DEATH LIST NOW
MORE THAN 90
Property Loss In Gulf States
Up In Millions.
North Central and Western Por­
tion» of Country Are Buried
Under Snow Drift».
Chicago Indication» from lute re­
ports »re that more than 90 |>er>on«
were kill«d, scores severely injured,
and great property I ons sustained in
the disastrous electrical storm which
swept parts of Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas.
Eighty odd deaths have been retri­
ed and the total loss of life probably
will be increased when wire communi­
cation is restored in remote sections
devastated by the cyclone. The dam­
age to profierty cannot bo estimated,
but will have to be computed in mil­
lions.
Twenty-nine persons are rc;>ort«l to
have perished in Georgia ami damage
to property is roughly estimated at
11,000,000. Calhoun, (ionion county,
Georgia, and vicinity Ixrre the brunt
of the storm, and 11 persons are re­
ported to have lieen killed. The other
fatalities in Georgia were nine at
Tucker, four at Raglesville, three at
Clarkston and two at Columbus.
I .ate reports from Tennessee have
increased the death toll in that state
to 23 tx-rsyns.
The loa.i of life in Alabama la esti­
mated at 13, although several persons
still are reported missing.
Five ne­
groes were killed near New Decatur,
three |>eraons perished at Calera and
two vnch at Hoke ami Bluff, Cainsville
and Duke.
Late report» from Northern Missis­
sippi raised the death list from seven
as first report«!, to 13. These fatali­
ties occurred In seven counties. Wire
communication with u number of
towns struck by the storm still is in­
terrupted.
No more deaths have IwH-n reported
from Louisiana, the death list remain­
ing at seven.
*
Six jH-rsons were killed by the cy­
clone that passed over Gadsden, Ala.
A Southern
railway
train was
wrecked, presumably by spreading
rails, near Round Mountain. The
crew and passengers escaped injury.
The storm, which continued for two
hours, was followed by earthquake
shocks, and devastated a wide section
of country between Curryville and Re-
sacca late at night. Eleven are known
to have been killed.
The storm west of the Tennessee
river reached its gravest fury in Ben­
ton county, sweeping a path from a
quarter to three-quarters of a mile
wide diagonally across the country.
It is estimated that the damage done
by the severe wind and rain storm
which swept Chicago and Illinois will
aggregate nearly $1,000,000. In Chi­
cago the wind attained a velocity of
50 miles an hour for several hours ami
thousands of plate glass windows and
doors in all parts of the city were de­
molished.
Dispatches from Northern Wiscon­
sin say disastrous floods have* been fol­
lowed by one of the most severe snow
storms of the winter. Railroad traffic
in the northwestern part of the state
is paralyzed, telegraph wires have
been put out of commission, but the
change in temperature is moderating
the floods, which were working great
havoc.
Wind storms, accompanied by rain
and hail, in the southwestern part of
Kansas, did great property damage.
Two car|M'nters wero killed at Louis­
ville, Ky., when a high wind blew
down a construction tower at the
Louisville Railway company's repair
shops. The wind reached a velocity
of 60 miles an hour.
Burlington railroad traffic imme­
diately west of Alliance, Neb., was
demoralized as a result of a heavy
blizzard which swept Northwestern
Nebraska and Southwestern Wyoming.
Freight traffic is at a standstill and
overland passenger trains are reported
stalled in snowdrifts.
Women Police Provided.
Abany, N. Y. Authority to appoint
20 patrolwomen, or as many more as
necessary, is given the police commis­
sioner of New York City in a bill in­
troduced in the state legislature. The
appointees would be between 30 and
45 years old, would be uniformed ami
would do duty in dance hails, public
parks and moving picture shows in
regularly protecting women and child­
ren. They would draw the same salary
as a male member of the force and
would share in the police pension
fund.
Treaty Extended Five Years.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Bry­
an and Ambassador J tisserand ex­
changed ratifications of the convention -
approved by the senate a month ago
extending for a term of five years the
Franco-American special arbitration
treaty of 190H. This treaty provides
for limited arbitration excepting ques­
tions of vital Interest, independence or
honor.
