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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-07-05
Tho Truth,

Truth is quite beyond the reach OF
satire. There is so brave a simplicity
IN her that she al no more be made
ridiculous than an oak. or q pine
James Russell Lowell.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
4 TIT FOR TAT GAME

The Burlington railroad has issued or ders to all employees not to recognize re- quests for information from the Nebraska railroad commission and the commission has retaliated by ordering the investiga- tion and probably the prosecution of Gen eral Manager Holdredge. The commis- sion charges the road with having turned in false list of passholders. The other railroads in the state are backing the Bur lington, while the state officials are SUD- porting the commission and Governor Sheldon may call an extra session of the legislature to pass harassing freight-rate legislation. The railroads have obtained a temporary injunction from the federal court preventing the commission from re- ducing the rates on grain. The commis- sion will start multiplicity of hearings on rates on commodities other than grain. And is it any wonder there is sharp slump in railroad stocks. The fool-killer missed the opportunity of his life when he invaded Kansas and gave Nebraska the go-by.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
TO TRADE IN RARODA

One of the most intelligent and progress sive rulers of India not subject to British oversight is the Gaekwar of Baroda, who visited this country last year and studied with care our universities and industrial plants. When he returned he took with him as economic advisor literally edu- cated, aggressive young American. The Gaekwar now is letting it be known that American manufacturers may do large and substantial business in his realm, and that American residents will be welcomed and given valuable concessions and mon- opolies for a term of years if they will come and invigorate the industrial and commercial life of his people by their methods and by their personalities. May American manufacturers and pioneers be found who will seize this opportunity as Germans would if given the chance.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL

Globe has been so busy with the real stern straight-out cold-blooded business pursuits of life that, until during the past year but little attention has been given to civic improvements and the making of the city beautiful.
 Her permanency established as min ing metropolis and natural commercial and industrial center, the people are now disposed to take up the work of real home-building which means something more than bare house to live in, and their commendable endeavor in that direc- ton should meet with encouragement.
 The city in grading the streets and ex- tending light and water facilities has taken the initial step in the creating of the Greater Globe, and with strong, active chamber of commerce working in harmony with the municipal legislative body, much along the line of general i'm provements can be accomplished.
 But the real city beautiful is the task of the individual property owner-the permanent resident. On him devolves the
 
 Every condition here is favorable to the cultivation of grasses, the growing of shade trees and the nourishing of bright colored and fragrant flowers, while semi tropic fruits will flourish as alfalfa in the valley. Beautiful-even palatial-resi- dences are springing up in endless num- Der, but they will stand as barren monu- ments to vanity and evidences of "vulgar wealth" in the absence of grasses, trees and flowers, the elements that go to make up the ideal home; and it is the magnetism of the ideal home that brings contentment and attracts municipal growth by its in viting aspects. Globe is the recognized mining city of Arizona and with her pie turesque hills and surrounding mountain slopes can be made one of the most beau tiful and attractive home cities in the southwest.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
HERR BEBEL COMING

Herr Bebel, the able leader of the Ger man Social Democratic forces, and man of conceded intellectual ability and parlia- mentary prestige, comes to study Ameri- cans next year. He will find the Germans of this country ultra conservative in their Catholicism and Lutheranism, stiff in op- position to all state interference with per sonal rights, and aligned in the main with the conservative political forces of the country. Americans sometimes say they are liberal, progressive nation, whereas the fact is that in much of their thinking, in their forms of government, modes of taxation and in their attitude toward ex- periments in social legislation they are one of the most conservative people in Christendom.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
Doctor Montezuma and Chic

