THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO. PA.
TISH SUBJECT
F
YLVANIA
MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
IS SHOT TO DEATH
BUT PROSPER
Another Serious Crisis in the
Mexican Situation.
Secretaries McAdoo and Hous
ton Return From Tour.
Happenings of the Week in the Capitol Building and Th oughout the State Reported for
Our Readers in Fu.'ton County ant Elsewhere.
WASHINGTON IS STIRRED.
THE CURRENCY BILL PASSED
ALL CROSSINGS I ROAD WORKERS
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REVIEWOF PENNS
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest
British Ambassador Sees Him About
the Former Bandit Rebel Leader's
Act and President Wilson and '
. Cabinet Discuss It
Cabinet Officers Issue Statement ,
Federal Reserve Bank Organize '
tlon Committee Telling Of
Their Trip Around Country.
MUSTBE SAFE
Public Service Commission
Directs Conductors Duties
GRAFT COSTLY
ORDERS SAFETY DEVICES
Steam Railroads and Street Railways
Included In Regulation! for Protec
tionElectric Cart Forbidden to
Croti Tracks Till Signalled.
(Spi'ciul Harrisburg Correspondence.)
Hurrlsburg. A general order has
been issued by the Public Service
('ominlslson in the matter of regula
tion governing the protection ot grade
crossings und baa been Bent to the
various Bteam railroads und. street rail
ways throughout the State. It pro
vides that boforo an electric railway
nr Bhall cross the tracks of a Bteam
rul!ro:id the conductor shall go In ad
vance and ascertain whether are any
approaching trains, lie shall not sig
nal the motoriuan to proceed until he
Is assured that there Is no danger. At
crossings where conditions are espec
ially dangerous safety devices must
he provided which must bo submitted
to and approved by the Investigator
ot accidents for the commission. One
ot the regulations provides that a light
shall he displayed on the dead end
of railroad trains when it Is necessary
to shift cars by night over a public
crossing, notwithstanding the fact that
the crossing constitutes part of a yard.
Must Tax Penalties.
Acting under authority of State tax
ation laws, the Auditor General's De
partment will pn March 1 begin esti
mating the State taxes of corporations
which have failed to file their reports
of capital stock and loans, according
to a statement at the Department.
The estimates will be bused upon
Information secured by the depart
ment's officers and carry with them
a penalty of 10 per cent. All corpor
ations are required to file by Decem
ber 31 statements; of their business for
the year ended November 30. When
this Is not done the department has
the right to estimate the value of the
stock for taxation purposes. Several
hundred corporations are said to be
delinquent A demurrer to the man
damus proceedings to test the anthra
cite tax suit Is to be tiled within a
few days by the Attorney General's
Department, and the case will bo ar
gued In the Dauphin County Court.
Meanwhile steps to compute this tax
will be taken by the State's fiscal au
thorities. Mine Blast Kills Two.
Two men were killed and two In
jured by an explosion of gas In one
of the shafts of the Wllllaiustown col
liery, the largest one In the Lykens
Valley anthracite district. The dead
men, Charles Roudenbush and John
Crozier, were working side by side,
nd were killed instantly, while George
Seaster and John Fagen, who were a
short distance away, were only slight
ly burned. Crozier leuves u widow
and family.
Demands Auto Fees.
State Highway Commissioner E. M.
Blgelow has presented another requisi
tion to Auditor General Powell for
payment from the automobile license
fund of 1913 and 191 4. The amount Is
for several thousand dollars and has
been held under advisement for sev
eral dayB. Mr. Powell conferred with
State Treasurer Young and when a de
cision can be reached Mr. Powell will
write to Mr. tllgelow, setting forth his
position.
Veteran Engineer Dies.
John E. Miller, 811 years old, a Penn
sylvania Railroad engineer, whose
train carried Lincoln's body from Phil
adelphia to Harrisburg In 1805, died
nt his home here. He wai born at
lloneybrook, Chester County, In 1831,
md worked for the Pennsylvania. Rail
road for more than 50 years, retiring
In 1901.
Eyes on Rural Insurers.
