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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-09-01

AN UNUSUALLY STRONG GUST OF WIND
HIT IT.
ribs. and he fell back in heap. Mary
| heard the engine exhaust and then the
cry. She turned quickly and saw Will
ham lying on the ground in heap.
Although he appeared to be badly hurt,
she was able. with his help. to drag
him to the house. She phoned for the
doctor and in the meantime gave him
first aid.
The kindly old doctor come clatter-
ing up the road behind a big gray
horse which was painting hard from it's
run.
Mr.. Jennings will be all right in a
couple Of weeks" said the old gentle
man.
When the postman came he left a
long. blue. official looking letter stamp
ed war Department. Washington
Mary ran upstairs and cried. ooh.
VIII. here's letter from Washington
She tore it open and read that a gov
eminent expert would be there the
next day to see the machine make a
fight.
The next morning there was a knock
at the door. and stranger inquired.
''Is Mr. Jennings at home?"
yes" replied Mary. "but he is badly
injured"
"Oh. that is too badv' exclaimed the
man in a disappointed voice. "My
name is Hart. am a government
agent and came here to examine his
aeropiane. We have heard some good
reports about his machine. and would
like to see it in fight. You are Mrs.
Jennings. suppose?"
Yes" Mary answered 1.-THE doctor
says that Mr.. Jennings will not be
able to get out Of bed for at least a
week He was examining the pro-
peller. when the engine turned over.
and the wheel hit him and broke sew
eral ribs. Would you like to see nv
husband?
Mary led him into Williams room
and introduced him.
I'm very sorry you can't fly" said
Mr. Hart. I'D like to see you co."
Ihe doctor says that be can Ak me
up IN week." said Will. Cant Won
remain that long?''
why. yes" said Hart. 81 am AL
lowed just week for the inspection.
Inat is good" exclaimed VIII, much
relieved.
May look it over now" said
Hart.
Certainly" said William. my wifi.
win show 1t to you"
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13

failures may be enumerated Muncie. In diana, mentioneds elsewhere. plant abandoned. and bonds not paid off: La Grange. Illinois, plant sold to d com papy; Elgin, Illinois, -muncipal costs so high that contract was let to company: Jopesboro. Indiana, plant turned over to bondholders; Alexandria, Virginia. plant leased to company for thirty years; Brunswick. Missouri. plant sold for thirty-five cents on the dollar. city taking pay in light and water; Cassel- ton. North Dakota, plant sold for two fifths cost; Siloam Springs. Arkansas. S3G. .000 plant leased for $600 per year:
 Peru, Indiana, council Investigating
 committee found arc lamps cost $201 per. year and advised that the city
 abandon the business and sell the
 plant; Linton. Indiana. plant leased for five years: Hamilton. Ohio. gas plant shut down and state examiner report
 ed deplorable financial conditions and
 abnormal costs due to faulty construc- ti9ni in electric light plant; Blooming-
 ton. H.. increase of Nom s58 to $6J
 in yearly cost of are lamps in ten years,
 although cost should have been less.
 Esst6n. Pa. mayor faVors letting of
 private contract if city can not main
 tain better service. and business men
 petition for snch q contract; Lakewood.
 Ohio. expert accountant f0nnd cost of
 are lamps about double the price of
 fered by a private company
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
THE WHEREABOUTS 0F "MR. ROOSEVELT
Subject of Anxious Inquiry By Ger
 man Forsisn Office.

Berlin. Feb. l2.-The foreign office has endeavorcd for some weeks td learn. just when former President Roosevelt expects to be in Germany but it is stilL' in the dark as to his plans. It has been widely published that MT. Roosevelt will be in Berlin on April 2S, but if SC. it is not of- ficially known. and the situation is somewhat embarrassing. as Emperor Williams spring plans cannot be defi- nitely arranged in the meantime. be- cause his majesty purposes to be in the capital when his guest arrives.
 Official messages have been ad- dressed to MT. Roosevelt" with in- structions that they be forwarded with the greatest dispatch.
 A reply from him making known his intentions is expected any day. It is understood that the emperor has invited Mir. Roosevelt to be his per- sonal guest.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
THE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF
 ELECTRIC LIGHT PLAhTs.
By James R. Cravath. Western Editor
 of The Electrical World"


