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MALE ATTIRE IS ALLOWABLE HUERTA OFFERS COMFORTS ATROCITIES BY FIRE SWEEPS California'Judge Says Women May FiraM'laaa Passage to American»---1 Dress as They Please. Special Trains If Needed. HOT SPRINGS GREEKS EXPOSED ¡setters Captured by Bulgarians Tell of Massacres. Torch Used Everywhere Of 1200 Prisoners at One Point Only 41 Were left Alive. Sofia, Bulgaria In order to prove that Greek soldiers were responsible for numerous atrocities against the Bulgarians in the fighting lastJuly between Bulgaria and her former al lies, Greece, Servia and Montenegro, there have been made public In Sofia extracts from letter written* by Greek soldiers and officers to friends at home. Theao letters were captured in a mail box of the Nineteenth regiment of the Seventh Greek division by Bul garian troops in tho vicinity of Raz ing. They were given out by the Bul garian telegraphic agency in pamphlet form. Each letter is printed in fac simile in the original Greek and is followed by a translation In French, which gives tho dates and names signed to each communication. The first letter is dated July 11 and the last July 16. Extracts from some of these communications of Greek soldiers and officers follow: "We have burned all the villages abandoned by the Bulgarians. They burned the Greek villages and we the Bulgarian villages. They massacre, we massacre, and the Manlicher has operated against each memtier of this dishonest nation who has fallen into our hands. Out of 1200 prisoners that we took at Nigrita only 41 remained in prison, and everywhere we went we have left no root of this race.** Another letter from a sergeant says : "We burned the villages of Dnutlli and Banitza ami put everything to the bayonet or the flame, making ex ceptions only of women, children and old people and churches. We did all thia without pity snd without grace." A thin! letter dated Nesto River, July 12, says: "Here at Vrondou 1 captured five Bulgarians and a girl from Serres. We shut them up In a police station. While they were still alive we gouged out their eyes.” A letter dated Rhodopes, July 11, says: "From Serres to the frontier we burned every Bulgarian village.'* One dated July 13 says: Everybody has fled from these Bul garian villages. Those who remain are ’eaten up* by the Manlicher and we have also burned some villages." A soldier named George, writing to his brother at home on July 12, says: We have enraged the Bulgarians by burning their villages and whenever we find one or two we kill them like sparrows." Another Greek soldier writes to his brother: "The Greek army is burning wher ever it finds a Bulgarian village and it massacres all those which it over takes; things are happening which it is impossible to express. God knows where this business will end." A corporal writing to his brother says: "Not even a cat ha» escaped where we have gone. We have burned every Bulgarian vilage through which we have passed. This is all I can tell you.” Under date of July 13, Thomas Z.ahantiotis writes from Rhodopes to a friend to say that a mutural friend, Aristide, should not enlist. "Villages and men arc being burned, but we also are setting fires ami are doing worse than the Bulgarians," he says. A letter from Mico Theophilatos at Mexinta says: "They gave me 16 prisoners to take to division headquarters and I turned in only two. The others were lost in the darkness, massacred by myself.” This letter bears the seal of the Nineteenth regiment. Mexico City—Neither the American embassy nor the Mexican foreign office appears to share the optimism of Washington officials regarding the early solution of the difficulties be tween the two nations. At the em- ' bassy it was said Saturday that no communication had been received from Mr. Lind In three days. Senor Garn boa, the foreign minister, seemed equally ignorant of any further inter change tending toward a settlement. The foreign minister’s attitude ap parently has not changed since the de parture of Mr. Lind from the Mexican capital and he reiterated that he did not expect any further negotiations unless the administration at Washing ton saw fit to submit a rejoinder to hla last note in which he pointed out the ineligibility of General Hureta as a presidential candidate, and withdrew the suggestion of a resumption of full diplomatic relations between the two countries. That, he said, still is the attitude of Mexico. President Wilson's warning Americans to leave Mexico has called forth a declaration from General Hu erta in which he gives assurances of safety to Americans under any circum stances, even in case ot intervention, so far as the Mexican government is able to afford protection, and an offer to aid those desiring to leave by af fording special trains to the porta and making good the difference between the price of steerage and the class of passage to which the refugees aspire. "The personal sentiments of the constitutional