BALLET GIRLS
GO OK STRIKE
Management of Theater Wanted Girls
to Dance in Near Altogether j
and They Strike.
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BERLIN, Jan. 3.- The ballet girls
employed at the Mannheim theater
here went on strike last night be
cause the management insisted upon
their dancing in costumes resembling
September Morn. The girls say that
they “will not go on the stage and .
dance with only a few strings of rib
bon on. especially if they are to be
paid only six dollasn a week."
The manager, Herr Frunze, says
that all was required of the girls was !
that they dance barefooted, and that :
the stories of dancing in a costume
resembling a small piece of mosquito
bar tind a few strings of baby ribbon
tire false and tire issued by the young
women to attract attention to them
selves. He states that several hun
dred girls have applied for the va
cant positions and that he will soon
have the theater opened again.
The ballet girls have organized a
union and are prepared too fight un
til they are allowed to dance with
some clothes on.
WILL FIGHT THE
LOAN SHARKS
Who Fatten on the Workingmen of
New York and Charge Usurious
Rate of Interest.
NKW YOliK, Jan. :!. Vincent As
ton Andrew (larnegie and a number
of other millionaires have organized
a banking association for the pur
t pose of loaning money to working
I men who have no security to pledge
and are therefore being robbed by
loan sharks who advance money on
salaries and are paid many times the
principal in interest and the principal
is continually growing larger.
The Industrial Loan Hank, .is it will
he called, will advance money with
out interest to anyone, provided they
<an show necessity for the loan.
Workingmen only are to be helped,
as the funds of the bank will be
limited. The expense of the opera
^ tion of the institution is to he borne
by the millionaires.
Investigations have shown that the .
money sharks have driven many men '
ro suicide after becoming indebted !
so them and finding the task of pay- :
•ing up tin endless one.
WINTER STARTS
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Latest Arrival of Cold Weather in ;
History of the City—Cold
Snap General.
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ST. PAUL, Mini,., Ja... iS.-W.siWr ,
has finally arrived here, but it is the j
iatest of any year on record and it in j
interns ly cold all through the state. ;
Lakes and rivers ar etrozeu anti :t hit
ter blizzard is raging in the northern
part of the state.
Fur costs are being used today for
the first time this winter, as up to
the present the weather has teen
unusually mild and hut little snow
has fallen.
One-lliind off on Out Glass, China
«ml leather goods for one week on
J;. ■ t Ilium's.
PRESIDENT WILSON CONFERS WITH LIND;
MEET ON CHESTER AT PASS CHRISTIAN
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Fast Cruiser Arrives At Temporary Capital On the Gulf—President Immediate
ly Boards the Vessel—Refuses to Announce Policy—Huerta Is Unmov
ed—Americans Continue to Leave Mexico City.
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Jan. 3.
The fast cruiser Chester, of the Unit
ed States Navy, reached this city to
day with John Lind, the especial ag
ent of President Wilson to investi
gate Mexican conditions, aboard.
President Wilson immediately left
for the ship and held a long con
ference with Lind regarding condi
tions in the neighboring republic.
The conference lasted for several
hours but no statement can be se
cured from any of the parties by the
correspondents now here hoping to
gain the information for the public.
It is expected that Lind will im
mediately return to Ve.ra Cruz to
await the result of the developments
of the rebellion against Huerta. Some
of the correspondents here believe
thitt the patience of President Wil
son with Huerta has been exhausted
and that an active policy of opposi
lion will be inaugurated at once, pos
sibly by blockading the Mexican coast
ports.
MKXICO CITY, Jan. 3. President
| Huerta’s friends today describe the
[attitude of the executive as one of
expectancy and curiosity as to pros
peective action by ti e United States,
j rather titan one of anxiety. They say
I he has given then no indication of
| changing his ntind about not resign
ling, and is proceeding with thfc af
fairs of. tile government with all
equanimity.
They add that he regards ns prob
able intervention by the United
States, and an order was sent today
to the slate governors to report im
mediately how many soldiers they
can have ready by Monday. The of
ficial explanation of this is that it is
merely part of the plan announced
in a recent decree increasing the
army to 150,000 men.
The departure of Americans from
Mexico continues, although in de
creasing members, which indicates
that the great majority of those in
tending to leave the city have already
gone. A train for ’’era Cruz, with
scores of refugees aboard, was held
up last night in the freight yards by
the burning of several oil tank cars.
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Sees Chaos If Huerta Goes. ;
MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 3.—That the j
United States, if it succeeds in driv- |
ing Huerta from power, will merely j
plunge the entire nation into anarchy, i
was the assertion made today by Juan !
Espinosa Reyes, a merchant and j
banker of Mexico City, en route to j
New York.
"It is plain to anyone who knows I
anything of the condition in Mexico
City,” said Senor Reyes, "that the
deposit'on of Gen. Huerta will be tlie
signal for the outbreak of anarchy
such anarchy as no civilized city has j
seen since tin French revolution
drenched the streets ofv I'aris with
blood.
