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Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
4 SHADOW CAST BEFORE.

It was said many years ago that coming events cast their shadows before" and we assume that this is still true. Indeed, 1t is no mere as- sumption in the present case, but seems to be supported by facts which cannot be denied. The revelations which are just now being made by . government commission in regard to the manner in which the country's great avenues of transportation have been manipulated for the benefit of . few at the expense of the many, are casting a shadow across the land which the dullest of the American people cannot fail to see and recog. nIze as the shadow of coming govern ment ownership. An exchange, which is radically opposed 10 any policy that looks toward the taking over of the railways by the government, frankly admits that there is something dan. gerously wrong in the way the roads are being managed at present, and says:
 What the government intends to do in this relation is quite uncertain. It Is doubtful if there is any definite program or clear sense of the situa- ton. Suppose it be demonstrated in black and white that Hartman has united in himself the control of 25,- 900 miles of railroad and to that ex- tent eliminated competition, what then? No one will maintain that the rights of property should be impaired in their essentials. If the decree should go forth that the merger must dissolve into it's original clements, as was done with the Northern Securi- ties and the Hill merger, that solu- ton will not change ownership. Tn the case of the Northern Securities the decree changed nothing but the names. The actual merger is as much in operation today as when it was called Northern Securities.
 'The country is just beginning to realize the difficulties that lie in the way of dealing with monopoly. wheth- CT in railroads or in other pursuits. There is general agreement that it is national danger partly because it eliminates competition and largely be- cause of the methods by which it is able to foster the growth of those swollen fortunes that undoubtedly constitute public danger and threat en the destruction of popular govern ment"
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

Here Is an item that recently ap- peared in northern paper: Thirty years ago Carl Stlerle was lynched near Dakota City, Neb.. for the mur- der of a young woman named Top ping. A man named Bright has just died in prison in New Orleans, who confessed that he had murdered the girl" Tn that brief item are con densed facts that should make thoughtful people more than ever de termined to put an end to mob rule and lynch law. says the Topeka Jour nal. When a terrible crime has been committed the summary punishment of the criminal by mob is some times ccndoned by public sentiment or the ground that the culprit de sered his punishment, but the thought that an innocent person is put to death by his fellowbeings with no op portunity to prove his innocence and remove the stigma of suspicion from his reputation, is itself most horrible to the well-balanced mind. In addi tion to that the real culprit escapes legal punishment. There is no doubt that innocent persons are sometimes lynched by mobs. Every little while some such instance comes to public notice, but it usually receives only g brief notice such as the one quoted above.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
ROBBERS MAD BECAUSE
 ND MORE MONEY
SCribbIed on a Piece of Paper Their Contempt for the
 Owners of Office.

FL PASO, Tex, Jan. 12.-Filled with disgust over finding such small amount of money as ST in an open safe, burglars, after breaking into the printing office of E. s. Rood and Co.,. Ar North Oregon street, prizing open the cash drawer and taking what money was there. and s2 in stamps, scribbled their contempt upon a piece of paper in the two words cheap skate" and hung the paper on the knob of the safe, after closing the door and turning the combination dial.
 The paper was found this morning when the shop was opened. E. s. Rood, the proprietor was one of the first to go into the front once, where the safe was located. He immediate ly noticed the piece of paper on the dial of the safe and wondered what 1t could mean. Then he turned the com binstion, opened the safe adn found the inner drawer, where the cash is kept, broken into spiinters. A pair of pliers which belonged to the printing office lay on the floor only a short distance away. 1t was then that he realized the fuli meaning of the words cheap skate"
 A glance at his books told him that he did not have over g in the safe. Well, 1t was g cheap job," he said. An inspection of the shop showed that the thieves also took bunch of pencils, probably two dozen. They dug around the shop tearing papers and "pieing''1 type, but did not take anything else so far as was dis covered. ''E
 Entrance. it was found, had been ef- fected through the rear, merely by raising window which had been left unlocked.
 Electric Company Robbed.
 After completing the Rood job the burglars went out the same way they of the Pass City Electrical company, next door. also gaining entrance by raising a rear window.
 Here the safe was locked and all the thieves found which interested them were a few cigars and a little 32-calibre revolver.
 The Orient Tooming house, between San Antonio and Overland on Stanton street, was entered by burglars last night and watch and some articles of clothing were taken from the rooms. The room of the proprietor, F. A. Funk, was entered, as well as the rooms of several of those staying at the house. The burglar finally got into one of the rooms where there were three young men sleeping. Two of them were awakened by the noise the man made in the rooms and the man hurried out of the door and left the house The occupants of the room say that it was about 4 o'clock when they awakened and noticed the man in the room.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
ANOTHER BAD BREAK.

