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ARRIVE AT BORDER FLIGHT FROM CHIHUAHUA TRAGIC INCIDENT OF WAR t i # ARMY OF DESERTERS I Remarkable Ilegira Presented Spectacle of Despair luid Confusion as Stragglers Struggled Across Dos rts in Heart Rending Eight Days Journey. The complcto rout of Huorta's fml ral army in Nortliorn Mexico, with the frantic lliglit of his generals for safety to the border and the demoralization of the unpaid troops, was established with the arrival Monday at Ojlnaga, Mexico, opposite Presidio, of the civilians and soldiers who dosorted Chihuahua City. In the romarkablo hegira, which struggled for eight days over an 158mile trail through the desert and endured groat hardships for want of food and water, wore Con. Salvador Mercado, Huerta's deposed military governor and commander of the Federal troops in tho north; Gen. Pascual Orozco, Gen. Antonio Rojas, Gen. Caraveo, Gen. Ynez Salazar and a host of subordinate ofllcers. They had deserted their post in fear of Gen. Francisco Villa's rebel army and virtually hrd surrendered to the rebels Chihuahua, the State capitol linn uio largest or tno tar nortliern cities. Along with them camo burdened with what property they could carry, men, women and children representing some of the richest families in the republic. Their flight with the army was in the ,aco of reports that they might expect, no mercy should they fall into the hands of the rebels. Tails Terrazas, a wealthy land owner, reputed to own half of the State of Chihuahua, was said to have brought with him a vast fortune in cash, fearing it might be looted by the rebels if ho remained in tho evacuated city. Witnesses viewing tho oncoming throng from tho hills at Ojlnaga reported tho refugees woro scattered in a thin lino for soveral miles into tho interior and that the dusty confusion of broken-down wagons, disabled artillery and mingling of disheartened soldiers and famished civilians as they slowly moved over the desert presented a spectacle of universal despair. Tho fear of being unable to keep paco with the escorting army, of be iiik ig?l on inG ueBeri, or cauglit t?y tlie rebels, added to the miseries of so precipitate a flight and kept the refugees in almost a continuous frenzy. Their arrival in a panic, hut unmolested by the rebels, formed one of the most tragic incidents of the present revolution. Many who had started out in vehicles later marched on foot; scores who attempted to carry their treasures had to abandon them through sheer weariness, so their tracks were literally strewn with discarded impediments, clothing, bric-a-brac, and valued trinkets, which they had hoped to carry to safety. Behind them they left tho blackened ashes of camp fires, marking at eight stages on tho trip the oight nights where they had camped, sometimes in a cold wind, W1 ~ -1 r* it - % % ' uiuwuiR 011 me niKn piateau, and often within tho hearing of the howling coyotes. The traveling in tho day time was sometimes through sand storms. It was impossible to estimate tho number of refugees, but observers say they would total several thousand. Whether tho Federal officers and the Roldiers would attempt to soek refuge in tho United States was not made known on their arrival. Just before the approach of tho Federals, whose oncoming was announced by twenty exhausted soldiers early in tho day, tho few rebels at Ojinaga who were greatly outnumbered by tho advancing Federals, loft their garrison and retreated to tho field. This left the way open for the Federals to advance to tho Rio Grande River without fighting. It was believed they probably would remain on the Mexican side so long as they wero not pressed by the rebels. Gen. Villa's rebel forces had been In pursuit of the fugitives, but the Federals, by evacuating the city unawares, had an advantage in point of time, and Villa's forces wore unable to overtake them. United States troops were on the border to take action in cases of any infringement of the neutrality laws. It was known that the authorities had telegraphed to El Paso for a capias for the arrest of Gen. Orozco, who Is undor indictment in this country. Gen. Salazar Is also under Indictment In the United States. There was no indication of what action the rebel leaders might take in view of the assembling of so largo a force of Federals on the border. It was believed that If they were not attacked the Federals