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Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
\ CLEVER FORGER
 OPERATED AT GLOBE
NO CLUE TO PRESENT PLACE OF
 ABODE.
But the Mining Company Flooded With
 Spurious Time Checks.

Globe. Ariz., Dec. 2S.-One of the most cleverly executed forgery schemes ever worked in this part of the terri tory was unearthed today when it was the Miami Copper company. of which even the printed from had been forged, had been passed on local merchants.
 Three checks aggregating about $250 have been discovered, and it is believed that there are others in circulation. As the worthless paper was disposed of last Friday. with two bank holidays following, the forgeries were not de- tected until today.
 An investigation discloses the fact that George Powell secured employ ment with the Miami Copper company two n nths ago. worked one day. se- cured his pay check and quit. It is evident that with this check as a copy bogus checks were printed. The forgery Of the checks is so clever that detection is impossible without com parison with a genuine check and no difficulty was encountered in dispos- ing of the paper. particularly as the forged signatures of N. O. Lawton. superintendent, and F. J. Price. acting chief clerk, were cleverly executed.
 It is thought that an organized gang of forgers is working the entire Ari- zona mining district, carrying out the same plan as was worked here. So far few clues have been unearthed.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
FRIEND OF WILKES BOOTH
Col. Gordon Was Charged With Participation in the Conspiracy to Assassin ate President Lincoln Took Refuge in Canada

Memphis. Tenn, Dec. 2S.-Sought at one time by the federal authorities. with S10,000 reward for his capture dead or alive. for an alleged con- spiracy for the murder of President Lincoln. and now appointed a mem Der of the highest legislative body of his country. is the strange story of Col. James Gordon of Okalona. Miss. who has been named as United States senator by Governor Noel as the successor of the late A. J. McLaurin.
 Colonel Gordon was one of several Confederate leaders suspected of be- ing in the conspiracy with Wilkes Booth to kill Lincoln. He escaped arrest and probably death only by the intervention of a colonel of a New York cavalry regiment with whom he had crossed swords in q fight in Virginia, later becoming friends.
 In, the earlier years of the war Colonel Gordon formed an intimate friendship with Booth. and after the assassination of Lincoln a reward of S10.000 was offered for his capture. Gordon went to Canada, and it was several months after the close of hos tilities before he found it safe to re- turn to this country.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
GLOOMY FUTURE
 OF THIS COUNTRY
PAINTED Bv CHAMP CLARK, THE
 MINORITY LEADER.
IL Is congesting in the Cities and Co.,
 ing to the Dogs.

Washington. Dec. 2s.-"The present high prices of farm products have come to stay. The rural population is playing out: the present census, if it classes unincorporated villages as towns, will show between 60 and 65 per cent of the population as living in towns" declared Representative Champ Clark of Missouri, the minority lead- CT of the house. today.
 At the present rate. in twenty years the United States will cease to he an exporting nation of agricultural prod ucts except cotton.
 "One of the principal causes of high prices of farm products is a world movement of people toward towns and cities. While a few people in towns and cities have gardens. and raise chickens. and. occasionally. pigs. prac- ticalIy the entire town and city popu lation are consumers only. Last year, for the first time, Argentine beat the United States in exporting corn. Ar genuine and Brazil are now fighting to take the frozen meat trade away from the United States"
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THE DRUG STORE BANDIT
A WilI-o'- the -Wisp For the San Fran
 cisco Police.

San Francisco. Dec. 2s.-John Kin suspect in the drug store bandit cases which have been worrying the police since December 4. when W. Fl. Schneider. clerk in a Turkish bath establishment was shot. and killed. and two drug stores footed by an armed robber Kinney had been identified by two men who were in Gibson's drug store the night of the second robbery. December II. but Dr Gleason. the man behind the cash register at the first visit declares he is not the bandit.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THEY ARE WAITING AT JUAREz
Girl Has Written to Her Mother that She is Ready to Return to Mesa. Daley Will Engage in the Hotel Business in Mexico.

