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EVERYBODY 1 10 PAGES READS IT &0 uttiuk EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT LAST. EDITION. TUESDAY EVENING- TOP KKA. KANSAS- MARCH 11. 1913, TUESDAY EVENING- TWO CENTS Mm 1VC CCNTS HODGESJAYS NO! Gorernor Will Not Call Spe cial Session for I. and R. If Won't Pass It Now, Won't Then. DEMOCRATS ARE LIBERAL Subscribe Fund of $2,000 . Publicity. for Adjournment Postponed Wednesday Noon. to There will no special session of the legislature to submit the initiative and referendum to the Kansas voters in 1914. That fact was made clear today In a statement made by Governor George H. Hodges when he declared that he did not propose to reconvene the legislature to adopt the I. and R Last week the rumor became current that a special session of the legislature was a strong possibility if the members returned home without submitting the Initiative and referendum to the people. The rumor was founded on a speech de livered on the floor of the nouse by Speaker W. L. Brown. In that speech. Brown declared that the Democrats would stand for the sub mission to the voters of but two amend ments to the constitution the recall and one other constitutional provision, Then Brown further stated that the question of the initiative and referen dum would be checked squarely up to the legislature to adopt the constitu tional provision either at this session or at a possible special session to be called by the governor. Brown's plan was followed to the let ter. The recall had already passed both houses. With it was added the Wag gener resolution for an income tax. That made two. And the legislature stopped right there leaving open a place for the I. and R. if one lould be put over, either at this time or in a special session. With this situation facing the legisla ture, the possibility of a special session was Increased. But Governor Hodges says no. "Will there be a special session to enact the initiative and referendum?" Governor Hodges was asked. "No," said Hodges, "there will be no special session for that particular pur pose. If the legislature won't adopt the I and R. at this time, it is pretty certain that they won't do it in a spe cial session. So. if nothing else de velops v.-hich warrants the calling of the legislature together, there will be i " no special session." Since the calling of special sessions has always brought sorrow rather than triumph and glory to Kansas gover nors the possibility of Hodges walk ing into that hole, seems entirely re moved. In 15 minutes' Monday night Demo cratic members of the house raised $2,- 000 with wnicn to aavemac c ploit the work of the 1913 legislative I : enmu loo-islHtive handbooks i cinn in KO.000 legislative . . v. Histrthil ted among Kansas voters. The Democratic caucus, called by house members, was held in the su preme court room and the 75 men who attended the meeting contributed lib erally to a fund to advertise the work of the first really Democratic admin istration in the history of Kansas. In dividual contributions of $25 and $a0 were made by practically every man who attended the meeting. And what was still more, practically every dol lar of the money was paid over before the meeting adjourned. Plans to advertise the accomplish ments of the 1913 legislature were launched by Speaker W. L. Brown and by James W. Orr, administration floor leader in the house. Tt is proposed to spend $3,000 to $4,000 in printers' ink this summer and to place in the hands of every Democratic voter in Kansas a list of the things which the legisla ture has accomplished. A 200 page booklet, containing the record and work of the individr.al members and of the entire legislative body, will be printed. In the book will also be pic tures of the administration members of the two houses. Thousands of these books will be placed in the hands of Democratic voters in every part of the state. At the meeting a committee compos ed of W. L. Brown, cha-rrhan; Charles N. Sawyer, treasurer; F"rank Cumiskey. j secretary. and . arrison Parkman, Senator Harry McMillan and Grant Harrington was named to take charge of the printing program. Following the meeting the Democratic house mem bers, the Democratic senators will hold a caucus to raise money for the publicity campaign. In the meeting there was but one dlccordant note. That was when Rep resentative Carroll of Leavenworth county, was asked to contribute to the fund. The senate had Just beaten one of Carroll's pet bills and only a week ago, he had been denied admission to a Democratic senate caucus. . "I view of my treatment by the 6enate," said Carroll, "I don't think I owe the Democratic party of Kansas one cent and I don't propose to contribute." And he didn't. Without argument or debate the house has passed the educational ap propriation bills. They were approved without an amendment or a single op posing vote. Friends of the three big state schools Kansas university, Agricultural college and the State normal expected trouble when the bills were considered in the house. But they received a tremendous surprise. In less than an hour the appropriation bills for the three