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PRICE FIVE CENTS
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VILLA KILLING AND LOOTING
BE CAUSING DEATH
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RANCHERS FLEE TO SAFETY SPECTATORS ARE AROUSED
SUBMISSIONPETITIONSFAULTY
Inquiry Shows in McLennan American Residents in Imperiled Judge Threatens to Arrest for
aspirants
withdraw from the unlucky
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PARKED DISAVOWS
BATTS SCORES HENRY
and burning towns which
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pany; Captain Last Off. "
He declared the letters relate purely
a laughing.
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and Darwin and Melemore end
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no shadow of the im-
There
BANDITS GIVEN THE DEATH
PEN.LTY BY LAREDO JURY
RECAPTURE LOST TERRITORY
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It was definitely estab-
As soon
(’ulberson
making speeches inTeXas Bob Henry
is not yet ended. Culberson has been
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Contempt of Court Persons
Making Any Demonstrations.
IN SPEECH URGING
CULBERSON’S CAUSE
County 526 Who Had Not Paid
Poll Tax Signed the Appeal.
Customs Riders Along Arizona-
New Mexico Border Recover
Horses; Marauders Escape.
CREW OF WRECKED JOHN R. M’LEAN’S
COLLIER IS LANDED SON GETS WRIT TO
AI CHARLESTON SAVE W PAPERS
DOLE MOOSE; SHOUTS
FOR THE‘EAGLE BIRD’
However, there la
any uno of the
State Chairman Faces Man-
damus Proceedings Seeking to
Put Sobriquet on Ticket.
District Hurry to Haven
Safe From Pillagers.
Austin Man Tells of Achieve-
ments of Senior Senator and
His Services to Texas.
freshing
ladleford
Continues in Mexico, but Makes No Effort to
Chase or Capture Outlaw, Who Plans to Oc-
cupy Torreon and Control All of Northern
Mexico—Carranza’s Overthrow Expected.
father, the late John R. McLean.
McLean alleges the letters were not
left to the trust company by the “pre-
tended" will of his father and are not
included in the terms of the bequest.
first
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thirteen
Acquitted of Killing Discarded
Girl Who Died in His Presence
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showed also that Wilson trusts and
relies on Cuiberson and. althougir he
is phystcally not as strong as he was,
he ranks among the brainy men ot
the democratic party.
The speaker asserted that through-
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WILLIAM H, ORPET
prevent the publication of Mr.
Lean's correspondence.
He declared the letters affect
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Austin American is the only newspaper in Texas that publishos the full day and night reports of the International News Service, including (by special arrangement) the exclusive war dispatches of the
London Times, London Telegraph and Berliner Tageblatt. The American’s state capitol and legislative reports are the most comprehensive and complete published and dc^not appear in any other newspaper
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Youth Smiles and Kisses His
Mother When Jury Declares
Him “Not Guilty.”
Carranza Troops Continue Defense of Parral,
but Are Fearful of Bandit and Terror Ap-
pears Partially to Paralyze Their Efforts.
Many Are Deserting Army of Trevino.
er tomorrow morning."
“ThU is just what we had expected
from the first," said James M. Wilker-
Delivery, It Is Said, Would
“Lift Lid Off Washington.”
A friend of the late Mr. Melman as-
serted today that if these letters
should be published, “they would lift
the lid off Washington and blow sev.
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passed," he said, "do no good and very
little harm. There was no single mea-
went over to the majority.
He has endured days and nights of
grilling since his arrest. He has had
to tell his story over and over, he has
had the whole story of his relations
with the pretty high school girl laid
bare, and he has heard himself de-
nounced by vitriolic prosecutors.
a tors, presidential campaigns and dip-
lomats and "contain a big chapter of
American history. which, however,
should remain unwritten ”
Edward McLean said today:
“I am determined these letters shall
not be exhibited to the public even to
win my lawsuit."
