.VILLA IS AS
FRIENDLY AS EVER
f "i. ——
| * Declares There Is Nothing
; To Arbitrate With Carranza
A™ —Different Report From
Latter.
%
. United Press Dispatch.
Torreon, Mexico, June 2-. —
ilglTher® is nothing between Car
fwranza and myself to arbitrate.
| I will be glad to see General
I Hiigh Scott any time- Carranza
| and myself are as friendly as
ever.” Thils was the state
. ment of General Villa as wired
j from, Cahilas regarding the re
M ports that General Scott, as
sistant chief of the staff of the
ILited States would be asked to
compromise their differences,
who adds: “Stories of trouble
are not true.”
The Zacatecas campaign was
formally opened this morning,
w^en Generals Villa and Angeles
I with their staffs reached Canil
■as. Because of the condition of
the roads south, it will be ten
days before a general assault
can be made.
According to spies the Federal
garrison is heavily reinforced,
and General Barrow now has 10,
OOft men under his command.
Villa will have 30,000 when the
final assault begins.
^ DROP BONE OF DISPUTE.
United Press Dispatch.
|jf Niagara Falls, June 21. — In
an effort to patch the mediation
program, the mediators met the
^American delegates this morn
ing and it. is believed that later
in the day a full conference may
held.
Modified proposals were sub
mitted by the mediators, the
selection of a provisional presi
^9ei& being temporarily put a
side. The prospects consequent
ly looked more hopeful than last
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JTEDERALS HOLD CITIES.
*%nited Press Dispatch.
Washington, D. C., June 21.—
Rear Admiral Howard has re
jk ported Mazatlan and Guaymas
" 30311 held by the Huertistas, the
rebels having suspended opera
tions, due to the scarcity of war
(Materials.
Manzanillo is isolated and be
sieged but the Federals contin
ue to hold out while most of the
sr^ler towns on the coast have
been abandoned to the rebels.
Lttle Ardelle Mayberry is re
real sick from congestion
brain, but family and
are hopeful of a change
for the better.
gloving Pictures
i the Opera House
THE DRUDGE
Jailer spiteful marriage is a dis
astrous mistake. The sacrifice
of her own happiness for her
child. She endures all for his
Featuring pretty DOrothy
Rankin Drew and little
Connelly.
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|i eiATi¥ BILL’S HONEYMOON
Comedy— (MELLIES)
I Y WILLIE AND THE
ft FISHERMAN ,
I A Good Comedy—(MELLIES)
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ft-* ADMISSION, 5c and 10c
New Type of Paper Money.
Washington, D- C., June 21.—
| Millions of dollars in paper
money of a new type will be put
jinto circulation upon the estab
lishment of the federal reserve
'banks within the next few
i weeks. Under the federal re
serve bank act, each of the 12
‘federal reserve banks will re
ceive advances from the federal
Reserve Board in the form of
federal reserve notes, a dis
tinctly new sort of paper money.
Commercial paper will be the
collateral advanced by the var
ious banks as security for these
notes. Comptroller of the Cur
rency Williams has samples of
this new paper money now un
der consideration.
The $5 note submitted by
Mr. Ralph is typical of agricul
ture. The portrait on the face
of the note is Lincoln’s, and the
back shows a harvesting ma
chine and allegorical figures rep
j resenting farming. The $10
note bears a portrait of Cleve
land and a manufacturing scene.
The $20 bears Jackson’s portrait
and is typical of commerce, hav
ing a steamship, train and other
mediums of trade on the back
Grant’s picture is shown on the
$50 note and Franklin’s por
trait adorns the $100 bill. Both
of these larger bills are typical
of the art’s. All the bills will be
i printed in green ink on the back
Iwhile black ink will be used on
ithe faces. -*
i SUPREME COURT
AFFIRMS CASE
Defendants In Convict Farm
Case Must Serve Sentence
Imposed By Lower
Court.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 22.—The
supreme court this morning af
firmed the judgment of the!
Jackson circuit court in the case ;
of Lee Quinn, John H. Keel and !
Jewel Best, convicted of aggra
vated assault and each sentenc- i
ed to one day in jail and to pay a
fine of $150.
Drowned At Des Arc.
