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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-15

DELPHIA LODGE, No. 40, K. of p, meets on
Monday evening of each week, at Odd Fellows s
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing invi-
ted to attend. l.. NJ. AXLINE. T.. e.
II. A. BROWN, X. of r. s.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-15
Barber County Omcers
Medicine Lodge Omcers.
SOCIETIHg.

4 Al & A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. II
. Regular communications, first and
~ third Saturday evenings in each
. month. e. 7. FREEMAN, WIN
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-15

n u q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 30.
VI Liz OS Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERRELL, W. NJ.
DIR. H. YANT. Sec.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
A Story of Congressman Reel.

Reed stood one day in front of the Hamilton house, on Fourteenth street, where he lives. There is a hill there, not steep, but sometimes slippery. A colered man was urging horse attached to a heavily loaded wagon. Twice the animal slipped and fell, and the driver beat the beast with his whip. Presently Reed stepped forward. In that sharp, twangy voice 50 often heard and gener- ally feared in the house he commanded the negro to desist. The man again raised his whip, when Reeds big arm swung out and caught the drivers wrist in a strong grasp. Reed held him thus as in wise for one full minute, pouring out such flood of reproof as that colored man had never before heard. The man winced, wilted. He was mastered, phy. sically and morally. And the end of the incident was drawing of the wagon to one side of the street, Reed assisting the driver therein, and sending of the pool horse away to the blacksmith to have new shoes put on his old feet.-W ashing ton Letter.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27

The legality of taxing mortgages was decided adversely by Judge Por- ter on Thursday, who holds that where the property tncumbt red is assessed at its full value, the mortgage on the same cannot be taxed The matter will now go to the Supreme court for final decision. Judge Porter's opinion is manifestly just. The Arizona law i should have been amended by the legis- 1 lature so as to conform with that of California, which while requiring the taxation of mortgages exempts so much of the property as is compre- hended by the incumbrance. That is to say the property is taxed only on | the vIlua ton over and above the amount of the mortgage.-Silver Belt.
 A writer says: Nowhere in Europe is Lent kept as it is in Russia. The faithful eat neither meat, eggs, milk nor butter during the entire forty days. Even in cooking, oil is used in stead of butter or lard, and not even I the children are allowed to drink milk. On the day before Easter nothing is eaten, and just before midnight the people all go to church, bearing with them provisions of every description. At the stroke of 12 the church, which has been previously kept in solemn darkness, is suddenly Illuminated, and then, after the food has been blest the eating begins and the people sat isfy their hunger before leaving the sacred edifice,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27

k II ckles, bowie-knife or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purpose of effense or defense, he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in addition there to shall forfeit to the county in which he is convicted the weapon or weapons so carried.
 Sec. 3. If any person shall go into any church or religious assembly, any school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific pur- poses, or in any circus, show, or pub lie exhibition of any kind, or into a ball room, social party or social gath ering, or to any election precinct on the day or days or any election, where any portion of the people of this ter rltory are collected to vote at any elec- tion; or any other place where people may be assembled to minister or to perform any other public duty, or to any other public assembly, and shall have or carry about his person pistol or other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-
 
 shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuck- les, bowie knife, or any other kind of knife, or any other kind manufactured for offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dol lars, and shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on his person.
 Sec. '. It shall be the duty of the keeper of each and every hotel, board ing house and drinking saloon to keep posted up in conspicuous place in his bar room or reception room if there be no bar in the house,a plain notice to travellers to divest themselves of their weapons in accordance with section g of this act, and the sheriffs of the var ious counties shall notify the keepers of hotels, boarding houses and drink ing saloons in their respective coun- ties of the duties under this law.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Puir Eaither.

