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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
Motto: All The News When 1 1 Is New.
VOL. 22.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1014.
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REFUSE FLAT RAISE
COMMERCE COMMISSIONERS ARE
READY TO ISSUE THEIR
RATE DECISION.
SOME BALM FOR RAILROADS
Ruling Authorizes Increases In Class
Freights That Will Give Them $15,
000,000 More a Year Economies
Are Demanded.
Washington, July 21. Tho decision
of tho interstate commorco board In
tho flvo per cent rato increaao coso la
both favorable and unfavorable to tho
railroads. Tho ruling, which waa com
pleted at a mooting of tho commis
sion, is virtually ready for issuance,
though a few changes may bo made.
A moasurablo increase in class rates
Is granted.
No increases whatever aro allow od
on commodities.
No flat Ave per cent increase is
sranted on any commodity or upon
ny class rato.
To that extent tho decision will bo
weoplngly unfavorable to tho car
riers. increases in class rates amounting
to $15,000,000 annually aro authorised,
To that extent tho decision will bo
favorablo to tho roads.
Economies which will save tho east
ern lines probably $25,000,000 a year
aro Insisted upon by tho commission.
Tho financial mismanagement of
many of tho linos will be cited as a
reason why efficiency and economy
must take tho placo of added revenuo
from rates.
Extravagance and waste in the pur
chase of supplies aro condemned by
tho commissioners.
The roads aro rebuked by the com
mission for an attempt to create a
public sentiment in favor of an in
crease. Any increase, tho commissioners
will say, higher than that allowed in
tho forthcoming order would fall upon
tho consumer and tho consumer will
bo warned against any dealer who
charges moro for his goods by reason
of tho decision.
These in general aro tho big and Im
portant phases of tho commission's r
pott as printed. But few if any
changes will be made before it is given
out. An Increase possibly may be al
lowed on two commodities, but hardly
upon moro.
CAN'T REACH ARCTIC PARTY
Steamer Kit Gives Up Attempt to Res
cue Explorer Stefansson and
His Companions.
Nomo, Alaska, July 21. The pre
dicament of the remnant of Explorer
Etefansson'B party, who havo been
marooned on ice-locked Wrangall
island since the foundering of tho Kar
luk, is growing more perilous, accord
ing to tho officers of tho steamer Kit,
which has arrived here from tho
Arctic. The Kit is a powerful ice
breaker yet sho was unablo to get
within one hundred miles of Wrangall
island.
Tho Kit forced her way through
Behring strait and brought up at Icy
Cape May 27. For tho next 14 days
she tried every opening lead to reach
Wrangall island, but finally gave up
tho attempt. Her master, a veteran
whaler, reports the ice conditions in
tho Arctic tho worst ever known.
Gonzalez Starts an Uprising.
Vera Cruz, July 21. Two unofficial
telegrams received hero say Fernan
dez Gonzalez with 3,500 federal sol
diers has started an uprising in Mex
ico City and sont word to Emillano
Zapata that ho will aid him in taking
possession of tho government Zapata
is reported to havo notified the au
thorities of tho small towns around
tho capital that he will begin hostili
ties immediately unless they surren
der. Gonzalez returned to Mexico
about a month and a half ago under
the amnesty offered by Huerta to all
participants in tho previous rebellion
who would come back and fight the
Carranza forces.
Slaughter by Jealous Man.
Springfield, 111., July 21. Jealous be
cause his wife loft him a few months
after they wore married, Charles
Jerdes, aged twenty-four years, a farm
er of Edlnburg, 18 miles southeast of
Springfield, began a murderous assault
that did not end until he had killed his
wife, Mrs. Hela Jerdes, aged eighteen
years, probably fatally injured his
mothor-ln-law., Mrs. Frank Gardner,
and turned tho gun upon himself, In
flicting mortal wounds.
King George to Thank President.
London, July 21. King Gporgo Is to
thank President Wilson by personal
letter for tho latter's success in hav
ing passed through congress the
Panama canal tolls anti-exemption
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O. K, Chlcago-St. Louis Telephone.
