Troops Face Each Other Across? Rio Gtande Awaiting Battle Command HARRISBURG t|l§il|l TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 143 WILSON AWAITS REPORT CONFIRMING BATTLE IN WHICH 26 ARE KILLED BEFORE ASKING CONGRESS TO DECLARE WAR 12 AMERICANS AND FOURTEEN MEXICANS DIE Cert. Gomez, Carranza Commander Attacks Detachment of Pershing's Force at Carrizal After It Is Lured Into Trap by Flag of Truce; Helpless Men in Ditch Are Sprayed With Bullets by Machine Gun; Seventeen Captured; Reported They Will Be Hanged HURRIEDLY QUERY STATES ON NUMBER OF NATIONAL GUARD REGIMENTS MOBILIZED Confirmation of Fight Nof Expected Until Late; Will Take Survivors of Attacked Patrols Hours to Reach Persh ing's Base; Presumed Reinforcements Have Been Sent to Scene of Fighting; No Marching Orders Yet For Guard; War Appears Close F1 Paso. June 22. —The Americans lost 12 dead including their commander, and 17 prisoners, while 14 Mexicans were killed and 30 wounded in the battle of Carriza! according to the official announce ment to-day of the Mexican consulate. The consulate announcement said complete details have been re ceived from A ilia \huniada. I lie Americans removed their wound ed with them. The name of the commander still is unknown. The bodies of the American dead were counted as they lav on the field of battle. The Mexicans claimed they captured twenty horses and twenty rifles at Larrizal. Washington. June 22. —N0 reason for a change in policv toward Mexico is seen by the \\ ashington government in Mexican accounts of the clash at Carrizal between American and Carranza troops. Until a report come> from General Pershing there will be no decision but President \\ ilson is said to view the fight as an incident lor which subordinate commanders probablv were responsible and not as an act likely to precipitate general hostilities. Claim Americans Responsible An official communication from the Mexican foreign office, an nouncing the fight and the capture of seventeen Americans and seek ing an explanation of the presence of United States soldiers in that part of Mexico far from their base was presented t ; Secretary Lan ding to-day by Eliseo Arrcdondo. the Mexican amba-sador-des'ignatc. It said an interpreter employed as a guide by the American force declared the American commander was responsible for the en counter. l rom the tone as well as the contents of this communication officials drew the impression that Carranza desired to disclaim re sponsibility for the affair and make it plain that no attempt had been made to cany out his threat to undertake expulsion of the Ameri can expedition by force of arms. Further information regarding the activities for peace of foreign diplomats at Mexico City reached the State Department dur ing the day. From the same sources it was learned that Carranza was exerting every effort to a\oid a break with the United States and at the same time to restrain belligerent demands of some of his own advisers. War Department officials believe that if seventeen American soldiers actually are in the hands of the Mexi cans, they will be surrendered at the first opportunity. A demand for their immediate release would be one of the THE WEATHER Forecasts till 8 p. m.. Friday—For Harrlsbarg and vicinity: Fair to-nlght and Friday: aomevrhat warmer Friday. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair to-night and Friday; slowly ris ing temperature Friday; moder ate northwest winds becoming variable. River The >u«iuehnnna river and all Its branches will fall or remain near ly stationary. A stage of alMrut KO feet Is Indicated for Harris burg Friday morning. General Conditions The dlsturhnnee that was central over the Ohio Valley. Wednesday morning, moved rapidly eastward and passed off the Middle Atlan tic roast Wednesday afternoon. It caused showers In the Ohio Val ley and Tennessee In the Middle Atlantic and «onthern >ew Eng land states and along the east ern border of the tireat I.akes In the lost twenty-fonr hours. The high pressure area from the I Pper Mississippi Valley now cov ers the Lake Region, the Ohio Valley and the Middle Atlantic Mates: It has eaused n general fall of 2 to 12 degrees In tem perature east of the Ohio river. Temperatures have risen In the Plains Mates and over the re gion of the <-reat Lakesi else where temperature changes have been mostly small. Freeslng tem perature occurred In Nevada and frost In I tah this morning. Tempera tore: R a. m.. 00. *nn: Rise*. 