La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL, LA GRANGE. TEXAS
HUERTA LEAVES MEXICO
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ARMISTICE IS AGREEABLE TO
CONSTITUTION A LI8T8, SAY8
GENERAL CARRANAZA.
SURRENDER UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Victorious Leader of Successful Army
Declares Mexican Affairs Must Be
Turned Over to His Party.
Huerta to Jamaica.
Puerto Mexico.—The German cruiser
Dresden, with former President Huer-
ta and his family and former War Min-
ister BlatKiuet, Senora Blanquet and
their daughter aboard, sailed at 7:110
©’dock Monday evening for Jamaica.
The departure of the former chief
executive was without incident, there
not being even any shouts of good-bye
to him from the dock.
Washington. — General Carranza
Monday informed the United States
government he was ready to declare
a suspension of hostilities against the
government of Provisional President
Carbajal, Huerta’s successor, pending
negotiations with his representatives
for the transfer of authority at the
City of Mexico to the constitutional-
ists.
The constitutionalist chief cordially
expressed his views to John R. Silli-
man, personal representative of Presi-
dent Wilson, and Consul General
Hanna and Vice Consul Robertson,
who Interviewed him at Monterey. He
voiced a willingness to receive the
commission of three appointed by
President Carbajal to discuss peace.
Secretary Bryan announced the re-
ceipt of the message from the Ameri-
can representative with the comment
that prospects for an agreement be-
tween the two factions now were very
favorable. Inasmuch as the three
men chosen by Mr. Carbajal are con-
stitutionalists who have been in hid-
ing In the City of Mexico, and are
thoroughly In accord with General
Carranza’s policies, as well as per-
sonal friends of Mr. Carbajal, the Im-
pression now Is general that the nego-
tiations for a transfer of authority of
government will be successful.
General Carranza Is Insistent, how-
ever, that the surrender of the Car-
bajal government should be uncondi-
tional. He is willing, it is declared
by bis representatives, to grant a
limited amnesty as a voluntary act
of generosity on the part of constitu-
tionalists after they obtain the reins
of government. It Is the intention of
the constitutionalists to give guaran-
tees of safety to the people generally,
but to prosecute ringleaders in the
plot through which Madero was over
thrown. Most of the latter, however,
already have left Mexico.
City of Mexico.—General Huerta
and General Blanquet left the capital
Wednesday night. They boarded a
train on the Mexican railway a few
miles beyond the city for Puerto
Mexico.
General Vlctorlano Huerta resigned
from the provisional presidency of
the Mexican republic Wednesday
night and hlB resignation was accept-
ed by the senate and chamber of depu-
ties by a vote of 121. to 17.
Francisco Carbajal then was ap-
pointed president and took the oath
of office at the joint session of the
deputies and senators.
Huerta's resignation was submitted
In the following terms:
"Article 1. We accept the resigna-
tion presented by General Victorina
Huerta as president of the Mexican
United States.
“Article 2. We call licentiate Fran-
cisco Carbajal, minister of foreign re-
lations. to assume the presidency.”
President Carbajal proceeded to the
national palace under an escort of
presidential guards and all along the
way was greeted with tumultuous
cheering.
Oroxco Starts Revolution.
Puerto Mexico.—General Pascual
Orozco, supported by most of those
men who were with him in the revolu
tlon against Madero in 1912, will lead
the first organized rebellion against
the new government, according to ad-
vices which reached Huerta’s camp
Saturday. Orozco, It Is reported, has
planned to mobilize such forces as
ure available In and about Aguasca-
Uentes, move to Querctaro and there
being operations. He counts on the
assistance of General Mareelo Staveo,
General Benjamin Argumedo and
General Antonio Rojas.
Reward for Dobson’s Slayer.
Austin, Tex.—A reward of $200 was
Monday offered by Governor Colquitt
for tbe arrest and conviction of the
unidentified murderer or murderers of
J. W. Dobson, whose mutilated body
was found on July 13 near Kerrvllle.
Three Balloons Landed.
London.—Three of the 24 balloons
which started from Parts Sunday in
the annual race for the grand prize
of the French Aero Club landed Mon-
day on the Welsh shore. Having
crossed the Lnglteh channel before a
fierce gale, they were obliged to de-
scend in order to avoid being driven
out to sea
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Will Teach Practical Packing, Stor-
ing and Handling of Both
Eggs and Chickens.
