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The Coconino sun., 1914-01-02
Kansas City Market Letter
tRyJ A. Rickart. Correspondent)
Kansas City Stock Yards, Dc


 Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec. 2o, 1913. Beef steers advanced 25 to 40 cents last week, cows and heifers strong to 25 higher, stock cattle and feeders about steady. Fancy yearlings sold at 9. 50 during the week, similar to ten dollar yearlings when the Christmas premium was being paid. Re- ceipts today are 10000 head, and the market is strong to Is higher. Heavy steers sold up to 8.oo today and middle class fed steers at 7.75 to $40 Choice heifers bring SIS, and best heavy cows 700. Veal calves bring up to HOO, and stock calves are a, quarter higher today, tops at S.25. Stock cattle and fed feeders are unevenly higher today, good to choice stock CTS and feeders selling at 6.75 to TAO. Quarantine receipts are light today, 43 cars. Some we'll finished meal fed steers IoS5 pounds average, brought 500, highest price this month. Some medium short fed steers brought 6.75 in the quarantine division and Arkansas and Louisiana cows and steers at 4.5o to 6.25. Cold weather has been a shelp to live stock prices, and the market is on healthy basis. The Christmas turkey was expected to exert ad- verse influence this week, and the fact that prices are higher today, 1, on fairly liberal receipts, bears out the prophecy of commission men that advances in the cattle market may be expected beginning with January.
 Hogs also are going up. The market is 10 to I5 higher today, some sales of light weights 20 higher, and salesmen assert that eight dollars will be paid tomor- row. Receipts are very light here 6ooo head today which proved in- sufficient to go around. Order buyers were looking for good I8o to 1oo pound hogs today, but none were here, and packers paid the top price, 7.o5 for two lots, one medium weight, and the other heavy hogs. Highly mixed light weights sold at 7.6o to 7.So, bulk of sales 7.65 to 7.oo.
 Sheep and lambs arrived to the number of II,ooo today, market strong on sheep, weak on lambs. Several lots of pea fed lambs from the San Luis Valley sold at Sos today, and ewes sold early at 4.S5, wethers quotable up to $50, yearl- ings 700. Kansas fed western lambs brought 8.Io Friday. Pros. poets for balance of this week indicate light receipts.
The Coconino sun., 1914-01-02
In the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County
 of COcOninO.

of CocOnino.
 In the matter of the estate of Chas. c. Hutchinson, deceased.
 Notice of hearing petition.
 Notice is hereby given that I. E. Pollock has filed in this Court cer- tain document preporting to be the last Will and Testament of Charles c. Hutchinson. deceased together with his petition praying that sald document be admitted to probate in this Court as the last Will and Testament of said Charles c. Hut chinson, deceased who. said peti- tioner alleges, is deceased, and that letters testamentary issue thereon to said petitioner and Ella Hut crimson, and that same will be heard on Saturday the 10th day of Janu- ary A. D. 1914, at 10 o'lcock in the forenoon of said day, at the court room of said court. in the Court House, in the town of Flagstaff. County of Coconino. State of Ari- zona, and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted.
 CHAS. H. ADAMS,
 Clerk. Dated December 23, 1913. Dec. 26, Jan. 9th.
The Coconino sun., 1914-01-02
Application for Grazing Permits

Notice is hereby given that all applications for permits to graze cattle, horses, sheep, and swine within the Coconino National For est during the season of 1914, must be filed in my office at Flag. strf, Arizona, on or before Jan uary IS, 1914. Full information in regard to the grazing fees to be charged and blank forms to be used in making applications, will be furnished upon request.
 w. M. DRAKE, Supervisor.
 Dec. I8-Jan. 9.
The Coconino sun., 1914-01-02
Applications for Grazing Permits

NOTICE is hereby given that all applications for permits to grazc cat tie, horses. sheep and swine within the TUSYAN NATIONAL FOREST during the season of 1914 must be filed in my office at Williams. Arizona, on or before January Is, 1914. Full i'm formation in regard to the grazing fees to be charged and blank forms to be used in making applications will be furnished upon request.
 HAROLD GREENE Dec 19 and Jan } Supervisor
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Poor Railroad Facilities.

