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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
Dead in Ksed.

Cris. Hattison, a well known resi- dent of Tombstone for ten years past, was found dead in his bed at his cabin on Eighth street, last evening about 6 30 o'clock. J. Neiswinder WAS the last man who saw him alive and testi- fled before the coroneT's jury to-day that last Friday night he said good night to him at the Crystal Palace saloon. Hattison told Neiswinder that he was going to Bisbee in the morn ing and requested him to look afler his blankets and trinkets in his cabin. This was agreed to, and last night Neiswinder went to the cabin to look after the things and see that they were sll right. He noticed that the door vas locked on the inside, and thinking it strange he forced an en- trance and went to the bed 10 feel for the clothes. When he found that there was some one in it he lit a match and saw that it was Hattison. The Sheriff was notified and the body was brought down to the morgue. The irquest re- suited in the jury finding that the de, ceased was a native of Denmark, aged 38 years, and that he came to his death from a hemorrhage, and had been dead when found for a period oI ahnrnt finn laua
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
suar rr. Vile. Deep.

"Yes. I have been iu a country where the snow is two miles deep, said \. B. LazaFd, a mining expert from Tombstone. 4. T. Mir. LasaFi was in the east during the recent snow storm, and was talking about what the people in Pennsylvania called q biz gard.
 ~They thought the two foot fall of snow was spmcining to tals about, ]" continued the visitor, "bat fl they would yisit Alaska about 200 miles up the Yukon nver they would find snoS that f,a nsisss is SC thick that the banks almost reach the skies. II it keeps on aeeumuilting as fast ss # has during the last len years scientific men will nos be able to gay truthfully the earth is rouasl. .s-l lChieass Tri- sune.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

TIE PROPRIETOR interviewed a mum ber of our prominent citizens to-day on the county division question and found an almost universal sentiment Of apathy regarding the matter. There seemed to be & feeling among them that if the eastern end of the county wants 10 cut loose from the western end they will not stand ih the way. There seemed to be a feeling of dis gust akin 10 hoplessness regarding the uplse Of the people who waat any such ridiculous scheme foisted upon them, knowing that sooner or later they will want to come back into the fold and beg forgiveness from old Cochise.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
GEO. q. ygELE.HSs TR AGEC
 DEATH.
. ezss s.==ssssEas:s New York CT Murdered in Ghe Far West.


 West.
 New Orlesas Timef-Demoersf.l
 NEW YoRK, January 22.-The two, line announcement of the death and burial of Geo. c. Willis in yesterday mornings papers was all that chron- icled the departure from this earth of a man who figured prominently in the sncial as we'll As the professional cir eles Of this city seven or eight years ago. It is not yet forgotton how sud denly Dr. Geo. c. Willis, a handsome and accomplished physician, disap- peared from this city at the time men tioned. Soon afterward he turned up in the western part of Arizona, where he settled down with his wife, former ly Miss Addison, who was known in New York society for more than a year before her husbands disappear ance from here.
 According to Mrs. Willis statement the doctor pFospered. Through the influence of relatives in London, the Willis Sons, famous organ Esnufac- turers, he was appointed general su- perintendent and paymaster Of a num- Der of mines controlled by an English syndicate. at a handsome salary. In a short time he amassed considerable money and built a inveiy nome, sur rounded by a splendid farm. From day to day he travelled from shaft to shaft, overseeing the miners work, and at regular times paying their wages. One day, not many days ago, tramp applied to him for work. The doctor fed him and cave him work in one of the mines. His reward was in- gratitude. The fellows name is Dan l Shackleiord, and he IS now said to be connected with many crimes. He caused dissension among many of the miners and frequently used threats of violence, and, becoming intolerable, toward tine end of last month was dis charged.
 On December Both, as Dr. Willis was driving from Shaft No. to Shat No. , he was stopped on the highway l by Shackeli0rd, who demanded money, claiming it was due him. The doctor asked him to go to his counting roum. Shackelf9rd refused, and as Willis urged his horses on the desperado seized the bridle, and, pulling revol yer, fred five shots into the poor fel- lows body. The horses dashed in the direction of the doctors house, carry ing the dying man in the buggy. They stopped at the gate, where the sight that met Mrs. Willis gaze almost drove her frantic, although her seven years of Western life had neryed her for al most anything.
 Her husband lived just long enough to tell the tale of his brutal murder. 1 The grief-strieken widow wired her mother, Mrs. Addison, in this city, whom the news shocked so much that she is yet i'll. She, however, sent A friend of hers, Mir. Tuffs. out 10 Ari- zona. That gentleman returned to this cIty Tuesday, bringing with him the dead mans body, Mrs. Willis and her three orphans. The funeral took place yesterday and was 8 very large i one. Mrs. Willis has considerable wealth left her now and will not re- turn west again. Her husbands mur- derer was not captured
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
The Bankrups rrsasury.

