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The Washington times., 1910-09-30
DECEPTIVE PRACTICES OF
GAS MONOPOLY.

Washingtonians know enough about
the practices Of the local Gas MONOPOLY
10 be able 70 receive without serious
shock to their nervous systems almost
any new revelation concerning the pc
cullaTly subtle methods by which this
slippery corporation gets what 1t
wants. In spite OF this fact, 1t viii
be well for even seasoned sufferers TO
prepare themselves for a slight jar
IN reading the following.
The managers OF the Washington
Gas Light Company are at this very
moment preparing to put through a
scheme Of financial reorganization up
on foundation OF deceit At the
special meeting of stockholders on
October IA the plan viii be sprung. It
contains provision for doing something
which the Supreme Court of the United
States has specifically held that gas
companies cannot do.
The deceit, however, Is not in the
mere doing of this thing, but in the
fact that officials of the Gas Company
have deliberately misstated facts in
their declarations concerning the Su-
preme Courts opinion. The general
counsel for the Gas Company has gone
up and down declaring that the opin-
ion III question prOclaims the right
Of gas companies to pay dividends on
franchise values The opinion does no
such thing On the contrary, the opin-
ion definitely provides that gas com
panies CANNOT pay dividends on
franchise values.
The Supreme Court opinion was
rendered in the case Of the Consoli-
dated Gas Company Of New York. The
court included, IN arriving at a de-
cisiOn as TO the value Of the company's
property used in the conduct OF its
business, franchise value OF S7,7sI--
OO0- The reason for this was that
when the company was formed In 1884,
by the consolidation OF SIX independ-
ent companies, the act OF the New
York Legislature by which the merger
was authorized and by which the price
OF gas was fixed, recognized the ex-
istenee Of a franchise value Of S7.7sI.-
600 This the Supreme Court could
not disturb.
The company Contended, however,
that in 1905, at the time OF the trial
of its case in the lower court, it should
be permitted to pay dividends on a
franchise value Of sl2,OOO,OOO. It
claimed the value OF its franchise had
increased and that it had the right
TO pay dividends upon the increase.
The Supreme Court held that the
company could not pay dividends on
the supposed increased value Of its
franchise, and explained that the value
Of S7,7SI, 900 was recognized only be
cause II had been established by leg
islative act twenty-five years before.
Before the House District Commit
tee, and in his newspaper statements
the general counsel for the Gas Mon
opoIy has repeatedly declared that the
company has physical properties 10
the value of slOO00,O00 and franchise
value TO the amount OF $1,000, GOO,
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
WHAT on tie Program in
Washington

American Prison Association meeting
at New willard
Reunion OF graduates Of washington
College Of Law, Chesley building. Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue
Band concert Washington Navy Yard.
S O'Clock, Naval Gun Factory Band
Band concert, Fort ATyer. Va tx
O'Clock, Fifteenth United States Cavs1-v
Band.
Band concert, Washington Circle. 40
o'clock. United States Engineer RaD5
Meeting Of the Road Drivers and Riders
Association at S O'Clock this evening,
in Metropolitan Hotel for election Of
officers.
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
MINING OPERATORS
WANT STATE CONTROL

Los ANGELES, Cal, Sept 90.-Dc-
claring IN favor OF State control OF
vater-po1yer and ali other natural re-
sources, as against Federal control. Tie
American Mining Congress, BY rssclu-
ton. has placed itself on record as op-
posed TO the Roosevelt and Pinchot
conservation policies
a committee on Alaska mining laws
T.Sa.le q report denouncinZ the PROPOSED
teasing system as ConIsCdtOry and
raped Special Agents l. y CLAWS and
Horace 7. Jones
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
HOLLAND TO ADOPT
TARIFF SCHEDULES

LONDON, Sent. 9O.-HoIland has aban-
doned free trade, and Herr KoIkman.
minister Of finance, is TO bring forward
tariff for ratification by parliament
This action is the result of the recent
elections fought on the free trade and
tariff reform issues. The tariff REFORM
ers won, and free trade is now left high
and dry FOR hidebOund England
The new tariff VIII be thoroughly
scientific
The Washington times., 1910-09-30

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may obtain prompt and SatIsfac-
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Times to their homes OF offices
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cents a month or : cents q week.
Telephone Circulation Depart
neut, Main $3.50.
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REAL WISE SON.

