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VOL 18, NO. 217.

BISBEE, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1916.

PRICE FIVE CENTS.

FFEH5WE OF

TEUTONS ON

SALONIKI

IS H

Opening cf Bombardment by

Germans and Bulgarians

Said to Pressage Early At

tempt to Get Greek Port.

ACTION HAS BEEN EX

PECTED FOR WEEKS

Other ' Fronts Comparatively j

luieL Lurerent Stones

Emanate from Both German

and Allied Sources.

LONDON, Feb. 5. The long expect

ed offensive of the Teutons against

Saloniki may be near. A dispatch from

Saloniki reports artillery duels have

been in progress for two days near the

Doran. where strong forces of the Cen

tral Powers for some time have been

facing the positions of the Allies. Such

a bombardment might be the prelude

of a Teuton advance, which, according

10 recent reports from the Balkans,

was set for the middle of the present

tronth and which may even now be in

progress. Elsewhere along the many j

fighting lines few operations of any

importance have been recorded.

According tn a message through al

lied sources from the Balkans, in re

porting the opening of the bombard

ment, the British heavy guns were!

dominating those of the Germans and

Ttulsariatis opposed to them. . !

the

On 1he Franco-Belgian front

French artillery continues activity and j

toe bombardment is intense in Cham-

pp of MDondic activity by the in-!

fantrv, one instance being south of the I

la Basse canpl where the British are

declared to have been repulsed when

one of their detachments attempted

an advance. South of Somme, where

the Germans made gains recently, the

French were beaten off in hand gren

ade attorks. Few renor's of pronounc

ed activity come from Russia or Gali

c'a. The German airships in the

Tvinsk recion was the only incident

in this theatre mentioned in the Ger

man communication.

Along the Anstro-Italian line the

deadlock shows no signs of being brok

en. 'German reports declare the Ital

ians are worn out and discouraged by

their failure ip advance and have rec

onizpd the impossibility of breaking

the Austrian lines. No indications of

laseirc Italian activity, however, are

reflected in official reports.

From Mescpotamia the Turks are re

rorted driving back the British to their

former positions. Vienna announces

thai, peace neeotiations with Montene

grin cabinet ministers, remaining In

their country have not been begun by

Austria and will not be started until

the ministers are furnished with un

impeachable credentials empowering

them to conclude peace that shall be

binding.

8. P. SHIP HEARING. "

NEW YORK. Feb. 6. Southern Pa

cific so dominated steamship traffic in

1909 that the Philadelphia and Gulf

line organized to handle freight be

tween Gulf ports and the Atlantic sea

board was unable to purchase or char

ter vessels and subsequently went Into

the hands of a receiver, according to

testimony offered before Interstate

Commerce Commissioner Mayer at a

hearing on the application of the Sou

thern Pacific to continue control of the I

Morgan line steamships under the !

Panama Canal act.

Frederick Groves who promoted the

Philadelphia & Gulf Line, testified the,

company had rates with railroads and i

was offered much freight, but the op

position of the Southern Pacific made '

it impossible to obtain ships. "Thel

Southern Pacific crippled us in every'

way," he testified.

CONDITIONS GOOD.

WASHINGTON, reft! 5.Richara!o have ordered out the Overseas Reg

Flourney, chief of the State Depart- Iment stationed In that neighborhood,

ment's citizenship bureau, who has! The blaze, however, was controlled af

returned from a trip to England, iter 't had destroyed a shell manufac

France, Italy and Switzerland where turing building and damaged several

he investigated the welfare and treat-other structures. Two Austrian and

ment of American citizens, did-notion German were arrested on suspi

flnd any general compalnts. although cion. . '

a few individual cases of dissatlsfac- But for the qujck response of the

tion existed because of stringent re-jfire department of other cities, it is

gulations enforced against foreign 'aid the entire plant would have been

travelers. destroyed. Company officials said

DON'T WANT SUBMARINES.

SANTA BARBARA, Feb. i

The Chamber of Commerce sud

denly abandoned its; vigorous

campaign to procure a govern

ment submarine .base; in "defer"

ence to the protest of citizens,

who feared that with a base lo

cated here, a hostile fleet in

time of war would blow up the

city. Scores pt sue hprotests

were received, principally from

the wealthy residents.

Santa Barbara already has a

division of the naval militia.

Some extremists aper that even

this might prompt a belligerent

power to send warships into the

open roadstead to bombard the

town.

