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Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
Some Wonderful Figures.

The statisticians of the treasury de- partment have taken account of the national stock, and a marvellous show ing they make of the .progress of the United States in it's area, population and material industries" In less than quarter of century the country has gone forward by leaps and bounds, '' until now it stands in the front rank of the nations and its progress is still onward and upward
 The tabulated statistics of the last twenty years read like a romance, be- cause nothing like this growth and prosperity has been known in the past in such comparatively brief space of time. In these twenty years the popu- lation has doubled and the wealth of the country more than doubled, as the true valuation of real and personal property is fixed at 94 billion dollars, as compared with 42 billion dollars While wealth has thus increased debt has naturally decreased in nearly simi- lar ratio, the public debt falling from 1919 million dollars to 1107 million dol lars, and the per capita debt from $SS.27 to $14.52. The total circulation of mon ey and the number of national banks have about doubled, while the deposits in national banks have trebled A most significant proof of this wonderful prosperity is the fact that the deposits in savings banks have increased from S19 million dollars to 2,45O million dol lars, and the number of depositors in these banks from 2,235 million to CLOS million.
 Another indication of this great pros perity comes from the agricultural sec tion of the country. The value of farm property has increased from F billion dollars to 201a billion dollars; of the yearly products of farms from 2,212 billion dollars to 3.764 billion dollars; and of farm animals from 1882 billion dollars to 1882 billion dollars. It would be interesting to know how much mort gage debt the farmers have extinguish- ed in the last few years, how much money they have put in bank, how
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
PHoENIx, ARIZONA, AUG. go. 1902
Import. of An,hr.eit. Coal.

Some New York manufacturers ana certain coal dealers are seriously talk ing of employing Welsh anthracite ln ,boi, business They are discussing Cape Breton hard coal also, but they think that the poorer facilities and the lack of shipping on the coast will sehd the price O; this fuel above that of the imported Welsh coal. As a rule 1t IS out of the question to import anthra- cite. Contrary to what is supposed there is no lack of it in EnEiand' ana immense beds not yet workable are slt- mated in China. But the Welsh dh- thracite covers as large an area as the Welsh bituminous coal. If 1t has only come into increasing use of late years there is no trouble in accounting for the fact It costs more, fact hxed by a variety of circumstances, ana the English people have become accus- toned to the bituminous coal Since exactly similar facts are to this day responsible for the vests devotion to bituminous coal, it will be seen that Welsh anthracite need not necessarily be poor stuff. Much of it indeed has been imported in the last twenty years. If can be landed in New York for s6.5O to s7.5O per ton.
 That this coal can be landed at such a figure is obvious from the price for it in Wales It sells there at from S4 to s per ton, and ii the freight charge is
 
 the orders for it can be delivered to the satisfaction of the manufacturer or merchant. But if large quantities of it are wanted, the price in Wales will advance, and if it is ordered by mer chants they will wish to make req sonable profit on their transaction. In such circumstances the retail price to househClders might be put up to the quotation for American anthracite at the present time. If the treasury de- partment should decide that the inn ports must pay a duty, the tariff and the demand together would cause the Welsh coal to sell at just about the anthracite price, and that might be so whatever the cost of the American article, so long as it is not absolutely out of the market The imports, how ever, would prevent a prohibitive price for American anthracite. As regards the tariff, nothing definite can be known. The Dingley law says that all coal containing less than 92 per centum of fixed carbon shall be taxed the Encyclopaedia Britannica Welsh anthracite contains about 90 per cent of carbon. A Philadelphia paper says
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
ANNOUNCEMENT

I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of district attorney Of Maricopa county, subject to the ac- ton of the republican county conven- ton. ARTHUR J. EDWARDS.
 l hereby announce myself q candidate for the office of district attorney of Maricopa county, subject to the action of the republican county convention.
 H. B. WILKINSON.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
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 The SWeatbox.

