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Williams news., 1901-11-23
RHOADES.
InY MES. J. '. pExxIs.l

Lhh AES- T. A- DESSls-l
 This camp had a visit the first of the week from the wide-awake edi- tor of the NEWS, who came with the worthy object of giving the lit tie berg of Rhoades an ambition to be heard from among the sisterhood of towns.
 We are very much alive here in this quiet camp, where are some dozen families and where we have an excellent school presided over by Miss Mattoon, of Muskegon, Mich.
 Messrs. G. w. Tillotson and V. V. Merino were in camp from Flag staff on Sunday looking for "dear." Think it rather early in the season to have been very successful.
 Will try and give something more next week.
 Owing to lateness of mail train we could no, get Rhoades on corrvspondence page--ED.
Williams news., 1901-11-23
LOCALS.

Matt and George Grose were in from the ranch yesterday.
 Henry F. Ashurst was a Prescott visitor Wednesday and Thursday.
 Martins for all Thanksgiving delicacies.
 Mrs. c. F. Miller is visiting with friends in the city.
 There will be a dance at Lambs park next Thursday night, Nov. 2S.
 J. c. Phelan and party returned Wednesday from over near the Sitgreaves. Game in that vicinity is said to be scarce.
 Clarence Sluss, the able cashier at the depot has been on the sick list most of the week.
 Leave your order at Phelan's for a Thanksgiving turkey
 P E. Hollihan has rented the south room of the Laub building and will open a saloon there next week
 The register and receiver of the lanu OiliCc were tHRaRcQ W eQnes- day in hearing a contest case of the United States vs. D. F. Phelan.
 H. J. Gray came in yesterday with a smile covering his rudy countenance to tell us that his wife will be here in a few days and has sent him an invitation to eat Thanksgiving dinner with her. 
 L. E. Erlewine, formerly night operator at the depot, before the lamentable strike, has again re- stunned his duties at the old stand. The company won out but it real izes that the old men are the best.
 F. w. Andres, representing s. A. Maxwell & Co.,, of Chicago, was in the city this week and sold some of our merchants awnings for win dows in the new buildings; among the number being Poison Bros, The Williams Drug Co.,, F. w. Smith, Twitty & Parker, and Ran ney & Harrell.
Williams news., 1901-11-23

Conductor Moody, 1 wildcat. A. H. Harrell, porcupine, badger.
 If any have been overlooked, re- port at this office and your name will be added to the list. We will continue to print the list through the season to see who gets the big gest string.
Williams news., 1901-11-23

In the Probate Court of coeonino County.
 iTerritory of Arizona
 Estate of William H. Ashurst. deceased Pursuant to order of the Judge of said court, made on the 1sth day of November. AID. 1901. notice is hereby given that Henry F. Ash urst. administrator of the estate of said de- ceased. made to the said court and filed in the ofiee of the clerk thereof. on said day. a return of sale made by him on the 18th day of Novem- Der. 1901. Of an undivided one-third interest in the following described real estate. to-wit: The Wool. Admiral Sampson. River View, Main Landing. West Point. U- g. Navy. Maine. Mccullough. Commodore Dewey. Iowa. New York and Castle mining claims. situated and located in coeonino County. Arizona Territory. All of which interest in said property was ~old in one parcel for the sum of two thousand from said return filed aforesaid and to which lars
 And notice is hereby further given that Wed nesday. the eth day of December. 1901. at 10 o'clock. a. m-. at the ofsce of the Probate Judge of coeoninO County. At Flagstaff. Arizona. has been fixed for hearing the said return, when and where any person interested in said estate may appear and file written objections to the confirmation of said sale. and may be heard. and may produce witnesses in support of such objections
 Dated at Flagstaff. Arizona, this 1sth day of November. 1901
 N G. LAYTON. Clerk. First publication Nov 2s. 1901
Williams news., 1901-11-23

MT. Ed Kelleher, an old-time resident of Williams and formerly sawyer for the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber company, has been visiting with friends in the city this week. He is now located at Shaver, Cal, where he has an excellent position He says there are a number of old Williams boys in that vicinity, among them Mike Michaelson, Pat Hannah and w. P. Cutting.
Williams news., 1901-11-23
Among Our Hunters.

