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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

When we reported the introduction
in the House, Feb. Sth, of an act to
amend chapter $50 of the private and
special laws of 1879 establishing the DO
lice court of the city of Belfast all the
information we could obtain concern
ing it was that it extends the jurisdic-
ton OF the court and provides salary
of 81 200 for the judge, to be paid by
the county of Waldo. We did not know
then and do not know now who is re-
sponsible for this measure; but we have
secured copy of the bill and print it
in full in another column that the pub
lie generally may be informed on a
matter of which it was apparently in
tended they should remain in ignorance.
1t was SO recently that the city council
took away the salary of 5000 paid to the
Judge of the Belfast police court, leav-
ing him the fees for compensation, that
it does not seem probable that they
have anything to do with the plan for
hiring this official over again at high
er salary, even if it is to be paid by the
county. Perhaps this court may be
needed; but with three sessions OF the
supreme court in this county each year
it does not appear so to us.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

What good reason has anyone to be-
lieve that the Republican party of
Maine is going to make a genuine. con-
iinuous effort to enforce the prohibi-
tory law throughout the State?-Lew-
iston Sun.
The evidences of what has been done
and is now doing in different sections
OF the State in this direction; the atti-
tude of Gov. Cobb-and no one who
knows the man can doubt his sincerity
IN the matter and his earnest desire to
carry out the pledges made in the Re-
publican platform-and an aroused pub
lie sentiment on this question. Our
Lewiston contemporary knows as well
as We do that it is impossible to entirely
eradicate the liquor traffic. The laws
which provide a death penalty or life
imprisonment for the crime of murder
do not prevent murders. Other crimes
are committed, despite the laws against
them. The millennium has not yet ar
rived Until it does come we can only
do our best to forward It.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02
T0RTURING HUM0R
Cured nv Cufic,,ra

"1 suffered five years with a terrible
itching eczema, my body and face be-
ing covered with sores. Never in my
life did experience such awful suffer-
ing, and I longed for death, which I
felt was near. l had tried doctors and
medicines without success, but my
mother insisted that I try Cuticura.
felt better after the first application
of Cuticura Ointment, and was soon
entirely we'll. Mrs. A. Etson, Belle
vue, Mich.
the world Potter Drug Chem Corps Boston, Sole Props
R1-Send for d" A Book for Women"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

The talking crow of which we read
the other day in an exchange is no
doubt raven-a bird given to that
sort of thing-and now we are told of a
canary owned in Baltimore that shows
a disposition to learn to say other
things besides ''Pretty bird" Such a
beauty and "Pretty beauty" his pres
ent repertory. ''These he pipes and
chirps with coquettish turn of his
pretty head" We have always main
tanned that cats and dogs can, and do,
talk although their vocal utterances
are perhaps not easily understood. They
would be, however, if we were familiar
with the cat and dog language.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

Can birds smell?" is the caption of
An article in an exchange. Get to the
leeward Of game birds that have hung
long enough to make them ripe for
cooking and you will answer the ques-
ton in the affirmative.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

A West Point cadet, "Bulr' Upton,
downed Japanese jiu jutsu professor
the other day, throwing the professor
three times without receiving a fall.
'Rah for West Point.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

Now somebody says that drinking
too much water is the cause of appen-
dicitis. On the other hand we are re-
peatedly told by medical authorities
that we do not drink enough water.
The real truth of the matter is that we
have all got to die, some time.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

People who are always looking for
trouble are anticipating destructive
freshets from the present accumula-
ton of snow and ice. Last year we had
the same conditions locally, but the
snow and ice dissolved gradually and
there were no freshets. That may be
the case this year.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

