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The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

Our citizens were thrown into a state oi excitement on Sunday last by rumors that developments of a serious nature were happening at the slaughter house on Sweetwater creek. On inquiry we found that the sheriff (Capt. Arrington), MT. Rising, Tom McGee, J. Mackenzie, Bee Hopkins, Geo. Fink and Mir. Todd, had gone to the above prem sises to search for evidence against certain persons whom they had been informed had been stealing and killing cattle. Acting under information furnished them by an informer, the above parties had the ground in and around the slaugh- ter pen dug up, and their work was rewarded by the finding of a large quantity of hides, some of which, owing to the length of time buried and the fact that they had evident ly been covered by lime, were in an advanced state of decomposition. Some, however. plainly showed the brand of the animal. The number found is estimated to be several hundred, and some think that at least one thousand hides have been buried, and that this stealing has been practiced on large for num- Der of years. The last beef con- tractor, w. Baker, was informed by a friend of what was transpiring, and he at once left for parts un- known. J. J. Joyce, the butcher, was placed under asrest, as also Clarence Coburn and Tom FinnOn, the latter being accussd of aiding Baker to escape.-Texas Panhan- dle.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

The papers announce that Judge Albert Russell, the cattle king of Nebraska, after losing POGO head of cattle from exposure last winter on the plains of Nebraska, has con- cluded to move south, and is seek ing lands in Florida. There is lit tie doubt that he will find all the land he wants. There are millions of acres of splendid land in Flor ida, and other portions of the south, admirably adapted to cattle raising, producing the best grasses, and free from the severe climate which has just made Judge Russell's ven ture a failure in Nebraska.
 The southern papers have had much to say on the subject latterly, and have dwelt at length on the advantages O1 thlS section for stock raising. That what they have writ ten thereon has not been in vain is we'll shown in the case of Judge Russell, which will bring one ofthe most successful and experienced cattlemen south, and give a boom to this country.
 1 Itis safe to say that Judge Rus sells experience is that of thous- ands of others. Cattlemen in the great stock country, extending from Minnesota to Colorado, have been hit twice this year; have lost thou sands of cattle from the severity of the winter, and are losing thousands to-day from the drouth which pre- vails over all this region. Many herds are driven to the east and the south.-New Orleans Times Democrat. '-. .@ '.3.-As
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

Some few weeks ago we recorded the fact that several punches of cat tie had entered the Panhandle be- fore the officers of the stock asso- citation could take means to pre- vent them. Now comes the report of destruction among acclimated stock from the effect of Texas fever. Quite number have died in this neighborhood and several in the town of fMobeetie. Unity is strength, and if the people do not take hold of this matter and stop the impor- tation of cattle calculated to injure them, they neglect a duty which they owe themselves and their country.-Texas Panhandle.
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Hill means business and by Sept. 20th they will begin to grind.

A circumstance happened the other day at Rev. U. Gregory's ranch on the Santa Cruz, which re- veals the presence of subterranean streams of water independent of water independent of the supersat- urated gravel from which the wells usually derive their water by seep- age. Mir. Gregory was having his we'll deepened, or rather trying to do so, and managed to get out con siderable gravel and small boulders of spherical shape, indicating that he had reached the ancient bed of the river. The water came into the we'll with such strong force that the pump could not lower it, and strong current was felt. The sim gular circumstance was the discov- cry of several fish in the we'll that had surely come from the subterra- mean stream. One of the fish was caught and it proved to be the or dinary minnow that abounds so plentifully in the Santa Cruz. The water in the we'll is entirely differ ent from any yet found near the city. Itis unusually pure and soft, and is entirely free from alkali. It is also very cold and a draught of it upon warm summer day makes one almost imagine it to be ice water.-Arizona Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

The effects of the earthquake
 upon the city of Charleston, South
 Carolina, are reported as truly ap-
 palling. It is said "the city is a
 wreck-a complete, pitiful, hope
 less wreck" At least four out of five of the buildings are damaged
 more or less. Nearly all of the
 chimneys are down. William A.
 Kelly, City Assessor, says the loss
 will readily reach $10,OOO,OOO. It
 required a strong force of police ac- lively engaged in keeping pedes- trians from dangerous localities.
 For a week after the disaster the people were encamped in the streets and parks, and several thousand tents will be required to accommo- date them, until the fear and panic has sufficiently subsided to induce T
 them agaln to enter the tenable
 buildings. The city is so hopeless ly damaged as to be almost beyond reparation, and it will certainly be a long period of time, if the corn' munity ever recoyers from the dis aster. Scientists say the cause of the earthquake was simply q con formation of the earth's crust to it's base, produced by what is called a seaward slip or movement of the costal plain toward the sea; this plain or earth crust covering an area of 100000 square miles, with a thickness of 5000 feet, Professor McGee of the Geological survey says: ''Imaglne surface slightly inclined with this coastal plain overlYing it. A hundred miles or so out at sea there is 8 sharp de- pression. The tendency of the coastal plain is toward that de-. pression. Were it not for the re- sistance of friction, this movement. would be constant until the ten- dency was satisfied. In spite of friction, however, the coastal plain reaches the poidt where the pres sures overcome the resistance and then slip,occurs. This may come from the readjustments5 of the earth's surface constantly going on, or from the fact that the great rivers flowing out of the mountain ranges are continually loading the coastal plain with the deposits they bring. In this way the point may be reach ed, and doubtless has been reached, where the resistance is overcome, and the forward movement occurs" Generous contributions are pouring in from all over the country to the stricken city to relieve the suffering and want of the homeless.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

