TUE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MOliNINUy-AVRIL 16, 1915. PAGE THREE RUMORS Of ACCIDENTS ALL PROVE GROUNDLESS Dr. Dameron - Says Report of His Death Was Greatly Exaggerated Did Not Go death was greatly exaggerated did Hot gon on motorcade at all. Reports of a serious accident on the Roosevelt, road in which any where from one to six people were killed kept coming into The Republi ciin office last night until it became necessary for two members of the staff to devote, their entire time to reassuring hundreds of . anxious questioners that nothing serious had happened to any of the cars on the return trip of the big motorcade. One of the most persistent reports was to the effect that Dr. and Mrs. Li. 1). Dameron of this city had been killed in an automobile accident on Fish Creek hill. The rnmor had just reached the Republican office when the telephone rang again. "Hello, have you heard a report that Dr. Dameron has been killed?" "Yes," said the reporter who an swered the phone, "but I don't be lieve it is true." " "Well this is Dr. Dameron talking, and I don't believe it either," said the doctor, who went oh to assure the Republican a la Mark Twain, that tlie report (if his death had been greatly exaggerated. Dr. and Mrs. Dameron had an nounced their intention of going to the dam for the celebration, but changed their plans, and did not leave the city yesterday. How the report, which spread pretty generally throughout the city, got started is a mystery. Of such accidents as blow outs, and minor break-downs there was an abundance, but efforts to confirm the somewhat sensational re ports tnat reached the city last night resulted in emphatic denials at all points along the line from Phoenix to Globe that anything of a serious nature had occurred to mar the re turn from the celebration. o : - CATCH COUNTERFEITERS ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH SAX FRANCISCO. April 15. Three alleged counterfeiters and a complete outfit o"f tools and metal were cap-turt-d aboard the sloop Barnacle, while asleep in their bunks, off Sau salito. The trio, Thomas B. Boggs, W. H. Young and Frank Harris, con fessed, say officers, that they intend ed counterfeiting $5 gold pieces and Mlvcr half dollars for use in buying i pi u in in Mexico. The Barnacle is the smallest ocean-going sloop on the coast. KEEP OUT BOLL WEEVIL t ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl WASHINGTON, April 15. Under proposed regulations of he depart ment -of agriculture ;toi keep pink boll weevtl out of the United States, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and New Y rk will be the only ports of entry for foreign cotton. A conference is railed here for April 20 on restric tions. After January 1 the regula tions provide that all cotton must be d'sinfix'ted under the supervision of the department. LIBERTY BELL TO EXPO f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl PHILADELPHIA, April 15. The se lect and common councils decided to allow the historic liberty bell to be scut to the l'anama Pacific Exposition. Resolutions providing, for the trip across the continent were unani mously' adopted by both branches. A-'i.yor Blankenburg announced tonight he would sign the resolution and only minor details now remain to complete the arrangements. RESPECT MEMORY OF NELSON (ASSOCIATED PRK8S DISPATCH KANSAS CITY, April 15. Only one edition of the Kansas City Star, noon, will be published tomorrow out of re spect to the memory of William Rock hill Nelson, editor and owner, whose funeral will be held in the afternoon. Business houses throughout the city announced they would suspend busi ness during the funeral hour. For extra good cooking always use Cottolene For biscuits, pie-crust, cakes and doughnuts, and for frying, Got. tolene is supreme, because it is the purest cooking fat and pos sesses important food values. 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Huerta's statement reviewed the history of the Madero revolution, and his own accession to the provisional presidency, and concluded with the assertion that "my country cannot be conquered." .-Sixteen millions of men. women and children will have to be killed before Mexico will submit to an invader, he asserted. Had it not een for the embargo on the exportation of arms from this country, Huerta indicated his army wt-iihi have j,ievailed over those op posed to it. The former provisional president reiterated the assertion he made when he left Mexico last year, that he resigned from the position only because he hoped to bring peace to the country. He pointed out that in the eight months that have elapsed since that date the situation in Mex ico has become "too sad for me to analyze deeply." "Anarchy is too soft a word to call it," he said. Mexico would eventually he saved, hut by a Mexican. Who that would be he did not know. Huerta declined, in response to questions, to give any inkling of his future movements. He denied the re port he would go to San Antonio, Texas, or any other point nea the Mexican border. Discussing the death of Madero, he said: "That is a professional secret. Lawyers have secrets, and doctors have secrets. I am a soldier, and why should not a soldier have secrets? It is not through friendship for any one that I am withholding this