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ASSOCIATED PRESS Leased Wire WEATHER FORECAST. Showers tonight or Thursday. EL PASO HERALD EL PASO, TEXAS, Wednesday Evening, August -----16 Pages TWO TODAY. REBELS IS ORDER 10 Witness in Election Contest Says He Received $2 After Voting. KELLY TO HAVE INSTRUCTED JUDGE That a man had voted a dead poll tax receipt, was a statement of a witness in the election contest hearing.

The witness said that the man was the brother of the dead man who had been killed at the battle of Kellano, hile fighting with Orozco's forces. A witness testified that a poll tax receipt had been issued to the dead man but none to his knowledge had ever been issued to his brother, who, it was stated, had cast the vote. A witness testified that the brother came to the polls and made an affidavit to the effect that he had lost his poll tax receipt, and was allowed to vote. The witness swore that the man gave the name of his dead brother. Another witness, who said that had lived in El Paso 64 years, and was 23 years of age when he came here from Chihuahua, testified that he was offered $5 if he would go to the polls on election day and casi his vote, but that he only received $2.

Witness also testified to the presence of w'hi3ky in some of the polling places, and to the discrepancy in the tally sheets whose balance was made by forced balance. Claim Ivelly Instmcted Judge. That mayor C. E. Kelly instructed John Saunders, presiding judge of precinct No.

3, on election day, to mark all the ballots and not to allow anyone else to mark the tickets, was the sworn statement of Ed Bryant, who was one of the witnesses put on the. stand in the contest by the contestants Wednesday morning, following the resumption of the contest Tuesday. The witness testified that the mayor and another man, a saloon man, he said, went into the polling place of that precinct on the day of the election, while the voting was in progress, and told Saunders to do all the marking of the tickets himself. Saunders, it was admitted, was a ring judge. Bryant, who was a candidate for sheriff on the anti-ring ticket, stated that he had mayor Kelly into the place, and when he was ordered to leave it, he replied that he would do so when the mayor and his companion were put out.

He said he heard the mayor tell Saunders to mark the tickets. Men Without Tax Receipts. J. G. Sauremann, the first witness Wednesday morning testified: was clerk in precinct I understood the polling was at the old school house.

I was there at 7:15. At 8:15 we were at the right polling place. When we arrived the place seemed to be opened. Mr. MeVev had been elected in Mr.

place. I did not see any record there of his election. Mr. Hadlock said that he had been elected by the voters present. I was sworn in late that 6:35.

I marked my tally sheets with the hour I was sworn in. "There was a man in a white suit. I know who he was. He would come there quite frequently. Yes.

he would accompany them inside. remember two instances where men appeared without poll tax receipts and whose names were not on the lists of qualified voters. They were Mexicans and demanded to be allowed to vote. I objected. I do not think they voted: not to my knowledge.

sheriff, a man who was wearing a gun, told Mr. Shepperd his place was outside, rived the place who cast ballots 22 and 23 were not asked for whom they wanted to vote. I remember these two. "I called Mr. attention to the law printed on the sheets about having to mark the tickets.

Says Hadlock Marked Tickets. "I remember one instance Mr. Mc- VeV asked a Mexican who he wanted to vote for and he said he wanted to vote for Alderete and the anti-ring. Mexico Cabinet Shows Disappointment that Rebels Have Invaded Coast. MAYTCRENA URGED TO PUT DOWN REVOLT I I 8 I I I 1 mm Mexico City, Mexico, Aug.

2 Maria Maytorena, governor of the state of Sonora, is authorized by the central government to use all means at his disposal to crush the revolution in his state. In cabinet meeting no attempt was made to disguise the disappointment of the government that the revolutionary forces had been able to invade the Pacific coast states. Reports from the south are more encouraging. REBEL SURGEON TO RETURN TO NEW YORK Department Is Ready to Send More Tyoops to the Mexico Border Washington, D. August Walter S.

Schuyler, commanding the department of California, was directed today by Gen. Wood to proceed immediately to the southern boundary of his department and take personal charge of the disposition of the troops there. Increased activity of rebel bands on the border as the result of the breaking up of the main army of Orozco is creating a grave situation on the American side of the line, it is said. Gen. Wood, chief of staff, today wired Gen.

