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THE AMZOHA REPUBLICAN AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR 10 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MONDAY ,MO.iv: v ;. MARCH 30, 1914 10 PAGES VOL. XXIV. NO. 316 TORREON STILL HOLDS OUT AGAINST A TTACK OF VILLA'S THOUSANDS Meager News from Front is Unfavorable to Rebels Wounded Constitutional ists Continue to Arrive at Chihuahua REPORT VILLA BEEN. WOUNDED Rebel Chief's Injury Slight and 'News is Kept from Rank and File Because of the Moral Effect on the Men ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl CHIHUAHUA, March 29. Such news as was received here from the front today was unfavorable to the rebels. Wounded rebel soldiers con tinued to arrive by train, bringing the number now here to 588. Several hundred other wounded were provid ed for at Jiminez, and batches of Wounded were distributed at Parral and Santa Rosalia. This evidence of the sanguinary conflict at Torreon with the sugges tion that the list of dead on the rebel side must necessarily be great, tend ed to make the headquarters here reticent about the progress of the battle. Officers here admitted they had received dispatches from the front, but declined to reveal their contents. A report originated from one of the hospitals after more wounded rame in, that Gen. Francisco Villa had been wounded lightly and had teen required to retire from the front. The report was based merely on the word of a wounded soldier Who, however, insisted he had seen Villa wounded. A dispatch read that for moral effect the news had been withheld from the rank and file of the rebel army. A German military observer who arrived today from the front, said: "The Federal army lured us right into Gomez Palacio, a suburb north of Torreon, before they opened fire. Then they let loose such a hail of rifle and machine gun shot as would have completely, demoralized an or dinary Mexican army. The men fell by scores. One cotton bale platform by the railroad tracks was so cover ed with dead rebels we could not walk across without stepping on a body. "General Villa had such a large army that he felt he could afford to sacrifice many men to get a foot hold in the town. Almost the whole Zaragoza brigade, under General Aguierre Benavidos was thus wiped out, though I think General Benavi dos escaped. "The shock and surprise to the rebel troops, who expected to scare the federals and walk into Torreon with little fighting, resulted in a temporary withdrawal. Three or four days' fighting up to the time I left, had failed to bring about re sults." The elaborate three-day program for the reception of General Carran za on his arrival was abandoned in part today because of the presence here of many wounded. It is be lieved that General Carranza will not come to Chihuahua until he is sat isfied that General Villa will remain in the south, as a meeting of the two revolutionary leaders Is not look ed upon as opportune at this time. General Villa's delay in taking Tor reon has revived the belief that should the Huerta forces drive them north, something in the nature of a northern republic, embracing the states on the boundary of the United States, will be established. The plan of separating the north from the south of Mexico has long been con templated by the same rebel leaders, they contend the north and south in the last half century have developed along different lines, both politically and industrially. Carranza Reaches Juarez JUAREZ. March 29. General Ven ustiano Carranza, first chief of the revolution, was welcomed here to day.; Thorughout the last two weeks the general has ridden on horseback five hundred miles and in the last two months he has covered five Mexico City Ignorant Of Result Of The Battle ' (associated press dispatch I tention of Torreon as more essential MEXICO CITY, March 29. With J from the point of view of Mexico's the exception of somewhat contra-j foreign relations than from a mili dictory information contained in tary standpoint. Some think the re press -dispatches and the laconic as- surance by General Velasco, federal commander at Torreon to the war department, this city is ignorant of the result of Villa's attack. The oc cupation of Torreon is regarded by military men as essential to the early success of either side. Huerta is showing concern, he and his minister of war, sending forward every available detachment of troops as reinforcements. It is believed that Villa will have to face from 15.000 to 18,000 federals, including the best organizations in the army. Diplomatic representa tives are inclined to regard the re- SAYS STEP DAUGHTER ENTERTAINS TOO MUCH LOS ANGELES, March 29. John J. Laws, aged 84. has filed in the Superior Court an appeal for an injunction to prevent his step- j daughter. Miss Alma Turner, from I making her home with him. He objects because she entertains three nights each week, making it j impossible for him to sleep till the j I guests depart. Students Make Demonstrations Against Huerta t ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl MEXICO CITY, March 29. Demon- strations against Huerta have taken. nlace in the streets of the capital. The police fired upon a small crowd of stu dents, who were marching and shout ing "Muertos" for Huerta. Emboldened by the growing popular belief that the government forces are failing to hold back the rebels at Tor reon, the students organized a mani festation movement. More than 50 joined them when the police appeared. Half a hundred shots were fired, but the police fired high and hurt no one. Several vv.ere arrested, and the others escaped down the side streets. thousand miles in the same way. He looked the picture of health and vigor today. "The time is coming when the world can plainly see the great cause of which I have the honor to be the head is the cause of justice," said General Carranza. An official mes sage from the front reports that fighting is still going on for the pos session of Torreon. The telegram says the rebels now hold all posi tions except the main Iiarracks and the two smallest barracks. In the last twenty-four hours it is reported Villa, took Carro lit La Cruz and the Torreon foundry. Another telegram admits that 900 rebel? were killed or wounded the last six days and places the federal losses as minimized. Among the rebel wounded is General Urbina. . It is said that private soldiers taken prisoners were taken into the rebel ranks, but officers were ex ecuted unless they would take an oath of allegiance to the constitu- j tionalist cause. All the irregular troops in the federal garrison were executed upon their capture. It is believed here that the assault of General Villa on Torreon last night was repulsed, or at best, that some incident unknown here prevented the attack. The last word from the re bel general was received at 11 o'clock last night when j telegrams from him quoted him as saying the taking of the city was not the mat ter of hours, but minutes. This was premature, for even Carranza upon his arrival today said he had receiv ed no word from the front and that evidently Villa had not yet taken the federal stronghold. The attack on Torreon began Fri day and up to last night rebel ad vices, private and official, said that General Herrera had taken some of the most important points in the city. There have been no newspaper dispatches dealing with this attack and similarly in this situation with that of Gomez Palacio it was point ed out as significant. When Villa was successful, the newspapermen were permitted to send dispatches and when repulsed, which was twice, the press messages suddenly ceased. Juarez confidently- expected news of the canture of the citv would form the chief feature of the welcome to I Carranza and the fact that no mes sage of success was received is ac cepted as an indication that the fate of Torreon is still in the balance. When Carranza entered Juarez an American flag was carried by the side of the Mexican emblem and some of the natives as well as the Americans cheered. I cognition of the belligerency of the , rebels will follow the fall of that city. It is also asserted the fall of Torreon would hasten Huerta's resig nation, leaving Foreign Minister Ro jas in the presidency and that Huerta would later become a candidate for re-election. The only information received by the war department regarding the operations at Torreon is a report j that the rebel line of communication nas been cut near Montezuma Be tween Juarez and Chihuahua. Gen eral Moure has not yet been able to effect a juncture with General Velasco. Hi BUREAU HAS PROBLEM OF CONSERVATION Commissioner Cato Sells, in First Annual Report, Points Out Good Citizen Problem Confronting His Department THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND INDIANS This Number, Under Juris diction of Indian Office, Has Combined Property Worth Nine Hundred Million Dollars (Special tc The Republican.) WASHINGTON. March 2!). The ..,, ,,.,. nf iv,., k. reau of Indian Affairs, covering the period from July 1, 1912. to June 30, 1913, will soon be ready for public dis tribution. This being the fir.st report of Com missioner Cato Sells, it deals princi pally with the activities of the Indian bureau during the administration of his predecessors, Commissioner Sell having assumed control of thy bureau about one month ln-fore the end of the fiscal year. Considerable space is given to a recitation of the com missioner's suggestions as to the needs of the Indian service, attention being invited to some of the larger questions which now confront his office for solu tion in the administration of the affairs of the Indians. The report being for the fiscal year 1913, of course no refer ence is made to the activities or ac complishments of the Indian bureau since July 1, 1913. Attention is called to the fact that the Indian country under the jurisdic tion of the Indian office has an area as large as that of all the New England states and the state of New York com bined. It is stated that there are