It is similar in terms to the
Anglo-American treaty of 1906, which
will expire June 4, next.
Suffrage Wins In Alaska.
Juneau, Alaska—The equal suffrage
resolution enfranchising Alaska wo­
men was adopted by the house. The
senate will adopt the resolution, as
there is no opposition to votes for wo­
men in that body.
WILSON TALKS GOVERNMENT
SOUTHERN CYCLONE KILLS 33
Will Endeavor to Cultivate Friend;
ship in Central America.
High Winds Sweep From New Or­
leans to Atlantic.
Washington, D. C. President Wil­
son issued his formal statement of his
policy toward the Central and South
American republics:
“In view of questions which natur­
ally are up|>ermoat in the public mind
just now, the President issues the fol­
lowing statement:
“One of the chief objects of my ad­
ministration will be to cultivate the
friendship ami deserve the confidence
of our sister republics of ('entrai and
South America, and to promote in
every proper and honorable way the
interests which are common to the
|M*oples of the two continents. I ear­
nestly desire the most cordial under­
standing and co-operation tietween the
peoples and leaders of America, and
therefore, deem it my duty to make
thia brief statement.
“Co-operation is possible only when
supported at every turn by the orderly
processes of just government based
upon law, not upon arbitrary, or ir­
regular, force. I hold, ns I am sure
all thoughtful leaders of republican
government everywhere hold, that just
government rests always upon the con­
sent of the governed, and that there
can be no freedom without order based
upon law and U|a>n the public consci­
ence and approval. We shall look to
make these principles the basis of mu­
tual intercourse between, respect and
helpfulness la-tween our sister repub­
lics and ourselves.
“We shall lemi our influence of ev­
ery kind to the realization of these
principles in fact and practice, know­
ing that disorder, pcrronal intrigue
und defiance of constitutional rights
weaken and discredit government and
injure none so much as the people who
are unfortunate enough to have their
common life and common affairs taint­
ed and/listurbed. ”
New Orleans—Thirty-three persona
are reported to have been killed and
property valued at several hundred
thousand dollars destroyed by a wind
and rain storm which swept portions
of Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Ala­
bama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Mis­
souri, Illinois and Tennessee Friday.
A deluge of rain extended over a
more extensive area and practically
demoralized telegraph and telephone
service for several hours.
Only meager reports from the
stricken districts were obtainable.
The property damage at Brookland,
T*-x., was estimated at $100,000. All
wires in the path of ti.v storm were
put out of commission.
Latest reports of loss of life came
from near Atlanta, where five were
killed.
The town of Provencal, La., was
practically wiped out by a cyclone. A
negro boy was killed and 15 persons
injured.
The storm cut a wide swath from
three to 500 feet wide, demolishing
business houses and 25 homes.
At Montgomery City, Mo., large
property damage was caused and sev­
eral persons injured, two believed fa­
tally, by the storm which swept Mont­
gomery county.
Three persons were hurt and consid­
erable property damage done by a
storm which passed over Jerseyville,
30 miles northeast of St. Louis. Sev­
eral houses were wrecked.
The storm which swept over the
counties of Peoria, Woodford and
Tazewell in Illinois did damage esti­
mated at several thousand dollars.
The wind at Peoria reached a velocity
of 50 miles an hour.
NE of the most striking figures plates after eating so that none of tbe
In Japanese history is that of defiling meat should go Into tbe mon-
Kobo Dolski, the great Bud­ ■ astery kitchen.
dhist teacher, who was born
The life of the priests seem to bd
In A D. 774. His ardent de- remarkably free from rule, and very
•Ire for enlightenment took him
to
different
from Roman Catholic mon­
C^lna, where he sat at the feet of the asteries They are celibates and vege­
most eminent Buddhist scholars of tarians, but there is little or no rule
'J>e day. and brought back much that of silence, nor do they do manual
work of a severe kind. This one
was new to the Buddhists of Japan.