During the hysterical efforts of the Chicago police to discover the perpe- tratOrs of a murder. one man was sub jected to so long a sweating" process that he finally allowed the widest kind of statements to be put in his mouth md assented to everything he was lsked. His lawyers finally rescued him by habeas corpus and had him put in jail to escape further persecution. The incident justifies a question whether the ''sweatboX system is not liable to be carried to an extent that makes it m abuse. No person except the police and the victims of the system know just how it is practiced or to what cx
 tent it is carried. but there is reason to believe it is pushed far beyond the verge of personal rights or legal au- thority. Suspects, and even criminals, have some rights which the law is bound to respect. There are other
 orms of torture besides physical, and
 he law does not authorize one more than the other. The police in ali Amer ican cities do many things of doubtful authority, and it is questionable if the 'sweatbox" practice is not one of them. The constitution of the United States says cruel and unusual punishment shall not be inflicted" and every state constitution contains a similar pro- vision. This, Of course. means after conviction, but al the more it should prevent such punishments before con- Viction. The 'sweatboX" practice is cruel to the last degree, and in count less instances it has been used on per- sons who were innocent of any crime
 It is the duty of the police to bring criminals to punishment, but in the performance of the duty they should be held within legal bounds. The laws of all the states provide that mo per son shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be witness against himself" Yet that is the sole object of the
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
AB'C BEERS
Famous the World Over-Fully Matured.
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the amount is 93 or 94 per cent. If Welsh product will come in free, and, besides, in the free list of the Dingley law the word anthracite" is plainly set down. The conflict between the free list and the section of the act pro- viding for a duty as given suggests that the secretary of the treasury may have some latitude in determining the rate. Previously. however, anthracite from Wales has been imported free.
 Perhaps it is possible for the anthra cite burning east to obtain another supply. There are mines in Colorado and New Mexico which are declared to produce excellent hard coal and to con- tain supplies capable of filling the wants of a large population. If this coal can be sent to the Atlantic coast it will sell at a good price. The strike may soon end and avert the use of Welsh CT western coal, but there is no certainty that it will. In Pennsylvania the disinterested affirm that they hear of its being brought to an end not earlier than November. The two sides seem as determined as ever, the min CTS perhaps even more so, and both ap- pear disinclined to make the slightest material surrender. Neither party ad- mits that it is willing to settle by arr bitration. and if either is disposed to arrive at a peace in that way it re- ceives no encouragement from the other side.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
DYSENTERY CURED WITHOUT
 THE AID OF A DOCTOR.

"I am just up from a hard spell of the fluX' (dysentery) says MT. T. A. Primer, a well known merchant of Drummond, Tenn. q used one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and was cured without having a doctor. I consider it the best cholera medicine in the world. There is no need of employing a doctor when this remedy is used, for no doc tor can prescribe a better medicine for bowel complaint In any form either for children or adults. It never fails and is pleasant to take. For sale by Elvey & Hulett, druggists.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29

much has been spent in improving and stocking farms, and how many lux uries have been bought for farmers homes, and what part have industrial workingmen played in this marvellous showing? The number of manufactur- ing plants have doubled. There were 253,000 of them twenty years ago; noW there are 513,0OO. The value of the out put twenty years ago was 1869 million dollars; now it is more than 13 billion dollars. Twice as many men have work and wages have nearly trebled, being 2.7S5 million dollars, as compared with 94S million dollars.
 The same marvellous ratio of increase, and in some directions still higher, is manifest in every department of in- dustry and commercial and financial business. The country produces about four times as much coal. three times as much petroleum, four times as much pig iron eight times as much steel and ten times as much copper, while the wool product has increased p per cent, corn 10 per cent and cotton 65 per cent. There is not a department of natural industry that does not show the same astonishing increase.
 And yet there never has been a time during the last twenty years when the voice of the malcontent and the grum- bier has not been proclaiming loudly that the country was going to destruc ton. There has always been somebody to denounce the policies which have contributed much towards the uneX- ampled progress of the last two de cades. Even today there are timid souls who would retard if they could the swift march of the United States and bind it down to the leisurely lag ging pace of other countries.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29

