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Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
COUNCIL AGAIN FAILS
 ID AGREE ON CONTRACT
In the Meantime the Water Mains Are
 UntaPped.

The city council met yesterday noon in special called session for the pur- pose of considering the bids of the contractors for the tapping of the water mains and installing a connec- tion between the main and the curb for the subscribers who expect to take city water. Along with the bids was also taken up Engineer Knipe's recommendation. The result of the meeting was an adjournment until the engineer can be present in person
 and certain samples can be received
 by John l.. Riggs, who is the lowest bidder. Engineer Knipe recommended that the bid of Horne X Riggs should have first consideration in that it was the lowest. providing satisfactory bond could be furnished, and the work commenced and finished in the shortest possible time The second was that Ezra W. Thayer's bid of Phoenix should re- ceiVe consideration from the fact of the material to be used. MT. Riggs was present and stated that in case he received the contract Cove Phelps would do the work. MT. Phelps stated
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

that he proposed to use a standard corporation cock and proposed to use such material as would be necessary to do the work in a proper manner. In defense of the corporation cock he stated that the kind he proposed to install was in use at the present time by a majority of the water systems throughout the territory, and particu-
 larly at Tempe, where the pressure is considerably above the average. MT. ThayeE was present from Phoenix in defense of his bid. He proposes to put in the Mueller corporation cock and a standard line throughout the work He will commence work at the earliest possible moment.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
STILL A DAY LATE.

The honorable city attorney and vice president of the local Summer Widowers' club. G. w Silverthorn. returned from Prescott yesterday morning. one day behind his time limit, and if he has not been put through a grilling examination by his fellow members of the club some of them will he greatly surprised. It will be remembered that the judge missed his train the first day he started and the club took the matter in hand and appointed one of its number as chaperOne for him to the train and he made sure not to miss it. but he promised to return Monday. When he did not put in an appear ance until yesterday several closed meetings of the club had been called to consider his case.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
LOST.

A gold locket watch fob. initials J. R. D. on it. Reward. Return to this office.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
BLOOD POISONING.

W. l.. Standage was walking around town yesterday with his foot tied up in bandages. When he was asked what was the matter he re- piled that he had blood poisoning. but several people near stated that the believed that if was a case of the weather being too cool for him to work.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

their usual good work and the pie lures were fine. The illustrated songs were well received, but it was easily seen that most of the people had their favorite in Baby Jewel and she made good, and, if it were possible, she became more popular with the Mesa play goers than ever.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
BABY JEWEL MAKES ANOTHER
 HIT

The Coliseum was crowded when the curtain was rung up last night. and the audience got their moneys worth. Lattural and LaRue kept up
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
GOOD BILL AT VANCE.

There was a large crowd at the Vance last night who thoroughly en- joyed the fine bill that that popular resort put on. The motion pictures and illustrated songs were good but the special feature of the evening was the song. "The Two Little Or phans." as sung by two little or phans They are local talent and brought down the house by their fine work.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

Bearing in mind Harry Thaw's threat to become literary man." Justice Mills, who sent him back to the asylum. is entitled to. the gratitude of all those who love dear old belIes let ters.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
RETURNED HOME.

Miss Mable Pomeroy, who has been on her vacation, returned Monday. She spent most of her time at Long Beach and San Diego and reports having had a fine time. but, like all the rest of the Mesa people, she was glad to return home.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
RETURNED FROM HONEYMOON.

Mir. and Mrs. Edgar Johnson re turned from their honeymoon yester- day. They spent most of it at Pres colt and are now ready to settle down and enjoy fife. ':hoy will make their home in H'ul.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
MRS. CLARA BAKER RETURNS.

