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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
RAILROADS IN THE NEW STATE.

Many millions of dollars are invest ed in the railroads of Arizona, and with the constant expansion of busi- ness, extension of the railroad service are being made from time to time with increasing frequency. At the present time Arizona has more than 2,000 miles of railroads.
 Within the past year the Fl Pasc & Southwestern has built an exter- sion of it's line from Fairbank, in Co., chise county, to Tucson, in Pima county, a distance of siXty-seven miles. The same company is now building a fifteen-mile extension from the strength of assurance by the war department. that the fort will be g regimental post. The Arizona East ern is engaged in. building an exten- sion of the Globe-Miami branch line to the Inspiration Copper company's property, while a forty mile branch line is being built by tn eSanta Fe Q tap the fertile Verde Valley in Yava- pal county.
 The first railroad line to buold through Arizona was the Southern Pacific, which entered the territory from the west at Yuma in 1878. It passes through Tucson, Benson, Casa Grande, Wilcox, Bowie and San Simon, crossing the line into Ne V Mexico It passes through Yuma Dinal Pima MaricoDa and Cochise counties.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
After Seven Years of Constant Travel He Arrives in Arizona-Was One of the First in Alaska During
 the Rush.

From Nome, Alaska, to Prescott, Arizona, by way of Maine and Floriia and every other state in the Union eX- cept California, is a long hike. Sucl is the trip being made by Eli Smith, who hit the Mile-High City last We'd nesday, driving a dog team. The orig inal team consisted of ten genuine malamutes. Of the team which land ed in this city, after 44,000 miles of travel since November IA, 1905, only one dog started with the original team About 150 other dogs had gone to the bad.
 The trip is being made by MT. Smith to win large wagers. The min CTS of Nome and the small carriers of the same district wagered S25,O0o that Mr. Smiths dog team could not travel from Nome to Washington, D. C., before May 1, 1870, start to be made on November 14th, 1905. Un- der the terms of the wager, proof had to be made that the distance had been accomplished, and this was done by the delivery of letter from Alfred s. Moore, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska, to Pres,- dent Roosevelt, at Washington. The feat was accomplished on Feb. 2Oth 19O7-some 69 days ahead of schec ule.
 Besides the above wager, MT. Smith had taken a side bet of S6,OOO that he would with his dog team visit the capital of every state in the uniol before May 1, 1913. The last cap: tals to be visited will be Phoenix and Sacramento, which will finish the long pilgrimage.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
PROCLAMATION OF RETRIEVE

STATE OF ARIZONA,
 Executive Department.
 To All To Whom These Presents Shall
 Come, GREETING:
 WHEREAS, pursuant to indictment for murder in the County of Yavapai Territory of Arizona, and trial there for and conviction thereof in the Dis trict Court of the Fourth Judicial Dis trict in and for tRe said County of Yavapai, William Campbell, Eduardo Perez and N. B. Chavez were senten- ced to be hanged by the neck until dead at the State Prison, Florence, Arizona, on the eleventh day of Octo. Der, 1912; and
 WHEREAS, pursuant oindictment for murder in the County of Yavapa:, State of Arizona, and trial therefor and conviction thereof in the Super for Court in and for said County of Yavapai, Miguel Peralta was sentenc- ed to be hanged by the neck until dead at the State Prison, Florence, Arizona, on the eleventh day of Octo- Der, 1912; and
 WHEREAS, the citizens of Arizona, grateful for their recent accession to the privileges of Statehood, feeA genu- inc pride in the high rank which their State has taken among the most pro- gresSive Commonwealths of the Un- ion, by the founding of a Government on the principles of Humanity, Utili- ty, and Economy; and
 WHEREAS, by actual experience and by comprehensive statistics con- piled by the Worlds most Eminent SociolOgiSts and Political Economists, it has been proven, beyond all doubt, that Capital Punishment is not found ed upon Utility; that it does not ac. as an efficient Deterrent from Capi- tai Crime; but for reasons that are ap parent, incites the Social Conscious ness to further violence and bloodshe1 as is shown by the fact that the States leading in the number of legal eXecII- tions also lead in lynchings; while Michigan and Wisconsin, which abol- iShed Capital Punishment over fifty years ago, have during the last ten years had only half as many murders in proportion to population as Ohio. which has vigorously applied the Death Penalty; and
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11

