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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
PERSHING IS IN
COMMAND FOR THE
PRESENT AT LEAST
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left there until the body of General
Funston has passed out of the depart
men. lie also ordered full military
honors paid at all stations through
winch the funeral party passes tomor-
70" where there are troops stationed
a body of troops equal to the number
prescribed for funeral escorts will be
stationed at the union depot here and
will stand at parade rest while the BODY
is in the station. Artillery will fire a.
major generals salute Of thirteen guns
upon the arrival of the funeral train
and military hands will play dirges
while the cOlors are being dipped
Troops in the camps and at Fort Bliss
Will be formed at parade rest following
the firing of the salute
General Pershing will be at the sta
ton with his staff as will also others
Of the ranking officers of the Ell Paso
district when the train arrives He
was notified today by Major General
Franklin Bel that the funeral service
would be held at ] %. m. Saturday and
the burial would be in the national
cemetery at the Preside, in San Fran
cisco.
At the request Of General Pershing.
Mayor Tom Lea today ordered all traf-
fic to stop for one minute tomorrow
upon the arrival of General Funston q
body in the union station. He also re
quested all citizens to stop and the men
bare their heads during the minute
traffic is To be suspended Flags in
the parks and on public buildings were
lowered today in memory of General
Funston.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
SYMPATHY FOR WIDOW
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o-presiden Fred
to
the general follows
"My Dear Mrs Funston:
have of the
death distinguished
feeling the whole
him officer Of qaan
He in
c ' - ~
MAY in
-
and sincerely
WOODROW WILSON,"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
TRAINING SEASON STARTS

CHICAGO. Feb. 20.-The Chicago
Nationals, the first of the major league
clubs to get away for the spring train
ing camps. left here tonight in a
special train for Pasadena, Cal. There
were so persons, including q players,
in the party. Brief stops will be made
at the Grand Canyon and Santa Fe,
~ NJ, the party arriving at Pasadena
on Saturday. Practice will be started
Monday. About three weeks will be
spent at Pasadena. Charles II. Weegh-
man, president of the club, and Man
aver Fred Mitchell were in charge of
the party
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
Cannot Change Plans

WASHINGTON, Feb 2O.-The reso-
luton passed by the Kansas legisla
ture requesting the war department tc
route the train bearing General Fun
ston's body to San Francisco through
that state so that the body might lie
in the capitol for a day, was received
tonight by the war department. Sec
rotary Baker telegraphed that although
the war department approved the re-
quest, it would be too late for officials
here to make arrangements. and sug
gested that the matter be taken u
either with Major General Pershing OF
Major General Bell.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
Wvon1inu Ordered Home

DEMING, n. NJ, Feb. 20.-The Wyo-
ming Infantry received orders today
to entrain for home on February 26.
but may wait until their pay day on
the 28th. The Second Arkansas In
fantry will leave for its mastering out
camp on March ?.
Camp Deming, it is learned will not
be torn down, but left under a guard
from the Twenty fourth United States
Infantry after the state troops return.
Its hospital will be maintained indef-
intely. Major Fred G. Stritzinge,
camp quartermaster, will remain in
charge of the camp.
Colonel Edwin f. Glenn, command
ing the brigade here, will join the
Eighteenth United States Infantry as
its commander at Douglas. Ariz.. ac-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

who might attempt to cash the check
on the American side Of the line, it
was said, and it was understood he
demanded the money in gold. AS far
as could be learned, Spencer and his
wife are safe at Ojitos.
1t was also learned today that two
Americans from Lang's ranch on the
American side of the border west of
the Corner ranch, were pursued for
five miles by Mexican raiders Satur-
day and escaped by riding hard across
the border. They were on the Mexican
side of the border when the raiders ap-
peared and were pursued across the
line with the raiders firing at them.
With the departure tonight Of the
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry for
home, there remain only the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania Infantry and Third
Pennsylvania Field Artillery out of the
old Seventh provisional division, which
was the most powerful state guard or
ganization on the border. The Eighth
goes to Altoona, Pa, for mastering out
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

beat of muffled drums marked the pro-
gress of the long procession.
At the Alamo perhaps the most
touching incident of the funeral oc-
Cured when Brigadier General Henry
A. Greene, commander of the Twelfth
Provisional Division at Camp Wilson,
stepped apart from the group of Off
GERS with whom he had been standing,
and approached the casket where Gen
eral Funston lay. He gazed intently at
the face a few moments. then bent
over patted the dead commander S
head gently. turned and walked out of
the building.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

