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The border vidette., 1912-05-11
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
-OF I'll E. Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County.

Continued from March ,. 1912 )
 To the Honorable Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
 Gentle men:-
 We the undersigned, having on the 3rd day of January, 1912, been appointed to expert the books, records and accounts of the County of Santa Cruz, Ter ritory of Arizona, do hereby sub- init the following partial report, in conformity with the provisions of Sec. 72, Session Laws of Ariz- ona, 1909:
 COUNTY TREASURER AND TAX
 COLLECTOR:
 It is found that the books and accounts of the Treasurer and Tax Collector are up to date, and kept in a neat and business like manner Several minor errors
The border vidette., 1912-05-11
Balance due County Treasurer.

;. It is found that no monthly sreports of the County Recorder, Accompanying Recorders fees, are to be found, as provided by Chap. 13, Page II, Arizona Ses- sion Laws 1907, which reads as follows:
 ''Par. 2638 (Sec. 4D. Each County Recorder shall collect the fees allowed by law for" his services in advance, and at the end of each month he shall make duplicate itemized statement of all fees earned by him for filing and recording instruments authorized by law to be filed and recorded in his office, including all fees earned by him for cer- abstracts of title and any and all other fees and emolumentS that may be earned and received by him in the conduct of his official duties. Said itemimized state ment shall be verified under oath, and on the last day of each month, one statement shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and one statement shall be filed with the County Treasurer. All fees earn ed as shown by said statement shall be paid into the County Treasurer at the time of the filing of the statement with the County Treasurer.
 COUNTY ASSESSOR
 Anent the office of the County Assessor, no annual report being on file in the office of the Board Of Supervisors, and such reports as were available being incOm- plete, it was found necessary to check from the Original Assess ment Roll and Assessors Receipt books returned with the Tax Collectors accounts.
 It is found that the total amount of personal property tax collected for the year 1911, is 3,776. 36 Deducting , per cent, collection fees allowed by law there should have been turned into the county treasury S33S7.34 Amount actually turned into the County Treasury for which re- ceipts have been issued, S3392. IT Balance due County Assessor, personal property tax overpaid $4.63.
 There is annexed hereto, but not included in this report, a tabulated statement explanatory of the foregoing. Also state 1911.
 Received from Clerk of Bd. Sup
 School Tax receipts, at S2. 50, Received 793 Road Tax receipts, Returned to Recorder 449 Sc
 ceipts, at $2.5O, Returned 473 Road Tax receipts Sold, 335 School Tax receipts, a
 ;, 32O Road Tax receipts, at
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Eliminating the Delinquent Tax Roll, statutory exemptions, deceased persons, and those who have removed from the county since, using every means avail able to attain this end, it is found that for the year 1910 one hun dred and siXty-fOur persons sub ject to payment of School tax and 1S9 persons subject to pay ment of road tax did not pay, and for the year 1911 seventy six persons subject to payment of school tax and 81 persons sub ject to payment of road tax did not pay, as appears from the Original and Duplicate Assess ment Rolls, amounting to S114O
 A complete list of same is at tached to and made a part of this report.
 In reference to the subsequent collection of the foregoing taxes your attention is respectfully invited to the provisions of Par. 99O. (Sec. 63) and Par. 955, (Sec. 2S) R. $. 1901, as follows:
 NO ueuldnd OH any county treasury shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors in favor of any person in any manner indebt- ed to the County without first deducting such indebtedness, nor in favor of any officer whose accounts shall not have been rendered and approved, or who shall have neglected or refused to make his official returns, or report in writing, as required by claw, or in favor of any of ticer who shall willfully neglect Or refuse to perform any of the duties of his office. The Board
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The evening world., 1912-03-29
CALL ON GAyNOR
TO HELP GET BACK
CASHFR0M BANK
Women Depositors of Closed
Institution Appear at City
Hall With Babies in Arms.