We are reliably informed that orders
have been issued by the President of
the Northern Maine Seaport Railway
Company to suspend all work on the
road from Stockton Springs to Belfast.
AS there are still some doubling Thom-
asses who declare that it was never in
tended to build this road they will of
course exclaim, Il told you so' But
| they are, and have been, mistaken. This
section, as has been frequently stated
on the best possible authority, is an i'm
portant feature in the original plan of
the enterprise. The route has been
surveyed, the road located and every
detail of construction provided for, in
Guiding the pile bridge, with steel draw,
across the Passagassawaukeag. The nee
essary material is provided for and work
could be begun at an hours notice and
the road completed within a year, at a
cost of $4,000.
The order to suspend operations is
due to reports of the hostility of prop
erty owners along the line and dispo-
sition to demand extortionate prices
for right of way and land damages
President Cram said to a citizen of
Belfast last week that he did not IL
tend to fight his way into Belfast. They
had not asked one cent of the citizens
of Stockton Springs, Searsport or Bel
fast. They were willing to pay fair
price for the land needed and to make
reasonable compensation for land dam
ages, but did not propose to do more
than that. That has been the declared
policy of the road from the first. 1t
was clearly set forth by Judge Stearns
in his address at the court house in this
city few weeks ago, and met the ap-
proval of the many representative citi.
Zens present, who endorsed it by ris.
ing vote. Now this enterprise, which
must prove of great benefit to the com
munity, is held up by few individuals
with demands not unlike those of the
highwayman who calls upon his victims
to stand and deliver. When the asses
sors make their rounds this year they
should see that this property which ha:
so greatly appreciated in value is prop
erly entered upon their books. Ther'
are other cases of this kind to which
attention may be called later.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

The House has voted to authorize the
building of two battleships. Party lines
were broken on the test vote, SO Repub-
leans opposing and Al Democrats favor
ing the increase Among the Republi-
cans in favor of eliminating one ship
was Congressman Littlefeld, who, &C
cording to a special to the New York
Herald, ''has fought for pairing every
appropriation bill yet reported"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

The Gar has decided to continue the
war, influenced, it is said, by the opin-
ion of German military authorities,
based on reports from military experts
at the front, that the situation is by no
means hopeless. This is not, however
wholly disinterested opinion.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

The beef trust has been sufficiently
roasted by the press, and now the pub
lie would like to see it burned at the
stake.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02
A Guaranteed Cure For Piles.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrudng
Piles. Druggists refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no mat
First application gives ease and rest. SOC.
II your druggist hasn't it send SOC. in
stamps and it will be forwarded postpaid.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

Mr.. Norman Gale, whose pretty lit
tie rural poems, smelling of milk and
honey, cherries and cheese, were rather
popular at one time, has not been heard
of for some years. Now he reappears
as the author of serial story in the
new illustrated monthly magazine
which is the old Literary World
transformed.
What kind of cheese-Roquefort OF
Limburger?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

The army canteen will not be re-es.
tablished at this session of Congress.
All efforts in that direction have prac,
tically ceased.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

AS result of the steps taken against
the Standard Oil Company in Congress,
and in the war being waged against it
i'll Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Indiana
and Oklahoma, the stock of the COM
pany declined six points in one day and
twenty one points in a week. coil and
water won't mix"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: In advance, 800 year ;
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02
"OUGHr NOT TO PASS"

