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Circulation yesterday 4 , 3 0 3 ^the •Advertiser-Journal Grow HE ADVERTISER-JOURNAL TIIE SECON D OLDEST D A ILY NEWSPAPER W E S T O F T H E H U D S O N RIVER T H E W EA T H E R . F a ir tonight and Sunday: not m u c h changc in temperature, moderate southwest winds. iv i t i fo u n d e d gtTlSER t o u n d t d 1S44 AUBURN, N. Y. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913 lERIGi WARSHIPS PRICE TWO CENTS liral Fletcher Orders A!! of His Coun trymen to Leave Tampico— Women and Children Board U. S. Boats— Mexicans Fighting Fiercely For Pos session of City ifiiagtou, Doe. 13.— R ear Adm iral i ubled from Tampico under date D, today tlm t a t 4 p. in. yester- ordered all Americans out of the that before m idnight lie trans- ibout 500 w h o were aboard the and Tacoma to thc battleships i, Rhode Isla n d and New Jersey Xavy D e p a r tm e n t hater issued fancnt: nMegrtun has been received from iinlral'Fletcher, sent them from i, Mexico, 2 p. m. Friday, which the inform a tion that there has cessation of the fight, but the fa not serious. A g u ilar was re- to have ju s t nrrived w ith 3,000 taken a position on thc right i[ thc river. T h a t there wore en ■Tampico the 3Ic.xican gunboats Crui-. and l ’rogresso. Adm iral has received information that Federals and Constitutionalists it or hanged a ll prisoners taken, ig about <55. Three of those :e hanged in tho forenoon from the Federal lines in full view of ippingand city. Adm iral Fletchor formal protest in tho name of ity, against thc practice. He re- t no foreigners property have ijurcd and th a t the New Jersey tc to Tampico, trmy transport Sumner leaves today for Tampico. Arrangc- fc&ve'been m a de to care for all ns at Tampico. They number 300.” Situation G e tting Worse, admiral reported that nil foreign and children were out of tlic city ’clock tliis m o rning, but that some 'referred to remain. He also that thc situation was “getting and that skirm ishing continued he Mexican gunboat Bravo shell- Constitutionalists’ position- admiral asked tho Navy Depart- to mako public announcement Ii foreigners were safe and tlm t impossible to send personal Tries- to all who have relatives on the The Navy D e p artm e n t has en- the Ward liner Morro Castle *ili reach Tampico early lomor- rceoive such refugees as m a y leave. - ----- — 'l A pared For Desperate Fight 2ai Mexico, Dcc. 13.—Ferelicd on Ojinaga which commands a I ticw of the nearby desert and »thc federal arm y today had its noed in expectation of an attack to* °r five thousand rebels who surrounding thc town, mmanding position of the fede- ^enchea and forts fixed for re- luake it impossible for thc 0 storm tlie place without heavy Kfc* Thc rebels will have to Oost s traight up to the town and *Dtly exposed to fire except for 1 shelter afforded by Mesquite 0Ur ^ o u s a n d federals garrisoned *keir retreat from Chihuahua Sl?ned themselves to thc expected an the rebels under General Her- 1Te announced their intention of *2 from three sides to force a °* to drive thc enemy across Er into the U n ited States. If our ^ P s of U n ited States cavalry the border patrol at Presidio e Am e rican m ilitary authori- * notifled hoth sides th a t no s oe fired across the river. perem p to r ily ordered the fighting to .stop. A d m ira l Pletchcr’s dispatches wore w ith h o ld fro m publication until after they h a d bocn submitted to Secretary B r y a n a n d Secretary Daniels, who was late g e t t i n g back fromh Baltimore. Tlie ba ttle s h ip X e w Jersey hns been ordered from T u x p a m to Tampico to join the A m e r ican fleet in the fighting /'one. MONTEREY MENACED V e ra C r tiz, Dcc 13.—Thero is every in d ic a t io n th a t the city of. Monterey m a y be 'heavily attacked by tlie rebels n t a n y anom e n t according to a dispatch filed th is m o r n in g hy Philip C. Hanna, tho A m e r ic a n consul general there. A considerable federal aroty is believed to be concentrated at Montercv. HE&’S DISPATCHES wtted to secretaries ctcn, ]jC(. la,—.Dispatches I .r At*miral Fletcher n t Tampico, rt*ere Car^ ’ t°day and sent late say the fighting was con- t * * * m a ^ e 210 m e n tion of , ■ & the American adm iral had C a r r a n z a N o t Holding Americans. T u c s o n . A r i/., Dec. 13.