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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY MEETS
informal Reports Made of Remarkable lie
Discoveries in Pajarito Park BY
Prof. HeWett and Party.

The Archaeological Society met last
evening at the Office of Judge N. B.
Laugh,in President John r. McFie
was in the chair, and Secretary Paul
A. F. Walter at his desk. The attend.
ance was gratifyingly large and the
meeting was of considerable interest.
Informal reports were made of the
extraordinary archaeological discover
les that have been made the past few
weeks by Professor Edgar l.. Hewett
and his party in the Cliff Dwellers' re.
gion twenty to thirty miles west of
Santa Fe, several members of the par.
ty having visited Professor Hewett's
camp in the Ritos de los Frijoles,
where the main excavation work was
done, although two other sites were
also eXcavated. Excavation work will
probably cease tomorrow for the sea-
son and those with Professor Hewett
will start for home although he him.
self will remain a week longer. Sat.
urday, teams will start from here for
the Frijoles to bring to Santa Fe the
pottery and other relics that have been
found and which will form the nucleus
for an archaeological museum in this
city. Ex-Governor l.. Bradford Prince
and Henry Woodruff were added to the
committee consisting of Mrs. N. B.
Laughlin, Judge A. ]. Abbott and Paul
A. f. Walter, to secure a suitable room
in which to store and exhibit these
finds, which are to be arranged after
the manner of the famous Zuni room
in Brooklyn room, New York, and
which is a model of it's kind. Large
pictures of the cliff and communal
dwellings will be attractive features
of this room.
The report Of Treasurer A. H. Brod.
head was very encouraging. He report.
ed that $100 more was raised for the
excavation fund than had been requir.
ed. The $1,000 a year which the legis.
lature had appropriated for the use of
the Archaeological Society for its pro
posed school of Archaeology in the OLD
Palace, was found to be available, the
moment the school is established and
the Old Palace declared a National
Monument, which may be in the near
future.
The committee on an archaeological
exhibit at the Sixteenth National
Irrigation Congress appointed by the
board of county commissioners, was
authorized to prepare and make such
an exhibit to consist of pictures loaned
by the society for the purpose and
framed at it's expense.
1t was reported that Professor
Hewett is placing the sign-posts made
for the purpose by the society, so as
to enable tourists to find their way
without guides to the Frijoles Canon
and other noteworthy points in the
Cliff Dwelling region, and that good
wagon road had been constructed all
the way to the brink of the Frijoles
Canon by Professor Hewett and his
party.
The meeting adjourned subject to
the call Of the president
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
FIRE MENACEs SWIFT
PACKING PLANT AT ST. JOE

st. Joseph, Mo-, Sept. 1S--Forty men
were overcome by heat and smoke in
a fire which threatened the destruction
OF the immense Swift Packing plant in
south st. Joseph last night. With the
possible exception Of Alex Mason and
George B. Heaston, firemen, all are
out Of danger today. The fire started in
the basement of the cold storage
building and was not under control un-
til o'clock this morning. The loss will
amount to about $4,000.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
WR|GHT'S FLYING
MACHINE WRECKED
Tragedy Ends Aero.
plane Experiments
at Fort Myer
ARMY OFFICER IS KILLED
Inventor of Airship Seriously
Iniured.--D Details of the
Accident.

