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Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
SIXTY THOUSAND
 ACRES OF LAND SELECTED

PHOENIX, May H.-More land selections are being made by the state land commissioner every day. All three of the commissioners are working in different parts of the state selecting land. Chairman Win sor is in Pinal county, Member Moody in the north and Member Byrne in the south. Monday the land commission office filed upon in the United States land office here 6O000 acres of land in the neighbor- hood of Tucson. This makes near ly one hundred thousand acres chos- en in Pima county in the last week.
 Since the actual work of selecting the land for the state from the body of the public land of the state, as provided for in the enabling act, whereby Arizona was admitted to statehood, more than four hundred thousand acres have been selected.
 Together with the special grants to the state for specific purposes, the sections reserved to the State under former enactments, and those further reserved by the enabling acts, and the deception of the United States Carey act more than six million acres of land are reserved to the State.
 This land has to be selected by the state land commission, or all authoritative land board of the state which in this case is the state land commission. The work of selecting the land is a great task and involves a great many hardships. Every sec tion of land in the state not here tofore selected under the laws of the United States must be personal ly examined, which involves a lot of travel. This idea struck the legis- lature so forcibly that for a time 1t looked as if special examiners for that purpose would be provided for. However this did not occur and now all the work must be done by the three commissioners
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
SENATOR WALSH REPUDIATES
 PROGRAM
Condemns Free Sugar And Free Wool Policy
 Of His Party.
Special to the Journal-Nlner.

opeCidA lO
 WASHINGTON, May. 2o-Secc- tor Walsh, of Montana, is out in statement condemning free sugar and free wool. He declares he will use whatever influence he has to change these features of the Under wood tariff bill His statement is worrying Democratic leaders, who fear he will vote against the meas ure He declares even a rank free trader would cry out against the in- justice in the pending bill.
 "It is the part of the policy and program of those who are interested
 financially or otherwise" he says. "in free-listing certain commodities to pillory every member who ques- ton the infallibility of the House committee.
 "The forces honestly enlisted in the cause of reform are not always patient enough, particularly in rela- ton to those articles against which, by reason of outrageous favoritism accorded them in the past, public outcry has been directed. Sugar and wool are in that class. It would be much more pleasant for me to es- cape the opprobium even now gath ering around my head by having no views of my own by decidedly fol- lowing the Headers" and quiescently voting for anything they might choose to put up to me"
 Senator Walsh says the Democrat ic members of the Finance commit tee believe as he does, and adds: q shall not cease to labor to prevail upon them SO to act as not to sub ject the party to the charge of re- pudiating the promise upon which 1t came into power"
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04

After an inactive period ot over six years, work has been resumed on the property of the Gold King Min ing Company at Crown King. Dur ing that time the property has not been entirely idle, for the assessment work has been maintained and alto gether 5000 feet of development work has been done. The development now, however, is to be prosecuted on a large scale and crosscut tunnel has been started from Null doon gulch running west to tap the Swastika ledge in which large ore body has been demonstrated This tunnel will be 500 feet long and will strike the ledge at 600 feet depth. This is only the initial future of the work that has been planned.
 The tunnel will next be carried through the mountain to cut other lodges carrying values disclosed by surface workings.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
WORK IS RESUMED
 ON THE GOLD KING
Cross Cut Tunnel Now Under Way To Tap the Swastika Ledge
 At Depth.

Thomas Sumwalt, of Indiana, one of the officials of the company, has just returned from the property and will report to the eastern stock holders the plans of development that are to be carried out by Superintendent George Donner.
 The properties of the Gold King Mining Company consist of 2l claims, and are located within a mile of the Swastika mine, which IS one of the leading producers of that district. The Swastika ledge, which carries silver and lead, extends through the Gold King ground, and it is the ledge which the new tunnel will tap. Superintendent Donner, who was in Prescott yesterday, is very enthusiastic over the prospects and is convinced that the Gold King will develop into one of the biggest mines in Yavapai county.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
WITCHES PUNISHED.
Woman Steals Body to Force Man
 to Wed Her Daughter.

ROME, May 2o.-Four women have been condemned to six months imprisonment each at Lucera Assizes for body stealing and witchcraft.
 Signora Antonia Nardella, living at Lesina, was determined flat a railway signalman should marry her only daughter She decided that the best way to bring this about would be to bewitch him, and for this pur- pose she paid a couple of women to steal a corpse from a neighboring cemetery.
 This they consigned to Primiana Boffa, who enjoys great reputation in the locality as a witch. Having selected a number of bones she set to work to prepare love philter. grinding the bones to powder in a mortar She added a quantity of bronze filings which she had com missioned a grave digger to scrape at midnight from the big bell of the parish church.
 Some peasants who chanced to be watching while the incantations were in progress divulged the story to the police.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
RETURN TO FIND
 HER HUSBAND GONE
From Wednesdays Dany'

