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The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28
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Jas E. Miles a former resident of Prescott, and who killed man at Tip Top some years ago, was shot at Whit tier, Cal, last week. ~
 McNeil, who is wanted In Arizona and New Mexico fer horse stealing and who broke jail at Phenix short time ago, was arrested last week near Duncan, by Deputy Sheriff Thomas, of Florence,
 Colonel George L. Perkins, Treas urer of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad, is the oldest railroad official in the United States and probably, in the world. He is 99 years old, is six feet, two inches in height and stands as straight as many men of 30,
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

fleets of the mail service, which are proved nuisance and an abomination to the people of the entire southwest and therefore with the advantage of railroads and postal cars we are affiic- ted with worse service than that of the days of the buck board and stage coach. It is useless for ti,e superinten dents of divisions to say that the faults of the service cannot be renedied. The p rStal aervice like any other business matter may be made effective accor- ding to the executive ability displayed in the management of its details. Day after day the mails from the east which should be left at Flagstaff are carried by and day or two afterward reach their l. destination fEom the west. The reason for this is apparent in the mass of mail matter piled upon the San ta Fe cars, which the single postal clerk is unable to distribute before it reaches Albuquerque where in it's andistfbu ted condition it is again piled into the Atlantic 4 Pacific cars to snow the pos tai clark under and be distributed whenever that funetionary can find time to attend to it. "A {
 What the service requires is mora postal clerks, and it is redicoi ious to say that with its $60, 100000 surplus, the economic necessities of the present ad, ministration should prevent the employ ment of a sufficient number of clerks to distribute the mails on the Santa Fe and Atlantic and Pacific routes,
 Special Agent Moore hasjust finished an inspection of the Flagstaff postoffice and while he was in the city postal car passed westward, locked up and without postal clerk. the undistribu- ted mail going through to Los Angeles to be distributed and find its way back at some uncertain date in the flu
 
 ture. While on his toar of inspection the special agent would have done well to have noted this peculiar freak of the service and to have made sush report of it ss would have demanded the atten- tion of his superior officers.
 Until postal affiars are conducted with some regard for ordinary business methods we may expect nothing better thar the abominao ole service with which we arc now afflicted. ,. ..r.....
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Electric Lights,

The CHAMPION is in receipt of a letter from E. Nj. Sanford, which in. dicates that with proper encourage. ment Flagstaff may be immediately supplied with electric lights. It is understood that the demands of the promoters of the enterprise are ex- ceedingly reasonable and there should be sufficient public spirited enter prise among our business men to SC. cure this new evidence of Flagstaff's prosperity and hamburger of her flu. lure importance as a metropolitan city. Since the above was written Geo. D. Nagle, President, and E. M, San ford, General Manager of the Jasper Electric Light Company, arrived in town late Thursday evening. Friday morning they made their proposition to our citizens and by noon our busi- ness men had more than complied with their demands. This shows that there is public and progressive spirit in this town second to none in this territory. MT. Sanford left last even ing for San Francisco to procure the necessary equipments and material and as soon as ireightcan arrive here the lights may be expected to be put in operation. Score another point for the liveliest town and most energetic people in Northern Arizona.
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Town Site MeetIng,

At the second meeting of citizens last evening in the c A. R.SHall to take action in the matter of having Sec. I6, Tp. ar, open for settlement as town site for the town of Flag staff, the committee previously ap- pointed, consisting ot T. G. Norris, JIM Simpson and Al. Doyle, to ap praise as near as possible the improve men,s on the above section, reported $S6, ,675ss the valuation, which shows our citizens they have considerable to care for and should bestIr ,heln' selves to gain titles to their respective homes. A committee consisting oi T, G. Norris, ". C. Stewart and ] X. Fitzpatrick were appointed 10 draft a petition to Congress to have the a. bove propert, set aside for townsite and report the same at the next meet ing to be i,eld Tuesday evening, Jan goth at lhe same place.
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

MANY staunch Democrats, who would be glad to agree with Mir, Cleve- land on public matters generally, are not fully satisfied with his tariff views. They would be better satisfied If the message on that issue had beoa less clear--if it had left some room for doubt that he does not entertain the views it sets forth with such plain ness, and to which the majority of the people of the county are opposed,
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A CONVERSATION