might occupy the small OJlnaga garrison quarters Indefinitely and thus enable Gen. Mercado te procure erders from Mexico City. The man of pluck tyyi soon forget If he waa beaten yesterday and out of Meat wreet victory. PLAN FOR RURAL CREDIT I COMMISSION HOLDS CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT. 1 ? Rural llnuks I'udor FiMlcrul Charter to Lend Money oil Lund Through Mortgage Douds. At a White Houso conference Wednesday members of the United States < rural credits' commission submitted to President Wilson a tentative draft of Its report, and a rough outline of Its bill to facllitftto farm crodits, which they will recommend to congress for passage. The report submitted by the commission Is ft comprehensive and voluminous document, dealing with the subject of rural credits in all of its phasos. In it aro embodied many valuable suggestions and recommendations, based for the most part upon the exhaustive study and Investigations of the commission on its European trip last spring. As ho indicated in his first annual address to congress, President Wilson regards tho question of rural credits as of paramount Importance. It is not known what suggestions, If any, , ho made to tho commission concorn- i Ing the report and bill. It is believed likely that ho will road them with mid cm*! miiti)/.u uiuir rucominenaations and provisions bcforo commit- i ting lilmsolf finally. The position of the president concerning rural credits makes it. almost certain that the report of tho Fletcher commission, and tho bill to bo introduced by tho Florida senator, will furnish the basis of legislative action at this session of congress. Few passages in Mr. Wilson's address to congress attracted so much attention and command so much applause as his reference to the farmers of tho nation. Among the matters of "domestic concern", it was tho first to receive attention at his hands. "I present to you," he said, "the urgent necessity that special provision be made for facilitating the credits needed by the farmers of the country. The pending currency bill does tho farmers a great service. What the farmers need and should obtain is legislation which will make their own abundant and substantial credit resources available as a foundation for joint, concerted local action in their own behalf in getting the capital they must use. It is to this we should now address ourselves." Dwelling on this question, tho president invited attention to the work of tllO Flotplior nnm miooinn nn<l r.r.1^1. "Conscious of this backwardness and neglect on our part, the congress recently authorized the creation of a special commission to study the various systems of rural credit which have been put into operation in Europe, and this commission is already prepared to report. Its report ought to make it easier for us to determine what methods will bo best suited to our own farmers. I hopo and believo that tho committees of the Senato and House will address themselves to this matter with tho most fruitful results." Whllo none of tho details of the commission's report will bo made public until after they havo been presented to tho presldont, it is understood that tho plan for tho creation of a national rural banking system contemplates, primarily, tho creation of a division of rural banking in tho troasury department. WTIjSON to the rescue. President Plays Knight Errant and Rescues Fallen Maiden. President Wilson lato Tuesday was walking in Rock Creek park, near the White House, when ho noticed a riderless horse galloping by. He turned in tho direction from which tho horse had come and at tho top of a little rlae found a littlo girl on tho ground. She was Ruth Donaldson, agod 13, who had been thrown while trying to tako a hurdle. Tho president was accompanied by Secretary Tumulty and Dr. Carey Grayson, U. S. N., his physician. All immediately wont to tho little horsewoman's assistance. "Are you hurt?" asked the president, as ho helped the girl to her feet. "No," sho said, "I'm used to that. I've ridden a long time." Miss Donaldson was slightly bruised, but she mounted her horse and rodo away. i?iv-ivA/i ii/ pnuncrsi At 10:30 o'clock Thursday night there was a motoorlc shower near Sheraw. One aorolito burst with a terrific noise, liko a clap of thunder, the shining fragments flying in all directions. Many persons in that town mistook the crash, thinking something had fallen in their