Steever, at Fort Bliss, Texas, asking whether he wished further reinforcements for the border patrol. The war department to be ready for further calls for troops, has taken steps to send troops from the Pacific division within a few hours after the receipt of the request from Gen. Steever. KOSTERLITZKY YEARNS SAYS UR ALES CAN EXTERMINATE REBELS TO LEAD OLD FORCE Dr. James L.

Wilson Had Served Through Two Revolutions. Dr. James L. Wilson, who has served the Mexican rebels in two rebellions as chief of their medical corps, has left Juarez with the arrival of the federals and will go to New York. He did not leave Juarez, however, until several days after the federals arrived, remaining to look after the rebel wounded, who were still in the city, but he began to hear what might happen on account of his connection with the rebels, and on Tuesday he quietly left the town, and is now preparing to return to his home in New York.

Dr. Wilson joined the Madero revolution during the first few weeks of its beginning and remained through to the finish, taking care of wounded soldiers in Juarez for months after the revolution was ended. With the opening up of the Orozco revolt, he again went into the field and remained through the campaign, attending the sick and wounded of the army. Veteran Has Seen 40 Years of Service in the Mexican Armv. REBELS DELAY WORK OF REPAIRING TRACK When was full.

we first ar- Yoting was Mr. Hadlock said: yes, for Alderete and the The man repeated several times that he wanted to vote for Alderete and the anti-ring. We had quite a discussion over this. Finally Mr Hadlock said: yes, Alderete and the I told him that what I was trving to tell him for 15 minutes. Mr Hadlock marked all the tickets with the exception of tw'O or three occasions.

remember there was a large window at the rear of the polling place, Continued on Page Four. Federals Are Now Guarding Work Train on the North Western. Rebels, operating only about 100 miles south of Juarez, are preventing the repair of the Mexico North Western railway on w'hich they burned bridges yesterday. A force of unknown strength has held up a railway work train moving from the south. Another work train which left Juarez is guarded by 300 federals with artillery.

Word has been received in Juarez that a work train sent from the south to repair the damage was turned back by rebels during Tuesday near San Pedro. No report has been received as to the number of rebels operating in the section. The destruction of railw'ay bridges is an ordinary occurrence, but the attempt of rebels to prevent their repair is looked upon as significant. STEEVER HAS ASKED FOR PACK MULES Gen. E.

Z. Steever has asked for pack mules to handle supplies for the troops now stationed far from the railroads. He said this afternoon that he had not vet received a telegram from Gen. Wood asking if he needed reinforcements. thiijk I do at the present said the general, you can never tell when they might be REBELS ATTACK TOWN OF ZACULPEM Toluca, Mexico, Aug.

has reached here that Zaculpem, a mining town, had been attacked on Sunday by a band of rebels w'hich was repulsed after a few hours fighting. Today a larger band returned and renewed the attack. As the telegraph and telephone mires are out of commission, the outcome of the assault cannot be learned. Many mills owned by American and other foreign companies are situated in Zaculpem. COLOSSAL GRAFT IS REVEALED BY PROBE New York Investigation Shows Social Evil Houses, That Had Names of Young Girls on Their Lists, Paid Large Sums For Police Protection.

New York, N. Aug. along the trail of police blackmail that led up to the murder of the Ram bier Herman Rosenthal, the attorney now reports a form of social evil from which colossal is included. This blackmail, he says, was obtained from about a houses in this city, each of which paid from $1,500 to $2,000 a month for police protection. These houses were expensively fur nlsfced.

Only the proprietor and a few servants lived in them. Callers were shown list of names of who it is believed were callcd upon to come to the house when wanted. Opposite the names of these iiirls were their ages which ranged anywhere from 15 to 18 years. The results of the investigation probably will produce a sensation. Churchmen on ----------------------------------------------------------------------Police Commissioner Waldo has made commissioner list as the own- public a list of places raided by the police as gambling resorts during the last year and the names of owners of the property on which the resorts were conducted.