Mrs. Clara Baker, a former teacher in the Mesa City schools. arrived in Mesa Monday evening. after a sum mer spent with her mother in oregon. She left for Phoenix on the noon train yesterday for a few days sojourI.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

Harry Burrier. Jim Daley and w. H. Hogle were Phoenix visitors Mon day. They all had important busi- ness except MT Daley. who went along to see that the others attended to their business and did not get lost.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

MT Buehler. the district manager of the Consolidated Telephone company. was a Mesa business visitor yester- day.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-25

A male Malaprop is said to have asked Sidney Smith this question. at a dinner table: "Aw. Mir. Smith. Do you know in which of his journeys around the world Captain Cook was killed-his first or his last?" Sidney
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
It's Results in Wayne County Unsatisfactory
And Encouraging.
Prizes to be Awarded November II.
he County's Corn Yield Has Been Augmented
Thousands of Barrels in the Aggregate and
the End is NotYet

The corn contest inaugurated in
this county last spring among the
farmer boys of the county was entered
into vigorously by some sixty-three
boys. all sections of the county being
represented, and from this number we
have in hand reports from forty,
whose success with their individual
acre of prize corn has been really
marvellous None of these forty raised
less IL an ten barrels and some of
them raised as many as twenty bar
Iels. and all of them did well and in
creased the corn crop of the county
at least a thousand barrels-the sixt.,
contestants, we mean; while their ex-
ample and Industrious application tC
their task so enthused the farmers o1
tteir respective neighborhoods to bet
ter corn growing that the 1atteI
doubtless doubled their crop yields
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
WILL PARDON SLAYERS.
Governor of Kentucky Encourages
Farmers to Kill Night Riders.

Lexington, KY, Nov. 15.-GovernoI
Wilson has promised farmers a par
don for every homicide committed in
resisting the attacks of the armed
night riders, and taking the governor
at his word the men now out of the
tobacco pool have turned their homes
into arsenals. Soldiers returning here
last night from Macon county report
the BENJAMIN Longnecker home as
containing ten Krag Jorgensen rifles.
six Swiss repeating rifles and an equal
number Of shotguns and revolvers,
and three guards on duty day and
night
Longnecker is a banker In Mays
vile and resides six miles in the
country. He raised a crop of ten
acres, which he refused to pool. A
week ago he was visited by a band
Of armed men and his home was rid
died with bullets.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
THE INCOME TAX.

In the recent elections no issue was
raised concerning the pending United
States income tax amendment, but in
nearly every state candidates for ths
legislature were publicly questioned,
and nearly every one of them de-
clared himself. In New York this was
done, and so it was in Massachusetts.
When the legislatures begin to
meet in January the lines will begin
to be drawn, and after while the
fate of the amendment will become
known.
It will be a 1ong-drawn-out affair
no doubt, for if New York refuses to
ratify the amendment next winter she
may ratify it five years later. There
is no time limit on ratification. The
ccnclusian can readily be postponed a
decade and yet be within the terms of
the constitution, which names no time
in which ratification must be accom-
plished.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
UNPRECEDENTED PUNISHMENT.
Supreme Court Passes Sentence 1
Celebrated Contempt Case.

Washington, ID. c., Nov. 15.-For
the first time in American history six
men are in prison tonight for con-
tempt of the Supreme Court of the
United States. For the first time, too
the Federal government has placed
men behind the bars as an outcome
of the lynching Of a negro.
At the United States Jail in this
city. Capt. Joseph F. Shipp, former
sheriff at Chattanooga, Tenn: Jere-
miah Gibson, his jailer, and Luther
Williams. Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett
and William Mayes, of the same city
this afternoon began serving terms OF
Imprisonment imposed a few hours
before by the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Shipp, Williams and Nolan were
given sentences of ninety days i'm
prisonment each, while Gibson, Pad
gett and Mayes, each received sixty
days.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.
Congressman MOrehead, Hot in the
Collar, Sees the President.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 16.-There
is much curiosity here to know wheth-
er Representative John Morehead
won out in his fight in his right to
name the census supervisor in his dis
trict. Mr.. Morehead had talk with
the President yesterday, but declined
to discuss what happened at the
White House, and took train for
New York. He is coming back tomor
row, and it is presumed he will find
out where he stands.
According to story current here
today, the President referred him to
Postmaster General Hitchcock. who is
charged with being responsible for the
Glasson appointment. The Postmas-
ter General was asked about this as
he was leaving the Cabinet meeting al
the White House today. He hesitated
a moment and then remarked: fYol
will have to see Mr.. Morehead."
A local paper is authority for the
statement that Mr.. Morehead was hot
in the collar when he reached the
White House to make known his pro-
test to the President. This paper
says:
'Mr. Morehead had a conference
yesterday with the President, and it
required all the good nature and pa
tient influence of the chief executive
to restrain him from Immediately re
signing from his seat in the House as
rebuke to the Republican admins
tration. The President, it is under
stood, suggested that Mr.. Morehead
see Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Mr.. Morehead did see Mr.. Hitchcock.
and there is every reason to believe
that Mr.. Hitchcock won OUT
Postmaster General Hitchcock
again gave denial today to the story
that e. c. Duncan is to be appointed
an Assistant Postmaster General.
1t is known that all four of the As
sistant Postmaster Generals are to re-
sign soon after the assembling OF
Congress.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

