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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
POKER GAME HELD
 UP BY TWO MEN

When two or three slick guys are running a poker game and most like ly they used marked cards and the game is crooked because the men who run it must make a pretty fair percentage to make a living and they seem to be making a pretty good liv- ing at that, who is to blame when couple Of fellows come in unexpected ly with handkerchiefs over their faces and hold up the whole bunch?
 Deputy Sheriff Percy Bowden de- cided that the men who did the hold up stunt were no worse than the gamblers who hold up their victims with cards and he refused to inter- fere.
 At 2 o'clock this morning he was notified by some one at the Douglas hotel, situated across the railroad tracks from the E. P. and s. w. pas senger station just outside the city limits, that two holdup men had jumped in on a poker game in one of the rooms of the hotel, lifted $700 in change from the table and got away with the loot.
 They're welcome" answered Percy over the phone. Please don't both CT me. I'm sleepy and want to go back to bed"
 The hotel people had picked the wrong officer for help. It so hap pened that Bowden had raided gamb- ling games in the same hotel five times in the last 23 days. On each occasion the men who run the games had been fined s1OO by Justice of the Peace Donohue of Pirtleville. Bow den figured that if the card men could afford to pay $500 in fines in 20 days the loss of $700 would not hurt them much and declined to in- terfere in what might be called the double hold-up.
 The poker men, it seems have been hiring rooms in the hotel for carrying on their games.
 The hold-ups are described as tall and short. The tall man had on a plaid mackinaw and checkered cap. The small man had on a dark suit of clothes.
 The records of Justice of the Peace Donohoe show that W. H. Fully was arrested this month at the Douglas hotel charged with running a gamb- ling game there and forfeited a bond of s1O0. There have been four oth- weeks, the bond being forfeited by the defendants in the same manner.
 Fully, however, was not involved in last nights affair, because he is now on a hunting trip in Mexico.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE SUS-
 TENDS RESOLUTION

The action of the State Council of Defense at it's alst meeting in sus- pending the resolution passed on Aug. 18th, requiring retail merchants to display both cost and sales prcie on all goods sold at retail, was taken for the purpose of allowing more time in which to obtain additional information and data from the vari- ous departments of the National gov ernment that have to do with mer- cvhandising, as well as from other states as to what methods have been found most effective in eliminating profteering and whether the plan outlined in the resolution would be considered fair and practicable by tne various Go ernmental Depart ments and oethrs experienced in mer- chadising.
 The State Council is now in receipt of information from Arthur w. Mac Mahon, Assistant Chief of the Fed eral Agencies Section of the Council of National Defense in reference to the plan for fixing a price for shoes. Mir. MacMahon states that this plan fixes maximum price for shoes but it divides shoes into three classes and provides that every shoe sold shall be stamped with the class num- Der but does not require that each pair should be marked with it's cost and selling price. He further states that the Hide Leather and Leather Products Division, Boot and Shoe Section of the War Industries Board, advises that the marking of shoes with cost and selling price was taken up and discussed from all angles and judged by everybody to be impracti- cable.
 MT. MacMahon also states that the Council of National Defense now has under consideration with the War Industries Board the use of State and County Councils of Defense throughout the United States in con- nection wiht the shoe program ana that it is probable that every county council will be asked to get in touch with all retail shoe dealers and see that every dealer signs the pledge card which will be issued in connection with this program.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
P. D. STORES DON'T COLLECT
 VIA COMPANY PAY ROLL

BISBEE, Arizona, Nov. 2.-In spite of the almost phenomenal increase in the production of cop ger in the State of Arizona, the country as a whole is falling be- hind in it's production and needs. The production of refined copper for the first seven months of 1918, was 1,425,OOO,OOO pounds compar- ed with 1,49S,OOO,OOO lbs. in the corresponding period of 1917. Fig ures for the month of July show a falling off of 5,OOO,OOO pounds, in comparison with the June returns.
 While many importan increases have been made, and there have been many new production prob lens occasioning much expert thought and careful consideration, there are still serious obstacles to overcome before output climbs to
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
it's full capacity.

