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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24

worked from early morning until
late Sunday night In an exhaustive
effort to get workers and to rein.
lorce the dam at the three most
vulnerable points.
The Jemez river is also very
high, and throughout yesterday
and the day before was rising
steadily, thus contributing to the
volume of the Rio Grande. The
Jemez was not as high Sunday as
| on Saturday however, so that il
would appear that the force of the
flood was being somewhat spent,
/ and that no greater height would
be reached from that source.
A party of motorists coming
from the Jemez were held up above
the Alameda bridge for several
hours. and unwilling to attempt to
! ford the torrent cfossing the road,
hired farm wagons to take them
across the flood. and left their cars
on the other side. The bridge at
Barelas being closed it would have
been necessary to go all the way
to lsleta to cross the river and as
water was backing UP over large
part of the road on the west side
Of the Rio Grande 1t might have
proved impossible
The Rio Grande yesterday jump
cd the main highway between Los
Lunas and the Los Lunas bridge,
after reaching a rise of feet 3
ches. A crew of men are at work
dumping gravel into the breach
and hope to have the road open
By Tuesday.
Tourists bound south or to Mag
dalena will detour at the Valencia
church, taking the road on the east
side of the Rio Grande, and perons
travelling toward Gallup will detour
over the same road, returning to
Los Lunas by way of Belen.
The current in the river at the
Barelas bridge shifted and it was
hoped late yesterday to save the
main span If a greater rise did
not come. Engineer NJ. A. Hall of
the state highway department,
County Surveyor Ross and super
intendent Heyn are working dill
gently.
According to old timers, the Rio
w "iNVI many sN"'o "oSi
followed the general course of
what is now Fourth street on its
tortuous way to the gulf, and the
present railroad yards were in the
river bed. Whether the river of
its own volition chose its present
route, was diverted by human
or whether 1t was a COM
! fination of both. seems not to have
been recorded in history. But the
river makes a sharp bend to the
west of Alameda, where a dyke was
built to prevent an overflow in case
If high water
A force of about 200 men worked
all night long at different points
on the river. Special reinforce
ments were sent to Alameda, extra
work was done at Candelarias and
at Ranches de Atrisco. The city
engineers were so busy that they
,ould not be found at late hour
70 offer an opinion on how much
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
Rio Grande Four Feet One
Inch at 8 P. NJ. Sunday,
Residents of Los Griegos
AtrlSco Fighting Flood.

An extra issue of the journal
was printed last night at 9 o'clock
to prepare the men of Albuquerque
for call to hold the dikes against
the flood threatened by the steady
rise of the Rio Grande. Through
out Saturday and Sunday the river
mad been rising rapidly and
at 8 O'Clock last night was rising
at the rate of an inch an hour,
while its height was almost four
feet and one inch above the aver
age level.
The river has reached an aver
age width of from a mile to a mile
and a half for a distance of ten
miles up and down the valley. The
current is tremendous and the
flood is deep. AT Los Griegos de
Candelarias and at Ranches de
Atrisco the greatest damage has
been done, the dikes being broken
over and nearly being swept away,
threatening the entire loss of crops.
Two hundred men worked at
Atrisco all Saturday and all day
Sunday, building up the banks and
re-enforcing the dixie. More than
500 sacks were placed in one spot,
while hundreds were used all to-
gether. People we're forced to
move out last night, the adobe
houses being about to fall, while
the fields were largely inundated,
the corn and other crops ruined.
At O'Clock last night the river was
within six inches of the top of the
dixie.
At Los Griegos de Candelarias
seven or eight hundred sacks were
used to hold back the force of the
flood, which tore away the banks
with the fury of mountain tor
rent. covering the lowlands, andI
the ranches>and farms
into a huge lake. 1t is figured that
the most dangerous spot of all was
at Los Griegos de Candelarias.
At Los Griegos the ranches of
Jacobson, Harrington, Thomas and
Pedroncelli were flooded. At Ran
chos de Albuquerque Fred Eake's
ranch is flooded and water is
up inland.
Although there are not as many |
fields threatened at Ala
media, the river is exceedingly high |
there. One thousand sacks were |
sent by Road Commissioner Wylder
to Alameda and efforts were made
to hold the dikes and to prevent
the road on this side of the river
from being destroyed.
A lake q mile long and about q
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
CONGRESS MEETS
IN MEXICO CITY
TODAY To ELECT
NEW PRESIDENT
AdoIfo de La Huerta and
Gen. Pablo Gonzalez Seem
to Be the Leading Candl-
dates for the Office.
INTEREST IN RESULT
SHOWN BY AMERICANS
Are Anxious to Know About
the Strength of the Co.
operative Spirit to Be
Manifested BY Ruler.

