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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
14 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SATURDAY IORNING, MARCH 14, 1914
14 PAGES
VOL. XXIV. NO. 300
SAVE WATER, ENLARGE
PROJECT SUGGESTIONS
OF NORTHSIDE FARMERS
Impelled by Criticism of
the Reclamation Service,
Chief Engineer Davis
Says Only Error is in
Neglect of Publicity
FARMERS SPEAK
AT HEARING
O'Donnell Gives Whole
some Advice About Wa
ter Economy Plans Sug
gested Optimism Fea
ture of First Meeting
Expansion with building of re
sources. Immediate expansion and fixing of
limit.
Leaving project In hands of recla
mation service until enough more
sources, of water supply are provided
to take care of the contracted area.
Those were the three main plans
discussed by the water users of the
north side 1 the public hearing with
the reclamation commissioners, Da
vis and O'Donnell and the survey
board.
Spurred by criticism of the recla
mation service. Chief Engineer Ar
thur Powell Davis, who built the
dam, and who has been one of the
most influential friends of the "first
project" entered into a stirring de
fense of the organization. It was
an item not down on the program,
and for which no five minute limit
had been set.
"The only way in which the recla
mation service has erred has been in
a lack of frankness with the farm
ers," declared the speaker. "And
that condition has been improved, is
still being improved. The main fault
you can find with ns is that we have
failed to take you into our confi
dence. After many years on the in
side of many big enterprises in the
service I find that the want Of pu
blicity among the ultimate consumers
of our product Is our greatest error, j
"We specially invite constructive
criticism. In this statement, I think
I answer the gentleman who has just
asked why, if the governors and
council of the water users have
passed favorably on this project limit
proposition, the matter should be re
ferred to individual water users.
"We are coming right down on the
ditch bank to discuss this matter
with you. You know the secretary
has said that the man who can't get
along with the farmers has no busi
ness in the maintenance and opera
tion department, no matter how ef
ficient a worker he may be."
Mr. Davis' little burst was well re
ceived. IB had been suggested that
if the reclamation service had wanted
to play fair, or had been entirely on
its job, it would have provided so
that some of the lands now in cul
tivation or now being prepared for
crops, would not have to suffer ex
clusion from the benefits of the sys
tem. The breaking of tha reserve, that
led to this forceful statement oc
curred after O'Donnell, Davis and
Hanna had spoken, and after a great
number of water users had, contribut
ed their five minute speeches. There
was not as large a crowd as was ex
pected, but this, according to Presi
dent Orme, is a good sign indicating
that there are not as many dissatis
fied ones on the north side as the
arrangers had looked for
Farmer O'Donnell
O'Donnell was introduced to the
crowd as a practical farmer who had
been requested to come to the front
and give the other farmers on irri
gated lands the benefit of 'the ex
perience and knowledge that has
made him a rich man. Several times
during the day, the supervisor or ir-
rigation was called upon to explain
knotty points of irrigation methods.
The speaker has a bit of a brogue.
He speaks quickly and incisively, and
these things made him popular. As
for what he had to say, it was sim
' (Continued on Page Six.)
Two Are Dead, Three Hurt
As Result of Train Holdup
J associated press dispatch
PEORIA, 111, March 13. Two men
were killed and two deputy sheriffs
and a woman wounded as a result of
an attempt to hold up a Chicago &
Northwestern freight train at Man
Ilus. 45 miles north of here, today.
Arthur tuner k "":;"t men opened fire on the officers, wound
bandt s"' aTd fU'TentiT edrob- j i", both deputies. They then fled to
ine Danuiis, a"" i.i ,. Ihiiv wr inter snr-
ber was slain by a sheriff's posse.
Mrs. Wright, wife of the station
agent, was struck by a stray bullet,
but was not seriously hurt.
The trainmen assert they found
four men unloading merchandise from
one of the cars when the train
stopped at Manlius. One of them
opened fire on the conductor, while
the others ran to the engine and or
dered Fisher to proceed with the
train. He started to explain there
would be danger of a collision, when
cine of the bandits shot him dead.
The three men then jumped from
LAST CALL FOR
ILLINOIS PICNIC
At the annual picnic of the Illi- j
nois Society, to be held today at j
Hieroglyphic Rocks, six miles south
of phoenix, all former residents of
Illinois are invited to attend wheth-
er they have been previously mem-
bers of the society or not. A good
time is promised to all and all
former Illinoisans will be made
thoroughly welcome. j
The Illinois Society
I DWIGHT B. HEARD, j
I President
I B. E. MARKS,
I Secretary .
