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The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
PREPARE ROOMS
FOR OPENING
RAY SCHOOLS


The finishing touches are being put
on the schools in, order that every
thing may, be in readiness for the
opening Monday, September g. New
blackboards for eight of the school
rooms which have been delayed in
delivery are installed.
Supt. Oakes was particularly
pleased during the past week by the
addition of about 100 volumes of ref
erence books to the school library,
the same being a loan to the library
through the kindness of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. A. o. Montgomery. This interest
in the library has suggested the ques-
tion of whether there are not many
people who have books of reference
on their shelves that are not used
that might very often be valuable to
the boys and girls of the school If
such books were available.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
REBEKAHS PLAN
FOR Big MEET
FRIDAY night

The Ray Rebekah lodge is making
special arrangements for it's next
meeting, Friday, September 8, at K.
P. hall. The feature of the evening
will be the presentation of two gold
emhlems, one to Past Noble Grand
Sister Anna Hobbs in honor of having
filled with success the office of noble
grand; the other to Sister Katharine
Plimpton as a token of appreciation
for the services rendered the lodge
since it's institution.
Refreshments will be served by a
committee appointed, and all Imem-
bers are earnestly requested to be
present as topics of interest to the
lodge will be discussed and plans
made for the celebration of the 69th
anniversary of the Rebekah assembly,
September 20.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

PHOENIX, Aug. 27.-Dates for the
sixteenth annual Arizona state fair
will be November 8-13 inclusive, ac-
cording to announcement made by
Shirley Christy, secretary to the state
fair commission, and the moving force
behind the success of the 1919 fair.
Though it is difficult to predict this
far in advance, the fair commission is
confident that the attendance record
will smash that of 10000 for last year
with upwards of 100000 in 1920.
Educational features will be
stressed in this years exhibits, espe-
cially in agricultural, horticultural and
animal husbandry displays, and such
cooperation is promised in the selec-
ton of superintendent as will insure
fairness in placing all entries.
Horse racing, automobile racing
cowboy stunts and other features will
comprise the entertainment program
Special efforts are being made to Sc
cure a strong running schedule this
year, and predictions are that it will
not be difficult in view of the justly
famous Phoenix track, on which in
Vulnerable records, both horse and
automobile, have Teen broken.
New features in the 1920 fair will
be an Americanization exhibit in
charge of Vernon Clark, and a big cot
ton display, showing the rapid growth
of that industry in this state.
The usual domestic art exhibits will
attract housewives, while an unusual
ly large dog show will attract puppy
fanciers.
"No matter what you look for, it
will be found in the 1920 fair" say
the commissioners.
Since emphasis is to be placed on
exhibits in the 1920 Arizona state fair
the list of superintendents in charge
of departments has been compiled and
is being announced early by the COM
mission.
early work will bring better re-
Suits" is the message of the superin-
tendents, "and we want the co-opera-
tion of the public in making early ar
rangements for the placing of their
displays. Won't you get in touch with
us Immediately to make this sixteenth
/ annual state fair the biggest and best
ever?"
The list of superintendent as given
out by Shirley Christy, secretary of
the commission, is as follows:
Horses and Mules-W. w. Carney,
Mesa, AriZ.
Cattle-Ben F. Ridge, 126 N. Ninth
avenue, Phoenix, Ariz.
Dairy-F. W. Latimer, Peoria, Ariz.
Swine-C. C. Green, Glendale, Ariz.
Sheep and Goats-Harry J.. Gray,
Belmont, Ariz,
Poultry-W F. Fetterly, 35 East
Adams, Phoenix, Ariz.
Dogs-T. H Adams, 143O E. Wash
ington, Phoenix, Ariz.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
SAFETY FIRST
item ROASTS
BACKSLIDERS

