England, Aroused by Execution of British Subject, Seeks Facts Concerning Death HARRISBURG Ipjlfll TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 45 VILLA SAYS BENTON ATTEMPTED TO KILL HI DURING QUAIL Official Reports Say British Ranch man Entered Rebel Camp Well Armed ENGLAND SEEKS INFORMATION Full Investigation Awaited Before Opinion Is Expressed at White House Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.—•'White House officials stated to-day that offi cial reports from General Villa and his friends declared William S. Ben ton. the British ranchman, was exe cuted because he entered the camp of Villa armed and threatened the life of the Constitutionalist commander. Jn view of this latest report there was a disposition at the White House to await a full investigation of the facts before expressing an opinion. It was also stated that Great Britain was holding in abeyance any representa tions pending- the completion of the report on the affair by the American government. Tjate official dispatches to the State Department containing Villa's version of the affair were brought to the White House, but a complete account of the killing as personally explained to Consul Edwards is on its way by mail. Official dispatches from American consular representatives say further that Villa claims Benton came to hlin armed and that during the course of a long argument and quarrel Benton raised a gun to shoot, but was dis armed. and a trial by a military court followed. Villa takes the position that a for eigner who threatened the life of a military officer is subject to no im munity or the rights ordinarily ex tended to noncombatants. Cavalrymen Shoot at Mexicans in El Paso By Associated Press El Paso. Texas, Feb. 21.—A squad of soldiers of Troop M. Thirteenth Cav alry, had a '>rush with a score or more Mexicans last night during which fif teen or twenty shots were lired, one Mexican wounded and two taken -as prisoners. Captain Harry M. Cootes, of Troop M, had received word that filibusterers might attempt *o rush the barracks where his detachment is ■housed on the outskirts of the city In order to obtain arms and ammuni tion. and was on the watch. Corporal Jensen first noticed the presence of the Mexicans in an alley. Tie called upon them to give an ac count of themselves and was grecfed by a shot. He replied with a bullet into the crowd and was quickly rein forced by some of his comrades who also shot at the Mexicans. The latter returned a few shots and disappeared in the darkness. The troopers pur sued, but all but two escaped. The wounded man escaped, but hobbled to » hospital to have the bullet taken from his leg. The incident occurred near the river in a district known as Harts Mill. Captain Cootes was busy with his duties a.s provost marshal and the [Continued on Page 0] INDIAN "BOOM SESSION" The annual "boom session" of the Harrisburg tribes of the improved Or der of Red Men will bo held next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Pity Grays' armory, Second and For ster streets. More than one thou sand members will be taken into the seven local tribes. Many visiting" offi cers will be present. Addresses will be delivered bv Richard Tongue, of Philadelphia; Charles E. Pass, of this city, great senior sagamore of Penn sylvania, and Samuel Walker, of Phil adelphia. junior sagamore of Penn sylvania. The degrees will be confer red by the Cornplanter, Octarora and the Warrior Eagle tribes. /T~ \ Late News Bulletins "WATCHFUL WAITING" A FAILURE Washington, Feb. 21.—A telegram from K. M. Dudley, of Dud ley. of Ft Paso. Texas, to Senator Fait, declaring (teuton "vw* murder ed like a dog" was read in tile Senate to-da> at the request of Senator Fall. He also had re«d a telegram from the K1 Paso mass meeting. "No evidence that Benton was th« aggressor," added the Dudley tele gram. '•Kveryttdng shows it cold-blooded murder. Watchful watting a failure." FELIX DIAZ REACHES NEW YORK Xew York, Feb. 21.—Felix Diaz, who helped bring about the downfall of Madero, but later l»a< to flee, from Mexico for tits life, ar rived here to-day from. Havana. He declared that lie had no intention of allying himself wjtli Carrunza and Ml la and declined to discuss what plans, if any, he had for regaining tlie power he once had In Mexico. He said lie feels safer here than in Havana, and did not say when lie would go to Mexico. Pittsburgh. Pa., Feb. 21.