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ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
12 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY M()R V
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10H
12 PAGES
.VOL. XXIV. NO. 313
THE
HUERTA GOVERNMENT
CLAIMS VILLA ROUTED
REBELS MAKE DENIAL
First Telegram Received by
War Department in Mex
ico City is Basis for Ex
tra Editions of the News
papers REPORTED LOSS
TO BE 2000
Personal Message f r o m
Villa Says He Holds
Gomez Palaeio and Lerdo.
Expects to Capture Tor
reon Anv Hour
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH 1
MEXICO CITY, March
26. The government again
claimed a victory at Tor
reon, though admitting that
details arc lacking.
A message received at the
war office purported to con
firm the defeat of Villa
with a loss of 700 killed.
The rebels are said to be
retreating to Bermejillo.
This was the first dispatch
from the fighting zone.
Extra editions of news
papers were spread about
the city, based on the gov
ernment's meager dispatch
from San Pedro. In rail
road circles, however, the
news is discredited on the
ground that Ilipplito is 130
miles cast of Torreon, the
nearest point of communi
cation. The government
also claims victories at Gua
tro Cienegas and Artega.
Says Villa Defeated
EAGLE PASS, March
26. A notice was posted at
Piedras Negras declaring
that Villa was defeated at
Torreon, "with a loss of
2000 killed and wounded."
This is said to be based
on a dispatch received from
the battlefield from Gen
eral Maas, who said the
rebels had been forced back
to Noe, a few miles north
of Gomez Palaeio, where
the fighting continues.
Rebels Claim Victory
WASHINGTON, March
2. The constitutionalist
agency here gave out the
following tonight:
"Gomez Palaeio and Ler
do are ours. Torreon is
completely surrounded. We
are expecting victory any
hour."
Conflicting Reports
EL PASO, March 26. Conflicting
reports left the fate of Villa's array
in doubt. Villa telegraphed to Gen.
Chao at Juarez that he has been in
possession of Gomez Palaeio since
this morning and predicted the rebels
will have Torreon by Saturday. On
the other hand federal officials had
"official advices" from the rebels.
Chao gave out Villa's telegram say
ing he still maintained a base at
Klverjil. He added the federals tried
to evacuate Torreon by way of the
hills to the southward but were
driven back. The federal consular
officers said that this was a feint to
draw the rebels over 127 dynamite
mines.
Miguel Diebold, federal consular
Inspector, declared .when the rebels
thought they had Gomez Palaeio they
were victims of a trap, the result
of which they lost heavily, including
six hundred prisoners.
Villa's telegram to Chao added that
until twenty-four hours before he
(Continued on Page Sevenl
Twenty Five Wagons Loaded
With Dead Reach Laredo
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
LAREDO, March 26. Twenty-five
wagons loadeil with wounded or dead,
reached Nuevo Laredo today with the
remnant of General Guardiola's federal
command, defeated Monday at Guer
rero while enroute to attack Matamo
ras. About 300 Federal fugitives from
the battle of Guerrero reached Laredo
last night. Most of them announced
they would not return to Mexico.
WITNESSES MAKE
DEMAND FOR FEES
NEW YORK. March 26 Learn-
! ing that state's witnesses are en-
titled to a fee of fifty cents each j
while they received nothing, thirty
j defense witnesses at the trial of
j Frank Tannenbaum, youthful lead-
er of the Industrial Workers of the j
World, accused of the unlawful as-
semhlage of the "army" at St. Al-
phonsus church, made a demon- j
j stration in court. When threatened
with contempt of court by a bailiff
I they declared they did not care j
! about contempt of this court or any j
court. Scores of witnesses denied
j that the defendant extorted his fol- j
! lowers to disorder.
J I
v
Dr. Mary Walker's
"Walker" Mended
Learning Maxixe
WASHINGTON, March 26. Dr.
Mary Walker, who wears trousers and
a silk hat, today fell a victim to the
Maxixe.
She attended a private dansant and
went through the whole menu of mod
ern dances under the tutelage o a
professional.
"When I was a girl." said Or. Walker,
"I broke my right walker, which other
women would immodestly call their
right leg, and tould not dance because
of lameness. But it has left me now,
and I expect to dance every time I get
the chance."
