The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1920, Page 1

a i sage an THE WEATHER Generally Fair ten tte tsetse THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION on te tnemses BISMARC THIRTY-NINTH YEAR = K, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, “MAY 5, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS LABOR BUMPS N, P, LEAGUE IN ST, PAUL VOTE: Conservative Wing Lines Up} Behind Mayor. L. C. Hodgson in City Contest MAHONEY TOWNLEY MAN Major Effort to Test Out Strength of Reported Alli- ance With Unions \ St. Paul, May 5.—Virtually complete returns this morning from yesterday's election assured the election of Mayor L. C. Hodgson and the following councilmen: James M. Clancy, L. R. S. Ferguson, John H. McDonald, Frank L, Matson, and H. C. Wenzel with the} sixth place still undecided between A. FE. Smith and William J. Peter, Smith} leading by 283 votes with one precinct missing in a ward in which Peter} showed considerable strength. Hodgson received 22,031 votes and William Mahoney 19,191; one of the heaviest votes in the city’s history according to complete but unofficial returns. Mahony, Clancy, Wenzel, Smith and| Peter, were labor candidates, Fergu- son, McDonald and Matson Tvice™ candidates, the three being war erans. Four labor candidates were entered for the sixth councilman post. « LEAGUE REPUDIATED The assured election of Mayor L. C. Hodgson is a direct defeat of the Non-; partisan league and the radical ele-, ment in organized labor, as well as} the socialist party. Mahoney was en-; dorsed by the league, the socialists and the radical union men. The campaign leading up to yester- day’s election was very bitterly con tested, the Nonpartisan league, aided by the leaders of the socialist party in| St. Paul, exerting every effort to elect their candidate for mayor, who was snowed under by 3.000 votes. The| league made its strongest showing in the wards which normallly return big | votes in favor of candidates on the! socialist ticket. BLAKEMORE IS 10 BUILD 20 HOMES IN FARGO SOON Manager of State Association! Will Do Twenty Times More at Fargo Than Here Fargo, May 5.—Within thirty days! the ‘North Dakota Home Builders’ association will start work on the; first of twenty homes which the state, organization expects to build at Fargo! this year. This is the announcement here yes- terday by Robert E. Blakemore, man-} ager of: the association, whose record! in home building at Bismarck, where | the association has its headquarters. | is one lone house. Blakemore made! the announcement of the Fargo plans} of the association following a meet- ing here Monday. From here, Mr. Blakemore goes to. Detroit and Flint, Mich. where he, intends studying home building plans. | While in Detroit, Mr. Blakemore an-! nounced he would, buy materials for the two score homes he expects will be built in Fargo this summer with state aid. MANY BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS ARE BEING ORGANIZE The Apple Creek community has organized two clubs, one of which 1s to be a girls’ sewing club called the Apple Creek Sewing club, and the other a boys’ pig club, called the Ap- ple Creek Pig club. The following of-| ficers were elected by the Apple Creek Sewing club: President, Coelestine Glaser; vice president, Minnie Nelson; secretary, Olga ‘Nelson; treasurer, Anna Meie! The officers of the Apple Creek Pig club are president, Glen Oder; vice president, Harold Davenport; S tary, Joseph Glaser; treasurer, mit Knudson. The Apple Creek Sewing club is the second sewing club to be organized in the county and the pig club is the first of its kind organized in Burleigh. | Both clubs will start active work im- mediately. An effort will be made to obtain leaders for these clubs. Miss Elsie Stark, home demonstra- tion agent, and George W. Gustafson, agricultural agent, will meet with the; people in the Apple Creek community Thursday evening and complete plans for both clubs. MENOKEN NEXT Miss Elsie Stark, home demonstra- tion agent, will meet Thursday after- noon with the girls of Menoken to} help organize a girls’ sewing club. Several other communities are taking up the matter of organizing similar clubs and Miss Stark is getting them started as rapidly as time permits. THREATEN ANTI- NEAR-BEER CRUSADE ({MEMPHIS—Near-beer that | authentic DIVORCE HOODOO PURSUES | FRENCH FAMILY HEIRESSE ‘New York, May 5.qWhether pur- | together but last year Julia obtained sued by a hoodoo, cursed by a fretful|a divorce on the ground of non-sup- family strain, or merely of unhappy coincidence, the French family is running up a weird record -|for calamitous marriages. A social position less lofty and sta- ble than this family holds would