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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-17

After experimenting this year in
growing Turkish tobacco near Platte
vile, Colo, Constantine MacGregor of
Denver is convinced that the weed pro-
duced in Colorado has a flavor and
aroma equal, if not superior, to that
produced in Turkey. Mr.. MacGregor
planted three acres of the weed this
year. It was the first Turkish tobacco
ever grown in Colorado. A portion of
the stock was destroyed by grasshop-
pers early in the season, but that which
escaped has surprised all who have seen
in because of it's luxuriant growth. 1t
has been cured and brought to Denver,
where it will be manufactured into
cigarettes and fine smoking tobacco.
Mr.. MacGregor says Colorado soil will
produce 1000 pounds of Turkish tobac-
co to the acre, and that it is worth
from 25 to so cents pound. He is
we'll satisfied with his experiment this
year, and he is planning to plant ten
acres or more of tobacco next year.
Following the announcement of the
circuit court decision in the tobacco
case, the securities of the American
Tobacco Co. rose rapiply in stock ex-
change quotations. The common stock
sold around $50 on Thursday, marking
a recovery of So points, and it was
prophesied by some of the financial ex-
perts that it will soon regain the high
price of $40 made last winter. The
preferred and the bonds also rose,
nearly 81, 900, 900 part value Of the
bonds being dealt in within the hour.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
OPENING OF FARMERS
 AND MERCHANTS BANK
DOORS WILL BE THROWN OPEN THIS MORNING FOR BUSINESS.
A Solid institution and Credit To the
 City.

The new Farmers and Merchants bank of Phoenix will open this morning in it's quarters in the old banking rooms of the Arizona National, on Washing ton The banking rooms have been en- trely changed in their appearance, however, and the floor has been low cred to grade. which makes the en- trance more convenient. It will be one of the best equipped banking rooms in the city and the directors anticipate a gratifying success for the new institu- ton.
 In order to make their banking hours conform to the convenience of their de- positors, the Farmers and Merchants will be. open on Saturdays from 3 to 9 D. m. It was urged by farmers and others who want to draw on their ac. counts after F o'clock on Saturday, that they find it impossible to reach the bank until late in the afternoon, and sometimes in the evening. It is ex-
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
HEAVY DEMAND
 FOR PANAMA BONDS
Favorable Showing for the Nations
 Credit.

Washington, June 15.-More than two thousand bids for the govern ment's s50,0O0,000 issue of three per cent. Panama bonds will be opened by Secretary McVeagh tomorrow after noon. Financiers are greatly interest ed in what price the issue will bring.
 The bonds have been selling on the New York curb as high as 103. Gov ernment officials think the average price bid will range from 101 to 1O3. Most of the securities of foreign na- tions are selling below par and the prices bid for the new Panamas will be taken to reflect the credit of this nation as it compares with others.
 Clerks will work tomorrow night and Sunday in tabulating the bids, and the results will not be known be- fore Monday. The securities will be delivered about July 1.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
NEW MEXICO END OF TT.

Washington, D. C., June 16-Charles A. Spiess. president of the New Mex leo constitutional convention and Judge A. B. Fall, member of the convention. before the senate committee ou terri tories today favored the immediate ac- ceptance of the constitution as adopted. Both of them defended the document as conservative
 Responding to an Objectionto the con- stitution as originally drawn because 1t was apparently unamendable, Judge Fall declared that it had been framed to conform to the varied conditions in the territory. It had been approved he said, by more than two-thirds of the voters of the territory and ne added that the people of New Mexico knew what they wanted.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
EARLY VOTE EXPECTED
 0N WOOLEN SCHEDULE
GENERAL DEBATE WILL END ON
 MONDAY.
Plea Against Revision In Advance of
 Tariff Board Report.