MT. Roosevslt's underground sug- gestions to state officers and legis- latures in the matter of insurance sal aries are another evidence that he is wholly deficient in appreciation of the functions of the presidency, says the Republic.
 If he has violated no law, since his suggestions and recommendations were not communicated over the pres idential signature, no rlght-minded person will deny that he has commit red a gross impropriety.
 Ethically and morally he has nS isnt to use the prestige of his ofhct to influence the course of state off cers and the action of state legisla- lures. A former senator of the Unit ed States is now in a Missouri jail for using his senatorial influence in be- half of client. By using his presi- dential influence in behalf of certain highly paid insurance officials, has not President Roosevelt done an act morally no less reprehensible?
 By making his wishes known to the state suPerintendents of insurance through an official of the District of Columbia, the president seems to have come very near doing something calling for investigation by congress, which is responsible for the govern. ment of the district. It would be in. structiye to know just what the pres ident's interest was, and Is, in insur. ance salaries of more than s50,000 which he desired to protect by apply. ing the pressure of presidential inlu, ence to the state governments?
 The president of the United States Is supposed, and is expected, to work above ground in all matters except those In which secrecy may be neces. sary in our relations with foreign na. tions. Were his wishes communicat ed to the state superintendents "con, f1dentially' on the principle that wrongdoers hste the light, or because he wanted to exert upon the state gov, ernments the pressure of executive in. huence which he knew would be re- sented If attempted openly?
 The incident is one of the most ex. traordinary in the history of our pres. idents. But it is thoroughly charac, teristic of our chief executive who in the administration of his office almost habitually, of late, wanders from the paths of law, precedent and propriety.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

One unusual condition of the ap- preaching legislative session is the absence of any vigorous contest for appointive positions in that body. IL has been hinted that the governor would not stand for such extraya gance this winter in the matter of legislative employees as was practiced in the last session, when there were more clerks than members of the leg islature.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
CIRCULATION STATEMENT. ocr-

Average Circulation, September, .243l Average Circulation October ....2s2I Gain for month of oetober... ... 2
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
4 DRAFTED LEGISLATURE.

Concerning the legislature of the state of California, now in session, the Los Angeles Herald says:
 i Hope that the present legislature might be an improvement on the last has been promptly dispelled The en- tire absence of friction in organizing showed at once the perfect working of the politico-railway machine. Never before did the machine seem to be so potent at the beginning of session. It was noticeably in better order than at the organization two years ago.
 Next to the absolute dominance of the machine the most notable feature of the seasons beginning was the brazen display of propensity for graft. As stated in descriptions of the open ing, patronage was the chief consider ation that seemed to interest most of the members. A few members, with sense of decency, attempted to curb the voracious appetite for pie" but their efforts were of no avail. The mass of alleged statesmen seemed to have adopted the maxim of the rail way company which they primarily serve, Get all that the traffic will
 gar" That was adapted to suit the demand for patronage"
 The patronage graft of the last leg islature, which shamed the state of California, seems sure to be surpassed by the rapaeity of the statesmen now in Sacramento. The session will last only about two months and a half, but the patronage graft, as already de cided upon, will exceed s140,000. The money. as apportioned among the members, presumably goes for clerk hire and the like. The average Cali fornia legislator needs such assist. ance about as much as dog needs a second tail. Most of the money ulti- mately goes. by reflex action, to the members. through the instrumentality of impecunious favorites who appear on the pay rolls.
 After having grafted this large sum of the peoples money, which is distinct from the regular pay of the members, we expect to hear the usual plaint of legislators that certain need
 fu1 appropriations cannot be made be
 cause of the necessity for rigorous economy. Great sticklers for econo
 my in public expenditures are these
 grafters after they have filched iron the state treasury "ail the traffic vii bear"
 The influence that causes this hu initiating spectacle at the state capi tai is the same which controlled tn. late republican county convention a Venice and the state convention O that party at Santa Cruz. Waite } Parker. the able political lieutenan of Boss Herrin, was head and shouI ders above every other man in polis
 ical stature, as a sharper of the les } is,ative program. And as an organi zation the legislative body at Sacra } mento today as a whole is as unmis : takabiy a creature of the southeri Pacific Railway company as If thl , members got their compensation fl the form of railway pay checks But the voters of this state knew
 prior to last November. what migh , reasonably be expected if they sur ported candidates nominated by tn
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
HOW ABOUT IT, WARNAck7

