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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

CONGRESS, like all other bodies of men, sometimes commit blunders. The law for the government of the Commissioner of Pensions, provides that he shall sign all pension papers, which means that he shall sign from l,500 to 2,OOO every day. This done, he has no time to at- tend to the more important duties of hls office unless he puts in from fourteen to sixteen hours day. Gen. Black, who has just been appointed to the office, IS m old soldier who had both arms shat tered with bullets in the late war, conse- quently he cannot perform so many hours of daily routine work, and when he learned that such nonsense was ex- pected of him he was appalled,, and II the authorities insist upon having his name written on every piece of paper that passes through the Pension office, it is more than likely that Gen. Black, who is a very wortty and deserving man, may have to resign his position through inability to perform the work. The Treasurer of the United States has toV many years been in the habit of stamp ing his name on U. $. Treasury notes and greenbacks, and there is no reason why the Commissioner of Pensions should not have the privilege of stamp ing his name on important papers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
A London Street Crossing.
London Letterl


 The traffic in the vicinity of the bank and the Mansion house in London has be come so enormous and SO dangerous to pedestrians that it is found necessary. if possible, to relieve the surface of the street by enabling pedestrians to cross it without mingling with the tide of vehicles which seem 10 cover every foot of ground To do this 1t is proposed 10 construct a series of radiating sub-ways. having a common center in the middle of the space referred to and opening at four different points
 The scheme comprises a central cham Der about twenty feet in diameter. with an eight feet skylight on the surface, round which will be placed a pavement six feet wide. forming a refuge to passengers who prefer to pass above ground The cham bers and passages ani to be lighted by electricity. IL has been ascertained that no fewer than 1OS, GOO persons cross the street daily at the locality named. and when to this are added j4.OO0 vehicles proceeding in different directions. traffic Is represented which probably has no par allel in the world
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

HE Boston Transcript of Q recent date in its financial article says: When in August. 1881. the Atchison. Topeka S Santa Fe railroad company jointly with the St. Louis X San Francisco purchased the the Moiave Division of the Southern Paeiice in California for S7,27l.lO 1t was announced that the only direct obli- gation of the Atchinson railroad con- pany was one-half of tue interest upon the purchase price, or for the Atchison company S2ls,000 year. We thInk it will be a surprise to our readers to hear that when the contract was signed and not made public, none of which, we be- lieve, are to the advantage of the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe. One of the contracts made concessions to the St. Louis < San Francisco upon traffic pre- viously belonging to the Atchison. The second contract was fer the optional op- eration of the present line to San Fran cisco, jointly with the Southern Pacific, but upon terms much more fayorble to the Southern Pecinc than 10 the Atlantic & Pacific. The third contract called for the purchase from Mir. Huntington of nearly $3,OO0.OOO of Atlantic & Pacific securieties jointly by the St. Louis X San Francisco and the Atchiason, To- peka & Santa Fe, and for this the AtchI- son has yet to pay s1.5O1,OOO cash.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

TIE French Academy offered prize of 10000 francs for a certain test of death. A physician got the money, and bis test is as follows: hold the hands Of the dead person to a strong light, II liv- mg n scarlet tinge IS seen where the hn- gers touch. showing a continuous CIT culation of blood. If no scarlet Is seen the subjt ct is dead.
 Dr. Max Bush announces that on con- tracing a muscle by electricity its tenn peraturs will rise and be shown by any small surfice thermometer If the person IS living but if it does not rise life IS ex' tinct. Bnt the surest way is to keep the remains until there is no question about death having taken place, day or two ia all that is necessary for such tes' and until decomposition sets m there should be no hurry about burying th' dead.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
soXELHISG NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.


