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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-17

Whenever a dark-looking cloud
heaves in sight in the southwest now
adays, a lot of people begin to wish
they had been going to church a little
more regularly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-17

Dicky-Johnny an Marg'ret wuz quar-
relin over which should have tn biggest
half of their apple, an had to settle it.
Mamma-Indeed! And whose part did
you take2
Dicky-wen. II took both their parts
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-17

Taxable property is beginning to re
cover rapidly from the slump that over
took it just as the assessor was see
coming down the road.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Don't fail to see McKee's ad today.
 FOUNTAINS MUSIC STORE. All the latest songs. Teacher of mandolin, guitar and violin.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
WOMAN'S WORST DANGER

No woman with unsound kidneys car be healthy. Sick kidneys, in fact, cause the majority of womens troubles.
 But there is no need to get down hearted if you suffer constant back ache, wearipess, bearing down pains sick headaches, etc. Doan's Kidney Pills have brought new life and strength to thousands of women afflict ed in this way.
 It is easy to tell if your kidneys are the cause of your ailments. Backache itself Is only the aching of the kidneys When congested and inflamed. You feel it in the back because the kidneys are in the small of the back.
 Sick headaches, dizzy spells. nervous ness, irritability, neuralgia and rheu- matlc pains, weak eyes, palpitation of the heart, etc, are caused by the re- tention in the blood of poisons that the kidneys should filter out and pass off in the urine.
 Urinary disorders are sure signs of kidney sickness. If the urine contains sediment like brick-dust, or whitish. stringy settings, if passages are too frequent, or scanty, or painful, the kid neys need quick attention.
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Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
A SAFFORD SHOOTING
A Fatal Fight Between Two Desper.
 ate Men in the Dark.

On Sunday morning. December 10 about , o'clock, Sid Henry shot and killed Ben Grain in the railroad saloon at Stafford.
 It was brought out at the prelimina- ry trial Monday that four men-Sid Henry, Ben Crain,. Walt Wanslee and Bill Phflips-were engaged in a poker game, when the row started. Dan Herndon was also in the room watch mS the game. Grain called Henry a liar; Henry resented the insult and Grain struck him with a chair. Henry then drew his gun and fired, the con cussion extinguishing the lights. The two men then grappled in the room, and 1t is thought Henry fired two more shots.
 Henry testified that Grain in the darkness grabbed him by the throat and was choking him when he fired the last two shots, one of which enter ed the left side of the head and the other passed through the body from the left hip.
 Henry was held to await the action of the grand jury, with bail fixed at $2,500, which was furnished. He is a cowboy and was once in the employ of Ben Parks on the Bonito. Grain was a laborer from Arkansas, about forty years of age. Nothing is known of his relatives He was lately employed in work on the G. V. G. & N. railroad. Henry had recently come from Bisbee to buy hay for the firm of E. A. Torrea & Co.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Among those who attended was MT. M. C. McDougall, wno is not by any means a joint statehood man. though he has been a close student of the question and always open to convic- tlon He had learned that Hon. B. S. Rodey. former delegate from New Mexico, would be at the meeting. and he had been told that Mr. Rodey would lave something new and ccnyincibp to say on the subject. MT. McDougalI accordingly went to Tucson to see and hear MT. Rodey. He returned to Phoe- nix with his ideas on the subject of joint statehood unchanged. MT. Ro- cey had offered no arguments what ever His speech was made up of a series of bald statements. all of them unsupported.
 The principal argument of MT. Ro- dey was that it was now or never" He assumed that the joint statehood bill would pass congress, and then it would be put before the people of the territories for acceptance. He said that if it were rejected, the youngest cEild now in eit.1eI ot the territories would not live long enough to see eitn- CT of them becomr. a state. The dispo- sit'on Cf congress, said Nil. IScdey, wa
  to reduce representation and it was ipcunccirable tha: It would ever per- init the entrance of four additional from the two territuIies It Y as q sufficient strain to ls' two Tn. and. n th:. opinion of Rr. Rodey, if Oklahoma and the Indian Territory had been situated contiguous to Arizo- ma and New Mexico the present bill would provide for the joining of ail of them in one state.
 One of the other speakers was F.. i Miera. of Albuquerque, wao addressed the audience in the Spanish tongue | for the ratification of about twenty five | persons who could understand no other l language and who appeared to endorse | the views of the speaker. At the con- clusion of his address. MT. Miera spoke | for short time in English, as he said to show that he could speak that | language. There was, said MT. Miera. l misconception of the intelligence of he Mexican people, who were as high y cultured as any other. He proudly pointed to himself as a shining exam Jle, emitting, however, mention of the
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

