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Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
SKIES LOOK CLEAR.
Operators Do Not Believe There Will
 Be Coal Miners Strike.

Pittsburg. Pa. Feb. 6.-The coal op- orators who are back from the meet ing with the miners in the Toledo con- ference viewed the situation optimis- tically today, and several declared that the danger of a general suspen- sion of coal mining on April l is not so great as appeared at first
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

Colon, Feb. e.-The U. $. $. Eagle has arrived here. The cruiser Prairie sailed today for Bluefields.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
FORWARD MOVEMENT
 TOWARD STATEHOOD The Senale Committee VIII Take Up the Bill M Its
 Meeting Next Friday
 MR. BEvERIOGE PROMISES AN EARLY REPORT
PROMISES AN EARLY REPORT
House Will Offer No Objection to the Changes That Have Been Made-Arizona's Educational Qualifica tions Law Ignored Safeguards Thrown About Land Grants No Provision Requiring Congressional Ap- prova of Changes in the Constitution

Washington, Feb. 6.v(SpeciaD- Statehood legislation is expected to move rapidly this week. Senator Beveridge returned last night from Indiana. He said today that the senate committee on territories would take up the bill lately intro- duced by Senator Dillingham;, at a meeting of the committee next Friday.
 He said that an early report on the bill would be made, that in his opinion there would be few changes made in the committee aside from determining and writing in the size of the land grants to be made to the educational institutions
 The house it is said, will accept without serious objection the changes made by the senate committee as the bill in it's present form has the full approTal of the president
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
WEATHER TODAY.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Weather fore cast for Arizona: Generally fair Mon day and Tuesday.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07

Kelvin, Ariz, Feb. 6.-(SpeciaD- The explosion which occurred about 12:30 pm. today was a missed shot, which was discovered this morning while excavating in the last cut on the Ray to- Kelvin railroad. The foreman in charge of the work notified all his men-over a hundred in number-that he was going to fire the fuse at noon, which he did. after all his men got away and after he had stationed men on both sides of. the blast to warn travellers on the wagon road and rail- road. The gasoline motor. carrying six passengers besides the motorman. approached after the fuse was fired and was stopped. After waiting for warnings of the foreman and reached a point opposite the blast at the exact time of the explosion with the result that all seven were instantly killed and the motor car totally wrecked.
 The killed are:
 J. B. JOYCE. Denver.
 A. s. BIEBER. Cleveland. O.
 J. c. GRIFFIN. civil engineer. and an employees of the Ray Consolidated Copper company engaged on railroad construction.
 R P. COLEMAN. Salt Lake City:
 W. H. FREELAND, Salt Lake City.
 WALTER C. KRENZ. Berkeley mining engineers employed by Henry Krumb and engaged in the sampling of the development work of the Ray company.
 H. H. LYALL, motorman in charge of the motor car. also an employe of the Ray company.
 Relatives. of all the killed have been notified.
 In addition the foreman in charge of the excavation crew was injured while trying to rescue the men involved in the accident, but his injuries are not serious.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
SEVEN WERE KILLED ON
 KE[V|N7RAY RAILROAD
Awful Result of Explosion Of a Blast Planted In Con-
 shuCdOn Work
Ar THE MOMENT \. MOTOR CAR WAS PASSING

Nearly All the Victims Were Mining Civil Engineers Employed in Connection With Operations of the Ray Consolidated Copper CQmpany-0ne of them, R. F. Coleman Was Brother in Law of J. E. Cleaveland of This City
Arizona republican., 1910-02-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Republican Factions in New York

