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THURSDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA. KANSAS, OCTOBER 17, 1912
THURSDAY. EVENING.
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LIKE DAYAT HOME
Col. .Roosevelt Is Resting in
3Iidst of His Family.
3Irs. Roosevelt Has Taken
Charge of the Situation.
DANGER ISN0TYET PASSED
Physicians Decide to Let the
Bullet Stay at Present.
Declare the Colonel Must Re
main in Hospital a "Week.
Chicaso. Oct. 17. The most reassur
ing bulletin yet issued by the physi
cians concerning Col. Roosevelt's con
dition was given at 1 o'clock. It read:
"Pulse, temperature and respiration
normal. Blood count has dropped to
normal, breathing: seems easier.
' DR. J. B. MI'RPHT,
DR. ALEXANDEK LAMBERT,
"DR. SCl'KHY TERRELL."
Chicago. Oct. 17. The third day of
Co!. Roosevelt's stay in Morcy hospit-H
was passed like a quiet day at home in
the midst of his family. The dread of
serious development was largely al
layfd, although his physicians were
cartful to say that their patient was 'ly
no means out of danger. It will require
another day of waiting for symptoms of
sepsis before the surgeons, if there is
n change for tile worse, will be able to
Fay:
.'All is well."
Mrs. Roosevelt maintained her vigil
at the bedside of her husband. She
decreed that no visitors were to see
Col. Roosevelt during the day because
he had not slept during the morning.
He! decree was accepted without ques
tion, although the colonel complaineJ
smilingly that she did not give him
opportunity to say anything about it.
"This fight for the rule of the people
is all a sham," he said with a. laugh.
"Here I am. a victim of machine rule
myself."
But ther w as no appeal from the
verdict of Mrs. Roosevelt and no one
was admitted to the colonel s room ex
cept Mi?s Ethel Roosevelt. Miss
Roosevelt, who at iirst showed much
evidence of being seriously disturbed
had lost the worried look of yester
day and busied herself about the hos
pital like a sister of charity. She took
charge of the surplus of gifts, princi
pally of flowers and books, which
nave been tent to her father, and vis
ited the wards, distributing them to
patients. Each gift came as a present
from Colonel Roosevelt.
Although Colonel Roosevelt is al
ready looking forward to the time
when he can leave the hospital his
physician? are not permitting his ap
parent improvement to influence them
in making promises. Within an hour
Dr. Lambert said today, symptoms of
blood poisoning might develop, in
'v hich case the entire situation would
be altered. Time must be given for
fhe broken rib to set, as well and it
is not unlikely that Colonel Roosevelt
will be detained in the hospital for
another week. The physicians are de
pending on the influence of Mrs.
Roosevelt to keep him in bed until
danger of a setback is passed. It is
Colonel Roosevelt's own way of living
which makes the physicians reluctant
to release him at an early date, for
t'nev fear that once he were out of
the hospital he would be drawn back
into the campaign and with anything
like his customary amount of work he
would suffer as a consequence.
Colonel Roosevelt took only tea at
noon and said he would not have
luncheon until midafternoon, and af
ter luncheon he expected to sleep for
a few hours. Ill the meantime he
whiled away the time reading.
Siient a Restful Night.
Chicago. Oct. 17. Coionel Theodore
Roosevelt, whose life was attempted in
Milwaukee last Monday evening, al
ready is feeling so much better and
has shown so much improvement that
on awakening today he began planning
for a continuation of his campaign
trip. Most of last night the colonel
spent in restful sleep.
At 6 o'clock his temperature was
P.v.4. his pulse 74. and respiration IS,
indicating a condition practically nor
mal. During the night the colonel pass
ed most of the time in sleep and only
n rare occasions did he awaken and
t lien only for a few moments at a tinv?
in which to permit his night nurse to
take his clinical record which almost
invariably showed his condition to be
i xccllent and near normal.- The coi
ned never has required a grat deal
- , , ..,,.1 ... , .
