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Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
PINE CREST LOTS ARE IN GREAT
 DEMAND
(From Saturdays Daily)

The bungalow of Mrs. Holland Merryman of Phoenix, near the Mur- phy drive in Pine Crest Addition is rapidly approaching completion. The Merrymans do not propose to inhabit their dwelling until next July, but are merely completing the frame to hold their site.
 Professor A K. Stabler, superin- tendent of the Phoenix Union High School district and George NJ. Smith, the proprietor of "Bide a Wee" one of the show winter resorts of the Capital City were on the tract yes terday selecting lots on which they propose to build in the early spring of 1912. Both have satisfied the Chamber of Commerce as to their purpose to complete their contracts. Professor Stabler will build quite a large twO-stOry cottage, while that of Mr. Smith will be a one-story bun galow of three large rooms. He will not reveal the style of construction but VOWS that it will be the most in teresting house in appearance, in Pine Crest Addition.
 In 1883, MT. Smith, who had been very active in the establishment of the first Sub-tropical exposition ever held in Jacksonville, Florida, east his lot with California, at Los An geles
 He had resided in the Angel City scarcely three months, MT. Smith en- listed the interest of Colonel Otis and and other Los Angeles editors in the formation of a Chamber of Commerce to exploit the advantages of South ern California. MT. Smith called the first meeting to order, which result ed in the election of c. D. Willard, the predecessor of Frank Wiggins. MT. Smith feels very proud of that fact that the greatest civic body in the West sprang from the small ker- mel planted by him in 1883.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30

Arriving at the scene of industry, Sweat said that one of the men was cutting a hole through about six feet of rich soil and when Sweat asked him what he was looking for he said he was searching for pay dirt.
 Sweat told the men that they were working on a farm and not on mine. He said he had the place homesteaded and invited them to the house to see documentary proof. They did not care for proof for they said that they were working under the instructions of Batre who said that it was a placer claim.
 It was at this point that Sweat ceased pacific methods and escorted the men about the place and oversaw the removal of the monuments and the trespass notice and when these things had been obliterated he told the men to obliterate themselves as this piece of ground and stay ObIiterated.
 He also sent a message by them to Batre. The purpore of it was that if Sweat ever caught that indiscrim- mate lOeater on his farm he would kick him off. That. Sweat, says, is the only threat he made and that in his dealings with his agents he did not present his rifle in a rude or threatening manner but merely told them to do certain things and they did them.
 Sweat says that Batre has run sev- eral settlers in that part of the eoun- try off their holdings but in the 35 years he has lived in Arizona he has not cultivated the art of running.
 He is the father of eleven children the youngest a baby boy of two weeks. With such responsibility on him, he says, that if anybody gets his farm away from him, more per suasive weapons than rifles will have to be employed. The law could move him but Sweat believes that he has the law on his side.-Phoenix Repub- Hcan.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
HOLDS RANCH WITH
 WINCHESTER RIFLE
Joshua Sweat Arrested on Complaint Of Charles Batre Because He Insists
 Farm IS Not Placer Ground
CFrom Saturdays Daily.)

Joshua Sweat, a typical frontiers man was brought to the sheriff's of- flee yesterday on the complaint of Charles Batre, the mining man. eharg- ing him with threatening his life. Sweat is the owner of a ranch on the Agua Fria opposite the mouth of Castle Creek. He was taken before Justice Parker who fixed his bond at 5000 and set the case for hearing
 Sweat who is a mild appearing man of fifty-seven, yet one with whom the keen observer of human nature would not take unwarranted liberties, told his story of the affair at the sheriff's office yesterday evening.
 He said that while the territory in which he is located was part of the reserve he squatted on 120 acres of rich land where he now lives. When that part of the reserve was detached and thrown open to entry he filed a homestead on the land he had occupied three years as a squatter. His application was made a year ago at the land office
 Batre he said had been locating all that part of the country lying above him but did not intrude upon his holdings until last spring when the Batre locations were spread over his farm. Yet he noticed no monuments were put up until the early part of this week.
 The men appeared on the ranch and erected monuments and put up a large notice in barley field warn ing all and sundry persons against trespassing on the "Almar R. Batre Placer Claim Sweat was in the house and did not observe these i'm provements until his attention was called to them by his children. About the same time his wife saw the men. One of them was digging holes and the other had a gun slung across his arm. Sweat started out to interview them when his wife told him that he had better take his rifle and he lid SO.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
MAN ADVOCATE OF
 STATEHOOD
(From Saturdays Daily)

