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NAVARRO YIELDS TO REBEL TROOPS Mexican General in Dire Straits, Forced to Surrender. Further Revolts Are Feared as Re sult—Government Rushes Troops to Scene o f Hostilities. Mexico City— General Navarro has surrendered to the rebels, according to a report that has reached here from authorities which have heretofore proved reliable in the matter o f war news. The government denies the report and says that he is awaiting reinforce ments. Officials gay Pedernales is not menaced seriously by the rebels. I t is known from other sources that Navarro has been having a hard time. His men are not used to the severe winter climate of Chihuahua. They are not properly clothed and are short o f food and ammunition. It is consid ered here that i f Navarro has not sur rendered, he is liable to do so at any time. Another report says that Navarro has not surrendered, but has deserted with his men to the rebels. This is not believd. The government now acknowledges that the situation is very Berious. A ll available troops are being sent north as fast as possible to assist Navarro. Three hundred prisoners were taken from the Belan prison and drafted into the army. A Considerable portion of the army at present is made up of prisoners. In all the battles that have occurred so far, it seems that the rebels have been shooting particularly at officers. The per tentage of these wounded or killed is very large. A t the battle of Mai Paso, the rebels, who were en trenched on mountains forming the side o f a canyon, rolled immense boul ders down on the troops. These did more damage than the shooting. The serious condition of affairs in the North is the principal topic o f con versation here. There is much specu lation as to the outcome. It is expect ed that the reverses suffered by the government recently will lead to other uprisings throughout the republic as soon as they become known. IRON WOR(<S DYNAM ITED. Los Angeles Concern Involved Strike is Victim. 'C O M P R O M IS E REACHED. Term s on Which Engineers Set-'j tied Fight. Amount of increase in yearly j wages, $4,000,000. Average increase, 10 1-8 per cent, j Average demand by engineers, 15 { per cent. Original demand, 17 per cent. j Increase offered by roads, 9 % per j cent. Increase asked on Mallet type en- j gines, 100 per cent. Increase granted on Mallet en- | gines, 75 cents to $1 differential. j Other increases granted were: j Forty cents per day in passenger, j suburban, or through freight service. | Twenty-five cents differential on j engines 215,000 pounds on drivers, £ Engineers or helpers on wrecking j trains, snow-bound or mixed trains, ! { increase o f 40 cents per day. £ Switching rates, 50 cents increase j £ in yard and transfer service. | Twenty-five cents increase per day £ f for hostlers o f the Brotherhood o f £ notive Engineers. itrollers o f motor-cars, 40 f increase, ads involved, 61. gineers affected, 37,000. B Chicago— Four millions of dollars a year was what the officials of 61 West ern railroads put in the stockings of the locomotive engineers. The g ift brought “ peace and good w ill” and averted what might l>ave proved one o f the most disastrous strikes in the history of the country. Commissioner o f Labor Charles P. N eill played the part o f Santa Claus to the engineers. For seven days he worked to bring the railroads and the engineers together and with his work accomplished he left in the afternoon for his home in Washington to spend Christmas with his fam ily. In spite of their repeated assertions that they had reached the lim it, the managers made concessions in the face o f a threatened strike. Concessions were made by the engineers also, but they established two o f the chief points for which they contended—jurisdiction over motor-trucks and an increased schedule for the Mallet type of engine. The increase granted tbe men runs as high as 14 per cent on certain engines and as low as 8 per cent on the higher- paid runs. The average increase to the payrolls of the railroads is 10 1-3 in per cent. Los Angeles— A mysterious explos ion, presumably of dynamite, wrecked a considerable portion o f the building o f the Llewellyn Iron works, one of the big industrial institutions o f the kind in the Southwest, at Redondo and Main streets, at 1 :45 o’clock this morning. J. E. Asbury, a nightwatchman, who was in the office of the building, was slightly injured. Windows of the adjoining plants o f the Lacy Manufact uring company, the Johnson Machine works and the Stearns Gas