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THE AKIZOMA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
14 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORXlXiJ, APRIL 10, 1914
14 PAGES
VOL. XXIV. NO.
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TAMPICO NOW CENTER
OF INTEREST IN WAR
WRETCHED REPUBLIC
Burning Oil Rcfincrv Causes
Pall of Oil Smoke to Hang
Over Beleaguered Citv,
While the
tinues
Fighting
Con-!
SHOTS FALL NEAR j
AMERICAN SHIPS
Federal Reinforcements Ave
Rushed to Scene in (inn-'
boat Other .Mexican War.
Vessels Bombarding the
Fighting Zone 1
associated press dispatch!
VERA C1UZ, April 9. The Ameri
can consulate has received word from
the consular agent at Tuxpan that
grave rumors are current that Tampico
has fallen. Late reports say the fed
eral gunboats are successfully defend
ing the town, nut doing much damage
owing to poor marksmanship. Many
have 'alien near the American war
ships in the river. - The federals are
reported being so hard pressed that
all the chief officials throughout the
country have been ordered to force en
listments to the utmost.
The gunboat Bravo is being made
ready to sail from here to Tampico i
with three hundred troops and ammu
nition, j
The warehouse of the Aguila Oil j
company was destroyed in the fighting
nt Tampico, according to a wireless
message. Tampico is reported to be
enveloped in smoke from the burning
oil tanks. General Maas, the com
mandant at Vera Cruz, received an ur
gent call for the Bravo and for ammu
nition. Rear Admiral Mayo, in his
report, filed nt 10 this morning, says
the fighting continues, but that the
fierce advance of the rebels was
checked by a strong fire from the Zar
agoza and Vera Cruz. Sixty Ameri
can women are aboard the United
States warships. The German cruiser
Dresden has gone farther up the river
to the rescue of others. The battle
ship I'tah left for Tampico at this
evening. Norman Lind. son of John
Lind, is aboard.
Ortsga's Brigade Crippled
T.i PASO, April 9 News of an im
portant rebel defeat at San Pedro, 40
miles northeast of Torreon, was
broiighlh y newspaper men who were
not allowed to send the news from the
rebel camp, lief ore the correspondents
left Torreon the defeated rebel column .
with its wounded staggered back. !
It is also understood at Torreon pee ling an announcement of the date,
that General Velasco succeeded in and some who profess to be well in
joining the federal General Garcia Hi-formed think it will be April 3. or
dalgo at Saltillo, wao, with several
thousand men started to reinforce Ve
lasco at Torreon, but delayed. The
combined forces at Saltillo number
about 12,000. if the report proves cor
rect. Villa sent only a brigade under
j. General f irtega against San Pedro. The
federal column returned Tuesday badly
punished, the rebels' rapid fires sweep
ing thclevelplains and working havoc.
Washinaton Anxious
WACIIlnTriV Anril 0 Offiei.-ils 1
' 1.. . r .v, ...,tt,. ,.t
tile ltltri dHAIiU--" I "1 nil: r,nc "i
foreign property in the Tampico dis
trict, where a German warehouse was
burned and where the Waters-Pierce
oil refinery Is in imminent danger of
burning. Meager reports from the bor
der say 1,300 men renewed fighting
east of Torreon and left the war de
partment more in louht than ever as
occupancy of that city.
The Waters-Pierce refinery, the navy
department learned, was occupied by
the attacking forces during the past
few days, and as a result shell after
shell has been poured into it from the
federal gunboats.
More Ugly Reports
El"; PASO, April 9. Reports of the
oppressive treatment inflicted on H. S.
Cunard-Cummins, the acting British
vice-consul at Torreon, was brought by
newspaper correspondents from the
front. It is said that while sending
news from the front was not prohib
ited. It was so censored that it is prac
tically worthless. It is said Villa com
pelled Cnnard-Cnmmins to run the risk
of carrying the demand for the sur
render to Velasco, the trip being made
under protest, during which Cummins
was fired upon.
THE WEATHER
WASHINGTON, April 9. For Ari
zona: Fair.
Won't Stand Increased Cost
Of Production Of Coal
r ASSOCt ATED PRESS DISPATCH
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 9 A
breach between the miners and
operators of district No. 11 of In
diana, was threatened at the open
ing of their joint conference, called
today to formulate a wage scale to
replace the one which expired on
March 31. The first of the sixteen
demands of the miners was for a
seven-cent differential between pick
and machine-mined coal, and was
read by William Houston, president
of the district.
