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The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

mn Is the new popular drink,
w hlptnn bracing and refreshing. Try
!" uo'Aon a glass. Young's Pharmacy.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22
MINES AND MINING.

Williamsburg is to have a custom
smelter.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

The case OF the United States vs.. the
Copper Queen Mining company was de-
cided in the supreme court of the
United States this week in favor OF the
company. This is the celebrated tim
Der suit, twice tried in the district
court, and appealed to the Territorial
supreme court by the government and
thence to the U. S. supreme court.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

The brick work is progressing rapid
ly on tho ID. O'Noil block on Copper
vapttn
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

The funeral OF Miguel Montalla,
who was accidently killed at the rock
quarry, took place Thursday afternoon
last, and was well attended. The SER
Father Timmermans officiating. The
following were pail bearers: Jose A.
Ackoa, Jesus w. Garcia, Jesus Gabal-
don. Eufugio Gabaldo on, Yuacia Cast
aneda, Roberto 7. Gonzales. The re-
mains were prepared for burial by
Undertaken Pascoe.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

j. c. Gatti returned last week from
Phoenix where he succeeded in con-
tracing for two hundred head OF fat
beef cattle, to be delivered as needed.
Mr.. Gatti reports the Salt river valley
as very dry, and good cattle hard to
get. Buyers are in there from Cali
fornia, New Mexico and Colorado, and
prices for prime beef are pretty stiff.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22
MINOR MENTION

:. J. Young is on the sick list this
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Jack Holman has the contract for
building stone wall along Chase
Creek from the Bessemer restaurant to
the Bazaar department store, and has
fifty men employed in the work. The
wall is going up at rapid rate and
will be completed in few day. The
creek will be walled on both sides from
the Bazaar TO the San Francisco river,
and above the Bazaar for half milo
the townsite will be protected by
a strong embankment, now nearly COM
pleted. Property owners along Chase
Creek can now feel assured OF protec-
tion from flood waters. The work is
being done by the Arizona Copper
company.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

There is always danger OF contract
ing contagious diseases from handling
currency. In the banks and newspaper
are handled it would be well to fire.
quently battle the fingers in a weak
solution OF carbolic acid.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Children's and Ladies' Mexican Hats,
S prices low S. J. Forbes
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Maurice DEM and Martin O'Hare OF
Bisbee have filed suit in the superior
court at Los Angeles in behalf of the
stockholders of the South Bisbee Cop
per Mining and TOWNSHIP Co. Charges
of fraud are made against the pro-
moters and directors OF the company.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Superintendent Wolfe, OF the Po-
laris Mining company, returned Satur-
day last from FL Paso, where he had
been to meet the directors OF the COM
pany, and also to purchase mining sup
plies. Work at the mines is progress
ing favorably.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Victor Williams, who had leg
crushed in a runaway at Metcalf three
weeks ago, has been having pretty
serious time OF it at the hospital. He
has been very low, and for several days
last week his life hung in the balance.
He is now resting easier, and it is
thought that he will pull through.
His father and mother are here. The
boy is receiving every attention.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

w. L. May, the Clifton inventor of 4
new acetylene light for illuminating
passenger trains and engines, returned
Saturday last from Douglas, whore he
placed headlights on four of the en-
gines of the FL Paso and Southwestern
railroad Mr.. May has the best and
safest light yet invented for train SER
vice, and it is bound to come into gem
eral use when understood by railroad
managers.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Hay and grain. S. j. Forbes.
First-class dry goods Especially a
j f. Hollis.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

A. L. Campbell, who mas large de-
uosit OF bat guano on Eagle river, is
now shipping it to Il firm in Los An
geles to be used as fertilizer. The
phosphates are in carbonized form.
1t is being shipped through Clifton in
car lots.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Try Somerset Club Coffee. Best
the land. S. ]. Forbes.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22
The Duncan Country.

