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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-28

Seep any other railroad of by d nifty.
mile parallel and there the sandhills
make a railroad impossible.
"The government must eventually
rome to the rescue. Their works at
Laguna hang on the control of the
river down at the heading. Once, he
told mel don't know how much
truth there was in 1.-THE service, rec
lamation service, did try to buy up
their plant for a paltry sum. He
wouldn't sell. The short is, / recon-
mended long-sighted assistance to
raraday. ] promised to turn that
river, save the district. We expected
before the year was out to have the
government take the responsibility Off
our hands,"
Richard made an impatient shrug.
A nice problem Marshall had taken
unto himself. He wanted none of it.
Hardin---the thing was impossible.
He met laggardly Marshall's story.
He heard him say: "Agreed with Far
aday. The Desert Reclamation COM
pany was as helpless as swaddled
infant. We made the condition that
we reorganize the company. / was
put in Hardin's place as president of
the corporation, and he was made gen.
eral manager. OF course we had to
control the stock. We put up two
hundred thousand dollars - Hardin
had estimated it would cost us less
than half that! It's cost us already
million. Things haven't been going
right. Faraday's temper burst out,
and Hardin a while back was asked
to resign.
"And it is Hardin's position that
you want me to FLIP" His voice
sounded queer to himself-dry, mock
ing, as if anyone should know what
an absurd thing he was being asked
to do. He felt Marshalls sharp In
dian eyes on him, as If detecting pet
tiness. Well, he didn't care how Mar
shall interpreted it. That place wasn't
for him.
81 want you in control down there"
Richard knew he was being appraised,
balanced all over again. 1t made no
difference
"Tm sorry" he was beginning, when
Marshall cut in.
"Good Lord, you are not going to
turn it DOWN.?
He met Marshalls incredulous
stare. tits job I'd jump at under
most circumstances. But I can't go.
SIR
Tom Marshall leaned back the full
swing of his swivel chair, blankiy
astounded. His eyes told Richard
that he had been found wanting-he
had white blood in his veins.
"It is good of you to think Of me
bshaw! it is absurd to say these
things. You know that I know it is
an honor to be picked out by you for
such a piece of work. I'd like to
but I can't"
The president Of railroads, who
knew men, had been watching the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-28

10 speculating what Marshall was go
ing to do with him. What pawn was
he in the game that everyone in Tue
son followed with eager Self-interested
concern? Marshall'S was the control
ling hand in Arizona politics; the
maker of governors, the arbiter of big
corporations; president of half
dozen railroads. Not move of his
on the board that escaped notice.
On the other side of the door Rick
ard was echoing the office question.
This play job, where did it lead to?
He had liked his work, under StrattOE.
There had been some pretty problems
to meet-what did Marshall mean to
do with him?
The note had set the appointment
for nine. Richard glanced at his
watch and took out his Engineering
Review. 1t would be ten before that
door opened on Tod Marshall!
He knew that, on the road, Mar
shall's work began at dawn. "a man
won't break from overwork or rust
from underworld if he follows the ex-
ample of the sum-" Richard had often
heard him expound his favorite the
Dry. ut is only the players, the syba-
rites, who can afford to pervert the
arrangement nature intended for us"
But in Tucson, controlled by the wife
ly solicitude of. his Claudia, he was
coerced into regular perversiOn. His
Office never saw him until the morn
ing was half gone.
A half-hour later Richard finished
reading report on the diversion Of a
great western river. The name of
Thomas Hardin had sent him off on
a tangent of memory. The Thomas
Hardin whose efforts to bring water
to the desert of the Colorado had been
so spectacularly unsuccessful was the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-28

