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Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-27

THE AID BILL.-The plan of relief for the Southern Pacific, is briefly as follows: All the lands of the company to be sold by q commissioned appointed under the authority of the United States, and the proceeds placed in the Treasury to the credit Of the company, the Government to return the amount charged for transportation of the mails and other carrying service The Company ask the United States Co guarantee the interest on five per cent bond. The benefits that must accrue to the country, and more partic- ularly to the South, the fact that the Gov ornment k secured against loss, and the al- ready rapid progress of tue work, give every reason to hope that the measure will pass. In connection with the enterprise, the fol- lowing from the New Orleans Times, is inter csting: "The speedy completion of the Tex as Pacific Railroad is matter of the very first moment to large portion of the South ern people. That it will be the chosen route l of highly important commerce is unques- tionable. Running south of the snow belt, ! it will be equally available for safe and pleas ant travel in winter as in summer. These I facts are of national importance. The coun
 try to be opened up by this new Pacific road constitutes an important portion of our na
 tional domain, whether viewed in connection
 with its agricultural or mineral resources. 1 IPhiladelphia Press
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4 SCRAP OF TEXAS HISTORY.

The Dallas. (Texas) Herald of Christmas Day has the following article, which will be read with interest by Texans every where Aside from the holy associations of this day, it has pecailar significance to tue children and the people of Texas. Ihirty-one years ago. this day. was concluded the lass DattIe between the Repub- lie of Texas and the mother country, Mexico
 Commencing at the beginning of night on the day previous, about three hundred half naked, half starved and poorly armed Texans entered the town of hicr three miles beyond the Rio Grande, cutting their way through three thousand Mexi- cans, commanded by Gen Pedro Ampudia, an able officer. Through the night, and for nine teen consecutive hours, those three hundred Texans maintained their position, and killed more Aexlcaus than their entirs band mbered. They killed dead on the field three hundred and twenty seven Mexican soldiers, besides wOunding twice as many, while their own nnmber was less than three hundred. The annals Of war present few parallel cases. Bnt, their ammunition eX- hansted, they finally surrendered to nine times their own number. Such was the great battle of Miei, Christmas day, 1S42.
 Separated rom all their field officers, and be- ing marched contrary to the exploitation, to the City Of Mexico, these heroic men, two months later, rose upon their guard at lhe Hacienda Sa- lado, in the State of san Luis POtOsi, oyercame them, seized their arms and sought by noun thin route, 10 return to their own loved hand oi Texas. IL was too much. The whole interior of Mexico rose to prevent SO great q stain on their
 
 tongues swollen for want of water after some had pershed-were rccaptured and carried back tc Saiado
 Santa Anna, then President, instead of honor ing such herolsm, ordered General Neiia tc shoot them all. Mejia-nOble and brave Mexi can-reiuscd to execute the accurscd order, au1 wrote To Santa Anna, begging him to counter tnand it! santa Anna yielded, in far aS |, order the celebrated lottery of life by reauirin, that, blindfolded, tbe prisoners should draw iron jar each bean. Every tenth bean was black and the drawer thereof sas to be ssOt. Geuera heIiA hOnored be hls memory, indignantly rC fused to bo the medium of such cowardly sa, agery, and resigned his commission. The next ! command carried IL out.
 One hundred and ffty-three white and sever teen black beans were placed in an carthcn lar the one hundred and seventy remaining prisOnei were blindiOlded, and one at Q time they drew bean ii white, they lived. but sfill prisoner if black he was to be taken out and shot to deatl The cruel mandatO--cnOugh Of itself forever ( hamn he memory of Antonio Lopez de Sani Anna-Yas carried out Seventeen of those hl
Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-27

Our friend Mir William Matthews, of the rail road depot has received from Arizona the pres ent of pair of Apache lcggings and small as sortment of Aztec pottery The leggings tergni- nate In pointed-toe moccasins and the fragments Of pottery give evidence of remote civilized art. 1t will be recoHected that Captain James, who surveyed the Colorado Desert last year, gave some marvellous accounts about the abundance of this iragmentary pottery in the Desert. He said that if all tbe crockery in the United States were smashed and scattered over the Desert, it would not exceed the amount of broken delph he there saw Los Angeles Express.
 Arizona isn't much of desert, but it has more of this ancient crockery than any place of it's size in the world.
Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-27