More than n hundred persons,
chiefly women. many Of whom carried
babies In their arms. appealed to-day
to Mayor 0aynor for aid in recovering
their savings from the Peoples State
9avings Bank Of New York, formerly
II Ono Hundred and Sixth street and
Third avenue. In which they were dc.
Oositors.
The Mayor received the delegation in
the large reception room. Addresses
were made by Mrs. Louise Pragany Of
No. 40 81. AIMS avenue and Henry
Fuchs q No. 353 Beekman avenue,
Bronx. who had been selected by the
d positors to present their Ease to the
Mayor.
Mr.. Pragany said they had appealed
e every other authority. including the
0tate Bank Superintendent, and found
there was little hope Of getting their
money.
I'VE have even gone to the courts.
only to be turned away with the judicial
ultimatum that the bank would pay us
only IS per cent. Of our deposits" said
Mrs.. Pragany. I'VE come now to ask
you to use your influence with the
courta"
g"T shall help you." said the Mayor.
sSut I fear I may not have any On
Auence with the courts. I shall write.
The evening world., 1912-03-29

however. to the fudge and TO the Super
intendent Of Banks"
ultimately the depositors will receive
40 per cent. Of their savings which
were In the bank at the time Of its
collapse. An instalment OF IL per cent,
IL FIRST to be paid them. according to
the State superintendent Of Banks. Two
other instalments. aggregating 30 per
cent, will be paid later. Nest Of the
depositors are working Deople.
The evening world., 1912-03-29

A. . result Of their pstitioA TO the
company to obtain permits and fevolv.
ers for them. or some other ean Of
protection against holdup men The sirl
station agents ON the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit are now armed With police
whistles. The whistles we're distributed
ysstseday.
The evening world., 1912-03-29

Misses Dressy Suits
Made Of French serses. whip.
cords and homespuns in navy
blue, delft. tan. white. black and
checks. SHRED back
and cutaway front m ~
models. Sizes 1A.l6. 10 ZJ.0U
The evening world., 1912-03-29

Juniors 3.PieCe Suits
Made Of serge in navy blue. tan
and delft. Also black and white
check. Dress and coat trimmed
with silk and but.
tons. IN IN
Sizes 10. II. -. IA. IS 1901
The evening world., 1912-03-29

Tailored Suits
Made Of seryes and whipcords.
Russian model coat with sailor
collar and belt. Many other
styles in trimmed
effects; Newest :h.d; % IN
inss. Sizes IA. Is. Is ZZ.CU
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
TIME "vIA WIRELESS"

The new wireless station at Arling
ton which will be completed in about
a month will act as clock regulator
for thousands of jewellers all over the
country.
The right time as recorded at the
naval observatory will be flashed all
along the coast and as far west as the
system will reach The towers are
expected to communicate with vessels
three thousand miles at sea, but the
exact distance they will command
over land has not been calculated to a
nicely. 1t is believed that messages
will he recorded at least 1900 miles
inland.
Many large jewelry stores have noti-
fed the navy department that they
intend to install wireless receivers so
they can get the right time regularly
via wireless
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
MUST ANSWER QUESTIONS.

In the future, when a person calls
at the general delivery window of any
postoffice will have to answer these
questions put by the clerk before he
gets his mail:
Are you twentyIone years of age?"
Have you a permanent home in the
city?"
Are you using a fictitious name?"
"Is this correspondence illegal?"
An order Issued to postmasters by
DIR. c. P. Grandfield, first assistant
postmaster general, reads In part:
1.-The attention of postmasIers at
offices having city carrier service is
called to paragraph 2, section 713.
postal laws and regulations, compli-
ance with which should prevent the
improper use of the general delivery
by residents. Postmasters at such Of
fees, may require all persons supposed
to be residents to furnish in writing
their names and addresses and state
ments of their reasons for preferring
to be served at the general delivery.
Minors calling at such offices may
be requested to furnish the informa-
ton indicated above and also the
names of their parents, in order that
the parents may be notified and have
an opportunity to control the delivery
of the mail to the extent authorized
by section 643, postal laws and regu-
lations.
"Postmasters at Offices not having
city carrier service may notify the
parents of minors in all instances
where 1t appears that the minors are
calling at the general delivery for
mail under Objectionable circum
stances"
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
ENTERTAINMENT FOR FARMERS