Among the names mentioned are those of many prominent in the financial, religious and social life of the city. Nearly 400 places are mentioned in the gambling list. The summoning of many owners as witnesses at the John Doe proceedings is understood to be part of the plan of the district attor- nev to determine the responsibility of the owners in allowing their property to be rented for gambling purposes, which is a misdemeanor. Among the names of the owners is that of Snug Harbor, a wealthy charitable institution on Staten Island; the Dorillard estate, that of the Lorillard family of millionaire tobacco manufacturers, and -T. Edgar Ueaycraft and Edgar C.

Deaycraft, both prominent in I States Trust company, a dozen Methodist church and missionary work, prominent real estate concerns and a The William Astor estate appears In score of women. er of two alleged gambling houses on i West Forty-third street, which were 1 raided in August and September of last year. Congressman Owned Property. The name of congressman Jefferson i N. Levy, of New York, is recorded as the owner of a gambling resort known as the New England Dramatic and Pleasure club, four times raided.

Mr. Levy in a statement said that as soon i as he received notice of the character of his tenants he Immediately began dispossession proceedings, but wras unable to get rid of them. matter became such an annoyance to that in April last I sold the property for less than its value to Felix Isman, who immediately conveyed it to William F. Funk, of Mr. Levy said.

The other owners named are L. Napoleon Levy, a brother of congressman Levy; the Clarence Pell estate, the (BY TV. If. WALKER). Emilio Kosterlitzky, colonel commanding one of the greatest bodies of fighting men Mexico has ever produced, is in El Paso on his way to Mexico City.

After 39 years of service in the Mexican army, Col. Kosterlitzky is fleeing before the first enemy he ever feared. These are his eyes which have failed him at a time when he is needed badly in Sonora to repel the invading rebels. It is for this that the famous fighting man of Sonora is on his wray to the Mexican capital at a time when he is the most needed man in Mexico, at the head of veteran rurales. ants to Reorganize Old Force.

While in Mexico City, Col. Koster- will call on president Madero and the minister of war and request a special order for the reorganization of that famous band of rurales with which he kept the peace in the interior of Sonora, during the Yaqui wars and the Cananea riots, when he and his followers were the law. He has asked for 600 men in this mounted command. Of these 500 will be his veterans of the Yaqui wars, who are willing to follow' him into the jaws of death if he led them. With this formidable fighting force, Col.

Kosterlitzky says that he will rid Sonora of its rebel invaders. For are invaders, he says, and the people of Sonora have no sympathy with them. He says that Sonora is loyal to the established government and has been since the Madero revolution. This is proved, he points out, by the fact that civilians are taking up arms to defend the interior towns against the invaders when the federal soldiers are lacking. Sonora Needs This, says Col.

Kosterlitzky, is the great weakness in Sonora at the present time. The state needs troops and munitions of war. When the Chihuahua trouble was holding the attention of the Mexican army, regulars and volunteers were sent to that state to fight the common enemy. The result was that Sonora is without adequate protection. Loyal as they are.

and Col. Kosterlitzky is one of the greatest admirers of the Mexican common soldier, he says that these men can do little against a superior force and until more trfJops and equipment is sent into the state it will be hard, uphill fight. He fought the rebels at La Dura and drove them away from that town. Arriving in the afternoon with a fraction of his old command he struck terror to their hearts and shot lead into their bodies until thev w'ere forced to surrender. He has done the same thing in other interior towns and only regrets that he did not have a force and a good pair of eyes which would permit him to stay and protect Magdalena, his home town, from the ravages of the rebels.

There Col. Kosterlitzky has his home and there his beautiful little daughter lives with him. When left, Miss Kosterlitzky was sent to MORMON COLONIST KILLED AT PACHECO Nothing Is Heard of Refugees From the Sonora Colonies Two Americans Are Declared to Have Been Deliberate' ly Murdered, After Being Left Helpless Following a Massacre at From Panama to Be Landed in Nicaragua Within 48 Hours. A message to James Martenson, of Juarez, Tuesday evening announced the killing of William Joshua Stevens, a personally directed the immediate move- Washington, D. Aug.

war department today issued orders to the 10th United States infantry, at Panama, to proceed immediately to Nicaragua. The orders came direct from president Taft himself at Bexerly. The men will embark tomorrow on merchant steamers and will arrive at Corinto within 48 hours. Large Force Is Necessary. On reports of conditions said to be so serious as to justify their being kept secret in Washington, president Taft resident of Colonia Pacheco Lment of 10th United States infantry, on the Panama canal zone, to JSica- he Nogales and now that the colonel is forced to go to the capital he has had to leave his home at the mercy of the rebels.