..t sieep. so u u Le nurse, ana Golden "we feel we might lust as well
it was not until after 11 o clock that ! keep him so that his activity will not
l,e settled down seriously to obtain j keep the fracture of the rib from heal
re.st. ing. If he remains quiet until the
Friim 11 o'clock on he - was asleep I tis-jue knits sufficiently to be a rea
niost of the time until 4 o'clock this j souable guarantee that it will not
morning when he awoke, declaring he break again, that is another unpleas-
had had "a bully sleep." but would!111 Possiomty removed.'
not read because he wished to remain
quiet until it was time for his sponge
bath. He said he intended to be fully
awake when 7 o'clock came so ne
could have his breakfast for which he
i.lready was beginning to feel the
need.
Takes Moniinsr Nap.
Instead of having his bath a little
before 7 o'clock the colonel decided
he had not had enough sleep and his
nurse helped him to turn and he again
S'nin closed h:s eyes. The many hours
he has been able to rest is declared
by his physicians to be the best mei..
cine for him and he was allowed to
sleep as long as he wished.
Once during the night the colonel
was visited by Mrs. Roosevelt who oc
cupies the room adjoining. She had
1 een awakened by the entrance of the
nurse into the colonel's room to take
Ids clinical record. She remained only
a short time as he assured her he was
""feeling just fine."
All of the clinical records of the
night have shown the colonel's condi
tior to be improved from the last of
rk ir' bulletin by the attending physi
cians at 10 o'clock last night. At that
time his temperature was 98.6; his
pulse 84 and his respiration 20.
- The colonel's breakfast as usual con-
sisted of bacon, three soft boiled eggs,
buttered toast and a pot of tea. When
he ordered it he complained because hj
said he was feeling so well he was
sure it would not be near enough for a
man who already was "almost well.
The attending physicians were ex
pected at the hospital shortly after 8
o'clock when another examination of the
patient will be made and a consultation
held. When informed of the doctors in
tentions the colonel remarked that
"perhaps they would soon have him
ready to start out again."
Breakfast "With Mrs Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt remained in her room
most of the night and it was not un il
7 o'clock that she began to get rer.dy
fo- breakfast. When she found ".hat
the colonel had again dropped off for
a nap. she decided not to enter his room
but to let him rest as long as he would.
John Sclirauk. the Man Wlio Shot
Colonel Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt had a light brealz
fast with her husband and they shared
a grapefruit and cereal. Hos; -ial at
tendants took from the patient's crm a
few drops of blood at 8:15 o'clock and
departed for "the laboratory to ; :ak,!
the count of leucocytes. After this had
teen done and he had been comfortably
settled in bed he sent for the papers,
which he read with interest. He inquir
ed as to the 'time anda small clock was
placed on a table within his view.
Thj mirror the colonel uses for
shaving was lying nearby and he
raided it to catch a reflection of the
city outside his window. He lies with
tne light from the window coming
over his left shoulder. His room being
on the west side of the Luilding he
eonld not judge by he light in the
room whether it was u. clear or a
cloudy day until he hit upon observ
ing for himself by aid of the mirror.
"This is great weather." he said to
Blanche Welter, his nurse, who was
ananging the dress: ng.? to be adjust
ed when the physicians make their ex
amination. "It's a shame to be tied
up here in such weather as this." He
glanced at Mrs. Roosevelt who had
joined .him in looking over the papers.
She smiled quizzically at him and
rhook her head a trifle.
"She's boss." he smiled to the nurse,
taking up his papers again. A steam
fitting made an annoying noise in the
tiny anteroom of his apartment and
the house plumber rame to fix it. He
made elaborate preparations not to
mike noise to such an extent, in fact,
that he was not making much prog
ress. His embarrassment cught the
eye of the colonel, who said:
"Oh, don't mind me. Go risrht
ahead and fix it. Don't be fraid to
make a little noise. I'm used to it."
Dr. Terrell visited the patient and
spoke of the tims during the coming
day when the consulting physicians
would gather to judge his condition.
It was 8:40 o'clock when Drs. J. B.
Murphy and J. F. Golden joined Dr.
Terrell in the colonel's room.
Dr. Lambert Kxplaiiis.
Dr. Lambert, the family physician,
explained that there was no signifi
cance to the fact that the bullet would
no, be removed at present. "You see,"
he said, "when we talk of the future
A'e must of necessity be indefinite to
illustrate: Supposing sepsis were to
set in, after we had said the bullet
would not be removed. It might
make itself clearly sufficient to attract
out attention in a single hour, and
Lhen the previous assertion would ap
pear misleading or misinformed.