have been swept away long since by the succession of ruined romances. ‘Now it is Pauline LeRoy French Wag: port for divorce from Samuel J. Wag- staff. Pauline Freneh, in 1993, read a paper entitled. “Man, ico’s. She married Wagstaff, how- ever, in 1908. Julia French, sister of Pauline, elop- ed with Jack Geraghty, a handsome chauffeur. They tried the simple life | werner po ese| HEBRONITES TAKE ‘SPIN IN AIR WITH LIEUT. CAMERON Hebron, May Several Hebronites took the opportunity of having an aeroplane ride when Lieut. C, J. Cam- eron stopped here with his machine. Those*who went up were: Dr. Shier- baum, B, L. Carlton, Theodore Ewald, Arthur Lorenz, ‘Hilda’ Loreriz; ‘Sam Shierbaum, Fred Dettloff, Marguerite and Theodore Bolke. While up in the sky Theodore Bolke advertised the Chandler car by bom)- ing Hebron with Chandler literature. Being quite dark it did not cause as much excitement as it would have had it been in the day time. OFFICIALS HAVE NEW CLUE; BOYS MAY BE KILLERS Authorities Believed to be Near- ing Solution of Wolf Mur- der Mystery. Reports received here from Turtle Lake today are to the effect that the McLean county authorities are pre- paring to. make arrests in connection with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Ja- cob Wolf. their five young daughters and the 13. Hofer, who we Woif farm the latter part of April af- ter which their mutilated bodies re- mained undiscovered for two days, The reports from the scene of the crimes. which appear to be from an source, indicate that the au- thorities now believe the murders were committed by two young men living in the vicinity of the Wolf farm. The movements of these two suspects, it is claimed. have been, carefully , checked up by the authorities so that the officials are posted on where the two young men were the day the mur- the victims | aft who has filed suit at 'New- | derbilt mar | simons, U. S. the Obsolete,” | line and Julia, married Miss before the clectic Club in Delmon- ,M. Harrington, port. It’s Family Habit The mother of the two French girls, | Mrs, Amos Tuck #rench, cvorced their father in 1915, Elsie French, their aunt, married Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and in 1908 divorced him. . He was drowned in the Lusitania ng. Later Mrs, Van- ed Lieutenant Paul Fitz ‘.. 1 years her junior. rench, uncle of 'Pau- Lillian a telephone operator, Edward Tuck F vanished without explanation. She | later rejoined her husband. who died in Chicago during their honeymoon. OFFICERS NAMED, BY STATE LABOR’ UNION MEETING, North Dakota Fedération 6f La- bor Favors Nonpartisan League Program Grand Forks, N. D., May 3.—Lee C. Brundage, president of the Minot Trades and Labor ber of the machinist union, was un- animously elected president of the North Dakota Federation of Labor this morning at the ninth annual convention which is being held in the hall of The Grand Forks American. Jamestown was selected as the con- vention city for next year. S. S. McDonald w elected as dele- gate to the convention of the Ame can Federation of Labor which; will be held in Montreal on June 7, and Mr. Aune was elected fraternal dele- gate to the Minnesota convention of} the Federation. Holmes and Aune Chosen H. M, Aune of Grand Forks, sec retary of the Federation, was unani- | mously reelected by a rising vote. S, S. McDonald, the retiring president of the Federation declined to be can- didate on account of the press of other duties. For vice-president of the first di trict J. D. Holmes of the plumber union of Grand Forks was unanimous- ly elected. The vice-presidency of the second district was given to T. J. Garrity of Fargo. The third district chose Charles J. Harvey. For the fourth district, Ross Morrow of the machinists’ union of Jamestown; for the fifth district, Lloyd Moothart, secretary of the cen- tral labor union of Williston; for the sixth district, Frank Milhollan of Bis- marck, and for the seventh, or ,the miners’ district; Mr. J. Jacobson of Wilton. Declaration of Principles The declaration of principles which; mbly and mem- |! Ker.) | | Deer} drinkers say isn't near at all, is fers foo near for prohibition’s sake, de- clares Baldwin Gause. newly appoint-| lta ed Anti-Saloon League field manager capital are being arranged. here. Baldwin may start an anti- near-beer crusade. | hopes of exacting confessions from the ders were committed. c| Although the ownership of the| Was unanimously adopted by the con- double barreled shot gun found in a| vention call for an eight-hour day in slough one mile from the Wolf farm/ the industries, for equal suffrage for | has not been definitely established by| men as for women, for equal pay for | the authorities, it is understood