The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 02, 1914, Image 3
FIGHT ON APEPEAL
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ItEMAllKAlH.K DIVISION A MONO
DKMC CU.VTS IN HOUSE.
WILL BE VOTED ON SOON
Senator Chamberlain Fires Opening
<?un in the Senate, Asking Secretary
of War to Furnish Data of
Other Navigable Streams, So as
Toll Can he Levied on Them Too.
Considerable speculation exists as
to the strength of the opposition to
the repeal of free tolls in both houses
of congress. It is an unusual situation
confronting the Democratic party
in the House, where the president
has arrayed himself against the majority
leader, Mr. Underwood; Representative
Fitzgerald, chairman of the
appropriations committee; Representfttivn
Tvitnliin n f Vnrtli Or. ..^.1!r.
rankng member of the ways and
means committee, and, according to
undecided reports, the Speaker of the
House. Whether Speaker Clark will
yield the gavel to take part in the
debate is a matter causing the repeal
champions considerable concern. The
speaker has given no Indication of
his intentions in this regard.
One of the first guns of opposition
to the repeal in tlie Senate was fired
Tuesday by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon, through the introduction of
a resolution calling upon the secretary
of war for all available information
as to the cost of maintenance of
navigable rivers and canals through
which all shipping, by an act passed
In 1 88 1, was guaranteed passage free
of tolls. In a preamble to the resolution
it was asserted that if the
policy of the government with relation
to Panama canal tolls is to be
reversed, the policy with reference to
all rivers and canals also should be
changed and tolls charged all shipping
to pay the government for maintaining
the waterways.
After setting forth the purposes
sought by the government in the act
of 1884, the Chamberlain resolution,
which calls upon the secretary of war
for information relating to maintenance
of rivers and canals, declares:
"Whereas, If the free tolls clauso
of the Panama canal act is to be repealed
and tolls are to be levied upon
vessels engaged in the coastwise
trado of the United States, the policy
of the government is to be completely
reversed and tho act of July 6,
1 884, ought to be repealed and tolls
charged upon all the improved waterways
and canals of the country so
mat mere mignt no unirorm system
for the use of these utilities.
"Therefore in anticipation of a
possible repeal of tho free tolls clauso
of tho Panama canal act and of a reversal
of tho time-honored policy of
tho United States with reference to
river and harbor improvement and
canal construction and operation of
these government utilities free of
charge to all commerce and in order
to ascertain tho facts in reference to
these improvements, be it resolved,
"That the secretary of war bo requested
to furnish to the Senato the
following information: First, the
amount expended by the United
States in river and harbor improvement
since tho adoption of the constitution;
second, the amounts expended
in the construction of canals
covering the same period of time;
third, tho amounts that tho several
states have raised to be used in cooperation
with tho United States;
fourth, the names of tho rivers which
have been improved and the amounts
that have been expended on each, the
harbors that have been improved and
the amounts that havo been expended
on each, the canals that havo been
constructed and improved and tho
amounts expended on each; fiifth, tho
total commerco in tonnage and in
value that passes through said rivers
and harbors and canals; sixth, what
charges are made for tolls on any
thereof, and what amount of tolls
would it bo necessary to charge on
each for tho purposo of reimbursing
the government for the expenditures
heretofore mado and for tho maintenance
and upkeep thereof; seventh,
what classes of vessels, whether
domestic or foreign, are permitted
to pass through on into each of these
rivers and harbors and canals, and
what discrimination, if any, is made
in favor of domestic shipping; eight,
what amount might bo realized by
the United States if a reasonable toll
were charged on all shipping passing
through Raid rivers and harbors and
canals; ninth, what, if any, treaties
are in force between the United
States from charging tolls against
such foreign governments even in
cases where it might be determined
to charge a toll on its own vessels
passing through such rivers, harbors
and canals, and tenth, what is the
present cost per annum to the United
States for maintaining ?and operating
said rivers, harbors and canals."
Hoy Hoses Fingers.
While playing with an axo Sunday
Willie Pittmau, four-year-old son of
B. F. Pittman, of Lancaster, cut off
his index finger and most of two
others.
The weather has moderated once I
more. '
WANTS NEW UNIVERSITY
CHUItCII TOLD TO GIVE VP CLAIM
TO VANDE1U11LT.
Idea to Use One Leading College
as Neuclus of New Southern Vuiversity.
