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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-20
THE FATE OF eoMoRRAH.
A Western Town Soon to be obIiterat-
ed by Great Irrigation Lake.

ed by a Great Irrigation Lake.
San Antonio (Tex) Express.-Up
in the mountain desert of East Central
Arizona there is now busy town call
ed Roosevelt, in honor of the President
of the United States. 1t is perhaps
the most unique community in Aneri-
ca.
Three years hence the town will
have been submerged by 10 feet of
water. 1t will have been effaced as
completely as the ancient cities ingulf-
ed by the Dead Sea of Asia Minor, and
this by the deliberate plan OF man.
For it exists only to be destroyed.
The water that viii float there is to
vivify 100000 acres of land in the Salt
River Valley. Roosevelt is but tran
silent town. headquarters for hundreds
of men employed by the government
TO wall up a mountain gorge and i'm
pound the river, which nov PUSHES
wildly down a rocky canon.
The story of Roosevelt illustrates
the picturesque and useful character
of a work the United States Govern
ment is doing in many parts of the
West 1t is work which calls upon the
engineer to summon all the resources
of his craft. 1t is work which de-
mands a great outlay of money; but 1t
is work that. especially in the semi
tropical country of New Mexico Ari-
IONA and Southern California, trans
forms the sterile desert into a produc-
tive paradise.
Incidentally this work in its imme-
date phases becomes a business i'm
lance to ST. Louis Chicago. Kansas
City, Omaha and other cities of the
Central and far west ABOUT $4,500,-
600 worth of contracts have been let.
Some s27 100000 more, to pay for pro
jects under consideration, will be
spent This is much money. The con
tracts offer a business opportunity and
keen competition between contractors
Of the various cities already has devel-
oped.
The Geological Survey has the re-
clamation work in charge. Its recent
proportions have made il a most i'm
portant branch of the presnt activities
of the nation Considering them as
whole. the reclamation projects, as
physical undertakings. are second only
to the building of the Panama Canal,
and. probably. they are not far short
of that projected waterway in CONNER
cial consequence.
However. to tell of the Arizona I'M
dertaking. of its difficulties and of
Roosevelt.
In these desert highlands nature has
fashioned out a sort of cup or basin,
trimmed around By mountain ridges.
II is a lonely place. once the resort Of
outlaw bands. and before thaC Of
Apache Indians Through the bottom
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-20
THE GUARDIAN OF VEsuVTUs.
professor Mateucci and His Residence
on a Volcano.

w. G. Fitz-Gerald in The World To
! day.-It is by no means generally
ilnown that the far-famed volcano, sc
familiar to every visitor to the Bay OF
! Naples has guardian especially ap
pointed by the Italian government in
the person of Professor Luigi Mateucci
! That this well-known scie~ lists serv
ices are of vital import IL e viii be
realized on rejecting how uncomfort
able it is, to say the least. to have a
four-thousand-foot burning mountain
| in the very centre of a teemlng popu-
| lation and a rich and fertile province.
| Very few of the ordinary touris s who
ascend to the crater of Vesuvius by
the Funicu,ar Railway meet the pro-
fessor. He lives in the observatory,
all among the deep ashes and cinders,
about a thousand feet below the place
where the reeking sulphur clouds
sweep up the dread depths.
Professor Mateucci is just now
very much in evidence, owing to the
new international movement for the
excavation of Herculaneum, which ex-
pert archaeo.ogists say will yield much
richer finds than Pompeii in the way
of bronzes, statutory, mosaics, imple-
ments, etc.
"Herculaneum," Professor Mateucci
pointed out to the present writer,
was buried much deeper than Pom
peii by the effiuX of ashes and scoriae
from the volcano, and | am certain the
city will be found in amazingly per-
feet preservation. You must remem-
ber too, that Uerculaneum was a
much more popular resort with the
Roman aristocracy than her sister
city"
One morning. ignoring the little
Funicular Railway. | walked up Vesu-
vius, and was very graciously received
by its guardian. Just now" the pro-
fessor said, the observatory is in a
very dilapidated state. The govern
ment has granted only twenty thous-
and francs for repairs. and even this
sum has not yet been paid, so my ma
sons and carpenters are practically at
a standsti.l."
The rooms were indeed much dlsar-
ranged and confused. There were no
cabinets or shelves to hold the vol
canic specimens that make Professor
Mateucci's museum, and so these on
the occasion of my visit, wrapped in
paper, Uttered the chairs and tables.
noticed that the professor has had
wooden partition made in one corner
of the observatory's biggest room, and
this has to serve him as a bedchamber-
Being a bachelor" he told me smil-
ingly. "of course I can put up with al
most anything in the way of primitive
conditions and uncomfortable sur
roundings. l must say. however, my
work is a little hindered by all this
muddgs''
And herewith. the professor pro
duced from corner the albums where
he keeps the very striking photographs
he takes recording the various erup-
lions. Suddenly I tick out one that
impressed me. a bright and sharp sill
yer print. showing Mateucci leaning
against a mountainous mass OF rock.
THAT" said this wonderful man.
was thrown nearly thousand feet
from a temporary crater one morning
and fell within seven feet Of me.
How much does Il weigh" I asked
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-20
DESERVING THE FARM.

