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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, PHOENIX, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1921.
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TVESDAT MORNING. OCTOBER 25, 1921
"In all the world there is nothing
so remarkable as a great man, noth
ing so rare, nothing which so well
repays study." .
Theodore Parker.
Thinking for Oneself
Under the caption "College Courses In Socialism"
the Arizona Star refers to a lecture by Miss M. Carey
Thompson, president of Bryn Mawr, to the young
women of Holyoke, In which she bemoaned the fact
that the instructors "are being required to teach not
how to make things as they should be, but that things
as they exist are right; that the United States con
stitution, as written 134 years ago, is perfect; that
our highly unsatisfactory government must not be
criticized; that the United States flag, which, as we
ail know, flies over many cruel injustices which we
hope to set right, must be reverenced as a sacred
symbol of unchanging social order, of political death
in life."
In the course of her address Miss Thompson took
up Wells' "Outline of .History." which she said was
""lapped up" by "disinterested students" as famished
kittens lap up new milk, and thereupon they became
International socialists. They were thus, in the opin
ion of Miss Thompson, taught "to think, for them
selves." We do not know of a more dangerous proceeding
than. for one untrained to think, to be allowed to
thinkX for himself in matters concerning which he
knows nothing; or, when he Is unable to trace the
relation of one circumstance to another.
All human wisdow and knowledge rest on human
experience. No entirely new thing has ever been dis
covered. Every discovery in science has borne some
relation, near or remote, to some fact that hadbeen
previously observed. There has never been a scien
tific revolution. Progress has been evolutionary.
Th tendency of teachers to try new paths without
Inquiry as to where they may lead is not a new one,
for many teachers are notoriously impractical. De
prived themselves of experience, they cut away from
the experiences of others. They hav in mind some
Ideal and set out across abysses and morasses toward
It.
Socialism Is a beautiful ideal. Anarchy Is still
1 ... ', f . . 1 A mi V, .r .tata rt anlctv in
t wkich everyone wisely governs himself; In which no
! restraint is put upon any member of society because
hei does not need it. In such circumstances there
would be no need of laws; we could afford to be
lawless. But there have never been such circum-stances.
The war developed some curious things in our
higher educational system. There was much more of
socialism than any of us suspected, and some bolshe
! vism There was widespread internationalism.
Long previous to that there had been complaint
i that certain great Institutions of learning were too
much under the thumb of capitalism, when, as a mat-
' ter of fact, hard-headed trustees, men of practical ex-
perience, had only put a check'upon the wild flights
of dreamers. A considerable furore was created a
1 few years ago when Dr. Scott Nearing, a member of
the faculty of an eastern university, was displaced be
cause of his teachings. He was regarded as a victim rt
capitalism. But, once freed of restraint, he turned out
under surveillance as a suspected enemy of the gov
ernment. A few years ago almost every college or university
student who had given special attention to political
economy emerged, on graduation, a free-trader. The
text books dealt with ideal conditions, prevailing
throughout the world, the same conditions existing
in all countries with respect to prdouction and raw
materials. It was, moreover, regarded as a sign of
scholarship to be a free-trader. In those days, at
least, the professors had no other knowledge of com
merce and industry than they gathered from the text
books, and the writers of the text books had "thought
for themselves." They had taken account only of
ideal but nonexistent conditions such conditions as
we would all welcome, but which could come about
only in an ideal state of society involving the entire
abolition df selfishness and the revamping of human
nature.
Prohibition and Automobiles
We do not think any of our readers can question
The Republican's position with respect to prohibition
or the sincerity of its desire to see prohibition en-
' forced. The abolition of the saloon was the longest
forward step the country- has taken since the aboli-
tion of slavery. It is no less important that alcoholic
liquors should be placed beyond the reach of all.
The mere wiping out of the saloons has not accom
plished that, but in time we feel sure that it will be
done. It may take years; maybe a generation.
