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No. 246
GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1915. —TEN PAGES.
VOLUME XXXV.
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RELIEF FUND
VOTE BUYING
MASKED MEN
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TAFT URGES
“RILEY DAY.”
WOMAN RUNS CITY.
IS GROWING
SIMPLE TASK
SLAY WIDOW
MODERATION
Witness Describes How it
Most Radical Reforms
Was Done.
Have Failed, He Says.
CARRANZA’S REPLY
MERCHANTS READY
MEXICAN CITIZEN
FRATERNAL SPIRIT
EXPECTED SHORTLY
TO LEND A HAND
ALLOWED TO VOTE
APPEARS GROWING
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PREPARE FOR
HUGE EFFORT
Allies Concentrate Forces
at Dardanelles.
ZEPPELIN AIRSHIPS
ATTACKED ENGLAND
OVER HEART OF LONDON
who,
ROBERTSON FIRED ON.
RUSSIANS INFLICT
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DEFEAT UPON FOE
FRUIT COMPANY
OFFERS TO PAY
WATCHES MEXICAN PAPERS.
ganization
BERLIN ANNOUNCES
IMPORTANT VICTORY
APPROVE RECRUITING.
EQUALS HEIGHT RECORD.
ATTACK JACKRABBITS.
SOUTHLAND IS SUNK.
(Continued on page seven.)
In
to
A statement given
THE WEATHER
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BULGARS FORTIFY PORT.
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DALLAS WINS CONVENTION.
most of the reduction.
tonight and Friday.
GAME IS TRANSFERRED.
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Unofficial Reports Indicate He
Will Decline to Enter Pan-
American Conference.
Import of
however,
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Active Campaign for Cash
Is On.
Fright Believed to Be
Cause of Death.
20 DEAD, 86 HURT
IN ZEPPELIN RAID
ROBBERS SECURE
VALUABLE JEWELS
French Positions in the Argonne
Are Taken by German
Forces.
Supported Democratic Ticket,
But Did Not Know What
it Meant.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols of New
York Meets Tragic End.
House Boy Held.
Unknown Party Demanded a
Ransom for Capt. McLaren
of Marowijne.
Win Victory Near Tarnopol in
Galicia, Taking 8,000
Prisoners.
Calls for Aid Are Now About
Six Per Day; Judge Street
Reports.
British Transport Torpedoed.
French Repulse Germans
in Argonne.
SCIENTIFIC SURVEY
OF CRIMINALS IS
THE LATEST SCHEME.
German Airships. Flew Over
London and Eastern Coun-
ties of England.
AMERICANS
ARE BUYING
LESS GOODS
NORWEGIAN
SEA LOSSES
RECOUNTED
CARRANZA TROOPS
MAKE PREPARATIONS
TO ATTACK TORREON.
sPeople Suddenly Realized They
Were Almost in Grasp
of Plutocracy.
published tomorrow:
Geo. S. Ewalt ........
Clay S. Briggs .......
Dr. H. P. Cooke .....
S. M. W..............
H. F. H..............
N. T. B...............
H. B. S..............
E. V. P..............
E. T. K. .............
J. W. H..............
L. D. S..............
Abe Blum ............
V. M. Theriot ........
Miss F. Goddard......
Miss M. Burns .......
Miss P. E. McKee......
___ Partly cloudy
and somewhat cooler tonight; Fri-
Fruit company, in an advertisement in
the “personal” column of a local morn-
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
UF GALVESTON
Southaast Cor. Strand and 22 d 8ts.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of ths State of Texas
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GALVHSTON TRIBUNE.
foodstuffs
showed an
increase of $43,200,000
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Sept. 9, via London.—An im-
portant victory in the Argonne was
announced today by the war office.
French positions over a front of one
and a quarter miles and 300 to 500
yards deep were captured.
The war office also announced that
in the Zeppelin raids over England on
Tuesday and Wednesday nights, bombs
were dropped on docks and other port
establishments in London and vicinity.
The German airships returned safely.
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
and Friday
generally fair;
moderate
southerly
winds.
