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Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
HOPE SAVES DAY AS FIRE HTS
 SANATOR|UM

The speed of Richard Hope an orderly at the Prescott Cottage Sanitarium, saved the day and the service-house Saturday, when a fire, supposed to have been caused by an over-heated stove. broke out on q the roof of the house.
 Hope was about 25O yards away from the service-house when he saw the flames. Dashing down the hill and across the yard, he climbed on to the roof of the building and i'll ten minutes had the fire out. All this was done before anyone else was aware of the fire
 The amateur fireman was. unin- jured, and the damage to the build ing was slight. Those who looked over the scene after the fire had been put out, however, say that il. 1t hadn't been for Hopes quick work, there might not have been any service-house left
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
CUT IS EFFECTED BY
 SUPERVISORS

Discussion before the board of su- pervisors yesterday al the regular meeting ran the gan(ut from letting contracts to liquor-selling. The sub ject of economy was also touched upon in its relationship to the needs of the county at this time
 Chairman Midgley consulted a number of advisors on matters of importance to the business in hand and also had a conference with H.. w. Lewis, member of the high way commission who happened to be in the city from Jerome. One of the things talked over was the flatten- ing of the rate of pay of all attaches of the elective offices, except that oi chief deputies, to SIS a month. This, according to the board, will be the base pay of all deputies and all stenographers, and to show its good faith, the board did not omit the pay of it's own stcnographer, Miss Helena 1 iMcEachran.
 1 A saving of $24,O00 a year is sought 10 be effected by the move and also the restricting of the num- Der of assistants to be allowed cer- tain of the offices.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
G|N CONTROL. BILL G|VE:N
 BY LAWMAKERS
By Associated Press>

1 PHOENlX. Jan. lZ - Governor Campbell's effort to bring cotton gins under state control took on added importance ill the legislature today. It was announced in the sen ate that an important meeting of the corporation committee would be held
 January 21 to consider the bill to iclassiTy cotton gins as public utilities iand that it would be a public meet 1 ing to which were invited all who might be interested, including three representatives of ginning interests and three representatives of cotton growers.
 In the house. Representative Nellie Bush, Of Yuma, introduced bill to- day to classify gins as public utili- ties. It differed from the original bill only ill that the emergency cause was attached.
 Question came mp in the house about the appointment of Fred Gard iner, negro, as janitor, and mem bers indulged in some debate regard ing political influence and the right to make appointments to minor leg islatiye positions. Nothing came to it.
 House bill No. IS by Phillips, of Maricopa. would amend paragraph llG0 of the code relating to the de scent of property Under the code it was explained, if a husband or wife. the owner of community prop erty. die leaving TO children, a part oT the share of the deceased's prop erty goes to other relatives in the order of the nearness of relationship. The amendment would leave the share to the surviving husband or wife This bill was introfnce ed to- day. ~
 Senator Curtin, of Mohave county, introduced a bill appropriating $780, eco for a bridge over the Colorado river at Pierce's ferry.
 House bill No. l6 was introduced by Representative McGrath. repeal ing paragraphs 45-4S inclusive of the civil code, describing disabilities for holding appointive office such as are imposed on members of the legisla ture.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Second Judge for Yavapai Endorsed
 by Bar Association; to Draft Bill

