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The National tribune., 1906-12-27

The Third Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral, the "bookkeeper" of the Depart
ment. discusses the postal deficit In his
annual report. He shows the deficiency
for the fiscal year ended June 80 last
was nearly s13,000,000, instead of about
$11, 100000, as previously estimated.
This result Is reached by including in
the expenditures the cost of maintaining
the executive force and the Bureau of
the Auditor of the Department.
Then the Third Assistant proceeds to
point out that when you get down to
bedrock there is really no deficit, in
view of the fact that the mail originat-
ing in the Executive Departments and
in Congress Is carried free.
"Last year." he says, 'it was estimat-
ed that IL charge were made for this
free postal service the revenues would
have been increased by approximately
$50, 100000.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
THE SPIRIT OF CONGRESS.
Essence OF the Week at the National
Capitol.
Senate.

Senate.
Monday, Dec. 17.-Three messages
We're sent to the Senate, the principal
one being the Presidents report on his
visit to the Isthmian Canal.
Resolutions We're adopted directing
the department of Commerce and Labor
to investigate the International Har-
vester trust: also requesting the Judi
ciary Committee to inform the Senate IL
Congress has power to prohibit child
labor products from interstate COM
merce.
Messrs. Whyte and Rayner (Md.) in
troduced resolutions touching State
rights questions, upon which they will
subsequently address the Senate.
House.
The House defeated a bill validating
10000 naturalization certificates, dis
cussed the Indian appropriation bill, and
listened to the Presidents message on
Panama.
Senate.
Tuesday, Dec. 1s.-The Senate dis
cussed the bill increasing the Artillery
Corps. authorized a loan of $1,000 900
to the jamestown Exposition COMPANY.
laid aside the bill granting the street
car companies the privilege of extend
ing their tracks to the union station in
The District of Columbia, and acted
upon several minor bills.
House.
The House passed 10 bills extending
streets in the District of Columbia and
discussed other measures of local inter-
est. The Indian appropriation bill was
passed without discussion.
Senate.
Wednesday. Dec 19.-The Presidents
message on the Brownsville incident
was read. A motion to refer to the
Committee on Military Affairs, with in
structions to investigate the matter II
fhe committee so desires, is pending.
House.
After an hours debate without ac-
ton on the resolutions increasing the
number of enrolling clerks, the House
because of the want of a quorum, ad-
journed.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Strong argument for the Army can
teen and beer halls for old soldiers is
made in the annual report of Col. John
l.. Chamberlain, InSpectorGeneral of
the Army He says that beer halls IN
the branches of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers netted prof
its to the Government of s165,454 dur
ing last year. If the soldiers could not
have had this beer which is known to
be pure, they would make their way to
dives, spend more money, get worse
beer and liquor, impair their health.
make more expense to the Government
in caring for them and the revenue
from the beer would be lost, he says.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

John r. Alternately. United States
Marshal for the District of Oklahoma,
was I'm Washington last week, on his
way to New York, and saw the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Alternately. whose home Is
at Guthrie. was the Presidents COM
panion two years ago, when he went
on his Western hunting expedition. and
It was due TO the friendship formed al
that time that the young Oklahomiar
received his appointment as Marshal
He and his friends received a hearty
greeting when they entered the Office
of President Roosevelt, and they spent
some time there talking over the events
Of the hunting trip.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

President Roosevelt has modified his
order to withdraw from entry coal lands
covering over 60.000000 acres The
Presidents attention was directed to the
fact some of the land affeced by the
order was agricultural rather than min
eral land. 1t is therefore directed that
where 1t is shown a tract is not particu-
larry valuable for coal, it may be en-
tered on for homestead purposes or un-
der various public land acts, subject to
a personal examination by special
agent of the Interior Department before
patent is issued. Land officials say 10,-
900 agents would be needed to carry out
The order literally
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

