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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 120 Weekly, Established 1SC0; Dally, Jan. 13, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS $5.00 PER ANNUM Mediators Put Solution . Squarely Up To Warri Niagara Fallu, Ontnrio, June 24. ""erins for composing all international oifferencea between the United States and Mexico have been concluded. The conditions ender which diplomatic re lations will bc rosumed were embod-l lcd in a protocol signad tonight by the ambassador from Brazil, the ministers from ''bile and Argentina and the American and Huerta delegates. j The character o? the settlement is not expected to arouse opposition! Jfrom the constitutionalists who would participate'in it, and to a large' degree, it would mould the adjustment of till internal disputes. Wlhen p. new provisional government is established to succeed that headed i by General Huerta the result of med-! iation-recognized as a triumph for. Pan-American diplomacy-will be come effective. Coincidentally with the action taken ? tonight it was announced that the ac tual selection of a provisional presi dent, and the organization of the new, government, will be left to an infor mal conference of representatives of the constitutionalists-Luis Cabrera, rafael Zubaran and Jose VutconceloB -and the Huerta delegates to the mediation conference. No formal adjournment of media tion will be taken but there will bc uo session while representatives of the two Mexican factions endeavor to agree on the personnel . of thc neW government, agrarian and education al reforms nud other Internal prob . lcm?. The Wny Fated. Tonight's formal session of m?diat ors and delegates prepared the way for the, complete settlement of didi- ' eu lt les between the United State* and b'^^^om^r^^^m^c^ tocata te the stars ;ami 'stripes'./v:**-;r xv . Tb?Vsif^?e^ ih?.ptwbcoj'!svthaVthe Internal prob lem ab??l ba declared adjusted on the est?bttsbment ci a nsw provisional government. The protocol sets forth: "That the United States and Argen tina, Brazil and Chile-the mediating countries-shall recognize the new provisional government and that thenceforth diplomatic relations be tweon the United States and Mexico shall bo reusmed. "That the United States de mands no indemnity and does not fur .. tier exact satisfaction for any of the incidents connected with tho patrol of Mexican waters and. invasion or the country. . -r " "That a commission shall be ap pointed to adjust prlvato claims grow ing out or the revolution and inter national incidents." Tho protocol . was dratted Tiri y to day and its phraseology telegraphed / to Washington for approval. > Wilson Approves. / At 9. o'clock tonight word 'came from President Willson and Secretary Bryan authorizing the American dele gates to sign it* ' mauds of United Stat (By Associated Press) of Mexican Troubles ng Factions -; De es Fully Outlined The effort to finish work on inter national points in the peace plan so that all might be complete before the beginning of informal meeting* of constitutionalists nod Huerta repre sentatives has been in progress since Friday. Then Secretary Bryan noti fied Minister Naoo in Washington1 that the American government desir ed to have the constitutionalists and Huerta delegates to comporb tho'.r differences ai- a previous condition 'or the settling of the international prob-1 lem. The results of the mediators* work | tonight places thc ls?.-ic now squarely before the representatives of the two warring ructions. On them will rest the responsibility for failure or suc cess' of the peace plans as a whole. Cabrera, Zubaran and Vasconcelos,' t ie constitutionalist delegates, are in [ Washington and should arlve here in) a day or taw*. Calderon Substitute. The sending to Washington of Fer nando Iglesias Calderon, who it badi hrfen expected would head the con stitutionalist delegation, caused some r-onfusion In plans, but lt was believed tonight that Calderon's mission to the c:?p!lal merely was to substitute for Cubaran during bis absence I rom Washington. Cabrera and Vasconce los originally were designated by l?en eral Carranza to attend the mediation) conferences. There was little said here tonight about General Villa's attitude toward thc sending of delegates, but it was believed he was