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VOLUME XIX
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1914
NUMBER 210
ORDERED THE IMMEDIATE
RELEASE OF VICE CONSUL
SEVEN DEAD,
RESULTS OF
EXPLOSION
B1 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington. May 12.—Senor Oli-1
vera, Brazilian minister at Mexico,
has informed the state department
that the Mexican government has or-
dered the immediate release of Vice
Consul Silliman, held a prisoner at
Saltillo. The minister added that as
soon as Silliman reached Mexico City
he would obtain for him safe con-',
duct to Vera Cruz.
The president and cabinet dis-
cussed plans for American participa-
tion iu the Mexican mediation con-' S0UB were killed
ference to begin next Monday
Niagara Falls.
A message from General Funston
declared no attention should be paid
to "alarmist reports" that Mexican
forces were threatening to attack the
Vera Cruz waterworks. "The water-
works can not be taken from us by
force," he said.
State and navy department officials
are inclined to regard as unimportant
the Lobos island incident, which
Huerta protested was a breach of the
armistice.
Diplomatic representatives are con-
cerned over the lack of definite in-
formation from Tampico, where des-
perate fighting is reported.
Admiral Hwoard reported a battle
between Mexican federals and Za-
pata, revolutionists twenty miles from
Acapulco. Sixteen Zapataists were
killed.
The fighting at Mazatlan still con-
tinues.
Members of the cabinet, after a
prolonged conference with the presi-
dent, maintained confidence that me-
diation would succeed and that fur-
ther consequences would be avoided.
British {'miser to Portsmouth.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
London. May 12.—The British
cruiser Bristol, now stationed at
Portsmouth, has ben ordered to pro-
ceed to Tampico as speedily as pos-
sible.
Y ASSOCIATED PR2SS.
Norfolk, Va., May 12.—Seven per-
by an explosion
at' in the engine room of the Old Do-
minion ship Jefferson, near Cape
Henry. Several were injured. The
ship returned to Norfolk and left
l the dead and injured, and then re-
i sumed the trip to New York.
Bluejackets Enj >ying Themselves Swimming From Warship at Vera Cruz. n(llVIIVIITTFF llflFSN' J
" " I FAVOR CHANGES IN
M.E. ....
I nv ASSOCIATED ntr.ss.
I Oklahoma City, May 12.—The com-
mittee reports submitted at the gener-
al conference of the Methodist Kplsco-
pal Church, South, reeoinmended non-
concurrence In a memorial that
, women be given laity rights, and
elimination of the wordH "Holy Cath-
olic" from the creed The committee
would substitute the phrase "Church
of Clod."
EMINENT DIVINE
SAKS THE EDITOR'S
CALLING SACRED
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Lawrence, May 12.—The newspaper
profession is as sacred a calling as
the ministry, declared Dr. Washing-
ton Gladden in an address before
the National Newspaper conference.
The number of speakers included
Will Irwin, and a paper by Frank
Noyes, president of the Associated
Press, was read.
SCHOOL DOARD IN
DEADLOCK, ADJOURN
The newly elected board of educa-
tion met last night for organization.
The new board is composed of Dr.
Baxter, A. J. Fluke, T. C. Knight, R.
L. Alexander, J. L. Moore and Dr.
Gallaher.
On motion and second, A. J. Fluke
was made temporary secretary until
a permanent organization could be
effected. No business was trans-
acted by the new board, and the en-
tire time of the irsetlng was taken
up in balloting.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington. May 12.—While peace
negotiations marked time pending
formal sittings of the South Ameri-
can mediators to begin Monday on
Canadian soil, the mediators and of-
ficials of the state department here
Monday were occupied with several
serious phases of the Mexican situa-
tion demanding immediate attention.
Secretary Bryan called at the Argen- j L- Moore was placed in nomlna-
tine legation late in the day and | "on for president of the board, by T.
spent two hours in conference with j1 Knight, and A. J. Fluke's name was
the South American envoys, discuss-! presented by R. L. Alexander. Thir-
ing the continued detention of John i leen ballots were cast, all of which
R. Silliman, American vice consul at resulted in three for Moore and
Salttllo, by Mexican federals; the Lo-j three for Fluke.
bos island incident, and the case of i Mr. Moore proposed that he would
the five South Americans under ar- [ withdraw his name as a candidate
rest at Vera Cruz for fring upon1 >f Mr. Fluke would withdraw his
United States sailors and marines. I in favor of Dr. Baxter, but Mr.
