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RIOTERS ARE KILLED Mexico City Police and Troops Fire on Mobs. Failure of Diaz to Resign Brings Pro' .test From People Heavy Rain Scatters Crowd. Mexico city, May zt. for six hours last night this city was in the hands of a mob until a rain storm more effective than police and soldiers caused the dispersal of most of it. At midnight, however, a remnant, keeping step to the beating of tin pails, and paying no attention to the downpour, continued the demonstra tion, eyed by the police and soldiers. Twice soldiers fired on the mob, the first time at the Zocoto, the big square in front of the national palace, and again to disperse the mob which had stoned the building occupied by El Imparcial, and set it on fire. Estimates of the number of dead run from 7 to 18, including three po licemen reported beaten to death by the mob. El Imparcial, which contin ued to prepare for publication, esti mates the dead at 30, mostly at the Zocoto. The police at midnight estimated the dead at 5 or 6, and the wounded at between 40 and 45. An unconfirmed rumor has it that a detachment of Figueroa's revolution ary force from Cuernavaca is at Leich eria, about 15 miles from the city. General Diaz, who has reserved the captain's quarters on a Hamburg American liner due to sail from Vera Cruz on the last day of the month, continues very ill, despite recent op timistic official reports. He is receiv ing absolutely no visitors. A heavy guard was maintained in front of the presidential residence throughout the night. WORKERS LEAP FOR LIVES. San Francisco Building Collapses in Wind and Builders Fly. ' San Francisco, May 25. Thrilling slides for life, perilous leaps from swaying walls and daring dashes that cheated death by a hairbreadth, feat ured the collapse during the high wind yesterday of a two-story flat building in course of construction at Fifteenth and Ramona streets. A spectacular escape was made by William Kammerer, a youthful elec trician, who was near a window on the second floor installing wires, when the building began to tremble violent ly. It rocked for a moment, then crashed forward and collapsed. It fell in an easterly direction. Kam merer made a flying leap out of the window in the opposite direction. He was not hurt. James Leonard, a plumber, was at work on the roof when the wind exe cuted its dido. He didn't have time to do anything except cling to the shingles and slide to the asphalt pave ment -on Ramona street, where the roof landed. TAFT DENIES PARDON. Declares Walsh and Morse Both False to Trust. Washington, May 25.? President Taft today denied the applications for the pardon of Charles W. Morse, of New York, and John R. Walsh, of Chicago, the two most prominent hankers ever convicted anil sentenced to Federal prisons under the national banking laws. Not only did the president refuse to pardon them, but he also declined to exercise any other executive clemency in their cases or to shorten the 'sen tences imposed by the courts. The president took a firm stand that the national banking laws or any other laws must be upheld when they affect the rich man even more than when thev affect the poor. The record in the Walsh case, the president said, "shows moral turpitude of that insid uous and dangerous kind, to punish which the national banking laws were especially enacted. "J Man Won't Bury Uncle. San Francisco Alex R. Urquhart, of Pony, Mont., telegraphed Under taker Mark I?. Shaw here, curtly re fusing to contribute to the burial of his uncle, R. E. McDonald, a wealthy miner, who died at the county hospital here after a lingering illness. The nenhew did not know that the aged man had left an estate valued at $100,000. The refusal was based up on the statement that the old man owed the nephew $2,000, which the nephew had sunk in the mining ven tures of the deceased. "Congress City" Chosen. Kansas City The annual meeting of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial con gress, set for September next, will be held in Kansas City instead of Okla homa City. This was practically set tled when the executive committee of the congress met here to make ar rangements for the gathering. Okla homa City declined to raise the funds necessary, and the Kansas City Com mercial club formally invited the con gress to meet here. Deep Snows in Alberta. High River, Alberta More than a foot of snow has fallen here during the 36 hours ending Thursday night Road traffic is tied up and the big cel ebration planned for Victoria Day may be postponed. REBELS STILL ACTIVE. Unaware of Armistice, Troops Move On Mexiean Capital. Mexico City, May 24. Notwith standing the official signing of the peace agreement, the capital is more nearly isolated tonight than since the inauguration of hostilities. Ignorant, apparently, that the war is ended officially, one small band of rebels under Candido Navarro last night cut the national railroad near San Felipe, south of San Luis Potosi, and another band stopped all traffic over the Mexican railroad by ripping out the rails and burning a bridge near Huamantla. Believing that the rebels in Moreloa would interfere with traffic over the Cuernavaca branch of the national railroad, the management sent