The daily morning oasis. [volume], December 20, 1917, Image 2

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The Daily Morning Oasis
Thursday, December 20, 1917
SUPERIOR COURT
Judge R. C. Stanford of Mari
copa County, Sitting in the
Place of Judge W. A.
O’Connor
As was mentioned in “The
Daily Morning Oasis” of Thurs
day, R C. Stanford Superior
Judge of Maricopa County, was
filling the bench in the Superior
Court of Santa Cruz County,
in trial of cases in which Judge
O’Connor is disqualified.
The first case taken up Mon
day afternoon, was that where
in Mr. P. Sandoval of Mexicali
(formerly of Nogales) had sued
the Arizona Gas & Electric
Company for delivery of 15,000
shares of stock of the corpora
tion defendant. Judge Stanford
sat in the case without a jury.
Testimony was taken Monday
afternoon and all of Tuesday.
Yesterday morning argument
was had and the case was sub
mitted- The court found foi
the defendant corporation an<
gave judgment in its favor.
In the trial of the case the
plaintiff was represented b;
Barry & Barry, while the de
fence was conducted by E. W
Lewis of Phoenix wsth Puffy
& Purdum of Nogales.
Yesterday afternoon the case
of E- Titcomb vs. J- J. Griffith,
was called for trial. This was
a case in ejectment, the plain
tiff seeking to oust the defen
dant from possession of what
is known as the Benedict
ranche, on the Santa Cruz, —
the site of the old Guebabi mis
sion ruin. Defendant is a
tenant and the allegation of the
complaint is that he had neg
lected to comply with the terms
of the lease.
The case is on trial before a
jury—the law providing for
special venires of trial jurors
in such cases.
The jury impanelled consists
of Benjamin Jones, Frank
Loun, B P. Greenwood, Harry
Hines, Earl D. Hammack, W. J.
Mitchell, Frank Reimer, Edgar
L. Thomas, George W. Dunbar,
Dave Wilkey, Samuel Leeker,
Louis Roller.
When the court went into re
cess yesterday evening the testi
mony was not finished, and the
case went over until this morn
ing- It is anticipated that it
will go to the jury before noon
today.
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“ 1 0 M EDISON DIAMOND DISQ AGENCY
PRESS REPORTS
The Relative Value of News
Gathered by Rifal Press
Associations. A Few
Pointers
A number of the friends ol
“The Daily Morning Oasis’
have inquired why this news
paper has not taken The As
sociated Press telegraph service
To all such the answer has been
that we consider The Interna
tional News Service just as
good. And there are other rea
sons against The Associated
Press, that are set forth here
inafter.
Now, then, as this newspaper
understands it the function of
a newsgathering association
is to give fair, unbiased, un
colored accounts of important
happenings. It is not the in
tention of “The Oasis” to eater
into any controversy with any
one over this matter; but in
order to show the estimation in
which the Associated Press is
held by a large part of the
American public, we make bold
to reproduce the following com
munication from the New Re
public, a metropolitan magazine
of the first of December, which
bore the caption “The As
s-ociated Press and I- W- W.”
Sir: In the New Republic,
xssue of October 6th, Mr-
Frederick Roy Martin, assistant
general manager of the As
sociated Press, takes exception
to Mr. Charles Mertz’s remarks
about the attitude of the press
on the troubles between the I.
N. W. and the Western Mine
Owners, claiming that “The As
sociated Press has endeavered
to have its staff men wherever
aere have been serious dis
turbances, and to report them
- M y" ■
Just what does Mr. Martin
mean by “fairly?” Is it a fair
eport of any happening to re
port all the evil that can pos
sibly be charged against the
striking miners and lumber
workers and not give an intima
tion of the causes leading to
their rebellion against their em
ployers ?