Mir, Piper.-Mr. Greedy, do you think there is any danger of G. A Bray busting? MT, Greely.-No, l don't MT. Piper. He is doing too large a business. Why, l ac- tually had to wait three-quar- ters of an hour the other day at his store before he got around to me. It was fun to see him sell goods. though, He's a dandy at the business, The best ] ever saw.
 MT. Piper.-Does he sell cheap? ...
 MT. Greeley. If I am any judge he does. l bought a suit from him for $I 800 that l have been in the habit of pay ing $2o.oo to $22.oo for.
 Mir, Piper.-How can he do it, Mir, Greeley? ....
 Mir, Greeley,-Mr. Braytold me that he only made a very small profit, but that he sold from six to eight suits day,
 MT. Piper. Oh! If that's his nothing short of an earthquake or 2S feet of snow on the level will bust that fel- low, l am going right down there now and buy some goods and strike him to buy ten cords of pine wood,
 Mr. Greeley.-If you sell him wood you will get your money as Bray isa cash rooster, and inst the man we want for Flagstaff. Good day. MT, Piper, glad I spoke to you about MT. Bray for l have been paying the biggest kind of prices for my clothing, dry goods. boots and shoes, etc. Now I'll give Bray whack,
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TIE Holbrook ,StSaaarq will make its appearance about February lst un- der the editorial ma anagement of W. 0. LAmonte. Holbrook has many in terests which need the promoting inAu- ence of live newspaper and if the Standard will devote its columns to the dissemination of reliable infor nation regarding the great natural resources by which Holbrook is surrounded, and the promotion of the best interests of Apache county its success as Journal istic venture is assured.
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NOTICE.

I desire to inform the residents of Flagstaff and vicinity that l have sold my entire stock of dry goods, groceries, provisions, etc, to Messrs. Ralph H. Cameron and John H, Lind, who have succeeded me in the general merchandise business. re, spectfully ask from my friends and the public, the sane liberal patron, age and far dealings that has been given me, for my successors in busi ness Messrs. Cameron and Lind.
 Yours respectfully
 ]. R. Fitzpatrick Flagstaff, Arizona. January Ist 1888.
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

MERKET reports from the Pacific coast show very apprecisble advance iu ths price of beef cattle, The unpre- cedented emigration to California has caused largely increased demand for meat and as the visible supply is get ting short, wholesale, butchers are bid ding against each other already and sev, eral buyers have been in our midst and slarge number of cattle sold, but notat what we consider good prices. It is an inevitable fact, that to Arizona, must California look for a large amount of beef which they require for home con- mption. We are of the same opinion as a large number of our stock men that within ninety days beef steers will bring better price in the mar ket than was commanded at any time last year and our cattle men will do well to hold their stock for the spring market Hsa esss.'- .r
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RECOVERABLE POSTAL SERVICE.

When the towns and camps of Ari-
 zona were isolated and remote from railway connection, the tri-weekly or semi-weekly mail which formed our only communication with the outside world came to uson the appointed day with the regularity of clock work, al- though the primitive methods of the postal service at that time employed no other means of transportation than the numbering stage coach or the hurrii. cane deck of cayuse. But this was under Republican administration which managed the affairs of the gov erpment with special reference to the wants, and necessities of the people. It can scarcely be expected that the pres ent democratic administration, will sperd the t!Eao to .LgciIg ,oeo the 3e.
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'enture IS assured.
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TIE Board of Supervisors are again reminded that it would be no more than fair to the people of Williams and vicinity, who are large tax payers of the county, to grant their very mod est request, for a small appropriation to help rebuild the wagon road between that thriving town and Flagstaff which will connect them with important set
 dement's with which their business men have commercial relations Don't forget gentlemen that there Is some progress and business In this DOT tion of Yasapai County, .---....- .--
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necessaries of life there as Sl 50 would
 here. "Oh no, not near" They live however quite well in Sweden, they said, until they got free trade and that killed them. These Swedes will hardly vote for Clsveland's pet theory. Washington, Iowa, Gazette. ,.-.--
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia may be justly described, in the vernacular of the day, as kicker. He was a thorn in the side of Jefferson Davis when he was Confederate Governor of Georgia, and he now proposes to fight against Mr. Cleveland's free trade notions.
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