Sheridan, the first time he met his
son Tom after the marriage Of the lat
ter, being seriously angry with him.
told him he had made his viii and had
cut him Of with q shilling Tom said
he was. indeed very sorry, and immeGi-
ately added You don't happen to have
the shilling about you now. sir. Go
yOuZ-'-Iife-
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
SEARCH FOR HEIRS.

DURHAM, y. c.. Sept. S0-Search is
being made for the heirs Of Robert Pot
ger. killed by a vigilance committee in
Texas in 1914, and whose estate has since
become worth more than half million.
Potter was twice married and his sec
ond wife still lives She is q centen-
arisu.
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
Sunday.

he number OF complete and perfect copies
q The Washington Times printed Sundays
euTlng the month Of August was q follows
August - q. 003 August Z1-----. 4o.11a
August A. ss,Ei7 August S. 4o-5S4
Total for tie month -------- IGz oSs
sunday average for the m0nth-...-.,.. 4o,Ss7
ne net total circulation OF The washington
lines sunday during the month OF August
vas 4dsszozs all copies left over and returned
oy agents, being eliminated This number,
Snen divided BY l. the number OF Sundays
curing August. shows the net Sunday aver
Age Tor August 20 have been SAS7a
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed At the head OF the drst page az the
left OF the date line.
Entered at the PostoEIce AZ washinston,
D c. as second-cIass matter
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
EXCTpU OOC

Steamer Charles Manchester leaves
Seventh street wharf at 10 and 2-30
O'clock for Mount Vernon
Old Point Comfort and Norfolk steam
er leaves Seventh street wharf ss45 ?. u.
The Washington times., 1910-09-30

ne net total circulation Of The washing
&c Times daily duriaE the month OF Az
eNst was l.ol0. S66 all copies left over and -
- = I.so being eliminated This number, when
oLNlcec y p the number Of days OF publ
c10on. shows the net daily average for Au-
gust 10 have been g7.Esq
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
Republicans Privately Con
cede Opponents Control
of House Situation.
CHAIRMAN LLOYD
ISSUES FORECAST
Minority Manager Predicts GaiG
of SO Seats-G. o. P. Hoping
Tide Will Turn.
By WALTER 7. FAHY.

CHICAGO. Sept S0-If the Congress
sfonaI elections were 10 be held to-
MORROW the Democrats would gain con
troll Of the House in the Sixty-second
Congress
This statement can be made without
qualification OF reservations OF any
kind Practically every district I'm the
United States has been polled by Demo
cratic and Republican Congressional
campaign committees The Democrats,
being on the offensive, do not hesitate
TO proclaim that victory is within their
grasp.
II is obvious that the Republicans, on
the defensive, cannot admit defeat. with
nearly six weeks OF campaigning ahead
OF them There are some Republicans
who are hopeful that between now and
election DAY some means VIII be found
10 turn the tide Of battle I'm their ia
Vor. There are optimistic Republicans
who make the broad statement that the
next House VIII be Republican by a
good, safe margin. There are pssslInls-
tic Republicans who long ago gave
I'D the fight
Both classes can be eliminated as
reliable prophets The men Who are
thoroughly familiar with conditions
throughout the country, who have
studied the possibilities and prObabiii-
ties In every district where there Is the
shadow OF a GOUDE. ana VINO CDil~llirf
the situation on a cold-blooded basis
and who reach their conclusions after
an analysis Of actual conditions and
facts are the men who admit that as
political conditions exist today the
Congressional campaign Is lost 10 the
Republicans and that the Democratic
campaign managers axe justified N
claiming victory
Chairman Lloyd Confident
Chairman 7mes 7. Lloyd. Of the
Democratic Congressional campaign
committee. has been over the country
with a fne-tooth comb He has con-
frmed the reports he has received
from many districts by personal in
vestigations on the spot
He has staked out on his political map
the districts where he is confident Of
making Democratic gains He has
stazed out, likewise. the districts where
he hopes TO gain Democratic seats
These latter are disreEarded by him ia
making up the figures on which he bases
the claim that his party VIII be in con-
troll OF the lower branch Of Congress
IN 1911
The States where 0Ir. Lloyd expects
to make the gains which will send the
present minority marching over 10 he
side now occupied BY the majority and
the number OF seats he says he is sure
of gaining in those States are as follows
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
Concerts oday
By the Naval Gun Factory Band, at
the Navy Yard, at P. NJ.
JACOB G. MOODY. Director.


