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THE EVENING LEADER
VOL. 3. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
WILSON FOR PEACE
PRESIDENT TELLS NEWSPAPER
WRITERS THAT WAR WILL
BE LAST RESORT
New York, July I.—The president
in a speech before the New York
Press club last night plainly indicated
that he is opposed to war with Mexico
unless it is absolutely necessary... He
told of receiving hundreds of letters
imploring him to avert hostilities ex
cept as a last resort.
He said, “I am for the time being
the servant of the people.” A loud
chorus of “noes” greeted Mr. Wilson
when he asked: “Do you think the
glory of the United States would be
enhanced by a war of conquest with
Mexico?”
Wilson declared again that he is
ready to sacrifice his own political
fortunes in order to carry out his
convictions as to what is the just
course to pursue in the situation. A
shout of “no” also greeted his query
as whether it is America’s duty to
“carry self defense to the point of
dictation in other people’s affairs.”
“I have constantly to remind my
self,” Wilson said, “that I am not the
servant of those who wish to enhance
the value of their Mexican invest
ments, but the servant of the rank
and file of the people of the United
States.”
ROOSEVELT ORDERS RATTLE
SNAKE SERUM FROM BRAZIL
Oyster Bay, July 1. —Col. Theodore
Roosevelt has written to Dr. Ritol
Brazil, the specialist of sao Paulo,
Brazil, asking the physician to for
ward some of the rattlesnake serum
for regular army soldiers in Mexico
and national guardsmen who will go
to the border.
This letter was written after Regis
H. Post, former governor of Porto
Rico while the colonel was president,
had to Oyster Bay today and
«rged DoT Roosevelt to use his influ
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rum. 'lt Wa§N||s ji|im.*vhicfe
i* jetted ißtayAjsm'Podmey 'wherffcf tv as
mitten last Jan a Texa#mttle
snake in the Bronx zoo. Toomey re
covered. The serum was perfected
by Dr. Brazil and can be obtained on
ly from the Serum Therapeutical lab
oratories at Sao Paulo.
GIRL SAVES HER PET DOG
FROM DEATH IN BURNING BARN
Philadelphia, July I.—Devotion for
a pet dog almost cost the life of Miss
Bemette Moyer, 16 years old, when
flames destroyed the barn on her fath
er’s farm in Darby. After leading
twenty-five cows from the burning
barn, the girl remembered that her
pet dog was chained inside the build
ing, and she crawled on her hands
and knees to escape the suffocating
smoke until she reached the animal
and led it to safety. In the heroic
rescue of her pet the girl was badly
burned. She was the heroine of the
fire for she first discovered the flames,
which had gained so much headway
she had no time to alarm her parents
if the cows were to be saved.
STUDENTS TO MAKE MUNITIONS
Manhattan, Kan., July I.—Thirty
students of the Kansas State Agri
cultural college left here today for
Charleston, S. G., where they will
work during the summer in munition
factories. The students are members
of classes in the engineering depart
ment.
BALL GAMES ARRANGED
A ball game with Clearwater at
that city will be played by the local
team on July 4. On the following
Thursday Tampa will play here.
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THIS ALLIGATOR CAN BARK,
IF CALIFORNIANS TELL TRUTH
San Jose, Cal., July I.—A strange
freak of nature, which some believe to
be a young alligator and others say
cannot be classified under that head,
has been captured in Soap lake near
j Gilroy, this county, by Leland B. Hol
-1 loway.
When handled or otherwise aroused,
the thing emits a sound which is de
clared to be a cross between a bark
and a grunt. Holloway will take the
freak to the University of California,
where he will ask that an attempt be
made to classify it.
It is thought to be a hybrid originat
i ing in a cross between an alligator j
and some other animal. The old alii-!
gator is believed to have been discard- i
ed by some passing circus.
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THOUSANDS OF MEN WOULD j
ENLIST IN DIVISION UNDER
ROOSEVELT’S COMMAND
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Oyster Bay, N. Y., Jluy I.—Appli
cations for an enlistment in a propos
ed army division which Col. Theodore
Roosevelt is preparing to organize if
there is a call for volunteers, are so
numerous that the Colonel’s secretary,
Walter J. Hayes, issued today a state
ment in which he said:
“We have been literally deluged
with telegrams and letters with appli
cation from men who wish to join in
a.volunteer division. It is physically
impossible to reply individually to the
organizations and to the men who
have communicated with us, but I
will see that their applications are
carefully filed for future reference so
that in the event of hostilities they
can be apprised of what action is con
templated.”