consequently it is safe to say that the
influence of this corn contest on the
part of the farmer boys of Wayne
county has increased the corn yield Of
the county this year thousands IF
barrels.
On Saturday of next week, Novem-
bel 27, these boys will be assembled
in Goldsboro to hear read in public
by the special commissioners ap-
pointed to measure their crops, the
results of their industry and the prize
winners will be designated and the
prizes awarded accordingly
Go.0sboro should make this as big
day as was the seed-corn inspec-
tion day last spring. 1t will encour-
ase these embryo farmers-and theic
proud fathers and mothers, to sticx
to the farm and make better farmers
who are the hope and bulwark ri
the country.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
OFFICIAL PROBING.

Assurance has come from Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh that the
scandal in the matter of the sugar
frauds will be probed to the very bot
tom, and in the searching invesuga-
tion to be made the men higher up
are to be the chief game.
This is gratifying in the extreme
We have had enough of the petty four
flushing in the name of the law by
which some poor, inconsp1cuous un-
derling has been singled out to pay
the penalty of the crimes Of those
higher up.
Special Attorney Stimson has done
a great deal of valuable work, and
there is every reason to believe that
he will push the cases with all the
vigor at his command. But there is
something reassuring about the case
when the Secretary Of the Treasury
himself comes forward and gives as
surance that the charges against the
men in high authority are to be push
ed with as much vigor as il they were
Q1rGcL0Q against tA0 ACdAcSI uAu0A-
lings.
We are much mistaken If the reye-
lations in regard to this impudent and
outrageous sugar trust has not been
a blessing in disguise. The public had
begun to groE7 tolerant toward evils
which they could not always compre-
bend. Stock jobbery is an abstruse
sort of science. But when it comes
to petty larceny even the most ordi'
nary mortal canunderstand what I
means and consequently, Is repelled
by it. The idea of a great national
institution STOPPING so low as to be-
come a common cheat, by means OF
false weights, has literally disgusted
the whole country.
There is no excuse for any sort OF
Indulgence toward the criminals, high
or low, and there is a special 1ncen-
tive toward the prosecution of the
men higher up.
It really seems that at least we are
to have a conviction which will set O
wholesome example.
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Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