—William Upcraft, an aged veteran of the Civil War, who recently came here from Dayton, Ohio, to see a dying brother an dwho has since been living in a slianty in a lonely part of O'Hara township, was burned to death to-day wlie nthe shanty was destroyed by fire. Rome. Feb. 21.—Tliree passengers were killed and six seriously In jured In a railway collision to-day near Crossete. There were eleven Americans oil one of the trains, but none of tlicm suffered injury. Highland Light. Mass.. Feb. 21.—The Italian bark Castagna. which was wrecked on the ocean side of Cajie Cod on Tuesday, with the loss of her captain and four of the crew, was torn to pieces to-day by a north east gale and scattered along the beach for many miles. Washington. Feb. 21.—Without any amendment wliatever to limit their scope the Senate by more than a two-thirds vote to-day ratified Jeneral arbitration treaties between the United States and Great Britain, apan, Italy, Spain. Norway, Sweden. Portugal and Switzerland. Hiroshima Japan, Feb. 21. —A Japanese submarine attached to the protected cruiser Hlrado, lias been missing for tliree days. The naval authorities believe she has met with disaster and that all on board have been drowned. The submarine had been despatched to search for tor pedoes during practice off Kakumajima. Ilollldayshurg, Pa., Feb. 21—Jolfn G. McGraw, a director of llolll daysburg, Bedford and Cumberland Railroad, who was associated in the building of that line with President Rea, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died to-day. He was 71 years old. President Rea started on his railroad career in McGraw's office hci£ in 1870. Phlladclpliia, Feb. 21.—Tho gunboat Sacramento was launched from the Cramp shipyard to-day. The new addition to the navy was christ ened by Miss Phoebe Brlggs. daughter or Dr. Kllory Brig'gs of Sacra mento, Cal. CRAZED SALESMAN SHOOTS TWO WOMEN AND THEN HIMSELF! I | One Woman Dies Few Minutes After Stray Bullet Pene trates Back MAN'S CONDITION IS SERIOUS j Carl Kinloek Jealous When He Sees Ora Griffin With Another Man by Atsociattd f'rtss Philadelphia, Feb. 21. — BecorAlngl sudenly frenzied through jealousy, the, police say, Carl Kinloek, 38 years old,! an automobile salesman, smashed j breakfast dishes in a restaurant and: then shot up Ihe place, killing: onej waitress and seriously injuring an-' other with wnora he had been infatu- j ated. Then he turned the revolver on j himself with probably fatal effect. I The restaurant Is in the heart Of! the retail shopping district. Kinloek j was eating his breakrast when he sud- ! denly rose and began shooting at Ora' Griffin, 30, with whom he had been infatuated. A bullet struck her in the sido but he kept on shooting at her as other patrons of the place and waitresses rushed for the doors orj dodged behind tables. When Anna Phillips, 55, fell with a wild bullet through the back, Kinloek c-xclaimed, "She got all I have and 1 might as well go to h —l," and shot himself through lung. The Phillips woman, who did noti know Kinloek. died in a few minutes. | Kinloek made this statement to the police: "1 am a divorced man. I met this Griffin woman last summer. 1 saw | her last night with another man. ij asked her this morning to explain. She' refused. She even refused to wait on' me. T told her I would shoot her ifj she did not explain. I became crazy, 1 guess, when she flouted me before everybody. She ruined me, but I am all right now even if I soon will be in h—l." PIXTOIII. OLD RQADHOUSE. WILL BE DRY IFTER MARCH 1 Application Withdrawn Before Remonstrance Hearing Began This Morning Paxtonin Inn will be "dry" during 1914. That the bar at that welt-known roadlionse hostelry will be closed after -March 1 was assured at to-day's ses sion of Dauphin county license, court by the withdrawal of James Wix' ap plication for re-licensing. Charges that liquors had been sold to intemperate patrons and to minors were filed to serve as remonstrances against the regrantlng of Ihe priv ilege. The withdrawal of the appli cation however was rather unexpect ed. Several of the pretty girl wit nesses who had been interested spec tators throughout the session of license court left the court room immediately after the withdrawal and this led to the report that they were to have fig ured as witnesses. The withdrawal of the Paxtonia Inn application, the conclusion of the hearing of the Keystone hotel remon strances at Halifax, and some rather startling disclosures as to the conduct of the Haeffner House, the Derry township roadhouse, conducted by [Continued on Page 11] HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1914. ASK SCHOOL