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Notice

Motion by Geo. Webster, seconded by B. F. Billingsley, to advertise for bids on retaining concrete wall in front of court house which said ad- vertisement is as follows:
 The Board of Supervisors, of Green lee County, Territory of Arizona, will receive sealed proposals on concrete retaining wal, cement faced, to be built, in front of the court house, Hills addition.
 Wall to be lIO feet long, feet high above ground, 10 inches thick on top, with batter of l-2 inch to the foot. on both front and back of wall.
 Wall to have a footing Of 12 inches under ground, not cement faced.
 There will be a wing wall on both ends, running back 20 foot to grade. Wing walls to have same dimensions as to thickness, batter etc., as front wall.
 There will be set of steps in the
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Notice

Upon motion by B. P. Billingsley, seconded by Geo. Webster, sealed bids will be received by the Board of Supervisors, npto and until the hoar of 10 o'clockfa. m., Monday Dec. 4th, 1911, for the construction of the Duncan-CliftOn wagon road, from York flat to Duncan. Arizona, ais tance of about thirteen miles, in ac- cordance to profile and plans of said proposed road now on file in this office.
 Bidders may bid upon one or more miles, or the entire road; all bids must be accompanied by a certified check of at least ten per cent of the amount of the bid, and the success ful bidder or bidders give a good and sufficient bond to insure the faithfal performa of the work.
 All bids must be addressed to VI. O. Wheatley, Clerk of the Board of Clifton, Greenlee Couu- ty, Arizona, and marked: Propoeal for the Construction of the Duncan Clifton Wagon Road.
 The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
 Attest:
 w. O. WHEATLEY, Clerk.
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They Away Pick on Me" Carmen Garrison.
 ''That Was Before I Met You'' Abraham Ferber.
 "Come Back Margaret" G.N. .Boehm.
 'Oh You Girls, Girls, Girls" Misses Martin, Galloway and Jennings.
 Concluding with "Aiexander's Rag Time Band'' Roy Col burn and Dauber Mason. Assisted by the entire com pany.
 The Elks Minstrels was under tn e direction Of Rufus K. Love and Miss M. M. Bond presided at the piano. This is the second attraction staged in this city under the direction Of MT Love and the concensus of opinion was that that 1911 "Elks Minstrels'' was the equal if not the best Of any amateur show ever given in Clifton.
 The old. old story which, was at- tempted to be told by-Cal Cole had to do with the building of the million dollar shelter by the Arizona Copper Co., Company officials who were pre- sent seemed to enjoy the joke as well if not better than the audience in general.
 The Elks never do anything by halves and the entertainment furPish- ed by that order was in full keeping with the world wide reputation for being the Best People On Earth.
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Notice for Publication

Department of the Interior 1O277S U. S. Land office at Phoenix, Ariz, October 10, 1911.
 Notice is hereby given that George:Thomp- son of Blue, Ariz., who on December 13 1910. made homestead entry NO. Ol2773 for 5S SE 1< sec 20, N 1z SW 1< sec 2l, twp sn, R sle, G S $ R meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final five year proof to establish claim to the land above described before J. J. Kelly, U S. court commissioner at Clifton, Ariz., on the P day of November 1911.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 Charles Thomas, Frederick Fritz J. H. T. Cosper, R N. Hollis, all of Blue Ariz.
 Frank H. Parker, Register.
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another question that concerns us al l and the questions: Did the republican party create the high tariff? Did the high tariff create the trusts' Did the trusts create the high cost of living? Well, rest assured that our friend Dan Lynch will be able to present the socialistic principles as related to che high cost of living in all it's truthfulness. GEO. GHIzONI,
 Fin Secs S. P. & A.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
 Sc rial No. 0I5S59

Phoenix, Ariz., Land Office. Oct. B. 1911.
 Notice is hereby given that Santa Fe Pacific Railroad company of Topeka, County Of Shaw nee. State of Kansas. has hIed in this office it's application to select under the provisions of the act of congress approved June 4. 1897, (30 stats EI-S5) and act of congress approved March 3, 1905 (Ss stats 1264) the following described land, viz: Lot 9, sec 6, T ,, 30. 6 6 R NJ, Phoenix. Arizona land district.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the lands described, desiring to object because of the mineral character of the land, or for any other reason. tothe disposal to applicant should file their afrldavits of protest in this office on or before the 4th day of December. 1911.
 Frank H. Parker. Register,
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Notice Town Taxes