We favor the employment of whatever means by
which prohibition may be enforced, which may con-
" tribute to the enforcement. But we seriously ques
tion whether the plan adopted by the state corpora
tion commission of removing from automobile deal
ers the protection which securities companies give
them against loss by the confiscation of cars against
which the dealers have claims and which may be
Wkn in the hands of bootleggers.
Very few car3 lfave been so taken. Cars are usu
ally sold on time to persons whom the dealers have
reason to believe are respectable and responsible citi
tns. Most dealers have therefore had no experience
with bootleggers, and the securities companies have
suffered only inconsequential losses.
But the securities companies have derived con
siderable revenue from insuring the dealers against
u'.l losses from possible confiscation, though in not
one case in a hundred is there really any risk as
sumed. j It they are. deprived of the ritdit so to insure cars
(, threaten to withdraw fiom the slate, so that
the dealers must either be prepared to handle all
the paper they take on cars sold on time, or sell for
cash. Very few purchasers of cars are prepared to
pay cash. No agency could survive if its business
were rut on a cash basis. And it is stated that there
are less than a half dozen agencies in Arizona that
could handle their own paper on a credit basis.
We will grant that now and then a car sold by
an automobile agency will be used by the purchaser
in the violation of the prohibition law, though perhaps
a majority of such cars are either stolen cars or cars
on which an agency has no claim. But should the
automobile agencies of Arizona be destroyed on the
mere chance of throwing an obstacle in the way of
a bootlegger?
The Telegraphers and the Strike
Speaking further of the vote of the railway tel
egraphers to join the country-wide railway strike,
now that we come to think of it, that was about the
most useless action of which we can conceive. If
the trains can not be stopped by the withdrawal of
engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and switch
men from the service, they could not be stopped by
the desertion by the telegraphers of their keys. And
if the trains could be stopped there would be nothing
for the telegraphers to do.
In some ways the action of the telegraphers re
minds us of the comprehensively sighted farmer who
cut a big hole and a little one in the door of his barn
so that both the little dog and the big dog could
have ingress and egress.
We can see how a revolt of the telegraphers might
further complicate and embarrass a disorganized
railway service, but a strike that cannot accomplish
more than a disorganization and partial paralysis
of a service is already doomed to failure. If a "tieup"
is not complete it is not a tieup at all.
The Larger House
Submitted to him as an abstract proposition, that
of enlarging the membership of the house of repre
sentatives, the average citizen will declare that the
house membership is already too large; that the busi
ness of the nation would be transacted more promptly
and equally as well if there were not so many fingers
in the pie
The members already In congress have no personal
Interest in increasing the membership. The fewer
there are of them, the greater will be the shares of
honor of each. So it would seem that there is little
chance of enlarging the membership, since neither
the existing members want it and their individual
constituents do not want it But the constituent as
an individual and the constituent in the mass are
two very different persons, though both may be wear
ing the same hat.
The former objects to the expense of a more nu
merous membership as well as the unwieldiness of
a house to the point of inefficiency. But the con
stituent in the mass wants the state in which he re
sides to have as many members of the house as pos
sible. Every congressional district would rather be
two districts than one.
p But perhaps the individual constituent would not
actively concern himself about the matter if left to
himself. But he Is stirred up by the politician and
place-hunter, and to the place-hunter elysium is that
state of society in which there is an infinity of places
with good salaries. A bigger house is a further ap
proach to elysium.
The better plan would be to stick to the constitu
tion, to that part of it which provides for proportional
representation. As a matter of fact, not one citizen
in a thousand or ten thousand could say offhand six
months after reapportionment which states gained and
which lorr representation in the process. Moreover,
one first clas representative can bring more prestige
to a state than a dozen mediocre members.
If any change at all is to be made in the size of
the house of representatives it should be to reduce the
number of the members. The houuse is too big as it
is. It sprawls all over itself and is unnecessarily
costly to the taxpayers for mere physical mainte
.nance. And when it comes to supporting the house
of representatives, every living person, every man,
woman and child in the country is a taxpayer regard
less of ownership of property.