Washington, July 20. Tho senato
committoo on post offlcos and post
roads roported favorably a bill au
h'qrtelng'tho post office department to
establish an experimental telophono
line between Cliloago and St. Louis.
''T6tfb,?term for Isaac Bond.
Chicago, July 20. Isaac Bond, a no
gio WaVfoifml guilty or murdering
Man Ida G. Leogson, nn art studont
end fcculptress, on tho outskirts of tho
cl v . n Oc'ober 4 1913, and sentenced
(6 f fa l"orloiiinont by a Jury.
CARRANZA DEMANDS
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General Carranza, hero seen at Saltillo receiving tho nowB of tho victory
of Guadalajara, says tho army that has boon supporting Huerta must sur
render unconditionally to tho constitutionalists.
HEADS OF FIRM JAILED
BARR & WIDEN OFFICIALS SEN
TENCED TO PRISON.
Federal Judge Landls at Chicago Also
Pines Men for Defrauding People
Out of $2,000,000.
Chicago, July JO. Federal Judgo
Landls sentenced tho nlno officials of
tho Barr & Widen Mercantile agency
who woro found guilty of violating tho
federal postal laws and of dofraudlng
countless persons out of a sum of
money estimated at betweon $2,000,
000 and $3,000,000. Tho court excori
ated several for tho part thoy took in
tho frauds.
Tho sentences follow: Abran H.
Preeman, superintendent of agents of
tho company, olght years in prison
and a flno of $4,000.
Frederick L. Wondler, general man
ager of tho main office In St. LouIb,
eight years In prison; flno, $4,000.
James T. Minehart of Chicago, for
mer Methodist minister and a con
tract man, four years' imprisonment;
fine, $5,000.
Charles F. Day, Chicago, a contract
man, four years' imprisonment; fine,
$5,000.
Kobert E. Pender, Pittsburgh, a con
tract man, threo years' Imprisonment;
fine, $2,500. ,
Josoph F. FInkleman, Kansas City,
a contract man, threo years' imprison
ment and a flno of $2,500.
William W. Fellers, Kansas City,
nino months In house of correction.
J. H. Worman, St. Louis, nino
months in tho houso of correction.
Joseph C. Stevens, Kansas City, a
contract man, threo years' imprison
ment; flno, $2,500.
CARPENTIER WINS ON FOUL
Heavyweight Champion of Franco
Given Decision Over "Gunboat"
8mlth on Sixth Round.
London, July 18. Georges Carpen
tier, heavyweight champion of Franco,
defeated "Gunboat" Smith, tho Ameri
can, before a tremendous crowd on
Thursday. The Frenchman proved
himself to bo a great lighter, clever
and with a punch capablo of deliver
ing grueling punishment. Tho sixth
and last round of tho fight opened with
a clinch. Corpentier missed a left to
tho Jaw. Smith was very slow, and
Corpentier landed him in tho eyo with
his left. Smith began toj Jab wildly
with his right. Smith knocked Cor
pentier down and hit tho Frenchman
whllo ho was down. Referoo Corrl
disqualified Smith for hitting Carpen
tier while ho was down and declared
Carpentlor tho winner.
FLASHES
OFF THE WIRE
Now Orleans, La., July 17. Throo
rats infected with bubonic plague
germs havo been found in New Or
leans according to announcement here
by Dr. W. C. Ruckor, assistant United
States surgeon general.
Washington, July 17. W. O. Mul
key waa sworn In as a representative
from tho Third district of Alabama in
tho houso.
Paris, France, July 17. Gabriel
D'Annunzlo, tho Italian poet, who had
been slowly recovering from a serious
Illness dating from last April, has
suffered a relapso. His condition, it
is said, requires tho greatest atten
tion. St. Louis, July 17. Col. Theodore
Roosovelt authorized tho Progressive
city committoo to nnnounco that ho
will spoak In St. Louis about tho mid
dle of October.
Rev. L. R. Patmont Found Again.
Milwaukee, July 21. Rev. Louis It.
Patmont, horo of tho Danvlllo kidnap
ing, has boon dlscovorod again, and
according to reports which reached
horo, Is In a log houso ton miles from
Rib lake in northern Wisconsin.
