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THE ARIZOMA REPUBLICAN ABM INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR 12 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY CORNING, MAY G, 1914 12 PAGES .VOL. XXIV. , NO. 334 HUERTA'S ABDICATION AS WELL AS BLANQUET'S IS NOW PREDICTED Unconfirmed Report Says Quarters Have Been Re served on Board Foreign Cruiser for High Mexican Officials SOUTH AMERICAN ENVOYS ARE BUSY Mediators Hold Busy Ses sions and Decide to Begin With Representatives at Niagara Falls, Canada, on Mav 18 I VERA CRUZ. May 5 An un- confirmed report is current thiit j quarters have been held for several days on board of a foreign cruiser j for some high Mexican official j coming from Mexico City. It is j hinted it may be Huerta or Blan ! quel, .or both. There are persistent rumors to- night that Huerta is preparing to flee, and some close observers ex- pressed that his recent solicitude for the safe exit of Americans was designed to insure safe conduct for ! himself in case of an emergency. rASSOCTATim PRESS DISPATCH! WASHINGTON. May ."..Develop ments in thp Mexican situation were divided between the diplomatic and military status. The South American envoys continued their sessions and for the first time it became authoritatively known they considered the whole range of Mexican affairs as properly em braced in their work. Their reply to Carranza eliminated him from the me diation for the time being, but still left it open for him to enter proceed ings later. It became clear that the war depart ment's policy at Vera Cruz will be maintained, with no advance of Amer ican forces, unless to repel attacks. Put it is known that a definite course of action has been outlined and in the event of the resumption of hostilities, the extension of jthe campaign toward Mexico City. In that event General Leonard Wood would be in supreme command, with General Funston di recting the advance beyond Vera Cruz and General Eailcy of the coast artil lery in command of the base at Vera Cruz. This arrangement, however, is wholly In the line of preparadness and signi fies no present purpose of being put into operation. Congress, after a period of silence on Mexico, again came into the sit uation. Senator Lippitt, of Rhode Island, introduced a resolution call ing on the president for information as to the published reports that it is the administration's purpose to aid Viila to secure the presidency. The resolution went over until to morrow. The South American medi ators will meet at Niagara Falls, in Canada, on May IS, to hear repre sentatives of the parties to the con troversy. During the brief spirited discus sion. Senator Lodge read from a London paper a scathing denuncia tion of Villa. The president and his cabinet met, but only routine busi ness was considered. The sessions ot the mediators continued through the day. Trie text of the note of the medi ators to Caranza stated definitely for the first time, "that all difficulties which contributed toward the pres ent situation' in Mexico bear either directly or indirectly on a solution of the pending conflict between Mexico and the 1'nited States. Sail to Oil Fields GALVESTON, May 5 Seventhy American refugees from the oil dis trict about Tampico sailed for that port today. If the steamer is unable in discharge her passengers at Tam pico they will be taken to Vera Cruz. The oil men said their return was necessitated by the situation in the Panueo oil fields, where the oil wf'S flowing unrestrained. They said they don't believe they will be mo lested by Mexicans. Huerta Fears Villa VERA CRl'Z, May 5. Villa may not make the intended descent on Mexico City before the lapse of an other three months, according to a prominent business man who arrived from the capital today. A refugee -r To Pay Tribute. To Dead Marines And Bluejackets AS80CIATKD PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, May 3. The pres ident will voice the nation's tribute to the marines and bluejackets who died in the occupation of Vera Cruz at memorial services at the Brooklyn navy yard on Monday. Secretary Daniels and his staff, Secretary Gar rison and Admiral Dewey will be among the chief figures at the cere-J monies. Mayor Mitchel, of New J'ork, sug- gested that the bodies be received from the Montana at the battery, CANANEA MINES i ARE TO RE-OPEN I i DO COLAS, May 5. The Cana- nea Consolidated Copper com j pany announced that arrange- ments have been made to re- open the mines and smelters at j Cana-nea which closed when for- eigners wi re warned to leave Sonora. The announcement said a, train will leave tomorrow with employes and that the plants ! will be re-opened as soon as I they arrive, and ihat an agree- ment for constitutionalist protec ! tion has been reached. Military Governor Of Chihuahua