The machine put up a good fight in Tuesdays primaries. and it is not yet certain that James Schoolcraft Sherman san be kept out of the temporary chair manship of the Saratoga convention. Mr. Roosevelt carried Manhattan borough, but he did not carry the boroughs on Long Island, near where he lives. It was 0 rood deal of a drawn battle.
 The ex-President does not seem to be nearly so popular at home as he is in the middle west. The old guard never contest every inch of the ground in the primaries As MT. Roosevelt proposes, if successful. to bury it and to drive Airect primary nails into its coffin, 1t is plain 1t must fight or else surrender. It refuses to surrender.
 Dtate Committeeman Barnes pronounces A6r. Roosevelt most dangerous fee to 3he world of business and labor. and he is endeavoring to rally all the special Interests and all the conservatives as well as the machine itself to his defeat. But no battle is won until it Is over, and every politician will continue to watch every movement of the old guard and the progressives for the control of me Saratoga convention. It is con,e st that is national in its effects, and that certainly has direct bearing upon the sreater battle of 1912.
 The most that can be said about 1t at present is, the bitterness of the struggle . paving the way for sweeping demo- cratic victory in the state in November
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Senator Kcan Ignores Primaries

New Jerseys new primary jaw affords the voters an opportunity to express d. rectly their choice for United States sem ator, and the first primary of this na- ture was held last Tuesday. The indica- tions are that former Governor Stokes received a plurality vote.
 But United States Senator Kean re- fused to submit his candidacy to the di- rect action of republican voters. He is in the Senate the lieutenant of Senator Aldrich, a typical representative of mo- nopoly. Such a man very naturally wants no direct action applied to his candidacy. He prefers to slip in by keeping his hand on the machine.
 The moral effect of direct popular vote will be tested in New Jersey. The legis- lators who do not respect the votes of their respective districts will become marked men, and it is easy to foresee their fate For this reason it is much too early to say that Senator Kean will be reelected regardless of the direct vote which he refused to take advantage-of.
 While Kean refused for obvious reasons to go before the people he worked as- siduously underground to select and nom- mate legislators favorable to his candi- dacy. He is a multi i-millionaire and he Is known to have carried several districts. The issue is one that will be regarded with wide interest man who contempt uously rejects direct vote proposes. de- spite 1t and the state law, to gumshoe back to the Senate If this can be done in New Jersey then indeed representa- lives in that state do not represent. The machine and gumshoeing and money in
 great wads are greater than the pso- pie. The issue Is to be fought out in
 New Jersey and when 1t is ended the country will know which Is the stronger in New Jersey, the people or the ma. chine. The issue is squarely presented
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Full of wise saws and modern in stances. As You Like It.
MT. Ballinger's Delayed YlndicatlOn

The standpatters, six In number, of in their statement discuss the merits or demerits of the case they were appoint ed to investigate. They do, however, discuss the action of their five col leagues. who pronounced Ballinger an inefficient and unfaithful custodian of public interests. and who, therefore, de-
 This ends the case until Congress meets in December. The coat of white wash may yet be applied. It has at any rate been postponed. and Senator Flint, at any rate, has left Secretary Ballinger without vindication or rath- sr without the promised coat of white wash until after the years elections have been held. Senator Flint is in Europe, and there Is no promise of his return much before the meeting of Con- gress on December 5.
 The report signed by four democrats and one progressive republican of the Ballinger investigation committee has L. R. Glavis and Clifford Pinchot are yindicated while Secretary Ballinger Is declared unfaithful. It was Glavis who fought the Cunningham coal claims. It was he who was dismissed in dis ,race with a severe reprimand by the President and the Attorney General The minority report shows that Glavis was right and his assailants wrong. Glayis' exoneration could not well be more complete, and 1t Is difficult to ,cee how the six standpatters of the committee can find anything in his con- duct to condemn. And as much cah be said of Clifford Pinchot.
 . Secretary Ballinger's friends have not stood by him. and he is really left in I position that calls for his resigna- lion. A coat of whitewash In Decem- per will leave him no better off in pub lie estimation than he Is at present, and he has really been deserted by the men that he depended upon for vindica- sion. They evidently have no relish for Che task assigned them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
MT. Underwood at Pittsburg