"So we say, the bullet will not be
taken out now. It depends on two
things whether it ever will be re
mcved. One is, if it starts causing
trouble. The other is it Colonel
Roosevelt had rather carry his "souv
enir' in his pocket than in his chesc.
"Just now, however, an operation to
remove the missile is as fir away as
it 'ias a ween ago. or before the as
sault. The rest and quiet he has had
gives us now a situation where we
mist
merely wait lo see it anything
happens. '
Dr. Golden Talks.
Dr. John F. Golden, an associate
i surgeon of Dr. Murphy, said it had
' been decided definitely no move might
I be made by the patient until after
j Sunday.
I "Ac i V. i.. i ,, .
-- 'vuk a n i? .iere, saia ur.
Mrs. Roosevelt is pleased with the
situation and agrees that he should
not leave the hospital until at least
after Sunday.
Theodore Roosevlt, jr., helped the
stenographers in arranging the tele
grams received today. With a pocket
fuli of them he went into the former
president's apartments. The greeting
of father and son was such as might
have taken place upon their meeting
at the breakfast table in their own
home.
"Good morning, Tneodore," said the
elder Roosevelt, looking up from a
magazine he had been glapcing over.
"How are you this morning," was
the son's reply.
Mrs. Roosevelt soon joined them
from her apartment ajoining.
About the hospita! affairs ran on as
though no patient of wider fame than
the ordinary invalid was within its
wails.
Schrank Sajs. Conscience Is Kasy.
Milwaukee, Oct. 17. "Why should
not I sleep well? There is nothing
bothering my conscience," said John
Schrank. the man who shot Colonel
Roosevelt In the breast Monday night
when he was asked this morning how
the had rested during the night.
Schrank again partook of the usual
breakfast prison fare, consisting of
(Continued on Pare Two.)
IF HORSES WERE ALLOWED TO BE DRIVEN THROUGH
THE STREETS AS FAST AS AUTOMOBILES GO.
By John T. McCutcheon.
fCopvTlBht: 1912: Br John T. McCutcheon.1
ARE YOU A COOK?
William Reedy, Offers. Induce
ments in Lengthy Ad.
Phonograph Records, Use of
Auto, hut 'o Picture Shows.
St. Louis. Oct. 17. The country
home of William Marion Reedy, on
the Manchester road between Webster
and Kirkwcod, is still cookless, de
spite the seemingly irresistible appeal
of a lengthy want ad, which has been
appearing in the St. Louis newspa
pers. Phonograph records with Caruso
on one side and Dockstader on the
other, the use of an auto,, the low
ing of several different kinds of kine
and the opportunity to see the plow
man homeward plod his weary way
are counterbalanced by lack of mov
ing picture shows within plodding dis
tance.
HE SPEAKS FOR T. R.
Beveridge Kills tlie Colonel's Date at
Louisville, Ky.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 17. Albert J.
Beveridge, former senator from In
diana, brought to Kentucky Colonel
Roosevelt's message to the nation,
dictated from the colonel's sick bed in
Mercy hospital in Chicago.
"It matters little about me." Col
onel Roosevelt told Mr. Beveridge,
"but it matters all about the cause
we fight for. If one soldier who hap
pens to carry the flag is stricken, an
other will take it from his hands and
carry it on.
"You know that personally I did
not want ever to be a candidate for
office again," the. message from the
stricken ex-president continues, "and
you know that only the call that came
to the men of the sixties made me
answer it in our day as they did more
nobly in their day."
Colonel Roosevelt was scheduled to
speak in Louisville last night. After
having been shot down in Milwaukee
he cancelled all his engagements, but
insisted that the address he was to
have made in Louisville be delivered.
He called on Senator Beveridge to
speak in his stead.
The former Indiana senator arrived
from Chicago, via Indianapolis, an
hour or more late, but a large audi
ence awaited word from Colonel
Roosevelt in a Phoenix Hill audi
torium. " 'Right now, as in the sixties,' the
colonel told me. declared Mr. Bever
idge, "it is not important whether one
leader lives oi dies; it is important only
that the cause shall live and win."