 During the last House of Congress very Important measure was adopted t'o'lding for the rapid delivery of tele- s'apAlc letters at a cheap rate.
 II Is provided that after the first of YNy nezt special ten cent stamp shall .7 issued, which, when attached to the ''''er' g,ther with the regular postage, VII Insure its immediate delivery by 'sseial messenger when received at the O-ee Of destination. The deliveries are Oe made within every free delivery .S''ict and within one mile of all offices towns containing a population oi f'vl or over. h order to insure activity 1-d Industry on the part of the messen- s''s' It IS provided that they shall re- osl'e Tor their servlces 80 per cent oi e special postage on letters actually -e'!'eIsd by them, with a provlso thai '- 10 Case shall the salary of a messen ger exceed S3O per month. The ac' 7lS well devised to secure the immedl 1'e delivery of all letters on which the .peciAl rate is pad. It is also provided thls system of special servics UaA Tn no way interfere with tho F'o@pt delivery of ordinary letters a. rO" made by carriers. The special de -'sfies are to be made at any time be '"een o'clock a. m. and midnight.
 ms new feature of the postal servic,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

OUR Democratic friends throughout the Territory are very busily engaged these times with getting up petitions. It IS said that the great demand for names has created q aew business and that the petition man" IS now making more clear cash every day in the week than any other class of men. They get up the petitions and furnish the names at so much apiece. The announcement that President Cleveland would make appointments from within the Terri tories has brought a large number of patriots to the front who are willing to serve their country in various capacities, and as result there is not a Federal office ln Arizona but has from three to ten applicants for 1t. Some of these ap- plicants are without doubt good men, but they are fooling their time away when they send up petitions for offices where no vacancies exist. The President IS not yet ready to make appointments in the Territories. He will first attend to the more pressing demands of poll ticIans in the States; there will then be plenty of time to fill the vacancies Gs they occur in Arizona. It is now pretty generally settled that there will be no removals made without cause and our Democratic friends may Gs we'll make up their minds to wait until the expiration of official terms, unless they can prefer charges of such a nature as will secure removals.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

about a sectional fight with Phoenix and the Sslt river valley. Does that paper not know that it has everything to lose ID such fight and nothing to gam Phenix and Msricopa county have never contributed as much as a tvo-bit piece toward the prosperity of Tucson or Pima county, while we have paid the farmers of Maricopa county and merchants of Phenix thousands upon thousands of dollSrs for flour, grain. hay and vegetables. If Maricopa county and Phenix know what is good for them they will draw in their horns just little blt, or they may not find their fight on Tucson and Pima county very prufta- ble one. We already buy largely in California. and We can if necessary. easily turn all of our trade Tn that di- rection.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

WHAT n grand world this would be il nothing but truth was told. Then the poorest among us could go to his neigh bor a1d borrow one or ten dollars for ss many days, as he would make DO such promise unless he knew where the money to return it would come from. What misery, destitution and shame would then be alleviated and how much more happy We would be. If our temperance lecturers would labor as zealously in behalf of truth and morality as they do in the cause of temperance we are in e clined to believe that better results follow.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

IS designed particularly for the benefit or business men. It is often the case that all the purposes of quick communi. cation could be served by mail if there was any provision for the immediate da. livery of letter after reaching its des- unahon. Otherwise, a letter coming in on an evening tram remains undelivered until the following day. Under the new system, places 250 or 300 miles apart will be brought into close connection. and letters mailed at one point in the morn ing will certainly be delivered in the evening at the o6her.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

TIE refusal of Congress and the Nan sas Legislature to provide a cattle trail for Texas put the cattle men of that State to their wits ends to provide way to send their cattle to market, but they have within the past few days overcome the difficulty by making terms with the Fort Worth and Denver railway com pany to shlp ever that road to its north western terminus and then drive north to Caldwell and Hunniwell, kansas from which places they can ship to nor,hern and eastern markets. Those for grszing on the western plains may be shipped from Hsrald. This arrange
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

TIE CITIZEN IS just little mistaken about Secretary Van Arman getting the laws printed outside the Territory here. tOfOre. Just two years ago the Miner had the con;ract-MineF.
 Well, all We know about it is, that Var passed through here on his way io San Francesca, and gave it out that hls mission was to look after the publics. ton of the laws. That was about two years age.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

