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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
PAST TWO YEARS ACCOMPLISHMENT
 IN ARIZONA ROAD CONSTRUCTION

The last two years have been mo- mentous ones in road construction in Arizona, judging by the following list of projects completed or under way.
 deo-PhoeniX (Rankhead highway, BIO miles. Federal aid project extend- ing 30 miles east from Douglas now under way, 9 mi es of concrete paw ing between Douglas and BisDee now being completed; from B;sbee to Tombstone and from Tombstone to Benson, road complete; from Benson to Vail, work in progress; from Vail to Tucson. co nDIete. from Tucson to Florence, four miles of concrete paw ing out of Tucson practically complete, in addition 25 miles of surfaced road complete; from Florence to Mesa, ap- proximately 25 miles complete with new bridge across Queen Creek; Me sa to Tempe, building concrete pave ment with only three miles yet to be improved.
 Tombstone Tucson, via Fairbanks and Empire. The portion of this al- ternate route krown as the Border land lying ln 2ima County, is now being constructed under the s'IDervis- ion of the State
 Tucsin-Nogales, 69 miles: Applica- tion filed for federal aid for concrete paving estimated at $350,000; will be completed this year.
 Franklin-Phoenix, 240 miles: wor,z between Franklin and Clifton will be completed by summer; Clifton to Stafford now usable; Stafford to Globe, federal aid-approved after some delay account of rOad crossing indian raSar- vation.. Contract let for light steel
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In addition figures are given to show the relative standing of the school systems of the states and possessions in 1890, 1900, 1910, 1916 and 1918. These indicate that California has al- ways been at or near the top of the list, while the two Carolinas have in every case been at or near the bottom. Every New England state is shown by the figures to be losing ground while every state in the far west has gained in relative rank during the period. In the educational race Iowa has far outstripped Illinois, while North Dakota has gone rapidly for ward Nebraska is reported having gone forward and Kansas backward during the period of 2S years.
 The most notable educational change that has taken place during the 20 years covered by the report, is in the in high schools. There is now loo times as many pupils enrc''- ed in high schools as there were in 1870. The number then was 19,000 and now it is nearly 2,G00000. The high school attendance has increased with great rapidity but the new pupils have been mostly girls.
 In the matter of teachers salaries, tices. The lowest average salary IS S25 per month for the state of North Carolna, while the highest is SSS in California, both being based on a year of 12 months.
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structure to span 5o0-foot gap washed out of Gila River bridge near San Car los. Globe to Miami, concrete Eave- ment; Superior to Miami, represent ing the heaviest construction in the state, now being built with prison la Dor out of Superior, with preliminary work for starting construction out of Miami. For 16-mile unit from Supeli or to junction point with Mesa-Flor- ence highway, survey complete, feder- al aid approved.
 Phoenix-Yuma, 200 miles: Phoenix to Buckeye under Maricopa county $4, 900, 900 bond issue; Yuma to We'll. ton, work started, federal aid approv- ed.
 Phoenix-Ashfork, 16S miles: Pros. pective bond issue in Yavapai Coun- ty may provide funds for improvement of portion of this route.
 Prescott-Jerome, 30 miles: Federal aid project, completed this year.
 Springerville- -Topeck (Old Trails highway, 46O miles: Thirty miles constructed as state highway; 25 miles ready for construction; bond issue and federal aid for 2SO miles more.
 Kingman-Utah Arrowhead traiD 150 miles: Surveys nearing compile tion and preliminary work started.
 Tn addition to the above bridges costing S295, 900 are being constructed or are about to be. The Tempe bridge and the Agua Fria bridge near Buck eye. are now being repaired at prob able cost of $100,000. Both structures wore seriously damaged by winter fioods.-Arizona Mining Journal.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
WEBSTER |S INSTANTLY KILLED
 BY EXPLOSION

