The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-05-03
Miscellaneous Items.


not yet decided as to the place.
There is no doubt that the pub
lie domain is rapidly disappearing.
Senator ingalls, is of the opinion
that it will be virtually exhausted
within the next twelve years. Af-
ter that time he predicts that lands
will advance enormously in value.
1t will not be long before Uncle Sam
will not be rich enough to give us
all a farm.-Alb. Citizen.
1t is stated on reliable authority
that Claus Spreckles, has decided
to build sugar refinery in Phila-
delphia and that the purchase of
the site has been consumated. It
is understood that five million dol
lars capital will be put into the en-
terprise, and that the annual out
pnt of the refinery will be thirty
five million dollars.
The Southern Pacific Company
filed petition in the United States
District Court at San Francisco on
the I'd ult,, to maintain it's liability
by reason of the explosion and
burning of the steamer Julia at
Vallejo. The petition cites the fed
eral statute which provides that by
turning over what remains of the
burned steamer, for the benefit of
the heirs, the liabilities of the own
er of the issue is terminated. This
the company offers to do. Judge
Hoffman appointed the United
States Marshal as custodian of what
is left Of the vessel. The petition
cites that thirty lives were lost by
the burning of the vessel.
A telephone message from San
Diego Union correspondent, now in
Lower California, says there is no
doubt that there is a great gold
field. 1t contains lodges, placers
and nuggets. 1t has not been work
ed to any extent and only partially
prospected. Capital is necessary to
develop it. 1t is no place for poor
man without a grub stake About
200 miners AID prospectors are al
ready in the Rial del Castillo, and
more are walking in from Ensenada
and coming by the overland routes.
The railroad from Ensenada to
San Diego and thence to Yuma is
now an assured fact, as rails and
other material have been received
in San Diego for its construction.
E. F. GUILTY, a wealthy English
man, is now in San Diego. He is
one Of the syndicate of English
capitalists who have advanced G3,-
100000 for the development of Low
CT California, the major portion of
which is to be expended in the con-
struction of the railroad.-San Ber-
nardino Courier.
In South America the Indians
are shown no more mercy than has
been extended to them in North
America. The man object has
been to get rid of them. This part
of the continent never resorted to
wholesale poisoning of Indias as is
being done in South America. In
one instance 300 were poisoned, at
another time 500 drank the fatal
strychnine water, and the wholesale
murderer announces that he has
made arrangements for despatch
ing 5000 by process Of poisoning.
This "barbarity of civilization"
forms dark chapter in the history
of the red race.-Alb. Citizen.
Texas seems to be in a healthy
financial condition, as witness the
following: The comptroller reports
that the State Treasury balance on
April 1st was 100000 cash, and
100000 in bonds. This does not
include the 100000 indemnity
money recently voted by Congress,
and now in transit to Texas, max
ing 100000 OF surplus. The