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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Arizona Petrified Wood.

An interesting section of petrifed wood, which stands short distance behind the main entrance door to Tiff fany's will not fail to attract the at tention of scientists as we'll as those fond of looking at curious things. The block is an immense one weigh ing 4200 pounds and measuring 404x 33x34 inches.
 It is of agatized wood and came from the petrified forests of Chalcedony park, Arizona, near Carriso, and twen- ty miles from the nearest railroad sta ton. It was brought to the city through the efforts of MT. Geo. r. Kunz, of Tiffany's, and is the largest block of its kind ever brought east and polished. MT. Kunz had no idea that he could secure so large section foI the inspection of New York people Other pieces of the petrified wood have been brought on from these forests but none which approached this speci men in size. The wood is used tC make up into table tops and hand some wood ornamentation. The pol ished surface, beautiful blending O yellow and black, and in some res poets resembles the red wood of tn, big California trees. Some idea of th' hardness of the wood can be gained when it is known that 200 pieces o marble can be sawed while one piec of agate is being cut.
 The piece of wood is very valuabl and for time was placed outside tn door on the street. It is the bigges gem that has ever been placed outsid of Tiffany's unguarded. It is needles to say that nobody tried to walk o with it.-New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
She Recalled Her Rewarti.

Potts had just returned from all extended trip abroad, and was making his first call upon a young lady friend.
 ''My gracious, Miss Jennie, how you have changedI Why. you are q mere shadow of your former self. Aren't you wellf'
 "Well, no, Mir. Potts. You see, shortly after your departure I joined the cooking school, and there we are obliged to sample everything we make. am now hopeless dyspeptic."
 "How horriblei Really, I pity you from the bottom of my heart"
 "You are very kind, Mir. Potts, but feel positive that l shall reap my reward, {" and here the young lady blushed painfully.
 "Rewardl Really, do not comprehend" !"
 Then, with graceful lutter of clinging drapery, she crossed to his side, gave him a 'tis leap year expression, laid her left ear over his chest protector and gently mur- mured:
 ''Willie, dear. I can make biscuit such as your mother used to make"
 With wild cry of joy he took the trem- bling form in his great strong arms and their happiness was so intense that it could have been cut with a n-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Process of Restoring Teeth.

The operation was performed upon pa. tients at the dental rooms of Dr. J. Albert Kimball by his chief assistant, Dr. Attolin- qua. The root cavities occupied by the decayed teeth were deepened, and natural teeth from other mouths, which had been extracted considerable length of time, inserted. In one instance an inward growing sound tooth was extracted, new root cavity bored and the same tooth in- serted in an upright position. So skill fully indeed were these operations per formed, that dentists who were permitted to examine the work after the lapse of a few days, failed to detect the newly in- stalled member. We regard the achieve ment in dental surgery which dispenses with the objectionable plates and pivots. and replaces the lost members with step- children that good mother nature takes to so kindly. as the ne plus ultra of dentistry. Herald of Health.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
A Pioneer Departed.

