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JAPANESE GUNS
Also Buys American Guns, Which Are
Shipped to Hamburg and Re
shipped to Mexico.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—American
arms and ammunition for Huerta,
which cannot be directly exported to
Mexico, are being shipped from the
United States to Hamburg, and re
shipped to Mexico. This became
known to officials here today when
if was found that a large shipment
recently had been made by that route.
In connection with an order for
arms for the Huerta government in
Japan, advices, here say the muni
tions are rifles recently discarded by
. the Japanese army in favor of a new
type. Although manufactured in the
imperial Japanese armories, like the
old Springfield muskets and theKrags
which followed them in this country
the arms were disposed of by the gov
ernment to private dealers and it is
understood that in this way the Mex
ican government has been able to ob
tain them.
It was stated at the State depart
ment today that the contracts for the
delivery of the guns were made in
April, before the United States gov
ernment announced its policy of re
fusing recognition of the Huerta
government, and that there was no
warrant for protest against the deliv
eries now.
BANKS JOINING
THE NEW SYSTEM
Treasurer Receives 1,200 Applications
For Membership In the Regional
Banks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 - -Twelve
hundred national banks liave peti
tioned the Secretary of the Treasury
tor membership in the regional re
serve banks to be established under
the new currency bill lately enacted.
The application of the 1,200 banks
assures the success of the new bill
and it is now thought that not one
per cent of the national banks of the
country will surrender their national
bank charters to avoid subscribing
to the capital of the regional bank.
President Wilson is greatly pleased
at the showing made of banks willing
;o join the regional banks and co-op
erate with the government in a bank -
ing system which is aimed to free
business intersts from the control of
Wall Street speculators and stock
maniuplators and to preventing the
'control of the money by a few banks
ind corporation.
STOP FIGHTING
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Rebels Investing Ojinaga Sent to Ju
c.riz fcr More and Secure 100,
000 Rounds.
PRESIDIO, Texn,. k.ri: 3— The
battle across the lino waif halted today
because of the shortage of aumuui
tion by (he rebels who have sent to
Juarez for a new supply and 100,000
rounds of ammunition has been ship
ped from thai town to the beseiging
force, who will continue the invest
ment of Ojinaga.
Change of piogram toruono.v at the
Orpheum.
MOVER IS BUCK
10 OLD MICHIGAN
Is on Verge of Collapse From Effects
of Wounds—Appears Before the
Grand Jury.
HOUGHTON, Mich., Jan. 9.—Presi
dent Moyer returned to this city to
day in spite of the threats which he
alleges has been made against him by
the members of the Citizens’ Alliance
and the hired gunmen of the operat
ors. He is being protected from any
attack by two armed deputies from
the sheriff’s office and several special
guards hired from a private detect
ive agency by the federation officials.
Moyer appeared before the grand
jury and gave his testimony in con
nection with the assault to which he
had been subjected by the Citizens’
Alliance a.t Calumet and the depor
tation of himself by the mob when
they forced him on a train and told
him never to return.
Moyer is on the verge of collapse
from the effects of his wounds.
UNSCRAMBLING IS
Union Pacific Preferred Stockholders
Claim Share of $80,000,000 Mel
on to Be Cut.
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NKW YORK, Jan. 9. -The prefer
! red stockhouders of the Union Pa
! rifle Railroad have eomnieneed a
1 suit to restrain the division amonw
I the Union Pacittc common stoekhold
| ers of the $80,000,000 of Baltimore A;
j Ohio stock held by the Union Pa
i cific but which they were forced to
; disgorge by a decision of the Supreme
| court which held that the stock of
! eastern roads could not be held by
i the Union Pacific.
The owners of the preferred stock
I hold that they have an equity in the
j $80,01)0,000 of Baltimore & Ohia stock
; and that it must not be disposed of
; unless they receive an equal share
j of it.
! The attorneys for the company re
j fuse to make any statement regarding
j the1 right of the owners of the com
Imon stock to'receive the Baltimore &
j Ohio stock.
