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Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
THE JEALOUS THING,

Arizona papers are still saying mean things about New Mexico and declar- ing that Arizona won t have any state hood if she has to join with this terri tory. There ought to be no quarrel on that score. New Mexico is just as anx. ious to get single statehood as Arizona, but this territory showed good judg- nient in offering to accept anything in the shape of statehood. New Mexico is no more anxious to be joined to Ari- zona than that territory is with New Mexico. When it comes to compari- son of fitness for statehood, Arizona will suffer. New Mexico is entitled to statehood and Arizona isn't She don t want it bad enough to work for it, Albuquerque Citizen.
 We have observed that New Mexico, at least the leading Republican papers, are also just as willing to accept any thing in the shape of governors. Not that we have anything against Gov ernor Curry, but these papers would have rushed just as quickly to editorially 'slop over" any other man whom the president might have selected. If there were as many idle politicians in Arizona as there are in New Mexico, there would probably be more statehood agitation in this territory, as with statehood there would be offices galore to i'll. But everybody works in Arizona, even ia ther, and while we would like to be a state, by ourselves, of course, we are not breaking down any fences to get our star in the flag. With the excep. tion of Charles F. Ainsworth, we are too busy to think of it just at present and the gentleman named is too busy to think of anything else.
 As to saying mean things about New Mexico, our duty will compel us to con. tinue, while agents of Uncle Sam are delving into alleged crooked land deals that have been engineered by former territorial and federal officials.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
STILL IN THE DARK

President Roosevelt, like Secretary Taft, is still apparently blisfully igno- rant of the fact known to pretty much everybody else, that the tariff is the mother of monoplies and the father of trusts. At least 80 per cent of the combinations that prey upon the people through artificial and exorbitant high prices are licensed to do so by the tariff, which gives them a practical mo- nopoly of the home market. Yet, be- cause they are not unlawful, the presi- dent has for them neither reproduction nor remedy.
 And so of the "wrong of great surplus,'' which former Republican treasurer of the United States has re- gently described and denounced. Nei. ther Roosevelt nor Taft appear to have heard of this. It would be interesting to have biting discourse from the president on the text: Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation, and unjust taxation is tyranny"
 The wise ruler, like the wise physi- elan, deals with causes rather than effects. Is it not better to prevent monopolies than to license and then try to punish them7
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

against several business houses which have not complied with the ordinance compelling the removal of wooden avn ings and these houses will be notified to remove them immediately. A com plaint was also made against the septic tank sewer system which is used by a number of business houses on lower Broad street and Architect Norton was given permission to extend the outlet pipe for distance of 200 feet down Pinal creek in order that the offensive odor might be done away with.
 A rather unique kick was registered by inhabitants of the redlight district. Alleging that they are being held up for exorbitant rents because of the mar row limits of the district, the tender loiners appealed to the council for re- lief, claiming that unless it is provided, some of the redlighters will be com pelled to move to the residence portions of the city. One of the largest owners of property in the district will be asked to appear at the next meeting of the council and explain his action in raising rents.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
PROSPERITY BAROMETER

The best and surest indication of prosperity in city are its banks and the great growth of Globe in recent years can be best demonstrated by the wonderful growth of its banks. Globe has at present more banks than any city of its size in the southwest and all of them are in prosperous condition. The wonderful growth in the business pro. gress of Globe is told in the quarterly statements of one local bank, which al though only little over year old has increased its deposits over 200 per cent in the last year. Another bank will soon pass the million mark if its deposits continue to increase at the same rate as during the last twelve months. If figures talk, Globe is cer, tainly live community.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR JOIN
 TURF

Secretary Garfeld's recent visit to Arizona has borne fruitful results, es- peeially for Arizona, according to yes terday's dispatch to the effect that President Roosevelt has given up hope of making one state of New Mexico and Arizona. Thus fades away the dream of tbe jointists with it's false promises of great political reward for the faithful-faithful to their own self ish desires rather than to the land in which they lived. But few loyal citi- zens of Arizona wished to see this great and prosperous territory united with New Mexico and these few, with one or two exceptions, were misled.
 Even in New Mexico the best element of citizenship did not desire to see-that old commonwealth lose its identity. Nor did the grating gang that has controlled the destinies of the sister territory care to see the merger, because it would have meant the end of graft there, but rather than lose favor with the administration, they made it ap' pear that they were eager for jointure.
 The Silver Belt has ever since the election last year held that there was no longer a joint statehood issue; that the scheme was as dead as the prover- bial doornail, knowing that the presi- dent and his advisers had been duped as to conditions in the southwest, and that eventually he would learn the true state of affairs from some disinterested party whose judgment could be relied upon. We are not overwhelmed with gratitude toward the president for his decision, because it was forced upon him. Nor is great credit due the secre- tary of the interior for seeing what any blind man could feel--the almost abso. lute unanimity of sentiment in Arizona against joint statehood.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Big Crowd at Last Day

