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Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-26
b|SbEE'S XMAS MADE REAL BY MANTLE IF
 SNOW
Missing Element to Make Lo- cal Yuletide Greatest in His
 tory Brought in With Wind
 and Storm in Early Morning

For the first time in many, many years Santa Claus invaded Cochise county and brought with him man. tie of snow on Christmas Day. Strange sight it was to many people; stranger still to others; the former, coming from the north and east, where the season would be incomplete without its snow, imagined themselves for an instant at their old homes. The oth- CTS could scarce believe their eyes and wondered where such weather could come from.
 Christmas was made far brighter in the Warren District yesterday by req son of the snow, added to peace and prosperity and happiness, already at hand, than ever before in its history
 Sunday night the first festivity of the season was staged at the high school auditorium when the municipal tree was lighted up and hundreds of presents, consisting of toys, fruits and candies were given away to as many youngsters of the community.
 The celebration was conceded to be the best of its kind ever held here.
 At the Knights of Columbus Hall Mrs. w H Brophy was hostess to the
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Tonopah Shivers.
Dust Snothers Great Christmas Celebration
 Planned By Pershing's Troops DoUn In Mexico

played carols instead of buglers sound ing reville. was heard only in snatches
 General J. J. Fershing directed the effort of a score of orderlies to save his living quarters from blowing away. It was impossible to see more than three feet in any direction for hours at a time. Two artillerymen were in jured by falling adobe walls, one had a leg broken. the other a hip.
 The Christmas celebration was to have established a record. It began with fireworks on Christmas Eve and today opened with carols played by the band as the wind gathered force. But the football games and other sports did not proceed far. The greatest disappointment was the big dinner for which truckloads of turkey and trim mings and such native game as wild duck and antelope was provided.
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Plum Pudding and Flying Shells
 And DeathMakeUb b the Soldiers
 Christmas 'SomeuhereInFrance'

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. Dec. 25. (yia London)- Christmas has sent thTobs of good cheer 10 all the British armies in the battle lines of France. and wherever a British soldier ate his Christmas dinner today. whether fin the front fire trenches or in the secluded Sc curity of the reserve camps. enthusi- astic toasts were offered to King and Empire and to the coming New Year. which Britons confidently believe will bring victory to the entente allied cause.
 The soldiers from overseas, the Canadians. Australians, New Zealand CTS and South Africans, drank some what wistfully. to the folks at home. War went forward today as relentless ly as ever.
 Death Stops Songs
 Christmas carols. which rose up from all parts of the world, were not far reaching enough this year to muf- fle the roar of the big guns or shut out the unceasing song of flying shells
 It was a Christmas of bOunteous plenty along the British front and the forces in the field were joyously i'm une from the three course dinners prescribed for the British Isles. Each
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STEAMER MARYLAND REPORTED SINKING
 OFF N. '. SHORES
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NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-The steam ship Maryland was reported sinking late tonight in latitude 39, longitude 67. A wireless message picked up here said that the engine room was rapidly being flooded. and asked that aid be sent to the vessel Immediately.
 Later advices by wireless were to the effect that the sinking steamship was about 150 miles from Sandy Hook The coastwise steamer City of Savan- nah was reported about 75 miles from Sandy Hook offered to go to the aid of the Maryland, provided there were no coast-guard cutters available.
 The position given in the wireless message is about sixty miles south east of Nantucket Shoals. or 360 miles east-southeast of New York.
 Two steamships named Maryland are listed in the maritime register. One of these is a British vessel of 396 tons and the other is an Ameri- can ship of ISIS tons.
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RUSSIA WOULD STAY PEACE
 TILL FRIGHT HAS TR|UMPHED"

