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r I THE SEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. FOR THE BUSY I NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN 800N BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con deneed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. . WASHINGTON. Tho bill to extend ttmo of payments for settlers on Irrigated lands was debated In the house. Tho acnato has confirmed tho nomi nation of Ira Nelson Morris, of Chica go, to bo minister to Sweden. A bill for leasing a hotel slto In the YoKemlto valley to private Interests was paused recently by tho senate. Senator Burton declared fundamen tal errors In tho $5:1,000,000 river and harbor bill were so gross as to Justify its defeat. W. G. Mulkey has boon sworn In for tho Third Alabama district, suc ceeding Henry D. Clayton, recently appointed to tho federal bench. Representative Ton Kyck has Intro duced a bill to appropriate $750,000 for continuing Improvements and maintenance of tho Hudson river. Tho total payment In 19R cities hav ing a population of 30,000 or more, for general governmental expenses In 1912 was $508,543,048, according to the census bureau. Tho question of criminal Indict ments against directors of tho Now Haven railroad probably will not bo taken up by tho Department ot.Tustlco until tho, conclusion of tho negotia tions for a peaceful disp'dutlon of that system. Rapid progress la tho organization of tho boards of directors of twelve federal reserve hanks In the nation's new currency syatcm was Indicated In tho announcement by .tho organi zation comm.ltteo of names of several candidate whoso election havo been nssurcd Exoneration of John S. Williams, comptroller of tho currency and of all ECiators concerned In tho chargo of tilssufio of olflclul lotter paper for pro motion of a North Carolina gold mlno Is contained In tho findings of an In vestigating commtteo which has com pleted its report. Tho Japanese ambassador, Viscount Chlnda, Introduced to President Wil son Mnjor Clonoral Qljuchl Tanaka, a member of tho Japaneso army genoral staff, who haB boon In Europe Inves tigating military establishments. Tho general Is accompanied by Dr. S. Nln ngawn, a distinguished authority on International law. 0 OOMB8TIO. CharleB Malbaum and his wife, who controlled threo disorderly houses In tho old Chicago loveo, nro to bo re turned to Kuropo us undesirables! No attompt was inndo by New York anarchists to hold tho proposoj fun eral parado In honor of tho men who woro killed in tho bomb explosion. Tho receipts of cattle at tho Knnsao City Uvo stock market for this year have been tho smallest of any in twenty years, and other markets show decreases. Healthy marrlngoB and Instruction in sox hygleuo in hig'ii sohoolB wnro ad vocated In resolutions adopted at tho' closing session of tho conference of alienists and neurologists In Chicago. Eight railroads havo been lined nn nggregato of $30,000 by Federal Judge Latulls for violation of tho law provid ing that ltvo stock In transit niiiBt bo fed and watored at least onco every twenty-eight hours. Aftor a pitched battlo between sov oral hundred striking coal minors and sympathizers nnd 10 guards stationed at tho Pralrlo Creek mines of tho Mammoth Voln Coal comjwiny, near Fort Smith, Ark., which ended In tho rout of tno gunrds, tipples of threo mines woro destroyed by flro and dyn amite. Tho property damngo is esti mated nt $200,000. A rat caught at New Orleans July 12 was Infected with bubonic plague, according to announcement by Dr. W. C. Rucker, federal assistant surgeon general In charge of tho plague tight hero. Mrs. Floronco Conklln Carman, In dieted on tho chargo of manslaughter in tho first dogreo In connection with tho killing of Mrs. Loulso Bailey, Is temporarily a froo woman. Sho was roleaiod for trial under $20,000 bail fifteen minutes uftor tho grand Jury mndo known Its findings. Abtoluto segregation of mental de fectives and the creation of a depart ment of physical diagnosis in courts woro recommended tit tho third day's uesBlon Of tho alienists and neurplo glvts at Philadelphia. 'United Stntcs last year Imported 822,422 pounds of mushrooms. St. Louis provides a small parking spaco for autos In front of tho cltj court house by narrowing tho walk. Dancing on a public street at Pitts burgh brought to a close tho third day of tho convention of the Nntlonal As sociation of Real Estate Exchanges of America. