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THE BIRMINGHAM AGE HE RALD
VOLUME XXXXII BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1913 12 PAGES NUMBER 359
FLOOD WATER FROM
LEVEE CREVASSE IS
With Destructive Force,
Waters Claim Town After
Town in Path of the
Red River
5000 REFUGEES
HAVE BEEN TAKEN
FROM TERRITORY
Estimated That Within Another Week
List of Refugees Will Increase
20,000—Ferriday, La„ Is Cov
ered With Water—Hun
dreds Are Homeless
\ Ida lilt, !<«., April 20.—The flood wa
ter from the f»lh*nn*n I.finding crev
■»*** In the I«oul*lnnn levee*, 25 miles
north of her*, I* Nprcnrilng with do
ntriKftlve force over Concordia parl*h,
elitiinlnK town after town li^ It* path
*<>iithward to the Red river. Hundred*
«>f homelcNN person* and tliouNiitid* of
|t*i>ri of cuttle nre being moved from
the flooded dlntrlct and thu* far the
Jviiowo Ion* of life in thl* acctlon I*
confined to two negroe*.
Already more than 6000 refugees
0 ave been taken from the territory
which is being rapidly inundated by
the Sunday morning crevasse and with
in another week it is estimated that the
T nited States army relief corps will
be sheltering and feeding at leust 20,
<#I0 more. There are 3600 refugees in
vhe relief camp at Natchez and hun
dreds of others are arriving on evefy I
etoamer sent out by the relief corps ]
Ferriday, La., a town of 1000 people,
in Concordia parish, with its railroad
• hops, is now covered and the water
3s rising rapidly. The bank of Fer
a*iday is flooded and the water is on I
the first floor of many houses. De
spite this and the rise in the stage,
the white people will not forsake the
place and those who have oo second
floors in their homes will occupy box
cars on the New Orleans and North -
western tracks. This line continues to
eperate between Vidalia and Ferriday.
Three hundred cars of live stock have
been brought to Vidalia • by this road
'}p. two days. From Vidalia thifr aro
ferried to Natcho*.
«
Ten Feet in Clayton
At Clayton the water is 10 feet deep I
Jfcr.d rising. The Tensas and Black rivers |
ftiave been flooded by the crevasse \va- I
ter and are overflowing into the east- !
crn part of Catahoula parish, but no 1
bilge towns are endangered in that
section.
Vidalia, the Concordia parish seal,
Vvith a population of 2000, today began
closing the gap in the trestle of the
Bew Orleans and Northwestern rail
way. If the gap holds the town will
not be flooded.
The people in Vidalia are taking a
philosophical view of the situation and
me not alarmed. Ah yet the water has
net shown up near Vidalia, but it is
nearly half way down the parish where
31 met the bark water from Black river
• nd u heavy rise is exacted.
The gap at I^ake St. John is 1900 feet
' hie and about 20 feet deep, but the
How is not turbulent.
W. I>. Dix and family, who lived at
Vaneluz plantation near the break and
W( re marooned for 48 hours on a mound,
were brought to Natchez today on the
tog I.izzie B. none the worse for their
experience. The steamer Concordia
brought in 110 refugees and a lot of live
clock from Clayton.
Lieutenant Holliday today sent 20,000
Actions op the steamers Betsy Ann to
points south of tlie month of Red river,
and the steamer Senator Cordill carried
rations to Concordia parish and Jefferson
♦county. Mississippi The steamer Ben
Jllumphreys arrived at Natchez today with
fe out) rations to be distributed among the
refugees.
Kepea levee, near St. Joseph, is holding,
but the men are compelled to make a per
sistent tight.
To Place Night (Guards
New Orleans, April 29.—After an inspec
tion this afternoon of the Mississippi river
levees above the city of New' Orleans.
• nd the protection levees which extend
from the river north of the city back to
Bake Ponchartrain, it was decided today
to place night and dnv guards on the pro
tection dikes. The inspection was made
bv city officials, representatives of the
board of trade, cotton exchange, Public
Belt railroad ami Illinois Central railroad
•lid United States engineers.
