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creeedil. Catching in eernso.

It Is a common sight In Borneo to see
a large crocodile summing himself on
the muddy bank Of a river. He takes
no notice of the natives even though
they pass quite near him. So COM
mon. indeed, is the sight that the Dy-
Iaks themselves pay no heed to these
dangerous reptiles; and yet 1t Is no
unusual thing in Borneo to hear Of
some human life being taken by a
crocodile.
For months perhaps the crocodiles
in river live at peace with mankind
and then suddenly one Of these Great
ures will carry of some lad bathing
in the river or even attack some one
padding in his boat. I know Of a Dy-
ak girl who, when sitting and padding
at the stern of canoe, was knocked
over into the water and carried away
by a crocodile and her companions
could do nothing to save.
There seems to be no reason why
the crocodile should suddenly show
a man eating propensity In this way.
L The Dyaks account for II by curious
lSuperStltlonS. Tney say tnat IL Ioou
| is offered to a person and he refuses II
land goes away without at least touch
ing 1t, some misfortune Is sure to be-
fall him and he will most probably be
lattacked by crocodile.
Also 1t is said that one Of the ways
the gods punish crime is by sending q
crocodile to attack the culprit; and
1 have often heard 1t said by Dyaks Of
some one who has been killed by
crocodile that probably he has dis
pleased the gods either by playing no
heed to the warnings sent him In
dreams or by means Of omen birds or
by committing some hidden crime.
The Dyaks of Borneo will not kill a
crocodile except I'm revenge. II the
animal will live at peace with him the
Dyak has no wish to start quarrel;
|if, however. the crocodile breaks the
truce and kills some one then he feels
justified in retaliating. Under these
circumstances the Dyaks set to work
to find the culprit and go on catching
and killing crocodiles until they sue
ceed In going so. The Dyaks generally
wear brass ornaments and by cutting
open a dead crocodile they can easily
find out II he Is the creature they wish
to punish.-Chambers Journal.
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WOODROW WILSON.

learning. 1 was afraid to go near the
object to determine.
"I waited and waited, with the fear
gradually taking firmer hold Of me,
and the bucket did not come back.
The more I thought Of the affair the
more frightened became. I imagin-
led all sorts Of things, thinking the
poems had overpowered the superin-
tendent, thrown him down the pit
and stuck the lift so that would die
at the bottom. I could see no lights
moving at the bottom, as there would
have been had the mouth Of the well
been open, for a huge lamp always
swung Immediately over the pit.
II pulled out my watch, smashed
the crystal and felt for the time with
my fingers. This was my only means Of
telling the progress Of time. The
first time 1 felt Of the timepiece 1t we
9 o'clock. I haG been there only three
hours, and yet 1t seemed an eternity.
81 could hear, or at least I imagin-
ed I could hear, strange sounds all
around me, and with that dead body
only a matter Of inches from me 1t
was small wonder that I wandered in
my mind.
whether I went to sleep or was In
a delirium 1 do not know to this day,
but the next thing I remember after
last feeling for the time at o'clock
Is awaking in the hospital tent of the
company with the worst headache I
ever had. My hair, which had been
d deep brown, had turned almost
white.
"The superintendent was there and
he smiled much like live person
when he saw my eyes open and he
told me of affairs following the drop
ping of the body for the second time
into the pit Almost at the top the
bucket had caught and turned slight
ly sideways, so that 1t would neither
go up nor down. In catching on the
side of the shaft the lever controlling
the drop bottom had caught and re-
leased the catches The boss barely
missed going back into the pit AS 1t
was he held on there until the men
at the top learned his predicament
and pulled him out with a rope.
when they found they. could not
get to me by going down Doyle's shaft
the superintendent went into my
shaft, and working in the direction
he knew Doyle had been coming. he
had little difficulty in running into
the shaft in which I was a prisoner.
He had to work only seven feet to
join the two holes, and neither Doyle
nor I knew we were so close together.
'The digging in my pit accounted
for the noises that had set me off my
head.-Chicago News.
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STUPIDITY OF THE AFRICANS
Henry M. Stanley told Of Some Not
able Instances of Ignorance.