"It was understood by the opera
MODERN JEKYLL-HYDE
GOES TO SING SING
NEW YORK, April 9. Edward
Mendel, a modern Jekyll-Hydo,
who was a respected iron and
steel merchant of Newark, N. J.,
by day and a. thug in New York
by night, was sentenced to
eighteen years in Sing Sing.
Mendel lured Mrs. Pauline Koet
zcl to a freight yard and there
tore diamond ear rings from her
ears. Mendel is a member of
many fraternal orders and elubs
in Newark, and many letters
from them to the judge insisted
that some mistake had been
made. In court three other wo
men identified him as the man
who tore their ear rings off also.
Say Ballots Were
Burned And Tally
Sheets Doctored
I associated pi:e
TF.RUE HALTK,
IS DISPATCH
Ind.. Anril !.
That unused ballots were burned in
stead of being returned to the city
clerk as required by law, and that
tally sheets showing the vote in tho
last citv election were signed before
the count was made, was the testi
! mony of Lcn 11. Hollis. progressive
) election judge, in the trial of Mayor
'Don M. Roberts, charged with elec-
tion frauds today.
I Hollis said" the unused ballots were
burned by John E. Greene, an in-
spector.
Goldie Wade, a rooming house
! keeper, from whose place six names
: were registered, testified that no
1 men lived at that number.
o
Wilson-M'Adoo
Wedding To Be
Quiet Affair
ASSOCIATED I'r.ESS DISPATCIll
WASHINGTON, April fl. Al
though there has been no expression
from the White House as yet,
friends of Secretary MoAdoo and
Miss Kleanor Wilson, the president's
youngest daughter, who are to be
married soon, believe the wedding
will be a quiet family affair.
Washington society is daily ex-
early in May.
BELIEVE ROBBER TAKEN
r ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH!
NEW HAZF.l.TON, P. C. April 9.
A wounded Russian has been ar
rested on suspicion of being a mem
ber of the gang who held up the
I'nion bank on Tuesday. The pri
soner said there were ten the gang
that overtook him as he was walk-
'"f
along the railroad track and
forced
him to accompany them. He
was shot in the leg during
chase.
the
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DELAY RUSSIA TREATY
ASSOCIATKO PRESS PSP VTCIl
WASHINGTON. April 9 Negotia
tions for a new commercial treaty
with Russia will not be begun, ac
cording to President Wilson, until a
new ambassador is appointed. The
I president said today he was still un
decided about the ambassadorship,
and was considering three men.
SMUGGLING LIQUOR?
associated press dispatch 1
ST. LOl'IS, April 9 An oil tank
car billed to Oklahoma City, in the
Iron Mountain yards here, was
found to be loaded with whiskey,
wine and beer. It is believed an at
tempt was being made to smuggle
liquor iflto Oklahoma, a prohibition
state.
BLAKESLEE MAKES SAVING
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCIll
WASHINGTON, April 9. Econo
mies effected by Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General P.lakeslee during
l the first year of his administration
1 have netted the government a saving
'of Jl, 000.000. according to the figures
of Postmaster "General Puitioson.
tors from your district officials," in
terrupted Phil II. Penna, secretary
of the operators' association, "that
no change in the scale of wages was
to be asked. If this is an example
of the flemands about to be made, we
may an well adjourn immediately.
"Men who are familiar with the
coal production in this district know
that for the last fifteen years we
have been just holding our own, and
I wish to say that the operators will
not concede to any demands that
will Increase the cost of production."
DISTRICT R. S.
OFFICE 10 BE
BROUGHT HERE
Headquarters of Supervis-j
ing Lngmeer r . . Ilauna.
Will iie Changed from
Los Angeles to Center of
Biggest Project
PHOENIX COMES
INTO IlLR OWN
Action of Reclamation Com
mission Xo Surprise to
Those Acquainted With
Situation Ilanna Has
Great Task Ahead of Him
That restoration of the office of
the supervising engineer of the
southern reclamation district to
Phoenix, which has been expected
since the appointment of Frank W.
Ilanna to ihe job, is, now a certainty.
Washington wired so to Hanna yes
terday mormng.
It was a decision of the reclama
tion commission, through the recom
mendations of Ilanna to Chief En
gineer Davis that brought about this
change. Ilanna has realized for some
time that Phoenix and not I.os An
geles was the central point in the
district, although it happened to be
unite convenie nt to jump out of the
California office to all the projects.
Hut railroad convenience is not
everything, and the desire and nec
essity of being on the ground, where
work is being done, influenced the
commission in making its decision.