The hunters have had consider able sport this season joshing each other and more than a few good stories have been spoiled by the bullet missing its mark Those who have killed something, so far as we have been able to learn, are as follows:
Williams news., 1901-11-23
Old Harper.

The whiskey that needs no trim mings and leaves no regrets. Pure and fragrant; old and mellow. Sold by The Cabinet, Williams, Arizona.
Williams news., 1901-11-23
NOTICE OF HEARING

RETURN OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
kIlled At Mnnsflald

otto Mills, a Finlander was instant
IL killed underground last Wednesday
night ~ fall of ground ON the bot
tom level OF the mine. The story OF
the affair as told us Is that Mills was
working on the south end of the mine
and went, after supper. 70 visit some
Notl.mcn at the north end. The
miners in the last mentioned end had
blasted before supper and were trim
ming when Mills came along. The
drift was timhered 10 within twenty
feet Of the breast and the men were
trimming towards the breast when
Minis passed by them and went 10 th5
end cf the diff and sat down. lie
was there but few seconds when a
piece Of ground fell and killed him,
lie was buried yesterday.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
CompromIao Releoted.

The secretary Of the interior has
declined - approve the compromise
proposed by the Michigan Land 4
Iron company and the Duluth, South
shore q Atlantic Railroad company
with settlers ON lands in IIoughtun
and Baraga counties in the upper
peninsula Several thousands of acres
of land are involved and the ease has
been pending before the department
for some time.
The land was originally granted e.
the Michigan company, and after
wards transferred To the Duluth or
ganilation. In the meantime settlers
squatted ON the land, denying that
the grant made 60 the Michigan com.
pany was valid one. A controversy
then arose with the result that a
proposition was made whereby for a
consideration of $4,000 the settlers
agreed 10 waive title TO the lands.
This was placed before Secretary
Hitehcock and he has rejected 1t, for
the reason that il is contrary TO the
policy OF the department To permit
foreign corporations 10 acquire public
lands, IL being contended that the
Duluth company is foreign corpora
ti0n
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
New Candidates.

There has been but little talk Of the
coming city election about town this
week. Several candidates have an
nounced their entry into the field for
minor positions but none for the more
important offices. excepting Frank w.
Cole, who informs reporter for THE
DIAMOND DRILL that he will be a
candidate for city treasure. John
lIaSselStrOm has been asked by many
Ca be q candidate for alderman I'm the
second ward and says that he thinks
he will allow his name to go before
the people but is not hankering after
the honor. Douglas H.. Margison has
announced his candidacy for alderman
in the Second ward.
Alfred Healy informs us that Ec
will be a candidate for supervisor IN
the 4 hird ward. Herman Rau an.
nounced his candidacy for the same
Office last week. William Morrison
will be a candidate for Justice OF the
peace as will also Ray kimball
These, with the names men
toned two weeks ago, are all that We
have herad of in the field 10 date.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
Accident AZ the Western.

A Fin named John Johnson and an.
other named Charley korpi met
with an accident IN the Great West.
ern mine Thursday morning that re-
suited in the death of johnson and a
broken leg for korpi We have rot
been able % learn the particulars fur
ther than that 4 piece of ground rolled
down pile Of dirt and struck the two
men who were working below. John
son had his back broken and lived but
three hours The other man Is not
50 badly hurt and Will recover.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
A Tax peelsIcn.

Ontonagon village and the Diamond
Match company locked horns over the
assessment OF logs belonging 60 the
latter for village taxes. The company
objected to paying taxes, claiming
that they were illegally and unjustly
assessed. Up to last week they had
been defeated in two of these suits
and now comes 4 third defeat. Judge
VANITY OF The | $. District Court at
Grand Rapids sitting in chambers
handed down decision in favor Of the
village in the injunction suit brought
by The company against the village
restraining tie treasurer from collect.
ing the tax on their logs, which were
assessed in the river and extended
from Ontonagon 90 Even. The Dia.
mond Match company claimed that as
they were not In the village limits
they were not liable 10 village tax,
but the court held that as Ontonagon
was their destination in the state
they should be assessed there.
The tax was assessed In 1900 and
amounted 10 SO. go which with inter.
est added viii reach over $1,000,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09
Harry Harris Dead.

