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Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
JAPANESE VISITORS.
Plans for the Entertainment of Com
 mercial Guests.

Washington. Aug. 16-Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor decided today to invite James J. Hill to act as one Of the governments agents in entertainment of thirty or more representatives of Japanese chambers of commerce, who will visit this country in September
 The Japanese merchants and trade experts comprising the party will be the guests of the associated chambers of commerce of the Pacific coast The
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
THE HASSAYAM9AS

Los Angeles. Aug. 16.-The Hassa- yampa club. composed of Arizonians and former Arizonians now living in this city, today elected Oscar Roberts, president. and John s. Mitchell, sec retary. It has been decided to hold the annual picnic at Santa Monica canyon on August 26. There will be a reception at the chamber of com merce in the evening on Aug. 27, fol- lowed by a theater party at the Orpheum.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
ONLY THREE KILLED.

Mexico City, Aug 16.-All missing miners in the the ParaisO shaft of the Camelia mine have been accounted for. The total casualty list is three men killed and twenty injured. The fire broke out in this mine last Satur- day and a score of miners were re- ported at first to have been killed.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
NOBODY WOULD DESPAIR
 OF ABDUL HANDS LIFE
There Was Really no Need of it
 Anyhow.

COnstantinople, Aug. 16.-AbduI Hamid, forTiier sultan of Turkey, now in confinement in Saloniki. suffered recently from a slight abscess of the throat, which made it difficult for him to swallow.
 He refused to submit 10 an opera ton and the trouble eventually rem edied itself. This illness gave rise to reports that Abdul Hamid's life was despaired of
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
GRANDSON OF THE PROPHET
 IS DEAD.

Des Moines, Aug 16-Arthur Hale Smith, the third son of Joseph Smith, of the ReOrganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (MonmoD, died yesterday at Mon tross. Iowa, where he was attending a convention of Latter Day Saints He will be buried at his home at Lemon, Iowa
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
THE GUEST OF FL PAso.
President Diaz Will Meet Mir. Taft
 in That City.

Washington, Aug 16.-The Mexican ambassador today informed the state department that President Diaz has ac- cepted the freedom of Fl Paso, thus making it certain he will meet Presi- dent Taft in Fl Paso. and it is hoped in Juarez. just across the border, that MT. Taft will return the courtesy on Mexican soil
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS LOST.
Believed to Have Perished in the As
 cent of Tacoma.

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 16.-Joseph W. Stevens of Trenton, N. J.. and another man from West Seattle are believed to have lost their lives in an attempt to ascend Mount Tacoma. They left the camp at 2:30 Saturday morning with out a glide and little food. It Is feared they succumbed to hunge, cold or an accident. A rescue party today found the packs of the men ten feet from the crater
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
A WARM AREA.

Kansas City, Aug. 16.-It has been the hottest in the southwest for the past twenty-four hours since 1901. There were several temperatures of lO5, and many above a hundred. At ten o'clock this morning the tempera- ture was 9S here
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
SLIGHTLY DEMENTED.

Chicago. Aug. 16-Gustav Herring. ST. a booRkeeper, shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded his son and killed himself at his home today He was slightly demented
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
THEY SLEPT OUT AT TOPEKA.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 16.-Last night was the hottest of the season, the thermometer registering S4 at mid night. People slept on porches and lawns.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
BROKEN SCHEDULE.
The Baseball Program Greatly Inter
 fered With.
AMERICAN.

Batteries-Krause and Livingstone; Gray, Johnson and Street.
 American games scheduled for De- troit, New York, Cleveland, the latter a double -header with St. Louis. were postponed on account of rain.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
DEATHS AT ST. JOSEPH.