Some people treat this matter of
Safety First much as they do their
religion. There are some folks you
know who take the soul out on Sun
day and shine it's shoes, tie a pink
hair ribbon on it, put little talcum
powder here and there, and take it
to church for an airing Then when
evening comes they put it back on the
closet shelf to let it rest until the
following Sunday. You would not call
such people good Christians; neither
is a man who thinks he can practice
Safety First one day week care
full man.
To be careful you have to work
hard. We used to sing song "Sal-
vation Is Free" but although it may
be free to get, you have to work
hard as the devil' to hold on to it,
and to give the devil his due, we will
have to admit when it comes to work
ing he is no slouch. Carelessness is
a bad habit that we acquire in child
hood, and unless we make very
strenuous effort to counteract this
habit, we are going to be continually
careless, and the chances are very
much in favor of our getting hurt in
one way or another.
1t is every parents duty to talk
Safety in the home. 1t is the school
teachers duty to teach it at school,
and it is every preachers duty to
preach Safety First from the pulpit.
From government statistics we
know that the fatalities from auto
mobiles increase in direct proportion
to the increase in cars. From past
experience we know that there will
be more than $4,000 people killed in
the United States this year byn auto
mobiles unless something strenuous
is done about it. Therefore, appeal
to those about it. Therefore, I appeal
tomoEiles to drive more carefully.
Don't let your children or any other
inexperienced driver handle your car.
Those of us who do not drive cars
can pay more attention to our safety
in crossing the street. We teach our
children how to walk, let's teach them
how to walk safely. If every one
would obey the simple rule in cross
| ing the street-"Look first to the left
and then to the right" we should have
fewer deaths from automobiles in the
United States.--A Clipping.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
new SCHEDULE OUT
FOR BASEBALL GAMES
BALANCE OF SEASON

Ray is having an offering of fast,
snappy baseball and it's continuance
will depend in part at least on the
financial support given the team.
Contributors are urged to make offer
ings to Mr.. Chappell or Mr.. Mont
gomery. Several new players have
been annexed from the coast, adding
to the speed of the local aggregation.
The diamond is in tip-top shape, and
with the cooler weather, excellent
games should be the result.
Sunday, Aug. 29, Miami plays Ray
on the local garden, and Globe plays
Superior, at Superior.
Future schedule of games follows:
September 5-Ray VS.. Superior, at
Superior; Miami VS.. Globe, at Globe.
September 12-Superior VS.. Miami,
at Superior; Ray VS.. Globe, at Ray.
September 19-Superior VS.. Ray, at
Ray; Miami VS. Globe, at Miami.
September 26-Miami VS.. Ray, at
Ray; Superior vs. Globe, at Superior
October 3-Superior VS.. Miami, at
Superior; Ray VS.. Globe, at Ray.
October 10-Ray VS.. Miami, at Ray;
Superior VS.. Globe, at Globe.
October 17-Miami VS.. Superior, al
Superior Ray VS.. Globe, at Ray.
The new schedule does not lengthen
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

In the various buildings about the
yard, all of which have undergone
complete process of sanitation since
the Powell regime took charge, the
entire interior of cell house No. 1,
which houses 254 prisoners, in addi-
tion to the cells for condemned pris
oners, has been repainted and white
washed. In cell house No. the soli
taries we're repaired and restored to
their old position and that entire sec
tion has been renovated.
The machine shop has been over
hauled and new tools added and, with
funds now available, in the rear of the
broom factory, the warden is planning
to install complete manual training
equipment at which all the convicts
may learn trade.
The main hall has been redecorated
and furnished with chairs and the
moving picture stage enlarged. Shows
are given in it every Sunday night for
the entire population of the prison.
The broom factory and laundry
have had new mechanical devices add
ed and the output of the former has
been more than doubled.
For the power house there are now
on the road a complete set of new
boilers. The old ones which have
been in use for twelve years have
been condemned for four years and
are now to be torn out by the warden.
The power house has added to it a
complete refrigerating plant. with a
capacity of three tons of ice per day,
of which the prison uses 1900 pounds,
the remainder representing profit to
the institution.
Of the 327 inmates, those who are
not on road gangs or at the ranch,
with the exception of such men as
are undergoing retreat for efforts to
escape or infractions of discipline, are
employed constantly in the open air.
In the special tubercular sanitarium,
which is a separate building with a
nurse and all outdoor sleeping rooms,
there are now only three inmates of
the prison.
The X-ray and hospital and dental
equipment has been overhauled and
put in first-class shape and missing
equipment has been bought within the
past year.
The kitchen and bakery which up to
the advent of the present warden were
coated with filth and utterly unsani-
tary, have been remade by throwing
out old worn-out tables, zinc and tin
and substituting new and fresh arti
cles. The main dining room has been
revamped and there all the prisoners
eat in a body instead of generally
about the yards out of their own tin
cans, as had been the custom in pre-
vious years.
Stripes are worn only as mark OF
punishment or violation of honor rules
and their uniforms, all of which are
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
JAYNES ISSUES
Open LETTER
TO dave LITTLE

