barracks, which for two days had held out against the rebels, sits Gen. Juan J. Navarro, the Federal commander, a captive, having surrendered Wednesday, with almost his entire garrison of several hundred men. His face is sunken, his head is bowed and he does not talk, for the bitter csting of defeat has disheartened him. In another part of the town is Francisco I. Madero, Jr., the conqueror, surrounded by members of liis family and staff, exultant with victory, and anxious to make peace, he says, with the Government if it will deal frankly and sincerely with the revolutionists, and without such vague promises as "President Diaz's mauisfesto." The actual surrender of the town by Gen. Navarro took place about 1 o'clock, Gen. Navarro giving his sword to Col. Garibaldi, of the insurrecto army, after the rebels had comletely surrounded the barracks and ' ^atened to annihilate the garrison within. His eyes dimmed a3 he surrendered, but Col. Garibaldi, with a hand shake that besoke his admiration for the bravo fight the Federal leader had made, assured him of the desire of the rebels to afford him every courtesy. A score of rebel oflicers rode up and extended to the Federal commander their sympathy, as Mexicans, for him and his men. There is the same fraternal sentiment in the hearts of the entire insurrecto army, for their countrymen who have been defeated, but everywhere are heard words of opprobium for President Diaz, whom they hold responsible for the battle of Wednesday. The town the Federals thought impregnable to attack, fell after a comparatively easy effort. The liouse-to-house advance, the same deadly fire which had driven the 1 Federals from their trenches early Monday, when the skirmishing be- < gan, gave the rebels an entrance to < the town hardly molested by the ar- 1 tillery of the Federals. 1 At the close or Tuesdays lighting, the rebels held extensive control of the town. By the use of dynamite and shells and fierce musketry, they fought their way forward. The insurrectos took the church at midnight. The Federals retired further into the city to tue municipal building, the ed^cs of ..'hich were piled with sand bags for a barricade. After the attack was renewed, early Wednesday, and the rebels had brought their machine guns within deadly range, the Federals retired to the barracks and insurrectos by the hundred occupied the houses within 100 yards on every side. Their fire was rapidly demolishing the building. There was no other alternative for Gen. Navarro but to yield. Shrapnel was being poured into the hollow square of the barracks. Many Federal cavalry horses were killed. The soldiers crowded the 1 place to its capacity. Only a few 1 loopholes from which to shoot at the rebels pierced the sides. Finally Gen. Navarra hoisted a white flag. He first attempted to send a messenger to Senor Obergen, one of the envoys of the recent peace commission, asking him to arrange for a cessation of hostilities while an armistice could bo arranged. Gen. Navarro stood in the doorway of the barracks to receive Col. Garibaldi. Federals and insurrectos alike withheld their fire while the surrender was being arranged. The fighting soon ceased and attention was direcetd to the dead and wounded. The Federals, in their humiliation, tore off thier visor caps and uniforms, and, under guard of the rebels, walked rejectedly in their under clothing down the street to the coral. They numbered about 500. Wednesday night it was reported ed that 150 of them had taken the oath of allegiance to Gen. Madero oath of allgiance to Gen. Madeio and would join his forces. Church bells were ringing, resi dents of the town appeared in the streets with sighs of relief, and the lnsurrectos began a continuous uproar of shouts. The rebels began to collect thousands of rounds of ammunition from the Federal barracks, and they easily have made the most valuable capture of the revolution. They now have two mortars, three machine guns and two field pieces. Their ammunition belts, somewhat depleted during the attack, are filled again. GIVES HIS REASONS i ? MAYOR GAYNOR TKLIaS WHY HE UEIJEVES IN GOD. Says He Cannot Help It.?Reading the Hi hie Makes Him Content and Charitable. "You ask me 'Why do I believe in the Father God?' " wrote Mayor Gaynor, of New York, in a letter to the Rev. Christian F. Reisner which was read to a congregation that filled Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in West One Hundred and Fourth street Sunday night. "Because I simply cannot help it. I have absolute confiIt soothes you and makes you condence in Him and am willing to submit to whatever He wills in respect to me," the mayor wrote. His letter continued: "You also asks, 'What good comes from reading the Bible?' The answer is: "An immense deal of good. It smoothes you and makes you content and charitable. I might add, that it educates you and gives you a good literary style, but that is another matter. "Going to church gives people steady habits and makes them prudent and careful, and makes them vote carefully. Church members make a stable nucleus for society." (Mayor Goynor's letter, which Is quoted in full, was the shortest of several read from the pulpit by Mr. Reisner. The clergyman is asking prominent officials and business men to express their views about religion in the most candid terms and making their reading a feature of his Sunday night services. Mayor Gaynor answered three questions but left unanswered the fourth; "Why are you a church member?" Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Bruce wrote that he believes in God 'because God has revealed Himself in nature in the hearts of men, and in His word, as the Father ot spirits, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth." "I am a church member," wrote Mr. Bruce, "because it is the duty of all believers to publicly profess their faith. I believe church attendance is not only a duty but a privilege." FATAL MISTAKE OF FH1EXDS. Killed Wliile Trying to Help Catcli Grave Robbers. A trap laid by Harfield G. Conrad, one of the wealthiest men in Montano, and his brother, in which hoped to catch the men who last year stole the body of Harfield's son from its grave in a cemetary at Great Falls, resulted Wednesday ' t in the killing by the Conrads of Joseph Hamilton, former sheriff jf Cascade county, a friend who was assisting the brothers in their plan to capture the grave robbers. Recently Conrad was notified his child's body would be returned to tiim if $ 1,500 was left beside a lan:ern he would find burning at a lonely spot on the Fort Benton road. Vlaking 11 p a "dummy" package, the Conrads proceeded to the place in in automobile. Hamilton was to follow on horseback and take the ;rave robbers by surprise. Coming to a point where a light was During some uisiance iroiu me *oad they dropped their package of rioney and proceeded on their way. \bout a mile farther on they found ;he lantern burning by the roadside ind realized they had made a mis:ake. Returning to get the package igain, they saw stooping over a figjre of a man, who straightened up with a gun In his hand as they approached. Roth Conrads opened fire, the man dropping at the first shot, investigation disclosed the fact that they had killed their friend Hom11 ton. Remunerative and Unrcmuneratlve. Irrigation works and all other projects designed to benefit people cost money. Some of them Individually cost millions of dollars, but it is all for the public good and the returns come in the shape of material prosperity and social blessings. To reclaim vast areas of arid soil by irrigation, and equally large areas of swamp land by drainage is carrying out the same policy as that seen in making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, and in getting a largely increased yield of a crop from an acre. The building of dreadnaughts and other warships and the keeping up of large armies, forts and arsenals also cost immense sums, but humanity is not enriched by it. On the contrary it all means heavy taxation and the withdrawal of hosts of men from the productive activities of life. Again, works of public utility last and their benefit goes down to succeeding generation, but warships become obsolete in a few years and are then fit only for the scrap pile, and their wealth producing value amounts to nothing. In the present stage of civilization great armies and navies may be necessary, but as lh? German ambassador to this counlrj recently said, the time will corn* when an umpire will settle interna tlonal disputes as an umpire settlei those that arise upon a base bai field. A PITIFUL STORY A LITTLE GIRL SLAVE ESCAPES FROM THE FIENDS. Little Girl in Matron's Ward Tells Pitiful Story. ? Earned Money to Support Man and Woman. One of the most pitiful Instances of the white slave traffic ever brought to light in Atlanta is the case of little Nettie Lewis, a girl in knee dresses, who until six months ago lived on a farm near Winston-Salem, N. C., says the Atlanta Journal. Snce then she has been traveling about the country, she says, supporting two parasites, from whom %he attempted to escape Innumerable times, only to be caught, brought back, cruelly treated and forced to continue her life of shame for the gain of her master and mistress. The girl has been held In tie matron's ward for the past three days, while the Atlanta detectives have been trying to apprehend the man and woman, who brought her to this city. Their efforts have been tutlle and apparently both have escaped from the city. Here's the girl's story as she told It in the matron's ward: "Six months ago a woman, whom I have known as Cassie Cobb, and her friend, H. M. Burt, asked me to slip away from her home for a few da>s' trip to Charlotte. Cassie is from a small town in South Carolina and Burt is originally from Aberdeen, N. C. I had known them only a snort time, but I was tired of staying h rvt?