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LATEST FROM MEXICO IS THAT VILLA HAS ESCAP
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ED WITH BIG FORCE TRAP SET AT NAMIQliTPA
BELIEVE VILLA ESCAPED
EL PASO, March 25.—The startling report was receiv
ed here today that \ ilia has escaped Lite trap laid foi him
near Namiquipa and that with a great number of follow
ers he is thought to have reached San Miguel or the
mountainous district near it. Military men express
themselves convinced that the report is not true but thete
is very strong evidence to support the story.
THREE AMERICANS KILLED
DOUGLAS. March 25.—Three Americans, two wom
en and one man. were killed near Gibson s ranch on the
boundary eight miles west of Columbus between four and
five o'clock Wednesday afternoon, presumably by Mexi
cans, according to a story brought by a party of five
Douglas people who said they arrived on the scene shortly
after the bodies were removed by soldiers. A body of
United States soldiers is said to have crossed the line in
pursuit.
FEARS ALMOST GROUNDLESS
WASHINGTON, March 25.—The reports of an offi
cial nature received by the state department indicate that
most of the fears about a Mexican uprising against the
United States troops were probably groundless. Some of
the consuls in Mexico report that while the feeling against
the United States in their various localities is hostile no
outbreak of a general kind is looked for.
FIGHT IN TRENCHES
COLUMBUS, March 25.—News brought here by
various sources is to the effect that the Mexicans on both
sides are now profiting by the experiences in the Euro
pean war and dig themselves in for almost every engage
ment when fighting afoot.
EXECUTIONS FREQUENT
EL PASO. March 25.—Nearly a hundred suspected
sympathizers with the Villa cause have been executed by
the Carranza troops since the Americans crossed the line.
The number may be far greater but only the places in
touch with the American towns have been covered by the
reports. Some of the executions were summary, .the sus
pects having been taken and shot offhand.
DESERTION DENIED
MEXICO CITY, March 25.—The reports that Car
ranzaista troops had deserted to Villa are denied officially
here today. The anouncement states that any desertions
that might have taken place were individual.
VILLA CANNOT ESCAPE
MEXICO CITY, March 25.—Villa is surrounded and
possibly cannot escape, according to a message received by
the minister of war last night from General Luis Guiter
rez. The message adds that the troops of Guiterrez are
spread out fan shape in front of Namiquipa and the gen
eral has divided the troops into four commands hemming
in Villa and his forces on the four points of the compass.
The forces of Guiterrez have been for four hours in con
, tact with the outposts of Villa and the newsof a general
engagement is momentarily expected. Nothing has been
said in the message about the American troops but it has
been bruited abroad that an arrangement has been reach
ed by which the Mexicans will be allowed to do all the
direct fighting preceding the capture of the bandit chief.
The feeling here with respect to the invasion by the
Americans is not being expressed publicly, the authorities
apparently having given the cue to the newspapers to
leave the matter alone.
t PREPARE FOR SPRING
STOCKHOLM, March 25.—Advices from various
ports on the Baltic indicate that tremendous forces of
troops tire being moved by both the Russians and Ger
mans in evident preparation for the spring campaign
which will soon be made possible by the disappearance of
the snow. Petrograd newspapers declare that Russia will
have far greater forces in the field this spring than last
and that the steam roller tactics of the beginning of the
conflict, when the Slavs over-ran East Prussia and Gali
,, cia, will be repeated.
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Three More Enter
Race For Council
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Ah Things Look Now More Than a
Dozen Will Face the
Voters.
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John DuBreuil, Reginald Kerr and
I Hugh Dougherty entered the field to
day as candidates for election to the
i city council. All of them are well
known. The entry of the three makes
the total number, who have declared
themselves, ten. A few others are
expected to come out and it is safe to
. say that the total will be more than
. a dozen before the time closes four
days from now. By the way, in
speaking of the election the Gateway
prefers to follow the rule of just giv
! ing the news about the candidates.
There are good men on all sides op
j posed to each other and in a town of
this size the voters know too much
about the candidates and the condi
tions not to be able to make up their
minds without any outside assistance.
This policy has always been pursued
by this paper until it is forced to do
otherwise.
DOCTOR AIDED FATHER-IN
LAW TO KILL HIMSELF
NEW YORK, March 25.—A confes
sion has been made by Dr. Arthur
Warren Waite that he bought the
poison which is believed to have caus
ed the death of his father-in-law,
John E. Peck, Grand Rapids, Michi
gan, a millionaire. The doctor says
the millionaire wanted to commit
suicide and requested him to purchase
the poison, which he admits doing.
The cause of the desire for 6uicide,
the doctor says, was despondency.
Waite is under arrest and will be
charged with murder.
ROOSEVELT MAKES
ANOTHER DISCOVERY
Silent About Politics But Announces
Birth of a New Variety
of Bird.
NEW YORK, March 25.—Theodore
Roosevelt arrived last evening on the
steamship Matura from the West
Indies where he spent a holiday with
Mrs. Roosevelt. He declines to apeak
about politics but he announces de
finitely that he has discovered a new
variety of bird. The cartoonists are
already getting to work on this bird
with results that promise to throw
the hat and the big stick in the shade.