Until I Get wait until I get he says behind those clenched teeth. will make those fellows hard to catch. I am a defender of the established government whatever it may be, and I always have been. These men are invaders and they will find little sym- COL. KOSTERLITZKY.

pathy and much lead when they come to Sonora. If I had that brave body of men with me that had in the Yaqui wars I wotild run those fellows to hell or catch them. And He is the ono I would best like to get, for he is the one who will despoil my house. I cannot see more than 50 yards, but I will lead my men blind af- 1 ter that fellow. is loyal and poace loving if it was left alone.

Hut these men. who have been driven out of Chihuahua, are coming to bring trouble. Let them come. When I return they will see what the real, federal rurale can do for he is the greatest fighter I have ever known and with my old men be- hing me I will want nothing more to complete my career to drive this invading horde from the Forty in Service. Col.

Kosterlitzky is serving his 40th year of his service in the Mexican army. He started as a private and has made a record which is the equal of any in the history of the Mexican republic. During the Maderista revolution he defended the established government of Gen. Diaz. When Madero became.presi­ dent he retired, after 39 years of service, and decided to spend the remainder of his life in the company of his daughter.

But at the outbreak of the present revolution he was recalled to the service and returned to his post with same dash and abandon which characterized his brilliant career against the Yaqui Indians. He wears medals of honor on the dress uniform which he seldom dons. These medals are for splendid service in the Yaqui wars, for 25 and for 30 years of service in the Mexican army. Son of a Russian Cossack captain of the army. Col.

Kosterlitzky is one of the striking figures of the west and he is known as one of its bravest men on both the American and Mexican side of the border. Mormon Monday. The details of the killing w'ere not given in the message other than that it was done by an American. Martenson was notified in order that he might send a message to brother, David Stevens, who lives eight miles from Juarez, notifying him of nls death. As the telegraph line is down below Guzman, no further details of the killing have been received at the Mormon headquarters here.

When the exodus of Mormons started i from the Mormon colonies in Chihua- hua, Stevens remained at Colonia I Pacheco with his family. Although the message which was received by Mar- tenson was dated Pearson, it is believed that the killing occurred at the Stevens ranch near Pacheco. Nothing further has been heard of the refugees from the Sonora colonies, It is believed by the Mormon officials here that the colonists in Sonora have decided to remain until forced to leave and that they will stay and guard their property as long as possible. A man giving the name of Henson, of Palestine, Texas, called at the Mor- mon headquarters Wednesday to inquire I for J. S.

Wilson and Charles Summer, who were refugees from Sonora, but I were not members of the Mormon I church. He also reported that W. S. Clark, another refugee, was found by him in Benson, in a destitute condition. ragua to guard American lives and property.

Dispatches of last night and early today pictured the situation as being so acute that an immediate movement ot a large force of troops was necessary. Conditions Border on Barbarism. Allegations of conditions bordering on barbarism and acts even worse than those which took the troops of the i un.ted powers into China to quell the i Boxer rebellion have been reecived at the state department within the last 20 hours. The deliberate murder of two Americans, Dodd and Philips, after they had been wounded and were helpless following the massacre at Leon on August 19. focused attention on the previous reports of burning of soldiers, starvation of political prisoners held in dungeons and other alleged acts of cruelty.

The latest reports made plain that immediate protection for Americans was necessary and that it probably would not be safe to wait for the arrival of marines now en route. Rebels Deny Barbarity. Gen. Francisco Altschul, the representative of the revolutionist junta, in Washington, denies the charge of bar- baritv brought against the troops fighting the Nicaraguan government. He al- fully 100 Americans owning plantations in Nicaragua who must be protected from attack and looting of their properties.

