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Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

A Phoenix dispatch Of the 18th instant
says: Special Agent OF the Interior De-
partment M. X. Slater was arrested by
the Sheriff last night on the train and
brought here, charged with criminal libel.
He was examined to-day snd held for
appearance before the next Grand jury
under 5000 bonds. II appeared by the
evidence in the examination that he
wrote a communication TO the Prescott
Courier under an assumed name, falsely
and maliciously charging ex-Attorney-
General Churchill and others with having
endeayored to procure the confirmation oi
the Peralta land claim, alleged TO be
fraudulent. Slater admitted in Court
that he wrote the offensive letter in retail
alton for complaints made against him in
the Department OF the Interior at Wash
ington by people here, who have sought
in vain for the past two years to have him
removed from office, they charging him
with making false reports and stirring ny
contests against the settlers.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01
Resisar.tisa er Electors.
OyficE ON THE BOksD or SUPERVISORS
op MatfAyp ratTssry ADrxoNA A

OyrfcE ON THE BOAsD or SUPERVISORS
or MoaAyR CoUsrY, AmzosA.|
Notice is hereby given that the Board
Of Supervisors of Mohaye county, Arizona,
did on the 3rd day OF July, 1883, adopt
the following order:
On motion II WAS ordered that new
registration Of the voters os Mohaye
county b, made for the ensuing election
flsS8), and oil voters are required 10 re.
register, such re.registration being deem
ed necessary by the Board Of Supervisors.
Voting aye, Meesrs. Croxier and Johnson.
And the Clerk IL directed TO publish this
order In the Official paper Of the county,
la the manner and Tor the time required
by Law.
BY order Of the Board Of Supervisors.
JAagK j. HYDR,
Clerk.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

The Arkansas mining boom has fallen
through. Recently DIR. Branner, the
State Geologist, investigated the true
character OF the so-called gold and silver
fields Of the State, and in bis report says:
"Sufficient work has been done in this
region by the geological survey TO settle
all these questions beyond dispute. Over
800 openings made in search of gold and
silver have been examined and sampled
by DR.. Comsfock, and more than 400
assays and analyses have been made OF
the. material worked. No prejudice has
been allowed to stand in the way OF the
most thorough investigations. To insure
saiety careful examinations have been
made, even when there was evidently
nothing to be expected from the material.
The ores have been tested thoroughly
and by the best methods known to
modern science, while the chemical work
done in the surveys laboratory has been
checked by some Of the best assayers in
the country, notably by DIR. r. DE r
Ricketts,, Of Columbia College, New
York, and by Prof. X. III. Richards, d
the Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
noloey, Boston. We are brought to the
irresistible conclusion that ignorance o.
fraud or both is at the bottom Of the higi
gold assays reported from Montgofner!
and Garland counties. The region hal
been properly characterized by one OF tn
leading men Of the State as the riches
mining region or the biggest swindle Oh
the face Of The earth a rich minInl
region IL is not. Much as these advers
results are regretted, it is to the interes
OF the people OF Arkansas, as well az al
honest men, that the truth be mad
known, and that this waste Of money II
search for what does not exist be stopped
The future Of Arkansas as mining stat
must depend Upon her coab iron, nnaga
nese, antimoDy, and poesibly zinc, lea
and graphite. In those and in oil stone
marble, chalk, mari and building ston
she is rich. The geology Of the state
not favorable Tor the production or miriin
of the precious metals"
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

A few days ago letter was received OF
the stock claim department OF the Texas
& Pacific from farmer living do9n the
road. II was briefly To the effect that the
Texas & Pacific train had run over and
killed his COW. He said she was a con-
mon, everyday Texas COW, worth, he
suppose. least IS. The naive gentle
ness OF the letter was so very refreshing
that he was paid the sum he asked with
out question.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01
Smiths majority, 1883.


The President sent to Congress on the
23d instant message in reference to the
rejection Of the fisheries treaty by the
Senate. He recommends immediate leg.
islation conferring upoa the Executive
the power TO suspend by proclamation the
operation of all laws and regulations per
mitting the transfer Of goods, wares and
merchandise in bond across or over the
Territory Of the United States to or from
Canada. Legislation is also recommended
that will give Canadian vessels nayigat-
ing our canals precisely the same advan'
tages granted to American vessels IN
Canadian canals, and that both be meas
nred by the same rule discrimination.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

Eueki6n's ArDica Saiye.

