davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-09-07
COST $3.50, 900 TO MAKE
UNPARALLELED -uNEOUALLED UNPRECEDENTED

Every Detail Absolutely Perfect Gettysburg in its ur-
dulaiing valley JUS and 3, 1868 Chambersburg Pike
III The Mcpherson Farm Cashtown- Stoneblidge Cross
inr Malsll rex Cemetery Hill Seminary Ridge-Dev-
lis Der IBnertown Road Trese Farm Little and Big
Round Top Cups Hill Peach Orchard Spanglers
Spring.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

Surgeon Blue of the army issued
warning that there is danger Of ar
outbreak Of cerebro- spinal meningiti'
such as is now affecting parts Of
Arkansas, Tennessee and Illinois.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
DIVIDENDS DECLARED
BY HOME BUILDERS
Officers Re elected for Ensuing Year
Extensions Planned

The Phoenix Home Builders asso-
citation dividend for the fourth quar-
ter of the year 1913 amounted to
$4667S6, which was divided among
325 stockholders. The dividends Of
this organization are constantly in
creasing
on Monday night the corporation
directorate held the first meeting
since the recent election Of the ii
lectors. The following officers were
reelected: President, R II. Green:
vice president, Walter Talbot; treas
Crer. 9. NJ. Hahn; secretary, Y. G.
Cook; counsel, H. b. Wilkinson.
The planning mill will soon be en-
larged to accommodate the recently
purchased wood working machines
This enlargement will be a 50-fo,t
extension to First street.
1t was also decided to advance tho
price Of the Chelsea place los Il
| 5000 10 take effect February ! This
| in view Of the paving and Sidewalk
| improvements that have been rat il
| the addition.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
TAYLORS WAIVE
EXTRACTION
Claim They VIII Not Fight
Against Being Returned
to California to Answer
Charge of Issuing Bad
Checks

F. w. Taylor and his pretty little girl
wife, held at the city jail awaiting the
arrival of an officer from Los Angeles.
where they are wanted on charge of
issuing fictitious checks, will waive ex-
tradition and voluntarily accompany
the officer back to California This
announcement was made by Taylor
early yesterday morning when Chief of
Police Moore informed him that an
officer was about to leave Los Ange-
les for Sacramento to obtain a requi
sition for the extraditiOn of the couple
Taylor and his bride. to whom he
was married in Los Angeles early in
December have been in custody since
Saturday night They at first denied
knowledge of what might be the basis
, of the charges against them. Later
/ they admitted that they had jointly
used TaYlors bank account in a Los
Angeles bank and had unWittingly OV-
erdrawn the account. Since their in
generation, Mrs. Taylor has learned
of the death of her mother which oc-
Cured in Los Angeles December %.
Rather than permit the child bride
suffer the inconvenience Of the ac-
]
| Police Moore took the young woman to
his home and placed her in care of his
| wife and her mother. She was allowed
to visit her husband in the city Jail but
! there being no Indication of any desire
upon her part to desert her husband in
the hour of tribulatiOn, the chief felt
that she was better at his home than in
the city Jail. For this kindness the
young woman expressed the deepest
! gratitude yesterday. She also entered
an emphatic denial TO various sensa-
tional details of a story appearing il
an afternoon paper which she saiG
smacked so much of the yellow il
journalism as to be positively disgust
ing to one of her refinement The cir
was neatly attred in black yesterday
which attire she donned upon learning
of the demise of her mother. An Off
Ger will arrive from California SOM
| time today.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
COAL RATES TO
Be LOOKED INTO
Special Examiner from In
terstate Commerce Com
mission to Conduct In
vestigation Thursday on
Complaint of Arizona

Examiner Gibson of the Interstate
Commerce Commission will open a
hearing in this city on Thursday morn
ing involving the rates charged on coal
shipments from eastern coal fields to
Arizona points, on the complaint Of the
Arizona Corporation commission. This
hearing promises to be one of unusual
interest. The general attorneys of the
various southwestern systems as well
is the traffic experts will be in at
tendance representing their companies
The Arizona Corporation Commission
will be represented by Chairman Gea-
ry, Commissioner Jones and Secretary
Smith, who drafted the complaint
This hearing is but one Of a mum
Der which will be heard here at the
same time. There are a number Of re-
paration suits brought by Phoenix
merchants for shipments of various
merchandise in which it is alleged ex-
ces rates We're charged by the railroads,
and in which also it is alleged a re
paraton is due the Phoenix shippers
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
THATCHER APPLICATION
FOR BONDS GRANTED
Commission Also Sets Date for Hear
nes.. May Ask for Special
Examiner.

