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Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14
NEWS ABOUT MINES IN
 PUBLIC EYE
C. & A. SHAFT IS FLOODED; :;
 I. V. HAS NOT DISPOS- ED OF SURFACE RIGHTS; ANNUAL REPORT OF CON. ARIZONA ENCOURAGING.
(From Tuesdays Daily)

AAl .
 A subterranean stream encountered in sinking, flooded the shaft of the Calumet & Jerome on Sunday, and it was necessary to borrow large pumps from the Gadsdcn Copper Company.
 Superintendent J. B. Harper of the Jcromc-Verdc has authorized a state ment denouncing as without any foundation the story published in a Jerome paper, to the effect that the company had disposed of its surface rights to the United Verde Extension in return for an alleged agreement to do 150 feet of exploratory work a month for nine years. President James s. Douglas also denies the yarn. As has been known for long time, and so included in the report to stockholders, the United Verde Ex- tension has an agreement, entered in- to in December, 1915, to do 150 feet of work a month for the Jerome Verde. This agreement was only for one year.
 Consolidated Arizona earned net in 1916, 7.3S per cent on its outstanding capital stock of $S,3l5,0O0, the annual report issued yesterday showing the net returns as $613,S77. This was af- ter allowing S2OO,SSS for depreciation and the deduction of S44,2 ,250 bond in tcrcst.
 An evidence of what present prices for metals is meaning to the metal producing companies is seen in the fact that the net earnings of the Con- solidatcd Arizona Smelling Company in l9l6 were $305, ,204. as compared with deficit of more than SlS5,000 in 1915. Of course, higher metal prices were not alone responsible for the better earnings. but they played a very important part.
 V. I. Cumnock, for many years a director and president of the Con- solidatcd Arizona Smelling Company, has resigned on account of poor health.
 Ricc's daily market letter of March 7, says: "On the Curb. Jcrome-Verdc continued the center of excitement, as yesterday, with a turnover of 296,0OO shares. There was wild excitement in the crowd at the opening, thou sands of shares changing hands, sell ing as high as s a share, against a close at S2l& yesterday. The price was we'll maintained from $2A to s in the first half hour. Then stock be- gan to pour out in an increasing tor rent Before noon the price had dropped to $2is, held there for a while, and then dropped to low of SIS. During the last hour the ex- citcmcnt had abated somewhat The close was $21$ bid, $214 asked. Ad- vices from the West confirmed the report of a strike, but rumors were conflicting. The sudden advance in the price was too tempting. and quo tations suffered in cOnsequencc.'
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14

at the time the letters were received that he could have no trst-hand knowledge of the alleged fact that these letters had been sent through the United States mails-a point very conspicuous in the case, as, on it.. hinged the United States right to prosecute. \ telegram was produced by the defense. bearing the signature of \. K. Barnum, private secretary to Maicr, and advising Wichmann in reply to the first of the three letters, that Maicr was not in town. This, Maicr explained by saying that it was his custom when he desired to delay a transaction in order to give 1t more thought. to have Barnum state he was not in the city. He stated further that he was in his office when the letters arrived, and, himself. ex- amincd the stamped envelopes when they arrived from the postoificc, and before they were thrown away, upon the filing of the correspondence.
 So many intricate law points were coming up and so many objections were interposcd, Judge Sawtcllc here thought it well to continue the trial until this morning at 9:30 At this time, court reporter will be i'm stalled, to take care of the record.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14

If you want an engraved calling card, give the Journal-Mincr your srder. -
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14
TRANSPORT SUNK

LONDON. March 9.-Thc British transport Mcndi, carrying South Am crican native laborcrs, was sunk after collision on February 2l, and 625 persons lost their lives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
RIVAL FOR SANTA CLAUS

A writer in the October American
Magazine says about a great circus
executive:
When Henry Gentry was fifteen,
he had three dogs that he had taught
to do tricks. To-day he 10 president
and general manager of three-ring
circus.
He gets what is said to be the
largest salary paid to any circus exc
cutive in this country. And, be-
sides, he has developed and sold at
an immense profit the worlds great
est dog and pony show out of which
he has made fortune. He has own
ed as many as one hundred and fifty
trained dogs at one time, three hun
dred Shetland ponies, many ele-
plants, camels, and all kinds of other
animals. He has given away hun
dreds of dogs and ponies throughout
the United States and Canada. He
has run as many as four shows all at
one time, all dog and pony shows,
which have given laughter and de-
light to millions of children. And
among the children of this country
he has gained a national reputation
as Santa Claus only rival"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
DEMOCRATIC sCHENuNG

