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Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
PACIFIC EXPRESS STRIKE.
The Demanded Ten Per Cent Increase
 Was. Refused.

St Louis, Mo, Get. 15-A strike was declared soon after six p. m. today by the Pacific Express messengers in St. Louis.
 Last Tuesday the members of the To- cal brotherhood of Railway Expressme.i submitted demand for an increase Of 10 per cent in wages. They stopped work and only returned upon the as surance of General Superintendent F. c. Geutsch that their demands would be considered. An answer was prornis- ed today, and the eXpressmen decided to work until night, pending the answer. The demand was considered today and notification was sent to the express messengers that the increase could not be granted.
 The walkout tonight resulted.
 General Superintendent Geutsch said to the Associated Press at S:3o tonight: Less than 100 men are affected by the strike here. I have not heard from other sections of the country yet. and do not know whether there were simi- lar strikes in other cities. We were prepared for the situation and are sup plying vacancies rapidly and business is going right along tonight ''
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
SAN DIEGO AND PHOENIX
A New Project for Come citing the Two
 Cities by Rail.

The Tonto dam, the beet sugar fac tory and the Phoenix X Eastern rail- road are now practically nailed down. They won't crawl away themselves nor can anyone drag them away either in darkness CT daylight. But that is not all.
 A reporter for The Republican has learned from a we'll known. influential and highly respected business man of the city, that plans are well under consideration by California parties and others locking to construction of a rail- road line between this city and San Diego. The gentlemen interested have perfected organization and secured large portion of the right of way. Further information as to details cannot be secured at this time for as stated above it is still a sub rosa en- terprise, no, yet beyond the prospective stage and is being figured out from the California end. Cores spondence is now being carried on between the two cities &nG elsewhere and what will come of it is yet in a measure proble- matica: There are two things. how ever that are self evident. They are first that such a road would be of vast benefit both to the two cities men toned and to all the intervening coun- try and secondly that some good day such 9 road will be built. Those state ments are Ike the talk of the past ten years respecting the dam, the sugar factory and the Phoenix & Eastern. They were sure and the only doubtful quantity was the length of time. That it will take less time to bring this raid- road enterprise to an issue is equally as certain for sarge bodies gather momentum as they move and the Salt River valley from this time on is go- ing to be O.: some importance in the world.
 There have been various companies organized for the handling of the San Diego railroad project and some are yet enjoying a lively existence with hope for the future The one referred to above, however, as far as can be ascertained is the child of still other interests and it may prove itself better equipped for the enterprise than it's predecessors in the field.
 What such a railroad would do for this valley is of itself a subject for dissertation at any length the writer might desire. The benefits would be manifold, too numerous for even brief recapitulation at this time.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
Day of Rejoicing AII Over
 This Valley
ORATORY AND RED FIRE
Phoenix Burns Powder and Enthu- siastically Felicitates-Express of Gratitude - Demonstrations of Loyalty to Beneficent Government.

There was an explosion in this town clear around the world. but it's echoes will go to the remotest corners of the United States and the reverberations will not cease to be heard for genera tions. Talk about it will stop only when the policy of national irrigation has become a fundamental principle in this country and when all the larger and better reservoir sites in the great arid west shall have been utilized in the construction of storage reservoirs.
 This great explosion was the opening of the safety valve for the escape of a public sentiment that has been accu- initiating for long and anxious months The string was pulled by Secretary Hitchcock in Washington. D. c. the day before, October IA. 1903. a date long to be remembered in these parts. through his public announcement au- thorizing the letting of contracts for the construction of cement factory, the building of a telephone line, a pow CT canal and other things necessary to the construction of the Tonto reser- voir. all of which was made known by the Republicans special correspond ent in yesterday mornings issue
 Such news hardly needs the Marconi system of communication, for it travels itself and before the sun had fairly got it's bearings yesterday morning jubilant citizens were shaking hands with each other and blaming the news pa per men for not pulling them out of bed the night before to tell them about it..
 Without waiting for somebody to get together and give them instructions Walter Talbot and Vernon L. Clark at
 once took the initiative in arranging for a proper recognition of this most important event that ever happened in these parts. They first took up a col lection, for it takes money to cele- brate. then they got posters calling a meeting at the board of trade room at 3 p. nl., inviting everybody. Next they secured the band and all the fireworks left in the city. Then they were ready for business.
 At 3 o'clock there was a representa- tive gathering at the board of trade room which was organized by the plac- ing of Walter Talbot in the chair. MT. Clark in a dozen words explained the call and what he and MT. Talbot had been doing all morning. In less time than it takes to tell it a jollification meeting was ordered for last night. the details to be looked after by Messrs.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
EDUCATIONAL FRAUDS,
A Grand Jury to Investigate Kansas
 City, Kansas, Board.