housos 1 and lighted lamps to investigate. One family thought their mother had fallen out of bod and wont to got her back in bed. Many supposed it was an earthquake and made for outdoors, badly frlghtenod. However, they have settled back into their old habits, and no damage was done Slays His Roommate. While three other mentally deranged patients looked on unresistingly, George Friege, an Assyrian, choked Wilson Walnick to death in one of the dormitories of the State Hospital I for Nervous Diseases at Little Rock, < Ark. Mm ii HALT REBEL MARCH NLLA CAN NOT 00 SOUTH WITH MEBCADO BEHIND HIM MUST RETAKE OJINAGA Other News From War-Stricken Country Shows Itol?els in Great Force Around Tamplco, Where Fight is Doing Waged?Huerta Appears to Ikj Vamoved. Convinced that Gen. Salvador Morcado, with his 4,000 soldiers, the largest body of Federals in the north, Is preparing at Ojinaga, 011 tho border opposito Presidio, Toxas, to make a| desperato stand against an attack, tho rebol Mexican Thursday sent an artillery regiment with ten cannon to reinforce tho 3,500 robols already approaching Ojinaga. Until the outcome of the situation at Ojinaga is determined Gen. Francisco Villa's march southward will be checked. Tho rebel leader, now at Chihuahua, informed his headquarters in Juarez that he would not leave the north with Federal troops bohlnd him. lie ordered tho artillory sent to Ojinaga in tho belief that tho town would havo to bo besieged because Ihe Federals havo build oxtensivo dofences there. It is believed that an attack at Ojinaga would bo of long duration, as tho town stands on a hill and from tho forts the Federals have a sweeping survey of tho approaches. During tho Madero revolution tlie place long hold out against superior numbors, even though tlio water supply had boon out off and a fortified ditch from the rlvor bad to bo dug. The only guns tlio Federals have at Ojinaga are those which they carried with them in their retreat from Chihuahua and these are believed by the rebels to bo few, because tlio Federals lost heavily in ammunition and arms in their fights south of Juarez. Dispatches from Hermosilla, Sonora, tell of tlio plight of tlio Federals at that place, saying that a mutiny among tho two thousand or more Federal troops defending Cuaymas is threatening, according to reports reaching tlio insurgent lines. It is reported that tbreo Federal deserters arrived with news of tho execution of Federal officers to prevent their desertion to the Constitutionalist side. The refugees, who brought arms and ammunition with tliem, said that First Lieut. Clastel and Second Lieut. Manzonax were executed as an example to other Federal ofllcers. It was stated they had attempted to leave CJuavmas with their command nf ?iv. ty men, taking arms and supplies. Tho Federals had not been paid for three days, it was said, contrary to the usual custom of making small daily payments. A dccroo has been issued by the department of tho interior of tho Constitutionalist government, warning all mine owners In states held by insurgents that taxes paid to tho Iluerta government would not bo recognized by tho revolutionary party. It is said that many American mining men have paid taxes to Mexico City on property located In territory under Constitutionalist control. According to tho news from Mexico City in describing conditions at tho capital, says tho knowledge that Tamplco was in danger of falling Into rebel hands did not appear to disturb President Iluerta in his routine of affairs, and lato Thursday ho was the guest of honor at a banquet at Tacubaya, a suburb, to celebrato tho inauguration of tho Interurban railway. Cen. Iluerta gave tho Impression that ho was not troubled by tho posiblo outcome of events at Tamplco. At tho tlmo of tho celebration, according to a private mossago, fighting was in progress at Tampico, tho robI * - * * - * nuiiig ?xi puH^ension or rne rreignr yards at Dona Vocilia, between Tamplco, and tho coast, Trora which poin);. tho Federals had been forced back into tho city. Ofliclal messages Indicated that tho Federals would bo ablo to resist the attack, but optimism was lacking in tho mossages. Cotton Prices Steady. Cotton ranged uniformly hotter since tho opening of the soason this Fall than it did tho previous year. Thoro have been fewer spurts and the prices have been on a comparatively steady baso. So steadily has this been the case that