Many demands that this government protect American interests have been registered at the state department. A large number of New Orleans merchants, having Central American interests, only a few days ago went so far as to protest to the department against the attitude of senator Bacon. They declared American prestige In Central America w'ould suffer im- measureably if this government failed to protect its citizens and property. They even predicted the spread of the unrest throughout other Central American states if the situation was not promptly taken in hand. American FTnaneial Senator Bacon virtually charged on the floor of the senate, that this gov- ernmen interference in Nicaragua had a conection with the failure of the loan convention by which Nicaragua was to have borrowed several millions from American bankers and under whielf treaty the Nicaraguan railroads, steamships, customs house and national monopolies were to be admitted by representatives of the American financiers.

The Diaz government, against which the political revolution is being directed, is said to have approved the atitude of the state department in regard to the loan convention. It has been reported that Zelaya, the dictator deposed and exiled to Europe In 1900, after the murder of the two Americans, Cannon and Groce, was behind Gen. Mena, leader of the revolutionists. This, however, is denied by the prominent Liberals who support the revolution. WILL ASK MEXICO TO GRANT NEW TRIAL Washington, D.

Aug. state department is preparing to make representations to the Mexican government to bring about a new trial for W. C. Nichols, an American convicted of murder at Tampico. Nichols was sentenced to eiwht imprisonment for killing a man.

responsibility for which death is said to have been confessed by a Mexican. department has taken up the matter at the instance of American consul Miller at Tampico, who reported that the trial of Nichols was in violation of all the rules of Mexican law. The Mexican alleged to have committed the murder, whose name is unknown at the state department, is declared to have admitted the crime. The state information regarding the trial was that evidence in the accused American's favor, apparently was disregarded. NICARAGUAN REBELS OPEN JUNTA IN WASHINGTON Washington, D.

Aug. appearance in Washington of an active Nicaraguan junta, working in the terest of the Liberal party, and laving leged that the burning of bodies of sol- Plans for bringing pressure to bear upon the state department to (ADDITIONAL NEWS MEXICAN ON NEXT PAGE REPORT BATTLE NEAR OJINAGA Mexican consul E. C. Llorente had reports Tuesday that a fight had occurred at Cuchillo Parado, 90 miles south of Ojinaga between federal troops under Col Jose de la Cruz Sanches and rebels thought by the consul to be under command of Pasqual Orozco, jr. The consul insists that Orozco is east and not west of Juarez, and that Jose Orozco is with him.

SAN YGNACIO MAN HELD ON NEUTRALITY CHARGE Charged with violation of the neutrality laws, Nemecio Padilla, a prominent resident of San Ygnacio, was arrested Tuesday by Capt. H. R. Hillebrand, deputy United States marshal. It is alleged, on evidence which was furnished by Abram Molina of the Mexican secret service, that Padilla exported 10,000 rounds of rifle ammunition to Mexico near Polvo, Tex.

His bond was fixed at $750 and he will be given a preliminary hearing Thursday. sm, se 9. change of policy in the handling of the Nicaraguan revolutionary problem, has added much to the interest felt by Latin-American interests in the development of the situation in the Central republic. The envoys in Washington from the Liberal party are Francisco Altschul, who was Nicaraguan consul-general in New Orleans under the Zelaya administration, and has since resided there, and Angel garte, one time Honduran minister to Washington, but afterward of the Liberal leaders in Nicaragua. They are seeking to reach the state department with a proposal that the American naval force there be diminished to a mere legation guard and that the American minister demand that all tactions.

including the government, submit to the will of the people the question of political supremacy, through a free and fair election. Situation In Me Be Deuicted In xico annoi Rainbow nues By Frederic J. Haskin Depic Little Encouragement For Era Of Peace and Prosperity diers was necessary to proper sanitation and that it applied alike to dead 4 both sides. He contended also that American interests would not have suffered if no attempt had been made by American forces to prevent the capture and operation by the revolutionists of the railway between Managua and Corinto. The junta asserts that the railroad is a national institution and should not be classed as rp American property, except as it is being administered to secure a loan by New York bankers.

Reports that women were shot are condemned emphatically by Gen. Altschul, who says that the barbarous methods were employed by the government forces when women were sent to the lines as ammunition carriers. Fire on Flags of Truce. Rebel firing upon flags or truce, born br loyal Nicaraguan troops as well as American marines, is said, however, to have been frequent within the last few davs. New attacks upon women and children and other non-combatants are reported.

