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THE AHIZOMA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
14 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAu ' lM, 1914
14 PAGES
VOL. XXIV. NO. 307
1
WLLA PLANTS GUNS
BEFORE TORREON AND
MAY ATTACK TODAY
With Force of 12,000 Con
stitutionalists Drives Back
Federal Outposts and Pre
pares for Long Deferred
Rattle
VELASCO HAS
LARGE FORCE
.Villa on Eve of Encounter
is a Fury of Energy With
the Light of Battle Act
ually Burning in His
Eyes
associated press dispatch!
CONSTITUTIONAL 1ST HEAD.
QUARTERS, YERMO (Chihuahua),
March 20. Villa and a force of 12,0011
constitutionalists drove the federal
outposts back into the stronghold of
Torreon today. They planted forty
guns for an attack. In the federal
trenches facing, the rebel post are
9000 men under Velasco. A roar of
siege guns is the signal for attack at
any time.
Villa on the eve of the battle is a
fury of energy. He went from point
to point in a private' car, and every
where he stopped a saddled horse
was instantly ready. The light of
battle actually burned in his eyes.
The big guns were planted by Colonel
Angeles, and General IJenevides had
disposition of the troops. A cannon
was trained on the hill tops while
soldiers threw up mud casements and
dug ammunition pits, into which to
store ammunition, which they named
"Villa pills."
Practically all the railroad rolling
stock is 'congested between here and
Escalon. Villa has food for a month
and unless railroad communications
are cut can maintain his water sup
ply indefinitely. jScouts have been
reporting federals sending artillery
from Saltillo and Monterey and
Villa, while accepting this with re
serve, gave two interpretations to it:
that the federals are either equipping
a force with a design of attacking
his rear or that Velasco, certain of
defeat, is trying to save as much of
tils force as possible.
Although just thirty years old, Tor
reon -is an important center, contain
ing twenty-six thousand. It has a
normally large foreign colony, but
most of the foreigners have fled, and
Villa professes to believe he will
capture the entire federal garrison.
South and southwest of Torreon
Velasco's position is regarded as al
most impregnable by reason of the
mountains and barbed entanglements
In the passes.
In other directions the city is
reached only over desert and high
hills. Villa's progress' is rendered
slow by the necessity of repairing
tracks ami bridges but the road was
opened today to Mapimi and Bor
mejillo, suburbs of Torreon, where
the troops were detrained which
drove in the federal outposts.
The water supply. Villa's principal
problem, rumbled in from Escalon
an entire train full. "Torreon will
be mine in a week," he said. "Never
has the revolutionary army had bet
ter men, or better equipment. Every
preparation has been made. We
can't fail."
General Angeles of Carranza's cab
inet, second in command, is chief of
artillery. The federals are believed
to be entirely isolated from the world.
George Carothers, an American rep
resentative, Is the guest of Villa.
Villa has more than forty field
pieces and an immense supply of
ammunition, probably 2000 rounds to
the man. The constitutionalists have
been moving to their bases by train,
disembarking at Bermejillo and Ma
pimi. From these points and from
Yermo the march over the desert was
begun, the federal advance guards
retreating without opposition behind
the fortifications at Torreon.
They tore up the railroad and de
stroyed the bridges as they retired
and the rebels followed over the
long waste of 'desert, some riding
horses and others plodding wearily
through the sand.
Today General Villa, who is at this
place receiving reports from various
subordinate generals by courier and
(Continued on Page Three.)
Los Angeles Declares
Peace With Hobo Army
... ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
LOS ANGELES, March 20. The
city and the unemployed declared
peace today. Norris Rose, one of
the leaders, and twenty-seven jpri
vates of the disrupted band were
released. The city furnished a camp
site, and in return the band will feed
themselves while recruiting and will
leave for Sacramento within ten
davs.
As soon as the agreement was con
eluded, Rose and the pickets were
released from jail, conveyed to the
. camp in police automobiles, and de
clared that after the march north,
and their union with Kelley's army,
that they will begin to cross the
country on a march to Washington
under the command of General
Coxey.
1
FRESHMAN TEAM
IS KIDNAPPED
j STANFORD, March 20 Under
the eyes of many students, a party
of Sophomores kidnapped the en-
tire Freshman baseball team bound
and then spirited them to the
mountains twenty miles away to
j prevent them defeating the Juniors
and winning the college champion-
ship.
