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The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Washington Letter
Washington. D. c 1912.
Washington Correspondence.

Washington Correspondence.
 The House Postoffice commit tee has ordered printed a bill attached as a rider to the Post office Appropriation bill which provides for a system of Parcels Post. Much has been said about the benefit such syetem would be to farmers in sending pro lucts to towns. If would appear that the farmers have been hand ed beautifully designed gold brick". The rural route rates do not apply to products sent from farmers. to the towns They are only availble for the shipment iron a person on one rural route to a person on the same route or from the starting point of such route.
 Representatives of retail mail order houses have been anxious to obtain delivery system to people living along rural routes. Thus they would be able to ship their goods by freight or ex press in quantity to an agent in a town and all such agent or solicitor will have to do will be to deposit these in a postofice and the packages up to eleven pounds will go to all farmers along the rural routes at low rates. an eleven-pound package costing them only 9 cents. But if a farmer wishes to send an eleven pound package to town or to a farmer on another route such package would cost him SI 32. Representatives of large retail mail-order houses have been active in Washington and it seems they have gotten very much of what they wanted fIom their House committee. The committee also attempts to com pel the Senators to abandon any convictions they may have upon the subject by attaching the bill
  as a rider to an appropriation bill. It also proposes to avoid criticism by shutting off debate with a cIoture rule. Members of the committee have said they did ! not aim to alarm or injure any legitimate business interest; but they have decided to condemn the merchants of the smaller cities and towns by Instituting also a hat-rate system with haul any distance in American territory at 12 cents per pound for package up to eleven pounds. The bill says something about commission to investigate condi- tions abroad. The country ner- chant is condemned to undergo a course of blood-transfusion for the benefit of the retail mail order houses of the big cities. Then commission will iDvesti
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

gate abroad, while the blood
 letting operating is proceeding
 to see how similar operation.
 have affected conditions in the
 smaller cities and towns ol
 Europe.
 It would appear that the ma
 jority of Democrats upon EGthe
 Committee have decided to be-
 come protectionists and protect
 distant concerns by getting the
 Government to equalize from it's
 treasury the difference in the
 railway cost of a haul of several
 murdered miles and that of a
 few miles, for the benefit of the distant shipper against the re- presentative's own home indus try or dealer. Some of them seem to have forgotten they were elected to represent certain dis tricts and not Chicago, New York or Boston.
 The bill provides: That on each and all rural mail delivery routes of the United States, un- til June 30, 1914, the postmaster at the starting point of such route shall receive and deliver to the carrier or carriers Of said routes all articles, parcels or packages not prohibited to the mails by lav and falling under the definition of fourth class matter, and not weighing in excess of eleven pounds for transportation and delivery on said routes only; and the carrier shall receive at intermediate points on all rural routes such mail matter of the fourth class for delivery on their respective routes only.
 Postage shall be paid on all articles. parcels, or packages en- titled to transportation under the of this act as matter of the fourth-class on rural mail delivery routes only at the fol- rates: One cent for each two ounces or less: 2 cents for more than two ounces, but not more than four ounces; 8 cents for more than four ounces but not mofe than eight ounces; 4 cents for more than eight ounces, but not mor1 than twelve ounces, cents for more than twelve but not more than pound; 2 cents per pound; 2 cents per pound for pound for each ad- 1itional pound or fraction there of up to and including a total of eleven Dounds". This would make the maximum charge for a parcel over the rural post 25 cents.
 No provision is made to furnish this service to farmers who have not received rural free delivery nor to furnish any carrier service to people in towns yet without it. | It is believed that the service can De instituted at an initial expense
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

Corporation Commissioner w. P. Geary was entertained by a few of his friends Tuesday eve hing with supper and was pre- sented with beautiful Elks' pin set with diamond as a token of esteem and respect of his many friends here. MT Geary accompanied by Mrs, Geary will leave shortly for Phoenix where MT. Geary will take up his duties in office for which he was recently elected at the last election. Winslow Mail.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

