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By cash paid warrants on
 general fund 3,126 89 By cash paid warrants on
 contingent fund 1871 91 By cash paid interest cou- pons on bonds 900 % By cash paid warrants on school funds 1,416 60 By cash paid warrants on road funds ? O2 By cash paid warrants on general funds 1,174 99 By cash paid warrants on
 contingent funds 588 75 By cash paid warrants on school funds 1,27O % By cash paid coupons in- terest on bonds 600 % By cash paid treasurer's
 commission, January and
 February 120 g By cash paid treasurers
 commission, March 62 fl By cash paid territory, bal
 ance due first quarter,
 1889 942 75 By cash paid warrants on
 road fund 49 45 By cash paid warrants on
 general fund 329 66 By cash paid warrants on school fund 1900 50 By cash paid balance to
 next quarter 1884 45 Total $21,419 98
  To balance apportioned to
 the several funds 1884 45 The board adjourned to o'clock tomorrow. f. DYsART, Attest: Chairman.
 EDw. D. FUTILE, Clerk.
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ARIZONA & N. Nj. RAILWAY.
 TIME TABLE.
GOING NORTH.
GOING SOUTH.
PASSENGER RATES

Children between five and twelve years of age half fare. I- One hundred pounds of baggage carried free with each full fare and 5O pounds with each half fare.
 FREIGHT RATES. Following are the rates per ton on the differ ent classes of freight:
The Clifton clarion., 1889-04-26

The latest and far the shrewdest de- vice for swindling in faro has not yet been printed. It isa notable fact that most all these devices, or at least the most successful and least liable to de- lection, are constructed on simple principles. In fact, like Edison's pho- nograph, they are so simple that the wonder is that they escape detection. But in this simplicity lies their safety. The trick referred to is known as the needle or the "snake tell" The deal CT being mere machine in the oper- ation of the scheme helps it greatly. This trick enables the man who is playing for the house to know what card will be thrown out two turns ahead, or, in other words, enable bisn, so to speak, to look down through the cards and know the denomination of the fifth card from the top. The whole trick is in the box and the cards. Three cards, say the ace, deuce, and tray, from each suit, making 12 in all. are trimmed down on one edge with a pair of card shears. These cards will be just the least bit narrower than their fellows. Pressing against the fifth card from the top on the side next to the dealer is:a spring. Oppo- site, at one corner of the box, is 8 small needle about one-siXteenth of an inch long. When one ofthe trimmed cards comes fifth from the top the spring is released, presses against the edge of the card, and the needle oppo- site is thrown out ofa minute hole in the box for the space of about half a second in time. The dealer may not see it nor does he care to, for it is the man in the crowd who does the work. Now the top card is always winner. Thus, of course, the fifth card, must be winner also. The man ill the crowd knows as soon. as he sees the needle that one ofthree cards is the fifth cOm- ing, and he bets accordingly. These bets are not made with the book, for the limit is generally too small, but with a convenient " sucker" If an outsider were to catch the idea he could make it decidedly unpleasant for the bank. But in case the outsider should happily be on the right he is permitted to bet with the bank. Thus he can loose any amount if he can bet On the wrong card, and can win the limit only if he is on the right one.
 About two years ago, in Chicago waiter in one of the principle restau- rants, won over $2O,0OO playing against brace faro. He knew all thier tricks and beat gamblers at their own game. The gamblers got frightened, but of course they could not refuse to play him. Finally the gamblers grew des- perate, and went to firm in San Francisco. They wanted, they said, a faro box that would enable them to know the cards before they turned up. The firm, which is one of the biggest manufacturers of gambling devices in the country, showed them the needle box as described above. They took it back with them to Chicago. and in two months the gay young waiter wss
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and charged to the delinquent tax ac- count by the tax collector:
 Against George Olney, property of minor children, S37 50.
 Against Laurence Russell, errone- ous assessment, $5 95.
 Against Vim. Hibberd, double tax on 75 head stock cattle, S21 55.
 Ordered: That the county treasurer IS authorized to transfer $159.36 from the general fund of the county to the building interest fund in order to pay coupons on the court house bonds due the second Monday in January, 1889. The board audited and allowed the following demands on the county:
 ON THE COUNTY ROAD FUND. Jeter, Nash X Hayes, lum-
 Der $ 196 36 Miles Reay, road work as
 overseer 45 co Adam Welker, road work
 as overseer 54 % Henry Hill, road work as
 oyerseer 48 % Wm. Futile, road work as
 overseer 33 co Nathan Meek, road work
 as overseer 21 75 I. E. Solomon, damages for
 opening road 15O %
 ON COUNTY GENERAL FUND. NJ. A. Leahy, purchased ac-
 counts 145 co Alex Wilkens, judge of
 election co Abe Boyd, services as guard 6 co Jos. East, judge of election % II. H. Nutting, judge of
 election 10 % M. A. Leahy, purchased ac-
 counts, guard service IS 30 w. F. Norton, judge of election co John F. Golden, clerk of
 election 10 % A. Kambeitch, carpenter
 work go 67 L. V. McCourt, doors for
 hospital; presented S19O, allowed 175 % D. T. Olney, services as
 guard at jail 270 co H. L. Smith, judge of elec-
 ton 5 co Chas. Solomon, clerk of
 election 5 % NJ. E. Cunningham, judge
 of election 5 % I. F. Solomon, merchandise
 and purchased accounts 5O6 49 c. Madsen, judge of cleo % ton 5 % Geo. Meek, clerk of cleo
 ton 10 % P. Michelena, interpreters
 fees 5 % I. E. Solomon, purchased
 accounts of Robt. Nich-
 ols 21 % Henry Hill, boarding pris-
 oners in Clifton jail 124 % Henry Hill, purchased ac-
 counts of H. Randolph % J. B. Besner, work for
 county 26 50 The board audited the quarterly account of the county treasurer and counted the cash reported on hand in September, and found the same cor rect, as follows:
 DIR.
 To cash from justices court
 fines, January 39 53 To cash from delinquent
 taxes, January 1,192 56 To cash from licenses, Jan
 uary 92l 5O To cash from fees turned
 in by county officers 231 25 To cash from justices court
 fines, February F 30 To cash from delinquent
 taxes, February 1,O43 54 To cash from licenses, Feb
 ruarv s89 50 To cash from justices court
 fines, March 16 Is To cash from delinquent
 taxes, March 1923 92 To cash from licenses, Mar 346 75 To cash from property sold
 for tax, 1887, redeemed o9 75 To cash from apportion-
 ment, territorial school
 fund 532 % To cash from balance from
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JOHN SHENNAN.
 General Sup't-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-04-18
A WONDER.