Recommendation that the Yavapai County Bar association enter the light to secure an additional superior judge for this county was the result of a favorable report on the project by a committee to the association in a meeting at the court house last night As a result, President How ard Cornick will today name com mittee of lawyers to draft bill to present to the legislature.
 That such bill must be passed in order to secure the judge. is con- ceded as Yavapai county has not the population named i'll the constitution to cause it automatically to be elig- ible for that distinction. However, it is regarded as possible, in the light of the importance of litigation in this county, to have the popula- ton fixed by statute for the purposes of the measure.
 A second important discussion at last nights meeting concerned the project to increase the safeguards to be thrown about the practice ofs the legal profession. Lawyers regarded the qualifications standard of the state as too low; they also felt that there should be some means of con trolling more closely matters of legal practice. A recommendation that a bill be submitted to the legis- lature to cover this point was re- ceived and discussed, but action was deferred until it could be learned what the American Bar association and the Amsrican Judicature society had been working out along these lines. The former is understood to have prepared. data on the question of uniform qualifications standards for all the states.
 It became known yesterday that J: H. Morgan, an attorney of this city, had prepared a bill to raise the qualifications of practice and age and the salaries of judges in the supreme and superior courts of Arizona. The bill will be handled in the legisla- ture by Representative A. H. Gale of this city chairman of the house judiciary committee
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
MAYER MEN IN JAIL. RESULT
 STLL-RUNT

The weekend did not pass with out a show Of activity on the part Of the sheriif's office still-hounds and as result, Fritz Mittendorf and Shotgun" Johnson of Mayer were lodged in the county jail under charges of having operated sti1l for other than legitimate purposes. A wash-boiler style Of still, showing plain evidences of an origin similar to that of copper previously arrested stills, was brought in along with Mittendorf and Johnson.
 In addition, the sheriff's office an nounced, there was taken a quantity of white mule of virulent charac- ter, or, as they put it, capable oi kicking a 200-pound man over thC court house.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
HARDING HAS
 TALK, PLANS
 INAUGURATION
CBy Associated Press)

MARION, Ohio. Jan. 17.-Final plans for the simple ceremony on the east portico of the capitol which will mark the inauguration of w. C.. Harding as president were virtually approved today at q conference be- tween the president-elect and Elliott Woods, superintendent of the capitol building and grounds.
 Mir. Woods came to tell Mir. Hard ing that the inaugural committee had acquiesced 10 his proposals that the east steps of the capital be made the scene of the event He also sought consent to a plan for the erection of a small platform on the steps from which the inaugural address will be delivered. The consent was given.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Marriage Slave Armenian Girls Pound in !. s.
CBy Associated Press)

FRESNO, Jan. 17.-The ar rest of seven Armenian girls and a prominent Armenian rancher of Lone Star, near here, reveal ed today, according to George w. Moore, United States inmi- grafton commissioner, plot by which Armenian girls are brought into the United States and sold to the highest bidder.
 The seven girls were charged by Moore with entering the United States illegally through false and misleading statements made at Ellis Island.
 Harootian Selvian, the rancher, also was charged with entering through false statements and with aiding in the illegal entry of the girls.
 Moore, who has been working cn the case several months, said in one case, a young Armenian inspected the girls held for sale and paid a deposit on one who pleased him. The commissioner said the case was typical of many in which the girls were made marriage slaves.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
CBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Jan. 17-Mrs. Cleo patra Hurtzman, B, who until two months. ago had spent her life milk ing cows, feeding chickens and help ing run farm near Wichita Falls, Texas, tonight was quoted by the police as confessing that she ,was the woman bandit who had played the leading part in so holdups in GO days.
 "A smile or a tear were my chief weapons" she was quoted as say ing. but I also carried a little pearl
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
cBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Infla- ton of credits and loans has been far less since the end of the war than is popularly supposed, Comp troller Williams of the currency de clared tonight in a statement analyz- ing the statements of the condition of national banks on November b as compared with March ], 1919, four months after the armiStice.
 Some of the criticism as to the alleged financial initiation is hardly justified" he said, in referring to the condition of national banks. The prudent management of most of our bankers has been healthy and re- straining influence to the orgy ot
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Mrs. Peete Denies Spanish
 Woman Statement; Defense

