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Williams news., 1905-06-17
Flagstaff "Gems" and "Sun" Beams

+. w. Perkins, of the Gosney & Perkins bank, arrived home Mon. day from visit to his old home a, St. Joe, Mo.
 Dr. Rufus Edmundson. who has been sojourning at Prescott for sev. eral months, arrived here Sunday from Kingman.
 H. c. Lockett, one of Coconino county's most successful sheep men arrived here Sunday from the southern part of the territory.
 Dan McConville returned Satur- day from Quartzsite, Yuma county, where he has been. for the past six months working some mining claims.
 Miss Jennie Bayliss left for Flag staff Sunday. She will join camp ing party at that place and, expects to be gone about month.-Gallup Republican.
 Word has reached here that the marriage of Geo. H. Sullivan and Mrs. F. B. Sowl occurred at Fl Paso, Texas, last week, and will make their future home at Mexico City, Mexico.
 Wm. McIntire has the material on the ground for the building of two rooms to his residence in the west part of town. Dan Hogan and J. c. Milligan have the con- tract for the work.
 c. o. Robinson. cashier of the Arizona Central bank, leaves today for Las Vegas, Nevada, to take charge of the Lincoln county bank during the absence of Milt I. Pow CTS, who is called east by the seri- ous illness of his mother.
 A letter from former Flagstaff resident, now at Las Vegas, Nev., states that the Lincoln County bark, owned by Pollock & Powers, of this city, is open for business. That Clark Hit is employed there at the Shepherd x Cope lumber yard. That Jake Isaacson was freighting between that place and Bull Frog with g six-horse team, taking S5,OOO pounds at trip, for which he received four cents per pound: And that R. A. Ferguson was also engaged in the freighting business. ..-.-
Williams news., 1905-06-17

c. s. Howard, an old time pros- pector, hunter and trapper of this territory. was in town the first of the week. He spent the winter in the Red Rock country. He still hunts and traps for his living, though past S7 years of age.
Williams news., 1905-06-17

At what time the male deer sheds his horns has lately been demon strated at tue West Prescott. park. The latter part of April. the Keeper said, the buck dropped one horn first and within an hour the other. and all that was visible was small red spot where the horns came off. Courier.
Williams news., 1905-06-17
THE VALUE OF THE ROADS
An Experiment by the Territorial
 Board of Equalization

The results Of the work Of the territorial board of equalization were compiled yesterday. AS had been stated it will be seen that few changes were made from the rail- road valuations of a year ago. There was a very slight increase in some instances, but this increase was generally made on the rolling stock. The following are the figures:
 Southern Pacific railroad ST. 125.45 a mile ($7,O22 a year ago); Arizona and New Mexico, $5, ,5O4.5O a mile; Gila Valley, Globe x North ern, $3,12S.7O; Fl Paso & South western, $6,75O; Maricopa, Phoenix & Salt River Valley. $4.97O.4S; New Mexico & Arizona, $4,249.SO; Mo- renci Southern, $3,65555; United Verde & Pacific, $4 ,O29.3 30; the Ari- zona Copper company's eight miles of narrow guage. $2.5OO mile; the Central Arizona, $2,OOO; the Sagi- naw & Manistee, $1,O5416. The last two are logging roads. The flat rate of $175 mile for the Santa Fe was accepted. This is a tax fixed by the general government and is equal to valuation of about $5, 500 a mile.
 The most interesting thing the board did, whether anything comes of it or not, was the assessment of the tank lines and refrigerator car systems doing business in this ter ritory. This has never before been done. In fact. until the recent in- vestigation by the senate interstate commerce committee, so little was was heard of these systems that the attention of the board of equaliza- ton had not been attracted to them as possible revenue producers. The following assessments of this class of property were made: The Union Tank Line, 200 cars at $4OO a car, $8O,OOO; the Armour Refrigerator Line, 1000 cars, $5OO,OOO; the Swift Refrigerator system, 75 care, $37,- 500; Waters Pierce Oil company, 75 cars, $3O,OOO; the Union Refrig- orator Transit company, five cars, 2,50O; Continental Fruit Express company, five cars, $2,50O; Hicks Stock Car company, five cars, $1 ,25O; Streets Western Stable Car line, five cars, $500; Mather's Stock Car company, five cars, $1,5OO; Cudahy Produce Refrigerator line. five cars, $2,5OO: Milwaukee Re frigerator Transit company, twenty cars (beer cars), $1O,OOO. These assessments amount to $671 700.
Williams news., 1905-06-17

