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Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
THE HOMESTEAD LAWS.
An Important Ruling by Secretary Villas

An Important Ruling by Secretary Villas.
 The Secretary of the Interior, under date of March IT, has rendered the fol- lowing important decision involving the question of residence upon homestead entries, prior to making proof: To the Commissioner of the General
 Land Office. SIR: have considered the appeal of W. A. Thompson from your office decis- ion of July g. 1886, rejecting his final proof for land therein mentioned. l ihInk that this man IS entitled 10 his .a'eut. He made his declEratoEy state meut on April 26. 1883, alleging settle ment a week before and shows that he made 1t. IL appears that be WAS absent dutiog most of the following summer; that he was on the land from the fall un- til the following spring. absent again during the succeeding summer, again upon she land from fall until spring and not absent six months at any one time; hat be applied the proceeds of his labor 1uJing the two seasons when he was sb sent to tine building of bis house and making improvements on his land, now valued altogether at S600; that he was @ poor man and hls absence was for the purpose of earning means to improve his land and that he devoted all the fruits of his earnings with fidelity to that purpose. In the spring of the third year he left sgaln and remained until tho following January, his purpose be- iGg iO earn money to pay for his land. The amount necessary was S2OO, a con siderable sum for laborer to save from lI5 wages ID year Tn addition to hls necessary fees and expenses. He ap- pears to have done 1t and notwithstsnd Ing that he was not personally present upon hrs land during the last six months preceding the completion of his entry. that fact cannot deny his right. He made "a settlement in person" on this land; he has erected dwelling thereon; he has improved the land and he has in- habitsd 1t in good faith. When it is con sidered that this tract was situated many miles from ordinary highways, remote from settlements generally; that 1t is very difficult Of access, and yet that he has has persisten,ly ciuug is for three years, applying all the results of bis labor to it's improvement and its pur- chase 1t is difficult to discern a case more worthy of being found marked by good fsilh. His ''inhsbitancy" of the land IS not impeacbed after his residence was once secured by his going abroad to procure mesrs Co brIng back and i'm -rove It and obtain tIile 10 1t. l must reverse your decision and direct patent to be issued to the claimant.
 WM. F VILLAS.
 Secretary.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

GENERAL BADKAU has sued Mrs. Gen ersl GraDt for sn accounting on the sale of Grants NJ. moirs, he claiming S35 0OJ oompep.stIon for services said by him, Co have been rendered iu the prepsrh. sion of sad Memoirs. As SD of ct to bis demands, the Herald publishes the entire cor.espondsDce between Gran and Bsdeau and among them the follow ing which si once disposes of the lstter's pretsniions:
 "You ssy that sm man of affairs snf can tell simple story, YOu imply that Literary man must su ply s'me deficiencies. and that you are the oniy maa vbo can do II. If this IS the case, General, l do not want 6 book bearing ny name to go before the world which did uos write to such sn extent ss 70 he fully entitled tJ the credit of its suthCr- ship. l do not want a secret between me and some one else which would des- trey my hnnor If divulged. I cat not think of holding mYsslf as depend ant upon any per'on tu supply 6 o,psc- ity in which sm lacking. I msy fsi'. but will not put myself In any such position As 6 soldier. wrote my own orders, plans of battle. instructions spd reports. They were not edited. nor vss assistance rendered. As President. I wroie every official document believe usual for Presidents 10 write. bearing my name. All these have been publI he'd and widely circulated Publishers have become accustomed to my w'itIng. They foov n 4 iI is not even an attempt to inaltafe either @ litersrY or classical style. thst it is inst what 1t IS and nothiDg -lse. l.: succet d m telling my s'ory so that other. can see as I do, vbst s't m ot to show, I will be sstIsfed. The Ter mn also he sst sfied, for be expect"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

