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Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04
BOWIE Is FAMOUS
TOWN IN. ARIZONA

charge of McHeinrich, who is also
instice of the peace here-this with
one saloon owned by Dad" Kellum,
the first conductor on the ella Valley,
Globe & Northern railroad, are the
only business places in the town, ex-
cepting the railroad hotel, run by w.
c. Hindman.
Mining Activity.
South of Bowie on the north side
of the Chiricahua mountains there is
an extensive mineral district, includ-
ing the Dos Cabezas country. The
district contains gold, silver and cop
per and has yielded considerable min
eral wealth in the pastl The c. & "A.
company is doing conside able work
on what is known as the Casey prop
erty and reports are to the effect
that results are very encouraging and
look to the development an impor:
ant producing property.
Captain Thomas Burns, who was
the owner of the mines On which the
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
GIVES CORPORATE CONTROL.

Il became quite clear long ago that
congress did not intend to do anything
with the measure demanded by the
president requiring full publicity of
CAMPAIGN contributions This in spite
OF hilarious bluff OF the house in
passing the bill with an amendment
guaranteed to kin it in the senate.
This failure will return to plague
the party in power during the cam
paign and it viii return again and
again until the measure is passed-if
it ever is passed.
Some measure laying bare the
source of campaign funds is so acute
a necessity that if the people put their
thoughts to it long enough they will
regard it as the most important pro-
posal left pending before the late con
gress. The object, of course, is TO
prevent contributions from the great
rust corporations. 1t must be evident
10 every one that the financing of a
party by the Interests" is a very bad
thing for the people. Corporations do
not contribute to campaign funds be
cause of patriotism. Their contribu-
tons are investments and they see to
it that they get big dividends.
Just at present the trust corpora
tons are finding great comfort in the
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt is shortly to be
out OF the way. They don't care par
ticuiariy about Mr.. Taft, but they
would much rather have him than
Roosevelt They are taking steps to
see that they control as Of yore the
machinery of the Republican party.
Their own men as officers of the ma
tionai convention are being selected
and the will in large measure have
q hand in drafting the Republican
platform Present indications are that
they viii do these things, and no mat
sr how good the Taft intentions may
,e, he win go into the campaign as
he candidate Of a party that is bound
land and foot to the wheels of the
plutocratic chariot. This relationship
is cemeated only by campaign funds
and TIE refusal OF the majority party
in congress to enact a law against such
contributions, is conclusive proof Ibat
the machinery of the party is COINS
to be controlled BY the vendors OF
the corporation money.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04
a Dead Soldier.

A few minutes ago we wrote about
the water wagon and its popularity,
and inadvertently used the expression
dead soldiers" An Office stenoraph-
er who is paid for passing judgment
on all our literary efforts wants to
know what IN creation a dead
soldier" is. The ignorance Of these
women Is alarming. We no sooner ex-
plain to one the meaning OF the ex-
preston, "a water wagon" than up
hobs another and interrogates regard
ing dead soldier"
A dead soldier, in this sense, Is not
patriotic individual who has died for
his country and lies peacefully asleep
IN the folds Of @oTd glory It is a
beer bottle drained of the amber fluid
and cast aside, whisky receptacle
from which the Dante's inferno has
been drained, a gin canteen relieved
OF its snakes. or any liquor container
which has done all the damage it can
and has fallen by the wayside :"
Dead soldiers are often fond in the
city but occur with great frequency
and startling postures in the prohibit
ton districts. Occasionally some rural
wag will leave one on the minister's
front porch as a reminder that the
millennium is still lost to sight in the
mirage ahead. Small boys out gath
ering pond lilies Unexpectedly locate
dead soldiers bobbing about in the lily
pads, and use them for hshline floats.
A fish which bites hook suspended
from a dead soldier has no more
chance Of dying natural death than
the man who killed the soldier" II
is cinch for the bottle in both In
stances. Dead soldiers are sometimes
used by mother for storing away soft
SOAP. When Johnnie makes q collec
| ton for the junk Tnan. he empties out
the soap and completes the ever
dozen bottles with the soldier
Tho beer man souses out mos
Of the soap and fills 'er up agar
for the purchaser, who smacks his lipi
and exciaims:
: Gee. but that goes dawR siiAkArs'
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

