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THE ARIZONA. REPUBLICAN,
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
10 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1914.
10 PAGES
VOL. XXV. NO. 199
TWO ARIZONA LABOR LAWS
ARE ATTACKED BY DOUGLAS
Third Day of Mining m
UTess Urines Big Grist of
Work 1 '('Solutions Now
Ready to Ie Parsed Upon
Todav in Final Session
ADDRESSKS. ROOSTS
AND ALSO KNOCKS i
(
'oinnvss Heirins to Line It
self Up on Smile Imjioi't
ant Questions Compul
sory Arbitration Dodged.
( 'oinpensation Criticized
t'oniraiy to expectation, Wait'!'
1 X'utiUis. general manager of the
Phelps-Dodge interests in Arizona,
made mi atlacK upon what Uie Anuti
an Mining congress lias born tnli! arc
the recently initiated "freak labor
laws" ul this state, but confined him
self tn an arraignment if the conn
snrv compensation law anil the light
t
hour law. which are products ii t!
lirst state legislature. His ad.lr.
which was presented just before iv
yesterday, was the feature of the
siun. The eighty per cent and ai
blacklist laws which he was Una
hi' "lav intr far" with a Irage stii
let .severely alone, lie comniendi
'il the
mine inspection law another rncasiuv ,
he was thought to be opposing. j
Reoliitii.n.s. addresses, rciiorls of :
e...mf.e ,.n.1 t i.o -lei-i i. m of a lv.ar.1
of directors for lHl.i. were the bij? items
of esterda's procram. The rest
tinn.4 committee once oruanized. ie
ceived tlie nine p;tiers submitted to it,
anil proceeded to prepare things for to
day's meetintr. which will be probably
the most fruitful of all, in point
inile expression on the huge pr
f def- '
blems '
the congress is handling. Yestetdays
meeting like that of Tuesday, developed
not enough contention to be very in-ten-sting
to anyone n,t tlirectly inter
ested in the matters on hand. How
ever, tlie real opinions of the delegates
will begin coming to the front today,
which will be the final one. on which
formal business is to be transacted. In
fact today's program will be so crowd
ed that there is some doubt that every
thing can be gotten in. Ik-side includ
ing a generous lt of addresses and re
ports, it will have to carry the busi
ness of the other days, the final decis
ion or. resolutions and the finishing up
of details slipped over from the ear
lier parts of the session.
The addi esses made yesterday at
the mining congress were boosting
whether they knocked or not. For
instance, V. C. Swart of Iienver.
spoke on the "First Move, which he
declared was up to the trained min
ing man. "The trained mining man
should direct, not merely advise mine
ir; estmen'.s," he said.
Or. James K. Talniage of rtah ad
dressed tin, congress on the proper
advertising of mining claims. He i
traced advertising from its begir
ning. and then showed the different
between solid antl fake advertist
(Continued on Page
Ten)
SAMUEL A. TAYLOR
Elected to Board of Directors of Min
ing Congress
HELP AT ONCE, TODAY, IN
VALLEY BANK REORGANIZATION
I The following committee has tin:
It is important that depositors of the Valley Bank,m -haige: h. b. oousherge
subscribe twenty-five per cent, of their deposits to stock j S.Vh. LJlV'tmi'
in the Vallev Bank Adiustment Company, unless tne;'ie.
reauired amount of such
promptly made, the plan of
Few of the depositors, and still fewer of the large de
positors, have so far refused to subscribe. They have
liberally responded because they had everything to gain
and nothing they could possibly lose.
But it is difficult to locate all of the more than 9000
depositors. Some of them live in distant states. Letters
have been sent to practically all who live in this valley.
Those who may not have received notification are re
minded that they have not been intentionally neglected,
and they are requested to
ux j.Aa.uo an uiivo uiiiw
The business men of Fhoenix are also ureed to cal 1
at the Board of Trade, report
in the work of the solicitation of subscriptions
What is to be done must be done at once.