Reese Webster, road contractor, and member of the firm of Webster Bros. and Kerby, engaged in the construc- tion of the Clifton-Springerville High way, was accidently killed Friday af- ternoon, May 18th, while engaged in blasting rock on the new road at .. point about seven miles north of Met calf.
 Following the accident MT. Webster lived a few minutes. He was picked up in an unconscious condition by CO laborers and carried to the road camp where he died about ten minutes later.
 Death was caused by flying debris and rocks and being thrown face downward distance of fifty-five feet from the point of the explosion.
 The accident occurred at a point on the road known as Station 491 north Of Metcalf shortly after the noon hour and the only eye witness to the trage- dy vas MT. James H. Kerby, a mem- ter of the firm.
 At the dinner table at noon MT. Webster urged those present to hurry through their dinner and get out of the danger zone as he had fourteen holes to shoot as soon as dinner was finished Accordingly, as soon as their noon day meal was finished, those at the table secreted themselves behind trees as MT. Webster started up the road in company with an assistant named Vasquez to shoot the holes. MT. Webster proceeded to the further est point on the road where the last shots had been placed, and MT. Vas quez stopped at the holes nearest the camp. Fourteen shots were to have been fired. After shooting his holes at the furtherest point, and evidently under the impression that the lower holes had all been fired, MT. Webster started back down the road and had reached the point where the lower holes had been fired. He stopped a moment in view of MT. Kerby and called out: Alright, boys, let's go to work He evidently at that moment was standing directly over a hole that had not as yet been exploded. As MT. Kerby and MT. Keene, who were standing behind the same tree, emerg- ed from their place of safety, and within a few seconds after MT. Web ster had called Alright the last explosion occurred. MT. Webster's body was hurled into the air with fly ing debris and fell a distance of fifty five feet from the scene of the explos- ion.
 Those who witnessed the accident hurried to the scene and found MT. Webster's body lying face downward in pile of rocks. He was unconscious but his pulse was feebly beating when the body was being conveyed to the camp but died few minutes later. A deep cut in the forehead, over the left side, was apparently the immedi- ate cause of his death, although his head was bruised and cut on several places and one of his limbs was broken.
 Undertaken Pascoe was notified and the body was brought to Clifton where a coroner's inquest was held which brought out the facts above stated.
 The body will be taken to Stafford on Saturday where the funeral will be held on Sunday.
 Reece Webster was forty-one years of age and was a long time resident of Graham and Greenlee counties. He leaves three brothers, George, Frank and Oscar. The deceased was a gener al favorite and made a host of friends by his genial manner and warm heart ed friend shin
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
HAIL IN SALT RIVER VALLEY

Phoenix, May 22.-Heavy crop dam age was done in cotton growing dis tricts of the Salt Rver Valley by a freak hail and raiu storm today which swept path two miles wide. Young cotton in the iath of the storm was totally destroyed oD many farms while lder cotton suffered heavy damage, reports tonight indicated.
 Outside it's two mle strip of great est violence, it di6 little damrge, ac- cOrding to reports tonight. Within that strip windows were broken by hal. young cotton stripped of it's leaves or beaten into the ground, and the fruit crop battered from the trees. Many of the hail stones were an inch in diameter
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
Mir. S. G. Kelly Successful Candidate
 For Annapolis

Word was received by Sam G. Kelly last week that he had successfully passed the mental examination re- gently taken in Washington, D. c. as as candidate for the U. s. Naval Academy, and will leave Clifton June 3rd to report at the Academy June 10th for physical examination Pass, ing this, he will enter the Academy as mid-shipman and expects to speci- alize in the Aviation branch of the service. Sam is the eldest son of MT. and Mrs. w. B. Kelly of Clifton.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
cI9fton's Registration for
 Fall Election Rolling Up
Democrats in Lead as Usual

The totals for the fourth week of the County Registration for the fall election show the democrats still far in the lead. at ratio of practically g to 1 over the Republicans. County Recorder Callicotte estimates that not ever one thousand voters will be registered in Clifton before the pri- mary election which will be held Sep tember 7th, next. The highest regis tration for Clifton in previous years totalled about 1900. Following is report of the registration at the end of the fourth weekg
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
CHILD PUNISHED BY FIRE