Probably the most conspicuous
thing in modern civilization is the
desertion of the farm for the city. The
proportion of the population of every
country on the globe that lives in CT
ties has been increasing at a great
rate for the last twenty-five years.
| AS the movement is worldwide and
is not founded on reason, it is almost
useless TO reason against it, and yet
it is as dangerous and deplorable as
it is phenomenal. The wisest men in
the world regret and condemn it, and
among these is the railroad magnate
J. ]. Hill, who recently addressed the
Old Settlers association of North Da-
kota and who in referring to the de-
sertion of the farms said:
A good farm of 100 or 800 acres is a
comfortable, happy home. A man can
be prince on his own farm. You rob
your children TO this heritage when
you sell your farm"
1t is easy enough to point out how
this hegira began. 1t is the result of
the progress in machinery and manu-
features. The articles of human
comfort and enjoyment which were at
one time manufactured in factories.
Almost all of these factories are in
the cities, and the labor which former
ly produced them on the farm has
now followed these industries to the
city.
This was the beginning of the
movement, but it has greatly degener-
ated since it hogan. 1t has now be-
come a mad rush to the city for the
sake of the excitement and fancled en-
joyments of city life. The farm is
considered a dull place and the city is
regarded as the abode of fun, amuse-
ment, society and comfort
There was never time since Adam
delved and Eve spun when this was
more of a delusion. There never was
q time when there were more hard
ship, poverty and misery in the city
than now, and there never was a time
when farm life could be made so de-
lightful and profitable as now The
best products of the city are now laid
down on the farm at incredibly low
prices, and the good things of the
farm cannot for any conceivable
amount of money be furnished in the
city.
People who live in cities and are
millionaires are compelled to keep
country establishments in order to en-
joy real luxury. They not only go to
the country for pleasure but when
they have done so their greatest pleas
ures are in nature and are such as fall
to the lot of the poorest farmer. Pure
air, pure food, pure water, quiet
sleep and the beauties of sky and land
and yet all these may be enjoyed by
mar in the country who lives in a
shack.
The time was when the man IN the
shack had nothing else. but now he
has the rural delivery, the tele hone,
the trolley car, the pianola. the news
paper and the magazine, the phono-
graph, the telescope, the microscope,
the bath, the fine groceries and the
fine library. He has, too, the rich
milk, the fresh eggs, the fat poultry,
the luxurious quiet, the bright dome
of heaven and the smiling face of ma
ture, which Croesus in a city can not
have.
How it is that he prefers to come
to city, live in a stuffy fiat. breathe
smoke and smudge, drink mean coffee,
eat stale eggs and spend one-haTf of
his life in strike is something we
can not understand.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-20
GOOD SPIRIT ON BOTH SIDES.