4:37 a. sets, 7:37 p. m. Moont Rises, II iM p. m. River Mane: R.S feet above low water mark. V esterday's Weather Highest temperatorr, <l3 Lsnnl temperature, sr. Mean temperature. U I Korail tenaperat ore, T3, RV CARRIER* ft CEXTJ 1 WEEK. SINGLE C OPIES 2 I E.\T9. ! first steps taken by the United States government. i! ar .. ,h " K° v ernment has no official information of its own whatever re i ~'l r , 5 the Carrlzal fight. As a courier V- naws wo,, M have to ride some ■ Prnkin* ! nUe , s to ,cat " I ershing s headquarters, the War De partment may not have a report be fore to-morrow. Action \\ on Id Ik Prompt a i le . rf iJ Vh , 0 sav ' the President to da> sot the impression that he is de w if- d ? s P' te a " efforts to prevent it. war with Mexico should , aC " On of " ,he rnl,Pd p,a <es would be prompt und on a scale of considerable magnitude. It would not be a war of conquest, but Mr. Wilson is said to be prepared, if necessarv to use the maximum available military strength of th- nation for a short Tle ';ampalKn to re-establish order and a stable government in Mexico as well as to permanently insure protec'- 1 a°v foravs American border from out- Hakor In Conference Secretary Baker conferred with President Wilson on the basis of re ports given out by Mexican enm nia"d?re at 'he border and trans mitted to the State Department. with th r » vvf e? S ry Lans,n « wa * closeted sr.;,:: ,h « Seeking Giiardsmcti Available No explanation for these confer f !'• was learned, how. with li «Jl ee * raph wlres wer e hot with Inquiries sent to various gov ernors seeking reports of the number of national guard regiments mobilized and available for Immediate service i Officials said President Wilson would av.alt a definite report on what has happened from General Pershing It was not expected until late to-dav as ithe town of Carrlzal, where the fight ■ int was said lo have occurred, is sixtv miles or more trom General Pershing's advance base at Xamlquipa. Wllmmi's Policy tnehanged At the White House it was said the I Presidents policy was unchanged for (Continued on Pa*e 7) HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, 1 JUNE 22, 1916. PUTTING THE "ROOKIES" THROUGH AT THE ARMORY r w' "-*M A ,j g 1 tsff ?$k tarsia s HUTCHISON AND FINNEY GO UP Captain Jerry J. HartmanMade Commander Company K, York Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison, of Ilarrlsburg. commander of the Eighth Infantry and senior colonel of the line in the National Guard, was to-day ap pointed a brigadier general and as signed to general headquarters. Col. Hutchison is ill at Chambersburg and will be unable to go to Mt. Gretna with his command. He has a long record of service in the Guard as an officer of units of the Eighth regi ment and has been a colonel since 1902, having been raised to that grade while on strike duty with the regi ment. He was a major in the Spanish war service of the regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Maurioe E. Fin ney, of this city, also a veteran officer of tho Guard, was appointed colonel and assigned to command the Eighth. Colonel Kinney was formerly com mander of Company I, Eighth In fant ry. Captain Thomas R. Jones, com manding Company K. Eighth In fantry. York, resigned to-day and Captain Jerrj J. Hartman, Harris fcurg, formerh a commander of Cam pany l>. Eighth Regiment, Harris burg. was appointed to succeed him. Other appointments of officers to [Continued on I'ase 7] TELEGRAPH HEADS WAR RELIEF FUND Chamber of Commerce and Ro tary Club May Lead Move ment For Soldiers' Families Within the next 48 hours the mem- j ; bers of the National Guard of this city! ' will respond to the call of their coun try and proceed to the mobilization : camp at Mt. Gretna. These men are .'enlisted in the Governor's Troop and