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Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
SEEKS RECOVERY OF
 VICTIM OF THE APACHE
(From Thursdays Daily.)

Concluding visit of one day to this city Peter Wren left yesterday afternoon for Wickcnburg. where he will cndeavor to locate the grave of a hali-brother, George Duncan,> and if successful the remains will be re- moved and laid away in the family plot at Roanoke, Va.
 Mir Duncan was killed by Indians in 1871. while coming into Wicken- burg from Nulturc. \ short time before he had served as a soldier at Fort Yuma. The death short time ago near Roanoke of sister. at the age of S9 years. occasions Mir. Wren to ciidcavor to recover the remains and place them by the side of the sister. who made this requcS: I,w days before she was called away.
 Mir Wren stopped over in Prescott to question old-timcrs over this sad affair of carly days, but found none who was aware of the death Of his relative He also is nearing his S+th year, but Is hale and hearty. He Is now the last survivor ot what once was family of l4, nine boys and five girls.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
LIKELY ID LOSE HIS
 POSITION
CHAIRMAN OF LABOR CON- MITTEE MAY BE OUSTED BECAUSE OF HIS RECENT STRIKE CALL IN BEHALF OF TOM MOONEY.

PHOENIX, April 2.-Currcnt ru nor has 1t that the next invcStiga- ton put up to the executive com mittee of the council of defense will be of T. ]. Croaff, chairman of the labor committee, who labor leaders are limiting is in the hands of the l. w. w. and at their instigation trying to disrupt the Arizona Federation ot Labor, of which he is president. Tricr to election as president of the federation, Croaff was postal clerk ard looked upon as comparatively tame. Since at the head of the fed cration he has changed to extreme radicalism in his utteranccs.
 The charge which he pitt before the Arizona council of defense that l. w. W.'s were being knowingly employed by mines of the State and the subsc- qacnt hearing before the council which resulted so disastrously for the radical labor clement, in utterly dis crcditing the statements of their leaders, followed by the recent blunder contained in the call for a Statewide strike which fell flat in all labor circles, is said by labor men to g;vc plenty of ground for suspicion that the German. money of the l. W.. W. propagandistS has either found Croaff's range or that he Is mentally unbalanced.
 Coupled with the name of Croaff in the ti'tcr comment going about are those of H. J. McCluskey, West crn Federation organizer, and Secrc- tary Smith of the Federation of La Dor. The latter two were expected to produce the evidence to sustain the reports, but had nothing to deliver when corncrcd in the course of the investigation. Smiths appearance in thc matter at the bchcst of Croaff lad the further damaging effect of rcviv1ng memory of the fact that Smiti; ;S president of the Globe Min CTS Union a year ago refused to per mis the flag 10 be raised over the Union hall at Globe, a performance that loyal uriun miners in the State will never oieivc and which they hay. always connected with Wobbly- ism, despite repeated declarations from Smith that, he does not carry the Red card.
 That while this blunder was still hot, Croaff should walk into the still more serious fiasco of the State wide call in sympathy with an acknowledged l. W. w. movement. and that in violation of the laws Of his own organization and in contempt of the orders of its national head, Is considered unexplainable in any way.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
CUT IN USE OF FUEL
 OIL SOON EXPECTED

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-Thc fact that a grave situation confrontS the Pacific coast by reason of the curtailmcnt of the fuel oil supply became known today when it was learned that the federal fuel admin istration was planning the cutting off of large number of industries. here toforc considered essential. from the list of those receiving oil in order that the governments war program may not be menaccd. Figures indicate that, the present consumption re- maining at the sauc average, the sup ply in California would be practically exhausted at the end of l2 months. The immediate saving of 50,OO0 bar
 rcls per day is considered imperative.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
STRANGE STORY OF
 ARMY LIFE LONG AGO
(From Sunda-s Dailv.D

