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The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

their social and business centers,
covering town sites and city
property, stocks of goods, fac
tories, etc., all of which will be
subject to taxation. Three to
five dollars per acre now for
lands in possession of actual set
! tiers will yield the state more
real money and greater actual
benefits than will fifty dollars an
acre twenty years hence.
The appropriations made in the
enabling act of one million acres
of land for the relief of Coconino,
Maricopa, Yavapai and Pima
(the latter embracing Santa
CRUZ, was to meet an immed-
late and urgent necessity. All
of those counties are bearing a
heavy burden of taxation to meet
interest and provide sinking
funds to liquidate issues of bonds
made under the territory to aid
in construction of railways, some
of which were never built.
Every month Of delay adds to
the burden imposed. 1t is a
burden upon this generation of
taxpayers, and the remedy should
be applied right now. To defer
acquisition and sale of those
lands through a period of ten to
twenty years and then parcel the
proceeds out among the counties
interested would serve only to
reimburse one generation of tax
payers for the losses of another.
Moreover, within that time the
generation now paying out
more money than will be realiz-
ed from the sale of the lands
even should there come to pass
the most iridescent dreams of
the land commission as to their
prospective values.
| The committee believes that
the vote of the people in Novem-
Der rejecting an initiative enact
ment that the state should en-
bark in reclamation projects
should settle that question, and
there is reported a resolution
condemning the proposition of
the State Land Commission for
such projects.
The question embracing dispo-
sition of the school lands is SO
diversified and variant in the
several counties that to formu-
late a policy of sale and DISPOSE
tion that would be equitable and
fair to all the counties, particu-
larly to Maricopa county at this
time, would be impossible in the
time at the disposition of this
conference. This committee finds
itself unable to agree upon pol
icy, so no resolution can be sub,
mitted; but for the illumination
and information of the confer
ence we submit herewith com
munication touching the subject
that has been handed US by 9
member of the conference.
: Respectfully submitted,
/ ALLEN 7. BIRD.
R. C. CRESSWELL,
4 RUDOLPH KUCHLER,
Committee.
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

Attorney Larson, of Holbrook,
spent Thursday in Winslow4 on
legal business.
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30
SUPERVISORS OF
THE STATE MEET

At a conference of the board
of supervisors of the counties of
the state held at Phoenix last
week the following report was
handed in by the committee:
HE, your committee appointed to formulate an
expression on the report Of the State Land
Communion, beg IeaUe to present Me fol-
lo7ving set Of resolutions:
Resolved. That the State Land
Commission should proceed to
acquire title to and sell at the
earliest date possible, the one
million acres of land appropriat-
ed in the assembling act for the
relief of Maricopa, Yavapai, Co.
conino and Pima counties (the
latter including Santa CRUZ, in
order that the bonds involved
may be retired and eliminate the
burden of taxation now imposed
upon those counties to pay in
terest and provide sinking funds.
Be it further
Resolved, That the sense of
this conference is that the gen
eral land policy of the state
should be to acquire titles to the
lands coming to the state as
quickly as possible, and part with
them to actual settlers and cult
vators as soon as may be, care
fully guarding against their fall
ing into the hands of specula-
tors, in order that the state may
realize it's legitimate revenue
from taxation of the lands and
improvements with taxation of
town property adjacent that will
follow. Be it further
Resolved, That the sense of
this conference is that as the
people voted down at tie last
election a proposition that the
state plan and execute rec!ama-
tion projects, the recommenda-
tion of the State Land Commits
sion for such reclamation pro-
jects should be ignored.
Resolved, That it is the sense
of this conference that from the
enormous amount of money eX-
pended with results so small it
would be wise economy should
the legislature abolish the State
Land Commission and vest in a
single commissioner the powers
and duties now exercised by said
commission.
TO THE LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
OF ARIZONA:
Gentlemen Your committee
on the report of the State Land
Commission in presentation of
the resolution herewith, respec-
lively submit the following prop
ositions in support of their adop-
ton:
A large part of the report of
the State Land Commission is
devoted to formulation of an al
legged general land policy to be
adopted by the state, which deals
in glittering generalities, and
proposes little that is definite.
The report hints at abuses of the
great grants of land made to
other states at the time of ad-
mission, of valuable lands having
fallen into the hands of specula-
tors at nominal prices, etc.
While this committee has no de-
sire to approve of that sort of 9
course, it does believe and rec
ommend that the general lano
policy to be adopted by the state
should be to acquire and pass as
quickly as possible to actual set.
tiers and cultivators all of the
lands. So long as they remain
in the hands of the state they
will be unproductive and the
state will derive. no revenue.
When under cultivation they be-
come productive. Their value
and the values of their produc
tions become subjects of taxa
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30
LIMITED TO RUN
IN 5 SECTIONS

