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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

HE Guaymas fever question Is about the worst muddled affair imaginable. First one says 1t is yellow fever, and then tother says It Is not. This thing has been golng on now for about four weeks and people are getting tired of reading contradictions There Is one thing, however, upon which all are agreed, and that is, that many have been slck and @ good many have died. It matters little whether it Is yellow fever or some other species of fever, so long as it proves fatal The fact that scores of people are dying of 1t is sufficient grounds for the United States to quar- lntine all trains coming from Gusymss and Hermosillo. and We trust that 1t will be done until such time as 1t can be raised with safety. We would advise all Americans who contemplate going to that country to defer their journey for a few weeks when in all probability the fever will have abated.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

THE Lond 70 Telegraph has 8 circula- ton of 2lOOO0 and the Paris Figaro 690.o0p IL is not likely any one Journal will ever reach so large circulation in this country where the population is comparatively sparHe and the country so large. The Figaro reaches almost every portion of France on the day Of publication and a London paper IS read in Scotland within txenty-four hours after # is printed. Here it requires from four to six days for a New York and Chicago papers to reach Arizona. and seve4 days fo reach portions of California. The important news of the day is therefore furnished from five to six days earlier by local papers. It's owing to this fac, that New York daily papers are losing ground ont-ide Of that city. Chicago. Cincinnati and St. Louis papers winch are ll everywzy equal to :hose Of New York, and ln some Respects superior, have gradually driven them from circll- a-iuy in the west. Twenty years ago. tnere were twenty-five New York Week iy IubuHes taken m ire west, where uow there is but one. The same may be sand of ail other New York papers as we'll as those of Philadelphia and Bos- lan- The local press Of this country has made rapid ad- vauees during the past twenty years, while the metropolitan papers of the east have not much more thsd held then owu. Formerly many people sub- senoed far papers because they were ably eiltei-or rather because the edi- torlals were logical. clear and well written Now they take them chiefly for the news they contain. Formerly newspaper readers were content with an item Of news two o- three days or a week old; now they want to read the news on The very day 1t occurs. The telegraph has shar2ened tho people's appetite for news, and placed all sections on an equality, and whereyer there ia a spf- de.eut collection of people 10 support the local newspaper that contains the press dispatches. il is done; but rpore especially Is this the case wh.-e the point Is remote from large cities, which being better able, can give a more com piete press report. We are glad to know that the local press or Arizona IS steadily gaining ground, while outside journals are losing rcorrespondingly. This will continue so long as the local press merits patronage.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
HESrr W,pn Rrrcurr

HENRY WARD BEECHER he.
 enhghteEIng Denver on eva.rtar said: "I believe child is bon. T..l A- religion, 1t ls born wltbolt ariti.-'-.- political economy and even r-. affection It does nei know tts-.-.-
 whose breast t suck 2. q. ,.r'-,.-s empty sack, with pHtsl.IsI-4,-' a.
 possibilities. You all have an ---.'---. of evolution right ID your own f--rs as a child develops from naked ----'--s a thinking, rational being" T- course of hIs remarks, he stated .-. .-- '-- did not believe ID the luso.r.-... -. ''-..- - bible. "A man says Mr. B--.I.-' -- .-- does teach IL m this century ergs.. .'- +- sileuced and driven from Hs--. He IS a father of iuhd=ls N, .-. the Evangehsts g1ye the same r.--. | being written over the cr.s. v {,
 you make God q iiar1 T. j.. -s-. ..'..
 the words he would certaIu.s Hav- ..-- 2 | them correctly. NJ ta-6-e -77 inspiration of the Bible .- that, .- .-' inspired at all be.iev, .la. -.--.
 is inspired, and can feel auG a----' - God. Man has grown Iu Che c.--. -
 time just as an individual --sa. s..- youth to age
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
BreYitIeS.

