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The Coconino sun., 1905-01-14

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 LOCAL BREVITIES. h W. l.. Bradley, civil engineer left Monday for Kingman.
 Go to the SUN office for fine job !, printing. Everything up-to-date - J. E. Jones is attending the session of Supreme court at Phoenix this u week.
 For Sale-Improved White sewing machine in good condition. Apply at d his office. 524 c F. J. Hochderffer and wife left Sun u day for Agua Caliente, where they II will spend the winter. u FOR RENT: One four room furnish h ed house. One unfurnished house. il Inquire at this office.
 F. M. Cummins and wife left Thurs el day for Douglass, where they expect u to reside in the future. tf For Rent, three furnished rooms for V housekeeping Address Miss Whit F tington, North Leroux street. [, Mrs. NJ. I. Riordan and children left J' Thursday for Los Angeles where they expect to spend several months. l. Burt Hucheus who has been visiting N relatives in northern Arkansas for the ~ past month returned Wednesday.
 Lady Wanted for general house. g work, steady work. s3O per month a for right party. Adress Lock Box B, te Williams, Ariz. of
 Stuart the photographer will be in O Winslow from Jan. l7th to the 22nd. c The Flagstaff studio will be closed II during February and perhaps March. n, F. C. Watson, a recent arrival from al Flagstaff, has taken a position in the NJ postal telegraph office in this city as n, an assistant to Manager J. w. b. Cramer. th Hon. J. H. Page spent Thursday here. He will leave for Phoenix to- day and will be Coconino representa- tc tive in the council during the session a, of the legislature ,v Hon. c. A. Neal editor of the Will Hams News spent Thursday here Mir. h, Neal leaves today for Phoenix being , member of the lower house of the ., Arizona legislature. ., Mrs. c. A. Haffly and infant son u accompanied by Dr. w. Sipe, left Tuesday for Phoenix, where they will consult an oculist regarding the eye sight of the little boy. /" Frank l.. Beal left Monday for T Goldfeld, Nevada. His brother, Mar c win, has been in that place sometime to and writes that it is a pretty good A place to be in at present. a R. H. Jones, editor of the Gem left m today for Phoenix where he expects to v obtain one of the many clerkships O which the legislature have to bestow O on deserving newspaper men, N
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.
Commission Merchants Approve OF
RooSevelt's Recommendation Com
ccrning Fixing of Railway Rates.

New Orleans, January 13.-The Ma
tional League of Commission Merchants
at today's session ordered the sending
OF the following dispatch TO President
Roosevelt:
I'VE. the National League Of Com
mission Merchants of the United states
In convention assembled most heartily
approve of the recommendation TO Con-
gress relating to the regulation OF rail-
way and transportation matters as I'm
bodied in your message and pledge our
selves to earnestly supper you IN your
effort TO secure needed legislation along
these lines"
The special committee TO which the
report On private a lines was referred
recommended an appropriation OF 81 900
&c enable the committee on refrigerator
car lines to continue its work.
John c. Scales. OF Chicago, George T.
Mead. OF Boston, and George w. Bond.
of Baltimore. were appointed a special
committee Il go TO Washington n ap-
pear before the proper committed Of
the House and Senate I'm an effort to get
better transportation facilities n
cheaper rates han are now being charg-
ed by private car lines n particular
" the Armour lines.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
DR.. A. C. CARR A SUICIDE.
PROMINENT DURHAM PHYSICIAN
ENDS HIS LIFE.
DR.. arr Wa Widely Known in the
State-He had Been in Failing
Health Several Months and Recent
~ has Suffered From Insomnia
The Deed was Done at an Early
Hour Yesterday Morning.

Charlotte, N. c., January 13.-Dr. AL
bert CT. Carr, one of the most prominent
physicians in Durham, committed sui
eide today by shooting himself through
the head. The suicide vas probably
been in falling health for several months
and during the last few days had
been suffering from insomnia. He was
active in his practice, however, until
last evening when he retired without
partaking of food, saying that he hoped
he would get a good nights sleep.
AT 5 o'clock this morning he aWOke
his son., William Carr, who is superin-
tendent of a hosiery mill and as he
left for the mill babe him good bye. 1t
was shortly after his that the deed
was accomplished.
DIR. Carr was 81 years Of age and was
a brother of General Julian S. Carr, one
of the wealthiest men in North Carroll
ma He was one of the best known ply
sicians in the state and aside from his
prominence in his profession he was
a wealthy man.. He carried about $780,
600 insurance on his life.
DR.. Carr is survived by a wife and
three ons The son are DR.. John Carr,
of John Hopkins hospital, at Baltimore;
William Carr, of Durham, and Ed Carr
who is in the United States civil service.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
DID NOT PROSECUTE NEGRO.
Satisfactory Adjustment of a Case in
Which Alex Burnett Was Involved.