What Bangor thinks of the petition
now before the legislature for charter
for the Bangor and Northern Maine
Short Line Railway is set forth in the
article from the Commercial under the
caption of .'The State Must Keep its
Pledges" That will be the sentiment
of every honest legislator, and his vote
will be cast accordingly. TO do other
wise would be to bring the State into
discredit and cripple a road that has
done, and is doing, great work in de-
veloping Northern Maine. In a later
issue, speaking of petitions about to be
circulated in behalf of this new scheme,
the Commercial says:
The people of Maine, the people of
B. & A. road and have relied upon the
integrity of the legislature Of Maine to
protect them in so doing. They have
islature that no competing parallel line
rights of that company, the bonds of
WulCu 6l0 uClu uCdlly ONOAy
bank in the State and by hundred Of
our people.
A petition in endorsement of the
Bangor & Northern Maine road is an
act against the Bangor & Aroostook
and their new winter outlet road, the
Northern Maine Seaport line.
Aroostook is of the same opinion as
Bangor. The Aroostook Republican
says: 1--WE owe much to Mr.. Grams en-
terprise and push. Is it, therefore, a
fair requital for the material benefits he
has brought about to cripple the road
of which he is president, both in the
financial world and to put check upon
further expansion by the uncertainty
lowering over the plans of another
road?" The Republican also empha-
sizes the fact that when the B. & A
was granted its charter it was express
ly stipulated that there was to be no
encroachment upon the territory it
penetrated within certain limits for a
term of years. The Presque Isle Star
Herald says:
Aroostook should, as we believe, be op
posed to such scheme, for number
of very good and sufficient reasons. To
begin with the Bangor & Aroostook
has more than fulfilled all that the
most sanguine of it's original promoters
ever claimed or expected it would do
for Aroostook. 1t has given the coun-
ty road that will compare favorably
with any in New England for service
and equipment, it has been ably and
honestly managed and its development
in the way of extensions and general
Improvements has been without prece-
dent in the history of railroading in the
East. 1t has done, and is doing for
Aroostook, with broad and liberal en-
terprise, all that the county can ask,
and instead of antagoniSm it should
have the confidence, good will, and
loyal support of our county.
The Fort Fairfield Leader is no less
decided in its opposition to this pro-
posed road. Itsays:
Give the B. & A. show. When she
fails to do her duty-very we'll indeed
then it will be nearer the proper time
to talk about allowing guerrilla char
tiers to roads which may build and do
good work, but which stand several
hundred times as good chances to do
more beneficial than scare
away capital from investment in a cor
poration like the B. & A, which has
demonstrated its ability to be of use
and to do things.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02
New England Telephone
and Telegraph (oapdIN

The New England Tel. AM I- .,.,
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02

Published Every Thursday Morning by the
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-02
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.

Comet Grange, Swanville, has not held a
meeting for three weeks, on account OF bao
travelling.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
THE FASHION TAILOR.

A new departure for Prescott. Of
fers a great inducement to the gentle
men of Prescott in the organization
of a SUIT CLUB limited to one hun
dred members. The suits may be
selected from an assortment Of five
hundred samples, and are of the va
lue of $50 each. The mnst any mem
Der will be called upon to pay, under
the most unfavorable circumstances,
will be $40.
The cloths are the very latest seas
on's designs, and are the best fabrics
in the market.
The Yavapai Cleaning and Pressing
Club has also been established, where
for 50 per month gentlemen may have
four suits of clothes dry cleaned and
pressed, and delivered to any part
of the city without additional charge.
Location in the Elks' Opera House.
with the New CURIO, Tel. 345.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
Goldfeld Miner Says Law Is Faulty

W. II. Croker, one of Goldfeld's
practical miners, writes to the Jour
nal-Miner concerning the mining laws
in the following language:
Twenty-Five years ago the prospec-
tor hunted our hills until he found
prospect that his judgment told him
there was good pay in for him, and he
went to work on the claim, took out
ore and shipped it to the nearest mar
ket, and kept right on working and
shipping. He was developing the
camp, which soon proved whether or
not it was good or vice versa. He did
not care for other claims. This plan
gave many other prospectors chance
to locate a good claim and work, as
the first man in the camp had done. In
this way the man who came into the
camp a few months late had a chance
to get claim to work on. This Gus
tom soon opened up the camp, and was
benefit to the greatest number of
people.
''The mining laws unfortunately as
now framed give the first few men
who happen to strike new camp the
privilege of hogging the whole coun-
try, as has been done in Bullfrog and
GOldfield. Two men located some
sixty claims and covered the whole
of LaGd mountain, and are now in a
[ lawsuit over this vast territory with
other parties, who claim to have been
'in' as a company of prospeetors.
"Men have located twenty to
thirty claims in Goldfeld This
wholesale stocking ard locating is not
for legitimate work, hrt done for
speculation. Many locations in this
and the many different camps north,
south. east and west of Go1dfeld do
not attempt to follow the mining laws
OF the United States or state. The
laws should be amended regarding the
locating of claims, allowing one man
: the right to locate five claims in one
district. and a fine of $500 for loeat-
ing in any other name than his own.
The law might as well give the home
steader the privilege of stalking as
many homesteads as he chose to IKE
for his relatives and friends as the
mining laws give. A mining claim
covers nearly twenty acres, and sixty
to one hundred claims cover whole
township.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
WILL STAY HERE.
John Andrews Secures Lease II the
Prescott Hotel

