Arizona republican. [volume], January 09, 1918, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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TJ1K AKJZOXA Ki'Jl'Ui$LlCA. WEDNESDAY MOKJs'ING, JANUARY 9, 1913
1UJSS PRISONERS LIVE. LIKE HATS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
H ION
POTUIPE;
That .-in irrigation project that wit!
iiicu'i the iiltiv.-iUiiii of raanv thoue- j
mmI-; if : res :' (Ksert bind is now
.!! innlr wiiy. was the statement 1
1 1 yt-t-,l:i y .,f prominent ranchers of the
I'jifailiM- Valley, who ar' behind Ihe
inovni.-n! for tho building; of a stor
age dam mi the Yenl". Jlesides thp
M"rag" ilam thot.- will hp a diversion
ilarn Mn-y say anil canals that will
rurniuli water to something like 70.00a
seres of land or practically one-third
Kir ranch lands in the valley.
h'very small detail of the project has
I ren worked out and all that remains
for it to lie a settled fact, claim the
f lions'ii s. are the formalities connected
with the organization, of an Irrigation
ilistm. t.
it is proposed 1o Issue bonds upon i
Ihe district and build the project from !
the proceeds. Reasonable assurance
das lit't n given that upon organization ,
of the district the Government will turn I
over the liorse Shoe (Jam site. Ap
plication already has been made for
the right 3 o? way for a canal and
dams.
Engineers have figured the cost nf
the project and have estimated the
Hmount of water available for irrigation
trnd storage, which they declare will
economically cover one-third of the
ranch lands in the valley. The con
struction work will require a period
of three years, thev pay.
No difficulty is being anticipated in
1 he "disposal of 'JO-year bonds, which
will bear Interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. It is believed that the bonds will
l.e taken by the Federal Reserve Banks
If the Chamberlain bill now pending in
Congress passes. The bill authorizes
the banks U invest moneys in bonds
issued by various districts and if it
passes, arrangement will be made for
the banks to sell the bonds, it is ex
pected. The Taradise Valley ranchers who
will directly benefit by the project are
In the majority homesteaders. Many
have proved up their land and others
have riot yet completed the govern
ment's requirements. According to a
law which went into effect a year ago,
where an irrigation district has been
formed, which includes government
land, the land when patented to an
fntryman shall be held for irrigation
rharges.
The petition for forming an lrriga
lion district has been set for hearing
January 1:9 before the board of super
visors before which body the bond has
been field and approved. Alexander
find Christy are tho legal advisors of
the petitioners.
One of the petitioners stated yester
day that the project would bring great
wealth to the valley. He said it would
lie impossible for him to estimate just
how much added prosperity it would
insure, but that it could not be over
estimated. "Whatever is grown in this
valley could be produced in Paradise
Valley, which will mean an increase in
the cotton output in Arizona aR well
us every product of the farm. Cotton
fields, alfalfa lands, crops of every
vaippty will Increase materially the
wealth of the valley.
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Russian prisoners in concentration camp near the Baltic.
According to the testimony of former Ambassador Gerard tens of thousands of Russian prisoners were
ruthlessly butchered by the Germans. Other tens of thousands, betrayed by their disloyal generals, were ren
dered up to the Germans and were permitted to live. Hunger and disease have reduced their ranks and the
Burvivors are now living like rats in dugouts in Germany. The prisoners seen in the picture appear happy
because they hare been told that peace is near and that they may soon return to their homes. They have not
been told that they are to be released in order that hundreds of thousands of German and Austrian prisoners
may be freed and return to fight on the Italian and French fronts.
BUILDINGS
H00 ASKS
GDQPERATIOI
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ME BEING ERECTED
TKORIA, Jan. S. The erection of
buildings continues in Peoria and sev
eral more will soon be finished which
w ill add to the number which have
been completed within the past year.