REBEL LEADER

VADES ALL

p

Carranza Authorities Have

Troops in Several Parts of

Chihuahua Searching for Il

lusive RerteJ leafier. ' I

PARRAL MINING CAMP

RAIDED ON FRIDAY,

Advices from Mexico City In

dicate Campaign by Consti

tutionalists Against Zapata

in Oaxaca District. .

EL PASO, Feb. 5 The whereabouts

of Villa are proving a puzzle to Car

ranza authorities in northern Mexico.

'.While several detachments of troops

are scouring the country fifty miles

! "t of Juarez, where Villa isreported

t0 be advancinK towards the border. !

advicM from Maderar' Chihuahua, re-.

ported Villa in tne Santa Clara dis-

trict west of the Central Mexican

Railway. '

Carranza troops from Madera, Bue

na Ventura and Ojos Calientea were

despatched to the Santa Clara region

on the strength of the Madera advices.

while detachments from Ojinago and !

other points continue to scour the

Bosque Bonito country east of Juarez.

Private advices to American mining

representatives here indicate that

bandits attacked the mining camp of

DC T

UIIUUM

Parral. below Chihuahua City, yester- tiPg win be provided to prevent the

day, but that all is uiet there now. sale of the8e beverages.

Carranza officials denied there had u wiu ai80 De provided, it is under

been any attack. i stood, that no beer containing more

General Gavlra, at Juarez, explained than 5 per cent alcohol will be allow

that most of the troops were pursuing ed to be sold. As this will admit prac

Villa were infantry, while .Villa is Itically all American draft beers to Son

supposed to have good cavalry mounts, jora. It will be possible to obtain your

A dispatch fronj the information favorite brews.

bureau at Mexico 'City stated thatj General Calles In making this de

General, Pablo ,. Conzalez had an-.Cree is giving way to popular clamor,

nounced that the long, delayed camp-j Ponora can not bear the idea of facing

aign against the Zapatistas would be I the summer months without cooling

begun within the next ten days and brinks t hand to assuage its thirst,

not. abandoned until the states of 'nrrnrdin to Aeua Prietans.

Morelos and Oaxaca. are in complete

control of the Carranza forces. He

stated that 400,000 troops were being

prepared for the t campaign.

III

i Supposed Incendiary Fire Par-

' tially Destroys Munitions

Plant in the Dominion of

Canada. Ottawa Scared.

I OTTAWA, Feb. 5. Fire in the Jar

jdine Munitions Factory at Hespeier,

(Waterloo County, alarmed the village

j authorities and they applied to Ottawa

SHELL PLANT

' CANADA IS

DAMAGED

ARMY MAN POINTS OUT BIT, DANGER

II VR.iF?A.I Ck Mi. L. X

' XjX? I BETHLEHEM

A-. 7"j Atlantic

' 6ALT1 MORE VSa

'S. I tCAJE riAY

I .

BEER Ai WINE

FOR STATE OF

SONORA

General Calles May Throw

' Border .and Interior Open to

Traffic in Light Liquor. To

Bar Whiskey.

DOUGLAS, Feb. 5ABeer earn ing

no more than, 5 per cent alcohol and

light wines wtll soon be obtainable In

Aua Prieta and other Sonora t0WnS'

according to a report current among

well-informed Mexicans across the bor

der. From a confidential source it was

learned yesterday that General P. Eli

as Calles, military governor of the

state, now has in course of preparation

a decree to this effect which will be

issued in a few days,

Whisky, mescal and any of the vio

lently intoxicating drinks to which the

generality of the Mexican people have

been addicted in the past, will remain

on the prohibited list. Severe penal-

The name of Calles has hitherto been

associated with strict prohibition. Com

ing to the decision that his men fought

better and were more orderly when

they had nothing to drink, he caused

the saloons to be closed In every town

of the state as he took charge of them.

He also sent commands of soldiers out

into the country districts to destroy

the vinaterias where mescal was made:

On capturing Naco, Sonora, last sum

mer, his forces destroyed thousands

of dollars worth of liquor belonging to ,

American saloonists.

There will be no exclusive concess-

ions for the sale of beverages. If i

Calles issue's the decree, it was learn

ed. Under the constitutionalist prin

ciples, such a thing as an exclusive

concession can not be issued. Any

on abIe to p? the licenses may sen.

there was no doubt the fire was Incen

diary. FIRE ALARM

OTTAWA. Feb. 5. A flash of flame

from the ruins of the central section

of the Parliament Building and alarm

of fire, which followed, caused appre

hension throughout the city, but the

blaze was ouickly extinguished with

but little additional damage.