Monument for Composer of "Dixie,"
Ashtabula, O., July 20. Tho un
marked gravo at Mount Vornon, O., of
Daniel Decatur Emmott, composor of
tho famous southern song, "Dixie," la
',o havo a monument soon, to bo erect
ed. Uv ft tiortharuer James L. Smith.
ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
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IB RAZES 3 MIS
8TRIKERS AND NON-UNION MEN
WAGE LONG BATTLE NEAR
FORT SMITH, ARK.
PROPERTY LOSS IS $250,000
Union Miners Use Dynamite and Fire
to Deatroy Structures Four Persons
Are Wounded During Fight Women
and Children Taken to Safety.
Fort Smith, Ark., July 20. Union
miners and sympathizers numbering
several hundred destroyed nearly ev
erything at tho threo mines of Mam
moth Vein Coal company, at Prairlo
Creek, 25 miles east of hero, and en
gaged a force of non-union employoa
In a battle that waged from six o'clock
until noon on Friday. Dynamite and
flro woro used to destroy tho struc
tures. The loss is $250,000.
Tho most romarkablo incident in
connection with tho clash, tho result
of a strike of union omployoa, Is that
no ono was filled, and that only four
persona woro injured. The battle
como to an end When tho employes ex
hausted their supply of ammunition.
Tho unionists claim their forces num
bered between two nnd four hundred,
while tho non-unionists nllego they
were attacked by fully 1,500 men.
Whllo tho latter Bay that they had but
from sixty to ono hundred men, tho
union forces declared they numbered
200.
Tho first attack was mado on mlno
No. 1, whero a tlpplo nnd smaller
buildings were burned. Then an at
tack was mado on mlno No. 3, whero a
tlpplo and company houses wero sot
aflro and tho machinery and mouth of
tho mino shaft dynamited.
Tho attacking force noxt moved to
mine No. 4, tho only plant that was
guarded and operating. Tho employes
were lodged behind a barricade, whllo
tho attacking force took refuge in tho
timbora and rocka on tho edgo of
ridges In near-by hills. Tho long-dls-tanco
at which the fight was waged
prevented any fatalities.
Tho trouble is tho result of tho cli
max to a strlko called in progress at
mlno 4 since last April, when tho com
pany substituted union miners for tho
open shop policy.
Prior to tho opening of hostilities,
all telephone wires in tho strlko dis
trict wero cut, and tho women and
children in tho danger zono wero re
moved to safety.
According to well foundod reports,
the trouble camo as a sort of reprisal
for tho alleged shooting up of Frog
town, a union mlno camp near mino No.
4 It was reported to tho authorities
that on Sunday and Wednesday night
of this week, tho non-union employes
of mlno No. 4 shot up tho town. This
Is emphatically denied by tho oper
ators. HAPSBURG WINS BIG STAKE
English Horse Lands $50,000 Eclipse
Trophy, the Richest Turf Event
In England.
Sandown Park, England, July 18.
Tho Eclipse stakes of $50,000, ono of
tho richest turf ovonts in England,
was won hero by H. Cholmondoly'B
threo-year-old Papsburg. Sol Jool'a
Honeywood ran second and Sir John
Thursby's Kennymoro third. Eight
een horses ran. Tho Ecllpso stakes
ovent Is run over a courso one milo
and a quarter long.
Get First 1914 Bale of Cotton.
Savannah, Ga., July 18. Tho first
halo of Georgia's 1914 cotton crop, and
tho earliest ovor received In tho his
tory of tho local cotton oxchango, ar
rived horo. It was grown at Donald
sonvlllo in Decatur county, and is bo
lloved to bo tho flrst cotton baled east
of tho Mississippi.
McGoorty to Fight Carpentler.
Sydney, N. S. W., July 21. Eddlo
McGoorty, middleweight pugilist, now
hero, hns recolved an offor from tho
National Sporting club of $10,000 and
oxponeoa ir ho wllT flght'CnrpOntlor la
London. Ho has accoptod.
'Slays Ju'dge' HalseyVSon.