soothe. cleanse and stimulate. rouse
 the kidneys to action. and drive the kidney poisons out of the body. They remove the cause and cure permanent ly. Many people of this city have been cured and gladly tell of it.
 L. $. Dunbar. proprietor of the fruit and cigar store. 8 North First avenue says: "Dban's Kidney Pills are nOt a new remedy to me. We first used them in our family several years ago when living in Marietta. Ohio. where they are considered a household necessity. They are the finest remedy for back ache or any symptoms of irritated or weakened kidneys on the market. Shortly after moving here some threr years ago symptoms of a recurrence of kidney trouble in our family became evident, and We tried to get Deans Kidney Pills at several drug stores. They knew nothing about them and We sent to our druggist, MT. Styer of Ma rietta, for a supply Noticing them ad- vertised in Phoenix last winter when We required them We procured them at the Brisley Drug Co.'S store. They are necessity in our household. par- ticularly so when compelled 10 drink the water in Phoenix On every Occa- sion when their use is required they have never failed to bring prompt r,- lief"
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
Monday A Day full of glad Bargain Surprises

Something unusual on tap Monday-nothing like 1t has ever before been announced in December
 just prior to Christmas-by any mercantile concern
 anywhere. Every line of Store News printed on this page bears out that statement. If cold type could be made to tell merchandise story-a Real Bargain story-as strongly as THIS ONE deserves
 to be told, the Big Store with the "where quality
 counts" slogan would not be near large enough to
 admit the eager throngs that would come. As it is,
 our bundle wrappers will be swamped today.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

circumstances that in some parts of
 New Mexico the schools. and even t3e
 inferior courts. are conducted in the
 spanish language, and where it is nec-
 essary to employ English interpreters.
 Regarding a statement in the spe-
 cial from Tucson to The Republican
 that many of the audience left during
 the address of Judge Ainsworth. of
 this city, MT. McDougall thought it should be corrected. He said he saw no one leave while the judge was talk ing. It transpired, though that the testimony of MT. McDougall on this point was rather negative, for he af- terward stated that he himself went out during the delivery of Judge Aims worth, and was gone some time to make inquiry about the deoarture of the train for Phoenix.
 He was asked if it was not possible that he had started the stampede de- scribed by the correspondent of The Republican. MT. McDougalI could not be definite on that point. but he rath- CT thought not, for he said that when he returned to the meeting the audi ence had not perceptibly diminished, though ne did not make a recount oP the members of it.
 But there was one definite error Of fact and figure in The Republicans special dispatch which this paper. al ways in the interest of fairness cheerfully makes correction. It was stated that only two towns in this ter ritory were represented at the meet ing by joint statehood advocates Phoenix and Nogales- and that eacn of them sent only one there. MT. Me DouSall said that Phoenix had two there, Besides Judge Ainsworth, there i was Tommy Preccott, whom The Re publican's correspondent had overlook ed in the excitement of the moment 1 and in the swirling crowd of jointists l MT. Prescott occupied a position on he stage, but did not violently partic- pate in the festivities. The Repub- i ican did not Intentionally detract one | hird from the outside territorial dele sation to the great and loudly heralded | oint statehood meeting at Tucson on he night of December 16, 1905.
 Phoenix Bazaar, No. B E. Adams, or Christmas goods
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Phoenix Bazaar No. 33 E. Adams, for Christmas goods.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
HOLE IN THE GROUND
 IMAGINATIVE BASIS
or Another Bloody Murder in the Vi.
 cinlty of Gila City.