MT. Underwood's speech at Pittsburg yesterday arraigned the republican party for a systematic reduction of duties on iron and steel while 1t as systematically increased the cost of living in the three great iron districts of the country-Pittsburg Chicago and Birmingham. As a representative of one iron district he talked to the voters in another district. In detail he went on to show how the necessities of life have been advanced while the prod ucts of the iron and steel mills have not been equally favored He laid the injustice of this before the men of Pitts burg, and he did 1t in a manner that must have been convincing to the con sumers who listened to him.
 MT. Underwood admitted that the democratic party does stand for tar iff for revenue only. It would. he said, write a tariff bill from a revenue stand point. but he went on to show that when it reduced duties on iron and steel it would also reduce duties on what the iron and steel workers consume.
 MT. Underwood explained what a revenue tariff Is, and what 1t is not It Is a tariff made in the interests of the consumer Instead of the manufac- turer. and 1t Is one that will meet the needs of the government. From this subject he passed to that of the ex- travaganve of the government, and be- fore he had completed this subject he had drawn a second indictment against the republican party.
 His speech at Pittsburg was plea for a revenue tariff drawn in the in- terest of consumers, and for economy in governmental expenditures. He dealt in no unnecessary rhetoric, in no flights of fancy, but throughout his speech he handled facts and figures that 20 home to every consumer. The speech should be printed in pamphlet forn, and circulated from one end of the country to the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15

democratic United States senator. inc
 Washington republicans have named in
 state primary Miles Poindexter, an
 out-and-out radical and insurgent, for
 United States senator to take the seat
 now filled by Standpat Piles, who is to
 to go back to his corporation practice.
 Poindexter is very obnoxious to ha'ln- ger and even to Mir. Taft, his insurgency being as pronounced as is that Of senator Bristow. This perhaps accounts for the fact that he has probably carried evc-y county in his state.
 The farther we go the plainer does 1t become that the politi .al upheaval is directed against all republicans, Roose- welt included. The Maine election clinched that fact. The people want a change. They want a tariff for revenue only. It should be remembe :e1 that MT. Roose- welt committed himself during his re- cent speechmaking tour to piecemeal re- vision of the Taft makeshif: programme, and the voters of rock-ribbed republican Maine rejected it. They want no piece meal revision. They want gen .ral re- vision to the end that manufacturing trusts by forming home combination cannot add the tariff duty to the prices of the articles they manufacture. In this way the tariff becomes a direct tax, and this is what the people of Maine When the votes Of November are counted even the wayfarer who runs will be able to read 'n unmistakahle fs- ures the will of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
CAPT. FRANK P. O,BRIEN

From the Twin City Telegram
 In the death of Capt. Frank P. O'Brien, first mayor of Creates Birmingham, the state loses one of its most valued citi- zens, Birmingham one of Its most pro- gressive builders and the south one of it's most gallant defenders.
 Captain O'Brien was one of the pio- reers of the Magic City as such things go, for the little town to the south of us is yet comparatively young, and labored to make 1t what 1t Is today. Brave to the point almost of recklessness, he was never known to turn his back to any foe and when cholera swept Birmingham Captain O'Brien was among those who stayed to assist in checking Its ravages and in caring for It's dead. Undlsmayed by this calamity. he stuck by the town and lived to see 1t become the Greater Birmingham of today and to be the first mayor of the big city.
 Born in Ireland in 1844, Captain O'Brien was a true son of the old sod and had all the characteristics of the Irishman. He was courageous, impul- sive and generous. Sometimes quick to anger, he was equally as quick to for give. As a newspaper man he was sue cessful. and his memory will be revered by the fraternity. He was always ready to lend helping hand to a "cub" re- porter or to extend courtesy to some nabob of the profession. Whenever or wherever he could place a kind word or deed he did not hesitate to do so. He belonged properly to the "thin gray line that Is growing thinner having fought for the south as the sons of Erin ever fight for those they love.
 Another good man is gone. Peace to his ashes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15

