Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-05-29
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Events of Interest from the Sent
of Government.
BY J. Il. JONES.

BY J. T.. JONES.
Observation-Disclosures.

haipii H. tdiitTOu VI fnuelllA.
Arizona, is in Washington, and he
has unfolded rhe greatest plar over
proposcf o., reola ~ any section OF
the coun,t for Cameron Is going
to do nothing less than harness the
power Of the Grand Caryon OF the
Colorado. and he has hr1rG-ei etrio
DEVELOPMENT project which ~ CON-
parisoI makes the Niasara '5.Iy md
KeOkuk dam Developments 10 ! kC
children's ships in mud pu3tlc
Mr.. Cameron is the Al who luilt
the Pr'rh s.. ~cl tr~i' r tn. :
the Grand Canyon and peCp'e s.iC ii,
was Camaron's Folly" But that
was years ago before the hundreds of
thousands of tourists got their first
real thrills in life entering Arizona by
this only passage way from the north
down what has become the most IA
nous scenic route in the world When
the people of Arizona tired of promi-
SEES of statehood and wanted "the
goods delivered" they sent Ralph
Cameron to congress. He stayed here
three years and at the end of that
time he went back home-but not to
the home that had been the Terri
tory of Arizona" but to the Estate of
Arizona" which he had promised he
would secure cor never again ask for
political Office"
Thirty-two years ago Cameron quit
clerking in Hovey's store in Boston,
and went to Arizona, where he be-
came one of the first of the sheriffs
who have furnished the inspiration
which present-day moving picture
men thrive upon. The difference be-
tween the real and the playhouse
kind is that Ralph Cameron is one of
the men who went out single-handed
and alone and actually trailed one of
the most desperate murderers ever
known to the Southwest for three
weeks through the cactus and sage
brush, into No Mans Land, captured
and shackeled the Terror of Arizo-
ma" and brought him home for trial.
The interior department has been
expecting Cameron to show up, and
it is a good sign that this branch of
our government has a welcome on the
doormat for live wires who, like Mr..
Cameron, are putting the best brains,
Drawn, intelligence and money in the
country back of retaining the South
west for the people who want homes
and are willing to work for them.
The Gran Canyon hydro-electric
project has been Ralph
Cameron's dream for II years. 1t
means that nearly $50.000,00O will
be expended and that 100000 horse
power will be secured. This won
drous power will be distributed over
100000 acres of land and will re-
claim most of 1t, as it has been es-
tablished that there is an abundance
of underlying water and this will be
pumped for irrigation purposes ana
for mining projects. whose difficulties
have been in the lack of power and
water. The Roosevelt Dam reclaims
100000 acres-one-tenth of the
Grand Canyon project. The best en-
gineers in the United States have O.
KID the new project. and 1t seems
assured.
Lost-A Constitution.
Wisconsin has Just discovered the
fact that it has lost its constitution
that is to say, the original constitu-
ton was sent to Washington when it
was adopted in 184S and no one dis
covered until recently that it was
missing. The Wisconsin and the ma
tional capitols have been searched
with the result that only copy Of
the document, which is at Madison,
has been brought to light. Senator
LaFollette has pursued the search
through the state department at
Washington, the Congressional Ii
brary and the senate and house files,
but has been unsuccessful,-and it is
now believed that the document
found its way into the files of one Of
the congressional committees and
probably was destroyed more than
half century ago. Perhaps, after
all, the constitution is not important
among Badgers.
The Fiery Senators.
It is not because they belong to diff
ferent parties but just simply because
they do not like one another, that
Senators Ashurst OF Arizona and Bris-
tow of Kansas come together" so
frequently Ashurst was making a
plea for an appropriation for exter-
minating the prairie dogs a few days
ago when Bristow suggested that the
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