For Texas,
east of 100th
meridian: Gen-
erally fair to-
night and Fri-
For Texas,
west of 100th
meridian: Fair
Next Session of Letter Carriers Coming
to Texas.
By Associated Press.
Houston, Sept, 9.—Dallas has won
the 1916 convention of the National
Letter Carriers association, losing only
211 votes out of' the entire conven-
tion, accoring to a telegram to the
Houston local today-
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HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
Established BANKERS Establghed
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
Berlin, Sept.
Tuckerton, N. J.)
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The attack of last night brings up
the total of casualties from Zeppelin
raids to 122 killed and 349 injured. On
the previous night 13 persons were
killed and 43 wounded.
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day fair.
Winds on Texas coast: Moderate
southeast.
Shippers’ forecast: 36-hour ship-
ments to the interior will meet with
temperatures from 90 to 95 degrees.
For Oklahoma:
By Associated Press.
New Orleans, Sept. 9.—The United
over the previous year’s business.
Cane sugar, with $174,000,000,
leads all other imports and coffee
was next with a value of $106,700,-
000. Precious stones showed a re-
duction of more than fifty per cent,
while decreases were marked in
silk, tobacco, spirits and wines.
OHTHOSE
EAuTIFUL
g FALL’
NH INS
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Heavy Guns Being Placed About Dede-
a gatch.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 9.—According to a dis-
patch to the Temps from Dedeagatch,
the Bulgarians are actively fortifying
that port. Heavy guns are being placed
at all strategic points, the dispatch
adds, 18 large pieces having been taken
through the city last night.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Secretary Lan-
sing announced today that Gen. Car-
ranza’s reply to the Pan-American peace
appeal was expected tomorrow or Sat-
urday. The secretary said he had no
advices as to its nature. Unofficial re-
ports, however, indicate Carranza will
decline to enter a joint conference of
the Mexican factions. As soon as Car-
ranza’s answer has been received, an-
other meeting of the Pan-American
conferees will be called.
A stateemnt issued by the department
says:
“Trains are reported to be running
daily from San Luis Potosi to Queretaro
and to Aguas Calientes and every sec-
ond day to Tampico and Matehuala. The
authorities are expecting to establish
rail communication with Mexico City,
but there is a shortage of rolling stock,
“Corn has been brought from Guana-
juato and the last month the prices
have declined. Vegetables, fruits and
tunas are in the market in quantities.
The money condition has improved;
small change has been supplied.
“The sale of intoxicating liquors has
been prohibited. The military is en-
joined not to molest the public and
no private premises are taken for quar-
ters.”
Report to This Effect Appears
Bremen Paper.
By Associated Press.
By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 9.—
Miss Estelle Lawton Lindsay, the
city’s lone council woman, was
acting mayor today, when the
mayor was called out of town.
This is the first time, as far as
known, that a woman has acted
as the head of a municipality of
the size of Los Angeles.
Chicago Paper Gets Word of Zeppelin
Raid.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Sept. 9.—The Daily News to-
day bases a surmise that last night’s
Zeppelin raids on England must have
been over the heart of London, on two
telegrams from a staff correspondent
at London. The first read:
“Daily News office and staff safe,”
and the second “All well.”
“It is evident,” says the Daily News,
“that the raid on the British capitai
was effective'in or near what is called
‘The heart of London.’ The Daily News
office there is on Trafalgar square, not
far from Westminster abbey.”
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the mainland.
with Eustace Taylor, was appointed to
solicit contributions to the fund among
the cotton men of Galveston, reported,
at the session this morning, turning in
some funds, but stating that a num-;
her of other men were to be seen, and
assuring the committee that they
might expect additional contributions
On a motion by Father J. M. Kirwin,
a resolution Was passed whereby all
contributions received by the central
relief committee will be published from
day to day, and the treasurer was au-
thorized to give to the press today a
list of all contributions received to
date. Those who wish to contribute,
according to the committee, may ad-
dress their contributions direct to the
central relief committee, and they will
be promptly turned over to the treas-
urer of the relief committee, F. W. Catt
terall, and proper acknowledgment will
be made.
FEW APPLICATIONS.