The farmers of the Duncan country
have been feeling pretty blue for the
past few weeks, owing to scarcity oil
water in the ella river. 1t has been
many years since so little snow fell in
/ the mountains, hence the river is at
/ low stage, and unless an early rainy sea-
! son comes the crops will be cut short.
There is an abundance OF water under
meath the surface along the valley. and
I the farmers should arrange to supply
their wants by pumping it with gaso-
| line engines. \ pumping plant OF this
character, can be put in for few hum
dred dollars. Such a plant would re-
move all uncertainty as 10 water, and
would also relieve the farmer OF a vast
amount OF work on the bitches, which
could be put to good advantage in other
ways on the farm. The Duncan peo-
pie have the best market il the United
States, which they will perhaps never
be able TO fully supply. The mining
camps OF Clifton and Morenci will al
ways take all they can grow OF any
hiHO vi CiOlIo' IL
that they do not pay enough attention
to vegetables and garden stuff, espec-
tally onions, beans, cabbage, etc. By
owning their own irrigating plants
they could grow two or three crops OF
vegetables year from the same land,
and make more money, and better
money for the labor, than on an alfalfa
crop. The great need of the Duncan
country is a milling plant and COM
mission house with storage capacity
and means sufficient to handle all the
produce OF the country. The farmers
have no place to store their alfalfa,
and when it comes on they are COM
PEELED to market it at once, which
bears the market. The Duncan people
should organize Il commission company
among themselves for the purpose of
handling the produce OF the valley. |
The Alfalfa is worth s. per ton more |
than it is in the lower valley, and all |
other produce in like proportion, and |
with proper management there is no
reason why the Duncan country should |
not be the most prosperous farming |
section in the United States.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Elbie S. Smith. who served as a
member OF the United States grand
jury at Florence, arrived home Sunday
last. The grand jury was in session
but three days and found eight true
bills. Elbie reports Florence as pretty
dull, owing to the shortage Of water,
and the closing down Of several mines
in tho neig borhood, but thinks that
some day it will become n great and
busy commercial center He says Cliff
ton is a city compared to any OF the
towns he saw on the trip.
The ERA is in receipt Of a neatly
printed booklet giving the order OF ex-
exercises OF the eleventh anniversary
and second graduating exercises OF the
Indian Industrial school, at Phi oenix,
Arizona, for Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week. The school
has certainly made NEST wonderful
progress and shows that the Arizona
Indian is subject to civilization of
high order. The ERA is glad to know
that the school is such pronounced
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22

Nj. Twomey, a we'll known mining
operator OF Arizona, who was superin-
tendeut OF the Commerce Mining COM
pany, formerly operating at Ash Peak,
is said to be in very bad health. He is
now in San Francis % receiving medi-
cal attention
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-05-22
r. n. WAUGH,

Sec. and Treas, Home Copper Co.,
MORENCI, A. II.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
BIG FIRE AT MADISON, ILL.
Half u Block, Including Business
OGces, Residences and Lumber
Yards, swept by Fire.

st. Louis, June Madison, ILL.,,
had $4,000 fire Monday night which
covered n space OF half n block and
was thought at one time to threaten
the big plant of the Madison car
works. The fire was discovered in
the stable back Of the Star brewery
depot, and quickly communicated
with the depot itself. A horse valued
at $500 was burned to death In the
stable, and two others were serious
~ injured. The beer depot was to-
tally destroyed, the loss on the build.
ing and contents being $4,000.
The two.story frame residence OF
Mayor Patrick Coyle was next in the
path Of the flames and was partially
destroyed, the loss being estimated
at 1000 on the building and $1,000 on
the contents,
The lumber yard and Office OF the
Coudy Bros. Lumber Co., across tho
alley, was attacked, and $1,000 worth
OF lumber destroyed The loss on the
Office building, n two-story frame
structure, will reach $4,000 Tho
brick Office building east OF the lum-
Der yard owned and occupied by A,
q. shelton. was burned, the loss be-
ing estimated at $1,000 The last
building destroyed was n two.siory
frame residence belonging TO Fred
pcurcc, which was unoccupicd The
loss on this building was $500
The insurance on the burned build
ings will about cover onc'h0lf OF the
| iogu
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
A MODERN BORGIA.
Mis-. ,yaue Toppan COnfesses to Her
Counsel that She Murdered
Thirty-One People.

