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Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
SALES ROOM OF ARIZONA
 OSTRICH COMPANY.

On October 1st last year the Ari- zona ostrich O.. opened a splendid sales room at the corner of First and Adams streets. The room is furnish ed in the old mission style and equip ped with splendid plate glass show cases for the display of the s10.000 stock of the output of the cOmpany's farm. that can be found here. The salesroom is under the charge of Mrs. F. O. Adams, and is by far the most beautiful and popular store in the city.
 The success of this venture on the part of the Arizona Ostrich Company has been phenomenal. Every day since the store opened an increase of sales over the preceding day has been registered and what ever doubts were entertained as to the success of the venture when it was started. have been dispelled. The stock consists of every thing in feather goods. plumes of all kinds, including the new willow plume. ostrich aigrettes, tips, boas, stoles, fans. etc. They also carry a stock of plain and decorated ostrich egg shells which have become a very popular piece of bric-a-brac.
 The mail order business of the house has become quite a feature and each days mail brings orders from every corner cf the country.
 The company has issued a splendid catalogue which they will furnish on
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

crops of alfalfa can be safely counted
 upon and eight crops are more fre-
 quent than three are around Thebes.
 All l said was in general terms, lei
 me now come down to positive figures
 which can be verified for the asking
 These figures have been taken at ran
 dom and not with the intention to
 make people believe that the pump
 kin exhibited at the county fair is the average size pumpkin of the county Forty acres of Glendale Loess pro-
 duced 205 tons Of grain and alfalfa hay at one cutting; from 160 acres of barley crop averaging 26 sacks to the acre was harvested; a crop of 80 acres of Thompson Seedless grapes on the vine was sold for $5. .O0G cash. Sugar beets contain from Is per cent to 20 per cent sugar. Cantaloupes. strawberries. onions and vegetables of all kinds. and fruits of every descrip- ton reach such a degree of perfection about Glendale that l am 10th to give | figures. but leave it to the personal in vestigation of the homeseeker. The underground flow of water is the purest found in the Salt River val
 
 in the treatment of sugar beets and for malting purposes.
 The "Glendale Beet Sugar Factory" i.is located about mile from Glendale, in the very heart of this fabulously rich strip of soil It has capacity of 800 tons daily and can produce 100 tons of refined sugar every twenty four hours. The buildings are ar- ranged in such q way as to permit the expansion of the plant to a capac- ity of 1900 tons per day.
 Glendale has a Cantaloupe Growers association to further the interest of this ever growing industry. It has an enterprising Board of Trade, watching carefully over the interest of those who come to see and to settle, so that they may receive the best information from the most reliable sources. It has graded schools, equal to the best in Arizona and it offers a hand of well come to all who wish to stop off and see for themselves when the conductor calls out Glendale"
 Upon the completion of the railroad bridge at Parker three transcontinent- al lines will run all of their Kansas City-San Francisco business through Glendale. This will be within the next eighteen months. Upon the com pletion of this line it will have less curves and less grade of any equal length railroad in the world. It will cut out for the Santa Fe alone TOO miles of mountain grade. and it is safe to predict that the worlds record for fast time will be made over DOT tions of this road.
 The price of land is still in the reach of all averaging from S125 to s2O0 per acre carrying with it the infallible certainty of giving in three years ten per cent interest on value of $500 to 5000 per acre.
 1t is only a snapshot of Glendale and it's surrounding 30,O00 acres that have drawn. It is the garden spot of the entire United States, little semi tropical paradise. and it would take more space than l am allowed and a stronger pen than l am able to wield, to do full justice to it.
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in Africa and the returns on the in vestments that have been made in this line would seem fabulous to an Afri can farmer. What the industry needs is a specific duty of so much per pound on imported feathers. As the duty is now. the importer beats the government out of at least 75 per cent of the duty by false bills, and other tricks known to the importers of feathers. What more desirable art icle from which to raise government revenue could be named. Only the rich or well to-do wear ostrich feath CTS and about $3.OOO,OOO worth are inn ported each year.
 Besides the revenue that such a law would produce 1t would foster the one great industry that promises so much for the semi-arid southwest. South western Texas. Southern New Mexico. Southern Arizona and Southern Cali fornia furnish the natural conditions for ostrich farming, and the business is only in its swaddling clothes. Within a few years the American mar ket will be supplied from this field and it does not take the gift of fore sight to see the territory mentioned the great ostrich producing country of the world
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OSTRiCHEs.

