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Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
Peddler Arrested and Fined

The latter part of last week a
Wandering Jew" wandered into
town and after operating while
he was discovered by deputy
Sheriff, Sands. to be a peddler of
ladies furnishings whereupon he
was asked to show his license
which Mr.. Peddler proceeded to
do and it was a license issued in
Graham county written on a
letterhead signed A. A. Ander-
son, sheriff by w. T. Johnson,
deputy for the sum of S. AS a
peddler's license fee, per quarter,
is SIS. Mr.. Sands would not ac-
cept a SIS fee and most especially
when issued in another County.
The Hebrew thought he could
save some money by keeping his
SIS and crossing into New Mexi-
co and asked permission to go
get his samples which was grant
ed. but the temptation to take
a farewll order or two was too
great and he yielded, the arrest
followed and away to Justice Nc
Grath at Franklin the Deputy
Sheriff and his prisoner started
and in due time arrived.
Judge McGrath though SIS was
a sufficient reminder that laws
were made to be obeyed and let
his records so show.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06

writer referred to himself as
old Doc Yates and also an
editorial on the simplicity of the
man who saw no reproach in be-
ing known and referred to as
old Doc Yates. 1t is apparent
that Governor Hunt has traits of
character similar to those of DIR.
Yates whose memory is revered
by the people of Neosho. .
Neosho (Mo.) Times.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
A Ban On Peddlers

Deputy Sheriff Sands is putin /,
a stop to this free peddlin2
hawking and soliciting
business on the streets and fro
house to house canvass in Dune 4
and Valley.
Arizona has a Peddlers Law, a
law designed to protect hor &
merchants, and this protect i
Mr.. Sands intends shall be just
what the makers of the law de-
signed it to be. Our home mo-
chants pay taxes, support the
church, donate to charity, hep
the sick the needy and help bury
thedead and why should the hor c
man be undersold by a foreign er
or one who certainly has no in
terest in building up the comm u
nifty and aiding and support G
his fellow citizen!
Mr.. Sands enforcement of the
law will meet the approval Of
vastly the majority of our cit q
ems,
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06

10 NOcII % dC ollIlSO dllU easily us
cernible without a class. The
rock is rather coarse-grained,
admirable for making and hold
ing ore, and the conditions justi-
fly the belief that the ore will
have considerable depth. But
here is where nature played the
joke on all the brospectors who
have been into this section Mo-
ther nature has blocked out the
ore in this mine, necessitating
practically no mining, but just
simply a quarrying proposition.
These perpendicular bluffs MAX
ing the Apace Box are simply ore,
having been mined on three
Sides" and is ready to break
down and go to a mill. There is
sufficient water here for all mil
ling purposes and there is dump
room for all the tailings made in
Arizona. don't know what the
weather bureau might say about
the average rainfall, humidity,
etc., but | do know that it gets
alfred hot in the summer and
some cold' in the winter just
regular Arizona weather, where
one breathes in life and hope
an energy, whether it be summer
or winter. The chances are that
the present excitement in the
Apache Box country will give us
at least one more great producer
for the southwest and the pro-
liabilities are there will be many.
One takes the Southern Pacific
to Lordsburg; then the A. & N.
| M. to Duncan. 1t is possible to go
to the districts from Sheldon or
York, but no accommodations
at either place that is, no large
stores or hotels, 50 if one goes
to either of those places he must
have arranged ahead for trans
portation upon arrival of the train
else he is most likely to sleep in
the airy Arizona bedroom" and
live on beans and bacon-if he's
lucky enough to have them with
/ him and to know how to cook IN.
York is the supply station for the
Twin Peaks mines, but head
quarters are at Duncan. Sheldon
has been the shipping point for
DR.. Burnham's ore. The valley
country is beautiful, with fine
large, we'll developed ranches and
fruit farms, with some cattle.
The ella is just simply the Gila.
Some days it flows along dreami-
Iy enough, and some days it fights
it's way down in a torrent and
these latter days is when one will
bless the people Of Duncan for
insisting until they get the coun-
ty supervisors to have a bridge
put across the stream.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
Leap-Year Dance

Next Saturday night there will
be Leap yeap dance at the
Hobbs Hall.
This is given under the mana
cement of the ladies and good
music will be a feature. Every
body invited and everything free.
AS this is the first Leap year ball
in Duncan it is expected that a
large crowd will be in atten-
dance.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06

