Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-29
Death of Judge Duff.

Judge Andrew D. Duff, Register of the Land Office for this district, died this morning at his residence in this city at g o'clock. He has been an invalid for over IS months. being con fined to his room the greater part of the time, afflicted with consumption, winch slowly wore him out On the | first day of May he sent his resigna ton to Washington with the inten- tion of leaving on July 1st, for his old Illinois home, and frequently ex- pressed the hope that he might be able to return there before death claimed him.
 Judge Duff was born at Granville, Bond County, Illinois, January 24, 1920. At the age of 20 years he en- tered a law office in Benton, Illinois, and studied law for years, when he began successful practice of his pro- fession. He was afterwards County judge of Franklin county, Illinois, for several years, and was Circuit Judge of the Springfield, Illinois district for 12 years ending in 1876. He served as private in the Mexican war, but did not take part in the war of the re- bellion. For years he has been member of the baptist church and be- longed to the congregation at Phenix since he came to Arizona, and was prominent Mason. having been con- nected with the order for years.
 A wife and three daughters are left to mourn the loss of kind husband and loving father. The daughters are Miss Alice Duff, who has so faith fully looked to her fathers business during his long illness, Mrs. T. l.. Stiles, now a resident of Washington 1 Territory and Mrs. C. H. Barker, of
 Danvil!e, Illinois. The body will be | embalmed by Undertaken Baird and as 1 soon as possible will be taken to Car bondale, Illinois, for burial. The
 funeral services will be held at the
 residence and the time will be an
 nounced hereafter. The sympathy oi
 the entire community will be with
 Mrs. Duff and Miss Alice in this hour
 of afiliction and grief and the Citizen
 takes pleasure in giving testimony oI
 the high regard that existed in this
 community for Judge Duff.
 The Masonic Lodge of this city will
 take charge of the body and conduct
 it to the train-Citizen.
 There is no better indication of any
 country's prosperity than the fac
 hat there are no idle men 10 be fount
 in it. and at present, we think, that i
 d person were to travel from the moutl
 of the Bonita to Fort Thomas througl tall the country embraced in the grea
 agricultural district of the Gila valle,
 hat 1t would be very hard to find
 man unemployed who is willing t,
 work. In fact it is hard to find goo, men 10 do the work now on hand
 The wages paid white laborers o' farms through harvest run from S1.5 } 10 $2,0O per day, and board. Thes
 wages will compare favorably wit , those paid in any section of the cour try, and when the fact Is taken int consideration that man can wor out doors on farm all the year roun . in Arizona in his shirt sleeves, the aC /, vantage a labOrer in this country Ina : over men of his occupation in the ca. Is plainly to be seen. In the east if
 laborer gets $1.00 a day and board fC
 seven months in the year he think l he is doing well, and the other fiy F months are absolutely lost as the col
 weather prevents him doing any wor T outside, were he so disposed. In AT u zona where land is to be procured at U tritiing expense, every laborer ca Il have home of his own with broa
 acres of land surrounding it, and, the winter months, if work gets Ii II tie dull and he can find nothing do, then Is the best time in the vel < for him to make improvements on h II own land, as the temperature throne December, January and February T such as to make these months u
 most pleasant of any in the year to (
 such work as clearing up land ar a putting it in shape for cultivatio Q mother advantage, and by no meal Il h least, which Arizona offers, Is u n simple fact that there has never Y g in the history of the country be- e. known of d case where farm labor died either from sun stroke or fro Il freezing to death.-Solomon Bl 5e etin.