It is said that an additional expense of a half mil
lion dollars a year would be entailed by the proposed
Increase of 25 members. Why even consider this use
less expense when the watchword of the nation is
economy?
WANTED A PEACE-MAKER
Mr. Chesterton has served notice that he will not
visit the United States again until it has freed itself
of prohibition. Adieu. A last long and happy fare
well to Mr. Chesterton, though he become a competi
tor of Methusilah.
We' w-ere reminded yesterday of the procession
and succession of the seasons. Summer cannot last
always even in the Salt River valley.
A fashion note says that by next midsummer half
of the men will be wearing knee pants. If so, the
other half will be standing on the corner guying
them.
How long will the entente allow Charles to sit on
the Hungarian throne if he should secure it?
President Harding has tried to make it clear to
those who expect things to be done in the twinkling
of an eye that the accomplishments in the disarma
ment conference may fall short of heated imagination.
Admission to Moscow theaters, it is said, is paid
with vegetables. We have heard of American theater
goers carrying decayed vegetables, even antiquated
eggs, past the box office.
"MRS. LADY"
A woman who said "Call me plain Mrs. Lady"
drove up to a sehoolhou.se in New York city and dis
tributed an auto load of apples to 2000 children. This
unusual performance halted traffic for 10 minutes,
the traffic cops gleefully assisting.
Farmers, instead of letting food rot because
selling price doesn't pay for the trouble of marketing,
would get much happiness if they hauled food into
poor districts of cities and distributed it to the job
less. The satisfaction of being a "Mrs. Lady" beats
wheat at $3.50 a bushel.
JOKE
A great joker was Hugh Brennan, 32 years old,
of Lynn, Mass. His favorite prank on fellow-motor-men,
when he was off duty, was to run into the street
and fall down in front of a street car. That upset
the nerves ot the electric driver and Hugh got many
a laugh.
The other morning he tried his trick before a car
driven by motorman Pat Connolly. The brakes didn't
work. P-rennan has a fractured skull. Every prac
tical joker eventually causes a serious accident. Un
fortunately, it is not always to himself
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WOMEN IN POLITICS
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
WHY PRICES STAY HIGH
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 "Why,"
demands an editor out in the corn
belt, "does the retailer charge from
35 to 40 cents a pound for pork chops
when hogs cost him only 6 or 7
cents?"
He is one of a chorus singing dif
ferent words to the same tune. A
man down in Oklahoma wants to
know why he cannot tote enough
hides across the street on his back to
buy a pair of shoes. A man in Geor
gia wants to know why cotton
enough to make a tent won't buy an
undershirt. And a farmer in Mary
land asks why apples, such as he fed
to his hogs because it would not pay
to haul them to market, sell for 5
cents each on the fruit stands.
All of these questions have been
asked many times. They have also
been loudly answered with the asser
tion that retail prices are too high,
which is of course merely begging
the question. Sometimes it is added
that the retailer is a profiteer, which
is generally not true and certainly
sheds no light on the situation.
When the editor's query was laid
before certain marketing experts in
the government service, it waslearned
that the question is a good deal more
complicated than those who blame
the retailer and let it go at that, ever
imagined. The department of agri
culture is making a study of the re
tail prices of farm products in all of
the principal American cities. It is
going to find out just why these
prices are so inordinately high and
why the farmer gets such a small
share of the large price that the con
sumer pays. The government men
do not care to be quoted, nor to make
any extensive comment, until this
investigation has been completed.
But in the meantime they throw out
a few hints.
In the first place, they say, don't
be too quick to blame the retailer.
Retail prices, probably are too high,
but they are not as much too high
as you think. The retailer has been
facing a dull market for a long time
now. His great need is to turn over
his stock. It is extremely probable
that he would reduce prices if he
could afford to do so, in order to
stimulate trade. In many cases, of
course, he has done so. The papers
are full ot oargain eaie auvcruw
ments. Yet the average of retail
prices remains high.
