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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN,
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
87
TWENTY-EIFTH YEAR
10 PAGES
ENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEARCH 39, 1915
10 PAGES
VOL. XXV. NO. 293
REORGANIZED BELGIAN
ARMY READY TO BA TTLE
GERMANS NEAR YSER
Xoxt Important Battle on
Western Front, It is Pre
dicted, Will Take Place
lictwecn the
Germans .
Belgians and
ALLIES' WARSHIPS
SET PORT P.KLG1ANS
Along the Ysor Floods Have
Subsided and Belgians
Push Lines Forward De
spite Threatened Counter
Attack's from Other Side
f ASSOCIATED PRESS OISPATCHl
LONDON. March IS. The next im
portant buttle on the western frost, il
is believed, will take place along the
River Vser, held on one side by the
recently reorganized Belgian army and
on the other by the Germans. Tin re
is no change of note elsewhere in the
west, and at many points tin- fighting
seems to have slackened.
There is little news from the eastern
rmnt and beyond the fact that the
Russians have again crossed the East
Prussian frontier in the far irorllifist
near Tilsit and that they are coat inn
ins the offensive against the Austrian
in Bnkowina, the situation is unchang
ed. Athens reports a temporary lull
in the bombardment of the Darda
nelles and Smyrna.
Along the Yser as the floods nave
subsided the Belgians, supported by
warships of the allies, have already
pushed their line forward slightly. This
is almost certain to lead to counter
attacks by the Germans and a general
engagement as has been the case
when similar movements were initiated
elsewhere along the front. An ar
tillery duel which was in way of
preparation, has commenced. There
may be a slight delay while the
Germans are awaiting reinforcements
from Germany for they have been
using most of their reserves to coun
ter attack the British troops at St.
Kloi, Neueve Chapelle and the French
at north Arras, but that the big clash
will soon come nobody doubts. The
contest for the spur of Notre Dame
Dp Loreite is still in progress, ac
cording to Berlin and further at
tempts of the French to advance in
(Continued on page Seven)
11 SHORT IS
Youth Who in Phoenix
Forced Endorsement on
Pension Che.4
1S
Apprc-
bended bv Federal Offi
cers in Los Angeles
(Special to The Republican)
LOS A NG ELLS, March Ix. After a
year's search for a man who, in
Phoenix, Ariz., forged an endorsement
on an old soldier's pension check for
ST-.ra? and cashed it, federal officers
today arrested William Short, '4 years
old, as the guiltv person.
According to the federal officers,
young Short, calling at the Phoenix
postoffice one day for his mail, was
handed, the officers say, a letter ad
dressed to illiam Short. The letter
contained the soldier's pension check.
Il is charged that Short endorsed
the check with his own name and
cashed it. This is in violation of
section U(s of the federal code, which
n akes it n crime for anyone to cash a
pension check t tint does not belong
to him.
Since coming to Los Angeles, young
Short his been married. His first
thought on reaching the I'niteil States
marshal's office, in company with
Dolph Hassett, deputy Fnited States
marshal, was to telephone his wife
that he was under nrrest.
CAUGHT AFTER
YEAR'S SEARCH
Last Day Of Registration
For April City Election
The principal action about the city
hall yesterday was the rush of eleventh-hour
registrations, over two
hundred citizens placing their name
on the city register in order to qualify
for voting at the coming city general
election on April 8, and also V en
iible them to feel assured that in sign
ing the recall petitions against
George ir. Young, mayor, and Joseph
5f. Cope and Peter C'orpstein, com
missioners, their effort will not lie in
vain.
Tod.iy is the last day for registra
tion. The office of the city clerk will
close at 5 o'clock. Ordinarily, the
cli rk would keep his office open until
midnight to accommodate all who
desired to register. However, the time
for closing of this registration was
fixed by resolution of the commis
MANY CHICAGO WOMEN
ARE CIGARETTE SMOKERS
t
CHICAGO, March IS. One wo-
m;in in ever twenty in this city in
a cigarette smoker, according to
i the estimate alter investigation by
' Alice Clement and Mary liiloy, po-
licewonien. "We covered all parts
of the city," said Miss Clements.
