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Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
MILITARY LIFE MAKES A HIT
 WITH LAWYER
MRS. PAT FARLEY GETS INTERESTING LETTER FROM HER SON NOW AT CAMP KEARNEY WITH THE ARIZONANS.
(From Fridays Dailyl

Mrs. P. !. Farley has received most interesting letter from her son, Mike Lawler, who is with the Yava- pal bunch at Camp Kearney, near San Diego. Young Lawler is evil dently highly pleased with military life, or at least that part which he has seen of it. The Journal Miner, through the courtesy of Mrs. Farley, IS enabled to print a portion of the letter, which reads as follows:
 T went to Wells Fargo's today and got the box you sent, and mother we certainly enjoyed the feast, for feast it sure was. I am drilling every day, and 1t is sure great. Kearney has Funston beat for camp-not nearly so cold nor dusty. It is about l2 miles from San Diego. where we get to go on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons only. About a furlough-there hasn't been any or ders issued here about It, however, should we get anything definite along that line, I will wire you at once
 From a sanitary standpoint this life can't be beat, there is no such thing as going to meals without wash ing face and hands and combing your hair. and on Saturdays, which is in- spection day, soldier has to be cleaner than anything living. There is no excuse for anything being dirty. No soiled clothes of any kind must be around, if they are it means extra duty of about a month, besides a chance to lose half pay.
 There arc a lot of Arizona boys here, that weren't drafted but enlisted during the Summer I was glad and surprised to sec so many that knew in the different companies. I guess you remember Captain Coykendall- he is our major now. and is very nice to us. We have Chat is the First Arizona infantry) the finest military band in the whole Southwest without any exception. would give it second place to none, it would do you good mother, to hear them play for regi- mental parade, which we have about three times week. Carl Hayden was over here and spoke to the First Ari- zona. The whole regiment turned out in full dress, and it was grand sight l thought of you and wished you could have seen it, as I know how you enjoy military music
 q am going to have some pictures taken in my uniform and Tn send you the best of them. have ordered a picture of the camp here, and when it comes I'll send it to you. It will be about three feet long and will give you a good idea of how we are located.
 q would sure like to be there when Willie gets married, but there is no chance l know for furlough on an occasion like that, so I guess I'll have to write him, so here goes one for a long and happy married life I may pull of the same stunt myself, moth CT. when l come back, but I guess mine won't know how to talk English. (Francais, savey?)"
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
ASK RECEIVER FOR
 HULL COPPER CO.
(From Thursdays Daily)

A motion to throw the Hull Copper Company into the hands of a receiver was made yesterday by the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the ac- ton of Kemp, ct al. vs. the Hull Cop per Company, the motion having come as one of the surprises of the closing arguments which were heard in the Superior court by Judge Ellis, of Kingman. The arguments, which had lasted since Monday morning, were closed at noon, and the status of the law questions is now resting in the hands of the judge, the outcome 10 be announced later. The demur- rers of the defendant to the amended and supplemental complaints and their motion to strike were submitted to the court for his decision. Either party is entitled to file memorandum of authorities within period of ten days.
 The motion on part of the plaintiffs for the receivership came as one of the last acts in the preliminary con sideration of the case, the receiver be- ing asked for during the period of the litigation, which, it seems, is most likely to be long-drswn out. The de-
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
BLUE JACKET IS
 BEGINNING TO SHIP ORE
(From Thursdays Oailv.)