Phoenix, May a. Mrs. Augustine Oliva was in the county jail today awaiting charges which officers said would be filed agains her on com- plaint that she had burned the feet of her 7-year-old daughter, Concha, in live coals and then wrapped her feet and ankles in burning rags.
 'She would not get me a bucket of water" the mother said through an interpreter, at the jail.
 Mamma did not want me to play" said the child. after being taken to a hospital.
 Neighbors near Scottsdale said they heard the little girls screams and rescued her A deputy sheriff arrest ed the mother.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
SCHOOL SYSTEM RANKS
 THIRD


 Montana has the best all-round school system in the United States accord ing to the results of comparative study of state school systems made public today by the Russell Sage Foun- dation. The report assigns second place to the schools of California, third place to those of Arizona, fourth place to New Jersey and fifth to the state of Washington.
 These findings are contained in a re- port by the Department of Education of the Foundation. The volume is en- titled "An Index Number for State School Systems" and the author is Dr. Leonard P. Ayers, Director of the Foundations Department of Education
 Other findings of the report are that the school systems of the United ficiency during the last 50 years, hay ing an index number of rating of 26 in 1870 and one of 52 at the present time. Since these index numbers are figured on the basis of 100, the school system of the country has now an effectiveness or efficiency of only aa per cent, according to the report.
 The figures for the individual states T during the past 30 years the West has been coming up educationally while the East has been going down. Dur ing this time the greatest increase among all the states has been made by Utah while the state to which is at tributed the greatest falling off in rel ative standing is Maryland. In the east the only state that has gained in stead of losing is New Jersey. In the west the state that has the best and most consistently high record is Cal ifornia.
 Among the interesting results of the study is the conclusion that the school systems of the United States territorial possessions, such as Hawaii, the Canal Zone, the Porto Rico, have higher ratings than those of many of the AS states. That of Hawaii is re- ported better than those of the major ity of the American states. Ten Southern states have records poorer than that of Porto Rico.
 The Foundations educational meas urement is worked out by taking the official data showing the number of | children attending school, the amount of training they secure, the progress 1 they make, the amount expended for buildings and supplies, the salaries i paid their teachers, and other similar | items, and combining these factors in ] to a single index number which shows 1 the general standing or efficiency of 1 the school system. This method re- 1 sembles that used by the Federal l government in indeXing the cost of liv ing and prices for commodities.
 The Foundation states that all the results are computed from data fur nished by the states themselves to the l federal government and that the rec ords have been compiled and combin | ed by exactly the same methods fol l all the different states and without admitting into the results any ele ments of personal judgment. The au 4 thor of the report served during the 2! war as chief statistical officer of the l army.
 The standing of the AS states, the I District of Columbia, and the three territorial possessions is shown in the | following table:
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
AWFUL TRAGEDY AT. MORENC| LAST
 SUNDAY

Now if you are at all of nervous disposition don't read this article be cause it is certainly the saddest of all the tragedies that has occurred in this county in many years. It does not seem possible that such things could occur in this up-to-date world of ours, and yet this one did happen only last Sunday at Morenci. We believe that all of Clifton will have great sympa- thy in their tender hearts for the Mo- renci people because of this awful tragedy.
 Following is an account of the trag. edy: The Morenci Wild Cats and the Clifton Panthers were turned loose in the same ball lot last Sunday after noon, and you can imagine very easily what the Wild Cats looked like at about five o'clock in the afternoon, after the Panther had bitten him twenty-five times. And during this long fight the Wild Cat got only seven little nips at the Panther, none of them even as much as breaking the Panther's hide.
 Old ''Hoss'' Mason pitched for the Partners and tho he allowed more hits than he usually does, he didn't
  his team mates had loaded their bats with base knocks before leaving Cliff tin.
 The features of the game was the poor fielding of the Morenci team their poor pitching and the heavy hit ting of the entire Clifton team.
 Next Sunday, the second game( of the season will be played on the home <l Go !, fO, a game before going up to Morenci The game here will start at one o'clock sharp so that Stafford can get to Mo renci early enough to play a game The Clifton boys have blood in their eyes because of the last Stafford game and will fight hard to annex the game while the Stafford boys have been working out daily in the hope of win ming another double header next Sun day. A good game is assured and all fans are asked to come out and sup port the home team.
 A summary of last Sundays game appears below:
 innings 1 67S9 R H E
 Morenci 3 1 2 o o % g
 Clifton 5 4 o 3 25 21 Morenci-Dolies, Jordan and Mont gomery. Clifton-Mason and Deck.
 I've base hits, l.. Grimes 2: Tate 2, Deck 1; Clifford 1; Percival 1; Hos | tettIer 2: Barr 1; McIlveen 1.
 Three base hits,e Tate 1 Deck l. R | Grimes 1.
 Home runs, Yanez 1.
 Bases on balls, off Mason 4; off Do lies 3; off Jordan 1.
 Hit by pitcher, Mason 1; Dolies
 Struck out, Mason ': Dolies l. Jor dan 1.
 Empires, Fehrman and Christman
 Time of game-All Afternoon.
 Standing of G. 6 G. League
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ENTERTAINs AT MOVIES