THE woolgrowers of Yolo Co, Cal, !, met at Madison last Monday and offered a bounty of sl5 for each coyote scalp brought in. The county pays s5 besides. The meeting adopted resolu! tions denoupcing free trade.
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cen.umption Surely Cured,

To THE EDITOR Please inform your readers that l have positive remedy for the above named disease. By fits timely use thousands of hope less cases have been permanently cur. ed. shall be glad to send two bot ties of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their address. Respect. july, ' A SLcCUM, M C.,
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

IT is the belief of esstsrn cattle deal CTS who have visited the country westof the Missouri that there will be sharp rise in the price of beef at an early day. They find that there is a less number of cattle in proportion to population than has been the case for number of years,
The Arizona champion., 1888-01-28

A farmer in Indiana has just re- covered heifer that in some way got buried. in a straw stack, remaining 'twenty-three days without food or drink" Evidently she had sufficient straw to keep her alive. r-.-.a @~
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The n.n-o. pon L

The Denver Range /erssf says The immense number of cattle that Arizona has shipped to California the past season has proven again that sup ply creates demand" When the first csttlemen commenced business in that Territory they had everything to fight against and only Jote coicforters to
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Freo Trade fin Sweden.

Mack Aokley was talking with some swedes on Tuesday at oskaloosa, and he asked what wages they got in Swe- den. They said a crown and half, equal to AZ cents. They are now get ting SEQ. They were asked if q crown
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SATURDAY, JANUARY, aS, 1888.

pHB obscure Arab who invented all coholic stimuRnts died more than nine hundred years ago, but his spirit" still lives.
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The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

APPEARANCES now indicate that the
yellow fever has gained foothold in
Florida that cannot be dislodged for two
or three months, or until its germs are
frozen out by the fall frosts, 1t is a
dreary outlook for the people of that
State, which no one who has not passed
through similar epidemic in the South
and been practically isolated from the
rest of the country, with sickness and
death on every hand, can fully realize.
Nothing will be left undone to mitigate
the severity of this visitation, and there
is still hope that the epidemic may
not prove virulent or widespread; but
even in its mildest form the scourge is
to be dreaded. 1t keeps the public
mind in painful suspense, places vir-
tual embargo upon business and seri-
ously interferes with the prospects of
the ensuing season.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10
LEND A HAND.

LOOK up and not down. DO you mind how
the tree-top
Reioioes In sunshine denied 10 its rootf
And hear how the lark, gazing skyward, Is
All earth with its song, while tho ground bird
Is mute.
"Look, out and not in" See tho sap rushing
outward
In leaf bud, and blossom. All winter Il lay
Imprisoned, while earth wore white desola-
tom
Now nature is glad with the beauties OF May
Look forward not back !" 'Tis the chru n
creation
The chime of the seasons as onward
roll
'Tls the pulse of the world It's the hope
ages
'Tls The voice of the Lord in the depths of the
soul.
"Lenl a hand ~ Like tho sun that turns night
into morning,
The moon that drives storm driven sailors to
land.
All liio wore, worth living with this for its
watohword,
Look Up, ont and forward, and each lend u
--lBoston Traveller.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

