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and as result he is today lodged in the county jail awaiting judgment as to the wisdom of his act. Realty Deals.
 A. w. Stull, of Skull Valley, has sold to Alice Hamm two lots on South Montezuma street, for a nom inal consideration, the deed being filed for record yesterday. In Je- rome c. w. Hull sold lot on the Maine mining claim for S55O, the buyer being A. Svob.
 Business Trip.
 R. H. Mcintosh, State representa- tive of the United States Tire Com pany. arrived from Phoenix Thurs day, and is giving a demonstration of that article. He has established the exclusive agency in this county at the Ruffner garage. In few days he leaves for the north to in- troduce his we'll known goods in other markets.
 Visiting Miner.
 Pete Mead, mine owner of the Congress Junction section, was 1T the city Thursday from his camp and reports the outlook for severa old mines to become active as en couraging. Several camps are going
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weeks, when the largest and pest pasture ranch in the State will be created.
 Now in Reform School.
 Byron H. Moon, the youthful self confessed forger, nas now severed his connections with the Eavapai County officials after a month 5 arguments, etc. and is now lodged safely in the Industrial School at Benson.
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(From Saturdays Daily)

 Vacation Ends.
 Charles Brennan, locomotive en- gineer of the United Verde railway, returned Thursday from a sixty days Increase Holdings.
 The Crystal Ice company has pur- chased from John Farren, for the sum of S1OO, strip of land opposite the plant, the deed being filed for record yesterday. tour of Western States, and resumed his duties yesterday on the above line.
 Had Extra Heavy Cargo.
 I. NJ. Hannifan took on an extra heavy cargo of spirits on Thursday
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On Vacation Trip.

Although Judge Frank O. smith : se,ected vacation spot Is unknown ii is believed by many of his friends that he is among the visitors to the Snake Dances in Northern Arizona this week.
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After Supplies.
 Mike Zurich. mining in Hassayam- pa district. east of Mount Union' was in the city yesterday after supplies. He stated there is more pracucal work going on than in many years and the district is on the eve ot al taining prominent mineral rating as a heavy gold producer.
 Back to Old Home.
 w. C. Metzgar, the well-known mining man, left yesterday for Lin- coin, Nebraska, the home of his boy hood days, where he will visit wi'H his parents for the next few months and renew the days of long ago t.o oo ahsence of many years.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
 YAVAPIA COUNTY, ARIZONA
(Continued from Page Six.)

Contnued Page sx) l2ll 12O Phillip Schmd-Firs half Aug salary o'e" a5O salary County labor County HosPlta- i' E D. half Aug salary, Farmer Couh
 Hospital - l25 lzl4 F. Shannon-Charhy heKet ana O D. N W 142O
 