ALFALFA HAY FOR MnCH Cows.-We are well satisfied that for milch cows alfalfa hay is more valuable than any other. It will make more milk and of better quality than any other kind of hay. In fact believe, and our belief is founded Epon actual experience in feeding, that cows will give more milk and make more butter or cheese
 when kept in the stable and fed on good alfalfa
 hay alone, than they will when running in the pasture and feeding on plenty of good native grass. We have fed cows on oat hay aud given them good slop of bran twice a day, and sure that with this feed they win not thrive well or give as much milk as when fed on alfalfa hay and no bran at all. The alfalfa hoSeyer, to secure these good quail ties, must he cut before in blossom, and must be
 cured without exposure 10 the sun, that all the
 nutriment will be retained n the stem and all the leaves be retained. lfnot cut until too ripe and
 then dried in the sun 1t becomes of but little more value as hay for any use than 60 much willow ! brush.--f Sacramento Record.
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Daniel Curran, Dsfeadau,,

against
 Daniel Curran, Defendant.
 Summons,
 Action brought in the Dis,ct Court o the Third Judi ca District and for the county of Marcnpa in the Terri tory uf Ahzoua.
 fhe Territory of Arizona sends greeting To Daniel Cur 
 Noa are hereby summoned and required appear u brought ngpnst you by the above nane1 plAuun 10 th. District Court of the hir Judicial District u and Tor county of Msroupa 10 the Territory of Anuoua and Inc complaint filed with the Ciers Of tls Court a PhsrniN in sad county copy uf which complaint ac- companies this snmmoas,) within twenty days tencusve uf day service aer the service uIn you of this H served in this county. bot served 0iii Of the county and wthn this district then within thirty dave, m all othef foriy days.
 And hereby notified that fl you fail to appear and complaint above required the plAtin will arply the for the relief demanded therein and costs and disbursIuent in this behalf expended. Given under ny hand and the seal ui the said Dis trci CsuTt, at PbHnS ,hs lyth day of December A D l-73 deca6tio C. CATE. Ci.rk
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N or ICE.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, Tbai the undersigned, claim and have this day located aEd taken possession Of for agricultural aed grazing prposs a tract of land described as fOilOws
 Commencing al ths stake which Is the norheas; of the claim and running south two mes thence wct oneeighth mile thence north two miles thence place of beginning including what is known Coaoho SpFngs the head Of COHcbo Greek, tributary oi the Little Colorado river. and situated the west of the wagon road leading from Camp Apache the Little Col oTado river, fayapai county, Anz0nA
 JESUS MARIA LUNA. July 25th ls7J.
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IT THE DININICT COIKT, IHIIID JUDICIAL l District.
 C. P. HEAD Co, Plaintiff
 
 CURTIS C. BEAN, Defendant
 By virtue of execution iSstsd of the District Court of the Thd Judicial District in and for Va, Apai County, Arizona Territory, the 2d day of February ls7i in the above entitled have levied upon all the gh, title and interest sf Cufus C. the fol- lowing described premises situated In Williamson Valley, 10 ait:
 of secun eighteen fr) and the fractional north halt co of inc northwest quarter ( of ntusteea (ls) in township seventeen 7) north of range number three O. wos; ci the tila and salt River nerdan containing hundred and sixty agd hundfsd;h Of land which shall expose for sale the law directs the COUrt House the of Prescott A. T.. ThursdAy tbe J,h day of March lr1i, ai l2 o'clock N. II. M. HERBERT SheriE. Prescott, A. T.. February l2, 1874. febl3ti
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NOT ICE.

KNOW ALI. MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That l. the uDiersgnsd claim and have this day located and takes possession Of tract of land for agricultural and grazing purposes, described follows:
 Commencing at this stake, which the southeast corner Of the claim and running west quarter mile Co stake theuce Borh and half miles a stake; thence fourth mile A stake south 10 rlaos of beginning, iBeiiing what Is known Mineral Sprngs situated about oty-tWO miles northeast of Camp Apache Yayapai county, Arizona Territory.
 TRASQUILINO LUNA. July 2p l51l noy22yl
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NOTICE.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That l. the undersigned, claim aud have this day located and taken possession o for agricultural and grazing purposes a traef E land described Ss follows;
 Commencing Si this stske which is In the sorhsSst of the claim and nnBing south mile to stake, tbuce Wesf one folrth mile Co stake thence north mile stake thence east to place of beginning, cluing what Is known Malpais Springs, about forty eight miles northeast from Camp Ap8ohs iu layafa county. Arizona. and the rcs leadR Rg from sad Camp Apache ,o New Mexico. MELQCIADEs LUNA. July 2Jth is7l
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NOT ICE.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That the undersigned, claim, and have hs day located and taken possession 0 for agricultural and grazing purposes n tract 0f land, sinIated as iOlovs
 Cohlmeoein a; tis stake which is he northeast Of the claim and running south two miles t0 a stake . thence eighth mile a stake thence north miles tO stake thence east to plse. Of beginning in cuding what ia known az The Lake Springs situated about mile southeast of CouchO Springs aBd wes, side Of the wagon rad going from Camp Apache to the little Colorado river, in YayaTa county Arizona
 ANTONIO JOSE LUNA Jsiy e, Is73.
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SUMMONS.

