Show WITH THE AMERICANS MEXICO CITY IN INITIATIVE MEASURE DOWN BY VOTED LEGISLATURE Refuses to Go on Record as Favoring the Initiative by Opposing Amendment Constitutional Houss OFFICIALS TAKING SAY ESCORT MEN TO PENITENTIARY AT MIDNIGHT WAS ASSAILED DAILY EXPRESS THIS DECLARES COUNTRY HAS BEEN MOCKED by MURDER OF MADERO i The Charge le Also Made That Prisoners Attempted to Escape While Friends of Deposed President Say He Was Foully I Murdered Mexico City — Francisco I Madero Jose Pino Suarez are dead killed in a midnight ride under Sunday guard from the national palace to the and x penitentiary The circumstances surrounding the deaths of the deposed president and of the republic are unknown except as given in official ac- counts which do not conform in all cases The only witnesses were actually concerned in the killin The provisional president General Victoriano Huerta says the killing of the two men was incidental to a fight between their guard and a party atThe mintempting to liberate them ister of foreign relations Francisco de la Barra adds that the prisoners Neither makes attempted to esoape a definite statement as to which side fired the fatal shots It is not impossible that neither knows It would seem that Felix Diaz’s threat that “we will us such energetic means as to put an end to rebellions forever” has been followed by swift execution Francisco Madero riding in an auto-mobile with guards both before and behind him died from a single shot A bullet entered the back of his head and emerged at the forenead Suarez fell pierced by many bullets most of which entered from the front The only witnesses were those actually engaged in the shooting An international" phase of’the tragedy which is causing great concern is that these two officials were slaughtered after diplomatic representations had been made by the from the United States in their behalf and assurances from Huerta that their safety would be guaranteed Embassador Wilson has begun an Other investigations Investigation have also begun and promises are made that the guilty ones will be punished Not unnaturally a great part of the public regards the official versions with doufit having in mind the use for centuries of the notorious “lef fuga” the unwritten law which Is invoked when the death of a prisoner Is After its application there is written on the records “Prisoner shot trying to escape” Senora Madero widow of the' received the first definite information of his death from the Spanish minister Senor Cologan y Cologan She already had heard reports that something unusual and serious had but friends had endeavored happened up to that time to prevent her from learning the whole truth " Soon afterward accompanied by her brother Jose Perez and Mercedes Madero a sister of Francisco Senora Madero drove to the penitentiary but was refused to see the permission Senora Suarez body of her husband also was denied admittance to the mortuary where physicians in accordance with the law were performing an autopsy In contrast to the widow whose grief was of a pitiably silent character Madero Mercedes a beautiful young woman educated in Paris who has been a brilliant leader of society since the revolution of 1910 was and tigerish in her emotions By the side of the two women whose husbands bad been killed the girl hurled accusations at the officers who barred the entrance “Cowards assassins!” she high called them her voice pitched The officers stared Impassively “You! The men who fired on a defenseless man! You and your superior officers are traitors!" No' effort was made to remove the women nor did the officers attempt Senora Madero conto silence them tinued to weep and the girl did not cease her hysterical tirade until the arrival of the Spanish mlnistei '' All Quiet at Laredo of Nuevo Laredo and Madero killing of Francisco of Mexico Pino Suarez in the City created considerable excitement here Little comment was made in revoluis quiet Everything tionary circles the ” if t 4 mptfii Our illustration shows above the American Mexico and below a scene in the American Lane Wilson wife of the ambassador' vert One Hundred Thousand Men bould Be Sent to Mexico and Hopes :!?or immediate Action on Part of American Government London — The Daily Express In an itorial referring to what It terms esident Taft’s hesitation to act In I xlco says revolution and anarchy ( not stand on presidential etiquette 4 that the security of life and prop- ty in Mexiqo will bot wait while I esident Wilson installs himself The I "press describes an expeditionary f ce of 9000 American troops as “a r'J for an earthquake” and declares 'gifi a venture will need 100000 men Tl newspaper urges the British gov-- t Iment to press for immediate action government Cj the Washington The Daily Chronicle declares that Madero was done to death by Presi-t- f nt Huerta and asks what the United I tes will do It thinks that any or die course