Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-13
DOUGLAS CITIZEN
ACCUSED SETTING
FIRE TO HOUSE
ALLEGED to Have Poured Oil on
Dwelling Where Wife and
Children Were Sleeping; Other
Items From Smelter City.

DOUGLAS. oct 12.-Fred Morrey is
laueged to have set fire to the house
in which his wife and children were
sleeping, according to statements
made by his wife. The dwelling I'M
which they were asleep was set afire
last night about 10 O'Clock and but
for the prompt action of neighbors
who discovered the blaze the house
and contents would have been con
lsumed An examination made of the
premises disclosed the fact that the
building had been saturated with coal
Ioil i'm a number of places and the
screen window in the pantry had been
cut and oil poured in on the floor
Morrey and his wife have had trouble
lately and had separated. Morrey Is
a Frenchman and works in one of the
barber shops here
Cuts officers Face.
Lorenzo r. Yeckley, a member of
{ ompany G. of the Arizona National
Guard is i'm jail here charged with an
/ assault with a deadly weapon, al
legged to have been made on Captain
Harry II. Beck with a pocket knife
Captain Beck met Yeckley on the
street yesterday afternoon and started
to talk to him about being absent from
drill the night before when all of a
sudden Yeckley drew his pocket knife
and sla she'd the captain across the
face. making an ugly wound across
the left cheek
Selling Trunks.
4 City and county officers since last
Friday have seized at tine E. p d S.
w. depot fourteen trunks containing
, whiskey There are 80 cases in all
most of which is in pin TASKS, while
, there are one or two cases Of quart
, bottles. The whiskey is Of all kinds
. and character from the cheapest kind
of rot gut to the standard brands
Most OF the trunks have been shipped
from El Paso. but up TO date no one
has put i'm a claim for the booze, and
1t is being stored at the city If the
seizures continue the cell will be soor
filled The booze is valued at 5000
TcId TO Hire a Hall.
w. H. Tribolett, alleged to be Z
Mexican labor agitator, was notified
by the officers OF Douglas to stoI
: speaking ON the streets on account o
\ blocking the traffic and told to 2,
and get a hall if he had any addresses
to make to the Mexican population
= lIe was stopped on one occasion am,
was notified that if he attempted t,
/. try it again that he would be arrested
According TO the Douglas papers IN
!, was talking to the Meyicans I'm Span
' ish and was reciting about the Clifton
. strike and also advising the Mexican
in Douglas to do something, as the
Z were not getting enough wages TO
what they were doing Ia is ais
claimed by the Douglas press tina
Tribolet was mixed up in the Clifto
strike but was ordered out of tow
by Sheriff Cash as well as by the Ia
Dor leaders on account of his radica
utterauces. From Clifton he went t
Lordsburg and was ordered out q
town there and came TO Douglas
is possible that ne will be given n,
tice that his presence is not wante
here.
Not Able TO Work.
II is doubtful if Assistant Count
Attorney Bruce Stephenson Will b
able TO attend the cases now set fc
trial before Judge McCaly for sever,
days, on account of the arrival at hi
home of a bright 1O-pound baby 81
on Sunday. Mother and child are d.
ing nicely, but there are doubts abol
the recovery of Bruce.
Cattle Recovered.
Upon the demand of the owner. Il
head Of cattle belonging TO NJ. D
sherman, who, by the way, was OF
of the first school teachers in Cochi.
county which had been brought
from his ranch near Moctezuma. by
ioraging party were turned over
him yesterday and upon payment
the customary duty Mr. Sherman W,
given permission to export them.
is understood this will be done 500
The cattle were portion of a hei
brought in from the south late la
week. The foragers started out fro
Moctezuma with about $50 cattle bea
ing the Sherman brand it Is state
but the herd vas 40 "shy" when
reached the border Mr. sherman wi
aided greatly in procuring the retu
of the animals by several Mexic,
friends who interceded for him wi
General Gales