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Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
Way PROVIDED TO
AID COUNTY FAIRS
State Fair Secretary Writes to Super
,visors Pointing Out New Law
And Urging Action.

The secretary of the State Fair
Commission has sent to the County
Board of Supervisors the following
letter.
The late Legislature in bill on,
county government authorized the
Board of Supervisors to set aside
$50 for every 100000 of assessed
valuation in the county. not to ex-
coed $500, foI County and State
Fair purposes.
This authorization was given in
order that Boards of Supervisors
might encourage local or county
Fairs and make an exhibit of the
county's resources at the State Fair.
Prof A. NJ. McOmie, of the State
University put in a considerable part
of his last Summer vacation in or
ganizing local Fairs in various parts
of the State. e..
with the cordial cooperation of
the Board of Supervisors, and with
proper encouragement and financial
support, much can be done this year
toward the development OF the va
rious business interests of the State
"The State Fair is interested in the
matter, because it is the object and
purpose of, the State Fair to aid in
developing the various resources of
the State by making a great annual
exhibit of the same and encouraging
every hamlet and county in the
State to greater effort"
THE State Fair is not only a
great educational institution, a great
business enterprise, advertising and
displaying the immense resources of
the State, but it is also the harvest
festival, social coming together, of
the people OF the State
Rapid transportation, quick and
frequent communication, and con-
slant mingling of man with man is
the great unifying force of the Ma
ton.
Local and county Fairs play their
part. Local industry is aroused, ex-
hibits are collected and portion Of
said collection at least finds its way
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16

end to gossip and scandal while it
lasts, because none dares to open
his or her mouth or utter a word.
In the country, where people are
separated, it is quite different The
whole earth is whispering gallery,
and many good ladies glue them
selves to the telephone and either
retail or listen to everything that
is going on. 1t would be astonish
ing to know just how pat every
little shred of scandal is known in
the remotest corners of country
communities and small towns. The
percentage of people who know Of
a peccadillo on the part of a man
Or a woman in such comBunities
is infinitely larger than it is in such
cities as San Francisco, for instance,
where the majority of people care
Kttle or nothing about what their
neighbors do or say.
Scandal-mongering lives and pros
pers Because it flatters the vanity
of those who indulge in it. When
we roll our eyes and hold up our
hands in holy horror over the con-
duct of one of our fellow citizens,
we are at the same time giving our
selves a certificate of character and
proclaiming to the world that we
are of superior mold and too good
to be guilty of any such delinquency
1t is a great tribute to goodness
to see men and women adding
hypocrisy to, other forms of bad
ness in order to make a big bluff
at appearing good.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
RATE LOWER BUT
TAXES WILL BE HIGHER
From SUNDAYS Daily.)


County Assessor T. E. Campbell
has returned from mine examina-
ton trip in the Bradshaw mountains
and will meet with the Board Of
Equalization of the county in the
final roundup of taxation matters.
He will leave for Phoenix later,
when the big meeting convenes on
August /, when all Supervisors and
County Assessors in the State con-
vene with the State Tax Commits
sion, at which time all of the above
officials sit as a board of equaliza-
ton to pass upon the several classes
of property in all counties OF the
State, and the action taken in equal
izing shall be final,
This meeting promises to be
noteworthy one, andIit is expected
that there will be hundreds of in,
terested taxpayers present to par
ticipate as we'll as protest. in this,
the first gathering of the new legal
board made up. of all counties of
the State. s.-
Authority .for this consolidation of
the various counties of the State
into one organized body was given
on May II, by the passage of Senate
Bill No. 3, and approved that day,
which reads as follows: THE State
Board of Equalization shall have
power to equalize the assessment of
all property in the State, between
persons, firms or corporations of the
same assessment district, between
cities and towns of the same county,
and between the different cities of
the State; and the property assessed
by the State Tax Commission IN
the first instance. At. said meeting
the State Board of Equalization shall
fix a rate Of taxation to be levied
and collected in each county"
Mr. Campbell stated yesterday
that he had made a rough estimate
of the rate for Yavapai county this
year, basing the same upon the
figures now appearing upon the
original assessment roll, and that
the same should not exceed 50 cents
on the 500 valuation. The State |
rate for this county, however, re-
mains to be fixed and will not be
known until the State Board of
meets and acts upon
certain matters, and the figures are
placed at 60 cents as a minimum rate,
according to compilations made, This
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
MILITANT ISSUE FAILS.