schools had been read and dumped into the omnibus which carried educational appropria tion bills to the amount of more than two and a half million dollars. All sorts of honor was conferred on James W. Orr, administration floor leader in the house, when the mem bers of the lower branch of the legis lature took a half hour off Monday afternoon to show the Atchison man just what they thought of him. Immediately following a lively de bate in which the Waggener-Orr po litical breach was widened by several feet. Orr was called on the carpet by Fred Voiland of Shawnee county and reprimanded for his questionable con duct on the floor. Before Orr could reply, Robert Stone took a hand in the affair and both abused and praised Orr. Just as Stone was saying the very nicest things about the Atchison lawyer, Orr looked around - and saw two men holding a handsomely framed and engrossed copy of the resolution passed by the house last Saturday in which Orr was endorsed for his work on the floor. It was one of the most handsome presents award ed to a legislative member in several years. Then almost before Orr could express his thanks, resolutions were adopted urging Governor Hodges to appoint Orr as one of the Kansas commissioners to the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Governor Hodges has signed the Kinkel bill providing that wages of convicts in Kansas prisons shall be paid by the state to the dependent wife and children of the man convict ed of crime. The ho-se and senate have agreed ui . the terms of a women s jury service bill. The measure which has been agreed upon provides that a Kansas woman may have the option of serving on a jury or pleading her sex as an excuse. A resolution adopted by the house members Tuesday night set the date for final consideration of all bills at noon Wednesday. Both houses had previously agreed to stop considering bills at noon today. The senate, how ever, was unable to consider all of the house bills in the short time and in order that their measures might not die on the calendar, the house leaders adopted a resolution wnicn means that the members must stay in Topeka at least anotner day. insOLttoWmen Testimony in Washington Po lice Investigation. Blind Girl Pulled From March ing Column by Rowdies. Washington. March 11. Investiga tion of the responsibility of the police for the disorders which attended the woman suffrage pageant on Monday, March 3, was continued today by the senate committee of inquiry with wit- neses representing the suffragista and the police ready to continue testimony. it was the intent of the police wit nesses to show that their efforts to preserve order were sincere, but they were handicapped by the immense crowd and lack of patrolmen. Wit nesses for the suffragists contended to prove that the police were oDDOsed to the parade and did not attempt to protect the marchers against insult. Edward S. Droop, president of the Washington board of trade, was to days first witness. He declared that half an hour- before the parade began he believed Pennsylvania avenue was clear. Dr. James Mythen, a clergy man of Baltimore, who marched in the Maryland division, said the march ers were forced to walk in single file ind that they were greeted all along tne line by jeers and shouts and ob scene remarks from bystanders. He gave the numbers of several policemen who, he said, did not keep the crowds back and one of them to whom he complained, told him to "go to hell." Dr. Mythen said the police generally had become a part of the crowd and did nothing to restrain those who in sulted the paraders. He testified he had been told that Mary Melvin, a blind girl, had been pulled out of the marching line by rowdies and that her guide had difficulty in rescuing her. John A. Johnston, commissioner of the District of Columbia, who has charge of the police department, was the next witness. He placed in the record all of the correspondence be tween his office and the suffrage leaders, relating to the issuance of the parade permits and the protection of the parade. FOR SHIELDS STATUE. Missouri Legislature Anthorizes Me morial Appropriation. Jefferson City, Mo., March 11. A bill appropriating $10,000 for the erec tion of a monument to the memory of James H. Shields. United States sen ator from three states, and brigadier general in two wars, was passed by the lower house of the Missouri legis lature today. The bill had been pass ed previously by the senate. The monument would be erected at Car- rollton. Mo., General Shield's last home. The federal government recent- ly placed a monument at his grave there. Shields was a brigadier general in the civil war and also in the Mexican war, being a leader of American troops in the capture of the City of Mexico. After the civil war he re turned to civil life. He became judge of the supreme court of Illinois and later United States senator from that state. Later he served a term as governor of Oregon territory, then went to Min nesota and was elected to the United States senate from that state. He came to Missouri and served in the legislature of 1887. and subsequently he became United States senator from