— C o n s titution a lis t A g e n t A . V. Anany said last night he h a d received a telegram from General C a r r a n z a , head of thc Constitutionalists say ing t h a t W . S. W indham of P a s a dena, C a l., and J M. Dunn, another A m e r ican, \were not being held by m ili tary a u t h o r itie s uitliiu his jurisdiction It w a s reported they wore being held by Topic rebels for tfHUUtj ransom A t tbe request of Dunn’s mother, who lives -here, A n a n y asked General C a r ranza to m a k e a thorough investigation of tlie re p o r t that Americans still were held. REVENUE cutter is rushed TO TEXAS FLOOD TERRITORY His Legislative .Program Met With Complete Success BIG BILLS KOI YET SIGNED Measures Passed Yesterday Must be Engrossed, W ill Become Law Early Next Week— Governor Worn Out— New 5o,ooo Jobs. Albany, Dec lo.— Tlie necessity of engrossing most of the important bills pa-^od by the Legislature yesterday nuidp it impracticable for the governor to sign them today They are expected to bccumu laws by the attachm ent of liis signature early next week. Worn out by stress of thc last week's labors, the governor rested at thc execu tive mansion inis morning- liis desk at tiie iMpitoi was heaped with tele grams und letters of congratulations Tlu1 one bill which has become a law by tho go\cnior’s signature is that providing for the establishment of the bill dialling commission. Following its terms 11. U* Cum m ings, who has had long experience in bill drafting work, and (1 R. Van Xamee, clerk of the Assembly wore appointed by Lieuten ant Governor A\ agucr and Speaker Smith as members. Their choice for deputy h understood to be Burton K Nude of W ayne County The commis- idoncrs will receive a salary of $0,000 a year for five venra, the salary of tbe deputy being iixed a t $4,000. PAINTING IN FLORENCE IS SURELY “MONA LISA” W a s h in g t o n , Dcc. 13—The revenue cutter W im lo r n is being rushed to Vel- :of the tow n nearest the inundated section in Texas. Harry A. .Black, ch a irm a n o f the Galveston Relief Com m ittee, to d a y telegraphed Secretary Me* Adoo t h a t tw o counties are alm o s t en tirely u n d e r water The W indom may act as su p j/ly base for life saving crews | a t Velasco. Perugia Poses as P a trio t and is In d ig nant Over His Arrest. l’lorcnee, Italy , Dee 13.— The a i- tlicnticity of the ‘'Mona Ljsa” found yesterday in possession of Vincenzo Perugia was confirmed by experts aftsr further examination today. Tlio picture bears ail the seals of the galleries in which it lias been hung and aUo that of thc Louvre, while the traces of repairs at the hack of thc canvas known to ha\e been made were also vis ible. The prisoner was again interrogated by ihe police authorities this morning when lie repeated hi-' ntoiy of having stolon tlie picture ns an act of ven geance for Napoleons depredations in Italy lie displayed thc utmost indij nation at Jus treatm e n t by the police, declaring it unjust after tlu» risks he hail rim nnd tlie abnegation he had demonMrati d out of patriotic sentiment \ number of piom .ncnt Itahans ha*e wntten to the Italian minister of pub lic in-lru« tion requesting him to permit “.Mona L i V to he placed oil exhibition in Florence, its former homo, before re turnin'* it to thc French government rled Men Are Fast Dying From Starvation, Pestilence and Neglect Rodman Wanamaker Expedition Reports Condition of North American Indians as Deplorable Philadelphia, Pa., Doc 13.