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Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21
The sixteenth Legislature.
COUNCIL.

COUNCIL. Northern District-Harris Baldwin. Democrat. Southern District-Peter R. Brady, Democrat.
 Yayapai County-J. c. Herndon, Democrat.
 Maricopa Ccunty-C. Meyer Zulick, Democrat
 Graham County-P. NJ. Thurmond, Democrat.
 Mohaye County-Foster s. Dennis, Democrat
 Pima County Fred G. Hughes, Democrat
 Cochise County-J. V. vickers, Re publican.
 Pinal County-A. J. Doran, Repub- lican.
 Yuma County-Abe Frank, Repub- lican.
 Gilu County--G I. Peter, Republican. Democrats, 8; Republican, 1. Total 12.
 ASSEMBLY,
 Yayapai County-J. W. Dougherty, D.; $. c. Nett, D.. J. J. Fisher, D. W. A. Freeze, R.. J. A. Vail, R. Cochise Couaty-S. M. Burr, D. i; Thomas Dunbar, D.. J. H. Tevis, D. [. ". Heyne, D.; c. s. Clark, D. Pima County-Guss A. Ho1, D.. Nj. G. Samaniego, D.; George Pusch, R. ; Thomas Driseoll, R. c. c. Sutter, R. Maricopa County-T E. Parish, D. l.. H. Chalmers, D.
 Apache County-J. T. Lesuer. D. Frank Hart, D,
 Graham County-J. Cough, D. Pinal Coanty-J. B. Allen, D. Gila County-R. E. Moore, D. Yuma County-C H. Brinley, R. AIohaye County-M. c. Copeland, R. Democrats, IT; Republicans, [. To- tal, 24 Legislature conyenes Jan. 19.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21
GilA RECRUITMENT. ND. 3.

|. 0. O. F. meets on the second and fourth Fridays in each month. Visiting brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend
 B. C. FOX, C. r. C'uA. rAnrfE Sctii.e
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21

A proposition has been made to divide the Territory of New Mexico from north to south, making two Ter ritories, to be known as East New Mex sco and Wes. New Mexico. The AL buquerque Citizen favors division.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21

The law making that is going on throughout the United States at this time of year is something fearful to contemplate. The American people undoubtedly legislate themselves Ito death, considering the fact that much of the time of one legislature is taken up undoing what has been done by another, and in doing that which must itself be undone at the earliest possible moment. .-Ex.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21

Nogales celebrated Flower Day" Feh. 10th, on which occasion the chief business of the people is to polt each other with flour carried conveniently in small saeke, Many of the inhabi. tants were disguised in grotesque cos tu,scs
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Territorial

Governor Joan x. l win, Phoenix. secretary--N. 0. Murphy, Ph1nix. Treasurer-John Y T. Smith, Phoenix, Superintendent of Public Instruction--G, W. Cheyney.
 Auditor Thomas Hughes. Supreme Court-HeurY Clay Gooding, Chief Justice. Prescott: Jos II, Kibbey Associate Justice, Phoenix; R. E. Sloan, Associate Jus tiee Tucson.
 U. S. District Attorney II, J. Jeifortis, Tucson.
 U. s. Marshal-Robert H. Paul. Surveyor General--Royal A. Johnson Delegate to Coasress---AIAEcua smith, Tombstone.
 Judge of First Judicial Distriot-R. E. Sloan.
 Judge of Second Judicial Dis.rict--,Ios. II, Kibbey. Ph@nix,
 Judge of Third Judicial DistriOt-He Henry Clay Gopding.
 Gila County. Judge of District Court-Jus. H. Kibbey. Clerk of District Court-w. H. Duryes. Judge of Probato--F. ". Wastmeyer. Sheriff u H. Thompson. Under SheTilf--Georgc Pemberton. District Attorney--J. D HcCabe. Recorier-Chag T Martin Supervisors Geo. Daaforth, Patrick Shan ley,F.T. Powers. Clerk ot Soarl Of supeEyisors-- Chas T, Martin. C1untY Treasurer-W VI Beookuer. COruner-
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21