Were the reports sent out by
The Associated Press from
West Virginia regarding the
Miners’ strike three or four
years ago fair? Those sent out
from Ludlow? Those sent out
from the great Mesaba Iron
Range strike? Those sent out
regarding the strike of the
Northwestern and N L° u i s i ana
lumber workers? I assert that
the Associated Press was gross
ly unfair to the workers in all
of its reports, especially in
those regarding the trial of the
fifty-eight men at Lake Charles
La-, for the so called “Grabow
riot.” I was publicity agent
for the men on trial at Lake
Charles, and so happen to know
something of that case and the
extremely “fair” attitude of the
reporters of the Associated
Press as between the Southern
Lumber Operators’ Association
and the Forest & Lumber Work
ers Union. It may not be that
the general management was
responsible therefor, but it is a
fact that its reporters spent
NOGALES, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1917
most of the time in the comp
any of Burns detectives- In
that bitier struggle of the
terribly exposed and oppressed
lumber workers ol the South
for something like a fair wage
and h*man conditions of ex
istence, all the power of the
press was thrown against them
and what I have always mar
velled at is, not that they made
threats of sabotage, but that
they conducted themselves as
peaceably as they did.
Every outrage from eviction
and blacklisting to being strap
ped to logs and whipped was
visited upon them, yet the As
sociated Press was silent so fa?’
as all they suffered, the deep
causes that led to their des
perate rebellion. They were
charged, just as the miners and
lumber workers of the West are
being charged today, with “in
tending” to commit every crime
in the calendar, and some that
were not One of the most
lurid charges was that they in
tended to set the forests on
fire, when, as a matter of truth,
the southern forests will not
burn—it is a fact that fires are
often set in the winter to burn
the grass and under brush.
I do not charge The Associat
ed Press management with be
ing responsible for all this, but
the cases I have cited above, to
say nothing of the pall of
silence thrown over the Mooney
case in San Francisco, is fast
placing the Associated Press in
position where no one believes
a word it says about any great
strike or labor trial- The work
ers now simply expect its des
atches to do all possible to pre
judice their case; expect it to
first raise a storm; such as
that which preceded the arrest
of Haywood and the other of
ficers of the I. W. W., all of
which was against the workers,
and then shut off all the news,
especially that favorable to the
Unionists, while they are in
jail and being tried.
I assert that such tactics on
the part of so powerful an
organization as The Associated
Press is neither in the interests
of the government nor to the
welfare of the American peo
ple as a whole, for if it will not
give a fair and impartial report
of such vital happenings the
people and the government are
left in the dark as to what mea
sures and remedies will relieve
the economic pressure causing
these desperate revolts of great
masses of men; for men do not
go on strike and face hunger
and prison for no cause what
soever- Justice is the bulwark
of free government: suppres
sion its greatest enemy.
Covington Hall
Dallas, Texas.
Nothing more need be said
Upon the other hand the Inter
national News Service, given by
this newspaper, meets fairly and
squarely the very issues shirk
ed by the Associated Press, as
charged by Mr. Hall, and gives
the public a fair ac„* >urt of all
occurences. For which reason
“The Oasis” claims that the In
ternational Press service is su
perior to that of the Associated
Press
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TWENTY-FOUR
HOURS AHEAD
That’s the Time “The Daily
Morning Oasis” Makes in
Reaching the Eastern
Part of Santa Cruz
County
“The Da,ily ,Morning pasis”
for outside points is mailed in
the post office at Nogales at
6 o’clock in the morning, and it
goes out on the train to Pata
gonia, Sonoita and Elgin at 7
o’clock, reaching Patagonia be
fore departure of the mail stage
to Harshaw, Mowry, Washing
ton Camp, Duquesne, Lochiel,
Parker Canon and San Rafael,
and getting to Elgin in time to
catch the rural free delivery
going out from that place into
the Rain Valley and Sonoita
regions. So delivery of this
paper each morning to sub
scribers living along those
routes will give them the news
of the day just twenty-four
hours ahead of any other news
paper; for none of the rest can
make the points of departure
from the railway until the next
day; and then there’s “The
Daily Morning Oasis” right
alongside of them, twenty-four
hours later.