a permit of emergency and necessity
was granted the Thatcher Water COM
pany Yesterday by the Arizona -Corpo-
ration Commission. to enable that cor
poration to sell stocks and bonds so as
to improve its plant and facilities for
service to the people of Thatcher. The
application asked for permission to sell
81 900 worth Of bonds which was grant
ed
The commission will open a series of
hearings on the Bisbee Electric light
system. and those of Clifton and Mo-
renci beginning or February II next
and continuing through that week and
probably the next. What commissioner
will be delegated to conduct these
hearings has not been decided upon
yesterday.
With the amount of business that is
accommodating before the commission 1t
is likely that a movement viii be put
on foot at the coming session OF the
legislature to allow the commission to
appoint either a secretary of chief clerk
or other persons as special examiners
so that hearings can be had on mat
| tiers in the towns, and the evidence
taken. transcribed and then submitted
| to the commission AS it is now there
| is plenty of business in Phoenix at the
| office of the commission to keep the
organization busy, and each time a
| hearing is called in another city of the
state it is necessary either for the
whole commission to journey there, or
| one member of it When one member
/ goes for that purpose all he can do is
| to take testimony. afterwards having
| it transcribed for submission to the
| full commission. 1t is maintained that
an examiner could do this work just
| as well.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
MEMBSRS OF TRUST" SAY "lN
DEPENDENTS" CAUSE FIRES.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

NEW YORK. Jan. 21.-Competition
aas hurt the arson business in New
York The grand jury which indicted
several property owners, insurance
adjusters, and alleged members of
the so-called arson trust" learned
today that a large group Of 'inde-
pendent" operators are responsible
for nearly as many fires as the
trust itself
Isidor Stein CIzzx the Painter'D
who has been the chief source Of in
formation regarding recent incen-
diarism here, promised to give the
district attorney the names Of the
principal independents" Abraham
Schlichten one of those irdited. en-
tered a plea Of guilty today. He
begged for mercy and promised t
tell the names of thirty persons, MOI
vet arrested, who allowed members
of the trust to set fires in their
buildings and received part Of ths
proceeds.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

PLANTATION in detail Of the American
position by Chandler Anderson, coun-
selor of the state department. 1t is
believed that after attempting to ell
inmate a number of propositions, the
British note was considered not ger
name to the real issue and Secretary
of state Knox devoted himself prin-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
ROOT BITTERLY DENOUNCES

CONTINUED from Page One)
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
HARRY LANE CHOSEN.


SALEM, Jan. 21-The legislature
TODAY confirmed Harry Lane, demo-
crat as United States senator. In
the November election Lane received
the highest popular vote, although
the legislature was heavily repubi-
can. and only three legislators, one
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

cipally to an effort to show the term
"all nations" in the Hay Paunceforte
treaty does not necessarily include the
United States and that it is entirely
that this government treat
its own shipping differently than that
of other antions in so far as the
canal is concerned
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

to the exact contents of the note
until it has been received by the
British government in London through
the American embassy there.
1t was learned that today James
Bryce. the British ambassador had
been invited by the state department
a week ago and listened TO an eX-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
AGAIN FAILS TO ELECT.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

CONCORD. n. H, Jan. 21.-Agaln
today the legislature failed TO elect
United States senator Henry r.
Hollis. democrat, led the balloting
with 1917 votes, while ten republican
and progressive candidates divided
223 ballots.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
SOCIALIST AS MAYOR.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

SALT LAKE, Jan. 21.-F'or the
first time in history Salt Lake has at
it's head a socialist mayor. Henry
w. Lawrence a wealthy socialist,
who is also city commissioner took
charge today for a month during the
absence of Mayor Samuel c. Park.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22
NEW STRONG MAN.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS DTsPATCHT
NEW HAVEN, Jan. Civ. F. Roos.
of Hoboken n. J., is the new strong
man" of Yale University. 1t was an
nounced today that he had broken the
heavy test record with 1865 points
The former record was 2,4909
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