a train south today with guards. Rebel activity was not regarded as meaning that the insur rectos will re fuse to abide by the terms of the peace treaty. Yesterday the armis tice agreed upon terminated and there are probably scattered bands of rebels uninformed that their country is offi cially at peace. However, Navarro is reported to have said he would not consent to peace at present. The motive for the cutting of the Mexican railway may be that a troop train was being brought towards the capital. Unconfirmed reports are that the delayed soldiers have detrained at Huamantla and engaged a body of reb els in battle. In the last seven days the Federal garrison has been greatly strengthen ed and the capture of the capital will now be difficult. It is reported that Figueroa and his chief lieutenant, Azunsolo, are at outs and that Azunsolo has angered Zapata, the captor of Suautla, by branding him a bandit. NEW LAW INJURES WOMEN. IOO Matchmakers Discharged Because of 8-Hour Limit. Chico, Cal. The Diamond Match company, operating big factories at Barber, a suburb of this city, will re place practically all its women em ployes with men, on account of the new eight-hour law. In the match making department alone more than 100 women and girls will be let out. Many are experts brought from the Eastern states and are receiving good salaries. For some time it has been impossi ble for the company to get a sufficient number of competent women to do the work, and with the enforcement of the new eight-hour law, conditions are made worse, as the work of practi cally 100 men depends on ,the work of these women, and their hours would of necessity have been shortened with the shortening of the women's hours from nine to eight. It had been rumored the company contemplated employment of Japanese to replace the women, but General Superintendent Fairburn denied this. i . Hillman Barely Escapes. San Diego, Cal. C. D. Hilman, the Seattle millionaire, whose appeal from a sentence for real estate frauds is pending, had a narrow escape from having to sell for $150,000 a ranch near Encinatas, which is proved by the discovery of oil to be worth $500, 000. After having accepted an offer of $150,000 from Oakland men, Hillman visited the ranch and found three oil outfits at work and ascertained that oil in paying quantities had been struck and that prospects were good for a hotter flow. When Hillman learned this he attempted to call olf the deal with the Oakland people, and finally compromised by giving his per sonal check for $5,000 to sever nego tiations. Rebel Against Rebel. EI Paso, Texas With the accession of Madero to power in Mexico inde pendent revolutions will be handled with an iron hand, according to an an nouncement at Madero's headquarters. The revolt in Lower California, fos tered by the Mexican Liberal party, which is oposed to Madero, will be the first attended to. General Orozco will be sent against the Lower Cali fornia rebels. Reports that General Figueroa, who heads 12,000 men, was aligned with the Liberals, were brand ed as false by Orozco. French Relieve Fez. Tangier The safety of Fez from sack and massacre is believed to be assured. Dispatches have reached here that Colonel Barnard's French relief expedition has reached the cap ital, where the sultan is beleaguered, and that it has either entered or is camped outside the walls of the city. The arrival of the French has dissi pated all fears that Jthe foreigners who were besieged with the sultan by the rebellious tribesmen will be slain. Lifeboat Tells of Wreck. London The British armored cruis er Cumberland reported by wireless to the admiralty that she had picked up at the mouth of the English Channel an empty lifeboat belonging to the overdue British steamer Cayo Largo. The vessel left Swansea April 16 for Tampico, and it is feared that she foundered in the storms that followed her departure. Aviator Drops 200 Feet. Strassburg, Germany During an aeroplane competition here Wednesday afternoon Aviator Laemmlin fell 200 feet and was instantly killed. GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS Washington May 26. After four hours' caucus' today, the Democratic senators voted, 24 to 1, to support the resolutions offered by Martin, of Vir ginia, on behalf of the Democratic steering committee, providing for a re-investigation of the bribery charges in connection with the election of Lor imer, of Illinois. The Martin resolution proposes an inquiry by the committee on pnvi leges and elections. A verbal encounter between Bailey and Martine, of New Jersey, originat ed in Bailey's demand for general sup port of the Martin resolution. Bailey said that any senator who refused to be bound by the caucus had no right ful place in the party councils. This aroused the senators who favor the La Follette resolution providing for an inquiry by a special committee of new senators. Bailey contended that more than two-thirds of the caucus favored the Martin resolution and it was thus the desire of all Democrats. Martine said he understood the meeting was a conference and not a caucus and that he had no' understand ing that any binding action was to be taken. Saying he would not bandy words regarding the character of his own Democracy