! "Wry few working girls nr girls of
! middle class smoke. The habit
1 does not seem to he growing."
T
HEAVY TOLL III
III
Appalling
tions in
St try
Serbia
of
Condi
is
Jielated '
, , - .
0V War Keller ( . OlUinit -
reciijcu on Their Return
j .
to liOntlOl!
associated press dispatchI
LONDON, March is. An appallin;
story if conditions in Serbia was re
lated today by I'rnest Bicknell and
Henry James, Jr., of the War Relief
lonimittee of the Rockefeller found;.-1
lion, on their return to London after i
tour of inspection through thai j
country.
TypKus already has caused the '
death of fid out of 4uu native doctors !
of the country. The foreign lied !
Cross units have suffered great !
losses. Nine American nurses and ;
two physicians have contracted the '
disease. j
The Serbians assert that typhus ,
v.as introduced by Austrian prison.
tis or war who "were permitted to
wander over the country and spread
vermin which causes the disease.
The commissioners went first to
Nish. linn proceeded to Belgrade and
left the country by way of Uskoh,
thus .'isiting the three most popu-
ions tow ns. During: their tour they j
learned typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, j
smallpox, diptheria, scarlet fever and i
recurrent fever all existing in more
or less epidemic form. The largest i
number of cases is i-i recurrent fe- ;
vi-r, but this disease is seldom fatal, i
Typhus is particularly deadly. Small- j
pcx and diptheria are diminishing.
No figures are available as to j
the number of cases but the commis- j
sinners believe the mortality Is so
heavv as to bring the situation with-
in their purview. I
Sanitary expeits are needed badly,
but unless they are fully equipped
with medicine and also with furnish- j
ings f ir their living quarters it ,
would be unwise for them to go to
Serbia, since they probably
would
fall victims to the disease.
Mr. James said that the situation
(Continued on Page Three)
Railroads Have
Been Driven To
The Last Ditch
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
ST. PAFL, .March 1 S. Railroads in
this country have been driven to "the
last ditch" and are no longer able to
compete with each other or any one
else," James J. Hill, railroad builder,
told the railroads' committee of the
Minnesota house and senate at the
joint hearing on the bill before the
legislature to increase the railroad
passenger rate of this state from two
cents a mile to two and a half cents.
He predicted even more stringent
conditions will follow the conclusion
of the European war. Next year he
believed would see a fall in prices of
all farm products, with wheat down to
seventy cents a bushel.
sion at 3 o'clock, and beyond that
hour Judge Thomas could not receive
registrations.
Calm prevailed in all . the depart
ments of the city government yes
terday. The city vault was still
locked, except at such times as Man
ager Parish perndtted It to oe opened
to secure books or papers required
for the conduct of routine affairs. At
torneys for the commission endeavored,
to secure an earlier hearing of the
certiorari proceedings than March 24,
but could not arrange with counsel
for Manager Parish for an earlier
date. Robert A. Craig, the commis
sion's manager, made no 'effort yes
terday to possess himself of the rec
ords of the manager's office, although
he visited the .city hall during the
day. ". .
TAKES
HUNTREPRIEVES '
GOIIDEHl!
HUTU HIV gn!
uiiiil nini lu
!
Governor. Ifules That tin;
Thi rty-day K x t e n s i o n
Recommended by Pardon
Hoard Would Not lie
Time Ivion-ih
MA'I
'PEIMIIXGES !