good as a ghost to the guest of bo, A tall, lanky, red-haired Irish Trd;' entered late during the feasting ,s1 Wassaja s memory turned back iBs,s.4 ly to his childhood playmate, NicLr fee; and so he later proved.
 "Hello, Mickyfeel Don't vo, member mel" saluted .Wassaia r, Dr. Montezuma.
 "Quien sabe," replied Mickyf.. with a. look that showed clearly T'3, he could not understand him.
 After several such ineffectnaI =. tempts, an interpreter bridged the 5;. ficulty, and Miekyfee's face lighted grotesquely with recognition througb ;. hideous daubs of paint.
 The situation was uncanny. H.. was a full-blooded Indian and a fvri,.' lrishman in features, both or wb.- were unable to converse in their pstr, languages. Wassaja, the full broo5.5 Apache, could talk only the native b, guage of Mickyfee, the red -6a.J,5 Irishman, and Miekyfee could c.nys,' only in the native language of Ws,.,s the Pinal Apache Indian. Each of t5s1 had lost his mother tongue.
 Another similarity in this lo.iDg ., one s identity in the habits and cu,f,, of another race was their dres. W,, saja was dressed in white man st,i,. as became his bringing up in the tbi,r five years of separation from his peori. But with Miekyfee it was distiactly reversion of type to the original h thought and everything else. He v., decked out more Indian-like than ,,. full-blooded member of his adonti tribe. In fact, he was the only one ., the tribe still adhering to the dres, ', the blanket Indian-the blanket fl. moccasins, the paints and the cbs, guady ornaments were all there on !. resplendent person. He squatted ,. this feast in a many hued blanket br,, from a pair of broad shoulders ,,i wrapped loosely about him; his sbai of vivid hair fell untidily below Ii, shoulders and was bound with bs,I of red calico that .eneircled his fr. head; his face was almost black finn exposure to the sun, and was hideov,, daubed with ochre and native vegetsb. paints; verify, he had become rs5 headed Irish Indian in his thirtyfu years of captivity.
 "Why do you not dress as other h dians dof" asked Dr. Montezuma poir. ing toward the assembled feast make,
 ''I am too old" replied Mickus through an interpreter, "to take white man s ways. They may indus in such folly,'' pointing to his feIT tribesmen; "but not so is Mickyfes
 If you would see this eounterfei, |, dian, just visit Fort Apache on rstia day. There you will find him drsEiv his rations as smugly as any redskl And if you were to question his Hgr to government rations and made tg known to him through an interpre,s as an Indian agent once did. ths will come to his face as malevoIeH, look as was ever given to an Apss. in eolored picture books.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

And the Phoenix Gazette continues to tell us that Arizona will profit greatly as a result of tbat conference between Presi- dent Roosevelt and Governor Kibbey. We'll, come to think of it, New Mexico seems to have profted immensely by the conference between the president and for mer Governor Hagerman-which was also a very exclusive affair.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

The territorial papers engaged in the unholy avocation of publishing gross fab rications regarding alleged business con ditions in Globe are not injuring this city in the least directly, but are doing a great harm to the territory in general. AS matter of fact, business conditions in Globe were never on a more safe and sound basis. The mines are all operating full forces, merchants report undimin- ished sales, and bank statements show in- creased deposits.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

About the time the people had decided they had a great suficiency of a good thing, Mr. Roosevelt intimates that he might be persuaded to try for third term. And this seems to be another an-borrOwed idea.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

The abiity'of the Elks to raise approx imately $12,000 in twelve hours for the purpose of erecting a new home for the order demonstrates pretty forcefully that there are no crimps in the local money market % dt.t
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