Members of tho Methodist Episcopal
church are deeply aroused over
tho decisiou of tho supremo court of
Tennessee, when it held that Vanderhilt
university is under tho control
of the trustees and not of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South. This
decision enables tho trustees to accept
tho $1,000,000 gift from Andrew
Carnegie. Hut the decision was not
entirely unexpected, anil already
plans had been discussed in event of
tho loss of the suit by the church.
Bishop Wilson, with the lato
Bishop Galloway, accepted Vanderbilt
university oillcially as an institution
of tho church at tho general
conference in 1S9S. Bishop Denny
was for eighteen years a member of
tho Vanderbilt faculty. Bishop Hoss
lias made that institution his special
interest for many years, has taken
active part in tho controversy from
its inception, and was really tho one
first to institute tho suit for the
courts to decido whether the church
or tho trustees had control of tho
property and tho government of tho
university.
There has been no public announcement
of tho plans under construction,
but the course warmly advocated
by many influential preachers
and laymen in the Southern Methodist
church is to sever every connection
possible with Vanderbilt university
and to found a now university
or tako one of the leading Southern
Methodist colleges as a nucleus for
its foundation. Atlanta and several
others large cities of the South have
offered largo inducements for founding
such a university in their borI
ders.
Already thero has been $1,000,000
pledged, the site granted and a
building begun at Dallas, Tox., on
what is proposed to bo the "Southorn
Methodist university", and at the
coming general conference will be
put forward for official endorsement
as the accepted central educational
institution of the denomination. All
this matter will bo decided at the
general conference, which meets in
him Duuiiiiui <1 l uKianoma uuy, OKia.
GIVEN CLOSE INSPECTION.
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Details of Methods l>y Which Hails
Are Tested.
Details of tho methods by which
every rail in the'Southern Railway's
7,036 miles of track is annually subjected
to tho closest inspection aro
given in the March issue of the
Southern News Bulletin in an article
telling of the steps which tho Southern
has taken to prevent derailments
resulting from broken rails.
Tho system of inspection which
was adopted over two years ago Is
believed the most rigid and effective
possible. The work is under tho
direction of tho district engineers and
division roadmasters and Is done by
the track supervisors and section
foremen who closely scrutinize each
and every rail while on their hands
and knees and with eyes close enough
to tho rail to detect the slightest discoverable
tendency toward weakness
or failure and wherever such are
found tho rail is immediately removed.
Detailed reports aro made on
each rail loft in tho track so that
comparison can bo made at the next
year's Inspection.
Tho management of the Southern
Railway feels that this rigid inspection
of every rail over which its
trallic moves embodies every possible
step toward tho prevention of rail
failures, a featuro of railway operation
to which tho officials of leading
American railways have been giving
tho closest study daring tho past few
years.
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TALKS TO DYING BOY.
President's Eyes Are Teardimined as
Grants Desire of Lad.
Tho president of the United States
laid aside tho cares of state for a
short while Monday to cheer a pale,
weak lad of twelve who was brought
to tho White House on a stretcher.
Harry Winthrop Davis, of Sowickley,
Ponn., was the president's caller. Ho
is paralyzed and his strength is slow
ly ebbing.
IIo told the president how he had
prayed to see him until his mother
had arranged a meeting through Mrs.
Wilson. The president's eyes wero
dimmed as ho walked away after
chatting for several minutes with the
lad.
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Hoy Scared to Death.
Tho sudden honking of a flock of
geese Saturday frightened Frank
Chunk, ten years old, of Racine, Wis.,
into convulsions. The boy, who had
a weak heart, died shortly afterwards.
Confesses He Killed Five.
Arthur Gill told tho police of Now
Orleans Tuesday that he waa an escaped
convict, having killed five men
in Florida. He said he wanted to see
his mother and sisters.
WHAT WILSON SAID
GIYKS 111S PKItSON'AL IMPRESSION'S
Or PUESIOKNCY.
TELLS PEOPLE ABOUT IT
?
President, as Guest of National Press
Club at Washington, Throws Aside
Formality and Frankly Gave llis
Experience as President of This
Country.
Woodrow Wilson unbosomed liimself
to members of tho National Press
elub, of Washington, Friday, telling
them in a frank, conversational way
how he felt as president of the Unlter
States, how dillicult for him to
imagine himself as tho chief executive
with tho formal amenities of the
position and how he had struggled to
ho as free as tho ordinary Individual
without the restraint of his oflico.