ON LAIRD CANUj
OJ 'i t itli n taii 'i jjvioia-
ture Will Take Time of
Officials Who Must Pass
on Casts After Supreme
Court Decides
Conceding that the pardon board
made a timely suggestion when it
i recommended a thirty-day reprieve
for the men who were sentenced to
ihang at Florence today. Governor
) Hunt yosternay went the hoard one
I belter and --rantcii the condemned
",on ;l -'fl""'1'"' "-tit May The
- pi ociailli- UOU OL reioie-c, uiucu itjii
ihe forwarded to the state prison to-
,,','- wus fJisne(1 hi ,ne f,,v,'rn"'- M
yesterday afternoon,
I The ground that thirty o;.ys would
(not afford sufficient time foi the su-
i prcme court to render a decision in
tth.e Knox Laird case, and for members
of the new parole hoa:d or the gov
Kinor to review the transcripts of
I testimony and to take definite action
in the fie cases, is taken by tae gov
ernor for extendiniT the stay of ex
ecution for somewhat more than two
mouths. In the near future, the
proclamation says, there will be a
sptcial session of the legislature,
which will impose n great amount of
other important work upon the ex
ecutive officers who, under any de
cision of the Laird case, Woidd have
io pasK on the cases of the londenined
men and which would pieoiv, them
from giving such important matters
the attention they deserve.
After reviewing the cases of Perez.
Cliavex, Pernlta, Rodriguez and Villa -
lobo, and the action taken in the I
case of Knox Laird, together w ith his I
applicition for a writ of habeas cor-J
pus and the action taken by the board
at its last meeting, the yoverr-or's
proclamation says:
" Whereas, the hoard of pardons and
paroles, in so recommending the re
prieving of the condemned prisoners
confined in the Arizona state prison,
made the time necessary for the ren
dering of a comprehensive ami con
clusive opinion 1j the siiprejue court
oil the application of Knox laird, the
basis of its recommendation for the
suspension of judgment in favor of
tiie condemned prisoners enumerated
hereinbefore.
"Whereas, the governor of Ari
zona, while recognizing that the board
of pardons ami paroles, acting in a
merely advisory capacity, has ex
pressed an opinion which is Umely,
and apparently worthy of consideration.
iilfecting the cases of N. 1!. Chavez,
F.duardo Perez, .Miguel Peraita. Fran
cisco Rodriguez and Ramon ViUnlobo,
(Continued on Page Two)
In Three Hours Thirteen
and One-half Minutes the
Heady Little Rider Nego
tiates Distance With Time
to Spare
By Lyle Abbott
riCSON, March IS. Joe O'Connell
heat the early birds to the fair
giounds. winning the Phoenix-Tucson
road race In the record time of
three hours, thirteen and one-half
minutes. Lorenzo Boido, the favor
ite, in spite of a dramatic spill in
the outskirts of the city, finished sec
ond in 3:2r. P.ill Gerig, The Repub
lican's fast mail clerk, closely fol
lowed l'oiilo into the grounds, fin
ishing in 3:J1-i.
This is .o'Connell's first road rao
victory. After leading all the way
to within fifteen miles of the finish
line, Roido ran out of gas and sac
rificed his lead to O'Connell, who had.
been conserving his speed for th"
filial dash. -At the "steam pump,"
twelve miles below Tucson, Roido's
Indian refused to' shoot, and in a
moment the San Diego race winner
was cussing the desert distances. As
he pushed his motorcycle to the side
of the road and ioked about for a
gas supply station, O'Connell, who
had been trailing him, shot by and
Into the lea l.
Retween the time he took the lead
(Continued on Page Two)
O'COIELL
SPEEUG'S RECORD IN CLASSIC
PHOEI-TUCSON MOTORCYCLE CRIIID
SAY WOMEN WOULD
INVADE MEN'S SPHERE
LONDON', March J 8. The novel
and -ather revolutionary plan of
the government to mobilize the wo
mn to replace the men needed for
war -service, although only tenta
i tively outlined by the board of
trade, has aroused a wide discus
sion In Lngland, especially In or
ganized labor circles which are dis
turbed with the prospect o' an n
llux of thousands of untrained non
union women into the sphere of
various activity s.
Government Loses
Trust Suit Makes
Ready To Appeal
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
liOSTOX. March IS. Immediately
following the decision of the federal
district court that the government's
suit to dissolve the Fnited Shoe Ma
chinery Company as an unlawful
monopoly under the Sherman act was
not sustained, Fnited States District
i Attorney Anderson started prepara
tions for an appeal in case the de
partment of justice decided to take !
the stop. The decision sustains the
legality of the original combination
from which the Fnited Shoe Ma
chinery company was organized in
1S!iK. of the acquisition of the busi
ness of more than ." companies and
individuals together with the validity
of the company's leases and its pat
tent monopoly.
