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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08
WHOLESALE MURDER
TRIED BY INDIAN
Crazy Redskin Kills Wife and
Tries to Get at lmagin-
ary Foes,

PHOENIX, Sept IA Cocopah In
dian, named Charley Clark, shot and
killed his wife Sunday morning and
attempted the life OF another squaw
whom he said led his wife astray.
The shooting took place at Laguna
dam above Yuma abuot Z O'Clock Sun
day morning and created much ex-
element among the Indians. The
names of the victims could not be
learned.
The dead woman was shot twice.
once through the right arm, the bull
let passing entirely through the body,
coming out in the left arm; the sec
ond shot was through the right tenn
pie. coming out on the opposite side
of the head Dr. Clymer, who was
called in, said that either shot would
have been fatal. The woman was
asleep at the time, lying on her side.
She never knew what happened.
The other woman, who came into
the tent at the time of the shooting.
was shot through the top of the right
lung and through the left side. She
will recover, as neither of the wounds
are necessarily fatal Both the wo.
men are about "a years old and rather
attractive In appearance. The weapon
used way Colt, A.
After the shooting Clark rushed
from the tent shouting that he would
not stop until he killed three other
Indians who were instrumental in
running his peace and happiness, He
then mounted horse and as he rode
of said: '-Ten the police / will not
give up until l have killed all who
have done me wrong. Then I will
surrender and do not care what be.
comes OF me-" He was armed with
a Winchester and the same revolver
which he used to murder his wife.
He is considered dangerous Indian
and i'm the condition of his mind now
will put up hard fight before taken.
AS IL is a government case the Of
ficers at Yuma did not go in search of
Clark, but the Indian police and a
number of other Indians took up the
chase Immediately. IL is said by those
who know the habits and nature OF
the tribe that the murderer when
caught will be tortured and killed
that he viii never be brought back
to the reservation alive. He was seen
couple of hours after the crime was
committed about half a mile down
the river, as he swan to the othei
side He has relatives few miles
below Yuma and it is thought that hs
made that point in safety and is being
kept in hiding by some of them.
The murdered squaw was cremated
at her home a mile and half below
! the bridge. Quite a large crowd Of
white people went down to witnes:
;aI, &c cd
all the odd and curious notions Of
their forefathers ages ago. The cere
mony began at shutdown and lasted
two hours. First shallow place was
made in the ground upon which was
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08
MEDALS PRESENTED
BY MAYOR MCGOWAN

The two gold medals presented to
the victorious American team by Act
ing Mayor MCGOWAN, on the steps of
New York's historic city hall. are of
fourteen carat gold, obIong in shape
and one and one-haIf by two inches
in size, attached to solid gold fob.
The front represents the Goddess Co
lumbia browning an athlete with an
olive branch. the left hand supporting
the stars and stripes, with the Ameri-
can eagle perched between the two
figures In the back ground is Olym-
pia. the ancient stadium of the
Greeks, where the first Olympiad bat
tie was celebrated in rs B. C. On the
diverse side is delicately worked a
laurel branch entwining the seals of
America and the city of New York
with a commemorative inscription
The work was executed by Charles J..
Dieges, of Dieges & Clust
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08

plums. etc-the important elements
are size, form, color, ripeness, flavor
and condition.
In grapes: consider and compare the
form and size of the punches, the size
flavor and condition.
In judging the commercial varieties.
color. favor, firmness and condition,
keeping qualities, also variety must
be considered.
In judging the box fruit, the uniform
size, color, hacking and general condi-
ton of the fruit must be considered.
In all cases a convenient scale of
points is numbered 10. The highest
figure denotes perfection for the va
riety and five is mediocre. below this
condennatory. The total of the marks
should exceed so per cent of the posi-.
BILE number of the entry or it must be
passed as unworthy of award.
Horticultural Department
All exhibits must be in place by S
a. M, September 20, except cut flow.
ers.
Thursday, October s, Albuquerque
Day, will be the day on which awards
for cut flowers and cut flower de
signs viii be made. Such exhibits
must be in place by a. m, Octo
Der s.
All cut flowers. except in decora.
tons, must be grown by the exhibitor
All plants must be the property of the
exhibitor and not borrowed, and all
plants, except decorative plants, must
have been grown by tie exhibitor.
Any exhibitor may make more than
one entry in the same class, but shall
not be awarded more than one pre-
MUM in any one class.
The same specimen may compete
for individual prize and be part o.
the general display.
In all cases where there is no com
petition, second prize only shall be
awarded except on statement from
judges that the exhibit is really mer
litorius
The entry number and not the nam'
of the exhibitor shall appear on the
entry tag. until after the judges
award have been made Then a carr
may be attached bearing such infor
nation as ne desires.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08