~ so~siSe iauRsAl SPECIAL LsAsNo SIsst
Washington, May 23.-Prospect-
i've political developments in Mex
leo this week began today to over
shadow the killing Of Carran2a.
The Mexican congress meets in
special session tomorrow to choose
a president al interim.
Adolfo de la Iluerta, chosen by
the Sonora group month ago, as
the provisional president, and Cen
eral Pablo Gonzales appear as the
outstanding candidates, but the
chief concern Of the American Off
cials and business men having
Mexican interests is not so much In
the identity of the successful cam
didate as in the strength of the co.
operative spirit to be manifested.
While doubt of the ability of any
one chosen to restore the country
to n state of tranquility enough to
warrant the holding of the regular
elections was expressed by both
business men and Officials II was
agreed the removal Of Carranza
ought to make the task far mora
simple. Although the killing OF
the fugitive president must be sat
isfactorily explained. 1t was sail.
before foreign governments viii
give serious thought to any except
a de facto recognition of the new
government, the government has
been materially strengthened from
a military and political point Of
view.
Carranza alive would have re-
manned a potential center of ser'o1S
opposition, but already the little
force that followed him in hiS
flight from the capital is reported
to he breaking up and the minor
leaders such as Domingo Arrteta
in the state OF Durango, It was sug-
gested. must find themselves with
out plaus BILE reason for continuing
resistance.
Official reports today added NJ
tie to the information received IN
news dispatches yesterday telling OF
the aged rulers failure to set up
his government in the mountains OF
Puebla, but there was an evident
tendency in official quarters to ac-
cept the version of his death that
exonerated the de facto leaders or
completely.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
THE RIO GRANDE FLOOD.

At eleven o'clock last night the city officials
ported the dykes north of the city to be breaking.
An extra issue of the Journal put out at con-
siderable expense, but free of cost to the city, in the
hope that it might be the of saving the city
from loss.
At this writing we are unable to tell whether the
emergency for calling the of tine cisy actually
occurred If it did not sorry to have disturbed
you. We used the best judgment could at that
hour. The emergency seemed to warrant being be-
forehanded and preparing to save you from loss.
blasts of the fire whistle that the men are
needed Please report at once, in the event of CALI
dressed in old clothes and carrying shovels
and bringing whatever empty sacks you may have.
Report at the City Hail.
There is danger of loss of life but property
may still be in jeopardy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
HERRERO IS
RESPONSIBLE
FOR MURDER
Of CARRANzA
His Forces Killed First Chief
After the Latter Had Been
Offered and Accepted
Their Hospitality.
SHELTER SURROUNDED
WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP
Attack Launched at a
O'clock in the Morning;
the Attackers Had Care
fully Planned Their Crime.

