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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
Personals & Local Items
The roads is quite good in spots.

The roads is quite good in spots.
This is a nice spell of weather we are
having.
It's warm enough now to set down
on the grass most anywhere without
ketchin a cold in your chest.
Miss Molly Tucker has been taking
a tonic for her nerves for spell back
and is reported somewhat porter at this
writing.
The Widow Henderson has set FIVE
hen-eggs and four buckeyes under one
hen which she expects to come off soon.
Harve Hines, our tonsorial barber,
hasn't got much to do these days-most
of the folks who let their beard and
hair grow all winter have had them cut
and Harve don't expect much of a
rush again until in August. However,
he is doing business at the same old
stand and may be usually found on
hand except when he is out doing days
work for somebody else.
We have a few back copies of the
Bugle which we will dispose of cheap
to make room in our office for more re-
cent copies. We will sell these copies
at the rate of for S cts. each. Here
is chance to get a whole lot of read
ing matter cheap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
Marriages

Married at the parsonage by the Rev.
Sam1 Moore on Thursday last, Miss
Arabella Perkins of Bingville and Hank
Slife of Sorrow Hollow. Only the inn
mediate relatives was present. Miss
Perkins wore white mooselene de swaw
over creep de Cheen, while Hank was
attired in new store suit which he
had never had on until the day of the
wedding.
There was halt in the ceremony
when Rev. Moore learned that Hank
had only IS cts. in his pocket Rev.
Moore's present fee for performing the
marriage operashion is 81. and he says
he will not deviate from that a nickel
The pastor agreed to marry the happy
couple, however, when Hank agreed to
pay the delinquent quarter within
period of six months. Mr.. and Mrs.
Slife left on the same day on a we'd
ding tour of the north end of the
county They will travel by buggy.
Later they will set up housekeeping in
Sorrow Hollow. where Hank maintains
a mule team and hauls sand. Mr.. and
Mrs Slife have the Bugle's most pro-
fuse congratulations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
Big Improvement

Simon Cooper. who is very handy
with a Ratchet and saw, is at present en-
gagged in repairing the fence in front of
his house, thereby greatly adding to
the beauty of the residential portion of
Bingville in which he lives. having put
on three new pickets and will put on
several more later. We are glad to
make note of this. Anyone hearing
of any more improvements in our midst
kindly let us know and we will appre-
riate If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
Axident to Bale

Bale Hawkins, while shingling his
henhouse last week accidentally run a
splinter under his thumb nail, which he
said panied him awful. Bale went to
Doc Livermore to have it took out, and
after Doc gouged at it awhile with a
jackknife Bale begin to get pale around
the gills and said he calkilated he would
leave the splinter where it was if it was
Jest the same to Doc, and SO the splinter
is where it was in the first place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
I lost NV buggy whip while returnir

lost my buggy whip while returning
from the Co. seat, but l have went and
forgot whether there was cracker on
the end of it or not Any person find
ing a buggy whip of this descripshion
kindly return same to me and be liber-
ally thanked.
P. S.-A great many people will say
that because l lost my buggy whip on
NV way home was because | was drunk
again. but what do l care?
BILL HEPBURN,
Bingville Blacksmith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12

the langwidge he used was pitiful to
hear coming from member of the
Bingville church like Enoch is. Enoch
says his corn is all pulled up agin and
that the last time he seen the skeer
crow there was FIVE crows perched on
it. Enoch has give up raising any corn
in that patch this year as it is too late
in the season now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
sAssAFRAS FOR SALE

1 have went out into the woods and
dug a whole lot of sassafras root which
l now offer for sale as long as it lasts.
You can make tea of this sassafras
root which is powerful nice to drink.
1t will help you if you need help. See
me for sassafras.
Bineville. HANK DEWBERRY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
LOST

I lost the key to my henhouse two
days ago and can't find same any
where There are more than rs hens
and ROSTERS inside which amt been fed
since, either They will die on my hands
unless find this key Kindly return
same to me immejit and you will be
literally thanked.
Ja willie GID SMAILEY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12
Garden Truck
Bought Up!