Washington, March 2.-Tha
gravity Of the situation in Mexic
caused President Taft to issue a
proclamation virtually warnint
United States citizens to refrai
from entering that country. and
those now resident there to leave
when conditions treaten to be
come intolerable.
The decision to issue such .
warning was reached at a aspecia
meeting OF the cabinet.
The proclamation was hurrie
by a telegram addressed by I'll
state department to Ambassado
Wilson in the City Of Mexico. Tt
ambassador is instructed to il
form all the Americans to with
draw across the border, leavin
their effects in care of the near
est United States consul. Copie
of this telegram were sent to q y
consular agents.
The presidents utterance, it IS
explained, was in no sense a re
cognition of the revolutional )
movement in the sister republ. {
to the south. Neither was it &
be looked upon as a declaratic I
of neutrality. 1t is declared I'll
utterance is solely a warning t.
United states citizens to ave
anything that might savor a
partisanship in the existing sta
of.affairs.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
Jugs Must go Home

Another enforcement of t
law is to the effect that all Il
ported" jugs must be taken hol
Sheriff Patty has given orc
that the law in Duncan must
enforced and has so instructed
deputy, Mr.. Sands.
In earring out these orders d
Sands has notified certain :"
porters'' of wet goods that [
containers and the thing cota
ed must be taken to the HON
and NOT to some "convenier
place for distribution
friends. "
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
w. B. Kelly on Visit

w. B. Kelly, former editor !
The Review and now editor of Il
Copper Era, is in the city for
visit, expecting to leave tonigh
w. B. greeted many old frier
yesterday after his arrival fro
Douglas where he had been Wis
ing his parents. He reports Ci
ton and Morenci as enjoying
era of prosperity. Bisbee Revie
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
Apache Box A Freak OF
Nature
How Gold District Near
Duncan is a Wonder
land
Duncan the NearSt Point
Many PrOspectOrs Rushing to the
New Country Which is At
tracing Gl eat Attention
Everywhere
+, (By Chas. A. DinsmOre. }
(In Ell PaSO .Timesl

\1AA HI dSO AAlCO)
The mining country tributary
to Duncan, Arizona, is at last
coming into it's own; and that is
a great deal. Within a radius of
twenty miles there are the Twin
Peaks mine, the Hinckley mines,
operated by w. Franklin Burn
ham of Boston; the Steve Corley
copper property, the J. A. Kaylor
property at Steeple Rock, and
last, the Apache Box property,
formerly owned by Campbell,
Phillips and Craig, the latter one
of the best konwn mining engine
ers of Bisbee, Arizona, and who
has for years been successfully
operating a property in Sonora,
The town of Duncan is beautiful
ly situated on the Gila river, there
are two large stores, two good
hotels, a livery stable, Bank,
and a first class weekly newspa-
per, Every resident is interest
ed in Mining, this fact being
borne out by the statement that
the Commercial Club on Monday,
the 26th, provided funds for a
shorter and better route to the
Apache Box country than has
hitherto been used. This CONNER
cial Club, by the way, is one of
the livest organizations of the
new state. At the last meeting
there was something of a reorga-
nization. T. j. Nations is the pre-
sident, ]. L. T. Waters vice pre-
sident, B. R. Lanneau treasurer,
j. r. Fowler secretary. Waters
is a mining man, Lanneau is CASH
ier of the bank, Fowler owns the
lumber yard and is interested in
mines. Another thing about Dun
can, and then to the mines there
isn't a knocker in the place.
One leaves the town and eros
SeS the Gila. the distance to the
famous old camp of Steeple Rock
is 18 miles and here one finds the
the property of the Steeple Rock
Mining company idle though
with plenty of ore.
From Steeple Rock one drives
few miles to the Hinckly mines,
also good producers in the times
past. This property has been
taken over by w. Franklin Burn
hams American Exploration
company, the work now being in
charge of John L. Rice, a we'll
known Ell Paso mining engineer.
Here there has been a wonder
full amount of good work done
since Mr.. Burnham took charge,
and large amounts of ore
shipped to Clifton smelters. Now,
however, there is an efficient mill
on the property, and in future
only high grade and concentrates
will be shipped. This property
like Steeple Rock mines. carries
it's values in gold. There are
number of smaller properties
here, working intermittently and
with small forces, but making
beans" for the owners.
From here it is but about three
miles to the Apache Box country,
and then about three miles to the
Twin Peaks. This latter proper
ty as been operating constantly
fC. several years. 1t is principal
ly owned by the Fraser brothers
nd Mr.. Newhouse, they have a
gold-bearing fissure vein, as per-
manent and true as | have ever
seen. They have something more
than 400 feet of vertical depth,
and the deeper they go the
better it showsup. They
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
MissOurianS Proud of
Our Governor
Facetiously but Respectfully
Refer to Him as Missouri
Mule in Arizona