such as financial propping up of one or the c 3r among the Mexican leaders by U United States and the creation of a tort of Mexican Cuba could only of luck bs achieved 'by a combination while an a t adroit diplomacy r enormous army will be needed to Mexico t ftary pin in embassy quarter and the City of Mrs Henry i FOUR THOUSAND SOLDIERS WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE C TAFT ADHERES l Not See Way i on Account of TO POLICY Clear to Interven-t- r Idaho’s legislature on Monday refused to go on record as favoring the A constitutional prohibition amendinitiative by voting down a constituIn the tional amendment to be submitted to ment made Its appearance the people at large in this state to house on February 21 calling for the deermine whether they could propose submission to the people of the state them- the question of whether or not Idaho constitutional amendments shall permanently become prohibition selves The fight over the amendment territory The amendment was Introcarried Monday’s session up to 7 duced of by Representative Bradley o'clock The resolution was Introduced by Canyon county Representative Healy of Owyhee An $18000 bond Issue bill for Imcounty and on final passage was de- provements at the Industrial school at feated through failure to secure a was Introduced lu St Anthony the vote of the house A motion to also introsenate Edgtngton reconsider was carried late in the day duced a Senator bill making treasurers and for two hours the house engaged tax collectors In a bitter controversy over the resolution A call of the house was Issued The Lawson bill providing for poor and missing members were taken from mothers’ was passed by alpensions their aupper tables and ordered to re- most a unanimous vote It is similar an the filibuster After extended to the Missouri law and the recent port second was vote a resolution put to a mothers’ pension bills passed by th time and defeated Utah and Oregon legislatures The senate on February 24 passed The senate refused to pass the Ed the direct primaries bill amending the glngton bill calling for the abolishpresent law requiring primaries to be ment of capital punishment In this held in this state at a later' date and state calling for party declaration The bill In will meet with bitter opposition A measure creating a bond Issue of of a macadthe house $19000 for the completion amized road in Bannock county near The upper house passed on Feb- the Fort Hall reservation was passed bill mak- by the house ruary 24 an at races a mispoolselling ing Work of the assessors In many of demeanor the counties of the state Is paralyzed The Ryan public utilities bill was awaiting the action of the legislature bills are before the lower branch Two of the whole gent to the committee of the legislature intended to make for amendment radical changes In the method of A bill changing the name of the assessing taxes Idaho academy at Pocatello to the Educators of the state are up In Idaho Technical college was passed arms over the manner in which It is by the senate on the 24th to create a state board of proposed education under the constitutional Governor Haloes has vetoed the amendment adopted at the last elecShattuck county treasury bond bill and tion Only one bill has so far been the Oversmith bill creating the Tenth Introduced creating the board j 'J judicial district Killing of Madero ashlngton — The killing of Fran-c- ’ v I Madero and Pino Suarez of and Provisional - President Case ftspe 'cit fieral Huerta had assured American The senate and the house of repreWilson Should Decide to Send Democratic Incumbent After Breakover Saturday Wilson Embassador of the safety of sentatives adjourned ing of Prolonged Deadlock Military Expedition to Mexico his prisoners from just such attacks until Monday in honor of Washington’s anniversary in admincreated a painful Impression W Va — Nathan B Goff istration circles here Charleston The Haight liquor bill which was Washington— About 4000 soldiers Still Taft declared the signed by Governor Haines and which judge of the United States circuit event inas President were Saturday ordered to Galveeton itself was not sufficient to caused the governor to send a special of court was a Republican appeals Tex and vicinity the nearest seaport from the policy message to the legislature protesting demand any departure United States senator Friday adapted to the embarkation of troops elected of which so against several of the provisions of strict afternoon by a Joint session of the for Mexico bill is it is said an example of West Virginia legislature to succeed far has governed his administration the They are not under orders to prosecuring laws from other states OklaW Democratic Clarence Watson of is homa the greater part ceed to Mexico and it Is the expectathe father Offered Bribe ffor Thaw’s Release The election of Judge Goff The supreme of the Haight bill