is Removed By Villa ASSOCIATED PKESS DISPATCH EL PASO, May 5. General Manuel Chao has been removed as constitu tionalist governor of Chihuahua by General Villa. The report ot the ex change in executives reached the bord er tonight. The removal, it is said, was the result of an intrigue against Villa by Chao in an effort to have the conqueror of Torreon replaced as gen-eral-in-chief of the irmy. Trinidad Rodriguez has been named governor and Chao ordered to report at the front beyond Torreon for active field ser vice. Silvestro Terrazas, who has been secretary of state of Chihuahua and who is a close friend of Chao, wns re moved at the same time and has been succeeded by Augustin La Ranstadt, formerly of police for governor Abram Ganzales. Chao and Terrezas are re garded as being too closely aligned with Carranza while his successors friends of Villa. .The constitutionalist representatives here deny that the removal of Chao in dicated strained relations between Car ranza an, Villa, but say on the con trary it indicates the relations are so close that not even the personal friend ship of Carranza for Chao could pro duce a break. The constitutionalists declare the leaders realize it absolute ly essential at the present time in view of the situation of their cause with re lation to Huerta and the United States that they present an undivided front, that dissension in their ranks would not be tolerated. When Chao's activi ties became so pointed that they no longer could be overlooked, they say the leaders agreed, he must be elim inated. It is asserted by the constitu tionalists that Carranza himself warned Chao that unless he curbed his tongue ! he would find trouble. The opponents of the constitutionalists point to the removal of Chao as widening the breach they insist exists between Car ranza and Villa. who has just completed negotiations with Huerta for the removal of a large quantity of bullion from the district in the vicinity of the capital. j asserted that Huerta is still sending j troops northward and apparently dreads the approach of Villa more j than the advance of the Americans. From personal observations tne re fugee estimated that Maas had less than a thousand men under his or ders. Huerta, the refugee asserts, has done nothing to show he anticipated a forward movement on the part of the American army or that he ex pects in the even such a movement to offer a serious resistance. The government powder factory is turn ing out daily some six thousand dy namite bombs, that it is understood are intended for defense against an attack on the capital by Villa or j Zapata. Mexico City, he said, was filled with rumors that Huerta has resigned and disappeared, but the provisional president in the mean time went about with customary freedom, without guard, dining in the public restaurants and giving no out ward appearance of the strain under which he. is living. In the capital Americans and other -foreign business houses, he declared, have re-opened and are experiencing little difficulty. To Withdraw Troops CALEXICO, May 5. Verbal orders for the withdrawal of state troops were issued by Adjutant General Forbes to Col. Schreiber. The in structions are for the militia to leave as soon as the machine gun platoon .Continued on Page Seven) and transported on caissons to the Brooklyn navy yard. The bodies will be sent to the homes of the marines and bluejackets late Monday. The president will leave Washing ton for New York late Sunday. Sec retary Daniels will sail from Hamp ton Roads in the Mayflower and es cort the funeral cruiser Montana to New York harbor. In the lower har bor the battleship Wyoming and the cruiser Tennessee will meet the Montana and Mayflower and convey them to the dock. BY ROOSEVELT Ex-President Tells of His Journey into an Unknown Land While Returning by Steamer from Manao to Para, Brazil PARTY PLACES NEW R1YER OX THE MAP More Than L'000 Specimens of Birds, Reptiles and Other Creatures Collected for American Museum of Natural Ilistorv ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH PARA, P.razil, May !i. Col. Roose velt in an interview with the As sociated Press on hoard the steamer Ou'nsU.n. on which he just arrived from Manao gave many interesting details of his exploring trip through the wilds of Brazil. He said: "The expedition proved a signal success. It was undertaken origin ally for the American Museum of Natural History. During the trip we collected over SlOn birds, mammals, a few reptiles, batrachians and fish, chiefly from regions not hitherto traversed by any collector, many rep resenting species . hitherto unknow n to science. The most important part of the trip was the geographical. In the exploration of an unknown river we have put on the map a. river nearly l'lOu miles long, the existence of which is not hinted on published maps. "The upper part of its course was unknown to anybody exeept to wild Indians along its banks, while the lower part was known to a few rub ber men only. The river takes a rise in the high uplands of the western part of the state of Matto Grosso, just north of the thirteenth parallel, south latitude and between longitude Ti'.t and ;.) west of Greenwich. "We embarked in latitude 12 de grees. 