It was an intimato picture of
Woodrow Wilson, tho man, drawn by
himself, on tho occasion of tho
"house warming" at the Press club's
new quarters. Tho president did not
intend to have his remarks made public,
but later, at tho requost of the
club, he unusual speech was made
public. It follows:
"I was just thinking of my sense
of confusion of identity, sometimes,
when I read articles about myself. I
never have read an article about mv
solf in which I recognized myself, and
I havo come to have the impression
that I must bo some kind of a fraud,
because I think a great many of these
articles are written in absolutely good
faith. I tremble to think of the variety
and falseness in the impressions
I make?and it is being borne in on
me that it may change my very disposition?that
I am a cold and removed
person who has a thinking machine
inside which ho adjusts to the circumstances,
which ho does not allow to
bo removed by any winds of affection
or emotion of any kind, but turns like
a cold searchlight on anything that
is presented to his attention and
makes it work.
Hard to Kostrain Emotions.
"I am not awaro of having any detachable
apparatus inside of me. On
the contrary, if I were to interpret
myself I would say that my constant
embarrassment is to restrain the emo
I (ions that are inside of me. You may
j not believe it, but I sometimes feel
like a far from extinct volcano, and if
the lava does not seem to spill over it
is because you are not high enough to
see Into the basin and see the caldron
boil. Because, truly, gentlemen, in
the position which I now occupy there
is a sort of?I don't know how else to
express it than to say?passionate
sense of being connected with my fellow
men in a peculiar relationship of
responsibility. Not merely the responsibility
of ofllce, but God knows,
there are enough things in this world
that need to bo corrected.
' I have mixed, first and last, with
all sorts and conditions of men?
there are mighty few kinds of men
that have to be described to me, and
there are mighty few kinds of experiences
that have to bo described to
me?and when I think of the number
of men who aro looking to me as the
representative of a party, with the
hope of all varieties of salvation from
the things they aro struggling in the
midst of, it makes me tremble. It
makes mo tremblo not only with a
sense of my own inadequacy and
weakness, but as if I were shaken by
the very things that aro shaking
them; and if I seem circumspect, it is
because I am so diligently trying not
to make any colossal blunders. Tf
you just calculated the number of
blunders a fellow can make in twenty-four
hours If ho is not careful and
if ho does not listen more than he
talks, you would see something of
tho feeling that I havo.
Uses A11 It rains in IJcach.
"I was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Nowlands made.
I had read him tho trust messago I
was to deliver to Congress some ten
days beforo I delivered it, and I never
stop 'doctoring' things of that kind
until the day I havo to deliver them.
When ho heard it read to congress he
said, 'I think it was better than when
you read it to me.' I said, 'Senator,
there is ono thing which I don't think
you understand. I not only use all
tho brains I have, but all I can borrow,
and I havo borrowed a lot sinco
I read it to you first.'
"That, I dare say, is what gives
the Impression of circumspectness. I
am listening; I am trying diligently
to collect all tho brains that are borrowablo
that I may not makj more
kl.. M J it ? A _ ' * 4
uiunutMH uuin it is ineviiaDio tnat a
man should make who has groat limitations
of knowledgo and capacity.
And tho emotion of the things is so
groat that I suppose I must liavo some
kind of a mask to conceal it. I really
feel sometimes as if I were masquerading
when I catch a plcturo of myself
In some printed description. In
between things that I liavo to do as a
public officer, I never think of myself
as tho president of the Unltod
States, because I have never had a
sense ^f being identified as such.
"I feel Just as much outside of It
as I still feel outside of the government
of tho United Stat*".
tt Is Only Mo".
"No man coukl Imaglno himself
tho government of tho United States;
but ho could understand that some
part of his follow citizens had told
him to go and run a certain part of It
tho best ko know how. That would
not make him tho government Itself
or tho thing itself. It would Just
make him responsible for running it
tho best ho know how. Tho machtno
is so much greater than himself; tho
oflico is so much greater than himself;
tho oflico is so much greater
than ho can over be, and the most ho
can do is to look gravo enough and
self-possessed enough to seem to 1111
it. 1 can nardly refrain every now
and again from tipping the public tho
wink, as much as to say 'it is only
me* that is lnsldo this thing. I
know perfectly well that I will have
to get out presently. I know that
then 1 will look just my own proper
size, and that for tho time being the
proportions aro somewhat refracted
and misrepresented to tho eyo by tho
largo thing I am insldo of. from
which I am tipping you this wink.
