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Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28
Bisbee's Loss $
 In Recent Fire

The insurance adjustment for the recent big fire on Chihuahua Hill in Bisbee has been practically completed and the total amount paid to the policy holders approximated about S30,000. The actual loss caused by the fire amounted to over sl00, 900 so that q large number of those whose houses were destroyed were evidently not insured at all and must have suf- fered heavily.
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28
Morning Session

Tombstone, Ariz., July 9th, 1907.
 Board of supervisors me. at g 30 m.
 GU McCsbe, scting chairman.
 c J McCabe and J J Bowen, pres. ent.
 Vim N Riggs, absent.
 The clerk was ordered to have roof put on large tent at the county hos pital.
 Naco school district was authorized to issue bonds.
 A petition was received from J A Lewandowski, asking permission to change the public highway in Section IS, Township 24, Range 27. Also e petition was received from NJ Heber, St. David, asking permission to change road in Section 35, Township l9, Range 20. The above petitions were referred to the respective road overseers of the districts in which they are locat- ed. Board took recess to 1 30 p m.
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28
Afternoon Session.

Tombstone, Ariz., July 6, 1907.
 Board of supervisors met at 1:30 pm.
 GU McCabe in the chair.
 G McCabe and U Bowen, pres ent
 Vim NJ Riggs, absent.
 The following petitions were grant ed:-
 Mary E w:-=:il of Nsco was grant, ed w:dow's exemption of $lUvv.
 John McCarty of Tombstone was granted refund of 1925 taxes pad en lot l5, block 37; lot A, block 5l and lot 10, block 10, in Tombstone, Arizona. The bid of H s Ross for lot g, block 49, Tombstone townsite, sl0, tthe same having previously been sold to the county for taxesl was accepted and the clerk was ordered to execute g deed to the said H s Ress. Moved by Bowen, seconded by Me Cabe and carried unanimously tha the county recorder hereafter have al official maps filed in the map book 1T his office by the county surveyor.
 Moved by Bowen, seconded by Nc. Cabe and carried unanimously ths the following items in the bill of J White, sheriff, against the county b | disallowed: lB F Watkins, mileage
 to Yuma, s99. 30; salary
 SI5 IA 3 HEP White, mileage to | Yuma, $99.30; salary | $l5. . IA 3 A NJ Rutledge, mileage
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28
RELIABLE ASSAYS

Geld 75 Gents Gold and Silver $l.00 Lead75cents Gold, Silver, coppersl.5O
 Samples by mail receive prompt attention. Placer Gold, Rerorts and Rich Ores Bought. Send for Free Mailing Envelopes and Price List OGDEN ASSAY Co.,, l5ss Court Place Denver, Colo.
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

'.I have discovered evidence which leads me to believe that smuggling on a scale not hitherto dreamed of is being carried on daily along the border line between Nogsles and Ma co and tc this end shall set watch. I cannot say as yet who are the guilty parties. If they are caught neither age, rank nor condition in life will save them if I can secure the evil dence to 'cinch' them."-Ststement of United States District Attorney Alex ander.
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28
Evening Session .

Board convened at ' 80 p m, pursu- ant to recess.
 G J MeCsbe, acting chairman. J J Bowen and G J McCabe, pres ent.
 Wm NJ Riggs, absent. The board proceeded to check up justice of peace and constable quarter ly reports: H H Taiiaferro, justice of peace fees, Nace... gro l5 E P Els. constable fees, NAco. ................ 0V5 4O E P Els, constable fees, ~'oSo' ~ H H Talisferro, coroner's lees, Naco. ..... 20 .. J c Page, justice ofpeace fees, Wilcox. ....... lS2 95 Bud Snow, constable fees WILCOX ....... 2O9 70 H D Cheseldine, justice of peace fees, Benson s7 50 Frank E Trask, constable fees, Benson. ........ s9 10 Board adjourned to meet July 9th.
 >Signed)
 G. J. McCABE,
 Acting Chairman. tSignedJ
 Attest:
 H. E. BERNER,
 Clerk.
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