Having lost his wife when his little girl was but years old, Sandy NIcPher- son married again. His new wife was very kind to Maggie, the little girl, but she ruled Sandy with rod of iron.
 An old lady meeting Maggie on her way to school. kissed the little mite warmly, bought her big poke of sweets and said:
 "Puir wee lassie, ye've only a step- mither the noo, eh bit I'm gey sorry for ye, dearie."
 "Ye're no needin'," said Maggie, solemnly, "but I'd like ye tae feel awful sorry for ma puir father. Youth $ Companion.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Chief of Forestry Division, Depa ment of Agriculture.
 Washington, March 9th, 1889.

The Phenix Herald says it has posi- tive information that Surveyor-Gene- ral Hise has prepared and printed a report on the Peralta claim, and has held the same for some weeks without signing the same or giving it publicity. The report is said to be in favor of the settlers; if so, why is it not sent into the department? Why is it not given to the public? It has remained in the present condition of suspension long enough to excite suspicion that it is not a bona fide report intended to settle the troubles of the settlers who have been threatened by that black mailing scheme for so long a time, and of the invalidity of which there is not shadow of doubt, and never was It was never intended to be anything but a blackmail grant, and if Surveyor General Hise proposes to stand by the settlers let him come out.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Twice to Salad and No More,

Dr. Anthony Ruppaner usually helps the members and guests to salad at the suppers of the Goethe club. The doctor has made a rule that is well known among his fellow members never to in- vite guest a second time who asks to be helped to salad more than twice. I am told that among the many who have enjoyed the clubs hospitality at the doc tors invitation only one has been tabooed from further entertainment by the en- forcement of this rule, and to this day he is in doubt as to the cause of the sud den coldness in the doctors treatment of him.-New York Star,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Ieral nirhts of a Ricrclist.

A case has been decided by the court of appeals of Rhode Island affirming a decision of a lower court which laid down the law that cycler has the same right on road that man has who drives horse and wagon. A cycler and a man driving a wagon approached each other on a road. The cycler turned to the right, but the man driving the horse refused to turn out. There was a collision. The court decided that the driver of the horse had violated the law by not driving reasonably to the right of the travelled center of the highway Kingston Freeman.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Reclalming Our Desert Lands

Senator Stewart, in the April For um, is not the first to call attention to the possibility of placing popula ton 00,O00,000 in the great American desert. Major Powell, as & scientific man, has drawn up report on this matter, at the instance of the govern ment and, as the population presses westward, the great district east of the Rocky mountains comes more and more into demand as place of habi tation. The first question to be met is, whether these sandy wastes can be reclaimed. Major Powell says that they can, and Senator Stewart says the same thing. The evidence exis S in Arizona and Mexico that they n be reclaimed, rnd the problem which awaits the gove ment and the stimu- Jus of individual enterprise at the west is no greater that that which the Eng fish have had to solve under govern ment controlin India, or than the ancient Egyptians had to considt r when they made Egypt the granary of the world. There is no reason why the irrigation which has been applied to Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and in former times to Arizona and Mexico, should not be applied to the great sand plains east of the Rocky mountains, and the conviction Is growing that some popular action con- trolling this part of the country is near at hand. It is said that the land is more abundant than the water in this region. This makes the water the principal thing of value, and the land incidental to it. It also compels the taking of the control of the water out of individual hands, so that no monopoly shall be acquired. Much of the water required for irrigation of this part of the country has already fallen into the hands of monopolists i; but Senator Stewart believes that 1t Is not yet too late to inaugurate proper system by which the united action of the states and territories and of the general government can remove much of the evil. Congress has already appropriated $250,000 to continue the surveys which are necessary prelimi- naries to the construction of hydraulic works, and selected committee of the Senate will report next December what legislation is necessary for the reclamation of the arid regions-Bos ton Herald
 The progress of reform in prison life, however slow in general, is some thing marvellous at Elmira, N. Y., un- der the famous Superintendent Brock way and Dr. Hamilton D. Wey. Il reads strange that the prisoners arc not only trained physically with drill massage and baths, but that there are nine classes-in political economy physics, civil government, language and mathematics, English literature and ill practical ethics. The schools , embrace all the inmates; the teachers are men, and the very ablest to bt found in the city. The progress made by the pupils is so very marked that
 while over 75 per cent. were classified as illiterate at entrance, not , per cel can be so classed at the close of , years's incarceration The progress is such that prisoners are lifted to { level where the c4ime motive has les power, or none at all.-Globe-Demo crat.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27

