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WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 191 1
3
BIG
SHAKE
UP IN
RAILROAD
CIRCLES
Bunch of Conductors and Station Agents
Discharged For Alleged Graft
In Tickets
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
As the result of the detection of
a combination between passenger
condnctors and ticket agents whereby
tickets were manipulated to the fin
ancial loss of the company, the man
agement of the Santa Fe, Prescott
and Phoenix Bailway Company, yes
terday discharged a number of its
employes.
Although the officials of the com
pany will not give the detail of the
graft, yet they admitted that the
company has been mulcted out of
several thousand dollars and that
the men whose guilt they have the
proof, have been dismissed. The facts
have been placed In the hands of the
officers of the law, and whether ar
rests and prosecutions will follow, is
as yet undecided.
At least nine men are known to be
involved and there are jsome under
suspicion who have not yet been dis
charged. One of the conductors who
got the ax yesterday was caught
"knocking down" fares three years
ago but about a year ago was taken
back and put on a freight train after
having expressed his repentance and
given a solemn pledge to sin no
more; subsequently he was given the
run on one of the passenger trains
between Ash Fork and Phoenix. But
he yielded again to temptation and
consequently he was retired yester
day. It was a simple scheme by which
the company was defrauded but it
was one that could be worked only
by collusion between the ticket agent
and the conductor. A ticket was sold
to a passenger and the conductor
when taking it up, made a pretense
of punching it. Instead, it is said
that he punched a piece of card
board. This ticket was re-delivered
to the station agent who sold it to
some other pasenger destined for the
some other passenger destined for the
ceive the money obtained for the
second sale of the ticket. Sometimes
the ticket could not be sold the sec
ond time in which case it never
showed up in the Auditor's offic
and the number of missing tickets
outstanding is what led to the invest
igation which has been in progress,
for over a month. In fact, one of
the local ticket agents, left a month
ago on a vacation, but he suddenly
returned within the next day or two
and deeded his house to his wife.
Then he left Prescott and is still ab
sent. His name, it is reported is on
the "retired" list promulgated yes
terday. General Manager W. A. Drake
made the following statement:
"The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoe
nix Railway Company has dismissed
from its sen-ice a number of ticket
agents and passenger conductors for
dishonest and irregular practices in
manipulation of tickets.
"The abuses have been so flagrant
that the matter has been referred to
the proper officers of the law, who
have been acquainted with the infor
mation in the possession of the offi
cials of the railway company, and it
has not as yet been determined by
them what course will be pursued."
Mr. Drake, Mr. Hastings and Mr.
Burks refused to discuss the matter
further, and especially declined to
give the names of the discharged employes.
changes in the personnel of the scr
vice. At Phoenix, Fred Kirkland
assumes the duties of City Ticket
Agent, being checked in and enter
ing on the discharge of his duties
yesterday.
In Prescott, beginning on July 1
F. H. Cromwell, agent at Cherry
Creek, will be city ticket agent, with
Floyd J. Allen, his assistant.
In the operating department, a
complete change of conductors in as
signments is announced, as follows
Conductor J. J. McArdle, at pres
ent on the A. & C. run from Phoenix
to Parker, comes to the main line on
the Phoenix and Ash Fork night run
Conductor C. E. Loux is transfer
red from the Bradshaw Mountain
road and goes on the night run be
tween Phoenix and Ash Fork.
Conductor T. W. Sprott, who has
been on the night run between Phoe
nix and Ash Fork, will be on the
day run.
Conductor W. L. Fox also goes on
the Jay run on the main line.
Conductor E. E. Hayes temporarily
relieves Conductor C. E. Loux on the
Bradshaw run.
Conductor L. V. Crabb relieves
Conductor Haj-es on the Blue Bell
turn around run.
Yardmaster J. G. Stewart of this
city is promoted Conductor and goes
to the A. & C. road, relieving Con
ductor McArdle, who comes to the
main line.
Conductors J. C. Graves and Frank
Woods retain their runs on the A.
& C'. from Phoenix to Parker.
