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_THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD_
VOLUME XXXXin O BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913 64 PAGES (IN SEVEN PARTS) NUMBER 213
DEATH TOLL IN TEXAS
FLOOD NOW TOTAL 53
SCORES OF OTHERS5
ARE REPORTED LOSE;
THOUSANDS SEEKING
SHELTER IN FLIGHI
Flood Waters Beginning to
Pass Into Gulf, and Worst
of Disaster Is Believed to
Be Over
BRAZOS LEVEE GIVES
WAY AND NEARLY 1000
HOMES SUBMERGED
Worst Single Situation in Flood
Swept Districts—Colorado River
Adding Its Mead to Grave Situa
tion—Survivors Tell of Horrors
♦ ’ ♦
! 100 HOMES SWEPT AWAY •
♦ i
t Wellborn, Tex., December 6.—The 4
4 flood In the Brazos river now is 4
4 concentrating at Navasota at the 4
4 Junction of that stream and its 4
4 tributary, the Little Brazos. On 4
4 the Allen plantation near Navasota 4
f 4 12 negroes and one Mexican are 4
4 said to have been drowned today. •
4 Twenty-five negroes are reported 4
4 to have lost their lives on the John 4
4 Parker plantation, on the main •
4 stream near Wellborn. 4
4 Several prominent planters are 4
4 missing in this vicinity. 4
4 The Parker plantation housed 100 4
4 families and their homes for a 4
4 stretch of a mile have been swept 4
• away. How many persons were. •
• rescued is in doubt, but is believed 4
4 that 25 lost their lives. Parker •
4 himself was last seen yesterday 4
4 with John- Gordon, another well 4
4 known planter, on the roof of a 4
4 barn floating down the stream. 4
4 They frantically signalled for aid, 4
4 but no boats were at hand to res- 4
4 cue them. 4
* *
Fir van, Tex., December 0.—Fifty.
% three persona are known to be dead
and stores of others nre reported to
have loat their Uvea In the floods which
hn\e been sweeping the valleys of the
IlrttAO* n d Trinity rivers lu central
and Mouth eentral Texas since early
In the week. Three thousand persona
have beefi driven to the upper floor?
of their homes by the rising waters or
ha\e been compelled to seek refuge In
trees, where they remained for hours. In
some eases for two days, before belnu
rescued. KsI limitcs of the damage gen
erally center around $4,000,000.
One of the deepest overflows was in the
Brazos bottoms of this section, where
boatmen reported no houses visible when
they made their final trips before dark
this evening.
The floods in both rivers tonight were
beginning to pass out Into the gulf
through the last 100 miles of their courses.
In the remaining territory there were
few important towns. but additional
drownlngs in remote settlements are
feared. A number of towns which had
Itch cut off for two days reported to
4hv\ each telling of property loss over
wide areas, but of few drownlngs.
WATER THREE FEET
OVER ELEVATIONS
At Alleyton, a small place on the lower
Colorado, tonight, the water was three
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Land Show Commissioner to
Send Specimens From This
State to England
Chicago, December (Special.)—Immi
gration Commissioner Lee Cowart has ar
ranged to ship at the close of the United
States Land show tomorrow, five bushels
of the best corn grown by Alabama boys
to the permanent exhibit of the Southern
railway at London, This will Include corn
grown by Ewell Hickman of Troy, who
won the boys’ corn club contest with 222
bushels to the acre, nnd that by Hexe
kiah Ezekiel of Marble Calley, whose corn
went 176 bushels, and H. C. Cleveland of
Centreville, whose corn measured 172
busrels. O. F. Fisher, In chargo of ;t7
Illinois state experiment stations, has se
cured some Alabama Prolife corn grown
by Hickman to test on Illinois soli.
HETCH HEM BILL
PASSED IN SENATE
BY VOTE OF 43 TO 25
Victory for San Francisco
Ends Fight That Has
Been Waged for
Several Years
Washington, December 6—'The linker
bill, giving San Francisco water sup
ply and power rights in the Hetch
Hetchy valley of the Toulumne river,
Yoftemlte National park, passed the
Senate at 11 >57 tonight by a vote of
43 to 25.
A bill had previously passed the
House in identically the same forms
and goes at once to the President for
signature.
The passage of the bill three min
utes before the hour set for the ar
bitrary adjournment of the Senate
was attended with unusual scenes.
