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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-08

A.
Lott. 1t was mistake and we
are very sorry that such occur
red.
. One hour and a half of solid
enjoyment with music you can
understand and viii like, if you
attend Barroll's Orchestra con-
cert, at the Monarch, October
18th.
Barry Phillips and family left
Sunday in their new Overland
for st. Louis. They expect to-
see the mysteries Of the Yelled
Prophet Tuesday night, return
ing home Wednesday.
Mr.. Hartford made business
trip to Desloge last Tuesday in
the interest Of the Union Bak-
cry which is one of the neatest
and most up-to-date bakeries in
this county.
Judge Jerry S. Gossom of
Charlottesville was a business
visitor in Pennington Thurs
day. The Judge has many
friends here who are always glad
to see him.
Mr.. Ellis Byington and wife
attended the fair at st. Louis
this week. Mr.. Byington said
there was the finest display of
agricultural products and live
stock he has ever witnessed.
Mr.. Tom Whalen and wife
were in st. Louis taking in the
sights this week. Mr.. Whalen
took two cars of cattle to the
East side market and bought a
car of feeders which he brought
home.
For Sale or Trade-A farm of
81 acres situated 5 miles cast of
Bonnie Terre, pretty well i'm
proved, living water. Will trade
for Pennington or Flat River
property. L. Counts, Farm
ington, Mo.
Hon. Claude A. Eaton, State
Bank Examiner of Cape Girar-
deau, called at The Times office
a few minutes last Friday while
in our city. Mr.. Eaton is max
ing a splendid record as an off
cial.
Mr.. James Morris, wife ant
daughter are attending the au.
tomobile show in ST. Louis. Mr.
! Morris was looking after the
interests of Morris Brothers
store, which is considered one
of the best and most complete
in the State.
Mr.. Fred Fohrmaster, the
popular clerk of the City Drug
Stase, left last Sunday for st
/ Louis where he will enter col
lege to take up the study o
pharmacy. Fred is one of tn
most popular young men O
Pennington, and we predict TO
him a bright future.
Mr.. Thos. M. Fisher of Frank
lin county is visiting his brother
Theo. D. Fisher, of this city thi
: week. Mr.. Thos. M. Fisher is 7
[ years old and lives with hi
daughter, Mrs. B. H. Hamper
He is a carpenter by trade bu
: his advanced age now forbid
:. him working at his trade.
|, Prof. Morris, formerly a teacl
|
er in the Flat River High Scho'
:, but now located in st. Louis
0 the Collection Agency bushes
h visited friends in Farmingto
G the first part Of the week. Pro
Morris has a wide circle (
= friends in st. Francois count,
/ who will be glad to learn tn;
;. he is well, contented and doir
j nicely in his new field of labor
splendid program was rendere
!, consisting of readings, musi
: and missionary talks.
q NMhnx. Dabxr uae 4ho Crn.xr
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
PUBLICITY AND
DEVELOPMENT
REASON WHY MINING HAS NOT
PROSPERED is BECAUSE INSUF.
FlCIENT PUBLICITY HAS BEEN
GRANTED TO THE INDUSTRY.

An excellent start has been made
in the development and organization
Of the Arizona Chapter of the Amer
lean Mining Congress- Within the
past month two local sections have
been formed, the Gila county and the
Pima county sections, and it is ex-
pected that the next month will see
several new sections organized for
the purpose of giving the right sort
Of publicity to the mineral resources
OF the state. For many years publ
city in mining has not been given
the attention that it deserves, for the
reason that the operations of the
large corporations, through their per
feet management and ability to con-
troll large capital, were successful
without publicity. But the small op-
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
WORK ON EXPERIMENTAL
WELLS TO BE STARTED