/\ o r* /I tlfQ nf O/l f A COO Ph Qrlflf 1 D 11 U 111 c a ii u n u 11 tvu tv/ uw vuui "Sine? then I don't know where we have been?all over Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. They traveled as man and wife and I was Cassie's niece. They forced me to go out on the streets and make money for them. They would always take my money away from me as soon as I got it. Burt said he was a horse trader, but really he didn't do a thing and the money I made provided the three of us with clothes, board and railroad fare. "Sometimes I Would try to get away, but they would always catch me. Burt told me that he would kill me sooner or later if I kept trying to escape. Both of them cursed me, and I was terribly afraid, because I know that Burt would really kill me. I have seen him beat Cassie terribly time and time again, and one time, when he knocked her down with a chair, he accidentally struck me during the fight." The girl was brought to police quarters by the proprietor of a local hotel. On Saturday night she was sent, out to the street by a woman, it is alleged. Instead of going back to [the Xeal house, where the trio had been stopping, she went to the Cannon hotel. There she met a married woman to whom she told her story. The woman kept her in the room with her during the night and the following morning informed the hotel proprietor, who suggested an appeal to the police. The girl went to police headquarters voluntarily, and will remain until the authorities find a way to send her back to her widowed mother, or until the capture the man and woman. Harvest of the Pistol. Commenting upon a recent tragedy in Georgia in which a man named Lee shot and killed a man named Hilton, the Savannah News quotes Lee as confessing himself the "sorriest man in the state," with his life blasted and his family menaced with destitution?all referable to the custom of making gun play the arbitrament of personal quarrels. Countinuing The News says: "A great advance will have been made when it will not be thought to be necessary to use deadly weapons in the settlement of personal difficulties, and every effort should be made to bring about a public sentiment that will condemn the use of the pistol or shotgun in quarrels?quarrels of a character common to every community." Tli n Atlanta ennatituflnn snvs In* public sentiment and slack enforcement of law are the two factors responsible for those tragedies that, periodically, disrupt families and traduce the state. Once the majority of people make up their minds to the fact that we are In the midst of fivilization, and not in frontier days, there will be a radical slump in the homicide rate. The pity of It all is the innate uselessnoss of relying upon the revolver as the court of last resort for trivial causes. Here is a Georgian changed in the twinkling of an eye from a respected, law abiding citizen to an accused criminal in the shadow of the gallows?his family and that of the dead man deprived of support and protection. Had it not been for the ever-ready pistol, this grim transformation could not have taken place. Smash the habit of pistol-toting and of gun-carrying and the evil will be i struck at its root. > And the way to accomplish this re' 8UIt Is to send to the chaingang the I man, white or black, who violates * the law by packing around concealr ed weapons. That, coupled with enJ forcement of the law against men convicted of wanton murder, will I bring relief. In the end, such stern1 ness will be merciful, both to the individual and to society. N WHO WILL WIN? Spccabtioa u to the Nat Dtmcratic CuMile f? PresMnt WILSON GROWS STRONG But Then There Are Governor Harmon, Speaker Clark and William Jennings Bryan Who Have to Be Reckoned With, as They too Are in the Game. It is a long way to the Democratic national convention of next ye^r, and while many things may happen in the meantime, there is no reason that as the course of politics Is the Woodrow Wilson movement is taking hold of the various Democratic strongholds with a remarkable rapidity, says the Washington Times Thursday. It begans to looks as if the governor of New Jersey would go to the convention with the nomination nailed down so securely that none of the other aspirants would have half a chance. Old politicians in Washington express astonishment at the rapidity of the spread of the sentiment that Wilson is to be the Democratic nominee. It hag been only a little while since the talk here was that there would be a close race, in which Gov. Judson Harmon, Champ Clark and Gov. Wilson would be the participants. Commenting on the