HUERTA DISMISSES
MEMBEUF CABINET
President Will Listen Only to
Proposals Compatible With
His Own Dignity.
Mexico City. It wag learned that
the American charge had seen PresW
nt Huerta and bad been told that
he would not resign and would listen
nly to such proposals m were com
patible with hl own dignity and that
of big country.
What doubt remained regarding
General Huerta's Intentions with re
ipect to compliance with the Ameri
can demands for his own elimination
was removed from the minds of most
Mexicans and foreign residents by his
peremptory dismissal of Manuel Gar
U Aldape, the minister of the inter
ior, who wag looked upon as the head
of the Huerta cabinet.
Aldape led that group of the cabinet
which held the conviction that it
would be beBt to accede to that por
tion at least of Washington's demands
which meant the total abandonment
of power by the provisional president,
and he Is said to have been the only
one with sufficient courage to discuss
the international situation frankly
with his chief.
Senor Aldape was the last remain
ing cabinet officer appointed by agree
ment between Huerta and General Fe
lix Diaz at the close of the battle in
the capital in February. The agree
ment was signed In the American em
bassy. The other ministers then
chosen have been eliminated one by
ne.
EI Paso, Tex. For the sixth time
in the last three years Ciudad Juarei
changed governments when 2000 reb
els, led by General Pancho Villa, at
tacked and captured the town. Taken
completely by surprise, the federal
garrison of approximately 400 men
put up a weak resistance.
So unprepared for battle were the
federal defenders that Villa's troops
actually reached the center of town
before a single shot was fired.
Several executions of federal pris
oners captured by General Pancho
Villa's rebel troops at Juarez have
taken place. The order for the execu
tion of many of the prisoners has
been issued directly by General Villa,
and at different periods the firing
quads took out men and shot them.
Carranza Demands Huerta's Removal
Nogales, Souora. General Venusti
ano Carranza will not consider any
means of accomplishing peace in Mex
ico not predicated on the absolute
elimination of Huerta. The constitu
tionalists' political and military leader
issued the following announcement:
"We will recognize nobody who suc
ceeds Huerta by the power which he
hae usurped."
PERMITS SCHOOL DANCING
Washington Attorney-General Says
Recreation Is Legal
Olympla. Wash. After nearly 12
years, during which dancing in public
school buildings has been forbidden
rigidly, Attorney-General Tanner, In
an official opinion, throws the bars
down to dev otees of the tango, as well
as the 'more conservative forms of the
terpsichorean art.
Dancing Is a form of recreation, the
attorney general holds, and since the
"social center" law of 1913 throws the
schools open at night for study, im
proTement and recreation, it follows,
he says, that school dancing is strictly
legal. No dancing has been allowed
since Attorney-General Stratum hand
ed down an adverse opinion on the
subject in January, 1902.
' Foot Ball Scores.
Portland. Gllmour Doble's great
Washington football team is six tlmeg
a champion because little Smith shot
the ball squarely between the goal
poets from a 20 yard placement and
big Fenton failed on a 40 yard effort,
a last desperate effort to tie up a 10
to 7 score.
Oreeon Agricultural College defeat
ed the Washington State college elev j
en by the score of 10 to 2 in the hard- j
eft foucht came played on the cam j
pus in a lor.n time. j
ct:itf -r -. . ,jrrr f3 E. Sued
Salem. Or. A the r'iit of a P- i
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tiers ot tne board to bring a manda
mus suit against State Treasurer Kay
to compel him to turn over the state
educational fund, aggregating about
$6,800,000, to Q. G. Brown, clerk of the
board.
Congress Urged to Probe Strike
Seattle. A congressional investiga
tion of the conditions at the copper
mines about Calumet, Mich., where
miners are out on strike, was demand
ed In a resolution adopted by the
American Federation ot Labor. In con
vention here.
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Plan to Revise National Bank
ing Laws to Meet New
Currency System.
Washington. With the administra
tion currency bill to be reported to the
senate thla week after long delay, a
plan to revise the national banking
laws to meet the new currency system
has made its appearance in legislative
circles. It will Include important
questions originally contemplated as
a part of the currency bill, but set
aside until the next session ot con
gress, when a general revision of
banking laws has been promised by
the administration.
In connection with this proposed re
vision congress will take up the far
reaching question of rural credits. One
of the provisions which probably will
be Inserted in the new law will for
bid Interlocking directorates tn nation
al banks. An effort has been made
to put this prohibition in the pending
currency bill, but the administration
has maintained that it should go into
the new banking law.
The senate banking and currency
administration supporters have de
clined to consider a scheme for guar
anteeing national bank deposits, with
the understanding that that question
would be taken up next session.
Advocates of the bank law revision
plan are seeking to place their pro
jects ahead of the proposed anti-trust
legislation in the administration pro
gram. Commission Idea Rules Irrigation
The United States Reclamation Ser
vice now is operating under what Sec
retary Lane terms the "commission
form of government," and if this plan
proves a success, the new directorate
will continue indefinitely. When sift
ing the complaints that have been
made for years against the reclama
tion service, Secretary Lane arrived
at the conclusion that there should be
a greater division of authority than
prevailed in the service as first or
ganized and created what is now
known as the Reclamation Commis
sion, consisting of five men. This new
commission, whose organization has
been perfected only recently, consists
of F. H. Newell, director; A. P. Da
vis, chief engineer; W. R. King, chief
counsel; W. A. Ryan, controller, and
I. D. O'Donnell, Irrigation manager.
The commission meets once a week
in conference with Secretary Lane
and at the weekly meetings all ques
tions of policy are settled, all plans
for construction work are approved
and all contracts let.
Message Will Be Short
President Wilson has announced he
would read in person his first annual
message to congress.
The president thus far has read
three brief adresses on the tariff, the
currency and the Mexican affairs
but It was not definitely known
whether his first communication to
the regular session of congress would
be in accordance with the century-old
precedent which he revived last
March. Mr. Wilson indicated that no
such long and voluminous messages
as have heretofore been sent by presi
dents to congress will be prepared by '
him.
Sale of Cruiser Boston Fought
The department of justice has filed
in the supreme court its brief in be
half of Secretary of the Navy Daniels
in the case of A. Goldberg, of Vancou
ver, B. C, who is seeking to compel
the navy department to deliver to him
the United States cruiser Boston put
up for sale to the h :test biddhur in
1H10. The lower courts here decided
against Goldberg, although he showed
lie ! iel i.. ,.. - ;td a certified c heck for
... v i ihe ilejtrir.n! w Un-h tl -s('rt:iry
ii!d not accept.
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There will be a fhooting
match here Nov. 25 Every
body come and win a turkey,
goose, duck or chick.
Mi s. F. B. Laoey of our
city was a passenger ou Tues
day evenings train for Salem.
From there she will take the
train for Los Angelos, Cal.
She was accompanied to Sa
lem by her husband who is
hook keeper and pav master
lor the Valley & Siletz R. R.
A birthdiv surprise party
wi.s given to Raymond Wil
liams by the high school
Tuesday night.
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