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Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
DEADLY CIGARETTE UNDER
 SCHOOL DoN'S BAN
tFrom Thursdays Daily)


 fingered at the conduct of a number of pupils attending the grammar and hign schools seen daily smoking on the streets on their way to and from school, the school board held a special meeting yesterday at which it was re- solved to prosecute any person caught furnishing tobacco or cigarettes to minors less than 16 years old.
 Schoolboys addicted to the cigar ette habit will be disciplined and smoking in any form prohibited by the pupils of the schools.
 District Attorney H. D. Ross, who is a member of the board of school trus- tees, when seen yesterday after the meeting, said: Smoking among at tendants of the city schools must be stopped. Selling tobacco and cigar cites to minors under 16 years is against the law. The statutes provide that any person who gives, sells or furnishes cigarettes, cigars, cigarette papers, smoking or chewing tobacco of any kind to minor under 16, is gull; ty of a misdemeanOr. The crime is punishable by a fine of not less than $1O nor more than $1OO or by impris- onment in the county jail.
 "The board of trustees is determin- ed to enforce the law and stamp out the smoking habit, which is detrimen- tai morally and physically to minors in and out of sehool.''
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
BRIDE COMMITS SUICIDE

PHOENIX, Feb. Mrs. W. D. Hammond, wife of the auctioneer, af- ter a married life of six weeks, com mitted suicide some time after clock yesterday morning. Her body, not yet quite cold, was found by her husband on his return to their apartments about o'clock.
 Mr. Hammond notified Coroner John stone and an inquest was begun and was concluded in the afternoon, after Dr. Wylie had completed a post nor tenn examination. Mrs. Hammond had taken pernaps an ounce of lysol, li- quid very much like carbolic acid, though without the extreme blistering properties of the latter. The motive was not quite clear, but it is supposed that she had brooded over the absence the night before of her husband, the first since their married life began.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
SAM SMITH FREED ON
 MANDATE OF JUDGE SLOAN
Prom wednesday.s paIlyl

Joy reigns in Afro-American club circles. Sam Smith, president of the Manhattan Club, arrested a few days ago accused of a murder in Louisiana two years ago, was released by Judge Sloan in habeas corpus proceedings yesterday afternoon at ? o'clock.
 Immediately after his release, the debonair president of the club was congratulated by his fellow members and escorted from the courthouse to the home of the club on South Granite street.
 Smith was arrested by the sheriff $ office on telegram and letter from William Traylor, sheriff of Rayville, Louisiana, requesting that he be held on the charge of murder Smith claims innocence of any crime since taken into custody and stated that he had never been in Louisiana, that the nearest he was ever to that state was in Beaumont, Texas, and that he had never committed murder or any seri- ous crime there or anywhere else. The description of the accused murderer furnished by the Louisiana sheriff gave his height as , feet inches and weight 16O pounds. Smith, according to measurements taken after his arrest here, is feet inches tall. He tips the scales at ITO pounds. :
 Under the territorial statutes flu gitive from justice cannot be held in custody unless a complaint charging him with the crime of which he is ac- eused in another state has been filed in court of competent jurisdiction. The complaint must be practically sim liar to one filed against a person ae cused of like offense in this territo- ".
 As the local officers did not lodge any complaint against him, he was dis charged from custody.
 Smith maintained his innocence of the crime charged after his release. He assured his fellow members of the club and friends that the officers had the wrong man in him and that he was not afraid of being arrested on any such charge again.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
PRESCOTT NIMRoDS TRY
 DASTARDLY NATURE FAKE
From Wednesdays Daily)

With 2l small ducks and their lat
 est naturefaking invention to deeoy
 the large focks of widgeon and teal
 in the Williamson valley marshes in
 their wagon, Larry Duff and Lafe
 Johnson arrived home Monday night
 from a two days duck hunt. They
 were accompanied by Thomas Mar
 mont and Henry Nelson, who are cred
 ited with having bagged a majority of
 the webfeet. Only five of the birds
 were despatched with the aid of the
 new invention. These were shot by
 Duff and Marmont, Johnson, it is al legged, having refused to resolve him self into the part of a deeoy steer after arriving on the shooting grounds.
 Duff, wno is responsible for the idea of mountaing a steers hide to resem- ble bovine in order to decoy the ducks, insists that the invention will still prove a success although none but young fowls were bagged by its use. He admits that the older aquatic fowls regarded the appearance of the strange beast in their neighborhood with dis trust even on its first appearance.
 "The idea of mountaing steers hide to resemble a COW occurred to me during a previous hunt in Williamson valley when I noticed the ducks min | gle with the cattle foraging in the | Duff said to a group of l friends yesterday. "When I returned | under shelter of the mounted hide to get within range, the older ducks flew to other parts, only the younger ones until I reached within -ange.
 "I am not disappointed, he de- Jared The ducks of Williamson val ey have been annoyed and decoyed 10 continuously of late by doctors and awyers from this city till they are low wiser than some of the Prescott udges. So it is now impossible for he ordinary lay sportsman to get ev- n within rife range, much less shot ,un range of them. I shall fool them gain in a few days"
 . Duff needs gun with larger bore. Ie is looking up the statutes on the ubject. il
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
SUPERVISORS CALL HALT
 ON HIGH COUNTIES
FrOm Wednesdays paily)

