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IMPRISON LEO FRANK FOR LIFE, IS PLE

oreiners

B.0101CO

QuitT

4700 Stay

OAAr

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Villa Is Joined At Aguas-

calientes By Gen. Buelna's

Army; Others Moving.

NEXTBATTLE

AT FRANCISCO?

Gen. Villa To Make Deter

mined Effort To Check

Ob

regon s idvance.

At

WASHINGTON, D. CU April

2. Of 5000 foreigners In

Tamplco, of rrhom half

are Americana, only 300 bare taWrn

advantage of the United Staten

Koreroment'a offer of an oppor

100117 to leave on the army trana

port Sumner. There are 2S3 Amer

ican, 10 British and flTe German

nahjecta on the ship, irhlch has

nailed.

Skirmishing betireen Carranza

and Villa forces near ISbano con

tinues. Villa still Is at Asruan

eallentes reorsranlxlnf; his forces

and Gen. Obrcssn Is reported past

Irapuato, despite the fact that Villa

has destroyed the railroad as he

retreated north.

Dispatches from Vera cm je to the

Carranza asvney here said that

Gen. Ohreson had reached a point

IS miles north of Irapuato,, and

itHlU pti-gsffng "VHla vrlth-an

army ef 49R69, laeJadlnc Gen.

Mergn&A eemmand. Gen TJiejrnes

the dispatch aald, nad taken

Guadalajara and -would act as

0brejron,s rear Ruard. Villa louses

at Celaya were estimated at 6000

killed and 5000 misslnff.

y-ONCENTRATION of troops for the

next great battle for supremacy In

" Mexico is under way at Irapuato,

Obregon's new base, and at Aguascali

entes, where Gen Vijja is reorganizing

his army.

That the next battle between the

forces of Obregon and Villa. 'Willi take

place at Francisco, a small town be

tween Irapuato and Aguascalientes, ii

the Indication now. This town Is held

by Villa forces. It Ilea in a nook of

hills and has a natural line of fortifi

cations which would make it an excel

lent point for making a stand.

Obrecon Has 4200 Is Claim.

Gen. Alvaro Obregon reriewed 4 2.0 J

troops Wednesday afternoon at Ira

puato. according to a Carraneista re

port received at the border Thursday

morning by Carranza agents. Five

thousand of Obregon's troops, it is

claimed, are former Villa soldiers who

were captured during the recent fight

lnp for the possession of Celaya.

Obregon. according to Carrancista

claims, has sent 2t,M4 men northwari,

in pursuit of Villa's forces, and a bat

tle at Afruascalientee is declared Im

minent Ten thousand men were sent

westward towards Guadalajara with

the hope of catting off the advance of

the Villa troops recently stationed at

that city and who are now said te be

on their way to Join Gen. Villa's main

column at the concentration camp :n

A cuascalientes.

Carranza officials declare that Obre

gon does not intend to let Villa reor

ganize his army, but will engage him in

a. second battle, which promises to be

e en more bloody than the first, within

the next 10 days.

Gen. Cesareo Castro, Obregon's cav

alry chief, has arrived at Veracruz for

a conference with Gen. Carranza. He

was said to have verified Obregon's

estimation of the Villa losses in the

fighting about Celaya, giving the

number of killed aiid wounded as 6000

and 5000 desertions.

It was doubted by observers whether

Obregon would move his entire force

to Irapuato, which although a large

town, is almost impossible to defend.

This fact doubtless caused Villa's re

treat to Aguascalientes upon aggres

sion of the Obregon armv from Celaya.

Villa Forces Mobilizing.

Advices received in Juarez from

Aguascalientes Thursday said that Gen.

Rafael Buelna, governor of Sinaloa.

was the first commander to answer

Villa's call for a mobilization of all the

conrentionist army at Aguascalientes,

arriving there last night at the head

nt 2200 troops. Others expected to

arrive within the next few days are

Gen. Raoul Madera, who brings the

troops from Monterey: the Manuel Chao

brigade, which has been operating In

the vicinity of Ebano. Tanx. To mas

Urbina, who commands a brigade of

nearly 5000 men; Gen. Jose L Rodri

guez, commander of the recent siege

on Matamoros. and nearly 1S00 more

troops who are on their way from

cuadalajara.