Golden Wedding at Elgin
Tuesday evening, the school
house at Elgin was the scene
of an occasion of joyous
festivity, when friends and re
latives of Mr- and Mrs. Reuben
Collie gathered in remembrance
of the fiftieth anniversary of
their wedding, which took place
n Kentucky a half century ago-
By a little strategy Mrs. S.
,T. Harrison induced her mother,
(Mrs. Collie) to dress for the
evening, and then invited her
to go to the school house to
witness some local doing- The
surprise -of the lady was com
plete, when on arrival at the
place at finding that the doing
was in honor of herself. ,
A short address appropriate
to the occasion was made by
Rev. W. Frazier Smith of No
gales, who was among the
guests. And after a most de
lightful evening of social en
joyment an elegant collation
was served, all present doing
full justice to the delicious
viands.
At a late hour the assem
blage dispersed wishing the
aged couple many years yet of
wedded bliss-
In this connection it is ap
propriate to state that Mr. and
Mrs. Collie have reared eleven
children, and they have twenty
six grand children, with one
great grand child—Master
William Anderson, whose mo
ther is a daughter of Mrs- S- T.
Harrison, and the grand daugh
ter of Mr- and Mrs. Collie.
The guests assembled in ho
nor of the occasion im’luded Mr
and Mrs. F. M. Hamblett, Mr.
Ernest Speed, Mr- and Mrs. T.
J. lies, Judge and Mrs. W. A.
O’Connor, Mrs. R- L. Shock,
Mrs. Elmer King, Mr- H- V-
Pike, Mrs. Mary B. Mowry, Mr.
and Mrs- E. R. Purdum, Rev-
W- Frazier Smith, Mi’s. Eva
Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Neill, Mrs- V. P- Hansen, Mr
and Mrs- A1 Hansen, Mr.
Clarence Beaty, Mr. John C.
White, Mr. and Mrs- W- J.
Fling, Mrs- Anderson, Master
Billy Anderson, Mrs- Nellie
Bartlett, Miss Fern Bartlett,
Mr. and Mrs- W. H. Collie, Miss
Dixie Collie-
May Use Convicts to
Make War Supplies
(By I. N- S.)
Washington, December 19-
—Great Britain and Canada
have already.' employed 1 convict
labor to manufacture wkr sup
plies. And now Senator Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, proposes
that the same thing be done in
this country.
His idea is to equip Federal
irisons with necessary manu
facturing machinery • and
utilize the prisoners to turn out
the finished product- Other
non-contract prisons fnay par
ticipate-
The introduction of the prison
labor bill is the result of co
operation of the American Fed
eration of Labor, the Depart
ment of Labor, the Department
of War and the National Com
mittee on Prisons and Prison
Labor- “It,” so a statement
says, “marks the taking of a
new trench in the fight against
the exploitation of the prisoner
Mid free labor, in addition to
freeing his labor for war work.”
At its last session Congress
appropriated money for shops
at Atlantic, Fort Leavenworth
at McNeill Island penitentiaries.
This developuent was approved
by the officers of the American
Federation of Labor, which is
now pressing the nation-wide
extension of the State-use sys
tem- If this is done, the Fed
eral Government can increase
the nation’s productivity,
economize for insufficient labor
power and benefit the prisoner
and the free workingman.
The bill authorizes the Sec
retary of War and the Sec
retary of the Navy to employ
military prisoners in the manu
facture of war supplies and
in the construction of military
roads. Army prisoners are al
ready used on road work within
national army cantonments.
The bill would make possible
such use on roads leading to the
cantonments.
In many instances the lack of
good road connections with the
railroads and main highways
r ikes transportation of food
;nd supplies a matter of con
siderable difficulty in bad
weather.
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