Arizona republican., 1908-06-03

the big corporation has offered a
 last to throw open it's books to tn,
 prosecution and the testimony tha
 has just been taken here befor Special Commissioner Henry E Ganse will probably finally settl
 one way or the other matter whicl
 has been the subject of importan | litigation in half dozen states. Tn,
 majority of the witnesses wer,
 agents of the company. who testi
 fled that no attempt was made tt
 regulate retail prices and that the so.
 called exclusive contracts were
 dead letter and were not enforced
 Under examination the fact develop
 ed, however. that prices were dis cussed at a meeting of genera
 agents of the International which was
 held at Kansas City in 1905. The de
 feat of the company would have fal
 reaching results. It would mean tht removal of 1000 local agents. tho discharge of 300 regular salaried re- pairmen and warehousemen and the shops at cross roads. Machines NOulu Slill Ot SOlus II 10 Nieiiiltb through agencies established outside the state lines, but the company con- tends that its removal will work great hardships on the farmers, who already have trouble in securing the 5000 or 4000 hands needed for the harvest every year. No decision will be reached in Chicago, but the testl- mony will be referred to the Kansas supreme court, which has the case under consideration.
 The time honored tradition that the mint julep still holds its fra grant reign over the Kentucky Col onels" and the Southern gen'tman" was rudely shattered by a party of fifty-five Mississippians who recently stopped in Chicago on a tour through the north given by the Mississippi Bankers association. According to them the famous drink which for so many years has tempted the palates of the people in Dixie Land" Is fast dying out and bids fair to dis appear No, suh," said J. L. Trusty, of Water Valley, Miss, i've all are sure forgettin' how to mix that grand old drink. Ouah state Is mighty nigh dry now and all we get down yon- dah is little beer and tiger whisky The prohibition movement makes ouah private sideboa'ds a necessity" He slipped lovingly at the brownish mixture and pushed the bright red cherry below the surface where 1t glistened through the leaves of the mint like a cigar in the dark. You all aren't quite so fast as we are down yondah," continued MT. Trusty. We get up at five o'clock. COu'se we all don't have much to do in the evenin'-or what you call afternoon up here. Oh, yes, we still wear the old John B. Stetson right smart down in our state and we are nearly all for Bryan, too. It sure hurts to see the old mint julep go, and the men nowadays don't even know how to mix it-it sure is most discomfitin'." And Mir Trusty gave a gentle sigh of resignation at the deterioration of the present generation who know not how to combine the corn juice with the mint to make that venerable drink once so famous in the south.
 Veterans among Chicago's army of baseball fans lament a sacrilege: the one time West Side ball park at Loomis street, where in 1885 Clark sons curves wrenched victory from Boston in the days when Kelly came to bat" and Capt. Anson guarded first, is now to become a Kosher market place. There are to be stalls for live fowls and other stalls for live fish around the grounds where truculent rooters sat on splintery bleachers. Where the diamond once was, hallowed by the sipked foot prints of Anson's colts" there will be an eating house. On these grounds baseball grew to manhood. Now, on the very spot where the chest pro- tector was invented while an unpro- tected catcher recovered from a foul tip to the pit of the stomach, paltry barter is to go on. The squawking of ignoble poultry will be heard where once went up ecstatic yells of victory and grandstand sushions. A fountain is to splutter where in the sos the southpaws from Boston and else where spit on their hands and sent 'em hot" If the western fans can have their way the glazed brick walls will bear tablets variously inscribed, as:
 July 12, 1885,
 Billy Sundays slide,
 and in honor of other historic crises for umpires and pennants. The home run fence long since came down, the grass is uncut in the Outfield where Ryan captured flies; there are toma- to cans in the pitchers box whence S1O,OO0 Clarkson unlimbered his mys- tifying shoots, but the fans of the west will never admit that wasn't the greatest baseball patch ever"
 The discovery by an investigating commission that Chicago's firemen are not up to the standard set by the fire horses has resulted in unique tribute to the animals that respond to the alarms and may lead to sweeping charges in the citys fire department. The commission pronounced the work of the horses as flawless and said that the work of the human fire fighters. on whom the safety of the big city depends, was not nearly as efficient. It then came to light that the civil service examination for the animals is tremendously more rigid than the phy- sical test of the would be firemen. The animals are put through scien- tific trial of strength, endurance, wind,