I had long wished to visit the fa­ could see by their hands, which were
mous monastery founded by Kobo as smooth as a woman's. We met
Dalshi on Mount Koya, but was uncer­ numbers during our sightseeing, and
tain as to how I should carry out my they all appeared to converse freely
wlBh. writes Susan Ballard In the with the people around them.
Care for Thousands of Pilgrims.
East and West Review, until an Amer­
Our guide got through a good-sized
ican gentleman, who was searching
lapan for Buddhist art treasures, gave packet of cigarettes during his day
FEDERALISTS HARD PRESSED me
with us! Some of the monks remain
the necessary Information.
He told me that th*- monastery con- for life on Mount Koya; some be­
Agua Prieta Garrison Sends Arma lists of a number of separate monas­ come priests of parish temples. Even
Into United States.
teries. each with its Independent rule those who are for life in the monas­
tery are free to visit their homes
Douglas, Ariz. -- With sufficient and presiding abbot, the whole being
under the jurisdiction of a lord abbot quite frequently. Their moral reputa­
forces U> avoid necessity of mobiliza­ The monasteries are bound by their tion Is. on the whole, good; but the
tion, the insurgent state troops are rule to take in all visitors, but my establishment on Mount Koya is real­
pressing toward the border after their friend offered me an Introduction to ly a group of monasteries with inde­
victories in driving the Huerta soldiery the particular monastery where he pendent rule, and I was told that
some monasteries had a much better
from inland mining towns.
With had himself stayed on more than one reputation than others.
occasion.
large groups of constitutionalists sur­
The time of the priests seems to
Armed with this introduction. I
rounding Agua Prieta, not permitting wrote to the abbot, whose name he be spent in studying Buddhist doo
the federal* even to evacuate peace­ gave me
and asked if It would be trines, saying prayers for the dead
fully, 600 of another group approached convenient to them to put up two la- and in taking care of the pilgrims
close to Nogales, Sonora, opposite the lles for a couple of days. I at once «ho are all lodged and fed at the
Arizona town of the same name. Both received a most polite reply, saying monasteries
During
the
spring
(airts, Agua Prieta, terminal of the :hat If we could be content with what months 3.000 or 4.000 pilgrims come
Nacozari railway, and Nogales, on the accommodation they had to offer they in a day. the majority spending the
Sonora railroad, which runs directly to would be pleased to receive us.
night; and on March 21 they claim
the gulf, were menaced at the same
to have on an average 20.000. At ths
Fed Entirely Upon Vegetables.
time, preventing the federals from
entrance to the monastery grounds
When we got to the top of the Is an office called the examination of
combining at any one point.
mountain,
white
walls
gleamed
tn
a
Particularly difficult was the posi­
pilgrims office, where each pilgrim
tion of Genera) Ojeda, commanding ghostly way through the darkness, states which monastery he wishes to
the Agua Prieta garrison.
In fear of and we at length arrived at our des­ stay at. and If he has no preference
causing danger to the residents of tination. Taking off our shoes we he Is told where to go.
Douglas, his orders were to evacuate stepped up Into the monastery and
Everything Is done In the most
the border town, but the state troops, were at once led by white-robed businesslike way, which Is, Indeed,
fresh from their victories at Nacozari priests through needless matted necessary when dealing with sueb
and Eltigre, surrounded the town and rooms to the very back of the build­ large numbers of people so far away
demanded the federals’ arms.
As an ing. where were the rooms reserved from all ordinary accommodation.
only alternative, late in the afternoon for special guests
Some pilgrims come for the purpose
The room Into which we were of bringing bones fog interment in
found the federalH loading their arms,
shown
was
bare
of
all
furniture
ex
­
ammunition and artillery on box cars,
the Mount Koya cemetery, others to
with the evident intention of running cept for two largo red crepe cushions visit the graves of ancestors, others
the train to the American side and fol­ for us to sit on, with a lamp in front just for the pleasure of seeing a his­
of each. The sliding screens were torical place, and there are always
lowing unarmed.
