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Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
ARE ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING
Navigation Official and Commerce Inspector Are Indicted for Compicity in Introducing Contra band Opium
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SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 20.-Rob- ert Donaldson, assistant superintend- ent of navigation of the Pacific Mail Steamship company and Henry Gal lagher. United States customs in spector. were indicted here tonight by the federal grand jury, churging complicity in d snug
 gling of opium conspiracy, in which
 many others are indicted. Warrants
 were issued for their arrest and they are being sought. The
 indictments are based upon the tes-
 timony of David Powers and Emil
 Fielder, employees of the Western
 Fuel company, who were arrested at
 Oakland in December last year with
 several hundred tins of cOntraband
 opium in their possession. Powers
 and Fielder served four and six
 months respectively in the Alameda county jail.
 The supposed connection of Don aldson and Gallagher with the snug gling plot was first revealed through the interception by government of ficials of letter given by Fielder, while in jail, to a discharged pris- oner The letter implicated both of the men who were arrested today and eventually reached Lieutenant of Customs Joseph Head who had be- gun an investigation of what he be- lieved to be a local opium smuggling conspiracy.
 Powers testified before the grand 1 jury that he had been approached by | Donaldson in December with a propo- sitiOn to assist in landing opium then concealed in the steamer Sl- beria, which was then being loaded with coal by a barge on which ne and Fielder were working.
 l He at first refused to consider the matter. he said, but later decided to ! take a chance and was taken aboard 1 the Siberia and met two Chnese ] boys who had secreted the opium Two nights later, said Powers three hundred and twenty tins of opium | were transferred from the Siberia to
 the barge.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
No Demonstration is Made When Deputies Escort NOn-UniOnistS to Hotel Belonging to the Copper Company
MAY ATTEMPT TO
 OPEN WORKINGS
If This is Done Western Federation Officials De clare They Will Call Out Employes of the Ely Con SOlidated Mines
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BINGHAM. Sept. 2O-The third cay of the strike of the copper mi ners failed to bring out any new de velopments in the situation Pros poets for settlements were as far off tonight as when the strike first be- gan The strikers crowded the strets all day, but made no demon- strations not even when the Utah Copper company imported twenty men this afternoon, supposed to be strike breakers.
 Not a shot was fired in the camp today. and the district is quiet to- night The sheriffs forces now com prise two hundred and fifty men, most of whom are armed with rifles. It was said early tonight that an at tempt would be made to open the workings at eleven o'clock, but up to that time there had been no indica- tons that the men were going u work
 The first aggressive move of the Utah Copper company whose 2,S0o employees are on strike for higher wages, was made today when twenty mer. white and Japanese. were brought over the Denver and Rio Grande and escorted by a deputy sheriff to the company's hotel near the mines Groups of strikers view ed this advance guard of non-uniOn- ists with apparent indifference.
 Earlier in the day the engineers and firemen of the railroads decided to continue work if assured protec- ton and on the assurances of the sheriff and general manager of the copper company they moved the trains.
 There was no shooting in the Bingham district today Sheriff Sharp restrained his deputies from | attempting to disarm the foreigners fearing that such action might revive the trouble.
 It was reported tonight that the steam shovels mine would be started at II o'clock tonight. J. C. Lowney iccal member of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners said: If they do it. we will shut down their mines in Nevada A similar statement made earlier
 in the day by President Mover al Salt Lake declared a member of the | board would reach Ely tomorrow tC ! declare a strike of the Ely Consoli- | dated employees
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
BLAMES AERO CLUB

CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-Testifying at the inquest into the death of Aviator Howard w Gill today, Gus Mestach, the French aviator. whose moroplane collided with Gilrs biplane sail:
 T protested to the Aero club oe
 Illinois, against flying in t',e ar
 preaching darkness but the officials
 insisted that I should fly because the
 crowd would be disappointed if I
 did not The officials then promised
 that my machine would be the only
 one in the air, but did not keep their
 promise. I was going at terrific
 speed when I saw Gilrs bip1ane 300 feet ahead and tried in vain to avoid
 collision.
 The officials in charge of the avi- ation meet are all millionaires and none of them know the first thing about aviation. They violated every rule to safeguard the lives of the aviators" William Pickens, manager of Aviator Horace Kearney so testi- fled when the examination of Mes tach, the French aviators was con- cluded.
 If the officials had been more in terested in the movements of the aviators, instead of parading around displaying their badges and showing authority, the accident could have been avoided" Pickens testified. Gill said to me before he went into the air on the day of his death, I don't like this idea of flying at twilight. ] There is going to be serious acci- dent as a result of it "
 Marcel Tournier, French aviator | in a monoplane thrilled crowds at Grant Park today by sailing over the course at a speed of almost two miles per minute The ayiators tonight made an agreement to refuse to fly when the conditions of air were dan 1 gerouc.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
Says He Found the Only Way to Reform Kind of Men Composing Grand Old Party is With a Club
COLONEL PASSES
 DAY IN NEBRASKA
Asks Audiences to Imagine Abe Lincoln AssOciating With Barnes, PenrOse and With Other Such Political Leaders
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OMAHA Sept. 20.-A defense of his action in quitting the republican party and taking a lead in the forma tion of the new party was made to- day by Colonel Roosevelt. The colonel said he had been urged to remain in the republican party, but that he had found the only way they can reform that kind of men is with club"
 Tn justification of his action, be de- clared that the republican managers are now behaving worse than they behaved before" Roosevelt passed the day in Nebraska. travelling leis- urely with a speech for every stop. At Lincoln the colonel passed three hours. and put in the evening at Omaha
 The Omaha auditorium and the Lincoln auditorium were filled as tightly as the police would permit. It was at Lincoln that the colonel spoke of his decision to leave the republi- can party He began by saving that Victor RoseWater of Omaha. former republican national committeeman, "stole the Nebraska delegates to the republican convention, just as eff fectively as if the delegates had been thrown out"
 The colonel attacked the leaders of the republican party, adding: Ina zine Abe Lincoln associating with Barnes. Penrose and other such men"
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
QUEER SEA DENIZEN.
Claim Real Sea Serpent Is Landed at
 Venice.

VENICE, Cal, Sept. 20.-One of the queerest ;1enizens of the deep sea ever seen in this part was brought in today, by w. H. Gilman, a fisher man. Experts of fishology claimed it was a genuine sea serpent of the rar- est variety.
 While casting off the burned pier at Ocean Park. Gilman hauled the creat- ure in It was about five feet in length, black and green mottled, with a tail not unlike that of shark. It has a dorsal fin and four feet shaped like those of a parrot. Its mouth much resembled that of an Arizona Gila monster while it's head was an exact reproduction of a California horned toad.
 It died within ten minutes after be- ing brought ashore
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
COLLECTOR RELEASES
 OPERA TROUPE TRUNKS
l San Francisco Will Witness Produc- ton Through Lifting of
 Regulations
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2O.-To rlease the music loving people of this city. Collector Stratton stretched the federal regulation today and re- leased forty nine cases of personal effects belonging to the opera troupe which will open the San Francisco season tomorrow night. The cases had been shipped from New York under bond as one shipment. and dec laration of their value had to be made by the individual owners. To do so would have required several days. and the company could not have opened tomorrow. On the as- surance of an Italian editor that he would be personally responsible for the correct individual declaration at
 later date, the costumes were ad- mitted in a lump.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
NEGRO
 FOR ASSAULT
Report Is Made of Sum- mary Dealings With Al legged Assailant of Six Year-Old Child of Woman HOmesteader
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BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Sept. 2O-The lynching of a negro on the desert thirty miles east of Mojave by men al- legged to be employed by the Los An geles Aqueduct company, was reported here tonight. It is said that the negro assaulted the six-year- r-old child of a woman who is homesteading a tract of land near the acqueduCt camp ir Jawbone Canyon.
 The men formed a posse which pur- sued the negro, surrounding him in g gulch several miles distant from the scene of the alleged crime. They rid dled his body with bullets. The dep uty coroner and a deputy sheriff lef here tonight in an automobile to make an investigation
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
Legal Adviser Christy of water Users Receives Notice From Washington
 That Water Contract Is Made Easier for Farmers
WATER USERS
 MEET MONDAY
Revised Contract to Be Considered; Minim um Flow Per Acre Reduced and Payments Are Made Easier Than Threatened