This being the time according to law, for counting the money in the Treasurer's office, the board proceeded, together with the district attorney, to the treasurer's cfice and made the following report:
 Office Of
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
 Cochise County. Arizona.
 Tombstone, Aris, July 2d, 1907. We, wm M Riggs, chairman, G McCabe and Bowen, members Of the board oi supervisors of Cochise county. Territory of Arizona, and F W Shelley by Ross, deputy dis trict attorney, for sad Cochise county, being each and all duly sworn, upon oath, each for hi ilnself. and not one for other, deposes and says:
 That by the statement and books oi IN Gaines, treasurer of said county of Cochise, submitted to and flied ir the office of the board of superviso'' of said coun.y of Cochise, there shoule be in the county treasury of saic county of Cochise, the sam of $7oI- 72I!O0.
 That We, and each of us. personali. counted the money in the count. treasury of said county, and that W found in said treasury the roiiowin sums and kinds of money to-wit: c..b in banks. .s sa,saI Cash items lsalary war
 rants Iaid,. ........-. l,2si ' Cheeks, Postofhce orders,
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

Tombstone, Ariz., July 3rd. 1907.
 Board of supervisors meet at 9;3o a. m. wm NJ Riggs and G J McCabe present.
 JJ Bowen absent.
 Board proceeded to check up Jus ,ice of the Peace and Constable quarterly reports:
 Ben Rice, justice Of the
 peace, Douglas, s494.75, allowed ..... Aes 10 Frank Clark, deputy sher-
 ifs fees, D oug glas, '! S3l3.I n, allowed ..-- BIO 50 R Grier, justice of the
 peace, Lowell, s546.95, | allowed d.-...... o74 fo lOP Gray, constable ices
 Lowell, second quarter
 asked s590.O5, allow | co '' o0 AS J Shropshire, con-
 stable fees, Douglass. 369 70 Harvey Hughes. deputy
 sherifi's fees, Lowell. lO4 10
 Chairman of the board, Wn A Riggs, was called away suddenly at Il 6 m and G J McCabe was appointed acting chairman during the absence ! of MT Riggs. Tax Attorney, W G Gilmore, wal authorized to compromise the cast for delinquent taxes of the Territory ' of Arizona at the relation of Tax Col. lector, J N Gaines vs Norton & Stew 0 art, now pending in the district cour of Cochise county, on basis of $2oo
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