years later they spread out to dii- ferent towns, yet still the adopted sons of Arizona.
 In 1883 the Atlantic x Pacific railway was completed through Northern Arizona to the Colorado river, and an era of growth and prosperity began throughout the northern counties. Population in creased rapidly and the prosperity and advantages so long enjoyed by the southern part of the territory were shared by the north. The United Verde mines, long known to be rich in copper and gold, but inaccessible and unprofitable be- cause of the long distance from railroads, became producers, and one of the greatest mining camps in the southwest soon sprung into existence there.
 In 1884 active mining was en- gagged in throughout the territory, and many promising districts were attracting investors and prospect ors. Gold and silver began to give way to copper, owing to the demand for the latter metal, and the begin ming of copper mining marked a new era in the progress of the ter ritory. The old chloriding days began to pass into history, and the careless, easy going methods gave way to stricter discipline, in the operating of mines. The commer- cial, manufacturing and industrial spirit seized the great wealth giv- ing industry, and each year saw the mining camps settle down more and more to systematic activity.
 The restless frontiersmen moved on with the march of mining, cast ing their lot wherever new strike was made and moving on again when there was no longer excite ment to feed upon, The old days are held dear in the memory of those who were active in their pleas ures and vicissitudes, and we have much to thank the frontiersman for, but we must give due credit to the men who came later and made mining the great manufacturing industry that it has come to be in this territory. There is still touch of the frontier, and the old days are often wildly portrayed when. ever discovery of mineral is made; we still have the prospector, zeal ous and full of hope as in the old days, and the great unrestricted freedom of the southwest is still his. The fact that systematic en- deavor has set in and scientific methods employed does not lessen the opportunities of the prospector. On the contrary, I believe it widens his chances of success, for the more mines operated successfully. the greater demand for them exists.
 We can congratulate ourselves that great corporations operating mines benefit rather than crush small owners engaged in the same industry. Therefore. we cannot con- sistently deplore the passing of the old days, and none, l dare say, who saw them would care to go back to the old conditions.
Williams news., 1905-06-17
CONTRACT AWARDED
The New Dormitoryto Be Finished
 by Next September

At the meeting of the board of education in this city, Tuesday, the bids for the building for the North ern Arizona school were opened and canvassed by the board, says the Coconino' Sun. Three bids were presented and the bid of J. c. Mill ligan was found to be the lowest and he was awarded the contract. His bid was $9815, the building to be finished by September 1, 1905. The other bidders were Dan Hogan of this city and a Phoenix firm. The building will be heated by steam or hot water, which will be a separate proposition from the building contract awarded Mir. Mil ligan. The heating plant will cost in the neighborhood of $500 addi- tional, thus making the building cost. when completed, nearly $11,- GOO. Work has commenced on the building and will be rushed through to completion.
Williams news., 1905-06-17

Read the NEWS and be posted.
Williams news., 1905-06-17

Celebrate the Fourth in Williams.
Williams news., 1905-06-17

The graduating exercises of the Northern Arizona Normal school will be held on Thursday evening, June p, 1905. Governor Joseph H. Kibbey will deliver the address. The graduating class this year is composed of six young ladies and four young gentlemen. The class exercises will be held Monday even- ing, June 19. Tuesday evening, June 20, will be- devoted 10 prize contest, essays and declamations The exercises will be held at Nor mai hall. commencing each even ing at 8:3O o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
RAINS CAUSE DAMAGE.
Part of Virginia Suffers From Heavy
Rains and Wind.

