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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
WASHINGTON HAS
TREASURY HOLD
Congress Gets Wise to Hoggish-
ness of the District.
APPETITE HARD TO SATISFY
Kentucky Congressman Lead
ing the Fight Against Ex-
cessive Appropriations
For the District.

The Terre Haute Qnd) Star of
Jan. 80 says:
The everlasting hoggishness of the
District of Columbia has at last call
ed forth repressive measures from
congress.
Long ago the District Of Columbia
and the city of Washington, in par
ticular, acquired a strangle-hold on
the United States treasury. That hold
has been slightly broken at this ses-
sion of congress and the result is
such a succession of bowls and pro
tests and angry comments as never
before have been heard in the ma
tlonal capital.
Congress has been amazingly good
TO the nations capital. Money has
been poured out in the District to an
extent that is positively astonishing
as well as grossly unjust to the tax
payers of the United States, who, in
the last analysis, are the source from
which federal revenues originate and
who must keep the larder supplied.
BY an act of 1879, the legality of
which never has been conceded, con-
gress pays half of the cost of running
the District government, half the
cost of street and alley improve
ments, water and light bills and all
OF the multiplied expenses of a great
municipality. Not content with that
unexampled beneficence the District
continually comes to congress for
more money on one pretext or other
and the complaisant lawmakers have
ieaped the platter high.
Naturally the national caDital has
come to regard congress as a big,
eood-natured COW that can be MIXED
whenever sustenance is wanted, but
at last the COW is beginning to kick
and hold back it's milk. This is Gre
ating great disgust and ugly manifes-
tations of i'll temper in Washington.
An example of the light in which
the federal taxing power is regarded
as municipal asset in the District
came out few days ago when about
LOO temporary clerks who had been
engaged in the compilation of the
Thirteenth census were dismissed by
Director Durand. They already had
been held on for considerably longer
than the one-year period for which
they were employed.
Merchants Make Protest.
The order of dismissal raised
great howl in the District, not be-
cause LOO men and women were to
suffer from a lack of employment
but because the merchants and bust
ness people would feel the loss of
the money which these people had
been paying out at the stores. A cru
sade was started to secure another
federal appropriation of $1,OO0,OOO in
order that the clerks might be con-
tinued in the service to the end that
the storekeepels might enjoy their
further patronage. One Washington
paper published an itemized estimate
of the loss that would result to vari-
Gus retail interests in the, city If con-
gress should braZenly refuse TO grant
the appropriation. Congress did re-
fuse, on the ground that the work
assigned TO these clerks was com
pleted and the public service did not
require them any longer, but the city
OF Washington regards this as a thin
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

and yelled excuse to deal the nation
al capital another blow.
Congress Is finally beginning to
ehow some signs of standing by the
people Of the United States as
against the rapaclous greed Of the
District Of Columbia. Representative
Ben Johnson CT Kentucky, chairman
Of the house committee on the Dis
trict OF Columbia, Is the Spsrtsn-IIke
figure standing between the treasury
raiders Of the capital and the federal
treasury. Regardless Of politics,
Johnson's firm attitude 10 attracting
the admiration OF men Of all parties,
end as a pioneer In the direction OF
breaking up the Districts strangIe-
hold on the federal resources he is
receiving the backing Of Republicans
and Democrats alike.
He is making himself a target Of
ell kinds Of attacks, some insidious
and others open, but he refuses to be
cajoIed, brow-beaten or buIIdozed.
He is scathingy assaiIed every day
by the local press and the interests
that benefit by excessive appropria-
tons have gene so far as to under
take to break up the District Of Co.
Iumbia committee by inducing mem
bers to resign or to threaten to re-
sign, thus creating the impression
that Chairman Johnson's course Is
creating much dissatisfaction among
his associates on the committee; but
conpiraces Of this kind do not feaze
the imperturbable chairman and
treasury watchdog"
Interests Well Intrenched.
The Washington interests are still
strongly intrenched in congress, as
was shown during the consideration
of the District of Columbia appropri-
alton bill. 1t required ten days of
the hardest kind of shedding and con-
slant fighting to get that bill through
the house, and all of the time Chair
man Jonson was on the firing line.
The resistance to the bill came from
the fact that it made a cut Of close
to 100000 in the District of Co
lumbia appropriations, as compared
with recent years.
Despite all of the efforts to load
priations the increase added in the
house was only $3.50. While the
prolonged fight was going on citizens
Of the District sat in the galleries
and swapped sulphurous comments
on the militant Kcntuckian.
Chairman Johnson has only begun
to fight, and back of him is a large
end growing element of beth Repub-
lican and Democratic members who
are getting tired of the idea that one
city in the country shall be showered
with special favors and shall be per
mitted to live off the government all
of the time. for that is what it prac-
tically amounts to. Chairman John
son boldly challenges both the JUS
tice and the legality of the "half-and-
half principle under which the gov
eminent is MIXED annually for the
benefit of the District. When that
principle was first recognized govern
ment property Appropriated so per
cent of the real estate values of the
city, but since then the city has
grown and expanded until govern
ment property is but small proper
ton of the total valuation. The injus-
tice of the taxpayers of the country
paying half the expense is apparent
to everybody except a typical Wash
ingtonian.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