The best Salye in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed 10 give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded, Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Watkins Bros.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

In the criminal libel suit OF Clark
Churchill against John III. Marion, editor
of the Prescott Courier, at Phoenix this
week, the affair took new turn by Mr..
Marion giving the name Of the author Oh
the iibelous article Marion Was released
and M. X. Slater, the writer OF the article
In aaestion, arrested.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

The Democratic primaries o Pima
county win be held on the 18th OF Sep
tember and the County Convention on
the 27th OF the same month.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

David X. Francis, at present Mayor a
st. Louis, and representative of the
young Democracy, was nominated for
Governor of Missouri last week.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01
cochise county warrants are at par.

Warner Miller has been nominated for
Governor by the Republicans Of Nev
York.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

Seth Green, the well-known fish cnltur-
list, died at Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th
instant, aged II years.
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01

The Globe Silver Belt gives tho follow
ing table rs the correct vote for Delegate
toa.ouoress In 1856:
Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01
AGENTS FOR THE PIONEER MILLS FLOUR. .

and Complete Line Of General Merchandise
Our goods always and fresb prices will
competition. sa-r4s4-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
Abuse of Protection

| The Philadelphia Times, one of the
staunchest of the Democratic protection
newspapers, under the caption, How
to Protect Protection, says:
The protection of American labor is
now vastly more imperiIed by the extor-
tionate abuse of protection than by all
Its toes OF every shade. In point of fact
the protection of the wages of our home
industry is entirely lost sight of by many
advocates OF protective policy, and
protection is basely prostituted to intol-
cradle extortlon and monopoly Where
ever protection is maintained in excess
of the full difference between the wages
of labor at home and abroad in the Dro
lection of competitive articles, the true
theory of protection is abandoned and a
most wise policy is deformed and de-
graded to make many suffer for the ben
eft of the few. This now alarming
abuse that is paralyZing some of our
most important industries is pointedly
illustrated in the various trusts or COM
bines now organized throughout the
country to advance the cost Of the nee
essaries of life and business and practice
oppressive extortion upon consumers.
III the sincere friends of American in
dustry would protect protection theymay
promptly separate it from the extortlon
OF trusts and monopolists. 1t can sur
viye the hostility of open. manly foes.
1T cannot survive the suicidal blows of
those who use protection only to
abuse 1t by the arbitrary oppression of |
consumers that would not be tolerated |
IN despotic Russia. OF these trusts or |
combines which are now hanging like |
mlllstones about the neck of protection. |
"a tI.Tte IA, l. r
common fairness and most false to the |
protection that created it and gave mil |
hons of profits to its investors. Under |
open home competition. steel rails were |
sold at twenty-seven dollars per ton, and |
then sold at profit TO all who were
properly equipped for producing them;
but all the steel mills are now united in
a trust or combine and the price de-
manded for steel rails is forty dollars.
The high protection needed to develop
this important industry is now not
needed, but it still remains in our tariff
laws and the manufacturers combine
ana put up the cost of their product to
The outside price that will exclude for
aign importation. The result is the OBJ
siously just refusal of railways to buy
steel rails, and the combined manufac-
lures have closed their mills and thrown
heir labor out out of employment, to
'oerCe consumers TO pay an extortion of |
zen dollars or more a ton to crafty or
sanized greed.
There is only one way to protect pro-
lection against such fragrant wrongs
rom Its own benehciaries, and that is
oy proposing the entire suspension of all
import duties on steel rails for period
of say sixty days from given date,
md thus give the steel rail combine the
shoice between a broken monopoly
rust or Tree steel rails to supply the ,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
THE PRESIDENTS GRoUND