Miss Wilson Is
Engaged To Wed
Secretary M'Adoo
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, March 13. "The
President and Mrs. Wilson announce
the engagement of their youngest
daughter, Eleanor Randolph, to Hon.
William Gibbs McAdoo."
This announcement was issued at
the White House by Secretary Tu
multy tonight after a day of specu
lation in official and social circles
over the prospect of another White
House wedding in June.
The exact date of the wedding is
unknown, but it is expected it will
be in June. McAdoo is fifty years
old and Miss Wilson is twenty-four.
Miss Wilson will be the fourteenth
White House bride and the second
of the president's daughters to marry
in the nation's executive mansion.
For three weeks there have been
rumors that the president's daughter
and the secretary of the treasury
would soon be married and in the
past day or two there has been no
denial that an announcement could
be expected. There has been extra
ordinary interest in the engagement
among oniciais ana tne many
friends. Miss "WHsrm artC the pa--net
officer have made curing the
year they have been in the capital.
The youngest of the family. Miss
Eleanor, is said to be her father's
pet and there is a strong personal
friendship between the president and
the man who is to marry his daugh
ter. Reports that Secretary McAdoo
would retire from the cabinet after
his marriage and perhaps become
ambassador to France were set at
rest tonight by White House offi
cials, who said emphatically he is
expected to remain at the head
the treasury department.
o
of
TO STOP SMOKING
Free Clinics for Women Are Inaugu
rated in Chicago
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH!
CHICAGO, March 13. A clinic for
women smokers has been established
by the Anti-Cigarette League. The
treatment is simply spraying the
throat with a special solution. "A
decided aversion to cigarettes will re
sult in every instance," says Lucy
Page Gaston, president of the league.
"Fifteen women have already been
treated by us. Our first feminine ap
plicant was a chorus girl, who began
luffing cigarettes in a spirit of bra
vado. One of her associates taught
her how to inhale, and the habit ob
tained such a hold on her that she
often rose In the night for a smoke."
FISH GETS FIVE YEARS
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH!
BOSTON, March 13. Captain John
A. Fish of New York was sentenced
to five years in the federal prison at
Atlanta. Ga., for burning his yacm
Senta, In Kdgartown Harbor, in order
to obtain $15,000 insurance money.
Judge Hale said that in view of the
fact that Fish saved the lives of
those aboard the burning yacht, he
would only give him five years, the
maximum being life.
the engine, rejoining the fourth, who
was holding off the crew, and fled.
Three of the men were captured and
later another was shot.
Sheriff Byers and his two deputies,
started in pursuit, finally locating the
bandits in a bunk car near Langly. The
a cornfield where they were later sur
rounded by Sheriff Byers and a posse
of farmers.
In an exchange of shots, one of the
robbers fell, shot through the abdomen.
Two then surrendered and the third
made his escape to Chillicothe, Ills,
where he was later arrested. The
wounded bandit was hurried to the
hospital but died within a few hours.
The robbers are believed to have
worked recently on railroad construc
tion work near Langley. Fifteen mem
bers of the construction gang were ar
rested tonight.
GOVERNMENT 10
INSIST REBELS
GIVE ALL DATA
Will Continue Its Policy to
Compel Carranza to Fur
nish Information Con
cerning Welfare of For
eigners in Mexico
BRYAN HAS NOTES,
BUT IS SILENT
War Department Prepares
' to Make Energetic Fight
Against Release of Refu
gees Now Interned at
Fort Bliss
ASSOCIATED TRESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, March 13. The
United States government will con-
tinue. to insist on obtaining from ;
Carranza and the Mexican constitu-
tionalists information concerning the
welfare of foreigners in Mexico and
will not lelax its energy in using its '
good offices for their protection, i
This, in effect, is the communication
lrom Secretary Bryan to Consul Sim- !
pich at Nogales, who presented the '
information to Carranza. The reply j
was in the hands of Bryan tonight, '
but he refused to make it public.
Bryan said he did not reply direct
ly to the recent Cairanza notes on
the Benton case, but set forth the
wish of the American government
with respect to the Spanish subjects
whom the Spanish minister had
asked the United States to protect. '
There had been an intimation from .
constitutionalist sources that Carran
za had indicated that he would give
the United States the information de
sired.