in thorough accord with the proposition. Reliable Infor mation has come that.he is .ready to accept" the resuU...of. the conferences end it is not unlikely that^he will be tiasaadojr da Gama gave vit a state ment embracing"' the protocols . signed tonight. He announced that three ar ticle* bf tjie peace plan had been pro tocoled and that these related only to the International s! of the Mcxi- j can problem. "We deemed i? .. isable," he said. | "to invite the constitutionalist pa;-, to send dclagatcs to discuss with the j Mexican delegatos the Int //nal as pects of the problem." Troops Sot MenMonedL It was decided by the mediators and delegates to postpone considera tion of the exact date when American forces1 shall be withdrawn from Vera Cruz. This, as well as the personnel of the new provisional government in Mexico, will be protocolizad after the conferences between the constitution alists and Huerta delega-c-- adjourn. While the informed con^---"?es arc in session, Ambassador dr Gama of Brazil and possibly Minist :r Suarez, of Chile, will take a rhort vacation. Assurances that the constitutionalists would be represented at tho informal conferences came direct to mediators today from Luis Csbrora, confidential representative of General Carranza In | Washington. Last Huerta Stronghold Falls Before Gen. Villa (By Associated Press.) seriously wounded and General Mac El Paso, Tex., June 24.-Zacatecas, lovio Herrera was Bligh tl y wounded." an important city bt Central Mexico, The IOBB to Villa's troop was report fell into the hand* of tho constitution- cd as 2,200 in killed and wounded. allBts at sundowb yesterday according -The federal loss waa not given. Two to announcement tonight by/aeneral generals, Trinidad Rodriguez and Mac Villa's officials here. Two of Villa's lovio Herrera, were reported wound gonerals were wounded. ed- while General .Toriblo, according The con&i:t:>Uonallats ; were heavy to an unconfirmed. report was killed. Insers, sccoroiig to an official dis- The telegraph is working badly and patch.- No rurntion ia made of the no press dispatches bav? arrived, federal k'.iled, but Rf ls said many The city fell, according.to the of prlsoners were captured with much ftclal report at 6 p. m., Tuesday, arms anl ammunition. 1 " ft was believed VUta'a lack, of ef- Washington, Juno 24.-Reporta of fectlve artillery ammunition had made the capture of Zacatecas yesterday by it necessary to rush federal positions Gen. Villa's troops after a . bloody with infantry, taking the City by sUd- tattle came to the State depart men den attack which,-.according to of fi-, latb. tonight in despatches from'Con cia! reports j resulted lp the capture g?lte Carothers and Edwards, quoting of a large portion of tho garrison and constitutionalist authorities at Juarez, its munitions. '"' ' Pew details were given. ' Up to a late hour oi^ly one official Extraordinary Interest attached to and no press messages bad arrived the fighting at Zacatecas, for ' there from-Uta front. . have1 been strong intimations that on . ITh? border city of Juare* immedl- the outcome of the battle lhere might atoly began a celebration. depend tho willingness of the .con?ti~ ' Th? telegram desorlblng the victory tutiohallsts to accept thc 'American was received by Colonel Ornelas, the invitation to informally discuss penco Juarez commander, and by Lazaro de plans at Niagara Palls. General VII lia Garza, Villa's''agent here. It was la ls expected to continue his march signed by General, Orestes Pereyra, southward, massing his forces against commander at Torrfion, and read: .. j Agcuas Calientes, where-? Huerta's ?,' "I have the , honor to communicate, broken ranks are preparing , to form to you- that y?st?rilay* at 6 p. m:, thb. for'.what may be their last stand be important cl ty.' of Zacatecas was cap-1 tweon tho constitutionalists and Mex? ; tared by the foiees of the division leo City. of the north. - We took roany prisoner* i ---^-i and <?ptured a larg? ????nt?ty of anf- Dump ?mK? ?oi ?decirte railroad? ' munition and arma. * There " were which ar,-? emptied by motors, thus largo losses on our side. saving labor, have been invented by a "General Trinidad Rodriguez was Connection', man. LAWLESSNESS GIVENAROAST MR. POLLOCK ATTACKS THE GOVERNOR FOR WIDE OPEN CRIME CHARLESTON BARS' Running Wide Open and the Peo ple of Other Sections Are Dis criminated Against Special to. Tue Intelligencer. Ridgeland, June 24.