There are still a few places in Ari-
 zona where life is perhaps no safer
 than it is in New York or Chicago, but
 1t will be surprising to many readers
 to learn that there is a Dead Mans
 Cullen" so close to the main line of the
 Southern Pacific and so near to the " white settlements" as the vicinity
 of Gila City, in Yuma county. The story of this haunted section is relat- ed as follows by the Yuma Enterprise:
 "Glla City has long been noted as a place of murders, robberies, mysterious shootings on dark nights, and brutal and bloody duels between jealous men fighting like beasts for the love of a treacherous woman. Dead bodies are sometimes found in the lonely canyons and brushy valleys of that God-for- saken country; and when the solitary miner rides at night through it's dark trails, where the tall arrow weeds al- most meet above a horsemans head or picks his lonely way through it's rocky defiles, he clutches the butt of his gun tightly and keeps watch like lynx on the road both ahead and be- hind, for men have been known to go into that country and never to come back, nor was any word ever received of them
 Another mystery has been added to the many awful secrets held by those rock-ribbed hills. ->
 Tn coming down from the Gila to the Gila river, through marrow canyon that reaches the valley just at the point where the Gila flows between rock bluffs few miles above Blalsdell, Bob Black, an experienced miner and prospector from the Quartz site district, while prospecting in those mountains one day last week, made a Sruesome find. He came upon a grave which had been scooped out in the shallow bed of gravel and sand which lay in the rock bottom of the canyon. The grave could not have been more than two or three feet deep as bed rock was almost at the surface. The soil had been hastily scooped out, the body laid there. and the spot marked by small wooden cross. A torn and 'agged shirt lay not far away It was niles to any human habitation. The grave could not have been made very ong before, as the rush of water down he canyon from the rains which occur every summer in the hills would have 'bliterated all marks.
 MT. Black at first thought that 1t | vas the grave of some one who had [ 'een found dead, but no such find has { 'een reported in Yuma in months. Of | curse no family living near Gila City | would bury their dead in such a way. The body would have been brought to he cemetery at Yuma.
 'Is this another added to the many lysterious crimes in the history of ! Bloody Gila City?"
 Don't fail to see McKee's ad today.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
THE TUCSON "JOINT"
 RETURNING VISITORS
There Were Three Outside Territor. ial Delegates Instead of Two. \

Persons from Phoenix who attended the joint statehood meeting at Tucson on Saturday night returned to the city yesterday. There is a general agree- ment on the character of that assem- blaze which it had been supposed would develop all the joint statehood sentiment that might be lurking in the territory.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS
 Sold
DR, D. M'SWEGAN

has returned from Europe with the radioactive remedies. He tells dis ease by the microscope and gives free examination at the Occidental Hotel, opposite postoffice.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

We now nave just what you have been looking for. for a long time. Boiled cider for mince meat. Melczer Bros. Phone Main 75.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Our famous Old Rutledge Whiskey, 1 best that can be made. Melczer Bros.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
DANCING.

A class for children will be opened by Mrs Deauplaise. Saturday. Dec. 30. at o'clock in room 3. Anderson block. Apply at room g.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Spectacles or opera glasses for Xmas presents. See Dr. Swikerath for them.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

Hoghe's chop house is stiu famOu- for those Hoghe hamburgers. steak, and the good things to eat.
Arizona republican., 1905-12-18

PHOENIX BAZAAR, NO. 33 E. AD- ANS, FOR CHRISTMAS GOODS.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08
CONFESSIONS OF WORKERS. LEADER
AND MURDER GANG UN.
EARTH PLOT
WORKINGS OF DEADLY SYSTEM"
Gilhooley. king" of Band Operating in Chi
caeo During Transfers Strike. Raves
When Guilt Is Observation-Disclosures, of
Many Dastardly Crimes.
REGULAR Scale of Prices Set by Organizations for Muir
ders and Assaults of Nonunonists. Gaueed as to
Results-Five Gangs known to Police
Of Great Metropolis.

