DISCOVER PLOT
JUST IN TIME
HUERTA WAS HEADING THE
REVOLUTION A RY PA RTY
WHEN ARRESTED
SAN ANTIONIO, Nov. 10—Tic
former chief lieutenant and cousin
of General Pascal Orozco, now a
prisoner at El Paso, who was re
ported a few days ago of having
made a confession of the alleged
plot to restore Huerta to power in
Mexico, has reiterated his previous
statement, in which he implicates
several former officers of the army
under Huerta.
In his reiteration Orozco detailed'
the story of alleged plans for an
uprising that was backed by Mexi
cans in half a dozen states. Huerta
was in New York at the time the
revolution was being arranged, but
was ready for launching the scheme
to seixe Juarez and make it the
provisional capital of Mexico. Then
came his arrest, but this did not pre-1
vent Orozco from attempting to
carry out the original plans. Gen
eral Orozco crossed into Mexico, \
lumping his bond given in the
United tates and joined his cousin
in an endeavor to secure arms and j
ammunition. Subsequently', the cous
in was arrested in Texas for at
tempting to take arms across Into
Mexico. The general was killed
some weeks later while heading a
large body of men collected and a
waiting a commander.
A part of the confession of Jose
Orozco that was not made public
in full at the time follow:
“There was $11,000,000 behind the
SHuerta movement, and the former
clerical party in Mexico was backing
it. Pascual Orozco, Jose Orozco
Isabell Gomez Robello, former sec
retary to Orozco, now living in San
Antonio, and Gen. Jose Y'nez Salaz
ar, now in prison in New Mexico,
were to have been the Huerta gen
erals who were to launch the revolt.
As soon as they captured Juarez,r
Huerta was to have pronounced it
his provisional capital. Six thous
and rifles had been ordered for the
revolt, also sixty machine guns.”
CARRANZA AND HIS PROBLEMS
( New York Sun)
Unlike the famous Pancho Villa,
Genera! Carranza is not a pictur
esque individual. There is none of
the glamor and romance about him
with which Villa is credited. He is
essentially i-. man of letters, a stu
dent and a scholsr. He abhore war
fare; his main object in life is de
clared to be to bring about peace and
tranqui'ity in his strife-tom coun
try. Thn s a basic d iference be
tween him and Villa.
General Carranza is over six feet
tall, and broad shouldered, and he
carries himself like a military man.
His snow-white beard and his dark
end eyeglasses give him the ap
pearance of a patriarch. One of the
characteristics which impressed me
forcibly when I was with him was
his coolness and apparent lack of en
thusiasm. He does not seem to pos
sess the vivacity and exuberance so
common among the Latins. He is
rather of a serious and meditative
nature, and in that he impressed me
to be more Anglo-Saxon than Span
ish.
Among the people General Car
ranze is known as the “Silent Stu
dent," and the “Librarian.” In
reality, however he is far from be
ing what is suggested by such terms
of description. While reticent and
apparently slow, he waxes warm and
enthusiastic whenever you touch the
subject of the revolution in Mexico.
I have seen him on such an occasion
and I thought that the 57-year-old
man had suddenly become a young
ster of 18.
General Carranza does not like to
be considerend a military man. He
has no pretentions to the glories of
the battlefield. Such things he leaves
to his generals. He is distinctively
a civilian and has constantly plead
ed the cauuss of the man who does
not carry a rifle, who does not fight.
His title of general is merely one of
courtesy, and the title by which he
desires to be known among the peo
ple of Mexico is: The First Chief
of the Constitutionalist Power of
the Republic of Mexico.
General Carranza realizes what a
gigantic task he undertook when he
promised the United States and the
Latin American republics to pacify
Mexico. And for that very reason
he refused to enter Mexico City till
he had gone over the ground his
generals have conquered and made a
thorough personal inspection. He
knows that a great deal of hard
work is still in store for him, but
be is going about it with the same
determination which has character
ized his fight during the past three
years.
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AT THE HOTELS
AT THE STEDMAN
Frank W. Silvis, George Inlet; i
Chas. Beckman.
AT TfT* UE^ILLA
Owen Harley, Ben Oliver, S. War
rep, Wm. Fowl^,
THE VAMPIRE MOTHER
(Charlotte P. Gillman in NT. Y. Sun)
The sweetest, lenderest, noblest,
thing we know is- motherhood; and
we have so garlanded that great
idea with votive flowers, so clouded
it with incense, so long poured liba
tion and prostrated ourselves in
worsnip, that we forget to look be
■ina the world at the fact.
There are mothers and mothers. :
There are, in overwhelming ma
jority, the loving, patient, devoted,
self-sacrificing mothers we all know, |
pouring their lives out for their!
children without stint.