-Jasper coun ty had little opportunity to lake the pedigrees of the trio of candidates who angled for votes at Ridgeland today. A wreck on the Charleston and Wertern Carolina railroad de tained the party in Beaufort until 1:30 in the ufternoon. . Of the 700 vo ters who had come to town early in the day to hear each aspirant dis eurs the different issues, not more than 300 remained until 4 o'clock when the speaking began. Then each of the speeches war- limited to 20 minutes. While the people from the country were patiently awaiting the arrival of the train from Beaufort, R. M. Mixon. who ir opposing Congressman Byrnes, of the recond district made a brief ad dress to the voterr of Jasper county. This candidate slightly muddied the waters of Senator Smith hy springing in advance. one of his pet joke:; as L. D. Jennings did at Beaufort. In the brief hour here today the candi dates had small opportunity to devel op any new angles to their customa ry speeches; what they had to say was carefully said, chiefly by what was left unmentioned. Jennings, who bar been walking with hobnailed boots over the chief executive's neck, in diocuEsing the pardon record, did not even mention the governor's name. . Pollock enid if elected that it would not be due to any political ma t;hloo. like the goy tir ncr'!), built up hy. . ?iwHtTOl^ or" like g?h'a tor' Sinith's madlino, which is, based on the free distribution of pumpkin seed which "wouldn't come up." The speaker again referred to the wide open blind tigers in Charleston and thc reckless disregard fer law whick he said honeycombed the city. Mr. Pollock reminded the people here, as he did in Beaufort yesterday, of the bars in Charleston which he said were in full operation last Sunday, run by "that Dago, Sottile" a member of the governor's staff. "What" con tinued th? speaker, "has the chief ex ecutive done to better conditions? If lt's , all right for Charleston, why wrong for the people here in Jasper county?" This precipitated a volley of ques tions from the audience, one wishing to kn" ?V "what are we doing there?" Other: asked why didn't you swear out a warrant, you were a citizen of South Carolina?" The speaker brush ed his querist? aside by answering that he didn't have to go into the bar to Bee what, was going on that he was not a citizen ot Charleston county nor an officer sworn to enforce the lav.. Senator Smith Well Received Senator' Smith made bis. usual speech, setting forth with- SB much detail as the time would permit his efforts to have enacted a fair contract between the stock exchange bears and the cotton producers, also of the strug gler ne had to "paint Uncle Ephrlam off the picture,'* his characteristic way of Baying that he had placed tho farmers on the same basis under, the new banking and currency law as the banker and .the broker. The senator elicited much applause when he said that he was running in the race like the negroe's "cavalry mule" when, the driver bad forgotten the stopping word, "halt. Senator Smith wa?, presented With a bunch of beautiful flowers which he said would not be ured at his political funeral, but. would be pressed in memory of those wbe tfttidc heroic efforts to get to the United States senate.- Mr. Jen nings raid he didn't believe that he was talking to a people that could be fooled. 'Wo one with an ounce of sense," he said, "believes that cotton jumps up every time Senator Smith sits down." Most of his time, however, was given to a frank discussion of the new pri mary rules,' which ho said "are ot more importance to. all factions just now thad what Senator Smith says he has done for the price, of cot ton." ? . Adjourned Frlatless. Columbus, June 24-Having failed On. a new wage scale for .46,000 strik ing miners in Ohio, the Joint confer ence of operators and miners adjorrn ed sine die herb today. ' The mooting Was tho third of its kind. ' Warrant For T. Cobb. Detroit, June 24.-A Warrant was issued today for the arrest of Tyrus Cobb, the baseball player, on a charge of - disturbing the peace The com plaint was made by William L. Car penter, a m out dealer with .whom Cobb had an altercation Saturday night. Cobb was in Battle Creek today attending the Southern Michigan Lea gue flag raising ceremonies: MINERS ONCE MORE ARE UN DER CONTROL AND ARE RESTING ONE MAN IS DEAD The Rioting Tuesday Night R? sulter1 Tn the Death of One and Others Hurt -1 1 (By Associated Press) Butte. Mont, Juue 24.