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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. - 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 -o- 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 OS AND EwTeRTAiM fOK HE ' CooD FELL0WU- ' US WITH s reui Choice stories -V V - ) ( . 7 ( . 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." i