Notice is hereby given that Dupli- cate assessment roll of the Town of Clifton is now completed and that taxes are now due and payab ble to the Treasurer and tax collector of the Town of Clifton. Taxes vii! be re- ceived at the First National Bank of Clifton between the hours of a. m. and 3 p. m. of each day except Sun days and Holidays. Unless taxes are paid before the 2Oth day of Dece mber, 1911, same will become delinquent.
 w. J. RILEY,
 Treasurer and Tax Collector
 Town of Clifton. 11-24-4t
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
 Serial No. DI5S56

Phoenix, Ariz.. Land Office Oct 23. 1911.
 Notice is hereby .given that Aztec Land & Cattle Co. Ltd of New York City, State of New York has filed in this ofhce his application to select under the provisions of the act of con- gress approved June l, 1897, (3O stats 11-36) and the act of congress approved March 8, 19O5( 33 stats 1264) the following described land, viz: SC 4{ of the ne A4 sec 6, T5s. soc, G X R NJ, Phoenix, Arizona hand district.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the lands described, ,or desiring to object because of the mineral character of the land, for any other reason to the disposal to applicants shOuld file their affidavits of protest Tn this office before the day of December, 1911.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
 Serial No. Ol5S6O

Phoenix. Ariz- Land Office, Oct. 2S, 1911.
 Notice iS hereby given that Santa Fe Paei ic Railroad company of Topeka. County of Shaw nee, State of Kansas, has filed in this office its application to select under the provisions of the act of congress approved June 4, 1s97 (3O stats IL S6J and act of congress approved Mar. 8, 1905 (3S stats 1264) the following described land, viz ne 7< of the SC k sec 6, r $ R 30, G X R NJ, Phoenix, Ariz. land district.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the lands described, or desiring to object because of the mineral character of the land,o for any other reason, to the disposal to applicant should file their afidavits of protests ill this office on or before the day of December, 191l
 Frank H. Parker Register
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Notice For Publication

Department of the Interior 0347l U. s. Land Office at Phoenix, Ariz. October 10. 1911.
 Notice is hereby given that Gabriel Edward Head of York, Ariz.. who on July IS, 1906, made homestead entry No. O3471-3s2 for W E A, Nw1<S 1@ secs MEX NE a< sec 7, twp 6s, R S1 e. G d R meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final five year proof to estab- fish claim to the land above described before J. J. Kelly, U. $ court commissioner at Clifton Eris, on the 2s day of November. 1911.
 claimant names as witnesses
 William D. Tucker of Clifton. Ariz., William T. Witt of Duncan, Ariz James W. Foote and Reeee R: Webster both of York, Ariz.
 Frank H, Parker. Register,
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
 Serial No. OI5S58

Phoenix, Ariz., Land Office, Oct B, 1911.
 Notice iA hereby given that California Ore gon Land Co. of San Francisco, County of San Francisco State of California. has filed in this office his application to select under the pro- visions of the act of congress approved June 4. 1897, (30 stats II S6) and the act of congress ap proved March 5, 1905 C93 stats 126Dthe following described land viz: sa 1z of the 14 G. 5s, R 30 e, aG R NJ, Phoenix. Arizona. land district
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the lands described, desiring to object because of the mineral character of the land, for any other reason.t to the disposal to toapplicant,should file their affidavits of prote in this office before the day of December 1911.
 Flank H. Parker. Register.
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NOTICE FOR PU BLICATION
 Serial No nI6S5z

Phoenix, Ariz Land Onice, Oct. 2S, 1911.
 Notice is hereby given that California & Ore gon Land company of San Francisco, County of San Francisco. State of California, has filed in this office his application to select under the provisions of the act of congress approved June 4, 1897, (SO stats 1l-36j and the act of congress approved March 8, .l9O5 (33d stats 126D the following described land. viz; sw 1< of the SC l sec S. T 5 s, R 30 C, X NJ, Phoenix, Ari- zona land office.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the
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lands described. or desiring to object because of the mineral character of the land, or for any other reason to the disposal to applicant, should file their affldavits of protest in this office before the 4th day of December, 1911.
 Frank H. Parker, Register.
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MESQUITE CAMP No. 19
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Meets each first and third Thursday night Masonic Hall. Visiting members extended cordial welcome. A. BILLlNGSLEY, Con Com
 VIM. NIELSEN. Clerk
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17

