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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24
Charter Grnnses,

The Secretary Of State has granted a
charter to the Shepherdstown Concert
Band, of Shepherdstown. The capital
stock is 81 900 with S. paid. The incor-
pcrators are J. d. Muldoon, n. NICK.
Wilson, A. G. Morgrn, Jr., A. Z. Mol
lister and B. F. Hartzell, all of Shep-
herdstown
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24
Dance.

A very enjoyable dance was given at
Mount Clifton, Hedgesvlile on Mol-
day night last which was followed by
a fine supper.
IT,. Nmmittee in charge was w. H.
HaEg erslea, G. J. Graybill and j. W..
Mcdonald.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24

Joseph lease, aged IA fyears, living
near Darkesville while playing with a
revolver last Sunday morning was
shot, the ball sriking him in the fore
head and CHANGING off. The boy was
brought to town aud the wound was
dressed by DIR. A. Andrews.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24

cult Court for Berkeley county. began
Tuesday morning last with Judge E.
b. Faulkner on the beuch.
The grand jury was sworn and Mr..
James w. McKown was made FORE
man.
The judge delivered his accustomed
charge to the grand jury calling theft
attention to matters which the law
specially requires. The court l.id
stress on the violations of the law
governing the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors on Sunday and to certain classes
of people and especially called atten-
ton to the new laws efiecting the sale
of liquors.
He called the grand jury's attention
to the condition Of the county jail from
which prisoner recently escaped. II
the Jail is not secure, said the court,
guards must be placed there. He said
that he would appoint a committee to
examine the Jail and If found insecure
he would have the prisoners removed
10 Morgan county
Judge Faulkner next spoke of the
condition of the court house, the mad
equacy and insecurity of the vaults
for the protection of the county reco rds
He said that if the county court did
not take action in this matter after
next July he would remove the court
to Morgan county.
The court referred to the condition
along Dyewater run where sewerage
of all sorts, dead animals, tainted
meat, etc., are emptied into 1t, q prac-
tice that is unsanitary and menace
to the health of the community.
The court called attention to the CO.
caine habit in Martinsburg and to tile
bribery and other violations of the
election law passed by the last legisla-
ture.
The grand jury returned the follow
ing indictments: Roy Hettenhouser,
William Sisson and Thomas Myers
each for grand larceny and Mifiiin
Pyle for arson.
State VS.. Joseph Cock ,misdemeanor,
Nolle Pros.
State vs.. Pyle, felony, No. 3 trial set
for next Term Ut court and the trial OF
No. 2 was sci for April %.
Merchants and Farmers bank VS..
Kate b. Walsh and ID. p Fry. Judg-
ment for Sl659 and costs.
IN cHANcERy.
Rooney Pierce Optical Co. VS.. w.
q. Austin decree referring cause to
commissioner to ascertain liens against
w. G. Austin.
G. w. Buxton vs.. q. +. Zepp, de-
cree referring cause to commissioner to
ascertain liens against Iepp.
q. w. Mish &c. VS.. b. F. Mish de-
cree clearing title to real estate.
Bender, admr. VS.. ]. III. Shaffer ct.
al; decree confirming report of sale OF
real estate and directing deed TO be
made to A. II. StiIlweIl, the purchaser,
all the purchase price being paid in
fall,
Maggie Burke VS.. G.. +. Kothweli,
etc, decree dismissing cause, all mat
tiers in controversy having been set-
tied
r. D. Gardner, edmr., VS.. William
Havey, ct al; decree referring cause to
a commissioners to settle the accounts
of the plaintiff and to audit the liens
against the real estate of plaintiffs de-
cedent.
VIM. d. Harlan vs.. Ida Harlan, ct
al; decree confirming sale Of real es-
tate and directing the distribution OF
the proceeds of sale.
p. r. Harrison, DIR. HIS. Castlemsn
and Jacob Sites were appointed to ex
anime the Jail,
The members of the petit jury were
discharged on Wednesday until next
week
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24
Democratic city Ticket

For Councilman First Ward.
Stephen X. Snodgrass.
For Councilman Second Ward.
John G. Hutsler.
For Councilman Third Ward.
Clarence l.. Keller.
For Councilman Fourth Ward.
William Cumiskey
For Councilman Fifth Ward.
Thomas Ysntz
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24

