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That Transparency.

Wednesday evening Judge G. w.
Wright, of Tucson, and Hon. ]. G.
Adams. of Phoenix, were billed to
speak in Clifton, but owing TO the late
hour at which the train arrived the
speaking was postponed. However,
every preparation was made to re-
ceive them and quite a crowd, with
brass band, gathered at the depot to
welcome them. While waiting for the
train the band marched up and
down the streets discOursing sweet
music. Accompanying the band was
six small boys carrying Transparent
cies, upon which were inscribed re-
publican notices, and other things
wholly inappropriate to the occasion.
Among these latter one of the trans
parencies was the following:
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A Strong Endorsement.


UhORcNO1s n. =, OOI' -Os AOOV.
To the Editor of the ERA:
Noticing that you, last week, open
ed your columns to an article endors-
ing A, F. McEuen as a citizen and as
an official, 1 thought perhaps you
would also open your columns for a
similar endorsement of one of the best
and most noted peace officers in this
section. l refer to G.. B. Stocking,
who has acted in the capacity of peace
officer here for the past year and a
half. 1 have known Mr.. Stocking for
the past twenty-five years, and L can
truthfully say that he has done more
towards establishing peace and order
throughout the west than almost any
other one man. He has been a terror
to the would-be ''bad man," and to all
classes of evil doors and law breakers
for many years past, and during all
that time no man can say that he ever
failed in his duty as an officer. He
was a member of the California col
umn which marched through from
Sacramento to FL Paso. Since the
disbandonment of that valiant body
of men he has served almost continu-
ally as peace officer in various parts
of the west and in Mexico. He saw
service in such places as Cheyenne,
White Pine, Phoebe, and later at
Deadwood and Leadville, at all of
which places he made an enviable
reputation as an officer. About twen-
ty years ago Mr.. Stocking came to
Carlisle, N. M, as bullion guard and
peace officer for the camp. Old timers
we'll remember that at that time Car
Isle was infested by about as tough
gang as ever infested any section of
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November Services.

Morenci-Every Sunday at 1O:3O a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at
$50 a. m. Preaching November 4th
and 18th at 1920 a. M, and 11th and
25th at 7:30 p. m.
Clifton-Every Sunday and Wednes-
day evenings at 7:30 p. m. Sunday
school 2 p. M. Preaching November
4th and 18th at 7:30 p. m, and 11th and
25th at 1870 a. m.
Metcalf-Tuesday evenings Novem-
ber 1st and 8th at O'Clock p. m.
B. G.. MEEKER.
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the west, but the cOmpany's treasure
was protected and peace and order
was established in the camp.
1t is not to be supposed that during
his long and eventful career as peace
officer that Mr.. Stocking has escaped
without serious trouble, but in every
instance it can be said that he showed
himself worthy of the position which
he occupied. He has never been the
aggressor in personal difficulty, and
no law-abiding, sober, self-respecting
citizen ever had trouble with him.
OLD TIMER.
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Colonel Leszynski, wealthy citi-
zen of New York, who is largely inter-
ested in mining in this section, return
ed home Sunday last after spending
couple of weeks here looking after
his various interests. The colonel has
been quite successful in attrac ting
the attention of wealthy New Workers
to the copper mines of this section.
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READ
THE COPPERHEAD ERA
AND DIE.