Mr. Bryan insisted that the release1 Alexander, who had nomlpated Mr.
of Silliman must be brought about Fluke, refused to allow the name of
at once When asked about the mat- his nominee to be withdrawn. After
ter later ho would not say what: balloting about twenty times, each
would happen It the vice consul were "me resulting in a tie between
kept iu prison, but he was gravely! Moore and Fluke, a motion was made
emphatic in announcing the govern-] by Dr. Baxter, seconded by Moore,
ment's determination to have him' that the board take a recess until
freed. | some future time, at which all mem-
South Americans Arrested. | bers of the board could be present
Discouraging elements continued to for the further consideration of the
arouse cotnmen throughout the day. | election of a president and secretary
General Funston at Vera Cruz was of the board. This motion carried,
Moore, Knight and Baxter voted In
the affirmative, and Alexander and
Gallaher voted in the negative. Fluke
did not vote.
The voting in all the ballots was
as follows:
For Moore: For Fluke—
Baxter. Alexander.
Knight. Gallaher.
Moore. Fluke.
The balloting was secret.
appealed to by the Brozilian minister
at Mexico City to release some South
Americans, including three Brazilians,
who had been arrested and are await-
ing trial for "sniping" American sol-
diers from the refuge of a tramp
steamer in Vera Cruz harbor. An
appeal was made to Secretary Bryan
by the mediating envoys on behalf of
General Huerta, because of reports
that American forces had seized a
Mexican lighthouse on Lobos island
off Tampico, an act which Huerta's
agents maintained was aggressive
and in violation of the armistice.
This government maintained thai
Huerta had violated the armistice in
ordering lighthouses on the Pacific
coast closed, to the peril of shipping.
Authorities here were provoked at
belated reports that American Vice
Consul Silliman was imprisoned by
There is just as much time for play I hang so heavily upon the sailors I them swimming from one of the bat-
among the jackies of the battleships! that they haven't time for a swim j tleshlps, with the others ships of the
off Vera Cruz as there is for fight-1 in the cool salt water. This photo- fleet in the distance.
Ing. The burden of war does not: graph shows a hundred or more of!
Scene in a United States Armv Camp Alang the Mexican Border.
DECKER JURY IS
FILLED AGAIN
New York. May 12- The Becker
jury was completed yesterday by the
selection of Frederick A. Sprock as
number eleven and Fred C. Barrett
as number twelve.
Immediately after the completion
of the jury. Martin T. Manton, Beck-
er's chief counsel, moved to dismiss
the indictment because of insufficient
evidence and also moved that a mis-
trial be declared, because of the pre-
mature publication of District Attor-
ney Whitman's address to the jury
by a New York newspaper. Both
motions were promptly denied and
Whitman then opened his address.
GETS 99 YEARS
FDR ASSAULT
UPON A CHILD
These LInited States soldiers, un-
der the command of General Tasker
H. Bliss, have been so hardened by
their life on the Texas border that
they are ready at a moment's notice
invasion
Mexico.
months they have lived the life they
would if actively engaged against an
enemy. Never before in the history
of the United States have the tj-oops
been so well prepared for campaigns.
They could march into Mexico by
packing, breaking camp and start-
ing across the border.
Wllson's Brooklyn Navy Yard Address
soldiers at Saltillo. From Mexico
City came reports that Huerta's
strentgh was waning and that the
bandit leader Zapata was about to
attack the capital from the south,
which served to arouse diplomatic
agents of foreign countries, lest their
people in Mexico City might be in
immediate danger of persecution or
death.
"Mr Secretary, 1 know that the
feelings which characterize all who
stand about me and the whole na-
tion at this hour are not feelings
which can be expressed suitably in
terms of oratory or eloquence. They
are things too deep for the ordinary
speech. For my own part I have a
singular mixture of feelings. The
feeling that is uppermost is one of
profound grief that these lads should
have had to go to their death. And
yet there is mixed with that grief a
profound pride that they should have
gone as they did, and if 1 may say It
out of my heart, a touch of envy
of those who were permitted so
quietly, so nobly to do their duty.
"Have you thought of It, men?
Here is the roster of the navy, the
list of the men, officers and enlisted
men and marines, and suddenly there
swim nineteen of the stars out of the
list, men who have gone suddenly
into the firmament of memory, where
we shall always see their names
shine: not because they called upon
us to admire them, but because they
served us without asking any ques-
tions. and in the performance of a
duty which is laid upon us as well as
upon them.
