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Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12
ARIZONA MINING NEWS
Active Development and Important
 Discoveries in Many Districts

| ACt'Ve DeVeiOpment ana lmp0rtan
 Discoveries in Many Districts
 The Polaris Miniog company, in tht Clifton district, has acquired the Pc land Nelson group of seventeen claims paying for them So 900 shares of treas ury stock of the company. The Pc laris now owns forty claims in one group.
 The Range News says: "The Casey copper property, which has been worked until recently by the Chicago X Arizona Copper company, has been bonded to John Brockman, general manager of the Commonwealth Min ing & Milling company"
 The Santa Rosa is newly developed copper mine owned by Cochise county people. A big plant is being installed and preparations are being made for active production. The ore will be reduced in the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas. .-Bisbee Review.
 The Copper Bell smelter started in with full force of msu Thursday, April 2s, and in six days run turned out about 8 tons Of matte running about sl75 per ton, and they will:turn out more and richer matte every day, as they now have the smelter in good shape and experienced men to do the rk.-Range News.
 The most important development of the week is in relation to the Higgins property. The breast in the tunnel is full of low grade carbonates, iron and tale stained with copper It is a most propitious coincidence that the Higgins began to strike it just as the commission headed by President Leapold arrived. .--Bisbee Miner.
 An important strike is reported to have been made in the Yaeger Copper Company's mine, Yavapai county. The ore is black oxide of copper, and was encountered in drift in the 100 foot level. The company has one of the finest concentrating plants in the country just about completed, large amount of the ore in the mines requir- ing concentration.
 The balance sheet of the Standard company shows the following figures, which will be of considerable interest to stockholders, says the Clifton Cop per Era : The ore shipments for the fifteen months ending March 3l. l90l, amounted to 5030 tons, which gave net profit of $S3, 792, out of which div idends were paid to the amount of $52, ,000, cost of litigation, purchase of new property, patehting claims and other improvements made amounted
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12
Parker Always Regular

''I have heard it questioned that h, is regular and orthodox democrat; il being asserted that he failed to sup port the democratic ticket of 1896 anC 1900. know that he has been regular at all times. l know it from letter that he wrote during the campaign recently and know 1t from his owr personal assurances of the fact in g talk had with him.
 ''l believe that if the democracy car win at all it can win with Parker And moreover, believe that with a good, brave fight, with sound and unequivocal platform asserting demo. cratic policies in connection with real and living issues and ignoring dead is. sues, the democracy stands a better chance of winning than it has stood since Cleveland was elected in 1892. It ought to win, and it ought to win because democrats are now together. We may not be united upon every. thing that has occurred or every polit. ical issue, but about the things tha t are now issues, having become such by application of fundamental demo. cratic doctrine to present actions and conditions, we are united.
 Republicans Have Dodsed Issues
 "l believe we can win for another reason. The republican party has hitherto been frequently mis taken, but nearly always bold and brave. Now It has become party of passivity, of postponement, of evasion, negation :: in word. 'standpatism.' It has been on the defensive for three months in the house of representatives. It is on the defensive now before the country and in the press. Issues that it has dodged are bristling all around.
 The democrats general orders are Close ranks, eyes front, forward march The republican general or. ders are exactly the contrary Get behind the past, avoid anything pres. ent, remain concealed from the enc. my's hre. That is its attitude.
 The live issues, in my opinion, con. sist of legislation which the demo. crats Tn the house of representatives nave attempted to have the republI
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12
PARKER, LOGICAL CANDIDATE E
JOun Sharp Williams, the Demo- cratic Leader, FavOrs the New York Jurist

Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, the democratic leader of the house, believes that the nomin- ation of Judge Parker at the St. Louis convention ii assured. He thinks that, with the adoption of platform, com. bining nothing but live issues, the democrats can win next fall with Par ker at the head of the ticket.
 "It seems clear to me now, said MT. Williams to a Washingtsn Post representative, that Judge Parker will be nominated by such an over whelming vote that there will be sub stantially no opposition when the time for the convention arrives.
 Individually I favor his selection, favor him because he comes from the right section and the right state. He is the logical candidate, geographic. ally and politically. I favor him be- cause he seems to be an eminently conservative, careful and healthy minded man. I favor him because, although he has differed with a ma. jority of the party upon some great questions, notably one great question, he was still democrat, in spite of his difference, and thought democracy, even with one or two blanks wrong, infinitely better to the country than republicanism. l think Parker is a fundamental democrat an anti.fed- eraliSt by nature. He is a democrat by mperament, as we'll as by study and association. That goes very far with me.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