Especial to The Messenger-)
Goldshoro, N. c., January 13.-SheriT
Stevens arrived in the city his morn
ing with a negro by the name Of Alex.
Burnett, whom he a arrested In
Dunn. The negro was wanted by
Messrs. Edgerton & Hollowel for CIV
ing a mortgage on property which he
did not own. He had secured a horse
from the parties whose names are men
toned and had given a mortgage on &c
titious property. AS soon as the firm
found out the circumstances they had
a warrant issued for the negro and
the sheriff served it yesterday. The ne
gro was given a trial this morning n
convicted of securing goods under false
p~retense. Afterward he arranged the
transaction satisfactorily with Messrs.
Edgerton & Hollowell and was allowed
to return home.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
TALBOT IRVINE CASE.
E~ccleastical Court Was Uncanonically
Constituted-It Adjourned Sine Die.

Reading, Pa, January 13-The eccle-
siastical court of inquiry called to on
slider charges against Bishop Talbot,
of Central Pennsylvania, adjourned sine
die this afternoon, the members having
decided that the body was uncanonical-
iy constituted.
A statement given u by Rev. w. 3.
Bodine, president of the board. says
that one of the members of the board,
DR.. Dix, of New York, did not sit as a
deputy in the last general convention
and the list from which the names of
the board were drawn was not a list
of deputies to the general convention
as required by the canon of the church.
The statement says that the c%anonical
defect involved an error SO material as
to render it intexpedient and improper
for the deputies present to assume to
organize or to act as a board to make
preliminary inquiry into the charges.
By many it is said hat other charges
will be preferred against Bishop Tai
bot under canons now in force.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
GIFT TO THE PRESIDENT.
Articles Manufactured and Used i'm
Central Africa Presented by Mis-
sionary Sheppard.

Washington, January 4.-Villiam Fl.
Sheppard, whose home city is Stanton,
Va, and who for the past fourteen
years has been a Presbyterian mission
airy in the Congo Free state today pre-
scented to the President a handsome rug,
a coverlet of palm fibre linen and a
unique pipe, all Of the articles being
manufactured and used by the natives
of Central Africa. Mr.. Sheppard told
the President that since he vent to
Africa the natives have introduced
printing presses and now print the
Bible in their native language, although
prior TO fourteen years ago the Ian
guage had o been reduced to reading
charters and the natives never even
had heard of a book. Mr.. Sheppard IS
in his country on a years leave OF alb
sence and expects to return TO Africa
al the expiration Of his leave.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
SCANDAL IN ASHEVILLE.
Serious Charge Brought Against Pol
iticians by Local DistiIler.

Asheville, n. c., January 13.-Every
county candidate, Democrat and Re-
publican, at the November election will
be summoned before the grand jury
of the Superior court which meets here
February 6. There will also be sum-
moned before the grand jury the county
chairmen Of the two political parties
and the saloon men and distillers Of
Asheville. This array Of witnesses will
be asked to tell the grand jury about
alleged use of liquor in h last cam
paign for the purpose of influencing
votes.
The action OF the solicitor of the Su-
perior court, is the result of a charge
made by a local distiller that he had
on file orders for 600 gallons of whiskey
supplied to the Democratic committee
for campaign purposes. III return for
the liquor furnished, the distiller alleges
that he was promised protection as
far as anti-liquor legislation in the
state legislature was Concerned
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17