County Attorney O'Sullivan yes terday initiated a worthy official movement in behalf of Mrs. Rovena Douglas, of Seligman, who has been abandoned by her husband, Edward H. Douglas, and left in a penniless condition with her eleven-months old child.
 Mrs. Douglas arrived from Selig- man yesterday. Her appeal for jus tice is supported by every resident of that community.
 MT. O'Sullivan proposes to act in a vigorous manner to relieve this young woman of only twenty-two years of age, of the cruel treatment inflicted, and will seek the extradit- ion of Douglas no matter in what State he may be found. Two com plaints have been lodged against the erring husband, abandonment and non-support, and for deserting and failing to provide for their baby boy.
 According to the story told by Mrs. Douglas yesterday to MT. O'Sullivan, she was married less than two years ago Tn Rockford, Illinois, and came to Seligman to reside and where her husband was employed as a machinist at Sl50 per month Last March she went to Missouri with the child for surgi- cal operation, but upon her return Douglas had flown to other parts. On leaving Seligman she was given only S20 with which to defray ex- pense while away, and returning about one month later, was not only penniless but surprised to learn her husband had deserted her.
 The case is an exceptionally sad one, and to add to the sorrow of the occasion the faithful wife and duti- full mother is in a city without an acquaintance to come to her assis- tance. Mir. O'Sullivan dissuaded this indulgent woman from going to the county poor farm, by providing her temporary relief, and will see from official channels that her comfort may be assured until her erring hus- band is brought before the courts for the punishment he SO richly de- serves.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
BROOM CORN CROP
 THREATENED BY HOPPERS

In a lengthy night letter to Dixon Fagerberg, of this city, the commis- sion merchant, large manufactur- ing firm of Lincoln, Nebraska, i'm parts the following information of a recurrence of the grasshopper pest of many years ago, and which is in spired from a business standpoint, affecting the future supply of broom corn. The telegram is dated Tues day night and is as follows:
 "Traveling northeastward a col umn of grasshoppers five miles wide and fifteen miles long was reported today in northeastern New Mexico. Reports state that the billions of grasshoppers seem to spread as they travel and reports also record the appearance of other billions of grass hoppers in other sections. These re- ports have caused fear of a general grasshopper feast in the southwest and particularly in the broom corn district of Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Today the New Mexi- co grasshoppers are on the Texa. state line and are entirely destroy ing and devouring all kinds of crops foligae and even the range grass Stock, especially sheep have beer left in a starving condition by the lack of pasturage after the grasshop. pers pass. Government, state ana railroad experts have combined fore, es to fight the hoppers."
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
FEAT OF
 NERVE AND DARING
(From Wednesdays Daiiy.)

The few who witnessed Tom Mix throw a blood-thirsty steer yester- day afternoon at Joe Roberts slau- ghterhouse will not soon be furnish ed with a braver or more thrilling ex hibition of strength and nerve.
 Operator Ostland got his camera placed shortly after 2:30 and the bull, a mediums sized, wiry animal, came snorting into the focus of the instrument, frothing and believing. Nip Van neatly lassoed him around the horns. Tom ran into the scene bareheaded and grabbed "el toro" by the horns in an effort to bulldog him.
 After a lively scrimmage, during which Tom held on with grip of iron, the bull ran him off his feet and started charging for the cam era. Was Mix downhearted? Neverl
 With the horns around Toms waist, belt-fashion, the two came straight for the instrument, Ostland gamely tried to save the Sl,OOO cam era, but Tom and the steer beat him to it and all three landed in a grand scramble in the dust of the corral the camera a total wreck. Tom wrenched the maddened animal so purposefully as to tear one of his horns out. Then he threw up the sponge Ostland vainly tried to climb the fence and the cause Of all the trouble charged madly round the corral
 Just to show that he had few extra jolts of "nervine' left, Mix chased the steer into a corner, re moved the surcingle and the rope from his neck and held him three minutes by the remaining horn while the hushed onlookers held their breaths. A new camera has been requisitioned by telegraph.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
SCHOLARSHIP AT THE
 UNIVERSITY FOR YAVAPAI
From Wednesday's Dasly9

The examination for the county scholarship in the State University will be held in the office of the County Superintendent of Schools, June 28, 1913.
 All candidates shall be examined in not more than five subjects one of which shall be English, one Alge- bra, one Science, Agriculture, Bot any, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, or Physical Geography, and two sub jects to be selected from the fol lowing:
 History (American History and Civics, European History, or An cient History), Latin, French, Ger man, Spanish, Plane Geometry, or a second science.
 This examination is open only tc persons between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two years, who are gra- duates of either the Prescott or Je- rome High Schools.
 Further information can be ob tained from the County Superinten- dent of Schools.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
NO WONDER HE'S POOR.
Frenchman is Father of Thirty Chil-
 dren and Lives in Shack.

