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The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
Tin and Zinc.

The discovery of a great vein ot almost pure zinc near the river and only 30 miles above Yuma is of great importance. A vein 60 feet in width and a half mile in length with ore that runs from 75 to 90 per cent of zinc is not met with every day.
 Another very important discovery lately made on the borders of Yuma county, is that of two veins of tin, each of which is about three feet in width. The assays made, show the ore to be of a high grade. Com potent judges and experts believe that this is one of the most impor- tant discoveries ever made in west ern Acknowledgement.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
MurderOuS Italian.

Denver, May 26.-This evening, while Willie Crowley, aged 16, was driving a COW on the outskirts of the city near Platte river Col, the COW jumped in the garden of an Italian named Tallarigo. The boy followed the COW, endeavoring to drive her out. Tallarigo and an otherItalian came out of the house, caught the boy and started toward the house, one of the Italians draw ing knife as they went. Some of the companions of the boy came to his rescue, when Tallarigo drew a a revolver and mortally wounded Conly Glance, aged 20. A crowd of men then started after the Ital- ian with the intention of lynching him. He ran to the river, jumped in and started to swim across. The river was swollen by recent rains and he was drowned.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
\ Victory for Mir. O'COnnOr.

James O'Connor, who has had considerable trouble with his prop erty owing to a deed alleged to have been executed by him several years ago in San Bias, Mexico, has recently obtained a decree in his favor from the district court. In this decree the deed was declared to be forgery, and Mir. O'Connor was given possession of his property, which consisted of several valuable lots in different parts of the city. The deed was signed by a mark, !" and Mir. O'Connor is quite a fluent penman, and outside of the threat ened loss of his property the old gentleman was considerably en- ragged at the implication that he was an illiterate man. It seems from the evidence in the case that there was conspiracy on the part of several men, some of whom are reputable citizens of Albuquerque, to defraud the old gentleman out of his property. He has been travel ing through this territory and Mex ico for many years past peddling, and the supposition is that the gen. tleman who entered into the con- spiracy supposed that on account of his long absence from the city that he had been foully dealt with in some remote and unfrequented settlement, and would never return. NIT. O'Connor bobbed up seienely, took necessary legal proceedings. and has finally secured his proper ty.-Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
The Advance of Beet.

The tremendous advance in the
 price of beef is greeted with disap
 proval by the purchasing public and
 not few conjure up the specter o1 constituencies combines and bloat- ed beef monopolists gloating over
 the wrongs of steak eating peo- pie.
 While combines have shown a great deal of rigor in keeping down the price of marketable cattle, the present raise in prices is reflected from the beef centers and is due to causes foreseen by the writer more than a year ago and predicted as the inevitable result of the then en- vironments of the cattle industry.
 No man familiar with the scope of the cattle interests in the west could weigh the vast shipments or note the energy displayed in crowd ing live stock upon the eastern mar kets without realizing that the un- avoidable reaction would be due be- fore the public was prepared to meet 1t.
 Not only has the thinning of the western herds contributed to the raise in beef, but the opening of a large and profitable European mar ket for the eastern cornfed beef, by reason of the new inspection law, has placed the reaction from high prices at remote limit. The great impetus which an suspicious sea- son will give the cattle industry in Montana, will or should, modify local prices and bring bunch grass sirloin within the financial possibil- 1 ties of all the people. It would | seem strange to the inhabitants of this country to find the price of meat so high as to be placed beyond their reach, and there is no danger of such a contingency arising in the immediate future.-Helena Stock Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The Ceyion coffee planter who proposes to test the capabilities of the slopes of the Andes in Peru for for growing this valuable bean may revolutionize the coffee trade. It would certainly astonish dealers were the seat of this great industry transferred in a few years from Java and Ceylon to the west coast of South America.-San Francisco Chornicle.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
Arizona an Old IrrigatOr.