Dead Salesman
Has Relatives
Now In Phoenix
ASSOCIATED TRESS DISPATCH 1
FRESNO. .March 26. John K. Hil
ton, about forty years old, a traveling
salesman for a flour company with
headquarters at Bakersfield, was
found dead this afternoon under his !
'automobife, between Delano and Tu- j
lare in Tulare county. No reason for j
the accident was apparent. j
Hilton came here about three '
months ago from St. Louis. He has
a wife and a daughter at Phoenix, I
Arizona. j
O !
CONDEMNS BLACKWELL CELLS
i
Report Says They Are Unfit for Pigs;
to Wallow In. I
ASSOCIATED PBESS DISPATCHl
NEW YORK. March 26. "Cells in
Black well Island penitential y are wet,
dark, foul and unfit for pigs to wal
low in," according to a report which
Budetle Lewis, deputy commissioner
of correction .submitted to Mayor
Mitchel, District Attorney Whitman,
and Dr. Katherine I!. Davis, com
missioner of correction. He also filed
a letter on the same subject. Lewis
also said the department of correc
tion will not assume the responsibil
ity for the incarceration of humans
and thereby be a parly to the policy
which continues these vile condi
tions. o
MYSTERY IN OLD AUTO
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
Cl'MPERLAND, Md., March 26.
Mvsterv surronmls the finding of
battered automobile covered with j
snow on the national pike. Th?
clothing of a man and woman was
found, but no trace of any occu
pants. The automobile was under a
drift of snow which has been undis
turbed for five weeks. The license
plate is missing
FATAL NEW MOTORCYCLE
ASSOCIATED PRESH DISPATCH!
HAMMOND, Ind.. March 26. John
Cooper of East Chicago got a new
motorcycle. His first spin resulted
in the death of one man, the fatal
injury of another and seriously in
juring Cooper.
QUIET AT DEPEW
r ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH 1
DEPEW, N. Y., March 26. The
strike of moulders, core makers and
machinists at the Gould coupler
I works is believed to be nearer a set
j tlement than it has been since the
j trouble began nine weeks ago. The
village is under martial law and re
mains quiet.
Francisco Arbila, a Mexican lad, aged
15 years, was shot in the cheek Tues
day while playing on an island in the
Rio Grande near a point where some
Mexican men were bathing. Some of
the boys jeered the bathers, it was said,
, whereupon one of the bathers fired, a
shot striking Arbila. The boy is
j proudly exhibiting the wound which Is
slight.
HI URGES
REPEAL TO SAVE
Savs Tic Asks Xo Conirress-
" t
man to ( hange Personal
Views, But to Correct Se
rious Situation That Now
Threatens
WHOLE WORLD
AGAINST
U.
Unless Repealed Foreign
Governments Will Not
Be Enthusiastic About
Negotiating New Treaties
and Agreements
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON, March 26. The
president told callers that members
of congress are not being asked to
chance their personal opinion on tolls
exemptions, but to vote patriotically
for the repeal to correct the serious
situation that threatens to embar
rass the I'nited States in further ne
gotiations for treaties and trade
agreements. The president told a i
congressman that tnose nasmg tneir
opposition to the repeal on economic
grounds or individual interpretation
of the treaty are losing sight of the
main point the opposition of the en
tire civilized world.
The president emphasized that it
was no personal question with him.
He does not believe that members of
congress will
themselves by
be
compromising ;
changing their vote
now.
Regarding the international situa
tion, the president said that so long
as the judgment of the whole world
is unanimously against the I'nited
States on the question of nationa1
honor, foreign governments will not
be enthusiastic about entering into
further agreements.
Representative Henry paid a tri
bute to the president as having
Jackson iun courage to call upon con
gress for aid to correct a colossal
blunder. Representative Campbell of
Kentucky opened the argument for
the opponents rule limiting the be
bate to fifteen hours.
"The president told us a few days
ago." said Campbell, "that right or
wrong, we must repeal the provision.
In a mysterious fashion he referred
ti the 'foreign policy' of the admin
istration. He told us if we did not
giant him the request he would not
know what to do in other important
matters.
"What is the foreign policy of the
administration Does the president
know? Nobody else does."