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of tho nrltlsh admiralty, held n reception In the house . of commons for a contingent of midshipmen from tho American battleship Missouri. RueBla is about to recognize ns legitimate tho emigration of its sur plus millions to other countries, and tho ministry of commerce has submit ted a bill to abolish some of the pen alties. Minister Suarez of Chile and Secre tary Rryan has agreed upon tho terms of a peace commission treaty which kill bind Chllo and tho United States to submit to Investigation all differ ences whlh cannot bo settled by diplomacy. Tho federal grand Jury has return ed indictments under tho Sherman anti-trust law against the members of tho so-called halibut trust, which con trols most of the halibut caught In tho North Atlantic, NorthPaclflc and Bering sea and sold In' tho United Stnles. Negotiations between tho New Ha ven and tho department of Justice to effect a peaceful dissolution, of that system have' npporently come to an end, and unless there nro unforseen developments, tho government will filo Its Sherman lawsuit to force a dissolution at once. Federal Judge Landls at Chicago ruled that Frederick W. Ellis, vice president of tho Armour Car lines, would have to answer certain ques tions asked him nt a hearing before tho Interstate Commerce commission In an Inquiry last winter Into tho oper ation of private car linos. Because the aero club of America has not received a guaranteo that tho prize sot apart by tho Panama-Pacific around-thc-world race will bo paid to tho winners upon notification by the club's contest committee, the club is withholding Its sanction to tho race, acordlng to a Btatemont mudo roently. Tho federal grand Jury at Chicago voted Indictments against four pri vate bankers chargliig tbem with us ing tho malls to dofraud. They were Sol Lowlnsohn, former head of tho Traders hank, Joseph T, ABhurst and Wlllam Forsborg. partners In tho Brookllno and tho Midway Commer cial nnd Savings bank and Joromo Smrs, at ono time postmaster at Argo, 111., and" owner of the Industrial Sav ings bank. Edgar Murphy, a young farmer of Now Albany, has confescd according to tho authorities that ho was tho slayer of Herman Fisher, 17 year old, who wnB shot and killed as ho wat returning homo from a visit to his Bwecthoart, Ida Wllholm. Murphy, who Is a married man, though sop aratod from his wlfo, Baid that ho killed Fisher becauso tho latter In formed MIsb Wllholm Murphy had a wife. A woman's head, found by work men on the Seattlo city garbago dump, which at first was boliovcd to hnvo bolongod to a murderer's victim, was thrown away by a physician who had boon conducting experiments on a corpse obtained from a hospital. A preparation of red lead used In medi cal laboratory work had boon injected Into tho head, giving it tho appear anco of hnvlng only recently boor sovercd from a living body. Tho coroner's Jury which investi gated tho shooting affray in tho for mer M'grogntod district of Chicago, in which ono policeman was killed and threo wounded adjourned without hav ing dotormlnod on tho facts which led up to tho revolver batt'.o. It adjourned to await tho results of tho wounds of tho threo detcctlveH now In hospitals. Tho Jury, comprised of six public school principals, recommended that Fred Amort, mornlB dotectlvo, ar rested on suspicion of tho shooting, bo released on his own recognalsanco pending tho result of tho inquest. FOREIGN. Two hundred persons woro roportod executed In Moxlco City by Iluorta, according to nows from tho south re ceived by tho constitutionalists, ' Tho unceasing criticism of press and parliament Is slowly reducing the number of enses of mistreatment of soldlorB by their olllcers, but n recent report shows that 400 non-commission-cd olllcers woro convlcto'd of such of fenses last year In Germany. This was a reduction of ninety cascB from tho figures of five yenrs ago. In a boating accident on tho Grand river, Ontario, Thomas Garnet, n woalthy farmer, his two children and a maid, lost tholr lives. Tho other oc cupant of tho boat, a farm hand-, swam to tho shore and gavo tho alarm. Tho collier Storstadt is hold to blnmo for tho Empress of Ireland dis aster In tho findings of tho wreck commission handed down. Tho com mission holds that tho dlsastor wiu. duo to tho StorHtad&'s chango of course, ordered by tho third officer without instructions from the first lERIn'S RULE E OF Killing of Madcro Marked Begin ning of Despotism. MADE VAIN BOAST TO TAFT Dictator Declared He Would Restore Peace at Once, but Refusal of United States to Recognize Him Assured His Downfall. VIctorlano Huerta took oath as pro visional president of Moxlco February 19, 1913, tho day aftor President Fran cisco