'l1r. Isaacs, can you tole me where vas the first diamOnd| No, Mir. Yaw- cobs; where vas it2r "Vy, Noah's son on der ark; he was a Shem of der first water. ."-Bos. Con. Bul.
 The letter commanding" Patti to sing at Windsor Castle contained the unusual addition Eff you will kindly consent" Patti IS a Prima Dons- Vic toria IS only Queen.-Phil. News.
 Count Livonwilz: "In askIrg fo- ze hand O: Miss Maria. would say zat l belong to a great family-in my own country Pater Fsmilias-"SO l sup pose. What did you run away from 1t for? Why didn't you stay and take care Of it?'-Ruck.-
 A misplaced switch is pretty sure to cause a collision, but ID long. dark tun- nels the collision sometimes comes first, and then the misplaced switch betrays the fact to the rest of the passengers Ex.
 New York critic: Why are the Ger mans such invariably poor musicianss Well. there are a variety of reasons. In the first place-but come to think of It, you 0leeming idiot, they are not poor musicisnsi-Bos. Post.
 4 Syracuse woman has been dreaming of seeing hen walk fence, and now what bothers her IS she can't remember whether it's a sign that next winter will be a mild one, or that there will be 8 death in the fsmily-Syr. Her.
 A Florida teacher in colored Sunday school asked her class why man was forbidden to marry two wives at the same time. 4 little ecru youth replied Case a man can't serve two masters"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
Current Vote and Comment.

An undertaken of De.-.ir, Ng- is charged with cutting the halr i-- pauper dead and selling It Co VIZ makers.
 One complaint against Oscar Wlie' new play is that killing re--- too early, and Goo much blood Is let out before the play gets oa .s legs.
 A suntover at Newb-rE, New la-a Is fifty inches in circumference, stand, fourteen feet high, and s0mrot iis lsa's' are eighteen inches m width.
 Bishop Ryan. of St Lauis, has l-el presented with a round -Ip tl-5si '' Europe and a purse of Si,U.J Co delr-. his expenses Go the conference - Rome.
 Mrs. Polk. the widow af frt-li.., James k. Polk, celebrated her r.-li- ieih birth day on the 9th lE-ta-t- Aa.. citizens of Nashville called Hl i-- ..I lady.
 A wealthy widow of ~au tul.i'.o and a well known hOte. keeper '- '.-- land met for the fir-t time few a..- ago, and exactly fifteen minutes --''' the meeting they were engaged '' .s married. The marriage ceremony sOlemulzed uezt day, Co the u-t.-i-.- surprise of their friends
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

FRANK HUBD, the free trade member Of Congress from the Toledo, Ohio dis trict, hHs some queer ideas upon the political outlook in that State. He thinks as "there are two democratic tickets in Hamilton county, Ohio that it will have the effect to make Hoadley's vote larger than II there were only one ticket in the field, because t will bring out the whole democratic vote of Gin cinnati" This is indeed a new way of locking at the situation in Ono. We bad always supposed that a split in a party tended to weaken it; but Mir Hurd informs us tha, 1t strengthens it. That old and hitherto accepted adage, that ga house divided against itself, etc., will now have t. be reversed and amended SO as to read: a house divided against Itself must stand" We hardly think the rule will work on first trial, even in Ohio.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1879
A THrMr rc HARP UPON.


 IL has not been very long since the people of the United States were for months kept in a teverish excitement of the probable fate of De Long and party. After leaving Wrangle Island, for long time We did not know whether they had sailed over into the "open polar sea" of which We have heard so much and know so little, or whether they had been swamped among the ice bergs, or perished of cold and hunger. The sequel. h oweveT, is still fresh in the minds Of the reading public. Most peo- pie who followed the history of the ill., fated Jesnnette to the wreck, and read of the suferings of Melville and Long parties, and the total loss of Lieutenant Chipps party who were never heard Of after leaving the Inflated ship, were glad that 1t was over, and hoped that we should be spared a repetition of such fruitless cruise and the horrors winch attended 1t, for a long time to come. But the hope was in vain. The full results of the De Long expeditions had not been made public when Lieut. enaut Greeley undertook an other wild goose chase;' to search for that "open polar sea, Tn the interest of sclence and geography The expedition of which Liertenant Greeley WAS in charge was under the control of the Signal Service Department. and sailed in June, 1881. The last intel. yeuce from him was dated Auz- lS. 1ssl,- latii tude SI degrees, fl minutes north, long itude 6l degreas, 55 minutes west, when he was ID good health and had killed enough musk oxen to last his party three months. The relief ship, with supplies, failed to reach Greeiey's party in 1882 The Proteus, under command Of Lieutenant Darlington, was sent out thIs year and, as the telegraph informed us a few days ago, that vessel was crushed in tine ice, and the expedition was total failure. While the news Of the loss O. the Proteus has created great anxiety fIr the sats'y of the Greeley party on Lady Franklin bay, such pro vision Was made last year as will bridge them over. It is believed that they still have a years provisions on hand and cached along the coast of Lady Frank lin bay. It will now be in order { or al kinds Of men to draw al kinds Of con ciusions as to The probable late of the Greeley party, tor the next year to come as it will require about that time for B new search expedition 10 go and re- furr
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

