Arizona republican., 1907-06-20

dent stated in writing to Mir. Squires.
 "the affectionate regard in which she
 holds you and to testify to the pride she feels in the excellent service you
 have rendered our beloved country through a long and honorable career" That career began in the army in 1878 | and was later transferred to the dip lomatic field in Berlin, China, where
 special honors were gained, Cuba and later. Panama. MT. Squires is still. i however. a comparatively young man. being only 4S years old. and it is ex- pected that he may shortly be made an ambassador. Governor Hughes [ probably will hold the record of 1907 | for the receipt of commencement hon. [ ors, several institutions conferring de- grees on him. Mark Twain is another | prominent New Yorker to receive
 an academic badge of distinction but | he is travelling all the way to Eng
 land for his, thus incidentally escap-
 ing some highly unreasonable wealth CT. This year commencement in 1 NeSy York was regar rded as the coldest ! ever, both by Columbia and Fordham l universities. and the graduating class I es of both institutions win doubtless
 be able to remember the date of their class by counting back to the year of
 New York's springless spring.
 About the Fourth of July Ezra
 Meeker, who has come out of the far thest west in prarfe schooner drawn ! by oxen. expects to lay before Presi- dent Roosevelt at oyster Bay a plan for the overthrow of Mir Hartman
 and the solution of the problem of
 railroad monopoly in the United States
 which deserves careful consideration.
 The plan contemplates nothing less
 than the construction of a great con-
 tinental roadway from the Missouri
 River to Puget Sound. over the line
 of the old oregon Trail" and pos
 sibly continuing eastward from the Mississippi to the Atlantic seaboard
 over the old Cumberland pike. a na- tional road built by the Federal Coy ernment in the early part of the nine
 teenth century. Twice Mir. Meeker has travelled the train in an OK wagon.
 The first time was in 1851. when he left Indianapolis and crossed to Puget Sound. A few years ago he conceived the idea of returning east over the same route and interesting the inhab- itants of the towns along the way in ei ecting monuments to mark historic points along the old highway. He set out with his OK team and the original prairie schooner in January 1906. After reaching his old home at Indian apolis he evolved his scheme for a re- constructed oregon Trail. free to all who could find any means of conyey- ance. as likely to point the way to a solution of the whole problem of rail- way oppression and monopoly, and de- termined to continue his journey across the continent and lay the mat ter before the president. As MT. Meek CT has been promised the support of the National Good Roads Association and the national automobile organi- Zations, it is not at all impossible that he may yet see his dream come true.
 If the cigarmakers' strike in Havana continues much longer. it is feared that J. Pierpont Morgan and John w. Gates may be forced to abandon the famous black cigars which have con- tributed so much to the atmosphere Of Wall Street and betake themselves to pipe smoking. Pessimists even talk of smokeless New York. Dealers
 throughout the city are in dismav ever the announcement from the im- porting jobbers that most of the pop ular brands of Havana cigars. espec- tally those in dark colors, are exhaust ed. The trust was well stocked with the lighter and less fashionable shades or cigars when the strike began a month ago. but even these are pretty well used up now, and prices are ris- ing. Already the rank and file of New Workers who indulge in Cuban cigars are finding their favorite brands cut off, and are turning in de- spair to the Poro Rico products. New
 York smokes about 100000 imported cigars day, at prices ranging from 10 cents up to half a dollar. Cigarettes. however, have not been affected by the strike. and the atmosphere has suffer- ed accordingly Even the odor of the 3-cent cigar threatens to become worse because of the advanced price of do- mestlc tobacco. particularly the Penn sylvanla product, from which many of the cheaper brands are made. Of ci- Sars or all kinds, including stogies. New Workers consume 1000. 900 a day. the weekly cigar bill of the metropolis amounting to s300,O00, or nearly SI6.- 000.OO0 year. The demand for Ameri- can cigarettes. however. is on the de- crease in New York. their place beinq taken to large extent by the milder flavored ones of Turkish, Egyptian and Asia Minor tobacco.
 Fifth Avenue has q mystery, a mys- tery that has set the coldly reserved dwellers in the vicinity of Fifty fourth street, and the members of the University Club as well. to casting anxious glances in the direction of No. West Fifty-fourth street, which is sometimes the home of. John D. Rocke- feller. The cause of it all is the ap- pearance of the Standard oil magnate in new role. Never before within | the memory of the oldest inhabitant of | the street has MT. Rockefeller been | known to occupy his city home at this | time of the year. Heretofore in sum- l mer he has always been in Lakewood. | Pocantico Hills. Cleveland. or some | other place equally inaccessible to