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Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-02-15
CLAIM JUMPING AND
REMEDY DISCUSSED
An Evil that Should be Discouraged
Claim Owners Should Organ
lie for Protection.

SUPERIOR, Ariz., Feb. LIST, 1906.
Ed. BLADE:-We, the miners and
prospectors of this camp in general,
know that you do and will uphold the
rights of anyone who is trying in a
legitimate way to open up and develop
the mining country, but there are sew
eral things which we wish you would
draw the attention of the public in
general to and which cannot be too
severely censured. ! shall not try here
to state the matter in full as you know
best how to deal with that yourself in
print, and we do wish that you would
try and have the papers in the territory
copy the same, as we know you can hit
the nail hard when you Try and can
open the eyes of wrong-doers.
The first thing is that now as the
railroad is about 20 come in here and
things are likely to take boom, the
claim jumpers are very much in evil
dence; and also learn from parties
just from there that they are infesting
Globe and the Pinto districts. Now,
Mr.. Editor, do you not think that a
man should be compelled to look fully
into the records, examine the claim or
claims, inspect the work and make sure
the ground is open before he puts a
monument and notice on a persons
claim, and show good and sufficient
cause why he did so? We think such a
law should be passed, and it would help
save lots of trouble and unnecessary
expense, besides keeping the camp or
camps back, for we all know that this
claim jumping generally is nothing
more or less than blackmail and is done
to obtain hush money.
The next thing we would call your
attention to is that provision of our
statute requiring locator, in case he
locates an abandoned claim, to state on
his notice that said claim lis an aband-
oned claim formerly known as the
mining claim" l understand
that the courts of Arizona have held
that no relocation is valid unless this
provision of the statute is strictly COM
piled with. Now, sir, not one pros
pector in hundred knows that such a
law is in existence, therefore innocent
ly disregard it. 1t is foolish, unne-
cessary and unjust provision that works
only in the interest of the unprincipled
sharp, who lies around and waits till
some Industrious prospector has re-
located some old, abandoned claim,
proved up its value by hard work, then
steps in and appropriates it because Of
the locator's failure to comply with the
foolish provision of the statute above
referred to. Legitimate prospectors
and miners all over the territory should
unite in demand for repeal of that
clause. Yours truly,
PRoSPECTOR.
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-02-15

The editor of the Blade agrees with
all that is said in the foregoing COM
munication. But it is difficult to cure
the evil of claim jumping by legislative
enactment, and for that reason the
congress of the United States inserted
in the mining laws provision author
izing prospectors and claim owners to
organize mining districts and adopt
rules and regulations governing the
location and working of claims. Under
these provisions our friends in the
Superior district can organize and
adopt bylaws, rules and regulations
requiring a locator to keep strictly
within the bounds of right and justice,
and in this way effectually protect
themselves against Their Professional
claim jumper and blackmailer. For
instance, they could require by their
bylaws and regulations that an aband-
oned claim could not be relocated till
the person or persons desiring to re-
locate it shall have made diligent
inquiry of all the adjacent claim owners
as to whether or not the property has
been fully abandoned by the former
owners, as to the amount of work they
had performed on it, the date of said
performance, etc. In fact they could
make the requirement so complete in
detail that there would be no POSSIBLE
ity of an Improper relocation. We
have often wondered why the prospect
ors and claim owners of the various
mining districts of the county did not
organize and adopt a complete system
of rules and regulations governing the
location and working of claims, for
self protection. They can organize as
separate districts. or come together
and let one organization cover the en-
tire county.
The provision of the statute referred
to by our correspondent is as foolish
as it is unnecessary, and it should be
repealed, but until it is repealed it
must be followed. On the Blade loca-
ton notices, on the back side, the pros
pector will find the following:
'This claim is a relocation of an
abandoned mining claim known as the
- mining claim. when you re-
locate an old claim do not fail to write
the name of the old claim on the above
blank line."
In case the name of the abandoned
claim i, unknown to the re-locator, he
can write in the blank lines the words
"name unknown. This will comply
with the law. Florence Blade,
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-02-15

The highest and lowest places in the
United States are in Inyo county, Cal
Mount Whitney is Ia, $50 #. above the
sea, and Death Valley, so miles south
east of Mount Whitney, is 300 #. below
the level of the sea.
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-02-15
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To j. N. McDonough, his heirs, execu-
tors, administrators and assigns, or
any one claiming under them:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, John Haley, has expended
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
SOUTHWEST EXCURSION.
Arranged by Denver Merchants and
Manufacturers.

