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TOM REED GOLD.

KINGMAN.-Last Monday General Manager s. s. Jones brought in from the Tom Reed mill three bars of bull lion weighing 42O pounds avoirdupois, and valued at $9O,OOO, the result of the May cleanup of the mill During May the mill had been running ten stamps of the thirty, which indicates the richness of the ore. The company is getting things into shape to in crease the tonnage of the mill and necessarily increase the output of gold
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WHO WILL BE THE WYNN ER AT
 , BALTIMORE?

The standing of delegates already eleced to the Baltimore convention follows:
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In this table the twenty votes. from Kansas are conceded to Speaker Clark though the delegates favor the nomination of Governor Wilson, and under instructions will go to him early in the balloting. The ten delegates from North Dakota are put down for Governor Burke, but it is well known they openly favor the nomination of Governor Wilson in preference to any other candidate. This makes Governor Wilson's actual strength 35S delegates
 HARMON VOTE TO DATE.
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OLD DOMINION.

The Old Dominion reporst for May an output of 2.161,000 pounds of cop per which compares with 2,167,OO0
 pounds in April and 2,432, 900 pounds in March. For the five months from Jan. l to May 31 the output was 10,- S43, ,00O pounds as compared with Ill., 034 900 pounds for the same time last year and 11,33S, ,OOO pounds for 1910.
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E. p. 6 s. w. LAYING STEEL

The laying of steel on the Tucson Fairbank extension Of the Fl PaSo &
 Southwestern commenced Monday on
 the west side of the San Pedro, just
 this side of the big steel bridge. The trackage on the east side from Fair bank to the bridge was laid some
 weeks ago
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RAY CONSOLIDATED.

Ray Consolidated is now producing little more than 3,00O,O00 pounds of copper monthly at a cost of about nine cents This limited output is enabling the company to earn at the rate of S2 share annually for it's stock on the present metal market
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There is no real need of anyone be- ing troubled with constipation. Cham berlain's Tablets will cause an agree able movement of the bowels without any unpleasant effect. Give them q trial. For sale by all dealers.
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JEROME PHOTOGRAPHER
 ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

A sensational attempt was made Friday afternoon at suicide by M. F. Brennan, a photographer of Jerome. He had been located there for the past ten years until about one year ago when he sold out to MT. Perry
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ARIZONA COPPER.

The Arizona Copper company pro- duced 3,500,000 pounds of copper in May against 2,S00,000 pounds in May, 1911 For the five months since Jan l, the production was 16,270,000 pounds against 14,16S,000 pounds i'll the same period last year.
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PHELPS S-DODGE.

The May output of the Phelps-Dodge mines is reported at 12,009,000 pounds, making 57,976;OO0 pounds since Jan. 1, as compared with 55,- 651, 900 pounds in the same period last year
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M LAM l..

