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THE ARIZONA. BE PUBLICAN, r k AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR 12 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1914 f 12 PAGES VOL. XXV. NO. 54 I . TP EX-MINISTER MOHENO BITTERL Y CRITICISES POLICY OF UNCLE SAM Shakes His Fist in Rage . .at American Flag Flying ; Over the Harbor at Vera : Cruz as He Prepares to ' Sail . a L MAKES CHARGE OF SECRET PLATFORM Says Progressive Party Fostered Plan Looking to Disruption of Mexico and ' Acquisition of Same by : United States ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH VERA CRUZ, July 10. Querido Moheno, former Mexican minister of commerce and labor, before departing on board the Espagne for Cuba and the United States bitterly criticized the policy of the United States to ward Mexico. As he sat in the for ward saloon of the French liner. Senor Moheno looked through a port hole toward the American flag flying over Vera Cruz and shook his fist in rage. He insisted that he is in a position to produce proofs that there existed -a secret platform" of the progres sive party in the United States, of which Colonel Roosevelt was cogniz ant and of which he concurred, look ing to the disruption of Mexico and the acquisition ultimately by the United States of all the territory be tween the Rio Grande and Panama. Moheno said Francisco Escudcro, who is minister of foreign relations in Carranza's cahinet, has letters which to him are conclusive evidence that his allegations are true and de clared he hoped to be able to pro duce these letters at the proper time. "Not only were the leaders of the progressive party pledged to this pol icy," he added, "but politicians of both the republican and democratic parties had premised their secret support. That Wilson himself had subscribed to this iniquitous conspir acy Is evident y-his attitude toward Mexico. Not a single American in all the hundred million population of the United States can give a satis factory answer to to why these troops are there on the shore in Vera Cruz." "To show up Wilson's crime against Mexico the greatest in the history of modern nations," is the announced object of Moheno's trip to the United States. He arrived here this morn ing on the Espagne from Puerto Mexico and he said he would not go ashore during the liner's stay at Vera Cruz to view what was to him a dis agreeable spectacle under existing conditions." When asked if he were going ashore while in Veta Cruz, Senor Moheno replied: "Going ashore? No, not I. It is not a pleasant spectacle for any patriotic Mexican. However, don't think that I am afraid to. I do not fear the Americans, nor do I fear my own people. "I left Huerta's cabinet because I was asked to," he continued. "Huerta did not give me any reason. T am not running away because I fear the constitutionalists when they get there and their coming is inevitable. In the first place I do not fear them because I am not a military man and second, I have always befriended any person who was persecuted by the government. No crime of that character can be attributed to me, as It was in the case of Urrutia." Traveling on the same boat as the ex-minister are General Joaquin Maas, Col. Maiio Maas, relatives of Huerta, and their families. The only apparent reason for the filght of the Maas brothers was to escape from the capital before its fall, the inevit ability of which they also admitted. Brig. Gen. Funston sent an officer alward the Espagne before the ship docked to ascertain the intention of Moheno and Gen. Maas. He feared to have them come ashore, on ac count of the probability of an un friendly reoeptlon by the Mexicans of this port. They were assured that If they cared to come ashore they would be given military protection against their own people. Moheno trembled visibly while talk ing to the lieutenant and was ap parently holding himself in restraint. Shipwreck Victims Are Found After Five Months ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. Surviv ors of a shipwreck on the rocks of a lonely island after nearly five months of privation on the island, were finally rescued after a daring adventure un dertaken for their sakes by three hardy sailors, and two girl babies arrived at San Francisco in their mothers' arms. They were the children of Captain Jens Jensen of the schooner Nokomis, which was lost on Cllpperton Island, eeven hundred miles off the west coast of Mexico, on February 28. Besides the captain and his family, eight mem bers of the crew were brought to port by the liner City of Sydney. The marooned crew waited for months, subsisting largely on fish and ANCIENT SUIT IS DISMISSED SACRAMENTO, July 10. Dug from the dusty depths of files in the county clerk's office, the complaint of a suit filed forty eight years ago, and which has been pending since that time, was taken before Superior Judge Shields and dismissed. The docu ment, printed in ink on common letter paper, is tattered and the Ink and paper discolored with age. The suit was against a clothing firm for a debt due for a bill of goods. New Ministers Are Sworn Into Huerta Cabinet associated press dispatch! MEXICO CITY, July 10. Francisco Carbajal, chief justice of the Bupreme court, took the oath or office as for eign minister and the other new ministers of Huerta's cabinet wete sworn in as follows: Commerce and industry, Salome Botello, former governor of Nuevo Leon; Communications, Arturo Al caredejo: Agriculture, General Carlos Rincon Gallardo. Robetto Esteva Ruiz, sub-secretary of foreign relations, who has been acting secretary for some time, was slated for minister of commerce and industry, but at the last moment it was decided to keep him in the foreign office. Huerta's other ministers retain their portfolios. The chamber of deputies will meet Monday to discuss the presidential elections. Autumn Styles For Men To Be English Models t ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl ATLANTIC CITY, July 10. Amer ican men who profess to follow Fashion's dec.