A remarkable and gratifying feature of
the present contest for tax reform. says
the New York Star, is the readiness
with which friends of good and economi-
cal government subordinate their per-
sonal preferences to the general good.
There is at present but little active con-
tention between free trade Democrats and
those who believe that a certain degree
OF protection to labor as distinguished
from monopoly capital must endure fer
some time to come.
1t is remarked by the opposition press
as extraordinary that Henry Watterson
and others of strong free trade views
should have become so conciliatory and
moderate in their expressions. The rea-
son becomes evident when we reflect
that the agitation for revenue reform
has passed out of the stage of theory into
that OF practice. Something must be
done, and done at once, in the direction
OF reducing redundant revenues and Civ
ing freer supply of the materials used
by our workmen. These points being
settled, it is only necessary to find
common ground upon which all practi-
cal reforrlers can stand.
The Presidents message has supplied
that grouad. That convincing docu-
ment discussing "a condition not a
theory" appeals directly to every man
who has Democratic principles at heart.
1t has drawn the members of the Demo-
cratic family closely together in bonds
of fraternity, and has inspired them to
act as one man for the salvation of the
country from a great peril.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
FOREIGN CAPITAL IN AMERICA.

Immediately after the late war the
United States owed an immense amount
abroad. Nearly all of its national debt
OF $500, DOC, 600 was held in Europe, ac-
cording to the Times Democrat, and
nearly as much more of railroad and
other stocks; and our total Indebtedness
must have Appropriated some 81, 0O0,-
DOC, 1000, borrowed of England, France.
Germany and Holland, mainly TO enable
the United States to carry on the war.
The debt was big one, but big crops
and increased manufactures have ena-
Died us not only to pay the interest regu-
larry but to pay large portion of the
principal. Yet, even to-day, there is a
considerable amount of our national
debt and of our railroad stocks and
bonds held abroad, and a large tax is
pad by us annually to the foreigners
holding them.
The British hold to-day of railroad
bonds $3.50, ZOO, 600 and of railroad shares
5000 100000. On the former, an aver
age interest of Al per cent. is paid. and
has been regularly paid with very few
DEFAULTS, or an annual tribute of S37.-
ooo,ooo. In fact, notwithstanding many
complaints, European investments in
American stocks have paid well, paid
much better than their own shares.
There goes out of this country each wear
nearly 500, 100000 in interest and diyi-
bends ON foreign capital. Most of this
has been invested here since the war.
What we owed when hostilities ceased
mas nearly all been long since paid off.
and new debts incurred in various
schemes of improvement; and these new |
debts are now in the way of settle |
menf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02

needs of the country. Some bold and
sincere. friend of pre- itection shnuld At
once offer joint reso luton in CONGRESS
in substance as follows:
Resolved, That all import duties levied
upon foreign steel rails. by any law or
laws of the United States, be and the
same are hereby declared to be suspended
for the period of sixty days from the LIST
day or March next, and all steel rails
imported during said period of sixty
days, shall be admitted free of duty in
all the ports OF the United States.
No honest friend of protection to
American industry could consistently
vote against the foregoing resolution.
The arbitrary advance of the price of
steel rails, when improved machinery
mas cheapened the Cost of labor in mo
duclng steel more than it has been cheap-
ened IN any other industrial ENTERPRISE
IS not only utterly indefensible. but it is
the veriest mockery of protection to Ia
Dor, and the deadliest foe of the protec
tive policy, by exhibiting only the most
monstrous abuses CT which it is capable.
Public Improvements have been halted.
and industry has been made idle BY the
excessive duties upon steel rails aud the
greed of the steel combine that exacts
the last dollar of extortionate tribute
permit.
Protection must be prompt Y and fear
lessly protected against those it has Gre
ated and given riches In abundance. and
the place to begin is to protect protection
against the steel rail combine. 1t can be
done at once, without waiting for tariff
revision. by Joint resolution of Con-
gress suspending all duties on steel rails
for sixty days, beginning month or so
hence. Such a resolution passed by the
House would give ample opportunity to
the steel trust to open its mills, employ
Its industry and offer its products at
about $50 per ton, which would be gen
erous profit on the actual cost: and if
the extortionate trust abandoned the
warfare of greed against the protection
that created it for for the common good
the resolution could be halted: or. if
passed, it could be rescinded before the
date fixed for the free Importation of
steel rails.
We now have trusts and combines on
every side, and they are costing CON
sumers millions every month If not ar
rested by tariff legislation, they will soon
sweep the whole protective policy from
our revenue laws, and the foremost in
this crusade of moEopolists is the trust
that controls the steel rail market. 1t is
against such beneficiaries of protection
that protection must be protected. and
the short and easy way to do it is for
Congress to move at once for the sus-
pension of all import duties on steel
rails. What protectionist will have the
courage to come to the front to protect
protection, by offering joint resolution
such as is hereinbefore indicated, to
break the most insolent and extortionate
of the many trusts which now shame
protection by the most fragrant abuse of
it: Where is Kelley? Where is Ran
dali!
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
There Shall Be No More Knights.