Continuous snowsldes have again
tied up transcontinental travel in the
Cascades. The Great Northern, Nor
thern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee
and Puget Sound roads are affected.
The trains We're sent out on a round
about route.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

The packing plant Of P, Burns &
Co.. at Calgary, Alberta was de-
stroyed BY fire The loss including
meat in cold storage win amount TO
more than 1000. GOO
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

Continued from Page One)
ed States would violate all pledges and
promises with the world; would be
guilty Of false pretense" in the adVo-
easy of a general arbitration and would
proclaim itself Indifferent to national
honor and integrity, if it be refused to
submit to arbitration, or to retreat
from the unjust position it has taken.
He declared that free coaStWise tolls
for American ships was illegal, unless
there were equal concessions to foreign
ships The claims of the United States
to domestic rights over the canal be
cause it owned the zone constituted a
violation of the express guarantee of
| the United States to Britain he said.
"The United States has preached ar
bitration for years and declared that it
would be sought by the nations of the
world" in season and out of season"
to enter into arbitration agreements for
the settlement of disputes.
And is the game worth the candle?
i Is it worth while to remain in a po-
sitiOn and maintain that from which
we may he driven and repudiate, the
principles professions and agreements,
| for the purpose of comforting a money
benefit at the expense of the treasury
of the United States on the most highly
absolutely protected special industry
of the United States, our coastwise
! shipping?
Taft Approves Note.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-President
! Taft has approved the note prepared
! nv the state department in reply to a
communication form Sir Edward
Grey, British secretary of foreign af-
fairs. protesting against the exemption
of American coastwse shipping from
the payment of the tolls of the Pan
anna canal AS matter of Official
courtesy information is withheld as
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-01-22

from the house and two from the
senate, voted against the peoples
choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

of my forty-ninth year ! am devot-
ing some time 10 the study of raj
ment, gals, hair dyes and courting. |
am needing real stout. healthy wom-
an for wife, amiable, loving fe-
male raised by Christian parents. who
can hoe corn and cut frewood, but
somehow or other nearly all of the
weaker vessels that i meet nowadays
seem to be sorter gun shy on me.
have saw several bcaut's lately that /
would like to have annexed, but their
minds didn't seem to be on the sub
ieet | have been reading all the Help
ing Hand Hints and side talks with
girls and that kind Of hog-wash in
the magazines and newspapers In or
der to be up-to-d9te in the spark ne
line. but this literature don't seem to
have much influence with me. The 9TH
or dav | read piece from one of them
gal correspondents i'm the papers and
she allow ed that no maiden can know
In advance whether her steady com
pany is going to propose and that
therefore when he does pop the afore-
said explosion is always sudden and
unexpected TO the gal.
According TO her letter the youns 2
gent is equally devoted TO several other
girls 10 each of whom he sends flowers,
candies and pungles up the Ice cream.
and tickets for the picture show. How
is the poor girl to know that Willie
pgngles more for her sake than for the
others? Especially when that hateful
Jones girl brags about William ripping
Off the wall paper with his signs for
her-large size sighs. and that despis-
able Smith old maid hints dark1y of
a sonnet Bill has composed In praise
OF her left eyebrow
'This kind Of dope may do for foreign
uarts. and the neghborhood of Bohton.
but II a southern girl was penning that
kind of stuff would feel called on to
observe that she was talking through her
hat-and that hat wouldn't be '0n
straight. neither. The average Alabama
maria geable female may not know
enough TO Delsarte-se may be ignorant
OF which one OF the stars IL named
Arctrrus. and which one is Erastus-in
botany size may not he able 10 tell a rho
dodendron from Tom and jerry. or a
referendum from a rathslxellar-ba.s she
knows her william clean through ard
through FOR seven feet On the other side,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