I. Mudero, Jr., had been ar rested at tho national palace. " Threo dayB later Madero and Joso Maria Pino Suaroz, vice-president, wero shot to death while on a mid night rido under guard from the pal oca to tho penitentiary, Tho precise manner of their death has never been explained. Ono of Huorta's first nets as provi sional president was to tolcgraph Will iam II. Taft, then president of the United StntOB, tho following messages "I havo tho honor to inform you that I havo overthrown tho govern ment. Tho forces are with me, and from now on peace and prosperity will reign." PROVOKES CIVIL WAR. Tho Mexican republic, however, was at once plunged into civil war again, notwithstanding tho issuance by Huerta of a proclamation of general amnesty. The Sonora stato congress officially repudiated the provisional government before Iluerta settled himself comfortably In the presidential chair. Zapata, revolutionary leader to the south of the capital, after negotiating a few days with tho new regime, went back to bis guerrilla campaign. Salazar, one of the highest generals in the army, denounced Iluerta. Carranza, constitutionalist leader in Chihuahua, assailed Huerta In a bitter statement made public at San Anto nio. Francisco Villa announced himself an adherent of Madcro and joined the northern army. Pasqual Orozco of the clan of tho northorn revolutionists was tho lone notable figure among tho disaffected who declared for tho now government. TAFT LEAVES PROBLEM. President Tnft, nearlng the end of his- term, left to his successor tho problem of adjusting diplomatic rela tions with Mexico. To Woodrow Wil son Huerta sent felicitations on the day of the American president's in auguration. Hampered at the outset of his ad ministration by tho refusal of tho United States to recognlzo him, Huer ta soon faced 'growing difficulties .in raising funds to run his government. His uneasy hold on affairs waB weak ened by minor constitutionalist vic tories In the north and by recurring rumors of a break with Felix Diaz, nophew of Porflrlo Diaz and Huorta's ally in the overthrow of Madero. HUERTA CALLS ELECTION. May 1 Iluorta announced that bo would urge congress to call elections in October to choose his successor. Tho congress selected October 20 as tho dato of the election, nnd a decree to that effect was issued by Iluerta Juno 8. Fellz Diaz, who had announced him self as a candidate for tho presidency, was sent to Japan July 17. Henry Lano Wilson, American am bassador, was recallod to Washington, and Nelson O'Shaughnessy, chargo d'affaires, was left In chargo of Amer ican interests In Moxlco. REJECTS PEACE EFFORT. Early In August it became known that Prcsldont Wilson Intended to send John Llnd, former governor of Minnesota, to Mexico ns his personal representative In an endeavor to nr rango a basis for tho republic's ponco. Huerta announced that he would not tolerate foreign interference. Nevertheless Mr. Llnd delivered hla note from President Wilson. Iluerta rejected all proposals made by tho American government, chief of which woro the suggestions that he resign and not be a candidate elec tion day. Relations between Mexico and the United States became acuta. President Wilson proclaimed his policy In an ad dress boforo congress to which was attached tho correspondence between Mr. Llnd and the Huerta administra tion. HUERTA ARRESTS DEPUTIES. Iluerta was attacked in the Moxlcan senate October 5 by Senator Doinln guez, who had tho hardihood to speak what was in tho minds of himself and somo of his colleagues. Domlnguez disappeared. Tho chamber of doputics adopted a resolution calling for an Investigation. To this Huorta's roply was dramatic and swift. Ho marched a column of troops to tho deputies' chamber, seized 110 of the in and throw them Into prison. Through Mr. O'Shaughnossy tho United States made representations against vlolonce to the Imprisoned deputies In tho election campaign certain in fluenco close to tho dictator worked for his return to tho presidency, with I General Blanquet as his running loato. BLQQD EO and lent color to tho persistent report that Huerta really desired to bo elected and that his pretenses to tho contrary wero a sham. U. 8. DEMANDS HE RESIGN. When It became certain that the elections had resulted in no constltu. tlonal choice on account of tho failure of voters to go to the pollB, the Amer ican government peremptorily called on him to resign. In a statement to tho diplomatic corps November 9 Huerta announced that he would declare the result of the election null nnd order another elec tion November 12 Huerta refused to ac cedo to