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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
EDlFYlNG CONVERSATION.
How Dakota TonsoriaI Artist Entertained
 Trembling Victim.

How a Dakota Tons soriaI Artist Entertained
 Trembling Victim.
 T dunno what got inlo me today" said the Dakota barber, as he stropped his rag ,r. My hand is so unsteady ] cant h rd.y do nothing"
 II, that sop anx ously inquired the customer from the char, as he peercd over his lower eyeliLs.
 ", S. all of tren be. CIt the last gentleman in the throat" he contin- ued, as he swept the steel down one side of the victims fIca. Steady customer; hated t. lose him. too"
 ''You. you didn't kill him. hopeP" ask"'l the suI ject.
 D D,n't krow yet-friends took him home. V " uncon fortable. though. to turn 10 reach for the laiher brush and have the blood sq iirt o 1t of q GUS toner's jugg.er veiI inio feiler's boot leg" went on the operator. as he rounded the chin a d took swath down the thrnaf. ''l hate 10 go ITO md with my boot full O blood-.iabie to catch cold when ii c ,ols of :"
 he human sacr. .lice only gaspcd. but could not speak. The executioner continue:
 '.It looks bad, too. for first-class shop like this 'un 10 see blood d. quirt- ing all over every thing. Apt to dis courage other customers. too" he con- tinued, as he stepped around behind. pulled the victim little hiohe up on iha rack. and executed some rapid up- strokes on his throat. You probably wouldn't a-yot in the cheer if you'd a seen how hat mans neck looked. B. sides. 1 hate to have my towels and cheers all get blood an it makes the floor s.oppy." he w,ut on. as he rolled the sufferers head tnis way and that, and laid the cold flat side of the razor on his throat "an' t al avs gives me such start when the stream strikes me to turn round an find the GUS. toner a-layin' in tue cheer tryin' tu holler an his win lpi?c cut of short. 1 ar avs makes me laore trembly than 1 was afore-I ain't what 1 was fore cut that last man; if l don't stead, down pertly quick I in going 10 lay off You don know how it breaks me uf 10 see man rollin' .oun in ih, cheel scatl erin blood all over the her s toners as are layim' still. C.oSe shave sir? NJ? All righ.. sir. NJ tonic fo the bald plac' sirP You're bald as | lamp-shale, sir-sonc like it that way though. There yuu are, sir--tifieel cents. plcase-don't step where tha 1 other gentleman roll.d out of the chee an laid an bledr'-Ch ergo Tribune
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
AMOst Hopeful outlook

Int spring of 1888 huds the stock in terests ot New Mexico and Arizona in a better condition than either Territory uas ever before known. It both Terrl- tories the winter that has just closed was une remarkable for heavy snow and rainfall. Never ill the history of Ar- znna since the Amer can occupation, and few times in two score years that New Mexico has been under American rule Was there such il rrecip tatlon of mols- ture us during the winter of 'S7 88. For the three or four years preceding, both Territories had felt the blightng effects of drouth, com blned with such scarcity of feed which kept stock poor rustlln2 for something on which to sustain life With eaten out ranges, low prices, over stocked and kindred evils, discourage ment was becoming permanent feat ure i'll stock growing in the southwest, until HOW, with new grass in every direction, abundance of water and d steady de- mand for beef cattle, both east and west, with good prices, has given a golden lin ing to the clouds, and caused the hardest and most persistent cloakers to acKnuwl- edge that there could still come good out of Nazareth. Without boom the stock men or the twin Territories of the south west are destined to enjoy prosperity for the present year at least. No excuse can now be gwen for croaking and each and every one should lend hand to make the most of the good times while they are with them. Remember that while grass may now be abundant, and that next year it may be different, and act accordingly, cut out every available beef and convert it into cash. By sr doing you will relieve the pressure on your range and at the slme time be put ting dead capital into shape where il can he realized Put it into anything but do not. let it waste away in the shap, of four or i've year old steer that i every day becoming more and nor df fficult to realize on, while liable at an, time to drop of, and leave you out ant injured in purse. -;Lincom (N. M.) Go Indcpendeni
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
FruiE Cuiturc.