(■lory in Seniinr Others.
"Duty is not an uncommon thing,
gentlemen. Men are performing It in
the ordinary walks of life all around
us, all the time, and they are mak-
ing great sacrifices to perform It.
What gives men like these peculiar
distinction? Not merely that they did
their duty, but that their duty had
nothing to do with them or with their
own personal and peculiar interests.
They did not give their lives for
themselves: they gave their lives for
us because we called upon them as a
nation to perform an unexpected duty.
That is the way in which men grow
distinguished, and that is the only
way—by serving somebody else them- pound nation which consists of all
selves. And what greater thing could . the sturdy element and all the best
you serve than a nation such as this element of the whole globe.
we love and are proud of? "Listen again ^o this list, with a
"Are you sorry for these lads? Are] profound Interest in the mixture of
you sorry for the way they will be 1,16 names, for the names bear the
remembered? Does it not quicken marks the several national stocks
your pulses to think of the list of from which these men come. But
them? I hope to God none of you ''iey arf> not Irishmen, nor Germans,
may join the list, but if you do. you I "or Frenchmen, nor Hebrews any
Kansas City, May 12.-— Delbert
! Saunders, twenty-four years old, was
sentenced to ninety-nine years in the
! penitentiary when he pleaded guilty
; to attacking his fifteen-year-old
cousin, Mattie Sauuders, at her home,
708 West Seventeenth street, April
10. Judge Latshaw in sentencing
him said the crime was the most
atrocious in the history of Jackson
county. The girl's father had ob-
tained a pnrole for Saunders, who
was serving five years in the Kansas
penitentiary for forgery, and had
taken him into his home to reform
him. While the father was absent
Saunders tied the girl t6 a bed and
attacked her. At a previous hearing
Judge Latshaw refused to accept a
plea of guilty because Saunders had
not seen an attorney. The court ap-
pointed an attorney, who advised
Saunders to plead guilty.
SELLS TO VISIT
will join in immortal company.
"So, willis you are profoundly sor-
rowful and while there goes out of
our hearts a deep and affectionate
sympathy to friends and relative
more. They were not when they
went to Vera Cruz; they were Amer-
icans, every one of them, and were
no different in the Americanism be-
cause of the stock from which they
NEAR FUTURE
of these—who for the rest of their |< illne- Therefore, they were in a pe
lives shall mourn them, though with'nlUar 8<!nB'' of 0,,r blood, and they
a touch of pride we know why we|Proved u b'r allowing that they were
do not go away from this ocoasion
TOOK LIGHTHOUSE
AFTER MEXICANS
HAD DESERTED IT
IIV ASSOCIATED I'lll ss,
Washington, May 12.—The first of-
ficial notice of the landing of Amer-
ican bailors on Lobos island reached
tin* navy department late oMnday
night in a cablegram from Hear Ad-
miral Mayo, stating that the Mevican
keepers deserted the grea ght-
house on the Island and t the
destroyer tender Dixie was in-
taining it for the benefit of ;a-
tion." ••
Admiral Mayo's report, reapt g
to the navy department's requef' r
immediate information conce.? ?
the incident complained of by;
Huerta government to the media*
said:
"Lobos island has not been occu-
pied. The Dixie and some destroyers
have coaled there from a collier. I
understand that the destroyers have
occasional swimming parties ashore.
I have taken charge of the light for
the benefit of navigation."
The navy department announced
that it would bo made plain by this
explanation that there was no viola-
tion of the armistice. Assistant Sec-
retary Roosevelt said the Dixie and
the destroyers went to Lobos island
only because it was a convenient
place to coal, and that, the light-
house keepers quit their post on the
arrival of the American warships.
The incident win be the subject
of a general conference at the de-
partment. Secretary Daniels and his
advisers will take up the problem of
closed lighthouses on the west coact
of Mexico, also, at the hearing. Some
naval officers favor the occupation
and operation of all the abondoned
lighthouses along the coast, where
navigation has been hindered seri-
ously.
The admiral reported that at the
direction of Hear Admiral Badger he
was sending the steamer Mexico to
Vera Cruz via Tuxpam, with all refu-
gees desiring to go to the United
States. He said the foreigners on
board warships off Tampico wanted
refuge and not removal.
of our spirit; that 110 matter what
their derivations,v not matter where
their people came from, they thought
and wished and did the thlngB that
were American, and the flag under
which they served was a flag In
which all the blood of mankind is
united to make a free nation.