We know something about Mark
Smiths official record and know that
in no single instance has he. in all
his long Official career. by, word or
action, even espoused the cause of a
corporation as against the people.
>,nen the national republican admin
istration sought to wipe Arizona off
the map, Mark Smith was the gen,
eral who fought in the front in the
great fight against joint statehood,
and who marshalled the forces which
defeated measure which q test vote
showed that less than 5 per cent of
the people Of Arizona favored. There
is no man in Arizona who is more
thoroughly respected and honored to
day than is Mark Smith. Why, then,
this yell Of wolf by the wolves E?
Why this scream of corporation by
republican papers created and main
tanned by corporations? 1t is the old
time-worn and threadbare attempt of
corporation politicians to fool the
people. Many people confound the
politician with the honest party man
No greater mistake can be made
The professional politician is the man
to whom the end sought always justi-
ies the means. no matter what they
are.-Preseott Courier.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

The leading editorial in a recent
issue of the Chicago Daily Socialist
begins: 1.-THE socilist party is a po-
litical party. 1t wants votes. 1t wants
majority of the votes. 1t wants the
offices. 1t wants political power"
Which is sufficient evidence that the
socialist party wants a great deal
more than it is likely to get this year.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

Chiricahua Development company
worked to- three years, is now work
ing a gold property at the north end
OF the Dos Cabezas district. The
work so far done has opened a hand
some body of gold and copper ore.
New York parties are interested with
Capt Burns in this property and a
recent eport made by an expert sent
from that city places the property in
the list of those which are confidently
expected to soon begin to produce val
liable ore in commercial quantities.
The Overland company, composed
of Ell Paso people, have been working
twenty-five men ten miles south Of
Bowie for six months. This property
shows valuable gold, silver and cop
per ore. Mr.. Spence has charge o.
this enterprise and good wagon road
has been completed to the property.
NJ E. Conchela, who resided a.
Bowie for twenty years and more, ue-
voting all his time to prospecting and
mining. is now working a small force
of men on a property south of BoUie
and it is said that he Is well pleased
with the result. ConcheIa aud Cap
tain Tevis were mining partners tUI
many years and during that time
made some important sales.
4. s. Sullivan, of Bowie, is also de-
veloping gold property twelve miles
south. He has some beautiful specl
mems of gold quartz, studded vita
Jumps of the yellow metal as large
as a pin head. Mr.. Sullivan has re
Gently received letters Prom mining
man in FL Paso asking for terms oI
sale OF bond on the property, but
sullivan is not anxious to sell and
viii consider no proposition until he
ships his first car of ore which Is
now being taken out. According 10
all assays and expectations the ore
from this property will show 'aIue
OF at least $50 per ton.
Another property being worked
twelve miles south of Bowie is owned
by the Arizona Gold & Silver Mining
company. Mr.. Waddell has charge OF
this work.
Cattle Industries.
Bowie has always been the center
and trading point of an extensive cat
tie industry which has added much to
the CONNIE. ciaI Importance of the
place. It is only a few miles from
here to the Ileadquarter ranch Of
Oscar Roberts, the we'll known anu
prominent democrat of northern Co
chise county. bud Prewett, the con-
stable OF this precinct, has been IN
the cattle business here for years.
Otho, prominent cattlemen in this
section are Shafer Brothers and Tom
Riggs. The range in the San Simon
valley is said to be failing fast now
after three years of unusually gOou
feed. It is believed that good many
cattle will die in this end of the
county and in the south end of Ora
ham county during the remainder of
the present year u1lerss the summer
rains come earlier than is usual and
are bountiful.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

An English editor has been fined
for cutting out part of a serial novel
he was running in his paper. Now he
has chance to be sorry he didn't
cut it out entirely and print some
thing of general interest.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

That Maine man who remembered
that his appendix had been removed
after second operation disclosed
that it was missing. must have a hard
time when his wife gives him few
letters to mall.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

A young Indiana man has been re-
fused permission to erect bronze
tablets inscribed with the Ten Com
mandments on the courthouse square
in his home town. The Let Us
Alone" movement has evidently
reached that place
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

If Uncle Adlai stevenson isn't men,
toned for the vice-presIdency pretty
soon. We shall be driven 10 the con
clusion that he is really in the down
and out Class at last
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04
Heartaches.