Bob Burdette in New York Star.
queer ideas we nineteenth century
people have about names and tit es.
Take this great organization of working
men, the hard working, industrious toll
ers of our land-the Knights of Labor
Could inspiration suggest a name more
misleading and inappropriate? If there
was anything in the world that the
plumed knighI didn't do, it was work. If
there was one thing that he considered
degrading, it was honest toll. If there
was creature in all the world for which
he had profound contempt, it was a
workingman. He called the honest la
borer hind, churl base born, ignoble,
clown. He believed that the working
man was made of coarser clay than the
knight OF gentle blood; think he even
doubted If the laborer had a soul. A
cowardly, quarrelsome, hard drinking,
Dragging thieving, ''hlgh born" knave,
who barricaded himself and his horse in
ton of arnlor ylating, and with
lance twenty feet iong, rode into mob
of half naked wretches, armed with
bows and arrows, and called it war.
Why, the honest, brave, toiling workers
of to-day, free born men, should want
to call themselves knights rather than
yeomen, don't know. All! brethren,
the Englishman isn't the only man who
dearly loves a lord" We seem to love
even the faded "reminiscences of one.
Why, out in Emperia, Kan, while I
was waiting for .'thunderbolt train
that was six hours late, voice called
into the waiting room, ''Sir Walter.''
and ''Sir Walter" said Hey" and got
up, l observed ''Sir Walter The grim
old knight wore sword belt three sizes
too small for him, and his rapier hung
down between his legs. His boots wore
the ruddy hue of boots that shuddered
at the scent of backing; large, roomv.
many wrlnkled boots they were, and the
soil OF the Kansas corn field chung to
them in gouts and patches. His black
pantaIoons, scant in the lean pattern of
a bygone day, bagged fearfully at the
punched and bony knees, and his black
frock coat was a nightmare. But Sir
Walters hat was the hat of plumed
knight, and it lent to his grizzled face
and bony figure the genial aspect of a
scarecrow that had gone through mil
linery store. ''Sir Walter" looked a mo-
ment for convenient corner, but find
ing none, turned his face toward the
stove, projected his under lip a scant
half inch, and with one sibilant, well
directed shot, put out the fire. tossed
his now useless quid in after it. and |
without passing to gaze upon the ruin. |
followed Sir George" out of the door. |
They We're knights of something-om- |
niscient Providence only knows what |
but they We're Knights. And, possibly. |
Barons. They looked barren.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
jacksonville, Tampa and
key-West Railway.

On and after December 18th, 1887, passenger
trains Will leave PALATkA Lemon Street
Station as follows:
GOING NORTH.
4:2f a. M.-CUBAN FAST MAIL (daiIy). Arrives
at Jacksonville $50 A. NJ, and has Pull
man Bullet Steering Cars through TO
ashlngton without change.
1929 A. M.-Arrives at jacksonville J.2e
M. Has Monarch Parlor Buffet Cars, and
connects with train for the North leaving
JACKSONVILLE at 2: p. N.
4:4I 7. h.-ArriVes at Jacksonville $40 p
NJ. Has Monarch ParlOr Buffet Cars and
sOnville
GOING SOUTH.
lO:O8 a. a.-(TAMPA AND INDIAN RIVER
Arrives at Sanford I2:47 p. NJ; TitusviIle
2:O6 z. NJ: Orlando, 2:12 p. NJ; Barlow
b:5O Y. M: Tampa, $40 =. N. Has Mon
arch Parlor Buffet Cars TO Sanford.
2:l5 p. h.-CUBAN FAST NAH. (dailyl-Arriyes
at Sanford 4;30 p, NJ: Tavares, Cos p NJ:
Orlando, 6:35 p. NJ: Tampa 9:1O p
Has through Pullman from New York tn
Tampa, and connects with steamship
Ohvette or Mascotte for Kew West and
Havana on Mondays, Thursdays and Satur-
days.
500 ?; M.-Arrives at Sanford 8:4s p. M.
and carries Monarch Parlor Buffet Car.
Except where indicated, trains do not run
sundays. A connecting train leaves LAUREL
STREET STATION ten minutes before time
given at Lemon Street, except that no con-
nection is made with Cuban Mail Train north
ward. Fast Mail South stops only at imDor-
tant stations. Tickets ON sale at CITY Wicket
Office, Il. kERSTING, Agent, and at both Sta
tons. L. q DFNTNG n n
NJ. r.. MORAN, Gen. Supt
January ]. 1855 de25-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
DAINTY GLASSWARE,
Crystal Bodies Worthy TO Be Inhabited BY the
Spirits of the CostIiest Wines.