Boston, June 25.-Suspected Of the
death of II persons, but indicted for
numbering only three, Miss Jane Top
pan, who was Monday declared in
sane, has confessed that she had
killed during her career as profess
sional nurse no less than 81 human
beings. This statement was made to
Judge Fred NJ. Bixby, senior counsel
at the trial at Barnstable Monday,
when Miss Toppan was found not
guilty by reason of insanity on the
charge OF numbering Mrs. Mary ID.
Gibbs. Judge Bixby said also that
Miss Toppan had admitted that she
had set fires and committed other
serious acts. She said she could not
help committing the crimes. She
argued, moreover, that she was not
insane. She said she knew she was
doing wrong when she administered
poison to her victims, and she asked
Judge Bixby how, under such circum-
stances, she could be Of unsound
mind.
Morphine was Miss Toppan's agen-
cy for producing death. Many of her
victims were unsuspecting and most
intimate friends; others were the pa.
tients of reputable physicians who
employed her on account of her abil-
ity as q nurse.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
Parental Economy.

Papa" said Dickey, "all the other
boys are going to have torpedoes or
frecrackers or something for the
Fourth of July Can't | have any
thing at al?'
"Dickey," said Mr.. Stinjey, beckon.
ing mysteriously "come with me and
I'll show you something"
He took him out TO the summer
kitchen and showed him n large
package, neatly folded, and tied with
n string.
"There," he said, "are all the pa
per bags that have been brought into
the house for whole year. from
grocery stores and other places !
have had your mother save them for
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
A BOYS LETTER.
uo wrote In His Father and Incl
dentaIIy Reminded Him OF the
Fourth of July.

An Omaha boy who is spending the
summer with his grandmother in the
western part of the state writes as fol-
lows to his fond papa:
Dear Papa;-l am very well and
having a good time please send me a
dollar to spend on the Fourth OF July.
Grandma has been well all summer and
they are selling two punches of fire.
crackers for cents here have got 30
cents saved up to buy fireworks will
you please send me pistol and lot
Of paper caps. Last Sunday ] went to
Sunday school and the teacher told us
about feeding five thousand with five
loayes and two fishes are you going to
send me box of fireworks Ike you
did last summer saw box kite in a
store Yesterday and the man said you
can send it up.wth bunch Of crackers
on It at night and make a fine sight l
would like to have box kite for the
fourth. We are all well at present q
hope you are enjoying the same great
blessing what tare roman candles worth
in Omaha.
81 must close don't forget the dollar.
Kiss mamma and the baby for me when
will you send the money. Goodby'
From your loving SON"
OF course the boy will get the dol
lar if papa had to sell his coat off his
back. The small boy must have big
time on the Fourth, no matter what
happens.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28

lights was st. Joe and its evening
display Of Roman candles, rockets
and bombs. They all seemed very
trining and pitiful TO me then, and
] remembered concciving n genuine
contempt for so small n thing ns
pack or even box Of tirccrnckcrs
"rhcn | noticed that the breeze no
longer blew downward upon my bare
hcnd, watched the bag which had
been rotund and bulging, and saw
that ts sides were dcntcd and ilnb'
by. found n package OF cards IN
the basket advertisements for the
balloonist, and throwing them out
saw that they sailed lazily upward.
"I'm faling! ! murmurcd, and Ter
the first time became conscious o'
the most terrible fear My hnir was
rather long, and stood on end part
~ with terror and partly from the
upward drnuRht through which !
was descending more rapidly each
second. The moon peepcd over The
'Utl'IIl UlllN hI'' 'i''
could see the earth again, luminous
IN pnlc green glow and apparently
soOring steadily toward me. Then !
could see botchcs OF darker shnd.
owy green, the river looked broader,
and now | could see the lake NJ II
coming up directly under me, silyery
blue Then | heard u murmur ns OF
mnny dlstunt voices which grew loud
er and louder, | heard cheers nn1
looked over for the last time. ] was
falling 80 swiftly now Tint ] prayed
and thought Of my mother by turns
Then ! covered my face with my
hands and waited for the crush,
"lut suddenly the bnskct In which
! crouched stopped with n sudden
Jerk, and then the big silkcn bng
came softly rustllng down over me
! felt another gentle bump, the
voices were ringing in my ears, and
! felt II hundred hands pulling away
at the empty balloon. When | came
TO | was In hammock on the porch
Of the little hotel near the lake. I
wasn't hurt In the least, and my
mother, laughing, crying and thnnt.
Ing God IN her rcvcrcnt old Irish way,
was holding my hands. had De
sccndcd within II hundred yards Of
the place ! hnd started from and had
spent nearly three hours NJ n great
altitude. OF course my mother was
wild with fear, but Prof, WinbalL
who knew his business, reussured her
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
MUST BE UNDER LAWS BAN.
Social Club at yale In which All
Members Must Have Been
Under Arrest.