on Novonibor 1 the market showed a gain of a fracf 1 * V. A- AL nun uvui nil e? coins UDOVO in0 pilCG on Novombor 1 last year. Tho price this year was 13 cents, against about 10 cents a year ago. It was five conts better than in 1911. Shot by Friend. While out riding with Mason Williams, a friend, Mills II. Lane Jr., of Savannah, was killed at Valdosta, on Saturday. Williams claims that Lane attempted to draw a rovolvor, but this statement is not believed, as no pistol was found on the dead man. Town Swept by Plre. Practically the entire business section of the town of Sherrlll, 20 miles north of Pine Pluff, Ark., was destroyed by gre. The loss la estimated at $6MOO. TAKEN FROM CONSULATE ' ? HHHELS DRAG YOUNG TERRAZA FROM HIS ASYLUM. \ Outraged British Vice-Consul Denied ^ .Means of Communication to His ' [ Homo Government. Americans who came Thursday night into Juarez from Chihuahua re- I ported that the rebels, sinco their occupation of tlia* city, hud entered the British vice-consulate and forcibly seized Tails Terraza Jr., a son of the wealthy land owner, and after carrying him through t'ho streets, placed him in jail. According to the Americans, the rebels also served notice upon 100 Spanish residents of ] Chihuahua that they must leave the 1 city within ton hours. i The entry of the British consulate and the soizuro of Terraza, who had i gone thore for protection aftor hear- : ing that his life was In danger, wore i reported to have taken place during ] the absence of British Vice-Consul 1 Scobell. It was said that Scobell, en- < raged at the action of General Francisco Villa's troops, was denied facil- : itles to protest to the British minister at tho City of Mexico or to the < British ambassador at Washington, and that ho then appealed to United States Consul Marion Letcher. The foreign ministers are ?nirt tr? < havo joined In a protest in what was regarded as a violation of the rights of asylum under a foreign flag. The story told by the Americans was that Terraza, in charge of much of his father's estato, including groat cattlo ranges, had boon left in Chihuahua after the evacuation by the Federals to look after women and children members of his family. Becoming frightened ho went to the British vice-consulate, and during tho abscnco of Vice-Consul Seobell, tho rebels, who had been searching tho town for Terraza, rushed into tho consulate, seized Terraza and then paraded tho prisoner through tho streets, afterwards locking him in a cell in tho state building. It was said that a demand for $250,000, which ho failed to pay, was tho chief motive in the arrest of Terraza. Luis Terraza Sr., tho aged father of the prisoner, recently arrived at Ojinaga with tho Federal troops. Ilia great wealth has been a special mark for discussion in tho propaganda of tho revolution, while the thousands of his cattle over tho state havo served to feed both tho rebols and Federals. United States Consul Edwards, at Juarez, said he had received no ofllcial confirmation of tho arrest of Terraza 111) to a late hour Tbnrsrlnv night. Tho telegraph between Chihuahua and Juarez was not working. MADISON CONFESSES. + State Came Warden Says Negro Admitted Ilis Guilt. Scott Madison, tho negro under sentence of death for firing tho shot that killed E. Peyton Best, a well known merchant of Barnwell, has confessed his guilt, according to A. A. Richardson, chief game warden of South Carolina. Tho confossion, Mr. Richardson said, was secured while Madison was bolng brought to the State penitentiary after he had been sentenced. While on trial at Barnwell tho negro denied his guilt and told a story in conflict with the testimony of other witnesses. Ho has been sentenced to be electrocuted somo time between Decembr 19 and 22. "I talkd to the negro on the train while he was being brought to tho penitentiary," said Mr. Richardson. "Ho confessed that ho fired the fatal shot, declaring that ho was drunk at the time. Ho said that another negro snapped?iho gun several times and that he then grabbed tho pistol and killed Mr. Best." CRII'PLE RUNS "TIGER". ? Georgia Doctor is Found Guilty on His Third Trial. Dr. L. D. Beauchamp, a cripple, aged 75, was conricted at Valdosta, C.a., Monday of operating a blind tiger at his residence. Ho was sen i?ncea 10 a year at the state farm at Millodgoville. According to tho evidence Dr. Boauchamp received 450 pounds of liquor within 2 2 