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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
Theatrical Sharks.

There are as many receptions praCticed i'll
the theatrical profession as in any other line
of business. Managers and actors both are
constantly obliged to be on the lookout for
tricks and games of all sorts which are prac-
ticed weekly. There are adventures and
adventuresses who probably never stepped a
foot on the stage who are rOping in young
people by various schemes or other all the
time. In NEST of these cases the trick is to
extract money from young aSpirants to the
atrical fame. The latest game is one being
practced by an alleged comedy company in
New York, which is advertising for actors
and actresses to fill out its cast As soon as
this fake organization receives an applCa-
tiun from any one a letter is returned to the
applicant requesting him or her to forward
- for tine manuscript of the play winch is to
be- produced. the letter aIsD carefully stating
that the amount will be returned as soon as
the receiver joins the company in New York
In many instances the money is forwarded,
but nothing is ever seen or heard of the man
uscript or the company.-ManaGer in St
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
On the Elevated Railroad.

The maximum speed on the elevated road
is twenty-five miles per hour, and on a level
line it requires from 900 to | POO feet to get
up speed. The average horse power to do the
work required is l45. The average consump-
ton of coal per mile is All pounds The av-
erage number of miles run per ton of coal
is 49.4 The engines work on an aver
age of about 90 hours per day with two
crews each crew averaging 20 miles and
making POS stops during that time.-Rail-
road Gazette
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
The Black Head Bug.

The black head bug has appeared by the
millions in the turpentine forests of south
east Georgia, and is doing alarming damage.
Great tracts of pine woods already show
blight and are dying. The bug starts in a
pine where it is boxed and works under the
bark, then around the trunk. Its boring pre-
vents the sap from going up in the tree and
eventually the tree dieS-Chicago Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
PEOPLE THAT CESAR KNEW.
The First and Last of the Lake Dwellers
of sutherland.


The recent discovery of tOmbS of the lake
dwelers has awakened a renewed interest in
the people of prehistoric Switzerland. Tour
lists viii hardly be content any more to pass
through Switzerland without visiting one or
more of the museums where the collections
made from the excavated lake dwellings are
exhibited
Perhaps the most extensive exhibition of
these relics is the one at the Helm house, in
Zurich. There one sees what are in fact the
greatest antiquities of the whole world. There
are hundreds and thousands of specimens of
stone, wood, cloth, weapons and ornaments
of a people whose towns were old a thousand
years before gray, old excavated Pompeil was
ever thought of.
To Professor Ferdinand Keller before ali
others the world is indebted for knowledge
of what it probably was before the time of
history. All the later years of his life were
devoted t. the investigation of the lake dwell
prs' villages. and no man was 50 competent
as he to rejuvenate those dead Old skulls and
relics, lifting a thousand years from the for
gotten past into the middle of the Nineteenth
century.
Keller has translated the hieroglyphicS Of
the dead ages He has explained how the
past into the aces of stone, of bronze and of
iron; how the lake dwellings of Switzerland
were first discovered at Meilen, on the lake
of Zurich, in 1870, and more fully revealed
in 1851, and how the world at large shut
its eyes, almost, to the great contribution
made to history He has told, too, how the
patient, hard working investigators, Of whom
he is chief, have uncovered and dug out
/ 81
our best families" don't need to break off
their ancestral line with William the Con-
Gueror, or with any other William. Those
of us who think we might be proud Of our
far off progenitors may yet be gratitied to
see some shrewd Yankee following our line
clear back t. OrgetoriX, the youngest off
spring of our Celtic grandfathers of the lake
| jewellers.
If our American tourist will take a little
more time, jump on the cars and ride out to
| Robenhaueen, ON the lake Of Pfattikon, he
| will there witness with his own eyes the turf
beds and the lake giving up the secrets of
| the age of stone. RObenhauSen is a town of
the stone age period 1t was perhaps POO
| feet square, standing on platform built on
a hundred thousand piles driven into the
| bottom of tie shallow lake, about 800 yards
| from the shore. Like all the other Swiss lake
| towns it was connected with the land by a
| long bridge, also built on piles. OF course
the visitor now will see little except chopped
| off piles sticking in the peat, and among them
! the debris of the villages that have gone to
| ruin. RObenhauSeu had been partly burned
down and built up again on the same site, but
at intervals Of ages, probably, apart; so that
the peat bed shows on being opened three sets
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

The birth of a popular expression is thus
ascrlbed to John Jacob Aston Being Ger
man by birth, Mr. Aston supposed that %. K
was an Authorization of all correct which,
in his own mind, he spelled oil korrect. The
Joke upon Mr. Astor found its way into print,
and was 50 much appreciated that his -. K
soon passed into common use"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