Fearful that the -final vote would oh
defeated by lack of time, Vice Pres
ident Marshall, the reading clerk ana
members of the Senate themselves
brought a week of debate to an end
In 1 ft minutes of hurried voting. Party
lines were divided in the final vote on
the bill. Several senators cut short
their remarks so that the vote could
be taken before midnight, according
to the unanimous consent agreement
reached some time ago, which required
that the vote be taken on the "cal
endar day of December 6."
End of J,ong Fight
The victory for San Francisco enus
a fight that has been waged in Con
gress for several years in which con
servationists and nature clubs took a
conspicuous pari. The bill gives Sail
Francisco authority to erect a dam ip
the Hetch Hetchy valley, creating a
storage reservoir, authority to flood
the necessary parts of the valley to
create electric power and sell it un
der the local regulations of California
and to construct conduits and canals
through public lands where necessary
as part of the city’s water supply sys
tem.
Provision Is made to protect the wa
ter rights of the settlers on irrigated
lands in the Turlock and Modesto ir
rigation districts in the San Joaquin
valley and the city will be required to
construct roads In the park. Including
a scenic driveway, to provide "sightly
buildings” and to furnish power at cost 'o
irrigation users. Opponents of Iho hill
included those who claimed the beauty
of the valley would lie spoiled and that
settlers on Irrigated lands would lie
deprived of nn adequate supply of wa
ter,
ROBBERS PILFER
NEW' YORK CAFE
New York, December 6.—Five men. re
volvers In hand, entered a restaurant on
East Twelfth street, in the heart of the
crowded east district, late today, and
threatening: to shoot the 12 patrons then
at the table, if they resisted, delegated
two of the five to strip the diners of
their valuables. The robbers gathered
money and jewelry to the amount of
$^000 or more and escaped. Despite the
threats of the retreating bandits, one of
them was badly beaten over the head with
a club in the hands of Mre. Mary Moore,
owner of the house, who ran to the street
and attacked them as they fled. Mrs.
Moore was not injured.
TODAYS AGE'HERALD
1— Fifty-three dead troin Texas flood.
Government may probe needle mys
tery.
Suffragettes on the rampage.
Huerta preparing to surprise rebels
Lobby committee considers report.
2— Wilson’s message has good effect
on stock exchange.
3— Committee of bar association urges
reform.
4— But 134 homicides in county in year,
says Lane.
6—Wiggins assumes work as chief de
tective today.
Hewitt heads Underw’ood committee
Bennett may not give up place.
Romalne Boyd may enter contest
for supreme court.
6—Questions to be considered by leg
islature.
8—Young ministers urged to keep out
of political fights.
3—What the fraternal world is uot*ng.
10— Wilson’s trouble not ended when
Huerta quits.
11— Former Birmingham woman hurt
In auto collision.
14-15-16—Sports.
17—Eight governors of Alabama.
20— Egg dealers eager to explain high
prices.
21— Mrs. Bishop speaks to suffragettes.
22— South finds flaw in national pri
mary.
26- Greensboro, a typical southern
town.
27- 32—Society.
28- 29—Ned Brace and editorial com
ment.
33— Keen Interest In official religion
of baby republic.
34— Encourage boys to collect bugs,
says Smith.
35— Another honor for lucky young
nobleman.
38— Automobile gossip.
39— The bookshelf.
40— Educational matters in nearby
towms.
41— Church services.
4 2—In the path of Napoleon.
46— Markets.
47- 60—Magazine section.
61-64—Comic supplement.
MEXICAN DESPERADO IS
BELIEVED TO HAVE ESCAPED
Search of Over Half of Utah Mine Fails to Disclose Ralph Lo
pes, Mexican Slayer of Six, Who Has Eluded the
Authorities for Over a Week
ft
Bingham, Utah., December 6.—Search ot
more than half the Utah-Apex mine for
Ralph Lopez, Mexican desperado, was
completed tonight without result. The
probability is that the slayer of six men
has escaped.
The poisonoua gases forced into the mine
for the purpose of asphyxiating Lopez,
following the killing of two deputies In
f
an underground fight a week ago, were
cleared from all the passage ways, and
tonight the search was continued in parts
not yet explored.
The clearing away of a cave-in in the
upper workings showed that Lopez had
not taken refuge in the slope behind It,
as had been supposed. More than 20U
miners who were thrown out of employ
ment when the mine was closed in order
to fill It with gas returned to work in the
lower levels today.