Alarms turned ",in from the block

where were located the state offices

of Premier Borden, the State Depart

ment Csnadisn Secret, Service Box. at

the Vaults of the Dominion Govern-

tnen: called out firemen. Overseas advance iq the Orient and South Ame-1

military forces are directing theica. Germany and England will be'

crowd. . ' , United in opposition."

TO TEST ORDER.

Philadelphia. Feb. 5A suit

to test the legality of the Inter

state Commerce Commission or

der issued under the Panama

canal act of Aug. 24, 1912, was

filed in the federal court by the'

Lehigh Valley Railroad company

against the United States.

The railroad company seeks

an injunction to restrain the

commission from enforcing an

order for the railroad to give up'

interest Jn a steamship line ope

rated In tUe Great Lakes. The

Canal act provides that no rail

road company shall have an in

terest in a steamship company

which it competes.

Providence Jury Finds Accus-

,

ed woman innocent, iwo

Negroes Are Held a sPerpe-

trators of the Crime.

' ' ;

PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Feb. 5. Mrs.

Elizabeth Mohr was acquitted of the

charge of instigating the murder of

her husband. Dr. Franklin Mohr. Vic-

tor Brown and Henry Spellman, ne-j

groes.' accused of the actual killing,

were found guilty. '

Dr. Mohr was fatally shot

31, 1R15, while sitting in his stalled

automobile in a lonely spot. George

Healis, his negro chauffeur, made

confession alleging that Mrs. Mohr

greed to pay him. Brown and Spellman

$5,000 to murder Mohr. Healis plead

ed guilty of manslaughter.

The jury was out over seven hours.

The negroes were held. Mrs. Mohr

was discharged on another complaint

charging assault on Miss Emily Bur

ger, who was shot while riding with

Dr. Mohr the same night he was at-

talked.

JAP GOLD IN ENGLAND.

HONOLULU. Feb. 5. Two foreign

war vessels reported to be the Japa

nese cruisers Tokiwa and Chitose,

were observed coaling on the lee of

the island Maui, from a vessel said to

be the Japanese collier Kwanto Maru.

According to mail advices , the ves

sels were enroute to Vancouver, Brit

ish Columbia, with $51,000,000 to be

placed to England's credit in New

York.

LEWIS FORCASTS FUTURE

NEW YORK. Feb. 5. Senator

Lewis of Illinois, speaking at a ban

quet before the Hudson County (N. J.)

Bar Association, predicted that at the

end of the war the ,rst important

commercial alliance wiuld be between

England and Germany. He said: "As

against America and her commercial

Rflnn Rin n iiht

k. uiunti iw

GUILTY OF

1R0ER

att .t

ROVlNtETow

BEDFORD

NEWPORT "SANTVCXET

Stars itiuirate ii. i..iuw.c point n

north Atlantic toast; i niter t. CoL

r:dirt F. (.ten ii. '

In the course of his testimony he

fore the senate committee on foreiKf

affairs, in Washington recently, Col.

Edwin F. Glenn, U. S. A., chief of

staff on Governors Island, told of 110

unprotected landmg places alone the

Atlantic coast between Portland,'

Me., and the Virginia Capes. He :

said that at anv one of these olares

Ian enemy would be able to land an

.invading: force, nce that enemy got

not name the 116 places he had in

mind, nor was he asked to da so.

The lcatin of each of these pos

sible landings,, together with the

depth of water at all tides, the nature

f the country behind them, the rail

roads that supply them, and other

material facts are today known to

every general staff in Europe, while

the Germans are said actually t

have prepared a military map of the

coast line concerned, en which map

is indicated the exact conditions tnat

exist at every unfortified spot re

ferred to.

URPHY GUILTY

Jury, After Being Out Since

-Thursday, Finds Soldier

Guilty of Murder. Sentence

Pcssibly 10 Years to Life.

t

! TOMBSTONE. Feb. 5. (Special)

tThe jury in the case of the Stat vs

Michael Murphy charged with the mur

i der of gergeant Lawrence at Douglas

(after being out since Thursday after

noon, tins morning brought.-tn a ver

dict of guilty of murder of the second

degree. Murphy will be sentenced lat

er. The sentence runs from 10 years

to life. Many rumors were circulated

as to how the jury stood. There is na

doubt that the verdict was a compro

mised one. The conviction adds an

other to the long list of convictions

in murder cases to the county attor

ney's office. .' . 1 ..

