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Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
BIG LUMBER MILLS
 CLOSE IN COCONINO
(From Wednesdays Daiiy.)

Arrivals from Flagstaff give gloomy report of conditions prevail ing in the lumber manufacturing in- dustry, by the closing down few days ago of all mills, owing to labor troubles, in which hours and wages figure as the cause. Other grievances of the strikers were also incorporated. and demands were made of the em- ployers that were resisted as unrea- sonable. The strike is believed to be of a sympathetic movement prevail ing in Northern lumber State manu- featuring centers. Several hundred arc affected at Flagstaff alone.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12

motive power being made necessary by the huge increase in traffic of all sorts which has prevailed for Ions time Just now steel rails are rather hard to get from the mills. and it may be necessary for the company to use some of the rails which were origin ally intended for use on the main line of the Santa Fe.
 The congested traffic which has been the rule for many months has also made it necessary for the com pany to increase its siding capacities. and arrangements are being made for lengthening the sidetracks at the P. & F. junction, north of the city, at Cedar Glade, Skull valley and Glen dale. Several new water tanks are also about to be erected at different points along the stretch between this city and Phoenix. About 20 small bridges which are built of timber will be reconstructed, concrete to form the principal part of the new struc- lures. The entire line Of the Verde valley road, which leaves the s. F. P. & P. at Cedar Glade, will be rc-bal- lasted with volcanic cinder and gravel within the next few weeks, the traffic over this branch having increased materially since the first of the year
 Regarding the incoming traffic and the outbound shipments, the road of- hcials state that in many cases such business has increased more than lOo per cent within a year. In the Hum boldt yards, 559 cars of freight were handled during the month of July, as against 374 during the corresponding period in 1916. At Clarkdale ASA cars were handled during the month of July this year, and only 4O1 during the same month in 19l6 The increase in freight shipments all over the country is correspondingly great, and it was up to the road officials to either increase their capacity for handling such business or confess their in ability to meet the demands of the shipping public. and the former course was chosen.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
OIL OPERATORS ARE
 ENTERING BIG CHING
(From Wednesdays Daily)

(From Wednesdays Daily0
 From indications it is evident that practical exploration of the Big Chino valley oil field is now assured for an early date this Fall, by several large concerns" said C. L. Dunbar, a To- cator in that country, who is visiting the city
 The visitor came from Nevada a short time ago to represent his com pany, which has made locations of a large area of land, on which it is pro posed to later begin drilling. He also stated that recent developments are noteworthy in interest shown by two New York companies incorporating, while during the past two weeks the Doheney Oil Co.,, of Oklahoma, has entered the country and taken a lease of the Del Rio holdings. stating that a rig is to be installed at once.
 The receipt of a telegram from NJ Morgan, of Chicago, stating that a leasing deal had also been closed for a certain property in the Big Chino belt. indicates that a large syndicate will enter that field, the agreement closed calling for exploration to begin forthwith.
 Another important matter also mentioned yesterday by Mir. Dunbar, was that of an inspection having been made by Leo Kroscop. one of the best known oil operators of Wyom ing, who is reported to have been favorably impressed, and stated he would invest. He was accompanied by an oil expert, who likewise IS to become interested.
 The locating fever IS subsiding, says the visitor, for the reason tha, desirable lands covering an area oi over 10000 acres have been taken over. It is his belief that before the end of the present year four rigs will be in action, and behind each move ment will be experienced oil oper- atOrS.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
NEED MORE DOCTORS

WASHINGTON, Sept 6. - Exam nations for assistant surgeons to fill 6S vacancies in the medical corps Of the navy will be held at various points throughout the country September Y. Twenty-one vacancies in the navy dental corps will be filled through ex- aminations to be held here September 24th and at Mare Island, Cal, Octo- Der Is.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
MINERS N0T THE ONLY ONES ID
 BE AFFECTED
IN PRICE OF COPPER WILL ALSO HIT THE TAXPAYERS HARD, RESOUNDING BLOW IN THEIR POCKETBOOKS.