tied him TO a beam and beat him until
he tainted This fiendish assault
stirred the two districts again, and
the police worked desperately to find
the criminal.
Two months later Robert Gould, an
other small boy, was found stripped
and tied to a telegraph pole. The lads
body was covered with welts from a
whip or rope and his head was badly
cut. While the excitement was still
az fever heat four-year-old George
Pratt of South Boston was found in
the cabin of yacht His body, which
was quite nude, was covered with re-
voting bruises. Not content, this
time, with whipping his prey, the fiend
had punctured him with pins and
needles.
Several more assaults of the same
dastardly character followed in quick
succession. Finally one of the little
victims was able to furnish a elew to
the perpetrator of the crimes. He
named Pomeroy youth who worked
in store in Boston. Thither the of
ficers FASTENED with all possible
speed. They questioned Jesse. the
fourteen-year-old son of a respectable
dressmaker. The suspect denied all
knowledge Of the assaults, but he was
positively identified by several of his
little victims.
At that time degeneracy was not so
well understood as 1t is now. They
called Pomeroy degenerate and sent
him to a reform school. He was a
model prisoner and at the end Of sew
enteen months he was released
through the efforts of clergymen, re-
formers and others who had interested
themselves in his behalf
Within two months after his release
and return home Jesse Pomeroy NAL
treated and murdered two more child
rem. One of his victims was I.ttle
girl, the other a fye-y ear-old boy. The
remains we're so mutilated that they
could scarcely be recognized. Pomeroy
confessed his crimes and was given
speedy trial. This time, instead of
being sent to a reform school, he was
sentenced to solitary confinement for
| life
For thirty-one years ne has been
confined In cell as small as closet.
dark and bare. On a dozen occasions
| he has. with superhuman cunning. de-
yised plans OF escape. and In spite of
constant watching has succeeded in
carrying them to an advanced stage
OF execution. He has never attended
divine services in the prison chapel
and has never been required to work.
It is said that be has spent much Of
his time in reading and has become
fairly well informed. But so far as
personal experience goes, such things
as electric cars. monographs. tele-
| phones and many other things in com
mon use today, are absolutely I'M
know TO him.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08
CLARK PROPERTY
PRODUCING SILVER

GLOBE, Sept. THE Clark Proper
ty, two miles from Globe. is maintain
ing its reputation for the production
of silver. G. K. Taught, one of the
lessees on the property, working
small force all summer, taking out
high grade ore all summer and in Au-
gust, shipped two cars to FL Paso.
He has opened up stope which will
yield large amount of ore, If tne
performance of last Thursday is re-
peated many times. Taught put in
seventeen holes and fired them stimuli
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-08

placed brush and wood about two
feet high. then the body was placed
upon this and more wood piled on
until il reaches a height OF about
five feet. A match was applied and
the cremation begun. All Of the eff
fects Of the deceased were placed up
on the box. consisting OF clothing.
jewelry. Deeds, dishes. etc, then rela-
tiyes and friends made offerings Of
calico, leads and handkerchiefs,
which were also placed on the pile
and We're gradually consumed with the
body by the flames.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
Slaves of the Sea.