E. A. Little, Esq, Attorney -at-Law,
Florence, Arizona:
In view of the charges of bad faith
which you have made and caused to
be made against me in the primary
campaign for the republican nomina-
tion for county attorney of Pinal
county, 1 hereby invite you to meet
me in public meetings to be held at
Casa Grande, Florence, Ray and Su-
perior on Tuesday, August 81, We'd
nesday, Sept. 1! Thursday, Sept. 2,
and Friday, September. 8, respect
lively, where you can make the charges
in public if you see fit which you have
been so persistently making privately
and in my absence, and where l can
have an opportunity to state the facts
from my point of view. If these dates
are inconvenient, may fix dates to
suit yourself. All l ask is one days
notice of the time and place.
A. A. JAYNE.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
MARKED IMPROVEMENT At STATE
PRISON UNDER PRESENT WARDEN
SPECIAL WRITER FINDS MUCH TO PRAISE
IN WAY STATE PENAL INSTITUTION is
HANDLED; PRISON FARM GREAT SUCCESS
AND GOOD REVENUE PRODUCER; POWELL
COMES IN FOR PRAISE

Kindness with firmness, outdoor life
for every man, an honor system as
far as each man will justify it, are the
three theories on which the state
prison at Florence is being conducted
by Warden Powell, who has been in
charge since January, 1919. In place
of the old mawkish, haphazard meth
cd, he has, however, insisted on dis
cipline and order in the prison, and
the result is that there has been a
revolution in the morale of the men
and the appearance of the institution.
In putting into effect his ideas of
absolute control by the officials of
the prison over the inmate, the war
den has had the cooperation of vir-
tually all his prisoners for the past
year and the result is clean, orderly,
sanitary, attractive institution of the
kind where escapes are growing con.
stantly fewer and more men are con-
stantly earning paroles for good con-
duct.
The prison is properly divided into
two parts, the ranch and the peniten-
tiary itself. The most remarkable i'm
provement of the past eighteen
months has been at the ranch. TAX
ing hold of it strictly as business
proposition and entirely with convict
labor last year, the management was
able to show from the 100 acres which
were titled net profit of $4,000 to
the state, $1,000 of which was made
in cotton. Vegetables, hay and grains,
milk, eggs and chickens were supplied
for the institution, and for the first
time in it's history it was able to show
a net profit instead of deficit.
This year a $4,000 house was con-
structed of cement, equipped with
baths and toilet, with a separate sleep
ing porch for every man, at a cost in
cash of only $4,000, the remainder be-
ing represented in convict labor. The
cattle, horses, hogs and 1000 chick
ems, besides the farm production work
is entirely in the hands Of prisoners
the overseer himself being a prisoner
and an expert farmer.
A fine new pumping plant has re
Gently been completed which has g
capacity of 1000 gallons every hour
and which is ample for all irrigation
purposes.
This year 65 acres have been plant
ed to cotton of the Pima long staple
variety and the remainder is alfalfa
and vegetables. 1t is expected thai
the farm will show a profit of close
to $4,000 to the state this year.
At the prison, which has become
one of the greatest factories in the
United States for the making of hal
goods, apparatus, sufficient to accom-
modate all the workers, has been bull
in the center of the prison yard, where
about forty men can be employed a
one time. 1t is supplied with lockers
seats and contrivances for weaving.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
bigger and BETTER Than EVER;
STATE FAIR PRESS AGENT STORY
DEPARTMENT, HEADS NAMED FOR ANNUAL
STATE EVENT AND DATES FIXED; SPECIAL
ATTENTION TO BE GIVEN EXPOSITION
FEATURES; FUN AND FROILC CARD A
HUMMER.