To the Members of Council and
 the Board of Governors of the
 Salt River Valley Water Users
 AssOciation:
 4 joint meeting of the board
 Of governors and the council of
 the Salt River Valley Water
 Users Association will be held
 on Monday. Sept 23rd at 10
 o'clock. to consider the revised
 form of contract for water ser
 vice which has been received
 from Washington
 The revised form provides. in
 brief for payment of $11O on
 october 1st for two acre feet of
 water: 40 cents for the next foot
 and 50 cents for the next foot.
 or $2.00 for f acre feet Sixty
 cents an acre foot is to be
 charged for each foot over four
 feet Please be present promptly.
 Embodied in the above call are found all the features except one that came in the letter to Captain George D. Christy from the department of the interior. The one additional bit of news concerns the change in sec ton five of the proposed water rental contract. Although it does not indi cate any of the changes. the letter assures Captain Christy they will be made The printed forms for the signing of the new water agree ments are being made in Washing ton and will arrive at the office of the water users association not later than Monday. according to the ex- pectatiOns of Secretary Van der Veer
 The minimum flow per acre has been reduced from three to two feet The price has not been dropped 1T proportion At half a dollar foo and a rule for a minimum of three acre feet a year, the farmer was re quired to pay S150 on the years ser vice on the first of each October Tn, third acre foot costs 4Oc, making tn, amount named as the minimum 1T the former contract and the sam, amount by the modified form identi cally the same in price. $15O Bu the charge for four acre feet unde the changed contract is only $2.0t against S24G under the other form
 When asked his views on the mo dified contract, Mr. Orme declined tc commit himself. T won't say any thing until I see the whole thinl next Monday" he said He believes the new form is a great improvement over the first proposed, but has nc ideas as to it's relation to the agree ment in force heretofore. Whil the former charge for a years ser vice was $1.60. the farmer could bu, either the summer service at 60 or the winters at a dollar. which i'm posed no strict minimum and wa much cheaper than the two ney forms
 President Orne and Joseph Cop had planned to leave tonight for Sal Lake city to attend the Federation of Water Users associations. Bu the contract difficulty, now on it way to solution, holds them in Phoe nix until Monday night at least Tn conference in the Lakeside city oc CUTS on Friday, the 27th, so the rep resentatives of the local project hay plenty of time to get there.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
Turn Upon Helpless Non Combatants and Women and Torture Them Ac- cording to State Depart ment Report
AMERICAN MINISTER
 ASKED TO PROTECT
Two Brothers Have Been lnhumanely Treated, De prived of Food and Are Now Threatened With Death
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WASHINGTON. Sept 20-Condi- tions at Granada, Nicaragua. are worse than those which existed in the Congo and in Putumayo." ac- cording to a state department report The rebels have turned upon the helpless non -cOmbatants and women and their warfare is characterized by a return to absolute barbarism. is another part of the report.
 American Minister Weitzel has re- ceived d letter from Pedro Rafael Cuadra, minister of finance to Presi- dent and from Carlos Cuadra. the Nfcaraguan minister of the mixed claims commission. which in the name of humanity and civilization they appeal to Minister WeitzeH to do all that he can to protect their families who are being persecuted at Granada.
 They have learned that General Mena and his agents are prosecuting their relatives because they them selves are members of the Diaz gov ernment. Their brothers, they declare, have been inhumanely tortured, de prived of food and obliged to pay large sums for a few crumbs
 For an uninterrupted period of five days they were confined in a small filthy closet and for three days of that time they were allowed no food and water. When let out they were near death.
 Colonel Daniel Mena, in command of Fort San Francisco, overlooking the town, has threatened to shoot the brothers if the government troops at tack Granada. It is said that Mrs Cuadra. wife of the minister of finance. is being hunted in Granada She may be tortured
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
REBELS LOSE
 TWO BATTLES
One Engagement Is Said to Be Most Important Since the RevOlutionists Moved From Sonora Into Chi huahua '.
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DOUGLAS. Sept 20.-Official re- ports of q battle between rebels and federals twenty-five miles south of here yesterday and today gave the rebels a loss of twenty killed and sixteen wounded The rebels under
 Salazar are reported to have with drawn to the west after tOdays bat tie
 A force of seventeen hundred reb- els was reported tonight at Cenesas Springs. twelve miles southeast of Agua Preta. Rojas, the rebel leader sent word to the federal commander that he expected to have a force of twenty-four hundred men and that ha would take Agua Prieta within a few days. In a battle with Sala- zar's rebels yesterday Obregon took prisoner, Major Benjamin Aranda, Iwho served under Madero last year. Details of fight at the San Joaquin ranch yesterday, today show that the 1 first battle was the most important 1 fought since the rebels moved into | Sonora from Chihuahua. Obregon l reported that he attacked Salazar's force of five hundred and fifty rebels tWith a force of eleven officers and | 1S1 men and twenty fufaleS, tne re- | mainder Yaquis The rebels were driven to the hills after hand to hand fight.
 ! Early this morning Salazar at | tackled the federals but was repulsed eleven prisoners being left in the | federals hands including a woman re puted to be Salazar'S wife Sala-
 Zar's rebels are reported to have burned a bridge near NacOzari fif- teen miles south of Agua Prieta at
 the same time cutting the telegraph wires.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
NEW RECORDS MADE
 ON FORBES FIELD
Athletes from All Parts of the United
 States Appear at PIttsburg.
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FORBES FIELD, PITTSBURG, Sept 20.-Two new records were established several equaled and ex- ceptionally good marks hung up in the majority of the events partici- pated in today by the junior athletes from all parts of the United States, under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic union. The senior games will be played tomorrow.
 E. Mccarthy Of the Irish American Athletic club, New York. made a new junior record in the hop, step and jump with mark of 45 feet inches, while E.. Muller of the same Organi- zation threw the discus a hundred and twenty-six feet By only the matter of a point the New York Athletic club carried off first honors with a total of thirty for the day
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
JUDGES DECLARE
 PETITION ILLEGAL
to Local Option Document
 Not Made by Original Parties.
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SPOKANE, Sept. 2O.-Five judges of the superior court of Spokane county decided today to issue an order for bidding the city commissioner from calling an election to submit the local option question to a vote. After pc tition containing over ten thousand names had been filed, the anti-prohi- bitionists began proceedings to pre- vent the calling of the election, alleg- ing that the petition was illegal for the reason that the addresses were written on the petition by other than the signers.
 It is also alleged that in some cases. one person had signed for others than himself. The court ruled that the pc tition was illegal. and no election can be called.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
WANDERER A SURPRISE.
Takes Three Heats in Ten Thousand
 Dollar Stake at Detroit.
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DETROIT. Sept 20-Young MacEye sprung a surprise at the state fair grounds today when he drove The Wanderer to victory in the Michigan ten thousand dollar stake. Dorah Me dium, Geer's entry, of whom the most expected, failed, but finished inside the money. The Wanderer, overlooked by betters took kindly to the heavy going and after finishing last in the first heat, went out and took the next three in impressive style.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
WARFARE IN MONGOLIA.