Offers of equipment include almost
everything from shoes io cannon and
aeroplanes.
CAPT. HANS TAUSCHER FREED
k »OF CONSPIRACY CHARGE
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New York, July I.—-Hans Tauscher,
former German army officer was ac
quitted Friday by a jury of conspira
cy to blow up the Welland canal.
The jury was out fifty-five minutes.
When the verdict was read Captain
Tausclier’s wife, Madame Gadski, the
opera singer, and Miss Lautta Tau
scher, his daughter, wept for joy.
, Two men started a demonstration
by clapping their hands and shouting
in German but were quickly ejected.
Tauscher left the courtroom immedi
ately with his family.
STUNG EVERY DAY
Oakland, Cal., July I.—Walter S.
Halliwell, president of a Kansas City
cement company, who is visiting here,
believes that the sting of a bee will
help drive away rheumatism and he
carries a small hive with him on his
travels so that he may apply the cure
every day. Halliwell keeps his bees
in a little box and feeds them daily.
SWISS LOAN OF $20,000,000
Berne, Switzerland, July I.—Swit
zerland is issuing a new loan of $20,-
000,000 in 414 per cent bonds at the
rate of 97. With this issue the Swiss
loans, covering the cost of mobiliza
tion and the frontier watch, and in
cluding the $155,000,000 contracted
for in the United States, now amount
to $92,440,000.
NEW MAIL CARRIER
Beginning today the mail which has
been carried by William Driver to
Elfers, Port Richey and other points
is being carried by Walter Grable in
an auto.
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY J, 1916.
MEXICO DECIDEDLY DEFIANT
IN SEMI-OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM
ANSWERING PRESIDENT’S NOTE
Carranza Declares United States Had
no Right to Cross Border—Tone
is Impudent
Mexico «City, July I.—The Mexican
I foreign office yesterday issued a mem
orandum in reply to Lansing’s recent
i note in which correctness of asser
jtions in a communication from Wash
ington were repeatedly denied. The
! memorandum declares that the United
i States had no right to maintain armed
j forces in Mexico.
Although not in the form of a di
jrect reply to Lansing’s note it is con- .
! sidered equivalent to an answer. It
j expresses surprise that Washington
should be pained at the tone and con
tents of the Carranza document since
it maintains that the United States
sent many overbearing notes to the
Carranza government.
Denies Bandits Were Abetted
The document denies that the Mex
ican government protected the bandits
who committed depredations in the
United States and defies Washington
to prove this. The blame for the Ysa
bel murder is placed on the irascible
disposition of Charles Watson of Cus
imine.
Watson, the memorandus asserts,:
was warned against making the trip,
by General Trevino.
Sore at U. S. Generals
The Mexican statement also accuses
Generals Scott and Funston with bad
faith in misleading Obregon in an al
leged evasive reply regarding the
crossing of American troops after the
Glenn Springs raid.
The memorandum says that if it is
true that the United States arrested
Huerta the motive which prompted it
was for Huerta permitting plotting I
with Germany. j
The memorandum concluded by say- |
ing the presence of American troops j
in Mexico incites rather than prevents !
bandit raids. !
LION’S BILE CHEAP
BOY GETS $75 DAMAGES IN SUIT
AGAINST THE OWNER OF
JUNGLE QUEEN
Paterson, N. J., July I.—Judge Jo
seph A. Delany has awarded $75 dam
ages in a SSOO action brought by
Frederick Mooney, a grocery boy,
against Felix Gould, a school teacher,
because, according to Mooney’s testi
mony, Gould’s pet lioness bit him.
“Like a thunderbolt,” testified Moo
ney, “the beast leaped for my leg and
held on for ten minutes. Doctors’ bills
and loss of time from work cost him
S6O, he said.
Gould said he got Queenie, the lion
ess, from Central Park zoo in June,
1914, when she was but a few weeks
old. He said he had brought her up
on milk and that she was as tame as
a kitten, and often played with chil
dren and never bit anybody. He de
nied that she attacked Mooney, and
said that Mooney wanted to match
Queenie in a fight with Mooney’s bull
dog.