That this was not the work of the
republican committee the ERA well
knows, and Judge Egan, who is always
a gentleman, polite and courteous,
came to the Office and apologized for
the above attempt at a slur against
the ERA, disclaiming all knowledge of
it. The inscription was the mighty
effort eminating from the-we can't
say brain-of one foster, who carries
a red pimple between his shoulders,
which he calls a head.
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Mrs. Knowles, an estimable lady of
Deming, arrived Saturday last on a
visit to her husband, Capt. Knowles,
who has been residing in Clifton some
months. Mrs. Knowles was most
agreeably surprised in Clifton, which
she considers "almost as pleasant a
place as Deming."
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County Treasurer Adams spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Clifton
talking life insurance and making
himself generally agreeable to his
many friends. He is not a candidate
for reelection this year, as his term.
is limited by law. Mr.. Adams has
made a most excellent official.
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The business of the Bank of Clifton
has increased so rapidly that more
room is now an absolute necessity.
New furniture and fixtures will arrive
in a few days, after VIII ch many i'm
provements will be made and more
room secured. The Bank of Clifton
has already taken it's place among
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Capt. Bill Bates and friend, Mr..
Dodd, of the Mule Springs country in
New Mexico, rode into Clifton Tues
day night to contract for the delivery
of a bunch of beef cattle to local
butchers, who all happened to
be out of town. The captain
says that the mail facilities between
his section and Clifton-only about
thirty miles apart-are so abomnible
that it is hardly worth while to at
tempt to communicate by that means.
The Captain wants a mail route es-
tablished from Clifton to Mule Springs
and Dry Creek, which would give
daily mail from Clifton to the Mo-
gollons.
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Ground was broken this week for an
addition to the ERA office. 1t will be
a two-story brick building and will
give the office frontage of fifty-three
feet. Power presses and vast amount
of new material and stock will soon
be added, after which the ERA will be
prepared to do all kinds of work in the
printing line. In fact the ERA will
have about as complete a plant as
any paper in the territory.
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Those interested in the Sunday
school at Morenci are requested to
meet at the school house Saturday af-
ternoon at half past three O'Clock to
begin arrangements for a Thanksgiv-
ing time Sunday school concert.
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81 have used Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and
find it to be great medicine," says
Mr.. E. S. Phipps, of Poteau, Ark. sit
cured me of bloody fux. cannot
speak too highly of it." This remedy
always wins the good opinion, if not
praise, of those who use it. The quick
cures which it effects even in the
most severe cases make it a favorite
everywhere. For sale by Dunn.
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bright and lovely child. His death is
a sad blow to his parents, who have
the deep sympathy of their many
friends here and throughout south
New Mexico, where they are well
known.
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George r. Bowman, paymaster of
the Arizona Copper company, receiv-
ed the sad information Friday last of
the death of his son, George Oglesby,
who died of diphtheria at Fort Worth
on that date. George Oglesby was a
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A special to the Ell Paso Herald
from Santa Fe announces the filing
of articles of incorporation for the
Clifton Copper company with a capi-
tai stock of $4,000. The incorpora-
tors are w. G. Wallis, B. Y. McKeys,
P. r. Smith, S. N. Stevens and J. L.
Burnsides. The company will have
headquarters at Deming, N. M, and
Clifton, A. T. The mines to be work
ed are no doubt in the Clifton district.
Colonel Smith is doubtless the pro-
moter of the enterprise. The colonel
has accomplished much during the
past year for this section.
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the prominent financial institutions
of the territory. It's rapid growth
speaks well for its management.
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VIM. A. Place, republican candidate
for probate judge, spent few days in
Clifton this week looking after his
political interests. Mr.. Place is an
old time practitioner of the law, but
retired several years ago on account
of his health, and is now farming at
Solomonville. Mr.. Place reports that
he has ready sale for his alfalfa hay
at SO per ton, and that he cuts it
from four to five times year and has
harvested eight tons per acre during
the season. He has found the grow
ing of alfalfa reasonably profitable.
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CORnESTSS5Ei~TS.
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the public as a concrete whole. IN
stead of trying to prove or disprove the
theory OF wave propulsion or propaga-
ton. he started out by accepting it as
hypothesis, and, assuming that mes
sages could be sent by them a hundred
yards, there was no reason why they
could not be sent q thousand, or as
many miles.
lie finally succeeded In perfecting an
apparatus by which theoretically he
could send q message through the air at
,east a hundred miles, and then began
ms task of working up to its realization.
re readily convinced the Italian gov
erhinent to the extent of receiving its
support and the adoption of his devices
LOT use In Its navy. Then he. went to
england, where. though at first I'M
successful, he finally proved to the
brltish admiralty the immense value OF
ms achievements, and they were adopt
eo py the government His great feat
III the feet maneuvers by which a sup
Posititlous transport bringing supplies
from Canada was discovered so miles
away by the convoy sent in search of
her, attracted great attention at the
time, and his subsequent establishing
OF uninterrupted communication be-
tween the shore and the Prince OF
wares yacht While on cruise set the
seal of appreciation upon his schemes.
Although yet young man. only &c
years OF age, Marconi has been the
recipient OF high honors from sci
entfc societies and of substantial
emoluments and decorations His visit
to this country last year. when, on the
occasion of the International yacht
race. he fully established the reputa-
ton of his system by flashing more
than 1000 words from moving steam
er to the receiving station at Naveslnk,
and the subsequent recognition he re-
ceived from our government. may be
recalled in this connection.
The present status of wireless teles-
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owing TO high seas or fires. have been
abandoned and every master of any
kind of craft arriving at our ports IS
expected Immediately to forward In
formation to Washington of any dere-
lict he may have seen on his voyage.
together with its course and condition.
latitude longitude etc, when last OBJ
served. By this means the charts are
made up and the desultory travels Of
the unfortunate craft approximately
followed.
These records. especially if their gaps
could be filled with the details of oc-
currences at the time the derelicts were
as interesting reading as any sea novel
ever written by our most accomplished
romancers. Sometimes the derelict is
that in which the pilot is said to have
discovered the rock in the channel. lie
knew every obstruction in that channel,
it will be recalled. and when the vessel
he was plotting ran against rock he
said trumphantly, And that's one of
them!" In such case either with II
clipper ship under full sail or an ocean
steamer blowing resistlessly through
the waves, the chances are that the
craft in collision will speedily become
n derelct itself and furnish another in
the list of terrors that beset the sailors
path.
Every derelict has its history, or,
rather, biography. until it is either tow
ed into some port or removed by fire or
] explosives from the surface of the
ocean and sent to the bottom. Here are
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ST j IS not conducive 10 the reposc 81
Il those who go down to the sea ~
rs ships and do business on the deep
waters to know that scores Of derelicts
arc floating aimlessly about the two great
oceans. mostly in the Atlantic. some OF
them in the direct highways OF mari
time commerce.; yet very few sailors
ever give the subject n thought. In the
capital of our country, however, there
is body of men whose duty 1t is not
only to obtain information of these
dreadful menaces 10 navigation. but II
possible to exactly locate them, chart
their routes and supply such informa-
ton as will lead TO their removal. Ow-
ing to the watchfulness and activity Of
the United States photographic Office
at Washington, through whose courtesy
these illustrations are presented. mas
tiers of vessels are kept informed Of the
location and augmentation of this
graveyard feet" SO that they may
avoid, and when practicable assist in
removing them These derelicts or
abandoned vessels have become so nu
merous of late that 1t Is said the me-
chants of our great cities on the At
lantic coast purpose uniting in a memo
rial to the secretary of the navy, re
questing him to dispatch the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius on a voyage Of de-
struction. The Vesuvius has not been
conspicuous since the close of the Spar
h-American war. but all can remem-
Der that she used to throw tons of dy-
Mantle, etc, al the Notifications of san
tiago, when her warning cough was al
ways followed, according to the vera
cious correspondents, by cataracts OF
water uprising from the inner harhor
or conjectural damage to the thereto
fore imprcgnable walls OF Moro Castle.
She made dreadful holes--in the water
but after the castle was captured n
! rigid search failed TO find the enormous
chasms which she was supposed 20
have opened in the Notifications. How
ever. the Vesuvius would be of inestm-
able value as wreck destroyer, and It
I is to be hoped that she viii at once DC
dispatched on her beneiicent mission In
search of the derelcts.
! What brings this subject home and
makes it incumbent upon the govern
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raphy and what has been accomplished
may be summarized as follows: Accept
ing the results bequeathed him by pre-
Vious investigators, Marconi overcame
the difficulties In the way one by one.
FIRST, after'perfecting his transmitting
ana receiving apparatus, he surmount.
ea the opposition offered by damp air.
ctouus' logs, etc. Then came the APP
parent difficulty presented by the cury-
AZURE of the earth. Instead of aflonting
the conclusion that the waves might
loiiow course parallel to the earth's
curvature, he surmised that for every
square or certain distance the ire.
ceiVer must be fixed at q correspond
ing distance above the earth. He HIM
SELF has disproved this by his latest
achievement in telegraphing 60 miles
with the receiver" only four feet from
the ground. Most OF his experiments
haVe peen conducted on or near the
coast as IL was found they were more
uniformly successful at the level of the
sea- In fact, the greatest benefits
promise to accrue in connection with
maritime affairs, as, for instance. the
connecting of Isolated lighthouses and
the equipment of vessels with appara-
tus for instant communication with
the shore and with each other at a dig
lance. etc. At least one wreck was
obviated by the use of wireless teleera-
ply, thereby forcing from the French
government its reluctant consent-pra-
viousy withheld-to the establishment
of station on it's coast for Marconrs
celebrated channel experiments. In
South Africa the wireless system was
successfully used during the Boer-B Brit.
ish war, islands In the Hawaiian group
have been placed in communication
with each other. France and England
converse through ethereal space, and at
present there seems no insuperable OBJ
stacle to transoceanic communication
between Europe and America.
FREDERICK A. ODER.
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n 1EREbIeT SCHOONER, .JOHN HANe0cNN