BOLLINGER BABY IN
$50,000 DAMAGE SUIT
(Special to Gateway by United Press) j
ST. PAUL, March 21.—The Bol-]
linger baby of the Northwest was in
district court here today. John Hen
ning is complainant in a suit for $50,
000 damages against the Twin City
street railway company. Henning al
leges his child, now four years old,
is a hopeless defective because the
street car company permitted carous
ing, swearing and rowdyism on one of
its cars on which Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ning were passengers a month before
the child was bom.
THE OUTLAWS
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The subject at St. Peter’s tomorrow
evening at 8 o’clock is “The Outlaws.”
Public cordially invited.
283 REGISTERED
The number of voters registered
yesterday was only 283 but a rush
is expected from this time forward.
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GREAT BATTLE
FOUGHTTONIGHT
WILLARD AND MORAN MEET IN
NEW YORK FOR CHAMPION
SHIP OF THE WORLD.
NEW YORK, March 25.— All is
ready for the great battle between
Moran and Willard for the world’s
championship tonight and both men
seem confident. The betting is very
much in favor yet of the title's
holder.
THE TWO MEN
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK, March 25.—Towering
I live inches above his huge adversary
and possessing a reach live and one
half inches longer, Jess Williard has
two of the great defensive works
known to boxing thrown up around
his precious jaw-bone. If Frank
Moran, a comparative midget, is to
hang flowers and ivy on Willard’s
nether maxillary he will have to fair
ly leap in the air. Six feet seven
inches is the altitude of Big Jess.
Moran’s red thatch stands a mere six
feet one inch above the calloused soles
of his battleship foot. And before he
gets near enough to start aviating to
ward Willard’s classic features the
boy from Pittsburgh must wade
through a mass of arms 83% inches
long. He works under a handicap
right there, for his own arms are
only 78 inches long, a right respect
able pair of flails in ordinary circles
but puny outerworks in Willard’s gi
gantic company. One of Moran’s
favorite modes of battle bespeaks the
craft of the former globe trotter. His
watchers have found that Moran likes
to work his man into a crouching at
titude, draw' down his arms with a
poke at the body and then swing
over the old right-hand-wallop to the
jaw. The odds are that he can’t do
that with Willard. Big Jess fought
a safe battle against Jack Johnson,
standing almost upright throughout,
with his arms extended far in front
of him in excellent blocking forma
tion. He refused to crouch and take
a chance on meeting up with maraud
ing haymakers brought up from the
floor. His personal disposition, too,
may stand Willard in good stead in
the seventy-thousand-dollar skit, for
he is not a belligerent type, prefer
ring to let the other fellow ram his
face against the outstretched Willard
mitts. Moran’s two knockouts over
Jim Coffey demonstrated his punch
ing ability more decisively than any
of his other performances. True,
there are those who suspect the tint
of the Corkonian’s vertebrae but none
who saw the jolts go home had any
lingering doubts of the drive that im
pelled them. In the second fight
Moran swept over his right with the
force of a mule’s hind tootsie. Right
away the bells began to tinkle in
Coffey’s steeple and he remained
away picking daisies for a consider
able period of time. Those who
know fighting and fighters recall the
fate of little Tommy Burns, perhaps
the hoariest bit of frost that ever
clung to the championship landscape.
He went against Jack Johnson under
a similar handicap and like Fainting
Bertha, never had a chance. Burns
was 5 feet seven inches tall and
Johnson’s height was six feet, one
fourth of an inch. Despite the differ
MORE AMERICANS LOST WHEN
BRITISH SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM
VOTING TAKES
PLACE TONIGHT
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POLLING OPENED IN DEMO
CRATIC PRIMARIES FROM
FIVE TO EIGHT.
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The voting for delegates to attend
the Democratic territorial convention
j at Juneau will take place this even
; ing between the hours of 5 and 8 at
; the Seward News Company’s store.
I Frank Skeen and Harry Ellsworth will
| be judges of election and eight candi
dates can be elected out of fourteen j
which were nominated at the meeting
i of the Democratic Club some days
ago. The nominees are Wayne Blue,
Pat Donahue, Mrs. Jessie Ellsworth,
T. W. Hawkins, J. W. Hamilton,
Derick Lane, C. E. Martin, F. J. Nick
erson, George Phelps, Mrs. W. E.
Root, John Ronan, John J. Ryan, B.
F. Swesey and F. A. Taylor. It will
be noticed that two • ladies are
amongst those nominated.
MARIAN LAMBERT’S TRAGEDY
LIKE THAT OF AVIS LINNELL
WAUKEGAN, 111., March 20.—The
.strange trail of circumstances which
led to the trial of William H. Orpet
here for the murder of pretty Marian
Lambert had a striking parallel in the
case of Rev. Clarence Richeson, the
Boston, Mass., minister, who went to
the death chair for the murder of
Avis Linnell.