It is said that the names given by the train robbers are assumed ones. Smith, the man who escaped, is the one who claims to be the son of a Baptist minister. They are supposed to be the same crowd that held up the train at Bellemont. One of the pris- oners is supposed to have strychnine concealed about his person.-Courler.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
An Act

To prohibit the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the terri tory from allowing illegal demands and claims, and to provide for the punishment for a violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislative As sembly of the Territory of Arizona SECTION 1. That the boards of super visors in any of the counties of this territory shall not pay any sum or amount whatever to any District Judge for services or expenses in holding or going to the place oi holding any term of the district court in this territory.
 SEC ?. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re- pealed
 SEC. 8. This act shall be in force from and after the date of it's passage Approved March 2lst, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Carrying Weapons.

The following sections of bill that has now become law are interest ing:
 Sec. 1. If any person within any settlement, town, village on city, with in the territory shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle-bags any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
HISTORICAL I'D BITS.

Medicine was first introduced into Rome from Greece in POO.
 The order of Jesuits was founded by Igna- tius Loyola in l540.
 The great London plague was from June % to Dec. 12 1665.
 Homeopathy was first introduced into the United States in 1895.
 Iron steamships were first introduced into Great Britain in 1S43.
 Mormons arrived at Salt Lake valley, Utal. July 2A lS47-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Irony of Enfa-

He used to hear his neighbors prove His life was mistake, Till one day, by lucky move, This good man made stake. Twas then the neighbors turned around And praised his every whiIn, Until at last the good man found It was the stake made him.
 New York Evening Sun
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27

How the prices for musical performances have risen during the last sixty years can be seen by comparison of Patti's &700 for per forming once in London this season and Mme Pasta's POO franc sfor private musical entertainment ia Paris in 1880 ..zas-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
Boomerang Mine Jumped.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

VTHEREAS, IT HAS JUST COME TO MY w knowledge that it is claimed by one of the owners of the Boomerang mine that said mine has been jumped by one Patrick Morgan, on or about the first day of January, 1889. No- tice is hereby given that said Boomerang mine was not open for51ocation and warn all persons against purchasing said Boomerang mine or any interest therein from said Morgan.
 JOHN c. LOSS
 Co-owner in Boomerang minee CASA GRANDg, A. T., Feb. 5, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
NUMBER 4
H. N. ALEXANDER, AND COUNSELLOR ATLAw,

DHYSICIAN & SURGEON. ] Office at residence, Main Street, FIoren A. T.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20
Description of a Good Cow.

Prof. Robertson says: A good COW
is fat-ribbed just back OF the shout
ders, and has well-sprung ribs further
back. She has broad fat ribs, and 50
far apart that one can lay two fingers
between them. Her skin should be
loose and Happy over the flank, and
her umbilical development should be
firm and strong. with the veins OF the
belly very prominent. She should be
broad between the eyes, should have a
short and slightly disked face, and
bright and prominent eyes. Besides,
the poll or forehead should be long be-
tween the horns and the eye; the neck
should be clean and thin, the back
bone strong, the pelvic arch high, the
hams thin to give ample room for Il
large udder, and the tail should be
long, slim or fat. She should have long
udder, extending well back and in front
lone that will be soft and habhy when
MIXED out-and should have a three
told, wcdge-shaped form, the general
tendency of weight being toward the
udder. indicating power To produce
milk. Dairy World.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20


