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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-01-16
Divorces Granted.
Parent-Teachers' Association Organ

Parent-Teachers' Association Organ
ized-A pleasing result of the recent
convention of the Greenlee County
Teachers Institute was the organiza-
ton of a Parent-Teachers' association.
Such organizations have been found
in other cities, to result in much
benefit to the conduct of the public
schools, as at the meetings of the as
sociation many questions in which
the parents are equally concerned
with the teachers are discussed, max
ing stronger the bond between the
faculty and patronage of the schools.
The recently organized association
has elected the following officers: J.
c. Campbell, of Metcalf, President;
Miss Elizabeth Trumpas, Vice-Presi-
dent; Miss Helen Ray, of Morenci,
Secretary The first convention of
the association will be at Morenci on
the last Saturday IN February. 1t
is probable that another meeting will
be held in Clifton during the latter
days of the coming May. A large
is promised for the meet
ing at Morenci.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-01-16
MORENC| MEXICAN
STAYS WOMAN
IN ANGER

Passion crazed Mexican Stays Sweet
heart in Absence of Latter's Hus-
band at His Nightly Work
Dead Woman Leaves Sever
al Small Children.
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road in Ecuador that will bring me
close. to the volcanoes of Cotopaxi and
Chimborazo, and on the highlands of
Bolivia I shall visit Sorata and 1lli-
mani, whose snowy peaks are nearer
the sky than any in North America out
side Alaska great part of the Andes
is Volcanic. and | shall likely be able
to describe a volcano in action.
An interesting part of this journey
will be in the foothills of the Incas. |
s,''' 600 their old highway in Ecuador
In Quito, and shall travel over it later
u. Ca1cd near the City of the Sun. That
road was built long before there was a
paved highway in any part of the
North American continent, and ! am
told that parts of IL are in good coli
dition today. Just before I left Wash
ington. in a chat with Mr.. Logan Waller
Page of the bureau of public roads, he
asked me to get him pieces of the road
metal and ship them to him in order
that they may be tested with a view
to new discoveries as to road material
for our United States highways.
1t was at Cuzco that the Incds had
their capital and there they worshiped
the sun in a temple which was rooted
with gold plate. It was from that re-
eion that Pizarro and the Spaniards got
their ship loads of gold and silver. and
it is believed that vast quantities We're
secreted by the Incas and buried in
lakes and other out of the way places.
! am told that there are many traditions
rs to where these lost treasures lie.
] shall report upon these through my
Indian interpreter and l hope to give
some idea of the possible localities
The Mines of the Andes
! shall also write about the actual live
treasure vaults of the highlands. I shall
go through the mining regions and sho n
something of the big things now going
on. The Andes are speppered with sill
Yer and gold from the isthmus to the
strait and of late several Of the repub
lies have been exporting vast quantities
OF copper and tin. A large percentage
of all the tin now used in the world
comes from Bolivia, and the copper
mines there are Just at their beginning.
Many of the old silver mines of the Andes
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foreign export has fallen to third, and,
as result of money stringency, home
consumption has Diminished. Last au-
tumn the factories tried to meet the
crisis by merely shortening the working
hours; but for many this measure proved
too small and these soon closed down
altogether. In north Bohemia, the great
est industrial center, the factory closing
is general An inquiry made in January.
1913, showed that in two districts the
money paid in wages was a third only
of what was paid in January. s1a12.
The economic crisis is all the severer.
because it synchronises with 4 greater
rise in prices than has been experienced
elsewhere. Already in 1910 and 1911 food
was SO dear that Vienna rioted and since
then prices have kept going higher. 1t Is
complained that as a result of rising
prices many Austrians cannot make ends
meet; and these-especially If they have
fixed salaries-have taken to bourse spec
ulations in the hope of bettering their