The Blue Jacket mine, situated near the crossing of the Lynx Creek road, owned by William Blount, has started to ship to Humboldt. and. de- velopment also has been resumed. For the present and until hauling ar engagements are perfected about two tons per day will be loaded on an auto truck. this poundage to be in creased as rapidly as freighting facili- ties will permit.
 Mir. Blount stated while in the city that in re-opening the old workings, additional exploration was given re- gently from the bottom of the shaft and the tonnage exposed warranted steady operation. It is his belief there will be an abundance of ore for
 months to come on the above mini mum basis of production. The values carried are satisfactory, ranging from SIG to as high as S60 in gold, with by metal values in silver and copper, ac- cording to the zones sampled. The pay ore IS in vein of about nine feet in width, while the dyke is mineralized for a width of over 70 feet. This property a short time ago attracted considerable comment for its high grade content, and several shipments made for a test lot returned good values. A camp is now being estab- lished and Mir. Blount states he will continue to operate individually with out incorporating or forming any character Of an association.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
VERDE LINE HAS BAD
 WRECK IN THE TUNNEL
(Fram Wednesdays DaiIy.)

The Verde Valley railroad had a little package of grief handed to it on Monday night. the package being in the shape of an accident which under normal conditions would not have caused much trouble, but coming as it did in a tunnel, caused the road much difficulty in getting rid of the mix-up.
 A heavy freight train was going in the direction of Clarkdale at about 6 o'clock on Monday evening, and when the long tunnel which is situate about midway between Clarkdale and Cedar Glade was reached, seven of the load ed cars left the rails, probably be- cause of a weak place in the track, and were prevented from being over turned only by the fact that the walls of the tunnel held them in an uprigh, position. Two of the cars contained ore bound for the smclter, two others carried coke and two were oil tank cars. The other car contained mer- chandise of some description. The wreck occurred a few hundred feet from the south end of the tunnel, and the fact that the wreck occurred in this location, made it very hard to clear away. Traffic on the road was suspended until the wrecking crew had gone from Prescott and braved the dangers of the smoke and gas laden tunnel and got the derailed cars back onto the track.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05

tendants have been allowed ten days.
 m which to file controverting afiday.
 its, and after this time has elapsed.
 the plaintiffs will have ten days in
 which to submit their opening briefs
 on the appointment of the receiver.
 Following this procedure, the defend
 ants will have ten more days in which
 to hle their answer to the opening
 briefs, and five days will then be all
 lowed the plaintiff for the filing of the
 answer to the last-named action of
 the defendants. It is said that follow ing all these actions, no trial on the
 merits of the case can be expected be- fore February.
 Attorney Matthews, of Bisbee, who was among the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, made one of the most remarkable arguments ever heard in this part of the State, according to those who are well versed in such matters. Mir. Matthews talk occupied period of nearly four hours, during which time he talked without stop ping and during which time he did not use notes of any sort He cited more than 50 cases in which the issues were m some respects parallel to the Hull case, and about ten or twelve of the cases he minutely analysed, to prove that prior court decisions had been favorable to the side whose case was Tn many ways in the same position as that occupied by the plaintiffs in the Hull mix-up.
 The primary object of the action is to cause the estate of the late George w. Hull to restore something like 7.- OOU,OU0 shares of stock in the Hull Copper Company to the treasury of the organization, the plaintiffs taking as their basis, the law which prohibits the promoter of any company or any one acting in a fiduciary capacity from making any deals which react to the profit of the promoter, without first having first obtained the consent of the majority of the stockholders. The complaint in the present instance alleges that Hull in 1906 formed the which was capitalized a, Sl0,000,000 and which consisted of a similar number of shares. About one million shares of stock were sold by Hull and his associates, the stock holders at the present time number ing more than 1000 Hull is later said to have made some transaction where by, without the knowledge or consent of the shareholders, he obtained pos session of nearly all of the remaining treasury stock, and it is to regain this stock that the stockholders have in stituted the action. While the alleged methods of the late Mir. Hull are not radically different from any number of mining deals which are staged every once in a while in the present day, ii is said that the outcome of the ease will have the effect of setting a ] precedent in similar cases which may arise in the future, and the privileges of promoters in regards to the hand ling of the business of their com panies will be largely determined by he outcome of this case.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