Athons, Wis., July 21. Plerson
Hnlsoy, aged forty, lawyor, son of
Judgo L AV Ifalsdy o'f Mllwake'o, was
shot and killed by Hormnn Becker, a
ftiib-tonant on his farm?, Tho slayor
afterward killed himself"
AFTER BIG SWINDLERS
GOVERNMENT WILL PROSECUTE
8EVERAL COMPANIE8.
Worthless Tracts Along the Rio
Grande, Title to Which Is In Dis
pute, 8old to Investors.
Washington, July 21j Sevoral com
panics and corporations that havo
boon fraudulently selling lands along
tho Rio Grando are soon to bo proso
cuted by tho federal department of
Justice Tho lands aro practically
worthless and tltlo to them I'm In dla
puto betweon Moxlco and this coun
try. Tho operators aro Bald to havo
mado millions out of tho fraud. A apo
dal investigation of tho matter was
mado by W. W. Follott, consulting en
gineer of tho international boundary
commission, Gen. Anson Mills, chair
man, which is seeking to settlo b
agreement tho clalma of tho two gov
ernments to lands creatod by cliangos
In the courso of the river. His report
to tho commission shows that tho
fraud was extensive. Moro than ono
thousand of tho claims secured by in
nocent parties havo been Invalidated
by tho commission.
Tho operators in theso sand lots ob
tained somo color of tltlo to tho prop
erty, presumably from Mexican claim
ants, beforo tho commission had do
elded to which country tho land bo
longed. Through enticing Hternturo
and by other moans tho speculators
unloaded tho land at cheap prices to
reckless Investors on roprosentatlon
that they wero fertile and well wa
tered. Investigation" by Mr. Follett
developed that much of tho lands so
sold wero non-productive, oven though
tho tltlo to them could havo been sus
tained. HINDUS PERIL SHIP CAPTAIN
Three Hundred Men Threaten Him as
He Obeys Orders of Immigration
Chiefs.
Vancouver, B. C, July 20. Tho Im
migration authorities sent a letter to
Captain Yamamoto of tho Komogata
Mnru, demanding that ho leave tho
harbor with his 352 Hindu passengers.
Tho captain proceeded to carry out
tho instructions of tho Immigration of
ficers, but the Hindus "jreateneij' him
with violence, so ho wnb forced to de
sist Tho immigration patrol boat
then took tho captain off and a con
ference was opened in tho offices of
tho agents of tho vessel as to tho next
action to bo taken.
STORM HITS KENTUCKY CITY
Henderson Almost Wiped Out by Ter
rific Tornado Many Buildings
Demolished.
Henderson, Ky., July 20. Tho dawn
of day aftor a night of intenso dark
ness revealed to Henderson tho extent
of tho damago by tho tornado that
struck tho city. Buildings demolished
or partly wrecked, a net of twisted
wires, telegraph poles lying across tho
Btreots and trees twisted up and hurled
prostrate made a sceno of desolation
and havoc. When tho throe-story
building of tho Crane Furniture com
pany was blown down It crushed tho
homo of William Suell, a contractor,
adjoining, killing Mrs. Suell and her
fourteen-year-old nephew.
MRS. CARMAN IS INDICTED
Woman Charged With Killing Mrs.
Bailey In Husband's Office Re
leased on $20,000 Ball.
Now York, July 20. Mrs. Fiorenco
Carman was arraigned in tho Nassau
county supremo court at Mlneola on
Friday and pleaded not guilty to an in
dictment charging manslaughter in
the flrst degree which had been voted
against her in connection with tho
murdor of Mrs. Louisa Balloy in Dr.
Edwin Carman's office at Freeport, on
Juno 30. Justlco Van Slclon fixed ball
at $20,000 and Attorney M. Lovy, rep
resenting Mrs. Carman, sold it would
bo furnished at onco.
U. S. MEDIATORS WILL ACT
Government Will Seek to 8ettlo Dif
ferences Between Railroad Em
ployes and the Managers.
Washington, July 20. Tho United
States board of mediation and con
ciliation will begin work trying to set
tlo tho differences between tho 98
railroads and their englnomen and fire
men, it was announced by tho board
on Friday.