Beginning as soon as ! can get ready
am going to run a huckster wagon
to the Co. seat peddling out garden
truck to those who desire same.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THE OYSTERS AND THE
TRUSTS.

A way to put one over" on the
trusts appears to be to encourage
the use of oysters. 1t has just been
announced by the chemistry bureau
of the department of agriculture,
that all American oyster beds are
to be investigated. with view to
removing the prejudice against this
article of food as subject to con-
tamination.
The oyster is a valuable item in
these cost of living times. 1t should
not be turned down by the squeam-
ish housewife without just cause.
Under modern methods of shipment
it should be available in every town
in the United States.
There are 10000 people engaged
in the oyster business. Only small
part of the available places for
beds are used. Cornering the pro-
duct would be about like forming a
trust in the cabbage industry. Many
of the oyster growers work farming
half the year. Combining them to
raise prices would be worse than
Samson's job of tying the foxes
tails together
The oyster was long regarded as
the poor mans beefsteak. Restau-
rants that would charge so cents
for lamb, mutton, or beef, and rs
cents for sirloin, would usually give
nutritious oyster stew for Is
cents, though the juicy bivalves must
have felt lonesome in some of them.
A well buttered oyster stew has a
saline tang as refreshing as a Whit
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11

committee given it their approval.
but President Wilson had written his
fervent endorsement across it and
had placed all the power of the
administration behind it to push it
to an early passage in the senate.
The first stunning blow to the
bill came when eight of the principal
nations of the world pointed out
that the rebate clause regarding
goods imported in American ships
was in direct violation of treaty
obligations. Since treaties are SUI
preme in our national laws, it was
reluctantly decided that the error
would have to be corrected.
1t was found that it was absurd
to place -four on the free list and re-
tain a tariff on wheat to place meats
on the free list and retain tariff
on livestock, so it was decided to
place wheat and livestock on the
free list as a corrective.
Now it has just been learned that
if the provision of the bill making
the income tax effective January /,
1913, had been retained, the whole
measure would have been declared
unconstitutional, since the amend
ment to the constitution authorizing
an income tax had not then been
ratified by the state legislatures at
that time.
These major errors, and scores OF
others not so vital but of great i'm
portance, give the country some sort
of idea of the slipshod and unscien-
tifc methods employed in making
the new tariff bill
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11

French investors, whose assistance
is often solicited and who are only
too ready to open their pockets to
foreign enterprises. 1 am afraid, as
the result of the ill-advised conduct
of American fnanciers, that other
American stocks, even those that
are above suspicion, will no longer
be accepted by the French public.
Some municipal bonds will be offer
ed tomorrow, and doubt very much
if anyone here will take them up.
Personally I regret the Frisco re-
ownership, because l have always
been a supporter of sound American
securities Pennsylvania stock, for
instance, has found in me a warm
partisan. The United States is a
great country and its resources are
immense and inexhaustible. I have
not changed my opinion regarding
the value of the country, but I have
changed my view of the moral worth
OF some of its citizens"
From all indications, the Frisco in
cident approaches very closely to
the fraud border with the French
investors holding the sack. 1t
was very difficult for Americans to
have their securities listed on the
French exchange, and it now is
doubtful if the work of more than
thirty years of effort has not been
undone at one stroke.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.

1t is generally admitted, except by
Secretary of Commerce Redheld,
that this country is entering upon a
period of financial depression. To
that condition, a number of untow-
ard events have contributed. First
among them is the radical revision
of the tariff, now in progress, and
the free trade utterances OF Presi-
dent Wilson.
When the presidential campaign
was on, it was not supposed by any
one that the ideas of Richard Cob
den would be transplanted from
Great Britain to the United States.
Had any such idea prevailed, the re-
suit would have been different, not
withstanding the fact that the repub-
hcan party was split in twain.
The second reason for the acute
condition on the New York exchange
just now is the receivership of the
Frisco road and the unwelcome eff
feet it has had on American securi-
ties abroad-particularly in Paris.
where railroads now are looking for
money
1t develops that the Frisco had
placed a good sized bond issue in
Paris only a short time ago, and
that some three million dollars had
been received from French bankers
only a few days before the applica-
ton for the receivership was filed.
Speaking of the incident, NJ. De
Verneuil, president of the Paris
Stock Brokers, says:
"a mission is about to leave Paris
to inquire into the operations which
caused the road to be placed in the
hands of receiver If the informa-
ton obtained is what we believe it
will be, no more American stocks
will be admitted to, quotation on the
floor or the curb of the Paris Bourse
THE methods of American fnan-
Gers have done great harm to
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
RECORDS
Instruments Filed as Reported by
The Prescott Title Co.
MAY %. 1913.

