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The Parker post., 1913-05-24
MINES WILL PAY
HALF THE TAXES

Arizona mining companies are not
eoihg to fight the new mine tax law
III the courts. According to J. Parke
Charming, consulting engineer of the
Miami Copper Company, they have
DECIDED to pay taxes on the increased
'aluation for two years and trust to
the next legislature to enact a law
that will ease their burden
Under the law, which was passed
in the closing days of the legislative
session just ended, the producing
mines will pay on a basis of four
times the net output plus twelve and
one half per cent of the gross and
the full value of physical improve
ments. Nonproducing mines are to
be taxed by the county assessors and
probably will pay on little more than
their improvements are worth
Estimates of the total valuation of
all Arizona mines under this system
vary from $124 900 900 to $134 900, 900.
but probably will be about 1929, ,000,-
600. All property in Arizona will be
assessed for approximately $500. .000.-
900. The mines will therefore pay
year the mines paid only $45,OOO,O 900,
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
A GOOD START IN LIFE.

Jutice OF the Peace j. B. Ross Of
ficiated at the marriage of Guy FL
more and Miss Cos-mo, two Mohave
Indians, Wednesday morning During
the past few weeks Judge Ross has
married several couples from the res
ervation, for it is getting to be quite
a fad now for the Indians to get mar
ried all the same as their white bro
theirs and sisters. Mr. and Mrs. FL
more have a good start in their
newly welded life, with their two
children and forty acres of land un-
der the ditch. However, there is
another couple down there whom
the Judge married last week, who
have it on the Elmores The bride
confessed to having two children,
while the bridegroom admitted being
the father of seven. This makes a
happy family Of eleven, which means
40 acres of land under the govern
ment ditch. In quite a number of
instances the children of the bride
and bridegroom accompany their
parents to witness the marriage cere-
mony, and wonder what it is all
about
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
RAILROAD IS ASSURED IF
100000 BONUS IS RAISED

BLYTHE, Cal, May %. "If
the people of the Palo Verde
valley will raise a bonus of 100000
for the construction of railroad into
he valley and the Southern Pacific
or Santa Fe corporations will not
agree to start the road this fall then
| will assume the responsibility for
It's construction. and will qualify with
. bond of 100000 to show good
faith in the matter as soon as the
bonus is raised"
This was the formal announcement
made by A. l.. HobSOn president Of
the Land and Water company, to the
committee on railroad affairs recent
ly appointed by the Blythe Chamber
of Commerce, at a meeting last Sat
urday
With the railroad agitation of the
past few months crystalized into a
definite guarantee by Mr. Hobson the
prospect for steam road connecting
Blythe, Neighbours and Rannells with
the S. P. or Santa Fe has become
certainty depending only on the peo-
pie themselves.
Blythe Chamber of Commerce has
already taken the initiative in the
matter of raising the bonus and has
called a mass meeting OF the entire
valley and mesa to be held on the
afternoon of Decoration Day. May 80,
to determine the best method OF
raising the guarantee.
A subscription plan to be present
ed al the meeting is being prepared
by the committee and every effort
will be made to hasten the work Of
raising the necessary bonus
Just what this plan is has not be
come known but it is understood that
a majority of the committee favors a
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
GIANT ELECTRIC
POWER PLANT

Ralph Cameron has announced
he has so far completed the details
.or the establishment OF gaint elec
uric power plant that the facts in
[he matter can be given out, says
ihe Prescott Journal Miner. The
company, of which Cameron will be
Il prominent official, will be capital
lied at $15. 900, 900. and is designed to
furnish cheap electrical power for
learly all Arizona.
The establishment OF the company
will completely revolutiCniZe Arizona
Mr.. Cameron is quoted as saying:
1T will reduce the cost of electrical
power about so per cent This will
mean that more than a million acres
in the state heretofore considered
Of pumping water, will be put under
production. Great tracts like the
San Simon, Sulpher Springs and San
Pedro valleys and the mesa lands
around Parker and Gila Bend will
increase their production so to 100
per cent. The water is there. The
land will grow anything. With cheap
power the water will be raised and
there will be no limit to the area
that can be put under production.
At present Arizona imports a large
quantity of it's food supply, but with
cheap power the state will be self
sustaining. The cheap power will
also mean the opening up OF large
mining areas that have heretofore
laid idle on account OF the cost of
power"
Mr.. Cameron is not yet ready to
state where the huge central power
plant will be located, but it is gen
orally believed that it will be in the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado OF
Arizona. There will, Of course, be
substations and the whole state will
be netWorked with lines. In a recent
trip east Mr. Cameron interviewed
prominent electrical construction and
transmission experts and states that
electricity can be "piped' l, 900 miles
for practical use Branch lines will
also be run in parts Of New Mexico,
he said. The proposition, it is said,
has reached a stage where it is as
sured, 1t is financed by large east
ern interests
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
HUNT'SATTACK GOOD CHANCE
RILES SOLONS TO PASS BILL
A. S. PRESCOTT MEETS WITH
HINGTON-BILL MAY Be
COME LAW THIS SESSION.

