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La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05

community owe a great deal to DR..
Field for his decision in favor OF
Fort Lyon. as il is destined to be-
come one OF the notable places of the
state. with national reputation. and
Is its future. as well as its past. 10
inseparabiy connected with Las Ani-
mas. il will be the greatest advertise
ment for our town that could be con-
eeived. Fort Lyon. that has been .
blot ON the landscare and rcaec-
tion on the community. through the
selection Of DR.. Field. will become
one Of onr greatest blessings.
La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05

shich has just been iraugurlted. Rep
resentatiyes of an Iowa firm will visit
Holbroos in the near future to Sc
cure contracts for the growing of
500 acres of cabbage This means
more prosperity for residents of Hol-
brook, as a kraut factory employs
practically as many men as a sugar
factory and runs for the same length
OF time.
Ali crors have been the best that
the valley ever had. and the yield un-
usually good. Reefs have averaged
twenty tons to the acre. wheat fifty
three bushels to the acre. alfalfa hay
hve tons to the acre, with an excel
lent yield of seed. The small frui:
crop was good Peaches. cherries.
rrunes. etc. being of very fine quail
ity and prolific yield.
The possibilities of the Holbrook
corntry are houndlcss. The farm
lands are increasing in value every
year. and the country Is doubling in
"opulation. Lands which a short
time ago were valued az $50 psr acre
are now worth SIoo per acre. and are
steadily increasing in value. The
railroad in Holbroot. and the sugar
factories located in the Artansas Val
ley. make the possibilities oi this
great country adjacent to La Junta
beyond conce tion. as the entire val
ley j. yet in its sinfancv.
La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05
AaxAssAs vAllu TAX.

George w Swink Is the father OF
irrigation in the Arkansas valley.
Really, he is the father OF the valley
itself. for when he came into il and
set about TO make the best OF il. it
was not much.
Mr. Swink. who is now % years
old, has lived in the valley since 1871.
when he appeared al old Rocky Ford
which was three miles northwest OF
the present town OF that name. In
1874 he began a little garden spot
He obtained his water from . veil.
letting il stand in barrels TO become
warm enough to use on the plants.
His neighbors joined him and in
1875 they got the Rocky Ford ditch
Nr. Swink's first experiment under
this ditch Was forty acres OF wheat.
oats. corn. canfaloupes. wateSmeIons
and other field and garden stun.
II was all good crops, and Mr..
Swink decided that the soil would
produce nearly everything. il water
ed
lie began to grow cantaloupes for
the market. sending them to Kansas
City. Chicago and ST. Louis.
From this small beginning the Ar
kansas valley has grown to be one OF
the great producers Of the worlds
supply of foodssuds. and the soil is
so productive. Mr.. Swink says. that
FIVE or ten acres will support fam
lily.
BY many years Of irrigation. the
soil. in its depths. has become sat
urated with water. Wells that form
erly were impossible at $50 feet are
now possible at forty feet or less.
Il.
water has been found under the ditch
near Holly. where when Swink FIRST
came there was none at all.
The Arkansas drains abou, 10000
square miles in Colorado and about
1000 in Kansas. The average rain
fall of the Colorado watershed of the
valley is about fourteen inches year.
At the Kansas line i, i about six
teen. At Arkansas City. where the
streams leaves Kansas. the average
i thirty-si~.
According ~ the Testimony given in
the Kans-s-Colo-ado case. there are
eighfc~, large irrigatio, canals and
nume-o-'> s'--l'cr ones in the Arkzn-
sas valley Of Colorado. Int it would
no. add 10 the valve OF this soy TO
enrmer-te fhsr, all. II is sufficient
to ,av that their total decreed w-ter
approximations are AGO cubic feet
Pc seco-i of time. and that ylo.o1%
aces Of land are under them.
The Ar;tv canal is 10 miles long.
eighty miles in Colorado and thirty
miles in Kansas. In Kansas its use
has been abandoned. The original
cost of the Amitv was $3.50 ooo. but
il has been greatly i'm. roved by the
nresent management. II ia twenty
feet vide and has a d-~-ee5 sppro-
pristion of 5e,K cubic feet Of water
per second. II extends twelve miles
north Of the river and would irri-
gate 6onoo acres.
The Fort Lyon canal is ii3 miles
long and sixty feet wide. IL has .
decreed appropriation Of ,63 cubic
feet per second and carrying capse-
ity Of s.ouo feet. II extends fifteen
miies sosth of the river and wouid
irrigate 7y.000 acres.
The Great Plains reservoirs incIude
FIVE large basins sad are located in
Prowess and kiowa counties. be-
tween fifteen and twenty miles north
. aAsmar. They cover IAyouo acres
49, water and contains enough
water TO cover S6AJDo acfes . foot
deep. They have sixty miles of shore
line and their greatest depth is nine
fy feet.
La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05
~ laas :AYu Acss.