tion and the hope of the administratAlbany N Y — Dr John W Russell court of Oklahoma found the statute ion that it will not be necessary to' broke a long deadlock and was made superintendent of the Matteawan to be unconstitutional only after two appeals of Governor-elec- t state issue orders for such a movement Insane for the criminal hospital Hatfield for a harmony during in The situation that country howtestified Friday before Governor Sul Senator Hiram E Sweet of Idaho caucus and the fact that zer’s ever is regarded as sufficient to war- Republican committee of inquiry that be had county is at a Boise hospital sufferwas the last day of the present rant the concentration been offered $20000 If he would r of a force this ing from a severe attack of erysipelas session of legislative lease Harry K Thaw slayer of Stan- in his face It Is announced that Senstrong enough to take 'possession Judge Goff announced he would re- ford White a seaport and open the way for an The offer he said was ator Sweet may not be able to be In sign from the federal bench imme- made during the latter bis place In the senate again during invasion of the country part of 1912 by His term is for six years beIt will be for President Woodrow diately a lawyer- - whose name he could no! the session March 4 next remember In an “uptown Wilson to determine whether such an' ginning hotel” In Power to summon witnesses and InJudge Goff was born February 9 New York City and was jefused expedition shall be dispatched al- 1842 at Clarksburg cur an expense up to $3000 was conW Va at that though of course It is assumed that time a ferral by the senate on the special part of Virginia Labor Leaders to be Released he first will seek the guidance of concommittee — Shepherd and Dunning San Francisco — Bonds for the re- Defenbach — appointed to inquire Into gress trusted Through agents WAR TURNS TO MASSACRE lease from the federal prison at the case of Carl Machbld alleged to though not directly the president-elecin held be for the the illegally asylum Kansas of Olaf A is understood to have expressed him- Christians Killed by Turkish Troops Leavenworth Insane at Rlackfoot Tveltmoe and Eugene A Clancy Caliself in a position to acquire specific in Achatalja District fornia labor leaders who were conas to all the details before knowledge Nineteen bills were passed by the i Sofia Bulgaria — One hundred Chris- victed In the recent Indianapolis dyhe comes to Washington on March 3 house and seven by the senate on the tians were massacred by Turkish namite conspiracy trial have been 21st while five bills were killed In troops Friday In the village of Recommends Removal of Keefe forwarded to Indianapolis through the the house Four new measures made to receivaccording dispatches state Building Trades council their appearance in the house and Washington— Secretary Nagel has ed by the Bulgarian government Simseven in the senate made a report on the official conduct ilar massacres and other atrocities New Revolt In Venezuela of Daniel J Keefe of Detroit com- are reported! the Tchatalja — disthroughout Washington Radical advocates of a public utilimissioner general of immigration and district a which of has law in the senate will large ties commission in turbances portion the have broken out has recommended that Keefe’s resigbeen left it is asserted hold out for the passby the partial state of Trujillo Venezuela accordnation be demanded The report al- withdrawalunprotected of the Bulgarian age of the Ryan bill They assert that to rumors reaching the American troops ing of serthe head the leges to amend this bill at this advanced immigration legation at Caracas vice has accepted free transportation Madero’ session would Uncle Under Arrest stage of the legislative for himself and family from railroads mean its death El Paso Texas — Passengers on the and steamships ARNOLD SHANKLIN train that arrived Saturday night deThe Lawson bill for pensioning from Chihuahua City report that Gov WALTER L HENSLEY serted and widowed mothers and Abraham Gonzoles and 'Alberto Mamothers whose husbands are inmates dero were arrested while trying to esof 'the state penitentiary passed the house by a vote of 36 to S cape from the city with a small group of armed men Madero is an uncle of the deposed president and a Representative Farmin of Bonner on the 21st moved for a reconsideration wealthy ranch owner It was said of the vote by which the house had they are held In the state penitenkilled the senate bill for a state purtiary by order of General Rabago the chasing agent After listening to an diivsion commander explanation of the bill by Senator Hedrick its author the house reconRoumanla Accepts Mediation sidered its action and passed the bill Bucharest Roumanla — The cabinet by a vote of 32 to 24 on Sunday accepted the offer of the powers to mediate In the frontier dis“The plague of grasshoppers and the plague of flies