Free entertainments are given to
rural communities In some counties
in Alabama as part OF n campaign to
induce the people to stay on the land
instead of abandoning their farms for
city life. This information has been
received by the United States bureau
OF education from E. NJ. Shackelford.
principal of the state normal school
at Troy, Pike county, Alabama, who
is at the head OF the movement Mr..
Shackelford writes:
"In my opinion the exodus of the
younger generation from the country
to the town is at present the most
serious menace to our general welfare.
Good roads, motor cars, the telephone
and rural mail delivery are improving
rural conditions greatly, but rural So
cial life does not yet afford the OPP
portunities for the commerce of ideas
that an active, reading, thinking pub
lie demands. Hence the tendency to
congregate in the centers of popula-
ton, and hence this effort of ours to
afford a few social opportunities
through a course of free entertain
ments."
The entertainments consist mainly
of lectures, lantern shows" and Sc
lections on the Victrola. Some of the
lectures are given at night, and some
in the afternoon. Occasionally dinner
is provided at the school and an all
day session is held.
While this movement was started
by the Troy State Normal school, the
cooperation of the Alabama state
health and medical departments and
the various state institutions has been
enlisted for supplying speakers, enter
tainment clubs and other attractions.
Most of the entertainers give their
services without charge, and trans
portation is furnished by the owners
of automobiles. Friends of the new
movement anticipate that It will be a
powerful factor wherever introduced
in adding to the pleasures of rural
life by furnishing additional oppor-
tunities to the country folk for recre-
alton, culture and social intercourse.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
ROAD EXPERTS NEEDED.

A practical effort to bring the sup
ply of expert highway engineers to
the point where they will be numer-
GUS enough to meet the demand for
their services is to be made at the
American Road Congress, to be held
on the Million-Dollar Pier in Atlantic
City, September 30 to October 5. At
the present time, with the people of
the United States spending more than
5000, 100000 year for the improve
ment of highways, the demand for
expert highway engineers exceeds the
supply. There is to be a conference
of educational institutions at the
American Road Congress, to be d.
rected by the Society for the Promo
tioa of Engineering Education, and
through this conference efforts are to
be made to induce the leading uni
versities to establish specific and
practical courses for the instruction
of highway engineers.
AT the present time there are about
81 universities devoting some atten-
tion to highway engineering. The in
struction in this branch of engineer
ing, however, is, in most cases, merely
neers, SO that there will be sufficient
number of trained men to handle the
great problem that has been thrust
upon the United States by the wide
spread agitation for a better system
of public highways that will reduce
the cost of hauling crops and permit
shipments by farmers at all seasons
of the year.
Prof. Henry H. Norris of Cornell
university is secretary OF the Society
for the Promotion of Engineering Edu-
cation, which is composed of officials
of the leading educational institu-
tions having engineering departments.
Professor Norris has just sent letters
to all the institutions which are rep
resented in their society asking them
to appoint delegates to represent them
at the convention, which will be part
of the American Road Congress at
Atlantic City. Prof. William T. Ma
gruder, of the Ohio state university,
Is president of the Society for the
Promotion of Engineering Education,
while the vice-presidents are Prof. l.,
s. Marks of Harvard and Prof F. w.
Sperr of the Michigan College of
Mines. They believe that II the uni
versities will supply well-equipped en-
gineers 1t will be long step towards
doing away with the careless super
vision of the construction and main
tenance of public roads, that now re-
suits in the loss of a large percent
of the money invested in roads.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
SHIPS TO GATHER
Uncle Sans Warships Soon to
Be Modified.
New York VIII Witness on October
IA and is Greatest Fleet of Fight
Ing Craft Ever Assembled In
American Waters.