very last moment. when Germany de- clared war on us.
 "We also understood to what ex- tent war reacts on the interest of neu- trals. principally on account of the
 amer in which it is being conducted by our enemies. But we cannot help reepirg in view the fact that the Am yrican declaration was made almost simultaneously with the German one.
 "In its true sense the German offer is now known to all Germany con siders herself a victor and thinks to dictate to us terms of peace. We are not vanquished and cannot therefore nake an acknowledgement of defeat. We rely in the triumph of right and justice. for while we are fighting and when this will prevail then will come the time for sincere peace negotia- tions.'
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individual company cf the vast army organization had a jubilant Christmas spread and there was much rivalry fin the elaborateness of the camp menus. The members of the various camps pooled their assets. both edible and monetary. and the canteens and small French shops which persist and pros per in the war zone were called on for all their sweets and delicacies. Mess halls were splendidly decorated in many instances with holly and mistletOe and paper flowers.
 Puddings, Anyway
 At various places along the line musicians visited the camps giving concerts for the soldiers. Every Brit ish soldier had his individual plum pudding, this particularly indispensi- bIe item of the Christmas bill of fare having been looked after by the Lon don newspapers which raised in the neighborhood of L100,0O0 for their purchase.
 Where conditions permitted. as ma ny of the men as possible were re- lieved from front line duty for dinner during the mid-6ay hours.
 Odd Greetings, These
 Some of the men serving the big guns chalked satirical greetings on
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Carpet of White
 CoUers Bisbee On
 Christmos Morning

Christmas revelers celebrated in down east" style in the Warren District yesterday, about six inches of snow falling Christmas morning. The snow was preced- ed by short sleets which decked the city and surrounding noun tains in miraids of glistenins crystals, that made the trees ac- tually dreOp unSer .seir sparkling burden.
 It was the first snow of the season and with all the relish of newly found toy, kiddies and grown-ups widowed in the downy stuff and pelted each other in good natured fashion.
 Last night a freeze turned the melting mass into glaze as slick as glass, and sent many a slippery heel skyward in wreckless aban- don.
 Today the sun is due to turn his rays on the glistering stuff and transform it into mud and nasti- ness.
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GUARDSMEN DRINK POISONED WHISKEY;
 ONE SOLDIER DIES
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DENYING, N. NJ. Dec. 25.-Chrict- mas passed in Camp Deming with the suspension of all drills and unneces- sary duties and a bountiful turkey dinner provided by the government. A feature of the day was the big Christmas tree at the Y. M. C. A. head quarters. At night thousands of state guardsmen formed a night shirt par ade that passed through the streets of the town.
 A special board of inquiry is inves- tigating the death of Private George Mosley of Company M. Second Arkan- sas Infantry. who died from drinking poisoned whiskey that had been sent through the mails. Private Byron Montgomery. who took a drink from the same bottle, is pronounced out of danger.
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BANKS IF EUROPE ARE LINED UP ID HELP MAKE
 J. 5. DOLLAR SUPREME
< ' ' s s + * 1 E PRESIDENT HAS "ALL l . AMERICAN" DINNER. !

l: WASHINGTON. Dec 25-Presi-
 x dent Wilson concluded his Christ l ss mas celebration at the White ] < House tonight with a dinner at l + which he entertained a large < group of relatives and friends It ] < was an 'all American" dinner < with delicacies from many parts < of the country sent to the Presi-
 x dent as Christmas presents. < The White House was deluged
 < with telegrams and letters from ]
 : all over the United States and ! ' from abroad. wishing Mir. Wilson 1 2 a merry Christmas. Many of the 1 \ messages spoke of hope for peace ' * in Europe. Because Congress is > ' in recess the President will have 4 : few engagements during the re I
 r mainder of the week. | The government departments - remained closed and most of the { : cabinet, diplomats and other of l < ficials passed Christmas quietly r with relatives and friends.
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.09REG0N ID TAKE FIELD AGAINST BANDIT VILLA
 NOW DOMINATING NORTH
x * s k
 t PEND SlAUGHTERS
 t FAMILY WITH AXE.