A merry crowd of young. people saw The Willow Tree at the Princess Wednesday evening as guests of Mrs. ". B. Kelly. The party was in honor Of Miss Ashley and Miss Elsie Rhea. Light refreshments were served at the house after the show.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
FOR WILCOX

Lawrence J. Fulmer, popular fore man and Linotype operator, who has been employed at the Era Publishing Company for the past nine months will leave Sunday morning for his home near Wilcox. MT. Fulmer has extensive farming interests near Will COX, Arizona which will require all of his attention for the next several months.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
VISITS SISTER

MT. Ira Border of San Francisco, Calif has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Pickens Anderson, for the past week MT. Border left for a visit with his parents in Hamlin, Texas Tuesday morning taking with him his young nieces Miss Jeanette and Miss Mar garet Anderson who will spend the summer with their grandparents.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28

Miss Virginia Parker Leaves
 Miss Virginia Parker one of Cliff tons popular teachers who has been visiting Miss Cotey, left for her home in Los Angeles Tuesday morning.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28

Mrs. Nicks and Daughter Leave Soon
 Mrs. F. M Nicks and daughter Flo renee are leaving June 5th for an eX- tended visit in California.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-05-28
AT THE COURT HOUSE
Jury Session Called For June IA

Jury Session Called For June IA
 On last Wednesday, Judge of the Superior Court, Frank B. Laine, issu- ed an order for the drawing of trial jury to be in attendance upon the Su- perior Court on Monday the 14th day of June, same to be drawn on next Tuesday and consisting of venir of seEenty-five jurors A light criminal docket obtains, however the civil dock ct is very heavy and numerous dam age cases against the large corpora tions will be tried. Judge Laine, hay ing been disqualified in the majority of the civil cases, announced that he would have a foreign Judge in when the cases were called for trial.
 Next Monday being a legal holiday, the civil and criminal trial calendars will be called on Tuesday morning of next week and all cases set for trial and all demurrers and motions will be called up for hearing. All attorneys having cases for the coming term should be present in court.
 L. F. Sweeting, as Administrator of
  has this week filed an action against the Arizona and New Mexico Rail- way Company, a corporation, for dam- ages in the sum of S4,0OG.00. Plain tiff alleging in his complaint that the decedent on or about the 29th day of December. 1917, received fatal injuries while employed by said corporation as a gasiline engineer at Brockman. New Mexico, and that said accident was due to the conditions of his en- ployment and that it was hazardous cccupation. Dave w. Ling is the at torney for the plaintiff.
 Perfecto Chaves, has filed a com plaint against his wife, Maria G. de Chavez, praying for a decree of di- vorce. plaintiff alleging in his com plaint that he intermarried with de- fendant on the 18th day of August, 1918, at Morenci, Arizona: that for more than year last past the defend ant has wilfully and without cause de- serted and abandoned him. and con- tinues to live separate and apart from him against his will and consent. C.. Hooker is the attorney for the plain tiff
 On Monday of this week Sotero de la Cruz was hailed before Judge Laine on a charge of misdemeanor, Lonpina Perez having filed a complaint against him for disturbing the peace and quiet of the neighborhood of Shan non Hill Upon the hearing it devel- oped that the defendant was former admirer of Lonpina and had lived with her for several years up until about a year ago, when he left the district and worked in the mines at Hurley Upon his return to Clifton, he endeavored to renew old ackualn- tances with such fervor that he arous- ed the ire of his former spouse to the extent that she complained against him and had him arrested. His story to the court was that he had no III feeling toward the complaining Wit ness and to prove it he was willing to be legally married to her, however, LOnpina could not be induced to en- ter such a transaction and insisted that he be placed in jail. The court however. upon the promise of Cruz that he would not mplest the fair lady in the future, gave him a suspended sentence of two months in the county jail and fine of S2O0.0O, and caution
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Next Monday being legal holiday, the civil and criminal trial calendars will be called on Tuesday morning of next week and all cases set for trial and all demurrers and motions will be called up for hearing. All attorneys having cases for the coming term should be present in court.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-11-04
". c. T. U. NOTICE

