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THE INOLA
REGIS TEA.
YOL. VIII.
INOLA, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, MAY 7,1914.
NO. 39
GENERAL BUWQUET
TWELVE THOUSAND TROOPS TO
BE MOBILIZED FOR SEA-
PORT ATTACK.
ft
VILLA WILL COMMAND ATTACK
Hope of Armistice Between Mexican
Faction* Believed Slim.—Car-
ranza and Villa On Very
Good Term*
El paso.—While General Carranza
has not replied officially to the prop-
osition of the South American media-
tors for a federal-rebel armistice, offl
clals here say his answer Is plainly
forecast In orders promulgated for 'a
concentrated attack on Tamplco.
The federal gunboats and the land
defenses of Tamplco have proved too
big a task for the troops of Generals
Cabellero and Gonzales and orders
were issued for the mobilization of
12,000 troops from the states of Coa-
hulla, Tamaullpas and Nuevo Leon. It
Is reported also that General Fran-
cisco Villa will lead the attack.
Rafael E. Muzqulz, a son-in-law of
General Carranza and a leader of the
Junta here, Is one of the authorities
for the declaration that the armistice
in nothern Mexico is impossible.
It Is rumored in connection with
the proposal that acceptance of the
proposition would have to carry with
it some form of recognition of the
belligerency of the rebels, but Gen-
eral Carranza Is said to have com
mented that he did not care to accept
, it In that way as it was bound to come
in due time with the success of his
forces.
Villa On Money Hunt.
It is learned that Villa's recent trip
to Juarez and his present peregrins
tlons are on business matters connect
ed with raising revenue. The United
States is said to have, become rigid in
its demands for the protection of for-
eign interests In Mexico, thereby em
barrasslng the process of raising funds
by war taxes and confiscation.
Villa's present itinerary will be ar-
ranged so he can accompany Car-
ranza into Torreon, when he is to re
view the troops. It Is reported that
he will visit Monterey congratulating
his forces there on the capture of the
city. It Is said the rebel capital w
move to Torreon with the first chief
and that after the expected capture
Saltlllo that city will be the capital.
Mr. Muzqulz has been authorized
by General Carranza to proceed to
cities recently taken by the rebels and
install civil officers. Work of repair
ing railroads will be pushed with
great energy.
Denies Strained Relations.
In a letter addressed to the Asso-
ciated Press and signed by General
Villa, the latter asserts that the best
of feeling exists between himself and
Carranza. The letter follows
"To The Associated Press:
"It is absolutely false, as statements
In the newspapers have maintained,
that there exists bad feeling between
the supreme chief of the constitution-
Huerta's Minister of War
MINERS, MINE GUARDS AND THE
MILITIAMEN STOP THEIR
MURDEROUS WARFARE
TRUCE ARRAN6ED IN MEDITATION
ALL ACTIVE MILITARY PREPARA.
TION8 TO BE SUSPENDED
As Far As Huerta and the United
States Are Concerned—Carran-
za'a Attitude In Some Doubt
allsts and myself. Between us there
exists the greatest cordiality and good
feeling and for my part, will always
tender the chief the respect and sub-
ordination which I have always shown
In all my acts.
<Signed) "FRANCISCO VHX.A."
Tbe letter U dated April 29.
Washington.—Restrained but none
the less steady, preparations for any
military eventualities that may be-
come necessary and the quiet, but
definite progress of the mediation
program being worked out behind
closed doors—these are the two out-
standing features of the Mexican sit-
uation here.
The three mediation envoys of Ar-
gentina, Brazil and Chile, continued
their private sittings. Their first
move for an armistice was succeed-
ed by the planned suspension of hos-
tilities or a truce between the forces
of the United States and the Huerta
regime,- although there still were om-
lnous sounds of oonfllct between the
Huerta and Carranza forces.