DC guarded against all hostile intrusion, but
to be increased, as we shall see, by the myth
making powers of Jews, Christians and Mo-
hamme lans for thousands of years. Andrew
D. White, LII. D., in Popular Science
MOnth lY
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

like a star In any community. A boy may
possess as much of the noble character as
man. He may so live and speak the truth
that there shall be no di scount on his word
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

1t is the greatest delusion in the world for
a boy to get the idea that his life is of no con-
sequence an that the character of it will not
be neticeii- ! manly. truthful how uv'i' -%;-,~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

Let no one be discouraged because his time
is fully occupied An industrious mans odd
minutes are worth more than Il lazy mans
all day
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
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Smallest, Cheapest, Easiest TO take.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24

From st. Louis. Iron Mountain
and NJ, X. Il T............. lO;15 Il. m.
From st. Louis. Iron Mountain
and NJ. X. Il T. routes. ..lO:W p. m.
Eron, I,rndn " 3:35 D. m.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-24
RAILROAD TIMETABLE.
|. g. G. N. RAILROAD.

For St Louis via Iron Noun
tain or NJ. X. Il T.......... 5:45 p. m.
For 81. Louis, via Iron MOun-t
.,ldtain route. .................. $50 p. m
For Laredo 10 Il. m.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

FROM an editorial in the Tucson Citizen it appears that the bill now be- fore Congress to legalize the laws Of the Territory does include provision confer:ing on the Governor the power to remove county officers. In defend ing the Governor the Citizen makes a very lame excuse. It states that the power to remove county officers Is an old law of the Territory, that when the Code Commission revampod our laws they left it out, and that 1t was not stricken out when tho bill legaliz- ing all the laws ever passed by inc Arizona legislature was introduced in Congress. This has very suspicious look. If the Governor is really so SO Iicitous about the welfare of the Ter rilory, and sacrificed himself so much by casting such a doubt on the legal ity of our laws that it became neces- sary CD for hlm to make journey 10 Washington to lobby through bill declaring them legal, he would not have transcended the autocratic pow CTS he has endeavored to exercise by quietly dropping this obnoxious law The law was evidently passed for some sinister purpose, but no Governor has vet dared to make use Of 1t, and we give the Governor credit for more judg- ment than to try it; but. all the same it is a disgrace 10 our statutes and should have been dropped. We will do the Citizen the justice to say that 1t condemns the law.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

vey and will, when he is through and compares his data, be able to tell pretty nearly the cost, and as to the practibiliiy of the construction of the road. the projectors can determine when he makes his report.
 The party still have fifty-three miles of the Grand Cafion 10 explore, that is from Diamond Creek to Wallapai Wash. Below the latter point very little difficulty will be experienced, as stcamboats have been up to the Wal lapai Wash during high water.
 MT. Stanton expects 10 start from Diamond Creek next Monday, and ex- poets to reach Needles on April 1st, where Inc. will leave his party to finish the survey up and down the river. He speaks highly of the bravery and will ingness of the men of his party dur ing their perilous trip. The boats carry but eight men com 'ortably, and he will only take that number the re mairder of the trip. The survey will I 1 fi'-------.A-L down the west banks of the river to where -warers or tne--5vt orado join those of the gulf-Mol1av, County Miner.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
Summons.

In the District Cout. First Judicial District of the Te ritory of Arizona. in and for the county of ochise
 I hn S. Mcleod, plaintiff, vs. Belle Mcleod, defendant.
 Ac ion brought in the Di trict Court of the Fir-t Iuicii Il District of the Territory of Ari- zona, in and fer the county of Cochise. and the comp amt fled in tie sald county of Cochlse, in he ffice of the Clerk of said District C urt.
 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to Bell McLe Id, defend mt.
 You a her. by r,qured to appear in an ac- ton brought aga nst you b ti t above named pl int fl ,Ii the District Court of the First Judi ,i4l lstrict of the T rritory If Arizona, in and for thr- county of Coc':isr, and to answer the complaint filed therein within ten days (exclu- sive of the day of servicel after the service on you of this summons it sev we'd within this county, or if served out of this coun'y, but in this district, within twenty days, otherwise with in thirty ddys), or judgment by default will be taken against you -ccording to the prayer of said complaint.
 T,e nd action is Srought to obtain decree of divo cc aud diSsoiu ion from the bonds of mat mony row existing between the plaintiff and the defend nt.
 .~. Civ under m, hand and the seal 1 of the District Court ot the First Ju- < SEAL. Sdiil District of the Terri ory of Ari-
 zoi a, in and for the county of Co., *)0* chi>e this 10th cay of M lrch, Tn the year cur Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety. A. H. EMANUEL,
 a.ls Clerk.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