District Attorney Anderson has been
requested by Attorney General Greg
ory to make a report on the case to
the department at Washington with a
view of a possible appeal. Although
there is a criminal suit pending here
against the company on a charge simi
lar to that decided today, no proceed
ings on it will be attempted pending
the final disposition of the civil suit.
For some time a decision favorable to
the company has been expected in
financial circles, and stock has been
raising steadily for tie- last
weeks.
two
TREATY RICHTS
Two
(
bnndaiiits Arc
.Made
Fnder
bv
Dr.' .Mueller,
Technical Arrest on State
Warrant Charinnir Con
spiracy to ( Vrnipt
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATC.Hl
SKAi'TLK. March 18. T.no com
plaints that the treaty rights of Ger
many are being violated by American
officers has been made by Dr. Wilhelm
Mueller, imperial German consul here,
who was technically arrested yesterday
on a state warrant charging conspiracy
to bribe an employe of s corporation.
.Mueller, through the German embassy
at Washington, first complained to
state officers of violated treaty rights
in invading his office. The second vl-
(Cor.tinued on Page Three)
CONSUL CLAIMS
BOIDO AND CERIG BEAT
State Band Is i
Greeted Royally
By FairVisitors
(Special to The Republican.)
TUCSON, March 18. The state
band arrived this morning at ten
thirty o'clock after having serenaded
Casa Grande and stretches of the de
sert all the way from Maricopa, af
fording entertainment both to the
populace and the itinerant public in
the train. The band was met at the
station by Secretary J. F. Myers of
the Southern Arizona fair, and led to
a sumptuous luncheon.
The. parade, in which Jack Elliott
appeared as drum major and "Doc"
Redewill brought op in the rear.
(Continued on Page Two)
DR. BOIDO'S TEAM
BEATS ALL ARIZONA
TUCSON. March 18. Dr. Roi
do's Phoenix rifle team today
everlastingly btat all the Ari-
zona teams on the first day of the
I state association's rifle match.
Sergeant Jacksotf McRae of the
1 Phoenix team, won the individual
i high state record today for the
I fourth straight time, a fact which
creates a new world record, no
man evAr having won it more
than twie in a row.
E AII 5
IS HOT CAUSE
Tom Pagitt, the Owner of
12,(KM) Acres of Texas
Land, Describes Tenant
Problems to Industrial
Relations Committee
SAYS WOAIKN
WORK IN
FIKLDS
Tenant Must, llaxe Lame
Family as There is Difli
cultv in Hh'in.u Help
Without Wa-es Cntil the
( 'rop is Sold
f ASSOCIATED rV.I'SS PISrATCHl
DALLAS. .March is. Tom Pagitt,
owner of l.,("'i acres of Texas land
described some tonant problems on his
estate from a land owners point of
vie-.v before the federal committee on
induntri.il relations at its American
land question hearing. The Pagjtt
place in Coleman county, it is said, has
uvtnty-two tenant families on about
.liiii) acres and the remainder is leased
to cattle men.
They say an agent prefers to get ten
ants with large families because the
country is so sparsely settled that wo
men and children form almost the only
available source of an extra labor sup
ply in the cotton picking season. Wo
men, h" said, usually chop, hoe and
help with tucking the cotton. The
children begin work in the fields at
about tight years of age.
The tenant, Pagitt said, would have
difficulty in hiring farm hands because
he is not as a rule able to pay wages
until after the crop is sold. Describing
the housing conditions Pagitt said the
cheapest tenament houses in his place
has two rooms and cost while the
largest has four rooms, costing $1"".
None are screened, he said.
