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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22

Mexico City, Mex, Feb. 1S.-It is
reported here on semi-official author
ity that President Diaz will soon issue
a decree levying a heavy tax upon
uncultivated lands. The objectof the
proposed tax is to cause the immense
landed estates Of this country to be
divided up and sold to actual farmers.
1t IS stated that all of the land in
Mexico is owned by few thousand
persons, Notwithstanding the fact that
the population of this country is es-
timated at 100000 people. The
tax will also apply to cultivated lands,
but it will be so much less on the
latter as to make it to the interest Of
all landowners to cultivate and devel-
OPP their property. An official who is
familiar with the plans of the govern
ment in this respect said:
The proposed tax on untitled land
will be one of the greatest reforms
that has ever been made in this coun-
try. So far as the rumor goes, it will
be a high tax, while that on titled land
will be less. This will force the big
haciendados, who till small part Of
their vast lands and let the rest lie
idle, either to sell 1T or put it under
cultivation. In either case it will act
as blessing to the middle class. IF
the haciendados will sell, it will give
the middle class a chance to buy land
in small quantities and farm it for
themselves self-supporting and event
ually prosperous citizens. However,
if the big landowners prefer to keep
their land and pay the smaller tax
for cultivated property it will create
great demand for labor, thus giving
people who now live on next to moth
ing steady employment at fair rate
of wages. 1t will also tend to create
villages
The other two great improvements
that have been talked Of are the ir-
rigation and forestry reserves, which
are being worked out by the federal
and the different state governments.
1t is well known that all northern
Mexico needs is irrigation and trees.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
For the Bennett Bill.
Must Abide by Their Contract.

Houston, Tex.-In decisioh
handed down the supreme court OF
Texas holds that the st. Louis South
western may not remove its genera
Offices to Texarkana and its shops to
Big Sandy but must maintain both a!
Tyler because Of the contract to d.
so, the company having been giver,
valuable returns in the way Of money
and lands. The company tried to re-
move the offices to Texarkana as 8
matter of economy having both Tex.
as and Arkansas headquarters locat-
ed there.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
preacher Gets Busy.

Des Moines, Iowa, Feby. 18.-By
declaring himself bitterly opposed
10 q single standard Of morality for
both men and women and by assert
ing that the double standard should
prevail, that men should be judged
always more leniently than women
md have more opportunities to
climb back into decency, Rev. Will
liam Boynton Gage, pastor Of the
Highland Park Presbyterian church
II this city has started seething
discussion in which the leading
,lergymen and moralists of Des
Moines are now engaged. SO far,
Rev. Mr.. Gage is the numerical ma
iority.
1 am not in favor Of the enfor-
cement of single standard for the
judgement of both men and wom-
en-, Numbered the Presbyterian
clergyman from his pulpit last Sun
day evening, preaching on "The
Young Mans Conception of the
Ideal Young Woman.'' Continuing
he explained:
AS a rule girl or woman does
not hear as much profanity as q
boy or man, and certainly is not
thrown so much into associates Of
evil. Her temptations and tenden-
cies in that direction are not so
strong. It is easier for her to be-
come a Christian and, usually, she
joins church or is a more or less
frequent worshipper with some con-
gregation.
In view of these facts the single
standard Of morality and moral
judgment is wrong. It is not fair.
1t is not just. The double stand
ard meets the demands of Justice
and reason. When our boys have
the same environments as our girls
and are permitted to share with
them in the same pure atmosphere
In the days when character is for
mulated, then, and never till then,
will I stand for this measure
Already the Rev. James A. Beebe,
pastor of the neighboring Highland
Park Methodist church, has taken
issue with his Presbyterian brother.
In public address he stated:
"That this double standard should
be defended by any one who believes
in the equality Of the sexes is most
unfortunate. In the first place, this
doctrine affords too much comfort to
men of impure lives. Again, to ask
ask for men larger liberty in these
things than we allow women is to
put womanhood in greater peril.
s"Then, too, the glory of a man is
in his strength. His claim to super
iority to the other sex is based upon
this fact. And he proves his claim
by Withholding many privileges, po-
litical and civil, from women, which
are their just dues.
"Lastly that man meets more
sin than a woman is no reason for
not Judging him by the same stand
ard, for, if it rs, it is not so bad For
business women to be lax as for wo-
men Of the home, because these meet
much greater temptations than their
more secluded sisters, and see more
OF sin than they. Yet, who thinks Of
asking that women in business life
to be judged by a lower standard
than is used in Judging the women Of
the home? Not even men themselves
Isn't it contemplate then, to ask this
liberty for men7
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
"A Ghost in Arkansas.

