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PAGE SIX GHARGESOFSLAVERY BACKED BY REPORT Auditor of Philippines Tells of Traffic. SENDS DATA TO CONGRESS Young Girls Are Sold by Parents to Chinese for Wives —Prices Range From S6O to $lO0 —Old People Held. Washington, Sept. 22. — Secretary Garrison had before him a Philippine slavery report by W. H. Phipps, audi tor for the islands, practically backing up the startling charges of Dean Wor cester. It cites details of many cases of boys and girls sold into slavery at prices ranging from S6O to SIOO, and that heads of savage families sell their daughters and regard the practice as right. “I have no hesitancy in saying that I think the charges of Secretary Wor cester, that slavery exists in the Phil ippines, are sustained,” says Mr. Phipps. The Phipps report is based upon in vestigations conducted under the di rection of the Philippine auditor by district auditors. It was acompanied by a list of names of 67 persons held as slaves, some being held outright and some under the so-called “debt” system. Held Many Years for Debts. The fallacy of the debt system is shown by the fact that some of the slaves so held are more than sixty years old and have been held by their pres ent owners since birth. “The almost universal report made to me by each person who has been asked to investigate,” wrote Mr. Phipps, “was that slavery in some form existed to his personal knowl edge; with a number it is a form of peonage, which is the most extensive form of slavery practiced here; with many others, it will be noted, it is the barter and sale of human beings by one person to another who holds such person so sold to him in absolute sub jugation and they perform duties and labor for him without compensation further than scanty clothing and in many instances indifferent food.” Basis of Report Kept Secret. All of the district auditors who as sisted Mr. Phipps were obliged to promise their informants that the source of information would not be made public. The nanfes of the offi cials who helped in the preparation of the report also are withheld. One investigator made this report: “My observation has been that the largest percentage of real slavery ex ists in those provinces inhabited by hill tribes or so-called non-Christians. I myself have known of several in stances where children have been pur chased from the hill tribes, and be lieve that a house to house canvass of the servants of the well to do class of Filipinos and a proper' inquiry into their status will show' that a large number of them are actually owned, having been acquired by purchased “Some of these are old men and women, who have been the property of some family since childhood. Finds Traffic in Girls. “There is a considerable traffic in girls. I personally have had a num-1 ber of offers of this kind and it is a generally known fact that a large per centage of the Chinese who have Fili pino wives actually bought them at a stipulated price. A recent instance in which I was offered boys and girls for the small amount of 20 pesos, 30 pesos aha 40 pesos was in August of last year at Cebu. “Peonage exists in all parts of the islands and in many instances amounts to slavery.” Another district auditor said he was reliably informer every Negrito serv ant in his district was originally en slaved. “They are generally bought,” w’rote this investigator, “when quite young i and kept as slaves until they became old enough to shift for themselves.” The report said the commonest ex planation of the presence of the al leged shives in families is that the parents died and the family adopted the orphan children. LADY DECIES HAS DAUGHTER Former Miss Vivien Gould of New York Now Has Two Girl Babies. London, Sept. 22. —Lady Decies, who was Miss Vivien Gould of New' York, gave birth to a daughter at the Decies home, Selton Park, Buckinghamshire. Mother and daughter are reported to be doing well. The child born is Lady Decies’ second daughter. The first was born in 1912. Lightning Kills Man on Train. Salisaw, Okla., Sept. 22. —O. A. Farmer of Mena, Ark., fireman on Kansas City Southern passenger train No. 4, was killed by lightning in the locomotive cab as the train neared the local station. The engineer was shocked, but was able to stop his en gine. Bridal Couple Burn to Death. Boston, Mass., Sept. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hurley, who had been mar ried only a few weeks, w’ere burned to death in an incendiary fire that swept through a three story brick building on East Brookline street There were many narrow escapes. HUERTA ALTERS PLAN MEXICAN CONGRESS MAY BE DIS SOLVED BY PRESIDENT. Believed That Provisional Executive Has Abandoned Proposal to Sup port Diaz at Election. Mexico City, Sept. 22. —Political af fairs in Mexico have undergone a marked change in the last few days. The Liberal party’s defiance of Presi dent Huerta in the chamber of depu ties, growing out of opposition to the appointment of Eduardo Tamariz, one of the leaders of the Catholic party, as minister of public instruction, ap pears to have opened the fight on the issue of the Catholic party influence in government affairs, with the Lib erals and affiliated elements in con gress lined up against it. Rumors regarding the action Presi dent Huerta is likely to take w'ent so far as to deal with the possibility of his dissolving congress, to rid him self of opposition from that source, and backing Frederico Gamboa, the foreign minister, as his choice for the presidency in the coming elections. Other rumors were that General Huerta would bring about a postpone ment of the elections pending the pacification of the country, and w'ould either remain in the presidency or retire In favor of Minister Gamboa. No one rumor appears to have bet ter foundation than another. Presi dent Huerta declared himself on the subject of the possible dissolution of congress, saying he has no intention of going to that extremity. While it was authoritatively stated a few r days ago that General Huerta had determined to recall Gen. Felix Diaz, pursuant to a settled plan of ac tion, it is now said that he has aban doned that course. So far as can be ascertained, he has not yet recalled Diaz. Washington, Sept. 22. —Lieut. Fran cisco Cardenas, accused by the Mexi can constitutionalists of having killed Francisco I. Madero w'ith a shot from behind has himself been assassinated, according to reports received at Car ranzas’ headquarters. These say that Cardenas was murdered in Michocan, whither he had been sent by General Huerta to command federal troops. BRYAN WINDS UP LECTURES Says He Will Resume Chautauqua Work Any Time He Thinks Proper —Profit for Year $6,500. Warrenton, Pa., Sept. 22.—Secretary of State Bryan concluded his Chautau qua engagements for the season with a lecture'here. He has not renounced the lecture platform, how’ever, as in a statement which he gave he said he would continue to lecture as long as he remained secretary of state when ever he felt there was proper occa sion and a desire to do so. “This evening is the last of the Chau tauqua lectures for this season,” Mr. Bryan said. “The total income from Chautauqua lectures this year is a lit tle over $7,000; the net receipts after taking out the necessary expenses are something over $6,500. “I expect to lecture whenever I deem it desirable or necessary to do so and I have not in the least altered the plans which were made at the time I assumed the duties of the office. “No man should enter public life i/ he objects to criticism, and he cannot stay in public life if he permits criti cisms to turn him from doing what he thinks is right. He must decide his duty for himself and is answerable to the public for any mistakes he makes. I regard lecturing as an entirely legiti mate field. This closes the lecture subject for the present.” BOYS PLOT TO SLAY GUARD Six Inmates of Pontiac, 111., Reforma tory Planned to Beat Officer to Death. Pontiac, 111., Sept. 22.—Prompt ac tion on the part of officers of the Illi*- nois state reformatory frustrated a well organized plot to assassinate Of ficer Bert Kinsella by inmates of that instittuoin. Six boys employed in the printing trades school at the reformatory had plotted among themselves to “get” Of ficer Kinsella as soon as the oppor tunity presented itself. They had arranged that, w'hen given their usual play our, they w'ere to each secure a baseball bat and station themselves at points about the officer. At a given signal they were to rush him and beat him to death. The plan was frustrated through the fact that one of the six could not keep the secret. THREE ON U. S. CUTTER DIE Small Vessel Is Run Down by Tug Off Bridgeport, Conn., at Night. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 22. —Three lives were lost here at night, and one man w’as saved by the barking of a dog owned by the keeper of the Bridgeport light, as the steam cutter of the U. S. S. McCall anchored in the sound off this port, was run down in the fog by the tug Seaboard, New’ York to New Haven. The cutter was steaming out from a local landing when the tug Sea board loomed up and struck them amidship. The cutter sank instantly. Seven Accused by Girls Die. Breslau, Germany, Sept. 22.