j Companies D and 1 of the Eighth reg iment in addition to the engineer corps and the quartermaster's department, and the division brigade and regimen i tal staffs. It will mean over 300 men when the se\ eral commands shall iiave been recruited to full war ! strength. During the absence of these men.' many of whom are husbands and fathers and the support of aged moth ers, it ought to be the business of Har- i risburg olticially and through its in- j dividual citizenry to provide ways and 1 means for the proper relief of any j (Continued on Pago 7) IIKKAK UP THEFTS Thefts of iron and steel are being ; broken up at the Central Iron and Steel Work£ by the vigilance of the com pany's police. Five boys, living in the lower end of the city, were sent to the House of Detention to await trial at f.ie Juvenile Court at a hearing before , Alderman Caveny last evening. Eleven ■ boys have been sent to the House of \ Detention on the same charge within the nast two days. The following boys were sent last night: Joseph Dunlap, Lawrence Finne- George Carlile, John Shearer and Joseph Eutty. STOI.F. FI.OWKHSt. CHARGE William Sheaffer, aged 21 years, who ' said he resides at 1204 Walnut street, was arrested at noon to-day by Spe clal Officer P. 1.. McPherson, of Reser voir Park, on a charge of larceny of | I flowers. Several workmen testified at a hearing this afternoon that they ; caught Sheaffer cutting roses and oth er blooms. He was held In default of payment of a fine. HIHHA.VDS AT FKOXT Down in Steelton two women are watching the dispatches from the bor der with more than ordinary Interest. They are llrs Henry Bouders. wife of . Sergeant Rowderx of Troop H. First i I'nlted States Cavalry, and Mrs. Charles s .Souders, wife of First Sergeant Souders - in Troop E, of the same regiment. Both ji women are visiting Steelton relaUveu. j] FREE MARRIAGE SOLDIERS WHO Recorder Lent: Goes to Front With Old Man Mars and Kid Cupid; Here's Your Chance Mr. Guardsman! If you, Mr. Soldier-Man. now can't .; clinch for all time that much mooted question between the Only Girl anil yourself, it won't be because James E. I.entz. Dauphin county's recorder of l . deedr. and bo?s of the marriage license 1 i bureau, hasn't offered to do all he 1 . can to boost along the good work. Here's the recorder's offer: "To every enlisted man in the ser-1 vice of L'flcle Sam who takes out a, j'marriage license between now and! 'noon Saturday with the expectation of getting married before he leaves for SOUNDS DEATH KNELL OF MOOSE Declining Nomination, Roose velt Says Its Mission Is Fulfilled Special to the Telegraph Oyster Bay, N. Y„ June 22.—When Colonel Theodore Roosevelt last even ing signed his letter to the Progres sive national committee declining the j nomination for the Presidency and'; urging the election of Justice Hughes, he at the same time signed the death warrant for the Progressive party, j which he maintains has accomplished the chief objects for which it was formed. To make the run for the Presidency ' and to keep up the party as a fighting force, he says, can have but one re- > I suit—insure re-election of President Wilson and four years more of the | spineless policies which have made ' American diplomacy a byword abroad | and a thing of regret at home and j brought the nation to the edge of war 1 1 while unprepared to even defend its I j border against bandit raids. Results Unequal to Risk Some minor reforms, he admits, j migl, be secured by continuing the! party and making the fight, but these] results could not warrant the party ! or its candidate taking the responsi bility of returning President Wilson to the White House with the conse [Continued on Page 9] HA.VD CAUGHT IJF PRESS John Nye. aged 1G years, employed j as a pressman at the Harrlsburg Bag and Box Factory, 5-7 North Cameron | street, was treated at the Harrlsburg Hospital to-day for a lacerated and fractured right band. While at work this morning his hand was caught in the press. TO ST WD HI I*. R. R. A poll of 10,000 Pennsylvania Rail- j j | road shop employes In Altoona to-day, j showed 95 per cent, volunteers, who j | promised to