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Arizona republican., 1914-05-29
PHOENIX MARKET
For valley products

NEW NOTARY-A notariaI com | mission was issued yesterday by the l secretary of state to c. H. Martin of Hereford, Cochise county. ON VACATION-Jam J Murphy lof the state treasurers office leaves next week for Chicago and eastern points where he will spend his va cation.
 HIS FRIEND EXALTED-James P
 LaVin, af the United States land of
 flee, received word yesterday that
 Do sweeney, close personal friend, I had been appointed and would soon 1 take over the duties of an assistant | secretary of the interior. MT. Swee- ney is a Seattle attorney.
 METHODIST PICNIC-The Sun day school picnic of the First Meth
 odlst church will take place Satur-
 day starting at noon. It will be held near Camelback, seven miles
 from Phoenix. Cars will leave Berry, | hills at noon, and picnickers will be met at the Camelback road in hay
 wagons and automobiles. The doings
 will take place on the ranch of H. A. | SeVeringhauS
 THE RETAIL CLERkS-A meet.
 ing of the Retail Clerks Association
 was held at the city hall last night
 for the purpose of electing officers oi | the association. The following off cers were elected: Jack Rinehart, ot
 Goldberg Bros, president; o. D. Ed
 mundson. of the New York store, vice. president; Lasker Wise, of the New York store, secretary pro tenn. h.
 asmuch as no time has been fixed
 by the Merchants and Manufacturers
 Association for the beginning of the summer holiday, arrangements for the picnic could not be made, but
 committee was appointed to confer with the NJ. & M. relative to the half
 holiday season. The members of the
 committee are O. D. Edmundson, C
 E. Miller and Arnold Blumenthal | committee to select a place for the picnic, whenever it may be, was
 named. The directors of the Clerks Association are Jack Rinehart, o. b Edmundson, Mrs. K. A. Clausen, Ar | mold Blumenthal, c. E. Miller, Mrs. Mary Summers, J. k. Hogsett and 1 w. w. Burke. The association will | meet next Friday night at o'clock at the city hall.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-29

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Arizona republican., 1914-05-29
COMMITTEE IS FOR
 CLOSING ON SATURDAY

The committee on clos ing recommends to the merchants of Phoenix that they close their places of business from 10 d. m. to ?. m. on Saturday, May 90, Memorial Day.
 Committee on Closing. Merchants and Manufac- turers' Association.
Arizona republican., 1914-05-29
BATHING SUITS. Pinney & Ro- -(Advertisement.)

The Building Committee of Bethel Church will receive bids for the next ten days on a church to be erected on the corner of 7th and Osborn street Plans and specifications can be found at the office of Camp Tan nehill Co., 33 East Adams street or at the home of Rev. Ray corner Of 7th and Osborn streets. Committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 J. ALLEN RAY, Chairman.
 W. c. HEDGPETH. Secretary,
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Daddy 'sBedhrne
~ The Elephants
fOTV- Celebrate
The Holiday.

3 course it was very natural that Jack and Evelyn should enjoy ey-
cry holiday that came along But daddy wanted to tell them how
tn elephants in the zOo were planning to spend Decoration day.
They are going to have a real holiday" commenced daddy, "and
umy Ia been practcing for it for weeks. You have no idea the trouble
they have taken to make themselves ready for the big event"
Daddy" chined in Jack, you haven't told us what the big event is
to be-" f,
mo; that is true" said daddy. "But I will tell you right away. The big
event is to be a baseball game The elephants heard all the different little
boys who came to look at them in the 90 talking about the fun Of playing
baseball In the spring. The elephants thought it would be just as much fun
for them to play baseball in the spring too.
NOW, the keeper knew at once somthing val wrong with those Gle
plants He knew it was something they wanted in the way Of amuss-
ment too, for they we're not the least bit ill and showed, in fat, how well
they We're by their splendid appetes.
so the keeper thought and thought, and finally he discovered what 1t
was. He was just about to give the elephants their supper one day a q
group of boys were standing near by.
The boys were talking of the fine game they would surely have the next
AFTERNOON At the word ball the elephants hung their heads way down and
threw their trunks around in a very unhappy manner.
~ know what is the matter with them said the keeper to himself
They have the spring fever, baseball WELL, if that is all that Is making
them unhappy I will see tt it that they have all the baseball they want
THE very next day, much to the surprise and delight of the elephants, a
a glove and a bat and bali were presented to the elephant which was
always considered the leader by the others
You al Imagine how excited they were, and you should have seen how
queery they did play ait first But they had such fun that their happiness.
was a perfect delight to the keeper
Then they heard that there vas to be a holiday on the S0th day of May
"We1l have a holiday, too said they we will have a ball game, and
any ne who wants to see us play may come with pleasure
And this is what they have been prachcing for sc that tomorrow they
will have their holiday game.
"And the keeper who has a secret idea that they are preparing for a spe-
cal game tomorrow, has in turn prepared a sIedaI supper for them and Cor
all the anrOaEa %ecan hohdaEL" '..
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FRIDAY. WAY 2e, 1914.
FARGO COLLEGE.