In the Agricultural Departments press report on Irrigation, recently issued, Prof. R. J. Hinton says:
 enthusiastically the oldest irriga- ton is that produced by the Indian dwellers of the IS pueblos found in New Mexico and by the Moquis, Sapori, Plmas, Maricopas, and Pa pagos, resident in the Territory of Arizona Evidence exists in our southwest region of larger works and wider fields, made by a people long since extinct. The value of ir- rigation as fertilizer of the soil may be seen in the fact the Pima Indians of Arizona have cultivated the same land-a portion of which they now occupy-for at least 800 years. Their cultivation, though rude, has been extensive and we'll conduct ed. Nothing has ever been applied to the land but the water, which quick ems and fructifes it. As large crops are now raised as any of the tradi- tion of the Indians bear record"
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
The Murphy Purchase.

The Buffalo, Wyo., Echo of thu 23d inst. has the following to say regarding the very large purchases of live stock by the Murphy Cattle Company.
 Rumors that the Murphy Cattle Company, of this county, were making some big purchases, have been afoat recently, but until the present week nothing definite as to the magnitude of their operations has been known hereabouts. It now transpires that while in New York, Matt Murphy closed deal with the Stoddard & Howard Live Stock Company-the L X Bar, with ranch es in Johnson county and Mon tana-whereby the latter sold their entire outfit to the Murphy Compa- ny. The purchase included 21 ,000 head of cattle and HOO head of horses, together with ranches, im- provements, range privileges, etc. The terms are not publicly known. By a former purchase the same company obtained the Story herd of Montana, for $23 all around, counted out with calves thrown in, and a guarantee of 2,000 two and three-ycar-old steers.
 The Billings Gazette is authority for the statement that the Murphy Company have bought all the herds ol the Bay State Cattle Company, which are located in Montana and the Big Horn Basin of this county.
 Altogether, the purchases of this year aggregate 10000 head of cattle. increasing the holdings of the Mur- phys to S2,000 head. A conserva- tive estimate places the value of the cattle alone at $1, 100000. Matt Murphy's reputation of being one of the shrewdest men in the cattle business gives to these enormous deals significance that cannot be otherwise than assuring to those who are holding on to their herds. i
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The city of Toronto, after long struggle with it's street car corpora tions, has purchased the entire plant and will now undertake to operate the lines. This is grave experiment.. It is state socialism on a plane that will be watched from every part of the northern half of the continent.-Chicago Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
The Cattlemen to Fear.

Captain Ewers U. s. A., agent at Tongue river agency, was in the city today and had an interview with General Miles about tEe situa- tion among the Indians in the West. The Captain has just com- pleted a tour of the camps within radius of 200 miles of Tongue river and he said the people now to be feared were not Indians but cattle men who want all the land they can grab for their cattle to roam over and will not allow any one else to establish themselves. Cattle men, Captain said were people who stir red up the Indians by stealing their land and taking advantage of them in every way and the Indians are complaining bitterly of encroach- ments of these marauders. So says a Chicago dispatch of May 26.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

Capital is as safe in the West as in the East or in Europe. It is reg ularly worth more to it's owners. They should not let political talk disturb their judgment. There is no Argentine Republic in the coun- try and no shrinkage of debt values impending. Sense is still a quail ty of American citizens. If changes are to be made they will be made decently, in order, with ample mo- tice and with conscientious regard tor the rights of all parties. More over, they will be in the interest and not against legitimate capital. City Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

Rumor has it that a lot of rail- road men will visit Phoenix next Tuesday and that the Santa Fe peo- pie will begin to work on a north and south road immediately. If the Santa Fe begins the work, it means more for this valley than the most sanguine dare to hope. We will indulge the hope that the ru- nor may marterialize into dirt shoveling very soon.-Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
A Frozen " ell.

