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Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
In Regard to Pneumonia.

We wonder if the fact that patients and their friends ignore the conta- giousness of pneumonia is often due U professional negligence. An eXagger- ated conception of the contagiousness of tuberculosis is held by the lay world, but pneumonia is. of course, Tar more contagious. And patients and profession alike have not realized tho new fact that the mortality of pneu- monia is in some cities and parts of the country higher than that of tuber- culosis. Dr. Reynolds of Chicago re- turns to this lesson and emphasizes the necessity of the following measures:
 Pneumonia is a highly contagious disease. the cause of which is a micro organism in the sputa of those suffer ing from this malady, and contracted by inhaling this germ. Therefore, the same care should be taken to collect and destroy the sputa that is taken in pulmonary tuberculosis, or in diptheria CT influenza.
 During the illness the greatest pains should be taken to prevent soil1ng bed clothing. carpets or furniture with sputa and after the illness the pa tient's room should be thoroughly cleansed and ventilated.
 | The fact that the disease Is most prevalent in the winter season, when people are most crowded together and live much of the time in badly ventil- ated apartments, makes obvious the necessity of thorough ventilation or | houses, offices, factories, theaters' l churches, passenger cars and other public places, in order that the alf which must be breathed may be kept l clean and free from infectious matter
 Laymen should be taught not to be
 afraid of a patient who has pneumonia | influenza or tuberculosis, but to be l afraid of lack Of cleanliness about hlih during his illness or failure to enforce
 prophylactic measures and of close i badly ventilated apartments Curing the season when these diseases most pre- 1 vail.
 Since pneumonia Is most fatal at the ! extremes of life-the young and the aged-special care should be taken to guard children and old persons asalnS' | exposure to the infection of those ai-
 ready suffering with the disease ana
 against cold privation and exposure
 to the weather which are po:ent pre- disposing causes.-Medical Record.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
The Windy City of the Future.

Samuel w. Allerton, one of Chicago's leading capitalists and a foremost citf- zen, has a sublime confidence in the future greatness of that city. In fact, his faith in Chicago is immense. It beats the devotion of the rest of his hardly be estimated. While some are content to picture the western city as the coming metropolis of the country, perhaps of the world. MT. Allerton with a wave of his hand, puts on his prophetic goggles, and makes this tre mendous predictions: We shall see the time, and it will not be much longer than one hundred and fifty years from now. when Chicago will have 150, 0,000, ,0O0 inhabitants"
 This means Seventy-five times the present population of Chicago, or ! city thirty times as large as the pres ent London. Supposing the population of the country keeps pace with Chi cdSO, using MT. AllerCOn figures as basis of computation, we should have, 150 years hence, 6,375, 1000, ,0c0 inhabitants. It may be, though, that Mir. Allerton figures that Chicago will go it alone in this marvellous increase, and simply expand until it's boundaries are CO., extensive with those of the United States.
 All patriotic Chicago people are sup posed to appreciate that their town Is a big city, but they fail to realize the full grea tness of the Windy City until | a man of wealth and leisure, like MT. Allerton, takes paper and pencil and boldly plunges into the domain or spec ulative statistics. Truly, MT. Allerton puts to rout the fears of President 1 Roosevelt and Dr. Shrady regarding the danger menacing the country
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

catastrophe at St Pierre except the shower of fire in the harbor. That is to say, no person inside the city itself escaped. Immediately following the first news of the disaster, some Of the yellow newspapers had q weird rumor that a prisoner in the city jail had lived through the ordeal but no au- thereafter. And it may be assumed as unquestionable that if any human being capable of telling an intelligent story had survived, any one of the great newspapers of the country would have paid thousands of dollars for an exclusive statement of the survivors experiences. MT. Sabarice is not art istic in his fiction. During the great eruption of Pelee there was no flow of lava through St. Pierre. The destruc- tion of life was was wrought by flames "a downward rush of ignited gas from the volcano-which destroyed the oxy gen in the atmosphere for the time being. Consequently, those who were not cremated were suffocated instantly. Following the explosion, there were tremendous showers of mud and ashes which covered the streets to a consid- erable depth, but there was no ''fiow" of lava or anything else into the second stories of buildings.
 The only plausible portion of MT. Sabarices recital is his story of great thirst.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