The natives of central Africa are
described by the late Sir Henry NJ
Stanley in his Autobiography" as
being incredibly stupid. He tells for
example. Of one native who, with an
other man, was sent in a canoe across
river to fetch a company OF men to
camp. After waiting an hour, Stan
ley went to the river, where he found
the two padding each in an opposite
direction, and blaming the other fol
his stupidity. They were in a pas
sion of excitement, and quite unable
to hear the advice of the men across
the river, who were bawling direc'
tions to them how to manage theii
canoe.
Another stupid fellow was generally
saved from punishment because his
mistakes were so absurd. One day we
were floating down the Congo. Neal
camping time, as he happened to be
bowman, bade him stand by, ant
when | called out, seize the grass or
the bank to stop the boat. In little
while we came to a fit place, and
cried, Hold hard, Kirango!"
please God, master" he replied
and forthwith sprang on shore anC
seized the grass with both hands
while we, of course, were rapid!
swept on down stream.
The boats crew rOared at the RI
dculous sight. Nevertheless, his STU
pidity cost the tired men hard pull
upriver, for not every place was avail
able for a camp-Youths Companion
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- Charlotte, n. c.. June 13: The
first plant in America for the manu-
facture of fertilizer on a commercial
scale with the nitrogen Of the air as
the basis, is being operated at Nitro
lee, S. c., near two $4,000 horse e-pow-
er hydro-elect plants Of the South
ern Power company on the Catawba
river. The plant uses 1000 horse
power of electricity, and the expert
ments have already shown. according
to the German experts, in charge Of
the work, that the plant will be COM
mercially, as well as scientifically, sue
cessful. BY a process involving cleo
trio furnaces with a terrific tempera-
ture and chemical retorts the nitrogen
of the air Is freed and Is converted in
to nitric acid. Limestone Is treated
with this acid and nitrate Of lime, a
highly concentrated fertilizer, Is the
product The Southern Electro
Chemical company built the present
plant partially as an experiment and
proposes to erect a plant to use $4,000
horse power Of electricity, and pro-
ducing approximately fifty tons Of fer
tiliZer day.
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convention to nom mate candidates for
the offices Of president and vice presi-
dent, although 1t was a continuation Of
a preliminary convention held at Pitts
burg In February Of the same year,
where, strictly speaking, the Republi-
can party first met In national conven-
| tion.'
The national Republican convention,
which renominated Grant and selected
Wilson for vice presidential candidate,
met at Philadelphia in June, 1879
Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, was
presiding officer.
In the next Republican national con-
vention, which met at Cincinnati,
Hayes and Wheeler were the nominees.
Edward Mcpherson. Of Pennsylvania.
was permanent chairman.
John B. Henderson was permanent
chairman of the convention which
nominated Blaine and Logan at Chi
cago in 1884.
Morris M. Estes was permanent
chairman of the convention which
nominated Harrison and Morton at
Chicago in 1888.
In the Democratic national conven-
tion which nominated Cleveland and
Stevenson at Chicago in 1892. w. L.
Wilson was permanent chairman
In the convention which nominateu
Bryan and Sewall at Chicago In 1895,
Senator White. of California, was per-
manent chairman. Bryan was the Sec
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ond Democrat present in convention
Ito receive the nomination for first
place, the other being Seymour.
Some interesting facts are grouped
lin recollections of two national Demo-
cratic conventions In the convention
that nominated Franklin Pierce and
w. r. King at Baltimore In June, 1852,
|of which John w. Davis, Of Indiana,
was permanent chairman, Jefferson
Davis received eleven votes from the
Illinois delegation for vice president.
lit is a curious bit Of political history
that the later president Of the Confed-
|eracy should have received such a vote
from q northern state.
In the convention which nominated
Buchanan and Breckenridge at Cincin-
natl In June, 1856, four candidates were
placed in nomination-Buchan
Pierce, Cass and Dougias-in the
shortest nominating speeches ever de-
livered The four speeches made ex--
actly seventy-seven words. Breckin-
ridge, who was present when he was
nominated for vice president, declined
in a speech, and later accepted. The
permanent chairman Of this conven-
tion was John e. Ward, Of Georgia
What caprices await the conventions
to meet in Chicago and Baltimore can
not be foretold. not even by Managers
Mckinley and Dixon In their contra
dictory tables-New York Times.
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treme is claimed for this ether that
none of the heavenly bodies is imped-
ed in the slightest degree-that the
earth's orbital velocity of nearly nine
teen miles a second, hundreds of times
the cannon balls velocity, Is not slack
ened by a second in a million of years
through any resistance it might meet
with from this almost incredible sub
stance, if it really is a substance. at
all. 1t could not serve as medium by
which light may be transmitted with
the enormous velocity of over 10000
miles per second, unless it is absolute
ly rigid and elastic, far more so than IL
it were composed of solid steel!-J'
Gordon Ogden, in April Popular Me-
chanics.
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THE WONDERS OF LIGHT.
| Properties that are Ineomprehensible
But AMAZING Nevertheless.

