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Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
SIX MILES OF
 WAR SHIPS IN
 PACIFIC FLEET
Greatest Armada Ever in the Pacific is Reviewed By Sec.
 Daniels, Who Visions Fleet Five Times as Big in Future

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7.-An American armada, the greatest that has ever turned propeller blade in the Pa cific, came today to make the seas un- der the Sierra and Cascade slopes it's home.
 In an inspection naval parade Ad. miral Hugh Rodman's newly created fleet passed in review of Secretary Daniels and governors and mayors of western states and cities, aboard the cruiser Montana. anchored off Coro- nado beach, while thousands lined the shore to aid in the welcome.
 Six miles of war vessels, 31 in num- Der, some of which had held guard with the British in the North Sea, swung past the reviewing ship, firing from the dreadnaughts salutes of 19 guns in honor of the secretary of the navy.
 It required one hour for this vast fleet of dreadnaughts, battleships of lesser type and 21 sleek and speedy destroyers to pass the welcoming party.
 The war vessels turned in shore by the Montana, then stood away to the southward for three miles, came about and steamed into the northwest mak- ing almost complete circle and then the dreadnaughts took up their an- chorages off the beach while the bat tleships and destroyers came into the bay. -erH
 Secretary Daniels, turning from the bridge of the Montana, after the, last destroyer had passed, said:
 ''This is the realization of dream kept constantly in view for six years since came to the Pacific coast short ly after induction into office to study naval conditions here.
 q conceived of an American fleet that was truly an American fleet, equally at home and in equal strength on both coasts.
 'This organization into two power ful fleets Is an epoch-making event in history and presages the day when the whole fleet now composed of more than 100000 tons, with 5,o60, ,0O0 more tons building will make the mag nitude of this review seem small in comparison"
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08

BOULDER, Colo, Aug. 7.-Geo Spencer is dead at Spring Gulch. nea' Ward, Colo, and Arthur Taggart Is 1T jail here. the confessed slayer of th' 62-year-old prospector. in one of tho most peculiar murders ever brought to the attention of local sheriff off cers.
 Taggart walked into the sheriff's of. flee last night and told Deputy Will liam Stretcher, 'T killed a man at Ward and have come to give myself up."
 He said the mans name was Spen- cer. Inquiry at Ward brought the statement from Mrs. Luella Gibbon Ward postmistress, that George Spen. cer was the man Taggart meant, and she had seen him in town last night
 Taggart was locked up as insane but Ward officials continued their in vestigation and found Spencer's body in his cabin near the Giles mine. BOG yards from the Taggart cabin. Spen
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
.EULOGY ON LOFTY IDEALS IF THE |.NWBYD DENOMINATIONS HEARING
 WITNESS; HEAR FOURMO CASES
William Curnow Witness for the County Attorney, Served In Arizona Militia, But Considers Fact "DisCredtabe';
 Thinks Sabotage Good Thing, But Hasn't Much Use
 For Work Hearings Speed Up Ahead of Their Schedule

fused to answer directly the question put to him by Attorney Burges as to whether or not he had been willing to see the copper production of the Warren district stopped rather than see the strikers go back to work. Curnow answered this question by saying that he would not 'scab' for any corporation and that "I would enlist in the army before I would 'scab.'"
 Thinks Sabotage Good Thing"
 Curnow, with a lofty wave of his hand, declared that there was nothing in common with labor and capital and expressed the belief that the capital istic system" was due to fall He said he believed that. eventually the workers would get control of all the jobs and reduce the margin of profit in industry until the wage system would cease to exist and the employ CTS of the nation would have no fur ther interest in the industries. It was his belief, he testified. that a working man should "get by on a job by doing as little work as pos sible. He said he thought industrial sabotage" or "striking on the job" was pretty good thing" but de- clared that he was against the de- struction of property by workmen for the reason that such property ought to be kept in good condition until the time when it was turned over to the workers.
 Live Without Work. Aim
 e for the defense. Curnow classed them as practising "capitalistic sabotage" by defending the Bisbee and Douglas citizens who have been arrested in the deportation cases. He said he fully agreed with the preamble and constitution of the I. W. w. and that he had been member in full stand, ing in the I. w. w. since April of last year. Since joining the l. w. w., said Curnow, he had not done much work and was getting wise" as to how to live without having to work eight hours a day Later in the day he explained his system of doing this by the statement that he was living from the income from some property which he had acquired in the Warren districtN
 Curnow said he was arrested in Bisbee on the morning of July 12, 1917. but was taken out of the line of deportees at Warren park by c man over whom he held mortgage. The witness said he thought he "had the drop" on this man and that this was the reason he had been taken out of line. He admitted that several months later the entire sum of the debt had been paid in full. Curnow's direct testimony against the defend ant. Harry Anderson, was that he had seen Anderson standing with other guards when he. Curnow. and the other slaves" had yielded to the power of might" and had run
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STOCK YARD STRIKE THREATENED