St Joseph, Aug. 16.-.Three deaths the hottest day in five years. It was were reported today due to heat.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
AGEs PHOENIX ARIZONA TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST

trip is being made in the interest of furthering the commercial interests of Japan and the United States.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17
NATIONAL.
COAST

Mathewson and Myers.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17

MONEY TO LOAN-I have been agent for the State Mutual Building and Loan Association for 10 years
 Every customer well pleased. Never had a complaint in the 10 years. Come in and investigate our plan.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-17

LOAN-Repayable s13.00 per month on each 5000 borrowed. Interest ceases on each payment made. Entire loan can be paid any time, without notice or extra expense.
 E. E. PAscoE, Agent.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
FAIHtR TAKING SUN HOME AS \
 PRISONER
Parent Has Y uth In Custody Charged With
 Emb ZzIement
From Saturdav,s DailYl

With his own father acting as the officer to take him back to face "harges that may land him in the pen, Clarence W. Wilkinson, who is wanted in Phoenix for issuing a bogus sight draft, has been taken from San Francisco to Yates Center, Kan, where Wilkinson will be tried for passing fictitious check on a bank in that city, says the Phoenix Democrat.
 Several months ago Wilkinson, who is a printer by trade, was in Phoe- nix, and while here had himself iden- tified at the Valley bank, which, as matter of accommodation and be- lieving him to be honest, cashed for him a $20O sight draft, which he drew on the Bank of Bisbee.
 When the Bank of Bisbee received the draft it promptly notified the funds there and that he was prob ably a crook. This led to an investi- gation, and ever since officers have been trying to locate Wilkinson.
 Recently the Union Bank and Trust company of Phoenix received from San Francisco for payment several checks that had been drawn there by Wilkinson on the Union bank here. As he had no funds here the checks were returned to San Fran cisco.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
WATER STORAGE IS
 BEING SYsTEMATIzED

Water storage on the ranges or this county is now universally fol lowed and the service is pronounced satisfactory to this growing industry Clutches that are ordinarily dry but which are in the summer seasons in the zone of heavy precipitation, are the points selected and in some in stances extensive dams are being con structed.
 The big dam on Tank creek of J. H. Stephens is pronounced fine sue cess and along Martinez creek tc the south of this city another inland lake of water is in existence In the vicin- ity of Seligman many of these strue- lures have been built and more are contemplated The method is to build them of concrete and in ever case up to date not a failure is recorded against this type of water imround- ing.
 In a letter to the Journal Miner a few days ago, M. s. BurhanS, the contractor and builder of Ash Fork, in speaking of these dams says that in less than two years he has Tn that domain built two dams of concrete material for the Howard Sheep com pany and has another under headwav for the same company. That he has built four for E. T. Smith, two for Jerry Sullivan, one for MT. Stewart, one is under headway for MT. Hutch inson at Anvil Rock, with three more under contract for the same person. In addition to these he has seven more to figure on for other parties The above dams range from seven feet to twenty feet high and from fifty feet to three hundred feet long. and for three heavy rains seasons have withstood the heavy flood wat CTS that have reached them. MT. Burhans is constructing the big Foley store building at Ash Fork Of con crete, 45x15O feet, that is nearing completion and a residence for Mr Clark of concrete blocks.
 Rangemen are alive to the neces- sity of storing water for their vast herds and in adopting this method to permit of easy grazing within reach of an abundant supply of water say that the movement is a success and should have been introduced years ago.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
POWELL BROUGHT TO PRESCOTT BY
 THE SHERIFF
Murder Charge Against Him---NeilI Also
 In Jail
From Saturdays Daily

Sheriff Smith reached the city last night having in custody D. B. Powell, whom he arrested yesterday near Flagstaff, charged with the killing of Dewitt Milligan.
 Powell was at liberty under bail, charged with assault to commit mur- der. After one month his wounded victim suceumbed to the injuries he received when shot. Powell was non communicative after learning of the death of Milligan and remarked that he was sorry that Milligan had passed away. 4 much graver eharge-that of murder-has been lodged against Powell. On the request of Sheriff Francis of Conocino county, Sheriff Smith brought on the same train Reu- ben Neill, one of the principals in the alleged murder of Schwartz in which Woods is linked with him in that crime. Neill's case will come up later in Flagstaff and in the meantime the two men will be separated and com munication between them not per mitted.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
GOLDEN RIDGE LOOKS WELL.
lFrom Thursdays Danvl