Has Reduced Cost from $1.37 to $1.1o
 Per Ton.
 J. Park Charming is quoted as say ing that the Miami management has succeeded in reducing it's cost from Sl.37 last year to $1.10 a ton this year as q result of improved mining methods. It is hoped to reduce the cost to 80 or S5 cents a ton in the near future
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deposits paid Into the Postoffice Saw ings banlS-a government institution and absolutely safe. So general is his reputation for charity that some years ago E. G. Bawden, d wealthy stock eX- change man. upon his death, left 4 sum of $500 900 for Speyer to admin ister as he thought best,
 Little can be said of the London house of Speyer that is not true and known of the New York branch. speyer & Co It has long had A reputation as one of the biggest financial pow CTS in this country-as being among the perhaps half dozen money powers who play with kings and cabinets and ministers and diplomats as many pawns in the great game of interna- tional politics. It's speciality has been late years it has been heavily inter- ested in South American railways and especially in the great corporations controlling the pubic utilities of Ric Janeiro and the other large cities
 Sir Edgars coup in gathering in all tine important bus. tram and underground systems of London is not looked upon with entire favor by those who are de- pendent upon the various lines for trans portation. These discontented ones see in the monopoly danger of a general raising of fares. So hard have the London eoun- tN council tramWays, the only remaining competitors of the trust been hit by the efforts of their rivals to oust them. that they are threatened with a serious Be- hcit Some see in this promise of their sale to the private combine, while others declare that. for it's own protection. Lon- don must take over the control of all the transportation facilities. Probably neither course will be adopted, for some years to come, al least.
 oil fatl Ia efforts to bring about the great anaiSa. nation, if has long been apparent to sOp vestors that something was in the wind. IL is interesting to follow the various steps in the combine The Metropolitan District railway. which has close work ing arrangements with the Metropolitan railway, acquired interest" in the London United Tramway company's sys- tem. Tine Bakerloo, the Charing Cross. Euston and Hampstead. the Brompton. Piccadilly and Finsbury park tubes were all amalsamated" as the London Electric railway. The London Electric railway and the Metropolitan District railway were "consolidated" as the Underground Electric Railways of London. The Cis- derground Electric Railways of London have now taken over" the Central Lon don and the City of South London rail- ways. With the absorption of these lines the last independent tubes disappear
 The consolidated interests of the motor omnibus companies were next acquired by ihe consolidated interests of the inter urban railways and tubes and the coup was complete
 And out of all this Juggling comes the huge trust which carires S25.000.O0O pas- sengers a year-raore than nine times the total population of the United States. handles s25000.oo0 year In fares aver aging slightly over penny each, ansl representing capital of more than s225 oG0.tD0. 1t Is a creature born out of the brain of a big thinking American and brought to full Towering manhood bv the persistence and genius of Jewish flnan- eier who first saw the light in New York
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v ONION. December 21.-(Special.)- What A difference a few years or A extra life would have made In the fortunes and the reputation of the late Charles Yerkesl If he were still alive, In all probability he now would be hailed as the worlds greatest traction genius, for all that the Chicago man dreamed for London has come true within the past few weeks. Il he had not been inspired by the daring, the confidence and the far sightedness of the Amerl- can, Sir Edgar Speyer, multi-millloh- aire, banker, financier and promoter. who was associated with Yerkes In the early days of his wildcat scheme" to provide London with network of tubes" never would have completed his dead colleagues plans.
 Today, London is In the grip of the biggest traffic trust in existence. The seven and a half million population of this city is carried more than 120 times over every year by the tramways, tube trains, and motor buses controlled by Speyer Seventy per cent of it's popu- lation depend absolutely upon his sys- tems for getting about the great city Competition has been sti1ed. rivals ab- sorbed and "agreements" arrived at, un- til the city of London alone has money and power enough to give battle to the new traffic Colossus. On the other hand, London now has a system of tube and surface travelling facilities such as 1t never even dreamed of before the coming of the American speculator.
 Ten years ago, travelling within the city limits was, as has been said by a London paper within the past week, "a lingering misery" It was a toss-up be- tween the slow jog-trot of the old horse buses and the smoke -chocked gloom of the steam underground. A Journey across London. now occupying perhaps half an hour. then took the best part of a day and all of ones patience. And unless one was able to locate upon one of the main railway lines, life in the suburbs. now such q boon to the working classes. was ab- soIutely out of the question.
