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Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

the captain of the yacht has placed out several sinkboxes and the decoys and. after little while. each member of the party Is safely installed to wait for the ducks to come IL often happens that during the next few hours not more than half a dozen ducks will fly along. just out of range. but more often. even if in range. Mir. Duck goes sailing by while the shot merely touches him and the re ports of the guns hasten his speed a bit
 After three or four hours of being cramped in a boat that has just enough freeboard to threaten to swamp at any moment the gunners become dlsgustei and return to their more comfortable craft where they console each other as best they can and lay the blame upon the luckless captain who picked out such a no-account hunting ground
 But ducks they come for and ducks they must have so the Captnin Is sent ashore to secure them. How many are brought back depends upon the market price and the amount set aside for the purpose but those procured are carefully hung in the rigging and when the yachtsrnen return to their home port with their trophies in plain view the praise for their skili that they receive amply repays them for their expenditure of money and time
 After all It Is sport for kings-thls hunting of ducks.
 When the blood leaps in the veins and the skin tinsles with the bite of salt air and thrill runs through the nerves IS the graceful beauties whirl overhead only 10 collapse and fall at the crack Of tae faithful gun then your true sportsman has no thought for tbe morrow nor of the care the morrow brings hut drsams In bliss his little day dream to the iappIn; of the soothing waters.
 Even as the bison have gone. and the deer and bear are going. the duck may %. hut ever in the annals cf zport the legend of the Canvasbaek and the Teal VIII be handed down to future genera ti0ns tO read about and dream over.
 Even today. in the old haunts that have been deserted. the Canvasback Is spoken of with some of the reverence of q deni- god and the places be has gone to gre thought 10 be more than usually blessed among the garden-spots of the earth
 But hunt him as you will and as long as you will and bring down as many as your gun will find. If you are a true sportsman you cannot help q little paas of regret mingled with all the pride tha, comes os being good shot
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09
SPECTACULAR BUT
 TRUE SNAKE STORIES
One Line of Effort in Which the Isth- mus Of Panama Outranks Arizona.

The most discouraging sign of the tines is the depreciating morality of the Arizona rattlesnake. which has always been referred to heretofore as a dead game sport. It has been prover- bial that the rattler gives warning be- fore engaging in combat with any foe, but recently there have been instances reported where he slipped upon the enemy like the willy JaDs upon the Russians at Port Arthur It appears also. that the rattlers are deteriorat- ing morally in other ways. They seek to take strategic advantage of an ad- versary in the most unexpected ways. Until recently rattlesnakes were never found except where they had a right to be. Now they are liable to turn up anywhere and make their homes wherever their hats are off. regardless
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09
OCTOBER TRANSFERS
 OF ACRE PROPERTY
"A Fine Increase of Business Over Last Year. Also Comparison of the Last Two Summer Seasons.

Secretary Chas. A. Van der Veer in his necessary work of going over the county records and checking up the land transfers during the month of October. that in any way affected the Water Users association. secured some interesting statistics that speak well for the present prosperity of the val- ley. The statistics apply only to the association.
 Mir Van der Veer found that dur ing October of this year there had been sixty ranch or farm home trans fers as against forty-nine during Oc- tober a year ago. or an increase of % per cent. He also found that be- tween May and November. 1907. there had been 357 transfers as against 273
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09
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sei are the lookouts and they walt and watch for the coming of the 1ocks. As the ducks approach they signal to their comrades in the sinkboxes who can tell from the signals the direction from which the birds are approaching and the altitude at which fhey are flying.
 Thus guided the gunners have only to rise to the proper position and blaxe away at the ducks as they pass over or settle among the decoys As practically every market gunner carries a pump gun. or at least a double barrelled shot gun. the two ln the s.nkboxes rarely fan to bag at lenst four while i1stances have been known where a pair of gunuers would get six and even eight
 Then boat Is put out from the lar.er vessel. the dead ducks gathered In. the dscoys looked after and once more every thing becomes qulet-untiI another flock happens along when the process Is re- peated.
 Of course there arc some amateurs who are as expert as the market men and who put just ns much time aud energy in their sport men who have T pride in their skill and prowess-hut there Is q class that go 'dncklny eHrh senson and re- turn with fine bn- without having eyeu handled q shot gun.
 This Is 'hc fellow who arrives on the shooting grounds the night before on his yacht. With him Is party of friends and they sit In the cabin telling each other of the crea: time they expect to have on the morrow. Some time after midnight they all turn In and they dream of killing ducks until the booming of guns Hwakens them and they realize rhnt the game Is on and they are not In it.
 There Is rush to get dressed asd rush for the breakfast table. Mean W hIle
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