tho American demnnd for his resignation, and Mr. Llnd left Mexico City for Vera Cruz. Meantlmo the United States dis patched warships to the Moxlcan coast and Americans continued to leave Mexico. U. S. VEERS TO CARRANZA. Definite proposals wero made by tho United States to Carranza and his" adherents. Several of tho European powers, notably Great Britain, Germany and France, gave strong support to -tho policy of the United States. Tho constitutionalists grow stronger and continued tholr advance to tho south. They captured Victoria, Chi huhua, Juarez and Tuliacan. Tho situation became so critical thut Great Britain, Germany, France, Spnin and Japan ordered warships to Mexican waters. Fighting continued at Tamptco and many other centers. Torreon soon was taken by the constitutionalists. RAISES EMBARGO ON ARMS. An embargo placed on tho exporta tion of nrms from tho U'ted States to Mexico was raised early In February of the present year. A largo number of American troops wero concentrated on tho bordor, and tho American fleet In Mexican waters was strengthened. The constitutionalists advanced on Torreon and Monterey. The former place wob captured early in April. Then came the departure of Mr. Llnd from Vera Cruz and the arrest of a party of American bluejackets at Tamplco, for which an apology and salute wero demanded by tho United States and refused "by Huerta. AMERICANS TAKE VERA CRUZ. April 21 American bluejackets and marines were landed at Vera Cruz in consequence of the reported arrival of a large consignment of arms and am munition for Huerta. A number or Americans were killed in the street fighting. Tho Mexicans retired and destroyed a portion of tho railroad and the Americans held the port. Shortly after a mediation proposal from Argentina, Brazil and Chile was accepted. A conference ensued at Ni agara Falls. In tho interval American troops re lloved tho bluejackets at Vera Cruz. These havo since remained In occupa tion of tho port." Tamp'co and Zacatecas fell into tho constitutionalists' hands and tho vic torious armies continued their march on Mexico City, whero rumors woro In circulation for many weeks of the res ignation of Huerta. With Huerta's retirement tho con stitutionalists feel that their revolu tion has virtually triumphed. They turned against him tho moment ho overthrew Madero, the constitutional president of Mexico, in Fobruary, 1912, and havo waged war with unrelenting vigor ever since. U. 8. TROOPS REMAIN IDLE. Tho prospect of an earl solution of the Mexican problem gave both, presi dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan much Joy, naturally. American forces will not bo withdrawn from Vera Cruz until a stable government has been es tablished in Mexico City nnd recogni tion has been accorded the new gov ernment. Tho feeling 1b general, however, that If Carranza gives guarantees to politi cal offenders as well as the people generally recognition will bo prompt ly extended by tho United States and other nations of Central and South America, ns well as Europe. LAWYER IN PLACE OF POWER For the First Time In HUtory Mex lean Republic Has a Civilian In Presidential Chair, Mexico City. Frnnclsco Carbajal Is forty-four yearB old, a nallvo of the stato of Cumpcche, and a lawyer. Almost ever since the start of his caroor ho has occupied posts in tho Judiciary. In tho Madero administra tion ho was a senator, but relin quished his poBt to ro-cnter tho su premo court, of which ho was chief justice at tho time General Huerta ap pointed him minister of foreign rela tions. When General Porflrlo Diaz deter mined in 1911 to treat with tho Made ro revolutionists, Senor Carbajal pro ceeded to Juarez as his commissioner. Sonor Carbajal has a reputation for possessing considerable Intellectual forco and Indopendenco of character. His demeanor is quiet. He shuns the exuborance In verbiage and gesticu lation to which Latln-Ainerlc.uiB are prone. Ho Is courteous, but a man of fow words and llttlo given to elabo rate compliments. Besides, he Is neat and well groomed In appearance Ills featuroa Indicate pure European descent, with, out any odmlxturo of Indian blood. Altogether ho Is a man who con voys an Impression of rescrvo power. Ho is n good man of business. His probity has never been ques tioned. He has boen sagacious and successful in Investments and, while not rich, Is a man of independent moans. He Is a man of family. 