Henry O. Warnack, who was con nected with the Optic some years ago, doing local work and evolving daily poem from his imaginative brain for the edification Of readers of the paper, is now chief mogul of the editorial page of the Daily Dispatch at Doug las, Arizona Warnack Is talented young man and perhaps by this time, after having been married and knocked about the world considera- bIy, has built high stone wall be tween himself and sentimentality.- Las Vegas Optic.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
MINING CONDITIONS IN MEXICO.

The vast geographical extent of Mexico and the scattered smelling op erations now being conducted there are only fully appreciated when one attempts to encompass within the linn it's of brief review all of those ope rations. There is scarcely a state in the republic which has not made not able progress within the past year and yet that progress is so independ ent of conditions in ether states that if it were fully treated would require a review by itself. New reduction works have been erected in Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua and Oaxa- ca. New mines have been opened in many of the old camps and in numer- ous new ones, and yet they are so widely separated from each other, and in many cases so isolated from the outside world that but little def nite information can be secured.
 The order issued by the Mexican government early in 1906 closing the state of Sonora to foreign locators ex- cited considerable comment, both fay. orable and adverse, and was subse- quentIy rescinded in March. The gen eral impression prevailed at the time that the government took the step for the purpose of handicapping the ope. rations of g certain class of com Q, fx9z their affairs in the proper manner, and were attributing their failures to the depredations of the Indians and the Iaxity of the Mexican government in providing protection.
 This opinion was practically ex- pressed by the governor of one of the states, who admitted that the Mexi, can republic fully appreciated the val ue of American investments but that it was prepared to maintain the in tegrity of the mining industry at any cost.
 A notable feature of the opera tions for 1906 was the marked de crease of lead, and the equally marked increase in the production ol copper. h Sonora alone, which is the principal copper producing state il the republic. it is estimated that ths copper production will aggregate 17s. 100000 pounds.
 In keeping with the general indus trial spirit of the times. number O large mergers were proposed at dit fereut times during the year in tn, various mining camps, and at leas one of these was consummated. Tb' principal properties in Guanajuat and Santa Eulalia were reported to b. under option to a consolidating com pany, but nothing definite was accom- plisaed. On tho ether hand the naers CT of the Greene Consolidated and tn Caasnea Central companies in tn Cananea camp was effected with ar parently little or no friction. Tn new company organized to hold bot of these properties will be known a the Greene Cananea Copper company It has beea incorporated under tn laws of the state of Minnesota, wit head offices at Duluth, and will hay a capitalization of s50l0O0.0eO. Mes SITS Cole, Ryan and Greene win hay the controlling interest in the ne' company. with the former as pres dent and Mir. Greene as vice pres dent.
 While no statistics are at hand 6 to the entire metal output of the rt
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
ARIZONA

News from Washington states that it has been practically agreed that Hon. Champ Clark. of Missouri, shall succeed John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, as leader of the demo- crats of the house. We believe that such a change would meet with the approval of a majority of the demo crats in the country.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

public for 1906, we are able to an nounce an estimate of the copper pro duction as 150.Oo0,0OO. as aginst 115.- 900, ,O00 for 1905.--Mining Reporter.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

politico-railway influence. They were admonished. but they needed not the warning.
 "'As ye SOW. so shall ye reap"
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

