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The copper era., 1909-02-18
When the Wood is Gone.

Do you begin to see the picture? thirty years? The lumber business, now the fourth largest in America, will be the first to fail. Thirty hrer thousand esta blishments will nnmc- diately close their doors. At the same moment more than half a mill lion employees will be thrown out of work: they will be joined by d mil lion in the allied trades, coopers, joiners, carpenters, planers. wall paper makers; ther another million from the trades indirectly affected. It will be such an army of unemploy- i ed as was never dreamed of in the worlds history. The mines will fail. i There will be no coal, no iron, no steel for the skyscrapers, no steel for
 rails. The railroads will go out of
 business. Without transportation
 facilities the farmers will be unable
 to market their crops, already dimin-
 ished by uncrolled drought and flood.
 As our national prosperity depends
 upon the railroads and crops, there
 will be no prosperity. In its place poverty-the poverty of China Greece. Syria; Dalmatia. This or something very like it, is the picture of this great land of ours when the
 forests fail. And it will be more i than mere picture. Unless you de- eide to act, it will becomegrin real 1 ity.-SucceSS Magazine.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
EIuded Arrest Nine Years.

The following article appeared in the Silver City Independent last week in connection with the arrest of Luz Ochoa, the Mexican who was recently arrested in Clifton by Con- stable Patty:
 Sheriff Herbert J. McGrath re- turned from Clifton, Arizona, and brought back with him Luz Ochoa, who is charged with being implicated in the killing of Alvino Gonzales on Bear creek, some distance north of Pinos Altos. Gonzales had been earning a livelihood by packing wood to Hanover on burros. On Friday morning, May p, 1900, he discovered that all of his burros had been stolen. He immediately summoned three friends and started on the trail of them. After covering a distance of twenty miles they discoyered three men in possession of the burrOs. They closed in and called on the rob- bers to surrender, and in reply were met with a volley from their Win chesters. Gonzales, who was in the lead, was shot in the left side, dying in only a few moments. A pitched battle then ensued, lasting fully an hour, but no one else was injured The robbers, then abandoned the burros and fled afoot to the noun tains. A sheriff's posse started 1T pursuit the following day, but failed to overhaul the fugitives. Ochoa seems to have been d ring leader il the affair, the other two men being in his employ. He Is a native O Mexico, to which country he undoubt edly escaped. Probably thinking the episode forgotten after the lapse O nearly nine years, he had drifted in to Arizona.
 Ochoa had a preliminary hearin9 before Judge w. H. Newcomb ant was bound oyer iu the sum of S5,0O to await the action of the gran' iurv at the coming spring term O court.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
I. B. ENGLISH. Proprietor.
ARIZONA POLITICALLY UNCERTAIN
Mark Smith Declares No One Can Tell Which Party Would Benefit by State
 hood for the Territories.

Following is an interview wit Mark Smith in the Washington Post:
 Arizona, when admitted to the un- will not send one democrat to the senate and one republican, tut will choose two members of one party" said Delegate Mark Smith, at the New Willard.
 ''It is by no means certain that the legislature would be democratic. The territory is democratic now by small majority, and if admitted to the union it would depend largely upon what sections of country we would draw our immigrants from whether the state would be democratic or republi can. It is peculiar thing that in most cases new states have disap- pointed the party under whose admin istration they have been admitted.
 Washington and Montana both were admitted when the democrats were in power, but the very first cleo tiOn the republicans gained control, and the states sent republicans to the senate. Wyoming came in under re publican rule, and it has continued to be d republican state, but even in that case the first chance the state had it elected a democrat to con gress. So I say, it is hard to tell what the political complexion of ArI- zona would be after it's admission.
 Ut has been the experience of all new states that a great influx of peo pie go in alter admission to the union and it will be the same with Arizona. If we should draw our people from Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, we would become a democratic state; but if the people were to come from Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and other northern states, the chances are the state would be republican. It is ridiculous, therefore, tO assert that the legislature of Arizona would elect one republican endtor and one dem ocrat It would be, as I say, just like any other state.
 "Yes. the people of Arizona are very fond of Senator FOraker. Per sonally, 1 regard him as the greatest man in the republican party, and it will be great loss to that party when he rttireS. He has only one equal in the senate, and that is Bailey. 1 have come to look upon him now as the highest type of AmeTl- can stateSman.H
The copper era., 1909-02-18
TO FRAME NEW MINING LAWS.
Arizona and Sonora Mining Men to Lead Movement for Revision of
 Legislation.