Washington.-New York city will
witnes on Oct. IA and 15 the mobil-
ization of the greatest fleet of war
ships ever assembled in American wa
ters. The navy department issued
preparatory orders for the mobiliza-
ton a few days ago. At the same
time the warships OF the Atlantic
deet and Atlantic reserve fleet gather
in the harbor of New York city the
Pacific feet will mobilize at San Fran
cisco and the Asiatic feet at Manila.
In the mobilization in New York
waters will be 120 ships, including the
new 26,000-ton dreadnaughts Wyo-
ming and Arkansas. There will be 43
ships assembled at San Francisco and
20 at Manila. Rear Admiral Hugo
Osterhaus, commander-in-chief of the
Atlantic fleet, will command the
mobilization in New York; Rear Ad-
miral Southerland the fleet at San
Francisco and Rear Admiral R. R..
Nicholson the Manila mobilization.
President Taft and Secretary of the
Navy Meyer, accompanied by foreign
naval attaches and members of both
houses of congress will be aboard the
new battleship Arkansas on the day
of the review, which will probably be
on the last day Of the mobilization,
Oct. Is.
The ships will begin assembling
in the Hudson river on or about Oct.
IL. The last of the arrivals, the tor
pedo fotilla of the reserve fleet, will
arrive on the night of Oct. 13.
The line of battleships will consist
of the Alabama, Arkansas, Connecti-
cut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kear-
sarge, Kentucky Louisiana Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi. Missouri. Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey. North Da-
kota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming.
The armored cruisers Montana
North Carolina Tennessee and Wash
ington.
The scout cruisers Birmingham.
Chester and Salem.
Destroyers Ammen, Burrows, Dray-
ton. Flusher, Lamson, Mccall. Mac
Donough, Mayrant, Monaghan, Patter-
son, Paulding Perkins, Preston, Reid,
Roe, Smith, Sterett. Terry, Trippe,
Wake, Warrington. Whipple and
Worden
Torpedo boats Bagley. Bailey, Bar
ney. Biddle, Blakely Gushing. Dahl
gren, Davis, De Long, Du Pont. Eric
son, Mckee, Mackenzie, Manly, Nor
rfs. Porter, Stockton, Stringham.
Thornton, Tingley and Wilkee.
The submarine fotilla and colliers
and tenders.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
Uncle Sans Rat Hunt.

The government Is to become mod
ern competitor of the Pied Piper of
Hamlin as an exterminator of rats.
But the magic of the Pied Piper's flute
is to be displaced by the most i'm
proved, modern, double-action steel
jawed rat trap that American inven.
tive genius can furnish
Through Surgeon General Bliss OF
the public health and marine hospital
service, the government has asked for
demonstrations of rat traps. The gov
ernment wants traps to exterminate
rodents which carry the bubonic
plague from seaport to seaport. The
trap which proves most efficacious
will be recommended by the govern
ment for use in American ports where
the plague-carrying rat may be ex-
pected.
AS a means of promoting its coun-
try-wide campaign against the plague
the service has issued circular speci-
flying the proper method of poisoning
rats. This has been sent to every
American port.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
TO MODIFY BROOK TROUT.

Uncle Sam is going to try to pro-
duce trout that can live and prosper
in the warm water of the sluggish
streams of the southern states. An
experimental fish station will be es-
tablished near Washington for that
purpose. Congress has provided the
money for the work.
The fighting brook trout is to be
modified. domesticated and made to
furnish more food and less sport for
the human family. The experts Of
the bureau of fisheries hope to sue
ceed in getting trout that. will fill
the bill. but they recall the fact that
many years ago fifty million Pacific
coast salmon were planted in the Mis-.
sissippi river and perished.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
ADOPT HOBO SIGN LANGUAGE
House Doorkeeper Invents System to
Stop Petty Pan-Handllng Around
Capitol.

The doorkeepers OF the house OF
resentatives have adopted the hobo
sign language, and they say 1t works
like charm. One of the pages in
vented the system to assist in put
ting as many crimps as possible into
the petty pan-handling that goes on
around the capitol.
The other day a fiashy looking indi-
vidual approached the doorkeeper at
the main entrance to the floor of the
house, tipped out card and haugh-
tfly asked that 1t be sent in to Repre-
sentative Serene Payne, of tariff fame.
1t was then that one of the tricks
of the Weary Willie" code was
worked.
The doorkeeper sized up the visit
or as one of those pestiferous per-
sons who make life burden to states
men. He passed the strangers card
to page, but before doing SO he turn
ed down the upper left-hand corner in
such manner that the fashy looking
man never noticed it That turned
down corner meant in the slang Ian
grage, Nothing doing"
The house page rushed in on the
flor at Joe Dawson speed, noted the
turned down corner and threw the
card Into the waste basket. Then he
sauntered over to the pages corner,
back of the big screen on the Repub-
lican side, matched nickels with one
of his fellow-pages, and. after the lapse
of polite length of time, returned
with the information that Congress
man Payne was out. The New York
member sat nodding at his desk, touch
ing elbows with Uncle Joe Cannon and
John Dalzell, oblivious of the fact that
he had just been sought.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
Towel Problem Solved.