that were visited pute between Roumania and Bulgaria on Egypt were as nothing compared The only member of the cabinet to with the plague of forest rangers that was the dissent minister of agriculis infesting Idaho” said Warren of ture who left the council chamber in his speech on his joint Kootenai with the declaration that he had dememorial urging congress to investicided to resign owing to the lack of gate the forest service afld turn over energy displayed in the government’s to the state the lands now embraced within forest reserves policy YILL BE SENT TO TEXAS nisUH here Taft Receives News of Murder Congressman Hensiey who repreNew York— News of the lcilTng of sents the Thirteenth district of MisMadero and Suarez was given Presi- souri Is chairman of the boarded the train for tee which demands sn Investigation dent Taft as he a1 ter attending service at if the affairs of the reclamation servWashington ice churth St Bartholomew GROSES JUDGE FOR SEQTOil Wilson Remains Silent Princeton N J — President-elec-t Wilson was shocked to hear the news Madero and Suarez had been that killed In Mexico City “It's too bad” he sighed when he first learned of Associated the shooting through Press dispatches He refrained from comment saying he would maintain his policy of silence until he had taken office Arnold Shanklin American consul general in Mexico City was forced to abandon his consulate and take refuge In the American embassy The medical marriage bill one ol most stringent measures introduced during the present session ol the Idaho legislature passed the house of representatives on February 21 by a vote of 29 to 26 and was sent to the senate If passed by the upper house and signed by the governor it will be necessary In the future for all couples wishing to become man and wife in this state to first pass a physical examination and hold a certificate of good health before the knot can be tied the as a constituprohibition tional provision is proposed in a Joint esolution introduced in the house on If the resolution Is enacted the 21st the people will vote on the question whether section 24 of article 3 of the institution shall be amended to prohibit tAe manufacture and sale f intoxicating liquors of any kind In he state except for scientific mechanical or sacramental purposes Complete reorganization cTJTw game department to take it out or politics by the creation of a fish and is contemplated by igame commission the joint fish and game committee It is proposed to codify the game laws already existing i InThe appropriations committee tends to hold the current expense of the state for 1913 and 1914 to and the ad valorem tax levy bill that was introduced in the house by the committee provides for raising that amount The most stringent public utilities bill that has ever been passed by the house of representatives of an Idaho legislature went through that body on of February 20th under suspension the rules when the Ryan bill was It Is adopted by a vote of 43 to 14 claimed there are enough votes in the senate to pas the measure and send It to the governor for his signature The state traveling library had a fight for Its existence before the appropriations committee of the house of representatives The library only asked for $8000 but many of the members of the committee thought that it was not doing any good in the state and they were in favor of leaving it off the appropriation list entirely This was done at first but after a fight had been put up the appropriations committee tacked the $8000 back onto the bill and it will probably go through And again probably it won’t The most important action taken the house during the week ending February 15 was the adoption of the committee reports on the Ryan public utilities bill and the Koelsch marriage bill The senate did little except to consider the blue sky law by The state sanitation department is giving the legislature more work than any department of the state government bills having been introduced upon almost every subject which The Iowa abatement bill strikes at white slavery as well as restricted districts passed the house on the 20th and was sent to the senate At the same time the house passed a bill calling for a 'bond issue of $40000 for the purchase of the bridge across the Snake river at Lewiston All bond Issue bills for maintenance or Improvements of state institutions have been sent to the appropriations for consideration committee Governor Haines has signed the bill prohibiting shipinto “dry” territory In Haight liquor ment of liquor this state bill division The third county striking a section ot the present territory from Fremont county or the count division bill was Yellowstone killed in the committee of the whole throuph the efforts of Representative who led the attack on It Bowerman that the The committee recommended and the bill he postponed indefinitely house adopted the report |