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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24
The Opal.

In Judging an opal color is OF the
greatest importance. Red ire or red
in combination with yellow, blue and
green is the best Blue by itself
Is quite valueless. and the green opaf
is not Of great value unless the color
is very vivid and the pattern very
good. The color must be true-that is
to say. it must not run in streaks or
patches. alternating with a colorless
or inferior quality. Pattern is an In
portant factor. the several varieties
being known as pin fire. when the
grain is very small. harlequin when
the color is in small squares. the more
regular the better. and the flash tre.
or flash opal" when the color shows
as a single flash or in very large pat
tern. Harlequin is the most common
and is also popularity considered the
most beautiful When the squares of
color are regular and show as dis
tinct minute checks of red. yellow
blue and green it is considered mag
nifceut. Some stones show better on
edge than on top Exchange.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24
Moved Into New Location.

Monday evening the City
Meat Market moved into the
room occupied by the White
Swan Grocery Company. This
change was to get larger quart
ers to accommodate their in
creasing trade for their bust
ness had outgrown their quart
ers on the west side of the
square. We think the move a
good one as the new location viii
now assure them more room in
which to serve their many
friends and patrons.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24

To build up the Texas farmer we
must improve our public highways
yuild railroads, build factories, open
mines. build cities. and otherwise in
grease our markets and facilities for
Teaching the market We must look
10 our Agricultural Department, A. x
Nj. Colleges, Experimental Stations
and agricultural agents TO build up the
farm and instruct the farmer. These
institutions ought 20 be literally sup
ported by appropriations and coop
Grafton in their work.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24

ford and Cambridge universities.
June 11-Boarded the steam
ship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
at southampton for the home
ward voyage to New York where
he arrived Saturday, June Is.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24
Increasing Production.

The increase in agricultural pr"dnc
ton has both an individual and coin
munily interest The farmer is vitality
interested in increasing the yield, a.
it costs no more to cultivate an acre
OF land that produces two bales OF
cotton than it docs an acre Of laud
that produces one bale OF cot
ton, and the second bale is clear proi!'
to the farmer The farmers who have
followed the advice of our agricul-
tural departments in selecting seed,
methods OF culture, character OF crops.
combating pests etc, have been able
to double production The farms of
Texas are yielding an average OF
Sl,54OOO0 per day and by doubling
production in that portion OF the land
now under cultivation we can produce
$1,122,6 900 instead of 1851 1919, 900
per annum as shown in the figure be-
low
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-06-24
Chronology Of RoOseve!t's Trip.

for Nom hasa, British East AT
RIGA.
April 21-Arrived at MOmbasa
and received with honors by the
provincial governor.
April 22-Left Mombasa to be-
gin the wild game hunt in the
interior.
June ARRIVED at Kijabe en-
route for the great Sotik district.
July 12-Arrived at Lake Mai
vasha on the return trip.
Aug. Cleft Naivasha on
march to Nyeri and the Kenya
province, where he shot his first
elephant.
Oct. 20-Returned to Naivasha
Oct. 25-Left for Londiani, for
a three weeks shoot on the
Guasho Nguisho plateau, where
many lions, giraffe and other
game were secured.
Dec. 1S-Left Nairobi for Lake
Victoria Nyanza.
Dec. 20-Arrived at Entebbe,
Uganda, by lake steamer. On
this trip the American flag was
flown for the first time on Afri-
cas- inland sea.
Dec. 23-Left on % mile auto
mobile trip to Kampala.
Dec. 23-Left Kampala for
Kisingo, where two elephants
were secured.
Jan. LEFT for Rhino camp
and Wadelai, Belgian Congo.
Feb. ARRIVED at Minute,
Uganda.
Feb. LEFT Minute for Con
dokoro, a 100 mile march through
unbroken jungle.
Feb. 17-Arrived at Gondoko-
70, Upper Sudan.
Feb. 26-Evpidition broke up
and porters returned to Uganda.
Feb. 2S-Roosevelt left Condo
koro via steamer for Khartum,
500 miles distant.
March 14-Arrived at Khar-
tum and was joined by Mrs. and
Miss Roosevelt
March 24-Arrived at Cairo
and was given an enthusiastic
reception.
March 30-Sailed from Alex
andria for Naples to begin tour
of Europe.
April 2-Arrived at Naples
and was greeted by many Amer
lean tourists.
April ARRIVED at Rome,
where he was received by King
Victor Emmanuel.
April STARTED with Mrs.
Roosevelt on carriage drive
through northern Italy over the
same route they had followed on
their honeymoon.
April 6-Arrived at Genoa and
passed the next few days at. the
villa of Mrs. Roosevelt's sister,
Miss Carew, at Porto Maurizio
April S-Arrived at Vienna,
where the Emperor Francis JOS
eDh made the distinguished visi-
toa his guest.
April l7-Arrived at Buda
Pest. where he was enthusiastic
ally received
April 21-Arrived at Paris,
where he was received by Presi-
dent Fallieres and delivered an
address at the Sorbonne.
April 28- Visited Brussels
and met King Albert.
April 29-Visited tina Hague.
May ARRIVED at Copenhag'
eh and was the guest of King
Frederick.
Nav ARRIVED in Christiana
where he delivered the Nobel
address, outlining a plan for
bringing about worlds peace.
May ARRIVED at Stockholm
where he was received with higf
honors.
May 9-Arrived at Berlin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
=sTEELE-sMITH
H - May Merchandising Movement -