BECAUSE St. Louis newspapers were interested in finding out the where sbouts of Mary Churchill, who had run away with one 4. F. Caldwell, the citl- gems of Fl Paso at once took 1t for granted that the whole world vas on siptoe, to hear what had become Of the lawless lovers. They do not seem to realize that it was a local matter, of in- terest only to tbe people of St. Louis, and that the general reader cares no more about Miss Churchill and Cald- well, than they do about the eloping of any other hypocritical pedagogue with a weak minded frail girl. What the reading public want is simple state ment of facts. Sensational news IS not worth the wiring.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
THE TIMBER LAW.

h the States of California. Neva6s and Oregon and Washington Territory, they have a law which provides for tbe sale of government timbered lands at S2JQ per acre. The law does not re- quire settlement, cultivation pr improve ments of any kind, but the land may be paid for at the local land office, upon furnishing the numbers of the land, aith proof that the land sought to be entered Is timbered land
 The provisions of this law should te extended to ArIzons, otherwise titles to the large area of timbered lard in tie northern central portion of the Terri tory cannot be acquired We under stand there IS large saw mill now op- erating on the line of the Atlantic 2 Pa clhc road, winch cuts from 5000 to lJ0,OcO feet oi lumber per day, nearly all of which goes to Mexicn, and Is used lu tne construction of railroads in a foreign country, contrary to the laws of
 
 chased some land from tIe railroad company, but We have been informed that most of the timber !, being cut from go Eernmeut land. When the tim Der Is cut the land Is of DO use to tue Territory, and Is yalueless to the government, as It cannot be disposed uf at any price. We are aware that objec- tions may be made to the timber law of the Pacific States, ss it opens the door 10 speculators, who may enter up vast tracts of timbered land; but 1t also af- | lords the man of small means an opp0r- ! tnnity to enter one or more quarter sec ] rilzs. Inc Atlantic & Esciuc r ad a. ready passes through the iimbered lands . ot Arizona, the projected Mineral Belt road also cats 1t at rIglt angle from the ] former. As the law now star ds, there is no way by which title can be had to this umbered land. It cannot be pre-empt- : cd, nor can it be taken up under the homestead act, because 1t is not asri- ] cultural land. The timber cannot te utilized under any law now in existence. ! If the provisions Of the timber ac: should be extended 10 Arizona, it would prove beneficial not only to the Tern tory but Co the general government. The land would be taken up, and title acquired; the general government would receive pay for tLe land. and 1t would al 1 once become real property, and subject to taxation under the laws O, the Terri torg. By another year the Mineral Belt road may be completed half way across the timber belt, and our Narrow GaUge read may also penetrate tt from the south. 2 he people of Arizona should ] sec to this matter at once. The provis- ions of tue timber act should be made . to apply to Arizona. or new law, ole that would better serve the purpose should be introduced in congress and . passed during the coming season. The ! passage Of such law is Of vital luPor- tance to our Territory, and should not ! be overlooked.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

HESET WARD BEECHEE. As v. -. taken occasion to say several Zine. gently. is not afraid -o eZ2rr.. i-.l-..5.' ..' ions. He gave them promptly -.s 1 publican reporter who ass-l a.-. i them yesterday. Denver Esr.I-.
 But the Republican should f-.- - mind that 1t Is generally t1- c..-..... those who express their op.1.1g sg f--' ly, their opinions are not worth r- There are many things bes. les a5i-r..-- upon which NIT. Beecher e.rra-,e. r5. self very freely, which s-e ua: s-- MT B. says good many t..1.s .-g when be gets on Co the r.cat sl. l. one that he understauis, lr -.y. v... he has to say well, '1uls tL., a3lr-.- ing more"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

TEE acrimonious wrangle regarding Lieutenant Garlington's failure to pro- vision Greeley and party has already set in at Washington. Lieutenant Gar lingtou -hould have known that in or der to distinguish himself he should have effected landing at some point on Lady Franklin bay, built snow hut and then written a history of the suffer .ngs of himself and men, before stsrY ing OF freezing to death. Such a sacra-
 flee an other year would have brought him renown and distinction. As it IS, he will be blamed for all sorts of things, and If the Greeley party should starve to death. technical murder will be on h,s hands. General Custer who sacri- feed the lives Of 300 brave men, and died with them, become a martyr and a hero. But had he lived he would un- doubtedly been cashierd and dismissed from the service. One mus: die in the good cause if he desires renown.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
EREEcH AeeRANpIzEYENT.