The BEACON has always bee!
very ready to speak a good wore
for the old Mobile and Ohio, be.
lieving that it has been an i'm
portant factor in the develop.
ment of Noxubee county, and fol
many recent years its manage.
ment has been sincere and active
in helping build up this section
and giving good service.
Much trouble and expense this
fall has been put upon cattle
shippers from the Macon depot
however. Farmers from the out
lying districts have telephoned
or written to find out when they
could get an empty car. The re-
ply would be that the car would
be here for them on a certain
day.
They bring their cattle for
shipment into Macon and find no
car. They often have to wait as
long as three days for one. In
the meantime, they have to feeG
their cattle here at the depot,
Moreover the cattle pens there
are knee deep in mud and mire.
They lose heavily in weight. tt
shipper is put to much troubl
worry, expense and loss, an
Heaven knows we have enoug
trouble, worry, expense and loss
as it is this year.
There is some carelessness 0
negligence or some defect somo.
where IN the management, elthe
in our local railroad office or tn
train dispatcher's office or tn,
car service. 1t is a trouble tina
ought Immediately to be remed-
led, and doubtless will be whel
the public attention is called tc
it.
OF course, after the Mobile
and Ohio has waged a campaign
for diversified crops and stock
raising, it is not going to dis.
courage cattlemen in this man
ner,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

Leo Hackenschmidt. king of the
lightweights in the wrestling game,
hit Birmingham yesterday and Leo
came forth with the statement as soon
as he hit Birmingham old that he not
only challenged any man in his weight
but that he was willing to take on
some of the best heavyweights who
have been staring on the mat.
Hackenscbmidt's home is in Coffey-
vile, Kan, but he has been spending
the past few years in wrestling tours.
He says he is a brother of Charlie, who
was such a bear on the mat at one
time. ,
Leo said yesterday that Gotch had
too much money and would not come
out of retirement. He was ofthe opin-
ion that Zbyszko could easily throw
Gotch should he be given the chance.
And yet this Hackenschmidt boy says
a few years ago, when he first saw
the big Pole he couldn't throw a fit.
He admits now though that he is the
worlds champion and should be bailed
as such.
The wrestler wants a bout in Biz
mlngham and issues a challenge. He
says he will take on any Birmingham
boy or is willing to hook up with some
local club and go against any man that
it might care to book him with.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
More of the He'll of War.

The raid upon the English
coast by a few vessels from the
German fleet, was a daring enter
prise and reflects credit upon the
courage and emprise of the Ger
man navy.
That, however, is all that can
be said in favor of TIE venture.
The bombardment without no.
tice or warning of city occupied
to a large extent by non-combat-
ants, old men, defenceless women
and innocent children-is the
very acme of the 'hell of war;"
and is, it seems. to US inexcus-
able by any demand or necessity
of the case.
AT Hartlepool, it is reported
forty seven persons were killed
outright-of whom eighteen were
women and children.
In the bombardment of the
English coast towns, four Ger
man cruisers, it is said, partici-
pated, none of which, it is claim
ed, were sunk by a British squad
ron.
If anything were needed to ex-
cite the English people to enthu-
siastic, united effort, and unalter-
able determination to fight Ger,
many to a finish, and which the
fight in the end though it should
require a century in time. and
cost millions of men and billions
Of treasure. it would seem that
this last act on the part of the
Kaisers sea fighters was the one
only thing to be done.
Between the Teuton race and
the people of the British Isles it
now must be war to the knife,
knife to the, hilt, and damned be
him that first cries: Hold,
enough!?"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Horses and Horses"