Secretary Bryan rormally notified
the three South American envoys that
the American government took it for
granted there would be no hostilities
during the mediation proceedings and
had intended no further a"ts of ag-
gression while the conferences were
being held.
General Huerta accepted the pro-
posal that there be no further hostil-
ities between the United States and
Mexico pending the efforts of the en-
voys.
While the envoys were not ready
to make an announcement, several In-
teresting phases of what has come up
during the discussion were learneil
from authoritative sources. It ap-
pears that, while the attitude of Gen-
eral Huerta was definite in accept-
ing Intermediation as between the
United States and the Huerta govern-
ment. It has not yet been made clear
that his acceptance will also apply to
intermediation that includes Carran-
za. It is expected this question will
be cleared up by Inquiries now under
way so that it may be definitely es-
tablished that Huerta not only ac-
cepts Intermediation with the United
States, but laso with Carranza.
Another outgrowth of the discus-
sion was an Intimation that both the
Huerta and Carranza elements would
send representatives to deal directly
with the mediators and that Francis-
co de la Barra, now In Paris as stn-
bassador for Huerta, probably wonll
be designated to act for HuerU.
Scope of the Mediation Proposals
(EN DIE IN LAST DAY'S FIOHT
Believed That Peace Can Be Perma.
nently Established With State
Troops Removed—Strikers
Retain Their Weapons
Denver, Colo.—With federal troops
on the ground, conditions are quiet
la the Colorado strike zone. State
troops are being relieved by the reg-
ulars and the strikers are dispers-
ing. The federal soldiers now are
patroling the Fremont county district
and regular troops have superseded
the militiamen at Walsenburg. The
strikers have surrendered no arms,
either to the militia or the federal
troops. Leaders are going among the
hills of southern Colorado urging the
men to disperse and return to their
homes, but according to John Law-
son, international board member of
the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, they have not been told to give
up their weapons.
The Last Day's Fighting
Seven months industrial conflict
terminated in a day of fighting which
claimed a toll of at least ten human
lives. This was the verified record
divided as follows:
At Forbes, seven mine guards and
two strikers deid.
At Walsenburg, one officer of the
militia hospital corps killed, one of-
ficer and two enlisted men wounded.
The Forbes camp was a scene of
desolation, virtually all the mine
buildings having been destroyed by
fire. Here it was the work of only
a few fleeting hours. It was about
6:30 a. m. when the strikers opened
their attack In force. WUh the wo-
men and children of the camp barri-
caded in the mine slope, the guards
responded spiritedly. About 10
o'clock the firing ceased and the
camp's assailants disappeared as mys-
teriously as they came. Borne towards
Trinidad and others over the hills In
the direction of Berwind and Tabas-
co. According t* Superintendent
Nichols of the mine, three strikers
were seen to tumble down the hill-
side.
Fighting at Walsenburg between
strikers, militia and mine guards last-
ed Bix hours. Major P. P. Lester of
the hospital corps met death, shot
through the left breast, while dress-
ing the wounds of a comrade within
150 yards of the strikers' position.
cmto aver, f.3.
REBEL CHIEF CONTINUE! Hit
MILITARY OPERATIONS WITH
MEXICO CITY AS HIS GOAL
fEACE DELE6ATES TO IE NAMED
American To Be Man Not Connected
With the Government.—Francisco
de la Barra Likely To Bo
Huerta's Cholco.
Washington.—It has become defi-
nitely established that General Car-
ranza will not agree to the request of
the mediators that he suspend oper-
ations against Huerta pending the
mediation proceedings and the envoys
have been advised of this decision.
Close associates of Carranza who have
arrived here say no mediation be-
tween the rebels and Huerta la pos-
sible.