Phoenix, which usually gives demo. cratic maiorities, went republican last week. Decent democrats couldn't stand the candidates for couucilmen put forward by the democrats nor the methods used to elect them, and some of the party voters helped elect the re. puolicans, The managers of the cam paign Tor the democrats were the same people who are booming Hearst.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

The gates of the exposition were closed up tight on Sunday. This en- abled about 25, 900 people in St. Louis to go to the baseball games there in stead. Presumably, this state of things satisfies the strict Sabbatarians who are responsible for the arrangement.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

not arouse any enthusiasm, and "Uncle Joe" refuses to go into eclipse by ac- cepting the nomination for the vice presidency, the graveyard of political ambition. The reps would better take Steve Elkins. His barrel would be 6 mighty persuader.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

EugeneV. Debs has again succumbed to the public clamor that he run for president. Debs is not easily discour- aged. Four years ago as the candidate of the socialists he received S7,814 votes out of total of nearly 14, 900, 900.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

The announcement that President Roosevelt has now a majority of the 994 delegates is not exactly astonish- ing. Has anybody heard of any other candidate for whom the balance of the delegates may be inclined to vote ?
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

So it transpires that Senator w. A. Clark has gone to Europe not to die, but to wed, which is sometimes just as bad, especially at his age.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

Mir. Bryan is finding fault with num- Der of democratic platforms. Doubt less the Debs platform suits him much better.
Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-12

The republicans are having a hard time finding desirable running mate TOT Teddy Senator Fairbanks does
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

Mr.. Howe is one of the leading men
OF the city, and his connection with
the Bell company will give that insti-
tuition much strength. People know
Mr.. Howe, and his standing in the
community is an assurance that the
Bell company will give good service
If 1t lies within his power to bring it
about.
Mr.. Gemmell was brought here
| from Emporia a few months ago, and
his work in putting the local tele-
| phone service of the Bell company in
| better shape has been very effective
He is a practical electrician and teIe-
phone man, and will be able to ably
supplement Mr.. Howe's work by i'm
proving the quality of the company s
service.
For years the Bell service in To-
peka has needed reconstruction from
top to bottom, and now it is develop
ing INTO satisfactory system. Some
years ago the Bell service was r1iser-
able, and when the Independent Tele-
phone company started up in bust
ness here it swept everything before
1T and the Bell company lost ground
rapidly. The Bell company started in
on an important Campaign of i'm
provement, which has been in prog
ress Tor over year. All the down
town wires were taken from poles and
/ laid in underground conduits The
company is now running cables to the
outlying districts in the city, and will
soon have all its wires concentrated
| INTO the cable system. 1t now has
cables to Potwfn and Washburn and
is Strlng1ng more as rapidly as pos
slbIe. The Bell company also built it's
own telephone exchange building at
I'll West Sixth. Since Mr. GemmelI
came to Topeka he has been engaged
In smoothing the rough edges from
these raw improvements, and tanning
down the heavy battery current which
the wires carry to make them effec-
1--WE Tor long distance service. When
1 "a IT11r1
TO near anything over the Bef1 phones
on account of this heavy electric cur
rent, but now the lines are giving
very good service.
The Bell company has probably found
that 1t must take some decided action
to stem the tide of public sentiment
which had turned so violently against
1t. Its local business had fallen off
greatly, and people who ordered out
their phones were allowed to keen them
in, with no charge made simply to keep
the business in line. The Bell company
found that a strong local citizen was
needed for this work. Mr.. GemmelI had
put the company into good mechanical
shape, but another kind of work was
necessary to restore the confidence of
the public in the Bell phones. Mr.. Howe
was selected for this important task.
Officers of the Bell company were in
Topeka ten days ago, and made their
propositions to Mr.. Howe and at that
time the deal was practically conclud-
ed. Today Mr.. Howe is taking up mis-
headquarters at the Bell office, where
he will be found In the future.
He said today to a State Journal re-
porter: IT prefer that statements con-
corning the company and it's plans here
should come from General Superintend-
ent Johnson, who will be here from
Kansas City today. 1t is the plan to
continually improve the service, and
make it just as good as possible. There
will be no reduction in rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
IN WATER THREE DAYS.
Sailor Picked Up in Red Sea Tells
Strange Story.