information. It is a professional duty. The time will soon come when my name will be vindicated and, as Gen. Lee said of General Jackson, the world will say of . me that I stood like a stone wall, submitting to ignominy and insults that have been heaped upon me." "It has been said you betrayed the confidence of President Madero; Is It so?", he was asked. General Huerta straightened up, his eyes flashed and bringing his clenched fist against his breast, he replied: "No, I swear it. I was in no way responsible for his death. It has been one of the big tortures of my life. I am sorry I have to keep the secret. Although I am of a different race than you gentlemen, I am a man." OBREGON REPORTS VICTORY VERA CRUZ. April 15 "Five thousand enemy dead were counted during the movement northward from Celaya. Six thousand prisoners, and forty field pieces were captured." This is Obregon's summary of the result of the fighting about Celaya where he reported today he gained a decisive victory over the forces of Villa. The ringing of church bells, and parading of soldiers and citizens conveyed the news of the reported Carranza 'victory to the public. GOLD IS RETURNING ASSOCIATED PRFSS DISPATCH NEW YORK, April 15. Lazard and Freres, bankers, with prominent French financial connections, an nounced the engagement of $7,000,000 gold In Ottawa for importation to New York. This is the largest single in'port of gold made since the return flow of the metal started early in the year. Bankers say there is no espe cial significance to the transaction. OPERATE ON MRS. ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH NEW YORK, April 15. Mrs. Theo dore Roosevelt was operated on at Roosevelt hospital. Dr. Alexander Lambert of the Cornell medical school was the surgeon In charge. The na ture of her ailment is undisclosed but the operation was successful. Colonel Roosevelt was with her until she went to the operating room. o PRODUCE BRINGS GOOD PRICES ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH BERLIN,' April 15. Butter sold wholesale at 37 to 39 cents a pound; swine IS to 24, and calves, live weight, 10 to 27 cents according to quality. Eleven hundred head of cat tle were offered for sale, twenty-three hundred calves and twenty-three thou sand swine. o GOING TO THE LIMIT Jones was one of those men who grumble at everything and everybody, He was once attacked by inflamma tory rheumatism and was carefully nursed by his wife, who was very de voted to him, in spite. of his fault-finding disposition. His suffering caused her to burst into tears sometimes as she sat by hi bedside. One day a friend came in nnd asked him how he was getting on. "Badly, badly!" he exclaimed; "and It's all my wife's fault." "Is it possible?" asked. the friend, in surprise. "Yes. The doctor told me that hu midity was bad for me, and there that woman sits and cries Just to make it moist in' the room." St. Louis Post- Dispatch. NO SPECIFIC PR06RESS E AT CONFERENCE Conference Between Chinese and Ja - Panese Accomplishes Little ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH PEKING, April 15. No specific pro gress was recorded at' the conference yesterday between the Chinese Foreigrt Minister, Lu Cheng -Hsiang, and the Japanese Minister, Eki Hioki. over the Japanese demands The conference lasted the usual four hours and ques tions concerning eastern or Inner Mon golia were discussed. ' Eastern Mongolia was origjnally grouped with South Manchuria, and the Japanese demands with reference to these two territories are virtually the same, relating to right of residence by the Japanese and ownership of land, mining concessions; obligations on the part of China to obtain Japan's consent granting railway concessions to any third power or to raising loan from any power for railway construc tion; transfer of railways. Owing to the Chinese insistence, eastern Mongolia and south Manchuria were not discussed together yesterday. The Japanese minister contended these two should be discussed on same bas is, but Hsiang ..rgued Japan no such claims in Eastern Mongolia as in the South Manchuria. TWO RESERVOIR OHMS (Continued from Page One) iean woman who was drowned with them. . Rushing northward, the huge wall of water passed through the town of St. Johns and submerged sections to a depth of three feet. The Hunt dam next went out and tonight water raced into the village of Woodruff. Ample warning was given here. Telephone messages were flashed throughout the endangered region and farmers, stockmen and others hurried out of the irath of the flood, taking their stock and such property as they could move with them. Santa Fe railroad officials took measures here and at Winslow' to prevent damage by the flood. The bridges were weighted and strength ened and hasty work done to divert thi currents at threatening points. The flood was greater than that of 1905, which swept away the prede cessor of the Lyman dam. The Story from St. Johns ST. JOHNS, Ariz., April 15 The Lyman reservoir was located twelve miles above St. Johns and was di rectly across the stream of the Lit tle Colorado. The dam was part of a system that belonged to Denver capitalists headed by John F. Church, who were Joint owners with the people of St. Johns. It had a total capacity of fifty thousand acre feet and contained from thirty to