No more soldiers are going to be called for in Yavapai county until at least the middle of next February.
 This announcement was made yes. terday by the members of the local exemption board, and it was stated at this time that the entire 423 men call ed for as the county's quota in tn, hrst draft had been sent to the vari- ous camps and credited to the county.
 Before any more men will be called for from Yavapai county, the ques- tIonnaries, or government official question blanks will have to be dis tributed among the cligibles at the rate of , per cent day beginning December 18th, and after the allotted seven days for the filling out of the blanks have passed, the blanks win have to be collected again by the local board and then forwarded to the district board at Phoenix. Allowing week or more for the last-named board 10 segregate the various classi- hcations and another week or so for the blanks to get back into the hands Of the local board, it will be seen that there is practically no possibility for any call to be made before the middle ot February or the first of March, provided there is no acute situation in regard to the conduct of the war which will arise between now and tha, date which would make it expedient to quickly call into training a large number of men for duty in the army
 The questionnaries will have all been sent out by the early part oi
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
RESCUE WORK IS DEMONSTRATED
 IN COUNTY
(From Thursdays Daily.)

The United States mine rescue car arrived in Prescott yesterday, after having spent a week in the Verde
 field, covering Jerome and Clarkdale. This car IS sent out primarily to reach the miners direct, by the bureau of mines, and is doing great deal of work which IS invaluabIe to the miner and the mine operator Classes in first aid and mine rescue work are given and at the end of the week, ex- aminations are held and if the appli- cant is successful, diploma is award ed by the government. Car No. ? maintains its headquarters at Raton, N. M. C. A. Herbert, a we'll known mining engineer, is in charge, his assistants being H. K. Chisholm, who will be pleasantly remembered by many Prescott folks having spent considerable time in this line of work here two years ago; J. s. Cunning ham and Dr. R. C. Williams.
 Believing that larger number of miners could be reached direct by making stay at Humboldt, and thus covering the Mayer, McCabe and Crown King district, the car will spend considerable time at Humboldt, arrangements having been made with General Manager Colvocoresses, through Mir. Arthur, the safety engi- neer of the smelter, for the demon strations and lectures. It is very probable that one or two days will be spent in Prescott, of which due notice will be given. All of the principal mining camps in the State of Arizona will be visited by this car, the itinerary of which includes Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
NO MORE SOLDIERS WILLBE SUMMONED
 BEFORE FEBRUARY
Local Board Announces That Countv's Quota is Filled, and Next Draft Will
 Not Come Until Spring.

January, and each man who receives one of them must get it back to the board within seven days after its re. ceIpt, or forfeit any claim for cxemp. ton or deferred classification which he may have. Failure to get the questionnaires back to the board with Tn the specified seven days, is regard cd by the board as being as grave a breach of conduct as though the reg istrant failed to show up for exanina-
 ton after being called, and in either case, the result will be the same in that the laggard will have no reason tor not being put into service at once and without further ceremony.
 Realizing the fact that most of the regIstrants would have hard time in getting all of the complicated ques- uons hlled out, the war departmen, provided for the establishment of the local advisory boards, the members of which are members of the legal pro- tession, and who are to render any services which they may be called up- on to give to the young men who arc compelled to fill out the long list of questions, and even with the aid of the advisory board members, it is quite likely that it will hustle the average man 10 get the blank filled out and back to the board in the re- quired period Of time. However. Uncle Sam has come to the conclu- sion that the time for ''stalling" is long since past, and that in the mat
 ter of organizing his big army, it is mp to his nephews to slip 'er into mgh' and speed up the work of get ting the big fighting machine lined m
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
SEEKS DAMAGES
 FOR INJURIES RECEIVED
(From Thursdays Daily)