Senator Carlisle in the February Forum makes estimates of the natio- nal expenditures, showing that at the end of the present fiscal year, June g, 1891, there will be deficit of aboft SI4 !0O0. coo, and year later deficit Of about $s4 ,O00, 900 and he adds:
 at Is the confirmed and incurAble habit of the pa ty now in power to dis pose Of the public money in waste fui and extrayagant manner, and there is 10 reason to suppose that 1t wiiI cease to pursue this course until tbe treasury is exhausted. What was two years ago :he richest public treasury in the world will be substantially aankrupt long before the term Of the present administration expires.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
County Division.

The latest from Phenix is that Dan Ming has opened quarters opposite the capitol building, andisdispens ing free whisky. Ex Governor Zalick is strongly opposed to division. The Pima delegation are solid against t!se division of Cochise. The bill has been referred to the committee on counties and county boundaries. The claim sure ihing.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

TIE present bill for the division of the county of Cochise provides for the appointment by the Governor of sas officers of the new county, who shall hold office til the next general cleo ton, two years hence. Let this clause be eradicated from the b Ii and it will never again be heard of al this session of the Legislature. The men who are to be appointed to 6Il the offices are the men now at PneHix IL Is repe- titfon of the Cochise biI of ten yea:s ago, which proved 80 profitable to the office holders who secured it's passage, ard % unprofiai,le to the tax payers, who have been loaded with monster debt eyer since.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

THE people Of this end of the ooun- ty are almost 8 unit agains: making any move whatever toward sending any one to Pbenix or putting up dollar to send there to prevent county division. They look upoh the scare as being made to s'drag the sack ]" and do not propose to contribute toward champagne suppers and harrabs, as they did several years ago when the capital was ai Prescott. This seems to be the universal sentiment of the best wisbers of and heaviest owners in cocmse eoenty as at present gsogrsph- icaIly outlined.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

ARIZONA is 8 peculiar country. The Territorial Auditor draws warrants just as usual. The city of Tombstone does the same. but nearly every coun- ty in the Territory has been eninined from doing so, in conformity with the wol1ey funding bill. The happy-go lucky, go-as-you-please air which pre- vails in the different branches of gov ernment is charming.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

At the present time these figures will prove interesting. It is proposed to divide Cochise by taking away 1000 square miles Of territory and adding these to 72 square miles of Graham county. making it's area approximate ly 5000 square miles, or the second smallest county in the Territory, and but one-Gftb the size oF Pima Ii any such scheme is thought of il should be in but one light, and ti:at is to let Graham alone, and annex abnut 5000 square miles Of Pima county, leaving to that county still an area of $500 miles or double what iochise will have after the parcelling out of terri tory-
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
Largest Yearly Coinage.

According to the report of the Di- rector of the Mint the coinage exc. euted during the year 1890 tt the four coinage hints, located at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Carson City and New Orleans, was the largest in the history ot the mint in this country, aggregat- ing li2, ,69s,07I pieces of the nornip al value of $6O,254 ,436 93, against g, AT, : 40 pieces of the nominal value of S60, ,965, ,629 6I, struck in the preced- irg fiscal year.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

THE people of Cochlse county have the utmost confidence in their repre- seutatives at Phenix and feel assured that they will not gee the new county of Miles Iormed without the annexa- ton of portion of Pima to Corhise, sn area of country which justly be- longs to her and which will partially reeompenss for the loss of the fertile Sulphur Spring and San Simon val Inrs
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

could pull revolver, but those who know both declare that this is not the end oi tine trouble. Bouyiuge came from England seys,al years ago, and has been Mackey's chief business man here for several years.
 Hallands recealy took charge of the Nevada Bank, and a street report is that Bonyinge had played Mackey false in a recent deal The street was full of rumors, but persons in terested refused to talk.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

In New Mexico they have had plan in past years of issuing warrants against the treasury in payment for the expenses of fighting the Apaehes when an nnthreak occurred These warrants were drawn in favor of citi- zens who furnished horses, arms or men, snd amount at the present time to S6o0O 900. The warrants will be paid when a certain surplus is in the treasury.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
-------s-s S WIIFthe Prison be Moved?
YUMA TINES. !

