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temple, texas, wednesday morning, january 19, 1916.
VOL. IX. No. 64
BITTER ARRAIGNMENT OF UN-
DERSEA TACTICS IN OFFICIAL
ENGLISH STATEMENT.
BERLIN CONTENTIONS DENIED
Destruction of the Lusltanla and Oth-
er Ships, the Slaying of Edith Cavell
and Hundreds of V.'omen and Chil-
dren, Are Recounted in Review of
Teuton Note on the Baralong Case.
WITH JITNEYS AND CARTAGE
Some of the Various Angles That Are Keeping the Officers
Busy in Efforts at Law-Enforcement—Larger-Towns-
of-the-County Problem—Unity of the Citizenship.
- LONDON, Jan. 18.—The British of-
ficial view of the German note re-
garding the Baralong case wan given
out tonight an follows:
"The Germans claim their army
and navy have observed, during the
present war, the principles of interna-
tional law and humanity and that
the German authorities take care that
ill violations will bo carefully inves-
tigated and punished.
"Some surprise is expressed that
'he nation whose armed forces have
been responsible for the sack of
Louvaln, the murder of hundreds of
unoffendnig men, women and chil-
dren on the Lusitania and other
fillips, the execution of Edith Cavell,
the introduction of poisonous gases,
the poisoning of wells, attempted tor-
pedoing of hospital ships and count-
less other atrocities should describe
their methods of warfare as humane.
Destruction of the Arabic.
"It is further pointed out that It
would be Interesting to know how
many German subjects, If any, have
he- n punished for these atrocities, i
The German claim that the Arabic
was torpedoed because the command-
er of the submarine had the' convic-
tion that the Arabic was about to ram
the submarine.
"The facts are that the Arabic was
Bunk deliberately by a-XJerman sub-
marine, without warning and that she
neither attempted to attack the sub-
marine nor to escape from it.
"With regard to the destruction of
the British submarine E-13, In Danish
waters, by a German torpedo boat
destroyer, it Is claimed that it came
to a fight between the war vessels
and that the submarine defended It-
self with gunfire. The true facts are.
as follows: » .
Stranded Vessel Attacked.
"The Germans found the subma-
rine stranded in neutral waters and
incapable of either offense of defense.
The German destroyers fired a tor-
pedo at the E-13. The torpedo ex-
ploded close to her. At the same mo-
ment the German destroyer fired with
all her guns at the commander of the
E-13, whose submarine was afire fore
and aft and who was unable to de-
fend himself owing to being aground,
gave orders to the crew to abandon
her.
"While the men were in the water
they were fired on by machine guns
and with shrapnel.
"The Germans defend their action
In the case of the -Ruel on the ground
that It was a measure of reprisal in
accordance with measures announced
by the German government in Feb-
ruary, 1915. It is claimed that these
reprisals are legitimate, owing to the
%ctlon of Great Britain In attempting
lo cut off from Germany all im-
ports and starve the German people.
The Germans thus maintain their
submarine policy In consequence of
(Continued on Pago Two.)
Daily Reminder
To all those gocd citizens who
would exercise their Initiative At
the polls In the various elections
affecting our state, district, countjr
ind city during the present year:
rills Is to Remind You That But
13 More Days
Remain in Which to Pay Your
Poll Tax.
Do not misunderstand this re-
minder. Wo do not consider It
within our province to dictate, or
even urge any other citizen to pay
t poll tax—the matter Is entirely
optional with you. The mission of
this little notice Is merely
A REMINDER
To you, that If you Intend to par-
ticipate In the various elections
which will affect the state, county
and city you must pa> your poll
tax before the end of this month.
IT is quite natural that the burden or bulk of all things, good and bad, be
placed in the larger towns, or centers. The burden is heavier in propor-
tion to the populatiort and assumes a still heavier place in proportion to the
cosmopolitan make-up. The cosmopolitan feature often times is the distin-
guishing line between cities—or even towns.
In the rural communities, advanced and progressive and prosperous as
they are in Bell county, even though noses be counted, one for one, to com-
pare with the number of residents in Temple, in Belton, in Kllleen, or any of
the other towns, there is not nearly as apt to be as many alleged violations
of the laws. In the rural communities there is lacking the concentration and
variety of people, as to temperament. In the rural communities the lines of
endeavor run more nearly along a routine, fixed avenue.