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CARL SCHOLZ
Re-elected President of American
Congress
M ine
'Scholz is Again
President Of The
Mining Congress
Scholz of Chicago ;main heads
American Mmm foiifrrcss as its
ITP!lent. haviiiK been re-ekfted last
1 board of directors. Jlarvey Hay of
I Wallace, l.U'ho, was lifted from third
! to first vice-president. If. S. Kein
j tnerer of Xew York was chosen see
I ond vice-president, and Waller Duutr-
las oi ifisiiee. tniru.
James K. allbreath
f
Oenver was
making his
re-elected secretary, this
. tenth year in taut office.
! The executive committee is now as
! follows: Carl Hcholz, Cnarles S.
i Keith of Kansas City and Walter
' Otalgias.
! Dr. James S. Douglas of New York
J City was made an honorary life mem
i bt r of the congress. This is the high
est honor the directors can confer,
and is givt n to but one man each
I year.
The publication .of a monthly bulle
tin or magazine devoted to the pre
sentation of legislative news and
economical discussions was decided
upon by the directors. This was the
only action tiken, outside (he elec
tion of the officers. Secretary Cnll
breath will be-the managing editor of
the publication and will select his
own assistants. The magazine w
published in Washington.
be
JUPITER IS DAMAGED.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
WASHIXtlTON. Dec. I". In a wire
less dispatch to the navy department
Lieutenant Commander Kompff, com-
. j mantling the big electric collier Jupi
ter, announctd that his snip lias ueen
damaged ill a storm off the coast
and that he is prut ceiling to New
York. The vessel left Philadelphia
for Huston on December 4 and the
wirelevs said: "Ship safe, all well.
Owing lo damage from the gale, thick
weather antl absetii
of the Nan
proceeding to
lucki
New
lightship
ork."
STRONG FOR SUFFRAGE.
associated trkss mspatch
IIK1.KNA. Dec. 9. Woman suffrage
carried Montana in the November el-
ection by 3,714. according to the of-
filial canvass.
ARIZONA CHAPTER OF IKE
Following the strong recommenda- came a hundred and fifty of them
tion of the American llining Congress llad signed a petition for a charter for
that a good wot Klng organization ; anr Arizona chapter,
should exist in everv stale, Arizona ' rhe w"rk f organizing will be car
mining men got together yesterday rwa forward and completed at a meel
and 'ast night and when closing time , ln wnih h" oeen called for to-
subscriptions, $200,009, is
reorganization will fail,
call at the office of the Board
iuiA guuumjuuu,
to the committee and assist
NEWLY ELECTED
OFFICIAL
BODY
President, Carl Scholz. Chicago.
First Vice-President. Harvey
Day of Wallace. Idaho.
Second Vice-President. .M. S.
Kemmertr of New York.
Third Vice-President. Walter
Douglas of liisbee.
Secrctarv. James F. Callbreath
i of Denver.
Kxetntive Committee Carl
i Scholz, Charles S. Keith and Wal
i ter Douglas.
Hoard of Directors-S. A. Tay
lor of Pittsburg. Churl Scholz of
! Chicago, C. S. Keith of New York,
j Walter Douglas of Ibsbee, I.. A.
; F'riedmun of .Nevada antl Faltin
, Jos! in of Alaska.
Showing What The
Mining Congress
Has Acomplished
ATTITUDE OF CONGRESS
No particular enthusiasm was dem
onstrated yesterday in favor of com
pulsory arbitration ot strikes or other
differences between capital and labor.
The workmen's compensation laws,
if they are to be suitable for both the
operator and the worker, must be very
carefully framed. The congress did
not express itself for or against the
lav.
The work of the congress must be
expanded, and federal aid must be eith
er directed or diverted to it from other
enterprises which the government is
fostering.
State chapters of mining men, affili
ated with the central congress are
most desirable things.