Gen. Sherman is a strange crea- ture, and if he occupied a less ex- alted position, he wonld be called a crank. During the late imbrog- lio with Mexico. he repeated what he once said before, that the only war with Mexico he would favor would be to force her to take back the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona:-El Paso Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16


 The public seems to be just find ing out that western dressed beef has not proved to be the boon that was promised by it's paid advocates, Instead of cheapening the price of good meats in the east they are as high as ever, and the consumers have gained practically nothingiby the vaunted boasts of the monopo- lists, while the chief sufferers have been the eastern farmers and the stock raisers, who have seen the prices for their cattle reduced so low as to leave them no margin whatever.-Butcher's Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

MT. Alex. Barker returned from Mexico this week. He was on the verge of selling a fine mining prop erty in Zacatecas to a New Orleans company when the Cutting trouble occurred, but the negotiations were checked by the war talk. The com pany informed him that they would take no further steps in the matter. till the complications arising from the Cutting imbroglio shall have been fully settled. One of the com pany is a member of Congress and is in correspondence with the state department. He says the release of Cutting by no means settles the controversy.-Enterprise.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

advised as to the motive prompting the order, but it must be of an i'm perative nature to require such a sacrifice ofpersonalinterests among the squatters.-Arizona Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

A Fort Bowie dispatch of the Sth instant says: On September 2d,
 Geronimo came into LawtOn's camp
 unarmed, accompanied by only two
 or three bucks. He said he had
 come for a final talk. After seating
 himself upon the blanket spread in
 Captain. Lawton's tent, he made a
 long and earnest talk, through the
 aid of the interpreter, He said, in
 substance, that he had been think ing over the matter and had made
 up his mind to surrender. He was growing old and would never be young again. He could live but a short time longer anyhow, and he was not afraid of death. He was not afraid of what might be done to him, and he cared very little what the future brought, except that he wanted to see his family again. He knew that they had been sent far off to the land where the sun comes from, and if he gave up his arms 1t would only be to fol- low them. He said that he had been a bad man, and all that he had done was known to the Americans, Mexicans and Indians, but that no one knew the wrongs he had suf- fered, which caused him to go upon the warpath. He did not wish to be at war with the whites, but his heart had been fired by the way in wbich he had been treated, and he wanted to have revenge. He ac- cused Chatto of plotting against his life, and said he had been aided by some Americans at the reserva: tion. He planes Chatto for the late outbreak, and says that he has always created trouble among the Chiricahuas and old Indians on the reservation. After going over the history of his wrongs he again an his intention of surren- dering, and begged Captain Lawton to do the best he could for him.
 -i iCls5----77- e-~@ --------- LltG
 An Austin, Texas, dispatch of the Sth instant says the action of Gov. Ireland in the Rasures case is bringing into public attention other Msxican outrages upon American citizens. Complaint came from J. B. Wood and L. J. Gaskell, who allege in substance that in August, 1885, they were arrested by Mexi- cans on Lagonia ranch, in Lower California, on account of the sud- den disappearance of J. D. Hanson, +bo;r f.;ar6 ,ubo ooor>lOvod fhapo fo
The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16
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The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-16

We clip the following from the Fort Worth Gazette and 1t begins to look like the beef contract was assured Mir. Dahlman yesterday received cablegram from Mir. G. c. Hill, to the effect that Mir. Hill has embarked for this country and requesting Mr. Dahlman to meet him in New York. MT. Dahlman will in response to this mesgage leave for New York the middle of next week and return to Fort Worth with Mir. Hill, who comes to reside in our city permanently as the rep resentative of the Englishmen in- terested in the great contract. Mir
 Daiilman says the coming of Mir.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31