With Hanna are two other officers
w ell known Iry reason of ihe fact
they have both operated in the Salt
lUvvr Valley: District Counsel W.
S. Witbeck and Chief Clerk S. Ti.
Taggart. With "Tag'- it is a case of
oming back among friends, for
while Louis O. Hill was supervising
engineer, and before the appointment
f '. H. Fitch as project engineer.
and in the days when the main of
fice was located in Phoenix. Taggart
was one of the project's best known
workers. Wilheck is also well known
here, having lived in the valley be
fore the officers were moved to
Southern California.
The discovery of quarters for the
offices will lie a matter of not little
importance. There is a slight over
crowding in .the reclamation offices,
which now include by far i!ie ma
jority of the rooms in the Water
t'sers' building. In bis ignorance of
conditions in the Federal building.
Ilanna yesterday suggested quarters
there. Fortunately none of the Fed
eral building tenants heard the idea
or there would have been an awful
and piercing cry. Already the Fed
eral building has been outgrown, and
everybody in it is casting about for
more elbow room. The postoffiee is
the only institution that is not in
the estate of the honored sardines in
a box.
A Flock of Dates
Hanna was named as supervising
engineer of the southern reclamation
district on February 1. 1914. He as
sumed the duties in control of the
Salt River pioject on February 1T.
At that time he was as now the
chairman of the survey board with a
great task ahead of him in the mat
ter of delimiting the project. On
March 1, he became bead of the en
gineering department of the entire
district, and shortly after left on a
tour of inspection of the 1'lah pro
ject and bis office in Eos Angeles.
On May 1. the office will be open
ed in Phoenix all furniture and ef
fects and the workers having arrived
by that lime.
The Southern District
It includes Arizona, Southern Cal
ifornia, I'tah, New Mexico and
Texas.
Its projects arc six in number, the
Salt River being the biggest, best
and most advanced: Salt River.
Yunla, Arizona, Rio Grande-Elephant
Butte. Carlsbad. Hondo, New Mexico
ind Strawberry Valley, I'tah.
THE WILSONS TRAVEL
Start for White Sulphur Springs for
Mrs. Wilson's Health
'f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCIll
WASHINGTON. April 9. The
president left for White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., for a three, day
trip, the object of which is the ben
efit of the health of Mrs. Wilson.
In the party also were Misses Mar
garet and Eleanor Wilson, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Rowes Sayre, Secretary
Tumulty and I)r. Carl T. Grayson.
The party traveled in a private car.
The president returns on Monday,
but his wife will probably make an
extended visit.
o
SUFFRAGETTE WIELDS CLEAVER
"ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
LONDON, April 9. With a
butcher's cleaver she had concealed
under her cloak, a suffragette at
tempted to demolish a glass case
containing valuable porcelains in the
British museum. The sound of
splintering glass brought two attend
ants to the scene before she had de
livered many blows. She was turned
over to the police.
eApT HUBERT JONSS
Will NoV ADDRESS
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( . Y HAVF. A BRACE UP Go TO IT
( ' Y" 1 ( GLASS of I -Gwe yS I W 1 Hijpj olT)
WHEN Your vmoRST FEARS AftE REACHED THE
Toast raster cvls on yoo for a speech
URGES SUPPDRT
OF PRESIDENT
II TOLLS FIGHT
Senator Lodge Defends Po
sition of tlie President in
Insisting Cpon Repeal of
the Panama 'anal Tolls
Exemption
1 ASSOCIATED PRESS PISPATCII j
WASHINGTON, April S. -TV
thwart the purpose or discredit thej
policies of the head of a political.
party is legitimate pouneai waiia.e. ;
To discredit or break down the pies- ,
idem of tlie United States upon a 1
ijtiestion of fnreinn policy is iputc j
another thins, and not to be under- !
taken except for the very gravest ra- i
son,- declared Senator Lodge, voter- i
an republican member of the foreign
legations committee, peioiv toe sen
ate today.
Lodge defended the position of the
piesident in insisting upon the re
peal of I'anaina tolls exemption. lie
asserted that the report that the
l.'nil'-d States could exempt any of
its shipping from tolls was unques
tioned under a. strict interpretation j
o tlie treaty, lint necause 01 uie uco
cate position of this country in its
foreign relations, urged non-partisan
support of the president. The sen
ate canals committee began a fifteen
day open hearing- on the tolls ques
tion. "In one case we have overthrown
a party leader within that arena
where the American people alone sit
in judgment," said Lodge, "and in the
other we break down and discredit
the repi'O'sentative of the whole
country in rhe greatest forum of tlie
nations of the earth, and paralyze
his future power and usefulness in
that fielil where he alone can de
clare and represent the policy, lienor
and dignity of the I'nited States."
