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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-02-05
A CELEBRATED HOAX,
Story of the Fortsas Catalogue
and Its Author.
CLEVER AND BRAZEN FRAUD.

This Ingenious Publication Completely
Fooled the savants and 6ibIiophiles
of Europe and Was the Literary SEN
sation of Its Day.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-02-05

Chape. Society Mrs. K. z. Page, Treasurer
meets on call when necessary.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
NEW YORK'S SCHEME
 GUT DOWN MtAI BILL
Proposal of Attorney General to Curb Beef Trust and Bring Packing Com panes to Book Interests Citizens Who Don't Want to Become vege- tariars.

New York, Aug. 2.-(Special Cor respondence of The Republican)- With an annual meat bill which long ago passed the $100, 900, 900 mark and has of late been going up by leaps and bounds, New Workers who have seri- ously considered becoming vegetarians for purely financial reasons are nat urally keenly interested in the propos- ed attempt by the attorney general of the state to clip the talons of the so called beef trust. In it they see about their last chance to continue their present consumption of succulent chops and beefsteaks instead of what they bitterly denominate grass" It is reported that an investigation has been under way for the past two months and that the legal representa- tives of the state believe that they evidence of the regulation of prices
 which will justify them in taking ac- tion against the National Packing company as the holding company of the alleged combine of big packers. Such a procedure would be following the lines adopted by the federal gov ernment in the Northern Securities and American Tobacco cases. While it would not be possible for state authorities in New York to force the disbandment of a foreign corporation, it is held that conviction here of viola tiOn of the antitrust statutes forbid ding conspiraCies to fix prices would result ultimately in the dissolution of the trust, as was the case with the Northern Securities company. Ac- cording to those familiar with condi- tions in the meat industry the beef trust controls upward of seventy-five per cent of the meat trade of New York, or sufficient to enable it to reg late prices.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
The Panama Canal
The Builders.

Culebra, Canal Zone, Aug. 5.-(Spec-
 ial correspondence of The Republican,. It is the old story of Yankee brains,
 Yankee capacity for doing things, and
 Yankee grit and determination. As
 fine force of Americans as one can
 hope to meet is assembled on the Is-
 thmus, and the handspring of its ac-
 tiOn is the brains which the United
 States government has placed over it to direct it's efforts. From the east, the west, the north and the south the flower of the professions has been call ed to come down here and dig thiS canal They have come and have de- velOped the force into a working ma chine of an unprecedented efficiency The contractor on government jobs in the United States may well thank his stars that the Panama Canal is being dug in a country where everything is more than expensive; if it were not so the United States might decide af- ter its experience at Panama, that all public work in the future should be done by this organization.
 What U. $, Grant was to the Army of the Potomac, George w. Goethals TO NO llit Army bL Nilt I dllclild Ndudl It has been said that the decision to put the building of the canal in the hands of the army was a master stroke Before that no little Reorganization but when the army took charge every man on the Isthmus learned that it was a question of mak- ing good or getting out. As soon as the members of the force became ac- quainted with the man who was toI the canal army, they worked as a matter of devotion to the cause rather than as a matter of necessity. Some men have the peculiar faculty of transmitting their enthusiasm into the hearts of all under them. This faculty Colonel Goethals has in an un- usual degree.
 When one calls on him he finds a broad shouldered man with hair as white as the unsunned snow and face IS brown as a berry, g. man of modest 1emeanOr, yet business-like in every line of his makeup. He says frankly that there is nothing to hide. and that -hey want to extend to those interest
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

ed an opportunity to see everything that is going on. He tells you that if there is anything which forms ground for legitimate complaint he wants to know of it. as it is his mis- sion on the Isthmus to remove every possible ground for complaint. Yet he adds that of course there will be found some things that ought to be done and others that ought to be left undone. Since perfection can never ex- ist in this world.
 He may say, that he finds the best way to see the Culebra Cut is to walk through it, and that he usually does so The cut is nine miles from end to end, and it is just one example of the thor oughness of the chief engineers work to say that he walks the whole length whenever opportunity affords. Clad in a simple khaki uniform he gets around over the work regularly, and not an evening comes but he knows just what has been going on all day long.
 Colonel Goethals thinks that the de- mand for the dirt to fly is an ill-advis- ed one. He says that there are so
 
