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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

County of Graham, ss. On this Ninth day of August, Nine teen Hundred, before me, A. D. Brew CT, Notary Public in and for the County of Graham, Territory of Ari- zona, personally appeared c. E. Mills, H. S. Van Gorder, Gordon Mclean, l.. D. Ricketts and Walter Douglas, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to mo that they severally executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of of flee this Ninth day of August, A. D 1900.
 (SeaD A. D. BREWER, Notary Public My commission expires Jan. 13tn, 1903.
 Recorded at request of A. E. Nel son October 18th, 1900, at II o'clock.
 PEDRO MICHELENA,
 Recorder.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT

State of Arizona, in and for Greeniee
 County.
 Ada Parent, Plaintiff, ,e :.
 VS.
 Emile Parent, Defendant. Action brought in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Greenlee. and the complaint filed in said County of Greenlee in the office of the Clerk of said Superior Court.
 In the name of the State of Arizona, 10 Emile Parent, Defendant GREET tNG:
 You are Hereby Summoned and re- SIuired to appear in action brought against you by the above plaintiff m sthe Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for Greenlee County. and answer the Complaint therein filed with the Clerk of this said Court, at Clifton, in said County, within twenty days after the service upon you of this Summons, if served in this said Q1nty, or in all other cases withfh1 thirty days thereafter, the times above mentioned being eXculs- i've of the day of service, or judgment DY default will be taken against you. Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of the State of Greenlee, this 1st day of November, 1912.
 (SEAL)
 BEN M. CRAWFORD,
 Clerk of said Superior Court
 By BEN c. FIREMAN, Deputy. Nov. 1-4t.
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Greenlee County, Arizon;
STATE OF ARIZONA, County of Greenlee.

SS.
 Before me J. c. EFROMSON, a No. tary Public in and for said County, on this day personally appeared H. $. VAN BORDER, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument as the Sec reary of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY, and acknowledged to me that he, as such officer, executed the same for the purpose and considera- tion therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 18th day of August, A. D. 1912. My commission expires February a3, 1916.
 (Notarial Seal.)
 J. c. EFROMSON,
 Notary Public
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ARTICLE IV.

The capital stock of this corporation shall be Five Hundred Thousand Do!- lars ($500,000.00), which shall be di- vided into Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) shares of the par value Of One Dollar ($1.00) each. Said shares shall be issued fully paid, and forever non-aSSeSSable.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names, anc affixed the seal of said Corporation, this 18th day of August, A. D. 1912. Corporate SeaD
 l.. D. RICKETTS,, President of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY. ATTEST:
 H. s. VAN BORDER, Secretary of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY.
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NOtary PuDI1c Greenlee County, Arizona

Filed in the office Of the Arizona Corporation Commission this 18th day of September, A. D. 1912, at 10: % A. M. at the request of HERRING G SORIN whose postoffice address is Tucson, Arizona. ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMIS- SION,
 3y W. P. GEARY,
 Chairman RECORDERS OFFICE, Greenlee County, Arizona. Filed for record the 18th day of September 1912 at g o'clock A. M. and recorded in Book No 1 Incorpora- tions on page 6164 at the request of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY.
 w. B. KELLY,
 County Recorder. Oct. 11-6t.
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Certificate of Amendment to Articles
 of Incorporation of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY

THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY.
 We, the undersigned, l.. D. Rick etts, President and M. s. Van Gorder,
 ecretary of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY, a corporation organized
 nd existing under and by virtue O. he laws of Arizona, do hereby certify hat at a special meeting of the stock Iolders of said corporation, duly ca's- ed and held at the office of the Com pany at Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, on the 18th day of August, 1912, for the purpose of increasing the capital stock of said Corporation from Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided into Two H 1ndred Thousand Shares of the par value of One Dol lar each, to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided into Five Hundred Thousand Shares of the par value Of One Dollar each, of which meeting and of which proposed increase of capital stock, at least thirty days notice in writing was given to the
 tockholders of said Corporation, the Articles of Incorporation of said Cor poration were duly amended by the following resolution, adopted by the affirmative vote of persons holding three-fourths of the issued and out standing shares of stock of said Cor poration:
 RESOLVED: That Article W of the Articles of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY be, and the same hereby is amended so as to read a. follows:
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NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF
 CREDITORS.