1 minute south, and longitude So degrees, IT, minutes, west. "The river ran with man doublings and twistings almost due north into the River Madeira. "We were sixty days in canoes. In latitude 7 degrees south, we pass ed the last rapids, and reached the I steamer when we were but thirty six hours from Manaou. "In latitude 10 degrees, .18 minutes, south, we struck the mouth of a big affluent flowing from the right in latitude 9 degree. 49 minutes south, we came to the mouth of .another big affluent flowing from the left. "Duvida river in point of volume is like the Rhine, Elbe or Hudson, but is too much broken by rapids to be navigable, except in the lower parts. In about 7 degrees 30 minutes south latitude it joins another river of practically the same size, flowing from the right. "We were six weeks at steady la bor slogging away on the average making not more than a couple of miles a day.- The last part of this time we were living on half rations. "Two sets of rapids were at the lottom of canyons where the river clove its way through mountain chains. "Of the seven canoes with which we 'started, five were lost in the rapids. One of our men was drown ed and two others, including Kermit. narrowly escaped drowning. "Under the strain, one man went mad. He finally murdered one of his comrades anil fled into the wilder- CHESTER DURYEA INSANE 'ASSOCIATED PRESS MBPATCH NEW OVIiK, May f.. Chester R. Duryea, a chemist, who murdered his aged father. General Hiram Duryea, the millionaire starch manufacturer, in his home in Brooklyn early today, was removed from jail in a strait jacket to a hospital tonight after he had shown evidence of insanity. The son said he received a spiritual mes sage from George Washington to kill the general. o ARTILLERY ARRIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, May a. Constitu tionalist representatives were advised of the arrival of their artillery at Tampico. This has been awaited before a general attack on the fed eral garrison. LOS ANGELES RECALL .FAILS TO REMOVE I LOS ANGELES. Mav r.n-k I election today for the recall of it. Ji. .Norton, county supervisor, failed to removp that official. In favor of his recall 4,710 votes were cast and 10,478 against. Of the three candidates for his place in case the recall was success- ful, L. H. Schwa ebe got the highest number of votes, 2,r,9!t. Norton's district is entirely in I the city of Los Angeles. The recall petitions charged him with I being temperamentally unfit and I being an obstructionist. I THIS IS HOW I STAND. GENTLEMEN By John T. McCutcheon. 11, DODGE AND SULLIVAN ARE SELECTED Manager Parish Appoints; New Building and Elec trical Inspectors and Re appoints Chief of Eire Department Herbert .1. Mann. Tor sometime a general contractor in this city, was named last evening by Manager I'arish to succeed Howard K. Clallin , as building inspector. Mann was im mediately sworn in and assumed the duties of his new office. The reap pointment of Peter H. Sullivan as chief uf the Phoenix I'ire Department was also announced, as was the ap pointment of Boy !'.. Dodge,, lo be electrical inspector. All of the ap pointments were confirmed by tin city commission which was in session and before which the appointments were announced by Manager Parish. The appointment of Mann as build ing inspector came as something of a surprise as it had been previously announced that Hoy Gray would be the building inspector. In fact be had been named and sworn in, bill after learning that he would be ex pected to devote his entire time to the work and would be unable to conduct his architectural work while performing the. work of the city posi tion, he was obliged to withdraw his acceptance of the position. Mann studied engineering at the Armour Institute for one year, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four years. He was first employed by the Hammond Packing Company as de signing engineer and made designs for a complete factory now in opera tion at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. After leaving their employ he spent a year with the Western Electric Company as designer of elec tric apparatus. ' He then entered the employ of a Chicago contractor and held various positions, first as time keeper, then carpenter foreman, steel foreman and concrete foreman, and was finally appointed superintendent of construction. Among the buildings erected under his supervision in Chicago j)re the Selz-Schwah Shoe factory occupying an entire block, the Stoele-Wedeles Building constistirg of ten stories and five basements and the Princess the ater building. In Globe he built the Gila Valley Bank, the four story con crete jail, the Board of Trade build ing, and many others. In Phoenix he has built several bridges and structures for the government as well as several residences. The reappointment of Sullivan to be fire chief will probably meet with more unanimous approval than any yet made by Manager Parish. He has conducted the affairs of the office of (Continued on Page Six.) ICouyr!i.