The annual banquets of what ia
known as the Criminal club, of Yale
university, are to be revived this year.
after having lapsed into desuetude for
a considerable time. The announce
ment has revealed to many the exist.
ence of perhaps the most peculiar so.
cial organization in existence in tho
collegiate world. According to the
New York Sun, membership has never
been based on the social or financial
status of the students taken, nor have
men been taken into the fold because
of their prominence in the world of
athletics, literature or debating. The
one requirement has been that the
proselyte shall have been arrested and
taken into the tolls Of the law, wheth.
er guilty or innocent of the offense
with which he stood charged. Often
to secure membership in this excu.
sive, yet thoroughly democratic club,
students have violated the law and
then calmly awaited the coming Of the
police, as usual, nonpresent at the time,
and permitted themselves to be taken
into custody, More often the men have
been caught red-handed, without be-
ing able to escape the bluecoats. From
year to year the club has increased
in numerical strength, this depending
wholly on the law-breakng procliv.
ities Of theundergraduates in colleges at
the time. At present the club mum.
bers 100 members.
The annual banquets have long
held a prominent place in undergrad.
uate life. Where and when these
feasts are held is never known to
the uninitiated until long afterward.
Usually, however, they are given in
the grillroom Of some student cafe
in New Haven, or at hotel at some
Of the nearby shore resorts, The
men assemble individually, and never
in conspicuous throngs. Every ef.
fort is made to avoid publicity. The
dinners or banquets begin late at night
and end in the "wee sma'" hours. The
men are ranged about the festive
| board in the order Of their criminality
that is, they sit near or far from
| the head Of the table as the crimesfor
which they were arrested were great
or small Usually, although the rule
| Is often violated, the man who has
done the most daring crime, given the
cops the greatest battle, or who has
incurred the greatest punishment
heads the table and acts as tosstmas.
ter. Toasis OF the following kind are
RESPONDED to: policemen ] Have
Met" GLOW to Steal Signs and Es'
cape, by One Who Didn't" "The Re-
ligious Aspect Of Criminality," by Y
NJ. c. A. member; Glow ! Failed to
Distance Cop in Handicap" by a
member Of the track team, and so on,
by representatives Of the different
spheres Of activity represented, The
menu is usually made out with black
and white stripe effect while hand
cuffs, dark lanterns and polcemens
clubs intermingled adorn the top and
bottom Of the menu card. Usually
selected number Of dirges are rem
dered by the university glee and banjo
club members, who, the other Criminal
club members say, deserve honorary
membership for numbering music the
way they do, II for no other reason
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Prominent Young White Man Shot
and Killed By Negro in
Desha County.
DEMAND ADOPTION OF MORE LIBERAL LAW
Hon. n. b. Macon Nominated for Con
rrea From the First District - ne"
Faculty Selected tor state University-
Rig Batch Convicts Escape.
Killed BY . Negro.

James Cross, a young white man,
was murdered by Martin Nash, negro
At Pendleton, Desha county. Inc
killing was witnessed by Col. Cross,
father of the murdered man, and
Younger brother. The weapon used
was a shotgun, and both barrels were
discharged. Col. Cross and his two
sons went to the steamboat landing to
see Mrs. Cross safely aboard steam
er. Mrs. Cross had gone on the boat
and the trip up the river had been
resumed by the steamer when the trag'
edy occurred. Col. Cross had observed
the negro Nash, armed with a shot
Kun, standing around the landing.
When the party started to return to
the Cross home Col. Cross said to the
negro, What are you doing here on
my premises with a shotgun" The
negro made no verbal reply. he
turned and fired upon James Cross,
with the result mentioned. Young
Cross fell dead. The negro then took
to fight but Col. Cross and Clay
Cross opened fire on him with their
revolvers and 1t is thought they
wounded him in the leg, but he eluded
them and making his way to Arkansas
City. surrendered. Col. Cross did not
know until the smoke of battle had
cleared away that his son had been
killed. He assumed that the negro
was firing at him and did not intend
to kill anyone but him.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
TIE NORA FULLER MURDER.
A San Francisco Tragedy of Several
Months Ago Appears About
to Be Unraveled.
ONE PARTICIPANT HAS CONFESSED.
He Processes to Have Letters From
Prominent Men in San Francisco,
who We're Interested in Keeping
Him Out of sight, But VINO
Threw Him Down.