Missouri. CUDAHY GETS SHARE, Disinherited Son of Packer Has Won His Claims. Chicago, March 11. Jack Cudahy, son of the late Michael Cudahy, who was disinherited by the packer, has won a settlement of his claims from other members of the family, it be came known here last night. By the terms of the compromise $1,500,000 has been turned over to a trust company, to be held for him. his wife, and two children. Attorneys representing the family of Joseph M. Cudahy, executor of the estate in Chicago, denied that the beneficiary was forced to make a fight for the share, which was refused him by the terms of the will. The amount given Cudahy repre sents one-seventh of the estate, ex clusive of the widow's one-third. By agreement, part of the property is to be held in trust for the children and their father for life and a part goes to the latter outright. BUSY TWO HOURS President Wilson Confers With Leaders of Both Parties. Reported That Philippine Inde pendence Was Taken Up. NO WORD FROM OLNEY YET Boston Man Has Not Accepted British Ambassadorship. Democracy of President Noted in His Plain Clothes. Washington, March 11. President Wilson had a busy two hours today before his meeting with the cabinet. Secretary Garrison, of the war depart ment, was on hand as soon as the pres ident stepped into his private office at 9 o'clock. From ten o'clock on, the president had a series of short confer ences. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, was first on the list of callers. Senators Stone, Lodge and Smoot, the latter be ing the first Republican leaders to call, had an engagement immediately after. Former Governor Campbell, of Texas, Senator Johnston and Representative Richards, of Alabama, and Henry W. Dooley. of Porto Rico, saw the presi dent before the meeting. The president arranged to receive this afternoon the judges of the United States court of appeals and customs, the United States commerce court and the court of ap peals of the District of Columbia. Secretary Garrison's conference with President Wilson was to discuss many questions affecting the Philippine is lands, although the secretary did not wish to state the president's position in regard to Philippine independence. The impression about the White House today was that the subject would not be taken up at this special session of congress, but would be left over until December. President Wilson held a two-hour meeting with his cabinet in which general policies governing the organi zation of the various departments were outlined and a few minor appoint ments discussed. The president de clared after the meeting that "mere ly routine" had been taken up. Mem bers of the cabinet were reticent as to what had taken place, Intimating (Continued on Page Four.) IT IS UP TO U. S. Mexican Question Squarely Faces New Administration. Request Received as to Accept ability of Ambassador. Washington, March 11. Inquiry from the Mexican foreign office as the acceptability to this government of Emilio Rabasa, as Mexican ambas sador to Washington, to succeed Senor Calero, retired, has brought the state department face to face with the question of formal recognition of the new provisional government of Mex ico. Up to this time Ambassador Wilson has been treating with the Huerta ad ministration on a de facto basis and it now becomes necessary to decide whether formal recognition shall be extended, such as would be involved in the reception by President Wilson of the new ambassador. Senor Rabasa is a lawyer, 56 years of age, who speaks English fluently, and is regarded as one of the great authorities on inter national law in Mexico. THRILLING ESCAPES. Three Near Death When St. Louis Ho use Burns. St. Louis, Mo., March 11. Three persons, trapped on an upper iioor, had thrilling escapes from death in a burning house at 4320 Maryland avenue here today. One. Mrs. Katherine Brooks, find- ing the stairway had fallen, climbed, , - . ... 1 a Indira narHallv lowered the window to protect herself from smoke, and held on to the bot tom of the window until firemen ar rived and raised a ladder. Thomas Mantell, who roomed on the third floor, leaped from his win dow to the roof and adjoining house, failed to secure a firm footing and slipped down to the edge, to which he clung with his hands. His foot touch ed a protruding iron piece, and brac ing himself against this, he drew him self again to the roof. Miss Rena Meyerricks was overcome by smoke in a rear second-story room and was found unconscious by fire men. The fire was discovered by Oliver Puis, the 6 -year-old son of the pro prietor of the rooming house. The child was awakened by the smoke and with difficulty he aroused his parents, who already were partly overcome. WINS ANOTHER PRIZE, Topeka A. O. TT. W. Team Doing Good Work at Arkansas City. Arkansas City. Kan.. March 11. In addition to winning a prize in the A. O. U. W. drill contest yesterday, Topeka team No. 244 won the first prize of $175 in the floor work contest last night, before the grand lodge in the opera house here. This makes a total of $300 in prize money won by the Topeka team yesterday. Cut Rates. Write H. B. Bryning, District Pas