Arizona state miner., 1924-05-17


Prof. Butler hunch and come out
squarely against the Volstead act. the
18th amendment, and liquor law en-
forcement If they do that, nothing
can stop the Grand Oil Party in New
York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Wis
consin, Missouri, and the New England
states.
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I'VE are the tools and vassals of
rich men behind the scenes. We are
the jumping jacks; they pull the
strings and we dance. Our talents,
our possibilities and our lives are all
the property of other men, We are
intellectual prostitutes. John Sven
ton, one of Americas Oldest and most
popular journalists.
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1t is creditably reported from PhOe-
nix that a small bunch of spectators
there, without the actual use of any
considerable amount of cash, contrac-
ted for 10000 boxes of oranges at
So and $3.50 box, resold for $8 and
SO, and cleaned up $125,0O0 in six
days.-Silver Belt
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Loose cattle are barred on state
highways as a precautionary meas
ureure. This edict by the orders of
the governor and state livestock board
does not seem to be enforced on the
new highway between Wickenburg
and Hot Springs Junction.
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The State Supreme Court has just
decided in the case of Grant Bros.
VS.. Citizens Bank of Bisbee that debt
ors to bank which has busted"
have a right to offset their notes
or obligations with the deposits they
! had in the bank when it closed.
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E. L. Pratt and wife published
weekly about like the State Miner
at Benson Business men of Benson
forced them. for years to hustle the
expense of the Benson News from
outside sources. Result, they got
tired, quit and went away Now
they have chain of weeklies in Cal
ifornia and have demonstrated that
they are bound to succeed, while
Benson people are just awakening to
what they've missed. The moral of
this is that town which neglects it's
home paper never can forge ahead
and forever remains always a little
place where people never stay.
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Discontinuance on May 1st of two
Arizona Eastern trains that provide
daylight service between Phoenix and
Los Angeles was granted by the cor
pOratiOn commission, Purchase Of
the Tidewater road by the Ell PasO
and Southwestern ten days ago will
now be interpreted to mean regular
Rock Island thru train line service
over the Santa Fe tracks thru Phoe-
nix and Wickenburg to Los Angeles
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Editor of the Yuma Sun suggests
that the Italian strong woman who
lifted an elephant in New York re-
Gently ought to be employed to lift
the Grand Oil Party's elephant out
of the oil where it is being sub
merged.
Another rat in ratification is the
determined effort being made to ac-
,quire the Bright Angel Trail at Grand
Canyon for the Harvey interests.
This is proposed by bill for the
government to buy out all claimants
by an appropriation of ,000-and
then pass 1t over to a commission
framed to control all concessions and
privileges in national parks and for
est reserves.
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A bill which would turn over to
group of individuals whose identity
is obscured by a strange curtain of
mystery almost all the vast wealth of
Alaska for private exploitation is now
pending in the public lands committee !
of the house of representative in
Washington.
So imm ense are the riches that /
would by this bill be presented to pri-
vate interests that government offic-
ials don't even try to estimate it.
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Jim Chopped, sheriff of Yuma county |
and Deputy McGee, report the capture
pf two bootleggers at Swansea re-
Gently named Rodriguez and GonzaIej |
Both have been operating in the Swan
sea region for a long timfe.
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The outgrowth of an attempt by |
Judge Abbey of the Superior Court of |
Pinal county to punish Editor Spear |
for contempt, as a retaliation because |
he editorially in the Phoenix Republi- |
can commented upon the judges un-
popular sentence of F. G. Hutchinson
for the murder of his wife. is a peti- !
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