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Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
ACT SUSPENDING
 ASSESSMENT WORK

The following is the joint resolution passed by the last congress suspend ing assessment work on mining claims for 1917 and 1918:
 (Pubic Resolution No. 12, 65th Con
 gress.) q. S. Res. 7S.)
 Joint Resolution To suspend the re- quirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years 1917 and 1918.
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives Of the United States of America in Congress assem- bled, That in order that labor may be most effectively used in raising and producing those things needed in the prosecution of the present war with Germany, that the provision of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than S100 worth of labor to be performed CT improvements to be made during each year, be, and the same is hereby, suspended during the years 1917 and 1918: Provided, That every claimant of any such mining claim in order to obtain the benefits of this resolution shall file or cause to be filed in the office where the To- cation notice or certificate is record ed on or before December 31, of each of the years 1917 and 1918, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution; Provided fur ther, That this resolution shall not ap- ply to oil placer locations or claims.
 This resolution shall not be deemed to amend or repeal the public resolu- tion entitled "Joint resolution to re lieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from per forming assessment work during the term of such service" approved July IT, 1917.
 Approved, October 5, 1917.
Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
IOWA, MAN COMPOSES SATIRE
 ON KAISER THAT WINS FOR
 HIM NATIONAL REPUTATION

and leisurely devoured by sharks down among the corals.
 q have strolled over the battle fields of Belgium and France. have seen your hand of destruction every where; it's all your work, super-fend that I made you. I have seen the fields of Poland, now a wilderness fit for prowling beasts only; no merry children in Poland now, they all sue cumbed to frost and starvation-I driften down into Galicia where for merly Jews and Gentiles lived hap oily together; I found but ruins and ashes; I felt a curious pride in my pupil, for it was all above my ex- pectations. I was in Belgium when you drove the peaceful population be- fore you like cattle into slavery; you separated man. and wife and forced them to hard labor in trenches. l have seen the most fiendish rape committed upon young women and those who were forced into maternity were CUTS ing the father of their offspring, and I began to wonder if my own inferno was really up to date.
 "You have taken millions of dol lars from innocent victims and called it indemnity; you have lived fat on the land you usurped and sent the real owners away to starvation. You have strayed away from legalized war methods and introduced a code of your own. You have killed and rob bed the people of friendly nations and destroyed their property. You are a liar, hypocrite, and a buffer of the highest magnitude. You are a part of mine and yet you pose as the per sonal friend of God. An, Wilhelm, you are a wonder! You wantonly de- stroy all things in your path and leave nothing for coming generations.
 q was amazed when I saw you form a partnership with the impossible Turk, the chronic killer of Christian, and you a devout worshiper in the Lutheran church. I confess, Wilhelm, you are puzzle at times. A Moham- medan army, commanded by German officers, assisting one another in mas sacreing Christians is a new line of warfare. When a Prussian officer can witness a nude woman being dis embowled by swarthy Turk, commit ting a double murder by one cut of his sabre, and calmly stand by and see a houseful of innocent Armenians locked up, the house saturated with oil and fired, then my teachings did not stop with you, but have been ex- tended to the WHOLE GERMAN na-I tion,. I confess my Satanic soul grew sick and then and there knew the pupil had become the master. I am a back number, and, my dear Wilhelm, I abdicate in your favor. The great key of hell will be turned over toi you. The gavel that has struck the doom of damned souls since time be- gan is yours, I am satisfied with what I have done; that my abdication in your favor is for the very best inter ests of hell-in the future I am at your majesty's service. AffectiOnate- ly and sincerenly,
 "LUCIFER H. SATAN"
Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOV
 ERNOR OF ARIZONA
Executive Department,
 State of Arizona.

