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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
DECISIONS MADE IN
ADVANCE
Charged That California Su-
preme Court Decided Ruef
and Other Cases Before Hear
ing Was Had,


Sacramento, Cal, Feb. 16.-The re-
quest of the supreme court of Call
fornia for an inquiry into its action in
granting a re-hearing to Abraham
Ruef, convicted of bribery in San
Francisco and sentenced to fourteen
years Imprisonment, was considered
today by the house rules committee.
The request followed charges contain
ed in Attorney General Webb's brief
on his motion before the supreme
court to set aside its ruling favorable
to 2uef. Mr.. Webb alleged that JUS
tice Henshaw signed the order In ad-
vance of the hearing on Ruef's appear
and then left the state; also that JUS
tlee Melvin had likewise been absent.
Corroborative evidence WIS given
before the senate judiciary committee
by william Denman, representing the
San Francisco BAR association. Mr..
Denman testified that he had seen
FIVE additional orders similarly signed
by Justice Henshaw In advance OF
hearing and that Chief Justice Beat
ty had informed him this procedure
was commonly followed
Action was delayed by the house
rules committee but it is the general
opinion that arrangements VIII be
made speedily for legislative investl-
CATION.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17

Iand Andrade, near Yuma. Permission
was given today to repair the line.
but after workmen had been sent over
from Calexieo. Leyva received infor-
nation that the Mexican regulars
were nearing Yuma and he forthwith
sent out a detachment To chase the
electricians to the American side
again. AS a result Mexicali is with
ont telegraph communications east
ward
Seventy-two Chinese laborers from
the California Mexican ranches clam
ored for protection today at the Am
erican line. One of their number had
been killed by stray bullet in the
battle yesterday and the others were
panic stricken.
The United States immigration au-
thorities were willing to give them the
protection of the American flag and
the celestials went over the line. But
they We're sent back tonight when
they declined to pay for the guards
set over them.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
FEDERAL DEAD LEFT
AS FOOD FOR BUZZASDS

The slain on the federal side were
left by their comrades upon the lield
where they fell and still lie unburied'
Flocks of buzxards became rivals to
the dogs today in searching them out.
Under Red Cross flag, the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent uaversed
the scene of yesterdays battle ana
though Leyva reported eleven feder-
ais slain, he saw only four dead
three regulars and volunteer.
In every case the men were shot IN
the back.
Though splendidly armed with
high powered rifles, Vegas troops
were otherwise poorly equipped. The
weather last night was freezing, yet
their uniforms consisted of white cot
ton pajamas, white and blue caps ana
leather sandals. The rebels took the
rifles of the dead but left everything
else and made no effort to bury them'
There were no haversacks about the
bodies. Food was carried In kercheis
and consisted of green coffee, coarse
flour or corn meal and pieces of salt
pork that were as hard as boards ana
bearded with age. Little labels pasted
under the sweatbands of their caps
gave the names of the dead regulars.
General Leyva. chief of the insur-
recto forces here. was visited by the
Associated Press correspondent today
and when asked regarding tae hattle,
stretched out his arms, pointing TO-
ward the torrent-scarred tab!e' land
fronting the town on the south.
I'VE could have held Mexican
against q thousand men. Vega is nc
soldier. If he were he would moi
have attacked us from the south.
Leyva said he was willing to nave
flume and Sharps Head, the 'Wc
sources from which the entire lmperi-
al valley on the American side obtains
its water supply.
But | do not think it Is nee ,sssrs
he added. THE insurrectos W nio
have nothing to gain and e.erytnlh'
10 lose by doing damage a. thos,
points. The water supply OF l'nper's,
valley is in no danger from u.s.
cannot say what the Mexican feaera''
will do when they arrive.
The proposition that American sou
iers be sent to lhe hydrdul'1 "oiK'
to protect them was pr99shton u
General Bliss, commander of the oe'
partment Of California when ne ar
rived today on special tram WIZ
General II. G.. Otis and General NJ II
sherman OF Los. Angeles. hoth o.
whom own thousands Of acres In th''
vicinity. lie declared that not sing
le American officer or soldier woul'
be permitted to 90 across the line.
General Bliss and his party left to-
night.
Prior TO the battle yesterday thu
insurgents cut the telegraph line
connecting Mexicdli with Algodone
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
BILL PROVIDES MANY
ADDITIONAL OFFICERS