LIS Iull cdpaclty.
 Arizona is doing more than her share in spite of high costs. tor by it's increased production it is making up in a large measure for the parts of the country which are falling down.
 Close cooperation between oper- question, responsible in great part for the big results that are being obtained in production. The operators of the state are doing everything possible to improve liv- ing conditions, and from the above figures of production, it will be seer that the employees are appre- ciative of efforts made in their behalf.
 It is true that the mining con- ranies of the state have taken the lead in endeavoring to assure the public of fair prices. Their in terest in keeping dissatisfaction at the minimum, in providing most that is possible to give to their people by way of enabling them to remain at work in the production of the all-important war metals, has, of course, provided a larger incentive than has been brought home to some other counties. The fact remains that they have ac-
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
books contributed by the AmertSen people the association bopght 6oaISn

books contributed by the American people the association bopght 6oaST1 booazA mostly technical, of which 1ea,- 2H were sdht overseas. More than 100000 books of all kinds have been assigned to libraries in Y. M 0. A, K. of c. or Salvation Army huts in the war zone, a similar number being dis tributsd in American training camps, while half a million are on warships or transports. The association has erected and operates forty-one library buildings
 The Salvation Army, with 1,210 workers, principally women, overseas, has won the affection of the fighters. Its 6O1 huts, rest and reading rooms are popular gathering places for the soldiers. The doughnuts fried by Sal vation lassies in huts or trenches and given to the men have become famous around the world. The Salvation Army gave forty-four ambulances to the American and Allies armies and in many other ways gives constant un- selfish service
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08

complished much, acting independ- ently. and that a great deal of it can well be emulated generally.
 There is in mind the fact that Hayden has been on a cash basis for year, and that it's people and merchants are much better off in consequence; the Globe-Miami have cash and no free delivery plans, and have abolished solici- tors, with the result of decrease in costs of living expenditures; that Superior and Ray homogeneous impressed upon the merchants ef- Actively that profiteering would result in stores operating on a cash basis; that the mining com pany stores in Bisbee, Clifton and Douglas, have kept prices on a nominal profit basis in those com munities.
 The recent announcement that the stores of the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Go. in Bisbee, Lowell, Warren, Douglas and Morenci were no longer to collect store accounts through the company payroll has been another step towards chang ing to a cash basis and permitting of lower prices.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
THEN YOU SUFFER FROM RHEUMATIS;d
Almost any man will tell you that Sloan's Liniment
 means relief

For practically every man has used 1t who has suffered from rheumatic aches, soreness of muscles, stiffness of joints, the results of weather exposure.
 Women, too, by the hundreds of thousands, use it for relieving neuritis, lame backs, neuralgia, sick headache. Clean, refreshing, soothing, economical, quickly effective. Say "Sloan's L;4.- ment" to your druggist. Get it today.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08
To Correct An Erroneous Im- pression in Clifton:

pression in Clifton:
 The Christian Scientists have held no services, nor Sunday schools in their church since the notice given out by the State Board of Health and will not do so until the order is recinded. We acknowledge the over- sight in not withdrawing our notice of services as published in the Min ing Journal.
 THOS. E. SANDERS.
 Asst. Publication Committee for Arizona.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08

The sublime holdup-your money or their lives-United War Work Cam paign.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-11-08

Boys enroll with the Victory Boys. Its slogan is "A Million Boys Behind a Million Fighters.''
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
War az a eveIer.