Cost of Railing High
This, say the experts, is partly be
cause the cost of retailing, as a busi
ness operation, is high. Out of the
35 cents that you pay for pork chops,
the retailer must pay, not only the
price of the pork at wholesale, but
also the rent of his store, the cost of
the ice on which he kept the pork,
the wages of the man who cut it and
sold it to you, the paper in which it
was wrapped, and the upkeep of the
vehicle in which it was delivered.
The experts do not seem to know
exactly what percentage of the cost
of those pork chops is represented
by each of these elements in its
transfer. That is probably one of the
things their investigation will re
veal. But they think that the price
paid for the pork is less than half of
the total cost of getting it from
wholesaler to consumer. And all of
these factors in the operation have
risen in cost. Rent, wages, ice. pa
per, gasoline no one needs to be told
that all of these things are from 10 to
100 per cent higher than they were
in 1913.
Remember, too, that with many
persons out of work and money tight
the retailer is doing a smaller than
normal business. But he still pays
the same rent and ho probably has
to maintain about the same staff,
uu reduction in expenses, in a word,
is not in proportion to his reduction
in holiness. That means tnai me cost
each sale is higher than
it would be if he wero doing a big
business. If the butcher only sold one
pound of pork chops in a day he
would have to get $10 or 15 for it in
order to break even.
As a matter of fact the profiteer
ing retailer is probably a raru bird
lust now. A few of them are perhaps
making large profits by sticking to
war time prices, but many more of
them are only hoping to make ex
penses until better times come along.
The difficulty, explains the expert,
lies in the fact that retail prices and
wages and farmers' earnings are all
on different levels. In order that
our clumsy industrial system may
work at all, they must te on the
same level. . . .
P.rmer Felt Drop First
w-hen nr.ccs began to drop
drop fell on the farmer fust.
.u of.wk-B of footstuffs on
the buvers refused to give him a
i,(h r, tor what he raised. J.ut
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sell. i?o iic
saler and retailer r fus d
wages remained high, and any co
operation and storage, both of which
the farmer lacked, they were able
to keep up their prices to a great
extent.
But the farmers form about 40 per
cent of the buying public. Having
very little money, this large section
of the buying public nought very lit
tle. Manufacturers of farm imple
ments immediately felt the pinch.
Their sales in many cases fell off
more than half. Other manufacturing
lines also felt it. As a result factory
employees were thrown out of work.
Unemployment set in. It affected
millions. So the buying public was
still further reduced, demand declin
ed still more, the cost of every re
taiing operation rose and the retailer
with his high prices was less than
ever in a position to reduce them.
It is a" statement which is easy to
understand, but hard to remedy. If
a bushel of potatoes would buy a
pair of shoes in 1913, but it takes two
bushels of potatoes to buy a pair of
shoes now. then the potato growers
can only buy half as many shoes
now as in 1913. One result is that
employees of shoe factories will be
thrown out of jobs. Then they can't
buy any shoes, either.
Really, the farmer, if at all intelli
gent, is in an enviable position. He
at least can eat. It is only the farm
er who raises nothing but one money
crop who now suffers the man who
raises only tobacco, or cotton, for ex
ample. The farmer who produces hogs
and chickens and keeps dairy cattle
and raises potatoes and beans and
other vegetables, need go to market
for very little of his food. He is vast
ly better off than that ex-shoe fac
tory employee, for example.
Business will never pick up until
the farmer once more is able to buy
a pair of shoes with a bushel of po
tatoes. That can be accomplished
either by giving the farmer more or
the shoemaker less. The diagnosis is
easy, but tne only remedy seems to
be a slow process of readjustment.
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1 Questions And
Answers
(Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Repub
lican Information Bureau. Frederic
J. Haskin, director, Washington, D.
C This offer applies strictly to in
formation. The bureau cannot give
advice on legal, medical, and finan
cial matters. It does not attempt to
settle domestic troubles, nor to und
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erionBraleyS
Daily Poem.
What do you want out of living?
What is your hope and your
dream?
Think of it. plant for it, work all you
can for it.
Use all your vigor and steam!
