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Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
GENERAL
 WILL BE HERE TODAY
RECEPTION AT THE FORD TO-
 NIGHT
1t Will Me Non-Partisan, Informal,
 Everybody Invited

Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock will arrive in the city from Prescott this morning, accom- panied by Delegate Cameron whose guest he has been since his arrival in the territory a couple of weeks ago When it was learned that the postmaster general was coming reception was arranged for him and it will be held at the Ford hotel to- night at eight o'clock.
 It will be of a non partisan char acter as MT Hitchcock had deter mined before coming to the territory. that he would not speak on pOliti- cal subjects. He is desirous of meet ing as many citizens of Phoenix and vicinity as possible during his brief stay in the city and therefore every body is invited The reception will
 The nOn-partisan character of the gathering will be accentuated by the cooperation of the board of trade in this expression of the people of Phoenix of their appreciation of the efforts of MT. Hitchcock in behalf of statehood. for it may well be doubted that but for his insistence and powerful influence the statehood bill would never have become a law over the objections of many senators known to be unfriendly.
 Mir Hitchcock and MT. Cameron will leave for the southern part of the territory tonight They arrived at Prescott yesterday morning and suenf tha 1av fbara Mir Hitchcock meeting many citizens who, regard less of party, gave a warm welcome t0 the distinguished member of the presidents cabinet
 Among those who met him there was Governor Sloan who had been spending several days there The governor returned to the city last night
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
FAIRLY GOOD AUDIENCE
Met the Republican Candi- dates Last Night to Learn Their View As to An Arizona State Constitu- tion

Although dark clouds hovered over
 Mesa last night threatening a down
 pour at any moment, good propOr-
 ton of the representative citizens of
 that town turned out to listen to the
 republican candidates to the consti-
 tutional convention from Maricopa county. The meeting was held in the Mesa opera house
 Mayor Palmer presided and intro duced the speakers who were c. s Steward, the local candidate: George Christy, A. J. Peters, of Tempe; Judge Thomas Armstrong, Dwight B. Heard and Judge Joseph H Kib- bey. They addressed the audience in the order named. All of the speak CTS were enthusiastically received
 SIr. Steward was the first speaker Everybody in the audience knew him and he talked to them as he would to a smaller circle of his friends He receved small ovation when Mayor Palmer introduced him. He spoke briefly delineating his own position and his belief in. the prinoi- ples enunciated in the. platform of the republican party
 MT Christy spoke briefly on the fundamental principles of our gov eFnment and of our constitution. He showed how the principles which the democratic party is endeavoring to have inserted in the constitution for Arizona are antagOnistic to these foundation stones of a democracy.
 A frank and honest personal ap- peal to his friend on the south side and he has many of them-was made by NIT. Peters. He rather left it to the other speakers to go into the in trlcacles of the initiative and refer endum business. Everybody on the south side knows MT. Peters as one of their own substantial citizens and be got a good stand"
 Judge Armstrongs address was scholarly and forceful. He was lis tened to attentively and his argu- ment against the inclusion as a part of the constitution of the popu- list idea of the moment-tIte initiat- i've and referendum - undoubtedly caused some of his hearers to give the subject second thought
 NIT. Hearsts address was charac- teristic of limit teemed with ener- gy and was the honest outspoken opinion of a man whose profession Is business and not politics.
 In a snappy address Judge Kibbey instructed and amused the crowd at the same time. Here and there were flashes of wit serving to accentuate the point he desired to make. He was cheered and applauded all through his speech He devoted some of his time to a minute analy- sis of letter printed in yesterdays afternoon papers The letter is signed by w. R. King. associate jus tice of the supreme court of Oregon. and is an apparent defense of the initiative and referendum as prac- uced in that state. MetaphOrically, Judge kibbey tore this letter into little pieces and scattered them to the wind He showed that there are about as many fallaeies in that let ter as there are holes in a piece of Swiss cheese.
 The candidates made the trip to Mesa in special, returning to Phoe- nix last night
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
GYPSY KING ROBBED.