PARIS, May 29.-At St. Germain du Bois there lives a man, Jean Pierre Bossu, who has been the father of thirty children. He lives in miserable matched cottage which he built himself of mud and wood. It is now crazy affair, and sways in the wind and leaks when it rains. It contains one room only, and it Is in this room that he has brought up his family.
 Of the first marriage there were seventeen boys and one girl, by his second wife he became the father of seven more boys and five girls. Today there are only ten living.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
GOOD OUTLOOK.
Many Properties Under Development
 In the Chaparral district.
cFrom Wednesdays Daily,

John s. Jones is in the city from his mining camp in Chaparral. and reports his properties as under de velopment on a small scale, but with determinations that are satisfactory. With other mine owners of that field he anticipates a favorable summer, and with the Jessie holdings again under operation which seems to be assured, the impetus to general re vival will again bring the district in- to its old time prominence.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
ROYAL WELCOME
 AWAITING THEM
(Ffom Wednesdays Daily.)

(Ffom Wednesday's Dally.)
 That Apache county will heartily cooperate with Prescott in making the Frontier Day celebration a me morable occasion, is evident from the tone of letter received yester- day by E. S. Clark of this city from Fred w. Nelson, of St. Johns, who was recently elected President of the Apache County Automobile As sociation. Mir. Nelson is the county attorney of that county, and one of the most enthusiastic advocates of the National Old Trails Highway. At the meeting presided over by Mir. Nelson, the following action was taken without a dissenting vote:
 Tt was further decided that a re- presentation of the association would make the run to Prescott, returning home via the Grand Canyon, start ing from St. Johns, on July 1, so as to be in Prescitt on the afternoon of July and all of the 4th. We will notify you later of the number of machines to come from this county, on June or soon thereafter. As Prescott is doing this. we feel that an invitation should come from Prescott to the other northern coun- ties as well-Navajo, Coconino and Mohave. In case they should desire to join with us will state that we expect to leave St. Johns on the morning of July, arriving at Wins low the same evening. Williams will be reached on July 2, and on the afternoon of the third we arrive in Prescott. This schedule is given SO that those of Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams and other places on the route may join us if they so desire when all can come into Prescott in big body"
 Mr. Clark, who is the secretary of the Prescott Auto Club, stated yes terday that the Apache autoists will be met at Ash Fork and escorted to Prescott by many members of the local organization, and that a meet ing would be held in a few days to perfect every little detail of the welcome to be accorded the visitors The plan also is to meet the Mo have county delegation at Seligman and bring them into this city with a similar demonstration of cordiality. In short, MT. Clark states, this is to be loyal outpouring of the north to signalize the goods roads and to cement the ties of olden days with that fellowship that will endure for time A varied line of entertainment also will be carried out and the many drives adjacent to the city will be travelled. It is to be virtually a good roads celebration to extol and commend those of the north who made the gallant fight and won out in the recent Kansas City Convention, when the Old Trails route went under the wire as a winner, which cuts through Apache, Navajo and Mohave counties and incidentally slice of this coun- ty in the north.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
cRTTICIZEs CONDUCT
 OF STATE PRISON

PHOENIX, May H.-That w. w.
 Glenn, an appointee of the Governor
 to a position as guard at the state prison from Ray in the tenure of the present administration, was in
 Phoenix last Thursday and made a demand upon Governor Hunt for either the resignation of the present warden, R. B. Sims, or a public hear ing into the conditions now existing in the peniteniary before the state board of control, are facts that came out yesterday after Glenn's return 10 Florence.
 According to the report, Gleen re- signed from the guard force at the prison last Tuesday after demand ing Sims resignation. He immedi- ately came to Phoenix, where he appeared on Thursday before Cover nor Hunt and Mulford Winsor. The ex-guard reiterated his demand upon the Governor for the resigna- tion of the warden or an open hear ing before the board of control. Ac- cording to the most reliable reports coming out of the Florence institu- ton all is not serene and peaceful in the prison. There seems to be two factions, one backing in every way Warden Sims, and the other, friends of the Governor, against Sims policy. According to the re- ports, there have been very recently two exceedingly bad cutting scrapes in the prison. In one instance, ac- cording to the report, the man who was so severely cut was not in the good graces of the warden, and re- ceived merely the attention of the medical officer. In the last in stance, however, the injured man was a friend fthe prison exec utive and soon after the cutting, Sims went into Florence and had the county attorney of Pinal coun- ty swear out a warrant for the prosecution of the assailant. The warrant, up to the present time however, has not been served, or brought to the attention of com hitting magistrate.
 Upon Glenn's appearance at the state capitol, Mulford Winsor, chair man of the state land commission, and high in the councils of the ad- was called into the conference. Winsor asked the guard to put his demand upon paper and in formal manner after presenting it to the Governor.
 This it is understood, Glenn offer ed to do, but insisted that if he made his charges in writing to the Gov ernor, he be at liberty to give cop ies to the papers of Phoenix. It seems that this threatened publicity did not accord with the views of the administration and finally, Glenn was assured that the Board of Con trol would look into the matter. This was satisfactory .. to Glenn, who asked that any hearing held by the Board of Control, be in the nature of public examination, that the people of the state as whole might know exactly about conditions as they now exist at the prison.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
ASKS DAMAGES FOR
 KILLING OF HUSBAND
(From Fridays Daily.)