Colquitt Wants
More Rangers Of
The Shooting Kind
associated press dispatch!
AUSTIN, March 20. Reports of dis
orders on the border and the kidnap
ping of Charles Ballard, an American,
by Mexicans, caused the Governor to
issue orders tonight to recruit -the
Rangers with "men who can shoot."
Ballard escaped from the kidnappers
by swimming the Rio Grande.
Ranger Captain Sanders telegraphed
an official report that Ballard was
waylaid when called out to repair a
gas engine. He was shot at while
swimming the river. His neck and
arms bore marks of ropes which were
tied by five Mexicans. No reason is
known for the kidnapping.
Recall Missionaries
NEW YORK, March 20. If condi
tions in Mexico get any worse, all the
Protestant missionaries will be with
drawn. The Methodist Mission Board
authorized its representatives to recall
its field workers and abandon property
worth $1,000,000.
Melodian Saves Life
EL PASO, March 20. An old melo
dian In his home at Colonia, Juarez,
saved the life of E. L. Taylor, an Amer
ican, when attacked by bandits, ac
cording to a story Taylor told today.
Tie said he had fled for his life, leav
ing his family and property in the
Mormon colony. Manuel Guiterrez, a
bandit, who recently stripped an Amer
ican ranch at Pearson, invaded his
house. Taylor fired at him. The ban
dit returned fire, riddling the melodian
behind which he had taken refuge.
Later bandits took him prisoner, but
he escaped after payment of $ir00.
Wants Law Enforced
DOUGLAS, March 20. Ives Lelevier
wired the State Department demanding
more rigid enforcement of the neutral
ity laws to prevent Huertaista raid
ers from entering Mexico from the
American side and thus keeping busy
Constitutionalist forces needed else
where. o
BANK ROBBED AGAIN
Second Time in One Year Trusted
Clerk Goes Wrong
associated press dispatch
ST. LOUIS, March 20. For the sec
ond time in a year, the Third National
was robbed of thousands by trusted
clerks. Several months ago Henry
Beseler got $15,000 and went to the
penitentiary. Today President Waite
reported $15,000 had been taken by an
other clerk. There is no warrant yet.
President White said the lesson giv
en Beseler was lost on the latest em
bezzler, who had been robbing the
bank for four years. He is under sur
veillance by private detectives.
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MRS. CHENG DIVORCED
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
SAN FRANCISCO. March 20. Mrs.
Eivide Cheng, wife of Dr. Ensen Cheng,
a Chinese physician of Boston, ob
tained a divorce today for extreme
cruelty. She declared the marriage of
members of the white and yellow races
is a failure.
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LOSES VERDICT
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
LOS ANGELES, March 20. Joyce
Huffman, aged ten, sole suvivor of a
crash of a Southern Pacific locomotive
with an automobile which killed six
members of his family at San Gabrial
last year, lost a verdict today in a suit
for $100,000.
The camp site was chosen in the
river-bed with a mountain on one
side and a police station on the oth
er. The police will not interfere with
lecruiting or the solicitation of funds
to maintain the army.
Selection of a camp was made by
Chief of Police Sebastian and "Lieu
tenant" Hollingworth, of the "army."
Rose was arrested for soliciting
iunos. ine only proviso is they
must start their march north within
ten days. Meantime they will keep
the camp sanitary.
Rose announced a mass meeting in
the. plaza where the riot occurred
Christmas when the police tried to
drive the demonstrators away. But
Sebastian intimated that there will
be no molestation again.
WILSON SHOWS
HOW SEEMS 10
BE PRESIDENT
Savs He Has Been Pictured
in So Manv Different
Lights He Cannot Recog
nize References to Him
self in Papers
HAS NOT SEEN
WASHINGTON YET
Promises to Return to Na
tion's Capital Some Day
and Have a Good Look
at the Great Public
Buildings
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, March 20. As the
guest of the National Press club at
a house-waiming, President Wilson
tonight unbosomed himse'f to the
newspaper men and gave a word pic
ture of the president of the United
States as he sees himself.
He declared that all descriptions
printed of him heretofore have de
scribed a man who is a stranger to
him. He denied he is a cold, precise,
unemotional, thinking machine, a
piece of icy intellect. He wanted
people to believe that he is a plain
human being, likely to be swayed by
"winds of affection."