-ee, will wear suits of English, or form-fitting models, this fall and winter, according to the standards approved at the opening session of the National Association of Manufacturing Clothiers and De signers' convention. The opinion of j all delegates wag unanimous in ap- j proving the form-fitting styles, and their decree will be accepted without question by most of the leading clothing manufacturers. Overcoats will have the ''French back" and be of the double breasted button through variety. Balamacan, so popular last season, was also ap proved, and with slight modifica tions will again be worn this fall. Coats will be tingle breasted, cut very snugly at the waist line and just a trifle shorter than last season, with soft roll lapels and three but tons. Trousers will be shapely and of medium width. Several delegates were of the opinion that the popu larity of the new tlances is respon sible for the demand for fo.-m-fitting clothing. He assured the officer that he had no desire to leave the ship. General Maas was surly. He thanked the lieutenant for Funston's offer, but with noticeable sarcasm assured him that none of his party would land under the American flag. Moheno also announced that he would publish a book explaining his connection with Mexican political af fairs since "the tragic ten days" and also deliver lectures. By these meth ods and through interviews in the newspapers, he said, he hoped to convince the American people of the enormity of the "crime committed not only by President Wilson hut by the political factois in the United States, regardless of party." Moheno added that he did not agree with the opinion that the oil interests were responsible for the revolution in Mexico. On the con trary, he ascribed them to a greater (Continued on Page Five.) gulls eggs, wailing for the Mexican gunboat Tampico to call. But the Tampico had been sunk by Obregon's constitutionalists and when the scant food supply of the small Mexican col ony on the island ran low, the Jensen babies became ill and August Larsen, the second mate and two seamen vol unteered to start for the mainland in a small boat of the Nokomi. The three men fought the storm, and tropic heat for seventeen days before reaching. Acapulco. They had been without food and water three days when they arrived. As the Mexican government was In no position to send relief, Admiral Howard sent the United States cruiser. Cleveland to the rescue of the captain and bis party. countt fair is now going ON IN 101 Good Display of Products Lines North Side of City Hall Plaza Viewed by Hundreds of Interested Phoenicians INSTITUTE WORK PERFECT SYMPOSIUM Many Addresses on Live Topics Given by Prom inent Men and Women List of Prizes in All De partments "There used to be more than a trace of suspicion existing between farmers of the same district," said Prof. W. H. Lawrence of tho Uni versity of Arizona, in his foreword yesterday at the city hall plaza; "but I am glad to say that such a sus picion is fast disappearing. Organ izations such as this is, farmers' In stitutes, with a display of products grown successfully, have done much within the last few years to clear up the suspicion which I was per fectly cognizant of when I was j young fellow on the farm It is srood for farmers to get together and swap' ideas. It serves better to make their living more happy. It serves better to make their calling a productive and efficient one." This is the reason "Why" the annual exhibit of farm products that takes place every year on the north side of the city hall plaza in Phoenix, at which the farmers of Maricopa county bring their prize growings. It has two purposes: First, to show each other what can be done, and, second, to show the outside world what is doing in this section. The exhibit yesterday was an eye-opener to many who passed before the stands laden with the fruit of the field and furrow. For the entire side of the block, tastefully laid out, could bo found almost anything that grows that the heart may desire Fruit and vege tables galore many more varieties than come to the lot of every man to sample, much less become actually acquainted with. Beginning at the First street end of the block the visitor encountered the baled alfalfa, alfalfa seed in sacks, grain of all kinds, corn on the cob and roasting ears in profusion. Here also were alfalfa stalks five and more feet long. Cotton was next and oc cupied a great part of the display. especially the volunteer stalks lor which an added premium was given. These volunteer stalks aro those plants that grow from the chopped off stalk of last