= T is the manifest purpose of the
Democratic machine here and
elsewhere to disrupt the Republi-
can party wherever possible through
the circulation of stories designed
to arouse factional feeling and per-
sonal animosities. No propaganda
of the Kaiser has been more persist
emily exploited than the irritating
reports affecting candidates on the
Republican ticket. 1t is always easy
through innuendo and misrepresen-
tation to convey a wrong impression
in any political campaign. Republi-
cans must see to 1t that they are not
deluded through this transparent
game.
In the more or less heated canvass
for the mayoralty and city council
here there has been an active effort
on the part of Democratic bosses 10
create dissension within the Republi-
can ranks. Their obvious plan Is to
endeavor, through disruption of the
Republican party, to accomplish what
they so signally failed to achieve IN
the primary election, when a large
majority of the candidates nominated
for nonpartisan offices were Repub-
;icans.
1t should not be forgotten at this
time and under existing circum-
stances that President Wilson was
the direct beneficiary of Republican
dissension and it is now the plan of
his partisan supporters in Pennsyl-
vania to engender factionalism
within the Republican party with a
view to paving the way for the
gubernatorial campaign of next year.
The scheming is so transparent that
no Republican should be deceived
thereby.
Let the campaign be waged fairly.
so that there may not be hereafter
resentments and such factionalism
as has caused the serious situation
which now confronts the Republican
party in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
GIRLS SLOWER

There is at present no woman Off
Ger of a New York City bank, and
only one in New Jersey, but if the
war lasts long enough it may we'll
ne, as it is in Canada now, that the
banks will virtually be run by women.
Already, it is estimated twenty
thousand women have been taken
on in the Wall Street district since
the United States entered the war
last April.
Women are slower, but more care
full, said an official of the Mechanics
and Metals Bank. so although twice
as many women as men are needed
to do the same amount of work, the
bank loses no money on extra SAL
aries, because the women save hun
dreds OF dollars which had to be
paid to the clearing house for the
mems mistakes. Each mistake costs
81. and the records show that some-
times mems mistakes cost $25 or $50
week.
The average downtown bank has
lost 20 per cent of its men, and
taken on 40 per cent women. The
Mechanics and Metals Bank now
has sixty women, and they are being
taken on by tens or twenties each
week. So far these sixty women are
taking the places of only thirty-six
men, which shows the difference in
rapidity, but the official of the bank
pointed out that 1t would be SER
ions problem when the men came
home for their jobs.
"Our only hope is," he said, that
the business will be big enough then
to accommodate them all."-New
York Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT

In fearsome tales the wicked rich
are painted deadly black,
Yea, nearly all who WELD a pen
have given them a whack.
Some things that they have said are
true-the rich are mostly hui
man,
And now and then one slips Bit
when business is boomin'.
But we'd forget the men whose cash
would buy the Koh-i-noor
re we but say the crookedness that
keeps some people poor.
[ used to know merchant in a lit
tie country town
wha might have gained a lot OF
wealth and subsequent re-
nown,
Had not his grasping methods driv-
en- half his trade away
They said he'd Skin a house-fiy for
its tallow any day"
His lying scales and labels made
him enemies galore.
But still he hugged the crookedness
that kept him always poor.
'TwereN' folly to discredit all the
meaning of the years
The lore embodied in The Word and
vouched for by the seers,
Material welfare oft rewards men
not of our own kind,
And poverty through honesty we
now and then may find,
But we would call our bloodhounds
from the rich Offenders door
II we could see the crookedness that
keeps some people poor.
by Strickland Gillian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
MORE ON ANNEXATION

To the Editor of tie Telegraph:
The newspapers are very properly
giving considerable space to discus
sion of the proposed annexation of
the West Shore towns to Harrisburg.
Much has been said for it and some
against it. But I do not believe
credit has been given where it be-
longs. The subject, which closely re-
lates to the growth and development
of the community, originated by
the West Shore Firemen's Union
This livewire body of men may have
gotten around to annexation before
most people had time to give the
matter thought. and may be a little
in advance Of the time, but they have
touched upon topic that If 1t is not
fully decided at this time is going to
come up repeatedly until the annexa-
ton advocated is brought about
Either we are to have two rival
cities, one on each side of the Susque-
hanna at this point, or we are to
have one big city. Maybe the pres
ent with its stress of war and other
uncertainties, is not now the time
to consider a matter that may add
considerably to the taxes of any or
all of us. I do not pose as being
able to decide that. 1t is for the
people of West Shore and Harris
burg to thresh out. But this I do
know. that the West Shore men who
are at present getting expressions of
opinion on the subject have had a
vision that in the long run is go
ing to come true. for nobody can
conceive of one Harrisburg on the
east shore and another on the west
that do not have a common bond of
government binding them together
into the one big city we believe this
is destined to be. All honor to the
pioneers
WESTY SHORE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
A CLUB WORTH WHILE