"Consider the fact: in the neigh i
horhood of Mexico City, it is well i
known, there are many bands of rov j
ing bandits. These men, mere high
waymen of the same stripe as those |
who made for the Spanish mountains ;
a terror to t' e traveller in the early |
parts of the last century, call them-1
selves federals or insurrectos, just j
as the mood strikes them or policy I
advises them. In reality, they care j
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nothing for either side, or for any
side. They are buccaneers of the
present day, and there are thousands
of them.
"In the city itself there tire miles
of rabbit-warrens of tenements till
ed with the Apache, element. These
are far worse than the Apaches of
Paris, and in proportion to the pop
ulation, far more numerous. There
are thousands of them, ranging in
well organized hands about the slums
of the towns. Only strict police
watchfulness keeps them from con
stant outbreaks, and even (bis is not
always succe sful.
“The downfall of Iluerta -unless he
was instantly succeeded by a gov
ernment powerful enough to enforce
order, which is unlikely—would mean
that these Apaches and bandits would
join forces to raid tae city. 1 be
lieve that Huerta’s resignation or ov
erthrow would be instantly followed
by one of the worst outbreaks the
civilized world has ever seen, and
that the Pnited States government
would he powerleess to protect the
victims or punish the criminals.”
TROOPS CLOSE
OREGON SALOONS
Miss Fern Hobbs, Private Secretary
of Goveinor West, Proclaims
Martial Law.
COI'I’KKFIKLI), Ore., .Ian. IS. Cm
ernor Weal today dispatched Fern
Hobbs, his private secretary, to this
town from Salem, accompanied by a
detail of National Guard, in order
that the saloons might be closed, as
they were being allowed to keep open
by the cit y authorities in spite of
the opposition of state officers, who
were unable to enforce the law.
Miss Hobbs, flanked by the troops,
read the proclamation of the governor
establishing martial law and imme
diately ordered the soldiers to close
every saloon in town, which was done.
Miss Hobbs also ordered the arrest
of the mayor and chief of police and
other city officials for violation of
the slate laws and they will be held
by the troops until martial law is no
longer necessary, after which they
will ht* given a trial in the civil
courts.
aii me suioonKeepers who nave
been peddling booze in violation of
the mandate of the people, who re
cently voted for dry towns at the
last election, are also in the hands
of the militia and will he tried for
violating the laws.
The mayor and saloon authorities
have promised a hot time to the
troops if they came to town, Imt the
very determined altitude of the pri
vate secretary of the governor, and
the majesty of the law. represented
in uniformed militiamen, soon cool
ed off the l ot heads among the "per
sonal liberty" supporters, but they
h-tvo announced that the matter will
be taken to th highest courts for ad
judication.
Ail liquors in the town have been
confiscated by the soldiers and will
be destroyed.
Morthwestern Reaches Seattle.
•SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—The steamer
Northwestern of the Alaska Steam
ship company, will retell Seatile to
raoriotv night, the captain of the boat
having scat a. wireless to Seattle stat
ing that this was the expected lime
o" his arrival. .
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More Anti-trust Civil Suits Against
the “Sugar Trust1' in
Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. With the
tiling of fifteen new suits today in
the United States district court, the
American Sugar Refining company
is made defendant in civil anti-trust
proceedings under the Sherman law
for damages approximating $29,000,
000.
The suits were filed by Louisiana
cane growers, sugar dealers, and
manufacturers, who allege that the
American Sugar Refining company is
a monopoly and has manipulated the
sugar maVket to the detriment and
financial loss of the petitioners.
Damages aggregating $17,800,0011
ire asked in'the fifteen suits filed t6
day.
LISTER NAMES
NEW REGENTS
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Determined That Politics Shall Not
Enter the 8oard of Control of
Washington University.
SEATTLE, Jan. 3. —Governor List
er toJay named five new regents to
serve in the place of those of the
board who were removed by the gov
ernor for refusing to re-elect Presi
dent Kane, who has headed the uni
versity for tile past ten years. The
oppositio uagainst the head of the
college w>'s purely political and
therefore the governor is determined
It shall not prevail.
The new board of regents will hold
a meeting in a few days to elect a
president and it is generally predict
ed that Professor Kane will again
head the university.
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Twenty-four Hundred of them Are
Executed for Robbing in One
Province Alone.
PKKI.V China. Ian. Twenty
four hundred Chinamen were exeeut
ed in tlie province, of Szechuen the
past year. The greater part of the
executions were for robbery, which
lias increased greatly the past four
years.
The usual Chinese method of cut
ting the heads off of the victims in
the public streets was followed, so
that the passersby might see and be
ware of a similar fate.
In spite of the many executions, not
only in the province of Szechuen, bin
[ in all provinces of the empire, yet the
number of bandits dally increases and
the police and army are busy chasing
the thieves.