ap proximately three hundred thousand Indians, whose combined property is estimated to he worth about nine hun dred millions of dollars. " 'Commissioner """Sells says' that "the question of how this property may be conserved for the benefit of the Indians and how they shall he taught to make the best use thereof and otherwise be come properly equipped to take their place as citizens of the United States, are the great problems confronting the Indian bureau. He says that among the details still to be worked out and which are now pending, he finds that, notwithstanding the fact that since 1S76 the government has provided approximately eighty mil lion dollars for schools among the In dians, there are today ten thousand Indian children without any school facilities whatever, principally in the southwest, andmore particularly among the Navajo and Papago Indians. That there are about seven thousand five hundred defective Indian children, either physically or mentally, for whose care and training no adequate facilities are available. The present available appropriation for Indian schools provides for 223 day schools, situated on Indian reservations near the Indian homes: 76 boarding schools located on the reservation, and 35 boarding schools located off the reser vations and known as non-reservation schools. Of the 65,nrt Indian children of school age. these schools care for approximately 25,000. There are en rolled in mission and public schools 22,500 Indian children, leaving 17,500 normal and defective children uneared for. Attention is called to the need for increased appropriations for Indian school work, so that all Indian children may be provided with school facilities. The commissioner describes the health conditions among the Indians as j deplorable. Under the jurisdiction of there are approximately his bureau 25,000 Indians suffering from tubercu losis, while the available Indian hospi tal facilities for all of these patients, adults and children, will not exceed three hundred beds. During the past fiscal year 190r Indians were reported as having died from tuberculosis; this being probably not more than seventy five per cent of the total number of Indians who have died from this dis ease during the fiscal year. Thirty two per cent of all deaths reported from the reservations were due to pul monary tuberculosis, as against 11.2 ner cent occuring from the same dis ease in the registered area of the I'nited States. The death rate among the Indians was 32.25 per thousand while the census bureau gives 16.00 uer thousand for the entire registered of the United States. Trachoma io referred to as a serious eye disease of which there exists more than sixty- thousand cases among the Indians. It is said to be very essential that addi tional appropriations be made to con struct hospitals to check and control these diseases anil to improve the In dians' health conditions generally, also to nrevent contagion among their white neighbors. Closely related to the prevalence of tuberculosis and trachoma are the housing conditions of Indians. It is es timated that there are approximately eight thousand Indian families without homes, who live in mud lodges, tepees and wickiups, a large number of them on dirt floors and under revolting con tContinued on Page Six.) HOW v 12 HUERTA IS II BETTER HEALTH THAN III YEARS After Year in Office Presi dent of Mexico Seems to lie Unaffected by tin Many Troubles lie lias Encountered T ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH! MEXICO CITY, March 29. After a year in office General Huerta ap pears in better health than when he undertook the presidency. The diffi culties he has encountered have left no stamp upon his features. Six months ago some of his friends and most of his enemies predicted early physical collapse and there were some who would not have been sur prised had his intellect suffered as the result of the enormous odds. I 'Take things as they come." seems , to have been the life-long philosophy ; of Huerta, tempered always, however, j with the belief that all things come o him who waits, especially to him who waits for and seizes the big op- lortunity. Worrying has never been one of Huerta s tailings. .or is he creature of routine. Regularity does not characterize his methods, i He does his work when and where it- suits his convenience and all mem bers of his official family, the pub lic, and his private family as well have to yield. Long ago he tired of the regular cabinet meetings and announced that conferences with his ministers would take place whenever he summoned them, and there would be no place regarded as sacred to that ceremony. .It is not uncommon for the presi dent to summon his ministers to a meeting during the middle of the night and cabinet meetings, or what would pass for cabinet meetings, have taken place in cafes Huerta does not indulge in physi- cal exercise as a means of recrea- tion. He derives his recreation in talking astronomy with any one who can interest him In the subject. I