Campbell concluded with the ques
tion :
"The old American
nest with the mane
lion; does the young
eagle lined its
of the British
American eagle
tremble with fear when the Rritish
lion growls?"
Representative Pou argued that the
question was whether the United
States proposed to keep its contract
with Great Britain and other na
tions with regard to the canal. He
pointed out that the president could
have no object in acceding to Great
Britain's- request other than to serve
the best interests of the people of
America.
Progressive opposition to the rule
was voiced by Representative Kelly.
He asserted the three political parties
had pledged themselves to free tolls.
He said the people expressed appro
val of the provision in the election.
Declaring himself in favor of the
repeal, Lenroot opposed the rule be
cause it cut off the amendments. He
read a speech In- Spanker Clark when
the Payne tariff law was up in the
house, in which the speaker declared
that the right of amendment should
not be curtailed. Progressive leader
Murdock opposed the rule. Minority
Leader Mann said the importance
of the measure merited more de
liberation than could be given under
proposed rules.
Progressive Leader Murdock op
posed the rule, saying:
"I am not willing to surrender by
my vote in any spirit of easy ac
commodation to Great Britain, this
nution'K sovereignty over the canal.
I do not know fully the complica
tions which bring this crisis. We
are asked not to suspend the toll ex
emption clause until our rights may
be arbitrated, but to confess national
dishonor. I do not know the rela
tions which make Great Britain and
Japan friends or the Japanese and
Huerta allies, or how near the truth
that rumor is that we need the aid
of Great Britain as Japan's friend to
lighten our responsibility in Mexico.
But the known facts are plain and
elementary so far as our right in
the canal is concerned.
"Shall we surrender our sovereignty
in the canal? Before we surrender,
the act seems of little' moment to
many. But after we surrender each
year will emphasize, the error that
may be committed here. Before the
surrender consideration of political
and diplomatic exigency may cloud
trie issue. After the surrender will
come clarity, and national chagrin
and national humiliation."
The President's position was vlgor-
(Continued, on Tage Three.)
11 NOR
GOING A I ; ER THE SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
Some Prominent Drummers Are Trying to Land the fiuiinwi.
By John T. McCutcheon.
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SAYS FOURTEEN
YEAR OLD GIRL
KILLED SISTER
Philip Kilfoil, Arrested for
Offense Against Lillian!
Palmer, Declares Sliej
Gave Poisoned Chocolate
to Marv Kilfoil
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
LOS ANGELES, March 2U. De
claring r Philip Kilfoil took an
"awful long chance" in accusing
fourteen-year-old Lillian Palmer of
the murder of his sister,
ll ary Kil-
foil. District Attorney Fredericks
said the story told by the prisoner
will be rigidly investigated, as it
offered the first glimmer of hope of
a solution of the Kilfoil death mys-
tery, which has been under investi-
gation since Kilfoil was arrested
charged with ;
girl, now about
n oltense :
to become
linst a
mother
in San Diego.
Miss Kilfoil died from poisoned
chocolate she drank at a breakfast
at which Miss Palmer was a guest
early in January. Kilfoil's st;ement
was given to the district attorney
today. He asserted that she con
fessed to him that she put poison
in the food. He never meant to re
veal the secret until a few weeks
ago when he thought he wjis going
to die, of heart trouble when she
told the story to a priest. After
ward, at the plea of his living sister,
Julia, he decided to clear the sus
picion attaching to him.
The Palmer girl is approaching the
pangs of motnernoou anu is in no
condition to tell the officers any
thing yet.
'No one's story should be accept
ed as a fact until it is thoroughly
substantiated." said the district at
torney. "Kilfoil's accusation deserves
to be given all consideration, for any
man in his position who makes such
a statement is taking an awful long
chance." '
Kilfoil's attorney declared that he
had obtained affidavits to prove that
he was far from being responsible for
the Palmer girls condition. Kilfoil
is even in ignorance of it. He also
declared he would show four ways
in which the girl could have ob
tained poison. What motive the
child had for murder is, however, un
disclosed, except in the' supposition
of Kilfoil's attorneys that she hoped
by removing his sister, who was a
chronic invalid dependent on her
brother, he would be free to marry
her, although since it has developed
that he already has a wife in New
York, a girl whom he married when
she was thirteen years old.