While wading on the sandbar
near Des Arc last Friday night,
Mrs. L. C. Blackburn suddenly
stepped off into deep water and
j was drowned- Mr. Blackburn
I also had a narrow escape in at
tempting to rescue his wife. Par
ties at Des Arc. attracted by his
icries for heh). got Mr. Black
(bum out of the river, but his
wife had sunk. On account of
darkness, it was necessary to re
turn to town for lights, and it
was some time before the body
was recovered.
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We have 120 acres or 500,000
feet of virgin hardwood timber
we want to contract to cut and
deliver to our mill, a two mile
Jiaul. Timber located on county
road and no sand. For further
information, call 1608-5R or
write MuirHead Lumber Com
pany, Weldon, Ark. 70d6wtf
Stand privileges for the big
jicnic of July 23 will be let to
the highest bidder at public out
cry at 2 p. m. July 4 at Martin’s
| Hall. 13w2
Notice
j At the "Busy Corner” the
City Meat Market will sell 50
pound cans of lard for $5.00.
Come , quick, before it is all
gone. W. B, Chastain. 64d6.
BACK UNDER
AMERICAN FLAG
Mrs. Reyes, Widow of Mexican,
Tells Huerta’s Son A Piece
of Her Mind.
United Press Service.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 18.—
Mrs. Mary Reyes is back again
under the American flag, after
having given a certain Mexican
named Huerta, the sassing of
his life. With her she brings
four pretty daughters, about
whom the young lieutenants of
the army and navy are flocking
like birds. But to go headlong
mto the story:
Mrs. Reyes went to Mexico 25
years ago and is the American
widow of a Mexican who was
once wealthy. Her four daugh
ters have delightful little lisps,
calculated to drive a white-suit
ed young navy man half mad.
The girls learned stenography,
after the family fortunes waned
and in good American style they
jumped in after their father’s
death, and made for themselves
and their mother a home that
was one of the brightest and
most interesting in Mexico City.
Wrhen President Madero was as
sassinated Mrs. Reyes agreed
with President Wilson, that
to be recognized. It was an easy
matter for President Wilson not
to recognize Hm&rta, but for
Mrs. Reyes, it was an affair of
great difficulty, owing to the
fact that the Reyes and Huerta
families were in the same social
set in the capital- Mrs. Reyes
began to speak her mind wher
ever she went. The Carranza
istas, who were working secret
ly in the city, at the risk of
their lives, sought her out and
told her to be careful.
“I’m going to talk and think j
as I please’’, said Mrs. Reyes,
in American style. The Carran
zasists in the capital began to
depend more and more on the
American woman and her
daughters for aid in accomplish
ing secret and difficult tasks
For instance, it’s Mrs- Reyes’
own secret how she did it, but it!
is known that 14 deputies who
had been marked for death by j
Huerta were spirited away from
her home, at various times, to
safety. And every time a dep
uty went to safety the wardrobe
of one of the girls was minus a
gown or a street dress. If you
could just get the Keyes tamily
to tell the details of some of
these things you’d have a play
or a book, that would thrill the
world. Maybe they’ll tell, some
time, they say but— the Car
ranzaistas aren’t in power yet.
The crisis for the Reyes family
came on February 22, not be
cause that is Washington’s
birthday, but because it is the
anniversary of the assassination
of Francisco Madero, who was
almost an idol with the Reyes
girls and their mother. On that
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Reyes
taking her liberty and it might
have been her life, into her
hands, went to the French cem
etery. where Madero lies buried
and, carrying a great boquet of
roses, she stalked her way
through the lines of Mexican
soldiers and rurales to the
Madero family tomb, and placed
the roses there. Carmen, her
daughter, who was standing be
side her, suddenly felt the
touch of a hand on her shoulder.
The girl turned and found her
self facing George Huerta, the
son of Madero’s assassin.
‘What are you doing here ”
he asked, insolently. He’s a
loafing young blood of the capi
tal and perhaps one of his fath
er’s Cognacs made him particu
larly overbearing in his de
meanor- “Are you a relative of
the Maderos?” he continued.
“What are you crying around
here for?” I was in the ceme
tery myself, that Sunday, and I
know what a sinister crowd of
soldiers and secret service men
it was that surrounded Madero’s
grave. It would have taken a
brave man to stand at that grave
side and speak his mind, and he
probably would have paid for
his words with his life. “We’re
here to mourn for the good man
your father murdered.”
