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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
As Good as a Fish Yarn.

The Yuma Sentinel not content with turning loose a ldguna full of alli gators upon an unsuspecting public, acknowledges the coon" in the follow ing moist manner: The great work of excavating the Mohawk canal is be- ing pushed as rapidly as men and money can possibly do 1t. In one of the cuts which runs down twelve feet a small olla was found about six weeks ago and nothing thought of it until George Norton one day picked it up and noticed its peculiar appearance The Olla, resembled an earthern bottle, and its narrow neck was sealed up with a thick coating of mesquite gum, whilst the outside of the vessel was painted with very remarkable and fan tastically designed drawings. Upon breaking the sealed top it was found to be filled with corn, weighing about thirty pounds. The corn was snow white, and the kernels large, yet ex- tremely tender The corn was plant ed in tract of nearly ten acres, and just 35 days from the date of planting roasting ears were taken from the field. The corn is very sweet and produced an immens crop. The plants did not grow over two and half feet high, and bore from three to six large-sized, well-filled ears of corn. All who have seen the corn on the Mohawk canal speak of the big yield that this strange ly found seed gave. MT. Norton has topped" the corn and will use all that natures to seed a large patch oi corn land next season.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Cochise County Republicans.

The republican convention of Co chise county was held in Tombstone on Tuesday last, and the following ticket was put in nomination
 Hon. Geo. W. Cheney for the legis- lative council.
 Messrs. J. $. Robins of Huachuca, I. G. Norton of Bisbee, Grant Hicks and Alex. Wright of Tombstone, and James Stanoord of Spring Valley, for the legislative assembly.
 Si Bryant for sheriff, J. P. McAlister for treasurer, Wm. Bradley for county recorder, Judge w. H. Stilwell for dis trict attorney, MT. Gilman for assessor John Montgomery and B. s. Cof'man for supervisors, and w. w. Woodman for probate judge.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

WHILE sheriff Fryer was giving the stage robbers a stern chase across the desert and undergoing all the hard ships such a perilous undertaking inn plies, his enemies ill town were leaning back in comfortable chairs criticising his conduct and expatiating upon the superior abilities they would display under like circumstances. When duty calls him MT. Fryer permits no ordi- narypbstacles to stand in his path, but goes at once, regardless of the sneers of his enemies and the commentators of bis friends.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Prudence! Prudence,

In medication, as in aught else,
 prudence should be our guide. Yet
 thousands cast it to the winds Every new nostrum finds its patrons, the medical empirics of every false school have their gulls. Every changein the gamut of humbug is rung success fully-for a time at least-the notes being furnished by the credulous. In
 happy contrast to the many adver- tised impostures of the day stands Hostetters Stomach Bitters, now in its third decade of popularity, approv- ed and recommended by physicians, indorsed by the press of many lands, sought and prized by invalids every where. 1t is an ascertained specific for and preventive of malarial dis eases, chronic indigestion, liver com plaint and constipation, checks the growth of rheumatism and neuralgia, Is a peerless invigorant and useful diuretic. Nervous people benefit by
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Nnr.1 nnel in France.

The French critic, Albert Delpit, New Orleans creole, and M. Febvre, of the Comedie Franchise, recently decided to settle the difference arising out of the mutual attacks on each other by means of a duel. Their seconds arranged the pre- liminary conditions of the encounter, which were that Delpit should read aloud to his adversary five act comedy pre- pared by him for the Comedie Francaise, after which Febvre was to act some of his principal roles, and the one who first showed signs of weariness was to be de- clared the vanquished party. Before Del pit concluded the reading of his drama Febvre, with yawn, extended his hands in token of reconciliation and declared himself vanquished.-NewO Orleans Times Democrat
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
rrn,ck Driver and Dov.