VI ITH the coming of autumn there comes to the mind of every sports W man . call from the wild. Though not SO much 70 now as in former years, the entire Atlantic seaboard is practical H . great game preserve for wild fowl. for t s indented with a thousand bays and nvers that are the haunts of the feathered tribe, each specie acting a bit different. perhaps. but all being of one mind and all following the laws of nature that cause them to move northward In the spring and southward in the fall.
 Today thousands of sportsmen are looking over their gear. cleaning their guns, loading cartridges and waiting pa tiently for the glad day to come when they may go forth to slay for the mere pleasure of doing so.
 Each season sees an increase In the number of hunters but the man who would return with bis bag well filled needs to know a thing or two. for the big billed gentry are anything but fools. and were not the methods of securing them as varied as are the varieties of the ducks. more Indeed would be the number of those who would return to their homes to figure out that their few trophies stood them four times what they would have cost in the market.
 However. while the duck may he no fool be Is often fooled and IL Is his curl osity that generally puts him within range of q load of shot. If he could only learn the difference between flock of painted images and n group of his own relatives sitting down to q quiet meal he might live longer. for. after all. the decoy Is the greatest lure ID use and about the only one that ia successful. One may purchase very handsome nickel plated ''duck calls and blow the until one tongue hangs out and yet produce orly sound that comes as near imita;- iiIs the rasp,ng 'quack as street glanO does Sousa's band.
 With the GecOys goes the slnkbox, . aarrow, shallow box that floats just half
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

In addition to the various methods of hunting ducks there are two classes of men who do the hunting. The one who makes a living at 1t, getting the game for the market. and the one who hunts for love of the sport The former is by far the more successful in the kill. and were II not for them the focks would be undepleted as they are today.
 The market hunter cares nothing for the ethics of the game. he Is not adverse to breaking any or all the laws that have been passed for the protection of and preservation of the dscks and, this being the case. It requires much vigilance on the part of the game wardens to see that the laws are not violated.
 lt was the market men who first used what is known us the big gun. a smn!l cnEnon that was so destructive that II wss necessary to pass laws prohibiting Its use. With ihis weapon In ,he bow Of boat the men would nt night glide Into a flock of sleeping ducks Then n large lantern would be unveiled and be fore the surprised dncks could rise the contents of the big gun were fired into theni In this manner many ducks were Killed but many were mercy wounded and numbers of the latter escaped only to lie of starvation Then too. of those killed. many were Lost while the reports of the gun disturbed every flock for miles around.
 Today the market gunners work diff ferently. Useally they work in squads and their cooperation brings about good results. A double sinkbox will be placed in a good position on the flats and 4OO or more decoys set out. Two expert gunners are assigned to the sinkboxes while the remainder of the sqund man sioop or schooner that Is anchored about a quarter Of a mic away tO the windward Tbe I",... ou rhe larger yes
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

transfers during the same months of 1906, or a gain of 90 per cent.
 It is assumed that the same ratio or nearly so will obtain all over the Icounty. as in Buckeye for instance. that Is shown in the areas embraced
 within the reservoir district. This il
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

ginning of the fall movement so the comparison is a very fair one and 1t embraces conditions right up to date The fall activity is again somewhat in evidence and there is no reason to doubt but that it will continue.
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09

will be observed is a comparison of the dull season of each year. There has generally been a little more ac-
 tivity than usual in the spring and another little extra squirt of business in the fall. In both years this esti- mate was taken from about the end
Arizona republican., 1907-11-09
Dr. Prices Wheat Flake Celery Food