4 YEAR Or so ago considerable feeling vas e1genjered hereabouts bee ius. of tbe little d-unksn tJrsy of Col. Arvzn, of the Mexican army. in'o the United which ended some rhst dissstrously to him and his party. Among the latter wys private soldier by name of R .fsel Duran whn. acting under orders of his superior iu command. resisted arrest st the hands of Uuited States eff Sers and ye-entered Merioo. When the attention of the M'xiosn government wss called 10 the conduct of ArviEo and his sub1r- dinste ofirers, they were srrastsd and eenteaoed 10 death. but Duran in his capacity ss 8 priv It. soldier wss uum T. le ted inssmuch as be had but obeyed orders. Subsequently to this when vis- itina she U9ited States be wss arrested op the obsrgs of resisting sn officer and wss imprisoned ID the Soeales ) il till the l2 inst, when he wss brought here for trisl before the District Court, the grand i1ry Dcu ID session having found tvo indic;ments against bim, one for re- sistlna sod officer and one for as ssult 10 murder. Now comes the Frop- t-riE ia ii. issue of the 17th instant, and deEIes she right of the Q Iited States authorities to impr sou Duran on the charges ss cited, inasmuch as at th- time of ssid violation of the law hs vHs As 8 soliier, obeyipg tbe ssmmsnds of his superior cffioer through whom the Government oi MeIioo was responsible, and not Duran. In proo. of this 1t cites the arrest of aD E Iy ish soldier by psme of Mcleod, ID New YTk, io ls40. for complicity in the capture sbd de-trucuOn of the steamer Caroline on the American side of the Eiagsra, ID 1887. The British Govern msnt zt once demanded that Mcleod be liberated. he having acted under o-d .rs Of the Osns iisn, ffi 'ers- Hsrri son, who vas then Presi1ent, admitted tle legality of the demand, giving ss his Tea ons therefore, that the sntion of ths Nv Yo,k authorities in srrestinR and inprisoring McI.eoi, was contrary to in- ss'nstiouel law, Lnd that redress for these grievances, if such existed. must b, msds against the Government and not the man who in his line of duty bu sbnyed. Toe case of Duran is but a olnotsrpsrs to that Of McLsod, and the ssms lsu that governed one is most ss- suredly applicable 10 The other. If Nc Ls d was illegally arrested, so is Duran aud proper cognIzsnce of his case shot d be taken. The United States cannot knowingly afford to do injustice 60 anyone.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
Tucson Lublie Library
Special meeting March 9,h, 1888.

Special meeting March 9,h, 1888.
 Present, Mesdsmes Davis, Florsheim Hale. Messrs. Mansfield, Underwood Osborn and PatemsD. Absent Miss. Maria Frye.
 Mir. Harry Psteman, acting secretary, called the meeting to order and the Board proceeded to elect officers for the easuing year.
 Mr. J. 5. Msrsterd was unanimousl, reelected chairman, and Miss Maria Frye unanimously elected seorstary. Mrs. Florsheim was elected treasurer vice Mrs. E. N. Fish. whose term of off ,e as trustee had expired
 Mir. Harry Psteman was requested tp continue to set as secretary until Miss Frye's return.
 Resolved. that the committees remain same ss before until the new code of bylaws be agreed upon.
 Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved.
 Ex-Trustee Mrs. E. \. Fish, then turned over books and balance on hand. to Treasurer FlOrsheIm, said bslsuc- consisting of sl0l, ,56, in cash, and $50 in city warrants.
 The Board of Trustees then unAni- mously rendered Mrs. Fish a vote of banks for her estimable services as rustee of the public library. and the secretary was instructed to notify her Of the same in writIng.
 Warrants were then drawn in nav ment of libsrisn and collectors salary for February.
 Resolved that stand for Webster's dictionary be purchased from 4. $ Mansfield for s6 %; (Mr. Mansfield at stained from voting).
 Resolved that a committes be appoipt ed by the char to draft a complete s-t of bylaws and regulations, and to sub init the same to the board at the nsxt meeting tor approval.
 The chairman then appointed himself. Messrs. Osborn, Undengood and Mrs. W. 0. Davis as said committee.
 Meeting then adjourned until the first Monday ID April or to the call If the chair. ). s. MANSFIELD.
 Chairman. HARRY PATENAS,
 Acting Secretary.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
" EEKLY CITIZEN
SATURDAY, MARCH 2I Isss
FOR THE pEsus.L or PARENTS.