-Butte was quiet today after a night of rioting cauced by internitl strife, in the West ern Federation ol Miners which coat the life of one man, inj aries lo four others and heavy properly loss. Mayor Duncan, ho wovor, would not commit himself as lo turmoil being at an end. He fears reprisals between the factions, but said he would not ask for troopB as he oeltv " ? the she tiff should make that r3*4'iAst. Thc sheriff bas taken no act iud to wa. d that eud. . . \ v Citizens said the) looked to Gov ernor Stewart at Helena for a solution of the trouble. Churles H. Moyer, president of the fedeiatlpn and others who were driven frimV the miners' hall under fire, appealed to the gover nor at Helena today for l?tate control at Butte.. . i Thc minos worked as'qsual and so far the operating companies have not been brought into" the controversy, lt was officially announced the mice owners have taken no.' part in the factional fight. f{ Altogether 2B0 pounds of dynamite was exploded in the streets of Butte last night in four hours. The dyna mite was obtained by rioters from a mine after the .engineer bod beeh forced to lower the -doters to the pow der magazine. " "M- K - , One man stood in the middle of the street In front ot tho Miners' Union Hall, cut boles In sticks, inserted caps and fuses and then tossed -he dyna mite into 'he building. Pistol shots warned the crowds tn the streets to fall back when thc fuses were lighted. Civil authorities mode no attempt to stop the rioting. "Mayor Duncan expressed the opinion that more se rious trouble was averted by not mak ing arr?ts. J. J. McCafery, county attorney, an nounced he would investigate the riot ous acts of the crowd last night and that if he obtained evidence he would prosecute. Secedcrs continue to sign members for the new union formed Sunday. They asserted they had no part in the.trouble last night and that they counselled peace. Deputies Didn't Fire. Sheriff Driscoll denied today that he had deputies in the Union hall last night and that any of his deputies fired into the crowd. Governor Stewart offered state aid iu bringing, about peace here in a telegram tonight to President Mc Donald, ot the new miners union. The message reads :. "The state administration standB ready to assist in bringing about peace and harmony between -the miners in the-Butte district. Can we aid in pre paring plans for arbitration or in any other manner? We will be glad to conf?re with you or your representa tives, and will cheerfully assist you in any solution of the difficulties, if it Is within our power." President McDonald replied: "Thanks. We need no assistance. Disturbing element frone from here. Whole thing caused by Moyer'und men who shot from ball. Will keep you posted." . AND?RSON GOES ON TOE NEW MAP Commissioner Watson Preparing a New Road Book, Columbia To Mountains ? ' Special tp The, Intelligencer. Columbia. June 24.-The Governor today paroled George Owens, who was convicted in Charleston on. the charge of astault and.battery with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years. Comm lest oner Watton bald today that he would at an early date prepare a epectal road route book for the highways , of the mountains. The road to Anderson will be included. Mem berf. of the railroad commission leave tcuiorrow to inspect the South ern raliway in -the Piedmont section of the. state. Bankers and business men from all sections of the state have been called to meet tn Columbia Saturday to dis cuss plans for sending a South Caro lina exhibit to the Panama-Pacific ex position. SOME OF JOHN G RICHARD'S . REMARKS AT FLORENCE WERE HISSED A NOISY MEETING Clinkocales Seemed to Be The Favorite With the Crowd At This Meeting Special to Tho Intelligencer. Florence, Jun. 24.