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Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
DEALING WITH LAZY MExICANs

Breaking of sewer pipes and inef- ficiency of labor are two features of sewer construction that afford the contractor the most trouble" said Superintendent Moore, who is super vising the sewer work in Douglas. The labor problem has been especial ly grievous in Douglas. The Mex cans make about the poorest labor l have ever seen. Like most any other common laboTers they are all right if they are driven. You can drive other common labor but I have not been able to drive the MeXicans. If I say anything to ore of a gang of them it will mean the loss at the lowest estimate of ten dollars, for every man on the work will stop and try to tell the person addressed just what I want. Not being able to drive them myself I must leave it to someone who knows their lingo and customs better than I. with the result that they will not drive them. In other words I would get work out of them if I could and the fellows who can get work out of them will not. Hence their inefficiency.
 From a vantage point where l could see but not be seen one day recently I saw one Mexican throw three Shovels full of dirt out of ditch in twenty minutes. I couldn't stand for that and gave the foreman instructions to attach the can 'at once. After that the Mexicans worked like fury for about five minutes. = Douglas International-American.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
TIME FOR ACTION.

Iohn w. Gates, formerly at the head of the Illinois Steel company, charges that of the metal now used for the manufacture of steel rails not more than two-thirds is good ma terial. According to M r. Gates by the ase of this inferior material the steel trust saves from ten to twenty per cent.
 The Railway Gazette boldly charges the steel trust with responsibility for the great loss of life through railroad wrecks. Following are extracts from the Gazette editorial:
 There is no individual or company which knows better how to make a good rail than does the steel corpora ton, with it's splendid army of ex- perts; nevertheless it knowingly makes rails which break and kill peo- pie.
 Specifications as furnished by the railroad companies are totally disre- garded, and rails, especially in the new and heavier sections, are fur nished with spots in them so full of impurities and so brittle that they must necessarily break when subject ed to the strain of traffic. The steel company knows this quite well' The Gazette distributes the respon, sibiIity in this way: First the crim, inal willingness of the steel corpora ton and the companies allied with it to manufacture rails that cost human life; second, the attiNde almost equally criminal on the part of many high railroad officers to ignore the plain truths that are being brought before them by their superintendents and chief engineers"
 It is also charged that this same steel trust sells to Japan perfect rails and at ten dollars per ton below the price charged in the United States Yet these men who exact excessive toll from the American consumer; who sell good rails at low price to the foreigner and inferior rails at 8 high price to the American; these men who knowingly make rails that kill pepole"-these are the captains of industry" the guardians of the ! national honor" the trustees oi God!"
 Does it not occur to the thoughtful American citizen that it is high time the trusts which find shelter in the tariff be destroyed and that the men who knowingly make rails that kill people" be held personally responsi ble for their crimes?
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

months ago, the railroad folk up there said, as they have said more recently in Missouri, that they would delay legal proceedings until time and ex- perience might give some actual re- suits upon which to base contesting litigation. But the waiting promised to be disastrous. The people were quick to learn that. while they could not get the benefit of the two-cent rate on interstate travel they could still beat the game in part by buying transportation to the states bounda- ries at the low fare, and there buying another ticket to their destination
 We'll and good. But the effect of this was to increase the showing of local travel enormously, out of right pro- portion to the facts. The Nebraska roads were threatened to be hoist with their own petard. Earnings with in the state were booming, and 1t was evident that, on the face of these re- turns, there would be no grounds for contention of 'confscation' What was true in Nebraska was true also in every western state in like case The action of the passenger associa- tion, therefore, is purely self-defen- ! sive, seeking to bring matters to a right balance by preventing these un- due swell;ngs of state business"
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
.MARICOPA COUNTY
 GOING ID FRONT