Judge Delaney decided that to lead
a lioness in the street constituted neg
ligence.
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Expect Defiant Reply
Washington, July l._While admin-!
istration officials manifested impa- j
tience over the delay of Carranza’s!
reply,, private advices from Mexico
City indicated that a defiant answer
is being prepared there. Advices ex- j
pressed the belief that a break be
tween the two governments is una
voidable.
The state department has no direct
information as to when the reply will
be sent or how it will be transmitted.
It is believed now that it is possible
that the communication will come
through the Mexican ambassador here
and its actual delivery conditional up
on the situation at that time.
Efforts of mediation in behalf of
Carranza indicate that a reply may be \
withheld until the last moment if'
there seems a chance that Washing
ton will listen to these proposals.
Attitude Still Hostile
Assertions that Carranza’s attitude
is still hostile, however, seem to be
borne out by the unconciliatory char
acter of the memorandum of the Mex
ican foreign office, published simul-1
; tancously in Mexico City with Lan-!
sing’s last note. Intimations here,'
though, are that Carranza will be!
willing to give strong assurances j
that border raids will be prevented j
by a heavy Mexican patrol, if the j
American troops are removed. It was j
said last night that 50,000 Carranza j
troops are ready for border duty.
Washington is said to be ready to
■act promptly if Carranza reaffirms
his orders to General Trevino, author
izing attacks on American troops mov
I ing in any direction except toward the
iboJdeJ
[ A censorship on militia movements
l was put on yesterday and Major Mc
(Arthur was put in charge of the war
: department information.
SOUNDS LIKE HOWE
THIS YARN IS MUCH LIKE SOME :
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THEY TELL ON TARPON
AVENUE
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Earned, Kan., July I.—Enoch Chase
had a peculiar experience last week j
while taking the logs out of the old j
dugout on Mel Hicks’s south eighty, j
He ran across a joint snake down be
tween the logs and hit it with his
spade. Os course every joint flew
apart and started to wiggle off.
Enoch, just for a joke, picked up one
of the joints and put it into a bucket
and then slipped behind the logs and
waited to see what would happen. In
about ten minutes he heard a cort est
low whistle and then a rustling. The
head of the joint snake came out of
the weeds and looked around. It then
made a peculiar whistle and another
joint backed up and fastened on to
tne head.
The head whistled twice and joint
No. 2 came out, and so on, so many
whistles for each joint, until it came
time for the one Enoch had in the
bucket. At its call the thing thrashed
around in the bucket like all possess
ed, but couldn’t get out. Os course,
without the joint that fit, the snake
couldn’t get together.
Enoch said the last he saw of it the
HOUSE PIPED FDR MUSIC;
PHONOGRAPH IN BASEMENT
Brizil, Ind., H. E. Thompson, su
perintendent of the Indiana Paving
Brick and Block company works,
when he wishes music at his home
presses an electric button on the wall,
and from the cold-air duct and the
registers of the hot air furnace come
in succession ten different selections,
which are repeated until the electric
switch is turned off.
The music fe produced by a phono
graph arrangement in the basement.
A circular table is arranged with ten
records around it, all moved by an
i electric motor beneath the table. In
| the center of the table, pointing up
jward into the cold-air duct, is a large
j plaster of paris horn, which is con- i
jnected with the reproducing mechan
ism.
USE iiuiEX
SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS OF
TRINITY CONGREGATION WILL
OCCUPY ROOM TOMORROW
The addition to the annex of the j
Trinity M. E. church is so near com- 1
: pletion that the additional space will j
!be utilized by the Sunday school to
morrow morning. The added portion !
gives 30x35 feet of floor space, and
will enable the complete edifice to seat
500 persons, making it the largest au- :
ditorium in the city.
When completed and furnished the
addition will have cost about $1,200,
of which $822 was lifted in a single
j collection some Sundays ago. The j
Rev. Joseph Antle is planning a ded
i icatory service, the date to be an
i nounced later. • i
Moveable partitions will divide the
| annex into Sunday school class rooms.
I Furniture and decorations will be in
j stalled as soon as Contractor George
j Wood completes his work.
PROPERTY IS IMPROVED
Lewis Drivas’ home next to the
Baptist church is being improved, by
' the building of an additional story.
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Unkind Comment.