GROVER CLEVELAND seems to by try ing t. inaugurate d reign of simplicity in and about the White House. When he gets little further on we expect to hear of his being ont in the garden before breakfast playing havoc with the cut worms and other pestiterous insectf. He even now appears on the lawn in his shirtsleeves before the fashionable regime are out of their beds in the morning.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
Trees and Rainfall.
IChicay, Tlm.-


 In the official report of the geological survey of Wisconsin is an account of the determinations made by Dr. J. NJ. Anders. of the amount of water pumped from the earth by trees. He finds that the average exhalatiOn from soft. thin-leaved plants in clear weather amounts tO about one and a quarter ounces troy, per day of twelve hours. for every square foot of surface Hence q moderate sized elm raises and throws of seven and three quarters tons of water per day. In the report the facts are applied to what is going on in America. where certain inland fertile districts are becoming converted into deserts by wholesale clearingS and in other places, such as the plains or Colorado. where only i've or siX years of irrigation and planting have already pro dUced measurable increase of rainfall IL is maintained that the deserts of Syria ard A rica are the results of cutting down trees. and that original luxuriance may be restored by Akillful rep anting.
 Martin Kellogg: Moral fiber is needful
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

THE Americans now win the hurdle races in England whenever they contest for them. At the Derby races the other day all Of the English horses fell except ing Philosopher. who started fsvorite and came in second. Idea, the American horse, came in first. and Abottsforl sec oni; both were heavily weighted, the former carrying l75 pounds and the lat ter l64. Britanie may "rule the waves, '' but America rules the courses"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

So Strauss IS after the San Carlos Indian Agency, eh? Would rather like to see the old man get 1t. He would bankrupt the Apaches Tn less than . year. We are not very friendly toward tine Indians anyhow.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

ANOTHER big ichthyosaurus has been unearthed in Texas. This time it was by farmer near Mckinney. Wonder If that drummer who found such an un- heard of monster in Texas last year, is not also the author of the story of this big named animal. The fossil which scientific men pronounce as an ichthy- osaurus Is twelve feet in length and the head measures four feet. The jaws, teeth, tongue, ribs and vertebras are petritied.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
Stop That tough

By using Dr. Frazier's Throat and Lung Balsam-the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness and Sore Throat, and all diseases Of the throat and lungs. Do not neglect cough |, may prove fatal. Scores and hundreds of grateful people owe their lives to Dr. Frazler's Throat and Lung Balsam, and DO family will ever be without Il after once using it, and discovering its marvellous power. It IS put up ID large family bottles and sold for the smal price of 75 cents per bottle.
 FRAZIER MEDICINE Co. Prop'rs.
 Cleveland, O Sold by B. A. Yorba < Co
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
TNashvIIIe IIenn.- Ame-icah.


 X lady of this city, recently north for consultation with prominent physician, was found to be a sufferer from disease of the kidneys. Let me see what style of shoes you wear" asked the physician. A shapely foot was put out from under the skirts, and the physician remarked that she would never be cured until the heels of her shoes were lowered.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
IN SatnrdaY's CITIZEN the

k Saturdays CITIZEN the article, Something Not Generally Known" " which was in relation to the new system Of sending letters by telegraph, all after the first paragraph was copied from a Washington dispatch. This fact does not change the article, but We had pre- fer not to impose on tue public in that way
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
ANOTHER EXPLANATION IN ORDER.

