Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — Page 4

HUERTA YIELDS; WILL FIRE SALUTE TO THE U. S. FLAG

Wilson Grants His Plea for American Shots. WAR CRISIS IS RELIEVED To Safeguard Interests, However, Part of Pfceet Will Remain at Tampico —Europe’s Hand is Seen In Dictator’s Surrender; New York, April 17. —The Herald says: “It will be impossible under navy regulations unearthed for the United States to return the salute demanded of President Huerta. Here is the text of a regulation adopted June 30, 1905: " ‘No salute shall be fired in honor of any nation, or of any official of any nation, not formally recognized by the government of the United States.’ ”

Washington, April 17. —President Wilson accepted a conditional offer made by President Huerta of Mexico to salute the American flag in reparation for the arrest of American naval sailors at Tampico. The condition was that the United States fire a salute to the Mexican flag in return as an acknowledgment of the Mexican apology. The offer and its acceptance relieved the tension between this government and the Huerta regime. When the salutes are fired at Tampico by the Mexican forts and the American warships the “Tampico incident” will be closed. There will be no recognition of the Huerta regime, however. The United States will continue to remain neutral as regards the Mexican federals and rebels, but.the American fleet in Mexican waters will be strengthened, although many of the warships ordered to Tampico and now on the way will be recalled.

Bryan Gets Night Reply. Secretary Bryan conveyed the Washington administration’s attitude to Charge O'Shaughnessy, who is in the City of Mexico, presumably for presentation to President Huerta. Dispatches came to the state department later from the Mexican capital, but the officials would not indicate whether they were from Mr. O'Shaughnessy. - In the day’s developments it appeared that Geipnany and France exerted pressure on General Huerta to induce hijri to comply with the American demand for a salute to the flag, working through their ambassadors in Washington ani the City of Mexico. The ceremonies of interchanging the national salute will be simple. The Mexicans will run up the Stars and Stripes on the mainmast of one of their gunboats, or, if the gunboats are not at Tampico, on the flagstaff of the fort. A salute of 21 guns will then be fired by a Mexican saluting battery. As the last shot booms the Stars and Stripes will be hauled down and at the mainmast of the United States dispatch boat Dolphin the national standard of Mexico will be broken out. The Dolphin’s saluting gun will then repeat the 21-gun salute of the Mexicans in. acknowledgment of the apology. During the ceremony the officers of both services will stand at attention. Mayo Pledged Return Salute., General Huerta's otl r to salute the flag and request for a return salute caused President Wilson to ask for an opinion from the counselor of the state department and navy department officials. All reported that it was the inevitable custom in naval practise to return a salute and < ited precedents. The president was that Rear Admiral .Mayo on making his original demand for a salute agreed to fire an acknowledgment. Mr. Wilson said the return of a salute under such circumstances did not involve recognition of the Huerta government, but was merely an act of the same characttr as grasping the hand , of an individual who was apologizing as he extended it. Secretary Bryan also took the view that the American salute would be given to the flag of the Mexican nation, just as much respected by the constitutionalists as the Huerta government, and that no technical recognition was involved. Precedent for Return Salute.

As one precedent for returning a salute the state department turned to the case of the French consul at San Francisco, who was taken before a local court in 1854 in violation of a treaty. Francte demanded a salute and an apology. > A compromise was reached by which a French fleet was sent to San Francisco, and the French colors were saluted by the American shore battery. The salute was then returned by the French flagship and the incident was closed. While the president declared the firing of the salute would close the Tamj)ico incident, it will have no particular bearing on the general Mexican policy of the administration. Other offenses, such as the arrest of a mail orderly at Vera Cruz, have been apologized for and the United Statete will continue its position of neutrality as between the two factions contending for the mili-

