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Arizona republican., 1907-05-29

Mir. Wiggins. his wife and son left Phoenix a month ago for New York where Mir. Wiggins expected to take medical tVeatment. Mir. Wiggins and wife intended to return early in the fall. For several years they have spent the winters in this city and MT. Wiggins had become extensively inter- ested in Phoenix realty.
Arizona republican., 1907-05-29
GIRL IN THE CASE
Of the Murdered Priest, Father
 kaspar.

New York. May 2S.-The police are looking for young woman who it is reported has been several times in the company of Father Kaspar. the mur dered priest. and is thought to have been a sister Cf Paul Sarkisian. one Of the men whom the police are seek ing. A search is being made in Prov idence. R. l.. where it is thought the girl may reside The police are now positive that the priest was alive on Wednesday, two days before the trunk containing his body. was taken to the 37th street house.
 Bishop Sarajian of West Hoboken told the police today that he believed the priest had large sum of money with him when he was killed. He said Father Kaspar a month ago went Co Worcester. Mas. and there collected a large sum for the church.
Arizona republican., 1907-05-29
DEATH OF ''P0P Wl6GINS" THE VETERAN SNOWMAN
Hc Owned Thestsrs in a Line Stretch ing Across the Continent.

New York, May 2S.-Enoch w Wig gins, proprietor of the Temple theater in Detroit and of theaters in Roches- ter. \. Y- Cleveland and Phoenix Arizona. died here today
Arizona republican., 1907-05-29

The Princess at Doris theater to- night. Admission 25c and soc Re served seats 25c extra.
Arizona republican., 1907-05-29

Every ticket buys book for the school library. See the Princess at the Doris tonight
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06

500,000, is really in the Quesnel mining division and not in the Cariboo. It has produced over $l ,25O, ,0OO in the past and is increasing tremendously it's water supply, bringing from the railroad two steam shovels to dig ditches p miles long and p feet wide.
 The hydraulic gravel is in ancient channels considerably above the present river beds. There are several old chan nels not worked now, which promise good returns if properly equipped and managed. It is probable that during the next few years the cariboo district will see several new mines opened up, equipped and worked successfully.
 The cost of hydraulicking has been gradually lowered, until at present some claims are being worked successfully at only 3 cents to 1 cents per cubic yard of gravel washed. This may be surprising to some, when it is remembered that Cariboo is a high priced camp, that sup plies have to be hauled by wagon 250 miles, and that the working season con- sists of from only 150 to POO days.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06

wide circulation in book form after it has had the run of the Magazine.
 In the little more than year of it's life the Alaska Monthly Magazine has improved until it is marvellous that such excellence could be developed in so short time in a new territory like Alaska. It would be most appropriate present to outside friends. Juneau: 25 cents ; $2.50 a year.
 In the February number "Sargasso," serial story, was to commence, and in March was to appear the first of a series of articles on current social problems, called ''The Remedy" Each number of the Magazine has illustrations and reading matter of territorial interest.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06
THE SECOND LIFE
 OF OLD CARIBOO

Cariboo, B. C., will always retain its place in history as a very rich placer camp The two upper miles of Williams creek yielded s20, ,000, 900 and the whole district up to the present time has pro- dueed over s6o, ,000,O00
 The district at the present time Is mostly given over to hydraulic opera tions. Dr. Etienne A. Ritter in the Mining World of Dee said there are 2s hydraulic mines working in the Car. iboo 'iisiri,t proper, around the town oi liarkerv'lle. The Iiolson mine. bought by the Guggcnheims la-t year for ST..
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06
On the Canadian Side