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WEATHER TODAY
TASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON. March 26.
Southern California, cloudy.
Arizona, thunder showers and
rains in the mountain districts.
-For
For
local
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HtJIMECIUIIH
NEW YoKK. March 26. Albert
Freeman, convicted with Julian
Howthorn and Dr. Munson of using
' the mails to defraud investors in
mining stock, was granted a new
! trial on the ground that the jury
- which convicted him entertained a
l prejudicial bias. Freeman is free
! pending an appeal under $r0,000
i bail. Hawthorn and Morton
served one year in a federal peni
tentiary. i i
Wants Cruisers
Employed In
Carrying Mails
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON, March 26. With a
view of developing i ommunication be
I twVen the I'nited States and Sou'h
i America, Senator Weeks, republican, of
i Massachusetts, introduced a resolution
J requesting the Stcretary of the Navy
; to prepare a plan for establishing a line
j of naval cruisers to carry passengers,
I freight and m-ii' between New Yin
I and New Orleans and Valparaiso, Chile,
and intermediate ports. He designates
!as the ships to be utilized for such ser-
vice the cruisers Columbia and Min
neapolis and the scout cruisers Salem.
Chester and Birmingham.
American mails south of the equator
are carried in vessels sailing under a
foreign flag, said Senator Weeks, ex
plaining the resolution.
The service is slow and this may be
tasily assumed, militates against the
development of our trade with South
America. If. iater on, private capital
rurtcrtnkc; a line over this route it
should be inclined to withdraw the gov
ernment line.
LIABILITY ACT UPHELD
rARSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
CHICAGO, March 26 The Appelate
Court upheld the employers liability act
in affirming the $ir.,non judgment to
the heirs of J. W. Mason, a switchman
killed on the Rock Island road. It
was the first test of the law.
SPEECH WAS PROPER
ASSOCIATED PRKSS DISPATCH 1
WASHINGTON, March 26 After
reading the copy of Ambassador Page's
recent London speech with reference to
the Monroe Doctrine and the canal, the
President told callers he thought the
speech was perfectly proper.
NO INCREASE OF RATES
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
SAN FRANCISCO. March 26. Ho
tel proprietors announced there
would be no increase of rates during
the 19ir fair. Ninety thousand
rooms will be available at from one
to three dollars per day.
o .
SENTENCE ELECTION OFFICERS
Taspociated press dispatch
JERSEY CITY, March 26. Con
victed of making false election re
turns while serving on Hobnken elec
tion boards, thirteen election officers,
eight democrats and five republicans,
were sentenced to serve from eight
een months to three years.
j Ly,:.icu-s ; j PflPPV CUC CUflT i
Howthorn and Dr. Munson of using .11111111 H I II I I I
! UUIIII I UU UIIU I
ra
Says She Profoundly Re
grets Consequences of
Her Act and Claims She
Coinpletelv Lost Her
Head
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
PARIS. March 26. With a cry
of
indignation .luring her cross-examination
today by Magistrate Boucard
at the preliminary inquiry into the
killing of M. Calmette, Mme. Cail
laux reminded the magistrate of how
the Figato had baited her husband
about the "Thy Joe" letter. She
thVn began to weep.
"I regret profoundly the conse
quences of my act." said the witness
amid her tears. "I would prefer a
tnousantl times that the campaign
had continued rather than I should
have killed M. Calmette. It is im
possible to find for my act another
cause than that which I have given."
M. Fioiieard sought an explanation
of the discrepancies in Mme. Cail
Iaux' recital befoie him and the
story she told the police.
Why did you buy the revolver?"
asked Boucard, "if your object in
callir g on Calmette was to talk about
letters which you feared would be
MUblished?"
"1 was prepared for eventualities,"
was the reply. "If he did not give
satisfaction, I meant to shoot him
and create a scandal."
"Then why diil you not speak to
M. Calmette about the letters before
shooting him?"
"I lost all idea of the object of my
visit when I entered his office. My
voice seemed stifled. I lost my head
and fired," replied Mme. Caillaux.