Washington, Sept 1S.-Lying in the
Fort Myer hospital with a fractured
thigh, Orville Wright, who fell with
Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge in
yesterdays aeroplane accident, is at
the present time making a manly fight
for recovery. No indications of internal
injuries have developed and this morn
ing the attending surgeons announced
that Wright was doing well. The me,
chanics who helped Wright in his work
on the machine are almost heartbrok-
en- over the wreck of the aeroplane.
Chief Mechanic Furness said today
that he saw Wright trying hard to get
his airship on the level after one of
the prope,lers had broken in two, but
that the one propeller that was revolv.
ing, pulled the machine downward and
to the left It was too strong to restore
its equilibrium. The broken propeller
smashed some other parts of the air.
ship and the whole mass dashed to
the ground, injuring Selfridge so badly
that he died within a short time after
being taken from the ruins and at first
it was feared that Wright, also, was
fatally injured.
Theories as to Cause of Accident
Differ.
From latest accounts of witnesses
the pieces of broken frog of the pro-
peller struck one of the supports Of the
rudder. The machine did not travel far
before it began to swing around on its
own axis to the left. 1t did not over
turn as was the general impression
of the spectators, but the left side
veared downward. Wright again re.
gained his lateral equilibrium, but the
machine then plunged forwarcs' aud
came to earth with terrific force. 1t
is the belief of Wright today that he
would have been able to land safely
had he been twenty feet higher in the
air at the time Of the accident. Anoth.
er theory advanced by several witness.
ies Is that one OF the supports OF the
rudder snapped off and was struck by
the propeller which in turn was broken
off. This would cause the other pro.
peller to swing the machine around.
The body of Lieutenant Selfridge is
| still at the Fort Meyer hospital, await.
ing instructions from his family. His
father is in San Francisco, while his
mother and brother are supposed to
be at the present time in Boston.
Death Of seIfridge DepIored.
New York, Sept 1S.-Many members
of the Aero Club and the aeronautic
secretary of this city look upon the
death of Lieutenant Selfridge by an
accident to the Wright aeroplane as
one of the severest setbacks aeronau.
tics have ever received, but E. Cla
Rue Jones. editor of "Aeronautics, +"
pointed out in an interview today that
in the history of aeroplanes there have
been only four deaths compared with
great number in connection with the
development of the balloon.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
FLEET
SAILS FOR MANILA

Albany, West Australia, Sept. 49,
The American Atlantic battleship
fleet under command of Rear Admiral
Sperry, left here at 5 o'clock this af-
ternoon for Manila, 5000 miles away,
where it is due to arrive on October
Q or 3. The flagship Connecticut did
not leave with the rest of the fleet,
but will depart tonight at midnight and
overtake the rest Of the fleet tomor.
row. She was delayed by cOaling.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
WORK TO BEGIN ON
RAILROAD TO HAGAN

The general offices of the New Mexi.
co Central Railway in this city today
gave out the information that active
construction work on the branch line
from Moriarty to the Hagan coal fields
will start about October 1. Work will
be pushed on the road and it is ex-
pected that trains will be in operation
on the new road about the first Of the
year.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
MINING LAW NOTES

(a) Group Annual Assessments The annual assessment work for group of contiguous mining claims may be done on single claim in the group, provided such assessment work tends to develop the whole group and is for the benefit of the whole group.
 (b) Employment of Keeper-Where it is necessary to employ keeper or watchman and guard valuable mining machinery, reduction work or structures placed upon mining claim or upon q group of such claims, the wages paid to such keeper will count for and may be applied as part of the annual as sessment expenditure on such claim or group of claims.
 Co Joint Ownership-There must be a joint ownership in a group of mining claims to permit work to be done on one of the group to apply for tho whole group.
 (d) Work Done Outside of the Boundaries of Mining Claim--Where it is necessary to make road or cut a trail to a mining claim, the cost of the same may be applied on the annual assessment work expenditure required by statute, even though such road oi trail may be outside of the boundaries of the mining claim.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
DRIVEN INSANE BY
 RESPONSIBILITIES
MRS. REGALLA OF GLOBE IS BROUGHT TO ASYLUM BY
 DEPUTY DUNCAN.
At Hearing Neighbors Testified That For Five Years the Woman Had Hardly Stirred From Her House-It Is Hoped Rest Viii Restore Her.

The Gazette says: To see a nephew whom he had not met for over seven years, Deputy Sheriff w. c. Dun. can of Gila county, this morning called at the Gazette office. The nephew is Henry Lawrence, a member of the mechanical force of this paper. The two relatives met last in Texas, in the year 1901. They spent some time in talking over old times, but both agreed that they had made a wise move in leaving the Lone Star state and mak. ing their home in sunny Arizona. Fur, thermore, they agreed that they had picked out the two best cities in which to take up their residence-Phoenix and Globe.
 Deputy Sheriff Duncan came over with Mrs. Regalla, who was commit. ted to the asylum for the insane. The ease is particularly sad one Mrs Regalla is a comparatively young wom' an, but has five children ranging in age from five years down to a babe in arms. It is thought that the continual strain of caring for so many little ones is what brought on her present attack of insanity. At the hearing neighbors testified that for five or six years she had hardly stirred out of her home. The continual drudgery resulted in nerv. ous breakdown, followed by the loss of her mind. It is hoped that with good long rest under proper care she will re. gain her reason.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
GETS HIS CLAIM
 AFTER LONG LINE
 OF CRIMSON TAPE