In the suit to break his father's wi!!,
Mr. Melman’s chief counsel is Elihu
Root.
meet will tell you this with re-
BLOWING‘CYCLONE' RAID ACROSS LINE; OF CAUSING DEATH
OUT OF 1 H. DAVIS THIEVES FIRED ON OFMARIAN LAMBERT
round up all civilian
Spec al to The American.
LAREDO, Texas, July 15.—The jury
today returned a verdict of guilty and
assessed the death penalty in the case
of the four bandits charged with the
murder of Corporal Oberleis of troop
M. Fourteenth cavalry, during the bat.
tie of San Ignacio, June 15
The case, which has been on trial
since Monday, was given to the jury
Friday night During the last hours
of the trial the bandits told the story
of how the raid upon Kan Ignacio was
planned by Luis de la Rosa for the
purpose of killing the Americans and
retaking Texas.
lished that the girl was a poison vic-
tim an investigation was begun, lieco
by piece the story came out.
The name ol Will < rpet, a young
student at the Unjversity of Wiscon-
sin, was brought into the case. It
was recalled that the two had always
been small town "sweethearts.” had
played together, gone to dances to-
gether Young Orpet was a likable
chap His father was head gardener
on the country estate of Cyrus H.
true to the people and the only big
mistake he ever made was when he
appointed Bob Henry his assistant
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posg"Rsgams
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no indication that
make two-hour campaign speeches
but hr is able to stay in Washington
ward. as he is expected to do, it
is inevitable that Carranza will be
overthrown and driven out of Mexico
within a month.
Tug Wellington Works for Six Documents of Which He Stops
Hours Rescuing Ship's Com-
WASHINGTON. July 15 — A tempo-
rary restraining order was obtained
in the District of Columbia supreme
court today by Edward McLean to
prevent Francis T. Homer of Balti-
more from delivering to the American
Security and Trust company private
papers and correspondence of his
Marian Lambert was
car* free school girl in
who helped them. Henry, he said, is
the only one of the bunch who is mak-
ing special attacks on Culberson, At-
tacks of a character that if he had
any kind of proper feeling he would
be ashamed to utter. He disposed of
Culberson’s other opponents briefly.
"Henry's cry that the people owe it
to him to elect him senator in recog-
nition of his long service in the house,
was ridiculous. The most capable. the
mon trustworthy one, the man whose
record is one of usefulness to the peo-
ple. Is the one who should be elected.”
He ridiculed Henry's speeches, filled
with talk of the bills he has intro-
duced in the house and the great things
he means to dp if he is elected to the
tured, 1* to
t of burning denunciation from a ending the organisation of a force of
. .------. effective proportions.
NEW YORK, July 15 on the oc-
« asion of his eightieth birthday today
Willam Winter, the veteran writer
and critic, was congratulated in a tes-
timonial signed by President Wilson
and many other prominent persons.
The testimonial was arranged by David
I&lasco, William A Brady. Augustus
Thomas and other stage folk.
• reached the collier and the work of
I rescue was commenced. The Hector’*
(launch had been destroyed but a line
was carried to the Wellington by a
small boat
Captain Newell and about twenty
men decided to stay with the vessel,
but were taken off Inter by the steam-
er Cypress when it was seen that the
Hector was going down. None of the
members of the vessel's company were
lost
AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1916.—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES.
.....-_____great work and Influence which re-
and attend to his diuties and is do- sulted in the confirmation of Bran-
Carranza force* will go after
And if Zapata move* north-
Th® town* threatened are Apache.
Rodeo, Bernardini. Animas and ehent innocence.
however, is being discussed from an
entirely different viewpoint than that
of the other four. Davis is being
made the butt of ridicule and the ob-
^^2‘S GERMANS HOLDING RUS IANS;
her mother farewell. Marian and Jose-
phine Davis started for school. Mm
a strung man and
sistants took their defeat good na-
turedly and shook hands with each
member of the jury.
Judge Donneliy also shook hands
with the juror* and thanked them for
the close attention they had given to
the long and intricate case.
Orpet had spent a bad afternoon.