interim president of the republic," says the declaration, "to ward citizens of the United .States re siding in this country are benevolent and just to the extent that, their gov ernment having recommended without justifiable cause that they leave the country, and while lamenting the dis position which caused alarm, as well as the fact that many Americans have decided to leave the country, the Pres ident has resolved to recommend to the proper authorities—in view of the fact, as stated in the newspapers, thst the government of the United States finds it possible to furnish only third- class passage that they offer in a spontaneous and kindly manner to cover the difference which exists, and even provide free special trains and gratuities, to the end that the Ameri cans arrive in their country with greater comfort and means than those which they otherwise would have." ONE TOWN WIPED OFF MAP Livestock Perishes, Bridges and Buildings Wrecked. Charlotte, N. C. - Scenes of desola tion mark virtually the entire North Carolina coast as the result of a hurri cane which struck this section Friday. Dispatches just coming in over the makeshift lines of communication in dicate that the town of Bell Haven was wiped off the map, while town of Washington, N. C., not only suffered from the wind, but also lost heavily by flood. The loss in Beaufort county, in which Washington is situated, alone will exceed $3,000,000, it is estimated. Bridges were swept away by the high waters and the wind at Washing ton, where buildings crumbled under the fury of the blast, as they did at Morehead City, Oriental, Bayboro and other smaller towns. At Newbern streets were inundated and thoroughfares lined with debris. The damage in that city alone prob ably will exceed $500,000. To add to the terror of the citizens, fire broke out during the tempest and was con trolled with difficulty. Two railroad bridges, one of them a mile long, were swept away. In Aurora 15 houses were destroyed and more than 200 cattle and hogs were drowned and their carcasses are lying in the streets, a serious menace to the public health. Gates Make* Money Fly. Kansas City—Charles W. Gates, son of the late John W. Gates, known as "Bet-a-Million” Gates, was in Kansas City 10 minutes Saturday, long enough to spend a few hundred dollars. Al THAW LOSES FIRST ROUND though no one reported that the mil lionaire had made any $900 tips, as he Canada's Immigration Officials Now did in Minneapolis a short time ago, I one "red-cap” at the union station Have Case in Hand. showed his fellow workers a crisp $20 Coaticook, Cannda Harry Kendall bill he said the careless spender gave Thaw, pried out of the Sherbrooke jail him for getting a newspaper. on a writ of habeas corpus obtained He also shuflled off $775 for a spe on a coup of William Travers Jerome, cial train to Chicago, buying 75 tick- enjoyed three minutes of liberty Wed eta at $10.75 each, to get a three- nesday and was then seized by the Do coach special. With Mr. Gates were minion immigration authorities and his mother and his secretary. The hustled by automobile to thia little millionaire said he was returning from town, where he soon paced the floor in a abort vacation out West. the immigration detention room over the Grand Trunk railway station. Wharves on Coast Wrecked. A special board of inquiry will sit Beaufort, N. C.—The storm which in his case and he may be thrust across the Vermont border as an un swept the North Carolina coast Friday desirable alien. His lawyers have wrought havoc in thia vicinity. Mail planned no procedure to resist extra boats from Core Sound reported that dition to New York and the belief is all wharves for a distance of 25 miles current that before many days Thaw had been destroyed, several houses will be back in the Matteawan asylum blown down and hundreds of cattle and for the criminal insane, from which he horses drowned. No lives were re escaped Sunday, August 17. ported lost. Many small craft in Beaufort harbor capsized or were 2000 Russians Are Held. smashed against wharves or the break Berlin—Two thousand male inhab water. There has been no news from itants of the district surrounding Ju- the sea, the wireless station being ofit of commission. tais in the Russian trans-Caucasian province of the same name have been Mn. Pankhurat to Visit U. S. kept in prison since August 25, where London—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurat, they have been scantily fed in order to force them to deliver to the authori the leader of the militant suffragettes, ties the murderer of a policeman, ac will make a visit to the United States cording to a St Petersburg dispatch when her health is restored, according to the Lokal Anzelger. The tclegrnm to an announcement made here. She states that Prince Golovani, the mem will address meetings in New York, ber representing the district in the Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago on Duma, has protested to the minister suffrage, with special reference to the white slave traffic. of the interior against this cruelty. Watsonville, Cal.