A formal lease was yesterday given
to John Andrews of the Prescott hotel
by the owner of the property, NJ. Bar
tholdi. For some reason not under
stood there was report in circulation
that the present lessee was about to
give up possession, and as a result
formal lease has been drawn and ex-
tended for three years, which will be-
come a matter of public record to-
morrow.
Inquiry develops that heretofore the
present occupants have rented from
the owner without any agreement 9TH
er than as to the cost of such rental,
and that lease would be arranged at
any time the occupants might wish
it. During the past few days by
reason of a new proposal for taking the
place, the matter of lease has been
made of much Importance, and settled
by those concerned with the exeeu-
ton of such papers as will make the
deal a binding one.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
Adopt New Tactics in the Smith
Murder.
From THURSDAYS Daily.)

From Thursdays Daily.)
The alleged murder of Geo. Smith
in Jerome, which has been given de-
tailed notice in the Journal-Miner du-
ring the past few days, seems destined
to become a series of surprises. The
Mexican Mirenda who, after being
brought here from jerome, confined in
the county Jail, for several days, and
then released, has again been arrested
this time alone, his wife being al
lowed her freedom for the time being.
Mirenda was re-arrested yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff Merritt upon in
formation telephoned here from Je-
rome by Assistant Prosecutor Pattee
and Under Sheriff Neagle, both of
whom are at the copper city assisting
Deputy Owens in securing evidence.
All the Prescott officers are advised
" cautious in talking of the case, but
it is known that new developments, in
the case have required that Mirenda
be kept in confinement, and away from
the scene of the alleged crime. A
quiet tip received yesterday from Je-
rome points to the fact hat the eOun-
ty officials are not to have entirely
fair sailing in securing evidence, of
which they are now so industriously in
search.
1t has developed. so it is reported,
that clique of Mexicans of which Mi
renda is a member, have taken hand
in the matter. and that the search for
evidence is now being baked in odd
and mysterious ways that point to this
lot of Mexicans being at work in the
interest of the suspected men. 1t is
supposed that the second arrest of
Mirenda is to prevent him getting in
close touch with these friends rather
than because of any new proof of his
guilt.
Mirenda. who is surly appearing,
understood Mexican. will not be easily
/ handled as a witness. He exhibits
stolid. unconcerned manner all the
time and when he was arrested yes
terday for the second time. behaved in
the same cunning. quiet way he has
shown from the first.
The most clever attorneys in this
section admit they have always failed
to get plain. straight statement from
one of the lower class of Mexicans
and in the search for proof in this
case every clue seems to lead to a mass
of contradictions from which every
possible effort is being made to get at
/ the truth.
1t will not prove surprising if fur
Their definite information is made pub
lie within few days. A most thor
ough and careful inquiry is in pro
gress. and those at work on the case
feel confident of the ultimate success
of their efforts.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
CAUSE OF SOCIALISM.