Work on the experimental wells to
be sunk on the surplus and unallotted
lands of the Colorado River Indian
reservation, under the supervision of
the State Land Commission, will be
started within the next week or two.
Mr.. A. L. Harris, an expert pump
ing irrigation engineer, has been en-
gagged by the land commission to su-
pervise the work. Mr. Harris was
assistant engineer on the Roosevelt
assistant engineer on the Roosevelt
reservoir, and for the past six years
he has been making a special study
of pumping engineering.
Engineer Harris arrived in Parker
Wednesday night, and is now engage
in making reconnaissance of that
part of the reservation which it is
to open under a pumping
system. Mr. Harris is selecting the
proper points to sink the wells, and
before leaving he shall have deter
mined upon the procedure to pursue
The Parker post., 1915-04-03

in their sinking
Upon his return to Phoenix he will
at once report the results of his in
vestigatiOns to the land commission.
After this has been done the neces-
sary supplies will be ordered and ac-
tive work will be begun on the wells.
Upon completion of the wells Mr..
Harris will prepare an authoritiVe
report of the results from an engin-
eer's standpoint. This report will
accompany one to be made by the
commission to Secretary of the In
terror Lane. Mr.. Winsor, chairman
of the land commission, intends to
deliver these reports personally to
the secretary OF the interior, and,
providing the wells result in showing
an ample flow of water for irrigation
purposes, he will urge upon the sec
retary, on behalf of the state, to open
the lands to entry and settlement
under such rules and regulations as
the secretary shall direct
The Parker post., 1915-04-03

For the first time since he has be
come secretary of the interior, Frank
lin H. Lane has approved a plan for
the opening of the surplus and unal-
lotted lands of the Colorado River
Indian reservation.
At conference with the secretary
in Phoenix Wednesday morning, o. L.
Babcock and j. B. Flanagan were as
sured that upon a satisfactory show
ing that water for irrigation purposes
can be secured by pumping, he would
approve the opening to settlement
of such areas Of the reservation as
the wells to be sunk under the super
vision of the State Land Commission
would demonstrate to contain a suf-
ficient underflow to reclaim the sur
plus land
At the conference Mr.. Flanagan
represented the people of Parker,
while Mr.. Babcock appeared on be-
half of the Indians After briefly
stating the many vicissitudes which
the Parker people have met with in
their efforts to secure the opening
Of the reservation lands, the former
outlined the present plans of sinking
experimental wells to the second
water stratum to determine the under
ground water flow.
After listening with a great deal
Of interest to this plan, the secretary
asked Mr. Babcock what he thought
Of it, and the latter replied that he
was very much in favor Of it, and
believed it to be the most feasible
plan yet offered for the solution of
the Parker situation.
You people go ahead with the
sinking of these experimental wells"
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
SECRETARY LANE APPROVES
PLAN OF OPENING SURPLUS
LANDS OF RESERVATION

said Secretary Lane, ''and if it is
determined that a sufficient water
supply can be secured in this manner
We will open up tn at part of the
surplus lands which contain the ne
cessary underfloW to reclaim them.
The settlers will then be enabled to
show what can be accomplished out
there under a pumping system"
Shortly after the conference Mr..
Lane stated to Reese Ling, the we'll
known attorney, who is a close friend
Of the secretary's: Il SEE NO REA-
SON WHY ALL OF THE SURPLUS
LANDS OF THE COLORADO RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION SHOULD
NOT BE OPENED TO SETTLE
MENT, AND LET THE SETTLERS
WORK OUT THEIR OWN RECLA-
NATION PROBLEMS.
Mr. Ling was to have appeared at
the conference of the Parker delega-
ton with the secretary, but missed
connections, so he made it a point
to seek a personal interview with
Mr.. Lane and urge upon him the ne
cessity for the opening of the reser-
Vation lands.
Mr.. Lane was fully informed of the
profitable real estate business which
Uncle Sam conducted here for a few
days in May, 1910. At the conc
sion Of the conference Flanagan Of
fered the secretary printed copy of
House Joint Memorial No. 6, passed
by the Second Legislature. The sec
retary courteously declined, saying
that he read a copy of it before he
left Washington. ''It pays to adver-
tise." The memorial sets forth in
detail our Uncle Samuel's conduct as
a realestater in Parker.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Surveying for New Railroad.

