The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-05-24
Miscellaneous Items.

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decided that when an attorney does
not charge more for his services
than his client has. the fee is not
unreasonable. An immediate emf
f grafton of lawyers to Omaha may
be expected.
f 1t is said that one effect of the
Emperor Williams death is that
fully 10000 Germans who fled to
escape conscription during the
/ Franco-Prussian war will now be at
liberty to visit the fatherland with
out being arrested for desertion, as
their offence was only coeval with
the Emperor's reign.
An Albany physician asserts that
many young ladies of that city use
belladOnna to give brilliancy to
their eyes. 1t is employed chiefly
by those that have light eyes. The
practice is very hurtful one, as it
causes partial blindness, and be-
sides affects the nerves of the face.
producing muscular contraction.
A California tramp has a novel
method of getting money. He fixes
up his arm with CASTLE soap and
caustic to represent a scald, and
begs for aid on the ground that he
has just met with an accident. He
is said to have worked this game
successfully for four years in va
rious parts of the state.
A young farmer near Americus,
Georgia, who had mortgaged his
mules and could not redeem them.
asked lawyer now he could pre-
vent their confscation. He was
told to marry, and then his wife
could homestead and save the ami
mails. "Well," replied the young
man, Il will get married then, if
that is the only way out of it, but
it seems to me that it is a poor law
that deprives a man of his liberty
just TO save two old mules"
A Santa Fe, N. NJ, dispatch says
Terence Mullen, convicted of per-
jury in connection with an entry of
public lands in Southern New Mex
leo, was brought from Las Cruces
and placed in the penitentiary. He
is under sentence of the United |
States Court to serve four years at |
hard labor, and pay a fine of $4,000.
Mullen is the man who concocted |
the plan steal the body of Lincoln
and hold it for ransom, but his plot
was disclosed by one of his assoc
ciates, and was caught in the act of
carrying off the body and for which
he served sentence OF one and one
half years in the Illinois peniten-
tiary.
The court at Piedras Negras have
sentenced the leaders in the Eagle
Pass raid to ten years imprison-
ment each. These men it will be
remembered, met with their grief
when pursuing a deserter from the
Mexican to the American side of
the line. The private soldiers par
ticipating were acquitted. If the
Mexican government deals thus
harShly with her own people for in
fringing upon the political and vest
ed rights of another country, We
must naturally expect they will
look with equal disfavor on any
similar attempt to violate theirs.
Evidently the same law will be
found to hold good however ap-
plied.-Tucson Citizen.
The act to establish courts for In
dams on the various reservations is
now before congress. The act aims
at civilizing the Indians by giving
them the protection of the law af-
forded other citizens, allowing them
to make contracts, to sue and be
sued, and to engage in any busi-
ness. 1t provides for the appoint
ment of court commissioners, to
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