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The copper era., 1910-10-28
David B. HiII Dies At Country Home.

Albany, New York.-After an illness of several weeks, David Ben nett Hnl, the famous Democratic leader, former governor of New York state and former United States senator, is dead at his home, Wolfert's Boost, in the suburbs of Albany. MT. Hill was CT years old. He had been suffering for some time from bilious attack, which was followed by a severe cold. It was thought that he would recover, but the combined attack seemed to sap his strength.
 Up until the relapse came, MT. Hills condition was not considered alarming. The attending physicians held out hope to his friends that he would ultimately recover. When he began to sink his. strength left him rapidly, and despite all efforts of doctors at his bedside, he passed away. He was conscious almost to the end.
 At the national Democratic con vention in 1892 MT. Hill was a promi- nent candidate for the presidential nomination. He had strong follow ing in the convention and for a time it looked as though his aspirations would be fulfilled. He was again a candidate for governor of New York in 1904. He was defeated, and since then had not taken leading part in Democratic politics, although he al> ways had.been a factor. As lawyer MT. Hill was considered one of the best in the state. From 1886 to 1888 he was president of the State Bar as- sociation. A peculiar trait of MT. H:ll was his confirmed hatred of women. He never married.
 His ambition was to be the Presi- dent of the United States. He failed in this, although he tried hard But his failure brought forth no bitter ness. He said, philosophically, that he believed he was the only man in the United States who had the presi. dential bee and got over it.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
The Copper Situation.

Evidence is strong, if not conviuc- ing, that an approximate equilibrium between supply and demand has been reached in the copper trade, so that whatever danger there may have been of a break in price to 10 or Il cents a pound seems to have been effectually eliminated. But if actual production of the red metal is no longer greater than the requirements of consumers, the same cannot be said regarding the potential produc- tion. At the present time there is no copper enterprise of importance in the United States or elsewhere that is producing at anything like it's maximum capacity, and consequently the supply of copper would be materially increased if producers generally were. to do no more than resume operations on normal scale. This being the case, it is evident that, in the absence ot any binding agreement among those controlling a large part of the worlds output, there Can udIulJ DG any uudl hCO d Lu permanent advance in the price of the metal until the demand assumes still larger proportions, for obviously each fractional advance in price would tend to encourage greater activity on the part of producers and thereby make for an increase in supply.
 It is doubtful, however, if any great length of time must elapse before more normal conditions are restored in the copper trade, and in the mean while producers as a whole have everything to gain and nothing to lose by adhering to their present policy of curtailment. The same good judgment, representing the fruit of years ot bitter experience, which now sets he seal of disapproval on unrestrdined production in the steel trade shoul3 prevail in the copper trade. To push production to the
 limit under present conditions would be sheer waste of what is practically the copper producers sole asset.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
New Copper Company is Organized il
 Globe District.

Globe.-A new corporation under the name of the Gila Canyon Copper company has been organized in this city by several prominent local men. The names of the incorporators are: Williams Sparks, R. L. Rupkey, Frank Thompson, H. H. Brum, Will liam P Reynolds and George w. Slider. The authorized capital stock of the corpora tion is 10000 shares and the par value. of share is 5000.
 The board of directors consist of three men elected annually. The three serving for the first year are H. H. Brum, W. P. Reynolds and R. L. Rupkey. These directors at their i first meeting are to elect other officers of the company who are to be president, vice president secretary and treasurer.
 The proposed line of the Southern Pacific railroad however, known as the San Carlos cut off, connecting San Carlos and Christmas is already surveyed and in all probability will be installed in the next two years. In this event, the holdings of the Gila Canyon Copper company will be- come very valuable as the earmarks of a valuable copper deposit are every where evident
 There are two large Assure veins running into one another at prac- tically right angles and of an aver. age width as indicated by surface conditions of thirty feet. One of these veins on running into the junction terminates there. The strike of the continuous one is, how eyer, plainly traceable for several thousand feet The rock types are limestone and quartzite overlaid' by eruptive rocks. These veins outcrop along the top of system of high hills directly oyer the Gila river. The difference between the river bend and the top of these hills is probably 600 feet.
 The railroad if built, will run along the river bed and thus afford through transportation. The typographical conditions show an excellent proposi- tion for a tunnel system of ore ex- traction. The assessment work is all being put in one place under the present management, namely in the driving of such a tunnel as mentioned | above.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Preparing For Big Crowds At Fair.
(Democrat.)