Fl Paso, Dec. ss-(Special )-James Daley and Rhoda Beebe who are al legged to have eloped from Mesa, Ariz.. are at Juarez. across the river They were taken into custody on a telegram from Arizona but the police of Juarez refuse to hold them on the grounds that there has been no request for their detention through official chan nels.
 Daley and the young woman are stopping at hotel. They claim that they are not living together and Daley says that their meeting here is only a coincidence. He says that he is reg ularly separated from his wife and that he has made ample provision for his children He says that he will fight any attempt on the part of the authorities for extradition.
 Rhoda Beebe, the girl states that she has written her mother and will return soon if wanted. The statement of Daley that his meeting with the girl here is a coincidence is not borne out by the girl who says that she came to Fl Paso to work in a restaurant which Daley told her he was going to start. Her eyes are red with weeping
 Daley is defiant and justifies his conduct. He says that he has leased a hotel and intends to stay here. He denies that he is guilty of abduction. The girl claims to be seventeen years of ags. Under the Mexican law Daley has not committed a crime.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
PERHAM AT CHICAGO.

Chicago. Dec. 2S.-H. B. Perham. D resident of the Railway telegraphers. arrived today and will confer tomor- row with Vice Presidents Connors and H. Eberling, of the Switchmen's Union of North America, before leaving for Washington to seek federal interven- tion in the northwest labor contro- Versy-
 A statement issued tonight by the general managers association of rail- roads, said: Concerning the efforts of Perham to have the interstate com merce commission investigate whether the railroads are moving traffic. this is wholly unnecessary as the railroads themselves will save anyone the trou- ble of going to Washington for this purpose. if he cares to make his own investigation.
 We at no time have feared. nor do we now fear spread of the strike. be- cause it is not at all likely that the American Federation of Labor is will ing to give it's official sanction to ar illegal strike, as this one has been"
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
BURNING DEAD AT RAMA.

Bluefields. Dec. 2S.-Searching par ties have been working in the brush for several days. burying bodies of the slain in the recent fight near Rama. Estrada's guard of honor. con sisting of 100 men of the best blood of Bluefields. was almost wiped out of existence.
 The American surgeons who took care of the wounded labored seventy two hours with scarcely any rest.
 Former Governor Lopez. a second cousin of Zelaya. has been released from jail. on the promise that he will join Estrada.
 Hundreds of prisoners who have ar rived from Rama tell pitiful, tales of privation, to which their emaciated forms and swollen feet testify. Ze- laya promised to send a pack train weekly with supplies. but none ever came. Fifteen days rations consisted of bananas only, and for five days they were entirely without food.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THE HARB0R Of BOSTON
 WITHIN AND WITHOUT
Uttered With the Wreeks Left By
 Great Storm

Boston. Dec. 2S.-The discovery to- day of the wreck of the schooner Davis Palmer. which sank with twelve men on Sunday. at the entrance of Broad Sound, was followed by the report of another wreck in the outer harbor. This second victim of the great storm that swept New England on Saturday night and Sunday. is re- ported by Captain Kemp of the tug Ariel, who asserts that a three masted schooner is projecting above the water near the shoals known as The Graves"
 At Chelsea, where a tidal wave broke the dike and flooded the houses of 2O0O people. the high tide today opened two new breaks. It will be weeks before the people on eighty acres of tide lands will be able to return to their homes.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
HIS WEALTH NOT GREAT
And None of it Was Wrong lyAcquired. Late Dictator Thinks Secretary Knox's Conscience Must Be Civ ing Him Trouble