Many persons looking back on their past life will
 fnDd most of their miseries of body and mind have .coae l from indigestion and constipation. Dr. G Pr;es improved wheat food, with celery not only Las great nuttve value, but IS the natural coec- tor of dsordered digestion and constipation. It is gratifying to the taste and most wholesome. 494
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06

On receipt of telegraphic des- from the sheriff at Gal lup Sheriff Woods arrested a de- serter here last week and has just returned from delivering his man to the post authorities at Fort Wlngate. There were two deserters together. privates Fan ming and Burton, but when the latter was arrested, Tanning concluded he would return vol untarily so he boarded the first east bound freight for Ft. Win gate and was there under arrest when the sheriff arrived there with Burton a few hours later.
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06
Julius WetzIer Sells
 Mercantile Business

Julius Wetzler, who has been Tn the mercantile business in this place for several years, has sold out his entire stock of general merchandise to A. F. Witzel, a well-known business man of Gal lup. N, M. The property is to be turned over to Mir. Witzel on October first. MT. Wetzler has been fairly successful in the store business here, but of late years he has become largely interested in the the sheep and cattle busi- ness Tn this county which requires a great deal of his attention.
 A few years ago MT. Wetzler built a modernly equipped sur burban reidence in Los Angeles where his family now reside per manently.
 His reason for dispOsing of the store business IS that he can be free to devote more time to out side affairs and to spend more time at his Los Angeles home.
 We are informed that S. Mev- erhOff, the efficient clerk who has been with Mir. Wetzler for several months, is to be an equal part t. ner in the new firm and will have charge of the business here, as Mir. Witzel has large business in terests in Gallup that will occu- py his personal attention there.
 Mir. Meyerhoff states that it is their intention to increase the stock here, but to discontinue re- tailing liquors and to carry on an exclusive wholesale business in that line. MT. Witzel is the proprietor of the Gallup ice plant and they propose to keep a con- stant supply of ice on hand here during the warm season. Per haps cooling room and ice stor- age will be one of the added fea- lures of the new institu ton. The stock is to be taken over by the new firm at invoice figures aud will probably amount to within the neighborhood of $1O,OOO.
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06
ably known throughout the ter ritory.

Rev. F. C. Reid boarded the stage here Thursday for Spring ervllle where he is to hold a series ot meetings. Perhaps he will hold religious services here on his return. His sermon deliv- ed at the school house last Sun day evening was listened to with a great deal of interest by the qnite large congregation who went to hear him.
 Born-To MT and Mrs w. V. Shoemaker, Sunday Aug. .4th,a 12 pound baby boy. Doctors Hath away and Parks who were in at tendance report all doing nicely, including MT. Shoemaker. We will expect him to do the proper thing when we meet him in front of a cigar counter.
 Mrs. Max Schuster and daugh- ter are the guests of Mrs. Abe Shellenburg, at Atlantic City, N. J. They will return home about the first of September.-Albuq- uerque Citizen.
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06
A Shower of Fishes

Did it rain little fishes from the clouds or not, is the question, the solution of which is puzzling some of the good people of Snow flake. On last Saturday after noon at the conclusion of a hard shower, Mrs. A. $. Fish, who is the operator in charge of the government telegraph office, Hello Girl" and pOstmistress at that place, was greatly aston ished on looking out of her office window to see several small fish wiggling around on the bare ground and at some considerable distance from a running stream of water. To make dOubly sure that they were real fish Mrs. Fish went out and picked up five of the little fellows, which were ap- parently unhurt and very much alive, but very anxious to get back to their native element. The lady put them in tub of rain water where they are still alive and may be seen. Two of them were about five inches in length and resembled Carp; the others were smaller and were a different kind of fish. The fish were found on the top of a gray ely knoll around winch an irri- gating ditch was cut. The water in the ditch is taken from Silver Creek in which the same kind of fish are found and 1t IS barely possible that the fish threaded their way up stream through the little rivulets that ran down the hillside during the heavy rain and that when the shower ceaS- ed the rivulets ceased almost simultaneously, leaving the ven Uuresome little fish high and dry on the bare ground.
 This theory IS not endorsed by all, as some think the fish would follow the receding water to the ditches. However it may be the fish were found by several of the tOwnfolk other than the lady named and will substantiate the statement that they were found scattered over the ground in that locality immediately after the ram. Will some one kindly ex- plain how they came there'
 We have heard of fishes coming down with rain at sea, winch does not seem so very strange as they might have been drawn up into the clouds by water spOuts that some times occur on the ocean, but the same reason would hardly apply in this case.
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06