Denver.-The manufacturers and
merchants excursion through South
western Colorado, which is scheduled
to leave Denver at $40 p. m. Sunday,
September 16, promises to be one of
the greatest that has ever left Denver.
Unusual enthusiasm is being displayed
on all sides. The Denver people are
anxious to meet their patrons in South
western Colorado and from the com
munications that are being received
daily by the Colorado Manufacturers
Association from the different towns
along the proposed route, they are evil
IDENTIFY looking forward with pleasure
to the arrival of their Denver guests.
A special train of Pullmans has been
chartered and the itinerary is as fol-
lows:
Sunday, September 16, leave Denver.
Monday, leave Creede at s: 80 a. m,
visiting the following towns: Del
Norte, Monte Vista, Alamosa, La Jara,
Antonito, Toltec. Chama, New Mex
leo; Monero, Lumberton, Durango,
spending the night at Durango.
Tuesday, leave Durango at 10 a. M,
visiting Silverton, from whence the
party will go to Ouray via Red Noun
tam and will enjoy one of the most
beautiful rides in Colorado by stage,
spending the night at Ouray.
Wednesday, leave Ouray at $3.50 a.
m. for Ridgeway, Telluride. and Mont
rose, where that night will be spent.
Thursday, leave Montrose. visiting
Paonia, Hotchkiss, Delta, Grand juno
ton, Palisades, De Beque, Grand Val
ley, Rifle, New Castle, thence to Glen
wood where the party will remain long
enough to take dip in the famous
pool.
Friday the party will visit Aspen,
Carbondale and Leadville, where the
night will be spent
Saturday, leave Leadville at 10 a. m.
for Buena Vista, Salida, Canon City
and Florence. leaving Florence that
night and arriving home Sunday morn
ing, September 23.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
NEW SUGAR FACTORY.
Large Plant Projected Between Den
yer and BRIGHTON.

Denver.-A Colorado Springs spe-
cial to the Denver Republican Thurs
day says:
1t was stated here tonight that an
Independent beet sugar factory is pro-
jected by Denver and California cap
italists. the site to be between Denver
and Brighton. The mill is to have a
capacity of at least 5000 sacks of
sugar day, or approximately $50 tons.
A factory of this size would cost nearly
S1,000,000 The Havemeyer factories
in the state are situated at Greeley
Eaton, Windsor, Sterling, Loveland
and Fort Collins. At Grand Junction
is the Western Land & Sugar Com
pany's plant, controlled by ]. r. Nc
Kinnie and associates Of Colorado
Springs. The Rocky Ford, Sugar City
and other plants in the Arkansas val
ley are owned by the American Beet
Sugar Company, which is controlled by
Henry Oxnard and others.
Although the McKinnie and Oxnard
factories are independent of the Have
meyer plants in the northern part of
the state, the three organizations work
hand in hand more or less
The new plant, it is stated will be
built for the purpose of fighting the
trust.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
INDIAN TROUBLES.
Reported Serious Outbreak In British
Columbia.

Vancouver, B. Give thousand
Indians upon the Babine river and
lake at the headquarters of the Skeena
river, 1870 miles from the coast, have
broken out in open revolution. A call
has been sent to Vancouver for the
militia.
The hostilities occurred because the
federal fisheries officials attempted to
break down the barricade which the
Indians had erected across the river
and streams leading to Babine lake
and other spawning grounds OF the
sockeye salmon.
A rush call came from Hazleton, at
the head of navigation upon the
Skeena river, for force of militia
The message announced the threat
ened conflict between the government
officials and Indians had occurred and
the former had been forced to retire
because of the superior number of
Indians.
News of the trouble was wired to
Ottawa and Premier Mcbride of Brit
ish Columbia. Action upon the part
of the authorities in response to the
call is now awaited.
The scene OF the trouble is 500 miles
from Vancouver, in wild region.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
YOUNG LADY SHOOTS.
Wyoming Girl Arrested for Shooting
Ranch Foreman.

