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The Parker post., 1913-02-08
WILL TALK TO sOLoNs.

PHOENIX, Feb 6.-Vice Presi-
dent-elect Thomas R. Marshall will
address the legislature of the State OF
Arizona on Monday next shortly af-
ter noon, when the two bodies will
convene i'm joint session for the
purpose of listening to Indiana's fam
GUS son. The joint committee APP
pointed to wait unpOn the vice-presi-
dent-elect followed out its instruc-
tions yesterday and obtained from
the distinguished visitor to this
section not only his thanks for the
invitation, but his cordial acceptation
IF the same.
Yesterday Chairman T. NJ Dren-
nen of the invitation committee of
the house notified that body that the
committees from the two houses
would wait upon the former governor
# Indiana during the afternoon. The
senate portion of the joint commit
zee, of which Senator Harrison of
Santa Cruz is the chairman, did the
same thing in the senate
This was accordingly done. The
two automobiles, the two committees
escorted by National Committee
man Reese Ling of the democratic
party in Arizona, and George J. Stone
man went out to the Kinsey ranch
with the invitation.
The proposition was put UP to
Mr.. Marshall, that the houses stood
ready to meet in joint session at his
convenience i'm order to have him ad-
dress them. and the committee would
be pleased if he would name the
date and the time Mr. Marshall
stated that he would be pleased to
visit the state house on Monday and
to address the houses in the after
noon shortly after the noon hour
'''he time was therefore set at 130
1t is expected that large crowd will
be present for the address.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
WARNING TO GROWERS.

The efforts of the u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture to introduce the
cultivation of Egyptian cotton into
the Southwest on commercial scale
have been SO effective that the in
dustry in the Salt River Valley. Ari-
zona, is threatened by too much en-
thusiasm on the part of prospective
growers. The department sends out
warming that if too large an acre
age is planted this coming season it
will be impossible to secure an
adequate supply of properly trained
labor to pick the crop next autumn.
If pickers cannot be secured the
crop will go to waste in the fields,
or if the price for labor is forced up
by competition for pickers the prof
it's of cotton culture will diminish,
perhaps to the vanishing point. This
is a matter to which the secretary
calls the earnest attention of the
people of the Salt River Valley.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
THREE-CENT-FARE LAW.

The United States circuit court
of appeals, sitting in Sam Francisco
has taken under advisement the
cases against the Arizona full+crew
and <i-cent-fare laws, which are be-
ing bitterly attacked by the Santa Fe
ard seven other railroads doing bust
ness in this state.
The delay is to enable the state
supreme court to pass on the quail
case" in which Wood Allen of Phoe
nix is accused of violating the state
gaa,e law by shooting a quail with
out hunters license.
Aliens defense is that the game
law was not legally submitted to the
people of Arizona, November 5, be-
cause that was not a general elec.
ton aud insufficient notice had been
given the voters that the measure
was TO he submitted for their ap-
proval.
If the gnrle law is not law, the
other measures, including the consti-
tutional amendments, were not le-
gally submitted, and therefore can
not be enforced. If the full-crew
and 3.centfare statutes cannot be
enforced the applications of the rail
roads to prevent their enforcement
will be Immediately dismissed.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08

the dixie and protect it so far as
possible from the direct action of the
currents of the river during high
water 1t is the general impression
that the general government will
aid i'm the reclamation of the big
body of land that lies i'm the Mo-
have Valley, along the Colorado river,
the greater part of which is EN-
braced in the Indian allotment To
make the settlement of these lands
possible the river must be diked off
to prevent the overflow of the lands
during flood times which comes at a
time of the year when the first
crops are about to be garnered.
The Cotton Land and Water COM
pany has spent many thousands of
dollars in their attempt to secure the
lands from overflow, but the high
water of last spring ruined all the
crops i'm the valley. The break in
the levee was large and while this
could have been repaired with a
minimum of expense it was deemed
best to make the dixie higher and
wider and make it impregnible
against highest water that may come.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
BOMBARDiNG ADRIANOPLE.