This would prevent the state rebels very elaborately painted, and there some who go on the pilgrimage with
from securing the munitions and at was a fine bronze ornament on a the desire to receive purification from
the same time General Ojeda would be shelf.
sin and “accumulate merit.”
One evening meal was presently
cleared of responsibility, in view of
his orders from the Mexican War de­ brought In; it was served In old
partment.
W. T. Fitzherbert, cus­ china on red lacquer stands. We had HENS SIGN THEIR AUTOGRAPH
toms collector at Douglas, received no different china at each meal during
request from the Mexican general to our two days' stay, and the priests Staten Islanders Have a Most Ingen­
ious Scheme for Keeping Track of
bring over the arms, nor could such lie seemed to take pleasure in pointing
the Work of Egg Layers.
granted without permission from out the peculiarities of the different
Washington, which so far has not makes of china. Food on Mount
Make your hens sign their auto­
Koya la a problem We had been
recognized the Huerta government.
warned that no meat, fish or eggs graph every time they lay an egg
were allowed: absolutely nothing but This la the very latest wrtnkle in
Strikers Threaten Jail.
poultry farming. Two Staten islanders
Akron, O.—A parade of striking
devised it. These two farmers put
rubber workers marched to the central
their wits together and devised an ap­
paratus so simple that even the sil­
(»lice station and threatened for a
liest of hens can work it, for she works
time to attack the jail and liberate the
it all unbeknown to herself. The first
strikers arrested for rioting in the last
thing they did was to attach a piece
few days.
Several shots were fired
of crayon by a clip to the leg of each
toward Detective George Martino, who
hen. just as a steel spur is fastened
returned the fire. No one was hit by
to the leg of a fighting cock. This Is
the bullets, and the strikers retreat«!.
for her to write her autograph with.
Before marching to the police station
the crowd attacked officers on duty nt
Each hen has a different colored cray­
one of the rubber factories. Carl W.
on. or even If there are not enough
colors to go around two crayons can
Bailey, an I. W. W. organizer of
Cleveland, was arrest«!.
be attached
Now for the nest When the hen
Plea Made for Tramps.
feels like laying an egg she must
walk up a short Incline plane to reach
Dover, Del.—The Delaware legisla­
the nest. Her weight releases a trig
ture has voted to establish convict
ger which makes two wire gates drop
camps and work all short-term pris­
High Priest Meditating.
These will open outward at a touch
oners on the highways by passing the
Anderson bill. Opposition to the con­ vegetables. Our meal looked delicious, from her head; but not even a big
vict labor idea centralized in a plea but was most unsatisfying, and tbs Cochin China rooster could open them
for tramps and a protest against their moment It was cleared away we fell from the outside. So no other hen
arrest. "We need them during the to eagerly on the bread we bad can enter and cause confusion by lay­
ing another egg in the neat. When
berry and fruit season and cannot brought up with us.
spare them,” declared Assemblyman
The next morning I had a conversa­ the hen has done her duty she walks
Owens, a fruitgrower. “They save tion on the food question with the at­ down the Inclined plane to get out
us money and save our fruit."
tendant who brought our meals He Reaching the gate, she has to crouch
volunteered the information that eggs a little In order to swing It open This
Pays $100,000 Back Customs.
could be bought if we wanted them. brings the crayon on her leg Into con­
Washington, I). C.—John Wana- I asked If meat was strictly prohibit­ tact with the surface of the Inclined
maker, the Philadelphia and New ed; he said that, of course, the priests plane. The streak It draws thereon la
York merchant, has paid to the gov­ never touched It, and they did not the hen's autograph and proof that the
ernment $100,000 to settle sums of Ilka Its being brought Into the monas­ egg In the nest la here and not that
which the treasury has been defrauded teries, but they knew that It was dif­ of any other bird.
during the last 15 years through ir­ ficult for visitors to get on without
regular pacticea in the importation of meat, so if they did bring It with Hunters After Valuable Black Fox.
Hunters in Weld. Me., say that
samples of merchandise.
them—well, the priests looked the
there is In that section a beautiful
sther way
President Joins Club.
We were much relieved to hear that black fox bearing a charmed life.