F. A. Shaw, Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Arizona is expected here within a day or so. MT. Shaw is visiting each Ma sonic lodge in the territory and IS now in Winslow from which po1nt he is to arrive here. The distinguished gentleman was the Socialist Candidate for Delegate to Congress in the last territorial election and is wide and favor
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06

Dr. Lowe left here Sunday morning being employed by the Santa Fe By Go. to accompany Brakeman Stanley to the R. K. Hosiptal at Los Angeles. Stanley recently sustained a serious frac- ture of the skull and the loss of an arm by being thrown off from the tender of a freight train at Adamana. Serious doubts are as to his recovev, the injury to the skull being more serious than was at first thought.
Holbrook argus., 1907-08-06

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
ZIRkLE & MOORE.
 Real Estate insurance and Loans 2r Dexter Ave. Phone 443
2I Dexter Ave.

FOR SALE--A fine lot, suitable for A wholesale or retail store, surrounded by some of the finest stores in the city. The owner has instructed us to sell it.. You can get a bargain if taken at once. FOR SALE-$3.000 will buy modern six room cottage on South McDonough St. Large corner lot. Nice home. or good investment. '-
 FOR SALE-$2,150 will buy good six room house. with two extra lots at Highland Park.
 FOR SALE-$2150 will buy five room house in Fifth Ward. Nice place for a homo.
 FOR SALE-$1,750 will buy a new five room house, just off South Court St. s250 cash. balance monthly payments.
 FOR SALE-For only $3.250 we can sell splendid ono story cottage near Capitol. It has all modern conveniences and is an ideal home.
 FOR SALE--Lots at College Park. The College building will cost not less than $150 900, and the grounds are the incest in the South. We will sell ten or fifteen nice building lots in College Park for 20 per cent cash, balance on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

such terms. either monthly or annually as purchasers desire. This is safest investment you can make. No savings bank could pay you interest enough to offset the increase in value.N You can save from $10 to SEQ per month and never miss it. Consult our prices.
 FOR SALE-Lots at Chisholm. We are selling these let's for $125, payable $5 cash and $5 per l. nth.
 FOR SALE-On Cleveland Ave. six room house: lot 50x150, paved sidewalk. House suitable for first class colored family. Will sell on long time to good parties.
 FOR SALE-House and lot near Pat terson school. Monthly payments.
 FOR RENT-Five room cottage at Highland Park, well located, for $15 per month.
 FOR RENT-Store corner Perry and Madison Avenue. Suitable for grocery or any first class business. Room l9xS5. Light and high ceiling. Will rent part of this store to suitable party.
 WANTED-Parties having property for sale to list with us. If you money to loan, call on us. We can place it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

show for it. Let us show you how you can purchase a home on practically the same terms as paying rent. The sooner you start the better off you win be year from now.
 We have few desirable cottages for rent in different portions ofS the city. Let us show them to you.
 REMEMBER your clearing house certificates and checks on local banks are as Good as Gold with us
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
Real Estate Bargains

We have for sale farm on woodley Road, in lower part of this county. containing 228 acres. A portion of this place Is now rented for four bales of cotton. The whole place should easily bring five or six bales. Ns1.750 will buy this place, if sold this week. If you have been waiting for snap, here 1t is.
 How would you like to buy pretty, new five room cottage. close to car
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

line on lot 50x20O, for less than it would cost to reproduce the house. As an investment 1t will pay over 12 per cent See us at once.
 We have for sale some pretty new cottages with cabinet mantels. etc, on gravel street in our North Highlands addition. Terms easy. prices low.
 If you don't own your home why don't you? You have paid enough rent to buy several and have nothing to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
Davidson, Holt & Strauss
Real Estate & Insurance
 Phones P and t5.