" 'Tell the people not to worry about
me; for if I go down another will take
my place. For always- the army is
there. Always the cause is there and
it is the cause for which the people
care, it is the people's cause.' "
Senator Beveridge said:
"This is his message to all his
countrymen. He gave it clearly and
calmly, not recklessly, nor with fervor;
not in the heat of battle; not in bit
terness, nor yet in self-pride, but
with cool mind and kindly heart. This
is his word to all, even to those whom
the powers of darkness have made to
see and act darkly.
"He bade me'put it thus to the peo
ple," continued Air. Beveridge, "we
stand between two mighty greeds
the greed of those who have and the
greed of those who have not. We
founded the party to which all Just
men -and women, rich and poor, who
want only justice, can belong."
The colonel's message continues:
"We here in America hold in our
hands the fate of the coming years
and shame -and disgra-ee will be ours1
if in -our eyes the light ) high resolve
is dimmed; if we trail in the dust the
golden hopes of men.
"Colonel Roosevelt tonight would
have put to Mr. WTilson." continued
Mr. Beveridge, "the questions about to
follow, none of which was devised by
Colonel Roosevelt, but all of - which
were written and sent to the colonel
by the held waiter of a hotel.
"In forwarding these questions, this
man said that the people were con
fused as to Governor Wilson's position
on the trust question and on what his
attitude has been to the trusts while
governor of New Jersey. The head
waiter said he and a friend would like
tD have Governor Wilson answer three
or four simple questions, but they did
not know how to get these questions
before Air. Wilson.
"Here are the questions:
" "Is it not a fact that the laws of the
state under which a corporation is or
ganized prescribe its power?'
" 'Are not all the powers of the
Standard Oil and similar monopolies
conferred by the laws of New Jerseyg'
" 'Could not these powers be curtailed
conferred by the laws of New Jersey?"
laws?'
" 'Why has Hot Mr. Wilson, as gov
ernor of New Jersey, recommended
such amendments?'
Quoting Colonel Roosevelt, former
Senator Beveridge continued:
"In his inaugural address Air. Tilson
explicitly stated that New Jersey had
brought discredit upon herself by fail
ure to act about the trust; that she
ought to act, not only as regards new
trusts, but as regards the old trusts al
ready existing. He has again and again
explicitly stated that, the question of
the trusts is primarly a question of
the states themselves; and of course,
there are ten times as many trusts and
ten times as important trusts and in
corporations in New Jersey as any
other state. The Democratic platform
jealously insists on the rights of the
states to deal with the trusts. Yet
Mr. Wilson at the same time he ven
tured to attack me although he mut
have well known that I was the presi
dent to deal adequately with the trusts
has, while governor of New Jersey,
while possessing the amplest power,
failed to take action of any kind, sort
or description against the trusts.
"I ask Air. Wilson," continues Colonel
Roosevelt's message as delivered by Mr.
Beveridge, "to answer categorically and
specifically and not by loose genera
arguments, just why it was that alte
the recommendation he made in his in
augural address and while insisting thai
the trust question was a state question
and in view of the fact that in New Jer
sey, he had ample power to deal with
trusts, he nevertheless during the entire
time he has been governor has failed to
take action of any kind, sort or descrip
tion against the Standard Oil, tobacco,
sugar, beef or any trust?
"He owes to the American people."
declares the former president's message,
"to answer this question directly and
specifically and he cannot answer it sat
isfactorily. He cannot answer it in any
way that will show either that the prin
ciples or that his practices in these prin
ciples have been correct."
Weather Man Is Still Kind. .
There seems to be no let up to the
delightful balmy fall .weather that is
being enjoyed in Kansas. Today is fine,
and another fair day is forecasted for
Friday, with the wind .blowing at. a
somewhat more brisk pace. Today the
wind is blowing from the west at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour. The tem
peratures are averaging fifteen degrees
above normal for this date.
The hourly readings:
7 o'elock 48 11 o'clock 65
8 o'clock 51 12 o'clock 70
'9 o'clock 56 j 1 o'clock ......74
10 o'clock 60 J 2 o'clock 78
WORST EVER SEEN
Witness Tells Clapp Committee
the Detroit Campaign
Was Rotten and Both
Bought Delegates.
Sides
Washington, Oct. 17. Lavish use of
money in the Michigan primary cam
paign was charged before the Clapp
committee today by James O. Murfln, a
Detroit lawyer. Murim said that when
he and Captain Alger raised J1.500 and
offered it to John D. McKay, in charge
of the Taft campaign McKay said "He
had plenty of money more than he had
ever had before in any campaign."