NV NOHNiNS JOURNAL SPECIAL lEAstO Wleai
Mexico City. May 20 (by the AS
sociated Press) A dispatch re-
celved from Juan Barragan, chief
of staff Of President Carranza, says
CarranZa met his death at the
hands of Gen. Rodolfo Herrero' S
forces at TlaXcalantongo. The
dispatch did not give the exact
date. The dispatch follows:
''Villa Juarez, State
of Puebla, May %.
"The Gen. Alvaro Obregon.
Referring to your telegram of
this date. Herrero Joined the coll
umn at Patla, processing loyalty.
Arriving at TlaXcalantongo, Her
rero offered hospitality to Carran-
"a. placing sentinels who knew the
terrain. At o'clock in the morn
ing his men, abusing the confidence
imposed in them, surrounded the
shelter where Carranza was sleep
ing, firing their rifles furiously
into the hut Every one offered
resistance. although with the nat
ural decentralization caused by the
unexpected attack.
Gen. Francisco Murgia fought
valiantly in the obscurity (semi-
darkness), repulsing the traitors.
who surprised the defenders when
they were leaving their shelters to
attack the enemy.
"The unexpectedness of the at
tack enables us to clear our mill
tary honor. The defense was gem
eral to such an extent that the at
tackers were forced to take sixty
prisoners, among them Mario Men
dez, Pauline Fontes, Gil Garias,
Gen. Heliodro Perez. Col Che Go
mez, General Villela and Carran-
za's military aide.
(Mendez formerly was director
of the national telegraph lines,
Fontes was former director of ma
tional railways, and Senor Garias
was Carranza's private secretaryD
"Our conscience is clear. Our
grief for the death of the president
is inconsolable. We are satisfied
that we did not abandon him for
one moment.
"The few men wounded and
dead is explained by the fact that
the attackers planned their crime,
knowing the place where the
president, who had placed his con-
fidence in Herrero, was sleeping.
The loyalty and courage of the
presidents followers were useless
against the treason of those crimi-
nails"
The message was signed by Bar
ragan and Marciano Gonzales, Fed
erico Monies. Francisco de II.
Maria and others.
The flags on the American en-
bassy and all the other embassies
and legations were placed at half
mast when the news of the assassi-
nation of President Carranza ar
rived.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
RIVER RISES MCHAN HOUR
BREAKING THROUGH DIKES
FLOODING VALLEY FARMS

half mile wide has been formed
just beyond the Alameda briuge. IN
the overflow OF the river Wnll ii
BURST the dlkes on the west side OF
The kio Grande, and flowed com.
pleteIy over the road leading tC
SandoVaL Water one and two feel
deep was washing over the road
with swift current, compers
curling as the flooG swept into tn,
tields. That the road is doomed is
a foregone conclusion.
Yesterday noon the water was a i
most at level with the road, but
was quiet and appeared to be lust
PACK water, AS the river rose, how
ever, the current became very
strong and washed right over the
road Tor a distance or at least a
quarter OF mile. on the east side
u the river there is also a lake
about mile in diameter.
Water has backed into the
fields that border the river, and a
large wooded area is completely
atloat, eddes swirling around the
tree trunks with near.y as great
lorce as IN the main stream. Per
sons going to Corrales were cross s.
ing the road with difficulty, and
automobiles were unable o
make it.
AT Los Griegos a ditch was dyna-
mlted In the effort TO force the
water back into the river. Thirty
shots were fired above the Dlelz
ranch and large channel made
but the torrent was too great to
effect much good.
AT BareIas there were 100 men
at work all day in an effort to save
the dyke. Should this dyke be
washed away. everything In the
valley below will be destroyed, il
was stated, with a loss of 100000
to the county. Inc force of men
working at these points cut trees
which In some instances they Were
unable TO place in the dyhe pro
teclion, the current catching them
and swishing them away before
they could be recovered.
DR.. NJ. K. Wylder was busy from
. O'Clock yesterday morning until
going from one pace to
another. and arranging for sacks.
The spirit of cooperation was
splendid, said DR.. Wyloer, every
one Appealed to responding
promptly.
The foundry put on a special
foree of men and got out bridge
irons, korber made bridge irons,
The santa Fe shops sent down men
and let the workers have whatever
hey needed. l.. B. Putney opened
his store and furnished 1000 sacks
With a promise of more when they
we're needed. The Matthew dairy
save all the sacks they had. Fred
deyn, Edmund Ross and others
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
DISH0N0RED BILLS
IN JAPAN INCREASE