To our many wheat growing friends i'll this vicinity, who have never tried fruit raising, yet persis, in stating that the soil around Lodi is not adapted to that industry, we publish some figures to show what Tom Clements, who is well known to us all, has done on his ranch near Clements Mir Clements has an orchard of between three and four acres composed of seven year old peach trees. Last season he sold on an average, from one of these trees, twelve boxes of peaches suitable for canning purposes, receiving therefor seventy-fiv cents per box. He also picked from these trees an amount of fruit, which when dried, averaged two boxes to the tree For the dried fruit he received the same price as for that shipped to the cannery. very small amount of figuring shows that each tree netted Mir. Clements Sl0. 90, which, allowing 100 trees to the acre makes the income S1 050 per acre. We say S1 ,050 was the net income, fol all the expenses, boxes for shipping, Were paid by the purbasers, a Sacra. mento canning esta blishment. Compare the income from an acre of such an or chard with the income from an acre oi wheat, and unless you are fit subject for cell i'll the Stockton insane asylum you will certainly say it does not pay tC raise wheat. .-L1di Sentinel
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
Made Her Feel at Home.

A lady from Nebraska was the guest of a Pittsburg family. As the thermometer only touched zero once during the winter the fair stranger would have been home sick but for the thoughtfulness of her host. By an ingenious arrangement a powerful fan drove snow dust in her face every time she opened the front door. The snow was banked against the windows of her room and her meals let down the chimney with a string. Another device initiated the roar of blizzard, and so soothed her to gentle slumber-whereia she dreamed of her native state. These little attentions deeply touched the fair guest. Bulletin,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
ABBREVIATED NAMES.
4 Pernicious American Custom That
 Greatly Deceives Foreigners.