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The lombard
ment of Adrianople, which opened
on Monday, was continued today
without an interruption. A report
spread that the Bulgarians had de.
ciGed to suspend the operations for
tWenty-four hours to give the Turks
an opportunity to surrender. How
ever, this appears to be without foun-
datlon, as are many other stories in
reference to the conditions in and
around the beleaguered fortress.
The Neue Freie Presses Constan-
tinople correspondent says the Turk
ish cabinet has agreed to the princi-
PIE of the cession of Adrianople on
the Bulgarian conditions, but wishes
to await the issue of the next few
days at the front.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08

1t is urged that Arizona be ade.
quately represented at the San Fran.
cisco and San Diego expositions, and
that ample provision be made for the
state fair
Under the governors call the legis.
lature has the power to revise nearly
every law on the Arizona statute
books "This imposes upon the legis-
lature an herculean task and lowers
the bar for every character and kind
OF legislation says the governor s
message. Il trust the occasion will
not be viewed i'm the light of a
license to plunge into all fields of
legislative endeavor, whether or not
real need exists
In summing up the condition of
the state, the governor says:
1T affords me unlimited Satisfac-
tion to report that the condition of
the state is most excellent. Generally
speaking, the people are prosperous
and happy, business is good, fine
feeling prevails, the industries upon
which the states development must
largely depend are without exception
flourishing, and the future holds
bounteously of encouragement and
promise"
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
POTATO RATES REDUCED.

Distance tariffs cutting in two
rates on onions and potatoes between
Arizona points, and in some cases eff
fecting even greater reductions, are
ordered into effect March / by a
corporation commission order issued
Tuesday
A supplemental order holds the
Southern Pacific and Arizona East
ern to be one system. The same ap-
plies to the main line of the Santa
Fe and it's branches in this state.
These two orders are the most
sweeping yet issued by the commits
sion. The supplementary order will
be no less of startling surprise to
the railroads than the one affecting
potato and onion rates.
A hearing on potato and onion
rates was held recently at Phoenix
before the commissioners. James
Kennedy testified that in Coconino
county alone there are $50, 900 acres
of land excellent for the growing of
potatoes, lying unused because freight
rates are so high that the product
cannot be shipped to southern Ari-
zona to compete with the potatoes of
other states.
Potatoes can be shipped to any
point in Arizona not on the Santa
Fe for less than they can be shipped
from Flagstaff to the same place.
Denver and Stockton, Cal, important
potato shipping points, can also get
into southern Arizona more cheaply
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
ANOTHER RAILROAD REPORT,

1t is reported that the Lewisshons
the Copper Basin country, southwest
OF Prescott, have obtained permission
for the construction of a branch line
OF railroad from the main line OF the
Santa Fe at Seligman to Bouse, on
the Arizona and California. The min.
ing property that is to be worked in
connection with this railroad is said
to be the richest i'm the state, a drill
having gone through fifty feet OF
native copper ore of exceptional rich
ness. Other mining interests will
be affected by the Mohave
County Miner.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
INCOME TAX APPROVED.

Direct taxes on incomes of citi-
zenS of the United Safes, whether de.
rived from idle capital or the con-
duct OF business, was made possible
Monday by the ratification of the
sixteenth amendment to the federal
constitution, Delaware, Wyoming and
New Mexico endorsed the income
tax amendment through their res
pectiVe legislatures, completed a list
OF thirty-eight states that have APP
proved it or two more than the
three7fourths necessary for final ad-
option.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
MESSAGE OF
GOV. HUNT
RECoUNTs PROGRESS OF STATE
AND SUGGESTS NEEDED LEGIS.
LATION FOR THE FUTURE
LlNNEY ELECTED SPEAKER.

PHOENIX, Feb. 4-When the first
state legislature of Arizona met i'm
second special session Monday morn
ing, H. H. Linney of Yavapai county
was elected speaker of the house on
representatives. Linneys election
was unanimous, so far as the demo
Gratis were concerned, but it followe,
long hard fight in caucus. The
senate proceeded on the theory that
the presiding officers at the first
two sessions hold over and no one
suggested that another president OF
that body be chosen. Michael G.
Gunniff, also of Yavapai, therefore
holds the chair.
Sam B. Bradner of Cochise county,
who was speaker of the house at its
first regular session and also the
first special session, called the house
TO order He then called CAPTAIN C.
B. Kelton of Cochise to the chair.
Taking CAPTAIN Kelton's place ON the
floor, Mr. Bradner said:
'1n the interests of harmony and
the democratic party, l wish to ten
der my resignation as speaker of the
house"
Harry Johnson Of Maricopa, Brad
ner supporter, moved that the resig,
CochiSe seconded the molten, which
was adopted unanimously. Graham
then nomonated Linney for the of
flee of speaker.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
MAY RESTORE LAND TO ENTRY