T HE Rotary Club is an organiza-
ton worth while. 1t has been
back of every movement for the
betterment of Harrisburg and of in
terest in community way since It's
organization. It's latest decision to
conduct a campaign among its own
members for the purpose of rails
ing a fund to assist the soldiers
libaary movement is in line with its
conduct in the past and should serve
as an excellent example to other
organizations.
The request of the club that the
campaign when 1t gets under way
be given no newspaper publicity in
dicates that the Rotarians have no
desire to make capital out of their
generosity. Whatever they do they
will do in secret, not letting their
right hand know what their left hand
does.
How many more Rotary Clubs are
there among the organizations of
Harrisburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
ANENT ANNEXATION
To the Editor of the TcIeeyabh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
This section of Cumberland county
known as the West Shore demands
admittance to your city. Its resi-
dents realize the many advantages in
annexation and recognize no dis
advantages. May we have the space
TO enumerate a number of the ad-
vantages to be derived:
Harrisburg will be glad to at once
improve the hundred or more miles
or road in this section. They are
not improved now because the rev.
enue from taxation here has not
been sufficient. But we know the
taxpayers of Harrisburg as it now
exists will see to 1t that their taxes
come across the river.
There will be no more cropping
about with lantern hunting the
meetingplace of the West Shore
Firemen's Union. Your city will
and byways. Dauphin county taxes
will surely do this for us.
And our schools! The school
problem in your city has sometimes
almost flooded you, with your fires
and lack of room and other more
serious matters. But our problems
you will solve and that at once.
Your assessments are full value
and ours are one-third of actual
value. You must arrange for un-
equal taxation, for we are accus-
toned to one-third assessments and
we may not be able to accustom our
selves to higher ones.
Our actual propery values will
jump - one big leap of fifty per
cent. as soon as you annex us. The
magic word "city" will do this foI
us.
Fire protection is much needed
here. You will give us, upon an
nexation, motor engines and engine
houses. All at your expense.
The two bridges across the Susque-
hanna will be free, and we should
have three new ones-one at New
Cumberland, one at West Fairviev
and the third at Enola.
You can give us theaters, depart
ment stores, newspapers, churches
and politics. If you give us polite:
will we be the tail or the dog?
Our burgesses, councilmen, asses.
sors, tax collectors, justices of the
peace, constables, school director:
and other officers, will lose theil
jobs the minute you absorb us. OF
course, we can re-elect many oi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
HEAR MIR. KAHN

A LII members of the Chamber of
n Commerce should~hear the ad-
dress of Otto H. Kahn, of the
firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Company,
international bankers, at the lunch
con tomorrow.
Among other thiAgs he will dis
cuss the new taxes on business and
incomes and the next Liberty Loan.
He is we'll qualified to speak on
these subjects. But more than that,
he is an ardent American and a fear
less foe of Junkerdom. His addresses
TEEN with patriotic advice and ex-
posure of German military methods.
Doubtless this theme will not be ne
elected tomorrow. At all events Mr..
Kahn will bring a message that
everybody who has the opportunity
should hear. He is big man and
should be greeted by a big audience.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. A. Lawrence Miller, Blooms
burg pastor, who will enter the
Army, is a former Harrisburg min
lister.
The Rev. Stewart M. Smith, a
Pittsburgh minister, says large fam
flies are a cure for divorces.
Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the
Evangelical Church, started from
Allentown on tour to the Pacific
coast.
Mayor Harvey, of Hazleton, says
he will try the curb market again
in spite of failures.
Chief Justice Brown will be one
of the speakers at the st. Matthews
Lutheran anniversary in ReadinS,
Thursday. He is a son of a form er
pastor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
PROTECT THEIR GOOD NAMES


M UGH may be excused in the
lV hectic rush of recruiting and
mobilizing a great national
army, but the unfortunate publica-
ton from time to time of alleged
"slackers" has caused much sorrow
and heart burning, not only among
the men who are not "slackers." but
also among their families and
friends.
The other day a considerable list
was announced from one of the ex-
emption boards in this county of en-
rolled men who had not reported
for examination. Among these was
number of patriotic young fellows
who have been in the service for
weeks, some of them having attended
training camps and been commits
stoned as officers. Too much care
cannot be exercised in such matters.
1t is all very well to be expeditions
in the organization of an army, but
haste should not involve young SOL
diers who. are doing their duty in the
undeSerVed contempt OF the COM
munities from which they hail. It
were better not to print the names
of those who are actually "slackers"
rather than risk publicity of names
of men who are already serving their
country and who may not be able
to live down the printed statements
of official boards.
Harrisburg is particularly sensitive
on this point, because this city has a
reputation to maintain as one of the
few places in the entire country
which has measured up splendidly
in every feature of the national de-
fense. Let us hope that the mis-
takes of this sort will be rectifled In
some official way so that the young
soldiers who have been included
among the "slackers" when they
should have been placed on a roll
of honor are set right in the records
of the war,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25