Colorado Springs, Colo. Aug. % Four masked men secured $16O0 ia cash. a diamond sunburst and q gold watch at the camp of John Adams, the millionaire king of the gypsies.' at Colorado City early this morning. Mir. Adams was absent at the time and Mrs. Adams and the children were covered with guns and made to give up their valuables un- der threats of death
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
DIED IN A TUNNEL
 MAN AND THREE DAUGHTERS
They Were Within POO Feet of Life and
 Safety.

Hollister. Cal. Aug 29-Asphyxiated by noXious gases within 200 feet of the mouth of the San Carlos tunnel in the New Idria quicksilver mine was the fate Sunday night of Foreman Joe Will Hams, his three daughters aged 15, F and 3. and a doa belonging to the family.
 The bodies were discovered last night The tunnel is six miles from the mine proper and is 2,50O feet long Will Hams and his daughters were return ing from the face of the tunnel and had nearly reached the open air when they were overcome.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
THE WORST OVER.
The Forestry Service Learns Concern
 ing Western Fires.

Washington. Aug. 29.-An improve ment in the forest fire conditions gen orally is noted from the reports re- ceived at the forestry bureau today despite the fact that the firest on the western slope of the divide are still in serious stage. Missoula, Mont, reports no serious fires east of the di- vide. Bitter Root MissOula and Pend d'Relle fires are all under control.
 The total deaths of the temporary laborers now number seventy three with five missing.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
BLACK HILLS BURNING.
Two Forest Fires Threatening Great
 Damage.

Deadwood, g. b, Two forest fires of threatening proportions broke out this afternoon in the Black Hills forest reserve at Redfern and Ere mont tonight. Tanned by a strong wind they are raging eastward through some of the best timber. Several hundred soldiers and 200 for esters are on the way to fight the flames.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
REDUCED LIST.
Of Lost Forestry Men in Late
 Fires.

Missoula, Aug. 29.-District Forester Greedy stated today that his reports indicate that the forest fire situation isl vastly improved everywhere. At the service headquarters here is was an- nounced thar the total dead and miss ing of forestry men is seventy-three.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
MORE FAVORABLE TREATY
Desired By Japan With Great
 Britain.

Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 29.-AccOrd- ing to c. A. Harri, Canadian trade commissioner to Japan, who arrived here from Tokio today, Japan has formally given Great Britain one years notice of renouncing the com mercial treaty negotiated ten years ago to which Canada consequently became a party.
 This is in accordance with the in tention of Japan to negotiate new arrangements in harmony with the higher protective tariff.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
OPIUM SMOKING SOLDIERS

San Francisco. Aug. 29.-Investiga- tion into the alleged prevalence of the opium smoking habit among the soldiers at the PresidiO was ordered by General Bliss. commanding the military department of California
 Reports that the use of the drug had become commong among the troops has reached the headquarters.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
METALS.

New York, Aug. 29.-Standard cop per dull; spot and August. $12.27h@ 12.30; September. $12.2712 @12.30; Oc- tober, November, December, $12.306 12.35; lake copper. $12.S71A @13; cleo trolytic. $1262 F @12.75; casting, s12.25 @1235
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
SUSPECTED CHOLERA.

Berlin. Aug. 29-A house servant in the northern part of Berlin died tonight apparently from cholera. His wife and two children have been placed under observation.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
GIANT TREES MENAcED.
By Flames Sweeping Toward Sequoia
 National Park,

Porterville, Cal. Aug. 20.-The Sc quoia National park and the giant for est in which are the largest and oldest trees in the world, is reported to be menaced by forest fires.
 Much valuable timber has been de- stroyed and the efforts of rangers and citizens to curb the flames are rem Gere intellectual by a high wind.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
WEATHER TODAY.