 Before Yerkes came local talent had been digging with fear and trembling what became known as the "Tuppenny tube" There were long delays in what was believed to be an impractical dream and while those concerned were still debating and hesitating, Yerkes ap- peared on the scene. Backed by the financial might of the Speyers, he threw all his American energy and individual genius into the work of building the Rakerloo and the Piccadilly, Bromp- ton and Hampstead tubes. He plunged with confidence into the electrifieation of the Metropolitan and the District In- derground systems, a work that had frightened local experts by its prob lems and size. Then. in the very midst of his great work, before he had gone far enough to reap the honors or prove his daring justified, Yerkes died. But. fortunately for the ultimate realization of his dreams. he left behind in Sir Edgar Speyer a financial genius well able to profit by hls association with the American. Quietly, increasingly. ne has pushed his object and few days 8 go he burst upon q more or less sur prised London as Traffic Napoleon.
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sap and no odor and the bloom seems to be bark or wood
 The Indians call these flowers the roses of he'll, and they say that If they are soaked in tea they will yield poison which is sure 10 bring death They hold the flower in terror and have tradition that when the volcano once overtlowed and buried d city under il nothing Was left except these trees.
 The Toltec Bible
 fMjxed with the belief of these Indians are many superstitions which have come Gown from their ancestors. The Tnltecs had a religion of their own and there is in the public library at Chichi Castenango what is said to be the only copy extant of the roltec Bible This deals with the origin of man and the creation. It speaks of three gods. one of whom was an In- dian whose name was .'The Roaring Wind " a second '"rhe Powerful Creator, ' and a third ''The Plumed Serpent. These three gods made everything, in cluding man. They created the heavens and the earth and the waters under the earth and all that is in them l am told that this book describes the deluge and that it has a story much Ike the confn- sion of tongues at the Tower of Babel
 Ii relates that after this time man be- gan to travel and that the best of man kind came to Mexico and built cities. | have not seen the manuscript. but the fc- port comes from missionary and is doubtless correct
 The Indians are peaeeable and not at all dangerous to travellers They are very Ignorant and their chief vice Is sdrunlter- ness. 1 have seen men reeng along tho roadway and lying drunk by the sides of the road almost everywhere during my travels through the interior. At every nile there is a rude drinking place and Lear the cities such saloons may be found at every few hundred yards. The Indlaas on the roadway almost invariably have bottles of brandy with them. This is of the sort known as White Eye. It is made of sugar and is deadly.
 Practically Slaves
 The labor of Guatemala. as l have said, is almost altogether Indian and in many. cases 1t is a little better than slavery. Peonare Is nominallY abolished in that a man cannot inherit a debt from his parents nor can he be forced 10 work out debts contracted before he comes of age. On the other hand he can go into debt himself and If he does so he is forced to stay on the plantation where the debt Is contracted until he works it out l have before me contract between a planter and one of his Indian laborers. This pro xides that he must work ont personally and by daily wage any debt which he coll tracts He must do this after the custom Of the plantation, and must stay on the plantation until it Is paid without hl5 employer gives him q written permission to leave.
 Another provision is that if he runs
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with which she deeorates her person. Some have necklaces of silver coins and others have bits of gold and nuggets of silver. Coral beads are common, and many girls have heavy silver crosses which they will not sell to strangers
 The men wear shirts. coats and trous- CTS. Those on the road have queer over coats with loose sleeves. The coats are split up at the sides, and under them is an apron which falls to the knees, while another apron seems to kiss the mans calfs at the back. see some Indians in bare legs who wear such overeoats. They have hats of straw of Il sugar loaf shape and as they trot over the country they remind one of the brigands Of the stage.
 Indian Porters
 These Indians are the chief freight car riers of Guatemala, and they do all the work on the plantations. The porters are like those of Korea, in that they belong to a profession which descends from father to son. Longer than man can re- member they have carried the baggage and produce of Guatemala from one part Of the country to the other and l am told that they can trot along with 150
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A Peon and His Family

