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Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23

pie value such things more than
 they do in New England, where lawns
 and gardens take care of themselves.
 Frank M. Murphy, one of the big
 mine owners and President of the
 Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Rail
 road, is turning an ugly, stony hill
 on the outskirts of the city into beau
 tiful park, and is spending a great deal
 of money making driveways and other
 improvements. It is filled with fine
 examples of desert vegetation and rug
 ged lodges of roek-nOt a rare com
 bination in this region-and if it could
 be transferred tc Chicago it would be a treasure beyond price. MT. Mur- phy intends to present the park to the city one of these days, but he is going to have the fun of fixing it up himself first, and in other ways is acting the part of a fairy godfather to the town.
 The most conspicuous building in Prescott is the Academy of St. Joseph, which stands on a rocky elevation over looking the town-an imposing build ing which cost $6O,OOO, where a hun dred or more young women are being educated. MT. Murphy gave the ground on which it stands to the sisters. The next most conspicuous building is a $50,000 schoolhouse, as good as they have in Indianapolis-and yet Senator Beveridge, who was one of the seriO- comic actors in the statehood drama that was played in the United States Senate last winter, says the people down here are illiterate. The ratio of Iiteracy is higher than it is in Indiana polls, Senator Beveridge included, and | the average attendance at the schools. | and the amount of money expended per | capita is nearly double that of the | own and the state in which he lives. With a population of 13,799, Yavapai county has an average attendance of 9,522 children in forty-fve schools, aught by sixty teachers, and an av- rage of $22.S2 per capita of attendance s paid in taxes for their support. senator Beveridge may think Arizona s not fit for statehood. but in her banks nd stores, her schools, clubs, theaters. esidences and other evidences of civ lization and culture. Prescott is far head of Indianapolis or any other
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23
PRAISES PRESCOTT N GLOWING
 TERMS
Journalist Curtis Says It Ranks With The East In Wealth. Education, Culture And
 Luxurious Homes

I town of Indiana, when the difference
 in population is considered, and if you
 would consider the place he came from there would be no comparison at all.
 The banks and business blocks are
 built of light colored brick, which gives the town a cheerful appearance, or tufa, a volcanic rock that is very soft and easily pressed when it is first dug out from the mountain; but hard ems with exposure until it becomes as firm as granite. The capitol at Phoenix is built of this material, and all the other important buildings in the territory. The streets of Prescott seem too wide for the town, the narrow est being a hundred feet, but there is plenty of room on the plateau for a million people. In the center of the city is a plaza, surrounding an ugly courthouse, and decorated with trees and plants that are nursed as carefully as young child. Much of the beauty and newness of Prescott is due to a fire in 1901 that swept nearly the whole town away. and every building of i'm pOrtance has been erected since then.
 On the north side of the town is Fort Whipple. a United States military post, which is being rebuilt to accom- modate four companies at a cost of a million or more dollars.
 While Prescott and this part of Arr zona are chiefly dependent upon the mines, there are lots of little valleys of great fertility lying in the foothills the mountains; isolated tracts of from l ,000 to 10000 acres. which have been pretty well taken up by the farmers, who raise corn. wheat. alfalfa and veg and irrigate their crops by i wells. There is plenty of water fifty | to a hundred feet under the surface. | it is pumped up by small gasoline engines, but usually it flows lnder good pressure. Many farmers make their living out of the soil in his way, and derive large profit from heep, cattle and goats. which have free anges on the government land around hem. They sell their beef, mutton, and alfalfa in the towns md mining camps around them.
 Continued or Page Five.)
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23