quiry by the government into the working of these laws.
 It is somewhat strange that suddenly, after these laws have been in force for years, it is discovered that great wrong is coming upon the people through the acquisition of public lands by private interests contrary to the spirit of the law. It would be well to try what little stricter enforcement might achieve, before adopting a course that inevitably would check set clement upon public lands in the far west, whatever it might do in respect to those belonging to the land grant railroad companies.
 A commission appointed for the pur- pose of making such an investigation could complete it's work by the time congress will assemble in regular ses- sion next December: and then legsla- ton based upon full knowledge of the subject could be begun.-Denver Re publican.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
A Related Liar.

It seems that a somewhat belated as well as inartistic liar has turned up in New York, and has been working the press correspondents with stories of his experience as the ''sole survivor" Of the disaster which destroyed the city of St. Pierre. He arrived in New York on Wednesday of last week, on the steamer Fontabelle from the West Indies. and he gave his name as Joseph Sabarice- This is the yarn he told, ac- cording to the special dispatches:
 II owe my life to the fact that I at tempted to take the life of a fellow prisoner two days before Pelee began it's deadly work. This prisoner had been annoying me some time, and l started in to make short work of him. but the unexpected arrival of guards prevented me from killing him. Fear ing that I would make another az tempt, I was removed to . cell on the second floor.
 This removal saved my life. Every living thing on the ground floor was destroyed, and as it was, the lava be- came so deep on the third day that if ran into my cell window like melted lead Fire and lava rained down or me through this window for four days and the lava was so thick in my eel at the end of that time that I had but two feet of space in one corner uc stand up without coming in absolute contact with the deadly stuff. Wher the good priest came in search Of mt he had to break down the iron door and some of the stone work of my eel to get me out.
 T was nearly exhausted, and coulC not have lasted much longer had no rescue come. My thirst was unbear- able. The fact that fire blaZed abou me in every direction, and that I hat to breathe a good deal of smoke and dense air made my thirst worse thar it naturally should have been. The day before I was saved I recall that al almost irresistible desire to drink som' of the lava that was still dripping r through the window took possession O me.
 Ut should be remembered that never knew the volcano was in erup tion. All those attaches of the jai from whom I would have received tn news were dead. My impression dur ing the whole four days and night was that the prison was on fire, but could not account for the lava
 It has been pretty well establishe, that there was no survivor of the awfu
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
Changing the Land Laws.

Congress would better provide for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the working of existing land laws rather than take a leap in the dark py repeating all except the homestead law
 A great deal of opposition to some of these laws has been developed of late; but it's source is not clearly dis closed. and it has been charged that IL is prompted by the land grant rall- roads. Of course it would be to the interest of these roads to check the sale of public land, since in that event the demand for their own lands would be increased. Whether any of the land grant railroads arg back of the move ment to repeal the desert land and other land laws seems to be an open question: However, the charge that this movement is in their interest is sufficient to suggest a preliminary in-
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

basis for it's calculations. and in it's weekly bulletin it makes these com parisons:
 In 1890 there were 135,34l children enrolled. of which number 20,115 Were under years of age. Those under formed 1.S3 per cent of the total popu- lation-l ,O99, ,S50-of the city in that year. In 1900 the total enrolment was 225.S6l. of which number 4S,SlI were under "a proportion of 2.S7 per cent of the total popula tion-1. .69S, ,575-in 1900
 ''These two sets of figures show an increase of 57.3 per cent of children un- der in proportion to total population, and of l41.9 per cent in the actual num- Der of children under during the ten years.
 But of much more importance are the figures. which show that. while the newly born are increasing in number year by year. they have a vastly bet ter chance of living now than they had dozen years ago. In the census year 1890 there were 21.S56 deaths at all ages. of which number 1884 were under , years, 45.2 per cent of the total mor- tality.
 Tn the census year 1900, out of the total 24.941 deaths at all ages, there were S.2S3 under , years. or 33.2 per cent Of the total mortality.
 "The baby born in 1903 has three times a better chance of living through his first year and five times better chance of living to be , years old than it would have had a dozen years ago. Not only is Chicago's birth rate en- tirely satisfactory. but it's death rate is even more so."-Chicago Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