Would you object 1o a tenant who
believed in certain principles of govern
ment or lel'orm. advocating them while
living in your place?" asked Chairman
Walsh. "No." replied Pagitt. "but 1
did not like a tenant who stirred up
trouble by talking at the store and try
ing to make other men dislike the land
lord." In reply to the question con
cerning the working hours of the ten
ants, Pagitt said in crop season noinf
of them go to work at four in the
morning and some at six and they
generally woik until dark.
Two witnesses testified they believed
the landlords are not responsible for
hardships in the present land tenant
s stem. These witnesses were K. J.
Giddings, an attorney of Oklahoma
City and Prof. Charles Auston of the
Fniversity of Texas.
Mr. Giddings suggested the federal
action as an effective remedy to reduce
usury. In describing conditions in the
former Indian Territory section of Ok
lahoma as extremely bad. for tenant
farmers, he said:
"This is not due primarily to tyran
ny by the landlords, or lack of thrift
in the tenants, but to the inane, in
sipid and senselt ss policy of the federal
(Continued on Page Four)
Arizona Mote Pikers Make
Successful Start in First
Piioenix-T u c s o n R o a d
Race Mishaps Ft w- and,
None Serious
Amidst much smoke and noise, to
say nothing of the enormous crowds
that gathered around to see the nervy
riders hurl their machines into space,
the first Phoenix-Tucson road race-
started yesterday morning from Norlh
t irst avenue at 10 o'clock.
The riders had drawn for their no-
sitions the nUlii before, and cheeked
out at one-minute intervals, in the fol-
HARDSHIPS
lowing order:
No. Machine Rider
1 Merkel Crandall
2 Merkel Doheney
' Hurley Fogle
4 Merkel Sellner
Merkel Ilighfill
1 Merkel Butler
" Indian Wilson
? Indian O'Connell
!i Kxcelsior Rhodes
ID Indian Gerig
11 Indian Doirto
12 Merkel Thompkins
It Merkel Albright
At the starters word to "no
the
machines were headed for Van Ruren
sureet and thence to Temiie. The
side street crossings along the course
vithin the city Units were crowded
with people, all anxious to see
tho
(Continued on Page Two)
PROTEST MADE VILLA
AGAINST COLLECTION
OF MILLION PESOS TAX
EXPLOSION OF DUST
CAUSE OF DISASTER
HINTOX. W. Va.. March IS An
' explosion oi dus( following a ;
! "blowout" shot, was responsible for
! Uie disaster on March 2. which cost !
the lives of 11 men in the Lnyland j
mine of the New River and Poca- '
' honias Consolidated Coal company, j
; according- to ihe verdict of the cor-
oner's jury rendered today. The j
; jury did not attach the blame on j
i any one. j
NOT FULL REPLY
Neither Britain Nor France
Has Answered Ouestions
as to Their Wan-ant Un
der International Law for
Their Embargo
ASSOCIATED PP.ESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON. .March IS. The
United States considers Great Britain
and Fiance, in the British order-in-council,
have ma answered the ques
tions propounded them as to what is
their warrant under international law
for the establishment of an embargo
on all commercial intercourse, directly
an., indirectly between i"ermany and
neutral countries.
it is stated otficially at the state de
partment that this government still
does not know whether the action of
the allies is intended as a legal block
ade or whether the ordinary rules of
contraband and non-contraband are to
be a legal basis for future detentions,
on the determination of this question
prooablv will depend not only the na
ture of any steps that may be taken by
the United States at this time, but also
.u a basis for many claims for dam
ages arising out of interruptions to
American commerce tinder the nf w pol
icy of the allies. If the action of the
allies is to blockade, all commerce di
rectly, Germany can be halted by mak
ing the blockade effective, a certain
"radius of activity" being allowed for
the blockading warships off the Ger
man coast because of the newly devel
oped activities of the submarines. P.ut
there can oe no legal blockade of the
(oast of the neutral countries of Ku
rope. it is the contention of the United
States, under any circumstances.