Special Prosecutor David R. Joslyn
had grilled him most unmercifully for
hl* conduct toward the girl he was
accused of killing
Orpet’s first grain of comfort came
when Judge Donnelly, reading the lUt
of fifty-one instruction* to the jury,
vas found to be very favorable to-
ward the defense. He told the jurors
that they must not take into consid-
eration the seduction of Marion Lam-
bert—only the evidence of her mur-
der must be allowed to count against
Orpet. Also he warned the jury to be
very careful that there was no rea-
sonable doubt before a verdict of
guilty should be returned.
The jury spent five hours discuss-
ing the case. The trial ha* lasted ex-
actly two months. Owing to the pre-
judice against orpet among the tales-
men, twenty-one days of this time
were occupied in obtaining a jury.
The most composed person in the
entire courtroom was William Orpet.
He smiled when the verdict was read
and kissed hl* mother.
On the morning of Feb. 10 test,
lying half buried beneath a blanket
of mow, under a clump of three giant
oak trees, the body of Marian lan-
bert win found—In a bleak and lone-
ly stretch of woods north of Lake
Forest.
Th® discovery was made by the dis-
VOLUME 5, NO. 46.
(By H. H. Stansbury]
EL PASO, Texas, July 15.—Fighting continues without
abatement soutk of Parral. “Pancho” Villa, having entrenched
himself securely at Cerro Gordo, is conducting a campaign of
looting and slaughter around him, the fury of which has been
unequaled in Mexico. This was the report which reached El
Paso today.
The Carranzista forces under Generals Domingo Arrieta and
Mateas Romas, are holding Parral. They were powerless, how-
ever, to check the bandit ravages ' of the surrounding
country. One report declared that within the past thircy-six ]
hours expeditionary forces sent out from Parral have been re-
pulsed with heavy losses by Villistas.
Indications are that Villa has made Torreon the objective
of his present campaign. His base—Cerro Gordo—is little more I
than three days’ march as the crow flies from that city. Re-
ports of a coalition between Villa and Gen. Jacinto Trevino,
Carranza commander at Chihuahua, remain unconfirmed
State department officials notified Washington today that
Carranza s effort to withdraw Trevino have been unsuccessful. ‛ 1
This fact is construed as corroborative of recent reports that
Trevino, who now controls the chief field force of the de facto
government has set out, either independently or in conjunction
with Villa, to overthrow the first chief.
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LONDON, July 15.—Heavy fighting
around Baranowitchi. in the Skrobaw
region, and near Delatyn, in Galicia,
marked the day alone the eastern
battle front
Berlin claims the recapture of ter-
ritory lost to the kussians in this re-
gionon July S The Teuton troops,
under command of Prince Leopold of
Bavaria, are said to have driven back
the Russlans, taking 1500 prisoners.
Dispatches from Vienna raise the
question as to which army holds
Delatyn, the important railway junc-
tion west of Kolomea. The city was
reported by Petrograd to have fallen
into Russian hands in the recent drive
agninst the army of General von Both-
mer. Vienna officially claims today
that Russjan vanguaros, attempting
to enter the city, were repulsed.
Delatyn is offering the strategic Im-
portance and the railway running
through the place in one of the prin-
cipal lines of communication for the
Austrian armies at stanislau and
In hi* operations around Cerro
Gordo, Villa has increased his force
by several thousand men. It is ex-
pected that his policy. after looting
WAUKEGAN, Ill., July 15.—Will H. Orpet, University of
Yet. While the jur< was deiiberat- Wisconsin undergraduate. who was acquitted here of the mur-
ing. he said with a confident smile: der of one of his sweethearts, Marian Frances Lambert, was
" " "5"----------. charged with having poisoned the girl as she pleaded with
him, her school books under her arm. to save her from the
disgrace she thought impending.
... Orpet denied he ever told her he loved her or that he ever
did love her. This is borne out in part by the fact that he
was carrying on several other love affairs at the same time.