People who know the truck driver only from hearing his cursing of his brother driver of the car platform do not know the gentle depths of kindness to which he can descend. The other day small Italian boy staggered through Stanton street under load of long, rough boards, spoil from some demolished building. A truck slowly clattered up the street behind, and the boy got one eye on it, dropped his boards, laid them out along the curbstone, one end out on the street and the other on the curb, and looked appealingly at the big Irishman who drove the truck The Irishman grinned and the boy smiled brightly Then the horses were swerved, and the left wheels of the truck went crashing over the boards. smashing them into easy lengths. The driver and boy grinned at each other. but neither said a word. Both were properly gratifed.- New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Old Inca Burial Grounds.

The British consul at Mollendo, in Peru, recently reported to his government that a limited liability company has been formed there, with a capital of about e8,G00, called the Compania Anohima Ex- ploradora de las Hucas del Inca, with tho object of searching for antiquities and valuables in the old Inca burial grounds in the district of Cuzco, concession hav- ing been granted to the company by the says there is no no doubt d that many " valuable curiosities, and probably deposits of gold and silver, exist in these ancient tombs. Foreign Letter.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
l.st1<4 f'-rtTt THE WITNESSES.

Day by day in the opening meadow, The cowslips swing their bells of gold; And the young leaves throng like merry children, The forest windows grim and old. Day by day, with blow that strengthens, The sun god smites the springing corn; Doubly cool are the dews of evening, Doubly sweet is the breath of morn Day by day in the lower pastures Heavier mists at twilight fall, The sheaves stand thick on the short white
 stubbe,
 The peaches glow on the orchard wall Day by day, over hill and valley The suowfiakes wing their passage slow, Cold white ghosts of the forest children Dead in the tangled brakes below.
 Alfred Wood.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Lord wnlseiev,s Warning.

Lord Wolseley says there is greater now menacing England than the possi- bility of foreign invasion-the extrava- gance of the English women. He has mo- ticed, he says, ever since he was boy an increase in the tendency of English wo- men to spend much larger portion of the incomes of their husbands than they were entitled to on articles of attire.-Detroit Free Press.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Height of a Wave.

The keeper of the Tillamoclz Rock Ore -gon) lighthouse reports to the lighthouse board a wave which broke st height of 160 feet above high water mark. His call culation is made as follows: The rock upon which the lighthouse tower stands rises ninety-six feet above high water, the focal plane of the light itself is thirty eight feet above the base of the tower, and tho crest of the wave was at least twenty five feet above the light. The win dows of the tower were broken and the lamp tinguished.-Boston Budget.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Sarah Bernhardt is getting stout-she can no longer be seen through.
 Gilbert and Sullivan have nearly finished their new opera, to be brought out in London in September.
 Some prose from one of Zols's novels has been set to music by Massonet, and will be sung at the opera in Paris. ...
 Of course the announcement of Ada Rehan's engagement to an English baronet will cause no surprise. Mary Anderson has been engaSpd to every Britisher whose name is to be found in Burke's Peerage or County Families, according to report. ..ass. @-S---...-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

TIE Chinese exclusion bill signed by the president last Monday, pro- yides that all Chinese subjects in this country must provide themselves with Identification certificates, of which a record shall be kept, and upon leaving the United States these must be sur rendered. No further immigration ol Chinamen will be permitted.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Preventive of Sunstroke.

A well known character in this city wears three sheets of tissue paper in his hat as preventive of sunstroke. They a are co09a fSa Oue g &md green Gva phfe sents @ the higher atmosphere, the orange the clouds and the green the earth.-Day- ton (O) Democrat.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Worse than Lost,

Bobby" said young Featherly, as the lad opened the door, Il think left my umbrella here last evening. Will you ask your sister Clara if she has seen any thing of it?'
 ''It's all right, replied Bobby. Isis ters out walking with MT. Sampson, and as it looked like rain they took it with them. New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

THE road agents that took in the Casa Grande stage last Tuesday were not only novices in the "profession," but they evidently were in the peculiar attitude of MT. Mieawber, and the stage chanced to be the something that turned up" at that critical mo- ment. They were not disgused, but were strangers-likely part of the late pilgrims from Sonora whose chivalric valor suddenly oozed out at their heels when the conscription or der was issued in their land of God and Liberty, while the country of the gringos presented better field for their talents. They likely acted upon q sud den impulse and trusted to luck to escape the pursuit that would certain ly follow.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

THE Globe Silver Belt treats the subject of irrigation in the arid reg ions through government aid, in an exhaustive and masterly manner, in its last issue, and presents an array of reasonable facts in favor of the schme that are worthy of persual.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
A Very Sick NyRn.