The county officials are now located in the new court house which is all complete with the exception of few minor details that were found necessa- ry. The court room is real beauty and is large, light and we'll ventilated. The contractors, Doran & Adams, have made splendid building and one that is credit to their skill The wood work is of redwood finished in oil and vanished, and is decidedly handsome. When the new furniture arrives the court house of Pinal county will present the finest appearance in exterior and interior design and finish of any public building in Arizona = Enterprise.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-21

The Supreme Court has reached 6 decision in tax cases of the Atlantic X Pacific railroad on which compromise was accepted by the supervisors of Apache, Yavapai and Mohave counties, denying the authority of those bodies to enter into such arrangements upon behalf of the Territory for its portion of the taxes involved The principle is entirely sound and logical, and unless a legislative sanction to the transaction is obtained these counties will be re- quired to pay into the Territorial treas- ury it's full quota of the sum demand ed of the railroad 4 bill is now be- fore the legislature to legalize the ac- tion of the supervisors. Enterprise.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
Indian Pearl Divers.

One of the largest pearl fishing
grounds in the world is in the gulf of
California ''The pearls says a cor
respondent, ARE not generally regular
in shape or very pure in color, but
some are of large size, and many of the
rare black pearls are found. The
divers are nearly all Indians and their
equipment is of the simplest kind, con-
sisting only of a basket hung around
the neck, in which to collect the
oysters, knife to detach them from
the rocks and stone with a cord at
tached. When the diver goes down he
takes the cord between his toes, the
weight of the stone carrying him at
once to the bottom. He gathers oysters
as long as his breath holds out, and
then rises to the surface, to descend
again in fifteen minutes. Some of the
divers are wonderfully expert, and can
remain under water for as much as two
minutes before rising to the surface.
The mortality among them is fearful,
for the gulf of California is infested
with huge man-eating sharks, which
carry Off scores of men every year.
Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
Another Afterclap.

When the billion-dollar congress in
the heyday of it's Gberality provided for
the payment Of bounty of cents .
pound for all cane, sorghum, beet or
maple sugar grown within the United
States it was estimated by distinguished
republican authorities that the total
expenditures from the treasury on this
account would not exceed So. 900, 600
Unhappily, however, republican esti-
mates are not wholly free FROM error,
and it has already been discovered that
the Louisiana sugar crop win exceed
the amount allowed it by the estimates
by no less than $50, 900. 600 pounds The
beet and sorghum sugar production is
already more than double what the
talented estimators expected, and there
Is every reason to expect that when the
applications for the bounty are all in
the total production viii exceed the
estimates by not less than $50. 600, 900
pounds. This will add the neat sum of
S., 600, 600 to the estimated expendi-
lures and still further complicate Sec
rotary Fosters optimistic system Of
bookkeeping.-Ch Chicago Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
ANOTHER COLLISION.

An Express Train Wrecked Near Port
Byron, n. Y.-Eleven Killed and Many
Injured.
SYRACUSE, N Y, Aug. THE St
Louis express train, on the West Shore
railroad, which leaves here at 1:5s q.
m, met with a terrible accident three
miles west of Port Byron, this morning,
near what is known as the Duchess
cut.
The train was running at a high rate
of speed, and at that point ran into a
freight train
The wreck was an awful one, and up
to o'clock the deaths numbered
eleven.
Those killed outright and those who
died from the results of their injuries
Were all Italians, with one exception
the fireman of the passenger train
Eleven Italians were badly hurt and
four will probably die.
Twelve cars of the freight train were
wrecked and piled up on the tracks.
completely blocking the road.
The wreck took fire and the passen-
ger train was burned, except the three
sleeping cars
The train was made up of two ex-
press cars, a baggage ear, a smoking
car, a day car and three sleeping cars
Fireman Michael Bergen, of Macedon,
was instantly killed at his post on the
locomotive, and Engineer Patrick Ryan,
of East Buffalo, was badly hurt
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13