-M: 1U14: Br Jolm'T. Un,il.Jion. t LEPROUS SWEDE "S SENT HOME .mc.V.o. Mav r,. Tile au thorities congratulate heinselves on the successful deputation of Charhs Wolgren, a native of Sweden, w hose disease was diag- nuosed as leprosy. All the de- ; j tails were kept secret, and none ' I but the crew of the train oa ' j which W'olgren rode in a private ; ! car knew of his presence. Spe- I cial permits were secretly issued j j bv tlie governors of states across I which the train pnssed. Wr.gren t is now on board a liner, bound ' for Sweden. ! j Olney Declines j President Seeks j New Governor i 'ASSOCIATED WKSS DISPATCH WASHINGTON. May 5. The pres ident is (searching again for a gov ernor of the federal reserve board, Richard Olney. former secretary of state, having declined because uf his advanced age. Many administration, officials arc disposed to believe that Secretary Houston of the department of agri culture will be the man finally chos en in olney's place. It is an ope" secret that the pres ident wanted to appoint Houston to the federal reserve board, but did not wish to make any etttinge in his cabinet. It is known that since Ol ney's declination the president has not fixed on liny one, but is looking over the field for another member for the board. He is said to be anxious to get a New Kngland man so that section may be represented. MUSTN'T COERCE COMMISSION La Follette Urges Passage of Bill Making This Criminal Offense f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH! WASHINGTON. May 5 Senator j Lafollette laid before the senate ! what he said is evidence of a wide spread conspiracy to intimidate, coerce and control the interstate commerce cofiiniissioii to grant east ern railroads a five percent increase of freight rates for which an appli cation is pending. The senator spoke on his bill to make it a crim inal offense to seek to influence the decisions of the commission. He produced newspaper clippings, copies of letters and telegrams which found their way to the commission in which the authors urged favorable action on the railroad plea. THIRTY HURT IN WRECK r associated press dispatch! DECATUR, 111., May "i. Thirty passengers and trainmen were injur ed and three laborers crushed to death tonight by the overturning of a sleeping car and diner of the Con tinental limited of the Wabash rail road while entering Decatur. The trainmen said the sleeping car ap parently caught the point of a switch. Several diners were scalded by hot food. 1 1 A. GttO LODGE MEETS IS GEW CIH TODAY Delegates from Eourteen Crowing, Prosperous Ari zona Camps Cather in Triennial Conclave in Mesa Banquet at Noon .Special to The Republican) MESA, Ariz., May 5. The tri ennial convention of the Grand Lodge of Arizona of the Modern Woodmen of America will be called to order at 0:30 o'clock this morning in the Knights of Pythias hall here. The follow ing camps w ill be represented by one or more delegates who will arrive this morning: Phoenix. Tempe, Pres cott, Yuma. Globe, Tucson, Bisbee, Glendale, Mesa, Kinkelman, Somerton, Flagstaff, Ash Folk and Douglas. Three years ago Mesa won the dis tinction of making greater gains than any other camp within the boundaries of the slate and was awarded the ban ner. However, winning of the banuer while it was appreciated, was not all that was gained by the Mesa camp. The local lodge became known over the state and when H. J. Robertson went to the Grand Lodge session at Prescott three years ago he worked for the next Grand Lodge session to come to Mesa. The result is the meeting today. The lodge session which convenes :.t ft: Srt will adjourn at 12:30 for the ban quet to be given by the Mesa lodge. This will be one of the features of the visit of th lodge members to this place. The entertainment committee has bail the plans under way for the past several days and this important part of the success of the meeting of the fraternity will in no wise be lack ing. Immediately upon the conclusion of the banquet, the Grand Lodge will again reconvene and finish up the busi nesV of the day, possibly adjourning at 3 o'clock. A number of automobiles have been provided and as soon as ad journment