II Is reported from Montpelier that
tue TWO young men VINO have just COM
piSted three-montns' prison sentence
for roobins the mail pouch at Middle
sex last February. will so to work. one
Tor local hacSman and the other on
Sheriff Tracey's farm. That's the right
spirit to show. both on TIE part of the
men and the citizens who give them a
chance TO earn an honest living and
live oown what may have been their
hFst otenSe. du to the lack of that
e5ance. 4 man is not wholly PAST ref
ormation as long as he is willing TO
woyk.-Brattleboro Reforner.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-04-14
BOWBELLS, n. d., APRIL Il, 1905.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN NORTH DAKOTA
From Col. Lounsberry's North Dakota Rccord)

Inunshe sNorsh1 IA IccodD
In 1884 President Roosevelt
D. talked prospective
ae fer Congress- Mr. Roosevelt that hunting
trip and, liking the country invested in it.
His earessn daring
the best Of that him the love Of all the frni1e
who to know him.
There trouble with Mexico those
reg-
nn rough riders for service III the with Mexico should the trouble
1t was well said of Washington first in var first in peace and first in the
Of his cornrymen'
world this early effort get into war shows that he was ready to do some
quick work in emuang Washington his 6ist quality
ord at Santiago
The Dakota the
Lands They situated along the Little
burning
change of the earth its other under
have been probably years.
of completing the work There plots eadowor
height
the original landscape Here hills the being burned
left in fragments of broken terra Gotta These Of clay and sandstone
fused and stand like nns guarding There patches and
piles patches ag
ranche1~ =
The writer recently John Rea Olympia Wash
speakers
1884 who interview Roosevelt Marquis de or who
has often been told and best by himself short sketch by
Dantz contemporary county, Penn
van Harpers Weekly, every respect
the best short have both in the art treatment and the
his 1t recall detail what happened years
remember Roeves capture of Badman Fnngan' incident thai
brought him oosevt> notice Of fine and established
his reputation throughout the Bismarck land district the last OF the Public Do
often called for advertising Fmnegan Mco
the Bad Lands Cowboy that established 70 advertise l
de oes United States land Office notices
dropped Missouri until h Roosevelt hunting kiG
khon liked without leave borrowed IT, Discover
started pursuit It hot Nay
least He Fnnegal who also ttotte ii The dnan
President
raised his rifle drop the evil d before they the drop
today worry
of an-mpeals. When he them the task Of his life
the Dickinson jail hundred mile? He
ceecl he did You
with lives worthless
Bad Lands the Dickinson 1t too
the
saved his life When he reached Dickinson both hero and
sight My friend Dr. Sckn his and he must have had
story Ile teeth and his clothes
the wild that
bottoms down there che bruised hungry and in aers gritty
and determined = Lullog.'
people greeted Roosevelt
fall we'll including 'kukux Me the
remembered yet lie practical Joker back IN
His
thrilling president
passed through EIowa.d o = you a story.
experience observer from Bismarck,
drive the silver spike thc tanaako
Jewell Farmer Wallace
spent his nh while c
slept upon He slept didn't The bunk board and the on
cologne CT the Little Mso
his big the hill and better
replied several hundred thousand dollars specuats
anywhere He spent it, lke!
B did There the
great died the desert of Sahara 1t
the position of the foremost the
world
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-04-14
APPEAL FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS

Touching appeals the have
the States mporn aid for the and wounded
the multitude destitute widows and
soldiers killed the
principal Theological School at Toxic Ja
"ow long this distressing condition OF things Will
the impoverished families be-
relief utterly inadequate Coudsome
noble missionaries the ground
of distributing and alevang the distress OF
begn but help hesue1ng and distressed
Of Pity neutral in cln and the claims helpless Chi
benefcenc world
appeals thus from Christian workers in
Jaarc$c to obtain the help needed
the Alliance
of who
Bishop
D. w. d. D. Dr. NEWELL
Hills H. Souha Dr. VIM Elliott Gfs and B. r. BUCK Sec
contributions large SMALL sent to the FRANKLIN trust eo-
Treasurer No 40 Broadway New York City
already contributed for this purpose Slo OF
4heh tas forwarded to JaIan for distribution
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
The Sensational Testimony of The For
mer Vice President OF the
Equitable Life.
Among Other Things He Told How False Friends, to Gef
Him Out of The Country for Their Own Purposes
Agreed to Make Him Ambassador
To France.