Properties that are Ineomprehensible
But Amazing Nevertheless.
Even more wonderful than light it.
self is the medium by which its waves
are carried. And what Is this medium?
1t is not air, it is not a gas, 1t Is not a
liquid. Is it matter? In order to be
matter, as we understand 1t, a thing
must possess two characteristic prop
critics. One of these is inertia, the
other Is weight. Inertia means the ac-
tive resistance shown by all matter to
change in it's condition of rest or
motion. Weight Is the measure of the
attraction one body has for another,
whether they be atoms or suns. tn
medium that bears light from star to
star, or from a candle to the eye, 80
far as we know, has only one Of the
properties of matter-inertia-
Are we not justified, therefore. in
saying, with our present knowledge of
the subject, that the light bearing me-
dium, called by scientists the luminif-
erous ether, is probably not materi-
al thing? The various properties 1t
must possess and without which 1t
could not do all the wonderful things
that are claimed for it, are more or
less contradictory in their nature. New
ertheless, the luminiferous ether Is be-
lieved in by a majority of scientists
even though they do not pretend to un-
derstand it's nature.
1t Is supposed to be everywhere, not
only filling the interplanetary spaces
and the vast abysses between the stars,
but also entering into the very heart,
and between the molecules and atoms
of what Is known as matter. AS Young
said of it: 1T pervades the substance
of all material bodies with little or no
resistance, as freely, perhaps, as the
wind passes through a grove Of trees
The stars and planets and all other
matter are riddled through and through
by this wonderful, mysterious thing. 1t
has been likened to a jelly In which
are imbedded a few grains OF SAND
which correspond to the matter in the
universe.
Gold, for example. one Of the densest
substances known to man, is permeat-
ed completely by this strange, space
filling ether, and platinum, another ex-
tremely dense substance, is as the
lightest, filmiest mist when compared
with the vast density Of the ether it
self. 1t has been estimated that the
density Of the light ether Is
SO, 900, 100000 times greater than that
of platinum, and yet rareness so ex-
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know how. and here's the thanks get.
/ come here to make speech. and m
to be interrupted and derided, doubt
less, by the beating Of tin pans"
But he resolved to stick 1t through,
feeling that he could speak just as long
as the tormentors could make a noise,
and If they didn't want to listen to him
and improve their minds they didn't
have to.
However, 1t wasn't as bad as Hub
bard had feared. AS he was about to
speak, one lone, gaunt man arose and
asked If he might have just a word.
We're on our way to an old-fash-
toned charivari party to serenade some
young married folks" he said, "but the
boys was anxious to hear your speech.
There's just one request we'd like to
make. Please cut it short.
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THE XICE-PRESLDENT.
Second Highest Official Only an Unim-
portant Figurehead.

In all the talk Of candidates little
speculation has been heard about the
second place on the national tickets.
Yet in the early days of the republic
the vice presidency was regarded as
a training school for the presidency.
Five Of our twenty-five elected presi-
dents have died soon after inaugura-
ton and their vice presidents thus
raised to the presidency, and the last
three presidents have taken their vice
presidents into their more intimate
counsels. Nevertheless the second place
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STRAWBERRY TUNNEL.
Wonderful Engineering Feat in Reela-
nation Project.