— B r inging a report on the condition of the In d ia n \h ich is described *,b deplorable, thc ivodniun W n nanmker expedition of. C i t i zen to the Xorth American In d ian re turned to this city yesterday a f t e r a visit to ISO tribes of Indians in the U n i t ed States. The expedition, w h ich was •headed by Dr -Joseph K. Dixon, spent six m o n ths in its investigation. Doctor .Dix on ha** prepared a lengthy report in which lie makes a strong appeal for aid for tho red men, who he declares n.re “ fast dying from starvation, pestilence nnd neglect by the white man ” A s u m m a ry nf the report has been placed in the hands of President W ilson and other government officials. Upon his arrival here yesterday, D o c tor Dixon made an address in w h ich -he gave a brief account of thc expedition and its results. “I feci thnt I have changed tVe destiny of the In d ia n race/'* he ?nid. “Thc Indian has hitherto -been driven back and robbed by (the w h ite ■man Even thc opportunity to earn a livelihood has been taken aw a y fro m h im . The I n d ia n is afraid and suspicious of the w h ite m n n , because, practically he had everything taken from him by -his pale-faced brother. “ I think our expedition has paved tho w a y to clear th e clouds of suspicion and break down thc w a lls of fear and in the future I beliove the red men will wel come the ju s t advance of thc white man “The condition aoiong thc majority of the Indians is deplorable and the govern m e n t a t W a s h ington is kept in ignorance o f it. A tribe called the Jicarilla Apaches is starving to death on thc top o f thc continental divide in Xew* Mex ico, where they have been driven by the •white man a f t e r he had taken their lands from them . For several months before I visited them they had nothing to eat b u t stewed pine bark. There are 700 in the tribe and a t thc rate they arc dying a t present thoy w ill become ex tinct in 14 years. “The treatm e n t of the Indian by the people of thc U n ited States is a disgrace to civilization and should cause us lo blush before thc w o r ld ” Lone Bandit Gets Away With $ 4 ,0 0 0 From Southern Pacific Express Car Xew Orleans, La.? Dec. 13— T h e ex press car of a Southern Pacific tra in which left here a t 11:30 o'clock la s t night, was roibbed of $4,000 in cash, by a lone bandit, who boat the express mcsrtenger into unconsciousncss and then escaped by leaping from thc car a t llaralian, about 10 miles from here. A special train with deputy sheriffs left here shortly after m id n ig h t for ■Uarahan to take up thc p u r s u it of the robber. That the bandit had expected to get * 100,000 which, however, was pent out from here on nnother S o u thern Pacific train earlier ht»L night, was tlie belief of L. O. Lord The injured express messenger was brought to a h o s p ital hero early this morning. “I was talking with an acquaintance nt tho station just beforo m y tra in left,” said tlio president. “This ac q u a in tance introduced me to a m a n nam e d 'Fleming* as a fellow' Canadian and a railroad m a n . A few miles out from •tho city I felt a blow on the head and collapsed to the floor When I regained eonKMOiiMicss Fleming1 wa«* .standing over me boating me with a clnib. M le took thc keys from my pocket, unlocked the safe and took out tw<v •jxiokages of $2,000 each and jumped from the car near Jlarahan. Then; was an Illinois C e n tral north-!>ound freight a t K u rahan and I expect he got away on that train. “A fter ’F le m in g loft 1 crawled to tho, door und shouted for help. “ E believe thc robber was after that $ 100,000 th a t went out on an earlier tra in ,'b u t there, were four armed guards in thc cxipress car and when ‘Fleming* saw them he changed hia m in d '* Thc sheriff's posse ami special agents of tho Southern Pacific and detectives ■trom Xenv Orleans gore given a full de scription of tho robber by J/m l PRINCETON CREW WILL RACE CORNELL ON CAYUGA Ithaca. Dcc 13. -Princeton w ill r.ve the Cornell ’Varsity eight ou C a y u g a Lake, May “3, 1011, Spring D a y H s not definitely decided yet w h e ther the Tigers will send their freshmen e ig iit for the regatta. Effort* are being m a d e to make the race a triangular affair ^ alo has been mwled to send her crew*, but no word of ucci-ptancu has yet been rceived from the Kli managem e nt. No race was held with J'rineeton last year, as tlie only dale 011 w h ich tiie ’Varsity could