Sheridan, Wyo.-Miss Edna Irvine,
daughter of State Treasurer Irvine,
who is charged with shooting in the
hip George H. Knighton, foreman of
the Letter ranch on which the Irvines
were living, has been bound over under
$500 bonds. For many months, it is
alleged. Knighton has made things dis
agreeble for the Irvine family, particu-
larly Miss Irvine Tuesday, when a
gate was left open and some horses es-
capped, Knighton is said to have ac-
cused Miss Irvine and it is said used
indecent language. even swearing, at
her.
Miss Irvine, though cultured and re-
fined and the graduate of an eastern
girls seminary, loves the range life
and rides much, carrying a revolver at
all times. This she is said to have
pulled and ordered Knighton to desist,
which he did not do. She. it is alleged.
then snapped a cartridge at him which
failed to explode, but when she pulled
the trigger again the bullet caught
Knigi ton In the hip. telling him.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Great NIaht for the Onion.

The onion has served as the basis
for many quips and filings at the hands
of the humorous paragraphers. And
yet 1t is an extremely wholesome plant
and one of high rank with the ancients.
particularly the early Egyptians. For
these reasons 1t is pleasant to note
that the tabooed edible met with de-
served recognitiongat what was termed
an onion reception and banquet in an
interior New York town called Union,
which in this case might plausibly
seem a corruption of onion. 1t was ar
ranged, says the Cleveland Plain Deal
er, in honor of the sixteenth ami
versary of the special guests of the
evening and the onion was the center
and scenter of attraction. The house
was decorated with onion blossoms,
an onion center piece graced the table
and the bill of fare included onions
and onions only-top onions, sliced
onions, stewed onions. onion salad and
fried onions. Needless to say, the
guests, who departed at late hour.
went away breathing many encom-
iums of the fragrant bulb of honor.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Authorization Mayor Resigns.

Kansas City.-Mayor w. w. Rose of
Kansas City, Kansas; Vernon ]. Rose,
chief of police of that city, and John F.
Kelly, captain of police Thursday
agreed to resign their offices upon
promise of the state officials that con-
tempt proceeding brought against
them recently in the Kansas Supreme
Court would be dropped. Chief Rose
and Captain Kelly will hand their res
ignations to Mayor Rose during the
day, and at the Council meeting Mayor
Rose will tender his resignation, to-
gether with those of the other two Of
ficials At Topeka the attorneys for
both sides reached this agreement,
three justices of the Supreme Court
coinciding.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
discriminating the Tick.

Washington. = The work of ex-
terminating the cattle tick in the
southern and some of the, western
states is progressing satisfactorily, ac-
cording to statement made by Sec
retary Wilson to-day. 1t began in Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, where, it
was said, cordial cooperation is being
given the department, both in money
and the extension of state authority to
the departments officials. The appro-
priation for the work was ss2,500.
Some of the states have not enacted
laws extending financial and other aid
to the government, but Secretary Will
son said that even with the sum avail
able much progress has been made
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Far Too Speedy for Speech.

The tremendous speed made in the
international automobile race over the
Ardennes circuit in Belgium is almost
beyond conception. To maintain an
average of nearly 70 miles an hour
through a run of 371 miles. which was
the record of the winner must have
meant speed neighboring on 100
miles an hour for much of the dis
tance. Only in this way could time
lost on curves be made up. The race
makes very pat the story of Boston
millionaire who recently visited one
of the young Vanderbilts at Newport,
says the Springfield (Mass.) Repub-
lican. The visitor was taken for a run
in big racing automobile. He stood
the experience until the speed rose to
upward of so miles an hour, when, in
terror, he tried to call to the driver
beside him to slow up. But instead of
being able to call he found, SO runs
the story, that once he had opened his
mouth he could not shut it, SO vio-
lent was the blast. Fortunately the
stretch permitting such speed was
short
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Union Stock Yards.-Re-
ceipts of cattle were again liberal on
this market last week, total of 5000
head arriving. Good stun was In
strong demand and prices held up well
notwithstanding reports of lower mar
kets at all eastern points. Good beef
steers sold Just about steady, but the
medium and half-fat kinds are weak
to lower. Some choice westeren Colo
rado grass steers brought $3.50, the
bulk of the pretty decent killers at
$3.50 to $40. Cows ruled lower in
sympathy with the eastern decline, the
loss amounting to 10 to 20 cents. Bulls
sold about steady and in very good de-
mand. Bulk of the weeks supply
brought S1.75 to $500. Veals were act
I've with fancy stuff at $4.25 to $40,
but few sold above S4.00, and bulk
ranged from this down to $500. Feeder
and stocker supply was very fair, but
not equal to the demand. All are
wanting the good heavy kinds, how
ever, and medium to common steers
or light stockers DO not attract much
attention. Some choice western Colo
rado steers sold at s4.10, freight paid,
with others at s3.95 fat, and most OF
the fair to pretty good at $500 to
$3.50.
The hog demand was very strong
and all offerings found ready sale
The market here is firmer than pre-
ceeding week and choice lightweight
hogs are now selling at full river
prices. Best kinds are now quoted a.
$6.10.
The sheep market was rather quiet
as supply was light. All offerings We're
sold readily at steady prices and the
sheep market presents few new fea-
lures from the preceding week. De-
mand for both feeders and killers is
strong, but few of the former coming.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
ANOTHER PIONEER conz.
A. q. Rhoads Dies At Denver, Aosd
Seventy.