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 again began operations. buying back twenty-one pairs of birds. Since that time the ranch has been devoted rather to breeding purposes than the growing of feathers. During the past five years this farm, starting with forty two birds and forty acres of land has sold s34. 900 worth of birds. s5235.03 worth of feathers and has in-i creased the flock from the forty-two birds to two hundred and twelve birds, that are worth $46,7O0 at the regular market price of the birds. Thus it will be seen that the ostrich farm is ons sound paying basis. There is a market in America for more than 5000. 900 worth of feathers each year and the demand for the feathers is growing. If congress would put a sTecific'duty cn the feathers instead of an a6valorum duty, it would not take ten years to make the great southwest country the ostrich farm of the world. The birds do better here than they do
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

Glendale" calls the conductor
 "Glen-d-a-a-a-lc" and that is all the traveller knows. The train speeds on
 another nine miles to reach it's des- alton. Phoenix, the beautiful growing
 capital of Arizona.
 Had the conductor called out
 'Thebes" every window of the cars
 would have been blocked by a curious i face. "Thebes on the Nile" is a name
 to be conjured by. "Thebes on the | Nile" has a history and is the heart
 of the most fertile spot on Gods won | derous earth. Thus at least thinks
 the world at large. and will keep on thinking thus. until Glendale has been l discovered by the masses, as it has been found at the present writing by lucky few
 It may seem an empty boast of some scheming real estate shark to state that Glendale is surrounded by 30. 900 acres of the most fertile soil in the world, but I am not in the real estate business. and would make the same statement of the san Francisco mountain. if I could make it truth fully and give facts and figures to prove what I saw
 The Nile overflows its valley and leaves the precious silt which has made fame and fortune for the early tiller but the salts that also settle from the waters Of the sacred stream permits only a cultivation of three in- ches. as otherwise the poisonous un- dersoil will come to the surface and kill all vegetation.
 In Glendale the purest alluvial soil, termed by the United States Geological Survey, "The Glendale Loess," reaches in no place less than 20 feet in depth and attains frequently a thickness of six hundred feet. This soil Is purer. therefore contains more plantfood, than any other soil in the world including the Valley of the Nile" The 30 900 1 acres around Glendale stand unsur- l passed and equalled only by a small l strip of land in Idaho and another | one in Germany. These contain 30 to | 40 per cent soluble matter that serves | as plant food. For this reason it re- 1 quires only 66 per cent water and only | 75 per cent of labor to produce % per | cent to 90 per cent more in crops than | on any other known soil.
 Tn inc ssNallay of fha Nile " climatic | conditions are such that two crops per season are the rule and three are an exception. Around Glendale six
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

Men rush into the wilds of Mexico. Central and South America to find the land where milk and honey flow they follow misleading advertisements expecting to make on five acres of land two years wages for two weeks work, they journey from England to the blessed shores Of the Nile to scratch up three inches of soil at the rate of $500 per acre, but they even do not look out of the car window when the conductor sings out Glen d-a-a-ale."
 Is is not high time to sweep the cobwebs out of ones brain when look ing for a home? Is it not time to realize that the silly stories about Arizona are as applicable to this ter ritory. as Fenemore Coopers Leather Stocking tales fit the East of today. Is it not time and money well spent to come and see for yourself what treasure God gave to the people of America in the Glendale Loess" of Glendale, Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

came to Arizona, locating in Tempe in 1888. In the early sos he made his advent into politics by being elect ed Justice of the Peace. After this he was elected City Treasurer of Tempe, holding the office four years He then move to Phoenix. and in 1904 he was elected county recorder and reelected in 1906. He has been a democrat and an active party worker ever since his majority. He is a Mason and mem Der of the United WOrkmen. Some idea can be had of what is doing in real estate transfers in this county, when it is stated that Mir Leonard took in S19.O0O.OO in fees in his office last year.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
A. w. BENNETT Glendale.