There are two more murder cases to

tri?,wh!!f tth ?hrC8t?i,iUry

is on duty, that of the State vs Lean

dro Maldanado, charged with the mur

der of Walter Brooks, at Bisbee, ana

that of the State vs Mike Connor,

chareed with the killing of Young Dav

is at Douglas last month.

S. V. Watts, who was tried last week

on a charge of an assault with a dead-

uy WMpon nd ,ne jury dlRRItre,d . ,hig

j norning entered a plea of guilty to

simple assault and was sentenced to

l8erv a trm of thirty days in the coun

IN SECOND

DEGREE

jty tan rrom date. He nas already oeen

i in jail since the crime was committed

August.,,,.. mnnth

P. E. Burke, who was arrested at

Douglas for introducing twenty-two

a! pints tof whiskey, entered a plea of

I oiilltv on1 via eontandail tn uArva a i V.

ty days and to pay a fine of $25.

W. G. Stone, who was arrested near

Bernardino with a wagon load, of liq

uor and Ave gallons of alcohol, pleaded

guilty and was sentenced to sepre a

terii of 120 days and to pay a fine of

$25. ' '

Civil Business.

In the case of J. E. Sfatler vs H. C.

Kimball, etal. the demurrer to the

answer was sustained and the defend

ants permitted to die an amended an

swer. A jury was demanded by the

defendants.

In the case of H. W. Etz. etal, vs S.

W. Jarvis, etal. the demurrer was with

drawn and a jury trial was demanded

by the defendants.

In the rase of Albert Steinfeld & Co.

vs Sam Greenberg. the demurrer was

withdrawn and on a stipulation being

agreed to by the counsel the court con

tinued the motion to sell until Febru

ary 12th.

In the case of Lillian V. Brookshire

vs E. Andrew Brookshire a decree of

divorce was granted on the grounds of

cruelty and non-support.

In the case of Walter Finley vs W.

H. Fisher etal. the demurrer was waiv

ed and the esse will be tried later.

In the cse of the United States flf

Mexico vs Enrique Acotta. a motion

was oiade and granted continuing tb

case (or the term. ...

In tbe esse of the Commonwealth

(Continued on Pag Six )

BENEFACTOR REWARDED.

SEDALIA. Mo.. Feb. 5. Mrs.

T. Albertson, wife of a painter

here, received a check for 500

from Daniel C. Jackling, known

as a copper magnate, in recogni

tion of kindness extended to him

years ago when be worked on

the Albertson fartii near here.

Jackling was left ' penniless

when hiii parents died, he work

ed his way through the normal

school and school of mines, he

then went west ami accumulated

wealth.

PARTY BILLS

II!

Administration Measures of

Tariff Commission, Repeal

of Sugar Exemption and

Others to be Reported.'

WILL PRESS THEM FOR

THEIR EARLY PASSAGE

President and Chairman Kitch

en of Ways and Means Com

mittee will Confer on the

Entire Revenue Question.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Democrat

ic leaders expect to have the adminis

tration bills for the creation of a tar

iff commission, the repeal of the free

sugar clause in the Underwood Tariff

before the House before the end 0f the

week and press them for early passage j

RUSHED

CONGRESS

inatrman Kitcnm announced tJuy ,,( of th(, TOnduct of this mv

Ways and Means Committee would j'nientous .flair longer In the hsndb ui

mec w eanesday or Thursday to draft

reports on the two measures and that

the sugar bill would be considered

first and probably would be considered

at a Democratic caucus within a week.

home uemoerats on the committee eral 8Urprjse 0f the German people at

are said to favor deferring action on i finding the Lusitania matter still un

the tariff commission and sugar bills settled. It states that American de

until party leaders have worked out a j mandi a disavowal of the torpedoing

definite revenue program. As sugar j as illegal. It declares submission

will go on the free list May 1. unless j would mean colossal Injustice, not

a repeal is passed separate action on only as far as the Lusitania is con

that bill will probably be recommend-. cerned. but also virtually to ipass a

ed. About $40,000,000 are derived by death sentence upon the German sub-

tbe sugar tariff annually. Represen -

tative Hill's bill for a protective tariff I whole warfare as lawless.

n dyest'tffs will be discussed at a con-1

ferenee between the President and j 'BETTER OUTLOOK.