landed. in consequence, upon the
drivers seat, and clinging to the brake
bar. The lines were flying wildly over
the heads of the horses, or tangled
under their feet.
The young man began to put on the
brakes, not with any haste, but slowly
and carefully. The great curving
blocks of oak settled down against the
wheels, but the rapidity of the vehicles
motion was now such that there was
danger of heating the tires and causing
them to fly from the wheels Again
and again he frightened the brakes, and
released them, steadying the massive
coach as it swung around the sharp
curves of the dusty road, and reeled
from side to side like drunken giant
At one moment the young man felt the
coach scrape against the cloven pine
roots of the mountain side, and at the
next he felt freddy along the verge of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
DUE TO SPANISH BEARS.

The Recent Raid on the Barracks at Bar
celona-
MADRID. Aug. AT the time of the
recent fight between band of armed
men and the sentry at the barracks Of
Barcelona it was stated that the attack
was the result of conspiracy between
a number of desperate stock specula-
tors, who being DESTROYS of causing a
fall in the prices of securities dealt in
upon the bourse, adopted this means of
starting a report that the attack was
part of a rising by the citizens to over
throw the government and bring about
depression in prices.
Many persons believed that it was
really a republican movement and il
was stated that the conspiracy extended
to other Spanish cities, and that gen
eral rising of the republican party had
been arranged for. but that the plot had
miscarried owing to some misunder-
standing of the plans of the leaders.
The report of the affair as sent from
Barcelona place no credence on its al
legged repub lican aspect, but stated that
the emeute was the work of stock spec
ulators, and that the report was sub
stantiated by the arrest in Barcelona of
q heavy operator in government securi-
ties on the charge of being party to
the conspiracy. The police upon search
ing the prisoner found in his posses
sion a number of letters which proved
beyond doubt that he was concerned in
the attack around the barracks, and
that the affair was not a revolutionary
movement, but simply a novel and
most desperate scheme to origin ate
startling Funors and thus allow the
operators concerned to bear" the
market
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13

bright-eyed young man, newly come to
Callfornia-a young man who was just
beginning career of invention and
given him place among the score or so
of foremost Californians. The other
man was a mere nohentity.
The young man with the bright eyes
began to see that something was wrong
with the stage. It went too fast; it
swung too much. He climbed on the
scat, and let down the narrow window
nearest the drivers box. He leaned
out and managed to raise himself far
enough to see that the horses were
running away. He called to the driver
but received no reply.
The young man reflected that the
road ahead was not an easy one for a
runaway stagecoach to manage. They
were now on the down grade, next
came hill, then another desce MT, then
q second hill, then a long, steep and
winding piece of down grade. The
horses must be stopped before this
descent was reached or a smash-up was
inevitable. He decided to do his best
to check the horses; if he failed he
would jump out and leave them.
The first thing to do was to swing on
tho drivers box A heavier man might
have failed. but the young stranger
was alert and muscular; he watched
his chance, caught the iron bar at the
end Of the seat. drew himself out
poised second on the window sin, and
leaped upward just as the stagecoach
swung toward him. He found himself
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
ROBERT MURRAY JAILED.
Charged With Killing a Sister of Mercy 1t
EmporIa, Kan

Charged With Killing a Sister of Mercy 1t
EmporIa, Kan.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. Robert p.
Murray, who was released two days
ago from the Jefferson, Ind. peniten-
tiary, has been arrested on a technical
charge, but is really held pending fur
Their investigation into a charge that he
is murderer. The story of the crime
is a most unusual one. A few years
ago the train on which Murray was a
brakeman was wrecked near Terre
Haute. Murray was injured, and, with
many others, was taken to the hospital of
the sisters of mercy. The sister who
attended to the brakeman's wants was
young. good looking and kind, and
Murray fell in love with her. When he
recovered sufficiently to be able to
leave the hospital, he told her of his
affection and tried TO induce her to fee
with him The good woman, shocked,
yet sympathetic. told her strange lover
she would not even harbor a thought of
such a thing, and Murray left the place
m great anger
The sister told her superior of the
mans infatuation and threats, and was
sent to Emporia. Kan Shortly after
her arrival at Emporia a man called
one evening and asked to see her The
poor woman had no sooner appeared at
the door than she was dealt a fearful
blow on the head The sister died
after making a statement that she had
been struck by her former patient,
Murray.
OMursy denies that he was either in
fatuated with the sister or that he muir.
dered her
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
GATHERED FOR FAIR READERS