If should be pted her back for doing the right thing
Irngon should be given her shareor giving the children
graded school in the election there Thursday good graded schoo
due the children of COverport should follow
of rngton and take of the school enthusiasm
that place.
Friday night play will be the Covrpot Opera
raise money remaining debt school piano If YOU
do the show send twenty 2O cents if you
piano fund No has the cheat little
child but who does nothing the eucatona
training the children robbng them of the this world.
goods,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
coon EaR.uING IN BRECKINRTDGE

c. W. Robbins lives Ivngton rural route No. lie re-
turned last week from his COUSIN Will Robbins at Owens
boro. Mr. Robbins progressive farmer lie man VINO mas
fields Clifton Mills lie uses dynamite
his his blowing will not be nerfe
ed with and that may the every foot of his land Mr.
Robbins saws land of this be reclaimed
rotation He declares he had
Their risk his these lands than out West and buy
lands that don't know.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

Spain Insists on Wireless on Ships.
A bill has been introduced in the
cortes forbidding passengers after Jan.
|. 1913. from embarking at Spanish
ports on ships Of any nationality which
are net equipped with wireless telegra-
Dhy
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

Miss Eva Belle Plank and Miss Edith
Anna Plank will give a St. Valentin
tea this afternoon at their home at the
Kicking Post. The guests will include:
Misses Rebecca and Martha Willis, Mar
garet and Edith Burn. Lula Margaret
Sewers, Kathrine Norman, Ray Lewis
Heyser, Cleona Weatherholt, Louise
Babbage, Mr.. and!Mrs. Ira Bshen, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Newsom, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Phelps, Messrs. LATE Behen, Tom
Ferry, DR.. Mcdonald, DR.. Hillary
Boone, Paul Lewis. Frank Norman,
Leslie and Frank Plank.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
FAMOUS "BEANERY" CLOSED.
Its Doors Locked For First Time In
Thirty one Years

After thirty-one years, during which
lock, night or day. Judd's ''beanery"
on State street, New Haven, Conn.,. a
famous eating house frequented in its
day by many nOtables. including for
mer Governor Ingersoll, was closed
and the door locked by the rusty old
key
Ezra Judd, the proprietor, was Or
dered to vacate because of changes in
the building.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

Chaplin, Mrs. Sam Conrad, Mrs. Leon
ard Oelze, Mrs Tom Odwaldt, Mrs.
Joe Morrison, Mrs. Clyde Morrison,
Mrs. Henry Pate, Mrs. Joe Fitch, Mrs
Frank Matting!y, Mrs. Cnas. Hannah
Mrs. Henry Yeager and Mrs. George
Mullen.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
SOCIETY IN CL0VERPORT

Mrs. A. K. Fisher will be hostess to
the Ladies Reading Club tomorrow
afternoon.
900
Mrs. James b. Randall entertains "a
chain for the Methodist church this
afternoon.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
Pretty Wedding Dinner.