FOR THE PERUsaL or PARENTS.
 A writer in the Journal of Industrial Eiucatou-Mr. Etbelbert Stewsrt- has been DO .kins some inquiries with 6 view te determine the most common fact sbou, our prison population. on thi. the Chicago News makes some per Gsent comments. or the l 494 convictr in the pepitentisry of Jolie;. H., MI. Stewart fiods only l5l ~'bo can be class eiss ",lliteraie;" 127 can read, but not write; lOS7 have fair education; l29 are college graduates. Obviously, it r. no. ant of education which has made 20 per cent of thes criminals.
 Similarly the lock of religious instruc- tion is excluded, as is also to 8 great ex- tent. the wise otintem persnce-s typical pr portion in the large aggregate of ooEvicts, showing that DInety-one per cent had been Sunday school scholars for longer or shorter periods, and that over eighteen per cent were total SkItsiDers.
 "The most common, the most generic fact is that the oonvi Jts know no trade" seventy seven per cent. being entirely is- norsnt of any trade knowledge whereby they might earn SD honest livelihood, only seven per cent. havios ever learned 6 trade by apprenticeship, and the re- m4ining sixteen per cent "hsving picked up trade or two by working at them, but being nsble 10 command permE- nent em ployment for want of necessary proficiency.
 Mir. SteUsrt makes 6 telling spplics- tion of his figures, by sh1~ing that Ch'- osgo speDd. yearl SIS S3 for each pupil in the public schools, spd S33 for each arrest made ;nut "ths city of UhIosso never expended dollar to teach 6 boy trsde." ca the other hand, l. 'ndon pays from tie city treasury S3S5,000 6 year towards the support of trade ahools. and Mir. Stewart pertinently asks: "Msy there not be some conpec- tion Sesseen this fscf and the other fsc inst ID 1888 there Were in London but one arrest for t"rty-eiRht of ,he populs' tion, while in New York during the sam year there was one arrest to each twenty -one of the population; in Brook Tyr, one 10 fifty. three; io St. L ,uis. one totwenty, aud in Chiclgl, one to fit teen"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
THE YOUTHS BRILLIANrFUTURE


 NEVER before, not even before the msryelously active times of the winter of 1886 ', was the prospect for the pros perity of the South SO brilliant ss to-day. The whole South is moving forward with arspidity that is startling. spd no one can carefully study our weekly reports of new enterprises without being aston ished st the magnitude and the diversity of this growth. From every part of this section the reports show wonderful SC ivity. It has been demonstrated beyond all question that this develop m-nt is solid, thst it must increase, and shat its possibilities are almost beyond somprehenson. These facts are now forcing thems upon the whole busi- ness world, q IS 6 result, there IS 4lresdS seen the beginning of 6 great southvsr- movement of capital and -ettlers inst, gathering momentum ss ii goes, will soon swell to immense propor' tions,
 Who can picture the vast, llimItsble future of the glorious sunny South Blessed with climate phst in Itself is 8 source of untold wealth, and wealth ere stipg possibilities with every variety of soil. yielding all agricultural products ID sbuadsnce. so thst even now, southern farms are annually producing ssOO.OOo.- 600. which by better cultivation, could be ioubled without adding one sore to the area under cultivstIoD: with mineral seslth thst surpssses thst of any other country in sbe world; with almost bound less forests of timber ot many varieties with 6 magnificent stretch of sea coast with rivers that furpIsh transportation free from severe dronghts, here IS land possessing in its own mstchless re' sources the combined advantages of sl most every other country of the world without their most serious disadvantages Whs. c combination this is. It is beyond the power of the human mind to fully grasp the future that is in store for thiI country. To manufacturing interests Il IS destined to surpsss the present great est industrial centers in the world, be cause in no other country on the glob, is there such 6 combination of sdvsnts ses as @ bssis-oottop, Iron. coal. timber water power. climate etc..-for building up every lioe Of manufacturing. This Il inevitable Man utscturers Rscord,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

Two wealthy and il fidt ntisl Durango c tt,lemen have been arrested for tb' murder and robbery of 6 man n Ksnss- welve years ago. How it Is possibl that during all these years they escaped deutity is whs, mystifes many, bu officers who have the case in band, main ain that they have the right parties wbo did the foul deed that at the time shock. cd the surrounding country. Justice may be lesden heeled, but she gets tbore ell the same,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
Notice of Forfeiture.
TUCSON. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.
 ouuty of Pima March IA IaS
TO WARNER EARLL. HIS HEIRS ADMi,


 ITO WARNER EARLL. HIS HEIRS. ADMIN. istrato-, or eX-cutOr and tO Annie L. Bur. nell (formerly urIs l. Smith her heirs, exaou or or asslgns, or those WhC may claim u derthem 10 un itside one-sixth interest each in the fellow -ng deserihed prupery You are hereby notified m tl have expended two hundred dollars m n ming clam;
 To T M untain Mining Clam, located Janu- sry z@t, 1881 and recorded on January 2s:h, iee 4. 10 Book U. Records Of Mines rage 222 {, sAld records all being of tNe Recorders office. tlma 'ounty. Arizona. s-id claim being iu ,he Giea ervllle Mining District, Fima County, M MAliL2na, ;ss, The sad 500 having reeu expended ID 55op and lso9, i1 order to hold said claim 9iu 9iu Inc prOylsIOns of section 2S24 Revised otstute- of the United States. being he a-aOunt reqliie e. hold the save for the years ending Lee 5l, lssh, and Dec. 31, 1887 and thas nave Cuhtlbnt-d your portions thereof Therefore if VI mn sO days aitar the service of this notice of puD.loatiOn, You fAil refuse to contrioute your proportion of such expenditures, as cor .sner-, With the costs of this publication, your lsA5 ests m said claims will become the property pI me subscribers under said section Zs24 Your - l5,,porlon ot sand expenditurs. IS 8 and ''-i'oths dollars each upon said claim.
 DANIEL JOHNSON
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