When W. E. Curtis, the staff cor
 respondent of the Chicago Reeord-Her-
 ald, visited this city last month. he
 obtained impressions and information
 that form the basis of an interesting
 article that appears in his paper, which was received last evening.
 It is perhaps the most glowing tri- bute that has ever been paid to Pres cott by visiting stranger, particu- larly his declaration that the city ranks with the east in education, culture, and progressiveness. The article is lengthy and also treats upon general condi- tions in the territory. That portion referring to Prescott is herewith sub joined, while the remaining part will appear in Sundays Journal-Miner:
 PRESCOTT, Ariz.. Aug. 1l-Pres- colt does not look like a mining town, although it is the center of one of the richest mineral districts in the world, and the residences of the owners and managers of the mines and smelters are here. Hence its handsome and luxurious homes and its club, which cost $S5,000; its opera house, which seats 900 and cost $60,0O0; its cunning little library, so small and dainty that you can almost pick it up and put it in your pocket. Prescott is the dis tributing point of supplies for a large and wealthy district, and the place l where the employees of some of the | most profitable mines in the country l come to spend their money after pay days. Hence its large fine retail stores l and big show windows, full of alluring articles. The population is less than 5000, perhaps not more than 5000, | but it is more of city than any other place I know of with that number of people.
 The residences, almost without ex- ceptiOn, are of tasteful architecture. and every one of them seems to have been painted last week. There is not a shabby house in town, and they are all surrounded by neatly kept grounds. Half the population seem to be sprink- ling their lawns after business hours It costs a good deal of trouble and money to keep lawn and garden in this arid section. and therefore peo- !;
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23

Harry Mehar and J. A. Parker, both of Los Angeles, are guests at the Pres eott hotel. They are here in the in- terests of the plumbing firm that se- cured the contract for the work at Fort Whipple, and are Investigating the actual conditions preparatory to beginning work on the proposed new buildings.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23

Jerry W. Sullivan, the well known cattle man. is on short business visit in Prescott, and is to be found at the Burke hotel. He came in from Sim mons, where he has kept large herd of cattle on his ranch property there.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-23

Frank Kirby of Hillside is in town on business. and is registered at the Prescott hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07

has the following to say of "The Con-
vict's Daughter
A new and sensational melo-drama
makes its appearance at the Holiday
Street theatre this week. under the title
THE Convict's Daughter Crowded into
five acts of the production, the work
of j. A. Fraser, Jr., are many thrilling
scenes and Incidents. The plot deals with
the unjust conviction of an innocent man,
his Punishment to prison, sesational
escape and final righting of all wrongs.
The daughter. lost to him when a baby.
during an explosion on a steamer and
adopted by wealthy banker, is CEN
trail figure. Her rejected sutton Is the
heavy villain, but his schemes are at
last defeated and the true lovers are
united. One of the exciting scenes of
the production shows the wild leap of
convict from a stone wall to the top
of a moving train
The Providence journal says
The first performance of 1.-The Convict s
Daughter" at Lethrops Opera house last
night was sufficient attraction to fill
the theatre to the doors and to Judge by
the amount Of applause and the general
interest shown in the piece, this week
promises to be record breaker for the
season "The Convicts Daughter" is a
melodrama. but without the usual over
abundance of sensation and murders,
During the whole play nobody is killed
and nobody dies broken-hearted over the
vllainy OF the villain. The story is sim
ply and touchingly told and is full of
strong human interest.
The company is altogether one of the
best selected and the best balanced seen
at Lethrop's this season and 1t is a
boast of the management that 1t is as
expensive as any company of like size
on the road
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
WORLDS FINEST RACE COURSE
On Long Island. Thirteen Miles From
Heart of Manhattan.

Charles f. Bourke in Harper's Weekly.
Belmont park is located near the vii
lage of Queens, on Long Island, some
thirteen miles from the heart of Man
haitian. Here on the site of the Mannice
farm a century-old English estate, a
transformation wonderful as any wrought
: by the lamp of Aladdin has taken place,
and this transformation marks the culmi-
nation of over two years labor, and the
expenditure of a kings ransom.
There are six separate race tracks, ar
ranged for dozen varieties of races,
from hurdle to straight-stretch running;
there are forty combination stables in
which 1850 horses may be housed in man
ner to fit the quality of the most fastid-
ious thoroughbred; there are jockey quar-
tiers for the 'Kings of the Tin at which
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07