Heartaches.
Heartaches are the clouds of life,
Clouds that cover up the sky;
But the clouds will drift away
From the sunshine, by and by
There is less of black than blue
In the arching dome above,
There is less of woe and tears
Than of sunshine and of Lowell
If the sun shone all the day
And the sky was bright by night.
Sun would be but red and hot.
Sameness, dazzling to the sight
There should be some clouds and rain
Just to show the sunIight's worth.
Don't you think a heartache, too,
Glorifes the joys OF earth2
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04

Owing to the limited seating capac-
ity at Chicago. the third term boom
may have to content itself with stand
ing room only in the back of the hall.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
The Sale EXPLODED

An extraordinary incident Of the re-
cen Tonopah fire is embodied in the
explosion of Il brokers' safe in the fire.
The safe belonging to Lesion Balliett
n well known Tonopah broker. 1t weigh
ed three tons and while the fire was in
progress and the fremen had n water
hose playing upon it, there was q sudden
terrific report and the safe blew up.
After the fire was over it was dis.
covered that the massive outer doors
and the inner doors both had been
blown from their hinges. Balliett de-
clared that he could not account for the
explosion, and said there was nothing
in the safe of an explosive nature, so far
rs he knew. He said the safe contained
books and papers of his business, which,
of course, were destroyed.
The astounding part of the matter is
that these safes, the Herring-Hall-M Mar
vim make, went through the San Fran.
cisco earthquake and fire uninjured-
many Of them. The cause of the ex-
plosion of tho brokers' safe remains "A
mystery.-Carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
Fifteen Million for the Western Pacific

Particulars Of the placing of tho $40,
600, 900 loan to secure the funds for the
completion of the Western Pacific rail
road are given in the New York Sun Of
May 18th and reproduced on account of
being of particular interest in this part
of the state.
"The negotiations for the sale Of notes
to complete the construction of the
Western Pacific were practically COM.
pleted yesterday. Blair 81 Co, William
a. Reed &c Co. and w. a. Solomon Co.
will take $40, OG0. 600 Of tho notes with
nh option on an additional 81, 900. 600.
The notes will bear O per ccnt interest
and will mature in three years with an
option of renewal for two years longer.
The three banking houses which take
tho notes, underworld the first $50. OOO..
600 bond issue Of the Western Pacific.
at that time 1t was agreed that IL the
300 600 were not sufficient To com.
plctc tho road, the Denver d Rio Grandc
should supply enough money for that
purpose by the purchase Of Western
Pacific second mortgage bonds ut rs.
Accordingly tho Denver & Rio Grandc
will issue tho now notes and use the
proceeds for the purchase Of Western
Pacific bonds. The notes will I've amply
secured by collateral. They will bc Of
fcred to the public in the near future.
at was estimated Il year ago that the
Western Pacific would lc completed on
September /, 1908. Difficulty in sccur.
Ing labor and material retarded con
~struction and the present estimate makes
June I, 1000, the date Of opening. Con.
struction Is proceeding more smoothly
and economically now than was the
~ last year. labor being moro album.
dant and more efficient. The $i5, 600.
600, according TO the officers Of the com.
pany, will be moro than sufficient for
the completion Of the work.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
A Lesson In German

Among the Hottentots (Hottentoten
in Germany the kangaroos (Beutelrattel
are found in great numbers. Many of
them wander over the country free
and unmolested; others, less fortunate,
are taken by hunters and put into cages
(Kotter) provided with covers (Latten-
gitter) to keep out the rain. These
cages are called in German Lattengit-
terwetterkotter, and the kangaroo after
his imprisonment takes the name of
Lattengitter Observation-Disclosures.
One day an assassin (Attentater) vas
arrested who had killed q Hottentot
woman, Hottentotmutter, the mother
of two stupid and suffering children in
Straettertrottel. This woman in the
German language is entitled Hotten-
Observation-Disclosures, and her
assassin takes the name Hottentoten-
straettermuttertaeter. The murderer
was confined in n kangaroo's cage
B ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
when q few days later he escaped, but
fortunately he was r%ecaptured by n
Hottenot, who presented himself at the
mayors Office with beaming face.
Il have captured the Attentaeter,"
said he.
Which oneH' replied the mayor.
I'VE have several"
THE Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures"
Which A%ttentaeter are You talking
about"
about the Observation-Disclosures
telmutternttentaeter."
Then why don't you say mt once the
Fl Observation-Disclosures t t~entaerlat-
kotterbeultelratte2
The Elottentot fed in dismay.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
sal. Br ~ Lever