EDITOR BrRT of the PheaiI Weekly Advance, for the past year engaged il the abuse of his neighbors, has beet obliged to skip the territory to svoiC arrest for blackusiI. But 8 week sa' bis paper was filled with dire threaten ings of what was to happen 10 various regulations in it's succeeding issue, bu the issue in question is at hand and IS II silent on such matters ss the proverbis dumb oy ster. but while there IS little oI interest ID it. i; shll has tbe merit of de cency, 8 something its predecessors hsC not
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
A Sound Legal Opinion.

E. Bsinbridge Monday, Esq, County Attorney. Clay O.. Texas, says: Have used Electric Bitters vi,h most happy result. My brother also vas very lOv with MsIsrial Fever and Jsundice, bui was cured by timely use "f this medi- cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life."
 Mir. D. I. WIlcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ky, adds 6 like testimony. saying: Re positively believes be would hsve died. bsd it not been for Electric Bitters.
 This great remedy will ward of. ss we'll SC cure sll Msla1s Disessss. and for all Kidney. Liver and Stomach Dis. ot.'ers stands unequAled. Price Sos. and ei. ss Geo. kArtis'a
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

THE law relating to births and deaths is being wholly disressrded in some portions of the country. but it is under stood that the present grand jury have the subject under consideration, looking 10 6 better compliance with the law, The fine inflicted for the non-reportsns of either birth or death. by the desis. mated psfties is s20
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

MIILs tariff lull, now before th, House, for the promotion of Enslisi nanufscturies. still drsss its slow lensit along, but is DO nearer it's final pessss' than it was the dsy Of its introduction The American people believe in pro tecting their own industries fr-t, and not those of n competitor ss the Mill ui 1 seeks to do.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

SULPHUB water IS reported to have b sen struck in 8 well now being duS by Mir. E. J. Brown, of H. B. D ldge & O., on his ranch about four miles north of Tucson. Such at least is the opinion of those who have sampled the liquid. Ii vas always believed that the devil did consldersble skipping around in Arizons but this is the fret time the good pee. pie of this territory have been prscti. nslly spprised of their nesrness to bis iaferpsl aboie.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

JAMES G. BLAINE has announced his intention of returning home in June. He will not, however, take part in the coming canvass in any manner or form. This final decision on part of ths Rres' statesman will be regretted by many thousands of his admirers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
HARRY PArKMAS,
 Acting Secretary.

Fresh fruits of all kinds, Sonora Oranges, Butter. Eggs, Fresh Fish every Thursday, and dressed Poultry every Friday, st J. Ivancovich's, ct very low prloes, n
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

TEE great. treeless deserts of Arifops, once terror to man, are being fast rel sssted to the limbo of the forgotten tssti
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
FRUIT TREES!
 GRAPE VINES !

GENERAL NURSERY STOCK. Lest Varieties, True to name, raised without irrigation, and free from dis ease. Great care in packing Cata- Iogue, price list. etc, free. Address.
 LEONARD COATES,
 Nsps Valley Nurseues,
 Naps City, California.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
List of New Books Received by the Tucson Public Library March
 goth. ISSS.

l26S War of the Rebellion; Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
 Series I. Vol. KIT. Part ?, Supplement. IlEQ VII [
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

ternetiousl Lsnguagel, ChRs. E SprHyne. 127S Hot Ploughshsres, Albion W. Tourgee.
 BOOKS OF REFERENCE Webster's Dicti0uary-Unabridged It AnEual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887. Report Of the Comptroller of the Cur Teucy. 1887. Vol 2 Report of the Commissioner of Educg- ton. ISSj-lS-6. 1-19 R5Oelisns. Charles Reade
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
Dr. Llebig & Co.