 One thing that always surprises for signers is that. with our beautiful and original geograph; cal names. ", have }" little taste as 10 disg Lise them in abbreviations. I heard q fore;g Ter once say that he had d brother living in St. Paul. 'Minn.." and he said 'Mnn.." and not Minnesota, with sv dently no idea whatever thas ''Minn." was cheap and vulgar ab- breviation of a musical and romantic word. Ina we A ncricans write to our European friends. or even our Amer can ones, as from Ne, Miss. NJ ,.. M, Mon. and Min, is leo credit whatever 70 our @sihctic sense. and that we disguise in our public journals our lovely Colorado. Cllifor- nia. G,nnect,cut. M,rtara Iowa a, IIaho and Wyoming as Col. Ctl.. C'nn.. Ia.. Io. and Wy. shows that W, hava no national sense of poetry anl music E iglish p ,opl. shortened their county names, but their county names are tame prose compared with the breezy picturesquenesS of our Sate and Territory names. Besides the En- glsh abbreviation is usually in lhe mere suppressio of the wort 'shirr," common to all their counties. The French are never too much in haste to treat their geographical names with respect. although the majority of these names are much longer than ours. .,I it a sheer waste of time and ink to write Meurth ,e:-M Iseile or Seine Inferieure pr P Jrenees-O o 'ientales, but what Frenchman would date his letter from NJ -et-M S., Inf or 20? It would fake much of the tinkle and tril, the sweet lnte notes, and echoss of pipe anl tabor, from out our memories of EIrope if it was thus Americanizrd. An anonymous lett T inAurope was once trac d 10 an Amer ic i'll bee 'usa the worl Verm Int was written Vt, as no one but one to tho commonplace manuer born would have write ii. O. the other hand, & letter was once returned to its writer. who had jhst returned from a long residence abroad. by the p st. mas CT of a remote Western hamlet because he could not make out its destination. It was directel in full: Newburyport Massachusetts. "Oh. you mean Mass-." saId the postmas- ter when the matter was explained. "Your writin' an very plain, and ] thought p'raps twas some turin mis- take O yourn This is an actual fact, incredible as it seems. N F i lynes.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Thousands of new policemcn's clubs have lately been made for the London police.
 In Turkey when any man is the author of notorious falsehools they blacken the whole front of his house.
 Several German firms have given notice to houses in Bradford, where there are mary Germans, that they will adopt Volapuk in corresponding with E iglish manufacturers.
 The City of Mexico levies tax on bull fights of fiji cen per cent. of the gruss receipts. and thus far this season the city treasury has been enriched for thousand dollars from this source.
 The petroleum deposits recently discovered in Burmah are said by the E ;glish papers to be practically mex haustible, and they express the opinion that England will soon draw her supp plies of oil from that source instead of the United States.
 A Paris rag-pickcr who had been 
 mont for vagabondagr. turned toward his counsel and cnniemptuDu ly called him 'cpw." Fer this little exhibi- tion of temper he was given an extra term of two years.
 The G Gpver lment of Denmark will expend twenty thousand dollars in a coast survey of Iceland. to be com nlclced next summer. The depths and channels of mary of the great bays and inlets are inaccurately known, and it is anticipai ed that the work will also promote the Icelandic fisheries as well as the interest. of pavi gators.
 While the Queens hounds re- gently were chasing deer in Englanl, the animal took to the railroad track, m presently rounded a curve right in the face of an exrress going forty five miles an hour. The deer swerved in lowing close behind ran square into the locomotive. and several of them were cut to pieces.
 A l. verpcol dealer in wild ani- mals of various kinds has recently shipped 120 ferrets to sheep farmer In New z ,a!and. whose pastures are being ruined by rabbits. CLriously enough. the same dealer has ar orler from British Columbia for O00 rab- bits. But they are not likely to prove the nuisance there int they have in Australia and N w Zealand.
 The people of Japar have made voluntary subscriptions of $2 100 900, some $500 000 more than was desired, 10 the coasi-dcfensc fund. The sum ir excess of that cailel for will bs used ir the manufacture of cannon, that in. dusry having been recently estab lished in Japan. at th, O,aka arsenal. They are already experimenting witt the new Italian composition metal ir casting guns.
 A PJstage Stamp Exchange and Mlrt is shortly 10 be opened in Vienna. The Austrian post-oliice sells annually 900 fl lrius' worth of stamp: ant If use 10 collectors. No less thar 50 900 tiorins' worth of Elsterr postage stamps are exported every year from Vienna. Cirds nf admis sion to the Pnsiage Stamp Exchange will on no conditions be delivered lt collectors under eighteen years of age
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

THERE can be no doubt that Arizona IS entering upon an era of progress and prosperity that will very soon bring the Territory into prime condition for ad mission into the Union us a State. The new element that is constantly arriving from the eastern states is of progressive, cosmopolitan character that supplies every element for the successful erection of grand commonwealth, and their presence Is Q constant stimulation to those of lesser energy to accomplish somc- thing in the way of material advancement. The class of people now coming to Ari- zonA are generally men of intelligence, thrift and industry, who are ready and willing to create beautiful homes out of the barren deser, and are quick to re- cognize good business opportunity at 6 glance. Peoplsd with such excellent material Arizona will enter it's condition of statehood as one of the first in quality } as well as in material worth, among iti older sisters.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
Chinese Shoes and shoemalinc.

Shoemalling, shoe mending anu shoe selling are distinct branches of business in China. Chinese shoes exhibit great v;.iety of shape. Except in thc ho5 nailed shoe for wet weather. there is little leather used-the materials heing principally calico, silk. satin. velvet and felt. Children's summer shoes are made of fine open rush work, with bright lilc ing. Ladies' shoes are made and mended by their wearers. From childhood the girls of the upper classes have their feet tightly bound, and they are thus, at the cost of years of suffering, enabled to wear shoes about three inches long, The Chinese cobbler goes from house 10 house, and announces his presence with q pe4,u- liar Philadelphia Times.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
Uses Oflhe Lemon.