Plain assault (gauged according to re-
sult). S. to SIS.
So much slaughter and food for
sluggers was TO be found in the strike
that it is believed in the cases brought
to light that cut rates were instituted.
The Plot Exposed.
Charles Casey. the leading unionist in
the scandal in his signed confession to
the police. sets forth the facts in an in
teresting manner. In connection with
the Gilhooley murders he says:
The first time saw Charles Gill
hooley was on the afternoon of April
6. 1905. He, with two other men. was
i'll the vicinity of the Woods Vehicle
company. Twentieth street and Wa
bash avenue. where a strike was in
progress.
"Gilhooley came to me and said:
There is no use of you fellows black
ening the eyes of these men. We are
hired by the woodworkers and others
to do this kind of work and would like
to make arrangements with you. You
fellows are known and are in danger
of getting pinched. We are not known
and there is no danger for u.s.
II told Gilhooley that had no DOW
er to make any arrangements with
him, but told him to come to the head
quarters of the union at No. SIS North
Clark street, which met that night, and
the matter would be taken up by those
who had some authority to act. That
night Gilhooley, Looney and. believe.
Feeley were present at the meeting,
and they asked me how about that
matter they were talking about.
81 brought the matter before tue
meeting. and as result the executive
committee voted that a fund be laid
aside for educational purposes At
the same time list of names was Sc
lected. including men who had refused
to go out on strike. These names were
selected by Henry j. Newman. secre-
tary OF the union, and Carlstrom's
name was at the head of the list. Gil
hooley said: Whom shall we get first p
He was told to go after the man whose
name headed the list and to get the
others in order. Gilhooley was given
cash from the fund for incidental ex-
penses.
Later l met Gilhooley and he said:
Well. got MISREPRESENTATION was
known also by the name of Meyers
he put up an awful fight, kicked me in
the Sims and will have to go and zee
doctor. Newman gave Gilhooley
more money, but he kicked and said he
should have SIS for the job. He said
he had received that amount from
other unions for the same sort Of
work. We objected at the time, but
later he received five dollars more,
making SIS in all.
Later l met Gilhooley in saloon
on Clark street and he told me he had
got other men. He said he met these
men OH street cars and fixed them. Gil
hooley was given more money for his
services. Some time after this one of
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

union, declared to have disbursed cash
to meet smuggling bills.
GEORGE MILLER-Member of union
executive committee, declared to have
paid cash for carrying on system.
FRANK NOVAK-Member executive
committee. assisted in appropriating
FASH for System"
JOHN HEIDEN-Member union exec
utive committee, assisted in appropriate
ing cash for System"
Scale Of Prices.
The trio engaged in the real acts OF
slugging, Gilhooley, Feeley and Looney,
receivedtbut 315 each for their murders.
but better prices than these are in ex-
istence for those who would take adj
vantage Of them. A scale Of prices de-
clared by police authorities to have
been in existence for more than two
years and used in nearly every strike
launched in this city during that tire.
follows:
For murder, 800 to $500.
Serious knockout, $25 to $1C0.
Leg OF arm broken, SIS to $50.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

his victims died. and when Gilhooley
appeared again he wanted to know If
we wanted any more slugging"
Other Gangs at Work.
Although Gilhooley's case has been
well-aired, his is not the only gang
which operates in strikes in Chicago.
There are known to be four other
bands of desperados, who derive their
living from preying on opposers Of
labor organizations. One has headquar-
ters near West Van Buren, and Hal
sted streets; another near Chicago
avenue and Market street; another
near Twenty-second and States streets.
and still another in the downtown dis
trict. This last clique contains over
30 members, and any exceedingly des-
perate lob" is, as a rule, placed to
their credit. Nearly 300 assaults have
come to the attention Of the Employ
ers' association engaged in breaking
the Transfers strike. and that most Of
them may be laid to the five gangs
known to be operating in Chicago IS
locked upon as proven fact.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

little for scruples, going about his MUIR
derous tasks with q determination and
energy bred of years Of experience. He
would stop at nothing, even officers Of
the law had little effect on his work.
His face is large, full Of dark menacing
lines, and itself enough to drive terror
to the hearts of the stoutest. His wick
edness and daredeviltry appears in his
smile, and one finds himself edging
away from its possessor, despite the fact
that he is under lock and key. His voice
and Of all his terrible characteristics,
this is without a shadow of doubt the
worst-is heavy, and when anger
arouses him, it resembles the roar Of an
African lion more than human noise.
Little wonder that when Business Agent
Casey faced him in court. after confess
ing, that his hair nearly stood on end,
when the liking" addressed him.
The numerous sluggings during the
strike, and the apparent inability Of the
police to handle the situation, was a
mystery to the average citizen, and con-
sequently the city was astounded when
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