Following right upon the heels of the most success
full sale Steele Smith held this May Merchandising
Movement is launched and will continue throughout the
month
This Merchandising Movement is fraught with great
interest and it's Importance money cannot be
told in this page-it carries story of savings of
derprice purchases made by buyers in New York. of
SURPRISES odds and ends that must be moved
A movement in Merchandising for May directed with
the idea of bringing greater volume of business to
this rapidly growing store.
Considering the present market conditions and what
other stores charging this event will be the live
topic with all women who buy with an eye for economy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
STEELE SMITH:

The SteeleSmith Store is growing-growing rapidly
there's no gainsaying that point everybody knows it.
And in this building of greater business always
keep the fact before that it is not unlike the actual
building of modern kyscraper-the foundations must be
there, they must be sodsafe and We make oun-
daton of merchandise Of quaity-of corresponding low
prcesof fair and courteous dealing with the public and
under consideration do devate point from this
our code of business morals
We feel are building well-the public acknow-
Lodges this by its liberal patronage and it is along these
broad progressive lines that have planned this May
Merchandising Movement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Nav Sale of Silks Is of Great I'm
pOrtance to Saving Shoppers

If you would Judge these silks by the May prices
alone, you could not possibly do justice to their beau
ty and excellence 1t is practically without precedent
to find prices like these silks Of such superior
qualities at the beginning Of season.
Silks 47c-Thirty inches wide,
patterns. that embody
Orient Advertised and sold by at Sc A7n
62c-A favorite silk
is this Navy Fouard rings and Worth COO
ordinarily &c. SeeleSmith
41c-Plain Louisine Tafea
blue also black white Many Afo
4IC
Torah Silks 65c-These silks in and old gold, natural
pink practically color Silks
worth S8c SteeeSmith price W.
Rough Weave silks 77o-Extra good $100 values
dn es ~ont wsess pes for
Silk 66c-Yard wide Black
s sRs sh3a1G9 f prioe worth &c. &c
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
May Merchandise Movement
MOngSt Beautiful Wash Fabrics

In the face of rapidly advancing cotton goods
market the prices for the May Merchandising Move
ment the choicest of white and wash fabrics
certainly unexpected.
Knowing shoppers realize the prestige of this
section for great values and will not stop at filling
present needs from such surprising values
Towels; quality
buck. In plain white also red blue borders. An M
unusual 35c value Special 25c each dozen OeVV
Six pieces German beached Table
Linens 66in. wide regular 65c values 400
One table of Silk Cotton Wash Fabrics in lengths from
20 desirable waists
Values from 29c to 39c Special lou
French with sheer silk finish, q
l.ZC
Just eceivedThirty pieces of beached 4On
finish waists
29c Special I0C
Belgium Linene; appearance linen
skirts and chldren's suits. M
lVC
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
GAS WELL ON FIRE
Escaping Gas Wrecks Der
rick and Sends Column of
Flame zoo Feet High

SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.-One
of the most spectacular gas well
fires in the history of the petroleum
industry of California has just been
conquered by Yankee ingenuity. In
boring for oil in the Midway dis
trict, near the town of Taft, the
Standard Oil Company opened up
an enormous gas reservoir. The
terrific pressure of the escaping gas
wrecked the derrick. The conbusti-
BILE Immediately caught fire and
consumed the wreckage, driving the
workmen helter-skelter from the
scene. The heat from the raging
furnace was SO intense that num-
Der of the workmen were overcome.
The ground about the well became
so hot that workman who tripped
and fell was badly burned before he
could regain his feet. He was
rushed off to a hospital at Taft.
Several attempts to subdue the
flame were Immediately made, but
without success. The huge roaring,
column of fire leaped heavenward
200 feet, lighting up the country
side at night for many miles, like a
massive flaming torch.
The sight was an entrancingly
beautiful one and attracted throngs
of people from miles about to view
the extraordinary spectacle, The
enormous pressure shot the gas out
of the we'll with such terrific force
that it was prevented from burning
lower than score of feet from the
ground. At that height it burst
into violet flame which, some fif-
teen or twenty feet higher, changed
to golden yellow.
The constant changing of colors
of the roaring, twisting, snake-like
column of flame was weirdly beau
tiful. Heat waves shimmered in
the moonlight as they were waited
away on the gentle night breeze,
lending Kaleidoscope effect to the
great lunar body, continually chang
ing the appearance of its shape and
color.
The huge torch of flame twisted
and roared for seven days before a
means was devised to subdue it and
put an end to the tremendous
waste. This was accomplished by
pressing into service six 40-horse
power boilers. Four lines of steam
pipe were laid from as many sides
of the mammoth gas jet. Safety
valves were tied down, and when
the limit of the capacity of the
boilers was reached, the steam was
projected on the gas flow. The
mixture of the steam with the gas
shut out the oxygen. The great
flame sputtered, dwindled and final
ly died out, conquered by mans in
genuity.
The well has been capped and the
gas will be utilized for fuel and
lighting purposes in the surrounding
fields.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING
JUNE II. 1910.
THE PRIMARY ELECTION

The coming primary election will
bring to the front many who be-
lieve they are fully qualified to hold
office.
Under the new law, in operation
for the first time, candidates will
file their petition not later than
July 9th with the Secretary of the
Territory and the board of super
visors. The primary law, which
does away with party conventions,
allows any one to run for office,
providing they get the required per-
centage of their party vote in the
last election. Every candidate whose
name is printed on the primary bal
lot must pay to the Secretary of the
Territory, or the board of supervis-
ors the fee prescribed by law for
the particular Office he seeks.
Every signer to petition must
make affidavit that he will support
the man he petitions for.
This being a direct primary elec-
ton, the successful candidates of
which will be the ones chosen to go
on the different party tickets at the
regular election, it will be necessary
for the people of Graham County
to exercise great care in the selec-
tion of board of supervisors for
the ensuing term.
County division means many
changes and the settling of many
new questions that will arise and
which will be left for the board of
supervisors to decide.
The very best men should be Sc
lected by the petitioners, men of
known business ability and who have
taken an active interest in county
affairs. These are the kind of men
wanted as supervisors, and it will
be well for those who sign petitions
for candidates seeking the office of
county supervisors to use every pre-
caution in seeing that none but the
very best men are selected for this
Office, the most important Office in
Graham County.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
NEW SCHOOL TEACHERS

The past year has witnessed a
marked improvement in the schools
of this county, particularly in the
grade of teachers employed. Those
schools that have made the most
marked improvement in this line
are: Thatcher, Morenci and Stafford.
In each of these schools the re-
spective school boards have insisted
upon the employment of none but
normal graduates of experience,
and the results have amply justified
the course taken.
In Morenci none other than teach
ers of training and experience are
employed. This year Thatcher has
come to the front and chosen teach
ers from the best known normals
throughout the West.
The Stafford board has determined
to follow this course and will en-
ploy none but the best teachers OBJ
tainable for the local school. Nor
NAL training and experience are
necessary conditions for the en-
ployment of teachers in Stafford
school, and the board has fully de-
termined that these qualifications
must be possessed by teachers en-
ployed the coming year.
There are home girls, no doubt,
who are capable of becoming sue
cessful teachers, with proper train
ing and experience, but the board
feels that our school should not be
used for the purpose of expert
mentation; that only the best and
most experienced teachers should
be employed, in justice to the pupils
as we'll as to the taxpayers.
The corps of teachers for the
next school term has practically
been determined on and will be an
nounced in a short time. .
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
THE SUGAR BEET CROP
Bright Prospects for Big Harvest
in Salt River Valley