IL is said that one oi the jobs to come up before the present Legisla- ture is the removal of the penitentiary from Yuma. The Florence Enterprise of last Saturday asserts that one ot the t. fades among the Democrats in the organization Of the Legislature was that sIe prison should be moved to 8 point in the eastern part of the Terri tory, said 10 he Benson that the $l0- 600 now in the fund be used for this purpose, and a tax of one and a half per cent be levied 10 erect the nec- cessary buildings. It Is difficult to see how the Democratic majority with all its professions of Tetrenchment, can have the assurance 10 undertake a job Of this magnitude. Just what the supposed gain will be is not stated. The removal would be justifiable only as a measure of economy. It has not been seriously urged that the prison could be run on a cheaper basis at any other point.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

George E. Millar, representing the well known house oi CeTi, schloss & Co, of San Francisco, came in today looking like poisoned person; and his looks did not do the real cause Of his appearance half justice. He stopped at Casa Grande few days ago and small insect of some descrip- ton, to keep up the reputation of that town. bit him on the arm, causing that member to swell to several times its ordinary size. He suffered intense F with 1t sill be reached Benson, where Mr. Castenads, of the Virginia Hotel. took him in charge and poul- iiCed the injured member several times and started him for Tombstone.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

+ the people of the eastern end of the county want division let them see that clause is inserted in the bill that it shall take effect two years hence when they can elect ther own officers. The PRosPECToK has too many staunch supporters in the eastern end of the county to stand aside and see them blinded by design ing treasury wreckers-
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

sEcTloS i4 If the old Siarra Bohita bili provided that all that part sf Grs- I.asa eaanty embraced in lowHship l |, sn4,h rang is est and is.an hiP l [, so4 h range 9 +as,, s.autaiaiag Y saaase nsii.,s -tuJuid "a iitsi to sie county of t,p.uis-. This clause in tir pres-ns aMil,ss hill only goes to prpes that the move for county division i- not designed to be;ter he condition
 Ehe people but the condition of ia asmsrt sleckss who are above earning an honest living, The assertion lhat distance from Tombstone is the prime cause Tor ttle demand for division is not shown by she clause in the biIl which will compel g man to efass ~Mfles county and pass through iis county seat, Wilcox in order to get to Troublesome to attend court or consult the records of bis county.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
ahe records Of bis counEy.

The search for the treasure of Montezurn2, which is supposed to be hidden in CcyeAesn, Mexios, is siill be ing prosecuted. 4 number of rooms and galleries have been discovered, cared in the lava formation. and the aork is being pushsd as rapidly e possible
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01
Fig ares.

The area Of the different counties of the Territory as given by the Com missioner of Immigration is approxi- r,,ateIy in s1uare miles.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

B. F. Packard wea. down sO the rsnch today,
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-01

WAsBmGToS.-A committee oi Bos- ton business men called or the presi- dent tlis morning and discussed in formally tine silver situation and op. posed free coinage. The presidentitis nnderssood wAs non-conmitsal as to his intention of fasoring or opposing any silver legislation during this cons gress. and told the delegation that t would be eminentiy improper for him st this time 10 give sny expression re. garding his views on silver or his future action.
 SAN FRAScIsoo-In the Nevada Bank yesterday millionaire John Mac key walked into President Hollands room and knocked down c. W. 5cnying(, bis confidential agent. The men were separated before either
The morning call., 1891-10-23
DECEPTIVE ARGUMENTS.

We notice that the assertion is made in
certain quarters that the present effort to
bring to punishment certain boodlers is a
Democratic dodge designed to attack per-
sons who have assumed TO be Republicans,
while it permits Democratic boodlers to es-
cape 1t even said that Buckley and his
principal aids had notice of what was COM
ing and we're allowed to lsave the city.
The CALL is not inclined to believe in the
Justice Of these assertions, for It cannot
Imagine any good reason why Democrats
who wish an honest municipal and State gov
erument should struggle to hold that party
under dishonest influences. We take it for
granted, therefore, that the movement to
iudict and punish men who have betrayed
the people is made in good faith. 1t is
doubtless true, however, that men who
have accepted bribes would like TO have
the present effort break down, which
it would most likely do if the public
could be made TO believe it was
party dodge by which certain persons ex-
peCted to ride into Office. BE this, however,
as il may. it will not iniuTe the Republican
party to have it purged Of the men who
have betrayed it, to have them punished,
even sent to the penitentiaTy, where they
properly belong. That party in San Fran
cisco, and, indeed. in the State Of CalifOr-
MIA, will be likely 20 carry the elections for
some time 10 come which first gets rid Of its
dishonest hangers-on and secures such nOmi-
nations as viii be acceptable to the people.
Affairs have gone too far to permit party
to screen its knaves from punishment and
hope to ride into power thereby. ReDubli-
cans may congratulate themselves il they
get rid OF the men who have plundered
them under the guise of belonging to the
same party, even if this be done by Demo-
The morning call., 1891-10-23
cANADA,s NATURAL mARKEr.