GOLD PRODUCTION
United States Produces $455,000,000
in Gold in 1913—Decrease is
$11,000,000.
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j WASHINGTON, Jnn. 3.—The report
just issued by the Geological Survey
shows that $455,000,000 worth of gold
was mined the past year, which Is a
decrease of $11,000,0011 from the year
of 1912.
California produced $20,000,000
worth of gold in 191: and again Heads
the list of states and territories in
the production of the precious metal
and is closely followed, as usual, by
Colorado, which produced $18,000,000.
Alaska is third in the list of pro
ducers, having taken out $14,750,000
the past year.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
BANDIT TO PAY
FULL PENALTY
Careful Examination of Fariss by
Medical Experts Appointed by
Court Show He is Faking.
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LOS ANGLLLS, .Ian. o. The alien
ists appointed by the court to exam
ine Bandit Fariss as lo his sanity
and mental responsibility for his
crime in holding up a Southern Pa
cific train and killing one of the
passengers on December 1st of last
yea'-, reported today to the court that
the bandit was sane and that he was
only feigning insanity.
The. judge immediately re-sen ten
ced him to be hung within 90 days.
He will be removed to the peniten
tiary in the next few days to be plac
ed in the death cell to await his fate.
The attorneys for the convicted
man will make every effort tc save
Fariss from death on the gallows and
will immediately appeal to the high -
er courts for a stay of execution
pending the decision of the appeal.
It is charged that the bandit was
not given a fair trial and that he was
railroaded by public sentiment, his
trial requiring only two hours from
the time of arru’giiiii .-nt to the return
of the verdict and sentence by the
court.
Will Force Her to Listen.
CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 3.—M. C.
Prichard, of Macon, On., has invoked
the aid of the judiciary to enable
him to talk to his wife. To tlial end
he . swore out a habeas corpus war
rant directing that Mrs. Prichard be
produced in court next Monday, and
feels confident that what he has to
say will sweep away all the'r mar
ital troubles. The rriohards have
been separated for some Vmo, and
Mrs. Prichard has been living with
Mrs. Edward B. Keeley, at whom the
habeas corpus warrant is technically
directed Baffled by the refusal of
his wife to listen to his pleas for a
reeonellliation, Prichard in despera
tion resorted to the habeas corpus
laclics ns " !»d resort. Lawyers say
lie has n good case. ,
Carl Schmidt, of Camp Comfort,
came in ■ yesterday Tom his road
house and le#t today with a load o1
Bed and provisions.
MEXICANS CAN
GROSS BORDER
Secretary of War Garrison Orders
Border Troops to Admit Them
If Hard Pressed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Secretary
of War Garrison has instructed the
commanding officers of all border
patrols of the United States, who are
stationed along the Mexican border,
that hereafter whenever federal
troops of the Mexican government at
tempt to cross the line to surrender
to tlie American officers, rather than
give up to the soldiers of the rebels,
that they are to be admitted if it is
believed necessary to save their lives.
The troops of the F'ftegritli cavalry
have been roundly scored by the press
of tile United States for forcing the
luo federal troops stationed at Ojin
aga, who tried to cross tile tine to
prevent being stood tip against a wall
and shot In the forces of General
Villa, which had captured the city,
10 return to the Mexican city anti cor
tain deatti.
Hereafter the Mexican refugees are
to be allowed to cross into the Unit
ed States and surrender to the Amer
lean military authorities.
Thousands Raid Cafes and Parade,
Demanding Work (Mot Charity—
Authorities May Provide Work
CHICAGO. Ian. II. Thousands of
hungry men and women raided tile
.restaurants and cafes and paraded the
si reels hearing banners on which
were printed the words, "We Want
Work, Not Charity.' The number of
unemployed men and women in this
city is said to he greater than at any
time in the past ten years and thou
sands are walking the streets with
out food or shelter.
Ctowds enter the cafes and res
taurants and forced the management
to give them sandwiches and pies,
cakes and such other eatables as they
eutihl easily take with them on their
march through the business section.
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British Medal to A. G. Bell.
LONDON. Jan. 3.- Nature announ
ces today that among the Fioyal So
ciety’s awards the Hughes medal has
been granted to Alexander Graham
Bell. The reward is made in re
cognition of hia share in the inven
lion of the telephone.
ELEVATE BRYCE
TO NTCY
Former British Ambassador Extraor
dinary and Plenipotentary
Given Reward.
LONDON, .Ian. 3- King George to
day elevated (he Right Honorable
Jai nes Bryce, formerly ambassador
extraordinary for the British gov
ernment to the American republic, to
he a viscount.
Bryce is the author of many books
and is especially known in America
for his book entitled "The Ameri
can Commonwealth.”
A viscount in the British govern
ment ranks fourth in peerage, inter
vening between Karl and Baron.
Fred Camel on has been appointed
. guard at the local jail in place of
Mirni.'.n Merchant, who has resigned.