Washington, Aug. 29.-Arizona: :: Showers Tuesday. except fair in ex- treme western portion; Wednesday, fair. warmer in east and central por- tions
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
ROOSEVELT TALKS ID COLORADO GENTLEMEN
 IN HIS FAvOR|TE THEME IF CONSERVATION
BQ Conservation He Does Not Mean That Resources
 Shall Be Locked Up For a Future Generation
THERE SHOULD BE AN INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT

Generally Natural Resources Should Be Under National Control But In Cases Where Control Naturally Be longs to the States It Should Be Well Defined and Exercised So That There Would Be No Neutral Ground or No Mans Land
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

A paralysis of the wire ser vice last night cut Phoenix off from all communication with the coast and so badly deranged eastern wires that The Repub- Iican's Telegraph Service this morning is greatly reduced.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30
KID MccoY-JoHNsoN
Will Match, Not For Fight, But An
 Auto Race.

New York, Aug. 29.-Kid Mccoy. the former prize fighter. announced today that he had accepted Jack Johnson's challenge to race any one in the world for 10 miles in a big powered automobile on an enclosed track and he has wired his accep- tance to Johnson
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

large to warrant any control over it by the government is nowadays interstate or foreign commerce; and until this fact is heartily aciInowl- edged and acted upon by both courts and legislative bodies, national and state alike, the people will suffer.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

VACANT LOT WANTED-I have a new 4-room plastered frame cot tage with bath and nice porch in University Addition for sale. Will take a vacant lot for first payment; balance S20 per month. Price $1,SO0. E. E. Pascoe, no North Center St.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30
Facts About FL Paso, Texas

Ell Paso has 80 miles of street car lines.
Ell Paso has 20 miles of Bituithic paved streets
Ell Paso city has assessed valuation of $30000OO0.
Ell Paso has eight railroads and 100000 union pas
Senger terminal.
Ell Paso has % mail carriers and the postoffice re-
cepts last year were $1O0,00O
Ell Paso has had a srmstroke panic or strike
that tied up any industry.
Ell Paso is Of the most important ports of entry
and export in the United States
Ell Paso has the best lighted business district of any
city in-Texas. See for yourself tonight.
Ell Paso railroads handled 100000 cars in the local
yards last year and their payros aggregate $000OOO
Ell Paso will invest s., 100000 in new buildings this
year and invest $250OOOO improvements and in
dustries.
Ell Paso has seven banks four national and three state
with combined capital of 100000 and deposits of
s1OOO0OOO
Ell Paso has 100000 invested in school buildings and
grounds, and $4,000 in manual training and domestic
science
Ell Paso is the center of tract of 225OOO acres of
land that will be irrigated by $1OOOOOO0 dam which the
government is now building.
Ell Paso has three steam fire engines five combina-
ton hose and chemical wagons automobile combina-
ton wagon and extension ladder truck
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30
Do You Wonder the People the Rio Grane Poperou Growt
and Prosperity be Seen Every Hand Wha Shall Harvest Be?
and who shall gather i'll Why You? Soil Equivalent Richie

this have yielded net income of % percent of
the value of the land Wheat yields WE'LL producing as
high 60 bushels per the average yield seldom fall
ing below 40 bushels Oats and barley also do well. They
make excellent feed for horses and milk cows and are
largely raised for that purpose AS result of success OBJ
tanned in the raising of cantaoupe this industry has esab
ished itself of the standard and best paying crops
The Ell Paso Valley cantaoupe stands unexcelled in
the markets where commands top prices 1t is in great
demand In n City and daily shipments from Ell Paso
being made to the WaldorfAstoria The soil in this
valley peculiarly adapted to the raising also of the finest
quality of Bermuda onions The onion industry gives
promise of becoming of the leading Just
the cantaloupe is receiving the attention of the farmer
Tomatoes cabbages BEANS pears and chile raised in
abundance The canning factories in the valley handle
arge quantities of vegetables and afford ready market
Truck farming has long since passed beyond the expert
mental stage The Ell Paso Valley offers advantages that
will not repeat themselves An of development is
der way and the homeseeker should make note of it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30