lot. That has made Austria the Monte
Carlo state of Europe Where, the hard
UP try by gambling to regain their lost
sort to the stock exchange in the hope
If reaching a new standard of luxury.
Vienna's streets everywhere show signs
Ct the popular craze for hourse specula-
ton. One sign is the multiplication OF
petty financial papers and tipping lists
which give advice encouraging the delu-
sicns of house porters and domestic SER
wants bitten by the yer-rich-quick craze.
Another sign is the multiplication Of
banks. The genuine banks have to open
new branches, because speculation IN
oreases the turn over of money. In adj
dition to these genuine banks, there Is
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canada combined, and 1t now exports
thousands of tons of grain every year to
the countries of Europe Uruguay is
shipping grain, southern Brazil raises
wheat and Chile has vast estancias de-
voted to the cereals. There is probably
a great future for the highlands of the
Andes as to the harder varieties of such
products, and our agricultural depart
ment has sent down experts to investi-
gate what can be done. They are also
going into the meat countries to report
to the government on the cattle and sheep
and upon other foods which may be sent
to the United States l expect to make
Investigations along the same lines as
well as to report upon what they have
found.
News for the American Farther
Another part of my mission is to de-
scribe how farming is done in the vari-
Gus countries and to report upon new
grains and fruits which may possibly
be used in our country. The Andes
mountains are the home of the potato
and upon the plateau of Bolivia there
are many varieties which are unknown
in North America Some of these date
back to prehistoric days. The common
people ruled by the Incas were raising
"spuds" Nlong before Ireland was
thought of and every tuber of the po-
tato variety we eat has a genealogical
tree whose roots are buried in the
heights of the Andes.
Further down the mountain the peo-
pie have IA vegetable known as the
Yucca. This is a tuber with branches
like an underground tree and there
may be varieties equal to that which
Luther Burbank found when a boy, and
from that discovery continued his in
yestigations to fame and to fortune.
| want To Investigate the guano is
lands, off the coast of Peru, and also
go into the nitrate fields of the great
South American desert, which now so
largely supply the nitrogen for our
American farms. Those deserts have al
ready yielded several hundred million
dollars worth of that fertilizer and
they are now turning out nitrate Of
soda by the billions of pounds. AS it is
whole product, and there is scarcely
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IN nearly every street a new '.wechsels-
tube or bureau de change" The clients
of these institutions are mostly petty
speculators. The spectators are bribed
With interest on current accounts of AZ
OF per cent, though it Is absolutely inn
possible for bank doing legitimate
banking business in Vienna to pay such
rates. The 'wechselstube'' and the '.bu-
reau de change lend their -depositors'
money at high rates fer the marginal
purchase of doubtful stocks, and make
further profits in commissions. The re-
suit is an abnormal demand for purely
speculative securities. While state per
cent consols are down to ST. the risky
shares Of textile, iron and armaments
corporations have sometimes managed to
withstand the slump. Many were ex-
travaRantly inflated and afterwards ex-
travagantly fell. A Bohemian corpora
tion which never paid more than s per
cent was last September on; the strength
of higher dividend rumor, pushed up
to 147. In May this stock fell to So:
and now even it's 5 per cent dividend is
in doubt.
, Increasing crimes of dishonesty are one
result OF the gambling craze. The NUM-
Der of Vienna suicides registered as due
to financial losses doubled last year. lr
all Austria in 1s11-12 the number Of en-
bezzlements increased over the preceding
years by "a per cent
The majority were traced to speculation.
Newspapers daily report surprising cases
of gambling. In March broker, violat-
ing the law and the practice of the bourse.
bought 5000 shares in an armaments COM
pany for a poor man on a margin of
3 points. The broker failed to sell all
the shares before the margin was ex-
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II Austria is menaced with finan-
cia1 earthquakes. Unexampled

