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Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
FLOODED WITH
 0LO BICYCLES
Chief of Police Has More Wheels Than a Machine Shop and Seeks Some Means of Their Speedy Disposal

Chief of Police A. J. Moore is per plexed. Down in the basement of the city hall building. in q room claimed by the street superintendent reposes q mass of bicycles and parts Of bicycles, the fruits of the labors of the watchful policemen for years. Some of the wheels are of more or less value, while others wouldn't make good junk. They have become a nuisance.
 If the bicycles were horses or cows or other livestock. Chief Moore would know what to do with the accumula : tion, for there is d specific city ordi- nance whereby by advertising such stray stock as is picked up by the police. may be disposed of at an auction held by the chief of police at tte city hall. But there is no provision, according to City Attorney Tom Prescott whereby the police have any jurisdiction with other property, other than to hold it until the owner appears and proves his prorrietorship.
 Ir an effort to have this matter straightened out Chief Moore went before city council last evening and re- quested that he be given instructions as to the course which he should pur- sue in clearing the city hall basement of the accumulated bicycles. MT. Pres colt stated to the council that neither the present city charter or the state sat utes contemplated any such situation as has arisen and that he did not believe that council would be authorized to pass an ordinance permitting the sale of the bicycles Unless the city attor- ney can find some other way out ot the difficulty the bicycles must go on accommodating at the rate of any where from ten to twenty each month.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
As reported by the Arizona Ab-
 stract and Title Co.,. l34 West Washington Street.

Willis F.. Griffith to John B. Tuley deed NEA, SWA, S. Ex 20 it. on N line in Tp. Is. 6E.
 John E. Tuley and wife to Willis F. Griffith. deed to NWA, SEA-. EX. 20 1t on N line Tp. IS. 6E.
 finders Mortensen and wife to l.. F. H. Birch, deed to Pt. SEA-, l3. IN, BE
 George N. Gage and wife to Phoenix Fempe Stone Go, deed to Nl4, SEA 15. IN, 4E.
 Sarah A Hutchinson to Abbie L. Kent, deed to l.. 15, blk. "C''. Repost Heights.
 ]. Irvine Meskimmons to David Il Shelton. deed to 10-acre tracts IF NWh. l2. IN, BE.
 REP. Davis and wife to s. w. Sugar & Land Co., deed to M, WA. NEA :. 2N., 2E.
 s. w Sugar & Land Co. to Jay E Stannard and wife, deed to NV IL NEA, ,. 2N, 2E.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
SAY SECURITIES
 WERE FORGED
Witness Says That 46O Acres Formed
 Basis for Bond Issue.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DESPATCH l

PORTLAND. Dec. Witnesses against O, J. l.. Biehl, former secre- tar! Of the Oregon Washington Trust Co, charged in the using of the mails to d@fraud. testified that not to exceed 460 acres land formed the basis for a bond issue of nearly $4,000. 900 sold by the Columbia River Orchards company. He said that some of tne securities the company gave were forged and that brokers bartered the bonds which the company picked up practically for nothing, for, in some cases. almost par.
 The oregon Washington Trust com- panN gets into the case because it guaranteed what the government al leges was worthless bonds of the Orchards company
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
HUMAN BOMB" IS
 PLACED ON TRIAL
Man Who Tried to Blow Up Los An geles Police Station Faces Jury.
[AssoCfATED PRESS pTsPArCE1

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.-It re- Quired an hour and half to select d jury today in the trial of Carl RiedcIbach. the human bomb who attempted to blow up the police sta ton last month, and before Presiding Judge Willis of the superio. court had adjourned the session the states case was well under way.
 Deputy District Attorney Ralph Graham and J. Randall a mining man, testified for the prosecution. They were eyeWitnesses of Riedel- bachs conduct when he walked into the police Headquarters with d bomb containing 50 sticks of dynamite.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
ORDERS FORECLOSURE
Plaintiffs Win Case Involving About
 S10,O0,0O0
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

CHEYENNE. Dec. 30.-Federal Judge J. A. Riner today held for the plaintiffs in the case of the Pennsyl- vania- Wyoming Copper company and it's subsidiaries, involving about $ld,- GOO GOO and many persons of the United States who are stockholders. The court ordered the foreclosure of a mortgage under deeds of trust which had been given the Continental and Commercial Trust and Saving bank of Chicago in the sum of S2 900 900
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31