AS far back as history can be traced we find man en-
gagged in the cultivation of the EARTH with varying success
planting grain and such other products to the
soil and climate best adapted his uses both for
his needs and the requirements of agricultural cons
First the crude methods of scattering the seed
within the soil by slow and aborou processes later the
primitive plow made Of the tree CROTCH commonly known
the forked stick, and with the flight Of time aided by
invention in farm pements agriculture has been reduc
ed to fine art, constituting does, the foundation of
wealth, and the bulwark of national social and
mercal life
Five years will work transformation in the Ell Paso
Valley Ten years will work miracle This valley is as
certain, within quarter of century, be densely pop
uated richly productive net worked with trolley lines and
dotted with thriving small towns the is to
morning The migration of homeseekers into the
great southwest 1t is coming the long
lines of canvascovered wagons witnessed in the
years gone by the settlement Of Iowa. Nebraska the Da
kotas Kansas and the states that lay beyond The hard
ships these early pioneers endured is matter of history
The pioneers of the Rio Grande Valley many them
in prairie schooners Time and the railroads have changed
the mode of navigation The homeseeker now rides on
comfortable railroad trains and with money to
buy land If suited and to develop it. The climate SOIL
natural products transportation and the markets strong
y appeal the homeseeker and farmer from the north
when he arrives in the Ell Paso Valley and finds as he
does, upon personal investigation that all that has
a
fact that the success of country depends its soil No
where is there perfect soil than that of the valley
lands There is always for everything and there
Is an abundant for the large crops that have been
produced In the Ell Paso Valley this year Water alone will
not produce bumper orchards and ranches I'M
less the soil composed of materials that will respond to
irrigation and cultivation given it by the practical irr
gatonst In country In the world is there the intensity
and abundance of plant life producing elements as in the
soil OF the Ell Paso Valley Not only is the quality the
equal OF any known region but the quantity the rich
plant foods is practically inexhaustibe Having been built
up from the silt carried in solution from the upland conn
tries to the north there surface and subsurace soils
that represent the sum total of the fertility the land but
It extends down for hundred feet and all that is neces
sary III order to reerze the land after the removal of
crops the deep blowing and breaking of the land by the
farmers This soil has been eeched of it's energy bv
the excessive rains such fall in the mountain valleys of
Colorado and the north The rainfall not factor in the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30

agricultural industry and what does fall is Immediately
absorbed by the ground and there very little erosion to
carry away the plant food Coupled with this fertility
that stored in the ground to be considered the connu
fertilization caused by the flooding of the fields by
of the border system Of irrigation in the val
ley.
The dun cOlOred waters of the Rio Grande are any
thing but poetic in their appearance but what is
porant commercially they carry ton after ton OF the rich
est soil from the highlands and deposit it in solution the
lands of the FL Paso Valley Ditch ceanngs saved
and distributed the less productive spots in the hay
fields the orchards being the best fertilizer obtain
able Low places built up by Of the settings of
the river water and unproducve places brought up
the level and fertility of the remainder of the field by
of the rich silt The intense dryness of the atmos
here in the Ell Paso Valley is another active agent in the
great production of this section This dryness causes
rapid evaporation through the steas of the forage grass
and grains With abundant supply of waters con
stanty being onto the land by the irrigation dtches
the plants able to carry this moisture through their
systems absorbing their plant foods and causing luxur
ant growth which enables the grower to produce
times the ordinary yield of the rainfall farms This
supply of water be controlled with the exactness that
the electric supply of factory estimated and is in the
OF the planter produce returns that would con-
sdered little less than wonderful to the unintiated
The hundreds of visitors to the National Congress held
not log ago at Albuquerque most surprised and
tonshed at the showing made in the exhibits the differ
ent sections of the Rio Grande Valley territory supposed
by many to be composed of desert and sand wastes The
Rio Gande Valley exhibit attracted more than its share
OF attention The displays Of fruits grains and melons
that shown there the magnet that attracted the
crowds from the other exhibits that of the Valley of
the Rio Grande Big red checked apples fondled as
IT they were animate beings grains measured com
pared and III many Instances samples tucked away
in inside pocket for planting on some farms in dis
tan country Even the canned products of the valley
ming factories In for their share of attention and
awarded silver cup the best quality shown large
number OF prizes premiums, and honorary awards
made the products exhibited and the name Rio Grande
Valley appeared often the official list of awards at the
great congress.
This valley is the natural home of the alfalfa plant
which for years has been of the standard and best pay
ing crops IN this section The long give us an ad
vantage over those raising the crop northern countries
An average OF five crops each year grown It COM
nands good price and constant demand Several farms
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-17