Paragould, Ark, Feb. 18.-That
q ghost visited the Evansdale neighbor
hood is the information given to Rev.
J. N. Robertson of this city. Rev.
Robertson declares the information
came from reliable people who wit
messed the apparition in the form Of .
flash Of light.
Miss Maggie Cissel of Evansdale
gives the description of the airy be-
ing which she watched, when it ap-
peared in the neighborhood. She
says:
"There was no wind blowing, bat
great calm, and oh, there was such
a silent stiffness and such strange
ness of feeling. | cannot tell how
wonderfully strange one did feel. Pa
pa and mamma and all who saw it
think it was an angel. John McSpad-
den and Marshall Speck and more
than a dozen others saw it from
Frenchman S Bayou. Fred Hester,
Mr.. Moore, and others at Evansdale
saw it, and John Allenchain, negro
went up to the railroad crossing to
meet the train and saw it and was
SO scared that he ran home and fell
against the door so hard he fell into
the house.
eve stood on the back porch and
watched it play around in midair. 1t
would go behind the clouds and you
could see it at times through the
clouds. You could see it extend its
arms as it sailed, and it looked very
much like diver as he leaps off the
springboard, only this image went in
a line like a bird flying, and the most
wonderful thing about it was that
when it sailed off, and we could see
it as plainly as you can see your wife,
until it got over the barn and then it
just disappeared completely and we
all stood still and were talking about
it for about ten minutes, when all at
once it was over the garden again and
seemed to have come out of the sky"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
A Wreck on the Lake Shore.

Little Falls. n: Y, Feb 1S.-As .
result Of rear end collision today
Of two freight trains on the Lake
Shore Railroad the tracks were block
ed all day. One Of the collidine
trains was drawn BY two large en-
gines, both Of which were ditched
The Enginemen jumped ana were I'M
injured. All West Sb@ le traffic be.
ing sent over the Central. Two en-.
gines and fifteen cars we're destroyed
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
BE HAS A SYSTEM.
Kentucky Preacher Is Hugging Him
self to Death.

Elizabethtown, Ky, Feb. IL
Elated over his success in suddenly
securing sufficient to pay off a long
standing church debt Of $500, the
Rev. Mr.. Sommers, a Methodist min
lister, announced to his congregation
that if they would all call at his home
he would give every one q good
"hug"
About fifty women visited his home
in body. The minister found it Z
strengthens task to embrace all the fe-
males, but accomplished it without
giving offense.
In the early stages, it is said BY
many Of the sisters, the preacher was
quite vigorous, but at the end the
good man was tired. The straight.
laced element questions the propriety
of Mr.. Sommer's action, but he heedl
them not.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
President Roosevelt Issues an Appeal
For Aid For Sufferers.

Washington, Feb. H.-President
Roosevelt today took official cogni-
zance Of the famine that has grown
to such serious proportions in North
ern Japan. In a proclamation to
the American people, issued this week
che president requests that contrlbu-
tiQns for the sufferers from the FAM
inc be sent TO the American National
Red Cross.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22

Washington, Feb. 49, Nicholas
Longworth and bride spent first day
Of their welded life quietly in mag
niicant mansion near the city. The5
took a walk about the grounds and
later wrote answers to many tele-
gram and letters of congratulations
Enormous crowds focked to the es
tate but saw very little of the pair.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
NOT SETTLED YET.
The Eye of the Needle Problem
Loses Mar Hi Head

Owensboro, Ken, Feb. IS. To i'm
press Samuel Smith, a fellow deacon
in the Owensboro Baptist church, that
John p. Rockefeller will have a hard
er time passing through the portals
of Heaven than camel through the
eye of needle, Robert Robertson
blewloff Smiths head with q shotgun.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22

Nashville, Tenn. John w. Russ
wurm, secretary Of the Tennessee
Breeders Association and widely
known in turf circles throughout the
country, has been chosen general man
ager Of the Tennessee state fair.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
America Enters Contest.