MAYOR HEWITT of New York has gone to
Sharon Springs for a couple of weeks
TwENTYFoUR YOUNG WOMEN have gradu-
ated as lawyers in Michigan this summer.
SENATOR KENNA is In New York and will
address the County Democracy at Cooper In
stltute this evening.
ENPERoR WILLIAM II. is the first Russian
speaking King of Prussia. Prince Bismarck
speaks Russian fluently.
''SLIoED LEMoNn is the newest Regent street
color for stationery, writes the London CORE
spondent OF the New York World
DR.. T. c. WATKINS, the oldest medical
practitioner in West Virginia, died at Charles
ton, in that State, Wednesday night, aged 81
years,
The MEMBERSHIP of the Harrison Veteran
Club Of 0hio-men who voted for Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too, in 1s4O--will probably reach
6r000.before the campaign is over.
The CULTURE OF OPIUM is to be added to
the industries of Florida, 1t is estimated
that sixteen plants will produce an ounce,
and that an acre will afford profit of 81 900.
THERE Is NOTHING to mark the spot where
General McClellanlies in Riverview Cemetery,
Trenton, N, j., except two or three small flags,
which were placed there on Memorial Day.
philadelphia Record
To AVOID ANY POSSIBILITY Of complications
arising from their marriage in New York, the
Duke Of Marlborough and his wife yesuer day
went through another marriage ceremony at
the London Reg istrar's office,
ALTHOUGH 1T Is ANNOUNCED that Miss Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland received $4,000 for her
tan, hc1 tn fo.b
York school, there is no law that compels any
one to believe the statement, If he doesn't
wish to.-[ Manchester Mirror.
THERE WERE ONLY u deaths In Keokuk,
Iowa-a city of $4,000 inhabitants-during the
month OF July, or less than one to a thousand.
A death rate of .85 per cent. is something 70.
markable, The only large towns in the coun-
try that approach 1t are Dubuque, Iowa, "a,
and Burlington, Vt, 1.l2. SO that Keokuk
claims to be the healthiest place In the United
States, as 1t is one Of the cheapest to live in,
The "GRAPHIo LIBRARY" published ir
parts by the Daily Graphic, New York. will
be devoted to topics of popular, contempora
neous interest, and 1t has made a successful
beginning with "The Life of Grover Cleve
landn and the 'History of the United States
Tariff" with portraits and illustrations This
! is the sort OF literature the politicians want
| just now and the forthcoming issues of the
series will be looked forward to with eager
expectation.
Since Belva Lockwood got into
The Presidential tusslc,
The paraiyzing fact is learned
She doesn't wear hustle.
This ought not TO hurt her cause;
The simple truth is, neither
OF the other candidates
Wears hustle either.
philadelphia Press.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. Albert f. Reesch and Miss Frances X.
Dlttrich were married last night at No 724
Seventh street northwest, the residence of Mr..
A. Dittrich, the BRIDES father. The bride was
attended by Mrs. Therese Stark of West
Washington and the groom by Mr.. james
O'Hagen. After Rev. Mr.. Lucbkert of the
Reformed German Lutheran Church had per-
formed the ceremony wedding supper was
partaken OF. The 5. s. p. c., OF which the
groom was member, was well represented.
Registered in New York last evening: Con
gresham Burrows at the Everett; General
John A. Halderman, ex-Minlster TO Siam, and
r. q. Blaine of the Agricultural Department,
at the Glenham Senator Hearst, at the Hoff-
man, and Senator Mcpherson, at the Vic
toria.
Campbell Darlington of the District bar, ac-
companied by his wife and child, is at Con-
gress Hail. Cape May
Senator Eustis of Louisiana is i'll at Man
chester by -the-Sea, Mass, and is not likely to
return to Washington this year.
Miss Cleveland, sister of President Cleve-
land, is expected at Asbury Park as the guest
Of General Morehead, formerly Of Philadel-
phia.
EX-District Commissioner Ludlow spends
much of his leisure time at Barnegat Bay.
Mr. John Cbamberlin says that the company
to build his new hotel at Old Point Comfort is
now organized and 1t is anticipated that the
erection of the building will be commenced in
about thirty days.
Miss Mollie Mckee, daughter of Captain
Mckee of the Senate Library, accompanied by
Miss Georgia Jeffrey, returned home yester-
day from two-weeks' visit with Miss Myrta
Hughes, at Oakland Cottage, Washington
Grove.
Miss Mamie Probey and Miss Jennie Gal
lagher of West Washington are visiting theil
cousin, Mrs. Havener of Walkers Chapel
Alexandria County, Va.
Thomas NJ. Haines, the defauting cashier
Of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad,
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10
RICHARD II. SYLVESTER. ...... Editor
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 10, 1888.