days. This is not tho first time Dr. Boauchamp has been arraigned on the blind tiger charge. The first time ho was arraigned the jury not only acquitted him, but took up a collection for him. Tho next time ho road from the scriptures and quoted poetry to the Jury and was acquitted. o Says Deer Chases Children. John Jackson, a farmer of Mahwah, N. J., has asked permission of tho gamo warden to shoot a doer that Insists on chasing his children. The farmer fears for the aafety of his youngstors, as the animal is vicious and insita upon loitering about his farm. Flagman Loses Leg. Southern Railway Flagman Warwick, In attempting to get on a freight car at Batesburg was thrown off. He fell under the wheels and had the misfortune to lose a foot. TRUSTS COME NEXT ? HTILSQN PLANS EARLY MONOPOLY LEGISLATION ? f3 MAKE THINGS PLAIN President Holds Conference With House Coniniitteeiiient and Other Prominent Leaders?Hill Will Define Offense, Hur Subterfuge and Civo I>efcndant Burden of Proof. Tho scopo of President Wilson's program of anti-trust legislation Wednesday became fairly well defined at the end of a conference at tho White House between the president and six Democratic members of tho House judicial committee that is to undertake the preparation of the administration bill. The measuros to be advanced for action at this session will aim at the following results: Definition of the various forms of monopoly and restraint of trade which would bo "conclusively doemftd" unreasonable and in violation of law. , Placing upon tho defendant tho burden of proof to show that there is no "unreasonable" restraint of trade. Prohibition of interlocking directorates in large corporations. Establishment of an interstate trado commission, to exerciso rogulatory powers, make original investigations and aid the courts in carrying out decrees of dissolution of trusts. The details of legislation were not worked out at Wednesday's conference, nor was a complete understanding reached as to the number of bills which will bo pushed for action at ino present session. Tlio president made it clear, however, that ho favors legislation along tho general lino of tho Lenroot-La Follotte bill, which has been beforo congress sinco last June, and when was designed to clear up tho "twilight zone" of corporation activity. This measure was the subject of much of tho discussion, and members of tho committee will take up its provisions for further consideration. It would define by law nearly a dozen forms of contracts, .agreements, restraints, price-cutting and the liko, tho "reasonableness" of which now is left to tho courts, but which would bo conclusively deemed to bo "unreasonable and in restraint of trade" by tho proposed new law. # President Wilson's trust conferences of the last two weeks havo included long talks with Attorney Genoral McReynohls, Senator Newlands, chairman of tho interstate commerce committee; Secretary Redfleld, of the department of commerce; Representative Clayton and Joseph E. Davies, commissioner of corporations. The president again is to confer with Senator Newlands and other members of tho senato committee that will handle trust legislation. Tho IIouso committee at onco will begin work on tho nreliininarv dm ft of trust bills, but the* members will seek further discussions with the president over the form of the measures before completing them for submission to the House. The president emphasized the need of legal bounds for this activity that will place the smaller business man upon an equality with the larger and that will give to the business world in general a clear legal definition of the forms r.f combination that are unlawful. Senator Newlands' bill for an interstate trade commission, also introduced in congress early last summer, is expected to be the basis for legislation along that line. The president is understood to favor many features of this proposed law. It would establish a commission with power to regulate cornorallons doing interstate business, to aid the attorney general in the prosecution of thoso accused of monopolistic actions and to carry out the dissolution of trusts that havet b^en decreed as illegal by tno courts. ? New Trained Nurses. Certificates of registration as trained nursos have been awarded to the following porsons: Esther P. Faircloth, Conway; Mary A. Kennedy, Orangeburg; Sadie L. Larkins, Columbia; Lena T. Lee, Union; Lena