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The Kusko times., 1923-01-31
Marshall Section Very
 Quiet in a Mining Way

Marshall, Dec. 20.-There is very htele doing here at the present time, Tn a mining way. Willow creek is practically worked out, that is, the upper pact of the creok. The lower ground Is deep, and it will take some time to thoroughly prospect them. George Marsh is still holding his in- cerests, having done considerable work on the properties. Banker & Edgar are tstill working on Disappointment creek, George Pitcher is working on Elephant creek, Wick is working on Montezuma creek, Eugene Doherty is working on Buster crack, while Kru- ger and partners are operating in the Stnyahok. There is very little pros. pecting going CD.
 We hava been receiving The .Eusko Times quite regularly, almost from the start. Sometimes it has been several months in getting here, but, no matter now late, have always found something of interest ln it. 1t seems like getting leltterfrom ones home town, as the people here know or know of almost everyone in your neck of the woods and are. interested in knowing what they are doing.
 We2have mail service this winter by way of.Iditarod, so we should be able to get Ia pretty fair service be- tween here and McGrath and the big Outside.
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31

The branch store of the Northern .jop mercial Go. in Nenana was broken !nto on the night of December 29 and more than s2O0 stolen from the cash register. An entrance was effected through 8 window on~the very, dark side of the building,1and further pro- aeetion was afforded he~roboers. by s large pile of cord wood, which stood elose to. the building. It has been the practice of the management of the store to remove practically all of the money from the branch store each af- lernooD, but it appears that most of the money stolen was paid late in. the day and was left in the register, which fact would seem to have been known to the men who didsthe stealing. Either that or luck was with them, for ordi- narify there would have been little cash in the register.
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31
Ora Barnhardt Taken
 to the Akiak Hospital

Ora Barnhardt. well known old timer, with headquarters at Tuluwik- sak. who visited McGrath several weeka ago, is reported to be in an ex. tremely serious condition of health.
 MT. Barnhardt has been ill for some months, but was improving when here. A relapse occurred some days ago, fol- lowing which a couple of young natives started with the sufferer for the Gov ernment hospital at Akiak
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31

Recent arrivals from Mayo, says the Dawson News, report that the Tread well Yukon Company has struck a mar vicious body of ore, measuring twenty eight feet in width, running very high in values. The discovery is astonish- ing. It simply beats anything that Keno Hill, with all of it's surprises, has so far touched. The news of the strike caused much excitement, and it is un- derstood that the Treadwell Company will arrange to have a concentrating plant installed.
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31

result of a freight train encountering g stretch of glaciered track near Mile 90, about 20 miles south of Anchorage. Two engines were attached to the train, and the forward engine left the track when it hit the glacier and shot down the bank into the bay, causing the death of Brakeman Charles Odd, and badly scalding Engineer Smith and. fireman.
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31

A fatal accident occurred on the Seward-Anchorage division of the Alaska railroad few days ago as the
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31

Receiving and sending hours at the McGrath station are as follows:
 Week Days-10 &. n. and D. m. Sundays and holidays-9:45 s. m. and 4:30 D. m.
The Kusko times., 1923-01-31
Notice of Forfeiture.

To B. T. James, Ed McArdle and Charles Knell, your heirs, executors and assigns:
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20

Allan T. Bird, Anson Smith and
others now living still do some writ
ing. These men have helped to
make history as has Col. A. F. Banta
of Prescott, the real dean of Arizona
journalism. Were Col. Chas D. Pos
ton still living he would be a close
rival of Col. Banta.
H. B. Watson of the Wickenburg
State Miner, was an early bird along
with r. C. Brown of Tucson. Curt
w. Miller was editor and owner of
the Tempe News before Mr.. Spear
came to Arizona. He is still at it.
Most of these men we have mention
ed have been publishers as well as
editors. They have financed their
own ventures and are successful
newspaper men.-Phoenix Messenger.
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20
DEAN OF ARIZONA NEWSPAPER MEN?