Judge Robert G. Street reported that
less than six applications per day for
assistance were now being received by
the Galveston United Charities from
those who had suffered directly as a
result of the storm, and suggested that
this organization was now probably
able to handle the situation, alone. In
view of Judge Street’s recommenda-
tion, a motion was passed at the sug-
gestion of Father Kirwin, whereby
the central relief committee will at
once suspend the giving of temporary
relief in the form of food, clothing and
bedding supplies.
As members of the charity commit+
tee of the county commission, J. A.
Boddeker and H. A. Deats were pres-
ent at the request of the central re-
lief committee, which had on hand a
fund consisting of contributions from,
outside points which it wished to turn
over to a responsible committee or or-
storm sufferers on
an
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By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 9.—Twenty persons
were killed and eighty-six others in-
jured in last night’s Zeppelin raid.
These figures were given out here
officially today. The German airships
flew over the eastern counties of Eng-
land and the London district.
The official statement gives the fol-
lowing casualties:
Killed, twelve men, two women and
six children.
Injured seriously, eight men, four
women and two children.
Injured slightly, 38 men, 23 women
and eleven children.
One soldier was killed and three in-
jured. All the other victims were civil-
ians.
British Trades Union Congress Adopts
Resolution.
By Associated Press.
Bristol, England, Sept. 9.—The Trade
Union Congress at today’s session
adopted a resolution approving the
action of the parliamentary labor par-
ty in cooperating with the other po-
litical parties in the national recruit-
ing campaign. The consensus of opin-
ion as revealed in speeches was that
it was no part of the teaching of
trades unionism for a man to turn the
other cheek to the one who smites him.
By Associated Press.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Sept. 7.—
(Via Berlin and wireless to Tuckerton,
N. J. Sept. 9).—According to informa-
tion received from rellable sources, the
allies are now concentrating large
forces, including landing heavy artil-
lery, for a general attack on the Dar-
danelles.
The presence of mine sweepers at
Seddul-Bahr, near the entrance to the
straits, is regarded as foreshadowing
increased activity, including a vigorous
attack on the outer Dardanelles forts.
members. F. B. Von Harten,
out by the Overseas News agency to-
day quotes the Weser Zeitung of
Bremen as saying that the British
steamship Southerland, serving as a
transport, was torpedoed recently in
Turkish waters.
The news agency says:
“The Weser Zeitung of Bremen
points out that the transport South-
land was torpedoed in Turkish waters.
The Southland formerly was the Red
Star liner Vaderland. These steamers
flew the Belgian flag up to the time of
the occupation of Belgium and then
sailed under the American flag. Now
the Southland, which lately was flying
the American flag, suddenly was
changed into a British transport.”
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last year,
Messrs. Boddeker and Deats, as repre-
sentatives of the charity committee of
the county commission, received the
fund. At their suggestion, one-third
of the fund was turned over to Mr.
Boddeker to be used for the relief of
persons in his district, which consists
principally of the Bolivar peninsula,
and two-thirds to Mr. Deats, who will
care for the relief on the mainland.
CASH RECEIVED.
The following is a list of the sub-
scriptions reported today by Mr. Cat-
terall, the treasurer of the central re-
lief committee. Other names will be
By Associated Press.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 9.—A de-
scription of the setting of a polling
place in Corpus Christi in which ninety
per cent of the vote is Mexicans, with
the attendant activities on the part of
the candidates and their friends was
given graphically this morning in the
trial in the United States district court
of County Judge Walter F. Timon and
his forty codefendants for alleged elec-
tion frauds cases.
The witness on the stand making the
word picture to the jury was Dr. G.
W. Gregory, a physician of Corpus
Christi, who stated that he went to
this precinct to see the activity of the
candidates among the Mexican voters.
He said he remained there about two
hours and that a great number of Mex-
icans, intermingled with candidates,
were crowded in the front of the of-
fice of Henry Stevens, across the street
from the polling place. He said the
Mexicans and negroes would go into
the office and come out and then would
cross the street to vote. What was go-
ing on inside, he said he did not know.