The life histories of Marian Lam
bert and Miss Linnell were strangely
similar: Miss Linnell was a country
girl, who put her faith in a man of
education and breeding. She was a
social service worker, choir singer,
and honored among her friends. Her
death followed her discovery, com
municated to Richeson, that the
natural consequences had followed her
intrigue with him. The man she lov
ed planned to marry another woman,
Miss Grace Edmunds, a minister’s
daughter. Miss Linncll’s death was
due to poison, administered to her in
the guise of an abortive medicine.
Marian Lambert lived the happy
existence of a school girl in a pretty
suburb until she met Orpet. She had
spent one summer as a social service
worker in Chicago. She, too, sang in
the choir, at the little church near the
McCormick estate at Lake Forest.
The man she loved planned to marry
another woman, Miss Clestia Youker,
also a minister’s daughter. Marian
had written Orpet she feared the core
sequences of dreir intrigue. She died
of poison. The state contends that
Orpet gave her the deadly drug under
the guise of an abortive.
ence in height, Bums had it on the
gloomy exile in reach. His arms \scrc
74^ inches long and Johnson’s only
73. Johnson weighed 220 and Burns
179 in that fight, but Moran has prov
ed that weights don’t Amount to much
when fighters get above the 176 pound
mark. As Willard weighs about 57
pounds more that Moran, perhaps it
is just as well for the challenger to
stick to his contention.
MONTENEGRO QUIET
VIENNA, March 25—The Montenegrin people have
apparently decided to settle down to peace and quiet
under the Austrian temporary domination and the feeling
; against Italy is growing more bitter for the failure of that
I nation to come to the little kingdom’s aid. King Nicholas
has refused to take asylum in Italy, although his daughter
is the Italian queen, and he has taken up his residence in
'France.
BOTH SHIPS IN FIGHT SUNK
LONDON, March 25.—For the first time it was an
nounced by the Admiralty today that in a battle which
took place in the North Sea on February 29 between the
British converted cruiser Alcantara and the German com
merce raider Grief both vessels were sent to the bottom by
each other. The Grief was an unprotected cruiser of 2,
028 tons and the Alcantara was a crack four-deck liner
of the Royal Mail Line of 15,300 tons. The Alcantara had
been armed by the admiralty and the guns were manned
by practised gunners. The commerce raider attacked her
and she gave battle. Nothing is said as to the fate of the
crews but it is assumed that the greater number of them
were lost.
DOMINION LINER SUNK
WASHINGTON, March 25.—That the Dominion
Liner Englishman has been torpedoed oil the English,
coast and that four Americans who were aboard have
lost their lives is the report cabled to the state depart
ment by Armstrong' the United States consul general at
Bristol," England. The consul does not state positively
that the Americans were lost but he believes there is only
too much reason to believe that such is the case. Ihirtv
three survivors have been landed at a British port but
Armstrong does not mention the time or place of the oc
currence and it is likely that the British admiraltj has
kept those facts secret. The Englisman had a cargo of
horses from a private company in New York for Eng
land and the Americans were the caretakers ot the ani
mals. The state department is now awaiting further in
formation and the confirmation of the story of the deaths
of the Americans, and if it is proved that the information
sent by the consul is correct a very delicate international
situation is sure to arise.
ANOTHER STEAMER HIT
BOULOGNE, March 25—Two Americans were be
lieved to be missiftg after a terrific explosion which hit
the British steamer Sussex yesterday while she was
crossing the English channel from Folkestone to Dieppe,
but it is since reported that the two Americans are safe
but that one American woman is suffering from a broken
leg. Fifty people aboard the vessel were killed. The
Sussex did not sink but managed to reach shore in a bad
ly damaged condition. Three Americans aboard declare
that they saw a torpedo approach the steamer just befoi e
the explosion and there seems to be no doubt that the \ es
sel was hit by a submarine and not by a mine. At least
fifteen Americans were aboard at the time of the explos
ion. The two missing were Elizabeth Baldwin and her
father, of Philadelphia. Since the report that they were
missing, however, information has come that Elizabeth
Baldwin and her parents have arrived safely on the
French coast but that she has a broken leg.
The Sussex sailed yesterday at noon from Folkestone
and was near to Dieppe when the frightful explosion oc
curred. One lifeboat was splintered and a huge fountain
of water was shot over the vessel engulfing many passen
gers in their cabins and on deck and hurling manv \ iol
ently into the sea. It is believed to have been the most
frightful explosion in the history of the sea campaign. It
was amongst those thrown over the side that most of the
casualties occurred.
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SET FIRE TO VERDUN
BERLIN, March 25.—That the German artillery has
set fire to the city of Verdun itself is the announcement
made by the war office today.
It is further announced that no important changes
took place at any point on the western front last night
but for the fighting of the past few days we have good re
sults to show. Our lines have been organized so close to
Verdun now that we are easily in striking distance of the
city.
TURKS RECRUITING
ATHENS, March 25.—The Ottoman government has
issued a call for the next class of recruits and this will
bring out, it is estimated, an additional 150,000 uien.
Large reinforcements are being dispatched for service in
the Caucasus region, or this is their ostensible destination,
at least.