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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-24
GOODS MUSIC SCHOOL
OPENS IN CEDART0WN
,necial Disnatch to The .Journa

Especial Dispatch to The Journal.l
CEDARTOWN, Ga, Sept. 2O.-The Good
Conservatory of Music has opened its
second season with the brightest of pros
poets. The faculty consists of Mr.. Wal
ter L. Good, voice; Miss Lucille Vail.
piano; and Mr.. c. S. Crofoot, violin. Mr..
Good also has charge of the band and
orchestra. which under his direction, has
been practicing this summer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-24

ness and backache,
and was so nervous
that / would cry at
the least noise, it
would startle me so.
l began to take Ly-
dia E. Pinkh ans
remedies, and / don't
have any more cry
ing spells. / sleep
sound and my ner-
vousness is better.
I will recomm end
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-24
NERVOUS
DESPONDENT
WOMEN
Find Relief in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Their Own Statements
So Testify.

Platea, Pa. -"When 1 wrote to you
first was troubled with female weak
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
RESTORED TO ENTRY.

The secretary of the interior on
June 5, 1912, restored ito public enttry
the following described lands, said
restoration being a vacation of de-
partmental orders of january l and
September 8, 1903, i'm SO far as they
affect the withdrawal under the first
and second forms under the act of
june II, 1902, for use i'm connection
with the Colorado river project:
ALI lands outside of the Colorado
River Indian reservation lying within
six miles of the Colorado river wes1-
of the 114th meridian embraced with
i'm the lime between Ts. 8 and 9 NJ,
G. & S. r. NJ (projected); and the
lime east and west Through the center
of T. 10 N. (projected). The above
lands are open to settlement August
5, and to entry filling or Selection
September 4, 1912. Selection by the
state of Arizona limited to two Sec.
tions i'm each entire township and ONE
section in each fractional township
exceeding 5000 acres.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
PREPARING FOR
EXTENSIVE WORK

AS the outcome of recent negotia-
tiOns, the Swansea Consolidated Min
ing company lis conducting an extern
sive system of exchanging its ores
with those of the Blue Bell mine for
fluxing purposes, both at the Hum
boldt smelter and at the Swansea
plant, the character of the produc-
tion at both the above mines formfn'
a desirable combination in treating.
Shipping between the two above
points lis now going ON at the rate
of four carloads per week, and hit lis
reported will be continued indefinite-
ly. Reports from Swansea since the
reorganization was effected last
month, are of a very encouraging ma
ture, mime development being prose
cuted vigorously and the determina-
tions made as satisfactory, and which
is reflected in the heavy tonnage pro-
duced under the management of G.
CIerc. The big smelter lis being plac-
ed i'm readiness for operation, and
will be blown i'm in a short time, or
as soon as the tonnage is sufficient
to assure continuous running.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
WILSON WON
NOMINATION
HUNDREDS OF VISITORS GO TO
SEA GlRT TO CONGRATULATE
VICTOR OF DEMOCRATIC PREsl-
DENTAL NOMINATION.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 2.-At 8 :33
o'clock this afternoon, Woodrow Viii
son, governor of New Jersey, was un-
amin ously nominated for president of
the United States, Fitzgerald, one of
the Massachusetts delegates, having
made the motion to name him by ac-
clamation
On the forty-siXth and last ballot,
Wilson received 900, Clark "a, and
Harmon II. The withdrawal of I'm
derwood of Alabama ended the long
est convention since 1860, when the
democrats balloted forty-one times
before making a nomination
Wilson'S final victory resulted i'm
wild demonstration. Most of the bit
terness that had developed during
nearly a week of balloting disappear
ed, and behind him will be the united
democratic party.
Weary from the terrible strain of
forty-siX ballots, the 1888 delegates
were greatly relieved when the battle
ended. Clark's friends and supper
tiers Joined in the cheering Men who
have grown ito be enemies in this
convention shook hands and became
friends once more.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
NEW DESERT LAND BILL.