The manure from the four COWS, one
horse and 100 hens will go far toward
enriching the land. Apply the hen
manure, we'll saved, to the hill, as the
best results are obtained in this way;
utilize every corner with something
that will either sell, make fodder for
the COWS or food for the hens, and my
word for it the young man with the
sixteen acres will have profitable bust
ness enough at home; with "his little
farm we'll titled and his little wife we'll
willed," he will be as contented as
those who roam their hundred acres
over. One other thing | will mention,
and that is this, Put in a patch of
early potatoes. | found that nearly
every season half an acre or more of
extra early potatoes are as profitable
as any patch of ground on the place.
Study the wants of your nearest vii
lage and town, and supply the people
with the choicest and earliest of fruits
and vegetables.-Oh1o Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
Ia Old Reef Tough?

s pI ,tical hint is offered to beef
producers by correspondent of the
Drover's Journal, which contains
more truth than poetry: 81 wish
here to protest against the prevalent
idea that old meat is tough. Never
was there a greater fallacy. The age
of the animal has nothing to do with
it, and the fact is the toughest and
most tasteless meat is that of two
year old steer kept fat from birth and
then shipped to market, where he will
arrive in q shrinking condition. On
the contrary, the most tender, juicy,
highest favored meat is that of an
old animal, COW. or even work steer
no matter how old-if fattened rapid
lv and killed when in q thriving con-
dition. All meat is more or less
tough if the animal is losing flesh, and
the opposite (tender and JUICY if the
animal is gaining rapidly, and as all
your meat is killed when the animal
is losing flesh, you never get any real
ly good meat. The change can be
noticed in the meat before the eye de.
tects it in the animals condition
Wool Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
Maxins for Everyday Life.

Too much importanceis self-import-
ance.
You may cheat others now, but
yourself also in the long run.
The greatest honor that man can
render to God is to be good to him
self.
What man is deficient of in sense he
usually makes up in mulishness.
Nature is frank and will allow no
man to abuse himself without giving
him hint of it.
Remember this: However small
you consider your possessions there
is some one who envies you them.
There is no luck but there is such a
thing as hard work and knowledge
how to make it answer for what
others call ''luck."
The only talent that man under all
circumstances has succeeded in hand
ing down to his son is the ability to
judge prime whisky.
Too many young men believe "the
world owes every man living" and
that it requires no effort on man s
part to make the collection.
No matter how low down man
udy SCU, Uu0I0 1S AOU uuOIO U1du Ou0
in every 100 of them but will prove
true to g. small trust if his pride be
strengthened by your seeming faith in
him.
Much of the world is prejudiced
against facts, because facts stick to
the text and don't go out of the way
to cOncoct a palatable medium for the
worlds own genteel taste and wise
opinions.
Simply believing the truths of relig-
ion doesn't make you religious; you
may appreciate right and yet not do
right; weeping over martyrs is not as
heroic as having had your lamp sui
fered at the stake.
One breach of faith will always be re-
membered, no matter how loyal your
subsequent life may be. People may i'm
agine that they trust you, yet all the
time they have an eye to the former
break.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
The Wit Of Women.

COLLECTED by Kate sanborn.]
II steamers are called the Asia, the
Russia and the Scotia, why not call
one the Nausea.-Louisa AIcott
A friend said to the sister of Presi-
dent Cleveland, as she was leaving
Buffalo for Washington: 81 hope you
will hail from Buffalo" "Oh, you ex-
pect me to hail from Buffalo and reign
in Washington"
If the Venus de Medici could be ami
mated into l:fe, women would only re.
mark that her waist is large.
We shall be perfectly virtuous when
there is no longer any flesh on our
bones.-Marguerite de Vazois.
One loves to talk of ones self so
much that one never tires OF tete-a-
tete with lover for years. That is
the reason why devotee likes to be
with her confessor. 1t is for the pleas
ure of talking of ones self-even though
speaking evil.-Mme. de Sevigne
When you wish to affirm anything,
you always call God to witness be-
cause he never contradicts you.-Queen
of ROunania.
Her neck and arms were as naked as
if she had never eaten Of the tree OF
knowledge of good and evil.-Jane
Carlyle.
Judge no one by his relations, what.
ever criticisms you pass upon his com.
panions. Relations, like features, are
thrust upon us; companions, like
clothes, are more or less our own
selection-Kate Field
Margin man amt like settin'
along side of him nights and hearing
him talk pretty; that s thefust prayer.
There's lots an lots O. meetin' after
that.-ROse Terry Cooke.
ing into the dairy and wonder what
she's come after.-George Eliot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31

