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The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22
Local and Personal


 Mrs. E. M. Doe returned from California the first of the week.
 Louis Wiuchet. of Chicag). a lumber broker was in the city Mon- day.
 Mir. F. w. Perkins left for phoe- nix Saturday on a short business trip.
 Judge Pat O'Toole of Canyon Di- 2 ablo was in the city the first of the week.
 k. H. Cameron left Friday eve ming for Cleveland, Ohio. on a bus mess trip.
 Daniel German, the veteran logger, was here Sunday from Bellemont.
 Ranger Claude Thompson has moved his family into Flagstaff from Cliffs.
 Chas. Woolfolk is doing advance agent work for his sheep. He came in Sunday.
 Jack Smith of the Newman sheep Co.,, was in the city from Showlow Tuesday on business.
 Dr. w. P. Sipe is visiting rela tions in Kansas City and will be gone couple of weeks.
 District Attorey Ashurst is at tending the session of Supreme court at Phoenix this week.
 Earl Mahan, the man who puttys up leaks in Western Union wires was in Los Angeles this week.
 Mrs John Clark entertains the Swastika sewing club at her spa cious residence this afternoon. 
 Dr. Harmon. Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry is working in this vicinity this week. Attorney J. E. Jones was in Phoenix the first of the week at tending the supreme court session. Mrs. Hughes and little son, of Monmouth. Ill.,, arrived Monday evening and will spend the sum- 'mer here.
 The new Wilson bungalow on Knob Hill is rapidly nearing com ipletion and presents handsome appearance.
 Mrs. Geo. Colton and baby are being entertained by Mrs. Colton's parents in Prescott. She will re- main about a month.
 Father Vabre returned Monday from a trip to Gold Roads with a sever, attack of sore throat caused by his trip over the desert.
 Several carload of recruits from Jefferson Barracks went through Sunday on their way to join differ ent batteries of Coast Artillery.
 Ranger Jim Bailey came in Tues day on a telephone repairing trip. The recent heavy winds broke the Forest Service line in several plac- es.
 Deputy Sheriff G. w. Henderson of Gila county. was in the city Tuesday. He was the guest of his .father-in-law. E. S. Carlos while here.
 Prof. H. s. Evans, with several students arrived from Mesa this week. They will make an over land trip to the Canyon in week or SO.
 Tim Mccarthy. the humorous Hibernian. is suffering with a seri- ous attack of erysipelous this week.
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22

WANTED: A good Camp Cook. to cook for surveying party of six. Address, stating lowest sala- ry. Mathew M. Murphy. Tuba. Arizona.
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22
BUSINESS NOTICES.

Advertisements under thiS head will be in- serted at the rate Of ten cents per line for the first insertion. and five cents per line for each subsequent insertion, an average of five words making a line.
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22

C. n. ScnultZ IS reVamplng ms residence and putting spring suit of paint on it.
 D. E. Schnebly of Sedona was in Wednesday with the first straw berries of the season.
 James Byron has purchased the residence formerly occupied by Wm. Switzer of Johny Love.
 Vim. Friedlein is back again from a winters campaign Tn the southern country with sheep.
 W. J. Randall of Pine was in the city this week looking up a buyer for fine bunch of range steers.
 Gus. Laird who has been engaged on the meteor mine was in the city this week, on his way to the Needles.
 An extension of the sewer system is being made on Knob Hill, to con meet the new homes recently con structed there.
 President A. J. Mathews of the Tempe Normal was in conference with Prof. Taylor on the normal school work for the coming year the first of the week.
 Dan Francis and Tom Reece came in overland ahead of Campbell Francis & Co.'S. big sheep outfit which is on the way north to the summer range Monday.
 A letter from Neil L. Patterson now located at Wuodville, Ont. says he is always glad to hear from his former Flagstaff home and that the Sun is welcome visitor.
 Joseph If. Martin of Ash Fork, came up from Prescott Saturday to see his friends here. He has been entertained the past month in the hospital at Prescott with tonsilitis.
 John Loy was in from his ranch the first of the week. bringing with him his major -domo. Barney Williams. who is mighty good man to meet when you pass Loy's ranch.
 Tom Gandee and family left yes terday for Iowa. where he will make his future home. His num- erous friends here regret that he is leaving, but hope to see him back again.
 Father Connley. Bishop of Wins  low. was in the city Sunday, on his way to Williams to conduct the funeral services over the remains of brother of Michael Clancey of that city.
 Ranger c. A. Daniels wishes to say that his new A special Smith & Wesson presented to him by President Wesson, was not an auto- matic, as they do not build that breed of guns.
 Mrs. Magge l.. Carlos was ex- ceedingly fortunate in securing the fine Jersey COW presented by Tom Gandee, Saturday evening. to the person who could secure the larg est count from dice.
 Hon. w. P. Geary. District At torney of Navajo county has been secured to deliver the Memorial Day address for the c. A. R., here May 30. He is known as an orator of splendid ability and will un- doubtedly make good on this occa- sion.
 The Sun office has been working over time the past two weeks en- deavoring to placate it's job pa
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22