Washington, D. C.. June 16-The de- fense of the American Woolen company in the debate on the resolution for an investigation which is pending, was made in the house today by Represen- tative Weeks, Of Massachusetts, who cred a trust.
 The wOolen schedule occupied the house all day. Representatives Weeks and Longworth were among these who spoke against the bill; Representatives Macon and Oldfield. both of Arkansas, and Ayers of New York for it. The American Woolen company, l" said Weeks, manufactures more than fifteen per cent of the goods of the country It does not control the price of wooden products in this country nor the price of labor employed by the in- dustry. It never paid exhorbitant pro- fits. is not controlled by millionaires. and has never sold it's products abroad. cheaper than at home. The people here are getting the benefit Of competition in the wooden industry"
 Weeks said the stock of the company was distributed among 12.400 holders, the average holding being only 56 shares The wool schedule Mir. Weeks insisted. should not be revised until the tariff board had an opportunity to gather complete statistics regarding the wooden industry.
 Mir. Longworth pleaded for time for the tariff board He accused the dem ocrats of changing face on the tariff board question.
 Representatives Macon and Oldield, while favOring the bill expressed the opinion that it should have gone furth- CT and provided free raw wool.
 The house held a night session as Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee desired to have all general debate on the bill closed by Monday While no date has been fixed Mir. Underwood hopes to reeach a vote by the middle of next week.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
ALL ARE INVITED
 ID WHITE HOUSE RELATIVES OF ALL PRESIDENTS IN HALF CENTURY. None Have So Far Been Found of
 President Mckinley.

Washington, June 16.-The descend ants and relatives of every president of the United States since 1861 have been invited to the silver wedding celebration which President and Mrs. Taft will give at the White House on June 19. The list is believed to be complete except as to relatives of President Mckinley. The White House has appealed to George B. Cor te;yoU, former secretary to Mir Me Kinney, for the names of members Of the Mckinley family who are still living.
 AlnoLS thocc invited are Mir and Mrs Robert T. Lincoln, MT. and Mrs. Andrew J. Patterson of Greenville. Tenn, grandson of President Johnson Major General Frederick D. Grant and Mrs Grant, Y. Grant, Jr. Mir. and Mrs Jesse Grant. Miss Nellie Grant and Mrs Nellie Grant SartorisL Col Webb Hayes. Mrs. Scott Hayes and Mir and Mrs. Rutherford, Mir. and Mrs. Burchard and Professor and Mrs Henry VI. Smith of President Hayes family; MT. and Mrs. Chester Allen Arthur; MT. and Mrs. Harry A. Garfield, MT. and Mrs. James R. Gar field. MT. and Mrs. Irwin McD. Gar field, MT. and Mrs. Abraham Car field and Mrs. Stanley Brown, daugh- ter of President Garfield; Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of President Cleveland: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison IT., Mir. and Mrs. Russell E. Harrison. Mir. and Mrs J R Mckee. Miss Mckee; Colonel and Mrs Roosevelt. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt. Mir. and Mrs. Theo- dore Roosevelt. Jr.. and Mir. and Mrs. Nicholas LOngwOrth.
 Just how many of these invitations will be accepted is not known at the White House.
 Colonel Roosevelt and Mrs. ROose- welt will be unable to be present, but it is probable that members of the Roosevelt family will attend the re- ceptiOn.
 Elaborate preparations have been made for the entertainment of prob ably the largest number that has ever been present at the White House
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
ABSENCE IF
 OPPOSITION Makes Work of Securing
 Contracts Easy. TOTAL YARDAGE SIGNED
Paving Contractor Gratified by General Approval Man ifested by Property Hold ers-About Thirty Thou sand Yards Signed Up.

When the contracts signed yester- day by the property holders were added to those already taken, the representative of the Barber Asphalt company, NIT. l.. r. Conway, an nounced the total amount of paving for which contracts were given to be 29.150 yards. Considering the short time the commission and the cOntrac- tor have been at work circulating the contracts, the results obtained are considered remarkable, and it Is expected that the remainder of the yardage will be signed up within the coming week, with the exception. per haps, of a few hundred yards before property owned by non-residents.
 When asked to state his opinion of the probability of having all con- tracts signed up within a few days. Mir Conway said last night:
 The prospects are that contracts for the total yardage will be given in a short time. for we have not met with a single refusal so far. and l do not anticipate any difficulty whatever, as the people seem to be completely satisfied with the progress of the work. and with the measures which have been taken to insure paved streets for Phoenix Without excep- ton. the property holders we have so far met are enthusied over the having. and I do not think l have ever before been in charge of such large project as that of paving the streets of this city in which l have been given as little opposition, and. in fact. in which I have received such generous assistance, as I have received from the citizens and the property holders of Phoenix"
 The success in taking the contracts has been so satisfactory that the con tractor expects to receive the asphalt machinery and all the equipment nec- cssary for the manufacture of the high grade of bitulithic he will lay in this city, by the end of next week, and after the arrival Of the machinery the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
 No action was taken yesterday either by the council or the paving commission, which might lead to a settlement of the difficulty concerning the number of standards to be used in carrying out the plan for new lighting system.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
Il Was Not FIaltened bQ
 Late Revolution CREDIT SOON REPAIRED
Denial of Rumor That Re public Is to Sell Railroads Which, in Spite of Losses, Have Pair Four Per Cent. Annual Dividends.