The California Limited will
leave Chicago over the Santa Fe
in Z sextions on February 8, and
on February 10, in 8 sections.
Usually two or three sections
are sufficient to accommodate the
tourist traffic but more tourists
are westward bound this year
on account of the fair.
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

Supervisors Cresswell and Hen
nessey and County Attorney Jor-
dan were the Navajo county
representatives that attended the
meeting of supervisors of the
state at Phoenix January q, %
and %. They returned home
last Sunday.
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

Hereafter the Jury terms of
the Superior Court in this County
will begin on the Fourth Monday
of February, July and October.
Such action was decided upon at
the meeting Of the Superior
Judges of the state recently held
in phOaniv
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

Lester Fuller returned from a
short trip to San Diego Thursday,
The Winslow mail., 1915-01-30

Heck Morley was in from the
ranch during the week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Spook-Ri dden Babylon.

In lecture in connection with the Egypt Exploration fund, on Burial Customs in Mesopotamia and Egypt" Dr. l.. w. King said the spirit which animated the Egyptians in their varied and changing practices toward the dead was based on affection and rev. erence, but the Babylonian. in the main, was prompted by fear. The Babylonians were probably more spookridden than any other nation of antiquity, and their magical texts made it clear that the most terrible class of spirits were the ghosts of the dead who for some reason had been unable to enter the underworld. Driven to hunger and thirst, such a gtost might roam about and fasten on anyone with whom it had relations in this life. and it would plague him until he performed the rites that could give peace. It was mainly to lay the ghost and prevent it from haunt. ing, that the Babylonians were scru- pulous in performing the due burial rites.-London Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Really Accommodating.

"A cyclone is not such a bad thing, after all." remarked the portly sales- man as he settled himself comfort ably in his chair. One saved five dollars for me once." How did it happen?' asked a lounger. T was in a little town out in Kansas, about two years ago, and wanted to get to another small town 15 miles distant. There was no railroad between the two points and l was standing in front of the livery stable arguing with the liveryman, who wanted five dollars to take me and my sample cases over, when cyclone came along and, picking me up, landed me right in the little town to which I wanted to go." "Er-how about your sam pie cases?" faltered an awed listener. "Oh," suavely replied the salesman, the cyclone landed them just ahead of me and had my goods all spread out on display when got there.'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
CITY GETS BRICK FREE.
Downtown District EOnates Old Ma-
 ttrial for Street Work.

A larga quantity of the bricks taken up from Main, West second and West Barraque streets has been given by the commissioners of that paving district to the city, and the wagons of the street department were busy yesterday hauling the bricks eff the streets named.
 The best of the old bricks will be used by the city to make necessary patches in other streets and allies, and the ether bricks will be us5d in making fills in low spots. A coa- siderable amount of good material fer this purpose has thus come into th1 possession of the street depart ment, and will be put 10 use as rap idly as the street department work progresses.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
The Youth of Athens.

When Athens gave every fourth block to her children and youth for the gymnasium and the playground, she built bodies of silk and steel, and great men walked up and down her streets in regiments, and her health bloomed in the orations of Demos. themes, and the essays of Plato and the marbles of Phidias Just as soon as the race and the body began to deterioriate, Athens wen. to pieces. This has been the story, also, of Ephesus, and Corinth, and Venice.- Newell Dwight Hillis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Post Office. in Two Countries.