The United States government must
take some action to aid copper market
ing. Reosiution No. 1 on this subject,
was passed: yesterday.
i On revision of mining laws, the con
gress expressed no special opinion, but
it was tacitly agreed that revision is
necessary, and that too much law is
worse than too little. Federal control
of western water power is not working
out exactly to the interests of the in
vestor. Speeches were made against federal
leasing law, and against Arizona's la-
(Continueii on Tage Three)
i
j
I For
I
JAMES F. CALLBREATH
Tenth Time Secretary of the
Mine Conares
niKiii at .o" oeiocK at the Klks' thea-
ier. immediately after the mine res-
cue demonstration is over, the Ari
. zonlans will get together and form
their organization.
I lie formation of n strong work
ing organization of mining men here
will mean the opening of Arizona
mining resources as they could not
be opened In any other way," , said
Assistant Secretary R. T.. Walcott of
the Mining Congress, who is devot
ing himself to the work. 'T would
like to see it go through, and it will,
for we have already interested over
a hundred men in the movement. The
circulators of the petitions had to
turn them over and use the backs
lo write names on. It is a matter
which should interest many more than
mining men. The passage of the
amendment to the by-laws of the con
i Bress nermit associate members to he
le.vcrybodv in Arizona could join
I
predict that the Arizona chapter win
I
; nuiuoer many on its runs wno are not
directly and financially interested la
mines, but whose business Interests
are so closely allied that they c.-in't
afford not to support the movement."
I
I CONGRESS FORMED
MEXICAN FIRE
10 BE RETURNED
IF CONTINUED
rult'ss ( '(iiitt'iuliiiu' Fovi-i'S
Do Not (Vase Firing
Across IJonlcv American
Artillery AVill Speedily
l.'eturn 'Their Shots
A15IKKT IM'X'IDKS
OX DRASTIC STK
PS
N
I AirnTOSSlYC
Action i
.Planned, lint Distinction
is Dravn Metween Alt-
jiTossive and
Movements of
Defensive
Hoc is
f ASSOCIATED rill'SS MSPATCH 1
WASIIIXCTt 'X. lVc. 9 If thej
contentling Mexican forces opposite j
Naoo, Arizona, do not cease firing in-j
to Aini i'ic.'in territory, the three bat-
teries of field artillery sent to the
international line by the president
and secretary Garrison will be or
dered 'o return the fire. This de
termination of the T.'nittd Stales gov
ernment became' known tonight after
a full discussion by the president and
cabinet estt rday. :vo specific or
der has been given as yet to Priga-dii-r
Gem-rat Tascker Itliss, who was
directed to proceed to Nrtt'o with
field artillery, but while he is en
route there the officials expect an
answer to the slutrp warning given
to .Mavtorena antl Hill that bullets
and shells must not fall on Ameri
can soil. Similar warnings were
communicated to Carranza and Villa.
No act of "aggression" is contem
plated, as explained in a statement at
the While House today, but the offi
cials drew distinction between ag
gresidvo and defensive action.
For eleven troops of cavalry and
three batteries of field artillery to
cross the .Mexican line or open fire
first would constitute an act of ag
gression, but to remain on American
soil and return the fire of the Mexi
cans, in the opinion of the high
offici.-il.s, would as a measure of de
fense be fully justified under tlie eir
cumst.ince. and not be an act of
war or invasion.
Although it is not generally known,
Piigadier General Hugh Scott, now
chief of staff of the army, when in
tominand at Kl Paso a year ago,
placed artillery in position along the
Fiio Grande and delivered the same
warning, which was heeded.
It was explained at the war de
partment that the range of the ar
tillery ordered to Xa,-,, was from
five ti, six milts. Shells could be
sent over the Mexican town without
injuring the residents, into the lines
of the Mexican faction which insisted
on firing into American tcrritorv.
This i
should
s the plan of the officials
the warning move futile The
action of the
Washington government
constitutes precedent
for the future
antl was taken to mean that firing
into American territory from any
point along the border would meet
with similar steps.
Many telegrams came from Gover
r.or Hunt of Arizona and residents of
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Kama Occupied
By The British
Who Oust Turks
associated rauss dispatch!