Washington, Feb. 16,-The SEN
ate amendment to the army appro-
priation bill increasing the numbers
of Officers in the army by 6l2 so as
to provide for the detail of officers
to the militia of the several states,
after an extended debate in the house
today. was so altered as to sut down
the increase to 230 additional Off
GERS, thirty of these to be assigned
to the quartermaster's department..
The bill was then sent back to con-
ference for compromise between
the house and senate as TO the in-
crease.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
ARCHBISHOP RYAN
RESTS IN TOMB
Solemn Grandeur Marks the
Funeral of Venerable Church.
man at Philadelphia Mourn
ing World Wide,
my Morning Journal Special Leased wirel

:
Philadelphia. Feb. l6.-Amid all
the solemn grandeur Of the Roman
Catholic services for the dead, the
body of the late Archbishop Patrick
John Ryan was today entombed In a
crypt beneath the high altar OF the ca
thedrnl OF 81. Peter ana st. Paul 1t
WAS one of the greatest funerals eVet
held in Philadelphia. Practically all
the prominent figures in the HER
archy of the Roman Catholic ehnrch
OF the United States participated IN
the services, while hundreds of pi ests
from all parts Of the east were also
present.
Archbishop Glennon In his sermon
referred TO the universal sorrow at
the death OF Archbishop Ryan nnd
said In part
"When Leo XIII. died some years
ago, an artist furnished The lllustra-
ton of a planet banded Ground in
crepe. 10 tell us that a whole world
wept by the ashes of the great shep-
herd and father who had fallen To-
day sorrow may not be as uni"efsai'
yet tears are falling In far Off cloneS~
harp and Thursles, and regrets are
spoken by the banks of the Barrow
and Llffey; prayers are said and requi-
en- masses are offered At the VIA Del
Umilta and the Yatican' missionaries
today are speaking their regrets In
far-off lands where his generosity
made II possible for them TO go;
while In our own America, the tears of
the east are answered by the walls OF
the west.
catholics mourn him because he
was one OF the greatest of bishops,
while Catholics and non-Cathol cs la
ment his going for he was one u 'ni
best of men"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
Federal Forces in Full Retreat
for Ensenada With Com
mander in Chief Sorely
Wounded.
AMERICAN SOCIALIST
IN CHARGE OF PURSUIT
General Navarro Sends Force
to Break Up Madero Pro-
vislonaI Government Estab-
IiShed at Guadalupe,
,py Morning Journal Special Leased wirel

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirel
Mexcali, Mex. Feb. 16.-Defeated
and in full retreat the army of Cover
nor Vega of Lower California is hur-
rying back tonight toward Esenada
by way OF the Coeopah mountain pass
southwest of here. Vega himself is
seriously wounded
This was confirmed today, when
American army surgeons stationed at
Calexico received word to that effect
from couriers who got into communi-
cation with the fleeing federals.
one insurrecto bullet pierced Vega 5
neck ard another his left side. caus-
ing a serious wound.
In a litter rigged like Sedan chair
he Is being carried southwark by his
men.
Simon Berthold, second in COM
mand of the insurrecto forces in Mex
ioali. left early this morning with
about 100 men and ii is supposed that
ulars.
But the main body of the rebels
remain entrenched in the arroyas
washed out by the Colorado river.
They are waiting the arrival of the
federal forces, which are believed to
be on the way from Sonora by way of
Yuma.
1t Is understood that these troops
will be sent to where the break OF
the Colorado -Iiver into the Bio Abejos
is being closed by Colonel Ockerson
at an expense of about million dol
lars.
They are supposed to protect that
work from molestation by insurgents
Locally, this protection is considered
unnecessary. as the insurgents would
have to travel a long distance to
reach the break and would accomplish
nothing TO advance their cause by
placing any difficulties in the way OF
Colonel Ockerson's work.
The location of the work Is approx
imately sixty miles east of Mexicali
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN TO
PACIEY CHIHUAHUA