"swc2tboX" system, and confessions thus eXtorted by means of exquisite torture are sometimes introduced in court as voluntary confessions. Where, in any case. does a policeman get the right to turn inquisitor and use methods and practices against the law? The use of violence to bring about a confession of guilt or guilty knowledge is violation Cf the individuals con stitutional right. and there may be moral violence as well as physical. If it is not checked the 'sweatbox" prac- tice may become a dangerous abuse Indianapolis Journal.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
Never More Christians Than Now.

Bishop McFaul, during the recent convention of the National Federation of Catholic Societies, asserted that the American public school system has contributed largely to the de-Christian- izing of America"
 The bishops attack upon the secular schoois-the alleged cause of the all legged condition he deplored-provoked many rcjoinders. Statistics now at hand show that the condition does not exist. And there is no need to seek for causes of a non-cXistent condition.
 The truth is that at but one period in it's history was this nation in the slightest danger of becoming de-Chris- tianized. That was early in the nine tcenth century. when Thcmas Jefferson and other leading men set an example of deistical as distinguished from Christian opinions, and found many followers. This was, it is to he noted, before the public school system was generally established.
 The religious sentiment of thc Aner- ican people rallied against deism The conflict was hottest in New England, where it ended in drawn battle be- tween Unitarianism with it's tendency toward deism. and "'orthodox' Chris uanity. But the battle reused Chris tianity to rcw life and vigor It began to flourish as never before. It is still flourishing without sigr of decadence, although it's form of expression doubt less is changing.
 The Christianity expressed in going to church three times on Sunday, and in other ascetic practices. doubtless has declined. But the Christianity ex- pressed in contribution Co religious en- tcrprises of all kinds, in every day works of charity and humanity, in de- cent and sober living by the masses of the people. was never stronger than it is today. The American people judged by their deeds, were never more Chris tian than now.-Chicago Inter Ocean
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
BOY CURED OF COLO AFTER PHYSICIANS TREATMENT
 HAD FAILED.

My boy when four years old was taken with collie and cramps in his stomach. I sent for the doctor and he injected morphine, but the child kept getting worse. I then gave him half teaspoonful of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and in half an hour he was sleeping and soon recovered.-F. L. Wilkins, Shell Lake, Wis. Mir. Wilkins is book keeper for the Shell Lake Lumber Co
 For sale by Elvey & Hulett. druggists.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
NOT HIS KIND OF LIBRARY.

The late Lord Acton. whose remark able range of scholarship was little shown to the public until public atten- tion was called to it in his obituaries. had in his London house a collection of some 60,000 books, many of them old and rare. Joseph Chamberlain at one time rented the house by the season,
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29

and when he left to go into a house of his own someone said to him that he must miss that fine library. Library" replied the member from Brummagem. q don't call that a library. 1t. aoesn'f contain a single book of reference"
Arizona republican., 1902-08-29
\ Good Nights Sleep.

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Arizona republican., 1902-08-29

Attend the Soutkerr california Busi- ness College. the largest and best-614 So. Grand Ave. Los Angeles. Free gymnasium 46XlU9 feet. Lackey, Hood & Hollmann, Mgrs
The Washington times., 1902-05-11