I.OXIJOX, Dec. il.-H is oifi.ialK.
announced that Suchi Bey, late gov
ernor of Basra in Asiatic Turkev ami I
commander of the Turkish foices a,
Kurna. yesterday surrendered uncon- I
ditlonally with' his troops to the In-j
dian expeditionary force wnich is
operating at the head of the Persian
gulf. Kurna was subsequently occu
pied by tlie British, who have now
complete control of tlie eouhtrv from
the junction of the Tigris and Kn
phrates rivers to the sea, the richest
part of the fertile delta.
The Intiian office, in describing tlie
British operations in the Persian gulf,
says: "A reconnaissance of the en
emy's position at Kurna was made on
December a by Col. G. S. I rrtzer with
the llth .Maharatta light infantry.
The enemy was encountered on the
left bank of the Tigris, opposite Kur
na. Thes -were promptly attacked
and driven across the liver, losing
heavily. Two guns and seventy pris
oners, 'including three Turkish offi
cers, were taken. Kurna was found
to be strongly fortified by guns and
infantry. The British finding no
means of crossing the river, with
drew. The following day reinforce
ments were sent from Basra under
Brigadier General Charles Irwin Krye.
which captured Mazei-a, cleared the
ieft bank of the Tigris, took three
guns, three ofifeers and a hundred
men. Tuesday the British erissed
the river, and on Wednesday Such;
Bey surrendered. The British casual
ties throughout were one British offi
cer killed and three wounded, forty In
dians killed antl 120 wounded."
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BRITISH SQUADRON
WREAKS VENGEANCE
ON GERMAN SHIPS
Russians Say No Losses !
ASSOCIATED) PUK3S MEPATI'H
PKTP.OiHtAl), Jiec. :. Tilt: evacua
tion by the Ilussians of laid., in Kus
sian Poland, is atluiitted in a semi-
official cotnniunit
statement adds th:
not lose a soldier
i tion
though
Russians
tlie ,
the
did i
when the position j
was given ui.
The communication said:
"A ibrmaii oi'ficial communit
says the Kusshins mu.t ha'e
tion1
hiid
inormous lns.si-s in the
evacuation c-fl
l.oilz. Tlie confidence
that should be
1, laced in this communication is
denccd bv the fact that the P.ussian
troops withdrew from Lodz about
midnight, December (1. while the Ger-I;be
fi I IfS 1
E
INITIATIVE ON
EXTENDED LINE
Sea They Have Been
Aide to Regain from (ier
mans Positions Lost tlie
Last rew JJavs
ASSOCIATED I'P.ESR niSPATCH
I.i i. I K)X, Dec. !. The victory off
the "alkland Islands, where the British
squadron sank three German cruisers
and tne success of the Intiian troops on
(he Gulf of Persia, where they com
pelled tlie surrender of the Turkish
army, have for a moment overshad
owed so far as Kngland is concerned
at any rate, the larger events mi the
continent , of Europe.
The inking of the German cruisers
materially lesst ns the menace to Brit
ish shipping while the success of the
Indian forces, which has given Great
Britain the control of the. Persian gulf.
the delta of the Tigris and Kuphrates
Rivers, threatens that par t of Turkey
on which the German railway builders
have had eyes set for many years. With
this good news for the allies comes
what is considered here as a favorable
French communication of the opera
tions in Flanders and France. There
is also a somewhat clearer view of j
what is taking place along the Russo
German front.
The withdrawal of the German
troops from the wes) to strengthen the
armies in the east has enabled the al
lies to resume the initiative along the
front reaching from the Swiss border
to the North Sea and while they have
not made any marked advance they
have been able, according to the offi
cial announcement, to organize and
consolidate the positions won in the
last few tlavs. This naturally has been
done without opposition from the Ger
mans, who claim to have inflicted
heavy losses on the French particular
)v in Argonne and North Nancy.
