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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-12
This Announcement is Made
by Adolfo De La Lama,
Mexican Minister of Fin
ance, Arriving at Vera
Cruz
REFERENCE TO
SECRET CONFERENCE
Says Unless Agreement is
Made Between Huerta
and Carranza Factions
Former Will Not Quit
Office
VERA CRUZ, J uly

VERA CRUZ, uly
1.-THE resignation of
Huerta may be placed
before congress on Mon
day, the general de-
parting immed la t ely
thereafter for Puerto
Mexico or Vera Cruz
under British escort,
according to reports in
circulation here tonight
which originated from
a source that is un-
usually well informed.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-12
FIX RAILROAD
VALUATION At
s90,256,923.50
State Tax Commission In
creases Last Years AS
sessment by $6,OOO,0 ,000-
Doubles Ray and ella
Valley Appraisement

Adding over s6,000,000 to the as
sessed valuation of the railroad prop
erty of the state, the tax commission
yesterday announced the total ap-
praisement at $90,256, ,923.50, for to-
tai mileage of 2,243.5 miles of rail-
way.
The most noticeable increase is in
the case of the Ray and ella Valley
railroad, the property value of which
is fixed at $114,500 per mile, against
valuation of $55,000 for 1913. The
property was appraised at $4,000
per mile last year. but this figure
was afterward reduced by the COM
mission sitting as board of equaliz
alton The Ray snort line, which
runs from Kelvin to Ray is 9.34 miles
in length, and is one of the heaviest
| earning roads in the state.
The main lines of the Southern Pa
| cific and Santa F'e railroad are as
sessed at the same figure, $4,000 per
mile, and the Arizona and New Mex
| leo, and main line of the Ell PaSo
and Southwestern are fixed at $780,
600 per mile From these figures the
/
being $500 per mile, (the value fixed
for the Congress Consolidated Mines
property
| AS usual Cocfise leads the list of
counties with mileage of 412.S and
an assessed valuation of $16,356,-
1000. Yavapai is second. with
35O1 miles and $10,637, ,215.O0 valuation,
with Maricopa third, the mileage in
this county being 274.O9, valued at
$1O,25O, ,755OO
The total increase over last year,
$6126,01300. is due more to increas-
ed earnings of the railroads than to
new construction, the latter item hav-
ing added only 1425 miles to the
lines in the state Most of this in
icrease was in Yavapai county, where
the construction of the Verde Tun-
mel and Smelter road from Jerome to
Clarkdale added approximately II
miles to the mileage in Yavapai
county.
The values fixed by the commission
for the more important roads of the
state follow:
Ariz. Eastern. Observation-Disclosures SO, 900, SIS
A. T. G. S. F. (main line). 24,714,24O
G. and A. and S. F..... 9,065, $50
Arizona and New Mexico. 2,064, SOC
E. p & S. w. (main line).. S,73S, SOC
E. p & S. w. (totaD ....... 10, ,337. $50
Grand Canyon Ry. 1,017,28C
New Mexico and Arizona -. 1,474, 35(
S. p. Co. (main line) rs, ,145, SOC
Total Valuation by Counties
Apache :. ............$ 3,4SS, ,000. OF
iCochise :. ................ 1886, 1000
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terested in education and the schools have been cut down to ten.
 'h Bolivia the interest of the govern ment .n the educational work of the Methe dist church is so great that it has recently made an annual grant of S-5,- 600 for supporting two of our boarding and day schools, and it expects to add somethi'g toward the support of a girls school on similar lines. We have Tn La Paz the Americsn institute, with three or four hundred students. This is the larg- est school of its kind in the republic The new girls school will be at Cochabamba, town of 3o,Oo0 people. on the eastern slope of tie Andes about 40 miles from La Paz."
 l asked Bishop Stuntz about the mis- sion work in Peru. He replied
 The outlook is encouraging. The Pe- ruvian Congress has just passed a law by vote of 66 to 4 granting liberty of worship throughout the republic. This the people have not had until now, al- thought missions have been established in certain localities.