I The women who called just because
| they couldn’t get out of it were met
at the door by the maid. “My mis
tress is taking her beauty sleep,’’ she
said. “How long does it take her?”
asked one of the women. “Oh, less
than half an hour.’ “She looks it,”
| said the other woman in a whisper to
| her friend. Then they left their cards
! and trotted along. j
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Unjust Discrimination.
J. Fuller Gloom—“ The meaner a
1 bulldog’s disposition is the higher
j price he fetches. But when a man
i cultivates a chronic grouch nobody
| wants him around. This is gross dis- |
I crimination against man who was cre
| ated but little lower than the angeis.” !
I —Kansas City Star.
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Mountains.
These great cathedrals of the earth,
with their gates of rocks, pavements
of clouds, choirs of stream and stone,
altars of snow, and vaults of purple
traversed by the continual stars. —
Ruskiu.
Men and Women.
A man can go his own way with
much less opposition than a woman.
And in that may be found the reason
for the common opinion that men are
more broad-minded than women.
head had taken charge of one half
and the tail the rest and had gone off
in different directions to hunt up the
missing joint. Enoch got almost home
with his joint when an automobile
tooted down the road. This either j
scared the joint or it was its coupling
i on signal, for Enoch says it managed
J to flop out of the bucket and get away
in the tall grass.
TEN CENTS A WEEK. NO. 148.
ALLIES MAKE RAINS
SUCCESSES ALONG THREE IM
PORTANT FRONTS ARE REPORT
ED OFFICIALLY AT LONDON
London, July I.—Successes for the
allies on three of the most important
fronts in France, Italy and East Gali
cia have been officially reported. The
French recaptured Thiamont and
worked northeast of Verdun after a
severe struggle. The British are con
tinuing their tactics of destroying the
| German first and second line trenches
from the Ypres to the Somner river.
The Russians announce the capture
of Kolomea, an important railroad
junction, leading to Lemberg and have
taken the town of Obertine, north
east of Kolomea; also artillery fight
ing continues in the Riga sector.
The Italians have taken Brisco and
and several mountain positions south
east of Trent, capturing nearly 1,000
prisoners. It is unofficially reported
I that the German and Russian fleets
’engaged in the Baltic Thursday.
FORD TO SPEND $8,000,000
IN BUILDING PART PLANTS
Detroit, July 1. —Plans for blast
furnaces and part making plants, to
be erected at the River Rouge and the
Pere Marquette railroad by the Ford
; Motor company at a cost of $8,000,-
000, wer announced today.
At least four furnaces will be erect
ed, and it is the company’s plan to
, have ore brought directly to them,
j leaving the Ford company dependent
on no one but the mines and its own
resources. This action was decided
upon despite the fact that the c >m
pany now has contracts with other
■ firms extending over a period of four
j years for parts not now made in the
Detroit plant.
j Work on the new plants will be be
■ gup in the fall and will not interfere
r : .with the previously announced plans
I of Henry Ford to erect a huge tractor
plant. Operations on the latter will
not begin before spring.
i Along with the announcement of the
; increased operations comes the report
■ that Henry Ford was recently offered
$200",000,000 for the Ford plant. Ford
, refused, adding that during his life
the plant would not fall into the hands
cf capitalists, who would make the
plant the basis of a monopoly.
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HAIR CUT SLOW IN LONDON
AS ALL EXPERTS ARE. GONE
| New York, takes twice as long to
get your hair cut in London as it did
before the war. In itself this loss of
time can scarcely be called momen
tous, but as a symptom it is signifi
| cant of a great deal. The fact that
! London barbers are reducing their
staffs and have to fall back upon in-
I expert assistance is a single illustra
tion of industrial changes that are go
ing on everywhere.
Let me give a few examples Irora
my personal knowledge. The other
day the spring of the paper carriage
of my typewriter broke and I took the
machine to a leading firm of typewrit
er repairers to get it mended. It was
more than a month before I got it
back. They explained that they had
only ten men left out of a normal
staff of about fifty.
NEW YORK SUN SOLD
New York, July I.—After trying 23
years to maintain a proprietory news
gathering organization, the New York
Sun was yesterday sold by Frank A.
Munsey and will abandon its service,
being supplied by the Associated
Press. The price of the Sun will be
I reduced to one cent.