PROGRAM
March, ''Brooke's Chicago Marine
Overture ElOtte BJrsChe''
Reverie. Birth Of ths Flowers
waltz Suite, The Shamrock" .To5ani
Medley Overture, Pits Of Rem
lex Hits. No = tby TequesD
Lam2e
Ca) japanese Intermezzo. Han
alC" With. AIetter
CD a Trombone Sneeze. -'Raisen-
III -.------------.---..-CaT Carlton
Selection, The Moonlight, the
Rose. and You -ReTnick
Patrol COuiQue, "Old Settlers on
Eaface ------------------------I
March. Lights out Mccoy
The Stsr-Spdngled Ranner.''
Note-This viii be the last OPEN
air concert by the band this year
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Rand, at
Fort MyeT, Va, at 7:45 P. n
G. 2. TyRRELL. Director.
PROGRAM.
March, The Kings Herald. Fulton
Overture Fair Maid OF Perth"
Widdeu
Waltz, ''Loveland'' Holtzmaun
InterTaeZZO, Moonlight --.---- AIoret
Selection Robert le DiabIe" ..TObani
Novelette,, Golden Rod Mckinley
March. The Diplomat -SOusa
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
By the United States Soldiers
Home Band, at P. N
JOHN s NJ ZIMMERMAN,
Director.
PROGRAM.

PROGRAM.
March. THE Belle Of New York
Overture. The Mil on the Clin-'
Suite, de Ballet. Ballet Egyp-
ten ---..---...-.---....,... Luigi0i
J. Allegro non Troppo-
= AllegrettO-
3 Andanre SOstenutO-
Andante EspTeSSivU.
Grand Selection, I'm Eallo in
AIaschera' CThe Masked BaD
Rag Oddly. wild Cherry" Coy
TeQUeStJ ------------------------S Snyder
Fantasia, Tone Pictures of the
North and South" --..---.--- Bendfx
Comic. Funeral March Of
MariOnette'' .Gounod
March John Harvard $500 -ROdman
The Star-Spangled Banner
By the U S. Engineer Band, at
Washington Circle, at 1890 P. NJ.
JULIUS HAMPER. Chief Musician.
PROGRAM
March, The Marathon Phillips
overture. Tampa '---.----.----- ITeroIJ
PiccoIo solo, Through the Air
Cbv Co pOral I.even). Damn
Waltz, spring. Spring, Beautiful
S2f5nk Creme d. Il c,e;o ;LlnSs
Chilean Dance ..Atanana' NiissIl
Selection, The Tattooed Man"
Herbert
Grand American Fantasia. North
anc SCUM - --------------- Benci,c
The StaT-SpJnCIed Banner
The Washington times., 1910-09-30
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 80. 1910
AUGUST CIRCULATION.
Daily.

The number o. complete and perfect copies
q The washington Times printed daily dur
tnz rhe month OF August fOlloWs=
The Washington times., 1910-09-30

Total for tie month. IGz. OSs
Sunday average FOR me moutr...,.. - 81
The Washington times., 1910-09-30

By the u S. Engineer Band, at
Washington Circle, at 1890 P. NJ.
The oasis., 1910-06-04

The people have long memories, and there are thousands, yea, hun dreds of thousands of Mir. Hills contemporaries who recollect well Ill these things, and they condemn
 he selfish spirit he manifests in
 rying to dismiss with a cold
 pigram the determination of the common people of the United States to maintain that same stan dard of living which prevailed when Mir. Hill was one of the common people. And it is the disposition of such.me as he who would deny others the same chance he enjoyed that is making in these United States socialists, and anar- chists and dynamiters. "rhe cost of high living," forsooth. That Is exactly what does concern the American people; and they are not going to demean their standard of living from that of Mir. Hills day and generation. at the behest of any man or any class. The Ameri. can people established high stan ] dard of living several generations before the advent of the great Mir
 Hill upon the face of the Firth they have maintained that stan dard heretofore, and they will
 maintain it hereafter. And it i; up to Mr. Hill and his kind to finC the means of paying the common people of America stipends which will enable each and every indivi
 dual to meet the "cost of higt living"
The oasis., 1910-06-04
NEWS EDITORS.