In the District COuri, Third Judicial District in ths County of Mrcoia, Territory of Arizona
 John Sinth, Plaintiff,
 against
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THO. E. BRAMLETTE

Ageu, Public Libmry Kentucky, and Manage, q. Concert. Public Library building Louisville, Ny II
 fehllwtI
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Executors Notice.

Estate of JOHN HENRY LOUIS WORKMAN, Deceassd. Notice is hereby given Co the creditors Of and all per having claims against the estate of John Henry Louis Wornah, deosased 10 present the the dersgnsd EKeenior. al Prescott Yavapa County, A. IT, within rnOutbs from the date of this notice the w be forever harsed; and all persons indebted t0 said esie hereby requested to make immediate paymsbt
 JOHN RAIBLE EHecutor. Prescott. January :, is3. ianIOtn3
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PRICE OF TICKETS

Whole tickets. e,O Halve. e.s; Ten,Ns or cad .. pou. s5 Eleven Whole Tickets tr s5oO 32i Tekss, s OOO; llJ N huio Tickets for e. OUO, 2g7 wh,l. cts hr si0ODO No discount on less than eslO urs N Tickets.
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TOTAL, l2.000 Gifts. all oaSh amounting to sl,5aN
 The concert and jis,nbuuon of gins xill t-s,',.. and uneguivocaliy take place on the day nas e,I whether Ail ths tickets sold not and tho s ' gifts all pad iH pnTUros to the number of tckes rs
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MISCELLANEOUS.
S1.5OO.OOOy
LIST or GIFTS.

Divided iu'o l2 OOo cash gins, will bo distrihu,.a among the ticket holders.
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SheriH'S Sale.

T. THE DISTRICT COURT. THIRD JUDICIAL
 l District
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July 25tA. IG1
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0he farmer.


Mr. jasper HazeG, Of Albany, n. ",
az experienced Apiarian, gives the follow
ing hints on the value Of bee-raising, and
on managing them
There are several reasons that present
themselves to my mind, why the farmers
should be the bee-kecpers, and the profits
from the flowers produced upon their farms
be theirs, as wen as the profits Of fields Of
grain and grass. The fields are theirs and
they are entitled to the products The
product Of honey may be secured with
much less expense and trouble in proper
ton to its value, than the other products
oftheir fields From 80 to 200 lbs. Of honey
may be secured annually, upon each hun
bred acre farm, on an average; worth from
SIG to s60-and require but an outlay of
$40 for several years; e. e.) the cost of
one hive and swarm Of bees.
| have a swarm placed in my hive in
1867, for which I paid IS, from which l
have taken in three years $50 lbs. of white
clover honey in boxes, and in the seven
reasons including its first year has ayerag-
ed more than 100 lbs. This, an ordinary
season, have taken from it l40 lbs, by
August 2d--of course all white honey
five divide the cost Of the hive and
swarm $50 into 1900 parts it win bring
the actual cost Of the honey at one cent
per pound. But this is my best hive, the
only ono from which have taken 200
lbs. Of honey in one season; my next best
gave me ia lbs. But it can hardly be
expected that farmers With only one or two
hives Of bees win seek to become expert in
the management Of bees and handle NOV
able comb frames, raise queens, &c, &c. !;
nor is Unnecessary The hive is construct
cd with either movable frames or bars. /
have used both The best hive of which
| here speak is made with bars and no
trouble, but to put on the surplus boxes
in their season and remove them when
filed.
lhave another hive from which l have
this season taken "a lbs. of surplus, all
white clover honey; from two colonies.
In A@ny fields | have no doubt, they
would have-Sone better, and in some not
as we'll This is an ordinary field.
Ps. If we consider few facts, the
product Of 200 lbs, surplus BY non
swarmer need not surprise US.
l. No surplus honey is stored by the
swarmer, as general rule, while the bees
are making preparation for swarming.
They cluster outside Of the hive in idle
ness
2. If aseeond swarm issues, eight or ten
days more are lost.
3. Sometimes third and even fourth
swarms issue.
4. All this time is improved by the
whole working force Of the whole colony
in the non-swarmer. The old colony and
all the new swarms are the product Of the
old queen, and all the brood in the first
swarm. With such a force instead Of
working in three or more hives, all opera
ting in one hive and its surplus boxes,
with no loss Of time in preparation for
swarming, think 200 lbs, and even more,
may be secured in surplus.
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SATURDAY NIoHr.