fCopyright, 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 MIXCO. Guatemala. TAM writing this in the little Indian
 town of Mixco. situated on one A Of the foothills Of the colcano de public. I have come here from Guate- nala City on muleback and I am on my way to Antigua, the ruined capital which was founded by Alvardo and was great city when Boston was still little more than COW paths.
 Mixco is altogether Indian. It has, per haps, a thousand inhabitants, who live in low, one storied buildings made of brick and stone, covered with stucco and painted in all the colors of the rainbow. The main houses are around a plaza, on which the stores face and where there is a big church, a city hall and fountain which is painted bright blue. On the porch of the city hall are piles of Indian packs, which the porters have left there for the night, and on the stones of the plaza scores of Indians have sqaatted around little fires and are cooking their suppers. Each man has a pot or pan resting over the coals, and when he has finished his cooking he will join one of the parties of his fellows who are eating here out in the open The men cook their own meals and all eat together. On the other side of the plaza I can see women cooking in the same way. They will eat by themselves, although some, am told, are the wives of the men opposite.
 These people belong to the class of fn- dian porters which is to be found every where in Guatemala, and of whom I met hundreds on my way up to Mixco.
 The Red Men of Guatemala
 But first let me tell you something or the Indians of this part of Central Amer ica. The bulk of the red men have always lived south of our boundaries. The most of the inhabitants of Mexico are made up of them, and they there number mill lions. There are now at least 100000 pure Indians in Guatemala, and this is five or six times as many as we have in our country Some authorities say that the territory covered by the United States never had more than 300,0o0 aborigines, while parts of these south lands were Jrore efhicklys populated than any part of Europe at the time of the discovery of America.
 The Indians of Guatemala have always been many The climate is fine, the soil Is fertile and it is far easier to get a liv- irg here than in the colder parts of the union. I have already written of the ruins of Qurigua, which are now being uncovered by our American arehaeolo- rists. There are other ruined cities in other parts of Guatemala. and the evi- dences are that we once had a great CIV ilization here made Up of the ancient iol- tecs or Mayans, who were the great race of Mexico about thousand years aitcr Christ. but who were driven south by
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away he must pay all the expenses neces- sary 10 get him back. and must subjecs himself to all the laws relating to labor CTS Debts are usually supposed to he paid not only by the man himself, but by his family as well, all of whom are eN- pected 10 work.
 According to law q man need not woilS but II months of the year, and he has the right to celebrate the church and na- tional holidays. and he may have a day off when there is a baptism. a birth or death in his family. He has the right also to rest on his saints day. and this means the day of the saint after whom he is named.
 The pay of the Indians Is only q few cents a day. They are given fixed wages in the currency of the country, and the common wage is g or s3. but g Gnate- malan are equal to l2 cents American. and 8 10 1S cents. Many men are eIa- ployed at 10 cents and l2 cents a day. art of the 12 cents a part often goes to the official who makes the contract 10 furnish the Indian
 I am told that the mayors of the towns and other officials can force the Indians to give a certain amount of their work to whomsoever they please A German planter who needs labor has only 10 grease the palm of the mayor and the Indian is told that if he does not do the work he will be drafted into the army. The Indians are densely ignorant and they have no idea of what their rights are. They have been in their present condition or worse ever since the Span iards conquered the country, and there seems to be no present prospect of their getting out of it. The rule of Spain lasted three centuries, and during fl the natives were the slaves of the Spaniards. If they rebelled they were killed without mercy and the inquisition aided the goV- ernment.
 In addition 10 the descendants of the ancient Mayans there are other Indians in Central Amercg The Indians of Pan anna have their ow4 ns liar customs an1 ways. and there aaH fH in Guate mala which Is ss 10 he i5s 9thrr on the continent. l naHa net aen Hha4 their home Is A t1a aaesWssHH H4 of the tropical eaas1 iaHas T .ie aeaf-a are almost bls eHa re seauaasu ust tife the papuans. 1ue s9sN af.
 but powerfully devefuaa hes 4n1 arms. They go almost nh..a 4hs children entirely SO. They dy-eii a lages built in the tree tops. They ,a- three or four cocoa palms and make a platform in them about 20 feet from the ground. roofing fl with thatch. The floor is reached by climbing, which mon, women and children do with agility. 1t is said that the toes of these people are abnor1 ally developed by climbing. They almost walk up the cocoannt trees.
 These Indians are genuine savagea. They use bows and arrows and are shy, treacherous and afraid of foreigners.
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the Aztecs into Guatemala and the re- publics nearer tho Isthmus of Panama,
 These people have never heen fighters like our Indians. They have been rather farmers than hunters, and today they are engaged in tiling the soil and in laboring for the whites.
 | am told there are IS different tribes of them in this country, and there are al least six tribes to be found among the inhabitants of this town of Mixco. These are the Itzas, Mopans, Pokpmans. chols, Pokorchi and the I4aeandons These tribes all come from Maya stock, and they are -the descendants of those who lived in Mexico long before Cortez came.
 Short and Anemic
 The Guatemalan Indians seem to be smaller and weaker than the copper col ored population of the United States. The average height of the men is under five feet, and there are many women here who could walk under my arm. They look anemc and I am told that some of them are clay eaters. They have a Kind of yellow earth mixed with sulphur which they consider dainty and when they go upon pilgrimages they find images made of this earth at the shrines and eat them thinking that they thereby ward of disease.
 The faces of the Indians are little lighter in color than those of the Sioux
 