Real Estate & lnsurance Phones P and ta For Sale
 On South Jackson Street, story cottage five and dson Price s7so s7oo eash balance 5000 $2soo month
 On Washington Street, story cottage, first class cond tion lot s2.tss feet s. rooms electric lights gas bath porse lain u modem in every rfics This an ele- gant place, well located, and will make an ideal home For Sale. In the manufacturing district Fertilizer Works six fourroom hoses and lots These hoces sa s 5 I and ed Tasy I at @ ssae a . @ sss lot offered for 35oooo Wifi net 8 cent investment Do not let this bargain pass you.
 At Highland Park. nice cottage, well located five and kitchen. Price, Sf5ooo One half cash, balance su For Sale
 One frame Shinge root dwelling, fine condition, six rooms including kitchen and bath, sanitary connections lot 50xf6 0oot alley situated South Jackson Street. Rented stass tenants for $2750 nonth Price $5o
 For Sale
 We offer for sale Pleasant Avenue modem. opo-dae residence two stories lot 5oxf5o rooms two bath roo want room, stable. Easy terms.
 For Sale Story Residence on soath MeDonoagh St, modem. Price Store Dexter Avenue. Store Monroe ssseet. On Hun Street. two story dwelling, first class condition. ali modern Improvements nine Price, $650o00. Terms easy.
 For Sals On Csamer Avenue, story lweing six roo and electric lghts lot 50xt50 Price, $3600.00.
 For Sale Dwelling, No. 6 6uron Aysnue one stofy five rooms, lot 5ox2tC gas and eeetri lights and bath. Price, $s5oo0o
 For Sae Dwelling No. IS Burton Avenue, story, five rooms and kieLen bath, lot t25x225 Price, $4,500O0, cash.
 For Sale. On the of Donaldson Avenue and Amanda Street, story dwelling, electric light and bath. Price. $275000 For Sale. Second hose from Finley Avenue Norman Bridge Road lot 70xt2O five rooms, electric lights and bah Price, $75000
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

A good ,astomer of OUTS in- structs us to se1l hi- stor: for $2,500.00 le-- .,an it is worts. He prefers doing this to rn-k- ing a mortgage. There Is a good trade in tlis piece of rroperty, a. it wifi always be very valuable under any con- ditions. It is about the only piece of property of this class that we have been able to find in witch there is any sacri- flee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

If you have $5,500.00, you can bay with it an interest in one of the most valuable pieces of property in the city. Your $5,500.00 investment / should make you $2,00000,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

beautiful farm near Montgomery on gravel drive; nice 7-room residence barns, tenant houses wire fenced pas ture, good water and in fact every thing necessary to make ideal farm Price $25 per acre. half cash.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

We are authorized to self at a sacrifice a very beautiful building lot on the finest part of South Perry Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

We have for sale at bargain prices large and small tracts of pine and hardwood timber. Tracts containing 4.OOO. 5.OSO and 5000 acres offered at extremely low prices.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
On Monroe Street we have a good six room hot:se that. we will se11 fer $2,500.00.

On Montgomery Street we offer A modem seven room house with every convenience and eog1son, for $7,000.00. It cost $6,500.00 to build the housss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

If you have any property that you specially desire to self, we woulG Igcc that you list the propert,' with us, as we expect to see the real es- tate market open up soon, nd we know that we will hay number of people with money looking tor investments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
F. M. KOHN & SON,
 Real Estate and Insurance. 26 t-2 Commerce St.--Phone 3o9.

We have for sale a modern two story dwelling, within five minutes walk of the bus mess center, that can be bought for S2,850.00. This property is paying interest on $3,500.00.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

For s3O per acre we are offering one of the finest sand and gravel pits ID this section: or railroad and easy 10 handle. Tract contains 100 acres
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01

Twelve beautiful lots in Cioverdale-- Fielder Avenue-for $4.5O0. If you have money to put in Montgomery real es- tate, let us show you this
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
For Sale.

Three negro houses on large lot In good renting section for $'2Oo' rms property brings s2OS per annum rent and offered at above price for quick trade.