The United States Steel Corpora
tion announced in New York that the
untitled steel tonnage on the books Jan.
21 last amounted to S,110,919;, against
2.674,757 tons on the books, of the COM
pany Dec. 81.
Shortly after midnight Frank Cof-
fyn broke the worlds record for alti-
tude in Wright biplane in Augusta,
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
night record was held by the late
Arch Hoxsey, with $50 feet
1t was given out at the states at
torney's office at Danville, Ill.,, that
the grand jury would return large
number of indictments. The investi.
CATION is only half finished and over
800 indictments have been drawn.
In fulfillment of a compact made
with her husband during his lingering
illness, which death ended, Mrs. Lyn-
wood S. Keene of Oxford, Me-, took
her own life after having fatally shot
ber fourteen-year-old son Gerald.
Helen Vivien, second daughter of
George j. Gould, was married at St
Bartholomew's Episcopal church in
Madison avenue in New York to Lord
Decies, an English army officer. She
is eighteen and he is forty-four.
Thomas ]. Ham. one of the oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din
rer given to Charles Dickens in New
York in 1852, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died at Lakewood.
New Jersey, following a stroke of par
alysis. He was seventy-five years old.
Rear Admiral Silas Wright Terry.
retired, who was identified with the
naval operations of the Civil War.
died in Washington. d. c., of pneu-
monia. He was a native of Wallonia.
Ky, where he was born sixty-eight
years ago. Admiral Terry was pres.
ent at the fall of Richmond and ac-
companied President Lincoln when he
entered the Confederate capitol. He
had distinguished record in the Civil
War.
The board of trustees of the new
postal savings system in Washington
is receiving complaints from almost
every state because the postal banks
refuse to receive deposits except those
made in person by patrons of the Of.
flee.
The grand jury of Danville, ILL.,, re.
turned ZIG true bills and adjourned. A
large number of subpoenas were is
sued returnable next week. when 1t is
believed the real work of sitting the
charges of political corruption will be
commenced.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
minor Mention.

James Davis. pioneer OF Segundy
is dead.
Mrs. Mary Grabmaier. pioneer, died
at Central City.
Lee J Allen was found dead in his
room in Telluride.
Pueblo is after the next state con
vention of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Fire originating in hotel in Grand
Junction did $4,000 damage.
Interest is being renewed in the
mineral springs near Loveland.
Plans are on foot to issue $4,000 book
lets advertising Boulder county.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant is
being erected in Grand Junction.
About eighty farmers attended the
Logan County Poultry Show at Ster-
ling.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from 45 cents a dozen to 25
cents.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
Junction do an annual business of
s75O.OOO.
Kersey is to have new creamery
If plans of the Commercial Club are
carried out.
The annual snowfall of the ranges
in northern Colorado is above the
FORMAL amount.
A mining company composed Of six
girls will operate the Lucky Gus mine
at Cripple Creek.
The Haines apple orchard of 120
acres, near Grand Junction, has been
sold for 100000.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
of Grand Junction.
Much interest is taken in the farm
ers' institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1925.
The Supreme Court of the state gave
its final decision which makes North
Longmont dry territory.
The Grand Masonic lodge of Colora.
do officiated in laying the corner stone
of the new Denver postoffice.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with ci1artec
membership of thirty.
In order that the range may be KEEP.
from scabies, cattle in the Eaton vi.
cinity are being dipped.
John P. White, the new president OF
the United Mine Workers of America.
will visit Colorado in April.
Work has been begun on n stone
building on University hill in Boulder
for home for Chicago working girls.
Don't drink" is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17