IN few specimen bits of biography, as
transcribed from the records of the hy-
Geographic office. They lack the inter
est TO the ordinary observer attaching
to them in the eyes of the sailor whose
ship may become their next victim, but
there is a mine of information as to sea
currents. drifts. winds and waves, even
10 the 'landubbcr" .
The British bark Siddartha, on voy-
age from Jacksonville, Fla, for Liver
pool, sailed Jan. &C. 1899. was partly
wrecked and abandoned Feb. % in lat
itude 80 north, longitude 800 west.
Crew rescued by Danish bark Verdan-
de- Was sighted so times in all. the
last on July c. 1899. off Bantry bay, Ire
land, where a British cruiser found her
and towed her in.
Norwegian barkentine Taurus became
waterlogged and had rudder damaged
| in storm. abandoned Nov &c. 1895. in
latitude 40 north. longitude TO- west.
lwhile on voyage from Ship island.
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the crowd put question. "Saay, does
socialism mean, then. that if tha'd two
'osses tha'd gle me one?
The lecturer smiled as he set down
the glass. "Of course" he said. will
mgly AVID gle thee one"
If tha'd two cabs" pursued the cut
Ter, would tina gle me one?"
"Ah," returned the lecturer, still
smiling, "thn should hev cab. my
brother"
IF tina he'd two pigs" still went on
the cutler II should hev one. them"
The lecturer smiled no moro. Thee
shut thy face" he said; thee knaws
Awe gotten two pigs!"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