1t Will be to clean up tho camp. dig
the graves. build the sewers. dispose
OF the swill. and other delightful
occupations of the kind. Besides,
1t Is safe to predict that he will be
hguratively. II not actually. Kicked
around" by the men who carry the
guns. Before this war is over the
drafted conscientious objectof" is
going to be much fewer in number
than at present.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
NEW DECLARATION

1t is reported that the latest Ger.
man peace terms include the inde.
pendence of Belgium-but on condi.
tion that she be wholly Independent
of alliances with other nations.
Thy spirit, Independence. let me
share,
Efrulgent in its glory, rich and rare
George Washington. retire in dis
tress,
And Lincoln, fade into forgetfulness
Tell was no archer though he shot
the apple:
Buzzaris but an amateur who'd
grapple
The Turk and botched at catching
as catch can.
Outdated even in Kerensky's plan.
How could the Belgian ever thank
the Hun
For all Of wars delights that he has
spun?
Who would have thought the debt
could be wiped out7
Yet here's a scheme for doing It,
past doubti
Belgium independent, yes, and
Much more than nation ever was be-
foreI
Who but the Prussian could arrive
at such transcendence,
Independence independent OF inds-
pendence!
MAURICE MORRIS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
THE PEOPLES FORUM

them, but many will be like the
water that has turned the mill-gone
forever.
1t may be anticipating too much
but We suggest the following names
for city officers, at the next election,
after you have taken us in:
Mayor, j. Fred Hummel.
City Solicitor, Arthur r. Rupley.
City Commissioner, Ira e. Shaull.
We reserve the right to make fur
ther suggestions, and may substitute
another for the City Solicitorship.
Yours truly,
TAMARACK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
BUSINESS AND LABoR

TT OW the Kaiser must shiver In
his boots when he reads the
news from America. Business
and labor-too often on opposite
sides of the fence-lined up shoulder
to shoulder to win this war. each
pledged to do its share and more.
In Atlantic City last week the War
convention of American Business
men passed resolution expressing
the general policy that business will
pursue toward the government and
war needs. setting forth that. ''un-
dismayed at the prospect of great
taxes, facing the consumption of Its
accumulated savings, American bust
ness, without hesitation. pledges 10
the government full and unqualified
support in prosecution of the war
until Prussianism is utterly destroy
ed. The convention will dedicate to
the nation every facility it has devel-
oped and every financial resource at
It's command on such terms and un-
der such conditions as our govern
ment shall determine to be just"
And the American Alliance For
Labor and Democracy, meeting in
Minneapolis recently. with Samuel
Gompers in the chair, passed resolu-
tions, the spirit of which is contained
In this paragraph:
We declare that a sturdy de-
tense of the interests of labor is
wholly compatible with supreme
loyalty to the Government We
fully recognize the many proofs
given by the President and the
administration chiefs to the prin-
ciple that the war shall not be
or the standards which have been
established by labor in it's long
struggle. We declare, however,
that predatory influences are at
work at all times-and particu-
these standards. These efforts,
wherever made, must be resisted.
Not only must all present stan
dards be maintained. but there
must be no curtailment of any of
the present agencies which make
for the betterment of the condi-
ton of labor. Our loyalty to the
Government is the loyalty of free
men who Will not acquiesce in any
surrender of principle.
There you have it, business and
labor lined up side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, enlisted for the period of
the war, and perhaps when the war
is over they will have become so
well acquainted they will not again
desire to dissolve partnership.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
NO SALVAGE
Notwithstanding

Notwithstanding
The enormous strides
The American people
Are making
In thrift and economy,
The only thing
That an old pair
OF trousers
Can be converted into
Is an older pair of trousers.
From the Arkansas Gazett,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
LABOR NOTES

A class of rs girl employees of the
Bush Terminal Company in New
York recently qualified to operate
electric locomo motives. The Company
expects to lose at least 100 men by
the army draft and have taken these
means of being ready to fill their
places with women when they are
called away.
The decision of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania in holding that COM
pensation to the dependents of a
taxicab driver killed while at work
is to be figured on the basis of his
wages received from the employer
plus his average weekly receipts in
tips, may be said to be recognition
of the tip as a wage de facto, If not
de 1ure.
Seattle (Wash.) Central Labor
Council demands that new wage
boards Immediately convene and
readjust rates for women. 1t is
stated that no change has been made
in women's wages since the boards
awards, three years ago, and In the
meantime living costs are mounting
higher and higher.
Probably the first payment ever
made by the United States Govern
ment to schoolboys for army con-
tract work was recorded when a War
Department check was received at
Philadelphia to pay high school
students for the manufacture of
tnet pegs supplied some time ago.
Commissioners Claxton of the Fed
eral Bureau of Education has ap-
pealed to organized labor to assist
In maintaining efficiency of the public
school system during the war.