“The gir was as much to blame as I was,” protested
Orpet on one occasion, in defending their too intimate relation-
ship, while being interviewed ip the jail.
Ing xo while Mr Henry has been
for several months abstaining from
his duties in congress
in reply to Henry's assertiqn that
Culberson will never be in Texas for
a political speech, Mr. Batt* said no
man can tell but he was mure that if
would not be willing to meet him.
C'ulberson probably could not takeout
parrt in the kind of stuff that Henry
and the others are throwing around.
sure that Henry had got through the
house."*
Mr Batts reviewed Culberson'* pub-
lic career while he was attorney gen-
eral. governor of Texas and his service
at Washington and showed hl* record
was clean, straight and always for the
best interests of the people.
Henry’s attacks on Culberson's
physical condition, he denounced in
strong terms.
The senior senator he said may
not be able to come to Texas and
eral embassies out of the water. re-
sulting in the recall of at least one
ambassador.” At least three embassies,
he said, would open their coffers to
though badly battered and storm
tossed herself, the crew of the Wel-
lington did heroic work, rescuing 102
men from the wrecked collier.
According to the stories of the sur-
vivors. the Wellington. despite the fact
that she had lost two barges in the
terrific gale Which tossed the boat
backwards and forwards. worked for
six hours taking off members of the
crew and marines, which the Hector
was taking to Port Royal. Guan-
tanamo
The Hector, which left Charleston
lightship Wednesday, Thursday morn-
ing plunged into the worst of the gale
that was rushing up the coast. All day
long huge waves broke over the col-
lier and battered down th® hatches,
flooding the hold.
While she was tossing and pitching
in the storm, fire broke out in the
hold.
Friday afternoon the Wellington
. and given a start in public life.
If these especially had ordinary
human gratitude, they would not be
in th® race trying to defeat the man
Tarnopol, holding the front before
Lemberg.
The situation along the Stokhod
river remains unchanged. Northwest
of Friedrichstadt the Germans have
repulsed Russian attacks, while Petro-
grad reports the coHlapse of a German
offensive southwest of Riga.
crowd. In this race the old adage,
-in numbers there is strength.’* doesn't
apply.
The thirteen men seeking member-
ship in the lower house f the con-
grew are. H. G. Cooley, B. C. Paule-
ford. W. R. Cox, Hugh Nugent Firz-
gerald, Rufus J. lackland, John J.
Harrington, J. K. Porter, J. H. Davis,
A. E. Firmin. Jeff: McLemore, Roger
Byrne. Daniel Garrett and H. la Dar-
win. Hive of them are being talked
about in a way calculated to prevent
the voters from cultivating the names
of their opponents. Ask the average
politician who compose this quintet,
and he will quickly reply: "Jeff:
Mclemore, Hugh Nugent Hitzgerald,
H. I. Darwin. Roger Byrne and "Cy-
<ione' Davis." The candidacy of Davis,
pending tragedy in the lambert home
that night. Marian sang, played the
I piano, told jokes with her customary
gaiety and < heerfulness. She gave no
signs of doubts and misapprehensions
senate. "Bills introduced and
attorney general. He naid in clos-
Ing that as long a* Culberson I* able
to raise his hand he will have more
influence than all the other* put to-
bloom of young womanhood.
deis‛ appointment, were spoken of as
showing that Culberson today is a
power In th® senate that not one
his opponents could ever attain. He
GEORGETOWN, Texas, July 15.-
R. L. Batts spoke in the district court-
room at 2:40 p. m. today in the in-
terest of Senator Culberson’s re-elec-
tion to the United States senate. He
was introduced by D. W. Wilcox in
complimentary terms referring to his
pleasant relations with the speaker
sometime ago when he was a law stu-
dent in Mr. Batt's classes at the state
university. Mr. Batts went straight to
his subject and for nearly two hours
held his audience to the strictest at-
tention. He recalled that the first po-
litical office Bob Henry held was given
him by Culberson, who while attorney
general of Texas had made Henry his
assistant. Colquitt, too. Culberson had
taken out of a small newspaper office
rlun net er reached there. She went
to her death instead.