New York. America has entered q
challhnge for the Bennett cup, offer
ed short time ago to promote the
science Of aerial navigation. Although
the Aero Club Of America is in its
infancy, great enthusiasm was mani
Tested last night when it was ANNOUNCE
ed to its members that it had been
determined to compete FOR the trophy.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-22
Rutland, vt, Feb. 1S.-Six Of Il

Rutland, vt, Feb. 1s.-Six Of the
largest and most valuable business
blocks in the heart Of the financial
district Of this city were destroyed by
6re that today for several hours
threatened to entirely wipe out the
city and but for q fortunate shift in
wind, which aided the fire fighters
and arrival of engine and companies
from Whitehall, New York, it is like
II that the entire business section
would have been destroyed.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Paul Schmidt Probably Demcnted Dis
appears from the Toll House and
Has Not Been Heard From.

Paul Schmidt, quite well known
here, who was keeping the toll house
for some time past for Gamble &
Perry, left the station last Monday
afternoon and has not since been
heard from, the supposition being
that he became mentally deranged
and wandered off into the hills.
He had been at Solomonville for a
couple of days and had been drink
ing quite heavily and took whiskey
back to the toll house with him. On
Monday forenoon he was seen there
and it was noticed that he acted in a
peculiar manner but the man who
saw him simply thought he was
drunk.
He left everything he had includ-
ing gun, clothes and bedding, but
took what money he had on hand.
The theory of some is that he
started for Duncan to get more
whiskey. If this is the case and he
kept the road, it is quite probable
that he has not persisted, but if he
got into the hills away from the road
the chances of finding him alive are
not very good.-Guardian.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Documents Filed For Record.

Following is a list of documents
fled for record at the county seat,
compiled by Abstracter Fred Dysart:
Mary 1. Hopes, admx., to ella Val
ley, Globe & N. Ry. Co., deed, $3.50,
int. in $50 acres in sec. IL, S, 25 e.
Thos. Norquay, E. Depee and To-
cate 1 claim II mi. from Morenci.
J. F. Cleaveland, of Morenci, is ap-
pointed agent of the American
Surety Co., of New York.
Pedro NJ. Montoya, decd, to Ar
mulfo Montoya, certified copy of
will, bequeaths barber shop in Mo-
renci.
w. r. Bruce ct al locate claim in
Stanley Butte dist.
John c. Madsen and wife to Mary
Dodson, deed, $500, II acres and 10
acres in Sc, II, I s, 26 e.
Lillian Alexander ct al locate 4 oil
placer claims in Hot Springs dist.
Walter Payne, of Clifton, is ap-
pointed deputy county recorder.
Mrs. Jose Sanchez to H. w. Walter,
bill of sale, SO, dwelling in East
Clifton.
Royal Tinto Mining q Smelling Co.
locate claims in Aravaipa dist.
Frank Landsman to Royal Tinto
M. & S. Co., deed, 81, 1 claim in
'Aravaipa dist.
Silas p. Jenkins and wife to Louis
A. Adams, deed, $3.50, lot 3 and Sc NV
4, S, % e.
John L. Freeman and wife to John
C. Madsen, deed, 81, 20 acres in Sc,
,13, S, % e, lin correction).
John G. Madsen and wife to Ernest
Ellsworth, deed, 81, same.
Consolidated Copper Co., of Ari-
IONA, files proof of labor on several
claims in Stanley Butte dist.
Thomas McEniry files map of the
Mammoth Tunnelsite group in Ora
ham mt.
Joseph G. Alfred and wife to An
drew Kimball, president, deed, ST.,
lots L, 2, and part lot 3, 4, blk. z,
Thatcher.
Eliz. M. Layton to Andrew Kim
ball, president, deed, 81, part lot a.,
blk. I, Thatcher.
Chas. M. Layton and wife to An
drew Kimball, president, deed, 81,
part lot 3, 4, blk. I, Thatcher.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
What a Brave Women Will Do to Save
Her Child.