The rates charged by mutual com
panies and their methods will bo par
ticularly dealt with by the State Legis
lative Commission investigating the
Are insurance business at its sittings
In York. They flourish mainly in such
agricultural districts as York county.
State Sells Waste Paper.
The State sold its waste paper for
the first time, bids being opened for
tons of paper that have accumulated
In the Capitol since the legislative
session and from "departmental busi
ness. Named as Asylum Trustees.
Frank L. Smith, of Norristown, and
Thomas W. Marshall, of West Chester,
have been appointed trustees of the
State Hospital at Norristown.
Manage Water Works.
The State Board of Health authori
ties have taken full charge of the
plant of the West Reading Water Com
pany In order to rectify errors end
give the residents of the borough a
supply of pure water. In the moan
time a committee of the Borough Coun
ell Is seeking available water supply
tor the purpose of establishing the
borough's own water system. The
West Reading Water Company was
furnishing the citizens with Schuylkill
water which was responsible for the
typhoid fever epidemic In the borough.
Chester Farmer Tells County
Supervisors About Skimpers
SHOULD TOIL FULL HOURS
Quite as Mean to Begin Late and Quit
Early as to Shave on Contracts
Two Kinds of Road Hogs Are
Specifically Described.
Norristown. "Too much money is
spent on highway Improvement in
rennsyivaniu, declared Thomas Mc
Donnell, a farmer and a road super
visor of Chester County, in addressing
township road supervisors of Mont
gomery County In annual conventlou
in the Court House here. Mr. Mc
Donnell was not opposed to good road
or their lmprovecent, but his point wns
that there Is too much "graft," which
takes the form of lack of conscientious
service on the part of those who are
employed In the work of road-building
and roud repulrs. He said that that
man was a grafter who came to work
at 7.30 In the morning instead of 7
o'clock, as he was supposed to do, and
quit at C.30 instead of G o'clock, tak
ing advantage of the friendship of the
man In charge. The payment of that
man for un hour which he did not
work Is graft pure and simple.
ThU Is only one Instance of
what Is going on all over the
State. That Is why the speaker said
that too much money was being spent
for highway Improvement. He said
a well-drained dirt roud was a good
road, and, with the use of a "drag,"
one which can be kept In good con
dition at little expense. He said that
in his township of Chester County
there were no stone roads, only dirt.
In answer to a question of a super
visor he declared that the ..automobil
es are not the only "road hogs" In
existence. He said he has seen
horse-driven vehicles occupied by just
as big "road hogs" as those In motor
driven vehicles. This quizzing super
visor seemed to have It "In" for auto
mobiles, and McDonnell turned on him
with the assertion that "farmers or3
now using autos to a great extent
and why not? Nothing Is too good for
the farmer. I would rather sell the
piano and the parlor furniture and
close up the parlor than do without
an automobile. It makes the country
not such a bad place In which to live "
The Suburbun Planting Commission
was given a Jolt In the moeting, and
the supervisors enjoyed it In his op
ening address Samuel II. High, attor
ney, of Jenkintown, stuted that it
looked like a scheme to Improve
suburbs for the benefit of Philauei
phla. Identified by Stolen Fox.
Coatesville. Two foxes oddly dis
appeared from his kennels near Down
Ingtown and W. Warrar Journeyed to
Parkershurg In search of them. Go
ing to a stable, accompanied by Con
stable Umsted, of Coatesville, he de
clared he would not bring Buit against
the men who took the foxes If the
female member of the Reynard family
should fall to recognize him. As he
entered the stall where the foxes were
the pet female fox barked and ran to
her owner, who took her in bis arms
and fondled her, while others who had
tried to get near her were unabH.
Three members of the Wagontown
hunt have thus found themselves In
serious trouble. Two arrests have
been made Iloraco Carson and John
Worth.
Blames Crew for Death.
Conshohocken. A Coroner's Jury,
In investigating the killing of Margaret
McShune on the Ford street crossing
of tho Reading Railway in West Con
shohocken on February 5, found that
the crew ot the train, which blocked
tho crossing, and which caused Miss
McShnne to walk below the crossing,
"as she was told by a supposed rail
road employe," were negligent in their
duty and censurable.