-Greater display of factionalism than at any previous meeting by voters and caudidules alike marked a rather warm meeting here today of candidates for state of fices, attended by probably eight hun dred persons. | Compulsory education was strougly endorsed when lohn C. Clfnksrales of. Spartanburg, the compulsory educa tion advocating candidates for Hover-, nor, was given a heany reception by the men and particularly by a large number of women attending the meet Ins'. Cllnckaiales devoted part of bk? address to a mild denunciation of his. opponent, John G. Richards of Lib-1 erty HUI, whom bc called upon to ru-' sign from b's of ll cc as chalnnin ot thc railroad e?mmlsslon before nssjut, bira (Clinkscr?ies) to relinquish his profes'iorship at V/cJIord colloije. The remainder of htr- speech wan given to an ex position of th?* needs of a state wide coir pulsory education law. ? I Cheers and hisses and cat calls greeted John G. Richards, candidate for governor when bc mode his us-' ual denunciation of those unnamed persons charging him with being a coat-tall swinger. F/.chards' address contained more of factional liding than any previously mad?? by any candidate, and indication- of half dormant factionalism were shown, by Cthe-crowd^ .,2.^v;1 . ' "It ls all right when th? dogs1 "abd scum of Georgia vote your way, it is all wrong when they don't," asserted B. Frank Kelly, of Lee county, cau didate for Lieutenant' Governor, when attacking his opponent, J. A. Hunter a< forme1- Georgia school teacher for op-i posing the Fortner bill providing for separation of the races in the schools and denouncing the recent revision of the primary rules. I Again factionalism crept Into the meetiug .when Attorney Generali Thomas ll. Pcepj__, ot' Barnwell, can dldpte for re-election, declared that I he is being opposed because his elec tion two yea IT ago wan due to his af filiation with Governor Bleus _ In state ' politics. 1 "The recent investigation or tb? State Asylum was directly brought1 Into the campaign for the lirst time' when J. A.. Hunter of Bamber. In the race for Lieutenant Governor called upon B. Frank Kelley, who had made some stinging remarks regarding Hunter, to explain Kelley's- activity at a midnight meriting of'L'e senate judiciary committee when the asylum probe was being considered. Hun ter referred to his part indicating Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders with apparent pride. I Cries of "no", "no." greeted C. D.1 Fortner of Spartanburg candidate for railroad commissioner when he bitter ly attacked the delegates' action ID revising (ho primary regulations. I Possibly feeling the apparent tense- ' ness of th? crowd In a political way. I Charles Carroll Sims, of Barnwell' and Mendel L. Smith of Camden, gob-' ern; (Ional candidates, pleaded with them to forget the political past and to Join with them in their fight for good government. Sims described the last'two state campaigns as dis graces to the state. Mendel L. Smith devoted a consider I able part of his speech to oposing the compulsory ?ducation views of Clink scales. Immediately after Cllnkscalee con ! eluded his address, possibly a hundred persons left the court room. Interest of the voters here seemed principally divided between Richard; and CUnk Bcales, who might possibly- bc termed exponents of the opposite views. Liberal applause war given each of the major candidates and statements of candidates for minor offices In sev eral instances evoked cheers. Seven of the nine candidates for governor have expressed their belief that the campaign can not much long er continue on the high plane which marked lt is unusual at the beginning. The partv was tonight entertained at a reception given by Secretary Mc Cown at his home hore. This h* the home county of-Chas. A. Smith of Tlmmonsviile candidate for governor. . Richard -1; Menning also received much applause. He' declared that the last two campaigns were a disgrace to the State. His usual' arguments were made and were well received. ______________ The French Ministry of Marino" ls planning to recover about 1000 brass cannon that were lost in a naval bat tle in the English Channel 222 years ago. Theodore Roosevelt Dec Have Made Nation a ? onel Supports Geo (Hy Associated Tress.) j New York. Juno 'JJ.