Somewhat at variance with the decls- ion of the supreme court of Illinois ren- dered some years ago, the supreme court of Massachusetts on Thursday decided that any one gathering news or information at some expense and furnishing it daily to subscribers orally or written, under a contract by which they agree to hold it in secret confidence and for use in their own business, has a valuable right of prop erty which a court of equity will pro tect against those seeking to obtain it from the owners without right and to his damage. The decision will be re- garded as fully sustaining the right of the Associated Press to control its news service, and jim crow" papers which are in the habit of getting the early reports of the Associated Press by some hook or crook and working over'' the same in a piratical way. will have to stand from under.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

The daring gentlemen at the head of the Rock Island system of railroads have a boundIess ambition. Their ab- sorption Of one great railroad after another throws the merger operations Of J. Pierpont Morgan and James J.. Hill into the shade. During the week
 just closed, the Rock Island has ab- sorbed the great St. Louis and San
 Francisco railway system, itself one of
 the largest in the country, and follow ing that has practically completed arrangements for taking over the Cen
 tral railroad of Georgia, system with 1855 miles of track. And it is under stood that the Mexican Central is next to be swallowed by the Rock Island
 combination.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
A Technical Infelicity.

There is one word in the official Ian- guage spoken and printed at Washing ton that We would be glad to get out Of it. We do not like to hear or to read or such gallant sea-worn and war-worr sallormen as the late Rear Admiral Frank Wildes of Manila bay-worthy of all the gratitude and honor his country could give him-being .'condemned'' by service medical board. That is a word that should be kept for unsea- worthy vessels, old guns. spoiled sh-3 stores, and the like of them.-Hartford COurant.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
The Navy We Need,

The conviction that this republic needs a navy at least as strong as that Of any other nation except Great Brit ain appears to be spreading all over the country. The interests to be safe guarded are of incalculable value, and the resources of this prosperous people Will not be unduly strained if a plan of naval development on a great scale is adopted. The American flag must be respected on every sea.-New York Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

Los Angeles, while in some respects an overgrown village, is in most ways a very modern and metropolitan city, of the policies which distinguish papers in some villages-in Arizona and else where. The Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald, in about two issues out of every seven, indulge at length in wOrdy war with each other. If there is anything which makes the average newspaper reader unutterably weary it is the average scrap be- tween newspapers.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
CURRENT
 COMM ENT
Chicago's Busy Parents.

Chicago's birth rate will furnish no cause for criticism by President Roose- Welt or by Dr. George F. Shrady of New York, according to the health depart ment, which implies that this city is doing it's duty. Figures prepared by the health officials show that the in crease of population of al ages in Chi cago between 1890 and 1900 was 54.; per cent, while the increase in the un- der year population was 5I.3 per cens, or 5.3 per cent in excess of the increase of the total population of all ages. This excess, say the officials. is obviously due to the births during the period
 Enrolment in the public schools i= taken by the health department as the
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
Shirt Sleeve Diplomacy.