While the business men of Fargo
n Moorhead have had many de-
mands on their generosity in the past
few years, there is no doubt about the
response that will be made to this last
final appeal from Fargo college. Fargo
and Moorhead are asked to raise $780,
600 by July 1 to make certain the $50
600 additional that James j. Hill has
offered co~ndttionally. OF his 500. 900
that Fargo has been asked to raise.
over half has already been given Or
pledged.
This means that all Fargo must do
now to place Fargo college on a solid
and enduring financial basis is to
raise less than $4,000.
There is more at stake than the
$4,000 that J. J. Hill has promised. If
the people of Fargo show that they
have faith in the future of their local
institution by making d sacrifice for
it and getting behind il in a substan-
t1al manner, other pocket strings will
be loosened and it will be a ompara-
lively easy matter to get more funds.
-@~ SAAN'A "tO nc . IllOtlCN are
shTewd. They are not putting their
funds, ever for philanthropic purposes,
where the money will not bring in
good returns. They have only one way
TO judge of the merits Of an ~institu-
ton. toward which they are asked to
contribute, and that~is by the interest
that is shown in it locally. If they see
that the people Of the community are
in dead earnest and are willing to back
the proposition with their own funds,
then they know that the institution
must have considerable merit.
There is not the least question in the
minds of F~argoans as to the import
ance of Fargo college, not alone to the
city of Fargo but as one of the leading
educational institutions Of the north
west. The college on the hill" has
gained wide fame in recent years as
an institution of high ideals, and one
that is showing splendid results. De-
spite a handicap of lack Of funds. the
institution has drawn Ito itself a bril-
liant faculty n a loyal and high class
student body.
But, aside from this, and merely
from the dollars and cents point of
view, it would be poor business on the
part of Fargo to lose such an institu-
ton from the city for the lack Of
$50. 900,
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WILL BECKER CONFESS?

The public, having formed a certain
opinion of the character of Charles
Becker, will hesitate long before Civ
Ing credenCe to the report that he in
tends to confess to Mr.. Whitman 50
as to save his life at least. While
matters look black for Becker now. if
must be recalled that the same tribun-
al which directed the second trial inst
closed, will also hear the appeal for 2
third day in court.
The highest court held that the tes-
tlmony Of the three informers was
sufficient to convict Becker on the first
trial. This testimony has been rein
forced in the second by the evidence
of the negro boy, Marshall, who swora
positively that Becker was a partici-
pant in the Harlem conference" at
which the agreement to kill RosenthaI
was reached.
But as against this evidence is the
support accorded the former lieuten-
ant by half a dozen of his fellow no.
hcemen. This testimony. however
does not seem to have made a strong
Impression on the jury, while that of
the negro apparently clinched the case
against Becker. The "atmosphere' of
the court on the first trial, which the
appellate tribunal roundly scored, was
altogether changed in the second and
no intrmities of temper marked JUS
tice Seabury's handling of the case.
1t would seem, however. as if Beck
er still has a fighting chance for life,
and there is little likelihood of a con-
fession from him as long as that hope
exists.
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d Century
and a Quarter Old