Francisco. It was said In Arizona---
he himself had met the statement in
Tucson--that any man who had ever
worked for Tod Marshall would rather
be warmed by the reflection Of his
greatness than be given posts of per-
sonal distinction.
Was it Office routine Marshall in
tended him for? He admired without
stint Tod Marshall, but he preferred
to work by the side Of the other kind,
the strong men, without physical han
dicap, the men who, take risks, the
men who live the life of soldiers. That
was the life he wanted. He would
wait long enough to get Marshall's in
tention, and then, If 1t meant--this |!
ne would break loose. He would go
back to the front where he belonged
back to the firing line.
AS the hands of the round clock in
the outer Office were pointing to ten
the door opened and Marshall entered.
His clothes, of indefinite blackish hue,
would have disgraced an eastern man.
Ills StIIuS Tie Auu q otaIDVaIu iiSl,
and his hat was ready for rummage
sale. But few would have looked at
his clothes. The latent energy Of the
dynamic spirit that would frequently
turn that quiet Office into mael-
strom cleaned in those Indian-black
eyes. Beneath the shabby cloth one
suspected the daily polished skin; un-
der the old SLOUGH hat was the mouth
Of purpose, the lips that no woman,
even his Claudia, had kissed without
the thrill of fear.
Marshall glanced back at the clock,
and then toward his visitor.
"On time" he observed.
Richard, smiling, put his book In
his pocket.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-28

play of feature. "Take your tiIne," he
said. "Don't answer too hastily. Take
your time"
He was playing the fool, or worse.
before Marshall, whom he respected,
whose partfsanship meant so much.
But he couldn't help it. He couldn't
tell that story-he knew that Marshall
would brush it aside as a child's cpl
sode. He couldn't make 1t clear to
the man whose stare was balancing
him why he could not GUST Tom Har-
din.
''Is it personal reason?" Mar
shall's gaze had returned to his ring
making.
Richard admitted it was personal.
"Then / don't accept it. wouldn't
be your friend if / didn't advise you
to disregard the little thing, to take
the big thing. Maybe you are going
to be married" He did not wait for
Richards vigorous negative. "That
can wait. The river won't. There's
river running away down yonder,
running the valley, running the homes
Of families men have carried in with
them. I've asked you to save them.
There's a debt of honor to be paid.
My promise. have asked you to pay
it. There's history being written in
that desert. I've asked you to write
it. And you say Mo-"
EMO! / say yes!" clipped Richard.
The Marshall oratory had swept him
to his feet.
The dramatic moment was chilled
by their Anglo-Saxon self-consciOus-
ness. An awkward silence hung. Then:
"When can you go?'
To-day, tomorrow, the first train
out"
"Good!"
"Any instructions?"
"Just stop that riverw
"The expense?" demanded the eng-
neer. "How far can co.
Oh the expense!" cried Tod
Marshall. "Just go ahead"
Continued next week.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-28

Continued next weekly
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
Will Prohibition Prohibit?
PROHIBITION FANS!

et paper going
basket, be
useful
propaganda Prohibition Fans have been
with illustrations which make stick"
white card board ~ by 9 inches with handles
thoughtful Uncle soldiers
beside him. and he Il
food ships and h world the Prussian
will free people
homes honor
wealth. self and earning for booze!
chldren bold
spent
this would have been
pictures paintings
automobiles bills clothing machines
cleaners household furniture welry candy nk Whatever
business profession the
unles dgge Uncle Sam protected his soldiers
coudirom Booze going protect you
business" will help him drive Hun Booze and Bohev
country" stay
Kaiser Booze| World Prohibition aim This copy atractvey
the side the the lilies Cid Glory and the
eagle and floating land freed Kaiser Booze In the
lever left hand
with their desks Above this the desk
will
have better hca longer life better chance for and promotion
the life without Booze At the left
children "l
In the circle under this title little girl locking Of the window, and
watching for daddie; afraid of him. In circle below,
irresistible little boy with his and the words No
saloons waiting him later"
idea Of tk the printed
description VIII you
your League, T. u. Y p
Church Sunday School order OF the fans for dsbuon
them
said he did
plates provided for by contribution of
designed the fan You
them for 5000 thousand the charges lots OF 500 at
the OF $500 per hundred, the
They ordered through the cee so Bliss Building w ash
ington, D. c.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
TOM ROBERTS. HOME RULER,
ALLEGES HE SEES SUTHIN'
Thinks Strict Law Enforcement
Measure Is Turning Support Away
From Prohibition