 Does it pay q city to go into the electric light business? Should it own
 its street lighting plant or should it
 let the contract to a private company? These are questions which have per plexed the voters in many towns, The average citizen who pays the taxes needs only to have the evidence on
 both sides laid fully before him to de- ! eide and vote in the way most favor able to his pocket book His difficulty
 usually is to get the evidence. On the one hand, if the most radical advocates Of municipal ownership are to be be- lieved. the electric lighting companies of the country are earning enormous profits. which under municipal owner ship wonld stay with the taxpayers and consumers. on the other hand, accord ing to some af those, opposed 10 muni-
 cipal ownership. such ownership has a record of dismal failures. 1nismanage-
 ment and graft. The majority of
 thoughtful citizens who belong to
 neither of these two radical classes are looking for the truth. which Gas
 nsnal in such arguments) lies some
 where between the two extremes I
 will aim to present in m unpre judiced
 way some of the essential facts on
 both sides. as observed during many years work and familiarity with the electric light and power industry of the country. both aS carried on by cities and by private corporations.
 In the case of q large number of the electric light plants owned by mu- nieipalities in the United States. the question: of city versus private owner ship was never an issue. for the req son that the towns are SD small and the profits so uncertain that if the city did not build the plant no one else would. These we must evidently leave out of account in our discussion. What. then are the ob- jects sought by q city which estab- fishes its own electric light plant if private capital has embarked. or is willing to embark in the enterprise? Evidently to save money for the tax payers or to get better service
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
OF LOCAL INTEREST
TUCSON PLAYS PHoENIx-This

TUCSON PLAYS PHOENIx-This afternoon at Eastlake park, the base ball nine from Tucson will come up to Phoenix to cross bats with the local nine. The local men will line up as follows: Griffin, catch: Col lins, pitch. Harter, first: Stevenson second; Devereaux. third; DuhnsOn short; Glow. left: Sullivan. center Byers. right. Substitute. Myers. The Tucson lineup will be: Stevens catch; Balsz. pitch; Pacheco. first; Godfrey. second; Dodge, third; Me Fsirland. short: Suliiger. left; Mciee center; Reister. right Substitute Hudson.
 TOOK HIS GUN-E. F. Withy came in from the New River country t0 watch the sky-flyers. He cele- brated little more than the law al- lows and landed in the police station yesterday. An automatic Colts re- volver was taken away from him and later in the day he was released Withy has seven cla on the New River and two of his neighbOrs. who also have claims there. came in with him Monday because they dh not like to leave him alone. In general. Withy is a rather harmless sort of old man but with his nutoIsatic he is moi mite so harmless. X hypoderniC syringe and q bottle of morphine We're taken from him at the station.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
rne STRONGEST sTATioN.f
Point loma Wireless Has Radius of
 Three Thousand Miles.

san Diego. Feb. l2.-The new equip ment of the Point Loma wireless sta ton just completed. is being tested. The. results thus far show that it is the highest powered station on the Pacific coast. It has, ll.000 volts and during the tests has been working with Honolulu. Sitka. Pensacotl and Colon. The results show that it has a radius of 5000 miles. The tests were made during ordinary atmospheric conditions.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
Conclusion.

What conditions will be twenty-five years from now, 1 do not know. but hope and believe that they will be more. favorable for municipal enterprises. In the meantime I am willing % let the private corporations take the. risks and the profits wherever they can and will give reasonable rates and good Service-Advt bg
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
Chicago and Muncie.


 One of the most prominent examples ,of a muHieipally-owned electric light plant is, that Of Chicago, aboat which there has been considerable contro- yersy- ChieagD's municipal electric light plant, unlike many others. was mol built by the sale of bonds. but has been paid for little at q tlfhe ont nf the general tax levy as the plant has been gradually enlarged. According to the last published report of the city electrician. in which interest on the money was figured in both cases. there has been a saving to the city of some thing like ten per cent in the total cost of street lighting for the entire period of eighteen years the city plant has been In operation. This statement. however. assumes that the cost per lamp s,ndcr a private contract would have been the same as the city has Ibeen paying a company for q few rent @d lamps In widely scattered outlying districts where inc city could not operate as cheapiy. As to whether chicago would have had to pay for a large number of fselectrlc street lamps as much as IL las been paying for a comparatively small number of scat tered lamps on short and uncertain contracts, is, of course, prOblematical. According tn IIaskins & Sells, expert accountants, who went through the Chicago lighting accounts about six years ago. the operating cost of mu- nieipal 450-watt arc lamp in the city of Chicago in the year 1900 was ss9 Os; nd ha nf ;,, surance, taxes, depreciation. and inter- est charges was s99.0S. Allowing for certain items, over which there may be controversy, ii is safe to say that theSco per lamp was over s90. in- ciuding fixed charges, which is not far from the average paid in other great cities. The rate paid for similar lamps in New York, City is s100. but coal and distribution investments are higher in New York. x
 E Chicago has what might be rated as one of the relatively successful muni- cipal plants. Among the decided un- successful ones. a conspicuous example was that at Muncie. Indiana This city had a municipal lighting plant which Scost s36,000. In eleven years, under council committee management tor lack of iD, the operating cost per lamp nearly doubled. The superintend- ent. in his annual report made before the final demise of the enterprise, recommended that if the city could not find the money with which to/improve the plant, it had better sell to private parties. or buy current from some priv ate company. The matter WAS brought to a head by the bursting Of a fly wheel in the municipal plant and the wrecking of the station. A ten-year contract was then made with the cleo
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13