SIS asl ms Of 5000 or more on GOO d
note or mortgage.
Porterlieid Il Boyer.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
THE SALOON IN COURT
Pennsylvania Lawyer Appeals to the Consttu-
ton Against License System

BUTLER, Pa, February 81 Especial correspond
ence)-The ministerial association of Butler has
secured a presentation of the argument against
the constitutionaty of saloon license before the
license court in this city.
The argument was made by William Martini
Esq, and made profound impression upon the
court. Briefly summarized, Mr.. Martins conten-
ton was that the granting of license or a law
authorizing the granting of license, for the sale
of Intoxicating liquors, is contrary to the consti-
tuition of the state of Pennsylvania, which in
Section II of Article l states that the constitu-
ton is formed "for the peace, safety and welfare
of the inhabitants of the state'
Mr.. Martin further argued that in accord with
the decision of Judge McIllvane of Washington
county, "The teaching of Christianity and the
Bible form a part of the common law of the
state of ennsylvana."
The Hon. Homer L. Castle, who was present
at the hearing, pronounced Mr.. Martins argu-
ment one of the best that he ever listened to
upon any legal question
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
WHOLE SOUTH GOING DRY
Leading Southern Clergyman Points to Tok-
ems of Tidal Wave Everywhere

ATLANTA, GA, February 81 Especial CORE
spondence)-The Rev. Dr. J. B. Hawthorne OF
Richmond, who was formerly pastor of the First
Baptist church of this city and who took lead
ing part in the Atlanta Prohibition campaign in
1885, is visiting this city and, interviewed today
upon the Prohibition movement, said:
"The Georgia Prohibition law was no surprise
as far as l was concerned. Prohibition is not a
sudden spasn, but gradual growth covering 4
period OF forty years or more. Atlanta, in my
opinion, has been Prohibition in principle since
1885, when the Prohbitonists carried the county
purely moral fight. During the next cam
paign, largely by the advice of Henry Grady the
fight made not only on a moral basis, but
upon economical basis, the argument being
from the position that Prohibition was not a
menace to business. but actually aided it. We
lost the fight.
But I now believe, and I have given the ques
ton my closest study, that in the course of the
next five years. there will not foot of soil on
southern land that is not under prohibitory law
The legislature in North Carolina has given the
people the right to vote on the question in June,
and it is now the consensus of opinion that the
state will go dry by vote of five to one South
Carolina will do the same, whenever the vote
goes before the people
alabama has followed Georgias lead; Tennes-
see is almost dry and will be totally so in very
few years. And the most encouraging fact to the
Prohlbtionlsts is that every report from the great
state of Texas shows gain for Prohibition In
the next twelve months the state will go dry by
a state legislative law"
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
Governor Smith Standing Pat

ATLANTA, Ga, February s7 Especial CORE
spondence) 1.-The statement has been widely pub
lished, under datelines from this city, that the
brewers seeking an amendment of the Geor-
gia Prohibition law which will allow the sale of
beer and wine and that they are abetted in this
movement by Gov. Hoke Smith Today there ap-
pears in prominent position in Governor Smiths
paper, the atlanta Journal, an absolute and I'M
equivocal denial of any such intent upon the part
of Governor Smith. The governor insists that he
has not advocated any modification of Georgia's
Prohibition law, is not in favor of any such mod
ification and that the story is deliberate fabri-
cation
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1T1oN1sr

of 1,s14,695,7s5 gallons, to be reckoned at sixty
four and one-half cents a gallon, amounting to
the fifth item, 1,17O,47s7S1.
The next item is the imported malt liquors, of
which there are to be considered 7171,s42 gallons
at $10o per gallon, giving us the sixth amount,
$7,171,S42.
There is to be dealt with now the only item of
adulteration which this computation considers,
viz, the addition of 13617,3O2 gallons by "rect-
fcation" These are the official figures and are
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
THE DRINK BILL.
$2,275,O70,s57

assented to by the foremost liquor authorities of
the United States as minimum dilution. This
is to be considered at the price of domestic
spirits and adds the total of $s4,476,S S725
This gives grand total of s2275, o7o,s57
a conservative statement of the drink bill of the
American people.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
CHAPTER V
WHAT
MEAN.
THE FIGURES

