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the entire West. On the evening of the
9th there was an exemp plifcaticn OF the
third degree On the following morning
the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch
Masons met, and in the afternoon there
was the first Masonic conclave in the Won
derful cavern of the Copper Queen. This
was followed by the meeting Of the Grand
Commandery of the Knights Templar,
and then a joint meeting of the Grand
Lodge and Grand Chapter.
Reports OF all the grand officers show
the Masonic fraternity in the Territory in
a most fattering light. There has been
good increase in mem bership and sub
stanual addition to the Golfers OF individ-
uaI lodges, as well as of the :rand bodies.
The next Grand Lodge will assem- BILE at
Globe, where there are COZ per mines and
old mines even as famous as this won
derful money-producer known as the Cop
per Queen. 1t is sible that some sub
terTanean surprise and delight may be in
store for the fraternity at Globe next year.
But Globe will give the members no
hearter a welcome than did Bisbee.
There has been broad-gauge liberality
manifested here on every hand, aud Ben
jtmln and Lewis Williams. the managers
and chief owners of the mine, the rail-
road and most of the other big institu-
lions have gone to endless expense and
trouble to make every visitor TO the city
glad OF the good fortune that waited him
hither.
The members of the Grand Lodge of
Arizona. who, with one or two excep-
tlons, were present at the conclave,
together with the newly elected officers,
are as follows:
Master. j. B. Cracmer, Phoenix; deputy mas
ter, A A johns, Pres colt; senior warden, C.
c. Warner, Bisbee; junior warden, George
Montague, Nogales; secretary, George Ros-
k1nge, Tucson; treasurer, NJ. w. Kales,
Pheaix; chaplain, Rev. L. L. Rogers, GIobe
rrator. Charles D. Belden, Phoenix; lecturer,
Morris Goldwater, Prescott; marshal, James
d. Monihan, Phoenix; standard be arer, W. H.
Burbage Winslow; sword bearer, W. C. Tru-
man, Florence; Bib e. bearer, James S. Cromb,
Clifton; senior deacon, Edgar A Nichols WILL
cox; junior deacon. James Henry Pascoe,
Globe; senior steward, James G. Savage Flag
staff junior steward, Waller C. Miller Jerome;
pursulvant. Ben Cook, Tombstone; orgauist,
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we're performed In temple of surprising
beauty and magnificent dimensions, in the
building OF which he sound OF hammer or
trowe! was never heard. Two hundred
feet below daylight, at the end of half
mile of windings through narrow tunnels
in the very heart Of a great limestone and
porphyry mountain, is the wonderful
tempIe-a cavern of unknown proportions
and of exquisite natural ado1nment far
beyond the power of man % initiate.
Two years ago some dust begrimed
dwellers in the upper levels OF the now
great Copper Queen mine, drifting their
dark way into the depths of Mother Earth.
came suddenly upon this chamb Der and
we're struck dumb with astonishment By
the partial vision Of seeming openlng
into earth's Inferno. The Pickering light
of their taIlow dips, glancing on the many
hued carboniZed lime drippings of centu-
ries showed them limitless rift that wa
shadowy and weird. Within the week
1000 visitors from many parts o! the world
traversed long maze Of wei Lighted and
roomy tunnels, leading them into brill
liantly Illuminated cavern, that has a
thousand glories and is said to be more
beautiful than any other cave yet discov-
cred.
The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
MasoHs, the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons and the Grand Com mandery of
Knights Temp.ar of Arizona, ACCOMPANIED
by Governor NJ. H. McCord. Ex-Governor
n. O. Murphy and several other Territorial
officials and distinguished guests from
abroad, held their annual conclave in the
cavern On "Wednesday. Since the Masons
Jof antiquity performed their mystic rites
\ In the lnnermost cham bers of the pyra-
Vm.as or the secret recesses of the Chaldean
N5pIs, no lodge Of the ancient and
honorable brotherhood has been so won
oerousiy and behtungly housed.
Between L time of it's discovery and
It's dedication 10 the sym bolic mysteries
OF the blue room, the great cavern has
been visited by none but those connected
with the management of the Copper Queen
Consolidated Mining Company, and its
existence has been almost unknown 10 the
outer world.
Hereafter, at intervals which do not in
terfere with the work in the mines, the
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PbOgrabhsd By H. miller of Bsb The Call" Copyright 1917