For reasons growing out of just such conditions—concentration and con-
gestion and wide-range of temperament and work—we have crime records
in cities of the million-class that stagger the lay reader. Records of viola-
tions of laws and alleged violations of laws diminish as populations of cities
and towns are decreased. Beginning at the other end—the smaller tlie towns
the less violations of ALL LAWS. Therefore it is an easy matter to give
credit to the rural communities.
Analyzing to the unit, it might be sighted that if but one family lives in
a community, the chances for violations are minimized. The chances, or op-
portunities or excuses, increase than just as the population is larger. This
brings out the further question of more laws or fewer laws. The smaller the
population, naturally the fewer laws are necessary. With the more people
that live in communities, towns and cities, there arises the necessity of MOKE
LAWS and many of them to cover possible violations that fewer people made
unnecessary.
It is just as true in Texas as in some of the older states. A 12-months
record of crime in any of the larger cities of the state Is astounding, even to
the seasoned citizen. Leading men and women of these cities have been aid-
ing the officers and courts for some time now, in an etfort to lessen this con-
dition—to reduce the crime, or to reduce ALL CRIME. Compare the year's
crime record of the half dozen larger cities of Texas with ALL THE REST
OF THE STATE, and the chances are that the record of the cities would be
the largest.
There is another feature worth considering. Tt is that much of the al-
leged violation in smaller towns is due to the centers of population,_that is.
can be traced to the larger cities and towns as the origin place or plot field.
The larger places are usually charged with being the source, the fountain
head or beginner. In that is meant that persons living in the larger places are
nearly always In the lead and usually just as strong in the backing, although
most of the time very conspicuously in the background.
I Things as They Exist.
I And thus It might be said that the
| Bell county officers and citizens
! based their plans and methods of
'procedure on things as they exist,
proven beyond any doubt by records
of years and years agone. In so do-
ing It might be very emphatically ex-
pressed also that no charge that the
larger towns of Bell county had been,
are now or will be, the nucleus
points and disseminators of crime
waves that will throw the rest of the
sub-division into spasms. No great
volume of law violations Is expected
to swoop down upon the county and
threaten destruction to all statutes.
Far from It.
There were no expectations of dire
calamity or wholesale violations of
the liquor laws in Bell county, eman-
ating from the larger towns, in such
proportions, at least, as morbid and
overdrawing minds might conclude.
There was no expectations of any
conditions, in fact, any worse as to
alleged violations than have actually
been charged. On the same hand
there were no expectations of gangs,
or cliques or even individuals holding
sway in the larger towns and openly
and flagrantly promoting, advancing
or encouraging bootlegging through-
out the county.
But It was expected that there
would be some bootlegging charges
and that some arrests would follow.
It was expected that these things
would have an origin In the larger
towns. The expectations were based,
as given above, on condition that has
been In existence in all cities, In all
states and in all countries, since the
beginning of time. The same basis
used in making these deductions was
and Is the same basis put to use with
all other laws and statutes.
Getting to the Real Gist.
Therefore the officers and citizens
did the first vigilance work In the
larger towns. It was for the simple,
straightforward reason that If any
violations of the liquor laws of Texas
happened, they would happen FIRST
in the larger towns—the logic of the
past. So the initial work was di-
rected at the sources of origin, the
fountain heads and the dragnets were
put to dragging FIRST in. around
and about these places. The larger
towns of Bell county are being held
responsible by both officers and citi-
zens in matters pertaining to the
liquor laws, and in instances where
alleged violations have been recorded.
And this is not all. It comes from
persons who are clothed with author-
ity to act, and from persons evidently
with knowledge to speak. Liquor
MEXICO AIRED
IIU. S. SENATE
ANOTHER RESOLUTION CALLING
FOR IMMEDIATE INTERVEN-
TION IS INTRODUCED.
RISING FROM SCRUB GIRL TO
PLACE IN BRITISH NOBILITY,
SHE BECOMES MOVIE ACTRESS
GATHEHS EXHAUSTIVE DATA
The Slate Department Is Preparing to
Submit- to the Foreign Relations
Committee All Available Informa-
tion of Conditions in War-Wrecked
Republic Sine*' Death of Madcro.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, Jan. 18.—Reading of
newspaper editorials attacking Presi-
dent Wilson objected to and voted out.