 by P Farley Clerk ot of ordered d"h uo the Fund, Sphens-F half Aug salary Chairman oi so
 Board O MaonFirst half Aug salary Supervisor 0 o0O half Aug salary, Supervisor Board motion adjourned un "'' p - ~ WILLIAM STEPHENS, Chairman. Attest: R. T. BELCHER. Clerk
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Present: Messrs Hed Heap President and Clerk
 Mir. Richards against all persons owing for Street Improvements as c n s aY9[ %esR and AS y Sy Head io 5 Ao;sG et Rsat: 5b: proper for s s % soa e M of YRi9 S % a %
 a s @ s % saS ae aos @i 5a5:5sd stfi "e
 No 6 6 1uPe appearing the Council adjourned until FF'''S August l' ' at u A. Approved: w H TIMERHoEF, President OFFICE @ oF F 9F @ ARIz
 ,4 S e0aP oeP A5Gns Pf M pursuant to 'd
 Present William Stephens Chairman and Member; H. w. Heap TSe application Valley Land and e Live Stock "G c4 Pany for sv R i NF R % f Section e 6 ToEn N Range M having been onsdf5fd & b 1y the & bS f Sue 9 hereby ordered M that M the so1 c6S61s 0 gsp 5 @ % P @ S h ft i92 March hereby fixed lat Four & and i'd OO oiDe DSa with Section of Collector So 4i.5 of FTs se.sP 4 which ~ s4gns tic % the amount Hbbd S T0ny e p2B9a Prescott o9 the Board with reference to 9 hs m'5 e % P % upon RS9n R5ss adjourned """ Tuesday, August WILLIAM orFcE 6F 6FfS5H6 6dAR6 AyAP T ARz
 Board of Supervisors County Arizona met pursuant " ad HPseT Present.: William Stephens and Member; H Heap Nno 3 ons H appes4as a the estimated Ttl 9te.t Wednesday, August h. i'i' STEPHENS OFFICE OF BOARD OF P6 AyaP a Aus9 n S ourn@ent Bs oa 5ei5y %sdsy 0 August sassP
  Member; R. T Beche Clerk ., --s, . .t f,,,+.5 amount money be raised by Xao for county motion adJouned pnti Thur day August IA 1913, o'clock A. M rrn,,>,e Nii1A-ANi -- Cbarrnan OFFICE OF OF SUPERVISORS YAyAP , ! GogYIY 1T 9 AR
 of Arizona pursuant to iorrnrnent on Thur day August A. 1913. o'clock A. M w
 Chairman MenlDer; IT, w. I'edP'
 nr anneang before the estimated raised by County purposes,
 shed in the Board motion adjourned Attest: "Ai1A-'' yI BELCHER. Clerk ,,,,,,D,1 Cc1THTV hp1z i iOrIiO- VT ~ - Prescott Arizona, August l5 1915
 of met puua' to ao- l5 1915 at 9 o'clock A. M
 William Stephens Chairman ana MehOeI' IT, " r' NIemb T. Belcher, Clerk o .bo .s+r,,,o1 taxation for County purposes
 the Board motion adueu pnl Saturday 1913 at o'clock A. M errD1r>-c Attest: Ni-A-'' Chairman Or OF SUPERVISORS YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZ IOfflOE UT nO-N> N ~ Prescott Arizona, 16 1913
 Boar of Supervisors Arizona pursuant ad 1913, o'clock M Chairman and Member H. "" eap
 No one appearing with reference the estate
 for County bsbed in the Prescott Miner the Board motion adjourned a until Monday August '' ' " WILLIAM STEPHENS R T
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Sells Business.

Mir. and Mrs. ]. E. Cook returne' yesterday from California and wi probably make their future home I this city. The former has dispose of his business at Mayer to Williar Gilmer.
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Ar. and Mrs. l.. l.. Hovmg, sum- mer visitors from Pinal county, lett yesterday for Paducah, Kentucky, re- ceiving news of the serious illness of their niece, Miss Esther Flowing, who is suffering from appendicitis. The young lady was also visitor to Prescott until about one month ago. An operation IS to be perform ed, after which Mr. and Mrs. Hov- ing return to continue their outing until late in October.
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Medical Mission.

H. P. Ward, accountant of tn
 Gila Copper Sulphide Mining Co of Christmas, Arizona, was an ar rival in the city yesterday and IS 3 the St. Michael He comes to thi locality to seek medical attention fo illness and is to remain indehnitel!
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Attorney Returns.