This morning at four o'clock just as the sky was growing gray with the coming dawn, the spirit of J. NJ. Cot ten took its flight into eternity. Though it had been known to his fam fly and friends for some months that his life hung almost on a hair, still the news of his death cast gloom over thecommunity that knew him so we'll and in which he did not count sin gle enemy.
 The deceased, during the eighteen ever been one of its prominent and leading citizens, ready with his means or his good word to forward any en- terprise for the good of the communi- ty, where, by his shrewd, matter-of- fact business ways and his honorable dealings with all, he not only advanc- ed his own fortune but also placed himself in the high estimation of all who knew him.
 J. M. Gotten was born in Michigan l in the month of November 1881, and in the early days of the gold excite ment he went to California. Here, while working in mine, q bank cav ed on him injuring the right side of his face, so that it became partially paralyzed. Returning to Michigan he married Miss Artalissa. K. Church, now his sorrowing widow, and shortly after moved to Colorado. Here his two children were born, one of whom, the daughter, now survives. From Colo rado, Mrs. Gotten returned to Michi- gan in 1865 while her husband push
 ed still further into the southwest,
 mined for a while in San Diego coun-
 ty, Cal, and in 1860 reached the old
 station at Maricopa wells where he
 worked for year at his trade of wheel
 which only boasted three adobe hous-
 es at the time and had not yet receiv-
 ed its name. Together with Geo. E.
 Mowry and James Murphy he bought
 the property now known as the Thal-
 heimer corner and that fall erected a
 building on it. Here the firm did bus
 mess for while until Gotten bought
 out his partners. He made money
 rapidly and in 1879 sent back to Mich
 igan for hls wife and daughter, going ing out of business shortly after their arrival, and living on generous in- come derived from the rental of much valuable town property he had acquir- ed.
 In June, 1881, his only child, Lulu G. Gotten, was married to the Honor l able DeForest Porter, then Judge of District Court for this district.
 J. NJ. Gotten was eminently a man who had the friendship and respect oi all who knew him, and his integrity l and uprightness in business matter;
 was proverbial He was one of those : few men whose "word was as good a' his bond," and through all the rough t fro n fer times, when lawlessness wal l rife, down to the years when civiliza g tion gradually approached the ~eecH4aa 3 munity, there has never been a worC : or hint against his fair fame. Hi
 friends are legion and those who knev l him the longest value him most high 9 ly. He was type of the California I forty-niner that is so fast disappearing f from among us, and many of his olc 3 comrades will heave a sigh at hi p departure. e.-Phenix Herald
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Will We Have a Road.

The proposition to assist the people of San Diego to construct a railroad from the Pacific ocean towards the rising sun, passing through this val ley, has met with almost universal favor among the people of this valley, but San Diego people should take the initiative step, 1t is right and proper for her to do The people of Ari- zona are sadly in want of compeii- tive line, in fact it Is a necessity, and come from where it will it is sure 10 come soon.
 A railroad to Tucson or Benson where it will connect with the Soutk- ern Pacific or the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system of roads, will be such an event as will quicken every pulsa- ton of business life and bring into operation all the latent resources of the country. It will open up markets for the products of the valley, co-ex- ten>iye with the territory south, east and west of this point, and will also being to its support the people oi Pima and Cochise counties, and would prove of great and lasting benefit to all. San Diego proposes to send one of her prominent citizens to Boston to lay before the Santa Fe railroad peo- pie the advisability of extending theil road through this country, and will also seek an interview with the Rock Island people, who are casting their wistful gaze towards the setting sun and, will before long, we believe, span this valley with their iron rails. Could not Phenix, also, send man east ir our behalf with profit? We need $ railroad, and we need it badly, and i can be obtained with a unanimou. hearty effort on the part of our citi zens, and the sooner they awaken tC this fact the quicker we will have { road. The Southern Pacific and theil strikers are opposing every movemen made. The direction of competitive line-well knowing that such a lin, would forever put stop to their pres ent robbing and rascally methods o treating the settlers of their territory they are even running men in tn various counties for the legislatur well knowing that these peopl will demand relief from their man, years of infamy-Gazette.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
A Friend to the West.

One of the best speeches made in the house on the irrigation question was that of Congressman O'Neil, of Missouri, who in the course of his re- marks said: "It was my good fortune some years ago to traverse the section of country involved in this appropri- ation, and I may say in passing, in some countries the members of their national councils are encouraged to travel over the country that they may intelligently leglslate for the people, and in the direction of and increase of intelligence to congress, sometimes think the provisions of the interstate commerce law, which prohibits rail roads from extending courtesies, should have been reversed in the case of con gressmen, and that members should be compelled to use them. It would change marvelously not only the judgment of ofmembers, but their speech es If gentlemen had personally visit ed the region in question here, there are few who would require any appeals to them to vote for the pending propo- sition." x
 Having referred to the $24, DOC, ,0O0 appropriations for Notifications and coast defenses, MT. O'Neil continued. l But while we are doing that would 1t not be good idea to cultivate also, to some slight extent at least, the art of peace? When we realize that to- day there are thousands of people in our large cities who are of very little benefit to themselves or to the com munity for want of employment, but who, if they could go upon the land, would become producers of wealth both to themselves and the country, we must be impressed with the impor- tance of extending the area of our cul- tivable lands as much as possible. The territory involved in the arid region, so called, will become, with irrigation, the garden of America. There Is no other land within our limits which is so abundantly productive as that can be made with the aid of water.
 "Gentlemen talk about this enor- nous expenditure, but it seems to me that when you haggle about small appropriation like this, and rusf
 through a fortiication bill appropria ting SPA 100000, there is slight in consistency from broad-gauge stand point. Now I appreciate the objec tions raised by the gentlemen not ia miliar with the country and who dt not comprehend the immense advan
 tages which would ensue. They sa, that if we begin this enterprise it vii result in the expenditure of millions
 I hope it will, sir; and I hope that il few years the men elected by tn people will be so educated upon thi subject that they will cheerfully an, . gladly vote all the money that is re : uuired,"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
To Nelly.