cook, of Vallejo, and Swasey, of Red
ding.
l believe it was Ferguson, that was
owner of the old Fresno Expositor. /
met Mines of Prescott, about ten
years ago, at the Jonathan Clubs
jinks on New Years Eve in Los An
geles. He acted like regular kid
and was having the time of his life
l should imagine he is well off now,
because he was one of the few that
had set policy and stuck to it, and
has it yet
When my father passed away in
1905, we incorporated the old Dake
Agency, and l became the head and
my brother, who is ten years younger
than l, became the owners; however,
like some families, we had a split up
and divided the agency, and l took
over the Los Angeles offices and
made Mr. Johanet, who had been my
Los Angeles manager for years,
partner, and then opened offices here,
and now call it as per above heading,
while the old agency is still running
on it's past reputation, with my young
er brother in possession of it.
OLDEST ADV. MAN STILL IN HARNESS
AS you claim the deanship of Ari-
zona publishers, / also claim it as
now the oldest advertising man in
harness, having been in the game
Just forty years.
If you happen to ever run across an
old paper-any Arizona paper, be-
tween 1880 and 1884 l wish you would
send it to me, and if you do, register
it, so it will get in my hands. wish
ed l could get hold of a Phoenix
Gazette or Prescott Democrat, or
Tucson Citizen, or Star between 1880
and 1884. 1 would give them fine
place in my office in a wonderful
frame and hang it on the wall here.
Believe me, l have certainly enjoy
ed your letter, and for it l am giving
you all the news, that l can think of.
wished | could send you down a
page of ads for old time sake, but it's
awful hard to get business for week
lies, because the overhead is so high
and on profit. We have to deal with
the large city dailies, that charge
from zoe to $125 line.
Sending you that Levi Strauss &
Co. advertising, was an old timer. |
created that account about 1888 and
it's handled today by us through E.
J. Wood, who was associated with
me in the old agency when my faith
er, whom you casually inquired about,
conducted it in San Francisco.
Yours very truly,
E. S, DAKE.
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20
Retrospect of Early Day Journalism In
+ Arizona Recalled by an Old
Pioneer of the Craft.

& Co., at and on Clay street. What
a shop that was!
l remember Fay of Tombstone, also
Dunbar. When you say you found
ed the Selma Eenterprise in 1889, is
where l ought to have known your
nan1e, but in those days l kept the
books in the name of the owners;
but / made a change to the name of
the paper, because of the constant
changing of owners, whereas the
name of the paper never changed and
that's how | became familiar Papers
did not send bills, but wrote for
statement and that they would be in
San Francisco and we would have
statements ready and checks made
out; and believe me, they were fat
checks, because it might be one
years advertising, or maybe even
two years before they came to town
again, although as a rule the Ari-
zonans came to town once a year.
ANCIENT ADVERTISING METHODS
How the advertising business has
changed. 1t was rather a peddlers
business in the old days and hard to
get advertising. It's a science now,
and the agencies made it legitimate
business.
We used to handle lot of quack
doctors, and / presume you remem-
ber when you would get an electro
type all set up of DR.. Mintie, DR. Jor
dan, DR.. Spinney, DIR. Allen, DR.. Sal
field and Dr. Liebig. These were
the accounts and went to all papers,
And such prices, which was nothing
about $12 to $16 year for a four
inch electrotype in weekly papers, 1t
was that being an elctro all set up
and no typesetting, is what the pub
fishers bit at.
John P. Irish is still alive, but the
old Alta is no more | have no old
copy of Geo. P. Rowell's Directory.
The earthquake wiped out all those
things. This makes me think of
Honorable Hamilton, who got out that
book entitled Arizonas Resources
He used to be caller at the old office
Hamilton was quite a writer, and
wish l could get look at that book
again. He first got it out for the
government, and then revised it for
himself, and my father put in a lot
of advertising.
BOUGHT S. r. BULLETIN PRESS FOR
THE PRESCOTT ARIZONA DEMOCRAT
1t was in 1876 that my father e.
c. Dake, first went to Arizona
Prescott was then the capital He
went on the first train of the S. P.
that ever went to the Territory and
got off at Tucson and staged it to
Prescott. That must have been some
ride. Major G. P. Dake was then the
United States Marshall of Arizona,
0nO AO WoS my AdLAO1 COuO1A 11O
went there to look over some mining
property and when he came back,
Judge Tucker of the Arizona Democrat
asked him to get some San Francisco
advertising, which he did and was
how he started. My father was we'll
known here and he must have had
five to six pages of ads at one time
running in that paper. He owed
them so much money that he bought
the old San Francisco Bulletin press
and paid for itand sent it to Prescott
MILNEES HAS TIME OF HIS LIFE
l suppose you knew some of the old
Californians, like Swasey of the Red
ding Free Press; Mcpherson of Santa
Cruz Sentinel; Thompson, of Eureka
Standard; Raleigh Barcar of Vaca-
vile Reporter; Pennycook of Valley
Chronicle. OF these mentioned, they
have all passed away except Penny
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20
PHOENIX REPUBLICAN REVIEWS SOME
E. S, DAKE.