as compared, with that of another senator, Bailey insisted that all senators were in duty bound to abide by the two-thirds decision. , Martine replied as pointedly, and the colloquy continued until Martine withdrew from the caucus, reiterating that he would not be bound by it on any except a political question. Almost every other Democratic sen ator present participated in the de bate. It developed that the regulars had practically agreed to abandon the Dil lingham resolution in favor of the Martine measure as a matter of party discipline. Hitchcock suggested as a compro mise that a sub-committee of the com mittee on privileges and elections, to be approved by the senate, he desig nated to conduct the inquiry. He said he might present such an amend ment in the senate. This evoked fa vorable mention. It was expected that the Lorimer case would come up in the open ses sion today, but it was crowded out by other matters. La Follette expects to conclude his speech tomorrow and after one or two brief speeches in re ply it is expected a vote will be ta ken. The prospect now is that the Martine resolution will be adopted without material amendment. Washington, May 27. Instead of $100,000, alleged to have been used to secure the election of William Lori mer of Illinois to the United States senate, more than twice that sum will be disclosed, Senator La Follette told his colleagues today, if the senate re opens its investigation into Lorimer's right to hold his seat. La Follette declared that President Taft's name had been used in Lori mer's behalf and reiterated that Lori mer had personal cognizance of the use of the money. La Follette quoted from the testi mony given by Edward Hines, a Chi cago lumberman, before the Lorimer investigating committee of the Illinois legislature regarding Mr. Hines' in terviews with United States Senators Aldrich and Penrose, in which Hines said Aldrich repeatedly had impressed upon him the importance of Lorimer's election and had told him that Mr. Taft was especially concerned in Lori mer's behalf. Washington, May 27. The adminis tration of the present system of gov ernment in Alaska is deplorable, ac cording to Delegate Wickersham, of that district, who today before the house committee on territories urged a favorable report on his bill creating an elective legislature for the terri tory. "Alaska," he said, "under the pres ent system of long distance adminis tration, has not been given a single legislative measure for five years. There can be no question that an at- tempt to govern such a big territory -Jacob H. Hollander, fiscal agent for from the national capital thousands j the United States in straightening out of miles distant is a failure." j the tangled financial affairs of Santo I Domingo, had accepted money from Washington, May 27. John Norris. ; both governments, although in the pay representing the American Newspaper ;0f the United States, were aired be Publishers' association, was again be- i fore the house committee. Dr. IIol fore the senate finance committee in lander received $40,000 from this advocacy of the Canadian reciprocity government for his services, and is bill today. said to have accepted $100,000 from Mr. Norris declared that the Root , the Dominican government, amendment to the bill, providing that j the paper clause of the measure should not be in force until the president pro claims that wood, wood pulp and pa per are admitted from all parts of Canada free of duty, would postpone indefinitely the date of application of the treaty. Court-Martial May Fail. Washington, May 27. The War de partment announced today it had sus pended the recent order directing Lieutenant P. J. Hennessy, military instructor at Washington State Col-1 Washington, D. C. Andrew Carne lege at Pullman, to join the Fifteenth gie has notified the house "steel cavalry. Lieutenant Hennessy will be trust" investigating committee that permitted to remain on duty at Pull-. he is willing to appear before it, and man college until the close of the school year, then will join the Fif teenth cavalry. Hennessy's court martial will probably be dropped. Senate to Vote June 12. Washington, May 27. The senate today selected June 12 as the date for a vote on the joint resolution provid ing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The resolution also has passed the house. Washington, May 23. The Lorimer case was again to the fore in the sen ate today. A resolution of inquiry offered by Martin, the Democratic leader, intended as a sbustitute for the LaFollette and Dillingham resolu tion and a continuation of the speech by LaFollette furnished the features. LaFollette was still speaking when the senate adjourned. He reviewed the recent proceedings of the Illinois legislature, and said he was convinced there was still more testimony to be adduced. "The people of the country," said he, "rejected our former verdict as if by one voice. Nothing ever is settled until it is settled right; it is God's eternal justice pulling to make things plumb." Martin's resolution was offered on behalf of the Democratic minority. It provides specifically for an inquiry into the "jackpot" fund in the Illinois legislature and ita connnection with Lorimer. The Martin