x MINDEN. La, Dec. 25.-Neigh- ,
 * bors summoned by a half dressed !
 * little boy of seven, ran to the
 * home of John \. Reeves near ]
 * here early today to find that
 * murderers had turned the house ]
 * into a slaughter pen. Reeves and
 < his wife were dead, the mans
 # skull crushed by an axe and the + woman with a bullet hole through ,
 < her head. An eleven year boy, still clinging to his arms, his fif- ,
 r teen months old brother, and an- < other of i've. were battered and < chopped from axe strokes. The children were carried to ; < hospital at Shreveport where the ] elder died. The brother who gave ] the alarm escaped, as he was Y sleeping in the attic. He had come 4 t down early in the morning to look x for his Christmas tree when he s saw what sent him flying terror < < stricken to the neighbors' farm. 1 \ Posses searched all through the < day for the murderers. Tonight < + three heavily shackled negroes l x were brought to the Minden jail. | x What evidence there is against F < them has not been disclosed < # F \ 2
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G0IHAM'S THOUSANDS IF POOR
 HAVE BQUNT|FUL CHRISTMAS

foreign and fOrsaken persons had been supplied at least with shelter for the day and a real Christmas dinner.
 The Salvation Army. Volunteers of America, Elks, National Guard and other organizations. distributed bas- kets of food, toys and clothing to thousands of poor families, while din ners for the poor were given by churches, missions and political socie- ties Many police stations. which had been turned into storehouses for gifts intended for poor children, continued their work of distribution late into the night.
 Either turkey or chicken dinners were provided in the jails and other institutions maintained by the city. In the larger hospitals playlets were giv en and Christmas carols sung for the
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FIELD HEADQUARTERS. Punitive Expedition. Mex, Dec. 25. - Dust smothered the great Christmas celebra- tion at the field headquarters of the American punitive expedition, borne by a terrific gale from the southeast which drove the soldiers into their little shelters, gasping for breath. Never in the memory of the oldest in habitants of this section had such a terrific wind prevailed. Swirling down the chimneys of the adobe shacks, it sent the occupants into the open air until the fires in the grates could be extinguished. the smoke cleared out and the shelters rendered habitable. Tents were flattened, adobe houses and offices unrOofed and kitchen flies blown away.
 Because of the gale, every man on
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guard duty was allowed to seek shelter from the dust Orderlies. sent out with messages, became lost in the limits of the camp and took an hour to walk a thousand yards. Travei without dust goggles was impossible. Hundreds of men are hatless who. not realizing the force of the wind. ven tured into the open only to see their headgear swept away over the mesa. The headquarters camp appeared as a great blur of dust.
 Although the day was cloudless. hardly a ray of sunlight pierced the enveloping dust.
 Most of the offices were lighted by gasoline lamps and lanterns.
 The wind rose Christmas Eve and increased in violence steadily. By day light the music of the bands. which
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 PETROGRAD. Dec. 25. tvia Lon don)-The first expression of Russia's official attitude toward President Will sons note was obtained by the Asso- ciated Press today in the following statement emanating from high of hcial source and approved by the for eign office:
 We pay tribute 10 the humanitari- an motives which actuated President Wilson in sending to the warning na- tions with the wish to conclude peace. These motives are not foreign to us.
 "The initiative of Russia in the do- main of peace conferences which would have placed limitation upon destructive wars has always met with from Germany and we were the defenders of peace in 1914 to the
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JUAREZ POLICE CHIEF
 IS SLAIN BY OFFICER,