The mission of Peter Wren oi Roanoke, Va, to recover the remains of his half-brothcr, George Duncan, killed by Apaches in 1871, may prove successful.
 Several old-timcrs of this section arc taking an interest to assist Mir Wren in this matter. and since pub lication of the coming of the latter for this purpose, quite an interesting story of early days. dating back to the civil war, is unfolded.
 Duncan served in the Confederate army, cnlisting in Virginia, and after the war driftcd to Fort Smith, Ark. where he entered the Union army, under the name of Harry DeNall. He was transferred to the Third T.. $. Cavalry, and his enlistment expiring al Fort Bowie, Ariz., in 1871, he and others of Troop K, started for Pres cctt, owing to mining settlements. Two reached Walnut Grove, where Duncan was ambushcd by Indians and killed, his comradc escaping. The only known living person who is convcrsant with the burial place of Duncan IS I. P. Burnett, for many years a resident of Prescott, but now of Parker, who assisted in laying him away. In after years Captain John Kinney, a resident at present Of Prescott, received a letter from Dun cans sister near Roanoke, seeking information of Harry DcVall, or George Duncan. Others of this com munitv who served in the regiment long ago with the deceased, were requested to send tidings of the miss ing one to his sister The death last autumn of Duncan's sister, at the age of Sn years was attended with the request that Mir. Wren use a certain sum of money of her large estate to recover her brothers body and lay it by her side in the family plot. II waS believed Duncan had been killed near Wickcnburg, and thithcr went Mir Wren early this week. He has ben advised oi what has developed since he left Prescott, and ii IS now probable that brother and sister will be joined in death after separation of over T years.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
TWO MORE YAVAPAI MINERS TO DRILL
 INTO KAISERLAND
(From Sundays daiiy.j

The spirit of patriotism has again inradcd mines of this section, and those answering the roll call for duty arc Glen C. Hart and Bud Vernon, botIi recently oi the Henrietta camp on Big Bug creek.
 A letter conveying this information was received yesterday by Ed O'Dou- nell, who is visiting the city. The two men wish, he said, that their many friends in this section be in formed of their action in cnlisting voluntarily. They are above the draft age of being conscriptcd and for this reason these loyal miners arc to be commended in the sacrifice they are making for small pay. Hart and Vernon have gone from Bishop, Calif., to Angel Island to be examined and later are to be transferred to Camp Meade, Md, 10 be attached to the famous 27th Mine Engineering Corps, the main body of this cont mand now being overseas.
 Another well known miner of Jer- omc, Martin kearns. Is now on duty at Meade with the Eth, and 10 date there have gone from this county for service with this particular corps a total oi 6O practical miners, every one of whom volunteered. It is the crack regiment of the army, owing to its peculiar individual makeup, for spec ial and hazardous field work, every man on the line being conversantI with the use of high explosives and with his experience is a supporting factor of immense value to the main firing line. in readily providing de !cncc works. The Eth is being cX tollcd by military men of the nation as an invaluable unit
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
PAINTS PICTURE OF WARFARE IN
 FAR EAST
DR. MORHODGE WHO WIT MESSED HORRORS OF
 HUN-TURK INVASION OF ARMENIA, TELLS OF UNI BELIEVABLE CRUELTIES.
(From Sundavs OaIIv)

Dr. Joseph Morhodge, recently an American envoy to the war-strickcn Armenia, addressed a crowd which entirely filled the Elks theatre last night. giving graphic and first-hand account of the unbelievable atrocities which for the past few years have been inflicted upon the helpless Christian natives of that land by the invading Turks, Germans and their kindred companions. So large were the masses of people which the blood thirsty Hun-Turk troopers wished to put to death that the soldiers could not afford to waste their ammunition and had to dispatch the unfortunatcs by drowning them or starving them to death. So brutal and bestial was the treatment of the natives of Ar menia that few if any of them sur vived. and at ono time when the Rus sians succeeded in clearing seven of the Armenian provinces of the Huns and Turks, only a comparatively few persons were found alive, all having been butchcred or carried off by the enemy troops.
 Dr. Morhodge was himself captured by the Germans, tied to an officer who rode horseback, and compelled to walk nearly 250 miles in a space of three days and nights. He was more dead than alive when he was released, but was kept alive because of his knowledge of surgery and medicine His family was separated from him, and he has never seen his relatives since. He expects to continue his hunt for them as soon as he has fin ishcd his lecture tour, which he is making in behalf c: the Red Cross. On the night that Dr. Morhodge and his family and friends were compelled to flee before the advancing Huns, the temperature was Is degrees be- low zero, and few if any of the rcfu- gees even lived until the following morning, the intense cold having in- tcrvencd to save them from perhaps worse fate had they fallen into the hands Of their savage ptrsucrs.
 The picture presented by the speaker was sufficiently vivid to stamp indclibly upon the minds of his listen CTS the awfulness of the warfare which is waged upon the practically helpless Armcnians as well as upon all other peoples with which the Cen gal Powers are at swords points The big audience left the. theatre feel ing that the printed reports of bru- tality of the war in the far east had been fully verified by the speaker, whc but a few short months ago was himself in the center of this mael- strom of barbarianism. and that the United States truly had contract job on its hands in its effort to free the world from any further hostilities of this sort
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
FATAL ACCIDENT IS
 CAUSE OF DAMAGE SUIT
lFrom Sundays Daily)