In the District Court of the United States for the District of Arizona.
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STATE OF ARIZONA,
 County of Greenlee.

Before me J. c. EFROMSON a No tary Public in and for said County, on this day personally appeared l.. D. RICKETTS,, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument as the Presi- dent of THE MORENCI WATER COMPANY, and acknowledged to me that he, as such officer, executed the same for the purpose and considera- ton therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 18th day of August, A. D. 1912.
 My commission expires February 23, 1916.
 (NoUarial Seal)
 J. c. EFROMSON,
 Notary Public.
 Greenlee County, Arizona
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..'I saw a doctor put young Sehultz's neck back into place in fine shape, said a deputy-'just grabbed his head, gave it twist and it snapped right back where it belonged"
 saw plent yof smiles during the two hours and ten minutes. 1 heard plenty of attempted jokes and con- monplaces, among the 42 doctors and the reporters and deputies. Why do we smile and try to talk of everyday things?
 Because hanging is so awful that man who witnesses it dare not ad init to himself how awful it is. He the cold. deliberate killing of man by his fellowman brutalizes the kill ers-and that is all society-just as much as it ends human life. Perhaps the killers suffer more harm than tine killed.
 Do you believe Christ would have condemned anyone to die?
 Do you think it Christ-like for one to sit on a jury and adjudge one gull ty of murder in the first degree, when one Knows that such decision means that the one declared guilty shall be taken out and hanged?
 Do you believe capital punishment prevents murder? If you do, then get statistics of the number of murders committed in the states that have done away with the death penalty and compare with the number committed in the states where legalized murder 1 is still in vogue, then maybe you'll have change of mind on the sub- feet.
 For my part, I'd like to see the death penalty done away with; the i power of pardoning lifetime prison
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of an 1S-year old boy, about whose neck he had fastened rope five min utes before.
 Wasn't his neck broken?' insisted the deputy, talking to one of the doz- en doctors who were examining the boys body. When the doctor an- swered in the affirmative the deputy stepped back from the trap-hole, sat isfied.
 What you see at hanging is one thing; it shows you what society is doing to criminals. But what you hear at hanSings shows you what society is doing to itself when it takes the life of a human being.
 am going to put down what heard-the talk of men-at the hang ing of Phillip Summerling, 34 years; {; Thomas Shultz, Is years; Ewald Shihlawaski, 24; Ewald's brother, Frank, 21 and Thomas Jennings, ne- gro, 8.
 For two hours and ten minutes
 there were gathered in the vast high
 ceilinged room 45 physicians, 3
 guards and 20 newspaper men. They
 were the representatives of society
 and I want to show by the things
 heard them say, what hanging does l, to the men who are not hanged. In his office, before we went into the death chamber, l asked Deputy l Sheriff Peters how many men he hat
 hung.
 a Why, young fellow, he said, = y hung mon before you were born e I hung the Haymarket rioters. An' if I've hung 40 men, Ee added, proudly
 Have a smc kc," soncone said tt a Peters
 e "No. No smokes, eats or drinks un f, til this job is done. Then I'll so ou l. and take stiff drink of whiskey. l al " ways have a reaction after hanging D. It always makes me tired and sick. ' y- Doctors Doctors.' exclaime' y someone in the hallway. r. We looked out of Peters office an if saw double line of deputy sheriff's n leading from the main door of tn It jail. Between them was passing :e line of 42 physicians, who were beln in admitted to the death chamber. i- Peters went to the telephone an ,h called up the states attorney
 "There's fellow who's trying ,d four-flush in Judge Landis' court t z, make us put off this hanging. It
 piece of hocus-pocus. The fello' " just wants to get into the limellgh
 want you to understand that al k going right along with this business. ty When he had hung up the receive vs Peters said to the deputy: m Fix up the sawbones! Get the1
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IF A LAXATIVE 1|
 NEEDED" -"CAScApY
Salts, CalomeI and CathartS
 'iolent-they act on bo,,l|
 pepper acts in nostiL1