EMPOKIA. kas.. Feb. 20.-Generai
Funston's mother, Mrs. f. II. Funston
will leave here at l o'clock tomorrow
morning for San Francisco. where she
will attend the funeral of her SON She
will be accompanied by her youngest
son. Relatives said tonight that the
generals mother was much disap-
pointed because efforts to bring tho
body of her son to Topeka had failed
Mrs. Funston, whose home is in lola
Kas., recently has been i'll.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
RANCH BARGAINS

RANCH BARGAINS
10 acres on car line, IA water.
$1500.OO.
II acres only miles N. W., at $50
per acre.
20 acres well improved at $175 per
acre
80 acres. sowed to alfalfa, $1,000 per
acre
80 acres, improved, good house. fine
alfalfa. for $4,000.
Another 80 near Peoria and r. r.
station; finest soil, seeded to alfalfa
$4,000 per acre
FRANKLIN d. LANE
IA W. Adams st. Phone 1het
ID
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
TO BUY WEST INDIES

WASHINGTON, Feb. pa bill
authorizing the appropriation of s25,-
900 for the Danish West Indies and
empowering the president to set up
temporary government on the islands
pending investigation of the needs of
the people was passed by the senate
tonight
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
WOMEN TO PRACTICE LAW

LONDON. Feb. pa measure per-
hitting women to practice as solicit
tors, received its first reading in the
house of lords today. 1t was intro
duced by Baron Buckmaster of Ched-
dington.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
More Military Eorors

DEMING, y. NJ. FEB. 20-When the
westbound train bearing the body of
Major General Frederick Funston
stops here tomorrow night, full mill
tary honors will be paid by the troops
OF the Fourth separate brigade en-
camped at Deming. The honors will
be paid at the station
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
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SIS REWARD sis

For information of whereabouts of
Hazel Hauk De Suez aged % years,
height feet inches, weight 10
""''n"T "0Nt blonde hair brown eyes:
girl child 21s years old accompanied
ner from home Wednesday, Feb. a.
Furniture moved. Address Box 5S6 Re-
publican. 1t
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

companied by his adju;ant, Captain
w S. Pike, and his chief of staff.
Captain William II. Raymond. The
other regular officers will join the
units from which they were taken.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

Hire a little salesman at The Re-
publican office.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

boat lost part of its maneuvering abil-
ity making abandonment of the cruise
advisable
The return trip was one long sue
cession of ups and downs" the Sub
marine being obliged to submergC
frequently Is often as once an hour L
avoid British patrol ships. The sensa
tons of the civilian passengers during
the frequent developments, were hy nc
means agreeable and the extreme vari-
atoms of temperature between the sub
merged and surface positions We're hare
to bear.
The food aboard was good an
abundant. the boat having been pro-
visioned for a four weeks cruise. " mel
the submarine arrived in the Nortl
Sea, the commander announced that
he would put Captain Jacobsen and his
wife and child aboard the first east
bound Norwegian steamer. but nom
was encountered. The commander tacr
proceeded for Horns reef. where he
hoped to find a Danish fishing boat
But these had all disappeared.
The arrival at Helgoland was a tri-
umphant entry The entire crew Of 4.
men came on deck as the submarn,
slowly entered the harbor. its orchestra
OF Is men played the Gsman anthem
The commander. holding Solveig by the
hand. stood on the bridge acknowledging
the cheers from the other craft in the
bay.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

the return trip with their prisoner
early this morning
Since Leskosky made his most re-
cent escape, back in 1909. the Penn
syivaria supreme court has upheld the
decision of the lower court and if
officials are not again disappointed.
he will pay the penalty for his crime
with his life
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
Mother to Attend Funeral

transportation arrangements he could
not change them.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

The name of the commander Of the
German submarine which sank the
Lusitania has never been offi"ialiv
nounced. The latest unofficial an
ouncement of the submarine captain
responsible for the ships destruction
named Captain Max Stalentir. son OF
the dean of the Sonderbnrg cathedral
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21
To Reach Frico FRIDAY