AIlOul CdluLudy OdAAl)
 J. E. Jones, superintendent of pub lie schools of Coeonino county, while in the city yesterday, from Flagstaff informed many friends that it was his unqualified opinion that statehood only was the issue and in harmony with the prevailing sentiment, he would also fall in line and vote for admission. MT. Jones also said:
 "While it is true, supported the constitution as adopted, and earnest ly hoped for its approval at Wash ington, the situation so far as it ap- plies to me and my vote, has been altered by subsequent happenings, and I will acquiese and again vote for the territory getting into the Union. I trust that it will be the last state hood vote I will east, and that the fight that has been waging for over twenty years to my own personal knowledge will be thing of mem ory only"
 MT. Jones also stated that many are falling into line to view the sit nation from the same patriotic stand point, and although in favor of the constitution as a whole, would rally to the good cause.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
ALEXANDER OLDS SUCCUMDS ID
 ILLNESS
(From Saturdays Daily

Alexander Olds, by occupation a mining camp cook, after a brief ilI- ness, passed away yesterday morning in this city. He was brought from Mayer the day before, suffering with heart trouble. He had been a resi- dent of this section for over twenty years and enjoyed a good name as an industrious citizen. He was aged g years and a native of Michigan. His remains are being held at Ruffner's awaiting adviees from relatives.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
RUSHING IN LOCATIONS
From Fridays Dafly)

Another oil syndicate has entered the Verde Valley, and is known as the Yuma Verde company, all inter ested being residents of the city of Yuma. Forty locations were filed for record yesterday, aggregating 6,4O0 acres, and embracing several points in the valley that have not been taken up. It is said the new concern will immediately begin ex- ploration by introducing drilling ma ehinery
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
From Sundays Daily.)

In line with the action of the Chamber of Commerce last week in suggesting that the citizens of Pres colt write to Governor Mills of New Mexico asking his cooperation in the construction of a highway in his ter ritory to connect with the proposed route through the northern Arizona counties to Prescott, the Journal Miner sent the following self-explan- atory letter to the Governor whose reply follows:
 August 19, 1911. Hon. W. J. Mills. Governor of New
 Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 Sir: We have been informed that one of your Territorial Highways is now completed westward to a point near the city of Gallup. It is be Geved that the extension of this road westward through the northern part of Arizona, will result in untold ben eft to both Arizona and New Mexico.
 Through a publicity campaign, in itiated through our columns, by the Arizona Good Roads association, the Prescott Auto Club and the Chamber of Commerce. the County Boards of Supervisors of Yavapai, Coeonino, Mo- have and Apache counties have pledg- ed themselves to have a practicable auto road finished to connect from the New Mexican line eastward to Flagstaff and from Flagstaff south ward to the Maricopa county boun- diary, by November 1st.
 A. L. Westgard, secretary of the touring committee of the American Automobile association, will arrive at a point near Gallup, on his way to the Pacific ocean from New York city. November 1Ith. Our desire is to have the Westgard party travel due east from Gallup, taking in the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Moqui villages, Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Flagstaff, instead of de- touring via Mccarthy, White Noun tains, Roosevelt and Phoenix.
 Z The proposed re-routing will take the party southward through Yava- pal county by automobile instead of laying up their cars at Phoenix and making the journey northward through Prescott and this county by night. Our purpose in writing you is to give our best assurance that the pledges of the county boards named @gin be faithfully carried out. Nat l ural roads in this section of the | county have proved an unqualified | success as to maintenance at all | times of the year at minimum cost Engineers who have looked over the route have so advised us.
 Our supervisors have funds avail able at this writing for the carrying out of this work; besides, we have assurances that the FoPst Reserve fund, or a part thereof can be count ed on to render these roads more substantial and permanent.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
Very truly yours,
 WILLIAM J. MILLS, J. W. Mines, Esq., Arizona Journal-Miner, Prescott. Arizona.
EXCITEMENT SPREADS
(From Saturdays Daily)


 The flow of oil land locations from the Verde Valley continues, and yes terday fifty-six locators were filed on 1900 acres of land, which embraces mountain sections that are over fiji teen miles from the scene of the first excitement.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
PRINTERS TO PLAY BASEBALL

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 9. - Two score members of the Boston Typo graphical union left today for St. Louis to attend the coming baseball tournament of the Union Printers . National Baseball association, which includes teams in ten of the largest cities
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
'GREETERs" MEET IN MACON

MACON, Ga, Aug. 25.-The South eastern Greeters' Association, the membership of which is made up of the managers and clerks of the lead ing hotels throughout this section of the country, began its first annual convention here today with good at tendance.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
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Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
GOVERNOR MILLSN
 FAVOR OF PROJECT
Assures Journal-Miner That He Will Have Engineer Reconnoiter Proposed
 Route to Arizona Line