New York, July 12.-Among a num-
Der of strange tales related by the crew
of the steamship Shimosa, just arrived
from Japan and China and which re-
ported having run over a large whale i
few miles outside Sandy Hook, is one
to the effect that while the big freight
er was speeding through the Red sea a
Lascar sailor was picked up. The
swarthy heather declared he had been
swimming three days and nights, haV-
ing fallen overheard from an Indian
trader bound for Antwerp. Captain
Champlin is certain that the man was
the Shimosa picked him up.
1T was about o'clock on June L."
he said. I'VE were steamina through
the Red sea and were three or four
days from Suez, when the lookout sight
ed something in the water on the port
bow. The ship was stopped and few
minutes later the chap came swimming
alongside. We got the sea ladder over
and he climbed on board without help.
I'VE gave him a wash down with
fresh water and peg of rum to liVen
him up and then, after giving him
something to eat, sent him to bed. He
seemed all right when he woke up the
next morning, but we could get little
sci from which he had fallen overheard
and his statement that he had been
three days and nights swimming.
ION reaching SueZ we found that the
Imaun, to which the LaScar belonged,
had touched there just Sc hours before
we arrived. From this 1 judge that the
man had been that length of time in
in the water. l sent him to the
British CONSUL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

a hearty greeting. 1t was the first
meeting of the president and Senator
Fairbanks since they were nominated.
The arrival of Fairbanks was preced-
ed by an important conference concern
ing the details of the campaign and the
presidents speech of acceptance of the
nomination. The parties to it were the
president. Mr.. Cortelyou and Cornelius
n. Bliss of New York, treasurer of the
Republican national committee. Mr..
Cortelyou arrived from Washington
early in the day accompanied by his
chief secretary, H. o. Weaver. He was
driven to the summer executive office
where he was Joined by Secretary Loeb.
Together they drove to Sycamore Hill.
Chairman Cortelyou declined to make
any comments either on the candidates
nominated by the st. Louis party, the
action of the st. Louis convention or
the platform. He was here he said to
confer with the president and Senator
Fairbanks.
An hour later Mr.. Bliss arrived from
New York and was taken to Sycamore
Hill in one of the presidents carriages.
1t was expected that he would remain
until today but he was obliged to return
to New York in the evening Mr.. Bliss
declined to discuss the details of the
conference
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Corn Also Weak But Demand
Checks Losses.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Slow and Dull 1
Kansas City.
Hogs Are Also Off About Ten
Cents.

chicago, July 12.-WHEAT-More favor
able weather for growing wheat and
oear1sh construction. placed upon the gov
eminent crop report gave the wheat mar
ket an easy tone at the outset, Septem-
Der being down 1s@14c to 3s@1kc, at S4119
S4Ac. Shorts covered freely, however on
higher cables and the market received
fair support from local commission houses
resulting in advance to S53sc. Mime
apolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re-
ceipts today of go cars, against 202 cars
year ago.
Later the market became strong and
September advanced to S6Ac. The close
was strong, with September up nc, at
S61sd86Ac.
CoRN-Septembe corn opened Aa4c
lower, at 4S7z@4S5sc, and suffered fur
ther decline to 4S9sG4S1kc. Support rem
and a scattered demand at the decline
served to check further losses.
September closed at a shade decline, at
OATS-September oats were a shade to
hqAc lower, at 31zsqS2c. Trading was on
a small scale.
PROVISIONs-Th probability of
strike at the stock yards was the chief
influence in provisions. Packers We're
credited with buying literally. Septem-
TENDER lard was PIC to 5q71kc higher, at
S.O5G7071e to $40; September ribs were
@71ac higher. at a.65@fs71k
WHEAT-Cash: No. red. $1.O2; No. 8
hard. S@95c: No. l northern, 500; No. 2
northern, 95q9Sc; No. 8 spring, S5Q95c.
CORN-No. 2, 49Q4914c: No 8. 49d49Ac
OATS-No. 2, SIC; No. 3, 361zc.
RYE@JuIy, Sc Sept. SEC.
FLAX.Cash; NV, $1.171A; s.-W., SLIP;
July, s1I2; Sept; s11S
CLOVER-July, 5000.
BARLEY-Cash: 30653c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
CANDIDATES MEET.
Senator Fairbanks Is Guest at Saga
more Hill.