10 LEAVE COUNTRY FALLEN DESPOT AND BLANQUET WILL SAIL ON GERMAN 3HIP. EX-PRESIDENT NOT CHEERFUL Crowd of Peons Gather About His Car but Apparently Not Much Attraited by His Presence. Puerto, Mexico. According to tho latest reports, Ex-presldent Iluerta and his party expect to leave hero soon. Generals Huerta and Blanquct, accompanied by three or four aides, will sail on tho German cruiser Dres den. Tho others will go on tho stoamer Mexico of tho Mexican Navi gation company, which, it is said, has boon chartered for this purpose. Tho presjdential guards will leave for tho capital. Th refusal of President Carbajal to let tho fugitive president have the use of the gunboats Bravo and Zara gosa, has occasioned undisguised chagrin, but there appears to be no remedy. As if to give color, however, to tho assumption that the govern ment rcnlly needs these boats, tho Zaragosa put out to pea, laying her course In tho direction of Havana. Ordered to Havana. The only order tho comander re ceived was to go to Havana. It waB reported that the Zaragoza Intended to pick up at that port somo promi nent constitutionalists and bring them to Mexico to enter into personal nego tiations with tho new provisional president. The United Sttaes cruiser, Des Moines, which has been lying off the harbor, immediately followed tho Zaragoza. Not In Good Humor. His humor was-much less cheerful than at any time since leaving the capital and those about him treated him with the greatest consideration. Mcst of the women and men of the party left tho cars for luncheon, go ing to the restaurant of tho local ho tel. A crowd of perhaps a hundred peons, men, women and children, gathered about the car in which Gen eral Huerta lodged, whillng away the bours. But It Is doubtful if they were ittracted as much by the presence of Huerta, who sat beside an open win dow, as by the music of a local or chestra which was stationed along side the car. Indus Refused Admission. Ottawa, Out. A report of the battle in Vancouver harbor between Cana dian officials backed by police and a body of Hindus on tho Japanese steamship Komagata Mnru has been received by government officials. The steamer arrived throe months ago with 350 Hindus, who "claimed as British subjects, tho right to land in Canada. Tho Canadian immigration officials refused them admission on tho grounds that they were undesir able persons. Several times the Hin dus attempted to reach bhore, but wero prevented by guard boats which tho Canadian authorities placed on watch around the ship. Strikers Execute Mine Guards. Fort Smith, Ark. Finding of charred fragments of tho bodies of two men In tho ruins of a log cabin and reports of an attempt to destroy the surface workings of anothor mine owned by the Bachc-Dlnman Coal company wero developments. In the conflict between strikers and non union coal minors and other company employes In the Hartford valley coal fields. Seventh Bubonic Plague Case. " Now Orleans, La. The seventh case of bubonic plnguo was announced here after health officers had diag nosed tho enso of Phllomeno Glapoln, a 15-year-old girl. Tho girl had been employed by a paper company within tho original focus of tho disease. Her home was several blocks away. Tho girl's condition was said to bo setious. Balloon Falls Into Trees. Paris. The balloon Toto, a con testant In tho grand prlx race organ ized by tho Aero Club or France, crashed Into tho trees of the Tullerles garden, Injuring the pilot, Georges Blanchet, and his aid, Duval, and causing a panic among thousands of spectators. Several persona wore slightly Injured in tho crash; many women fainted, others woro overcome by escaping gas. Ruins Portrait of Carlyle. London. A militant suffragette slashed with a cleaver the portrait of Thomas Carlylo, painted by Sir John Millais, nnd hanging In tho National Portrait gallery. Handicap On Stave Whisky. Chicago, 111. The future manufac ture of whisky from tho staves of bnrrols In which the liquor hp.d aged has been handicapped by Federal Judgo Landls, who dismissed tho suit of tho Western Extraction Co. against tho collector of Intornal rcvenuo. Reverse for Woman Suffrage. Atlanta, On. An ndvorsa report was recommended by tho stato senato committee on tho measure to glvo Georgia women tho right to vote it state and county elections. MAY WATER DRY SPOTS. Plan On Foot to Irrigate Phelps and Gosper Counties, George C. Junkln of Gosper county formerly secretary of state, conferred with Stato Engineer D. D. Price In regard to the proposed plnn of wet ting down a largo portion of Phelps and Gosper counties onco or twice a yenr with flood waters from the. Platto river. "Mr. Pease of Denver, representing; the government "reclamation depart ment, Is now making a survey," said. Mr. Junkin,-"'for tho purpose of ascer