PRESCOTT, January 25.-ExCoun- ty Assessor D. J. Sullivan filed de- mand for the payment of $2,400 iii the office of the board of supervisors yes teIday for salaries and expenses of deputies in the assessor s office in the years 1903 and 1904, and presented vouchers in his favor for the amount.
 Sullivan alleges that he hired the deputies under an understanding with the board of supervisors that the claims would be paid, the board recognizing that the salary and expenses allowed the assessors was entirely too small compensation for making good assess ment of the county. Attorney General Clark, then district attorney, at the re- quest of the board, rendered an opinion in effe, Lat the board refused to allow Assessor Sullivan s claim.
 After his term as assessor expired, the first of last year, Mir. Sullivan wis ited the last legislature and petitioned the members for relief, with the result that an act was passed authorizing the board of supervisors of Yavapai county to pay to him the $2,400. The act was approved and signed by Governor Kib- bey
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
.ODD COINCIDENCE IN WHICH A GLOBE
 WHEEL FIGURES
STOLEN A NUMBER OF TIMES, IT IS RETURNED TO HOME OF
 OWNER BY LAST THIEF.

PHOENIX, January 25.-0ne of the strangest eoincidences which was ever heard of here is that in which bicy- cle stolen short time ago from the house of Ross Moore, was ridden with in mile of Hot Springs Junction, there thrown away, then picked up and ridden by another man right to the back door of Mir. Moore s residence
 The wheel was stolen in the first place by William Thomas, the burglar caught last week at Jerome. It be. longs to miner somewhere in the Globe district. It had been left in MT. Moore s house, but while he was away on a trip to the mountains the place was entered and burglarized by Thomas and confederate. The wheel was taken and according to Thomas : own story he started to ride it to Pres cott. But mile this side of Hot Springs Junction he got tired of riding and threw it away into the brush
 There it was found by a Mexican wood chopper, who saw it one the same day it was thrown away by Thomas, but passed by it. The next day he say it again, but still did not take it. But the third day, he determined to take it and ride it to Phoenix. He did not know but that it was the property of some of the wood choppers in that vicinity, but he did not seem to have cared.
 The bicycle carried him all the way to Phoenix and he rode straight to the house of & friend living in the rear of Moore s place. He set the bike against the back porch of the very house from which it was stolen, where it was found yesterday by Mr. Moore, little the worse for wear, but still pretty good two wheeled steed.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
FINE CRIMINAL
 POINT RAISED IN
 4 MURDER CASE
HAS COURT THE RIGHT TO IN sTRUCT FOR MURDER IN FIRST
 DEGREE OR AcQUITTAL?

| TUCSON, January 25.--Local attor. neys who are conversant with the pa. pers in the ease of the negro Groce who is in the county jail under sen. tenee of death, are of the opinion that 1t is likely that decision will not be handed down for some time, perhaps not until after another term of the supreme court, and that it may be many months before the man will know what is to be his ultimate fate. Their reason for this conclusion is that the appeal papers raised very important question as to the right of man on trial for his life in Arizona to the utmost latitude in the lnstruc- tion of the Jury as to rno degrees of guilt on which they may find him guilty. 1t has been the almost universal GUS. tom and tradition in Arizona that a have the court give instructions to the jury permitting them to bring in yer. diet for murder in the first degree, or of any the other degrees of murder, for voluntary manslaughter, or for acquit- tai. In the Groce case, Judge Campbell departed from this custom and gave the jury instructions to either find the man guilty of first degree murder or turn him loose.
 The attorneys for the appellant con tend that that was fatal error, and that he was entitled as matter of law to all the various degrees. II is be. lieved here that the supreme court has referred the point to one of its judges for investigation.
 Needless to say the decision when it does come will have a radical bear ing upon future trials for murder in Arizona. For that reason it is thought that the court proposes to exercise great care in settling this appeal, as there decision will either open the way for great many more cases of capital pun ishment in the territory or will give the jury in the future the almost unlimit- ed leeway it has had before.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
POPULAR ERRORS
 CONCERNING YUMA
THE DEPRESSION BELOW SEA LEVEL AND THE RETURN OF
 SOLDIER FOR HIS BLANKETS.