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 20.-Th.
body of the late Major General Fred
ericl1 Funston will arrive here Friday
at 3:55 p. m. according to the in
formation received tonight at army
headquarters and will be taken under
escort to the city hall in the rotunda
OF which it will lie in state until Sat
urday, when the funeral will be held
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-21

The southern department of the army
headquarters at San Antonio notified
Major General J. Franklin Bell tonight
that the request of the Kansas legisla-
ture that the body of the dead soldier
might lie in the state capitol at Topeka
for day had been refused because
the transportation plans could not be
changed. Shortly after this message
was received came a telegram from
Kansas to General Bell, making the
same request.
General Bell replied that inasmuch
as he had no share in making the
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SIX YEAR OLD
GIRL VOYAGES
ON SUBMARINE

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YUMA TROOPS
SCENT MEXICAN
RAID AT BORDER

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SIMPLE SERVICE
OF THE ARMY IS
HELD FOR CHIEF

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30

he tried with malicious ingenuity to
make her believe him poor man. But
Isabel was not of the sort to be read
lily deceived. Finding her arts and CO.
queries Of no avail, she few into a
rage, and a furious quarrel ensued-
the first of many. For the lady could
not rest without knowing all there
was to know about the treasure Ava
weigh those bags of precious metal
and yearned to see those jewels burn
ing upon her bosom. Her mercenary
mind magnified their value many times.
and her anger at Don Estebans obsti-
macy deepened to smoldering hatred.
She searched the quinta, of course.
whenever she had chance. but she
discovered nothing-with the result
whole thought. She pried into the
obscurest corners. she questioned the
slaves. she lay awake al night listening
to Esteban's breathing, in the hope Of
Naturally such life was trying to her
husband, but his wife's obsession
grew his determination to foil her only
strengthened. Outwardly. of course.
the pair maintained show of har-
mony, for they were proud and they
occupied a position of some conse-
quence in the community. But their
private relations went from bad to
worse. AT length a time came when
they lived in frank enmity: when 1sa-
reproach or anger. and when Esteban
unlocked his lips only to taunt his wife
with the fact that she had been
thwarted despite her cunning.
In most quarters, as time went on.
the story of the Varona treasure was
forgotten, or at least put down as
legendary. Only Isabel. who. in spite
of her husbands secretiveness. learned
much, and Pancho Cueto, who kept his
own account of the annual income from
the business held the matter in serious
remem brance. The overseer was a pa =
tient man: he watched with interest
the growing discord at the quinta and
planned to profit by it. should occasion
offer.
It was only natural under such con-
ditions that Dona Isabel should learn
to dislike her Neutrality-suspicious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
SPANISH GOLD.

The twins were seven years old when
Dona Isabefs schemes bore their first
bitter fruit. and the occasion was a
particularly uproarious night when
Don Esteban entertained a crowd Of his
Castilian friends. Little Rosa was
awakened at a late hour by the laugh
ter and shouts OF her fathers guests.
She was afraid. for there was some
thing strange about the voices some
quality to them which was foreign to
the child's experience. Creeping into
her brothers room, she awoke him
and together they listened.
Don Mario de Castano was singing a
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of her palm sent her TO her quarters.
Then she turned her attention to the
twins. When she left them they were
weeping silently, both for themselves
and for Evangelina. whom they dearly
loved.
Meanwhile Don Mario had resumed
his singing.
Day was breaking when Esteban Va
roma babe his guests goodbye at the
door of his house. AS he stood there
Sebastian came to him out OF the mists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30

song the words OF which were lost. but
which brought yell of approval from
his companions. The twins distin-
guished the voice OF Don Pablo Peza,
too-Don Pablo. whose magnificent
black beard had so often excited their
admiration. Yes, and there was Col.
Mendoza Linares. doubtless in his
splendid uniform. These gentlemen
were well and favorably known to the
boy and girl. yet Rosa began to within
per, and when Esteban tried to reas-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
THE O'REILLY.