journey to Carnegie T.ake conllicled with tlie Princeton com m e n c e ment exercises Cornell defeated the Tigers and \ale at Princeton in 1911, and nznin in 1012 showed the w a y tc IS OBTAINED IN PARIS! the \a=sau men and Harvard o 'e r th*' 1 ( h.irlesi River course. EGG BOYCOTT A FAILURE SAYS INDIANA FOOD MAN PROOF OF PERUGIA'S GUILT Corning. X V , Drc. 13— J a m e s A Sm ith, for many years postm a s ter a t Cameron Mills, committed suicide to d a y In shooting himself through the head, shortly after I ’ostofliee Inspector John- j con entered the building and inform e d | Sm ith that he had come to m a k e nn in ■ .cut and to bring thc votigation of the affair-, of thc o flke. ! AMERICAN WHO HAS INVENTED AEROPLANE GUM L o n d o n , Dec. 13-BritW i m ilita r y of ficers a r c enthusiastic over tlio tests th a t h a v e teen made a t Bisley of tho new a i r cooled aeroplane g u n invented bv C o lonel I . X . Lowis,-formerly o f the U n ite d S t a t e s army.- The g u n h so m a d e as to be capable of accurate op e r a tion a t any angle. I t is allixeil to the p i : \ 1\ 50 n'' l\ pr0jCCt (lo'Vn\'a':J between the marksmans hr.ccs, and it i.s a ra p id Jire shooter of deadiv chorac- ter T h e marksman sits beneath the a v ia t o r . G r a lia m e - ^ it e has construct- ed a sp e c ial war aeroplane to carry tae g u n a n d i t s oper&tor, ■ -* * Paris t>rr 13. - \ c u e ' nlenl. minister ol pubir* instruction, amimim-cd ut the (‘.linnet council toda\ that there was no tl ..jt the picture 1 Mona Li«ii’’ had been recover'11 end w in now in 1-lorence. lie J.e had telegraphed tu the Ita lia n piemicr thanking him and the Ita lia n jjnvornmcnt for their prompt action. \ rrprc-entiitivo ol the l ine A rts De partment is bcin_' ‘ 'Mil to 'Rome lo t!n nT; the Il.1li.a11 ofreiaU on behalf of /ic l;ren-h governin' licturc baciv to l'ari= l’rcsli proof th a t \ilo n a Lisa” was laken from the Louvre by Vincenzo 1’erugia was established today when his :)nr,cr prints taken when ho was con victed some tim e ago of carrying fire arms w ithout a permit were compared with tiiosc on thc frame and glass of tlie picture and found exactly sim ilar Till' linger prints o:i the r'.afs ar.d frame were psricrvcd similarity w .tli tinctly visible. POSTMASTER AT CAMERON MILLS COMMITS SUICIDE Indianapolis, Ind., Dec 13.—A boycott on eggs as one w a y of lowering the price of this product is a failure, IL J5. Harn- ard, state fowl anil drug commissioner, told the members of thc Woman's De partm e n t Club last night in an address. “Any atte m p t to reduce the price epgs or the cost of living by doing w ith o u t ,’\ Mr. JJarnnrd >aid, “ i.s of no avail except as it m a y airect the expenses of tho individual who is doing without. The law of supply and demand regulates the price of nny commodity. “There has -been much talk th a t the cold storage is a trust which operate5 for Ihe Hike of depriving a hungry nation of food through its ability to rnaninu late. A* a m a tter of lsiot cold storage n true <-r»n.-ervatio» and operate*, not •to jneiease the costs of food hut actually to reduce th e n ’ WON THE BIGGEST FEE OF ANY WOMAN LAWYER Chicago, Dec. 1H.—Mies M a r y E . M i l ler, a prominent woman lawyer of this etiy, has won the distinction of h a v ing earned thc largest fee for a single case ever received by one of her sex. She hnd to sue to get it, but she wou. She represented thc four grandsons of W illia m 13ross, the “war governor of Illinois,” in securing their rights under his w ill. They refused to pay her bill of $42,^00 for services. Sho was a wa rd ed .'