Marian left her churn on the plat-
form of the Sacre Heart academy
station on the Chicago A Milwaukee
electric railroad She erossed the
tracks and went into the woods where
the ground was heavily blanketed
with snow.
She did not return home that night.
Her father started a search it was
neither a Jong nor a tedious one.
There were footprints in the snow,
footprints that did not need an expert
to read.
। East Texas: Sunday and Mon-
[day, unsettled.
frankness While Judge
has gained strength by
to the private life and personal con
duct of his father.
WAUKEGAN. HL. July 15—Will
Orpet was found not guilty of the
murder of Marian lambert.
At 7:45 this evening the jury, led by
the bailiff, filed into the courtroom.
Judge Donnelly received the verdict.
He read:
"We, the jury, find the defendant,
William Orpet, not guilty."
There were several cries from the
courtroom when the verdict was read.
Prior to the reading of the verdict.
Judge Donnelly had announced that
any manifestations would be punished
by contempt of court.
On the fourth ballot the jury agreed
on a verdict. From the first only
one juror thought the state had
proven that the cyanide of potassium
which caused the school girl's death
had been given to her in the guise
of medicine by the young college stu-
dent. After three votes this juror
Chiricahua. These are unprotected
nave by small detachments of militia-
men on patrol duty.
Orphaned Vice Presidential
Candidate Pleads for New
Convention of Progressives.
was a pupil at Deerfield high school.
She was the pride of her father, a
part of the very life of her adoring
mother.
Th® Sunday before she died she
celebrated her eighteenth birthday.
There had been a happy little party
at the Lambert home. The house was
filled with her school friends. Every-
one w as happy and gay, most of all
Marian. Munday she went to school,
Tuesday also. Tuesday night Jose-
phine Davis, her closest girl friend
and confidante, came hum® to spend
the night with her.
called some well known great men
of fame who were physically weak
but like Culberson, rentaly strong
and with a greatness of character
that gave them an Influence that
small souls fail to estimate. Cul-
berson’s work as leader of the party
in the senate, his special work on
the judiciary committee, specially hl*
on his record, ridiculed for hi* ec-
centricities and barbed for hl* strange
utterances. While the opposition says
he could not hoodwink any great
number of voters under an alias, a
num de plume, a num de guerre or
any other designation. Mr. bavt» de-
lights to roll under his old time popu-
listic tongue as a sweet morsel the be-
liet that the parenthetical “Cyclone”
of his name is worth to him in his
race the strength of 10,000 men. The
atate executive committee has decreed
that the sobriquet shall not appear on
the offcial ballot. Mr. Davis regards
this manipulation of his name as ef-
frontery, damaging and without the
authority of law. His announced pur-
pose is to sue Col. l’aul Waples for
damages and mandamus the executive
committee to restore "Cyclone" to its
termer parenthetical position.
Davis Not One of the Firt Two.
Seriously, it is a sort of hopelese as
well as thankless teak to undertake
to find out who are the two strung
men in the field of thirteen, but It
in easy to learn that J. H Davis I*
not one of them Almost everybody
his career of unefninesa, which
thought an inevitable surrender must
follow Th® rank and file of the pro-
gressive ar® men who joined that
party without idea of political aggrun-
dizement. The progressive ship has
been deserted by a large part of our
officers They could nut stand the
acid test. The bull moose led his loy-
al followers into th® wilderness---and
there deserted them. Let us eternally
bury that emblem, and adopt a« the
now emblem of the progressive party,
the national bird—the American
eugle.
"The time has come when every
party working for human welfare and
the future of America should unite
against both the dominant parties
"Patriotic men, actuated by the best
of motives, men with red blood in
their veins, men of courage and back-
bone ad vision, should lead the fight.
"I joined the progressive party from
n deep seated conviction that it stood
for what was best for humanity, best
for my country, best for my state, and
best for the people of the south. To-
day. my views are strongea than aver
that I was absolutely right.