Check Obregon Is Purpose

This is taken to mean that Villa is

going to make a desperate attempt to

check Obregon's victorious advance

northward Obregon, it is said, has al

ready penetrated 460 miles of territory

which was once supposed to be abso

lutely Villista. and that advance has

l eached the junction of Irapuato. hav

ing taken that city without a right.

Suspend Freight and Ikprrjj.

Freight and express traffic has been

discontinued on the Mexican railway

lines by order of Gen. Villa, to enable

him to move with greater rapidity all

of his troops to the Aguascalientes

concentration camp. Villa officials de

clare that the reorganized Conven

tion army will contain not less than

CS.000 troops.

anta Barbara District, Mexico, h

ASKS $30,000 FOR BOUNDARY FIGHT

biirnes cmseliees colonel

abdutlesfllityof gdverworship

New York Constitution Provides Governor Must Be a

Resident of State Five Years Previous to Election;

Eoosevelt Affidavit Shows He Was a Resi

dent of Washington the Year Previous.

SYRACUSE. N. Y. April 22. Dur

ing the first part of hjs examina

tion of Theodore Roosevelt today,

Wm. Ivins, " chief counsel for Wm.

Barnes, brought from the former presi

dent the statement that be knew the

constitution of the state of New York

provides that no man Is eligible to the

office of governor unless he has been

a resident of the state for five years

prior to the date of his election- and

that he had made an affidavit the year

previous to his own election that he

was and for some time had been a resi

dent of Washington.

CoL Roosevelt's counsel made no ob

jection whatever to the line or ques

tioning which resulted in these state

men ts-

Darnes Counsel Is Ready.

Three bundles of papers containing

notes and two suit cases of records and

pamphlets were taken into the supreme

court by counsel for Barnes. The docu

ments were to be used by Ivins, In his

cross examination of the defendant.

Barnes, himself was said to have sug

gested1 many questions for his opponent

in anUTar.r

There was delay in opening court

because of a conference between at

torneys and Justice Andrews in the lat-

ter's chamber. A copy of the report of

the Bayne committee, which investi

gated Albany county affairs, insofar

as it related to printing was admitted

to the record. This had to do with con

tracts for sate printing let to the AI

SbtfyToarnal.' Barnes's paper, and Oth

er concerns, and the assignment of cer

tain of these contracts.

Claims Barnes Received Graft.

Excerpts from, the report were then

read. The first part had to do with

gambling, disorderly houses and the

payment of money to various officials

for doing various things. The report

of the committee was made in 1911.

One excerpt was: "The most conspicu

ous beneficiary of graft, public ex

travagance and raiding of the munici

pal treasury, we find from the evidence,

to be Wm. Barnes himself, as the uwner

of the majority of the stock of the

Journal company. How much more than

the majority of its stock he owned he

refused to disclose."

Bayne Report Submitted.

Counsel Bowers for Roosevelt late

Wednesday offered the Bayne commit

tee report to the legislature in evidence.

The report contains under subheads:

"The case of Wm. Barnes.- "Failure to

suppress crimes, "Gambling. "Print

ing," "Fifteen percent paid the Journal

company by Argus company to get city

printing," "Graft and extravagance,"

"Padding of the public printing for the

benefit of the Journal company." "Du

plicate payments for house printing

made to Journal company." "Selecting

trial Jurors." and "The Albany Lincoln

league."

Factions TJnlte.

"William Loeb told me at one time

he went to Mr. Barnes to ask if the Re

publicans in the legislature were sup

porting an anti-machine Democratic

candidate." said Roosevelt. "Mr Barnes

told Mr. Loeb it was impossible, as he

had an inronclad arrangement with Mr.

Murphy and that Mr. Murphy was to

have a -free hand to do as he pleased

in regard to election of a United States

senator.

"Franklin Roosevelt spoke to me

about the general situation, including

the election of a United States senator.