"For example, take matters of this
sort; I will not say whether it is
wise or unwise, simple or grave, but
certain precedents have been established
that in certain companies the
president must leave tho room first,
and people must glvo way to him.
They must not sit down if ho is standing
up. It is a very uncomfortable
thing to have to think of all tho other
people every time I get up and sit
down, and all that sort of thing. So
that when I get guests in my house
tho public is shut out, I adjourn boing
president and take leave to bo o
gentleman. If they draw back and
insist upon my doing something first,
I firmly decline. They are blessed in
tervals when I forget by 0110 means
or another that I am president of the
United States.
ldkes Detective Stories.
"One means by which I forget Is to
get a rattling good detectlvo story,
after some imaginary offender, and
chase him all over?preferably any
continent but this, because tho various
parts of this continent are bocoining
painfully suggestive to me.
The post offices, and many other
things, which stir reminiscence have
'sicklied them o'er with a palo cast
of thought'.
"There are post offices to which I
would not think of mallipg a letter,
which I can't think of without trembling
with the knowledge of all the
heartburnings of tho struggle there
was in connection with getting somebody
installed as postmaster.
"Now if I were freo 1 would come
not infrequently up to these rooms.
You know, T was in Washingtn but a
few times and for a very few hours
until I came last year, and I never
expect to see tho insido of tho public
buildings in Washington until my
term is over. The minute I turn up
anywhere I am personally conducted
to beat tho band. Tho curator and
tho assistant curators and every other
blooming official turns up, and
thoy show mo so much attention that
I don't see tho building. I would
have to say, 'Stand aside and let mo
seo what you are showing me.'
See Washington Later.
"Some day after I am through with
this oflico I am going to come back to
Washington and see it. In tho meantime,
I am in tho same category as
the National Museum, the Monument,
the Smithsonian Institute or
the Congressional Library. If I only
knew an exhibition appearance to assume?apparently
I can assume other
appearances that do not show what
is going on inside?I would like to
have it pointed out, so that I could
practice it before tho looking glass
and see if I could not look like the
monument. Being regarded as a national
exhibit would bo much simpler
than being shaken hands with by tho
wholo United States.
"And vet this is interesting to me,
simply because I like human beings.
It is a pretty poor crowd that does
not interest you. I think they would
tliiun In l>n nil ni/\?r.l./.-~ ~ ? 11 1 1
?u<u <.?> u\j mi mciuuura ?J1 lUUl CIUSS
that devotes itself to 'expense regardless
of pleasure' in order to bo entirely
uninteresting. Tlieso look so much
alike?spend their time trying to look
so much alike?and so relievo themselves
of all responsibility of thought
?that they aro very monotonous indoed
to look at; whereas, a crowd
picked up off tho street is Just a Jolly
lot?a job lot of real human beings,
pulsating with life, with all kinds of
passions and desired.
Thinks of Disguising.
"It would bo a great pleasuro if,
unobserved and unattended, I could
be knocked around as I have boon accustomed
to being knocked around
all my life; if I could resort to any
delightful quarter, to any placo in
Washington that I choose. I havo
sometimes thought of going to somo
customer's?somo theatrical custom/.h'r.
?? J V. 1 ' * * '
<-i n?auu uuymg uii asaorimont of]
boards, rougo and coloring and all
tbo known means of disguising myself,
if it were not against the law.
You seo, I have a scruple as president
against breaking the law, and disguising
one's self is against the. law, but
if I could disguise myself and
not get caught I would go out,
bo a free American citizen onco
moro and havo a Jolly tlmo. I might
then meet some of you gentlemen and
actually tell you what I really
thought."
The president talked entirely Informally.
Ho wore a sack suit and
9tood with his hands in his pockets
as he spoke. He was in a happy
WINS FIRST TEST
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\Y1I-SON smites VH'TOllY IN
(X>.\AIi TOLIjS HKPKAIj FK*I1T.
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HOUSE LIMITS DEBATE
Adopts Ilulc for Only Twenty Hours
Debute and No Amendments to IhAllowed
? I'nderwiKMl, Clark,
Kiteliln, Fitzgerald, Among Democrats
Opposink President.