Engine company were blown out and minor damage was done. Residents of the Westlake district two miles away were awakened by the force of the explosion, which shook the whole neighborhood. Who placed the supposed charge o f dynamite is not known. The company has been in volved for many months in a strike of union metal workers. A hole in the ground 18 inches deep and about six feet in diameter bears witness to the place o f origin and prob able cause o f the damage. This hole is just outside the business line and adjacent what was the wagon entrance. On tne other side of the hole was a wooden shed, which, with its contents o f stored iron, was reduced to a mass o f debris. The front of the main building, a three-story frame, for a distance of probably 75 feet was shot to pieces and its contents o f furniture, and office paraphernalia are piled together in ap parent ruin. The material damage, however, is confined to the chipping room, the office and the space above them, and is relatively small. Sugar Trust to Pay Back. New Yerk — The American Sugar Refining company will shortly hand to the United States government a check for $700,000 in settlement o f a further series of customs frauds, according to the Herald. This will bring the total amount from this company up to nearly $3,- 000,000. This latest settlement is in connection with the so-called “ draw back” frauds, which have been under investigation since the original customs frauds were detected two years ago, as a result of the Parr disclosures. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Locomotiva Engineers Get Increase Aggregating $4,00 OOO a Year. E LE C TR IC AL T R U S T SUED. Monopoly o f Power Sites and Plants Rhode Island Leads; Washington Has T o Be Shown. Largest Growth. Washington— The suit o f the gov ernment against the so-called electrical trust will rival in magnitude the pros ecutions of the Standard Oil company and the tobacco trust, according to at taches of the department o f justice, and it is predicted that the govern ment will win the case. The suit has been brought under the Sherman anti trust law. The evidence which the government w ill lay before the courts, it is assert ed, shows startling price juggling. It is alleged that the General Electric company and the Westinghouae Elec tric company secured control of the electrical business by buying up the most valuable plants and by control ling most of the water power sites. The suit w ill be filed early in Janu ary. W. S. Kenyon, assistant attorney general, is preparing the papers in the case. No criminal proceedings are contemplated. P O S T A L R E C E IPTS LARGER. Third Record Assistant Postmaster-General Makes Annual Report. Washington— That Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock is determined to put the Postoffice department upon a self- sustaining basis is evidenced in the annual report of the third assistant postmaster general. Though expendi tures for last year are still in excess of receipts, there is a maajted decrease in expenditures compared with a year ago. The total postal receipts for the fis cal year 1910 aggregated $24,128,657. This is an increase of $2,556,274, or 10.1 per cent when compared with those of the preceding year. The expenditures for last year were $229,977,224, an excess over receipts of $5,848,565. To this amount should be added $32,915 lost by burglary, fire, bad debts, etc., making a total of $5,- 881,481, a decrease of $11,598,288 when compared with the deficit of the fiscal year 1909. SH A K E -U P IS C O M ING , Rumored Four Important Changes Will Occur in Cabinet. Washington— Rumors o f a coming shakeup in the cabinet have been re newed. Jt was reported that tbe changes said to be contemplated by President T a ft involved the resigna tions of Secretary Knox, MacVeagh, Ballinger and possibly Wilson. Knox, it is known, is dissatisfied over his loss of influence in shaping the administration's policies. Politicians say the time has arrived for President T aft to dismiss Balling er. A report that Congressman Charles Scott o f Kansas, will succeed Secre tary Wilson is generally credited. The President’s secretary, Charles Norton, is named by politicians to sue ceed MacVeagh, who it is expected will retire on account o f ill health. Senator Flint and Representative Tawney are mentioned as possible suc cessors df Ballinger. TW ELVE LIVE ON S I.35 A DAY. Pittsburg Family Holds Thrift. P O P U L A T IO N G RO W S DENSE. for Pittsburg— A tale o f comfort and th rift contrary to the usual ones of