The tiny cordial cruets imported now
for tea-tables are beautiful and costly.
GRADUATED rock candy is the proper
thing to sweeten tea and after-dinner
coffee
PICTURES hermetically sealed between
thin sheets of transparent celluloid new
er lose their fresh appearance
VERY simple refreshments suffice for
an afternoon tea and the hostess uses
her visiting card for the invitations,
writing upon the lower left-hand cor
ner, opposite the address: Tea at Eve
o'clock" and the day and date.
Bowls of flowers are the proper things
for table decorations at the present
time Some one has invented a silver
wire net to cover the bowls and hold up
the roses heads. The wire Is concealed
by ferns and smilax, the fiower-stems
being stuck through the net into the
water.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

For a party that chose Mckinley
as it's candidate and wanted to make
the fight on the tariff issue, the Ohio
republicans show an unaccountable
disposition to talk about verything
but the tariff.-Albany Argus.
- The Ohio democrats accept Nc
Kinley and McKinleyism as the issua
with something more than alacrity.
and put the monopoly tariff, the billion.
dollar congress and the force bill con-
spiracy in the front of the fght.-N. Y.
World.
1--WE may reasonably expect that
the expenditures for pensions will de-
crease" said Gen. Garfield, twenty
years ago. Gen. Garfield may have
been a very good soldier, but what are
we to think of him as a prophet
Louisville Courier Journal
-Raum is about to unload $50, 600
pension cases on the various agencies of
the country in order to get them dis
posed of with more celebrity. This will
please the old soldiers undoubtedly, but
the country in general would greatly
prefer to see Ben Harrison unload
Raum. Herald.
The democratic movement in the
west is steady and permanent It is
the result of earnest conviction and it
is crumb bling down republican strong.
holds long considered impregnable
The full results of the Mckinley tariff
have not yet come home to the reckless
party responsible for that outrage on
American industries Albany Argus
-Financier Foster no doubt fully
satisfies the wishes of his friends in
Wall street, by his offer to extend the
AZ per cent bonds after maturity at Q
per cent What the tax payers demand
is that he pay the bonds at maturity and
stop the interest altogether. This could
easily have been done but for the Grim
inal extravaganza and rapacity of the
billion-dol1ar congress.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The very downy cushion being
prepared by kindly republicans to
break the fall of the tum bling Quay has
its notable advantages for him whom
it is to catch, but deprives the party of
the satisfaction of affirming that the
malodorous leader was ANONYMOUSLY
elected because of his misdeeds. Peo-
pie are to be given to understand that
Mr.. Quay retires against the wishes of
his colleagues. and perhaps it Is as
well So for no one could ever be per-
suaded that he would have been ex-
PEELED as long as there was chance of
his ca. rying elections, however bad his
reputation might become Chicago
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13