BLUE EXPLAINS SALUTE

Washington, April 17. The plans on how the Mexican salute to the Stars and Stripes muct be fired at Tampico have been agreed upon by the state and navy departments. As explained today by Admiral Victor Blue, acting secretary of the navy, the program of salute will be substantially as follows: When the time is agreed upon the commanding officer at Tampico, on the federal side, will hoist the Stars and Stripes on some conspicuous place where It can be observed, or, if desirable, on one of the ships in the harbor. The United States ships and men in the harbor will be at command and the federal commander will fire 21 guns. Then, as an acknowledgment of the reparations and the apology, one of the United States ships will fire 21 guns and hoist the flgg of the Mexican government. This is the practise in the navy for time immemorial. There is no law covering the case, but it Is the unwritten law which has been carried out in several instances. According to the president and Secretary of State Bryan the Tampico Incident will then be over.

tary supremacy of the southern republic. Incidentally, the president, as well as Mr. Bryan, in conversations on the situation generally, drew attention to official reports they had received praising General Villa and the constitutionalists for their treatment of prisoners and foreigners in the bloody battle at Torreon. Not a foreigner was injured, said official reports from witnesses. Congress Approves Plans. Huerta’s offer was received in congress generally with approval, and members familiar wjlh international precedents agreed that a return salute from American guns could not be regarded as recognition of the Huerta regime or in any wise as beneath the dignity of the United States. Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member of the foreign relations committee, who had said early in the day that to return the salute would nullify the effect of the apology, withdrew his criticism after a telephone conversation with Secretary Bryan. The Massachusetts senator was informed that naval officers and those familiar with precedents knew of no case where a salute was not returned and that, moreover, the statement that the salute would be returned was included in Rear Admiral Mayo's original demand.

Mr. Lodge then said he had been mistaken, and expressed the hope that the custom in such eases would be made clear to the country. Shively Favors Return Salute. M hen Senator Shively, acting chairman of the foreign relations committee, visited the White House he learned from Secretary Bryan of the proposal from General Huerta to yield to the American government. The Indiana senator, who had carefully studied all the possibilities in the situation. was quick to agree that the United States government could not refrain>from answering the .Mexican apologetic guns When besieged by senators at the capitol later, Mr. Shively assured them that a return salute was in accordance with international custom. Sortie Senators Warlike. During the executive session the senators discussed the Huerta position informally, and it was agreed that the United States should not quibble over returning the salute, but some senators were inclined to the view that the advance request from Huerta for a return of the salute should be ignored .Discussing the probability of allowing some of the ships now en route to Mexican waters to proceed regardness of the acceptance of Huerta’s offer, many members of congress expressed the opinion that the administration proposed to keep a firmer hand on the situation in the future and that further reasons for vigorous action might develop at any time. Americans Are Safeguarded. It appeared, however, that within less than forty-eight hours after Pres ident Wilson ordered the Atlantic and Pacific fleets to Mexican waters and informed General Huerta that unless a salute was fired to atone for repeated offenses against the dignity of the United States there would be serious consequences, the future safety of American interests in Mexico was assured. As the storm clouds lifted and a wave of satisfaction spread through official headquarters. President Wilson arranged to go to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., for the week-end and Secretary Bryan, who is ill, planned to take his long delayed trip to Miami, Fla.

Relax on Ousting Huerta. For the present at least the administration has no intention of taking any further drastic measures to force Huerta to resign as president of Mexico. It is admitted generally that, even if Huerta does order the firing of the salute demanded by the United States, the general situation in Mexi ’.co will not be improved. According ■ to recent reports to the state, department conditions in Mexico are still bad, both from an economic and a social point of view. The constitutionalist troops under General Villa have made further captures and are steadily advancing southward, and if not checked will soon be within striking distance of Mexico City.

MAN KILLED IN LAFAYETTE FIRE

Captain Mitchell of Fire Department Loses Life. WALL FALLS ON FIREMAN One of the Worst Blazes in History of the City Completely Destroy* the Handsome DreyfusTheater.