May %, 1913.
Jesse Hayden ct al locate OF
claim, Verde Valley Dist.
Clara L. NJ. and Burt c. Davi:
to Chas Sauer and wife, w. Deed
N. SO #. Lot 5, Blk. 2, East Prescott
Ollie Grimes to VIM. D. Bates, w
Deed, part NV. or. of NE. or. Sec
IS, ION. 4E., lying w. of Oak creek
May %, 1918.
United Gold Mines Co. locate
mines, Martinez Dist.
VIM. Beckman to Ray Montonye
Lease, land and cattle in Thompson
valley.
Geo. Dounes and Manley Glass
locate Fair Hope mine, Pine Grove
Dist. =-- 49, a.f...
John Perrin and wife to Harriet
McAdoo Martin, Lots IL, IA, Blk.
20, Otis Add, Prescott 49,
May 81, 1918.
Andrew Kozik and Geo. Hurst To-
cate 2 mines, Blue Tanks dist.
Chas. W. Clark locates Cable
Mine. Verde dist. J
R. H. Burmister to Ariz. Copper
Gold Mines Co. Mine deed. In
dependence mine, Cherry Creek dist
United States to Geo. B. Hen
Erickson. Patent N. hf of NV.
or. Sec. IL, NE or. of NE. Or Sec.
10, SW. or. Sec. 2, 13N. lie.
Lulu w. Augustine to Margaret
Hilderbrand. Q. C.. Deed. s. hf. OF
Sc or. of Sc. or. Sec. 8. i3N. lE.
Philip G. Augustine to Same party
o. c. Deed. Same property.
Geo. B. Reid and wife to Anne E.
Richards. w. Deed. Sc. or. of NV.
or. Sec. 8, l3N Sc.
June 2, 1913
Herbert l. Sanderson and wife
to c. H. Furman, Alpha Carpathia
and Hot Springs mines, Castle Creek
dist
Francis NJ. Ordway to Mary S.
Ordway. Lots l. ?, Oak Park Add.
Prescott.
w. Jeff Martin to Chas E. Frice,
power to attorney to convey Mem
DRY Group mines, Turkey Creek
dist
John H. F. L. Koerber locates
Dora Mine, Weaver dist.
Hudspeth Sheep Co. locates a
water right, Pilot Knob Spring.
J. c. Lee and w. R. Bruce locate
4 mines, Verde dist.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THE LAWS DELAY.

It's no new subject, in fact it was
old when Hamlet's soliloquy men.
toned 1t among the reasons for
shuffling off this mortal coil. Sc
men of all parties will agree with
ex-President Taft, when he told the
Yale Law school that present con-
ditions are a national disgrace.
Without stopping to consider the
turnings and twistings of wealthy
litigants in the higher courts, are
there not many needless delays in
the ordinary run of legal work? Per
haps they are due to the same caus-
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THE RIGHT TO RETRACT.