Honorable T. G. Norris, president of the Arizona Good Roads assoeia- tion tells us that he hopes to have the pleasure of laying this project be- fore you in extensO A hint from you by immediate return as to your attitude toward this project will en- able us to give it such publicity as will start the work in every county named.
 Thanking you in anticipation of your reply, which we respectfully trust will be favorable, we are, Sir,
 Very respectfully,
 ARIZONA, JOURNAL-MINER,
 By Editor
 Governors Reply
 Executive Office, Santa Fe. N. M.,
 August 21, 1911.
 Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of Aug. 18th in regard to the construction of a road from Albu- querque to the Arizona line near Gallup. Our legislature has authoriz- ed the construction of a road from Raton in Colfax county to Fl PasO, Texas, passing through Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, etc. A con siderable amount of work has been done upon this road although it is not yet completed Our road com mission is authorized to work on such roads as we deem for the best inter est of the territory, and it may be possible for the commission to under take the building of a road on the lines indicated by you in your letter. It is reported that oil has been struck in the vicinity of Gallup, and if such ;s a fact it makes the building of this road more feasible. Just what the character of the country is through which the road will pass I am not at present advised, but we will in due course have an engineer go over the ground with view to asceItaining if it is possible for us, within any reasonable limits. to build a road as suggested by you. have heard from Mir. Norris in regard to this question.
 Assuring you that New Mexico is greatly interested in good roads and that we will do all in our power to assist in any project in which our sis ter state may be interested, believe me as ever,
 Very truly yours,
 WILLIAM J. MILLS, J. W. Mines, Esq,
 Arizona Journal-Miner,
 Prescott. Arizona.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30

If you want a broiled Steak, Chicken or Chops, you can get it exactly as you want it at Birch Bros. Restaurant ss
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
SlRES AND SONS.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is the
stage name of Henry Birnbaum, the
actor-manager.
Senator Thomas S. Martin OF Vir.
ginia has resided on the same planta.
ton. two miles from Scottsville, since
1858.
Lyman j. Gage, ex-secretary of the
treasury, has never recovered from the
epidemic of bicycle fever of the mid
die nineties.
Senator Albert b. Cummins of Iowa
was a surveyor in his early days and
later assistant chief engineer on n rail-
road in Ohio.
President Taft has "twln" in con-
gress. He is George II. Malby. repre-
senting the Twenty-sixth New York
district. Both were born Sept. 10,
1857.
Josef Stronsky. one of the most tai
ented OF the younger school of German
composers. has been engaged to sue
coed Gustav Mailer as conductor of
the New York Philharmonic orches-
ira.
Frederick @. Selous. the famous bic
game hunter. Is an inveterate tea
drinker and partakes of this beverage
with every menl. Yet he has nerves
of steel. He has been total abstain
er and a nonsmoker all his life
Henry l.. Stimson. the newly mp
pointed secretary of war. IL a New
Englander by birth, who first came
into prominence when President Roose-
welt appointed him United States dis
trict attorney for the southern district
Of New York.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
A LAWYER Turns Sailor.

a pair of uncalloused hands will pull
at the ropes of the Juteopolis, a square
rigger that drops down the bay soon
hound for Sydney, Australia, with a
million gallons of oil aboard. The own
er OF these hands is Richard Matthews
Hallett, Harvard 1910, who has shipped
on the Juteopolis as an ordinary sea.
man Young Hallett was graduated
from the Harvard law school last year
and came TO this city to work in the
Office OF Judge Hand in the federal
building. He grew tired of books a
few weeks ago, marched down to the
offices Of the Standard Oil company,
the new owners Of the Juteopois. and
told them he wanted a job as a sailor.
man. They persuaded the captain of
the bark to take Hallett along. Hal.
lett says that he may leave the ship
at Sydney and ship again on another
square rieger for the island OF zap,
which is regular island in the Caro-
line group on the Pacific with a name
that appeals to Hallett-New York
Sun.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
Counterfeit Deteetors.

"Few men carry a bigger roll than
the professional detector of counter
feits." said a receiving teller of one
of the big banks recently. Each of
these counterfeit detectors has a spe-
cial license from the treasury depart
ment at Washington which permits
him to carry about $50 samples Of
counterfeit money. 1t is a felony to
have counterfeit money in your pos
session without proper authority. For
each bogus bill the counterfeit de
tector carries genuine note of the
same kind and denomination for the
purposes of comparison. The total
value of this good money that is car.
ried side by side with the bad is be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 The bills
run from dollar up to $1,000 in de.
denomination. New York Sun.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
Woman's Suffrage.