Apiary-Don c. Moore, 795 E. Culver
street, Phoenix, Ariz.
Educational-C. W. Randall, 328 N.
Fourth avenue, Phoenix, Ariz.
Fine Arts-Mrs. Louis H. Chalmers
Third street and Mcdowell road, Phoe.
nix, Ariz.
Domestic Art-Mrs. w. W. McNeff
642 N. Third avenue, Phoenix, Ariz.
Domestic Science-Mrs. w. P
Sears, 2O40 N. Central avenue, Phoe
nix, Ariz.
Floriculture-Mrs. Sims Ely, Jr.
214O N. Central avenue, Phoenix, Ariz
Agriculture and Horticulture-Dr
o. c. Bartlett, p. o. Box 348, Phoenix
Ariz.
Cotton-H. c. Heard, Chamber Of
Commerce, Phoenix, Ariz.
Tractor and Implement-R. S. Haw
kins, University of Arizona, Tucson
Ariz.
Indian-John B. Brown, Indian
school, Phoenix, AriZ.
Minerals. C. Goodwin, Tempe
Ariz.
Cowboy Sports-Jack Barber, 50i
w. Roosevelt, Phoenix, Ariz.
Better Babies-Mrs. Charles r
Howe, care of the state board ot
health, state capitol, Phoenix, Ariz.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
FORMER RAYITE
VISITOR FROM
Land Of JAPAN

Takeo Igawa and K. Maxine, mining
engineers of the Furukawa Mining
company of Toxic, Japan, were visit
ors to Ray this week. Mr.. Igawa was
formerly a resident of Ray and an en-
ploye of the engineering office of the
Ray Consolidated. He is making a
tour of inspection of the various mines
of the country to investigate new
methods in the interest of the Furu-
kawa company.
He has just returned from several
months visit in South America, where
he saw a number of former Rayites
who live there Takeo and his COM
panion said the early part of Septem-
Der for the land of the cherry bios
SONS.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

made in the prison, consist of denim
shirt and overalls.
The building of the new plant at
the farm has been used by the warden
advantageously to arouse the men to
a spirit of contentment and emulation
as he has established the billet at the
farm as a reward of merit, and the
character of record a man makes in
the yard determines his right to go
to the farm, where he is, to all in
tents, his own master.
Within the course of eighteen
months the Arizona state prison has
become completely self-sustaining, ac-
tually returning a profit to the state
on the ranch investment.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

The high cost of overalls is quite
likely to figure conspicuously in the
family expense account unless prof
iteers lose their nerve.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

Mr.. C. M. Smith and daughter, Miss
Crystal Smith, have returned from a
trip to Chicago.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

Every effort will be made to substi
tute mediation for agitation.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28

If the Armenian mandate is offered
to the United States it means that
none of the other allies wants it.
The Arizona copper camp., 1920-08-28
SCHOOL Pupils,
new and old,
IN JOLLY FROLIC

About forty of the younger social
set of the town spent a very pleasant
evening at the Lincoln school Wednes-
day. 1t was in the nature of a send
off for some of the boys and girls who
attended high school last year, but are
planning on Normal or some other
school this year. Then it was also
reception or get-acquainted function
for new pupils who have come to the
camp and expect to enter our schools
this year.
The music, ice cream and those
chocolate cakes that mother made all
helped to make the evening most en-
joyAble.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
COMP PAN|ES PLAN EXPORT OF BIRCH
 UNDER LATE LAW

Preparations for commercial ex- ploitation of birch timber in Alaska for export purposes are being made by at least two Alaska companies, according to the Alaska (Juneau) Daily Empire. It is stated that these companies have already locat- ed good stands of this timber and will enter the business on a substan- tial scale in the near future.
 A. NJ. Ellis, formerly of Valdez, and head of the Thunder Creek Mining company. with valuable placer ground in the Cache Creek district. is interested in one of these organizations.
 C. NJ. Murphy, of Anchorage, is connected with the second company preparing to enter the birch indus try The latter organization is pre- pairing to start logging and saving birch for exportation.
 The opening up of this industry comes as a surprise, as it had not been known up to the present time that restrictions preventing the ex- portation of Alaska birch had been removed. Those who are interested in the matter, however, state that the last session of Congress passed a bill containing provisions opening up birch forests for development.
 So far as is known, all of the birch suitable for exportation is To- cated along Cook inlet and north from there along the line of the Government railroad. It is believed that its production on large scale will furnish considerable tonnage for the railroad. No estimates as to the amount of the timber available for export are available.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
PAPER IS ....
 ON SALE BY THE NEWS