The English newspapers believe
that the backbone, of the suffrage
revolt is broken. The militants are
said now to have no more than
seven Thousand active members scat
tered throughout the country and the
cat and mouse" law is having a
most depressing effect on their &C
Invites. By that law a suffragette
who goes on a hunger strike in
prison may be released until she
RECEIVERS sufficiently to be imprison-
ed again, and the time she is out on
parole makes no reduction, in the
time she is to spend in Jail
Mrs. Pankhurst, recently sentenced
to three years at hard labor, was
released from prison when the con-
dition OF her health had become pre-
carious, only TO be re-arrested and
thrown in Jail when she had re-
covered sufficiently to be out of
doors again. Under the operations
of this law, it is said that Mrs.
Pankhurst has been reduced to a
state OF permanent i'll health. But
this does not mean that the law is
cruel. 1t does not prescribe hunger
strikes. They are voluntary, and
part of the militant program.
The Pankhurst program is para
dox. 1t assumes that governments
no longer q depend upon physical
force, that intellectual and moral
forces, of which women are a part,
now are abe essentials While hold
ing this belief. the militants have
endeavored by acts of violence, the
burning and the dynamiting of prop
erty and assaults upon individuals,
to coerce the present voters of Eng
land to take them into the electoral
fold. --
The failure of the movement
might have been predicted from
the stubborness of the English race.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
YOUNG GIRL IS
ACCIDENTALLY WOUNDED

Stafford, Ariz., July 1z-Last
week Miss Honor Moore, of San
Antonio, Texas, came to Stafford to
visit her father, NJ Moore. section
boss on the A. E. railroad at Solo
knoxville
On Sunday she accompanied her
brother on hunting excursion and
when they returned to the Solomon
vile depot in the evening Miss
Honor accidentally shot herself m
the right thigh with p rifle. The
bullet embedded itself in the flesh
so deep that it made serious
wound and has not yet been re-
moved.
The young lady was Immediately
brought to Stafford and placed in
the care of DR.. Riewel, of the Ari-
IONA Sanitarium, and her sister, Miss
Kate Moore, professional nurse,
arrived a few days later from San
Antonio to nurse Miss Honor.
While the wound is a painful one,
DR.. Riewel says it is not at all
dangerous.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
ScANDAL-MONGERING.

The old gentleman who is adj
vertising in the London papers for
quiet hamlet where he can end
the closing days of his life in peace
and away from scandal-mongers will
have difficulty in finding a place
to suit him. He would be no better
off were he to come to this land Of
the free and home of the brave.
Gossiping is the curse of small COM
munities, and it is even worse in
the rural districts and small towns
than in the big cities. Whatever
else may be said of the game Of
bridge whist, it certainly puts an
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16

to the State Fair.
Prize winners in a county con-
test generally wish for greater vic
tories and send their exhibits to the
State Fair to compete in the larger
contests where a blue ribbon is a
certificate of highest merit in the
State.
County Supervisors can encourage
their own people in the following
ways:
81. By giving financial aid to
local and county Fairs.
~. By giving financial assistance
to every county Fair commissioner
in the collecting of exhibits for
the State Fair.
g. By offering special prizes at
the State Fair to those from their
county who compete and win at the
State Fair.
The State Fair gives purses for
thoroughbred and harness horses re-
stricting competition in certain
classes to Arizona horses. Counties
could give additional purses or prizes
upon the condition that the winner
comes from their county.
"The Fair Commission has offered
for several years a handsome $500
loving cup to the county making the
best agricultural exhibit at the State
Fair. The county winning the cup
twice keeps possession of the same
"Maricopa has won this cup once
and Yavapai once. There will be a
great contest between the two coun-
ties this year. 1t would be a fine
thing if some other county would
step in this year and take the Blue
ribbon away from both of them.
We hope the Boards of Super
visors and the different Fair Com
missioners from each of the four
teen counties of the State will care
fully consider the suggestion in the .
above letter and spare no effort in
making 1913 the banner year for .
Arizona
Respectfully,
ar d XTnOn
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
LATEST FEMINIST VICTORY.