On Thursday of last week Senator
Ashurst of Arizona introduced the
following bill providing for patent of
desert-land claims by the dry farming
process:
BE it enacted, etc, That no des-
ert-land entry heretofore made under
the public+lamd laws for lands shall
be cancelled or i'm any wise impaired
because of amy faillure ON the part of
the entryman to make amy annual or
final proof falling due upon any such
entry prior to December 81, 1913:
Provided, however, That patent shall
be permitted to issue to any desert
land entry when the proofs disclose
that the land embraced Within such
entry has fairly and in good faith
been reclaimed to agricultural or hor-
ticultural crops by the dry-farming
process.
Senator Ashurst gave notice on the
same day that he would address the
senate on this bill on July Is.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
VISITORS BESIEGE WILSON.

SEA GIRT, N. j., July 4.-Gover-
NOR Wilson was given little time to
devote to his personal affairs or fam
lily yesterday. From early morning
the summer home here of the man
who was yesterday nominated as the
democratic president of the United
States, was besieged with visitors,
thousands of them.
Regiments of men, women and
children ON foot trod DOWN the shrub
berry, camped ON the porch, climbed
ON the brass cannon i'm front of the
residence, and participated in hand
shaking until the governors right
arm was sore and stiff
The governor, however, did not
show THAT he minded it a bit. He
had a smile for each newcomer and
a hand clasp for the smallest girls
and boys who won't vote for a doz-
EN- years or more. When they did
not come i'm the governor went OUT
and waved his hat or hand
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
INDIAN CONFERENCE.

The lntardenommatiOnal meeting G.
the South west Indian conference a
Flagstaff August 1925 Inclusive,
promises to be interesting and help
full The opening week will be oc-
clUpied by bible study. The last five
days Will be given to addresses and
reports from workers on the field,
interspersed with bible readings by
Rev. A. B. Prichard of Los Angeles
This is the sixth annual conference
and is attended by missionaries IT
the Indians, by pastors and other
Christian workers. A larger atten-
dance than usual is expected this
year, ON account OF the special effort
that has been made to secure strong
bible teachers.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
NEW BOUNTY LAW.

The new state law regarding bOun
ties to be paid ON wild animals will
effect a saNing ito all counties of the
stale because it reduces the amount
the counties will have to pay out The
present law provides for the payment
OF, bounty only on lObO or timber
wolves, lions, cougars and panthers
at the rate of $40 each, and further
provides that the various boards may
at their discretion, pay bounties as
follows: bears, $40; lynx, 81; wild
cats, 81; coyotes. So; skunks, ST.;
ia ccOons 25 cents; gophers and prai-
RE dogs, five cents each.
1t is said the ranchers are glad
that there is no bounty ON coyotes
anG cats because the coyotes and cads
catch the jack rabbits which are a
greater pest than either coyotes or
wild cats. The coyotes get some
chickens occasionally, but that is
about all the damage they do.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06

municipalities i'm the valley. All ma
terials used i'm the camps have been
transported over the government road
thirty miles long.
The MOrmons came into Utah val
ley i'm the early SOS, and laid out
their farms along the streams that
flowed down from the mountains i'm
to Utah Lake. For a time their small
bitches sufficed for their agricultural
needs, and they prospered. AS the
population grew the bitches We're en-
larged and extended, until every
available drop of water was required
to meet the demands of the irrigators.
In years of scanty precipitation ther,
was shortage in the canals, crop
yields were diminished, and the late
comers frequently lost ALL Undo;
these conditions no further develop
ment of the valley was possible, yet
here were thousands of acres of land
just as fertile as any in the valley,
which, without water, were worthless.
With water it would support hun
dreds of families.
In 1902 the reclamation law was
passed, and then the valley woke UP.
The farmers petitioned the govern
ment to come and investigate, and,
if feasible, to augment the water sup
ply. ALI the irrigable lands were
signed up to guarantee the return
of the governments investment, and
i'm 1906 the actual work of construc-
ton was begun.
The government has nearly com
pleted its part of the contract 1t
remains for the landowners in the
valley to carry out their obligations.
One of the first steps is the sub
division and sale of all individual.
holdings i'm excess of 100 acres.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
coNvlcTs BUILDING HIGHWAY.