government surveyor has been
at work in the vicinity of Calzona
The past few days making a sur
vey of the government lands there.
These lands lie within the withdrawn
district, authorized a few years ago
under the then contemplated recla-
nation project of the government.
About two years ago a number of
settlers moved onto the land, and
petitiOned for it's restoration to set
.lement and entry Now that the
land is being surveyed it is likely
that an order for it's restoration to
cary will soon be made.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
SUPERVISORS
ARE STINGY
NO MONEY SPENT ON ROADS
HERE FOR PAST FOUR YEARS
--MINE OWNERS BEAR FULL
BURDEN.

At no time in it's history has Park
er been so urgently in need of as
Sistance from the county for road
work. Many requests have gone in
10 the board of supervisors for money
to repair the roads between here and
the mines north and east of town,
but they are invariably turned down
by that body. For the past four
years Parker and Parker citizens
have had to pungle UP their own
money for this kind of work. despite
the fact that annual assessments are
levied and paid for road work in
Yuma county.
For the past four years thousands
and thousands of dollars in taxes
have been paid by the citizens of
Northern Yuma county. AS the pres
ent prosperity of the town depends
largely on the surrounding mines it
IS only just and proper that the coun-
ty highways should be kept in decent
repair The mining companies have
pent thousands of dollars on road
work, but the officials at Yuma have
not contributed a red cent.
The auto trucks, which have been
hauling ore into Parker, have been
compelled to cease operations on ac-
count of bad roads The mine owners
10 not feel that they should stand
all of the burden, and it is shame
to ask them to do so. Just because
Parker is located long distance from
the county seat is no reason why
the supervisors should be so Mig
gardly about its road expenditures in
this end of the county.
When he was making his cam
paign in northern Yuma county, in
1911, Supervisor F. E. Elliott, now
chairman of the board, promised that,
If elected he would see that Parker
should receive it's just share of road
money. In fact he publicly made
this declaration at a democratic meet
ing held in Dertick's hall. The other
supervisors also promised not to
forget this end of the county in
fGad appropriation These assertions
evidently were empty promises which
the then candidates never intended
tc fulfill.
During the high water last year
a large portion of the road washed
cut near the old Hart saloon be
tween here and Empire Flats. The
board of trade wired the county COM
;nissiOners that for a small sum of
money expended Immediately the
road could be saved. The supervisors
did not have the courtesy to even
eply to the request of the board of
Il ade, and as a consequence the Ari-
zona-Empire company was compell-
ed to spend quite a sum in repair
.ng this particular piece of road by
dumping large quantities of rock
where the road had been washed out
and made exceedingly dangerous for
travel
For long time this paper has re-
Trained from taking the supervisors
TO task over their niggardly policy re-
garding the roads of Northern Yuma
county, but patience has ceased to
be virtue by their continued in
action in the mater. The county
appears to have plenty of money i'm
she treasury for road work i'm and
around Yuma, but when it comes to
spending any of it away from that
favored section there is nothing do
ing.
1t is time that the north end as
sert its rights and compel the board
to distribute the money obtained for
road work more equitably than has
'teen the case for the past four years.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT,

The Cotton Land and Water COM
pany is at work with 200 head of
mules and a large number of men re-
pairing the break i'm the big levee
on the Colorado river, that was made
by the flood of last spring, says the
Mohave County Miner. The COM
pany proposes to raise the level of
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
Machinery Arrives.