As AN instance showing the unself- ish motives that animate the parties who have undertaken to disincorporate the city, we would mention the fact that the "slate" for the officers under the proposed new city government has been, or is being, fixed up. A gentle man has been offered the position of clerk, but we do not know whether he has accepted. It is to be presumed that all the other officers have been picked out, and that the nice little job has been perfected in all its details. By their actions these gentlemen seem to be very confident of carrying their proposition, but when it comes 70 an election it is just possible that they may run up against a majority that may not be altogether pleasing to them.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

In the House contested election case from Arkansas Featherstone, the Republican contestant, was given the scat over Gates, the occupant. Some most remarkable facts concerning Ar kansas methods of electing Democrats came to light. One particularly strik- ing was the contrivance of a ballot box of tin with a sort of chimney opening on tOp.to receive the ballots. This chimney in its lower portion was divided by partition, on the one side of which an opening led into the bal lot box, and on the other side of which an opening led outside the box. A good Democratic judge of election by inclining a ticket slightly one way sent it into the box, or slightly the other way sent 1t on to the floor be- hind the box, while the voter at the window saw his ballot put into the box, as he thought It Is needless 10 say that there were good round Demo- cratic majorities in the county where this box was in use. The House Committee on Elections had one at Washington as sample of "a sure thing" on an election.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
Answers to Correspondents.

INQUIRER. 1. The Montana Lottery was first authorized by the Legislature August, 1887, and has been doing busi- ness ever since. 2. The CAPITAL PRIZES ARE $l5,OOO,. SIC. GOO, AND $5,000 each, to be drawn March 15, 1890, and monthly thereafter. 3. You should be able to get Montana State Lottery Tickets (Sl.00 each) from any lottery dealer. Ask for them, or ad- dress the company's manager, J. J. Jacobs, Butte, Montana.
 WILL WINNIE. 1. The Montana State Lottery always draws in public, and committee is selected from the audience to supervise the drawings. 2. No, lottery could not be drawn in public and be conducted unfairly or impartially. 3. There is no question about its fairness. 4. The Lottery has been running for nearly three years, and has paid ALL ITS PRIZES IN FULL, so it is as worthy of confidence and as ''famed for integrity" as any other lottery. 3. The Capital Prize is $15,000, the smallest $2 50; send money to J. J. Jacobs, Butte, Mon tana.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
An Arizona Cave.

But few persons know that near Mountain Springs, on the road be- tween Tucson and Tres AlamOs there is very extensive cave which IS as vet unexplored Many of the neigh boring ranchmen have been inside of it for a short distance and have se- cured some beautiful cabinet speci- mems of lime carbonates. Soldiers from Fort Lowell have penetrated in this cave for more than one mile and they report that the end was not met. How far the cave extends is query. It would be interesting for some of our young scientists to thoroughly ex- plore it. We may have Mammoth" in our territory without knowing it, Tucson Citizen.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
The Fortunes of all Exile.

Written for he EPITAPH. H. arted from Philadelphia on continental
 tour
 were thin and poor; He stumb ed across some scientists who were
 trying to find way To freeze q man and keep him friz d thousand
 years and and day. They brbed hm with a scrappel fry and tbe
 latest baseball news, And, being an easy-going man, he said he
 wouldn't refuse. Whether the weather wasn't right, or faulty the
 s4vant,' law, At the end of a hundred years. or so. the subject
 bg to lhaw; And cling his Phlladel phia soul yearning / ,r
 home once more. He tlaveltd by fast pneumatic tube to his own,
 his naive sfIore. He found host of novelties throngins on every
 hand, Few thu. he'd ever d-eamed of and scarcely
 Could understand. He found oIthograly greatly changed, in a sad,
 fOnetC Wa { And he witnessed ten-days walking match cu
 the waters of New YolI; bay; A pleasant stroll to Europe was nice. athletic
 trip, Though few old foges stubbornly clung to d
 papier-mache ship. But he wea jed of all this enterprise, for it cas-
 hls spirits down, And he made uJ his mind to hie him bas k tc
 his peaceful native town. i The scene became familiar as onward he wen
 the wnile, ri brought up short hy forest that stre tchec l for many me. Puzzled he hailed farmer and won dere to SC,
 hls face; "Phiad, ,lphia7" said he. starirlg, "I neve
 heard of the place A savant happened tp pass them. and, hca rinl the nane sad he: That IS a place iony passed away, with uri ous history; 1 The weeds grew high in the city streets till nh i people woke to See Thew We're lost ma trackless, forest whence nt
 escape might be; 1 No one thought of the village. except as fiery 1 pit. Till some centennial came. along. and then they 1 remembered il. A balloon excursion reported that as they had travelled by ! They heard from the depths below them a sad and dolorous y; The last lone Riddle of them all was Pe-ched on steeple top But ere they could anchor at his side they saw
 him shrver and. orop.' The Philadelphia exile wel [, and, turning sadly
 away, Entered the dim and trackless wood where his
 nat ve vi lage lay; Suddenly a terrific heat smote him on every
 side: A smi e illumined his anx ous face, and, feeling
 at home. he died.
 FLORENCE E. PR ATT.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