Meanwhile the campaign against
Huerta forces in the north is proceed-
ing full force. The march on Mexico
City, according to those near Car-
The eighteenth annual convention of the Oklahoma Grand Lodge of ranza> l8 to be undertaken ^ soon
J pvlhL the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the found- aB ml,ltary operations in the north
the local order, and 150 delegates, other than the grand officers, are expecte
33Rt«hs saasssssa
M rs. M arie Ryan .grand chtefofthe Py tblan Sisters, will preside
Atoka, and H. V. Brunt of Chandler
Fifty Thousand To Game Fund
During the year which ended May
MOB THREATENS ROCKEFELLER
Scene In the Colorado War Trans-
ferred to Npw York
Russell Flies Another New Bill.
The people will have an opportu-
nity to vote on a bill probably at the
primary election in August, which has
been initiated by Senator Campbell
Russell of Weaver, which amends
the general revenue laws of the state
and provides for new statutes govern-
ing and collection of gross receipts
and graduated land taxes. Senator
Russell, Friday filed petitions con-
taining 21,186 signers asking for-a
vote on his general revenue bill
which is known as state question imo.
68, initiative petition No. 41.
As only about 19,000 signatures
were necessary to secure submission
of the question an election will be
held on the proposition in case no
protests are filed and successfully
supported. Russell secured many of
the names while making his race for
congress in the second district hence
has been able to kill two birds with
stone. Under the new law he will
1 the state fish and game department
has realized an income of approxi-
mately $50,000 from the sale of hunt-
ing licenses and other sources, ac-
cording to estimates made by Don
Lawhead, secretary to the state game
warden. The hunting license year
ends on May 1, but It will require
several weeks to check up the re-
ports of various county clerks and
assistant game wardens who have
been selling licenses. Until this is
completed the exact revenues for the
year cannot be determined.
The total revenues of the depart-
ment for the last twelve months' pe-
riod will fall about-$13,000 short of
the income for the previous year, but
the expenses of the fish and game
warden's office were cut down about
$25,000 a year through abolish-
ment of the offices of twelve deputy
game wardens. These wardens were
will permit
Carranza's refusal of an armistice
is the first reply the mediators have
received. On the other hand favor-
able comment Is made in circles close
to the envoys on the amicability
HuerU has shown.
The United State*, the Huerta gov-
ernment and General Carranza are
expected to name their delegate as
requested by the mediators within the
next day or two. The American del-
egate has not been selected, but it
became known that It would not bo
an official closely identified with the
government. As the three South
American envoys are accredited to
the United States, this government
does not wish to name a government
official, but desires an outsider who
wuld deal with them without refer-
ence to their official relations to the
United States. To the names of John
Bassett Moore, John Lind and Henry
White, already mentioned, now are
added Richard Olney, former secre-
tary of state, and Hannis Taylor,
former minister to Spain.
The Huerta delegate Is expected to
be Francisco De La Barra, Mexican
minister at Paris, but nothing definite
has been heard from Mexico City.
Rafael Zubran, personal representa-
tive of General Carranza, arrived here
and is available as the Carranza del-
egate, although it is not yet definlt*
that Carranza will name a delegate.
riRSTN C0MMMBS KM CNZ
Undo Bern's KhaW-Clad Soldlsrs
Have Wholesome Effect.
Vera Crus.—The task of guarding
the city of Vera Cruz and its environs
•was taken over from the navy by
Brigadier General Frederick Fnnston
and the Fifth Infantry brigade of the
United States army.
While martial law still continues In
force, the actual municipal govern-
ment is being conducted by Robert
J. Kerr, the American civil governor
who has enlisted the aid of Mexico
officials to act under his superlnten-
oency and in accordance with Mexican
laws.
After e morning enlivened by the
marching to and fro of large bodies
of American soldiers, sailors and ma-
rines. the city resumed Its normal and
somewhat sleepy dally life. The even-
ing. however, waa made gay by wit-
door dinner partieo at the oafea and
reotauranta. accompanied by
by
Washington.—The scope of media-
tion plans for the settlement of the
Mexican crisis was suddenly broad-
ened so as to include the entire range
of Mexican affairs—not alone the
cities and territory controlled by the
United States and HuerU—but the
whole of Mexico.