The next meeting Of The ". c. r
U. Uill be held Nov. 18th st the home
of Afs. c. v. Roook. ST.. At this time
viii be given, By delegates, reports
Of the %ist Annual Coavention Of the
COLORADO woman's Christian Temper
anes Union. Among the things mos.
dvelt upon throughout ths eatiFe con-
vention. was this. that vs must put
int office on Nov. End Irrespective
Of party) sheriffs. district attorneys
and county and district judges who
will appfehend and punish all violat-
ors Of the prohibition Law. And also,
we must elect . governor. state legis-
lators and members Of congress who
stand four-square for the 18th amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement.
set.
Now that the election il over, it
Is up to u people Of this wonderful
state of Colorado and the good old
county of Sedgwick to back our men
in these offices and help in every con-
ceiyable manner to ferret out violators
Of these laws. Let Us believe in and
have faith in our men, that they fail
US not.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-11-04

n U,jtsl 0essas 81 sohe1 na2isas
have ffsausnely settled 6isDstes b. AZ
bitsssion. and they viu esa4inss 70 Do
- n The future. S0eA settlement
he's bssn and will continue 70 BE- By
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iiancs With the finaiAgs e Q essxs Of
aFbis1stiea VII eeatiaus 70 - as II
has slvsys hsen. oependsat upon Tie
honor Of .ke nation from Which full
fillAaat y required Rejeetisa sf the
var breeding Wilsoaian League clears
The way for real promotioa of world
peace and world welfare.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-11-04
HARDING DEFEATS
GOV. V.COX BYLARGE
MAJORITY
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may turn out to be the greatest Re-
publican victory Of party history.
Both the Democratic candidate and his
chief managers conceded defeat before
enough returns actually were in to
show it in figures. With the election
went what President Wilson charac-
terized as solemn referendum" on
the League of Nations issue, and if it
may be said that the electorate re-
garded their votes as an expires sion
on that question, they registered
preference for Harding, who declared
for staying out" as against Cox, who
declared for "going in,' with land
slide which exceeded the expectations
of the most enthusiastic Republicans.
Everywhere the shift toward the Re
publican column was heavy. Many
states which sent to the Democratic
strength when Wilson defeated
Hughes in the sensational election Of
1916, returned to the Republican col
umn in Tuesdays balloting.
Boston, going Republican for the
second time in its history; New York
giving Harding an unheard- -of-plur-
ality and ratios of two-to-one in many
states, give indications of the proper
tions of the Republican slide which
apparently left the Democratic can
didate nothing except the tradition
ally solid south.
Wednesday morning. twenty-abur
hours after the national balloting be-
gan, it appeared that complete re-
turns from all districts would not be
in for another day. but the trend Of
these returns being reported gave no
indication of althering the situation.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-11-04

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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-11-04

Many poets have complained to rs
because newspapers d" not pay fOi
Poetry.
Really. We do not think that poets
should ask pay any more than some
ole should ask pay for sunshine. rain
the dew of the morning starlight or
che moon.
For, all that those things are to the
body. poetry is To the sonl. Poetry,
like virtue. should be- its own reward
Moreover. there Is an old maxim which
says Poets are born, not paid."-Los
Angeles Times.