A delightful time was spent at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Crenshaw when
an elaborate wedding dinner was given
In honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hinton,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
HAD 534 DESCENDANTS.
Utah Woman Lived to See Five Gen.
erations of Her Family.

Five hundred and thirty-four de-
scendants, running to the fifth genera
ton. survive Mrs. Sylvia A. Sanford.
who died recently at Spring Valley.
Utah. aged ninety-seven years.
Born i'm Vermont. Mrs. Sanford was
one of the early converts to the Nor
mon faith and crossed the plains to
Utah In 1913 She was the mother
Of eight children. Three great great
grandchildren recently came into her
family.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
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cLovERPoRT, KY, WEDNESDAY, FEB IA 1912

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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14
o O O
MRS. ENGLISH ENTERTAINs.

Mrs. Frank English. who is one of
the most enthusiastic young married
women interested in church work in
this city, was a charming hostess at a
chain party Friday afternoon at her
home on the West Side. Four dollars
in silver was contributed by the guests.
Mrs. English served delicious lunch
con of two courses. Those present
were: Mrs. Frank Payne. Mrs. r. T.
Polk. Mrs. L. b. Perkins, Mrs. Lucian
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
THE PHELPS-DODGE COMPANY BONDS
 HUMbOLT

Tho most important deal consum- mated n this district during the past week was one that has been pend ing for some time: MT. sBracey Cu.'- t,es, of the First National Bank of Nogales, bonded the Humboldt glc'p of copper-silver claims Q the rheips-Dodge interests for the sum of s10,0OO, and work of open ing t;e property on an extenSiFe Q scale i'll begin at once. The Hum '",idt is good property and the i.regent developments show consld- erable ore which will be sent down and shipped from Patagonia to the Cor per Queen smelter at Douglas.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
Pinto Creek.

The Cactus property, the prospects in Powers Gulch, and many other pro- perties to the west of Miami are oe- coming matters of mining interest since the revived mining vitality of the southwest has manifested itself.
 The Cactus property, for instance, never was condemned by the miners who are familiar with this district. h. competent management, and not non minera';zed ground,is the general optn ion of those who know the couH :r'. Highly I4ineraiized, silicified schist, of richer character even than of the capping of the Miami property charac- terizes nearly all the surface of the Cactus. and this circumstance leaGs credepes to the report that the Ca-s- tus property soon will be the point of we'll srsenized prospecting.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
Sho Me

At the Sho Me property a force of men are completing the assessment work, 50,000 gallon reservoir is being constructed on the property, and it is rumored that churn drilling will beg Il development of the ground in the near future.
 Cleve w. Van Dyke is well pleased with the showing made upon the pro perty to date, and thinks it's. proximity to the Inspiration, Miami and Live Oak mines, com bined with the ac- tual discovery of chalcocite ore on their e&cenditure for exploitation.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
MON FED PEOPLE ARE AFTER MINING
 PROPERTIES
More People in cochise County Than Have Been for a Long Time-They are After Good Properties and
 Have the Capital.
The Bisbee Review says:

The BiSbee Review says:
 With the advance in copper of the last year came the hope of a revival of interest among outside investors in copper properties of Arizona il: general and the Warren District Fl particular. It is now apparent that such awakening has come and inquiry off properties in this. famous copper producing district has become notica. ble once more.
 It is true that the large companies are now employing more men and are producing more ore than in the pasI but is it plain that if there is to be a greatly increased development of the resources of the district, if new produc ing companies are to enter the local ffedl that properties and groups = properties as yet only partially devel7 oped must be taken over by groups or syndicates with the necessary capital to handle big propositions. This is what the district generally has been desiring and has been hoping for and now those desires and hopes seem
 
 ed in this direction.
 Unfortunately the impression pre- vails that practically all of the miner al lands of the district have been talk en up by the big companies, that tn. Warren District is a fully developed properties which await only develop ment to become producers like the present three operating properties Such is far from being the case and the public mind is becoming disabus- ed of the notion.
 During the past week there have been parties from the outside looking over some of the privately owned properties of the district. Others are expected within the next few weeks and it is gossiped that negotiations are under way for the transfer of several groups of claims.
 Arriving on Tuesday T. w. Ma: phy and A. C. Straub were in the dis trict looking over mining properties with the purpose of securing desira- ble holdings. Up to the time of their leaving for the east yesterday morn ing they were in daily consultation and negotiation with local owners of properties and it is understood that these negotiations have progressc favorab bly and to the satisfaction of all concerned although the interested par ties inclined at this time ogive oG~ any definite information relative ,D the matter. The transaction that has been involved in these negotiat- ions is known to have been an impor- ant one, however, and when the vis, ors left they stated they would ba back in Bisbee within short time
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
Southwestern Miami.