Sneers Worse Than Bullets.
"War, gentlemen, Is only a sort of
dramatic representation, a sort of
dramatic symbol of a thousand forms
of duty. I never went into battle;
I never was under fire, but I fancy
that there are some things just as
Is there were" friends "sta"nding b^'""'<i t0 d° a8 to 80 under flre' 1
1 fancy that It is just as hard to do
your duty when men are sneering at
you as when they are shooting at
cast down, but with our heads lifted
and our eyes on the future of this
country, with absolute confidence of
how it will be worked out; not only
the more vague future of this coun-
try, but in the immediate future.
Would Sene Mexico.
"We have gone down to Mexico to
serve mankind, if we can find out
the way. We do not want to fight'
the Mexicans; we want to serve the,
Mexicans if we can, because we know!
how we would like to be freed and!
how we would like to be served
ready to serve us.
"A war of aggression is not a war
in which it is a proud thing to die,
but a war of service is a thing in
which it is a proud thing to die.
Notice that the inon were of our
blood; men of our American blood,
which is not drawn from any one
country, which is not drawn from
any one stock, which is not drawn
from any one language of the mod-
ern world; but free men everywhere
have sent their sons and their broth-
ers and their daughters to this coun-
try in order to make that great com-
you. When they shoot at you they
can only take your natural life;
when they sneer it you they can
wound your heart. And men who are
brave enough, steadfast enough,
steady in their principles enough to
go about their duty with regard to
their fellowmen, no matter whether
there are hisses or cheers—men who
can do what Rudyard Kipling in one
of his poems wrote:
11V ASSOCIATED PRESS.
'Washington, May 12. Cato Sells,
commissioner of the Indian bureau,
announced he would open hearings
May 21st under the senate resolu-
tions proposing an investigation of
the feasibility of a government oil
pipe line from the Oklahoma fields
to the gulf. Commissioner Sells and
Lieutenant Richardson, representing
the navy, will begin hearings at In-
dependence, Kan., and will go from
there to Bartlesville and Tulsa.
Senator Owen presented to the
senate a resolution of independent
producers protesting against cutting
the price of Oklahoma oils, and urg-
ing the establishment of the govern-
ment pipe line and a federal bureau
to govern pipe lines. "Those who
control the transportation of oil,"
the senator said, "control the entire
commerce in oil throughout the coun-
try."
ATTACKS MADE ON
AMERICAN GIRLS
El Paso, Tex., May 12.—American
women and even school girls were
attacked In their own homes by a
mob of Mexican youths in Posadas,
a few miles from the city of Mexico,
following the landing of marines at
Vera Cruz, according to Prof. J.
Baton Wallace of the Cayacan Pres-
byterian college, who reached here
today from New Orlenas, where he
fled with six hundred other refugees.
"American woni' n and girls in
small towns near the capital were
victims of horrible crimes that were
never learned of by Americans in the
city of Mexico," declared Prof. Wal-
lace. "The assaults were committed
by men and boys who entered the
Americans' homes on the pretext of
searching for arms. On the day we
left Posadas, a mob surrounded the
Presbyterian Bchool for girls, bent
on violence to the 110 girl pupils.
The school authorities had learned
the mob was coming and had sent
the girls to private residences, where
we believed they were safe from at-
tack. We tried to communicate with
the college after reaching the city of
Mexico, but were unable to do so."
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
♦
♦ WEATHER FORECAST
♦ II*' ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New Orleans, May 12.—For
♦ Oklahoma: Fair and colder
♦ tonight Rising temperature
♦ Wednesday.
♦
EASTERN Oil. DOWN.
IIV ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Lima, Ohio, May 12.—Ohio and
Central Ohio crude oils were today
reduced 5 cents a barrel. North Lima
dropped to $1.19, South Lima and In-
diana to $1.14, and Illinois ana
Princeton to $1.15.
COURT CLERK RESIGNS.
Muskogee, May 12.—Ross Houck,
clerk of the district court, resigned
bis office Monday afternoon. The
county commisioners have not filled
the vacancy as yet. There are seven
applicants for the place. Houck's
resignation makes the fifth in Mus-
kogee county offices in less than six
months. Houck was a popular offi-
cial, receiving the second highest
vote at the last election. He will go
into business here.
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