Under proper downward revision of the Republican tariff schedules the people of the United States would save s2,OO0,0GO,00O each year, or over $1O0 per family on manufactured goods alone
 President Taft's vetoes of the wool tariff bill and the steel tariff measure passed by Democratic house COST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT $65O. 100000 PER ANNUM.
 The cost of conducting the federal government MORE THAN DOUBLED between the close of President Cleve- lands second administration (Demo- cratic) and the beginning of President Roosevelt's second administration (Re- publican).
 AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH REPUBLICAN, TARIFF SCHED- JULES the people of the United States pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN WEIGHT PER CENT on food and ordinary household articles used in the home by every family, rich and poor.
 The total cost of running the federal government in 1860 was $55 100000.
 The amount appropriated at a single session of the Sixty-f1rst congress for the fiscal year 1911-$1, ,027 I B, ,446. A. was more than double the amount $954 ,496, ,055. appropriated for the fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses- sions of the F1fty-fourth congress, the last congress of the second Cleveland administration.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
FATALLY SHOT BY
 FURIOUS WOMAN
Prescott Mining Man Fatally Wound ed at Zonia Mining Camp-Shoot- ing Outgrowth of Litigation of Long Standing-Was Looking for Trouble and
 Found 1t.

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Oct. S.-A rcpO-t reached this city yesterday to the effect that Mrs. F. R. Moses had shot and fatally wounded Joe Mackin at the Zonia mining camp about nine miles southeast of Kirkland val ley.
 The shooting was the climax of trouble that has been brewing be- tween Mackin and MT. and Mrs. Moses. A week ago Mackin and Moses figured in a criminal suit in Yavapai county when Mackin was held in S1,000 bail to the Superior Court for the crime of assault and battery on the person of Mrs. Moses. This happened in the early part of September.
 The trouble eliminated at the home of Moses. The Moses home Wal some distance from where Mackin lived and it is supposed that Mackin came to the Moses house looking for trouble. It is not known at present whether any fight took place beside the shooting or not as the telephone line between Kirkland and Zonia IS down and the only communication was the mail carrier who came to Kirkland for the doctor.
 Mrs. Moses fired six shots into Mackin and it is also said that she fired one barrel of a shotgun into the man. Dr. J. B. McNally was called to aid the injured man and left for the scene of the shooting at once. It was expected that Mackin would be brought into Prescott last night but has not arrived so far.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11

became unmanageable as it was coming around the mountain, and before any of the occupants req lized the situation it was going at break-neck speed, and all at once went over a fifteen-foot embankmenL turning three distinct summersaults as it fell. Every one in the car went headlong after it as it fell, but forum ately none of the occupants were caught when it landed. The machine was a complete wreck.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
STATE NE WIS
CHA MONSTER AND
 RATTLER IN BIG FIGHT
Snake Struck Three Times and Miss ed; Lizard Gets It's Grip on Rat
 tiers Neck, Ending Struggle.