school house. SO that the town of
Fountain may have a -dispensarv
Mr.. freeman, of Mecklenburg. Of
fered a bill regulating the speed of
automobiles in Charlotte and Neck
ienours county 1t prohibits a greater
speed than 8 miles an hour on bust.
ness streets of Charlotte. 15 miles in
of Charlotte and county
towns. and 20 miles an hour on the
county roads.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Little.
OF Pitt, chairman of the Committee on
the Institution for the Deaf and Blind.
provides for an expenditure of $4,000
for needed permanent improvements.
including heating plant. electric light.
cold storage and additions to build
ings.
Representative Lockhart, of Arson
county, was credited in the House pro-
ceedfngs a few days ago with having
introduced a petition from citizens of
county IN regard to the
liquor traffic. He did not do It. It
was somebody else, from somewhere
else. So jealous are some of his con-
st1tuents Of anything relating to
liquor, that the report of his even pre-
senting a petition woke them up. and
his mail has been full of inquiring
Or reDroachful letters concerning it
Mr.. Lockhart is known as a wet he
says. and has not this early changed
his opinion.
A member Of the House is authority
for the statement that four gentlemen
who had been promised c~lerkships of
committees, and have been for several
days. were greatly disappointed at the
passage of the Williams resolution to-
day
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
ATTACKS ON JAPANESE.
Russians Lose Heavily in Several En-
observation-disclosures to Break ND
Railroad Communication not Sue
ceSSful,

Toxic, January 13.-The bodies of
ating southwest of Lao Yang are evil
IDENTIFY DESTROYS Of harassing Japanese
railroad communication, and interrupt
ing the transportation of General No
gi's army to reinforce Field Marshal
Oyama at Lao Yang.
The Japanese army headquarters re-
porting Thursday says:
"wednesday at ten o'clock in the
morning as a japanese cavalry detach-
ment encountered four companies of
Russian cavalry west Of Tangmasas
southwest of Liza Yang, and fiercGly
engaged them. At 2:30 in the afternoon
h Russians were repulsed with heavy
losses. Subsequently they were rein
forced by several companies of cavalry
and eight guns. The Japanese drew the
Russians to Liuerhpac and engaged and
pursued them. On Wednesday night a
small body of Russian cavalry reached
the railroad line n tore UP the tracks
between Anshantien and Haicheng and
Tatchekiap and Yinkow. They were inn
mediately repaired and h line Was
re-opened to traffic.
"On Wednesday afternoon two thous-
and Russian cavalry with guns attack
ed New Chwang. The japanese Were
forced to retire temporarily but were
reinforced, attacked the Russians and
are still pursuing them.
The Russians also attacked Niuchi-
antun but were repulsed.'
A report from the japanese army
headquarters on the Liza Tung penln-
sula received today avs
"A body Of Russians, evidently from
General Mistchenko's cavalry brigade,
with the second infantry regiment, rail-
road guards and guns recently sur
rounded the japanese post at Niuche-
ten, north of Yinkow on the line OF
communications end assaulted it from
the direction of Siantziatzu. The Pus-
slams were ~repulsed, losing at least so
men,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17

Mr.. r.. A. Linville. of Kenansviile. was
in the city yesterday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ssasa ses Of &m&zzM

Warner for, Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, January 1.-THE Presi-
dent today sent to the Senate the fell
lowing nominations:
Commissioners of Pensions-Vespasian
Warner, Illinois.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17

R-s. The Kind Ysa Han .sMays Bsuek
s's, : &MNZM
Delegates Selected TO tho New Orleans
Cotton Convention.

Charleston. s. c.. January IA spe-
cial from Lancaster s. G. says a large
" attended cotton convention compos-
ed Of representative farmers, leading
business and professional men was
held there today. Leroy Springs. W. u
Eliborn and L. Mcafanum were selected
as delegates TO the New Orleans CON-
vention. They were instructor to adyo-
cate the adoption of the county ware
house system. the reduction OF cotton
acreage to ten acres 10 the p.rw and
the use Of fertilizers TO three hundreu
pounds to the acre.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
Everything Was the Same.