-Theodore Roosevelt, who returned to America on the Imperator lon?K>>t. vigorously defended George W. Perkins, chair man or tile Progressive National ex ecutive committee, whose resignation j as chairman was demanded recently: by Amos Plncbot. Mr. Pincho) hud declared Mr. Perkins* affiliation with1 certain big business interests madel him unfit to hold lils petition. "When they read Perkins out." said Colonel Roosevelt, "they will have to road me out. too." The colonel reiterated thal lie would not be a candidate for the governor ship of New York this fall. He said hts health was all right now nnd that he would speak at Pittsburgh June 30. "I shall not be able to speak in the open air or make continuous speak ing trips," the Colonel said, "how ever, 1 shall be aole to deliver a cer tain number of speeches1 indoors. Perk his t se ful. "Mr. Perkins." declared that colon el .In his reference to the national ex ecutive chairman, "has been., on the. whole, the most useful member of the'progressive party. He has striven in absolutely good faith for all of the principles) of the party. Aa for read ing him out of the party, when that ls done, they will have to read me out, too," Colonel Roosevelt gave out a letter rrom Dr. Hamilton Rice, the explor er, in which Dr. Rice said he was mis taken when, he questioned the dis covery or the River or Doubt. He said he realized this after he heard Col. Roosevelt lecture. I .Cob Roosevelt was met at quaran ^ev?ipTdrs. RooseveR, Dr. end Mrs;, TttcJWrd 'ttot?yVniia sbn! In-law; arid daughter; Archer Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt. W. Emltn Roosevelt, George W. Perkins and Dudley Field Malone, collector cf the port. The colonel proceeded, to Oyster Bay. Payment Rlncbnillll tu statement issued teddy Col. Roosevelt declared the payment or secured the right to build the Panama canal ar provided for in the pending treaty, merely would be the payment of belated blackmail. ir the proposed treaty IF right, he said, the presence of the United States in P?nama is wrong and Panama rhould then Immediately be restored to Colombia and thc United States should abandon the zone. In his ?talement, Col. Roosevelt said In part: "The payment of twenty-live mil lions to Colombia together with the expreowlon or what is in effect an apology ror our having secured the right to build the Panama canal mere ly is the belated payment of black mail, with an apology to the blackmail ers. In this proposed treaty submitted by President Wilson through Mr. Brynn ls right, then our presence on the Isthmus is wrong. In such case Panama Immediately should be restor ed to Colombia and we should stop work on the canal ami abandon the place,, bag and baggage. There should be no hnlf way measures, ir we ns a nation have been guilty of theft, we should restore the stolen goods. If we have not been gullly of theft, we should not pay Hie blackman. Million n Clown. "Tho handling of our foreign af fairs by President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan has been such as to make the United States a figure ot fun in the tntern aal world. This pro posed Col lan treaty cups the cli max and .i ratified will rightly ren der us an object of contempteous de rision to every nation. In view of its submission lo the Congress, I wish to cull attention to exactly what was done under my administration. "Because of the action of the ad ministration, the people ot the Uni ted: States acquired what they could by no other means have acquired, the right to build the Panama canal. In 1003 it was till doubtful whether we would adopt the Nicarauguan or thc Panama route. The government of Colombia was exceedingly anxious that we should accept the latter, and offer ed to arrange, and did arrange, a treaty with UB to prevent our going to Nicarauga. Partly in consideration or this trea ty we abandoned negotiations wttb Nicarauga. We acted in good faith and the course of action waa there by entered upon was conditioned upon their prososal, their promise. It was our right, and' also our duty to our own people and to the rest of the wfctrld to exact the performance of this premire. "For four hundred years there bas been a conversation about the need of the Panama canal. The time for further conversation has passed, the time to translate words into deeds bas come. If I bad followed Presi dent Wilson's policy of "watchful walling' it would haVe ensured halt ? century ot additional conversation and the canal still, would be lu the dim future. And lt was only because lares Wilson and Bryan Figure of Fun-Col rge W. Perkins tlx' then aduiinlsti ation acted pre? tisely aa it did act that we now have the canal." Hot ray s Honer, Colonel Ronrevelt ?aid that until the \ present treaty negotiations were en tered Into, he did not believe it pos sible "that an American nd ni taint ra ll?n would (hus betray the honor and interest of the American people by submitting to blackmail. Colonel Roosevelt mentioning the proposal of th<; Colombian govern ment to com?scate tho property of the French government lu Kui,, ma for which the Coiled States had olfered to puy $-lu, ooo, otu), said it simply was a seheme on the part of Colo ania to "get $40.