BOH TO BOOST mini ] FOB PUBLIC LIBM | , Say Maintenance Fond Should Be Increased From Three to Fhre Thousand a Year BOOKS NEEDED FOR CHILDREN j May Establish System of Mouth Hygiene Following Investiga tion of Committee j Harrisburg'a school authorities urere I last night asked to aid the educational i work which the new Harrisburg pub -1 lie library Is doing by increasing the j annual appropriation for the mainte nance of the library from $3,000 to ; $5,000. I Facts and figures showing that sinoe ' the library began its free book service on January 3, over 15,600 books had ; been circulated and that the cost per 1 I book was so low as in any library in | the United States were submitted and i a committee consisting of Directors William A. 8011. A. D. Houtz and Wil ; liam N". Vates was named to confer! j with the trustees, who will present a | complete statement of the cost of op- ! eratlon which can now be ascertained i since the library has passed its first 1 month. The unexpectedly largo operations i lof the library wore submitted by aj , committee of the trustees consisting i of Arthur D. Bacon, chairman; D. j Bailey Brandt and A. Boyd Hamilton, ! Casper Dull, president of the trustees, .also being present. Messrs. Bacon and ' Hamilton submitted the situation, go ! ing Into the details of the cost of op eration and the line results obtained. | notably in the children's depilrtment, • which has been patronized beyond ' what was planned. (iootl Work Being Done I The statement submitted showed 'the following: j "Tn January 11,888 books were cir- ] culated and in February to the 19th, | inclusive 6.790. The number of chil-j dren taking out books in January was | f Continued on Page 1-1] 'FORDED il TO BE DISMISSED AFTER ILL RUMOR HIS II Taylor Declines to Discuss Report; So Does Commissioner Lynch I Rumors were again current in mu nicipal cTPcles to-day to the effect that V. Grant Forrer, park superintendent, may not be dismissed a.fter all. Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, the head of the parks and public prop- I erty department, declined to comment lon tho report. Commissioner W. H. •Lynch also declined to talk on the sub -1 ject. The resolution in question is due to be passed upon finally Tuesday, to become effective March 1, unless amended. Commissioner Taylor has declared he means to extend Forrer's time un til April 1. This it is said is to give I the proposed City Planning ordinance i ample time for hearing and discus jsion. The plan suggested is to make IJ. R. Hoffert, assistant park commis jsioner, engineer for the commission. 'ln this event Hoffert could hardly be ! retained to fill Forrer's position as" had i been announced. This would make i Forrer's retention possible, as Mr. Tay lor has repeatedly said that there is | nothing personal back of the removal i —merely a desire to economize. I Whether or not there will be any changes in the resolution which will I provide for the retention of some of j the men slated to be dropped, Com- Imissioner Lynch wouldn't sav. "I i don't know what will be done," said ; he. Call For Forrer's Retention Resolutions asking Council to re tain Forrer were adopted last evening by members of the Harrisbiurg Track Athletic Committee. Monday evening the Civic Council of Federated Churches will meet in special session to adopt similar resolutions, and the Post Office Athletic Association will adopt resolutions on Monday. This organization comprises 130 mail car riers. The resolutions will be sent to Council. The track athletic commit tee did not meet in the park board offices, as had been announced, Super [Continued on Page 11] Charters Are Issued to Fifteen Companies State charters were issued to-day to thesePhiladelphiacorporations: United States Hardware Manufacturing Com pany, capital $6,000; Atkinson Co.. Inc., livery, capital $5,000; Insurance Service Company, capital 150,000; Ann Thorpe Company, real estate, capitS.l $30,000; Central Dairy Com pany. capital $10,000; Fraternal Kn terprise Association, realty, capital $20,000: Federal Brokerage Company, capital $5,000; Jacoby Company, mer chandise, capital $50,00; Thompson, Zeigler & l/einau, woollens, capitai SIO,OOO. Other charters issued were: Arcadb Amusement Company, Mount Carmel, capital $5,000; Atwood Silk Company, Plymouth, capital $100,000; Brown'# Boot Shop. Dußois, capital $40,000; Fibre Specialty Manufacturing Com pany, trunks, etc., Kennett Square, capital $75,000: l,ehigh Valley Amuse ment Company, Enston, capital $5,000: Moulten Coal Company, Scranton. capital $20,000. Bf ™ E^ljßßßßifflMil Wr LHHVHI ■V HSBM ST JHBHB m JM| t,„ * v ■jWMMiTjHHMfc;; I: >,-N * • jy^^'x^ci'.f ItßPflffiWl^^liWatgTW MHMMWMMB .. | !