Most. encouraging news has been
received from A. S Prescott, Par
ker's special representative 10 Wash
mgtOn, during the past week. At the
time this article was under prepara-
tion it was Mr. Prescott's intention
to depart from the national capital
Sunday night, having accomplished
all that was possible for the pres
ent.
In his reports to the board of trade
Mr.. Prescott gives unstinted praise
to Arizona's senators and congress-
men for their perseVering work in
providing for the opening OF the Par
ker lands. Mr.. Ashurst has assured
him that he will be able to get the
bill passed in the senate within the
next thirty days, while Mr. Prescott
is strongly OF the opinion that Carl
Hayden will put it through the house
il that branch OF the congress con-
siders any new legislation at all, and
Mr.. Hayden now believes that it will
Senator Mark Smith introduced the
Hayden bill i'll the senate one day
last week. Both the Ashurst bill and
The one introduced by Senator Smith
will be reported out of the committee
on Indian affairs right away. AS the
Ashurst bill is No. j on the calandar
quick action is anticipated in the
senate. Mr. Prescott appeared be-
fore the senate committee on Indian
affairs last Saturday.
Accompanied by Carl Hayden, Mr.
Prescott had conference with the
commissioner of Indian affairs pre-
ylOus to his appearance before the
senate committee. Details of the
project were gone into and at the
conclusion of the conference the COM
missioner promised to get his depart
ment to report fav0rably on the Hay
den bill right away. and 50 instruct
ed his officer in the presence of
Messrs. Hayden and Prescott
AS the committee on Indian affairs
in the house will not be named be
fore June 1, nothing can be done in
getting it reported out of that COM
mittee before that date, but Mr.. Hay
den has assured our representative
that he will use every means to get
favorable action at the earliest pos
sibie moment AS it is certain that
Congressman Stephens OF Texas will
again be chairman of this committee,
Mr. Prescott had an interview with
that gentleman, who assured him tha
the committee would consider the
matter soon after it's organization
Representatives Henry, Galloway
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
PENAL CODE PASSED OUR GOV
ERNOR'S VETO-PACIFIC EXPO
SITlONS TURNED DOWN AND
LAWMAKERS GO HOME.

According to press reports from the
state capital, adjournment OF the Ari-
zona Legislature shortly after noon
Saturday was with slight formality
and in much bitterness. Most of the
feeling was due to overriding Coy
Hunts veto Of the penal code, but a
to provide appropriations for the Cal
ifOrnia fairs and for various Arizona
Institutions and for roads. 1t is
evident that the administration forces
underestimated the temper OF the op-
position, who have held the legisla
ture together till the Governors veto
message arrived and who signally
triumphed in the test vote. The Gov
ernOr could have taken a couple of
days more but chose to hurry. AT
the end of the last special session he
vetoed the whole penal code because
it restricted his power of pardon and
reprieve. The second passage Of the
bill put before him the same text eX-
cept in the creation of a board OF
pardons, not appointed by him. 1t
took the executive nearly 1000 words
TO tell why he disapprOved, but his
Chiefest reason seemed to be that the
restriction was a blow aimed at pro
lsressive democratic principles by the
reactiOnary element Of the party
which he asserted had used false
hood, slander, fraud and other des-
picable means to excite popular pas
he mixed up the interests and their
busy hirelings." He defied the oppo
sitiOn TO resort to the recall against
him and proclaimed lin the mean
time, neither false witness, vicious
petty annOyances, nor yet attempted
curtailments OF the powers and dig
nifty of my office shall serve to
swerve me an inch from the path OF
duty and faithfulness to my trust;
hllu Will lllpllCIl tdllH J1ett IlSuI
will prevail, l call upon all loyal and
devoted Arizonians, Legislators or lay
men to give me their unselfish
support. "
SO there is probability Of a special
election in Arizona this fall, carry
ing the questions OF capital punish
ment, road bond issues and maybe
the recall of the Governor.
The last hours Of the special ses-
sion were marked by a warm contest
over appropriations for the eXpOsit
ions in San Francisco and San Diego
in 1915 but final adjournment was
taken after the measure was defeated
in the House, 16 to 13.
The Parker post., 1913-05-24