The plan of distribution was to
| give to the stockholders of the Union
i Pacific, proportion of the holdings
| in the eastern road.
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Countess A Nurse.
PAWS, Jan. 9.—The Countess do
li Gueriviere, who in 1907 appeared
I as the first woman cab driver in
1 the streets of Paris, has since twice
j changed her •'profession."
j After a brief success us a “cabby,"
1 the Countess, who at one time was
1 very wealthy, bm is now forced to
(earn living, became a barber’s as~
I sistant. She then opened a barber’s
j shop on her own account, but this
I venture did not last long. A few
i months ago a third change took place
i and the Countess became a nurse in
ja Paris hospital for dogs, cats, and
i birds.
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Newspaper Air Mail.
LONDON. .Lin. 9.--The Daily Mail
; is making an interesting experiment
In connection with th'fe distribution ot
j its Reviera edition, which begins pub
I licaiton in Nice on Saturday.
| It has engaged the airman Salmet
• to leave Nice every morning with
: parcels of the newspaper, which he
will deliver along the coast'. Each
' parcel will be attached to a parachute,
and Salmet will throw out a parcel
at e.ieb of the principal towns over
which ho passes.
The McIntosh teams reached
Won mans yesterday evening in tine
time, as the trail into the intarior is
now in excellent (ondition.
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BIG GRAFT IN
ENGLISH ARMY
Scandal Promised Relating to Army
Canteen—Big Army Offi—
O'
cers Involved.
LONDON, Jan. 9.—The newspapers
of London have unearthed a tremen
dous scandal in connection with the
canteen of the army. It is stated
that men in high positions in the
army are involved besides several
lords and government officials.
Only meagre details are now print
ed, but no end of promises of un
earthing a huge scandal involving
army officers is given by the papers,
who have a large force of reporters
and detectives at work. The graft is
stated to run *nto the millions of
dollars.
SURE OF FAILURE
South African States Ready to Fight
Railroad Employees—Have the
Troops Ready.
CAPE TOWN, Africa, Jan. 9.
The threatened strike of the em
ployees of the government railroad
of the south African states is not
feared by the government authorities
who have been preparing for it and
have troops stationed at all points of
vintage and have several thousand
strike beakers ready if needed.
It is generally believed here that
the government authorities would
welcome the strike at this lime as
they have never been in a better po
sition to crush the malcontents on
the road.
SEATTLE IS ft
Washington Authorities Say It Has
Best Record In United States—
Albany ,New Orleans Worst.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The ten
sus department have announced today
that the deatn rate in Seattle is
eight and one-eiglith per cent pet
thousand and that it is the lowest of
(any city in the state of Washington
1 and of afty part of t'te United States.
New Orleans. Mississippi and Al
bany, New York, are the worst cities
to live in as the death rate is twenty
i people to the thousand.
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Pity the Poor Czar.
I LONDON, Jan. 9—The czar of Hus
| sia is the most expensive monarch in
the world. Figured on an eight-hour
j workday basis, he 's paid $60 a min
j ute. Next come the King of Italy
| with $17.50; *he kaiser, $13.75: George
jof England, $11; Alfonso, $10.25: Gus
Itav of Sweden. $7.50, and Haakon, of
| Norway, $7.25. Wilhelmina of Hoi
I land, who is several times a million
lairess In her own right, received on
ily $3.75 « minute from her subjects:
jthe king of Belgium, $3.60; Denmurk,
[$2.'26, President Poincare of France,
|$1, end the Balkan kings an average
i of 85 cents each, while Woodrow
Wilson h«s to worry along with 42
cents. . .