Now let me sing my Nelly's fame, For other men have done the same, And praised their idols charm and wity So If do, what harm Is itl Large, lustrous eyes, yet full of fire Teeth small and white you'd desire, And hair so thick and soft to press, Its luxury invites caress. The compass of her voice, 'tis true, Might not please critics such as you; But truth 1t is l cannot sing, So that don't count for anything. Friends will her sometimes catch and holL With clasp that's warm, and touch that's bold No jealous bangs arise thereat, Because my Nelly is 0 cat. Evening Sun
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
No Temptation.

"And So you have brought my beautiful Alphonso home, have you, like an honest man, instead of keeping him yourself. as you might easily have donel" said the delighted lady as she fondled the poodle. "Were you not strongly tempted to keep the darling creature2"
 No, num-" replied the incorruptible man, as he pocketed the $ reward. "It weren't no temptation. I couldn't have sold his hide for two bits at this season of the year, mum. Chicago Tribune.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Nothing to Prevent.

Major Hewitt says the time will come when the question of home rule doctrine that America should be governed by Americans" There is nothing to prevent Americans from governing America now if they will only run the primaries, nominate Americans and vote for them. But it will be rather difficult to determine who are Americans and who are not There are some millions of very good Americans ill this country who were not born here.-Gazette.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Startling.

''rm very glad to have been of any com fort to your poor husband, my good woman. But what made you send for me, instead of your own ministerP'
 "Weel, sir, it's typhus my poor husbands got, and VIC dinna think it just rect for our ain minister to run the riskl" - London Punch
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
An Athletic Job.

Simperson-Youhg Smithson has become como quite athlete, hear.
 Bagley-That fellow an athletea Oh, no. He could not walk around the block without resting.
 Simperson-Ah, well, he has been jumping his board bill, and that must be a consider able job.-Boston Post.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Ono May of Protectinr.

Lightning rods do protect Their decrease in number is not alone due to better electrical knowledge It is due to decrease of the danger which rods remove. The owner of buildings put rods thereon. His buildings may be struck by lightning, the rods melted, the buildings burned, but the man himself was safe. He was fully protected from light ming rod agents.-Boston Manufacturers Gazetta
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Not the Lawn MON CT.

'1 hate to make complaint. Mir. Smith, but that lawn mower of yours is terrible nuisance"
 Lawn mowerl haven't got any lawn mower"
 Haven't got any lawn mowerf We'll, that's good! As though 1 hadn't heard 1t night and morning ever since moved here. Therei there goes the confoundsd thing againi'
 'But, my dear sir. that isn't a lawn mower. That's my son winding up Ais Waterbury "-Boston Transcript.
 AngIomania in Paris has had one good result: It has developed fashion fol walking among women. -------r-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Tn. car,nairn Poet at Work.

Subscriber ito editor)-What's the matter with the gentleman at the desk near the win dowi He certainly has fit.
 Editor-He's all right; he is writing some campaign poetry.-The Epoch.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Prepared Wood Pulp.

In France specially prepared wood pulp is rapidly supplanting plaster of paris in the manufacture of all kinds of building ornaments.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Asking Too Much.

Old Lady twho has bought some groceries) You arc very slow, boy; can't you hurry upi
 Boy reproachfully)-Yo oughn't to ask a three-dollar-a a-week boy to hurry up, ma'am- New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Stu,lv of Character.