has "syntoniZed" his instruments aid
{ brought wireless biography. Is it is
called, to such perfection that he can
+, send O message direct to it's intended
destination without any danger of is
being Intercepted on the way. The
troublc With rthe system hitherto has
been that 1t was too promiscuous in be
Slowing it's favors, for While message
could be sent out from certain sta
ton. there was no certainty that it
could not be picked up by any number
of receivers" lying in wait for it at
different points of the compass.
The electric waves were likely to con-
fiict also. and If several telegraphic sig
nails were flying through the air at
once, there was likelihood that they
would be hopelessly jumbled
Another defect in the system has re-
Gently been remeded, and that is the
supposed necessity for using very tall
poles or masts in the transmission of
messages or signals. In the expert
ments conducted by Marconi across tic
English channel the mast used was III
feet high, though the distance was only
80 miles. Such has been the rapiditty
with which this invention or discovery
has progressed that it was less than
two months ago that an authority in
electrical science stated in a technical
magazine that in order to communicat tie
by wireless biography u distance of 60
miles the wire attached to the instru-
5 ment should be elevated at least 100 feet
above the level of the sea or surface
of the earth. But now comes the as
founding information that Marconi has
transmitted O. message .that distance
beating his former record by IS miles
and that it was received on q cylinder
s only four feet from the ground.
1t was predicted year ago, when OK
perimentation with the wireless system
was at its height. that before another
year had closed messages would be
Ssfiitting across the Atlantic from Eu-
: rope to America without wires or ca
.bles, but that in order to do this they
4 would have to be sent from balloons q
mile Or so up in the air. The bugaboo
the electricians causelessly feared and
reckoned against was the curvature of
the earth. but II has transpired that the
electric waves take no account of solid
matter any more than of the impalpn
BILE ether apparently, and when liberat-
ed so straight to their destination with
the rapidity of light itself.
So now the two greatest objections tc
the forthcoming universal application
OF the wireless system have been re-
moved or surmounted, and, extending
the time q little, we shall doubtless wit.
ness the transmission of messages
acroHs the Atlantic without any diff.
Guilty One of the latest applications o.
4 he !" Iiertxjan waves is as an auxiliary
in torpedo warfare, for young nava
Cffirer has success ed, he claims. in har,
peasirg them to his 81 bmarsne boat anf
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passed from the
main tenets of
socialism to a
consideration of
communism in
property. From
the way he talk
cd one would
have supposed
that he owned
the Whole world
and was ready
nay, eaEer--to
give half of 1t TO
his brethren 10
divide n m o n g
tb0ro,eolycc Ac
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springs of nature itself and its vasteat
phenomena. we may be prepared for
any development short of communicate
ing with the planets and the stars. There
are some sanguine individuals, even.
who predict that we shall some time be
enabled to communicate With Mars and
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