A party of civil engineers, under
the direction of w. H. Tharpe, man
ager of the Parker & Colorado River
Electric Railway Company, was en-
gagged during the week in making
surveys of the proposed new railroad
to be built from Parker south to La
Paz, a distance of about 38 miles.
This company has purchased the
survey plats and data of the Parker
& Ehrenberg Company, a corporation
composed principally of Kansas capt.
talists which was organized in 1912
for the purpose of carrying out this
same proposition, and if the route as
mapped out by the old company is
found to be satisfactory, it will be
followed.
This old company made good
start but later forfeited it's franchise
by reason of non-conformity with it's
requirements. The new company has
secured franchise as well as the
necessary financial backing and it is
understood will soon be ready to go
ahead with the work.
A railroad connecting that section
with the outside world, as that one
will. would open up many square
miles of territory extremely rich in
agricultural possibilities and do much
toward settling up that portion of
Yuma county
The Parker post., 1915-04-03

orator and prospector have needed
assistance. False statements regard
ing investments have served to keep
hundreds of thousands of dollars out
OF the mining states of the west 1t
is, the endeavor of the Mining Con-
gress, through it's state and local Sec
tions, to correct this situation, and
bringing together in harmony every
material industry of the state
All business depends upon public
lty for its greatest success. This
applies to everything from running
peanut stand to marketing mine,
and operate it, too, for that Anatter.
Publicity may mean advertising in
the newspapers or otherwise; the
means differ with the different kinds
OF businesses, but the one object is
sought-tO get the attention of the
interested public.
No doubt one Of the reasons that
mining has not prospered as well as
it might have in the last few years is
that insufficient publicity has been
granted to the industry. This does
not apply to the large, well estab-
lished operations as much as to the
smaller. The mines that have be-
come successful producers and divi-
dend payers do not need publicity
to- the extent that the smaller, unde-
veloped properties do,yet publicity for
the big feellows helps their smaller
neighbors The success of a district
is bound up Ill tie success Of all of
the mines in it, large or small. The
success of the mines strongly affects
the prosperity of all of the other
business activities in the district.
1t behooyes them all, then, to boost
the basic ndustry-mining
eft their own business by organic
in mining communities can best ben
eft theirow n business by organiz-
ing and boosting mining. The truth
has been recognized in mining sec
tiOns, and commercial clubs have
sprung up which are giving consider
able attention to promoting the min
ing activity of the districts around
them by giving publicity to the
mines and prospects. There is need
for greateer extension of this public
ity aided by local and other papers.
Help the struggling mines and pros
poets. They are the ones that need
your help, your enthusiastic moral
support.
Every business man in Arizona who
has the welfare of the state at heart
should be a member of the Arizona
Chapter of the Mining Congress-
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Road Bonds Sold.

At the session of the board of su-
pervisors last Saturday the sale of
the half million dollars of good road
bonds was finally completed. c. w.
McNear & Company, of Chicago, be-
came the purchasers at par and inter
est. A certified check for $25OO0 was
deposited with the board to insure
that the company will comply with
their contract and take the bonds
One hundred thousand dollars of the
bond money will be deposited in the
county treasury within thirty days
and the remainder from time to time
as the board Of supervisors call for
the money. No interestw i'll be paid
until the money for the bonds is act
ually paid over to the county.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
The FREAK
LEGISLATOR
SOME QUEER LAWS WE'RE IN
TRODUCED IN NEARLY EVERY
LEGISLATURE DURING SPRING
SESSIONS OF 1915.

EVERY year sees the introduction
Of freak bills into the legislatures of
one or more states, but the spring of
1910 seems to have capped the eli
max. The freak Legislators have run
mad. Hardly state has escaped.
1t is the fashion of the press to poke
fun at Kansas, which may be de-
pended upon to come to the front
with something foolish in the way of
legislation. And although the Sun
flower state has lived up to her glow
ing reputation in the present session,
her companions in the sorority of
states has not fallen far behind.
Most OF the new laws have been in
troduced for the purpose ofaprohibit-
ing something or other. Here are a
few. culled from one days exchanges
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
BULL THRoWER is THROWN.

Mike Hanna, recently official
houncer and sergeant-at-arms of the
state senate of the second Arizona
legislature, had a horrible experience
ard narrow escape from death Tues
day afternoon on North Gila street,
when an enraged bull chased Mike at
mile a minute gait, towards the
Colorado river
1t is said OF Mike by his many
friends that he is the champion bull
thrower of Arizona and an Opportunl-
ty to show his prowess arrived when
Yuma valley rancher was driving
one of his favorite animals of the bO-
vine species up Gila street
His hullship became unruly and re
fused to daily further with the
ranchtr and became peevish. The re-
doubtable Mr.. Hanna was talking to
his friend, Jim Kenny, when the bull
became rampageous. Mike took a
hand in the affair and took hold of
the rope attached to Mr.. Bull.
After the first yank the bull looked
into the blue eyes of Hanna and the
fireworks started The bull proceeded
to plant one of its horns in the solar
plexus of Mr.. Hanna, who, coming to
the conclusion that Safety First"
was an excellent slogan, began to
beat it up Gila street with the bull
a close second. The bull overlook
Mike and threw him to the ground,
inflicting several face wounds and
badly fracturing his dignity.
'I've been throwing the bull for a
good many years." said Mr.. Hanna,
'but this is the first time / have
ever been thrown by a bull.-Yuma
Sun.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Hardware Consignment.