I day school children OF Grand juno
tion.
Articles of Incorporation of the Lar
inner County Fish and Game Assocla-
! ton have been filed with the secrss
tary of state.
An ordinance has been passed at
Greeley raising the salaries of the
City Council, city engineer and street
commissioner.
The body of George Hislin, well
known in Colorado CITY,. was found
near Lake George horribly mutilated
by wild animals.
The Texas Oil Company has pur-
chased land in Denver and win at once
erect large storage tank and make
other Improvements.
Frank Young of Greeley has been
offered a commission in the army OF
the insurrectionists of Mexico at a
salary of $1,000 per month.
IAN together" will be the slogan
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the 100000 fruit crop.
Three hundred members and guests
of the New York society of Colorado
attended the fourth annual ball and re-
A consumers league may be organ
lied in Greeley to encourage the buy
ing OF Greeley-made goods. Business
men are in favor OF the project.
Myron Chase Clark. president o.
Clark & Co. of Chicago, one of the
largest publishing houses of scientific
books in the country died in Colorado
Springs.
While returning home from a dance
early in Russell gulch Tony Ramponi
and Charles Deminick of Central
City was shot and seriously injured
with charge of heavy buckshot
Frank Kosik, an Austrian aged twen-
ty-seven, was accidentlly shot and
killed near LeadvilIe by Nathan Pad
dock, who was shooting at a coyote
and did not see Kosik.
At the farmers institute at Fruita 1t
was decided by unanimous vote of the
200 ranchers in attendance from all
over the lower part OF the Grand val
ley to make it permanent and W. F.
Weckel was made president.
John Conner, agricultural superin-
tendent of the Windsor factory dis
trict. is authority for the statement
that 5000 acres or more of beets have
been contracted for this season.
A meeting similar to the grasshop-
per meetings on the eastern slope has
been called for February 25th at
Fruita, when plans for concerted
fight against the codling moth will be
laid by the orchardists of the. Grand
valley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
GENERAL.

Right Rev. OH w. Whitaker. bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Pennsylvania. died in Philadelphia.
Charles H. Markham of Chicago.
president of the Illinois Central. was
elected president of the Central of
Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Berkowitz and
their five children were killed by IL
Eliminating gas in their home in the
Ghetto in Philadelphia.
The condition of Miss Clara Bar.
ton. founder of the Red Cross. who
has been i'll with bronchitis at her
home in Glen Echo, Md, suburb OF
Washington. is greatly improved.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
w WESTERN

The population of Usage, Kan, in
1910 was 2.434 against 2,792 in 1900.
The Iowa Legislature passed the
daylight" saloon bill. Saloons tore
main open from Z a. m. to p. m.
Fire destroyed the. garage of the
Atchison Motor Company, Atchison,
Kan, with a loss of $4,000. Twenty
autos burned.
Three persons were drowned when
a Sheboygan, Wis, street car went
through an open draw into the She
boygan river.
William Keohn. the highwayman
who terrorized St. Paul for, three
weeks in December last, was sen
fenced to state prison for sixty years
The inter-marriage of whites with
Japanese or any other race is prohib-
tied in bill passed by the Legislature
of Nevada. 1t makes the performance
of such marriage by a minister or
justice of the peace a misdemeanor.
The most brutal and revolving
crime ever committed in Nevada has
been perpetrated in northern Washoe
county, four men being butchered.
their bodies being stripped and piled
in heap in the snow and left for
beasts to prey upon.
The United Staes Circuit Court of
Appeals decided that Oklahoma's Jim
Grow" law is constitutional. The me-
groes who brought the action declared
they were being denied protection un-
der the laws. The case originated in
the United States District Court of
Oklahoma, where negroes sought an
Injunction to restrain the operation OF
the law which provided that all COM
mon carriers must have separate
coaches and waiting rooms for ne.
groes.
Western members of the Senate,
representing sheep and wool growing
states, are considerably concerned
over that part of the proposed recip-
rocity treaty with Canada which pro-
vide for free admission into the United
States of Canadian sheep. The Presi-
dent, in transmitting the proposed
treaty to Congress. called attention to
the fact that Canada raises compara-
lively few wool sheep and that her tex
tile manufacturers are unimportant.
The Western senators familiar with
the sheep and wool growing business
are apprehensive that with the stimu-
las which will be given to the growth
OF the industry in Canada by remov.
ing the duty on the admission of sheep
INTO the United States, the raising OF
| sheep there will increase at the ex.
pense of the industry in this country.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
Pension Inerease Favored.