That the board of supervisors is de- termined to save the county further expense in the payment of s boun- ties on the scalps and pelts of wild cats, is apparent from their action yes terday in passing an order that on and after February 10 only a bounty of $1 will be paid for the outer GOV erings of feline varmints. The board $ action was hsstened, it is believed, by receipt of news from Phoenix yes terday that action on the new bounty law recently introduced in the legis- lature had been deferred for several days on account of other pressing leg islation.
 Another consideration that entered into the question is the fact that boun- ty wild animal hides involving the payment of Ss6 in bounties were re- ceived during the forenoon session.
 The board checked the treasurer and found balance of $1ss,921.66 in the treasury.
 Dr. R. \. LoOney was appointed county physician.
 O. A. Hesla was awarded the con tract for taking care of the courthouse clocks at S15 a month The contract for the county printing was awarded to the Journal-Miner Publishing Com pany and the stationery contract to W. \. Kelly.
 G. c. Ruffner was awarded the con tract for the burial of the county dead at 47 cents each and Hotel St. Mich ael was given the contract of feeding the prisoners at 14 cents a meal.
 Bounty hide receipts were one wild eat each from Harry Dickson, Mark Hardy and James Blanchard, II wild eats and one coyote from Ivy Birleson and 3 wild cats from George Mahard.
 A number of monthly bills against the county were allowed and the ex- penditures of available road moneys discussed.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
OTTO V. MILLER Is
 PRISONER OF SHERIFF
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

Sheriff Smith is expected home to- day from Douglas with Otto V. Miller, former resident of this city, charged with felony. Miller was arrested in Douglas Sunday, on an indictment re- turned by the last grand jury of this country. The indictment was one of several other secret ones returned against persons absent from the eoun- ty when the grand jury was in session
 According to rumors the indictment grew out of questionable transaction in which Miller is alleged to have sold a mining claim in which he mad no in- terest to a man named Thomas L. Rice for the sum of $50. Another report is that Miller appropriated moneys to his own use advanced to him by Rice to do assessment work on a mining claim in the Santa Maria district while he was working on an adjacent claim belonging to himself
 Miller was raised from a mere boy to manhood in this city. He is a printer by occupation. He was at one time foreman of the Tucson Star and is well known to the printers and newspaper men of the territory, hay ing been engaged at various times in all the principal printing and newspa- per offices.
 Miller is a brother of Lew Miller, who was a principal in the Parker jail break here several years ago in which Deputy District Attorney Lee Norris was shot and killed. Parker and Mil Ter were convicted of murder in the fire degree, the former paying the pen atty of his crime on the gallows, Mil Ter being sentenced to the territorial prison in Yuma for life. Miller's sen tenee was later eommuted to twenty years. He was released on parole last year. Since then he has been arrested twice. He is now alleged to be in jail in Tombstone awaiting shipment to .he territorial prison.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
DR. HALL DIES
CFrom Wednesdays Daily,

Dr. E. A. Hall of Mayer was found dead in bed at his nome in that place at an early hour yesterday morning. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that his death was due to paralysis. His remains will be brought here today by the Ruffner undertaking establishment for interment.
 Only meager details of the sudden ending of Dr. Hall were obtained by telephone. He is known to have been in i'll health for some months. He came to Mayer from the east four yeasr ago and established a hospital there. On account of failing health he disposed of his interests in the hos pital several months ago.
 Surviving he leaves a wife and a two-year-old baby, residing in the east
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
ANDREW JOHNSON DIES
CFrom Thursdays Daily)

After an illness of three weeks, An drew Johnson died at an early hour yesterday morning in the hospital. His death was due to. tuberculosis. He was 50 years old and a native of Swe- den. His remains were taken in charge by the Ruffner undertaking es- tablishment to be prepared for inter ment.
 Johnson was cook by occupation. 1T resided here a number of years and was well and favorably known to wide circle of friends. Funeral ar engagements will be oDnouneed as soon as an answer is received from two brothers residing in Illinois.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
SURVEY JEROME ROAD
Clark Field Men Look Over Dragon
 Fork Layout
From Wednesdays Daily,

