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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1916
Page
1
A Washington dispatch reports an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounding General Pershing’s location with no movement of Americans and the President left uninformed about his whereabouts.
Denver forecast for March 1 notes a Friday Saturday change in temperature with 24 hour ending conditions. Yesterday recorded a high of 48 degrees and a low of 26 degrees with 61 degrees at 6 pm and clear southwest winds. City bank clearings show a total of SHIGa8.71.
General Funston orders a direct telegraph link from El Paso to Fort Sam Houston to speed General Pershing's reports. Censorship at the border is maintained while preparations to strengthen border patrols proceed and troops move toward the New Mexico border. Rumors of Mexican hostility are received but deemed not serious. In Nogales, no rioting among miners is observed as 100 workers continue peacefully.
Reports from Paso, Texas describe the Seventh and Tenth Cavalry marching from Culberson's ranch toward Casas Grandes, guided by Mormon scouts from Colonia Nubian and Colonia Morales. Weather is described as ideal, with water supplies likely to hold as windmill wells stay functional.
Washington reports an impenetrable secrecy around American troop movements beyond the Mexican border as Pershing's column pursues Villa. Official notices are sparse, with a lone dispatch on Lt Zell's death and little detail on troop numbers, locations, or next objectives.
Senate debated the public lands water power bill and discussed government nitrate production plans. Committees advanced the Puget Sound Navy Yard funding for battleship construction, and the administration army increase bill was favorably reported after drafting. A sugar tariff repeal faced a 246 to 14 vote in the Senate.
A note on mixed replies from officials with General Carranza delaying a formal reply to a reciprocal border action proposal. American troops cooperate with column advances as vast formations tighten the siege. Recruiting drives continue to yield results as federal depots report five day figures toward enlisting 26 000 men ordered by Congress.
William Taylor Thornton former governor of New Mexico died at St Vincent's Sanitarium in Santa Fe about 9 30 tonight He was born February 9 1848 in Calhoun Missouri Thornton served in both Confederate and Union forces during the Civil War He later entered politics becoming Santa Fe's first mayor in 1891 and served a full four year term as governor from 1893 He edited the Santa Fe New Mexican owned it briefly and spent years in Guadalajara Mexico and Redlands California He is survived by his wife and had been ill about two weeks
The body of a Mexican found near the border at Columbus New Mexico was identified as J Pereyra the personal representative of the Mexican consulate in El Paso Pereyra had gone to Columbus before Villa raid to watch Villa movements and the consulate believed Villa's men captured and killed him.
Italian forces on the Isonzo front push against Austrians with gains claimed by both sides amid heavy artillery. Meanwhile General Pershing’s forces in Mexico report limited contact with Carranza troops and expect to extend columns toward the border with ongoing secrecy.
Senator Lodge denounces the Wilson administration in Lynn Mass addressing the Republican crowd. He attacks tariff and tax policies, faults foreign policy in Mexico and Europe, and cites the Lusitania disaster as a warning of neutral rights failures. He announces his bid for re election and criticizes Huerta, American deaths in Mexico, and the administration's leadership.
Athens dispatch says Asiatic cholera erupted in Belgrade with fifty cases daily and thirty deaths. Citizens face food shortages amid poor sanitary conditions and worsening public health.
New York reports the Cunard line announces the purchase of five steam ships totaling 31,087 tons gross. The vessels, British-registered, will serve freight routes between New York and Great Britain and are already in service according to line officials.
Joseph Parsons Brown, sought in Regina Canada on embezzlement charges totaling between 156000 and 200600, was arrested in San Antonio by Charles Augustus Mahony of the Canadian police with local detectives. He allegedly obtained the funds through a government contract.
General Funston gives a brief summary of Army movements toward Mexico noting steady southward progress and stating no dniping incidents were reported by HI. He provides no news to the public beyond the movement update.
United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma lauded Democratic federal policy at a Jackson day dinner in Concord New Hampshire. He praised laws from Wilson's era including the tariff bill the federal reserve act and the trust and trade bills and argued the administration kept the nation out of war while opposing actions risking conflict with Mexico Germany Austria or Britain and its allies.
Vancouver Washington March 16 Captain Murray Baldwin of the Twenty first infantry received orders to proceed at once to El Paso Texas and join the quartermaster's department in charge of automobile truck No 2 in the expedition into Mexico He left tonight.
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