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Tombstone daily prospector., 1889-01-22

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AUTHORIZED AGENTS.

E. c. DAkE. room s. Merchant Exchange, San Francisco, is our Authorized Agent for California 6Eo. P. HOWELL C9.. 10 Spruce st., New Te-K.
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Tombstone daily prospector., 1889-01-22

Salt pickels, 50 cont: :a gallon, at Wolcott's Cash Store.s
Tombstone daily prospector., 1889-01-22

TUCSON LAND OFFICE. Receiver-Fred. W. Smith. Register-A. D. Duff.
Tombstone daily prospector., 1889-01-22

INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICERS. Collector, Tues3n-T. II. Bristol.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
An Independent Sovereignty.

England has already a strong hold upon
the Malay peninsula, but among the tribes
of Malacca, which are not subject to her, is
that of Johore. Johore is bigger than Mass
achusetts, and it is governed by a Sultan,
who has absolute power and who is one of
the few independent Malay rajahs still
living. made an excursion to Johore last
week; visited the capital, and there met
this most noted Malay ruler Leaving
Singapore at sunrise, our carriage was
driven by Malay coachman, and we had a
gray-whiskered, bare-footed East Indian in
a red gown and turban as a guide.
We drove for miles on a road as level as
the floor and as well kept as a race track,
through plantations of cocoannts and coffee
We first passed great estates with beautiful
grounds and wide drives, and then on out
into the jungle. The green cocoanuts hung
by the bushels in great punches from the
top of tall palm trees, each of which was
from 90 to 100 feet high and with trunk of
from 6 to II inches in diameter. The bark
was grayish-white and there were no leaves
to the very top, upon which the cocoanuts
grew. Some of these groves had thousands
of trees and they all looked as though they
were drunken on their own milk. They
leaned in every direction, and the tops of
some seemed to embrace those of others in
maudlin jollity. The coffee estates con-
sisted of green bushes about eight feet high
with many branches, and the coffee grows
close to the branch and the yellow fruit is
the size of small damson plums; each plum
contains two seeds, surrounded by pulp, and
these seeds are the coffee grains. They are
cultivated, and the estates showed that they
had been but lately plowed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A Ride With the Dato.

He then called servant and spoke to
him in Malay. A few moments later a
fne-looking English gentleman of so ap-
peared and was introduced to Dato James
Meldrum, who is one of His Majesty's En-
glish advisors and overseers. Dato is a
title and it means little more than Sir
does in England, and I found the Dato
very pleasant companion. With liveried
coachman and footman, we were driven,
with spanking team, through the roads in
and about this little tropical city of Johore,
and had chance to learn considerable
about the kingdom. We visited sawmill
which would do credit to the pine regions
of Michigan, and which was steaming
away cutting great logs into boards on short
notice.
"The Sultan" said the fato, .is The most
advanced man of his race. He is admins
terlng his Government on European princi-
pies. He has Council of State, Depart
ment of Public Works. of the Treasury, of
Prisons, of Medicine and of Immigration,
under him. He has Postmaster General,
system of schools, of police, and a Gov
ernment printing Office. He believes in the
development of his country, and his exten-
sive travels and education, together with
his natural ability, make him very good
ruler. In religion he is a liberal Moham-
medan, but in everything else lie is
European. He has a residence at Sinpa-
pore as well as here, and he is always tray
cling"
After long drive and a visit at the
dato's, after tifin we were taken to His
Majesty's steam launch, and thus rode in
state across the straits, and thence in our
carriage back through the jungle to Singa-
pore. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
HARD TO DISGUISE.
A Rustic Couples Unsophisticated State
Apparent to Everybody.