(100,000 froni us." 'incidentally." Colonel Roosevelt ? continued, "1 would call the attention of President Wilson and Secretary , Bryan to the fact thut this $40.000"000 . represents tho exact sum which Co- j lombia lost wlieu the United States ? government of that day refused ? to r.ubmlt to blackmail. ' They had bett ter make the job thorough while they ; nre about lt und give the wbolo forty millions. Otherwise, they will (eave un opening for art ion by some future administration of similar mushy am iability towards foreign powers that sought to wrong us. "As president, I declined, to allow Uncle Sam to be blackmailed. Pres ident wilson now desires , the black- I mail to be paid. - HIB attitude* can'be illustrated by a hypothetical caso. The present administration'has; with regard to Mexico, pursued [ a course wavering between peace and war, ex- . qulBltoly designed to combino the dis advantages of both and feebly tending lir.it towards one and then toward tho other. " ' , .. . 'Occasionally, 1 ji? mi II II II?"jr njyB^i.'iM^,. ,Q dergone spanptof understanding that that these arms might ultimately bo used against our own t-'obps. '. "It then prohibited the landing of arni;-. sometimes wabbling, /back against Us original position, and when it took Vera Cruz to prov?nt tbs tend ing of weapons and munitions of war and shortly afterwards permitted the very same arms and munitions to ba landed. Well,- If some future adminis tration of similar views on interna tional relations should offer Mexico twenty-five million dollars atonement for intermittently refuting to allow the landing of arms that might be us ed uga i nm our own people, it would be behaving exactly and precisely as President Wilson's administration is behaving shout Colombia. 'The conduct of the United States government throughout the entire proceedings which resulted in the ac quisition or thc canal was open and straightforward, absolutely in accord- - ance with the principies of the high est international morality. It will be a grave wrong to tho republic, a re flection on the honor of this nation In the past and a menace to the interests in the future, if this treaty for tho be lated payment of blackmail ls ratified at Washington." 8 KV KN WEBE KILLE!? Heavy Storm In Middle West Caused Trenindous Ramage. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, June 24.-Seven deaths, scores of injured, crop damage . amounting to thousands of dollars and heavy damages to buildings were caus ed In a heavy electrical and windstorm that swept Minnesota and Wisconsin from the northwest today. Communication between many cities WOK cut orr by the prostration of tele graph and telephone wires. It was feared tonight a Bttll larger loss of life would be revealed when the full extent of the storm la known. - In Minneapolis. Misses Loretta Grains. Margaret Kelly and Louts Grams were drowned when the wind overturned their canoe. Esther-Mun son was killed when her home col lapsed. Two deaths were reported at Wausau, Wis., when a barn in which a country wedding was being celebrat ed was demolished. Another ; death; was reported from Clear Lake, Wis. The storm struck Watertown/8. D, with Us full force last night and de molt s li ed 300 bu lld gin gs. . Scores ot persons were seriously Injured. ;---; Maybery vs.. Laxton. Asheville. N. C., June 24.-Tho fi na ir, for the golf championship of tho tffo Carolinas will be played tomorrow between representatives of the two. States. Today's play on the . -local links narrowed the contest down to E. FV Mayberry of Charleston, S. C-. and F. M. Laxton of Charlotte, N. C.. No sensational playing waa lp evi dence today although tho putting of Mayberry'wad the fe_tu; ? of the tour-, namen t. A stiff hreozo today hoi ped the physical condition of the Athletes although lt niado driving a Tittle un certain. 'v'h&frK''^'*