Notice of the institution cf habeas
corpus proceedings to obtain the re
lease of the prisoners from Ojin.tga, !
held at Fort Bliss, reached the war
department today in a telegram from
General Bliss at San Antonio. Sec
ehry fWrrtf!on"-"A ix t!ernm
over to Attorney-General McRey
nolds, who is expected to direct the
district attorney at Houston to repre
sent General Bliss in the proceedings.
The war department will resist the !
release of the prisoners at this time
on the ground of public policy. Aside
from other questions involved, it is
held that the community would be
imperiled by the presence of several
thousand homeless, unsheltered and
unfed Mexicans.
The refugees are military prisoners
held or "interned" under a provision
of the international law. There is
said to be no court decision in this
country to serve as a precedent in
the case.
Further inquiry into the conditions
in Mexico are contemplated by the
Senate committee on foreign relations
In the near future and in anticipa
tion of the examining of witnesses
the committee today secured autho
rization to issue subpoenas and to
employ a stenographer.
Senator Shively, acting chairman
of the committee, said tonight there
was no defintie program of inquriy,
but that it is proposed to get all the
information possible.
A bill to direct the President to ac
quire "by purchase, treaty or con
quest," the northern states of Mexico
and to colonize them with the ne
groes of the United States was intro-
duced today by Representative Park
of Georgia, the new Democratic
member. The measure, which excited
humorous comment, was referred to
the foreign affairs committee, and is
not expected to get out of the com- 1
mittee's files.
Application is Delayed
SAN ANTONIO, March 13 An ap-
plication for the release of the Mex-
ican federal soldiers interned at Fort
Bliss was ready to be filed in the
federal court when the lack of a
Judge to hear the petition caused H.
it. uamuie or Cii t-aso, representing
the refugees, to postpone action.
Monterey Comes. Next
LAKWJU, Marcn is. Monterey, an officers swam after him, and while
important railroad center and the one of tnem submarinely took Brun
largest city northeast of Mexico City, ' d -g revolver. the other read th
is virtually isolated, with constitu
tionalist troops advancing from all
sides, according to a dispatch re-
ceiveu toiUKm ui leuein miiiuujf
headquarters at Nuevo i,areuo. ine
attack on Monterey, it is understood,
is planned as one or tne nrst moves
in connection with the march south
ward of the rebel army.
Already numerous minor engage
ments have been fought in the vicin
ity. A dispatch reported the main
body of the rebels as approaching
irom tne u.reci.o,. ut iuuiamurus, am. He waa sul,osed to be on the coast,
apparently well supplied with arms L.st M,md;ly morning a man who
and ammunition, including several had returtled fr((m the roast report
pieces of artillery. General Castro, pd () Deputy Sheriff Woolf that he
with 350 cavalry, left Nuevo Laredo had geen Brun(;1ge at McCov's saloon
today to relieve General Guardiola at at Log Angeles. This information
San Ygnacio. The latter, who start-'
eu out 10 auac maiamoras, is ex-
pected to occupy Guerrero. No rebels
are reported within many miles of
NueVO Laredo.
Carranza Has Communication
AGUA PRIETA, March 13. Consti
tutfonalists here deny that Carranza
win De cut otr from communication
(Continued on Page Two.)
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By John T. McCutcheon.
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MIGHTY GOOD . THEY PLEDGE THEMSELVES
TO DO OKE GOOD EEED EVERY DAY i WITHOUT
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FUGITIVE
Walter Brmulage, Wanted
at Flagstaff for Forgery,
Attempts Evasion of Of
ficers by Swimming Sea
ward at Venice
(Special to The Republican)
LOS ANGELES. March 13. Wal
ter Urundage, alleged horse thief and
range rider in the pioneer days, was
arrested in the surf between Venice
and Santa Monica today by Deputy
Sheriffs Anderson and Sweezey, and
is now In the county jail facing trial
on the charge of grand larceny and
forgery.
Officers
had been looking
for
Brundage
for six months. He
was
arrested on warrants from Flaestaff
Ariz.
j Brun(age was sighted early today
walking along the beach. Sweezey
and Anderson were about to nrroat
lllm when ne turned and suddenly
plunged into the
sea. The officers
followed.
Brundage waded out to his armpits
and started to swim seaward. The
warrant to him, thus accomplishing
the arrest on the high seas.
The first word of the arrest of
Brundage Was received yesterday in
te,egnim to thc sheriffs office from
the office of Sheriff Pulliam of Flag
staf, thanking the officials of this
county for their assistance in effect
ing the capture.