VALUABLE
AB8
DES1MPID PROGRESSjTERRITORIAL ROAD
BEING IDE ON TO BE BUILT SOUTH
UIPUUAV
iimiiflHi
FIVE AMERICANS
DESERT FROM EEBELS
RUMBLINGS FROM
THE RAILROAD SHAKE-UP
(IFrom Thursaay's Daily.)
Rumblings from the shake-up of
yesterday in S. F., P. & P. railroad
circles developed nothing rew or
sensational, and aside from the trans
ferring df several of the operating
crews and the checking in of new
agents, the storm seems to be abat
ing. The methods employed by sev
eral in filching money frosi the ser
vice, were practically as given in
yesterday's Journal-Miner, and ap
pear to have covered several months
of shrewd manipulation. Trquiry at
the office of Vice-President- Drake,
as to the amount alleged to have been
stolen revealed nothing ncouratc, he
stating that it will be impossible to
check the amount lost, but that it
will run into several hundred dollars
was- acknowledged.
However, as a result of the discharges-
there will result many
XOGALES,, Sonora, Mex., June 20.
For some days past the soldiers in
Xogales, Sonora, have been unusually
busy. A general inspection of the
men took place yesterday, and all the
horses were ordered to be shod. The
commissary agent was kept busy dis
tributing shoes and clothing to the
men.
Tomorrow the paymaster will ar
rive, when the soldiers will be paid
off. Fifty will remain behind for
duty as rurales. Tonight at 10
o'clock Col. Garcia left on the Sonora
train for Ilermosillo, accompanied by
sixty men. He will be placed at the
head of 250 rurales. " Colonel Cabfal
has as yet received no orders to re
move his troops, but expects to do
so in a few days.
A few days ago five Americans de
serted from the ranks of the insur-
rectos at Xogales, Sonora. The de
serters are Lieutenant Sexsmith, Pri
vate Campbell and three other Amer
icans. They lured their commander,
Captain Roberto, apart from his men,
bound him to a tree, after which
they escaped across the line with
their horses and full equipment. They
also stole Cabral's fine black horse.
The missing captain was discovered
after an all-day search.
PLEASED WITH CLIMATE.
(From Thursday's Dally)
Edwin Lynch, operating mines on
the desert, near Vulture, arrived from
his camp yesterday and will remain
for the summer. He was accompan
ied by his wife and daughter, and
they will leave today for their home
in Tennessee to remain for the sum
mer. Mr. Lynch states that weather
conditions aro unbearable at his
mines and he will not resume opera
tions until September. He is much
elated over limited development on
his properties. He gays that the
climate of Prescott suits him and
could not be improved upon.
CHARMED WITH PRESCOTT.
CFrom Thursday's Daily.)
Miss Nellie V. Brooks and niece,
Elizabeth T. Welding, of Buffalo, N.
Y., are recent arrivals in the city
on a tour of tho west, and contemp
late remaining for several weeks to
enjoy the climate. They secured ono
of the pamphlets issued by tho
Offices in the Wilson
Building Entered
By Boys
DOCUMENTS STREWN ON FLOOR
AND SEVERAL RECORDS
CARRIED AWAY.
(From Friday's Daily.)
So complete was the demolition of
the offices of Justice C. II. McLane
and the rooms formerly occupied by
Attorney E. M. Sanford in the Wil
son building, that if a cyclone had
done the work, the destruction could
have not been more effective, was'
the sight yesterday after a trio of
boys had finished their nefarious
work. The discovery was made
Wednesday, when an investigation re
vealed the guilty ones and their ar
rest followed later.
. The youths who entered the prem
ises were Joe and Frank Contreras,
eight and eleven years old, respectively
and Eddie Arnold, of the age of six
years. These youths, they say, were
directed to a "soft snap," by a
companion named Willie Green, said
to be thirteen years old. They
entered the building through a glass
transom, which they broke with their
naked hands, one of the boyg sustain
ing several cuts that bled profusely.
Once in the room they commenced
their work and not an article missed
their scrutiny. Every piece of paper
that was in the pigeon hole case of
100 compartments, every record and
document of the many thousands, with
official seals, and lodge and labor
union records, and a large amount of
miscellaneous property, were strewn
on the floors of the rooms and pre
sented a deplorable sight. Valuable
papers covering four years of well-
kept records, conveniently arranged
and indexed, were massed on the
floor with personal trinkets and
small furniture. Every drawer had
been opened and tables turned up
side down.
fter finishing their work in Judge
McLane's rooms the vacated law of
fices of Judge Sanford were attacked.
