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VILLA NILI TO RULE MEXICAN REBEL REPUDIATES ALL DESIGNS ON PRESIDENCY WILL OBEY ALL ORDERS Military IiCador of Constitutionalists Says Ho is Supporter of (ieuerul Cairn n/.a, ami Will bo Submissive to tho Orders of His Chioftivin When Victory is Won. Gen. Francisco Villa, military commander of tho rebel forces Wednesday disclaimed any ambition to become president of Mexico in tho event the revolution is successful. Ho said ho did not wish to overshadow Gen. Carran'/.a, whom ho recognized as the loader of tho revolution. "Should Gen. Carranza become the president ho would receive my sup port and 1 would obey his commands," said Gen. Villa. Gen. Villa's interview was taken in his little plastered adobe house where he went immediately on his arrival in .Juarez from Chihuahua. On the floor in the fiont room where In Blood were 10 bags, each containing ?0,000 Mexican dollars, and on the window sill were half dozen newly purchased diamond rings still glittering in theii plush boxes. The coin was purchased from the banks in El Paso, to be used in the sections where currency has been scarce. The lings were purchased foi various rebel commanders. Gen. Villa listened will; a blank incredulous stare to the question put to him ami answered with a show of charaeteris tic firmness with his clinched lists and black gleaming eyes. "I have never been in anything but the fullest accord with Gen. Car ranza," said Gen. Villa. "I never hai any personal ambitions to reach higl office. 1 am a fighting man only, am T am fighting for the liberation o my country, not to elevate myself, am only a soldier under commam of my chief, and I shall obey bin whatever his orders may he. If h< hocomes President and tells mo t( get out of the country, I will do 1 instantly. No more proof of my loy alty to Gen. Carranza could bo asked "I wish all the nations of the work to know that T am not fighting t( make myself president"?and lion , Con. Villa brought both clinched fist: through tlio air by way of emphasis "We are not fighting to make an: man president, but we hope once foi all to save our country from spoilia tion and ambitions of individuals. W< are spreading the ideals of a republii and we will exterminate those win oppose us. "In a few months wo have lberatci half of Mexico and in a few month: more we shall liherato the otlie half." On. Villa came to Juarez ti negotiate with business firms for tin resumption of industry in Chihualiui State and also to procure small coil for circulation. Ho plans to start i rebel mint and a hank as soon as pos stble. Ho said on his return to Chi liunhua he would prepare personall; to command an attack on Torreon. PAROTiKI) MICRO SHOOTS. ? Two CrtMMivillo Negroes Mix I'p Afte Having Altercation. Edward Cliffy, a negro, wanted a Oroonvillo on several charges am who was paroled by Governor Rloasi on Thanksgiving day, returned ti ical attention. It seems Cuffy hat some altercation with Frank Dial another negro, which resulted li Cuffy being seriously shot in tli thigh. The shooting affair occurred a somo North Carolina point, but m definite information as to the detail of the shooting or just whore it oc curred could bo had late Sunda; night. Dial Is also well known t< tho Greenville police, having been pa roled by the governor after sorvlni twelve months of a five-year sentence Cuffy is considered seriously injured ^ IIIRIOI) OWN MI'RDKKKK, +. Mao Paid for Killing, Fearing Sou Would bo Lost. Fearful lest his Bould should h damned if he committed suicide, Wil liain Lechtenfeld of Briar Creek, Pa, whose body was found riddled witl bullets, paid $.'10 for his own mur dor, according to ofllccrs who work ed on the case. Lechenfeld, morose furnished the revolver that ho bor rowed from another and purchase* the cart ridges that were used to pen et.rato his body. Tn n. Htilomi ho offered money to man to kill him, and it has been ce tahlishod that, ho left the saloon wit! a strange foreigner, although nothln was thought of It at the time. Th fact that he paid for his own murde Heven Rig World l'owers Itlcw $707, ? Another Death from l*rlson Itiot. Prison Clerk Tallmnn of the Okln lioma State Penitentiary died Satur day from shock, which was a result o the riot last Monday when seven por aona were shot to death. PARTY LINES ABOLISHED WILKOX'S MESSAGE OX TRUSTS^ JOINS Alilj PARTIES. ? Republican aiul Hull Moose Join Democrats in