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, August 30.-- The biggest crowd since the Glass trial begun was on hand this afternoon to hear the arguments of Delmas and He ney. The large auditorium was com fortably filled and many persons stood. Lawyers who listened to Delmas speech said they considered it one of the most skillful of all his arguments. The dominant note in the summing up was the declaration that Glass did not possess the executive power to take $50,000 bribe money from the treasury of the company without authorization by the board of directors; that the evidence abundantly showed that no such authorization was ever given him, nor was the board cognizant that the expenditure was made.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE COUNTY OF CELIA, TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

In the Matter of the Estate of E. J. Edwards, Deceased.-Notice of Hear ing.
 Notice is hereby given that Laura P. Edwards, wife of F. J. Edwards, de ceased, has filed in this court her peti- ton praying for letters of administra- tion of the estate of E. J. Edwards, deceased, and that the same will be heard on Friday, the 18th day of Sep tember, A. D. 1907, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the courtroom of said court, in said County of Gila, Territory of Arizona, and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the said petition should not be granted.
 Dated August 31st, 1907.
 P. c. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
 By H. Q. Robertson, Deputy Clerk.
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Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
President Roosevelt Announces That Administration Gives Up the Project,
SECRETARY GARFIELD
 MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT I
President Hears Views of Sec retay Who Recently Visited Arizona and New Mexico, and Is Satisfied,
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 OYSTER BAY, N. T., August 3o-- By authority of President Roosevelt, James R. Garfield, secretary of the in terior, announced today that no other effort will be made by the administra- ton toward bringing up again in con- gress the question of the joint statehood of Arizona and New Mexico.
 The verdict of the people recently expressed in these territories has been accepted by the president as final, so Mir Garfield said.
 MT. Garfield has just returned from an extended trip to the west on which he visited Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. He predicted that Oklahoma and Indian Territory will adopt their state constitution when the vote is taken on September IT, notwithstanding the criticism of several features of that instrument by Secretary Taft in his re- cent speech at Oklahoma City.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

The Republican leaders of the terri tory are in a quandary because of the report that Vice President Fairbanks They have just squared themselves with Roosevelt via Hitchcock and Garfield and now because of conflicting newspa- per stories they won't know whether to offer the lanky Hoosier statesman but. termilk or cocktails.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
CARPENTERS STRUCK BY
 LIGHTNING AT GIBSON

Two carpenters employed at the new shaft of the Gibson mine were struck by lightning Tuesday morning during an electrical storm, but neither was badly injured. The bolt passed com pletely through the body of one of the men, rendering him unconscious for sew eral moments. One of his knees was blackened by the electric fluid, but he was otherwise uninjured. This is said to be the fourth time that this man has been struck by lightning.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE COUNTY OF CHA, TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

In the Matter of the Estate of Louisa
 Ruiz, Deceased-Notice of Hearing
 Notice is hereby given that Joe Vasquez, the administrator of the es- tate of Louisa Ruiz, deceased has filed in this court his Final Report and Ac- count and that the same will be heard on Saturday the l4th day of September, A. D. 1907, at 10 O clock in the forenoon of said day, at the Courtroom of said court, in the County of Gila, Territory of Arizona, and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the said Account and Report should not be accepted and settled.
 Dated August 31st, 1907.
 , P. c. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
 By H. Q. ROBERTSON,
 19 Deputy Clerk.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

The United States will take no eogni- zance of the presence of alleged Mex ican revolutionists in this country. That s right. Let Mexico take care of its own undesirable citizens. In these strenuous days of trust busting and octopus hunting, the administration is too busy to pay more than passing at tention to paper revolution in some other country.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
COUNCIL PLANS
 STREET LIGHTS
Will Ask Electric Company to Submit RateS-TendeHoin-
 CTS Make Complaint
(From Saturdays Daily)

At the meeting of the city council Thursday evening it was decided to see what arrangements could be made with the electric light company for street lighting system, and it is expected that the company will submit rates at the next regular meeting of the council. It was decided to have installed a sys- tenn of thirty-two candle power lamps on Broad street and on the hills in the residence district.
 A number of complaints were filed
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
A BAs THE NATURE TAKERS