Attorney E. S. Clark returne' from Los Angeles yesterday, wher he had been visiting with Mrs. ClarI for the past ten days. The latte will remain with relatives for som time before returning home.
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Sale of Land.
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
By virtue of an order of the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
will be sold at public outcry, on
the first Tuesday in November,
1918, at the court house in said
county, between the usual hours
of sale, the following real estate:
two twenty tracts 1902 and 1903,
as shown by the recorded plat Of
the American Tribune Soldiers
Colony Company of record in the
office of the Superior Court of
Irwin County, Georgia, and being
a part of lot of land No. 2S6 in 18th
district of Ben Hill County, Geor,
gia. Terms of said sale will be
for cash.
Said property will be sold as the
property of Julius Tzschoppe.
This Oct. 9th 1918.
August Tzschoppe,
Guardian of Julius Tzschoppe.
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Mortgage Sale.
IEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Under and by virtue of a power
of sale contained IL a mortgage
executed by A. L. Roberts to j.
Il. Williams, dated the 31st day
of March 1913, and recorded in
the Office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Ben Hill Coun-
tY, in Block 8 folio 1924 the under.
signed will sell at public outcry at
the courthouse door in said county
during the legal hours of sale to
the highest bidder for cash on the
first Tuesday in November 1913,
city lots Numbers Nine and ten,
in square number eight, in block
number seven in the city of Fitz-
gerald said county, as shown by
the recorded plat of said city of
record in the Office OF the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Irwin
County, for the purpose of paying
ing a certain promissory note for
the sum of 1925 executed and de-
llvered by A. L. Roberts to j. q.
Williams on the 31st day of March
1913 and due on the first day of
October 1913, stipalating for in
terest from date at the rate of
eight per cent per annum, the total
amount now due on said note be-
ing $685. % principal and IS. "a in
terest to October Z, 1913 together
with the cost of this proceeding as
provided in said mortgage. Il deed
to the purchasers will be made by
the Undersigned.
This It'll day of October 1918.
j, G. Williams, attorney in fact
for A. l.. Roberts.
cDonald & Grantham
&ssLewis A. Mills Jr.,
Attorneys for MORTGAGE.
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vited to assemble in Paris in May,
1870, to decide upon the type and cost
of the canal. N. de Lesseps presided
and guided the decision to a sea level
type, the same as at Suez. There were
eleven Americans in the assembly, the
extent Of American interest.
Under the stimulus of these proceed
ings the new company's stock was
oversubscribed by the admiring coun-
trymen Of the great De Lesseps, the
first issue being for $60.O00,OO0 M.
de Lesseps then made spectacular
trip to Panama, arriving at Colon on
Dec. 80, 1879.
- The first blast of an explosive in the
construction Of the isthmian canal was
set off by one Of the young daughters
of M. de Lesseps at Culebra on Jan.
10, 1880. After several weeks of BAN
quoting Count de Lesseps left for the
United States to stir the imagination
of the Americans over the enterprise.
About the only result was to attract
the attention of some contractors to
the work.
Operations went ahead rapidly from
1880 onward, the method being to let
contracts for the different phases Of
the work. The canal started near Co.
lon. in Limon bay, and was to follow
the valley Of the Chagres river. for
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cu1EBRA CUT, THROUGH WHICH THE CANAL RUNS

the Panama railroad in the five years
it was building has been estimated at
6,000 persons.
The route selected started at an is
land near the coast on the Atlantic
side, the site of the city Of Colon.
crossed the hills into the valley of the
ChagreS river and followed that valley
to the continental divide, over which
it passed with maximum elevation OF
265 feet above sea level, and thence
down to Panama on the Pacific side.
Treacherous swamps. almost impene-
trable jungles and formidable streams
and Mountains necessitated incredibly
hard labor and continuous work from
1850 to Jan. IS, 1855, when the first
train reached Panama from Colon.
The line was forty-seven miles long.
built Of Belgian rails and on gauge
OF FIVE feet.
The standard gauge in the United
States is four feet eight and half
Inches, so that all locomotives and cars
used on the Panama railroad have to
be specially built with wheels set far
Their apart.
The total cost had been 81 ,401 ,553. or
about $15S.OOO a mile. Dividends were
paid every year from 1853 to 1892 and
from 1901 to 1908. when it became
United States property.
The great prosperity Of the railroad
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Sherims Sale.
GEORGIA BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEORGIA BEN HILL COUNTY.
Will be sold at the Courthouse
door in said County, on the First
Tuesday in November, 1913, with
IN the legal hours of sale towit:
All of the West half of lot of land
No. 218 in the Third Land District
of Ben Hill county, Ga. contain
ing 245 acres of land. Said land
levied on as the property of Tom
Riggs to satisfy an execution issu-
ed on the 5th day of Sept, 1913
from the City Court of Fitzgerald
IN said County and State in favor
of H. B. & C. S. Isler, against
Tom Riggs.
Notice as required by law has
been served upon Tom Riggs.
This the Bird day of October,
1918.
w. H. Fountain,
Sheriff City Court Fitzgerald.
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about thirty miles. thence through the
continental divide to the Pacific, three
miles west of Panama, about where
the canal begins.
By 1855, however. extravagance and
graft had emptied the company's
treasury. The contractors, as a rule,
did little and eXacted much 1t be-
came apparent, too. that a sea level
type presented staggering difficulties.
NJ. de Lesseps gave his consent to
change in plans to a lock type. but the
dam was to be at Bohio instead of at
Gatun.: Bohio Is seventeen miles from
the Caribbean. while Gatun is only
seven miles distant from that sea.
All the theatrical methods conceiva-
BILE were employed to float a new bond
issue for $l60,000.OOO, but the public
had grown dubious over the success of
the enterprise. The amount was rails
ed however, and was poured into the
project with more millions until 1889,
when, after 1924, 795, OF bad been in.
vested. the company became bankrupt.
The French treated their white en-
ployees with extra VACANT generosity.
Living accommodations we're on
scale of open handed libcrality. Little
was done beyond building hospitals to
conquer the bad health conditions of
the isthmus, and. While the French
left patterns for much of the later
American activities the sanitary coD
troll OF the jungle distinctively is an
American triumph. The death rate
among French employees on the canal
WAS. from two, to three times as high
as uzader the Americans.
Ito Be Continued.)
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Continued From Last Fridays Issue)
CHAPTER ~.