Mexico City. June 16.-Notwith- standing the losses incurred by the National railway of Mexico as the result of the revolution. a dividend of f per cent on the preferred stock will be paid as usual. said ErnestO MaderO. the new minister of finance. today, while discussing a story that the government proposed to sell it's stock in that company The minister denied the story.
 Regarding the depreciation of Mex ican bonds in foreign markets. Mir. Madero declared that quotations have been lowered but little and he ex- pressed the opinion that they speed fly would resume their position in the list
 "The reserve fund of the govern ment." said he. "is such that the in- terest and amortization of the na- tional debt can be maintained for many years"
 A plan Co relieve the embarrassing situation in Lower California will be put into effect immediately. Orders have been issued bv the war depart ment to General GOrdillo Escudero. with a thousand men. to leave Chi huahua Sunday for Fl Paso, en route to Lower California. The delay is said to have been due in some degree tO feeling of pride on the part of the war department officials, to the extent that they wished 10 clothe their men in new uniforms before starting them. Now. however, every thing is said to he ready for the campaign.
 In connection with the departure of troops for Lower California. high government official said today that a plan is being worked out for colo nization of the territory on a large scale. Thousands Of Mexican families are to be transplanted and given every aid toward settling and improv- ing the peninsula.
 With the same enthusiasm that characterized his first entry into the capital last week. Francisco | Ma dero was welcomed here today by an immense throng on his return from a five days trip through south ern Mexico With Madero was Am brosio F'igueroa. who once command ed 12,0OO men composing the insur- gent army of the south
 MaderO returned satisfied that the inhabitants of the south will support him and that normal conditions have been resumed. To only one person and one place are expeditions to be sent tO complete peace. The person is Emilio Zapata. an enemy of Figue- rOa. under whose command he was supposed to have acted at Cuerna- vaca where Zapata's men were quar- tered Madero is endeavOring to muster out Zapata's 1,5OO men quick ly. Zapata as a source of trouble. it is admitted has not been removed. Madero's trip through the south. where he conferred with rebel chiefs. hastened the dispersal of the large bodies of insurrecto troops
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
Narrator Was Present al Birth of American Industry .oxNARD ON THE STAND
His Struggles With the Sugar Trust and a Subse- quent Relation That Was Severed in the Shadow of the Penitentiary.