Placing ne lillia ha.a an IN 4 row.
Ready loi oatseh On De mNuoN. yon know
Nushlag wee faces aud lifile black 1sfs
Getting Them ready and N ,o N kissed
Putting them into clean garments and whlia
That d what Enoihe1s art doing ,o,nisnt
Spying ont holes IN The |iillc worn hose.
Laying By shoes that are vula through the toes
Looking DER garments 70 AIDED and thin-
Who nut mother knows when 10 hcsin{
Changing button o make slook right
That is what mothers are doing lo-nishk
Calling lho lille ones an round her ehAir,
Hearing them lisp forth their son evening prayer,
Telling thcna stories Of jesus Old
Who loves 10 gather the limbs % His fold;
Watching they listen with childish delight
That q what inothen are doing tonight
Creeping 70 soitly to take last peep.
Amer little ones an arc asleep;
Anxious 10 know 1.-THE children are warm
Trucking The blanket round each little firm;
Kissing each little iaco. rosy and bright
That IL what mothers are doing tonight
Knenling down gently beside the white bed,
Inwly and meckly she bows down her head
Praying a only mother can pray.
r0od guide and keep them nom going asirayr
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THoRNBURG & McGINNIS'S
LIME SPREADER,
rlTENTED rSfa.


HNH1S Machine has been thoroughly tested
Il and found TO broadcast Cur MASrREs
from well rotted BARN Yam MANuREs, Rs.
FrsR TAS BARK, CoNPosrs, &e., with perfect
cvenness and great rapidity.
Also, TO BRoADcAsr or DAM in the rows al
any distance apart desired, LIME, PLASTER,
AsnIs, SUPER PHosrHATEs, Nc, rita pertecI
erelincss, at rates from one bsshel 10 any de-
sired quantity per acre.
Orders are solicited, and will be filled al
fast as they can be manufactured in the order
Of tune IN which the orders are received.
An agent will deliver the Machine rs soor
as possible, and, on thorough trial BY the
purchaser in bis own way, and in all ways fol
the purposes il Is intended, and ifnot satisiac.
tory ia alfthings, no sale.
BY this system we hope TO place it in the
hands Of every intelligent farmer as rapidly
as they can be constructed, and hasten the
revolution that it is destined to work in the
Application Of Manures.
We hope, BY the policy Of No sale, unless
satisfactory after full trial, at least to engage
the attention Of calculating aud sensible
farmers. Address
L. IL. COLE.
Finksburg, Carroll county, Nd,
Agent for Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey
and Eastern Pennsylvania. sep ls-u
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Mr.. John johnson, now IN his eighty
third year, IS the great father Of under
draining in this country. He bad a rather
wet piece of ground at Geneva, New York,
and after reading what had been done in
England. determined to try for himself
ii this country. what good It would do.
There were no tiles made in America, 50
he had to send to Europe for them This
was in 1885 In 1898 he induced some
American to make them. In a recent
New York TEi5Hae, Mr., johnson gives
his latest opinions, derived from contina-
Gus observation. He says in regard to
The depth at which drains should be laid,
that there is no rule. They have to go
below the hard pan, however deep that
may be. He has no drains on his farm
but twoand-a half feet deep, and they act
just as wen as some would at four feet.
The range Is generally from two-and.a-half
to four feet
In understanding, it is tho practice to
make a main drain, somewhere where there
is a good fall, and then the lateral drains
are led into this one. There has been
some dispute as to how large the main
drains should be. For instance if there is
one main Of four inches in diameter and
and dozen smaller ones--say two inches
lead into it, people are apt toealculate that
there is the combined bores Of the dozen
-say twenty-four inches--to discharge
into the four inches, and are apt to argue
that this cannot operate but Mr.. johnson
has twenty-five Of these two-inch drains
running into one four-inch main, and he
finds that the water goes through just as
well as if the main were larger For a
time he could not understand this, bat at
last he found the pressure of so much wa
ter behind increased the velocity of the
water passing through the main. It made
up in velocity what the pipe was short Of
in bulk. This principle is well known to
everybody when once it is suggested, and
yet it is fact people are very liable to
forget when engaged in undertaking OPP
erations
As to what land it is profitable to under
drain, this is subject which, like tho
depth Of drains, depends altogether on cir.
cumstanees. If good farm land can be
had in the vicinity for say $50 per acre, it
is very doubtful whether it will pay to
spend $3.50 per acre in UNDERMINING it.
1t would be more profitable to sell the wet
land which needed draining, and buy othcl
lands that did not Again, where water
does not remain very near the surface, but
sinks soon after each rain ten feet or more
UNDERMINING viii add very little more Il
the value. There are many parts of the
country where water stands for months
but few feet from the surface, on account
of a solid clay deposit known as hard pan,
and in such cases it will pay, in all proba-
bility, to underdrain ones land Mr.
johnson made it pay handsomely. Many
have followed his example ipjudiciously,
and have had no benefits which compen.
safe for the capital involved. Insome eases
there is great bencft--atthe same time there
is no department of improved agriculture
that requires one to move so thoughtfully
as in understanding operations
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Remedy for Cut Worms.