All this was in 1912. He called my at

tention to the union of independent men

of both parties, by which tbey beat

the Barnes and Murphy machine in the

primary fiht.

"Mr. Roosevelt told me bat I knew it

anyhow, myself. Why Mr. Roosevelt

also told me that the Republican ma

chine legislators were simply puppets

in the hands of boss Barnes, as he

called him. Mr. Roosevelt issued a

statement about it in 1S11."

"When did you last see Mr. Barnes?"

asked Mr. Bowers.

Witness replied:

Reasoned With Barnes.

"At the Lincoln day banquet in the

Republican dub in New York in 1S11.

I had a conversation -with him there. I

tofd him he -was definitely in control of

the Republican party. I said his posi

tion was one of importance. I asked

him to act to the Republican party as

a whole as his grandfather. Thurlow

Weed, had in the old Whig party.

"I told Mr. Barnes he was In reality

the Lincoln of the Republican party

and that If he would act in the spirit

shown by Tburlow Weed I believed he

would receive all Republican support. I

added that the time had passed when I

tv, n-nnhiiMn nnrtv ontiM n -minti an I

Mr. Piatt had ruled it. !

"X BaiO Wievcu utvic wuuiu uc 4 1;-

volt if any bossiem was attempted. Mr.

Barnes replied he would do as he

deemed best. That ended the conver

sation." Wanted to Reach Voters

After the report was read. CoL Roose

velt resumed the stand today. In reply

to questions by Mr. Bowers he ex

plained how he gave out the offending

statement:

"I dictated the statement and give

it to Mr. ilcGrath. my secretary, and

told him to give it to newspaper cor

respondents at Oyster Bay. I desired

the statement to be published in full

throughout New York state. I believed

It would receive Bosne publicity outside

the state.

"I wanted to reach the voters. 1

knew of no other means except the

newspapers."

The cross examination then began

Mr. Ivins began by asking CoL Roosc

vent about bis early life.

"Did you ever study the constitu

tion 7"

"I did while I was studying law in

Columbia university. Later, however.

I became an author."

"When you read the constitution of

the state did yon see anything about

eligibility for the governorship?"

"I don't remember. I guess I did."

What committees were you on in the

aseemblyT

"I was on a committee which in 18S4

Investigated certain offices in New

York."

"Did you investigate the department

of public works?"

"Yec, bat the investigation was re

sented and we stoppetV

"As chairman of that Investigation

did yon become familiar with the

methods of conducting legislative in

vestigations?" "I became familiar with the manner

in which I conducted them."

"Do you know it has been the custom

of legislative committees to conduct ex

parte investigations'"

"Some have done so. My committees

always tried to do justice to both

sides."

"Did you investigate the office of the

sheriff of New York?"

"Yes. and I employed as our attorney

a man incapable of doing injustice to

any man."

"Did the sheriff ever gne any evi-

, dence in his own behalf during your .

"I can't Just remember. It has been

many years--Ago. J as remember wk

nessfes aaptsfle on behalf-oX certain

pecsesj c&aiBd with shortagea.'.'

TMd you was- the rales of law dur

Ihk yosr smnattgatkmsT

n took the advice of couneL Mr.

Fesknam. I knew that substantial jus

tice was dene."

"Hpw do you know substantial jus

tice was done?"

"Because I did it. Whenever I do

anything. I try to see to it that Jus

tice is done."

Ills Residence in Washington.

"You testified yesterday that in 1SSS

you resided in Washington. Is that

right?"

"Yes, I was living there for the pur

poses of carrying on my duties as as

sistant secretary of the navy. I Was

there about a year."

"In 1887 did you pay any taxes other

than real estate in Oyster Bay?"

"I don't remember."

"Do you recall making an affidavit in

Oyster Bay that you were a resident of

New York?"

-No."

"Are you prepared to swear yon paid

personal taxes either in New York or

Oyster Bay in 17?"

"I remember nothing about it."

"In 1S98 did you appear before the

tax commissioners in reference to your

assessment?"

"I don't remember."

"Affidavit Is Produced."