Y 7 JENNA, January S.-tspecial)
" Austria is menaced with finan-
cial earthquakes. Unexampled
bourse gambling, an unbalanceable
budget, collapse of the provincial treas
urics, a slump in trade, the closing OF
factories, tiehtness of money, short
ness of credit and high interest-these
are the symptoms; and there are sound
judges who fear worse catastrophe
than the 1873 bubble when third of
Vienna's propertied families plunged In
hopeless ruin. only a miracle will this
time prevent the same calamity, and
as no one expects a miracle, wise men
are cautiously liquidating their en-
gagements, and preparing for the in
eyitable "krach."
Austria's peril is caused primarily
by the gambling craze which obsesses
the whole people from archdukes and
archduchesses down to "Naschmark"
apple women. The gambling craze Is
not new. In 1910 a Vienna economist
said that this is the first time In his
tory that we see whole population
unable. or unwilling to live on its
earnings, and trying to remedy the sit
uation by bourse and race course
gambling in the desperate faith that it
is better to be ruined altogether than
to be hard up. Our metropolis is
vast Monte Carlo, with .the difference
only that the gamblers are not rich
idlers, but hard working fools, victims
of the get-rich- quick craze, of whom
80 per cent Will soon be overtaken by
irretrievable ruin"
Finance Minister Zalesski, the late
minister of agriculture, Albert Brat,
and other sound authorities warned the
nation of the danger; and Prince Karl
Auersperg, leader of the agrarian party
which detests all business, declares
that Austrians will suffer terrible
punishment for their recklessness in
imag agining that finance means wealth
He adds that 1873 may easily be re-
peated.
The 1873 crisis differed from the
present. crisis in that 1t was bull bub-
BILE caused by absurd expectations of
sudden wealth, whereas the present
crisis is due to acute depression. The
1873 trouble began when the Belcredi
cabinet in order to please Hungary and
to get loans from England and France,
went over to free trade. Armed with
free trade and a general liberalization
of institutions Austria, so optimists
reasoned would quickly develop into
an Industrial state like England. I'm
der this delusion there began the wild
est orgy of speculation and branch
ing out known in history. Everyone
was TO become millinaires. A book was
actually published on "Austria-the
Richest state" The crown on the ex
pected prosperity was to be the Pra-
ter International exposition. To the ex-
position. reasoned the money-mad
Viennese. thousands OF rich men would
come and each would leave thousands
of crowns behind. Instead came bad
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weather and an epidemic: the rich Wis
itors stayed away, the universal panic
of May 9Th set back Austria's develop
ment for years
The panic which now threatens AUS
tra's financial solvency is a slump panic.
Financially, Austria is badly off. Up
until 1906 there was certain prosperity.
but the empire has never recovered from
the bad years 19O7-s. The state finances
are undermined. During the IA years, 1S9s-
1912, the budget has only thrice been
balanced in accord with estimates. Since
1908 the government has been uninterrup''
edly engaged in framing taxation bills.
The provincial finances are still worse off,
Bohemia has this month formally reg
istered her bankruptcy. The provinces
have enormous floating debts; and about
a quarter of their regular outlay In late
years has had to be covered by borrow
ing This i'll was chronic when the Bal
kan war brought on fresh trouble The
war hit Austria badly. She had heavy
mobilization costs. Before the last bill
is paid they will reach $300000,0O0. She
has suffered by the almost complete stop
page OF her export trade to Turkey and
to the Balkan Christian states. This
last loss has no chance Of being repaired,
for the Christian Balkan states are now
busily turning Macedonia into a desert.
All round the buying power of south
east Europe and of Asia Minor has heav-
lily declined since the outbreak of war
in October
Vienna's bourse has suffered more than
other European bourses. On listed Sc
curties of relatively small volume there
has been a drop of 2.609. .0J9,C09 kr., whicr
is about s5o0,c00.eoo. The iosers are mostly
small amateur gamblers. chronic bulls.
Industry is badly hit; in some branches
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Filling Uncle Sans Bread Basket