Washington. D. C.. June 16-The story of the birth of the beet sugar in dustrv. it's trials and temptations and how the Oxnard Bros, enriched oy more than half million dollars through the little transaction" of selling cane sugar refinery in Brooklyn to the flrst sugar trust in 1877, were features Of the testimony Henry T. OXnard gave today to the house sugar investigating committee. He was on the stand all day and will be followed Monday by James H. Post. president of the Nation- al Refining company.
 Oxnard assigned as his reason for at tempting the making of beet sugar in this country anu the sale to the trust of his refinery at Brooklyn, his belief that the introduction of the beet in dnstry would be profitable" and pat riotic. He described the building of the first factories and then he told the story of the organization of the Amer ican Beet Sugar company. Of the -2e.- 900 GOO stock he said OXnard Bros. at one time owned sixty per cent but now they possess only three per cent. He would not admit that this stock was watered. testifying that the valuation Of the property was about Sl2.000.OOO. while the preferred stock was worth S5, ,OOO coo and the common stock $7o0,- OOO
 At the afternoon session Representa- tive Madison asked OXnard if in reality the American Sugar Refining company had not tried to use its power in 1901 to drive the beet sugar refiners out of business by unfair competition in cut ting prices below cost in the Missouri river territory. At first his answer was indefinite but finally the witness said: T think it is a fair presump- tion that they designed to drive us out"
 Why did they not succeed?" contin- ued the congressman.
 Well. our contracts with the grOc- CTS were to sell at a price less than the open market price on the date of delivery. The American Sugar Refin- ing company evidently thought that by reducing the price about the time our deliveries were made we would be un- able to fill contracts But word open saved us. We told the grocers that sugar could not be purchased in the open market at a reduced price. If it could we authorized them as our agents to buy large amount for us. They could not do so'
 Oxnard said that the only time the American Beet Sugar company had any agreement with the American Sugar Refining company was in 1902 when the former became the selling agency of the latter That contract was can celled, he said when Wayne MacVeagh, the lawyer in 1906. gave an opinion that it would send them to the peni- tentiary if they continued it.
 What will make sugar cheaper 9" asked Chairman Hardwick
 Leaving it alone until the beet sug- ar industry Is able to compete with the world. Advances in the industry have been rapid here and they will go on if you give the industry a chance"
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
CLEVELAND WINNER
 IN WESTERN GOLF
Conclusion of Annual Contest for the
 Tom Morris Trophy.

Chicago. June 16.-The Country club of Cleveland. ohio, with a score of 19 down on par, was unofficially announced the winner over seventy three teams entered in the Tom Nor ris memorial trophy competition to- day. The official result of the match will not be determined until the records of all the games have been received and examined by the officers of the Western Golf association. More than a score of teams entered were prevented from playing by rain, the downpour extending from the great lakes to the Rocky mountains. Many clubs. on the other hand. disregarded the storm and played the match through the rain.
 The Exmoor Country club of Chi cago was Cleveland's nearest rival, with 2S holes down; Portsmouth (OD club third. 29 holes. and the Skokie Country club of Chicago next with 35 holes.
 The Tom Morris trophy is the an nual contest, IS holes against the official par of various courses. open to all clubs of the Western Golf as sociation and is played by chosen
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE r, 1911.

pected that this new arrangement will be a cause of satisfaction to out-of- town depOsitors.
 A strong board of directors and dis count committee has been organized for the bank, composed of we'll known farmers and merchants, who will ap- prove all loans, and conduct the busi- ness of the institution on a conserva- tive basis
 The officers of the bank are: F. s Westfall, president; J. B. Westfall cashier; A. G. Smoot, vice president; C. L. Garber, assistant cashier.
 Before coming to Arizona both F. s and J. B. Westfall were engaged in the banking business, and the other officers are well known. Mir. Garber has had charge of a government Indian school for the last ten years, and Mr. Shoot has been a resident of the valley for more than thirty years.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
Committee May Dispose of Statehood Resolution TOdaQ A FAVORABLE PROSPECT
The First Session of Com mittee Monopolized by New Mexican Represen- tatives Urging Approval of Their Constitution.

Washington. D. C., June 16-(Spec- iaD-The senate committee on terri tories met this morning to consider the statehood resolution. Judge Fall oc- cupied the time of the committee.
 Chairman Smith submitted telegrams from twenty-six commercial organiza- tions asking favorable action on the Flood resolution. Arizona was repre- sented by Delegate Cameron, Hoval Smith. Mark Smith and J. P. Orme of Phoenix; Cleve Van Dyke of Globe and LeRoy Anderson of Prescott.
 The committee wants tO finish it's hearings tomorrow if possible. It au- pears now that the committee will re- port the Flood resolution favorably.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
EARLY DISPOSITION
 OF RECIPROCITY BILL
THE MEASURE FORGED TO SEC.
 oND READING.
The Root Amendment to be Over
 whelmingly Defeated.