Cordova, Mexico, Dec. 2S.-Zelaya declared tonight that he is still Presi- dent of Nicaragua, although he may never go back to that country to en- joy the privileges of his offices. Ma driz. he asserted. was only the pro- visional president. and that he tZe- laya) had not relinquished the office
 Zelaya denied that he is a prisoner in the hands of Mexican officials in any sense. Asked whether it was q fact, as was reported by a dispatch from Manauga, that in giving him refuge in this country the Mexican government had accepted responsible ity for him. and, in doing so, looked upon him as a prisone'. he stated emphatically that such was not the case; that he was free to go where he chose.
 Zelaya declared that he favored the friendly intervention of the United States and Mexico to effect a con- solidation of all the Central Ameri- can republics He added that he believed that Secretary Knox is now realizing the injustice of his atti- tude. He says he may go to Bel gium to live. In any event, he will not return to Nicaragua until peace is restored In his opinion. the war will end in two months, but he would not venture an opinion as to which side will be successful.
 Asked about the conditions imposed by the British government in reply to a request for asylum aboard the British warship Shearwater. Zelaya admitted that he was told that he could board her only with the un- derstanding that he was to agree to leave Nicaragua forever. These con ditions, he said, he declined to. ac- cept. Mexico. on the other hand, made no reservations in granting him permission to board the Guerrero.
 In a statement made to the Asso- ciated Press on the train by which he is travelling to Mexico City, Ze- laya said he was still at the head of the Nicaraguan government, leav- ing for an indefinite period. He hoped that conditions would become quiet In support ef his declaration he exhibited papers attached to which were government seals and ribbons. The papers, he said, contained proof of the truth of his statement. Iu fur ther support of his claim. it was pointed out by the members of his party that the Guerrero floated the Nicaraguan flag at the masthead in addition to the Mexican flag.
 Reports concerning his wealth, Ze- lava said. were grossly exaggerated. His fortune is not more than S2.000,- 900. invested mostly in Nicaraguan government bonds.
 He strongly denied that he had wrongly obtained any part of his fortune through concessions.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
AGE OF PATRIOTISM
 HAS PASSED AWAY
A Judicial Declaration From New York
 Supreme Bench.

Troy. N. Y, Dec. 2S.-"The age of patriotism has yielded to the age of commercialism. The uppermost in the human mind today is not the stars and stripes. but the dollar mark"
 Such was the declaration of Supreme Court Justice Wesley Howard in his opinion reducing the compensation for members of the commission appointed to appraise the damages resulting from the construction of the Ashokan reser- voir.
 The court said that at least 40 per cent of all the money appropriated for public use is lost by graft. Graft is as much an element to be reckoned with in computing the cost of a public structure as cement and lumber.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THE NEGRO AND THE WHITE
The Diseases of Each Peculiarly
 Deadly to the Other

Boston, Dec. 2S.-.It is an unnatural biological condition to have two closely allied species of animals liv- ing side by side in the same area" was the comment on negroes and whites, made by Dr. Charles Stiles. of the United States public health marine hospital service, in an address on the hook worm." before the Am erican Society for the Advancement of Science tonight
 'The white man has brought dis eases from Europe deadly to the blacks. and the negroes have brought certain diseases from Africa. which are spreading with serious results among the whites" he said.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
HUNTING FOR THE NEGRO.
The Supposed Murderer of Denver
 Woman on Monday Night.

Denver. Dec. 2S.-The body of Mrs Belle Rup, wife of railroad employe was found in the Platte river today with the head crushed. The entire po- lice force and hundreds of citizens are searching for a negro believed to be the murderer. and a lynching is threatened.
 While the husband was absent from home last night a negro tried to force his way into the house. and the woman shot twice through the door and he fled. She started to notify the police She was not seen again. According to her children the negro returned to the house afterward and robbed it.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
STOLE THE SECRETS
 OF BRITISH NAVY THE TRIAL OF ORAUGHTSMAN RICHARD kNoWLDEN. For Having in His Possession Plans of Naval Wireless Service.

London. Dec. 2S.-The wholesale theft of wireless plans. medais and sketches. which in the hands of an expert would reveal the workings and innermost secrets of the wireless service of the British navy. is charged against Richard Knowlden. who was placed on trial at Portsmouth to- day
 Knowlden was draughtsman att tached to the torpedo schoolship Yer non In his room were found no less than eighty plans for wireless inn provements and coding books of the most confidential character. which are issued to officers only. The authori- ties attach the greatest importance to the arrest.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
RELIEVING THE SUFFERING.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-A telegram from Consul Moffat at Bluefields says that under the supervision of Com manders Shipley and Niblack, men from the Des Moines and Tacoma be- gan on Christmas day to distribute rations to 1.50O hungry Zelayan sol diers who were brought there as pris- oners.
 ance. furnishing blankets. clothing and shoes. Three hundred prisoners are temporarily provided for by Es- trada at Rama, and 200 more are be- ing cared for by friends and rela- tives at Bluefields.
 Commander Shipley of Bluefields
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
MILLION DOLLAR SUIT
For Damages in Preventing Sale of
 Walsh Securities.