The newly elected officers of the Grand
Comm andeEy and its me,n bers, who are
not officers of the Grand Lodge or chap
ter, are:
Grand commander. Rlckmer n. Fredericks,
Prescott; deputy commander, Prosper P.
Parker, Phoenix; generalissimo, Henry D. Un-
derwood, Tucson; captain general, F. G.
Brecht, Prescott; prelate, Charles D. Belden,
Phoenix; senior warden. Thomas Armstrong,
PfHaix; junior warden, Kirt L. Hart,
Tu son; treasurer, George II. 7. Luhrs,
Phenix; recorder, George Roskruge, Tues on
standard bearer, A. A Johns, Prescott; sword
bearer, c. H. Knapp, Phoenix; warder, George
Williams, Tucson; captain of the guards,
George W. Vickers, Prescott. Members from
Tucson, A W. Gregory, John c. Herndon.
Phoenix, Charles F. Ainsworth Benjamin P.
Gillett, C. ]. Bennett, Charles W. Johnson.
On Wednesday afternoon the Grand
Commandery received an official visit
from the Right Eminent Sir George J.
Roskruge, representative of the M ost Emil
nent Sir William La Rue Thomas, grand
master of the knights Templar of the
United STATES. OF course it all closed
with a banquet, and herein particularly
were the grand bodies, the guests OF Per-
feet Ashlar Lodge No. II of Bisbee. The
banquet was held in the Grand Opera
house, which, with rare taste, had been
decorated with profuson of cut flowers,
flags, embIems and Incandescent lights,
under the supervision of Mrs M. Crossey
A very novel feature of the floral adorn-
ments was an immense centerpiece upon
which were mounted six white doves
each bearing in its beak an ingot of the
pure metal that has made Bisbee rich and
the Copper Queen famous.
After an elaborate menu, toasts ire re-
sponoed to by ex.Congressma N. c.
Murphy, Ex-Governor L. c. Hughes
Grand Master J. b. Craemer, Hon. Carlos
G. Young of San Francisco. Senior Palaerz
of Hermosillo, Mexico. Colonel Frank
Cox, Governor Myron II. McCord, Morris
Goldwater and Grand Secretary Roskruge.
All the speeches were crisp and brief
Governor McCord, in responding TO the
toast "Brotherly Love-" struck the key
note in his anagram that, whereas, Free
m asonry may have begun in the build in e
of Solomon Temple, the work of modern
masonry was the building of Solomon for
the temple. Whether the lodge room be
cavern or hail. it symbolized the universe
and the universalily OF Freemasonry.
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.SLEDGING MEAT
TO DAWSON CITY
Thorpe Party'S Venture
Gives Promise of
Success.
Lake Bennett Reached With
Thirty-Six Head of
Cattle.
Will Be Slaughtered There and
Transported to the kIondike
on SledS.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

SEATTLE, Nov. 13. The steamer City
OF Seattle arrived here this afternoon from
juneau and Skaguay, Alaska. Among
the passengers was Addison Stewart, who
was with the Thorpe party. He left his
associates eight days ago. They had just
reached Lake Bennett with thirty-six head
of cattle.
The lake and river were freezing rapidly,
and by the time the cattle were butchered
and seds built it was thought the river
would be sufficiently frozen to permit the
party starting for Dawson City with the
frozen beef. Waerichter and Steuber of
Spokane had also reached Lake Bennett
with their droves of cattle.
John Macarthur OF Seattle, who went to
Cooks Inlet last spring in the interest Of
the ALASKA Gold syndicate, was also pas
seneer He made extensive explorations
in the country tributary to Cooks Inlet.
He discovered twelve rivers which had
never previously been located. He de-
scrl bed it as rough mountainous coun-
try. which he thinks is very rich in quartz
lodges, the groupings of which show 81 40
to the ton.
Macarthur says that a party of twenty
men is now camped at Kuik Arm, at the
mouth of the Natanuski River, waiting
the arrival OF the Copper River Indians,
who come down to trade at Cook Inlet. t.
The intention of the men is to follow the
Indians back, and if possible locate tie
field from which they procure the gold
brought out by them on their trading
expeditions.
There is now about ten inches of snow
on White Pass and about two feet on
Chilcoot. People are still packing over
both routes.
Tne telephone line from Dyea 10 the
lakes has been completed as far as Sheep
CamD.
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Choosing a Husband.