taining tho cost of the proposed pro ject. It will bo cheap If it costs $3,000,000, becauso at least 70,000 acres of land in tho western part of Phelps county and Gosper county cnii bo supplied with water and a much mora acreage In eastern Phelps and Kearney counties. The plan-Is not to irrigate during tho growing season, but to use tho excess flow of tho. river to wet tho subsoil before and after crops aro growli. The water I to bo conveyed to tho land In ditches, not upon the surface xf tho land. We often lack only from four to six Inches of rain to grow tho best of crops. It is believed a system of saturating the. toil would tide over crops in the driest years without rain or Irriga tion. The plnn has never been tried in this country, but we believe the annual overflow of tho Nile river proves that the plan will work. York county has reported a de crease of $1,325,200 in the actual value of assessable proporty in that county. Last year the total assessed, or one fifth value, was $9,007,353. This year it is returned by County Assessor H. G. Hopkins and tho county board at $8,810,313. The county shows a slight increase in the value of real estate. The value of state and national bank stock In tho county has fallen off $315,000, actual value. The assessed value of state banks has dropped from $33,322 to $12,278 and tho assessed value of national banks dropped from $100,349 to $58,022. Thus far York county has shown the largest de crease In bank stock listed for assess ment. The state board will consider the reduction of bank stocks when it meets to equallzo values. The board of educational lands and funds has decided to reimburse Con Murray of Hay Springs for a short age In half a section of land in Sec tion 3G-22-4G, Sheridan county, which ho has leased from tho state. A sur vey shows that it contains 213.86 acres Instead of 320 acres. Tho south half of the section, leased by Mack Linden, is also shorL It contains 2G4.18 acres. Tho board will read just its accounts with these two les sees by remitting a portion of the payments still due. Governor Morehead and others in terested in tho Merldinn road, which runs from Winnipeg to Galveston, met tho promoters of that road, who aro going over the lino In automobiles, at the aKnsas state line and accom panied thorn through tho state to tho South Dakota line. Tho company, which is traveling in ten automobiles, will be accompanied through Kansas by Governor Hodges and turned over to Governor Morehead at Chester. Tho judgment of the dlstrictcourt of Douglas county is affirmed in a case brought on appeal by tho Consol idated Stone company against the Union Pacific Railroad company on a judgment secured by the latter for breach of contract regarding material used in tho railway compnny's new building In Omaha. Thero was con siderable controversy over the qual ity of stone used and payment was he'd up. A Hen was filed on the build ing which the lower court disallowed. Petitions containing 5,300 names, and asking that tho name of "Judge James P. English be placed on tho Fourth Judicial non-partisan ballot,, were filed with the secretary of state. Tho place to be filled Is" the vacancy created by Judgo Howard Kennedy's resignation, to become n member of the stat board of control. Judge Eng lish was appointed by Governor Morehead to hold tho place " from May. 1913, until the present year's election. ," Next November a Junior agricul tural short course will bo hold in Madison county. Delegates will bo sent from Madison, Wayne, Plerco and Stanton counties. The program will be under tho auspices of tho county superintendents, and lecturers will be sont out from the Nebraska college of agriculture. Railway Commissioner Clarke, ac companied by Rate Clerk U. G. Powell and representatives from Lincoln, Hastings nnd Beatrice, will go to Des Moines to appear boforo an ex aminer of tho Interstate commorce commission, in support of tho com plaint of the Nebraskn railway com mission against a chango In the clas. sificntlon which will increase tho rates on live poultry. Reports from Sheridan', Box Butto and Brown counties indlcato that tho potato crop In the northwestern part of th estate will be up to tho usual standard. The vinos aro in healthy condition, the yield good and the crop has come through remarkably free from disease. Sheridan and Box Butte counties aro close rivals In the matter of production. Brown county does not grow as many potatoes, but manages to turn out an early product In Scottsbluff county tho potato crop Is an Important fnetor. Several days ago thi reports Indicated n good crop. A 7 ;