Arizona republican., 1919-11-29

Another of the Hast straws" as one official put it. was laid on today with the official report of the murder Of James Wallace, an American oil man, by Carranza soldier near Tampico on Wednesday
 The Wallace referred to is believed here to be W. NJ Wallace an employe of the Gulf Refining company, familiar ly known to his associates as Jim Wallace, who recently went to Tam pico after having been in Colombia for the Gulf company. He is about 40 years old.
 Mexican Ambassador Warned
 The Mexican ambassador, Ignacic Bonillas, called on Secretary Lansing a the state department today and they not only went over the Jenkins case, but MT. Lansing also laid before the Mexican envoy. the report on the kill ing of Wallace which has just been received. Their conference was con- fidential. but it is understood the sec retary conveyed to President Carran- za's representative a message more forceful and direct than any yet trans mitted in any diplomatic note. MT Bonillas was informed that the de- partment placed no credence in the charges on which Jenkins is held in jail in Puebla, in which the Mexican government declines to intervene, and it is understood that Mr. Lansing 1 further outlined to the ambassador the ! inevitable consequence of continued murders and molestations of Ameri- 1 cans, probably more pointedly than was done in the governments official note of last July.
 1 About the same time word came of | the death Of another American as the result of brutal treatment of bandits who held him for ransom He was 1 Otto Lund. of Swedish birth, a natur- alized American, who died of blood | poisoning after being held for ransom
 five months in the state of Mayarit. His captors chopped off one of his | fingers and wrapped it within their written demand for ransom money which they sent to his friends in Topic. l Blood poisoning and gangrene killed | the man, while his wife, an American
 woman, and their child are reported
 in want in Topic.
 Wallace Murder Big Development
 The murder of Wallace, however aSs-
 sumes proportions of overshadowing
 importance. Petrero del nano. the
 ranch on which he was murdered is
 six to nine miles south of Tampico. | The oil pipe line of the Aguilar, Gulf Refining and Huasteca Oil companies
 run through the property. When word of his death was received here the officials of all three companies were communicated with for Identification.
 The Gulf company office at Houston, Texas responded that Wallace prob
 ably was w. NJ. Wallace, who was I known to be in the Tampico district
 and on the Petrero del Ilano property. If the Identification be correct, Wal
 lace is the eighth employe of the Gulf company to meet death at the hands | of MeXicans in the Tampico district
 and the eighth American to be killed
 in Mexico since July p, when the
 United States warned Carranza that further murders of Americans would
 seriously affect the relations between
 the two countries.
 According to state department 1. records the eight murders have
 been in this order:
 Eight Murdered Below Border July 31: R. A. Cunningham at Matamoras.
 August 2s: Adam Schaefer at !, Pinos.
 August 30: H. S. McGiiIat coapa, September 2: A. p. Hennessy at La Colorado.
 September 21: Lieutent C. H. | Connolly, U. s. A., at Bahia, and Lieutenant F. B. Waterhouse at l Bahia. (These were the two army , aviators who lost their way, were
 starved and finally murdered by Mexican fishermen). l November IA: E. K. Lack at Mexicali, said to have been killed , by Mexican official.
 November 26: James Wallace at