LONDON, Sept 20,-The whole of the Mongolian frontier from Kaigan to the Sungari and Nonni rivers is in a state of open warfare and so 0miles of rich Chinese corn land from Shan tiakwan to Harbin lie Ope and unprO- tected along the Mongolian frontier, a Mukden dispatch to the Telegraph says The Chinese authorities have concentrated 10000 troops in the threat tened area.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
.BOOTLEGGERS KILL
 OKLAHOMA DEPUTY
Fire on Officers Who Are Confiscating
 Wagonload of Liquor.
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TULSA, Okla, Sept 20.-Carl Carr, a deputy sheriff was instantly killed, and Sheriff Salder, of Rogers county, was wounded. when supposed boot leggers' fired on the officers who were confiscating a wagon load of liquor near COlinsville, Oklahoma. late today.
 The sheriff and his deputy had ar rested the three men in charge of the wagon, when three more men drove up and opened fire on the officers.
 Salders, though wounded. returned the fire and captured John Etter, of Collinsville, one of the party
 The crime is similar to the killing of R. l.. Bowman, a federal officer, who was shot by bootleggers near COf- feyville, Kansas, yesterday. a posse is searching for the assassins.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
PHOENIX BOY WINS
 J. OF 4. SCHOLARSHIP
High School Graduate Successful 1T Competition to Enter State
 University