The levees in the city and tlie protec
tion levee above New Orleans were- de
clared to l>e in excellent condition, but
there are several bail spots in levees
■north of the city. In the event of a
break in I he river levees above Shrews
bury, about six miles north of New Or
leans, which engineers say Is improbable,
city authorities slate arrangements have
been made for elosing the gaps in the
protection levees promptly.
The levees in the city have been rals««l
• nd strengthened and thus far no craw
fish or muskrat holes have developed.
The river stage here 1h nearly two feet
below the high record of last year.
Rations Distributed
Vicksburg, Miss.. April 29—Captain Bn
ker, iu charge of the relief operations
In this district, said tonight that the
genera] reports from the lower deltu and
from the section inundated by the Gib
bon's Banding crevasse in Louisiana were
(Continued on Page Nine)
ALIEN LEGISLATION MIGHT
CAUSE WAR, SAYS CHINDA
BARON S. CHIN DA
Japanese ambassador to America, is said to have recently warned
Wilson that alien land legislation directed against his countrymen would
convince the Japanese that war with the United States is inevitable.
NEW ALIEN BUI IS
DRAWN UP BY THE
New Measure May Make
Possible an Amicable Ad
justment of Ownership
Controversy
f ' ■
—
Sacramento, Cal., April 29.--If the
purpose of the visit of Secretary of
State Bryan was to check further ac
tion by the legislature on alien land
law directed against the Japanese his
mission has failed.
The conferences between Secretary
Bryan and the legislators closed at
1j johight. Within three
minutes and before most of the specta
tors knew what had occurred, Senator
A. E. Boynton, president pro tem of
the upper house, convened the senate
and an amended land bill, which pro
vided that no alien who is ineligible to
citizenship under the laws of the
United States may hold real property
in California was adopted as a sub
stitute for the pending measure by
unanimous viva voce vote.
Sacramento. Cal,, April 29.—Possibility
of an amicable adjustment of the alien,
land controversy by means of a new bill,
drawn in strict conformity with the treaty
between Japan and the United States,
confronted tonight the third secret con
ference of Secretary of State Bryan with
Governor Johnson and the California leg
islature. The conference was called, for
8:30 o'clock.
Attorney General Webb drafted the new
measure at the suggestion of Governor
Johnson, and a copy was placed imme
diately in the hands of Secretary Bryan.
The term, “ineligible to citizenship,'
which is declared by Secretary Bryan
to be odious to the Japanese, is not in
cluded and progressive republican lead
ers are contident they have arrived at
a solution of the problem that will re
ceive the indorsement of President Wil
son.
Secretary Bryan declined to comment
upon the new bill except in the confer-j
once.
Features of Bill
The principal features of the bill are
as follows:
3. All aliens eligible to citizenship may
acquire and hold land hi the same man
ner as citizens of the United States.
2. All other aliens may acquire and hold
land “in the manner and to the extent
and for the purposes prescribed by any j
treaty now existing between the govern- !
ment of the United States and the na
tion or country of which such alien is a
citizen or subject.
3. Corporations composed of aliens other
than those who are eligible to citizenship;
may acquire and hold land only accord
ing to the terms of existing treaties.
4. Present holdings of aliens, regardless
of their rights to citizenship, are pro
tected.
0. 'Phe state specifically reserves its sov- !
erlgn right to enact any and all laws
relating to the acquisition or holding of
real property by aliens.
Attorney General Webb worked upon the
theory that there could be no objection
to writing into the statute the specific i
limitations of the Japanese treaty of 1911.
Under the terms of this treaty, Japanese
subjects are permitted to own “houses
and lands for residential purposes, fac
tories. manufactories and shops," accord
ing to Mr. Webb. Another clause per
mits Japanese subjects to lease land for
“residential and commercial purposes.”
Only Stipulations
These are, the only stipulations made,
and It is the belief'of the attorney gen
eral that the rights of Jupanese sub
jects to land ownership In the United
States stop at this point. Under his eon
fContinued on Page Nine.)
SUFFRAGETTES DENOUNCE
FORCIBLE FEEDING POLICY
i
London, April IB.—Mrs. O. H. P. Bel
mont and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of
New York occupied front seats on the
platform at the meeting of the Women's
Social and Political union at Klngsway
hall tonight to protest against the forc
ible feeding of Imprisoned suffragists.
Neither of the American women spoke,
but showed approval of the speeches by
unstinted applause.
The Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. Bel
- I
. . ,
mont's daughter, who was expected to
be present, did not appear." At the close
of the meeting Mrs. Belmont contributed
»o<? to the “war chest," which by her!
request was annoificed as “from Amer- i
lea.” |
Israel Zangwill. the author, was the |
principal speaker. He denounced forcible I
feeding as barbaric, the “cat and mouse" i
bill as an abomination and liberal minis
try as a pack of backboneless mongrels.
Resolutions denouncing forcible feed-,
ing w'ere carried with great enthusiasm 1
by the large audience.
ATTORNEYS ANSWER
OBJECTIONS MADETOi
DISSOLUTION PLANS
File Brief in Reply to Mc
Reynolds’ Objection
to Extension of
Time
Washington. April 29.—Union Pacific
attorneys today filed with the United
States supreme court their brief in re
ply to Attorney General McReynolds'
objections to a longer extension of time
than July 1 for an agreement upon a dis
solution plan. The railroad lawyers con
tended to allow only until July \ and no
further extension would be inadequate
and renewed their plea to have the court's
mandate modified to permit the circuit i
court to determine the question.
The several interests, the attorneys de
clared, would not, be affected in the
slightest degree by any delay in the ulti
mate disposition of the stock.
Manifest Difficulties
"In few of the exceptionally large
amount of stock to be disposed of." said
the briefs, "the manifest difficulties of i
tlie problem, the oollateral objects of the
government ns Indicated by the first plan
submitted to the district court and as
intimated by the n>emoranduni of the At
torney general upon this motion, it would
seem to be most unfortunate to permit
this case to get into a condition In which
neither this court nor the district court
would have power to extend the time for
working out a satisfactory plan for deal
ing with this complex situation.
The only adequate relief which can be
afforded by this court is either an exten
sion of lime for a long period or as prayed
in the pending motion a modification of
the mandate committing the matter of
time entirely to the discretion of the dis
trict court. A limitation of such exten
sion to the first day of July, 1913, amount
ing to an extension of only GO days with
out the possibility of a further enlarge
ment of the time judged in the light of
the difficulties already encountered by
petitioners in their attempts to prepare
plans acceptable to the circuit judges and
to the attorney general will probably con
stitute no relief.
Land Ordered Taken
Portland, Ore., April 29.—Land stipu
lated to be worth $60,000,000 and estimated
by experts to have a statute of $40,000,000
to $ti0,000,000. today was ordered taken
from the Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany and returned to the federal govern
ment by Judge C. E. Wolverton in the
United States district court.
The Ore'gon-California land grant case,
involving more than 2,^p0.000 acres will he
carried to the. circuit court of appeals,
sitting at San Francisco and later to the
i nited States supreme ceurt for final ad
judication.
The case was submitted without argu
ment after at: agreement of counsel out
of court.
This case was instituted in 1908. Early
in the history of the case, A. W. Lafferty
filed about 60 private suits for men in
duced to locate on the lands. The main
case, demanding forfeiture of 2.300,000
acres remaining unsold, then was filed.
In *the decree authorised today, the Laf
ferty and all other intervening cases were
ordered dismissed and the government’s
main contention for forfeiture was de
clared the final verdict of the lower court.
A total of 820,000 acres of the land has
been sold, some of it as high as $40 an
acre.
1r. regard to the Unjon Trust company's
intervention, for which J. M. Gearin ap
peared today, the court ruled that the
trust company, owning $17,000,000 or mort
gage bonds on the lands and property of
the Oregon and California system, could
not interpose the plea of an innocent pur
4 To Rear rest Hr*. Pankhiirat 4
* -* 4
4 London, April 29.—As Mrs. i
4 Pankhurst had failed to comply 4
4 with the conditions of her *
4 license, it hsa been revoked by 4
* the authorities and a warrant 4
4 has been Issued for her rearrest. 4
4 Tiie prison doctor who saw her 4
4 thia morning decided, however, •
4 that her health was such that i
4 her removal to prison at present 4
4 was inadvisable. 4
* ♦
NEW TARIFF BILL
Progress on the Measure Is
Slow, But Talk Is
Vociferous
CLARK MAKES A
VIGOROUS SPEECH
Speaker Talk* of Republican Attitude
Toward Proposed Commission.
