The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 1

ADVERTISERS WHO WANT RESULTS USE THE EVENING RARER NO 115 VOL LV MODESTO CALIFORNIA SATURDAY MAY T'6 1914 STRIKE VICTIMS TO Private Death Will PLEAOC Not be Avenged at Present RELATE CONVICTED DYNAMITERS DETAILS OF MUST SERVE SENTENCES Although Administration Officials Are Wrathy At Treatment Accorded American Soldiers at Vera Cruz They Still Insist They Will Await the Outcome of Peace Contererce Next Week Gain Control of Government Blanquet May I TVEITMOE WILL NOT KNOW HIS FATE UNTIL NEXT WEEK AS A RETRIAL APPEAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OTHER DEFENDANTS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHIN THREE WEEKS BY FEDERAL MARSHAL 4'qr CHICAGO May 10 The local feder- report to the warden at Leavenwor th where the government penitentiary is located or to the federal marshal of this district who will send them to the penitentiary Barnhart Houlihan and Olaf Tveit-moe the latter of San Francisco will not know' their fate until next week as a retrial appeal is now under way Counsel Folk Admits that the Massachusetts State Courts Were Paid Money For Their Influence In Stock Deals WASHINGTON May 16 The murder of Private Parks the account of which his been received at the war department will not cause reprisals by the United States for the present although the war department officials are aflame with anger and Secretary of War Garrison has admitted that the is Secretary of State Bryan however insists that the death of Parks was merely another example of an outrage for which Huerta is held responsible His case like many others will be considered in the final settlement The president is supporting insistence that nothing so far will interfere with the mediation plans It is expected that the Niagara Falls conference will eliminate Huerta and that it will result in the suggestion of a real peace plan without the belief that any additional American fatalities will force hand Despatches received from Mexico City emphasize the fact that mob rule is threatened As a result it is anticipated that Huerta will eliminate himself or the people will cause his downfall It is generally admitted that Huerta is ignoring affairs of state and that General Blanquet is the real head of the Huerta government It is also rumored that if the opportunity presents itself Blanquet will seize the government affairs and assume the titular head The Huerta mediators are due here this afternoon and are expected to immediately proceed to Niagara Falls to attend the conference jal court of appeals for this district to- day ordered that all (ho convicted appeals for a re-trial under ja writ of habeas corpus be rejected and that the defendants totaling 24 lie again taken into custody within i three weeks The accused men must Relatives of Nine Children Who Were Cremated Leave For Washington To Present Facts To the Chief Executive TR1MI)A1) Colo May Mrs Jolly a lender among the women at Ludlow Mrs Mary I Truce whose three children were cremated and Pedro Valdez whose brother the wife and six children were abo hunted during the recent riots wherein the Colorado state militia arc accused of firing the cam started for Washington last night to plead with President Wilson in person to use ills influence to settle the strike They will describe to the chief executive the Ludlow horror Mother Jones the sympathizer will meet them In Washington i Irrigators Want State To Purchase Bonds Tlio proposal to circulate petitions mediate action in circulating the peti-1 coking toward the placing on the bal- tions to secure the required 30000 lot at the November election an am- signatures and the prompt employment endmerit to the state constitution pro- a sucl as A- L- Cowe11' conducted a strenuous campaign for vidmg for the purchase of irrigation tke (jjstj-fots at the last legislative sea-district bonds by the state was the sion to make the fight in behalf of one subject of consideration and dis- Passage of the measure The report of Secretary Fierce WASHINGTON May The Interstate Commerce Commissioners today disclosed evidence that part of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad high finance operations was due to the influence of the Massachusetts state courts through the New England politicians Prosecutor Joseph Folk asserted that one of the thirteen demands before the New Haven purchased tha Westchester road was that the courts should uphold the validity of the Westchester franchises which were not worth the paper they were written on Only three of the thirteen demands were made public and none of them disclosed how the judges reached their favorable decisions HUERTA MEDIATORS ARRIVE WASHINGTON May The Huerta mediators arrived at the capital at 2:30 this afternoon ami fervently embraced all the Mexican and Spanish residents who greeted them at the depot The four comely daughters of Senor Eabasas a member of the local Mexican colony accompanied the mediators who seemed wearied as a result of their trip PATTERSON MAN IS KILLED IN EALL showed that throughout the state among irrigation districts there is a I Irrigation recognition of the fact that some- i tiling must he done at once to give lie meeting was attended by rigation bonds tiie place in the market at the Modesto WILL INSIST ON REPRISALS WASHINGTON May Secretary of State Bryan stated this afternoon that li is representations to Huerta in the Park's case urgent" Although he did not specify the exact nature of his demands lie declared they referred solely to the one point that Huerta had persistently held up any information It was announce! that the Brazilian