Tho new school building and audi
torium w ill soon be completed and will
be a credit to the town. Mr. Moore is
building a splendid new residence in
ihe west part of town. Rev. Brightwell
lias nearly completed, his residence
vhich is being built' near the Mission
church.
Agent Gray is able to be out again
Bfter his recent illness. His son, Har
old, is ill with typhoid fever.
W. A. Hood left for South America
Monday to look up a cattle business.
Corporal D. J. Perry, who is sta
tioned lit Camp Kearney, writes V.. A.
Leaks that he lias purchased $:'00 worth
of Liberty bonds and has taken out a
T10.00U life insurance.
B. A. Leak attended Sunday school
tit the Washington school, Saturday
afternoon
Dca Duggpr. who is employed at
tue freight depot, injured his finger
Ljuite badly while handling freight.
Pauline Sturges had dental work
done in Phoenix Saturday,
X W. Forney went into Phoenix Sat
urday to get a battery for his car.
H. C. Mann is qutte ill at his home.
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ra DIVORCE
An echo of an early autumn scaii
(lal was heard in the superior court
yesterday when Charles Daniel, a
traveling salesman, brought suit for
divorce against Mrs. Josephine Daniel
naming .1. K. Chapmaii', the com
plaining witness in the case of as
sault with intent to commit murder
now pending against Daniel.
The filing of the suit recalls the
famous shooting episode at the Jef
ferson hotel last September when
Daniel Is alleged to have shot Chap
man when he claims he found him
in his wife's bedroom. Chapman was
confined to his bed in the Sister's
hospital for several weeks after the
shooting, but he appeared at the.
preliminary hearing to testify against
Daniel.
The next sensation was the sep
arate maintenance suit brought by
Mrs. Daniel against her. susband,
which was denied by Judge Lyman.
During the course of the trial, em
ployes of the Jeffersori' hotel testified
as to misconduct on the part of Mrs.
Daniel and Chapman.
Daniel and his wife were married
n Corpus Christl, February 13, 1913.
The state corporation commission
yesterday received a telegram from Di
rector General McAdoo of the railways
of the United States urging the co
operation of the commission in the en
forcement of the demurrage order pro
mulgated by him. Mr McAdoo says
that he has generally received assur
ances of support from railway and
state commissions and unless he can
have that and the co-operation of the
shipper tho movement of freight cars
cannot be moved more rapidly than
they have been in the past. The de
murrage order, he states is a war
measure.
Bulletins from the National Associ
ation of Railway and Utilities commis
sions have been received at the office
of the commission. The first of them
issued before the government took over
the railways speculates concerning
problems that would arise in the event
of the assumption (if control by the
government. One of these was the
question of the taxation of the railways
by the states; another was whether a
suit could be brought against a rail
road for damages and a third was the
state control of rates. These questions
are now being put into the way of be
ing answered by legislation.
A report has been received at the
commission of the meeting of the as
sociation o? commissions of the south
west at the Dallas meeting on Jan
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CAPITAL GBIMES
FIGURES GIVEN
for health
drink the
all-american
beverage
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J. J. Sanders, parole clerk of the
state prison, has furnished Governor
Hunt with a statement of the commit
ments to the penitentiary for homicides
during the last two years. The figures
prepared by the parole clerk are in
tended to make a showing in favor of
anti-capital punishment of which he is
a strong advocate:
1916
First degree murder 6
Second degree murder 25
Manslaughter , 11
Total 42
1917
First degree murder 3
Second degree murder 5
Manslaughter ........10
Total .. -i
There may be nothing wron.r with
the foregoing figures, buL of the fifteen
homicides in this county alone since
capital punishment was abolished tiie
defendants in three cases were con
victed of murder in the first degree.
People of this law-abiding county will
learn with pained surprise that they
have, furnished one-third of all the life
men of the year and nearly all of the
convicts for second degree murder and
manslaughter, to say nothing of those
still in the county jail awaiting trial.