Nabbed as Bogus Healers.
Phoenlxvllle. Representing them
selves as physicians, two men, claim
ing to be from New York city, were
arrested by the local police as they
were doing a large business among tho
foreign residents of this town. Their
medicine chests were seized, which
contained "cures' for almost all known
diseases. They were selling them to
the foreigners for from $1 to $3 a
bottle.
Two in Election Plot.
Scrar.ton. Wallace G. Moser and
Robert Walker, accused of having con
spired to alter the returns of tho prim
ary election last fall, were acquitted
by the Jury. Casper Wagner, who
confessed the alteration, and John
owens, were found guilty. The latter
Is 80 years of age and will apply for
a new trial.
Fatal Powder Accident.
Blalrsvlll. With a roar that was
heard 25 miles away the mixing house
of the West Penn Powder Company,
located at Tunnolton, six miles from
hero, was blown to pler.es by an ex
plosion. ' Robert Caugherty was killed
and another workman mortally Injur
ed. A telephone message from near
the plant soon after the explosion said
tho plant had taken fire and waa
burning. The company usually make.?
two shipments of powder each week,
sr.d the quantity to have been removed
I had not been sent out.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects Items of Bull
, ness nd Pleasure that Interest. .'
An effort Is being made in Morris
vlllo to secure free mall delivery.
Scranton's segregated "red light"
district Is to have white lights.
Evangelist Stough wound up at Sun
bury with 3,1(J5 converts und $3,400.
Readlnp Railway oar shop men at
St. Clair fatirl Palo Alto are on short
time. 1
Illoomstmrg dealers have raised the
price of nillk from seven to eight
cents a quart.
A strike Is promised on the Laurel
Klectrlo Rallwuy, between Wilkes
Iiarre and Scrunton.
Martin Andrews, of Lancaster, was
struck by a train while walking the,
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Russell Wanner was knocked down
and robbed by two men caught trying
his doorlock at Hazleton.
A complete printing outfit is to be
added to the manual training depart
ment of the Easton public schools.
Assessors report that Schuylkill has
a vast army of 32,131 able-bodied men
ready for war.
Tamaqna will organize a choir of
500 voices for the union revival serv
Ices to commence on March 22.
An open-air school Is to be establish
ed by the Easton School Board for tu
bercular pupils.
In an attempt to thaw the water
pipe In his home at Berwick, Ben. F.
Sponenberg set quite a Ore to his
house.
Blinded by the blizzard Mrs. Emma
Dell, a widow aged GO, was struck by
a Pennsylvania Railroad train at Ma-
pleton and Instantly killed.
In the wedding dress which she
wore at her marriage, three months
ago, the body of Mrs. John Kulttle was
laid to rest ut Bloomsburg.
Street Commmissloner Daniel Eck-
erd's force of men cleaned 40 Berwick,
sidewalks, from which owners had ne
glected to shovel snow.
Tamaqna fire companies have ap
pointed committees to boom the hold
ing of the Six County Firemen's Cou
ventlon in that town in 1915.
In view of Hazieton's trolley strike,
Hazleton Township School Board has
hired auto 'busses to haul pupils to
and from schools.
Charged with embezzlement of $42.
James S. A. Bentzel, a collector for
Troup Brothers, York piuno dealers,
was arrested and entered bail for a
hearing.
When Dr. R. A. Meek, of Nanticoke,
asked Frank Funnan, janitor of the
building, to turn on more heat, the
janitor assaulted him with a hammer,
and the doctor waa seriously Injured.
George Deerolf and Charles Grouse,
both of Philadelphia, were sentenced
to six months In Doylestown jail for
stealing brass from the Reading Rail
way.
A new 10,000 concrete bridge will
be erected across the Lehigh Canal at
Morrisvllle, ond the N. J. & P. Trac
tion Company will double-truck its
rond.
The Commissioners of Bucks county
have approved of a new reinforced
concrete bridge over Swamp Creek,
Tinicum township, on the road from
Erwinnu to Revere.
Pasquale D'Andego, a member of
the night force at Simon's silk mills,
Easton was stricken with heart dis
ease and died as he was about to eat
his midnight lunch.