has been taken the dele gates will be given a seventy-five mile ride over the Mesa section. There is not a show place that the committee will overlook. The Mesa committee on (Continued on Page Three.) Burleson Defends His Parcels Post System ASSOCIATED PRESS DISrATCHl WASHINGTON. May 5. Postmas ter General Burleson defended the parcels post system today in an open letter, characterizing it as an accel erator of trade between cities and farms, and declaring its rates were basedVon operating cost in ''both -the profitable territory, which is defined by the extent of the systems of the priyate express companies, and the LEADERS URGE MINERS TO LAY DOWN WEAPONS Colorado Strikers Allowed to Decide for Themselves Whether They Care to Deliver Arms to IT. S. Army Officers UN TON DOES NOT CONTROL ACTIONS Onus Are Property of Men Themselves, so Organiza tion Cannot Promise That They Will Be Laid Down as Demanded f associated peess dispatch! TRINIDAD, May 5. The question ot delivering the arms of the striking coal miners to the United States Army is to be put up to the men themselves, according to the announcement of un ion officials. The announcement came at the end of a conference with William Diamond and Robert Bolton, strike leaders and Col. Lockett and Major Ilolbrook. Diamond promised that the union leaders would urge the strikers to comply with the proclamation of President Wilson and Secretary of War Garrison to turn the guns over to the army officers. "The guns do not belong to the union, they belong to the men themselves." Diamond said. "If the order to strik ers to bring guns to headquarters were turned over to us, we would not get ten per cent of them. We will explain the situation to the men and use our in fluence to secure obedience to the pres ident's proclamation. This is as far as we can go." Union leaders announced a mass meeting will be held at the San Rafael tent colony at 10 o'clock this morning and another at Starkville at 2:30 P. M. These meetings will be attended by union officers. Major Holbrook ami other officers of the army. At the of fices of the Victor-American Fuel com pany it is said all guns in the camps at Hastings, De I.nguna and Gray ('reek, in Las Animas county and Ra venwood in Huerfano county have been stacked in the mine office ready to !e turned over to the regulars as soon as they are called for.' Ammunition also will be given up. Summary of Situation DENVER, May 5 Three facts stood out prominently tonight in connection with Colorado's industrial conflict. Pirst, the introduction of bills in the legislature which if passed will pay the expenses of the military campaign, give the governor additional authority in times of strife. Second, it appeals to the republican and progressive state central committees and to the people of Colorado to unite in support of the program for restoration of law and order. Third, arrival at Trinidad of Col. James Loekett of the Eleventh Cavalry and the occupation of the Lud low district by the regulars. At a brief session of the senate the house bills to carry out the law and order program of Governor Ammons w ere placed in the hopper and the leg islative machinery was set in motion to expedite final action. Three iden tical measures introduced in the sen ate and house, provide for a constitu tional amendment giving the legisla ture authority to enact a compulsory I arbitration act and laws giving the governor authority to close saloons and regulate the sale or purchase of fire arms in times of internal disorder. The republican state central com mittee today cheered and applauded the address of Frank C. Goudy. sup porting the law and order program of Governor Ammons in the Colorado coal strike. Dr. Humbert Work of Pueblo was chosen national committee man from Colorado to succeed former Senator Simon Guggenheim. o "LITTLE NAVY" MEN LOSE f A HSOCTATEn PRESS DISPATCH! j WASHINGTON, May . The "little 1 navy" men in the house lost their fight against the two battleship program in the annual navy appropriation bill. The amendment to provide one battle ship was defeated Its to 91. The motion of Witherspoon of Mis sissippi, to eliminate all provisions for ; battleships was swamped, 152 to 41. i All the democratic leaders and t'nder ! wood. Republican Leader Mann, with I several other prominent figures in the j house, voted with the one ship advo cates. unprofitable territory. Into which the private express companies never go." Mr. Burleson was replying to the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, which recently adopted resolutions oppos ing the increase in the parcel post weight limit on the ground that it would lirive the express companies out of business. Ho asserted the companies would not be driven out of "profitable territory," until they were relatively inefficient.