The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-04-25
MOB ORDERS J. s. DOUGLAS
 AWAY FROM CANANEA

, being cleared up, between the govern : ment and the Southern Pacific rail- road, the works should be started up Argument Useless. T argued with the delegation for
 three minutes, saying that it was ina- possible to appoint successor; that had been appointed by the board of ) directors and only the board of di- , rectors could appoint a successor;
 that my assistant, MT Kingdom, was expected to arrive in Cananea the
 next day, and that it would be much
 better to take more time and to try
 and sraighten out the difficulties without being in too much of hurry. One of the delegates broke in at this
 point and said I must appoint a sue
 cessor immediately and leave town at
 once. The delegate showed great
 animosity, and several times inter-
 rupted the conference in a loud voice.
 Col. AIvarado Talks. ! Col. AlVarado then said that he
 would like to express his opinion and said that in his opinion MT Douglas should leave town. I asked the pre- ; fecto whether he likewise was ot that opinion, and then asked MT. Young. Mir. Young said that he thought we should have at least one hour to discuss the matter This l brought a hurried remark from one of the delegates that immediately MT. Douglas had to leave town. asked Col. Alvarado whether he could not offer me personal protection in case decided not to leave town and he replied that he could and would with his life, and that he had 1OOe rifles, but that in his opinion it would be very much more convenient under the circumstances for me to leave town. The prefecto was then asked whether it was to the interest of the Gananea Consolidated Cop. per Co, that I should leave town and he replied that it was. I replied that personally ! had many friends among the Mexicans and that I did not be- lieve that any of them would resort to violence, but that since the people had made the demand, and since i- was the opinion of all those present, including MT. Young, 1 thought it was better for me to leave town, on ac- count of superior force and would be governed accordingly
 Col AIvarado Denies Haste.
 At this point Col Alvarado said that it was understood that I would to1x-p
 was replied to by a delegate named Hernandez in a very excited voice who stated that MT. Douglas had to leave town immediately, indicating that he should leave the office then and there. Col. Alvarado said in a very positive manner that he had to De considered and that he would not allow me to leave town until I was ready to leave. This remark on the part of Col. Alvarado was evidently sincere asV there seemed to be a hope on the part of the others that the crowd should get hold of me and carry out their threats of riding me on white burro The colonel said that he would bring thousand rifles. if necessary, to see that I left town at my convenience sometime during the day.
 This ended the conference"
 When the delegates went out on the porch Col. Alvarado addressed the people in front and said that it was difficult to appoint successor . but tbat MT. Douglas had delegated his rights to MT. Young.
 The crowd was very noisy and when they found that Mir. Douglas was not going to leave immediately they showed very clearly that they were disappointed. For a few mo- nents it looked as if there might be trouble and the crowd hard to ap, 1ease. They had the office surrounded md men were behind the office to see nat nobody went out through the 'ack door. For sometime it looked IS Ii it was going to be hard to sat sly the crowd, but finally some Mexican in the crowd shouted: eve laVe won our point, let us take the ther matters up tomorrow when the governor gets here.' This seemed satisfy the mob and they gradually At ? o'clock MT Douglas nd MT. Applewhite left in an auto or Naco.
 Want Plant Shut Down.
 During Col. Alvarado's talk to the lob he asked them if they wished to lose down the plant and stop work nd they all declared that they did. 1e said that was matter for seri-
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