FOUND—A fur neck piece at Lou
ie's Cafe. Owner can have same by
calling ni the Prospector office, prov
ing properly and paying for this ad
j vortisement. tf
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Testimony Given Showing That Com
pany Bribed Customs Officials
—Be Long Trial.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.—The
trial of the Western fuel directors for
defrauding the government continues
and considerable testimony relative
to the bribing oif government customs
inspectors was jgiven yesterday by the
inspectors and by the officers of the
company, who are to receive immun
ity for their crimes for testifying
against the directors and high offi
cials.
The trial will continue for several
weeks, as much more evidence will
be given regarding the underweigh
j ing of coal importations.
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i He Took Fee From Widow In Case
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Bar Association Objects
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I BRIDGETOWN, Conn., Jan. 9 —
| The supreme court today disbarred
! Judge Peck of the state surrogates
j court because he had accepted a tee
I of $1,000 from a widow as a retain
j er to appear for her in the probating
l of her husband's estate.
' The case was to have been heard
before Judge Peck himself, yet he
took the fee from the widow lo ap
pear for her.
The bar assosiation of til" state
j preferred the charges and appointed
!a committee of attorneys to press the
j suit for disbarment against the jur
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! Jack Dalton, of Cordova, Has Fight
With Government Agent and is
Fined Five Bucks.
j The following stoiy of the trouble
; between Jack Dalton, the contractor,
who is hauling out the Matanuska
■ coal and John W. Swift, the govern
! ment agent, in charge of the work,
is taken from the Seward Gateway of
i December 29th. Dalton and Swift
did not agree about the methods to
i be followed in handling the coal and
| in consequence Swift was whipped by
1 Dalton and Dalton fined by Judge Da
j vid. Dalton makes ugly charges.
The story is as follows:
l An apparently well founded story
j is current in Seward that all is not
i going smoothly in the matter of get
i ting the Matanuska coal front Chiek
■i aloon to Knik. According to the re
1 port the actions of John W. Swift,
i special disbursing agent for the gov
| ernment are coming in for a great
! real of criticism ' and rightfully so.
/The- trouble came to » head a few
i'days afcp when Jack Dalton, who has
'a contract to land' the coal from
Chickaloon to salt water, grew weary
‘of the 'petty hindrances that have
j been placed In hia way by Swift, and
after words had been exchanged,
' (promptly knocked Swift down and
| would have administered a good
i threshing to the government agent but
: for the. interference of bystanders.
Swift had Dalton arrested and Com
missioner David, after hearing the ev
idence, imposed the ntin'mum fine of
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Rudolph Spreckles Loses Test Case
In California Courts—Subscribed
to Expo Fund—-Won’t Pay.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.—The
state supreme court today held that
Rudolph Spreckles must pay $17,000
to the Panama-Pacific Exposition
company of this city, as he had sub
scribed that amount to aid in holding
the exposition but had later refused
to pay because of a disagreement
with President Moore and the board
' of directors.
! The Spreckles sirt is a test to de
cide whether the subscript's to the
exposition fund are to be held for
the amounts they agreed to give or
; not.
1 Tile exposition oflicialu held that
the subscription must be paid by all
and 'hat no linger gifts went and
have started suits against all in ar
rears. The Spreckles suit decides
the entire list ot subscriptions in
arrears which must now be paid.
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1 Police Stop It Because Salome Wears
1 Too Few Clothes and Play Is
Gruesome.
BOSTON. Jin. 9. Tile police ;tu
I thorities today issued orders to the
management of the play “Salome,"
, which has been running since Mon
: day, not to continue to give the play
| ill Boston as it is demoralizing. The
! police claim that the few (Strings
i of beads which Salome wears along
with tlie gruesome act showing the
presentation of the head of John the
Baptist to her after the wonderful
muscle dance before the king is not
' a tit play for the people of Boston
: to witness.
J The management of the theatre
j have applied for an injunction pre
| venting the police from interfering
j with them in giving the play and as -
i sort that the play has never given
j offense in any large city but is ed
j ucational and interesting.
Hot Wire Cuts Off Foot.