The other counties are yet to be heard
from.
built It was abolished on June 20,
when a temporary commission of
three appointed by the president was
set up. On July 1, 1S7.V the present
government by a commission of three,
two civilians and an army officer, ap
pointed bv the president, was estab
lished. The new municipality, which is co
terminous with the district, is legally
known as "the District of Columbia,"
The right of the citizens to elect their
local officers has been withdrawn and
they now pay taxes without having
any voice in the way the money is ex
pended. Although Washington had no legal
existence, the postoffice address of the
national capitol and the executive
mansion is given in the director of
congress as "Washington" and the di
rectory also gives the "Washington"
addresses of members of congress. Nu
merous acts of congress passed since
the repeal of the charter refer to
Washington as though it had a legal
status. In practice the name of the
district and the name of the city have
come to be synonymous.
EATS ARE GREATEST
ENEMIES OF BIRDS
( Geographic Magazine.)
The number of useful insect-eating
birds nesting on the ground or in low
FANTASTIC TALE
IS !
Clyde Keener, alias Fred Dill, who
related to the local poiioe who inter
cepted him. a fantastic tale of a wom
an's ill influence which led him into
all sorts of depredations and breaches
of the law, is enrnute to F.artlesville,
Oklahoma, in company with Deputy
Sheriff Ellis of that place, w here he is
alleged to have jumped his superior
court bail bond. Extradition was
granted yesterday by the governor.
Keener was arrested several weeks
ago on a ranch near Tempe. When
taken Into custody, he' told of his hay
ing served a sentence in the reform
school in Oklahoma while still a lad.
of leaving the institution only to enter
a life of carousing and dissipation
which ultimately led him into trouble.
Keener told how he "beat up" a street
car conductor and how when a robbery
was committed on the same line sev
eral months later, he was suspected of
and arrested lor the crime. ISecoming
acquainted with a woman of the under
world, Keener was persuaded by her.
so he says, to jump his bail, on the the
ory that the authorities "had it in for
him" and would prosecute him to the
limit. After a trip through the north
western United States, Keener finally
left the woman in Portland, Oregon,
and came to Phoenix, after which he
obtained a job herding cattle on a
ranch near Tempe.
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ONLY THE BEST FOR
UNCLE SAM'S ARMY
bushes which fall victims to rats is ex
tremely. large and is one of the many
kinds of injury done by these per
nicious animals which cannot be com
puted. Probably few frequenters of
the countryside have returned to look
into a bird's nest to observe its con
dition without many times finding it
destroyed and fragments of egg shells
lying about. Unquestionably a large
percentage of such nests located in the
neighborhood of buildings have been
raided by rats.
On one of the small Danish islands
it has been authentically recorded that
the progeny of a sinele pair of rats,
which escaped from captivity, in two
years' time exterminated a gTeat col
ony of birds for which the island had
been noted.
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SCRUBWOMAN LENT
$1000 TO UNCLE SAM
(Baltimore Star)
Mrs. Mary Eerger, scrubwoman at
the Liberty bond committee headquar
ters at AVilkes-Barre, Pa., gave bank
ers and bosters a surprise when she
brought ten JH'O bills to headquarters
and demanded the first bond sold
there. She was given that honor and
declared that she might purchase a few
more.
(Chicago Herald)
"Uncle Sam's fighters at ihe front
in France have a. right to expect oidy
the best in food, clothing and equip
ment, and if human efforts avail they
will get the best."
This declaration of principle by Col.
A. D. Kniskern, in charge of the
quartermaster's department in the
central war department of the army,
drew enthusiastic cheers from mem
bers of the Amcriean Meat Packers'
association.
Colonel Kniskern explained some of
the problems which confront the gov
ernment in feeding and clothing ai.
army, and told of the efforts by his
department to eliminate red tape.
"It requires five pounds of rations
to feed each soldier in garrison," he
said. "This means 5 million puui.dr
of foodstuffs a day and one million
men, or three thousand carloads a
month.