One evening last week as Mrs.
Anvil Larson was returning to her
home in Bryce from Thatcher, she
met with an accident that few peo-
pie meet with and live.
She had reached the center of the
river in her buggy and was driving
along slowly with her baby beside
her when stroke of lightning struck
the horse and killed him instantly.
The shock rendered the baby I'M
conscious and it was not revived for
several hours.
Finding that she must rely upon
her own resources, Mrs. Larson
courageously got out of the buggy
and waded to the bank with her I'M
conscious baby in her arms and made
her way to her home, leaving the
buggy where the horse was killed.
At the present writing neither
Mrs. Larson nor the baby feel any
bad effects from their experience
Guardian.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
THE NEW YORK WORLD.
Read Wherever the English Language is
Spoken.

For the autumn season now at hand
the most valuable paper to you will
be the New York Thrice-a-Week
World, because it offers you more at
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This is time of great events. We
are having great wars, and other
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The Thrice-a-Week World is fair in
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that is what you want.
The ThriCe-a-Week World ALWAYS
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THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLDS
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pers. We offer this unequaled news
paper and the COPPER ERA together
one year for &2.jA.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Interesting Figures on Arizona Pen.

The report of Superintendent Jerry
Millay, of the territorial prison for
the year ending June 30, 1906, re-
Gently filed with the board of con-
troll, is very interesting and a well
prepared document.
Prisoners were received from the
different counties of the territory
during the year as follows:
Cochise 80, Coconino s, Yuma 4,
Graham 10, ella 7, Mohave l, Yava-
pal II, Maricopa SO, Navajo 5, Pima
%, Pinal ], Santa Cruz 3.
During the year 12S names were
wiped off the rolls in the following
manner: Expiration of sentence 116,
paroled 4, died 5, pardoned 1, es-
capped l, by order of supreme court l.
The increase during the year was
81, as against 35 the year before. On
July l, 1905, the enrolment was 800.
Added during the year 159. Total
4SS. Discharged during the year, the
l2S mentioned above, leaving on
hand June 30 this year 800 prisoners,
of which % are United States. The
classification of those enrolled June
30 was as follows: White, male I29,
female l; Mexicans, male 1913; In
dams, male Ii; negroes, male II;
Chinese, male 2. Total 800.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
GOING INTO BISBEE.
Well Grounded Reports That Line Will
be Built Into Copper City.

Report has it for some time that
the Southern Pacific was about to
build into Bisbee and tap the rich
copper belt of southern Arizona
which heretofore has been the sole
possession of the Ell Paso & South
western.
The reports have been branded as
mere stories, but inquiry reveals the
fact that surveys made by the South
ern Pacific, not into Bisbee proper,
but into the new town, Lowell and it's
extensions south of Bisbee, are COM
plete and that new line will in all
probability soon be thrust into this
territory.
The business aimed at is the
freight traffic, and therefore quick
passenger connection is of minor i'm
portance.
The Southwestern is without d
doubt planning to build through to
the coast, and meanwhile the South
ern Pacific, it seems, intends to de-
lay that move as long as possible by
keeping the rival road as busy in the
territory now occupied as possible,
and also to be prepared to give every
competition to the new transconti-
mental line when that is completed.
1t has been intimated from Z. II.
Hartman 5 Office that work has been
laid out in Arizona for Colonel Ran
dolph for many years to come, and
there is every reason to suppose that
this project is one of the first that
will be prosecuted.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Has Deal at Cananea.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Thompson and
son returned from Cananea, where
Mr.. Thompson has been on business.
A recent issue OF the Cananea Her
aid throws some light on the frequent
visits being made by Thompson to
the Greene camp. 1t says:
81. E. Thompson, widely known
real estate man of Bisbee, arrived
in the city to remain for few days.
Mr.. Thompson has recently paid
Cananea several visits and it is un-
derstood may actively engage in
local enterprises at an early date.
In pushing Bisbee forward in the last
couple of years he has accomplished
more than any other individual, hav-
ing the erection of a couple of hun
dred cottages and dwellings to his
credit besides participation in a
variety of important enterprises
that. have been furthered there.
With his brother, w. B. Thompson, a
member of the firm of Hayden,
Stone & Co., and an operator on the
New York stock exchange, Mr..
Thompson has interests in number
of mining propositions and should he
come here would doubtless engage in
the advancement of the Cananea dis
trict that is now SO prominently to
the front. His reputation for know
ing a live town and getting into it
gives weight to expression made that
Cananea in his opinion offers the
best outlook of Any town it the south
west at this time"
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09