prohibition. l was in Maine a year ago and found the democrats even then were hopeful of eecting a legislature which would submit to the people an amend- ment to the constitution, knocking out the old prohibition clause. And now that such legislature has been elected. there can be no reasonable doubt as to the final outcome. The people of Maine seem sick and tired of the prohibition farce There Is much drunkenness in Maine notwithstanding the fact that the con- stitution has for more than 50 years prohibited the sale of liquor Prohibition works perfectly we'll in the rural dis tricts. It accomplishes real good, l think. But in cities 1t is a great farce The cities get no revenue from the illicit liquor trade and statistics show that in one town-Portland. I think it is-there are hundreds of habitual drunkards listed at police headquarters.
 Tn Maine the republicans stand for prohibition. and the same thing is true of republicans In several other states This Is strange, because the national republican party has no sort of leaning to prohibition. President Taft has ex- pressed himself plainly against sump- tuary laws, and so has ex-Presdent Roosevelt. No man who has been big enough to reach the White House-dem- ocrat or republican-has advocated stat utory prohibition. MT. Hayes was tenn perance mana teetotaler, l believe--but he preached temperance in a quiet way by example. Lincoln expressed himself in rather violent language against any form of prohibition.
 Now, coming back to the amendment proposition in Florida, I see from the papers that the prohibitionists are pre- pairing for vigorous campaign. It looks ridiculous. have been in Flori- ds four times since the amendment sub mission bill passed At first 1t looked as If the amendment would carry. but at the polls in November next 1t will be buried under an avalanche of ballots. The overwhelming defeat of constitu- tional prohibition in Alabama practically settled the question in Florida, and, or course the democratic triumph in Maine will still further strengthen the oppo- nents of the proposed constitutional amendment in Florida
 T never drink anything stronger than beer, and I do not drink much of that; devised which will prove more workable than statewide prohibition. The cause of temperance has been hurt. I would say certainly not promoted-by drastic pro- hibition laws applicable to cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
A sUPERMAN
Guessed What Was Wrong With thd
 Baby and Got Busy

From the Chicago News.
 Say" said the street car conductor, T saw something the other day that convinced me it ain't always the women that know the most about babies. A man was the hero in this case, and a pretty old man. too. 5rhe way he went about the hero business showed us all that he was wise one He made lot of women look pretty foolish, I can tell you.
 Tt all happened in my car.' the con- ductor explained. You see, baby was crying-no. not crying-squalling. It was the healthiest yell ever heard-and I got couple myself that ain't shy on that kind of exercise. The woman and the kid got on at Park and Monroe, and the baby began to scream the minute they got seat.
 "The mother tried everything to soothe it. She rocked 1t and jumped it up and down and cradled it in her arm and gave it one of those rubber things to put in its mouth. Kind, sympathzin' women passengers tried. too. They offered sug- gestion after suggestion. Still the kid yelled louder than, ever. I was thinkin'
  I'd have to offer my services when the real doctor stepped in.
 Let me have that baby a minute, madam. will your says an old party who had been settin' close to the mother and kid and watching them sort of careful, I had noticed. And he didn't wait for no answer, either. He just reached over and took the baby out of It's mothers lap and went on to his own seat with it. Did the passengers get interested? Well, I should say they did. And what do you suppose that old fellow did?
 Why, he just took the kid on his knee and began to undress it. He peeled off garment after garment until the baby was almost as naked as when it was born. Did he find it? Sure, 1t was big whop- per of a safety pin stickin in the poor littke kids side
 Well, say. you ought to have seen that mother and the other women"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
CANNED DRAMA