Underwood Answers Mann
on Chemical Schedule
THE DAV TN OONGRE89
SENATE:
Not In session. Meets Thursday.
P .Joint congressional committee began
X investigation of foreign buying of
SI American tobacco.
3 Chairman Owen of banking and cur
rency committee announced eommit
L tee would formulate its currency re
.form plank Friday.
Senator DuPont's resolution to reveal
number and employment of all retired
army officers agreed to by military
affairs committee.
HOUSES:
Met at 11 a. m. Regan reading of
tariff bill schedule by schedule under
live minute rule for amendment.
Representative Lindbergr introduced
resolution to bar members of House
interested in banks from serving
on banking and currency committee
during preparation of currency reform
legislation.
Completed reading of chemical
schedule, all amendments having been
voted down.
Recessed at 6:15 p. m. until 7:30 p. m.
Adjourned 11 p. m. until It a. m. to
day.
Washington. April 29.—Excited de
bate and heated wrangle today marked
the beginning of the reading of the
democratic tariff bill in the House for
amendment. Progress on the perfec
tion of the measure was slow but the
talk was vociferous, and on one occa
sion hrougirt Speaker Clark on the
floor with a vigorous speech.
All day the republicans offered
amendments to the various paragraphs
in the chemical schedule and every
amendment was voted down by the big
democratic majority. Several minor
amendments offered by the ways and
means committee to correct the phrase
ology of the bill were adopted.
Most of the talk of the day turned
on the records of the democratic and
republican sides of the House on the
question of creating a tariff commission.
The republicans, led by Representative
Al um £ "*'« n *ttelr ifc'tacks
on the various provislonsof the first
schedule of the bill, the chemical sched
dule, by declaring that the “weakness"
in the rates showed the need of the in
vestigations of a tariff board. Represen
tative Underwood in reply declared that
the democrats had provided the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce in
tile department of commerce, and that
the failure of the Taft administration
to vitalize that bureau with sufficient
appropriations had prevented its do
ing the work of tariff investigation.
Touches Off the Fireworks
Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts said Representative Under
wood and other democrats had voted
for the tariff commission in the Sixty
first Congress when the republicans
were in power and urged that they sup
port the republican proposition now.
Then Representative Murdock, the pro
gressive leader, touched off the fire
works. He declared that both republi
cans and democrats were opposed to
the tariff commission scheme and re
called the last day of the Sixty-first
Congress "Uncle Joe" Cannon’s final ap
pearance at the speaker’s desk, when the
tariff commission bill was withdrawn
by the republicans in the face of a fili
buster led by Representative Fitzgerald
of New York.
"The republicans In this chamber,
then," shouted Mr. Murdock, ‘‘like the re
publicans in this chamber now. was only
pretending to be for a tariff commission.
They had their chance to write that bill
Into law’ then and failed. They will never
have another chance."
Republicans Excited
The republicans grew excited and Rep
resentative Gardner shouted there was no
foundation for Mr. Murdock’s charge that
the "republican leaders were in conspir
acy to defeat the tariff commission bill."
Gesticulating wildly, Mr. Gardner de
manded the opinion of Representative
Sherley of Kentucky as to the truth of
the charge. Mr. Sherley said he believed
many of the republicans opposed the bill.
Then Representative Gardner, shaking a
finger at Speaker Clark, demanded to
know whether he believed the charge. The
speaker strode to the center of the well of
the House and shouted:
"My judgment is that there never was
a republican leader in this House really
in favor of a tariff commission.”
Mr. Gardner sat down and the speak
er went on. He declared he was against
a tariff commission reporting to and re
sponsible to the President. "It is the
House that should have the information,”
he said.
The speaker went into detail about the
defeat of the tariff commission bill in
the Sixty-first Congress, explaining that
the democrats refused to follow him and
Representative Underwood.
Biblical Comparison
‘‘They rolled us to a fare-you-well,” he
declared, "and the republicans were
standing back and consenting like Saul at
the stoning of Stephen. They actually
rolled up a majority against Underwood
and myself, but it was t;ho first time and
(Continued on Page Mm)
TODAY’S AGE-HERALD
1— Flood water rapidly spreading.
New' alien bill drawn up.
Exciting debates at tariff reading.