The words came like so many
shots; spoken right into the face
of the assassin’s son, delivered
in the presence of grim sol
diers; heard by scores of by
standers who were secretly
mourning; thrilling me, as they
did every other bystander until
it hurt us not to be able to
cheer. Mrs. Reyes told George
Huerta some more things, too;
she told him that he was as bad
a man as his drunken father.
She prophesied; she said the day
would come when his father
who had seized the presidency
by murder, would be an outcast.
She said she hoped the way was
not far away, either, and then
she wound up by saying, “Now,
go Home and tell your father
what an American woman, who
isn't afraid to talk, thinks about
him.” She and her daughter
turned away, stalked through
the lines of soldiers and left the
wondering and astonished son
of the dictator to think things
out.
I’m telling this story of the
Reyes family now because it is
the first chance I have had to
tell it, without endangering the
lives or at least the liberty of
that brave woman and her beau
tiful daughters.
After the incident secret serv
ice men haunted them and their
home; even their servants, they
discovered, were Huerta spies
And the other day, they had to
flee. There was one “white
man” in the Huerta govern
ment, who called one of the girls
to his office and said:
“Your mother and you girls
had better get out of the capital
as soon as you can, Huerta is
planning to arrest her.”
And so the plucky little Amer
ican woman, with her four
daughters, left their home one
evening, for the railroad station
without being observed and, 24
hours later, were under the A
merican flag in Vera Cruz.
Copper Mines May Close.
United Press Dispatch.
Butte, Mont., June 22.— The
mining companies of the copper
district may close until the min
ers settle their differences. The
contracts that allow only the
employment of Western Federa
Uonists would seem to shut out
the union organized Sunday by
the seceding miners. It is de
nied that the new union is affil
iated with the Industdial Work
ers of the World- Secretary
Moyer at a meeting tomorrow
will tender the resignation of
the local officials of the Federa
tion and submit a plan for a
compromise.
WOULD TREAT
LABOR THE SAME
As Big Business If Same Kind
Of Lobby Methods Were
Employed.
_ .
!
United Press Dispatch.
Washington, D- C., June 22.—
Should labor use big business
lobby methods, the president
would be ats critical of it as he is
now against the element that
i attempts to stop anti-trust leg
islation is the reply made to
President Bush of the Ohio
manufacturers who believes the
president failed to act against
labor lobby at the same time
taking strong measures against
big business.
The dissolution of the New
Haven combine through filing
I suit is the prospect which the
| President admitted confronts the
administration unless the Massa
chusetts legislature passes the
, “New Haven Enabling Act”, per
mitting dissolution by agree
ment between the road and the
Department of Justice- Thus far
Massachusetts has given him no
word.
The United States stands pat
on the California alien land con
troversy with Japan, which
was reopened at Japan’s in
stance. The President sees no
reason to change his idea that
California’s law violates none o*
Japan’s treaty rights.
Just received, by express, a
shipment of Palm Beach Trous
ers. Come quick to get your
size. Berger’s. dl
Elks Vs. The Big Store.
The fans who've been whoop
! ing things up for the Browns
jand Cardinals, are asked to give
a wee bit of their enthusiasm
and ginger to our next local
game to take place Wednesday
afternoon at the park diamond,
between Wolff-Goldman Mer
cantile Company’s embryo and
hidden talent and that unearth
ed within the antlered tribe of ,
Elks in recent games, notably
with Russellville at the dhpital
city.
Norman Wolff and Dibrell
Vaughn are the McGraw and ^
Mack of these town lot aggre
gations and their managerial
talent is to be made manifest in
the placing of their men and
generalship of the game
LINE-UP.
Wolff-Goldman— Parks, c.;. §
Dickens, p.; Childers, lb.; Wor- /
rel, 2b.; Hinkle, ss.; Umsted, 3b.; <
Woodruff, rf.; Buice, cf.; Weis
iberg, If.
Elks—Stallings, c.; Hirsch, » ’
p.; Vaughn, lb.; Bennett, 2b.;
jLockard, ss.; Dunaway, 3b.;
Mack, rf.; Bevens, cf.; Black
wood, If.
A
Fishing Party Up White River.
A party of young men from
Little Rock were through here
Sunday, going up the White riv
er road on the river for a week’s
party was composed of Jeff Da
camp and fishing trip. The
I vis, Jr., J. C. Conway, Thomp
son Dugan, H. A. Doyle, W. O.
Lyons, J. Brooks, Schull Den
ison Cherry, Sibley War, C. W.
Conway and Collins England.
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