Word was received IN town Yesterday
morning That Harry Harris had
brcathcd his last al his home on The
Great Western location Thursday
night Mr. Harris had been ailing for
a long time and his death Was ex.
pectcd. lie was an old resident oi
Crystal Falls. an exemplary citizen
and kind and generous ucighhor.
lie had host OF friends aud "a
enemies, for he was 4 man that made
none. lie leaves wife and twC
children 10 mourn his less. The
funeral will occur tomorrow after
noon.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09

one Of the twin boys Of Paul schooli
died Thursday night at ten o'clock
The immediate cause was q cold that
struck 90 the brain, bringing death
swiftly. The little fellow was six
months of age and had been sickly
from his birth. The funeral will he
held from the family home tomorrow.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-03-09

Eugcnc J. Hall. tic poet and publish
CO., eass that one dos, ui Fulcy's Honey
mud lar resulted lis voice when honrre-
neAS Threatened tu prevent his ctnrc ut
Central Music Hall, Chicago. For sale
at Coles Pharmacy,
The age-herald., 1901-02-03

sacrifice of their childhood to the greed of profit of a relatively small number of efti- ployers. These children, trained neither in the schoolroom nor in the workshop, prom ise to be little more in coming maturity than an addition to the mass of wretched, helpless, unskilled labor which composes the much talked of Submerged tenth" From this class come the recruits to the penal institutions and Mercy Homes, and the unemployed-the tramp and the drunk ard-are later products. But not only Is there the positive hardship and suffering that accompanies the work and the igno- rance that settles like. pail on mind and spirits, but the negative one of the utter absence of joy or pleasure that rightfully belongs to childhood. The loss of home life and the safeguards that are placed around other children by parents and teachers and religious influences.
 For all day the iron wheels go onward,
 Grinding life down from the mark, And the children's souls that God is calling
 sunward
 Grope on blindly in the dark"
 We are not, however dealing with a new subject The abuses of child labor are many, and in the States where it has ex- isted longest it has been necessary to regu- late it by legislation, we are now att tempting. We have no need to experiment and devise ways and plans of dealing with it. We can go before our legislators with laws that have proven beneficent and ef- fectfve in other States. Massachusetts has dealt with this for years, and New York and Pennsylvania and Illinois and other States have overcome and corrected untold wrongs. By their boards of factory inspec- tors a great mass of testimony has been reported year after year, until they have created public sentiment in their States that marks the beginning of the end of the abuses of child labor; and this very con diton as has already been noted is one reason for the multiplication of factories employing children in Alabama and adja- cent States.
 We have no laws Oh. the shame that a law once passed should by mistake or trick cry be lost from our statutes!
 MRS. c. B. SPENCER,
 President Alabama W. c. T. U.
The age-herald., 1901-02-03
A Plea for the Factory Children