From the Washington Post.
 If the moving picture show has made inroads on the profits of the legitimate 1t is possibly due to the .commercialism into which the art has fallen. Here is a suggestive paragraph that should tend to give pause to sthose who purvey the real drama for the edification of the public:
 The popularity of moving picture shows promises to become even greater If Mr. Edison's reported invention of a solution of the talking picture problem proves correct. Some photographic accompani- ments to the moving pictures that have been tried have not proved satisfactory but If a means be devised for making the conversation of the characters in the DIG lures, which now play only in pantomime' appear natural, what is called by the regular theatrical managers the canned drama, will be invested with an added interest.
 Canned drama" is good term TOT 1t, as we have fallen, on times when genius must give place to the rule and plummet of physique-to color, abun- dance, and wave of hair-in short. to "type," which Is to say, that If the actor can Hook the part" 1t matters not how he butchers 1t. What would the great Hazlitt say If he were reincarnate, and with that mighty pen of his he were set to discuss the subject? He could only conclude that pelf is triumphant and art a scullion in the kitchen of Nam mon.
 Type has supplanted genius; looks have displaced talent. Notoriety, espec- ially if there be a strong tinge of the salacious clinging around it. is in the limelight. Unheralded, what would Gar rick the greatest actor the world ever saw, do in New York in 1910? He would walk Broadway" for his was not the type" A mannikin would supplant him. The same is true of the matchless Kean, who, a pigmy in stature, could be the giant on the stage.
 If the moving pictures have hurt the legitimate the men in charge of the legiti- mate are at fault for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 One of the most beautiful country man. sions in England is Esher Place, Surrey, the residence of Sir Edgar and Lady Helen Vincent. The grounds are noted for their splendid landscape views, while an interesting feature is an al fresco or lawn theatre. which Is constructed out of the deep slope of lawn which runs from the mansion. The theatre is really formed by a huge semi-circular excava- ton in the lawn. It is constructed on the same lines as an ordinary theatre. The bottom level or floor, which Is 42 feet wide, is devoted to stalls. and opposite and behind this floor. to which in each case access is obtained by a series of tur steps, are four terraces. each three and one-half feet broad and rising two feet. one above the other.
 The upper terrace is of great breadth, giving ample room for seats in rows four or five deep. The width of the lower terraces is suited each for one row of seats, and ample walking room in front. to reach them from the respective flights of steps. It is no congregation to say that at least 1000 persons might be con- veniently seated in this huge auditorium. The stage, which Is elevated two feet above the level of the stall floor, is 56 feet wide in front for a depth of 20 feet, and has a further depth of one-half that width for 20 feet more.
 This narrower part is margined by in- closures for retiring rooms for the per- | ha of ha ct tc planted row of pinl. China roses. The entire surface of the stage, dressing rooms, steps and auditorium Is of soft turf and Is mown every week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
POWER OF SUGGESTION
Chicago Tribune.

FrOm tne SIlCdsO ITlUuuc.
 Herr Munsterberg will be intensely in- terested in the story from New York of the downfall of cashier in department store who has been arrested for steal ing s1s,0o0 from his employers. He en- tered the store as an errand boy and rose to be cashier 12 years ago. He and the store detective became great friends, and every morning the11atter would pause at the formers cage and say: Well, old man, I'll get you yet" Whereupon the cashier would say: 'Yes. I guess you will but not today" Finally the joke proved serious, and the detective ''got him. Did not the reiterated threat act as a suggestion and turn the honest man into defaulter. 4 lawyer with a turn foi psychology might almost mako plea for defense out of that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
THIS IS NO TIME FOR SIGHING

please. I shall never own that thou art an evill'"
 Sorrow and pain must come! Unto each life some rain must fall" But once we cepted 1t. we must accept. too, the philos. ophy that, whether we can see 1t or not, understand 1t or not, everything works with God for the best. Then. and not till then, may we be able to turn pain and sorrow to our great advantage, and find glorious life and boundless opportunity in spite of these.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Talks of Enormous Crops

Dr. Frank Snedecor, who has just re- turned from the northwest, in speaking of general conditions. said:
 s'without doubt we are now facing an era of unprecedented business activ- ity. It is true that the iron market is dull, but 1t is always the first to mark the approach of coming panic and the last to revive. The cold weather which continued late into the spring made the crops for a while look like dismal fall ure, but now 1t has sufficiently advanced and an enormous harvest Is being gath cred and the country is on a solid basis for another year of substantial pros perity.
 T go to Oregon and Washington near ly every summer, and I want to tell you the crops are all good, and the crop of corn I never saw better. And with the bumper crop in sight and the friendly attitude of capital and labor in this dis trict, and with the coming In of the United States Steel corporation, which has already spent s70O0,0oo in moderniz- ing its plants and has contracts let for s20, ,0O0,0 900 more, believe this district Is entering into an era of prosperity such as we have never seen"