President Roosevelt will send another
message to Congress Immediately after
the holiday recess. 1t will deal with
the subject of immigration.
Some months ago Terence v. Pow
derly. former Commissioned General of
Immigration. was sent abroad to make
an inquiry with view to ascertaining
the causes that incite the movement OF
a million or more aliens to the shores
of the United States every year.
At the same time Charles P. Neill,
Commissioner of Labor, and James B.
Reynolds. Special Administration In
vestigator were directed to make some
observations at New York and other
large cities to determine the influence
on the social life of the country thru
the influx of this large annual addition
to the population of the United States.
Mr.. Powderly is now working on his
report, which will soon be submitted to
President Roosevelt. The results Of the
studies made by Messrs. Neill and Rey-
nolds will also be placed in the hands
of the President soon.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Col. John Mercer Brooke, aged so
years, emeritus professor of physics at
Virginia Military institute, died sud-
denly last week at his home in Lex
ington, Va. Col. Brooke was generally
regarded as the originator of the use Of
meals in the construction of ships, he
having designed the rebel monitor Mer-
rimac. He was also the inventor of
deep-sea sounding apparatus, which has
enabled scientists to ascertain the ma
ture of the oceans bed
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. the
British ambassador. called on Secre-
tary Root at the State Department one
day last week and formally presented
Mr.. Esme Howard. who has just been
installed as Secretary of the British
Embassy at this Capital, and who will
act as Charge dAffaires after Embas-
sador Durand's departure for England,
the latter part Of this month, until the
arrival of his successor ambassador
Durand and family left New York for
England on the 29th inst.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Ten of the best staterooms on the
| ship were reserved for the party, and
| their transportation and meals aboard
| ship and transportation on the Isthmus
will be provided by the Commission.
In each stateroom was placed copies
of the Canal Commissions reports since
the beginning of its work. and the Pres
| ident's special message to Congress on
his trip to the Isthmus. There were
| also copies of all the official photo
graphs made while the President was
there, there being nearly half a hun
dred in all. and on the walls were
| placed charts and maps of the Isthmus
Canal Zone and work on different sec
tons Of the canal.
The trip will require about seven
| days each way at sea, and the party
will have five days on the Isthmus. They
will be under the personal escort of w.
G.. Bier Superintendent of Railways on
the Canal Zone. The party is expected
back in Washington about jan. ~.
This makes the second or third Con-
| gressionai jaunt to the IsthmuS. and
/ Congress has had long message from
the President about things there. which
the President saw with his own eyes in
a four hours trip across the Isthmus In
a driving rain, and it certainly would
seem as tho the word OF the President
of the United States might be trusted
il all else fails. The President did not
approve of everything there, and he
was impartial in expressing his opin-
ions of things that did not suit him; I;
\ furthermore. he desires the centraliza-
ton of power in Superintendent Shonts.
j This shows that he is not satisfied with
the seven-headed-or Is it nine?-it has
i. been so often changed-Commission
which the President reorganiZed Just
before Congress adjourned last Sum-
mer. Then the President left to be
promulgated while he was upon the
high seas another reorganization of
canal appointees, and by the time he
was ready to start back from the 18th
8 mus word preceded him TO the United
3 States that he would again rearrange
the appointees on his return, and he
did. Now he wants to make ever the
whole bloomin' business after his own
| heart after having seen and judged of
= conditions The President certainly is
doing his best to get things in shape
there, and 1t does not look as tho all
these Commission" jaunts We're neces-
? sary. None of the members have been
) able to do anything to help out condi-
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Think of a United States Senator in
his home State going about looking like
an arsenal, with his hand on his pistol
holsters every time he, sees a stranger
advancing toward him. Right along
side of this item about Senator Bailey's
gun play was an item about a young
lady who met and fought four footpads
with hatpin, and she licked them to
finish, too. A hatpin' is less conspcu-
Gus, too
The National tribune., 1906-12-27