Without a single guard, twenty
Eve picked cOnvictS from the Arizona
state penitentiary We're put to work
this week ON the road between Ray
and Globe No one will be with
them except w. E. Marvin of the
state engineering department
This is further trial of Cover
nos George Hunts prison reform sys-
tenn. He has formulated an extensive
plan to work about half of the 400
convicts in the penitemtiary ON the
state highways, but all OF them ex-
cept this first party of twenty-five,
will be under guard.
Under the direction of Governor
Hunt, Superintendent w. P. Sims
of the penitentiary selected the TWEEN
ty-five men among the convicts who
are regarded most worthy of trust.
Nearly all of them are Americans, ac-
cOrding to Superintendent Sims re-
por to the governor.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
RIVER FLOWING
THROUGH SIPHON
yuma Sum-

Saturday morning, June 20, 1912,
will always be remembered by the
1T marks an epoch i'm the history of
this community and the development
of this valley. On this day the water
was turned Unto the siphon and flow
ed under the Colorado river and bub-
bled UP like giant spring, out of
the siphon shaft, ON the Arizona side
of the river and flowed on into the
canals that lis to bear it to the
desert lands of the valley. This day
has been looked forward to for seven
long years and it marks the begin
Yuma project.
1t has been a giant undertaking,
fraught with difficulties and dan
gers, but has at last been success
fully accomplished. 1t lis to the COM
pletion of the project what the con-
struction of the Laguna dam was to
its beginning. These two features of
this work will stand, let MS hope,
through all of the ages to come as
d monument to their builders and
living testimony ito the progressive
development of the age.
The siphon is finished The water
of the Colorado has been diverted
from it's channel, CARRIED over the
desert by easy stages and dropped i'm
to this great tunnel and CARRIED un-
der the river to the Arizona outlet.
The Doubling Thomases' are at last
satisfied The mouth of the most
skeptical is closed The completion
of the siphon and the permanency of
its character makes us all happy.
We are now ready to do business
The thing has been actually accom-
plished. There are no more ifs nor
ands. A giant spring with a flow
of water large enough to irrigate
100000 acres of desert land is at our
door For those who have toiled and
waited the reward will come The
glory of things accomplished is with
us.
We can we'll afford to shake hands
with ourselves and get ready for the
great things that are i'm store for L.
To Engineer SelleW and the Recla-
nation boys who have worked so long
and faithfully to complete this work
We extend congratulations.
While we felicitate ourselves We do
not forget the engineering genius
that has made these things possible
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
RESULT OF FIGHTS.

According to telegraphic reports
reaching here from Las Vegas, N.
NJ, the Johnson-Flynn fight was ter
minated i'm the ninth the black man
getting the decision on a foul Up
to fouling the gorilla, the reports
state that FLYNN had the best of THE
bout
The Wolgaslt- Rivers fight at Ver-
non resulted i'm a decision in favor
of Wolgast i'm the thirteenth round,
when Rivers fouled his adversary. lit
is said that Wolgast had to be car
ried from the ring The fight was
The fastest ever seen ON the coast.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
PARKER TEAM
WINS ANOTHER
CONTEST WITH WlCkENBURG-
ERS WAS CLEAN-CUT VICTORY
FOR LOCAL S.-PLA ROY
ALLY ENTERTAINED.

