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VOLUME (IX.—NO. 151.
CASUALTIES
REPORTED
HEAVY
Important Seaport Town Is De
fended by Small but In*
trenched Force
INSURRECTO CHIEFTAIN
AWAITING CONFIRMATION
He Will Attack Border City
Before Reinforcements
Can Arrive
BIAZ' INTENTIONS VEILED
BY MYSTERIOUS SILENCE
TUGSOX, . Ariz., April 29.—A
special from Mazatlan, the big
of the of
Sinaloa, ilex., today, says that
the rebel army which has'been threat
ening that - >me time began
an attack upon th city at 1:15 o'clock
this morn:
The fighting was severe for the first
half hoar, and desultory firing eon-
Imaed until daybreak. Bullets fell
almost everywhere in the city. No
Americans were killed or wounded.
A Southern Pacific locomotive in
3(fazatlan was struck by a shell and
slightly damaged. Telephone and
telegraph wires in maiiy" parts' of the
city arc reported down.
The news of the righting at Mazat-
Jan today was contained in a dispatch
received by Colonel lipes Randolph,
vice president of the Southern Tacific
lines in Mexico. The rebel strength
is not stated, but they are .believed
to outnumber the federals in Mazat
lan, who have 250 men, with one
machine gun and plenty of ammu
nition and are strongly intrenched.
Madero Ready to Strike
EL PASO. Tex., April 29.—Tho Chi
huthua builetln stating that 1.000
troops left there today ior Juarez
caused great excitement In the revolu
tionary camp.
"If the report Is true and we ran
■confirm it-that moment we will attack
and take Juarez," declared General Ma
dero. "It may be that Chihuahua has
not been Informed that the armistice
■was extended for another five days yes
terday and that the troops, if they have
been dispatched, will he recalled as
Boon as the mistake is discovered."
General Xavarro, at Juarez, was
without information, as to the alleged
reinforcements. General Madero tele
graphed to the City of Mexico and in
reply was told that the government
knew nothing of the movement of
troops from Chihuahua.'
General Madero war. 'unable to get a
telegram of inquiry through to Chi
huahua. m
Violation of Armistice
According to General Madero a
movement of troops from Chihuahua in
any direction would'be a violation, of
the armistice. .
"It makes no different* in what di
rection they were sent." said General
■Mader<\ "even If to a point outside the
quadrilateral covered by the •truce.
Chihuahua itself is within the quadri
lateral, and there can be no military
. movements to or from that city under
the. terms of the armistice."
Madero has scouts stationed at 20
. mile Intervals between here and Chi
huahua, but even by the fastest riding
; relays could not bring the information
to camp in less than 72 hours, it is"
"*aid. • °
The coterie of insurgent chiefs sum
moned by Madero to participate in
peace parleys preliminary to the for
mulation of a definite agreement with
the federal government was completed
tonight by the arrival from Washing
-ton. D. ('., of Dr. "Vasquez Gomez,
diplomatic agent ml the United States
of the Mexican insurgents, and Pino
Suarez. provisional • governor of- the
state of Yucatan.
Gomez Is Appointed
Gomez' appointment as the insurrecto
representative in the formal .peace ne
gotiations with the government i» ex-
pected to he announced officially to
morrow. Most of the lns°urrecto lead.
ers were at the station to'meet-Gomez
and Suarez and a conference with Ma
dero was arranged for 'latter In . the
evening. On his arrival here Gomez
learned that Francisco Carabajal. had
been officially designated to represent
the federal government in drafting the
final peace agreement, fie paid high
tribute to the character of the govern
ment's envoy,', but smiled at what he.
termed "the real significance" of ."the
selection.
"Senor Carabajal is a fine man," said
Gomez, "and one who is well able, I
think, to represent the government.