The witness told of one specific inci-
dent, in which he said County Tax Col-
lector E. R. Oliver, elected at that time,
and a defendant in the case, was talk-
ing to a one-legged Mexican and with
his right . hand handed the Mexican
something which he believed was silver
coins.The Mexican then walked to the
polling place, after being watched by
Oliver and Timon. He said there were
others of the defendants on the street
and active at the time, naming City At-
torney Russell Savage, Ed Castleberry,
Ed Dunn and others.
The first Mexican to testify that his
vote was bought outright, appeared on
the stand this morning. He said he
had been told by Ed Castleberry that
he would give him $2 to vote for the
Democratic ticket. The Mexican said
that he took the money, although it
was his intention to vote that ticket.
He also testified that August Uenlinger,
county clerk, and one of the defend-
ants, during the year previous, hah
given him $2.75 from a large stack of
bills in an office to pay his poll tax
and that he had never returned the
money. This Mexican, like nine others,
testified that he was born in Mexico
and that he had never declared his in-
tention of becoming an American cit-
izen. Later he said he did not know
what the Democratic ticket meant, but
he had been voting this ticket since
he came to Texas.
Eleven Mexicans testified yesterday.
Nine of them admitted having been
born in Mexico and only one said he
had become an American citizen. An-
tonio Perez, aged 62, swore that for
forty years he had voted in Texas elec-
tions, though he had never been nat-
uralized.
Eight of the Mexicans testified that
their poll tax receipts had been torn
at the corner after voting, which the
government claims was the system de-
vised by the defendants to. pay for
votes. All of them testified to receiv-
ing money from some one of the de-
fendants.
In cross examination, the defense at-
tempted to show animus on the part of
the Mexican witnesses against Sheritr
M. B.. Wright, one of the men now on
trial.
Interest in the trial was divided to-
day with deliberations of the federal
grand jury investigating the same elec-
tion in Duval county.
for distribution among
Galvestonians are contributing 11b4
erally to the fund which is being
raised to pay the expense of supplying
the needs of their fellow citizens who
suffered as a result of the hurricane
of Aug. 16, and who were given im-
mediate relief by the central relief
committee. - This fact is evidenced by
reports showing that approximately,
$10,000 had already been raised, al-
though the work of soliciting contri-:
butions to the fund was barely under
way, and many who will contribute
have not yet been given an opportunity
to do so. For example, H. A. Eiband,
president of the Galveston Merchants’
association, was present at the meet-
ing this morning and stated that while
only a few of the retailers of the city
had contributed to the relief fund, all
having been busily engaged in clean-
ing up their places of business, the
matter would be taken up at the regu-
lar session of* the- organization next
Tuesday, and no doubt a liberal con-
tribution would be forthcoming from
each of the two hundred and fifty
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 9.—For the first time
in many weeks the Russians, accord-
ing to their own statements, have in-
flicted a severe defeat on their op-
ponents. The battle of Tuesday near
Tarnopol, 70 miles east of Lemberg and
near the Galician frontier, while not
conclusive, is regarded in England as
indicating that the Russians are reach-
ing the stage where they purpose
striking back after their long retreat.
The Teutonic forces engaged in this
battle included not only Austrian, but
German forces. The Russians main-
tain that 8,000 prisoners, exclusive of
the dead and wounded, measure the ex-
tent of their victory and that it would
have been more pronounced but for
their inferiority in artillery.
The German center is forging for-
ward slowly by virtue of sustained
pressure, but in the north Field Mar-
shal von Hindenburg is still unable to
force a passage of the Dvina.
Grand Duke Nicholas, removed as
commander-in-chief of the Russian
forces, is today on'the way to his new
headquarters in the Caucasus. Pend-
ing further developments the Russian
and English press are unable to fath-
om just what this transfer signifies.
It is suggested in some quarters that
the shift may be a forerunner to an
important Russian diversion on the
Turkish frontier in connection with the
Franco-British attempt to force the
Dardanelles.
By means of air raids, gunfire from
the sea and artillery bombardments at
many places on the western front, the
French and British continue to ham-
mer German positions without launch-
ing infantry attacks.
Many Said to Be Dying From Cattle
Ticks.
By Associated Press..
Fort Worth, Sept. 9.—Information
reaching here states cattle ticks have
attacked jackrabbits in Coke county
and many are dying. This is the first
time the ticks have been known to in-
fest other than cattle.
By Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 9.-—
Gov. Samuel M. Ralston has is-
sued a proclamation designating
Oct. 7 as “Riley day,” in honor
of James Whitcomb Riley, the
poet, whom Gov. Ralston calls
“Indiana’s most beloved citizen.”
Mr. Riley will be 66 years old
Oct. 7.
ing newspaper, today offered to pay
the ransom demanded by an anonymous
letter writer for Capt. McLaren, two
members of the crew and two passen-
gers of the lost liner Marowijne, who,
the writer claimed, were held prisoners
on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
The advertisement was signed by C.
H. Ellis, vice president of the com-
pany, who said it was called forth by
the receipt of a second anonymous let-
ter from the person who wrote the
company Aug. 23 that five men from
the Marowijne were. held for ransom
and that the ship’s papers and the cap-
tain’s watch had been sent to the com-
pany’s New York office as proof.
The writer was invited to communi-
cate with Mr. Ellis this morning, but
had not done so up to 11:30 o’clock.
“We have received none of the proofs
you refer to at our New York office,”
the advertisement read. “If you have
any proofs present them; we are will-
ing to pay the ransom demanded.”
Mr. Ellis said he placed no faith in
the anonymous writer’s claims, but he
wished, if possible, to clear up the
matter.
Recent search of the gulf islands by
naval and United Fruit company ves-
sels revealed no trace of any Ma-
rowijne survivors.
By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 9.—Owney Talas, a
Finn, for two and one-half months a
houseboy in the home of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Nichols, the aged widow who met
death last night at the hands of
masked men who robbed her of gems
valued at $10,000, was arrested today
after he had confessed, the police as-
sert, to having played a part in the
crime. He was charged with murder.
All other servants were cleared of sus-
picion.
Preliminary examination of Mrs.
Nichols’ body revealed the probability
that she had died of fright and not of
strangulation as at first supposed. Al-
though the burglars stripped their vic-
tim’s fingers and ears of diamonds and
other jewels worth $10,000, they failed
to rifle the strong box of her safe, in
which she kept gems valued at from
$250,000 to $500,000. The key, which
Mrs. Nichols carried on a string around
her neck, is missing.
With Mrs. Nichols lying dead on the
floor of her room, the hallboy appar-
ently unconscious from a blow on the
head from the butt of a revolver, and
the maid bound and gagged in the ser-
vants’ quarters, the masked robbers
looted the premises and escaped un-
detected.
Mrs. Nichols was the widow of
James Edwin Nichols, founder of the
wholesale grocery firm of Austin,
Nichols & Co. She was reported to be
worth $2,000,000 and it was known that
much of this was invested in gems
which she kept in the house.
The. police obtained their first story
of the crime from a maid and house-
boy employed in the Nichols home.
These servants said that three masked
men bound and gagged them, and then
proceeded to their mistress’ rooms.
When the maid and the houseboy freed
themselves from their bonds they
found Mrs. Nichols’ body on the floor
in the library. A towel had been tied
around her neck and twisted tight.
Her face was cut and bruised and her
clothing torn, indicating that she had
made a hard fight for life.
The police devoted most of their at-
tention to Onney Tails, the houseboy,
who said that he had admitted the
three men when they rang the front
basement doorbell.
The detectives said there were in-
dications that the crime had been com-
mitted by some one familiar with the
Nichols household. This belief was
supported by two other servants, who
said they recognized one of the three
robbers as a former employe of Mrs.
Nichols and another as a man who had
formerly called upon this employe.
9.—(By wireless
French Aviator Goes Up 21,598 Feet in
Air.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 9.—The French mono-
planist, E. D. Demars, it was an-
nounced last night, has equaled the
world’s altitude record of 21,598 feet
.established by the German airman, Ot-
to Linnekogel, July 9, 1914.
Last night’s Zeppelin raid on
London and the English east counties
resulted in the killing of 20 persons
and the injury of 86 others. This
makes a total of 33 persons killed and
129 injured in the raids of two suc-
cessive nights.