E. F. Lauten received Tuesday
last a consignment of $4,000 pounds
of hardware and paints, representing
a portion of the stock of the bank
rupt Swansea Lumber Company,
which Mr.. Lauten recently purchased.
This stock will later be placed on
sale in Parker
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Contract Awarded.

contract was awarded by the
interior department last Monday to
E. F. Sanguinett of Yuma, to deliver
5000 cubic yards of rock on the levee
below Andrade for the protection of
the Imperial valley. due to the over
flow of the Colorado river. The price
is given at $4,000 and the 200 men
employed expect to finish the work
in sixty days.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
WATER IN
ABUNDANCE
FOR CALIFORNIA
FARM AND IRRIGATION COM
PANY SAYS SHORTAGE is Bug
ABOO FOSTERED BY MExIcAN
INTERESTS.

The statement that prior appropri-
ators of the water of the Colorado
river have appropriated and are using
all the water of the river at it's low
stages is false, according to informa-
tion contained in a circular letter
Just lssude by the California Farm
& Irrigation company, which proposes
to irrigate Palo Verde mesa, says
the Blythe Herald.
The letter 81 largely in the nature
OF reply to certain criticisms which
have been directed against the pro-
ject by the Chuckawalla and Palo
Verde Irrigation Association, of which
L. V. Shepherd is the secretary.
Referring to the claim that all the
water Of the river is already being
used, the pamphlet goes on to say:
-Four or five times the amount
used for the irrigation of the Imper-
ial valley flows by the the Imperial
heading into the Gulf of California
during the lowest stages of the river.
This idea of the river being dry or
iginates from the fact that, follow
ing the construction and use of the
Laguna Dam, the bottom grade of the
river was lowered between the dam
and the gulf, thus leaving Imperial
bitches high on the banks, with
scarcely any intake and suffering
from the lack of water. (See United
States Reclamation Service Hydro
grapher's reparts since cosnrutction
of Laguna dam.' This is the reason
why people have given credence to
the idea that the river was nearly
dry
'The idea that all of the water of
the Colorado river is now used for
irrigation has been given great pub
licity in the newspapers and other in
fluential sources by the fact that
practically 100000 acres of the
richest land in the world on both
sides of the Colorado river below
the Mexican boundary line, is own
ed or controlled by American syn
dicates and they have spared no ex-
pense of time or trouble to prevent
further appropriations of the rivers
waters in the United States Vari-
GUS bugaboos have served their pur-
pose so well that popular opinion
tends to the belief that We have no
right to use the water which ma
ture and the law give US. Had it
not been for the war with Mex
leo, these syndicates would long ago
have used the water and the people
Of the United States would be oblig-
ed to resort to international com
plications to retain it. Owing to
this state of affairs, it behooves the
landowners and entrymen of the ir-
rigable lands to lose no time in their
just use of that portion of the water
of the Colorado river due them,
while that water is yet available"
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Railroad Officials.

j. A Christy, of Needles, superin>
tendent of this division of the Santa
Fe railroad, j. w. Woods, of the
same place, superintendent of bridges
and E NJ McNeill, general road
master, arrived ~in Parker Tuesday
evening in private motor car. AfteH
attending to official business, they
left the same evening in a special car
which awaited them here.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Business Change.

A change took place in the per-
sonnel of the Oasis Poolrooms & Gar
age. last week. H. M. Osborne re-
triing from the firm. Mr.. Lauten viii
conduct the pool rooms in the future
while Mr. Osborne, who has taken
over the garage and purchased Mr..
Lauten's Ford car, will conduct that
line OF the business The garage has
been moved to the lot adjoining the
Parker meat market
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Building Material for the Indians.