Wars, suffragists' attempts to i'm
prison ministers, tariff changes which
may revolutionize our national in
dustries, legislation on all imaginable
subjects, storms, fires, murders, en-
bezzlements and white slavery-all
these we find in the vast hodge
podge of Geographic news each day,
and these we headline in our news
papers. We fancy that these things
are important
But in tiny paragraph of two
inches we stumbled on a bit of
news of far greater import, to those
who can study causes and foresee
effects, than the battles in Mexico
or the Balkans or all the puny up
rising of militant women against
British prejudice. Here it is:
"Women's skirts are to be tighter
than ever around the hem, also
around the er-well, around other
places; with an eight-inch slit in
front, fuller at the top, with Ella
borate draperies, so the National
Association OF Women's Tailors
have decreed."
Then it goes on to say that in
the draperies are to be deep, wide,
serviceable pockets! Pockets on
both sides, like mems; pockets in
which lady can carry not only
a handkerchief, but an array of
toilet articles, bank book, samples,
visiting cards, recipes and other
paraphernalia which for the past
quarter of century she has been
forced to pack" as a southerner
"Ouiu Sdys III HdlluOdS-
Do you realize what this means?
Emancipation! Emancipation, Sis
tiers, more potential than the bal
lot, for even the ballot could not |
do as much toward placing woman |
on an equal footing with man, in
thei Industrial struggles which under
lie political fights, as pockets. To
be able to have pockets filled with |
knives, pencils, memorandum
book, keys, and lots of other things
about your person ready for use any
moment, and yet have both hands
free to swing on a car, raise an
or carry a parasol-this
has been mans exclusive prerogative
This is a more far-reaching VIC
tory for woman than the mere
winning over to the suffrage cause
Of Theodore Roosevelt or a Lloyd
George.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
ABANDON TRIP.

CHICAGO, July 12-Walter E.
Johnson today abandoned his hydro
aeroplane race to Detroit after an
unsuccessful attempt to get a new
start from Robertsdale, Indiana,
where he has been stranded for
three days. Three now remain in
the contest, Roy NJ. Francis, Beck
with Havens and Glenn L. Martin.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
CANADIAN BANKS.

New York bankers now are urg-
ing that we adopt the Canadian
banking system as best suited to
the needs of this country.
Canada now has twenty-six banks
with more than three thousand
branches. and is on the way through
projected consultations to reduce
that number to seventeen. The big
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16

Patrons of a Columbus, o., street
car were astonished during the tor
rid weather when a woman came m
clad in furs. When a curious sister
asked her the way of it, the woman
said she had to wear her furs to
keep the moths out of them.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
DENIED NEW TRIAL.

NEW YORK, July 12.-Charles
Becker's application for a new trial
on the charge of numbering Gambler
Herman Rosenthal was denied today
by Supreme Court Justice Golf His
counsel sought to reopen the case
on the grounds of new evidence. Any
relief now must come from the
higher court.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16

will give a total of $l.40 as the rate,
as against 500 of the previous year,
when much lower basis of valua-
ton was placed on all classes of
property. The result is, that every
taxpayer will be mulcted of more
money than at any time in the
history of the State, all to furnish
jobs and fat salaries for the horde
of tax-eaters CHARTERED at Phoenix
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
MEXICAN AMBASSADORSHIP.