San Francisco, June 25.-A special
TO the Examiner from Sedro, Wash,
saws that man confessing to be one
of Nora Fuller's murderers, has sur
rendered to the city marshal at that
place. He says he is John Bennett
for whom the police have been
searching for several months. In an
interview at the Jail Bennett asserted
he would make a full confession,
which would implcate some of the
most prominent men in San Francis
so. He particularly mentioned a
prominent physician of San Fran
cisco. He acknowledged that he was
mixed up in the affair at first, but
asserts that he was not the real
murderer. He says he has been sup
piled with money to aid him in eyad-
ing the officers until the last month,
when the financial supplies ceased
Bennett says Nora Fuller went with
him to the Sutter street house of her
own free will.
81 have letters in my pocket says
Bennett, Showing where the real cul-
prits have sent me money to keep
out of the way, but now that they
have neglected me, it gives me the
excuse to end the awful fear and sus-
pense to which | have been spbJect-
ed"
The alleged Bennett answers per-
fectly the description of the sup
posed murderers.
On receiving description of the
prisoner from the city marshal at Sc
dro, Chief of Police Wittmann said
he believed the man was an imposter
looking for notoriety or free trans
portation to San Francisco.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28

tbe earth had suddenly dropped down.
ward into space. | heard my mother
scream a nd was va aguely convinced that
she had felt the earth dropping under
her and was frightened. 1t didn't oc-
cur TO me that | was in danger. l
rather felt that | was lucky to be in a
balloon at the very moment when the
world fell from its place. speculated
upon what would happen when the
globe went crash against the moon,
and selfshly chuckled at the thought
that !, at least, wouldn't be in the
smash-up.
"The only breeze | felt seemed 10
come straight down from above. l
dropped my cap out and it fell ike a
mound of lead. Then, for the first time,
| began TO realize that was going up
and the earth was standing still, doing
business in the same old place. For a
quarter of an hour the ground below
me looked like a concave basin. The
horizon seemed like the high outer
rim. and below me, so far that the peo-
ple looked like small bugs, was the
bottom of the hollow dish. TO the
west. like a yellow ribbon, winding
among green fields and forests ana
squares of golden harvest field, the
Missouri river lay flashing in the sun
Lake Contrary, a sheet of water four
miles long, looked like the halt-closed'
blue eve of woman. St.Joe, smokeless
and spangled with tin roofs and glass,
seemed almost beneath me, like toy
village on a checkerboard, its hills fat
tened and its streets merely dotted
with crawling specks.
at must have been past six o'clock in
the evening when the balloon let go,
The sun was low, and yet before it set
beyond the Kansas plains the world no
longer looked fiat. just as the sun,
monstrous in size and brazen with the
dull color that you have seen at sun
set, struck the horizon, the world sud
denly assumed the appearance OF a
globe. The lake below me, now look
ing IKE IL SllNtT ullht, scShi'u iN'
the apex of the sphere, and then,
as the sun dropped below the
sky line. shadows crept about it,
I saw, like stars reflected in the
water, the city's lights shining
dimly below. Soon the globe, down
upon which ] gazed with fascinating
interest, lost all color. The pale lights
seemed to be swimming round and
round. But yet my balloon, still in the
suns half light, was luminous with a
pale yellow glow.
IL became fascinated with the
sparks OF light and streaks of fiery
red that then began to glimmer and
fash in tiny lines and arcs upon the
earth. Sometimes muf'led roar like
that Of thunder and then the crack
of lesser noises would reach my ears
and | began to fancy that | was fai
above the clouds and was looking
down upon miniature thunder
storm. But finally remembered
that it was the Fourth, and then
knew that the disturbed area upcr
which ! saw so many little dartina