i've as possible in modest, womanly way
and rely upon human nature and manly
instinct
A sensible man naturally seeks a whole.
some looking, healthy, capable companion.
Men are not unselfish enough to willingly
assume the care of a weak, nervous, de.
bilitated wife.
Men are not attracted by sal1ow, pimply
complexion, foul breath, or thin, emaciated
forrn because these symptoms are the sure
index of poor digestion and impoverished
blood.
woman afflicted by these mortifyins
miseries should seek the powerful, purify.
ing and nutrimental influence of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery which com.
pletely dispels all unwholesone appear.
ances by clearing and renovating the organic
sources of healthful vitality.
1t helps the liver to filter all bilious i'm.
purities from the blood. 1t gives the diges-
tive organs power to extract nourishment
from the food 1t rounds out thin forms
wipes away wrinkles, and gives to the com.
plexion its natural clearness and bloom
"Your Golden Medical Discovery cured me
of a severe of poisoning of the blood"
writes Mrs. Selia Ricca of Coast Sauta Cruz Co.
Cal Boils one after another would break out or
my arms, and were very painful. 1 have tried thu
loudly praised Sarsaparilas without any benefit
whatever, and not until took your Discovery
did get we'll That was two wears aro and !
have not had boil or sore of anv kind since"
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I,np0rfant DfSpensnry Deciston.

dee ana Newman of the United States
court handed down decision in the
famous dispensary case this morning, en-
joining the Southern Railway from re-
iusing to haul liquor into South Carolina
in the future.
The decision is an i'm portant one, in that
the original-package law is involved.
The Judges decided that liquors and wip es
in bottles packed in boxes and shipped in
carload lots were, under the law of South
Carolina, clearly admissible and should
be handled by any railroad.
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ROADS RESUMiNG TRAFFIC.
Yellow Fever Less Fatal in the South
and the Business Situation
Is Improving.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 13.-There was
an increase in the mum Der of yellow fever
cases to-day, eleven being reported. Ed
ward C. Mitchell and Jennie Collins died
of the disease.
However, the business situation i.
steadily improving as the country par
ishes and surrounding States are gradu-
ally relaxing their quarantine restric-
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the city. Refugees are be.

tions against the city. Refugees are be-
ginning to return 10 the city.
The Louisville and Nashville r ilroad
has put on its coast train again and the
removal of the Texas quaran :ine on Mnn-
day next will allow the Southern Pacific
and other roads to resume traffic.
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COMING TO
CALIFORNIA
TO RESIDE
Huntington Disposing Of
His Holding in the
East.
MUCH LAND ALREADY
SO-D.
There Remains Property Worth
at Least Five Million
Dollars.
THIS INCLUDES THE FIFTH
AVENUE MANSION.
Interests Of the Railroad Magnate
to 3, Centered on the
Paclf Coast.
There Remains Property Worth
at Least Five Million
Dollars.
THIS INCLUDES THE FIFTH
AVENUE MANSION.
Interests of the Railroad Magnate
to 3, Centered on the
Paclf Coast.
Special Dispatch to THE CALI.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Collis P. Hunt
ington is going to leave New York for
good and as preliminary step has begun
to dispose of his vast interests IL this city
and in the East generally. In a short
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Grand Lodge Session Held Two
Hundred Feet Below
Daylight.
INVASION OF THE COPPER
QUEEN MINE.
k'ystic Rites of the Order Per-
formed in a Subterranean
Wonderland.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

5ISBEE, AR1z., Nov. 13-The sixteenth
session OF the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Arizona. which has just closed here, was
unique in the history of lauer-day Ma
sonry. It's mystic rites and ceremonies
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NEW TO-DAY.
WE MAKE men