A dispatch from Berlin carries the
report that the British steamer South-
land, formerly the Red Star liner
Vaderland, which was serving as a
transport, has been torpedoed in Turk-
ish waters. A message from Sofia via
Berlin last week reported the sinking
last week by a mine of an unnamed
British transport at the entrance of
the Dardanelles.
Violent attacks in the Argonne re-
gion were renewed last night by the
Germans, who threw heavy forces of
infantry against the French trenches
near Fontaine-aux-Charmes. Paris de-
clares that except for the taking of
one section of a trench, the German
attack failed.
French airmen continued their bom-
bardment of German lines of com-
munication, dropping bombs on rail-
road stations to the rear of the battie
front.
Those Printing Incendiary Articles Will
Be Prosecuted.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 9.—The depart-
ment of justice is keeping close watch
on Mexican newspapers published in
American border towns. Officials say
the printing of articles designed to in-
cite rebellion against this country will
be followed by prosecutions.
It was said that the department has
no desire to curb any newspapers in
criticism of the government’s policy
toward Mexico but takes the view that
many recent expressions have been
seditious and in violation of the penal
cbde which provides ten years’ im-
prisonment or a $10,000 fine for any
persons who “incite, set on foot, or
engage in any rebellion or insurrection
against the authority of the United
States or the laws thereof.”
If the department decides to take
action the facts will be laid before the
grand juries in the proper jurisdic-
tions.
By Associated Press.
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 9.— Crim-
nals arrested in Berkeley here-
after will be subjected to a sci-
entific survey by experts at-
tached to the psychological de-
partment of the Universiy of Cal-
infornia, it was announced today
by August Vollmer, Berkeley's
chief of police.
The university psychologists,
said Vollmer, has agreed to make
scientific tests of all criminals
that come under his care for the
purpose of determining the ex-
tent of their deficiency and the
reason for it.
“We will make an effort in
each case,” said Vollmer, “to
take stock of the mental bank
accounts and hope in this way
to acquire knowledge which will
be of value in the correction of
conditions that make police de-
partments necessary.”
Lower Rio Grande Man Has Narrow
Escape.
By Associated Press......
Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 9.-—Sam Rob-
ertson, of San Benito, Tex., who two
days ago apparently was successful in
cooperative American-Mexican move-
ment for Mexicans to give up arms, was
fired upon several timers last night in
an automobile near Fresnos, not far
from San Benito. One bullet penetrat-
ed Robertson’s hat and one hit his au-
tomobile.
Fort Worth Gets Methodist-T. C. U.
Football Game.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Sept. 9.—The Southern
Methodist University-T. C. U. football
game, scheduled originally for Dallas
October 9, has been transferred to
Eort Worth.
By Associated Press.
Seattle, Wash., Sept 9.—Former Pres-
ident William H. Taft today told the
American Bankers’ association, in con-
vention here, that practically all of
the radical reforms attempted in con-
nection with politics, railroads and
“big business” had failed of their pur-
pose, causing the natioh to halt in its
progress, and that there must now be
a “retracing to the line of moderation
and justice.”
In giving an “economic and political
summary of the generation just clos-
ing,” Mr. Taft said that the latest
outstanding feature appeared to be the
widespread growth of the spirit of the
brotherhaad of man, despite the fact
that the. war had shattered the dreams
of universal peace.
In his opening remarks Mr. Taft out-
lined the growth of large combina-
tions in business; their successful
adoption to politics, and how the
“chase for the dollar” had absorbed
all the people until they suddenly re-
alized they were almost in the grasp
of a plutocracy. It was then that agi-
tation for reforms swept the country,
he said, and public indignation became
acute.
“The leviathan of the people can-
not be stirred to such action as has
been taken and stop short at the line
of moderation,” said Mr. Taft. “The
hostility of legislatures and congress
came to be directed against all suc-
\ cessful investment of capital without
discrimination. Nothing is so timid as
capital, and nothing is so easily able
to take care of what it has.”
He then said that a deplorable fea-
ture of such Excess of remedy was that
the wage earners suffered most.