X. l.. Mumford, manager of the
Mesa section for the Glendale beet
sugar factory, speaks very encour-
agingly of the sugar beet crop of
the south side. The crop will not
be as extensive as to acreage as
was expected last. but the yield,
Mr.. Mumford thinks, will be excel
lent. The beets are growing finely
and have a large percentage of
saccharrine. 1t was expected that
the beets planted in November
would be ready for harvest by the
first of June, but owing to the cold
weather and late spring, they are
still growing and it will be from
the 10th to the 18th before harvest
ing will begin. The beets planted
in December are as far advanced
as those planted in November.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
THE COUNTY FAIR

Last fall the first Graham County
Fair was held at Stafford and was
fairly successful. There were some
fine exhibits of farm products, as
well as of stock, and it was clearly
shown that an annual fair could be
held in the fall of each year and
that the people of the valley would
take the proper interest to make
the fair success in every way.
1t is now proposed that the Gila
Valley Fair Association should be-
gin its preparatory work for the
fair to be held this fall, with the
certainty that an early start will
get together the greatest exhibition
of farm products of all kinds that
has ever been presented to the
public.
It il also suggested that the bust.
ness men of the valley get together
and formulate plans regarding the
awarding of individual prizes for
winners in horses, cattle, poultry
and hogs, as well as becoming ex-
hibitors themselves of the farm ma
chinery they handle.
The horsemen of the valley should
start in training their racing stock
and enter their horses for the races.
The fair grounds are ideally situ-
ated for the holding of a fair. The
track is one of the best in the
country. New stables have recent
ly been built and more can be erected
if needed for training quarters.
Last year the fair was held in
one day, this year it could easily be
organized for three days. What is
needed now to make the fair big
success, is for the association and
business men to get together and
work in unison, prepare program
Of exhibits and racing events that
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
SOLVES WATER PROBLEM
Globe Contracts with Old DOM
inion Co. for $4,000 Gallons

Globe has solved its water prob
lem by contracting with the Old
Dominion Co. to supply $4,000 gal
Ions of water per hour from the
tenth level of the Old Dominion
mine.
Early Sunday morning the water
was turned into the city mains, and
householders will now have all the
water needed for domestic purposes
as well as for sprinkling their lawns.
This new arrangement will also
give a sufficient supply of water at
ample pressure in the fire mains to
greatly reduce the danger of fire.
The reservoir will be kept full of
water at all times.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17

Coca Cola is refreshing and de-
iightful. Stafford Bottling Works.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17

will interest the people of the val
ley, as we'll as draw outsiders here
from the surrounding country.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17

This paper is kept on file at E. G. Dakes Ad-
vertising Agency. 77s Market St., san Francisco,
California. where contracts for advertising can
be made with 1t.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Interesting Items Condensed
From the Columns of
Our Exchanges

William Sparks, who twice was a
candidate for sheriff of Gila county,
is now a guard at the territorial
penitentiary at Florence. Capt.
Rynning, superintendent of the
prison, was Sparks commanding Of
ficer the years that he served in the
Arizona rangers.
In Phoenix, June 10th, Jose Rod
riguez, a shoemaker, with his shoe
makers knife, cut Miguel MARTINEZ
across the face from the base of the
nose, past the ear and to the base
OF the skull, severing the catroid
artery and the jugular vein. He
then fled. Martinez will probably
recover,
Judge Frederick S. Nave an
nounces to his fellow members of
the bar and to the public that Mr..
Archibald G. McKillop, who had
been assisting him for more than a
year last past, is now associated
with him in that practice under the
name and style of Nave and
KcKillop.
E. A. Lanning, for two years
principal of the Globe High School,
has taken a position as superintend-
ent of schools at Idaho Springs,
Colorado. The department of edu-
cation, of which he will have charge
when the fall term of school arrives,
employs twenty-five teachers, in
cluding six High School teachers,
Everitt Jones, a young miner in
the Lowell shaft, at Bisbee, kept
the first part of a promise he made
to a friend. He said: Tomorrow
| shall quit mining and go home
to Missouri. The next day he
stopped mining forever through the
terrible effects of premature blast
and was sent home to Missouri a
corpse. r..
George Brown, who lives near
Morenci, holds all local records for
acting as his own doctor. Immed-
lately after being bitten on the
middle finger of his left hand by a
skunk, ne calmly spread his fingers
apart and shot off the poisoned
member with his sixshooter. 1t is
believed his drastic treatment saved
him from otherwise possible death.
The Tucson Gas, Electric Light &
Power company is now in the hands
of and being operated by the as
sociation known as the Federal
Light and Traction company, which
has formed a merger of about
nine towns and cities in various
parts of the United States and
which is said to have ample financial
backing for all the improvements
and extensions of service which the
needs or Tucson may require.
The Black river is now lower
than it has been in thirty-three
years according to w. 0. Tuttle, of
Rice. who spent sometime repairing
the military road between Rice and
Fort Apache. Mr.. Tuttle reports
that the river at the crossing is on
ly knee high, the lowest it has been
since he came to this country thirty
three years ago. He reports that
cattle in the north are in fairly
good shape and will not suffer if
the usual summer rains come next
month.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17