Postmaster General Hitchcock has
solved the towel problem that con-
fronts other executive departments.
When the laundry trust" of Washing
ton jumped up the prices on towels
Mr.. Hitchcock installed plant to
launder the postofHce department tow
els. Local laundries laundered 100
towels for 80 cents last. year. This
year the price demanded is rs cents.
Up to recently one towel a week was
allowed to each of the 1900 en-
ployes of the department. Now each
employe is allowed three towels a
week The department towels are
washed by a machine owned by the
government. and operated by a person
paid $3.50 annually. Last year when
the price of Ice went too high, Mr..
Hitchcock established small ice fac
tory, and makes his own ice, saving
the government several hundred dol
lars annually.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
PLANT BOASTS A LONG NAME
Curious Structure of Green In Front
of Treasury Building Attracts
Attention.

A curious structure of green stands
In the sunken plaza at the north front
of the treasury at Washington. What
was an old-fashioned fountain trick.
ling stingy stream has been cans
muted by the landscape gardener Cor
landscape architect. as those gentle
men prefer to be called) into a
strange device suggestive of Christ
mas decoration. 1t Is the color Of
emerald, or shamrock, or something
equally as green and dear. 1t grows
bountifully upward from the top basin
of the fount and then falls In feathery
or plumey masses, yelling all the
ironwork of the fountain and hiding
the bubbling and dripping water. OF
course, 1t is a marine plant. Thous-
ands of persons passing the treasury
have stopped and stared at this green
growth. asked many questions.
Enter the treasury, go to the cap
tain of the watch and ask, What is
that?" One of the Civil war veterans
on gurd there. glittering in silver
shield as big as a dishpan, will prob
ably say:
You are the ten thousandth man
and the twenty thousandth woman to
come here with that question. Nobody
in the treasury know what the thing
was, SO we sent for one of the plant
sharps at the National Botanic garden
He told us what the thing was, but
still We did not know and could never
remember, SO We got him to write 1t
out and then we pasted the name in
this ledger. If you can read 1t you
may"
The watchman will open an impress
sive book and you may read this, the
name of the plant:
"Myriophylum Proseflnacordiss."
BY common persons this strange
water plant is sometimes called par
rot feather"
Should you go to Washington, be
sure to see this wonderful plant.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
WORKING for Women.

Miss Constance Leupp. daughter of
the former commissioner of Indian af-
fairs, is vice-president of the new Con-
sumer's league of Washington, which
has just started a movement In the
District of Columbia to better the
conditions of manufacture and sale
and to secure better wages for work
ers, especially women and children.
The league is now conducting an in
vestigation into the hours of labor
and the earnings of the women, and
children in the District. 1t is said
that many young girls who have no
homes are working in stores at So and
So a week.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
UNCLE SANS STAMPS
BUREAU OF PRINTING AND EN-
CRAVING BUSY PLACE.
Billions Are Turned Out Yearly
Process of Manufacture From Pa
per Mill Until the Shipping
Room Is Reached.

Think of receiving more than $685.
900 on a single days investment OF
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
Practical II Not Poetic.

w. d. Howells at luncheon at
Kittery Point, said OF certain popu-
lar novelist:
There is about as much poetry in
him az there is In McMasters
"McMasters. you know. was walk
ing with a beautiful girl in a wild
New England wood.
"'What is your favorite flower. Mr..
McMasters? the girl asked softly.
~McMasters thought moment,
then cleared his throat and answered: :
well. / believe I like the whole
wheat best '"-Washington Star.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
Tough Flour.

81 wish to complain" said the
bride, haughtily, about that -four you
sold me. 1t was tough"
Tough. ma'am?" asked the grocer.
Yes. tough. I made pie with
1t. and my husband could hardly cut
it."-Everybodys Magazine.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28

only $1,7O3! Think
what the result
would be In a
y e ar, counting
the working days.
Almost $1S1,000,-
900 from an in
vestment of SILL
900! 1t sounds
like the vain
imag | n In g S of
some drug victim
or the rawlings Of
a maniac. And
yet 1t is not only
true but 1t merely
shows in plain fig