A photograph of a tax notice sent

to the witness in 1S9S was entered in

evidence.

"Do you remember making an affi

davit in ISM about your New York tax

assessment?"

"Yes. I made it In Washington."

"You made an interlineation in this

affidavit?"

"Yes."

The affidavit was identified bv CoL

Roosevelt and read. In it CoL Roose

velt said that since 1897 he had not

lived in New York and that he was then

a resident of Washington.

Mr. Ivins then read section 2, article

4, of the state constitution, which

provides that a person Is not eligible

for the governorship unless he for five

years continuously has been a resident

of New York state.

Knew othInc of Provision.

CoL Roosevelt said he first saw that

part of the constitution after his re

turn from the Spanish war.

"I now call your attention." Mr.

Ivins went on, "to a paper signed by

secretary of war Alger. It is a com

mission of lieutenant calonel of volun

teers given to you in 185S. In this

CoL Roosevelt is described as a resi

dent of Washington."

At this point a recess was taken.

Produces! Tax Receipts.

When CoL Roosevelt resumed the

stand at the afternoon session, he pro

duced tax receipts of Oyster Bay dated

in 1897. The colonel said he believed

the receipts for real and personal

property. He did not have the receiut

or 1808, but produced a check showing

jnat ne pain more taxes tnat year wan

in ny previous year when he paid both

real and personal taxes.

'.'Now- a matter of fact. Mr. Roose

veit, saia iv-ins, "did you make an

affidavit in 1897 in Oyster Bay that

you were a resident of New York?"

"I do not remember. But I did be

come a resident of New York at that

period."

BROWNS AND WHITES HOLD

WAR MANEUVERS ON BORDER

Houston, Texas. April 22. War

maneuvers between two equal forces

forming the second division of the

United States army in Camp at Texas

City and Galveston, under command of

Mat Gen. J. Franklin BelL opened in

earnest today before daylight.

The Brown army under command of

COL R. U Bollard broke camp before i

sunrise and departed south presumably I

to meet the White army under CoL X. I

F Waltz. It is supposed the mission of I

the White army is to capture Houston,

which Is defended by the Browns. '

SENATOR THE?

WANTS CASE

S

Appears Before Sub Com

mittee and Urges Appro

priation Be Made.

CASEPENDSIN

SUPREME COURT

Involves 15,000 Acres Of

Fertile Farm Land Near

Anthony, N. M.

I X CSTLV. Tex. Aprll.fX An appro-

A- pnation or iJt.tee was urged to

day before the subcommittee of

appropriations by former state senator

W. W. Torney, or El Paso, to defend

the boundary salt of the state of New

Mexico against the state of Texas.

Fertile Land Involved.

Senator Turney is assisting the at

torney general In the defence of this

suit and the money Is needed to pay

for -work already done and yet to be

done. This ease Involves 15.000 acres

fertile land situated on the Rio

Grande near Anthony.

N. Ml. and

18

claimed by New Mexico.

Case Pending

The ease

is pending

the United

mHFaTa?proprlatlB?BS5 the

oamt-r of Dona AcnCwnieh adjofna the

-Texan Hwanda-ry. Mr. Turney said, has

also appropriated $10,000 to prosecute

tne

JURY CALLS WOMAN GUILTY,

BUT CANT DECIDE DEGREE

Pueblo. Colo. April M. The Jury

trying Mrs. Susie Pearcey for the mur

der of Mrs. Rose Johnson, at Eads,

Kiowa county, disagreed after being

out all night and was discharged this

morning by Judge C S. Hssex.

The Pearcey woman was brought to

Pueblo Jail to await a second trial to

take place in the district court here

next month.

The Jury told the court it was agreed

the accused caused the death of Mrs.

Johnson by shooting, but could not de

cide upon the degree of murder.

Mrs. Pearcey and Mrs. Johnson were

neighbors and the shooting followed

a onarrel over the purchase of a

cook stove.

Tte War At a Gl

ance

THE German admiralty an

nounced today that a British

submarine was sank five days

ago in Heligoland bay, which lies

between the mainland and the is

land of Heligoland. It Is said

British submarines have been ob

served and attacked repeatedly in

this bay.