and she is hep to Williams intentions
before that individual has fooled around
her three days And when the aforesaid
Bill does get his mouth off and makes
puperfect Arizona Mocking Bird of him
self in the effort to work a pop through
his system, that girl has been expecting
that old mouth to go off for three weeks
before II occurred. | never leave any of
EN- in doubt as to what I'm going to do
for as much as five minutes. but they
always manage to cork up my pop before
| can get action on it,"
Recently the city journals induced some
cergymen to write up a prlzefight," said
the Country School Teacher. "and believ-
ing that the era Is dawning when the lite
rary efforts of truly pious and good men
will be In demand. ] have prepared an
account OF the small mix-up between Da-
yid and Goliath. feeling in my bones that
a grateful prosperity will rise up and call
me blessed for this religious contribution
to the Sunday school literature of the
ages.
you fellows may not know 1t. but In
the olden time men wore names because
they fitted. or from some characteristic,
or from some local happening. No such
anomaly existed as clubbing a man--.I.
Caldwallader Jones. or Michael Angelo
Sprawls-but those individuals were photo
graphically held up to the public, as
/ 'tockeu-eyed CAD or Zlnc-1oothed Mike
or Sudden Death Jones' or 'Epizootic
Sprawls' as the case might be. Ana1. the
1 father OF our hero. was so called because
lie had knacil OF gathering boy children.
size 56-these kids, four in number were
stout from the time they went On ALI
fours His youngest son started in life
with a tailor-made name taken from one
Of Laxra Jean Lbby's novels, and be-
stowe6 on him by the President of the
Gath. y. NJ. c. A.
"Ie packed his name with him unul
| the age OF 10 years. when on the occasion
OF discussion of gymnasium sor tine
/ Y. NJ. G. A.. Young Anak, Jr intrudcd
into the deliberations with lmpertinont
narrations OF his trip 10 Washington with
| the boys of the Corn ciub--wherein he
stated that railroad brakeman had
called Loachapoka station so distinctly
that two passengers understood hiia--
unable to credit this astounding assertion.
and ansered at his mendacity the presi-
dent OF the y NJ. c. A. arose, and mold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

federate. "Henberry wore tan Shoes peg
top breeches, and sozzled about pint OF
drug store perfume over his shlrt front
every time he saw a girl coming down
the road. Henberry thought he was
bigger man than the pyramids OF Fgypt.
He was suspicioned of reading law, but
most of his spare time was spent IN gan
wanting with female society
''Ie wore a ~ hat. and an II shoe, ana
he was afraid Of work and ghosts. But
Henberry's main holt was in playing
jokes on somebody else. He'd stay awake
Tat nights to fhink up practical Joke
on some of his chums. II vas always
some old worn out fool practical Joke that
had been used when Mathuselah was d
Kid. but it most in generally seemed 10
wcrk with them yaps that Henberry as
sociated with. some time back Henbefry
planned to scare a clerk by inducing hiin
to pass through the graveyard at nlsnt'
v here Henbery could act n ghost, ana en-
iov seeing the clerk run few.
.But John Matthews had got tired OF
those fool breaks of Henberry. and ne
decided he would turn the joke on Mr.. H..
Phillips The original idea of Henbefry
was to secrete himself in the dilspidated
tomb in the southwest corner OF the
graveyard, near a path, and wnen the
clerk passed II was the play thai he was
fo be chased bY Henberry, dressed as A
ghost. The plan would have worked all
right if John Matthews had let It alone,
but he didn't.
..On the appointed night John Matthews
got to The selected spot In the cemetery
1ust about 90 minutes ahead Of lienberr,'.
Matthews had plenty Of time 70 get ifSed,
and nut on his rg before Heneerry ar
rived and that disguise was loo-ioo, ter
"a fact. II would have scared a brick
church. He had cut deaths head ou-
of a pumpkin. painting the opening win
phosphorus lines.
"A long white sheet envelorcd him from
head to foot and lowered about FIVE feet
above his head, supported by pole heih
IN his hand under he sheet. Matthews
also possessed tho fatal gift OF sroaning
like dying hoss In battle, or bull with
the collie.
when Henbef-y Phillips APPEARED at
that tomb, Matthews stepped our III ffe
moonlight. and let OFF that awful giosn.
a.. the same time sorter agitating he
sheet. Within a minute the neighhor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
CHIEF ANBENlIETT