that; Women for the same work as for men, evidence the officials now have indi-| for the establishment of playgrounds cate that this gun, which was undoubt-; for the children in the cities, demand- } |edly used in murdering seven of the| ed that money should be issued only eight victims, belongs to one of the by the government. demanded fre two young men suspected of the dom of speech and assemblage, recom- ; mended the extension of political edu- understood that the authorities | cation to all ens, and the collec- contemplating making| tion of statistics and facts on the var- arrests this week and that they hold | ious industries of the state so that the public might know how the work- ers fare The convention closed last night af- ter resolutions had been adopted pledging the federation’s support to the Nonpartisan League program and jibe state administration. crimes. two young men suspected of the kill-: | ings. BOLSHEVIKI L007 STORES _ Tuesday, May 4.—(By The —Russian Bolshe- vik soldiers are reported to be looting ARMOUR CHARGED WITH PROFITEER PRICES ON MEAT Profiteering in meat Boston, Fay houses and stores at Kiev preparatory | was charged today against Armour to abandoning the city. Advices re-| and company and its New England ceived here indicate great confusion | manager, John FE, Wilson. The latter there. was arrested on a Polish military authorities plan to; United States Commi es on occupy Kiev late this week it is be-; evidence transmitted by the United ieved, and special trains to take visi- ; States district attorney's office that front Warsaw to the Ukrainian'lamb bought for less than ten cents Ticket a pound. less freight charges of about had been sold var s here are crowded with people | four cents a pound, here for 251% cents. - offic who desire to make the trip. NP. EDITOR PLAYED PART IN BUTTE STRIKE Arrival of United States Troops Assists in Quelling Trou- ble Among “Soviets” DUNCAN CHIEF Left to Edit One of A. C. Town- ley’s Organs in North Dakota Butte, Mont. May 5.--'The arrival here of United States troops, sent on April 22, 1920, to preserve peace following a strike called by Metal Mine Workers Union ‘No. 8, Industrial Workers of the (World, constituted the fourth military. invasion of this. the greatest mining city in the world. Butte’s. first session labor trouble developed in 1914. It was the boast of the old Butte Miners Union 'No.'1, Western Fed- eration of Labor, that it never had had a strike during 33 years of its existence. Wages were comparatively high and living comparatively cheap, A large percent of the miners owned their own homes and they were con- servative. 6 Rev. Duncan Controls The period of disaffection began about 1910, when radical elements in the camp began to coalesce under the leadership of the Rev. Lewis J. Duncan, a socialist. Duncan left the pulpit for the radical lecture plat- form in 1911, ran for mayor and was elected overwhelmingly. Duncan was re-elected mayor in 1912, by a large | vote, and, it is said, immediately ve- gan his battle for control of the Butte Miners union and through it of the | Western Federation of Miners, which AGITATOR i : ; jin 1918, while a student in Harvard.) embraced almost all of the metal min- | Five days after the wedding, the bride) ers in the land. The conservatives in the union, backed by Charles H. Moyer, presi- ;dent of the federation, resisted. On June 13, 1914, the annual parade of the miners’ union was broken up by men said to be I. W, W. and Duncan followers, Moyer came to Butte from Denver to investigate. On the night of June i. he attended a conference in the Miners’ hall. A mob gathered out- side. Deputy sheriffs. were sent to the hall to protect Moyer, who was threatened. Shots were fired. It be- | came a fusillade and two men in the | crowd were hit. One of them died. ‘The mob. stermedvhehalk. Moyer fled to Helena, where he appealed to Governor Sam V, Stewart for pro- tection. Meanwhile, the hall was blown up and a reign of terror was created. A sort of soviet was established witi “Muckie’ McDonald as dictator. Mc- ; Donald chose a cabinet of 20 for ngs were dynamited. The jradicals broke into factories and a Finn leader tried to assassinate Mayor | Duncan but was killed by Duncan. !The Finn faction then blew up Dun- can's cialist printing house. Peo- ple began to leave Butte in droves. Then the governor sent the Second ‘Montana guard--in the great war afterwards, the 163rd U. S. Infantry -to Butte, The troops quickly dis- | solved the “soviet.” McDonald and several others soon after were sent to prison and the mayor was remov- ed from office by legal proceedings instituted by the governor for failure jto preserve the peace. Edited North Dakota