President Wilson Friday won the
opening skirmish of the greatest legislative
battle of his administration
with the House over bitter protest
from Democratic leaders and almost
solid minority opposition when the
House adopted a special rule for the
consideration of the bill repealing the
freo tolls provisions of the Panama
I canal act. Speaker Clark, Democratic
Leader Underwood. Republican
Leader Mann and Progressive Leader
Murdoek headed those lined up
against the administration, but the
House responded to the president's
personal plea for prompt consideration
of the repeal bill as a means of
supporting his administration's for
eign poucy.
Two votes demonstrated tho president's
commanding inlluenco with his
party in congress. On tho first test,
a motion to end debate and preclude
amendment on tho rule carried by a
vote of 1107 to 176. Tho rule itself
was adopted 200 to 17 2.
Nothing to compare with tho scene
Friday had occurred in tho House
sinco tho famous Cannon rules light
four years ago. In vain Representative
Underwood took tho floor and
urged his colleagues to vote against
tho rule. Tho rank and file of Democrats,
after listening to three hours
of passionate argument, swung into
the president's column, 195 of thorn
voting to prevent tho amendment of
tho special rule, whilo 55 followed
tho leaders in Joining with the minority
in opposition.
Friday night administration supporters
considered tho crucial point
passed, and jubilantly predicted the
passago of tho repeal bill itself Tuesday
or Wednesday by a majority of
more than 100. Several of tho 20
hours allotted under tho rule for debate
had been consumed when tho
llouso adjourned, and witli tho
speecnmaKing continued without interruption
it was thought the final
voto could bo reached lato Tuesday.
Tho roll call was taken in silenco,
tho crowded floor and galleries tense
with excitement, after an hour of dohate.
Throughout tho day tho chamber
had been crowded and tho galleries
filled to overflowing. The announcement
of Speaker Clark against
the rule caused high feeling and
every influence availablo was brought
to bear on doubtful ones. As a result
when tho strugglo began both
sides wero keyed up to a high pitch.
With lvepresentaUyo Undorwood,
Speaker Clark and Representative
Fitzgerald, on tho minority side, tho
Democratic majority, for tho time
recognized as leaders Representative
Ilenry, chairman of the rules committee;
Representative Adanison,
chairman of tho interstato and foreign
commerce committeo; Roprosontativo
Palmer of Pennsylvania, Representative
Hardwick of Georgia,
Representative Shorley of Kentucky
and other prominent figures supporting
the president's position.
Only eight Republicans joined
with tho majority in support of tho
administration program, but leaders
on both sides Friday night conceded
that many Republicans who voted
against tho preliminary administration
plans eventually would voto for
the repeal. Tho solid prncmaaUfn
delegation of tho House, led by Representative
Murdock of Kansas, was
aligned against tho majority.
President Wilson's triumph was
considered most notablo by tho rank
and file of all parties because of tho
unusual alignment of forces within
the Democratic ranks. Two men who
had sought with him tho presidential
nomination at tho hands of tho party
?ono tho speaker of tho House, tho
other tho floor leader of tho dominant
party?wero opening and actively arrayed
against him.
Speaker Clark, though ho did not
tako tho floor, had issued his eleventh
hour attack upon tho plan to limit
debate, and announced that ho would
speak against tho repeal bill Tuesday.
Representative Underwood, who has
been in tho open against tho president
on tho issuo, pleaded urgently
against tho rulo, and later delivered
an attack on President Wilson's policy,
denouncing tho repeal of tho toll
^xomption as an economic nil?tnto
and declaring tho president to bo
! wrong in his conclusion that exemp!
tion is in violation of tho HayPauncefoto
treaty.
i Other Democratic chieftains,
among thorn Representatives Kitchin
of North Carolina, broko with tho
i
I mood and his remarks wero constantly
punctuated with laughter and api
plauso. Mr. Wilson is a mombor of
tho Press club, having boon elocted as
an author long boforo ho bocamo
president. Members of the cabinet.
Speaker Clark and many officials also
were guests of the newspaper men.