^H^ffl THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY WASHINGTON---THE MAto i i -od made him man! What right have we To iifcvhim to idolatry? fto liad his' faults" although the years Have washed away their trace in tears. f.iod made him human! We re-make His memory for history's sake, A tiling too perfect. For to be Much overpraised is mockery. (iud made him kind! Ah, therein lies The power of him. Stronger ties Did never friend and foe unite Or deeper confidence invite. Clod made him wise! A nation grew I'pon that wisdom. Yet he knew Mis own shortcomings. Why should we Exalt him to idolatry? —ANNA H. WOOD. Written for tho Telegraph. 1.1 HI. WOMEN 10 CHILDREN PUT 10 DEATH IN CIA Bandits, Led by "White Wolf," Murder Missionary and Hold Persons For Ransom By Associated Press Peking, Feb. 21. —The bandits led by "White Wolf' massacred 1,300 men, women and children when they sacked Liuan-Chow, province of Ngan-Hwei, on January 29. On that occasion the> murdered Father Kich, a French Jesuit missionary, and captured and held two other foreigners for ransom. An army of 25,000 Chinese troops is now converging on "White Wolf's" strongly entrenched position in the vicinity of Cheng Yang-Kwan, further to the north In the same province. "White Wolf" has a force of 2,000 bandits, half of whom are armed with modern rifles. Dr. Surface Is Again Head of Bee-Keepers Dr. H. A. Surface. State Zoologist, was elected president of the Pennsyl vania State Bee Keepers' Association to-day for the tenth time at the close of the tenth annual convention of the association, H. C. Kllnger, of Liver pool, being re-elected secretary and treasurer for the eighth time. E. A. Weimer, U'liunun: Mrs. L. Weaver, Philadelphia, and K. Ij. Coons, Cou dersport, were elected vice-presidents. During the day G. 11. Ilea, Reyii oldsvllle, and John O. IJuseman, Ger mantown, State apiary inspectors, re ported in detail on the inspection work, showing how the disease known aa foul brood was spreading and stat ing that of 36G cases found 226 had been cured and !!4 hives destroyed. Dr. E. A. Phillips, of the llureau of Entomology, Washington, was the principal speaker, advocating renewed activity to prevent spread of diseases which Hi-e threatening many valuable colonies of bees. CAMPAIGN OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA i PRIMARY ELECTION First Day For Circulation of Nom ination Petitions Marked by Much Activity To-day was the first day upon which signatures could be obtained to nomi nating petitions for the State, con gressional and legislative nominations to be made at the primary election on May 19, and the circulation of scores of papers which have been sent out from the State Capitol and the various party headquarters began in many parts of Pennsylvania. The fil ing of nominating petitions is now legal at the Department of the Secre tary of the Commonwealth, where all nominating petitions must be entered this year, there being no county or mu nicipal officers to be elected. The pe titions must all be on record by April 21. This is the firs ttime the State has operated under the new primary act for selection of candidates for United States Senator and State offices by di rect vote. The dates fixed for assessors to sit at polling places, outside of cities, for enrollment of voters not yet enrolled, are March 17 and 18. This enrollment p under the party enrollment act of 1913, under which many voters listed their names as members of parties last summer and Fall. Enrollment is necessary to vote at a primary. All of the State committees will be elected this year at the Spring pri mary, provision to that effect having been made in the act of 1913. The State committees will meet shortly after the primaries for organization and adoption of campaign plans. Circulation of the nominating pe titions of Henry Houck, Secretary of Internal Affairs, who is a candidate for Republican renomlnation, began in every county of the State to-day, peti tions having been forwarded to many people who had written to the Sec retary asking that they might help In Inaugurating his campaign for an other term. CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH Ashland, Maine, Feb. 21.