Impelled by the pressing need that exists for d complete revision of the laws covering metalliferous mining
 the American Mining Congress is ar ranging to present forcibly to the Federal congress at it's next session a year hence, the demands of west ern mining men for the amendment of the old, and the passage of new statutes regulating mining. This will be one of the principal themes to be discussed at the next annual session of the congress to be held at Goldfield, Nevada, next fall, and the mining men of Arizona and Sonora who comprise the Arizona-SOEora branch of the Mining congress, will, in conjunction with the other branches, frame a new mining code. This will be done by eliminating so far as possible the undesira ole features of the present United Sta tes, Mexican and British Colum- bia laws, and incorporating all that is good into this new code. The united recommendation of these sub- sidiary organizations will be present. ed to the Mining congress at its peXt session. From there, the matter will be taken direct to the congress of the United States.
 The agitation in mining circles at present favOrs the elimination of the law of the apex, which Is d prolific source of litigation, and has been the cause of much loss in mining. A satisfactory solution of th's q1es- tion alone will have a decidly whole some effect upon investing classes, and it will make capital for western mining enterprises more easily secured. It has always been the aim of the Mining congress to attract capital for western mining enter prises, by eliminating, so tar as possible, the objectionab features f rom the industry.
 Arizona has attracted attention to her course with regard to the law of the apex, and the freedom ot her big companies from law suits, particularly where they have common side and end lines, is the cause of admiration.
 In other points, as in the case of the veXatious apex, Arizona IS eX- pectel to set the pace for other min ing districts, and the attempt of her mining men to draw up suitable laws for all sections will be watched with intense interest.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
Copper Producers Report Encouraging
 to Miners.

The initial report of Secretary L c. Graton, of the Copper Producers association, giving the amount O. surplus copper in the United Statei on February 1 at 122, ,OO0, ,OOO pounds will no doubt be d surprise to tht general public, who have been led tC believe by various estimates giver currency by the press that the ac cumulation of copper in this country had already reached enormous pro portions. And it is likely that this assumption on the part of many peo pie will be siezed upon and used with effect by those interests which would be the gathers by the further de- pression of the market for the metal.
 The natural effect of the publica- tion from an official source of figures, indicating stocks of copper in the aggregate that are surprisingly small, should be to cause an imme- diate and pronounced reversal of the copper market-stimulate d buying movement and materially advance the price of copper, and, coincident- ly, the values of copper securities.
 The large copper producers and selling agencies have all along shown confidence in the soundness of the
 metal conditi) )ns, declaring that there was no such accumulation of unsold copper in this country as would menace the sta bility of the in- dustrv, or that should cause any un- easiness in the trade. The stated surplus, l22, ,00O, GOO pounds, in reality represents about one and d halt months consumptive demand, and if the published estimates of the pre- sent consumption of cOpper-65 to 15 per cent. of the normal-are accept ed. then the significance of the Cop per producers report becomes strik- ingly apparent: for, if the published figures are reliable, then the cOnvic- tion is forced upon us that the nor nal consumption of co )per restored and there is reason to believe it will be before many months have elapsed-then a shortage of copper and a return to the high prices which prevailed two years ago would seem to be inevitable.
 It is the aim of the Copper Pro- ducers association. representing over 90 per cent. of the copper producing interests of the United States, to have their monthly reports as com plete and accurate as it is possible to make them, that they will be accept ed by the trade aud all others inter- ested in copper statistics without qualified tion. Mir. Graton, statis- tIcian for the association, was chosen to fill that important petition be- cause of his recognized ability and long experience in dealing with cop per statistic9. during the years he uas been connected with the United States Geographical Survey. and those who are familiar with MT. Graton's character and his work as d statistican feel the utmost confidence that hIs reports for the Copper Pro ducers' association will be compile d with great care, and can be relied upon as being accurate.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
School Teachers' Pay.