"I have constant embarrassment to
restrain the emotions within me.
You may not believe it, but some
times I feel like the fire of a distant
volcano
"If you do not see the lava boil
over it is because you are not near
enough to see the cauldron boiling.
Truly, gentlemen, in the position I
occupy there is a sort of passionate
sense of being connected with my
fellowmen in a peculiar relationship
and responsibility. Sometimes I read
iTticles about myself, but never have
read an article in which I recog
nized myself, and have come to the
conclusion it must be some kind of
a fraud, because I think a great
many . of those articles were written
in absolute good faith.
"I tiemble to think of the variety
and falseness of the impressions I
make, and that 1 am a cold, thinking
machine which I can adjust to cir
cumstance and not allow to be
moved by winds of affection or emo
tion of any kind, but turns like a
searchlight on anything presented to
the attention that makes the think
ing machine work.
"If I seem circumspect it is be
cause I am so diligently trying not
t) make any colossal blunders. The
office of president is so much greater
than any man can ever be, the most
a president can do is to look grave
enough and Self-possessed enough to
fill it,
"I have mixed first and last with
all sorts and classes of men; there
Hie mighty few kinds of men that
have to be described to me, and there
are mighty few kinds of experiences
that have to be described to me, and
when I think of the number of men
who are looking to me as the repre
sentative of a party, with the hopes
for all varieties of salvation from the
things I hey are struggling in the
midst of, it makes me tremble; it
makes me tremble not only with a
sense of my own inadequacy and
weakness, but as if I were shaken by
the very tilings that are shaking
them.
"There are blessed intervals when
I forget by one means or another
that I am the president of the United
States. One means by which I for
get it is to get a rattling good de
tective story, get after some imaging
ary offender and chase him all over,
preferably any continent but this,
because the various parts of this
continent are becoming painfully
suggestive to me. Postoffices and
many other things stir reminiscences
There are postoffices to which I do
not think of mailing a letter, which
I can't think of without trembling
with the knowledge of the heart
burning struggle there was in con
nection with getting somebody in
stalled as postmaster.
"Now, if I were free I would come
not infrequently to these rooms. You
know, I was never in Washington but
a very few hours until I came last
year, and I never expect to see the
inside of the public buildings in
Washington until this term is over,
and the minute I turn up anywhere I
am personally conducted to beat the
band. The curator and every other
blooming official turns up, and they
show me so much attention I don't
see the building. I would have to
say 'Stand aside and let me see what
you are showing me,' and some day
after I am through with this office
I am going to come back to Wash
ington and see it. Meantime, I am
in the same category as the national
museum, and yet even that is inter
esting to me.
"It would be a great pleasure, if
unobserved and unattended, I could
resort to any place in Washington I
chose. I have sometime thought of
disguising 'myself, if it were not
against the laws to disguise one's self.
But if I could disguise myself and
not get caught I would go out, 'be a
free American citizen once more
and have a jolly time. I might then
(Continued on Page Five.)
NOW IS THE Titer, FARMERS TO PREPARE
FOR THE SPRING FLOODS.
By John T McCutcheon.
GILES IS FOR
PHOENIX AS A
HOSPITAL SHE
Moose Lodge Has Some Big
Plans for Uplift of Hu
ln.inirv mid Sanitarium is
One of Them Secretary
liovanv jmiu'i uuiicu
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
In answering that age-old question
in the affirmative, Supreme Secre
tary Giles of the Loyal Order of
Moose last night gave the fundamen
tal reason for the lodge, and en
larged upon the idea enough to con
vince the Moose and their friends
that he is strictlv with Phoenix in
the fight for the location of the
sanitarium in this vicinity.
Society is now recognizing that it
a not a mere group of persons, but
an organism. That when one mem-
ber suffers, all suffer, and when one
member is honored, all members are
uplifted.
Going on this piinciple, the Moose
lodge is planning some big tilings
for itself and the world. One is to
help men in suffering, and the other
to revamp the entire educational idea
of the world. Mooseheart, where the
vocational school is, has been the
first 'entering wedge to split human
ity from its deep-rooted belief in the
present system of education. Moose
Sanitarium, wherever it is located,
will be the start of the self support-
ng tubercular hospital idea, a place
where the patients do not go merely
to consume the milk and eggs and
garden products, but to raise them
and produce them. It will take at
least one thousand acres of fine val
ley land to enable the Moose sani
tarium to support itself.