The real value of an ace Of lani
Is fixed by the annual net profit it
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
BIDS WANTED.

Office of the Board of Supervisors Ul Cochise County, Arizona
 Notice is hereby given that sealed bids win be received at the office of the, Board jnsrhe City of Tombstone, Arizona, for the following material for constructing one Arch Concrete Cul vert and one Bridge across Mule Gulch near the City of Bisbee, Ari- zona.
 For the Concrete Arch CuHert bids Tor the following material are asked !: 1000 sacks of lola, Kansas cement, first quality.
 For the Bridge bids are asked for the following material:
 Seven CD l2inch I beams 31 i-- lbs. 2S it. long; two % 12-mcn chan Eels 2912 lbs 2S feet long; eighteen 1S) wall plates 12'x12''x3-4' and 5000 feet. Oregon pine plank 2x1214. Further information in detail can be obtained from J. S. McNeish. Coun- ty Surveyor, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona.
 Bids must be accompanied by bond or certified check in the sum of 10Sc of the amount of the bid, conditioned that the bidder will enter into such bond as the Board may require, in case of the acceptance of the bid. Each bid must be enclosed and sealed in an envelope marked, :Bids for Ma terial for the Construction of an Arch Concrete Culvert and one Bridge near the City of .Bisbee. Arizona" and filed with H. E. Berner, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Tombstone, Arf zona, beore | o'clock ?. m on the 18th day of May, 1907, at which time said bids will be opened.
 The Board reserves the right to re. ject any and all bids
 VIM. M. RIGGS,
 Chairman H. E. BERNER, Clerk.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
SUPPRESSED WINDOW 1s.
Bankers Discovered That Customers Didn't Want to DO Business
 There.

The officials of the National Bank of Commerce have reason to know the truth of a statement recently made by an eminent psychologist that no one is absolutely devoid of super stition, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat, and while they claim to have no superstitious feelings them selves they have willingly bowed be fore the sentiments of the public, be- cause, as one of the clerks expressed it, Tt don't pay to buck hoodoo"
 In the encouragement of the bank not long ago the windows were re- numbered, the numbers running con secutively and including the famous "hoodoo"-13. No one in the DauK noticed it any more than any other number, and the painter who did the lettering painted 'sNo. 13. Certifi- cates of Deposit and Cashiers Checks" with as much unconcern as he formed the letters of No. g. Dis counts" or any other sign: on any other window.
 Soon it was noticed that NO. l2 and No. 14 windows had all the business and the teller at No l3 had hardly enough to do to keep him from going to sleep. Being on the wrong side of the numbers, none of the three . thought of No 13, and so No. F or No. If began passing up the custom CTS with wave of the hand and a Next window, please This made no difference in the distribution of the business, for with a glance at the s,,l n turn away and eventually reappear at the original place. The three telIers were greatly puzzled for few days, but were finally enlightened by a burly countryman from down the river.
 This man entered the bank and after a conversation with the uni formed functionary at the door was directed to the Cashiers Checks" windows. He approached the middle one, but suddenly stopped, looked at the number and with shake of his head remarked in tones loud enough to be heard all over the bank.
 Not for mel No thirteens in mine, Say, you feller, cant I do this busi- ness through some other window"
 After that a number of tests were made and it was found that five ont of seven people refused to transact business throuh the window marked '13." None would give any reason, most of them saying they did not know any particular reason except that "12 is a hoodoo,'' but in spite of every effort the bank had finally to submit and the number on the win dow has been changed to "12.1 No one seems to fear any bad luck from the '.hoodoov number having onos been there, for the window is now as well patronized as any other in the bank. It seems that every one ob- jected only to the actual presence oi the number 13.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
MecoYs WILL.