Lafayette.—One of the -worst fires in the history of Lafayette completely destroyed the handsome Dryfus theater and resulted In the death of Capt. John Mitchell, forty-five years old, of fire company No. 4. Mitchell was Injured when a portion of the front wall of the theater fell, striking the heavy canopy entrance and crushing him beneath the debris. He died two hours later. Mitchell had been warned by Chief Johnston not to venture under the canopy, but went In to weigh down a line of hose that had been laid Inside. A portion of the brick and stone work fell from the top of the front wall and when It struck the canopy-The whole structure fell. Mitchell was caught beneath the brick and metal.

Founder of Dental College Dead. Kokomo. Dr. Samuel T. Kirk, seventy-six years old, died after a week’s illness of acute diabetes. Doctor Kirk was a member of the state and national dental societies, and was frequently a delegate to the latter’s conventions. He was the founder of the Indiana Dental college at Indianapolis. For 19 years he served on the state board of medical examiners and for four years was Its president. Doctor Kirk had' practised In Kokomo for over fifty years.

Two Hurt in Fall in River. Lafayette.—While working on a scaffold on the construction of the Main street bridge, C. E. White and James Maher were precipitated into the Wabash river, a distance of 40 feet, when the false work on which they were standing broke. They were rescued from 15 feet of water by fellow workmen in boats, and were unconscious when they were brought to the east bank of the river. The men were badly injured and were taken in an ambulance to a local hospital. Girls Must Make Own Dresses. Boonville.—A departure in the matter of dress will be made by the graduates of the Boonville high school at -the commencement In June. The orders have been passed down the line (hat every girl graduate will have to make her ovyn dress. Miss Fultz, director of the domestic science department oLthe high school, is assisting the girls. They select their styles and goods, the only requirement being that every girl must make her own dress.

Woman Finds Husband Dead. Goshen—Returning from a visit in Warsaw, Mrs. Delbert Van Sickle did not find her husband at the Winona traction station to meet her, as he had said he would. She went home and, finding the door locked with the key inside, gained entrance by raising a window. In a bedroom Van Sickle was lying dead with his body' fully clothed. Coroner Mast thinks he died of natural causes. Farmer Slays Man. Gary.—Ernest Harms, a farmer of West Gary, killed Paul 11. Habziiaski, foreman of the Ajax Engineering & Construction company, on the outskirts of Gary. Harms asserts that Habzuaski chased him with a knife and that he picked up a large piece of slag and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull. Will Install Printing Plant in School. Fort Wayne. The local school trustees purchased the printing plant of the Times-Herald company, which failed, and will install the plant in the Washington school, to be used in vocational school instruction. Fort Wayne will thus become the first city in northern Indiana to teach printing In Its public schools. Insane Woman Kills Herself. Wabash.—Driven insane by the death of her husband and her mother, Mrs. Augusta Tibbetts, widow of a prominent farmer, leaped from a bridge to the waters of Eel river, 25feet below. Her body was later seen as It was swept over a dam a mile below the bridge and was recovered. Peach Crop Dedlared Lost. Evansville. Vanderburg county farmers assert the cold weather has destroyed the peach crop.

Indianapolis Has Snowstorm. Indianapolis.—Snow fell in Indianapolis and below zero freezing temperatures prevailed all day. The cold followed 36 hours of continuous rain. Temperatures dropped 20 degrees In less than twenty-four hours. Thought She Had Headache Powders. Muncie. —As the result of having taken a deadly poison by mistake for headache powders, Mrs. Carrie Shaffer, age twenty-five, wife of C. L. Shaffer, died at her home here.

ADMIRAL IS PRAISED

DANIELS CALLS WORDS “WE ARE READY” ON PAR WITH HEROES. Secretary Speaks at Banquet Given by Navy League and Urges Support

New York, April 17.—“ We do not know what we will be called upon to do, but we are ready.” This, the only statement Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, commander in chief of the At- , lantic • fleet, had to make as his ships [steamed out of Hampton Roads for ■ Mexico was made public by Secretary Daniels to be added to “the splendid words by American naval heroes.” Mr. Daniels told members of the N'avy League of the United States at their annual banquet that the brevity and comprehensiveness of that statement deserved to rank with those -of Dewey at Manila and John Paul Jones in the battle of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis. An appeal for popular support of the navy was voiced by the secretary. The navy now has its full quota and for the first time it has a waiting list, the secretary said. Speaking of his recent order' abolishing the wine mess, the secretary said there was no body of more temperate, clear-headed men in the world than American naval officers. He asked his hearers whether they would not demand the abolition of a wine mess in railroad engineers’ clubhouses if the railroads should permit such a thing.