France seems to be active m her efforts Co acquire territory just now. 4 large slice Of Africa is desired in the region of the Congo; she also wants a strip on the north Of Africa stretching out on the great Sahara desert. This 1t would seem should be enough territory for her present needs, but she is not satisfied with her African possessions, bat is determined to extend her power into Asia Minister Ferry opposes any concessions % China regarding the Tonquin frontier question, which iu- dicates a determination to conquer and occupy Auuam. The Figaro states that the Chinese army IS concentrated at Pekiu and only awaits news of the arrival O. the French relntorcemen-s at Port Said to invade Touquin. What the French will do with their newly acquired and to be acquired possessions, .t is hard to tell They have never yet succeeded iu their colonial pos sessions, though they have had some of tine finest n t5e world and in almost every land They failed iu their efforts to settle colonies il America and Africa, at points much eas- fer Of access than Tonguln, where the chances for success were much greater than in the latter place. The ambition ottue French is great, but they have DO surplus population t0 send abroad as has Great Britain or Germany, and if they had. it Is doubtful vhethe they would succeed. The French are for France, and their love for the!r native land SO strong that but few If them. com paratiyely, ever become permaneu. citl- zens ot a foreign land Their ambition to acquire uew territory may lead them into seuous trouble beIors they get through with what they now have in hand They have tco many irons in the fire, and some Of them are likely to get burnt
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

IT does not speak very well tor the agriculture ot Oregon that the first through train from Portland, Maine, should be laden with canned corn, raised on the barren flint hills Of New England and sent west to a land that has been advertised as among the richest in the world. and capable of pro- ducing every known species of gram and frilit
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

TIE business situation in New York is unusually satisfactory, and the pros poets excellent. Prices are firm and steady; the jobbing trade is brisk. with a constant stream of fresh buyers to take the places Of those who came earlier.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

THE little girls of St. Paul and Mine apohs cast flowers before Willard that his pedal eztremlties might not become contaminated with mother earth. Will they do so well when that maguate, at the end of his journey, Is laid away to rest in common clay? Time will tell
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

IT requires ali kinds of men with all sorts of ideas to i'll up the world, and it IS wise dispeusa.ion of Providence that it Is so. Otherwise all men would want The same woman for wife. want 70 engage in the same business, or do the same thing. It is not to be won dered at that We occasionally hear of the foolish expressions or acts of an or dinarilg intelligent man. The latest IL this line Is that of Premier Smith, of Victoria, British Columbia. who in re- plying to the toast Of "ihe Queer" made the foolish remark that "The United States can't continue undivided" and that "tae day VIII come when 1t must go to pieces, and when that day comes British Columbia will be glad to take in her open arms that fragment winch is her nearest neIghbor. # such 8 thing should ever happen, which in OUT opinion is about as unlike ly to take place as volcanic eruption in the low lands of Illinois,-it would be @ good deal like the fable of the frog ana elephant. A frog met an elephant on the highway and being the frstan- imaI oi that kind that 1t had ever seen, t attacked the bru-e and tried to carry It of into the jungle, but the elephant dld not see frogy at all and was not aware ot hls presence, until later in the day, he imagined a fly vas crawling over him and felt with his trunk for the insect, and found the frog tuning around on hIs back.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

LIEUTENANT GREELEY was married to Miss Henrietta Nesmith, of San Diego, California, and she is now on her Uay to Washington with Ter two daughters to receive intelligence from the expedition sent out by the government for the re- lief of her husband It seems to us tha; man yho would leave a loving wife and children, to cruise ar0uud among the icebergs of the north for an indefinite tune is not worth running after as he can have but little interest in his family.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