Captain Ingalls,, who returned from Yuma yesterday, said that that munich pality continues to be the best adver. tised town in Arizona. Nearly all tour ists who pass through the country over the southern route have heard of the place in one way or another, and most of them step off the trains for few minutes in order that they may write home to their friends and say that they have been in Yuma, says the Arizona Republican.
 Captain Ingalls, overheard conver- Sation between a couple of vivaeious young lady tourists. One of them ask ed if the train would stop long enough for her to send some postal cards to friends in the east telling them that she was in Yuma, town 270 feet below sea level. The captain thought il was time to butt in and correct a more or less popular error. He in qulred: "Do you think Yuma is below sea level?" "That's was the guide book says" replied the tourist. Well," said the captain, "there is the Colorado hurrying to the sea; now what do you think makes the water run uphill at this furious rate?" The young woman knew of no reason why the river could not seek higher level, since the guide book said so, but she was induced to consult the guide book again and found that the submarine town was further on.
 Nearly all the tourists who stop, re- mark; "This is the place where the soldier died, went to hell and asked Tor a vacation to come back after his blankets" One of them had hardly ahghted on the ground before he made mat observation to native, who re- pied, "Yes, this is the place"
 The visitor surveyed the surround lngs and inquired, "What is that big stone building on the hill9"
 That's the territorial peniten- uary, replied the native.
 The state prisonl" inquired the tourist.
 Mo-" said the native, "this is not state; it's the territorial peniten- tiary."
 Who do you keep in it'" asked the visitor.
 Oh, ;, said the native, "there are several hundred convicts there"
 What are they in fors''
 some for murder, some. for horse Steaiing and cattle stealing, but most or them have been sent up for life for ''Peaking about the soldier in hell and hls blankets II
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26

States, to the effect that the request of sheepmen for permission to graze their fioeks upon the Prescott forest reserve for sixty days during the lambing sea. son had been granted | A fine flow of water was encountered in the artesian well near Benson. This is the second successful well in that section.
 Government officials are looking for an underground flow of water near Mesa. If it is found and can be pumped at reasonable cost, the pumps will be put in operation by Uncle Sam. (. E. Denmark was seriously injure,. and his horse was killed in a runaway accident at Yuma.
 Yuma property is selling for twice the price it commanded two years ago, On account of the falling off of freight business six engineers and thir. teen firemen running out of Tucson have been laid of.
 A big bunch of Indians are to be employed in levee building at Yuma.
 Vags are being sent up for sixty days at Tucson.
 Tucson business men are planning a trade excursion. Globe will undoubted. ly be in the itinerary.
 Tucson will now try to place her school bonds, believing that the money market is now prepared for their re. ception.
 The Presbyterans of Tucson have ar ranged for the erection of a enw church building to cost something like $25, 900.
 A Phoenix palmist secured $l30 from a confiding lady of that city. His pres. ent address is unknown.
 Imperial valley growers expect to have canteloupcs on the market by May l5.
 George Phillips, while operating drilling rig at Douglas, lost all the fingers of his right hand.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
WAS MCG|NN|S THE VICTIM IF
 A MURDERER?
BENSON OFFICERS BEGIN TO DOUBT STORY THAT HE
 SHOT HIMSELF.