Copper production at the two
Douglas smelters for the month of
July will aggregate about the same
as during the month of June. At
the Calumet & Arizona the produc-
tion is estimated at about 1900, 900
pounds, an increase of about 200, 900
pounds over June, while at the Cop
per Queen the output is not so large
as it was in June, it being estimated
at about 100000 pounds.
The outlook for August for both
smelters is that they will exceed
their output for this month on ac-
count of the added improvements
which have been completed at both.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09

The company reserves the right to vary with
out notice.
sengers.
Nos. 9 and 10 make close connection at Bowie
with S. p trains for both East and West, and at
Globe with stage lines to PaysOn Upper Salt
RlverValley Riverside, Tonic Basin, and Ray
mine.
nTThe paaifc standard time is one hour
slower than mouoLin time.
C. C. MALLARD, Superintendent
FPES RANDOLPH. President
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09

The TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY
limit Only offering
Shreveport Memphis St.
For and full information call local ticket
R. w. CURTIS. Southwestern Passenger Agent.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
All YaVapai is Loyal to Territory.

Chairman Ellinwood's visit to Pres
colt resulted in many prominent citiz-
ems expressing themselves against
jointure, who have heretofore said lit
tie.
A poll of the merchants and bust
ness men of Prescott failed to show
a single one of them who is out
avowedly for jointure in any form
or under any conditions that could
be named.
Chairman Ellinwood has received
assurance from democrats and re-
publicans alike that they desire to
get into a fight at once, and urge
him against delaying the opening of
statehood campaign.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Returns to Arizona After Many Years.

Col. Tom Fitch, one of Arizona's
most picturesque pioneers and for
years one of her most prominent law
yers, known the length and breadth
of the territory as "The Silver Ton
gued Orator of Arizona," a name
justly bestowed, has returned to
Phoenix called by the song that
memory sings in the ears of every
Arizonan who wanders from within
her magic boundaries. The Phoenix
Gazette says Col. Fitch, after an
absence of almost ten years, comes
to Phoenix with view of locating
there again.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
Remedy for DiarrhOea. Never
Known to Fail.


81 want to say few words for
preparation in my family for the
past five years and have recon-
mended it to number of people in
York county and have never known
it to fail to effect a cure in any
instance. 1 feel that l can not say
too much for the best remedy of the
kind in the world. IS. Jemison,
Spring Grove, York County Pa. This
medy is for sale by all druggists.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
A Mystery Solved.

GLOW to keep off periodic attacks
of biliousness and habitual constipa-
ton was a mystery that DR.. Kings
New Life Pills solved for me- writes
John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia Ind.
The only pills that are guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction to every
body or money refunded. Only Csc
at all druUpistS
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09
For an Impaired Annetite.

To improve the appetite and
strengthen the digestion try a few
doses of Chamberlain S Stomach and
Live Tablets. Mr.. J. Fl. Seitz, of
Detroit, Mich, says: "They restored
my appetite when impaired, relieved
me of bloated feeling and caused
a pleasant and satisfactory move
ment of the bowels" Price, %
cents. Samples free by all druggist.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-08-09

SALES DATES:
Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays during the months of
May June july August and September 1906.
RETURN LIMIT:
Good until November 3d. 1906.
STOP OVERS: \.
Continuous passage required in each direction between sci
Cotton, California. Stop will be
lowed only at points west of Cotton
Futhern formation Cal Upon
t
dPassAg Tucson, Arz Lordsbu