FOR SALE-One thousand head of stock cattle. In. quantities to suit purchaser. For prices ad- dress, J. H. Wng6eld X Sons, Camp Verde. Ariz.
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22
NEW PIANO FOR SALE-Sce Green & Co.,, tailors.

FOR SALE-2 horse power gaso- line enigne. It will run walk or sid ,-step; prefer to sell it to an enigneer. Inquire at Sun office.
The Coconino sun., 1908-05-22

WANTED--Stock to pasture. Dry Lake Ranch. 3l miles south west of Flagstaff. w. J. TetzIoff.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
Wealth of United States.

This is great country-great in
territory, great in population and great
in wealth. In an article by J. G. Pow
ers of the census bureau, published in
nal of Sociology, he estimates that in
1904 the wealth of the United States
amounted TO $107 100000, 900; in 1900 1t
amounted to sSS.O0G,OOO,O0 in 1890
to $4,000, 600, 900; in 1870 to 24,OO0,.
100000; in 1860 to $4,000, 000. 900, and
in 1850 to only $1,000. 100000 Mr. Pow
ers points out that 1856, 900. 000,0 900 or
more of the aggregate, is accredited to
The value of railroads and their equip
ments is computed at upward of SILL
00,000,000; that of manufactured pro-
ducts at about $7,500,000, 900; that of
real property and improvements ex-
empt from taxation at nearly $1,000
100000; that of furniture, carriages
and kindred property at nearly
00,000.000; that of live stock at
81 900, 100000; that of manufacturing
machinery, tools and implements at
$4,000, 900; that of clothing and
personal adornment at $4,000, 1000 900;
that of street railways at some
$2.00,000,0 200; that of gold and silver
coin and bullion at nearly $4,000, O0O,-
900; that OF agricultural products at
only a little short of $4,000, 000, 900;
that of shipping and canals at some
what less than a billion, and that of
farm implements and machinery at
about the same figure; that of tele-
phone systems at nearly $600,O0O,O00.
and that Of privately owned central
electrical light and power stations at
rather more than S550,000, 0O0"
The wealth of this country is some.
thing for the people to be proud of
There would be more reason for pride
however, if this great wealth was dis
tributed more equitably.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
TRYING TO GET LOWER
SLEEPING CAR RATES
st. Paul Man Brings Attention OF
Commerce Commission to Pres
ent Charges.

Chicago, Dec. 15.-Whether or not
the travelling public is to get lower
sleeping car rates will depend in a
great measure on the outcome of the
hearing now in progress in Chicago
before Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Franklin X. Lane. George S.
LOTUS of st. Paul maintains that
present rates are unreasonable and in
violation OF the interstate commerce
act. Hence lis suit.
The hearing in the Lotus case was
begun last spring in ST. Paul. but was
transferred to Chicago because this is
the home of the Pullman company.
One officer, William Hough, second as
sistant auditor, was on the witness
stand yesterday and gave much new
and Illuminating testimony on the
operation and affairs of the Pullman
octopus
That 81 for a sleeping car berth be-
rageous charge is LOTUS contention
That man should pay the same price
for the privilege of stretching himself
out in Stuffy berth that he does in
| the more roomy lower berth is an
other outrage, according to Lotus
way of figuring The st. Paul man
| thinks that $3.50 for lower and rs
cents for an upper berth would be
about right and would enable the com
pany to reap big profit at these fig
ureS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
The Argus Daily Short Story
BILLY AND a 112"---BY COLIN S. COLLINS.
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Literary Press.