Young Physician (pompously(-Yes, I've called at MT. Browns three times a day for week. He is very sick man, Miss Smith.
 Miss Smith-He must be by this time. Herald of Health.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

THE Tombstone papers announce the discovery of shortage in the former treasurer's funds, as shown by an expert examination, of about $2,- 300. There seems to be no end to the piracies to which Cochise county has been subjected and yet its taxpayers seem to enjoy the uncertainties of life
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
An Aristocratic Monnd.

Al-Were you ever bitten by jelly fish when bathing?
 Mrs. Parvenue-Yes; but not by an or dinary jellyfsh. By guava jellyfish, in Cuban waters-Time.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

WHILE Senator Blair of New Hamp- shire, was addressing republican
 meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Monday evening, Ire was made the target for quantity of rotten eggs by some miscreant in the audience. That is the quality of rebuttal some people use to unanswerable argument.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

ALL sorts of absurd yarns are ahoat designed to injure Judge w. H. Ben sons chances of election as Probate Judge, but the thoughtful and fair minded voter will give little heed to them, as they are largely manufactured or magnified for the purpose. MT. Benson will shortly visi. the various precincts and will be prepared to meet any calumny that has been uttered against him, when they will be found to be utterly without any truthful iuunia.ion.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

THE sanguinary propensity of the Apache Indians will manifest itself upon any favorable occasion in spite of the wisest and most careful precau- tions exercised by the authorities charged with their care and control. The deplorable tragedy enacted last week near Dudleyville was a cold-bloed- cd and entirely unprovoked murder, and subsequent circumstances seem to confirm the prevailing belief that the perpetrators of the outrage will be shielded from all lawful punish91e+t by the military kaF1TTties through whose tRaD'seT proper vigilance theii
 s.dsh act was made possible. The whole policy of the government of the Apsche Indians seems to be character ized by a studied purpose of perpetu ating a spirit of hostility with tho white settlers and the proyocation O. retaliatory measures that promise oper collision and warfare. The settler is made the passive target for the ex ercise of their fiendish amusement and he is given no redress for hi: wrongs, and it is no wonder that hi. long-tried patience is nearly exhausted Even the civil courts, to which he Ina, been taught to appeal for protection often fail to exercise the laws majest, in defense of the people, and thei
 wrongs are hurried into the shallov grave with their mutilated remains
 while the hills re-echo the mockin, jibes of the devils in defiance of tn
 power that feeds and protects them It is a travesty upon justice tha should make every American blush.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
: OCTOBER G, 1888.

THg Tucson Citizen states that "meeiings have been held in Florence during the past week for the purpose ol consolidating the two ditch com panics. As soon as this is done work will go ahead vigorously" The Citi- zen's informant is surely in error, for by inquiry of President Geo. N. Pogue, of the Florence Canal Company, 1t is learned that no such negotiations are pending At the present time the rights and privileges claimed by the Montezuma company are in litigation and until the court has rendered its final decision there can be nothing tangible to dispose of by consolidation or otherwise. The Florence Canal Company, notwithstanding its twenty five miles of completed canal and numerous laterals. has met with such determined opposition on the part of many of the benefciaries of its enter prise that, out of self protection, it has temporarily declined to combat the spirit of hostility manifested and will devote all its efforts to the completion of its lower reservoir and incident con ncctions and will then invite the at tention of settlers to the lands adjacent to the railroad, leaving those nearest Florence for future consideration when better feeling ofharmony may prevail. They have abundant means at hand to fully complete their canal and to provide ample storage facilities at its head, and will undoubtedly fol. low out their already selected plan of action until their system is fully per fected, but at present they do not feel disposed to intrude where their pres enee is not welcomed.
 The question of consolidation oI all the water rights and interests or this side of the river is, however, tho one great object to be desired by every consumer, on the score of economy O distribution, equity of service anC freedom from annoyance. We in cline to the opinion that this vii eventually be accomplished in friend ly and satisfactory manner, but at tho present time nothing looking to such consummation is at all possible
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