The will of Harry Mccoy. who died recently in Los Angeles, was received here yesterday and names Jack Kelly. who was with him at the time of his death. and Justice of the Peace D. T. Burdick as administrators. It is un- derstood that Kelly will not qualify as one of the administrators, prefer ing to leave the duties of that office to others of McCoy's friends The probate court will name a second ad- ministrator to serve with Justice Bur dick. The Mccoy estate included, be- sides a few hundred dollars worth of personal property, much mining ground, some of which is thought to be valuable. Part of McCoy's hold ings were recently bonded to parties already operating in this vicinity, and it Is known that he was negotiating for the sale of other mining proper ties just before his death.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
BRYAN'S LETTER ID WALL ST.
 JOURNAL
Gives Nebraskan's Revised Policy with Regard to Rail- roads and Their Relation to, the Government

V
 NEW YORK. April 1S.-The Wall Street Journal has printed a letter to the editor from w J. Bryan, dated at Lincoln, Neb., April 6. giving Bryan':, revised policy, especially witht regard to railroads and their relation to the government. The main parts of the letter follow:
 We are not at the end of railroad development, but rather at It's begin ming, and feel, as 1 have always felt, that the ownership and operation hy the federal government of all the rail roads. now constructed and to be con structed, would go far toward the ob- liberation of state lines, and 1 regard the preservation. of our dual form of government as necessary to the per petuity of the republic :.
 The pfsfh, according to which the federal government is to own only the necessary trunk lines and the sew eral states the remainder of the roads, is consistent with our form of govern ment and instead of leading to cen traIization promises to build up the states and thus offer sure bulwark against centraliZation.
 Tt is not necessary that there
 
 enough trunk lines are necessary to give each state an outlet for the mer- chandise shipped over the state lines. While it is not likely that adjoining states would have any difficulty in making joint traffic arrangements still the operation of a few federal trunk pendent position.
 Fo shn frfY ,f pose that all would agree that the system should be inaugurated gradual ly. so that the government could profit by experience, It is probable that a commencement would be made with one transcontinental line, with possi- bIe cross line A line from the Allan tic to the Pacific, crossed by a line from the lakes to the gulf, would do more to demonstrate the wisdom or the folly of government ownership than all the arguments that could be made for or aginst the system. If the government is incompetent to attend to such matters and too extravagant in public work the private roads need not be afraid of competition.
 These experimental lines can be bought or built, whichever the gov
  ernment might buy a controlling in terest in line-that is the way the railway magnates do. If it built new line, the success of the new line would largely determine the value of other lines offered for sale to the nation or to the various states.
 If 1t was thought best the govern ment could do as France did: Author ize lines, guaranteeing fair dividends and contributions to sinking fund which, at the end of a term of years, would give the government the title to the roads.
 "It is needless to say that no con fiscation is proposed There is 20 dis position under either strict regulation or government ownership to do injus- tice to investors in railroad securities and the courts would prevent injustice even if it were attempted.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
BIDS WANTED.

Office of Board of Supervisors of Cochise County, Arizona.
 Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the board in the City of Tombstone. Arizona, for the following work:
 Construction of channel for new water way in Johnson Addition, Bis bee, Arizona. Bids to be submitted at so much per cubic yard for earth. loose rock and solid rock: excava- tion and price for overhaul per 100 it. over 200 it.; also bids for concrete retaining wall per cubic yard com plete. Work to be completed by July 1st, 1907.
 Plans and specifications Of the above work can be secured from J. s. Me Neish, County Surveyor, Cochise County. Bisbee, Arizona.
 Bids for the above work will De re- ceived at the office of the Board in the City of Tombstone, Arizona, until i o'clock D. m. on the 18th day of May, 1907, bids to be then opened immedi- ately. All bids must be accompanied by a bond or certified check in the sum of 10 per cent of the amount of the bid. conditioned that the bidder will enter into such bonds as the Board may require, in case Of the ac- ceptance of the bid. Each bid must be enclosed and sealed in an envelope marked Bid for the Construction of 8 1 New Water Way in Johnson Addi- tion, Bisbee, Arizona" and fled with H. E. Berner. Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Tombstone, Arizona. 1 The Board reserves the right to re ject any and all bids
 wm. NJ. RIGGS. Chairman H. E. BERNER. Clerk.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
PROBATE NOTICE.