 the dirst cannot always be flying as fast as he or the American people would like to have it. As the years pass the difficulties of every phase of the work will increase. As many steam shovels cannot be operated to advantage later on, as many dirt trains cannot be run, the spoil will have to be hauled further away, and in hun dred ways the work will necessarily have to slow up some as it hears com pletion. It is this aspect of the situa- tion that prevents the canal authOri- ties from making an exact prediction as to when the canal will be completed or what the ultimate cost will be. But they hope that the good work they are now doing will cause the people to un- derstand that they are doing the best that can be done when the slowup- time comes
 A bit of figuring on August 1 will show that they have eXcavated more material by half i-- the first seven months of the present year than they did during the whole of 1907. This was done, too, without any important increase of force or equipment. The canal digging machine has simply been put to the maximum efficiency test. Colonel Goethals proved the manner of man he is. when, discussing the work of former chief engineers, he- said:
 Stevens will never get the credit that is due him in connection with this work For instance, take this CUle- bra division. It is tue big o.ganiza- tion of the canal It is being sonduct- ed today on the very lines he laid out, the only changes we have made being those of a routine nature which he would certainly have made had he re- mained here"
 One hears the same sort of things about Wallace and the preparatory work he did The big engines he bought for the canal and the railroad, in the face of much adverse criticism. have proved themselves to be the most important factor in the big showing of excavations this year The biggest problem of the canal is to get the spoil away, and there herculean en- zines afford the solution of that prob lem
 Commissioner Galliard and COmmis- sioner Sibert are both army officers, and have worked on some of the most
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

PIP West Washington.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

tire credit for the work in any one de- partment except Colonel GOrgas. He came to the Isthmus to put up a fight against overwhelming odds At one time his labOrs seemed so unfruitful that he was all but asked to resign. Then Governor MagOOn came in and held up his hands. That great quality of learning to labor and to wait, won, and today there is no one on the 18th mus who will not tell you that an American doctor has made possible the digging of the Panama Canal
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

Albert Carter and wife to Mary F. Pearson, deed, 5Ox14O feet, lot ?, block 46. Collins addition.
 W. c. Hedgpeth and wife to Bertha Clark. deed, tract in northwest quarter section 27, township north, range 3 east.
 Ed Irvine and wife to Rafael Esco- bosa, deed, lot IS, Willowdale subdivi- sion.
 l.. A. Martin to Frank B. Wood,
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

i Not contented with its supremacy in | the fields in which it might naturally be expected to shine, New York now puts forward the claim to the title of champion horse stealing city of the country. Statistics just collected in this connection show that the claim
 has good foundation and that if the western punishment of horse thieves were meted out here there would not be enough telephone poles to go round.
 Without doubt more horses are stolen
 in this city than in any area of equal
 size in the country. These equine
 thefts average more than one a day,
 and as horseback travel is not over
 popular, generally include the pilfer-
 ing of a conveyance as well. Indeed,
 the profession of horse stealing seems
 to have reached its highest develop
 mcnt here, and it is known that reg
 uiar gang, which in spite of all efforts
 has so far escaped detection makes
 rich living by following this avocation.
 Butchers and grocers horses and
 wagons left unguarded during a mo-
 ment while delivery is being made are
 not the only ones which are purlOined.
 The clever gang of thieves has even succeeded in stealing recently in a crowded city street a team of horses hitched to a numbering ice wagon.
 Fifth avenue millionaires too suffer from similar depredations and within the last few days no less than three pairs of bloOded horses have been spir- tied away. In two cases the coachman was a member of the horse stealing gang vyho had ia ken his iOh for the purpose of stealing the animals in question. Not one recovery is made in twenty cases, for these ingenious thieves immediately so change the markings of the stolen animals as to make them unrecognizable. They are then sold to unsuspecting local deal CTS. It is stated that the value of the horses stolen during the first half of this year exceeds the surprising sum of s15O,00O.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