is but one woman for each of US 1T
some stage of boyhood.
''E 112'' was worthy of his worship.
Even the box office boy had confided
to Calkins, the manager, that 1t was
"a dead swell dame who took UP the
seat for Tuesday mats. and the man
ager had condescended to approve the
statement. though Calkins' own pref
erence was for blends. sc 10" had
dark hair of the soft, wavy kind that
makes a fellow long 10 stroke softly,
admiringly.
But Billy remembered nothing but
her eyes after he had received one di
rect glance. He could look into those
liquid depths clear down into the un.
troubled soul beyond.
Every Tuesday afternoon the cir
occupied the same seat. The Century
reserved seats for its regular patrons
by the season, and once when the head
usher sought to shift Billy to the bal
cony, where there was a better chance
Of making tips, Billy promptly forgot
the fact that 1t was supposed to be 9
favor and pummeled his benefactol
until the latter promised to put hin
back on his old aisle.
To such an extent had Billy become
enslaved that he even rejoiced in the
water job. He would. work the from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

To Billy Baxter every moment he
spent In the theater was to his liking,
but the best of all was when the band
filed in and the house lights went up.
Then the music and the rush of arriv-
ais made a delightful stir.
These We're busy moments for the
ushers, because In the ten minutes pre-
ceding the rise Of the curtain half the
house had to be seated, and 1t was
hard for Billy to bear in mind the
managerial caution that the right hand
aisle was not cinder track laid for
his amusement.
1t is hard to walk when the music
plays a lively air, and there were times
when Billy would sprint up the aisle
as though bent upon breaking all rec.
ords for the hundred yards.
These ten minutes twice q day re
paid the boy for the rest of the work
and it was work for all who were EN-
ployed about the Century theater.
Calkins, the manager, had spent his
days devising a system. that was al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

|tions. One of these advertisements
represents an aged man plodding
through a snow storm, with the leg
end, Every life has its December -
and the need of providing something
against that December is pointed out
in the text. Another paper has pic
ture of respondent man who put
his money where he could not watch
it and where no one watched it for
him, with the legend 1T would be
safe in the Lank now"
The educational value of such .ad.
vertising, carried on as it now is = in
all parts of the state, can not be
overestimated. There are thousands
lof people who will be made to think
of deposit in a bank, savings, state
or national. 1t is a habit easily &C
quired and habit that grows. Let a
man once set the first 500 in the
bank and be develops an ambition to
make it a $1,000 And there is nc
habit that IS more helpful. Thousands
of people go through life saving moth
ing. A little thought given to the MAJ,
ter would enable them to have at
least small bank account against
times of adversely. 1t would be to
them and to their families, the most
comforting thing in the world
Let the campaign of education &c
on. 1t is one of the best ever under
taken in the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
To Sample Il.

I'd like to get lost in a milliona!re's shoes,
At least for minute or two.
To find IL the place were as nice as II
seems.
Too pleasant and fine to be true,
To toss off check without any concern
Or fear OF its face. wouldn't you:
ia like to be there for a day and half
His check book n toy in my hand
That furnished the means should I feel
so disposed
To buy everything in the land.
An aeroplane, auto or. any old thing
My strong constitution would stand.
Say. maybe I wouldn't in luxurys lap
Sit round while my sentence held good.
Enjoying each moment for all I was
worth
And right on the job saving wood
And ordering all could think of or wish
In language the cook understood!
1 think I would purchase sixteen suits OF
clothes,
A shoe store, q dozen OF hats
And overcoats-well, perhaps ten for q
start
And all could find in crayats
And everything else in proportion or style
From glasses, gold mounted, to spats.
That's only a starter: the lists withou,
end.
But what in a day could one do?
To think about quitting and giving 1t up
Would make one feel pensive and blue.
| I'd like to be Croesus or John D. But
say,
I'd hate to drop back. wouldn't you?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
A Matter of Civic Pride.

