Buckeye Valley News, 1912-08-15

REFERENDUM INVOKED The El Paso & Southwestern rail railroad. - road. railroad. represented by W. A. Hawkins general attorney for the system, and the Rudolph lines in Arizona, repre represented - sented represented by J. Gibson Taylor, Monday, filed in the office of the secretary of state referendum petitions against six of the measures effecting railroads passed by the recent Arizona legis legislature. - lature. legislature. The arguments in favor of the defeat of the bills will be filed after the official announcement of the filing of the referendum petitions is made at the secretaries offiice. The bills against which the referendum is sought are the three-cent fair bill, the full crew law, the employese qualifica qualification - tion qualification law, the law limiting the number of oars to constitute a train, the bill providing for the use of electric head headlights - lights headlights on all locomotives used on the railroads within the state, and the semi-monthly pay day bill. With one or two exception the ref referendum - erendum referendum petition contained upward of 4700 names, which were obtained in a little more than a weeks circula circulation. - tion. circulation. Those which did not receive the maximum of signers were not circu circulated - lated circulated in the northern portion of the state. These two bills, the semi semimonthly - monthly semimonthly pay day bill and the full crew bill, are signed by only voters in the southern and middle counties. In all probability all of these bills will receive the approval of the voters but some of them are the biggest fool pieces of legislation every enacted into law. o It has been definately announced that Col. Roosevelt will make three speeches in Arizona during the later part of September, one of them in Phoenix. The exact date to be an announced - nounced announced later. - o- I know a man who is always talking about tainted money, but he lets no opportunity slip by to grab a dollar any old way he can get it. He says he has a method of removing the taint.

Winter Market Looks Good For the past four or five days the agents of the Arizona Producers Com Commany - many Commany of Phoenix have been working assiduously obtaining promises from the farmers in that vicinity to put in a certain acreage of lettuce, onions, cabbage and cauliflower for the winter market. The average yield of all this except lettuce is about seven tons to the acre of the market product. Let Lettuce - tuce Lettuce will average a car load to the acre. With the verity of lettuce that can be grown in this section, the New York bead lettuce, weighing in many instances three pounds to the head, and with the prevailing price of twen twenty-five - ty-five twenty-five cents per dozen, which is about what the estimated market value is to be, there is a great deal of money to be made in lettuce in this section. Already some fifty acres of lettuce has been promised for this winter, with more to come. The onion and cabbage patches already promised will total some ninety five acres, of which thirty acres or so are in the Chandler dis district. - trict. district. Six 'or eight farmers have promised to put in cauliflower already and many more are expected to sign up before the first of September. In addition to the winter there are early spring verities of vegetables, such as asparagus, which can be grovn here better than elsewhere, and which brings an especially good price in the eastern markets. The Arizona Producers' company seeks to find the ready market for the produce of the farmers and to persuade them to grow those varieties of produce which will give them the biggest returns. We see no reason why the farmers of the Buckeye Valley do not make an effort to get in on this proposition. The work is profitable and comes at a time of year when there is littfe else to do and the weather conditions are favor favorable - able favorable for working.

I once had a lady friend who gave me her photograph without saying, "It isn't a bit good." o The Pacific Gas and Electric Com Company - pany Company of Phoenix has changed hands. This does not mean a reduction in rates however. Yuma is elated over the prospect of a million dollar sugar factary. Yuma raised a few beets thia year and did exceptionally well, the sugar contained in the beets run over nineteen per cent. o When I am out wandering around town and mixing with the brethern I run accross a thousand good texts for sermons, but when I get ready to pre prepare - pare prepare the discourse I can't think of a blamed thing to say. o I once knew a man who let his wife go visiting to her folks. The first week she was there he took the home paper and cut out a piece and sent the paper to her. She wondered and wondered and wondered. The next week he did the same thing. She at once packed her telescope and hurried home. He told her it was only a joke, and he smiled behind her back for a week. o The twenty-two year old son of Supertinendent Hughes of the Clara Consolidated Mines of Swansea, fell down a shaft at that place recently and was instantly killed. The young man was employed as a sampler, and had laid down to rest in the shade of timb timbers - ers timbers over the shaft and fell asleep. It is supposed that he rolled over in his sleep with the result that he was pre precipitaled - cipitaled precipitaled to the bottom of the shaft, a depth of 128 feet. This is an age of rapid progress. Even the young men who have owned automobiles but a few weeks are get getting - ting getting so that they can run them with one hand when the occassion arrises, o Every community has a man or two of whom the neighbors say: "If it wasn't for his wife he would starve to death,"