Those who thought that President Roosevelt was going to remain silent under the somewhat scathing denuncia- tion of Rev. Dr. Long seem to have overestimated the patience of MT. Roosevelt. Not for him premature news paper interviews contradicting Dr. Long. He has bided his time, and now, in the September issue of Everybody $ Magazine, he returns to the charge.
 To what he says there is an editorial note preiixed, declaring that the presi- dent had no intention of taking part in the controversy further, but learning that a symposium on the subject was to be published, he decided to allow the magazine to publish note on the sub !iect which he had intended to append to a forthcoming volume of his public papers.
 The president finds words of praise for many writers on nature subjects but for the ''modern nature faker, he has nothing but hard words. And then-biff! Dr. Long gets it right from the shoulder:
 "Of all these mature fakers the most reckless and least responsible is Mr. Long; but there are others who run him close in the yellow journalism of the woods, as John Burroughs aptly called it. It would take volume mere ly to catalogue the comic absurdties with which the books of these writers are filled. There is no need of discuss ing their theories; the point is, that their alleged facts are not facts at all but merely fancies. Their most strik ing stories are not merely distortions of facts, but pure inventions, and not only are they inventions, but they are inven tions by men who know so little of the subject concerning which they write and to ignorance add such utter reck. lessness, that they are not even able to distinguish between what is possible however wildly improbable, and mech anical impossibilities. Be it remembered that l am not speaking of ordinary mis- takes, of ordinary errors of observation of difference of interpretation and opin. ion; I am dealing only with deliberate invention, deliberate perversion of fact"
 Back he goes direct to Mr. Long s wolves again, and he takes a leaf out of that mature faker 's' book and quotes the evidence of one George Shi. ras, which testimony is to the effect that at the time Dr. Long was follow ing wolves in Newfoundland for weeks they were practically extinct.
 Mir. Roosevelt attacks a number of other nature falsing stories; one in par. ticular about woodcock which dressed its own broken leg, and another trick by Baltimore oriole, which, the presi. dent says, is "preeisely as possible as that a Rocky Mountain pack rat can throw diamond hitch.
 
 Whether this response from the presi. dent will utterly annihilate Dr. Long remains to be seen. It must at least gratify that gentleman that his attack has been deemed worthy of an answer from such source.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

State Health Officer Brumby says that a few days effective work killed every mosquito in Brownsville and vii cinity, with the result that the epidemic of dengue fever has been checked.-El Paso Times. Wonder if that any re- lation to the "dinge" fever that was epidemic in Brownsville some time
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
To Transfer Twice

It is planned to make a double trans fer of passengers and mail as two of the most severe washouts cannot be got ten in shape for several days. The washout at milepost so, where a bridge was carried away, will not be cribbed until tomorrow and the work is not completed in repairing the bridge at milepost B. Last night the superin- tendent wired that there was still seven or eight hours work required in mak- ing the washout at milepost s7 tempo rarily passable.
 freight train will leave Bowie at about 10 O clock this morning with pas. sengers and mail and will run as far as milepost 5. There the freight train which has been stalled between Pima and Fort Thomas will take the passen- gers and mail to milepost 80, which will be as far as the train leaving Globe will be able to travel If this program is carried out the returning train will arrive in Globe early this evening.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
COULDN'T WAIT LONGER;
 LEAVE VIA ROOSEVELT
(From Saturday s Dailyl

A number of business visitors in Globe who have been here several days longer than they intended left yester- day via Roosevelt and Phoenix. Among them were o. D. Olmsted, special counsel of the interior department, who goes to Santa Fe, and Judge A. C. Baker, who is on his way home to Phoenix; c. E. Rule, the Green River whisky man, and II. W. Olmsted, who is agent for that brand in the southwest, were also in the party, as were Fred Kohut, a Den yer drummer, and T. C. Hannah, Kan sas City salesman.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
GiIa Valley Railroad Hopes to Make Transfer of Passen- gers and Mail Today,
ACCORDING TO PLANS
 TRAIN LEAVES AT ONE
Double Transfer Will Be Neces- sary-Trains Will Not Be Running Over the Entire Road for Several Days.
(From Saturdays g DaiIy)

The Gila Valley railroad expects to make transfer today, which will raise the blockade that has kept Globe iso- lated for almost week. If the plans formed last night by Superintendent Mallard and submitted by wire from Fort Thomas are carried out, train will leave Globe at o clock this after noon. Six blasts from the whistle at the local railroad shops will be sounded thirty minutes before leaving time to notify prospective passengers and the whistle will probably blow at l2:30 to- day unless there were additional rains in the Gila Valley last night.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Building Operations
(From saturday s pailyl

(FrUM Saturuay DaIIV
 H. A. Hays has bought two small houses of A. N. Noftsger and is build ing an addition on one of them and painting and otherwise improving them with a view of occupying one of them soon. Also number of new houses belonging to Jerry Price have just been completed and some are nearing comple- ton. A
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

Judge Fall, the new attorney gen. eral of New Mexico, says that the sis. ter territory is as free from graft as any commonwealth in the country. The healthg giving qualities of the "sun- shine territory" then probably accounts for the presence there now of so many federal graft probers.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Many Hear Band