Preparations for handling the visit ing crowds at the territorial fair this year are being gradually rounded out by the local board of trade. The secretary of that body, Harry Welch, is at present engaged in arranging a special bureau to list all the rentable rooms which may be accessible to those who visit the fair and expect to remain in the city oyer night. The bureau will be in charge of a com potent person, whose duty it will be to list all the rooms possible and be able to give out information to the public when called upon.
 Two special officers will be stationed at the depot to direct people to and from the trains and assist the secre- tary in dispensing information.
 MT. Welch is authority for the statement that at present the outlook is for the greatest fair in the history of Phoenix, and the genial secretary says that the board of trade will not be caught mapping on the crowd pro- position when the fair starts, but that all preparations will have been made pr 74aaliug -he crowd in true Phoenix style.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Murderer Of Ernest KOhIberg in Fl
 PaSO Convicted by the Jury.

John Leech, tried for the murder of Ernest KohIberg in Fl Paso, has been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life im- prisonment The killing of Kohlberg was a shock to the southwest as the murdered man was widely known and popular. The murder occurred. in the Kohlberg tobacco store in El Paso. Leech had been renting a hotel owned by KOhlberg and when Kohlberg's agent served notice on Leech to vacate the hotel because of non- payment of rent he went to the store and there committed the murder.
 The story of the crime, as pub lished at the time it was committed said that Leech went to the store and began. talking to Kohlberg about the lease and rent when Kohlberg told him that the matter was in the hands of his agent and turning tc walk into his private office he wa: shot in the back by Leech.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Great Progress Noted Under RickettS al
 Greene-Cananea.
(Mining and Scientific Press.)

L. D. Ricketts, president and gen. eral manager of the Cananea Con- solidated Copper company Greene Cananea), names 6,500,000 pesos as the total of the expenditures ;to date tor improvements made by the pres ent management for decreasing costs and increasing production at Can anea. It will require several months to complete the construction work now underway, and it is expected that the total will be raised to 7,500,- 900 pesos. Concerning present pro- 900 pounds of copper per month, MT. Ricketts says: ''We have found that, owing to the uncertainties of trade, we could not sell copper as fast as we are producing it, and we therefore decided that it was essential to re- duce our production in order to avoid the risk of a lower price for copper, or the necessity of storing it in ware houses until such time as it could be sold. We regard as merely tenn porary the curtailment, and believe that within six months we can in- crease our production beyond all previous records. The present ca pacity of our plant is double that of four years ago."
 The five-year contract recently en- tered into by the Canauea Consoli- dated and the Miami Copper com pany for the smelting of Miami con centrate at Cananea calls for the handling of 100 tons per dly. It is expected that deliveries will be started January l. The contract specifics a rate for smelling and pro- vides that the gold and silver in the Miami product shall be purchased by the Cananea Consolidated. This con- tract was secured by MT. RiCketts in competition with American smelters, notably the Copper Queen, Of the Phelps Dodge interests, and it served to bring prominently to public notice the great economics effected ir smelting operations at Cananea by the Ricketts management. It is the first time in history of mining and smelting on the continent that an ar rangement has been made for the shipment of American ores or mil products into Mexico for treatment
The copper era., 1910-10-28
City Planning Conference.

The first City Planning Conference for the southwest will meet in Los Angeles November 14th to l6th, to which all towns and cities are asked to send delegates, including also all individuals who are interested in this important subject. The program will consist of discussions and papers regarding the best methods of develop ing both the City Beautiful and the City Practical. There will also be an exhibit of charts, books, papers, etc.
 Architects, promoters, concrete men, landscape architects, and all ex- perts and specialists in city planning who have ileas or plans concerning the building of inexpensive homes for the poor, or the laying out of garden villages or industrial sites, residential districts or ahy other part of city planning, are asked to com municate with Dana w. Bartlett, 6le New High Street, Los Angeles, Cal, in order that the very latest and best thoughts nay be brought out at this conference.
 Delegates to the League of Cali fornia Municipalities, meeting in San Diego, November 16th to 18th, are in, vited to attend this conference, while those in attendance at the Los An geles meeting will be asked to attend the League meeting following.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
ARIZONA DEATH RATE
 IN LIGHT OF CENSUS.
All Things Considered. the Territory
 Makes a Splendid Showing.