Houston, Tex.—The Wells Fargo
Company Express has prepared plans
and will wage a campaign to induce
poultry raisers to apply the princi-
ples of eugenics to chickens. The
company has also prepared to in-
struct poultry raisers how to Improve
tbe quality of eggs for consumption
and to teach practical packing, stor-
ing and handling of both eggs and
chickens.
Losses arising from broken eggH in
Improperly packed cases, spoiled eggs
und poultry reaching their destina-
tions in poor condition because of im-
proper pucking have led the company
to study the matter carefully, and as
a result it lias formulated instruc-
tions bearing on every phase of the
poultry and egg business. Any one
desiring the benefit of these instruc-
tions can obtain same by writing C.
W. Simpson, industrial agent, who has
charge of the work.
According to the company it is not
sufficient to pack tile eggs in ap-
proved style cases, but the egg tfeal-
ers should learn to feed the hens the
proper food to improve the relish of
the egg and at the same time to form
a shell of the proper weight and
strength to Insure protection of its
contents from air and moisture as
well as to enable it to stand handling.
No amount of care will produce good
shipping eggs with inferior breeds of
chickens, so the company will urge
the raising of the standard of breeds
so as to have the proper material to
begin with.
Texas produces more turkeys than
any other state and is well toward the
top of the list in poultry shipments,
but the prices obtained for Texas eggs
are not as high as from many other
states because the quality is not of as
high Btanda/d. It Is the intention of
the company to Induce raisers to
bring the quality up to a high stand-
ard and when this is done the poultry
business industry will probably be one
of the most profitable businesses In
the state.
Pye Ordered Back to Pen.
Houston, Tex.—A lengthy document
was received from the court of crimi-
nal appeals Wednesday. In this writ
the sheriff of Harris County was In-
structed to take F. E. Pye into cus-
tody and turn him over to the peni-
tentiary authorities. The penitentiary
officials, agents and employes were
Instructed to take him from the sher-
iff. He was sentenced two years ago
for forgery, but was released before
his term expired.
$20,000 Asked for Surveys.
Austin, Tex.—Congressman Buch-
anan Wednesday advised State Re-
clamation Engineer Arthur A. Stiles
thai application had been filed with
the secretary of the Interior for an al-
lotment of $20,000 for Texas this year
out of the annual appropriation of
$360,000 for the United States geo-
logical survey for making topographic
surveys and maps.
Prison Delegates Are Chosen.
Austin, Tex.—The governor has ap-
pointed the following delegates to rep-
resent Texas at the annual meeting of
the American Prison Association, to
be held at St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 3-8:
W. O. Murray of Huntsville, A. W.
Eddins of Gatesville, George Waver-
ley Briggs of Galveston, Tom Finty
Jr. of Dallas, A. R. McCollum of Waco
and F. C. Weinert of Austin.
Bond Issues Approved.
Austin, Tex.—The attorney general’s
department Wednesday approved five
bond Issues of the city of Sherman
aggregating $100,000, as follows:
Water works, $40,000 k street improve-
ment, $25,000; sewerage, $20,000; pub-
lic parks, $10,000; electric light,
$6,000.
Katy Laid New 8 tee I.
Smtthville, Tex.—The Katy has just
finished laying new steel rails on the
Ban Antonio division.
I. and G. N. Bonds Authorized.
Austin, Tex.—The International and
Great Northern railway was Wednes-
day authorized by the railroad com-
mission to issue and register $245,000
of first mortgage 5 per cent bonds on
additions and betterments and new
equipment:
State's Notice of Hearing Issued.
Austin, Tex.—The railroad commis-
sion has issued notice of hearing for
Aug. 11 to consider the matter of ap-
plying an estimated weight of forty-
five pounds per bundle of shipments
of cotton bale ties in carloads, instead
of using actual weight.
Nuevo Laredo Garrison Celebrates.
Iatredo, Tex.—The garrison of Nuevo
Laredo Thursday celebrated the resig-
nation of Huerta by firing a feu de
joie and by an impromptu parade.
Nick Loving Killed.
Gilrner, Tex.—Nick Loving, a far-
mer, who resided about eight miles
east of Gilmer, was shot and killed
Wednesday. Lutn Davis, his step-sou,
surrendered.
Hookworm Campaign Is Sought.
Austin, Tex.—The hookworm com-
misaion has jus’ been advised that
Falls County has made the necessary
co-operative appropriation of $300 for
a six weeks' campaign against hook-
worm In that county.
Miner and Ranchman Is Dead.