difficult construction jobs in the Unit ed States. Upon them, next to the chief engineer, depends the great task of the actual digging of the canal. Together with Colonel Goethals they go over aa the reports of those under
 them, and over the work itself, and
 solve the problems at hand. Major
 Sibert, as well as Colonel Goethals, has had much experience in dam build
 ing, notably in the Ohio river where
 his good work has been praised by every man who navigates those wa ters.
 Commissioner Rousseau, in charge of
 the department of municipal engineer
 ing, motive power, and building con
 struction, is one of the live wires of
 the canal organization. He has been
 in the government service for ten years. In 1898 he was made a civil engineer in the navy with the rank
 of lieutenant, as a result of a cOmpe- titive examination. By force of sheer merit he was promoted from one post to another, until, in 1907 he was made chief of the bureau of yards and docks with the rank of rear admiral. He resigned this position to accept the place which he now holds on the can al commission. In this place he has fully demonstrated the wisdom of his selection.
 Another hustler on the commission was Jackson Smith. Former Chief Engineer Stevens said of him in a let ter to the President that he was the most thorough master of the question of labor that he had ever met in his thirtyyears' experience as a construc- ton man. Smith was visiting in Washington when he was introduced to Stevens. Stevens asked him to go to the Isthmus and to take charge of the work of recruiting the force. His experience in tropical climates has made him a man invaluable to the work. The labor force changes once every eighteen months. Smith had to get a strong recruiting organization to meet it. He had to look after the quarters of twenty-five thousand peO- pie, getting ice, coal, and filtered wa ter to their doors every morning. He had to organize the work of all the hotels. messes, and kitchens. In other words, upon him fell the burden of get AlIi6 tp6tlltl illG SlGdl lOlNt OL lllt whole canal, and then making the liv- ing conditions such that they could be comfortable enough and happy enough to carry forward the work. He has done it, and now gives up the position to search for new worlds to conquer. His job was one of the most difficult and certainly the most thankless on the Isthmus.
 Governor Jo. s. c. Blackburn, of the Canal Zone, is a good example of the right man in the right place. Thirty years or more in the congress of the United States, most of it in the senate where all the questions of American are settled, have fitted him to occupy any diplomatic position He Is firm. polite, careful, and judicious. He has the Panamanian people cor rectly appraised, and knows just how to take them. It was his firm, strong hand that held the Panama situation in check, and but for his work the United States might today be putting lown a revolution in Penama
 Last but not least is Colonel GOrg- ! IS, of the Sanitary department. Some | )ne recently observed that no one of | -he canal commanders could claim en-
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

firms working on the great so-called public improvements started by the ring was that of Hughes and Cooney. Its head was Thomas Hughes whose son know as Young Tom" Hughes was a boy of ten when in 1871 the Tweed rule ended. At his fathers death ten years later Young Tom" who was just finishing his college course inherited about S5OO,OOO. He immediately became a well known Tenderloin figure, squandering money prodigally. Nearly every day he was to be seen driving a pair of fast trot- ters about the district, sometimes ac- companied by a small boy whom he knew as Billy" Ennis. This was Will
 liam J. Ennis who, after Hughes had gone to Europe and disappeared, be- came a patrolman. A few days ago Police Lieutenant Ennis, as he has now become, saw a crowd of small boys annoying an old man who lay under the stairs of an elevated sta- tion. The lieutenant aroused the man. and there in spite of stubbie, grime and ravages of dissipation recognized Young Tom" Hughes. The next day ''Young Som" was sent to the work house for six months.
 The summer of 1908 is likely to be remembered in this city for years to come as the summer of Seven Plaques. No summer in recent years, at any rate, can be recalled so fraught with annoyance, discomfort and tragedy First in the remarkable list came the plague of heat; six weeks of blistering and rainless sunshine, the worst re- corded in thirty-twO years. This was followed by the plague of white moths. From some unknown source millions of these insects suddenly descended on the city, choking gas and electric lights, invading homes and offices and rendering the streets slippery and dan gerous of passage. They disappeared as suddenly and mysteriously as they came-whither no one knows. After the moths came the plague of flies. Never before haY they been so num- erous and annoying in spite of the fact that the streets are cleaner than ever before. Then followed the plague of which threatened for a time to necessitate the closing of of fices. Following these came the plague of hydrophobia, which has been far more prevalent and deadly than ever before, and on top of this a plague of murders, which not only in numbers but in respect to mystery and brutali- ty puts any dime novel in the shade. Of course. this plague may be largely attributed to its predecessors, as may the seventh, the plague of malaria, which now has the city in its grasp. these seven plaques have been so pronounced and deadly as to place the troubles of New York a good second to the historic ones which Moses sent to Egypt. In addition too may be mentioned at least two minor of scandal and automo- piles. Never has New York society been the source of so many startling revelations and never have automobiles claimed so many and such prominent -ictims as in the last few weeks. Al ogether the summer of plaques is one likely to be remembered.
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Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS.