The Citizen is after B man by the name of Stephens, who was purchased. body and soul, by Prescott people, on the Cepitsl question. This turkey gob- bier attorney came to the Capital empty handed, but packed away S4.OO0. He earned the amount, if cheap talk is worth anything.-From the Prescott Miner.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

THE Mississippi river was open from St. Louis to Keokuk. the forepart of this week. It is now probably open to Du- buque, if WIggins' big storm did not send another cold wave over the north west.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
TIE Christian Advoc

TIE Christian Advocate says, "ridir z a bicycle as an amusement on Sunday Is as wrong as any other sort of amuse- ment." Suppose you ride it to churct, then is It a wrong: It will take some of these old straight jackets quarter of a century yet to get the scales of their eyes.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

CATTLE can be turned into money at any time. Ranches and real estate can be converted into money only occasion ally. Pima IS a cattle county and has more ready money in the pockets of her ran,hmeu than any other county in the Territory.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

TIE CITIZEN IS glad to have c. w. Beach back in the Miner again after an absence of about year. We like to see the old hands return to their first love it shows that, after all there is some thing in a newspaper to hanker after.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
tara.

To all who arc suffering from errors and indiscrs tisns of youth. nervous weakness. early decay, loss of manhood, etc, will send 8 recipe that viii cure you, FREE OF CHARsE This great rem edy was discovered by missionary in South Amerlca Send self-Rddressed envelope to REV. JOSEPH T. ISMAS. Station ID, New York. iY-l6-eod-d-v-lY
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

WHEN a man tells a lie out of whole cloth, that portion covered by the lie IS apt to fall out and leave the hole ex- nnsed
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
LIFE PREsERyER.

IT you are losing your grip on lie, try Wells Health Remover" Goes dl- rect to weak spots.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

HFunkennesS. of me Liquor nabif san Be Cured by Ad n BinIstering pr. Baines' Golden specific.
 It can be gwen in a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the per son taking it. effecting 8 speedy and permanent cure. whether the patient is a moderate Grinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temDerate men who have taken the Golden Specific In their coiiee without their knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking Of their own free will. No harmful effects result from its administration. Cures guar. anteed. Circulars and testimonials sent free. Address, Golden Specific Co.
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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

ment will prove a great relief to stock men in Texas, who had begun to think they were shut out from market.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
.RoUGHsoN TooIHACBE

Instant relief for Neuralgia, Tooth ache. Faceache. Ask for Rough on TOothachs." l5 k2jc.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

WE trust that the wreckles Legislation of the past session will, after all do good, by securing better men to serve in the future.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
UnntInr , Nev Cr,nc-

It Is said that the originator of the Concord grape has raised over O,OO0 seedlings in the past thirty-fve years without finding his ideal grape, and only twenty-on had desirable qualities.
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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28
Cause and Elect.

Martin Kellogg: Moral fiber is needfl to the perpetuity of free institutions
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-28

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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-03-12
MOSES MOORE.

SAMUEL WILKEsoS, the latest reputed
author of the "Sivan letters, is said by a
Gotham correspondent to be paid by the
Chicago Inter Ocean at the rate of one dol
lar per printed line (laore than one hun
dred and fifty dollars per column for the
complete series, numbering fourteen in all
These letters-remarkable among other
things for originality, cogency and power
above any political essays of our time
cover an average space of three newspaper
columns, each letter paying the writer up
wards of four hundred and fifty dollars, or
in round figures seven thousand dollars for
the lot Mr.. Wilkeson, an ex-journalist of
the New York press, is now and has been
for some years Secretary of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. He is upwards
of sixty years of age-a hale old man, his
intellect as strong and bright and vivacious
as at any time in the long period it has
moved public thought and influenced pub
lie opinion.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-03-12
THE EDUCATED MISS.