IT young Mr.. Murdock-for he is one
of the kid egislators-happens to make
good on this bill. his political future Is
made. If there Is one thing more than
another that a Western State loves to
do it is to take a fall put of railroad
company. A State never believes that it
has got all that is coming to it from
the railroad companies that operate
lines thru its confines, and likewise be-
lieve in dealing all railroads a slap
whenever they can. Mr.. Murdoch has
struck a pay streak if he makes it win,
he sure has. And the. best part of it is
he has made Mr.. Postmaster-General
Cortelyou sit up and take notice of his
bill and its provisions The Postmas-
ter General Is already Investigating!
The Chief Engineer of the Panama
Canal is convinced that "aIiy white man,
so called, under the same conditions,
will stand the climatei onvthe Isthmus
very much better than the blacks, who
are supposed to be immune from prac-
| tically everything, but who, as a matter
of fact, are subject to almost every
| thing"
Then why all this howl about the
negro for the South and the South for
the negro? Does it not resolve itself
into the fact after all that the real
simon-pure Caucasian has the call for
endurance over every other race on the
| face of the earth?
The report of the Panama Canal
Commission opens this way:
During the year the first stage OF
canal work, that of preparation, has
virtually been past, and the Commits
sion finds itself in position to enter upon
the second stage, that of actual con-
struction Of lock CANAL at an elevation
of IS feet, authorized by Congress in
June last.
| "Of these two stages the first was at
! once the more difficult and the more
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03

balance of SI,3I7.32 cash in the water fund and an overdraft of s2,3i2.46 in the general fund, due the Arizona Genital bank.
 The claim of Rabbit Bros. of S4I3.45 account placing 6 inch cast iron water main on Aspen avenue was on motion by Dona- hue allowed and ordered credited on water rent.
 Motion by Blake which carried :; Donahue, Blake and Rabbit voting aye and Jones nay, that the bills now owing by the Pioneer Hose Co.,, be paid by the city put of the general fund.
 The treasurer was ordered to pay SooI.44 on the water warrants still outstanding and to endorse the payments upon said warrants, making a pro-rato payment on each outstanding warrant. The treas urer reports the amount of these outstanding warrants to be S2,- ooI.44.
 A communication from MT. T.. J. Mover, calling attention to the unsafe condition of the foot bridge, crossing the river at the public school, was read and the superin- tendent of water instructed to have the bridge repaired at once.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
Cotton In Arizona.

The Arizona experiment station is reported as having undertaken the experiment of raising cotton in the Yuma valley. It is proposed to experiment with Egyptian cot ton which is of long fibre and high grade, commanding a higher price than the ordinary American prod uct. For some reason this variety of cotton seems not to have been successfully grown in many parts of the United States. Itis recalled that some years ago Professor Nc Clatchie made very successful experiment with Egyptian cotton at the Phoenix experiment station. It is said that former experiments near Yuma have been successful. In one instance a three acre tract having shown a very handsome yield. In order to test the quality of the product it was sent to Egypt and there sold for Egyptian cotton, bringing the top market price. Ex- periments begun near Yuma last year were a failure, owing to the crop being carried away by flood. Phoenix Republican
 There is no reason why cotton should not do we'll and flourish in the rich soil of the Colorado delta. Although very tender and extreme ly sensitive to cold, the plant re- quires but little water and its cul- tivation is simple. It was grown by the cliff dwellers and formed, perhaps, one of their staple crops. Quantities of cotton seed found in the ruined dwellings of this ancient people give evidence of the fact. As to whether it can be made a profitable crop can c,!ly be deter mined by experiment..
 Thomas writing ink at five cents a bottle-forn,er price ten cents-at SUN stationery department.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
Wool Goes Up Another Notch.