A young Oxford student one day re-
ceived an unexpected visit from his
pretty sister, and was very indignant
that she came without a chaperon.
Look here" said the young man, Il
will not have any of the fellows see
you in my rooms, so if anyone knocks
at the door you just get behind that
screen"
In few minutes a knock was
heard, and the girl ran behind the
screen as her brother went to open the
door. An old gentleman stood en- the
threshold, who after profusely apollo
giving for his intrusion, said: Il am
just home from Australia, and many
years ago / occupied these rooms;
would you allow me, sir; to look at
them once again?" Certainly" said
the student "come in." "Ah," ex
claimed the old man, everything Is
Just the same. Same old table, same
old fireplace, same old screen" Then,
catching sight of the girl; by Joye'
same old dodge" Sir exclaimed the
student, "that is my sister" cad,
sir" was the reioinder, same OLD
story"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
The Seed1ess Apple Fraud
DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE DENoUNCES
SCHEME AS HUMBUG
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

either paper stock or nursery stock. in
New York State.
The attractive plan proposed by the
parent Spencer company, as learned at
the Department of Agriculture, is that
these subsidiary or local seedless apple
companies may be formed i'll the vari-
Gus States, The local company Is to
pay a cash bonus 70 the mother COM
pany and also issue it 81 per cent. Of
its stock-a controlling interest. The
public is to be let in on the remainder,
40 per cent. To facilitate the sale Of
this stock Assistant Pomologist w.
A. Taylor says that the company some
time ago issued a statement to the eff.
feet that the retail price of trees will
be held up to So each, while the cost to
the local company will not. exceed 80
cents, and it is estimated that on a
local investment of $4,000 100000
could be quickly rounded up.
"It seems" said Mr.. Taylor, who in
speaking Of the matter appeared to be
entirely convinced of the shadyness of
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
Newspapers Which Bit.

This catalogue contains numerous ex-
tracts from papers all over the country
lauding the Spencer seedless apple al
most to the skies. The truth is, that
some of the most conservative papers
were successfully roped in and uncon-
sciously published articles specially
written for them by the propagandists
themselves, and these very papers are
now quoted in the catalogues distrib-
uted by the company Such eminent
names appear as the New York Times,
the Buffalo Inquirer, both Of which
had enthusiastic editorials. the Ameri-
can Inventor, the New York Farmer,
the Scientific American, the Buffalo
Commercial. the New York Herald, the
National Nurseryman, the Denver
Times and a scoro OF others.
The Public to Pay the Profits
This New York apple company is but
one al the subsidiary companies, with
annarantly the right to sell stock
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
OF "sEEDLESS" APPLES
SOLD TO MESSRS. SHEARN FOR 80
SHILLISGS APIECE.

trees are being grown in New York,
Iowa, Utah and Colorado.
1t is questionable whether the Fraud
Order Office of the Postoff1ce Depart
ment will be able to bar the use OF the
mails to the company owing to the
sdllful preparation OF its literature,
though such action, it is stated, would
oe sustained by all reputable fruit men
and nurseTymen.
The wonder of the whole story is
that in the face of such lamentable
failures where the promoters have con-
scented to exhibit their apples the work
still goes forward of successfully fool
ing the people. 1t is not denied that
there is an apple which may be called
seedless and with an imperfectly de-
veloped core; but it is a freak and
worthless, and, moreover, is thousands
of years old Wherever the Spencer
apple has been exhibited it has been a
fzzie One claim made by the company
is because the apple is bloomless it
offers no opportunity for the cooling
moth to lay its eggs, that, therefore,
the apple cannot be wormy. One of the
apples reluctantly submitted by the
Spencer people to Colonel Bracket, the
Pomologist of the Department, con-
tanned, when cut, a good, fat codling
moth worm, while all the apples sub
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
A Trial by Telephone.

Robert Willard, a farmer living near
Elkhart, in Logan county, Illinois up
on being arrested by Constable Petit
on a charge of intoxication and dis
orderly conduct, pleaded guilty by tele-
phone. When he was informed Of the
$14 fine by the justice in Lincoln, he
agreed to send the amount by mail
The case is unique in central Illinois
Jurisprudence.
The constable found Willard busily
engaged in n cornteld and read the
warrant to him. Willard agreed that
it was all right, but pointed to the
work that he was doing and declared
that he could not possibly lose day
OF two by driving TO Lincoln and walt
ing for trial He suggested the use Of
the telephone, and when the constable
somewhat obviously acquiesced. the
two repaired TO the farmhouse. FL
nally they got connection with Justice
Rudolph, in Lincoln, and over the wire
the unique trial was held. The justice
received 3 letter later with the fne
enclosed.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
A Few AnerthOughtS.