Figures secured by Dr. E. s. Godfrey, supt. of public health, shows that during the year 1911 there were 679 cases of contage- ous diseases reported to his office. of which 376 were in the following named towns: Blsbee 5. Douglas IS. Flagstaff 43, Globe 28. Eesa City14. Nogales 1, Phoenix 216, Prescott 6, Tempe 6, Tucson 31. William 2, Yuma 8, the other 303 cases were in the various counties outside the town name above and on the Indian reservations. Coconino and Santa Cruz reportin no cases outside of Flagstaff and Nogales respectively. and Pinal county reporting no cases of contage- ous diseases anywhere in the counny,
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Fine Point Involved
 Regarding Grand Jury

Attorneys have raised an in teresdng point of law in connec- tion with the forthcoming term of criminal court, anc as result of their research Judge Phillips is not likely to call jury for the trial of these cases until after the legislature has passed bill laying down the manner in which a grand jury shall be summoned.
 Under the statutes providing for the calling of a grand jury in force prior to t'ebuary 14th the probate judge is made a party to the legal assembling of the jury. The constitution of the state of Arizona makes no provision for any probate judge. The question then arises if the law requires the presence of a probate judge before a grand Jury can legally be drawn and there is no such office as that of probate judge how can grand jury be secured?
 These attorneys contend that the prisoners awaiting trial, or the greater part of them, were arrested while Arizona was still territory and therefore are en- titled to the machinery of the law then in effect To call a grand jury without probate judge would. in their opinion, raise technical point which at- torneys for the defense would not be slow to take advantage of, and the result might be serious entanglement and the possible discharge of a number of culpr- it's.
 In view of this state of facts, Judge Phillips, and other superi- or court Judges. will refrain from calling thelr garnd jury until after the legislature has passed a bill definitely prescrib- ing the manner in which such a jury may be summoned, elimin- ating, as matter of course the probate Judge provision from the old statute.
 This the legislature will bel asked to do soon as it is organiz- ed for business, and the superior court juge hopes to have such authority pf law in time to begin | the criminal grind March 18th.
 The grand jury which will then be assembled is likely to be the last for some time, because under the constitution of the state in- formatloss may be laid against defendants before the court, and without the intermediary inter- position of grand jury.
 The grand jury then becomes, to a very large extent, an inquis- itorial body and although it's in- tegrity is maintained it will only
 | be called upon in extraordinary occasion for the probing of some unusual condition or in cases where some season exists mak- ing the old form of indictment preferable to the shorter and l more modern method of informa- r tion.
 Once in operation there will be little delay adjudicating civil cases and trying criminal charges for the superior court will be in session, and is of course empowered to summon a trial jury at any time. Under the old system defendant arrested soon after grand jury had ad- iourned would be compelled to lie in jail for three months or longer if unable to secure bail,
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

E. J, Smith who has been very i'll with a fever is able to be up and about. Jack had a pretty hard time of it, but was a good fighter and came out all right.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

Henry Scorse desires to call the public's attention to the new line of shirts now in stock. MT. Scorse says he has the best line of shirts ever received in Holbrook, and guarantees the prices to be right. He invites you to call and inspect his large stock of dry goods and fresh line of groceries.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

I pay cash for hides,
 F. A. Zuck.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12

The United Kingdom Alliance eng
land) in 1913 will celebrate its Goth yea
of active effort to prevent drunkness
by removing the cause" and in connec-
ton Herewith has arranged a great five
days bazaar in October next.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12

