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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
A Woman Historian.

A few evenings since Says a New York correspOndent) spent a pleasant hour in the eozy little study of Mrs. MarthaJ. Lamb. It was ID this little eyre overlooking the vast metropolis that this faithful, persevering. DlOdding woman labored for twelve years over her recently completed history of New York, which has So justly won for her a position among the historians of our country. The room itself IS indicative of the methodical historian; every available inch of the four walls, from floor to ceiling, Is utilized, with shelves for books. There were books to the front of you, books beyond you, books to the right of you. and books to the left of you. Save for the dainty bits of artistic decoration here and there, the eye would become weary of such a vast sea of books. One little space was left over the writing desk for a fine paintiu 2 in oil of the lady herself at work m this same little study. The portrait was painted by Mrs. Fassett. of Washington. aud presented by some Of her apprec- Iative friends. Mrs Lambs article on Wall Street ID History" tah es us back two centuries ana half to find tits site picturesque tangle of underbrush, wild grapevine. animated with untrain- ed bears of shining pltch-black color. hungry wolves, nOlsy wildcats, and sly raccoOns." Who will undertake to deny that the characteristics of the animated life of that era differ greatly fIom those of the denizens of Wall street to-day: The theory of transmIgratiOn of souls may be followed out here. Bulls and bears still abound with only the body transformed. Wildcat yells frequently break upon the startled air, and each and every frequenter seems possessed Of the ferociOus hunger of the wolves, and each straIns to ontdO the other with the sly cunning of the raccOOn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

California Steam Navigation Com pany boat yesterday began connection with San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada.
 Railroad running between Brooks and Wallace via Lodi, etc. The movement is owing to increased railroad business and J. B. Harris, late superintendent Of construction of the Oregon and Cali fornia railroad construction under San ford Crocker and Huntington con.bina- tiOn.
 PORTLAND, Oregon, June l9.- Governor Newell granted a re- spite until October 2S for E. M. Glaniue. Italian, sentenced to be hanged June 29 for the murder of Georgio Ric- co ar Cape Horn last winter. Many citizens of Vancouver claim the prisoner is insane and the Governor decides that a commission examine him, hence he granted the necessary respite.
 PORTLAND, Or, June l9.-Ths traffic department of the Northern Pacific re- ceived a telegram to-day that the com pauy commenced receiving and billing freight today through from St. Paul to Helena, Montana. The track is finished today from the eastern end to point eleven miles west of Helena and on western end to a point within ten miles west of Missoula, leaving gap ten miles
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

IHE annual corn crop review of re- liable Chicago grain firm was given to iar public a few days ago. The review comprises reports from nearly one thous- ani points iu the leading corn States, md cives a comprehensive review of the clru situation. The State of Kansas promises the largest increase in yield. kausas produced lu lSS2 l57OG.O0 million bushels. of corn. This year it is rstimateG the estimate being based up9n the known increase of the acreage and general outlook-that the produc- ton will fall but little below 200,W0,OO0 bushels. Missouri will increase her pro- dnctiuu ip proportion, and the per cent Of increase In Illinois will not be much less. Ohio. 1t S estimated, will produce nearl lu0,O1O.O0O bushels. While no estimate as Go the aggregate yield of the teu States Is given, the increased acre age and general favorable stand warrant tne behef that the growing ciop will eX- eeed the crop of 1882, which was the largest ever produced in this country by at least F per cent.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
Excellence Of the Postal Service