Paper The election of 1915 was carried by the conservatives. Duncan left ; Butte and! allied himself with the ! National Nonpartisan league, one of whose pap in ‘North Dakota he edited. He is now, it is said, running an employment office in Minneapolis. ; McDonald was paroled by Governor Stewart. Later he was reported to have insulted the governor during a mass meting in ‘Butte in 1916. He ‘went back to serve out his term, bui soon after gained his freedom. Duncan and McDonald were suc- ceeded by W. F. Dunn, in his early youth a prize fighter and later an organizer for a union of electrical workers, Dunn came to Butte from Canada and with R. B. Smith of Butte, set up The Butte Bulletin, a weekly radical newspaper. In 1917 trouble again broke out and this time, fed- eral troops went into Butte because the war demanded that copper pro- duction go ahead without interrup- tion. Soon after an editorial in the Bulle- ‘tin advised the public to ignore or- ‘ders of the state council of defense. Dunn, as writer of this article, and Smith, as editor of the paper, were! tried in Helena under the state sedi- tion act, convicted and fined | each. Their case is pending before the state supreme court. In the fall of 1919 troops were again obliged to spend some time in Butte. Meanwhile, Dunn’s paper had j began to advocate the soviet system ‘and later the One Big Union. After the disruption of their union in 1914 by the “McDonald Rebellion,” the conservative miners never reor- ganized. The I, W. W. and the O. B U. are said to control those Butte miners who belong to a union now. JUNIOR PLAY FRIDAY The annual play of the junior class of the Bisma high school will b given Friday night at the Auditori um. An excellent cast has been re-/ jhearsing for some time and the per- | formance is expected to be the best lever presented by any of the former high school classes. STAR ‘CANNED Y.-E. R. Brewster, star of the Cornell rowing squad, won't row any more. He admitted late Ithaca, hours and smoking, Coach Courtney | tied the can, JOHNSON GETS CALIFORNIA BY WIDE MARGIN Wood Leads Him, However, in Indiana Primaries by Small Vote HOOVER’S POOR SHOWING Food Administrator’s Friends Will Keep Up Fight Until Chicago Convention San Francisco, May 5.—Returns tab ulated early today from yetserday’s presidential preference election show: ed Senator, Hiram W. Johnson of San Francisco leading his rival, Herbert C. Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif., by a wide margin. At 10 o'clock last night Ralph P. Merritt campaign manager of the Hoo- ver republican club of California con ceeded the election of the Johnson delegates but declared the issued rep. resented by Mr. Hoover would con- tinue to “commend the attention of the country and eventually at the re- publican convention, Hoover will be nominated for the presidency.” WOOD HAS 6,000 LEAD Indianapolis, May 5.—-Major General Leonard Wood continued to make slight gains over Senator Hiram John+ son of California his nearest opponent for the Indiana preference vote in yes- terday’s state wide primary as returns were tabulated here today. With 2,249 precints out of 3,387 in the state reported. Wood was leading by a plurality of 6,540 votes. The vote was Wood, 59.475; Johnson, 52,935; Lowden, 26,843; Harding, 14,692. ENDORSE MINOT DELEGATES WHO FAVOR LANGER Anti-Townley Republican Con- vention Held Here This Afternoon ALL HARMONIOUS NOT Fight Staged on Naming Same Men Selected by Original Convention With only sligl above the surface, Burleigh county anti-Townley republicans held their county convention here this afternoon and elected the same twelve republi- can delegates to the state convention at Minot May 12 and 13 that were ea- dorsed by the anti-Townley county convention held several we ago and participated’ in by regublicans and democrats alike. The convention was well attended and P. G. Harrington, who presided at the anti-Townley convention a few weks ago, was named chairman of the meeting. S. C. Fogerty acted as secretary. From the beginning of the session it was st that there was a certain amount of rivalry between two groups, those who endorsed the action of the first anti-Townley convention and those who wished to elect dele- gates to the state convention other than those originally endorsed. After considerable discussion, arg: ment, motions and counter motions, it was “unanimously” decided to have tion showing the secretary cast the ballot of thej convention in favor of the twelve men endorsed by the former convention. This “unanimous” motion carried by about a three-fourths vote. In the interests of harmony, how- ever, it was then decided to cast bal- lots for each candidate individually and the