CIlC CdpClOll VI q SplSlIulu CulCOI Icel
appearing in a recent issue OF the
st. Louis Republic referring to
Arizona's first state governor e.
w. P. Hunt. The Neosho Mo-
Times adds few words, claim
ing that Arizona's executive came
from Randolph county, Missouri.
The editorial and comment of
the St. Louis Republic and
comment of the Neosho papers,
which shows plainly how Cover
nor Hunt stands in his native
state, follows:
"Arizona's democratic donkey
is a Missouri mule, and we are
proud to recognize him. We re-
fer with all respect to the gov
ernor, George w. P. Hunt, who
is a Missourian by birth and by
instincts.
There is a lasting distinction
between an indigenous Missouri
an. The latter, of exotic origin,
may be imported, subjected to
our powerful environment, and
Missourifed, to a gratifying de-
gree if caught young. But at best
he is only stamped with a Mis-
souriesque design and not endow-
ed through and through with the
quality. The true born Missouri
an has sapped from the soil dis
tinctive character that persists
forever, no matter wither trans
planted, and resists even the
superficial marks of every other
environment, He is true to type
wherever and whenever found.
We did not have to be told
that the governor of Arizona was
a Missourian, Certain earmarks
were unmistakable which the
branding form Of Arizona could
not change. characteristics of
simplicity and directness marked
his bearing on inauguration that
were virtually unthinkable many
body but a Missourian, Added
to these the name of Hunt was
conclusive as marking a most
distinguished and most numerous
Missouri family imported many,
many generations ago from Ken
lucky pastures,
Our reference to the mule is
symbolic purely, and allusion to
Kentucky lineage, is by no means
invidious. Missouri drew upon
: best Kentucky stock as we'll as
live stock for some of it's proudest
strains, precisely as Arizona has
borrowed or adopted our mule,
whose noble and characteristic
humility and genuineness we
note in the account of his inau-
guration:
The Inauguration ceremony
was simple. The new governor
to-be walked to the capitol, declin-
ing all offers of automobiles. To-
night the inaugural ball took place
in. the Streets.
Here was more than Jeffer-
sonian simplicity, a more than
plainness. No white horse, no
bellmare, nothing to raise him
above the common herd, most
emphatically not an automobile.
Naturally, he SHE'D at that.
Afterwards a ball in the Streets!
What a cavorting and rattle of
hoofbeats; what play of heels
in free unroofed space and ether,
and joyous irreverent kicking at
the moon!
In all sincerity of admiration,
we salute the most splendidly
democratic of governors. st.
Louis Republic.
Governor Hunt of Arizona is
a nephew of the late DR.. P. c.
Yates of Neosho, and both came
from Randolph county, Missouri.
If the editor of the Republic will
turn back to those files of some
years ago he will find a letter
from DR.. Yates, in which the
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
have purchased

