■ DUBLIN BURNING AS REBEL
TROOPS MAKE FINAL STAND
) Upward of 100 Persons Killed
or Injured—Troops Trying
> to Reduce Bloodshed to
the Minimum.
ARMS LANDED BY GERMANS
Rumored Teutons Are Assist
ing Rebels—Disturbances
In Several Other Parts
of Ireland.
London. May L—One dispatch re
■ eived from Ireland this afternoon says
**iat Sackville and Grafton streets in
Dublin are in names and that artillery
is being used on tne houses, the inhabi
tants having been removed.
“There is every indication tonight
that the on cl is approachcing," says a
dispatchc to the Exchange Telegraph
c ompany from Dublin utmer Friday’s
date. “Troops have been arriving all
day and intermittent fighting has been
going on to the disadvantage of the
rebels. There was some shelling on
Thursday night in the center of the city,
which is a stronghold of the Sinn Fcin
ers. Several flies were caused and the
largest of these was still burning this
, morning.
J See City In Flames.
J Tonight there lias been a further ac
' tion and it is stated that the building
which suffered principally was T.
Jacob's factory. It Is around this build
ing that : ome of the fiercest fighting
took place Monday evening. The rebels
commandeered large supplies of food
and stocked the building where they
hoped to hold out for some time. This
evening an attack on the building began
and just now, as the boat is ready to
depart from Kingstown, we can see
across the bay flames shooting up into
the sky."
London, May 1.—Parts of the city
of Dublin are in flames, an evening
news dispatch filed at Belfast last
night says. Street fighting continues
and there is much looting, it is said,
hut the reinforced military is making
steady progress. Most of the shops are
closed ami passenger communication is
still cut off.
London, May 1.—Upwards of 100
persons have been killed or injured in
Dublin, a correspondent at Belfast of
the Evening News, reports in a dis
patch filed last night. He says the
rioters, hidden in houses commanding
important street junctions or covered
fby barricades in the streets, are keep
ing up a constant fusilade.
The list of casualties includes many
civilians who, the correspondent says,
have been picked off by Sinn Fein
snipers for no other reason than that
they were believed to be loyal.
The cordon of troops is being drawn
gradually but surely around the reb
els' strongholds. The authorities are
making every effort to avoid unneces
sary bloodshed and damage.
Attacked With Bombs.
The Duhlin rebels have been driven
out of their positions in St. Stephens
Green with bombs after sustaining
iieavy losses, says the Daily News.
Four hundred Irish rebels were made
prisoner when the troops captured St.
Stephens Green, according to a dis
patch from Kingston.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Dublin says that the rebel forces on
Thursday numbered about 12,000, of
which 2,000 were Larkinites and 10,000
were Sinn Feiners. There were a large
number of peaceful citizens who were
the victims of stray bullets, in the
heavy casualty list, the dispatch adds.
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An official statement says:
"Tile other parts of Ireland, the prin
| cipal centers of disturbances are in
* County Gallway and Enniscorthy. Dis
turbances also are reported at Killar
ney, Clonmel and Gorey.
The other parts of ’Ireland appear
normal.
‘The general trend of the reports
received indicates that the disturbances
are local in character.”
Enniscorthy and Gorey are situate
in County Wexford. Killarney is in
County Kerry and Clonmel is in Coun
ty Tipperary.
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
from Dublin dated Friday, says that
Prof, John McNeall, chief of staff of
the Irish national volunteers has been
a prisoner since Monday, but whether
a prisoner of the government or in
surgents is unknown. It is known
thnt he is oposed to any policy of
violence.
Germans Landed Arms.
“The thing that surprises me the
most about the uprising in Dublin is
the supply of munitions in the hands
of the rebels,” said an arrival from
Ireland today. lie spent 10 hours in
Dublin on Tuesday and departing that
evening remained until last night in
Kingston.
“There is little doubt in the popular
mind that Germans have been landing
inns from submarines for months,” he
continued, “and it is even said—though
I do not believe it—that a few Ger
mans also landed and organized.
“I learned that the rebels made pris
oners of a large number of policemen
and a few stray soldiers at the royal
Irish constabulary depot and at Phoe
nix park.