School teachers salaries are being increased. But the movement is not violent. Let nobody throw his hat in the air and cry hucrah-just yet. The school teacher is still the poorest paid server of the public. pr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United States com missioner of education, has made d monthly wages of men teachers has increased from S46.53 in 1900 to S56. 10 in 1907, and the average monthly wages of women teachers has in- creased from S3S. g to S43. 67.
 It is a gratifying sign. But it is d deplorable reflection upon the sense of justice of the people of this couu- try, particularly when it is remem- bered that the larger number of teachers are paid only during the months when they are employed, and receive nothing whatever during vacation.
 If the annual income of teachers were given instead of the monthly salaries, the figures would be all the more significant. There is no pro- fession or occupation so underpaid as that of school teachers. And there Is m profession or occupation that ought to be better paid.
 The average cook or houSemaid gets larger compensation than the aver .r woman school teacher, consider ! ing that they are provided with bed and board.
 1 No, long ago a committee of the $ sdte Teachers asSucIdtion Of Indiana lcp)rt ed that l2,03j teachers m that state received less than $500 d year, 1 and u at the annual average salary 1 was $520.32. The average sllary of ! the h gh school teacher was 6S4.SI- bout the same pay as that of the 1 street cleaners in Indiana polls.
 No work requires better character ana training than that of teaching. i No work counts better for good citi- zenship and social progress.
 No work deserves Letter pay. But somehow or other. We are slow torcal ize this ideal. Tdc I'd ual increase though sm Il, is gratifyiug.-Ex.
 Read Frank R. Tobin's "Straight : Talk" on the second page of thi:
 paper.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
COurtIand Growing Like Mushroom.

J. V. Van Eaton. press manager anC editorial writer for the republican territorial committee in the Cameron
 Smith campaign, on Saturday of last week issued the first number of the Arizonan at the new town of Court land being built by the Copper Queen Calumet x Arizona and Great West ern mining companies in Cochise county, 8 miles northeast of Bisbee
 MT. Van Eaton returned from Court land enthusiastic in his accounts Ot the outlook in that section.
 ''No one can visit the townsite and not be convinced of its future." he said this morning ''I went to Pearce nine miles north, and found the South ern Pacific working big force of men on grade south directly through the Sulphur Springs valley. The road is heading straight for Douglas, with Courtland en route. The Fl Paso & Southwestern is working d big force both at the Courtland and Douglas ends of the new line, which will probd- bly, be completed before July. Five hundred thousand tons of ore are al ready piled on the Courtland dumps ready for shipment 10 the Douglas smelters and millions more tons are blocked out. The men behind the new town are Walter Douglas, of the Copper Queen, Colonel Powell, head of the Calumet X Arizona, and Colonel Talbot, general manager of the Great Western Mining company. They are men who talk little and ac- complisb big things. learned that Courtland is to be an open trading town, that is, no company stores.
 Something like 2OOO people are al ready there. One townsite, con- manding 1heSOuthe LII Pacific entrance from the north, has already Leen thrown open and hundreds of lots sold. The price of these has doubled, with none for sale. Business house 8 are springing up like muslin ooms and everyone serms to be making money. Confidence in the camp k infectious. Most of the business houses thus far erected are in the M'Fate section, which is sure to be an important busi ness center on account of its location close to the big mines and at the er- trance to the Sulphur Springs valley.
 "There k d big az. icultural land boom on. Scores of government loca- tions have been made between Wilcox and Courtland in the past three months and settlers are pouring into the valley, as beautiful to look upon as any in the whole country. 1 went over there on a land mission, got the Courtlaud fever and the first number of the Arizonan will be issued Satur- day. It will be d progressive repub- lican paper, but partisan only when the party is right. The taper will be conducted on the Roosevelt princi- pie of the square deal. The demand for statehood is overwhelming
The copper era., 1909-02-18
VOLUME 10.
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