There is a beautiful Percheron stal,
lion on exhibition at Shannons' stables
in Macon, the horse having been brought
here for sale.
1t is highly desirable that our stock
Of horses be improved. With a country
that has raised some exceedingly fine
horses and that can produce rs fine as
any in the world, we are for the most
part raising inferior or just ordinary
stuff. 1t Is not believed that we are
raising so good horses here as We did
twenty years ago and, in prop ortion
to their numbers, certainly not so good
as were raised in Noxubee before the
civil war.
Older men remember Golightsa. the
Black Hawks. Magician, Jeff Davis and
others. All of us remember Auber
who until a few months ago was still
in the country. And onto Auber there
hangs a tale.
Auber was brought here and sold to
a syndicate Of local farmers for three
thousand dollars. He was sold a few
years later under the hammer and was
bought by a member Of the syndicate.
Mr.. Geo. Goussett. He brought at this
sale W hundred and fifty dollars,
which was about his real value, though
he was a fine horse of a valuable breed
The writer recalls a suit he heard
thoroughly discussed fifteen years age
in Virginia. A Percheron stallion was
sold for three thousand dollars to asyn.
dlcate of farmers of Bedford county.
Some Of the farmers later contested
the notes they had given and ALLEGED
failure of consideration. They proved
that the horse in question cost the PEG,
pie who sold him to them only five hun
dred dollars and his equal could be oh,
tanned any day for that sum. The de.
Tense was that it cost fifteen hundred
to twenty five hundred dollars to sci
such a horse to farmers and that share,
had to be given free to some to Undue,
others to buy.
1t is highly desirable to get goot
stations in the county, but they shoulc
and can be obtained at a fair and rea
sonable price.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Fire Early Tuesday Morning.

Fire at 4 O'Clock Tuesday morning
total destroyed the house owned and
occupied by Ned Smith, colored, and
damaged the houses of ALT Pollard and
Jeff McNeal, all located west of the
Sheppard old blacksmith shop. 1t is
said that Smiths house was insur-
ed for $500 in a Chicago Insurance
company. That the entire block was
not destroyed is due to the work of the
volunteer fire company, who deserves
much credit for getting out as prompt
as they did, and with the thermometer
standing at Is above zero. 1t is said
tho, that one of the members of the
company took the advice of an colder"
head and went back to bed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
STORE
T TO THE PUBLIC.
War Tax of One Cent on Each
Express Receipt.

1t is the dutyof the Express agent to
issue a receipt for every shipment that is
to be forwarded from his office, whether
collect Or prepaid, any failure to issue
such receipt subjects the agent to a $500
fine.
1t is the duty of every shipper to duly
attach and cancel a revenue stamp the
value of one cent, any failure of the ship
per to duly attach and cancel upon each
receipt issued is punishable by a fine of
$4,000
Shippers must provide themselves with
a supply of stamps and place same on
each receipt before the Express company
can forward their shipment.
have a limited supply of stamps that
will be sold to the occasional shipper,
however, merchants and other large ship
pers must provide themselves with sup
ply of these stamps.
JAS. G. HORTON,
Agent, Southern Express Co.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Athletic Entertainment
Christmas Day.

An athletic entertainment will be
given Christmas day at the Lyceum
theatre in the form of a wrestling
match between Mr.. Leo Hackenschmidt
who is the lightweight champion wrest-
Ter of the world, and Mr.. Jerre Clarke,
who was the amateur champion of ILL
nois and Indiana.
Mr.. Clark who now lives on the Cole
place six miles north of Macon, well
known in foot ball circles in the west
before coming south, besides being a
noted wrestler. He has a brother who
is now captain and quarter half of the
All Western foot ball team.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Wanted--A Square Deal.

1t is a matter for surprise that,
in these days of universal COM
plant of the high cost of living.
the press Of Mississippi has not
attached more Importance to the
advantages to accrue to consum-
ers from honest weights and
measures.
And still more is it to be wond-
cred at that the solons, selected
by the people to cure the ills from
which a patient public has too
long suffered, should have so
much neglected the duty Of de-
vising ways and means to pro-
tect their constituents from the
evil of dishonest practices in
trade (Which custom, however,
much it may sanction, can never
make right while they have de-
voted so much of their time, and
spent so much of the public
treasure, in connecting schemes
for partisan advantage in politics;
for protecting scoundrelism in
high places; for condoning the
wrong-doing and the crookedness
among their own members; for
white washing and indicating
God save the mark y the con-
duct of self-confessed bribe-tak-
ers. would-be trafickers in leg
islation, traders in legislative in
huence and would-be dealers in
official favors and patronage,
seeking to corrupt the chief exc
cutive of the state and serve
him from the obligations Of his
official oath while posing as
apostles of reform: social, politi-
cal and moral.
The greatest sufferers from
the short measure and light
weight evil are often those who
are poorest in purse-the need
lest in this worlds goods-and
those of moderate means who
surely deserve the best protec.
ton wholesome laws can give.
The evil is very old-almost
as old as the hills-but it is none
the less hurtful on that account.
For ages the purchasing pub
lie has been imposed upon by
false packing false bottoms tt
certain sorts of boxes; a surplus
of heavy paper or cheap textile
material; understood cans, sacks
TASKS, bottles, and we know no
what other things, all of which
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