the ravine, and lean over the abyss as
if ready to plunge down into the tops
of the oaks on Niger Flat, five hum
bred feet below.
Pretty soon the bottom of the grade
was reached, and the young man put
the brakes down hard. But it was only
a little rise after all. and the horses
were running at the top of their speed
the stage went on, hardly checked by
the doubled obstacles. and began
another descent Again the same tao
tics followed; the brake was used with
the utmost skill and patience, but an
outsider would have said there was lit
tie gain. The second ascent came at
last, and here. on broken road, full of
deep ruts VIII CHI helped to check the
stage, the young man brought every
thing up standing. A two-mile run it
had been, and the horses were still
rearing and plunging.
The other passenger peered careful
~ out of the window and asked what
was the matter. He was ordered to
open the door, jump out, and take the
leaders by the head. The young man
''set" the brakes, elm bed down and be-
gan to collect the remnants of the lines
ana knOC Cnem LOGcCncr.
A little later Smoky came running
! up in a state of despair and exhaus-
ton. His pleasure at discovering the
coach and horses uninjured took the
form of a series of wild yells and
contortions that would have done credit
to a Shasta Indian skeleton dance.
He climbed back on .he box, the pas
sengers got in, and the stage started
off at redoubled speed to make up for
lost time.
The story went around among the
stage-drivers. There was one young
fellow that must be taken care of. He
was to have the seat with the driver,
no matter who wanted it; he was the
imam wot stopped Smol<y's turnout on
the Penn Valley Grade Even to-day
| if the hero of this true tale were to
leave his great mills and business en-
terprises in San Francisco, and go to the
wilds of Modoc and Siskiyou beyond
the outposts of the railroad, he would
be almost sure to discover that his
name and fame were known; that the
word would be sent along the line:
''Smoky's passenger is goin' over this
road" and the grumpiest of old stagers
| would unbend, and treat ohm as an
equal. The young man who .clim bed
out over the wheel and put down the
brakes" on Smoky's stagecoach thirty
years ago, is still an honorary member
of the craft of ancient and weater- beat
en- masters of the whip and ribbons
Charles III. Shinn, in N Y Independ-
eut
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-13
THE RISE OF CLARksoN.


A Golden Opportunity for the Great
Headsman.
The mountains are laboring again,
but it is more than a mouse this time.
Ifreport knows what it is talking about,
it means the rise of Garrison over
the fallen forms Of Quay and Dudley.
The boss is dead, long live the boss.
Though the glories of Quay and Dudley
shall glimmer and fade away, the gold
en- aureola that surrounds the brow of
Clarkson viii shed sufficient light for
the republican hosts. We shall still
from whose lips the pearls and rubies
shall drop as they scattered the ground
when the favorite of the fairy god
mother spoke. Long live GARRISON;
Clarkson. the cunning and ruthless;
Clarkson, the headsman. Though he
be no statesman, he is the most useful
man in the republican party, and the
laborer is worthy his hire.
According to republican standards
Mr.. Clarkson is entitled to his promo
ton If Quay and Dudley are to stand
aside, who is So fit as he to uphold the
traditions and practices of the repub-
lican party? Is he not in thorough &C.
the funds and divide the spoils to the
queens taste. and does not that put
him at the head of the machine?
The country should be proud OF
Clarkson, together with Quay. Dudley
and the others of that school He is
peculiarly home product He has
Europe has none to compare with him
1oac hofhor hiS
with such vain and empty things as
theories and principles His domain is
that of the material and substantial
He is the vote getter. the worker on
election day and before it High tariff
and low tariff, protection and free
trade are nothing to him He does not
disturb himself about free coinage OF
silver or limited coinage of silver. In
but when it comes to getting the boys
in line, by means of a judicious use of
the where withal, he is wheel horse.
The young men Of the country should
take notice. The old avenues to dis
tinction are no longer worthy of con.
sideration. New standards of states
manship have been erected. The Clays,
the Websters, the Calhouns, the Sew
ards and the Lincolns have had their
day. They have been pretty good fel.
lows in their way, but they were not
half as useful as Quay or a GARRISON.
Tom Platt says that he loves Clarkson
for the heads that he has chopped of,
and it behooves the youth of the land
to study in order that they may become
choppers themselves in their mature
age. Their ambition should not fall
short of that high mark.
The democratic party is unfortunate
in having no Quays and Clarksons, but
perhaps it can get along without them.
Such greatness brings with it its bur
dens, and there are some people who love
the old order of things, when fair play
was the rule and the boss was I'M
known. On the whole we are not sorry
that Quay, Clarkson and Dudley belong
to the other fellows.-Louisville Cour-
Ter Journal