Falling down a flight of steps while
visiting at her brother's home, Miss
Helen Henrlcks, of PottBtown, tore
her lower Hp from the Jawbone and
sustained severe lacerations in her
nose and face.
W. S. Eyster has accepted the cash
lershlp ot the jiew national bank re
cently orgnnlzed at Ford City, and has
tendered his resignation to the Jeffer
Bon County National Bank.
Major James M. Laird, of Greens
burg, and Miss Margaret Engbert, for
merly of Greensburg, more recently ot
Somerset County, were married at Al
toona. Major Laird gavo his ogo as
77; tho bride's 29. They will make
their home In Greensburg. Tho bride
groom is well known through his con
nectlon'wlth The Greensburg Argus. .
Washington. A slumbering Mexican
situation was brought quickly to a
point of intense International Interest
by the flash of a message stating that
William L. Benton, a British subject,
had been killed in Juarez by order of
Gen. Francisco Villa, tho constitu
tionalist commander.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British
ambassador, conferred with Secretary
Bryan about it, President Wilson and
bis Cabinet discussed It briefly, and a
thorough Investigation was ordered by
the State Department from consular
reports on the border.
In this case, for the first time since
the present revolution began, a year
ago, ' the general warning from tho
United States government to Mexican
factions to protect all foreigners went
unheeded, though there is every evi
dence to show that both tho British
Ambassador and the State Department
were advised too late of Benton's Im
pending fate to Intercedo specifically
for him. The news shocked officials
generally, who had come to believe
that Goncral Villa fully realized tho
position of the American government
in regard to tho protection of foreign
ers in Mexico, particularly In the north
of that country.
"I haven't sufficient facts on which
to baso an opinion," said Secretary
Bryan. "Until I have the department
will express no opinion."
This was the official vlow of the
situation with messages passing back
and forth between the State Depart
ment and Consul Edwards, and his
temporary assistant, G. C. Carrothers,
consular representative at Torreon.
Only a few details were announced by
the State Department that Benton
bad been executed after a military
trial. A copy of the sentence of the
court, setting forth the evidence In
the case, was promised the American
consular representatives. Mr. Bryan
said a full report of the affair was on
its way fcy mall from Consul Edwards,
to whom General Villa had personally
explained the incident
The killing of a British subject un
der circumstances such as dispatches
from the border portrayed caused a
stir In diplomatic circles. Those
familiar with the aggressive attitude
Great Britain assumes in pressing for
reparation when her subjects have
have been wronged were inclined to
foresee interesting developments im
pending. W. VA. FACES DEFICIT.
State Will Not Be Represented At
Panama Exposition.
Charleston, W. Vo. Covernor Henry
0. Hatfield, in a statement, declared
that the reason the $75,000 appro
priated for a West Virginia building
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, at
San Francisco, Is not available is be
cause of the deficit facing the State
treasury. Should all appropriations be
paid, West Virginia's treasury will
have a deficit of more than $1,200.
000 .in 1915; The Governor says the
Paint Creek strike cost $500,000, and
that prohibition will result In a de
crease in State revenues of more thun
$612,000 annually.
AROUSED BY FIRE; SHOT.
Farmer Mysteriously Killed and Rela
tives Wounded.
Barbosrsvllle, Ky. Aroused by
hoarlng the crackling of a fire that
was destroying his barn, Henry A.
Fultz, a farmer, living near here,
rushed out of his home accompanied
by his famlly,only to be met with a
volley of bullets that killed Fultz
Instantly and injured several of the
others. The members of the dead
man's family are mystified and unable
to understand the reason for the kill
ing or the fire.
ROOSTER AS ALARM CLOCK.
'Bird, Kept In Bedroom, Better Than
Machine.
Bridgeport, Con. The board of
health ordered Hyman Slavan, of this
city, to dispose of a rooster and three
chickens which were found domiciled
in the family bedroom. Slavan's ex
cuse to the authorities was that his
alarm clock was out of order, and tha
he found the crowing of the rooster
more dependable to awake his wife
at an early hour so the breakfast for
three schoolchildren might be pre
pared. BOBSLED INJURES TWENTY.