The Roosevelt Newett case has
been of great interest to the news
paper world, from the fact that in
the past many publishers have been
subjected to injustice through the
libel law. OF recent years, the
privilege of free speech seems better
established.
The Roosevelt-Newett case diff
cred from the ordinary libel case in
this: Col. Roosevelt cared nothing
for the money and of the game, his
purpose being solely personal vindi-
cation. The majority of libel suits
are money making schemes, although
commonly the plaintiff merely in
ours lawyers fees for both parties.
A just libel law gives the pub
Usher ample chance for retraction,
on account of the hurry under which
newspaper work is done. Search
ing investigation is not always pos
sible where the public necessarily
demands the very latest informa-
ton
The ordinary newspaper libel is
not thing of cold blood and NAL
ice aforethought. Rather it is the
slip of a hurried man, whose mind
is too full of detail to note that
he has left a loose end The law
should give him the same privilege
of making amends for honest error
that Col. Rooselevt could we'll af-
ford to give Editor Newett.
1t may be objected that news
papers will be reckless about max
ing false statements. provided they
can be relieved from the heavier
penalties by confessing their mis-
take That is not at all the case,
because it is a humiliating thing
for a newspaper man to admit an
error.
The one thing the editor prides
himself on is truth 1t is no slight
thing for him to print prominently
an admission that even by accident
he printed an untruth. He feels that
it hurts him and hurts his paper
II it has the same prominence that
was given the original publication,
it usually vindicates fully the vic
tim % the publication, and it fully
penalties the libeler.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
COMING TO FRONT.
0From Thursdays DaiIy.)

J. A Martin. the mine owner of
Stoddard, was a business visitor to.
the city yesterday. and reports that
field as quite active, and the Con
per Queen Company maintaining a
systematic line of deep development
Other camps are operating and the
Ihdi"ations point to an unusually ac-
tive summer. Mr. Martin has valu-
able properties near Ramsgate. and
IS making arrangements to estab-
lish camp and continue driving the
tunnel that was started last year
He is confident OF determining
valuable property.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11

es that make it hard to get your
house painted, or your goods deliv-
cred on time.
Lawyers, like anyone else, are am
bitious to take every case they pos
sible can Few producers OF any
kind Judge Alright the time it takes
to complete work. The manufactur-
er estimates his production greater
than his factory can do. Contingen-
cies come up that he cannot foresee
Men are sick, raw material is de-
layed, and few orders are hauled to
the freight house on the day prom
ised.
1t may be similarly assumed in
legal work that most successful at
torneys take on more cases than
they can properly handle. They
fail to figure on the ms and outs oil
investigations that take time. They
soon find that they must ask the
courts for postponements.
Probably the courts are too lib
eral of these requests An adjourn
ment may involve quite as much in
justice as a case that is imperfectly
tried Let the more successful Law
firms take only the amount of work
they can do on time, and give some
of the younger fellows a chance to
earn dollar!
Delayed litigation in the higher
courts has been a national scandal
as Mr.. Taft suggests. The con-
gestion in the equity branch of the
United States Supreme Court has
been such, at least within a year
or two, that you couldn't get hear
ing until two years after you filed
case. Cut the musty red lapel
of sea air. With no bones, gristle,
or refuse fat, the consumer pays
only for solid nutriment
DR.. Carl Alsberg, successor to
DR.. Wiley, says the consumer of
oysters runs less chance of incur
ring disease than from raw milk or
drinking water. The proposed gov
eminent inspection should reduce
the danger of infection practically to
nothing. So here's for oyster stew,
when the next month with an R
comes along. May the delicious BIZ
valve not swim too solitary in his
briming BOWL 55 80
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
TARIFF BILL ERRORS.

1t is understood that the Senate
finance committee has found it ne
cessary to make several hundred
corrections in the Underwood bill
as il came from the house of repre-
sentatives, then presumed to be the
perfection of legislative ability.
Not only had Mr.. Underwood, the
premier statesman of the Democrat
&c party, and his ways and means
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THE NEW LOBBY METHOD.