Washington, D. c, June 16-The determination of the senate finance committee to push through the Cana dian reciprocity bill and the confi dence of the leaders of a clear ma jority in favor of the bill without amendement was made plain today when Chairman Penrose forced the bill into second reading and predicted it's early passage. Considerable of the measure was brief as no one was prepared to speak at length.
 Before the senate assembled Sen ator Penrose gave out a formal statement claiming sixty votes were in favor of the passage of the bill and more than that many votes against the Root amendment which affects the importation of wood pulp and paper.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
NOT GUILTY HIMSELF
 WARREMER INNOCENT
Statement of Another Defendant Charged with RObbins Big Four

Cincinnati, Ohio. June 15.-The ending of d sensational trial came today when attorneys representing the prosecution and defense in the case of Edgar s. Cooke. charged with embedding s2.40O from the Big Four railroad. said they would forego the arguments. The court thereupon an- nounced that instructions would be given the jury Monday. The defense was begun and ended today and Cooke himself gave practically the en- tire estimony on which it rests. He denied emphatically that he had ever stolen a dollar from the Big Four or had comimtted " dishonest act. He also denied that he was aware that Charles l.. Warriner was short s643.- 900. He then startled his hearers by declaring: T know Warriner was not short and can prove it if I have a chance"
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
MOUNTAIN OF MUD.
Delay in Exploration of Wreck of
 the Maine.

Havana. Cuba. June 16-NO further development or change in connection with the uncovering of the wreck of the battlesnip Maine is probable within the next ten or twelve days. said Gen eral Bixby tonight, following complete circumnaviSation and investigation of the wreck in a launch by the board of American officers who are supervis- ing the work
 Before further exploration is possible it will be necessary to remove masses of mud aggregating hundreds of tons on the spar deck and almost complete ly filling the interior spaces of the vessel
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17

ing mills. box factories, lumber yards and like establishments
 A spectacular fire tonight damaged the mill, warehouse and lumber yards of the William G. Frye Manufacturing company to the extent of s30O,O00.
 While the fire was at it's height a demand for protection was made upon the police by John Larson. of the Lohse Patent Door company. operating a large mill and owner of one of the largest lumber storage plants in the country.
 Pressed for some definite information upon which the police might act they were cited by the manufacturers to number of instances, tending to con meet some members of a union. which has been on strike since March with the fires. No arrests have been made though guards of police have been pro- vided to supply in large measure pro lection against reOccurrence of fires
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17

sert the words: Two thousand, four hundred and fifty dollars in the printed voucher and that half an hour after he had paid the money to Mich ael he inquired what the payment was for and was told in MichaePs office that it was for the Day portrait.
 Then he immediately instructed the clerk to write on the voucher that it was for the Day portrait. The nOta- tions on the back which appeared later referring to emergency payments for diplomatic business, Morrison said were not on the voucher that day
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
PROBING THE MYSTERY
 0F PORTRAIT VOUCHER
House Committee Finds Clerk Who
 Knows Something or 1t.

Washington, n. C., June 16-Thomas Morrison. diSbursing clerk in the state department today told the house com mittee on expenditures of the state de- parment that he had been instructed. when tEe missing voucher in the Day portrait case. under investigation, was found on the floor of his office few days ago to keep still about the discov- cry. This instruction, he said, was given him by Wilbur J. Carr. chief of the consular bureau.
 Mir Morrison explained further that on the day he handed $2.450 in cash to former Chief Clerk Michael. on June Is, 1904, he had ordered the clerk to in-
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
cAPoNY DREW FIFTH LANeFoRo.

Winnipeg. Manitoba. ostne I6-Sam Langford. the negro fighter. and Tony Capony of Chicago, fought a ten round draw here tonight For four rounds Langford played with Capony and in the seventh the negro had his opponent in bad shape. Both fighters were on their feet at the finish
Arizona republican., 1911-06-17
SEQUEL OF voN PHUL'S DEATH
Tragedy Gave Denver Divorce Case
 Start.

Denver, Colo, June 16.-Attorneys for Mrs John w. Springer. wife of the president of the Continental Trust company of this city. today admitted that a summons in a divorce action had been served on their client two weeks ago at Chicago, where she had gone immediately after the shoot ing of Louis (Tony) Von Phul. the St. Louis balloonist. by Frank II HenwOod in a hotel barroom here on May 24.
 Mrs. Springer's name was coupled with the killing of Von Puhl. and it is declared that letters from Mrs Springer to Von Puhl form the basis of the divorce action.