Giles believes the sanitarium will
be in the state of Arizona. "I am
convinced the Salt River valley is
the place for the sanitarium," he de
clared. "This is the age of the heart.
Now is the time that man recog
nizes the interdependence of man,
and whenever there is need of assis
tance, the purse strings of the world
are loosened."
"I have no voice in the commis
sion that will locate the sanitarium.
But if my recommendation has any
weight,1 it will be for the Salt River ,
valley. Magee and his commission '
,-lCOm,"f ,dOW" hrre,
jouve got to offer, to hear what
your proposition is, ami .to take ac-
(Continued on Page Five.)
rOopyrlKht: 1914: By John T. McCutcheon.
RIOTS ATTEND
CALM ETTE FUNERAL I
PARIS, March 20. With keys
furnished by the murder of Calmette
at the hands of Mint. Caillaux, the
Senate committee began unlocking
the secret of the consideration
which impelled two Premiers of j
France to hinder the trial of Henri
Rochet te, which finally permitted j
the escape of the swindler with j
j three million dollars. Riots at-
tended the funeral of Calmette to-
day in which one Royalist was
I killed and several wounded.
AdmitS Sending
Poisoned Candy
To Four Children
Not only
PORTLAND, March 20
did IMrs. Edith Hawley send poisoned
candy to her three step-children, but
also to her own two-year-old daugh-
ter, according to a confession she is
purported to have made today. She
! arrested last night on complaint
of her husband, who alleged that she
tried wholesale murder because he
would no longer live with her.
The woman endangered not only
the children of her own family but
; th(se of an entire school, when she
' sent a box of poisoned candy to her
step-son in care of the school prin
cipal. Mrs. Hawley said she had
kept some of it to kill herself.
MINE WORKERS SUED
DENVER, March. 20. The filing
of a suit for $1,000,000 by the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company against
officers of the United Mine Workers,
brought forth expressions of pleas
ure from the strike leaders today.
1 IIW fln.fi thil" n t rm ov a ilanln.ail
; that they welcomed the action of
the mine operators because it gave
j tnem
an opportunity to get into a
court of record the alleged fact that
John D. Rockefeller and allied in
terests maintain a gigantic trust
operating in defiance of the law. "We
insist on a trial," declared an at
torney. o
SUFFRAGE BOBS UP I
associated press dispatch!
WASHINGTON, March 20. Votes
for women, defeated yesterday in the
form of the proposed constitutional
amendment, came up again in the
senate today, this time as a proposi
tion, to require states to vote on the
question whenever five per cent of
the electorate required it.
This proviso, in the shape of a re
solution, was introduced by
Shaf-
roth and the opponents of suffrage
, W(re attteatM whcn they tried to
1
send it to the judiciary committee
instead of the suffrage committee.
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MOTOR
SHOW
IN SILL FIRE
jEpovito Vomez May Not
Keeover from Injuries Re
ceived in Blaze Which
Burned Southside House
Last Night
Epovito Vomez, a Mexican section
hand, was burned so seriously that
it is doubtful if he will live, as a
rr suit of being trapped in a blazing
house in the south part of the city
it 11:30 o'clock last evening. The
; hair was singed from his head, and
his arms and body were terribly
. burned and blistered. His pulse was
still beating very low at an early
hour this morning, and doubt is ex
pressed as to his living over today.
An alarm calling the fire depart
ment to Lincoln and Fifth streets
was turned in by telephone at 11:30
o'clock last evening, and the com
pany went at once to the scene. They
found the fire in a small shack just
east of the Thayer warehouse, and
started to open the door. The Mexi
can at that time came to the door,
slammed it shut and went back into
the burning house. He was followed
and shoved out the front door, and
the firemen went on putting out the
flames, which had gained some head
way. In the meantime the Mexican had
disappeared, and the men 'attending
the fire did not think of him again
till after the final water had been
shot into the charred bu'.'ding. They
then started to find Vomez. He was
located and Dr. Brockway was called.
(Continued on Page Five.)