“MOTHER” JONES RELEASED

Governor Ammons Announces That Aged Strike Leader Has Her Freedom. Denver, Colo., April 17. —“Mother” Mary Jones, held as a military prisoner in the Walsenburg jail, was released, according to an announcement by Governor Ammons. A writ of habeas corpus issued by the Colorado supreme court was returnable April 18.

Cruiser Tacoma In Peril in Storm.

Newport, R. 1., April 17.—The cruiser Tacoma, which left Boston for this port on her way to Mexico, had to fight her way against an easterly storm off the Massachusetts coast, during which the wireless room was flooded and the steam whistle disabled.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, April 16. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— Ing. est. est. iqg May ....92%-% .92% .91% .91% July 86%-% 86%-% .86% .86%-% 5ept....86 .86% .85% .85% CornMay 67%-% .67% .66 .66% July 66%-% .66% .65% .65% Sept. .'.....,.65-65% .65%-% .64% .64% Old— July 66%-% .60% .66 .66% Sept6s-65% .65% .65 . 65% Oats— ■ May 37-37% .37% .36% .36%-37 July 37%-% .37% .36% .37%-% 5ept....36 .36% .35% .35% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Minneapolis brand, wood, $5.30 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota, patent, [email protected]>; jute straight, [email protected]; first clears, jute, $3.50'03.60; second -clears, jute, [email protected]; low grades, jute, [email protected]; winter wheat patents, jute, [email protected]; straight, jute, [email protected]; rye flour, white, patent, $2.75@ 3.W; dark, [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery, extra, 24%c; extra firsts, 23%c; firsts, 21%@22c; seconds, 18%@ 20c; packing stock, 16c; ladles,,l7%@lßc. EGGS —Miscellaneous lots, cases included. 16%®17%c; cases returned, 16@17c; ordinary firsts, 16%@17c: firsts, 17@17%c; extras. ’_O'o_O%<-; dirties, 15c; storage packed firsts, 18%@18%c; extra, 18%@18%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 15c; chickens. fowls, 17c; springs, 18c; roosters, 12c; geese, 14c; ducks, 16@17c; guinea hena, $1.06'04.50 per doz. POTATOES—Wisconsin, ■white, 70@76c; red, 65@71c; Minnesota, white, 70@76c; red,. 65@71c; Michigan, white. 70@76c; red, 63<§> 71c. New York, April 16. WHEAT—lrregular, inquiry is fair; No. 1 northern, $1.01; No. 2 red, $1.05%; No. 2 haTd..sl.ol%; May. $1.00%; July, 95c; September, 93%c. 1 CORN —Weaker, quiet business; export. 74%e; No. 3 yellow, 75%c; Argentine, 77 c; July, 65%c. OATS —Weak, small trade; No. 2 white, 44(044%c; standard, 43%@44c; No. 3 white, 43@43%c.