Failing to secure o conviction for
her fomer lover, Mart O'Brien, Gold
Tooth Bess" Carpenter attempted to
murder him by stabbing him with u
pair Of scissors rs he left the court room
ut Gold6eld Friday. O'Brien shot the
Carpenter woman several months ago
ut Rawhide during n of their rows
and the woman appeared against the
man in the district court and attempted
to secure his conviction for the crime.
Failing to succeed she attacked O'Brien
as he was being led from the courtroom,
with q pair of scissors, attempting to
stab out his eyes. She struck the nan
on the cheek and then the frenzied
woman was disarmed by deputy sheriffs.
The woman was in this city recently
and attracted considerable attention by
appearing on G street in Il spangled
dress,
The woman, during the first trial.
gave testimony greatly in the defend
units favor but she changed her opinion
of the accused man and gave damaging
testimony against him at the second
trial. She stated when cross examined
that she sometimes loves him and some
times hates him, and that she is unable
to control her feeling i'll regard to him.
Enterprise.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
J. l. Reyser Surprised

A number of Masons and their invited
guests met mt Masonic Hail last night
and had a very pleasant time. The
object Of the gathering was to present
Past Master J. l.. Keyscr with q bcauti-
full Masonic apron us Il token of appreci.
tion for the interest he has taken In the
lodge.
After q short musical program had
been rendered. Mr.. Keyser was called
to the front, and George Russell master
Of the lodge, presented him in q neat
speech with tho apron.
Mr.. Keyser was taken completely by
surprise, but managed TO pull himself
together sufficiently to accept the gift
in a graceful speech.
Refreshments followed the presenta-
ton and then came responses to appro-
pirate toasts. After this part of the
program was completed, tho remainder
Of the time till midnight was passed in
social conversation and q general good
time was had Ivy all
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22

] would like to sec the budding and
the blooming of the trees; ] would like
to watch the birdlcts as they float adown
the breeze: ] would like to see the sun.
light on tho knobs and on the flats: but
the girls obstruct my vision with their
Merry Widow Hats. When a girl would
cross u doorway. people view her with
alarm. for she has to go in sideways,
with her head beneath her arm. When
two maidcns take u ramblc. one on
either side the street, they are widely
separated Int their merry hats will
meet. All, the sorrow of tho husband.
who would kiss his only own' For he
has 10 do the kissing by long distance
telephone. In the church the morry
women with the Merry Widow tiles,
drive the melancholy husbands to the
middle Of the aislcs. In the home the
weeping father seeks the cellars quiet
gloom, for upstairs the Merry Widow
takes mp all the room; there he's joined
by all the ncighbors who unite in cry.
ing Rats" when the conversation
touches on the Merry Widow hats
unclaimed Poet.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
Lived ai,er I..oi.s

Innumerable instances Of resuscita-
tion after hanging are recorded. Henry
III. granted q pardon to u woman
named meta de Balsham, who was
suspended from 8 o'clock on "A Monday
to sunrise of Thursday and afterwurd
came to-" DIR. Plot tells of u Swiss
who was hanged up thirteen times
without effort on account of the peculiar
condition of his windpipe, it having
been converted into bone by disease.
Annie Green, n servant girl, was
hanged Mt Oxford in 1850 and recovered
fourteen ihours afterward under II
doctors treatment. Mrs. Cope. who
was hanged ut the same place eight
years later. also recovered. On Sept. 9,
1T24, Margaret Dickson was hanged mt
Edinburgh and recovered while being
carried to the grave. She lived for
many years afterward and was uni
versally known us Half Hanged
Maggie Dickson"
A h~ousebreaker named Smith was
hanged at Tyburn in 1905. a reprieve
came when he had been suspended a
quarter of an hour. He was cut down
bled and revived. William DUEL, hang
ed in London in 1740, revived and was
transported. A man hanged in Cork
In 1865 was taken in hand by u physi-
clan who brought him round in six
hours, and we are told the fellow had
the nerve to attend Il theatrical per-
Torrance the same evening.
Richard johnson, hanged ut Shrcws-
bury. Oct. B. 1896, obtained Il promise
from an undersheriff to place him in
the coffin without changing his clothes.
After hanging half an hour he still
showed signs of life, and OH examina-
ton it was found he had wrapped
cords about his body connected with
hooks Mt the neck which prevented
the rope from doing it's work. The
apparatus was removed and the man
hanged cffectually.
1t may be offered in explanation of
the cases mentioned that there was no
drop used at executions in those days,
the culprit usually suffering asphyxia
without the cerebral column being
broken.-London Tit-Bits.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
Object 10 Working on Sunday