>3*2,500. PUTTING LSD ON W a s h ington, Dee. Ifl—Speaker C lark, Dem o cratic Leader Underwood and tho chairm a n of House Committees which tep u it uppiopriation bills agreed today lo keep new' appropriations w ith in tbe a m o u n t appropriated, for thc present year, wliich was .fl,008,000,000. M illio n s will bo pared off pending bills. The naval appropriation b ill, however, w ill retain the two, battleship program of thc administration. Tho plan is to have no projects a u thorized in the rivers and harbors bill aud no omnibus public buildings bill. The conference agreed upon a speedy program. Othenviso .Speaker C lark de clared Congress would ho here u n t il next October. A Looks Like Deliber ate Plot to Ditch Lake Shore Pas senger Train * SMITH’S CAR NOT DAMAGED New President of Central Helps to Operate Hand Car to Tele graph Office — Spikes Had Been Removed From Rails— ‘ Fireman Killod FROM COAST COMES PROTEST AGAINST THE SEAMAN’S BILL San Francisco, Cab, Dee 13.— R e s o lu tions protecting against thc passage of tho Lu Follette seamen's b ill by the House u n t il the peoplo of the Pacific Coast have been guaranteed a hearing, wero adopted yesterday a t a general m e eting of tho San Francisco Cham b e r of Commerce. Tho 'Maritime C o m m ittee appointed to analyze thc b ill sum m e d up its conclusions as follows: “Should the La Follette seam e n ’s bill in its present form become a law it w ill ,-nund the death knell nf the Am e rican ig in all tran« Parifi': connncrcc. Hy thin lit 11 the Lnitcd States raises thc (lag of Japan on c\ery vessel p ly in g the W e stern sea.” Cleveland, Ohio. Dec- 13—Thab tho p a r tial derailm e n t of traan Xo. 10 on tho Lako Shore and 'Michigan Southern Railroad near Wjokliffe, east of tlda city, shortly before last m idnight, wns tho result of a dciiberato attem p t a t train wrecking, was tho belief ex pressed by l^ako Shore ollicials early today. They assert that spikes had been removed from tho rails and the road has offered a reward of $1,000 for tho arrest of the person tampering with tho roadbwh Attached t-o t r a in Xo. 10 was the pri* vatc car of the newly elected president of tho X e w York Central system, A l fred Sm ith. President-elect Sm ith, after a v isit to his aged mother in this city to receive thc congratulations on hU promotion and a hurried western trip, was returning eastward Tho private car was not derailed. Tho 111t*man of the locomotive was lulled. President-elect Sm ith, after a cpnfer- cnco w ith thc engineer of thc train, Jobeph Lam b , issued this statement: \Tho engineer told mo that while thc train wns proceeding about a mile from WicklilTo thc engino suddenly leaped into tlic air, indicating very plainly th a t an ctovtniction that could not raul^ ily bo seen and yet wouhl cause derail m e nt, had been on tho track* Tho acci dent is very m y stifying, in tho viow of this and thc added fact th a t it was a perfectly straight strotch whero tho ■wreck occurrcd.” A fter tho wreck Presidcnt-olect Sm ith him self helped to openvto a liand-car four miles up tho road to a telegraph ofiico to sum mon aid. Sm ith Laughs a t Rumors. R u m o rs shortly after thc accident th a t thc attem p ted wrecking of the train was w ith an intention of killing the president-elect wcro laughed a t by M r. Sm ith. REVIEW OF CONDITIONS IN IRON AND STEEL New \ firr; >ays Wii 1 .-teel vvni>.s Dec 13.- The Iron \\e the rate of rolling mill and iperations is ii^., limn that by the police and the t! esc of Pc.-urria is dis- B o a t Owners Argue. Washington, Dec. 13.— S team ship owners and managers turned out force today to protest to thc House Merchant M a rine Committee against the La Follette seaman s bill Key Compton, president of the Chesapeake .Steamship Ccmpr.nr dcdared vessels on Chesa peake Eay would frnrl it impossible to meet the lifeboat and able seaman re quirements. Jo h n K. Sherwood, of thc Baltimore S team Packet Company, made tha same argum e n t. Sub-Committee Organized. Chicago, Dee 13.—Thc sub-com m ittee of 10 members of the X a tio n a l A s s o c ia tion of Railw a y Commissioners a p p o i n t ed yesterday to lay plans for u n ifo r m intra-state express rates m e t to d a y to discuss thc problem before them . Organization of tho com m ittee w a s cf- fe-tcd and the work apportioned a n i o n ; of a week ago, inquiry for somo forms of finished steel has ini renscd enough iO bring o u t a note of helpfulness in some quarters. I t is beginning to he realized th a t the .