PHOENlA, sept. ,. - AppedlS reaching the State Defense Council and other State organizations during the week from miners throughout Arizona indicate general opposition to copper price-fxation by the gov ernment, or at least any reduction below g cents. The bulk of the opinion is that the metal occupies a position different from that of. any other commodity with which the gov ernment has to deal and that it should be left to move under the law Of supply and demand.
 Miners point to the fact in several communications that they alone sui fer from declines in copper metal price, their wages being based upon the average selling figure of the met al during each month. The decline of quotations from 30 to ? cents, largely brought about through the prevalence of opinion during the last two months that the government would put the price to 25 cents, has cost them around Sl,OO0,000 the month in Arizona, and decline below g cents will add another Sl,O00OO0 the month to their loss.
 The assumption that the miners arc the only losers by decline in the met al is not wholly correct. The tax payers of the country at large must also stand a considerable loss, which they must make up from their own pocketbooks. Every decline of one cent per pound in copper quotations means loss of approximately S5,0OO, 900 to the government from excess profits and income tax levied upon the copper producers. There is fur ther direct loss to the taxpayers of Arizona and of most of the other copper producing States, because the county and State taxes are based up on the earnings of the producers. In Arizona, for instance, the increased earnings of the producers under the high metal prices of 1916 enable a marked reduction of the realty and agricultural districts tax rates this year. Whatever decline there is in
 
 the average price this year will have to be made up next year by the agri- culturists and other interests outside of mining. The latter is this year paying 56 per cent of all the State taxation. The strikes of the last three months have of course already made a big hole in earnings of the mining companies as compared with last year. Add to this a cut in the price of the metal to 25 cents or less and a big burden is immediately heaped up- on the taxpayers outside of the min ing industry.
 The miners loss however, is the more direct under falling metal prices and in view of the continued high | costs of living is one that compel his | attention. Decrease below the 25 cent copper wage schedule will compel him to seek other fields of Even g cent copper presents a serious problem to men with families They will be able to earn more in the cotton fields this Fall and in other sections where liv- ing costs are lower by reason ot home production of foods. A further point requiring consideration is that .he copper districts are now short of labor and cannot maintain efficiency in output of the metal need ed by the government and it's allies f they lose more men.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
JUDGMENT GIVEN TO
 POWER FIRM BY COURT
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

The suit against the Major Mining & Milling Company and the Sheldon Mining Company, of Walker, by the Arizona Power Company, ended yes terday when the court issued an order entering a judgment in behalf of the plaintiff for the sum of SS54, the order stipulating that neither side should recover its court costs.
 The suit was filed in May, and ask ed for damages amounting to S3,9H. .43 the sum representing, according to the complaint, the amount the defend ants owed the power company for electric power which had been deliv- cred to the mines of the defendants. The mining companies had entered into a contract with the power com pany in November, 1915, whereby the latter was to install power line to the properties of the defendant com panies and supply the current. The complaint states that the mining com- panies failed to settle for their pur- chases, and the judgment entered yes terday was rendered to reimburse the
 l.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
No Record On Books.

Continuing regarding this transac- ton Mir. Lee says: There is no rec ord on the books transferring this amount into the receipts of the pris- on, which would have been the only proper way to handle this item had 1t been used as stated by the former superintendent. Payment for the ex- pense of escapes is made by the State on claims duly executed at the insti- tuition and there is no reason why this particular expense should have been handled differently from any other.
 Touching on the expense in con- nection with the escape of No. 3774 we find the following claims were paid by the State through Mir. Sims advance account as follows:
 August 17, 1915, Detective
 Publishing CO. ............Sl2.25 August 2S, 1915, detective serv-
 ices in Denver ....-... Zo.OO
 II cannot locate any claim covering the expenses of Guard Simmons in bringing the prisoner back from San
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
Wants An Investigation.