With parents, limousines, chauffeurs,
a new recruit arrived at the training
camp, was registered, and assigned
quarters. The chauffeur caught up the
luggage. The officer held up a re-
straining hand. "Mr. So-and-So is now
In the United States service; he will
attend to his own luggage and find his
own quarters" And thus, with no
more aid or ceremony than a brick
layer would have received, the son of
a man who could have bought the
camp and all its a~ppurtenances enter
ed the American army. Not wealth,
but what a man proves himself to be,
places him as a soldier. Men start
on the same level, save when they
have had special training.
The work of the war in breaking
down class distinctions and occasion.
ing the mingllng of classes on more
democratic terms has often been noted
abroad. The English, assistant has
learned that Tommy Atkins possesses
those virtues of honor, loyalty, cour-
age, chivalry supposed to be instinc-
tive through heredity in those of long
and well bred descent. The great wind
of the revolution blew a good deal of
fiunkeylsm out of France; the war is
removing its vestiges.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
AS IN sHAKEsPEARE's TIME
Old Tudor Architecture Of Town Of
stratford-on-Avon Has Been Won
derfully Restored.

Americans, who In prewar days, de-
lighted In visiting "Shakespeare's
country" would find many changes
there now.
Quietly and unostentatiously through
the ~unwearying efforts of Marie Cor
ELL, the novelist, and a few who sup
port her artistic tastes, these last three
and a half years have disclosed the
ancient mysteries Of Stratford. Old
houses, with plastered walls, which
were eyesores to the visitors and resi-
dents alike, have been stripped of.their
outward ugllness, to reveal the quaint
picturesque Tudor architecture of
S~hakespeare's time. Wherever II has
been possible the early appearance of
the buildings has been restored, and
the effect has been a Transformation
and the restoration Of the place as
Shakespeare knew It.
The ancient "Sword of State" which
hangs in Shakespeare's birthplace was
removed from its ~scabbard in August,
was at war and the people say tradl-
ton forbids them to sheathe the old
sword, carried by S~hakespeare's IA
ther when he was high bailiff In 1859,
until England Is again at peace.
Once at least, since war was de-
clared, Sh~akespeare's old home has
given expression to its feeling of graft
tude to Americans for the tributes they
have been privileged to pay to IL from
time to time. That was when the
United States entered the war. Pres
ident Wilson's memorable message to
the congress was proclaimed aloud.
Many of the townfolk had almost de-
SPARED of the momentous event, and
1t appears there were only two Amer
lean flags in Stratford at the time. One
was a great banner owned by Miss
Marie Corelll and the other waving
from the house Of John Harvard's
mother. Both were promptly hurled
out into the breeze Of the garden spot
Of England" and thus America had
again come into the hearts of Shake
speare's people.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
of Sense of Smell
Proved in Discovery of
the Substance Selenium

Have you an ambition to found a
new science? Why not measure a
smell? Can you tell whether one smell
is just twice as strong as another?
Can you measure the difference be-
tween one kind of smell and anotheri
1t is obvious that we have very many
different kinds of smells, from the odor
of violets down to asafetida, but until
you can measure their likenesses and
differences you can have no science
Of odor. writes Alexander Graham Bell
in Youths Companion.
In the first place we have to define
an odor. Is it an emanation Of mate
rial particles into the air or is it a
form of vibration, like sound? If you
can decide that question, you will have
the starting point for an entirely new
investigation. If odor is an emanation,
1t could be reflected from a mirror.
Light and sound and heat "a be re-
lected. 1 have ever warmed my hands
at the reflection of a fire in a mirror
of polished metal.
That a cultivation of the sense of
smell may be very valuable was proved
In the discovery of the substance
selenium. In experimenting with the
waste products obtained in manufac-
turing sulphuric acid, a distinguished
chemist noticed the characteristic
smell of te~llurium--an odor that has
no counterpart OF earth or in heaven.
But the smell was the only indication
of the presence Of the substance; all
the chemical reactions declared that
there was no tellurium present in the
powder. The chemist therefore con-
Guided that, If no tellurium was pres
ent, there must be a new substance
there, as yet undiscovered, which re-
sembled tellurium. When he had ex-
fracted from the mass all the materials
that he knew were present, he found q
residue, which proved to be, as he had
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
War and the Churches.