Thomas W. Roberts OF the Ohio
Home Rule Association imagines
that he sees evidence of reaction
against Prohibition since the en-
forcement code has been before Con-
gress for action. He says that people
are signing the brewers petition for
the repeal OF the Ohio state dry law
who have never been suspected of
being wet.
These wet leaders are still trying
to make themselves believe that the
people who voted the country dry did
not really want Prohibition and now
with the prospects OF strict enforce
ment they are sorry they did it. 1t is
apparently utterly beyond their COM
prehension how any man can get
along without booze.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
DNPOpULARlTY or SALOON PROVED
UNI UT VLhNlIJ UT JRLUUN fkUvLU
New York World Produces the
Evidence
Less Public Drinking and Crime
Reduced
Public is Persuaded Law Will be
Upheld
Still Holds Out Hope for Beer
and Wine f-e= 81

The New York World, generally
conceded the leading AUTHORIZATION
newspaper in the United States, on
July 10 published a series of reports
from correspondents on the effects OF
the wartime Prohibition law The
World concluded from these reports
that the closing of more than 70 per
cent OF the saloons of the country
has established the unpopularity of
the saloon. 1t says:
There has been less consumption
OF alcoholic beverages in the saloons,
hotels and restaurants in the wet belt
than ever in the history OF the coun-
try, and more in the privacy OF
homes. There have been fewer ar
rests for offenses growing out of
liquor than in the old days, probably
because there has been less public
drinking.
THE dry law is being observed SO
far as the stronger liquors are con-
cerncd but 2.75 per cent beer is being
sold without restriction i'll most of
the cities pending the outcome OF the
test cases.
While the distillers and brewers
cling to the hope that the United
States Supreme Court will declare
the Eighteenth Amendment uncon-
stitutional, the public is becoming
reconciled to the belief that it will be
upheld but that public sentiment will
eventually persuade Congress to al
low the manufacture and sale Of light
wines and beers"
The World has been compelled to
see the beneficial results OF Prohibi-
ton as strikingly set forth in the po-
lice court records which show a de-
crease in the number of arrests. And
when the lawdefying brewers finally
are compelled TO obey the law as they
will be, the World will see still fur
ther beneficial results from total Pro-
hibtion. The editor is decidedly mis-
taken il he thinks the people OF this
country are in any mood to grant
special favors to the un-American
unpatriotic brewers. They have at
tempted to secure special favor in
several Prohibition states, notably
Washington, Oregon, Arizona and
Michigan. and have miserably failed
The people OF this country are done
with the entire liquor fraternity.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
PENNA. SOLONS GRANT TAX
REFUND ON LICENSES

According to the Dunn bill passed
in the closing days of the Pennsyl-
yania Legislature and signed by Gov
ernor Sproul, wholesale and retail
liquor dealers may secure refund of
their license fees for that part of the
year during which they cannot do
business. The bill permits licensee
to surrender his license at any time
and provides that proportionate
amount of the annual license fee
shall be returned to him. Application
is made to the clerk of courts and the
money is repaid by the county treas
ury.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
TO BREW OR NOT TO BREW
is BIG PENNSY QUESTION

Johnstown, Pa, breweries, in ac-
cord with District Attorney Craw-
ford's warning, discontinued manu-
facture of 2.75 percent beer on July
10 and prepared either to make bev-
erage containing less than one-half of
per cent alcohol or to close their
plants for the present. Several bar
rooms where the beer was being sold
stopped the sale of the brew but CON
tinued open. A few OF the hotels III
the downtown section ignored the
warning
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01