We refer to the post office depart ment. Its financial transactions are not so remarkable as k the fact that it tran sacts business in which the whole JO.- UO,UOO of people have a more or less direct interest during every day Tn tine year, and that It handles hundreds of millions of small packages, carries them and delivers them and their contents safely, with percentage of loss from csrelessness or corruption that is we'll
 nigh incOmprehensIble. And yet prob ably large majority of the officers and employees of this department of the pub lie service are as earnest politicians as can be found in any other department. There IS some rascality at times. as the Star route prosecution certainly shows, and DO doubt some pOstmasters and clerks here and there buy or bribe their way into office, but the service that comes nome to the people. the tra1smls- sIOn, distribution and delivery Ot letters, pOstals, and packages, with the other varied contents of the mails, moves on with SO much clOckwOrk regularity and precision that there IS virtually no iar, no discOrd, and nobody SO badly served but that clear statement of grievances soon secures aremedy. Politicians may quarrel and tear out each others eyes in their fury for spoils, but they know too much to do anything which would i'm pair general confidence in the thorough and regular discharge of postofiice dut- les or to tamper in any way with the messages that the mails carry. The up- roar and indignation which would at tend any general abuse of the public confidence ID this respect would sweep parties as well as individuals from pow CT es effectually as lightning itself could do the work.-l Philadelphia Press.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

CHICAGO, June 19.-A Southwater street 6rm yesterday received the first car load of California fruit that has reached Chicago this season. The car was attached to a passenger train and the fruit, apricots, peaches and pears, ar rived in fine condition. This is the earli- est arrival of car load of California frmt in this city for several yerrs. Cal ifornia fruit growers are now endeavor- ing to induce the railroad company to give them fast trains at the same rates that are charged for carrying fruit by slow freight trains.
 PHILADELPHIA, June 19.-Capt. Coop CT of the steamer Tropic just from Port Antonio, Jamaica, says that Haytian troops made an attack on MisagOane from the sea, and were repulsed with a loss of iwo vessels and many men. The rebels have captured JaunOt and have possession of nearly all the western coast.
 CALLAHAN, Mo, June l9.-The trial of Frank James which was set for to-day was postponed till tomorrow on account of the absence of defendants attorneys; owing to washouts delaying the train. A large crowd gathered to witness the opening of the trial.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
ontside YIer of the Indian ouestion

Outside View of the Indian Question
 The San Francisco Exchange discus ses the Indian question in Arizona as | follows: ''They have robbed and deso- lated a large tract of country. They treated their victims with the most in- describable cruelty. They have rayish- | ed and murdered women, and mutilated the remains ID manner shocking be- yond description. And after all this, we are told that they were glad to re- ] turn to the tiesh-pOts of the San Carlos reservation alive. Possibly the Indian
 policy of the past has reassured them. They have confidence in the humane policy of the paternal government, which will bid them wash their bloody hands, cast away the scalps of their vic tins, and become good boys for the fu- ture. They expect an influx of loud mouthed missionaries bent On their con version and paid by a syndicate of cid
 women to preach the truth of the gospel to the beuighted savage.
 If the government fails now to hang these wretches by the wholesale, then Crooks campaign has been a failure
 They should be tried by military law, and placed altogether out of the iurisdic- ton of the civil courts. And the military law IS that when an enemy IS taken plum deriug and numbering settlers he shall be hanged or shot without the privilege of of an appeal 10 any higher power. In justice to the people of Arizona, as well as the common sense of the country at large, this should be their fate. There should be no escape from it. No evasion. Nothing tOinterfere with Its speedy and determined execution. This may have an effect upon the rest now on the reser- yatlons. It may teach them that whole sale murder means death to the criminal And fl they escape, 1t would be DO stain on the fame of Arizona If it's people arose en mRsse and themselves enforced the law and avenged their massacred brethren.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

SOME enterprlsing fellow in Denver has commenced wrtnng to Arizona pa- pers, telling what great things are going Co be done which will be a credit to the new west" That IS all well enough for Denver, let her take all the credit there Is Tn it, but let her run the expo sition on her own hook and without as- sistance from Arizona. The Denver mineral exposition for this year is sim ply B "catch penny" for the hotels of Denver. l. will not benefit Arizona one twenty-fmrth part of one per cent, and every pound of ore sent there is just so much labor and time thrown away. IT there are any of our people who contemplate spending money on the Denver exposition, our advise to them Is to spend it in developing mines instead. We have just as good a market for our mines as Colorado. and If 1t be- comes necessary We can make just as much noise about mines as they can. We can never sell a mine by carting ore to Colorado. We must bring capi- talists in here to buy our mines, and they are not the class of men who will attend the Denver exposition.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
FOREIGN.