Senator Smith, Georgia, attacked
British blockade.
Secretary Garrison explained con-
tinental army plan to military com-
mittee.
Naval committee heard steel offi-
cials on cost of Armour Plate plant.
Adopted prohibition amendment to
pending Philippine self-government
bill.
Adjourned at 4:55 p. m. to noon
Wednesday.
IN THE IIOCSE.
Representative London, socialist,
denounced preparedness programs
and urged adoption of his resolution
for President Wilson to call neutral
conferences.
Quartermaster General Aleshire
continued testimony before military
committee.
Passed Ferris stock raising home-
stead bill, the last of the administra-
tion conservation measures, pending
in the house.
Consideration of good roads bill
postponed.
BUI to license bonded grain and cot-
ton warehouses favorably reported by
agriculture committee.
Representative Sherwood of Ohio
introduced bill to provide for five mil-
lion dollar government munition fac-
tory at Toledo.
Adjourned at 5:05 p. m. to noon
Wednesday.
WALKER IN MEXICAN ARMY
Texan Accused of Defrauding United
States Government Is Lieutenant
Colonel of Carranza Troops.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., "Jan. 18—
Emmett B. Walker, under Indictment
In federal court at Austin charged
with conspiracy to defraud the United
States goernment, is serving as lieu-
tenant colonel in the de facto Mexican
army, under Gen. Pablo Gonzales, ac-
cording to well authenticated informa-
tion here today. Walker entered Mex-
ico In February, 1915, just before the
Indictment was returned.
The indictment is In connection with
the alleged sale of $100,000 worth of
United States army "ordnance, suppos-
ed to have been condemned and de-
stroyed while Walker was assistant
quartermaster general of the Texas
National Guard. A portion of this
government property, it is charged,
was sold to Mexican warring fac-
tions.
The case of Captain Geo. J. Head,
formerly In command of the Browns-
ville militia, who is under a similar
Indictment, is set for the term of fed-
eral court opening at Austin Thurs-
day.
. .. . ■
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Discus-
sion of the nation's duty toward its
citizens in Mexico came up in the
senate again today and another in-
tervention resolution was added to the
half dozen introduced sinee the re-
cent Santa Ysabel murders. Several
republican senators attacked Presi-
dent Wilson's policy and Chairman
Stone, of the foreign relations com-
mittee in response to Senator Fall's
resolution asking for information on
conditions in M xico. This data will
include a record of outrages against
Americans in Mexico since the over-
throw of Madero; correspondence be-
tween the state department and its
special representatives there and re-
sults of the investigation of the story
that the Americans killed at Santa
Ysabel were traveling under safe con-
ducts granted by Carranza authorities.
I in ervenHon Rrsol ul Ion.
Some officials believe that in for-
warding the Information to the senate
the president should include a per-
sonal explanation of the present situ-
| ation with a view to influencing sena-
tors to stop agitating for intervention.
The president has shown no indication
of accepting this suggestion but he
will examine the •department's report
before sending it to the senate and
will decide then how It should be
handled.
The intervention resolution about
which today's senate debate centered,
was introduced by Senator Lippett.
Senators Borah and Curtis joined in
the attack on the administration pol-
icy and Senators Stone and Newlands
replied. The latter pleaded with the
republicans not to "open a pandoras
box of trouble," by further arousing
the war spirit of the country.
TEUTONS HOLD
THEIR LINES ON
III ssl \\ OFFENSIVE II \S BEEN
CHECKED, SAYS AN \CSTRO-
Hl'NGARIAN REPORT.
GREECE CENTER OF INTEREST
l utciue \llie. Continue to I-and Tlielr
Troop> at Different Points In Hel-
lenic Kingdom With the Intention
of Forcing Constantino's Hand. Ac-
cording to Berlin News Agency.
Itlltl.lV Jan. IS.— (Bj Wireless
to Sujiillc.)—,\ note to (lie Greek
government, amounting to an ulti-
matum. Is salt! by the Overseas
News Agency to have l>eon pre-
sented by France and Great Brit-
ain. According to a Sofia dis-
imteli to the news agency. Greece
is required to deliver their |>ass-
ports to the ministers of the cen-
tral powers within IH hours, fail-
ing which the entente will take
"neccssai) measures."