The following transcripts of the rec ords ef the offices of the district clerk theprobate court and the county re- corder are furnished by the Arizona Abstract & Title Company.
 The records for yesterday were:
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
MAssIE HAS THE GOODS.

AIassie has linOleum. Massie has big glass pitchers. AIassie has granite ware. Massie has 10c and 15c counters. Massie has fine springs. Massie has 9Xl2 rugs. Massie has fine dishes. Massie has lamps. Massie has wire cots. Massie has mattresses. Massie has second hand goods. Massie has dressers. ..- Massie has iron beds. Massie has extension tables. Massie has trunks Massie has suit cases. Massie has telescopes. Massie has book cases. Massie can furnish your house. Massie wants your trade. Massie & Sons will treat you right. See Massie & Sons for bargains. Massie & Sons new place, incest second hand store in town. We will buy your goods. See us.
 MAssIE 6 SONS, 114-116 West Washington St,
 Phone Main 2s7.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
Iced. lot :. block T. Phoenix.

deed. lot :, block 74, Phoenix.
 John T. Harbert ct al. to Alex L. Silva, deed. lots ,, ', 9, Il, 13 on Grand avenue and lots 37; 3S, 40, fl. block :. lots %, 25, 27, block 6. Grand avenue, addition to Phoenix.
 Rafael EscObosa to Jesus B. de Baine deed, lot AS WilIowdale subdivi- sion of Murphy addition.
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

LEFT FOR RENO.-W. Emory and family left last night over the South ern Pacific for Reno to look over some land in that section
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

A peculiarly melodramatic illustra- tion of the manner in which fortunes change in New York has just come to light in the West Side court. Also it raised memory of the old Tweed ring and the days when the most notorious boss New York ever had was enrich ing himself and his friends in a way which has been the envy and despas.' of local imitators ever since. Back in the late sixties when Tweed was in absolute power one of the contracting
Arizona republican., 1908-08-13

The newest way of earning living
 has just appeared in New York. To use a Hibernianism it might be eS- plained by the title of making a liv- ing by getting killed" Actually it is not quite so bad as that, however, since it only involes being voluntarily hit by street cars to enable the public service commission to determine by a series of actual tests on human beings which kind of fender is best adapted tothe needs of New York's street car lines. To persons who are willing to stand, sit or lie in the middle of a street ear track and be scooped up by a fender on a swiftly moving car that is provided the fender scoops as planned-the munificent remuneration of two dollars a day is to be paid. However, as the work demands neither barins nor training, and as it is un- necessary that accident models" pre- sent either a neat appearance, there is no lack of applicants for jobs. Of course it the automatic fender doesn't work there will be immediate need of the coroner, but the manufacturer of this device has had no trouble as yet in securing men to be scOoped at two dollars per. As a result of this sur prising means of earning a livelihood various others have arisen until the city has now quite a respectable list of what might be called fool occupa- tions." These include an offer from the inventor of an alleged non-cap- sizable boat for men to give demon stration rockings, adn it really would seem that the fool who rocks the boat may even yet make money from his The public, however should benefit, since anything calcu- lated to decrease this class would be a real step in advance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-19
OXEN BUILD THE RAILROADS,
As We'll as Do Most OF the teamwork n
Eastern Canada.