breathing and hoarseness always
causes the "goose grease" bottle to
come forth, and then the soles of the
feet, nose, chest and back are oiled,
and now [ am not afraid of the Group.
When our boy was three years old, O.
darling girl baby came to bless us with
her presence. [ had been preparing
for her by dieting, bathing and morn
ing maps. Was careful not to over
work, tried to keep good-natured, cast
my corsets aside forever, and when
she came, g. good-natured, healthy
baby, I felt fully repaid. [ never
rocked her to sleep, just laid her on
her bed and she went to sleep without
any trouble. OF course had to let
her "cry it out" q few times, but that
did not hurt her, and as did all my
work / could not spare the tinle to
rock her to sleep. | often played with
her and never neglected her. but did
not spoil her. She cut her teeth east
ly, has never been sick, never taken a
drop Of medicine, and is over three
years old. She is the light of the
home. By studying, but mostly by
experience, we have learned to use the
water curefor simple disorders. Have
cured the ague and bilious fever with
it, and we feel very independent of the
doctor OF course there are times
when he is needed, but not often, and
when that no small item of expense is
shut off, you may feel sure that better
days are dawning. There are other
ways OF lessening household expenses,
viz, dress palmer, furnish home as you
need, not as you want, food that is
plain, wholesome and we'll cooked, but
[ will not touch upon them in this ar
tivatOr.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
The Propressjve Farmer,

This man is surrounded by neigh
bors who do not believe In improve
ments in farming, and not one OF them
for some distance around takes an agrl-
cultural paper. When my friend built
his new barn, they said: "What does
thefool want of such agreat barn? He
never will half fill it." But the owner
expressed regret to me that he did not
build it so per cent. larger, as his crops
had already outgrown it, as the result
of his understanding and better tillage
and better farminggenerally, for which
he feels largely indebted to your valu-
able paper.
listened for an hour, with interest,
| to his reports of successes when his Ig-
norant neighbors made failures. Not
one OF those neighbors attended the
institute, which was only two miles
away. The old-fashioned straight
toothed harrow was good enough for
them, they said; they had no occasion
to pay $50 or $40 for new-fangled
arrangement. They would work all
day sewing grass seed by hand, rather
than pay SIS for q nice little machine
that would enable them to do as much
before breakfast and SOW it better. ]
have only pity for such men. Why
will they not learn the full, broad
meaning of the law, GAS q man sows,
so shall he reap"
A certain rich, philanthropic, gentle
man, living in Ohio, has been talking
of holding a farmers institute, in every
township in his county, for two days,
to try to get out and infuencefor good
the class that most needs it.
The county meetings only draw in,
as rule, thefew in each township that
are most interested in improved agri-
culture. Those with little interest will
not take the trouble to go far; but by
a little extra effort might be got out to
a meeting in their own township. II
such meetings could be held in every
town, and then followed up by some
organization, such as a. grange or a
farmers club, and plenty of good pa
pers were subscribed for, great good
might be accomplished Country Gen
| tleman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
How to Run a Small Farm,

If the farm is all tillable, I should
divide the sixteen acres into four Sec
lions of four acres each; but it is not
necessary to fence it, except the four
acres where the house and barn stands.
This plat I should divide up in the fol
lowing way: Two acres for house,
small lawn, Kitchen garden, barn-yard,
etc. This is rather large, | think, and
less would do if the house and barn
are in the right position; but call it
two acres. Then one acre for fruit
blackberries, raspberries, currants
and Strawberries. One acre for poul.
try; this acre should be set to pear,
ounce and peach trees, and plum can
be added if thought best; this affords
good shade for the fowls, | find that
the trees do much better where the
poultry run than those where they do
not. On this acre I would have four
poultry houses, with yards for runs OF
of one-fourth acre each, and should
keep twenty-five in each yard-one
yard OF either buff, white or partridge
Cochins for sitters; one yard of Ply
mouth Rocks or WyandOtts and two
of Leghorns-the Cochins for sitters,
the Plymouth Rocks for early broilers
and the Leghorns for eggs. The re-
manning twelve acres should use as
follows; four acres for clover, four
acres for soiling crops and the remain
ing four acres for corn and potatoes
On so small g. place wheat and oats
do not pay, as Mr.. Leonard has al.
ready shown. The twelve acres should
be rotated with clover, roots, millet
fodder corn, and anything that will dc
for feed.
On the place four COWS land they
must be good ones, not necessarily Of
long pedigrees, but OF individual merit)
can be kept for the first two or thres
years; after that more can be added
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
FOREVER YOUNG.

The wild world hastens on it's way:
Inc gray-haired century nears its close;
It's sorrow deepens day by day;
The summer blush fOrsakes the rose
But, darling, while your voice hear
And while your dark brown ewes see,
oad montns and sunless seasons drear,
Are all the same, all glad, to me.
Despair can never reach me
While your Soft hand l hold:
While your eyes love and teach me
l never shall grow old
They say that love forsakes the old:
That passion pales and fades away;
That even loves bright locks of gold
Must lose their charm and change to gray.
But, darling, while your heart is mine,
And while feel that you are true,
For me the skies will ever shine
With summer light and tenderest blue.
Yes, let old age deride mel
I scorn his knocking tongue.
Dear love, with you beside me,
I am forever young.
-Be1gravia