Live Stock. Chicago, April 16. CATTLE —Steers, good to choice heavy, $8,[email protected]; steers, fair to good, [email protected]; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; Inferior steers. [email protected]; stockers, [email protected]; feeding steers. [email protected]; medium to good beef cows, [email protected]; stock cows, $5.00@ 5.50; fair to choice heifers, [email protected]; stock heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]; common ito good cutters, $4.25@ 4.75; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bologna bulls [email protected]. HOGS—Choice light, 160@180 lbs., $8.65@ 5.72’,4; light mixed, 170@200 lbs., [email protected]; prime light butchers, 200@230 lbs., $8.70@ 8.75; medium weight butchers, 230@270 lbs., [email protected]; prime heavy butchers, 270@300 lbs., [email protected]; mixed packing, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]. j East Buffalo, N. Y., April 16. CATTLE—Market active, 10c higher; prime steers, [email protected]; butcher grades, 56.00@8:50. CALVES—Market active, 25c higher; cull to choice, [email protected]. 1 SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active and steady; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep. [email protected]. riOGS—Market slow, 10@15c lower; Yorkers, $9.20; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, $9.20; heavy. $9.15; roughs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. Omaha, April 16. HOGS— Heavy, [email protected]; lights, SS.4O@ 8.60; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, $8.55@ 8.60. CATTLE—Native steers, $7,[email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steers, $6.30 @8.00; Texas steers, $6.00<g>7.60; cows and heifers, $5.75@7,15; calves, [email protected]. SHEEP— Yearlings. [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; lambs, [email protected].

Take a Tip From Old Diogenes By MOSS. n LATO x having a couple of thousand years ago dejell fined man as a JW’J two legged animal without feathers. Diogenes ( the chap who Went around ( in the daytime with a lantern looking for an honest man) plucked a rooster and took it into the academy where the ancient philosophers discussed everything under the sun and said, “This is- Plato’s man.” On which account this addition was made to the definition: “With broad, flat nails.” We all admit that old Diogenes was a pretty smart Greek, with a fine sense of humor. If be lived today he wouldn’t have to use his lantern among daylight newspapers to find an honest advertiser. SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISERS MUST BE HONEST. Dishonesty doesn’t pay in advertising t or in anything else. No daylight paper wants to have anything to do with the space buyer who dellb erately tries to fool the public. But. coming back to Plato’s modified man, the moral of that story is: Be exact. Be specific. Don’t overlook the details. Do you watch the ads, in this paper CAREFULLY enough? Do you keep posted on the details? Do you make it your business to read them with EXACTNESS? DON’T SKIP THE "BROAD. FLAT NAILS."

Gems In Verse ® THANKS. THANK God for thia bright frailty of life, The lyric briefness of its reckless spring. Thank God for all the swift adventuring. The bold uncertainty, the strengthening strife. Thank God the world is set to such a tune, That life is such a proud auM crashing wave; . That none but lifeless things shall be time’s slave, Like the long dead but never tiring moon; That godlike passion strangely leaps and runs; That youth cannot grow old nor beauty stale; That even death is fragile and must fail Before the winds of joy that speed the suns. —Louis Untermeyer. When run dawn with ki\ trouble, backache, rheumatism or bladder weakness, turn quickly for help to Foley Kidney Pills. You cannot take them into your system without having good results. Chas. N. Fox, rnmrod, N. Y„ says: “Foley Kidney Pills have done me more good than $150.00 worth of medicine.” They give you good results. —A. F. LONG. Try a “want ad” in The Democrat

Me Worn Your Creim We have opened a Cream buying station at the C. E. Prior Fancy Pro-* duce Market and will pay Elgin prices. Bring your cream to us. MMiiWttii

W « Hinder this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times —as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s 1 care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] I’or Sale —10 bushels of cow peas. —GEO. L. LAMPHIER, Kniman, Ind. For Sale —Team of 4-year-old geldings, good heavy draft - colts, partly broke.—GEORGE MICHAELS, phone 536-1. For Sale!—Electric auto horn, firstclass condition. Price $1.50 for quick sale. —F. E. BABCOCK. Eggs—Pure S. C. White Leghorn eggs for hatching.—A. G. W. FARMER, phone 425. m-8 For Sale—Alfalfa hay, native growq< of small stem and superior to irrigated product. We cannot deliver. —C. F. MANSFIELD farm, Rensse laer.