Washington, D. C.—President Wil- the priests had learned the gentle art Many of the local hunters are crack
sdn has accepted membership in the if looking the other way. and we shots, but they have fired shot after
University Club in Washington, and quickly produced out tin of tongue shot at the fox without effect Those
will pay his dues just as any other, »nd the hot water, ostensibly brought who have seen the fox say that it is
member does. The University Club is for tea, turned Into consomme Ws unusually large. The skin is eetl
the first club the President has joined were, however, careful to wash our mated to bo worth from $500 to $1.000
in Washington.
O
MEXICANS OBEY AMERICANS
Cease Firing, Cross Border and
Surrender Arms.
Nogales, Ariz. — Constitutionalists
overthrew the federal garrison at No­
gales, Sonora, Friday night, and now
are in possession of the border town,
after a flight which continued with
little abatement for 12 hours.
Casualties are estimated at 100 dead
and twice as many wounded on both
sides.
Private Allen A. Umfleet, troop G,
fifth cavalry, U. S. A., was seriously
wounded by a rebel bullet while doing
police duty near the international line
here. The shot passed through his
face from nose to ear.
No other
Americans were wounded.
The United States soldier was shot
shortly after 5 o’clock, when the at­
tack was at its height.
Lieutenant-
Colonel Tate, in charge of the fifth
cavalry patrol, instantly sent word to
General Obregon, in command of the
rebel forces:
“You have shot one of my men.
Cease firing, or I shall be after you at
once.”
At the same moment the firing from
the regulars under Colonels Koster-
litzke and Reyes slackened. By some
preconcerted arrangement, Lieutenant-
Colonel Tate called his bugler and or­
dered him to sound the Mexican “cease
firing” order. The federal garrison
instantly obeyed, but desultory firing
continued to come from the beseigers.
General Obregon succeeded in hold­
ing back the fire from his men, so that
Colonels Kosterlitzky and Reyes with
their forces were able to cross to the
United States, where they surrendered
to Colonel Wilbur W. Wilbur, Fifth
cavalry, who arrived to take command
of the American troops. The Mexican
federal soldiers stacked their arms be­
fore the American tiv^pers and dis­
banded.
Musty Theories Assailed.
Stanford University, Cal. — "The
professors of economics in American
universities are too scientific and have
too little regard for the human will,”
declared Professor M. L. Larkin, of
the Stanford economics department,
in an address here. “The aim of eco­
nomics,” he continued, “should be to­
ward the teaching of practical affairs
and not the theories of 15th century
theorists. One difficulty in most in­
stitutions is that the teachers are in­
capable. Poor pay is responsible for
the dearth of capable instructors.”
Girl Strikers Hold Up Car.
REBEL LEADER
SUES FOR PEACE
Carranza Uprising in Coahuila
Has Collapsed.
Minister of Agriculture Telegraphs
Huerta Asking Pardon for
Rebel Governor.
Mexico City—Surrounded by govern­
ment troops, Venustiano Carranza, the
rebel governor of Coahuila, who re­
fused to recognize the Huerta ad­
ministration and initiated what ap­
peared to be a formidable revolt, is
suing for peace, according to official
reports. Carranza is declared to have
2000 men.
Manuel Garza Aidape, named as
minister of agriculture, who was sent
north by the government to effect a
reconciliation, has telegraphed to
President Huerta asking for a pardon
for the rebellious governor.
Alberto
Guajardo, commander of the rurales,
who joined the Carranza movement,
is reported officially to have surren­
dered.
Pascual Orozco, Jr., returned to the
capital and was greeted by the men
who have been fighting him for a
year.
Orozco has signed no agreement of
peace, but it is expected he will do so.
Suspicious regarding negotiations with
others than the principals, he had en­
tered into only partial terms with the
commissioners sent north by the gov­
ernment.
The final conferences regarding a
peace settlement between Orozco and
the government will be held this week,
probably at the national palace.
Orozco and his advisers will try to ex­
act the best possible terms, but it is
believed that the revolution, so far as
they are concerned, is ended.