But “there are others” also. Them i
are the shallow, ignorant mothers—
too many of them—who refuse to!
nurse their children, because it will
“spoil their figure” or “keeps them i
in too much;” and. back of these,
those women, who dress like women, i
but are not women—for they re
fuse to be mothers!
There is the whole large group of
irresponsible mothers who promptly
‘urn over the real care of their babies i
to any ignorant young servant they i
please to hire.
But the kind which is worst, pass- i
;ng the negative shirkers v-ho refuse j
motherhood and the lazy or indifer
ont who refuse its cares and duties
are those whom we may call Vanv ;
nire Mothers-—who live on their '
children.
T^ese from the first demand |
gratitude for what they do. They I
dwell largely on the “duties of chil- j
dren." on how much their cVRdre
“owe them.” And as soon as son o
daughter is old enough they begir
to collect the debt.
No one blames a young man for
going away from home to work, but
too many do blame a young woman;
call her selfish and ungreatful. It
is her business to stay at home and
perform her filial duties in person.
Mothers, widowed or not, will sit
peacefully down and accept the
sacrifice of a daughter’s young life,
knowing all the time that when they
‘are dead the girl will be too old for
any real life of her own.
Sometimes, it is the son. IVe see
most amiable, most lovely, most de
voted mothers, only middle aged,
quite able to earn their own living,
but far from willing, fasten like a
vampire on a hard working fellow
and keep him poor. He cannot save:
he cannot marry; he must “take
care” of his mother.
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PARASOL MONOPLANES
By far the greatest number of
flying machines used at the front
are biplanes, because the- latter
machines not only land easily and
rise more quickly than monoplanes,
but they can carry a greater weight
of bombs and petrol.
An exception to the general rule
is what is known as the “parsol
plane." It is really a biplane with
the lower pair of wings removed,
the engine, pilot and observer all
sitting under the upper plane, and
thus giving rise to the nickname of
“parasol.”
This type of monoplane is chiefly
used for directing the fire of the
guns. In an ordinary monoplane
it is difficult for the observer to
: see below him.
EXTRACTING TAR FROM GAS
Electricity is being employed with
success at a Detroit coke oven for
.the purpose of removing tar from
artificial gas in the purifying pro
cess. The gass is passed through
a highly ionized field, which is pro
duced by a high-tension discharge
of current ranging as high as 80,
000 volts, with the result that the
tar forms in large drops, which are
then easily separated.
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AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE
Entered
Mongolia, from Prince Rupert; the
Commodore and barge Henry Vil
lard in tow from Anyox; Celestial
Empire from Nanaimo; Atlantic
from sea fisheries; and Comet from
Seattle,
Cleared
Atlantic for Prince Rupert; Mon
golia, Comet and Celestial Empire
for sea fisheries and Elihu Thomson
for Seattle.
Age is Not the Cause
of your hair falH*g out. It is the con
dition of your scalp.
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i hair Tome
will destroy the germ which is the cause
of this trouble. 60 cents a bottle.
Ketchikan Drug Co.
Friday Special at
Cannon’s Bakery and Grocery
30c. size Walter Baker’s Cocoa
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for 20c. with a purchase
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of Bakery Goods
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PERSONAL MENTION
Frank Silvis, of the Beaver Falls
Power Co., is in town from George
inlet, and is stopping at the Sted
man.
HATS BELOW COST
Get won! hat at .Mrs. Washburn’s. ,
All bargains, some are selling be
low cost. Adv.
EXPERT WORKMANSHIP
When you want your clothes
pressed, cleaned or repaired, go to
an expert Tailor, who will give
you satisfaction, and charge you no
more than amatures do. Suits call
ed for and delivered.
D. WEINTROB.
Opposite Heckman’s Store. Ad.
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MONEY IN CATCHING MOLES
Nearly all the moleskins used for
making the fur garments that are
now so fashionable are imported
from Europe. But the Scientific
American remarks that American
farmers may turn the eplt of moles
into a source of profit, as the
(United States Bioligical Survey re
ports that the common moles of our
Eastern States supply a skin actual
ly superior to that of the foreign
market.
PARER SHIRTS FOR SOLDIERS
Paper shirts, made in Japan, are
now being served out to the Russian
soldiers for vse in the cold and wet
weather, which is rapidly approach
ing on the eastern front. A number
of these paper shirts were used by
he Russians last winter, and they
proved to be much warmer and
cheaper than ordinary shirts.
The paper used is called “hash
ikinrzu” and is made from the bark
of the mulberry tree. It has been
used by the Japanese army and
people for many years, its anly
drawback being that it cannot be
washed..
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THE COST OF “DIGGING IN”
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It is a matter of curious interest
to know that twice as much dirt
has been moved on the western line
of the war by the French and Ger
man soldiers in preparing the trench
warfare, as was taken from the
Panama Canal.