It is reported that the following resipnations as territorial fair com missiouers, took place last week at request of the governor: J. C. Adams, Phoenix, president; B. A. Packard, Douglas, and H. c. Lockett, Flagstaff.
 The receipts at the office of the territorial auditor of fees for the fl- ing of incorporation. papers during January amounted to S4,066. For the corresponding month a year ago the receipts were s3, POS; for December of last year they were B, ,575.50; for De- cember of 1907, g., ,659.4O. That month marked the low ebb and indicated the depth of the business depression throughout the ntry.-Republican.
 G. w. Hull, president and general manager of the Cleopatra Copper company, expects to have the Cleo patra smelter in operation between the 1st. and 10th of March. He is laying in d store of coke and coal this month and arranging other details preparatory to starting the riaut on a steady run. MT. Hull says the Cleo patra mine is developing well and ex- poets it to take second place among the producers of the county this year.
 If there is any other region of the United States which can produce peaches at this time of the year, let it come forward and it will stand some chance of getting into the class with the Salt River valley, says a Phoenix exchange. February peaches almost ripe. nearly enough so to make good pies, are now on exhibition in the windows of the Southwestern Realty company. They were brought in by MT. King of the company, who found them on the ranch of Thomas Wiles, near the junction of the Crosscut and the Arizona canal. Mir. Wiles has several trees three years old but this is the only one which has peaches on now, and it is laden with them.
 The large cattle ranch, with several hundred head of cattle, and the range owned by J. J. Fraser, have been sold to w. J. Clements, an eastern capital ist, says the Republican. With the sale are included several smaller ranches. The property is one of the finest localities for the cattle industry in the territory and the range which occupies a portion of the country in the Superstition mountains, is with few peers, says the Republican. The deal was made through the Pomeroy Guthrie Realty company and is one of the biggest transactions consum- mated for long time in this part of the country. The consideration is SSO, LOGO, part or which has already been paid, and the balance is to be immediately forthcoming. With the transfer is included the Fish Creek property, and on one of the ranches in the upper end of the valley is the site of the proposed summer resort.
The copper era., 1909-02-18

Rad Frank R. TObin's "Straig ht Talk on the second page of this pd per.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy tht Most Popular Because 1t
 is the Best.

"I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for the past eight years and find it to be one of the best selling medicines on the market. For babies and young children there is nothing better in the line of cough syruP5, says Paul Allen, Plain Dealing, La. This remedy not only cures the coughs. colds and croup so common among young children, but iS pleasant and safe for them to take. For sale by all druggists. Samples free.
The copper era., 1909-02-18

Read Frank R. Tobin's "Straight Talk" on the second page of thi: paper.
The copper era., 1909-02-18

"The Southern Pacific is building right down the valley and don't you forget it." said Bruce Stephenson, a Douglas attorney whose shingle Is now swinging with the Courtland breezes. "The Espee is for the time cutting out Courtland." ." said MT. Stephenson, ''aud is heading straight for Douglas Later the road will enter COurtland by a spur. A great force Of men is now at work and the dirt is flying al d remarkable rate. These dream whistles we have been hearing here for the past several years will become reality, I believe, in not longer than ninety days. ."-DOuglas Dispatch.
The copper era., 1909-02-18

Among the bills introduced in the New Mexico legislature last week was d bill to license drinkers of intoxicat- ing liquors. The bill provides that each man who drinks intoxicating liquors must pay & for license. This money is to go into d school fund for indigent pupils. The cense must contain a full description of the per son to whom it is issued. A penalty is provided for any saloon keeper who sells any man without license in- toxicating liquors.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
Reason EnthrOne1.