BERLIN, June l6.-The Emperor will have an in interview with the King of Denmark at Wiesbaden on Saturday. This will be their first interview since 1879 Probably 1t IS intended to make further arrangements for strengthening relations between Denmark and Ger many.
 ST. PETERSBURG, June IS.-The festiy- al in honor of the coronation of the Czar ceased with the exception of fete to be given to Russian officers to-day by Admiral Baldwin of the American army, on board.
 SUNDERLAND, June l8.-The excite ment over the catastrophe in Victoria hail Saturday night continues intense. Some children who escaped say the reports spread through the galleries at the close of the performance that the first out of the hall would get prize, and consequently the eager rush for the doors. Most of the bodies of the victi ms are buried together in a long trench.
 ISNsBRUcK,' June lS.- -Sabadini. who drove Overdank, the bomb manufac- turer, across the border, and was placed on trial last Saturday charged with high treason, was found guilty and sentenced to death.
 PARIS, June 19.-At a meeting of l,SOC Socialists in Mount Martre last right a resolution was passed demanding a revision of the Constitution. The La Liberte says negotiations between France and England in relation to the abolition of capitulations in Tunis have had satisfactory result, England agree ing to give up the right of asylum ID her consulate.
 LONDON, June, 19,-The steamer So- phia, with Prof NOrdenskjold and hIs Arctic exploration expedition, arrived at Regkjavik, Iceland, June 9th. The party intended to start for Greenland on the tenth.
 ST. PETERSBURG, June l9.--A ukase has been issued re-establishing the per lecture of St. Petersburg in the main. as it was previous to August, 1881.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
OUR MINING LAWS.


 There is a growing feeling that our mining laws are not as perpect as they might be, and that in some important points they are ser1ously defective.
 There is nothing in the laws. as at present construed, which prohibits a person from making as many mining locations as he may choose upon one vein or lode, or in the same vicinity, and in the absence of other regulations pro hibiting the same, We find in many nm ing regions numbers of locations held by very few individuals The fact that the law is silent upon this point may not be defect and our legislators may have been wise in wording the stat ute as they have, but its effect, in view of other mining statutes, is undoubtedly bad. Section 2324. |. $. Revised Stat utes, after stating the conditions upon which lode claims may be held when once located, reads as follows: And upon failure to comply with these con ditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same mauner as if no location of the same had ever been made. provided that the original loca- tors, their heirs, assigns, or legal repre- sentatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location" A claim is not subject to re. location as abandoned ground until the expiration of the year next succeeding that in which it was lacated, or for which the required annual expenditure has been made The law, therefore, permits a man to make any number of locations and practically allows him to hold them without cost. The result Is that great numbers of locations are made by persons who have no idea of ever per fecting title to their claims, or even doing the required assessment work. They hold the locations until (which Is often a period, if not quite two years,) their time has expired, unles they find an opportunity to sell out at their own price, and then they relocate them. This performance may be again repeated. Many of the claims so held are promising, and if they could be taken up by industrious and responsible parties would, in many instances, be de- veloped into good properties.
 The feeling that the law which allows such condition of things is imperfect and defective is very general, and exists among the energetic prospectors and working miners perhaps more than among any other class. Possibly it IS right to leave a man free to make any number of locations, but he should be required to honestly perform his assess ment work or forfeit all rights be may have acquired, together with the right to relocate.
 The object of the government is to dis pose of it's public lands for cash, and the way IS made easy for claim owner to perfect title to his location by paying five dollars per acre for the land and re- ceivng a United States patent therefor. The government offersevery inducement to mine owners to purchase their claim and receive patents, and II is a question whether it would not act rightly and wisely if it went further and made the procuring of patents for running claims obligatory, provided it were done in such & manner as not to work undue hard ships to any one acting in good faith.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