s- uallv he is up early. , Tiie lightest kind of breakfast, coffee and rolls, he gets as soon' as he Is awake. A little work, if he thinks of anything to do, and then almost every morn ing a walk up and down the side walk in front of his house in the district known as San Rafael. AVith out much routine, and with execu tive mastery shoving all he can onto his subordinates, he ploughs through the day's work until seven or eight o'clock when he ready for dinner. Huerta is conducting a democratic regime. He likes to dine in public and he does not like formalities. He marches in with no apparent con cern, selects a table and orders his dinner. The orchestra does not in terrupt the piece it is playing merely because the president is entering and the other diners, grown accustomed to being co-patrons with the presi- KEY - ' )XT NTRY STANDS ON y John T. McCutcheon. Copyright: 1914: By John T. McCutcheon.J PejaudiatingTreaty with gran Agajnst-Repudi ati ng Treaty granting special mvneges GRAFT PIG'S EYE INTO CHILD'S HEAD j BALTIMORE, March 29. Sight was given to the left eye of David. 1 Kane, the nine months' old son of ! Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kane, of Gettysburg, through grafting of I the cornea of a pig's eye to the I child's eyeball. According to the statement of the phyisicians at the I hospital the cornea of a pig's was ; used because it is said to more i closely resemble the human cornea ! than that of any other animal. I i 1 Says Get Money Out Of Whiskey Business Quick f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH KANSAS CITY, March 29. "If you! t have any money in the liquor busi- j r.ess, get it out, and get t out quick. In five years brewery stock! ::t this country will not be worth as much as confederate money in 1865," .Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, of Macon, ' Georgia, asserted in addressing the interstate National W. C. T. U. rally. The meeting was the first of a series of interstate gatherings to be convened throughout the country in the fight for national constitutional prohibition. FACING QUARANTINE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. Three hundred and fitfy passengers due on the liner Siberia from the Orient today faced quarantine at Angel Island two weeks. Smallpox among among Chinese, thesterage passengers was re ported by wireless. The quarantine officers say the passengers possibly will escape detention if the captain has taken strict measures, and will be al lowed to depart after a thorough dis infection of their clothing and bag gage. MINE MEN DEADLOCKED ASSOCIATED PRESS DlSPATCHj PHILADELPHIA, March 29. Miners and operators of the Central Pennsyl vania bituminous coal district. who nnve hecn in conference a week in an effort to arrange a new wage scale ef- i fective April 1, are still deadlocked, ! The operators proposed that the pres- ent scale be renewed. They said if i this proposition is not accepted the mines in Central Pennsylvania will be closed on April 1 until an agreement is reached. The mine workers will make reply tomorrow. . ! tfjfi o TURN LUNATICS LOOSE LOS A NO ELKS, March 29. Inves t'gation will be made of charges by the sheriff's office that twenty-five former inmates of the King's Park, New York, insane asylum, were brought west in a special train and ' turned loose in several western cities. including Los Angeles. It is said that all were discharged as cured, and one of them was found here, and is suspected of still being insane. dent, do little more than crane their necks to see who it is dining, to night with Huerta. CANAL TOLLS. Great Britain and lor Shipping Trust. with Great Britain fyadainst co ompping irusc. ALL WEEK ALL THE II. S. Weather Bureau Had Cal culated About Seven Days of Precipitation With Un settled Weather Phoe nix Again Soaked associated press dispatch WASHINGTON', March 29. Un settled1 weather with frequent rains over nearly ail parts of the I'nited States is predicted by the United States weather bureau for the entire coming week. If there was any part of this state tnat escaped being wet by yester day's rains, it was not reachable by wire last night. From the Grand Canyon down through the mountains and across the deserts the cloud cover delivered its moisture to the parched soil. Thirty-eight hundredths of an inch of rain fell in Phoenix, but it did pretty well for that fractional amount. It succeeded in effacing pretty nearly every form of united effort from the Phoenix Sunday pro gram. With the .53 inch that fell the day before, this makes nearly an inch of fall in thirty-six hours. Reports from Roosevelt had it that rain had been intermittent and rath er light at that place. Granite Reef reported a day of almost steady downpour. Fossil Creek station re corded some rain, and from prepara tions made to divert a large quan tity of water at the local dam. it is evident that a Verde flood is ex pected. The gives at Roosevelt were partly closed yesterday. Further south there was even more rain. Tucson had .4S