' Even scientists are not free from
 perplexities, and nature is constant
 ly revealing something to cause
 them study and doubt. Perhap:
 one of the most marked examples
 of this is found in the phenomena
 presented by we'll at Yakutsk, Si
 beria. AS long ago 1928 Russian
 merchant began to sink this noted
 we'll, and, after working on it fo1
 three years, gave 1t up as bad job,
 having at that time sunk it to a
 depth of thirty feet without getting
 through the frozen ground. He communicated these facts to the
 Russian Academy of Science, which
 sent men to take charge of the dig glng operations at the wonderful we'll. These scientific gentlemen toiled away at their work for sever al years, but abandoned it when a depth of 8S2 feet had been reached, with the earth still frozen as hard as a rock. In 1843 the academy had the temperature of the soil at the sides of the we'll taken at vari- ous depths. From the data thus obtained they came to the startling conclusion that the ground was frozen to a depth exceeding 5000 feet. Although it is known to me- teorologists that the lowest known temperature is in that region of Si- beria, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate could force frost to such a great depth below the surface. After figuring on the subject for over quarter of cen. tury, geologists have at last come to the conclusion that the great frozen valley of the Lena River was deposited, frozen inst as it is found today, during great grinding-up era of the glacial epoch. Eight hundred and eighty-two feet of frozen soil might well stagger the scientific investigator, for it violates all the preconceived ideas of the condition and temperature of the interior of the earth. The con clusion reached is probably the cor rect one, although the length of time it required to reach it leads to the impression that there may be | some uncertainty about it yet Union.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
The Largest Farm in the World.

There is farm in the southwest
 of the State of Louisiana measur- ing one hundred miles north and
 south and twenty-five miles east ard
 west. The one and half million
 acres of which it is made up were
 purchased seven years ago from the
 State of Louisiana and from the
 United States Government by a
 syndicate of northern capitalists,
 by which 1t is now farmed. At that
 time 1t was vast grazing ground
 for the cattle of the few dealers in the neighborhood, there being thir- ty thousand head of cattle and horses upon It, This immense tract is now divided into convenient pas ture stations, or ranches, the fenc- ing alone having cost fifty thousand dollars. The land is best adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cotton. All the cultivating, ditching, etc., are dune by steam-yower, a tract of about half a mile wide being taken and an engine placed on each side. The engines are portable and work a cable attached to four blows, the area plowed in this way, with the labor of only three men, being thir- ty acres. Narrowing, sowing, etc., are done in the same way, and there is not a single draft horse on the estate. Horses are, however, used by the herdsmen, who look after the sixteen thousand head of cattle | upon the estate, which is traversed | for thirty-six miles by the Southern Pacific Railway. The company has three steamboats upon the three hundred miles of navigable waters which traverse their estate, and also possesses a ship-yard, bank and rice mills.-New York Ledger.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

While European Governments are struggling under the terrible load of nearly $26,OOO,OOO,OOO pub lie debts, increased the last decade by s2,5OO,OOO,OOO, our Government has in the same period paid off $1,- O00,000,000 of it's public debts and reduced per capita from S38 to $15. In 10 years the deb:s of the foreign Governments have increased as much as our debt has been reduced in 20 years and their military and naval establishments continue to take the pound of flesh from the taxpayers and depressed industrial actiyity.-Minneapolis Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
Insanity.

The census authorities are judi
 cious in warning the public not tC
 rely too much upon the natural con
 clusions ot their statistics in the
 matter of insanity. The compila tions show an increase of inmates
 of insane asylums in the decade o1
 Al ,330, or at the rate of 73.53 pel
 cent, while the growth of the coun-
 try was but 22.5 per cent in that
 period. This showing would, with
 out explanation, induce some so-
 licitude. The suggestion, however,
 is that the number and capacity of
 asylums have been greatly multi piled, and the remarkable increase of numbers of insane persons is in the sections where the provision for them has been notably great. h. sane asylums as a rule are we'll fill ed. They seldom solicit patronage, The solution of the growth of the figures is that, as opportunities are afforded in asylums, the insane are sent to them. Thousands who have been cared for privately because the asylums had no room for them have been sent to the new or enlarged in stitutions. The humane tendency of the times has been shown in the better provision for them. Still, :.f- ter all the allowance made in this direction, 1t Is evidently true that insanity is increasing out of pro- portion to the population. It is found that the proportion of the insane is the greatest where the forces of life are most active. h. dians in their primitive condition do not become demented, and it is | believed that the proportion is small among the illiterate classes any where. The average brain was never more active than at the present. 1 The people who are breaking over the old lines of thought are in every department. The religious schools are full of erratics as viewed from the established observatories. In politics, the recent aggregation at | Cincinnati shows something of the range of political and economic thinking. When the gray matter is keptin such fierce activity it must be expected that fermentation will increase.-St. Paul Globe.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The crops of this country are most promising. The wheat is blooming; the corn is promising, while in Russia, Germany, France and England there are short crops, and teeming millions who will need bread and meat. These will be supplied from the surplus of the United States. This will bring the gold back with interest, and with an enormous additiOn.-Cincinna- Ii Commercial Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