Valuation for each of the years l9o' and 1906, credit being given sai' defendants for payments made on sd dtional asse ssment of sl0O0.
 The board adjourned to July 9th.
 (Signedl
 G. AcCABE,
 Acting Chairman. !, [Signed) | Attest:
 II. E. BERNER,
 Clerk.
 Tombstone, Ariz., July 9th, l90! Bosrd of supervisors met at ? p m .. GU McCabe and J J Bowen, pres- | ent. Vim NJ Riggs, absent. GU McCsbe, acting chairman. JF Wilmuth, constable of Bisbee Precinct, was granted thirty days leave of absence from the territory, commencing July 9th. The board proceeded to audit claims agains. the county. The following were audited and al l,wed and wsnants ordered drawn ID payment Of the same: McNeish, services as
 county surveyor, as.
 signed to the Lowell
 Branch Bank of Bis
 pee. .........- <<o iV J McNeish, services as
 county surveyor, as
 signed to the Lowell
 Branch Bank of Bis
 bct ~oA w McNeish balance due
 on demand No. 1, Feb.
 iet, lJOI CA Mcdonald, recording
 deeds No, 2252 and
 %-oo. ....- " Frank McCay, refund of liquor license .. 37 IT Porter McDonald, bailiff certihcate ..-...-.. oo H H McNeil company, supplies for treasureI's UiA4SS- "c H II McNeil company,
 supple. for ounty superin ten ent of
 schools is......... oV H H McNeil company,
 supplies to the dis
 trict court reporter 12 .. H H McNeil company,
 supplies to recorders
 once oo OO H II McNeil company,
 supplies to recorders
 oince ..........-. II 0O H H McNeil company,
 supplies to the probate
 lUCge. e..-. Zo co H H McNeil company,
 supplies to district at
 torney's office. ..... .. ' 5O II II McNeil company,
 supplies to sherif's once. ...-..-.---.-. ~ 'S H H McNeil company, supplies to assessors once. ..-...-... <o oo H H McNeil company, supplies to supervisors | Olnce- sf " H H McNeil company,
 supplies tosupervisors once. ..-.-..----....- Jo iV H H McNeil company,
 supplies to supervisors | once. oV " H H McNeil company,
 supplies to supervisors | once. ---.-.-- "o o" H H McNeil company,
 supplies to supervisors | OIuce. oo ~ JH McPherson, trsps-
 ierring indigents to
 the hospital ....... 6 a JH McPherson, drayage
 for court house .... 2s s McNeish, services as
 county surveyor, az
 signed to the Lowell
 Branch Bank of Bis J ucc. S1 ~ D c McLane, interpret ing in justice of peace
 court, Gleason .. , :. D RIA Nye, typewriter | desks for the supervis II or's office and the l district clerks office 70 e Neuner company, sta
 tionery for treasurer's Onice. III e JE Parsons, guarding VI prisoners at Benson L. laiI. ...s...--- A< g- V Phillips, procuring rt evidence, justice of the
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

The following bills were dissllowed: Territorial Industrial School, careing for
 boys ............... 1897 59 Lowell Drug company,
 supplies to board of
 health. ............ 35 55 Isaac Lsnders, guarding
 prisoners at work .... J E Butler, work clean
 ing sewer. .... Bisbee Sheet NJ Me t al
 Works, repairs on the
 branch county jail at
 Bisbee .... fl
Tombstone epitaph., 1907-07-28

Valuation for each of the years 1905 and 1906, credit being given said defendants for payments made on sd dtional asse ssment of Sl00O. The board adjourned to July 9th.
 (Signedl
 G. ACCABE,
 Acting Chairman. [Signedl Attest:
 II. E. BERNER,
 Clerk.
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
JOHNNY" POE, FORMER FOOT.
BALL STAR, A WANDERER.
Some of Experiences of Princeton
Gridiron Hero with the Wander
Iust''-Has Been Soldier,
Cowboy and Miner.

New York.-John Prentiss Poe, Jr.,
scion of the well known Poe family
of Maryland. member OF the Princeton
varsity football teams of '95 and '96,
brother of the five other Poes, who
made" the varsity football team,
business failure. volunteer in the
Spanish-American war, regular in the
Philippines, marine at Panama COW
puncher in New Mexico and Tonopah
miner, has once more bobbed up in an
obscure corner of the world Accord
ing to a cable dispatch recently re-
ceiyed from San Salvador this knock
about soldier of fortune has just sailed
on the steamer San Juan for San
Francisco to recruit a foreign legion"
to take part in the expected war be-
tween the Central American states.
Johnny Poe, as he is affectionate-
Iy called around Old NassaWs campus,
was born about "a years ago. He en-
tered Princeton with the class of '95.
and was Immediately put on the
varsity football team. He was one of
the star players of that season.
The next year he entered the col
lege again with the class of SO. He
only succeeded in making his col
legiate history a twice-told tale; once
more he was brilliant success on the
gridiron, but a failure in the class
room. That ended his college career.
During the season of 1894 he
coached the football team of the Uni
versity of Virginia The next year
drifted into the steamboat business in
Baltimore, and the following year tried
real estate
His year in the real estate business
was more or less of a touch-and-go af-
fair. He found, or took. the time to
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05