The president said today that he
is more confident than ever before
of the passage of the repeal bill, and
that each day his confidence is in
creasing. Wilson said that the ani
mus behind some of the attacks of
the bill was very obvious, but he did
not go into details. Such animus, he
remarked, often proved a boomerang.
Senator Xorris urged upon the
committee his suggestion that while
the tolls exemption clause be repeal
ed, the right of the I'nited States to
make such exemptions should be in
sered in the repeal measure, and the
president empowered to arrange for
arbitration of the dispute on this
point.
Senator Thomas outlined his plan
to throw open the canal to the free
passage of all commerce. He elab
orated this later in the day. giving a
detailed statement of his view of the
MONTREAL WITHOUT
CiViL GOVERNMENT
M NT I1KA I.. April !. The re
tirement today of the old city ad- ;
ministration left Montreal with- 1 I
out an official civil government
because a recount is necessary
to determine the successful can
didates at the municipal elec
tions last Monday. It was said
today that at least three weeks
must .lapse before the result
of the election can be officially
proclaimed. I
Girl Students
Fight Flames In
Their Dormitory
1 ASSOCIATKO rKKSS OISI'ATt'H 1
MINMOAl'i 'LIS, April V Students
at Graham 11. ill. a school for girls,
fought fire on the third floor of the
sehool dormitory by passing buckets
of water up the stairs until fire
men arrived.
The fire siartod from a gas jet
left burning by house cleaners. The
young women were led in their fire
fighting by .Miss .Minnie Frederick
son, a student. Oeorge Foss, a fire
man, was overcome by fumes of
gasoline. The property loss was not
great.
WINTER'S BELATED
TOUCH
Entire East Is Enveloped
Blast
Cold
ASSOCIATED PRESS P'SPATCI'1
WASHINGTON". April '.i Winter's
belated touch enveloping the entire
east set a new official record. In
New Orleans straw hats were dis
placed by overcoats. Throughout the
Atlantic and Gulf states heavy dam
age to frails and early crops is fear
ed. A thirty degree drop in a few
hours is recorded at Mobile. Snow
flurries were recorded ' as far south
as Greenville, S. C.
Fruit trees in blossom in Norfolk
tidewater section were caught in tile
nipping frost. April snow in liich
moml is recorded.
QUEEN ELEANORA COMING
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH 1
NEW yoitK. April 9. William
Caspar. personal representative of
Queen F.leanora, of V.ulgaria. arrived
to make final arrangi inents for the
visit of the queen to the I'nited
States. She arrives late in May and
will visit all the larger cities as far
west as Chicago. remaining here
about five weeks.
oeonoTiilc situation that would 1lts-
I t if y his froposal.
j Debate on the repeal fight which
I lias occupied the senate virtually the
entire week promises to continue at
intervals, at least until the commit
' tee reports its findings. A half doz
en senators have stated their pur
pose of addressing the senate on the
subject. So far no serious effort to
limit the preliminary discussion or
to bring up other matters for action
has been made.
ITEfEiOUTH
lEETS DEATH
Ralph Thew Shoots Self
While on Vacation Trip
at Walnut drove, Yava
pai County Well Known
in School Circles
Jlalph Thew of Tempi' was acci
dentally shot and killed at "Walnut
Glove, forty-live miles from Prescott,
on Wednesday, where he was Willi his
friend, Courtland Carter, also of Tem
po, with whom he was s; ending a va
cation in the mountains in search of
health. The information came to Phoe
nix and Tempi' by telephone message
from Caller, who first told his mother
in Temp,' anil then soi, e friends in
Phoenix. The details of the sad a cci
dent are laekintv. but it is known that
the young man came to his death from
a shot in the breast, supposedly inflict
ed by his own hand as a result of
ignorance of the peculiarities of the
weapon he was handling.
Immi'dtely upon the receipt of
the information Mrs. Carter notified
nr. !!. I!. Moeur of Tempc. who in turn
broke rile sad news to Mrs. Thew.
Moore & Mcl.ellan were then notified
and a member of the firm left at once
to bring back the body. The trip from
the ranch at Walnut Grove to the rail
toad to Phoenix was a long one and
the body diil not arrive here until late
last night.