Several boxes of legal papers, care
fully packed away and weighing over
200 pounds, were opened and the
contents strewn around the two
rooms in the same manner as in the
adjoining rooms. The four places in
short, looked as if the boys had an
object of finding valuables secreted
somewhere in the building. The worst
feature of the affair is that several
very valuable documents and record
books are missing. Eight seals were
taken away and but five have been
recovered.
District Attorney Ross began an
investigation of the matter yesterday
before Judge McLane, but no legal
determination was decided upon.
What to do with the boys, who ad
mitted their guilt, is a delicate prob-
em, owing to their tender years.
ine ureen boy, said to be tho insti
gator, left for Phoenix with his
parents Tuesday afternoon.
Force on New Speedway
Leading to Tucson
Increased
OTHER IMPORTANT ROAD WORK
EXPECTED TO BEGIN
SHORTLY.
SHIPPING HIGH GRADE ORE.
(From Fridy's Daily.)
E. Childers, son of County Road
Superintendent T. X. Childers. ar
rived from his mining camn near
Huron yesterday, and will remain for
a few days on business- He is op
crating the Egge mine under a lease,
and has a carload of ore ready for
shipment to the Clara Consolidated
smelters at Swansea. Mr. Childers
states that in the vicinity of Huron,
at the present time, more mines are
under development than in recent
ears and heavy production is re-
ulting. This is particularly so at
the works of the Huron Gold Com
pany, where G. W. Hull hag a force
of men employed and several hun
dred tons ready for shipment to the
same point. Hereafter regular ship
ments are to be made from that sec-
ion. The pcneral mining situation
is very encouraging all around.
MORE LITIGATION.
(From Friday r Dally)
Xiles J. Cameron, brother of Dele
gate Ralph Camefon, arrived in the
city yesterday, and will begin legal
Chamber of Commerce, while in Al-. proceeding against the Santa Fe, to
buquerque, and are pleased at com-, restrain tho company from buildinc
ing to this pine clad region, which
they state is a pleasant Telief from
climatic conditions they have been
experiencing during the past two
weeks at other points in tho tonth-west.
roads on mineral lands owned by Mr.
Cameron near El Tovar. Reese M.
Ling has been retained by the Cam
eron interests as counsel, and will
leave today to present the matter be
fore Judge E. M. Doe, at Flagstaff.
TUCSON', Ariz., June 29. Work on
the territorial highway by Pacheco
and Griffin, the contractors who have
it in charge, is making good headway
and is being rapidly pushed. Yester
day more stock and equipment and
men were taken out to the camp
southeast of the city and from
whence work is progressing this way.
Other important road work for
Tucson in the addition to the Speed
way is expected to begin shortly, and
when autumn comes there will be
many added miles of good roads for
the visitor or the home motorist to
ride over, a decidodly added attrac
tion to the city as a winter resort
and one that will be sure to attract
manv visiors.
From an out-of-town motorist
comes the suggestion that the county
could have much money in the end
and have a very much better system
of roads if small culverts were put
under the road where little arroyas
wash down. His observation was
called forth by a trip over the
Oracle road. Here work has been
done so that the wheels will not
strike a little gully at the same in
stant and run the danger of breaking
springs, but the road is a rather
rough one in some spots. It is 3S
miles to Oracle, and two hours is
good time to take the run in. If
culverts were put in where there are
now small washes running across the
road the running time would be ma
terially cut down and the comfort of
nutomobilists greatly increased. If
the running time could be reduced to
an hour and a half in comfort there
would- undoubtedly be a number of
business men who would have sum
mer cottages at Oracle and make the
run in and out each morning.
The suggestion of the visitor was
called to the attention of a local
automobile enthusiast, and he admit
ted the urgent need of culverts and
the advantages which they would
bring. It is true that the cost of
putting in culverts would seem ex
pensive' at the outset, but the annual
saving in road work would be ma
terial and would soon make up for
this and prove it to be an ultimate
economy.