year. There were plenty of them, and they more than surprised everybody that saw them. The plants had more boles than the others, were less lengthy as to stalk and appeared to in every way be a profitable plant. In fact, to be act ually correct, the plant was last year's with a foliage and flower of this year, showing that the cotton plant in the Salt River valley may be made into a perennial instead of a periodical plant. After the cotton, came the vine cropa watermelons, canteloupes, muskmelons, casabas, squash, cu cumbers, vegetable marrows, and pumpkins. This display, especially the melon portion of the exhibit, was excellent. Then came the fruits, peaches, plums, grapes, tomatoes, raspberries, strawberries, apricots, and whatnot. These were very attractive, showing good variety. Immediately following these came the onions, potatoes, peas, beans, cow peas, sweet potatoes, okra, asparagus, lettuce, cabbage, and such vegetables. Then came the woman's department, wtih eggs and cooked fruits and canned fruits of every description making a most tasteful display. The last portion of the stands was given over to a display, private in nature from Hall Brothers ranch, showing sixty-five varieties of garden produce from one garden, enough to tempt the appetite of an epicure. The crowds passed rapidly before the display all afternoon and far into the night. After the day's act ivities closed, watchmen were put on duty and still the crowds went by. Growing things attract, but actual grown produce attracts still more. The Institute Work A perfect symposium of addresses had been prepared for the afternoon dealing with nearly every proposi tion that touches a community for its betterment. Ladies and gentle men participated in this work. Presi dent Reed presided and introduced the speakers. Prof. Lawrence led off and was followed by Governor Hunt, the gist of whose remarks are pub lished below. The other speakers were Mayor Young, who spoke of the many advantages the modern farmer had in electricity that the farmer of tea and twenty years ago did not enjoy; Chester B. Culver, who told of the future of the sugar industry in this section, especially since sugar cane growing has become a success ful fact. The value of alfalfa, both for dairying and seed raising, was explained by . W. Fields; Mrs. Guild spoke of the woman farmer; Charles (Continued on Page Six.) Villa Troops J i! I GENERAL PANCIIO VILLA E FREED AFTER LONG TRIAL Case of Edgar Edwards, In volving Nice Points of Federal and State Juris diction, Ends With Ver dict That Mixes Matters (Special to The Republican) YUMA, July 10. Kdgar Kd wards is free and Walter Scott, another Yuma Indian, is in fear of arrest as a result of the most remarkable murder trial ever held before the Yuma, county court. At 9:30 tonight, the jury, arted deliberating over fifty hours, returned a verdict acquitting Edwards of the crime of shooting a Yuma Indian on the Colorado river bridge. The vic tim, dying, made a statement accus ing Scott, an Indian policeman, with having committed the crime. Never before has such a question of jurisdiction arisen in these parts, for it was by but a few feet that the case got into the Yuma county courts. Had the body been six feet further toward the California side, it would have been in Indian reservation ter ritory, and the Los Angeles United States attorney would have had to prosecute the case. As it was, that short space not only threw the case into a state court, but made the Ari zona United States attorney an as sociate in the defense. Assistant United States Attorney Wiley 12. Jones, who was named to assist in the trial, did not need to take over the case, as friends of the accused sup plied him with an attorney. The United States attorneys merely saw that the trial was conducted fairly toward a ward of the government. It was on May 1 that a group of In dians were crossing tho drawbridge across the Colorado. One of them, a fine, big buck, of well known obstrep erous tendencies, was being conduct ed to a place of safe keeping by Wal ter Scott and two deputies. He had been a trouble-maker of much disre pute, and the fact that some of his neighbors should take a shot at him didn't Beem to surprise anyone. Assistant United States Attorney Wiley E. Jones was intornieu ot tne acquittal of Edwards last nignt oy n,ir When auestioned by a Repub lican reporter, he said he could not outline any plan or procedure against ther possible murderers ot me iuiii brave. He could not say wnetner Scott would be indicted or not. it was inferred that Scott had kept strictly out of the trial and had let things go on as a matter ot course. . o HOLMDAHL IS DEPORTED ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH NOG ALES, July 10. Major E. L. Holmdahl, a former American army officer recently on Villa's staff, was deported from Sonora tonight He was released yesterday at Hermosilla from a dungeon where he had been impris oned ten days with insane men as cell mates. He was charged by General Alvarado, commander of the constitu tionalists attacking Guaymas, with giving information to Americans at EI Paso relative to ammunition smugg ling. Holmdahl, who was released through the efforts of the French and United States consuls at Hermosilla, said he expected to bo executed. 