Toxic, May pa feature Of the
national depression in Japan is the
increase of dishonored bills in the
Toxic clearing house. reports show
ing that those dishonored in April
amounted to 17S.000 yen against
$4,000 in March.
May figures show a daily in
crease over those of April. The
number OF bills dishonored in
Osaka is three times that In Toxic.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24

FORECAST.
Denver, Colo. May 2S.-New
Mexico and Arizona: Monday and
Tuesday fair.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24

fLOCAL REPORT.
Conditions for the twenty-four
hours ended at 6 y. m. yesterday,
recorded by the university:
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24

water might be precipitated on the
city should all dykes break.
The fact that there has been
such a great overflow above has
reduced the danger below as the
pressure has been greatly relieved
by the emptying into lakes above
Alameda. Barelas would crumb1e
should her dykes break, and tre-
mendous amount of damage would
be done 10 the residences on the
west side of town. Ranchmen be-
tween here and Alameda were in
a panic at the possible loss of their
entire crops. Great apprehension
was felt all along the river bank
as the flood continued to increase
up until midnight.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
PRISONERS REFUSE TO
WORK BUT DEMAND A
DAY OF EIGHT HOURS

tsY nosHiso JOURNAL SPECIAL LsAs1o wiREl
London. May 23.-Troubles have
broken out in the northeastern
privinces of Italy, according to
Milan advices to the London Times.
In Carnia the unemployed set up
a soviet government, which, how
ever, lasted only day, the troops
establishing order. But as a
protest a general strike was de-
clared in the whole of Carnia and
extended today to Fruit. In Ve-
roma the strike is aggravated by
the solidarity of the railway men.
The latest example of what the
correspondent calls the strike
mania" is prisoners refusing to
work and demanding an eight-hour
day.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
THE WEATHER

FORECAST.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-24
PROSPECTIVE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS OVERRSADOW CARRANAS Staying
Villa Believed Have Taken War Path Against Ecto Government
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For Busy Readers

| nv ~oRriho JouSHAL SPECIAL A%AsEo ~lPki
NEW YORK, May 23.-Conven
| tion headquarters for Governor Ed
ward |, Edwards of New dorsey,
candidate for the democratic pres
idcntal nomination, win be estab-
lished I'm the Palace hotel san
Francisco, IL was announced here
tonight. The governor will attend
th2 convention as one of New Jcr-
sey's delegates at large.
PHIIADELPHIA. May 23.--
/ United states senator BOics Pen
rose, who has been i'll ut his home
here since last fall, had a rcapsc
yesterday and was reported tonight
10 he in serious condition. His
physician said that although the
senator is very i'll. he Is In no inn
mediate danger.
Ell PNSO, Tex. May 23.--Ngcnts
here of the de factO gov r,lment In
Mexico City today were without
further Information concerning the
reported assassination of Pre- idcnt
Carranza. II was said no telegraph
service was possible with Mexico
C,S direct from Juarc2 today.
SAN FRANCISCO Calf. May
23.-iaCars for the safety of forty
eight Indian seal hunters from II
Claliam county. wash, reservation.
were expressed by six Of the tribes
men who were brought here today
by the steamer Multnomah, which
EtfnlDI fhRV1 tsUN ItIEsttltP n - nif
the Washington coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May
23.--Thc plant Of the Illinois-Pa-
cific Glass company here was de-
stroyCd by fire. Officials of the
complny estimated the loss at
81. 100000 Three fircmen were in
iured, none seriously, In fighting
the blazc.
PORTLAND, Ore, May 23,--
Fire today destroyed tho plant of
the North Portland Lumber and
Box company, the Abandoned ship-
building yard of the Guy NJ. Stand
ifcr corporation. q number Of docks,
more than II million feet of lum-
her and four small dwellings. Tho
burned urea extended fer three
fourths OF mile along the riVcr
front.
Ell PASO. TEN, Nav - ~
""iy Sartoval, consul general of
Mexico here. announced tonight
that he would turn his office over
To the new government and that
te had so notified Adolfo dc In
Hucrta, provisional chief of the
revolution. The transfer IL to be !
made tomorrow.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-24