from the long journey. So they got
him a room at the Cliff hotel, and he
looked in infinite disgust at the bed
and spread his blanket on the floor.
Then he got hungry and ate some
beetsteak, two eggs and some potatoes.
The sight of butter disturbed him and
it was taken away. He turned in for
the night. But too many wagons"
went by on Hennepin avenue and he
could not sleep as peacefully as in
his tepee in the woods.
A Warrior for so Years.
Seventy years ago, the old man said,
in the great battle at Red Lake be-
tween the Sioux and Chippewa In
dams, he fought, and for so years he
was a warrior for his people in the
combat for the hunting grounds. In
the fall of 1S45 he led his Chippewas
to victory in a dozen bloody fights,
but hunger and disease eventually
wrecked the Chippewas and they re-
treated to near where st, Cloud now
stands.
Saved Whites in Massacre.
In the great milan uprising of the
year 1852, the most historic warfare
incident in Minnesota, he with other
n went north after the New UIm
~ I w " III pSSP4S VI
their danger. Other runners fell,
pierced by Sioux arrows, out Wa-be-
na-gew-Wes got through and his
frindless for the whites and his eff
forts in their behalf mark a part of
the history Of that time.
"Now my people are dying, my
youth is gone" he said today. And
he is very sensitive on one point, for
last winter while hunting he froze his
nose. Blood run cold like squaw," he
said. "Old, DID," n it was appar-
ent that he did not like to think about
it.
Tells How He Lived So Long.
How any mar so bent and withered,
still can stand erect and still can hear
the slightest noise and see a small OBJ
ject at a great distance, is the won
der Of the old mans appearance, but
many things contributed to it. Like
the working of a piece of old and mot
tied rubber was his face, when Charlie
Brunell asked what he believed most
contributed to his long. life, the small,
bead like. eyes began to twinkle away
back in the head, the, tip Of the nose
bent down to meet the chin, the mouth
opened, and the great contributing
cause came out in n loud English
word.
"Poker."
And then he laughed. Gone is the
theory that the Indian does not laugh
so animated that he knit his fingers
together and the great knuckles
stood out along the bony fingers like
rows Of brown marbles.
' Plays Imaginary Hand.
Poker, poker" he shouted again.
and soon the Chippewa words were
coming out in volume.
From the floor he picked a large
colored handkerchief to be a OlotfMfio
colored handkerchief. HE means that
it is supposed to be a tobacco pouch"
said Charlie Brunell.
Then the old man put the handker-
chief in his lap. dropped his Eyes,
darted them furtively about as If look
ing into faces close at hand, his
great long skinny fingers moved as if
he was shuffling cards, he made sever
al passes with the right hand under
the handkerchief, waited a long time,
then suddenly drew his hand out from
under the handkerchief; while the
wrinkles in his face grew deeper than
ever and the little eyes snapped, and
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wen konwns but we reprint : few of

p--Ss-ss ...... .... .... IS.
Canon Knox Little knew OF a lych
gate in front Of a church which was
being restored, owe the DOR of which
was painted: This Is the Gate OF
!Heaven!" while underneath was a no.
lice In large letters: go round the
ather way"
Here is another: One day when old
Archbishop Howley drove up in grand
style to the door of the house of lords
a Quaker thus addressed him: Friend
Howley, what would the Apostle Paul
have said IL he had seen these four
horses and the purple liveries and all
the rest?" The good natured primate,
in no way clustered, replied as fol-
lows: Doubtless the apostle would
have remarked that things weas ~ery
much changed for he better since his
time"
l. There is a story told by P. H. Ditch
field of a London vicar who liked to
have a hymn sung at family prayers.
In order to interest his servants he
allowed them to choose the hymns,
cook on her selection: What a nice
hymn you chose" Eyes, num-" she
replied, "it's the number of my per-
niceman!
d The bishop Of Peterborough, DR.. Ma
gee, being plagued to go and open oil
sorts OF things-churches, school ba-
Ears and SO forth-exclaimed one day
to the bishop of Leicester: 81 do be-
lieve very soon there will not be a
young curate in the diocese who has
bought a new umbrella who will not
apply to the bishop to come and open
.it!'
Stories about ministers in Scotland
are very numerous. The scene of one.
which We need hardly say is a libel.
was a pier in the Western Highlands.
Goods were being landed from a
steamship when the captain said to
the deck hand: Is there anything
more to put ashore, Donald" aAy.
sir" answered Donald, there's the
two-gallon jar o. whisky for the
Established minister" For the Es-
tablished minister. Donald" said the
captain, laughing. Are we quite sure
It's nc for the Free Kirk minister? ~
quite, sir said Donald, cannily athe
Free Kirk minister aye gets his
whisky jar in the middle of a barrel
sf flour!"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-29
lSHORT TERM FRANCHISES
BURDEN ON PUBLIC