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president. Yet in tho face of thia
opposition from men who heretofore
had hut to raise their voices to havo
tho DemocratH of the House follow
them, tho president won within tho
party membership by nearly 4 to 1,
Democrats who voted against the previous
question on the rule and thus
against the administration were:
Aiken, Brookson, Itrousard, Bruck*
ner, Caraway, Carew, Conry, Dale,
Doltrlck, Difenderfer, Donohoo, I>oolIng,
Flnley, Fitzgerald, Gorman,
Goulden, Graham (Illinois), Griffin,
Harrison, Helm, Igoo, Jones, Kendal,
Klrkpatrick, Leo (Pennsylvania),
L'Rrglo, Logue, Mr Andrews, MoDerniott,
Mahan, Mahor, Mitchell, Morgan
(Louisiana), Murray (Massachusetts),
Murray (Oklahoma), O'Leary,
O'Shaughnesay, Patten (New York),
Phelan, Hagsdale, Baker, Sherwood,
Stone, Taylor (Arkansas), Taylor
(Colorado) Thomas, Underwood, Williams,
Wingo and Speaker Clark.?
Total, 55.
Representative Kitchin of North
Carolina voted against, tho previous
question on the roll rail hut changed
his vote to "present" just, before tho
result was announced. Republicans
who voted for the previous question
were: Bartholdt, Brown (Wisconsin),
Otllott (Massachusetts), Gardner
(Massachusetts), McKenzie,
Madden, Steenerson and Stevens
(Minnesota). Total, 7.
When debate on tho special rule
began in the House, Representatives
Adamson and Hard wick for tho administration
attacked Spoakor Clark's
position and in reply Renrosontatlvo
Underwood niado liia urgent plea for
support "from tho colleagues who
have held up my hands In this
I louse."
When tho debate closed and tho
droning voice of tho clerk had called
tho rolls, tho Democratic Houso
leaders had boon repudiated and tho
president's appeal answered.
With tho cloturo rule in force the
House immediately began tho 20
hours of general debate on tho repeal
bill.
Representative Sims of Tennessee,
tho author of tho repeal .bill, mado
tho first speech In support of his
measure. Ho was interrupted froquently
by applause and cheers, in
which tho crowds In tho galleries occasionally
joined. IIo argued at
length against tho economic policy of
tho free passage of American ships
through tho canal.
Debate against the repeal was
opened by Representative Underwood,
who argued to show that under tho
various treaties tho United Staios has
tho right to proscribe such tolls as
it deems necessary for vessels using
tho canal. Tho Houso cheered tho
majority leader's argument, based on
tho treaties between America and
C.roat. Tiritain, in which ho held that
tho United States has tho sovereign
control of tho canal zono, and declared
that to repeal tho free tolls,
provision was to surrender that right.
Great Rritaln, ho said, could not
properly contend that tho United
States undor tho troatlos la not free
to exempt Its ships from tolls as it
soes nt. e
Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania
told the Domocrata that opposition
within the party ranks to the
president In this matter virtually
amounted to "impeachment of either
tho veracity of or tho Intelligence of
tho president. "Tho country never
has failed heretofore to sustain every
president who spoke for the country,"
said he, "whether his utterance
meant peaco or called for war."
HOY FIGIITS POLICE.
Fifteen-Year-Old
Lml Stands Off a
Squad of Officers.
A 15-year-old boy, barricaded In a
gun shop, held off a squad of Terro
Ilauto, Ind., police with a continuous
revolver llro Tuesday until wounded
In many places, and his clothes
blood-soaked ho staggered from his
fortress and surrendered. Tho lad?
Krnest McWilliams?was found in
tho gun ship and when his surrender
was demanded ho replied with a fusillado.
In tho battle that followed
all tho window nanes In
wero shattered and an automobile,
which the boy had taken refuge, was
riddled with bullets from tho ofllcors'
weapons.
DESERTS FOR LOVE.
Mexican Commander Surrendered
Doat to Sweetheart's Father.
Lovo for tho daughter of tho rebel
general at Topolobampo, Mex., caused
Lieut. Malpica, executivo oiftcer of
tho former Federal gunboat Tampioc,
to forget his allegiance to Prosideut
nuena and surrender the war craft
to his sweetheart's father according
to the story told by passengers arriving
at San Diego, Cal , Friday, from
ports on tho west coast. Lieut. Malpioa
met the giri, who is now his wife,
some time ago. At her request ho
left a safe port with his vesso', which
ho lator handed over to tho rebels.
Kills Ills Brother-in-Law,
J. W. Watkins, of Cartersvllio, Oa.?
was mortally wounded Wednesday by
his brother-in-law, Auburn Bailey,
aftor disputing about $150.
Town Turns Into Farm. |j
Dyca, Alaska, formerly a town of
20,000 in the days of tho Klondike
boom, has been parceled out to three
homesteaders for farms.