1reQltdDle aQNlC6S from w dSillliS-
ton now are all of a tenor to con-
firm the apparent fact that our Am
bassador at the City of Mexico has
the full confidence of the admins
tration. It is due Ambassador Will
son TO make this statement as
Broadly, and as widely, as possible,
since few men have, in recent years,
been placed in more trying posi-
ton than his. During the greater
part of his service, owing to internal
conditions in Mexico, relations at all
times delicate and sometimes tense
between his government and the one
TO which he was accredited have
vastly increased his difficulties and
responsibilities During long
period of days and nights in which
civil war was raging in the Mexican
capital, and threatening the lives and
property of foreign residents look
ing to his government for protection,
it was possible for unprejudiced
minds to realize how well he was
discharging a most dangerous duty
When successful revolt against the
Madero government was Immediately
followed by the assassination of Ma
dero and his constitutional successor
in the presidency, the perplexities
of his situation could be seen to
grow. The incoming of a new ad-
ministration at Washington, hostile
TO the party to which he belongs,
could not increase his perplexities
but it could, and did, add to. his
embarrassments. :... .-I
In the rush for diplomatic posts
which began even before the ihaugu-
ration of President Wilson, it
seems to have been assumed that
the resignation of Ambassador Viii
son which, according to diplomatic
custom and usage, reached Wash
ington very soon after the inaugu-
ration, would be one of the first
10 be accepted. Such an assump-
tion grew, perhaps, out of the fact
that in the long perturbed condi-
ton OF affairs in Mexico, and the
elashing of foreign financial interests
in that country it would be easier |
TO force an early change in that am
bassadorship than in any other. Ac-
cordingly, Misrepresentation and
vague accusations, never reaching
the dignity of specific charges, were
brought to bear at Washington,
much to the discredit of every Demo
erat who was in any way a party
TO them. For some time the admin
istration itself seemed to be party
TO theB to the extent of remaining
silent while they were being made.
Not until Ambassador Wilson pro-
tested against such treatment, and
insisted upon an immediate accept
2nce of his resignation, did Secre-
tary Bryan make public announce
ment of its entire confidence in the
integrity and ability of our Am
bassador at the City of Mexico, and |
urge him to retain the post until
his successor could be appointed and |
qualified.
The interests which were seeking
to force an immediate change in the
Mexican ambassadorship attributed
this action to the reluctance of the
administration to tenta-
lively recognize the provisional gov
eminent in Mexico by accrediting
an Ambassador to it. 1t is alto
gether probable that, should the
Mexican election in October result
n the choice of candidate who can
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16
LEAVES 1T ALL TO RUSSIA

SOFIA, July 12.-All belligerents
in the Balkan war have given Russia
full power to find a way to bring
hostilities to an end
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-16

&C. B. WOOD,
Secretary of the State Fair"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28

In a recent issue the Christian Sci
ence Monitor had the following good
- editorial relative to the
Against Low standards of literature
Literature. and the stage:
It ought to be said
in Justice to the stage and because it
is true, that If the literary standard
of the period were higher the dra-
matte standard would be higher also.
To very large degree the stage Of
the period reflects the imaginative
literature of the period, and the i'm
aginative literature of the period Is, as
we see it, low, and lowering. In such
a case it is impossible for the stage to
be elevating unless it shall take its
moral tone from the imaginative lit
erature of another and better peri
oc, or create absolutely its own pro-
ductions. There is no moral indorse-
ment of contents in the fact that an
immoral book Is best seller, nor Is
its immortality lessened by dramatiza-
tion. Creators of fiction, playwrights.
and adapters have all to be taught the
lesson, somehow, that the books and
plays they are producing in numerous
instances are abhorrent to the educat-
ed, cultivated public taste Of the coun-
try. 1t is doubtful, however, If this can
be taught effectually so long as the
production Of matter of this charac-
ter is found to be commercially profit
able. There must be something more
than individual force to the protest;
II must become a popular revolt.
And this has been started in small
way. 1t is seen in the nature Of the
references to certain works of fiction
ard to certain plays. 1t is seen par
ticularly in the courageous refusal of
some high-class periodicals and news
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28