—"A woman has , the right to dress the way she pleases,” declared Justice Rohrback, of Watsonville Junction, in dismissing ths ease against Mrs. Ixrttie Hans, of San Francisco, arrested on a charge of masquerading in male attire. The Forty-Mile Gale Spreads Flamee - vagrancy charge agsinst her husband, Henry Hanz, was also dismissed at the Water and Dynamite Save same time. Business Section. It waa while the officer* were searching the pair for concealed weap Hot Springs, Ark, — Fire which ons that it was found one of them was a woman. She brought out a mar started in a small cabin at 3 :30 o'clock riage license to prove that she was the Saturday afternoon slowly died out at wife of her companion. the foot of West Mountain, the south When taken before Judge Rohrback, ern extremity of Hot Springs, at mid the woman told a story of hardship and night, after reducing to a smouldering poverty which greatly moved the spec mass of wreckage an area more than tators. They were married in San a mile in length and from seven to ten Francisco two years ago, and for a blocks wide in the eastern section of time everything went well in the the city. Tho monetary loss is rough family. Then Hanz lost his position, ly estimated at $10,000,000. sickness came and all their savings In the path of the flames were many disappeared. Two months ago he was houses, hotels, a number of more pre discharged from the hospital, helpless tentious residences and public build and penniless. Then they decided to ings, which are in ashes. walk to San Diego, where relatives It is estimated that 2000 persons are had promised help. They were weary homeless. So far as can be ascer and footsore when they reached this tained there were no fatalities, and city. They went on their way re the few persons hurt suffered only joicing after Judge Rohrback heard minor injuries. But few of those their story. whose homes were burned saved any i of their household effects and guests EXODUS FROM CAPITAL OVER of the hotels gave little heed to their valuables and luggage in their efforts Mexico City Looks for Results to escape the flames. From Report of Hale. Driven by a 40-mile wind, the blaze spread rapidly. Within 15 minutes it Mexico City—The American exodus was apparent that the fire-fighting from Mexico City practically has force of Hot Springs was inadequate and an appeal was made to Little ceased. A score or more Americans Rock for aid. Apparatus and men Í who arrived here Wednesday from in were sent, but the fire then was out of terior points called at the consulate, control. Dynamite was resorted to, but made no arrangements for pro as it was found that water would be of ceeding further. Those of the better no avail, but this, too, failed to check classes decline to accept steerage pas the flames. The burned district for some dis sage, but say they are willing to take tance skirts the business section and any accommodation on an American several times the shifting winds head transport, where they could feel as ed the fire for the principal business section, but each time the free use of sured of sanitary quarters and proper explosives and an opportune change in treatment. Consul General Shanklin, the wind saved iL Before nightfall however, has not received any intima the task of checking the flames was tion that such a transport will be sent abandoned and the combined fire j to Mexican waters. Mr. Lind, President Wilson’s per fighting forces turned their efforts toward keeping the flames away from sonal envoy, has indicated that he has the center of the city. In this they no intention of returning to Mexico City unless assured that he could be were successful. Two hundred and fifty special offi of service in reopening the negotia cers were sworn in to patrol the fire- tions. The Mexican foreign office has swept district. All the homeless have made no move to give such assurance. In some quarters it is thought that been cared for temporarily. As a result of the destruction of the possible unexpected developments may city water, light and power plants, follow the arrival of William Bayard streetcar service was abandoned, and Hale in Washington, where he is un newspaper and other industries, which derstood to have gone to lay some have depended upon motive power new phase of the 'situation before the administration. HQ! from the city plants, are crippled. — Among the buildings destroyed were the county courthouse, the Park, Prin- I REFUGEES FEAR MASSACRE cess and Moody hotels, the city high school. Iron Mountain railroad station Americans Declare Sentiment Not and shops, and 100 smaller business Turning in Huerta's Favor. buildings and many residences, in cluding some of the best in the city. San Francisco—Of the 120 passen gers who arrived here on the Pacific TOWN PUT IN WRONG PLACE Mail liner City of