HASTINGS, N. Y„ Jan: 9—A length
| of copper wire, white hot and reduc
l ed to a diameter of one sixty-fourth
I of ;in inch, was being whirled from
[the die of a reducing machine today
i in the mill of the National Conduit
j and Cable company, when George
; Mack, an operator, noticed that the
i big loop had become tangled. He
[stepped within the loop to give the
| glowing wire a turn with his tongs,
| when it wrapped itself about his an
j kle. The swift moving streak of hot
j metal cut like a knife through flesh
j and bone and his foot was complete
i ly severed.
Jail For Countess.
BKULIN, Jan. 9.—After a trial last
i ing several weeks, Countess Treuberg
was found guilty today of illegal us
ury, slander, and blackmail, and was
sentenced to fifteen months’ impris
onment, fined $375, and is to suffer
three years' “loss of honor."
The court also Imposed a fine o*'
$75 on Princess Alexandra von Yse
burg Budingen, who was cited as a
witness. but, spite the most per
sistent efforts to obtain her attend
ance, could not be induced to npne.tr.
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Rgins Cease, at 8eattle.
I SEATTLE, Jan, ».— The heavy
l rains of ihe past ten days in Seattle
land the northwest have ceased and
the rivers ere receding. If is hoped
to have railroad washouts repaired
j within a Tew days. The damage has
j been many millions.
j "A Close Shave,” a comedy, at the
i Orphettm tonight.
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REBELS TO SINK
FOREIGN VESSELS
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Which Are Transporting Arms and
Ammunition for Huerta Forces
—Issue Warning.
LONDON, .Ian. 9—Armed with Gen
eral Carranza’s threat to sink foreign
ships carrying munitions of war in
tended for the Huerta government,
Miguel Covarrubias, formerly minis
ter to Russia and now confidential ag
ent in London of the Mexican consti
tutionalists, appeared at the office of
the secretary of Lloyd’s Maritime In
surance agenry last evening and for
mally deposiled the pronunciamento
i of the Mexican constitutionalist lead
I er. The secretary of f Lloyd’s posted
: the warning on the notice boards,
! where it attracted the attention of the
underwriters.
Born Face to Face.
PARIS, Jan. 9. -“Siamese” twin
| girls, a month old, who are joine I
I lace to face uy a strip of llesh more
i Ilian an inch thick between their
! stomachs have been brought to Pari i
lo be separated by a surgical opera
tion.
A radiograph examination suggests
i that the twins have no vital organs in
• common. They are so vigorous that
! they have been clothed in woolen
| vests inside which their arms are
' imprisoned to prevent, poss’i'le injury
‘to one or the other by "<ir move
; ments.
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GltY OF PARIS
Met At Station By Ambassador anc
Mrs. Herrick and Will Be Their
Guests During Stay.
PARIS, Jan. 9.- Mr. and Mrs. Say
res, daughter and son-in-law of Presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson, reached here
today after tin extensive visit with
I Ambassador and Mrs. Page at Lon -
, don. They were met at the station
i by Ambassador and Mrs. Herrick and
i will be tne guests of the ambassador
: during their stay in Paris.
| A number of social affairs have
I been arranged by the Ambassador
j and Mrs. Herrick, in honor of the
.distinguished American visitors and
■ a round of social parties are planned.
The Sayrer’s were royally enter
! tained in London by the American
| Ambassador, one affair following the
' other.
Hospital Board.
There will be a meeting of the Hos
j pital board at 7 o’clock this evening
: at the rectory.
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j Sending Them From Panama to Mex
ico and They Are to Strenjth
en Our Force* There.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. -The War
t Department today Issued orders for
1400' more marines from Panama to
1 join the warshtps on the Mexican
! coast. , The marines are to' be sent
i ns soon ns' possible, leaving some
; time - today or tomorrow.
1 The marines are to Join those al
l'eady on the battleships in Mexican
; waters arid at no time in years have
the battleships had :ts many marines
'■ahotrd besides which several supply
I IvfH are here With marines aboard.
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