Roanoke, Va. May 12.-Passengers ar
riying here at midnight on belated train
from southwest Virginia bring news or
great damage done by wind storms and
scloudbursts along the Norfolk and West
ern railroad, between Roanoke and Blue
fields. At the latter place six dwelling
houses are reported blown down and COM
pletely demolished, all their occupants es-
Gaping injury. Between Vickers and
Christiansburg Va, more than three
miles Of the Norfolk and Western triple
tracks have been washed away by a
wall Of water.
A temporary track has been relaid. and
trains are running over this at speed
of three or four miles an hour. A bridge
in that vicinity has been knocked out
of plunb. Several hundred yards of track
have been swept away near Zurich. A
temporary track has been laid there. At
PuIask the smokestack of the power
house has been blown down, and the plant
damaged so that the town will be in
darkness for many nights to cogA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Snyder, Okla, May 12-All estimates of
tho number killed by Wednesdays tor
nado in and south of Snyder made the
total at least 125. The tornado Travelled
a distance of thirty-five miles. cutting a
path from a quarter mile to half mile
wide. The farm houses in this path were
demolished, and the occupants killed or
injured. All lie men available are needed
here to clear away debris, burr the dead
and care for the sick and the fate of
the farmers struck by the storm has
not been fully investigated.
Estimates of the number killed outside
of Snyder range from twenty-five to forty.
More than 100 laborers brought here by
the st. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
together with a big force of volunteers,
began moving and burning debris today.
Two men dead and another barely alive
were found in a heap of rubbish piled
against railroad freight cars near the sta
ton today They ha. peen there since
Wednesday night at S:15. at which time
every clock in town stopped.
Statements that approximately 400 per-
sons were injured are correct, but most
of these suffered only slight bruises.
The Dead Are:
The following is a correct list of the
dead and of the injured. who are under
treatment:
Dead: Mr.. and Mrs. Fresdensen and four
children, H. II. yresdensen, Mrs. Laura
Russell, dauFhteraOf Mr.. and Mrs. Fres-
densen; q W. Beman, Earl Beman, Hal
NalbLskirk. Lee donovan. Frisco fire.
man. Mrs. NJ. A. Fost Pearl Taylor, Hol-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
NEGRO IS LYNCHED
BY NORTHERN MOB
HELD WIFE AND CHILDREN AS
HOSTAGES WHILE HUSBAND
WENT AFTER $500 TO A NEIGH
BORING TOWN.

Cairo, ILL.,. May 12.-Tom Witherspoon,
negro, was taken from officers at Bel
mont, Mo- fifteen miles below Cairo. at
6 o'clock this evening by a mob of sew
eral hundred persons and hanged in the
public square to a large swing. Early this
morning a negro, said to be Witherspoon,
who only recently returned from the pen
itentiary, went to the home of Fred Hess,
three miles below Belmont, and at the
point of a rifle demanded 5000. Hess who
is a member of the Missouri legislature,
told the negro that he did not have that
much money in the house. The negro or
dered him to go to Belmont and get the
money. He compelled Hess to hitch up
a horse and buggy and ordered him TO
get in with his wife and child.
The negro then saddled another horse,
and mounting told Hess to drive toward
Belmont, and when near the place the
negro forced Mrs. Hess and child to get
out of the buggy, and enter deserted
shanty The negro then told Hess to drive
to Belmont and to send the money back
by a negro preacher inside of an hour
or he would kill his wife and child.
Hess hurried to Belmont and got the
money and sent it back with negro
preacher The desperate Immediately
mounted horse and rode up the Iron
Mountain railroad tracks. A posse was
organized at once by Belmont and Column
bus citizens, and a small party followed
the negro on switch engine, and discov-
cred that he took refuge in the swamps
around First Lake. He was captured and
taken to Belmont by the officers mob
of several hundred persons had formed
in Belmont and they Immediately took
charge of the negro, and despite his beg
ging and peadings, they rushed him into
the public square and secured rope from
a large swing and strung the negro up as
the guilty man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
MAJOR MYERS DIED
SUDDENLY AT HOME
WAS PRESIDENT OF RICHMOND,
FREDERICKSBURG AND PoTo-
MAC, AND GENERAL SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF ATLANTIC COAST

Richmond, May 12.-Maj. f. d. T.
Myers, president of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac railroad, died
this morning after a brief Illness.
Major Myers was taken suddenly i'll
Monday night, last. with heart trouble,
and his physicians and friends attribute
the attack largely to his trip to WASH
ington to bring to this city the body of
General Fitzhugh Lee and his emotion at
the death of his intimate friend.
Major Myers was born in Virginia, jan
uary 10, 1880, was pupil of Col. Cladius
Crozet. the celebrated civil engineer and
began his engineering career in 1848 as
rodman. He was at work upon the
Washington aqueduct when the civil war
broke out, came Immediately to Rich
mond and served in the engineering CORPS
of the Confederate states. Ever since the
close of the war he had been associated
with the Richmond. Fredericksburg and
Potomac railroad, and in 1887 became its
president. He also was general superin-
tendent Of the Atlantic Coast Line,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
CASE Is CONTINUED
BY FEDERAL COURT
CASE OF ALLEGED WHlTEcAPPERS
GOES OVER TO NEXT TERM OF
THE coURT-JuDeE NILES Po-
SITION.