Beebe Plain, Que, has what is said to be the only double post office in the world. The office is half in Can. ada and half in the States, with Beebe, Quebec, on one side. and Beebe, Vermont, on the other An iron post in the middle of the front porch marks the international boundary line. Aside from it's location the building Is of interest on account of the ma, terial from which it is built, which Is granite, native to the locality, and on account of it's age, which is about century. The two prosperous commu. nltles, which it serves, and which are practically one village, have a population of about 1000, and are said to own more automobiles than any other village of this size in Canada.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Characters of Justice.

It Is finely said by Plato that as the knowledge that is divested of justice deserves the appellation of cunning, rather than wisdom, so a mind unsus ceptible of fear if animated by private interest and not public utility, deserves the character of audaciousness rather than of fortitude. We therefore require that all men of courage and magnanim. 1ty should be at the same time men of virtue and of simplicity, lovers of truth, and enemies to all deceit, for these are the main characters of tus- tice-Cicero.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Transfers of real estate recorded yesterday are reported by the G. w.. Ryington Abstract company, as fol- lows:
 Pink Baylis tc St:rling Smith, WIZ lot ? block 29 Western addition $250.
 Wm. F. Monk, ct al.. to Leila Flor ence Monk, SW IA NE 1-4 Sec. 3o- 6-10, ct al, $10.
 Bo5rd of directors of Cousary Bayou drainage district, to R. M. Knox Co.,, fri. NV 236-S, ct al., $110.7o.
 o. Mckenzie to The R. M. Knox company, NV ,NE 23-6-S, $15.
 The R. M. Knox company to M. J. Knox ct al., NE 15-6-S, ct al, $1, ether consid srations.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
LEAGUE
 BEGINS JUNE 7
Three Games to Be Played Each Week by Baseball
 Teams of Working Boys.

Organization of the Twilight base ball league was perfected yesterday following the election of Earl Me- Gaughy as president, James Alex ander as wee president and Clinton Hastings as seeretary-treasurer.
 The league will be composed of four clubs and the schedule calls for three games each week, to be played between the hours Of , and [ D. m. at Athletic park, the sch dule extending already to July g..
 Partial organization of each of the teams has been perfected, although Manager Warren SatterWhite has not yet announced tho names of his players. Announcement of players on the other teams were made, as follows
 Rarneys-Barney Pritchard mana ger; Dan Byrd, Frank Hughes, Thomas Bryant. Barney Pritchard, Eddie Rowland. Leo 'Harkne ss.
 Bedells-Frcd Oracle. manager; :; Reeder Cady. Eddie Royster. Jame s Wiggington, Carl Shelby. Horace Hope, Burl Reynolds, Carl Brown, Tom Gardner, Garland Samuels, Sam Bradley.
 Satenets-Fred Johnson, manager; Herbert Holt, D. D. Hunter, Jack Yates. Fitzhugh Lee, Peiton Mooney, Park TCTme. Fred Johnson, Clinton Hastings, Charles Rouse, Horace Bays, Edward Culver, Edgar Yowell, Edward Scheu.
 Uniforms for the players on the satenet team will be donated by the Pine Bluff Bottling company. while Bedell's pharmacy will furnish the uniforms for the Bedell's. Arrange ments for tn? uniforms for the other two clubs arc now being perfected
 To Paul Bean, assistant physical tian association much ere dit is due for the formation of ;he Twilight league, and the boys ho pc to profit materially as result of coaching to be done by him.
 The schedule. which calls for a double header in the forenoon of July , and double header the aft rnCoa Of tAe same date, in cele- bratlon of July Fourth. is as follows:
 June 7-N,dells vs. Satencts.
 June 9-Barneys vs. Bedells.
 June 11-Satenets vs. Warrens.
 June l4-4Warre ms vs. Barneys.
 June 16-Bedells vs. Warrcns.
 June 1S.- Satenets vs. Barneys.
 ,Iune 21.--Satenets vs. Warren.
 June 23.-Bedells vs. Bavneys.
 June 25-Satentts vs. Bed Ills.
 June 2S-Bercls vs. Warrens.
 June @0-Warrents vs. tBarneys
 July 2-SatenetS vs Barneys.
 July 5-Bedells vs. Warrens and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Drums on Horseback.