”I did not want office then, and I
do not want office now, and my ap-
peal to the men and women of Amer-
ica and of every individual state. is
to call another convention, to meet in
c’hicago on Aug. 5, the fourth anni-
versary of the birth of the progressive
party, nominal® candidates for presi-
dent and vice president, and let me
tabor in the ranksand on the stump to
prove my work is for the principles I
believe In. and not for office, elective
<>r appointive
"Met ami women of America. the
hour has come whin you should loy-
ally work fur the welfare of the tui-
tion. uninfluenced and uncontrolled
by I he political bosses or Wall street."
WILLIAM WINTFNE, MO YEARS OLD
resident*. He offers them the choice
of joining his force or mutilation.
Several peons who arrived in Juarez
with their ears cut off last week
declared they had been so mutilated
by the bandit when they refused to
fight with him.
Immense supplies of grain and am-
munition have been confiscated by
Villa in these raids. With these
supplies he will begin his march on
Torreon in a few day*, according to
reports.
With Torreon under his control,
Villa will have the Carranza army
—such of it as is left—bottled up
in northern Mexico. Retreat of the
Carranza troop* will be impossibie.
They will be compelled to remain
in the north and fight or surrender.
Torreon is of more strategic im-
portance than any city north of Kan
Luis Potosi. It is the hub from
which all railroads branch out. Pri-
vate communications show that Chi-
huahua City and Monterey have al-
ways fallen promptly into th® hand*
of the authority who control* this
particular railroad center.
Villa is following with precision
the plan of campaign worked out for
the United States army in the event
of intervention.
This plan called for a drive on the
part of Pershing** column through
southern Chihuahua and the north-
east corner of Durango into Torreon.
So important was this point consid-
ered by the Washington strategists,
it was announced, that when th*
United States had penetrated as far
as Torreon, occupation of the dis-
tricts between there and Mexico City
would be accomplished without dif-
ficulty.
Villa holds the advantage of having
the enemy behind instead of in front
of him. Army officials here admit
it is a strange commentary that th*
bend it leader has been returned to
power while the punitive expedition
sent to capture him is still on Mex-
ican soil. There are ears in Wash-
ington that must bum constantly if
the old tradition is true concerning
sensations experienced by individual*
at a distance who are being talked
about.
There is no hope anywhere that
Trevino or any other commander of
NEW ORLEANS, Ia., July 15.—
John M Parker, in a statement issued
here Saturday night, virtually with-
draw* a* vice presidential candidate of
th* progressive party and delivers
what l* interpreted her* as a bitter at-
tick on Theodore Roosevelt although
the colonel is not mentioned by name.
Incidentally. Mr Parker asks that the
progressives hold another convention
in Chicago Aug. 5. to name a presi-
dential and vice presidential nominee.
Mr Parker’s statoment. which is ad-
dr rawed to "the patriotic men and
women of America," say* in part;
"‘We had as supposed leader ►
blooded Americans,’ who promised
with their 'life blood' to stay with the
party to the finish, but for steam roll-
er reasons they have elected to be
steam rolled, and in depriving us of
our commnissioned officers have
CHARLESTON, S. C., July 15—The
first survivors of the naval collier Hec-
tor. which grounded fourteen miles off
Gape Romaine Friday, were brought*
here today on the tug Wellington. Al-
but Is it bernuse of a man's physical
prowess that you select him for
I’Dited States senator? Culberson
has the brains and the heart to do
what is right for the people of Texas
and he has the power and the in-
fluence at Washington.
In this connection Mr. Batts re-
(By B. F. Harper.)
The man who could pick the two
Winners in the race for congressman
at large would be entitled to be desig-
nated as the oracle of Texas politics.