1t would be highly desirable to find some tangi-
bic illustration by which the enormous total of
the drink bill of the American people could be
made clearer and more easy of comprehension
Unused illustrations are not easily found but
rive at clearer conclusions
The grain fields of the American people are
enormous. In the fiscal year 1906, in producing
the hive great cereal crops, we planted more than
nlnety-six million acres of corn, sowed more than
torty-seven million acres of wheat almost forty
million acres of oats, than two million acres
to rye and more than six million acres of barley
This enormous grain field would have covered
all the New England states, New York, New
Jersey Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan. Upon it we raised grain crop
that almost staggers comprehension, beginning,
as it does, with almost three billion bushels of
corn and three-quarters of a billion of bushels
of wheat.
Yet, had all that enormous grain crop been sold
on the first day of December 1907, it would have
lacked almost quarter of billion dollars of
bringing enough money to pay the annual drink
bill of the American people.
Another illustration is found in the railroads.
The total receipts of the railroads of the United
States enormous. At freight offices and
passenger stations they levy their tribute upon the
people, but in the fiscal year 1906 all the rail-
roads of the United States at all their freight
and passenger stations, did not take from the
American people as much money as the people
put down that year upon the bar of the saloon
and the hotel and saw disappear in the gin miler's
till
Perhaps one other illustration is sufficiently
pertinent to warrant its introduction. We have
just sent great war fleet into the Pacific ocean.
Sixteen great battleships have sailed away. If
we assume that each of those battleships repre-
sents an expenditure of ten million dollars Gan
exceedingly liberal assumption) we shall find that
we could build and equip such fleet more than
once a month with the money that the American
people pay to the distller and the brewer for their
alcoholic posons.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05
KIND.

collars (9I5U,OOO,O0O) more and that could this
question be entered into carefully it would be
possible to demonstrate that the American people
pay fully three billions of dollars $4,000, o0o,OOO)
every year for liquors of various kinds.
The other problem has to do with prices. For
several years past scale of prices has been
used in the computations made in these articles,
substantially the same which has been followed
by the statisticians of the american Grocer and
by independent students like the late Mr.. Edward
Atkinson of Boston. This schedule of prices has
been conceded to be in need of revision, and in
this study it has been revised at certain points,
not recklessly, but conservatively and upon the
side OF extreme caution.
From careful study it has been agreed to fix
the retail price of domestic spirits at $625 per
gallon. This is upon the basis of the careful
estimate made by those who are in position to
know that the average gallon of whisky retails
fifty drinks, at an average price of twelve and
~Sae-half cents per drink
The retail price of imported spirits has been
left at the old fgure-$s.O0. Domestic wines
are computed at So per gallon, an exceedingly
conservative computation, while imported wines
figured as before at 81 per gallon.
For many years domestic beer has been COM
puted at the low rate of SO cents per gallon.
This is conceded to be too low and an unsats-
factory basis of computation True, much beer
is sold by the "can," weighed out the bar,
and brings the dealer less than so cents per gal
lon; upon the other hand, large amount of
beer is sold at extravagant prices, while the
age sale of draught beer, under air pressure,
tends to small drinks and consequently large
receipts. It is a common saying among liquor
dealers that, by the addition of little pressure,
barrel of beer can be made to sell for from
$50 to $32 over the bar
In this computation $40 per barrel, or, in round
numbers, sxty-four and one-half cents per gal
lon, has been assigned as the retail price of do
nestle The retail price for imported malt liquors
has been left at the figure which has been COM
monty used, ST per gallon.
In detail then, the computation runs in this
wise: We have before us 1856 1881 gallons of
domestic spirits which we estimate as sold to
the American people at the average price of $6.25
per gallon. Multiplying this amount by this cost,
we have the first item, $s39,429,331
We have then 3,7s2o55 gallons of imported
spirits which are to be reckoned at $500 per
gallon, which gives the second item $3O,356440.
We have then 5O,O79,3s3 gallons of domestic
wine to be reckoned at $500 per gallon, which
gives us the third item, $100,15S,76
Next come the imported wines, 7,659,565 gal
Ions, reckoned at $500 gallon, and giving us
the fourth item, $3O,63826O.
We take next the domestic malt liquors, total
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05