J. w Getsinger, son of B. W Get singer of this city. has received mo- tice from the university Of Arizona at Tucson that he has been awarded the Maricopa county scholarship. The notification of his success contained also a letter of congratulation from President A H. Wilde.
 The scholarship carries with it an annual remuneration of $150 and is awarded after a competitive examina- tion. This years examination took place in August and there were some twenty contestants. MT Getsinger who is a graduate of the local high school, will leave for Tucson in time to enter the varsity at it's opening ses- sion on Monday next.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
REBELS ARE RELEASED

EL PASO, Sept 20.-An but two of the six rebels who escaped from Presidio, Texas, before the battle of Onjinaga, were released today by the commissioner at Maria. Colone Pasqual Orozco, ST, father of the rebel commander in chief and Colone Jose Cordova, General OroZcos prt- vate secretary and favorite advisor are detained.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
|CLERK TAXES POT
 SHOT AT GUEST
w. Backery is Arrested for Assault ina Monroe House
 Lodger

w Blackery. night clerk at the Monroe Lodging house, was arrested at 2:3O o'clock this morning, charged with shooting at r. L. Mccarthy. a lodger in the hotel. Mccarthy report ed to the police that Blackery had entered his room and fired shot at him. Acting Chief Brisbois placed Blackery under arrest. At the police station the prisoner stated that Me Carthy had been annoying him and the guests by walking back and forth to the water cooler in the hall and that he wanted to keep him quiet.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
MAKES FATAL MISTAKE.

TUCSON, Ariz.. Sept. 20 Mistaking his law, Max Smith Brezell. aged p, of Los Angeles, for a prowl- ing wild teast, Oscar M. Hunt, also from Los Angeles, fired into the dark at his ranch home, 20 miles southwest of here and fatally wounded, Brezell. The wounded man was rushed to a Tucson hospital, where he died. Both he and Hunt were prominent mining men. Brezell had been married but two weeks
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
IN BLOODY ENGAGEMENT

ROME, Sept 20.-The most san guinary enga cement of the war in Tripoli was fought yesterday near Derne a town on the Mediterranean coast 14O miles northeast of Bengazi. The Italians last 61 men, and 113 wounded. The Turks and Arabs left more than 500 dead on the field. Forty one prisoners. including an Arab chief fell into the hands of the Italians.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
PRISONER MAKES ESCAPE.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 2O.-While Deputy Sheriff George Keim of Los Angeles was gazing down the length of a fresh cigar to the flaming match he held at it's end, the prisoner he was taking to San Quentin slipped out of his sight and escaped. The police to- day have no trace of him.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
GET DEAF MUTE FORGER
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2O.-Irving Hart, a deaf mute. wanted by the sheriffs of many California counties was arrested today just as he had received one hundred dollars from a hotel clerk on a check alleged to be bogus He is charged with forgery.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21

Only two athletes who competed in the recent Olympic game at Stockholm participated in the events here today F. Muller. Irish -Ameri- can Athletic club, who today broke the junior record discus throwing, finished fourth in that event across the sea. The second was J. Gal lagher of Philadelphia, who today won the five mile race, and who came in seventh at the Olympic Marathon.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
HARVESTER SUIT POSTPONED
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CHICAGO. Sept. 2O.-Taking testi- mony in the governments suit to dissolve the International Harvester company was postponed until Octo- Der ?, on the representation of the defense that one attorney is ill and one in California
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
AGAINST WAR AEROPlANES,

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 2O- RecOnsidering it's action of last night the Inter parliamentary Union today adopted a resolution introduced by the Belgium secretary of state inter dieting the use of aeroplanes in war.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
Everett Russell Blair Is
 Killed While Attempting
 Exhibition Flight, His Machine Striking Air Current and Overturning
AERO CLUB BLAMED
 FOR DEATH OF GILL
Gus Mestach, Whose Mono plane Collided With Bi- plane in Midair Says Pro- test Had Been Made on Account of Darkness
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SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Sept 20 Everett Russell Blair of Kansas City was killed here today in a fall of thirty feet while making an exhibi- tion flight Blair had just made successful flight and landed some distance from the crowd. In attempt ing to rise his machine struck an air current, turned over and crushed the aviator under the wreckage, death re- sulting before aid reached him.