The editorial writer on the Los An geles Times is as ignorant of the geogra- phy of this country as they are in Lon don. He frequently referred to the Hyde case at Kansas City as Kansas affair. William News.
 That is nothing. Last week the Arizona Republican announced in great scarehead that war was inn minent between Lima and Peru, Lima is the capital city of Peru, and it is with EcuadOr that Peru may go to war.
The oasis., 1910-06-04

SOME merchants in Tucson started an agitation toward boy cotting their own home newspape unless they refu-ed Los Angeles advertisements. As suggested by the Yuma Sentinel the best way to crowd foreign advertisements out from the columns of local news. papers would be to take SO much space and pay such prices that the outside advertiser would not get a look in."
The oasis., 1910-06-04

Now THAT democrat has to step out of the city attorneyship at Bisbee, and the place will go to a republican the Review has discov- cred suddenly that the salary paid is too much. For hidebound partisanship and peanut politics the Review certainly stands at the head of the class.
The oasis., 1910-06-04

wrench it away, Starkey regained hia feet and swinging his hel pless right arm around, obtained bet. ter hold on the gun, his right hand being still servicable.
 The struggle was now telling on Starkey who was weak through loss of blood and had the use of but one lung. The Mexican tried to throw him down the hill and failing that picked up a piece of rock bringing it down twice with great force on the back of Starkey'S head and cutting it to the bone over a length of more than three inches and finally hurling it at him, movement that failed.
 After the struggle had continued for ahout another minute. Starkey swaying back and forth but still keeping his hold on the gun, the Mexican stopped to pick up an. other rock with his left hand. Starkey saw his only possible chance and with long round swing landed his right foot in the middle of his enemy's face. As result he found himself with the gun in his left hand, watching the Mexican slide insensible some if. teen feet down the hill. he also sinking to the ground in-ensible, where he remained for perhaps b minutes.
 On regaining consciousness Starkey saw the Mexican was still in the same condition; and unable
 to move about threw the gun into a bu-h getting out lighter one for easier use. For another 40 minutes no help appeared and
 meantime the Mexican had re. covered and needed attention.
 The boy reappeared with 5tarkey5
 horse, having hidden with fear in
 the bush. Being told to gallop for
 assistance he made fast time to
 Cerro Prieto. The police seising
 horses on the spot, made a dash
 for the scene, and, to use Starkey5
 words "the distant soand of gal lOping h ,rse4 was the best of music" Starkey WAS found s;iil cover ing the Mexican with his gun, but in a state of collapse, and as hs stated unable to pull a trigger"
 and after pointing to the other Six-shooter lay insensible for s l while, over two hours having now passed since the shots were fired. The Mexican desperado is now in Magdalena prison where he can 8 be better looked after.
 l Starkey is still in weak condl' D tion but appears to be on gradu'l . road to recovery, heinz carefully l attended in the Black Mountain l hospital.
 }, Yours truly
 | rW AM
The oasis., 1910-06-04

MULFoRD WINsoR and E. P. Will
 son have bought the Daily Globe, at Globe, Gila county, and Mir. Winsor has mounted the editorial tripod, while Mr. Wilson has assumed the business end of the combination. Both are very capa.
The oasis., 1910-06-04
"rHE COST OF HIGH LIVING.

Mr. James J. Hill, the great rail-
 way magnate, whose colossal hold ings doubly span the continent, has added to the general discus sion upon the rise in prices of the necessaries of life an epigram to the effect that "it is not the high cost of living that diSturbs the Ameri can people so much as the cost of high living" Which des- cribes the situation very accurately. That is just the point; through generations the American people have been trained and accustomed to a high standard of living. Forty or forty five years aga Mir. Hill was a seventy fve-dollar-a month freight clerk upon the steamboat levee in St. Paul. At the then cost of living Mir. Hill was able to save money upon that meagre salary, fortunate investment of his savings raised him from his hum ble position to the capitalistiC class, he embarked in railway con. stru :tion. and from one stepping stone to another he has advanced from one point of vantage to an other until he has been at the head of two great transoontinental line' of railway now a period of neal quarter of century. One hun
 dred and fifty dollars per month now will not house, feed and clotht a man and his family as we'll al would seventy five dollars in tn, days when Mr. Hill was a humbl, freight clerk. Yet he has a snee
 and an epigram for men in lik, positions as those he held when h.
 was starting to climb the ladder 0 life, because they wish to live a
 we'll now as he lived then. T.
 give point to the assertions hereir it is hardly necessary to displa
 an array of prices such as MT. HiI paid for living in his time in tn ranks of the great industrial arm
 of America, in which he has be come one of the great captains
The oasis., 1910-06-04