A Spanish woman may figure in the case but Mrs. Peete positively knows nothing Of her having been shot nor of her having shot Denton. We would like to see the prosecution try to prove Mrs. Peete made such a statement. Our defense is this: Mrs. Peete knows nothing of the killing. She knows nothing about this alleged statement She is abso- lutely innocent. We shall beat them on facts at every turn"
 It was charged by the prosecution that Mrs. Peete, who was either 9 housekeeper or a tenant at the Den ton residence, of which she is said to have declared she had been try ing to negotiate lease, had been ordered to leave and in a fit of rage had killed Denton.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
CUT ARMY'S ENLISTMENT STRENGTHTO BUT l 75 OOO
 Gl,- Associatad Prass)
MURPHY WAVES PRELIMINARY;
 IS HELD
Gy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. r. Con- gress voted today to limit the regu- lar army to I75,000 enlisted men. The senate, 41 to B, set aside its decision of last week to reduce the army to l50000 and then without a record vote adopted the original joint resolution of Senator New, re- pblican. oi Indiana, directing the sec retary of war to stop recruiting un- til the army is cut to l75,OO0.
 The house adopted 285 to 4 a joint resolution sponsored by Chairman Kahn of the military affairs com mittee also directing the secretary of war to cease enlistments until there are not more than l75,000 enlisted men. The two resolutions are al most identical
 Today's action was taken against the recommendation of war depart ment heads and General Pershing. Secretary Baker before the senate military committee, advised against an army of less than 25G,000 after the present necessity of. economy has been relieved" General Persh- ing declared an army of 100000 men constituted a safety. margin.
 Preliminary examination ill the case of Thomas Murphy, colored patient whose staying at Whippic Barracks on December 10 of George Edwards, another colored patient, was witnessed by a wardful of per sons, was waived by the defense. The defendant has been bound over to await the action of the next ses- sion of the federal court, to convene here the first Monday in March.
 Murphy, who has been held in the county jail since his arrest Decem- Der II, was to have appeared before Federal Commissioner Alex Jones last Wednesday, But after confer ring with federal authorities in Phoe- nix, Emmett Morrison, secured by the American Legion 10 act as coun- sel for Murphy, informed Commis- sioner Jones that the defense would waive the preliminary.
 There is some question at the county jail, Commissioner Jones said in regard to keeping Murphy witl the other prisoners. A uberculaI patient, some of the prisoners have expressed a wish that he be segre- gated.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
CBy Associated Pressl

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17--An out line of the defense of Mrs. Louise L. Peete, of Denver, whose trial on the charge of having murdered Jacob Charles Denton, wealthy Arizona mining promoter, will begin here Wednesday, was made public today by William T. Aggeler, acting public defender.
 MT. Aggeler repudiated a state ment attributed 10 Mrs. Peete by the prosecution that Denton was killed by a Spanish woman and a man friend of the latter after Den ton had shot the woman in the shoulder.
 Mrs. Peete knows nothing of this version" he said. Tn court, we shall disc1aim any knowledge of it
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Wise Bankers Able to Cut
 Extravaganza, Speculation

extravaganza and speculation which ragged during the IS months succeed ing the armistice."
 Loans and discounts of all national banks on March I, 19l9 he explain ed, plus government securities own ed but exclusive of bonds held to secure. circulation totaled $l2,694. .000,- coo as compared with $l3,749, ,926,000 on November Is. This was an in- crease in loans and discounts and United States securities of only $l,- 055,S76,0C0 or less than per cent.
 He added it should be taken into consideration that during that time the government sold $4.S00000,000 of Victory notes and bonds, the major ity through the national banks.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
LangdOn' s Russian
 Widow Kills Self
 Hearing He's Dead
G3y Associated Press)