minister hai telegraphed that it was announced authoritatively that Parks was dead ir-J cession at a meeting of the Irrigation Districts association of California this afternoon office representatives front five of the i tiat insure their sale and the attend-i iatcd districts South San Joaquin ant possibilities of development of tiie Oakdale Turlock' Alta and -Mode Imperial a ml La Mesa not having del legates present in attendance wen also A- Cowell chairman 1 t0 irrigation projects Bond buyers are I now refusing to purchase such bonds only at discount of 15 to 25 per cent and in many instances bonds fail to find purchasers at any price Tlio Second Becker Trial May Result In Conviction FOR GOVERNOR IS amendment proposed would make possible the issuance of bonds by tiie and Pierce of Mail- stale to secure funds to purchase members of a committee up-1 bonds issued by irrigation districts and at a joint meeting of the San course tile state supervision Vnley Problems Asociation through some commission of tiie is-11(1 the Association at Ha-! nuance of the irrigation bonds to in- King of Hanford one of tiie Hargrove 'ratio nominees for Governor Modesto this afternoon renew-1 cquaintances and looking aft-iitical fences is one of tiie loading Donio- Livingston teca as pointed Joaquin (Speciai to the News) PATTERSON May Harry A Wilson aged 40 who has resided in this vicinity for the past two years fell from the scaffolding of a windmill which he was erecting yesterday afternoon at the ranch of Otto Anderson and broke his neck The accident occurred shortly after three o'clock and he died soon after nine o'clock last night Following his fall Dr A Field was called but the man was beyond his help He leaves a wife and five daughters all but two of the daughters residing on his ranch in Uio Patterson colony Coroner Bowker of Modesto is expected here late this afternoon to hold an inquest tlio jury having already been summoned Wilson came here from Fresno but his family home is at San Jose where the body will ho burled Monday Wilson was only about six feet Horn the ground when he lost his balance but he fell such a way as to cause fatal Injuries NEW YORK May The state will probably rest in the second trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Backer next Monday following which it is expected that Becker himself will testify as it seems the only chance of clearing himself Observers who have been watching the trial closely and who were present at the previous trial state the evidence is much stronger than at the first trial The widest lattitude has been allowed District Attorney Whitman who is expected to severely grill the defendant when he is placed on the stand next week CONSUL SILL IM AN SAID TO BE SAFE WASHINGTON Max- The Brazilian minister at Mexico Pity who lias been repi-seating America since the departure of Charge d' Affaires O'SIm uglinessy advised the state department today that American Consul Silliman who was supposed to have been slain is safe and is now ein oute to the Mexican capital He was due to arrive there last night or this morning The minister said his delay was probably due to lie destruction of the tracks from Saltillo to Mexico City He wired: "I am informed that Silliman left Saltillo on the lltll and unless the railroad lines a re interrupted he should have reached Mexico City on the night the fifteenth or the morning of the sixteenth As yci I have been unable to locate Correspondent Foster but am still inquiring" r(ftiv hiDemocraGcllmdittcs 1 kersfield last February 23rd lo inves- i sure their stalllity- 11 is tliouKlit InyyearrwMLhehas ligate the possibilities of such an with the state standing as a ready endment and report at this time The matter of Hie amendment possibilities of support both ns to finances for carrying on a Association was the presiding officer campaign in its behalf and us lo Judging from tiie sentiment express-and tiie proper method of pro- rd in the remarks of the speakers and a part of tiie state in tiie eeks he will commence in earnest next week 1 intention of making an a la Johnson Later campaign Mr King will pay an- V()teB tl is his automobile in the other visit Modesto and tell the people more fcf his aims in regard to the Governorship of California Mr King will I leave tonight for Ids home in HanAprd where ho is soiled- cedure before Secretary la trip to secure the success of the the directors of tiie several irrigation amendment at the polls was brought districts present it seemed certain Hie gathering by a report from that tiie vote of the assembly when DANISH EULERS VISIT PARIS Pierce who lias made of investigation throughout the uled to speak ft an picnic tomor- stat( Mr- memit-i ini- taken would result in a declson to start the campaign with tiie petitions at once am me an in tod a a row El Paso Citizens Friendly With Mexicans PARIS May 16 King Christian and his Queen were to arrive here today for a formal visit to President Raymond Poincare and the French Republic The visit from Denmark's rulers following so closely on the heels of that of King George and Queen Mary of England and coming just previous to tbe scheduled visit of President Poincare to Russia is believed to he for the purpose of cementing and enlarging the Triple Entente PHILADELPHIA May The pick of the college eights of the east were entered in the anneal American elln-ley fixture on the Schuylkill river today Pennsylvania was expected to way at the finish EL PASO things consider' able tiling tha serious outbreaks between and Americans hero and Texas May il it is rather there have lfi ll that matter if the federiis happen to a remark- he in power