Lemonade from the juice of the lemon IS oue of the safest and best drinks for any person, whether in health or not It IS suitable for all stomach diseases, gravel, liver complaint, inf lmmation of the bowels and fever. It is a speci he against worms and skin complaints. Lem on juice IS the best antiscorbutic remedy known. It not only cures thls disease but prevents it. Sailors make dt fly use of it for this purpose advise every one tu ruff their gums with lemon juice to keep them in good condition. The hands and nails are kept clean, white and supple by the daily use of lemon in stead of soap. It also prevents chii- plains.
 Lemon IS used in intermittent fever, mixed with strong black coffee, without sugar Neural: :sia may be cured by rub bing the part affected with cut lemon. It is valuable, also to cure warts and de- stroy dandrutf on the head, by rubbing the roots of the hair with it. It will alleviate coughs and colds and heal diseased lungs, if taken hot on going t0 bed at night. Its uses are manifold, and the more we employ il externally the better we shall find ourselves off Lennon juice is useful. In removing tartar from the teeth, antifehrile, etc A doctor in Rome k trying it experinentlIly in ma larial fever with great success, and thinks it will in time supersede quin- ne.-Boston Traveller.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

WHEN the great enterprise of dam ming the Gila river at the Butte is con summated and the great contingent natural reservoir is made, enough water can be stored therein to supply the greatest compact body of rich agricul- tural land to be found from Fl PAso to the Pacific ocetu. The capacity If this natural reservoir is such that once 6ll d with the surplus water of the river, Il reserve supply will be on hand suffic ent to irriVate more than million acres .f land for an entire summer without diminishing the natural flow of the river. That such grand opportunity will long remain urdeveloped is hardly reasonable, for is business proposition that must command the attention of capitalists from the certainty of the large returns upon the capital required in it's develop ment. It is oue the most important en- terprises to the future prosperity of Flor snce, for its construction will make this place the most available mart for all the productions of the broad belt of country that it's waters will cover The present canals are sufficient to support a rural population of more than fifty thousand people, tributary tu Florence, while the reservoir proposition will fully quadruple that number, in the midst of which the prosperous city of Florence is bound to flourish.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

ON the first page of to-day's ENTER PRISE will be found on open letter from N. 0. Murphy relative to the approach ing mineral exhibit in St. Louis. The mining interests of Pinal county should by al means be fully represented in the collection from Arizona, and 1t is time that steps were taken to that end. Final county can make very handsome and attractive exhibit and the subject IS of sufficient importance to inspire prompt, action in the m1tter.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

THE heart of many Il person who has made desert land entry upon tracts covered with small growth of mesquite wood, will beat lighter because of the decision of the secretary of the Interior holding that the presence of large growth of m mesquite trees upon land does not exclude it from entry under the des ert land act, so long as no agricultural crop can be raised without irrigation. This is a righteous ruling and it settles 0 question that has caused much anxi- ety to many poor settler.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

THE insane asylum imbrogiio, as pie tured by the Phenix newspapers, has be- come nunseating and the general public would be glad to see the trouble settled without parade of the unsavory details each morning aud evening in the news papers. Let up on the offensive ulcer, boys and give the proper surgical knife a chance to extirpate it and cauterize the wound in professional way,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
THE separators are busy throughout