Bad Enough to Call Forth a Protest From Huerta
GOVERNMENT MAY
PROBENEW JERSEY
NEEDLEMYSTERY
Six Young Women Reported
Victims of Poison Injected
Into Arms—A South
American Arrested
Newark, N. J., December 6.— Federal as
well as state authorities are likely to take
a hand In the investigation of the poison
needle mystery, growing out of the ex
perience of Mrs. Marjorie Graff in a
moving picture theatre two days ago. So
far the only arrest is that of the young
South American, Arrnand Megaro, who is
held in $30,000 hail on as assault charge
made by Mrs. Graff after a man seated
near her in a box jabbed a needle into
her arm, and she was seized with drowsi
ness. The case of five other young women
reported to have been the victims of ex
periences similar to those of Mrs. Graff,
are being investigated by the police of
this city, however, and the attention of
the federal authorities here lias been
brought to the Graff case in connection
with their Inquiry into several white
slave cases.
Government May Act
Charles F. Lynch, assistant federal dis
trict attorney, said toduy that the gov
ernment authorities would act if It was
shpwn that a "needle gang" was operat
ing between this state and New York.
Sociological workers here and in New
York have laid emphasis on the Graff
case in their public warnings regarding
methods of white slavers In procuring
girls. They pointed out that hypodermic
needles may be bought for 50 cents each
and that drugs can be purchased with lit
tle difficulty.
The police here are withholding the
names of all the reported victims except
Miss .Jeanette Clark, 19 years old, who
said today she had been attacked in the
way Mrs. Graff was, and in the same
theatre, on Thanksgiving night.
Reports that Miss Mary Lee, a young
stenographer, had been similarly made a
victim were denied by her today. It had
been understood that she and Miss Clark
were to be taken before Mrs. Graff's al
leged assailant to see if they could iden
tify him. Miss Clark stated tonight that
she did not believe she could recognize
the man who attacked her If she saw him
again.
No Poison Shown
The needle found near Mrs. Graff's seat
In the theatre had not been dipped In
poison so far as a microscopic scrutiny
showed today. A chemical examination is
to he made, however, In the effort to de
termine the nature of the poison used.
The needle Jav on the floor many hours
before it was found.
A test of the South American drug
v.hich is the suspected poison In the Graff
ease is to be made. An animal will be
Inoculated with a needle dipped In the
poison so that the effects may be
watched.
Miss Clark later was taken to police
headquarters to confront Megaro. She
said she could not Identify him as her
assailant. The police thus far have
produced no evidence against the South
American except Mrs. Graff’s statement
that he was seated near her in tht
theatre box.
It was learned tonight that other
eases are being Investigated in Orange,
Paterson and Jersey City and that a
detective from police headquarters in
New York has taken up the inquiry
here.
BURNETT WILL URGE
IMMIGRATION BILL
Washington, December 6.—Representa
tive Johnson of Washington today reintro
duced the Dillingham immigration bill
omitting the literary test.
Chairman Burnett of the immigration
committee has announced he will urge the
bill as a democratic majority measure,
but with an added provision imposing the
literacy test. Such a bill was vetoed by
President Taft.
SUFFRAGETTES AGAIN
ARE ON THE RAMPAGE
Arson Squads Continue Campaign of Revenge for Arrest of
Mrs. Pankhurst—Exhibition Buildings and
Grandstands Burned
I-onden, December 6.—Militant suf
fragettes continued the campaign of
revenge for the arrest of Mrs. Em
meline I'ankhurst today. They had
marked for destruction various exhi
bition buildings and grandstands on
the rpee tracks in Lancashire where
Premier Asquith is spending the week
ly nd and delivering a scries of political
! speeches.
“Arson squads” burned down exhi
bition buildings at Liverpool and Man
chester. Their third attempt was un
successful, the suffragettes being light
ened away by the approach of a po
liceman as they were soaking the place
with oil and preparing to set fire to
the race track at Aintree.
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Liverpool, December 6.—Militant suf
fragettes attempted today to destroy
the exhibition buildings here which
have just been closed for the WIntel
months. The scenic railway was dis
covered in flames and the firemen hai
| the utmost difficulty in preventing th<
I spread of the fire to other buildings
fn the vicinity were lf» letters fmm<
! addressed to Premier Asquith and nth
*cr suffrage 'literature.
Manchester. December 6.—The exhibi
tion hall in the southeastern suburban
district of Rusholme was burned . u
the ground today by militant suffra
gettes. The Incendiaries left the usual
suffrage literature strewn about and
a noto addressed to Premier Asquith
reading:
'This is your welcome to Manchestei
and Oldham.”
the loss is over $60,000.