Take a asc2ret tonight al oushly cleanse your Liver and Bowels, and you will sp great by morning. You m women who have headache tongue, cant sleep, are biliq| vous and upset, bothered witt ' gassy, disordered stomach, | backache and feel all worn a
 Are you keeping your boVs with Gasearets--or merely i'd passag geWay every a few day salts, cathaftic pills or cast This is important. Cascarcts immediately cle,|
  regulate the stomach, renS| sour, undigested and fermenii and foul gases; take the ez from the liver and carry of' stipated waste matter and from the intestines and bove' Remember, a Cascaret toliI straighten you out by morn 10-cent box from your druggiS healthy bowel action; 'a th and cheerflllness for nOnthi forget the children.
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on the gallows. One brother turned his muffled head toward another. We heard the murmer of his voice. Crash" that was the next sound. Then came the scuffling of the feet of IA doctors, as they walked to the two bags, their contents twitching, which hung from the swaying ropes
 The reporters rushed to a back room, where their telephones and telegraph wires had been placed. l caught these bits of news as they talked: Just as the Wrlthlng body of the boy stopped swaying.' "Strans- led,' gurgled.' 'Twtched like cats in bag ''Oh, is that you taking my stuff, Bill? Great show Great show. Three more to come
 What, in Christmas, was that pray er?" said one reporter.
 q don't know. Tell your office to look it up in the prayer book. They Ccu COpy It llOAAl IAo''
 Two men were fixing up two other ropes. They carried out two bodies on a wheeled table, covered with a white cloth.
 Both of their necks were broken, said a doctor, coming to the report CTS table.
 
 During the lull I talked to o1 the IA doctors who had examined. wanted to know whether they believ- ed in ca 5ital punishment. Not one of them did.
 Capital punishment doesn't keei people from committing murder, un- less you can hang men on high gal lows, in a big space where all the folks in the city can see it, said pr A. c. Koethe.
 This is my first hanging and my last,' said Dr. l. E. Hoffman After this I don't believe in capital punish ment 1 can see patient die, bu to see sane men kill we'll man, II cold blood-eXcuse ne.
 All of this talk was sort ot pc tween the acts
 Hats off. No smoking: called man in overalls, from the galloWs.
 The next sound was that of thu ] 7rison inmates, who were watching 1 the death watch. Then we heard tn shuffle of feet, and again the prles and the deputies in blue brought tW' poorly dressed men onto the seal fold.
 Well, the other two got across Il time for lunch, said one deputy Il a seat near me, looking at his watch
 'These fellow'll eat with them, an swered another guard. But l gues they get there too soon to pleas them
 The two men in poor clothes stoo on the trap where the deputies plac ed them. One of them wasn't a mar but a boy John Shultz, IS years ole son of immigrants, who, as one re porter said, "hadn't done anythin
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but get into bad company And now we know what the prayer was, for John raised his head and looked up, he fixed his blue eyes on the high ceiling, he repeated words which the priest murmured.
 70, Christ! have mercy on my soul!' His words rang out clear and distinct as a bell. "Holy Mary, in- tercede for me! Pray for mel Bring me to everlasting life
 The deputies were tying the straps about his arms and legs.
 Another of them tied the white shroud about the boys neck.
 Saviour, love Thee!" said the boy, In the white covering he look ed like choir boy.
 Grant me to live with Thee. For give my sins
 While he said these words, still looking upward, William Davies, the taller. put the moose over his head and frightened the knot under the boys ear.
 Another deputy was doing the same thing to Summerling.
 Forgive me my sins Forgive me my sins." rang out the voice of the boy. His voice was growing louder; there was a tone of wildness in it.
 Holy Mary! !''-''crash.h It was an awful thing to hear in the same moment with those words from the mouth of that boy, and that sound. But they came together. Again the feet of fourteen doctors scuffled over the cement floor to the white sway ing, twitching bags.
 There was another intermission.
 Now, if this nigger'll only confess before he's hung, you felloWsll get fine top-off for your days story, said deputy sheriff to the reporters
 We've got good early start ill the days work said a reporter. Are you going out for lunch? Why don't you sheriffs go out now and then come back for the afternoon work: You can finish a lot of men at this rate.'
 "Gee,' said a young doctor, coming up to Jailer Davies. q thought you C left your handcuffs on that young fel- low, and I didn't see that another doc tor was holding it by the elbow. thought his hands were locked togeth- CT, because 1 couldn't move his arms.
 They don't suffer- another doctor was telling the reporters.
 But isn't there some easier way tt kill man?' asked a reporter.
 q should say so,'' said the doctor '"They could put tiny drop of hydro cyanic acid in his soup some day, ant in an instant he would be stone dead without a twitch or a pain. Or they could kill man with morphine, ant he would die pleasantly, in beautiful dreams. But this hanging. It's th' crudest thing in civilization"
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IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MURDER ?