State of Arizona TO THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA:
 In the midst of war and preparation for war, while we are all intensely in- terested in Red Cross, Y. M. c. A. army work, the purchase of Liberty Bonds and other activities, looking to the successful termination of this war, it is an equally important duty to protect the home base" by seeing to it that we do not make the mistake made in the beginning of this great conflict by other nations in failing to remember the children and youth at home.
 The future of our state and Nation depends in largest measure on the training of our boys and girls along moral lines and no force in the State exerts a more lasting influence for good upon the lives of our youth than the Sunday Schools, which are dis tinctly the religious educational insti- tutions of Arizona.
 NOW, THEREFORE, I, Thomas E. Campbell, by the power in me reposed  and in harmony with other governors and the program of the International Go-to-Sunday-School Day, do hereby set apart Sunday, November 4, 1917, as "Go-to-Sunday School Sunday" for the State of Arizona, and I would urge all persons to attend the church or the Sunday School of their choice on that day, thus proving their allegiance to the best and most wholesome influ- ence which surrounds the youth of our beloved State.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arizona to be affixed.
 Done at Phoenix, the capital, this 26th day of October, A. D. 1917. (Signed) THOMAS E. CAMPBELL,
 Governor. Attest:
 (Signed) SIDNEY P. OSBORN, 11-3-1t-ne Secretary of State.
Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Notice is hereby given that this company will not be responsible for any debts contracted by any of it's employees, except on a written order signed by an officer of this company.
 J. H. Smith. See'y.
Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
PATRInTIC NEWsPAPFRs

Down in Tennessee in each of the 90 counties, all the newspapers are get ting out a national defense edition.
Mohave County miner., 1917-11-03
-WESTLAKE MILITARY
 SCHOOL
High class Boarding and Day School for boys.
 Santa Monica, California

The ideal home school for boys, To- cated in Santa Monica's finest resi- dence district, adjoining Ocean Front Park and Ocean. Unsurpassed on the Pacific Coast. Military system. In dividual training.
 Apply to Col. WR. StrOVer,
 Superintendent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

NJ ore New York
streets would look
like this if Miss Eliza
beth Branagan were
not consta n thy on
hand to enforce the
laws. By tactfully
cooperating with the
families who live in
til e buildings s h e
a c h lev e S results
which would hll any
mere man with ap-
propriate shame.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

n.,M If any
dalyman tnes to
foist inferior milk
on the public, he IS
bound to find Dr..
Hazel NJ. Hatfield
at his front door
some col d, gray
morning. DR.. Hat
field has declared
eternal wal on Odu
milk. and thru the
examination plates
made from samples
furnished from o.
/. 900 diaries last
Z year, she has found
Z more than one red-
Z son for hosuhtes
I ending IN victory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

T he female Of
the sp e cies is
more deadly than
the male-when
it comes to clean
ing up tenements.
Miss n e | e n
Thompson h as
no patience with
[ h e car el c SIS
housekeeper or
janitor. and she
is ready to call
the law to her aid
if refuse is not re-
moved on Motif
cation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

Mrs. {. Walker, shown
above. has not turned
from the camera be-
cause she is over mod
est, but because she
cannot be photo
graph e d. If 5 h e
were, her face would
be known to hundreds
OF polite grocerymen
who have a genius for
short weight. and her
arrests would be far
lever. She has bought
many pounds Of butter.
onlyto find on reweigh-
ing them that they were
several ounces light.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
Mckee Looking After Morgan
Zinc Mine.

Kee X. Mckee, one of Oklahoma
City's biggest business men, is in the
city looking after the erection of a
mill on the Timothy farm, east of
Quapaw, which is being built by the
Morgan Zinc Company. Mr.. Mckee
is president Of this organization as
several other large business institu-
tons in the metropolis of the state.
The mill on this lease should be in
operation on the 18th of October, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mckee, and then he
will supervise the construction of an
other mill which will be built upon
the Cherokee lease, which is in the
the same neighborhood. This lease is
owned by Geo. A. Todd, H. N. Rum
nell, James Brazil. A. L. Minis and
Kee R. Mckee, all of Oklahoma City.
These men have not as yet organized
their company but it will be perfected
within the next few ays.-Miami
(Okla.) News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
VOYAGE IN WAR TIME.

Some thrilling incidents are hap
pening these days. A captain of a
British freighter tells of fighting fire
in the hold of the ship for eight days,
and then just after it was extin-
guished the vessel was attacked by a
submarine. The crew took to the
boats, and just in the nick of time an
airplane from the French coast APP
peared and began dropping bombs
on the U-boat. The latter was sunk
and the crew returned to the freight
er and took her to port. There is
enough adventure in that voyage to
make a fair-sized novel.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
WORLDS LARGEST MERCHANT
Claim Made by n. 3. cIahln In tho
Seventies Was Substantiated After
Inquiry by Rivals.