Wonderful Engineering Feat in Recla'
nation Project.
Strawberry Tunnel, one of worlds
greatest reclamation projects.
Pierces mountain for almost foul
miles.
Diverts entire river from one valley
to another forty five miles away.
Reclaims area of 10000 acres ir
Utah.
Called for solution of difficult engi-
neering problems and great physica
endurance
In snow and cold, at one and hall
miles above sea level, workers have
dug twenty four hours a day for more
rocky way.
"Holed through today"
This was the laconic message re.
layed by telephone from Camp Quin-
ton in the Wasatch mountains, Utah
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Wanted Him to Be Brief.-Repre-
sentative Elbert Hubbard. of Iowa,
was greatly disconnected at the open
ing of a meeting at which he was to
speak last fall to see a horde OF boys
and young men enter the hall armed
with tin pans. clubs, cOwbells and Varl-
Gus other implements for making a
noise,
"Ah, how unappreciative people
are" thought Hubbard to himself. Il
slave away in congress. trying, to rep
resent my district as faithfully as l
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"a Hoax-"What is the difference in
time between New York and Parish"
Joax-"Oh, I don't know. You can
have pretty much Of the same time in
New York as in Paris II you know
how to go about t."-Philadelphia
Record.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
DAMAGE SUIT WILL BE HEARD AGAIN
 AT TUCSON
Supreme Court of State Remands Mo- renci Flood Cases To Superior Court of Pima County For
 New Trial.

As result of decision of the Su- preme Court of the State, what is known as The Morenci Flood cases entitled I. Hoefeldt vs. The Detroit Copper Co.,, has been remanded to the lower court for a new trial.
 It will be remem bered that on the night of December 3, 1905, that the tailings dam of the Detroit Copper Co., broke, adding a volume of water to Chase Creek which was already run ming bank full. Several people were drowned and it is alleged that $206,- 900 worth of property was damaged or destroyed. Those who suffered loss of property endeavored to get the D. c. M. Co.,, to settle the damages failed. A suit was commenced for damages and change of venue was taken to Pima county before Judge Campbell.
 The case was finally tried by jury lasting for six weeks. The jury re- turned a verdict in favor of the plain tiffs but the verdict was set aside upon a showing made by the defendants. Tn cease was brought in the name of I. Hoefeldt, of Clifton, as a test case. After Judge Campbell had set the yer dict of the jury aside an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the Territory and the action of the lower court was affirmed and all the cases ordered dismissed.
 W. A. Pitt, one of the parties to the suit, in 1910 induced nineteen of the flood sufferers to join him in an- othereffort to collect damagesThe case was again taken up before the present supreme court which set aside the former decision of the supreme court, and remanded the cases to the Super for Court of Pima County for a new trial
 In the event the nineteen cases are tried out it would take not less than nineteen months of constant trials be- fore nineteen separate juries based upon the hearing in the Hoefeldt case which took fuh month to try and cost each side from S5,000 to S20,000.
 The plaintiffs are now just where they started in 1905. It is estimated that it would cost more to try these cases than the amount involved and take year to conclude the jury trials, then would come the appeal to the Su- preme Court of the State by either side or to the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and finally to the Supreme Court of the United States.
 Those who are interested with MT. Pitt in the suits for damages propose to bring the matter before the court of Pima county at the earliest oppor- tunity which will necessitate the pres ence of number of witnesses at Tue son when the case is called for trial
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
BULL MOOSE PARTY |S LOOKING FOR
 EASY VICTIM
Roosevelt Followers May Have Can ddate Against Carl Hayden-Will Decide Question After
 Chicago Convention.