coach the Princeton football team. In
the chronological history of his occu-
patiOns there is only one entry for
the year 1897-"coached Princeton
university football team"
The following year the Spanish war
broke out, and Johnny Poe did his
| best TO tackle the foe, but luck was
against him, as the regiment he was
with never reached Cuba.
This is the chronological history of
the next five years of his life:
1899-Cowpunching in New Mexico.
| 1S99-1901-With the Twenty-third
United States Regular infantry in the
Philippines.
1902-Surveying around Baltimore.
1902-1903-Back again cowpunching
in New Mexico.
1904, January and February-In
Marine corps at Panama, and then in
coal business at Charleston, w. Va.
At some unstated time he was also
militiaman in the feud district Of
Kentucky.
He is next heard from in the Tono-
pah mining camp in the Nevada
desert. But TonOpah ard her bad
men" soon stalled for Johnny Poe. He
| sought diversion in Central America,
the premier hotbed of revolution and
| warfare.
Last June he wrote to another class
mate, this time from Bullfreg, New:
Dear BOs: received your letter
some time ago asking for an account
of my Honduras trip. / must beg OF
from writing that Some day l hope
TO have the pleasure of telling the
salient points at the Princeton club. in
New York
Il must confess that my ambition is
to see wars in new countries, and my
regret is that | haven't the money to
crafty this wish.
You do not know of any rich young
fellow who would delight to go to war,
no matter where or on which side
they are both usually wrong, so it
doesn't make much difference which
one chooses. He TO pay the expenses
and I'll volunteer TO show him a side
OF life that, though rough in spots and
monotonOus as Quaker meeting for
long stretches Of time, will beat he'll
out Of the usual round of clubs, the
aters, dances, card parties, summer
resorts and all that the conventional
rich man does
There must be some such man who,
disgusted with the awful sameness Of
things. would enjoy observing how the
grandest game on earth is conducted
In China, Arabia Central America.
Formosa, BorneO or the Congo AS
ever,
JOHN P. POE. JR."
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
TO Be HUMAN ANTHILL
SIX BIG TUNNELS UNDER GOTH.
AM NEARLY COMPLETED.
Will Open New Life to Residents of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS World
to Have Commerce of
its Own.

New YOTli.-Within a few months
New York will be more than ever the
human aIft-hill, where men will go to
and fro, up and down, back and forth,
from home to business. business to
club, club TO theateT, never seeing the
sun or even the stars except when
they emerge temporarily from a won
derful series of subterranean pas
sages. Six big tunnels under the rivers
will make the ant-hilI almost complete.
One OF these is open already, though
not for passenger traffic. Three more
will be ready inside of a few months.
Within year two more will be add
ed, and then the human ants may hur-
ry from place to place in Manhattan,
and burrow across to Jersey on one
side or over to Brooklyn on the other
Narrow little Manhattan island can
not stretch sideways or lengthwise.
She has already stretched up almost
as far as she dares, and now, because
she has used up all the other dimen-
sions, she is beginning to make streets
and avenues under the ground.
In the early morning the New York
ants hurry from their homes and dive
like chipmunks into the holes in the
ground whose attractive entrance
hosks proclaim them subway stations
The subway goes almost everywhere
already, and hundreds of thousands of
workers now escape the unpleasant
weather-and the sunshine.
The human ants can go a little more
quickly, and, they think, little more
comfortably, underground, so all
through the "a hours the hurrying
trains drag their burdens back and
forth down underneath the streets and
the skyscrapers.
Every day half million passengers
ride in the subway. 1t is a complete
underground railway organization.
with an army of 5000 men to operate
it. There are ticket agents, porters,
motormen, guards, trackmen, switch
men, practically everything that an
open-air railroad has, including under
ground repair shops and storage
tracks.
The longest direct ride on the sub
way is from South Ferry to 2S0th
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
Whitman on Readino.