Oyster Bay. July Ex-senator Charles
w. Fairbanks of Indiana, Republican
candidate for vice president, is a guest
of Sycamore Hin. The senator. arrived
unaccompanied at Oyster Bay last
evening. 1t had been expected he would
arrive earlier, but he missed connec-
lions at Long Island City and was de-
layed nearly an hour.
The vice presidential candidate came
directly from Indianapolis and was ac-
corded a cordial reception at the sta
ton as he alighted from the train. He
responded to greetings by lifting mis-
hat.
Senator Fairbanks was conducted to
the presidents carriage and was driven
directly to Sycamore Hill. AS the open
carriage passed through the village
Senator Fairbanks was recognized by
many persons.
His reception at Sycamore Hill was
racterized by noticeable cordiality.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
George b. Cortelyou, who is a guest of
the president, gave Senator Fairbanks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

bring into America enough diamonds to
make him Independently wealthy. How
far the raInifications and the extent OF
this new scheme have gone has not yet
been determined. The exposure was
premature and was practically forced
upon the customs men, who were work
ing on and waiting for bigger game.
They were compelled to take action
through the wrong address placed upon
a trunk found later to contain leaf to-
bacco intended for a manufacturer or
cigars in Brooklyn. The duty on the
leaf, of which there was 60 pounds, is
"a a pound. Two other trunks which
came by the same steamer were found
to contain 1877 pounds of Samatra
leaf One of the prisoners is said to
have revealed the secrets of the band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
New York stocks.

Wall Street, New York. July IL
STOCKS-Opening prices made fractional
advances over last night, which were linn
tied to small fractions, except for an adj
vance of q point in Reading. Metropoli-
tan Street Railway and Reading second
preferred were u point lower. Some large
blocks of the prominent stocks changed
hands and the market was broad and ac-
tive.
Profit taking sales followed the opening
rise and the market yielded slightly and
became dull.
The sagging tendency of prices was
checked by the marking up of Reading Ia
points, through some large offerings. The
market did not recover to the opening
high level. Pressed Steel Car preferred
gained 1 point and international Car IL
points. Brooklyn Rapid Transit lost e
point and Anaconda Ia points. The mar
ket was dull and heavy again at noon.
Bonds were irregular at noon.
Minor stocks figured more prominently
In the midday dealings than for some
time The general market also develop
ed renewed activity at higher prices.
Buying ceased rather abruptly after a
rise in the coalers and speculation for a
time became quiet and undressing To-
ward o'clock st. Paul, Union Pacific and
Metropolitan Street Railway were cover
ed up over point and the United States
Steel stocks came into demand. the pre-
ferred rising a point. Reading extended
its rise to Ia points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
CORN Is IN BAD SHAPE.
So Says Governor Bailey. Who Is Back
From His Farm.

Governor Bailey has returned from
a brief trip to his farm I'D at Bailey
Vile. He is not much pleased with
the corn prospect.
1.-The corn crop in my part of the
state is in very bad condition." the
governor said today. 1--WE won't have
anywhere near a good crop. Yester-
day was the first day for weeks that
the teams have been able to get into
it and the weeds are mighty bad
Then the ground has been too cold
and the soil is not in good condition,
so that altogether the corn has not
made the proper growth"
Renorts from further west in corn
country. in Jewell and Cloud counties
state that the crops there are in good
condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
BIG FRAUDS UNEARTHED.
Much Valuable Merchandise Struggled
Through Custom House.