Short term franchises for public
utilities prevent extensions and re-
strict service, a y Thomas n, Nc
Carter, President of the Public Ser
vice Corporation Of New Jersey, in the
May issue Of Aera.
suppose" he argues, you rented a
piece Of property on Broadway, and
the property was vacant and you took
that property on a twenty-year lease,
and then, without any further right 10
occupy the premises at the end of
twenty years, you put a building on
mat property that cost 500, 900.
Would moi any prudent man sinking
fund that investment every year to the
extent Of five thousand dollars, so that
at the end of the twenty years he
would at least get his bait back? Now,
II franchises involving a large ex-
penditure of money after they are
granted are to be limited to anv set
period of time, the same principle
u be followed. IL "
"Operating expenses must be maid
by the people in rates, taxes must be
paid by The people in rates.; sinking
fund charges must be paid by the peo-
pie in rates; and the shorter time Won
limit the franchise, the larger the
sinking fund payment, hence, the
larger rate paid by this generation of
the public"
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HAVE LOST

The British militant suffra pet+es
have been indulging in another tovous
sspasm OF hysterla, the most spectacu-
lar of their exciting history, COM
ments The DETROIT Free Press. Thev
have fought a battle with the nolico
under the very eye Of the king; thew
nave created riot in court and hava
thrown missiles at the judge; thew
have committed wholesale vandalism
IN the art galleries with an enthusiasm
that would have delighted the souls of
the medieval iconoclasts; they have
burned buildings they have shot off
bombs; they have hurled insulting epi-
thets at the king in a public place.
And london generally has looked UPON
with a disguised tolerance except as
some portion Of it has been discom-
moded. .'
AS the militants in Great Britain
have become more and more extrava-
giant in their methods they have lost
the sympathy of their friends. Thev
have incurred the disapprovaI of the
non militant and constructive suffra-
gists of their own land and of all other
lands. h disapproyal is very strong
among the s~uffragists of the United
States who feel that the m~ilitants have
done their cause serious harm. Con-
yerseIy, as they have lost sympathy.
the Pankhursts have grown more and
more extreme in their methods and
have relapsed more and more into bar
barism, eve into savagery. If this
last outbreak is q gauge Of their fres-
ent status as a real influence in the
United Kingdom they are in a desper-
ate. cases
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Minneapolis Journal: John Smith,
or Wa-be-ne-geW-wes, for more than
100 years chief of the once powerful
tribe OF Chippewa Indians, who is 12S
years old, as he reckOns it, and whose
existence, as a boy, 116 years ago is
Vouched for by government records,
is in Minneapolis, to see, for himself,
before he dies, the great city that has
risen in his lifetime where one prime
val wilderness was unbroken. The
last of the great Indian chieftains Of
the country, bent n shrunken by age,
still is able to walk about, and all his
faculties have been retained. He ar
rived last night.
Noise of City Disturhs Him.
Two small bright eyes in the depths
Of a ace so scanned and Wrinkled and
withered hat no words can visualize it
looked out, from the second 1oor win
dow Of the old chiefs room in the
Cliff hotel in High street, upon the
Mississippi river. A great stone pipe
and a large cloth-wrapped supply Of
"kinnickinnic" were at his hand. The
noise and rumble of a great city dis
turbed him, and in the night he rose at
times from the blanket on the floor
where he slept and sat at the window.
Today the bed was untouched.
Too Many Wagons, He Says.
"Too many wagon" said the old
chief. The solitude of the northern
woods called him and he suffered from
homesickness. To Charlie Brunell, or
Little Cloud" who, with his wife and
6-months-old baby, came along with the
old chief, he complained Of a noise.
James Lydick and John Smith, an
adopted son, all of Cass Lake, came
with the old man who was afraid to
trust himself alone in a city.
"My People Are Going" J,
cold. Old" he said in English. But
he lapsed into the Chippewa tongue
and spoke through an interpreter
when he said:
MY people are going. Soon l will
go. 1 came to see Minneapolis before
l die"
The lines that cross the old mans
ace have worn so deep. and cross
ines Of great agepnever seen in the
ordinary human countenance have in
tersected, until the face is like the
tracing Of a brown net and purplish
color that fades to deepest brown runs
through It
Sight and Hearing Good.
The chin and nose have drawn to-
gether and What must once have been
the, features of an Indian of the high
est physical type make but a shapless
mass beside which two great ears
stand out like fans as g has thin
ned the back of the head and drawn
away the flesh from the high cheek
bones. But the eyes are bright, the.
hearing acute and the brain alert.
The whole great story Of the wilder.
ness that was, and of the white mans
coming, n the wars, and all hat
followed, seemed wrapped up in the
person of the little withered old man
on the blanket.
Afraid of Elevator.
Into the elevator at the Union sta
ton stepped the old man, with Charlie
Brunell and James Lydiek on either
side, when the train had arrived, but
when the floor began to rise under
his feet he called out hoarsely in pro-
test and alarm. An automobile was
waiting at the door, but the old chief,
unlike two or three others, rushed by
and refused to enter the car.
Turns From Bed in Disgust.
Blanket he said. He was tired
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-29
SIeep,