“My walk through the center of the
city Tuesday afternoon was very event
ful. and I was glad finally to reach
Kingston. I was challenged many
k times by both rebels and loyal sentries.
", The rebel sentries were threatening,
but allowed ine to pass after search
ing for arms.
Countess Shot Guard.
“I heard that the Countess Markie
vicz, the sister of an Irish baron, who
was prominent in the Larkin strike and
a leading ligure in the present move
ment. shot dead a guard in front of
Dublin castle in an effort to capture
the castle. This effort proved abor
tive."
Thin Informant, who Is an engineer
of the war department, and a strong
royalist, says a great majority of the
people of Ireland are without sympa
thy for the rebels, whom they regard
as a small and Irresponsible minority.
Of his experiences in the city, the
engineer said:
“I reached a point opposite the Shel
burne hotel shortly after 4 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon. Much firing be
tween the rebels and the troops was in
progress, it was said the troops were
caught unprepared and suffered some
casualties. The navy assisted the In
fantry, wholeheartedly.
Great Store Burns.
‘‘The largest dry goods store in the
Kaiser To Make Dramatic
Play For Support, Rumor
Washington Believes Emperor Is Handling Negotiations Per
sonally Because He Can Go Further Than Government
Dares—Anxiously Await Report.
London, April 29.—The Berliner
Tageblatt says that Germany's re
ply to (he latest American note has
been completed and will be deliv
ered at the beginning of next week,
according to a dispatch from Co
penhagen to the Exchange Tele
graph company.
Washington, D C„ May L—The ad
ministration is (deeply interested It, the
conference between the kaiser and Am
bassador Gerard at Germany army
headquarters. More than that, ii is es
pecially interested in reports that the
kaiser will send a direct address to the
president and a declaration for peace
ful relations.
It is officially given out here that
this government has no information as
to the object of (he kaiser in holding
a personal conference with Gerard. Of
ficials do not hesitate to say they would
like to know.
city had been taken by the rebels. The
store was fired on by the regulars, who
used artillery. The building was set
on fire and destroyed, together with the
Imperial hotel nearby.
“I heard a report, which I could not
verify, that Alderman Kelly, a large
tobacco dealer and a member of the
Sinn Fein, was killed when the rebels
were driven from his place. A report
also was current that James Connolly,
a Sinn Fein leader, had been killed.
"I heard from a man who was present
that the troops, on taking Liberty hall
after its destruction by shell fire, found
a secret tunnel through which the reb
els escaped, taking all but a few of the
wounded to the Amiens street railway
station.
"In walking about St. Stephens and
College Greens, I was surprised at the
number of flags of the so called Irish
republic.
Looting by Rabble.
“There was some looting by the rab
ble following in the wake of the rebels.
Afterwards I saw $5 shoes selling from
carts in the streets for 10 cents and
upwards, while silk hats, blouses and
fine lingerie were equally cheap. There
was no looting by the rebels them
selves, further than the throwing out
to poor women in the streets of sacks
of flour and biscuits from a biscuit
factory, which they were still holding
when I left Dublin.
“Clergy of all denominations seemed
active in helping the wounded regard
less of exposure to danger. The bread
supply already was beginning to run
short on Tuesday afternoon, owing
probably to requisitions of the rebels
and troops. I understood a delegation
of Catholic priests had made arrange
ments with the rebels with a view to
supply the civil population.”
It is said James Connolly, the Sinn
Fein leader, undertook to issue to per
sons desiring to leave Dublin passports
bearing the words, “Pass bearer, James
Connelly, commandant general of the
Irish republican army.”
Would Fire Officials.
Sir Henry Craik, member of parlia
ment for Glasgow and Aberdeen uni
versities, Scotland, has given notice
that at the opening of the house of
commons he will move that Lord Wim
borne, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and
Augustine Birrell, convention secretary
for Ireland, be suspended from the
functions of their offices. He will
move, further, that a commission be
appointed to examine into their respec
tive offices and report on their conduct
in the administration thereof.