But there aren't more good ones, and
I'm not going to make a poor lawyer Of
myself. Judge Case replied the boy
quickly. There's room up round the
top OF things. isn't there? 1 hope you will
take me and give nae a chance. for I'm
bound to be lawyer. and I'll promise
you 1 won't be a poor one il hard work
and study will make me good one
III you feel that way about it," replied
the Judge. Il guess will venture to take
you in on your own terms" and the next
day Curtis began his career.
Mr. Curtis is not a very large man;
probably he couldn't construe Latin
sentence to save his soul. and he has no
taste for Darwin or DeQuincey. but he
can tell you exactly how much wheat will
average to the acre in Kansas in a good
year. and he knows more abou. and does
more for the human family that is helpful
and ennobling in a minute than Darwin
learned in n lifetime. His Latin might
be faulty, but his English is plain as print
and his word needs no oath ror affidavit
TO bolster it up. His education gained Ill
the hard school of necessity has no frills
on it, but it was of the kind that has made
him a man amonc men. and Kansas is
proud of this self-made Indian lad. who
sat the other d;ty in the Speakers chair
in the House aad raped to their feet
some 800 "sovereigns" of the Republic TO
greet Prince Henry. who came to pay his
respects to the great iawmaking body. The
fair haired Teuton and the ebon-haired
Indian both core from race Of rulers,
hut Mr. Curtis would not exchange his
American heritage for Prince Henry's
whole empire.
In Congress. Mr.. Curtis is power. He
is second on one of the great committees
of the House, that of Indian Affairs. and
is considered the authority on that sub
ject in the House. He has made a study
of the Indian question. and he works for
the best interests of the red man, as well
for the white. He labors untiringly
for Kansas and for her people. No request
is ever showed aside unnoticed. no Kan
san ever appeals to him in vain. but Mr..
Curtis is not always acquiescent. II the
cause pleaded is good one it receives
his hearty appreciation. his unqualified
support. but IL in his judgment it is not
righteous cause. one will learn 1t very
quickly.
The barefooted little Indian lad of
thirty years ago is today one Of the men
whom the President OF the United States
is pleased to honor. In this is there not
a lesson for the daughters and sons of the
Indian race who are being educated.
clothed and cared for by paternal gov
ernment2 Mr.. Curtis had no such ad-
The Washington times., 1902-05-11

two ago. aged nearly 100. He visits his
cousins on the Kaw reservation every
year. This relationship comes about, as
told in history, through Mr.. Curtis
grandmother Julie Gonville, who married
a Frenchman named Pappan, and who af
terward went West with him. This Indian
grandmother and her father. Louis Con
Vile. are mentioned in the treaty with
the Kaw tribe ia 1925. BY this treaty, Mr..
Curtis grandmother and her sisters were
given what is known as 'Kaw Mile Four"
the tract OF land upon which the city Of
North Topeka is now built. In the home
stead on this tract of land Mr.. Curtis
was born in 1860. and his fine new house
marks the place Of his birth, forty-two
years ago
Mr.. Curtis mother died when he was
about three years old. and he went to
live with his grandmother Pappan, near
Council Grove. where he attended the In
dian mission school, which was in the
hands of the Quaisers at that time. Mr..
Curtis learned French from his grand
father Pappan. and the Kansas, or "Kaw,"
chatter in either with fiuency. His
grandfather would not speak anything but
French, though he understood English
or one incident Of his childhood Mr.. Cur
tis has very vivid memory. He was
eight years old, ard was coming home
from school in Council Grove, when he
saw war party of naked Kaws, painted
and in war feathers. mounted on their
ponies, swcoD down from a hill overlook
ing the town and dash through II toward
the hill on the other side.
Mr.. Curtis, urchin-like, wanted 10 know
the why of all this demonstration, and
one of the chiefs paused long enough to
tell him that they were on their way to
fight their hereditary enemies, the
Cheyennes, and to hold them back from
the town till they could fortify IL a little
In a barn near by a large number of Kaw
Indians gathered, and when the Cheyennes
finally swept down through the town they
passed this barn. A fierce shower of ar
rows stopped them, however, and. leaving
many OF their braves wounded and dying,
they retreated, leaving the Kaws victors.
This was the last fight between these two
tribes. Mr.. Curtis father thought this
was rather too strenuous a life for his
young son. SO sent him back TO Topeka.
Mr.. Curtis, like all boys, loved an out
door life, and school had not many charms
for him as youth, and then he had his
living to make, besides. He began as
rider of race horses. He was good one.
too. Mr.. Curtis has always done well
he undertook. IL 1t was selling
The Washington times., 1902-05-11