In the Probate Court of the County Of Cochise, Territory of Arizona. Notice of hearing petition in the matter of the estate of Mary E. MOr. ris, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that l. E. Loomis has filed in this court his pc. tition praying for letters testanlentary of the last will and testament or a~rS E. Morris, deceased, and that the same will be heard on Monday the 22nd day of April A. D. 1907. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the Courtroom of said court, in Tombstone, County of Cochise, Ter ritory of Arizona, and all persons in terested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have. why the prayer of said petitioner should nol be granted.
 Dated April Sth, 1907.
 J. E. JAMES,
 clerk
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
PLUGGING" A HOTEL GUEST.

The hotel detective stepped out of the elevator and walked over to the counter
 Well, I plugged him. he said
 Plugged him? Who? What for? Where did you hit him?" quickly asked friend who was standing by.
 Didn't hit him anywhere; just plugged the keyhole of his door. Nev- CT hear of plugging before? When We have guest whom we suspect is getting ready to leave without set. ting or whose credit is exhausted and he fails to settle up We just wa- until he leaves his room and plug the keyhole in his door. Then he has to settle up or leave his baggage. The plug fits over the end of key. It is placed in the lock and turned. The key is then withdrawn, leaving the plug in the door,
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
Brief City News
PERSONAL MENTION.

fC M Neilscn cigar manufacturer and rancher. near Hereford, was in Bishee yesterday from his ranch on the San Pedro. MT Nelson states that the ranchers in his vicinity are all doing well and the present year promises to be a banner one for the homesteaders on the San Pedro
 Captain Harry Wheeler returned last evening from Douglas where he has been to look into the case of Ranger Rollins. who was forced to shoot a prisoner who attempted to as- cape from him at Douglas last Fri day Captain Wheeler proceeded to his home last evening at Naco.
 Mrs. Powell, a trained nurse, was yesterday added to the force of at tendants at the Copper Queen hospi- tal. owing to the amount of work that has accumulated at that institu- Vtion in the care of new patients.
 Tom White returned last night from Douglas where he has been for the past few days on business.
 Harry w. Smuck and wife, who have been residents of Bisbee for sev- eral years, left last evening for their old home at Dodge Center, Minn.. for protracted visit
 C. B. Bell, Douglas mining man. and heavily interested in the Tordii- las district in the Ajos, returned to Douglas last evening after spending the day here on business.
 Mrs. J. P. Ferguson, wife of Cana nea druggist, is a visitor in Bisbee and quartered at the Copper Queen hotel.
 E. A. Tovrea returned last evening from visit of inspection to the Cana Dea plant of the Sonora Packing Co, of which concern he is general man. ager.
 c. E Wiswall, forwarding agent for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, at Naco, drove up from the border city last evening.
 E. c. Striker, the local attorney returned to the city last evening from Tombstone, where he spent a couple of days on business connected with suits which will come before the dis .trict court during this session.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
COST OF EUROPEAN ARMIES.

Europe spent in round numbers G2O0 0,OGO,OOO on it's army and ESQ., 100000 on it's navy in 1906, as against e146,OO0,O0O and e6O.O0O,00O respect, lively in 1898. That is to say: Europe spends today e2S0, ,000, 900 on it's army and navy as against G2O6, ,00O,- GOO in 1898, total increase of .e74,- 900, or, say 26 per cent. Seventy four millions a year is equivalent to i per cent interest upon capital sum oft e1 ,S50, 100000.
 That is the line in which the Gov ernments have mulcted their peoples by their refusal to act upon the stand still proposition of the Czar in 1899 and to adopt the peacemaking meth ods recommended by the Hague con vention
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
TIE REVIEW BsBEE MORNING M
EVE WAS INJURED.

H. Holden, well known athlete of the Y. NJ. c. A, and a member of the basketball team of that institution, Is suffering with eye trouble brought on by a cinder having lodged in his eye. For the first time since the accident gave him trouble Holden was about the street and at work yesterday. The foreign substance is supposed to have got in Holden's eye while he was on the recent trip to Tucson to take part in the game between the T. NJ. c Al team of this city and the University team. The einder has been removed and no lasting Injury is anticipated.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
TO OLD COUNTRY.