Kansas City. Oct. 15.-A grand jury to investigate charges of boodling made against the board of education of Kansas City, is assured. Over 400 citi- zens had signed the petition drawn up last night by the Mercantile club. ask ing Judge F. l.. Fisher. of the district court. to call a jury.
 The jury will not only be asked to investigate the charges of boodling but to stop gambling and close the dozens of illicit saloons running in violation of the prohibition of the law.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
A DAY OF REST.
Advocated by Member of Road Masters
 Association,

ASSOCtdtlOn.
 Kansas City, Oct. 15.-Addressing the annual convention of the Roadmastsrs and Maintainance of Way association here today. A. C. Morris of Pittsburg. Penn-, advised his hearers to treat their men with consideration.
 Give your men one day in seven to rest" said MT. Morris, and let that day be Sunday. The company loses money on every man who does not rest one day in seven. Let the men spend Sunday with their families at home and you will have better men. It is economy for the company and kindness to the men,
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16

garded as the right of the men in gray; for this war, thrice fortunate above all other recent wars in it's outcome, left to all of us the right of brotherhood alike with valiant victor and valiant icl,o
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16

Sufficient to know that the forces are at work quietly, and to set the people to thinking on a subject that it is sincerely hoped will command their deepest interest and closest attention in the very near future.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16

>ands which they are constantly publish az, thus proving their genuineneas
 Tor about two years suffered from a very
 inate case of dyspepsia g writes R. E. Secord. Of E Eastern Ave, Toronto, Ontario rI
 a great number of remedies without sue -ss- I finally lost faith in them all I was su i gone that could not for long time beaf solid food in my stomach; felt melancholy : a depressed. Could not sleep nor follow my oscupation. Some four months ago a friend recommended your Golden Medical Discovery : era weeks treatment had derived so much h sseht that continued the medicine, I have
 n three bottles and am convinced it has
 y case accomplished permanent cure I conscientiousiy recommend it to the thou ssds of dyspeptics throughout the land"
 he Common Sense Medical Adviser, r lAo6 large pages in paper covers, is sent free oh receipt of 2I one-cent stamps to pay ex- pehse of mailing only. Address pr. R. V. Pie ce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
A TACOMA STRIKE.

Tacoma Wn., Oct. 15.-A general strike was ordered today of all men in the building trades, about 400 to 800 men are out.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16

~ topmos st rung finds his position 8 torment ir--ead of a triumph. He has sacrificed his health to success.
 A man can sue ce ed nd be strong if he needs Natures Earn- ings. When there is indigestion,
 loss of appetite, ringing in the ears, dizziness, spots before the eyes or palpita- ton of the heart ;
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16

any Oi dll OI lneSe Symp- toms point to weakness and loss Of nutrition. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery is tn e medicine to turn to.
 $3,ooo FORFEIT will be paid by the Worlds Dis pensary Medical Asso- ciation, Proprietors, Buff falo, N. Y., if they cannot show the original sigma ture of the individual V tcering the testimorial b and also of the writers of testimonial arr1or1r fhe
Arizona republican., 1903-10-16
AT THE TOP.

1t IS a lautiable ambition to reach the top of the ladder of success. But many man
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
MARRIED MEN MORE
PRONE TO SUICIDE
Shooting Seems the Most Popular Mode
Of Self Destruction.