The announcement of Arizona's census returns prompted Dr. E. s. Godfrey, territorial health officer and registrar of vital statistics, to make an interesting deduction show ing what is known among stitisticians as the "crude" death rate in the various counties of Arizona for the year ending June 30, 1910. By s'crude" death rate is meant that the calculations have not been so com prehensiVe as to embrace division in- to sex, ages or color, or, as in the case of Arizona, where so many come here with deseases contracted else where. the figures showing many such, cases. That is because the cen sus statistics have not yet been classified sufficiently to give sex, ages and color.
 The death rate of the entire terri tory, as based on the census figures for the population, during the year named was 14.9 per thousandof poPu- lation. The registration area of the United States, which includes nine teen states and over 50 per cent. of the population, shows the death rate to have been 15 per LOGO of the popu- lation. It Is therefore shown that Arizona, carrying the burden of its influx of diseased population, still shows a slightly lesser death rate than the rest of the country. It should also be borne in mind that the states within the registration area are those in which the public health affairs are best administered.
 In a few days Or. Godfrey expects to have the figures ready showing the death rate, exc luding cases of imported tuberculosis and the rates per hundred thousand population for certain classes of diseases and con- parison of these rates with the rates for the entire registration area.
 Calculated by counties, the''crude" death rate referred to above is as follows:
The copper era., 1910-10-28
COchise Delegates Start to Redeem
 Pledges.

Phoenix.-Cochise county members, through Delegate Ellinwood, made their first move in redeeming their campaign pledge to secure the abolishment of present poll tax law. In the proposition offered, which is patterned after the Ohio and Mary land law the road taxes shall be collected from real and personal property only. If the idea carries, the legislature will be prohibited from ever creating special tax law for the maintenance of county roads or repairs.
 Cook, of Pinal county, was active in enliyening the convention. He 1 had five propositions, one important one being proposal to exempt from taxation a part of the property of every head of a family. He also pro- posed a corpora ton commission hay ing absolute regulation to license and control of all public and private cor porations.
 Cunitf, Of Yavapai, offered an au- ti-in-iunction scheme which provides machinery for the impeachment of judges who seek to enforce an in junction restraining any right granted citizens by the constitution of the United States.
 Feeney, of Cochise, wanted to pro- pose three cheers from the floor of the convention for the idea, but was subdued before carrying out his idea.
 A mine inspector proposition was offered by Bolan providing such an official must be a miner of five years service in Arizona mines.
 The convention endorsed San Fran cisco for the Panama Canal Ex- position.
 A.elash with the federal authorities in the constitutional convention en- livened the afternoon session. It came up over printing the proposi- tions, the printing committee report ing to the convention that the secre- tary of the territory announced he would refuse to pay for the printing unless the contract was sanctioned by himself, saying such action was or dered by Secretary Ballinger A special committee of three attorneys reported to the convention any bills authorized by the convention was a legal charge against the fund appro- priated by congress in enabling act. The committee declined to call upon Secretary Young Judge Baker declar- ing the secretary of the territory had no authority except to act as an agent for the secretary of the interior in disbursing funds provided by con gress.
 The conyention applauded Bakers speech and the printing committee was authorized to make a contract with the lowest bidder by a unanimous vote.
 The most interesting proposals of constitutional articles introduced provides no law enacted by the in itiative and referendum shall be de- clared unconstitutional.
 A fourth effort to secure verbatim report of the proceedings was de- feated by 27-23. The republicans entered the debate for the first time in favor of such report. Another effort will be made.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
WeIIman and Crew Rescued in Mid
 Ocean.