 Now the missionaries can go where ever they please, and there will be plenty of opportunity to do work among the Indians. as we'll as among the other
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Spanish At the same time. she brought out some ears of corn about foot long with grains as big as lima beans, and tcld me that it had been raised on the farm. I had the boy hold up the ears of maize and photographed them Mrs. Austin says the mission has already proved that the Indians can be civilized and that all they need to get along in the world Is education and freedom from alcohol. This mission is doing not only work of an industrial order among the Indians. but also evangelical and even gospel work among the Peravlans t has thriving school at Cuzco, where the pupils are taught Spanish and it has trained nurses who serve among all classes of Teopie.
 In sailing down the west coast I came from Lima to Mollendo, with Bishop Homer c. Stuntz. who has the general supervision of the Methodist Episcopal missions of South America with his head quarters at Buenos Aires He tells me that there are six North American Prot estant missionary boards on this conti- ncnt. These are the Methodist Episcopal Southern Baptist Protestant Episcopal Canadian Baptist, Methodist Episcopal
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PIE AND THEN SOME
Exploits of Veterans at c. A. R.
 Banquet in Kansas

From the Fl Dorado Kan) Republican.
 This true story happened at the Shiloh banquet in the G. A. R. hall
 Two epicureans had reached the des- sert end of the menu. Blackberry pie was the piece de resistance. The pie, rich and juicy, had been brought to the dinner on a pasteooard pie pan, but the juice had soaked through the pasteboard and pan and pie had been slipped on china plate.
 Man, said one epicurean as he sew cred a generous bite with his fork. "this is the best looking pie I ever looked at" But as he "Fletcherized.' blank look dawned on his face. He took another bite Its a little different from any blackberry pie I ever ate he said thoughtfully, but it's great that's what it is.'
 The other man ate contentedIy. '-Of course it tastes that way to you" he said superciliously. "but my daughter. you know, Is an advanced domestic sci ence girls dad was reluctantly lifting the last juicy bite fro mthe plate. when a half smothered giggle at his right diverted his attention. He turned inquiringly.
 You've both eaten the pasteboard plate with your pie explained the fel- low guest her face very red with sup pressed laughter. Sure enough they had.
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ble in persuading the Indians to yoke their oxen in them. The blows are yoked to the horns of the oxen and the oxen push the plow-tongue along with their heads. We showed them that We could blow twice as deep with our blow as they could with theirs, and when our crops rise high above theirs I am sure we shall@ have no further trouble"
 In talking about the superstitions of the Indians, MT. Wenburg said that they believe in witchcraft and that death Is usually occasioned by someone bewitch- ing them. When person dies his rela- tives and friends are anxious that the witches should not pursue the soul of the man after death Not long ago man died on the farm, and his family came to the overseer and asked him to take piece of paper with a cross on the top and to write below that: T have died because I am bewitched by my enemies, and here pray to the Lord that l may be free from them in the future.' This sheet of paper was put into the hand of the dead man and was buried with him.
 In the same connection, MT Wenburg says that the Indians are very quiet as an ordinary thing, but they may be- come enraged and that when they fight they grow savage. At such times a man may even kill and eat his victim The Indian overseer now on the farm be- longed to a family who killed and ate a man in that way. Then they threw his bones into the lake. This was dis covered and, as a punishment, the neighbors took away the land that be- longed to them.