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REBELS PROVIDED AGAINST
EVERYTHING BUT FAILURE
Dublin, (via London), April 27, (de
layed).—Everything except failure
seemed to have been foreseen by the
rebels, who, when they started the re
volt, were as well uniformed as were
the regular soldiers. Their clothing,
arms and equipment were good and
they were even provided with entrench
ing tools, which they used when they
marched on St. Stephens green.
The ammunition supply of the reb
els appeared to be plentiful and was
used unsparingly. Some bullets, which
entered the hotel where the correspond
ents centered, were certainly of Ger
man manufacture. Other weapons used
by the rebels were 12-bore shot
guns and cartridges filled with ugly
leaden slugs.
BRANCH FACTORY FOR
FORD ATDES MOINES
Will Manufacture All Parts of
Auto Except Engine—To Use
About 1,000 Men.
Des Moines, la., April 29. -Purchase
was made here today of a site on West
Grand avenue for the construction of a
six-story branch factory for Ford
automobiles. Work will start within
two months and $500,000 will be ex
pended, so C. L. Herring, distributor,
announced today. It is s&id that 1,000
men will be employed and everything
except Ford engines and accessories
will be manufactured.
At th© Movies.
It was the old lady’s iirst visit to the
cinematograph. For a long time she
gazed in silent awe at the wonders? of
the screen, where all sorts of impossible
tiling took place.
She could hardly believe the evidence of
her own eyes. These things were real—
they were actually happening. She stared
with goggling eyes as miracle succeeded
miracle.
Then a motor car appeared on the screen
coming Into sight in the distance, and rac
ing along a country road at about a mile
a minute straight out of the picture ut
the audience.
Catastrophe seemed inevitable, and she
shrang back in her seat. Then, just at
the critical moment, it swerved aside and
dashed out of sight.
The old lady rose firmly to her feet,
ignoring the protests of those behind her.
“Come along, Annie,” she said to her
youthful niece, “it ain't safe here. That
thing only missed me by *• few Inches.”
It can be said, however, that the
White House and state department are
far from displeased over the fact that
the kaiser is giving the relations be
tween the two nations his personal at
tention. They see in it some ground
for hope of an adjustment.
A good deal of speculation is current
hvre today as to whether the ke'stj;
w*li not take advantage of this o-*t
s.vn to make a dr niatic play for * •
good will of this country.
The reason why the kaiser may fol
low the remarkable course of handling
the controversy directly is, according to
well informed persons here, that, with
the Von Tirpitz element powerful, the
German chancellor does not dare him
self to go too far in making conces
sions to America without danger of be
ing overthrown. On the other hand, the
kaiser, if he will, can. it Is believed,
dictate the course of Germany on this
matter.
Justice Encourages Them By
Silence—Emissaries Sent Out
to Line Up Delegates to
Chicago Convention.
Washington, D. C., May 1.—All
guise of concealment has been torn off
the Hughes for president movement in
the republican ranks.
A well organized campaign for dele
gates is on. The states have been di
vided into sections and political emis
saries have gone forth from Washing
ton with instructions to see every dele
gate, instructed or*uninstructed, in an
effort to obtain either a first or second
choice pledge to support the supreme
court justice's candidacy.
But Hughes Doesn’t Stop It.
Justice Hughes has publicly declared
he is not a candidate, and is not seek
ing delegates. He even has resented
efforts to find out where he stands, and
his position on the questions the nation
faces are absolutely unknown except
for the platform of his views that in
timate friends have furnished of their
own volition and authority. Yet the
Hughes for president organization is
continuing its work unrebuked. In
fact, its work is helped rather than em
bassed by the silence of the justice.
That an organized campaign to go
out and get delegates was on, more or
less under cover, has been known hero
for weeks, but today H. A. Hopkins, of
St. Clair, Mich., who is well known as
a political worker in Michigan, admit
| ted frankly that he had been commis
I sioned by a party of business men of
New York to visit Wisconsin, Minne
sota. North Dakota. South Dakota and
Michigan and confer with the party
leaders of those states as to the prob
ability of their respective delegations
ultimately going to Hughes.