There are pictures and poems and
songs on the theme Loves Awak-
ening," but a subject that would
attract more attention would be
Loves First Wound" A good
many are received before death re-
suits, and no one can tell when the
death blow finally falls. Love hav-
ing way of getting up and wink
ing when it is apparently ready for
the grave.
Graham guardian., 1910-06-17
Mark Twain's Experience with
Burglars

Probably the most startling and
picturesque incident during Mr..
Clemens short time at Redding was
when the two misguided young men
from New York burglarized the
house on the hill. This came very
near being a tragic affair, and our
sheriff carries two bullet wounds to
remember it by. The following
morning neighbor Lounsbury's sta
BILE yard looked like field hospital
in time of war. The village doctor
was busy binding up the battered
head of one of the burglars and
caring for the bullet wounds in the
leg and thumb of the doughty sher-
iff. By great good fortune hap
pened to be in the little town
clerks office when Mark Twain him
self entered. 1t was small mar
row room on the west side of the
little one-story building. A safe
stood at the north end, near a plain
deal table at which the officials sat.
At the south end of the room
there was on this occasion, a small
table, at which the two prisoners,
with the gives upon their wrists,
sat waiting their fate. One of them
had his head swathed in bandages
and the back of his coat stiff with
his own gore. The other, with an
insolent smile, was smoking a cigar
cite. Some kind neighbor had sup
piled them with sandwices and cof-
fee. The sheriff was limping around,
with one hand done up in bandages,
and, as he said, "a bootful of blood,
begob." The officials were in the
clothes they wore at their farm
work, and the doors were crowded
with rustics. In strong contrast
with the simple surroundings was
the fashionably dressed Miss Clara
Clemens and her feminine compan-
ions.
When Mark Twain entered, ar
rayed in his white flannel suit, he
stopped at the table occupied by the
two "yeggmen." This was before
any of the newspaper men had ar
rived, and they missed most char
acteristic and interesting heart to
heart talk with live burglar. Said
the white philosopher: so you're
the two young men who called at
my house last night and forgot to
put your names in nv guest-book?
Now that was a pretty sort of busi-
ness for you, wasn't it, and a nice
way to treat me, after I've been
down on the East Side working for
just such fellows as you, and after
| made Bingham take back what he
said about the Jews .I
Excuse me, Mr.. Clemens" in
terrupted the battered and wounded
prisoner, for the first time showing
any interest in the proceedings, my
parents are jewish V
Then you're disgrace to your
race!" .
well, guess I am" replied the
burglar.
Now you two young men," con-
tinued Mr.. Clemons, have been up
to my house. stealing my tinware,
and got pulled in by these Yankees
up here. You had much better
have stayed in New York, where
you have the pull. Don't you see
where you are drifting to? They'll
send you from here down to the
Bridgeport Jail, and the next thing
you know you will be in the United
States senate. There's no other fu-
ture left open to you"
1t was worthy of remark that
even the burglar treated Mark
Twain with a Difference which was
the more marked because of the
sullen contempt with which the
"yeggman" greeted every one else.
From Mark Twain as Neigh
bor," by Dan Beard, in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for June.