The European NIedi al S..s and Special Surgeons and Physicians otthe Liebi N; DlsPensary and Interna,.or,', Surgical Institute, 900 Ga street, San Francisco. Cal Ar COSMOPOLITAN HoTrr T.
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Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

| OfCA Nh4uuuAs pNbAkAh. hId Chcb ACI- nesse, last night, did great deal oi lost.
 WAsHISGToS, March 2l.-Cbas. c. Brady, who was appointed postmaster st SAn Simon. Cochise county, Arizonr, having failed tn qualify. Abel l.. Gard ner was to-day sppO:nted postmaster at that office.
 WAsHEGToS, March 21.-An increase in the pension of F. Wilson, of Tempe, A. T., has been granted.
 SANTA ANA. March 2l.-J. Abbot. a prominent citizen of this place. was thro~n out of his carriage this afternoon by his horse being frightened and up- setting the vehicle, his skull WAS frac- 'ured and he received other injuries from which he died this morning.
 WAsAISGToN, March 2l-The bill pro vidIng for tue appointment of Coufed- crate soldiers to cIvIl service positions, WAS laid over until Tuesday, at BlAir's rsques'. 4 bIll passed allowing soldiers and sailors who lost both hands or the use of same, one hundred dollars per month. Senators Dolph. Frye and Vest
  on the hou.e bill facilitating the pro l-ctrd works for the improvement of rivers and hsrbors. Bills passed author zIng ilrIes of United States Circuit and District courts to be used interchange able and for regulating fees for the ex- republication of land entries.
 Senator Coilum presented a minority report of the committee O. territories. on posing the annexation of the Pan Han de Of Idaho tb Washington Territory and fsvoring the admission into inc Union of the Territory of Washington with the present boundary.
 The senate committee on interstate l commerce decided Co report adversely on the proposed changes in the wording Inf sections relating to the discrImiuAtin0 as to persons, suspensions and long and | short sections, thus leaving the law practically unchanged. When the bIll reported by Blair grant Ing a pension t. nurses who served six months during ths var was reached. 2 report WAS read stating that the mum. ber of beneficiaries did not average mora that sIx or eight to each state. Pl- munds did not see on what principle inc bill proceeded, the association Ot nurses whose memorials h-d been read had pot asked for it. They only asked, appar- ently, to be placed on the same footing | as soldiers who had been disabled dur- ing the war. No pension had yet been | given to soldiers who bsd not been dis | sbled. Beck objected to further cousid- erstion of the bill until the amount If | would take from the treasury De ascer- tsined. Among bills passed by the house was a bill dividing the Great Sioux reservation into small reserystiops with s substitute by the senate previd- ing for the reliDquisbment of the Indian title to the remainder of the reservation Frye reported back the bill authorizing the president to arrange . commercial confsrenre between the United States and Mexico, and Central and South America Adjourned
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

BERLIN. March 2O-In the Rsichstsg to-day, Herr Alderman introduced sD urgent motion requesting Prince Bis msrs tO introduce at the next session bill for the erection Of a monument to the late Emperor William, founder o' the empire. The motion was adopted without debate.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

WASHINGTON, March 0.-Seversl amendments were made to-day by the ways spd means committee, in the iron schedule 10 Mills tarif bill. before its completion in committee. Present ID ii- cations are thst the bill will be reported 10 the house the early part of next week although the committee hss not yet form ely directed report to be made.
 NEW YORK March 20-Col. Elliott Shepsrd, formerly president of the New York Bar Association. to-day pur- chased from Cyrus " Field, the Mall 4 Express newspaper. The paper will COD tinue to be Republican. Col. Shepard married daughter of the lste Wm. B. Vanderbilt,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

SACRAMENTO, March 2O.-The bodies ot McM, M,-ters, Hoops, CongrOve and Moth, killed Tn the wrrck at Tsmsrsck yesterday, was brought here this after noon and taken to an undertaking es- ia lshmen'. The men were frigh,fully cru.h d. McMaster's body was found lyiog beneath one of ihe engines.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24

PTTTsBURo, Msrch 2l- A terrific wind storm accompanied by heavy rain passed over this section ihIs morning doing damage 10 telegrsphio serv C.. Poles are reported down in sll directions and wires are working badly.
 WAsHIsGroS. March 2l-Blsir in refer ence to bis bill gave preference for oiyil service appointments to sounded e1- soldiers Of the CInfederscy as between men who had been disloysl; saw several senators on both sides who had request ed him to have the bill l i'd over still further. He therefore asked its post oonement till next Tuesday. The bill vas laid over ss proposed. The senate then proceeded to take up spd act upon bills on the calendar in regular order. passing such ss were rot objected ts.