\>0 per cent, operation to which finishing m ills have now come, on the average, is liclow the wear-and tear line in coiiM 'm p tion, and that while buyers w a it the country:, needs lire nceiimu COST TO TAXPAYERS OF SULZER TRIAL $235,900 the member*. V ii. l!oc of M is^uii-i, wa chosen secretary Martin S. Decker, I la tin- as they have before in similar president of the Comniissioner.s Associa- .-.ituatKHH. tion is chairman exoflino of the com- P ittsburgh i3 the puurcr of whatever encouragement thc trade has found and this is based largely on thc fact that buyerrt o f bars have been sounding thc m a rket to get a t thc basis of contracts for tho fir3t h a lf of next year There is also in a ll m a rkets more inquiry for spike?, angl^ bars*, ti^ plates and olh«r tnres on eotion, hc-p-*. wheat, corn, oats, J track fasten ing s m d ieaiuig that a mini rye, barley, wiie.it Hour, po u , lard. 1/n- j her of railroads are planning for a fair con, or other agricultural or fcod prod Six Leaders E a rly Today. Xow >ork, J>ec LJ.—R id in g in new com b ination as a result of p a iring after team withdrawals early today there were six Jeudera in the six day bicycle race a t 8 a. m., thc 123th, hour, tied w ith 2.181 mile-s 7 hips The form e r Tccord was 2,400 miles, 0 lap3. Thc leaders were Goullct-Fogler, Verri-Urocco, Root-Mc- N a m a ra, Mugin-lxiwrenuc, Drobach-Hal- stead and llill-Kyan Thc Mitten-Thoma3 and Gorry-*Walker team s -were only a lap behind th e lead ers. A lap behind them were Carman- Cam e ron and lireton-Packebusch. Thc retiring teams, necessitating new com bination*. were: Perehicot-Hreton, Ap- pleh.arM-Paekebu-ch, C lark-W a lthour, Kt»p-,ky Keefe, A lbany, Dec. 13.—Tho direct cost to thc taxpayers of the s t it o for tho ejectm ent of. W illiam Sulzer from the executive chair wns •?2.'J5,000, in addi tion to thc money th a t was spent by tho FrawMey legislative Committco in fram ing the eridenco on which the recommendation for h i 3 impctichmcnt w a s based. A t the tim e thc Im p e a chment Court convened $7.5,000 was appropriated for the trial, and yesterday tho Legisla ture passed bills appropriating addi tional fund* for expenses. Thc meas ures allowed $<50,000 for counsel for tl»i Moaid of Managers who pushed th c case against tho governor—Alton B. Parker, John B. Stanchficld, Edgar P. Brackett, ftugcnc Lam b Richards, Isidor Kresel and H iram C. Todd— instead of thc $130,000 they first de manded, and $40,000 for the attorneys who defended Oovemor Sulzer. Anti-Options B ill. \Washington Dec. 13—(Representative Harrison of Mississippi* has prepared a <bill which ho will introduce ne x t T u e s day lo declare ilU-jal options and fu- ucts. Thc bill embodies drastic pro visions to abolish all such transactio n s and to penalize buyers or sellers o f o p tions and futures. am o u n t of track laying Prices ot both pig iron and steel pro ducts have settled further, but steel m a n u facturers arc less willing to make concessions- on hand-to*Juouth business. Unionist W o n Election. Glasgow, ^Scotland, Dec. 13. — Thc U n ionist candidate won thc byc-election j'csterday for tho South L a n a r k s h ire seat in parliament left v a c a n t b y the death of Sir W'alter M c n zies, a L iberal Hom e Ruler This \saH the first time in the histo r y of the constituency th a t a three-cornered conte-t had taken place and the Liberals claim the result to be an endorsement of tbe governments Irish policy, as tho L iberal and Labor candidates are both Home Rulers and together polled 1,423 votes more than the Unionist* Baseball President Protests. X ftw Haven, Conn., Dec. 13— President Jam e s O'Rourke of thc Kastcrn Asso ciation. has protested against thc pro posed change of name of tho Xew York- X e w Jersey lx?aguo to tho Eastern le a g u e . In his protest sent yesterday M r. 0 ‘Rourke points out thc liability of players and patrons to coniusc thc two organizations, to the possible disad vantage of tho Eastern Association, which for many years was the Connec ticut League. | LOCAL NEWS TO-DAY ON | I PAGES 4,5,6, 7, 10,12 |