Rustic Couples Unsophisticated State
Apparent to Everybody.
Brooklyn Citizen.1
There sat opposite me in an elevated rail-
road car, on Wednesday, country clergy
man and his wife, accompanied by lady,
living in Franklin avenue, as I learned
by their conversation. The atmosphere of
rural roads and broad pastures enveloped
the couple, and filed the whole car in
which they were sitting The picture of
the minister hanging over bsrnyard gate
talking about the crops to parishioner
among his cattle, involuntarilv presented
itself to my mind. He knew that he did
not have the bearing of town-bred man,
but he did not care for that. The sights of
the city were new to him, and he was going
to enjoy them. As the train left the De-
Kalb avenue station and sped on to Greene,
he began talking about the car in which
he was riding, and his remarks attracted
the guards attention. When the next
station was reached the guard put his head
inside of the door, and looking directly at
the couple, called out, with significant en-
phasis:
"Greene"
With smile as calm as if he had been
asking after the health of some SISTERS"
children, the minister ceased speaking Of
the car long enough to remark:
Even that man knows we are green"
The three left the train at the next sta
tion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

solid gold rope as thick as your finger
around each of his wrists. There were dia-
mond rings on his fingers, and he had a seal
brown plush turban cap on his head. He
spoke English perfectly, shook hands with
me cordially, and gave me a seat in an
American rocking chair in his audience
chamber while he took another one for him
self at my side. He talked of the decadence
of the Malay people and said that the
Chinese made much better workers. He
needed them for the development
of his kingdom, and he was
glad to have their immigration.
He talked of his travels and told me he
needed only to visit America to complete
his tour of the world. He had visited in
England and had been so well entertained
that he was always glad to give Europeans
a welcome when they came to his kingdom.
He had visited China and Japan, and while
In England he had gone one day to Liver
pool to see lady friend off for America.
Il went down to the Ship" said be, 'and I
put my friend on board. 1t was only seven
days to New York, and had remained 1
might have visited your country. am
very sorry 1 did not do so, for think
America is great and your people are
great and kind people. They give us the
telegraph, the electric light, and they are
at the front in invention. I like them and
have many friends in America"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

of Asia and look up the straits of Melacca
you will find this little island. Lying at
their entrance just north Of Sumatra and
south of Indo-China, little over to the left
you will see Ceylon, and further still the
Gulf of Alden and the Red Sea. To the
right and north are China and Japan.
Singapore is the center oil the trade routes
going via Ceylon and the Red Sea to
Europe, and all of the great ships trading
with China and Japan stop here. More
than 5000 ships visit this port every year
( and all of the great islands of this vicinity
send their freight here for trans-shipment.
1t is four days and 800 miles from here to
Bangkok, the capital of Siam. There are
weekly steamers to Batavia, the capital of
Java. 500 miles to the south and YOU can in
two days reach this great coffee island,
which comprises a territory about so miles
wide and longer than the distance between
New York City and Cleveland.
Borneo is another great island at the east
ward and it is 13 days from here to Calcutta
BY way of Burmah. The result is that the
population of Singapore is made up of the
natives of all these countries and YOU find
here a mixture of yeilows and blacks, of
Hindoo turbans and Chinese pigtaiIs; of
coffee -colored Malays and of pale, white
Caucassiars from Europe. The costumes
are as strange as the skins, and all the queer
outfits Of southern Asia jostle each other
upon the streets and tramp upon one an
others heels upon the highways.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

The women of Singapore are of dozen
different types, ranging from the rosy-
checked English girl, in a suit made by
Redfern or Worth, to the halt-naked
beauty from Borneo, whose sole costume is
a strip Of cloth about the waist, which
reaches to her knees and which is fastened
hv knot at the pit of her stomach. I saw
q black woman to-day who had holes in the
lobes of each of her ears as big around as
nv thumb, and 1 noted that another woman
used her ear holes as bouquet holders. Both
of these women were Kings, and they came
from Southern India. They were straight.
graceful and by no means bad looking, but
their chief dress consisted of jewelry. They
had great bracelets of gold on their wrists
and their ankles. Their ears were rivete6
with gold. and above these great ring-like
iobes, little gold nuts and bolts were put
through the ears so that they were bound
with pins of gold from lobe to tip.
One Of the maidens had each of her nos
trlls riveted with these screw rings and a
great ring of gold hanging down from the
center Of the nose. The gold shone out all
tne brighter against the blaekness of the
eAln and the jewelry was the more promi
II lsht from the scantiness of their costumes
1nese were merely single skirt fastened
1gA.ls around the hips and the thighs anc
cotnlng 70 the knees, and sort of scarf Of
colaoh winch was stretched around the
shouloer and under one arm and tied in a
knotas tne SIDE -Four yards Of cloth would
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A Wise Ruler.