The city is the place to study character. After you have measured the postmaster, the blacksmith and the justice of the peace in the country village, you have got the size of the whole town.-Uncle Esek.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Stage Llnes.

Stage Llnes. TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA STAGE co. DAILY LINE OF STAGES, Between Casa Grande and Florence, carrying s. Mail and Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
 EMPRESS Leaves-Casa Grande Yam !" Florence IF n. Connecting at Florence with GLOBE and FLORENCE STAGE LINE Leaves Florence daily at p. m. for RIVERSIDE, DRIPPING SPRINGS, PIONEER
 and GLOBE. connects at RIVERSIDE with Boone & Son'sline for
 BENSON. J. c. LOSS Ag't Casa Grande.
 VIM. E. GUILD, .Ag't, Florence
 W. M. MEALS LINE. Connects at MAMMOTH with the Boone stegs from Riverside for AMERICAN FLAG
 ORACLE and TUCSON Leaves Mammoth Tuesdays; Thursdays ane Saturdays retesgicg ernate days
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

The Metropolitan Cattle market. Lon- don, is the largest of it's kind, covering three and one-half acres and costing &1 ,000 900.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

George Norton has cut his sorghum on his ranch in Mohawk valley. The yield was 5S0 tons from the forty acres.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
A Railroad Clerk Wakes Up and Draws
 S15,OOO.

Mir. Frank Lawrence Dant held one twentieth of ticket No. 3,S94, which drew the capital prize of $300,00O in the Louisiana State Lottery, Aug. 7th. It'was collected by the Citizens Ma tional Bank at Louisville. He is an intelligent and affable gentleman, only twenty-two years of age and unmar- r;ed. For three years he kept books for his father MT. J. w Dant. proprie. tor of large distillery of an old brand of pure Kentucky whisky al Dant's station, fourteen miles from Lebanon, Ky.-Harrodsburg, (Ky., Sayings and Doings. Aug, 23,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

Save money by buying railroad tic. kets cheap, of Sam Drachman, Tue. son. Louisiana Lottery tickets fol sale; agent for Little Louisiana Lot tery.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
W0MAN'S WEAK NERVE.
WHY CITY LIFE IS so TRYING TO
 THE FAIR SEX.

Nerves on the Street, in the Horse Cars and In the StOres-Results of Petting Sfgna
The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
Pension Attorneys Eaormou. Fse,.