If the action is not to blockade then
there exists no legal right to detain
cotton or other non-contraband car
goes even when consigned directly to
German ports, nor can foodstuffs' or
conditional contraband be justly inter
rupted unless proved, though consigned
to Germany, to be destined for the use
(Continued on Page Seven)
o
Girls Carried
Weapons For
Boy Burglars
associated press dispatch
CHICAGO, March IS Three girls
and four boys, the youngest sixteen
years old. the eldest aged twenty, con
teused tonight, according to the police,
lo a number of burglaries and several
hold-ups. Revolvers were found on
two girls and in the flat where the ar
rests were made, many bolts of cloth,
cigars, razors and a quantity of w hisky
were found which the police believe
were stolen.
Mrs. Ruth Allensport. aged twenty,
the police say, told them the girls car
ried the weapons and tools so if arrest
ed, nothing would be found on the boys.
"You know a copper couldn't search a
perfect lady." she said, according to the
on icers.
I ORDER
TO UESTIOIIS
Don't Fail To Register
Supplemental registration for the approaching
city election will end at 5 p.m. today. No person
not then registered will be qualified to vote on April
6. Many persons were prohibited from voting at the
primary election because, while they were registered
in the county, their names did not appear upon tho
city registration books. The only place of registra
tion is at the city hall.
Unless an otherwise qualified elector of the city
of Phoenix knows his or her name to be upon the city
registration books they will rot be privileged to vote
on April 6. Nor will a person not registered in the
city lie recognized as a qualified elector and should
they sign one or more of the recall petitions to be cir
culated today their signature would carry no weight.
Register today before 5 o'clock.
i United States Acts on Re
quest of British Embassy,
and Urges Non-Enforcement
of Decree Upon
Monterey Foreigners
LIVING CONDITIONS
ARK IMPROVING
In Mexico City Affairs Are
Becoming Nearer Normal
and Railway Communica
tion to El Paso AVill Re
sume Soon
associated pkess dispatch
WASHINGTON, March IS. A
protest was sent by the United States
to Villa against the collection from
Americans and other foreigners of
part of the special tax of a million
pesos levied at Monterey. The Bri
tish embassy had brought to the at
tention of the state department a re
port Just received from Monterey say
ing ihe British owned light and pow
er company there had been called
upon to pay thirty five thousand as
its share of the tax. Other advices
to the department said the living con
ditions in Mexico City are improved
and railway communications to Kl
Paso Willi probably be opened In four
or five days and the fighting between
Carranza and Villa forces had be
gun at Tampico.
Just how Villa's general assess
ment was to be apportioned, the statu
department is not informed, but the
understanding was that Villa, had laid
an omnibus tax on the city, leaving It
to the authorities to raise the money
in whatever way they saw fit. The
order is dated March Ifi. it is said,
fifteen days' time is given to raise,
the money. A brief statement by tho
department in regard to the matter
said:
"The department is informed in'
advices emanating from Monterey
that Villa imposed a contribution of a.
million pesos on certain persons, in
cluding foreigners and church au
thorities. No details of the matter
have yet been recetved."
The department had protested pre
viously, notably in the case of the
tax obregon tried to collect in Mex
ico City recently, against anv Mexi-
(Contlnued on Page Four)
o
Governor Asks Attorney
General What Can Be
Done to Provide Money
for Administration of the
State Lauds
Asking him to determine the status
of appropriations for the state land
commission, and outlining the situa
tion which has arisen since the legjr
lature failed to make any appropria
tions for that body, Gov. Hunt yes
terday addressed a letter to Attorney
General Wiley K. Jones, requesting
an opinion as to what emergency
measures could be invoked to provide
funds for carrying on the work of the
commission.
"This failure creates an emergency
of the greatest magnitude, imperiling
as it does the interest and rights of
tho state in and to some eleven and
a half million acres of land, in va
rious stages of title, and endangering
the equities of a large number of
lessees and owners of improvement
on approximately 500,000 acres.
"The appropriations heretofore pro
vided for the support of other de
partments of state are available un
til Juno 30, the end of the current
fiscal year, and in some cases long
er, hut the ambiguity of the law
(Continued on Paga Three)
FUNDS FOR LAND
COMMISSION ARE
lillllUS QUANTITY