Brundage had been wanted for
three months for the crime of for
gery committed in Coconino county.
was forwarded to Flagstaff, and an
i officer at once ieft for tne coast
Ut.putv Sheriff Olea is also in Los
. , and as he kn0W3 Brundace
wlt it ,.... thnnirht that ho mivhl
be of service to the Flagstaff offi
cers in pointing him out to them.
Brundage is aoout 26 years or ase
aml
comes of a good family. But
he has a singular bent toward crime,
j He has served three terms in the Ari-
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WILL HAVE BECOME AN ENOOY.'C.LE HABIT.
SANTA ROSA. Cal, March 13. I
Charles S. Moranda cut his j
wife's throat, drawing a pistol j
shot his mother-in-law. Mrs.
Mary Fees, and then fired a bul-
let into his own brain. Family j
differences were the cause. Three
children are left orphans. j
Two California
Counties Making
Faces at Each Other
f associated press dispatch!
and Sacramento counties stood on
opposite sides of the Sacramento
' .
touay, wniie tne angry army or the
unemployed basked in the sunshine
and fished for catfish. The army
"M UOL 113 J'. spue
of the stern ultimatums delivered
yesterday that the unemployed must
move.
The Sacramento citizens' committee
has withdrawn its offer to pay the
transportation of the army out of the
district. Yolo County says the army
i3 only costing them $25 per day,
while it is costing Sacramento $2,000
to maintain the guards.
The army can not move because
sheriffs of the surrounding counties
I are reai with shotguns and pick-
handles.
The authorities of Sacramento i oiin
ty are unwilling to let the unem
ployed pass through in small bands
toward the Nevada state line, on the
ground that the army would form
apain as soon ns they traveled a few I
miles. Governor Oddie of Nevada is '
ready to call out the militia if it
ccmes across the state line.
UNEMPLOYED RIOTERS
Captain White Faces Five Accusations
H ...
of Assault
r ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
DUBLIN, March 13. Leading a
march on the Lord Mayor's home to
day, at the head of the army of unem
ployed. Captain White, son of the Late
Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White,
defender of Ladysmith during the Boer
war, met a bayonette charge of police
so fiercely that five accusations of as
sault were placed against him.
These were made by a police inspec
tor, a police sergeant, two policemen.
and the driver of a small wagon. Cap- ( of the International Correspondence
tain White inflicted severe wounds on School, Seranton, Penn, are accus
Inspector Purcell, who lend the police. tomed to buy properties, and either
During the brief, but sanguinary riots, sell direct to text-book companies at
many heads among the attacking and grossly inflated values or sell the
defending forces were clubbed, among stock to students, is the charge made
them that of Captain White. j by J. A. Robertson, former manager
j of a branch of the school, at the
zona penitentiary, always for bur- legislative hearing.
glary. .
WHftT A WONDERFUL WORLD THIS WOULD BE IF
EVERYBODY FOLLOWED THATJIREEDJONE GOOt
"DEED EVERY PAY- "
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TO HAVE "DINNER
Down Town TcNiChT,
And GO To a show
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f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH!
NEW YORK. March 1.1. As a direct
nf lhc, i,;.rr-,.i nnd nnrl the recent
, ordor of the lnt0rstate Commerce Com-
missi0n. resulting in a sixteen ner cent
reduction of express charges, directors
of the United States Express Company
voted to liquidate it's affairs and dis
solve in the shortest possible time, after
sixty years of continuous operation.
The earnings the last five months
showed a steady decline and the No
vember deficit was $32,000.
The late Thomas C. Piatt and his
family for years held dominant inter-
i ests and their control was so com-
plete, they succeeded in warding off
numerous demands, and protests of the
minority interests. Practically nothing
was known of the company's affairs,
, and there wee no stockholders meet
ings in over fifty years.
Outstanding shares are in a compar
atively few hands and the Harriman
estate is believed to hold over one
fifth. The committee on liquidation em
braces representatives of the chief fi
nancial interests of the country, in
cluding Charles A. Peabody, president
. I i U,. ir.n t T
. .... .
chief financial adviser of the Harriman
estate; Wm. A. Read, ex-Senator W.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Correspondence
Inflate Values,
T ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
BOSTON. March 13 The directors
Representative Barnes urged the
r.u,wlt -V .CitS
ON YOU . K
EXPRESS WILL
QUIT BUSINESS
TICKET AGENTS
SESSIONS
AT THE CANYON
Eighteenth Annual Meeting
is Brought to Close With
the Flection of C. D. Hon
odle of Akron, Ohio, as
President
ASSOCIATION IN
GOOD CONDITION
New Officers Are Pledged
to Better and More Effi-
cient Service Both to
Employers and to Public
Generally
(Special to The Republican.)