The market for territorial wool was topped last Saturday at Beardsley when a sale was made of the clip from the bands belong ing to Campbell and Francis at 22A cents a pound. The bii was made by Edwin Burke, buyer for H. C. Judd & Root of Hartford, i, Conn.,, and Larry G. Holden, buyer for the Davey Gould & Co.,, of Boston. The buy was of the entire clip from the sheep owned by the. firm and will in all proba bility amount to 25o,ooo pounds. The lowezt bid Saturday was 2Ih cents. Republican.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
A Hint to Travellers

While in Suffolk, Va. Henry Croll, Jr., proprietor of the Beaverton, Mich. Hardware Co, was taken very sick with bowel trouble. A travelling sales man from Saginaw. Mich, advised h'm to get bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy. which he did. It soon cured me, and I take pleasure in recommending it,' he says. No one should leave home on a journey without bottle of this rem edy. Itis almost sure to be needed and is not obtainable while on steamship or cars. Sold by all dealers.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
LODGE DIRECTORY.
MOUNTAIN LODGE, NO. IS, K. OF P.

R. F. BoNBERG. K. Jf K. and $
 A. E. FRANKFoRsER. M. IF.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
$6O3 66

The matter of property taxes of the Santa Fe Railway Company said company claiming an exemp- tion from town tax by virtue of a certain act of Congress, was re- ferred to Jones for investigation and report.
 The Water Supt. was instructed to place a suitable water meter on the water lateral of the Northern Arizona Normal School and ascer- tain the daily water consumption for basis for rate.
 On motion of Blake, seconded by Jones, and unanimously carried, it was ordered that new schedule of water rates be adopted, to take effect on February I, Ioo6, and to continue in effect until further notice, as follows: Domestic and lawn rate, first thousand gallons, one dollar and ninety cents (SI. .oo) 1; all water consumed in excess of the first thousand gallons, three 3c) for each one hundred gallons, meters to be read m onthly. Busi- ness rates; first thousand gallons, two dollars and fifty cents (S2. 5o), 1, all water consumed in excess of the first thousand gallons, five cents (5c) for each one hundred gallons, meters to be read monthly. Minimum for domestic and lawn rate, each month one dollar and ninety cents (SI .oo); minimum for business rate each month, two dol lars and fifty cents (S2. .5o).
 The town treasurer reports a
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03
RETAINS Tabules Doctors find A good prescription For mankind

The 5-cent packet is enough for usual occas- ions. The family bottle GO cents) contains supply for year All druggists sell them
 toI
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03

lNOUK1 COtONINO. NO. sq6 INDEPEND. V ENT ORDER oF FoREsTERs
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03

Thomas writing ink at five cents a bottle-forn,er price ten cents-at SUN stationery department.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03

Meets second and last Tuesays in each montl in old Fellows Hail vsiCtlg members in vited to attend the 'ourt meetings.
 c. x. BATY, C. R.
The Coconino sun., 1906-03-03

R. T. KIDD, Recording Secretary. A w. NORTON. Financial Secretary.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-07
Beggars' Rule In Rome.

A statement issued by the chief OF
police Of Rome serves to show how nu-
merous and indomitable has become
the begging class in the Eternal City.
There were made in December and
January last Gil arrests of openly de-
clared beggars, 1867 fines were in6ict-
ed on peddlerS Of small wares, Ill ar
rests Of children vagabOnds and 113
fines imposed for disturbing the public
peace. The police make every effort,
but public opinion seems to be against
them. For instance, to take a scene
witnessed recently: A guard tried to
arrest a one legged beggar well known
to every Roman as a criminal and the
pet of all the foreigners in tie city.
The man promptly threw himself on
the ground and began to cry, whining
that he had done nothing, and appeal
ing to the crowd. Soon murmurs were
heard of poor fellow, he has only one
legw LET the poor thing go" What
a shame" ETC., until indignation got
the upper hand, and the policeman had
to defend himself instead Of arresting
his beggar.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-07
The Craze For Pleasure.