In the adoption of an ordinance pre-
sented by Alderman Smith last evening
against the use of the street cars as
travelling billboards, the Rock
Island council acted in accord with the
spirit of the times, as emphasized in
other cities. The crusade against lit
tering everything that moves through
the streets with advertising signs,
and which has been conducted
by the leading magazines and news
papers of the country for some time,
has accomplished notable reforms all
over the country, and city councils in
various of the cities, including Chicago
have adopted ordinances prohibiting
the use of public conveyances occupy
ing the city streets, from carrying out
side advertising. The Rock Island or.
dinances under which the Tri-City Rail
way company is operating, do not give
any authorization for advertising either
on the interior or exterior of the cars
The combining of advertisements to
neatly arranged racks over the wind
oWS ou the lnSlue Has Iouhu Ho oDJec
ton here. however, as custom has
made it proper, but in order that the
privilege thus accorded by common
consent may not be abused, the cOun
,cilstook the timely and very commend
able action that it did last night.
The cars Of the Tri-City Railway
company are, an. ornament to the
streets. and civic pride requires tina;
they be kept so.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
The People to Decide.

The city council last evening put up
to the people to decide in connection
with the spring municipal election, the
question of the $1,000 saloon license,
the same TO go into effect should the
proposition be affirmed, six months
thereafter.
In view of the fact that the subject
has become one of so much agitation,
and discussion, the council determined
that the people should decide for them
selves. Alderman Lawler made that
point plain. When introducing the or
dinance, he said that while the demo
cratic aldermen were opposed to the
increased license, they felt that the
people should have the right of voting
upon it. The Argus position on the prop
osition is toe well known to require
extensive comment in this connection.
| 1t has sustained the $1,000 license
proposition as one means of the attain
ment of the proper control of the liq-
uor traffic. 1t has always contended
that with the proper restriction, neces-
sarily attended by regulation and
enforcement, the saloon may be prop
erly conducted, the evil auxiliaries be
weeded out, and the decent saloon be
given the privileges it is entitled to
under the laws both of the state. the
city and Of common sense
Something less than year ago when
the proposition to submit the higher
license to the people came before the
council it met with strange array of
lantagonistic influences involving both
the liquor interests and the ministry.
The saloon men were prompted by nat
ural self interests, while the attitude
Iof the clergy was explained in the be-
lief that the placing of the $1,000
license on the ballot would handicap
the movement then budding to put
Rock Island in antisaloon territory.
The combination was sufficient to con-
troll the situation then and there was
no opportunity for vote on the license
issue. Later when local option went
before the people, it was slaughtered
jby an overwhelming vote. While the
lvote at that time indicated conclusively
that the people are opposed to the prin-
lciple Of prohibition, The Argus has
maintained that it should not be con-
lstrued as an endorsement of the meth.
Iods employed in conducting the liquor
traffic in general in Rock Island. In
lother words, The Argus took it, the
people while opposed to dealing win
1.-THE saloon through impractical means,
believed in regulation. The higher
license is n means toward regulation,
provided the laws of legitimate con-
troll are enforced with its application.
In other words it insures restriction of
the business as well as more revenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
Still Undecided.

Still Undecided.
It is yet to be demonstrated that q
balloon coming east from the Pacific
coast has the Los Angeles Limited
beaten to fragile The gas car appears
to have tendency to play around in
the eddies caused by the mountain
ranges and thus make the captains OF
the craft late for the supper he has
ordered in Boston.
A successful trip Of that sort would
cause the man. who is eternally re-
marking on the smallness Of the world
to remark some more.
He would at once begin specializing
on the possibilities of living in Los
Angeles and doing business In Boston,
though at the present time the man
who sets out with late start and q
heated Imagination for his happy west.
ern home is liable to find himself in
the morning dangling from one Of the
desolate mountain peaks that stick or
on the way. As an exact science air
navigation at present lacks some al
the qualities of exactness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

And who is to decide when the Fill
pino>people are ready for self-gov-
eminent? Roosevelt says that time
may cons within a generation, and
may not. But suppose the Filipino
people get tired of being exploited by
spectators and decide that they are
ready for self government now or
within a year or two, or within a de-
cade, who has right to say them
nay Who made Roosevelt or any
one of his successors a Judge of the
fitness of eny people anywhere for
self-government upon what meat
doth this, our Caesar feed, that he has
grown so great?''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
Peoples Power Co.