One of the busiest men in the little city of Glendale is the subject of this sketch. MT. A. w. Bennett. He is agent for the Town Company. runs the water works, conducts the tranfer business and liver stable and owns a leo acre ranch, and has under lease S20 acres more. He came here in 1895 from Ft Scott. Kansas. He has been here during the good and bad of the last thirteen years. and now sees the best times in sight that the valley has ever enjoyed. He said, This is the farmers paradise. All that is neces- sary is an assured water supply and this we will have with the completion of the governments irrigation pro- ject."
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
]. M. KlMBER & COMPANY.
 Glendale.

This business was established in tht year the railroad was built. but Mir kimber took charge of it about two years ago. He carries a general stock of merchandise and tries to have on hand anything the rancher in the neighborhood may need. He has been in the valley for 20 years and he says he expects to see more money made here in the next five years than has been made in the last twenty MT. Kimber buys and sells hay and grain and is endeavoring to make his store the emporium of this section. His stock of groceries and dry goods is complete and up to date
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
0. c. BA5BITT. Treasurer and Tax Collector.

Mir Babbitt came to Arizona in 1882 and was elected to the office of treas urcr and tax collector in November. 1a06 He is a resident of Mesa, where he has been an active worker in the democratic party. He has been and is yet engaged in the mercantile business in his home town and in his store he carries a large and well selected stock
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

MT. " E. Messinger who continues to conduct the affairs of the concern.
 A large stock of hardware. lumber, agricultural implements, vehicles, roof ing. wire fencing of all kinds, paints. glass, oils, in short everything that the rancher may need in getting his place ready for the crop. is found in the stock. The store occupies a large two story brick building 90 so feet. Mir. Messinger, the manager of the business came here from Illinois in 1887 and has a wide acquaintance all over the valley The house carries a stock of about s1O.OOO.0O and is doing a thriving trade.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
ORANGES.
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 in the valley in full or partial bear ing. and probably that much more is are in bearing have never given a full yield on account of the heretofore uncertain and meager water supply. Oftimes the water supply would fail just al the psychological moment and the crop was lost. On this account the planting of orchards has been held back. But now all this has been changed With the completion of the Roosevelt dam every foot of the valley will have an ample supply of water to care for it And in anticipation of the finishing of the dam, many planters are already at work setting out trees and preparing to get ready. by the time the dam is finished. The water supply this year for all of the lands under the old ditches will be ample because dams are in that will not wash out with every freshet. and this is making it possible to get planted a lot of young orchards.
 There is more land now under com pleted canals, and that will. with the completion of the storage reservoir. have a perfect water supply. in this valley than there are irrigated acres in the whole of Southern California. south of the Tehachapi mountains.
 There is as much good orange land in this valley as there is land under water in San Bernardino and River side counties. and these two counties in California produce about sl7.000.000 worth of oranges per year. even at the low price paid for the California fruit When the Salt River valley gets in as full bearing as are these two counties. the orchards here will produce re- turn of nearly s30.O00,o00. or an amount equal to the entire citrus crop of California This is not hot air but a statement that is borne out by the condition of the market last December.
 THE GRAPE FRUIT.
 One of the most profitable of the citrus fruits is the grape fruit. and the Salt River valley is the natural home of this delicious fruit. No grape fruit raised in America can compare with iC. either in quality or texture. and the demand for the Arizona grape fruit in the east, easily proves it's supremacy. and it exceeds the supply tO such an extent as to warrant the prediction that there will always be a good market for all we can raise. The association here has hundreds of orders for the fruit at $500 per box r. O. B. Phoenix. and when enc stops to think that one tree in full bearing will pro get eighty trees on an acre. you can get eighty trees on an acre yau can form some idea oc the profitableness of grape fruit orchard. The present supply of grape fruit raised in Ameri- ca is not twenty per cent of the de- mand and the demand is increasing at more rapid rate than is tho supply.
 No section in the world offers the opportunities to the man with Q few thousands. to become Independently rich in a few years. as does this val ley in the raising of citrus fruits, and the man who will fool around fin a one
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

