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Newspaper
The Belen News
Location
Belen, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1915
Page
1
Gov. Whitman will request the legislature in a special emergency message to repeal the alien labor law. The law, which barred the employment of aliens on public contracts, was ruled constitutional last week by New York's state court of appeals.
A spirited editorial warns that journalists seeking fair pay may confront harsh resistance and accusations of complicity as power factions threaten to silence reporting and control the press.
A Mexican Villa official ordered American Cervantes, manager of the Chamberlain estate, executed at San Luis Potosi for defying orders to cut wood for train fuel. The report ties the act to Gen Avilla's commands and Villa operations. The scene merges with local politics as H B 38 libel bill tightens penalties and expands venue for suits.
Virginia seeks leave to sue J. P. Morgan in U.S. Supreme Court to recover Martha Washington's will allegedly stolen from Fairfax County during the Civil War and later held in Morgan's collection. The move was announced in Washington D C by Attorney General Pollard.
Portales residents donated 40 to buy two hospital tickets for two check forgers claiming illness. Courts later sentenced the pair to the penitentiary and reclaimed the tickets. Questions arise over refunding the raised money and rightful ownership.
A Southern Pacific of Mexico lineman, Pasha Jean Cameron, was slain by Yaqui Indians at Lencho Sonora last Friday. Reports reached the U S gunboat Indianapolis commander in Guaymas harbor. No further details were available. In Paris a dispatch from Sofia says an assassination attempt on Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey in Constantinople was unsuccessful.
The Morning Post reports via Cairo that Turkish forces have evacuated the Sinai Peninsula, easing fears of a second invasion. A separate item from Sofia notes an assassination attempt on Talaat Bey on February 26, with no injuries reported.
Pueblo Colo March 1 seven defendants in the La Veta murders were found not guilty after twenty minutes of jury deliberation. Four other indictments remain against each defendant.
Federal and state officials expect to stamp out foot and mouth disease in Illinois by week’s end as the last infected animals are slaughtered.
Denver officer reports nurse June Swenson a 27 year old recruit at a local hospital said a trunk theft in the basement stole a credit letter for 77000 and a 500 Bank of England draft. She claims two men pursuing her globally may be responsible after her fortune from relatives.
A collage of brief items reports Percival France, 40, ending his life by gunshot after crying fits. B F Magnin observes his cat fighting a two pound snapping turtle. Leslie Wilder receives a $2250 legacy and dies of shock holding the check. A grave digger, Francis D Bear, dies by gas inhalation amid slack work. A 200,000 year cave bear skeleton is found nearby. Blood transfusion offers cause bread line panic as thirty men are accepted. Vanderbilt yacht party includes a cow for milk. High school girls drop bloomers for full skirts, barred from school name in games. Cunningham family welcomes first girl in four generations. Justice F P Reiter marks 25 years with four warrants but no court actions.
Three hundred men returned to work at Jamison Coal and Coke mines in Fairmont, marking a drop in the Farmington district strike. Fifty deputy sheriffs served warrants from a grand jury that investigated the riot in which Constable Riggs was killed and deputies injured. Nine arrests were made before noon.
Villa officials deny Villa is quitting Guadalajara and report skirmishes near San Juan del Rio south of Queretar o. Carranza advances threaten Trapuato. Monterey campaign reports show quiet in the north with bombardment from Laredo and reinforcements from Matamoros. Zapatistas near Mexico City defeated with Gen Iriarte killed and prisoners taken.
Jackson Mississippi March 1 The state supreme court upheld the May Mott Lewis laws prohibiting keeping intoxicants in clubs. The decision quotes whiskey as a preservative for the dead and a killer for the living in a tongue in cheek argument.
Two indictments in New York accuse the Hamburg America line and five men of conspiring to defraud the United States by false vessel clearances and cargo manifests. Named defendants include Carl Buenz George Kotter J Pappinghaus Walter Oppenhause and Adolph Hachmeiser with others unnamed. They are to be arraigned in U S district court tomorrow.
One hundred fifty Vienna bakeries of about seven hundred have closed indefinitely due to inability to obtain flour. The closures affect numerous neighborhoods and raise concerns about bread supply in Austria’s capital.
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