But any one who has followed 'the
somewhat turbulent state of political!
affairs in the City of Mexico recently
will observe something significant in
I the. appointment. Senor Carahajal was
the candidate of the cientiflco party
Continued on Fuse 21, lokina 1
THE San Francisco CALL
Rebel Forces Bombard the Beleaguered City of Mazatlan
1,000 Federals Entrain for Juarez and Madero Is Incensed
LEGISLATOR ACTED
WHILE AN ALIEN
Citizenship Papers Secured After
Expiration of Terms in
House at Madison
[Specie! Dispatch io The Call]
CHICAGO. April 29.—Isaac Stephen
son, United States senator from Wis
consin, served two terms in the legis
lature of that state before he became
a citizen of this country. For 19 years
be continued tt> accept honors from the
people of Marinette county while an
alien and a subject of Queen Vic
toria.
After liis timber land holdings in
northern Wisconsin and Michigan had
grown to large proportions and he had
abandoned any notion of returning to
his native land, Canada, he went down
to Milwaukee and put in his petition
for citizenship.
The news of this Milwaukee trip
never reached the people of Marinette.
The first intimation that Stephenson
lived so long among them ■without
being naturalised will come to them
when they read this.
The facts are to be submitted to the
legislative committee at Madison, which
has in hand the inquiry into Senator
Stephenson's right to retain his seat In
the upper house of congress. They will
be. adduced as ancillary to evidence
that has been gathered, showing the
lavish expenditure of money in connec
tion with the senator's recent elec
tion.
This evidence shows that Stephenson
spent more than $ 1 oo.ono in his cam
paign for the senatorship and that his
election was made possible after a
protracted deadlock only by the mys
terious conduct of three democratic
representatives In absenting themselves
from the Joint session of the legisla
ture.
. Stephenson made his declaration . of
intention in Milwaukee September 15,
1851. He was then 22 years old. Nine
teen years later, May 19, 1870, he took
out his second papers. Between 1851
and 1871 St^phenson laid the founda
tion of his fortune, which-Is'estimated
at from $10,000,000 to J15.000.000. In
1865 and 1868. he served two terms :in
the Wisconsin legislature. 1
FIGURES SHOW REBATES
GIVEN STEEL CONCERNS
Commerce Commission Accuses
Pennsylvania Lines
WASHINGTON, April 29.-—Prelimin
ary figures have been compiled by the
interstate commerce commission inves
tigators showing the amounts-' which
the government alleges have heen il
legally rebated in the recent cases at
Cleveland.
Between April 1, IS9S, and July 31,
1909, it is alleged $482,000 was rebated
by the Pennsylvania railroad to ship
pers, of which $133,000 is said to have
been paid subsidiaries of the United
States steel corporation.
Between January 1, 1908, and June
30, 1909, it is alleged, more than $798.
--(i'in was rebated to the Carnegie steel
company by the Bessemer and Lake
Erie railroad.
FATHER OF CARTOONIST
IS DEAD IN PASADENA
T. W. Davenport Succumbs at
Advanced Age
LOS ANGELES, April 29— T. W.
Davenport, father of Homer Davenport,
the cartoonist, died at his home in
South Pasadena last night at the age
of 85.
; He was 1 born in New York and lived
many years in SUverton. - Ore., ;; only
recently removing to southern Califor
nia. -The elder Davenport was a gradu
ate in the: profession of law and. medi
cine, and was also a writer. ■■
'• . Hi - was a ; member, of the T Oregon
legislature in 1863 and 1870, and ran
for. congress on the republican, ticket in
1876. A. widow and sever*! .children
survive.
FIFTY-SIX , PAGES-SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1911.—PAGES 17 TO 28.
BESIEGED CITY OF MAZATLAN, WHICH IS NOW THE CENTER OF THE MEXICAN REBEL ATTACK.
Isaac Stephenson,
Wisconsin Senator,
Who Is Under Fire
MISS GRAHAM AND
JAY GOULD MARRY
Visit to Lord and Lady Decies
Planned After Honeymoon
in Adirondacks
NEW YORK. April 29.—The third
wedding within the year In the George
Gould family took place this afternoon,
when Jay Gould, second son of the
railroad magnate, and Miss Anne Doug
las Graham, only daughter of Mrs. Her
bert Voa, were married at St. Thomas
church.
The bride was given away by her
stepfather and Kingdon Gould wa| best
man. Thn ceremony was performed
by Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Bttrea, rector of
the church.
The floral decorations of the church
were pink and white.
After the reception the couple prob
ably will go to the Adirondacks for
their honeymoon. They will go to Eng
land later as the guests of Lord and
Lady Decies. The latter is a sister of
Gould.
The wedding presents, which are said
to be costly and numerous, were not
displayed. Jay Gould's gift to his bride
will be a house, which is to be erected
in Fifth avenue.
MAN ASSAULTS BROTHER
WITH AX, FIRES FOREST
Pursuing Posse Driven Back by
Raging Flames
NORTH POWNAL, Vt., April 29.—
Hearing terrified cries, neighbors
rushed to a field on the Boulger farm,
in Stamford, this forenoon, where they
saw John Boulger, with a bloodspat
tered ax in his hand, standing over
bis brother, Michael Boulger.
The neighbors say that when John
Boulger, who is 65 years old and 6
feet 4 Inches tall, saw them approach
ing, he disappeared into the woods.
An armed posse of SO men followed,
but were stopped by raging forest
fires, believed to have been set by John
Boulger.
The assault Is alleged to have been
the result of a quarrel.
It is not improbable that John Boul
ger lias been burned to death in the
woods lire he is believed to have
started. Michael Boulger is reported
to be dying.
ONE DEAD, 2 HURT
IN GAS EXPLOSION
Acetylene Tank Ignited by
Cigarette in Railroad
Shop
[Special Diipalch lo The Call]
SACRAMKXTO. April 29.—0tt0 Harm
son, a general helper, was blown to
pieces, and J. Butcher and Andrew
Johnson were seriously injured in an
explosion of an acetylene gas tank in
shop No. 5 of the Southern Pacific com
pany here today. A spark from a cigar
ette, which Harmson is saiil to have
been smoking caused the explosion.
1 Harmon, with Johnson and Butcher,
were transferring the gas from a large
I tank to a small, tank truck "drawn by
a horse. Harmson was ' standing : over
the truck when the explosion occurred.
The gas was under a 6,000 potfffa?
' sure," and the force of the explosion
I threw Harmson through the side of the
I building. • ;
Johnson and Butcher were immediate
ly rushed to the railroad hospital and
treated for their-' numerous burns.
Johnson" Is In a serious condition with
probable Internal, injuries. ; He was
severely burned .'.about the head and
face." Butcher was Injured about the
knees.
The force of - the explosion shook
every building in the city, shattered the
windows in the depot; and in the cars
standing- on the track. A flying piece
of steel struck the horse which Harm -
son was driving, and completely severed
one of its hind legs as if cut with a
knife. A tremendous hole was torn In
the building, and rocks and steel thrown
in all directions.
The railroad officials say that a light,
presumably from a cigarette, ignited
the gap. They say smoking is postively
forbidden in the shops. Harmson Is sur
vived by a widow and two brothers.
GOLD COIN LOST IN 1867
FOUND IN PLACERVILLE
Fence Builder Knows Owner
and Restores Money
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
• PLACERVIL.L.E, April 29.—While dig
ging .post holes for a fenre on his
place in this city today, Frank Tnotnbs
unearthed a $10 gold piece minted in
1849. It was lost 44 years ago by
Thomas' Swansborough, when the lat
ter was a boy. Swansborough. lost
the coin ■ when playing, and the clos
est possible search failed to reveal It.
Toombs, who had heard Swansborough
tell of the lost treasure, gave the coin
to the owner.
PROMOTION OF NATIONAL
BANKS IS UNDER BAN
Comptroller of Currency Trying
to Check Stock Jobbing;
WASHINGTON. April ,29. —Comptrol-
ler of the Currency Murray today made
formal announcement that his office
would never again issue a charter to a
national bank when there was evidence
that bank promoters were active in the
project. Murray holds that the organ
isation of a national bank should be
prompted by the needs of the locality.
Promotion of any kind, whether for
participation in the bank's stock or
otherwise, will be barred.
CONSCIENCE IS EASED
TEN DOLLARS' WORTH
Anonymous Writer Sends the
Money to Collector Loeb
NEW YORK, April 29.—William Loeb
Jr., collector of the port of New York,
has received from Toledo, 0., a $10 bill
with an anonymous letter, which reads:
"Inclosed find $10. Have doubt about
owing the government anything, but
will give you the heneflt of the doubt."
The money will go to the conscience
fund.
BACK SEATS FOR HAREM
AND HOBBLE SKIRTS!!
Fashion's Latest Decree, Voiced by Its Manufacturers,
Sounds Knell of Freakish Styles
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
TOLEDO, 0., April 29.—Freakish
styles, such as the hobble and harem
skirts, will have to be relegated to
the scrap pile, according to the edict
set forth by the National cloak, suit
and skirt manufacturers' association,
in convention here.
The prevailing length of suit jackets
for next fall will be approximately 28
inches. Shorter lengths will be fa
vored for demitailored or fancy models.
The strictly tailored styles may be
somewhat longer. The cut of the jacket
will he slightly shaped, but so treated
as to emphasize the straight line fig
ures. l^arge collars, deep cuffs and
the raised waist line effects will be
features of the trimmings of suit*.
Sklrta will be out with more full
ness than last season, but will adhere
to the straight line effect. ' The mod
erately raised waist line (with Inside
THIS NINE LAYS AT .666 CLIP
FOR POULTRY YARD PENNANT
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
BBBKEIrBT, April 29.—A. F. Lloyd
of 17.T5 Berkeley way has a troupe of
nine hens that have been playing a
star engagement for two months. In
the month of March the nine muses of
the T..loyd poultry yard lai'l the re
markable total of !?."> eggs, or an aver
age lay of 20 5-9 eggs per hen for the
days In the month. That, however,
JOKER PLAYS HAVOC WITH
30,169,353 GOOD NICKELS
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
WASHINGTON, April 29.—Some joker
in the, middle west has caused the.
banks, the treasury, the secret service
and a lot of other folk much trouble
by spreading a story that the govern
ment coined no nickels'ln 1910 and that
every five cent piece }n circulation
bearing this date must therefore be a
counterfeit.
IMPORTED VOCALISTS BREAK
UP STRIKE IN CHURCH CHOIR
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
i;.\MENTO, April 29. —Corpora-
tions objecting to strikes might get
profit by the experience of Rev. A. Hull
of the Oak Park Baptist church, who
has just succeeded in breaking up a
strike in his church choir.
Shortly before Easter the choir mem
bers, piqued by an action of the pastor,
walked out, and Easter Sunday went by
FOUR AMERICANS MURDERED
ON RANCH IN MEXICAN STATE
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
GALVESTON, Tex., April —A cable
gram to relatives of Leonard Wlmbrey
in Duval county . stated that he had
been murdered with three other Ameri
cans on a ranch about 20 miles east
of Ifcuala in the state of Guerrero,
Mexico. * ' ••' '" ; : :. - , t
* The message stated that hundreds
had been slaughtered and" that rebels
and government troops had been flght
THE WEATHER
YESTERDAY—Highest temperature, 54;
lowest Friday night, 46.
FORECAST FOR TODAY— some
what warmer;, moderate west winds. .
belting) and the panel front and back
la gaining favor.
Separate coats are to be full length,
cut on straight and slightly shaped
lines. Novelty effects are to consist
of the raised waist line, some belted
effects, large collars and deep cuff and
some peasant sleeves.
The tendency of separate skirts is
toward strictly tailored effects. Promi
nence will be given to the panel idea
and low tunic. An additional style
feature is the slashed effect shown in
many of the coat suits and separate
skirts.
The "Charlotte Corday" collar, a
French creation, will be the principal
feature of the new styles. It is de-
signed along lines entirely different
from the sai'or collar. Instead of be
ing cut square it falls into ft point at
the back, producing a cape effect.
is not <\ feather compared to the April
record.
With one day yet to come, the nine
have laid 200 eggs, which is 22 2-9 eggs
pe r hen for 29 days (ending today).
There is reason to believe that the nine
will lay tomorrow, also.
These nine feathered wonders are
leghorns and are less than a yenr old.
Ijloyd believes they can match any
team of nine at large.
The facts are that the mints coined
30,169,353 nickels real and genuine, in
1910, and about 11,000,000 worth of
those coins are in circulation. For the
last two days the mint bureau and the
secret service have been besieged with
calls for help from banks of the mid
dle west.