A WONDER.
Still always groweth in me the grea
wonder,
When all the fields are blushing like the
dawn,
under,
That can see no flowers, that one being
gone;
No flower of all, because of one being
gone.
Aye, ever in me groweth the great wonder,
When all the fields are shining white and
red,
And only one poor little flower ploughed
under,
That it wery all aG one il all were dead;
Aye, all as one if all the flowers were dead.
1 cannot feel the beauty of the roses;
Their soft leaves seem to me but layers OF
dust;
Out of my opening hand each blessing
closes
Nothing is left TO me but hope and trust,
Nothing but heavenly hope and heay, My
trust.
I get no sweetness from the sweetest places ;
My house, my friends, no longer comfort
me;
Strange, somehow, grow the old familiar
faces:
For can nothing have, not having thee I;
All my possessions l possessed through
thee.
Having, have them not-strange contra
diction
Heaven needs must cast its shadows On
our earth
Yea, drown us in the waters Of afiliction
Breast high, TO make us know our treas
ure's worth;
To make us know how much our love is
worth.
And while mourn, the anguish Of my story
Breaks, as the wave freaks on the hinder
ing bar;
Thou art but hidden in the deeps Of glory.
Even as the sunshine hides the lessenlng
star,
And with true love love thee from afar.
know our Father must be good, not evil,
And murmer not for faiths sake, At nay
in;
Nor at the mystery Of the working cavil,
That somehow binieth all things in his
viii,
And, thoagh Re say me, makss me trust
him still
-AEoS Caryy.
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WITH THEE.

If could know that after all
These heavy bonds have ceased to thrall,
We who in life the fates divide
Should sweetly slumber side by side
That one green spray would drop its dew
Softly alike above us two,
All would bewell for should be,
At last, dear loving heart, with thee
How sweet to know this dust of ours,
Mingling, will feed the self,same flowers
The scent of leaves, the song birds tone,
At once across our rest be blown,
One breadth of sun, one sheet of rain
Make green the earth above us TWAIN!
All, sweet and strange, for should be,
At last, deur tender heart, with thee
But half the earth may intervene
Thy place of rest and mine between
And.leagues of land and wastes of waves
May stretch and toss between our graves.
Thy bed with summer light be warm,
While snow. drifts heap, in wind and
storm,
My pillow, whose one thorn will be,
Beloved, that am not with thee!
But if there be blssful sphere
Where homesick souls, divided here,
And wandering wide in useless quest
Shall find their longed-for haven of rest,
If in that higher happier birth
We meet the joys we missed on earth,
All will be well, for shall be,
At last, dear loving heart, with thee
-Eliza6eth AkerS ANen-
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CIIJRCN ES.