The signal enlargement of the medi-
ation program followed the receipt of
a formal accepUnce by General Car-
ranza, chief of the constitutionalists
of the principle of mediation as pro-
posed by the ambassadors
Already the United States and Gen-
eral HuerU have formally accepted
the good offices of these South Amer-
ican envoys and now as a further step
General Carransa has been brought
Into thr deliberations so as to draw
avery element and faction within the
range of any settlement which msy be
attained.
The envoys conferred with their
colleagues in the dlplomstic (corps
from Central and South America to
lay before them what had been done
and discuss the general situation.
This emphasized what the mediator*
have been seeking—a purely Amerlcsn
settlement of a crisis which effects
the political Integrity of all Spanish-
America The patriotic anlty of all
Mexico and all Spanish-America was
expected to give a signal evidence to
the world at large and particularly to
■«rope of what the American repub-
UOB could do for the tranquility of the
Western hemisphere at a time of ait-
New York.—Threats of violence
were made against John D. Rocke-
feller Jr., by demonstrators who de-
clared that his policy had caused the
Colorado mine war. A woman at-
tempted to invade his office and when
she was prevented, she withdrew
with imprecations on her lips, repeat-
ing in a speech outside threats she
had made within the building of per-
sonal harm that would come to him
if he persisted in declining to con-
sent to arbitration in the Colorado
crisis.
Mr. Rockefeller Issued a sUtement
characterising as "infamous" any il-
lustlon to conditions in Colorado as
"Rockefeller's war." The conflicts In
Colorado were not between the mili-
tia and the strikers, be claimed.
While Upton SincUlr. Miss Elisa-
beth Freeman, an English mlllUnt
suffraget, and Mr. Donie Lletner.
pioneers in the "free silence league
movement" were being sentenced to
the Tombe prison for picketing on the
sidewalk, the march was kept up all
day and the meetings were held In
the Bowling Green at which speak-
ers reiterated charges that Mr. Rock-
efeller was responsible for conditions
In the Ludlow district
Mr. Rockefeller's sUtement quoted
the lieutenant governor of Colorado
in an effort to show thst strikers
themselves started the trouble by
killing a non-union man.
A demonstration waa held in frout
of the West Fifty-fourth residences cI
of John D. Rockefeller and John D.
Rockefeller Jr. by men who claimed
to repreeent the anti-mlUUry league
of New York. They walked back and
forth carrying placards bearing an in-
scription. "Thou Shalt Not Kill, either
ia Mexico or Colorado—If you want
to light loin the cause of labor
against capitalism and help us and
the Colorado mine workers who are
belnc ruthlesaiy slaughtered."
receive 5 cents for each name attached
to his petitions in case the provision
becomes a law; also a certain allow-
ance for postage and other expenses
which It is estimated will total about
,5Un°der the bill 4 Ux of four per
cent is levied upon the gross re-
ceipts of all transmission and trans-
portation companies which Is to be
In lieu of all other uxes and is to
be levied by the state board of
equalization, under rules of regula-
tions provided in the bill.
A graduated land tax on all land
hodlngs in excess of 640 acres also
is provided for in the bill. Thta w*
from one mill on each dollar of
valuation for the smallest excess hold-
ing to 15 mills on an exceas of 3,-00
discontinued under the operation of
the new law last October. The dep-
uty wardens were usually active in
Rock Island Bridge Washed Out.
Geary, Okla.—Three men are re-
ported missing and three others are
refugees in treetops in the middle of
the South Canadian river at Bridge-
nort four miles south of here, as the
result of floods which swept out the
new $126,000 Rock Island steel bridge
there at 5 o'clock Sunday night Sev-
the sale of licenses while under the | eral hundred persons have been com-
mCQne of the most important pro-
visions of the ad valorem tax amend-
menu is one affecting the
of banks. This section provides that
banks, including national banks and
trust companies, shall be assessed at
the net value of moneys, cap Ul.