The conversation here turned to Johore
and His Majesty told me it was he who had
introduced coffee into Singapore. and that
his was anxious to see his own kingdom be-
come one vast plantation. 1--WE have a
coffee" said he, shat will grow here, and
many foreigners are buying estates. be-
lieve in getting all you can off the top of the
ground, rather than digging up the mineral
wealth that lies under it. The whole Malay
peninsula has mines of tin and Great
Britain took from this region nearly S., ,OOO,-
600 worth of tin ore last year. We raise
pepper here, cocoanuts and gambler, kind
of leaf which is made into a tanning mix
ture, and which we ship to all parts Of the
world. 1 have much fine timber in nv
kingdom and 1 send ship loads of it to Cal
cutta, Australia and Europe"
The Sultan then asked me a question or
two about General Harrison, and then
showed US his palace. 1t contains many
large rooms all furnished in European style,
and hung with paintings in oil of the royal
family of England. At the head of the
stairs leading to the ball room there is
line full-length portrait of Gladstone, and
the drawing room contains some fine pieces
of statuarY. After an hours chat His
Majesty told me that he had an engagement
to 60 in his yacht about 40 miles up one of
his rivers to show some foreigners a coffee
plantation, and he gave me cordial invita-
tion TO go with him. Upon my asking to be
excused he said he was sorry he could not
postpone the appointment, but asked me to
take tifin with him at the palace, and to ac-
cept the use of his carriage in driving about
the capital.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A MERRY CENTENARIAN.
At the Age of 115 He Teaches the Boys a
Very Clever Trick.

Very Clever Trick.
Savannah News.I
There was very old man from Meri-
wether county in attendance at Pike Su-
perior Court last week. He was feeble in
appearance, and, indeed, some of his old
acquaintance asked him his age.
"Well, he said, eff live to see Febru-
ary 81 will be 115 years old. Another
remarkable fact connected with nv con-
struction is that haven't a tooth in my
head" opening his mouth and pointing to
his smooth, toothless gums. He continued:
VI was born that way. Wonderful as it
may appear, my youngest son and eldest
daughter were born that way also."
|, The same old fellow, looking as if he was
standing at the other end of the corridor of
life, with all the gravity of over a century
hanging over him. seriously says to an ac-
quaintance, ~You mark dollar and give
1t to me, and will put it with one of mine,
and you can't tell for the lite of you which
one you marked"
''You are mistaken" says the acquaint-
ance, and the silver dollar is forthcoming,
marked and handed over. Then the grave
old man rattles it with one of his own and
pockets both.
OiVe my uoiiar pacK, says the acqualnt'
ance.
No." interrupts the old man. 'I said
that if you would mark dollar and give it
to me you could not tell 1t from one Of my
own-that is, because I am not going to give
you a chance. Remember, did not ask
you to loan me dollar, but give it to me;
you did so, and now don't care to have
any joking"
The fellow grunts, and goes away with a
blank expression of countenance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

and the air is that of hot, moist July. The
natives in many cases wear nothing but
waist cloths, and all Europeans are dressed
in white duck coats and white pantaloons.
They wear hats of pith or cork, the rims of
which are as big around as a dish pan and
which rise in two stories to protect the head
from the sun.
1 attended church at the English Cathe-
dral last night and listened to a service
under 40 great punkahs or fans, which were
pulled to and fro by men stationed on the
outside of the church. This cathedral had
an audience room about 12O feet long and it
was, I judge, IS feet from the floor to the
ROOF. Below the ceiling there was a net
work of iron rods and to these, by ropes
were fastened these huge fans, each of which
was about 4 feet wide and is feet long.
They consisted of strips of wide cotton
cloth, weighted and hung from black walnut
poles, and it was by ropes attached to these
poles and stretched over pulleys in the
windows of the church, that the natives
outside kept them going and cooled those
engaged in devotion. The dining tables in
the hotels have these punkah fans over
them and upon the steamers there are
punkahs in the cabins which are pulled
during the meals.
Some of the wealthier European residents
have servants, who do nothing but pull
punkahs, and not a few have fans over their
beds which are kept going all night BY
manual labor. Just in front of the hotel,
and along the shore of the sea, there is a
tennis and cricket ground comprising sew
eral acres of lawn. Every afternoon these
European nabobs of the East may be seen
L l. L L.
servant with him, who runs after the balls
and hands them to him. No one does any
more than he can help, and the business
hours are from 10 to 8.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
Chinese Ascendency.