 | ment or for some local reason are earning practically nothing. There is certainly nothing In these figures to in- dicate that enormous profits are to be | pocketed by taxpayers as result of a municipal electric light plant Rates Of Municipal and Private Companies.
 But are the street lighting rates In the Massachusetts. cities served by private, companies the same as those where there gre municipal lly-owned plants; Consulting the Massachusetts report further to determine this point, We find that the rates per year for are lamps commonly rated at 1900 C. r. are from @l04. the highest gate. to $54 e9. the lowest. In municipal plants the cost of such lamps is given as from Sl33. the highest. to S53A. the lowest. In the Massachusetts figures. of course, interest on the in vestJnent is included, as it should be in all such reports. Taken altogether, the cost of street lighting by municipal plants is not sirikingly different from that in cities supplied by private com panieS. although the highest n.rncipal figures are considerably above the highest contract figures.
 The reason that these Massachusetts figures on costs of municipal lights do not correspond with some which we see quoted by radical municipal own ership advocates on plants in other states is that in Massachusetts the law requires that an allowance of five per cent of the cost of the plant shall be made yearly for depreciation. This al- lowance is certainly none too little. but it is frequently left out of account altogether in figuring the cost of mu- nicipai lighting on plant owned by a city.
 Another set of statistics which throw some light on the amount of profit in electric lighting business in general is obtainable from report made by the secretary of the Iowa Electrical As- sociation to that body in 1906. The secretary obtained reports from seven- ty-seven electric light companies in that state. The average dividend was 2.95 per cent
 New York state also has had for a s-dS anu IlSuI commission under laws similar to those in Massachusetts. The returns made indicate in general d very simi- lar condition of affairs to that in Massachusetts. On the whole, from my knowledge of the business the country over l think the Massa chusetts figures would correspond closely to those in the majority of other states. were the figures known, except that a very limited number Of companies may temporarily earn little better than ten per cent
 1 have so far considered this pues- tion of financial returns only ina gen. erai way. without taking up specific examples. For those who wish to study such specific examples the pub- lished reports of the Massachusetts and New York commissions are open. As the former reports are made on uni form systems of accounting compari- sons can fairly be made between the different companies and municipali- ties reporting. Specific examples from other states have been cited many times in; municipal ownership contro- versics. ,but because of the great diff ferences in methods Of accounting, as before explained, they are likely to be almost worthless for purposes of com parison unless scrutinized closely by experts.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
WATER PIPES

One quarter of your order in cash in checks or money orders; baiaDce%o bin to be paid upon receipt of goods Any pipe found unsa tisfactory upon receipt of same can he returnet at our expense. and we will refund amount paid
 RIVETEO DIPPED piPE
 Good As New
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13

Assistant Manageable Strong Man won't be able to work today.
 Manager-No: he tried to lift cake his wife baked and strained his back
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13


 the entire-capitai stock. in the 1905 re- port. but this is less than the surplus showed the year previous.
 These figures simply demonstrate what is known to every well posted man in the business; namely. that electric light companies. when well managed and, if in sufficiently large towns. can be reasonably expected to pay the usual prevailing rate of in terest on investment, and in some cases a little more than that, but that these are plenty of companies which either for the lack of good manage ment or for some local reason are earning practically nothing. There is certainly nothing In these figures to in- dicate that enormous profits are to be pocketed by taxpayers as a result of a municipal electric light plant.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
OIL WELL LINE PIPE. 1900. ID. Good as New.
PIPE FOR STEAM. C
 WATER-STANOA OARO.

lU. DuO feet 2 ! l-Z, ' mch pIp", tlI 70 I".
 IS or 70 foot joints. for telephone
 poles fitted with cross arms
 for that purpose.
 All this pipe is as good as new-new couplings and new threads put on every fill ynur order for any size and any amount you want. Can cut pipe to any measurement you wish. Full line or pipe fittings at low prices. and can dlp nine in aspbaltum. Pipe is going up. so get in your order and save money; We will furnish pipe and lay t oy contract. excavate all ditches ana lay pips. according to your plans- We nave inc machinery to do the work. VIII guarantee our work and keep il in re nair for one year at our expense
 Take car on Seventh and ltroaowi'N' N-arEg
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13

DU IttI DI TT, IF. TO, h, Q, ' m. I1ma aged riveted pipa. used for drain and ctllvert pipes for under streets at reduced prices.
 OIL WECl CASING.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
Graft and Public Ownership.