If MT. Bowen has called a spade ! spade in dealing with the allies it Is because the language of diplomacy has proven inadequate to the situation. He has declined to be humbugged as lie nas declined to be bulldozed. The pros pect is that shirt sleeve diplomacy will prove triumphant over the trans Atlantic article. which in the present instance at least consists of deception end clustering in equal parts.-Chicago Chronicle.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

An Indiana man who has married five women and murdered all of them has been arrested in Cincinnati and will be taken back to the HOosier stat for trial Had such a criminal record been disclosed in Arizona the Indiana senators would. of course have accept ed it as conclusive evidence that this territory is not fit for statehood.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

One of the professors in Boston uni people seek a college education after providence has fitted them to be black smiths and milliners. But why shouldn't blacksmith or q milliner have good education?
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

The many Arizona friends of Br;ga- dier General Henry C. Merriam retired, feel like congra tulating him upon his elevation to be major-general on the retired list, the senate on Thursday having confirmed his nomination.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

During the time that he was com mander of the department of the Colo rado, General Merriam made a host of friends throughout the department.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
STRIKERS MUST
RESPECT THE DEAD

Chicago, Dec. 22-Picketing OF
houses from which funerals are to
start. whether peaceful or violent, by
union livery drivers, who went on
strike five days ago, and which has Sc
riously interfered with the burial Of the
dead in Chicago, is to be prevented by
the police under direct orders issued
last night by Chief Of Police O'Neil. j.
Z. Wadsworth, secretary, and Charles
Stevens, business agent, OF the Livery
mems Union, were summoned before
Chief O'Neil tonight and told in de-
cidedly plain language that any differ
ences the union might have would have
to be settled away from the houses OF
mourning.
Chief O'Neil last night issued a gen.
eral order to all the inspectors OF po-
lice He instructed the commanding Of
ficers to accompany funerals in car
riages. if circumstances seem to re-
quire 1t. to see that the last rites OF
the dead were in no way interfered
with.
While the courts have inclined to
permit peaceful picketing, Chief
O'Neil's order tends to prohibit picket
ing of any kind around the houses OF
mourning. He declared that in his
opinion no court would be found which
would fail to sustain an act Of such ev-
ident necessity and propriety as that
contemplated by the police department.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
P.p.l Treasure story Denied.

Rome. Dec. 20.-At the vatican yes
terday the statement of the Tribuna
that Cardinal Gotti. prefect OF the
propaganda. had handed Pope Plus $9,-
900. 900 in bank notes. said to have been
confided to Cardinal Gotti by the late
Pope Leo. with instructions to turn the
money over to his successor after q pc
riod OF four months had elapsed. was
denied. On the same authority the
statement Of the Tribuna that an cleo
trician found in q hole In the wall 81
$4,000 in gold. or any other treasure,
was also denied.
The Associated Press is authorized to
announce that the truth is that the
present Pope. Immediately after his as
cension to the throne. received $780,
900. as indicated in the part Of the late
Pope's will which was not made public.
The delivery Of the money was effect
ed by Cardinals Gotti. Rampolla and
Cretoni. Pope Leo's executors. who
brought the larger part Of the bonds
from the propaganda. where they were
kept.
It IL absolutely denied that any mon
ey was found behind the hangings Of
Pope Leo's, bedroom.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
SUSPENSION OF
ENTRIES REVOKED

Washington. Dec. 22.!The secretary
Of the interior has revoked the order
under which final action on entries un-
der the timber and stone act were sus-
pended, and all such entries. aggregat-
ing large number. will now be acted
upon in the regular order by the gen.
eral land ofi1ce.
The order involved several hundred
thousand acres of public domain in the
West, all entries on which have been
held up because OF the big frauds per-
petrated on the government under the
timber and stone act. The suspension,
which has been in force many months,
has served good purpose. and ip the
view Of the Interior Department has
been the. means of preventing many
fraudulent entries. A rigid scrutiny of
all entries under the act will be con-
tinued, but the revocation OF the sus-
pension order will have the effect Of
allowing all valid entries to be pat
ented
This was the important development
to-day in the land fraud proceedings
and indicates that the government be-
lieves that the backbone OF the alleged
ring that has been speculating In and
taking unlawful means of acquiring
lands under this act. has been broken.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
Fair Estate Contest.