Ariozna's Bull Moose party may have a nominee in the field at the November election to be offered as a sacrifice to the popularity of Carl Hayden, and then again, the Moosers may not have a man in the field
 At the recent convention in Phoenix the matter was discussed of placing a Congressional nominee in the field, but no decision was reached. After considerable discussion among the leaders, it was thought best to de fer final decision until after the national Bull Moose convention, which is to be held in Chicago on the 5th of the present month.
 When the matter was brought up in the state convention here, some over-enthusiastic delegate suggested that the party decide right then and there to put man in the field. The suggestion met with consider able momentary approval and some one else thought it would be fine idea to permit Robert s. Fowler of Phoenix to be the burnt offering. gether and decided that no definite action should be taken along the lines of a Congressional nominee un- til after the Chicago blowout. At Chicago, of course, they can confer with Roosevelt It's his own little party and he should know best what to do.
 In the meantime, the democrats of the state, confident in the belief that Congressman Hayden will hay e no opposition at the primaries ,are beginning already to lay plans for his nomination and election. It is freely predicted in democratic cir cles that Hayden will receive more votes than the Republican and Bull Moose candidates combined, if the latter organization desires to enter the fight
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09

gard to what the supply should be and by agreements among the pro- ducers themselves. Those who buy are not even represented by counsel. The high cost of living is arranged by private understanding.
 Labor and Capital.
 we naturally ask ourselves, how did these gentlemen get control of these things? Who handed our eco homie laws over to them for legisla- tive and cOntractual alteration? We have in these disclosures still another view of the tariff, still another proof that, not the people of the United States, but only very small mum Der of them have been partners in that legislation.
 "The so-called labor question is a question only because we have not yet found the rule of right in adjust ing the interests of labor and capital. Here, again, the sense of universal partnership must come into play if we are to act like statesmen, as those who serve, not a class but a nation.
 "The working people of America if they must be distinguished from the minority that constitutes the rest of it-are, of course, the back bone of the nation. No law that safe guards their life, that improves the physical and moral conditions under which they live, that makes their hours of labor rational and tolerable, that protects them where they cannot protect themselves, can properly be regarded as class legislation or as anything but as measure taken in the interest of the whole people, whose partnership in right action We are trying to establish and make real and practical. It is in this spirit that we shall act if we are genuine --1c'-eg--- n O. ..e N2o,e couE "
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
REGISTERING OF VOTERS.

The registration closes ten days be fore the primary election on Septem- Der 10, and opens again September IT and closes October 15, just three weeks before the general national election on November 5.
 To vote at the primary or general election in November it is necessary that voters register by the time limit given above. Every voter should see that his name is placed on the great register as soon as possible. It is i'm portant that this duty be given atten- tion at once.
 Every male person who has been q resident of the state for one year, of the county and precinct for thirty days who can sign his name on the great register and who can read the Consti- tuition of the United States is entitled to register and to vote at the coming g elecion.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
ARIZONA MINER DIES.
Leaves $6,ooo.oo insurance to ReIa-
 tives Who Live in Butte.

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., July 31.-Al- though he died in the county hospital presumably one of the pay patients, Daniel B. Ryan "a well known Cochise county miner, who died at Douglas a few days ago, left a small fortune to be divided among his heirs, most of whom reside in Butte, Mont. The man carried life insurance of $6,000. pr. F. w. Randall, medical superintendent of the hospital, has completed the de tails of certifying his death and for warding the certificates to the various insurance concerns in which he car ried the policies.
 Ryan was insured in the Modern Brotherhood of America, the Frater- nal Brotherhood and New York Life Insurance ocmDany, havino thrnN Do'i- Cr a3-.11 ..,,tt CD
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
ID THE VOTERS OF GREENLEE COUNTY

 Baltimore convention Governor Wilson, aLion.
 
 
  platform of that Baltimore.
  
 
  the National Committeeman 
 Arizona,J Dear sr:--
 
  their candidacy
   subscriptions which shall forwarded National  will be all subscriptions
  will
 
  Member tic Nation Comm for Arizona subscription the 
  nal of the and subscription the Copper LsoN-MARsHALL SUBSCRIPTION ERA,  by Line forwarded managers o Campaign Address
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
SHANNON GUN CLUB

The following is. the result of the Shannon Gun Club shoot last Sunday, Au2uSt 4th.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-08-09
GREENLEE COUNTY CONTRIBUTES ID
 WILSON FUND
Subscriptions Large and Small VIII Be Received at This Office And
 Promptly Acknowledged.

In response to the call Of National Committeeman Reese M. Ling, made through the Copper Era last week, for subscriptions to the Wilson-Mar- shall campaign fund, the following named voters of Greenlee County have forwarded to the Copper Era