 Eli s. Perkins of Congress Junction is here for a few days. MT. Perkins IS general manager of the Golden Ridge Mining and Milling company s property, located in the Weaver dis trict near the AlvaradO, or as it used to be known, the Fools Gulch mine. The Golden Ridge is a very promis- ing property, having a ten-inch pay streak which averages from five to eight feet in thickness and goes bet ter than $1O to the ton, while the en- tire ore body goes about sS in gold. The tunnel where work is at present being done is 34O feet on the vein with, two shafts working. MT. Per kins is well pleased with the show ing made and looks for something better yet, as the group is in a rich district. The well known Barcus mine that has shipped quantities of ex- eeedingly rich ore in years past is in the same district.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
PLACER YIELD IS ATTRACTING
 NOTICE
Good Returns From Work in District
 Mar Mayer
(From Saturdays Daily.)

Big Bug in the vicinity of Mayer is attracting attention from it's yield in placer gold, and reports from along that creek are to the effect that the new ground discovered is yielding immense sums. Peculiar as it may seem, the site of the aurifer ous deposits that was uncovered a few weeks ago has been run over for over forty years by travellers, and in addition to that circumstance the track of the Prescott & Bradshaw railroad courses through the most de- sirable ground that is being mined. The strip that is yielding so splendid ly is low lying and the oldest and most experienced placer miner has worked every other parcel except that one particular zone. It was dis covered through an excavation made for domestic uses, and as is customary with men who dig into the soil horn spoon test gave the indications Of riches that are coming from it.
 The method of handling the soil is by sluicing, and to accomplish this the men who are engaged take barrels of water to a nearby spring, fill the same up and then roll them down the grade. Time and expense follows this method and but a limited amount of ground can be handled. It is now proposed to operate on an extensive scale so far as water is to be considered, and two immense tanks, each of O,O0O gallons capacity, are en route and will be placed on the site of the diggings, with pipe connections to a spring nearby. Long sluice boxes will be built and the new service is expected to result in | great area being handled. In treating the soil at the site of the Star placers, a peculiarly hard clay composition is seen and before it is placed in the sluice boxes it has to be muddled until it is completely separated, after which it is sent down the boxes and washed out.
 Some idea of the output of these deposits may be formed by a state nient made yesterday by Joe Mayer. He says that for several weeks past the receipt of gold dust at his com mercial house will exceed that of all other business transacted in cash TO credit, and yet he does not receive the full benefit of the yield. Some of the men engaged at work on this ground make as high as seven dollars per day and practically speaking their time is not actually employed in sluie- ing but one-third of that time, owing to the long distance to water
 In the region of Big Bug creek, toward the Bradshaws, several Mexi- cans are similarly employed in wash ing the old gulches and they run from s to s per day to the man.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13

no indictment would likely ever be returned against them. That is just where they caught themselves. Pull liam had a subpoena for me when he came to Mexico, but he had no way of compelling me to come out of Mex leo and I told him that I would not return to Arizona to give evideIee in the case until Neill and Woods had been arrested; that that would be time enough, and that I would be willing to come then. If the editor of the Sun had not failed to publish this last part of my statement I feel certain that Neill and Woods would never have come in and voluntarily surrendered to Sheriff Francis "This case is certainly remarkable in its dastardliness. There are so many things about it that seem un- reasonable and impossible that I can readily understand how there are peo- pie who are saying that it is a very
 