ton here to use only those elements that can be
distinctly accounted for in the official figures of
the United States government. The only adul-
teration taken account of in this study amounts
Eo some thirteen million gallons of spirits and is
the conceded dilution by rectihcation
1t may be stated however, as the mature judg-
ment of the editor of this paper, that an adul-
teraton and dilution actually take place that
sufficiently increase the amount of liquor sold
to account for fully three-quarters of billion
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-05

This thing of electing an old party politician
to office and then trying to petition him into being
good, is too much like girls marrying man
to reform him.-The People,
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Rains Look Good

''This rain means as much to the farmers, to the cactle men and to the territory generally nearly as much as a years output of the mines," is the way that Frank Allison, of Arrison Bros the well known fruit farmers, put it to Star reporter yesterday. "For weeks the ranges have been dryin g up, and the cattle have been unable to wander far in search of wild feed be- cause there was no water in the ponds and they were really suffering from the lack of it.
 "Besides the farmers all up and down the valley have heen realizing fer some time that unless rain should come their crop prospects for the year could not fail to fall to 60 per cent. As it is, this rain comes at the very time when it is indispensable. Hay had been preparing to soar to a prohlbitive price and this rain will mean that It will stay within reason.
 eff the farmers of Arizona and all the cattle men had an opportunity to pick any particular occurrence that would benefit them most, they would uniformly have chosen this rain. It is godsend to Arizona. Tucson Star.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Arizona Peace Officers.

Arizona sheriffs are receiving a neat pamphlet issued by Sheriff Hayden of Maricopa county, which contains a list of all the peace officers in the various counties and cities of the ter ritory, including the sheriffs, deputies, consta bles and city marshels. It also contains the roster of the United States marshaPs force, the railroad special officers, the names of the Arizona rangers, the sanitary and live stock inspectors, the immigration officers, the officials of the Yuma penitentiary, as well as a table showing the amount Of 'good time' that prisoners are allowed under sentence at Yuma. The pamphlet is very useful one in the hands of the officers and is similar to the one that is issued annually in California.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Exploring Lost Mine

Twenty Bis3ee men sent a camp equipment out from Benson this week in charge of G. Ellsworth and Giles Ashman to explore what is believed to be a lost mine, in the Whetstone mountains about twelve miles west of Benson.
 On high mountain, in the midst of the fl 1t table, which is it's crest, a depression. thirty by hundred feet, shows as if the ground had sunk into a great underground cavity.
 An old stone ruin is not far away and pieces of ore on the flat near the sink. It is believed there was once a mine operated here and by removing surface ground in the depression, an incline shaft was discovered which the discoverer. MT. Ellsworth, believes has been purposely filed up with soil and rock gathered from the top.
 An assay made from piece of ore picked up near the depresfion gave thirty four dollars silver and one dollar gold
 It has been determined by the Bis bee people to have work continued for eight months to explore this curiosity of the Whetstone mountains Benson Press.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Another Tucson Diamond Robbery.

It has not been generally under stood that everybody in Tucson wears dia amonds, but they certainly have few there and they are evidently not safeguarded to any extent. Another diamond thief from that city was capt. ured in this city Monday as he was alighting from the train. He is Karl Berger, a watehmaker. Berger was employed in the jewelry store of Henry Dietrich, fromw hom he is alleged to have stolen $3OOO worth of diamonds and jewelry. Most of the valua bles were found in satchel he carried Berger is a German apparently 70 years old, and of good appearance. He had been in Tucson only about a month Yuma Sentinel.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
CattIemen Happy

Experienced cattlemen report the country in better condition than 1t has been at this season of the year for a decade or more. The ranges are again beco ming set to grass and brush and the conditions for receiving and holding moisture are continually be- coming better. This is shown by water in wells, which is gradually be- coming higher, thus eVIdencing the fact that the rainfall is being held on the ground and no longer runs off as it did when the ranges were bare of vegetation. Every bush and every bunch of grass arrests it's flow, the ground becomes saturated and the water Is thus retained to the inest1m- able benefit of the country. The tre- mendous lesson received by cattlemen through the overstockihg the country is liable never to be again repeated. This being the case, the great desert and mesa land will once more return to their old values Post.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Dickinson Visits TOpOIobampO.