she is 25s years of age or more. can
read and write, and is of British ma
tionality, but she must have also GER
tain salary or property qualifications.
The salary designated is $25 per year,
or she must pay $50 in rent or $40
taxes on house, lands or personal
property. The requirements are so
liberal that it is estimated that ninety
per cent of the women can meet them.
According to the census the popu-
lation Of Jamaica is about $4,000,
classified as "black," $4,000; "col-
ored," 10000; white" 10000. AS a
matter Of fact, according to recent
visitors, there are, actually not 1000
people who can trace their ancestry
back to a point where there is no adj
mixture of African blood. There are
also large numbers of Chinese, Japan
csc and East Indians among the popu-
lation, the Chinese controlling the
greater part of the retail trade. The
intermarriage, Of the whites, and Ne.
groes, Chinese, Japanese and East
Indians has produced a crop of beau.
tiful children, really new race to
which the various races have con.
tributed their best mental and physi
Fcal points.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-24
. N. A. A. C.. P.

The eleventh annual conference Of
the association was, held in Atlanta,
Georgia, early in June. Much doubt
was expressed prior to the conference
as to whether the plain truth in re-
gard to the race question could be
spoken in Atlanta, but the association
was true to, it's colors and every state
ment, every speech was frank,
straight forward, evidencing no fear,
but marked with sincerity.
The keynote of the conference was
struck by James Weldon Johnson
when he declared that the five prin.
cipal demands of the colored people
were o. guaranty of safety of life
by the abolition of lynching if neces
sary; (2) the colored mans untram
meled right to the ballot upon, the
same terms as other races; 90 the
adjustment of "Jim Crow" cars: "a
equal educational and industrial op
portunities; (5) the abolition Of seq
regation, especially in the govern
mental departments in Washington.
There is no treason in the fore
going program and no. true American
who believes in true democracy can
find any fault with it. If it isn't right
democracy, the. United States is a
fraud and Christianity is false.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-24

for; The nomination of McAdoo would
have been dangerous for democracy,
because he might have been elected.
He now lives in New York, but he was
born in Georgia, and has in his soul
the contempt which the Georgia white
people as a rule have for the colored
people. We must not forget that
McAdoo struck one of the most con-
temptible blows at the colored race
when he instituted racial segregation
in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington. Farewell Crown Prince!
Let us be thankful that the Wilson
administration, the "reigning family
which has done so much to injure the
nation in general and the colored peo-
pie in particular, will soon be thing
of the past.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-07-24

lions to Him that the free colored men
who had served in his army we're very
much dissatisfied at being discarded,
and fearing that they might seek en-
plOyment in the British army, took
the responsibility to depart from the
resolution respecting them and gave
license for their being enlisted.
Washington promised that If there
was any objection on the part OF Con-
gress he would discontinue the enlist
ing of colored men, but, on January
Is, 1776, Congress determined that
fully in the army at Cambridge may
be re-enlisted therein, but no Others"
The entire aspect of the affairs
changed when, in 1779 the South be-
gan to be invaded. South Carolina,
especially, was unable to make any
effectual efforts with militia, by reason
OF the great proportion of citizens
vent Instructions among the colored
who were assiduous in their endeavors
to excite both revolt and desertion.
The result was that in all the South
ern states the legislatures passed reso-
buttons to enlist the colored men, and
the colored patriots of the Revolution
are as much entitled as their white
brethren for the ardor with which
they fought the common enemy,
whether they were bondmen or free
men. 1t has never been possible to
give. an exact statement as to the
number of colored men who served in
the Revolution, for the reason that
| they were generally mixed in reg1.
! ments and not calculated separately.