A shipment of typewriter paper, of the standard American brand, has just been unpacked at The News office, where it is on sale by the box or in any other quantity desired The sizes include both legal and letter and the weights range from the lightest to heavy.
 The paper was bought right and is being sold at close margin of profit
 The News also has imprinted en- velopes for sale by the box and by the package-all sizes, from baroni- al to legal, white and colored, and bond and wove. :..-
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
HOUSEKEEPER DELAYED; FARMER ASKS DAMAGES

WINNIPEG,.-The Grand Trunk Pacific railway has received an un- usual request from a Saskatchewan farmer, who demanded S5,00O from it because of alleged delay of six weeks in obtaining transportation for his housekeeper, who was com ing from Louisiana. A later letter compromised on S1,000.
 Please do not make me go to law about this," he urged, flor l know that you have more money than I have. Just send the money along and 1 will call it square," He has not yet received his thousand, officials stated.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
OF GEAR MAY
 HEAD BUFFER STATE

HONOLULU, T. H.-A nephew of the late czar of Russia is in Har- bin, preparing, with the aid of Japan, to head buffer state which would split Siberia in two, accord ing to Vladivostok rumors brought to Honolulu by Henry F. Midkiff, Y. M. C. A. secretary, with a ship load of Czechoslovaks enroute home to Trieste.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
IN TOXIC
 OUTNUMBER BRITISH

TOKIO.-Police statistics just is- sued place the number of Ameri- cans in Tokio at 613. The total number of foreign residents in the metropolis, not counting the Chi nese, is 1897. There are 385 Eng fish and POT Russians.
 Nenana, Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
b|G SHOT FATAL
 ID DICK HtALEy,
 A. [. |. EMP[OYE

The explosion of charge of more than ten tons of INT in connection with the grading operations which are in progress in Nenana canyon caused the death, late Saturday aft ernoon, of Dick Healey, youthful timekeeper in the employ of the Alaskan Engineerin commission, with headquarters at Camp Healy, at the end of steel, south of Nenana. The young man, eager to obtain a picture of the shot" approached too close to the mined mountain-side and was literally moved down by the ava lanche of rock which was hurled across the Nenana river by the force of the explosion. His skull was fractured, his hip broken, his legs shattered and his body otherwise mutilated by the shower of rock from the blast, and he lived only short time after receiving the in- juries.
 The accident occurred on the Kestly residency, about two miles beyond the end of steel, and within a very short time afterward, Chief Surgeon T. o. Lake, of the Govern ment hospital. was speeding out the line to attend the injured man. A speeder was used for the trip to the crossing, and another speeder on the south side of the river took the surgeon to the end of steel, whence saddle horse took him quickly to the scene of the accident. There was little, if anything, how ever, that could be done to save Hea1ey's life, and within fifteen min utes after Dr. Lake arrived the un- fortunate young man was dead.
 While preparations were being made to set the blast off, Healey was seen approaching the danger zone with his camera, and he was warned three times to retire to a safe dis tance, the "shot" being held up until it was thought that no one remained sufficiently close to be injured. Healey, in the meantime, had step ped behind a clump of bushes and it was believed that he had needed the warning to retire from the spot.
 When found after the blast, the young mans body was partially buried by the fragments of rock blown from the mountain-side, and the trees all about were cut off close to the ground, the area inn mediately in front of the blast hav- ing been swept as clean as a bat tlefeld.
 The deceased young man was a recent arrival in Alaska, and en- tered the employ of the Alaskan Engineering commission only about a month ago. He was signed on IS timekeeper and sent to Camp Healy, where he soon became a fa- vorite among the railroad workers there. He was less than twenty years of age.
 Very little is known about him, beyond the fact that he was an ex- service man and has mother re- siding at Plainsville, Connecticut, to whom the distressing news of the accident has been wired
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02
EFFICIENCY

applies to the man who has his fall and winter wear Put in shape dur. :ng the summer. Bring them .o
 D'ORSAY'S TAILOR SHOP "@ Phone Third and A Sts.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02

Henana, Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02

If the above assessments not paid before per annum Chapter H. 35: All levied School Directors under this Act shall be shall be all be forosed apppr jurisdiction The shall be personally liable the and such together with
 
 the School such court of competent jurisdiction.
 CARL SCHMIDT Assessor School Board
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-02

Hsnana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot