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VOLUME VIL HUERTA DEFIES WILSON; CALLS CONGRESS DAE pm>icnal Pn.'sldcht Sti.l S’uib .’n. Conference Me.d with Carranza. Ccnst’. tut.onal.tt Leader. Mexico City, Nov. 13.—An official notification was published h°re today under yesterday's date ordering those Mexican senators and deputies who were elected on October 26 to assemble during the afternoon of Saturday, November 15, in their re spective houses in order to effect their organization. * Provisional President Huerta showed no signs of weakening this morning, and the American embas sy was in a state of suspense, not knowing what to expect next. An early caller on Nelson O’Shaughnessy, the American charge was the German minister to Mexico. Admiral Paul von Hintze, who ar rived before Mr. O’Shaughnessy had breakfasted. It developed today in the course of the preliminary exchanges of views between John Lind, the personal rep resentative of President Wilson, and the Mexican officials on the question jf the dissolution of the Mexican fongress Gen. Huerta advanced the plea that he could not dissolve it be rauae it had been legally elected. Mr. Lind’s reply to this was the presentation of the demands made by Jie United States government, ac companied by the declaration that shat Gen. Huerta had been able to Io with the former cqngress he must jo with this one of his own creation. Nogales. Sonora. Nov. 13.- With Resident Wilson in possession of the uiswer of Gen. Carranza to the Am mcan proposition presented through A’llliam Bayard Hale yesterday, the nnstitutionalist chief today awaited lord from Washington. The prop uition presented by Hale was under itood to have been that the United State- would open the border for the institutionalists to obtain arms if Carranza would guarantee the estab ishment of order within a reasonable ime and the foundation of real rep esentative government. Neither Carranza nor Hale would five any intimation regarding the esults of the conference, but it is mown that Carranza, who from the Irst las said intervention by the United States would be a disastrous nistuke, gave every assurance that he lifting of the embargo on arms i all the American government need nd< to solve the present chaotic ond'tions in Mexico. STATEMENT OE First National Bank BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS Condensed From Report to Comptroller of Currency, Oct. 21, 1913 RESOURCES. LOANS AND DISCOUNTS $319,762 93 j UNITED STATES BONDS AND PREMIUMS 102,300 00 , STOCKS AND SECURITIES 7161 15 | REAL ESTATE. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES 8,500 00 • ASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS 92,9.4 4. ; TOTAL ^‘O’ 69B 55 liabilities. CAPITAL (FULLY PAID) SIOO,OOO 00 SURPLUS FUND - 11,600 00 [ UNDIVIDED PROFITS (NET) ...; 4868 61 CIRCULATION - 98,400 °° DEPOSITS • _ - - - 315,929 94 TOTAL - --$530,698 65 Those who do business with a bank have a right to know just what its condition is, and this Bank is anxious that every body should know just how strong it is and how well able to serve its depositors. BATESVILLE DAILY GUIRD. Pullmans Held for Murder. Newport. Nov. 13.—The jury which has been holding proceedings over George Fondling, who was murdered Saturday night, reached a verdict Thursday afternoon. It recommend- J ed that James and Bert Pullman be > held to the grand jury, but that reas onable bail lie allowed. The jury was composed of R Topp, R. E. Becton, W. W. Campbell, J. R. Nelson, D. A. Carr, R. C. Horton, Rufus Ussery, W. C. McDougal. J. J. McKinley. W. C. Bleakjey, M. M. James and Wil liam Boswell. STRIKE IS ON TODAY । ■ Southern Pacific Railroad Men Went > Out Last Night. New Orleans. Nov. 13. Roth the i federation employes and officials of ; the Southern Pacific railroad are ap parently prepared for the proposed ; walkout tonight of 1,000 engineers, conductors, firemen and trainment in i the Algiers yards, across the river ■ from this city. Union officials ap , peared to believe that no conference would be forthcoming and that the I strike would take place at 7 o’clock tonight. It is the opinion among employes . that the company will make no at tempt to handle freight, but exert all | its energies and facilities toward । maintaining passenger traffic to the । west on the Sunset Route. . No strikebreakers had made their appearance at an early hour, al though the paint shop has been pro . vided with equipment and supplies ■ as for a large Imarding house. It . was rumored in Algiers that strike breakers were en route, but this could , not la? confirmed. Neither the officials of the railroad nor unions would talk for publication. J Looking for IxMt Girl. , I Jessie Mills, a young lady who .(lives with her sister, Mrs. J. W. La- I'mar, near the Manganese mines, left . home Thursday under peculiar cir [ cumstances, and her people are very much worried over her disappearance. They fear she may have gone insane | and is wandering about the country. , or that she may have committed ' suicide. She expressed herself as feeling . very bad, with a fear that ’’some thing awful was about to happen. The young woman is very large, | weighing about 140 pounds, light ■ complexion. Wore a short, black i coat and light cream colored waist. , The family will greatly appreciate > any information as to her where i abouts. . | i Mr. and Mrs. Peel McCook returned I this morning from Sulphur Rock. ■ where they have been spending a ' few days visiting. BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 14. 1913. I STATEMENT Or CONDITION ! OF • i AT CL OSE OF BUSINESS. OCT. 24. 1913 ( RESOURCES. LOANS AND DISCOUNTS $267,431 OR SCRIP AND WARRANTS 2,.07 IS • FURNITURE AND FIXTURES 5,376 59 ( ASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS 99,496 69 TOTAL RESOURCES . $375,011 54 i LIABILITIES. < APITAL FULLY PAID IN CASH $ 50,000 00 i UNDIVIDED PROFITS (NET) 9,452 71 • DEPOSITS— Subject to Check $268,892 10 Savings 18,291 51 i Certificates 23,714 96 Tru t Fund 4,348 52 Cashier’s Checks 311 74 TOTAL DEPOSITS $315,558 83 TOTAL LIABILITIES $375,011 51 ’, C. D. Metcalf, Cashier of the Union Bank and Trust Co., if Batesville, Ark , do hereby certify that the above statement i true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. C. D. METCALF. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, this October 25, 1913. J. Rich. Notary Public. My commission expires December 13. 1914. Attest: M. C. WEAVER. J. C. FITZHUGH, D. D. ADAMS, Directors. HEALTH STATISTICS WANTED ' Board of Health Would Acquaint the World With Conditions. For the purpose of gathering vital ' statistics the state of Arkansas has been divided into 677 registration districts, which have been addition ally divided into 3,500 primary dis trict; from which reports will be re- । ceived. For some time the state board of health has been at work on the vital statistics, F. L. Watkins of the United States census bureau aid ing in the work. Under the arrangements the reg istrars will be paid 25 cents from the county treasury for each birth and death reported. The object of the board of health in wanting the vital statistics department work started soon is to show that Arkansas is a । healthy state. In some counties the insurance companies will not write insurance, because they claim that | the people are not healthy. When the statistics can be gather- 1 eci the board can show to the world the true statistics of Arkansas health. I By keeping the number of births and , deaths, it will be possible to arrive. at a basis of population from which | a percentage of deaths and birth'’ may be made. This will all be worked out when the gathering of the statistics starts j which will probably be within the next month. WHO IS "WHITE ADULT?” I I Attorney General to Say Whether | I Indians and Others May Sign. : Little Rock, Nov. 13.—Although) jhe spent the entire morning in look-! ! ing up the matter, Attorney General! iW. 1. Moose announced at noon that 1 he w»s not prepared as yet to give lai opinion on the question asked by | Chic< t county officials as to what con -titited a "white adult.” The offic j ers of Chicot county want to know if I the term means all white people, and if Chinese, Indians, Syrians and the i like are excluded from signing the I liquor petitions. The Going bill, which is known as the liquor measure, provides that “white adults” may sign the saloon petitions. Secretary of State Earle W. Hodges also received several let ters on the matter, and he asked ( the attorney general for an opinion on the subject. Knowing that the opinion would carry much weight with it, the at torney general stated that he did not wink to makA • statement until he had thorougmy invest gated every angle of the queetion. Thia will pro bably take some time. TERRIBLE WRECK IN ALABAHA Eight Killed and More Than One Hundred Seriously Injured. Clayton, Ala., Nov. 13. —Eight per sons were killed and more than 100 injured today when three coaches of a Central of Georgia passenger train were derailed near this place. Sev eral of the injured are believed to be fatally hurt. The train, carrying a capacity load of persons, bound to the county fait ; at Eufaula, was behind time and was moving rapidly. Five coaches made up the train, which was en route from Ozark t > Eufaula. Ala. As the train circuled a curve three ' nules from Clayton the three rear ; coaches left the rails and were dashed ! down a steep embankment. Two of | the coaches almost were demolished i Passengers in the two front coaches । immediately rushed to the aid of the ' injured, many of whom were impris- I oned in the debris. Relief trains with physicians and ; nurses aboard hurried to the scene from Eulaula and Ozark. j Owing to the confusion the identi | fication of the dead and injured was progressing slowly. | One of the seriously injured persons is Jeff Clayton, brother of Congress- ■ man Henry D. Clayton. He was [caught between two heavy timbers 1 and the flesh lacerated. — I A HUNDRED FUNERALS A DAY. | Cleveland Undertakers Busy Burying the Dead in That City. — j Cleveland, 0., Nov. 12.- More than j | one hundred funeral processions fled 1 I through the streets yesterday when' ‘for the first time since Saturday un dertakers considered it possible to' drive to cemeteries. The storm Sunday afternoon tore ' loose a barge which was tied up to a dock in Sandusky Bay and half of the cargo of sixteen tons of dyna mite was washed overboard and is floating around in the harbor. The barge was blown across the bay and struck, but no explosion occurred. Captains of boats in port are afraid to leave their ships for fear of run < ning into the dynamite. I , Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 13.