Alurfin testified he understood AlcKay
to say that candidates for delegates tr
the county conventions were holding
him up for as much as $500, each."
- "It is a matter of general knowledge
that the primaries in Detroit this year
were the most corrupt on both sides
that was ever known," said Murfin. "Tt
was just as bad on one side as the
other, but our people were the most
skillful and we got the delegates. But
both were absolutely rotten.
"I asked Air. Warren how much
money was to be used in Wayne county.
He asked me how much I thought was
necessary. I told him that not more
than $2,500 could be spent honestly. Ha
told me Mr. AlcKay insisted on having
$5,000 before he started.
" 'Well,' I said, 'we'll have a rotten
campaign.' and we did." declared the
witness emphatically. "It was the worst
campaign we ever saw."
"Why senator," he .exclaimed, an
swering Pomerene, "both sides bartered
foi those delegates like so many sheep.
Some of them accepted money from
both sides. Of course. I don't know the
details but that was the general situa
tion.'
"Who would know the details," asked
Senator Pomerene.
"John D. McKay."
A copy of the Republican national
committee bank account in 1904 at the
Fourth National bank of New York
placed in evidence before the committee
today showed one deposit of $240,000
during the latter days of October of
that year. That was the sum of the
disputed "Harriman" fund and the
approximate time of its collection.
DEWEY MATHEWS FIRST
Honors to State Street School Hoy In
Garden Contest.
Dewey Alatthews of the State street
school was today given first place in tlie
school garden contest in respect to the
best financial results per square yard of
ground cultivated. In his garden this
summer were 34.6 .square yards. He sold
produce to the extent of 34 cents per
square yard. The Topeka Rea4 Kstate
Dealers' assbciation will give him $10 as
a prize.
Alorton Conard of the Central Park
school will be the recipient of a five dol
lar prize offered by the realty men as a
second premium, and Eugene Roose of
the Central Park school will receive $2.50
for making the third best showing. Con
ard and Roose took in twenty and eight
een cents respectively per square yard.
Other students who were close petitors
wre: Alfred Alitchell, Central Park: Clif
ford Briery. Quincy; Gertrude Thompson,
Quincy: Roy Derby, State street: John
Holm, State: Harold Jury, State; Eugej.e
McGaflf, State; Claude Waychon, Quincy;
Karl Bergman. Lincoln; Donna Kemper,
Quincy: Joseph Griffin.
earner forecast ror Jvansas.
Fair tonight and Friday. Warmer to-
night j
7AR IS GENERAL
Fighting Is in Progress All
Along the Boundary
Between European Turkey and
the Balkan States.
GREEKS FORGE A BLOCKADE
Two Hellenic Gunboats En
gage a Fort at PreTesa.
Bulgarian and Servian Minis
ters Receive Their Passports.
London, Oct. 17. War today became
general throughout the Balkan penin
sula. Turkey, which - for a week or
more has been fighting with Montene
gro this morning issued a formal de
claration of, hostilities against Servia
and Bulgaria.
Greece for some reason was not
mentioned in the official document de
livered to the Servian and Bulgarian
legations at Constantinople and the
Greek minister has not been asked to
leave the Turkish capital as were hib
Servian and Bulgarian colleagues.
The Turkish minister, however, left
Athens without the usual formality.
fighting between the Turkish and
Greek armies has begun on the front
ier. Turkey's withdrawal of her troops
from the immediate vicinity of the
Greek frontier and the ommission of
Greece from the declaration of war
were doubtless dictated by Kiamil
Pasha, president of the council of
state, real head of the Turkish gov
ernment. He has been desirous all
along of avoiding, a fight with Greece,
whose interests, as he recently told the
Greek premier, are identical with
those of Turkey. He also desired to
cede the island of Crete to Greece.
In her declaration of war, Turkey
places the blame on Bulgaria anci
Servia, whose recent actions, she says,
forced her to take a decisive step, al
though she was desirous of peace.
Although Turkey has anticipated the
Balkan states and ordered a simul
taneous advance of her army against
Bulgaria and Servia it is expected in
military circles, that the Servians and
Bulgarians will be ready to meet the
Turkish invading force by the time it
reaches the frontier.