subscription method. The amount to
be subscribed will be purely optional
but the committee will probably fix
sum of between 81 and So per acre
as a basis for raising the necessary
sum.
Il do not want to build this road,
said Mr.. HObson in speaking of the
matter, "and | believe there will be
no difficulty in getting the Southern
Pacific or Santa Fe to do it if the
bonus is raised. However, if they
are unwilling to begin work on the
railroad this fall | will organize a
company and do it myself. The val
ley must have a railroad and | ann
determined to see that it gets one.
My plan is organize a company, Civ
ing my associates and the people of
the valley first opportunity to take
stock. | want it to be a road built
and owned by the Palo Verde as far
as possible rather than by foreign
corporation"
After the necessary bonus has been
raised representatives OF the valley
will be authorized to negotiate with
both the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe. Either road will be asked to
run the entire length OF the valley,
the Santa lNe 10 terminate at Ran
nells and the s =. at Blythe
The OAtloOk for a railroad NAto, the
valley at this time looks better than
at any previous period in the his
tory Of the Palo Verde and the i'm
mense volume Of freight being hand
led is the most compelling reason
for Fastening the preliminary work.
The committee handling the matter
will meet in Blythe today to make
a final draft OF the subscription
papers and these will be presented
at the meeting on Memorial Day
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
BUY BANK STOCK.

Omar l.. Babcock and Fl. O. Gun
derson have purchased from T. M.
brennan his stock in the Parker
Bank and Trust Company. Mr.. Gun
derson is the allotment surveyor who
was here last winter. He is at pres
ent in South Dakota on similar work,
but will return here to reside after
the close Of the present year.
Jas. B. Ross, old time resident
of Parker, who has been vice pres
ident of the bank since it's organiza-
ton, has been elected president TO
fill the vacancy caused by Mr.. Dren-
mans retirement, and 0. l.. Babcock
and c. E. Phelps have been added
to the board OF directors.
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
ARlZONA-EMPlRE WINS SUIT.

The suit of the Arizona Empire
Copper Mines company, instituted
against the General Securities COM
pany some weeks ago for the purpose
of quieting title to the property of
the former company, was decided in
the superior court of Yuma county
Thursday. Judge Frank Baxter hold
ing that the option of the General
Securities company was null and
void.
This property has been closed
down or the past few months on
account of the differences existing
between the two companies. Now
that title has been quieted and Ari-
zona-Empire company has full pos
session it is expected development
work on a large scale will be
resumed.
The Parker post., 1913-05-24

and Slayden, all Texans, promised to
support Mr.. Hayden in his efforts to
get the measure through the house.
Mr. Prescott knew Representatives
Slayden and Henry seventeen years
ago, and they showed him every
courtesy. In writing OF his interviews
with congressman and senators, Mr.
Prescott says: "They are all great,
big wholesome men, and they sure
earn their salary"
Mr.. Prescott will be home after
the first of the month, or possibly
sooner. when a meeting of the board
OF trade will be called at once to
hear his complete report
The Parker post., 1913-05-24

in the town Sunday in a Ford car,
which it is claimed he stole in Los
Angeles. and The authorities there
notified all towns in this section to
be on the lookout for him, the mes
saees stating that Pratt had an uncle
living or a ranch near Parker. Later
i was discovered that the uncle al
luded to was a resident OF the Palo
Verde valley.
The young thief departed from Cal
zona Immediately after burglarizing
the postOffice, leaving the Ford car
behind him. He was caught al
Vidal, the first station west OF Cal
zona, and turned over to the author
tiles of San BernardinO county.
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
GOOD ROADS
FOR ARIZONA
HAS THE SUPPORT OF EVERY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN
STATE.