VT WeuAcSudy Dallyl
 Parties coming in from the Dragoen-
 Fork country report surveying parties.
 from Jerome working iH a very se-
 eretive and mysterious manner north
 ward. It is understood, in a round about way, however, that these sur evyors represent Senator Clark g northward projected railroad. These surveyors are westward from Oak Creek some ten or fifteen miles, on the Dragoon fork of the Verde river, and some twenty-five TO thirty miles south of Williams. They are working nortnward and in the direction and with the apparent intention of strik- ing Davenport, a Santa Fe siding be- tween Williams and Chalender. It is understood the Santa Fe has already made a survey for a right-of-way south from Davenport to Jerome, looking for route to go down the rim from of the mountain, and found a very favorable route the entire distance.
 The Clark surveyors have been quietly at work within the past few weeks, and it looks as though, after all, Williams is to again out-railroad Flagstaff in the way of outlet and in let transportation facilities, and tura the same trick on that burg that it did when Williams secured the Can yon road.
 From inside sources it is almost positively learned that, after the above information had been received, and au investigation of the whole situation was made, that Williams is to get the Jerome road, which is to be built 10 Davenport and then run their trains over the Santa Fe track to Williams, making close connections with the Canyon road.
 It is reasonably certain material will be shipped in and building com neneed when spring opens, or at the attest, during the summer.-Williams News
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
STAY OF EXECUTION TO
 HOLD SPENCE HANGING
From Wednesdays Daily,

It no wappears that stay of execu- ton will be granted in the case of Frank Spence, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged February ,, by an appeal to the Supreme Court of the territory, by Attorney Richard P. Talbot, coun- sel for Spence. Attorney Talbot filed a formal motion for appeal to the Su- preme Court December 15, after mo ton for a new trial had been denied. The official record of the trial of tae case is now in the district attorneys office preliminary to submission to Judge Sloan with the appeal to the higher court. The appeal is on stat utory grounds.
 Spence was found guilty of murder in the first degree December 3, 1908, for the shooting of Edgar R. Sullivan on October 22, 1908. The jury i'm posed the death penalty. He was sen teneed to be hanged on February ,, 1909, five days later.
 Spence was defended at the trial by Attorney James Loy. After the con viction Attorney Talbot was retained to represent Spence in an appeal to the supreme court.
 Spence is in the county jail nere awaiting the decision of the supreme court in his case. He is confident that a new trial will be granted.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
SEEK ALLEGED FoRGER
Former Humboldt Resident Makes His
 Getaway
CFrom Thursday's Dailyl

(From Thursdays Daily)
 Charged with uttering forged checks, R. J. Myers, a former resident of Humboldt, is now alleged to be a fu- gitive from justice. A warrant for his arrest was issued yesterday. The officers believe that he has escaped to California.
 He left here January 17, after re- eeiving $41 from Dave Biles on an alleged forged check on Gus Lambert. He is also said to have eashed other checks in larger amounts with local business men.
 Myers will be remembered as having made new records for the motorcycle between here and Humboldt when the smelters were in full blast there eighteen months ago. He is a ma ehinist by occupation. He told several before he left that he was arranging to start a bicycle repair shop nere.
 His questionable check transactions were not reported to the sheriff's of flee until five days after he left for parts unknown.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
HANDS ROUSE HARD
 KNOCKS ON ITS PROSPECTS
From Wednesdays Daily)

W. B. Armstrong, one of the leading
 mining men and brokers of Globe, who
 mas been in Bisbee for the past few
 days, returned to his home town, which
 he says is one of the hveliest in the
 territory just now. He has been en-
 gagged in the mining and brokerage
 business there for the past three years
 and believes there is no camp in Ari-
 zona which has a brighter prospect.
 'Tnere are a number of mines which
 have now been opened up there, ,"
 said MT. Armstrong, (which will show that camp to be one of the greatest in the territory. I consider Bisbee to lead all, but I am satisfied that Globe in opening mp and developing the properties which have recently passed into hands of eastern capital will give new financial impetus to that camp which mas not been seen since the beginning of the camp.
 "I have been visiting several of the mining camps of the territory, and have found a better feeling every where, and I believe that there is a general feeling among mining men of the territory that this will be one of the best years in Arizona $ history.
 ''I have just returned from the Col -orado River to investigate that eoun- try, of which there has been a great l deal said and of which there has been l a great deal of advertising sent out to the newspapers of the territory. was interested to see just what the situation is over there and went over to investigate.
 "There is no shipping from any of the mines around Bill Williams Fork, although they have been working in and about there for the past twenty five years. If there is any big prop critics over there I failed to find them, nor was any one able to show them to me. Whatever mining there is in Yuma county is in the southern part, starting from Wickenburg and going on down to Yuma.
 "There has been a tremendous amount of talk about little snack and tent town called Bouse, which is likely to work a great deal of hardship : upon the investor who has not looked into the situation. There is nothing { an that place which warrants invest ment at the present time, at least, and there is nothing but the range and possibly agriculture which will de- velop that country and that can be ( done only after the development of water. No one should invest there . without first investigating. I would t not have a lot there if I had to pay ! the taxes on it. I believe this can fairly be said in the interest of the innocent purchaser who invests upon c the statements whien have been sent C out from there by the press agent. ''- Bisbee Review.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
HIGH WIND EQUALS TORNADO