For more than 500 miles from
Switzerland to the channel, four
five and ?ix trenches have been
dug on either side of the dead dine,
each trench averaging five and one
half feet in depth, dug by private
soldiers, with little war spades,and
“xpenditure of human effort almost
without parallel in peaceful times.
But curious as - this item of the
record may seem, how many, as they
affix their attention to it, will con
sider for a moment what it must
mean to the permanent fertility of
the richest plains of Europe, which
have suffered such an enormous up
turning of barren subsoils.
Those who have had occasion to
note the slow degre by which our
Iowa clays, left in the process of
surface drainage, take on a culti
vated and civilized appearance will
be able to form some notion of what
is ahead of France when the work
of restoration begins. It will be
years before the farmer will harvest
even half a crop on the acres of this
trench warfare.
If there were nothing else to
eondem the insane exhibition of
folly in Europe it would be the
energy that has been spent in de
stroying the fertility of France. If
anything could be more hopelessly
and criminally ridiculous than liv
ing in ditches like rats, it would
be the waste of energy expended in
diging the ditches.
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NO SENSE IN THAT
Kissing may be indulged in with
perfect safety by observing the
following precautions as laid down
by the American Social Hygiene As
sociation: Cut out a square of tis
sue paper, give it a bath in an an
tiseptic solution and place it over
mouth. This safeguard will pre
vent ’The kiss doing you harm, pro
vided you don’t wear out the
paper or break through it.
Don’t fail to see Punchinello at
Red Men’s Hall, November'24th.
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Big coming event at the Rink.
Watch for date. Adv.
SOLDIERS IMMUNE
FROM TYPHOID FEVER
Sir Frederick Treves, chief of
the British Army Medical Service,
reports that up to Jan. 26 there had
be,: a thirty-five deaths from ty- ;
p.iotd among the British soldiers j
at die front. Of these thirty-five,
dnrty-four had not been protected
mtityphoid vaccination. The i
single case of death in a vaccinated
m n was of one who had received
only the first dose.
f 20,000 Australian troops re
iving the protective inoculation,
Surgeon-Gen. Williams reports: “Not
one single case showed any after
symptom which could be considered
worthy of consideration. Not a man
had to be taken off duty; drills
and exercises proceded as usual."
Another illustration of the ad
age “an ounce of prevention Is worth
•>. pound of cure."
BIG RINK DANCE
There will be a big dance at the
Skating Rink Saturday night Nov.
h. Music by the Raymond Orches
tra. Admission: Gentlemen $1.00,
JITNEY RACE AT RINK
White night, Friday Nov. 12th.
All the winners of Jitneys at the
Dream Theater will enter race for
a prize.
Admission 10 cents; any one wish
ing to skate after the race will be
allowed their admission to apply on
the skates. Adv. tf.
Dyspepsia Tablets
Will Relieve Your Indigestion
Ketchikan Drug Co.
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CHOICE HOLIDAY LIQUORS
Mr. M. E. Martin, of the Side
board, has just received a large
stock of fine liquors, purchased
especially for particular family
trade. He announces that tele
phone orders will be delivered free
of charge in any part of town from
2 to 5 p.m., from now on till after
he holidays.
Call up phone 42. Adv. tf.
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iiey there: Thanksgiving
MASKQUE HALL GIVEN BY KET
CHIKAN F. O. E.. Adv. tf.
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Furnished cabins for rent
Enquire at Sully’s. adv
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A BOWLING PRIZE
An eight pound tuTkey for the
best score up to Thanksgiving eve.
Phone 13
Ketchikan
Messenger Service
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dull them up for all kinds c:
lljnt delivery, window tlc.uii;:..,
iiossenger service and odd job;
Office with Jack Close.
Remember Phone Number 13
JACK UU-Q"Ik, Fropiotoi
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CLEANING AND riiEf.TMI
NEATLY DONE
in Rear of Jack Close’s Barbe:
Shop.
Suits cleaned and pressed SI.50
Suits presed 1.00
Suits dry cleane 1 E 2.50
Clothes called for and delivered
in any part of the city free of
charge.
Rhone 13 J. C. HETV P
TONIGHT at the GRAND
“The Isle of Vengeance,” In three parts
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JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, “WATCHES, AND ' |
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^ THE LINES ARE AS YET UNBROKEN. AND YOU WILL DO WELL
ITO CALL AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS EARLY. FOR A O
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LATER
THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL NEVER AGAIN PRESENT ITSELF tl
TO THE PEOPLE OF KETCHIKAN, SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT li •
NOW.
Ryus Drug: Company 1
I Libby’s Mince Meat |
Before making your mince meat for the Hol= |:
days, try some of our Libby’s in bulk, then com= I
pare the cost with the price and the trouble of 1
1“ of making yqur own. Price and quality never I:
fail to convince
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