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BY KEEPING 1
ASSOCIATKD PKESB DISPATCH) ,
SO.MEBVILLK. Mass., Dec. H. The
assumption by congress of the author-I
ity to prevent states violating by laws
or lawless violence United Slates
treaties will do more to prevent the
possibility of war between the United
Stales and other nations that increas
ing he army antl navy, former Presi
ded William Howard Taft declared
tonight in an address before the Hep
torean t bib.
"The only real possibility of war
I foresee is the wanton, reckless and
wicked willingness on the part of a
narrow section of the country to grat
ify racial prejudice and class hatred
by a flagrant breach of treaty rights
in the form of a state law or by law
less violence,' 'he said.
Taft tlitl not mention any state in
this connection. While tlepiecating
the "mild hysteria" regarding the
country's defenses, Taft admitted that
parts of the army and navy should
oe sirengiueneu. Me wutilo increase
the army one-quarter to one-halt
insure the navy enough men for the
reserve vessels, and provide new a
tillery chiefly for coast defense.
"It is said the coast defense has
artillery with range enough to r
sist attacks that might be brought
against them. This is true, but an
attack outsitle our range is not likely
to do mucn damage. However, we
can have enough guns ot long ran;
at a reasonable cost in a reasonable
time. Our coast defenses are other
CONGRESS CAN PREVENT WAD
In Evacuation Of Lodzl
mans remained mmionless for fiftei-i;
liotirs in from of our empty trenches,
the attack on which had covf them
more than 1o. soltliers, unit 'ei:i
which they ilarrtl
atvfiiice.
"t)nly at :
'clock in the afternoon
diil the tbrmans move
of IJooembt
forwartl to verif.v that there was no-
body in the trenches lacing I hem.
They then entered the town.
"'i- undertook this mant-uvi-r only
after wi- hat1, asct rl:iin''-l Unit the
i Germans definitely deei.b'i! r,ut lo con-
ei-liinue attacks in this district. The
! maneuver was
en tin Iv
action
independent of j
m I he part of :
j any aggressiv
enemy."
! STILL GREATEST
I- .
Rear Admiral Fletcher, Colli-
niaiider .of the Atlanta
Fleet. Defends Rig Rat
tleshi as Efficient
Fighting Machine
v.j
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, De,-. 9. -For the
first time in many years the house
naval committee conducted in pub
lic its hearing on the naval lull,
which already has assumed the na
ture of a general impiiry into the
efficiency and general condition of
the fleets. Bear Admiral Fletcher,
commander of the Atlantic fleet, in
a general statement defended the
dreadnaugbt as the greatest weapon
of naval warfare. He said that the
Kuropcan war had not demonstrated
that the battleship "is less valuable
in naval warfare than heretofore,
nor that it is not still the main fae-
tot in finally determining a conflict."
Representative Butler expressed
the hope that the president would
take steps after the war to secure
an international agreement of dis
aiinameni. and said with that pur
pose in mind it would lie contradic
tory to continue the construction of
great vessels of destruction. Fletch
er, who was on the stand all day.
expressed a belief of the ability of
the American navy to meet success
fully (he war vessels of any nation
in the world except Great Britain.
He said the possibility of a conflict
with Great Britain was so remote
that ne did not believe in a naval
policy designed to control the ocean
as against Kngland.
Fletcher agreed that it would be a
very opporlnno time after the war
to bring up the disarmament ques
tion, in fact, tlie best opportunity
we ever had. Fletcher denied the re
ports that the American ships were
improperly handled by being too
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STAIES IN LINE
wise complete. We don't need a large
standing army to resist an attack if
we have a good navy and good coast
defense, because the difficulties of
transporting a large army, with our
modern navy, with torpedo boat and
submarines to resist, it would be in-
seperahle."
1
WEAPON
Two And One Half Cent
Light Contract Approved
The proposed contract with the Pa
cific tins and Electric company, cov
ering a period of four ears, in which
the company agrees to furnish
"juice" for street lighting purposes
and for other municipal uses at a
flat rate of two anil one-half cents
per kilowatt hour, was approved by
the city commission at a special
meeting held yesterday morning. It
will become effective on January, 1,
1915, and insures service at exactly
one-half the cost at the present time.