County of Cochise. sR
 I, x. A. Patterson, circulation mans Fer of the Bisbee Daily Review de soleronly swear that the sbovevstase ment gives the actual and bona hds ciculation of the daily editions of the Bisbee Daily Review for the month of Sept, 1906. and that from the state ment all spoiled and left over papers have been deduced.
 N. A. PATTERSON.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

An Illinois father who wanted his daughter to marry a "railroader" dis covered that her sense of domestic happiness was better developed. She preferred a short-order cook.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
NOTICE

A reward of $500 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the parties stealing The Review from subscribers
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Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
PROMINENT cHuRcHMAN DEAD.

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 14.-Bishop An thony Woslowski, founder of the Inde- pendent Catholic church, and who be- came prominent in religious circles through his attacks on the Rom Catholic church, died tonight at St Anthony's hospital
 Because of circumstances atte1 his death, his frienUs persuaded the po- lice to take charge of the body. The dead churchman's friends express the belief that he was poisoned by en- emies. Physicians who attended the bishop during his illness refused to issue a certificate showing cause of death
 Coroner Hosman will begin an in- quiry tomorrow.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.-At the Southern Pacific offices it is said to- night that the Coast Line to Los An geles will be opened tomorrow, but only slow trains will be run, on ac- count of soft tracks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
NEW KM.

New Orleans, October Spot cotton
closed quiet and firm with prices I'M
changed. Middling II IL; sales $50
bales on the spot with 1900 to arrive.
Futures opened steady 9 to 10 points
above the close Of yesterday, on favor
able advices from Liverpool. Later the
market eased Off somewhat on prospect
Of better weather Sunday. Lack OF
speculative support was in evidence
and after the opening there were few
supporting factors to the market. At
the close, which was steady, the active
months were 6 points above the close
Of yesterday. October high lilo; low
11.05; closing bids were as follows:
January Tl.0S; February I'LL:
March 1926: April 11.30; May 11.3l:
October 1l0G. November lilo; Deem
Der HOB.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
CHE o MARKET.

New York, October 5.-There was no
marked change today in the sluggish
n Indifferent tOne into which the
STOCK market has fallen. The south
err railroad group made anOther exhi-
blt1nn Of weakness, but the general
list showed ONE absorption power
n the uRdertone was firm for most OF
the time. There was some relief over
the showing of the bank statement as
the possibility of the wiping out Of the
surplus had been in mind. The reduc-
ton in the loan account Of the banks
reached an AVERAGE of 81. 283. 100 and
banking experts attribute this almost
wholly to large repayments by New
York city Of obligations which have
been carried and for the liquidation Of
which the recent bond issue supplied
resources.
Prices sold off in the final DEALINGS
under the influence Of the hank state
ment and made the closing tOAe easy.
Bonds were steady. Total SAFES par
value 1926 900. United States is have
declined "a per cent on call during
the week. Total sales stocks today
157. 300 shares.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
COTTON FUTURES.

New York, October 5.-The cotton
market opened steady at an advance vi
5 to 9 points and worked up to a not
gain Of II to IA points during the mid
die session as a result Of very firm
cables, continued support from a local
bull pool, and covering for over the
weak END But the weather map did
not Show the expected frosts in the
western belt and there vas a good dea:
Of realizing by small longs as well as
some aggressive selling by local bea:s
which checped the upward movement
and caused a reaction Of 3 to 4 points
during the middle Of the morning. Tbs
market closed steady with prices ret Z
to II points higher.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
I'm t,IiPOOL