Denver. Colo.-The ranks of Colo
rado's pioneers were thinned once
more by the death Tuesday night OF
Alonzo G. Rhoads, one of the Oldest.
Dest-known and best-liked Of the men
VINO have helped make the history Of
the state.
Mr. Rhoads was fishing a few days
ago on the Laramie river at Glen Davy.
sixty-hve miles west of Fort Collins. in
company with his cousin, H. A. Hixer,
VINO had come from Ashtabula, O.. es-
pecially to go with him on the excur-
sion. While in the midst of the sport
tne veteran pioneer was suddenly
taken with violent recurrence of a
chronic intestinal trouble and came
very close to death ON the wagon trip
to the railroad. He survived long
enough to reach his home Tuesday in
this city. but passed away Tuesday
night at 1890, surrounded by all the
relatives he has with the exception of
one sister.
Alonzo G. Rhoads was born in Pier
pont, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Decem-
Der 10, 1886. He came to Colorado in
1860 and worked at his trade of black
smith In Russell Gulch until 1863. In
that year he went to Black Hawk,
where he opened up a bakery and
cracker business, which enlarged to
such proportions that in October of
1879 he came to Denver and continued
In the business.
During the civil war he enlisted in
Co. M. Third Colorado cavalry and
since was a member of Lincoln Post,
G. A. r., in Denver.
He served two terms as president of
the Pioneer Association and one term
on the Denver school board
He was a member of Union lodge
No. z, A. F. and A. NJ, Denver chapter.
No. 2, R. A. M. Colorado commandery.
No. l. knights Templar, and Ell Jebel
temple. Order of the Mystic Shrine
He married Miss Thalia A Palmer
at Elkader. Ia, In December, 1865, and
the two crossed the plains with a team
the following spring.
During the last years of life he de-
voted greater part Of his time to
philanthropy. At the time of his death
he was treasurer of the Colorado HUI
name society and director of the AS
sociated Charities.
His widow survives him, there being
no children, and he is also survived
by his three brothers, j. NJ, Halsey,
M. and Ralph W., his sister, Mrs. l.. A..
Berry, all of Denver, and another sis
ter. Mrs. NJ. E. Anson. of Monte Vista.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
A Task for American Women.

The editor of Harper's Bazaar. writ
ing of the choice which women of
fashion are compelled to make as
whether they will be wives or moth
ers. says that the absorption of Amer
lean men in business interests tends
to reduce the dignity of American ia
therhood to a level with the paternity
of the savage. The supreme mission
of the American wife is. therefore, to
provide for the higher education of
the American father. To win man
from exclusive attention to the sordid
concerns of business, the designations
of pleasure-seeking, and apply him to
the infinitely profitable, infinitely en-
joyable work of participating in the
care. the physical. mental, moral de-
velopment of his children, that is
cure which American women are
everywhere. under all circumstances.
able to apply to the root of the evil of
race suicide said to be seriously men
acing our nation. Let them be about
it,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
0 WATERMELON DAY.
Fall Festival and Fair at Rocky Ford
a Great Success.