she's dainty little maiden
With artistic graces laden,
Quito aware Of her attractions and rejoicing in
her teens;
She paradss with ostentation
All her NasSar education,
With a reminiscent havoring Of culture and OF
beans
with suggestions by the legion,
she can scale the airy region
Where - transcendental fantasies IN gay dis
order float;
With languor and queenly
She can voyage most sereuely
ThroEgh the hazy subimation OF the misty and
remote.
She can read the rocky pages
Wlse, the mighty mcgatherium sleeping in
With features bright and smiling
She j. often most beguiling
with nedieval narratives Of knight and "ladye
Eatr
She = often entertaining
When most learncdly explaining
How the pbilosophc systems in a measure DIS
ugree
She l. posted in quadratics
And the higher mathematics
And can ask you for the butter IN the fmguage
II "Parec
she's an educated daisy,
Aud could run fellow crazy
With stock Of information too enormous 10
rehearse;
She brought away from college
haich ipnmeasurable knowledge
OF the correlated members OF the whizz'ng
universe
still hope this gentle maiden,
With such cradition laden
And so eminently fitted with philosophers TO
Yet may manage TO discover
Something worthy In lover ,.-,,-
All intent upon the making Of a merchan'aoie
soap.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-03-12
A SOLDIER COWBOY.
How the Bad Weather Interfered with
n Wedding.
fStockgrowers' Journal.


There is soldier at Fort Keogh who
has a "hankering" for cowboy life, and
whenever he gets furlough his time is
spent on the range, usually in the service
Of Major Logan. well known cattleman,
as well as repular officer at the fort
Barney" some time ago went out with a
son of Major Logan, and the two were lost,
but one OF Lisk's foremen picked them up
after they had been out two days, and
brought them into the ranch, which they
had vainly been endeavoring to find. A
week ago last Monday, Barney, who was
enjoying furlough at Major LOgan's
ranch at the mouth of the Little Dry,
about eighty-five miles north OF this city,
started ostensibly to meet some friends at
the FL ranch. Big Timber, about forty-five
miles from his starting point, but really on
his way to Miles to be married. deep
snow lay on the ground, but the weather
was comparatively mild, and shortly after
starting out Barney lost his way. For sew
eral days he wandered about over the win
try waste, existing upon the scanty sup
ply of food he had taken with him for a
days Journey then his horse gave out and
Barney abandoned him, turning him loose
and striking out on foot. Growing still
more bewildered and weary, he threw
away his revolver and overcoat, and, night
coming on, he built fire and laid down
beside il. In his unconsciOusness he rolled
into the fire and burned a shoe off one of
his feet. In the morning he tore sleeve
out of his coat, wrapped it around the shoe
l.. o1 10
struck the trail to Lisks ranch and fol-
lowed it for several miles, but in his dazed
condition finally left it and went up Crow
Rock creek, and finally drifted over on to
Mcndenhalls range, building fire on
Sheep Mountain and laying down beside it
to die Here he was found by one Of
Mendennalls range riders, who took him
to q sheep ranch, where Barney remained
until he was sufficiently recuperated and
then came on to Miles, arriving Thursday
evening He went at once to Fort Keogh,
and the wedding has been indefinitely
postponed
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-03-12
Terrible Affair.

PITTsBURG, March Sat o'clock this
evening Frank Kunkle, teamster living
on Grand Alley, Allegheny City, placed on
a stove to boil n mixture of turpentine,
tar and linseed oil, which he had been
told would cure his h orse of lameness. In
the room at the time beside kunkle was
his daughter Annie, years old, his son,
aged ). Julia Walters, aged .13, and a
young man named Dipp. The mixture
had been on the stove probably an hour
when it boiled over, instantly ignited, and
a second afterwards an explosion occurred,
which scattered the scalding liquid and
flames in all directions. Young Dipp,
with great presence of mind, grabbed up
the can with the burning mixture and
started for the door, while Kunkle ran to
rescue the children, whose clothes were
mass of flames. One by one he picked
them up and thew them out of the win
dow into the yard, and then jumping after
them tore the clothes from their bodies
Assistance arrived at this time, and the
fire having been extinguished, the little
sufferers were carried back into the house
Annie was burned to crisp and died in
a short time in great agony. Julia Wal
tiers was also terribly burned, the flesh
peeling off her legs and arms. She is still
living and suffering intensely, but slight
hopes, however are entertained of her re-
oovery. The boy is badly burned about
the face and hands, but will recover.
Young Dipp had the flesh burned off his
hands and arms, and Kunkle was painfully
but not seriously injured. The damage to
the house by fire was very slight.