Start Oklahoma Building,
San Francisco, July 20. Ceremonies
in connection with ground-broaklng
for Oklahoma's building wero on tho
program at tho Panama-Paclllc expo
sition. Mrs. Fred Sutton of Okla
homa City, commissioner to tho expo
sition, will turn tho flrst spadeful of
earth.
Waukenan Dentist Drowned.
Phlr-ntro Tuli. 01 TV., r r EM.I...J
"-""tt"! WU.J ... -., U ,11, I'iOVIllJlb
a WaukOKnn dantlst. wnn rlmwnoil Uil
Lako Michigan at tho beginning of (a
motorbont trip with his family and
tw6 friends. Ho lost control of (qgi
rudder and foil out. I
I. W. W. Leader Is Murdered.
Winnipeg, M,nn., July 21.Hlrnra
Johnson, nctivo leader, Jn tho Indus
trial Workers of tho World, wnb dls
rovored murdered at Egg Iiko, 27
miles from Athabaska, northern Al
borta.
MAY WATER DRY 8POTO.
Plan On Fooi to Irrigate Phelps nd
Gosper Counties.
Goorgo C. Junkln of Gospor county,
formerly secretary of state, conferred
with Stnto Knglneor D. D. Price In
regard to tho proposed plan of wet
ting down a largo portion of Pholp9
nhd Gospor counties onco or twlco a
year with flood watora from tho
Platto river.
"Mr. Poaso of Denver, roprosentlng
tho government reclamation dopart'
ment, is now making a survey," said
Mr. Junkln, "for tho purpose of ascer
taining tho cost of the proposed pro
ject. It will bo cheap if it costa
$J,000,000, becauso at least 70,000
acroB of laud In tho western part of
Phelps county and Gospor county enn
bo supplied with wntor and a much
moro ncroago In eastern Phelps nnd
Kearney counties. Tho plan Is not to
irrlato during tho growing soason,
but to uso tho excess flow of (ho
river to wet tho subsoil boforo and(
aftor crops nro grown. Tho water is
to bo conveyed to tho land In ditches,
not upon tho Biirfnco of tho land. Wo
ofton lack only from four to six inchoa
of rnln to grow tho best of crops. Itf
Is believed n systom of saturating tho
soil would tldo over crops In tho
driest yearB without rain or irriga
tion. Tho plnn has never been tried
In this country, but wo bellovo tho
annual ovorflow of Uio Nile rlvor
proves that tho plan will work.
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The board of educational lands and
runda has decided to relmburso Con
Murray of Hay Springs for a short
ago In half a section of land In Sec
tion 3G-22-1G, Sheridan county, which
ho has leased from tho state. A sur
voy shows that It contains 213.86
acres Instead of 320 acres. Tho south
half of tho section, leased by Mack
Linden, Is also short. It contninB
2C4.18 acres. Tho board will read
Just Its accountB with theso two les
sees by remitting a portion of tho
payments still duo.
Governor Morehead nnd othors In
terested in tho Meridian road, which
runs from Wlnnlpog to Galveston,
mot tho promoters of that road, who
nro going over tho lino In automobiles,
at tho nKnsas state lino nnd accom
panied them through tho state to tho
South Dakota lino. Tho cnpany,
which is traveling In ton automobiles,
will bo accompanied through Kansas
by Governor Hodges and turnod ovor
to Governor Morehead at Chester.
A pair of personal Injury caBea wna
appealed to tho stato supremo court
by tho Omaha & Council Bluffs StroH
Railway company. Tho flrst was that
of Herman Pleper, an oinployo, who
sued for $15,000 for injuries sustained
when n pllo of sacks of comont foil
upon him In tho company's store
house. A vordict for $1,220. Jano M.
Flood, a furnlturo doalor at Battlo'
Crook, was Injured nt Hater's landing
place, nonr Council Bluffs, when tho
car on which sho was leaving startod
up suddenly and throw her to tho
ground. Sho sued for $20,000, and
wns given a Judgment of $5,C00.