Denver. Dec. 20.-A Boulder dispatch
says that Charles ]. Smith will leave
for New York In few days to be pres
ent at the trial between himself, his
mother and other heirs Of the late Mrs.
Charles L. Fair. against Mrs. Herman
Oelrichs. Mrs. Vanderbilt and other
heirs Of Mrs. Fairs husband.
Tho case involves millions and turns
upon whether Charles Fair or his wife
died FIRST in the automobile accident
which was the result of, the death OF
both Of them nt Paris year ago.
Two eminent physicians have ex-
pressed their convictions that Mr.. Fair
was the first to die. which. II sustained
by the Jury, would give the Nelson and
Smith heirs the estate through Charles
Fairs will. to bis wife's rather than to
Fairs sisters. Mrs. Oelrichs and Mrs.
Vanderbilt. Mr.. Smith has received
very ENCOURAGING assurances from his
'law0sr In Paris.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
Live Stock Convention.

Portland. Ore. Dec. 21.-The secre-
tary OF the National Livestock Asso-
citation. the seventh annual convention
Of which convenes here January 18th.
announces that the program for this
meeting is about completed. Among
the prominent speakers are: Chan
cellor e. Benjamin Andrews Of Neb.
raska. Hon. r. w. Hall OF Texas, Gov.
Heber w. Wells OF Utah. Hon. Paul
Mccormick Of Montana, Hon. c. f.
Adams Of Nebraska. DIR. j. Il. Stubbs
OF Nebraska. Col. w. e. Skinner
Of Illinois. Prof. w. L. Carlisle of
Colorado. Hon. J. II. Calderhead of
Montana, DIR. G. Howard Davidson of
New York. Hon. w. w. Cotton OF Ore
gon and Col. John p. Irish Of Califor-
MIA.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
Bank Money Order system.

New York. Dec. 21.-After a three
days session here the bank money or
der committee of the Bankers assOcia-
tion, representing 1000, bankers. has
agreed upon a plan for q money order
system. whereby sums not to exceed
500 can be sent by mail and the orders
cashed by any bank belonging to the
association. The scheme will. Of course.
come into direct competition with the
money order division Of the Postofice
Department. and It Is expected cut
largely into the government revenues.
The proposed system Is to be operated
precisely as exchange is now sold. and
the orders are to be guaranteed by q
guaranty company.
The committee report will be submit
ted to the executive council of the ma
tional body at its regular meeting next
April.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
EUROPEAN POWERS WILL WARN
COLUMBIA NOT TO BEGIN WAR

himself that he fears he can with diff
Guilty check his people much longer.
General Reyes is not talking for pub
lication, but to several European am
bassadors he has confided his fears
with frankEess and has said that he
is doing everything in his power to pre-
vent an outbreak before the conclusion
Of his mission, but that although his
influence with the army is considerable
he is so far away that it is difficult for
him to make this felt as strongly as
II he were on the ground and in COM
mand
Diplomats whom General Reyes has
approached on the subject say that
what he most fears is the result OF
an announcement at Bogota of the fall
ure of his mission. He himself real
ICES that the most he can hope from
the government of the United StAtes is
an offer that 1t will use moral suasiOn
to prevail on Panama to assume her
portion of the Colombian debt. Gen
eral Reyes has been told that he can
texpect nothing.
Il came to Washington to save what
could from a shipwreck." he said to
la diplomat of his rank.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24

Washington, Dec. 22.- Diplomatic
pressure will be brought to bear upon
Colombia by several European powers
to prevent war between that country
and the United States.
The first step in this direction al
ready has been taken by several for
eign powers through their represent
atives here, who have informed Cen
eral Rafael Reyes. of the futility of
any attempt by Colombia to retake
Panama, declaring that it will result
only in precipitating the Bogota gov
ernment into war with the United
States and have said to him that the
result of such a catastrophe Colombia
herself must realize.
If this is not sufficient, the repre-
sentatives of these countries at Bogo-
ia will be instructed to inform Presi-
dent Marroquin that Colombia can ex-
pect no sympathy from the European
powers in any movement she may make
on Panama, which would inevitably
involve her in war with the United
States.
The members of the diplomatic corps
have been informed by General Reyes