Disguised at the small minority OF
the senate of Arizona who refused
TO allow the proposed amendment
TO the constitution providing that the
state may contract bonded indebted
ness for public improvements in ex-
cess of $S50,000 and up to five per
cent of the taxable valuation of the
state, to come out on the floor of
the senate for a vote, group of
good roads boosters met Saturday
night at the Adams hotel in Phoenix
and organized an initiative associa-
ton for the purpose of initiating this
amendment to the constitution, and
placing it before the people of the
state at the next general election just
the same as it would have been done
had the bill passed the two houses
OF the legislature
Already there are more than one
hundred signers to resolutions pro-
missing to do all possible to initiate
the proposed amendment for good
roads. A number of these signers
met and organized the association
and elected H. H. Linney, speaker of
the house of representatives for the
two recent terms and sponsor for the
bill in the house, as president
and Roy H. Davidson, a newspaper
correspondent with Headquarters in
Phoenix, was elected secretary Head
quarters will Immediately be opened
here and petitions will be sent out
to every board of supervisors and
chamber of commerce in the state,
as well as to every automobile club
and every good roads association.
Fifteen per cent of the qualified
voters of the state are needed as
signers before the secretary of state
is authorized to place the proposed
amendment upon the ballot, which
means that more than 5000 signers
are wanted. But in view of the fact
that every board of supervisors and
every chamber of commerce in the
state has already endorsed the meas
ure, the securing of these signatures
will not be a source of trouble.
The provisions of the bill as pro
posed in the legislature and as it
will be proposed to the people do not
call for any appropriation The prop
osition for an appropriation of ten
million dollars for good roads could
not be considered, neither could the
one proposing a bond issue without
first amending the constitution This
was the ruling of the attorney gem
eral. The amendment was therefore
1t will be unquestionably
adopted by the people in 1914 Then
the legislature will pass law put
ting into effect the provisions of. the
which will also be put
up to the people for decision in the
fall of 1916. So that it will be four
years before any bond issue can act
ually be made
If the policy of the objectors were
carried out and the wish of the
people thwarted, and then the peo-
pie were denied the right to express
themselves at, the poles in 1914 on !
the proposition it would be practi-
cally six years before anything could
be done for good roads in the state
that would begin to measure up with
the needs of the state.-Arizona Re-
The Parker post., 1913-05-24

Andrew Carnegie has been telling
the American peace congress in ST.
Louis how near he came to putting
salt on the tail of the dove. 1t was
wicked senate that frightened the
dove away by refusing to ratify an
International peace treaty.
The Parker post., 1913-05-24
ROBBERY AT CALZONA.

Louis Pratt, a lad l6 years of age,
broke into the CalZOna postOffice at
an early hour last Monday morning,
and stOie q quantity of stamps and
about SI4 III money Pratt arrived
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
Euery Home Needs
This Great Remedy
No Home Can Afford to Be
Without a Mild, Reliable
Laxative Tonic.

No well-regulated home should be
without Il laxative for there is
scarcely a day in family Of several
persons that someone doesn't COM
plain Of headache, Of sleeplessness,
or show the first signs of cold
A laxative then becomes a neces-
sity or what was a trifiinG conges-
ton at the beginning may run into a
serious cold or fever. No harsh rem
edy is needed, but simply a mild lax
atiVe-t tonic that will make the liver
active and stir up the bowels. Peo-
pie who have tried a great many
things, and are themselves heads
of families. who have seen the little
ills run TO big ones, will tell you
that there is nothing better than Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which you
can obtain at any drug store for fiji
ty cents or one dollar Il bottle, The
latter being the family size.
Among the great believers in Syr-
up Pepsin for constipation in old
or Young. and as a general house
hold emergency remedy, is Mrs. NJ
F. Smith, TO n Cherry St, San
Antonio. Tex. TO use her own
words, she says she will bless Dr.
Caldwell to her dying day for she
believes that through his remedy
Syrup Pepsin, she found the way to
permanent good health.
DR.. CaldWell's Syrup Pensin is sci
entifically compounded and its purity
is vouched for Mothers give it to
tiny babies. and grown people, taxi
ing little larger amount, find it
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26

termed rich man as riches are meay
Ured in this time. Yet the dona~.
he made represents a money value a..
something like $4,000 or over
81 was deprived of an education e.,
my youth. | realize what the depriv5 ~
ton means, and l felt that l over :,
duty to aid in so far as I cori5
movement by which young peonle i,,
the future would be given broader ON
portunities and the advantages p,bjar,
and SO many other Southern yonths
missed because of the sacrifices Tba9
We're made prior to and after A..
Civil War" Mr.. Ashford said.
Mr.. Ashford's donation is a part Fl,
the 60-acre site. The other par oe =.
was donated by the old Silver La.
Park Company, together with the Ts'
of the lake The later purchases
the tract, the Silver Lake Estates no.
only have confirmed that donatior
but have added a $4,000 cash STb.
sCTiption.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
HE RIP ICIDE