"Before the declaration of war my
office here in Cliicago spent some
thing like $100,ii00 a month for food
and supplies: now we are sper.ding
one billion and a half each month oi
this year, and we had J4.000 appeals
for1 assistance, of which between five
hundred anil six hundred have been
granted, and the cases are now being
proceeded with. There are ih fees
payable, but every appli:ant must
find the solicitor's out-of-pccUet ox-
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read-
i.s good Jm-acl when baked in the safe, sure
oven of a ( ias Range. Its even heat brings out
all the nourishment of bran and corn meal.
At noon, after the mornings play, or again for
supper War Bread is (iood Bread for the
little folks.
WAR BREAD RECIPE
We suggest the following excellent recipe for War Bread.
2'i pounds white flour
4 pound corn meal
1 cupful bran
3 level tablespoons sugar
l's level tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons Crisco or lard
1 quart water or other liquid
2 yeast cakes
For baking, use the same process as with the ordinary- w hite
flour loaf.
This makes three loaves of bread, saves wheat and utilizes
corn.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
penses, and expenses incidental to
witnesses. If witnesses are not
brought from a long distance the
whole proceedings from beginning to
end do not cost more than 10 ($50),
and some cases may be completed
for as low as 6 ($:0). Before wc
in order that these people might
take up a case we must be satisfied
that the applicant is really poor."
One of the best, known legal au
thorities on divorce expresses the
view that the life of the nation made
divorce essential. At the present
time a million men aivd women in
this country were separated by jus
tices' orders, and tens of thousands
more were living- apart owing to do
mestic infelicity. He believed th;.t
every legal facility should be granted
have no excuse for avoiding the ni
tional duty of parenthood. j
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Do not wait till tomorrow phono
that WANT AD. to The Republican
and dispose of, or get what you want.
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WASHINGTON HAS NO
LEGAL EXISTENCE
When President Wilson dated a. re
cent proclamation, "Done in the Dis
trict of Columbia. July 14, 1917," cur
iosity was at once aroused. Why had
he substituted 'District of Columbia"
for "the City of Washington?"
Inquiry developed the information
that Representative Johnson of Ken
tucky, chairman of the house commit
tee on District of Columbia, had called
th president's attention to the fact
that congress had repealed tho charter
of the city in 1871 and had set up a
territorial government for the whole
district, to take the place of the differ
ent municipal governments for Wash
ington and Georgetown.
Washington, therefore, has no legal
existence as a city, says the Philadel
phia Evening Ledger. When the dis
trict was first created the only munic
ipal corporation in it was Georgetown,
which was governed by a mayor and
council. When the City of Washington
was laid out, it was provided that it
should be governed by a commission
and the president. The district outside
of Washington and Georgetown was
governed by justices of the levy court
It was governed by the commission un
til a city council was created. This
form of government continued until
June 1, 1871, when the Georgetown and
Washington charters were repealed
and the justices of the levy court were
abolished and a territorial form of gov
ernment for the whole district was
created.
The law provided for a governor, a
board of public works, a secretary, a
board of health, a council of eleven
members, all appointed by the presi
dent. Tiie law also provided for a
house of delegates of twenty-two mem
bers and a delegate in the house of
representatives, both elected by the
people of the district.
It was under this form of govern
ment that modern Washington was
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The balance of the Moore Mercantile
ompany Bankrupt stock and fixtures.
REMEMBER
Everything must go nothing RESERVED.
Corner Adams and First Avenue
Consisting of hardware, graniteware,
household and kitchenware, dishes, tools
glassware, ammunition, paint and a large
stock of groceries that have to be sold in a few days.
THE TIME IS SHORT Dealers, Hotel and Restaurant men and the
Public in general are particularly invited to take advantage of this sale
as this is the chance of a lifetime.
ANIILE CO
SUCCESSOR TO McKEE'S CASH STORE
Old Location, Cor. Adams and First Ave. ROBERT PASCH, in charge
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