Para, half are ref ugees from Mexico .who brought new Surveyor's Error Robs Ravensdale stories of murder and pillage in the of Municipal Honor. troubled country. Seattle, Wash. — Because J. M. J. C. Ingram, who was United Pott, a surveyor of Tacoma, had lo States vice consul at La Paz, arrived cated the new incorporation of Ra with his family. He said while there vensdale on range 7 east instead of had been no fighting at La Paz, condi range 6 east, where it actually is, the tions were altogether unsettled and town finds itself in a pretty tangle and Americans should heed President Wil- faces the necessity of unscrambling it son's warning and get out as quickly self municipally. as possible. About a month ago the citizens in ’ A majority of those who left Mexico corporated as a municipality of the believe that intervention by this coun fourth class. The mayor and other try would mean massacre of Ameri officials took office and Matt Starwich cans and others who are forced to re a deputy sheriff, opened a saloon in a main. They contradict reports that a tent. Now, since the discovery of the wave of patriotism and adherence to dreadful mistake has been made. Matt Huerta is sweeping over the country, must close his saloon and Ravensdale When the City of Para sailed from must consider itself re-attached to the Mazatlan a week ago it had to leave unorganized territory of King county. behind more than a hundred Ameri- cans for whom there was no room on Car Cups Under Inquiry. the vessel. San Francisco—The Railroad com mission on its own motion has institu Salmon Fleet to Be Late. ted an -extensive investigation of San Francisco—The salmon fleet drinking cups in use on railroad lines will arrive here from the North in a i operating in California. Notices have been issued to all rail few days, according to an announce way companies operating within the ment from the Marine Exchange. An state to appear September 23, when nouncement was made that the ship opportunity will be afforded railroad Standard and the schooner Henry Wil officials to show cause why the com son sailed from Bristol Bay August mission should not make an order pro 19, the bark Olympic August 21, and viding for the maintenance of sani- the barge George M. Curtis the follow tory drinking cups on the passenger ing day. The bark Oriental and the cars of all the lines under its jurisdic- ’»earner George Haller sailed August tjon 27. The amount of this year s salmon pack is not known, here, but it is said it will far exceed former years. Steel Cars to Be Put In. ■ Great Arkansas Resort Suffers Loss of $10,000,000. San Francisco Confirming a recent announcement by the Southern Pacific company that it purposes equipping its main lines with steel cars, the com- j pany has filed an application with the Railroad commission for authority to issue $2,010,000 of equipment trust certificates, a large portion of the pro- ceeds of which, it says, will be used for the purchase of steel cars. The certificates are to carry a rate of 4J per cent. It is said in the application that the company plans the purchase of 148 steel coaches of all classes. Chihuahua Faces Mutiny. El Paso, Tex.—Generals Marcelo Caraveo, Antonio Rojas and Felix Terrazas, of the federal volunteer forces at Chihuahua, have been arrest- gj anij placed in the penitentiary by onjer of General Salvador Mercado, military governor of the state, and the volunteer federal force of the Chi- huahua garrison are threatening to mutiny against the government if they are not released, said reports received here ~ Thursday by members of the con stitutional ist junta. Militia Is Strengthened. Children Out of Work. Sacramento—A militia machine gun company will be Clustered into service in Los Angeles within a month. This announcement is made by Adjutant General Forbes. The company will number 70 men and six guns, two for each battalion. It is the plan of the adjutant general to augment the strength of each of the three infantry regiments of the California National Guard by mustering In machine gun companies. Boston—Thousands of "children of the mills” and juvenile employes un der 14 years of age in manufacturing towns in Massachusetts were thrown out of work September 1 by the oper ation of a new state law prohibiting the employment of any child under 14 years old in a workshop. The new law provides that no child under 16 years shall work more than eight hours a day or .more than 48 hours a week. LEVY TAXES ON “INSIGNIA’" English Government Makes Charge for the Use of Armorial Bear- Inge and Things Like That. If you wish to escape the cl Jtchea of the law be very careful what you wear In the way of jewelry, what you use on your notepaper, or what you place In the way of decorations on your furniture, plate, carriage, or even In your books, saya an English paper. Very unfortunate was the experi ence of a London doctor who received a ring from a grateful patient. On« day a London county council