in their chairs, and then we'll get busy'
 Press! Press!' a deputy called. That meant that the dozen newspaper men were to go into the death cham Der.
 - A doctor tried to squeeze in with us.
 No, no; you cant go with these fellows. Sit down with the doctors. You can examine the corpse with them.'
 The doctors all sat in chairs, at the foot of the high scaffold.
 I heard one doctor with whiskers talking to another
 Hanging is all damn foolishness, he said. ''Now here are four good, strong men, One of them has a penni- less wife and baby. Why don't they put these four men in jail somewhere for life, and make them work to sup port the two penniless women and their babies? Ain't it damn foolish ness to kill them?''
 heard a guard say:
 There's a fellow in New York city who's the best eXecutioner ill the country. He's killed 40, and he nev- CT makes a miscue. Must have some nerve, huh'
 "What'll you have to eat?' one re- porter asked anotlier when they sat down at a reporters table that was covered with white cloth.
 Vow. VOW. pow pow These noises came from the cell. Inmates cf the jail were rattling their bars yelling and pounding tin cups. The death march had begun.
 They'll show up around that cor ner in a minute" said one reporter I'm an old hand in this hanging room. I've seen 17 hangings here. There was a shuffle of feet on the iron floor and the procession walked onto the gallery from an upper tier There was a priest, in white, officers in blue, and two men roughly dress ed-the Shiblawaski brothers. All you could hear was the mur- mer of the priests prayer and the murmer of the men, who repeated his words in low tones. What were they saying? What kind of prayer do men make on a salloWs No one could near their words. The brothers kissed the cross which the priest held to them. While this was going on their legs and arms were being strapped. We tried to heal what they were saying as the deputies
 put white shroud about. their bofiies :, but we stopped trying when the white caps were tied over their heads. Ev ] erybody seemed to be working slOWl.
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Don't you believe what is wrong for one as an individual should be government.
 In other words, granted that it is wrong for the individual to take life, don't you believe it equally as wrong for the State to take it?
 In an old prison at The Hague in Holland, while being shown the in- struments of torture that used to be used in putting people to death, I asked the guide, What mode of capi- tai punishment do you use now?" 'Oh, he says, we do not put people to death now; we did that back in our barbarous times'
 Don't you think the guide was right when he stated that putting peo- pie to death is barbarism?
 Don't you believe that if the State should cease to legally and deliberate ly punish by death it's transgressors the moral effect of the same will be of such a nature as to help some poor individual keep from illegally and ''undeliberately' taking the life oi that one who has possibly destroyed his peace, happiness and pleasure o1 living?
 Are you unable to see where one under temporary, irrational excite ment might grab a weapon and com init murder, yet you can understan' why sane, Christ-loving man should sit on jury and condemn man to die or why an officer for an amount of salary he might receiv should deliberately take the life ( some poor, wayward human being?
 Read the following account of hanging which recently took plae in Chicago. See where the sheri1 evidently with no compunction of col science, stated that he had hung for people. Surely you will decide som thing ought to be done by the mere loving people of this country to u to put stop to these legalized mu ders. After reading the article, you do come to such a decision, the go to work and do your part. takes, to begin with, neither influen nor riches to succeed, when you're the right. Self-confidence, determ nation and hard work will accompli: almost any good purpose
 The following news item appear in the Memphis Press February 1912. Read it:
 Chicago, Feb. 17.-"How did Il boy die?'
 It wasn't mother or father as ing the question. It was a depu s sheriff, who stood on the galloN looking down at the swinging for
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CTS taken out Of the goverl and a rigid enforcemen, 7, s| as regards the carryjny o, '] weapons. believe that tb.s would reduce the homicid.,| State at least one-half.
 DUKE c. BOW
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
Hitchcock Declared It Was
Blundering Into Entang-
ling Alliance
SELF RESPECTING COUNTRY
W0UlD NOT Be T|ED UP
Would Make a Mental Reservation
That Treaty Could Be Nullifictl By Ii
ut Any TiMe-Wants Last Clause of
Article Three Stricken Out.