Chairman Kitchin some time next WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. For the

week. It is understood they may go; word "illegal" which Germany is un

over the 'entire revenue situation. ' I willing to incorporate in the Lusitania

REPAIR WORK IS,

PRfiniiiG

I IIUUIIL.UUIIIU

RAPIDLY

Work of Rehabilitating Otay

and Ha Juana Valleys Un

der Naval Officers is Ahead.

Yuma Wants Quick Action.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. Work of re

construction in the flood devastated

Otay and Tia Juana valleys is prog

ressing rapidly under the direction of

Encign jUryan and a force of sixty

marines and twenty sailors from tbe

United States ship Milwaukee. "Camp

Milwaukee" overlooking Tia Juana, a

part of the Otay district, headquarters

and sub-camps have been established

and It Is estimated that between 7l0

and S00 are given rations daily. The

supplies were sent to the main camp

by a citizens relief committee from

San Diego and distributed by marines.

Tersisfent reports that Mexicans

were sen in the act of looting, result

ed in orders being given to arrest all

suspicious characters and in rase they

resist to shoot. The first United

States cavalry park train in charge of

two cavalrymen, left with provisions

for Morena and other Interior points.

IMMEDIATE ACTION

YUr,. Feb. B. Necessity of imme

diate action by the War Department

in regard to instruction of the old

government leve. the breaking of

which resulted in the flooding of Yuma

January 22, was urged in a telegram to

Congressman Hayden by the Yuma

County Commercial Club.

The organization has appointed a

WHIRS REST

1 Hi KNIFE'S

i BLADE IS

i win

j Berlin Paper Declares that Lu-

sitania Controversy Between

Germany and America is Di

plomatic Quicksand.

I PRESENT CONDITIONS

APPEAR UNSTABLE

Reports from Washington In

dicate a Lessening of the

Tension. Change of Word

ing in Agreement Probable.

BERLIN. Feb. 5. In a leader head

ed "American Crisis." the Tajiliche

Rundschau is disposed to take a seri

ous view of the situation existing be

tween Germany and the United

States, as result of the Lusitania

negotiations. It begins Dy declaring:

"Let nobody deceive himself about

! the fact that affairs between America

and U4 rest on a knife's edge and can

not remain thus long. There must

quickly be either a lessening of the

tension in a friendly direction or a

catastrophral decision.

Continuing the Rundschau says:

"The present condition appears un

stable. The confession that thit is

so can be read in the latest semi-cf-

1 ficial German communication con

cerning the existing relations between

Berlin and Washington. Wllhalm

trau h derided not to leave the

! Ambassador von Bernstorff. who is

negotiating with Washington, but to

take a decisive hand from here aftT

looking on so long."

The DaDer comments upon the gen-

. marine fighters and branding theTr

agreement, the Berlin Foreign Office

substituted a phrase which cerfainl

high authorities consider covers all

the principles involved in the ques

tion of submarine- warfare. The sub

stitution, now being considered by the

President, avers the killing of Ame

ricans wss without Intent because the

Huctrni'tlnn nf the lines was an act

or reprisal and tne uerman govern

ment agrees reprisals ihould not be

applied to neutrals.

From officials of diplomatic quart-

I ers came the information that the

f nntlnjitr w nrnmislne for an earl?

settlement. It is indicated that the

tentative note apnears to be nearer

the desires of the United States than

any submitted with the authority of

Berlin.

TROOPS TO BORDER

SIFRRA BLANC A. Tx. 5. United

States troops of the Eighth Cavalry

left here for an all-night ride overland

to Bosque Bonito. on the border for

which place Villa Is reported to be

headinr. Carranza troops on the Mexi

can side also are reported marching

towards the same point. J

,

APPAM MAIL FORWARDED

NFWPORT. Feb. 5. One hundred

and fifty-three bags of first class luail

from the Appam were forwarded for

shipment from New York tq England

Ti France. Disposition of parrel post

mail wss undetermined.

WEATHER MAN DIES

PHOENIX. Feb 5. Robert Briggs.

in charge of the United States weather

bureau here, died todav. During th

recent storm and floods Briggs was

constantly at his post. He was fifty

seven years of age.

committee to appeal to the city coun

cil d Yuma eonntv supervisors (or

additional funds to be used in earing

for people made homeless. The com

plete report of tbe city tax rollejctor

-hows that eighty resident were eom

nietelv destroyed and many ethers

damaged.