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QUAKE DESTROYS MANY IN SICILY Mount Etna In Fierce Eruption Brings Destruction. Iktp Fissures Block Hoadt Hod- lea Strew Country Vic lima A live In Ruina. OAK WAS VERY OLDEST TREE Llttle Girl Cornea Near Putting One Over on Secretary of Agriculture on Question of Age. S’<> ....... looklna Mt the president's cabinet an masse. would glve*lt credit for uttering the word* of wit Beared- tted to It. Even the secretary of agriculture bun n slender joke attributed to him. A little girl, believing that the sec- retary of agriculture muat be varied In the lore of the forests. naked him one day. Indicating a huge tree: "Ind ' oiuebody tell mu right when ho ruin that that tree waa the very Id < t one sround here?" "Yrs, my dear, that Is quite true." Hut how can lt.be?" «juestloned the <1 l<l "That isn't an oak. and they v<d to l« l! me that the oaks were the very oldest trees anywhere." The secretary snw himself tottering >n the w<-clplcc of aelt betrayal, so he ended further questioning by saying: "Yea, that's so. too. The oaks really lei d to be the oldest. But. you see, that ana before the elders were plant« d Neal s Monthly. Conversational Meteorology. Itcgglr So, by way of breaking the Ice, I remarked that the weather was very col«l Henry—Well, and wiiat did she reply? Beagle She said: "The recurring phenomena of heat and cold are ao fre- qurnt and ao familiar a* to be matters too negligible to engage my Interest, Mr Blakey.” Henry That all? -Judge Also Called Nemesis. "Pa, shat Is fate?" "Eate, iny boy. Is that mysterious something which loads.you to pick out of too people lu the ballroom the one man who has a personal interest In th» homely woman you are making fool commeuut about" Detroit Free Pres*. Another Expensive Remedy. Wife (with nowHpnprr) — Here's 'omethlng interesting. Physlctana have found Hint the akin from the In side of an egg |>v«»ossvs curative properties. Hub Just like 'em' They're always x|>erliiiviitlng with radium atxl those expensive things Boston Transcript. Discouraging. "I made a point of talking about the American eagle and tho dove of peace." remarked Senator Sorghum. "Did the audience npprovc?" "I'm afraid not. The only remark 1 heard was that I wae a better orni thologist than I waa a statesman." Catania, Italy An earthquake Sat urday afternoon brought death and de struction to many village* on and near Mount Etna. The number of dead up to Monday morning was officially giv en an 183, with about 350 injured, but ns yet a large portion of the devantat- ed territory han not been inspected. The affected lone extends from Zaf- farana, the higheet village on Mount Etna, to Blanca Reale, on the south, and Glarre, on the north. It includes l.lnera, the center of the disturbance, Pisano and Santa Verierina. In Liner a alone 110 persons were killed and 300 injured. In the village of Bongiardo, 13 dead and 27 injured were taken from the ruina. At Coeen- titii Hi were killed and many injured. At Passopomo 12 persons were killed; at Malata 12; at Santa Ven- erina 6; Santa Taels 2; Santa Maria Vergine 8; Carbati 4. These villages and many smaller places were practically leveled. Automobiles which made the trip through the devastated region were often forced to make long detours ow ing to the deep Assures across the road. The district presented a spectacle of desolation, ruin and death. Peasants rushe'l to meet the automobiles, im ploring aid- From the debris, agoniz ing cries could still be heard. Others asked that their injured relatives be transported to Catania, as al) train service was abandoned, owing to the collapse of bridges, broken tracks and obstructed tunnels. For centuries this region haa suf fered from earthquakes, owing to the activity of Mount Etna. Yet it is rel atively thickly populated, as the land is moet fertile, vineyards growing with little attention Near the central point of the disturb ance dozens of bodies were observed lying along the road. Many of them were unrecognizable, as they were crushed. Heart-rending lamentations arose on all sides, and the injured lay in the open awaiting assistance which had been sent to them. Where Linera stood is a mass of ruins. Those houses which did not colla|ise entirely were so broken as to emphasize the completeness of the disaster. The village consisted of about 800 inhabitants. A majority of the people escaped because the shock occurred when the men and some of the women were still working in the fields. From the vine yards they saw their houses falling and when they arrived, breathless, at their homes, they found only wreckage with some of their people buried be neath it. American Expedition Makes Discoveries Along Amazon Philadelphia News of the arrival at Georgetown, British Guinea, on April 19, of the University of Penn sylvania expedition, after nearly a year spent in Amazon Basin and in the highlands which divide Brazil and the Guineas, never before explored, waa received at the university from its leader, Rev. William C. Farabee. The expedition haa discovered hith erto unknown native tribes, made vo cabularies of their languages, collected many ethnological ami other specimen, and has put on the map for the first time a portion of Northern Brazil and the Guineas, including the Corentyne river, traversed for the Arst time by white men. Rebel» lighten Cordon About federal Garrisons Torreon, Mex.