The White Pass and Yukon Route proposes to build several new barges for use on the upper Yukon during the coming open season.
 Application will be made for an act to incorporate company to build line of railway from a point on the northern boundary of British Columbia to Daw- son, by way of the Yukon river valley or other feasible route.
 Officials of the Canadian department of immigration estimate that 59, 800 la borers will be required for railroad work, with no resources in sight. The contract labor law and the law against admission of Orentals may be revised to meet the emergency.
 The senate has passed resolution for a special committee to inquire into the resources, etc., of the country north of the watershed of the Saskatchewan, eat of the Rockies and west of Hudsons S DdN, dllu Olllef ulsldut poinlS, Nltn tt view to the publication of the conditions and the inducements offered for settlers.
 While Carl A. Smith was driving in cutter between Wounded Moose and Stewart City one of his dogs, 30 wards back on the trail, was bounced upon and devoured by d pack of wolves. MT. Smith saw the wolves attack the dog and at once whipped up the horse and left in hurry. Freighters passing soon after said little blood on the trampled snow was all that remained of the dog
 A transfer of 40 claims from Tread gold to the Yukon Consolidated Com pany was recorded at Dawson Feb. I. Scores of the best producing claims in the camp are included in the transfer. Some of the property is on the upper ends of Bonanza near the Forks, other parts on tributaries and hills and creek bottom claims all along the Bonanza basin and on tributaries of Bonanza, and other claims are in the famous Acklen-farm group on the right limit of the klondike, opposite the mouth of Bonanza.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06
WANT Fl. CIBB0N
 FOR FAIRBANKS

"A movement is soon to be launched the purpose of which is to have the Fort Glbbon military post moved from its present location, at the mouth of the Panama, to Fairbanks"
 That is the introductory paragraph to long article in the Fairbanks Times the tenor of which indicates that the movement will really materialize and be pushed along with all possible ce- lerity. There is no telling what the outcome will be.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06

Maud Muller in her cosy home Raked her head with fine-tooth comb. The judge rode by on his runabout And advised the maiden to smoke 'em
 out. Maud tossed her head and said ''Oh.
 fudge!" And told her beau and he licked the
 judge. Shears.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06
THE STORY OF MAUNA
Being a Historical Narrative of the
 Great Ice Age Told by Jan Iran in the Alaska Monthly Magazine.

"The glaciers of Alaska, all of them put together, are as nothing compared with the tremendous ones of former age," says Jan Iran, writing in the Alaska Monthly Magazine for December.
 "There was time when 2,000, ,000 square miles of Europe and 4,000,0 ,000 square miles of North America were covered with a tremendous, almost un- believable blanket of ice. In Europe it swept from the highlands oi the Scandi navian peninsula to near the Alps; from central European Russia to and over the north of England, over Ireland and over all of Scotland and beyond to the deep ocean; if, in fact, it did not fill the whole of the shallow north Atlantic, from the outer Hebrides to Greenland and the American continent. In Amer ica it extended from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, from Kentucky on the south to the Arctic regions on the north
 "The evidence of its existence are striated stones, transported boulders, some of them of immense size, earth mounds, hills, islands and other phe nomena that make and mark the pres ent contour and surface of the ground.
 This glacial area was greater in eX- tent than q continent. It was more than one and d half times as large as Europe. It was Sl per cent. as large as North America and 90 per cent. as large as South America. It was blanketed with no ordinary deposit of snow and ice, such as we are now familiar with, even in the polar regions, but with an incomprehensible height and mass of ice. Conservative glaciologists admit it was two or more miles high in its 'centers,' and hundreds or thousands of feet in night at or near its borders. One author places it's possible greatest night at 2l miles; while further on in this article I will show you how and why estimate it at the tremendous altitude of 30 miles; it may have been higher :; with an extent and cubic contents be- yond the capacity of our human imag nations to realize.
 ''Such was the Great Glacial lee Age. Though voluminous literature describes it, few, comparatively speaking, are ia miliar with the details of its tremendous phenomena. Its cause has been a mys- tery which the wisest of our scientists have been unable to satisfactorily solve. Geologically speaking, its occurrence was of very recent date immediately pre- ceding our epoch - modern estimates placing it at 1000 ;o l2,000 years ago, though formerly it was thought to have been as far back as s0,000 to 250, 900 years"
 "The Story of Mauna.
 The article above quoted from, though itself of fextraorlinarV interest in its en e
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06

It is our aim to make the Valley News interesting to friends to whom you may send 1t on the outside.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-03-06
"The Story of Mauna. ,

The article above quoted from, though itself of extraordinary interest in it's en- tirety, is but preliminary to serial story of the great ice age by the same author, which was to commence in the February number of the Magazine under the title of "The Story of Mauna.' lt is to be told as by eye witnesses, and in it's telling the traditions and all the sei- entiGc evidence will be strictly followed
 The author writes so pleasingly and i- so maniie-tly master of his subject, that The story of Mauna" |. bound O. attract wide attention, and if it comes up Co expectations |, ought to attain a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
Putting an Iron Cap en- Its lead.