1t is quite essential that, the
Democrats should find an "insidious
lobby" at work in Washington. Also
that lobby must be wickedly en-
deavoring to defeat something or
somebody. When lobbying was at
the height of its power, its methods
were direct. 1t brought cash to
bear upon United States senators.
Sometimes the funds were paid TO
the senators themselves, but more
often they were distributed in the
shape of campaign contributions.
Coils P. Huntington once testified
that he had found it necessary to use
from one to two million dollars dur
ing each session of congress in order
to get things done or to prevent
tkings being done. About Sl2,00O,-
600 was the sum charged on the
books of the Southern Pacific road
to this sort of expense.
But things are changed. One SEN
ator finds that the "insidious lobby"
now is trying to accomplish its fell
purpose by taking senators to the
theatre and to dinners and on auto
mobile rides. That was bad enough.
But Senator Simmons, chairman of
the finance committee, comes for
ward with the declaration that the
lobby is not working to influence
senators by direct methods, but that
it is distributing literature through
out the country to create a popular
sentiment for or against certain
phases OF the tariff bill, and thus
influence senators who have their
ears to the ground.
Senator Simmons is severe in his
condemnation of such methods, but
just why is not apparent 1t seems
that the lobbyists are using only the
simpler means employed by all polit-
ical parties during presidential and
ether campaigns. Distribution of lit
erature was in vogue during the pre-
convention campaigns of all candi-
dates for the presidential nomina-
ton last year. President Wilson's
literary bureau sent out tons of
boosting literature.
Also, Senator Simmons, in his in
dignation against the tariff lobby's
appeal to the country, forgets that
the democratic party now is prepar-
ing to begin campaign by exactly
such methods as the lobby now is
employing. The congressional cam
paign committee, with the sanction
of President Wilson, is soon to be-
gin the collection of funds and to
send canned" contributions to about
ten thousand newspapers boosting
the administration and defending the
Underwood tariff bill.
In view of these facts, why should
the wool lobby, the sugar lobby or
the citrus fruit lobby be condemned
any more than the democratic party
lobby?
1t is time for all alleged states
men to stop chattering nonsense
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11

1t is reported that half OF the
young lady graduates OF the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin who took cook
ing lessons are now wearing engage
ment rings Comment is unneces-
sary.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
THAT WICKED LOBBY.

gain much glory from the lobby in
vestigation and the president has
given the first evidence that he may,
at times, speak without thinking.
Nearly every senator has been
called upon the witness stand by
the Investigations committee, only
to tell that no illegitimate effort
has been made to influence his vote.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, described
it as "a social lobby" influencing
the impressionable, guileless, unso-
phisticated senators by taking them
to theatres, dinners and on auto
mobile rides. Such is the worst in
dictment against the lobby. and
such is one of the most foolish ut
terances that has ever fallen from
the lips of United States senator
The presidents outburst perhaps
was natural in the circumstances.
The lobbyists appeared to him as so
many obstacles of the great bill
upon which success or the failure
OF his administration hangs. The
prospect of debate and delay, when
he had settled with the democratic
leaders the terms of the bill, was
exasperating. Since everything had
been agreed upon by those who
should control, why not pass the
measure and have it over with? Why
subject senator's to listening to pleas
of this industry or that?
But, after all, what the president
seems to demand in his denunciation
of the lobby is abrogation of the
right of petition. Such right is not
to be lightly set aside. Nor is it to
be assumed that these lobbyists rep
resent producers eager to see that
the new tariff law shall be as fav-
orable as possible to their interests.
On the contrary, it was shown that
there were representatives of fac
tories anxious to have free raw ma
terials The sugar refiners, for in
stance, want free raw sugar, the
millers want free wheat since -four
is to be free, the shoe manufac-
turers want hides continued on the
free list. So all along the line.
The lobbyist has a bad name. But
the function is not necessarily a bad
one. The representatives of farm
ing and live stock interests, who
merely ask for protection on their
pi OuuStSg nave IlBHI 10 10 So by
the same token, the same right
must be extended to sugar and all
other legitimate interests. Unless il
legitimate means are employed to
influence legislators to vote contrary
to what otherwise would be
their opinions, there can be no criti-
cism of the lobby
Furthermore, members of both
houses of congress are in need of
accurate information 1t has been
shown that the house proceeded in
a slipshod manner to frame a tariff
bill ignoring entirely such reports
as had been furnished by Mr.. Taft's
tariff board. Those senators who
wanted to know facts should have
welcomed lobbyists. heard what they
had to say, and then made up their
minds according to the evidence.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
FUGITIVES EN- ROUTE.

WASHINGTON. Jrne 5.-The
schooner Harry Morse, towed by
the tug Pan-American. is en- route
from Tampico to Galveston with
10S fugitive Americans.