Wilson considers alien problem.
Austria has not yet taken separate
action. _ v
2— Louisville and Nashville granted fur
ther time for restoring rate.
8—Money received for paving bonds.
(—Editorial comment.
5—Work on cemetery cost near $128,000.
Ask merchants to prepare for lire in
spection.
May prevent gypsies from ramping in
parks.
Water problem almost settled,
g—Society.
7— Sports.
8— Kllbane fought to draw by Dundee.
9— Losses of one railroad in flood.
11—Markets.
U-Gadaden waatd Coosa river opened.
I
MONTENEGRO’S DEMANDS
| AND THE POWERS’ OFFER
— ■ i, .... Mi
The doited section of the above map shows the territorial te^oin
pense which the powers have offered Montenegro if she gives up
Scutari. The lined section shows (he territory that Montenegro demands
WILSON DEVOTES THE DAY
TO A CONSIDERATION OF
THE ALIEN LAND PROBLEM
Washington, April 29.—Practically all1
of today was devoted by President Wil
sor to consideration of the situation
arising- from California’s projected anti- ^
alien land law.
The President was in frequent tele
graphic communication with Secretary
Bryan at Sacramento and laid the en
tire subject before the cabinet at a!
two-hour meeting. He also conferred at |
different times during the day with
John Bassett Moore, acting Secretary
of state, who in turn waa visited by
Viscount Chinda, the Japanese ambas
sador.
No telegrams from or to Secretsiy
Fry an were made public at the White
House. Mr. Moore declined to discuss
the negotiations and reticence was
maintained at the White House.
That the President was somewhat
worried about the outcome of the sit
nation was the only impression gained
from those who had talked with him
about the question today. As far as
could be learned the attitude of the
national government still is one of
hope that If an anti-alien bill is passed
at all It will be along the lines of laws
existing In New York. Minnesota and
other states.
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; SLAYER OF ATIANTA
GIRL YET UNFOUND
All Efforts to Find Mur
derer of Mary Phagan
Are Futile
Atlanta. April 29.—Efforts of the i>o
lice to establish the identity of the per
son or persons who killed 15-year-old
Mary Phagan and placed her body in the
basement of the National Pencil com
pany's factory here, where it was dis
covered Sunday morning, have so far
I been futile, and tonight the case is as
much a mystery as ever.
Three events of interest in connection
with the case occurred this afternoon,
i First came the arrest of Leo M. Frank,
! superintendent of the pencil company, on
| a blanket charge of suspicion. Frank is
j allowed the freedom of the police station,
! having employed a policeman as speciul
guard.
The second development of the after
noon was the finding by detectives of a
bloodstained shirt at the home of the
negro. Newt Lee. night watchman, who
reported the discovery of the girl’s body
to the police. It is said that Leo admit
ted ownership of the garment, but
claimed not to have seen It for
more than a year. The police con- ,
tend that the blood stains are compara
tively fresh. In support of the theory j
that the negro carried the body into the j
basement, detectives point out that the |
stains are on the back of the shirt.
P2qually worthy of note was the trans- j
fer, late this afternoon, on a writ of
habeas corpus of John J. Gant, the s
bookkeeper charged with the murder, to |
the custody of the sheriff, and his re- j
moval to the county jail. It is explained
by Gant’s lawyer that his client was be- |
Ing subjected to annoying and harrassing j
examinations at the police station, from
which he would i>e relieved if under I
charge of the sheriff.
Handwriting experts who made mi- |
erosropfc examination of the notes found i
near the murdered girl’s lK>dy. and sam- i
pies of writing by the negro Leo, this aft - j
ernoon expressed their conviction that the
watchman is the author of the incoherent
missives. What bearing this may have j
upon the case the police have not dis- j
I closed.
. Detectives are said tonight to be work- j
! ing upon a possible clue furnished by 1
i the discovery of finger prints upon the |
sleeve of the dress worn by Miss Phagan j
when she was killed. It is stated that ;
these prints are clearly outlined, and S
may prove of Importance in establishing .
the identity of the murderer.
Chief of Detectives i^anford said to- i
| night that it was Improbable that more i
ariests would be made until after the ev
Idence has been taken fit the coroner’s in- j
quest, set for 9 o’clock tomorrow morn- I
ing.