binary horror comes from the Lahore
district. The writer who calls atten-
ton to the superstition had it brought
to him in rather unpleasant manner
He was walking with some friends
toward the mausoleum of the Emperor
Jahangir's tomb a few days ago, when
the conversation CHANGED to turn to-
ward 'chuva and 'chui' (mice). Most
of the company did not understand the
significance of the topic, thinking
they were ordinary rats They We're,
however, mistaken. Some friends
pointed out that the so-called rats
were human beings.
The masses round about Lahore
foolishly believe that If a man be I'M
fortunate enough not to beget progeny
he has to take a sincere vow to offer
the first born child to the Dewla
Shahi Dervish,' and then his longing
is crowned with success
The Dewla Shahi Dervish makes
the accepted sacrifice a living death
by putting an iron cap on its head,
in order to prevent its growth and
keep the same with him to cheat the
ignorant.
Upon hearing this the visitors
were thunderstuck hoping the story
was false, but it was unfortunately
only too true. When they reached the
wall of the tomb they saw 'chui'
(mOuseD there close by.
1T was horrible and piteous spec
tacle. Though she was a beautiful
girl of some u years, with very
small head, yet she could not speak
or understand the rules of decency.
She had neither reason nor intellect
Even the female infanticide was
more merciful than this iutolerable
human suffering
The story appears incredible, yet
there is little doubt of its truth. I'M
mediately inquiry will be instituted to
examine and put stop to such bar
barous practices"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
OWL STARTS PANIC IN CAR.
Flies Against Front of Trolley and
Falls in Woman's Lap.

Santa Monica, GAIA large owl
caused a panic on Santa Monica car
coming from Los Angeles, ruined an
expensive gown and almost caused the
poStponement OF an elaborate banquet
at the Bristol pier at Ocean park, the
other night Nh and Mrs Ralph l..
Knapp, of San Francisco. were to be
guests al the pier and started by troll
ley for the festivities. Knapp is
manager OF the ROYAL Marine band
of Rome, and has been identified for
years with theatrical enterprises. He
has many friends here.
As the car was speeding through the
country toward Ocean park the owl
decided upon a head-on collision as a
bit of recreation. The headlight
proved attractive, and he made for it.
He missed il, but struck one of the
upright posts on the front car and
fell stunned into Mrs Knapp's lap.
Before he could be removed the
gown and gloves worn by Mrs. Knapp
We're sojled and crumpled by his wild
Tapping and claUing The motorman
and conductor wanted to get the bird
because they said such a thing had
never happened before. But Knapp
said that he would keep the owl as a
souvenir of the occasion. and the dead
bird was an interesting feature OF tho
banquet
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
CHILD LIVES IN
DOCS QUARTERS
MOTHER KEEPS LITTLE DAUGH.
TER IN CELLAR AND HEAPS
ABUSE ON HER.
OTHER CHILDREN FAVORED
Sisters Of Wronged Girl Are Well
Clothed and Receive Best OF
Treatment from Their Cruel
Mother.

New York.-Charged with compell
ing her seven-year-old daughter Mar
tina to sleep in the basement
with a mongrel hOusedog and of 9TH
erwise ill-treating the child, Mrs. An
ME Mohr, wife Of Peter Mohr, con-
tract plasterer of Corona. L. l., was
arraigned before Magistrate Connor-
ton in the Flushing police court.
The complaint against the mother
was made by an agent of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren. Complaints from neighbOrs led
to the investigation and discovery or
the child who it was charged, was
not permitted to leave her den in the
cellar with the dog.
On hearing the testimony and look
ing at the abused child Magistrate
Connorton declared it was one of the
most outrageous as we'll as peculiar
cases of the kind that had ever come
to his notice, for the Mohr family are
In comfortable circumstances and have
two other children, both Of whom are
well kept and well clothed
Little Martha is the second child
of the three in the Mohr household.
Both her older and younger sister,
who were in court, looked happy and
| smiling. Mohr told the court that
Martha was born in Switzerland and
| for some unaccountabe reason Mrs.
Mohr took a radical dislike to her,
| which all efforts to overcome had
| failed.
They finally gave the child out for
adoption to woman in Switzerland
who died before the family came to
America, with the result that Mrs,
Mohr was compelled to take Martha
back home again. No amount of per
suasiOn, MOhr said, could induce his
wife to accept the little one as her
own, and since then the child has
lived like an outcast
When she appeared in court her
body was covered with bruises, the
marks of repeated beatings, while she
covered in fear every time an uneX-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
IRON CAP PLACED ON
HEAD OF FIRST BORN
SACRIFICE DUE TO
SUPERSTITION AMONG HIN
DOCS is REPORTED.