BENSON, Ariz., January 25.--A question has arisen in the minds of the officials here, as we'll as of the friends of the late A. A. McGinnis, who was re. ported to have committed suicide last Friday afternoon in the barn in the rear of his residence, as to whether it was q case of suicide, accidental shoot. ing or otherwise.
 A number of peculiar circumstances have arisen in regard to his death that have caused considerable com. ment. In the first place, the wound was made in the left side of the head, that is, the bullet entered the left side of the head, just back of the ear, and came out on the right side. The wounds were much larger than are usually made with 3S.ealiber revolver, and it was almost impossible for a man to have shot himself in that part of the body without using his left hand and McGinnis was right-handed. Be sides, there were not the slightest trace of powder burns around the wound.
 The gun that was found lying be- tween his legs when his body was dis. covered was taken out by several par ties and tried with the use of both kinds of powder, and it was demon strated that the shots discharged from it showed signs of powder burns as was as a distance of about four feet. The gun, when it was picked up, showed that one of the shells had been fired.
 An effort is now being made to find the bullet that caused the death, and the stable is being thoroughly searched. Upon it's discovery depends further in vestigation in the matter.
 Another peculiar circumstance is the fact that the shot was not heard by parties within short distance of the place. while it was heard by others who were down on the Main street
 The result of the investigations be- ing made will be watched with interest by many, as number of friends of the deceased here ridieule the suicide and accidental theory.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
Mining Machinery
 News Item

Two money saving devices of interest to mining men and comparatively new to this district are as follows:
 The Davis Calyx Diamondlcss Core Drill, which uses chilled shot cost ing under l0e per h., in stead of dia. monds. Will drill any ground. It does as much work in average ground and much more in soft ground than dia. mond drill, and its first cost is less. IL is made in several sizes, to run by hand, horse, gasoline, or steam power. De scribed in catalog G-9l.
 A still more important new thing is the Temple Ingersol Electric-Air Drill, run by compressed air, but still using electric power transmission; run by gas, oline or steam power; uses l,3 the pow, CT required for an air drill of equal capacity; no piping; no foundations. The Old Dominion uses one. Catalog GEO tells of it.
 IneerSoIl.Rand Co. of Texas,
 Fl Paso, Texas
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26
ARIZONANS HoNORED

The National Wool Growers Asso- citation, at its recent session in Helena, made F. ". Perkins and T. E. Pol lock of Arizona, members of the execu- tive committee. Ten thousand dollars were appropriated to fight the admin istration s public range policy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26

Rev. A, A. Hyde, WnO at one tune nau charge of the Methodist church in Tombstone, is dead at his home in Los Angeles. Deceased while living in Tombstone suffered from blood poison ing, necessitating the amputation of one of his legs. It is possible that this mis- fortune hastened his death. The rev erend gentleman was well known throughout the territory. C. F. Schumacher has brought suit against the Rillito Canal company in Pima county to foreclose a mortgage of s4,500.
 John Sanders has sold his saloon in- terests at Ft. Thomas to F. M. San ders and has removed to Globe. k. J. Clark at Ft. Thomas has tract of six acres of ground which produced $I, 100 worth of watermelons last sea, son. Better than a gold mine. Grandma Elizabeth Allen, a pioneer resident of Pima, who recently died at the advanced age of S2, was buried yesterday
 The University of Arizona will con duet an eight-week course of agrieul- tural study at the Assembly hall in Thatcher.
 Editor Kane of the Clifton Advo- cate has been arrested on charge of criminal libel.
 Miss Kate Futile, former Stafford girl, is seeking the appointment of postmistress at Clifton.
 The Bulletin Publishing company at Solomonville is seeking an editor to fill the vacancy created by the resig- nation of MT. Kinyon.
 "Chamber of commerce beginning to move,' runs headline in the Tucson Star. The government seismograph should have noted this disturbance.
 Tucson is building false hopes on McNeil reducing the price of school books. The Phoenix vendor isn't built that way.
 Tucson is making strong fight for reduction of freight rates.
 Constable Jack Dufton of Tucson, who has been dangerously ill, is re- ported entirely out of danger.
 The supreme court has adjourned un' til March 23.
 | Prescott had heavy fall of snow Thursday night. Mrs. Harry Taffe of Phoenix was bad ly injured in runaway accident.
 c. s. Shulz, treasurer of the Arizona Wool Growers association, yesterday received a telegram from Clifford Pin. chot. chief forester of the United
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-26

Sheriff White, who has been danger ously ill in the hospital at Bisbee is rapidly recovering and it is thought will be able to leave the hospital in about two weeks.