The OK as a beast OF labor has about had
his day with the American farmer, He Is
raised by wholesale, killed by Wholesale
and distributed throughout the world as
beef, but he doesn't have TO work.
Up in eastern Canada, however, he does
a big stunt Of work before he is eaten. In
Nova Scotia, especially. oxen are still used
for all sorts Of farm work.
They plough the fields, haul the hay and
apples and potatoes and cart in the fire.
wood from the forest. They are slow, II 10
true, but there is time and to spare in those
parts.
OF late the OF has been helping to build
the railroads in Nova Scotia. He is found
to be very useful In grading the roadbed,
which calls for a lot c. short haul work,
The oxen are yoked in pairs and as many
pairs can be used tandem as are necessary
to any given job. They are patient and
untiring.
Over the last state Of the Nova Scotia
on II we're better TO draw the veil. When
his working days are about over he is fat
tened and then slaughtered. Furthermore,
he Is eaten. and II those who have made
him work through his long and busy life
have the eating OF him he is we'll revenged.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-19

Some OF these days l expect 10 see you
trying 10 tell US that there's a system to beai
the wheel or bank
Keep on playing them hkean old wOmar
in a sunbonnet, Phil got back. and some
day I'll see you driving a hack outside the
track grounds and smok ing a rank and
stubby corncob pipe
And right here IL the place to say that
Phils way Of doing certainly did prove
to be the right one In the long run They
got Riley for his in time, but they never
took Phil But I'm staying with II that
Grammar never went TO the bad with his
bunch plan Of doing Il until his judgment
became fevered and clouded by Affairs
that happened away from the track.
-'Phil, just to give the thing q TROUT
as to whether yoa'yegot the right end Of
H. Grammar said to PittsbuFg Phil on one
occasion, I'm going TO copper you for a
spell and see how the thing breaks
"copper" your head on. replied Phil,
not thinking that Grammar meant bis sug-
gestion seriously.
But Grammar did mean IL. He ooppered
Phil's bets for more than a week running,
and he cleaned up nearly 10000 doing u,
By some miracle Grammar just happened
to Hight on one Of the most disastrous weeks
Of Pills betting career as a good time Ia
do that %coppering thing.
"Phil lost twenty-siK straight bets dur
ing that period, which was the losing record
Of his life. Grammar won on nineteen OF
those bets by playing the next closest con
tender in accordance with his plan to keep
on coppering Phil, and the remaining
seven races we're won by long shots that
nobody could consider.
sPhil put both hands up at the end OF
that disastrous coppering p~eriod-he was
aware, OF course, Of what Grammar vas
doing.
stop that stu1, Riley he said to Gran
nan. You're hoodooing me-
'Grannan stopped II, and it is a matter
Of common knowledge among ring men
who aren't a little bit supeutitious that
Phil promptly proceeded to win again az
soon az Grammar quit coppering,
-Grannan. while never %garrulous, never
theless did not have Pills t~aciturnity.
He would tell his friends what he was
betting on, even II he didn't and couldn't
tell them why he was betting on such and
such a horse. or course he got his own
big bets spraddled around first.
"Phil never cared 10 tell anybody ahead
Of time what he was playing. This isn't
saying that Phil wasn't generous almost
to a fault and a man who would give his
final shirt TO a surf enough friend. But that
was a trait Of Grannan's too, and II he
had ever been Of a sort to press for re-
payment Of the scores Of heavy loans he
made to embarrassed frends-most Of
them now on top again-when no was at
the crest Of his plunging career, ii would
never have been recorded that he died in a
place like RAwhide while seeking TO shore
up his broken fortunes