OLD TIME ARIZONA PUBLISHERS
H. B. Watson, editor and publisher
of the Wickenburg Miner, who has
been in the newspaper business in
the southwest for more than 40 years,
visited The Republican office last
night, exhibiting copy of the Ari-
zona Republican issued Friday, Febru-
ary 20, 1891.
The paper contained a story about
a flood which swept over Salt River
valley during the preceding night in
which many families were rendered
homeless and which was the cause of
much damage to property and crops.
The paper states that a railroad
bridge was washed out at Tempe
Mr.. Watson pointed out that the lit
tie four-page paper was obliged to re-
duce the Associated Press news in
order to make room for the flood
story. The danger of the flood may
be estimated by the fact that the
paper states that Marshal Blanken-
ship carried % persons to safety on
his back.
OF the many men mentioned by
Mr.. Watson, who were newspaper
publishers in Arizona in the early
COS, he said last night that only
three are still connected with Ari-
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20

most always been in the newspaper
game, when not directly associated in
mining, a fever he inOculated when
at Tombstone, which took him thru
almost every mining excitement on
the coast, in cluding the Klondyke,
Nome and even~Siberia. After rails
ing a family way up in Alaska, the
inclination to return to Arizona,
where in 1917, he became associated
with the Arizona Mining Journal
and later assumed publication of the
Yavapai Magazine at Prescott.
About five years ago he began pub
lication of the Arizona State Miner,
moving here from Randsburg, Cal. and
took up a homestead adjoining the
town limits, where he has built him
self home and considers that the
lure of gold camp excitements for 40
years has temporarily, at least, sub
sided. His three sons, 9, 13 and Is
years of age, besides going to school,
find time enough to help dad" get
the paper out every Saturday. The
history of his fight and victory
against an unrighteOus boycott sprung
upon him three years ago, has become
history all over the coast. Suffice it
to say, that in the appended articles
from prominent papers and members
of the press of Arizona and California,
will be found interesting data that
must appeal to the 'old timers" and
their descendants of the fraternity.
1t is with this view they are repro
duced, reflecting vibrant historical
memories:
FROM ANOTHER VETERAN PUBLISHER
The Phoenix Republican of last
Friday said: -. w. Spear is the dean
Of Arizona newspaper men" AS he
is away on a vacation, it is a fine
thing for the publication of which he
is editor to extend to him deserved
praise, but he will not approve of a.
false claim made in his behalf. Ma
jor George H. Kelly of the Douglas
Daily International, the state histor-
ian, is the dean of Arizona news
paper men and Billy" Spear himself
many times has said so-Prescott
Courier.
In the interest of accuracy the
Couriers point is we'll taken. There
are several men in Arizona who have
been in service longer than. Mr..
Spear. He came to Arizona in June.
1892, and took the place of city edit
or of the Republican The present
editor of The Messenger had held
that position from December 2, 1891
and taught Mr.. Spear the beer and
news route. Aside from two periods
on the Tucson Star and some work
on the Bisbee Review, Mr.. Spear has
been with the Republican ever since
his arrival in the state. He became
editor of the Republican some ten or
twelve years ago, the result of pro-
motion from the news ranks.
One thing may be said to the cred
1t OF Billy Spear, he has never tried
to own or run a newspaper. He con
ducts the columns of the Reptibli-
can to suit Dwight B. Heard, the
publisher. and does a good job of it.
HoNoRED, WORTHY JOURNALISTS
Major Geo. H. Kelly is much older
in service as is Jos. H. Hammil of
the Globe Record, having been with
A. H. Hackney on the Silver Belt in
the eighties Col. j. H. McClintock
helped his brother Charles McClint-
ock, on Phoenix newspaper we be-
lieve as far back as 1879 He is still
an active journalist.
But what is the use, they are all
honored, worthy and old enough to
be Oslerized.
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20