That Arizona is going to be great state and that it's crust has scarcely been scratched is being demonstrated every day by the plans that are being laid to develop it's Rresources. While mining seems at present to offer the greatest and quickest returns for the money invested there are numerous other industrial projects that are at tracting attention and capital.
 Of course next to mining irrigation will naturally call for investigation and the success that the government has had in the TontO basin seems to have inspired private individuals to greater effort to find an irrigation pro ject where they could feel safe in putting out their money.
 Among these Irrigation projects the latest one to attract attention in Phoenix is the Harqua Hala project. This project is located on the desert west of Phoenix, seven miles from Salome. At present there is only d dry bed of an old stream on the site, but twelve feet below the sands of this stream an abundant water supply has been discovered and plans have been formulated to throw a dam across the bed of this stream, digging down to bed rock, and raising the water so as to run it into a canal and, at the same time create a forty-foot fall. It is estimated that the dam and canal will cost $40,000 and that pow CT will be generated in sufficient quah- tity to construct an electric railroad from the depot to the tract to be ir- r:gated-a distance of seven miles. After the water has been, developed rights to 30,000 acres of land will be issued and settlers will be invited to preempt the land from the govern ment
 The climate where this project IS situated is said to be equal to any in Arizona. The attitude is about 1000 feet higher than Phoenix and it is said to be cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Hence, 1t is ex- pected that all kinds of citrus fruits will be grown as well as deciduous fruits
 The soil of this valley is the re- suit of ages of washing from the surrounding mountains and the val leys above The valley is located in the northeast part of Yuma county and the northwest part of Mar.copa county, and is surrounded by the Harqua Hala, Big Horn and Saddle mountains on the east and the Eagle tail mountains on the south; 1t Is ten to twenty miles wide and sixty miles long.
 The officers of the company that is promoting the project are F. s. h. gals, surveyor general of Arizona, president; s. s. Green, vice presi- dent: c. T. Bonney, secretary; Lloyd |B. Christy, treasurer; Henry Mitch ell, general superintendent; Fred Christen, superintendent of construc- ton. With these men at the head of the plan and these facts to consider, it will be seen that the western end of Mar.copa county offers splendid field for investigation and investment, with the assurance that intelligent men have gone before and are now opening up one of the best small IT, rigation projects in the west.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
Eagles Picnic

The Bisbee Lodge of Eagles have ar ranged a picnic at Lewis Springs, Sun day, July 2Sth, and invite the general public to participate.
 The Springs have been thoroughly overhauled and turned into a park. A modern dancing pavilion has just been erected and big Natatorium is being completed.
 An elaborate program for the day, such as a baseball game, all kinds of games for prizes, etc, has been ar ranged for, and Special Amusements for Children provided. Refreshments and lunch will be served on the ground.
 The Eagles never do things by half. All birds are now busy talking up the picnic.
 Special excursion rates have been secured for Bisbee, Douglas, Tucson and Tombstone.
 With the reputation the Eagles have as entertainers, fully 5000 people are expected at Lewis Springs on that day.
 Special train leaves Bisbee at 7:30 a. m.. July 28th. Rates for adults, S1 round trip; children. 30 cents.
 Same rates for Tombstone on the regular train.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
SANTA FE GOLD 6 COPPER

According to an official of the san ta Fe Gold & Copper company, the property is at present producing at the rate of 100000 pounds of cop per annually.
 The railroad facilities are said to be no better than formerly, the mat ter from the smelter being trans ported over a wagon road to the San la Fe Central railroad for shipment to the refinery Considerable dia- mond drilling is going on at the prop erty which will entail considerable expense, as will also the construction of the additional furnace capacity.
 The company's. last annual report showed cash in banks at the end of the fiscal year to be s140,000.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
CRUEL TREATMENT
 OF 4 CHINAMAN