 believe that it will ever be unraveled. l believe that I have reached the bot tom of the whole thing and am not afraid to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. l am here now because my duty as q man depends that I be, in the in nf Al ease comes to trial am willing to go on the stand. I do not care in how many different ways lawyers may ask me the same questions or how severe the eross-examination. The cold facts of the case are there, and any effort to break down my testi mony would only make the facts themselves more stubborn. If I did not firmly believe this I would not have said some things to you that I have, for if Attorneys Ling and Jones for the defense hear of them they will probably get to work with view to having them diseredited when l make them from the witness stand, but work as hard as they may, I do not believe they can succeed.
 'I would not be surprised if the lawyers for the defense should asx for a change of venue. If they do and it is granted, I believe the de fendants will be even more apt to get their necks broken than if tried here. Their crime is so cold blooded, eowardly and dastardly that I do not think there is any chance of them not getting the full measure of jus tiee meted out, no matter where they are tried.
 ''It is a ease in which there is a long chain of evidence, but it is q strong chain with not a single weak link. There are many strange thingS with the case, but I do not believe there is a single one that cannot make clear.
 "WOods made the threat in the Commercial hotel that if I or anyone else ever came around making even an insinuation that he (Woods) was in any way connected with tho Schwartz murder he would blow the.- brains out. I though that was the limit. If there is anything that have a supreme contempt for it iS a eowardly threat made by a erim- nal for the purpose of freightening ! witness out of the country.
 elf I had the same case to come ip again would do differently. I -ealize now that I should not have lllowed Woods to work on my feel ngs as he did at the time of his to me. After this exper- enee I know that no criminal could ,ver play on my feelings again"
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
PUBLIC RECORDS.
Instruments Filed as Reported by The
 Prescott Title Co.

1.59, J. A. Patton, w. W. Gnash and \. A. Young, Jr., to Copper Creek De velopment Co., NJ. deed. September ', 1908, $24,OOO, Copper Glance Cop per Sulphuret, Alum Creek Thief, De pression, Confidence and Eureka Mines, Eureka District.
 October 1.
 Otto Lebsch ct al to Mint Mining and Milling company, M. D., $5O,OOO, Rosa O'Grady, Buena Vista, Margaret Byrne mines, Copper Basin district
 J. w. Slankard and S. L. Burris locate Warrior mine, Tip Top dis triet
 John Roberts to George w. Holmes, W. D., $2OO, one-half interest in Lead Bonanza, Argentine, Oreida, Uncle Billy, Confederation and Link mines, Eureka district.
 H. VOge ct al to Arizona-Nevada Copper company, option, $25,OOO, to Amigo, Palestine. Mary M, Alice and Copper President mines, Eureka district.
 September 29.
 T. W. Jenkins to James F. Tregar- then, bill of sale, one-half interest in secondhand business at No. 226 W. Gurley street, Prescott.
 c. c. Guttry locates Home Winner mine, Agua Fria district.
 Al Vroom locates Old Homestead mine, Copper Basin district.
 John Quick locates Mammoth mine, Copper Basin district.
 United States to Coronado Gold mining company, patent, Martinez, Last Chance and Golden Wave mines, Martinez district.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
FORMER RANGER IS
 THE MAIN WITNESS