The earliest date at which drums were carried on horseback in England appears to be 1542, when Henry VIII sent to Vienna for kettle drums that could be played on horseback after the Hungarian manner" Mounted bands were in vogue in the last dec ade of the eighteenth century, the two regiments o. life guards having them In 1895.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
"SlOwed up'' at Middle Age.

The hard working kidneys seems to require aid sooner than other in? testinal organs. At middle age many men and women feel twings of rheu- matism, have swollen or aching joints and are distressed with sleep disturb- ing bladder ailments. Foley K:3ney Pills are safe, prompt and can be de- pended on 70 give relief. Mann Pharmacy
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
The Aids Job.

"Who is that man who follows the general about?" His aid" But why does he need all aid hanging around all the time:" Well; you see. the general has more medals than he can conveniently wear himself" City Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Spiteful.

Ragged Rogers-"De lady in de next house give me a piece of homemade cake. Won't you give me scmethin'. too?" Mrs. Spiteful-"Certainly, I'll get you pepsin tablet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Poor Man's Advantaue.

!ne sleep of the laboring man Is sweet, whether he eat little or much: :: put the abundance of the rich will not suner him to sleep.-Ecclesiastes,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
Y. TENNIS TOURNEY.
HCWell and Alexander Contest To- morrow to Decide WkO Meets
 Cross

Qualifying rounds in the tennis tournament under tAa auspices of the Y. M. (. A. tennis club were played yesterday at the courts at Main and Sixth streets. resulting as follows:
 Cross defeat Davis. 60. 60.
 Adams defeated Christopher. 6-3. 6-4
 Adams defeated Martin 6-3, 6-3.
 Howell defeated Maloch. 60, GA.
 Cross defeat d lAdaTs. 6-1. 60.
 Monday 'ha semi-finals and finals will be played, Howell and Alex ander in the semi-finals in the morn and Cross meetin. the winner ia thn finals m the afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
They Surely Would.

Societies that shut out reporters and refuse to give out news the public wants would be awful mad if the press were to let them severely alone.- Milwaukee Sentinel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30

Satenats vs. Barneys, in forenoon; Satenets vs. Bedells and Barneys vs. Warrens in afternoon.
 July 7-Satenets vs. Warrens.
 July 9-Bedells vs. Barneys.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
.CHlLD'S TONGUE BECOMES COATED
 IF CONSTIPATED.
When cross, feverish and sick give California Syrup
 Of Figs"

Children love this fruit laxative'' and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely A child simply will not stop play ing to empty the bowels. and the re- suit is, they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish. stom- ach sours, then your little one be- comes cross, ha1f-sick, feverish, don't eat, sleep act naturally, breath is bad. system full of cold, has sore throat. stomach ache or diarrhoea- Listen. Motheri See if tongue is coated, then give a tea spoonful of California Syrup of Figs and in few hours all the consti pated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the system, and you have a well, playful child again.
 Millions of mothers give "Calffor- mia. Syrup of, Figs because itsis per fectIy harmless; children love it. and 1t never fails to act ons the stomach, liver and bowels.
 2 Ask your druggist for a 50 cent bottle of 9'CaIifornia Syrup of Figs, which has full directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown Sups plainly printed on the bottle. Be- ware of commercials sold here. Get the genuine. made by "Ca1ifornia Fig Syrup Company Refuse any other kind with contempt.-Adv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
CONVERSATIONAL CLASSES
 IN SPANISH WILL BEGIN
 AT Y. M. c. A. NEXT WEEK

Conversationa1 Spanish classes will open at the Y. M. c. A next. week Both the elementary and advanced groups will be under the. direction of Francisco Romero. native of Spain x
 The advanced class will meet for two hour period on Monday evenings, and the elementary group for a like period on Friday evenings, instead of shorter period twice a week as pre- v1ously planned
 This change was made necessary by the fact that many business men in terested in taking up the study of the Spanish language, found it difficult to attend the class sessions twice a week, in addition to the Spanish club on Thursday nights, at which every class meber is expected to be present.
 The club has been planned especially to give the students in the Y. M C.. A. classes in Spanish practice in conver- sation, but it's membership is open, to any men in the city who are interested. The object of the club is to afford an opportunity for men to get practice in speaking the Spanish language, since huency of speech comes only as one learns to think and to express himself in the new language.
 MT. Romero, the instructor, will be present at each meeting and will take an active interest in it's work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
UMPIRES RIGLER AND
 EASON ARRESTED FOR
 BEING COUNTERFETTERS
(Snortinr News.l