The Malay women, so far as have seen,
are not as good looking as the Indians,
though this country was originally popu-
lated by them and there are now more
Malays than any other Asiatics except the
Chinese. The Malays live, as rule, in the
poorest of one-story thatched huts, and there
is Malay village within three miles of this
city which is passed on the way to the
steamers. 1t is the picture Of poverty and
desolation. The Malays will not work and
they live like savages. Slowly but surely
the Chinese are crowding them out of their
own country, and there are now sc, 900
Cinnamon here in Singapore. The popula-
tion Of the city is 139, 900 and the Chinese,
the Indians and the Europeans do the busi-
ness,
Everywhere go I find that John China
man is pushing his way to the front. With
IN the past lew years the Chinese have begun
to emigrate, and the horde that came to
America had its counterparts IN those who
went to Australia and who are now pushing
themselves into the various countries and
islands of the Pacific. They gain foot
hold wherever they go, and they make
money where others starve. One of the
worst elements of their emigration the
United States has not yet felt, and that is
their inter-marriage with the women of the
countries to which theygo. Siam is already
half Chinese and the Chinese are slowly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A SENATOR AND NOT HAPPY.
Colorado Statesman Tells How His Lif.
is Made Miserable.
Chicago News.l

a COlorRdo statesman Tells How His Life
is Made Miserable.
Chicago News.l
The Hon. Edward o. Wolcott, United
States Senator from Colorado, is very much
disguised with the life which Senators are
expected to lead at Washington. The quail
ifcations demanded in a United States Sen
ator are ostensibly of high order, yet when
he reaches Washington, after years of hon.
orable toll and earnest study, the Senator
finds that he is expected to devote a very
large share of his time 10 the performance
of menial and humiliating service. To the
neglect of matters of national Importance
he must dance perennial attendance upon
the departments and must constantly curry
favor with the Executive in behalf of the
few greedy ofice-seekers who claim the con-
stituents' right to his time, to his labors, and
to his very thoughts Forced BY time
honored usages to become mere machine
for the solicitation of patronage, the natural
and inevitable results are debasement of
dignity, loss of selt-respect, an abandon
ment of all nobler ambitions, neglect of
more important affairs, and an altogether
humiliating feeling of responsibility and
of shiftlessness.
1t is against these usages that Mr.. VOL
colt protests, and against them he will rebel,
too, If he be the man that we believe him to
be. 1t is time that an end were made to the
practice of prossituting congressional talent
to the mean, sordid ends of common beggary,
Edward o. Wolcott is brainy man. an
earnest man, a brave man, and tenacious
man; he combines the elements of a sue
cessful reformer. We hope that he will
strike at this abominable heresy-strike
hard, strike often, and keep on striking un-
til the evil is wholly and forever abated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