“The close and absolute supervis-
ion over the management of railroads,”
said Mr. Taft, “and the restriction
upon the rates charged by them in in-
terstate commerce and in commerce
within states, together with the in-
crease in cost of maintenance and of
wages though the efforts of labor
unions has ground the railroads be-
tween the upper and nether millstones.
All this is to the detriment of the
business of the country, and especially
to the comfort and happiness of the
wage earners dependent on normal
business and normal demand for labor.
ALL IN SAME BOAT.
“We are all in the same boat. The
prosperity of one class is dependent
on the prosperity of all. This is no
reason why we should not repress in-
justice and punish abuse of power. But
it is a reason why we should not in-
dulge in excess.
"We must promptly grant increased
rates to the railroads when conditions
require it. We must not allow the
outrageous injustice to continue by
which we inaugurate the real reform
of parcels post, and do it at the cost
of the railroads by compelling them
to carry the enormous increase in traf-
fic for nothing. We should repeal the
full crew bills that impose upon the
railroads the burden of employing un-
necessary labor. In curing these ex-
cesses there is no reason why we
should not retain the real progress we
have made in dethroning plutocracy.”
Mr. Taft said that conditions iden-
tical with those affecting the railroads
were to be found in all lines of bus-
ness where large combinations of
investment have been made.
“Another most important develop-
ment in this country has been an at-
tack upon our representative system
of government as a cause of the cor-
porate and corrupt control of politics.
It was said that the system involved
the selection of agents by the people
to act for them in executive and leg-
islative work who too often proved
faithless and that the only method of
carrying on the government safely
was to dispense with legislative agents
and let the people legislate directly.
"A most formidable wave of public
opinion in favor of such a change
swept the country and found expres-
sion in the initiative and the refer-
endum. After a study of the working
of these innovations. I do not hesitate
to say that it proves the unwisdom of
such changes. . If it be true that a
people have not information and in-
(Continued on page six.)
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Tex., Sept. 9.—^Mobil-
ization of many Carranza troops
at Saltillo for an assault upon
Torreon is reported by American
passengers who reached here to-
day from Saltillo, which recently
fell into the possession of the
Carrancistas after a severe bat-
tle with the Villa troops who
had held it for nearly a year.
Thousands of hungering Mex-
icans are being succored by the
Carranza forces, say the same
passengers. The food scarcity
under the Villa occupancy had
, grown acute, but when the city
was captured by the Carrancistas
great quantities were rushed in
from Monterey. Those who
viewed the first distribution of
food say the ferocity of the wom-
en and children’s hunger was
pitiful to see.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 9.—An analy-
sis of American imports issued
today by the department of com-
merce showed the value of goods
shipped into, the United States dur-
ing the fiscal year 1915 was less
by $219,700,000 than the previous
year’s trade. Total imports amount-
ed to $1,674,200,000. Decreases in
the imports of manufactures—other
than food products—account for
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Forty-one
ships flying the Norwegian flag
have been lost since the beginning
of the war in Europe and 76 sail-
ors have perished, according to a
report received at the state depart-
ment today from the American min-
ister at Christiania.
. Thirteen ships were desroyed by
mines, twenty-four were sunk by
torpedoes, three disappeared in the
war zone and one was crushed by
a German warship, the report stat-
ed. Another ship was taken as a
prize into Hamburg.
The extensive losses have im-
pelled the Norwegian war risk in-
surance bureau to increase pre-
miums and adopt additional restric-
tions. The bureau to date, the
report stated, had sustained losses
of $2,600,000, while premiums
collected amount to only $1,820,-
000
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Secre-
tary Lansing has cancelled the
passports of James F. J. Archi-
bald, the American correspondent,
upon whom British secret service
men found communications from
Dr. Constantin Dumba, the Aus-
tro-Hungarian ambassador, to
his foreign office on the subject
of fomenting strikes in American
munitions plants.
Archibald now is at Rotterdam
and American Minister van Dyke
las been instructed to issue an
emergency passport to permit his
return to the United States. •
The department of justice prob-
ably will be called upon to deciae
if h has violated any law of
the United States in acting as a
messenger for one of the Euro-
pean belligerents.
S LANSING CANCELS
X PASSPORTS HELD
? BY CORRESPONDENT,
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