stand by the company in [ • the event of a strike. I i OUT DKtiRKRS AT I'OR\KI,I. Thomas Henry Anions, Jr.. 309 South ' Fourteenth street. Harrlsburg. and Iva , John Ston»», 205 Pinp street. Steelton. i received their degrees of bachelor of j I arts and mechanical engineer, respec- • ' lively. In the annual commencement ] exercises of Cornell University. Ithaca, [New York, held yesterday. j the field of duty, I'll present gratul | tously with a license." j All the applicant needs to do, Re | cordcr Lentz declared, is to bring his i enlistment papers along to the record er's office when he calls with his bride. "Why do I make that offer?" smiled | Recorder Lentz in reply to a natural ! question. "Why I think that might be a little patriotic boost, that's all. And i then, too." grinned the county official, I "we'll be going in for future prepared ness—even if it be a generation hence!" PENN HIGHWAY ROUTE DECIDED N\ ill Be Great Aid to Nation's Preparedness; Select Marker As an aid to preparedness, govern- ; ors of the William Penn Highway As sociation, meeting in the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, yesterday, de i elded upon a route for the Pennsyl vania division of the ocean-to-ocean highway, to be known In this State as I the William Penn Highway. The main highway will run from Philadelphia through Pittsburgh to I the Ohio state line, A meeting will be j held in Philadelphia within thirty days to determine details of the mat , ter. Leaving Philadelphia and reaching j Berks county, the highway will pass 'through Pottstown, Heading and Wer- I nersville. In Lebanon county It will j pass through Lebanon and Annvllle to j | Dauphin county, where it will touch j Hershey, Harrlsburg and Clark Ferry, I In Perry county it will have on its \ route Amity Hall, Newport and Mil- | lerstown. Through Mifflin county, the route I includes Lewistown, Mount Union, Mill ! Creek. Fater Street and Birmingham. I Tyrone, Bellwood and Altoona are on | the route in Blair county; Loretto, I Ebensburg and Johnstown in Cambria county; Armagh and Blairsville in In rContinued on Page #] Kolb Leaves Million to Presbyterian Institutions By Associated ! J ress Philadelphia, June 22. One million ' dollars is bequeathed to Presbyterian charitable and educational institu tions In the will of Charles W. Kolb probated to-day. Mr. Kolb was vice president of the Kolb Baking Company and a brother of Colonel Louis J. Kolb The testator was a widower and left no children. The public beouests are as follows Presbyterian Board of Home Missions 1200,000; Presbyterian Board of For eign Mission*. $200,000; Presbvterian Orphanage. $100,000: Presbvterian Home for Aged Couples and Aged Men SIOO - Christ Home for Homeless and Destitute Children. SIOO,OOO Saniarlisn Hospital. $100,000; Children's Country Week Association, $100,000; Tnmnle Col'- ! ]t , g :-i n Wk ooo v. n '" rt P, rlvate bequests I Of $200,000 each are mads to Mr. Kolb's two sisters, b*r* E. and y, w***. 16 PAGEcS i TROOPS OF BOTH SIDES AWAITING BATTLE ORDERS Belief Prevails on American Soil That Troops Will Take Juarez MEXICANS SWAGGERING Boast That They Whipped the Hated Gringo in Carrizal Fight I (By International News Service) Ei Paso. Texas, June 22. l n-1 fantry, cavalry and artillery concen -1 rated on both sides of the Rio Grande j to-day awaited the order of their com j manders that would send them into | battle. On the American side the be- I lief prevailed that if the report of | Mexican treachery in yesterday's fisht- I ii»K near Carrizal were confirmed M'nited States troops would advance on Jiiaiez before nightfall, take the his toric Mexican town, and continue ; their march through the desert to | Chihuahua City to rescue the Amer i leans taker prisoners in the Carrizal conflict. According to unofficial advices re ceived here the Mexicans have sent enced to death by hanging the seven teen American soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry captured at Carrizal. The | s<ime reports assert that the Mexicans. ' while carrying a flag of truce, opened Are upon the United States soldiers, causing heavy casualties. From