Speaking of the sheep at the strait,
make as to whether South America can
not cut down the cost of our legs of NUT
ton and our tenderloin roasts. There is
no doubt that frozen meats can be shipped
from there to our country and be served
1ust as fresh as though they came from
with frozen mutton in New Zealand for
London. The distance between the two
countries is far greater than that be-
tween New York and the South American
oorts. Nevertheless, the meat sells read
1ly in the markets of Europe, and the
same is true of the beef which goes to
Iondon from the Argentine pampas.
There is no reason why the vast sheep
and cattle ranches of southern South
America should not aid in the supply of
our American markets and still less rea-
non why we should not get cattle from
the selyas of Venezuela and Colombia.
am told that Bolivia has SO many wild
cattle that beeves sell Ia parts of the
plateau for 81 or So apiece, and that
some of the cattle are killed for their
hides and the meat thrown away
z Paraguay has fine pasture lands. which
are now sold by the square league and
some of which are being exploited by
American capital, and the same is true OF
Interior Brazil.
The bread possibilities OF South America
are almost equal to those of the meats
Argentina has potential wheat lands as
Hyoat ~ those Of the United States and
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hausted he lost badly. and his client vas
ruined. Cases of this kind have led the
church to enter protests. A week ago
the Moravian priest. Father Pohl, stated
in his pulpit that 'among my rural flock
is a growing distaste for labor and an
unhealthy passion for speculative enter
prises." He declares that Vienna stock
reddlers come to the country and entice
the farmers to speculate. and that "a
third of the farmers in my strict have
listened to the peddlers and bought worth
less shares" Also the church is not al
ways above the speculative mania A
stockbroker lately sued two Istrian
priests. members of a stock gambling.
pool. for losses incurred in marginal
. transactions on their behalf.
Rich Austrians have the gambling craze
in even fiercer form than the poor. The
difference-judged by newspaper accounts
of crimes and suiciIes-is that the poor
mostly get poorer whereas some rich
Austrians have tremendously profited
from the slump in values. minority,
who foresaw Turkeys defeat and the
following complications, carried through
successfully giant bear deals. The rich
Hungarian. Olycyci Terenzi, says that he
came to Vienna, determined to risk only
s7o0 and that by bearing stocks In Oc-
tober and November on small margins
he netted ~ five weeks 100000
BY sticking to the bear side till
March he made further s1.750.000. A
Junior member of tho Windischgraetzs.
a family which is intermarried with the
Habsburgs, is said to have mace a
bigger sum. Other successful operators
are Habsburgs themselves. The chief
profitef'sis IL said to be Archduchess Ma
re Josepha. widow OF Archduke Othon
and mother OF Archduke Karl Franz
Joseph. who comes after Franz Ferdi-
.nand~ in succession to the throne.
sArchduchess Marie Josepha is the clev-
crest woman of rank In Austria; in
her feuds with Franz Ferdinand she
has usually come off victorious; and
as q business woman she rivals Mrs.
Hetty Green. One OF her biggest deals
was done in Vienna building land.
When stock slump started last autumn
she beared the market vigorously and
made the pretty sum of s1.000.0O0. Her
speculationss do more good than harm.
for the archduchess is very pious and
charita BILE. and much of her quickly
gained wealth goes in charitable
works.
Viennese optimists hope that the cat
astrophe which the pessimists predict
may be averted, because most specula- :
tors have already lost their money ant
stocks are not likely to fall any more
Against this Is put the fact that many
speculative stocks. even after the fall
Of last winter and spring, are far
above their value. 1t Is feared tha,
when the Balkan situation clears up
and the boom comes these stocks will
again be hoisted to perilous heights
and that the first unfavorable political
or financial symptom will bring down
the empires public and private finances
with crash.
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Men and Dogs

From the New York Evening Tcle-
grain.
That the bravest are the tenderest
has been irresistibly brought to mind
of late by two instances of men of the
sea caring for their dogs before them
selves in time of peril
When Captain Inch was the last liv-
ing person on the burning Volturno he
wrapped his pet terrier in blanket
and lowered it to the waiting boat be-
fore descending the rope himself
This is now supplemented by the act
OF Captain Duval of the wrecked
French fishing schooner. the Garonne,
who, when their storm beaten dories
were rescued by the White Star steam
ship Majestic. insisted that his dog be
hoisted to safety before he himself
went aboard.
s, These things are refreshing in the
days of the-devil- take-the- -hindmost
pattern.
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live orchardist or market gardener
in our country who does not nourisl
his crops with plant food from Chile
want to go out into the desert and
visit the mines, and tell you how the
nitrates look in the ground.
AS to the guano islands, they are
scattered along the Pacific coast some
distance above where the nitrate desert
begins. They are frequented by mil
lions of birds, and the droppings from
these have already produced more than
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twelve million tons of manure as rich
as that of your henhouse. They have
brought into the treasure vaults of
Peru something over a billion gold doi-
lars, and although almost exhausted are
still yielding guano.
On the Top of the Andes
Some of my most interesting letters
will be from the tops of the Andes
shall see them at their lowest at the
Culebra cut when 1 pass through the
now, we are taking one fifth of the
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Lucky Willie