last week. The truth is something is
always happening at Shenandoah is
the Sherman way. But something
happened there last week that is of
first page Importance says the Texas
Home and State.
For six months or so, Sherman and
Denison have been the theater of out
rageous liquor outlawry, which local
authorities did not seem able to cope
with. So defiant did these liquor law
breakers become that they even ig-
nored Uncle Sam, and refused to buy
his permission to violate the local
prohibition law in Grayson county
And thereby hangs the tale" of their
undoing.
Seeing that the government was
being defrauded out of its legitimate
revenue, United States Marshal Du-
pont B. Lyon reported the matter to
the federal revenue department, and
requested that a detective be sent into
his district primarily to catch the
liquor violators and make them pay
their occupation taxes, as liquor deal
ers. The detective came, and when
caught, the liquor sellers took out
their licenses, dating back in some in
stances more than six months, with
the expectation of immuning them
selves from prosecution for sales
made during those prior months. The
revenue collector reported his collec-
tons and the detective reported his
findings.
Then the unexpected something
happened that caused weeping and
wailing, if not crashing of teeth in
the liquor camp. The revenue col
lector promptly reported the whole
batch of these delinquent liquor SELL
ers to the department of justice for
prosecution for liquor sales they had
been caught making before they paid
their occupation taxes. They were
promptly indicted by the federal grand
jury and before they suspected any
danger some twenty odd of them
were under arrest and reposing be-
hind bars in the county jail
1t seems to have become the Gus
tom for local revenue collectors when
they catch men selling liquor without
Uncle Sans license, to present to
them the alternative of paying UP or
being prosecuted When cornered in
this way the illicit liquor dealers usu-
ally paid, having their licenses dated
back past what they knew to be the
danger point, and the incident was
closed So illicit liquor sellers in
Texas have got in the habit of beat
ing Uncle Sam out of his fees until
trapped and then heading off prose
cution by taking out their licenses as
liquor dealers, as it is usually styled.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12
Whisky to Blame.

Turning to the negroes who were
before the court to be sentenced.
Judge Russell said in part: 81 note
that about half of the men here to-
receive sentence are colored men. It
is notable fact that from 1861 to
1865, while the white men of the
South were at the front fighting for
their contentious, many families were
practically left in the hands of the
colored slaves, and that during the
entire period no negro ever commit
ted crime against any member of
any family of which they were left in
charge. Today you can scarcely pick
up a newspaper that does not con-
tain an account of some nameless
crime committed by a black man
against white woman. This is be-
cause the negro has free access to
whisky, and the white man is LARGELY
to blame for this. I hope every col
ored man here will face about and
make better citizen. | hope that
they will spend their time of service
IN making of themselves better citi-
zens."
When Frank Schwulst stood up for
sentence, Judge Russell said in part;
on are the predominating spirit in
these violations; there is no GETTING
around this. l have investigated the
matter thoroughly, and there is no
question about it. Mr.. Schwulst, YOU
are leader of men, and your power
for good is as strong as your power
Tor bad. You can become valuable
citizen. The law reaches low, YOU
perhaps think, but it reaches as high
as it does low, and as long as it does
high and low. | hope you will return
and make good citizen; you can
and you should"
Judge Russell then passed sentence.
Seventeen in all were sentenced to
the federal penitentiary Three ap-
pealed their. cases, and fourteen de-
parted for their temporary prison
homes last Wednesday. A large
crowd assembled at the depot to
welcome their departure"
Much credit is due to United States
Marshal Dupont Lyon, who initiated
this campaign against illicit liquor
selling, and to his efficient assistant,
Captain Satterhe1d, who so success
fully "bagged" the indicted bunch; to
District Attorney w. N. Ownby, and
his assistant, Judge Daley, and to
Judge Gordon Russell, the presiding
judge, who assesses the penalties.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12
Thirteen Confess Guilt.