—That a total of at least 10 vessels and 167 lives were lost in the great storm which enveloped the Great Lakes Sun day until Tuesday, is indicated in the compilation today of reports' received i fro mvarious points on the lakes. In addition, 21 other vessels were partly or wholly destroyed, their crews escaping. Foreman Killed at Texarkana. Texarkana, Nov. 13 A. B. Holli day, foreman of the Iron Mountain switching crew, was killed here this morning when the door of a car on : which he was riding came loose, fall ing on him and tearing his left arm from the body, crushing the left side I and otherwise mangling the body. Holliday was conscious for almost an 1 hour and bid friends farewell. BRIONES IS RELEASED Man Once Thought to Be Jack the Shooter Is Pardoned. j ! Little Rock, Nov. 14. —An echo of ; the “Jack the Shooter” reign of terror was heard Thursday afternoon when Gov. Hays granted a pardon to David C. Briones, who was convicted in Little Rock July 11. 1912, of bur- j glary and assault to kill and sentenc ed to 21 years in the penitentiary. ( | The pardon was recommended by the penitentiary commission, by Miss Mary A Nolen, whose room he is alleged to have entered, and who de clares now that she believes her iden tification of him was a case of mis- ■ taken identity; by Rev. 1.. Tomme, chaplain of the penitentiary, who says that he considers him thorough ly innocent; by Robert I. Roger-, prosecuting attorney, who now con iders that there is grave doubt of ' his guilt; and, strangest of all. by a 1 petition signed by 135 other convicts who have been in prison with him,.' and who are convinced that his im- 1 prisonment is a case of justice gone ' wrong. It was during the summer of 1912 1 that the series of crimes were com mitted which aroused the city to a 1 high pitch of excitement, and which ' been guilty of all the burglaries, as saults and hold-ups that were com culminated in the killing of a negro named Brown, who seems to have mitted during that time. But numerous other arrests were made, and among them David (’. Briones, a Mexican, said to have been an officer in the rebel army, who had been in the city only a few 'days. He was identified by Miss I Nolen as the man whom she and a (girl friend found in their room one 1 ■ night, and who fin'd upon them when J i his presence was discovered. His conviction followed soon afterward. I although he has at all times stead- 1 i fastly asserted his innocence. I ’ 1 Miss Essie Case of Batesville, who I , has been a missionary in Mexico for i nineteen years, delivered a lecture at i the First Methodist church in this i city this afternoon and will give a I second lecture tomorrow afternoon at i 3 o’clock.—Searcy Citizen. 1 Big Reduction in Tungsten Lamps The genuine Edison Mazda Tungsten Lamps, the best elec tric globe made, which formerly Isold as high as 65 cents, can be bought at this store now for 35c. You know what that sort of saving means. You get a bet ter light for the same money than you can get in any other way. They are simply bottled sunshine. The 25s and 40s go at 35 cents. ———— THE CASEY DRUG CO' PHONE 75 I^—— 111 NUMBER 267. CIRCUIT COCRT hAS ADJOURNED FOR THE SEASON Judge Jeffery Left for His Home Last Night—Adjourned Session to Be Held December 15th. Circuit court adjourned here yes- I terday after the court overruled a motion for a new trial in the case of McMichael vs. St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern Railway, and the attorneys for the railroad gave notice of appeal. McMichael was awarded $35,000 damages. The court here was a busy session from the start and a great many cases were disposed of. The docket as published was almost completely’ dis posed of. but new cases came up, and some cases were brought here from the courts of other counties, which made it impossible to clear the docket at this session. On that account Judge Jeffery an nounced that he would hold an ad journed session of the court here be ginning on December 15th. It is thought that the adjourned , - w ill last for at least a week, ■■nd perhaps longer, but Judge Jef fery announced that it would last long enough to clear the docket, and finish up the business. Circuit court at Mountain View will convene the coming Monday, and af ter spending the intervening time at his home in Newport, Judge Jeffery’ will leave for that place Monday morning. The same jurors who served for the regular session of the court will serve here at the adjourned session. ’ Ll D” WANTS PIKE MONUMENT Would Honor the Great Arkansas Poet. Lawyer and Mason. Hon. O. C. Ludwig, one of the clerks of the United States senate, has suggested that a monument be erected to Albert Pike, the Arkansas poet, lawyer and Mason, declaring that if each Mason in the state con tributed $1 a sufficient sum would be raised with which to erect a hand some memorial. Mr. Ludwig in a letter to the Lit tle Rock Board of Trade says that he frequently admires the monument in Washington to Arkansas’ distin guished son, and has wondered why a similar shaft was not erected in Little Rock. He mentions the old state house yard as the proper place for the memorial.