Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-16
MEXICAN PLOT IS
 NiPPED IN THE BUD

TUCSON, July 10.-The details of what promises to be one of the most extensive plots to violate United States neutrality since the arrest of Nictori- | ano Huerta are being unfOlded in No | gales. where Luis Carasc1, another
 alleged conspirator in a plot to over
 throw the Mexican government was
 gre ested yesterda'.
 The first Intimations of plan Co overthrow the Gales government in | Sonora. in the interests. it is thought. .f F.lis Diaz. came with the arrest I in Tucson Monday of Herberto Zd' | bierta, charged with drunkenness. Al ! the police station maps and lists of
 names were found, it is said, which
 the Mexican declined to explain. Other Warrants Issued
 Government officials following an | investigation issued a number of warrants here and at NogaleS, and the arrest of several Mexicans in the 1 border city followed. Alejandro Bar 1 ron, former colonel in Huerta's army. l but more lately merchant in Nogales one of the men arrested. was 2-ra:Snsd Saturday. He said that his arrest
 was due to the machinations of Car
 ranza officials Carasco, it is said,
 will have hearing tomorrow. IL is rumored tha; a German high | in the councils of the CarranZa gov ernment also has been take ninto GUS | tody by the United States authorities
 in the border city Officers today
 were reticent in discussing this ru- nor. It is said that the man had i made all arrangements for smuggling a military aeroplane into Mexico. He
 is also thought to be connected with a mysterious advertisement which ap- i peared recently in Los Angeles
 newspaper. asking for a number of young Germans to farm" with him
 on certain property that he is said to
 have owned.
 According to reports. the conspira- tors are backed by number of east ern capitalists, against whom evidence ! is said to be accommodating. It is
 thought that a sensation will he | sprung by government agents if these men are arrested.
 Plot We'll Organized i That Tucson has been the bas" for ! systematic smuggling opertions said
 to have been connected with con
 spiracy to overthrow Gales III Sor-
 On several occasions automobiles
 loaded with ammunition have been
 reported to have gone from here | headed for the border and in one in- stnce. il is said government agents | actually apprehended car whicn was ! carrying 200 rifles. Reports o. men | being collected here for expeditions | across the border have been frequent. and it is said that one prominent
 Mexican, who has since left the coun- ! try, had organized a band of several | hundred soldiers to take across the line. The plans of this expedition fell
 through. however. it is reported, when
 the trouble between the United States | and Mexico arose.
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 10 morphine, cocaine. opium. There | is law old as the Christian era on
 stealing. Thou shalt not steal" as well as laws for hundreds of other
 misdemeanors, but because they are repeatedly broken is it a sign that i these laws are failures?
 The statement that We had better
 have the saloon and the revenue de- ! rived therefrom is rot and the au- ! thor knows it. Is there any less mon-
 ey in Cochise county since prohibition
 went into effect? Does St. Louis and
 Louisville draw monthly a heavy toll
 of dollars from this county since pro
 hibition went into effect?
 On the contrary there is much more
 money than formerly. The Cochise
 county dry farmer gets some of il; the
 milk man, the soda fountains, tne pic
 ture shows enjoy a share; even the
 wives and children of former drunk.
 ards-in man selfishness personifed. | thinking only af his oup s,o,naob