How far preparations have gone,
however, is largely a matter of con
jecture as neither military attaches
nor correspondents are allowed near
the armies. There is an inclination
among military men to think the im
portance of the Alontenegro victories
has been- exaggerated and much mads
of them in order to creen the struggle
that is going ort for the possession of
the forts guarding the Ttlkish town of
Scutari.
The Alontenegrins are fighting des
perately but they neglect the com
missariat service and the hospitals
which are essential in such a cam
paign. The British cabinet held a long ses
sion today to discuss the French pro
posal for a conference of the powers.
It was also said that the British gov
ernment was supporting the efforts be
ing made to raise a Tukish loan ;n
London but this was denied at the
foreign office. Leopold De Rothschild
has made several visits to Premier
Asquith lately and .it was said that
these were connected with the project
of a Turkish loan.
lighting Begins Karly.
Athens, Oct. 17. Fighting between
the Greek army and the Turkish
forces stationed along the frontier be
gan early today.
A daring feat was accomplished to
day by the commanders of the Greek
gunboats A. and D. They made a
dash at 2 a. m to force the Turkish
blockade at the narrow entrance to
the Gulf of Arta. one side of which
is Turkish and the other Greek. They
were observea from the Turkish fort
at Prevesa, which dominates the en
trance, and a heavy fire was directed
on them, which they returned with
spirit. They succeeded in fighting
their way through and finally reached
the Greek town of Vonitza, on the
southern shore of the bay with very
litle damag;.
General TurlUf-li Advance.
Constantinople, Oct. 17. Hostilities
were opened at half past two this
morning by the Turkish troops at
various points on the Bulgarian and
Servian frontiers. The divisions of the
Turkish army were ordered to make
a simultaneous forward movement.
In giving the order for a general
advance the Ottoman war minister
mentioned only that the movement
was to be made against the frontiers
of Bulgaria and Servia. There is a
powerful Turkish army concentrated
near the Greek frontier but this has
not yet been put into motion.
The Ottoman government today
handed the Servian and Bulgarian
ministers here their passports, and
they will leave immediately.
Turkish Minister Leaves.
Athens. Oct. 17. The Turkish min
ister to Greece left Athens today with
out complying with the formalities
usual in such cases and without ask
ing for passports.
Macedonia Hearties Algiers.
Algiers, Oct. 17. An escort of four
Greek destroyers is convoying the
Greek steamer Macedonia with
Greeks, Bulgarians and Servians on
board who are returning from Ameri
ca to join their regiments to fight
against the Turks. She carries also a
large cargo of ammunition.
The Macedonia arrived here last
night from New York and found the
four destroyers recently purchased by
Greece in Kngland waiting to accom
pany her on her voyage.
Victory for Servians.
Belgrade, Oct. 17. Two hundred
Arnaut tribesmen were killed today lb
a battle with Servian troops on the
frontier near Priopolie, in the north
ern part of the San Jakof Novlpazar.
The tribesmen attacked but were re
pulsed by the Servians.
Cameron Is Iwelea.sed.
Washington. Oct. 17. John T. Cameron,
the El Paso cattleman, kidnaped by Mexi
can rebels and held for ransom, was re
leased yesterday upon payment of (i,laU
to his captor
CRISIS JNJ.IEXIGO
3Iadero Government on the
Verge of Dissolution.
The Resignation of His Cahi.
net Has Been Demanded.
FELIX, NEPHEW P0BF1R10 DIAZ
Is Proclaimed Provisional
President of the Republic.
He Has Taken Possession of
City of Vera Cruz.
Mexico City. Oct. 17.-A crisis ha
been reached in the affairs of Mexico
and President Madero's administration
is at a critical point. The resignation
or his cabinet was demanded In the
chamber of deputies by Deputy Queer
Ido Moheno, but the president of th
ciamoer refused to permit discussion
and the motion will come up again to
day. With General Felix Diaz, nephew
of the exiled ex-president in undispute d
control of Vera Cruz. Mexico's most Im
portant seaport reports have reached
here also of new uprisings in varlou
parts of the republic including the city
of Pachuca, only 55 miles from th
capital. Beside this the loyalty of the
army is questioned.