distress was unfolded ¡in the Juvenile court here by Miss Nance Oppenheim- er, a probation officer, to the court and spectators. A fam ily o f 12 is support ed on an income o f $1.35 a day, but how it is done has not been disclosed. M iB S Oppenhemer told the story when she requested Judge Cohen to al low Antonio Elf, 10 years old, to go home. He was arrested for being in the streets late at night. “ He has a splendid home, your honor,” said Miss Oppenheimer. "H is mother,” pointing to the woman stand ing by the lad's side, “ is a splendid housekeeper, and they have 10 bright children, o f whom the oldest is a girl 13 years old.” “ I don't know how they do it,” said Miss Oppenheimer, later, “ but they are nice people and better home condi tions couldn’ t be asked for. Every thing is neat and orderly, and there is no lack of wholesome food for the en tire family. The father is a laborer and earns one dollar and thirty-five cents a day. That man is a credit to any community.” Without further ado the boy was al lowed to go home with his mother. DEAL IS C LO SE D FOR DAM. Mexican Concern ¡to Build Levee on Low er Colorado. Washington— Arrangements between the State department and the Mexican embassy have been concluded for the construction o f a dam and levee on the lower Colorado river in Imperial val ley. Congress at the last session ap propriated $1,000,000 for the work. Under the arrangements the con struction Will be carried on by the Col orado Land company, a Mexican cor poration, the stockholders in which are Americans. It is provided that the United States does not acquire any right of ownership or easement either in Mexican terrritory or the works executed on Mexican territory, where the dam will be located. The s works are to be built from-surveys ap Son of Rich Man Starves. New York — H alf delirious from proved by a Mexican engineer. starvation, John Smith, who says he is Gunboat at Amapala. a decendent o f Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, and the son o f Washington— The gunboat Yorktown Charles Smith, a wealthy retired pub has arrived at Amapala, Honduras. The warship was sent to investi lisher of Princeton, III., is in Bellevue hospital critically ill. Twice an hour gate conditions and protect American he is fed warm milk like a baby. His interests in Honduras. greatest desire is to sleep, but in lucid Two thousand rebel soldiers, who intervals he gave his name and de have been gathered during the past scendants with a history o f family few months, are reported ready for an troubles, wandering days and no work. attack on Tegucigalpa. According to For 21 days he says he had little to Federal officials, the revolution, which has been threatened for months, is eaL about to break out, and the first battle Wolves Barely Miss Feast. is expected early in January. Prepar Duluth— While wolves howled around ations to repel an attack on the city the Darrah cabin, Mrs. Walter Darrah, are being made and Federal troops are 34 years old, gave birth six days ago being mobilizedd at Tegucigalpa. The revolutionary army has been to a baby in a partially roofless shack near Pelican lake, in this county. drilling at a point about 20 miles from Lee Christmas, an With the woman in the cabin was only Cape Gracias. her four-year-old daughter. Mrs. Dar American adventurer, who has played rah claims she was deserted by her hus an Important part In the revolutionary band some weeks before. It was only movement and has led armies in Hon today that the woman, her baby and duras and Nicaragua, will share the the little girl were found. A ll were command of the revolutionists with former President Bonilla. temporarily removed to a farm house. Steel Men in Rebellion, New York— The rebellion in the steel trade last week against the pol icy of restricting competition and maintaining rigid prices was expressed dn concessions of $1 a ¡ton or more in prices of steel bars, structural shapes, plates and steel pipe by some of the independents in the interior and by ex Germany Soon to Import All Meat. Haste on Treaty Sought. ceptionally low prices on fabricated Washington— In the course o f a few Washington— I f a Canadian recipro- steel in the Eastern territory. The years’Germany, in all likelihood, will j city treaty is to be concluded during holiday spirit was against any im consume nothing but imported meat, ( the present session all records in the portant expansion in the business. according to consular reports. There { matter o f negotiation must be broken. is an immense decrease