FL PASO, Dec. 25.-Shots heard in Juarez late tonight involving the death of Raoul Loya, acting chief of police of the town, and causing the report to spread here of garrison uprising. proved on investigation to be due to two murders. Loya. the victim of one crime. was killed by Carranza officer whom he had previously dis armed. Americans who saw the tra- gedy said the officer was intoxicated. The second crime was the murder of his wife by peon laborer.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 25. - Although New York enjoyed perhaps the most bountiful Christmas in its history. thousands of persons who crowded the churches today were not forgetful of those in the war-racked countries of Europe. Beginning with solemn high mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral celebrated by Cardinal Farley, special services not only were held in all Ro- man Catholic churches. but in the churches of other denominations, at which prayers were said for a speedy termination of the world war.
 The city authorities. working in con junction with many charitable and re- ligious organizations, provided on a scale hitherto unknown. for the com fort and welfare of the peer, and it was asserted tonight that all homeless and
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BRITISH PASTOR SCORES WILSON FOR PEACE
 MOVE
He Must Have "Had a Fit"- Anyway He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About.
 So Abbey Preacher Thinks.
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 LONDON, Dec. 25.-The Dean of Westminster, the Right Rev. Doctor Edward Kyle, presiding in the Abbey today, said;
 Tt is our resolve. God helping us, to overthrow military brigandage in Europe, to rescue the liberties and homes of the desolate countries, to obtain for these people reparation for their wrongs and for humanity lasting security against a recurrence of az gressive violence and crime.
 Contempt Again
 Tt is true that the President of the United States. after two years of stu dy of the question and innumerable notes seems to believe that the object of the two groups of belligerents is the same. He knows that Germany refused arbitration, declined a confer ence and rejected every overture to prevent war He knows that his own countrymen have poured money like water to assist the destitute and out ragged remnants of the little Belgian people whose treaty rights were violat ed and whose frontiers were invaded before war was declared. He knows of the infraction Of The Hague con ventions. which the American people have studiously promoted.
 "Virtuous" England
 He knows all the details of the out
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GERARD AND KAISER
 TO CONFER TODAY
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LONDON, Dec. 25.-Emperor Will jam will give special audiences on Tuesday to James w. Gerard, Ameri- can ambassador, and to the Spanish ambassador, Dr. A. De Claparedo, says an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. The emperor and empress passed Christ mas day at Potsdam Castle.
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Federal Reserve Banks Con- meet With the Government Banks of France and Eng land to Ward Of Relapse. TO MAKE U. s. GREAT
 CREDIT NATION Action Marks Radical Depar- ture from U. s. Previous Fi- nancial Policy-Will Con- serve Our Gold Supply.
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 WASHINGTON. Dec. B. The :. government today took it's first formal step through the fed eral reserve board. looking to the establishment of financial condi- tions abroad through which it hopes to strengthen the position of the United States and retain the American dollar as the stand ard of trade.
 Connection with other foreign governmental institutions, such as the Bank of France, is foreshad- owed. officials say, by today's act iOn.
 The Bank of England is the first foreign correspondent whose appoint ment has been authorized since the operation of the new financial system in this country.
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Only Mexican General Ever to Whip Villa, Quits Soft Job at Capitol to Chase Sly Hu- man Fox to Earth.
 WILL TAKE COMMAND
 IN NORTH AT ONCE Bandits Capture Town and HOO Carranzistas and Then Move East of Torreon on Victorious Conquest.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 25.-Gen- eral obreeon and General Gonza- les will have meeting tomorrow for the purpose of arranging mat ters so that General obreeon may take command in the north.
 lt is said in we'll informed cir cles here that General Obregon will take the field personally against Villa.
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VIII Conserve Gold

The first effect. it is thought. will be noticeable in transactions which might otherwise result in the expor- tation of gold from this country, as the connection with the Bank of Eng land will afford a channel through which American banks readily can purchase British notes and securities to meet any tendency toward gold ex- portation. It also will tend. officials believe. to bring about better feel ing and understanding between bank CTS of the two countries. Whether operations through the connection will be extensive officials admit is difficult to forecast. They might be on a tremendous scale. 1t was said, and on the other hand. might be com paratively light in volume.
 The effect of the relationship prob ably will be studied carefully before similar authorizations are made in the case of other government controlled banks abroad.
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To Aid After War

Tn addition 10 being the first step by the government toward going after foreign business it is understood that the authorization of this appointment is a part Of plans for the establish ment of financial connections that will strengthen the United States as a creditor nation in the commercial com petition which probably will result when the war closes. and to provide a ready means to onset any tendency on the part of the foreign bankers to withdraw the huge supply of gold sent here during the war.
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Cold Helps Villa