Speaking of suicides, / ran across an
interesting lot of statistics the other day
and learned a few things that had not
known before" said man who takes
lively interest in the subject of vital sta
tistics land l want to make the state
nent right at the start that married men
are more prone to take their lives than
married women. The statistics show that
shooting is fayorite method OF ending
life. | had always believed, but with
out any special reason, that poison was
the most popular means of suicide. The
following facts will show the means
adopted in 10000 suicides: Drowning.
500; shooting. 3.247; poison. ESQ; cutting,
SO; gas. $50; jumping. 473; hanging. 952;
miscellaneous 302. You see at a glance
that shooting is a favorite method with
persons who hustle themselves out OF
the world before the time set for them to
leave However, poison Is a good sec
ond There is one other interesting
thing about the figures just given. and
that is the smaller number OF persons
who drown themselves. / was under the
impression that drowning was more
popular way of quitting the world. 1t Is
an easy way and | should never have
guessed that so few persons chose this
method OF ending life. There is an
other table which may not be uninteress-
ing to persons who take an interest In
matters of this sort, for 1t will show the
social status of the victims The facts
are as follows:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

It is not necessary to get out your
tape measure to discover that the pres
ent American girls are about as per-
feet as woman can be made.
If you glance at tile american woman
Of today, the girl whom you meet on
Fifth avenue, or the zone who goes
romping on the agodf links in the
country, you will see that she is built
as she should be built. She is model
led and moulded after the type upon
which the statues of other days were
mouldede and modelled. And it does
not take very great stretch of the
| imagination to See in her. the Venus
de Milo and the Venus de Medici, roll
led in one, with all the best points of
each brought out
The American girl has somehow lost
the large head which she once had.
Today she has the delightful little
head of the Southern woman of French
descent, that small, well poised head
which is SO very pretty that it is ideal.
If her head is large by nature, the
girl of the present day is clever enough
to make it seem smaller by dressing
her hair compactly, and by smoothing
it at the sides and waving it low over
her brow. She twists a little knot
low at the back of her head or coils
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head seems small and well shaped,
whether nature intended that it should
be SO or not. Such is the cleverness
Of the girl Of today.
AS to the shape of her brow, which
should be low and wide and white,
here, too, the girl of the period exeels,
for she shapes her brow just as best
pleases her, making 1T low or high, or
wide or narrow, or any other shape,
ovalror square. She coaxes the hair to
grow up or growfdown, to lie in rebel
llous little waves, or to go back smart
1y from a forhead that needs to be
raised a little.
The ideal neck should be very long
and should be slightly larger where it
|. Joins to the head. The throat should
be slim and the neck should gradually
widen to the shoulders.
Here, again, the girl of today is clever
for she manages to massage and by
the rubbing of cocoa. butter and the
free use of creams, to make her neck
as plump as she desires it to be- She
is in absolute control of the hollows
Thereof, and she is fable by scientific
treatment with oils and lotions to pad
out her neck here plump 1t out there
and shape 1t until 1T is just right un-
der the chin and at the back of the
shoulders. lab - ssss
The girl of today laughs at the time
when there We're saltcellars in the necks
of the very thin girls, land she thinks
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