convention then proceeded to vote on the following men, the first twelve of whom were endorsed by the first convention: J. W. Burch, L, E. Heaton, Victor Anderson. H. C, Egger- ton, H. P, Goddard, P. G. Harrington, E c. Fogerty, Nels Qualley of Dris- coll, Livdahl, H. G. Higgins, Capt. % Wanner and A. O. Krogan, Frank tia ie C. L. McCoy, Theodore Koffel and John Hagen. As in the first anti-Townley county convention, Mr. Koffel made every ible to prevent the con- is afternoon from endorsing delegates to the Minot convention who were known to favor the candidacy of Attorney General William Langer as the republican nominee for governor. While the Burleigh county delegation will go to Minot uninstructed as to candidates, it is favorably disposed to the candidacy of Langer and Rich- ard Gallagher, state's attorney of Golden Valley county, for attorney general on the anti-Townley republi can ticket. FAMILY FOOD BUDGET OF FEBRUARY TWICE COST OF SAME MONTH IN 1913 Washington, M The family food budget in February was exactly twice the sum expended for the same articles of food in February 1913, ac- cording to department of labor statis- tics. During approximately the same per- iod in Great Britain the increase was only 130 percent. while in Italy it was 187 percent. Germany outranks all countries enumerated with an increase of 224 percent. ON WAGE BOARD v= WILLIAM L. PARK William L. Park memover of the Railway W appointed by President Wilson, He is vice president of the Chicago Gr Western railroad and formerly vice president of the Illinois Central. of Chicago is a ge board, GOVERNMENT TO SPEND $100,000 ON LIGNITE AID Will Erect Briquetting Plant at New Salem for New Company WILL CARBONIZE FUEL Experts Claim New Method Will Revolutionize Industry in State With an appropriation of $100,000 from the United States government a model briquetting plant is to be erected at New Salem soon, which its promoters claim will completely revolutionize the lignite coal indus- try. By a process of carbonizing the raw lignite coal, an invention made entirely pre al by experts in’ the United States bureau of mines at Washington. a lignite briquet will be manufactured which will enable the company to compete with Pennsyl- vania high grade anthracite coal over a territory extending eastward as far as halfway between Pennsylvania. The concern is known a solidated Lignite Collier of New Salem with a capitalization of $300,000, all of which has been vin this state and the Con- company partly The officers of the company, which has over 20M are Peter Roth, ‘New ident; John B. Adams, secretary and treasurer. together with the fol- the directorate: M, sburg; J. Berreth, ed Bremier, Bis- ‘These office: lowing compr Baumgartne ‘New Salem marek. Government to Build Under a contract with the govern- nent just approved by the depart- ment of the interior, bureau of mines, the government agrees to erect a building 50 by 200 feet and install briquetting and by-product machinery at an estimated cost of $150,000, The contract yrovides that the govern- ment will turn over a going concern to the Consolidated Lignite Colleries company. The plant will have a capacity of 150 tons of lignite briquets daily by using only one oven. This represents a daily consumption of 225 tons of lignite coal. The plant will be able to operate 12 months of the year as the briquets tured can be stored for an nite period under the govern- ment’s system of manufacture, Witn two more ovens added, a daily output of 450 tons of briquets can be main- tained with the same machinery. Directors Well Known All of the officers and directors of the company are prominently known in the central part of the state. Mr. Bremier is the director of the division of public utilities of the state rail- road commission, while Mr. Adams has been chief accountant with the railroad commission. having resigned his position April 1 to become ac- tively connected with the lignite bri- queting company. Under the contract with the govern- ment, the bureau of mines is expected to provide $25,000 additional for the purpose of developing the by-pro- ducts of the briqueting process. It is claimed that a substitute for gasoline, as well as high grade of oil, can be obtained from the coal during the briqueting. History of Lignite The following appeared in the United States burean of mines tech- nical paper 178 covering the chara teristics and utilization of lignite pre pared by $.