1 About Ready To auvJnst GOVERNOR JOHNSON'S HAT IN THE RING SACRAMENTO, July 10. Gov- einor Johnson jumped into the ring, filing his first nomination petition, making the fifth of the I gubernatorial candidates to get I his name on the index books. I Fred Hall, a democrat, is to be the sixth but he has not yet made his appearance. $200,000 For Relief Of Salem Fire Sufferers r ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON. July 10. Congress today appropriated $200,000 for the relief of sufferers from the Salem fire. The house, in spite of vigorous op position, led by Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee, ac cepted by a vote of 161 to 66, the senate amendment to the sundry ci vil bill to provide the money. Fitz gerald told the house that while the sympathy of everyone went out to the destitute people of Salem, it was no part-of fedeial functions to ap propriate money for them. He said if congress initiates the policy of making such appropriations, every time there is a flood or a fire in the country, we may expect that locality to come to the federal treasury as the easiest place to get money. NEW WAGE AGREEMENT Ohio United Miners of America Reach Pay Understanding ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl COLUMBUS, July 10 Delegates attending the convention of the Ohio United Miners of America ratified the principal provisions of the new wage agreement recommended by the scale committee. The convention ad journal until tomorrow, when several minor p.-ovisions Will be taken up. As the remaining provisions are un ccntroverted. points, the miners' of ficials said they would be accepted. More than 40,000 miners, who are now on strike, are affected by the new wage scale, but only about half that number are assured of imme diate employment as some operators have, refused to t'."eat with the min ers, declaring that it would be un profitable for them to operate their mines under the new scale. o INJUNCTION IS DISSOLVED ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH CHICAGO, July 10. An injunction which for nearly two years restrained members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners from picketing and taking other action in its strike against the Anderson and Lind Manu facturing company, was dissolved by Cirsuit Judge Heard. The dissolving order was entered on motion of the master in chancery, before whom tes timony in the injunction w-as taken. o INVERMORE IS ASHORE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 10. The steamer Invermore of the Reid-New-foundland Railway company is ashore near Brig Harbor on the Labrador coast. She carries passengers, mail and freight from this city. No partic ulars of her condition have been re- Celved- .tA:M . Mexico City Soldiers Under Rebel Mili tary Chieftain and Gen eral Gonzales May Start Southward Today or To morrow f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl SALTILLO, July 10. The conference at Torreon, which met to adjust the differences between Carranza and Villa has completed its labors to the satis faction of the first chief of the consti tutionalists, according to an announce ment made tonight by Gustave More los, Carranza's private secretary. De tails of the conference were not made public. It Is said that the troops under. Villa and those under Gonzales would move southward tomorrow in a com bined compaign, with Mexico City as their goal. Say are Unprepared EL PASO, July 10. Despite assur ances from both Villa and Carranza supporters here that Villa would re sume immediately his campaign against Huerta, no portion of his army ha4 begun preparations for a southern movement; as far as known here to night. It is estimated that 12,000 of his 1R, 000 soldiers remained quartered In the country districts in southern Chihua hua, 509 miles from the war zone south of Aguas Calientes. Villa was still in Torreon tonight but will leave tomorrow for Chihuahua. This information was given out by La zaro De La Garza, commercial agent for Villa in Juarez, after a telegraphic conference with the northern leader. It is said two weeks must elapse before Villa's army could reach Agnas Cali entes. Huerta's northern limit. TRUST BILLS MAY BE READY If MONDAY Determined to Perfect Ad ministration Anti-Trust Measures, Senate Judic iary Committee is Labor ing Long associated press dispatch WASHINGTON. July 10. Deter mined to perfect the administration anti-trust bills by Monday, if possi ble, the senate judiciary and inter state commerce committees labored long today. Tomorrow the members will keep at it, the senate having adjourned until Monday. The interstate commerce committee succeeded in perfecting the interstate trade commission bill already before the senate, adding two important amendments and determining not to amend the much questioned section five, in which unfair competition is declared unlawful. The amendments agreed to provide: That no order of the proposed trade commission for or against a corporation shall be used as evidence in any subsequent pros ecution brought against the corpora tion under the Sherman law, and that nothing in the act to create a trade commission shall be construed as amending the Sherman law, nor in any way affecting the provisions of that act as it now stands on the statute books. During tly discussion of the first amendment