Bombay.-There has just been dis
covered near the beautiful city OF
Lahore most horrible practice
among the natives, which has been IN
secret existence for years.
Details of the awful discovery are
published by the Indian Witness. The
government will take immediate steps
in consequence. The paper says IN
part:
India is a country Of superstitions.
and although as a rule they do not
come within the public ken, yet occa-
sionally a sample, quaint or curdling,
is brought to general notice throu.h
the instrumentality of the press
Through the medium of a CORE
spondent an example of more than Or
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30

ulation Is concerned any more than II
is as far as its agricultural products
are concerned. Northerners, south
erners, fasteners and westerners
mingle tremendously there, all grow
ing prosperous together. Every state
in the union IS represented by at least
800 natives.
A substantial evidence OF the intel
lectual worth OF Oklahomans generally
is the number of modern daily news
papers which they support Further
more, they have good schools, libra
ries and churches.
Oklahoma has modern public
school system supported by the in
come from a s35 100000 public school
fund and local taxation. The "35 ,000,'
900 fund" consists of 3,100,S75 acres
of land, valued at 100000, 900, the in.
come from the rental Of which
amounts to about 100000 per year;
and $4,000, 900 paid into the school
fund by Indian Territory in lieu of
land, all OF the 3,1OO,S75 acres being
in the former Oklahoma territory.
The original act opening Oklahoma
territory to settlement reserved in
all that section of the territory then
thrown open sections 16 and So in
every township for the benefit of the
public schools of the future state.
Each successive act provided for SINH
lar reservations and the statehood en-
abling act made additional grants to
the higher educational institutions. re-
sulting in the big total above named.
The state will decide whether the
school lands shall be sold. All pro-
ceeds from sale of the school lands
must be turned into the school fund
and forever remain intact.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
Oil Fields Are Rich.

Some Of the richest oil fields IN
America are in Oklahoma. The Glenn
Pool oil district, south of Tulsa be-
tween Red Fork and Mounds, has be-
tween $50 and 500 producing oil wells,
with total capacity OF 100000 bar
rels a day The first of these wells
was sunk in December, 1905. Pipe
lines have been constructed for the
transportation of this oil to the Texas
seaboard and to the refneries at Nhlt
ing, Ind. More than sl0,0OO,OOO has
been invested in tanks, pumping sta
tons, and pipe lines in Tulsa county.
Eastern Oklahoma, which is not so
uniformly even as the western portion
Of the state, produces more than
10000 tons of coal year, for
which its mines receive about $4,000
900. The coal field extends from the
vicinity OF Tulsa on the north to the
Texas line on the south, and is more
than 100 miles broad The state con.
tains about $50 coal mines, employing
about 10000 operators
The principal rivers OF Oklahoma,
all Of which flow toward the south
east, are, naming them from north to
south, Arkansas, Salt Fork, Cimarron,
North Canadian, South Canadian.
| Wachita and Red
The government acquired what is
now Oklahoma more than century
ago under the terms Of the Louisiana
Purchase. Early In the century the
government set this land apart for
the segregation of the various Indian
tribes, then being driven west by the
advance OF white settlers. Hence,
while Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ne
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
Pres dent OF Constitutional
Convention.