Kansas City Star: The science and
poetry Of sleep are here:
Sleep begins in it's first phase by a.
state of distraction. = + %Immedi-
ately afterwards, in a second phase,
these state of distraction pass into a
very delicate motor disturbance, due
TO the absence of parallelisn In he
axes OF the eyes, Or by the deviation
Of their ~conjugate movements.
Sleep hath it's own world,
A boundary between the things. mis-
named
Death and existence: Sleep hath its
own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality.
And dreams in their DEVELOPMENT
have breath,
And tears and tortures and the touch
of joy.
And Shakespeare's "Sleep that
knits UP the ravell'd sleeve of care"
And a host of others-that You can
get glimpse of in the anthologies,
AS between science and poetry,
which gives you the truer idea Of
sleep?
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should:
-Four aces"
Then he laughed again, louder than
before.
Knew. Sitting Bull.
Sitting Bull, I knew him." he said
in Chippewa. He could not be killed,
the Indians said. No arrow was made
to kill him, no bullet. When he was
killed the Indians did not believe it.
They thought he could not be killed"
Then he grew reminiscent. He spoke
of Freeman Gray, a pioneer logger,
of Hart Mcclure. And he knew Rice.
"Mahnomen" he said, using he Indian
word for Rice.
Calls T. 3. Walker His Friend.
Rice came from Washington and
met the Indians on the Cloquet river
and made a treaty. But the Indians
did not like Rice, he said. and did not
think he was fair.
"T. b. Walker is my FRIEND" he
said. IT know him."
Then the old mar stood up from his
blanket, as d new thought occurred to
hin, and he told the greatest story~of
his recent life. 1t was the story Of a
man at Cass Lake who sold him a jug
of "skinnenaboo," or whisky. And
when he got out into the woods with it
he discovered that it was just water.
And he had paid IS for it.
"No Kill, Civilized Now"
mo kill him." he said. mo kill
now. Old time kill, but now" he
meant apparently to say "civilized'
or something synonymous but could
not ~articulate it, and promptly lapsed
back into Chippewa. And he told OF
his bitter disappointment when he
only water in the jug.
There was an old horse that he
owned. 1t was about to die of old
age. In much detail and in Chippewa
he described the old horse, dropping
his shoulders as a sign of how weak
the old horse was n feeling of his
knees, to indicate that the horse had
knees that were mo good"
How He Got Revenge.
He killed the horse, cut off and
skinned the hind quarters, put the
meat on a sled where it froze solid on
the way into Cass Lake, took it to
the nan who had deceived him and
said: $500
Moose meat"
The man bought the meat for SO.
There were people who considered
moose meat a great delicacy and there
was demand for it.
One week later. Wa-Ge-na-gew-wes
came back to Cass Lake, stood solemn
ly before the mar and said:
Moose meat"
A Great Exploit, He Thinks.
The man looked as if he would like
to. kill the old chief, but he said moth
ing. We-be-na-gew-wes considers it
one Of the great exploits of his life.
Late today the younger men in the
party still were trying to get the old
chief into an automobile. But he pre-
fers to walk, he said. and they could
not influence him. His pace is slow,
how to get him through the
crowded streets that he might see the
of the city, was a problem.
Will See City Sights.
The wife of "Little Cloud" who is
very beautiful, has much influence
over the old man. and with her assist
ance it was expected that after he had
recovered from the shock of having
the floor Jump up" when he got into
the station elevator, and had rested a
more from the fatigue Of listen
ing all night to too many wagons"
going past the hotel, he would consent
enter an automobile and make a
tour Of Minneapolis, the city that he
wants to see before he dies.