Makes Address Before Pop
ular Government League
in Washington
Washington, December 0.—More direct
government by the people was the key
note in speeches of Secretary of Stato
Bryan and members of Congress and rep
i resentatives from various states, at tlia
first regular conference here today by
the National Popular Government league.
An easier method of amending the con
stitution of the United States, presiden
tial primaries, the initiative and referen
dum and other reforms of government
were advocated.
"I’d rather trust the people," declared
Secretary Bryan, "than have any group
of people tell them what questions should
be acted on." The amendment for the
direct election of United States senator
had opened the door, he said, for much
remedial legislation which had been im
possible to have considered in the past.
Joseph W. Folk, solicitor of the state
department, speaking in favor of presi
dential primaries, declared that if such
an idea had been advocated by a Presi
dent 10 years ago it would have been "at
tacked as dangerous, and revolutionary."
The approval which the President's sug
gestion had met, he said, indicated the
wonderful progress which had been made
in this country in the last few years, in
tiie direction of popular government.
With slight change he favored what Is
known as the "gateway amendment" now
pending before Congress, which1 proposes
plans for easier amendment of the con
sutution.
Hope in Non-Partisan Party
“The hope of the nation js in non-parti
san party," declared Senator Norris of
Nebraska. Adding that the people event
ually would get control of their govern
ment through measures for which the
league stands.
Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania
made an attack on Senator Penrose, de
claring that “while ne may be pernicious,
he is not perpetual, as we are going ,tq
show' him in 1914.”
Speakers from various states told of
progress in direct government.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, chairman
of the committee which organized th£
league, declared that the new spirit of
popular government “makes each senator
recognize the only sovereign, he should
recognize—t We intelligent majority of the
people.” This great movement, he added,
is “in effect a religion, broader than
party lines,- as broad as human brother
| hood.“
Among other speakers were Senators
Clapp of Minnesota, and Lane of Ore
gon; Representatives Crosser, Ohio; Fal
coner, Washington, and Keating of Colo
•SAdo; Frank Walsh, Kansas City, . Mo..
CLAYTON TO DISCUSS
PUNS WITH WILSON
Meets President for Confer
ence on Anti-Trust Pro
gramme Monday
Washington. December 6—Antl-trusi
j plans will be discussed at a conference
between President Wilson and Chairman
Clayton of the House Judiciary commit
tee Monday.
Democratic members of the committee
conferred today over the variety of pend
ing bills. While one or two members be
lieved that they had some clear Ideas of
what the programme In Congress should
be. some of the ranking members declared
that no two members of the committee
were In accord.
The plans will be thrown into the open
after Monday's conference, and the com
mittee will begin hearings Tuesday. Rep
resentative Henry of Texas, Morgan oi
Oklahoma, will appear to urge their bills.
Opportunity will be given to all to put
views on recard.
The President Is said to believe the
Sherman law should stand as the basis
for legislation, and that while new legis
lation should be comprehensive and care
fully framed, It should be supplemental to
the Sherman law.
TREASURY EXTENDS
KENTUCKY LOAN
Lexington, Ky., December 6.—The treas.
ury department today extended for »:
days a loan of fT.S.iHX) made to three Lex
ington banks out of the national crop
moving fund. The request for the exten
sion was made because the tobacco crop
Is being moved slowly. About ;M0,000,nuc
pounds of tobacco will be handled In Ken
tucky this year. ,
Schooner Abandoned in Storm
Seattle, December ii.—The four masted
wooden schooner. Aloha, from FIJI ti
Gray's harbor In ballast, encountered a
violent storm off the Washington coasl
last Sunday and -became unmanageable
Capt. A. Peterson and his crew of 10 mer
abandoned the schooner and today rowed
to Destruction Island, where all are safe
1 The schooner Is still afloat near the island
I her anchors barely holding. A tug wll
(rescue the men from the isiand.
Ueisinger Heads Museum
New XI,rk> ..— .
teived today
city, merchant and patron of art, had beer
elected president of the Germanic museun
at Harvard university. He succeeds liii
father-in-law. the late Adolphus Bus'-h
who succeeded Carl Schurz, first presi
dent of the museum.