 During my stay at Cerro de Pasco l learned of a similar industrial move- ment that is going on among the h. dlans of Peru. The heads of this work are interdenominational, and they come chiefly from Great Britain and Canada. They have mission station at Arequipa and a large industrial farm not far from Cuzco. The farm formerly belonged to the Jesuits. but sometime after they were driven out of the country it was bought by this organization. It is of vast extent, consisting of something like 6O,000 acres of good land on the plains and running from them high up the slopes of the mountains and including the valleys between. As in the case of the farm on Lake Titicaca the Indians went with this land. They had their own little holdings scattered over it, and owned their own flocks, working a part of each week for the farmer The for eigners have established schools on the estate, and are introducing our grains and grasses and new methods of farming am told that the Indians are learning to blow. They use one-handled blows of American make, and now cultivate their land in deep and straight furrows, d thing they dio not do in the past. The foreigners have brought in new crops and new varieties of the old crops. Among other things they are experimenting with is the Irish potato. of which they are raising as much as 320 bushels per acre.
 l telked with Mrs. Austin, fine Ca nadian woman, the wife of one of the missionary farm managers. She tells me that the Indian boys are very quick to learn and showed me a bright little fellow, belonging to the farm, who spoke
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classes of the people This is regarded as a great step toward freedom of wor- ship. Ecuador secured religious liberty six years ago. The Argentine republic granted it nearly 30 years ago and Uru- quay still earlier. Brazil has not only granted religious liberty, but it has no established union of church and state
 But has all this been the work of the missionaries?
 Yes, to a large extent. pr. Thomas E. Wood, seconded by Dr. Trubull of Valparaiso, has worked for the liberaliz- ing movement in al lof the countries and it is largely due to his efforts that re- ligous liberty has been secured. It must be remembered however. that many of the South American men do not believe in any religion They put themselves down in the census as atheists or az nostics Indeed, it is safe to say that there are at least 15,000,000 of the South American people who are without any religious faith at all
 Are Protestant missionaries welcome in South American
 Not by the people as a whole, although they are welcomed by some of the gov ernments Still this is changing. Last winter the Protestant Sunday School so- ciety of Buenos Aires held a demonstra- tion. There were HOO Sunday school scholars and teachers present and among
 
 the Argentine Congress. the editors of the daily newspapers and the members of the diplomatic corps. The wonderful work that this branch is doing for the moral welfare of the Argentine people came as revelation to many of the citizens.'
 IVY hat do you think of South America alon gethical lines? Is there not an in- tellectual and moral awakening now in progress?"
 Yes. You can see evidences of 1t in the interest of all the governments in edu- cation. They are appropriating more for the schools and their plans for the next five years include increases of more than 100 per cent Another proof is the greater number of young men who are going to Europe and the United States for higher education. We have now over 100 stu dents from Latin America in Cornell uni versity alone and there are others in many other colleges Most of these young men are studying engineering of one kind or other"
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which they have flocks of one kind or another. They work about two days of the week for their rent.
 These Indians form the nucleus of the missionary work, and 1t is among them that the industrial movement Is now going on The trustees have es- tablished school and both children and grownups are attending it and learning to read They have introduced new plants and grasses. and they are experimenting with grains to see if better conditions of farming cannot be created on these high plateaus They expect to improve the breeds of sheep and to bring in goats and American cattle. They hope also to teach the Indians the several trades and to uplift them in every possible way.
 During my stay here I have met MT. Hugo Wenburg, who is now managing the farm. He tells me that the Indians would have nothing to do with the mis- sionaries at first. They had been told by their neighbors that the Americans would work them to death and that they
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said to have never been conquered. The Chibchas were skilled sn weaving and making of pottery. They had paved high ways, and their farming was carried to a high degree of success. They had veights and measures, and currency in the form of gold disks. The Arau- canians had a confederacy and they met in grand councils to decide their public affairs. The Caras mad a high civilza- ten, with a military and tribal organi- zation and the Aymaras, who formed the chief race of Bolivia. were akin to the ouichuas, those wonderful Indians of Peru, the subjects of the Incas.
 At the time the Spaniards came, it is estimated that there were from twenty tc forty millions of these Indians on the high plateau of the Andes. They were enslaved by our Christian white race, and the life was ground out of them. As late as 15T5 the Peruvian Indians are said to have numbered S,O00,000, but 2oO years later this number had dropped te 1.5o0.ooo while that of the whole Inca e1rpire. which had numbered 100000 had been cut down to less than 100000.
