Arizona state miner., 1924-04-19

Looks like the presidential election
will go to an electoral college this
year and deadlock between the DEM
ocrats and Republicans may force the
selection of a president.
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Both Heard and Maddox are slated
by Arizona republicans for nominees
to be governor of Arizona. If either
one are nominated, Amos Belts, who
has announced his candidacy, can
take care of the situation; but should
Campbell or any other man stronger
than Maddox or Heard loom up, Gov.
walk all over him.
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The number of people who use the
National Forest Reserves is increas-
ing yearly, but few of them realize
that 1850 fires have been started by
them in the National Forests of New
Mexico during 1923. Lightning also
started 2420 additional fires.
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The American Legion meets this
year at Yuma May s, 8, and TO- 1t
is hoped they will do something else
besides endorse the Colorado pact,
which has been turned down by the
people of Arizona and the 9Th legis-
lature of this State. If the State
builds its own dam Americans will
get the employment it furnishes. II
corporations build it, foreigners will
get the work.
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If anybody beyond the town limits
of Wickenburg hears that there is
such place it's 1O-to-1 shot that
it will be thru your home paper.
When your town paper is dead very
few have a good word to say for
the burg. which is usually quoted with
unfeigned sneers by outside publica-
tions of Prescott and Phoenix. Tho
old-fashioned and quaint it is unde-
filed and ever ready to help place
Wickenburg in the sun.
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Arizona Elks are in the market
for sanitarium. Where are our So
called thrifty wiseacres who will pro-
pose Wickenburg as the place of all
others for such building. Are you
awake, you wicked burgers! Climb
into your autos and visit Phoenix
with the proper spirit and guaran.
tees and you'll be doing something.
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Kyrle K Bowsher, now with the
highway department near here, is
out for constable of Phoenix West
Precinct. He was former partner
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State Miner. Like all of us, he has
his failings. but you don't have to
use crowbar on Doc, as he is IA
miliarly known, to get him to jar
loose He has a record in France
with the 144th artillery in Battery
B, and has had experience as a con-
stable, Justice of the Peace, post
Office and drug clerk in civil life He
amt much on side whiskers and dia-
monds, but he's one in the rough
that's all.
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Many criticisms have been heard
of Governor Hunts swift changes in
the highway department Truth is,
the governor has got wise to what
the legislative committee has de-
clared to be fraud on a grand scale.
The report covers five years preced-
ing Dec. 81. 1922. and declared that
a total of $11.823,574.92 was spent,
and it cost $156,877.38 for bookkeep-
ing. Books and records of past 18
months have been destroyed as If
in protection of past criminal con-
duct in the engineer's department
and bank accountant.
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Sinking" and "let George do
it" never will make a city of Wick
enburg 1t wants workers who will
step up and say: "Let me help
When the workers lay down, the
drones step in and progress and pros
perity go into seclusion.
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Margaret Cody is some socialist
She said that advertising might be
good for some, but the world would
beat a path to the hall that genius
had hired" Then she hired the
Odeon theatre for $3.50 and there
wasn't enough box Office receipts to
pay the electric light bill.
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RECALLS MURDER MYSTERY
The finding of John j. knights
handbag under a palo verde bush II
miles from Buckeye has again re
called the most dastardly murder
that occurred on the Arizona Bandit
Road in July, 1921. It has been pos
itively identified as the property o.
the murdered man, whose burned
bones were also found two years ago
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Newspapers are the best advertise
ments a city has in the outside
world. Other cities judge a town
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