Aclaiming Remarkable Address to Congress. President Wilson worked on 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 before tho public barely twenty-four hours, universal approval seems to be on the increase, while the note of dissent is positively overwhelmed by the volume of assent. People are asking what manner of man is the president that lie can, by His compounding of English, make the lamb and the lion lie down together and produce a spirit of cooperation between heretofore con-! i dieting interests. They aro asking what manner of man is lie when he is able to produce an astonishing i amount of praise from such Republican conservatives as Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Hoot and Jacob II. Gal linger, the warp and woof of the old Hourbon sentiment in the Senate and such Democratic radicals as Ashurst of Arizona, Vardamnn of Mississippi, and Lane of Oregon. And, on the House side, to compel, at the same time the applause of Republican Leader Mann, who only two months ago was predicting disaster for Wilson's program and of Hob Henry of Texas, head of the Democratic insurgents. Certainly no message the president has delivered has been so well received and none has done more to increase the unusual measure of public confidence that the president enjoys the country over. Reports from every ? section of the nation, including Ue publican Kansas, Hull Moose Cali1 fornia and pessimistic New York 1 have it that Wilson is going strong. 1 Only the ultra radicals have failed f to join in the commendation of the I message as a sanely progressive pro1 nouneement, designed to help the general welfare of the people of the United States. It is recognized generally that the president is determined his administration shall he a success; that he realizes the future of the administration is dependent in large part on the prosperity of business, and that the confidence of the commercial world is necessary to the. realization of general prosperity, yet the administration is not abating one jot from the position that the law must be enforced. E OI'I'OSH SPOIL SYSTK.M. ^ ? j Wilson on llis Huanl .Against Return a to Old Idea, r 1 President Wilson let it bo known n Wednesday that he opposes a return A to the "spoils system" of post office x appointments and will veto the post n ofllee appropriation bill now before . the House unless tho "rider" in it . exempting assistant postmasters y from the classified service is eliminated. The president, it is understood, has decided to call a halt to what has been charged by civil service advocates as a tendency in congress to r break down the merit system. He was confronted in the tariff, currency and tho urgent deficiency bills with ^ the civil service problems, but in j signing these measures took the posin tion that his power of placing had ;) not been weakened and that the j merit system could be applied. I( Tho "rider" in the post oflice appropriation bill would givo the post0 master general the right to revoke tho appointment of any assistant t postmaster and "appoint his succos() sor a\ his discretion". Postmaster H General Burleson recently wrote Representative Moon, chairman of the y post oflice committee, opposing the ,, proposal, hilt it was not withdrawn. 'i'he president is expected soon to inj, form the House leaders of his views. SENT TO FORT BLISS. ? . United States Takes Caro of Its Mexican Prisoners. All Mexican Federal soldiers in the custody of the United States border patrol forces at Presidio, Texas, will 0 ho transferred to Fort Bliss and in ternod there indefinitely. Secretary ? Garrison ordered the transfer late I* Monday with permission to the ref tigeo women and children to accom r\o ?w lin anl r\ lore IP B r\*r *?/\ |/uii j tuu n\/iuivi O t 1 UHC?/ UCOll U. ! About 3,000 Mexican officers and men fled across the Uio Grande when d the victorious Constitutionalists entered OJinnga and witli them, besides many women and children, are some a 1,500 civilian refugees. The civilian? i- aro not prisoners and will bo allowed li to go where they wish, though those K desiring to remain in American terrio tory will have to satisfy the immigrar tion olllcers. Napping Moonshiner Caught. John Dale, who for 20 years hat - defied internal revenue officers in the - western counties of Arkansas, wai f' found asleep in the woods near Wald - ron, and arrested by a United State' marshal's posso. i 1 iifiiiwyWi BLAME EACH OTHER BOTH CAPTAINS CREDIT COLLISION TO CARELESSNESS + COLLIDED AT TOP SPEED M?tnn?c's ('aplain lkvlures Nantucket Came on Mini in Such Speed That Collision Was Inevitable?Nantucket's Captain Says Monroe Crossed His Mow at Full Speed. Declaring the sinking of his vessel was due to the negligence and carelessness of those in command of the steamer Nantucket, Capt. 10. 