Age and easy living had caused Dor
Mario de Castano. the sugar merchant
TO take on weight He had, in truth
become SO fat that he waddled like a
penguin when he walked; and when he
rode. the springs of his French vic
toria gave up in despair. They glued
themselves together, face to face, and
Don Mario felt every rut and every
rock in the road. Nor was the mer-
chant any less heavy in mind than in
body, for he was both very rich and
very serious, and nothing is more
ponderous than a rich. fat man who
takes his riches and his fairness seri-
ously.
In disposition Don Mario was prac-
teal and unromantic; he boosted that
he had never had an illusion. never an
interest outside of his business. And
yet, on the day this story opens. this
prosaic parsonage. in spite of his bulg-
ing waistband and his taut neckband.
in spite of his short breath and his
prickly heat, was in very whirl of
pleasurable excitement. Don Mario in
fact, suffered the greatest Of all illusions
he was in love. and he believed himself
beloved The object OF his alteration was
little Rosa Farona, the daughter of his
vi
her the planter glowed with ardor-at any
rate. he took il to be ardor, although 1t
might have been the fever from that
summer rash which so afflicted him
and his heart fiuttered in a way danger
out to one of his apoplectic tendencies
To be sure. he had met Rosa only twice
since her return from her Yankee
school. but twice had been enough:
with prompt decision he had resolved
to do her the honor of making her hts
wife.
Now. with a person of Don Mario's
Importance. to decide for himself is to
decide for others, and inasmuch as he
knew that Dona Isabel. Rosa's step
mother, was VIGOROUSLY mercenary, and
had not done at all we'll since her hus-
bands death. it did not occur to him
to doubt that his suit would prosper.
It was. in fact, to mako terms with
her that he rode forth in the heat Of
this particular afternoon.
Notwithstanding the rivuIets of
perspiration that were coursing down
every fold of his flesh. and regardless
of the fact that the body, of his VIC
toria was tipped at a drunken angle.
as II struggling to escape the burdens
of his great weight. Don Mario felt a
1auntiness of body and spirit almost
like that OF youth. He saw himself as
a. splendid prince riding toward the
homo of some obscure maiden
his mate.
His arrival threw Dona Isabel into
a fiutter; the woman could scarcely
contain her curiosity when she came to
meet him. for he was not the sort of
man to Inconvenience himself by mere
social visits. Their first formal greet
ings over, Don Mario surveyed the bare
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patty with the revolution in the orient
But Esteban dealt automatically with
both factions and went on raising
slaves and sugar to his own great
profit. Owing to the impossibility of
importing negroes. the market steadily
improved. and E.steban reaped a hand
some profit from those he had on hand.
especially when his crop of young girls
matured. His sugar plantations pros
pered. too. and Pancho Cueto, who
managed them. continued to wonder
where the money went
The twins. Esreban and Rosa. devel-
oped into healthy children and be-
came the pride OF Sebastian and his
daughter. into whose care they had
been given AS for Evangeiina, the
young negress. she grew tall and
stroEg and handsome. until she was
the finest slave girl in the neighbor-
hood. Whenever Sebastian looked at
her he thanked God for his happy cir
cumstances.
Ten. one day, Don Esteban Varona
remarked. and the Dona Isabel. who
came to live at the quinta. The daugh-
ter OF impoverished parents, she had
heard and thought much about the
mysterious treasure Of La cumbre
and entertainment. of music and mer-
rymaking. Spanish officials prominent
civilians of Matanzas and the coutry
side. drove up the hill to welcome Don
fervor of his honeymoon cooled the
groom began to fear that he had made
a serious mistake. Dona Isabel. he
discovered. was both vain and selfish
Not only did she crave luxury and dis
play. but with singular PERSISTENCE she
dema ndAd to kr~" al about her hus-
bands fnacial affairs.
Now Don Esteban was no longer
Young: age had soured him with sus-
picion. and when once he saw himself
as the victim of a mercenary marriage
he turned bitterly against his wife
Her curiosity he sullenly resented, and
he unblushinEly denied his possession
of any considerable wealth. In fact
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ly-or The O'Reilly," as his friends
called him-had little in the way of
worldly advantage to offer any girl
and it was precisely because Of this
fact that he had accepted a position
here In Cuba, where. from the very ma
ture of things, promotion was likely TO
Office of his firm. He had come to this
out-of-the-way place prepared to live
the lonely life OF an exile, IL an OrReilly
could be lonely anywhere, and for q
brief time he had been glum enough.
But the O'Reillys. from time imme-
mortal. had been born and bred to exile;
it was their breath. their meat and
drink, and this particular member OF
the clan thrived upon 1t quite as well
as had the other Johnnies and Michaels
and Andys who had journeyed to far
shores. The O'Reillys were audacfoua
men. bit too needless of their own
good. perhaps; bit too light-hearted
readily to impress a grave world with
their varied abilities. but sterling men,
for all that-ambitious men, men with
lime in their bones and possessed Of q
high and ready chivalry that made
friends for them wherever their wan
dering feet strayed Spain. France and
the two Americas had welcomed OReil-
lys of one sort or another; even Cuba
had the family name written large upon
her scroll. So Johnnie of New York
himself q stranger in q strange land,
was not so considered by the Cubans.
A dancing eye speaks every Lam
enage; a singing heart gathers fts own
audience. Before the young Irish-
American had more than q bowling aos
quaintance with the commonest Span.
fish verbs he had a calling acQuafnt-
ance with some CT the most exclusive
people of Matanzas. He puzzled them,
to be sure. for they could not fathom
the reason for this ever-bubbling glad
ness, but they strove to catch its secret,
and, striving, they made friends with
him OReilly did not puzzle their
one aristocratic senorita felt sure that
she quite understood the tall. blond
stranger with the laughing eyes. or
could understand him IL he gave her
half a chance, and 20, a. had boen the
case with other O'Reillys In othsr lnndA,
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-05-10
NINE GUARD IS HELD
FOR SHOOTING miner
Homestake Employe Declares
Victim Was Drunk and
Started Trouble.