Never be swerved from your pur
pose. Pick your objective and climb;
Keep at it, keep at it!
Keep doggedly at it
Allatime, kid, allatime!
Tou may not get all that you wanted
Success may escape from your
clutch.
But if you don't yearn for It, strive
for it, burn for it,
You'll never get anything much;
Keep on and you cannot fail wholly
At least you will touch the sub
lime: Keep at it, keep at it!
Keep doggedly at it
Allatime, kid, allatime!
The dream's not enough you must
seeK u
With constant, unwavering will,
Go after it, fret for it, labor and
sweat for it.
Use all your cunning and skill;
It's just an old truth that I'm preach
ing.
A copy-book maxim in ryhme.
But nevertheless it's the key to. sue
cess
Keep st it, keep at it!
Keep doggedly at it
Allatime, kid. aPnt'me!
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With
hand
Military tanks were used in Eng
land to check heath fires this sum
mer. All efforts to check heath fire
flames near Aiders-hot failed until a
detachment of tanks, with water and
chemicals, cleared the way for the
fire fighters who followed through.
Q. I would like to know what kind
of rock "Plymouth Rock" is? T. H
A. Plymouth Rock is a granite
boulder.
Q. What the largest attend
ance at a world series game? R. W
A. The largest recorded attend
ance at a world series game was 46,-
620. on Oct 12. 1916.
Q. Why is the symbol "I" used for
ampheree instead of "A"? H. A. S
A. i ne symbol I had its or
igin, in the word "intensity." and in
certain languages other than Eng
lish, this word is regularly used
where we say current, but in the In
terest of international uniformity
this was ascrificed in order to gain
other points. The letter "I" is now
the accepted international symbol.
Q. What countries are included
the Near East? V. S.
A. The countries included In the'
Near East are: Abyssinia. Afghanis
tan, Albania, Arabia, Armenia. Asia
Minor. Egypt, Eritrea, Greece, C'y-
trus, Malta, Mesopotamia. Morocco.
Palestine. Persia .Smyrna. Svria. Tri- I
poli. Tunis. Turkey.
Q. Is glass porous? B. N. B.
A. Glass is impermeable to liquids
and gases and is therefore not por
ous.
Q. Where did aeraniums come
from? F. G. W.
A. The ordinary garden gerani
ums are spec es of pelargonium and
are natives of South Africa.
Q. What is German silver made
of? W. N. D.
A. German silver Is a white alloy
composed of nickel, copper and xinc.
The best quality consists of four
parts copper, two parts nickel and
two parts line, but in this proportion
it is difficult to work. For some uses
a small amount of lead is added.
Q. Are any of the trees of the
Garden of Gethsemane still living?
F. K. A.
A. On the land now known as the
Garden of Gethsemane there are now
eight very old olive trees which tra
dition says were living in the time of
Christ. The actual location ot the
oaraen or uur uira Agony" was
lost and the present site selected as
the probable location.
Q. How large a capacity must the
refrigerators on a ship like the Olym
pic have? M. L.
A. The refrigerators of the Olym
pic have a capacity of POO tons of
food. This ship when full carries
3,500 persons.
Q. Kindly settle an argument by
stating what city is known as Falls
City. n. U.
A. Louisville. Ky., Is known by
this title, probably because of th
rapids of the Ohio river, near the
city.
Q. Recently I came across an illu.
sion to the parliament of Dunces, Can
you enlighten me in regard to this?
G. B. t.
A. In 104, at Coventry, England.
a parliament convened by Henry IV,
was known variously as the Parlia
ment of Dunces, the L nlearned Par
Hament and the Lack-learning par
lament., uuu tne iiiiiiu applied In
der sion, probably by lawyers.
u. w wavy v,rugeu ever in
congress! r. G. S.
A. I'avid Crockett was in congress
from 1S2S to 1S"0 and from to
131, representing a lennessee con
stituency. At the end of his Tast con
gressionai term ne juineu tne 'rexuns
In thar war against Mexico and
helped defend the Alamo in 1S36. He
was one ot the six survivors who sur
rendered and was shot by order of
Santa Ana.