One hears much nowadays about the
growing reunion Of the churches which
the war has brought about. But a
dual service which recently took place
Is probably unique. Not far behind
the lines two services were held sim
~ultaneously In the village church-the
n being the usual Roman Catholic
service attended by the inhabitants
while the other was a Protestant one
for a battalion of Australians resting
In the vicinity. The proceedings open
ed by the singing Of a hymn by the
Australians to music supplied by their
W band. Then the French cure adj
dressed his flock, after which 1t was
the turn of the Professionalism so
on--each congregation taking 1t in
turn until the service was concluded
London Chronicle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
suuar Beet Pulp for Cattle.

The desert cattle ranchers Of Ari-
iona and New Mexico have learned
that to raise cattle is one business and
to fatten them is another. For this
reason they ship their cattle to Cali
fornia, where sugar beet pulp Is OBJ
tanned in abundance. One factory is
located neal the fields where the beets
are grown. The cattle are turned into
this field after the beets are harvested.
Under the fence is placed a trough
which projects outside Of the fence
just enough to allow the beet pulp to
be thrown into 1t from the cars. The
cars run on tracks from the factory to
the field and follow the fences around
the corral. More space is thus OBJ
tanned for the beef cattle to feed, and
there is but little waste Of fodder. In
these war days the cattlemen are
learning to conserve stock food, as the
cattle themselves are conserved for our
use.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
Immense concrete erIdae.

Plans r now practically completed
for the construction in Stockholm of
what is claimed will be the largest
concrete bridge in the world. The new
structure, which will join Ropsten and
Herserud, will be called the Lidingo
bridge, after the island where Herse-
rud is located, and will be S45 meters
(2,772 feet) In length, with 50 arches
supported by massive concrete col
umns 90 meters (1S3 feet) in length.
The columns will be hollow, with an
intersection of about So centimeters
GA inches). A few of the columns
will be provided with concrete rings
three meters (9.S4 feet) in height, each
f'ring' having an expansion Of about
one meter $50 inches).
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06

suspected, a new elementary sub
stance.
This new substance, which was
named selenium. resembled black seal
ing wax in appearance. In its v~itreous
form it was a nonconductor of cleo
tricity, but when heated almost to the
fusing point and allowed to cool very
slowly it completely changed its ap-
pearance. 1t acquired a dull, metallic
look, like lead; and in that. its crystal
line condition, 1t vas a conductor of
electricity, but of extremely high re-
sistance. A little pencil of crystalline
selenium, not much more than an inch
long, offered as much resistance to
the passage of the electrical current as
100000 miles of wire, enough to
reach from here to the sun. Yet 1t was
a conductor. y
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06


The beauty of the snow-covered city
Is a thing Romans will not forget. The
panorama, from the Pincian Hill, It.
self carpeted with a 5-inch covering
Of white, its palm trees picturesque
and curious sentinels in the winter
setting, was Incompatible. Saint
Peters dome, ermlned, with the ball, a
white world symbol, as ever dominated
the picture. Nearer, the Pantheon,
now white, shone in its new garment.
Fan away over white powdered roofs
and terraces through twisted, irregu-
lar streets, rose the whitened Janicu-
lum, the watchful figure of Garibaldi,
mantled in snow.
From the ghostlike wilderness Of the
Palatine, an undisturbed shroud lay
upon the campagna, in early morning,
through which a specter-like Appian
Way stretched toward the truly named
Alban Hills.
In the heart Of ancient Rome. the
miracle of h nov brought umbrel-
las and overshoes out of American and
English closets to go forth on wonder
ing admirers thrilled by the startling
transformation of Rome's antiquities.
Forum Clad In Snow.
All the year round vines and plants
grow in the Forum, while lizards sun
themselves on the fallen columns. The
Forum, NOW covered, and covered for
three days until noon, was a sight Of
which the young generation will boast
Of seeing "back in 1917, the third year
Of the war"
Up IN the Capltoline Hill, the, noble
equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius,
rising from the center of the historic
square, wore a new mantle of snow,
while his horse was white with fresh
and unforeseen trappings.
But like the SHOWS of Villon-the
Eternal city's ermine disappeared be-
meath sun and squads of street clean
ers, among whom the now common
sight of women white wings told of
a wartime world.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
New L.ioht on AnarebIsm.