there was a greater crowd than has at
tended the sessions of the committee
heretofore, and extra police were sta
toned in the corridors without the
committee room to keep order.
Mr.. Hyde cleared up the matter of
the S6S5,OG loan of the Mercantile
Trust company, which appeared on the
books of the Equitable Life under the
caption of the u. w. Alexander No.
Account" This account has been un-
der investigation on several previous
occasions, but none of the witnesses
heretofore examined had been able to
explain it. Mr.. Hyde first heard of
this account in 1902. when it was called
to his attention by President Alexan-
der, who said that he and Mr.. Jordan
had incurred the loan to take up stock
that was being bid up to fictitious
values to the detriment of the COM
pany; to settle suits that were ham
pering the business of the society, and
for campaign contributions. This con-
tribution was one to the last campaign,
and was asked by Mr.. Frick, who sug-
gested it for the benefit of the society
To procure this money Mr.. Alexander
had Mr.. Hyde write a letter to the
president of the Mercantile Trust COM
pany. and this letter practically placed
him in the position of a guarantor.
Later, when the settlement of the
loan was forced. Mr. Alexander and
Mr.. Jordan raised all they could toward
it. The stock purchased with part Of
the loan was sold to Thomas r. Ryan
for s212, 600, and the balance, s212. 500
Mr.. Hyde paid personally. He did this
because he understood that Mr.. Alex
ander was financially embarrassed,
and in a bitter tone said:
Notwithstanding the strained re-
latiOns with these two gentlemen. 1
felt bound to see that the debt was
liquidated by reason of the letter Mr..
Alexander extracted from me-"
Mr.. Hyde said that he first received
a salary of 10000 seven years ago.
In 1902, when ne became chairman of
the finance committee, this was ad-
vanced to S75.000 and in 1903 it was
advanced TO 100000 at which it re-
mained until he resigned at vice-pres-
ident of the society.
Mr.. Hyde presented a statement
showing that in the seven years of his
connection with the Equitable Life
/ and the allied corporations his aver
. age income had been only a little more
than $4,000 a year. This was figured
as seven years salary from the
Equitable, amounting to $435,000, from
which he deducted his losses in syn
dicate transactions, amounting to S2S,-
615, and the $212,500 paid on the $685.
coo loan, which left a balance of $193,-
1884, or an average annual income of
$27,697, to which was added the aver
age income from his offices in the
! trust companies of $10,500 The wit
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
FOOTBALL PASSED
BY COLLEGE HEADS
Other Matters Before the Conference
OF Presidents.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE conven-
tion of the Association of Presidents of
State Universities adjourned today
without taking any action on football.
The convention endorsed the national
university project, whose courses are
designed for graduate students only,
and appointed a committee consisting
of Presidents Baker, Buckham and
Thompson TO confer with the members
Of the committee of four hundred who
were named by Mr. Hoyt, of Colorado,
the originator of the project.
The association discussed questions
suggested by the experience of Amer
lean students who are taking the
Rhodes scholarships at Oxford univer-
sity. in England. President Campbell,
of the university of Oregon, opened
the talk on the subject. The opinion
was expressed that some of the schol-
arships did not offer the best training
for American students, and that, as the
project was in the early stages of its
history, judgment should not be passed
upon ii at this time. 1t was contend
ed that American students generally
are much further advanced in their
studies than an admission to the uni
versity ordinarily requires and that
they suffered in consequence by being
required to enter the freshman year.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
NEW MEXICO TO SELL
IRRIGATION PLANT
The Government Asked 20 Buy pecos
Valley Works.

Washington. Nov. IA nOn-parti-
san delegation from New Mexico cali
ed on the president today to discus
with him the proposed sale TO the gov
eminent of the irrigation project in
the Pecos velley. New Mexico. The
delegation consisted of Judge a. A.
Freeman, w. A. Finley. G. l.. Ballard.
A. II. Hove, c. Il. McLeath and ,.
NJ. Tracey. They are urging the sec
retary of the interior to buy the plant.
which has been built to irrigate the
PecOs valley.
The dam and its contingent system
were constructed by private individu-
ais at a cost of s75O,OOO. Last spring
a flood carried away part of tAe dam
and left the reservoir practically dry
The farms, orchards. vineyards. and
gardens, which We're irrigated by the
system are threatened with total de-
structiOn unless the dam is rebuilt.
The delegation proposes To sell the
entire plant to the government for
$150.0O0- The president promised To
give full consideration to the propo-
sition.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
MINING CONGRESS
OPENS AT FL PASO
PioE. Douglas Invites Delegates to a
Tour Of Arizona.