Hopkins will spend practically all
the time from now until the convention
meets In canvassing the territory as
signed to him. He will not attempt to
swing delegates from favorite sons or
from candidates for whom they are in
structed. His work wall be to Induce
them, after they find their favorite can
didates have no chance of the nomina
tion. to swing into line for Hughes.
I Minnesota is instructed for Cummins
and North Dakota for Da Follette. Wis
I consin is part for Da Follette and part
i uninstructed.
“BIRTH OF NATION” IN
COURT AT DES MOINES
Des Moines, la., April 29.—Des
Moines courts are having a battle to
day as to whether "Birth of a Nation”
will be shown here for a month, start
ing tomorrow. The city council has
prohibited the film and today the
courts are asked to enjoin the council
from barring the production. The court
room was half full of negroes when the
case was called, and two negroes rep
resenting the national association for
advancement of the colored people were
among the army of lawyers represent
ing both sides. Among the witnesses
were Chief of Police Oscar Martison, of
Minneapolis, and Mayor Millard and
Chief of Police Gorman, of Marshall
town, who testified that the tilm was
shown in both cities without causing
trouble.
PROPOSAL TO MERGE.
New York. April 29.—A proposal to
merge with the socialist party is one
of the important questions before the
national convention of the socialist la
bor party here today. The consumma
tion of such a union would heal a
breach in socialist ranks dating back
20 years.
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4 New York, April 29.—A meet- 4
4 ing of the United Irish League 4
4 of America, at which resolutions 4
4 were passed last night deploring 4
4 the uprising in Ireland and as- 4
4 serting undivided allegiance to 4
4 the United States, was inter- 4
4 rupted by the presence of three 4
4 men and two women who were 4
4 not members. One of the in- 4
4 truders refused to leave when 4
4 requested to do so and was 4
4 ejected. He was Joined on the 4
4 outside of the hall by a score of 4
4 others, who cheered Sir Roger 4
4 Casement and Germany and 4
4 loudly denounced John Red- 4
4 mond, leader of the Irish na- 4
4 tionaltsts In the British parlia- 4
4 ment. Police reserves were 4
4 called and dispersed the crowd. 4
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WONDERFUL INCREASE
IN COPPER INDUSTRY
New High Mark In Production
Reached—War Adds to De
mand and Prices.
Washington. IX C., May 1.—Stimu
lated by the enormous demand result
ing from the war, copper production
in the United States reached and
passed the 2,000,000,000 pounds mark
for the first lime In the history of tho
Industry last year. In a statement is
sued today the United States geological
survey placed the total production of
copper from all sources at 2,020,000,000
pounds. Smelter production of pri
mary copper was 1,388,000,000 pounds,
a record quantity. That was 288,000,
000 pounds more than produced in 1914,
or an increase of 21 per cent. The
total value of 1915 smelter output of
primary copper at an average price of
17.5 cents a pound was $242,900,000, an
Increase of $90,000,000 over 1914.
Consumption of copper in the United
States was the greatest ever recorded
in any year. Refined new copper
showed an apparent consumption of
about 1,043.000,000 pounds, an increase
of 423,000,000 pounds over the 1914 con
sumption. Adding the 392,274,000
pounds of secondary copper and copper
in alloys produced during the year,
bringing up the total of new and old
copper available for domestic consump
tion to about 1,435,000,000 pounds. Tho
exports of refined copper during the
year having been 681,953,301 pounds.
F3ESIDENT BACKS
LITTLE Allf BILL
Washington Dispatch Claims
Wilson In Sympathy With
Hay Bill Rather Than
Senate Measure.
Kansas City. May 1.—A Washing
ton dispatch to the Times says:
“With the military half of the gener
al defense program now in conference,
where the character of the measure
congress will pass is being llnally de
termined, the administration manifest
ly is taking no part in the fight to make
the army reorganization measure ef
fective. If it comes through the fire of
contending views and ideas other than
a mere makeshift measure at defense,
no thanks will he duo the White House
and less credit for the result.
Puts Obstacles In Way?