The Southwestern Miami has added installing a No. 24 Star Drill rig on it's recently acquired Prospect DTS Group property. The Prospector hole is located about 300 feet in a norther- ly direction from hole No of the South Live Oak, in which it is report encountered. The South Live Oak ore was encountered at a depth of 75O feet. Because of the contiguity and similar topography of the two drill holes it is expected that ore will be encountered at like depth The Prospector hole was 135 feet deep last Thursday evening.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
Silver kind.

The historic Silver King district is refecting the quickening impulse of this entire region. The Guggenheim in terests are at work on the Black Diamond claim, a promising prospect about a mile from the former great silver producer, and it is possible that the Si,ver King property may be uev- eloped to a greater extent than that reached when the dropping of the price of silver resulted in suspension tvs production. Many smaller silver prospects in the Superstition are be- ing scrutinized during the past few months.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
MIAMI DISTRICT |S.
 MAKING GOOD
Many Mining Prospects in District Will Soon Become Active With Mining Business-Review of
 Activity in That District.

MIAMI, Ariz., Nov. 9.-The wide spread and steady mining activity throughout the mineral zone surround ing Miami seems to have gained ina 'petus since the national election mas passed into the backward and abysm of time. Not only is the immediate copper outlook Of this district a reseat vision, but many of the adjacent silv Ter prospects, abandoned thirty or for ty years being rehabilated for produ3- ton as the price of the white metal scars.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15

pected today from Tombstone Sam- pies of all the ores mentioned above are on exhibit all day long at the far grounds, but the $G50 gold ngger. which has caused so much excitement is shown only between 10 a. m. and 3 p m-
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IN THE M | N ES
MILLIONS INVOLVED IN BIG MINING
 DEAL
helms the Christmas, Imperial and Congress Properties.

Negotiations for the sale to the Guggenheim interests of the Cl,r.st- mas, Imperial and Congress mines an.l Development Company of America, have been practically completed. Scr- eral million dollars are involved ill the deal, which has been engineered principally by w. T Earle who as formerly manager of the Fl Paso smell ter, a Guggenheim plant.
 Frank NJ. Murphy, president Of the Development Company of Am- erica, MT. Earle and a large parCy of persons affiliated with the GuG genheims in one way and another, passed through Phoenix early yes terday morning, bound for Christ mas. It is stated that their purpose was to make a complete examination of the Christmas mine, which is probably the most valuable of tie three to be taken over. The names of all the members of the party were not made known, but it is under stood that B. P. Cheney, a direc-
  ta Fe and one of the principal credi- tors of the Development Company, is among the capitalists now tray cling with MT. Murphy. J. Pierpont Morgan, who holds a million dollar mortgage on the Imperial mine, is probably will go from Christmas this afternoon.
 It is reported on good authority that a working bond and option is to be taken on the three mines and that the Christmas will be worked first. It already has an immense ton mage of copper ore developed. The ore will be treated at the Hayden smelter of the American Smelling & Refining company, a Guggenheim subsidiary. The Christmas sulphides are needed as fiux for the ore froEi the Ray mines, also owned by the Guggenheims.
 If the deal goes through it means that the Guggenheims will hold the biggest properties in the Christmas and Ray districts. It means that Frank Murphy who successfully pro noted the Crown King, Congress and other big Arizona mines, will once more be on his feet. Since the slump of 1907, Murphy has had a hard time to keep his head above water. The Imperial and Tomb stone Consolidated holding compan- ies of the Development Company of America, went through -< bankruptcy proceedings. This was mainly be- cause of Murphy's unbounded faith ;n the Tombstone Consolidated. Be tween six and seven million dollars were spent there, combating the heavy flow of underground water.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15
RARE METALS FOUND
 IN ARIZONA MINE
The Richest Mineral in the Union' IS Found, Gypsum, Cobalt, Nengsten.
 Etc.-More of Recent Years is Located.