for Sale—-Good high class piano, oak case, splendid instrument and in fine condition. Will be sold cheap, cash or time.—FRED A PHILLIPS. t s For Sale— 9xl2 rug, good as new, only been used in spare room. For name of party inquire et Democrat office. For Sale or Trade —A new Rock Island corn planter, with fertilizer attachment, at a bargain; also a runabout Hupmobile, all in firstclass running order.—A.S. LA RIJE. For Sale— Four young mules ready for spring work, 2 three year old, 2 four year old; also 15 bushels choice clover seed, recleaned.—P. T. HORDEMAN, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 507-G. " ' , Or oale— Good medium sized go °d barn, city water, electric i&nts, etc., all in fine condition and well located. Price S9OO for quick cash - Enquire at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. For Sale^— As lam breaking up housekeeping i will sell all our household goods, including all rugs, electric washing machine, etc., at private sale. Call at residence —*— J- J- MONTGOMERY. For Sale—lsl acre farm 3 miles south of Rensselaer, well improved. Farm adjoining sold recently at 2160 per acre. Will sell at a sacrifice, SBS per acre, if sold by May I. HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 246. For Sale—Farms of different sizes in this and adjoining counties, and some for exchange. Also city and town property for sale and exchange List your property with me and i will promise a square deal. Choice alfalfa, wheat, corn and pasture lands for sale from $25 and up JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff Jasper county, Rensselaer, Ind. o, For . Sale — Im Proved half section o % miles from Hitchcock, S. D. All tillable, fenced, good average improvements, flowing well; worth the price asked. $62.50 per acre; reasonable terms. Half interest in 360 acre tract 8 miles from O’Neill, Neb. County seat, 2,500 pop., has large Catholic institution. East central part of state. $12.50 per acre. Might arrange to deal the whole tract and take some trade.—GEO. W. JONES Remington, Ind.

WANTED Wanted— Position to do general housework, city preferred but will go to country.—Phone 536-K. Position Wanted—As housekeeper, by woman with one child, aged -MRS. J. H. WILSON, phone »31-G. Wanted— To borrow $17200 to sl,500. Farm land security, will pay per cent interest.—G. F. MEYERS. Wanted—Good, bright, steady boy to sweep out office, build fires and jnake himself generally useful about printing office.—THE DEMOCRAT. Painting Wanted—l will again take up painting for the season, after April 24, and solicit a share of your work.—CHARLES M. BLUE Rensselaer. Ind. Wanted— l have several inquiries for small farms, 40 to 80 acres. If you have such a farm that yon want to sell at a right price, list it with m^~ HARVEY DAVISSON, Rensserstter, Indiana.

Agent Wanted—For the exclusive county of Jasper with sufficient capital to control the sale of the greatest Oxygen therapeutic device. Health is the first thing every.one must have. The Farador' is indorsed by doctors, brings good results when other means fail.—Write THE FAPADOR COMPANY, Room 11-14 New Erasing Bldg., Lafayette, Ind.’ MISCELLANEOUS. Carpet and Rug Weaving—Either from rags or ingrain carpet.—W. LEWELLEN, 1 mile south of Crockett cemetery. m _4 Lawn Mowers Sharpened—At heating plant, near jail.—LEN GRIGGS. a-30 i For Trade—Draft colt, would like trade for a coming 3-year-old driving mare.—WM. MARKIN, Parr Ind., R. R-l. Pasture for Stock—l will have quite a little extra pasture this summer, and want stock for the season.—JOHN SOMMERS, on the old Cleveland farm, in Milrov tp, P. 0., Rensselaer, R. R.-4. R* Rhode Island Reds—Rose Comb Red eggs for hatching, price reasonable. Won first Cockerel, first Pullet, Newton county show, Morocco, Ind., January, 1914. Writ© me— Thomas J. BRITTON, Kentland, Ind.

financial b arm Loans—Money to loan on P r °l’ ert y in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. 1 | Farm Loans—l am making fafta loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP I Ort hnl Without Delay, 111 II Commiss on, lUU IV Without Charges for H Making or Recordinc Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON. An armload of old papers for a. nickel at The Democrat office.