There is nothing in Philadelphia's present financial trouble that threat ems its spread to other sections of the country. On the contrary, it is purely local affair and was brought about by complication of bank ing and political abuses, rather than by depression of the business in- terests of the Quaker City.-Wash- ington Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

A man who gave his name as Stepen Davey came to town one day last week, and immediately went into the whiskey business. He succeeded is disposing of four or five bottles to the Wallapai braves in about as many hours, but was run in Monday and was held by the U. s. court commissioner to await the &C., tion of the grand jury.-Mohave Miner,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The General outlook of the na- tional finances is so very favorable and it's management so confessedly wise, that it has produced quiet ing and tranquilizing effect in all the business centers of the country, in insuring q money market amply supplied with loanable funds for all legitimate business transactions, notwithstanding the unusual drain of gold.-Milwaukee Evening Wis consin.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

This morning John Sale, of Lamy, called on Justice Denham and swore out warrants for the arrest of Martin Freilander and Bill King, charging them with the theft of pair of mules and pony from him about ten days ago. The men are located at Mrs. Davidson's ranch, near Chilli, but defy arrest. Deputy Sheriffs Hubbell and Armiio, ac- companied by MT. Sale, went out to the ranch this afternoon to effect a capture of the thieves if possible.- Albuquerque Citizen,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The Wallapais will have a grand ghost dance at Grass Springs next week. The dance is to be after the masquerade order, as the partici- pants will have their features and forms wholly concealed. Our spec ial correspondent will be on hand and will give a description of the whole performance.-Mohave Mi ner.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

Guard Cook Wetherell, under five years sentence at Yuma escaped last week. He rode in a tool box under a freight caboose to Gila Bend, where a constable and four Indians captured him. The sleepy gatling gun sentry who allowed the escape was discharged by Superin- tendent McInernay.-Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The payment of interest by banks on call deposits of public funds is a reprehensible practice. As a rule the bank that will pay the highest rate of interest is the riskiest de- pository.-Philadelphia Record.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

Secretary Foster says that the re- cent gold shipments have establish ed the fact that the credit of the United States is above that of any other nation.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

The brandy product now brings the State S1.000,0O0 year. In it's rapid increase it will double this amount in a few years, and in the future will become as important source of wealth as it is to France. San Francisco Examiner.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

With fair average rainfall from now on Minnesota and the Dakotas will harvest the largest wheat crop in their history. The total acreage is greater and present conditions and prospects are very encouraging. Minneapolis Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11

By careful experiments made at the United States Mint it has been shown that s are lost by abrasion every time s1,OOO,OOO in gold coin is handled.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-05
TO ATTEND THE MAnD1 GRAs.
The Richmond Howitzcrs and Thirty Vet
Grams Start To-day.