IT A LITTLE TOO LATE to take up the
subject at this session of Congress, but
it will have TO be attended to sooner or
later, with the hope that something can
be said or done to dispossess the House
Committee on Rules-generally known
as tho Graveyard Committee--of the au-
tocratic power with which its members
are invested and which they seem par
ticularly fond of exercising.
The committee consists of Speaker
Carlisle, Samuel J. Randall, chairman of
The Appropriations COMMITTEES; Roger Q.
Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means
Committees; Thomas b. Reed of Maine
and Joseph G., Cannon of Illinois, all
very respectable gentlemen, It is true, but
clothed with more authority than any
five gentlemen, no matter how respecta-
BILE, should be allowed to wi eld, and ca
pable of handicapping and embarrassing
the public business to a very serious ex-
tent.
"All proposed action touching the
rules and joint rules shall be referred to
the Committee on Rules" That's all
there is to it, and it's simple enough
responsibility on the face of it. At the
same time, if the members of this COM
mittee are so disposed, as q combination
between the Speaker and his two most
important chairmen sometimes are, it is
in their power to shape the whole course
of legislation to suit their own purposes,
regardless Of the will of the majority Of
the House or of the general interests in
volved in questions that have been
handed over to their tender mercies.
It's long, long distance between the
unanimous consent of the House and
the dictum of the Committee on Rules.
Does it not seem as if there ought to be
some middle ground for the recognition
of that great majority principle which
is the basis of our Democratic -Republi-
can institutionsP
There are occasions, of course, when
the authority of this committee may be
interposod as check to the factiousness
and partisanship of the opposition, but
occasions are altogether too frequent
when the committee itself, in O factious
and partisan spirit of its own, instead of
facilitating legislation, which is the os-
tensible object of its creation, may be-
come dangerous impediment, if not
fatal obstruction, to measures that the
welfare of the country urgently de-
man DIS.
Is it not about time that the legisla-
ton of the House was directed by a
majority of the members of that body
instead of being subjected to the despotic
supervision and control of five men2
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

as a strict constructionist of the forms
of law. But so long as there was a soil.
tary doubt as to the mans innocence Of
willful and premeditated murder,
Maxwell was entitled to the benefit of
that doubt, and the Governor should
have erred In that direction rather than
in the contrary direction.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

MAXWELL, the st. Louis trunk mur-
derer, paid the penalty Of his crime in
its soverest form at O'Clock this morn
ing There were circumstances in this
case that would have fully warranted
an exercise OF Executive clemency, but
Governor Morehouso WAS inexorablo.
He SAW nothing but the verdict of the
jury and the sentence Of the Court, and
back Of these returns he refused his
IuJglnen. u pass. Perhaps lie WAS right
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10
SHERIDAN AT AFFIRMATION. y
Exceptions Taken to One of Colonel Franl
Burr's Reminisoonccs

Exceptions Taken to One of Colonel Frank
Burr's "Reminiscences,
EDITOR CRITIC; In your issue of the 7th in
slant you reprint from "Colonel Frank A.
BurT's "Reminiscences an article headed
" Sheridan at Appomattox," GA Stirring
"Reminiscences as told by Governor Gordon Of
Georgia." which contains many erroneous
statements that do injustice to the memory of
the great General and patriot whose death we
to-day mourn, as well as the Union Army,
which not corrected might be accepted as true
history thus falsifying tho record Of move
ments on that important battlefield.
Being aware from experience that General
Gordon should not be held responsible for tho
false statements iu the article until II is known
that he indorses them as correct, write you
now TO say that so soon as his attention can bG
called to tho article my intention is to give
you for publication statement as an eye wit
ness and participant in the scenes attempted TO
be described which shall contain the truth.
My statement will contradict and disproye
nearly every material assertion attributed 10
Gordon In tue article You reprint.
Il. w. WHITAKER,
Washington, Aug. 10,
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

"BELvA, DEAR" the new campaign
song by NJ. II. Rosenfeld, is havinga big
run, and is soon to be supplemented
with a response for female voices; and
both are to be vigorously sung along the
Lockwood lines. This is not only to be
a campaign of intellect, but of music and
the fine arts.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

GENERAL GRANT was buried on the
second Saturday of August 1886. Gen
eral Sheridan will be buried on the sec
ond Saturday of August, 1888, which is
coincidence worth noting" says the
New York World
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

The MAIN BUILDING of Wells College
where Mrs, Cleveland graduated, was
burned Yesterday. This doesn't count
as an offset to the Cleveland luck.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

SENAroR BLAIR MAY think Mr.. Cleve-
land is "a pig-headed Executive" but
the Senator from New Hampshire has
not been able to put a ring in his snout
az far as heard from.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

IT was a plumed night in New York,
but Blaine wasn't there.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-10

IT DOES NOT make much difference
whether it is hard money or soft
money campaign, SO long as there is
plenty of it..