Captain William E. Beck, better
 known throughout the Southwest as
 Cyclone Bill" who has been making
 his home in Prescott for many
 months, has instituted a damage ac-
 ton in the Superior court of Navajo
 county against Milo Webb, J. NJ. and
 O. D. NJ. Flake. of Holbrook, for S2,627, the suit being filed this
 week by the plaintiffs attorneys,
 Clark & Clark, of Prescott.
 Captain Beck asks redress for in juries received. due to the alleged neg
 ligence of defendants, who were en- gagged in the automobile stage busi- ness. The complaint is based on in juries sustained during September, when as a passenger paying his fare on the road out of Holbrook to CamF Apache he was transferred to freight wagon, while en route. Owing to the pressure of business, Captain Beck was compelled to submit to this meth cd of conveyance, as we'll was he un- able to secure any other means. The freight wagon was also owned by de- fendants and 1t was while plaintiff was being transported in this manner the brakes refused to hold, the neck yoke broke, and the wagon ran of the steep grade and turned over. throwing him violently to the ground, when he sustained injuries from which he has never recovered, although nearly three months have elapsed. Accord ing to the complaint, Captain Beck all leges that from the date of being in jured to the present time he has been to pay out of his private a certain sum of money for treatment and nursing, and at present is unable to attend to his bus mess, being under the care of phy- sician. The muscles of his right shoulder and elbow were torn away. his hip badly bruised and other in juries sustained to his body. The complaint closes by stating that from to date, plaintiff has been rendered helpless, and is as yet un- able to attend to his business.
 Captain Beck is we'll and popularly known from one end to the other of Arizona, and when his misfortune overlook him was engaged in a pri- iate pursuit, although for many years before he had at different times been n the service of the Federal govern nent in special capacities. A few weeks after being injured he was brought to this city for medical treat nent, and stated yesterday he is com ,elled to remain indefinitely, owing to lis injuries. His suit also specifies he las suffered special damages to the xtent of S25,000
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
NEW PLANT MAY
 BE ERECTED AT AGUILA

John Giblin, who is interested in a very attractive manganese property in the Aguila district, was a Prescott visitor yesterday, being headed for his home in Humboldt to spend Thanksgiving Mir. Giblin has lately returned from a trip or Inspection through the Aguila district and states that everything is booming in tha, part of the country. The Noble Flee
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
GIVES GOOD REPORT
 OF ARIZONA MINE
(From Saturdays Daiiy.)

John Fitch, recently in the employ of the Arizona mines. owned by An- derson & Birch, who is in the city. gives an excellent report of the prop erty, stating that development is prov ing what is destined to be a silver bonanza The mill is in action every day. and in addition the higher grade ores are being steadily shipped, both products being unusually high, and in- surfing successful proposition. Drift ing goes ahead at depth of less than 300 feet, and a zone was recently en- tered carrying a grade of ore which was the highest value yet encounter ed. This holding is situated near Humboldt, and adjoins the Silver Belt on the south, the latter also encoun- tering high grade a short time ago.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05