| have often wished. says Frank L.
Bullen, in The Men of the Merchant Ser
gice, that it were pos-'ole to make lads
who at school chatter SO glibly about
running away to sea" understand how
impossible it is to do any such a tnng
nowadays, except, indeed, in such yes
sells as are the last resort of the unfor-
tunate.
The vessels of which | speak are
those small sailing craft which still drag
out a precarious existence in competi-
ton with steam. They may be seen at
all our smaller ports, lying disconsolately
on mud banks at ebb-tide. Oh, 50 dirty,
so miserable they look
Worn- out gear, wretched food, and
not enough men and boys to do the
heavy work they provide hard school
for young seamen. In them may be
found still the bad traditions of half a
century ago.
1t is all very pitiful, a side-path to
sea-faring that must have lent itself
to many abuses, through which many
poor, misguided lad got away to sea,
ana IOullu llO pidCt lOi repentance uii-
til tco late. | have only mentioned it
here because, in speaking of the boy |
IN painfully reminded of the iniserab's :
little sea drudges who are still to be
found in these vessels. leading the hard
est of lives, and uncared for by anyone.
They are wo.thy of all sympathy, be-
ing sn helpless, SO unable to raise them
selves. Ifcir environment is as bad
as it can wei be, for, whether ashore
or afloat, the company they are. in is
usually of very bad kind. Now and
then, of course, such a vessel will have
a good steady seaman, who has an In
terest in her, for skipper.
A man like that will often carry his
wife. and will endeavor to keep re-
spectacle crew with him, voyage after
voyage. And as likely as not, he will
take an interest i'll the boy, and try to
make something of him; but such ex
ceptions are rare
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
The Student Strike in Russia.

The university student in Russia,
with rare exceptions, belongs to the
liberal party. 1t seems to have be-
come tradition that the students at.
titude should be strongly agains tne
government. This is in large measure
explained by the fact that the student
class suffers more than any other
from the arbitrary regulations of the
police and censor. Each facalty is
provided with its subinspector. and
his staff. At first | took these uni
formed spies" for janitors, but after
ward learned that their duties con-
sisted simply in remembering the full
name of each student, in getting ac-
quainted, as far as possible. with the
voices of those who seemed to be the
leaders, in order to recognize them
even from behind closed doors. In
the gymnasia, corresponding to our
high and preparatory schools, the re-
gulationS are even more strict than
In the universities, and there Is no
evidence Of organized protest. Like
wise. on nleaving the university, the stu
dent finds himself struggling against
the bureaucratic machine. and grad
ually submits and accepts it as in
evitable. There is a small conserva-
tive element in the student body, but
it does not form an opposition party
and can be disregarded, since 1t ex-
erts little or no influence on the gem
eral trend of student activities. The
World Today
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
BERLIN POSTAL TUBES.
Connect the Central Office With the
Principal Stations.

Connect the Central Office With the
Principal Stations.
The Berlin postal authorities are
revolutionizing the conveyance OF let.
ters and parcels.
The idea on which they are expert
menting, says the Chicago Tribune,
is to have an underground tube with
large enough circumference to adj
NIT a man in STOPPING posture.
These tubes are to connect the CEN
trail post office with the principal sta
tions and with the district Offices.
Two sets of rails are built in this
tube or tunnel. one over the other,
not side by side. The upper set of
rails is supported on the sides of the
tube, thus practically dividing it in
two. Small carriages, running on two
wheels. are automatically driven by
electricity along these rails.
No locomotive is used nor Is there
any attendant with the carriage. AS
many as six of these carriages can
be run together for conveying letters
and parcels from the arrival station
to the central post Office and thence
to the various districts, or vice versa.
BY this means letters can be de.
livered in any part OF the city in
less than fourth Of the time former
1y required So far the scheme is
not beyond the experimental stages,
but it promises to be success and
to Danish from the streets the mail
van, with all its poetry and romance.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
Suicide in ChiIdhood,

1t is fact that suicide in continually
increasing among the children of civil
lied people. A hundred years ago it
was an almost unheard-of occurrence
for child to kill himself Now, while
suicides are commonly reported among
the children of France. England, Italy.
Switzerland and the United States, Ger
many heads the list in the number of
juvenile suicides In Prussia alone,
from 1860 to 1893. seventy-three boys
and twenty girls under the age of ten
years, and 1873 boys and 342 girls be-
tween the ages of 10 and IS years, cirn-
mitted suicide. The younger children,
in many cases, were totally ignorant CT
what they were doing. Of the causes
for the prevalence of suicide in child
hood, Baer, in a most interesting book
just published in Germany, states that
the most important are mental disturb
ances. such as the insanities and the
emotions, love, hatred. jealousy, etc. In
some cases alcohol was a distinct pre-
disposing factor. While the tendency
to commit suicide may be inherited
poverty. hunger. fear. lack of education
etc. all lead to suicide. A direct ap-
peal is made to parents and physicians
to help in the prevention of this grow
ing evil among children by more care.
full attention to their education.-Phild.
deibhia Medical Journal.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
The Secret of a Reputation.