not even those fabulous-priced makers
and breakers of fortunes may cavil; there
are stee-framed viewing stands, capable
of accommodating 10000 holiday-makers
and of seating $4,000 people; there are
owners and members club house quar-
tiers in a building of granite and terra
Gotta which is In reality royal palace
on a smaller scale; there Is an immense
concourse for the "bookmakers' ; acres
of winning rooms and dining rooms. kitch-
ems and pantries and bars and lunch coun-
tiers, and a convenient common green
a sort of glorifed picnic ground-for out
door iders; and miles of boxes and
''bleachers balconies and galleries and
mezzanine promenades. An army OF
cooks and visitors will cater to the Wis.,
itors, and at the terminus of covered
way and tunnel there is ten-track rail-
road, where ten trains can be unloaded
at once at the entrance to the grounds.
And all around these is flung man
proof iron fence with a surrounding
fringe of barbed wire and pllded spear
tops, to bar out the unpriced and the
unlimited.
The entire grounds of Belmont park in
clude about $50 acres.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
ROBIN WITH HUMOR.
She Played Practical Joke on Half
Grown CrowbIack.


DIR. ]. H. Kennedy In Harpers Weekly.
Some birds are fun of seriousness, but
| do not think the robin is one of them.
though his song Is plaintive. The trick
of one particular robin Is divertingly
pleasant memory.
She was a mother bird busily engaged
in feeding her young with earthworms
plucked from the soft ground beneath an
apple tree. She carried them up a rail.
the end of which rested in the fork of the
tree, and along a limb to the nest. A
half-grown crow-black tasged along be-
side her, upon the ground. with open
mouth and quvering wings, CRYING to he
fed, and seeking to devour the worms
but afraid to seize them. | expected to
see the robin dismiss the peggar In a sum
mary manner, but she never noticed him,
or stopped carrying worms, until the
cravings of her brood had IN measure
been satisfied. Then, turning upon the
ungainly squad, she looked him over in
a most amused and critical way, picked
up bit of dead twig like worm, and
hastily thrust it into his big mouth. The
thing was so greedy that he almost swal-
lowed it before ne discovered the trick
when, with much fuss and sputtering, he
managed to expe 1t. and sat down whim-
perng. The robins look and ATTITUDE
denoted keen enjoyment. though 1t was
of short duration--mother instinct, prob
ably, prevailed; she hunted q sure
enough worm, which her former victim
gulped with relish and flew away con-
tented. The lame leg. crippled wing ana
famished cry, feigned to elicit sympathy,
like the infirmites of other beggars, van
ished as soon as he was fed.
This is the only instance of the KIND
that | know of one bird giving another
an inedible substance as fool in the spirit
of practical joke Mother birds give
their young such things for purpose,
when they are old enough to seek their
food
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
ADJUSTMENTS
"The convicts Daughter"

This is the fourth season OF the meio-
dramatic success entitled THE Convicts
Daughter" which is the attraction this
week at the Bijou theatre. So far 1t has
repeated its yearly seasons business,
erowding the theatres to their utmost
capacity. There must be a reason Tor
such large audiences The secret sue
cess lies in the fact that both the au-
thor and manager have put forth their
lest efforts to supply the demands of
mathematician public. The box office
returns show the wisdom of their judg-
ment.
This is a pure American play depict
ing love and pathos, hate and passion,
play that touches the heart There is one
way and only one way, to appreciate
this play, and that is to see it. For nearly
three hours intense dramatic scenes and
laugh-provoling complications follow each
other in rapid succession. A capable COM
pany has been engaged. beautiful seen
cry and startling mechanical effects has
been provided.
The Baltimore American of January
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
BEGINNING OF AMERICAN MUSIC.
Paine the Thomas jefferson of Music
In This Country.