 Today the greater part of the popula- ton of Ecuador is made up of Indians There are about 1.oo0.o00 Aymaras and more than twice as many, mostly Qui- chuas, in sthe Peruvian republic All oi these Indians are in a low state of civ.
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A
 ilization. Not one in a hundred of them can read or write, and the great majority are more like animals than like civilized men. They are mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. Nearly all are the slaves of the alcohol habit; all soak their brains with cocaine. by chewing the coca leaf, and altogether they are race from whom active mentality seems to have departed. They are nominally Cath olic; but allied to their Catholicism arc many superstitions connected with the worship of the sun. They have also strange customs, such as eating the dead bodies of their enemies, and carrying written messages to the gods when they dfe as I shall describe later on.
 Those Indians live in mud huts scat tered over the high plateau of the Andes. Their huts are without windows, and are lighted only by the doors, which are so low that one has to stoop to go in. They have matched roofs made of the grass of the pampas. Their only furnishings are the skinc of alpacas, llamas and sheep upon which they sleep at night and in some cases ledge of mud. built up across one side of the hut as bed. They cook in clay pots over a fire of the droppings of llamas. There are no chimneys and the smoke gets out as it can.
 Some of the Indians have focks of sheep and own alpacas and llamas. Now and then you find one who has horses or donkeys and cattle. Some are inde- pendent squatters, having their huts out on the pampas, but many more are the peons or debt slaves of the whites and the half-breeds, or Cholos, who own most of the good land of the Andes. I have already described the condition of these peons in the province of Peru. The condi- tions are not so bad in some of the other provinces and also in parts of Bolivia. But everywhere the most of the Indians are little better than the slaves of the landowners. and so far as I can learn but little attempt has been made to ele- vate them. The Roman Catholic church. which is such a great force in our coun- try, is practically dead as far as any ciyilizing work is concerned on the An dean plateau, and its priests have either despaired of doing anything with these Indians or they do not care to attempt it. The field is. I believe, one that that
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Ciui1izing the South American I1d;a,1s

church should take up. The Indians are more or less subservient to it, and the Catholics could accomplish more in the work of regeneration in a fixed time than the Protestants. At present the Protest ant missions are to be credited with most of the attempts at elevating the Indians that are now going on.
 The industrial school which the min ister from Bolivia has asked me to in- vestigate is supported by money left by an Italian. one Antonio Chuiotto, who was converted to Christianity in the Pencil Hall mission in Los Angeles. He had gone to the United States as a yonng man. had settled in California, and had, as I understand 1t, there made little fortune in milling. Later on he emigrated to Argentina, where he lived for a number of years He there became interested in the uplifting of the h. dians of South America, and when he saw he had not much longer to live, de- eided to leave his money for that pur- pose, giving 1t to the Argentinos. There was some difficulty, however, as to the laws of Argentina that prevented his making a will to this end, and he therefore came to Bolivia, where the
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BY M. MACDONALD

jury will take that view of the terrible affair remains to be seen
 A great trial in France is something. more than legal battle between the prosecution and the defense--it is a great spectacular show, surpassing in interest "first-night at a fashion, able theatre. For weeks before the trial begins the Parisian "monde' and "demi- monde" move heaven and earth to get a seat in the assize court The presiding judge. his subordinates, the Jury and counsel are besieged by clam orous friends. About 20 privileged persons are admitted free; the others pay for their seats as they would for gala performance at the opera Im- pecunious young barristers are very glad to exchange their seats for $100 or $20O. and they always manage to squeeze in afterwards at the back of
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the court, among the public" The public" consists of large proportion of plain-clothes policemen, and a small number of spectators who have also paid heavily for the pleasure of seeing the farcical melodrama which is played in the Palais de Justice.