The Parker base ball team cele-
brated July Fourth by going to Wick
enburg and giving the team at that
place to walloping.
1t was a clean-cut Victory with the
local boys ON the winning side OF the
fence all the way through the game
Except for a short-lived batting rally
i'm the eighth inning the Wickenburg
erS were unable to make amy head
way against the speedy curves hand
ed them by Williams, who twirled
for Parker Williams entered the
game with a strained muscle in his
arm giving him much pain. The arm
hurt him at every throw, but no ONE
at Wickenburg would ever have, guess
ed lit from the speed he put ON the
BALL
McAdams started the scoring for
the visiftors by rapping out a hit in
the first inning He stole second
when Henderson hit a grounder A
clean drive by Dunn scored him
From then ON until the seventh
Parker ran in three more scores. In
this frame Muller, the Wickenburg
pitcher, weakened and allowed three
hits and three runs In the next
inning he was replaced by a blonde
haired boy who Wore a constant smile
but had nothing on the ball
Until the eighth inning the Wick
enbrmg side of the score board was
blank That was Parker's off INN
ing and the only inning when any
errors We're recorded against the To-
cal players
Two Wickenbmgers secured bases
ON errors and then a hot drive
through the field scored beth of
them. This was the first encourage
Alent the Wickenburg fans had and
they went wild Automobile horns
ON the side hines furnished concert
while GIRLS With ShTlM voices jump
ed up and down i'm the grand stand
and screamed.
The Wickemburg fans got much
satisfaction cut of this rally while
it lasted. 1t couldn't last however,
witch the Parker 1imfield showing big
league class, as it did most of the
game.
Williams struck cut eleven men
during the game and allowed but
three hits. Marsh played AN error
less game on second. Saufley, out i'm
left field, claimed a like honor, but
the fact is he did not get a chance
at the ball during the entire game.
Only one oUtfield fly was hit
The Parker boys received royal
treatment at the hands of the Wick
anburg players and there was the
best of spirit all Through the game.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
FINE BOOKLET
ISSUED BY S. F.
PROMINENT MENTION is MADE
OF RESERVATION LANDS.-A
SPECIAL PAMPHLET ON PAR
KER TO BE ISSUED SOON.

The Santa Fe has just issued a
handsomely illustrated 42-page book
let entitled, 'Arizona, the Newest
State" The booklet was compiled
by G. L. Seagraves, general colonial
tion agent for the San.a Fe system,
and is repIete with valuable informa-
tior about Arizona.
In a recent letter from Mr.. Sea-
graves to The Post, it lis learned that
he is now engaged in preparing a
pamphlet devoted exclusively to Par
ker, and dts rich agricultural lands
which are to be opened at an early
date.
In the booklet just ISSUED the fcl.
lowing descriptive matter in refer
encc to these lands, is published:
South of Parker, in Yuma county
where the Santa Fe's short lime from
the Salt River valley to Los Angeles
crosses the Colorado river, lies the
Colorado River Indian reservation and
below this, large area i'm private
ownership. The reservation lies main,
ly on the Arizona side of the stream,
and the other mainly ON the Califor-
mia side. The reservation contains
approxim 100000 acres, and the
other approximately 10000 acres.
On the California side, crops have
been grown by irrigation from the
river for many years. On the Ari-
zona side, the government has tried
to make farmers of three generations
it has been determined to allot hand
in the northern end of the reServa,
ton, giving the INDIAN farmers a
powerful pump, canals and bitches.
For this purpose the last congress
granted an appropriation OF $50 ,0&3
the machinery, already, has been de
ivered. This soil, proved by results
ON the California side, produces til
same crops as are grown in the Salt
River valley, and i'm equal abundance.
Since there lis more land in the reser-
vation than the Indians can use, the
government S next step will be the
sale of the surplus to white settlers.
'For the irrigation of the land ON
the California side Immediately. and
of THAT ON the Arizona side ultimate
ly, private corporation has been
granted a franchise by congress for
the construction of barrage across
the Colorado some miles north of
Parker, by which water will be divert
ed by canals far away over bottom
and mesa. There lis abundant water
in the Colorado for the irrigation of
adj land south of Parker Within pos
sible distribution by gravity Two mil
lion acre-feet annually are sufficient
for this district, and the river at Par
ker CARRIES safe average of 12,000,-
900 acre-feet. The watershed of this
great stream lis 100000 square miles
Great quantities of silt are carried DIM
suspension by the stream, and this lis
carried by canals and bitches wher-
ever the land lis irrigated from the
river, constantly enriching the soil.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
NEEDLES CLEANING HOUSE.