VLADIVOSTOK. Jan. 7.-Lieu- tenant w. H. Langdon's wife, whom he married under the Russian com mon law, committed suicide by pis- toi shot when informed of his death
 He was shot by a Japanese sentry
 She was a widow or a Russian officer who had been killed by the bolsheviki.
 ~-~~~~~~-~---~-~-~~~>~ --~---~>--"~--~--~~~~~-~' proper share of this sum to be awarded himself for his part in the case.
 He cites the case of Lagenbach versus Wilcox, in which fee ot $2sO was collected but not divided; John Perpech against the United Verde, for $2OO; John Grenko against the United Verde for $l,O0O, and others A total of nearly $l.OOO is due him, the plaintiff claims.
 On another count, he recites the advancement by him of 5000 to a client and his claim for this sum plus interest Another portion of the complaint deals with the alleged partnership agreement entered into about June 8, 1919, which stipulated, according to the complaint, that ices should be divided 55-45, Leyhe talk ing the larger share. An exception was said to have been made in the case of personal injury business which was to be divided 50-50.
 The defendant kept the firms books, it is alleged, and did not make satisfactory accounting to the plaintiff.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
ROWAN
 MASTER MIND
 OF FP.O. BANDITS
lRy Assoclated Pressl

DALLAS, Texas. Jan l7-Within a few hours after charges had been filed against Albert L. Rowan, al legged to be the master mind" in connection with the holdup of sub postoifice station here Friday, R. Luna walked into the police station today and surrendered.
 He was accompanied by Lee Perk- inson, attorney, who also was with Rowan when the latter was arrested. Parkinson declared neither Rowan nor Luna was connected with thc hoid-up but that they surrendered following the circulauon of rumors that they were wanted.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Protest Ruling on
 Mine in Mexico
rRy Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON. Jan. l7-Further consideration of the claims of for eign stockholders that they were un- justly deprived of their rights in the Naica mine in Mexico by decision of the supreme court has been under taken by the government of Mexico, according to advices to the state 
 The decision was protested to the department by American sharehold- CTS and their protest was supple mented by that of British share holders.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Grand Duchess Body Recovered, Struggled
 Into the Holy Land
Ry Assoclated Pressl

LONDON, Jan. l7.-Bodies sup posed to be those of Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of the former czar and her maid, are aboard the British ship Devanha, which is due to reach Egypt late this week. Disinterred at Yekaterinburg, the bodies are said to have been smuggled through Per sia and thence to Shanghai They will be taken to the Holy Land ioi final internment.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19

handled revolver"
 Mrs. Hurtzman said she was mar ried to Kurt Hurtzman two months ago and then left the farm to come here with him. His health failed, he lost his job, became too fond of whiskey and then fell in with thieves" she said.
 We decided to become bandits. 1 acted as a lure Kurt and l would rent a room in fashionable district. When I met a prosperous-looking person l managed to force tear. told him I was lost and wanted to find certain address. When he ex-
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
Smile, Tear" a11d e Pearl
 Handled Gun Equip Girl
 Bandit oUith S1Ujft Record

'plained that it was only a few doors distant, smiled, and generally he would volunteer to accompany me When the number was reacheds either persuaded him to enter with me-or brought forth the pistol. In either case I took him into the room where Kurt took his money
 Tt was simple Sometimes we held up five or six persons a day It made me wonder why l spent g years on a farm, it was so easy"
 The Hurtzmans evaded arrest un- til four detectives waited for them at a room they had rented
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
SURPRISE AMBUSHERS
lBy Associated Pressl

DUBLIN, Jan. l7-A detachment of soldiers from the Essex regiment, says an announcement from general headquarters today, surprised a party of men preparing an ambush at Tim uleague.
 There was an exchange of shots and 25 civilians were taken.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
ATTORNEYS GO ID LAW OVER A
 PARTNERSHIP