SECTION HAND
BADLY BURNED
Theosophists Want One Da
For Big Peace Celebrate
associated press dispatch
LOS ANGELES, March 20. The
American section of the Theosophical
Society has instituted a movement to
set apart a day on which newspapers
and all other agencies for the human
uplift shall join in a concerted effort
for world peace and human brother
hood. Editorials, sermons, speeches all
i at once throughout the world, it is
', said,
tho
will demonstrate the power of
ought to discard armaments and
warfare.
In. a letter sent out from Krotona, a
E RULE IS
EH OF
''War in Ulster" Cry Comes
Up in "Yellow" Journals
of London The Loyalists
Believe No War Will
Exist
WOOD SAYS MUST
HAVE HOME RULE
Government Sending Armed
Troops into Ulster The
Ulstermen Armed With
Ball Cartridges Cruisers
Out
' r ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
LONDON, March 20 "War in Ul
ster" in black headlines in sensation
al papers, is announcing the govern
ment actions in sending troops to
Iieland to take any measures to
check the belligerent Ulstermen. The
cooler men among the loyalists and
unionists believe no condition of war
will result.
"Three-fourths of Ireland has been
demanding home rule for years.
There is no use of listening to the
clamor of Ulster for more conces
sions," said John Burns, of the Na
tional Liberal club. The unionists'
leaders say the Ulstermen can mus
ter a force of 80,000. All roads in
Ireland are picketed and garrisons
are equipped for battle.
McKinnon Wood, secretary of state
for Scotland, said: "We will carry
home rule for Ireland by an agree
ment if we can; but without an
agreement we must."
Sir John Simon, attorney general,
declared the government would go on
its appointed way.
Unionist papers declare that the
Orangemen have sixty-five highly
tiained battalions, 400 motor cars,
many of which are armored.
The war office received reports that
many officers of the regiment of Ire
land refused to serve In Ulster. Sum
mary action will be taken if the
rumor is substantiated.
Armed Clash Expected
BELFAST, March 20. The arrival
of Sir Edward Carson, the unionist
leader, noncomitant threats of re
bellious outbreaks, accompanied by
prompt reinforcement of the govern
ment troops, together with the post
ing of warships at strategic, points,
brought tension among the militant
opponents to home rule to the break
ing point tonight. Carson counselled
calm, but ball cartridges were doled
out to his guards, while government
regiments marching to the new posts
ostentatiously displayed vast stores
of ammunition and wicked batteries
of machine guns. Dispatch bearers
were sent to all Ulster's volunteer
headquarters who are believed to be
bearing instructions for quick mo
bilization. The arrival of the unionist leader,
fresh from the defiance of the gov
ernment in parliament, and hi9 re
ception by General Richardson, com
mander of the volunteers, and a later
conference with the Ulster leaders,
was watched with keenest interest.
The Dorsetshire regiment, stationed
at Belfast for the past year, marched
with full field equipment and twelve
carts of ammunition, and machine
guns to Holyrood barracks. While
passing Ciaigaven, Carson's head
quarters, the armed guards saluted.
Many Dorsets returned the salute.
The imminent possibility of armed;-'
clashes between the volunteers an."f
the government troops prompted th -Marquis
of Londonderry to issue iyv.
appeal to the people to be calm.
John Redmond telegraphed an u r
gent appeal to the nationalists J $
Belfast to abandon the parade pla' S
ned for Sunday, on the ground tl,
it is certain to precipitate riot i '
bloodshed.
Ulster Officers Resign f
DUBLIN, March 20. A hundred '
ficers of the regiments of U' ;;
have resigned. When it was lea ,
that some of the officers objectey
serving against Ulstermen they 'i
given the alternative of immediu
resigning or being dlsfmssed. x
regiments affected are some olj
most famous in the service: i
Fourth Hussars, with Balaclav:' '
its banners; the Fifth Lancers, '
helped to defend Ladysmith, af(
Sixteenth Lancers, whose rec
back to Waterloo. Government
in Ireland number 24,000. S '
4
colony of Hollywood, A. P. Warring ; ?
general secretary of the TheosophT '
says if a certain day could be chi, ;
and widely heralded as a time fo',
general celebration of the Ideals
peace and brotherhood throughout t '
woriu, ana mis were 10 oe uone i v;
having all the newspapers publish ed
torials, pastors preach, and fraternf '
orders work emphasizing these prli!
ciples, that day a great wave or asp
ration and strength would be turni '
liinua In (ho nmflil ,irhlh urntltrl onnrn .3
ously benefit humanity.
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