—Determined that the federal forces at Saltillo and San Luis 'Potosi shall not consolidate and that one shall not be reinforced by fugitives from the other. General Carranza, Arst chief of the constitutionalist army, has given orders to his commanders to draw a close cordon about each town. The constitutionalists are conAdent of victory at each place, but they intend to insure that the victories shall be de Mr Growl—I hope when we're mar- cisive and that there shall be no op fled you won't be towing that dog portunity for the federal* to retreat, about. reform and again check the advance. Mine Howl—Of course not—I’ll have you then. Tribesmen Recall Chief. Redding, Cal. — Chfff Wesley, of When Umson 8nores. Baird, head of the Wintun tribe of In "Umson makes a great racket when dians in Northern California, was re he snores, doesn't heT" "I don't know; 1 never heard him." moved from his chieftainship in a re "But you can hear him now, can't call election believed to be the Arst ever held by Indians. Wesley was you ?” "Great guna, la that a snore? I elected chief about a year ago in an election at which Indian women voted, thought he was filing a saw!" following the privilege of their white sisters of California. It was not for A Small Tragedy. dereliction in office, but because Wes •!No. Gladya," said Mrs. Cumrox; ley is said to be part Yaqui, that he "you cannot go to the party tonight" was recalled. The Wintuns want a "Why not?" full-blooded chief of their own strain. "Because we cannot be out of fash ion. There la only one set of rainbow B’omrn Dynamite Church. hair In the house and I am going to Ixindon—A bomb placed by suffra wear that myself." gists exploded Sunday in the gallery of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Details. South London, an ediAce made famous ‘Toor Binge haa been up agalnat It by the late Charles H. Spurgeon. Lit again.” tle damage was done. Near the spot "Agalnat what?" where the bomb exploded was a card "The freah painted door tn hie now on which was written: ’’Put your •■H." religion into practice and see that women obtain their freedom.” Suffragists by Thousands Hear Petitions to Congress Healing Endorsed ASK MORE HELP Spiritual by Clericals and Medicos REBEL GAINS IN- l IN STRIKE ZONE SOUTH REPORTED London—-An important contribution Washington, D. C. Several thou*- anti women from practically every to one of the foremost topics of the ■tat« in the Union anti representing day is found in the report of the "com million* of their sistan, paratied along mittee on spiritual healing or faith Pennsylvania avenue from the White cure, ” appointed by the conference of Mexico City Hemmed In on All House to the Capitol, and, presenting Disturbances Continue in North to member* of congress ,«tit ions the clerical and medical professions ern Colorado Districts. Sides By Troops. adopted at meetings all over the coun held in October, 1911. try a week ago, rnada plain their de The committee, which is composed sire that the right to vote be given of prominent clergymen and doctors, them. Disarmament Order Issued Min in its conclusions says: "The mem Funston Has Authority to Extend Five hundreti and thirty-one of the bers of the committee fully recognized ers Told They Will He Ex Lines Plans for Mediation marchers carried these petitions, one that operations of divine power can pelled If They Refuse. Are Also Continued. for each member of the senate anti be limited only by the divine will, and house, and asking the a«loption of the they desire to express their belief in Bristow-Mondeil resolution, amending the efficacy of prayer. They rever the constitution so a* to enfranchise Trinidad, Colo. — Insistent appeals ently believe, however, divine power Washington, D. C.—-While the Mex women. continue to come to Colonel James is exercised in conformity with and The scene after the pageant reached I-ockett, of the Eleventh United through the operation of natural laws. ican situation is outwardly calm, pend the East ste|«s of the Capitol was im States Cavalry, in command of the With advancing knowledge of these ing the formal opening of the confer pressive. Massing themselves on the Federal troops in the Southern strike laws, increasing beneflts are being se ence of the South American mediators plaza steps, and with several bands flelds, for detachments of Federal sold-1 cured for mankind through humane in at Niagara Falls on May 18, there and a chorus of 100 girls at the iers at Oak Creek, Crested Buttes and strumentality. continues, an active undercurrent of entrance to the building, the enthusi Glenwood Springs, in the Northern "Especially is this true in the case discussion and preparation for the astic paraders sang "The March of the zone. of healing of disorders of the body and peace plans, and definite reports have Women,” by Dr. Ethel Smyth, of Eng Colonel Lockett suggested to the the mind, and they consider that spir reached the constitutionalist headquar land, and heard only once before in War department the Northern districts itual ministration should be recognized ters here of sweeping victories of their this country. The *|«ctacular feature seemed to need several hundred troops. equally with medical ministration as forces gear San Luis Potosi and other of the demonstration waa