New York, July 12-Behind the arrest
of the wireless telegraph operator and
a hospital steward employed on one of
the largest transatlantic liners, charg-
ed with smuggling Sumatra tobacco,
the customs officials claim to have un-
earthed a new and ingenious method of
smuggling diamonds, silks, tobacco and
other merchandise which should pay a
high duty.
Frauds on the government of enor-
nous proportions are believed to have
been perpetrated by this method. It's
successful conduct required a combi-
nation of expreSSmen, steamship en-
ployes and possibly government Off
Gals.
It's beneficiaries and possibly it's pro-
motors, are believed to be merchants of
and prominence. Smuggling in trunks,
carried as passengers baggage, upon
which labels indicating that they had
been properly examined and passed by
pasted is the method. In addition to
the persons mentioned, two others have
been arrested and large force OF
special treasury agents is at work seek
ing other persons accused of participa
ton in the frauds.
Trunks containing the merchandise
which the conspirators arranged to
smuggle into the United States are, I'M
der the scheme said to have been in
use, marked with a private mark and
trunks owned by passengers. On ar
rival at this port the confederates of
the smugglers on board the ship were
in a position to reach the baggage and
upon the trunks of the SmugglerS they
pasted the special label, indicating that
an inspector had examined the con-
tents of the trunk and found nothing
dutiable therein. When the customs
officials came across a trunk with such
a label on it they passed on. The trunk
was then carried to the. pier and pass
ed into the hands of its owners.
To get these labels was the first
of the new method. They may have
been printed and placed in the hands
of men who could affix them to the
trunks or they may have been washed
off trunks properly passed by express
men who are employed to transport
them from the piers.
In single trunk passed by the dupli-
cate label system a smuggier might
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
WHO WILL CROSS FIRST.
Russians and Japanese Confront Each
Other With River Between.


Headquarters of General Count KEEL
Ter, Mutt Kiay, eleven miles west of
Liam Dian San, July 12.-The opposing
armies are grimly facing each other on
the heights across the Laink river. ready
to engage in death grapple.
The Liank crosses the main Lao
Yang-Hang Wang Cheng road, % miles
east of Lao Yang. 1t flows north into
the Tai Use river, which passes through
Lao Yang and empties into the Lao
river.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, who arrived here after a, So mile
ride from Siao Lindji, saw long lines of
infantry and transport trains winding
up the rough mountains. At Liam Dian
Sian a look out stationed in a tree top
pointed out the way to General Keller's
headquarters near Mutt Kiay There the
Russian east army was found, hidden
in the hills.
In a plain tent the CORRESPONDENT saw
General Keller living like a. simple SOL
der his staff being quartered in a ma
tive hut nearby. The general looked
cheerful and was bronzed by exposure
He talked enthusiastically of the en-
gagement at Hoi Yan.
Around the generals tent were many
officers of the guard, the pride of st.
Petersburg. To see them as weather
beaten as the CoSsack officers one could
scarcely believe them to be the dash
ing guardsmen of the Russian capital
They have become hardened fighters
for hardly a day passes without COL
lisions between the advance posts of
the eastern army and the Japanese. The
whole army is anxious to fight General
Kuroki. whose headquarters are at
Vandiapudze. and whose men are en-
trenched on the other side of the river.
The burning question is who will be the
first to cross the dread valley of the
iauk river.
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His Home Blown I'm.

Ironwood Mich. July 1.-THE home
of Earl Walton. superintendent of the
Brotherton and Sunday Lake iron
mines at Wakefield, was destroyed by
dynamite today. Sections of the house
and veranda were blown 200 feet. but
the family, asleep upstairs, escaped SER
ious injury. Superintendent Walton
has no idea as to the identity of the
perpetrator of the crime or their mo-
tive. A strike took place at the mines
in January against a 10 per cent cut in
wages. Some of the old employees found
their places taken when the two mines
resumed shipping. Sheriff Olson has
sworn in an extra force of deputies.