at Juarez not been But the race track is not the noyl nt-Mexicans traction for gamblers and other lovers Juarez of which Juarez holds out IN ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAM AMERICAN RESIDENTS PROTECTED WASHINGTON Max The navy department today received despatches stating that the Mexican federal gunboats Zaragoza Bravo and the tug Vera Cruz had reached Pureto where another battle may be fought in the near future The consul at Tampico reports that General Gonzales lias given assurance that all Amcricin residents and foreigners will receive every consideration He also reports that the situation at Tampico calm and orderly ami no outbreak is feared Consul Bouncy of San Luis Potosi who is aboard the steamer Mono Castle enronte to Galvescton lias notified the state department 'hat no Americans had been killed in his district when he left but that all railroad traffic was parnlizul on account of lack of fuel tire pot iii all gambling games Hie possibilities for an argument resulting in a general melee are tremendous especi- Si i I I I ally when the character of tiie hot blooded Mexicans is taken into consid- wliicli is just across a short bridge I There are the cock fights the roulette oration The trouble about such a over tiie Rio Ghmde El Paso's popu-1 wheels the faro banks "no limit but I fight is that the Mexicans want to get lation of 40(M)0 is largely Mexican the ceiling' poker games and last and their knives into action or indulge in and there lead the 7 most important of all a little shooting in which latter phase Sweeney as of WASHINGTON May of Seattle was today nominated assistant secretary to Secretary the interior Franklin Line ISIS THEATRE Phone Main 7U1 the cowboy element from Texas is onjy too ready to accommodate them Then there is no police force worthy of the name in Juarez and in the event I HZ strained rotations between tiie Con-HtltutioiUfilists or the federals and the American administration have seemed land get instant action If the "sports" near tiie breaking point ami El I are interested settlements take place Pasoans have looked for trouble that every few minutes With the odds has never come (large because of so many players the it cost only five cents on tlio trol- winner draws down a considerable pot ley line to cross the national bound-j for tlio amount invested In playing ary into Juarez in that Mexican city this favorite of tiie Juarezites everj Kent) lias all tiie advantages of a lottery in that a large number of persons can play at the same time REBELS ALLOWED TO RECEIVE ARMS ons point All imli of a real riot lasting over a period of days the only appeal which could he made would he to Villa And many of tlio Mexicans themselves would rather their city be pulled down about their ours than appeal to him knowing full tO O' Daniel Id not ind that reive and ireveut he Theo Bell Is There With the Plums WASHINGTON May All unique dialler was given hen' last night with Representatives Clark Vnderwood Vann and Murdock as the guests of honor The hosts and the dishes they to the fact that war munitions at Tampico Seertary of State Bryan American manufacturers only orders issued to the navy re to watch for shipments of WASHINGTON May 1 rebels have been permit Both Seerotary of the Navy hinted today that they wc from shipping ammunition i forces in the general dirt inns li TONIGHT "The Wolves of the Underwork" a two reel feature "A Happy "In the Spider's Web" "An Errand of Mercy now controlled by constitutionalists player is given for a small fee usually well what would probably follow are gathered hundreds of gamblers ten cents a card which bears from (should the soldiers be loose" from North America racing men pro-j fifty to one hundred numbers With following the "saving" of tiie city motors of cock fights and bull fights one hundred persons taking part this (They figure that while the city might and the usual hangers-on of these would make a pot of $10 from which lie saved it would be saved for the amusements (would be deducted the bank's com- constitutionalist soldiers and not for The race track is only a short dis- mission jthe inhabitants tance from Juarez It can he reached i A "house" employee draws duplicate With all Hie gambling rock fighting In less than an hour from almost any numbers from a box slowly calling 'and horse racing that heart could point in El Paso Instead of being them out to the waiting men who wish if one heart desires this sort of limited to a period of days the race have their cards before them with thing it is little wonder that a tre-meetings sometimes are stretched out iittlo tiits of gnu wadding ready to memious number of men fond of that over period of months it is point-be stuck upon tiie numbers upon their sort of tiring the vein character of ed out bore that Hie easy money of cards as these are announced by the men usually who are most prone to the race track affords considerable i aller Tiie first man to complete a trouble of more serious diameter augmentation to the funds of til eon- (row of three numbers covered with inis been drawn to the little Mexican stltutlounlist or to Hie federals for gun wadding shouts "Keno" mid lie 'city i CAPTURED lb The Spanish refugees arriving at a special train informed American Con-eral Aguilln and his lieutenant Blanco nptmvd Tux pant Thursday They stated Best bravery and easily made the capture intrepid attack 1 TUXPAM IS REPORTED WASHINGTON May I Vera Cruz this morning in sul Canada that rebel ge'i i also known us a general i their forces showed the gnu i of the town because of their Coast fish Matinee Saturday and Snnday EVENINGS AT 7 ALWAYS t-10c.