 "Now, Mir Anderson. I would like you would investigation the matter for me, as I am certain that there should be record kept in your office of what became of the money.
 "I wrote to the consul general in New York about this matter and in his reply he stated that he believed the money would be turned over to me at my release from prison. I am enclosing said letter from the consul. "Whatever you can do for me will be highly appreciated by me.
 'Very respectfully yours"
 Mir. Lee. speaking of this matter, said that Flugenci without any knowl- edge that he knew anything about the foregoing letter told him in effect what he had written to Superintend- ent Anderson. Mir. Lee looked up this transaction and found that Full genci's account was credited in the ledger on August 25, 1914, with SSH and was charged the same day with SSH flor expense return from es- cape" This sum was made up of the check for S306 and S Fulgenci had in his possession at the time he was turned over by the San Diego au- thnrities
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12

Guerino Bartolameotti. charged with the introduction and transporta- ton of liquor, yesterday morning en- tered a plea of guilty when his case was called. He was sentenced tc serve two months in the county jail and pay a fine of S200. Not only that, but Sheriff Young was directed to destroy the ten gallons of old liquor which had been seized by the arrest ing officers The additional five bot ties which the defendant had on his person when arrested were also in cluded in the destruction order.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12

NIT. Lee refers were ot sales to guards and those who were regularly em- ployed at the prison. These averages were based on the known time that these persons were employed during the period covered by the figures compiled.
 Bookkeeper's Account.
 The account of Brinkley, the con- vice-bookkeeper, is an interesting one. It was made up by MT. Lee from books of the original entry, the ledger having been destroyed, and shows that between July Is and April 7, 1917, Brinkley had charged himself with amounts aggregating S45.65. The credits he gave himself amounted to S36.45, leaving an overdraft of Sl9.l1. This comment of Brinkley's account is made by Mir. Lee: "So far lack Of proper records the above record, no doubt, shows only small part of his speculations in the period from Octo- Der, 1916, to May l. 1917, while he was in the superintendent office"
 The case of Alfonso Fulgenci, con vice No. 3774, is one of which not much has yet been heard outside of fcial circles. It finds its way now into print for the first time in the following letter from Fulgenci to the present superintendent, Mir. Ander- son, of the date of August 18th:
 "On July 18th, while in jail at San Diego, Cal. awaiting my return from escape from prison, I received check for S306 from the Italian consul in New York City, drawn on the Italian American bank in Denver, Colo. Two days later I was brought back to prison. MT. Winsor, the captain of the yard, came to me with the check in the dark cell, asking me to indorse the same, which I absolutely refused to do. Sometime later, Mir. Sims told another fellow prisoner, country man of mine, B. Marioni, who was working at the superintendent's resi- dence, that he would send the money to my wife in Italy. About year later I inquired of Mir Sims about the check and I received the answer that he had used the amount-of the check for payment of the expenditures which occurred from my escape from pris- on. When I demanded a receipt l was told by Mir. Sims that this was
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-12
Bootlegger Sentenced.

plaintiff for such services.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
BY EDWIN r. A. SELiGMAN,

McVickar Professor of Political Econ
omy, Columbia University.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
"podsoa's Liver Tone VIII! Clean YcHy
Sluggish Liver Better Than Ca|oEel
and Can NOT SalIVate.

Calomel makes you sick; you lose a
days work Calomel is quicksilver and
it salivates: calomel Injuries your liver.
If you are bilious; feel lazy, sluggish
and all Knocked out, If your bowels are
constipated and your head aches or
stomach is sour, Just take Il spoonful OF
harmless Dodson's Liver Tone instead
of using sickening, saliyating calomel.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medl-
cine. You'll know it next morning be-
cause you will wake up feeling fine,
your liver will be working, your head
ache and dizziness gone. your stomach
will be sweet and bowels regular. You
will feel like working. You'll be cheer
ful; full of energy, visor and ambition.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
UGH! CA. oMELL MAKES YOU SICK.
DON'T STAY BILIOUS, C0NSTIPkTED