Arizona is well equipped win rare metals, as anyone who loo $ carefully at the specimens in the mines building at the state fair is bound to realize .s-<.se- z-.-'e.' F''r'-' Tungsten might be called a new metal, because it has had no prac- tical use until recent years. Spec mems of wolfranite, tungsten ole from the Dedeck claim in Mohave and the Tip Top district in Yava- pal, are on exhibition at the fair.
 Molybde ite from Twin Butte, near Tucson, and lead molbydate from the Mammoth has also sent in q sample of lead vanadinite, an ore If Ivanadium.
 Cobalt in Yavapai.
 From Black Hill, in Yavapai, com" S a specimen of cobalt orsenide, cinn..- bar, the sulphide of quicksilver, is a rare thing even in Arizona, but sar ple is shown and bodies of the ore have been discovered in two places in the state.
 The Golconda is the only mine iE Arizona now shipping zinc ore and zinc sulphide like the specimen shown Thayer's Monte Christo ores show native silver and silver com pounds besides cobalt and nickel.
 4 pile of asbestos from the Grant Canyon and a roll of kaolin, vaiu- able pottery clay from Wickenburs, stand side by side in the Ca es..
 It appears that Arizona AiH even tually be entirely iudepeDI Tt evrn lat election time, for stfonitth "crhon ate, the salt which gives the ;-orse-u@ e Ger f, red fire, is How fc''s1! II . .r. a ksad.
 kEffxony is found l.. ra~. flip 1tes
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15

Circds night drew quite. g large crowd from MoFehei and Metcaff.
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Miami Copper Company.

The Miami Copper company, like all great established enterprises, has little news value, the even tenor of it's dividend-yielding way. being fully cs unproductive of news as it's mining is productive of dividends.
 The usual monthly 3,000,O0O pounds of copper production soon may be in creased, as may be the force of 1,0J0 men.
 General manager B. Britton GOtt j. berger, Mining Superintendent N. O. Lawton, Mill Superintendent Solomon and their staff have nothing to inn part in the way of mining news fo- the simple reason that the great plant is moving with frictionless precision. . Inspiration.
 The enormous Inspiration property is the scene of record-breaking in dustry The railway. gangs that are cutting grades and tunnels athwart the face of mother nature are but the prelude to the hordes of miners who soon will be breaking the rocky treasure trove beneath the mountains that has inspired the human activity and expenditure of millions that are making an industrial empire of what three years ago was wilderness.
 The incline shaft through which the miners aid supplies will reach the in spiration orebody from the upper end of the Miami district is partially cut, the Sulphide tunnel of the Live Oak portion Of the Inspiration is being en- larged for installation of electric haul age, the main Inspiration working shaft from which the ore will be sent to the mill, will soon be started, and the railroad grading is breaking all records.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15

Country in Yayapai and Af1rico"2 produces bismuth carbonate hea"T metallic compound which ia pass >.l as gaId more than once.
 Also Gypsum.
 Gypsum deposits are common and plaster of Uaris is already bellS
 --.L manufactured in Pinal Couaty. Silver and copper ores arrived fr ).s. Countess Morajeska's mine Hesterda' ahd 2 consignment sf silver ere i sex
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15

Surveyor General Frank ,S. 4 Ihgalls will shortly send a party into the '-Ari- zona strip beyond the Grand Canyon known virgin river. In order to reach Virgin river the party will have to g1 to Los Angeles over the Santa Fe oT Southern Pacific, take the Salt Lake railroad to a point in Nevada ana travel overland considerable dis tance. One of the oldest settIemeI. S in Arizona is on the Virgin river. A considerable area of farming land ia the Virgin bottom has been cultivate ! for more than a quarter of 8 century
 --EHeeFix Gazette