After several years of continuation of the Sl0,0O0 damage case of Mrs. Mary A. Conrey, as administrative of the estate of her deceased hus- band, Fred C. Conrey vs. E. D. Hur- ley, a definite day was set yester- day in the Superior Court, and the trial will take place on Monday, July l.
 This litigation is attended with ex- ,ceptional interest, Mrs. Conrey suing Hurley for the killing of her husband in the Verde valley many years ago, for which crime the latter received a life sentence in the State prison and is now serving time. Since his conviction the mining property that incidentally figured in the clash between Conrey and Hurley, has been sold, and Hurley reaped the pecuniary benefits of the transaction, but has remained in custody since the deal was closed, unable to enjoy the same, that runs into several thousand dollars. One phase and another of the homicide has been taken to the Supreme Court by at forneys of Hurley, but adverse de- cisions have been rendered repeated ly. Mrs. Conrey, in her widow hood, has the care of seven children on hand and still resides at the place in the Verde range of noun +ains where her husband was killed.
 June 30th was set as the day on which the divorce cases of Hattie M. Schulze vs August F. Schulze, and C. F. Biehl vs. Bessie Biehl will be tried.
 The tresspassing case of L. l.. Whisler vs. Babbitt Bros. will be tried before jury on June 5th. The plaintiff asks damages of several hundred dollars for his pasture loss by the livestock of the defendant entering the premises.
 The case of Helen Stephens vs. J. H. Maders was ordered dismissed
 Trial by jury on June 5th, was the order made in the case of Lee Hee vs. Geo. H. Avery, both residents of Jerome, and in which board bill is the contention.
 In the case of J. A. Twiggs vs w. w. Elliott, June 9 was set a: the day of trial.
 The case of the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Co. vs. Lake Su perior and Western Mining Co. wa' set for trial on June Both.
 Judgment for plaintiff was giver Tn the case of Broan Corporation vs. Lake Superior and Western Min ing Co.
 The case of R. w. Baxter, as th' administrator of the estate of Will liam Shaw, deceased, vs. Ed. De vanney. was set for trial before jur! on June 7th.
 The case of T. Akard vs. Lamber Butz was set for trial on Monday June 2nd.
 The divorce case of Lillie Hill vs $. P. Hill was set for trial on Jun S0th.
 4 change of venue was granted il the case of R. w. Baxter, as tn administrator of the estate of Vii liam Shaw, deceased, vs. William Owens. Judge Phillips, of Maricop county, will try the case in this city
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
VISITS BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, May 30.-President Wilson and family slipped quietly into town in an automobile this aft ernoon and went to a hotel for luncheon.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-06-04
PROCLAIMS FLAG DAY.

SPRINGFIELD, III, May D. Gov. Dunne today proclaimed Satur- day, June IA, as Flag Day.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-09-04
Dunlap.
Special TO the -Ne7OS.

Special TO the -Ne7OS.
Going to church seems to be the Or
der of the day. The Holiness people
are having big revival here and
everybody seems to be taking great
interest in going to it.
A party of about twenty-five boys and
girls went on picnic to Bethlehem
Sunday, and all had jolly time
Sam Simth and best girl. Miss May
Heard, were out driving Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Jerome Blalock and Annett
Lewis were out driving Sunday.
Mrs, Frank Newsom of Whiteside,
visited her father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs Hatfield, at Dunlap Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
Myrtle Harwood called to see Mrs.
Nellie Harwood Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Powe we're out
driving Sunday.
Albert Landers was the guest of Les
ter Harwood the latter part of the
week.
Mary Sexton called on we writer
Monday morning.
Miss Lille McGlothen called on
Mrs. Marion Beasley one day last
week
Miss Velta Haskew is visiting her
sister, near Chattanooga this week.
Sequatchee County High School be-
gan Monday with large number en-
rolled
Mrs. Alice Smith was the guest of
Mrs. W. J. HARDWOOD one day last
week.
Come again. "X', with your pieces
for l enjoy reading them, as you are
an old acquaintance. Also l would be
glad to hear from all the good cores
pondents. We enjoy your pieces and
they are almost like letter from
home. Lonely Girl.