Your druggist or dealer sells you g.
so cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone
under my personal guarantee that it
will clean your sluggish liver better thai,
nasty calomel; it won't make you sick
and you can eat anything you want
without being salivatcd. Your druggist
guarantees that each spoonful will start
your liver, clean your bowels and
straigntcn you up by morning or you
get your money back. Children gladly
take Dodson's Liver Tone because it is
pleasant tasting and doesn't grippe or
cramp or make them sick.
I am selling millions of bottles of
Dodson's Liver Tone to people who have
found that this pleasant, vcgcta>'. liver
medicine takes the place OF DANGEROUS
calomel. Buy one bottle on ray sound,
reliable guarantee. Ask your druggist
about me
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
WONDERFUL STUFF!
LIFT OUT YOUR CCRNS
Apply few drops then lift corns or
caIluses off with fingers
no pain.

No humbug! Any corn, whether hard,
soft or between the toes, will loosen
right up and lift out, without particle
of pain or soreness.
This drug is called freezone and is a
compound of ether discovered by Gin
cinnati man.
Ask at any drug store for small
bottle of freezone, which will cost but
a trife, but is sufficient to rid ones
feet of every corn or callus.
Put few drops directly upon any
tender, aching corn or callus. Instantly
the soreness disappears and shortly the
corn or callus will loosen and can be
lifted off with the fingers.
This drug freezone doesn't eat out the
corns or calluses but shrivels them with.
out even irritating the surrounding skin
just think! No pain at all; no sore
ness or smarting when applying it OF
afterwards. If your druggist don't have
freezone have him order it for you.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
SAYS LEMON JUICE
WILL REMOVE FRECKLES
Girls! Make this cheap beauty lotion
to clear and whiten your skin.

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces of
orchard white, shake we'll, and you have
a quarter pint of the best freckle and
tan lotion, and complexion beautifer, at
very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of orchard white for few
cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
hands each day and see how freckles and
blemishes disappear and how clear, soft
and white the skin becomes. Yes! 1t
is harmless.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16

Five Reasons Why Excessive Taxes at
the Outset Of War Are Disadvantage.
ous-Great Britain Example Worthy
Of Emulation--How the Taxes Should
Be Apportioned.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
wellknown tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Brilds up the Whole System. SO cents.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
In considering the apportionment o.

In considering the apportionment o.
the extraordinary burden of taxes in
war times certain scientific principles
are definitely established:
How Taxes Should Be Apportioned.
a. The burden of taxes must be
spread as far as possible over the
whole community so as to cause each
individual to share in the sacrifices ac
cordng to his ability to pay and &C
corting to his share in the Government
(2) Taxes on consumption, which are
necessarily borne by the community al
large, should be imposed as far as pos
sibe on articles of quasi-luXury rather
than on those of necessity
60 Excuses should be imposed as far
as possible upon commodities in the
hands of the final consumer rather
than upon the articles which serve pri
marily as raw material for further
production.
"a Taxes upon business should be
imposed as far as possible upon ne
earnings rather than upon gross re
ceipts or capital invested.
(5) Taxes upon income which will
necessarily be severe should be both
differentiated and graduated. That is
there should be distinction between
earned and unearned incomes and there
should be higher rate upon the larger
incomes 1t is essential, however, not
to make the income rate so excessive
as to lead to evasion. administrative
difficulties. or to the more fundamental
objections which have been urged
above.
CO. The excess profits which are due
to the war constitute the most obvious
and reasonable source of revenue dur.
ing war times But the principle upon
which these war-proft taxes are l3id
must be equitable in theory and easily
calcula BILE in practice.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16

By Miss Emma Archer, State Home
Demonstration Agent, Extension
Division, University of Arkansas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-28
Australian Gold Output