John l. du Fief sends to the Sentinel,
publishedat Rockville. Montgomery county,
Nd, the following
sLast year / notice that the Country
Gentleman strongly recommended Copper
as as preventive against the cut worm (,
as the plan was simple and cheap, I de-
termined 70 try ii.
~ pounds Of pulv. coppeas dissolved
in water, applied to one bushel Of seed
corn ms follows Putseed corn in tub aud
cover with water for II hours, at same time
put copperas in water in ia separate vessel,
to dissolve After the corn remains in
water II hours draw off the water Som
the corn, and add sufficient water to the
dissolved eqpperas and pour over the seed
com and iet i remain in copperas solution
IL hours. Draw off copperas water, roll
the corn ia Plaster or Excelsior, and plant.
II carly IN the season, open burrows deep
and cover shallow Don't be alarmed at
the corn being aarkened by copperas-
with me Il did not injure the vitality Of
the corn. | planted two bushels prepared
in this way Il came up and grew regn-
larry. and not bill was touched BY the
worms, while on each side where did not
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steaming Fodder.

At the meeting Of the Massachusetts,
State Board of Agriculture, at Fitchburg,
Mr.. Bella ]. Stone, of Westboro', in stating
his system Of feeding, said ;-iI have al
ways had great desire to find some way
of preparing my coarse fodder so as to
make it more palatable to my cattle |
have watched Mr.. Birnie's operations at
Springfield for years, and have been at his
place time and again, and investigated his
method, and I have felt satisfied that he
was keeping fifty head Of cattle on less
fodder than was keeping twenty-five
head upon, and | made up my mind that
! would try the experiment / steamed
my food the last part of the last winter,
and | am pursuing the same course now,
and l am well satisfied with the results at
present, although some Of my friends have
told me that | should soon abandon it /;
that there are those all around us who have
tried It thoroughly and abandoned it, and
! should do the same; but l cannot now
say when that time viii come, for the lon
ger | do it the better | like it and appre-
ciate it, | remember that in conversation
with Mr.. Brine in regard to it, he in
formed me that he had been steamine the
food for his cattle nine years, and thought
more and more Of it every year
"Such an opinion from one who had
tried the experiment, strengthened my faith
and last season put in a tubular boiler OF
two-horse power, made a large box, mixed
my food as well as I could-as should to
feed good feed--wet it thoroughly with
water, put il into my box, attached Il to
the pipe from the boiler by coupling,
and steamed and cooked il thoroughly all
day, with as much pressure Of steam as the
box would bear. | found, by weighing my
coarse fodder straw and corn fodder, and
| weighing my meal, that could furnish
the raw material for forty head Of cattle
at cost Of less than four dollars day,
or about ten cents a head And l can
say this, that l never saw the cattle so
perfectly satisfied with what they eat. so
eontented, so ready to be shown at any