Rupert Hughes in the Pilgrim for May.
The Netherlanders settled New York
at a time when Flemish music was great
in the world, but there was no apparent
importation of the genius of Flanders
in the stout lulls of the Dutch
The first real awakening of music In
the American wilderness was when the
young German, Siegfields, strolled into
the magic forest. Until shamefuly re-
cent date, practically all of the solid and
ambitious music in America was made
by men of German blood or by men
trained under German conditions here or
abroad. Even that music was not of i'm
portance in world wide sense, but it
was right in kind if not of high degrees;
for 1t was based upon no illiterate and
formless improvsations or native wood
notes wild" but of a deep study of the
mechanics and the materials, the tradi-
lions, the ideals, the grammar, the form,
and the spirit of music as a high and
difficult art. BY these steps alone can
music or any other art of science, truly
progress.
In 1876 the United States celebrated the
hundredth birthday of its declaration of
political independence. The Centennial
Exposition was opened with a setting of
Whittier's Hymn by John Knowles
Paine, who had in that same year been
appointed a full professor in the new
and specially created chair of music at
Harvard university.
John Knowles Paine is the Thomas JEFF
ferson of American music. He drew up
our declaration of musical independence
in the first symphony. 1t was brought
out the same year. 1876, by Theodore
Thomas, the Freslander who came over
into Macedonia to help our musical pag-
anism and unbelief.
But Paine had learned all he knew of
a German teacher in Portland. Maine and
OF German teachers In Berlin. where he
studied for three years. He played the
organ in a tour In Germany and pro-
duced in 1876 at the Berlin Sing Academic
his Mass which was probably the first
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
Not Fit to Publish.
.om the chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
A represents ticket office.
B represents lines of people waiting to
purchase tickets
C represents the points where Jones
stood at a. m.
d represents the point where Jones
stood at ten minutes past s.
E represents the point where Jones
stood at S:15.
Query: What will Jones say when he
reaches A and finds he has been standing
in the wrong line?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
His Righteous Kick.

HIS Righteous KICK.
From the Chicago Tribune.
"A woman in this town." says the Hick-
DRY Ridge Missourian, whose husband
owes us 1913 on subscription, had the
SWEETEST hat that was seen at church last
Sunday. while cur wife had to make
new hat by turning her old one inside out
and putting on % cents worth CT trim
ming she bought at a remnant counter.
1t is such things as these, brethren, that
cause the iron to enter our soul and make
us regret that we spoiled a promising ca
reer as an auct.oneet b. becoming an ed
itor in this burned town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
Olympia Musical Comedy.

Next week at the Bijou theatre the
Olympia Musical Comedy company will
present 1.-The Telephone Girl for the
first part of the week and 1.-THE Girl From
Paris for the remainder of the week.
There will be the usual matinees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
Method In Il.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Financier-I have never failed to sue
coed.
Friend-Geel thought that's what you
always failed for!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07

serious American work given in Europe
if we except the rather perfervid Chopin
esaue piano pieces of the New Orleans
born, Paris-trained Louis Moreau Colts
chalk, who created some excitement in
Europe before his death in 1869
Dr. Paine has composed noble music
His second symphony, called Spring"
and written in 1873 is a superb compost
ton. and there is big music in his setting
of the ''Oedipos Tyrannos" of Sophocles.
All American music before him is of the
prehistoric period.
Hermitage, sign writer, has moved
cross the street to Vulcan sign shop.
10 N 10Th st.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
For Sale

For Sale
%, 5OO-l0Oxl3O #. on the
s. w. cor. of 9th ave. and
23d street. Great bargain.
Fine property. Must be sold
at once. Owner leaving the
state. Act promptly ifOyou
must secure this.
]. d. Crosthwait & Co.
2lO5 I'd avenue
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09

TIE Isle of Man is situated in the
Irish sea, nearly equidistant from
England and Ireland and belongs to
Great Britain. The government is
vested in lieutenant governor, execu-
tive council and house of keys. 1t was
ruled by Mortimer from the ninth or
tenth to the thirteenth century: was
annexed to Scotland by Alexander III
and was afterward ruled by various
kings. 1t was ruled by the Stanley
family from the beginning of the fif-
teenth century to 1885, when it passed
to the earls of Athole In 1865 the
British government acquired most Of
the royal rights of the Athole family.
the last rights falling to the crown in
1929. English is generally spoken, and
the native ManX is fast disappearing
1t has an area of 220 square miles and
a population of $4,000. The three legs
used on it's coins are the emblem of the
island and signify 1.-The Isle of Man
kneels to England, kicks at Scotland
and spurns Ireland
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09
A Political Secret.