vantages as Indian children have now. He
had to earn his own living and earn it in
hard way. But he was also determined
~ have an education. He got 1t. but not
by easy stages He had no money to
spend for silk handkerchiefs or kid
gloves: the clothes he wore were not
given him by the Government. and the
bed he slept in he paid for out of his
hard earnings. He had not phenomenal
ability, but he had what is better a de-
termination to make something out Of
himself and he took advantage OF every
opportunity. When that did not offer. he
made the opportunity. He set himself a
high standard and then climbed up to it.
Representative Curtis is candidate
for election as United States Senator. and
it is the consensus OF opinion among the
people of his State that his chance to
don the Senatorial toga is probably
brighter than any other candidate. He
expects to succeed Senator w. A. Harris.
Democrat. whose term expires in 1908.
The Washington times., 1902-05-11

finish and carried point he had made.
He has been at 1t pretty much ever since.
That very fall he was nominated and
elected county attorney of Shawnee. on
the re-submission ticket In a month
| after he Was elected ne had clused every
saloon in Shawnee county. Mr.. Curtis
| declared that no matter what his per
sonal opinion vas, he was elected to en-
force. the laws, and the prohibition law
was one Of them. He was reelected.
ard his second term was as strenuous for
evaders Of the Law as his first.
In 1892 Mr.. Curtis ran for Congress in
the Fourth district of Kansas and was
elected by large majority He succeeded
himself in Congress two terms from this
district Then the boundaries of his dis
trict were changed. throwing him among
comparative strangers. This district was
renamed the First" Mr.. Curtis went to
work with a will. and when the votes
were counted out in November" the
strange new voters had cast their ballots
for him and he was again elected. He
has gone on being elected ever since, and
now has six terms in Congress to his
credit l
An interesting story is told on Mr.. Cur
It's by his early day friends of his ambi-
tious life when boy, and his legal career.
The story goes that on one summer day
in the early 7Os A. II. Case sat reading in
his law office in Topeka when the door
opened and dark-haired. dark skinned
lad entered. He was Il sturdy. well-built
youth of about fourteen years. and his
coal-black eyes and hair and high cheek
bones suggested the Indian blood which
flowed in his veins. His clean but patch
cd clothing bespoke poverty. but there was
a manly air about him as he stepped up
to the judge. who turned and said:
why, Charlie. you seem to be in a
good deal OF a hurry for such a hot day.
What's up now?"
"Oh, I'm not in n hurry. Judge Case"
replied the boy energetically, but I've
been thinking of something for long
time, and I've got to decide 1t now, and
I've come to ask you something" and
then he stopped abruptly as though he
hardly knew how to frame his question !
after all.
well. said the judge. having laid aside
his book, What is it?'
81 have decided to make lawyer of
myself, and / want an education, and |
want to know If you can't give me |
chance to do your Office work, and, In pay |
for it. let me read law with you?''
We'll. well, l hardly know what to say |
to that proposition said the judge. |
There are more poor lawyers already |
than the profession caa support"
The Washington times., 1902-05-11

inquiry learn that the figure is the per-
sonality of fighting Bob Evans.
Or he may see still another looking with
admiring gaze upon magazine pictures Of
pretty women. and learn that the figure
is Judge Advocate Lemly.
And on the third floor he will see other
more or less famous per; Qualities grouped
around a card table. or stretched out en-
divans. playing or reading. with the same
apparent interest that mortals whose
minds are occupied usually with matters
Of less import than those which occupy
the minds of the celebrities, and upstairs
on the top floor. in the dining room. he
will perhaps see for himself that Ad-
miral Crowniustield. the coronation am
bassador uses q knife and fork in the