some senators thought it would be well to permit the admis sion of orders favorable to corpora tions in case, of subsequent convic tion, merely for the consideration of the court in mitigating the sentence. An effort may yet be made to have this incorporated in the bill. The second amendment was sub mitted by Chairman Newlands be cause of widespread claims that the proposed measure would weaken the Sherman act. The house bill giving the Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction over the issuance of securities of common carriers also was taken up by the committee and it will endea- (Continued on Page Five.) Present School System Is Vigorously Attacked associated press dispatch ST. PAUL. July 10. The present school system was vigorously at tacked as ineffective and the aver age school teacher denounced by J. H. Francis, superintendent of schools of Los Angeles, at the National Edu cation Association convention. Francis charaoteiized as soul-wreckers "cer tain powerful interests that were blocking all forms of education pro gress." "Our public schools are namely places to which we go because it is the custom, yet some of us become good citizens in spite of them. The purpose of education is to make us scholarly enough so that we may separate ourselves from the common herd," Francis said; SUNSET EDITOR POINTS MAPS OF FORTIFICATIONS Then Suffers Arrest on Charge of Disclosing Mili tary Secrets and Faces United "States Commis sioner in 'Frisco FIRST CASES OF THE KIND The War Department Here tofore Has Found It Nec essary Only to Warn Pub lishers as to Nature of Special Articles associated press dispatch SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. Chsrlea K. Field, editor of the Sunset maga zine and former president of the Bo hemian club; Robert Fowler, an avia tor; Ray A. Duhem, photographer; and Riley A. Scott, a writer against whom warrants were issued charging them with disclosing military secrets, were arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Francis KrulL They were released on their own recogniz ance. The charges were based on a published photograph of the Panama canal fortifications. At a special session of the federal grand Jury tomorrow the government will present its evidence against Field and the other defendants and ask for their indictment. First of Prosecutions WASHINGTON. July 10. Today' arrests at San Francisco marked th beginning of the first criminal prose cutions under the national defense ac of March 3, 1911, for disclosure of mil itary secrets. The war department heretofore has found it necessary to warn some publishers who printed special articles and pictures dealing with the coast defense system of the country, but because the element ot intent to do mischief wai lacking, no attempt was made to prosecute the of fenders. In the present instance, however, de partment officials pointed out that ffto publication specifically directed atten tion to the alleged shortcomings of the defense system of the Panama canal. When the magazine reached Washing ton from the headquarters of the west ern department Judge Advocate Gen eral Crowder declared this was a case warranting prosecution and according ly the secretary forwarded papers to the attorney general, who caused the arrest. The act provides for a punishment of $1,000 fine or one year's Imprison ment for any person, who for the pur pose of obtaining information respect ing the national defense to which he is not lawfully entitled, goes upon any vessel or government station or fort, or takes photographs, or sketches thereof, or who receives same knowing ihem to have been illegally taken. Soon after the defensive works were undertaken In the canal sone. Col. Goethals issued an order prohibiting any person from entering these de fenses taking sketches or photographs without permission. The fact that the pictures complained of in the case were taken from an aero plane, raises for the first time an in teresting point as to the Jurisdiction of the national authorities over the upper air. and involves a decision as to whether R person sailing over n- reser vation can be held to have unlawfully entered it. o NO CHANGE AT GUAYMAS " ' m associated press dispatch NOGALES, July 10. There is no change in the situation at Guaymas. Genernl Alvarado, commanding the constitutionalist forces at tho front of the beleaguered seaport tele graphed from Cruz De Piedva at 3:4S this afternoon. Reports reached here yesterday that the federals have motf of their equipment loaded on steam ers and are ready to leave the mo ment their position becomes unten able. The hall rang with applause when Francis shouted. "God bless the girl who refuses to study algebra, a study that caused many girls to lose their souls. Give them courses in costume designing instead of mathe matics. "Schools are all wrong because we give credit to the captain of things and not to the stokers," declared Francis. "When the teaching force is allowed make its own Judgment ar.di stand on these judgments, we' will have different boys and gills. Add to that nine-tenths of our im morality is caused by damage done to boys and girls by teachers. Teach ers who train the child to believe he cannot be respectable unless he becomes a professional man, are a menace to society."' 1 i It.': k I? p;. Is if I