CHICAGO, Aug. 7-Represen- tatives of 42 union locals of stock yards employees voted tonight for a general strike tomorrow unless military policemen and deputy sheriffs are withdrawn from the yards. More than 100000 persons are employed in the stock yards.
 A strike was virtually begun to- day when hundreds of white men quit their work after about 5000 of the 15,000 negro workers re- turned to work under troop protec- ton following virtual exile of more than a week due to the race riots. Union men declared their objec- tions based on the presence of the guards, and that while they hold no prejudice against the negro's color, the majority of the negroes were non-union.
 While union men said about
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
MEXICO TAXES
 SOLD|ERSFROM
 SONORA BORDER

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 7.-The gar rison of Agua Prieta. Sonora. oppo. site Douglas, numbering approximate ly 500 federal soldiers under com mand of Colonel Jesus M Aguirre, was withdrawn Tuesday and yester- day. entraining late yesterday at Naco, for state headquarters at La Misa, from where the Yaqui Indian campaign is being directed by Gen eral Torres.
 The force was rushed to the bor- der in June when Francisco Villas movements appeared to threaten in vasion of Sonora. Small forces sta toned in several mining camps to the south of Agua Prieta, including Fl Tigre, Nacozari, Moctezuma and Cananea, are understood to have been withdrawn concurrently with the main body of Colonel Aguirre's force.
 Plans have been laid by General P. Elias Gales and General Torres, it was stated, to begin a vigorous campaign against the Yaqui Indians as soon as cessation of summer rains will allow troop movements. Because of unusually heavy rains the streams of southern Sonora are so swollen, Yaqui depredations have been cir cumscribed recently, it was stated, and for the same reason no general campaign against the savages could be conducted.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
WILSON URGES
 RAIL STRIKERS
 RETURN TOJOB
Gives Director General Hines
 Authority to Deal With Pay Demands, But Says Men Are
 To Blame for Leaving Posts

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-President Wilson tonight notified Director Gen eral Hines that he was authorized to take up the demands of railroad shop employees for higher wages and de eide them on their merits.
 The presidents decision was an nounced tonight from the White House in the form of letter sent by him to Mr. Hines. The president said that "until the employees return to work and again recognize the au- thority of their organization the whole matter must be at standstill.
 The president said that the letter sent him by Senator Cummins, chair man of the committee on interstate commerce, "has left me free to deal as I think best with the difficult question of the wages of certain classes of the railroad employees" but added:
 "The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men them selves. They have gone out on a strike and repudiated the authority of their officers at the very moment when they were urging action in re gard to their interests.
 "They should promptly return to work, and I hope that you will urge upon their representatives the imme- diate necessity for their doing so.'
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08