Is h
who had fallen from q street car was
represented as saying: 4 feel all
right, but I can't tell whether Tn
hurt until I see lawyer -
Looking forward into the future,
Mr.. Finley expressed the belief that
Southern agricultural and industrial
development would continue. He did
lot view with alarm the tendency of
young people to leave the farm. but
believed that, with the increased at
traetiveness and prof1tableness Of
farm life. the tide would turn in the
other direction. Referring to the good
work being done by the agricultural
press of the South, he spoke of Sc
lies Of articles on how to make $500
Ihore year from the farm, and,
showing that an average of $500 more
a year would add $904,795, 500 to the
South, he said:
TO the railway official these figures
suggest trainloads of cotton, of fruits
and vegetables, of hogs and cattle, and
o. dairy products to be hauled to mar
ket. They suggest carloads of agri-
J cultural implements and machinery
OF pianos, of carriages and automo-
5i1es, and Of other articles contribut
) Ing: to the comfort and convenience d
the farmer and his family. Is is te
: be wondered that those. responsible
for the management Of the railways
OF the South, seeing this agricultural
advance going hand in hand with con
} ticued industrial development, shout,
5 have faith in their territory ant
: Should be striving to the utmost to In
} crease the carrying capacity of thei
lines SO as to be able properly to han
5 die the increase in traffic which Il
/ sure to come?
Looking forward into the future
ifr. Chairman, we see the farmer, tn
4 railway man, the miner, the manufac
o turer, and the merchant working to
A gether, shoulder to shoulder, an
bringing to our Southern people con
e stantly increasing prosperity and hap
: piness, in which no one will shar
d more fully than the Southern farmer.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
WILL OPERATE ON RUEF.
Physicians Fear Loss of Eyesight and
of Hearing.

San Francisco, Nov. 15.-Abe Ruef,
former boss, is threatened with total
blindness and deafness. An operation
on his eyes will be performed mex:
Wednesday, and upon the success OF
this will depend the effort to save his
hearing.
Ruef has been in the county Jail for
little more than a year pending ar
appeal of his case to higher court
He was sentenced to fourteen years
Imprisonment by Superior Court
Judge Lawler, after having been con
victed of bribing one of the boodling
board of supervisors in the case of the
overhead trolley franchise.
Ruef, in talking about his case, at
tributed his afiiction to lack of ex-
ercise.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
THE FIGHT on A1DRIC11.

The Lincoln (Neb.) News is Re-
publican paper, but like most of the
Republican papers in the Middle West
it does not love the Aldrich-Payne
tariff. The ideas of tariff revision con
tanned in that instrument are not its
ideas. It listened patiently when the
Aldrichites said it bore down strong
ly upon the luxuries, thus making the
rich who consume them pay more fol
them, while at the same time it great
ly reduced their rates on the neces-
saries, thereby reducing the prices
upon them. The News proceeded tt
list eight articles in each class, as fol
lows:
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
PROHIBITION IN EFFECT.
Fifteen Dispensaries Closed in South
Carolina Yesterday.

Columbia, S. c., Nov. 15.-Today at
sundown in the fifteen counties OF
South Carolina which voted dry on
August II last, the drastic prohibition
law enacted at the last session of the
legislature went into effect. With the
closing of the dispensaries in these
fifteen counties of the state, only si>
counties remain wet, twenty-one hav-
ing been dry at the time of the loca5
option election last summer.
The statute which went into effecl
today is one of the most drastic Of
the recent crop of prohition laws. No,
only does it forbid the sale of liquor
in the dry counties, but it prohibit.
keeping in possession" any liquor
whatever.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

This is the tariff that the insurgents
are warning against, and they are as
sailing Cannon and Aldrich as the
men primarily responsible for it: 1t
is mistake to say there Is any les
sening Of activity or tone on the in
surgent side. The insurgents are ag-
gressive throughout the Middle West,
and the standpatters are on the defen-
sive. The Democrats will naturally
aid the insurgents, especially where
they cannot themselves take advant-
age of the situation. The standpat-
ters are considered grafters who have
betrayed their party and it's campaign
pledges. Mr.. Taft will get story
next year from the Northwest that
will be apt to wake him from his
standpat doZe.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
Baltimore Drummer Missing.

Raleigh, N. c., Nov. 15.-Concern is
felt here for J. Lindsay Leaf, drum
mer of Baltimore. selling surgical In
struments. He registered last Thurs
day at the Marlborough Hotel, but has
not been seen since Saturday. His
baggage is still in his room and sam
pies in sample room, but no trace Of
him can be found.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
Inventor Dead.