WILLIAM, Ariz, March 13 The
International Association of Ticket
Agents concluded their eighteenth
annual meeting at the Grand Canyon
today, having elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: C. D.
Honodle of Akron, Ohio, president;
W. F. J. Burton of Chicago, W. S. J.
Hutchinson of Pittsburg, Pa., H. O.
Colbart of Memphis, Tenn, first,
second and third vice-presidents; J.
H. Sterlin of Pittsburg, Pa., secre
tary, and Elwood Ramsay of Phila
delphia, Pa, treasurer.
The affairs of the association, ac
cording to the reports of the offi
cers are in a flourishing condition
and the new officers are pledged to
an aggressive campaign of education
of its members, having in mind bet
ter and more efficient service to
their employers and also better and
more intelligent service to the public
the ultimate consumer, so-to-speak,
and who is most vitally interested.
The ticket agents are in charge of
F. E. Shellaberger, general agent of
the passenger department of the
Santa Fe railroad, of Pittsburg, Pa,
and have received entertainment en
route at Santa Fe, the capital of
Arizona's sister state where an au
tomobile trip was given to all points
of interest in that vicinity.
At Albuquerque an Indian dance
was given for their entertainment.
The party is loud in their praise of
the hospitality of the El Tovar at
the Grand Canyon. Mr. Fred Harvey
joined Manager Brant and wife in
assisting the ticket men in having
what the association members claim
to have been their most interesting
session and elaborate entertainment.
The next meeting of the associa
tion will be held in San Francisco
in the fall of 1915.
The ladies of the party are voicing
sentiment against a practical joker
whom they have not located, but who
caused much consternation among
them at an impromptu card party held
last evening, when after several blasts
upon a police whistle, an officer with
much artillery in evidence closed all
the exits to the room in which the card
party was being held and made a talk
upon the sin of card playing and sev
erenoes of the Arizona law thereon, and
proceeded to place the entire party
under arrest. I 1
The hotel manager was appealed to by
two escaping guests who made their
way to the hotel office. The officer
ordered Boniface Brant to keep his
hands off, when some one on the inside
gave the snap away. Some of the
players had little interest In the play
the balance of the evening.
General Agent Goldsworthy of Phoe
nix, met the party at the Canyon for
the purpose of extending the board of
trade's invitation of the hospitality of
the city of Phoenix to the ticket men.
A list of the names of the members
of the party follow: H. S. Dare and
wife, Pittsburg, Pa.; W. I. Barron and
wife, Havre De Grace, Md.; F. J. Bur
ton and wife. Miss Helen Burton, Chi
cago; O. W. Bruney, Martins-Ferry.
Ohio; J. C. Buchanan, Thorndale, Pa.:
F. P. Barron and wife, Angie, La.; W.
B. Conard and wife, Philadelphia; J.
H. Connell, Cresson, Pa.; W. W. Car
penter and wife, Escondido, Calif.; H.
G. Coltart and wife, Memphis, Tenn.;
W. K. Clowes and wife. New Kensing
ton, Pa.; M. A. Desmond, pevan. Pa.;
W. P. Davis and wife, Jenkintown, Pa.;
Edwin Davis, Jenkintown, Pa.; C. M.
Doll, Elk Doll and wife, Elkins Park,
Pa.; J. B. Arazier. Beaver Falls, Pa.;
M. J Fitzgerald, Gloucester, N. J.; W.
C. Feehley and wife and Miss Calysta
Feehley, Elton, Md.; W. E. Frackleton,
Jackson, Mich.;; K. G. Good, Minevale,
Pa.; G. J. Higgins and wife, Miss Mar
garet and Mr. John Higgins, Shamo
kin. Pa.; S. J. Hutchison and wife,
Pittsburg, Pa.; K. H. Hitehlns, Frost-
(Continued on Page Three.)
School Men
Says Robertson
passage of a bill placing correspond
j ence schools under the control of tho
commissioner of corporations, and
compel them to file a yearly state
! ment of their financial standing.
Vice-President C. E. Lawrence of the
International Correspondence . Schools
denied that stock was sold to or by
students, but admitted that agents of
the school might have sold stock as
side lines.
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