federal revenue department in this in
stance refused to allow the tardy pay
ment of the license fees, to cover the
multitude of back sales made in VIC
lation of the law, and promptly re-
ported the whole batch of violators to
the district court at Sherman for
prosecution. Four of those arraigned
resisted the prosecution, and were
convicted by juries. Then thirteen
threw up their hands and pleaded
guilty. The remaining cases were con-
tinued
About 500 citizens of Sherman
thronged the federal court room last
Monday to hear the presiding judge,
Hon. Gordon Russell, pass sentence
upon the convicted men. Before pass
ing sentence upon them, Judge Russell
delivered brief address, which was
gem worthy of being reported YER
batim, but as it was not so reported we
can give only brief extract as pub
lished in the Denison Herald, as fol-
lows:
II desire to say that with one ex-
ception | do not know of any of these
men, and have not known any of
them before they were brought before
this court, and therefore could not
possibly have any prejudice against
any of them. In my heart I do not
desire that any of them should suffer,
and the duty that confronts me today
is painful one. However, have a
public service to perform. You have
been convicted in this court of an
infraction of the federal law and in
violating the internal revenue law you
have also broken a state law. I am
not unmindful of the fact that this
community is a prohibition commun-
ity; that the sovereign people have
voted this law on themselves, and
have right to expect its enforcement
| have gone to the bottom of each
case before me, and know the good
and the bad of all of you. I do not
think there is man among you but
who, after having served out his SEN
tence, may return to Sherman, face
about and make a good citizen. The
man who does not quit violating the
law and make good citizen is always
the man who does not want to. The
man who wants to, can. | hope to
see every one of you make law-abid-
ing, law-loving citizens. Personally,
I repeat, I hold no prejudice against
any of you, and would extend help
ing hand to any one of you, or all of
you"
Judge Russell then went briefly
over his experience as district at
torney and district judge, four years
in the former office and nearly seven
in the latter, and stated that he be-
1ieved he could safely cav that sew
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12
Uncle Sam and the Booeggers How He Treated hem in Texas

the possessor of a federal liquor Ii
cense.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12

by him while district Judge could be
traced directly or indirectly to the
lmmoderate use of alcoholic liquor.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-10-05
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1he situation in Apayao is especially difficult
because headhuntiDg among the tribesmen of
mat subprovince is intimately connected with their
religious faith. Nevertheless the practice is be-
ing gradually stamped out and with the help of
the lgorot and Ifugao constabulary number of
muroerers have been arrested and punished
There is still considerable area over which gov
esnment control has not yet been established and
winch mas not even been opened up by trails to
any great extent. owing to the inaccessible char
acter or the region. One should realize of course
tnat head-hunting among these people is not re-
garded as murder in the ordinary sense of the
word 1t is a field sport and a manly occupation
established by the custom of centuries as be-
fitting of warrior
Most troublesome and Enthusiastically of all the
tribes of northern Luzon are the Hongots of the
subprovnce of Nueva Viscaya There are not
mere than 5000 or 5000 of them but they inhabit
vast region, most of it very mountainous and
almost wholly covered by virgin forest Often
their settlements are merely temporary and
they are hard to get at. Enormous distances sepa-
rate their villages. which in the more remote
regions continue TO fight among themselves These
were the people who not long ago murdered Dr.
william Jones while he engaged in making
chronological notes among them Nevertheless.
trails arc being pushed into the heart of their
country; two or three government Exchanges"
have been established industrial schools are being
made to induce them to extend their agricultural
operstions-par for the sake of rendering their
communities more stationary.
One should realize that the continual warfare
that has been going for centuries among the
tribes in the wild mans territory of Northern
i-uzon has been due mainly to lack of acauain-
lance among the people. Every stranger being
regarded as an enemy. 1t matter of course
mat each village should be at war with the neigh
boring villages. and headhuntng was an import
ant part of the regular business of every able.
podied male citizen. The filling o. the rice pad
dies and sweet potato fields could be carried ON
with safety only under armed guard-heads of
women and children being not less desirable as
trophies than those of men, For doing away with
this situation of affairs. the most effective means
mas been the building of roads and trails by witch
the tribes have been brought into communication
with each other. thus having an opportunity TO
become friends. Ifugaos, Kangas and Bontoc
isorots now work side by side with pick and
shovel instead of hunting each other with head
axes.
IL u.s. in fact, veritable social revolution thar
is being accomplished. All of the Mountain prov.
ince Is being literally gridironed with trails and
roads, the most inaccessible districts being omen.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-10-05
WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM
Mrs. Sarah Erickson Declares. the Hen
Lays an Egg at the Same Hour
She Was Born. -
What time o day
Does a hen law