 The trial of Madame Steinheil, who was accused of murdering her mother and her husband, established a record but it will probably be eclipsed by the coming trial of Madame Caillaux. At the Steinheil trial the body of the court vas packed to suffocation with actors prize fighters, racing men and prosper ous "demi -mondaines," in fact, by ey- erybody who is willing to pay big price to see good show. Several well known actresses occupied seats behind the judges chair. and the harassed jury was almost hidden from view by pro-
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church. south. and the Presbyterian. The church having the largest force of mis- sicnares is the Methodist Episcopal and next to il Is the Presbyterian. Including the missionaries from Europe, there are altogether about 1000 Protestant mission ary men ana women, with more than 1000 missionary stations and substations. They have 193 day schools, and 42 high schools with about 20000 pupils. Among the institutions doing mission work is the Salvation Army, which has something like 27,0Oo adherents.
 Said Bishop Stuntz:
 In the beginning about all we could do was to carry on the schools. We found that the people wanted to learn English, and tho Rev. William Taylor opened g.. chain of schools all along the west coast, from Guayaquil, in Ecuador, to Conception. in Chile. At one time We had sixteen schools and all of these were supported by the tuitions received. Of late the governments have been more in-
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has sprung up. The Indians are send ing their children to the school which, owing to the lack of buildings is now held in the patio or open, square inside the farmhouse. The school day is short as the children have to work for their parents. The hours are from seven to nine in the morning. but the children are so anxious to learn that they come be- fore the teachers are awake. The lbttle Indians are bright and are about as quick to learn as the Cholos CT whites.
 asked MT. Wenburg how he was get ting along introducing new methods of farming. He replied:
 we have had great difficulty in get ting the Indians to try anything new but I am sure that as soon as they can see that our ways are better, we shall have no further trouble. Among other attempts we have made, was the intro duction of the American blow. The In- dian blows are of wood and are little more than forked sticks, that cut fur row of only two or. three inches. We imported some blows, but had great trou-
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stop to this campaign of abuse by le- gal means, but was informed that the law was powerless. The following day the
 Figaro contained a letter written
 her by her husband before their mar riage, with an intimation that there were more to follow. The effect of the cam paign against her husband had already exasperated Madame Caillaux, as she fcund that she was being excluded from the best society. When her own honor Was attacked she resolved to defend it.
 The question that will be put to the Jury by her counsel will be something like this: Has d woman the right to defend her husbands reputation and her own honor against the attacks of an unscru- pulous journalist? Murder, of course, is always murder. but when the provoca- tion is strong it almost assumes the character of an execution. Whether the
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regulations are different. Here he left his estate, consisting of about $35,0 for the starting of this mission. The money was put in the hands of the Methodist Episcopal church mission or rather Into the hands of three trustees, one of whom was the Rev. George Me- Bride, the president of the American Institute of La Paz; another. MT. Hugo Wenburg, formerly of the American Bible society, and a third, Dr. Foster, a medical missionary.
 These men have taken the Italians bequest and have bought a farm of about 800 acres on the shores of Lake Titicaca. about 45 miles from La Paz. The farm slopes down to the lake under the shadows of the mighty snow clad peaks of Sorati and Illimani. The greater part of it is level, and it con- sists of good agricultural land, which has been in cultivation since the days of the Incas. The land was bought of a Bolivian haciendado. and it has about 250 Indians living upon it. According
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 arouse public opinion. His picture rep resented man lying on his face, and sardonic-looking middle aged woman standing over him, with a smoking re- volver in her hand.
 They will acquit me. I loved him % much" she is saying with an evil grin.
 Another crime of a peculiarly atrocious character was the murder of M Poeckies. whose wife kept a small school in sub urb of Paris. She hired couple of ruf- mans who waylaid and shot her husband as he was returning home in her com pany late at night. Her defense wae that her husband was man of disso- iute character, and that he had been un- faithful to her. She. too. escaped the pen- alty of her crime. The result of these two acquittals was an enormous increase of husband murder, but there is reason to believe that the wave of crime has reached its zenith. Excessive leuieneq has had it's day even In Franco. H