E Dickinson, vice. president and general manager of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad, and his two guests, Geo. Crocker and H. S. Manning, both of New York, on their return here last Saturday mornin g after their inspection of that company's 8 road in this state, left for Topolo bampo, Sinaloa. In their private car attached to the Mexican CentraPs northbound passenger train they lett for Ell Paso, whence they went west over the South. err Pacific railroad to Fogales, thence to Guaymas, Sonora, thence over Har- riman's new Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific railroad to San Bias, Sina- loa, on the K. O, M. and O. They will then inspect that part of the Orient system from Topolobamp as far as it is built, about 1I9 kilometers east of the last mentioned point.
 The Cananea, Yaqui River and Pa cifio was expected to be opened from Navojoa, Sonora, to San Bias, on Feb l. Rails are laid a few miles south of the latter point. -Chihuahua enter prise.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
NOTICE.

The first regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Escondido Cop per Company, for the election of a Board of Directors and for the tran saction of such other business as may be properly brought before the meet ing, will be held at the office of Frank J Duffy in the town of Nogales, Ari zona, on Friday the twenty eighth day of February, 1908. at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day. All stockholders are earnestly requested to be present.
 THOMAS ELLIS,
 ? S-3t Secretary.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15

The splendid rain fall of Sunday night and Monday came none too soon. The cattle ranges of this sec tion were greatly in need of moisture and cattle were growing gaunt from lack of feed. The rain fell slowly but continuously for about 24 hours and all soaked into the ground. The rain was followed by a warm sunshine and one can almost see the grass grow Florence Blade.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15

Our new stock of Re. cords comprise ? over 1000, 10 and Is inch and a complete as- sortment of Red Seal.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Attention Americans.
The American Consulate, Nogales, l
 Sonora, Mexico, January IT. { 1908.

1908.
 A cting under Executive Order of April 9th. 1907, I have to inform American Citizens, residing in this Consular District. that register is kept at this Consulate in which they are respectfully invited to inscribe their names
 They should register each year and any additional facts concerning re- sidence. marriage and children, should be noted in the register but the full registration having once been made, need not be repeated on each subse- quent registration.
 No fee will be charged for regis tration nor for any service connected therewi
 SAMUEL T. LEE,
 American Consul
The border vidette., 1908-02-15

Victors from S10.00 to S100. % carried in stock
The border vidette., 1908-02-15

George Januel, the expert German barber. opposite the Sonora News Company, guarantees his work, and respectfully invites you to give hun a trial. Everything neat and clean, Hair cutting a speciality. If.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
State of Missouri. County of Johnson oo

Before me, w. E. Crissey, Notary Public. in and for the State and county aforesaid, on this day personally appeared Chas. A. Shepard. Geo. w. Lennon, w. C, Kapp, Charles Hootman. James H. Lampkin, Jas. A. Kemper, Vim. D. Faulkner, Henry Witt and w. s. Durham, known to me to be the persons who signed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for and pur- poses therein mentioned.
 Given under my hand and seal of office. this I6th day of November 1907.
 Seal WM. E. CRISSEY,
 Notary Public. My Commission will expire July 2e. 1910.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Territory of Arizona, I
 County of Santa Cruz. 99

hereby certify that the within instrument was filed and recorded at tine request of F. J. Duffy. January 10 A. D.. 1908. at 1925 A. M. Book Miscellaneous Records. Pages 3-i6i-465- I66- I67.
 Witness my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
 PHIL HEROLD,
 County Recorder. First publication February b. 1908.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15

Our prices are the same as Chicago and New York. w hen you purchase your Ma chine and Records from us, we save you the Express Charges to Nogales.
The border vidette., 1908-02-15
Victor Talking Machines.

We are wholesale and retail dealers for Mex ico for the Victor Talk ing Machines.