thirty-four thousand acre feet when it broke." The dam had never been full be fore, though this was the third year it had been In. It was holding well and seemed absolutely safe until thirty minutes before it broke. The guard who discovered the break is on the other side of the river and details of the break cannot be ob tained now. The break occurred between 10:30 o'clock and 11 ofclock last night. But through the telephone failing to work nothing was known of the break un til the water rushed upop the inhabit tants of St. Johns. The alarm was quickly given and the 300 people whose homes were inundated were quickly rescued, many wading out through the water in their night clothes. Many of the houses along the wa ter front on the Little Colorado were huilt of -adobe and they ; crumbled quickly and collapsed. At Ei-Tule, a small Mexican settlement, where some Americans were living, eight lives were lost. Only two of the bodies have as yet been recovered. Six of the victims were in one house. They were Gerald, eight, Louise, six, and Rose, four, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Palmer. Mrs. Palmer was the school mistress of the district. She had left her three children with Mrs. Violet Ray, who was living in the same house. Mrs. Ray, her daughter and her son, were also drowned. The R.tys were recently from Montezuma, Colorado, and the men of the family were employed on the reservoir. The names of the other members of the Ray. family cannot now be obtained here."' The other two victims were Mrs. Jose Saavedra, junior, and her three months old hahy. Her body is the e nly one that has been recovered yet, but a searching party of 150 men is hunting for the bodies. The other two dams below St. Johns were the Meadows and Udell reservoirs. The Udell reservoir held the flood for some hours after the flood struck it, but it broke at 9:30 o!clock this morning and added ten thousand acre feet to the flood. The water has not reached the town of Woodruff yet, but grave damage must ensue when it gets there as tiie diversion dam Is so located that it will throw the flood right into the town, and everybody has moved out and taken their loose property with them in fear of. the approach ing waters. If the diversion dam should be dynamited, It might save the town, but It !s a cement dam and dyna miting to effect seems impossible. The property loss of the dams and of that lost in St. Johns will reach $400,000 and some fifteen or .twenty of St. Johns' leading citizens are ren dered banl.rupt by the breaking of the dam. A similar break of the reservoir of nearly the same size occurred pome ten years ago with no loss of life and a much smaller loss of property. 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It was reported that damages amounting to $400,000 had been caused. That es timate probably includes only the cost Of the reservoir $160,000 and the cost of the canal system now rendered use less and which cost in the neighbor hood of $165,000. No account is taken in these estimates of "the total finan cial ruin of pretty nearly every far mer under the reservoir, the total acreage being about 15,000. Mr. C. A. Narramore former record er of Apache county and well ac quainted with every family in that vi cinity said yesterday that in the ab sence of any information to the con trary, he believed that the others drowned were members of the fam ilv of Severo Chavez, who lived across the road from the Palmers. Mrs. j Palmer by the way Is the daughter of Mrs. Rachael Berry, member of the' legislature from Apache County and a sister to Mrs. Patterson, one of the le gislative clerks. She was engaged in teaching school at Salado. Mr. Narra more expects to hear of some damage at El Tule belyow Salado where there is also a school. But the rest of the flood must, have been considerably lowered by the time it reached El Tule. ,The water in the dam formed a wall of water forty feet high. The flat be tween the. dam and Salado is narrow so that the breast of the flood at Sa lado must have been not less than fif teen feet high. There was also some damage, Mr. Narramore thinks, at Woodruff, which is also on low ground i though before reaching that point the flood must have widened considerably. When the Salado dam burst some years ago, the water stood three feet in the town of St. Johns, But Mr. Nar ramore sees no reason why it should have been any higher in consequence of the collapse of the Lyman dam. Concho, also below the dam, stands on the mesa entirely out of the reach of the flood. Only the day before Mr. Narramore received a letter from St. Johns say ing that it had been raining hard, in the country above. This rain if it ex tended into the White Mountains must have released a great deal of snow, for as low down as Springerville there was three feet of snow. This is the first t'me that the dam was ever allowed to fill. The great est height the water had ever been al lowed to attain was fifteen feet. But It was thought last fall that the earth had been settled sufficiently so that there was no danger that It would give way. The dam was practically completed "THE BOSTON STORE" FRIDAY AND 25 to 50 Less Than Regular "EIFFEL," THE HOSIERY OF PERFECT SATISFACTION IFFEL HOSIERY" TI 99 Hose No. of ordinary 25c White and Black. All sizes 35c or.. Hose