Work on the railroad from Schurz to
Rawhide, which was started last week,
threatened to come to II stoplast Sunday
morning, when the several hundred lab
orers employed by the contractors re-
volted because of the orders sent out
that work is to continue every day and
into the night, if possible, that the line
may be completed within the next sixty
days. Only after the strongest argu.
ment OH the part of the men in charge,
was peace secured and an agreement
reached by which the laborcrs promised
to work during the day, pending q set
Element of their rights to n days rest
in seven. The trouble is to be submitted
to an arbitration committee selected
from the contractors and the ranks of
the men employed in building the right
of way.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
OF Interest 10 Ranchers

Mr.. Weber, manager Of the Grayson
ranch, Mt Beowawe, is in town. He told
tho INDEPENDENT this afternoon that
he planted q small patch of sorghum
two years ago and that it made such fine
feed for cattle that he sent to Missouri
for more seed and planted alarger patch
last year. The yield was about seven
tons to the acre. He found that cattle
ate 1t readily In the winter and thrived
on 1t. His experiments proved so sue
cessful that he will SOW two tons Of seed
this year. A ton of the dry sorghum,
he says, equals a ton of alfalfa. The
seed costs five cents n pouud.
Mr. Weber has promised to report to
the INDEPENDENT the result of his crop
this year. II 1t proves the success he
thinks It will, tho raising of sorghum
will be n profitable industry for tho fur.
mers of Nevada.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
An Optical Illusion

An interesting optical experiment may
DO made with the ordinary incandescent
light. Gaze steadily at the light for q
few seconds, then suddenly extinguish
it. The experiment is best performed
in a very dark In about half q
minute you will see the perfect image
Of the light, with tho strands of wire
plainly visible. 1t will be red at first.
In n few minutes it will turn purple and
then q bright blue. Later it will ap-
parently move to the right. AS you
urn your gaze it will continue moving
to the right. If you keep your gaze
fixed it will come back, 1t is surprising
how long the illusion will last. 1t will
be seen for fully five minutes, perhaps
longer, and if you turn on the light and
look away from it You will see the old
image for several minutes, though moro
family than in the darkness. Exchange.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
Who Was III

Two of Elko's dear girls were compar-
ing notes on subjects of more or less
Importance.
"Your beau seems rather bashful,'
said No. /.
"Bashful!' echoed No. 9 why
bashful is no name for it,"
Why don't You encourage himg'
queried No. 1.
81 have tried" answered No. 9, but
the attempt was n measly failure. Only
last night 1 sat all alone on the sofa
and he perched up in n chair as far
away rs he could get. 1 asked him if
he didn't think it strange that the
length of u mans arm was the same rs
the distance around Il woman's waist
and what do You think he didf"
Just what any sensible man would
have ~done-tried it, 1 suppose"
Not any, thank you. He asked if l
could find n piece of string, so we
could measure and See if it was q fact.
Amt he the limitf"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
A ShreWd Business Man,

MIR. Harriman's recent deal in Erie is
well illustrated by a little story recently
started. and which has Travelled so
rapidly that its authorship has been
left behind. The story goes: us Blank
a shrcwd business manG" asked Jones.
That's what he isl replied Smith.
BLANK can buy n pOrtcrhousc steak,
incorporate it, pay the butcher in
common stock, sell the preferred stock.
hy%pOthecate the bonds, and then eat
the steak" If there is any better illus.
tration ut hand of Mr.. IIarriman's
Eric deal IL has not been given to "a
waiting blic.-Commoncr.