Attorney ]. L. Russell, as admiuis- trator of the estate of Charles Phc- Ian. deceased, yesterday filed suit in the Superior court against the United Verde Copper Company, asking dam ages in the sum of $25,000, alleging in his complaint that the deceased came to his end through the careless ness of the defendant organization. The complaint states that Phelan was at work on locomotive crane al tho Clarkdalc shelter cn Juno 5, 1910, and that while performing his duties,
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01

pital, and three big isolated wards for the treatment of contagious and in fectious diseases. The hospital plant includes a fully equipped laboratory drug and store rooms, operating rooms, dental offices and rooms for inc treatment of eye, ear, nose and throat diseases.
 The operating rooms open up to the cCips quarters on the floor above, permitting the corps members to look down directly on the tables and get ar intimate view of all operations.
 IT addition a semi-circular trench containing a first aid dug out has been constructed for the hospital corps near its special parade grounds. This trench Is an exact reproduction of the trenches in Flanders, and in il the men are given the identical first aid work that they expect to be given abroad.
 Goat Island is one of the five ma- jor training stations in the United States. Only its geographical limita- tions prevent it from being one of the biggest of the five Every available inch of land on the island is being utilized for the purpose of the big school Because of these limitations, overflow schools have been cstab- lishcd at Mare Island, Calif., and San Diego, Calii.. under separate jurisdic- tions
 The drills on the island consist of calisthenics, the usual navy manual of arms, and instruction in the use of machine guns, and the small artillery used by landing parties. The island now accommodates approximately six times the number of men 1t was first intended to serve, but Captain Durell has found room for all of them, and is sending them efficiently trained at the end of a four months course.
 At the end of the training period the men are placed on board ships or sent to the four corners of the nation on land duty.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
NO HARSH PUNISHMENT
 FOR NAVY INCORRIGIBLES

SAN FRANCISCO, April H.- Harsh punishment for ''incorrigibles' is d thing of the past in the navy. According 10 Captain l.. II. Durell, oCIHmandant at Goat Island the naval raining station in San Francisco bay, punishment will not help any condi- ton which kindness cannot cure Hundreds of fine upstanding young Americans are turned out here every few weeks to man the ships of the United States navy.
 Captain Durell takes keen interest in the boys rated as ''incorrigiblcs, and turns many of them out to be first class fighting men.
 The question of morale iS always uppcrmost After inspection on Sat urdays the men are lined up in a great square. with the band standing a little to one side \ song master takes his place in the square and leads the men in popular melodies, with the band playing a subdued ac- companimcnt This tends to keep ihc boys in good spirits at all times.
 Hard work is always accompanied bv music. If the men are hcaving coal or engaged in other trying la hor. the band is close by, playing constantly. Tt makes them work twice as hard and twice as cfTcc- lively" Captain Durcll said
 In addition the life of the island k SO adjusted that every just com plaiut is traced to its source and cor rcricd. Justice iS metcd out by the surall group of officers on the island, and acute eases of wrong doing are fcr.- and far between.
 During the detention process the man is selected for the school in which he is best fitted. If he has had experience as seaman he IS given q chance in the ycoman'S school, In addition there are wireless, cooks, and bakers and diverse other schools, and hospital corps that has grown 10 be one of the biggest and most important adjuuctS on the island. T his corps has its own quarters on the top of the island, its tents being riaced under straight rows of trees flat afford protection both in winter and summer There Is a station hos
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
CORNET PLAYER AT WH|PP[E IS
 OVER THERE
SON OF BANDMASTER IN THE YEARS GONE BYE IS NOW IN THE AMERI- CAN FLYING CORPS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT.
(From Sundays paily)