The Chinese women are being wean-
Oh from the old custom of binding
their feet. and it is stated that the
practice now obtains only among the
American women.
There is no authority for the state
ment that the railroad companies
would seriously object If Congress
spends the entire session discussing
the tariff and reciprocity.
Il reflect with sorrow over the
justification of the claim you make
Of having lent me your constant sup
port" says Lord CurZon, the viceroy
of India, recently deposed at the
instance of Premier Balfour. III the
Premier understood just what Lord
Curzon Indicated, and had the nerve,
he probably called back, your anoth-
err"
The customs officials are alarmed
at the apparent fact that there are
more Havana cigars in the country
than is warranted by the imports of
Havana tobacco. They have proba-
bly, omitted to calculate to include the
hickory and cabbage-leaf crop.
The King of Spain is again touring
the European courts, looking for some
body who will accept him.
The idea that the scarcity Of SER
want girls is due to their all having
become writers of novels, is probably
suggested by the quality of current
fiction.
Germany and France have reached
an agreement over Morocco that is
entirely satisfactory to both parties"
How about the feelings of the third
party?
Helen Bertram has been up before
New York magistrate for failure
to pay her debts. At the same time.
her husband is playing in 1.-THE Prod
igal Son."
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20

Germ which this tremendous advertis-
ing is causing our principal competi-
tors in the export apple trade. The
Tasmanian government council has in
stituted an official inquiry whether this
new development is likely to so revolu-
tionize the character Of the fruit which
we export 10 Europe, and which
is in competition with them, as to ne
cessItate their securing and growing
this seedless variety.
Colonel Bracket states that thus far
no tree or scion of this alleged remark
able apple has been placed IN the hands
of any disinterested experimenter, and
1t is significant that there are not as
yet any trees or scions for sale. al
though it is stated that several million
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20

Endorsement of the Fruit Division of
the Department of Agriculture. The
apple men of the Department were ex-
tremely doubtful of the claims made
by Mr. Spencer that he had evolved a
seedless apple which would reyolu-
tionize the apple industry of the coun-
try, and they were wise in refusing to
give 1t Endorsement. Colonel Bracket,
the Pomologist of the Department,
now states that the seedless and core
less apple propaganda is apparently one
of the most carefully considered and
intslligently worked out schemes for
fooling and defrauding the public
which has ever been attempted along
agricultural lines Taking advantage
of the remarkable results Of fruit and
plant Improvement made by Luther
Burbank and other wizards of plant
science, the statement was sprung upon
an unsuspecting newspaper press and
public that a wonderful seedless and
coreless apple had been discovered.
Hundreds of columns Of newspaper de-
scriptions of this fruit have since APP
peared in not only the daily and weekly
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-20
TIL
AGRICULTURE SPENCER COMPANY.


| the scheme, "that all of the people con-
nected with the general company, with
the exception of the president, or al
legged discoverer Of the new apple, are
men entirely unknown to the horticul-
tural world"
Reckless Statements,
The company appears to be well or
ganized and has apparently engaged ox-
cellent legal talent. THE statements
in all the literature issued by the corr
pany are very skillfully worded," said
MIR. Taylor the statements made
through the public press, for which the
company cannot be held accountable,
and which are influencing the people,
have been reckiessly misleading and
untrue The shrewd method by which
this apple was advertised in England
and again readvertised in the United
States shows that a master brain is en-
cheering the promotion of the scheme.
Having prepared the British public
through numerous articles, for some
thing startling, specimen of the seed
less apple was sent to King Edward,
inclosed in a plush-lined jewelry box.
The English papers commented widely
upon the occurrence and several addl-
tional apples were sold at public auc-
ton for enormous prices, and the pro
cially we'll written encomium on this
happening and on the value of the
apple was innocently transmitted by
the American Consul to our Depart
ment of Commerce and through its al
vance consular sheets distributed to
every newspaper in the United States.
A feature of this incident was the
ceremony connected with the cutting of
two apples which brought the largest
prices-namely, $15. A number of dis
tinguished British horticulturists were
present, the apples were taken from
cold storage cases, and everything was
proceeding beautifully until the knife
was applied, then it was found that the
apples were neither seedless nor core
less and the indignant purchasers,
Messrs. Shearn, demanded their money
back.
Must Make the Fakirs Smile.
"A somewhat amusing feature, as re
lated by Colonel Bracket, is the con-