Durplus and undivided profits, less
the assessed value of any real estate
listed separately in the name of the
corporation and less the surplus le-
gally invested in securities not tax-
able ad valorem.
Senator Russell will try to secure a
vote on his bill in the August pri-
mary so that tile new law may be in
operation by the first of the next
year. Under the Russell bill all as-
sessmenU of real and personal prop-
erty are to begin January 1 of each
year.
present most licenses are sold un-
solicited as they are handled by coun-
ty clerks, merchants or assisUnt
game wardens who serve without
pay.
Mr. Lawhead roughly estimates
that the sUte game protection fund
will receive about $35,000 from the
sales of licenses during the last
twelve months' period. This will bring
the game protection fund up to a
total of about $800,000 including the
amount that waa appropriated from
thia fund for capitol building pur-
poses. Sportsmen, however, will con
test the use of any portion of this
fund for capitol purposes, by court
proeeedings.
pelled to abandon their homes to seek
safety on higher land. The lowlands
along the stream are flooded for
miles, enormous damage has been
done to growing crops and wire com-
munication is practically at a stand-
still.
A wall of water fifteen feet high
rushed down the valley at 8 o'clock
Sunday morning. This was Increased
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon by a
second rise of three feet and the
South Canadian was immediately con-
verted into a roaring torrent a mile
and a half wide. The Rock Island
bridge resisted Its force for two hours,
when it gave way. plunging six men
Into the Hood below.
Mothers' Day Proclamation.
Oklahoma City—In accordance with
the custom of the pest tew years.
Got. Cruce has Issued a proclamation
retting aside Sunday. May 10, as
Mothers' Day.
The governor calls upon all men to
observe the day by doing bon^ to
their mother*, whether they be living
or dead. In whatever manner they
suitable
Another Inning On Rate Cases.
The famous Oklahoma passenget
rate case will come up for trial on
June 1 before Judge Youmana of th«
western district of Arkansaa at Okla
homa City.
The case will now have to be tried
upon its merits. The roads are fight-
ing enforcement of the two-cent pas
senger rates in Oklahoma, which Is
provided for in the constitution. Th6
railroads obUined sn injunction
against such enforcement in 1908,
which is still In force, but the rail-
roads by stipulation last summer re-
turned to the two-cent rate during
the pendency of the suit in the fed
eral court
Brick Making For SUte'e Convleta
In a letter to Governor Lee Cruce,
V V. Hardcastle. assistant city coun
sellor of Oklahoma City, baa suggest
ed that the state convlcta' labor be
used in the manufacturing of paring
brick for sUU roads as is now being
done in New York. Ohio and other
atatee with marked success. It Is also
suggested that for diligent Ubor the
convicts be allotted a certain portion
of revenue received from the brick
or that It be given to the support of
|he convlcta' families,
|EI. BMIEl IICIICT It Wl
Waa Last of the Union Commander*
at Battle of Gettysburg.
New York.—General Daniel Slcklea
died at his home here Sunday In his*
ninetieth year. General Daniel Edgar
Sickles was the last of the great com-
manders who fought at the battle of
Gettysburg.
Before he was 82 years old. Major
Sickles had served as secretary of
legation at London under Minister
James Buchanan; he had won a aUte
senatorship through a bitter campaign
and he was seated in the thirty-fifth
congress at Washington.
It was at this time that sn event
occurred which became the sensation
of the day. Slcklea had begun bin
second term as congressman in 185 .
Then he shot and killed Francis B.
Key. a Uwyer, tor Intimacy with Mrs.
Bickles. After her death of a broken
heart he became minister to Spain
and married a Spanish woman, from
whom he afterwards separated. Hie
last years were embittered by bank-
rnptcy and chargae of taaadal Irre*
attrition.
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