Relative to the now famous mur-
 der case in Coconino county, the Flag
 tsff Sun says:
 William A. Olds, ex-lieutenant of
 the territorial rangers, was seen by
 the Sun reporter shortly before his
 departure for Mexico When asked
 if there was anything in connection with the Neill and Woods case which
 he would care to say, MT. Olds said.
 "Why, yes. I wish if you can, you would in some way make it clear to your readers that Chief Deputy Tom Pulliam does not deserve the eensure he is receiving from some people for not probing deeper into the Schwartz murder case before the body was found when he knew that the crime had been committed.
 "As you probably know, Schwartz disappeared on the night of Septem Der IS of last year. AS I shall show later, there were circumstances con nected with his disappearance which led me to believe that he had been murdered, and as an officer I went to work on the case. On the Sun day morning following the Friday night on which Schwartz had disap- peared Woods and l were riding over the hill where the body was after wards discovered Woods, knowing that l was doing my utmost to get some clue, and that I would most likely succeed in doing so before quit, broke down and told me that Schwartz body was under the ground there, pointing to the grave as he spoke, and then threw himself on my mercy as friend not to give him away
 "WOOds considered me in the sans class with himself and consequently thought that if he took me into his confidence as a friend, I would help him to cover up his crime, no matter how dastardly it had been. can never describe my feelings when this man in whom I had had so much acknowledged to me that he had committed murder, and ap- pealed to me to help him conceal his guilt. It was certainly the most un- expected disclosure I ever met with, and I have met with. some startling things in my long career as an of ficer. As rangers, Woods and I had ridden together, eaten together, slept together, and been on such eonfiden- tial terms that I regarded him all most as a brother.
 "I felt humiliated to think tLat one who had been so near to me had stopped to such a eowardly murder. I also thought of the disgrace such a thing would bring to the territorial rangers whom some people were al- ways ready to class as a band of cut throats because they were in the busi- ness of enforcing the law. Instead of the words of consolation Woods lad expected from me I gave him . ieking with the rough side of my ;ongue. I let him know right then md there that I could not sanction my such a cowardly murder, even
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13

that it had been committed by one whom I had a feeling something akin to that which prevents a person from eating a rabbit or other animal after it has been a pet about the home. It was my conviction that Neill and Woods should be arrested and brought to justice, but could not get over the feeling that I wanted some one else to arrest Woods. would have been perfectly willing to arrest Neill when the time came.
 Realizing that the duty of arrest ing Woods was such a disagreeable one that I was not going to do it if I could get some one else. felt it my duty to tell the county officers of the murder and also where they could find the body. This I did, but as I have already said, the off eers refused to take my story seri- ously It seemed utterly impossible to them that Neill and Woods would be guilty of such a crime. I know of Pulliam and Francis having said that they believed that I was going crazy, or else carrying josh to the extreme
 "Nein is as deep into the crime as the other fellow. Woods told me so, and everything goes to prove that he was. The letter now in the pos session of the officers which was re- ceived by Schwartz in which he was advised to get out of the country at once is in the handwriting of woman with whom Neill was unduly intimate. My theory about this let ter is that Neill had intimated to this that Schwartz would be made away with, and that she, fearing that Neill woulyd get into trouble, had written Schwartz this letter.
 ''Neill and Woods together took Schwartz partner, Stevens, to the lam and started to drown him, as ;an be easily proved. My personal opinion is that it was Neill who com nitted the deed, because that while Neill and Woods are both eOwardly, Neill is more cold blooded. Neill md Woods both hated the detectives, Schwartz and Stevens. Neill knew hat he was being shadOwed by them Il connection with his elandestine re- atiOns with a woman, and Woods hal lad trouble with Schwartz over an
 ther matter.
 "I understand that publicity has ,een given to the fact that l tried to ret a reward offered for the murder !
 r of Schwartz. I freely admit that !
 suggested to Pulliam that he ought ! O try to get a reward offered be ause the sheriff's office is certainly | untitled to it, considering the hard york connected with working up a ] ase of this kind. Friends of Neill | .llu hOOuSs I hdNC DtOh NOAuf nav ried to show. that I had an ulteriOr - r selfish motive in trying to get a . eward offered. To disprOve such a lender I need only say that when l mentioned this matter to the officers
 said that I did not want anything ut of it myself, and would not ac- ept a single cent if it were offer d me.
 ''I am not sorry the case has been ontinued. It is such a cold bloOded flair that the more people think bout it the more sentiment will de- elop against the murderers, and the lore apt they will be to get justice. When the case comes to trial I do ot believe there will be any diff nlty in proving that Neill and Woods ave jointly committed one of the lost eowardly and dastardly murders l the history of Arizona or any other ountry. And Schwartz is not the nly man they intended to make