"It is an open secret among those who
know tlie inside of the bitter fight that
is waging over the final terms of the
army measure that no encouragement
is being given the democrats figf.ing
for an adequate army. In fact, ..’bile
the democratic leaders in the fight for
the larger army refuse to discuss the
president’s attitude, it is known that
they realize the passive sympathies of
the president are with Chairman Hay,
leader of the small army forces. Some
even believe that administrative ob
struction has been put in their way.
"While the administration is exert
ing its every influence to secure the
passage of the Philippine freedom hill
and the ship purchase measure, the two
‘pets' of the administration, it lias been
‘hands off the army tight, with ‘.ho
common opinion existing among the
membership of congress that the presi
dent is perfectly satisfied with the
small army program fathered lay Hay
in the liouse bill. This has been tile
hard obstacle the ■ democrats who are
for a genuine defense policy have had
to combat. Without the active sup
port of the republican minority in both
houses. Senator Chamberlain, chairman
of the Senate military committee, who
believes a mere makeshift measure
labeled 'preparedness' is worse tban
nothing, would l>e powerless.
Even Bryan Likes Hay Bill.
"In view of President Wilson's strik
ingly emphatic utterances on Ids west
ern trip of the dangers that threatened
the country and the imperative neces
sity for adequate defense measures, it
had been expected the leadership in the
preparedness light would lodge in the
White House. Ilut aside from introduc
ing himself to the nation, especially the
middle west, as the champion of de
fense, the championing and leadership
largely ended with that trip. The Hay
bill which is being offered in conference
as the buffer to the Senate bill has been
pronounced as satisfactory even to
Bryan, the avowed enemy of all pre
paredness."
MURDERER ASKS FOR
OPERATION ON HEAD
Fred Bissell, Who Ravished and
Killed Child, Says He Is
Not Responsible.
Lansing. Kan., April 29.—Fred BisseU,
whose confession of the murder of
Edna Dinsrnore. 10 years old, at To
peka. Tuesday, was given out last
night by officers at the state peni
tentiary here, has written an appeal
asking that an operation be performed
on his head to make his condition
normal. The statement, as given out
today, follows:
"A kick or. the back of my bead by
a horse caused an affliction at the base
of the brain, which affliction causes
me to be unaccountable for what I do
at times. 1 hereby appeal to the offi
cials of Kansas to secure for me at
the earliest possible date, an operation
for the purpose of raising that portion
of my skull now causing pressure on
my brain so that it may be restored
if possilde, to that of a normal man
(Signed) “Fred S. Bissell."
Warden Coding promised to have the
operation performed.
Removing 258,000 tons of sediment
from the water of SL Louis in 1914
cost 22V» cents an Inhabitant. In thf
classification process, which was used
prior to the construction of the filters
13.000 tons of lime and 6,770 tons ol
sulphate of iron were applied to 34,
656.000 gallons of water. Had it been
loaded on ordinary coal cars they
would have made a train 112 miles
long.
The quantity of wool annually use.
for manufacturing purposes may b<
stated, in pounds, as: In the Unites
Kingdom. 515,000.000; United States
505.000,000: France. 480,000,000; (Jer
manv, 400,000.000; Austria-Hungary
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BATTLE OF VERDUN AT END;
GERMANS REMOVE BIG GUNS
Artillery Is Being Transferred to Section of Line Held By Brit
ish Where Another Big Battle Impends—General
Petain Decorated—Great Drive Near.
Paris, April 29.—The battle or Verdun
nay now be considered as ended, ac
■ording to the opinion prevailing in
■'ranch military circles. Not only the
ecent French official reports, but yes
erday’s German announcements, stated
hat nothing important had developed
n the Verdun region. It is nearly two
nonths since the German war office has
nailo such a statement.
Heavy German batteries In consld
rablo number have been withdrawn
rom before Verdun and sent to a dls
ant point, which, Judging from the in
reasing activity there, probably is the
lortion of the line held by the British.
The announcement of the decoration of
Jonetal Pctain and other high officials
who have taken part in the battle is
ogarded ns an indication that the
.trench authorities share the view that
die task of the defending of Verdun lias
been brought to an end.
Paris, April 29.—That the German
military and naval staffs are preparing
v great offensive movement against the
Two Federal Departments Seek
to Establish German Gold
Paid For Attempt to In
timidate Congress.