In Petrograd It Is asserted that

attempts of Austrians to outflank

the Russians who Invaded north

ern Hungary, have failed, the Aus

trians being routed with heavy

losses.

In France and Berlin there was

a continuance of minor operations

Wednesday.

Austrian, Germans Leave Switzerland

A Geneva dispatch says Austrian

and German subjects In Switzerland

have been recalled to their respect

ive countries.

It is also reported that the Ital

ian government has requisitioned

all Italian vessels engaged In trade

with the United States.

Deadlock Is Broken

The deadlock between Austria

and Italy has been broken and a

hope of a settlement is expected.

It is not known what change has

taken place to relieve the apparent

hopeless situation. Italy. has been

represented previously as demand

ing in their entirety the Trent and

Intria district, as well as the Dal

matian Islands In the Aegean se

whereas Austria was believed to be

willing to yield only a compara

tively small part of this territory.

Turks Are Entrenched

A strong Turkish army is prepar

ing to offer resistance to the land

forces with which the allies expect

to take the Dardenelles fortifica

tions from the rear. An Athens

dispatch aays the Turks have en

trenched themselves strongly along

the coast of the gulf of Saros. It

Is in this vicinity, according to un

official advices Wednesday, that

20.000 British and French troops

have landed. Turkish encampments

along thecoaat are being bombarded

by warships of the allies.

Battle at Hill o. CO

The determination of the German

offensive and the high coat to the

allies of an advance are shown

again in the fighting near Ypres as

when the British took Nueve Cha

pelle last month. Since the capture

of Hill No. SO by the British the

Germans have made one attack af

ter another in the attempt to re

gain this important position. The

losses on both sides are helieved to

run into the thousands So far as

has been disclosed the British hae ,

succeeded in retaining the hilL '

Calling

WAR EAST

Fr

433. R . t$r

By HJXAIRE BELL0C, Foresee Military Writer in BBrepe.

r-rWE ridge of the Carpathians from beyond the Dfjkla to- the Batonra rail-

I war pass u a stretch of 160 raues.

Russian hands 1 to the Kotetnea

three railway passes (being the, Lopkow (1), ifce Uieek 3 aad-the Beeki- W,

which leads from Mnmkaes to Stryj, are 30, CO and 100 Bules from D-akfe, re

speetireiy. Przemysl stands 50 miles northeast of the ridge of the meuataina (just

behind the foothills and about halfway between the first two pasee-) at C.

The main Russian tine of eetramunications for the armies in Galicia right up

to the front against Cracow runs through Przemysl to Lemberg at L and from

Lemberg in two main lines along the arrowheads toward the Russian depots in

Russian territory. This main line of communication is marked in double. The

four railways aero the passes of Carpathians (1, 2, 3, 4) join the lateral rail

war' along the foothills of the Carpathians, which the Austriane for months

tried to get astraddle of, and only once really dominated, during the few days

when they held Stanislaa at the end of r"ebraary.

Vnv in h; niln flvsttn ih invtmMlt of PrBRnml mad a no and

an interruption represented roughly by

I front, moving across the Carpathians

turn the Hussiana oat of Gftficia. hw

ImMrtl Mid out rit V Wii.rt.tfte

war wiUwnwlh.r the Austrian PreMure, u that Use D, X,

Lcmherg, and snnewd dSffieaHfes ia proportion as one went westward toward

the Dwila. With Pnearyst fallen, these difficulties disappear, and the whole

front becomes of equal strength for the reception of reinforcement and of muni

tioning. At the same time the main railway line through Gaocia, which the

circle of investment A, B, C, round Frzemyst mterrupted, is released for folly

supporting the Russian front toward Cracow, which stands about

in the direction r.