City of Mexico, Feb. l6.-An officer
of the war department today con-
firmed the assertion that an active
campaign against the insurgents
would be undertaken at once, with
Juarez and Chihuahua as headquar-
ters. He said that martial law was
declared at Juarez to permit the army
officials to handle cases in more ac-
tive and aggressive way
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
PARENTS RESPONSIBLE
FOR BAD CITIZENSHIP

Providence, r. l., Feb, lG.--"Chil-
dren who can wheedle their parents
into letting them act foolishly are
being educated to brbe legislatures
into letting them act lawlessly. The
American parent has proved unfaith-
full to the state, say nothing about his
children, who has given his sons and
daughters monthly allowance and
has let them do what they pleased =
SO declared Dean Shailer Mathews
of the University of Chicago Divinity
school in an address tonight at the
closing session of the religious educa-
ton associations convention.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
BROTHERS FIGHT DUEL
TO DEATH OVER WOMAN

Web City. Mo-. Feb. 1.-two
brothers, only survivors of the famous
Cherokee Bill gang of outlaws which
once flourished i'm oklahoma met here
In a finish fight at midnight when
"Bnl" stidhum killed his brother
IKE" In a quarrel involving the rela-
tions of "Bilrs" son William, with
"1ke's" wife.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTS
FACE FEDERAL PRISON

Cincinnati, Feb. 16.-Charles Rosen
and Morris Levin. jewelers., were con-
victed in the United states court TO-
day for concealing assets of bankrupts
from creditors. They stocked store
with $4,000 worth of goods. went In
10 bankruptcy and predicted only w.
500 worth of goods. Then they dis
appeared. Rosen was arrested nv
Ocean Beach. Cal. and Levin at ABB
erdeen. S. d. They were each sentence
ed to eighteen months imprisonment.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
UNABLE TO IDENTIFY
DYNAMITER SUSPECT

Idabel Okla. Feb. 16.--Detective
s. l.. Browne of Los Angeles, who
came here on Information that man
thought to be David Caplan, wanted
in connection with the alleged dyna-
hitting of the Los Angeles Times, was
being held here. left here today. The
man in jail was not identified local
authorities say. although ii is said an
other officer from Los Angeles VIII
arrive here soon The suspected man
is being held.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
ALLEGED THIEVES SEIZED
WITH FORTUNE IN GEMS

Portland, Ore, Feb. i6.--Wiliam
arrested late today in II rooming house
In the business section and are being
held on suspicion that they are the
pair that robbed the Diamond Palace,
a Jewelry store in this city, on Tues
day. after heating james Gilbert, n
clerk into insenslbllity.
In the room occupied by the two
men were found diamonds ana iewelry
valued at $4,000. The loss to the
Diamond Palace did not exceed s4,.
900.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
COULDN'T REMEMBER
VOTERS HE HAD BOUGHT

Danville, H.. Feb. i6.-The vote
probe produced no indictments today.
Charles Quasi. a railroad employe. is
said to have admitted before the
grand jury today that he bought voter
last November. but he was unable to
remember a single voter bought. The
court warned him of the consequences
OF his bad memory. and he was re-
turned to the grand jury room for fur
ther questioning.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
No Hope for Joaquin Miller.

oakland, cal, Feb. I6.-JoaQuIh
Miller. the poet of the Sierras." who
lies critically III at the Fablola hos
.pital, rallied somewhat tonight. but
no hope Is entertained for his re-
covery. His physician stated that
while the aged author. who Is In his
seventy-nrst year. might live for days,
death may be but a matter of hours
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
Rcnor, Of Sea Disastcr False.

Rouen. France. Feb. 16.-The re-
port OF the sinking Of the srsnlsh
steamer Abercon. which was brought
yesterday by the captain of the steam
.er Ollargarn. turns out to he errone-
Gus.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17
Thirteen seamcn Drown.