 The senate adopted a resolution by Senator Walsh. Democrat, Mont. asking the judiciary committee whether there are any executive ob- stacles to the ratification of the spe- cial treaty with France. Some sena- tors have argued that because it ob. ligates the United States to help repel any unprovoked attack by Ger many on France, the treaty curtails the legislative power of congress to decide when the nation shall go to war. Senator Kellogg declared 1t was clearly established that treaties could be made obligating the United States to make war under certain cir cumstances. His decision, however, was directed rather toward the obli- gations assumed under the league covenant.
 There was much informal discus sion among senators over President Wilson's statement on Shantung Some of the most bitter opponents of the treaty declared the information given by the president was not suffi- cient to dispel suspicion of Japans intentions in the Chinese province. but other senators reserved their judgment.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08

committee on names which adopted that of L. A. Engel as the name of the local post. Engel was born in Tomb stone and reared in Bisbee, and was one of the first men from the Warren district to lose his life in action. The other members of the committee on names were Hogan Elliott, George Kindred, Frank J. Mcclure, Frank Conley and E. J. Laurenson.
 John B. Sander acted as temporary chairman and E. c. Hicks as secretary during the counting of the ballots. On motion of Major Joralemon it was de- cided to name committee of five to cooperate with Mayor Erickson in buying carload, or several carloads of army surplus food supplies, in an effort to cut down the cost of living.
 MT. Angius named on this commit tee Major Joralemon, Tom Egan, John Rock, w. s. Beeman and James Cor retto. If the first experiment of buy ing carload of bacon nroves a sue cess. other supplies will be purchased on the cost-plus-freight system, an- nounced by Secretary of War Baker. Soldier Insurance Urged
 During the counting of the ballots there was an informal discussion on many topics of interest to the former soldiers, particularly the continuance of government insurance and the ob- taining of homesteads for ex-service men who want to "get back to the land" Acting Chairman Sanders urg- ed upon all the members to keep up their insurance, the cheapest form in which this has ever been offered.
 MT. Sanders pointed out that there are nearly 5.000.000 former service men and that by unity, cooperation and harmony they can get practically anything within reason that they want. Each service man, he said. rep resents family of at least four per sons, representing in all 20,000, ,O00 persons. The tremendous pressure which this number of people could exert would be irresistible he said.
 Speeches by Candidates
 Short talks were also made by Cant. George B. Wilcox and Capt. V. W. Martin. After the election of officers had been announced, the successful candidates were called upon for short speeches. Mr. Angius announced that his hobby" was a permanent club house of it's own for the local post He asked the members for their help in making the local post the success it deserved to be.
 Not what we can get out of the government, but what we can put into it, should be our aim," was the senti-
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Maniac Commits Gruesome AK Murder

cer's head had been split open with n ax. Taggart said he committed he murder early yesterday morning md walked the 22 miles from Ward O surrender.
 q have either had a dream or nave killed some one" he said. when informed early today that Spencer was seen last night alive.
 He has not been informed that Spencer's body has been found
 Sheriff's offices say Taggart is de mented and that the confessed slayer insists spirits haunted the mining re zion where the two men had their cabins.
 Taggart lived in Denver at 1032 Fourteenth street until two months ago.
 Spencer has been prospecting in the vicinity of Ward for 20 years Sheriff Robert Euler and Coroner Les lie Kelso have gone to Ward to in vestigate
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
TO SPEAK ON THE
 H. |. L TODAY.
Leaders Scurry About to Get Quorum for Joint Session To Hear Wilson; To Include
 Railroad Wages In Address

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-President Wilson put the finishing touches on his high cost of living address to con- gress tonight and prepared to deliver it in person tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock.
 One possibility loomed up to threaten the presidents plans. It was that the leaders might not be able to round up a quorum in the house and that some member insisting on parliamentary rule, by raising the point, might forestan the joint ses- sion of house and senate.
 Representative Blanton, Democrat of Texas, served notice on RepubIi, can Leader Mondell that he for one would insist on a legal quorum.
 Republican and Democrat leaders both, accordingly, made the wires hot tonight with messages ordering ab- sentees back in tine for tomorrow evening.
 The address will be confined to laying before congress what meas ures, in the opinion of the president and of the subcommittee appointed by Attorney General Palmer, should be enacted at once to bring relief to the public from the existing high prices. All the clements that have helped create the condition the coun- try finds itself in today in the view of these men. will be dealt with. These include, it was learned au- thoritatively, labor problems and strikes resulting from them, and pro- duction which would be interfered with by strikes.
 To this extent the matter of rail- road wages would be included in the address. but a solution of the entire railroad problem will not be offered beyond the suggestion already made to congress by the president in his letter to the chairman of the senate and house interstate commerce com missions.
 No recommendation will be made for a licensing system of producers, manufacturers or dealers.
 No recommendation will be made for law limiting the margin of profit on commodities.
 No concrete law clearly defining hoarding and profiteering will be asked. although recommendations will be made for laws designed to bolster up the existing laws under which the attorney general expects to reach the gougers and hoarders.
 The president will ask for an ex tension of the Lever food control act to make it applicable as a peace time measure and to include all commodi- ties such as shoes, clothing and life necessities. as well as food.
 This much as to the contents of the address was learned after Presi- dent Wilson called into conference late today members of the cabinet and the Palmer subcommittee and revised it to meet their suggestions.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08