Healthy, strong and vigorous by our new and
wonderful cure Stubborn chronic diseases of
the heart. brain and nerves that have batfied
physicians for years. and which, in fact, are
incurable by the use of Ell ther drugs or electric
lily alone speedily and completely yield to the
com bined influence OF electricity and medi-
cine, the two great agents which form our
magical and infallible
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

nonsensical He also insists that he and
the men who voted for him are the Dem
ocratic party. There is no uncertain
ground--and certainly no soothing. con-
cilatory sound-in the latest public ut
terances Of Mr.. Bryan. I'm my opinion"
he said to the Chicagoans on st. Jack
sons Day. there should be no compro-
mise i'm the issues involved in the late
campaign. and no terms short of abso-
lutte surrender offered 10 those who have
deserted us. IL any Democrat becomes
convinced that the gold standard is
necessary or becomes defender of trusts
he can leave the party and join the bolt
ing Democrats or the Republicans"
Those of us who live long enough will
see whether Mr.. Bryan's views as to the
only terms to be offered to the ..de-
serters" Of 1896 prevail i'm the congress
sional campaign of 1898 and the presi-
Dental campaign of 1900. Meanwhile
the gold Democrats have fresh food for
thought in that remark of his about
absolute surrender"
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FOUR SAD YEARS.

Enormous Increase In Failures Under
Free Trade and hreats Of Popufis,n.
The Florida Times Union, "A Demo
cratic paper, calls attention editorially TO
the tremendous increase in the business
disasters in the past four years, and la
ments over the tact that not only have
there been failures and disasters but that
these business troubles have bred "A new
national plague, populsm. It's utter
ances ON the subject are interesting,
even though it fails TO absolutely admit
that the downward course of business
began with the election of free trade
President and Congress. Its remarks are
as follows:
The list of commercial failures of the
year just passed, as compiled by buns,
is interesting. From the report il APP
pears that the number of failures was
larger than that of any other year ia
the history of the country, save in 1893.
During the latter year the number of
failures aggregated 1860, and in 1896
the number was 15,112 The following is
the tabulated list with percentages. In
this table the liabilities are expressed
in millions of dollars, and the ''per cent.
falling represents the percentage of
failures to the number of Trims and cor
porations in actual business
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TAKE CARE OF THE REVENUES.
And the Currency of the Country will
lake Care Of Itself.

And the Currency of the Country will
lake Care Of Itself.
During the last three months govern
ment notes TO the amount of only S19.-
100000 were redeemed in gold. an aver
age of 57,OOO,OOO per anDum. The
amount redeemed during the fiscal year
of 1896 was $3.50. 0OO.OO0 and in 1895 il
was 17.OO0.0OU. This shows how lit
tie ground there is for the chatter about
the governments going ont of the bank
ing business" The silver purchas sing act
was not a stroke of wise craftsmanship,
hut il is evident that the treasury notes
issued in payment Tor purchases of silver
have played little part in depicting the
gold reserve. This act was passed on
July IA. 1880. but not dollar of the
notes in question was presented for re-
demption until the fiscal year of 1892,
and then the amount was only S3,SO0.-
900 In the succeeding year SAT 100000
was thus presented. Much the same is
true of the greenbacks. Only S11, OO0,-
600 in these notes was redeemed during
1891 and 1892 combined. In 1895 over
S5!, 0OO, 600 in greenbacks was presented
for redemption. IL WAS during that fis-
cal year that government receipts ex-
ceeded expenditures by only $1,000, OOU.
In 1894. when the treasury deficit
reached ST0.OOO.O00, the amount of
greenbacks aud treasury notes presented
for redemption was 100000.
The talk about currency reform
being imperatively essential 10 :cvival
of business confidence is largely rubbish.
Perhaps the currency system could be
improved. No country has u perfect cur
rency. and probably never will Lave
But the United States managed 10 pros.
Der under the present system. and 1t will
do so again when industries are suiii-
GENTLY protected and the government is
enabled to meet its obligations without
periodically passing the hat.
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BETTER TO RUN AND LOSE"
Than Never to Have Been a Preside initial
Candidate.
kansas City Journal.)