ENGLISH DOCTORS
SOLVE MYSTERY OF
“BACKWARD’’ GIRL
__
Has Heart on Right Side and Other
Organs Misplaced, Hence She
Insists on Doing Things
Backward
London, December 6.—r-A puzzling
problem of abnormality In a girl who
insisted on doing everything backward
among other things writing from right
! to loft, has been solved by Birming
ham physicians.
An examination by the X-rays re
vealed that her heart was on the right
side and some of her other organs, in
cluding the brain, were also displaced.
The case has renewed interest in
that of the boy who saw things up
side down and wrote in that fashion.
The latter came to light about two
weeks ago.
JAPANESE TANGLE
IS STILL UNSETTLED
Some New Move Necessary by One
Power for Adjustment of
. Controversy
Washington, December 6.—It was in
ferred in official circles here today
that the channels of diplomatic cor
respondence between Japan and tnc
United States over the California alisn
land law have been exhausted without
results and that any action looking to
an adjustment of the tangle must come
from a new move by one power or the
other.
The correspondence was exhaustive
and the last note presented by Japan
many weeks ago remains unanswered
at the state department, for the rea
son, it is said, that despite the numer
ous exchanges the controversy re
mained exactly where it was at the
start. It in understood that Japan
throughout maintained that its treaty
rightH were invaded by the law, wh’le
the United States argued as persistent
ly to the contrary.
TOO MANY DIVORCES,
SAYS MAINE JUDGE
Brakes Must Be Put On if Marriage
Is to Count for Anything, De
clares Connolly
Portland, Mo.. December fi.—"If mar
riage is to mean anything, a brake
must he put on the granting of di
vorces," said Judge Joseph H. Con
nolly in the superior court today when
he insisted that all the facts in a case
on trial should be presented.
"I'm not going to grant divorces,”
he continued, "to accommodate people
or because they want to take up with
some other man or woman."
Judge Connolly quoted statistics
showing the ratio of divorces in Maine
is one to every 6.r>5 marriages, while
in Kansas It Is one to 12 marriages;
in Massachusetts 1 to 17; tn Minne
sota, one to 24, and in Maryland one
in 61.
MORGAN’S GRAVE IS
CLOSELY GUARDED
Armed Guard Assigned to Duty Over
Besting Place of Great
Financier
Hartford. Conn., December 6.—A!
though nearly eight months have
passed since the body of J. Plerpont
Morgan was buried on the summit of
Cedar Mill cemetery, the grave is now
as it has been from the day of in
terment, closely guarded, particularly
at night.
Durfing the day no specially as
signed watchman is kept there but at
sunset an armed guard goes on duty
until sunrise.
The body of Mr. Morgan was in
terred here April 14 In a concrete
lined grave with a huge slab of gran
ite covering it.
A cemetery official said today the
Morgan family was paying for the
guard and it would bo continued au
long as the family ordered.
IS BURNING OF RATS
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
Question Will He Debated in Cleveland
Court This Week—German Arrested
for Cremating Pests
Cleveland, O., December 6.—Is It
cruelty to animals to burn rata to
death? This question will be debated
in the local courts next week when
Stephen Carman will be personally
tried on a charge of cruelty to animals i
preferred by H. lv. Ferry, officer of
the Humane society.
Ferry caused Carman's arrest after
ho cremated five rats he had caught
in a cage Inst night. Carman's coun
sel will contend that it Is no more
cruel to burn p rat than It is to give
it poison, the action of which, he claim*,
is slow and painful.
Differing of Views as to
Conservative Language
Used in Draft
Washington, December 6.—The House
committee on Investigation of charges of
lobbying was in session until late to
night considering the report which Chair
man Garrett will present next Tuesday.
There was every indication that some
members of the committee, differing In
views as to the conservative language In
which Mr. Garrett couched his draft of
the report, would present a minority re
port.
This particularly affects that part of
the conclusions relating to Representative
McDermott of Illinois, whom M. M. Mill
hall, accused of being In the pay of the
National Association of Manufacturers for
legislative purposes, and that part relat
ing to Mulhall, whose allegations brought
out the Inquiry, und I. H. McMlchael,
former chief page of the House, now no
longer In go\eminent employ. The mem
bers who have been threatening dissent,
favor more severe language as to certain
of these matters and the adoption of rec
ommendations for the action of the House
This is the Chief point of difference in
the committee.