the hose wagons and the fire engines
following in quick succession.
Through the doors of the fire station
dashes the retinue.
The roar of the great wheels and
the changing bells sound a warning
note.
Street traffic-at once parts in two.
People halt in their work and run to
windows, balconies, curbings or any spot
from which to gain a glimpse of the
madly racing horses. straining in every
limb. leaving the sound OF metallic hoof
beats as they flash pastor the steaming
motors with their permeatng odor of
gasoline, as they rush wildly by.
Immediately the fire is reached the
chiefs trained eye takes in the situation
at glance.
If the fire is yet small the chemical ex-
tinguisher Is used.
Through the smoke plunged the fire
men.
1t is his duty to locate the fire and
prevent it spreading if possible.
Should the fire gain ground and the
chemical extinguisher give out. the hose
wagon replaces the chemical wagon
This already has been connected with
the nearest hydrant and held in readf-
ness while the chemical extinguisher is
at work.
Here begins a task demanding a quick
intelligent foresight and strategy in di.
rectng men.
Approaching as near to the fire as the
heat enables them, the hosemen begin
operations as the chief dreets.
. One may be ordered to enter the build
ing and attack the fire from within and
another is sent to the back, while some
of the firemen fight the fire from the
ladders, and others keep the blaze from
spreading to the adjoining buildings.
In this way the fire Is gradually hem-
med in and conquered.
Such are the workings of the fire de-
partment in a great conflagration.
II is a hideous but a sublime sight-the
burning of a great building-leav in
its wake destruction and devastation.
misery and dread.
There is no department connected with
this city that Birmingham people look
upon with greater pride and more re-
gard than the fire department.
1t is a credit to the city, to the firemen
generally, and to Chief A. " Bennett in
particular.
1t was rather a big undertaking for
little mite of woman who has always
thought of anything drawn by fire de-
partment horses, as fire engines" to
attempt a stcry with the big chief of the
department and try 10 ascertain the var
ious kinds Of fighting apparatus in use
in the Birmingham Fire department.
had curious shaAy little feeling in
my knees and q funny little feeling in
my head. that when ii came to techni-
calities I'd be the loser. but honest In
jun, when I called on Chief Bennett few
days ago and found him to be one of the
very incest men l ever met-with enthu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

hood was alarmed by succession of in
coherent whoops and yells, and agonige /
baws, as IL some human being was hav-
ing q tooth pulled. Mixed in with this
vocal eruption was a multitude of sounds
like short planlis being suddenly and rap
idly slapped on the ground and getting
more freqeunt every minute. Following
tLis hideocs disturbance there was a puf
fng, and wheeling and grunting. and
cloth ripping and believing coming along
with much rapdity. Nothing like such
a mixed concatenation of fuss and LAM
suage had been heard In Jayvi.le since
the war.
It's mile from Bay street to the hotel
anc the road is perfectly straight old
soldiers who closely observed running
4 rring the war say that no living mortal
ever covered a mile in half the time that
HeDberry and his accumulation made IT.,
they say empbatically that 1t wasn't run
ming, but that il was cross between av-
iation and a kangaroo 1oping IN which the
sreed limit crawled into a hole in the
ground. About every 10 feet that gifted
Henberry would spring up in the air.
and howl as II he had been snake bit.
ana when he would hit the ground again
his legs were working like an electric
churn with cog broke out OF it. Three
strands Of barbed wire were attached to
the bust of Henberrys trowsers. and
ard caught on stumps and tangled in his
legs. but il only served to increase his
speed.
After Henberry had bursted open the
hotel door and fell over the cooler. the
clerk climbed down offn the counter and
poured water on him and famed him and
rubbed him with cough syrup, while Dock
Anodyne worked a stomach pump and
aIarlied an electric battery over the cpl
ga aetroum In about three hours Hem
berry came around. but he couldn't tell
how the trouble originated. He has since
Joined the church, and 1T Is hinted that
he Is reading for the ministry. He
wouldn't play a joke on blind man now"
II reckon none Of you fellows knows
OF good looking woman that's toll
erahly we'll off and that's a wanting
man about the house?' uueried the
deputy.
Being widower now and just
bursting forth into the glorious dawn