witnessed by : He advised Governor Ammons Satur carrying God’s blessing to the sick. points far south of Saltillo, where it thousands of ¡«ersons who Ailed the im day to send state troops into the "The committee is of the opinion was thought their next big battle mense plaza. Northern field and to ask the War de that physical results of what is called would be fought. The bands then struck up "The Star partment for more Federal soldiers. faith or spiritual healing do not prove The news of constitutionalist suc Spangled Banner,” and the 531 peti The proclamation for general dis different from those of mental healing, cess reached here in dispatches from tion-bearers fil«?d up the steps into the armament was published calling on all or healing by suggestion. General Carranza to Raphael Zubaran, rotunda of the Capitol, where a sjie- citizens to report at specified places "The committee recognizes that cial committee of congress received ’ and at «{»ecified hours to surrender suggestion is more effectively exer minister of the interior in the consti tutionalist cabinet, who had a direct them. In the line were Senators I-a l their firearms. cised by some persons than others, wire set up to the headquarters of Follette, Thomas, Thompson, Owen, The union officials in a proclamation which would seem to explain the gifts ' Bristow, Poindexter and Brady, and directed to all members of the United claimed by ‘healers.’ The use of re- General Carranza Thursday. General Carranza’s messages showed Representatives Madden, Sabath, Fal I Mine Workers of America in Trinidad ligoua influences does not differ essen that three converging campaigns were coner, Stone, Knowland, Raker, Moss, and vicinity, declared: ■ "You are tially from non-religious appeals to in active operation, each within 300 of West Virginia, Roberts, of Nevada, hereby officially advised and requested the mind, yet the former are often miles of Mexico City. General Obre Helvering. Keating and Bryan, who to turn over to the military officers of more potent. gon, with 15,000 men operating from ■book hands with each of their callers. the United States army all firearms "Faith or spiritual healing can be the Pacific Coast side, had captured Many of the women then entered the i and ammunition in your possession cr permanently effective in functional galleries of the senate and house and under your control, beginning at 10 disorders, as distinguished from or all the intervening territory, was be sieging Mazatian and was threatening watched the proceedings. o’clock a. m. May 9.” ganic disorders, and the committee Mexico City from the West. Crowds assembled along the line of This proclamation was signed by warns against resorting to healers and Another division, General Carranza march early and suffrage colors were William Diamond, as international postponing medical treatment. reported, had fought a battle at Penz- much in evidence. The police, desir representative of the union. Mr. Dia "Spiritual ministrations may con acos, near San Luis Potosi, which is ing to avoid scenes such as marred the mond supplemented the proclamation tribute to the success of medical treat 300 mile* north of Mexico City. This demonstration the day before the in with the published declaration that ment, and we desire to see more im is the southernmost point which the auguration of President Wilson, last "anyone failing to comply, who is a portance attached to them, but we constitutionalists have reached in Cen year, roped off Pennsylvania avenue member of the union, will be stricken strongly deprecate the independent tral Mexico, and with the army now and kept the crowds orderly. Several from the relief list and be barred from treatment of disease by irresponsible attacking Tampico they assert that the hundred policemen walked beside the membership in the United Mine Work and unqualified persons.” j general advance on the Mexican capi paraders. ers of America.” The witnesses examined by the com tal is to be made within a few weeks The mine operators said: “Our mittee differed in their definitions of from three sides. Mexican Peace Impossible guns have been awaiting collection by spiritual and mental healing. Some The significance of these constitu Federal officers for some time, and regarded the former as a divine in tionalist successes lay in the fact that Without American Forces the when the soldiers go after them they terposition above the laws of nature, San Luis Potosi is far south of Sal Portland—"Peace in Mexico ia im- will And them, the machine guns and while moet of them connected spiritual tillo, and only 300 miles from Tampico possible," says A. E. Palm, who has all.” healing today with the gifts of healing on the West and Mexico City on the just returned from Tampico, "unless Union officials planned to secure an of the apostolic church, saying they i South. the United States steps in and takes audience with President Wilson con- thought these had long been dormant, General Carranza’s report of the complete charge of the country, the cerning the re-establishment of the although never wholly interrupted. desperate condition of the federals at same as it did in Cuba and in the Phil Ludlow tent colony. The witnesses differed widely as to Mazatian was coincident with reports ippines. whether moral excellence in the heal from Rear Admiral