Tax of 5 per cent on tho gross earn
ings of water power concerns of tho
stato for tho benefit of tho permanont
school fund was proposed by William
RItchoy of tho state school law rovla
Ion commission at a mooting of that
body hero. Mr. 'illtchoy proposes that
tho stato shall let out tho wator rights
under now laws and that tho stato
treasurer shall bo given power to in
vest lmited amounts of tho permanent
school funds In securities of com
panics Ufnt aro given; right to dovolop
tho cower.
Formal roquest for a physical valua
tion of tho property of tho Union
Stock Yards company of South
Qmnha by R, S. Howell of Omaha has
reached tho stato railway commission.
Ho urges this stop In connection with
tho hog rato complaint of tho Statq
Grain and Live Stock association,
against tho yards. Tho commission;
has not decided what it will do in tho
mattor. A decision is looked for
soon, howovor.
Stato rallwny commission members
of Nebraska aro exorcised ovor any
proposition to ralso freight rates and
charge for special services now free.
Tho total incronso of freight rates an
nually is roughly estimated at
$1,000,000. Theso raises wero recom
mended by chief traffic officers of
roads In tho Western Trunk lino com
mltteo, Trans-Mlssourl bureau and
Southwest Tariff commltteo.
Premium on $50,000 of tho atato
treasurer's bond rowrltton by tho Na
tional Fidelity and Casualty company
at tho request of tho Lion Bonding
company, is tho bono pf contention In
nn appeal from Douglas counnty, filed
m tho supremo court. Tho Lion won
nut In tho lowor court. Tho sum of
$2B0 was Involved.
Next November a Junior agricul
tural short courso will bo Iiold In
Madison county Dolosntes will bo
sent from Madison, Wnyno, Pierco
ana. t nmnjvcPUnteB,
Tho program
imports 'fron Sheridan, Box Butto
uiidBroWicofontios ilidioato that tho
nStafXLOrotf.fn tlHjttfjgrtlweaiern part
ffiMflWjfflSKP Wh0 UB,ml
nrJe..vlrat!ro5ljn healthy
Pltninlf.nWylwrftrfd'thc crop
lms conif through remarkably froo
from dlaPaf Sheridan and Box
Mutt counties aro close ilvals In tho
natter of production. Brown county
ijov'u not grow na many potatoes, but
,m nr b to turn out an early product,
di 'cntlilufT eountv Jho potato crop
stn 1nlo't'Ti fiirtor Severs! dnya
mt fin w i rt ?, viii ntr a good crop,
HDEfMS RULE
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OF
Killing of Madcro Marked Begin
ning of Despotism.
MADE VAIN BOAST TO TAFT
Dictator Declared He Would Restore
Peaoo at Once, but Refusal of
United States to Recognize
Him Assured His Downfall.
Vlotorlano Huorta took oath as pro
visional prealdont of Mexico Fobruary
19, 1913, tho day aftor President Fran
cisco I. Madero, Jr., had boon ar
rested at tho national paloco.
Three days later Madero and Joso
Maria Pino Suaros, vice-president
woro shot to death whllo on a mid
night ride under guard from tho pal
ace to tho penitentiary. The proclao
mannor of their doath has novor been
explained.
Ono of Huerta'a first acts aa provi
sional prealdont waa to tolograph Will
iam H. Tart, then prealdont of tho
Unltod States, tho following mossago:
"I havo tho honor to Inform you
that I havo overthrown tho govern
ment. Tho forces aro with mo, and
from now on poaco and prosperity will
reign."
PR0V0KE8 CIVIL WAR.
Tho Moxlcan republlo, howevor, waB
at onco plunged into civil war again,
notwithstanding tho issuanco by
Huorta of a proclamation of goneral
amnesty. Thu Sonora state congress
officially repudiated tho provisional
government boforo Huerta settled
himself comfortably in tho presidential
chair.
Zapata, revolutionary loader to tho
south of tho capital, after negotiating
a fow days with tho now roglmo, went
back to his guerrilla campaign.
Solozar, ono of the hlghost generals
in tho army, donounced Huerta.