The entire commission was pres
ent yesterday when the com ract was
presented for consideration. AH' the
commissioners entered a vote of ap
proval, but Mayor Young, an advo
cate of a municipal electric lighting
plant, opposed its adoption, on the
ground that the city should not tie
Cireatest Naval Engagement
Since That Off Heligoland
Jesults in Sinking of
Three; Geraian Warships
and Capture of Colliers
THE BRITISH
CASUALTIES LIGHT
Announcement of tlie En
gagement and Victory Re
ceived in Hundred Word
Message and Brings Re
joicing in London
ASSOCIATE!! press dispatch
! I.ONDOX. Dee. 9. A British squa.l
jron under the command of Vice Ad
imiral Sturdee. chief of the war staff,
engaged the German squadron under
! Admiral Von Spee off the Falkland
! Islands in the South Atlantic yester
jtlay and won a victory that was ac
I claimed throughout England. The
j armored cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneis
ienau and the protected cruiser Leip
! zig, the three German warships which
have been menacing British shipping
anil part of the squadron which sunk
the British cruisers Dresden, Nurn
berg and two other vessels of the,
I German squadron, made off during
itlie fight and according to latest ac-
counts are being pursured. Two col-
Hiers were captured. It is believed
that fV of the Germans were rescued.
The announcement of this engage
, ment and victory, which is the most
j important naval engagement of th
I war, w ith the. exception of that off
Helgoland last August, was made this
evening in a statement from the ad
jmiralty of less than a hundred words.
The announcement follows:
"A seven thirty in the morning on
the eighth of December, the Scharn
horst, Gneisenau, Nurnburg, Leipzig
and Dresden, were sighted near the
Falkland Islands by the Britsh squad
ron under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick
Sturdee. An action followed in the
course of which the Scharnhorst, fly
ing the flag of Admiral Count Von
Spee, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig
were sunk. The Dresden and Nurn
burg made off during action and aro
being pursued. Two colliers were also
captured. The vice admiral reports
that the British casualties were very
few in numbers. Some survivors were
rescued from the Gneisenau and I.eip-
zig.
The statement making reference to
some survivors from the Gneisenau
and Leipzig but no mention being
made of any of the crew of the
Scharnhorst which was the flagship
of the German admiral, being Saved,
it is thus presumed that Von Spee,
his officers and men went down fight
ing. The British casualties were light,
but beyond the fact that the British
squadron was commanded by the
Sturdee there was no information re
gardfhg the ships engaged, and the
newspapers were enjoined not to spec
ulate as "other combinations may be
effected."
The greatest enthusiasm prevails in
London over the victory and the gen
eral impressirn is that it will be com
pleted as the admiralty is not likely
to send ships that can not overtake
the Dresden and Nurnburg, which are
twenty-four knot and twenty-three,
knot .vessels respectively and probably
even slower after long service. They
are at a disadvantage also because
of their small coal capcity. The Bri
tish sipidron left England without the
knowledge of the general public and
until his name waa mentioned it was
believed that Sturdee was serving in
home waters.
The fact that he was taken from
the post of chief of the war staff is
indicative of the determination of the
British government to clear the Pa
cific and South Atlantic, of all Ger
man warships. It is believed, there
fore, that the British commander is at
the head of a formidable squadron.
In addition to the Dresden and
Nurnburg only one German warship
the Karlsruhe is now unaceount
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itself up for a greater period than
one year, no matter how advanta
gous such contract might appear on
the face of it.
Manager Alier of the Tacific Gas
and Klectrio Company appeared be
fore the commission to further the
interest of the then proposed contract
and informed the commissioners that
the figure represei ted the actual cost
of tne service to the company.
The commission upon motion of Mr.
Woods adopted a resolution that City
Manager Farish award the contract
for the erection of the new city cor
ral to the lowest bidder, X. A. Pen
nington, who agreed to erect the
proposed structure for $:'S90.
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