The Toronto Empire argues with much
plausibility that England is a better mar
ket for Canadian products than the United
States can ever be. 1t urges that as Canada
and the United States produce many like
products. most of which find a common
market in England. it is better for Canada
to cultivate close commercial relations with
England than with tie United States. Two
countries which produce in common many
of the same products are not likely to gain
so much advantage from free trade as in
the case where one country is purchaser
and the other a seller The weak point In
this argument is that unless England
changes her fiscal policy the common prod
ucis Of the United States and Canada will
continue to enter England OH equal terms.
II there was a general duty on grain and if
England should admit Canadian grain free
upon consideration OF the admission Into
Canada of British manufactures on the
same terms the Canadian producer would
profit greatly by such an arrangement.
But as there are no duties on bIeadstuffs
imported into England, and as England
does not propose to impose any, Canada
can gain nothing by euItivating close COM
mercial relations with the mother country.
The Empire says that they cannot hold the
British market for Canadian products while
shu ting out British goods by means of
com mereial union with the United States.
We do not know what England would do if
the United States and Canada should enter
into a commercial arrangement that gives
Am erican manufacturers possession Of the
Canadian market, but 1t is probable that
the undutiful colony would receive notice
to go it alone in the future
The morning call., 1891-10-23
OIL AND WATER.

In discussing proposition TO increase the
Executive Committee of the Traffic AssOci-
alton from eighteen to forty with view to
the appointment Of several members from
interior counties the Chronicle says il is
better not to try to make oil and water mix.
1t is not the assertion itself that we object
to, but tile application. The city of San
Francisco and the interior counties are sup
posed to be the oil and water that will not
mix. In respect TO taxation there may be
conflict of interests between the city and
the interior counties. But in an endeaVor
TO get better terms for moving the products
Of California to market their interests are
one The present effort is not directed
against the policy Of the railroad company
in landing goods at interior cities without
coming TO San Francisco, but against rates
Of transportation which consume all the
profits of production. The interior coun-
ties are as much interested in lower freights
as the city which handles a portion Of the
products of these counties. II is under
stood, also that the Traffic Association will
come to some understanding with the rail-
road company by which merchants Of San
Francisco will distribute goods over terri
tory now controlled by Eastern cities. In
what way can success in this effort conflict
with tile interests Of the interior counties?
Win any of these counties be benefited by
building UP New 7 ork and Chicago at the
expense of San Francisco? We can under
stand that such large interior cities as Los
Angeles, Stockton, San Jose. Oakland and
Sacramento might object to an arrange
ment with the railroads by which all the
freight entering the State must come in
bulk TO San Francisco. But among the
speeches and resolutions reported as COM
ing from the Traffic Association we have
seen 10 such purpose outlined. The city
and the Inferior counties should work to-
gether TO bring the Transcontinental Asso-
citation to terms. Why should not the inte-
rior counties join in that work2 And if the
interior counties join is there any reason
why these counties should not be repre-
sented on the Executive Committee?
1t should be remembered that ths Trans
continental Association is not opposed to
the Traffic Association on general principles.
II is only opposed to the accomplishment Of
its purposes. 1t does not care how many
traffic associations exist so that nothing is
done. The transportation companies are
not much afraid of resolutions. But that
they are afraid Of combinations with power
to act is evident from the fact that they pro-
fess to be extremely doubtful if the Traffic
Association understands the transportation
business well enough to act effectively.
What the Trans portation Association does
not want is a combination composed Of San
Francisco shippers and interior producers
working Tor a common end, and with SUI
ficient confidence in each other to intrust an
Executive Committee with power corre-
spending to that which the TraDscOnti-
rental Association exercises. If this rail-
The morning call., 1891-10-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

How modern commercial methods have multi
piled the working capacity of money Is shown by
some figures presented by the report OF the In
diana Bankers Convention. The Director OF
the United States Mint values the stock OF money
in twenty-six named countries as follows: Gold,
s3,727 ,01S, ,S69; silver, $500, ,571 ,346, and
paper currency, S4,326, 728. 900, a total OF
11,S74,313,215. The cearngs alone OF the
New York banks for a fortnight recently
amounted to the vast sum OF 81, ,o7s. 73S. LOG o6.
In other words, the cleariDgs OF the banks for
two weeks In New York represent practically
one-tenth OF the total gold, silver and paper cur
rency Of the whole world; or In other words by
the conyenences Of the great modern system OF
banking, one city alone does a clearing house
business in one year equal TO two and bali
times the total amount Of the total currency OF
the whole world.
'If any man Will take the picture OF he United
States OF America as IL stood In 1860, trem bling
upon the brink Of destruction" says Tom Reed
OF Maine. "and compare it with the magnificent
nation which confronts the world, he Will see
picture OF Republican rule that 1 am proud to
have become part Of the history OF the world"
How prosperity has smiled upon US is shown by