milling plant (which was never
operated) standing at Lordsburg,'
and this will be installed at the
property soon. They are now
using power drills, sinking stead
lily and with very fattering re-
suits. This vein traverses the
country like a wagon road for
over two miles, and everywhere
it carries gold. There are a num-
Der of openings, sunk for pros
! pecting purporses, and at any one
the content of the ore justifies
development; but it was deemed
wise land results prove it to
have been so) to concentrate all
work in the one place where they
are working. This is at point
on the vein close to a junction
with two great porphyry dykes,
almost certain to make ore. F"
and the fact that with depth the
ore increases in value and guam
tity demonstrates this old esta-
blished theory to again be the
fact. There is some water in this
work, not enough to hamper de-
velopment, but sufficient to insure
a good supply for the mill. | have
never passed up an opportunity
to comment favorably on all the
properties in this entire section,
and especially the Twin Peaks,
which is a mine today.
But the principal interest just
now centers in Apache Box,
where "a rush is on" The ex-
citment is justified. This Apache
Box is a wonderful freak of ma
ture. The box" is the nearest
inaccessible of any have ever
seen. Approached from the west
one may scramble and climb up
into and partly through it, but
from no other direction. A small
stream comes down through with
myriad little falls and rapids, the
water sparkling like glints from
a thousands diamonds. On either
side the walls stand prependi-
cular from $50 to 400 feet and
on either side it is ore. This is
the great wonder of it all. There
are boulders at the foot of these
bluffs, some of them larger than
a box car, some smaller but any
of them carry gold. | have walked
up that stream through the de-
bris of thousand years accum-
ulation and stopped to look at the
side Of a boulder, and have seen
the gold in the rock; | have pick
ed up small rocks and broken
them to find the gold. Not every
one, but a great many enough
to excite the most phlegmatic man
on earth. When | went in the
first time. | thought the whole
thing a fake, and | did not give
it the attention otherwise justi-
fed. But my second trip it was
different. | had learned who the
owners were and that made a
big difference. Mr.. Campbell is
we'll known throughout Arizona,
having been located at both No
gales and Tucson, though now
he is livig at Long Beach. He has
always been ''in" good things,
as manager, promoter and opera
tor, and his judgment is a COM
petent man in every way, but es-
pecially SO as a mining engineer.
Mr.. Phillips is and old timer, who
has been prospecting most
of his life, with good results. He
has found many good properties
and has always made good with
them. With these facts before
me | looked closer and tarried
longer the second time. And the
second time | was there | met H.
w. Worthington, the prominent
mining engineer who at one time
was in charge of the assaying de-
partment of the G.. & A. smelter
at Douglas, and he then said to
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06


Arizona, at the Close of business
February 20, 1912.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts, Less due from Directors
$64, 1852
Due from Directors So, 1880
Overdrafts S34399
Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures $4, 996, IS
Real Estate
Current Expenses and Taxes paid S33765
Specie $1,539.74
Legal Tender and National
Bank Notes $2,414.00
Exchanges for Clearing $1S2.34
Other Cash Items *.
Due From State and National Banks,
Approved Reserve Agents $35, ,60947 $29, ,745.55
Collection Account F.. .
TOTAL SIP, ,865. 10
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in $15,OOO,OO
Surplus 81, 500, 90
Undivided Profits 1891 62
Individual Deposits Subject
to check $64,06257
Demand Certificates of
Deposit S15,00000
Time Certificates of Deposit $9,S75.O0
Certified Checks S35O00
Cashiers checks outstanding $4,000 $89. 1884, 81
TOTAL SIP, ,865 10
State of Arizona, County of Greenlee, SIS.
|, B. r. Lanneau, Cashier of the above named
Bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
b. r. NNEAU,
Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20 day
of Feb, 1912.
JOHN EVANS, Notary Public
My commission expires Apr. q, 1914
w D. MoKEEHAN
BF BlLLINGsLEY.
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
TAFT ISSUES
Proclamation Demands
Strict Neutrality And
Advises Homecoming

Seriousness of Situation in Mex
co is made More Clear by Ac-
tion of Chief Executive and
Advice Sent to Government
Representative by the De-
partment of State
Duncan Arizonian., 1912-03-06
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF DUNCAN

At Duncan, in the State of
Arizona, at the Close of business
February 20, 1912.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
The Bottle
E9S
81
Bv WILLIAM F. KIRK.

GGT We pzen critters said Arizona friend
Il watched pal Tombstone till knowed was the
end,
A scorpion bit him the thumb while he clawlng sand
Looking for water maybe in maybe-waer land
| handed him my liquor and he drank about third
You should have heard that little flask the way purred and
purred.
Yes, and kept purring till my old pal soul free
A bottle always seems to purr " said Phoenix Phil to
Another time " said Phoenix Phil, Il mind when Jim
drunk,
And got his elbow nibbed.by hydrophobia skunk
The skunk was like the scorfion-le ddn to fight
All plzen things warning before they sting bite
l handed Jim my liquor too-the poor boy drank it all
1t tastes good Phil he mutters aops agin the wall
1t sounded good, murmured, like kitten full gee
A bottle always seems to purr said Phoenix Bill to me-
That's why IN scared Of liquor said my Arizona friend
There something IN the red stuff that guy can comprehend
1t don fight fair and fearless like the other pzen things
That crawl around this ball Of mud with all fangs and nos
RATHER sounds rattes when he hears fellows
It's lodging reptiles if your only half discreet
bottle though is different, and that's why let it be
bottle always seems to purI said Phoenix Phil to me
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20