HE almond-eyed Mongolians of New York are picking up ways of the people of Gotham much more readily than they have in California. On the Pa cifc, coast they ever pursue the even teno sJf the!r ways, and DO matter who comes or who goes, or what occurs, they will not swerve from what they
 conceived to be their duty as laborers or merchants. But those who have gone to the East seem to have departed from the time honored customs of the west. Recently in New York steamer was chartered and three hundred jolly Chi namen," says the Herald, "got on board for Iona Island. It was the first Mon golIan excursion that ever went from New York and represented the concen- trated virtues of nearly dozen Sunday Schools. Many of the pious teachers, no doubt attended their Sunday School classes on their day of jolliication. The teachers thought they had 300 ana teur christians on board the steamer Long Branch. that carried them safely down to Iona Island. But they will. one of these days awake to a realization ot the decep- ton the Mongolians have perpetrated. They are ready to accept any kind of teaching, so long as they can learn to talk, and il does not cost them any thing: but once they succeed in picking up enough English to transact ordinary business, they have DO further use for teachers of the doctrines they teach. They may as well undertake to teach cat the habits Of terrier, as to seach reli- zion to a Mongolian. They will use religion for purpose and when that purpose is accomplished, they have no further use for 1t. We doubt very much whether there is genuine Christian Chiuaman in this country. but there are any number who will attend Sunday School and even go to church II by so doing they can learn English; this done the good Christians who have taught them will find that the heather will ''washee wash" for them for the same money they will for other customers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
The Premier and the Boy.

Mr. Gladstone is fully aware of the influence which a personal courtesy from the prime minister exercises over the ordinary British mind, and he never loses a chance of using that per sOnal influence to win friend for his party. Not long ago a small West minister schOOl-bOy was standing by the refreshment bar in the house of com mons, when NIT. Gladstone walked up to him and asked him his name. Hav- ing satisfied himself on thls momentous question, the primier next inquired as to his politics. The small boy had no politics; but he knew who his interlO- cutOr was, and what his politics were, 80 he replied promptly enough: "Pm a liberal. sir And what progress do liberal ideas make in your schooly'' con- tlnued the great man. "They are tiOurishing rapidly, sir,' replied the diplomatic boy, though in truth he had not the least idea what Liberal ideas" were. On hearing this NIT. Gladstone grew more benignant than before, and Would you like my autographY be suggested. On hearing that his small acquaintance would like 1t very much, he took out a pencil and a piece of paper and wrote on the refreshment bar: "Iours, with best wishes for your future, William F. Gladstone. And from that day to this the boy has been a stanch GladstOnian liberal.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
How It Was Done


 It now transpires that the recent Lower California gold excitement was originated in the following manner: Three enterprising Mexicans, residents of Guaymas, conceived the idea Of mak- ing few honest pesos at the expense Of theI- grlngO neighbOrs Knowing that placer gold In limited quantities was to be had among the Indians Uf the penin- sula, they sent an agent over there with instructions to purchase collection of nuggets and coarse gold This being done, they deposited the samples in con spicuOus places in Guaymas and com menced to disseminate broadcast stories of the fabulous richness of newly dis covered placers on the peninsula. As soon as the excitement had begun to kindle and spread, the stOr1es being ex- aggerated by each repetition, the schem- ers purchased three ship loads of pro visions and miners supplies and sailed for Trinidad, the point of debarkat1on for the diggines. Not dOubtIng that a rush would ensue, their plan was to outfit at fancy prices the credulOus gold hunters on their arrival at Trinidad The scheme was apparently a good one and bound to be successful. but the re- suit only proved the old adage that there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip" The excited gold seekers, not knowing that supplies could be had on the other side of the gull, with scarce an e1cep- tiOn purchased their outfits at Guaymas, and when they landed at Trinidad, to the intense disgust of the greaser specu- lstors, did not even stop to inspect or price their goods TEe consequence IS that a large and carefully selected stock of miners supplies can now be pur- chased at Trinidad at ruiuously low prices.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
OUR PouTnSG STATESMEN.