Chicago. Dec 2s.-An amended bill of particulars was filed in the munich pal court today in the million dollar suit begun in July 1908 by William Armstrong against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern: the Chicago & Indiana Southern. William c. Brown and Charles Hotchkiss of New York. the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific, and Robert Mather.
 l. states that Hotchwiss, Brown and Mather combined with Frank Wander lip, president Of the National City Bank of New York, William Rockefel- Ter. James Stillman and George Baker all of New York, to prevent John Walsh from disposing of bonds in the New York money market
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
OLD DOMINION vs. PENNsY.
Interstate Commerce Commission
 Dismisses the Complaint.

Washington. Dec. 2S.-(Special)- The secretary of the interior has awarded a contract to the Fulton En- zine works of Los Angeles for furnish ing tunnel Things in connection with the Roosevelt dam. s2.675.
 The interestate commerce commis- sion has dismissed the complaint of the old Dominion Copper and Smelt- ing company. of Globe. Ariz.. against the Pennsylvania Railroad company for overcharging on 3.700 carloads of coke shipped to Globe.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
NEW CALIFORNIA LAW
Puts Women County School Superin.
 tendents Out of Business

San Francisco. Dec. 2S.-Although twenty-three of the fifty-seven coun- ty school superintendents in Califor- mia are women. the new direct pri- mary law prohibits a woman from running for office. and unless amend ed. it will result in the passing of this branch of public education into the hands of masculine instructors, according to the annual message of President Morris Cox. delivered today before the California Teachers asso- citation.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
MURDERED FOR MONEY
Alleged Detective and Dining Room
 Girl Held.

Ainsworth, Neb, Dec. 2S.-Jacot Davis was murdered today on his way home and robbed of $400.
 George Davis, who claimed to bt a detective from New York, was ar rested. charged with the crime. As a result of the coroner's inquest Helen Leads. a dining room girl was ordered held. pending further in vestigation.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
 ON SPECIAL MESSAGE
Which the President Will Send to
 Congress Next Week

Washington. Dec. 2S.-President Taft discussed with the members of his cabinet today. the final details of his special message dealing with amendments to the interstate com merce and antitrust laws, which he will send to congress next week.
 He began work on the document to- day. In the message he will also submit recommendations for federal leniency toward corporations. The proposed leniency will be a voluntary offering of opportunity to corporations to place themselves under federal jurisdiction.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
OVER HEATED PITCH
A Southern California Woman Was
 Terribly Burned

San Diego. Calif.. Dec. 2S.-At Otay today. Mrs. E. D. Morris was terribly burned by pitch heated over an oil stove, which exploded. Her husband was placing fence posts and she was looking after the pitch to be used on them.
 The tent house in which the couple lived was burned, and the woman would have perished had not the hus- band dragged her out.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
ESTRADA REJECTS ovERTUREs.

Washington, Dec 2s.-Estrada, the revolutionary leader of Nicaragua. will not accept the extraordinary peace terms offered by Madriz. the new president. The latter proposed suspension of hostilities, pending a conference for an apicable settlement of the present strife.
 Estrada, replying. said the revolu- tionaries would not recognize the ac- ton of the legislature in placing Ma driz in the presidency. He declared that MadriZ was a usurper.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
PHYSICIAN DIES.
While Attending Suicidal Young
 Woman Worried By Debts.

Willow Springs. Mo. Dec. 2s.-Miss Johnny Preston. aged IT years. shot herself in the head tonight. because she had incurred small debts at a store Dr. Abraham Mullinix, aged 12 years, was called to attend her. Just after he told her parents that she was fatally wounded. he said: Pm going. too.' and fell dead. across the bed, of apopleXy.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
BLAZING FURNACE UNDER GEL.
 TIC PASSENGERS.

Liverpool. Dec. 2S.-Fire was dis covered in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic on "Wednesday four days out from New York. The liner arrived here yesterday. the flames still burning in a cargo of cotton. but the 400 passengers were unaware of it. The work of fighting the flames continues. When it broke out. the matches were sealed
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
DIGGING EoR ENToMsEp MINER

McAllister, Okla, Dec. 2S.-Fifty men are tunneling in the Bolen Dar- nel mine in an effort to rescue An gelo Ascinar, shot firer, who was entombed by premature explosion tonight Whether Ascinar is alive the workmen are unable to determine. He was alone in the mine at the time of the explosion.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
CRIMINAL OPERATION OF MINE.