M NJ. Medigovieh, who for years has been engaged in the mercantile business in Bisbee, left with his fam fly yesterday mornin gfor Austria, where he will visit indefinitely at his boyhood home. Medigovich Is among the successful merchants who came to Bisbse in the early days and grew with the camp. With Nick Noble he conducted for years the Medigovich & Noble concern in Brewery Gulch, hay ing a large patronage from the Sla- vonian members of the community. He later administered the estate of J. B. Angius who died in this city about two years ago. While MT. Medigovich still owns property in Bisbee, it is not his intention to relocate here in busi- ness
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
AN UNIQUE CURTAIN.

Messrs. Mccarthy and Dolye, pro prietors of the new Imperial Theater that Is being fitted up on the site of the old Orient saloon, are having painted a background curtain which is bound to make hit with patrons Of that pleasure house, when it is fin ally thrown open to the public An eastern decorator is now at work on 1he curtain, which is an excellent rep presentation of Main street in this city from theeCopper Queen store and looking toward the floodgate The buildings on Main street are shown truthful to every detail and the sketch is now being colored apprC- priately. The background of the scene shows Castle Rock and the smountains to the west, the idea alto sgether being most unique one.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
eLAckMAN's FATHER DEAD.

Word was received in this city Sun day by c. T. Blackman, stockholder of the Central Pharmacy and the Citi- zens' Bank & Trust Co, of the death at Kansas City, Missouri, of his fath- CT, Mir. l.. Blackman, lifelong xesi- dent of that place and for number of years one of the merchants of that city. The elder Blackman has always been identified with the business life, and from boyhood has conducted a meat establishment. Besides c. T. .Blackman, uf this city, there are left to snourn the loss of the deceased, a wife, another son and two daughters, all grown. MT. c. T. Blackman but re gently returned from Kansas City, where he was called to attend the bedside of his parent, but improve ment followed the first illness, and it was expected that the sick man would survive. Mir. c. T. Blackman will not attend the obsequies.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
TO MEET W. c. GREENE.

Dr. John Galbraith, chief of staff at the Cananea hospital, passed through Bisbee last evening en route to Temo- sachic. Mexico, where he goes to meet Col W. c. Greene and party. Dr. Gal braith has just returned from Cali fornia where he has been for the past few weeks on a vacation.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
HON. N. E. BAILEY.

Hon N. E. Bailey, speaker of the last assembly of the territorial legis- iature, spent yesterday in Bisbee, coming up from Naco whero he is trainmaster for the Cananea, Rio Yaqui & Pacific, to attend to business of a private nature. Mr. Bailey had nothing to give out as to happenings along the border, but reports that the little town is putting on the airs of a manufacturing community, the recent locating there of brick making plant having proved a success. He returned to Naco last evening
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
plsTRIcr ArroRNEY.

District Attorney F. W. Shelley arrived in the city last evening from Tombstone to be present at the new trial of Tommie Taylor. charged with having broken jail at Lowell in 1905, when he was being held to await trial on charge of. burglary Taylor was once dismissed by Justice Grier at Lowell. but Shelley had him re- arrested, not being satisfied with the first ruling. Taylor's hearing is set for today before Justice Burdick.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
TRAVELLING OVER DIVISION.

F. B. King, superintendent of the western division of the E. P- & s. W. system, arrived in the city last evening from his headquarters in Fl Paso. and will leave this morning, going west to the end of the line. He stated that his visit to the city had no special significance, being merely to keep in touch with the advance in some Improvements which the com pany has under way. This is Mir Kings second visit to Bisbee since he succeeded to the vacancy made by the advance ment of L. U. Morris. formerly superintendent of this di- vision.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-16
SHELTER SUPERINTENDENT

Superintendent James Wood of the rCalumet & Arizona smelters at Doug las, spent yesterday in Bisbee. Mir. Wood reports that the smelters in his charge are working larger num- Der of men now than al any previous time during the present year, an ad- dition of 150 men having been made within the past few days. Mir. Wood scouts the rumor that has been start ed to the effect that the smelter em- ployes would be called out to take part in the present strike of the Bis been miners.