Building Material for the Indians.
Six carloads of lumber and two of
cement arrived in Parker recently,
consigned TO the Indian agency here,
for the use and benefit of the
Indians. This material was shipped
by the government with the inten-
ton of having the Indians build for
themselves comfortable, sanitary
dwellings to take the place of the
crude, unsanitary aboriginal ram
shackles now occupied by many of
them. The approximate value of this
cargo is something like $4,000
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Local Mining Notes.

E. S. Osborne went out to the Ze-
olite mine. about ten miles east of
Parker, Wednesday, taking with him
three miners who were put to work
getting out shipping ore
A force of men will soon be put to
work on the old Copper Pride, one
of Osbornes properties, situated IA
miles east OF this place.
Mr.. Osborne made a shipment this
week, to the Hayden smelter, from
another of his mines, the limbo,
ABOUT Is miles east of this place, a
quantity of ore that went as high as
$95 per ton.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03

Ebert Hubbard's definition of a
Journalist is a person who is fitting
himself to accept a position, in oppo-
sition to newspaper man who has a
job.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
From Los Angeles.

C. W. Graves returned Tuesday
night from a visit to Los Angeles.
He and his family visited the expo
sition at San Diego, making the trip
by automobile, and reports having
had a very pleasant time.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
Trip Out of Town.

w P. Dunn, cashier of the Com
mercial Bank, and G. A. Marsh, of
the City Drug Store, left Friday
morning for a trip to Bouse and
Swansea.
The Parker post., 1915-04-03
LOCAL NEWS
PARAGRAPHS
PERSONAL AND LOCAL HAPPEN
INGS OF.THE WEEK IN PARKER r
AND VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS.
Returned to Phoenix.

Returned to Phoenix.
Mrs. B. NJ. Fuqua. who was called
here on account of the death of her
son, last week, returned to Phoenix
Sunday
The Parker post., 1915-04-03

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-07-22
GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE
Crawford Persisted In Attentions 10
widow Regardless Of Injunction
and Is In Contempt Of court

Judge Oldficld sent Bud" Crawford
to Jail for twenty four hours for con.
tempt of court, after hearing testimony
In the citation brought by Mrs. NJ.
A. Bnder OF $40 East Tenth street
Wednesday afternoon. II was shown
that Crawford had thrown rocks ON
the porch Of the Bader home with
notes attached TO them addressed to
Mrs. Bessie Moore, adopted daughter
OF Mrs. Bader. lie also went upop
the porch In violation Of the courts
Injunction and put q note for Mrs.
Moore In the letter box.
Crawford was warned by the court
that he must obey the injunction order
~ the court, which IL still In force
II was complained that Crawford an.
noyed the family by calling ON the
telephone, but the court made no spe
cihc order as to the use Df that in
strument for communicating with Mrs
Moore.
Not long ago Crawford went 10 m,
Nader home aud accidentally droppet
q photograph " himself. taken viii
another girl. He intlmates now tina
: NAV have had something to do with
the present effort to make him sta,
away.
Having been arrested 20 many time,
for disturbing the peace OF the Rade,
family. Crawford became cxnert al dc
Tending himself In the police court
hut n court Injunction WINS too much
for him and was sent 10 Iail.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-07-22
SALE Of WABASH
MEREFORMAL|TY
Railroad Experts Here al Rate
Hearing Explain Auction Of
Road as Meaningless
PHYSICAL PROPERTY IS GOOD

Railroad experts and officials here
attending the rate cases expressed no
surprise over the fact that the $40,
WFl,OOO Wabash railroad property had
been sold Mt a receivers sale for SIS,
100000 Some " them 50 they said,
heartily agreed with Federal Judge
Crum when. rs he signed the papers
making the sale valid, said to the pur
chaser, And now, gentlemen, may
God have mercy on your souls"
However, according TO one Of the
experts who was In a position to know,
this sale win not make anywhere near
nv great u difference In the value Of
the securities and stock M In the an.
ference between the book valuation
and the sale price for the reason that
the sale was more OF a formality on
the part Of the owners Of the stock
than II was a real sale, The Iron
Mountain owns most NJ the bonds and
stock ~ the Wabash, according Ia
those who know, and II Is probably
the financiers o. this road who bought
the bankrupt company and put up the