As | write we arc speeding east
ward from St. Louis to Washington,
where the World Convention on Al
coholisnn assemblies two days hence.
We left Chicago last Monday, and our
journeyings since then have been
through the states of the Middle
West. 1t is vast wheat-growing re-
gion, and the grain ripens before the
end of May, for the heat OF the days
lis as intense as that OF an English
August.
On Saturday we reached Hannibal,
a little town i'll Missouri, famous as
the home of Mark Twain, who i'll his
early years was pilot on the Missis-
sippi river The state OF Missouri is,
as the people say here, in condition
of "semi-aridity"! the dry forces have
voted out the drink saloon from some
counties of the state, in others the
vets have held their ground and the
saloon fourishes. The contrast be-
tween the appearance OF wet and dry
towns is that between squalor and
wholesomeness.
Detroit and St. Louisa Contrast
] was struck with this again and
again, but particularly at Detroit and
St. Louis. Detroit is dry and St.
Louis is wet. Detroit is huge man
ufacturing city with nearly million
inhabitants. Its greatest industry is
the mapufacture of automobiles, for
both the Ford and the Cadillac works
are there. ST Louis is likewise a
manufacturing center Its population
also is practically million; its larg-
est plant" is the immense Anheuser-
Busch brewery Now, Detroit is
beautiful. Industry has not spoiled it.
Wages are high, and artisans live in
what we call "gardcn-suburbs." The
business thefoughfares are stately;
the residential sections. through which
we motored for hours, are altogether
lively. ldealisni- has triumphed in
Detroit, and idealism voted out the
saloon. Contrariwise, St. Louis is
grim and depressing. 1t bears all the
marks of an industrial system at war
with beauty. Neither Wigan nor St.
Helens can teach ST. Louis anything
in ugliness. There are boot and shoe
factories, foundries and breweries.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
OLYMPIC A FLOATING
PROHIBITION TOWN
Rev. Henry Carter, English Delegate
to World Conference on Prohibit
ton, Tells of Result of Dry Order
for Ship

(From the European Bureau of the
American Issue, 90 Fleet ST.. London)
In the Methodist Times Of London,
tor June ), Rev. Henry Carter con-
tributes an interesting account of the
trip of the European delegates to the
dual conventions OF the Dominion Al
lance and Of the Anti-Saloon League
OF America. The correspondence,
mailed on the arrival of the delegates
at Halifax on May 10, is introduced
with the following:
I'VE left Southampton on Saturday
night, May 10, on the Olympic.
Our group numbered nine. The
business assigned to us was to visit
the United States and Canada, at the
invitation of the American nti-Sa-
loon League, to examine the Prohibit
ton movement at hrst-hand, and form
a judgment as to the ways in which
American experience can serve the
SduoS vi iSiiilISi diiSN III Dlltdih' IL Jill
England there came Archdeacon
Howson, Canon Masterman, DIR.
Saleeby, Mr.. G. 3. Wilson, Mr. Bing-
ham and myself; from Scotland, Mr..
Allison and Mr.. Rae, Of the Scottish
Permissive Bill !. Associations; from
ireland, the Rev. John Galley, of Bel
fast.
Our first experience OF the effects
of Prohibition was on the Atlantic
passage. The Olympic was a Prohi-
bition town ahoat As an admiralty
transport, no liquor was served
aboard because the vessel was carry
ing troops. The results were excel
lent. On this densely crowded liner,
where 1900 men were packed into the
living space OF half that number,
where starcascS and decks were
thronged, where everyone had to ac-
cept a share OF limitation and dis
comfort, the utmost good temper pre-
vailed The rebound from the disci-
plinc of the years of army life would
easily have led to wild intemperance
if drink had been obtainable.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01

A conservative estimate, according
to the New York Tribune, OF the
value of liquor stored in that city in
private cellars and lockers is s25,-
100000 More generous statisticians
place the value at $iOO,o00,o0o
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
ST. LOUIS AND DETROIT CONTRASTED BY
I7r7a FAMOUS ENGLISH VISITOR TO AMERICA

Rev. H. Carter Member of Control Liquor Traffic.
Charmed by Beauty Disguised With
dences of Squalor in ST. Louis Both Industrial Cies-Deot
Specializing in Automobiles, St Louis Beer
ing Men Live in Garden Suburbs Miles of Towdry Buildings
in St. Louis.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
BY Rev. Henry Carter

lin the Methodist Times of London for June Henry
commanding England acting editor
member founder OF the
the Church Council
liquor problem problem
Methodist is foloxsl
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
Want to be Law-Abiding

Neil Bonner, president of the Phila-
delphia Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
alton, is quoted in the North American
as saying:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01

Prohibition Chief Topic of Conversation Ameca
Shows That Enforcement of Law is Smphed Dry
Extended Ani-Prohbonists Accepting Dry Law Philoso-
phicaly Beweries Being Rapidly Converted Into Plants for
Manufacture of Legitimate Commodities; America will Stand
by Law and Sustain it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01

District Attorney Nevin A. Cort
has opened a campaign against illicit
liquor selling in Westmoreland Coun-
ty, Pa. Two alleged speakeasies were
raidcd under his direction last week.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01