Huddled up in one corner of the Yuma jail. room, weeping and refusing all food, sits Tony Lock, his mind all but gone, and he fast becoming the mere shadow of his former physical self.
 Tong Lock is a young Chinaman, about 22 years of age, who was ar rested by Chinese Inspector w. A. Braize last December for being un- lawfully in this country. Several times his trial was postponed, each time on motion of Locks counsel, to Pocatello, Idaho, where the China mans father was then in business.
 Finally, in April, the case came to trial before United States Commis- sioner c. H. Utting at Yuma and Lock was ordered deported.
 It has been the custom, however, of United States Marshal Daniels at Tucson, whose duty it is to deport such aliens who are ordered depOrted to wait until a sufficient number have been secured, to warrant making the trip to San Francisco. This is why poor Tong Lock is a starving lunatic today. No Chinese have been deport- gu lTOHl IuG uLild uLSIiISb SihSC iaSN April. and this unfortunate celestial has thus langushed in JaiI Tor seven months.
 Lock was a nice appearing China man, showing evidence of consider able intelligence when he was impris- oned; but knowing that the court had ordered him sent home, and waiting in vain, day after day, week after week. and month after month for the summons to go and listening to the awful stories his fellow prisoners have invented, one that he was to be hung. another that he was to be sent to Los Angeles and eheaded-listen- ing until he must have beheved-of late spurning all food, having eaten almost nothing for more than week, his mind has gradually sunk under the terrible weight. and today Tong Lock may be said to be crazy-a crying demented child-afraid of life and afraid of death.
 Attorney L. c. Brown was employed few days ago by friends Of the poor young fellow to look after his inter ests. Brown has written Marshal Daniels. in forming him oi locks condition, and asking him to attsad Q the deportation at once. Unless -his is done the cttorIeY proposes to l immediately take the necessary steps to compel the authorities to liberate the prisoner.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
NEW WEALTH IN THE SOUTHWEST.

It is a good thing for St. Louis and for the entire southwest that, in its recent session, the Oklahoma consti- tutional convention struck out from the new state constitution about all the provisions to which partisaEry could make reasonable objection and placed the twin territories in the way of admission to the union before the end of the year, perhaps before the meeting of congress in December.
 On September r, the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the constitution of the United States by the convention of 17S7, the people of the two territories will vote on the Oklahoma constitu- tion. There is not a shadow of doubt that they will approve it, and on the same day state officers and represen- tatives in congress will be elected.
 Canvassing of the returns ought not to take more than a month or six weeks. If this work should con ,sume two months the constitution should be certified to the president by the middle of November, and his proclamation announcing that anoth- CT member has been admitted to the sisterhood of states should follow by the first of December.
 Statehood will give a great impetus to development, industrial, commer- cial and agricultural, thinks the St Louis Republic It will remove all doubts as to the conditions under which settlers are to live. It will en- courage investment It will make the eastern and southeastern portions Of the new state more attractive to in corners by removing many impedi- ments 10 the transaction of business, and making possible the establish ment of public schools, which are now lacking in the rural portions of Indian Territory
 To the state of Oklahoma there will be next winter a great fiocling of new people, going in time to get ready to start crop in the spring. As a state the two territories will be more potent than they have ever been in obtaining the legislation that both whites and Indians want from con gress in removing the restrictions which tie up the property of the In dians and withhold it from profitable development
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

It is really to be regretted that the workingment of the Warren district refused to become a party to the So- cialist movement launched in their midst by Messrs Cannon, Rawling, semple. ct al It was a bitter dis appointment to a joint statehood dis ciple st Nogales. sometimes editor of the Oasis. but at present engaged in sucking the official teat as a reward for his willingness to betray the peo- pie of Arizona into the hands of the Mexicans of New Mexico.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
INs, OUTS, UPS AND DOWNS

When l was sick I called them in, The doctors of the town I hoped that they might build me up They only pulled me down Soon I was i'll and in my bed, And I began to doubt The treatment that had laid me uI Perhaps might lay me out. For very shortly I became The sickest man in town And yet they would not give me up, They who had got me down. But I got well and this is how The thing was brought about; Before I had quite given in My coin had given outi
 Puck
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

Light on a recent railroad order is thrown by the St Louis Post-D!spatch in this way: Tt begins to appear that the railroads linked together in the Western Passenger association are not prompted by purely benevo- lent motives in their sudden conces- sion which makes the two-cent fare laws operative in interstate travel. For a time this seemed to be a case of broad-minded public spirit. But no. When the two-cent fare law went into effect in Nebraska, two or three
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