Carranza, constitutionalist leador In
Chihuahua, Assailed Huorta In a bitter
statomont mado publlo at San Anto
nio. Francisco Villa announced himself
nn adherent of Madero and Joinod tho
northern army,
Pasqual Orozco of tho clan of tho
northern revolutionists waB tho lono
notnblo figure among tho disaffected
who doclarod for tho now government.
TAFT LEAVE8 PROBLEM.
Prosldont Taft, noarlng tho end of
his torm, loft to his successor tho
problem of adjusting diplomatic rela
tione with Moxlco. To Woodrow Wil
son Huorta sont felicitations on tho
day of tho American president's in
auguration. Hamporod at the outsot of ma ad
ministration by the refusal of tho
United States to recognize him, Huer
ta aoon faced growing difficulties in
raising funds to run his government
His uneasy hold on affairs waa weak
ened by minor constitutionalist vic
tories in the north and by recurring
rumora of a break with Felix Diaz,
nephow of Porflrio Diaz and Huerta'a
oily in tho overthrow of Madero.
HUERTA CALL8 ELECTION.
May 1 Huorta announced that ho
would urge, congress to call elections
in Octobor to chooso his successor.
Tho congress selootod Octobor 20 aa
tho date of the election, and a decroo
to that effect was issued by Huerta
Juno 8.
Foliz Diaz, who bad announced him
self as a candidato for the presidency,
was sent to Japan July 17.
Henry Lane Wilson, American am
bassador, was recalled to Washington,
and Nelson O'Shnughnessy, charge
d'affaires, was loft In chargo of Amer
ican interosta in Moxlco.
REJECT8 PEACE EFFORT.
Early In August it becamo known
that President WllBon intended to
sand John Llnd, former governor of
Minnesota, to Mexico as hia personal
roproaentatlve in an endeavor to nr
rango a basis for tho republic's poaco.
Huorta announced that ho would not
tolerate foreign Interference.
Nevertheless Mr. Llnd delivered his
noto from President Wilson.
Huerta rejected all proposals mado
by tho American government, chief
of vhlch woro tho suggestions that
he resign and not bo a candidato elec
tion day,
Relations between Moxlco and tho
United States becamo acuto. Prosldont
Wilson proclaimed his policy In an ad
dress beforo congross to which was
attached tho correspondence betweon
Mr. Llnd and tto Huorta administra
tion.
HUERTA ARRESTS DEPUTIES.
Huerta was attacked in tho Mexican
senato October 6 by Senator Domln
guoz, who had the hardihood to speak
what was In tho minds of hlmsqlt and
somo of his colleagues. DorolngJ,1
disappeared. '
Tho chamber of doputles adoptpdtfi
resolution calling for an investigation
To this Huerta's reply waa dramatic
and swift., Up u hed a columncr
troops to tho ' jputios' chsmbor,
seized 110 of ' thoiri and throw thom
into piison. ' (
Through Mr. O'ShaUghnosBt' the
United 'StqlGB mado roproponations
ngaiust vlolouco to tho Imprisoned
doputlert
In tho oloctlon campaign certain in
fluence close to tho dictator worked
it his return to tho presidency with
I lc aural Blauquet as his runn'uK mate.
BLOODSHED
and lent color to the persistent report
that Huerta really desired to be
oloctod and that bis pretenses to the
contrary were a sham.
U. 8. DEMANDS HE RESIGN.
When It became certain that the
elections had resulted In no constitu
tional cholco on account of tho failure
of voters to go to tho polls, tho Amer
ican government peremptorily called
on him to resign.
In a statement to tho diplomatic
corps November 9 Huerta announced
that ho would declaro the result of tho
election null and order another elec
tion, f
November 12 Huorta refused to ac
cede to tho American demand for his
resignation, and Mr, Llnd left Mexico
City for Vera Cruz.
Mcantlmo the United States dis
patched warships to tho Mexican coast
and Americans continued to loavo
Moxlco.
U. a VEER8 TO CARRANZA.
Doflnlto proposals were made by
tho United States to Carranza and hia
adherents.
Several of tho European powers,
notably Great Britain, Germany and
Franco, gave strong support to tho
policy of tho United States.