odu GIduCISCO SdI1L.s
Sept Is, 1923.
Mr.. II. B. Watson,
Wickenburg State Miner,
Wickenburg, Arizona.
Dear Mr.. Watson: / am glad that
wrote you the letter / did, because
of the reply of yours of the 14th
brought l certainly enjoyed every
word you wrote and l have read it
over many times. / had good
laugh over what you said about PIN
head Hughes" I knew him and met
him many times. 1t made me think
of a time when the old Star" would
not exchange papers with the "Citi-
zen." In those days the Royal Bak-
ing Powder and the Price Baking
Powder were fighting each other.
The account of the Price Baking
Powder of Chicago was being handl-
ed by us for the Arizona papers. In
one of the ads it said take a can of
Royal Baking Powder and put it in
the oven and get it warm and then
remove the top and smell the alum.
Well, to go on with the story, the
Star and Citizen" would not seven
exchange papers, and so the Citizen
came out one day and said put
copy of the Star" in sock and put
it in the oven and then remove the
sock and smell the star"
NEWS TO DEAN OF ADV. AGENTS
A good many things you have writ
ten is news to me. You are the first
one that could tell me anything, that
/ didn't think / knew. l have a scrap
book with lots of things about the
Dakes, and l am going to put your
letter in that famous book.
In those days, between 1878 and to
about 1888, my fathers office in the
old Merchants Exchange Building on
California street, was the headquart-
ers of all the Arizona publishers.
Their mail was addressed there and
was the meeting place, and so l met
personally all the old timers, as l
was then from 16 to 20 years of age.
That, or rather, those WE'RE THE
DAYS. Mr.. Dorington of the Yuma
Sentinel, Governor Purdy, Pinhead
Hughes, McClintock of the old Phoe-
nix Herald, McNiel of the Phoenix
Gazette, Martin of the then Arizona
Democrat and before him was Judge
Tucker, the original starter of the
Democrat at Prescott. Then there was
Marion of the Prescott Courier, and
Weed of the Arizona Enterprise of
Florence-and Sayre of the old Cliff
ton Clarion.
The above were yearly callers at
our office, and lot of others
l we'll remember Palmer of Palmer
& Rey you mention. Palmer had the
brains and Rey the coin also Painter
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20

Continued on third page.
Arizona state miner., 1923-10-20
DAKEJOHANET
Advertising Agency

San Francisco Calf,
Sept. Is, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
ALLRE EDGE T0 HEAR CIGAR RATES CASE
lntraState Charges On Freight Excessive, Traffic AssoCia-
 ton Claims
Of especial interest to wholesale

Of especial interest to wholesale grocerymen and jobbers of Birming- ham Is case involving reduction of approximately 50 per cent in the rates on cigars and cigarettes, be- tween points within the state when shipped in cupboard, fibreboard or strawboard containers, filed by the Birmingham Traffic. Association. It will be given a hearing before Special Examiner Alldredge of the Alabama public service commission at Btr- mingham Tuesday.
 It is claimed that an undue burden is placed upon trade in these com modtties between points within the state and that therefore, carriers are unduly preferring interstate com meree, because they are letting these goods enter the state at much lower rate than those which prevail within the state of Alabama.
 For instance though the distance from Atlanta, Ga. to Anniston, Ala bama, is 104 miles, the rate on these goods is only 73 cents per 100 pounds, while from Birmingham for dls- tance of 65 miles to points within the state the rate is s1.95. From Co., lumbia, Tenn, to Decatur, Ala, a dis tance of 75 miles, the rate is 65 cents per 100 pounds and from Birming- ham for a distance of S5 miles to points within the state the rate is $40. From Columbus Miss, to Coro- ma, Ala, distance of 6S miles, the rate is 73hc per 100 pounds, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
GE BALD CHAPMAN
 LOOKED FUR HERE.
Million Dollar Bandit" Be- lieVed Making Way To-
 ward New Orleans