The joint statehood editor of the Oasis, who has been rewarded for his treachery to Arizona by receiving the appointment as clerk of the court. is sorely troubled because stories told by travellers, regarding the strike situation in Bisbee, does not cores pond with the published accounts ap- bearing in the daily newspapers of this city, Evidently this wild cat" editor has been in bed with one of Ghe organizers"
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

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 fications. James R. Townzene
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Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

There is one sure way of inducing a smile from a woman. When you meet her immediately appear as if you were confused as to which way you should pass her. Make one or two feints, first to the right and then to the left. If that doesn't bring a smile from her give it up. Then, too, that gives you an opportunity of lift your hat to her, even though you do not know her.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26

Gone to lunch" is the sign local bootblack has on his stand during the noon hour. For up-to-date business acumen this seems about the limit. It has a tendency to elevate the bus mess of bootblacking and to put it on a real dignified basis.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-26
NOTICE.

4 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., 1907-07-26
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The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
RAILROADS FILE OBJECTIONS
Determination to Advance ASSESS.
ments Brings Protest from Roads.

Lincoln, May 2S.-Representatives
Of the leading railroads of the state
appeared before the state board of as
sessment and protested against what
they declared TO be a radical increase
railroad valuations. The board.
composed of Governor Sheldon, Secre.
tary of State Junkin. Treasurer Brian.
Commissioner Eaton and Auditor
Searle. announced that ii had decided
to raise the Union Pacific from $780,
500 a mile to SIS, 900, the Burlington
from $3S,500 to sac, 200 and the North,
western from $50, 900 to $4,000. 1t is
estimated that this will increase the
total assessed valuation Of all railroad
property in the state from $47. 000, 200
TO at least $50, 900, 000.s
Nearly the whole day was occupied
by the railroad representatives in ar.
guing that the increase was unjusti.
fed and akin to coniscation. without
definitely announcing its conclusions,
the board intimated it would not re-
duce the figures.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
JAP CRISIS BACK AGAIN.
Raid on Restaurant in Frisco Brings
Demand from Toxic.

Washington. May 27.-Just as all
the clouds upon the armament OF
American.Japanese relations. were dis.
appearing as a result of the visit of
General Kuroki, there has occurred at
san Francisco another assault upon
Japanese subjects which has caused
irritation in Toxic.
Under instructions from his govern.
ment, Niscount Aoki, the Japanese am
hassador. has made an investigation
Of an attack made last week upon a
Japanese restaurant, which resulted
in damage TO the establishment,
frightened the customers and danger
10 the Japanese proprietor and Japa,
hese employees. Viscount Aoki got a
full report from the japanese consul
general, and made a formal complaint
TO he state department and demanded
assurances of better protection for
Japanese.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
NDICTMILLIONAIRES
REIGN OF BRIBERY AND coRRUP.
TIoN ENDS IN FRISCO.
Long List Of indictments Growing Out
Of Traction and Gas Dcals-Trolley,
Telephone and City officials All
Under Heavy Bonds.