rows very slowly: waiting with pa
thence for each patron to finish with a
glass, and when sc 112" asked for a
drink he would stand in rapt admira-
ton, ignoring the request of others for
glasses from the tray until she had
returned hers and there was no longer
any, excuse for standing at her
side. =,
Long, before the middle of the sea-
son Eleanor Golden, otherwise e
49," had. come to know the earnest,
freckled little face, and the day that
she passed him in the street and gave
him a nod and bright smile was a
golden one in the Baxter calendar
Then came the day which even now
Calkins hates toNrecall because of its
| one moment of nightmare. There was
an act at the house that opened with
| the supposed explosion of an automo-
bile off the stage. the comedian enter
ing with tire and part of the rim Of
| wheel hung about hiS,neck.
The effect was obtained in the time
honored fashion of firing into the air
shotgun loaded with salt, instead Of
shot. The salt scattered harmlessly,
and yet the report was louder than
when powder alone was usedS
On this day tiny bit of the waG.
ding was carried into the air and f1ut-
| tered against one of the huge drops
hung above the stage.
| There were four of these hung close
| together, and no one noticed the spiral
of fame run up between this drop and
| the next. The scenery was fireprOof-
| ed, but the rough surface of the cam
| CONTINUED on Page Nine.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
Medicine That Is Medicine.

II have suffered good deal with
malaria and stomach complains, but
have now found a remedy that keeps
me well, and that remedy is Electric
Bitters: a medicine that is medicine
for stomach and liver troubles, and fol-
run down conditions" says w. C
Kiestler, CT Halliday, Ark. Electric
Bitters purify and enrich the blood
tone up the nerves, and impart vigol
and energy to the weak. Your money
will be refunded if it fails to help you
soc at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

Gypsy" Smith, the evangelist, tells
New Workers that if Christ came to
their city He would not go to fashion
able Fifth avenue churches. but would
go into the tenderloin and redlight
districts, geek the unfortunates and
try to make their burdens lighter.
But if all the stories about New York
are true, there is need of some scour.
ging of sinners in Fifth avenue tenn
DlaS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
DEBT OF $40, 900, 900 CLAIMED
Application Made for a Receiver for
the st. Louis Transit Company.


st. Louis, Dec. 15.-Declaring that
David r. Francis, Murray Carleton,
James Campbell, Judge Henry Priest,
Brown Brothers of New York and 9TH
er stockholders of the st. Louis Tran
sit company owe that corporation more
than $10.000.O00 as the result of the
sale of the company's common stock in
1899, j. Brooks Johnson applied to the
circuit court yesterday for a receiver
for the company. The company was
absorbed by the United Railways com
pany three years ago. Johnson AYERS
Brown Brothers owe the transit treas
ury $7,400,000, James Campbell and
Murray Carleton s350.000 each, w. F.
Boyle, Henry S. Priest and Charles D.
Mcclure $370,000 each, and David R.
Francis $1,10G,000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

The yoluminous presidential message
submitted at the opening of the second
session of the present congress was
not valedictory after all. The
Rooseveltian message mill is still
grinding away at the old stand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
/. Banks as Advertisers.

The weekly papers of the state as
well as many of the dailies. are run
ming fine line of bank advertising
in these later days. This advertising
work is not helping the banks alone,
but it is helping the people These
advertisements are educational, many
of them pointed with fitting illustra.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

The voters have indicated that they
want the saloon to remain.
1t is for them to say how wide lat
itude they want given the control OF
the business.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

Vice successfully defied decency in
Chicago last night when the annual
debauch, known as the First ward ball
was pulled off without interruptionu or
interference at the Coliseum
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15
SHOP EARLY.

Buy your Christmas presents
enrly-early In the day. That
will be your biggest gift Of the
holidays to the workers behind
the counters and ON the delivery
wagons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

President Roosevelts approval Of
publicity in the matter of control of
corporations, is a good one. 1t is an
essential to proper control of corpor-
ations which the democratic party has
been making an issue for years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-15

President Roosevelt endorses such
combinations of capital as are in the
interests of the public good" Perhaps
Roosevelt he lieves with Rockefeller
that the Standard Oil is such a COM
hinn