FL Paso, Texas, Nov. 1.-THE first
days session of the mining congress,
which convened here today in eighth
annual session, was devoted to pre-
liminaries, welcoming addresses and
committee meetings, with the eXcep-
ton of the annual address of Presi-
dent j. H. Richards, of Boise, Idaho.
Resolutions were introduced urging the
creation of a department of mines by
congress, urging congress to pass a
law providing of the location of mines
on Spanish land grants i'm Arizona and
New Mexico, titles to which have been
confirmed by the government court of
land claims, and urging the hydro
graphic bureau to properly locate all
desert water holes and erect metal
posts to indicate their locations. 1t
is also asked that rangers be provided
to keep such water free from pollution.
All were referred to committees. Prof
James Douglas, president of the
Phelps-Dodge interests in Arizona, in
vited the entire congress to become his
guests on a special train for Bisbee
and Douglas.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15

New York, Nov. Thames HaZen
Hyde, former vice president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
whose resignation followed the sensa-
tional disclosures in that company last
spring, which led to the investigation
of insurance companies methods by
the Armstrong committee of the leg
islature; the man to whose presence as
n witness before this committee had
been looked forward to in the eXpecta-
ton that it would produce the great
est sensation of the investigation, APP
peared before the committee today.
Mr.. Hydes manner on the stand was
one of composure and elaboration and
his replies to question of counsel were
calm and deliberate and of times stud
led.
He was fortified with statements and
data and was very frank in his eX-
plantations Frequently he would be-
come bitter in his reference to some of
his associates, while his entire testi-
mony was of deep interest and cleared
up many points that have heretofore
remained in the dark. 1t was not un-
it'll late in the day that the sensational
features of his testimony were devel-
oped. Mr.. Hyde was called to the
stand shortly after the session opened
this morning, and he was under exam
inatfon all day until a few minutes be-
fore adjournment was taken. In an
ticipation of his presence as a witness,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
UNREST AT ODESSA.

Odessa. Nov. 14.-Considerable un-
rest continues to pervade this city.
LoOting and attacks on individuals are
reported to have occurred in various
quarters. The new prefect up to the
present time has not taken any dras-
tic measures and consequently the peo-
pie fear to leave their homes after
nightfall. The theaters are open but
are deserted. The university opened
today.
A number of policemen have resign
ed, and it is openly asserted that they
secured sufficient plunder during the
disturbances to make them independ-
ent.
News has reached here of fresh dis
orders in the town of Knivoirog in
which over a hundred persons were
killed and the town sacked and burned.
Influential Jews have gone to st. Pc
tersburg to present to the council of
ministers full account of the Odessa
outbreaks.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
STRONG PROTEST
BY ROAD EMPLOYEES
Against the Proposed Railroad Rnte
Legislation.

Washington, Nov. 14.--An earnest
protest was made to the president to-
day against the proposed railroad rate
legislation. The protest was filed by
the representatives of the five great
labor organizations connected with
neutrality-suspicious., firemen, con-
ductors, and trainmen. Members of the
delegation which called on the presi-
dent represented the several organi-
cations. They pointed out that rail-
road rate legislation logically meant
the lowering of rates. This, they con-
tended, would be followed by a less
ening of the earning power of the rail-
roads and would consequently lead
eventually to lowering the pay of the
railroad employees.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-15
KILLED HUSBAND AND HERSELF
Bride of Less Than a Day Committed
Murder and Suicide.

Suffolk, Va, Nov. 14.-After being n
bride for less than a day Mrs. Helen
Johnston killed her husband, Randolph
c. Johnston, some time last night, in
Perguimans county, n. c. The young
bride, who was only seventeen years of
age, was found on the floor in front
of the dresser. She had fired off a
22-calibre pistol in her mouth, the bull
let passing through her head.
Before killing herself Mrs. Johnston
shot her husband three times. One
bullet entered the breast, another the
cheek and a third just grazed the tenn
pie. The couple We're married last
evening. When the festivities were fin
ished they drove to the bridegroom 5
home and retired shortly after mid
night. Both were found dead in their
night dress. The girl left no word of
explanation.