In Leslie's Monthly Mr.. E. HoHgh eX-
typical bad man" is made of. At one
stage of his career the story of how
Mr.. Williamson threw Peterson over
the counter of the Lone Star Hotel
spread rapidly through the town.
Whiteman, the Jew, told it to Jack
son, the ranchman, and Jackson re-
peated it to one of his cow-punchers
who had come into town with him,
and the latter told it to the barber,
and the barber told it to everybody
else. Il reckon we sure have got Il
new bad man in town." said the bar
Der, land he is real bad, too. Fight?
He'll fight as quick as he'd eat, and
he's so blamed Industrious about
fighting that the don't never think to
pull his gun. Why, he just grabs hold
of Peterson like he was a baby and
throws him over the desk same as
he would bag of potatoes.
He did make trouble. inside Of his
first week in Arroyo City he had
whipped three men, one of them
drunk, two of them sober and at their
best. His method of warfare was so
peculiar that the public seemed dazed
and mystified Never yet had the
stranger been known to go after his
gun in the accepted fashion of the
southwest Arroyo City reasoned
that if he could fight thus without re-
sorting to gun, he would be strictly
dangerous when he took to firearms.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
Dwarf Trees.

On the outskirts of Toxic, Japan,
there is a little colony of native ar
lists who make a speciality of grow
ing dwarf trees oaks, naples,
beeches, apple trees and many others,
perfect in every detail and proper
ton, but no bigger than shrubs, grown
in jardinieres and used as ornaments
for dining tables. OF the process a
writer says: Exactly how these
tiny trees are produced is known
only to score or so of individuals.
But the quality essential to the sue
cessful dwarf tree grower is patience
infinite patience, backed by a fund
of calm resignation unknown to the
Western mind. Fifty years is named
as the shortest period in which a
really good and salable dwarf tree
may be grown, while lifetime is
not long enough to produce the high
est examples of the art. Dwarf trees
are produced from seeds, or-in cases
where this is not practicable-from
carefully selected cuttings. When the
young plant begins to grow 1t is
tended with ceaseless care, and from
the commencement of its career its
natural tendencies are subjugated to
the will off its master.-American
Cultivator.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
GRANDMOTHER S BAKING
DISHES,

Guess you'll have to get new bak-
;ng-dish pretty soon, mother, said
Helen, as she stood at the sink, washing
the dishes This one is neatly baked
OUT
Sure enough, there were three little
holes wearing through, owing to con-
slant use.
Il shouldn't wonder if I'd better gel
some like your grandmother laughed
Mrs. Kelso, mysteriously, like the ones
I have seen her bake her brown bread
on. Then, after using, we could throw
them away"
"Dishes!' exclaimed Helen, econonl-
icaliy. Weren't they just like theses?
Some of them weren't: they grew.
why, Mother Kelso!'
But they did," laughed Helen's
mother. I'm not joking
Tin dishes couldn't grow They're
made" said Helen, convincingly.
They weren't tin, dear. They were
cabbage leaves Many a time I've seer
mother put her little round loaves OF
brown bread on cabbage leaves, and
then put them into the oven to bake
.Did-did the bread bake just as
well?'
You'd never know the difference
Perhaps some day I'll try it,
Then we'll not have to wash ths
Dishes" laughed Helen, eagerly. "Ws
can throw them away, the same a:
grandmother did r'-Saubedm.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14
TIE MERRY-Go-ROUND.