In the rebel shelling of Managua during the first days of the revolution, American minister Weitzel report I ed that the firing had been indiscrimi- nate upon the section of the city occupied bv the non-combatants and that an American collector of customs named Ham and several other American nar- 1 rowlv escaped injury from bursting i shells. Nicaragua Approves Move. The United States is assured that the landing of troops has the approval of the Diaz government. Following a further demand by minister Weitzel, that Americans and their property must be protected, the Nicaraguan government is understood to have confessed its inability to meet the situation and to have consented frankly to permit the landing of American troops to protect United States citizens. The state department has proceeded upon the conviction that its action involves no infringement of the war-making powers of congress or the president.

Officials point to the fact that there is even now a whole regiment of United States infantry engaged in policing the Chinese railroad from Chin Wang Pao to Pekin. And, of course. American i tt a troops have been freely employed in the Hearing Ol K1 UclSO maintenance of peace in Cuba. It is hearts by suppressing the papers and putting them in jail. They contend that ir Diaz put robbers into his armies, Madero throws open the penitentiaries to recruit his.

They represent Madero as being for the division of the vast estates of the country while he was a revolutionist, and as for their perpetuation since he has become president. On the whole it is a very bad picture they draw of the present president and of the rule he is giving his people, a picture that makes the one Madero drew of Diaz look beatific in comparison. of Revolt. On the other hand the Madero fac- tionists are unable to see any better picture of the present revolutionists, Madero feels that the present revolution is predicated entirely upon personal ambitions. He thinks that Orozco has played him false, has misrepre- i sented him, and has led this revolution to gratify a personal spleen and to serve a personal ambition.

He admits that he nas formed a cabinet around him which is made up largely of his relatives, but he asserts that it is necessary today to have men who are tried and true around him, and that his relatives have happened to measure up to this need better than outsiders. He hopes that the charge of nepotism will not always lie against him. He concedes that he has not yet divided up the lands of the government and of the rich among the people, but he says that this must come slowty and by an evolutionary process. He says it will take time ana patience to solve that problem, and probably it will also take more money than the government has with which to do it. He acknowledges that he has had to put some men in jail and suspend some newspapers, but he says that trie Inflamed condition of the public mind makes it necessary to do something to the press by threats, Madero puts i head off further trouble.

He also as of God into newspaper serts that a cause cannot muster ASHINGTON, D. Aug. The situation that confronts the Mexican people today is by no means to be depicted in rainbow hues. Whether viewed from the standpoint of the government party, from that of the revolutionists, or from that of the outsider, the conditions in the country south of the Rio Grande offer but little encouragement to those who are hoping for the dawn of an era of peace and prosperity. The are as bitter against the Maderistas as the followers of Madero were bitter against Diaz.

In fact, they hold a special grudge against Madero. The assertion is made by them that Madero came along at the an opportune time and capitalized the military prowess of Orozco, and then, as soon as that power had put him into office he turned his back against it. The Madero Revolution. The revolutionists insist that the history of the Madero revolution is that it began as a revolt against the government of the state of Chmuahua and not against that of the na.tion. They hold that it was a righteous revolt against unrighteous conditions, and that Madero first was a sort of hang- eron and then the leader of the movement, eventually directing it against the national government.

The revolutionists insist that soon as Madero satisfied his ambition to be president he lost his desire to do those things which had commanded the support of those who put him into office. They charge that he Is doing the very things he criticized Diaz for doing, and is doing them in a worse way than Diaz did them. They asseverate that if Diaz had his cientificos around him Madero can go him one better with his nepotistic cabinet, which, it is charged, it little more than a family affair. They declare that if Diaz throt- i tied th a aa A sufficient strength to keep an army in the field, and after nearly a year of fighting is forced to take to the mountains and break up into broken and irresponsible bands of guerrillas there is good evidence of the lack of justice in its cause and of the necessity of putting it down. of the Outsider.

