Arizona state miner., 1924-06-07
MINE ACCIDENTS CAN BE PRE-
VENTED

VEN 60
Tom C. Foster, Arizona's efficient
mine inspector, is a firm believer
that mine disasters can be prevented
and invites more rigid cooperation
with mine promoters to prevent such
accidents. Better regulations are
needed, which can only be enforced
by united efforts of those engaged
in the industry. In line with Inspec-
tor Fosters declaration we are now
directed to facts which show that
he is correct. In Belgium, says
Chief Engineer Rice of the Bureau
Of Mines, where mines are said to
be the most gas-infected in the world
there have been no explosions for
25 years due to better regulations"
Most promoters think little of hu-
man life. Cheaper production" is
their continual cry, without realiza-
ton that the employment of mex
perienced miners enlarges the cost.
Accidents would be less frequent if
experienced organized workers were
employed instead of foreign contract
laborers.
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Ward, the convicted negro in the
death cell at Florence, made des-
perate attempt to escape by enticing
two lady evangelists into his cell on
pretext of confession. While the wo-
men were on their knees in prayer
he stabbed them with an ice pick,
intending to hold them as ransom
for his life. Convicts came to res
cue of the women, however, and the
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The brute has recovered enough to
be hung on June 20th.
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NOTORIOUS MEMENTOS AT FLO
RENEE
In the death cell or execution room
at the Florence penitentiary our edi-
tor counted about a score of photos
of horrible murderers who had ex-
plated their crimes there. The pho
tographs of these notorious criminals
are neatly arranged inside the ar
tistic moose which broke their necks,
as a memento of their boasted car
eer. AS we looked upon their fiend-
ish faces we thought that these pic
lures also, with their notorious rec
ords, should have been placed with
the murderers' bodies in quicklime
and all vestige of their horrid selves
forever obliterated from the earth.
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All public officials are amenable to
the law for faithful performance of
theor acts and duties. Flagrant dis
regard of public duties, such as peri
Odical reports of business transactions
representing accrumentS and disburse-
ments of public moneys by public Of
ficials, is disrespect for law and the
courts. Refusal to make detailed
statements of their trust by public Of
ficials of State, county, and munich
pality at stated intervals is termed as
unseemly conduct and a fragrant dis
regard of duty with lack of proper
conception of the law. This author
ative Interpretation of the law is re-
produced here for benefit of Wicken-
burg's town council, who have not
heretofore shown the proper concep-
ton of their trust and duty to the
community which they represent, by
making detailed reports of their de-
alterations thru the local press, other
than an annual ambiguous budget
that is clear as mud to the average
citizen.
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In England six years ago, 8 miners
out of every 1000 were killed annu-
ally, and today, according to the Phil
adelphia Ledger, British mines are no
more dangerous than mills and fac
tories. In fact, their mines are five
times as safe as the streets of Lon
don. The total British mining acci-
dents are now only 21s deaths per
1000 in a year. This is scarcely half
the mining casualties in American
mines.
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The imitation Of realty values by
national real estate combines is only
natural seeing that jobbers of food
stuffs have long since hog-tied indus
try to their own price fixing methods.
Right in line with these same ideas,
now comes word of pew rents in
Washington and Philadelphia.
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While the unprecedented press Of
Arizona is prating about the low price
of copper being an excuse for cur
tailed production, comes U. S. re-
port showing Anaconda Copper Co.
made net profits of $8,767,814 last
year. Like other copper companies
the Anaconda may have produced
much of their copper way down in
Chile, where it's only SC pound.
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Democratic energy is still intact.
They elected Jacob Erickson Mayor