merger of the Union and Southern
Pacific railways by authority of the
Sherman anti trust act.
In role No. 2 Mr.. Wickersham per-
sonally framed for the president and
advocated the passage of the admin
fstration interstate commerce bill,
now pending in congress, which con-
tanned an ingeniously drawn joker
which would have legalized the I'M
lawful merger which the attorney gen.
eral in role No. 1, was preparing to
prosecute!
There remains one other feature of
the situation that is full of interest,
and should be chronicled here AL
most at the very moment that the
house committee was eliminating the
joker referred to, the senate committee
was submitting it's majority report to
the senate, commencing the very pro-
vision which the house committee. re-
pudiated. The joker still has some
life, therefore.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-17
oLDAGE PENSIONS I'M FRANCE.

The French senate, a moderately
progressive body, has just unanimously
approved a pension bill which it has
had under consideration for two years,
The bill already passed by the
chamber viii laffect about 1900, 900
persons, it is estimated, and will apply
to wageworkers of both sexes, includ-
ing agricultural laborers and small ten
ant farmers. Railroad men, miners and
seamen are the great classes excluded
from its benefits, but only because they
are otherwise provided for.
English papers strongly commend the
French scheme and declare it to be
the British. 1t provides for contribu-
tons to the pension fund by employers,
employees and the state, respectively
The states contribution is equal to
the sum of the ether two contribu-
TONS The full pension is limited to
those who reach the age of 65, if they
have paid for 80 years, but at SIS a
smaller pension, to which the state
contributes nothing, may be claimed.
The annual pension under the system
cannot exceed $3.50 under the most
favorable circumstances, but in France
this will be sufficient to avert pauper-
ism and misery in old age.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-17
CHANGING HER MIND.

Down in Georgia they are originating
considerable law these days. 1t was
there, the court decided, that a sur
geon couldn't collect his fee where the
operation did the patient no good.
Now we have another case that
amounts to a psychological rarity. A
woman got mad at her husband and
concluded to get a divorce, so she went
to a lawyer and had him bring suit,
but before the case came on to be
heard, she became reconciled to her
husband and they resumed happy rela-
tons once more.
The lawyer had done some work on
the case and presented his bill. She
refused to pay it, saying she had
changed her mind Then he brought
suit to collect, but the court threw out
the case, declaring that "a woman has
an inalienable right to change her
nina. We haven't the courts decision
before us, but take it that the reason
ing is that it is in line with sound
public policy that a woman be al
lawed 10 change her mind when she
pleases.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-17
JOKER TAKEN FROM
BILL

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administration railroad regulation bill.
of the intention of the trainers of the
bill to insert provision legalizing the
Illegal SouthernUnion Pacific merger.
An interesting question is: Who fur
nished Lovett with the advance infor-
nation which enabled him to make all
his preparations in the stock market
to meet the proposed legislation?
Here is another remarkable feature
of the situation, one which reveals At
torney General Wickersham, who was.
by the way, former personal counsel
for J. Pierpont Morgan and also at
torney for the sugar trust, acting in
two widely different roles:
In role No. L Mr.. Wickersham is in
charge of the governments suit, now
pending in the courts, to dissolve the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-17

time allotted to me, however some of
these figures may startle you, but they
are nevertheless true and are a Sc
rious problem. The greatest question
before us today is whether or not we
ought to stop this large annual immi-
grafton of foreigners to our country.
A large per cent of whom were GRIM
inals before coming here. The city of
Walla Walla is particularly fortunate
in not having a foreign colony that is
shiftless and worthless. Most of the
foreigners here are a good working
people, but as we grow larger more
will come and we may soon be in po
sition like some of the other larger