"I meant to shoot if M. Calmette
gave me no satisfaction, but did not
mean to kill
t icing pistol
to kill him. 1 had been nrac-
shooting merely to la
miliarize myself with
the automatic pistol."
the working of
she continued.
Dower Rights Suit Brings
LOFISV1LLE,
establish dower
March 26. Suit to
rights brought by.
an alleged common
Ellen J. Golden,
law wife, at the
trial revealed in -
timate details of the life of Louis
Philip Ewald. late iron master of
St. Louis and Louisville, five years
alter his death. Ewald devoted
painstaking efforts and a fortune
during his life to keep his affairs
secret. The estate is estimated to
be worth $4,000.01)0. He willed $15,
OOaO to each of his nine brothers
ami sisters and the remainder to
ASQU1TH FAILS
TO MAKi PUBLIC
HIS HIEfll
This is
That
Taken
Ulster
to Indicate
Affair is
Forcing British Govern
ment into Critical Situa
tion . J
NEW
RESIGNATIONS
'ARE ANNOUNCED
the Meantime There is
No Change in Situation
in Ireland Belfast is Re
maining Quiet
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
LONDON, March 26. That the
government is facing a situation of
extreme difficulty is proved by the
fact that Premier Asquith was not
in a position to make his promised
statement and consequently it was
postponed until tomorrow. The air
is filled with rumors, the most credi
ble being a report that Colonel
Seeley, after all, is to quit the war
office by an exchange of portfolios
with Louis Harcourt, secretary of the
colonies.
The only new facts in the situation
were found in the resignation of
Field Marshal Sir John French of
the imperial general staff and that of
John Spencer Ewart as adjutant gen
eral from the council. The rumor
persists that other members of the
I council have resigned. Negotiations
! and conferences were; many. The
prime minister called a hurried meet
ing of the cabinet at his residence
after which it was decided to post
pone the statement to parliament.
There is no change in the situation
in Ireland. Belfast remains quiet.
Nothing is likely to be known of
ficially until Premier Asquith makes
his statement in the house of com
mons, when it will probably be
found that the removal of Colonel
Seeley from the war office is the
price paid for the withdrawal of the
resignations of Generals French and
Ewart and the arrangement ot this
matter was the reason for the post
ponement of the premier's state
ment. According to the best information
the conference at. the war office yes
terday afternoon of all principal com
manding generals of the army was
called to enable Generals French and
Ewart to explain that their resigna
tions was a personal matter arising
solely from the fact that they" signed
the Gough memorandum, which the
government had since repudiated, and
they urged that all the other officers
should remain at their posts.
Then followed interviews with the
ministers and audience with the king
with a view to inducing them to re
consider their action. But both Gen
eral French and Ewart remained
firm in their decision that it would
be impossible for them to retain their
post while Col. Seeley remained sec
retary of war. They were willing,
however, to withdraw their resign
nations if Colonel Seeley was re
moved. Faced by this ultimatum and the
knowledge that a strong feeling
against Col. Seeley existed among a
large section of the radical support
ers of the government, the prime
minister seems to have arrived at
the conclusion that he must abandon
Colonel Seeley.
Field Marshal French tendered his
resignation, afterwards authorizing
the statement that the resignation
neither has been accepted or with
drawn. o
DECREASE IS SHOWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. For
the eight months ending February
28, th Southern Pacific showed a de
crease of J3. 200.000 gross revenue,
and a decrease in revenue in excess
of the expenses of operating and
tax of $4,500,000. The taxes were
increased from JS.000 to $11,000.
LEQUIA FORCED TO QUIT
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
LIMA, March 26. Roberto Lequia.
acting president since tho exile o
Billinghurst, following the recent re
volution, was forced to resign today,
after many riots marked the failure
of congress to secure a quorum in
order to arrange an election.
Out Ewald's Life Secret
Ellen Gulden's three children, whom
he had adopted.
The plaintiff testified that follow-
iing an alleged commonlaw marriage
! Ewald furnished her an elaborate
home here and he took her name.
For the purpose of seclusion he pur
chased a costly residence next to
hers, keeping it vacant. Although
Ewald operated an iron foundry sev
eral years, accumulating several mil
lions, he was practically unknown in
this city and shunned tho ordinary
notice and acquaintance of men.