Howard, who said "General Huerta would be able to ers or the healed was essential for suc a land and sea engagement was carried handle the Mexican situation alone if SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY cess. j on there throughout Thursday, the the United States would let him. He CHOSEN AS MOTHERS’ DAY Leper Quietly Deported constitutionalists firing from Piedra is a man with force of character, Island, while the federal gunboat ability and determination, and con Washington, D. C. — Hereafter the and Chicago Is Relieved Morelos was supported by the federal trary to the general understanding in second Sunday of May will be National shore batteries. this country - of education. Indeed, Mothers’ Day. The senate has agreed Chcago—Chicago and Cook county Aside from the noteworthy constitu he is a well-educated man. to the house resolution requesting the authorities are congratulating them "He is a man of much the same President to issue a proclamation des selves over the successful deportation tionalist successes, the chief military caliber as PorArio Diaz was. ignating as Mothers’ Day in the com of Charles Wolgren, a native of Swed development is the authorization to "It is true that he drinks consider ing years the second Sunday of each en, who was taken to the county hos General Funston to extend his lines at Vera Cruz as might be required for de ________________ ably, but that does not discount hia [ May. pital in February suffering from what fensive purposes, without, however, ability. Let him alone a year and he was diagnosed as leprosy. ! undertaking any aggressive opera- Report American Orderly will control the Mexican situation.” Because of the fear which the dis ■ tions. Mr. Palm declares that complete Killed By Mexican Troops ease engenders all details of the de — self-government cannot be attempted portation were kept secret and none Vera Cruz, Mex.—Private Parks, but the crew of the train on which 10,000,000 Wheat Crop in Mexico until the people are educat ed up to it. Of the 15,000,000 inhabi orderly for Lieutenant Colonel Elmore Wolgren rode in a private ear knew of Increase for Northwest Taggart, who disappeared inside of his presence aboard. tants, fully 11,000,000 are illiterate. Portland —An increase of about 10,- "As for Villa,” he says, "he is a Mexican lines Saturday with two of Special permits were issued secretly 1 000,000 bushels in the wheat crop Colonel Taggart ’ s horses, was put to mere bandit. He is not At to have by the governors of states across charge of the Mexican government or death by the Mexicans, near Tejera, which the train passed, and all con alone is forecasted in the Pacific Northwest at this time, according to 1 according to a report received here. of any part of it.” nected with the deportation breathed This information, however, was not easier when word was received here reports received by The Daily Journal regarded as conclusive. A Mexican that Wolgren was safely aboard a liner from over 200 special crop correspon Tiro Are Burned to Death railroad man, the authority for the re due to leave for Sweden in a few dents located in the various districts Underneath Wrecked Auto port, said he was told by one of Maas' hours. Wolgren came to America sev of Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Present prospects are for a total of soldiers, with whom he had a talk in Portland—George Betz, 697 Wil the vicinity of the alleged execution, eral years ago and took out prelimi 86,000,000 bushels of wheat for the nary naturalization papers. liams avenue, and Martin McNichols, that Parks had been killed. three states. He said Later he returned to Sweden, and of 516 Albina avenue, burned to death also that the Mexican soldier told him The condition of the winter wheat at 8:30 o’clock Sunday night on the that two nights before another man then journeyed again to America, vis crop today in the three states is suffi iting Alaska and Western points. Canyon road west of this city, one dressed like an American soldier had ciently good to enable growers to har He was taken to the county hospital vest an average of 25 bushels per acre, mile beyond Sylvan, when an automo been executed. from South Chicago, where he had bile driven by Betz caught Are after while the spring showing is at least been employed all winter. plunging over a bank, pinioning the 20 bushels average. This is for the Norwegians Back Steamer two men under the front seat. How combined Pacific Northwest states, Line to San Francisco HUERTA DENIES INTENTION ' and includes the heavy as well as the ard Franklin and Walter James, a col ored porter, who were riding in the San Francisco—Through a cable re OF RESIGNING PRESIDENCY back seat, crawled from beneath the ceived here by a local shipping Arm, wreck before the flames reached them. it is learned that a new steamship line London—President Huerta told the ¡ for winter and spring planting. The Returning from a trip to Vancouver, backed by Norwegian capital will be Mexico City correspondent of the great increase in the winter acreage Wash., Betz met the others in a bar gin operations in October with San Daily Mail that he was not going to ’• one special reason for the unusual ber shop. The party started on a Francisco as its terminal. Freight give up his position of chief executive bumper outlook in the three