THE sepIrators are busy throughout valley, threshing the new crop of grain wkile the snow drifts have not entirely disappeared in some of the states east of the Rocky mountains. Figs aud apricots are ripe and all the usual summer vese- tables have been in market for weeks. This is striking contrast in favor of southern Arizona and iU IS one that gives to the farmer many advantages, among which may be mentioned the high prices of an early and exclusive market and the continual use of the same land for q sue cession of crops. Our first crop of cereals is gathered before the ground is ready for the blow in the east, and long sea son of summer still remains for the growth of other farms products. But it is in the line of fruit culture that south ern Arizona is destined to excel all other portions of the United States The soil md climate are adapted to the produc- ton of perfect fruits of all kinds, but more especially raisin grapes, which con- tain an unusually large amount of sach- Nrine properties and cure readily without artificial process. Indeed, the very mauy advantages possessed by the farm- CT and fruit raiser in this portion of Arr zona are sufficient to induce a large i'm migration of industrious aud energetic farmers from the eastern states to this valley. There is room enough for many thousands of families and good fortuLe C for everyone.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

By private letter from Prescott dated May 12th, it is learned that small pox epidemic is imminent in that city. Two infected men had come to that city from Jerome and circulated freely about town even after one of them had the disease quite well developed. One of these men died of the disease and the other is now down with it. There are twenty five we'll det eloped cases at Jerome (the United Verde mines) and quarantine has beedneclared agtiust that pllce and Verde Junction. The people of Prescott are said to be badly frightened at the prospect of an epidemic, but the ncws- papers are silent regarding the matter.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

TIE application of the white mans law to the Apache Indiana is likely to in spire in their evil hearts wholesome fear of it's penalties. They have learned to look upon all civil law process with contempt, but the examples of its power shown them in the recsnt trials at Tue son and Phenix will change their julg- nlent of its swift and sure vengeance.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
Gods of the Esquinaux.

The Esquimaux pantheon is pretty well occupied, there being gods to pre- side over tho different natural phenomena, sush as the rain, snow, ice, tides and so forth. and others controlling human des- tiny in the chase. at home and else where. Their explanation of the tides is very naive. The genius of the waters, it seems. wishing to cross the straits dry shod. caused the water that filled them to heap itself up ct one side. and then, when he had passed over. to fall back into it's place again, which it did with sucu momentum as to go on oscillatin 2 to ard fro ever since. They have nc lack of priests. and under their direction make various offerings to propitiate the ,lcilies. particularly when the season is bad. and seals are scarce.-J. Macdonald Oxley i'll American Magazine.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

TIE rush of people to secure govern ment lands along the new canals n ear Florence has commenced in earnest. Hardly q day passes that from one to a dozen land seekers does not arrive and secure locations.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19
Stockholders, Ieeting.

The nnIl meet ng of the stockholders of ihe San Pedro Mining Company, for the election of i've directors, will be held at the Utlce ot the company, 14O1 Fifteenth St., Denver, Colorado, June 4, 1888.
 ALvAH MANsUR, JOHN R. WILLIvMs, Vice and Acting Pres
 SGcl e5ary
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

Yuma county has probably now as bright prospects for a real genuine west ern boom as any county in Arizona or Southern California. The agricultural and mining interests continua to i'm prove and it may be safely said th,t very shortly things will begin to briphten in that favored section. The bonds of the county are being sought as paying in- vestment and strangers are arriving daily and giving their attention to the natural resources of uma-Star
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

Assumption of the 5. V. Catholic Gnu oh Rev. J. Monfort. pastor. Sundays ard fest vals of oblig ation. mass, S:S0. Prayers, Ben edietion of the Holy Sacrament, 6p. n.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

Drew & Bamrick are the mail contract. ors to Silver King and Pinal. The best toek and quickest time made.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-19

Literature, an Illustrated Weekly Magazine (Sl.00 year), has certainly successfully taken the field as the popu- lar literary journal of America, Its great variety of contents, handy form, and choice illustrations, make it exceel- ingly attractive. Foremost American authors are among it's contributors NJ |. Susan E Wallace, wife of the author ot "Ben Hurr," and quite as charming a writer as her husband. has papers ir two current issues on ''The Poetry and Music of the Arabs" For a specimen copy (free). address John B. Alden, Publish CT, 303 Pearl St., New York; P. o. Box 1927.