The French In Panama.
%M& He independence of Panama
from Spain By bloodless
~ revolution in 1921 had placed
the 1sthmus in new position
Tor other European governments or
the United States to negotiate terms
Tor concessions. The American peo-
pie were jealous of foreign activities,
but not aggressively active themselves
IN concrete efforts toward a canal.
The ever alert French in l847, after
securing a concession to build a rail
road. allowed it to lapse 1t is signifi-
can't that this French failure was fol-
owed. as in the case of trying to dig
"a canal. by a successful attempt by
the Americans.
Three Notwithstanding II. Aspin-
wall. John L. Stephens and Henry
Chauncey Of New York. taking ad-
vantage of the opening made by the
French failure-obtained a concession
from the BogOta government in 1919
for building a railroad across the
asthmus at Panama, with the impor-
tant provision that no canal could be
constructed there without the COM
pany's consent.
Their concession was for a period of
forty nine years after the completion
Of the railroad, but Colombia reserved
the right. twenty years after its COM
pletion, to purchase the road for
$500O,O00.
Luckily for the American promoters
the discovery Of gold in California In
1910 came just as they were seeking
to 6oat their company. The isthmian
route to California at once became
heavily travelled, aud the eyes Of the
whole world, particularly of the Unit
ed States. were again fastened upon
Panama.
The addition OF the territories of
Oregon and California to the United
states still further emphasized the
need of quick communication between
the Atlantic and Pacific. The Panama
railroad. therefore, took hold upon the
popular imagination.
Aspinwall and his associates pushed
the construction of the road under
James L. Baldwin, an American civil
engineer Of uncommon ability. Labor
Of desirable kind was not obtainable
Many nutionalities were tried. with q
tragic failure ON the part Of the Chi
nese, who seemed unable to face the
tcrrors Of the jungle, The life cost OF
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Citation.

GEORG1A-BEN HILL COUNTY.
To all whom it may concern:
Mrs. Annie May Sanifer hav-
ing applied for guardianship of
the person and property of Sue
jette Holmes, a minor child of
DR.. and Mrs. C. E. Holmes late
of jenkins County, notice is given
that said application will be
heard at my office at ten O'Clock
A. M. on the first Monday in
November 1913.
This Oct. 10th. 1913.
c. M. Wise, Ordinary.
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Citation
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY,