noted in the The incentive to haste lies in the real- Many Killed in Indies. number of animals for slaughter, ac | ization by the administration o f the San Domingo— News has reached cording to the last count, made on Oc diffiulty o f framing any sort o f a Re- here o f an engagememsent along the tober 10, 1910. The especially notice ! publican reciprocity treaty that can Dominican ami Haytian borders. Sev able decrease is in young animals. safely be steered through the next con eral are reported killed. A gunboat As a result, prices o f animls for gress with its Democratic house. The w ill be dispatched with troops to be slaughter are expected to rise very I house must be afforded fen opportunity 1 to deal with the subjecL high. sent to the scene o f the trouble. J Washington — Rhode Island has 508.5 persons to the square mile, thus, according to census bureau figures, leading the list o f states in the matter o f density of population. Nevada, with only seven-tenths of a person to the mile, finds a place at the lower end of the table givin g these facts. Second in the density list, Massa chusetts supports 418.8 persons to the square mile; N ew Jersey, 337.7; Con necticut, 231.3, and N ew York 191.2. The other states possessing more than 100 to the mile are: Pennsylvania, 171; Maryland, 130.3; Ohio, 1J7; Delaware, 103, and Illinois. 100.7. Wyoming, boasting persons to the mile, more than doubles Nevada, while Arizona, with 1.8, stands third from the bottom. Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Oregon. South Dakota, Colorado and North Dakota, all have fewer population than 10 to the square mile. O f the states of large population, Washington takes the lead in the growth of density, having advanced from 7.8 to 17.1 per square mile in the last 10 years, thus taking a place be tween Kansas, with 10.5, and Nebras ka. with 15.5. Washington exceeds her neighbor, Oregon, with seven per sons to the mile, by more than 10, and even surpasses California, with 15.2. Idaho increased from 1.9 to 3.9, and Oklahoma from 11.4 to 23.9. The figures for other states a re: Indiana, 75.3; Kentucky, 57.0; Ten nessee, 62.4; Virginia, 61.2; West Virginia, 50.8; South Carolina, 49.7; Michigan, 48.9; Missouri, 47.9; New Hampshire, 47.7; North Carolina, 45.3; Georgia, 44.4; Wisconsin, 42.2; Alabama, 41.7; Iowa, 40; Vermont 39; Mississippi, 38.8; Louisana, 36.5; Arkansas, 30; Minnesota, 25.7; Maine, 24.8. Texas, 14.8; Florida, 13.7. ardener Probably more women come to grief over their ferneries each winter than over any other kind of indoor plants. It is discouraging to pay several dol lars to a florist to fill the fern dish only to have it turn yellow, if not die, in a few weeks. Tbe trouble lies in two things, first the kind of ferns attempted to be grown, next In not growing them un der proper conditions. If you attempt to raise most of the maiden hairs Indoors you are doomed to dlsappoIntmenL The hardy ferns that thrive in shady corners of the woods do not take well to transplant ing into hot houses, however much you may read to the contrary. There are enough varieties of ferns, however, to have a fine display In your living rooms. In maiden hair ferns, or adiantums, the variety that will stand heat and dryness best is A. croweanum. Another good one in doors is A. capillus veneris, while A. caudatum, a creeping variety of maiden hair, has been grown success fully In a hanging basket Indoors. Professionals will tell you that Marine Disasters Few. adiantum farleyense, which is the Washington— Only 53 out o f 6,661 finest of all the maiden hairs, cannot persons involved in 1,464 disasters to be grown out of a green house. It is vessels of all classes within the scope tender, but I have seen it raised in a of the United States life saving serv family living room and flourish finely. ice lost their lives, and but 74 vessels It cannot stand Intense heat or were destroyed during the fical year changes of temperature. ended June 30 last, according to the Among the most satisfactory ferns report o f S. I. Kimball, general super for Indoors either in fern dishes or intendent of the service. separate pots, are the various Boston The report shows operations in the ferns. Among the newer varieties of 13th district, embracing the coasts of this fern, which is known as nephro- Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Cal lepis Bostoniensis, is the feathery ifornia, as follow s: Vessels involved, Whltmanl and tbe dwarf Scottl, which 136; vessels lost, 9; persons on board, is especially