i've of Alabama, and is both a
graceful, and a strong writer.
His style is clear, earnest, vigo-
rous, and the weapons he uses as
a polemic are legitimate and al
ways used with as much fairness
as skill-and his skill is in the
highest degree admirable.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
NOTICE

Sealed bids are invited on Monday. December
Z. 1914, at 2 p. m. for the furnishing of supplies for
convicts for month of January 1915. Supplies to
be delivered to convict overseer as called for at
Brooksville. Miss.
Board reserves the right to reject any or all
bids. By order of Board of Supervisors,
This December 18th, 1914.
JNo. A. TYSON. Chancery Clerk
By W. o. BARNES. Jr. d.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Cotton Loan Fund.

Mr.. E. V. Yates has been appointed
the agent for Noxubee county of the
$3.50, 000, 900 cotton loan fund. So far
neither full instructions nor proper
blanks have been received and MIR.
Yates at present is unable to give out
any details or even indicate the gener-
al course as to loans of this fund must
take.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

could be remedied by a law re-
quiring "a quart bottle to hold a
quart and that a pound shall
be a pound and not ten or a dozen
ounces.
And so, too, corn and other
grain is sometimes put up in
ninety pound, instead of 100
pounds sacks and the purchaser,
a good easy soul, ignorant of the
tricks of trade, makes inquiry
What's corn worth today and
when given the price at so much
a sack orders a sack or more
sent to his residence, getting a
ninety pounds sack when he
thinks he is getting 100 pounds.
And so oats are sometimes sold
in four bushel bags.
To be sure, the consumer can
protect himself by asking him
what is corn worth by the 100
pound sack, but often he does
not think of that. assuring that
100 pounds is the standard and
that is what he is getting.
The imposition of short meas
ure and short weight is not SO
much practiced in the small
towns as in the cities, but the
consumer is entitled to have his
sacks or cans or bottles or pack
ages of whatever kind marked
plainly. so that he can see at a
glance just what he is getting
and how much.
What we need is an honest,
fearless, faithful inspector of
weights and measures whose dut-
les it shall be to so discharge the
functions and responsibilities of
his Office that each and every
offender against existing laws
shall be brought to justice and
properly punished for his misde-
meaners and crimes.
Over in Louisiana they have a
law, which if enforced. will solve
the question for that state,
Of it, the m IS Picayune
sometime ago made mention, in
part, as follows:
"The law is simple enough, 1t
requires that every article of
food sold, whether in package or
over the counter, shall show it's
net weight or measure, written
or printed on the package, and
thus do away with the many
frauds perpetrated upon the pub
lie by including the weight of
heavy boxes or bottles. We were
careless of old in the matter, lay
ing down the doctrine of ''caveat
emptor. "'let the buyer beware"
and throwing upon the public the
task of finding whether what he
bought was what it was repres-
ented to be, in character, quaint
ty or condition. The govern
ment today ~interferes and re-
quires the selle. to state wheth-
er the article sold is pure or not,
whether it contains any adulter-
ant or other ingredient, and how
much of it; and it examines all
food products to determine wheth-
err or not they are in good condi-
ton, and fit for human consump-
ton. This is being done to pro-
tect the public health. 1t is near
ly equally important to protect
the pockets of the public against
the frauds prepetrated by false
weights and measures, by false
bottoms to boxes, fraudulently
thick bottles, etc. This can be
done only by requiring that all
articles be sold on net weight so
that when one buys a pound, he
gets a pound and not eight, ten
or twelve ounces.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
NOTICE.