You are old enough to have some
plain, everyday common sense.
You must be. or YOU couldn't have
grown children. You've earned your
own way in the world for years;
why don't YOU use some of the
practical principles that have
taught YOU success in business,
right here in this absurd case of
YOURS
OF course. a clerk might take
money from the tin at Your friend 5
shop and ttnn out to be a model of
honesty and trustWorthinsss for
Nou-but what are the chances in
the case
This gil is a selfish, calculating
Young person who has found your
weak point-an weaving be
lief in Your strength of influence
On others-and she's making
plain everyday goose Of YOU
that's all
Look at her as she is. for once.
and Ton goodness sake. my friend,
lock az yourself. as YOU are You
are no romantic. high -souled
Lancelot willing to die for an ideal:
you are Just a man who's being
used by a designing gir}-and you
ara i'm love with her that's all.
Fan out of love as fast as you
can Run home and ask that good
wife of Yours to forgive you. and
be a man and not a self deluded
hypocrite.
You are az the dangerous" age
and YOU were bound to fail in love
with some one. Well. you've done
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
The Pose of Helplessness sgNIMESz1 HL1cx

x HE'S a dear. sweet. innocent
girl-but helpless oh, very
- helpless.
So utterly ignorant Of the ways
of the world, So absolutely unable
to take care eft herself.
She has a friend such a good.
devoted, unselhsh friend-not
thing wrong with him-only hes
married
And he has written to me al
about il
Here is mart Of what the man
SAYS IN his letter
Il fear fer her inherent weak
ness. or let US say the inability 20
take care Of herself. She can not
stand alone. think It was that
element Of dependence that attract
ed my interest in the FIRST place,
and also my worlds knowledge of
the men whom we both know.
Please don't imagine ] ann taking a
halo position | atm trying to bee
strictly honest l never had de-
signs On the girl. even if She had
evidenced a wish for anything 9th
err than what we were which She
did not | may have thought
things. but there was no encour-
agement. know She is as true
girl as one could find r. \. l.
Tut tut. my dear sir, is il possi-
Bile that YOU can SO deceive your
self. and really make yourself think
that the thing YOU want to do is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20

LIFE about these things Still
they can not explain them, beyond
saying that they are curious re
suits of chemical action" Their
discoverer, however, is bolder.e De-
claring that these "phantasms" ex
hibit the power of nutrition, of as
similation (the utilizing of imbibed
substance), of elimination (the re-
lection of useless substance), and
of irritability, he goes on TO specu-
late on the possibility that they are
related, in some way. to actual life
If only he could make his mystic
rious creations REPRODUCE
THEMSELVES, he would probably
establish his contention, for then
he would have, in addition TO the
other characteristics of living be
ings, which he processes TO have
found in them, the one missing es-
sential needed to make them really
alive.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
PROF. sTEPHANe LEDUc HAS, MADI

ing corals.
XXTHAT do YOU think of the
wv photographs reproduced on
this page? No doubt, if
you simply trust your eyes, you
will take them for pictures Of real
plants, animals. shells and corals.
In fact, they are PHOTOGRAPHS
or PHANTASMS. A phantasm is
something that appears to the eye
and the Imagination to be what II
is not "Phantasms of the Living"
an English scientific writer has
called them
But the strangest thing about
them is that they were not made
by hand, or drawn by pen or pen
Gil but THEY GREW into the
forms which YOU see. Nature made
them, as she makes actual animals
and plants But She did not do it
in her regular way. Man inter
fered with the cunning devices of
chemistry, and caused nature to be
come AN IMITATOR OF HER
OWN WORKS.
These marvellous creatures for
creatures they are, whether they
really have any kind Of life or not
initiate living things not only in
form, but also In growth in de
veloping according to organic law.
In absorbing nourishment. in move
ment, and in 'irritability," which,
in a scientific sense. means re
spending to excitement, or provo
cation. like a caterpillar which rolls
itself into ball when it is
touched
Some initiate mushrooms, others
worms. Some grow tall and put
out leaves like grasses or towering
plants. Some take the form of
branching corals, or of sea shells.
Some crawl over solid objects like
spreading moulds. Yet none of
them We're born from seed. or from
roots, or from eggs All, as far as
we can see, are composed of mani
mate, or non-living. substance.
Professor Stephane Leduc produced
most of them by simply putting
fragments of calcium chloride "a
we'll known chemical, a kind of salt.
which is often used for drying pur-
poSeSl into solution of water sat
urated with carbonate. or phos-
phate of potash, and bringing the
dissolved substance into contact
with membrane composed of
parchment. or some similar mate
I'll H.