resolution would leave with the committee on privileges and elections the prosecution of the in quiry, and delegates to it all the pow ers of a court. The committee is authorized to hold its sessions at what ever place it deems most convenient. Washington, May 23. The joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate statehood, but withholding approval of the constitu tions of both until the people have voted on proposed amendments, passed the house of representatives this af ternoon by a viva voce vote. No roll call was demanded on the final vote. The resolution requires Arizona to vote on an amendment removing the recall provision as it applies to judges; and requires New Mexico to vote on amendments making its constitution more easily amendable. Neither state is required to adopt the proposed amendments by congress. Whether they are approved or rejected by the proposed referendums, the constitu tions of the new 'states will stand finally approved when the respective votes have been taken. Washington, May 22. Testifying before the house committee on ex penditures in the Treasury department today, J. B. Stuart, ex-collector of customs at Newport News, said Secre tary of the Treasury MacVeagh had told him the department reversed a ruling for collection of a 20 per cent duty on creosote because the rail roads could not afford to pay the duty. Another witness testified that Mr. MacVeagh's brother had interested himself in the matter. Mr. Stuart, who secured an investi gation into creosote imports at New Orleans last fall, charging the govern ment was losing millions in revenue because creosote, dutiable at zO per cent, was being admitted as creosote oil free of duty, was summoned before the committee as the result of testi mony given previously in eceuctive session by Allan L. Benson. Stuart related how he found that no duty was being collected from foreign ships whose manifests showed their cargoes to be creosote, the cargoes being received as creosote oil, which is on the free list. Washington, May 22. An immedi ate investigation, of sweeping scope, of the charges that Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, is not entited to his seat is provided for in two resolutions called up by Dillingham and LaFollette in the senate today. La Follette called up his resolution and made a speech arraigning the Illi nois senator, whom he charged with personal knowledge of the spending of money in behalf of his election. Both the Democratic steering com mittee and the Republican members of I the committee on privileges and elec tions, discussed the charges, and Dil jlingham, chairman of the election j committee, presented his resolution of inquiry as a substitute for the LaFol- ette resolution. Hollander Faces Charge Washington Charges that Dr, Many Move to Drop' Islands. Washington, D. C. Members " of the house are loading the committee on foreign affairs with resolutions providing for the neutrality and ulti mate independence of the Philippine islands. While no action by congress is expected at this session, a deter mined effort will be made in the regu lar session to sever the islands from United States possession. Carnegie is to Testify, that no subpoena or legal document is necessary to insure his presence in Washington when desired. The com mittee has not yet fixed a date for the hearing. Makes Offer to Germany. Washington, D. C. The German government has been made ware by the United States that the same gen eral arbitral proposition submitted to Great Britain and France is open to Germany if that country is interested. MANNER OF CONSTRUCTING PRACTICAL SHEEP HURDLES Great Objection to Mors General Use of Devices Seems to B Their Liability of Blowing: Over Materials to be Used. The great objection to the more gen eral use of sheep hurdles seems to be their liability to blowing over. I sub mit Illustrations of some that offer less resistance or are better fortified against the effects of the wind, writes Richard H. Mitchell In the Country Gentleman. Fig. 1, while not strictly a movable hurdle, Is, nevertheless, considered as Buch, and Is the one in most com mon use. I can only give measure ments from memory, but Bhould say that they were 10 feet long and 5 feet high when set up. The figure shown Is made of sawed stuff, but they are more often made of split saplings; the construction, however, 1b precisely the same. Holes are made with a bar, and they are set end to end and pinned together at the top. These, like those supported on the A crutch, form a perfectly straight fence, which Is not so proof against the force of the wind as one built zig-zag or worm fashion. In Fig. 2 I have shown two panels that are intended to be set up in this manner. The left-hand end of panel b slips in the right-hand end of panel a, and a section of the fence is shown In Fig. 3. These panels are supposed to be 10 feet long and 4 feet high, and the lumber 1 by 5-inch stuff, but these dimensions can be varied to suit the idea of the user. With these di mensions, however, the distance be tween the end uprights on panel ought to be 11 Inches. On panel a the end uprights ought to be 15 Inches from either end. This ought to make the fence worm about 4 feet. As can be readily