good for windows or 670; lives lost, 37; persons succored at ferneries. stations, 24; number o f days’ succor Various of the pteris ferns are suit afforded, 29; value o f vessels, $1,901,- able for house culture. One of the 875; value o f cargoes, $238,690;. To loveliest is pteris Victoriae, with sil tal value of property involved, $1,330,- very variegated leaves. Somewhat 565; value of property saved, $939,- hardier is pteris Wilsonl, which has 455; value o f proeprty lost, $291,110. odd crested fronds. A fine fern for Indoors is the holly No Extensions for Irrigation. fern, or eyrtomium falcatum, which Washington — General Marshal), has broad, glossy foliage quite unlike formerly chief of army engineers, but the ordinary ferns. now consulting engineer for the Inter A good fern for hanging Is platy- ior department, in a statement relating cerlum alcicorne, or stag horn fern. to the assignment of the $20,000,000 These roots feed on air and when in certificates of indebtedness to rec planted should be hung in a warm lamation projects, said: room and kept weL They can be “ The board of army engineers made grown in baskets or shallow pans and no recommendation for the extension do best when potted in rough peat o f the Umatilla project, but this action and sphagnum. was not discrimination against that In the care of ferns the chief thing project, because they made no recom Is not too much dry heat. Keep the mendation for the extension o f any room at a moderate temperature and other excepting possibly the Yuma pro on mild days give outside air by open ject, for which they recommended the ing windows In an adjoining room. inclusion of certain Mesa lands. No Never let cold air blow directly on extensions were recommended in Idaho, ferns. Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colo Many a fern dish is ruined by the rado, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota or maid opening the dining room window South Dakota. The United States has over them to air the room each undertaken^ all the work it can carry morning. It is little trouble to move through with the resources at hand.” the pots Into a warmer atmosphere. Ferns like a rich soil, one of good Civilians Not Allowed Arms. loam with leaf mould and sand is Washington— No instructions have best. The pots must have drainage, gone forward from Washington to as soggy roots will kill every time. General Duvall or anyone in authority Use pots large enough to keep the in Mnaila to conduct a search o f the ferns from getting root bound and homes of the Japanese there. I t is as quickly exhausting the nourishment sumed that General Duvall is acting in in the soil. conjunction with the civil authorities. Fanils in watering Is the chief dif It is reported by secret service agents ficulty in fern care. They like plenty that stores o f arms and ammunition at the roots, but must not be kept have been collected and secreted by soggy any more than they can be civilians in the Philippines. No civil allowed to dry ou t Do not spray the ian is allowed to have these. foliage, especially of maiden hairs, as it scorches them and turns them yel Japanese Assault Consul. low. N ew York— A special dispatch to Unless your house is very hot the the Evening Telegram from Tokio, amount of water given to ferns can be Japan, states that the American vice lessened from November to February consul at Dalny, Manchuria, Adolph A. as during these three winter months Williamson, was assaulted at a fish many ferns rest market by several Japanese and Chi Few ferns like hot sunlight, so keep nese. It is said the affair will be re slightly back from the window and ported to the State department. where the direct rays of the sun do not fall on them. Forests Are Eliminated. The chief dangers to fern growth Washington — Proclamations order Is violent changes of temperature, ing additions and eliminations in na »egry, sour earth— from im r“ rfect tional forests in California, Idaho and I drainage— and wetting of the leaves. Utah were signed by President Taft. I In growing Boston ferns, cot off all The changes made were as follow s: the runners and allow only two or Modero forest, California, 20,967 three crowns to a plant, otherwise acres eliminated, 182,050 acres added; the pot will soon be filled with crown Boise forest, Idaho, 9,940 acres elim inated; Sevier forest, Utah, 93,730 and the foliage will suffer. The chief enemy of ferns is mealy acres eliminated, 2,560 acres added. bug. Keep a close watch for this and pick off with fingers and kill