Due to the circulation of sensational
extras tonight it was reported that an
attempt might be made to lynch Newt
Lee, the negro now confined in the cen
tral police station. Investigation of this
led to the arrest of Walter Graham, a
young white man, on a charge of Inciting
to riot. The police charge that Graham
was engaged In making Incendiary
speeches to various groups of citizens in
the vicinity of Five Points in an effort
to incite riot. When Graham had been
searched and locked up at the central
station, the police were stanled by pis
tol shots from his cell. Investigation
proved that he had retained possession of
a small derringer overlooked by the po
lice who searched him. Graham said he
tired at a rut.
POLICE OFFICERS
PLACED ON TRIAL
New York Policemen Are
Charged to Have Figured
in the “System”
New York, April 23.—Four high police j
officers declared by the district attorney
to have been figures In the "system" of
police graft were placed on trial In the
supreme; court today, accused of conspir
ing for the perversion and obstruction of
justice.
The defendants are Dennis Sweeney,
James K. Hussey, James F. Thompson
and John J. Murtha, all former Inspec
tors. The specific charge against them Is
that they were In collusion to keep
George A. Bipp, a hotel keeper, out of
the stale. Sipp had testified before the
aldermanlc committee that be paid graft
for many years in a Harlem Inspection
district, so the police would not interfere
with his resort. Thompson, Hussey,
Murtha and Sweeney were in turn inspec
tor of that district from 1908 to 1912.
To keep Bipp out of the court's Juris
diction, according to Assistant District
Attorney Clark's address to the jury to
day, the inspectors entered into an agree
ment to pay the hotel man $1000 for one
month's absence and $100 a week there
after as long as it was necessary for him
to remain away. Mr. Clark set forth
further that the defendants agreed to pay
$3000 to Eugene Fox, a policeman, and to
take care of Fox's family If he was sent
to jail without confessing himself a col
lector of Sipp's tributes. Fox confessed,
however, and subsequently gave grand
jury testimony that corroborated Bipp and
supplemented evidence on which the in
dictment of the four ex-inspectors is
based.
The jury was completed within seven
hours. Mr. Clark concluded his address
to the jury tonight and adjournment was
taken until tomorrow.
The defendants were denied ball and
were locked up in the Tombs.
LIVES LOST IN
PRAIRIE FIRES
Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, April 29.— i
Travelers from the country where prairie
fires are raging bring information that
at least two lives were lost and many
persons badly injured. Gustos Did burg,
father of Mrs. Pease, who won burned
to death near Viceroy, succumbed to in
juries suffered w'hile trying to save his
daughter. His son Arthur is in Wey
burn with one oar burned off and it Is
said he may die. Mounted policemen are
investigating a report that two home
steaders were burned to death near Cey
lon and it is thought others may have
perished.
AUSTRIA HAS NOT
YET TAKEN ACTUAL
SEPARATE ACTION
Awaits Result of Confer
ence to Take Actiori
Against Montenegro
ENDEAVORS TO INDUCE
ITALY TO JOIN HER
Practically Certain That I Itimutum
Will Be Dispatched to Ccttinje in
Few Days—Powers Peace
fully Inclined
r* .
♦ Paris, April SO.—The Austrian •
* nilnlmpr at Ottlnje lias b«cn rr- *
* calloU, aocordln* to a dispatch *
4 from Vienna to tho Echo l*o i
4 Paris. The dispatch adds that •
• Austria ia preparing for military t
f acllon both In Montenegro and •
♦ Albania. f
♦ »
London, April 29—Up to a late hour m
night the British foreign office had no
i ne'v" that Austria was actually taking
separate action against Montenegro. It
, understood Aualria is awaiting the re
sult of the ambassadorial oonferem o
j Thursday and employing the Interval in
an endeavor to induce Italy to join her iu
military action.
Meetings of the ambassadors in London
have shown almost conclusively that a
majority of separate powers aro not pre
pared to adopt warlike measures against
Montenegro. It is thus practically cer
tain that within a few days, whether
Italy consents or not, Austria will dis
patch an ultimatum to Cettinje, demand
ing the Immediate evacuation of Scutari.