Rocky Ford, Colo.-Watermelon
Day, Colorado's original fall festival.
now having many imitators, continues
to grow in popularity and attendance
Thursdays gathering. the twenty
eighth of the series, was the largest in
the history OF both the fair and Water
melon Day. Had the management OF
the fair given a special order for
weather best calculated to induce the
largest possible attendance, a more
magnificent day could not have been
provided. There were five excursions
and eight regular trains, which brought
throngs of people in excess of any
previous year. An attendance of 15,-
900 is conservative estimate.
The agricultural and art halls and
poultry houses were thronged all day
and the stalls and pens of live stock
had hundreds of visitors specially in
terested in those departments, which
were more attractive than usual by
reason of the size and superior excel
lence of the exhibits. The parade Of
winners in the live stock departments
In front of the crowded grand stands
al noon was most interesting and was
indicative of the great progress being
made by the enterprising farmers and
stock growers of the valley in that
branch of agricultural operations.
The many trials of speed on the
track were of a varied character, and
the presence of an unusually large
number of fine and fast horses made
this portion of the days program OF
marked interest to the thousands who
crowded the three grand stands to
their utmost capacity.
Soon after the arrival of the latest
excursion train the principal event OF
the day, the assault on the immense
melon pile, was announced. The fine
grove was jammed with visitors.
whose mouths were watering for the
luscious feast, and a score of willing
workers rapidly served the throng with
Rocky Ford liberality, half or whole
melon as requested. with cantaloupes
thrown in galore.
The waste of melons seemed wicked
to city visitors, many guests eating
only the choice core of a splendid
melon and throwing aside the great
bulk of twenty-five-pound, red-cored
beauty.
Eastern visitors were specially i'm
pressed by the fruit display, being in
credulous as to Colorados horticultural
resources. 1t is doubtful If any state
in the Union could have made a finer
display of fruits, the exhibits being
particularly strong in grapes, peaches,
plums and prunes. Senator Crowley's
Fairview orchards, Ed. e. Swink and e.
N. Berry were leading prize winners
in this department.
In all branches of agriculture and
garden products the exhibits were
equally complimentary to the product
iveness of the soil of the Arkansas val
ley.
Watermelon Day was instituted by
Hon. G. w. Swink in 1878 and for sew
eral years he personally furnished the
melons required. For a number of
years a free lunch was given to all
visitors, bur soon the popularity of the
great event became so great that this
feature was of necessity abandoned.
The exhibit of agricultural products in
the early years of Watermelon Day
was the nucleus of the present fair.
which has longer history of success
than any similar fair in the West
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Ebert County Tribune
). {. Pope. Editor and Publisher.
HILBERT. COLORADO
Kisses In Kansas.

Very romantic news is this that per-
colates in from the fields of Kansas.
where the wheat crop is SO great that
Il has made the ground sink down two
feet to sustain 1t. Hiram Skipworth.
father OF three beautiful daughters. is
reported to have secured all the har-
vest hands he needed by the simple
expedient OF paying them two dollars
a day and-permitting each man to kiss
each OF his daughters once daily.
Those who did not want the kisses
could have three dollars day, but 1t
is pleasant to add that nobody drew
more than two dollars per diem. How
ever. says the Detroit Free Press, old
Lafe Plummer, who lives about five
miles down the big road from Skip
worth. got all the harvest hands he
needed. also. Lafe has but one daugh-
ter; she is 40 years old. angular,
freck.ed and has an uncertainty in one
eye. besides that her nose is hesitant
and her chin is shy. Lafe took the
overflow from Skipworths farm, and
after Turing the sturdy harvesters to
his field he would introduce his daugh-
ter and tell the affrighted laborers
that unless they pitched in and worked
their best he would let her kiss them.
Mr.. Plummer's fields were harvested
In half the time that was required for
Skipworth's.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
VIII Extradlte stensIand.

Washington.-Th Moorish authori-
ties win interpose no objection to the
removal to America of Paul G. Stems
land, president of the Milwaukee Ave
nue. State Bank of Chicago. cables Min
lister Gummere at Tangier to-day.
Stensland is prisoner in the Ameri-
can legation there. If warship can
not be had he will be brought back on
a merchant ship. He confesses that he
meant to 60 to Russia
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Sheep.
Grain.

Wheat, choice milling. per 100 lbs,
s1.1o. Rye, Colorado, bulk, per 100
lbs, 9oc Oats, bulk, Nebraska No. 8,
white, s1.05; same in sacks. s1.20; Col
orado white, in sack. s1.20. Corn, in
bulk, 91c; in sack, Csc. Corn chop.
sacked, 99c. Bran, Colorado, per 100
lbs, s105.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-13
Hay.

Upland, per ton, s14OO@145O; sec
ond bottom, s10.00@10.5O; timothy.
s11.00; timothy and clover, $1,000: al
falfa, prime, ss5O@9.OO; straw, $500
@5.50; South Park wire grass, $1,000.