 May 30, 1910. My DEAR MR. BIRD;
 As you will undoubtedly care fpr a correct account of the shoot ing of Starkey by the Mexican the following is what 1 have heard.
 Early in the morning he left CaIera for Cerro Prieto to catch the stage, a small boy riding be- hind to return the horse. When about half way the Mexican caught mp with him where the road takes a turn and number of parallel trails made a short cut. Here taking the upper trail he leaned over and fired three times at Starkey from d distance of about five feet u-ing a Al calihre revol yer. The first shot passed through the right shoulder and lung, lodg- i iug near the centre of the chest. No. 2 fl ,ttened against the right shoulder bones and curled upwards. At this point Starkey fell off hit horse and a third shot passed drought his hut. The Mexican ] dismounted and when within three 1 feet knelt down and demanded money at the point of the gun Starkey who was helpless and gasping for breath, with blood streaming from two wounds tolC him to take all his money anc leave him. Starkey was forced tc put his left hand in a pocket pass ing him all he had. The brute demanded more and at once firef point blank into Starkey's face. By a miracle this proved a misfire.
 With strength of desperation Starkey flung himself upward an' forward to grip the revolver just d the next shot (No.5)was fired iron a distance of about two feet, direct ed straight between the eyes. H was again saved. the slight upwar' movement causing the bullet L glance off the right side of his head The dash for the revolver prove, successful and holding the barre and trigger with desperate grasl as the Mexican attempted t
The oasis., 1910-06-04

ble newspaper man and they will make of the Globe good news paper.
The oasis., 1910-06-04

s lturday, June 4. 1910
SUBSCRIPTION:

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 Unless otherwise specified all subscriptions, advertisements aud job printing are payable in American Money.
 Address all communications to THE OASIS, NogaIes, Santa Cruz county. Arizona.
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q Murderous Attack.

MAGDALENA, Sonora. Mexico,
 May 30, 1910
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-13
NEWS FROM THELABOR WORLD

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will
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-13
This Is My 55h Birthday
GEN THOMAS II. BARRY.

Major Gen. Thomas H. Barry. L. S.
A. the new superintendent OF the Tn
tied States military academy at West
Point. was born in New York City,
October Is, 1855. His parents were
Irish immigrants without means and
the future army officer was obliged
TO work his own way through the pub
lie schools. BY hard work he succeed
ed in securing an appointment TO the
West Point academy after he had COM
pleted a course at the college of the
city of New York and in 1877 he grad.
uated from the academy with honors.
After securing his diploma he was as
signed as second lieutenant to the fam
Gus Seventh Cavalry. Clusters old
command. After three years in the
Seventh. he was transferred to the
infantry arm and rose through the
successive Grades until he became a
brigadier general in 1908. Five years
later President Roosevelt promoted
him TO his present rank. the highest
under the present law that an army Of
ficer can obtain. Gen. Barry served
With the China relief expedition in
1900 and was the commander in chief
Of the Army of Cuban Pacification
that was sent TO Cuba following the
governmental troubles there a few
years age.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-13
4 COLLEGE COURSE

In order to meet the usual demand
for college work on the part OF Rich
mond teachers. arrangements are be-
ing made by Superintendent Mott for
a continuance of the teachers col
lege courses offered by members of
the Earlham college faculty. These
courses have been conducted each
year for seven or eight years and reg
ular college credit has been given to
those completing the courses, In this
way teachers and others have had the
opportunity of doing college work I'M
der convenient circumstances, Super.
intendent Mott has arranged for a
meeting at his office in the high
school building at o'clock Friday af-
ternoon. October IA. when all those in
terested in these courses may meet
and consult with members of the Earl
ham faculty. In recent years courses
have been offered in English, history.
modern languages, Biblical literature
and domestic science. Any one inter.
ested in the work. whether teachers in
Richmond or outside the city, or those
not in the teaching profession are cor
daily invited to be present Friday af-
ternoon. or report their names and
subject of study desired, to Superin-
tendent Mott.