Not another word of Ewsad Pasha's do
ings in Albania has come through. Isna&‘l
Kemal Bey, .head of the provisional Al
banian government, has arrived In Lon
don to enlist British support. Ho and
other Albanians don't regard Essad
Pasha's coup very seriously, but the opin
ion seems to be growing among diplomats
here that an administration under Essad
Pasha in Albania might t.ot ho such an
impossible solution of a difficult prob
lem.
It is considered that Kssud Pasha, as
an influential Albanian with a strong fol
lowing and the prestige, of a gallant de
fense of Scutari, might be more accepta
ble to Albanians than a foreign prince and
that if allowed to retain hiu self chosen
post, he might be Inclined to make terri
o Jat coiicoe^ipiifc (t'liicti would «a mpoii
sate Montenegro for the loss of Scutari
and satisfactory European claims.
A Vienna dispatch to the Daily Tele
graph says the Austrian minister at Cet
tlnje visited King Nicholas jMonday night
and demanded the immediate and uncon
ditional evacuation of Scutari.
'Hie King replied that he would never
surrender the town.
The Austrian government, according to
the same dispatch, is now engaged in
drafting a manifesto to the powers ex
plaining its policy and .aims with regard
to Balkan affairs.
A Craty. dispatch to the Daily Mail
says that the Austrian military author
ities have taken possession of the rail
way 8 running to the south but that no
movement of Austrian troops across tin?
Montenegrin frontier has yet taken
place.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Chronicle gives details of a plot ac
cording to which the Turco-Albanian
committee at Constantinople appealed
tc Essad Pasha and King Nicholas to
Have Albania for the Koran by over
turning the provisional government at
AvIona. This was described as an In
strument set up In the interests of the
great powers.
The committee also summoned Djavid
Pasha to assist Essad Pasha. The lat
ter concluded a compact with Crown
Prince Panilo, which afterward was
signed by King Nicholas. This compact
provided for the Sultan’s sovereignty
over Alabania state, which was to join
the Balkan league while Scutari and
San Giovanni di Medua were to belong
to Montnegro. Russia is understood to
have sanctioned the scheme.
The committee designated Prince Ab
dui Meshid for the Albania throne, with
Essad Pasha as viceroy but the latter
proclaimed himself King, it Is rumored
that Djavid Pasha has overthrown the
provisional government at Avlona.
An Antlvari dispatch to the Express
s.iys: •
“Fifteen thousand troops are here
r.nd soldiers are arriving continually.
Every preparation is being made to
hold the town against attack. Famine
prevails, however, and only the small
est supplies can be given to the starv
ing thousands."
Government Dissatisfied
Vienna. Austria, April 29.—The Austro
Hungarian government is dissatisfied with
the failure of the conference of amhassa
dors In London to initiate decisive action
against Montenegro and is continuing its
preparations for Independent action.
Exchanges of view’s are proceeding be
tween Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Depressed Quotations
Frankfort. April 29.—The bourse this
evening was very excited on heavy sell
ing orders without price limit, which de
pressed quotations considerably below
Berlin's closing.
Receives Ovation
Cettinje, Montenegro. April 29.—Crown
Prince Danilo of Montenegro was re
ceived with ari ovatiton upon his arrival
here today to hand over to King Nielio
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“I ONLY WANTED A HOME"
SAYS ROMONA BORDEN
New York, April 29.—A girl longing for
a home was 17-year-old Romona Borden,
when she fled from a sanitarium In
Pompton, N. J., last week, according to
her own statement today. On Saturday
she was restored to her father. Gall Bor
den, millionaire condensed milk manu
facturer, in Boston, after a search by de
tectives In many states.
“People sav T am rich, that my parents
are rich," the girl said in explanation
of her flight. “I guess that is true, hut
that doesn't mean that X can ba happy.
The daughters of rich people are not al
ways happy. The trouble is I haven’t had
a home for many, many years. T have
boer. sent from on© school to another and
then to another one: but none waa home.
What 1 have wanted so badly was a
home—I have not had It.”
The girl will have a home with her
mother henceforth. Tomorrow, said Mrs.
Borden today, she will start with her
daughter for IjO» Angeles.
Rommia. declared that eh* had troable
with the satdtarlnm nurse who attended,
her. *1 just got desperate and wired m#/
[mother to come and get mm,* she aat4»