—Five of the six children of Joseph Smart, a lumberman. w ere burned lo death when their house at Ragle was *Jf.stroyej»ust .cease. The minister alsb s(iithat | "Mister land," a new weekly - na |per which was wholly devoted ti/ at tacking Americans, would i>n sup pressed. , * POSTSCRIPT. 14 PAGES. POSSES ON TRAIL OF TMIHIBOBOERS liO KILLED ME MEN After Robbing Passengers on Great Northern Tram, Bandits Start For Water Front ESCAPE AS TRAIN SLOWS DOWN Automatic Revolver Is Emptied Into Body of One of the Dead Men By Associated Press Bellingliam, Wash., Veb. 21.—A trail leading along; the water front to a. boat landing was the clue followed to-* day by posses from two counties seek ing the three bandits who shot three passengers to death on a northbound Great Northern train near here late last night. The bodies of the dead were taken to their homes. They were: Thomas 8. Wadsworth, Vancouver, B. C., Canadian Pacific Railroad con ductor. R. fj. Lee, Bremerton, Wash., tlmt clerk. Puget Sound navy yard. His parents live in Aekerland, Kan. H. R. Adkinson. Vancouver, B". C., i traveling: salesman. Shoot Out IJffhts The bandits boarded the train at Burlington, a few miles south of here, and passed from the smoking car into the day coach, wearing white hand kerchiefs over their faces. One stood on the platform of the day coach, a second stepped just inside and a third walked the length of the car. As the robber started to lock the door the three men sprang at him. While he shot them down the robber at the other end of the car began shooting out the lights. His companion emp tied an -automatic pistol into body and then ran the length of the car, snatching as he ran purses offered by frightened passengers. The train slowed down In response to a pull at the bell cord and the three dis appeared. Murders Wife and Then Tells Sanatorium Clerk By .-Issociaif' Press Hansville, N. Y., F'eb. 21.—Simon U. Cooney, of Bradford, Pa., killed his wife at a sanatorium heer to-day. Cooney, unperturbed, announced the fact to the clerk. Investigation re sulted in the finding of Mrs. Cooney's body in the room assigned the couple on their arrival last night. She bad been hit on the head with a pitcher and then choked. Mr. and Mrs. Cooney arrived here last night, the wife stating that her husband»was ill and that she had brought him to the sanatorium for treatment. Examination to-day by Dr. Arthur Jackson, head of the sanri-- torium, indicated that Mr. Cooney was suffering from acute mania. Cooney is 45 and his wife about 40. For llarrlshurg and vicinity! Pair, continued r«»Id to-night /rlth low est temperature about 15 dcgreei. Sunday fair and warmer. l*'or Fnwtcrn Pennsylvania! Fair to night and Sunday, with slowly rising temperature; moderate southwest winds. Hirer No Important changes will 04«cttr either lu river stages or lee con ditions. (■eneral Condition* The Soiith Atlantic coast storiw lias moved oft' northeastward over *the Atlantic ocean. It caused a northeast gale of (18 miles aa hour at Hatteras, heavy snow In Southern Virginia and heavy rain In the Carolinas and Georgia and light rains In Northern Florida. It Is 8 to 22 degrees colder flit the Atlantic and Fast (iulf States and In Fastern Tenaessee, Western Texas anil New Mexico. Temperature: 8 a. m„ 12; 2 p. m., 91. Sun: Hlses, 11:47 a. m.; se*ts, si4'- p. m. Moon: New moon, February 24* 7:02 a. m. River Stage: 3.1 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 26. Lowest temperature, 21. Mean temperature, 24. Normal temperature, 31. This Town's Best Salesman No merchant or manufacturer with an honorable proposition to put to the people of this town can find a better salesman than the advertising columns of this newspaper. It is a dally visitor Into the best homes. The people have con fidence In it. Many of them re gard it in the light of an Inti mate personal friend. They believe, and properly, that it would not introduce them to anyone not worthy of a hear ing. They turn to its advertising when they are in need because they are finding It profitable to do so. They prefer to deal with Its ad vertisers because they have more i confidence In the men who adver- ■ Use than in those who do not. They are in what might be called a receptive mood—are, as our Missouri friends would say, "ready to be sliwn." The man with «oods to aell to t lie people of this city should choose the best salesman to be found, the one with an entry IntQ the best homes the advertising columns of this newspaper. Perhaps you would like some suggestions. Write to the Bureau of Advertising. American News paper Publishers Association, World Building, New York. Booklet on request. 1 ' ——■—/