WASHINGTON. - Peter Voorhees, De Graw. fourth assistant postmaster general. has charge of the new par eel post, which goes into effect Janu- ary l. MT. De GraW has held his present job since March 11, 1905. Be- fore that time he was d newspaper man and a business man in Phila- delphia. He was born in Princeton, x. J., and is in his fifty-ninth year.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
ENCOUNTERS HEAVY GALE
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHJ

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 30.-Six splintered life boats of the Pacific mail liner Siberia. which arrived from the orient today, attested to the violence Of the gale off the China coast through which the Sibera pass ed on December 15 out from Yoko- homa. Five boats which were bat tered by the waves as they swung from the davits were so badly damag- ed they cannot be repaired.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
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Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
l. w. w. IS FINED
rAssocIArEn pRrss p1sPArcuI

 DENVER Dec. 30.-In municipal court today Judge Stapleton fined Ar thur Rice $10 for offensive speeches in behalf of the Industrial Workers . of the World
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
DEMOCRACY's LEADERS.

Rock Island is honored by the pres
ence today of Colonel James Hamil-
ton Lewis. democratic candidate for
United States senator from Illinois
and p. J. Lucey, democratic candidate
for attorney general of Illinois, who
spoke at the Illinois theatre this after.
noon and by Hon. Champ Clark, speak
e. of the national house OF representa-
tives, who will deliver an address at
the Illinois tonight at o'clock.
Lewis and Lucey are among the
foremost of Illinois democrats, while
Champ Clark is one OF the most popu-
lar and most admired of the party
leaders of the nation. The candidate
Of a great mass of the representatives
of his party for the presidential nomin-
alton, he is beloved as are few men. a
great statesman annd grand old man.
He should have a packed house tonight.
With the prospect of Governor
Thomas r Marshall of Indiana, DEM
ocra;ic candidate for vice president,
and Judge f. F. Dunno and Hon l.. B.
Stringer. nominees, respectively, for
governor and Congressman-at-large
coming later the democrats of Rock Is
land county have reason to consider
that they are getting their share OF
attention
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

Captain Walter A. Rosenfeld, chair
man Of the committee on organization
OF the republican state central COM
mittee with headquarters at the Hotel
La Sale, Chicago, who came home to
spend Sunday, in the course of an in
terview said, in a review Of the polit-
ical situation of the state, during
which he held that Taft is gaining and
that Deneen will be reelected: Con
occasionally, the republican nominee
from this district. Charles ]. Searle,
won his nomination in fair primary.
He should be supported by the republi-
cans of the district He will be worthy
successor to Mckinney and the inter,
ests of the Fourteenth congressional
district will be ably served in Wash.
ington. Our reports at headquarters
are that this district will keep in the
republican column and Searle will &c
10 Washington with the usual repub
lican majority" OF course the "in
terests" would be ABLY served" in
Washington by the election of the re
publican ticket from Taft down, but
Why rub ii in on Searle in particular
Walter2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
Monday, October "A, 1912.

TRrin revision should begin with the
schedules which have been most obNi-
ously used 10 Kill competition and 10
raise prices In the United States, nrbi-
trnrily and without regard 10 the prices
pertaining elsewhere IN the markets of
the worlds and Il should, before IL Is
finished or intermitted, be extended TO
every item In every schedule which af-
fords any opportunity for monopoly, for
special advantage 20 limited groups OF
benedciarieH, OF for subsidized control
of any Kind I'm the markets or the en-
terprisea Of the country; until special
fnvOrn of every sort shall have been alb
sOluteIy Withdrawn and every part Of
our laws of taxation shall have been
transformed from n system of govern
mental patronage into system of just
md reasonable charges which shall fall
where they will crente the Ienst burden.
when shall have done that, We can
h1 questions of revenue and of bust
ness adjustment In n new spirit and
with clear minds. We shall then be
partners with all the business men of
the country, and day Of freer, more
stable prosperity shall have dnwned.-
woodrow wilson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
AW0MANyO OBSERVATIONS