washington. Jan. 4-Flatly charg-
Ing that the administration was blum
dering into an cntangling alliance with
Great Britain, Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska. on the floor of tho senate
today denounced the proposed arbitra-
tion treaty with that country. He de-
clared the plan to permit the presi-
dent to appoint commissioners to the
high court of arbitration without the
consent OF the senate was revolution
ary and dangerous.
The proposed treaty, he said, would
wipe out this nations time-honoretl
treatN-making plan and result virtual
ly in the adoption of the system prac-
ticed by the monarchial powers.
The senator declared he believed
the United States to be in more dam
ger from the diplomats of Great Brit
ain than from the dreadnoughts of
her navy. He declared he did not
think u self respecting country would
enter into an agreement of this sort
without the mental reservation that it
could nullify it any time. Ii is OBJ
jectionable, he said. because 1t would
inevitably subject the United States
to International quarrels.
In conclusion Senator Hitchcock de-
clared he not only was in favor of
striking out the last clause of article
III, providing for a joint high COM
mission to interpret the treaty, but
that he also favored an amendment
specifically asserting on the part of the
United States that the treaty could not
be construed SO as to authorize the
tfon involving the traditional attitude
of the United States concerning Amer
lean questions or other purely gov
ernmcntal policies
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
MILITARY RIOT
Scots Object to Curtailmcnt OF Holi.
day on New Years.

London. Jan. Am extraordinary
military riot is reported to have oc-
Cured at Longmore camp. where
there is a mounted infantry school
connected with the Aldershot division.
The Sctosmen among the troops on
New Years eve became incensed at
the curtailment of their holiday. II
i. stated that they smashed up the
huts in the camp and bombarded the
officers quarters with bricks. The
assembly was sounded by the bugler
on guard and all the officers and non
commissioned officers turned out to
quell the disturbance. but the mutt
neers formed square and kept off
their superiors.
Some of the non commissioned Off
GERS were injured by blows from belts
and sticks. Eventually an officer who
is a noted boxer challenged one Of
the men to fight. The men immedi-
ately formed a ring and one of them
stood up to the officer but was soon
badly defeated. Upon this the men
slllenly returned to- the wrecked huts.
1t is reported that one of the men
was shot and seriously wounded dur
ing the affray
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
REFUSED APPEAL

Boston. Jan. 4.-Justice Holmes of
the supreme court of the United
States today refused to grant IL writ
of error commanding the lower court
to send the case of Silas ~ Phelps,
the Monroe bridge outlaw" who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Emmett Il.
Haskins. to the supreme court. Word
to that effect was received here late
today.
Sentenced to die this week. Phelps
was today given Il respite of fifteen
days pending an appeal to the state
supreme court. Attorney General
Swift holds that the respite expires at
midnight January 20 and Phelps cxe-
cution may take place at any time in
the week beginning at that hour
Only one thing now can save the
condemned man. The new executive
council to be sworn In tomorrow has
the power to commute the death sem
tence to life Imprisonment. The pres
ent council refused to commute the
sentence.