Quite a number of years ago when Fort Whipplc was a real post, there played in the band a young lad of about IA years. under the guidance of BandnIaster La Guardia The boy was the leaders son. Today that lad, grown to manhood, is a captain in the American flying corps. A short time ago he was received by King Victor Emmanuel This is what the cablcd reports tell of the meeting:
 ROME, April 2l.-"So many of our soldiers have lived in America that the American boys with their starry flag would be thrice welcome on this side said King Victor Emmanuel last week to Capt. Fiorella H. La Guardia of the American flying corps and representative in congress of one of the New York districts, when he met the king at headquarters on the Italian front in northern Italy.
 The enemy across the trenches the king added, ''arc not convinced tbat the American soldiers arc really crossing the ocean Some of their propaganda leaflets say that the American soldiers arc being prevented from reaching Europe by Gcrmany's submarines"
 King Victor Emmanuel added that he would be happy to see even small number of American troops among the Italians here.
 After the first detachment has reached here, America surely will send more" the king said.
 According to Capt. La Guardia, King Victor Emmanuel is keeping in constant touch with the movements of the Americans and is impressed with the rapidity of their action. Like wise, Gen. Armando Diaz, the Italian commander in chief. is closely fol- lowing the operations of the Amcri- cans. The general also expressed the hope that the Americans would send a substantial force to the Italian front
 .I want to see them fighting with my army" said Gen. Diaz. ''I am so confident of their splendid cumulative qualities that I am anxious to have them here Do all you can to make ths point clear to your people,
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
FOOD CACHE FOUND AT
 MOONSHINER'S STILL

DENVER, April 26.-Federal reve- nue agents searching the farm of John O'Brecht, near Brighton, where previously had been found the largest still for making whisky ever located ir Colorado, today discovered cache of 5000 pounds of flour, 1000 pounds of corn and 500 pounds of sugar.
 O'Brccht and his son, who were arrested when State officers located the whisky still, are being held in iail for action by federal, State and county officials for the manufacture of intoxicants, their possession and sale.
 The hoardcd foodstuffs were given into the custody of H. G.. Tiffany. food administrator of Adams county.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
OF HAVING
 SMALL FEET DISTASTEFUL

CAMP MEADE, Md, April 25.- Fighting men at Camp Meade take due pride in their celebrities, but there is one distinctive man here who hates to be told about his distinction. IL is Arthur L.. Bunn of the Twenty eighth Engineers.
 Buuu iS distinguished aS the man with the smallest foot in the whole United States army. Socks size B. just iit Bum, and his feet have plenty Of room to spare in the small- est shoes the Q. M." issues.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
HESLET OIL HOLDINGS
 TO SOON BE EXPLORED
CFrom Fridays Daiiy.o

The oil holdings of ]. (. Hcslct and others at Valley. are to be explored at once. arrangements having been closed by which W. A. Dewitt. an oil operator of California, Is to direct drilling He left yesterday for Los Angeles, and will return next week when the rig will be transferred to a new location on his recommcnda- ton, when work is to begin and car ricd out to great depth.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
POTASH ZONE OPENED

WASHINGTON. April 26-Eight square miles of the potash brine zone, known as SearlcS lake. in San Bcrnardino and Inyo counties. Cali; fornia, were opened today by the de- pertinent of the interior to applica- tiOns for leases.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
BRITISH GIVE VERSION
 OF NAVAL ENGAGEMENT

LONDON, April 2.-In the en- gagcmcnt of Allied and Austrian light sea forces in the Adriatic on April 2, the British lost seven men killed and 10 wounded, the admiralty an nounced. Two British dcstroyerS, whirh for a time fought five Austrian destroycrs, were only slightly dam- aged.
 (Thc official Austrian account of the engagement, issued yesterday, said one British destroyer was damaged seriously.),
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
Damage Case Dismissed