METH0DIsT.-Proscbinga at the Methodist Church
every Sabbath at II q. m. and 7-30 p. m Rev.
D. Scott, Pastor. Sunday School at $50 a. IN
DR.. J. II. Combs, Superintendent. Teachers meet
ings. p. m. Prof. J. r. Pritchett, leader. Young
Mems meeting, Tuesday, 9-30 p. m. Prsyermeet'
Ing, Wednesday, T-s0 p. m. Service for the Latie'
Friday, 1 p. m. Woman's Aid Society, Thursday
4p. m Woman's Missionary Society, the First
Friday In the month. 4 p. m. Singing Sunday
n4-30 pm.
BAPTIsT.-Preaobing at the Baptist Church
every SUNDAY. Rev. ". d. Beverley, Pastor
Sunday School at $50 .. m. Young mems prayer
meeting Tuesday night. Congregational prayer
nesting Wednesday night.
PRESBYTERlAN.-Service End aud 4th Sunday
each month. No regular pastor at present. Sunda,
School every Sabbath At $3.50 q. m. PRAYER Meet
Ing every Thursday at 1850 p. m. All are invited
to attend.
cHRIsTIAN.-No regular pastor at present
sunday School al Am. A cordial invitation eK-
tended to all.
PROTESTANT TRPISC0PAL.--Rev.J J. Gslbresth
Pastor. Services the 2nd and 4th sundsys In eaef
month. Sunday school every Sunday.
CATH0LlO,-serviees tth Sunday l u each mUnth
Rev. Father Smith Pastor.
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CONTINUED NEYT WEEK.
The Indiana Phalanx, Prohibitio,

The Indiana Phalanx, Prohibition,
says:
Prohibitionists will not waste many
tears over Mr. Halstead's defeat.
Against them have been directed his
most bitter attacks, In his issue of
July 4, 1887, he advises the Republi-
cans to fight "the st. John frauds
with fire and birthstone, clubs, pitch
forks and butcher-knives." On the
14th Gf memory serves) Of last Nov
ember he said that prohibitionists
SHOULD be branded for the slaugh-
ter-house." These are but specimens
of such fiendish utterances as have
filed the columns Of the CONNER
cial- Gazette for years. Halstead's
paper is the leading Republican Or
grn of Ohio, and these murderous
declaration against the only citizens
that chose to array themselves
against the saloons at the ballot-box,
have gone unrebuked by the Repub-
lican press and party. Possibly
some others besides Mr.. Halsterd
may profit by his rejection. Those
who have credited and enjoyed his
false and malicious charges against
the Prohibitionists, may now begin
to wonder If those utterances were
not prompted by the same unscru-
pulous course that has made Mr..
Halstead so unpopular with the Sen
ate and among the leaders of his own
party. Halstead's nomination adds
nothing to the credit OF Harrison's
administration, but his rejection is to
the credit of the Senate, and is one
of the rare indications that that body
is not entirely given over to parttis
an spirit.
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nansa