|| Local News J. H. Tracy spent the greater part of the week in Phoenix. o . , , H. W. Davis of Palo Verde was in Buckeye on business to-day. o Riley Johnstone was a Phoenix visitor Monday and Tuesday. o The next regular dance will not be held until Friday night August 30th. o Choir practice at the Christian church every Friday evening. Every body welcome. o John B. Hayes returned Saturday from a trip to Dos Angeles, San Diego and other coast points. Mrs. Wiley and children are down from Phoenix this week visiting Miss Williamson on the homestead. Mrs. H. M. Watson departed yester yesterday - day yesterday for San Antone, Texas, on an ex extended - tended extended visit with her parents. o Mrs. Ralph Brimhall of Mesa is visiting for a week with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stow. Mrs. Brimhall is a niece of Mrs. Stow. A letter from W. D. Baxter, an announces - nounces announces that he is in McFall. Mis Missouri - souri Missouri and asks to have the News sent to him there. o ; Chas. Wishmire has resigned as zanjero of the upper end of the canal and Wm. Grantham has been appoint appointed - ed appointed in his stead. Geo. Pilchard was down from Phoenix yesterday with a bunch of traveling men. They visited all the towns in the Valley. As will be observed by glancing over the weather report, the past week has been an ideal one. The temper tempertature - tature tempertature averaged four degrees lower than for the corresponding week last year. o Have your final proof notices pub published - lished published in the News. When you make application at the Land Office to make proof make a request that the notice of publication be sent to the Buckeye Valley News.

o R. J. Hadsell went to Phoenix last week and purchased in the neighbor neighborhood - hood neighborhood of twenty lots out near the Indi Indian - an Indian school, and will build a house on them and move his family up in a few weeks. We are sorry to loose the Hadsells from our community, but wish them success wherever they go. The "Measuring Social" given by the members of the Christian church last Thursday evening was a success financially, socially and otherwise. A fine program had been prepared and this together with plenty of good things to eat, held the crowd until a late hour. o Bill Tremaine and son, Dan Hos Hosmer - mer Hosmer the motorcycle policeman and Robert Turnbull the photographer passed through Buckeye last night on their way home from Los Angeles. Mr. Tremane informs us that he would in all probablity enter the big race again this fall. He reports the road between here and Lqs Angeles in very poor condition. The Hickory Corner's District School will hold a spelling match at the Baptist church next Tuesday night Aug. 20th. A grand prize and a booby prize will be given the best and poorest spellers respectively. A short programe will be rendered and light refreshments served. Let every one come for a good time. Admission 25c. There will be both Sunday School and Endeavor at the usual hours next Sunday at the Christian church. Sunday School at the 10:45 a. m , and Endeaverat 8:00 p. m. Only two more Sundays for the reds and blues to even up in the Sunday School ralley. It will be wise for the blues to remember that the reds now stand six ahead, and they should get in and work accordingly.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS An epidemic of infantile paralysis is prevalent in Los Angeles and a few of the oities contiguous to the south southern - ern southern metropolis. Riverside admits having thi ee cases, and Pomona is re reported - ported reported to have two. A few cases are also reported at several of the beach towns. Many Arizonans who are summer summering - ing summering on the coast with there families have become alarmed and are making haste to return to the pure, dry air of this state, where the disease is un unknown. - known. unknown. A number of Arizona people are still in the city with there child children, - ren, children, but they expect to either return home at once or go to some nearby mountain resort and spend the re remainder - mainder remainder of the summer. Over 200 cases are reported in the city of Los Angeles, All childern un under - der under 15 years of age are not premitted to go out in public. They are barred from attending picture shows, or as assembling - sembling assembling together in any manner. Infantile paralysis is probably the most terrible disease that can attack a child. There is said to be no recov recovery, - ery, recovery, and those who survive are said to be vi orthless in mind and body, after enduring ths illness. There is no speceflc known to the medical world which to any extent combats the dis disease. - ease. disease. Children under 15 years of age are most susceptible to it. Just now the germ travels, for it is a germ dis disease, - ease, disease, is Unknown.

R. H. Fields and W. K. Blackmer, two prominent ranchers and dairymen of Liberty have just completed ar arrangments - rangments arrangments for instaling a milking machine on their respective ranches and engage more extensively in the dairy business. They have placed an order for two B. L. K. milking ma machines - chines machines which will be installed immed immedately - ately immedately upon their arrival. Messrs Fields and Blackmer are convinced that there is more money to be made in the dairy business in the Buckeye Valley than from any other class of farming, the only draw drawback - back drawback heretofore has been the im immence - mence immence amount of work connected with the milking of a large number of cows by hand, but with this drudgery eliminated, the dairy busi-

Weather Report Weather report for the past week and the corosponding week for last yeai as furnished by H. E. Kell local weather observer: JULY 1911 1912 date Max. Min. Max. Min. 8 110 72 110 70 9 105 78 105 78 10 102 72 107 78 H 105 69 103 75 12 105 69 99 75 13 107 72 92 70 14 109 77 100 72 0 - Some girls become old maids from choice, some because they can't help it and some because they don't care to hook up with any one of the six or eight worthless dubs who wanted them. - o - Too many fellows make a gum shoe campaign when they start out to look for work. ' - A grasshopper can jump two hun hundred - dred hundred times its own length, but that just about equals the ratio at which some men outstrip their bank account.