London. Feb i6.--A collision off
the Essex coast this morning resulted
In the sinking of the steamer Mount
Park. Cadlz for Yarmouth. Thirteen
of the crew ar, 'epprtc1 drowned
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-17

piled to the negro and the only rule
under which We can legislate. II APP
piled, 1t will be proved To be the cor
rect rule, the rule for all of us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12
Was the Pleasant Little Certain OatBound Moros with
View Gaining the Seventh Heaven, Pitch Group of
American Soldiers with Sword and Die While Shedding
Christian Blood Lieutenant Miller Stopped
This for a While Forms an Odd Story

American soldiery and baffled the au-
thorities.
The Juramentado, or oathbound men,
hold that the surest passport to their
seventh heaven is TO die In the act Of
killing Christians. Not only this. but
such death frees all their descendants
from slavery. and many men and their
children are bound to slavery through
debt. The man who dies killing Chris
tians is sainted, and his memory is held
moro sacred than all others in his tribe.
There is no glory among the Moros that
compares with this sort Of death.
So. when the Americans settled down
among the Moros TO win them over to a
Western civilization, the oathbound man
began TO appear. a group Of soldiers
might be gossiping on some corner of an
invested village, when suddenly a native
whom they had not previously observed
would whip out his kris. or curved and
razor edged sword. and fall upon them.
He would slash frantically right and
left One. two or three soldiers might
fall beneath his thrusts before the group
rallied to resistance. Then there was but
one method of queting the native, which
was 10 kill him. He fought as long as
there was life left in him, stoically. show
ing no feeling. He sought to die covered
with many wounds and suffering great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12
Now to Begin Work on Great
Appalachian Forest Reserve

the waste they yield and the floods they
help to generate. Much OF the noun
tain area is properly agricultural land'
and as the population increases more
and more Of this area must be brought
under cultivation. This means that
sleeper and sleeper slopes must Dc
cleared and that danger Of erosion must
increase unless improved methods OF
agriculture are introduced. Teracing.
contour ploughing and ditching. crop ro-
tation, sodding TO pasture or meadow,
as well as the crops best adapted to the
region, especially those most helpful In
holding soil on steep slopes. shrould be
studied, and TO be Of practical value this
study must consider all these things as
they are directly related 10 the specific
and sometimes peculiar climatic rain
fall soil slope, labor and other natural
and economic conditions in the region.
The study OF the agricultural problem
should also include a consideration OK
practicable methods Of retaining eroded
and abandoned lands, and Of the effeo-
tiveness OF brush. straw, or other filling
for gullies, OF brush, log or rock dams
across them and OF tree. vine or other
vegetative covering for bare areas. In
studying these problems much could be
learned from Europe. where, for hun
dreds Of years, man has slowly won 70
agriculture area after area OF sleeper
and sleeper slope as population has
pressed hard upon subsistence.
Much OF the area. also, Is not
naturally agricultural land. The forester
would protect steep slopes by keeping
them clothed with timber. would coax
back tree growth on denuded areas,
keep down forest fires, protect and per-
petuate the supply OF hardwood. protect
the game and fish, and enhance the
beauty and charm Of the region as n
| health and pleasure resort. as we'll as
prevent the navigable streams that flow
from these mountains from filing up
with the sand and silt. whose removal
is now costing annually large sums OF
money"
Thus 1t is seen that the problem is
the one Of little fountains and little
| acorns.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12
Pigs Blood Long Kept Filipino Fanatics from Running Amuck

provinces, to which the tale Of the Amer
lean method Of battling with the practice
has not penetrated.
II has been nearly a decade since In
terror Mindanao had been so disturbed
until the present outbreak reported by
Captain Pershng. In this case the out
break is as much a concentration OF out
laws, both Christian and Mahometan. as
it is a gathering OF oath-bound men.
There seems to have been among tho
outlaws some OF the priests OF the old
faith, and there is evidence OF the old re-
ligious ceremonies and the specific cases
OF the fanatics who have thrust them
selves into the. death ~ violence. The
whole band has, however, been rent 70
pieces by ordinary military methods. and
there may be no further necessity OF en-
acting the drama OF the pig to dlscour-
age the deadly practices.
Likewise is there q delicacy on the
part OF the authorities in sanctioning
the practice. The difficulties OF an iso-
lated campaign Of this sort in so strange
n land are so many and the emergencies
arising so diverse that the occasion must
call forth its own cure. The American
soldier has been versatile In these emer-
gencies and the government Of tho Phil
ippines may well challenge all history
for parallel Of accomplishment with so
little spilling OF human blood.
Lieutenant Miller died in tho height
of his usefulness He had brought alb
solute peace to Palawan, which he gov
erned. It's natives mourn his death as
the greatest misfortune that could have
befallen them. His picture is reproduced
in the annual report. just made to tha
President. The number Of American
soldiers now living that would have died
miserably but for his strategy OF tho pig
may never be known. But ell the his
tory Of the nation lays down no small
indident Of so dramatic an interest and
no soldier better met q peculiar emer-
gency.
Just how the datos Of the Moro have
now persuaded their followers to defy
the contamination OF the pig has not yet
been disclosed.
WILLIAM ATHERTON DUPUY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12