Doubts an to the specific object of
the Diaz revolt were removed when ha
was proclaimed provisional president bv
Jose Diaz Ordnz. his cousin and com
mander of the 21st infantry stationed
at Vera Cruz.
So far advanced are the plans of
Diaz and his supporters that they ar5
said to have selected a cabinet
Among those composing it is General
Bernardo Reyes, who is now in the mil
itary prison of the capital as the result
of the failure of an attempted rebel'lm
a year ago. He has been named min
ister of war.
lioinhardiiietit Is Ordered.
Mexico City, Oct. 17. The Alexican
government insisting that Commodore
Azueta is still ahle to control the gun
boats, today ordered him to bombard
Vera Cruz held by General Diaz's reb
els. Vera Cruz Is Isolated.
Mexico City, Oct. 17. In order to
crush the rebellion of Felix Diaz at
Vera Cruz not only have the federal
armies from the north and south been
commanded to converge on. that city
but General Joaquin Beltra.i. who has
been stationed at Esueranza between
the capital and Vera Cruz on the
.alexican railway for the purpose of
operating against the rebel general,
Aguilai, has been ordered to move on
Vera Cruz. From Mexico City itself
two military trains under the com
mand of Colonel Rubio Navaret, with
24 pieces of artillery, haw been vent
to General Beltran's support. , Among
other officers ordered to take the held
are Colonels Scastro and Ocaranza,
two men who were very prominent in
the campaign against Zapata in the
state of Aloreloa.
The general public does not seem
inclined to share the optimism of the
go-ernment. It is considered not im
probable that some part t( the army
ordered against Felix Diaz will Join
him instead of fighting against him.
This belief, found support todny when .
a detachment of 15 men sent from
Orizaba by General Beltran met 8
rebel outpost a short distance to the
south and at once Joined the rebels.
Vera Cruz is now completely Io
lated except by water. The govern
ment has instructed the railway to
withdraw all their rolling stock and
to establish new terminals at Orizaba.
Jalapa and Sierra Blanca. No train
will be run beyond the federal lines.
The total cutting off of Diaz from
communication will depend on the loy
alty of the gunboats, which is not con
sidered likely to be maintained.
Guns Trained on City.
Some of the men manning the gun
boats' Bravo and Tampico landed yes
terday at Vera Cruz and offered their
services to tilt, rebel leader. Commo
dore Azueta, however, refused to Join
the movement and had lh: guns of uia
boats trained on the city.
Diaz, who escaped the vigilance of
the government detectives on Sunday
night, appeared in Jalape, the capi
tal of the state of Vera Cruz, on Tus
day, but his presence was not discov
ered until he was on his way to Vera
Cruz with 200 men. At the same time
Colonel Joss Diaz Ordaz of the Twenty-first
infantry was on his way from
Orizaba with seven men of his regi
ment. Together Diaz and Ordaz entered
Vera Cruz at daylight yesterday. The
Twenty-first Infantry was in barracks
there and proposition to join the re
bellion was submitted to the oflicers
and men. t was accepted by prac
tically the entire personnel of the regi
ment hut the Nineteenth infantry
regiment, also stationed there, rejected
the proposition and was at once sur
rounded by the district troops. Ouit
errez, commanding the Nineteenth,
notified the governor of his loyalty and
received orders to fight, hut the rebels
numbered nearly 600 while the Nine
teenth was only 450 strong, and soon
Joined the rebels without a fight.
This placed in the hands of Felix
Diaz not only all the troops in Vera
Cruz, but Eix 80 milimeter guns and
an abundance of ammunition.
ltebel Leaders In Acrd.
No disorder occurred in the street
but the banks and commercial houses,
fearing the Inability of the rebels to
maintain order closed their doors.
There is little danger of the Inhabit
ants suffering from a siege since th
rebels control a larje agricultural area
:n all directions. It is taken for grant
ed that General Agullar is In accord
with Fsllx Diaz and that the two have
entered into an agreement with num
erous bands of rebels in the states of
Vera Cruz and Oaxaca.
It is rumored that Pascual Orozco
and Felix Diaz have reached an un
derstanding to unite the rebels against
President Aladero. The Ward line
steamer due at Vera Cruz tomorro
carries scores of American citizens
who will be forced to remain in the
beleaguered city or return on the came
steamer. The federal government
recognizes the importance of the cap
ture by tne rebels of a senport since
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