Ex-secretary G1sDe-. .ate.s .rsr-... Fish Commissions for ul--r.--. t-- Ona, has been talking e. ta- I.--- about the fish question lu Arizona r says Dr. Tagg.ri cf Yum Is u.- - Washington looking after -.. -lrr-. l carp for Ariz1ua. The Dr. v-.-, ... has been promised llbe-al sg1a.t r--. will be shipped about tHe l..-- --. December in bulk. th- slr-.. fir - north part of the ter-I.l-y val. t- ,.... from the fish car at AlbUrur-rr- h addition to carp, Dr. Ta--a-j w.l a- deavor to secure a car load .i -.--- for the head waters Ci the Cu.a-.. and possibly a large number l, ,s. We suggest that Salt river and them per Gila be not overlooked
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

Journal There will always ue .- mand for silver. copper and beef a- zona has untold quautitIe- ot Che i-- ciOus metals, and as for ursi, vr -.- pasture land sufficient t0 feed ul...' upon millions of cattle Why --a-l any dOub, of the coming wealth oi Aa- Zgua
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

IS speaking 0' the pCs-ih,. e.1i.i Of General Sheridan the =. E.C.Ls. He is an ornament a, a military .1. but lacks the training Iu -0v.-au.a. affairs to qualify him for -l i-rs.i.-s His friends would do a kri-.-- ua- T awaken an ambition in his urli Ea. there IS no likelihood oi being c-aa- with fruItiOu-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

UNCLE SAMMY TILDEN, having fairly Jutrun Gould in a squsre-toed yacht race on fhe Hudson, the latter has sought to bury his R-iet by taking a hand in Wal street affairs. It IS believed that If he can so manipulate the stock market that he can rake in two or three million, it will prove 8 healing balm to his grt.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22
aAuRoAp BUILDING IN MEXICO.

The building of railroads in Mexico
 lls been SO rapid, and there are so many of them that 1t IS hard to keep run os them. In addition to the roads being built from Mazatlan, San Bias and MauzaniIla on the Pacific coast to connect with the eastern system, the Mexican Central has been located from Zacatecas to Villa de Laredo, leaving a distance of only about 900 miles to be constructed. Construction from Laredo south IS progressing at the rate Of two miles e day. The line from the city of Mexico, when completed, will be about l1O miles long, connecting with the AtcLison & Topeka, Texas Pacific and Southern Pacific a; Fl Paso. Passenger trains ou the southern end are now run ming north to Celay, and on the north ern end to Saltillo, leaving a gap of 400 miles to be closed. The Mexican Cen tral EIll be the first road completed con- meeting with the city of Mexico, and the time set is the first of next May, but it is pot iIkely 1t will be completed before | a year from this date. The roads BOW ID process of construction reach every important city in Mexico. The activity ID railroad building in Mexico is not al | together owing to the superior sdvan- tages offered for the investment of cap l ital at present, but is largely owing to the subsidies paid by the Mexican gov ernInent, which in many cases are suffic- ient to build the road bed and lay the ties and iron upon It. By securing sufficient cash or securities with which to build the roads. Amer jeans can afford to take hold and build them now, and wait for the country to develop and make their ventures paying investments. These subsidized roads once completed, the building of railroads in Mexico will cease for sometime tn come. It wo1ld seem that the investment Of 70 much money ia Mexico, and the employment
 4 SD many idle men at better wages than they had ever before received
 would cause the citizens of that country to lOOk upon Americans with favor, but IL does not They are constantly placing obstacles il the way, taking advantage of the railroad companies in every pos sible way, and for the least unavoidable ! and trivial offence an entire pueblo will turn out and stop train of cars and demand reparation of the con- ductors, whom everyone should know, are powerless to act. We are of the i'm. pression that 1t wall be long time be. fore these Mexican roads reach a paying hasls, but they will be of great adyant. age to that country, and in time may re. deem i, from a seui-rebelliCus to a re. publican government ID fact.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-22

SENATOR M-DoNALD, of Indiana, has been stumping Iowa. He is of the opinion that the election will result ID very large democratic gains in that state But We should bear ID mind that the senator's opinion fl the political situation m Iowa Is only reflex Of the opinions of local democrats in that state. The attempt to make democrats ID Iowa IS a oiscouragIug business and is aBout as useless and barren ot results as a republican canvass of Kentucky or Missouri won | be.