Most of Orozco’s army will join the
government forces, and it is regarded
as not improbable that Orozco himself
will be governor of Chihuahua.
FRIEDMANN SEEKS IMMUNITY
German Physician Thinks New Se­
rum Preventative.
Ottawa, Ont—Dr. Friederich F.
Friedmann, of Berlin, discussed before
the Canadian Association for the Pre­
vention of Tuberculosis his treatment
for tuberculosis, the manner of its dis­
covery and the precautions he took to
insure its harmlessness.
He said he
had spent 23 years in research work to
find a tuberculin that was not toxic
and virulent and having found it,
tried it first of all on himself.
He discarded human tubercle bacilli,
he said, after many experiments, be­
cause he feared the results were too
dangerous. The end of his research
came, he asserted, when he found a
bacillus which originated in a cold­
blooded animal, the turtle, which
bacillus became a-virulent and a-toxic
after frequent transplantation.
“When that condition was reached,”
he said, “I injected it into myself,
then into patients infected with tu­
berculosis, then into healthy children
in tubercular surroundings.
I have
found the remedy invariably harm­
less.”
“I have found this remedy harmless
when I used it for patients ranging
from earliest childhood to the most
advanced age in all forms of applica­
tion — subcutaneously, intramuscular
and intravenous—even in big doses,”
said Dr. Friedmann, “and equally effi­
cient in all forms of tuberculosis, pul­
monary, bone, joint, glandular and
skin. Aside from absolutely hopeless
cases, whose fates were already
sealed, the remedy has proved its effi­
ciency in most instances.
“To obtain the ideal, to eradicate
tuberculosis as an epidemic disease, it
is necessary not only to cure the tuber­
cular individuals now living, but also
to protect by a method following the
principle of Jenner’s vaccination in
guarding the future generations from
infection.
“So far I have vaccinated 350 child­
ren varying in age from 1 year to 3
years.
Most of these children were
living in tubercular environments and
much exposed to infection from the
source. The earliest immunizations
were made 17 months ago and all the
children are well today and free from
all symptoms of scrofula or tubercu­
losis.”
Trenton, N. J.—Two hundred girl
strikers at the Strauss woolen mills on
the outskirts of this city held up a
trolley car and blocked service for 40
minutes because Holdsworth Robinson,
who is accused of striking one of the
girls, sought refuge in the car. The
girls got on the track in front of the
car and would not move until police
Culebra Cut Pushed Up.
reached the scene and arrested Robin­
Panama
—The slide on the east bank
son on complaint of Annie Solltis, 14
years old, who said Robinson had of the Culebra cut, which first moved
struck her.
into the cut on the night of February
5, made another rapid movement
Wright Patenta Upheld.
downward on March 15 toward the
Paris—The Wright aeroplane pat­ canal. It pushed the bottom of the
ents were fully upheld by a decision in cut near the center for a distance of
the fourth division of the Court of Ap­ 1000 feet to a height of 30 feet, de­
peals, confirming a previous judgment stroying five tracks and overturning
rendered in the third division after re­ two steam shovels. There is now only
ports from a technical commission. one construction track in operation.
The hearing and arguments brought by The slide has ceased moving and the
the Wright brothers against several work of removing the mass of earth
French aeroplane manufacturers for has already begun.
an infringement of patents, particu­
Hereditary Lord Doomed.
larly the warping wing princi­
ple.
London—In the course of a debate
in the house of commons. Postmaster
Camera's Tricks Offend.
General the Right Honorable H. L.
Washington, D. C.—A Pennsylvan- Samuel intimated that it was the in­
ia-avenue photographer who has been tention of the government in the life­
using the tricks of his trade to make time of the present parliament to*
photographs of his customers in the adopt a bill for the reform of the
attitude of shaking hands with Presi­ house of lords.
He said that the new
dent Wilson, formally was requested second chamber would contain no ves­
by the White House to discontinue the tige of the hereditary principle and
practice.
The same cirewmatanee that under no circumstances would its
arose during the Taft administration. absolute veto be restored.