A prominent writer on economic sub
jects says, Socialism is an intellectual
force working through the minds of
men in masses, and shaping public
opinion. . When employers throttle
workingmen you find this socialistic
force active among workingmen. When
some employers secure exceptional ad
vantsges and by forming trusts throt
tie other employers the socialistic force
begins to influence the employing class.
When trusts grow so powerful as to
hold a state at their mercy, and the
fact that they are doing it is patent,
the soeialistic forces gives an impulse
to public opinion and socialstc re-
forms are voeiferously demanded and
promptly applied" This is true be-
cause all men incline to extremes. De-
monstrate an evil in the existing sys-
tenn, and the majority are immediate
ly ready to listen to the radical who
advocates complete overthrow of the
prevalent order.
1t is far-seeing appreciation of
these facts that led President Roose-
vlet to insist on the necessity of re-
medying the evils which are so ap-
parent under the present system. He
has seen, apparently far in advance of
his contemporaries, that the uncon-
trollable rapaeity of the railroads must
inevitably lead to socialism in a more
or less aggravated form; that the
greed of the trusts would send men to
the opposite extreme, where they would
seek to ignore the rights of property
and destroy the results which men
have gained by years of legitimate in
dustry. The aIl-important question of
the present is "Win other leaders of
the Republican party have the saga
city to perceive the significance of the
growth of socialism and will they, so
perceiving, lay the axe to the root of
the evil by graduating those abuses
which are not the product of, but ex-
crescenees on a Republican form Of
government.
That proper control of capital, of in
dustry and of transportation compa-
MES constitute the correct and the only
legitimate and just antidote for radio
alism in all its forms is the gospel of
Theodore Roosevelt. Will the intelli
gent people of the United States uphold
his hands or will they scott at his
proposed reforms and turn a deaf ear
to his warning, until it is too latei
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
RICH ORE OPENED.

Development work in the Lilac group
of claims and mines in Turkey creek
district discloses some rich ore. A
new tunnel has recently been started
which follows the ledge under a hill.
This tunnel is now under cover about
forty-fve feet, and there is a pay
streak fifteen inches wide. The ore
carries gold, silver and copper. The
main shaft is down 200 feet, and con-
siderable drifting has been done. In
all about 600 feet of good development
shafts and drifts have been completed,
all showing ore in paying quantities. At
present there is some ore on the dump
and enough in sigh that can be stopped
out very quickly to mill at least $685.
900.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
CLAIMS TO BE WORKED.
Mammoth Group Bonded and to be
Developed.

Last March J. H. Hise of Pasadena
took bond and working option on the
mining claims known as the Nam
moth group, in the Eureka district,
and the deal has now been officially
completed.
Hise has the option for eighteen
months, agreeing at the end of that
time to pay $4,000 for the property if
he decides to purchase.
The option calls for the payment of
$4,000 to Alex. Lucy, the owner, upon
the completion of a 900-foot tunnel,
which is to be constructed without I'M
necessary delay. In the event of pur-
chase, $4,000 is to be paid at the ex-
piration of the first year, and like
sum six months later, which added to
the first $4,000, makes the total price
$4,000.
The agreement calls for work to be
commenced not later than one month
from signing papers, and details other
important points with reference to
handling ore. The group includes the
Mammoth claim, the Whale, the Ele-
plant, the Moceasin, and the Pasa-
dena.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-06-07
PUBLIC RECORDS.
Report of Instruments Filed With the
Recorder.
From sundays Dailv.l

From Sundays Daily.)
The following is the abstract of re-
cords compiled by the Prescott Title
Company.
F. J. Christina and wife to J. NJ.
Campbell, q. c. deed, lot 1, block 1,
Rutledge add, Jerome; $500.
Annie L. Tilton to B. Tilton. W. deed
1-2 of s. 90 1-2 fot. of lot 5, blk 10,
Prescott; So.
Alec Lucy to John H. Hise, bond
for deed, one year, Mammoth group of
mines, Eureka dist; $4,000.
W. L. Greer locates three mines,
Walker dist.
A. D. cupples and Frank Lucas To-
cate Gold Dollar No. mine, Congress
dist.
John F. James to James L. Cong
don, m. deed, Big Lousy and Lost Trail
mines, Walnut Grove dist; 81.
Peter Mackin to Joseph Mackin,
IN. deed. IA int. in webfoot mine,
Hass dist.
James O'Connell to Peter Mackin,
m. deed, Rose mine, Hass. dist.