Believing that Gerald Chapman. the million dollar bandit" who re- gently made sensational escape from an Athens, Ga., hospital, after having been wounded by officers In a pitched battle near that city, is making his way towards New Or leans, where he plans to catch a boat to some foreign port, Chief Deputy Sheriff H. s. Hill has begun an ex- tensive search. for him. The theory advanced to officers is that Chapman will be aided by friends of the un- derworld In large cities in the south while making his way towards the Mississippi.
 Chapman, who was given sen tence of 10 years in the. Atlanta fed eral prison, escaped about two months ago with a notorious forger but was captured after the battle near Athens. His attempt recently was his secNnd since his confine- ment in the penitentiaryq several months ago. Chapman was reported to have lain in a dangerous condi- tion in the basement of the Athens hospital several days while a na- tion-wioe search for him was in piogress, later being taken from there by two friends, who are at present under indictment in Georgia.
 With circulation of a report that Chapman was still in or near Att lanta last week, Jefferson county forces were organized to search for him. IC is believed that the aiiegea bandit will avoid large cities, but will visit the vicinity of them for food and money. Chief Hill said that more developments in the case could be expected today or Monday.
 Chapman was sentenced for al- legged participation in the hold-up of United States mail truck when nearly a million dollars in securities was stolen. The hold-up took place on q busy thoroughfare in downtown New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
Spot Where Columbus Married
 Visited By Dr. George Stuart

two strong men seize the ropes to hold and guide the sled, confidence of security and a feeling of sport comes on. The way these chaps take the toboggan down that three miles is a marvel to every rider. Both the men and the passengers yell at the sharp curves when it looks like the toboggan is going over some awful preipice It is a hilarious shoot the shoots" from start to finish Thirty or forty years descending at once with screams and laughter puts the The sleds are carried on the backs of men up the mountain.
 The sixth novelty of the island is the almost exclusive business of vine yard culture and manufacture of wine Every home on the sides of the mountain has a vineyard of some size. The unique little houses built of stone plastered and painted white are all embowered with grape vines Wine Is sold everywhere-in stores restaurants, hotels, shops, on .he streets, everywhere one turns he is offered a bottle of wine. Boys and women crippled and maimed all had wine to sell to the visitor. In the pub lie places which were occupied by the we'll behaved visitors very little signs of drunkenness were seen. l visited the jail and the back sections of the town and found the staggering drunkards and signs of rags, bleered eyes and poverty that made me think of the old days of the American saloon. 1 have never witnessed such signs of poverty and distress among old men and women even in the slums of New York or Chicago. l saw moro drunk natives fin one day than I see in a year in Birmingham. One of oug prominent church women said to me, Well, l took a glass of wine at dim ner just to taste the famous Mad eira wine. Did you try it?" I said, No" 'Didn't you have a curiously to know how it tastes?' she inquired l replied, No had no more curious ly to know how the wine tastes than how infected milk tastes.
 The eighth feature is the spot where Christopher Columbus was married and lived and where he re- ceived from a wrecked mariner the maps and charts that stirred his in- terest in the western continent that has so interested the rest of the world. The house had been replaced by a bank building but a tablet and the name of the short street iden- tlfies the spot.
 The people dress and look much like our Birmingham people Same kind of horses, mules, oxen, cows dogs, chickens, cats and all ordinary things IS in America; peaches. plums, pears, strawberries, grapes and or anges-wheat and barley. Irish pota- toes, cabbage, lettuce, beans, peas and all the garden products. The shrubbery is tropical, same as Miami, Florida, or Galveston, Texas-Mag- nolias, palms, hibiscus, poinsettas. the beautiful bougainvillach climbs the stone walls and blooms in rich profusion. The eucalyptus pine, oak and locust trees are in the parks and forests. The houses are all the same Rhinestone succeed and white. No front yards or verandas in the city Up on the ridges as in. Birmingham there is much ornament and extraYa- gantly beautiful flower beds, borders and bowers. We spent one day in Madeirand are off for Lisbon our next stop. GEORGE R. STUART.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
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 Women should heed such warning symptoms as bearing down pains and weakness, for they indicate some fe- male trouble, and a persistent and faithful use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will seldom fail to help.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
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