The Puritan element is slowly but
surely dying out in England. The old
and honored word duty, used so efec-
lively by Nelson and Wellington in the
great moments of their career, the old
idea of a compelling factor in life
which gave solidity and worth to the
English character, has yielded to a
craze for pleasure. How far reaching
IS the change has perhaps hardly yet
been realized. People congratulate
themselves on the fact that our country
Is growing gayer and pleasanter and
more agreeable to live in than former
", but at what price we have bought
the change they do not stop to inquire.
LADY Violet Greville in London
Chronicle.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The man who loves his Joke is usual
ly unpopular.
Put yourself in the other mans place
and you may stop abusing him.
1t is commendable to save your mon
ey, but it is not cOmmendable to look it.
We worry as if we had to 20 through
a whole year tomorrow instead Of just
one day.
The cares and worries Of life look
pretty good, after ALL to those return
ing to town through the cemetery gate.
When a soldier returns from a bat
tie his story of the fight IS more in
teresting and less truthful if he returns
alone.
OF course friends are a good thing,
but when misfortune comes to you
which do you wish you had more Of
friends or dollars ?-Atchison Globe.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-07
SHOE NAILS.
The Way They Arc Made and Why
They Arc So Cheap.


They Are So Cheap.
Three million separate shoe nails are
often cast from one ton Of metal. or
the smaller sizes 1000 nails are mold
ed IN a single mold, and an expert
workman will make eighty molds in an
ordinary working day, thus turning out
100000 separate nails.
When the metal in a liquid state is
poured into the mold it runs through
the sand in passages provided in the
holding process; the whole of the nails
are cast together and are, when re-
moved from the sand, connected by a
network Of iron one with another. In
this condition the iron is as brittle as
glass, and very little force is required
to separate the nails from the network
which holds them together.
They then have to undergo the proc
ess known as annealing. They are
mixed up with hematite iron ore, which
is in a powdered state, put into iron
pots, and placed in an annealing fur
mace, q sort Of kiln. Here they remain
for some days, care being taken to so
regulate the heat to which they are
subjected that the iron will not be re-
melted, but brought very nearly to
that condition. The action Of the raw
iron ore upon the brittle casting is
marvellous. After cooling, it can be
bent without risk Of breaking, and it
becomes a useful and serviceable arti-
cle-London Express.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-07
EARLY CREEK HISTORY.
In the Time of Cortes the Tribe Life
Was Idyllic.

The Creeks are an entirely different
race of people from the Cherokees and
other northern Indians. They are Oh
Aztec, or, rather, Toltec, origin, and in
a teocallis, or pyramidal, temple, To-
Gated in secluded wild of the Creek
country, the same religious rites ana
ceremonies are performed today that
were performed in the imposing teo-
calls located on the bank Of the beau
tiful Lake TeZcuco, in the days Of the
ill starred Montezuma III. The archives
Of the nation are here preserved In
hieroglyphiCs, beautifully painted on
shells, strung together on deer tendons.
Here are also preserved their most
cherished relics, their green jasper
altar and q life sized image Of their
great war god, both brought from their
former home near Vera Cruz, Mexico.
At the time Cortes made his appear
ance in that neighbOrhOOd, bent upon
career of conquest and plumber, the
Creeks, as they are now called, were
living q peaceful, idyllic life in a land
made sacred to them by having been
the home of their ancestors for untold
thousands of moons and containing the
ashes and bones of their wise ana
loved old men through many genera
tions. Gathering their warriors to-
gether, they gave battle to the invad-
ers but weapons Of stone and flint
could make but little impression upon
the steel clad warriors Of Spain, and
they were defeated with terrible
slaughter. Gathering wives and little
ones together and taking with them
their most cherished possessions,
among which were the records Of their
race. the jasper altar and their war
god. holding In his extended right hand
the sacrifclal knife of flint, they made
their weary way to the capital Of Mon
teZuma. the sacred city Of Mexico,
where they were warml! welcomed by
that unfortunate monarch and where
thev fought bravely in defense Of the
devoted city. They assisted Gauto-
main, the chivalric nephew Of Monte
yuma, in his glorious, if i'll tated, at
tempt to regain the throne Of his an
cestors, and upon its failure and the
attendant death of that young chief
tain by torture after the manner Of
the ancient Israelitcs, they determined
to seek a land that man knew not
where they might provide homes for
their families and worship the gods Of
their ncestors.-EXchange