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 4.-ISpeciall-
The Richmond lIowitzers and n delega-
ton of about thirty members of Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, leave on
special train at one o'clock tomorrow
afternoon for New Orleans, where they
go to attend the Mardi Gras. Fifty-one
members OF the iIowitzcr battery and
ABOUT as many of the association will
make the trip. There will be about
twenty five ladies in the party, and the
press Will be represented by Messrs. W.
Cabell Trueman of the Times, and Evan
H. Chestcrman of the Dispatch
The artillcrymen and veterans will be
entertained on q gorgeous scale in the
Crescent City, and by invitation they
take breakfast in Atlanta Saturday
morning and supper in birmingham
that night.
Last Friday nights fire will cost the
insurance companies not much less than
100000, if, indeed, the claims allowed
do not aggregate an even greater
amount. The large stock Of Philips &
Stein, proprietors of the China Palace,
was practically total loss, rs was the
handsome iron front store occupied by
them, which belonged to one of the heirs
OF the late Franklin Stearns. The
goods of L. Il. Taylor & Co. and
Schwarzschild were also considerably
damaged by water and smoke. The
insurance adiustors have not vet COM
pietcd their work but it appears that
the merchants will suffer very slight
losses themselves. Some of the houses
carried very large insurance. d
l understand somewhere between
$1,000 and $4,000 was realized by the
Association for the Preservation Of Vir-
ginia Antiquities on the grand ball
given last Friday night. The colonial
assembly of Il year ago cleared over
81, 900 and l think tho receipts must
have been as largo this year while the
expenditures were seemingly more
economical. This money will be spent
in the preservation of the historical part
of jamestown Island upon which the
river is rapidly cncroaching. The as
ISOLATION has also purchased the home
of Washington mother III Frcdericks-
burg.
President Buford will soon call n
meeting of the executive committee of
the Agricultural and Mechanical Society
to consider the matter of holding q fair
next fall. Hon. John i. Hurt, OF Pitt
sylvania. has accepted the vice-presi-
dency and was here yesterday and had
conference with Col. Buford. The idea
seems TO be to have Il good fair this year
and grand exposition in 1891
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-05

others, asking that street lamps be
placed at certain points along Ernest
avenue, was referred to the committee
on lights.
The petition of the Junior Hose Com
pany, saying that they would furnish II
horse to pull their apparatus To and
from fires if the Council will furnish
feed and driver, was referred to the
finance committee to report.
a petition from y. T.. Kane for q
street lamp on Eleventh avenue $. W.
was referred to the committee on lights
The petition of Fishburnc, Jones 4
Co. and others, for the grading and inn
provement of Trout street, was referred
to the committee on streets with power
to act. This matter has been re serred
to the same committee with tho same
power once before.
Tho petition of D. W. Harth and
others, asking that board walks be
placed along Gainsboro' avenue and
Peach street, was granted, and the
work ordered to be done at the expense
OF the AUDITING property owners.
Board walks were ordered to be put
down on Robinson street, First avenue,
n. w, and on Charles, between Park
and Grove.
MIR. Skinker introduced resolution
authorizing the mayor to offer a reward
of $40 for the apprehension and convic-
ton of any party or parties for disfgur-
ing public property. Mr.. Skinker stated
that the writing on the court house
walls was disgraceful and he intended
this resolution to put stop to it.
a gas lamp was ordered to be placed
at the corner of Boulevard and East
street s. W.
The salary of the courthouse janitor
was raised from $50 to S25 per month
On motion OF Mr.. Bucl1ncr, it was
ordered that bids be advertised for
doing the sanitary work of the CITY,
and that the contractor be required to
give bond to the amount Of 81 900.
On motion of Mr.. Skinker, the public
property committee was instructed to
prevent persons from walking across
the courthouse yard between the
Thomas building and the courthouse
at the request of Mr.. HUFF fire plug
was ordered to be placed ut the corner
of Luck and Henry streels.
Mr.. McCahan introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted and
SO ordered:
''Be it resolved, the sinking fund
commissioners. composed of tho MAYOR,
president of the Council and city trcusu-
rer be requested to furnish the Council
with complete statement Of the city
bonds outs standing, the date of the ma
turity OF the same. the amount Of the
sinking fund and the manner in which
1T has been appropriated.
The Council then adjourned. having
completed the regular monthly business.