The personal injury case of John
 l.. Friend vs. the United Verde Cop per Company of Jerome, has been
 dismissed, the case having been set tied by stipulation. Friend had orig inally asked for damages amounting
 to S20,0O0. but later agreed to settle for $3,000 in cash, an agreement which
 was given the approval of the court.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01

he was knocked of the car by the crane, and crushed and killed. The deceased was 30 years of age, and was making about Sl5O per month at the time of his death. The demand for S25,0O0 is based upon the amount the youth might have earned had he worked for the next 20 years or so.
 Asks For Divorce
 William A. Snider is asking for a decree of divorce in a complaint filed yesterday. He alleges that his wife, Mrs Lotta NJ. Snider has abandoned him and that she refuses to come to his home at Humboldt and reside with him. They were married in Sep tcmber, 1907. and the wife's alleged desertion is said to date from March, 1917.
 Wants Mortgage Forclosed
 Ernest C. Johnson of Chicago yes terday filed suit against w. ]. Ladd, Dr. P. l.. Parsons, Dr. R. C. Baker and J. l.. Dcming, asking for judg llsCHl UT SOiSOo lO NONNl SCllCS pi notes which represents money he has loaned to the defendants in the past few years, none of the notes having been paid, according to the complaint The defendants gave the plaintiff 10 notes, nine of them being for the sum of S250 each and one for S4l5. As a means of securing the payment of the notes, the defendants gave the plain tiff a mortgage on a large Marathon mill, the mill having been removed from Chicago to group of claims in the Pine Grove district owned by the plaintiff Owing to the fact that the payments on the notes have been defaulted the plaintiff asks for a foreclosure of the mortgage on the mill.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
OIL FOUND IN CHIN0:. HOW MUCH THERE TO. YET BE DETERMINED

also seen in the pumpings.
 In order to make no mistake we cleaned up everything, cleaning out the trough thoroughly, ran about two feet more of new well, and on second bailing being pulled out we found the same indications of oil and gas. This showing coming in at this depth indicates in my opinion that oil will be struck m commercial quan- titles with sufficient depth, and proves beyond doubt that oil has not been burned out in the Chino valley.
 We expect to get this within the next 400 or 500 feet, arc looking for the well to come in between 1000 and l.200 feet There are gas indica- tions in every foot of progress, and slight oil showings.
 We had a number of visitors to- day, all of whom could detect the gas from the smell. I called the at tcntion of all the men on the work to the showing, including the Chinese cook, and all purchased stock up to the limit. We are looking to bring in large we'll here from indications at this depth.
 ' Fl. M. JOHNSON. STATE OF ARIZONA,
 County of avapai.-ss
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, 1918.
 "A C. JONES.
 (ScaD Notary Public.
 My commission expires Novem- Der 2. l9lS.7
 While the writer does not pose as a judge of the status of an oil well which is still in the formative stages, and does not feel qualified to pass on the merits of the United Chino Company's holdings. nevertheless, it was plain to be seen on Sunday last that the drill on this property had undoubtedly encountered Showings of oil and gas, and that while 1t was hardly to be expected that oil in large quantities would be met with at such comparatively shallow depth, there is every indication that there Is oil ia goodly quantities in the Chino valley. and that the drii' on the property of the United Chino seems to be about to enter the oil bearing strata. In his conversation with the attaches of the camp and with Mr Johnson, the driller, 1t was indicated very plainly to him that the men about the workings were quite confident of cutting into the oil rock within a period not to exceed 90 days, so confident in fact, that most of them had already taken out large blocks of the company's stock.
 The oil seems to be there, and in all probability the query as to whether it exists in paying quantities will be answered within the next few weeks by the big drill on the property of the United Chino firm which un- qucstionably has the honor of bring ing in the first signs of the much to-be-dcsired liquid gold.
Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
STATE OF ARIZONA

NOUHIN or ! dNdpdl.-Ss. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of April. 1918.
 "A (. JONES, (Scah Notary Public. My commission expires Novcm- Der 22, lolS"
 The affidavit signed by II. M. Johnson, head drillcr, was as fol- lows:
 "On Thursday. April 2. 1918, in bailine out the well. | noticed oil and gas: light oil a good showing. and gas could be smelt in the we'll, and