GLOBE, Ariz.,-Rob Henry, the well known prospector, tells the following story of a fight between rattlesnake and a Gila monster. There were IF rattles on the snake and two were lost He has the rattles in his possession. At first he hesitated to tell the story on the fear that he would not be be- heved.
 One evening about the middle of last August, while on the way from town to his camp on the Pinal noun tain road, he was attracted by the sound of a rattlesnake. Turning to the right, he discovered rattler about seven feet long, and three feet away To the right a Gila monster was sitting on an ant pile. The snake stood up from the ground higher than mans knee in the shape of an elongated "S'' The remainder of his body was upon the ground be hind him in straight line. In addi- tion to rattling, a hissing sound is sued from his mouth. The Gila had evidently been eating ants when called to attention by the snake. He was standing up from the ground as high as his two short legs would per init, which was close to two inches. His tensed attitude indicated that he knew trouble was ahead. Suddenly the snake struck full at the big lizard, but the fangs passed over the mons ter, because he had seen the blow coming, and quick as a flash had flat tened himself on the ground. The snake drew himself up and struck again, but missed his mark For the third time the snake drew back and struck, but he struck only empty air, for the lizard was over two inches to the right. At the completion of his third attempt to sink his fangs into the motled body of the Gila monster, he started to draw back for another attempt, but he "reconed without his host" Before the triangular head had travelled backward over four inches. the Gila dealt his card. With a lightning-like lunge, equal to the fastest stroke of the famed king snake he plunged for the back of the rat tiers neck and the fraction of sec ond later the seven-foot snake was writhing helplessly in the bulldog jaws of the eighteen inch lizard. He twisted, turned, Tapped and :wriggle>l, but there was no relaxation of that iron grip. Several times the lizard was thrown vertically into the air,and as many more he was dragged upon the dusty road with his feet vainly attempting to find a hold. But the jaws held tight. After two or three minutes of the struggle, the efforts of the reptile became weaker until finally he lay dead upon the ground. Then and not until then did the death grip of the Gila monster relax. Hay ing fought his battle and won, he started quietly on his way. He had earned his freedom, for he had done well. Man, however, his unconquer- able enemy, reached out and gathered him in.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11

J. W. Copelano- of Dayton, Ohio, purchased a bottle of CNamberlain's s Cough Remedy for his boz who had cold, and before the bottle was lal used the boys cold was gone. Is that not better than to pay five do lar doctors bill? For sale by all dealers.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11

WHEREAS, a murder is none the less a murder when committed by Society instead of by an individual; contravenes the dictates of Modern Christianity and the Ideals of Civili- zation therefore has no more rightful place in the Social Order of two cen turies ago, but is a ghastly error of ancient judgment, a dictum of darker ages; and inasmuch as the First State Legislature, during its regular and ex- traordinary sessions, was so occupied by matters of vital importance to the State, as to have been prevented from making Capital Punishment adequate ly the subject of investigation and de liberation, and
 WHEREAS, I deem it to be for the best interests of Arizona and in ab- solute accord with the irreproachable record thus far maintained by this State as a Commonwealth alive to every need of the Age and alert to every call of Progress, that the Legis- lature, which of necessity must be convened in Special Session within a few months, shall have a second op portunity to apply it's Energy, States manship and Judgment to a proposal for the Abolition of Capital Punish ment and thus fC~bid that our fair State should stain her career by the quadruple execution scheduled to oc- cur on October Il, 1912; and
 WHEREAS, it is my earnest belief that the will of the people of Arizona in being a servant of whom I am high fy honored, would not dictate or sane tion the deliberate hanging of four men under sentences of death at the State Prison, in transgression of the Law of God and in defiance of the Teachings of Christianity, that great est of civilizing influences whereby Retribution is tempered with kindly Mercy; and inaSmuch as every bet ter human instinct and the importun- ate admonitions of Conscience cry out against delegating to one man the du- ty ofputting to death his fellowman; and
 WHEREAS, If the Legislature of our Sovereign State, after furth er conscientious investigation and due de liberation, should deem it inexpedi- ent or unwse to eliminate Capital Pun ishment from our Penal Code, I would desire, under the salutary provisions of the Initiative embraced in our Con- Estitution, to circulate a Petition pro- posing he Abolition of the Death Pen alty for Capital Crimes, and to secure the submission of the question to the Electors of this State at a Special or General Election;
 NOW THEREFORE, Be it known that I, Geo. w. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby grant until the said William Camp bell, Eduardo Perez, N. B. Chavez and Miguel Peralta reprieves from the aforesaid sentences until the twelfth day of April, A. D. 1913.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arizona to be affixed.
 Done at Phoenix, the Capitol, this ninth day of October, A D. 1912.
 By the Governor: /
 GEO. W. P. HUNT Attest:
 SIDNEY P. OSBORN,
 State Secretary.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-11
REPUBLICANS
 REMEMBRANCE
Government Cost More Than
 Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD

Startling Figures Which Show That the Cost of Our National Existence and the High Cost of Living Must Be Reduced.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-03-22
PUBLICATION SUMMONS.