Plunges Off Curve and Dashes Into
Big Crowd.
Atlantlo Highlands, N'. J. At the
annual winter carnival held here a
bobBled racing with a toboggan ran
off a dangerous curve and dashed Into
a crowd of 300 spectators. Twenty
persons were injured. Joseph Phillips,
a boy of 12, may die.
"PEN" WARDEN FOR SENATE.
Three Others After Election In
Kansas.
. Lansing, Kan. Jeremiah D. Botkin,
warden ot the Kansas State Peniten
tiary here, announced his candidacy
for the United States Senate on the
Democratic ticket There are four
candidates for the position held by
Senator Joseph L. Brlstow. The Son
ator seeks re-eloctlon, and Charle
CurtlB, former senator, is contesting
with him for the Republican nomlna
tlon at the primaries next August
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EUROPE BEHIND
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Holds Toll Exemption Violates
Treaty, Says President.
OTHER REASONS FOR REPEAL
Of Such Grave Effect Upon Inter
national Relations They Can
not Be Divulged, Is
Intimation.
Washington. President Wilson
took the newspaper correspondents a
little further into his confidence con
cerning the international aspects of
the free tolls controversy when he de
clared it to be his belief that all Eu
rope stood with Great Britain In re
gard to the exemption clause ot the
Panama Canal act as a violation of
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The ..President was careful to ex
plain, however, that he did not base
his opinion on any official protests
which these other nations have lodged
against the clause, for, he declared,
Great Britain was the only country to
file a protest. At the same time, he
said, Information had come to him
showing cloarly how the other govern
ments regarded the matter.
It also leaked out that the President
has given his callers within the last
few days' a reason of greater import
ance than any heretofore disclosed by
visitors willing to talk why repeal
should be enacted. It appears that
this reason has to do with American
foreign relations, but the exact nature
ot the matter Is being kept a profound
secret
The fflrther fact beenme known that
the President's friends look to Repre
sentative Claude Kitchen, of North
Carolina,' the heir apparent to the ma
jority leadership, to head the fight for
repeal. They want to make a test of
his strength. Representative Under
wood will probably sit through this
fight and content himself with a nega
tive vote. .
Thinks Repeal Will Pass.
President Wilson Is firmly of the
opinion, following additional confer
ences which he had during the day
with leaders in Congress, that he can
get tho repeal measure through at the
present session of Congress. He told
correspondents that at the proper
tlmo the Repeal bill would be pushed
to the front and passed. By proper
time, he explained, ho meant that it
would be taken up as soon as the lead
ers in both houses could shape the
legislative program so as to admit of
consideration of repenl.
Although efforts have been made by
some of the House and Senate leaders
to postpone action until the short ses
sion, beginning next December, in
order that a break with the President
might not occur before the Congres
sional and Senatorial elections next
fall, the President took the position
that a settlement of the question be
fore that time was nocessary from
the fact that ships will be passing
through the waterway before the short
sessions begins.
YOUTHFUL BRIDE BURGLAR.
Mrs. Anschott, 17, In Boy's Clothes,
Aided Husband, 19.
Pittsburgh, Pa. According to the
police, Mrs. Elmer Anschott, 17, con
fessed to them that she had taken part
In many burglaries for which hor hus
band, who is 19 years old, was arrested
and held for court. Dressed as a boy,
her hair cut short, she stood guard
outside the houses he robbed, with a
revolver hidden under her coat, they
say.
NINETEEN HURT IN CRASH.
Street Car Runs Into B. & O. Engine
Near Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Nineteen pas
sengers were injured when a street
railway car ran into the side of a
light engine ot the Baltimore and Ohio
at Second avenue, Hazel wood, Mrs.
Jessie Peipler, of Munhall, Pa., was
Internally hurt; the others but
slightly.
LEAPS FROM 75-FOOT BRIDGE.
Clarksburg Woman Jumps Into Creek
To Avoid Electrlo Car.