Artificial Silk Comes in Black, White and Light Blue, Pink, Grey, Smoke Bronze, Brown exceed ingly light weight deep garter top; double sole, heel and toe bSjbJ' SOc Silk Hose having deep garter top of very spliced heel reinforced linen- SOc Choice 79c Yard in 1911 but some work was done on it as late as 1913. The dam was con structed of earth, but had a fifteen inch facing of rock. Its length at the top was 600 feet. It had a capacity, of 45,000 acre feet and was intended to serve 15,000 acres of land. ...... It was built by the Lyman Land company wth Denver capital. The stock was divided into 15,000 shares of which 7,000 were held by the residents of St.. John and the farmers under tha system who had paid for their share with work. The land company retain ed '8,000 shares. The dam which was twelve miles above St. Johns was designed to occur py a natural basin covering about 1500 acres of land. Previous to the construction of the dam all the farm ing in that region was done in the bot-. toms along the Little Colorado for there was no way of leading the wa ter to the higher mesa. But with the construction of the dam, all the farm ers abandoned their holdings there and took up lands on the higher ground. Most of them had invested there everything they had in the world and many of them were in debt. The canal is now useless since it heads thirty five feet above the bottom of the river " Even if the dam should be rebuilt that will take about two years, the time spent in the construction of the dam which has given way. The abandoned lands in the bottoms would now be difficult of reclamation for in the time that has elapsed since they were cultivated they have grown up to brush and salt grass. There are two dams on the Little Colorado below the Lyman dam. one the Meadows dam and the other the Hunt dam. The former taking the place of a former one is a brush dam and is probably washed out. The Hunt dam of more substantial construction it is thought withstood the flood. f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl ' NEW YORK, April 15. Today's stock market surpassed all records for considerably over year in' strength, and in the scope of it's upward sweep, although the volume of business waa under that of last Friday. Over 200 separate and distinct issues were trad ed in, among these being a number of stocks whose long period of inactivity had all but causes them to be forgot ten. One of the reassuring features of the session was the comparative quiescence of BethlehemSteel which f FINANCES AND f ! MARKETS I ., SATURDAY DAYS year 365 days of Hosiery wear 4070 Silk Lisle Lavender top, exceedingly fine gauze, highly mer cerized a hose of wear and appearance, the equal 50c hose. Comes in 3PaSra$1.00 of artificial silk, in black spliced heels, double sole Special Value Silk Hose The equal of and superior to many silk hose sold at $1.25 pair. Comes in Black, White, Tan, Navy, Taupe, Grey, Light Blue, Pink, Bronze, Brown, Purple and Copenhagen. The best value Silk Hose of today. Special went into retirement after the early advance, and closed- at a one point loss. Net gains of 2 to 5 points were recorded in various stocks. Incon spicuous specialties made even greater advances, tlnfoh Pacific U. S. Steel rind other speculative favorites re peated the high prices of a day or two ago. Many other stocks of high and iow degrees rose to levels unequalled in several years. Total sales of stocks amounted to 1,250,000 shares. Follow ing early irregularities the bond mar ket turned strong. Total sales re presented a par value of $4,090,000. United States coupon Three's de clined one half per cent on call . Mettals Silver 50; electrolytic $14.75 to $16.87; copper firm. Stocks. ; ,: Amalgamated '74 i-8; ' Smelting 70 3-8; Santa Fe 102 12; St. Paul 93 1-2; New York Central 87 5-8; Penn sylvania 109; Reading 151; Sauthern Pacific 92: 'Union . Pacific ' 131 1-8; Steel 56 718, Preferred 108 3-4. . .. 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The furniture stain was also I home made at a very nominal cost. Brownsberger and Mrs. Briner served refreshments consisting of Ice cream and cake. The young folks of the neighborhood enjoyed a hay rack ride Saturday ev ening. Mrs. Augustus Klinefelter from Fort Lewis School of Agriculture at Hes perus, Colorado, is here for an extend ed visit with Mrs. Frank Howard. This school of which Mrs. Kline felter is matron of the Girls Depart ment Is a branch of the Fort Collins Agricultural college, her son, Lee Kline felter is a member of the faculty of Fort Lewis College. There was no Sunday school at Washington . Sunday, as all were de sirous of attending the great revival now in progress at Glendale, conducted by the famous revivalist. Burst. The Rev. Burch is a cousin of our honored citizen, . W. Belts, the sta tion agent of the Santa Fe. TO TRY SPIES f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH , LONDON, April 15. The trial of the three alleged German spies, Kup ferle, Hahn and Muller, charged with rending military - Information to GerT many, has been set for April '26. THE EXACT. SPOT ; "Did he strike you between phases of the argument?" . ... t "No; he struck" me between the eyes." New York Sun. ;Hlre a. llttlo salesman -at The Re publican office. A Want Ad will see more customers than you can.