had been extinguished. Therefore tho lands
were government lands Therefore they were
open to settlement, because, according 10 tho
revised statutes. section An67. all lands be-
longing to the United States TO which the In
dian title has been or may hereafter bo oxtin-
guished shall be subject to tho right Of pro-
emption.'"
II Is a significant fact that though tho
leading boomers wero often arrested, they
wero as often released without trial II
would seem that tho other parties did not
want tho matter tested by law. Tho fato Of
the Hotel Barnard, In Wellington, Kan, on
the morning Of Nov. %, 1884, ho camo down
to breakfast In his usual health, and when
tho waiter came to take his order he asked
for glass of milk. Tho milk was brought
from tho kitchen, and Payne drank II all at q
draught As no placed tho glass on tho
table ho suddenly started up as II seized with
spasm, and, grasping tho cream pitcher,
hastily drank Its contents. Then, whilo
striving to put tho pitcher back ON tho table,
he fell to the floor and died instantly.
No inquest was held, although II Is be-
lieved by many boomers that Payne was
poisoned by an cmissary Of the cattlemen.
This will not be deemed such violent sup
position when IL is remembered that two
homesteaders were burned alivo by Prince
Olive, cattleman, In Nebraska, less than
fifteen years ago.
Paynos body was inclosed In q metallic
caslSet and buried In tho Wellington ceme-
terry. Tho concourso that gathered to do
honor to his memory was tho greatest ever
seen In southern Kansaa More than 5000
people, II Is said, followed his body to the
grave.
Another leader Of tho boomers worth men-
tionlng was Capt w. L. Couch, who had
been Payne's chief assistant up to tho fall Of
1884, who became tho chief when Payne died.
Taking advantage Of the excitement that
followed after Payne's death, he worked up a
colony and formed town site company, with
himself as president, II. II. Stafford, secre-
tary, G. Il Brown, treasurer, and r. 3.
Wilcox, manager. Some time during the
latter part Of December, 1884, Couch led $50
colonists into the territory. They had to cut
their way through wire fences that inclosed
100000 cattle, and finally camped on tho left
bank Of tho Cimarron, near Cedar creek. Tho
place was called saltwater Tho colony mado
dugouts In the sand hills, and erected log
school house.
Here no was found by Lieut.. Day with
thirty men from Fort Reno on Jan. Z, 1885.
The lieutenant at once attempted to arrest
Couch, but 200 mon with Winchesters and
double barrelod shotguns interfered. Tho
lieutenant sent for re-enforcements and
starved Couch and party out by cutting
off their supplies Last of all q colony Of
negroes located In Oklahoma under tho i'm
preston that 1t was reserved for freedmen
according to the original contract with the
Indians; but they were hustled out much
quicker than tho whites had been, for they
had no "Winchesters" or did not know how
to use them.
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NUMBER l6.
Correspondence of tho Fnrr PRxas.

Correspondence of tho FnxE PRxss.
Spring dresses and Easter bonnets
are the all absorbing topics Of femi.
nine conversation just now, and with
the endless varieties Of styles and
shapes, IL is no wonder that IL is an
exceedingly hard matter to make o
selection that is both stylish and be-
coming. What an easy matter it is
for q man to dress well One nobby
suit will answer his purpose for or
dinary wear, then there is his dress
suit for evening calls, balls, concerts
and theatres-he is even permitted to
bring his last years straw into 40
tive service once more. q thing 0
woman would never dare to do.
"Wear my last years haiti" Could
nht think Of it, it must be new IL it is
not pretty, stylish if not becoming.
That is the way the average woman
views the matter.
How delightful it must be to live
in the country, where thoughts of
fashion rarely come, to harass the
weary brain.
One frequently meets with q GER
tain class OF women who positively
declare they have nothing to wear
Quite recently gentleman who was
so unfortunate as to have just such
wife, one who perpetually dinned in
to his ears the piteous tale that she
had nothing to wear" The poor
man evidently got tired OF "the old
story, oft repeated" and determined
to teach her lesson, so one night
aftor supper, he smilingly asked her
If she had anything to weari" She
answered in the most doleiul manner
possible, while visions Of q new silk
danced before her eyes, "no, I havn't
a thing decent, that last dress have
worn three (3) times already!" He
waited until she finished speaking,
then said in his sweetest way, thathe
did not think che had anything to
wear so he only bought one ticket for
the opera Tint night, was very sorry
she could not go, and with o polite
waive of lis hand said he must be off
or he would be late, and off he went,
leaving his wife to her own renec-
tions. Do you suppose she ever
afterwards told him she had "noth-
thing to wear?' On the the princi-
pie that "a burnt child breads the
fire." one might safely conclude that
after this she always had something
that she could put herself into.
There is constant work goiug on in
Dallas in the way Of street paving,
building and the laying Of street car
tracks. The post Office has been
moved into the new building, which
is very nicely arranged and is quite
an imposing structure.
"JAcoUEs."
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G. To suppress personal, local, sectional and ma
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selfish ambition.
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Major Dan Nc Gary. better known
as Uncle Danl, was in Austin recent
", and returned home 10 Houston
said he left the members Of the leg
islature getting along finely on 81 q
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may 60 home happy II they are re-
garded as being fully oqnal 10 The
average legislatures q The past
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0KLAHOMA'SB
A General Sketch Of the Pro
posed Territory.
GOOD LAND FOR 10000 FARMS

Historical Introduction-Hardsh Of the
Boomers - wifd Life In Purcell - The
Grcat Cattle syndicates-Grc Contrasts
In tho Land-somo Extremely Fertile
A Few Barren Ridges.
The New York Sun has done tho country
q service by sending one Of its best men to
Oklahoma, who gave tho actual facts about
the history and present condition Of that dis
puted strip. Tho following is a condensation
Of The SUMS account. The history Of Okla
homa need only be glanced att Is not a
pleasant story by any means-but the exist
ing condition Is worthy careful attention.
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