Attorneys wil watch with interest the litigation filed in the superior court here yesterday, looking to the dissolution of the partnership of iLeyhe X Burch Of Phoenix and set ting up certain claims to financial benefits by Waiter M Burch, the plaintiff, against Albert D. Leyhe, the defendant
 A lack of systematic accounting on the part of Leyhe IS alleged in the complaint which was signed by John A. Ellis. acting i'll behalf of the plaintiff.
 1 Leyhe & Burch have been estab- lished in Phoenix for some time and are said to have worked up con- siderable practice in personal injury cases. It is thought the case may have had some basis in the recent action of two Prescott attorneys and l Burch and Norton of Jerome, against Leyhe in the matter of the satisfac- ton of judgment in the Delmer Riley case, wherein it was set forth that Leyhe had settled the case with out consent of Riley and had not accounted for the ices.
 Leyhe, who was in the city yes terday, was served with summons at the desk of the clerk of the court. Later he said he would file an ans wer to the suit that would present his side of the case.
 Many Claims Set Up
 The complaint is a lengthy one and purports to recite considerable portion of the firms business. In stances are given where, it is ah legged, business was conducted by the firm and no moneys paid to the junior partner.
 Burch mentions a number of judg- ments out of which fees were to have been paid. and tells how they were disposed of. He said he was recorded as an attorney in the case of Vernon Ayers against the Arizona Egyptian Cotton company. that judg- ment was secured for $4,000, that Leyhe collected Sl,40O as fees, paid about S400 of it to Jesse C. Wan slee. an attorney, and banked the remaining thousand in his wife's name. Burch considers $333.33 as a
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
REOPEN BIG FACTORY
CBy Assoclated Pressl

PITTSBURG. Jan. F. Twenty mills, one-half of the productive ca pacity of the McKeesport Tin Plate company, resumed today after being idle since December g.
 Sixteen hundred men returned at the old wage rate.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
CUT SILK WORKERS WAGES
CRY Associated Pressl

HOLYOKE. Mass, Jan. 17-Wagc cuts ranging from 12I1 to Is per cent were announced by William Skinner & Sons silk mills here to- day. These are the largest silk mills in this part of the country.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
BOMB TAXI COMPANY
CBy Associated Press)

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.-One man is dead, a second is dying and six others were hurt by bomb ex- plosion tonight at headquarters of the Quaker City Taxicab company. Chauffeurs of the company have been on strike Bombs were placed in two cars about 10 days ago and several cars have been stolen and wrecked
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
eo,OoO IDLE IN CHICAGO
(By Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan 17-A survey of Chicago industries made public to- day by the department of labor, placed the number of idle here at o0,000. Previous unofficial estimates had indicated there were 100000 without work in the city.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
COTTON MARKET
CBy Associated Press)

VDy <AasUCIdIeU IIts5J NEW YORK, Jan. l7-Cotton closed very steady at a net advance of to B points.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
.GONPE.RS ON. .TOP OF THE HEAP AZ TER
 HOT DEBATE
CBy Associated Pressl

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17.-Open threats of a bolt from the Pan- American Federation of Labor con ference by the Spanish-speaking dele gates came today after a stormy morning session, the possible defec- ton hinging on the delay of Samuel Gompers in directing message to President Wilson concerning the American occupation of Santo Do- mingo.
 Mr. Gompers was asked by the delegates 10 answer a question whether telegram protesting against the occupation and demand ing evacuation of the island had been sent in accordance with the resolution approved by the labor congress Friday Mir Gomper's re- ply that he desired to modify the text as the American government had declared itself in favor of evacu- ation. started heated argument in which the Latin-American policy of the United States was bitterly criti- cized by the Dominican, Salyadorean and Mexican delegates.
 Senor Solana, of Salvador, declared that his delegation would abandon the congress unless Mir Gompers immediately sent the telegram. The Dominican and Colombian delega- tions asserted later that they would act' likewise.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-01-19
But Sam Won Out

Although the trouble originated with the technical refusal of Comp Iers to abide in detail with the reso- lution passed unanimously. it is said behind it lies an effort by the Spanish-speaLing delegates to test their strength against the Americans.
 Talk of busting Mir. Gompers as president of the Pan-American ied- eration was prevalent among the Spanish delegates but the busting did not materialize. On the contrary Mir. Gompers later was reelected presi- dent and the delegates all remained in the assembly.