that it is a crime to be too slender
across the chest and too thin in the
bust.
1t has been discovered that the
waist can be controlled, not by corsets,
but by exercise. and the girl OF pro-
!-gress is the one who profits by this
I discovery. Placing both her hands
upon her waist line she initiates her
chest, swelling it out until the buttons
| upon her blouse fairly crack.
| Then she draws her abdomen in and
swells out her ribs, all the time push
! ing downward with her hands upon
her hips. When she has finished this
| exercise, she knows that her waist is
| a quarter of an inch longer than be-
fore and that her chest is fuller.
The girl of today has the smallest
waist of any woman in the world, the
! smallest uncorseted waist, for the
| American girl does not lace. She
| wears corsets, but she wears them
very loose and she pulls them down
I4loW, so that, were she measured with
and without, she would be consider
| ably larger with her corsets on than
/ without them. This has been tried
again and again, and the girl of per-
feet figure is always a trifie larger
| with her corSetS on, which is exactly
/ as it should be.
The woman of today, being perfect
! ly formed, is long of limb. This, too,
| is something that can be acquired
Take TIE woman who is fiabby in her
muscles and she will tell you that she
| is too short in her lower limbs. That
| is an effect of being too stout If
women wore boomers they would
notice this more quickly.
| Fat men will tell you that as they
grow fat and as the waistband in
creases in size their legs grow shorter.
And SO it is with a woman
But the ideal girl of today is not fat.
She has taken 1t all off with exercise,
with massage and in various ways, in
Guiding walking, cycling and dieting
| until she is just the right size. She
| wears fiat fronted straight corset
which gives her the desired front line,
and she is slender below the belt so
that her limbs are as long as nature
intended to have them and as 1.-the as
art and graceful exercise can make
them.
In the arms the woman Of today is
declared to be particularly lovely. She
has taken elbow exercise until her ell
bows are just round enough and her
arms are covered with layer of soft.
smooth flesh, but with not an ounce
of over flesh. The arms that are big
and red and fat are memories only of
other days.
The figure Of the ideal girl, the girl
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
How a Missouri Maid Lost
Her Hair at the SeashOre

the auburn hair? Can't you put us
on?"
"Wel, 1 was sitting here last
Wednesday morning when one of the
sisters strolled along and noticed the
old clothes wringer.
"Oh, how nice! she said, and then
turning to me, she asked:
Is that here to wiring out bathing
suits?
NO said I, that's for your hair. to
wiring the water out of IT.
"'Why, that's perfectly lovely! TIL
go and tell my sister, And off she
went.
ct had to go to the office about that
time and I just stopped minute to
chat with gentleman from Baltimore
the one that lent me his tortoise pin
when some one began to scream
right out here where We're standing.
"Of course, rushed cut to see what
was the matter. And what do you sup
pose it was? That girl from Missouri
had taken that be-you-ti-ful hair of
hers and put 1t into the wringer plain
just loose, you know, without any
towel around to hold it, and had got
her sister to turn the crank.
"You can imagine what happened.
Part of the hair stuck to the upper
roller of the wringer and wrapped
tight around it as 1t revolved, and
when the handle was turned the other
way the rest of the hair got wound
around the other roller.
Then the girl at the handle lost her
head and began to work the thing vio-
lently back and forth in a desperate
effort to undo the mischief, and that
vas when hor~sister began to scream.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

you meet on the street every day, and
whom you admire even in the abrupt
lines of her tailor made dress, is one
succession of cures. Hogarth's famous
line of beauty lies in her neck and in
her arms Beardsley's wonderful
curved back, which began at the nape
of the neck and curved steadily down.
ward, is reproduced in her to perfec-
ton.
They say that to get perfect curved
back with a neck that is a vertical
and full of grace throughout, requires
long course of exercises and gym
nastic exercises at that.
You would be amazed If you could
see the society beauties at play in the
gymnasium in the afternoon. They
call it exercise, but it looks a great
deal like hard work.
Nor do they exercise in the winter
and give it up when summer comes.
They keep at it all the year around,
and at Newport there is one private
gymnasium which rivals anything seen
in the metropolis.
To get the long graceful back, the
back which is necessary before one
can have an ideal figure, requires a
certain amount of exercise of the kind
that is called figure training. The
principal feature of this figure train
ing is the work upon the rings.
Rings just convenient for the hands
are hung around the room and the
pupil travels along these rings, taking
first one and then the other in hand,
swinging little and catching the next
ring, until she has travelled all around
the gymnasium by means of the swing
ing rings. This is great exercise for
the back and the muscles of the neck.
But the woman without gym
nasium or the birl who lives in a fiat
does not always see how she is going
to obtain roomful of swinging rings,
and she does not know how she is 60
ing to travel suspended by her hands
and arms. OF course for her such,
exercise is impossible unless she has
access to gymnasium.
But she can do the next best thing.
She can place two chairs back to back
with little space between them. Then
she can place her hands on the backs
of the chairs and lift herself upward
She can raise and lower herself again
and again until her arms give out
If she will watch her opportunities
she will see many chances for using
her arms, and she must avail herself
of them, exulting all the while that
she is making her back more graceful
and that she is Strengthening and de-
veloping her neck.
The hands of the up-to-date woman
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