Clarksbure. W. Va. Mrs. Carrie
Thorn, 26 years old, jumped from the
Mononcahela Valley Company bridge
75 feet into waters of Elk creek to
escape being run down by an Inter
nrhnn car. A man nearby saw her
Jump and waded in Just in time to
save her from drowning. Both ankles
hmken and internal injuries
were received, but physicians have
hopes of her recovery.
BRITAIN
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U.S.
JET CASTILLO
Mexican Bandit Captured on
the American Side.
SIX OF HIS MEN SURRENDER
Should the American Officers Do So,
He Will Certainly Be Executed
For Setting Fire To the
- Cumbre Tunnel.
Alpasa, Texas. Maximo Castillo,
the Mexican bandit, charged with re
sponsibility for the Cumbre tunnel dis
aster, in which ten Americans and 41
others lost their lives, was captured
38 miles south of Hachlta, N. M., by
American troops.
The Information was conveyed to
Gen. Hugh L. Scott, commandant at
Fort Bliss, in an official telegram from
Captain White, Ninth United States
Cavalry.
With the' bandit were six of his fol
lowers. According to Captain White's
brief dispatch, they surrendered with
out a fight They will be brought
here. '
Castillo, to avoid a range of moun
tains on the Mexican side, made a de
tour which brought him into Ameri
can territory. Captain White was on
the watch, having received informa
tion from Waiter McCormlck, Ameri
can manager of Las Palomas ranch, 6n
the Mexican side, that the much-wanted
man was in the vicinity.
Captain White telegraphed by Army
wireless to General Scott tor instruc
tions, and was ordered to arrest the
bandit should be put foot on American
soil.
Whether the prisoner shall be sur
rendered to tho rebels is a legal 'ques
tion which remains to be settled. If
this is done there Is no doubt that he
will be executed for the Cumbre dis
aster. He is not charged with any
crime on this side.
Castillo set fire to a freight train in
the Cumbre Tunnel two weeks ago.
The cars were burning when a pas
senger train crashed Into it and every
life aboard was lost The tunnel Is
still burning. ,
A speciul to the Times from Hachita,
N. M., says that the capture was made
by Lieutenant Rothwell, of Troop A,
and remarks that It was particularly
gratifying as coming on the heels of
the theft ot 18 horses belonging to the
regiment by Mexicans on Sunday. The
special continues:
"Captain White will ask that
Castillo and Capt. Emlllo Garcia, a
member of the band previously cap
tured, be transported Immediately to
El Paso, as the number of soldiers on
duty here is limited."
Previous reports of Castillo's cap
ture, made to General Villa, proved un
true. The latter expressed his gratifi
cation at the capture. General Scott
was no less Jubilant.
GLOVES FOR COOKS.
Prof. Chantemousse's Idea Of Way To
Get Clean Food.
Paris. That cooks should wear kid
gloves when preparing food Is the
recommendation of Professor Chante-
mousse in a report to the Academy of
Medicine on the poisoning of a wed
ding party at Cholet by a mysterious
bacillus which the Professor discover
ed in cream cake. In order to avoid
such tragedies, which are frequent,
the doctor says, cooks should use abso
lutely clean dishes when boiling milk
and before donning the gloves for cook
ing they should scrub their hands.
RAILROAD FINED $402,000.
The L. A N. Also Enjoined From Doing
Business In Mississippi.
Gulfport, Miss. The Louisville and
Nashville Railroad was fined $402,000,
and enjoined from doing lntra-state
business in Mississippi, by a decision
in chancery court here, based on the
charge that the railroad company had
failed to obey an order of the Missis
sippi Railroad Commission to the effect
that Louisville and Nashville trains
should stop at Bay St Louis,
MRS. Z. SEQUIN-WALLACE DEAD.
Created Title Role Of Carmen In
America.
Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Zelda
SegMln-Wallace, at one time "a well
known opora and concert singer, died
at her home here. She was 65 years
old. Mrs. Seguin-Wallace created the
title rolo In "Carmen" in America and
acquired fame as the Gypsy Queen in
"The Bohemian Girl." She was the
widow of David Wallace, who was a
brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, of
Indiana.