 thin, struggling boards. l doubt whether any one ever slaves. Both men and women are very straight and the wom- en even more so than the men. Ihls probably comes from their carrying bur dens on their heads They will put 50 or 100 pounds there and go off on trot.- The women do not bend back as they walk, and the movement is almost altogether from the hips downward, al- though most of them swing the arms as they go.
 Queer Costumes
 These Indians have never dressed like ours, and today they wear clothes rather than blankets Both men and women de- light in bright colors, and the girls have waists which are gayly embroidered in red yellow and blue and some have sa shes of rainbow colors. The dress of the woman usually consists of three pieces. First she has a long cloth wound around her waist and legs, reaching to below the knees Above this is the juipfl. or shirt, which is richly embroidered and of as many colors as Josephs coat. The shirt comes town over the cloth, and gaudy belt or sash holds the two garments to- gether The women have luXuriant hair and they wear 1t in two long braids down their backs. In some places they tie up the hair and in others they have head bands which are wound around the head several times and tied in knot over the forehead.
 All of the women are fond Of jewelry, and a woman often carries her savings In the shape of silver and gold ornaments
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Who Practically Slaves IowerV View on March.

pounds on their backs at the speed of a mule.
 have seen hundreds of these porters on my way through the country. They are to be found on every roadway, and they are of all ages, from little boys of 10 to grayheads of O. In coming here to Afxeo 1 passed many bearing great loads of clay jars. Each jar would hold per haps two or three gallons. and man would have a score of them in crate, so piled up that they rose high above his head, and so that he was half bent as he trotted along l saw boys of with two or three such jars and children of not more than carrying bundles over the road.
 At the capital l passed an Indian car Rador carrying an Iron plate two feet wide, four feet long and two inches thick It must have weighed more than l50 pounds. It was tied to the mans should CTS and he was trotting along. It is said that the Indians are obliged to carry loads for travelling upon demand if they are paid for their services. The local officials supply them. but they can force them to go only a two day journey from home
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Despite his many business interests Sir Edgar finds time to interest him. self in at least two hobbies-art and music. He Is chairman Of the Queens Hall orchestra, which has been the means of introducing the best of music to London at reasonable prices. He was one of the founders and large con- tributor 10 the Whitechape; Art gal lerles where the poorest of IondoHefs can see some of the best examples of art without the expense of travelling h the National gallery or other cen ters of art. Al his house in Grosvenor street he has collected one of the larg est and most valuable galleries of painting fin tine country and he Is in terested in almost every big public art project of the day In his younger days be had aspirations as an author and is understood 10 have turned out some really creditable poetry of a luelan- choly turn.
 Like other great Jewish financiers in this country. he gives with a lavish hand to many charitable schemes. Ten years ago he gave $i25.000 to the King Edward hospital fund A few years ago he carried through typical act of generosity The Penny bank of Need suffolk, failed and hundreds of its de- positors. poor country folk, were thrsatened with destitution. Sir Edgar immediately oreffoted es-eJtrmil cmfw immediately offered to make up the whole deficit on the condition that the institution was not continued but the