Denver, Col, Nov. 15.-John r. Moi
fett, an inventor of international rep
utation, died at his home here yester-
day, aged eighty-four. One OF his
principal inventions is the modern
threshing machine, which he invented
In 1851, and which still bears many
of the devices originated by him when
he was youth.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

President Diaz says that work, not
money, ennobles man. Didn't Rookie
feller once say the same thing, and
Carnegie, and Roosevelt, and Job, or
words to that effect?
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

The labor federation is in favor Of
letting women vote. AS they rule
things anyhow, there ought to be no
objection to allowing them the mere
formality.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

A judge declares that alimony is an
incentive to divorce. The idea is
plausible. The court can collect an
allowance where a wife often couldn't
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

Senator Aldrich says the banking
and currency laws need changing.
They certainly need something
something that will make two dollars
grow where one grew before.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

The worst feature of the boy bandit
performance is that it is contagious
One performance in Indiana was fol.
lowed by another in ST. Louis, and
the end is not yet in sight.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

There is an impression in some
quarters that Secretary Ballinger
ought to have been real estate
agent and be done with it.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

What, after all, will it profit US to
exterminate the hookworm and pella-
gra? Some other disease, with name
as bad, would be discovered.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

It is not likely that Cannon will
ever be candidate for President. The
third term prejudice wouldn't suit a
man accustomed to lifetime rule.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

Build that new fence now. We are
selling lightwood boards for fencing
for s1.00 per hundred. Enterprise
Lumber Company.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
PROGRAM

For County Teachers Association For Saturday,
November II, 1909.
ON Club
10 to ocockAddressM of Agricui
II to Differentiation of PrsCoi Of
Forty
@ Manage Tards- lila Howell
o Reading-Nfrs Mariann Carries
to
R D of North
E. T.
Presiden
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

Today's automobile record il to-
a part Of history.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

It's awfully hard to give away some
things that you want to get rid of.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

Entered at the Postofice in Colds
boro On second class mail matter.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20

the course Of litigation. We ought to
be Permitted to do SO confident of re-
ceiving that measure of justice, and
that measure only, which is meted out
to an Individual in his controverted
cases.
''The fact that at present there is
in degree, one measure of justice
for the corporation and another for
the individual is, think, the result oil
a certain thoughtlessness on the part
OF the public. I am confident that
the only thing necessary to correct II
is to bring the fair-minded American
people to realization Of the fact tina:
justice is, and Of right ought to be
the same, whether the issue be be-
tween two individuals or between an
individual on the one side and q cor
poration on the othert-he corpora
ton being but an association of indi-
viduals, the property rights Of each
one OF whom are as sacred as the
property rights of any other American
citizen.
ut is sometimes suggested thai
some Of our friends of the legal pro-
fession are, In measure, responsible
for encouraging the fling of excessive
cJaims. This was the idea conveyed
by . recent cartoon, In which man
Evening journal., 1909-05-31
WILMINGTONIANS HAVE
CIVIC CLEANLINESS

Politics and religion are not foreign
to each other. according to the Rev.
Thomas p Holloway. pastor Of Second
Baptist Church. Religion and politics
was the subject OF an interesting ser
mon by him yesterday morning. tie
said:
when any commonwealth eats pO-
litical ants after other political ants
nave stung said commonwealth, that
said commonwealth must have a po-
litical ant appetite. The reason that
Wilmington is such a well governed
city as American cities go is that the
bulk Of the people are possessed of
commendable civic cleanness of soul.
Compromise with evil never en-
trone8good. and safeguards righteous
ness.
Parties are passing. but principles
are permanent. Therefore when par
ties part company with your prlnci-
pies part company with your PARTY.
Parties are Ike nags; only worthy 1f
inspiring Loyalty when they stand for
God and div iuo ideals and ideas.
"The man who votes for principle
never loses mis- vcte. and passes on the
road Of actuai attainment the man
who postporcs adherence to principle
and runs after side issues of policy
But the church must ever teach
THAT the perfect government cannot be
realized fully and finally by the enact