Many of the genuine coins have been
turned into Washington as counter
felts.
in silence. Being a musician himself
Rev. Mr. Hall interested local musicians
in his cause, and la^t Sunday the con
gregation was given a song service by
bis imported vocalists.
The old choir members were on hand
and professed a willingness to come
back, but Rev. Mr. Hull has organized a
new choir with no places for the old
members.
ing for two weeks. Wlmbrey and his
companions, whose names are not
given, were killed while defending
property. |
Wimbrey was a native of Te\
years old, and had been in Mexico 15
years. He was manager of a large
plantation *near Iguala and employed
about 300 Mexicans and 10 or 15
Americans.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DYNAMITER
AND HILTON
CLASH ON
VERACITY
Attorney Declares He Had Long
Talk With McManigal and
Is Satisfied With
Explanation
PRISONER DENIES THAT
HE ANSWERED LAWYER
Jailer and Turnkey Also Say
That There Was No Con
versation of Any Kind
During Meeting
McNAMARAS SPEND TIME
IN READING MAGAZINES
LOS ANGELES, April 29.—
Ortie McManigal, who is al
leged to have made a complete
confession in the dynamiting
case, made another change of front
today. Despite his declaration to the
district attorney that he .would see
none of the counsel for the defense,
he is said to have held an interview
with Attorney O. N. Hilton at 10
o'clock today. Hilton said afterward
that McManigal admitted that he had
made a statement to the district at
torney, and pave reasons for doing so,
which, he said, were eminently satis
factory to the defense.
McManigal, according to Hilton,
said nothing to him about not want
ing to see any one connected with the
defense, and then freely admitted that
he had lied when he declared last
Thursday to the attorney, in the
presence of witnesses, that he had not
made a confession and did not intend
to make one.
Refusal Not Discussed
McManigal's refusal to see Hilton's
associate. Job Harriman, yesterday
and the district attorney's declaration
that McManigal would see none of
the attorneys connected with the de
fense were not referred to in the con
versation between Hilton and Mc-
Manigal today.
"I talked to him for 15 minutes,"
said Hilton, '"and during that time he
gave me his reasons and detailed his
impelling; motive for giving the dis
trict attorney the statement he made
day before yesterday, half an hour after
he told me that he would make no such
statement. If McManigal told the dis
trict attorney that he would see no one
connected with the defense, then he
has changed his mind about the matter.
"All the main facts a,re now in our
possession and you may say this:
"Whatever has been said to the dis
trict attorney will not hurt the defense
in view of the statement McManigal
.has made to me today."
Hilton Is Satisfied
"Does that mean that MrManigal has
not turned state's evidence?"
"I have not said so," replied Hilton.
"I can not be more explicit, but I tell
you that McManigal's explanation of
why he lied to us Thursday and made
a statement to the district attorney is
eminently satisfactory to us."
Attorney Hilton came from his winter
home at Pomona today and went im
mediately to the county JaH. He saw
John McNamara first. Then, ignoring
Attorney Harriman's experience of yes
terday, when the prisoner refused to
see him, he asked that MeManigal be
brought down from his cell to the
barred conference room on the first
floor of the prison.
McManigal was brought down at on«*
by Sheriff Hammel, and nothing was
said relative to District Attorney Fred
erick's assertion that the prisoner
would receive none of the attorneys for
the defense.
McManigal Was Willing
"I did not ask him about his decla
ration to Harriman yesterday, that he
would not consult any of us—Harri
man, Clarence Darrow or myself. Mc-
Manigal was willing to talk and gave
me all the main points of his state
ment to the district attorney and why
he made them. That was all I wanted."
Attorney Hilton declined positively
even to intimate what these "main
points" were.
Hilton Interview Denied
The statement regarding his inter
view with McManigal by Hilton were
afterward emphatically and practically
completely denied by Jailer George
Gallagher and Turnkey Oscar Norell,
who brought the prisoner from his
cell and were present during the in
terview.
Hilton gave out for publication a d< -
tailed report of his interview with Mc-
Manigal, in which several supposedly
verbatim questions and answers were