Between these two views there is plenty of room for middle ground and perhaps there may be some truth on both sides. To the it looks as if the second revolution is but the harvest of the seed sown by the first, and that the temper of the people is such as to lead to no hope of early peace. To with, there is always that big fact in the Mexican situation that seven-eighths of the people live in absolute ig-noranee and have no means of knowing what really is best for their country, and very little to gain whatever the outcome. All they get in life is the privilege of eking out a bare existence at a starvation wage, and such a small thing as a perennial revolution of the proportions of that in Mexico does not help or hinder them a great deal. They have no farms; they possess no habitation but a hovel, a corrugated iron shack, or a thatched hut.

So a revolution does not hurt them much. Two Crop With the other eighth it is different. They have mines, big farms, stores, manufacturing establishments, through which for generations past they have capitalized the sweat of the brow and have grown rich off his labor. The revolution does hurt thenf. It hurts them first because it takes away their labor; there have been two crop failures because there were neither hands for seedtime nor hands for harvest; and a third season for planting has passed with none to do it in a large GREAT BRITAIN MAY APPEAL TO THE HAGUE Diplomatic Not? Reaffirms Protest Against the Canal Bill.

Washington, D. Aug. Britain has reaffirmed its protest against the Panama canal bill. In a note filed today with the state department by A. Mitchell Innes, charge of the British embassy here, it was stated that if a satisfactory agreement could not be Great Britain would appeal to The Hague tribunal for arbitration.

The note submitted today says Great Britain will give careful consideration to both the bill and the message president Tatf sent to congress relating to oiscrimination in favor of American coast-wise shipping in the canal. If, after due consideration, it ts found that no satisfactory agreement can be reached in the matter Great Britain declares that it will be necessary to appeal to arbitration. MRS. ORNER JURY UNABLE TO AGREE (Continued on Page 6.J true that in each of the cases there was special warrant by treaty for the employment of American soldiers, but state department officials feel that a like obligation has been imposed upon the United States by the Dawson agreement which terminated the Zelava rebellion. Not Mean Aside from am question of treaty authorization, the administration is said to be satisfied of its rights under the principles of international law to employ any part of the army and navy of the United States for the protection oi American interests, life and property in a foreign country where the defacto government is either unable or unwilling to extend protection.

Offleals contend that such landing of American armed forces does not constitute war in any sense, there being no purpose of territorial aggression. punitive purposes, or permanent occupa tion. It is declared that there are few precedents for employing regular troops in landing expeditions, that fact is accounted for by the far greater mobility and availability of marines and bluejackets. Although the course of the United States in landing military forces on foreign soil without express approval of congress is now' under investigation by a special senate committee, named at the instigation of senator Rnenn, who has vigorously opposed sending troops outside the United States, the state department takes the position that it is supported not only by precedent in China and Central America, but also is bound by the socalled Washington convention to protect riarhts and property of foreigners and further see that the administration in Nicaragua is changed only by a fair and free expression by a ballot. The same attitude was recently assumed in Panama when this government supervised the election.

Protect Property." Furthermore, it is said, there aro The jury It is will take Woman Results in ilistrial. Marfa, Aug. Agnes Orner will have to undergo another trial, the jury sitting in the case here being unable to agree, was discharged last night, likely that the next trial place in Marfa. Orner was charged with the murder by poisoning, of her 11 year old daughter, Lilly, in El Paso, and at a previous trial in El Paso had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The court of civil appeals granted a new trial and a change of venue was obtained to Marfa.

The jury is said to have stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. BEIRUT IN FEAR OF BOMBARDMENT Fleet of Italian War Vessels Anchors Off the Svrian Oitv. Beirut. Syria, Aug. of Italian warships vessels, anchored off morning.

Their object squadron comprising six this bort this is unknown. The city is well patrolled by the Turkish garrison and all is quiet. The war vessels had previously recon- noltered the port of in Palestine, and also the Syrian seaports of Haifa, and Acre, but had not attempted a landing nor fired any shots. The populations of coast twons, however, show signs of nervous tension. fearing a repetition of the bombardment of last February, when 60 non-combatants were killed and many wounded in the streets of Beirut by the Italian fire.

At that time a number of old Turkish gunboats as well as cruisers, and a torpedo boat were sunk while lying at anchor in the port..