muslin violets in their dress, or the plumb
big girls who look sight with a huge
Jacqueminot rose and bud prominent on
corsage already pronounced in its contours.
The homelier woman was the more certain
to wear the poor little violets which made
her look bluer and SKINNER than ever. But
one must wonder, at the carelessness Of
women about their gowns. One bright day
Twenty-third street seemed full of shabby
well-dressed women, wearing good clothes,
all in need of refreshing. The fur cloaks
showed rusty and worn on the edge, the
wool dresses and manties looked as if they
were out in the last rain and needed brush
ing and pressing to make them trim again.
Very few women pay attention to this pro-
cess as they ought, or hang their gowns in
roomy closets, but crowd them together
dusty or damp, as the case may be. l was
near woman in silk dress and cashmere
shawl in shop this week whose clothes
smeltas if they were kept in cheese press,
from hanging in crowded closet with
soiled linen and unaired nightgowns. Not
all the spices of Arabia could have sweet
ened herpresence.
AN ELEGANT co1FFURE.
A welcome variation of wearing the hair
is the Greek fillet, confning the short front
curls or the bandeau of tortoise shell or
silver. A more elegant coiffnre can hardly
be devised, or a more convenient one. The
short recamier curls, too, will perhaps be
found SO becoming to faces in general that
we may be spared the parody of bangs worn
by gray-haired women in every stage of
wrinkles and haggardness. What fend Of
the unbecoming ever possessed the feminine
mind to adopt this most trying and grace
less style for all ranks and ages, must re-
main unknown, but the effect shakes ones
respect for feminine intellects in general.
Bangs are only tolerable on the freshest
rounded faces; on any others, they are a
caricature. The elderly woman, or one
leaving youth should show the attention to
her toilet of parting her hair in front, show
ing the dignity of her brow, and softly curl
ing the hair In those short, feathery rings
which indescribably soften the features.
The rigid puffs which ladies of certain age
used to wear gave hard threatening effect,
as if they had been rolled up on the ten
commandments for curl papers 1t is the
hardest thing in the world to persuade a
woman to dress her hair becomingly. The
more unsuitable fashion, in general, the
more welded she is to it-a fact of which
anyone may convince himself by taking
note OF the women of his acquaintance.
Several divorce cases am persuaded might
be happily settled if the woman would only
take care of her teeth, and learn some art in
hair dressing and dressing herself.
SHIRLEY DARE.
NoTE-Shirley Dare will answer each week
limited number of questions relating to the
cultivation and preservation of health and
beauty. Queries should be sent to the Office of
this paper
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

mountain defiles' which became still more
SO as the troupe approached them.
Discovering the Great Salt Lake Basin,
they returned across the baking powde,
desert, and ON the 23d of December, al
Council Bluffs, issued their epistle recount
ing the disagreeable repulsion from Nau-
VOC, the fortunate discovery of the Valley
of the Jordan of the Great Salt Lake, and
recommending reorganization of the
church by selecting president, vice presi
dent, umpire and corresponding secretary.
MIR. Brigham Young, a rising young red
whiskered man, who combined the philan.
thropical instincts of Jay Gould with the
borough, was chosen president.
IN WINTER QUARTERS.
The gang then went into winter quarters
on the banks of the soiled Missouri.
The winter quarters were situated upon
the lands belonging to the Omaha Indians,
who felt sorry for the Mormons. Some ol
the holes in the ground where the saints
lived are still visible, although they were
dug 49, years ago. A newspaper called the
Frontier Gudrdian was then published by
Elder 0. Hyde. From it make few
excerpts,
Inc Apostles Will hold meeting next week.
Friday, at the Bucket OF Blood Saloon for
general conference and interchange of
thought
Elder Kimball will add another story to his
residence next week by digging it seven feet
deeper.
President Young was feeling quite rocky all
last week and thinks he is about to have an
other revelation. Should such be the case, our
readers may rely upon the Guardian to at once
correct the spelling and print it at an early
date.
Brother Blakeslee, who was unfortunately
and fatally wounded ii a watermelon patch be-
fore leaving Nauyoo, died yesterday in his dug
out, which he had facetiously named Ferni-
hurst-On-the-M Missouri. Funeral services on
Saturday at his former residence after which
his furniture will be removed also everything
but Brother Blakeslee and Fernihurst will be
filled up.
OF course the above meagerly shows the
character of the paper, but it was said to be
newsy, bright, spicy, and at times, comic.
In the early history of Omaha, the first
successful club organized for mutual benefit
was called the Claim Club. The object of
this club was, according to its preamble, to
better protect those who had good and prior
claims to lots and lands.
The Claim Club met upon call of the