senger Agent, C G. W. R. R., 809 Wal nut street, Kansas City, Mo., for par ticulars about very low fares to Pa cific coast. Montana, North Dakota and Canada via Chicago Great West ern railroad. Adv. BIG GOAL STRIKE? Entire Kansas Disrict May Be Engaged in Walkout. Conference Now in Progress in Kansas City. MUCH DEPENDS ON RESULT Trouble May Be in Sympathy With Pittsburg Miners. , 3Iany Men Now Idle in South eastern Kansas. Kansas City, Mo., March 11. Whether a sympathetic strike of coal miners throughout the Kansas district shall be called to force settlement of grievances of two groups of workers in the Pittsburg district, may depend upon the outcome of negotiations be gun here today between representa tives of district No. 14 of the United Mine Workers of America and of the Southwestern Coal Operators' associa tion. The delegations are headed respectively by Alexander Howatt, dis trict president of the miners, and Charles Keith, president of the opera tors' association. John T. White of Oskaloosa, Iowa, international presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, arrived here today to assist the miners in the negotiations. There are two questions in dispute. One involves mine No. 19 of the Wear Coal company, Pittsburg, where 200 men are idle; the other concerns mines 14 of the Western Coal Mining company of Pittsburg, , where 250 men are idle. The dispute at the Wear was over the furnishing of explosives to shot flrers. The miners contend that shots were placed and not fired. The powder grew damp and then the operators insisted thi miners should furnish new shots while the workers held that the business of the opera tors. The mine shut down pending settlement. In the Western mine, a wage dis pute arose following the installation of motor coal cars. There was dis agreement as to the wage to be paid the motormen and the miners contend ed that the company either should pay the amount demanded, $3.34 a day, or return ' to mule cars. The mine shut down pending settlement. The district mine workers threatened to strike to force settlement o the two disputes and to forestall this the operators called the conference which opened here to day. WOULDjJUY. CLUB Offer Made to Purchase Topeka Western League Franchise. Meeting of Stockholders Called for Tomorrow Night. A call for a special meeting of the Topeka Baseball association has been issued by A. M. Catlin, president of the association, for tomorrow evening, March 12, at 8 o'clock sharp. The meeting will be held at the Commer cial club rooms, ana the important event of the evening will be considera tion of the sale of the Topeka Western League baseball club. Fifty stockholders, mostly business men of Topeka, now hold stock in the club, and its affairs are managed by a board of seven directors. It is stated as a certainty, regardless of whether the club is sold or not, the team will be a Topeka affair this year, but whether it will be moved to some other city for the 1914 season will de pend entirely upon the action taken at tomorrow night's meeting. It is reported that a former ball player of the National League has made an offer for the purchase of the Topeka franchise. While it is not known for certain who this individual is, it is thought by some in close touch with the situation, to be Johnny Kling, of Kansas City. Has flood Team. Men who are in a position to know declare that the Topeka team this year is one that will make a topnotch rec ord during the coming season. It is . .. . . t ..... assci icu UJ mcoc uiij w uc Liie team that has represented Topeka in a number of years, and confidence is expressed that the team will land in the first division of the Western League race for the pennant. Many baseball enthusiasts, some with no concern in the affairs of the Topeka club, have expressed their admiration of the con ditions existing in the team's ranks. So far as can be ascertained, it is the general wish of Topekans that th'e club become a permanent Topeka in stitution. Stockholders are orged to attend the meeting tomorrow night, as business whica has much to do with the future of the team will be dis posed of. The call of President Catlin fol lows: "Special Meeting Topeka BasebaU Association." "There will be an important special meeting of the stockholders of the To peka Baseball association, at the Com mercial club, Wednesday evening, March 12, at 8 p. m., sharp, to con sider the sale of the club. An offer has been made and this is the last chance for the stockholders to either signify their intentions of helping finance the team or the sale will be made. Every stockholder, is requested to be present. This is the only notice you will receive. "A. M. CATLIN, President. . "Topeka. Kan.. March 11, 1913." Reports of Earthquake. Washington, March 11. According to an official report from the Ameri can charge at Guatemala City, a se vere earthquake Saturday morning de stroyed Guajimquilapa, capital of Santa Rosa province, but did not in jure Guatemala City. Villages within a radius of eighteen miles were dam aged. No estimate of the loss of life is possible because of the lack of com munication. ' HUNGRYJOR JOBS Democrats