Jackson. Miss, May 12-Judge Niles of
the federal court, spent the entire day
In hearing arguments on the demurrers
submitted by the attorneys for the al
legged whitecappers of Franklin county,
to the indictments against them, and
late this afternoon continued the cases
until next term of court The indictments
were demurred to on the ground that
they did not state any specific crime;
that they did not charge that the home
steader interfered with was competent
to make a homestead entry. All these
points were oyerruled, the judge holding
that the indictments were valid.
Judge Niles in granting continuance
to the accused delivered himself of a
powerful denunciation of whtecaping. In
speaking of the whitecappers he said
among other things:
''They have forgotten that all men are
equal before the law and by this | do
not mean social equality. God never in
tended social equality, and there is no
law that can make all men socially equal.
1t never was and never can be-"
He advised the Franklin county citi-
zens to go home and become good citi-
zens. There were some four to five hum
dred citizens of the county in the city
as witnesses before the court.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
WILSON IN SOUTH.
Secretary of Agriculture Headed To-
wards Southwest.

Memnhis. May 12-Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson, accompanied by Prof. j.
M spielman and NJ. A. Carleton arrived
from Washington in special train this
morning over the Southern railway on
their way to the southwestern states
where an investigation of agricultural
conditions is to be made.
On the arrival here the Secretary's s
train was combined with one containing
officiaIs of the Rock Island system and
aanartad soon over that line for Little
pock Ark, tht first city in the timer
arv at which addresses were to be made
q heine also the plan to tell the farmers
of the southwest the resources of the
aoricultural Departments experiments in
,,p,oh they are interested. The states to
be yisited are Arkansas Texas. Kansas
and indian Territory and Oklahoma.
IittIe Rock. May 12.-Farmers and
,tanters from towns within two hundred
,,,t1as of this city filled the state house
80 representative when Secretary Wilson
ara representatives of the Department
~ Agriculture, delivered addresses this
AFTERNOON. Enthusiasm: in the meeting
was manifest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
I25 DEAD, 400 INJURED
IS FINAL ESTIMATE OF
FATAL SNYDER TORNADO

lis, Okla; two children of Mrs Attaway,
Henry Oreutt, Fred Krump, Mrs. e. Z.
Beckwith, James MeCart, Prof. c. I. Hib-
bard wife. two children and father and
mother; Miss Murphy, st. Louis; three
Hudson children, Mr.. and Mrs. Buser,
Russell Buser, Harold Gorton, Charles
Stutzville, George w Bailey. Mrs. Cole
man and three children, Mrs, Cal William
son, Oklahoma City; three Sims children,
James Hughes, wife and child; Mrs. Fan
ME Redwith, three Crook children.
Mr. and Mrs. George Davis and
child Mrs. Mary Bgnes, Bryan
Snooks Charles and James Mozart,
]. P. Sutherland and grandmother, Mrs.
Sutherland: A. ID. Sims, wife and three
children; j. e. Ralston, Fred Ralston.
Jesse Ralston, -. Moss of the McGowan
ranch Mr.. Hudson. Miss Fulton, C. K.
Barnes, Walter Stubblefield, his b-year-
old child and Mrs. Stubbleheld. a sister
in-law; Mrs. Moody, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G.
Jones and two children. Mrs. Julia M.
Edwards, Miss Lula Henderson, John
Lawson, Martha Lawson. Sanders Hud-
son, Albert Orchard, Mrs. Lee Davis
Mrs. l.. Coleman and three children.
The Wounded:
wounded under treatment
d. NJ McCart serious; Sarah Kidd,
Rube Sullivan and child Della Crooks,
Jennie Pahong c. c. Uaulson and wife,
A. L. Beckwith, I. C. Hale, Letta Jane
zeigler John Mullins, Stubblefield family,
three seriously; j II. Slger, Sam Lee.
a Chinaman; Florence Color. Mary Nc
Cart Mary Mize, DR.. Muller and. wife,
Mrs Muller. very serious; Alice Gum,
Matilda Murphy. Francis Attaway, Elpha
Gill Mangum, e. II. Harrison will prob
ably die A. NJ. Egan, asent Frisco sys-
tenn; j. v. Craver.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
GENERAL LOMAX
WILL GET APPOINTMENT