Washington BY vote of to 3
the Senate committee on pensions
agreed to report to the Senate the
Sulloway general pension bill, which
already has passed the House. 1t was
SO. amended that the annual cost, in
addition to s153 100000 estimated fos
the ensuing year, will be about $45,
100000. AS the bill passed the House
IL would have cost about $4,000, 900.
Senator McCumber. chairman of the
committee. opposed the Sulloway bill,
and endeavored to have the commit
tee report measure which would cost
for the first year about $s,3O0.000. He
aferro in making up the minority OH
the final vote.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
Cornerstone is Laid.

Denver.-The cornerstone of the
magnificent Denver postoffice was
laid at the corner of Eighteenth ano
Stout streets. The new structure
which, it is said. will without excep.
ton be the handsomest public build,
ing in the world, occupies the entire
block bounded by Stout, Champa,
Eighteenth. and Nineteenth streets.
The contractors say that the building
win be completed in schedule time, or
hy December 1, 1911. The corner
stone was laid by the Grand Masonic
lodge of Colorado under the auspices
ci the Denver Chamber of Commerce
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
Wants More Postal Banks.

Washington.-Pos General
Hitchcock. in asking Congress for an
appropriation of s1,000,000 for the es-
tablishment of 500 additional postal
savings banks, declares the forty
eight banks already established have
proven entirely successful. The total
deposits at these banks approximate
100000, or an average of 81 $50. With
this average maintained throughout.
the year. the annual deposits at the
forty-eight banks will aggregate over
100000. This is better record than
that made by the British postal sys-
tenn in the most successful year of
fits history-190S.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
BILL BENEFITS
LAND OWNERS
FARMERS MAY CONTRACT FOR
USE OF EXCESS WATER IN
THE RESERVOIRS.
PASSED BOTH HOUSES
RIGHT OF United STATES TO
CONTROL WATERS SHALL
NOT BE ENLARGED.

Washington.-The conference com
agreed to accept the House amend
ment OF the Warren bill which has
passed the Senate and House. author
izing contracts for the disposition of
water of projects under the reclama-
ton act
The bin provides that when the
storage capacity of government irri-
CATION projects is in excess of the re-
quirements of lands to be irrigated,
individuals. corporations, irrigation
districts and water users associations
may contract with the secretary of
the interior for the use of the excess
water at charges proportionate to the
cost of reservoir construction per
acre of the lands to be irrigated un-
der the projects, provided that water
shall not be furnished from govern
ment reservoirs to any one land
owner in excess of the amount re-
quired to irrigated 100 acres.
The bin specifically provides that
the right of the United States to con-
troll the waters of any state shall not
Le enlarged
The law. 1t is expected, will enable
individuals and associations to CO.
operate with the government in util-
izing the waters which have been i'm
provision has not been made for dis
tribution by the government to all
the lands which may be irrigated.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
SPORT.

In ninety minutes wrestling, Hack
enschmidt failed to throw Stanislaus
Zbyszko, in New York, and the match
went to the latter
Outfielder Frank Schultz of the Chi
cago. National league baseball club,
champion home-run batsman for 1910,
has signed three-year contract with
Chicago.
The Tommy Burns bilr' to permit
ten-round prize fights in the state os
Washington has been introduced in
the House by Representative Wray, of
Seattle, and referred to friendly
committee.
Frank Work, the veteran sportsman,
who for nearly seventy years has been
known throughout the country as an
owner and campaigner of fast horses,
celebrated his ninety-second birthday
at his home in New York
st. Paul raised the record score of
the western division of the National
Rifle Association inter-club indoor
league for the season two points by
scoring 976 out of possible 1000 dur.
ing the seventh of the eleven weeks q
shooting.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament closed in a
whirlwind of classy work. 1t ended
the most successful tournament ever
conducted by the club. Winners were
picked as a result of the finals and
the prizps dietrihutad
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-02-17
Reciprocity Is Favored.

Washington.-The Mccall bill car
rying into effect the Canadian recip-
rocity agreement reached the floor of
the House and probably will be
passed before adjournment imme-
diately. When the voting began it
recame apparent that the lines were
being tightly drawn between those
favoring and those opposing the trade
agreement. AS finally corrected, the
vote to take up the bill was 1877 TO
120. The bill will be passed. it is
said. by even a large majority.