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TO SURPRISE REBELS
Move Expected to Resist
March of Constitutional
ists Toward Capital
GENERAL VILLA TO
REINFORCE ARMY
Federate, Fleeing F’rom Chihuahua,
Turn to Flank Villa—Interest at
Washington Centers on Mili
tary Activities
Juarez, Hex., December 6.—The feel
ing npreatl among rebel leader* today
that flic Huerta government vrai pre
paring Nome Minister *urprl*e* In con
nection with the projected march of
Gen. Fmnclnco Villa’* army toward
Mexico City.
That the federal troops had abandoned
nearly all of the northern part of thn
republic after they had been beaten and
forced to seek safety in the mountains
or on the United States border, and that
Gen. Salvador Mercado, the federal com
mander, had pronounced his forces bank
rupt, was not accepted as indicating that
the rebels will be unresisted In the ad
vance south.
Somo belief was expressed that the fed
erals had an object in evacuating Chihua
hua and other Isolated federal garrisons,
where It was Impossible for them to do
much more than defend themselves, and
that their purpose In abandoning their
posts was to permit a more concerted and
energetic defense in the central and south
ern states, where fortB are more numer
ous and communication among them is
easier.
Villa to Increase -Forces
General Villa s intention to augment hi#
present army of 7000 by scattered bands
about Torreon and Zacatecas, and to mass
a solid force of 20,000 or more rebels on
the march to Mexico City would place th*
rebels in a unique position.
Heretofore they have been scattered,
while the strength of the federals wa*
divided by their having to garrison tho
northern cities.
As the rebels gain territory the rel
ative positions of the federals an*l
rebels Will be reversed, the latter hav
ing to protect what they have won,
w hile the federate will be more at lib
erty tor aggressive fighting. It wa#
this condition that led Villa to Con
sider whether the government at Mex
ico City was liot planning a campaign
of considerable extent further south
and when the comparatively undisci
plined reoel ,,forces might have to con
tend with greater numbers and su
perior fighting machinery.
Noon tomorrow was fixed by General *
Villa for his entry Into Chihuahua, the
state capital evacuated a week ago by
General Mercado, who with six other
generals and 6000 troops and civil
ians. are fleeing toward the border at
Ojlnaga.
Villa Encamped at Suaz
General Villa was encamped at Saua
tonight, about 30 miles north of Chi
huahua. Communication between tho
city und his camp was by courier as the
telegraph between the two points had
not been restored.
Federico Moye, the civil governor,
announced his readiness to turn tho
city over to the new authority. It is
the first time since the days before
President ]>laz that this capital had
changed authority white a revolution
was pending. The event will be sig
nalized by the ringing of bells and
the blowing of bugles.
Word came from the vicinity of
Ojlnaga, on tho Texas border, that Gen
eral Mercado and the other federal
officers and troops were moving slow
ly and that many of the civilians were
on foot.
The rebels had promised not to dis
tort) them until tho border wa#
reached.
The picturesque exodus of the people
across the desert has attracted thou
sands of persons to Presidio, Tex., op
posite Ojlnaga. Homawhere behind thn
refugees a bullion train is straggling
across the desert with $2,500,000 worth
of metal from tho silver mines at
Parral.
Parral has been cut off from train
service for months and it was decided
to bring the silver to the border In
wagons.
Rebel Leaders Warned
Washlngton( December In the ab
sence of any changes In the political sit
uation in Mexico, official Interest in
Washington centered today upon the mil
itary operations. Confidential reports In
dlcate that the victorious sweep south
(Continued on I’ngf Tea)
!$ PLACED ON STAND
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Augusta Knabe Identifies
Kimona as One She Gave
Dead Woman
Shelbyviile, lnd., December 6.—The state
had not completed its side in the trial of
Dr. William B. <'raig, charged with the
murder of Dr. Helen E. Knabe, when
court adjourned over the end of the week.
When proceedings were halted new ar
rangements were made for additional wit
nesses.
Miss Augusta Knabe. cousin of Dr.
Knabe, was on the stand when proceed
! were stopped until next week. She
j softly sobbed when handed a kimona
; which she Identified as one she had given
!h\ Kn.i as a <*hiistmas present, and
which I)*'. Kioiin was said to have worn
when answering professional calls in
hei apartment office late at night.
The witness said the kimona when she
gave it to the d k tor was a navy blue
with r< d poppy flowers, but that now
j looked like a faded rag.
I Miss Katherine Hally McPherson testl
; tied Dr. Knabe was light handed. Wit
! nesses for the Mate testified the wound
in Dr. Knabes throat started on the
right side and the state is attempting to
show that Dr. Knabe could not hav® cut
herself.