statement mas recently been made by Peter F. Dunne, general attorney for the Southern Pacific company, relative to the recent investigation made at San Francisco by the interstate com merce commission relative to reduced rates made to certain shippers by the Southern Pacific company. MT. Dunne s statement robs the story of this incl dent of many of the sensational fea- lures portrayed in the newspaper ac- counts of the hearing and clearly shows that the reductions were prompt ed by competition within the state of California, and were not to influence or control interstate commerce business. In his statement MT. Dunne says:
 "I understand, generally, that the purpose of the hearing just concluded was to inquire into rates on California state business as made by the Southern Pacific company with view to deter mining whether any concessions or re- funds were paid in order to influence interstate business.
 Commission Stretches a Point
 "When the hearing opened l sug- gested to Commissioner Lane that the records of the Southern Pacific com pany as to the state business were not subject of inquiry, since not within the provisions of the interstate com merce law. The commissioner replied that the purpose in examining the state list was to determine whether they had been made the medium through which concessions were extended to interstate shippers for the purpose of controlling interstate traffic. It did appear that in some instances, explained by the witnesses as being without any intent to depart from the law, few shipments had moved from or to point in Ne vada to or from California points. But this Nevada point was Verdi, about four miles across the California state line, and it was lumber point of a California industry which had several other points of production and manu- facture in the region, all California, and with those points Verdi, being just across the line, would naturally be grouped. The substantial inquiry, therefore, as I understand it, was whether the California state rates were subject to certain concessions in order that interstate business might be con trolled.
 Books Were Accessible
 "I suggested to Commissioner Lane that all of the books and papers of the Southern Pacific company had been &C., cessible to the commission and to it's inspectors, and that the commission through it's inspectors had enjoyed full access to those documents, had examined them, and was in full possession of their contents, and that it was therefore un- necessary in public inquiry to dis close further the business transactions of the company. The commissioner re- piled that while the commission was in possession of the documentary evidence yet the fairer way of proceeding was by public examination in which all par ties interested would be given an oppor- tunity to make any desired explanation concerning the transaction.
 Local Competition Reduced Rates
 "Speakihg generally, and so far as the California rates were explained at all, it was proved that any concessions from the rates as they had been origin ally printed, were made because of local
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Out of the west there have come many strange stories, but none, ven ture, stranger in it's ending than this one from the distant military post of Fort Apache, Arizona. It is a story of the meeting of two captives thirty-fve years after captivity.
 Wassaja (pronounced Was-sa-ha, and meaning beckoning, signaling, motion ing; also used for beacon light and sig nal light) was the name of one, and Mickyfee of the other. The first was born Pinal Apache on a very inacces. sible plateau of Superstition mountain, while Mickyfee Originally Michael Feel claimed birthplace in well populated city of Indiana and was Irish in looks and Irish in percentage. These two became playmates in 1871, follow ing raid of the Pinal Apaches on q camp of miners in Sonora, Mexico. As was the custom of these wild mountain Apaches, the massacred all in the camp excepting this one youngster, Mickyfee, then about eight years old. Mickyfee was blessed with a wonderful shock of red hair. Such hair was a curiosity to these Indians, who had seen little else than the straight, stringy black of their own race, and Mickyfee was regarded much in the same way that the Indians once regarded an insane person: thing to be spared or the wraht of the Great Spirit would descend upon the tribe.
 So Mickyfee with his carroty hair was taken into the camp of the Apaches and treated as 8 child of the tribe. But he was also considered part of the spells of the raid, and as was their custom after successful one, the In- dians drew lots upon their return to the village upon Superstition Mountain. Mickyfee became the spells of Was saja s father, who in turn made him over to his son, then child of only four years. This transfer made them play mates, Wassaja the captor, and Mickyfee, the Hoosier Irish boy, the captive. Wassaja was too young to appreciate the powers of eaptor and Mickyfee, blessed with as sunny a dis position as his hair was red, made the best of the situation as captive and joined in the primitive childish play as though born to it.
 The Companions Separated
 But on a day when the men of the Pinal Apaches were away to a distant military post to sign treaty of peace, the Pimas descended on this mountain village and wiped it from the face of the plateau. This ended the boyhood companionship of eaptor and captive; for Wassaja, who was too young to care for himself in the confusion, was taken a Pima captive, while Mickyfee used his stout legs to good purpose and es- capped with a number of squaws through little known pass that gave egress from the village on the rocky side of the plateau. The Pinal Apaches have charged the United States soldiers with the treachery of melting the Pimas to make this raid while the warriors were
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Alhambra, Ariz., women have signed a petition outlining statement that they have no objection to decent saloon being established in that place. The SUI pervisors may find it something of prob lem to give them exactly what they want. It will be remembered that the church people of New York fell down in an effort to conduct "decent" saloon.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
 AND THE DRAMA