Reading. most of it, by candle light.
indoors, up against a hot register or
steam pipes, is a disease; l doubt IL il
does anyone much good The best
reading seems to need the best open
air When l was down on the creek
Timber creek-and roamed out and
along the water, always took book,
a little book, however rarely | made
use of it. II might have been once,
twice, three. four, five, even nine,
times. / passed along the same tran
and never opened the book, but then
there was a tenth time, always, when
nothing but a book would do-not tree,
or water, or anything else-only q
book; and it was for that tenth trip
that l carried the book. Extracts
from Horace TraubeFs Daily Record
of Conversations with Walt Whitman
in His Old Age at Camden, n. j., In
the Century.
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
Example of Stores in the Manhattan
Tunnels.

F, street, more than II miles. Express
trains make this in 45 minutes. But for
5 cents one can ride on the subway as
long as he likes by using the cross
overs.
/ This underground railway has it's
business world. The multitudes who
ride have cash, and cash may be spent
underground as we'll as on Broadway
Big hotels have entrances of their
| own. Department stores connect with
subterranean stations. Office buildings
| do likewise. There are neWsstands.
flower shops. a drug store and a rath-
| skeller, and near Twenty-third street
there is whole block of underground
| stores.
But even all this was not enough for
the New York ant. He wanted to bur
row under the rivers on either side,
and he has.
The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
| company has driven two steelbore
tunnels under the Hudson, and trains
! will be running through at least one
/ Of them this fall. The downtown term
inal will be under the largest office
building in the world, now rising at
Fulton, Church. Dey and Cortland
| streets. The train platform will be two
stories underground.
There is also to be a branch under
ground tunnel from Jersey City to
HobOken, one and one-fourth miles,
making railroad connections. From
HobOken a twO-bOre tunnel will dip
under the river back to New York,
connecting with a new subway follow
ing the line of Sixth avenue TO the
new Pennsylvania terminals.
For several years 1000 men have
been working on the Hudson river
tunnels. Probably 10000 men are work
ing on the Pennsylvania tunnel from,
New Jersey to Long Island under both
the Hudson and East rivers and under
the entire width of Manhattan. This
tunnel, together with the Pennsyl-
Vania's new station, will cost 500, ,0OO,-
900.
Two tunnels connecting New York
and Brooklyn are nearly ready for op-
Grafton, thus extending the Manhattan
subway system into the borough of
Brooklyn. This is to be opened In
about two months.
So that, when all this is finished
and it is scarcely more than a matter
of months-the New York ants will
see less of the sun and stars than
ever, but hurry, hurry, hurry, all day
and all night along their subterranean
passages fer tfn sake OF saving FIVE
minutes every Gey.
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
EIDS WAR ON TRUSTS
.,oEsT KNOX SMITH DOING
IMPORTANT WORK.
-.issioner Of Corporations a Ma
,,. Of Massachusetts and Only
2g Years Old-His Assist
ants All Under so.

s.stor President Roosevelt has d
,v faculty of putting into import
rosrs men with as great capacity
work as himself.
10 has gone outside political ruts
Efs aids and has sought capacity
wherever 10 was to be found. He
favored Young men, new to public
and several of the best workers
.sa great government mill at Wash
-oo be has chosen from New Eng
ID.
Drs Of his busiest assistants in the
ssde against trusts. which at pres
orarshadOWs all other activities OF
administration, is Herbert Knox
lrb q native of Chester, Mass, who
a the responsible post of commits
,sr of corporations.
h Smith is the son of a COngrega-
.a minister. and a graduate of
class of 1891, and of Yale law
ol 1898. His early education was
med at Pennington, Conn, and
ra1ceyille.
Z entered public life at Hartford,
5. where ne was a member of the
mon council in 1900. Then he be-
representative in the Connecti-
legislature from Hartford for two
-s He was appointed deputy COM
s0aer of corporations by President
ssyeIt August Is, 1903. under
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
Tins Barred,

A corporation operating a chain OF
quick-lunch rooms throughout Man
haitian makes a feature of this window
sign, Tips Prohibited" Young men
exclusively are employed as walters.
At a branch near Union square hun
dreds of women are among the noon
day patrons. The manager says that
since the order abolishing tips has
been In force the daily number of per-
sons served has increased greatly.
Patrons are respectfully requested
not to disregard this rule. he re-
marked, "as it is our desire that all be
treated uniformly, and this becomes
impossible when tips are counte-
nanced."
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
NEWEST AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
Though Bit Shy as to Uniforms. Our
Samoan Guards are Coed Fighters.