1t was at our last meeting in Tifiis
that the indomitable optimist threw
new light on his anarchism.
"Kropotkin, Reclus and myself were
sitting together In London once, dis
cussing our theories. We were TAX
ing a great deal of satisfaction in the
thought that we were anarchists, who
recognized no rights of coercive gov
eminent.
But" he added with a smile, IT said
to them: "There Is n government be-
fore which we gladly bow and whose
petty expressions we willingly endure.
You forget u wives Maynard
Owen Williams. In Christian Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06

n imperial Rome clothed in ermine
was the vision the vanishing year
Of 1917 gave to a surprised popu-
lace. The Eternal city mantled
In snow was the unusual and almost
unheard of spectacle which greeted the
Romans on the morning after Christ
mas, writes Alice Robe in the Kansas
City Star.
Those who woke to find the city
chastened with its white vestments,
lying peaceful and mysterious, felt the
spell Of the unusual and wondered If
it could be a sign of peace.
Whatever private emotions surged
through an astonished people, the an
cient chroniclers announced that for
the first time in thirty years a heavy
snow storm had descended upon Rome.
There are those who record more re-
cent snow, but not of a similar heavy
fall. And snowstorms in Rome, gen.
orally occur in January or February.
This time for three days snow fell
upon the sleeping city and then disap-
peared with the suns rays at moor
Not only the people regarded the phe-
nomenon with wonderment, but the
tram lines and telephone wires were
SO overcome by the strain that they
refused to operate.
City's Routine Upset.
The public co%nveyances were
stunned into helplessness. Roman cab
horses know nothing of snow and Ro-
man cabmen are likewise afflicted.
Consequently the intrepid pedestrians
found themselves wading through deep
slush by noon in a cabless town. The
Piazza Colonna was, with the thawing,
like a lake of sherbet acros which q
few venturesome scouts-generally for
eigners-were wading.
In the forenoon a group of Ameri-
can boys from the aviation camp at
Foggia-up for a holiday-hired a car
to take a trip out the Appian Way
but the chauffeur, despite the protests
and stronger arguments of the avia-
tors, that a little dampness wouldn't
hurt a machine, had to renounce the
trip at the Catacombs. To such an
extent had the unheard of snowfall
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06
Football In Inc Holy Land.

There Is a desert football league
now, and its season" Is In full swing.
There is also a Sinai team-a regret
to say at the bottom of the list. In
towns with quite fsmous Biblical
names you can hear now shouts OF
swell played !" and ION side" l won
der what the Jebusites and the Perez.
zites, the Invites md the Utilities, and
Amorites would think of it all, if they
could hear it.-From the London Daily
News
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06

future ahead? 1 wouldn't give a hill Of beans for all the old masters and
cathedrals you could make m e a present Of except for the money they would
bring. I'm a plain mn with no frHs, and IsoTy to have to get out here,
but come around to my new phce-here's my address-phone lie any evening
and I'll get in a couple of fellows for cards."
The man who had played audience chucked yer the card, and when, a
bit later, he pressed a button, 1t wal plain by the observation-disclosures with
which he let the thing fall that he had n O intention of accepting the invitation.
4 There are always prying people, who want to know more than the law
aIows-which means n apology for the woman in the seat behind for swp-
ing the card-just for the fun of finding out by what name a anarchist
defender, who despised the ancient landmarks of time, scorned ancestry and
boosted his lack of frIls, might Ego by"
And to show also that a prying person may be generous In the sharing
of knowledge, here is the card, except TO. its first name:
- Smvtha. 3D.