THE republican nominee for Joint Councilman for the southern District, Mir. B. & CoHman, of Tombstone, has declined the honor A candidate will probably be selected by the Territorial Central Committe.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

Hollanders can learn Americans something about dairy farming, an exchange thinks. Good Dutch cows are held at $50 each, and are kept on land which brings larger yearly rental than would buy good improved American farms outright, and yet these Hollanders pay rent and make money besides. They are a thrifty people and know good COW when they see her
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06

The problem of wa CT storage for Arizona Is not one the working out of which will be an experiment and the results adventitious. It is a well known fact that there is an abundant water fall in the Territory, and the soil is the most prolific under the sun when the water is turned loose" upon it. The point is to secure the great fall of water and regulate it's flow, di- fecting it at proper intervals of time over the land. To the people of Ari- zOna it Is mystery that Congress should for moment hesitate in giv- ing national aid to an enterprise that would be of such national importance, and could be made to yield up for the national cOffers an enormous percent age on the investment without the in reference with the public interest, and vast advancement of the pros poets and prosperity of citizens The time has, however, come when private enterprise will soon begin this work that the nation should be doing for herself, and ere long our mountains will be full of reservoirs, and our val leys, in all their broad area of fertile ! plains, will, under this new impulse, ] be yielding up their exhaustless stores 1 of wealth.-Phenix Herald.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
lPhenix Arizonan.l )r Ingalls, was at his

Major Ingalls, was at his office this morning for the first time in many days, and we were pleased to learn from him that his estimable wife is slowly recovering from her very severe illness and is now believed to be out of danger.
 It is said that it is the Walnut Grove storage company folks that are en- deavoring to secure control of the ex-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
Wilcox stockman. |

pistol and shot him dead. Campbell was turned over to the United States civil authorities, and was taken to Tue son Wednesday evening by Deputy Marshal Underwood.
 Horses for cavalry service continue to arrive here. Thirty-fve head were received this week from St. Louis, and were taken to Fort Grant What a pity it is that army officials have to go without the limits of Arizona to secure horses suitable for cavalry service in this Territory. Were there horses here suited to this service they would be purchased here. About two years ago a board of army officers secured the Territory in quest of ami mals fit for cavalry service, but were only able to secure a very small mum | Der. That such horses can be raised in Arizona there is no question. All that Is necessary is to use breeding an imais of sufficient size and quality to produce offspring that will come III to the requirements for cavalry service If some of our stockmen would give attention to this branch of the live stock industry they would be richly rewarded. There is money, and bis money, too, in it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-06
RAILWAY MATTERS.
MAINE CENTRAL TRAINS.