The incorporation of "Claflins, Incor-
porated," recalls an incident connected
with the founder of the business,
which has borne the name of "ClaflinT
for upward of half century, says the
Wall Street Journal. In the early sew
entities, when the import duty on cotton
prints was considered excessive,
number of importers framed petition
to congress, drawing attention to the
fact that the high tariff was practical
ly duty upon domestic produce, mas
much as the cotton grown in this coun-
try was merely sent to Manchester to
be spun, woven and printed, and that
they were actually being taxed upon
American cotton upon its return after
manufacture.
When the petition In question was
presented to II. B. ClafiIn for sigma
ture, 1t had already been subscribed byI
A. T. Stewart, e. s. Jaffrey, Dunham,I
Buckley & Co., Arnold, Constable g.
Co., and others, which hurt the prideI
Of Mr.. Claflin. He could not well re-
fuse to sign the document, as he wasl
the largest importer Of prints, and,
therefore, the person most affected.
He showed his chagrin at not having
the petition presented to him for first
signature by writing after his name.
"The Largest Merchant in the World"
This asseveratlon was questioned by
A. T. Stewart and several Of the oth-
ers, who took pains to test 1t. After
careful and worldwide investigation ID
was found that Fl. b. Clafiin was then
"the largest merchant in the world.",
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
She Has Skill With a SKILLET.

Where we are living at present we
have no gas range, only a two-burner
plate, and the coal range is 80 large
that IT requires a great deal of fuel
to heat the oven sufficiently to bake
even few mullins or biscuits, so that
/ have tried to find q satisfactory sub
stitute that could be cooked in a skill
let. BY using the skillet dry and
sprinkling IT lightly with -four, I bake
very enjoyable biscuit, cake or scone.
For these 1 use simply biscuit bait
ter, made a trifie SITTER patted or
rolled to about q Quarter-inch thick
ness. One must be sure to have the
fire or gas low enough not to burn the
outside of the scOne before the inside)
has time to cook sufficiently. II gas
is used, more even distribution OF the
heat may be obtained by using a heat
ed lid from the stove under the skillet I:
or a heavy piece of tin or sheet iron
VIII serve the purpose.-Woman's
Home Companion.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
KNEW NOT WHO MATTY WAS
Ball Player From South Thought He
Was Getting Even for What Gen.
eral Grant Did in the COS.

Hugh s. Fullerton in American
Magazine tells how a manager got
a lazy ball player to work. The
player was a Southerner, and re-
fused to work hard up North. But
when he didn't recognize Matty in
the box, the managers opportunity
came. Fullerton says:
"Mistah' (he always called me
Mistah), Mistah,' he says, that's
the pitchin'est man / evan see. Who
all is he?'
"T'm not trying to grab any
medals for fast thinking. / thought
everyone in the world knew Matty
and that Boil Weevil was kidding,
so / says:
"Him? Oh, that's Grant, son Of
the fellow who licked you boys
"Whoopeep says Boil Weevil,
grabbing for a bat. That pitchin'
man Giniral Grants SON? You-alls
watch me drive him outen this hyah
pahk.'
''He hardly could wait to get to
the bat. Every time he comes up
he runs at the plate, jumps up and
down and yells;
"'Come on, yo-all Grant man
I'll do you-all laik we-uns oughta
done 20 paw
''He hit everything Matty pitched,
up against the stands, and went
around the bases giving the rebel
yell and shouting at Matty, who
thought he was crazy. Between in
nings l sat next to Boil Weevil on
the bench and recited history for
him-and according to me what
Grant done to the South would have
made the Belgians think they got
off easy. In the tenth inning Boil
Weevil busted one onto the top OF
the stands and broke it up.
Reckon that evens up fob what
his paw DONE said Boil Weevil to
me. 1'll show them dam Yanks ?"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
SOCIETY WOMAN is MAYOR
Leader Of Philadelphia ~4oo" Accepts
Offer Of Job ss Chief Executive
Of Florida Town.