them. Bogota Buys Out Americans. Washington— The final payment \ y Red spider and thrlps also attack the city o f Bogota to the American I ferns, but can be fought by fumigat owners o f its street railroad waa made ing with tobacco smoke. This must thia week and the road now is the be carefully done, as too strong property o f the municipality. This smoking will ruin the plants. Most professional gardeners to the terminates a source of constant trouble in Colombia between the United contrary, pots of maiden hair should States-owned company, the govern be stood outdoors in summer in some ment and the natives of Bogota. The sheltered angle of the porch or in a | shady nook where wind does not get city paid $800.000 for the property. at them. Set the pots in saucers and keep the soil wet to counteract ex cessive evaporation. Boston ferns can be stood with other foliage plants on the porch, as they are much less delicate. One woman who has a number the same size plunges the pots In porch boxes, on a semi-shady side of the house, where they make an effective show ing and thrive well until time to bring indoors In the fall. Ferns can be grown in any old pan or dish painted a rich green or dull red. Bore hole In the sides and bot tom to give air. For fern dishea for table use, it is wiser to have an inner pan for the planting. This can some times be set In a pan of wator when it shows signs of drying out. The fern grower who likes to ex periment with more delicate species can do so with a Wardian case. This has a wood base about six Inches deep lined with zinc or is sometimes of earthenware. There are glass sides and top, the latter hinged. The top must be lifted an inch every few days to keep the glass free from moisture, otherwise no ventila tion is necessary. Delicate ferns when grown In this way get almost the atmosphere to which they are accustomed in their native haunts and do well even in a hothouse. School Luncheons. The following suggestions for school lunch baskets for a week may prove a Ifelp to perplexed mothers: Monday— Two devilled eggs and let tuce sandwiches, using Graham bread; Bartlet pear; slice of sponge cake. Tuesday— Two sandwiches made of bread, filled with two tablespoonfuls of devilled ham mixed with chopped olives; two apple turnovers; nuts and raisins. * Wednesday— Two minced chicken and white bread sandwiches; sand- tarts; olives; a banana. Thursday— Boston brown bread sandwiches, filled with chopped nuts and cream cheese; bunch of grapes and an orange; piece of molasses candy. Friday— 8andwlches of bread light ly toasted, with crisp fried bacon fill ing; gingerbread; two peaches. Dinner Gowns. Shot satins In pale colorings are being used for some of the prettiest of the new dinner gowns, designed on very simple lines, with long, trained skirts and draped bodices. The skirts are left without any trimming, but for the adornment o f the bodices bugle fringes are frequently employ ed, carried out in a mixture of clear crystal and tbe colorings which are seen in the shot satins. As tbe weath er grows colder, velvet dinner gowns will be more and more frequently seen, and will most undoubtedly play a prominent part lt^ the fashions of the Immediate future. In style these also will be exceedingly simple, and will need little or nothing In the way of trimming, beyond a bertha or fichu o f fine real lace, and possibly a touch of fur. Fur to Be Popular Trimming. Fur Is undoubtedly the most p o p * lar trimming of the year for after noon and evening dresses, for even ing coats and nfternoon coat suits. It is a little harder to settle on any one material that holds first plaoo with the fickle public. Velvet and vel vet stTlped and embossed chiffons am among the latest arrivals, but they are still too new to be general. The brocades and laces are very lovely, but they are too costly for most peo ple and for most purposes. The satins, chiffons, silk crepes and motissellnes d# sole are neither new nor original, but they are good to look at, and per haps have a wider and more durable popularity than anything else.- The Iiellneator. Novel Tunle Effect. A pretty Idea for the finishing of fe, tunic, especially one of veiling or oth er soft material, is to slash the tunlq In front, tike an overskirt, and knot It loosely at each side, drawing ft away so as to show a great part of the underskirt up to the knees. The knots are made about half-way front the ankles and the tunic falls loosely below them. Of course, ft Is caught with a few atitchea In back, to keeji It In position.