In the Superior Court of the State of
Washington in and for Okanogan
County.
Minnie NJ. Stever, Plaintiff VS.. Charles
J. Stever, Defendant.
The State of Washington to the said
Charles J. Stever. Defendant
You are hereby sommoned to appear
within sixty days after the date of the first
publication of this summons. to-wit,
within sixty days after the 22nd, day Of
March, 1912. and defend the above enti-
tied action in The above entitled Court
and answer the complaint of the plaintiff.
and serve copy of your answer upon the
undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his
failure SO to do. judgment will be rend-
cred against you according to the prayer
and demand of the complaint which has
been filed with the Clerk of said Court.
The object. of this action is to secure an
absolute decree of divorce upon the
grounds Of abandonment and failure to
provide and cruel and abusive treatment.
Z. FITZGERALD. Attorney for Plaintiff.
Postoffice Address, Oroville, Okanogan
County, Washington.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-03-22
Serial No. 0344.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior United States
Land Office, at Waterville, Washington,
February 81, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that Joseph c..
Mcdowell, of Nelson. Washington, who,
on July o. 1908, made homestead entry,
No. O344 for Lots 8. 6, Z and 5, section s..
township 40 N, r % Z, w M, has filed
notice Of intention to make final five year
proof, to establish claim to the land above
described. before Fred. J. Fine, L. S.
Commissioner. at his offlce. at Oroville,
Washington. on the 18th day of April, 1912.
Claimant names as Witnesses: William
c. Almquist. Robert A. Mccoy. John An
derson, John Bergall. all of Nelson, Wash.
w. F. HAYNES, Register.
Mar 15-Apr 12-5t.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-03-22
Serial No. 03S02.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior. United States
Land Office. at Waterville, Washington
February q, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that Thomas G
Bean, OF Chopaka, Washington, who, or
June &c, 1906, made homestead entry. No
1OO0S. for Lots 5. s and 8. SECTION 4, Lots
8 and 4. section 5, township 40 N, r % ~
fina, Ave year proof, to establish claim tc
the land above described. before Fred
J. Fine, U. 8, Commissioner. at his ONCE
at Oroville, Washington, on the 18th day
of April, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses JOSEPH
Lenton Nighthawk, Wash, Monroe Har-
man. John Cutchie, Benjamin r. Ander'
son, all Of ChOpaka, Washington.
w. F. HAYNES, Register.
Mar. 15-Apr. 12-5t.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-03-22
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Statements of account are being
sent out this week to great number
Of readers of the Gazette. This course
Of ransacting the subscription bust
ness of the paper is made necessary
by an arbitrary ruling of the postOf-
fee department., rather than our lack
of faith in the credit of our readers,
and It Is the hope of the management
that each Of the statements will bring
a prompt response. Remit by check
bank draft, postofflce money order,
cash or stamps. Many new innOva-
tons are being planned for the paper
for the coming year. and prompt re-
mittance on the part OF those subscrib-
ers who are in arrears will not only
keep the paper in good standing with
Mr.. Hitchcock and other Washington
dignitaries, but will materially assist
in the contemplated improvements Of
the Gazette. In sending out SO many
statements at one time there is of
course a chance that mistakes will
occur, and this Office stands ready and
willing to rectify any errors that may
be brought to our attention.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15
WooDMEN DEPUTIES APPROVE
RATE RAISE.

Modern Woodmen OF America repue-
sentatiyes from Missouri, Kanass and
Oklahoma have approved the raise in
insurance rates adopted recently at
Chicago. The seventy-five deputies
from the three states, who have been
in session in Kansas City, ratified
the new schedule before adjourning
the session, which was called for the
express purpose Of discussing the new
rates.
The discussion demonstrated that
at the old rate of assessment the a.
mount of funds paid into the order
for premiums would be $4,000 900 less
the amount of outstanding insurance,
which virtually means that every
member of the society would have to
live 12O years in order to pay into
the treasury the amount of his life
insurance policy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15
DRAGGING THE ROADS.