house United States QuaTtcrmasteJ $
house., stage office. and small build
INK used as hotel between noon
and sunset of that day Oklahoma sta
uou became a town ot 2 600 people.
Within month 1919 buildings. many
az them usly. temporary affairs, were
erected
Ana So oklahoma city has Contin
ucd to STOW uutl it now claims a pop.
ulattnn Of $4,000. modern schools edu.
eating e4Nt children this year as
against $40 last Ncar huildings Elm.
cudins ten story skyScrapcrsl aEErc
saung In value $4,000 600. banks
having an aggregate capital and sur
pus ~ 81 600 N33. and deposits agErc
eating s6.5t9 600. pos, ONCE receipts
IN 1905 aggrrEaung sl4l5o9 and
frcieh, tonnage into and ont OF Okla.
haua CITY In 1905. lgg>gt69os tons
Factories are sprluEus up Oklahoma
CITY this year has 1.al, factory en-
ployrs. gain 81 bSI over last year,
and I.l16 jnhblug house emploNcs a
gain or ESQ for the yea
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30

lands of wonderful capacity. oil wells.
asphalt beds OF great worth. and all
Of theso practically uudcyclopcd. to
SAY nothing OF the yastness OF her op,
portuuitics to the ttllcr oI the soil.
The story ot the rise Of two dozen
other oklahoma cities with popula.
tons exceeding 10000 Is almost
synonymous with that OF tho rise Of
the metropolis Such cities ~ Guth.
rlc lthc state Cap,Jau. with $4,000
population. Tulsa tin the center Of
the OIL heldsl. With 1o.ooo population.
Muskosec. Ardmoye. Lawtou. shaw
nee. Enid. South McAlester. yinla
and III Reno are battling enthusiastic
caly FOR commercial supremacy. and
present indications arc that all these
cities will GroW ard prosper. each
supported mainly by those farm lands
for which 5, IS tho natural outlet 10
market The casna, reader may won.
der how So many large cities can hc
supported 10y mere farms The fact
IA that oklahoma has $50 900 farms
most " them worked by their owners
'nr hundreds ct thousands ~ Amer,
cans have invested their small say.
inss iu Oklahoma land and are getting
rich With the state BY t,llinE the soil
SIX out ot every ten farmers in Okla
homa own their own homes Most Of
them live uNon tho land them home.
stcsiod Landlords are rare 10 OKLA
huma
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30
Metropolis OF New State.

The largest city on the Oklahoma
side Is Oklahoma CITY. with a popula.
ton OF 10000 and 40 miles Of asphalt
payements MuskoBee, In the Indian
Territory has a population OF $4,000
which represents a growth from $500
people in 1900 The new state Will
have 200 banks, OF which 2T5 are ma
tioual the latter with deposits OF $50,
900 Ob1; % cottonseed oil mills. more
than "A hundred flour mills. so daily
papers and moro than 400 issued
weekly
oklahoma alone had In 1906 Sc 90S
families, OF which more than 10000
owned their homes. and of these 80
OO0 were free from mortgages The
average price for oklahoma land in
1906 VAS $1S25 per acre. an increase
OF So % from the previous year The
uew state has thousands OF acres OF
unapprnpriated public domain, coal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-11-30

Lieutenant governor, George Bellamy,
OF FL Reno; secretary OF state, BIZ
Cross, Of Oklahoma City, whose
friends say he would not be recog
nized II referred TO as william
Cross" treasurer, J. p. Menefee, OF
Anadarka; attorney general, Charles
West OF Enid, and chairman OF the
commissioners of corporations, J. j.
McAlister.
The state In primaries has selected
to represent her In the senate the first
blind man who has ever sat In that
body. He Is 7. 7. Gore, who lost his
sight when a boy In Mississippi,
whore he was born He has served in
the territorial legislature. Robert
Lee owen, who viii be elected as the
other senator. "a totally different
type Born In Virginia, he is one
upon as an extreme conservative. lie
distinguished himself as a lawyer by
earning fee of $4,000 in single
case Both these men have been
chosen by the Democratic primaries,
which Is equivalent TO their election
by the legislature, OF the representa-.
tives Bird s. Mcclure. for some years
territorial delegate from Oklahoma, in
congress, Is the only Republican Of
the five elected Others are f.. l.. Full.
ton, brother of Senator Fulton. OF
Oregon. Second district; James $.
Davenport. Third district; Charles ID.
Carter. Fourth district. and Scott
L.nL,-r,. E,IfIh IluIrlrt