London, Jan. IK.—A dispatch
from Amsterdam sa,\s French anil
ltriti>li troop- have Im'cii landed at
Corinth, (.recce. IN miles west of
\thciis.
RIGGINS HOTEL SOLD.
Waco Hostelry Is Acquired By Re-
cently Formed Company.
Waco, Tex., Jan. 18.—The Riggins
hotel, a ten story hotel, built by
Mayor J. W. Riggins, has been sold
to an organization, known as the Cen-
tral Texas Hotel company, composed
of Albert Pick of Chicago and his as-
sociates. The price paid for the hotel
was not given out. Two weeks ago
today the hotel was sold to the Mer-
cantile Trust company of St. Louis for
$225,000, at a receiver's sale, the com-
pany having a prior lien on the prop-
erty. On the same date, January 4.
Mr. Pick bought the furnishings In
the hotel, paying $50,000 therefor.
(Continued on Page Five.)
VERY IMPORTANT.
Corrected Report of Kuunel K, M.
Rouse's Movements.
London, Jan. 18.—The Times' re-
port that Col. E. M. House, Presi-
dent Wilson's personal representa-
tive, had gone to the continent is
in error. Colonel House still is in
London, conferring with Ambassa-
dor Page and many prominent of-
ficials. He will go to Paris within
a week.
WAR'S CONTRIBUTION
TO MEDICAL SCIENCE
& C/a/0* /a. <*/oc*>
NEW YORK. Jan. 18.—The Honorable Mrs. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, for-
merly Camille Clifford the actress and more recently the widow of the Baron !
of Aberdare's son, who was killed at the battle of Ypres. has returned to ]
America, where she rose from scrub girl to stage beauty and then stepped into j
a position in the British aristocracy.
Eleven years ago Camille Ottorson reached Boston a steerage passenger!
from Norway. She was practically penniless and was glad to get a job as a '
scrub girl. From that position she rose to that of maiii; and a little later as
Camille Clifford she stepped into the limelight as one of the best known stage
beauties in America.
As the famous Gibson Girl she became known in every corner of Amer-
ica and even beyond the seas. She was much courted in those days, by the
millionaires of America and the blue blood of England. Finally the llonora-
bl Henry Lyndhuist Bruce took the one-time penniless scrub girl to the "Little
Church Around the Corner" at St. George and made her his bride.
At Ypres Captain Bruce "of the Royal Scots fell in battle. His widow Is
now in America to appear as a moving picture star.
Remains of Slain Villa Generals Are Shown in Public as
Warning to Bandit Bands in Northern Mexico—Des-
peradoes Are Shot While Begging For Their Lives.
FRENCH PHYSIcmN ANNOUNCES
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
New Method Automatically Cleanses
Old Wounds, Causing Them to Heal
In a Remarkably Short Time.
PARIS, Jan. 18.—Dr. Pierre Roux,
director of the Pasteur Institute, an-
nounced to the Academy of Sciences
last night that a remarkable advance
In serum therapy had been made as
the result of a discovery by Dr. Bas-
suet. By his method it was pos-
sible to cleanse automatically, Dr.
Roux said, wounds which hitherto
had resisted treatment.
Dr. Bassuet employes the polyval-
ent serum discovered last year by
Doctors Leclainche and Valle. Dr.
Roux said 420 wounded men who
had been in hospitals from 6 to 14
months were treated according to Dr:
Bassuet's method. As a result, the
Infection seemed to revive in the
wounds, abscesses form and burst
spontaneously eliminating bits of
bone, splinters, bullets, pieoes of
clothing and even drains and silver
threads left In the lnolsions by mis-
take. After this had happened. Dr.
Roux said, the wounds healed quick-
ly in most cases and men who had
been lying helpless for months were
discharged cured.
JUAREZ, Mux., Jan. IS.—The
bodies of Jose Rodriguez and Miguel
Baca-Valles, executed Villa leaders,
which were placed on exhibition here
today as evidence that the de facto
government is determined to exter-
minate the bandits who slaughtered
eighteen American mining men near
Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, eight days
ago, were put aboard a train late to-
day and sent to Chihuahua City.