Florida has crossed the Rublcon Of
woman suffrage, according to a Moore
Haven (Fla.) correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger. The population
Of this city has petitloned a Philadel-
phia society woman who has been
farming a 2,000-acre ranch In the IA
nous. Everglades to accept the may
orally Of this city. She has accepted
after the two man candidates person
ally requested her to take the Office.
Mrs. George Quintard Horwitz, the
new mayor-to-be Of this city, the first
woman to break through the stone suf-
frage wall on the solid South, is one
of the most widely-known women in
the North.
In Philadelphia she has taken the
lead In social, philanthropic and relief
movements. In Florida she has an
swered the call of the nation for food
stuffs. She gave up her winter home
In Palm Beach and took up the devel-
opment of her estate in the Ever
glades. AS the result she shipped from
hCA MY NuAAOuuo Va
potatoes.
She will ship from that same farm
in q few months more than 10000
bushels of corn, hundreds of hogs and
many head of cattle. She is now pre-
pairing to plant hundreds Of additional
acres of fOodstuffs.
Moore Haven was incorporated sew
eral months ago and it is the only city
in the state with equal franchise
rights for men and women. At mass
meeting two men were nominated for
the mayoralty. The fight promised to
be spirited before the election.
The next morning one of the candi-
dates asked Mrs. Horwitz to serve.
She answered that If the people want
ed her she would accept. A petition
signed by all qualified voters was
handed her that night.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
ALASKA BUGS BUSY AS BEES
Mosquitoes Also Are Numerous and
Make Life Unpleasant for Farm
ers in the Far North.

Reports from every corner of the
town, where the little garden has
been nurtured into healthful life by
master, maid and milady, are constant
ly appearing to the effect that the gar
dens are being completely wiped out,
or rather cut off, by a dimlnutive in
sect, apparently, at first blush, HARM
less, the Anchorage Democrat states.
The lettuce and cabbage seem to af-
ford the best food for the pestiferous
little bug and the only barrier that
will stop him is a quantity Of lye wa
ter sprinkled around each individual
plant. The homesteaders, too, are
troubled much in the same way, and
unless some means may be developed,
and one more practical than the lye
water for big crops, the seasons re-
turn will not be as ample ms expected.
And the bug is not alone proving a
pest to the farmer. The mosquito this
year is making life on the farm any
thing but pleasant, and, in fact, the
swarms Of them appearing day and
night not only retard much of the nee
essary farm work, but practically
make some Of 1t impossible. This year
more than any other In the last three
years the mosquito has proved most
harassing little winged devil.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
Children Rode Them, Too.

dangerous, for If anyone fell off In the
water when one is riding a fish which
lies right on top, one has no distance
to fan at all and one simply gets a
nice, jolly ducking.
But by holding on fast no one need
fall off-just lie or sit on the fish and
the breakers and fish do the rest.
"Well, such fun as everyone was
having at the beach. The children
were laughing and crying out, Let's
ride the sport fish,
big men and grown-up ladies were
saying, Let's ride the breakers on
the sport fish. My, how they gol
Aren't they fun
"And l am quite sure that further
out In the ocean real fishes were say
ing, well, isn't II a shamel Here
there are make-believe fishes that are
thought more of than we are. And
we're real, not just imitationsp
But also felt sure that old Grand
father Ocean Fish said, Now, look
here, we have no right to get mad.
We never offered our backs for folks
TO ride on. And we never rushed into
the shore on the great breakers. So
we can't grumble. For the sport
fishes-not real like us to be sure
will help the grown-ups, and children
have the kind of fun they like
"And so tomorrow" continued Dad
dy, II thought would take both you
children 10 the beach 10 ride the
breakers on the glorious sport fishes
the make-believe fishes which give
such real fun"
And both the children clapped their
hands with delight.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
Why He Didn't Volunteer.