In casting up the accounts of the cen- tury just gone, one item of great value must not be omitted-what has been done for children Not alone have millions of dollars been spent in educating them; not alone has Froebel evolved for them his beautiful plan; not alone have our most gifted writers consecrated to their enJoy- ment talents of the highest order, and painters dipped their brushes into rainbow tints for the chidrens delight, but grave and thoughtful men have framed laws for them, established courts where they shall be tried by less rigorous measures, and even when found guilty shall be taken, not by the strong hand of the law, but by the firm, gentle teacher to be led to a better life and into good citizenship.
 Alabama has not been neglectful of her embryo men and women. Desolated by the great struggle of 1861, she courageously took up the burden of taxation for their education But now, when the dark clouds of poverty are lifting from us as State' a new danger threatens. Shall we sell our little ones for gold? The cry of the ch1l- dren has reached our ears above the hum of the spindles in our factories.
 Is it indeed true that one condition Tor the occupancy of an operatives house is that the children shall work in the factory! Is it true that these little ones must begin work with the dawn and end by lampi1ght! Are there any laws in this State, as in old er manu1acturnB SIdteS, lllnlllIi5 lhc a6O at which children may be employed? Does the State demand for them any time for education? Are they left to the mercy of indolent parents and soulless corporations? And shall thoughtful men and women urge no plea in behalf of these helpless ones? It is so much easier to prevent than to cure. Before this great evil of child labor becomes established in our borders let us demand that our State step in, line with the most advanced, and insure to every child a few years for growth and each year a few months for learning. Let us not be content that our own little ones are des- tined to a happier lot.
 "Do you hear the children weeping, O my
 brothers
 Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against
 their mothers,
 And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the mead
 ows;
 The young birds are chirping in their
 nest;
 The young lawns are playing with the
 shadows;
 The young flowers are blowing towards
 the vest
 But the young, young children, my broth
 CTS,
 They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime or the
 others
 In the country of the free!'
 MRS. JAMES JACKSON Tuscumbia, Ala.
The age-herald., 1901-02-03
Mrs. Spencer's Strong Argument
 For Child Labor Bill

As is already well known, the Wpman's Christian Temperance Union is opposed to child labor, and before the present agita- tion started in the State the subject was discussed by the organization at it's annual meeting in Selma May, 1899, and again at the meeting in Huntsville in November 19OO at which place committee was ap- pointed to confer with other organizations and secure, If possible, legislation regarding it. One point of view is purely the human itarian.
 It Is not that the child does the work of a man, thereby keeping man out of place, although there is both reason and justice in that, and employers know that in an industry where the majority of enl- ployes are women and children there can be no strong organization to obtain reasonr able and right conditions of work, and this is both cause and a consequen ,e of the miserable sanitary and hygienic con- ditions that prevail in connection with our factories, and are absolutely ruinous from the standpoint of good health or of sound morals.
 Unfit and unnecessary work of children Is stunting in mind and body thousands of boys and girls who are growing up illiter- ate, overworked, and in such condition that they must in time become burden upon the community whose neglect permits the
The age-herald., 1901-02-03
AIabama's Capital to Be
 St0rmed by Women Lobbyists

That Birmingham women are determined to bring the strongest Influence to bear upon the passage of certain humane measures that are now being considered by the Lsgis. lature was strongly emphasized yesterday at the meeting of the Birmingham Woman's Club, when the committee who will go to Montgomery was fully instructed as to It's work. =''''f''-,.'f"As
 There will be a strong delegation from the Woman's Club and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The delegation will leave the city either tomorrow afternoon or early Tuesday morning and will remain in Montgomery until Wednesday night. They will have hearing before both the House and the Senate.
 Mrs Robert Cunningham, who will ad, dress the Legislature in the interest of the child labor and compulsory education bills was present at the meeting of the Woman's Club yesterday, While she did not enter into the strongest arguments that she will use in her plea before the Legislature, she discussed both sides of the question clearly, logically and forcefuly and left no one in doubt of her thorough investigation of her subject
 Should she bring forard any of the argu~
 Continued on Eleventh Page). fs
The age-herald., 1901-02-03

firmary. She is one of the youngest wo- men who have made notable successes and the fact that iust after her graduation she should be placed at the head of nos pital speaks volumes for her capabilities.
 There is another Alabama woman at the head of a Birmingham hospital. She IS Miss Lulu Cooper, the head nurse at the Copeland & Berry Private Infirmary. She, too. is notably successful in her profession, and while being thoroughly capable, she possesses the qualities that make her pres ence in the invalids room an event that he looks forward to- for she has one of the requisites in good nursing that patient, at least, will admit is very important-the sweetest and gentlest of voices.
 Of the number of women who are pro- fessional nurses in Birmingham, but who are not officially connected with the hos pitals of the city, columns could be Writ ten of their splendid work. Notably, Miss Allen Miss Stephenson, Miss Craig, Miss Carpenter, Miss Legge and score of oth- CTS
 One may vainly imagine that there IS a picturesque side to nursing, and there Is no doubt that this picturesque view pre- scented itself to hundreds of young Amerl- can women when nurses were needed dt in Cuba and the Philippines. But shorn Of excitement of patriotism and all the rest of it. the woman who is spending her life is, the alleviation of pain is heroine With out the glamor of war;
The age-herald., 1901-02-03