The firm of Cunningham and McCaa
has this day been dissolved by mutual
consent, and this is to give notice of
the dissolution. Gus CUNNINGHAM
J. &. MCCAA.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

TRESPASS NOTICE-All parties are warned
not to trespass on any of my lands. Hunters are
especially warned. as ~violators will be prosecuted.
p, H. HUNTER.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

No Xmas package is complete with
out proper wrapping. We carry full
line of tags, seals, boxes and Irvine.
RO0kSTORE
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
Agent, Southern Express Co.

BOURBON RED ~TURKEYS-A few trios of
pure blooded Bourbon red turkeys for sale.
MRS. E. Z. CAMPBELL,
Route 3, Macon. Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

TRESPASS N0TICE-Al the lands of M. Ma.
homer and 7. H. Smith Is posted against ~trespass-
srs. Bird hunters are especially warned,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
E REPUBLIC

Language from dHdHHd 10 '"t H'S''S
Pole"
With the above for a title, DR.,
John Allan Wyeth, MD. L.. L.. D.
"a soldier who followed the Con-
federate flag, and shared its
fortunes u n der Forrest, and,
since the war, has published an
unusually we'll written and en-
pertaining biography ofthe great
cavalry captain, in the shadow of
whose plume he so worthiIy rode
has issued a pamphlet in which
there is found food for thought
for statesmen and all lovers of
humanity, of whatever degree.
Taking the title for his text,
DR.. Wyeth first enters upon a
statement of facts CLEANED from
history, 'and reaches conclusions
as to the causes of war, which
appear to be sound and we'll
nigh irresistible.
In his opening sentence, he as
serts:
History is largely a narrative
of wars waged between peoples
speaking different languages"
To that he adds:
"The dangers of these collisions
are emphasized when the inhabi-
tants of neighboring states cult
vate racial eXclusiveness, or
strive, as is natural, for COM
mercia~l supremacy"
He then depicts conditions in
Europe, which today is an arm
ed camped, and says, in the aw-
full catastrolh he over there, his
tory is only repeating itself; and
ne furnishes citations to corrobo-
rate the truth of the statement.
Drawing a logical lesson from
vents of the past, as well as
those current, he claims that
those Of US Of the Western Hem
sphere have it in our power to
rofit BY the errors and misfor-
mes of the races which have
gD1e before u, so as not only to
provide against an untoward fate
f)r ourselves but to secure peace
and plenty to those who shall
come after US to inherit the good
ly land we leave to them.
He, periodically, stands for
but one flag over the Union of
the states, one and inseparable,
now and forever. In other words
he believes in America for Amer
leans, and a rigid, righteous en-
forcemnt of the Monroe Doc
trine.
With prophetic eye, he looks
forward confidently to the alb
sorption of the vast area of Brit
ish Columbia and the Dominion
of Canada into a part of this Re-
public, which he predicts. in the
fullness of time, will come, not
by force of arms but by the hap
pier and more permanent con-
quest of commercial interest and
power cemented by the philan-
thropy and brotherhood of man
among the people of a great gov
eminent with one language, and
one purpose, to-wit: Liberty and
union, and equality of opportun-
ity for all.
But it is to Mexico and further
south he is looking for the great
est trouble in the beginning. and
later for the greatest opportuni-
ties for wealth, and the ease,
comfort and joy of living. when
the changes are brought about
down there that our national
destiny is calling, with unmis-
taxable urgency and directness,"
upon us to promote and effect
peaceably if we can; forcibly, if
we must.
Doctor Wyeth concludes his
paper with an attack upon Mr..
Wilson for the manner in which
ne has dealt, and is still dealing,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
OFFICERS OF COURT.

TRESPASS NOTICE-My place three miles
south of Macon is posted and all parties, hunters
especially, are warned not to trespass.
w. r. HELM.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18
NOTICE.

Sealed bids are invited on Monday, January 4th.
1915 for the furnishing of supplies for County
Home for January, l015. Board of supervisors
reserving the right to reject any or all bids sub
mitted, ""
1914. JOHN A. TYSON, Chancerv C1srL
BY w. o. BARNES, Jr. d. C.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

LAND FOR EENT- About IL acres of land for
J, r, SHELTON.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-18

Buy your Xmas -four at j. E. Dor
rOhs.