bell OF most houses, nowadays, without
expecting to be interviewed through
crack by a slatternly woman ashamed
to be seen, and, if there's a maid,
don't have to wait for madame to
scuttle upstairs and get on something
decent
The reason? Education. So much
has been written about slouchy home
women in magazines and newspapers
that she's at last taken it to heart
And she's found herself so much more
self-respecting and home so much hap
pier that she wouldn't go back to the
old slovenly ways for anything.
There are still some of the old kind
left. There always will be, l suppose.
sometimes wonder at the amount of
conceit such a woman shows in ex-
pecting her husband to keep on loving
her when she's dirty annd unkempt
and lets herself go until it's practic-
ally impossible for her to look nice
even when she tries"
Another crime has been laid to the
automobile.
A certain doctor writes a long opin-
ion to the effect that automobiles are
| largely responsible for the increase of
tuberculosis. His argument is that the
dust raised by automobiles affects the
lungs not only of those who ride in
them, but Of those who walk.
AS If there never was any dust be-
fore the automobile came on the scene!
Who can't remember the day unpav.
ed roads, when every passing vehicle
made another groan over the way the
dust came into the house? How often
have we checked in a cloud of dust
while ambling along a sidewalk. when
our rich neighbor passed in her car.
riage? And the day isn't so very far
past when we couldn't cross a street
without stirring up little dust Of ou1
own; when on the other side of the
street the women folk stopped to sur
reptitionsly wipe the toes of theil
shoes on ahem-hose. and 6
man stopped to flick the dust of his
No. lis with his handkerchief
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
mittee and the balance from Tom Nei-
derinRhaus

In an extended and Iabored defense
OF himself, Judge c. J. Searle contin-
Ues TO straddle the question as to
whether he is an elephant or a bull
moose. He clings TO the idea of run
ming on the same ticket with Taft and
Deneen and yet expec; the support OF
Roosevelt followers. Evidently Judge
Searle has not read carefully what
Roosevelt had to say in Chicago Sat
urday about both Mr. Taft and Mr.
Deneen. 1t would be difficult to con-
ceive Of Theodore Roosevelt giving his
endorsement to a candidate for any
Office who would be classed with Taft
or Deneen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

nee 70 snow no" J06 DTedu IdA lb
plundering the German workmen
1. At the beginning of August, 1908,
the Berlin workman paid for a quar-
ter of wheat $I04S. At the same time
the price of wheat per quarter in free
trade England was 1854. Thus it will
be seen that the Berlin consumer paid
the English price and the amount of
the tariff This is not all, because
tariff beneficiaries are seldom salts
fed to allow the consumer TO escape
by paying simply the amount of the
tariff in excess of the price that pre-
vailed previous TO the advance OF
rates They invariably demand a
small percentage of commission in
excess of the amount of the increase.
PROJECTIONS FICTITIOUS VALUE.
2. In the middle of October the
Berlin consumer was forced TO pay
S1056 for his quarter of wheat. This
amount represented S74S, the average
English price of wheat at the time,
ing extra. This chapter of the nara
tive shows how protection puts a fic-
titious value on an article. While
the price of wheat fell in fTee-trade
England, it increased in high-protec.
ton Germany.
8. At the end OF November the
price OF wheat in Berlin was S11.04,
which means that the Berlin consumer
was paying the prevailing English
price of s7.72, the tariff of 1924, and
in addition making a donation of As
cents TO the German agrarians that
were taking advantage of the high
tariff wall TO hold him up. And even
this is not all.
I 4. March 10, 1909, the Berlin con.
/ sumer was forced to pay s11.7S for a
quarter of wheat This represented
/ the prevailing English price of 1886
( the S2S4 tariff tax. and 5S-cent steal
In "a OF the principal wheat mar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14


81 have noticed one thing that is very
significant to me- said a woman who
has been travelling back and forth
through city streets for a number of
years, and that is: Women are not as
slovenly as they used to be.
Now. few years ago 1t was a com.
mon sight TO see a sloppy-looking wo.
man, even in a houes of good appear.
ance. She'd stand at her back or front
door in some kind of a shapeless wrap
per, with perhaps a Bingham apron
tied about the waist Her hair would
be uncombed, and, l suspect, her face
unwashed On her feet were sneak
ers,' in which she fip-fapped about
AS often as not, her home attire was
not even clean. In fact, any thing was
considered good enough for home
Not only was this the case early in
the morning, but all day, and lot o.
them didn't improve for the evening
Homecoming OF their men folk, excep
perhaps to wash their faces and may
be do up their hair.
But today it's an exception to come
across that sort of woman
The majority make a neat mornin.
appearance and practically all ar,
freshly gowned and looking their pref
test, at least by the time husband Il
expected home. can ring the door
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
MIR. DIXON AS A WITNESS.