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Discarded hats constitute a real
problem for hotels of New York. One
chain of hotels rounded up more than
3000 discarded hats, collected from
rooms where they had been left by
patrons. The discarded hats will be
sent to Central Europe for distribu
tion.
Another woman has been elected to the House of
Commons and will now be the playmate of Lady Astor.
She is Mrs. Thomas Wintringham, widow and a
Member for Louth.
She has been elected as a Liberal and succeeds her
husband, who died in the House of Commons Library.
Other women have in recent years taken their
ace in National Councils. We have had women in the
National Legislature of the United States. A woman
delegate has sat in the meeting of the League of Na
tions at Geneva.
These two women are now Members of the House
of Commons in England. Other women have been
chosen for elective and appointive positions in other
States.
They are but drops before the coming shower.
There is little doubt that more and more women
will take their place in public life, for the reason that
that is where they naturally belong. And that is the
position for which their peculiar temperament and
qualities fit them.
Government is a woman s business not a man s.
It is in the nature of housekeeping. The man's busi
ness is to produce, to work, and to adventure. The
natural sphere of a woman is to conserve what ne
gams.
And that is all government ought to be merely a
taking care of the results which man has attained.
Some people look upon the entrance of women into
politics as threatening the home, and they are sad.
Others look upon the same thing and are gleeiul, .
because thev do not believe in the home.
Both of these are wrong.
Woman will never lose her place in the home. That
is where she naturally belongs, and so long as there
are homes women wall rule them, and so long as there
are children women will bring them up.
But the point is that woman is an individual, bne
is engaged in the home business, which is the conserv
ing business, just as man is engaged witn tne outsiae
world, which is the producing business.
And there is no reason why the home-maKer ana
conservator should not have her place in the affairs of
State as well as the outside adventurer.
i Indeed, a mind trained to the care of children and
the affairs of a home is better qualified to run affairs
of State than a mind that has been .trained in a
lawyer's office or a dry goods store. -
Little by little we are coming to see the folly of
the idea of government leadership. It is not the busi
ness of a government to lead. Leadership is the prov
ince of the individual life and voluntary organizations.
The sole business of government is to preserve the peace
and maintain the mutual rights of individuals and
voluntary organizations.
In other words, government ought to govern and
not to rule. Government should follow and not lead.
Government is preservative and not constructive.
In proportion as we1 get hold of this idea we shall
see that government is peculiarly woman's place.
Let us hope that the time is not far off when all
mayors, governors, presidents, councillors, and legis
lators, or at least the majority of them, are feminine.
This will release a lot of husky men who had better
be out making a living and doing something con
structive. .
"War does not pay," so declares
Pierre S. 1'u Pont, chairman of the
1C. I. D-.i 1'ont do Nemours and coin-
he had to sell. ?o ne I'-'wu. a. ,v. j i ins lliaier oi uiuiiiLions
price Wholesaler and retailer r rus a that his cotiu any has lost, as a result
o fol'ow suit The cost of their op- (if the war through taxation, accrued
erations was' high, chiefly because 1 proliis of 20 year
San Francisco hii;h school girls
voted nine to one against silk stof-k
ings, fancv frocks. transparent
ilrisses and pyramid hair dressing
Cotton stockings, middy blouses an
wash dresses will be substituted.
ABOUT THE STATE
Open New Church
MIAMI The church of St. Joseph,
located at Clay pool on the Globe-
Miami highway will be oi-neu uii
Oct. 30. This is tne cuui. u
Rev. Father Barrette has ueeu en
rolled In building aurms i"
summer. Silver Belt.
May Close Night School
MIAMI Unless pupils attend the
night classes of trie nign i "
greater numoers in -
some of the classes will have to be
discontinued, according to announce
ment made by
Negus this morning.
The night school is being main
tained at the present time, he says at
cost of $2,000 a year mm -"-
intendent feels that tne hiii-,......,
does not justify such expenditure-
Bulletin.