San Antonio, Tex.—Matthew Dahl-
gren, aged 66 yours, a widely known
mine owner and ranchman of Mexico,
and founder of the famous Velardena,
the largest mining camp In' Mexico,
died Sunday.
lATEWiMNNS
WHAT HA8 TRANSPIRED THIf
WEEK THE WORLD OVER.
NEWS FROM NATIONAL (MAI
"thort Mentioning of Interesting Hsp
penirgs From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Members of congress standing by
the administration in the effort to
complete Us legislative program de-
spite the approaching campaign have
resigned themselves to the conclusion
that there is little hope for adjourn-
ment before fall. Both houses are
having trouble in rallying a quorum,
but party whips are bringing back
members who have left Washington
to look after their political fences.
— 4 K)-
President Wilson Friday nominated
Jared Y. ganders of New Orleans to
be naval officer of customs in the dis-
trict of New Orleans; Bat P. Sullivan
of New Orleans to be appraiser of
merchandise, district of New Orleans,
and Robert L. Knox of Lake Charles
to be surveyor of customs, district of
New Orleans.
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Democrats of the senate banking
and currency committee who favor
confirmation of Thomas D. Jones of
Chicago as a member of the federal
reserve board have urged him to an-
swer the report of the majority of the
committee, which opposed his confir-
mation on the ground that he is a di-
rector of the International Harvester
Company.
Senate committees took another
firm grip Saturday on the administra-
tion anti-trust legislative program and
made progress on the Clayton bill, the
railroad securities measure and the
trade commission bill. As to the trade
commission bill the Interstate com-
merce committee virtually agreed to
amend the section which would make
unlawful "unfair competition.”
-OO-
To abolish the “plucking board” of
the navy, Representative Britten of
Illinois introduced a bill Saturday pro-
posing retirement by a system of
mental and physical examinations for
promotion to each grade. Officers
failing to pass examinations would
fail of promotion and a second failure
will automatically retire them.
—OO—
Secretary Bryan, in a formal state-
ment Thursday, came out for woman
suffrage. He declared he would ask
no political right for himself he was
not willing to grant his wife, and an.
nounced he would support the pro-
posed state constitutional amendment
extending the franchise to women to
be voted on in Nebraska next Novem-
ber.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEW8.
Standing of Texas League clubs:
Club—
Gaines.
Won.
Lost.
P.C.
Waco ......
.101
64
37
.634
Beaumont ..
. 98
62
36
.633
Houston ----
.101
61
40
.604
Galveston ..
.101
59
42
.584
Fort Worth.
. 98
47
61
.480
Dallas ......
. 98
46
52
.469
San Antonio.
.103
39
64
.379
Austin .....
.102
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79
.225
The weather bureau at Washington
forecasts for this week generally fair
weather, with moderate summer tem-
peratures.
-OO-
The work of breaking ground for
the site of the new public school
building for the independent district
of Hetnpstead, Texas, was begun this
week. v
—oo—
To combat the "rag time” craze, a
school will be started at Amarillo,
Texas, this fall to teach classical
music.
—oo—
The fourth annual meeting of the
Texas Farmers’ Institute came to a
close Saturday at College Station
after the election of a set of officers,
entirely new, as follows: President,
Tom A. McGalliard of Garza; vice
president, C. M. Evans of Bryan; sec-
retary and treasurer, Mrs. Benigna
O. Kalb of Wosumonk farm (Bellaire),
Harris County. Executive committee:
B. L. Nance, DeLeon; J. E. Luce,
Cisco; T. M. Johnson, Eastland.
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The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mex-
ico Railway Company lias contracted
to purchase $800,000 of new equip-
ment, and the contract Thursday was
approved by the Texas railroad com-
mission.
---OO-
Mrs Florence Conklin Carman, in-
dicted Friday at Freeport, N. Y„ on
the charge of manslaughter in the
first degree in connection with tbe
killing on tbe night of June 30 in her
husband's office of Mrs. Louise Bailey,
came back to her home and family
Friday, temporarily a free woman.
She was released for trial under $20,-
000 bail fifteen minutes after the
grand jury made known its finding.
—OO—
A restitution suit, whereby minor-
ity stockholders seek to compel for-
mer and present directors to restore
to the treasury of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Com-
pany approximately $102,000,000, al-
leged to have been illegally used In
building up the system, was begun
Friday in the supreme court In New
York.
—(KH*
To date melon receipts for ship-
ment at Hempstead, Texas, are 227
carloads, compared with 441 od the
corresponding date last year.