American army men express the be- lief that the cold wave that struck Fl Paso today. and is said by weather forecasters to be reaching over north ern Mexico, will have serious effect on the campaign against Villa and one to Villas advantage. They point out that the government troops in Chihua- hua come from the tropical east coast and are unable to withstand the in- tense cold of the high attitudes, which develops pneumonia among them. Vil- las followers are on the other hand all natives of northern mountainous plateaus. the officers say, and well seasoned in winter campaigning.
 The severe gale which spoiled Christmas for the soldiers encamped here developed into a snow storm to- night.
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GERMAN "SUb" SINKS
 SPANISH STEAMSHIP
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LONDON, Dec 25.- The Spanish steamship Marques de Urquijo has been sunk by a German submarine. says an announcement made tonight by Lloyd's Shipping Agency. The crew of the vessel was landed.
 The Spenish steamer Marques de Urquijo, of 1903 tons, was last report ed leaving the Tyne on November 29 for Bilboa.
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Bold Step

The action marks a radical depart ure from the previous financial policy of the country. inasmuch as it places the government of the United States and Great Britain for the first time in direct. continual financial relation ship.
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AS CHRISTMAS WAS
 CELEBRATED IN YOUR
 OWN OLD HOME TOWN
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BEDDING, Calif., Dec. 25.-Lassen Peak celebrated Christmas by emit ting today great black pillar of smoke. Then the wind came up and whipped the smoke into a ring like a haio around the top of the restless old mountain, which has been erupt- ing at intervals since the spring of 1914.
 In Douglas.
 DOUGLAS, Dec. 25.-TOday was q white Christmas" in spots. in Doug las, snow remaining on the ground long enough to give a semblance Of the real thing. then most of it melting away. The weather tonight represent ed distinct drop in temperature. In Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 25.-Utah and Salt Lake City are in the grip of the worst storm in years. Steam rail roads are having a terrific time bat ting with the snow and many trains have been stalled.
 Blizzard in Iowa. DIES MONIES, Dec. 25.-Des Moines' feature Christmas gift came tonight when a thunderstorm accompanied by a driving rain struck the snow GOV cred city. Local temperature this week was as low as fourteen below zero and tonight at the time of the storm the thermometer registered five 1aOraaS halOu-
 Prosperous Denver.
 DENVER, Dec. 25.-Churches and charitable organizations distributed Christmas cheer to thousands of needy in towns throughout the Rocky Noun tain region today. The main Christ mas celebration in Denver was held Sunday and today efforts were direct ed to delivery of baskets of food and other articles. Charitable organiza- tions in Denver reported less suffering from want than in previous years.
 Tonopah Shivers.
 TONOPAH. New, Dec. 25.-Every town in southern Nevada, which de- bends upon electricity for lighting. has been dark since Sunday, due to a break in the power lines crossing the White Mountains. Tonopah and Gold field were without heat, having no power with which to operate their ori burning furnaces.
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the shells before firing them. If it's dead shell and does not explode. ex- plaIned gunner. the Roche can read what we think of him. On the other hand. if 1t does explode. he'll know without reading"
 Different Christmas
 This. the third Christmas of tho British army in France. was vastly diherent from it's two predecessors. especially the first, when only pitt full handful Of the original expedition ary force was left to form a thin kha- Xxi line against the gray-clad enemy. The field army was then so small that King George personally sent Christ mas package to every one. The mul- tiplication of that army of tens of thousands into the present force of so many millions has altered the situ- ation.
 The news of President Wilson's peace note was made public through the army today. but it cannot be said to have been favorably received. While IL cannot be truthfully said that officers and men alike realize the hardshlps of the coming winter, all appear eager for a new offensive in the spring and say they can make that offensive decisive.
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Rebels Capture HOO

FL PASO, Dec 25.-While rebel troops are said to be moving eastward from Torreon in the direction of Mon terey after capturing San Pedro de Las Colonias, with its Carranza gar rison of HOO men, another report to reach the border tonight credits Cen eral Francisco Murguia with leading an expedition in person against Villa bands in the region of Minaca, to the west of Chihuahua City.
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Near Juarez

A rumor also is current in Juarez that about 1500 of Villas men are near the frontier twelve miles east of JuareZ.
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WEATHER

Arizona: Tuesday and Wednesday, generally fair.
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SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 25.-Utah and Salt Lake City are in the grip of the worst storm in years. Steam rail roads are having a terrific time bat ting with the snow and many trains have been stalled.
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NEW YORK CITY Average price of cop per for week ending Dec. 20, 32.46.