| New York Mail and Express
Inc ueiicate venetian glass, which is
now the most fashionable and elegant
thing IN glass for table use. sometimes
seems almost too fragile for use. A
| great deal of this glass is imported by a
well known decorator on Fifth avenue.
In drinking glasses for the table an
antique shape is square, with rounded
corners and slightly faring brinl.
Each side of the glass has large inden-
tatlon, which serves to give the hand a
firm grasp. In straight pattern is one
OF pale olive green, and a glass of
slightly larger size has the upper mart
white, while the lower half has a spiral
design IN raised pink. This is also
shown IN all white. A large goblet is
funnel shaped, with small indentations
all over it.
Carafes, made by Salviati, in pale ann
Der, olive green and smoke color. with
harlng, open mouths, are scarcely heay
Ter than bubble, and so delicate as to
seem scarcely strong enough to bear the
weight or water necessary to fill them.
A decanter in olive green has long.
slender neck, with raised characterization
IN the same color, and a spiral design on
the long, graceful handle. One in pale
amber has the same long neck. but no
handle, has raised design in gold. and
where the sides come together in the
centre on each size is medallion. A
somewhat similar design, but without
the sides meeting, IS of white glass with
ruby ornaments.
For oil and vine ar is an article of
white glass, being divided in the middle
and having two handles and two long
noses. This is a very unique and grace.
full design, the dividing piece of glass
not being visible at first glance. For
bonbons, one design is a large. high COB
let in smoke color, with fiuted edge, the
stem and lower part of the glass being
ornamented with a raised pattern in diff
ferent colors. Low bowls. about four
inches across the top, are in artistic
shapes with slender handles. They are
of white or smoke color. with fine NAT
terms like ribbons, in different colors.
running through the glass and raised
deSigns on the edge. A particularly
beautiful one is ornamented with n
raised design in blue and dashes of gold
on white. Others have the delicate rib |
BON design running up and down and |
ftaring, lattice brim. A tall, slender |
piece of amber glass has small. funnel |
shaped bowl at the top, while bird /
with golden wings forms part of the
long stem. This would be dainty re-
ceptacle for bonbons. /
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02

The process of equipping the Bell Tele-
phone Company for general long-dis-
lance business goes on rapidly. The
latest acquisition of that corporation is
the purchase of the ST. Clair and Sanilac
Telephone Company, taken by the Bell
lines in settlement of an old debt. There
are odds and ends enough of telegraphic
lines between paying points already in
the hands of the telephone company to
make formidable beginning of COM
petition with the Western Union.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02
A Small Horse.


iuli grown horse, only thirty inches
nigh and weighing seventy pounds. is
tne latest New York curiosity. The
stranger Is a native of Yokohoma, ia
PAN and is the smallest of his Kind in
the world. Sometimes he thinks him
sell lap dog, and will lie with perfect
contentment in the arms of a friend
eating sugar or slipping little milk
punch. He Is destined for exhibition
purposes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02

The action of the Democratic State
Committee of Massachusetts,, declaring
the unanimous and enthusiastic support
given by the party in that State to the
Presidents tax-reform policy. viii be a
surprise to those who have regarded the
present management of the Bay State
Democrats as unfriendly to the admin
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-02

The New York Herald seeks to ex-
pose the numerous trust companies in
the United States, the various CONNER
cial combines which hold consumers in
their iron grasp, and successfully con-
spire to restrict production, lower wages
and raise prices exorbitantly, and it is
finding this no easy matter.