Arizona republican., 1912-09-17

one man is dead with a bullet through his heart. the chief of police and two policemen are in the Sis ters' Hospital with more or less seri- GUS knife wounds inflicted by two MeXicans whose identity is unknown, an unidentified man is suffering with q bullet wound in his right heel. and an unidentified Mexican has sev- eral knife wounds in the breast as the result of an encounter of the To- cal police with a crowd of MeXicans who were melted to the point 0f Ureaking vengeance upon the officers through the arrest of Q number of their associates who had been taken into custody shortly after o'clock last evening. The affair which re- suited so disastrously occurred di- 1ectIy in front of the city hall build ing at the head of the stairway lead ing to the city jail.
 The dead:
 SCOTT PRICE. aged nineteen years. son of (. R. Price, shot through the heart and lungs.
 The wounded:
 CHIEF. OF POLICE A. J. MOORE cut four times.
 HARRISON NJ. WILLIAMS. motor cycle policeman. stabbed twice in the side and back
 ALEJO VALENZUELA, policeman, cut in the left breast.
 UNIDENTIFIED MAN, shot in right heel.
 Trouble had been brewing practi- oally all of yesterday, but the police believed they had the situation well in hand. Shortly after six o'clock d call come from the Central hotel where. it was said that, a small sized riot was in progress. A number of raturaIized Mexicans who had been drinking at the bar became enraged in an altercation with a number of men of their own nationality who retained their citizenship in the sis ter republic The police made a mum Der of arrests after more or less diff ficultv and the officers were emerg ing from the city jail when the seri- ous trouble began.
 According to the best information at hand. the Mexicans who engaged in the fight at the Central hotel, were Ol tllt ticllA iilNAi iieNb bNNiA CP posing for some time, the engineering Of the Mexican Independence day eel ebration by those who had declared tFeir allegiance to the United States. The first intimatiOn that such a feel ing existed came over a week ago, when some of the unnaturaliZed Mex jeans of this city asked The Republi- can to announce that a meeting to protest against the celebration was to be held and calling upon all loyal Mexicans to attend.
 When the non-citizen Mexicans found they were unable to secure control of the celebration of yester- day, it is said they determined to break up the celebration being held bv those who were naturalized. The affrav at the rear of the Central ho- tel is said to have been the result or this dissension.
 Nearly d dozen of those who par ticipated in the fight had been placed in the city jail and the officers were making their way upstairs. Friends of the prisoners mingled with the great crowd which thronged the city haH plaza and made difficult the Iuogress of the police.
 Just as Policeman Valenzuela and chief of Police Moore appeared at the head of the stairway, a Mexican iis the crowd made q lunge at Nalen- zheIa. A knife in his hand was buried tt. the hilt in the pOliceman's breast An instant later, as FalenZuela stag ecred away, Chief Moore ran in the direction of the assailant of his of ficer. drawing his gun as he proceed ed The would-be murderer turned mon the chief and an instant later plunged his knife into his neck, and then slashed him across the arm Leveling his gun at the Mexican Moore was about to fire when an ether Mexican grabbed his arm anf sWupg him around. The weapon wa; discharged and the bullet found It's mark in the body of Scott Price Whl was standing about eight or ten feel away and out of the line of con fict Moore fired again and it is be- Iieveo struck his assailant in the