trary, he is confined. to the uttermost
hell. The sufferings OF the vilest per-
dition are his through all eternity.
The two American soldiers with the
pig between them approached the open
grave Of the Moro chief. They stood
Immediately over It with the pig between
them. One drew out a sharp knife and
slit the animals throat. The blood Of it
gushed into the grave and upon the re-
mains of the dead chief. His body must
have been covered with this blood. He
was made viely unclean. His ascent
into heaven was made a thing unthink-
able. There was but one place in the
hereafter to which these people could
conine one so defiled. He would for
ever remain in the vIIest OF hell.
The natives skunk away, sickened and
disheartened. The framework of their
fanatical self-sacrifce had been cut
away from beneath them at a single
blow. Their old practices would no
longer exalt them. To those who ran
amuck and killed there awaited not the
seventh heaven. but the uttermost hell.
The occasion for the sacrifice was re-
moved. It's rewards were taken away.
It ceased to be.
AS far as Is known the incident OF the
pig occurred but once in the campaign
among the Moros. With that one oc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12
Continued from third page.

damage amounting to $2,OOo,Uo II
wined out al! values in land worth prior
~ the food. from S1J to 500 an acre.
At Elizabethton the river broke from us
channel and swept through the town. de-
stroving one street entirely and cutting
new channel. which the town mas at
tempted to close by building stone ana
crib work across its upper end Inc
scars made in the course OF the rev
hours which were occupied in wipinS
ont tho street will be visible for years
~, one river in the Nolichucky basin
changes due to erosion have been SO
great that the tax assessment on some
lands have been entirely removed ana
IN others they have been cut 90 and 20
nor cent. One farm. however which
r.as washed by an eddy was so greatly
benefited that the assessment was raised
- per cent. In the Chattahooche pasih
q number Of different ferries haVc been
affected. In some cases the channels
have TO be kept open by the use or
horses and scrapers, while in one case
the ferry has been given up altogether
and bridge built. In many OF the
streams mill ponds have been filled up
| leaving the mills almost without power.
/, In June. 1903. in the vicinity OF Spartan
burg, s. c.. a flood swept away fourteen
cotton mills and many bridges and houses
and destroyed more than fifty lives. The
property loss was not less than So
800, 600. II was caused by partially OBJ
structed river channels, where sand and
gravel had been deposited.
The condition has been credited in
part to the opening OF steep slopes for
cotton cultivation. The slopes were too
steep for agricultural purposes and the
water in course of time carried off the
soil to such an extent that artificial
terracing had to be done. In recen,
years the horsepower available for the
cotton mills on the streams during the
dry season has decreased from one
fourth TO one-third what it used to be-
In the Tennessee River islands are
growing i'm size owing to the debris
coming down the stream. This river i:
important for waterpower purposes a'
we'll as for navigation. In recent years
much dredging has been necessary, anC
the government has spent several mil
lions OF dollars on II.
These are only few Of the indication
OF the need for the protection Of tn
headwaters OF the rivers OF the Appa
lachlan system. not 10 speak Of III
necessity for protecting the forests 70
the benefit of future generations. Wha
is to be done?
! There are two distinct problems. on
of which relates TO agriculture and tn
, other 10 forestry. This Is what Leonida
, Chalmers Glenn, of the United state
Geological Survey, who made the In
vestigation of the area says about II:
2 THE agricultural problem involves I'll
selection OF the areas best suited 70
. agriculture because OF fertility OF so
Y and moderate slope OF surface. and tn
e study of the ways In which such area
| may best be handled to prevent thei
4 destruction through erosion and the dc
: struction Of other lands and property b