The winter arrangement Of trains on the
Maine Central Railroad will take effect
about the 21st of October There are no
special changes from last winter in view
unless it is concluded to continue running
passenger train No 8 from Portland TO Bangor
over the back route, returning in the after
noon as the Flying Yankee. But this has
not been decided on as yet and the continue
whether the amount Of business will war
rant il. On the Portland and Ogdensburg
the winter train service Is to be increased,
two through trains being run to Fabyan's
and one to Bartlett daily. In other seasons
there has heen but one through train and
one to Bartlett
BOSTON & MAINE.
The gross earnings of the entire Boston
and Maine system for the first ten months of
the fiscal year have increased over 100000
compared with the same period OF 1867.
BANGoR's ROAD.
A dispatch from Bangor says: "The mat
ter of the proposed purchase of the Bangor
and Piscataquis railroad by Hon. Frank
Jones of Portsmouth, N. H., is Great
ing great deal of interest among the bus
mess men in that city and others who are
interested in the road. The road at present
is principally owned and controlled by the
city, and the latest reports show it to be in
better condition and earning more money
than at any previous time. On account of
| its being the connecting line between the
Canadian Pacific at Greenyille and the
Maine Central at Oldtown, at few miles
above this city, the Maine Central in whose
interest Mr.. Jones is understood to be act
ing, are willing to add 1t to their system.
Prominent citizens believe, however, that be-
cause of its connection with the Canadian
Pacific the business of the road will be in
| creased and that the offers thus far made for
| the road are much less than its real value.
| The merchants are also interested in making
Bangor billing point. The Board of Alder
| men are divided on the matter, and at a
meeting yesterday afternoon a motion was
| carried to rescind the action of the board on
Tuesday evening to submit the question Of
| accepting the proposition of Mr.. Jones to a
vote of the people. 1t was moved to hold a
| public meeting. one week from next Tuesday
night, to enable prominent citizens to ex-
press their views on the matter The ques-
ton Of sale will probably be decided by a
vote of the Board of Aldermen and the
Common COurcil
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-06
BRI EFF JoTTINcs.

The $50 p. m. trip Of the Casco Bay Steam
boat Company viii be omitted.
Thursday the county commissioners lait
out town way at Prouts Neck, as prayed
for by Mr.. Homer, the petitioner, on appea
from the selectmen.
A horse attached to a grocer's delivery
wagon ran away on Fore street yesterday
morning, demolishing the wagon. No one
was injured.
Active and veteran members of the Mont
gomery Guards are requested to be at the
armory this Saturday evening at o'clock
sharp.
An old lady, named Gerrish, fell down a
flight of stairs in tenement house on Cen.
tire street yesterday forenoon, relieving
slight injuries.
The overture to william Tell' was given
in an exquisite manner by Reeves's Band
last evening in the rotunda of the Falmouth
Hotel before the Meagher Guards left fol
Boston.
In the notice Of the Mendelssohn Quin-
tette Club, in yesterdays paper, the types
made us speak of Miss Ryan as solo vi
olinist. Violinist should read vocalist as is
evident from what followed.
Deputy Collector Lewis B. Smith trans
mitted to the city clerk yesterday, to be
handed to the city government, photographs
OF the Mayor and Common Council of the
year 1858.
Gustave w. Schumacher, at work for Bah
book the machinist, caught his hand in a
buffing wheel and had three fingers badly
lacerated. 1t will be some time before he
regains the use of his hand.
Local Assembly 1850, Knights of Labor, of
this city, has presented the Old Mems Home
with lof OF tobacco which was sent to them
by the knights of Labor Cooperative To-
bacco Company Of Richmond, Va.
Workmen have commenced demoIishing
part of the old Commercial street station
This winter all the business there will be
done in the old part formerly used by the
Eastern prior to its consolidation with the
Boston & Maine.
Ten thoroughbred horses aud two ponies,
accompanied By five grooms, arrived from
Bar Harbor on the steamer City of Rich
mond. The horses were quartered at Saw
yers stable, and will leave for New York on
tne steamer Winthrop. They are the PROP
erty OF Col. Elliott +. Sheppard, of the New
York Mail and Express.
The Stoddard lecture season was auspic-
iously opened Thursday night at the Brook
Ign Academy of Music before an enormous
audience. Mr.. Stoddard was in fine voice
and spirits, and his lecture on sold Enc
land" proved one of the most popular he has
ever written, dealing with the charming m
raj places which tourists are always glad to
visit and accompanied with many unique IL
Illustrations made by specially employed Eng
lish photographers.