Umpires Eason and Rigler, who ge4s- eralIy are perfectly capab ble of subdu- dng any reca1citrant ball player, met their waterloo in William Jackson, a negro Pullman porter, en route from Chicago to St. Louis William, who has aspirations to be a detective, had them pinched. The porter, who has a run on the Chicago and Eastern IL ltnois, was tipped off to easy money by one of his passengers, who showed him a queer little machine that coIs- verted green pieces of paper into greenbacks-
 William had no sudden dreams <f wealth Instead he telegraphed to S1. Louis, for a squad of detectives to meet the train and round up the Counter feiter he had caught. When the train f got in they pinched the "counterfe1ter' and two confederates who were laugh ing loudly.
 The confederates were Rfg1er and Eason. The t'counterfeiter'' was Bar neya E. Harrigan of Tulsa, Okla. The machine was a plain empty box The trio explained they had been fooIing l the porter by slipping good bills in the | machine when he was not looking. All were freed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
CYCLES CRASH;
 TWO ARE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING
While Victims Lay Prostrate, Officials Consider POIic-
 ing Roads.
Especial to The Farner.)


 Milford, Oct. 13-Two of the vic tirns of the motorcycle crash on the Milford turnpike last night are dead today and a third is in a dangerous condition at the New Haven hos pitaI. Antonio Miskavitz aged 34, of New Haven, died this morning from a fractured skull and the body of the other was identified as that of Alexan- der Schuck of New Haven.
 The accident happened about a mile and a quarter east of Milford center late last night. A motorcycle ridden by Hja1nar Pederson of Or ange, was going east when another ridden by Antonio Mfskevitz and car fying also Schuck. came from the opposite direction. The latter ma chine turned out to avoid an automo- bile and smashed into the Pederson machine.
 All were knocked unconscious. Schuck was found to have died soon after. Pederson received a fracture at the base of his skull and he is in a critical condition today. Miskovitz, with a fracture and internal injuries died this morning.
 At the same time the accident oc- cured, the Milford Business Mems as- sociation was discussing the advfsa bility of policing the patch of road where the machines met owing to similar accidents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

. 1902-Joe Cans knocked out Kid Mcfarland in fifth round at Fort Erie. A big bunch of Buffalo boxing bugs turned out for this fight, for the little negro was then at the begin ming of his championship career, hay ing won the lightweight title with a punch at Fort Erie a few months before, when Frank Erne lost his Iaure1s in about the shortest time on record. Kid MePartland was one of the best lightwefghts of the day, and had never been decisiveIy defeated although he had lost a decision to Kid Lavigne. Many of the fans con- fdent1y expected the Kid to restore the lightweight honors to the pale face race. but they were disappointed McPart1and was a, skilful. scientific boxer, but no match for the clever Baltimore black. In the fifth chapter McPartIand took the full count Mo Partland had fought Cans twice be- fore, losing the decision in one con- test and getting a draw in the other Cans died of consumption five years ago, while Mcfarland is now a. ring referee in New York
 1Ss2-Martin CanoIe, Irish light weight, born in Clare, Ireland.
 1so-Brook1yn Tommy Sullivan defeated Abe Atteu in five rounds at St. Louis. t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
BANKS NOT TIGHT,
 BANKER DECLARES

. At the meeting of the Bridgepart Business Mems association last nia.hE the need of more housing facilities in Bridgeport was discussed Anona
 the persons connected with banks, al the meeting, was Moses w. Nanwssr- ing, and he refuted the popular belzek that banks are not loaning money to are swamped with requests and are doing what they can.
 z L. F. Rockwell expressed the opip- ion that Bridgeport will be the Detroit of the East if a little of the Western spirit is infused.