Shot While Hunting
FLAGSTAFF Joe P. Wilson, cash
ier of the Arizona Central bank was
accidentally shot dy Dr. A. J. Mackey
at Rogers Lake Sunday
while the two were in a small boat
hunting ducks. Nearly the full
charge of No. 4 chilled shot contained
In the cartridge struck Mr. Wilson
in the right hip. covering a surface
at least six inches square and mak
in. o wound or eroup of wounds
.I... oviremelv painful but
which Drs. G. F. Manning, Sr.. G. F.
M.ino .lr and R. O. Raymond,
-h rii-oased the wound, think will
not prove fatal Sun.
nio. From Wounds
voniLVS Death at 9:30 a'clock
ihi mnmin; nut an end to the suf
ferine Sam Perrent. 30-year-old
miner of the Patagonia district, who
was shot by R. 15. Verfurth of Bisbee
during a deer hunt ten days ago in
the Santa Rita mountains, when Ver
furth mistook him for a "spiked
buck.'" Herald. ,
r.harn. Witness With Perjury
TiTSfiX-Aliening that she had
committed perjury in a recent hear
inir beforn United States Commis
sioner Edwin F. Jones, a ceropumi
was served earlv yesterday afternoon
upon Mrs. Ora May Hedgpeth in the
county jail, by Deputy United States
Marshal James M. Treheay.
Mis. Hedgpeth has been detained
in the jail lor some time as a ma
terial witness in the case of Sam
E. Cox. who is charged with viola
tion of the white slave traffic uct,
and who has been bound over to the
United States court under 1 1.000
bond. She is under a $i00 bond,
which she has been unable to fur
nish. Star.
Continue Oil Operations
WINSLOW The Taylor interests
in the Holbrook field have received
this week several carloads of tim
bers, etc., to be ere-ted in the field.
Dr. S. Karl Taylor has been inter
ested in the field for some month and
with his associates has nco'iirod a
large acreage. It is most encourag
ing to kimw that the renl activity
of tr f.ins mat -rials on the ground
Besides encouraging those who have
already Invested in the field, it de
notes a degree of confidence in the
future of the field. In the meantime
the Holbrook and the Adatnana com
panies are working steadily. Mail.
Awards $22,500 Damages
PRKSCOTT The judicial gavel
fell for the last time In federal court
yesterday afternoon when a Jury
brought in a verdict of 122, 500 dam
ages for Mrs. Phillimones D. Ellott
on account of the death in a grade
crossing accident of her husband
about a year ago. Tliis was the final
case, before Judge Jeremiah Neterer,
who now goes to I'hoenix. Journal-
Miner.
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HVi
COMPANY
MAKING SIMS
0"i
THE COLORADO
I. G. Coockroft, hydrographer for
the Edison Electric company, arrivea
Saturday from Lee's Ferry, where
the company has made application te
the federal power commission and
the water commissioner ot Arizona
for a power site. It Is now engaged
in preliminary work to save time
in the event of the granting of the
permit.
This work consists ot the survey
of the highline and measurements of
the river, flow in the latter, the
United States geological survey co
operating. Tee weather bureau alse
has established an evaporation sta
tion at that point. There are five
parties in the field along the Colo
rado, the Green and the San Juan
rivers. The surveying is nearly fin
ished but the gathering of the resl
of the data will run over Into next
year.
It is estimated that this work will
furnish power equal to one-fourth of
all the water rower now In use In the
United States; that it will hold
enough wat r to irrigate 1,225,000
acres. The dam will have a height
of betwen 400 and 500 feet and will
back up the water in Green river for
200 miles, making all the stretch
navigah'.e.
It is believed that the lake thus
created together with the roads that
will be built in consequence of con
struction, will open to the world th'f
beautiful, interest ng but hitherto al
most unknown region.
The investigations now being con
ducted ore the first ever made along
the Colorado above Topock and Nee-
and the erection of a
is a fact. dies.