{M. Darling: “Lignite brown, dull, markedly woody in texture, has no coking qual- ities whatever, carries a great per: centage of moisture. which it gives up readi its disintegration on ex posure is so rapid as largely to pre vent shipment any distance except during excessive cold northern win- ters, when it is frozen. Lignites are found in those parts of the country where no other solid fuel is avail- (Continued on Page Six) THE RAILROAD|Y this point and KNOX STARTS DEBATE OVER PEACE TERMS Declares Wilson Keeps Nation Technically at War to Coerce Senators DEPLORES THE SITUATION Expresses Sympathy for Presi- dent’s Weakened Condition of Health Washington, May Discussion of the Nation's international relations came to the fore again in the senate today after a lapse of nearly seven weeks since on March 19 it failed for the second time to ratify the treaty of Versailles. Inauguration of debate on the re- publican plan to end the state of war by joint resolution of congress, was the principal business on the calendar today. Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, former secretary of state, announced he would call and speak at length on his resolution to terminate the status of war with both Germany and Austria. The measure was reported recently by the senate foreign relations committee by a straight party vote in lieu of the re- solution adopted by the house April The house resolution proposed to re- peal the declaration of war with Ger- many only. Senator Knox’s addrdss was the only prepared speech to be made to- day. SCORES WILSON Washington, May 5.— Opening de- bate on his resolution to declare the state of war with Germany and Aus- tria at an end, Senator Knox, republi- can, Pennsylvania, declared in the sen- ate today, that President Wilson was arbitrarily maintaining that the nation technically was at war in order to coerce the senate into ratifying the treaty of Versailles. “There was no excuse whatsoever for greatly prolonging the war beyond the signature of the armistice,” the senator said, “and the only explana- tion for so doing was the deliberate aim of the administration to retain all those autocratic compulsory pow- oys with which the executive had been endowed in order that they might be used for other than war purpose, Welfare at Stake “The welfare gndosafety of the na- tion imperatively demands thab we now, have peace. The whole world seethes with revolution. Our own na- tion is in ferment and toil. And yet we stand and have stood for months as a rudderless ship foundering in the trough of tremendous seas. “We must no longer delay a return to a government of peace; we must not hazard a further postponement in turning our undivided deliberations to our home problems. As a preliminary step the executive must be returned to peace time powers and preroga- laring that he entertained only mpathy for the president in his ill- and “sympathy for the country t suffer under him because of it.” Senator Knox said it was an unwelcomed task “to judge one who ne: which mu has. fallen in public esteem.” He adde however that when danger threatened the nation, it must be met four fronted and that, “he who vent- ured to intervene against the safe and wise course, must step aside or be hed.” Sells Operative Senator Knox said it would be idle to pass any resolutions looking to the immediate establishment of peace that did not contemplate the unquan- fied acceptance of the treaty if that resolution required from the president the performance of any act or duty in order to secure peace. He argued that if any resolution was to be effec- tive it would have to be self opera: tive. Ww, Launching into a 3,000 word ‘aise cussion of his resolution, the senator said the congress had the power to “unmake” any of its acts and conse- quently had the power to repeal the resolution declaring a state of war with the imperial German government and with the Austro-Hungarian em- pire. CARRANZA USES AIRPLANES TO FIGHT REBELS Washington, May —Apparently unable to get under way any offensive military expedition against the revo- lutionists, President Carranza has be- gun using airplanes to harrass rebel held towns in the neighborhood of the Mexican capital, according to advices to revolutionary agents here. Cuernavaca. capital of Morelos, and Cuautla, in the same state are two of the points that have been smartly bombarded, the reports state. The information through official channels yesterday that Pablo Gonzales, . for- merly an ardent supporter of Carranza, has entered the revolution at the head of a detachment of revolting federal troops, also was contained in the rebel advices, HELD FOR DUTY hington, May 5.—Secretary Dan- today ordered a division of destroy ‘now at New York with the At- lantic fleet to sail immediately for Key West where they will be held for New York, May Black Hawk and six destroyers, now anchored in the Hudson river, received orders to leave at noon today for Key West for possible duty in Mexican waters.