New York.-The Fita-Fita company
of natives which takes the place of the
marine corps in guarding the naval
station Of Tutuila and preserves order
in the American Samoan possessions
continues to evoke much interest in
military circles in this country. This
organization has advanced rapidly in
military efficiency, and is now declared
to be second in value for its numbers
to none of the armed native auxili-
aries of the government, not excepting
even the very efficient Porto Rican
regiment or the Philippine constabu-
larry. They have been drilled to a high
state Of military capacity by a
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
CANDY AND ALCOHOL.
Appetite for Them Almost the Same,
Says Dr.. Abbott.

Philadelphia-Dr A c. Abbott,
health commissioner OF Pennsylvania,
has advanced the theory that the
appetite for alcohol and the appetite
for candy are fundamentally the same,
the choice being determined by the
temperament of the individual" In
support of this, the fact is cited that
there has been a falling of in the
amount of alcohol consumed per cap
ita during the last few years, and
material increase in the cOnsump-
ton of sugar in its varied forms It
is further stated that chemically su-
gar and alcohol are similar, and their
physiological action is in part the
same, and both to some extent sup
ply the demand for a concentrated and
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
REALLY scAREs THE CROWS.
Clockwork Automaton Ought to Be Of
Value to Farmers.

The shop window represented q
field of yellow grain. In this field
stood an automatOn of life size, a man
with a gun. Every few minutes the
man put the gun to his shoulder and
made as if to fire.
HE doesn't fire in the window
there" the clerk said. TT would be
too noisy. But in real life, so to
speak, he fires. He is a clockwork
scarecrOw, the latest thing out, most
successful invention. All the fash
ionable farmers will be having clock
work scarecrows next year.
THE old motionIess scarecrow is
no good. The crows fear it the first
day. After that it is nothing to them.
They would eat out of its hand If the
hand held grain.
Hence this innovation, the auto
matte, or clockwork scarecrow. He
costs $50, and is guaranteed for three
years Wind him up in the morning,
and he runs all day.
He works like the sample in the
window. Every four, or every six min
utes-you regulate that by a screw
under his left arm-he turns round,
puts up his gun and fires blank car
fridge. That scatters the crows-it
scatters them, believe me.
Testimonials? Yes, here is a book
let of 800 Our automatic or clock
work scarecTow is giving universal
satisfaction, and saving thousands Of
bushels of grain from the greedy
crows"
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
SEALED WATER FOR SULTAN.
Ruler Of Turkey In Constant Dread OF
Dying by Poison.

ConstantinOple.-The sultan of Tur-
key is in such fear Of being assassinat-
ed that he will not drink water from
the public pipes. He has recently
taken greater pains to safeguard him
self from poison. Every day trusted
men can be seen carrying barrels upon
their backs to the sultan's quarters.
These barrels contain spring water,
which has been tested by a trusted Of
fictal and sealed by him. The seals
are broken in the palace in the pres
The Washington bee., 1907-10-05
HEADS BAR ASSOCIATION.
}. Nj. Dickinson, of Chicago, Is Hon
ored by Lawyers.

ChicagO.-Jacob NJ Dickinson, gen.
erai counsel for the Illinois Central
railroad, was elected president of the
American Bar association at its an
nual convention at Portland, Me. Mr..
Dickinson served several terms on
the supreme bench of Tennessee, and
he was conspicuous in 1903 as coun-
sci for the United States before the
tribunal that settled the Alaskan
boundary question
He was born at Columbus, Miss. in
1851, and 20 years later was gradu-