can acquire a competency for his old age as quickly, or as easily as he can right here in Salt River valley consider improved land here at s150.00 per acre cheap. It is worth four times as much as the same kind of land is worth in the middle west because it will produce four times as much reve- nue.
 The Manistee Ranch is a beautiful place and it is being conducted along right lines.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
CARL HAY0EN-sHERiFF

Carl Hayden was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1877 and vas cl1cated in the public schools Of the territory and at the Normal school at Tempe. He also spent three and enc half years at Stanford. but had to cult on account of the death Of his father. In 1872 the elder Mir Hayden built flour mill at Tempe and conducted it until his
 death in 1900, when Carl took charge
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

MT Phillips was first elected to the office of Probate Judge in 1902 and was. reelected in 1904 and 1906. and is in consequence now serving on his third term. He is a native of Illinois and has been here about ten years. He is a lawyer and was in the general practice prior to his election as judge. He is one of two republicans, that hold elective offices in the county court house and it speaks highly for his ability as a judge that notwith- standing the democratic majority in the county, he has been thrice elected to office.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
GEORGE KIRKLAND.

MT. Kirkland was appointed to the office of clerk of the Probate Court five years ago. Prior to his appoint ment he was with Talbot & Hubbard for seven years. He has been in
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
FRANK LUKE COUNTY ASSESSOR.

He served as city assessor for two
 terms prior to 1908 and in that year
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
H. w. RYDER. Glendale,

Mir. Ryder established his business here in 1896 under the management of
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and conducted the business up to the time of his election. He is also interested in a general store in Tempe. Mir. Hayden was elected County Treasurer in 1904 and elected Sheriff in 1906. He is a demo- crat and has taken an active part in the party work ever since his majority. He was a delegate to the National Democratic convention in St. Louis in 1904. His father died at the age of 75 years and never cast a vote for presi- dent. He left Connecticut when ke was a boy and moved to the Territory of Kansas and from there he went to California and before it became q state he moved to Arizona where he lived nearly a half century before his death
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
GLENDALE

GLENDALE The Realization of a Homeseeker's
 Dream. By Dr. Jno. w. Foss. President Phoenix and Maricopa County Board of Trade.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

was appointed to the office of County Assessor and in 1907 reappointed for four years more. He was engaged in business in Phoenix for a number of years and no man in the county is better equipped for the office of es- sessor than is he. MT. Luke has al ways been an active worker in the democratic party and has host of friends among the rank and file oi that political organization. Practically his whole life has been spent here, he being only II years Of age when he landed in Phoenix. He is the father of eight children, all born here
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

Mir: Leonard is a native of Iowa. He
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02

alias big JacK' and Wiflam strong.
alias "Yegg Billie" are the others.
The arrests were made by Chief In
spector G. l.. Patterson. and A. ID.
Brunson of the St. Louis secret SER
vice office who have been after the
men for the greater part Of three
years
The well defined outline of a nude
woman tatooed on the arm Of Laugh
ing" Charlie Gallagher. an anchor in
many colors on the arm of big Mack"
Mccarthy and the facial description
and bertillion photograph of "Yegg
Billie" Strong make the Identification
complete.
Laughing Charlie" Gallagher was
arrested here half an hour after reach
ing the city. Martin and Strong had
been under arrest since Friday night
Chief Patterson last heard OF Gal
ligher at Alexandria, La, on Nov. Is,
and he was heading towards Illinois.
Following the blowing of postoffice
safe at Ava, ILL.,, last Friday night Pat
terson struck Galligher's trail, and
followed him here.
Before the arrest OF Martin and
Strong they had mailed a letter to
Gallagher in the local police which Gal
ligher was TO call for here and which
would inform him where they were To-
Gated When Gallagher reached town
Monday night he called Immediately
for the letter and It was given him,
just before the officers made the ar
rest
Assistant Postmaster Johnson. who
made the first two arrests, stated the
men used every method possible in
trying TO bribe the jailor to cau for
the letter addressed to Gallagher. and
they tried further TO make known the
story OF their arrest so II would re-
ceive publicity and save Gallagher
from coming here and being captured.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
PROFANE MASONS.
Grand Master Moors Insists or:
Their Expulsion.