pad. If such things must be it would
raise the standard of the Tri-State
league to release the Bears and take
in the Washington penitentiary nine.
Apparently profit is not without
honor save in it's own country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28

papers even to mention publications
ard plays that appeal to the grosser
side of humanity. Unless we are
greatly mistaken, this course will lead
Intelligent and respectable parents
viii see to it, we feel sure, that their
homes are not polluted with vicious
fiction for YOUTH" even though it
may appear in pretentious and attrac-
tive form.
Much of the so-called juvenile lit
erature of the day is unfit to be ad-
mitted into decent families. 1t should
be excluded. If parents do not know
what to shut out, they should seek
advice; if the advice is not easily
available, communities that place a
proper valuation upon their welfare
Will provide it. If the nation is once
aroused to this situation as it should
be, We believe some other problems
that are knocking loudly at the doors
OF society can be dealt with more
speedily and more effectively.
>~e~v~
The Walla Walla Union says in ef-
feet that unless Pendleton is willing
to stand for such UNI
Sure Thing pires as Walla Walla may
Operators. select when the Buck
aroos ana the Bears play
ball here, then Pendleton is likely to
forfeit it's franchise in the baseball
league. In other words we are going
to be held up with a gun and they
are telling us about it in advance. We
won't even have the benefit of the
thrill of surprise that is incident to
the appearance of the ordinary foot
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28
A-SS~AA-A

Apropo the Introduction of Aus
tralian beef into the western coast
cities in order to reduce
The Role of the price it may be re-
Tie Grower. marked that the cattle
grower is not the real
villain in the drama of high beef. If
there is such a character he is not
found upon the ranges. Taking it
year after year the cattlegrower has
no bed of roses. He has to work hard
and figure closely He is in the game
aid has to play it through win or lose.
He cannot stay out at will. He takes
chances and he seldom becomes
very rich. Fewer men in eastern
Oregon have become rich through cat
tlegrowing than through sheep rails
ing or wheatraising.
The men who occupy the enviable
position in the cattle business are
those who handle beef after it leaves
the hands of the grower and before
it reaches the retail shops in the big
city. Those men are more independ-
ent and able to dictate. Their money
is invested in yards and plants, not
in four footed beasts who eat their
beads off and have to be sold at a
certain time. Those men can play or
refuse to play just as they wish. But
IL they play they can demand their
share of profit and get it whether
beef be high or low. They may have
competition but if they do it is soft
and lovely compared with the keen
ard merciless conditions confronting
the grower.
What is true of beef is true of al
most every other industry and this is
one of the weak spots in our economic
system.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28

80 <<<~%% 90 . . . .
OPPORTUNITY. q
= Opportunity and the Wolf q
Met at the door .
OF an humble cottage. =
= The one knocked. .
. And the other howled. .
. Behind the door =
= Lived an optimist, .
= Full of hope. .
= He was expecting Opportunity, .
. And heard the knock, =
y But not the howl. .
. And then the two, .
= The Wolf and Opportunity, =
. Went to another door .
The one howled, .
And the other knocked. =
. Behind the door .
Lived a pessimist, =
. Full of despair. =
= He was expecting the Wolf, =
And heard the howl .
= But not the knock. .
= William j. Burtscher in June =
= Lippincott's. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
JAS. &. BENNETT
HAS APPENDICITIS
CONVICTED NEWSPAPER MAN
OPERATED ON AT JACKSON
YESTERDAY.

Jackson, Miss, June flames G..
Bennett, the former Jackson newspa-
per man who was convicted on a
charge of bigamy here two years ago
and sent up for ten years, was operat-
ed upon for appendicitis by DR.. s. H.
Mclean at the state charity hospital
yesterday and was reported as doing
well last night.
Bennett is now trying to have his
case reopened, saying he has evidence
that will show that he was not guilty
of the charge upon which he was con-
victed. He has sought to secure a
pardon, but without success. from Gov.
Brewer.