Liverpool, October Cotton: Spot
moderate business done. prices Is
points higher: American middiing fair
points higher; American mfddline fair
7.56; good middling 40: middlirg
SIS; low middling 6.2S: good ordi-
nary SO: ordinary 500.
The sales OF the day were 1909
bales of which five hundred We're for
speculation and exports and included
6, 6J0 American. Receipts 1900
bales, including $500 American. Tu-
lures opened and closed steady. &C.
tober 6.19E; October and November
cir; November and December 6e7n;
December snd January s.e5A; January
and February S.e5: February and
March 6.O5h; March aAd April 6.se:
April and May S.esH: May n June
e.07: June and July e.e7: July ana
AuguA i e6h
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08

c. C.-3O1 bales cottoon. - barrels
e'V we an9 W'@a1s bales cotton. =
barrels tar.
W. G.. end A.-4,7so bales cotton
A. and Y.-SO5 bales cotton. q
casks spirits ~turpentine, barrels
rosin, 10 barrels tar.
Alice-1 bale cotton. 80 barrels
crude turpentine-
Navahoe~41S bales cotton.
Schooner Addie Mays bales cot
ton, IS casks spirits ~turpentine. 7S
barrels rosin.
Schooner Josie O.-6 bales cotton.
IL casks spirits tu%rpentine. 63 barrels
rosin.
Schooner J. d. Pigott-5 bales cot
ton, % barrels tar.
Totals, CTS bales cotton. "a casks
spirits turpentine, LAG barrels rosin.
Sc barrels tar, 81 barrels crude tur-
pentine. -
Last year-,511 bales cotton, ~
casks spirits turpantine. f21 barrels
rosin, 20 barrels tar, 141 barrels crude
t~urpentine.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
~UNPROFiTA6LE DREAMS.

He does not care for common things,
Like doing simple chores.
But how his fancy takes on wings
And with what ease it scars
As he sits by the kitchen stove
WIZ G@yight IS near spent
Arc tells how things would start TO move
II he we" president
The barn reeds singing. since IL leaks
With every shower OF rain
For axle grease the wagon squeaks,
And tons = hay have lain
Through half n dozen showers or 50
Tbs while his dreams are bent
On how the trusts would have to so
II he were president
His fences from neglect are down.
The cows are In his corn
He saw them. with an angry frown,
A week from yesterrnorn-
And yet TO making some repair
No useful aid he's lent.
He's thinking how the rogues would fare
II he were president.
He started out 10 milk the cow
A half an hour ago
And met a neiGhbor with his plOw.
So sat right down TO show
How evil are the times and what
This vice OF grating meant
And what would be and what would not
II he were president.
The pump is out OF order quite
And will bat wheeze and squeak.
And SO his willing wife at night
Bears water from the creek
Because he must have time TO think
Not how TO pay the rent,
But how he'd make the ~neighbors blink
II he were president.
And you. my friend. does your barn leak,
Your fences need repair?
Does your pump never wheeze and squeak
From lack of little care?
Or do you sometimes shirk your chores
And is your fancy bent
On healing economic sores
With you as president.
j. W. Foley in Woman's Home Com
panion.
1.-THE Nearer the Bone, the Swseter the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
Sketch
The Cardinals Wife.

Cardinal Gibbons, the venerable
head of the Catholic church In Ameri-
ca, is one of the most democratic men
in the country He also enjoys a good
joke. even when told at his own ex-
pense. He once related how a Balti-
more newspaper nan who may have
been more Jealous in journalism than
learned in religion called at the cardi-
nal's house II day to ask his emf
hence for information concerning some
church matter.
THE cardinal is out of the city"
SAID Father Fletcher. who received the
caller.
Then ElHy l see Mrs. Gibbons"
was the startling request that fol-
!Owed-Llrpincott's.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
Vo9GGES I'm PORT
STEAMERS.

STEAMERS.
Carmenlina (Nor.) 1850, Anderson
Alexander Sprunt & Son.
Nmyphaea (Br.1 1,24S sons, South
erland, Alexander Sprunt & Son.
Ixia CBr.) 1245 tons. Rattray. Alex
ander Sprunt & Son.
Tugela (Br.) 2,14S tons, Logan.
Alexander Sprunt & Son.
Sierra Blanca. (Br.) 2y5S8 tons. dc
Grue1y. Alexander Sprunt & Son.
SCTOONERS.
Clifford n. Carver, 973 tons, Olsen,
c. D. haffitt.
Holliswood. 1,0S4 toss. sCeombs. C.
D. Mafnkt.
BARKS.
Hancocz. 34S tons. Erb, C. D. Maj
fit. -