means of fires and beacon lights on
towers and mountain tops, and 1t is
claimed that this system of signaling
was brought to perfection 200 years
ago. A working telegraph (by sema-
phore) and n code was in use during tho
French revolution, as early as 1892, and
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

steering Il without hitch wherever he
willed by receiving apparatus which
acted upon a set of magnets and ma
nipulated the rudder.
Again, they are not only telegraphlng
without the use of direct wires, but
also telephoning, and it is expected that
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THE STORM SEASON.
DEATH DEALING DERELlCTS.

mcnt to do something is that the north
Atlantic coast of the United States is
most prolific in wrecks, and conse-
quently of abandoned vessels. The
great graveyard of gallant craft. to be
sure. is in the immediate vicinity of
Sable island, 100 miles southeast of No
VA Scotia. where the remains of more
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than n hundred vessels are known to
strew the ocean bed, and the next most
fatal spot is the Cape Cod region off the
coast of Massachusetts. During the
year 1899, in which probably the great
est number of disasters occurred for
many years. 1t was estimated that near
ly 400 vessels were wholly or partially
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

1t had been discovered 45 years before
that electricity would force itself
through considerable lengths of wirc
the earth or water taking the place OF
IN return wire and completing the cir
cult. Franklin was able to transmit
electric shocks across the Schuyll<ill in
1fiS. while in 1894 German scientist
used the electric spark in telegra ply,
but by employing &c wires each way.
| TeleSraphy, like every other great in
vention, was not communicated to the
world by any one man. but owes it's be-
ing to the researches OF philosophers
and scientists during many years. One
of these to whom we arc most indebted
is Professor Henry. the first secretary
of the Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington, who in 1881 devised an instru-
ment with the essential features of the
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I--eEE latest information that co

He latest information that comes
TO US from Signor Guglielmo
Marconi, the young and famous
wizard of telegraphy. is that he has
finally succeeded in preventing other
people from stealing, not his thunder.
4 iut MS lightning. In other words. he
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

The deserts of Arabia are specially
remarkable for their pillars of sand.
which arc raised by the whirlwinds,
and have a very close resemblance in
their appearance to waterspouts.
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GETTING TOO NEAR HOME,

An amusing story comes from York
shire, England. A local socialstic lee
turer was spouting away like the intel
lectuul whale that he was not and had
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wrecked. entailing a loss OF 300 lives
and property to the amount of $4,000 600.
Accurate records are kept by the ny
geographic Office of the wrecks that,
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telephony Will soon be immensely de-
veloped along these lines. In fact.
when we consider the forces brought
into conjunction in this wonderful dis
covery: that they deal with the occult
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11

he paused to take drink a cutler in