Throng . Washing ton in a General Bush. Closed Boor at White House Causes Inconvenience. AN EFFORT TO LAND KANSAN Some Sunflower State Man for Assistant Cabinet Job. Vic Murdock Has Experience in Paying Duty on "Gold." Washington, March 11. Office seekers have their elbows planted firmly on the pie counter. President Wilson's ban on the political hungry has made a general rush to depart ment heads and members of congress. The chief waiters on the pie-hungry crowd have been the Democratic na- tional committeemen. Those brave enough to remain after the executive session of the committee found them selves besieged by applicants for all sorts of jobs. The officeseekers are still here in throngs. They are about the only visitors left of the inaugural crowds. The slam of the "open door" disap pointed them, but has not appeased their hunger, which has grown shar per and keener through sixteen years of abstinence. Now they have planked their el bows on the counter, and will stick until somebody "comes across." Of course, this attitude and the closed- door policy of President Wilson is making life rather miserable for the department heads and for the nation al committeemen, but they are all taking it as the fortune of war and are remembering that a little judicious patronage fiere and there, and now and then, means good Democratic votes two and four years hence. Much interest is taken in the ques tion of President Wilson's attitude to ward the national committeemen. After Mr. Wilson was nominated he is said to have informed his political friends that he did not want the members of the national committee to mix in appointment matters, that he desired the committee to devote its time to building up the party or ganization in the various states. He let it be known at the time that he intended that members of the house and senate should settle all matters of appointments. That power, he thought, ought to be delegated to them. Since coming in the White House Mr. Wilson again indicated that this method of handling the patron age question would be the rule. He further stated that his various cabinet omeers would make all appointments. In other- words, he does not desire to De pestered with job hunters. He wants to give over his time to matters of state and let his cabinet settle all patronage matters. bo rar since entering the White House, President Wilson has not open ly stated his position with regard to wnai is expected or the national com- mitteemen. No one knows what his desires are on this or any other sub jects until he gets ready to talk about them himself. However, it is expected that hp will sooner or later Indicate Just what he expects of the national committeemen. In the meanwhile, the various members of the commit tee are busy in making recommenda tions. . Colonel Bill Sapp, national commit teeman ror Kansas, has been in town several days and has had much com munion with the politicians and is very active m appointment matters. Colonel Sapp and Congressman Jo Taggart of Kansas did much legging to land .rroressor waters of the Kan sas State Agricultural college in the office of secretary of agriculture, but their efforts failed. It is understood that an effort will be made to land some Kansas man in at least one of the assistant cabinet Jobs. No Duty on Brass. Congressman Victor Murdock of Kansas not long ago toured Mexico with a party of newspapermen from the states, he being a pencil pusher when not working at politics. In Te hauntepec, an Indian village on . the narrow neck in southern Mexico, he one day wrangled with a native wom an for an hour and finally induced her to sell him for eight dollars a string of gold beads for which she originally asked twelve. He didn't need the money, but he had a lot of fun out of the native woman. Having finally made the purchase he was inordinately j roud of his beads, for, it was alleged, the gold for them had been mined from the deposits owned by those Indians and the beads had been fashioned by their own workmen. When the party approached the Texas border the majority of its mem bers showed little disposition to pro duce the various trinkets they had purchased, but Vic Murdock. having had a hand in framing the tariff laws, insisted on declaring everything he had and paying duty on it. He had shown his opals and blan kets and silks to the authorities and had been soaked good and hard for them because of the annoyance of col lecting on such small things. Finally he dug up the beads from a vest pocket. "That's all right," said the customs official, wearily. But I want to pay duty on the beads," insisted Vic. "The sched ule " "That's all right." again pleaded the agent. "On an ad valorem basis," continued Murdock. "I should pay " "It's all right. I tell you," cried the customs agent. "Tou got 'em in Te- huantepec, you paid eight dollars, but their value is nothing! They re brass!" Then Vic subsided. Taggart a Philosopher. Congressman Joe Taggart, of Kansas, is a man brimming with epigrams and bits of philosophy if he chooses to spring "em. He is a modest chap, and doesn't show his goods, to everybody; but occasionally he pulls out a small