The following editorial In the e
ming Star independently of Washing
on, d. c., should be read by ever
citizen who loves his cOuI
ry and wants 10 see justice done:
When short on facts and the
law, abuse the other side" Such
was the advice OF an old lawyer
TO a young lawyer who had just
qualified for the bar.
On the witness stand yester-
day Senator Dixon adopted the
old lawyers policy.
The progressive generalissimo
had probably rehearsed the part
he played. His manner and words
indicated preparation. He real
lied that he was on the eve Of be-
ing unmasked. The senatorial in
Quisitors would want TO know all
about the amount of money nee
essary for financing a movement
having its origin in the very
hearts of the plain people, and
Mr.. Dixon was not perspiring 70
tell.
So the willy gentleman from
Montana sought other topics. He
iusulted the committee. He abus-
ed the Taft side and the Wilson
side He sidestepped plain and
proper questions. He assumed the
role of the prosecuted. He alter
nately scolded. wriggled and
backed away. BY and large, he
made a spectacle OF himself.
And yet, carefully as he had
prepared himself. and bold as he
was in the carrying out Of his
program. he did not get away
with IT," He exposed himself
and his cause at every turn.
His lodging of questions answer
ed them disastrously to his side,
and his general turbulence be-
spoke the man in a corner who
could not get out.
But there was one admission
which tod volumes-told all that
has been charged against Mr..
Roosevelt and his bunco game.
Mr.. Dixon declared that when
ever hard up he went to Perkins
Yes. indeed. Perkins, the pluto
crat. whose wealth has come
from the trusts. Perkins, the bus
mess expert, whose heart and
brain are still in trust employ.
Perkins, the angel" who spreads
his wings and flies in any direc-
ton Mr.. Roosevelt desires. Per
kirs. the capable man OF affairs.
who under q third Roosevelt ad
ministration would shape the
whole trust policy of the govern
ment.
And has MI Perkins always
responded? Mr.. Dixon failed to
say. but there is no risk in as
Stunning that he always has. He is
not the sort OF man TO put up
and then shut up. That is not
business Mr.. Perkins is engaged
in q great gamble. and there must
be constantly ringing in his ears
az this time that old sporting ad-
Duration. Nothing risked. nothing
gained Having opened his wal
let 10 the cause. he will keep Il
open 10 the end OF the race.
Among Mr.. Dixon's numerous
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The man who has the sense to pick
a good housekeeper for a wife rather
than a good dresser will never let his
clerks soldier on their jobs.
The hay fever victim isn't greatly in
terested in the corn crop.
The man who is anxious to obllge
never gets rusty for lack Of opportu:
nifty to practice his theory.
You can never tell what a man is IN
til you have seen him tested by pros
perity as well as adversely. and then
you can only hazard a guess.
Many romance has been spoiled by
the thought OF the dishwashing and
the bill collectors inevitable visits.
Life is just one thing after another.
and sometimes they are so far after
that some Of US starve to death.
The successful politician seldom
boasts Of the things he is going to do.
He prefers to let bis enemies howl over
the things he has done.
Always make man think you con
slider him good business man. He
will like the compliment.
Some people are so constituted that
they can even be happy over what they
have missed.
There's always a dark side to the sill
yer lining. Even the fellow who keeps
smiling Is liable to have to be operated
Oh for smilitis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
CURRENT COMMENT