] We had supposed that the republican l party had a monopoly of the foolish
 great meh, such as ConklIng, who for some little afFront, will go into the pouts and imagine the world will come to an
 end soon if their great merits are not at once recognized. But It is not so the
 democrats also have a,few egotistical
 men who seem to feel that prosperity
 will never come to the country unless
 they are put at the helm 10 shape the
 course of that prim old lady-the relic of
 James Buchanan. The report is sent
 out from Indianapolis that a great din-
 ner was given to the faithful at that
 place last week, and that number of
 the young men were invited to attend,
 and that by some awkward mishap of
 the master ot ceremonies, such lads as
 Mir. Hendricks and NIT. Mcdonald were
 placed next to each other, and that they
 failed to Hove each other any more"
 and no word passed between them while
 they partOok of the good things before
 them. Hendricks, like most old men
 who have been prominently before the
 public and retired, over estimates his importance; and Mcdonald, like most new men who have but just begun to taste the sweets of promised greatness,
 believes that he IS of much more lm- portance to the party than the man who held on to the tail of the Illden kite. It Is not strange that almost every gentle man of prominence over estimates his importance to the country, for their friends usually make the same mistake. A man may be looked up to in his neigh borhOod, but be may not be known in his State. There may be leader in State, but when sent up to Congress he may be a small man when measured by the great men of the country.
 The great ailment of most American statesmen of the present day, IS owing to an excess of sgotism which leads them to overestimate their importance They seem to forget that this is a nation with over 50,OOO,OOO people, and that the country possesses thousands Of men who are capable of filling the most exalted positions in the land, equally as well as themselves. They do not seem to know, or do not realize that if the President of the United States and his cabinet and the members of the two branches of Congress were al retired at once, that equally as good and able men could be found to take their places, and that in all probability some of them would rise higher and become more dIs- !! than any now in public life. | Our best and most able men do not al- | ways take the lead Tn politics; they are usually modest men, and will not shove | themselves forward, or come down to the level of an ordinary caucus or con- vention, and therefore seldom obtaIn | positions that enable them to prove | their worth. It IS usually the ordinary | individual who does not possess any of | the characteristics of great man, but who does possess unlimited egotism, who succeeds in captivating conven- tions. and secures the nominations, which in majority of cases Is equivilant 10 an election, and as long as the caucus | and conventions fill our public offices we cannot look for auy improvement.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
NISETY-NISE IN THE SHADE.

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbersl O Tor an iceberg or two at control O Tor vale that at mid-day the dew cumb r- o V Tor pleasure trip up to the pole O Tor a lttle oue-stOry thermometer c Mlth hing but zerOes all ranged in A row p Tor @ bis double -barrelled hygrOneter I" ineasur the moisture that rolls from my U teat this cold world were twenty times colde That s irony red hot. it seems 10 mel U TOT a turn of lts dreaded cold shouldsrf O what comfort an ague would bsi O Tor a grotto frOst-hued and rilI-riven Scooped m lhe rock under cataract vast O for winter of disc0ntent even O for wet blas kets iudiciousIv east Q Tor a soda -fOunt spOuung up boldly From every hot lamp-pOst arainst Ina b,.
 sky O for proud lady to look at me coldIy. Freezing my soul with glance of her evaf Then O for draught from a cup of cold nizar And 0 for through ticket via Coldgrale To the baths of the Styx, where thick shadow
 lies on
 And deepens the chill of its dark running
 waves
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