The Government school at which
the children Of the Eastern band OF
Cherokee Indians are educated is at
Cherokee. on Yellow Hill. in Swain
County, N. G., and is very interesting
to visitors. The Society of Friends
established the school in 1888, and
now have charge of it. There are
eighty pupils. These are taught me.
~chanlcal work by the principal and
seven assistants, There are during
Ihe 1all and winter months two other
schools in the reservation entirely for
lhuian pupils. In Swain County are
Low thcrokees, and there are 800
o'ners IN the counties Of Macon, Ora.
uafn, jackson and Cherokee. There
are possibly some 200 or 800 in North
Georgia and East Tennessee. Their
capital is Yellow Hill. the residence Of
lsa"la-te-he, or Charles Smith, their
chief. The ofica is elective and the
indians vote for chief every four years.
ana every two years vote for council.
men, lhore arc twenty of the latter.
one ior each 100 indians. Baltimore
Gun. ~
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20

will leaving me the property. II
would not then it should go to you
leaving me but the interest on five hun
dred pounds enough to keep me from
starvation. | loathe you for tempting
me to sell myself. My husband-iol
according to Scottish law he is my
husband-will have finished his Tern
tomorrow week. He is penniless and
without u name. | always looked on
the estate AS mine, and without money
jim can not help himself. Legally
am your wife, and you could not prove
the contrary. II you care to ventilate
these little family matters do so,
for suppose you N get the prop
erty by SO doing. II you prefer
peace leave me to my own, for you
confess it is mine by right, and none
need know Il private affairs. Give
orders tonight for closing the house.
Write Mrs. Chalmers we have changed
our minds and will go abroad indefi-
nlteIy. We can 60 together in the car
riage to the station, and part in Lon
don. Sell the place in your own name
and deposit the money in mine, and
you will never see me again. | trust
to your honor to do this II you loved
me | could never have caused this to
happen, but only your comfort is as
sailed now. You can live on your own
income and be happy alone. | should
die without Jim. Your conduct al
breakfast will tell mt what course to
pursue
Il think | must have been paralyzed
by that letter, for certainly my wife
and ! met at breakfast; at least | called
her my wife, and did not find it diff
cult to keep up an ordinary CONVERSE
tiou. gave orders exactly as | had
been told. and Mrs. Jessie quietly
handed me the title deeds to the prop
orty already signed, My previous sor-
must have used up all my feeling,
for really | looked at Mrs. Jessie with
admiration.
I'VE parted in London. and | took
the first steamer for New York. | have
never heard from Jessie since. Now
you know why | have not sought
friends. After wandering through the
| started for the Nile. and
there We met. my dear friend. Do you
wonder that | did not are to 60 be-
fore a divorce court IA second time.
preferred TO say nothing, although it
gave rise to various rumOrs Ger
ny me, which | suppose you have
heard, have written to my aunt,
md will leave this history in my desk.
. be Scut 20 you after my death.
"With wishes for the continuance OF
contentcd life, | am, as always,
our devoted friend, HARRY SAuN.
'ERs.'-M. NJ. Wallace, in brakes
Magazine,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20

The Wagner Palace Car Company is revo,
lutionizing the equipment Of its cars and
making them superior 10 anything Of the
kind IN the world. One of the greatest I'M
p-ovements is the lighting of the cars with
gas. The New York Central g. Hudson
River Railroad Company is also eeuipping
Its passenger coaches with gas. About one
hundred Of them running out of New York
City have been so equipped. The gas is CON-
pressed in q cylinder under each car, and
one filling Of O cylinder will last the round
trip between New York and Chicago. The
gas is made from petroleum, and furnishes
a 6lcandle powerlightas againsta l6candle
powerlight under the old method. Coaches
lighted with gas are as lightas a parlor, and
passengers can read as well in the night as
In the daytime.-Rome IN. " Sentinel.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20
UNCLE SANS DISHONESTY.
How the Government Has Pro1ted BY
Funds from Unpaid Money Orders.