Because meats are SO tasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliOusness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not pampered appetite control, then take d few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again. Try it. For sale at all drug gists. Samples free.
The copper era., 1909-02-18
Washington Once Gave Up

to three doctors: was kept in bed for five weeks. Blood poison from spid- CTS bite caused large. deep sores to cover his leg. The doctors failed, then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve com pletelv cured me- writes John Wash ington. of Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and piles it's supreme. 25c at A. C. Co. drug depart mGnt.
The copper era., 1909-02-18

Frank R. Tobin's prIvd+e car "Franklin," Is here in Clifton near the depot. Come and learn about Tobin. Texas; the new manufacture ing, Mining and Railroad center. Free exhibits and lectures at all and evenings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-30

AMUSEM ENTS.
"The Girl From Rectors."

A fair sized audience greeted the
presentation of Paul NJ. Potter's some
what risque comedy The Girl from
Rector's". at the Augusta Opera house
Wednesday evening. The parts We're
well taken and the situations particu-
larly in the second and third acts de-
cidedly amusing, while the music was
catchy. Without the fourth act the
play although it's entire movement
hinges upon the double lives led by
several of the leading characters of
the comedy both men ana women. may
be said to be passably clean, but the
complications in the last act, the scene
of which is laid at French Charley's'
road house near Battle Creek, Mich,
which is said by one of the characters
to be "a capital place for the making
up OF married couples on bad terms"
are to say the least suggestive. =.
Dorothy Arville as Louie did eX-'
ccllcnt work and her singing and danes
ing We're warmly applauded. Richard
Warner as Col Andrewk Tandy, alias
Col. Copley. was quite Che roisterin.g
sport that his part calleskfor while the
difficult role Of Richard, whs meets
with continual trying complications,
had a good Interpreter in Harry PAUL..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-30
BROkAW EVIDENCE IN.
Mrs. Brokaw Indignantly Denies Her
Husbands Charges.

New York. Dec. 2y-The sensational
and long drawn Brokaw separation
suit came TO close today so far as
the taking of testimony is concerned
Adjournment was taken to Saturday
when the case will be finally submitted
to Justice Purnam for his decision after
W. Gould Brokaw's attorneys have pre-
scented statement of their clients A.
nanCial position.
The closing of the proceedings today
took everybody by surprise. 1t came
soon after Mr.. Brokaw's cross-exami-
nation had been concluded and Mrs.
Mary Blair Brokaw had been recalled.
The attractive plaintiff was well forth
fed with denials of charges made by
her husband. She emphatically denied
that Mr. Brokaw had ever told her
about threat made by her father II
Atlantic City to kill the millionaire
Her eyes flashed as she repudiated
charge after charge. She declared that
she had never smoked cigarettes in her
husbands presence before their mar
riage as Mr.. Brokaw had testified.
Before Mrs. Brokaw was called
MesSrs. Mcintyre and Bushe for Mr..
Brokaw, told the court that their eli
ent had made statements on the wit
ness stand regarding his financial con-
6lition that were found to be incorrect.
The lawyers declared Mr.. Brokaw at
the present moment did not know what
his actual financial position was. They
asked for two days in which to prepare
a statement. The court granted them
until Saturday. ;.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-30
STORM ExAcTS HEAVY TOLL.
Eleven St. John Schooners and Then
Crews Believed Lost.

st. Johns. n. f., Dec. S.-Eleven
schooners and their crews are believed to
have been lost in the Christmas blizzard,
while great destruction to property
throughout this island colony has result
ed The storm, which reached it's height
on Sunday, ragged for six days. but today
had abated considerably.
l. All telegraph lines 'in> the interior of
the colony are down and reports from in
land points are slow in reaching here.
The town of Placentia was flooded for
three days and the principal business
street of that place resembles an ocean
peach, being piled high with flotsam that
was cast up by the unusually high tides.
The village of Blackhead, three miles
from this city, was almost swept away.
q There has been no local mail service
Efor a week and the first train in -four
days left here this morning.
This December has been the stormlest
,month the Newfoundland coast has eXpe-
trenced in half century, and it is esti-
mated that its cost to the fisheries and
general trade is more than three-quarters
of a million dollars.