There, according to Mexican officials,
they will be shown in public again as
examples of what will happen to any
one adopting the career of an outlaw
in Mexico.
Rodriguez Is Identified.
Rodrigues, who was captured by
employes of the Babricora ranch and
executed by Carranza authorities at
Madera last Thursday, postively was
identified as one of ths Villa leaders
who have been burning railroad
bridges, looting mines and ranches
and threatening the lives of foreigners
ever since Villa was driven out of
Sonora, following the series of defeats
which began at Agua Prleta Novem-
ber 1, last.
Baca-Valles was captured fourteen
miles west of Columbus, N. M., and
executed early today at Juarez after
he had been brought here on a train
which bore the body of Rodriguez,
Enrique Clsneros, another Villa offi-
cer who was captured with Baca-
(Continued on Page Two.)
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THE WEATHER
Forecast.
East Texas—Wednesday cloudy,
warmer; Thursday cloudy, warmer in
east portion.
West Texas—Wednesday cloudy,
snow In the panhandle, warmer except
in southwest portion; Thursday un-
settled.
IN LIE TO BE SHOT
CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES
HAVE K NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DEATH IN MEXICO.
EL PASO. Tex., Jan. 18.—Dr. E. B.
Petskey of the National Mines and
Spelter company at Magistral, Du-
rango, one of the refugees who ar-
rived early today, told of having been
stood up with six other Americans
waiting to be shot by the followers of
General Bracamente, who shot up the
camp and took everything In sight
about a week ago. The cutting of
the wires to Parral at the time pre-
vented an appeal for help. The
Americans were saved on payment of
1,000 pesos.
"Bracamente and his men arrived
one morning last week," said Petskey.
"He was shooting up the town and
looting stores before we knew he was
there. When we scrambled Into our
clothes we found the bandits had
robbed the cashier, Mr. Blndell, of
$300 gold. Bracamente said he had
come to kill all grlngoes.
Lined Up For Execution.
"Blndell talked with him all morn-
ing but made no impression. We
were ordered lined up about 2:30
p. tn. to be executed. Blndell kept
up negotiations for two hours while
we waited. Finally he persuaded
Bracamente to accept one thousand
pesos and the men In line were told
to go home. The bandits left for
Inde. about fifteen miles south,"
The offensive which the Russians
launched against the Austro-Hun-
garians in East Galicia and along the
Bessarabian frontier Christmas eve,
described as the "new year's battle."
came to an end January IS, accord-
ing to the Austro-German war office,
with the Teutons holding all their
lines in the eighty mile front, having
inflicted losses on the Russians esti-
mated at seventy thousand men killed
or wounded, and six thousand cap-
ut red.
That this ends only one phase of
the offensive, however, is indicated by
the Austrian official statement that
Russian reinforcements are being
thrown into East Galicia, The Aus-
trians all along have considered that
the big Russian offensive was under-
taken with important military and
political objects in view. To it has
been attributed the dual purpose of
lessening the strain on the entente al-
lies in the Balkans and possibly of
causing Roumania to enter the war on
tlit? side of the entente allies.
Germans Retreat From Lutsk.
Unofficial advices from Kiev are
that the Germans are evacuating
Lutsk, one of the triangle of fortresses
in Volhynia around which there was
sanguinary fighting in the Teutonic
drive of the Russians last fall.
Still further north to the southeast
of Riga and south of Widsy, the Rus-
sians during a snowstorm made sur-
prise attacks against German posts
and destroyed them.
From a political point of view,
Greece has again become a center of
great interest. In addition to the re-
port that the entente allies have or-
dered reece to hand passports to the
representative.! of the central powers,
and their allies in the kingdom, comes
an assertion that British and French
troops have been landed at Corinth,
48 miles west of Athens. Should the
latter report prove true, the entente
allies would have a line of bases al-
most surrounding Greece—at Salonikl
on the east; at Corinth on the south
and at Corfu on the west.
Lull in the Balkans.
With th^ ending of the Montenegrin
campaign V the capitulation of the
Montenegrins to the Austro-Hungar-
lans, hostilities for the moment hav»
ceased in the Balkans, although a dis-
patch from Athens reports the drop-
ping of bombs by twenty-five French
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filling a human need.
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you will be.
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you may cost you dear.
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