Ethel MacCauley, aged 1$, who died
Thursday, was the third victim of
Wednesday’s rooming house fire In
Dallas, Texas, In which her mother,
Mrs. Mary MacCauley, proprietress ol
the place, and Miss Kobets were burn-
ed to death.
Two persons were killed, several
others Injured and scores of build-
ings damaged when a tornado struck
Henderson, Ky., Thursday. It Is esti-
mated damage will reach $150,000.
——iHJ-
The first three cars of watermelons
of the season were shipped from
Elgin, Texas, this week.
■ ’-OQ*~
Friends and relatives of August
Morizot, a machinist at Shreveport,
La., who died a few days ago, found
in old cigar boxes, in an old-fashion-
ed clothes press in the Morizot home,
nearly $5,000 in cash, mostly silver.
It w’as accumulated more than a quar-
ter of a century, and never placed in
a bank.
—OO—*
John D. Cochran of Sinton was
elected president of the Texas Ab-
stractors’ Association and Corpus
Christ! won the next convention
Thursday at the closing session of the
seventh annual convention at Dallas,
Texas.
—OO—
The hookworm commission of Tex-
as has Just been advised that Falls
County has made the necessary co-op-
erative appropriation of $300 for a six
weeks’ campaign against hookworm in
that county.
-OO—
An agreement between husband and
wife to the effect that the latter re-
ceive a weekly wage for performing
household duties was held to be illegal
by an advisory master in the chan-
cery court at Jersey City, N. J., Fri-
day. Work performed in the home by
the wife, the opinion declared, was
rendered in discharge of a duty she
owes the husband, and CQuld not be
construed as her sole separate ac-
count.
Organization and reshaping the
course of study to meet the education-
al needs of rural districts; provision
for transfer of pupils between 17 and
21 years of age and reports of prog-
ress in carrying agriculture, domestic
science and manual training to one
teacher in country schools occupied
the attention of county superintend-
ents and teachers attending the rural
school education meetings at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin, Texas,
Thursday.
The Texas state automatic tax
board Wednesday met with Governor
Colquitt and fixed the tax rates for
the current year. The stale school
tax was fixed at 20c on each $100 of
assessed valuation, an increase of 3c
over last year; state ad valorem rate
at 12%c, a reduction of 10 %c, while
the pension tax retnains the same, at
5s. It makes total state taxes of
37V£c, a net reduction under last year
of 7V4c.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The most complete uncertainty ex-
ists in Mexico City in regard to the
outcome of the actually entangled po-
litical situation. President Carbajal
is winning the sympathies of all or-
derly and well-to-do inhabitants of the
capital.
—OO—
Mme. Caillaux Sunday was placed
in the conciergerie in the lower part
of the Pallais de Justice, Paris,
France, where she occupies a cell ad-
joining that once occupied by Marie
Antoinette. She was transferred from
St. Lazare prison, where she has been
confined since her arrest for killing
Gaston Calmette, editor of the Fi-
garo. The trial of Mme. Caillaux is
on this week.
—oo—
Two steamers, two large schooners
and a barkentine were wrecked on
the Nova Scotia coast in a violent
storm that began Saturday and con-
tinued Sunday. There was no loss of
life, but it is unlikely that any of the
vessels will be saved.
OO—
Fugitives who arrived in Mexico
City Sunday from Contreras and Tiza-
pan, villages, report a serious move-
ment by the forces under Kapata.
Contreras was attacked by Zapatistas
Saturday, the garrison driven off and
several thousand Zapatistas started
pillaging and burning.
-OO-
Three hundred American marines,
the vanguard of the expedition to
warn the Dominican and Haitian re-
publics that they must quiet down on
pain of intervention by the United
States, arrived at Guantanamo, Cuba,
Sunday on the transport Hancock
from Vera Cruz. (
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Scores among a party of 175 po-
licemen and constables were injured,
several seriously, Sunday at Van-
couver, B. C., in a battle with several
hundred infuriated Hindus on board
the Japanese steamer Komagata Maru
in the harbor.
State Fire Marshal Wallace Inglish
has received reports from 40,000 fires
which have occurred in Texas since
December, 1910, and as usual a large
percentage is classed as preventable.
Brigadier General Albert Lee Myer,
aged 68. U. S. A., retired, died Satur-
day of paralysis at his home in New
York. He entered the army in 1865
and held every noncommissioned and
commissioned rank from I private to
a brigadier general.
General Torlbio Ortega, commander
of the Ortega brigade In General
Pancho Villa’s army of the north, died
Thursday of acute catarrh of the atom-
ach at the military hoapita! In Chihua-
hua, Mexico.
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