It. Lest.er, Prosperity ; Burness B. Long, Columbia; Annie E. Madden, Columbia; Ethol McKeo, Spartanburg; Margaret McLeod, Charleston; Ruth O. Seay, Columbia. Wenator Tillman Indisposed. A Washington dispatch says Senaa. mi 11 ? * ? u>r unman nas neen confined to his hotol for several days with a grlppv cold. His physicians say that there is nothing serious the matter, and that ho Is being kept In his room chlofly as a precaution. The senator is dictating letters as usual and expects to be back at the capltol within tho week. ? Two Tjom Uvea. Mrs. Fred Krause, of Chattanooga, wa9 drowned, her niece, Rosa Wilson, aged 8, was burned to death and several others were Injured late Sunday when a pleasure launch was burned at Hale's bar on the Tennessee river. / THE HORRY HERALD I CONWAY. S. C. 1 I J Published Every Thursday. 5 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1H, 1013. . ' PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J H. 11. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. CONWAY, S. C. 1). II. SCARBOROUGH. Attorney at Law. CONWAY, S. C. H. H. BURROUGHS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. O. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. RENE RAYENBL Land Surveying and Drainage Nplvey Building Conway. S. C. WILL INVESTIGATE REPORT. -> Cilice Stnr? fit "IJiirniiiif" Utmminn. "" - !-? Sent by Wireless. Tho Mallorv Line steamer Ria Grande arrived at Brunswick, Ga., Wednesday morning from Now York. The captain reports no trouble on tho trip down. There has been no fire on tho Rio Grande nor did thoso on the vessel know of any unusual happening at sea. The dispatches, read by many wireless operators in the vicinity of the Virginia Capes, were transmitted to the revenue cutter sorvico, which immediately rushed two ships to sea and later turned them back after communicating with the Rio Grande herself and being assured alio was in no need of aid. A confusion of ships' names also served to perplex thoso who were ready for the work of rescue. Tho dispatches said the Rio Grande's passengers were taken off by the steamer Swanmore, which was at that moment at her wharf in Baltimore,, while tho Rio Grande was reported two hundred miles north of the Diamond Shoals. The rescuers then raised the Merchants' and Miners' Liner Suwanee, thinking she might be the rescuing ship, but her captain knew nothing of the report. Finally came messages from tho Mallory Line officials saying the Rio Grande carried no passengers. Revenue cutter officers and wireless officials then concluded that the S. O. S. calls purporting to come from tho Rio Grande were false and it remained for the arrival of tho ship at Brunswick to confirm their suspicions. Every available agency of tho government will be used to investigate the affair generally. * TELLS OF KrLLFNG. ?. Mining Man Tells How Bandits Murdered A mwican. George Baker, a mining man, who arrived at Nogales, Mexico, Saturday, brought an account of the killing of his partner, Moris Root. Baker said that on the day that Root was killed eight Mexican employees had becomo drunk at a celebration of the constitutionalist victories. Thoy covoted Root's revolver and entered his house to attack him. One of the Mexicans stabbed Root through the heart from bohind and also inflicted other knife wounds. Taking the murdered man's revolver and waving the knife with which he had stabbed Root, the Mexican and several companions had advanced upon Baker, demanding money. Baker managed to evade them, and aftor remaining in the neighborhood long enough to bury Root's body, left for tlio north. * Negroes Are Held. While Harrv and A rwl mm nio?tr y _ ? S.M, UUI VTT negroes, of St. Louis, who Saturday shot and killed policemen, in St. Charles, were held, the citizens expressed their feelings so strongly that the authorities took every precaution to prevent a clash between the races. Burned ky Gasoline. Mrs. J. H. Courtney, of Trenton, sustained very painful burns sovera! days ago while cleaning gloves with gasoline. With the gloves on her hands saturated with gasoline, she struck a saatoh to light an oil stove and tha gasoline Ignited Instantly. Anto Turns Turtle. Earl Morrow, a leading druggist of Hamlet, N. C., was instantly killed and his brother-in-law. Wilson Pagd, a lumberman, was fatally Injured when their automobile, which Morrow was driving, overturned near West End, N. C.? Tuesday.