officer called to Inquire If the doctor had ta ken out a license for hla motor car and noticed that the doctor was wear ing the ring In question with a pebble, on which there was a design—a garter encircling a hand. "That’s a crest,” said the officer, and a few days later the doctor was summoned for using armorial bearings without a license. Since then many people have been summoned for wearing rings on which designs were cut and for using note paper bearing arms. What are "armorial bearings?" They are defined as follows by the government authorities: The term "armorial bearings" means and Includes any armorial bearings, crest or ensign, by whatever name the same shall bo called, and whether such armorial bearings, crest or ensign shall be registered In the College of Arms or not The cost for armorial bearings on vehicles is 110 a year, but the cost for use on anythtng apart from ▼ebl elea Is $5. One may possess goods marked with armorial bearings, but may not use them. One point has not yet been settled—whether a person who buys old china, silver, furniture and so on, having armorial bearings upon them. Is liable to pay the license. Everything depends upon whether the person owning the goods uses them or merely keeps them as curio» Tenements Worried Rome. The tenement house is not a modern Institution by any means. So great was the number of such bouses in ancient Rome, and so badly were they con structed, that In A. D. 69, the Emperor Otho, who was marching against Vitel- lus, found his way barred for 20 miles by the ruins of tenement houses that had been undermined by inundation. The collapse of tenement houses In those days was so common that little attention was paid to IL The tenants have been described by a writer of the times as constantly fearing to be burned or buried alive. Companies ex isted for the purpose of propping and sustaining houses. In comparison with the modern tene ments, those of Rome were excessively high. Martial alludes to a poor neigh bor who was obliged to mount 200 steps to reach his garret That garret must have been perched 100 feet above the level of the street Emperor Augustus, to make less fre quent the occurrence of disasters, lim ited the height of new houses that opened upon streets to about 68 feet ALL FARMING IS STOPPED BY HEAT Drouth Prevents Preparations for Fall Crops. Water Being Hauled for Stock in (.Missouri and Trees Are"'Be ing Felled for Feed. Kansas City, Mo.—Added to the troubles of Kansas and Western Mis souri that have come with the drought and prolonged season of beat is a threatening ice famine. Stored stocks are exhausted, and, in many cases, the outputs of the ice plants are not large enough to supply the local demands. Over Kansas Sunday the beat was unabated. Manhattan reported 105. At Abilene 105 also was recorded, this being the 53d day of this summer on which the mercury has been above the hundred mark. Salina reported 102, Topeka »7. Promises of cooler weather for the entire southwest is made for Monday by the government observer here. In western Missouri temperatures slight ly under 100 prevailed. The mercury climbed to 102 in parts of Oklahoma, and light rains were reported from some sections of that state. Fanning operations are almost at a standstill in many places in Kansas and Missouri. Farmers cannot plow for fall crops because of the drouth. The wheat acreage is likely to be cut on this account, according to reports reaching here. Corn that was not cut two weeks ago is now too dry for silage, accord ing to a report from certain localities in Kansas, and this will cause addi tional loss of food. Fields of cane and Kaffir corn are said to be the only green stuff to be seen in many places. Thousands of stockraisers are fac ing the problem of feed and water. It will be necessary for many of them either to sell their stock or ship to other places. A shortage of feed caused a stockman at Junction City, Kan., to send five carloads of cattle to Colorado to be wintered and ship ped back in the spring. In Boone county, Missouri, farmers are hauling water for their stock and are cutting down trees for the animals to feed upon brush. REFUGEES First TRAVEL IN STYLE Class Transportation to Furnished Out of Mexico. Be Washington.