Thew was only nineteen years of age.
lie was wry popular with his school
mates and took great interest in school
athletics. He was recognized as one
of the best amateur pitchers in the
county. He was equally active in the
younger social circles in Tempo, where
he has lived practically all his life. His
father w as the proprietor of the New
ftCCIMlLl
Urge Government And State
Aid Of Irrigation Projects
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
DKXVKn, April !. Government
financial aid state, federal, or both,
for the relief of irrigation projects
in the' west was held up as a cry
ing need by speakers at Ihe first
day's session of the irrigation con
ference called by Secretary Lane.
S-peakor after speaker declared the
financial situation with respect to
irrigation projects is bad and in re
medying this situation lay the pros
perity of the entire west.
Several remedies were suggested,
including the loaning of the postal
'DEFEAT Gill
IFOR DEMOCRATS
NEXT ELECTION
! Senator Cuinmings of Jowa
j Says Republican National
Committee Alone Was
Responsible for Demo
cratic Vietorv
LMAKKS REFERENCE
TO CANAL TOLLS
Pi-edicts Repeal of Exemp
tion Clause Will Pass the
Senate Thinks Ships
Should Pay Cost of Main
taining the Canal
ASSOCIATED PRESS PISrATClt
CHICAGO, April 9. Senator Albert
I!. Cummings of Iowa criticised the
democratic administration, defined his
stand on the toll repeal bill, pro
nounced the republican party the true
progressives, and blamed the republic
an national committee for the, demo
cratic victory of He was thu
chief speaker at the Appommattoj; Pay
ceb bration of the Hamilton dub.
Democratic defeat at the next nn
tional (lection, Cummins predicted, will
be effected by the republicans and pro
gressives, united as republicans, and
embracing the platform of the pro
gressive doctrines.
In dealing with the record of tho
asstrtcd it was necessary to speak of
congress.
"The president has for thetime being
obliterated that ancient and one e pow
erful department of the government."
hesaid. "When, therefore, I speak of
the democratic administration, I mean
Woodrow Wilson. The overthrow of
representative government does not
seem to have. excited alarm, but t he
day is coming when the country will
understand better than it does now
how vital it is to preserve indepen
dence of executive authority."
"The presidentpassed the tariff law.
The republican tariff of l$f! was to.)
high. We ought to have reduced it. but
did not and are now suffering the con
sequences of our folly."
The Panama tolls exemption repeal
probably will pass the senate, accord
ing to Senator Cummins.
"There are two entirely distinrt and
independent questions involved in thiM
controversy," he said. "The first con
cerns the domestic policy, and with ic
no foreign nation has a right to in
terfere. We would be craven people
if We permitted even a suggestion of
interference.
"Thatis, if we lied no treaty obliga
tions: is it wise, is it fair to the. wholn
country t o give coastwise boats freo
passage through the canal? My an
swer is 'No.!' I believe these ship
ought to pay their just portion of the
expense of maintaining and operating
the canal.
"The second question concerns our
rights under the treaty. I would say
there is nothing in the treaty that In
any way restricts or limits our obn
lute sovereignty in this regard, and the
man who is willing to accept the con
struction asserted by Great Britain, or
yield to the still more ignominious in
terpretation involved in assenting t.
the demands made by the president, is
willing to pay a higher price for the
friendship of that great country than
I am willing to pay for the favor of
the whole world."
The republican defeat of 1912. Sena
tor Cummins said, had been the result
of the failure of some of the leader
to heed the voice of the rank and f!l
of the party.
INVESTIGATING EXTORTION
r ASSOCIATED PRESS PISPATCII 1
FP.F.DRRICKSTON, N. B.. April 9.
The New P.runswick legislature h.n
begun consideration of charges
against Premier J. K. Flemming and
other government members, accused
of extorting $100,000 from lessees of
timber.
CIGAR E PLODES DIRIGIBLE
MILAN, April 9 The dirigible
balloon "Citta di Milan." built by
public subscription and presented m
the army, was destroyed when sonm
one lighted a cigar, despite thu
warnings of officers. All explosion
followed and fifty persons were in
jured. savings hank funds to farmers at
low interest.
J. II. Peterson, attorney genera! of
Idaho, described irrigatin in 1: -
state.
"In the early days of the Can y
act, city dwellers were lured to
arid plains upon representations that
certain fortune awaited them," h"
s:) id. "Some of these converts stuck
to it until they learned farming and
irrigation, and miftie a success.
Others went to the city and con
demned the Carey act. which they
believed was responsible for th-u
undoing."
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