OEORGIA-bEN HILL COUNTY.
To all whom it may concern:
w. E. Whitehead having In
proper form applied to me for
permanent Letters of Administra-
ton on the estate of E. M. White
head late of said County, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors
and next of kin of E. M. White
head to be and appear at my office
within the time allowed by law
and show cause, if any they can,
why permanet administration
should not be granted to w. E.
Whitehead on f. M. Whitehead's
estate.
Witness my hard and official
signature, this 9th day of Oct.
1913.
c. M. WISE. Ordinary.
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suffered serious setback with the
completion Of the California overland
railroad in 1869. Thenceforward the
valuable bullion shipments avoided
fAmama, as we'll as passenger and
fFAGht business The business shows
steady decline from that year
Colombia turned to the French after
n1gotiating fruitlessly with the United
states over Il canal concession, and
the company headed by NJ. de Lesseps
was granted a right of way. It
bought the road for S1S,094, 900 in 1881.
paying considerably more than it was
worth, or $3.50 a share for sixty eight
SeventiethS Of the capital stock
The French neglected the CONNER
cia! possibilities even more than the
American owners had. though divi-
bends We're earned during the life of
tie first company. When the United
Suites bought the interests of the
railroad was one Of the properties
transferred. 1t was sadly run down,
but under the Americans 1t was made
oTer into mo'lernly equipped and OPP
Grated system, though subordinated as
a commercial proposition to the con-
struction of the canal.
Passenger rates dropped from $25 a
one way ticket in 1855 to $40 under
the Americans today. The trip from
Colon to Panama is two hours and a
hn ~
low because that color best stands the
isthmian climate.
The plans for the canal as adopted
by. the Americans in 1906 played havoc,
with the right of way of the railroad.
so In June, 1907, the work Of relocat-
ing it back among the hills out of
reach of Gatun lake was begun. After
five years work. or as long as it re-
quired to build the original line in
1906. the new line was opened to
traffic in 1912.
This twentieth century Panama rail
road has cost $9,0OO,O0O, as compared
with the cost of the nineteenth cen
fury road, 100000, an increase of
100000 after lapse of sixty years.
The dream of pan-American rail-
road has been entertained ever since
steam locomotion came into use. When
several gaps are filled in there will be
railroad communication through Mex
leo, Guatemala and Nicaragua to Costa
RIGA, which adjoins Panama. The re
public Of Panama has been planning
an interior railroad system that would
be part Of an all rail route from the
United States to the canal. Before
many years it is likely that bridge
will span the canal in a railroad sys-
tenn that reaches from Canada through
Panama to the mainland of South
America, thence down the west coast
to Valparaiso.
Ferdinand de Lesseps and his Pana-
ma career vindicate strikingly the
truth Of the adage that nothing sue
ceeds like success. The French Pana-
ma Canal company was fioated on the
strength Of his achievement in cutting
a sea levG passage from the Mediter-
ranean to the Red sea, thus making an
island Of Africa.
When he turned his attention to Pan
ANA as new field for glory the
French people enthusiastically applaud
ed his audacity and. what is more sig
nifcant and substantial. invested. first
and last. $265,0OO.OOO in the enter
prise.
The French were theatrical in their
plans for launching the enterprise. A
world congress of engineers was in
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Sheriff's Sale
GEoRGIA-BEN HILL County.

Will be sold at the court house
door in said county on the first
tuesday in November 1913. with
in the legal hours of sale, to wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
lying and being in Ben Hill Coun-
tY, Georgia, and being described
as follows: Lots thirteen (13) and
fourteen QD in square sixteen Q6)
in block seven ~ of the CITY of
Fitzgerald. Georgia, according to
the plat of said city of record in
the office of the clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Irwin County,
Georgia, together with all I'M
provements thereon; said land
levied on as the property of Far
mers Warehouse & Fertilizer Co, .
TO satisfy an execution issued on
the 23rd day of June 1913 from
the City Court of Fitzgerald In
said county, in favor of A. B.
Cook as Assignee of the American
State Bank against Farmers Ware
house & Fertilizer Co.
This October 10, 1913.
W. H. Fountain,
Sheriff City Court of Fitzgerald.
Elkins, Wall & Koplin,
Attorneys for A. j. Cook,
Assignee.
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Citation.
GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

GEoRGLA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
To All Whom 1t May Concern:
M. j. Small having in proper
form applied to me for permanent
Letters of Administration on the
estate of j. d. Small late of said
County this is to cite all and singu-
lar the creditors and next of kin of
j. d. Small to be and appear at
my office within the time allowed
by law, and show cause, if any
they can. why permanent admins
tration should not be granted to
NJ. j. Small on j. D. Small's estate
Witness my hand and official
signature, this 9th day of Oct. 1913.
G. M. Wise, Ordinary.
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Citation.
GEORGIA BEN Hill COUNTY:

Mary Jane Lewis, having made
application for twelve months sup
port out of H. B. Lewis, and ap-
praisers duly appointed to set
apart the same having filed their
return, all persons concerned are
hereby required to show cause be-
fore the court OF Ordinary of said
county on the first Monday on
November 1913, why said applica.
ton should not be granted.
This October 9Th, 1918.
G, M. Wise, Ordinary.