Herrin, H., Dec. 2S.-The coroner's jury returned a verdict tonight charg- ing the management of the Chicago & Carterville mine, where nine per sons were killed by an explosion on Thursday, with operating the mine in criminal manner.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
BASEBALL ELECTION.
The Struggle for the Association
 Presidency Begins Today.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-The annual meet ing of the American Baseball associa- ton tomorrow promises to develop a lively battle over the election of president.
 An informal canvass gave Joseph O'Brien. the incumbent. three votes and Tom Chivington, secretary of the Louisville club. apparently three votes pledged, although one is doubtful and may fail him. There is a chance of a deadlock between O'Brien and Chiv- ington. and a dark horse may win.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
W. R. HAS NOTHING TO SAY.

San Francisco, Dec. 2S.-W. R Hearst, who is now in this city. de- clined to make any comment tonight on the statement of Attorney Culli- yer. made in New York today that he would seek the arrest of Hearst within twenty-four hours on a charge of election frauds
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
4 CH|cAGO CONFERENCE
After Which President Perham of Photographers Will Go to Capital to Seek Federal Interven- tion in Northwest

St Paul, Dec, 2s.-The strike situa- ton in the northwest has become a waiting game. All further action is contingent upon the success of H. B Perham. who is on the way to Wash ington to secure federal help fin the controversy between the railroads and the sWitchmen.
 Upon the course of Perham, who is chairman of the railway branch of the American Federation of Labor will de- pend the future action of the allied bodies in the matter of a general strike.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
COMING TO ARIZONA.
Pueiiist Johnny Murphy Hopes
 lsngthen His Days Here.

San Francisco. Dec. 2S.-Johnny Murphy. formerly a popular light weight. but who has been i'll of con- sumption for many months. has re- turned from Honolulu, en route to Arizona, where he will try to stave off death.
 Murphy was the recipient of 50 per cent of the gate receipts in the recent fight of Monte Attel and Danny Web ster.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
BASE BALL BET
Found By a California Court to Be
 Crime

San Francisco, Dec. 2S.-The first conviction under the Walker Otis anti gambling law. obtained today when the jury found Charles Schwartz guilty of placing bet on a baseball game.
 Schwartz's defense was that it was only an isolated wager and that he had not conducted a pool selling bus mess. The maximum sentence is two years in the penitentiary.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
THE NEW GAS.
It Will Not Come Immediately Into
 General Use.

Boston, Dec. 2S.-Neon. the newly discovered gas. will cause aurora borealis according to a statement: by w l.. Dudley. head of the department of chemistry in Vanderbilt university.
 Dudley showed what he said was the only sample of neon in this country. Ie requires more than 100 tons of air to get pint of neon. Hertzian waves illuminate the gas.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
HEARST TO BE ARRESTED.
Statement Made in Action Regarding
 Larceny of Political Party.

New York. Dec. 2S-Louis Culliver, attorney for Francis Dolan, charged with the aiding of the alleged Tam many theft of the Independence league machinery at the September primaries. said in court today that he would ap- ply for a warrant for the arrest of w. R. Hearst within the next twenty four hours for election frauds
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
A FORMAL NOMINATION.

Butler. Mo. Dec 2S.-Phillip S Griffith of Dade county was nomi- mated by exclamation by the repub- lican convention here today to suc- ceed Congressman De Armond of the Sixth Missouri district His demo- cratic opponent is c. c. Dickinson.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
SHE DREW DEATH.
Body Of an Aged Woman Found in
 San Francisco Cemetery.

San Francisco. Dec. 2S.-With two lottery tickets on which she had evil dently expended her last mony. clasp in in her withered hands. and an empty chloroform bottle beside her. indicating that she had taken her own life when the numbers proved blanks, the body of an aged woman was found in an isolated part of Calvary cemetery today. lying across a forgotten grave. She has not been identified
Arizona republican., 1909-12-29
MERCY RECOMMENDED FOR
 WIFE SLAYER.

Goldfield. New, Dec. 2s-John Sheridan. who stabbed his wife to death several weeks ago, was found guilty of manslaughter tonight. but was recommended to the mercy of the court