The campaign to clean from the
town of Needles the low dives which
have gathered there during the years.
giving criminals shelter and leading
to several murders and several
brawls was launched by District AT
torney r. B. GoOdcell Tuesday, when
he instituted injunction suits i'm the
superior court against the occupants
and owners of the houses complain
ed of by the decent people of the
desert metropolis.
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
HOW 1T HAPPENED.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 2.-The fl
nal break to Wilson as the nominee
for president came this afternoon at
the beginning of the forty sixth bal
Lot. On the preceding ballot Wilson
had received 633, with 7251a neces-
sary to nominate Bankhead with
drew Underwood, Stone released the
Clark delegates and Mayor Fitzgerald
Withdrew Foss. The convention hall
was soon i'm an uproar AS Bankhead
was speaking, a Missouri delegate
shouted, 'Why didn't you Withdraw
Underwood when Clark was s-in the
lead? Why don't you tell them you
are faking?"
Fitzgerald moved that the nomina-
tion be made without a roll CALL Sem
atOr Reed of Missouri objected be-
cause he said "Old Missouri wants
to he recorded ON a ballot for old
Champ Clark"
The weary delegates stood ON
chairs shouting wildly, only Missouri
and New York sitting ulnmoved
Wilson adherents dashed about the
hall hugging each other and dane
ing in glee. AS the roll call proceed
ed practically all the states Joined
i'm the Wilson column Missouri re
corded Sc for Clark, California gave
"a to Clark, while Ohio gave Harmon
y, A few scattered votes were giN-
en- Clark
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
HOW UNCLE SAM is
MOVING A RIVER

rejoicing on the part of the citizens
of the valley and of the state.
The link is the Strawberry tunnel
a huge bore 9x10A feet, piercing "a
mountain nearly four miles thick
Over ON the eastern side of the Wa
stach range the Strawberry river has
been turned at right angles into
large natural reservoir by means of
dam Seventy-one feet high and $50
feet long. This reservoir covers 5000
acres, and has capacity of nearly
100000 acre feet or sufficient to
cover that many acres a foot deep.
At the other end of the reservoir
are the gates, which, when opened,
will direct the flow of a river now
discharging it's waters into the Gulf
of California into Utah valley, which
has no drainage to the sea. Literally,
transformation in the physical
geography of the state has been ac-
complished
The whole work has called for un-
usual ability, ingenuity and no little
daring. All the power used for driv
ing the tunnel, lighting the camps
and operating the heavy machinery,
cars, etc, has been supplied from
the government own hydro electric
plant on Spanish Fork River and
transmitted over pole line thirty
one miles long. Surplus power from
the plant lis also supplied to two
The Parker post., 1912-07-06

water Jubilee was held July 2
in Provo, Utah, to commemorate fit
tingly the successful completion of
one of the remarkable engineering
teats of the century. In am age big
with engineering achievements the
Strawberry valley irrigation project
Of he reclamation service occupies a
prominent and unique place In COM
plexity of details, i'm daring of con-
ception, and in variety and magni-
tu!e of the engineering works, this
project as a whole ranks with the
largest and most difficult undertaken
by the federal government for the
reclamation of the great American
desert
The physical characteristics of the
project are unique. On one side a
broad and beautiful valley containing
thousands of acres of fertile and
valuable land condemned to perpetual
srerility by reason of lack of water;
OF the other a lofty plateau traversed
" numerous streams which carry the
run-Off of "a well-watered region to
distant ocean; between the valley
and these streams a rugged range of
capped mountains imposing
seemingly impossible barrier
TO link the thirsty valley with that
distant water supply was the serious
problem, and it's successful solution
was made the occasion of general
The Parker post., 1912-07-06
DEATH OF MRS. CLARK.

of the death of Mrs. J. l.. Clark i'm
Sam Diego. No particulars; could be
obtained by this paper Mrs. Clark
Was a former resident of Parker,
sorry to learn of her DEATH She
and everyone who knew her will be
leaves a husband, Jason L. Clark,
to mourn her loss