—The United States government has instructed American consuls in Mexico to furnish first- class transportation to the United States to any who desired it, the con dition being that the refugees later re imburse the government, if they were able, and at their convenience. The adoption of this liberal policy was made necessary by the likelihood that many Americans would linger need lessly in the trouble-torn districts un less every facility for their departure was afforded. Some Washington officials com mented for the first time on Provision al President Huerta’s declaration that if the American government were re luctant to give the refugees first-class 8oldlere Debt-Proof. transportation he would do so gladly. Although Tommy Atkins is an hon These officials, instead of resenting orable person, and is not in the habit the offer, regarded it as generous, aud of repudiating hie just debts to civili remarked that they hoped Senor Hu ans, still he is not compelled to dis erta’s beneficence would be extended charge them If they amount to less to repay Americans ana other for- _ _ This __ _ eigners for the great lcsBes their ln- than a certain sum. is _______ because by" British mTlita’ry law' he cannot be vestments had sustained through the sued for any debt or damages under X?,’ »150 In value. Accordingly if Private TbeJ/la no change m the Mexican Atkins can persuade a confiding trades- man or stock broker, or perhaps an ao commodating financier, to give him credit up to $145 there is no legal ma- chinery that will recover the money. It cannot be stopped from his pay or d» ducted from his pension. In order to protect civilians from possible loss by “giving tick” to sol diers, a system Is In force of “crying down credit j ,. ” „ 1 whenever a regiment arrives in a fresh station the com- mandlng officer has to issue a public proclamation to the effect that any- body who permits the troops to run up bills will do so at his own risk. sttuatlon, no messages of consequence ___ ing ________ _ either from be received _______ recently John Lind at Vera Cruz, 7 , nor Mr. O'Shaughnessy, the American charge d'affaires. It is considered most like- Iy that developments jvlll^ await the arrival here next week of Senor De Zamacona. Though no announcement of the administration’s attitude to ward his mission has been made, it wai“ prodirt^"^ many'quarter ' ha would be courteously received. MEXICAN INVADER IS KILLED Federal Starts Across Boundary to Kill "Gringo” El Paso -Before Lieutenant Acosta, an officer in General Salazar’s federal command at Juarez, crossed the Stan- ton-street International bridge Sunday afternoon he remarked that he was "going to kill a gringo.” He was kill- e(j by united States Customs Inspec- tor T. F. Jonah and Immigration In spector Thomas N. Heifrin. after he had opened fire on them with a rifle on the American side of the interna tional boundary. Helfren was standing at the Ameri can end of the bridge whin Acosta first opened fire at him. He fired back, using an automatic pistol. Jo nah hastened to his assistance, and began firing at the Mexican. The Mexican officer was within 30 feet of the Americans before he was killed. i Health-Giving Horse. There is about the horse a magnet | Ism, a strong physical presence, that Is Impareed to one coming intimately in contact with him, as in riding, de- clares a writer In Suburban Life. As is well known, the horse is Immune to many diseases to which mankind Is susceptible. I believe that the horse, being Immune to such diseases as diphtheria. Intestinal disorders such as typhoid, cholera and dysentery, as well as scarlet fever, smallpox and measles, and being full to the bubbling over point of vital force, animal spirit or magnetism. Imports more or lees of this to h:s rider or companion, and more particularly to little ones who are not In robust health. Repeatedly Date of Wedding Set. delicate children have been known to Windsor, Vt.—Mrs. Wlisoq. wife of obtain rugged health and to develop the president, announced Sunday that rapidly when given a pony. i the marriage of her daughter. Miss Jessie, and Francis Sayre will take Whales In Steamer’s Path. ____ House, Washlng- _ place _ at ______ the White Sixty whales playing In the path of ton' Tuesday. November“»’ the steamer Prinz Sigismund forced Miss Wilson Is recovering from ln- the helmsman to veer the vessel juries which she received In a fall quickly and sharply the other after- from a horse at Plainfield, Vt„ on Au- noon off Sea Girt, N. J., In order to K’lst 2«- Sb« frequently takes trips avoid a collision i Sa5*re ,n Bn electric car far Into Th. Prinz Sigismund was coming up C°""'7r the coast to New York from South wore g ve„ fop g<JTeraI dftyg foIlow|n< American ports, when the officer ot tbe accldenti but the bruises on her the watch saw directly ahead a eeeth- face bava practically healed. Ing mass of black. He threw his wheel j --------------------------- hard to port and at the same time sig- Navy Never More Ready. naled the engineer to reverse the en- Pittsfield, Mass.—When asked if he glneB i regarded the United States as being Thè ship answered the helm Just tn P«P»red for any unexpected trouble time to avoid running down the I with a foreign nation. Admiral Dewey "So not far prBplr as the la concern- whales, which scampered off »eaw.rd. . ' said: , am .n army lo opln. ■ ed I am not prepared to give an opln- * 1 - - -- - • > Some of the passengers counted 60. | Ion but j do not hesitate to say that _ _ lull, uui. I UU UUl UTBIIUKJ LU lunv but the watch officer says *" ha saw the navy has never been so well pre- more than that number. —— pared for war as it is at the present time.”