10. Johnson, commanding the ill-fated steamer Monroe, late Saturday tiled a libel against tho former vessel in the I nited States district court at Norfolk. Ho 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 unavoidable, although he had ordered his ship ahead at full speed to avoid the on-rushing bow of tho Merchants' and Minors steamer. ('apt. Johnson's story of the collision follows: He says: "At about 1:38 o'clock approximately, ship's time, a fog signal of one blast of a whistle from a steamer was heard. It seemed to he about three points on the starboard bow. The Monroe at this time was heading X. H. one-four X., compass course. Whereupon the engines of the Monroe were immediately stopped and remained stopped for about a minute, when a bright light was observed, aoout four points on tho starboard bow, but on account of the fog it was impossible to tell at what distance. "As soon as this light was observed two whistles were blown by the Monroe and her wheel was put hard astorboard, which was the best thing under tho circumstances that could be done to avoid a collision, and the engines were put full speed ahead. With the speed of tho Nantucket, to avoid a collision, and the Nantucket coming on with apparently undiminished speed, struck the Monroe on her starboard side, at the forward overall gangway, just forward of the pilot house, the collision taking place in less than a minute after the Nuntucket's light was first observed. A large hole 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. "Tito Monroe immediately began to fill, and seeing that she was in imminent danger of sinking, orders were given to arouse all the passengers and clear away the lifeboats. In the meantime, the Nantucket had swung around the stern of tho Monroe, and was lying off about a quarter of a mile. Tho Monroe proceeded to fill rapidly, and about four minutes after the collision, was nearly on her beam ends. One of tho lifeboats on the maruuiiiu Milt: was siuusncci lit I lie collision, and another was swamped while being launched. The remaining1 lifeboats on the starboard side 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, going down in approximately the same place at which tho collision occurred. Many of the Monroe's crew and passengers were saved in her own boats, and others wero picked up by boats from the Nantucket, which was standing by, and rendered all aid possible under the conditions. Nineteen passengers wero lost, and twentytwo of the crew were lost. The Nantucket, which was in collision with the Monroe, docked in Baltimore Sunday. In a written statement Captain Berry said that while tho Nantucket was on her usual course, fog signals of a vessel, afterward found to be the Monroe, were reported ahead. Tho fog was lowlying and at times clearer than at others. Tho fog signals of the Xar. tucket were sounding at regular intervals. Tho fog signal of tho Mon roo again was heard, and this time on the Nantucket's port bow. The next whistles heard from the Monroe wero two blasts, which indicated that tho Monroo was trying to pass the Nantucket starboard to starboard, contrary to tho rulo. Capt. Ilerry said that in an endeavor to avoid a collision with the Monroe, tho Nantucket's helm was put hard aport to keep to tho right, but tho Monroo proceeded at full speed and tried to cross tho how of tho Nantucket. She succeeded in getting partly past tho Nantucket's stem when tho vessels collided, tho Nantucket's stem striking tho Monroe's starboard bow forward of tho pilot 4 houso at right angles, j Tho Monroo passed under such I great speed, according to Capt. Her-j ry's report, that tho stem of the Nani tucket was bent sharply toward hor starboard sido and tho Nantucket I was bent sharply toward her starboard side and the Nantucket slowed around so that her port side wan scraped by the Monroe crashing one of the Nantucket's port boats. The Monroe passed on out of sight. At the time of the collision the Nan-, tucket's engines were running at full' speed astern and had been running! for some time previous to the collision. "The