uhiS rom Unpaid Money orders.
For seventeen years after the estab-
.Iohlncnt Of the money-order system in
this country the funds secured through
unpaid money orders were stored up
and boarded, just a. though the United
States Government had made a rood
speculation. No attempts whatever
were inaugurated to ascertain the rea!
owners Of this money, which had been
trusted to Uncle Sans care, but tho
sum went on accommodating until it had
reached the enormous figure of about
81, Glv,oUJ. Then Congress took hold.
Il Legislative branch OF tho Govern
m"nt decided that the money thus
held was Illegally held, and that no
pains should be spared to ascertain to
whom it belonged, and Il clause was
attached to one of the bills appropri-
ating money for the support Of
the Post-OtfiCc Department au-
thorizing the employment of a number
Of clerks, whose duty it should be to
ascertain the rightful owners Of this
money-ordcr fund, and every effort
made to restore it. Congress also pro
vIded that hereafter, whenever an 'aG.
vice in relation to an order. which
should remain unpaid in the hands OF
4 postmaster a certain number of days
without the money having been
claimed, was received it should be the
duty Of the postmaster to notify the
pnyco. II this failed to secure the
payment OF the money to the rightful
party the sender was to be notified
and steps were devised by which he
might secure the money which had
not been paid to the person to whom
he desired it should 90.
Under the latter act there has been
a great falling off in the accumulation
OF money to the credit Of the money
order fund in New York, and under
the instructions of Congress some
clerks in the monoy-order depart
mcnt have been engaged for
some years In making out a list
OF all unpaid orders, together
with the name of the purchaser of the
order and the party to whom it was
sent. These lists make an enormou
bill of manuscript. and although they
are not yet completed, they have been
instrumental in restoring a great deal
OF money to the rightful owners. Just
how much has been paid back can not
be asccrtained at this time without a
great deal Of work. but that there still
remains more than 81, 900, 900 piled
away in the s~ub-trcasury at New York
to the credit Of the money-order fund
is beyond doubt.
Ordinary business honesty would
have demanded that this fund should
never have been allowed to accumu
late, but Uncle Sam, in his business
dealings, is the most dishonest Of NOR
tails. He never pays a debt that he can
possibly escape, but insists upon
prompt payment for all his debts.
Washington Cor. INDIANAPOLIS journal
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-20
ALPHABET COLLECTION.
An Exhibition of More Than Ordinar,
Interest to Scholars,

An ISliD'tion OF More Than Ordinary
Interest to Scholars.
Those who are interested in alpha
pets and writings will be glad to hear
that u small exhibition of different
alphabets is now being arranged in
the Kings Library, British Museum.
The system of writing in use among
the Babylonians aud Assyrians con-
sisted OF a ~syllabary Of nearly six hun
dred characters, which were probably
borrowed from the earlier inhabitants
of Chaldea, the Akkadians, who used
them as kilograms, much as the Chi.
ncse employ their written signs. The
Assyrians. who spoke q language en-
tirely different from the Akkadian,
used characters sometimes as ideo-
grams, and also Theoretically. Re-
spectlng the earliest known
systems OF writing used in India,
there are examples here which
ate as far as 250 B. G. The Arianop.
oil is a character OF obviously Semitic
origin, read from right to lett, and is
found on the versions OF Edicts in the
Punjaub only. Hence it is called the
Northern Asoka character. Respect
ing the Coptic alphabet. it is shown
that when the Egyptians became Chris.
tians, they rejected their ancient script
and adopted the Greek alphabet. As
this was not adequate to express all
the sounds OF the Egyptian language,
They added on the end Of the alphabet
six letters taken from the native De-
motto script, slightly modifying the
forms. The exact date of the adoption
OF the Coptic alphabet can not be de-
termined, but it is confined to the
Christian literature of Egypt, the old
est fragments of which date from The
fourteenth century A. d. --Manchester
Guardians London Correspondence.