New ork.-The dirigible balloon America, carrying Walter Wellman and a crew of five, in an attempt to reach Europe by transatlantic flight has been wrecked at sea and aban- doned. Wellman and his entire crew have been rescued and are on their way to New York on board the steamship Trent, of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.'S. line, plying be- tween Bermuda and New York.
 This information was conveyed in an official report from Capt. Down of the steamer Trent, to his office in New York, in the following dispatch:
 "At 5 a. m. sighted Wellman air ship America ID distress. Signaled by Morse code that she required as- sistance and help. After three hours maneuvering with fresh winds blow ing, rescued Wellman and his entire crew and cat. They were hauled safely on board. All are well. The America was abandoned in latitude 35, degrees 43 minutes north.
 (Signed) "DoWN."
 According to the description given by him of the disaster to the airship, she was abandoned about 250 miles north by east of Cape Hatteras.
 From 12:45 p. m. Sunday until Capt. Downs message was received, the Atlantic has been swept from wire less stations along the coast. The America was last heard of of Sias- consett, Mass. At 15 minutes to l o'clock Sunday afternoon the wire less operator in the Marconi con- pany's station at Siasconsett sent a query directed to the America, ask ing if all on board were well. The reply, very feeble and indistinct, came back. It consisted of the single word ''Yes." It was then esti- mated that the America was from 150 to 300 miles east of the Massa- chusetts coast, although her exact location was doubtful.
 The America had evidently been blown out far to sea and drifted down past the gateways to the harbors along the coast between Boston and the southern ports.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Taft to Make Flying Visit to Canal Zone.

Beverly, Mass Panama canal Notifications and the question whether the canal zone should be ad- ministered by the civil or the military arm of the Government are the two pressing problems which decided President Taft opay a flying vist to the isthmus immediately after the November election.
 It has been determined by the President that the canal shall be fortified. As the big waterway is hastened along to completion the location of these Notifications be comes of paramount importance. Next in importance to this is the manner in which the canal zone, 50 fortified at either end, shall be governed whether big military post shall be created there, under mili- tary form of Government admins tered by the War Department through a competent general officer or whether the civil authority shall prevail with just sufficient military force on hand to look after the forti- fications in time of peace.
 Mr. Taft will go to Cincinnati to cast his vote on November '. Leav- ing Cincinnati on the afternoon ot November 8, he will reach Washing ton on the morning of the 9th, leav ing there the same afternoon for Charleston, s. C., where he will go aboard the armored cruiser North Carolina, which will clear an hour later for Colon.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Many Cattle Shipped to Coast.

Tucson.-Fo carloads of cat tie, comprising in all 1200 head, were loaded at the stockyards last week, and were shipped out to Merced, Cal. in the San Joaquin valley, where they will be placed on pasture and fattened for the market.
 The cattle came from the Barnabe Robles ranch and were purchased by Isaac Bird. They were loaded under the supervision of Birds representa- tive. The same buyers are purchas- ing cattle extensively through the northern part of the territory. The value of the cattle shipped out is estimated at S25, ,O00.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
HoW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. F. J Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honora ble in all business transactions, and finan- cially able to carry out any obliga- tions made by his frm.
 Walding, Kinuan &C Marvin,
 Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucons surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
 Take Halls Family Pills for con- tipatiOn.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
HOneymOOnerS in Foot Race.

Wheeling, w. Va.-A wedding banter has sent two couples hoofing it across miles of country hills and wales in a race for $50 prize, w. B. Miller and Thomas Stevenson married Misses Florence Patterson and Kath- crime Leach. A friend suggested a walking match and offered a wedding present of $50 fora dash from Wheeling to Fort Wayne, Ind. Both women entered into the affair with Zest.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
King George Will be Crowned June 2l.

London.-Invitatio have been is sued by the British government to the premlers and other high officers of over-sea governments and to the government of every dependency of the British crown to be present with a contingent ot local troops at the coronation of King George. The coronation ceremonies are to take place during the week commencing June IS, and the crowning ceremony has been fixed for June 2l.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Kills A Murderer.

A merciless murderer is Appendicitis with many victims. Bat Dr. Kings New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clOgging tnat invites appendicitis, curing Con s,ipatiO1, Headache, Bihousness, Chills. 25c at A. c. drug department
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Placer Mines at Prescott Sold.

Prescott.-Muller. Schall & Co.,, New York bankers, have filed deed for record conveying a group of six placer claims in the Del Rio section, to the Consolidated Arizona Smelling company. This property is being used for it's lime deposits in conjunc tion with the shelter operations at Humboldt.
The copper era., 1910-10-28

It is in time of sudden mishap or accident that Chamberlain,s Liniment can be relied upon to take the place of the family doctor, who cannot al ways be found at the moment. Then it is that Chamberlain's Liniment is never found wanting. In cases ot sprains, cuts, wounds and bruises Chamberlaiu's Eminent takes out the soreness and drives away the pain. Sold by all druggists.
The copper era., 1910-10-28
Per 1000 population.

The birth rate for the territory was 15.5, manifestly too low, due largely to incomplete reports re- ceived from physicians, and es- pecialIy midwives.