Nantucket appeared seriously injured, but was manoeuvred to aid in the work of rescue, continually using her searchlight. Wireless communication was established and several vessels offered assistance, tin* first to arrive being the Hamilton, which conveyed the Nantucket to Norfolk. ? A SKXATOU'S 1110 \ 1/111. Baltimore Sun Forgives Tillman for His Recovery. Monday's Sun contained a picture of Senator "Hen" Tillman of South Carolina, headed "South Carolinian Now Fighting lOrysipelas," which seemed to indicate to the editorial mind that this famous Southern war horse was in a critical condition. The picture was accordingly made the text of an editorial, which frankly discussed the - Senator's career, not entirely in obituary style, but as close to it SIS \v;is rt(>llpnf f> mill rl,w?,n? m? I dor tho circumstances. hat was our astonishment to note in a later edition that the Senator was so discourteous 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 lias been feasting on hog jowl and collards while :it home, and is all the better for that ethereal diet. Some papers, after such an editorial, might refuse to let a sick man get well so quickly in its columns, and might insist in his remaining ill long enough to justify its remarks. Hut though wo are disconcerted by the Senator's giving us so abruptly the "merry ha! ha!" we will magnanimously forgive him and even congratulate him on his powers of digestion. And we'll wager an Eastern Shore hog jowl and a big dish of collards on the side, that there is somebody who fools more disconcerted than we do by tho Senator's sudden and impolite recovery, and that is his fellow South Carolinian, Governor IUease. And if hog jowl and collards will prolong the Senator's health and strength, we will cheerfully subscribe to a fund to keen him constantly supplied with those powerful restoratives and rejuvenators. i.o\<; SIEGE I:\DS. Now York Outlaw <.i\os Himself I'p With Dignity. Edward Beardsley, who, for more than a week lias defied the efforts of ShoritT Anderson and a posso to arrest hint, surrendered to C. 1). Backus, a local hotel man, early Wednesday and was locked up in the jail. Backus, who was appointed a deputy sheriff, effected the "capture" alone and in keeping with a plan agreed upon by Beardsley. Beardsley was served with a warrant charging him with assault in the first degreo in having shot G. W. But man, 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 stronghold came to he known, dwindled into a burlesque with the outlaw in tho principal role. Ho would allow anv one 10 see and taiK witn mm except the sheriff and ho turtiod his notoriety into money by tho sale of autograph postal cards, posing for photographers and moving picture men. ITe boasted that Sheriff Anderson would never "take" him. A week ago Tuesday Beardsley shot Putnam as tho latter was about to take tho outlaw's nine children to a county institution. Ho barricaded the windows and doors of his farm house and kept tho sheriff and Ids posse of men at bay by threatening to use the children as a shield against their bullets. On Monday ho agreed to surrender if tho children wero allowed to bo taken out of tho county and ho bo permitted to give himself up in Mayville. Killed His Brother. Otto Keafauver of Koanoko, Va., was shot and killed by his brother, Edward, Thursday at their homo in the outskirts of Roanoke. At a preliminary hearing Edward was exonerated of blame in connection with tho killing, witnesses testifying that ho had shot his brother in order to save the lifo of their sister, Mary, whom Otto was said to havo attacked. . Turned Thief to Aid Mother. Caught In the act of robbing a drug store at Altoona, R. .J. Allen, of Allentown, Pa., explained after his arrest that his mother was about to undergo an operation In a Philadelphia hospital and ho needed $100 to assist her. Fire Horse Killed. King, ono of the handsomest horses of Columbia's fire department, was Wednesday morning killed by collision with a street car while be. lng driven to a fire. t BROKE FRISCO LINE OFFICIALS FLEECED ROAD OUT OF EIGHT MILLIONS A FINANCIAL JUGGELERY + Commerce Commission Itepoits on Kcccivcrslilp, Tolling of Syndicate' Deals, by Which the Olliciuls of the lloud Are Declared to Have Made to the Kvtent of Over Financial operations, which included the acquirement of lines through syndicates which pro 11 ted to the extent of more than $8,000,000, some of which was