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.
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1’ S:a:e of Wisconsin. Grant County
Court—ln Probate.
In the matter of the estate of John G.
StoiL deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
John G. 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?
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allowance.
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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. Hinman, John Mankel,
Etta Pigg and James Pigg, defendants.
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, To the said
defendants:
You are hereby summoned to appear with
in twenty (20) days after service of this
summons, exclusive of the day of service,
and defend the above entitled action in the
court aforesaid, and.in case of your failure
so to do judgement will be rendered against
you according to the demand of the com
plaint, of which a copy is herewith served
upon you.
Meyer & Burgess Plaintiff’s Attys.
P. O. Address, Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis.
The iand affected by said action is de
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Lots One (1) and Two (2) and all of Lots
Three (3) and Four (4), less fifteen (15) feet
off the south side of Lot Four (4), in Block
Twenty (20) of the Original Flat of the Vil
lage (now city) of Lancaster, Grant County.
Wisconsin.
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