states. ride around town and then out the and passenger service between ports of Mexico. He said: Not a single report was received Canyon road. Tracks at the scene of on the West coast of the United "I have had no thought of resigning during the past month that showed any the accident showed that the car had States, Mexico and Central America, the office which the republic conferred material complaint regarding the out- swerved sharply and shot into a ditch and via the Panama Canal, the East upon me.” ; look for the wheat crop. In the cen- at the left of the road. The over ern ports of the same countries, will _______ that his tra' Oregon section the outlook is the General Huerta declared turned car was wedged against a fence be instituted. health was good, In reply to a ques- best known. In Umatilla county and and was held by a tree. tion as to his sentiments toward the Walla Walla section the prospects Betz and McNicholas screamed sev , continue unusually favorable. In the Americans he said: Rebel Paymaster Taken. eral minutes before they lost con Palouse and Big Bend there is nothing "The conduct of my government and Laredo, Tex.—Major Manuel Cabal sciousness. The tail light is thought of the Mexican people towards Amer but good heard of the outlook. Tak to have caused the Are. lero, paymaster of the constitutionalist icans who are remaining here during ing the situation as a whole, the out army of the Rio Grande, was captured the present conflict is the best answer look for the coming harvest could scarcely be improved so far as wheat Saturday afternoon below Laredo by to that question.” Island Lighthouse Seized. is concerned. Mexico City—Foreign Minister Ruis the United States border patrol and Similar condition is showing for interned at Fort McIntosh with a large Democrats Rush Things. has telegraphed the South American amount of ammunition and Mexican coarse grains in interior sections. Washington, D. C. — Democratic mediators in Washington that several money he was delivering to rebel sold leaders in the house who want con United States torpedoboats with a iers. Haiti Pays Indemnity. transport and tender appeared off the The paymaster was journeying up gress to end by July 10, called a party Port Au Prince, Haiti—The National Island of Ix>bos, on the east coast of the American side and crossing the caucus for Tuesday, through which Mexico, between Vera Cruz and Tam border at points where there were gar they hope to expedite consideration bank advanced to the Haitien govern pico, landed a party and arrested the risons to be paid. The patrol consid and passage of the anti-trust bills on ment 362,000, the amount of the in lighthouse tenders, who were released ered this a violation of neutrality laws. the administration programme. The demnity claimed by Mr. Peters, a after they had turned over instru caucus will determine the length of British subject, whose sawmill had ments and apparatus. The media Alaska Surveys to Begin. time the measure shall be debated in been destroyed by Are in the Leconte tors were asked to make representa Washington, D. C.—Surveys prelim the house and in compliance with its revolution. The payment had been tions to the United States in connec inary to the construction of the gov decision the rules committee will demanded in an ultimatum from the tion with the armistice. representative. ernment railway in Alaska are to be frame an order under which the debate British diplomatic made immediately. On being advised will proceed. It is probable that the The incident is regarded as closed. American Guns Seized at Dublin. that the President desired to send bill will be put to a vote in two weeks. Consternation had been caused in the Dublin — The customs authorities Lieutenant Mears, now in the Canal capital by the British ultimatum,which seized 20 cases of arms on the steamer zone, to Alaska at once, the house Refugees Back From Tampico. was supported by the presence of the Lord Charlemont, from Baltimore. The passed a bill authorizing the assign Galveston, Tex.—Seventy American British cruiser Suffolk in the harbor. contents of the cases were described ment. refugees from the oil district about in the invoice as fowling pieces manu T. R. Is 55 Pounds Lighter. Tampico have sailed for that port. If 7Mother Sees Aviator Killed. factured in the United States. Para, Brazil—Colonel Roosevelt dur the steamer ia unable to discharge her Utica, N. Y.—Percival Van Ness, passengers at Tampico they will be ing his exploring trip through the Il'nr Aeroplanes on Way West. of this city, an avaitor, was killed taken to Vera Cruz. The oil men said wilds of Brazil lost 55 pounds in San Diego—Three new war aero Sunday when his new biplane turned their return was necessitated by the weight. He is still weak, but hia con planes are en route from Eastern aero turtle. Van Ness and his brother, situation In the Panuco oil flelds, dition is better, and he is recovering plane factories to be put in shape for Jesse, had just completed the new ma where the oil is flowing unrestrained. from the abceas on his leg. He will service with the second detachment of chine. Their mother witnessed the They said they did not believe they deliver a lecture before the Royal tragedy. the First Aero corp* at North Island. Geographical society in London. would be molested by the Mexicans.