5000 men had walked out, packing company officials placed the num- Der at $50. Previous to the strike vote of the locals, representative officials of the stock yards and la- bor council held a conference with United States Judge Alshuler, federal arbitrator in stock yarrs controversies.
 While the grand jury continued to hear evidence on the riot cases and voted indictments against 20 more negroes, making a total of 54 negroes indicted thus far, there was little evidence of race feeling in the riot zones.
 Two Mexicans were injured in the stock yards neighborhood, both supposedly mistaken for ne groes.
 A negro. who was beaten during the rioting died today, making a total of 36 dead.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
Especial to The Reviewl

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 7.-William Curnow, a member in good standing in the I. w. w, occupied the wit ness stand in Justice w. c. Jacks court today as a witness for the state during the preliminary hearing oi Harry Anderson, shift boss at the CZar mine, one of the defendants in the kidnapping charges placed against citizens of Risbee and Douglas for their alleged participation in the de portations from the Warren district two years ago.
 Curnow's testimony consisted main. ly of eulogies of the I. W. w, argu- Inents with attorneys for the defense, denunciation of all employers and capital, attacks on the Arizona state militia and explanations of how the world would be better when ''the one big union" assumed control of all the industries of the nation and abolished the wage system. This testimony was interspersed with frequent refusals by the witness to answer questions put during cross-examination by At torney w. E.. Burges, of counsel for the defense.
 Says Military Service "Discreditable'
 Curnow, who said he was born in Cornwall, England, but was now an American citizen. said he quit work in the Warren district mines in 1916 and joined the Arizona state militia. For eleven months, he said, he was a member of the organization, look ing for some opportunity to get out. The opportunity came in April, 1917, eight days after war was declared, said Curnow, when the members of the First Arizona were given their choice of signing the dual oath or be- ing discharged from the service. Cur now said he took advantage of this "loophole'' and left the service. He considered his service in the militia as something "discreditable" to him. said theswitness. and would not have admitted it in court if he had not been questioned regarding it.
 The witness said he considered all war as E'murder" and. asked if he considered a war in which his coun- try wasfinvolved in the same light, he said nt was "very simple" that it was. Questioned as to whether or not he uld call any man who went overseas to fight for his country dur ing they ywar with Germany a mur- derer. he said he would hardly" call a soldier that.
 In Sympathy With |. w. w. Strike
 Curnow said that he was not a member of the l. w w. when the strike was called in Bisbee but that he was firmly in sympathy with the strike. The action of Gerald Sher- man. mine superintendent for the Copper Queen, in refusing to consider the demands presented prior to the strike by the Industrial Workers of the World was an insult to labor. according to CurnOw's view. He re-
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
IA. ENGEL POST NAME IF B|SBEE
 BRANCH IF THE \ MEXICAN LEGION;
 DAN E.ANG|USCHOSEN PRESIDENT
Local Service Men Honor Their Organization With Name
 Of One of First of Their Number to Go WeSt Election Contests Are Spirited But Good dNatred at Meenq For Permanent Organization Last Night; Many Plans Started