The mall VINO wears d toupee does
not like IT, but has the courage Of his
convictions
Nature never intended that the top
of the head should be lett entirely with
out protection. 4 bald head is Very
susceptible to contraction of colds and
neuralgia. Wearing an artificial top
piece counteracts this tendency. and,
aside from the Improvement In the per-
~unal appearance, is amply justified
How much better il would have been
had the man. now chemically bald and
wearing a toupee but realized earlier in
life the approaching danger ana de-
voted 4 little regular attention to his
hair, which would have saved it,
Loss of hair In nine cases out Of ten
is unnecessary, being due to dandruff
anu the germ that causes IL. This germ
must be kent ont of the scalp ana the
9vCumula lions ot uandruf checked
Then the hair viii not tall out but in
Asa-a sill grow as nafu~e intended
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26

Many Young men have diseased scalps
and do not know it,
The public hair brush Is often to blame
and II should be stunned as an enemy.
A. the very first suggestion Of daudruff
the hair and scalp should receive the
most painstaldng attention
The prophylactic or disease prevent
ing effect OF Newbro's HerpiCide is q
wonderful AID in cases of this sort as
has been attested by thousands
Newbro'S Herpicidn in soc and 81 sizes
is sold ny all dealers who guarantee it
TO do an that is claimed II yuu ara
NOT satisfied. your money viii be re
funded
Herpicide applications may always be
obtained At the better barber shops and
hair dressing parlors
Anyone desiring TO try New bro's Her
picide before purchasing a large bottle
will receive "a nice sample and book
let boy sending Toe iB postage or silver
4" The Herpicihc Company. Depi 49,
Detroit, Mich
f.r'hs phas r7.a'. Special grn's
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
Ashford Tells of
Inspiration for Gift.

c. H. Ashford, who personally do
mated % acres on Peachtree road as
part of the site for New Oglethorpe
University, and who is probably more
responsible than any other man for
the selection of that locality by the
university committee. gives the fol-
lowing declaration of faith as the
thing that actuated him to gift thai
was almost beyond his means:
Il not only believed in the great
need of such an institution be-
lieved that the Atlanta Spirit could be
counted upon to bring about its foun-
dation, and ] knew that if | gave be
yOnd my means many another Allan
tan actuated by the same motives,
would do likewise"
Mr.. Ashford is not what would be
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
Athens AbattOir
Declared Unfit

The Agricultural Department, through
the office of Or Bahnsen, has finished
its Investigations into the slaughter
house situation in and near Athens. As
q result the department has condemned
sweepiuEly the present houses supplying
the Clarke County markets. and unless
conditions are remedied Immediately
rigid prosecutions against owners viii
Ice lnaugurated.
Conditions attaching to slaughter
houses in ana near Athens have been
found to be In many ways violaJive OF
the state sanitary laws and regulations.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
Congress to Adjourn
For 3 Weeks Dec. 20

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The
special session OF Congress promises
90 merge into the regular winter ses-
sion next Monday.
The currency debate that opens in
the Senate tomorrow and the Legis-
iatiye work of the regular session
viii be laid aside December 20 for
lulI two Meeks vacation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
Bibb Grand Jury
Indicting Saloonists

MACON. Noy. 26.--Usins the evi-
deuce of detectives of the Law En-
forcement League, the Grand Jury
has begun the Indictment Of 81
loon men True bills are expected
against fully 65 of the 20 saloonists
The first indictment resulted IN u
raid by the Sheriff on the saloon Of
Randall and Raines. on Poplar street
and the finding Of two cases Of whis
Ky under the cigar counter in the
place.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
PinChot to Oppose
Senator Penrose

WASHINGTON. NOV. 26.-Gfford
Pmchot former United States for
ester and friend Of Colonel Roosevelt,
will oppose senator Boise Penrose's
reelection, it is said here.
Piuchot win run as Il Progressive,
relying on the strong Pennsylvania
Roosevelt vote.