see him. Former Congressman Shaft
roth of Colorado, who created a sensation
in the last Congress by resigning his seat
because he had reached the conclusion
that he was not honestly elected. is in
Washington today. Mr.. Shaffroth says
the action of republicans in unseating
Governor Adams has made the state safe
ly democratic. He said tho party will re-
nominate Adams next year and elect him
by fifty thousand majority.
The flight from the isthmus of Panama
on account of yellow fever seems to have
partalxen of the nature of a panic, though
the officials here see no occasion for
serious alarm. The steamer Alliance
which is due in New York within a few
days is said to be crowded with refugees,
mostly employees of the commission. Re
fugees who came yesterday tell stories
of gross mismanagement and complain
bitterly that conditions under which they
expected to work have been misrepresent-
ed. All departments in Washington are
more or less the victims of fake newspa-
per stories, but the pension office just at
present is getting the worst of it. Some
time ago a story was written to the ef-
feet that all veterans of the Civil war
were to be given, on application fine fur
lined overcoats Several hundred veterans
have sent their applications to the COM
missioner for his approval.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Washington, May 12-(speciaL )-Secre-
tary Taft Will probably appoint Major
General Lindsay Lunsford Lomax of Vir-
ginia to the vacant position on Gettysburg
National Park commission. created by
the death of Major W. M. Robbins of
North Carolina. General Lomax Is an
ex-Confederate soldier and has for some
years past been employed in the war re-
cords office of this city. He served with
distinction in the Army of Northern Vir-
gina and surrendered with General Joseph
e. Johnston.
Secretary Taft said this morning that
General Lomax would probably get the
place, unless the President had already
promised it to some other Confederate
The Secretary did not think this likely.
The Gettysburg commission consists of
three members, one of whom is to be an
ex- Confederate. The position pays ten
dollars a day and there are practically
no duties in connection with it. General
Lomaxs appointment has been urged by
the two Virginia senator's, Senator Cul-
berson of Texas and others. The North
Carolina senators want the place for one
of their constituents and have asked the
Secretary to hold up the case until they
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
FOUR WE'RE KILLED.
Score Were Injured BY Explosion of
Gas In Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia, May 12.-Four men were
killed, one was fatally injured and two
more were more or less seriously burned
today by the collapse of an immense gas
holder at the Point Breeze works of the
United Gas Improvement company in the
southern part of the city. The dead:
George w. Walen, a tin roorer
James o. Ogilvle, Whalen's assistant
Owen Brady an employe OF the gas COM
pany was fatally injured and died to-
night.
Robert Felming, another employe. also
died tonight.
The gas-holder collapsed from some un.
known cause and the great volume of gas
which the holder contained exploded
with such force that buildings within a
radius of half q mile VIC shaken When
the holder collapsed, Whalen and Ogilvie
were working on a small building nearby.
1t is believed the gas was ignited by the
timers furnace
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
WOULD NOT HAMPER
PRES. ROOSEVELT
AMERICAN COTTON GROWERS, IN
CONVENTION, REFUSE TO PASS
RESOLUTION CONCERNING
EScH-ToWNSEND BILL.

Knoxville. May 12.-It is learned that
an effort was made to get a resolution
through the convention of the American
Cotton Manufacturers association con-
demning the Esch-Townsend BILL which
seeks to regulate railroad rates. Jones'
Vile men, who believe strict enforcement
of the Elkins law all that is needed were
back of the movement.
The resolution of condemnation was
sidetracked in committee by the conven-
tion on the ground that there was not
sufficient information on hand to intel
ligently act upon the measure. Those
members who are with President Roose-
welt in his effort to regulate railroad rates
took the action of the convention as in
dicating that the Southern Cotton man
ufacturers do not care to hamper the
President in his effort toward rate regu-
latiOn,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
NEGRO WAS HANGED.
Warned Negroes to Let Whisky and
Politics Alone.

Roanoke, Va, May 12.-Cloyd Hale. a
mulatto. was hanged at Pulaski, Va, to-
day for the murder of John Hart, a white
man. whom he brutally killed five weeks
ago in a quarrel over barter of coat.
At a special session of Judge Jackson $
court. Hale was indicted tried, convict-
ed and given the death sentence. the pro-
reedinss lasting less than two hours. On
the gallows Hale declared his fate a
inst one. and warned his race to let whis-
XIV alone, and keep out of politics.