the yellow banks of the river, [Continued on Page 6] ipj" 1 ' '"Tfr w 'nfc" £ KEPHART ON BULL MOOSE TICKET fy Harrisburg. Harmon M. Kephart, Republican can- | didate for State Treasurer, to-day won the Bull Moose nom- 1 ination by drawing off a tie with J. Verner Clark, the Wash- I ington nominee. They had the same number of votes. Both \ were represented by proxy at the office of Deputy Secretaiy J I of the Commonwealth Godcharles. Over forty ties were I II also drawn. j j CALL FOR WOMEN RELIEF VOLUNTEERS I j l Harrisburg. Call was issued to-day by Mrs. Charles * ( j E. Snyder, chairman Women's Division for National Pre < paredness for volunteers to help in eight lines of war relief < work, including the relief of needy families of soldiers. '■ ! Address Mrs. Snyder of Mrs. J. B. Mersereau, 1904 North i Second street.' Harrisburg. Dillsburg advices late this afternoon ( L stated that J. Haldeman O Connor, 13 North Front street. | was injured when his motorccr crashed through a ! ■ wire fence near that town. Other members of Mr. O'Con-1 « I who were riding with him were uninjured. • 1 | PENNSYLVANIA STEEL TO PAY VOLUNTEERS < > l Harrisburg. Over the signature of Quincy Bent, gen- ; [ ! e...: manager, the Pennsylvania Steel Company to-day no- j j • tified its employes that any who volunteer for war will con- 1 I tinue theii wages and give them their positions when they ' ! return. ® Field Headquarters, June 21, via Radio to Columbus,' N. M., June 22.—Carran/a troops have been reported close to the southern end of the American lines. General Pershing 1 ► is maintaining strong outposts in every direction ' and taking every precaution to prevent trouble arising. • i The American troops, after three months of camping arc in ' * H. E. Householder was slightly injured, and Martin » ! Hamilton, colored, both of Steelton, seriously hurt in an , > 4 • automobile accident in Steelton this afternoon, when the > . former's auto collided headon with a motor truck, j I two wounded in a fight here to-day between special police ' i horses for the United States government, moved eastward ( ' ° jfarrVaite I.Tceriaea laauV</ alnc«VatV ' yV«teriia j ineludei Harry Rhlne ■mlth Mnrph.v and l.rnn Ellaabctb Beck, crltyi Tbomaa F,l«i«od Hoffman and Knima Hoac Moreland, cltyi Frank l.auiihrail. Fayette county, and j tiertrude Hleka, Falrcbnncc! Arden Wfnlrl Kmerlck and Maude Rilltb Watta. eltyi Albert Kdmr Fleck, ninilhrnn Centre, nnd Alt* Mac Jaeobv.e i .sblppcnaburar; Perey Hartley Nell nnil Kuril Hell l..;ilntin. city) U niter \ C* AiMlernun and Kdna May Faanacht, city I Kllaa H. Finn em, Sterlln, and • Ivy Klton HofTnirtn, I'oml'h \ nlleys Norman «. J. Ileiniticr .lulu l.*ltier 1 Wert*. \\ ornile> MIIIITB t Howard HI wood Kohlcr .mil ICiitli HOMII- Flair V f l.ancaHier; Preaton «. I-rye ami Until I.coin Sltterley, Marvatlll... It. H. Huaer and Margaret May «««fr, cltyi llohert W. l.andla and Alice I, JEP C|Mnut, Lower ftwatara townablpi Kdgar ti. Keever and Sarah E. Baldorf ? Cicltn C'krlotopber H. Ohelm and LJlllan Roeaael, city. H' vV"" 'ii mGj Cm EDITION RECRUITS GET FIRST TASTE OF SOLDIER'S LIFE Scores of "Rookies" Put Through Paces in Park and Yard About Armories MEN REPORT FOR DUT* Martial Scenes Help Boast En listments; Details Completed For March to Gretna If you were in th 6 neighborhood o* Second and Forster or Sixth and Stat ! streets to-day you couldn't havu avoided hearing something like this: "Keep yer head UP!" "Aw, turn yer toes OUT—OUT. [ tell ye!" "DON'T apologize for yer feet I • gazin' at "em so much!" "Now, keep yer eyes to the FHON —them 'skirts' ain't lookin' at YOU!" These formed the staccato notes t >| the mirtinl chori's that. soundelj throughout Harrisburg; the "rookies'; of Companies D and I of the Eight'ij Regiment and the? Governor's 'l'roo > got their initial tryouls all day. Th » deeper note was struck l>y the stead/ tramp, tramp of marching men. tlia click-click of the rifle breech-blocKa and the grim music of cartridge flips. Harrlsburg's State guardsmen re ported to-day for service under Uncle Sam.
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