sample within sight of all. The other day somebody was talking about a certain congressman who has a way of getting all "het up" and making a great to-do over accomplishing small things. "Yes," said Mr. Taggart, "the fellow invariably hitches a Corliss engine up to a gimlet. " The three new Democratic congress men from Kansas Dudley Doolittle, of Strong City, G. T. Helvering, of Marys vllle. and J. R. Connelley, of Colby, are expected to arrive In Washington within the next ten days. L. W. TIT A VIS. TO RECALL ARMY ucn is uemana on jiontenegro by Austrian Government. Request Is Regarded as Bring ing About Acute Situation. Belgrade, Servia. March 11. The Aus trian government today took a step re garded as equivalent to forbidding Servia to send troops to assist the Montenegrins in capturing the Turkish fortress of Scutari. The Austrian minister to Servia, Baron Von Ugron von Abranfalva, in formed Premier Pasltch that his, gov eminent objected to Servian troops as sisting in the siege of Scutari, which was to become the capital of Albania. He requested the Immediate recall of any Servian troops which have been dispatched there. The Servian premier In reply pointed out that under treaty arrangements Servia was compelled to assist her al lies without regard to the future of Scutari. The situation is regarded as extreme ly delicate. Feeling here is at a high pitch over the attitude taken by Austria. I jay Long Siege. The fortress of Scutari, Montenegrin frontier, has near the be- been sieged by the Montenegrins without material success since the beginning of the Balkan war. Its capture and inclusion in the kingdom of Montene gro were the chief reasons for King Nicholas Joining in the hostilities. When the European powers decided in principle on an autonomous Al bania, in which Scutari was to be in cluded, the king of Montenegro de clared he would enter the fortress at the head of his troops, otherwise the reign of his family was doomed. In the meantime, the Servian troops had completed their campaign in Macedonia and Albania and advanced to the Adriatic coast at Duranzo, whence on March 7 they despatched on board the transports 6,000 Servian troops. Including artillery, to assist in the siege of Scutari. It was this ac tivity of Servia which called forth the Austrian protest today. STAY OF ACTION Newspaper Publicity Law in U. S Supreme Court. New York Journal of Com merce Applies for Injunction. Washington, March 11. Counsel for the New York Journal of Com merce today applied to the supreme court to restrain Postmaster General Burleson faom Immediately enforcing the "newspaper publicity law." Former Postmaster General Hitchcock had agreed not to attempt to enforce the law pending a prompt appeal to the supreme court from a decision of the federal courts in New York. The request was based upon an agreement between counsel for the de partment of justice and the postoffice department last October that no ac tion would be taken by the postoffice department to compel publishers to comply with the law or enforce any of its penalties until the supreme court had passed upon its validity. Robert G. Morris, counsel for the Journal of Commerce, in a statement to the su preme court, declared that on March 4 the postmaster of New Tork had notified the paper that unless the statements required by the law were filed at ence, he would proceed to enforce Its penalties. Similar letters, the attorney charged, had been sent other newspapers throughout the country. Since March 4, Attorney Morris declared. Postmaster General Burleson had informed him verbally that unless the required returns were made on or before March 11 he would enforce the penalties, which in clude disbarment from the mails. The law requires newspapers to file with, the government and publish twice each year a sworn statement showing the names of their bond holders, stockholders, the amount of the daily circulation, and to designate all paid for articles as "advertise ment. The court took the motion of Mr. Morris under advisement. Solicitor General Bullitt stated verbally that the government took cognizance of the motion, but did not agree to all the statements set forth as facts in the statement Mr. Morris filed with the court. Later Mr. Bullitt stated that his recollection was that the postoffice department had informally agreed not to enforce the law for a reasonable time, but that it did not specifically agree not to enforce the law until the supreme court had passed upon it.' BIG FINES IMPOSED. Men Convicted, of Violating Anti- Bucket shop Laws. Washington, March 11. Joseph Gatins of New Tork and Virgil P. Randolph of Keene, Va., were fined $9,000 each; William B. Price of Bal timore was fined $1,000; Edward Everett Taylor of Washington was fined $500, and Edward Weldon and James A. Anderson were fined $250 each in the district supreme court here today, after pleading guilty to indictments charging conspiracy against the United States in opposi tion to bucketshops. This was the last chapter in the government anti-buck-etshop crusade, begun in 1910, wl.ich has resulted in total fines of $78,100 being imposed upon various de