FIT. WORTH, Tex, Feb. J.-A heavy wind of tornado proportions swept northern Texas and southern OklahO- ma early today and did considerable damage at Ennis, Texas, where a doz- en residences were blown down. Wax ahatchie also was damaged but there was no loss of life.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
NEW DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
 ENTERS THE ROUSE FIELD

ROUSE, Ariz., Feb. 2.-While il
 may be said that the Bouse district
 has the best surface showings of any
 mining district in the country, al
 though there has not been much devel-
 opment work done yet, everything bids fair now that the development
 work will proceed without a hitch.
 The Clara Consolidated, twenty miles
 north of Bouse, is proceeding with
 their development work as fast as
 possible and are developing some very
 rich ore bodies. But the newest de-
 velopment company is called the Ari-
 zona-Bouse Copper Company, which
 has just been recently organized. This
 company will take over the Little
 Butte mine and seven other claims.
 The company was organized by J. F..
 Meyers and Geo. Bishop of Los An geles. These men bought the Little Butte mine a couple of weeks ago and paid for that property and the addi- 
 tional seven claims $45,OOO. The new company is organized was $2,OO0,OOO capitalization or 2,000,000 shares with par value of one dollar each. Tne stock was put on the market at ten cents per share and as an indication of the confidence that Bouse people have in the property it can be stated that within three hours after a tele- gram was received by J. c. Denton, general manager, over 10000 shares of the stock were subscribed for in Bouse, 32,OOO of these shares being taken by the miners working in the mine.
 The Little Butte is in the center of a very richly mineralied zone and the outcropping of the ore body shows on the surface. The shaft has only been sunk 50 feet but there has been | no waste taken from the mine. The | The shaft follows the ore all the way lay and practically every bit of the work mas been in solid ore. At the | bottom of the ffty-foot shaft drifts | Ire now being run in each direction. A force of men are now at work sink ng the shaft as well as running the lrifts. On last Saturday a rich body if ore was struck in the bottom of the haft
 It is reported that nearly the whole mount of treasury stock of this com any has been subscribed for and that he entire proceeds will be put into development work. If this is the ease he Little Butte will be fully develop d, which will prove to the world the of the district. The Little Butte has shipped several carloads of re and the smelter returns have shown 10 per ton gold and b to IS per cent opper. The gold has paid for the york, hauling, freight and shelter harges leaving the copper costs nOth- ng.
 Chas. COwleS, who owns group or aluable claims consisting of eleven, nd known as the Geyser claims, has nst received word from eastern par ies that his offer which he made a hort time ago had been accepted and hat they would be in Bouse in a slOrt me to take the property. The pur- hase price has not been made known. hese claims are reported very good, though but little work has been done. In the surface they run very rich in .on, assays showing over seventy per ent iron, and they are very valuable 9 furnish Aux for the smelters. In ddition to the iron they carry from our to six dollars in gold. These Iaims are called the iron claims be- ause of the large dikes of iron found n them.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-10
BLAST KILLS FOUR

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 5.-A tele- phone message states a tornado struck the town of Rolling Fork today and four persons were killed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-05-13

Notice is hereby given Of Special
Meeting Of the stockholders of the
Baird Railway Steel Tie company. IN
corporated under the laws Of Okla
homa, 10 be held the 27th day OF May
1909, at o'clock p NJ at Room 8
Dewey block, Guthrie, Oklahoma. for
the purpose OF ratifylng contracts
made by the Directors with H. ID. Coon
and w II. Holmes. rhtifylng bond is.
sue 10 facilitate manufacture and sale
Of ties, establishing an office IN Kans
rs City. Missouri authorizing location
and equipment OF manufacturing plant,
and TO hear and approve all the acts
OF tho officers aud directors since last
annual meeting.
Dated ct Guthrie Oklahoma, April 8.
1909.
ARCHIE NJ. BAIRD.
Attest: President.
J. WARE BUTTERFIELD,
Secretary.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-05-13

Name and AddFeas q secretary
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-05-13

Nams ana Aaars.s o. PtesIdent.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-05-13

NOTICE 10 coNTREcToRs

Sealed proposals will be receiver
by w, H Rose Superintendent Of The
Methodist Hospital, until 12 oclocl
noon, Jnne I for the erection Of 4
go II 1851 ft) addition to the pres
ent Hospital building Plans az tht
superintendent office and at tht
oiflce Of Architect w. h. Burdetl
Guthrie. Oklahoma.