Two carloads of machinery arriv-
ed the past week at Vidal for the ID.
Il W. mine. The shipment consists
OF complete Lane mill of 100 tons
capacity. The material is now be-
ing hauled to the mine and con-
st, nction work will proceed as fast
as the machinery is delivered to the
property. The management expects
to have the mill installed and run
Mig by March 1, at which time a
big celebration is to be held at the
mine.
1t is understood that Herman
Amena, who owns the old Dunkirk
property. is about to sell the claims
to Los Angeles parties.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
WELL KNOWN
CITIZEN DIES
SHUCk AND SCHWE ERTFERGER
HAVE INSTALLED 80 n. p. EN-
CINE TO FURNISH WATER FOR
HALF SECTION OF LAND.

BLYTHE, CAL, Feb. 6.-The
sudden death of George Moore.
Blythe justice of the peace and one
OF Palo Verde's most esteemed citi-
zens. came as sad shock to the
entire community. The death oc-
Cured at 10 O'Clock Wednesday night
following weeks sickness, the
cause being acute pneumonia
| The period of sickness was so
short that few of the friends of the
deceased were aware of it before the
announcement of death came. Even
those who were accustomed to see
the judge almost daily at the Car
rigan & Hopkins store, where he
was employed, had scarcely noticed
his absence.
Those in attendance at the bedside
had not realized that the illness was
so serious and the fact that the
patient was deirious most of the
time prior to his death added to
the sadness of the shock when the
end came
The body was buried in Blythe
cemetery on Friday afternoon of last
week. The business men of Blythe
closed their stores and attended the
funeral in a body, as an indication
of the high respect which they held
for the deceased.
A wife, her mother, and two bro
theirs and three sisters remain to
mourn the death. The brothers and
sisters are all living in New York
George Moore was borne in New
York city on March 13, 1870, and
would have been 43 years of age
next month He belonged to family
of students and his brothers and
sisters as well as the Judge him
self, were inclined toward literature.
He was great reader and an ardent
democrat. One scarcely will meet a
man better Wersed in the history and
workings of the political parties of
the last two generations.
During the Cleveland admins
tration Moore served as collector of
the port at Sitka and other points i'm
Alaska. He was married in June,
1913, in New York city.
He came to the Palo Verde valley
in November, three years ago, and
settled on the homestead four miles
west OF Blythe, where he lived until
his death. The homestead has been
patented. He has served as justice
of the peace in Blythe precinct for
the past two years.
Few men who have occupied the
public position held by Moore have
succeeded in making so few enemies.
The secret of it lay in the cOnscien-
cious manner in which he attended
every detail. Equity was his basis
for settling the cases that came be-
fore him in his capacity of justice.
The judge was sensitive. Few of
trait, but it was his sensitive nature
that gave him the friendship of the
entire Palo Verde valley No one
ever heard him utter a word or SEN
tence that would hurt anyone's feel
ings. 1t was his own sensitiveneSs
that made him so considerate of
others and it was for this reason and
because of his genial nature that we
all liked him.
Rev. III. G. Burgess, who was in
charge of the funeral services, paid
him fitting tribute when he said,
His mistakes were those of judg-
ment, not of the heart" Another
friend, and one who knew him we'll.
said, "He was kind and he was
and more could be said of
no man.
oIMo MATED NM MEcA
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
Governors Message.

Greater powers for the tax commits
sion, the abolition of capital punish
ment, publicity for the owners of
newspapers, changes i'm the election
laws, state board of public works
compensation for convict road work
ers, a change in the personnel of the
board OF pardons, cutting of timber
from university lands, homes for cpl
leptics and disabled miners, and more
stringent anti-lobbying laws are
among the principal recommendations
made by Governor George Hunt in
his message to the legislature, sub
mitted at the opening of the second
special session Monday
The governor uses some very point
ed language in denouncing those per-
cons and newspapers who have con-
sistently misrepresented the actions
of the state government to make it
appear that there was gross misman-
agement and extravaganza in the han
ding OF AriZona's S affairs. He also
brands as 'pure and simple lies
many reports that have been circu-
lated to make it appear that the
'honor system of prison reform is a
failure
Probably no more vigorous Ian
3lage was ever used i'm the message
of governor than those sections re-
ferring to the expenditure of state
funds and to the honor system The
sovernor expresses the belief that
all state offices are being admins
tered honestly and capably, and an
no"nces his intention to continue the
honor system, because, in his opin-
ion, its success has already been
demonstrated.
In answer to the charge that the
legislature created useless offices, he
POINTS cut that only three offices not
provided fer III the constitution We're
provided for by the first legislature
There has been some talk of abol-
ishing the land commission. The gov
ernor praises the work OF the present
commission highly and recommends
an appropriation to enable it to car
ry On it's work
The corporation commission is re-
ferred to as vital cog in the
states progressive machinery that
can newer be dispensed with
The creation OF a state board of
immigration, to advertise the re-
sources of this state, is advocated
The governor suggests that this body
do the work of the state land board
which was formed to look after the
Carey act projects.
Governor Hunt recommends that
land agents who induce people to
settle on land unsuited to agriculture
be prosecuted under law making
such frauds felonies.
Great satisfaction over the present
amHable relations between capital
and labor in Arizona is expressed by
the governor in his message. He
gives the progressive laws of Arizona
credit for this condition, and recon-,
mends the passage of an equitable
minimum wage law.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
MINING NEWS
OF THE WEEK
CLARK INTERESTS TO WORK
kME RICAN EAGLE UNDER A
BOND AND LEASE-MORE GOLD
At EMPIRE.