—Seven of fourteen prominent men arrested and accused of improper relations w’ith young girls have committed suicide. Among them were an official and a for mer police official. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, W ISCONSIN. SEPTEMBER 24, 1913 BIG CANAL CUT THROUGH Panama Channel Is Opened on Grade From the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Panama, May 26. —When two steam shovels met in Culebra Cut, one work ing from the west and the other from the east, the Panama canal was cut at grade from ocean to ocean. Whistles blew’ and hundreds of workmen ceased work to cheer when the big engines scooped out the last thread of earth that joined the two continents. There is still excavating to be done in broadening the canal, but less than 8,000,000 cubic yards of earth remain to be removed to bring it to the nec essary width. The amount of exca vating, however, may be increased by slides. Virginia’s Production of Coal. The presence of coal in the Rich mond basin of Virginia was known as far back as 1700 and mines were opened and w’orked at as early a date as 1750. In 1789 shipments were made to some of the northern states. In 1822, according to R. C. Taylor, in his “Statistics of Coal,” the produc tion amounted to 54,000 short tons. For nearly a century the Richmond basin maintained some prominence as a coal producer, but in 1882, when the Pocahontas district was opened, fol low'ed shortly afterward by the devel opment of the New River field in West Virginia, the mines in the Rich mond basin were put at a disadvan tage and operations w’ere for many years practically suspended. Day of the Cubists. Job E. Hedges, while auctioning off in New York the “misapplied art” pictures that caricatured the futurists and cubists, told a cubist story. “When I was a boy,” he said, “If a youngster’s parents saw’ him drawing parallelopipedons and hexagons a«nd triangles they would exclaim: “ ‘Aha, we’ll make a mathematician of him!’ “But nowadays, w’hen a lad’s pa rents find him making tetrahedrons and polygons, they say: “ ‘Our son will win immortal fame as an artist!’ ” He Got His. Grouch —There goes a man who rob bed me of a large fortune. Gink —He robbed you of a fortune, and still he is enjoying his liberty! Grouch —Not by a darned sight! He married the rich widow’ I w’as after. —Judge. Lead and Follow. Affable City Hostess—You don’t seem to be having a goo« time. Don’t you like our social leaders? Uncle Fben —You bet I do! It’s your durned unsocial followers that I don’t like. —Judge. Keep Your Valuable Papers in Our Vault Fire Insurance and Life Insurance Policies are too valuable to have lying about subject to fire and thieves—your other valuable papers need protection too. •THE best and safest place in the world * to keep fire and life insurance policies, notes coming due, mortgages, deeds; in fact all valuable papers, is in a fireproof vault. Every man cannot have a vault, or even a safe in his home, besides it wouldn’t pay even if he could, but every man can afford to keep his valuable papers in our fireproof vault be cause the rental fee is as nothing compared with the value of the papers. 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Stoll, deceased, having been issued to Theresa Stoll. Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of said John G. Stoll, deceased, are allow'ed and limited by order of this court until and including the fourth Tuesday of March 1914, being the 24th day of said month,to present their ciaims and demands? against said John G. Stoll, deceas ed. to the county court for examination and allowance. Notice is also hereby given that the claims and demands so presented will be examined and adjusted by this court, at the office of the county Judge, at the court house, in the city of Lancaster, in said county, on the fifth Tuesday of March 1914. Dated this 17th day of September, 1913, Bv the Court. E. B. GOODSELL. County Judge. Brown. Brennan & Carthew, executor's Attys. Ist issue September 24: last issue October 15 Summons STATE OF WISCONSIN In Circuit Court for Grant County. Alfred Bareis, Plaintiff James Olson and Jennie Olson his wife, A. J. Guernsey. Frank McGuigan, James Ham ilton. Orville A. 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