Board of Control Orders Survey to Be
Continued From End of Completed
Section Through Bradshaws
PRETTY WEDDING
OF PROMINENT COUPLE
(From Friday's Sally.)
Last night at the home of the
bridegroom in West Prescott, a very
pretty wedding was celebrated, Mrs,
Fannie S. Willis and George W. Read
being the principals, and Rev. H. E.
Marshall, of the Baptist Church of
ficiating. The event is a particular
ly noteworthy one, for the reason
that the contracting parties arc wide
ly known and the romance of many
years ago, finds its happy climax in
this citv. The bride is an estimable
woman of charming personality. She
is of colonial lineage, and arrived yes
terday afternoon from Danville, Vir
ginia, where she enjoyed social prom
inence. Mr. Read is engaged in min
ing near Vicksburg and also has in
terests in the Grand Canyon. He was
for many years a minister of the
Baptist denomination.
A pleasant surprise was tendered
Mr. and Mrs. Read after the cere
mony, nearly fifty of their friends
going to their home to extend con
gratulations. A repast followed.
They will make Prescott their home
for the summer, or until Mr. Read?
resumes his mining duties.
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
(iFrom Friday's Daily.)
Wednesday afternoon the train
from Crown King met with an acci
dent at Switchback No. 9, which de-
ayed its arrival in this city until 9
o'clock yesterday morning. The en
gine ran off the track on a spnr
Yesterday afternoon while switching
freight cars at Poland one car of ore
got away and went down the grade
at a lively rate for about two miles
jumping the track and obstructing
the roadway, and delaying the arrival
of the train in this city for over six
hours. In both accidents no personal
injury resulted.
Territorial Engineer J. B. Girand
will leave for Prescott tonight and,
acting under instructions of the
board of control, will at once place
an engineering party in the field to
drive the grading stakes on the
Prescott-Phoenix territorial road, to
ward Phoenix, from the end of the
completed section of 12 miles, run
ning south from Prescott. When that
work has been sufficiently advanced,
a similar party, or perhaps the same
one, will be started from Flagstaff
north, toward the Grand Canyon, says
the Phoenix Republican.
This extension of the territorial
road work has been made possible
by the hearty co-operation of the
board of supervisors of Yavapai and
Coconino counties, with the board of
control and the territorial engineer,
The Yavapai county board indicated
to the board of control that it de
sired to spend a certain amount of
money in road building toward the
south end of the county, and said
that if the territorial engineer would
run the lines in continuation of
the fine 12-mile road now built
south, from Prescott, the supervisors
would spend their available funds in
building a road along the territorial
highway, which all are concerned in
completing as quickly as possible.
In like manner the supervisors of
Coconino county anxious to encourage
the extension of the territorial high
way now under construction between
Prescott and Flagstaff, to the Grand
Canyon, proposed to the board of
control that if it would run the lines
from Flagstaff to the canyon, the
county would expend its available
funds in doing the construction work.
The board of control quickly accept
ed these liberal offers. It is not
understood that the respective coun
ties are under obligation to complete
the highways referred to, but they
will do all the work they can and
do it in the right place, so there will
be just that much less work for
the board of control to do a little
later, when it has the resources for
taking up the two projected roads
and completing them. That time, it
is believed, will not be far distant,
though it cannot be done this sum
mer, as the board already has enough
work laid out to keep it busy and to
utilize the funds on hand. The work
of Yavapai county, however, will
make a practical road some distance
toward Phoenix and be of vast bene
fit to Yavapai interests. The Pres
cott-Phoenix road is destined to be
come one of the most important sec
tions of the territorial system but
for through travel there is now a
very respectable substitute in the old
road via Wickcnburg. This end of
it has been put in good condition and
Yavapai has recently spent consid
crablc money in repairs on the part
that runs through that county. Trav
elers to Prescott can get through
with their automobiles very nicely
now, even though the road is not
what they would like, nor what the
territorial highway will be when
finished.