That question has puzzled poultry
fanciers for unnumbered decades. but
now, it seems, it has been satisfacto
rily solved by woman. She is Mrs
Sarah Erickson of Falooner, N. Y.
Having kept chickens for 81 years,
she believes she qualities as an expert
in this line of effort.
Il have worked out the problem =
she declares. by using marked leg
bands, trap nests and alarm clocks at
tached to the nests have determined
taat a hen lays an egg at the same
hour, minute and second that she was
born, or, rather, Matched. For I'M
stance, II the hen happened to be able
to peck its way through its shell at
TAB a. m, she will lay an egg at pre-.
ciseiy 1:43 a. M And she will do this
without variation every time she is in
clined to lay. l have kept close. sys.
tematic watch on my hens for five
years, and have never known the
rule to fall
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-10-05
Crime to Kiss.

In Russia it is a crime for lovers
to kiss in public, and not very long
ago two young men and two young
women were arrested In Odessa for
having been guilty of this offense
They had all been dining together in
a restaurant, and kissed on parting,
They were condemned to short terms
OF imprisonment, and the sentences
were confirmed on appeal The gen.
eral fine in Russia for kiss in the
open street is Is shillings, but In a
tramcar it may cost anything up to
rs shillings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-10-05

to go to the hospital but was compelled to do So
receiving the one injection requisite. Then he
began to complain bitterly that no medicine was
being put on his sores. But the effect of the
drug soon manifested ITSELF and he went about
town excitedly demonstrating his improved con-
dition to all who would look. Some days later he
disappeared and the doctor was much disap-
pointed because he wanted him for an object
lesson to convince others of the efficiency of the
treatment. To the great surprise of the hospital
star. he turned up again afterward with thir-
teen other sufferers from "yaws," whom he had
brought distance of fifty miles from his native
village, in order that they also might be cured
In Benguet the wild peorle are building school
houses and sending their children to them The
boys are taught to construct looms and thu girls
to use them for making cloth. Each girl on CON-
pleting her course of education takes her loom
and returns to her own village thus extending her
newly-acquired knowledge of weaving to her FAM
lily and friends. At Bua is an Igorot girls school
in which the pupils not only make CLOTH but
manufacture articles of clothing for SALE Baguio
the capital of Benguet is growing by rapid strides
and new and substantial buildings are springing
up every side.
Useful plants and particularly vegetables includ-
ing the Irish potato being placed in the hands
OF the wild people Their agricultural methods at
present entail great labor with limited results
They patiently clear forest tract with bolos
turn over the soil with primitive implements and
SOW SEED. Then, after a short time, the growth
of weeds drives them to fresh areas where the
performance has to be repeated. What the Ameri-
caps propose to do is to provide them with mod
ern tools of husbandry. and with carabaos when
ever possible.
A point by no means to be lost sight of is the
fact that these wild people of Luzon are not saw
ages of an ordinary type. Not only is their physi.
cal development superb. probably surprising that
of any other race of human beings in the world
but they are highly intelligent and even clever.
Given the advantage of two or three generations
of such educational opportunities as are now being
Afforded them by the Americans and they will
lar exceed In intellectual qualifications the Fiji
pinos OF Manila and other coast towns Indeed
1t does not seem at all unlikely that In the future
they. rather than the Filipinos, Will become the
dominant race in Luzon. controlling the affairs
OF the island and oven those of the whole archi
peiago, In case we should voluntarily surrender
sovereignty. In the meantime while irving to
uplift them in the scale of civilization the gov
eminent Of the United States Is making every eff.
tort to protect them against civilizations evil in
the drink and diseases which
have undermined the moral and physique OF 40
many primitive peoples on coming into contact
with the corrupting Caucasian.