kets of Germany the price Of good.
marketable native wheat" June 8,
1909, ranged from S12.84 to SASS per
quarter of $50 pounds The prlce
Of English wheat at Mark Lane IN
the week ending June IA, ranged
from 1894 to $1O.74.
Last year the wheat harvest was
short, and the price rose all over the
world. But while the price reached
1882 per quarter in free-trade Great
Britain, it went to $1156 in high-pro.
lection Germany
Between October, 1905, and March,
1908, the price of bread rose 80 per
cent in Berlin, and subsequently ad-
vanced still higher.
The importance of a 32 per cent
increase in the price of bread may be
understood at its full value when il
is considered that the official Prus-
sian income tax statistics show that
21,000,000 out of 38,000,000 PrussiaD
people are below an income line of
S4.14 a week. What adds to the erav.
ity of the situation is that not only
has the price of bread advanced since
the German tariff schedules were re.
vised upward a few years ago, but
the price of meat and practically all
/ foodstuffs has likewise gone up.
In Germany, as IN al projection
/ countries, sle tariff schedules are
! not framed for the benefit of the
people, but for the benefit of the in
] terests in control of politics.
In Germany, the agrarians, a class
whose greed and unscrupulous po,iti
/ cal methods compare favorably with
/ those OF the American, oil, steel, and
| sugar trusts, dominate the Reichstae
( sufficiently to dictate occasional up
ward revision of the tariff on grain
: and meat. These men are not farm
| ers in the American sense of the word
/ but landlords in possession of vast
/ tracts of land that have been handed
: down to them from past generations
/ Some of the agrarians assert owner
/ ship to their estates by divine right
/ While keeping their tenants in prac
J teal serfdom, they take advantage Of
their strength as a group by having
laws passed which compel German
consumers 10 pay them tribute on ev
cry mOrsel of bread or meat consumed
PROTECTION BEGETs PROTECTION.
The agrarians began with a 4S CEN
per quarter duty on wheat in 1879
/ In Germany, as elsewhere, protection
begets protection. A tariff, like {
growing tree, is ever increasing il
size and throwing out fresh branches
The German tariff on wheat now i:
$2S4
When the agrarians demanded in
creased duties on grain and meat, the
manufacturers of Germany, piqued a
being left out in the cod, arose il
their wrath and protested that the
poor of Germany could not stand fur
Their increases on foodstuffs. So the
agrarians relented and offered no op
position to revision upward on manu-
featured articles. The result was re
vision upward all along the line.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
Hurnor and
Philosophy
RETROSPECT.
~ DUNCAN ~. SSsrw

IT doesn't get you anywhere
- To sit and plan and sigh
About the things you might have done
In days that are gone by,
But still 1t makes pleasant hour
When In this dusk you sit
To think about the many times
You might have made a hit.
That time you sold the homestead out
When, had you held 1t down
Until the boom. you might have been
The richest man in town;
That day you took a whirl in stocks
Is also food for thought,
For had you bought instead Of sold
You would not have been caught
And, ali, that pretty girl you met
A year ago last May,
Had you but made the question pop,
She might be yours today!
Or had lou taken the advice
OF your old Uncle Bill
And gone to school he might have left
You money in his will.
Alas. our hindsight is so goodl
II we at first could see
As sharply as In after years
How happy We would bel
And SO II gives vs. Joy subdued
As plans we lay and plots
Concerning things that we would do
Could We repeat in spots.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

Washington Monument Bent by Heat
The towering Washington monu-
ment. solid as IL is, cannot resist the
heat of the sun poured on its southern
side or a midsummer's day without
slight bending Of the gigantic shaft,
which is rendered percepible by
means OF copper wire ia feet long
hanging In the center Of the structure
and carrying a plummet suspended in
q vessel of water. At noon In summer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

mistakes yesterday was the as
sumption that a personal bearing
not without impressiveness and eff
feet in a western mining camp
would equally influence a commit
tee OF the United States senate
sitting in dignity here at the CAPT
tai of the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

long way toward
explaining why
the poor of the
German Empire
are embracing So
cialism in con-
stantly increasing
numbers.
The story is not
a long one to re-
late, because il is
simply another in.
stance of increas-
ed tariff rates be.
getting increased
living expenses.
After it is eX.
planned that the
German duty on
wheat is $2.S4 a
quarter, 4 8 Q
pounds, four par
agraphs will suf.
tho braaH Tay is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14

The Lords army can't campaign on
wind. Governor Hadley, who was one
OF the seven little governors who stood
originally by Roosevelt, admits that 1t
cost $4,000 10 &c; 20 OF the SO dele
gates 10 the Chicago convention from
Missouri There were so few in Mis-
souri, concerned about whether the
new Moses should get the delegation
that $4,000 OF the sum had 20 be got
from Moses national campaign COM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
UEe of Wzter

There's no use talking" said Dr..
Dustin stax. this corporation of ours
will have to dissolve"
How will you go about itT'
Il don't know. The only way I
know Of to dissolve things is to keep
putting plenty of water into them
Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-14
Identification.

81 shall Try TO leave footprints on the
sands of time" said the man who is
earnest, but not original
Very good" replied the absentmind-
ed criminologist, but thumb prints are
now considered more reliable."-Ex-
change.