inch. No de finite reports could be scared up in the southwest, but it is likely that the Yuma district received its share of the wetness. Rain breaking at this time of the year is predicted by old timers to (Continued on Page Three.) Oratorical Strife Coming Over Repeal Toll Exemption ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, March 29. Oratori cal strife over the repeal of the toll exemption of American coastwise ships in the Panama canal will be renewed in Congress tomorrow. There will be a general debate on the Sims' bill in the House and a final vote will be taken there probably on Tuesday or Wednesday. There are many sides to the issue in the Senate. Senator Lewis, of Illi nois has introduced a bill as a sort of balm to the democrats who are opposed OF HE ESP Visit of Chief Engineer Isaacs of Uarriman Lines Gives Rise to Belief Con struction May; Begin at Early Date " 1 FROM BUCKEYE ON TO YUMA! Completion of Extension Westward Probable, Giv ing Opportunity to Divert Through Trains by Way; of Maricopa Is Phoenix soon to be upon the main line of the Southern Pacific? Are the transcontinental trains of the system to be routed through tho capital of Arizona in the near future? Was the visit of J. D. Isaacs, chief engineer of the Harriman lines, and J. Q. Barlow, assistant engineer, without particular significance? These are the questions that are be ing asked by those who profess to bo able to tell by straws the way the wind is blowing, especially a railroad winu. That the so-called Buckeye railroad is to be extended from Hassayampa river to Yuma and that the through trains of the Southern Pacific will then be diverted through this city, east and west ,is generally believed despite the denial of Isaac and Barlow in that respect. Chief Engineer Isaacs arrived in Phoenix on Friday, coming here in the office car Sierra Nevada, Assistant Engineer Barlow arived the same day from San Francisco, traveling in the office car Pacific. They immediately undertook an inspection of the local lines and on Saturday, accompanied by Superintendent C. M. Scott, went down to the Hassayampa river, the end of the Buckeye line. They left yesterday morning without divulging anything concerning their visit. This is the first time In many months that either of these officials have been in Phoenix. Coming here so soon after the filing of the articles of incorporation for the Tucson, Phoenix and Tidewater Railroad, a line that promises to place Phoenix upon its first transcontinental line and tho known determination of the Southern Pacific to ultimately make Phoenix its most important point in Arizona, lends color to the belief that the Southern Pacific has awakened to the necessity of prompt action if it is to retain rail road supremity as far as Phoenix and the Salt River Valley is concerned. It was never claimed that the Has sayampa river was to be the terminus of the Buckeye railroad. It has always been understood that ultimately the line would be extended on to Yuma. The holding up of the Gila Box Canyon projected line, which has been looked upon as the logical eastern connecting ink has been considered the reason for the holding up of the extension of the western line. Had there been no mov on the part of a competing line to eut the field and make a bid for the pres tige the Southern Pacific has consider ed to belong to it rightfully, the pro ject to extend the Buckeye line would probably never have come up until the final determination of the disposition of the San Carlos or some other east ern connection. According to the rumors that havo gained wide circulation the past two or three days, the Southern Pacific is aware that it will be a simple matter to extend the Buckeye line to Yuma, divert the main line trains through Phoenix, utilizing the big shop and general office facilities recently com pleted here and at once be in a position to announce to the world that Phoenix is upon its main line. This would tem porarily solvethe main line question porarily solve the time for ariving at a decision with respect to the connecting line with the east. No person would be greatly surpris ed if in a few days parties of survey ors arrived here and were immediately sent down into the Hassayampa coun try. Even this would not be absolutely necessary for the Southern Pacific al ready has a projection from the Has sayampa to Yuma, The line could be built in a very short time, a few weeks at the most. The coming of Isaacs and Barlow is believed to be the first step in that direction. to the President's policy. The meas ure would give the President authority to suspend tolls whenever in his opin ion he should do it in public interest. ' The President's close advisors Insist that he holds no ill will or political grudge aganst the democrats opposing him. There are breakers ahead for this bill, however, as the Senate may not vote for five or six weeks as the result of long speeches. Other matters are practically eclipsed in Congress by the pending tolls legislation. EK i i