One of the most important min
ing sales of the past week i'm this
section was that made by the w. A.
Clark copper interests for the Ameri-
can Eagle property, located in the
Whipple mountains, about Is miles
known for some time past that Fred
w Nagle, one of Senator Clark's
mining engineers, has been negotiat-
lue with the officials of the American
Eagle company for a lease and bond
on the property, and the final con-
summation of the deal was confident
ly anticipated by those who were
familiar with the excellent showing
Of the mine.
Active development work is to be
started at once. Approximately ST.
900 worth of supplies have already
been delivered at Vidal, and are now
being hauled to the property. A force
of about fifteen men is to be put
ON, and it is understood that this
number is to be increased as fast
as possible
Two auto trucks are to be put on
hauling ore to Vidal, where the ore
is to be shipped to the Clark smelt-
er at Jerome. The road between the
mine and Vidal is one of the best
in the country and it is a certainty
that auto trucks will prove a success
i'll transporting the product of the
mine at a very low cost.
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
More Gold At Empire.

AS development work continues at
discoveries of high-grade ore are be-
ing made almost daily Just now
the work that is being carried ON
at the old Walters shaft is occa-
sioning no little excitement and in
terest. Gold ore running up to $3.50
70 the ton and over has been taken
out of this working during the past
week or ten days. AT the surface
another force of miners are sacking
high-grade gold ore. About three
Or four hundred sacks of ore have
been prepared for shipment from
Walters claim of the ArizOna7Empire
A gold strike was also made at the
Eagle during the week.
A carload of high-grade copper ore
is also awaiting shipment at the
Eagle tunnel The last car shipped
FROM this property netted the COM
pany about $500. Only a small
force is working in the Eagle tun-
mel, but when a carload is ready for
shipment from this working it can
be depended upon to net big values.
Owing to the conditions of the
roads the auto trucks have been
compelled to cease work until more
repairs can be made. The heavy
hauling over the roads during the
past few weeks resulted in running
them for auto trucks for the present.
g. W. Mitchell, manager of the Ari-
ZOna-Empire, went into Los Angeles
Tuesday night, and when he returns
Saturday it is expected that some
thing definite will be done in re-
gar3, to recOnstructing the highway.
1t has been suggested that the cat
erpiiiar type of engine is the only
successful means of transportation
over desert and sandy roads, and it
is probable that one will be secured
here for ore hauling
The Parker post., 1913-02-08
PUMP WATER ON MESA.

The completion Thursday of this
week of a 32-horsepower pumping
plant at the Shnck ranch on the
mesa north of Mesaville marked the
first definite work toward the ir-
rigation of the rich Palo Verde mesa.
The plant, which has been put in
by Wayne Shuck and Julius Schwert-
ferger, will supply so miner inches,
or about $40 gallons of water a min
ute. 1t is estimated that this flow
will irrigate about 200 acres of crops
or three times that amount of fruit
Land. The land is practically ready
to receive the water now and within
the next few days the work of
seeding will begin. Later several
acres of fruit are to be set out.
The well was bored to a depth of
300 feet and the plant includes a 8
inch cylinder, 62 inches long. 1t is
The Parker post., 1913-02-08

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