pocketed by the road's own olheers, Monday were cited as among the underlying causes for the insolvency of the St. Louis and San' Francisco railroad company, in a report to the Senate by the interstate! commerce commissioner on the Frisco lino receivership. v, ... - - .no recommendations* are made by tho commission, K. 10. Clark, the chairman, stating in a letter of transmittal 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, 19111, when the receivership was ordered, amounted to 82.62 per cent, of the total capital liability, the total capital at that time amounting to $295,G22.933.72, of which only $51,361,1 no was capital stock and $24 4,209,822.72 was funded debt, including equipment trust notes. That the interest-hearing liabilities of the Frisco system exceeded the stock liability by 2 75 per cent "and wore wholly disproportionate when compared with the capitalization of oth'M* carriers, including those in tho territory west, of tho Mississippi River," is asserted by the commission, which submits figures for eight selected railroads showing the average ratio of funded debts to capital liability to ho 52.G5 per cent. Tho report further declares that the inability of the Frisco to meet its obligations seemed to have been apparent for some time prior to tho application for a receivership; that strenuous efforts wore made by its oflicers to tide over financial dillicultleS from day to day; that money was borrowed from all available sources until every avenue of assistance \vaJ exhausted, marketable securities being either sold or pledged as collateral under the numerous loans, and that notwithstanding this exhausted financial condition tho Frisco sold to Spoyer & Co. of New York $S,000, 000 of its general lien T> per cent, bonds, si transaction which the commission declares warranted condemnation. Summarized, tlio commission's report attributes tlie insolvency of tbe Frisco to tho following ciiuses: "I)isproportinnate capitalization. "The acquisition of new lines. "The financing by the Frisco of the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico railro5id and other South Texas lines. "The desiro for 5in entrance into Chicago, 111., resulting in the assumption of heavy fixed charges in the acquisition of the stock of the Chicago 5ind Eastern Illinois railroad. "Tho siile of its securities at price? so low as to indicate a deplorably weakened credit or an extnivaganl arrangement with bankers to whom largo profits accrued in tho purchase of the bonds and the subsequent ssilc of same to the public." Detailed description is given of the. operations of syndicates formed tt nnanco tho construction of a numbci of lines, and tho sale of such properties to the Frisco, and a summarj of these operations, in which B. F Yoakum and other officers of tin Frisco participated, is given as follows: A summary of various syndicate operations on properties sold to the 'Frisco system, and the profits ol subscribers and trust companies was given in the report as follows: "Oklahoma City and Western amount paid in, $2,007,043.95; profit $3 00,278.82. "St Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans, amount paid in, $.">,300,000; profit, $83 7,400. "St. Louis and Gulf, amount paid in, $2,700,000; profit, $1,385,696.52 "St. Louis and Oklahoma City amount paid in, $1,000,000; profit $556,150. "St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern, $3,423,432.15; profit. $719,574.90. "Adkins Valley and Western, $3,046,635; profit, $589,767.32. "Now fberia and Northern, amounl i><ti(it j?,uuu,uuu; piotit, $500,000. "St. Louis, Prownavlllo and Mexico. $3,981,000; profit, $3,01 1,928.95 "Colorado Southern, New Orleans and Pacific, amount paid in, $3,000,000; profit, $375,000. "Total amount paid in, $26,54 8,111.05; profit, $8,4-14,796.5 1 Powder Magazine Pvplodes, A powder magazine of the Italian fortifications at Genoa, Italy, Thursday exploded. Fivo soldiers and one J civilian were killed and nine others ' sorlously woundod. -- 1 SENATOR MAKES REPLY < 'IIKISTKN8KN ANSWKItS ATTACK MAItK I1Y (JOVKKNOK. Defends Ills Position as Trust** of n m Negro School Saying That Many \\ hite Men Art on Such IU>ar<i? Senator Neils Christensen of ne.au- >R fort rising to a question of personal pi i vilego In the senate Thursday afternoon replod to Governor HIo&so'h in special nit is to 10 Bean fort u< county negro school, of which Sena- jr< tor Christensen is a trustee. Senator Christensen pointed out that Governor Blease was a trustee tor some ' years of the negro col logo "for which Cil he was a candidate before the legislature which elected him." n Mr. Christensen said in part: "The propriety of my conduct as a citizen is called in question by Lot, J ernor Please in a special message to I] ! t?,.. ? nu.? \ - * Mil' III I'. I 11 rt IMTUIKIW HI fact that I am a trustee of the Pert Royal Agrcultural school an<l beeaunn Hooker T. Washington Is named en * ^ lot tor head of the school as a reforenco. The paid message ilse !