TROOPS
Washington. The federal resen,
bank organization committee, ba. k t
Washington after a five weeks' tn, .
tnrough the country, in a statemet
announced that its selection of feilert
reserve cities and definition of resets
districts would not be madeuntil cart
ful consideration bad been given th.
information accumulated on the trif
The statement said the commute.
Secretaries McAdoo and Houstoi
found the country prosperous as:
learned that bankers and business ui:
are greatly interested In the new ban! .
lng system and confident of Its so
cess. In a supplemental statement Mr. V
Adoo declared that he hoped the mi
system would be established In tin-..'
to take care of crop moving coij:
tlngenclcs next year, but that if iy
were not, the Treasury Departmei:j
would stand ready to place Its l'lino
again at the disposal of business urn:''
The committee's statement:
"We have spent practically from tl-',
4th of January to the present time k
hearing the-views of business men an;
bankers on the problem of dividing tl
country Into not less than eight, no:
more than 12, districts and of Una';
lng in each district the main ollin
of a federal reserve- hank. Of th'
two questions, the division of the
country into districts Is the more Irr.
portant and difficult. The committed
asked those who appeared before It il
direct their attention to these twif
problems and to furnish all possibli
information.
Go To Great Trouble.
"A great many able and impartial,
business men and bankers have sub mitted
their best Information an-!'
opinions and always in a spirit of great!
fairness. In preparing their informa l
tlon many of them had gone to th;
extent of presenting maps showinjj
not only the districts they were inter )
ested in, but also the districts for al j
the nation. The committee has he-Id t
hearings in 18 cities and has heard;
from every community of consequence
in the sections ot the country thnt it ;
has visited. It has secured a vast?.
deal of information on the movement?
of trade, as well as on the currents of
banking.
"In every section of the country the ,
committee hns found a practically un
animous conviction among banker '
and business men that the currency;
bill will bring about most beneficial
changes in the business of the rmin-
try; in fact, the committee heard no
one speak who did not sny that the
measure was a great step in advance
The committee was presented every
where with overwhelming evidence o!
the enormous economic strength of
the country, and of the rapid progress
of every section. The fact that the
nation's banking resources, as a whole,
make enormous advances every
twelve or fifteen years, approximately
doubling In each such period, was
made evident; while this is true of
the country, as a whole, It was shown
that certain sections are advancing
with more rapid strides thin others,
and that the country is fundamentally
exceptionally sound and stronit
economically. The facts and figures
submitted to the committee in every'
part of the country show amazin?
growth and strength and disclose
condition of financial, industrial, com
mercial and agricultural soundness
and prosperity that leaves no doubt
as to the future."
K. OF P. GOLDEN JUBILEE.
President Wilson and Secretary Bryan
Address Convention.
Washington. Welcomed by Presi
dent Wilson and praised by Secretary
Bryan as "one ot the greatest In
fluences operating in the world to
hasten tho coming of the universal
brotherhood," the Supreme Council,
Knights ot Pythias, began Its annual
convention here, with delegates at
tending from every state and province
of the North American continent.
Celebration -of the order's golnVn
jubilee marked the opening sessions,
and in the convention hall here and
In nearly 8,000 lodgerooms, scattered
throughout the United States and
Canada, commemorative service
were held.
NOT SQUANDERING MONEY.
American Farmer Borrows For a Use
ful Purpose.
Washington. The American farmer
Is not squandering his money on frills
and furbelows, Dr. John T. Coulter
told the joint Congressional Rural
Credits Committee. "The fanners of
this country need a rural credit sys
tem," said Dr. Coulter. "They will
not run to extravagance if money 1 9
made cheaper for them. The Ameri
can farmers borrow money, according
to my investigations, for good and use
ful purposes."
HAS NO USE FOR BACHELORS.
Daniels Detaches Lieut. Knauss So
He Can Marry.
Washington. "Bachelors encumber
the earth," remarked Secretary Dan
iels when he ordered Lieut Harrison
E. Knauss detached from the Presi
dential yacht Mayflower so he could
be married. The Mayflower is golns
to Mexican waters. "I am In favor of
matrimony fr all naval officers," said
the Secretary, "and I shall do all In
my power to help such a good causi
along."