Waco, Dec Nearly 1000 mem
bers were present when the seventy
third annual convocation of the Ma.
sonic grand body of Texas was called
to order in the temple. After the
opening exercises the committees were
appointed.
The annual address of Grand Master
Moore of Wichita Falls was given
close attention during its reading. The
grand master denounced the use of
profanity. declaring that it was the
duty Of all subordinate lodges to expel
any member who habitually makes use
OF unbecoming and blasphemous Ian
guage.
All reports OF officers we're inter
esting and stated the order was stead
lily growing and its business is in an
excellent condition.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
LOVE ISSUES CALL.
Statement Desired at State Capital
Within the Next Few Days.

Austin. Dec. 1.-The state depart
ment of insurance and banking has to-
day Issued call on all state bank
and trust companies in the state for
the financial condition on Nov. o.
The statement must be here within
the next few days. There are now 344
state banks and trust companies in
the state and it is expected by next
year there will be $50.
j. A. Arnold OF Fort Worth, secre-
tary of the Commercial Secretaries
association, Is gathering data on tax
laws and amount of revenue derived
from the state during a year He is
fortifying himself, he said. with facts
and figures for the contest which is
to be waged in the next legislature
He will head the committee which Is
TO. be maintained here during the ses-
sion OF the next Legislature.
r. K. Crawford of Houston, the
newly appointed assistant attorney
general. mas assumed his duties, TAX
Ing charge of the desk occupied by
Assistant Walthall, who takes Pol.
lard's desk. Pollard left for Kings,
vile TO assume charge of his new du.
ties as general attorney for the
Brownsville road.
Governor Campbell has offered
reward of $3.50 for the arrest of Ches-
ter Williams OF Nacogdoches, charged
with numbering his wife.
Auditors examining department
be NJ Of fat r~tL l.nw II
clerks which could be cut off will not
save the state much money, as higher
salaried and more efficient men must
be employed. although fewer In num-
Der.
Governor Campbell will be called
upon TO pass upon large number of
pardons recommended by the pardon
board Many has been pending long
time, but the absence of the executive
prevented action.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
THREE ARRESTED.
Alleged Sage Blowers and Postoffiee
Burglars In Custody.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 1.-Three al
legged safeblowers and postoffice burg
lars whose field OF operation extends
throughout the whole of the Mississ-
lppi valley were arrested here Monday
night and examined before a United
States commissioner in special ses.
sion and half an hour later were lock-
ed up in separate cells awaiting their
removal to Danville, ILL.,, one of the
points where they are under indict-
ment
Charles Gallagher, leader of the band
of safe bandits who travels under the
aliases of Charles McMullin, Laugh
ing Charlie" and Charles Martin, was
the first arraigGcd Joe Mccarthy.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
BOLD DAYLIGHT HOLDUP
Four Desperadoes Take Charge
of Street Car.
MAKECONSInERABLE HAUL
Stuff Pockets With Purses, Watches
and Small Wsds Of Greenbaeks, and
Women Yell SO LustiIy They Jump
on and Disappear.

New York, Dec. -Four despera-
does armed with revolvers held up a
crowded street car on Lower Third
avenue. They throttled and robbed
the conductor. terrorized the passen.
gers and escaped with goodly col.
lection OF purses and other valuables.
A large number OF men and women
who had just left dance hall
crowded on the car on Third street.
Every seat was taken and the aisle
fiiled. The robbers pockets were
stuffed with women's purses. watches
and small wads OF bills when the
screams OF the women so frightened
them that they bolted from the car
and dashed down a side street and
disappeared.