The board of control is at present
engaged in building the sections of
the highway that are impassable, but
which will connect the sections that
are now in practical use. Most effec
tive work is being done just now be
tween Prescott and Flagstaff. There
is a very practicable road to Camp
Verde, wher the board recently com
pleted a fine new bridge across the
Verde river. From the Verde river
to Flagstaff the road will run up
West Beaver creek, via Montezuma's
Castle, Montezuma's Well and Soda
Springs. There is an existing road
most or all the way, but it is im
practicable for automobiles or heavy
wagons, on account of the terrific
grade on Mogollon hill, and on ac-
ncout of the high centers each side
of there. A force of men is doing
splendid work in cutting the grade of
Mogollon hill down to 6 per cent, and
a force will bo started at once in
cutting down the high centers, so
that within three months the road
between Prescott and Flagstaff will
be open to traffic of all kinds. It
will not all be boulevard, but it will
be a good mountain road, and as
time goes by it will be bettered where
there is need of it.
Engineer Girand said yesterday that
the territorial highway system is
growing into a gigantic undertaking,
but one that will be a monument to
this day and generation, a develop
ing influence throughout the territory
the value of which cannot be over
estimated. The board of control feel
that it has accomplished much al
ready during the short time since
the work began, but more notable
than its construction, at 'least mors
gratifying and promising for the fu
ture, is the attitude of the publie
toward the movement. In the begin
ning there was more or less hostility
and protest against the road tax, bat
the results already shown seem to
have satisfied most people of tho
wisdom of the territorial highway
undertaking. A protest is seldom
heard and people generally seem to
feel that the money spent will be
returned with magnificent interest in.
the near future. And where there Is
still an occasional opponent of the
highway idea his name is seldom
found to be very high on tho tax
roll.
Fine illustrations of the hearty
support being given the board of con
trol are found in the co-oopration of
the Yavapai and Coconino county
boards of supervisors, spoken o in.
the beginning. Mr. Girand says that
is not the sentiment of this cr that
locality merely, but seems to be the
opinion of the citizenship of the
territory generally, and ho is well
qualified to judge, as he has been
all over it frequently in recent months.
Not only are the county boards Hill
ing, active and desirous of doingr
their work where it will be perman
ent, but individual citizens are just
as enthusiastic. In the northern
country Mr. Girand said he had been
urged by many private citizens to
hurry things as fast as he could and
that they not only approved of the
road tax, but in some cases the bank
ers and large property owners had
volunteered to advance money if it
were necessary that the work might
bo hnrricd, along.
While above mentioned progress in
construction work has covered only
the northern part of the territorial
system, the same enthusiasm and the
same progress exists in th south
and east and west. Much has be-si
printed of the construction work in
the south, and as was announced in
these colunms recently, the Phoenix
Yuma road is to be put ir. shape in
the early fall. The construction from
Roosevelt to Globe is an old story,
as also is the Florence bridge, which
connecti Phoenix w'th the south, and
which connection will be much bet
ter with the completion of the Tempe
bridge for the piers of which ex
cavation began yesterday-
CHICAGO SMASHES
OLD MARRIAGE RECORDS,
CHICAGO, 111., June 29. Cupid
never saw anything like it before
in Chicago, and his record, 1,918 wed
dings, during the first half of June
is to be outdone in the last half, ac
cording to Clerk Salmonson, who
has been issuing marriage licenses
for so many years that three genera
tions in many families have those
which he hat autographed. Last year
Cupid scored 1,841 licenses in the
same period. According to the in
evitable estimate of the cost, these
matrimonial ventures run into seven
million dollars for among them there
have been some nuptials, with all
the etceteras, which cost extravagant
sums. So many of the others were
plain, unadorned marriages that the
judges of the municipal courts have
found Cupid's business continually in
terfering with their calendar cases.
The alarm caused by a judge of that
court who declared that marriages
performed in the County building by
a certain justice of the peace from
Evanston were illegal and void has
knocked Justice Stacey's business in
the head. In fact a number of
couples married by Justice Stacey
hav been remarried by judges in
courts of record and ministers of the
gospel, thus swelling the number of
ceremonies. One justice from La
Grange who has an office across the
strett from tho court house is the
only country town justice sharing the
city marrying business with the
juages.
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