* >!: - ri nates by questions and phraseology ^ that whites may he teaching uogrocM ^ that, social equality may ho taught, w . Hid that the school may l?o a state 3 Insliutlon. ? "The facts could have been easily 0: entertained by the governor from tho J same source through which lie eo- ni cured the partial Information used In ?J this messa; o. Hrlefly stated, they aro n as follows: 3 ' The Port Royal Agricultural < school is a private school for uegroort and uses no public funds. The (our 6 trustees are white. Tho letter head in question was printed and for the negro principal fit his order and tor his use and so far as I know it is not used by any one else. Tho prnclpal is a graduate of Tuskccgco .and it Is hut natural that ho should refer to tho 11 principal of that school as one who R knows him. All the teachers of tho Port Royal school are negroes. k" "Nearly every school district in thin , state has negro schools in It anil each , of the white public school trustees of ?' this district is a trustee of negro schools. Clovernor Please hmseif was for some years a trustee of a negro college for which position he wan a candidate in 1002 before the logisia- 5 tore which elected him. So there Is e no objection to a white man acting , as a trustee to a negro school. Tho s only question Is tho kind of school he 1 is in charge of. "Tho attempt by the governor t?> 1 discredit me and others through this trusteeship is just such a one as was j, made in Heaufort county 10 years ago ' when I was first elected to the Hta'o ' senate." , 1 Pehind locked doors on Thursday night the South Carolina en gaged in a heated debate on whether 1 or not to expunge from its records tho ' message from Governor Hloose on Senator Christcnsen and the state ment by the latter along with i i.ho (iovernor's first message on ttio C matter, while the lobby of the Cap- ] itol was full of visitors wondering what the Senate was doing and waiti ing to see what the outcome might be. 1 The situation was the result of > two messages sent to the Senate by Governor I {lease, in which, among other statements, the Covernnr re- , i ferred to Senator Christensen ;ws h trustee of a negro school at Port Uoyi al, in Beaufort County. 'File state-* ' ments wore resented by Mr. Christen'. sen and his friends, who construed i the Governor's message as an at; tempt to reflect upon the integrity 5 of tho Senator from Beanfort. A motion to expunge the Govern-* i or's message meeting with opositlon, ? friends of tho Beaufort Senator re polled tho insinuations against their colleague and demanded that >o?tlee ' he accorded him. While the dlMan. sion raged different motions were ?f! fered. A resolution proposing the confidence of the Sonato in the in teg i uy o[ t,ne iseaurort Senator vrp about to bo Introduced whon a om> promise was agreed to, and a eorof mittee was appointed to consider ? the messages and report what disposition should bo made of thoro. A receRs, after a session of two , hours, was taken and the committed came back, and again the doors ?f tko r Senate Chamber wero locked. The committee asked for more time and this was granted, and the matter I went over until a future meeting. The Senate remained behind locked doors until 10:30 o'clock, aud the* lifted the seal of secrecy, and renamed open scftsion, finally adjonrning. / ?? ITIUKIO II UN lilHirKia Towic. A tornado Saturday hit the northern part of Moultrie, Ga., wrecking a planing mill, a dry kiln several small houses, a fifty foot brick wall and ?*rooting many trees. .? ? Four llurn to DoiitK. Panic-stricken when her clothea caught fire a little girl of lloeale, Quebec, Monday ran to two others, setting them af.ro. Thoir mother in trying to aid them, was killed. Wilson Sends Flower*. President Wilson Saturday wont Senator Tillman some flowers and u ' warm personal lottor, sympathising > with him In his recent attaek ot erysipelas.