Across the way there s merry-go-
round. / can see it where | lie
| can see the hobby-horses glide across
the twilight sky
And when the merry-go-round goes
round, the music begins to play.
And people laugh, and the children
sing, and all are blithe and gay.
And the merry go-round goes round and
round,
And the horses never tire;
And the bright lights blaze.
And the music plays,
And the mirth rolls higher and higher ;
As the merry go-round goes round and
round;
And round and round goes the merry
go-round.
Mary NJ Parks, in St. Nicholas.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14

seeds OF his ancestral fire. Undoubt-
edly this arises from the old balief
that the home fire is derived from
a sacred source. Then there ars many
house fires which are kindlsd from
ceremonial fires once a year. Thus
at Burghead all the fires are lighted
from the burning clavie,' and kept
alight continuously during the year,
it being considered lucky to keep the
flame from the clavie all the rest OF
the year. This clavie was lighted first
of all at a fire of peat made by youths
of the village who were sons OF the
original inhabitants. Every stranger
was rigidly excluded from the. cere.
mony and peat only could be used
The ceremony takes place on New
Years eve, and after the clavie mas
been kindled one youth after anoth-
er bears it in triumph around the
bounds of the village. At certain
houses and street corners halt IS
made and a brand is whipped out OF
the burning clavie and thrown among
the crowd, who eagerly catch its en-
bers and from them kindle the fires
on their hearths Finally the remains
of the clavie are placed in the centre
hollow of a pile of stones, called the
'Durie," and the remaining embers
are distributed to the villagers all OF
whom attend the ceremony.
Another curious feature of the OBJ
servance is that the long nail which
fastens the slaves of the clavie is
made of iron by the village smith,
but the hammer must be round
stone. Such importance is attached
to the ceremony that ii the bearer
should stumble during the perambula-
tion OF the village it is looked on as
dire calamity, foretelling disaster
to the place and certain death to the
tearer in the course OF the next
year.
There are quite number OF cefs-
monial fires lighted on ST. John the
Baptists eve. In Nottinghamshire
part of the Yule log is kept till the
following year, to be burned upon the
next Christmas eve. The method is
first to put a bit Of last years log
into the fireplace and burn it, then
the fresh log must be put on the fire
and allowed to burn for a little while.
1t is then taken off and burned lit
tie every night until New Years eve,
when it is put on the fire and con-
sumed, with the exception of por-
tion which is kept in the house until
next Christmas Day. 1t is believed
that the observance of this custom
will keep the witch away
In Cornwall the practice obtains OF
resorting to the hearth and touching
the Gravel (the mantel stone across
the head of an open chimney with
the forehead, and casting into the fire
handful of dry grass or anything
picked up that will burn. This form
of hearth sacrifice is regarded as
the most effectual means of averting
any impending evils of mysterious
nature.
All these customs, in various ways,
are derived from the sacred character
with which our ancestors invested
fire
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14

DR.. Evans, Chicago's health COM
missioner, finds cause for alarm in
the rapid increase in pneumonia and
consumption in his city, and has is
sued a bulletin in which it is stated
that walking is almost a specific
against them," says the New York
Herald. He recommended that every
person living within two miles of his
work shoeld walk the distance twice
daily instead of riding in the cars.
To New Workers, VINO are obliged to
suffer the torture of overcrowded
cars twice each day, the walking cure
is attractive. In this city as well as
in Chicago pneumonia and consump-
tion are the most prevalent of all dis
eases, and physicians generally agree
that poisonous air in street cars,
homes and offices is the main cause.
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14

An English social chronicler netes
that King Edwards grandchildren dc
not stand in awe of him. To them
he is grandfather" with all that the
term implies. Twas ever thus, COM
ments the Boston Transcript. The
divinity that hedges king hardly
ever comprehends grandfather. or
even a royal father in the domestic
circle. Mr.. Samuel Pepys having oc-
casion to take an important dispatch
to the Duke of York, afterward James
H., then head Of the admiralty, was
ushered into the dukes private apart
ments, and there found him playing
with his two daughters, the Princess
Mary and the Princess Anne, like
common father" to the astonishment
of that delightful diarist. =
The sea coast echo., 1908-03-14

Wonderful as are the advances in
crop raising during the past decade,
the soil surveyors declare that only
420,0O0,0O0 acres-not one-half the
farms of the country-can be classed
as improved land, and but one-third,
or about 29O,O0O,0OO acres. is fruit
full. Congress will do well to- amplify
the scope and influence of the de-
partment according to Mr.. Wilson's
recommendations. ...aaSls