San Francisco, May 27.-Six more
millionaires and multi.millionaIres,
some Of them well known throughout
the country, fell under the accusation
of the Oliver grand jury when that
body, just before an adjournment unsi
June 10, returned fourteen indictments
Jointly against G.. II. Umbsen, j. L..
Green and w. I. Brobeck. charging
them with attempted bribery of puo.
lie officials, and fourteen indictments
jointly against Frank G.. Drum, Eu.
gene De Saba and John Martin, charg.
ing them with bribery of public affi.
Gals. With the former group Abra.
ham Ruef, the fallen political boss OF
San Francisco, was jointly indicted;
with the latter group Ruef and Mayor
Schmitz. In all t~wenty.eight indict.
ments were found, containing 1876
counts and calling for bail bonds In
the total sum of 81, 2 5000.
Umbsen. Green, Brobeck and Ruef
are accused by the grand jury of of.
fering a bribe of $1,000 each to four.
teen supervisors on Nov. 10, 1906, TO
award to the Parkside Transit com
pany a street rail0a y franchise. This
franchise was voted Dec. 81, 1906. but
the Spreckles.Heney-Burns bribery
investigation getting under way at
about that time the Parkside deal was
abandoned and no money was passed,
say the prosecutors.
The indictments against Drum, De
Saba, Martin, Ruef and Schmitz
charge them with giving a bride OF
$3.50 each to supervisors in considera.
ton of their vote, cast March II, 1906
by which the legal gas rate for 19O6-O7
was fixed at 50 cents instead of 75
cents. Frank G. Drum is manager OF
the Tevis estate, one of the larges,
properties in the west. Eugene De
Saba was formerly president of the
Gas and Electric company. John Mar
tin Is closely associated with De Saba
in many interests. Each is many
times a millionaire.
Indicted officials of the United Rail
roads, the Pacific States Telephone
company and the Home Telephone
company appeared in court to furnish
bonds. Calhoun. Mutually, Ford anC
Abbott gave bonds totaling $500. 900
a surety company putting up the bonds
Glass gave $4,000 security, Will,
Mayor Schmitz gave sixteen bonds O
$40 On0 each
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
RAILROAD VALUES ARE UP.
Total increace in the Railway Assess
ment About Fifty Per Cent.

Lincoln, May 27.-The state board
of assessment has practically agreed
to assess the railroads OF Nebraska at
a total of $72, 600, 900, an increase Of
about s24 zoe, 900 over the assessment
Of last year. The Union Pacific and
the Burlington will supply the greater
portion of the increase. the former
being valued at $4,000 a mile. an in
crease from $4,000. and the Burling-
ton AT $4,000 a mile. an increase from
3S,750 a mile. The Northwestern will
be assessed at $4,000 a mile, an in.
crease from $32 500. All the other
roads will be assessed at the same fig.
ures as last year. These increases. to-
gether with new lines and other prop
Crty not assessed last year. make the
total increase in railroad valuation
about $4,000, 600.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
TORNADO SWEEPS TEXAS.
Four Persons Are Killed and Prop
cry Loss Is HEAVY,

Emory, Tex, May EFT is possible
to obtain a better idea of the dam.
age done by the tornado which passed
through Emory, snuffing out four lives
and injuring and Gripping many peo-
pie, some of whom may die.
The dead: Walter Martin, Mr.. Nc.
Ivy, unknown woman, eight-year-old
son of j. F. L%ittlejohn.
Among the injured are seven white
persons A large number of negroes
were hurt, it being estimated that
thirty received wounds and bruises OF
greater or less severity.
The corn and cotton crops in the
path of the storm were completely
pulled up.
According to meager reports, Ar
bola and Tazewell, small villages il
the interior of Hopkins county, were
in the path of the tornado that devas
tated Wills Point and Emory.
At Arbola. the little daughter o.
Pink Kirk and a child OF Georg,
Davis were fatally hurt, the latte
dying. William Pickett and his wifi,
were seriously hurt and two Others
were slightly injured. Several resi-
dences were badly damaged. At Taze
well. a number of houses were blown
down, but no n was hurt, the peopl,
having taken refuge in cellars.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-31
MADISON MAN KILLS BROTHER.
Henry kneis, After Numbering George
kneis, Ends His Own Life.

Norfolk, Neb., May 2S.-Murder and
suicide resulted in the deaths of
brothers nea Hoskins. Henry kneis,
aged thirty.three, murdered his broth
err, George, five years older, then
turned the smoking u on himself
and fired five bullets, two entering
his body. He died shortly after. No
motive was apparent. The murderer
followed his brother to a neighbours
farm and opened fire without warning.
Three shots were effective, the third
piercing the victims heart. Dragging
the dead brothers corpse out OF the
doorway. where he had gone for pro.
lection, Henry shot at himself once,
reloaded the gun and fred four mor
bullets. Wounded twice, he fell be-
side his fraternal victim. He was
taken home and died later.