When Gilhooley learned OF Casey's
confession he was wild with rage. He
tore about his cell, banging his hand
cuffs against the wall and vowed to
take the life of the business agent, ii
opportunity ever presented itself.
You -, he roared. III you had
kept your mouth shut they would
never have known anything about it.
They would never have been able to
prove anything against us. You are
a lot of soft headed idiots and this
talk OF yours will land you as well as
me, you -" Another round OF
curses completed Gilhooley's sen;i-
menis ON the matter. and he was led
away. still vowing he would have
Casey's life.
To the unions engaged in these ne
farious plots the numbering bands are
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

Chicago.-"Thats the man who killed
my husband" With these words Mrs.
Charles L. Carlstrom, widow of muir
dered noninionist, in this city identi-
1ed Charles Gilhooley, self-confessed
king of sluggers" and set in motion le-
gal machinery which has unearthed the
fact that Chicago is the home of an or
ganized band of thugs. who, operating
upon scale of prices in the pay of GER
tain labor unions. are engaged in the
pursuit of killing. if possible, and maim-
ing, when fatal result cannot be at
tanned, union men refusing to lay down
their tools and nonunion men who per-
sist in working. despite the entreaties OF
the labor organizations.
Method of the System"
No question now exists here regarding
the methods which some of the labor
unions, whose men quit work in the
great teamsters' strike, employed in
their endeavor to win out. When Gill
hooley confessed his part in the con-
spiracy there was some question as to
the real truth in the matter. many be-
lieving that the man, who has long
criminal record. might have boosted;
but before the avowal of Gilhooley's
part in the plot came the confession Of
Charles ]. Casey. business agent OF the
wagon makers union, No. 4. telling the
whole history of the System" and
branding the teamsters' strike, in con-
nection with which the deeds were COM
mitted, as a blot of the blacklist charac-
ter, in the history of labor organizations.
The SYSTEM which few found it pos
sible to escape. was this: A list of men
to be disposed Of" was furnished the
sluggers in command; the names. begin
ming with the first on the death roll.
were handed out to the assistants, who
Swallowed the victims until opportunity
was given them to carry out their das-
tardly work. A single blow often suf-
feed to lay men cold in death, in which
case, the next name was looked up and
the game continued. In all, IA men are
known to have been fatally injured, four
are already dead, and numberless cases
of manning have been reported. Eight
men are in the tolls of the law as directly
implicated in the plan, and their guilt
is declared to be a matter of absolute
certainty, because of the confession of
the two leading lights. Casey and Gill
hooley. The eight, with bits of their his
tory are:
CHARLES LHOOLEY-All-round
bad man, possessor of long criminal rec
ord. deserter from United States army,
alleged thief. ex-bridewell habitue.
EDWARD FEELEY-Cheap thief and
bad man. Companion Of king" Gill
hooley in his unwholesome adventures.
MARK LOONEY-Petty thief and
possessor of long police record. Second
assistant of Gilhooley. Less daring
than Gilhooley or Feeley.
CHARLES CASEY-Business agent
of carriage and wagon makers union.
confessed instigator of smuggling system.
HENRY ]. NEUMAN-Financial Sec
rotary of carriage and wagon makers
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08
DISASTER ON A FARM.
Two Men Killed and One Fatally In.
jured at Barn-Raising
in Michigan.

Albion, Mich, June 1.-WilIiam Ros-
enbrook and John Boldt were instantly
killed and William Cool fatally injured
at barn raising Wednesday on the
farm of Mrs. Jacob Heisler, north Of
this city. A large number of men from
neighboring farms were at work when
one of the timbers in the upper portion
of the frame work gave way. and heavy
beams, joists and rafters fell upon the
workmen. Besides the three named q
score of others were injured.