rerraville, S. D., May4.-Following
the returning Of a report by a c%oroner's
Jury. which investigated the shooting
and killing Of Martin Conheeney, by
Enier Joukurri, a Homestake mine
guard, the slayer was arrested by the
authorities Of Lawrence county on q
charge of murder. The defendant
waived his preliminary hearing and
was held for trial at the next term Of
circuit court in Deadwood, which will
not be held until next September. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict to the
effect that Conheeney came to his death
by a gunshot wound inflicted by .Jou-
kurri. The shooting and killing oc-
CURED near the Lead entrance to the
Terraville tunnel. The mine guard
claims that Conheeney entered the tun-
mel while intoxicated, and that he at
tempted to enforce the orders Of the
company not to let drunken men into
the tunnel for fear they would be killed
by trains. C~onheeney, it is alleged, re.
sisted, and the shooting occurred afte1
a fight between himself and the mine
guard. The dead man was "a years
OF age and for some time had been en-
ployed by the Homestake Mining COM
pany. He is survived by a widow and
two small children.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-05-10
PATRIOTIC WAVE THREATENS
TO DEPOPULATE ARMOUR, S. D

Armour, S. D, May 4.-The response
of the young men. of this part of the
state to the call OF the president result,
ed in the enlistment of the following,
who have enrolled in the service Of the
state guard, Company M, at Yankton:
Wells Moore, Earl Henderson, Paul Oar.
ling, 10 Breitbach, Jerome Schneider,
Warren Hotllam, Lynn Sleister, Mart
Sarmody, Elmer Green and Bryce
Boyce. Other natives of Armour enlist.
ing at their temporary residences are.
Martinus Slettebak, Frank Doty, Art
Blum, Howard Kornder and Ralph Hen.
derson.
Those enlisted in the navy at this
m are: Norman McKinnon, Marion
Jordan, Druce' Giles, Lee Berry, Charles
Dana. B. t. Boylan, jr.; Frank Croker,
Joe Chodl and James Mooney, who leave
today for their training depots.
The following have expressed Their
willingness to serve their country by
volunteering to enlist as officers in the
Officers Military Training Camp asso.
citation: Robert ID. Walker, states at.
torney of this (Douglas) county; Prof.
j. 70. johnson, superintendent of the
Armour city schools; Prof. v. f. Logan,
principal of the Armour schools; Prof.
e. III. lngman, superintendent of the
belmont city schools.