The army recruiting officer was sit
ting in the office when a fne-lookine
young fellow stopped to look at the
war trophies through the plate-glass
window. The sergeant hustled outside
and asked the man to volunteer.
'Tl not volunteer" he replied. IT
don't mind fighting, but no volunteer
ing for me-"
"Why notT asked the sergeant.
Aren't the king and the kaiser
cousinsT asked the prospect.
Yes" admitted the recruiting agent
"Well, l volunteered last night in l
family squabble, and that's how I
got this scratch on my chin. Phonel
me a request If you want me. I'll!
come-but no more vOlunteerlng."-
Chicago Herald.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20
SLATE ROOFS DEFY WEATHER


Time is the assessor OF roofing ma-
terial values. Few, very few, roof cov7
ers can stand the harsh, exncting tests
OF old father time. Slate meets his re-
quirements. Nature made II strong
and sturdy, says an exchange.
In Hartford-on-Avon, England stands
Old Saxon chapel which was built In
the eighth century. The builders COW
cred It with a slate roof. There the
church stands today, still protected by
the same slate, mOss-covered but good.
Year after year this slate roof has
defended Saxon chapel from the suces-
isive assaults of rain, hail, snow, wind,
sun and frost. Twelve centuries II has
served. II complains not and 1t has no
misgivlngs about the future-lt is a
slate roof.
The British in particular are rich IN
evidence of the long life Of slate as h
roof covering. Slate was quarried in
Wales centuries before America was
discovered. There is in England today
a slate roof over 300 years old, and still
is good.
The first recorded use Of slate In
America was on building In Phlladel-
phia erected in the year 100, which
building served as the seat Of govern
ment for William PENIS domain. There
is no evidence that this roof was re-
moved or replaced until the building
was torn down in the year 1867.
In the New England states there ara
many houses and barns which have
been covered with slate 60 and 20
years and which are still in excellent
condition.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20

The Damon-and-Pythias incident
was in measure duplicated here Fri
day, when John Sheridan, aged 81, Of
Covington, appeared before the Third
District Exemption Board and pro-
posed to take the place Of his younger
brother, Thomas Sheridan, rs years
old, in the draft army to which he has
been certified to for service from
Covington, his home city.
The older brother explained that
while he is beyond the draft age, he
is "a soldier Of fortune" and to graf
ify his aged mother and at the same
time permit his younger brother to
hold his present position and support
their mother in comfort, he is willing
to step into his shoes and 90 to the
battle front. There could be no doubt
Of his earnestness, as he pleaded
with the members of the board to let
his younger brother stay at home
and work for the support Of their
mother, and to take him in his stead.
The members OF the District Board
were 50 impressed with the earnest
ness Of the older brother, who is APP
parently physically fit, that they have
taken the matter under advisement,
and will make a ruling later as to
whether the younger brother can be
exempted on the ground of being the
support of his widowed mother, in
which event the older brother is will
ing to do his fighting in defense of
the flag. Lexington Leader.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-20

Combination Of the pirIpIbIe and the
AIrplsne IL Found Useful In Coast
Patrol Work.

OF late the allies have resorted to
the use of small dirigibles, which are
known as submarine scouts or
'R1nps" by the British, the Scien-
tic American states. These diminu-
tive dirigibles are really cross be-
tween the airplane and the dirigible,
being provided with a small gas bag
and an airplane body and power
plant.
Although slower in speed than the
usual seaplane, these dirigibles have
proved excellent in coast patrol work.
They have a cruising radius of sew
eral hundred miles, and are equipped
with bomb dropping devices and
wireless apparatus. The main adj
vantage Of the dirigible, in this in
stance, is that it can sail through the
air at any desired speed within its
range, and stop and hover over any
suspicious spot 10 await the reappear-
ance of its submerged prey. The sea-
plane, in contradistinction, must
continue to fly at a high rate of
speed, and the best it can do is to fly
in circles or figure Fights about
given spot.
Captive balloons are used to
large extent in harbor protection in
fact, most of the French ports are
provided with captive balloons in
which observers scan the sea for
miles around in their watch for lurk-
ing U-boats, as well as hidden mines.
In the latter connection it is well to
add that the seaplanes and dirigibles
also perform the function of indicat-
ing mines and other dangers to
mine sweepers, and in this way
greatly enhance the value of their
services.
Kites, it appears, have not been
used to any appreciate extent, al
though they have been recommended
for use on merchant ships and even
war vessels as means of elevating
an observer several hundred feet into
The air, instead of placing him in the
Usual crows nest where the visible
ity for submarine detection is rather
limited.