presidential situation the Washington correspondent of the State says: But as the situation stands now, Gov. Harmon seems to be practically out of the running. Probably Gov. Harmon does not know this, and a lot of his friends don't know It. But the facts are hardly open to dispute as a reasonable proposition of politics. If there Is one thing that has been made clear in recent weeks so far as the Democrats and presidency are concerned it is that no man need expect to gain the nomination who has opposition of William Jennings, Bryan. The largest simple influence in the Democratic party today is Bryan. Any man who is nominated against the will of Bryan will be so certainly knifed by the Bryan following that It would be idle to nominate him. Speaker Clark has the friendship of Col. Bryan. And there is no doubt that he is a strong political factor so far as 1912 is concerned. If th" record of the house in this session and the next is such as to appeal to the country. Mr. Clark will be strong in the eyes of the country. lie has a strong hold on the South, being a Southern man himself. But Eastern Democrats of the progressive cast are friendly to Wilson. and believe he is the best man to make the race. This is the one ? i - o TIfil ? _ X il. A ^ element or wusons sirt'iigm. another thing is that he has powerful Southern support. He is even more of a Southern man than Speaker Clark. He was born in the South, and thought he has identified himself with the North, it is' a fact that Southern Democratic look on him with a peculiar liking. The outlook now is that Wilson will command the bulk of the Southern delegates. Some even say he wili well-nigh sweep the South. Significant In this connection is the fact that a recent conference of Georgia Democratic leaders was held, a.id it was decided that the Georgia delegation would he thrown to Wilson More Southern men go to Princeton than to perhaps any other Northern educational institution. Tt need scarcely he said that this fact is going to have an important beanm; on the 1912 outcome. Within the past week there have come out for Wilson in the South such newspapers as the Raleigh News and Observer, the San Antonio Express, the Pensacola News and the Tampa Tribune. The Atlanta Tournal has come out for Wilson. The levi'ng Democratic newspapers of Tennessee are for Wilson, is the political bugleman of the fact that his brother, Joseph R. Wilson, is the political bugleman of the Nashville Banner. It looks as if Wilson would unquestionably have the Tennessee delegation. Only the other day Wilson made a great hit in a speech in Norfolk, and he will have powerful support In that State. .Tosephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, who has been in Washington recently on his way from the meeting of the publishers in New York, reports a tremendous Wilson movement. He hae come out for Wilson, and as his newspaper has the following of the Kltchin element in North Carolina it may bo assumed this means North Carolina is going to send a Wilson deleagthon to the convention. These are a few recent straws indicating the trend of sentiment, with respect to Wilson. Tt is hardly necessary to say that Wilson has powerful support in many of the Middle Western States where progressive sentiment is strong. The fact that Bryan in a recent appearance in Desi.Moines seemed to lean to Wilson ie not without its significance. It is true that Rryan as a presideni tial possibility will not down. 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In tho Ituins of BurnocI Theatre at E<1 In burg, Scotland. Eight bodies have been taken from} the ruins of the Empire Music Hall in Edinburg, Scotland, which was burned Wednesday night. The .bodies so far identified are those of "Lafayette the Great" and two memhers of his company. Alice Dale, V who impersonated the Teddy Bear Midget, and Joe Coster. Two bodies are those of members of the orchestra and three others have not been identified. Mrs. Dale and Coster were natives of England. Layfette was a German. Ho layed for twenty years in the United States. During the past two years he has been in Great Britain presenting at music halls a spectacular "turn," which introduced a horse and dog. An attempt to rescue these two pets cost the man his life. * When the ruins wero examined the actor's charred body was found beside the body of his horse and a heavy burnt timber across both man and beast. The fire started in / a mass of scenery used in the con- v 1 elusion of LaFayette's performance, , which was of the spectacular military pagent in which he represented Lord Roberts and other celebrities , on horseback. Will He Tried Very Soon, i The double murderer, Ernest E. - Grimesley, will be placed on trial in i the Richland county court on May 22 > for the killing of Mrs. Rosa BessingJer and Walter Sandifer.