In a word, the fall of Przemysl has given the Rnseians a complete and re

stored set of communications behind their Carpathian front, which had been

hampered and interrupted by the resistance of the fortress. Bodies oi men can

be moved at will, and rapidly, against any point that is threatened by aa enemy

concentration, and such concentration is far less easily effected by the enemy

along the detached lines which separately cross the mountains at 1, 2, 3 and 4

than by the Russians who hold all the connected lines onthe CoJiehin side and

the lateral railway along the northern foothills of the range.

ITALY STOPS STEAMER SAILINGS:

NEEDS mm IS DECLARED

Germany and Austria Summon Subjects Home From

Switzerland, Presumably For "War Service; Eng

lish Stubbornly Hold Hi 11 No. 60, Despite Fierce

Counter Attacks by the Germans.

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 22

(Via Parts, Prance), All

German and Austrian sub

jects In Swltzerlaud. even those

who never did military service,

were recnlled Wednesday by their

respectHe governments, presum

ably for war service.

News reached Lugano this morn

ing that the Italian governirent

had stopped the trans-Atlantic

service with the United States.

Passengers who had purchased

tickets have had their money re

turned to them. The Italian gov

ernment, the report says, requires

all the. steamships.

British Cling to Positions.

LONDON, Eng April M. HUl No.

6. dominating an area to the

southeast of Ypres, continues to

be the storm center of the western

front, with the British clinging tena

ciously to the ground taken by aeeanlt

last Saturday. Counter attack after

counter attack has been so far success

fully repulsed, but the British hold la

still disputed by the cermans and the

end of the lively and ccstly fighting Is

not yet in sight. The British losses

have not been announced, but they are

estimated at well over S000. The Ger

mans are believed to have lost more

than 4000 men.

The .French drive "in the direction

of St. Mihiel Is about the only other

significant move in the west.

The British press conceded that the

taking of hill No. SO is largely a local

matter, but it considers this engage

ment an important step forward and

a great relief to the town of Ypres. so

long under bombardment. The Ger

mans, in possession of this hilL were

net only above this town, but they

threatened the British lines In the

vicinity of St. EloL

British Submarine Sank.

The German admiralty at Berlin to

day gave out a statement saying that

in a certain German bay of the iorth

sea British submarines have been re

peatedly observed recently, and at

tacked by German forces. Such a hos

For 1000 Mine

OF GERMANY

TO

S1AM

BASES

From the DuMa itself (wknehis m

railway pass (4) is iawt 15. The other

the circle A, H, C, and the Austrian

and attempting to r

1ri ..J

-.,. ..-k.j

-atomr the

asitjBgrjr aif "Ine

miles away

tile submarine waa sent to the bottom

April 17. and tne destruction of other

such vessels is considered probable. '

Fierce Artillery Duels.

German army headquarters today

gave out a report which says:

"In the Argonne and In the region

between the Mense and the Moselle

Wednesday saw fierce artillery engage

ments. After a surprise artillery at

tack, French forces Wednesday night

advanced in the western part of the

wood of Le Pretre, but they were re

pulsed with heavy losses."

French Are i-Tient.

The official report on the progress

of hostilities given out by the rench

war office this afternoon contains

nothing new.

French Victory In Kamernn.

The French war department an

nounced that the allied forces had

gained a victory in the operations

against the Germans In Kamerun, a

German colony tn Africa.

The text follows:

"After heavy fighting of the last

three months the German troops in

Kamerun nave been forced to retreat.

The movenv nt of the allied forces in

that direction continues.

"French native troops from central

Africa have attained in the east the

line of the Lomle-Dume Toward the

west, troops commanded by CoL Mayer,

following the line, hae succeeded in

forcing a passage to the Kell river.

"British troops follou ing the Eda

Jaunde road have taken possession of

the Ngwas bridge.

"Two brilliant engagements caused

the allies insignificant losses."

GERMANY WOULD FIGHT WITH

AUSTRIA AGAINST ITALY

Rome. Italy, April 22. The Messag

gero publishes an Interview with Rlc

cardo Carafa. which gives a peasimis

tio forecast of the outcome of the nego

tiations between Italy and Austria.