A mems league for woman suffrage
has been organized at Harvard college.
No less than seventy-four city and
town councils OF Great Britain and Ire
land have adopted resolutions to pc
tltion parliament to pass the woman
suffrage bill.
Professor A. II. Hatton OF Western
Reserve university says tho greatest
reason for giving the ballot to women
il for the good influence It will have
on women themselves.
Meeting under a banner reading
Equal Suffrage" the California w.
q. 4. U. convention. In recent session,
unanimously passed a resolution ia
vnring votes for women.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
oBLIGING CRABS.
Present Their Claws to Fishers Who
Shake Hands With Them.


Shake Hands With Them.
Visitors In Seville see women carry
Ing baskets full of crabs claws. The
claws are cooked. and people nibble
at them more for fun than sustenance,
just as Russians nibble sunflower
seeds. What becomes of the rest Of
this crustacean, especially if he is a
crawflsh. of his tail?
AS a matter of fact the crawfish has
no part in the business. The claws
are taken from a salt water crab
which lives along the shores of Mo-
rocco, Spain and Portugal. Each little
crab. with its one little mate, has a
cave for home, and, adopting the
eastern estimate of the other sex, he
usually keeps his wife shut inside the
cave, meanwhile staying about the
threshold himself and making a brave
show with his big claws.
When the tide runs out the crab
fishers prowl along the beach looking
for crab holes. Either the crab Is
stalking up and down seeking what
he may devour and thus showing
whether he has fine claws or he is
still at home. and the size of his door
way indicates the size of the house
holder. In one case the fisherman cuts
off his retreat by blocking his front
door with mud; in the other case he
digs him out. Anyway, he deprives
him of his pincers and sets him at
liberty to grow some more.
Right here appears the quaintest fea-
ture of the whole affair. for the pin
GERS are not torn away from the crab
at all. Instead he presents them to
the fisherman, perhaps even with his
compliments. 1t is Il fact, easily de-
monstrable that the crab can detach
his claw by muscular effort. thus max
ing no hemorrhage. but leaving the
stump in such condition that new
claw is soon grown. The fishermen
simply take the crab by the hand,
whereupon it lets go, leaves the claw
with them and romps off home with
out it.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17
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Private Own
ership Of Public
Utilities Root Of
Civic Corruption
By FRANCIS j. HENEY. Noted Graft
5 j. HENEY. Noted Graft
Prosecutor

%(H have been trying self government for ONE HUN
~ DRIED AND TWENTY YEARS. 1t took ONE
W. HUNDRED AND TWELVE YEARS for us to find
: the PROPER way to cast BALLOTS, and we got
this from faro Australia In spite of Fourth of July speeches.
which each other that intelligent people on
EARTH we have yet attained only PARTIAL SELF GOVERN
MENT.
In city have been the CONSPICUOUS
FAILURES, and the PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF PUBLIC
UTILITIES at the bottom of about all the troubles we have
Small offenders be punished but with connected with
public utilities.
10 JAIL individual agents like screening yellow fever pa
tent so that the mosquito bite the patient thus spread
the disease Efecual only be made by destroying the
CAUSE of the corruption.
IN MY OPINION THE ONLY REMEDY Is THE PUB
Lie OWNERSHIP OF ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES WOULD EN-.
LIST ALL THOSE ENERGETIC WEALTHY INFLUENTIAL MEN
ON THE SIDE OF GOVERNMENT TIMES IN ORDER
10 OBTAIN GENERAL PROSPERITY CITY THROUGH EE
EICiENr AND ECONOMICAL MANAGEMENT THESE UTILITIES
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-17

and inquiries. and a closer co-opera-
ton Of the consular service and the
other government bureaus for the ex-
tension of American foreign trade are
some Of the means which may be en-
ployed"
The opening Of the Panama canal,
the development Of South America,
and the opportunities for business in
the orient are some Of the possibilities
that are giving the manufacturers
food for thought and calculation.
shall Europe be allowed TO monopo-
lie these markets." is question
which American business men are ask
ing each other all over the country.
When the canal is opened. the west
ocast OF Sout America, now remote.
will lie az the very door Of the Allan
tic seaboard tt will even be more
accessible than &c the oost coast today.
In the past tNe Europeans have ciroled
Cape Horn 90 reach the cowwi.toc
west Of the Andes. and they have sold
goods there without competition from
America.
The same is true Of the orient. Am
ericau manufacturers Of the east have
their goods across the CONT
nent by rail and transhipped them 10
tire Far Fast by water. an expensive
with the canal open, they
can reach the orient by water, and
do it for less per ton than can the
Of Europe.
All these things and many more
have interested American manufactur-
ers and caused them 10 unite in one
common effort TO double the export
trade of this country in half a decade.
II this comes to pass the domestic
Of the people Of the United
States viii increase i'm proportion 1t
Is a big job the manufacturers have
but the rewards will be
proportionately large.