 AND THE DRAMA
 Those good people who were shocked at "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "Man and Superman, yet sat through "The Hypocrites without tremor, must realize, if they will but analyze their emo- tons, that they have mistaken prudery for modesty. They have marked prefer ence for conventional fracturing of the Seventh Commandment rather than a bald presentation of sociological prob lem.
 The tearing to tatters of this especial one of the laws proclaimed by Moses has indeed become so common to the modern drama as to be somewhat monotonous. When not presented in all its crude and disgusting details, it still forms the crux of three-fourths of the most popular plays. It's changes have been played upon until the music of the stage has become as a lute with single string.
 Even in so simple bit of comedy as that of "The Girl Who Has Everything, |" it was necessary to lug in an attempted bit of salacious scandal to hold the interest of the public, and the play that presents a really clean and innocent story, free of the open betrayal of womanhood or of the nastier suggestiveness of the Olga Neither sole and Virginia Harmed dramas, is al- most an oddity.
 Just now New York is testing two so- called morality" plays, modern adap- tation of the name to immortality mixed with a generous portion of church doe Urine. Henry Arthur Jones, author of "The Hypocrites, is guilty of one which was originally called "The Galileean' s Victory" but for fear of offending the church this was changed to "The Even gelist.' It will be seen that the only fear of offense to acute sensibilities was in the name-not the matter.
 Written in "a mood of piety," it is ex- pected to attract the congregations of the churches who, if they can sit through it unhorrifed, certainly having become ia miliar with the face, can have no reason not to endure, then embrace, Bernard Shaw.
 The climax is reached in the confession of the wife of wealthy manufacturer who has induced an eloquent young evan gelist to hold series of meetings to bring to the true faith her husbands employees. She had broken the Seventh Command. ment.
 The pious companion piece to this is IN H. ID .l.t 4. Everlasting" which involves the familiar Commandment in the intricacies of con- fict between Body, Mind and Soul The first scene is in college hall and from there it shifts to the New York Tender loin. It is sort of "boldly religious" effort to Sudermannize this same hack neyed subject.
 These are but examples not essentially different from '"The Sign of the Cross" of the effort by using the sympolism and machinery of religion to gain for the the ater the patronage of the church. It is borrowing of the livery of heaven to win the almighty dollar
 But the substance is the same and here, as in the secular drama, it seems neces- sary to overwork the Seventh Command ment, as though no other situation held enough of dramatic possibility to feed a jaded public taste. It must arouse the students wonder as to why Shakespeare was expurgated for modern audiences and Beaumont and Fletcher relegated to the shelves as immodest.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Of course, that basket of Arizona dates will give no offense to the president; but it wasn't fair shake for the farmers of the valley. Governor Kibbey should have taken along bale of alfalfa-the near to nature newly discovered nourishment for nobility.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

APhoenix paper comedies to the nation the right to do as it pleases, and raise the tariff to foot the bills. Under our form of government, young man, there is no other alternative. The constitution guar antees liberty and provides for taxation.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

"Globe feels the copper slump. A num- Der of Savonians have already been let out,' announces the Tucson Citizen in boxcar head letters. My, Oh me! Had you missed 'em!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Bisbee girls should abandon the idea of skipping off after new tangled culinary gods and confine their talents to the time honored and revered fapjack and hog wallow gravy of the good old days when pa was a prospector.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

There never was time in the history of the city when real estate was worth more than it is today, and there never will be time when it can be bought for a lower price
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

And there is no cessation of building operations in Globe. New houses are go- ing up in every part of the city and the local Valley yards are veritable beehive of industry.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Of course, the grading of Broad street, between Cedar and Mesquite, is going to put the property owners on the east side 'up in the air." Alderman Murphy has demonstrated that from the start.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

The Arizona Democrat states that the "autoists seem to think electric wire poles were put up to stop their cars with" A regiment of hobbling, maimed pedestrians throughout the country will scarcely con- cur in the opinion.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

A real newspaper mirrors the every day life of the city in which it is pub lished. The pictures are not of the news papers making, but are accurate reflec- tions of the movements of the masses.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Government by commission" as advo- cated by eastern civil reformers may be all right; but it's a safe wager that the people are better acquainted with gov ernment by omission.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Despite the many rumors there Is no curtailment in the length of the bucket brigade and the same old familiar faces continue to run the hills at every change of shift.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Tempe is organizing brass band, and fearful lest the entire town might show a disposition to go on a toot, the city law makers got busy and adopted a stringent Sunday and midnight closing ordinance.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Knocking the New Mexico fair will not build up the Arizona exposition. It sim ply shatters interest and confidence in fairs in general. Put up your hammers, gentlemen of Phoenix.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

"The summer now is past and gone, no more we'll have to now the lawn" sings Phoenix scribe. But why give way to a flow of soul; it's almost time to shovel coal?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20

Rumble Bee (Ariz.) is buzzing town if its daily budget of gossip published in the Prescott Journal Miner can be used as a criterion.