understood, more or less worm will be given to the fence by moving the second upright from either end in panel a. A panel using wire Instead of lum ber seems desirable, and In Fig. 4 I have shown one that seems to me the most desirable, as combining the great- fin est strength with the least surface, and with the surface low. The panel, as there shown, can be used on the A crutch. Fig. 5 shows it modified, to meet the requirements of a worm fence. By substituting a post in the place of the end uprights, you have the Fig. 1 forms. In Fig. 5 you will notice that I am not satisfied with cleats, but have introduced a bar sliding in a slot on the front side of the end upright and on the back side of the second up right. This makes a complete lock, and seems to me quite essential ou that style of fence. I should also rec omeiid the same device on the board panels, as on uneven ground one end might sprir.g up and allow the pantls to separate. Of course on this skeleton any kind of wire can be used. Personally, I would not use barbed-wire of any sort as a gift. The illustration is Intend ed to show a two-strand twisted wire, placed six Inches apart, which is much WHERE WOMEN A great many Russian peasants are going into western Canada, and as many of them are poorly equipped for farm operations, they work in the co-operative plan. These Russians set tle In Tillages according to their cus tom In their native land and when there are not enough horses to draw n a. closer than It Is used on longer stretches, but that number of wires seems to me about right for a good job. They might be placed closer at the bottom and wider at the top, per haps. That hurdle (Fig. 4) made with 4-foot uprights and 14 feet from end to end of upright, would weigh about 63 pounds, and cost about as many cents for material. The cost of the icr? n rrOi all-board ore would not be much dif ferent, and It would weigh 40 pounds more. As to manufacture, I should say, as has already been suggested, that pret ty close to where they are to be used would be the best place to make them, as one freight on the material would be saved. Machinery does not enter very largely Into their construction; so nothing could be saved In that way. It ought not to require anr great skill to saw up boards and nail them together, and also stretch wire on them, If that form was desired. In drawing these hurdles, I have allowed the center uprights to come down as far as the others; in prac tice, it might be found better to make them shorter, especially if they were to be set up on uneven ground. The diagonals in Fig. 4, being on opposite sides of inch uprights, will of course be an inch apart where they cross. I should not fill this in, but draw them together in nailing, as It will make the frame all the stronger. Hemlock la probably the best material for making these, and It would undoubtedly last enough longer to pay to have It dress ed. If ordered in carload lots, enough would be saved in freight to pay for the dressing. If the ends of the up rights that stand on the ground were dipped in hot coal tar, they would probably last as long as the rest of the panel. Fig. 6 shows an Iron that I think would be a great help In clinching the nails. A slot Is cut In the end of a fiat piece of iron, so that it will slip easily on the nail, and it is bev eled from the slot to either edge. By slipping this on the nail, the end can be bent over at more than a right angle. The iron is then slipped back, as shown in the Illustration, and the nail bent over and driven Into the wood, as shown to the right. For fencing stacks and turning corners, both ends of the panels would have to be alike, instead of reversing, as shown in the cut. If this fence should prove reasonably wind-proof, It ought to solve a large problem In fence econ omy, as very much less fence would be needed if the fence could be easily moved from place to place as occasion demanded. It would be absolutely wind-proof around a stack if locked with the slid-ing-bar, and would have the advantage of being movable when the ground was frozen. Choking on Oats. Some horses eat so greedily that they become choked on oats. We have one that troubled us in that way, so we often had to send for a veterina rian, who inserted a tube down her throat to dislodge the grain, says a writer in an exchange. Later he told us how to avoid the trouble In this way: He advised us to place a dozen or more smooth stones, the size of a small hen's egg, in the feed box, tak ing care to have them well distributed through the oats. This compels the horse to eat less greedily, as he must eat carefully to avoid biting on the stones. We had no further trouble a long as we owned the horse. Succulent Feed for Cows . One of the most practical ways ot supplying succulent feed for cows, when one has only a small herd and does not have ensilage, is by raising roots such as mangels, rutabagas or stock carrots. DRAW THE PLOW the plows, the women of the village act as substitutes. It is said to be not an uncommon sight to sea a dozen oi more women attached to a plow by a long rope on which there are fast ened at Intervals sticks of wood which may be placed against the breast oi across the arms to aid la pulling. ' ;