Washington, 15. C.. May 1.—Charges
thnt the German government financed
the German-American telegram propa
ganda, which caused congress to be
deluged with protests against President
Wilson’s policy in the submarine con
troversy, are being investigated by the
department of Justice and the postofflce
department.
According to administration officials
the government has come into posses
sion of information that Wolf von Igel,
secretary to the dismissed German mili
tary attache, Capt. Franz von Papen,
and another more important German
official furnished the American embar
go conference of Chicago with the funds
tor the dispatch of the telegrams, esti
mated at more than 200,000 received
by senators and representatives within
tlie last three days. The cost of the
campaign ts estimated at not less than
$100,000.
It is alleged that evidence of the sup
ply of funds to the American embargo
conference was found in papers seized
in Igel’s office.
The department of justice Is investi
gating the Chicago organization and the
source of its funds and if the charges
are sustained prosecutions will follow,
according to administration officials.
The disclosure that two departments
of the administration are investigating
the telegram propaganda caused Sen
ator Hustings of Wisconsin to alter his
plan to demand a Senate Inquiry.
NEW CLEARING PLAN
WILL BE INSTALLED
Reserve Board to Establish
New National Clearance
House System.
Washington, April 29.—The federal
reserve board announced today that it
would put into effect, June IB, Its new
plan for county-wide check clearing
and collection. Under the plan the ac
tual cost of clearing and collection of
checks will be assessed against mem
ber banks in proportion to their use of
the system.
A circular announcing its decisions
was mailed today by the board to 7,600
member banks. The important features
of the plan, the announcement says,
are as follows:
"The federal reserve banks will ac
cept at par all checks from member
banks, whether drawn against other
member banks, nonmember banks, or
private banks. An exception is made at
the outset in the case of checks drawn
against nonmember banks which cun
not be collected at par.
"All checks thus received from mem
ber banks will be given Immediate
credit entry, although amount thus
credited will not be counted as re
serve nor become available until col
lected.
"In order to enable member banks to
know how soon checks sent in for col
lection will be available either us re
serve for payment of checks drawn
against them, time schedules will be
furnished to member banks.
"The actual cost without profit for
the clearing and collection of checks
will be paid by the federal reserve bank
and assessed against the member hanks
in proportion to their sendings.
•'Tlie whole plan is based on general
ly accepted principles under which
clearing anil collection plans have long
been operated. A federal reserve bank
Iwill not debit a member bank's reserve
account with items forwarded for col
lection until tiie remittance of the
member bank in payment of such
items shall have bad time to reach the
■ federal reserve bank.”
ANOTHER WEEK OF COLD
RAINY WEATHER COMING
Washington. April 29.—Winter like
weather has returned along the north
ern border with freezing temperatures
this morning from northwest .Minne
sota westward almost to the Pacific
roast. The weather bureau forecast
for the week beginning Sunday says:
"Unseasonably cool weather, with
frosts, will prevail in the region of the
great lakes, the upper Mississippi val
ley and Ohio valley and the Rocky
mountain and western plateau regions.
"Generally fair weather will prevail
during the next several days, except
. ing local showers in the Mississippi
valley and vicinity thereof. Another
disturbance will reach the T’aeiilc coast
about Wednesday or Thursday and
move slowly eastward, probably reach
ing the middle west at the close of the
week."
combined Anglo-French army on the
continent and the fleets on the coast
of Gree t Britain in a last desperate bid
for victory, is the conclusion arrived
at by Major De Civrieux, the military
critic of the Matin, after a close study
of the military factors of the situation.
Tiie simultaneous occurrences, he
added, of the Zeppelin raids, the risky
North sea naval expedition, and the un
expected outbreak in Dublin, are not
mere coincidences.
At the same time, he points out, the
Swiss frontier has been closed for three
weeks, while on the French front in
Ixirralne and in the Vosges the Ger
mans are renewing demonstrations in
the hope of dividing the attention of
the French staff.