From the Saturday Journal.
Teacher-'Willie.d did your father whip
you for what you did in school yester-
day.
.'Willie-"No, nam; he said the lick
ing would hurt him more than me-
Teacher-"What nonsense* Your father
is too sympathetic
Willie-'No. ma Jam; but he's got rheu-
matism in both arms
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canal, and shall be near where they are
highest in south Chile when l climb the
slopes of Mdaint Aconcagua, whose peak
is more than four miles above the sea.
During my last visit to South America
l travelled by railroad over pass in
the Peruvian Andes which was higher
than Mount Blanc, and shall now be
able to cross the Andes by rail in sew
eral other places, and make my way for
some distance down their east slopes.
Americans have recently built rail-
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A Serious Error

From the Saturday Journal.
You've made mistake in your paper"
said the indignant man. entering the edi-
torial sanctum. II was one of the COM
petitors at the athletic match yesterday.
and you have called me the well-known
lightweight champion"
We'll, aren't youss said the editor
mo, I'm nothing of the kind; and it's
confoundedly awkward, because. you see,
4'm coal merchant
The Lamar register., 1914-07-01

about law and order over the state.
Mr.. Temple informed the two gentle
men that he would support the COVER
nor in upholding the laws of the state
under all conditions. One word led to
another. Costigan then charged that
Temple was untrue to the progressive
party and one day Costigan and Caus-
ey sent for Temple and told him to re-
sign and told him that if he did not
resign they would use the police of
Denver to throw him out of headquar-
ters and take the books. Temple sent
in his resignation. A number of pro-
gressives objected to it and it was up
on that action that the matter came
Up today.
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That $4,000 Bribe

The Rocky Mountain News on Fri
day, in its report of the Costigan
meeting, declared upon the word OF
James H. Causey that the Corpora
tions" were ready to put up $4,000
to secure control of the progressive
party in Denver and turn it over to
the Interests"
Such statement sounded fishy and
absurd upon its face. The so-called
interests" are alleged to be very
-blooded, and if they were ready
to put up $4,000, or any other sum,
to control the progressive party in
Denver, they would be picking a lemon
of large dimensions. .....
Fifty thousand dollars to secure the
support of handful Of men, disor-
ganized. and disrupted, seeking Office
for themselves and their personal
friends would certainly be paying a
high price for lean aggregation Of
Statesmen. r. .. :
But it seems that is wasn't true, af-
ter all. Mr.. Causey asks the Rocky
Mountain News to say today upon its
front page that he made no such
statement. But the News claims that
somebody made it and they thought
Causey said it during the heated de-
bate. Probably no one said it-st
least no one with any political sense
or judgment. It's absurd on its face.
The one thing that is almost ludic-
rous about the progressive party In
this state-what is left Of its that
it seems to be In constant terror lest
someone shall kidnap it; every time
there is meeting this bogy man II
trotted out, and it is gravely an
nounced that some malign individual
or corporation is trying to seduce the
progressive party from the straight
and narrow path. It's all buncombe.
The progressive party isn't worth
stealing; it isn't worth making a po-
litical dicker with because it has
nothing to deliver. It is q dead one,
with only enough followers left to I'll
the offices Colorado Springs Tcle.
graph.
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Time to StOp

There have been no demands by
mass meetings or otherwise, for con-
gress to continue in session. On the
other hand people all over the coun-
try, engaged in all sorts of vocations,
have asked it to adjourn, stop its
business smashing policies and give
the country a chance to recuperate
from the drubbings being administer
ed.
Mr.. Underwood, who sees clearly,
has asked the president to consent to
adjournment, but Mr.. Wilson insists
that the whole program will be car
ried through regardless of conse-
quences.
Every natural condition in the
country is favorable to prosperity on
the largest scale this nation has ever
known. The crops are record-break-
ing which means money for the farm
er, raw material for the manufactur-
er, business for the transportation
companies.
Normally, the mills and the mines
should be working overtime, labor
should be employed as never before.
The merchant should be employing
now instead of discarding the old
clerks, money is piling up in the banks
for investment and sixty-day paper
in New York, until recently, was a
drug on the market at two per cent
interest rates. .rt o.
There are two troubles: the tariff
law is not working right and the hos
tility to business has made capital
afraid to engage in any new enter
prise or to expand where employed.
It is a period of retrenchment
There never has been time when
the prosperity Of the country was
endangered by corruption in office.