Tho constitutionalists grow stronger
nnd continued their advance to tho
south. Tupy captured Victoria, Chl
huhua, Juarez and Tullacun.
Tho situation became bo critical
that Great Britain, Germany, France,
Spain and Japan ordered worships to
Moxlcan waters.
Fighting continued at Tamplco and
many other contorB. Torreon soon
was taken by tho constitutionalists.
RAISES EMBARGO ON ARMS.
An embargo placed on tho exporta
tion of arms from tho United States to
Moxlco waa raised early in February
of Uio prosont year.
A largo number of American troops
wero concontrntcd on tho border, and
tho American fleet In Mexican watera
was strengthened,
Tho constitutionalists advanced on
Torreon aid Monterey. Tho former
placo was captured early In April.
Then camo tho departure of Mr.
Llnd from Vera Cruz and tho arrest
of a party of American bluejackets at
Tamplco, for which an apology and
Baluto wero domanded by tho United
States and refused by Huerta.
AMERICANS TAKE VERA CRUZ.
April 21 Amorlcan bluejackets and
marines wero landed at Vera Cruz in
consequence of tho reported arrival of
a largo consignment of arms and am
munition for Huerta. A number of
Americana were killed in tho street
fighting, Tho Mexicans retired and
destroyed a portion of tho railroad
and tho Americans hold the' port.
Shortly after a mediation proposal
from Argentina, Brazil and Chile was
accepted. A conference ensued at Nl
ugara Falls.
In tho Interval Amorlcan troops re
lioved tho bluejackets at Vera Cruz.
Theso havo slnco remained In occupa
tion of tho port.
Tamplco and Zacatecas fell Into the
constitutionalists' hands and tho vic
torious armies continued their march
on Moxlco City, whore rumora were in,
circulation for many weoka of the res
ignation of Huerta.
With Huerta'a retirement the con
stitutionalists fool that their revolu-'
tion haB virtually triumphed. They
turned against him tho moment he
overthrow Madero, tho constitutional
president or Mexico, in February, 1912,
and havo waged war with unrelenting:
vigor over since.
U. 8. TROOPS REMAIN IDLE.
The prospect of an early solution of
tho Moxlcan problem gave b,otb. presi
dent WllBon and Secretary Bryan,
much Joy, naturally, American force
will not bo withdrawn from Vera Crua
until a stablo government has beon e&i
tnbllshcd in Mexico City and recogni
tion has been accorded tho new gov
ernment
Tho feeling is general, however, that
if Carranza gives guaronteea to politi
cal offonders ob woll as tho people
generally recognition will bo prompt
ly extended by tho United States and
othor nations of Central and South
America, as well aa Buropo.
LAWYER IN PLACE OF POWER
For the First Time In History Mu
lean Republlo Has a Civilian In
Presidential Chair.
Mexico City. Francisco Carbajal
la forty-four years old, a native of
tho atato of Caulpeche, and a lawyer.
Almost ever Blnce tho start of hia
career ho has occupied posts In the
Judiciary. In the Madero administra
tion ho was a senator, but relin
quished hiB post to re-enter the su
premo court, of which bo waB chief
Justlco at thu time General Huerta ap
pointed him minister of foreign rela
tions. When Genoral Porflrio Diaz deter
mined in 1911 to treat with the Made
ro revolutionists, Senor Carbajal pro
ceeded to Juarez aa hia commissioner.
Senor Carbajal has a reputation for
possessing considerable Intellectual
forco and Independence of character.
lationntf whlSh TJatiriJA'nWrWa
-tt r r-iu
prono. Ho Is courteouSbut a man
ptt ow words "andHtjtla glve"n to elabo
rate compHmeritaV ' "&
Besides, -'lib' "ia nDat-"n.nd well
grnomed in appearance. His features
lrfdlcato puro European descent, with
out any ndmlxturo of Indian blood.
Altogether ho Ib a man "ho cot
veya an Impression of roBerve powor.
Ho la a good man of business.
Hia probity hua novof been quesi
Honed. Ho has been Bagnclqus and.
successful in investments and, whll
not rich, Is a mail of indepcudeaf.
I means. Ho is a man of family,