There is one principal that the Ger- i
man staff will never abandon, Major
Cl\ rieux concludes, unless under abso
lute necessity, and that is the retention
of the strategic initiative. It is aware
of the allies' common designs and is !
exerting all its energies to forestall «
them. ;
OF WING TENDS
Scott to Insist United States
Troops Remain Until Car
ranza Shows He Can j
Handle Situation.
101 Paso Tex., May 1.—General Al
varo Obregon, minister of war of the
defneto government, with the chief
military commanders of northern Mexi
co, made a return call of courtesy this j
morning upon Major Generals Scott j
and Funston, preliminary to first con- I
ference between the American and i
Mexican officials that is largely to de
termine the future course of the mili
tary arm of the United States that has
thrust itself Into Mexican territory in
pursuit of Villa and his bundlts.
Ready For Conference.
In either the green room of the fam
ous Aduana Frontoriza ' or customs
house in Juarez, Mex., or at some
agreed place in El Paso, the conferees
were in readiness to submit their pro
posals and counter proposals at their
Ilrst session and it was Minister of War
Obregon, who, with plenary powers
from First Chief Carranza, sounded a
hopeful note with the expression that
“we should reach a satisfactory ter
mination of these negotiations that will ,
meet with the approval of our people.”
Minister of War Obregon, with Gen
erals Trevino, Gutierrez, Calles, Gavira
and Santos with his civilian assistant,
will submit the proposition that the de
facto government is now ready to take
over the pursuit of the Vllllstas and
protect the border and therefore, the
United States soldiers in Mexico, should
be recalled, while Generals Scott and
Funston will counter. It Is understood
wTlth the proposition that American
troops be disposed In certain spheres of •
northern Chihuahua territory to remain
until the Carranza government has
shown by deed as well as word that !
there is no longer a Vlllista menace to
the American border states.
Mav Beqin Tomorrow.
Major General Scott, said that not
until ho had conferred with General Ob- j
regon during the call of the Mexican
official this morning would it be defi
nitely known whether the ilrst confer- j
ence would be held In Juarez or else
where.
The general added that the confer
ence might not be held today, but Sun
day or Monday. i
General Obregon and his party jour- j
neyed from Juarez this morning to El |
Paso. At tiie international bridge they
were met by a troop of American cav
aly, which escorted them through
thronged streets, guarded with infantry. %
to the railroad station, where on Gen
eral Scott's private car the Mexican
officials were welcomed. The return
call was of some length and the plans
for the ilrst conference were discussed. s
LARGE BAND OF BANDITS
DISPERSED BY CAVALRY
Field Headquarters, Namiquipa.
Chihuahua, April 28, (by wireless to
Columbus. N. M.,) April 29,—The
column of American cavalrymen un
der Col. George A. Dodd, which for six
days has been pursuing a large bund
of Vlllistas under four different chiefs,
through the Rocky defiles of the con- j
tinenta! divide was - reported today to
have returned to its base at Minaca.
The band is said to be practically all
dispersed, numbers of its members ap
imrentiy holding to the belief that Villa
is dead.
The Carranzaista forces consisting of |
four trainloads of men was detraining
south of Guerraro today and reports
here said they intend cooperating with ;
the American command.
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RAID STORY DENIED.
Marfa, Tex., April 29.—There is no
truth in the report that 500 Mexicans
supposedly Villa bandits, had crossed
the American border at Da .iitas. near
hero, and occupied 20 miles of territory, s
according to a statement made today
by Captain Fox, of the Texas rangers.
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK !
IN CHICAGO TONIGHT
Chicago, April 29.—Reservations for !
j seats at the dinner of the Illinois Bar
j association, at which Col. Theodore
Roosevelt is to speak tonight, indi
cated today the meeting would be one
| of the largest ever held by the bar as
! sociation.
Colonel Roosevelt will speak on "In
ternational Duties and American
Ideals." More than 1.900 lawyers and j
hundreds of other guests will greet the
former president. j
MAY AVERT STRIKE.
New York, April 29.—The subcom
mittee of anthracite miners in confer
ence here with the operators for set
tlement of the miners’ demands, to
day notified the members of their tri
district board, who hare gone to their
homes, to return here on Monday for a
conference. Tills was taken to mean
that some sort of an agreement had
been made which may avert a strike.