fendants. Indictments against Henry M. Ran dolph, Charles T. Moorehead. Thomas H. Keble and John P. Altberger for the same offense were nolle pressed. BACK OFJEVOLT Charge That Americans Ilare ReTolutionary Syndicate. Sensation Created by Allega tions in Mexican Chamber. nrrrniCUTinM ni rvr nninnrn ""UHEI1IIUH TLUI UflAnUtU Papers Found Which Contain Appeal to United States. If That Failed, Americans In Mexico Were to Be Attacked. Mexico City, March 1L Charges that an American syndicate is financially supporting the revolt of former Gov ernor Jose M. Maytorena, In the state of Sonora, created u sensation, here today. The charges were formally made la the chamber of deputies last night to Deputy Querldo Mohena. The amnesty bill was passeJl last night by the chamber of deputies and was ordered to the senate after the adoption of an amendment excluding from Its terms all rebel active after February 20. Plot for Intervention. A plot to bring about intervention in Mexico is said to have been frus trated by the suppression three days ago of disorders at Santa Rosa, in the state of Vera Cruz, when Camerine Mendoza, a former chief of rural guards, was killed. Documents have since been dlsoov ered outlining a plan for securing in tervention first by a direct appeal to President Taft to restore Madero, fall ing which it was proposed to make an attack upon American residents in, Mexico. The plotters are said to have been personages connected with the Madero government. Move on Nogales. Magdalena, Sonora, March 11. With the major portion of the state troops returning to Hermosillo, Colonel Juan Cabral, with 600 constitutionalists, to day is moving on Nogales. He is ex pected to arrive shortly after noon at point Just south of the border town, where Colonel Kosterlitzky is fortified with his federal rurales. Thrftfl VinnrifAi fiufaral, ..! Ma chine gun are stationed in hastily dug trenches a half mile below No gales. Cabral carries a railway repair out fit, ae the federal have destroyed the Sonora railway some distance below the border to prevent the movement against Nogales. Obregon's state troops have return ed from this place to Hermosillo It being reported indirectly that a strong force of Huerta soldiers is moving against the state capitol from the vi cinity of Guaymas, the California gulf port. Advance Rapidly. Nogales, March 11. A deserter from the state troops advancing against No gales, Sonora, arrived here today to report that the state troops are only 20 miles away and advancing rapidly. considering the condition of the rail way. He said the advancing force consisted of nearly 1,000 men with horses and building material for the railway. Federal Leader Retreats. Eagle Pass, Texas, March 11. Mexi can railway employees who arrived here last night from Monclova reported that the federal leader. General Aubert, who was expected to fight Governor Carransea, has apparently retreated south. The ' closing of the railroad through Pedras Negras is expected to cause a shut down of the many coal mines in Coahulla, throw the miners out of work and result either In their joining the constitutionalists or bands of looters. Menaced by Rebels. Douglas, Ariz., March 11. Although ordered to evacuate Agua Prieta to prevent the possibility of International complications in th event of a battle. General OJeda and his 500 federal troops today found themselves menaced in all directions south of the border by a horde of state troops. OJeda feared that should he attempt to leave the town he might precipitate a battle that would endanger residents on the Ameri can side. Below Nogales, Colonel Kos terlitzky today is sending out expedi tions with orders to burn bridges on the Sonora railway. This is done to pre vent the state troops under General Obregon from moving north from Magdalena against the border towns. Obregon has more than L00O insurgents. (Continued on Page Four.) RIVER YIELDS BODY. Believed to Be Remains of Mrs. Ethel Boggess. St. Louis, March 11. The body of woman, partially Identified as that of Mrs. Ethel Keating Boggess, wife of Dr. John S. Boggess of the United States marine hospital service, was taken from the Mississippi river at St. Genevieve, Mo., yesterday. Mrs. Bog gess disappeared from Kansas City, Mo., last August. Detectives traced her to St. Louis, where it was found she had taken a rowboat and gone down the Mississippi river. A boat, half filled with water, was found at Fort Gage, I1L, a few days later and from this it was concluded that Mrs. Boggess was drowned. The body re covered yesterday was buried tem porarily. Just a Fine March Day. This is a delightful March day with a 15 mile breeze blowing from the south. The temperatures are about normal 3 degrees above, to be exact. "We'll have the same kind of weath er Wednesday, only more of it." said "Sunny" Mora, the local weather ob server today. "We can expect mild weather for the thirty-six hours." The hourly readings: 7 o'clock 30 I 11 o'clock Q 8 o'clock. ... .35 j 12 o'clock. .... 51' 9 o'clock 42 j 1 o'clock 53 10 o'clock '.42 V 2 o'clock 55 Weather Forecast for Kansas. Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight. -