Every tanner should see to 1t that
the roads along his land are proper
" dragged when they are in the pro
per condition to drag. There are
few who are attending to this, and
then there are a great many who
are Indifferent to the matter. Most
especially should the roads be drag
ged over which the mail routes run,
as it is certainly of interest to every
body along the routes to see that this
work is done, for the better shape the
roads are kept, the better service YOU
win get on the routes, and besides
that, If the roads are allowed to get
too bad there is a possibility of los
ing the service along such roads. But
regardless of this, every farmer
Should have enough pride about him.
self to want to keep the road along
his place in the best of condition, and
there is nothing that will come near
er doing that than using the road
drag at the proper time.-Halstead In
dependent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Denote are Wis
iting this week with Mr.. and Mrs. J.
X. McNIullen, at Ellinwood.
Ed Marx left Monday for the east
ern markets, where he will buy goods
for the coming spring trade here.
E. E. Lambert has returned to his
home In Hutchinson after a visit hen
with his daughter, Mrs. Marie Swift.
A fine eight pound baby girl was
born Monday to Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Moses.
Rev. Cockerill and James Clayton
went to Hutchinson Tuesday to at
tend the NJ. E. conference.
Mrs. VIM. Gagelmam was called to
Chicago Saturday by a message stat
ing that her brother, Herman Betz,
of that city, was seriously i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Wicks returned
Sunday night from Leavenworth
where they We're called by the death
Of his mother.
Mrs. May Lewis Of Winfield was a
visitor here Sunday.
Miss Margaret Meyers arrived Mon
day from Warren, Pa, for a visit
with her uncle, o. R. Kitchen, and
family, Of South Bend township.
Mrs. H. E. Brining Of Ellinwood,
visited with relatives here the first
Of the week.
Mrs. T. NJ. Keegan of Hoisington,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. P. Fair.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15

and Testament Of Media OdeI. late
OF said County, deceased, BY the Hon
CRADLE, the Probate Court Of the Coun.
ty and State aforesaid, dated the Gath
day OF February. A. D. 1912. Now.
all persons having claims against the
said Estate, aue hereby notified that
they must present the same to the
undersigned for allowance within one
year from the date Of said Letters.
or they may be pnecluded from any
benefit Of such estate, and that II
such claims be not exhibited within
two years after the date Of said Let
ters. they shall be forever barred.
ELRICK C. COLE.
Executor
OF the last WIN and Testament OF
Media 0dell, Deceased.
February "a, 1912.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15
'F'rst Published in the Barton Coun-
y Democrat February 90, 1927
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

S'a'e OF Kansas, Barton County. SIS.
In ohe Probate Court in and for Sud
County.
In the Matter Of the Estate of
Louisa Wilson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary have been granted to
the undersigned, on the Last Will and
Testament Of Louisa Wilson, late OF
sand County, deceased, by the Honor
able the Probate Court Of the County
and State aforesaid, dated the 21st
Gay OF February, A. D. 1912. Now all
persons having claims against the
said Estate, are hereby notified that
they must present the same to the
Undersigned for allowance within ONE
year from the date of said Letters on
they may be precluded from any bepe
Tx OF such estate; and that If such
claims are not exhibited within two
years after the date of said Letters
they shall be forever barred.
EDWIN W. WILSON,
Executor
Of The last Will and Testament o.
Louisa Wilson, Deceased.
February 81, 1912.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15
MOST AWFUL DRY.

A gentleman visiting in Lake City
had just finished a trip through east
ern Colorado and western Kansas
He says that it is the dryest dried
up country that he ever saw.
why" said he, 1T is so dry
there that wagons are going around
with their tongues out. The cotton
wood trees are splitting cotton The
hogs have to be soaked in water
over night so that they will hold
swill, and ice has to be soaked in
water before 1t Is wet enough to
make lemonade. The catfish kick
up such dust in the beds Of the
streams that the streams have to
be sprinkled before you can go fish
Ing. A spark from an engine set
fire to a pond and burned up a lot
Of bullfrogs before the fire was ex-
tinguished. The ground is so dry
that crawfish holes in low places are
being pulled up and used for gas
pipe, The whole country is so dry
that even the railroads run.
ming through that region cannot
water their stock"
Just at this point the office towel
fell from the nail and broke into
thousands of pieces and the picture
OF George Washington faded entire
ly away.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-15

Willie-"Ma, am l a descendent Of
monkey" MAJ don't know,
son, l never knew your father S
folks. "-Ex.