There was large attendance at the Broad street band stand last evening to hear an excellen concert given by the Globe Concert band. Several hundred people heard the concert and applauded every selection.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

It took President Roosevelt about six months to answer the charges of "Na- ture Faker" Long, and there is serious doubt as to whether or not it is really an answer.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Back to Old Home
(From saturday $ Dailyl

IFTOm Saturuay DaLyJ
 John H. Davis, who has been dep uty sheriff under Sheriff Thompson, leaves today for Chattanooga, Tenn, where he will spend about six weeks. From there he expects to go to Sails bury, N. C., his former home, and if things look right he may decide to make that his home again. MT. Davis has been in this vicinity for the last eighteen years and his many friends will regret his departure.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Globe Market Sold

(From Saturdays Daiiy)
 The Globe Market has been purchased from the Globe Wholesale Meat com pany by Glenn l.. Coffee and Sam Bress- Ter and it will be conducted under the name of the New Globe Market after September l. Mir. Coffee has been a successful cattleman and is well versed in the meat business. His partner is a butcher of thirty years experience and recently came here from Bisbee.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

We are unqualifedly for government ownership of the railroads and tele- graph lines-providing that operations on both can then be carried on in this vicinity during the rainy season.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
Garfield Entertained

OYSTER BAY, N r., August 30.- The president today entertained at luncheon Secretary Garfield, who gave the president the result of his observa. tions in the west, from where he re. gently returned.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

A reader of the New York Times sug- gests to that paper that the s29,O0O,000 fine assessed against the Standard be turned over to the Socialists. If by chance the leaders of socialism got their fingers around a wad of this size, the Socialist party would from that instant be leaderless
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
THE ROOSEVELT POLICIES

1nt RldNt utltNt OI MI. iNtVSNNtit ? corporation policy is that he has no policy. He has advocated a constitu- tional amendment to enable the gov ernment to suppress the trusts; he has advocated publicity as the first essential step in controlling these corporations ity; he has promised the strictest en- forcement of the Sherman law; he has explained why "good" trusts should not be prosecuted at all; he has advo- cated federal licenses for all corpora tions engaged in interstate commerce; he has undertaken to have receivers ap- pointed for corporations that violate the law; he has advanced the astound- ing doctrine that under the post roads clause congress can control any com mon carrier that transports the mails; he has demanded and obtained the pow CT through commission to fix railroad rates; he has declared that no criminal high or low, whom the government could convict would escape punishment; he has explained why the criminal pros ecution of these criminals is generally inexpedient--and now he has arrived at federal incorporation law as the sovereign remedy.
 Mir. Roosevelt advances one new scheme after another until the business mind is bewildered in the mazes of presidential experimentation. His ex- ample as a curber of corporations and the extraordinary political popularity he has won thereby have inspired an army of imitators from one end of the country to the other.
 Mir. Roosevelt prosecutes few big corporations, and a dozen state gover- nors set up in business as uncompromis. | ing trust busters. Mir. Roosevelt gains federal rate bill through congress and twenty state legislatures, bereaved of passes and free transportation, begin to regulate railroads. Their powers had lain dormant for years; their duties had been neglected with solemn and studied care, but under the inspiration of Mir. Roosevelt s success and Mir. Bryan $ applause frenzy for regulation runs from one end of the country to the other. In only one of these twenty states, NeM York, is any of this regula. tion shaped along the lines of rational intelligent statesmanship.
 More legislation has been passed in a single year than the courts can dispose of in the next three years. Of this mass of railroad legislation not single act has yet been upheld by the United States supreme court The validity of even the national rate law is yet to be determined, and Secretary Taft admit. ted in his speech Monday that the Unit ed States supreme court has never de cided the question whether congress could delegate to a commission its power to fix rates.
 Nothing is settled. Nothing is eer- tain. The demand for new experimental legislation goes on before the older ex. , perimental legislation has been tried and tested. Confidence is shaken, and confidence is the mother of credit. Credit is weakened, and without credit the business of the country cannot be carried on. This is a simple fact which is worth pound of all the theories that even so versatile genius as Pres ident Roosevelt can invent.--New York World.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

It looks very much as though the price of copper is to remain above the 1S-eent mark. The world has gotten into the habit of using the red metal and can't get away from it now, and the consumers must go to the producers to obtain it.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

A number of resignations have been presented to Governor Curry of New Mexico by officials who have been long recognized as some of the powers that be in the sister territory, and the funny part of it is that the governor has ac- cepted the resignations.
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

The German authority who contends that Rhine wines sent to America are adulterated and that no genuine "Nier- steiner" comes here is probably right. When we think we are drinking Nier- steiner We are only drinking "Near- steiner.D
Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01

Since the federal authorities have started probing into the land frauds of New Mexico, President Roosevelt has probably learned enough to convince him that it would be a crime to force jointure upon Arizona.