(Kansas City Journal)
In free silver convention held at Lin
coin, Neb., a day or two ago, William j.
Bryan was present and made a short
speech. the tenor of which was that it
was better to have run for Office and lost
than never to have run at all.
There is no doubt but this correctly
expressed Mr.. Bryan's real views of the
last presidential campaign. Ii was nor
so much the welfare of the country, or
sympathy for the ''toiling masses" or
the laudable desire to bring about the
greatest good for the greatest number
That nerved him to make 700 speeches
in the canvass, but the hope of office aud
personal glory. The sentiments ascribcd
TO Mr.. Bryan might do for a crossroads
constable to utter, or even "a justice of
the peace, but emanating from the lips
of man who has been pictured along
side Lincoln, Washington and jefferson,
as the equal of those great statesmen,
they sound ridiculous, although doubtless
characteristic.
Possibly Mr.. Bryan took the occas sion
to thus give his views as to office-seek-
ing. IF II was better to have run in
1896 and lost than never to have run
at all" the same idea will hold good for
1900, when he hopes for better luck.
and II he fails again the same source of
comfort is still open to him. Mr.. Bryan,
however, is declining so rapidly in pub
lie estimation that the chances of his
ever having an opportunity to run again
for Office are exceedingly remote.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04
Exports

During nearly thirty years of urinfer-
rupted Republican administra ton the ex-
ports. of domestic products and manu-
features were more than double per cap
tia of population. increasing from $1.I3
in 1867 to S15.53 per capita in 1892.
Since 1875 the per capita of exports has
never been so low as it was in 1906
The greatest imports per capita were
$3.50 in 1872. and in 1894 they were
lower than in any year since 1879 The
decrease in the amount Of customs du-
ties collected is most striking. In 1872
they averaged SOB per capita, falling to
81 80 in 1894 under the Mckinley pro-
tective tariff. but have since increased
re- $500 per capita under the freetrads
tariff of the Democratic party.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

No building in the United States will
attract as much attention during the
coming few months as its capitol. Upon
the steps of that grand structure the
newly-elected President will take the
oath of Office. Within its halls and COM
mittee rooms the tariff bill which is *
pected to bring relief aud yigor to the
industries of the country will be framed
In other committee rooms has already
been formulated bill which is to au-
thorize the President Of the United
States to call together if necessary and
AZ least appoint delegates 10 an interna-
tional bimetallic conference which it is
hoped may result in great increase in
the use of silver as one of the moneys OF
the world. In House and Senate cham
bers these bills will be discussed and en-
acted into laws. providing the Repub-
lean party controls both branches of
Congress. Whether il is To control the
Senate Is not yet certain. but if it does
the country may rest assured that not
only will measure looking to interna-
tional bimetallisin but also Il bill thor
oughly protecting the agricultural and
manufacturing interests of the country
be made law.
lu view of the great interest attaching
to the events which are tn take place at
tle HullOudl caDltOl Dflei INSCRIPTION OF
the building may be found of interest.
Those who have examined il inteligently
and had opportunity tn compare it with
the Legislative buildings of other parts of
the world have no hesitation in pronounc-
ing il the grandest aud most perfect
structure of its kind now existing
Sixteen million dollars and a century of
time and attention would perhaps tell the
cost and outline the history of this noble
building. If there were then added the
cost of many of the interior decora tons.
the beautiful paintings. the noble statu-
airy, the polished marble columns, the
modern fixtures and convenences, and
elegant furnishings and hangings which
have from time To time added 10 the
comfort and attractiveness and grandeur,
the cost would be much larger than the
figures named. More than 1O3 years ago
the cornerstone Of this building was laid
by President George Washington. Sep
TENDER Is. 1193. is the date of the inn
pressive ceremonies attending the laying
of the cornerstone of the capitol of the
United States represented by the accom-
panying illustration. In the year 1900
the north wing of the original building
was completed and in 1911 the south
wing was completed. In August. 1914.
the British army marched into Washing
ton, took possession of the capitol build
ing, held IA mock session of Congress in