they are so poor that they ought to work, no matter how young and uneducated they are" To such one we say: Picture to yourself your own little one of 6, and s years compelled to work and standing m close confinement for nearly twelve hours each day, with a half hour for lunch and earning from 10 to 20 cents day." What chance for that little baby child to grow and develop and be fitted for the civic duties that the state will certainly demand of it? No sunshine, no play, no education no freedom for mind or body, nothing but ceaseless toil, with no hope for the future For after eleven and three-quarter hours of constant work when is the child ever to have spare moment to learn simply to write its own name?
 The state has the same economic right to guard the helpless children and aid them to become intelligent citizens and intelligent workmen that it possesses later when 1t so promptly puts these same helpless un- educated children in the coal mines for pit fable transgression of her laws. How much more sensible, noble and economical to wisely prevent illiteracy and crime than to helplessly bemoan the one and punish the other.
 The Woman's Club takes as much inter- est, pride and pleasure in the great indus tries of Alabama any club, organization or individual in the state, but there is n future-a grand and glorious future to the commercial history of the state, and with judicious forethought we stand today at the door of Alabama's Legislature and demand that the little helpless babies under 10 years of age be protected and protected by the state and, also, that the future citi- zens of our state be trained to citizenship and skilled labor by first being taught to read and write. We are not afraid to pray the honorable members of the Legislature
The age-herald., 1901-02-03
Mrs. Zac Tmith on Child Labor
 and Compulsory Education

At the request of Miss Walker I will en- deavor to give some reasons why the Wo- mans Club has so unanimously endorsed the two proposed bills-the child labor bill and the compulsory education. First, we carefully read each of these bills sub mitted to us by Miss Irene M. Ashby. With the exception of a few changes in
 the phraseology of the bills we found each one to be conservative, temperate and just. They are but the first step upward and for good and could scarcely have asked for less than they demand. We reasoned that no measure could so vitaTly touch the well fare of our state one which demanded
 that every child in Alabama be helped to
 take the free education which the state has already provided for its children; and,
 secondly, that no possible question so in-
 timately affects the future of our state as that of child labor
 From an economic point Of view we deem
 1t wise and just that the children of ten der age shall be shielded from such labor as will compel them to stand in close con-
 finement for eleven to eleven and three
 quarter hours each day And from an eth- ical point of view Alabama already realizes
 the growing dangers of illiteracy and has
 long since acknowledged that something
 must be done. So, having decided that the
 two bills were just and right and for the
 very highest good of the future of our
 state, We unanimously agreed to work for
 the enactment of the bills into laws. In
 our decision we do not feel that we are
 asking a particle too much of the Legisla-
 ture of Alabama. Disraeli said a long time
 ago that no man rises higher than his as-
 pirations, and 1t is even truer today, for
 to those who ask for little even less will be given.
 Arguments need not be marshalled in sup port of either of these bills, for they speak for themselves, and their adoption by the Legislature will but mean that the South ern states with Alabama in the lead, are falling into line with judicious policy and wise legislation already enacted not only in the Northern and Western states, but by nearly all European countries. Surely every fair minded man and woman will readily agree that child ought in the be- ginning of the 10th century to know how to read and write simple sentences. For Tn the "sixty secular days of actual attend ance at school" which is all the bill pro- vides for, not much more could be learned. Then too, we believe that every fair mind ed fHan and woman viii just as readily agree that a cbild of tbe tender age of un- der twelve years should not be confined for eleven to eleven and three-duarter hours at employment that stunts soul, mind and body. Unless, as the bill provides, that such a child has "a widowed mother or totally disabled father dependent upon the labor of such a child and has no other meDns of support, No child under the age
 of ten years shall be So employed under
 any circufhstances." Now if there really
 are those who thoughtlessly sayi Well.