E Under the name of L. A. Engel Post, Bisbee's branch of the American Le- zion was organized on a permanent basis at an enthusiastic meeting last night of more than 100 former service men at Elks' hall. Dan E. Angius as commander, headed the complete list of officers and executive committee. Although the vote on each officer was remarkably close and the contests spirited, a good-natured sentiment of harmony and cooperation was mani fest throughout the meeting.
 That the American Legion plans to play an important part in the govern. ment which its members helped to pre-. serve was made impressively plain by every speaker. The high cost of liv- ing, farms for former soldiers and sail. ors. continuation of government in surance for the men who have done their "bit" and the mighty weapon which they possess in the ballot were only few of the questions of national importance discussed.
 A permanent home for the Bisbee post will be among the first aims To- cally ,as announced by Commander Ahgius in the brief speech which he made on taking the chair after his election. The post has been granted the use of their hall by the Elks for meeting purposes until arrangements can be made for a permanent home. The post starts with membership of 250. which it is hoped will be increas- ed to $50 before long.
 Result of Election
 The result of the election of officers was as follows:
 Communication E. Sanders, 45; Dan Angius, AS.
 Vice commander-I. c. B. Adams, Jr, 34; William Cooley, 56.
 Adjutant-George Kindred, 35; Roy Mitchell, II; Edwin c. Hicks, 47.
 Finance officer-Wilbur Hicks, 22; Ernest Byers, 37; o. A. Wolp. S3.
 Chaplain-E. o. Snyder, S5.
 Master at arms-Thomas Doyle, 49 l; Ferdinand Itzweir, 40
 Executive committee -I Ira Jorale- mon. 50: William Critchley, 52; Tom Egan. 60; Mike E. Cassidy, 31; E. J. Laurenson, 30; Carl Mohler, 36; S. c. Haas, 20; John c. Greenway, 64; w. s. Beeman, 35; R. H. Dickison. 2S; L. J. Hall, 5S; John Rock, 41; Theodore BergQuist, 40; Raleigh Burroughs, 25; Joe Schmalzel, AZ; Will Wilson, 25.
 The new executive committee is thus composed of Messrs. Joralemon, Critchley. Egan. Greenway, Hall, Rock and Schmalzel.
 EnoeI Among First to Go West
 Ernest Byers was chairman of the
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
To Begin Probe of Food HOarding In Arizona

PHOENIX, Aug. 7.-In- vestigations into cases of suspected hoarding of, or profiteering in, food, cloth ing, shoes, or other neces- saries, are to have prece- dence in Arizona over the ordinary run of work of the federal district attorneys office. Jacob M. Holub, as- sistant United States district attorney, announced today that instructions received from Washington called for this arrangement. MT. Holub' did not indicate the direction in which inquiries would be made first.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
Broadway Lights Are Dimmed As Actors Strike

NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Thirteen of New York's lead ing theaters were closed to- night by an actors strike, called an hour before the curtains were to go up, by the Actors Equity asso- citation. More than 15,O00 theater attendants were dis appointed. The following theaters were affected: Broadhurst, 44th street, Booth, Schubert, Gaiety, Astor, Princess, Republic, Lyric, Selwyn, Cohan & liar ris, Playhouse, and Knicker- booker. The strike order fol lowed close on the heels of rejection by producing man. agers of demands including recognition of the Actors Equity Association which re- gently was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and extra compensa- tion for performances in ex- cess of eight a week.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
US. Cuts Off Rumania's Food Supply

it's representative in Budapest Las taken issue with the Rumanian com mand for its actions in the Hungar- ian capital, according to advices re- ceived from Budapest.
 The advices say the American au- thorities have threatened to cut off all supplies to Rumania if the arniis- tice conditions imposed on Hungary by the Rumanians are not rescinded.
 LONDON, Aug. "A dispatch from Vienna by way of Copenhagen 10 the Exchange Telegraph says the United States has sent an ultimatum to Ru- mania demanding withdrawal of the severe armistice terms proposed to Hungary on pain of a cessation of the shipment of food to Rumania.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-08
MINE EXEMPTION |S PASSED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Sus- pension during 1919 of the $1oo annual expenditure required by law on mining claims is provided in a house resolution adopted to- day by the senate and sent to the president. Chairman Poindexter and Senator Phipps, Republicans of Colorado, of the senate mine committee, said they had asked for the legislation because of scarcity of labor with which to do the required work. The exemption from assessment provided in the resolution, however, is limited to five claims of any single claim ant.