The gold production OF Australia for
the first half of 1917 again showed
considerable loss. Western Australia
had small decrease, while the fallins
off in the three important states oil
Victoria, Queensland and New South
Wales was from 90 to 80 per cent. Tn
figures given in the table below as
from official sources, with the excep
ton of South Australia, where the out
nut had to be estimated.
New Zealand has made public no
monthly returns of gold shipments this
year.
The half-year shows decreases OF
1O3.3s7 ounces. or 1872 per cent, as
compared with the first half OF 1919
and OF 257.S52 ounces. or 25.5 per cent,
as compared with 1915. All the dlvl-
sions showed decreases except as
mania. where there was gain from
tbe conner mines. and the Northern
Territory, where the output Is very
small. ,.so
The causes of the continued decreas-
are the same as those which have Deeh
prevailing for some years past ftos
pecting and the opening OF new NINE
have been at standstill. The oldei
mines are gradually being exhauste'
and no new discoveries are reported
Above all. there has been serious
shortage of labor for the mines. which
has this year been accentuated by tn'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-28
From Trade Journals
New York the Jobber

Millers have much reason to well
come the announcement that finally,
end after long and trying delay, the
superyision of the Food Administrator
is to be extended to cover jobbers,
wholesalers and other distributors OF
mill products. Under the Presidents
proclamation this control is to be exer-
cised beginning November l, and after
that date distributors will be under
regulations restricting their pronss'
which will make the self-sacritice OF
millers really count for something in
the consumers interest. So far, the
voluntary surrender by millers Of the
profits which they might easily have
gained has, as a matter Of actual fact,
found little echo in the price paid for
-four by the home baking consumer.
Quite to the contrary, the distributors
has merely found in it an opportunity
to gain an added profit for himielf,
and this he has by no means hesitated
to take advantage of.
Meantime, the miller, because the
public thinks first OF the miller when 1t
thinks of -four. has been the goat. If
-four is high, blame the miller. 1t mat
tiers not if the miller has, as in the last
six weeks, cut his profits to the final
limit of business safety, that ne has
turned away orders for hundreds OF
thousands OF barrels of -four which ne
could readily have accepted at a dollar
a barrel profit to himself, that he has
adapted himself 10 every requirement
OF the Food Administration, TO which,
incidentally, the milling industry was
first TO pledge its cooperation; all OF
these things count for nothing when
the hue and cry is raised and victim
demanded because -four is high.
The whole truth is that the most
tremendous toll is taken from -four by
many distributing agencies, and that,
in comparison with this toll, any profit
which could possibly be made by the
miller would be Of relatively small
importance. Admitting that the eI-
ense Of -four selling and distributing
by the wholesaler and large retailer
is high, it remains true that their
profits are relatively large, as COM
pared with those Of the manufactur-
crs. and that these profits have. at the
least, not decreased since millers vol
unfairly came under Food Administra-
ton control and suffered heavy reduc-
ton in their own earnings. The jobber
ard retailer have simply gone on their
wsy, wondering a triAe. perhaps, why
the miller was so foolish as 70 fail to
grab when the grabbing seemed so
e&sy. Verv soon. however. the fine
picking Of the middle distributor, and
tc a considerable extent of the re-
taller. will be brought 70 an end: and
The real sacrifices which millers have
oeen making. and will continue to
make. will begin 10 reach the ultimate
buyer Of four.-NorthvsstsrS Muller.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-28
United States Richest Nation

The per capita wealth Of the United
States is 5000; that of Great Britain,
s1.751; of France, 81 ,522; Germany, ST.
$50. Our present national debt is $50
per CAPITA, or will be after the $780,
100000 war budget is passed; that Of
Great Britain, $3.50; France, $3.50;
Germany. $500. We could pay our
debts 169 times over without being
"broke" We have s25,OOO,OO0.00O Of
Liquid" money, subject to check, In
our bank deposits. Our trade balance
in 1902 was $47s 100000; in 1916 it was
50 900. 100000, 500 per cent increase
in fourteen years.-Hotel Gazette.