Before Napoleon Ill, emperor of
France, became interested in the Mex
lean empire project he had plan in
mind for certain mysterious military
operations in Morocco. A writer says:
1.-THE German agent of firm of Liege
gunsmiths used to go at dead of night
to private door in the Rue st. Honore,
press button and be received in secret
by Louis, Napoleon himself The Ger
man was to secure arms to the order Of
Napoleon, but all was to be secret.
Payment was to be made through
Swiss banking house, as part of the
capital of railway in the Grisons.
But it all came to nothing. Mexico
claimed the horizon and the German
and his guns were forgotten, and the
secret of it all is still to seek"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09
"HandIe With Cya-ev

If you send package marked "Han-
die With Care by freight, the railway
employees will take every opportunity
to tumble it around and dump it on the
depot platform as though 1t were a
bale of hay. We once saw a railroad
employee so sick he could scarcely hold
up his head, but when his wandering
eye happened to fall on package
marked Handle With Care he arose
with an expiring effort and threw the
blamed thing the length of the depot
platform, danced upon it, then shrieked
and died."-Alma (Kan.) Signal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09
The most attractive eastern e

The most attractive eastern excursion
during the coming summer will be to
Asbury Park, N. j. on occasion of the
Annual Meeting of National Education
al Association, July 3rd to 7th. inclusive,
via the Nickel Plate Road and it's con-
nections, either the West Shore or Lack
awanna Road, with privilege of stopover
at Chautauqua Lake points, Niagara
Falls and New York City. Rate $21.35
for the round trip. Dates of sale, June
Goth and Both and July 1st and End, with
extreme return limit of August 31st, by
depositing ticket Patrons of this route
may have the choice of ride over the
most interesting mountain scenery in
New York and Pennsylvania and through
the celebrated Delaware Water Gap
or through the beautiful Mohawk Val
ley and down the Hudson River, which
also includes the privilege of ride on
day line boat on Hudson River, between
Albany and New York City, in either di-
rection, if desired. No excess fare
charged on any train on Nickel Plate
Road. Meals served in Nickel Plate
dining-cars, on American Club Meal
Plan. ranging in price from 80 cents to
Sl.OO; also a la carte. Chicago Depot,
La Sale st. Station, corner Van Buren,
and La Sale SITS. City ticket Offices,
Ill Adams st. and Auditorium Annex.
For further particulars, address John Y.
Callahan, General Agent, lib Adams St.,
Room 29S, Chicago. 27w4
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09
A Queer Insect.

The walking sticks" walking
leaves" etc., are among the most Curl
Gus forms Of insects inhabiting tropical
America. They belong to the great
family of phasmidaes and ire as odd
specimens of animated nature as one
could we'll imagine. The type of the
family is an elongated creature with a
cylindrical brown body, looking exact
~ like a small limb or twig with the
bark on. Some of the branches of this
numerous family live in the torrid por-
tons of Africa, where they attain enor~
nous sizes. Vane, the great traveller,
said he had seen them so large that
"they had the general appearance of
great, animated clubs moving up and
down the branches and trunks of the
gigantic tropical trees
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-09

TO RENT.--A suit of rooms over
Babcock's clothing store; electric light,
bath room and all modern conveniences.
Inquire of G. r, Bentley.
-Homeseekers' tickets will be sold
for one fare plus two dollars to author
lied points in Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota every Tuesday until
Dec. 10Th. good for 81 days. For further
information call at ticket office.
For Biennial Meeting Modern Wood
men of America at Milwaukee, June II
to 24th excursion tickets will be sold at
one fare plus so cents, June 10th to 22d.
good returning June Goth. Halt excur-
sion rate to children