 we oi today seem to be living in an- other world. Yet we are only about three generations removed from the Age of Homespun. So close indeed. does that period of our national life
 seem that many who are still living have fresh memories of forebears who were the products of that age of sim. plicity. Tn those days men lived close to nature, and obtained their supplies by manual labor. Domestic life and social life were both exceedingly sim pie, and men and women found time for those neighborly and social amen- ities which are sadly wanting in the complex life of our own day. It is we'll that We should recognize the att tractiveness of the age of simplicity that has passed away. At Thanks giving time it is especially becoming that we turn back with a tender in terest in the memories of those early days.
 "The value of the day of Thanks giving is found in part in the spirit of reminiscence-in the quickening of memory. We cannot be intelligently thankful to God by thinking of the present only. We have come out of a great background-out of large past IL IS well. too, for the younger mem bers of our communities to try to un- derstand something of the early days of our nation, and to realize our in- debtedness IS people to those sturdy men and strong women whose lives were lived in the hand-to-hand strug- gle with nature, which belongs of ne cessity to pioneer life.
 Our nation was not built alone by the great men who sat in legislative halls and who wrote our now historic documents. In sense far deeper and truer our nation was built by the common people. To know the his tory of nation such as ours, we must know more than the history of its, origin, its great events, Its wars, its growth. We must be able to trace the silent progress of rude schools in the forests and on the plains, the small and far-away beginnings of col leges and universities. We must also acquaint ourselves with those stories of pioneer heroism wherein are heard the echoes of falling trees and of cracking rifles, as men not cast in gentle mold carved their way into the heart of the continent. How full of interest, as we look back, are the simplicitics of those early days. With all of the sternness of the contrast between those early days and those of our own times, we can but feel how engaging those early pictures are. The religions and forms of worship in that age had certain severity and preciseness quite in contrast with the customs of today, but withal, they had certain splendid dignity and ma jestic strength. The severely bare, but stately meeting houses, were without any arrangement for heating during the bleak Winter months of the East. Think of sitting. Sunday after Sunday, through two-hour ser mon in room where the temperature was below zero. What a contrast with the 20 or 25-minute sermon of today in perfectly comfortable room.
 Tn all of the foregoing, you have something in brief of the rare stuff of which our nation was built. Surely, in the memories of such early sim plicities as these. we must find abund- ant reasons for thanksgiving"
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
CLOSES REVIEW OF
 SCHOOLS IN YAVAPAI
(From Wednesdays Daily)

lfrom Wednesdays Daily.)
 At the close of his annual visit to all public schools in this county, Su- perintendent Miller yesterday related situation without a parallel and oi unusual interest pertaining to the Champie district, in which the clerk of the board of trustees, C. F. Cham pie, enjoys unique relation to that institution.
 The attendance is composed of only nine scholars, two being his children. three his grandchildren, while three are neighbor's, and ono little Mexi- can boy. Mir. Champie boards at his home every pupil, and the teacher, Miss Elsie Mckee, and the scene is a very pretty as we'll as interesting one AIr. Champie built the little house from his private means, and is ma terially assisting the school out of his own pocket so that attendance under statutory restrictions may be main tained. The loss of one scholar would mean that the school would lapse, so the narrow margin is being carefully nurtured.
 After leaving Canyon, where Miss Mabel Lee is the efficient teacher, NIT. Miller was compelled to travel to Phoenix and back to Hot Springs Junction, distance of over 200 miles to reach the next district, only 20 miles across the range from Black Canyon. He is thinking of enlisting in the aviation corps or else equip his auto with wings, for future jaunts in that region.
 He found at the Empress camp the same spirit of loyalty toward the pub lie school as prevails al other mining centers, this company providing a school house and donating it to the cause. Miss Olga Bryan, recently of Los Angeles, is the teacher, and al though she is away from the city for the first time, life in the country ap- peals to her favorably. and her scr vices are very much appreciated.
 At Skull valley, Miss Emma Dutch CT is proving a popular teacher, and the attendance at her school has reached the highest ever known. The grounds arc being made attractive and all residents arc willingly co-operat- ing to maintain a first class institu-t ton. Because of the number of grades and the increased attendance, Mrs. C. D. Rynearson, for many years a teacher in the East, has been employed to assist, and look after the playgrounds.
 The schools at Wagoner and Wal nut Grove were found in thrifty state, and we'll patronized, with Miss Nora Hensley and Miss Grace Me Crackcn, teaching. These young ladies have adopted an innovation in their duties, by giving month about at their schools an entertaining line of work, such as spelling bees, literary recitals, ending on each occasion with a social dance These capable young women arc vieing with the people to provide instruction of the highest class, and aside from educational duties are conducting community work which is receiving deserved commendation.
 Mir. Miller also stated these districts today show more keen interest and a better feeling is noticeable than at any time during his incumbency of the office, which he attributes to the efficiency of the teachers. and the wholesome spirit shown to assist their pupils, in and out of school.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05

For quick and artistic job work. the Journal. Miner is the place.