The breweries, indeed, are St. Louis's
chief title to fame. They number
twenty-five. The Anheuser Busch
brewery is reputed the largest in the
world. Beer has ruled the city's poll
tics. The corruption of the govern
ment Of the city is by-word in the
South. The miles of tawdry dwell
ings reflect the attitude of the city to
human lie. Beer is the master, and
life for the multitude moves OH low
levels.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-01
3" July the Thirst

Unless the Presidents suggestion is
adopted, and the sale OF beer and
wine sanctioned during 1910, on July
l America will go dry, The date is
fixed in the calendar of the American
drinking man as July the Thirst
As ! explained in my last letter, what
ever happens respecting Prohibition
as rehabilitation policy, Prohibi-
ton as d nationwide constitutional
and permanent policy will come into
force on January 10, 1920. America is
immensely interested in her coming
experience. The daily papers and the
magazines are discussing Prohibition
from every point of view. 1t is the
topic in the trains and i'll the street.
The more intimately orc studies the
situation the more impressive the
great decision becomes. 1t is unique
in the history OF the modern world.
A nation OF one hundred millions OF
people is deliberately setting aside a
social habit which, Notwithstanding
its perilous associations, seemed to be
inextricably interviewer with the GUS
toms Of fellowship.
The questions oftenest debated are
these: Will Prohibition really pro-
hibit? And, when Americans cannot
get alcoholic beverages, what will
they drink? | will try to describe the
answers as they are given here.
Will Prohibition Prohibit?
Two seemingly inconsistent views
are held as to the efficacy of nation
wide Prohibition. There are those
who predict hot public resentment, a
The border vidette., 1919-06-21
RAILROAD TO PORT LOBOS.
Colonel Greenway Gets SIP 100000
 to Finance Line to Gulf.

Col. John c. Greenway, gen eral manager of the New Cor. nelia Copper company, is about to realize the greatest dream of his life.
 Col. Greenway, who is in the east, is said to have raised SIP GOO, 900 to build railroad from Ajo to the gulf and from Ajo to Tucson, which will give all of the mines of Arizona an outlet to tidewater.
 After Col. Greenway built the great plant at Ajo and made such a huge success of what some considered a doubtful ex pertinent. he announced that he had one further ambition which was to build a railroad from southern Arizona to the Gulf of California and esta blish a great port there.
 His dream seems abont to be realized. The surveying party which is locating the right of way is nearing the Mexican bOr der; the company has the neces- sary concessions and Col. Green way is finding no difficulty in financing his proposition. Because of his nation wide re- putatiOn as an engineer, his ability for rapid execution and his high integrity. Col. Green way is said to have at his dis posal ample funds for his project, l-Prospector.
The border vidette., 1919-06-21
United States Land Office, at Phoenix,
 Arizona, State of Arizona.
To WHOM TT MAY CONCERN:

To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
 Notice is hereby given that the State of Arlzona. under the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved June 20, l91C, (36 Stats., 557), has filed in this office it's School Indemnity Land Selec- ton, applying to select as indemnity the lands described as follows:
 3OSG-O421O7: In T. 22 S.. R. 15 E., Lot l. SW14NW14: W15SW4; Sec. 26, Lots l to inc, SEl N El; SEl Sec. 29.
 (G. & s. R. M.)
 During the five weeks period of pub lication of this notice, or any time thereafter and before final approval and certification, this office will receive protests or contests as to any of the tracts applied for and transmit the same to the General Land Office.
 J. l.. IRWIN. Register
 SCOTT WHITE, Receiver Dated at Phoenix, Arizona, June 3rd. 1919.
 Date of first publication June ', 1919
The border vidette., 1919-06-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Francisco R. de Varela, deceased.
 NOTICE is hereby given by the un- " dereigned administratOr of the es- tate of Francisco k Ia Narela, deceas- ed, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against tho said deceas ed tc exhibit them. with he necessary vouchers, within four mouths after the first publication of this Dotice to the said administrator. at the office of Barry x Garry. iI the Trust Binding, at No gales, Arizona, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in the said County of Santa Cruz.
 NJ. A. VARELA,
 Administrator of the Estate of Fran cisca R de Narela. deceased.
 Dated at Nogales arlaona, this +th day Of Juno, ljl0. GI-O5