The jinx is said to be stalking the
political peregrinations of severai
members of th* baker’s dozen who
would write "M. C.” after their names.
tracted father of the girl With him
at the time was William Marshall, an
employ® of the Onwentsia club
Marian was 11 years old. the only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank lam-
belt. Her father is a gardener on
th® country estate of Jonas Kuppen-
heimer. The Lambert family lived
in a lodge on the extensive estate,
which is one of the must beautiful on
the fashionable North Khore
son, senior counsel for Orpet. "We
have always been assured of our
COLUMBUS, N. M., July 15.—A
large force of Mexican bandits is
mobilizing across the border south of
the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
Detachment* of cavalry from this and
the Douglas bases have been rushed
to that section of the border today.
Intense uneasiness is felt among
American residents along the interna-
tional line. Many ranchers are
hurrying their families here for safety.
The bandit band is gathering in the
Han Kimon valley. Its presence was
discovered late today by American
customs riders along the border.
Early this morning t hese ’officials in-
tercepted a herd of horses being
driven by Mexicans south across the
line. The horses had been stolen
from ranchers They were to have
been used as mounts for soldiers.
The Mexicans were fired on, but
escaped across the border. The cus-
toms riders made their report and
immediately scouting details were
flung out. They picked up several
peons who were fleeing across the in-
ternational line from the Han Simon
valley. They told of the bandits'
mobilization.
Plans are being made by the ban-
dits tn attack and loot small Ameri-
can settlements, the peon captives de-
clared. Operations were being held in
check by th* leaders. It was said, only
building his campaign largely on the
unpopnlarity of Davis, it is generally
conceded that the pro vote will be
divided la the main between former
(ongressman Daniel Garrett and State
Senator H. I. Darwin. The great
bulk of the anti vote. it is admitted
by th® leaders, will be shared by
Jeff. McLemore, Hugh Nugent Fita-
gerald and Roger Byrne. Mcleemore
has an admitted advantage because it
In harder to get a fellow out than it
U to boost him in Byrne claims a
slight advantage because he was the
first to file his application for a place
on the ticket. Fitzgerald believes
there is du® him a class of support
that the others should not claim be-
cause of his long years of service In
the daily newspaper field of Texas,
and because of the further fact that
through the unstinted use of his po-
litical pen he has shunted hundreds
or state politicians on the main Une
of fame ephemeral. Jeff Me Leemore
is a writer, too. whose record Koes
back more than an average genera-
tion in the Texas newspaper field
in the long stretch of Red river
country and in Northeast Texas th®
two names mentioned most frequent-
1y ar* those of Garrett and Darwin
The statement that the great bulk
of the anti vote will go to Me Lemore.
Fitzgerald and Byrne need not be rm
phasized, but there are others who
will receive small slices of it. MeLe-
Fitzgerald seem to be the favorite
combinations six days before the state
primary election.
l’rom Turn to iirook#.
There is little doubt that in central
Texas strong effort is being made to
crystalize the pro vote in the further-
ance of the candidacy of Dr. K P.
prooks Many leaders believe that he
is not only stronger than Tom Camp-
bell in the present campaign but that
he could come nearer winning in the
run off against Culberson. Henry or
colquitt They are urging that the
former college president is a man of
el afar ter. ability and attainments and
has the further advantage of being
free from past political entanglements,
when George W Kiddie eliminated
himself from ths race for United
states senntor he did so tn the interest
of the prohibition movement and, in-
cidentally, to help along the candidacy
of Dr Brooks.
The latest attempt to exercise the
power of eliminntion is the effort that
is being made by pro leaders to bring
about the withdrawal of John Dnvis
of Dallas for the further advantage of
Dr Brooks Mi Davis dors not be-
lung to the "quit l er” class, faet is, he
regards himself aas the only "legally
alive" candidate in the senatorial rane
on the ground that he is the only one
* ho has complied with the strict let-
ter of the law regulating th® filing of
expense accounts.
Dnvis Declines to Quit.
In reply to a letter sent him a few
days ago by a Waco pro leader asking
that he connent to become a wiHiny
vletim of elimination, Mr. Davis said
”| note that you are of the opinion
that the sentiment is running in favor
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