IN making some remarks on the killing of freighter Herbert, the Globe Silver Belt has this to say: "The ac- ton of Eastern philanthropists @ who exert an influence in preventing the application of criminal law upon offending Indians as is visited upon whi e transgressors are the primary cause of Indian cruelties inflicted upon white men, women and children. and, therefore, it is safe to class such persons, for every inch that is not fool, as worse thar rogue, or too ignorant 10 realize the character of those for whom they sympathize. Sympathies are wasted upon Apaches; rather should tears be shed for the whites in Eastern penitenliaries and efforts made to throw open the doors of all prisons, as they are now trying for the libera- ton of the murderous Chiricahuas at present confined at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama"
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

ACCORDING to advices from the East large number of smelling plants have formed pool or trust, with a large capital. The object of the trust has not been made public, but by some it is supposed to be in opposition to the lead trust If this is the case it will probably result in great benefit to the mining interests of the southwest. From all indications, the lead trust is the power that is making such strong fight against the admission of the fuxing ores from Mexico, which are so beneficial to the miners of Arizona and New Mexico by enabling the smelters to make reasonable charges for handling dry ores. At the time Secretary Windom made his ruling shutting out the Mexican ores 1t was predicted that the millennium was about to dawn for all miners who had lead properties, but instead the price of lead fell. After the modification or the rulings the ore commenced com menced coming in again, until now it has almost reached its former propOr- tiOns. An instance is quoted of big lead producing mine in Colorado that was about 10 shut down some time ago on account of being unable to dis pose of its product to the smelters, has now made contract with a smelt- ing company for the delivery of 150 tons day of huxing ore, and this in face of the fact that the Mexican ores are coming in in large quantities. This instance goes to show that the admission of the Mexican ores, in- stead of being inimical to our mining interests, is beneficial in every way. The lead trust has now met formida- ble rival. and all parties in crested in mining should encourage the smelt A, pool by every means in their powe r
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
ENTERED IN THE POST OFFICE AS sEcoSD-cusss MATTER

THE reputation of American girls for true womanhood has been so cheapened in Europe, by the shame less angling of numerous females and their relatives, who have more money than sense, for titles, as an offset for their money, that a bureau for the pro- motion of such marriages has been formed in Vienna, and several letters have been received by an American attorney, offering him a percentage Il he will furnish a rich American girl for some penniless, titled Austrian. This intense yearning of rich Amerl- can girls for a title, no matter how small, or how malodOrous the cEarac- ter of the person wearing 1t, IS diftl cult Of comprehension by the ordinary, everyday Westerner. The craze for a title has become so great that rich American girls are taken over to Flu rope every year in drOves to be knocked down to the highest bidder in the way of title, just about the same as cattle are driven to the sham bles, with no more concealment and just as little sentiment. A plain. every day American has no chance with one of these excessively refined creatures, who are only too anxious to throw themselves into the arms of the first foreign titled Ioue who makes a bid. It may be that in time this traf- fic in the bodies and souls of Ameli- can girls may become so shameless that. in deference 10 healthy public opinion, it may cease, but a great change will have to be brought about in the general style of educating rich American girls. Some years ago the Pall Mall Gazette startled the world by an expose of the horrible traffic in English girls, and it is time that some influential American journal should undertake the same fight on behalf Of the American girl, whose sale is only a degree above the abominable trade unearthed in LonIon.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

SAYS the Mohave County Miner : Arizona contains l13,0lS square miles, and some of the best lands being with. held as Indian reservations, Arizona, with its l13,0lS square miles, is as large as the aggregated area of Maine, with 35,0oO; Indiana, with 33,OOO; Maryland, with lI,123; Delaware with 2,I20; and Rhode Island, with 1866. Yet some of Arizona's pro found statesmen claim that the Terri tory has none of the requirements of statehood.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

AN order has been issued f,or the transfer of about l25 Apac nes iron, San Carlos to Fort Urior. New Mex. ico. It is given out that these Indians are relatives of those Who killed Sher. if Reynolds and dc putty Holmes ol GiIa county. It W ,uldn't cause much sorrow if the go cernment should re. move all the Apaches and throw the White Mountain reservation open to settlement
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

GOVERNOR WOLFLEy was given a re- ceptton by the Commercial Club in Tucson the other night, and after the reception the Governor was taken in tow ny prominent Democratic poli- tician of Pima county and banqueted at q restaurant. It is significant that the editors of the Tucson papers were not present, and only one Federal of ficial-Royal A. Johnson.