 The advoeates of municipal owner
 ship have laid considerable stress on the possibility for corruption of city councils and other officers in connec- ton with the letting of the street. lighting contracts ar franchises to private companies. That there are such possibilities. especially in the larger cities. no one will deny. On the other hand. is 1t not likely that a city government composed of rascaIs would find even more opportunity for rob- ping the taxpayer under municipal ownership? In the case of q private contract the amount is definitely known tol everyone at the time the con-
 tract is made. and if there is anything very unreasonable about the proposi- ton, public sentiment will enforce reasonable terms before the contract is signed. When the public utility is
 municipally owned, it is a. difficult matter to locate and prevent graft both large and small
 Space is not available here to cite specific examples of successful and un- successful municipal plants at any
 length. but l may mention a few Of the extremes. One of the most suc-
 cessful municipal plants I know of is
 that a. Marquette, Michigan. where the city developed water power The
 property is managed much like that Of a private company. Considerable
 power load is carried. So enterprising has been the management that the has been the management that the gross the annual reports. are as high as S4.20 per capita of population. Most private companies are not doing as well as to gross earnings. The lighting depart meHt of the city is kept separate from all others, just as fit were a com pany, and it is paid s75 per year for q 2000 C. r. arc lamp. For the balance of the revenue the management of the plant is dependent on it's own enter prise. Chicago's plant is mentioned elsewhere. Detroit's municipal plant may also be rated among the more successful. While lamp costs in Chica- go and Detroit are nowhere near as low as advertised by municipal owner ship advocates in years past. they are not far from prevailing contract rates.
 Failures os Municipal Plants.
 Anone recent rnuuicinal oIynarchin
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13

tric lighting company to supply street lamps at, a cost far below the operating cost shown by the yearly reports of the municipal plant. The municipal plant. upon which s36000 had been expended in construction, was valued by d board of'appraisers at s15.000. or a depreciation Of s21,0o0. with no fund to provide for it.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
Failures Of Municipal Plants.

Among recent municipal ownership
Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
The Question of Profits.

The common argument. of course. fop the establishment of municipal plant is that the city will gain the profits which ordinarily go to private como pany undertaking street-lighting contract. But what are the profits actually earned by electric light and power companies through the coun-
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-01

A brother is a young man who
fiatters his grown-up sister.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-01
MARRIAGE.

A game OF chance in which the
chances arc about even. The man
leads at first, but after leaving the
altar he usually follows breathlessly
in his wife's trail The rules are very
confusing. If masked player holds
you up some night at the end Of a
long gun, it is called robbery" and
entities you to telephone the police;
but If your wife holds you up for a
much larger amount the next morn
ing at the end of long hug. it is
termed diplomacy" and counts in her
favor. In this, as in other games of
life, wives are usually allowed more
privileges than other outlaws.-Judge.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-01
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with the introduction
of John Stephens, adventurer a Massa-
Ehusetts man marooned by authorities at
Valparaiso, Chile. Being interested In
mining operations In Bolivia, he was de-
lnounced by Chile as an nsurrectionist
and as a consequence was hiding. AT his
Englishman and young woman.
Stephens rescued the young woman from
a drunken officer. He was thanked by
her Admiral of the Peruvian navy coh--
fronted stephens, told him that war had
been declared between Chile and Peru
and offered him the office OF captain. He
desired that that night the Esmeralda, a
Chilean vessel. should be captured.
Stephens accepted the commission.
Stephens met a motley crew. to which % he
structions. They boarded the vessel. They
successfully captured the vessel supposed
Capt Se stephens e saSe dreetions for the ds
parture of the craft. He entered the cab
In and discovered the English woman
the wrong vessel had been captured.
1t was Lord Darlingtons private yacht.
the lords wife, and maid being aboard.
ship. Then First Mate Tuttle laid bare
the plot, saying that the Sea Queen had
been taken In order to 90 to the Antarc-
former voyage he had learned that the
Donna Isabel was lost in 1883. He had
found II frozen in huge, case of ice
on an island and contained much gold
of the expedition. He told Lady
DARLINGTON. She was greatly :, alarmed ne,
Sea Queen encountered vessel In the
fog Stephens attempted to communicate.
This caused fierce struggle and he was
uation. Then the Sea Queen headed south
again. Under Tuttle's guidance the ves,-
sci made progress toWard S,arhos It's .h goahi; al
insane because of his queer actions.