An electric hair dryer appeared and
q common clothes wringer disappeared
at an Asbury Park bathing place last
week. And thereby hangs tragedy.
1--WE lent the wringer to a girl from
Missouri to take her hair home In
explained the young person the droop-
ing pompadour who runs the women's
end of the establishment. Being from
Missouri. you see, we wanted to know,
and, of course, she found out"
The speaker was telling her story
by this time to group of young wom-
en- who also wanted to know, just like
the maiden from Missouri. So while
they coiled their hair and wrung the
salt water out of their bathing cos
tunes they listened.
"Of course, you girls all know that
when you want to dry your hair with
q clothes wringer you must first wrap
O. towel around 1t and be sure there
are no loose ends sticking out" pur-
sued the story teller. But the girl
from Missouri didn't know that, and
neither did her sister, who was with
her.
They'd been bathing here for sew
eral days and drying their hair In the
sun. And such hair! 1t was simply
be-you- ti-ful! Red and gold and CLOS
sy-you know. The kind the dyer
can't make for any of US.
"And when they had 1t almost dry
they'd walk back to their hotel with it
hanging down their backs, and for the
next fifteen minutes the boys would
be coming around asking, confidential
ly:
Say. May, who are those girls with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

month. and then to $50 and then to s62. so
! Honestly, believe that any firm that
would mtrust an employ With thousands
on top of thousands of dollars and then
| pay him such niggardly salary is placing
| premium on dishonesty
In regard to La Bounties mental condi-
quoted as saying:
For months his mind has been unbal-
anced by the burdens he was Carving
He was dealing in huge sums; was carry
ing on great schemes; using funds from
one account to keep another straight
and was worrying. asked him about il
many times. He always had an answer
ready. He made me believe that he was
overworked and was suffering from it."
1t is reported that La Bountie's former
employees have no idea of prosecuting him.
| and that they will be satisfied to have him
! turn over all his property to them and ID
] Is even intimated that he may be re-
tanned by them to manage this property,
for 1t is believed that he can make it pay
better than any one else.
Other business men are beginning to
think that La Bountes peculiar talent
can be turned to legitimate business uses,
and there is talk of a syndicate to fur
nish him the necessary capital to carry
forward his real estate schemes
One of the heaviest realty dealers and
master builders of the city Is responsible
for this statement:
Il am told said this master builder,
that syndicate has been formed with a
working cash capital of 500, 900; that as
& Wilson have been cleared up the for
nation of a new firm will be announced
and that La Bountie will be the active
man of the firm with a handsome salary
and 4 guaranteed percentage of all profits.
You have undoubtedly been impressed
by the. constant reiterations of the mem
bers of the firm that La Bountie's embeZ-
elements would aggregate 100000. You
have also noticed the fact that the posi-
bility of an arrest is exceedingly far off.
mo denials will convince me. nor will
they convince the public, that La Boun-
ties plunges have been foolish. He oper
ated with remarkable foresight and for
the business he did for the firm was en-
titled to a salary of four or six thousand
dollars year. When the Courier brought
out the startling fact that Wilson q Smith
paid this shrewd fellow the pitifully small
sum of $62 so a month. the syndicate of
which l have knowledge began to take
shape. 1t is a completed plan now |
am told, on what | deem competent au-
thority, and he will have a chance to
show what he can do with the realty
game with working cash capital of $780,
600.
IF that deal goes through it will be one
Of the most marvellous transformations
within my recollection. La Bountie Is
clever and competent but it has taken the
revelations of his gigantic crookedness to
bring that fact to the attention of men
who do not believe that such talents should
| be allowed to go to waste or to be diverted
| into criminal channels"