The newspaper says the senator,

who is a frequent caller at the house

of prince von Buelow, the German am

bassador to Rome, makes the state

ment that he heard from the prince "a

confession which as substantially as

follows

"Unfortunatelv the

Italian-Austrian 1

(CMtiMKU oa raze 2. CaL 3).

SJr. L. igr RUS

f . go

1 1 nnnii

Appeal Is Directed To 'Gov

ernor and Prison Com

mission of Georgia.

PARDONMAYBE

REQUESTED LATER

Belief Governor Would Not

Grant Pafdon Is Thought

To Guide Counsel.

ATLANTA. GA, April 22. Attor

neys tor Leo M. Frank today

filed a petition with Gov. Slaton.

and the Georgia prison commission ask

Ing that the sentence noon Frank for

the murder of Mary Paagan be com

muted to life imprisonment.

This- follows the decision of the

United States supreme court last week

dismissing Frank's appeal from the

verdict of the federal court of Georgia

which refused to release him On writ

of habeas corpus. The sanreme court

1 tM n? stand that, there was no

. s-ouna for ovei

ground for overthrowing the ruling of

. It JnnrSjsgptti that only a pardon

by ta njlstiliWil of Georgia could re

sult in saving the life of the young

factory superintendent who was con

victed of having slaii the girl in his

factory on a holiday

May Alt Pardon Later.

Action of Frank's counsel in asking

that 'the sentence of the convicted man

' b commuted to life imprisonment is

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application for pardon at this time

would not find favor with the governor.

By changing Frank's sentence to life

Imprisonment, he would then be able to

apply, possibly after some yea-s, fjr

either parole or full pardon, it is said.

12 ARE KILLED WHEN WALL

COLLAPSES IN BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham. Ala., April 22. Search

ers continued today their work among

the runs of two retail stores here de

molished late Wednesday by a falling

wall and declared the death list would

reach at least 12. Six bodies have been

recovered and rn other persons be

lieved to hae been in the crowded

buildings when the crash occurred were

reported missing. More than a score

were suffering from more or less seri

ous injuries. The wall, five stories

high, was weakened by a recent fire

and toppled oer during a wind storm.

The two stores, occupied by the At

lantic and Pacific Tea company and tne

Hahn Shoe company, were completely

wrecked.

Rescue squads Quickly were organ

ised and when flames broke out in the

ruins they were checked. Eleven in

jured were removed in the first at

tack on the debris and hundreds of men.

spurred by cries for help, worked to

rescue others or recover their bodies.

LABOR MEN WANT

VOTES FOR WOMEN

Austin, Tex. pril 22. At toda s

sessions of the State Federation of

Labor an amendment ws adopted to

the constitution, of the federation de

claring in favor of woman's suffrage,

there being but few dissenting votes.

Several other amendments were adopt

ed "Believing that employers should

be held liable for injury to health, body

and loss of life and that the employers'

liability law should be enforced: de

claring against the watering of stocks

and gambling and speculating in an?

form in real estate and other neces

sities of life and favoring laws which.

will banish these ewls favoring the

enlargement of the federation's home

for consumptives in Ton! Green county

and recommending that each nmoa

affiliated with the federation make a

special study of tuberculosis with a

view of combatting this disease la

every possible place "

ROCKEFKLLKR INVESTIGATOR

STIDIKS COLORADO PROBLEMS

Trinidad, Colo. April 22. W. L. Mackenzie-King,

special industrial investi

gator for the Rockefeller foundation.

I anted in this city this morning to be-

kiu an investigation into tne coai min

ing industry of the Trinidad district.

Mackenzie-King wrll inspect the work

that Is being done on county roads anu

highways through the fund made avail

able bv the Rockefeller foundation. He

expects to remain in this district for

the next two weeks.

JURY IS BEING CHOSEN

TO TRY LABOR LEADER

Trinidad. Colo, April 22. Work of

selecting a jury in the trial of John R,

Lawaon, international board member of

the United Mine Workers of America

for district No. 15, charged with the

' murder of John Mmmo, a mine guard.

. on October 25. 1913, made rapid progress

todav and within one hour after court

opened this morning six jurymen had

I been accepted by both sides.

Worke