: Pension attorneys during the seven months ending January 3l drew S20l, 570 in fees for obtaining increases of pensions. These surprising figures are official They are furnished by Com missioner Black, and are embodied in the report which Congressman Walker will make to the House. The Pension committee has agreed unanimously to recomend Mir. Dockery's bill prohib- iting attorneys fees in cases of increase Under existing law these fees are SlO in each case. Naturally the pension attorneys are up in arms against legis- lation which cuts off their revenue to the amount of nearly $30,00) month. In the statement furnishe Mir. Walker, Gen. Black says there are now pending in the bureau @, ,04s straight increase eases. He further says:
 .'On the basis of 22.391 allowances Of straight increase cases for the seven months ending February l,there will be allowed during the present fiscal year 3s.3Ss cases"
 Ninety per cent of these, the Com missioner thinks, carry attorney fees. The amount, therefore, to be paid to attOraeNs tuiiNR tuc year VIII Dc S345, ,492, all of which should be saved to the pensioners. Mir. Walker believes. The report shows that the attorneys perform no service which the pension CT can not just as well perform himself.
 There is only the filling in of a blank and the taking of an oath before not ary. The pension office does all the rest. This bill also wipes out another class of pension fees. those charged by attorneys who claim to Dc instrument al in getting special acts through Congress
 MT. Walkers report says the charg- ing of fees for such service is great abuse: that the attorneys really do the pensioners ne good; that the evidence on which the special act goes through is, in 95 per cent Of the eases, taken from the records Of the Pension once These prohibitions are made effective by making the violation of them mis- demeanor. punishable by. fine of Ss0o0 or by Imprisonment for two years, or both
The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife have arrived at London.
 Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin has been released from Tullamore Jail.
 Bismarck and yon Beningsen are to have an interview on Tuesday next,
 A duel with swords was fought Wed nesday at Paris. One of the combat ants was wounded in the arm.
 A number of Toronto bankers have been arrested on charges ol felony in connection with recent bank break.
 The Sultan has promised Baron Hirsch that the negotiations for Turk ish railways shall be satisfactorily con- cluded in spite of the Grand Nizier.
 The treay between Italy and Ger many stipul tes that if France attacks either coun ~ the other shall send an army of 300,000 men to the French frontier.
 The newspapers at St. Petersburg discuss the Austro- German treaty tranuuilly. Most of them aver that Russia is equally desirous of peace and wishes to attack nobody.
 The Pope's jubilee was celebrated at the American College Saturday with a solemn mass of thanksgiving and the singing of the Te Deum. The Arch bishop of Philadelphia officated.
 During performance at Dublin a woman placed her head in lions mouth. The beast mangled her in horrible manner.
 The Vienna newspapers agree that the publication of the Austro-German treaty is the final admonition to Russia from these governments.
 The Spanish Government has given orders to English houses for camp equipage and hospital and other stores sufficient for force of 25.O0O men.
 The position of the pope on the home rule question, as expressed to the Irish pilgri ms "Wednesday at Rome, has set the masses of Irish Catholics in state of intense excitement.
 The Florence consulate has devel- oped into serious state Of affairs be- tween the French and Italian govern ments and the breaking of of diplo- matic relations is among the posslbili- ties.
 The Compagnie Generale Transatlan- tique at Marseilles IS dlsmlsslng US foreign workmen and has ordered that none shall hereafter be employed. It is reported that other companies will adopt a similar course.
 The National Zeitung at Berlin has telsgrams from St. Petersburg and Vienna stating, under reserve, that Count ScAouvaloff, the Russian Elm bassador to Germany, who is now re- turning to Berlin, will bring concilia- tory proposals from the Czar.
The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
POLITICAL CLIPS.

Senator Evarts Is shortly to make speech on the political issues Of the coming campaign.
 The Monroe City News hoists the standard of John D. Dale, circuit clsrh of shelby county, for secretary of statt of Missouri.
 Three of the seven Republican candi. dates nominated in Lo1 isiana have withdrawn from the ticket, but War moth still sticks.
 The United Labor barty will hold national convention in New York City early in April It is possible that Henry George and Dr. McGlynn may be bitterly hostile rivals for nomina- tion.
 Now that William Pitt Kellogg an, P. B. s. Pinchback have been electes delegates to the Republican nationa convention from Louisiana, it looks al If the leading lights of the party were in no imminent danger of being snuffed out entirely.
 The people of Rhode Island are to be called upon to approve a proposed amendment to their constitution abol ishing the property qualifications foi voters at state elections. This Is { measure more in harmony with the genius of free institutions than is the Rhode Island prohibitory law, which, In its operations has proved such . failure.
 The Philadelphia Times says from every Republican state except Penn- sylvania are now heard Republican appeals for tariff reduction, and it adds: Pennsylvania has most at stake in the fulfilment Of the pledges given to the people by both parties in 1884, and one of the gravest obstacles to prompt and judicious tariff revision is the attitude of Pennsylvania protectIonists defend ing what are now utterly indefensible tarin taxes on our manufactures and on the necessaries of life.
 Henry George says: The many ab- ortive attempts to get up labor parties and reform parties in the United States on the hssis of com prising differ snces and pooling issues ought to be enough, ifthere is nothing else, to show that parties cannot be m9nufactured nrst and furnished with principles afterward. It is indeed true that the two parties which constitute the nor. nal political divisions in every country may hold together for considerable time after the life of distinctive prin. cipies have gone out of them. by yir. tue Of the strength of iganization. The influence Of habit and traditions. the cohesive power of public plunder," or the hope of if. But a new party. wnich nect 'sarily has none Of these things. can only grow up by virtue ci the attractive force of a principle strong enough to lite men in common pur- pose and to hold them together