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Arizona republican., 1893-10-01
TEMPE ECHOES.

jill. W. Jensen has returned from
the coast after an absence of three
months.
Hon. Thos. F. Wilson, ex-United
States district attorney, is in Tempe on
a business trip.
M. H. WILLIAMS, district attorney,
was in Tempe yesterday to vote shares
in the big canal meeting.
W. G. Armstrong has turned Calam-
ity, his favorite driving horse, out to
Craze. Just why he did so is not for
publication.
W. A. Hancock was a prominent
figure at the canal meeting yesterday,
from the fact that he represented sew
eral shares of stock for non residents.
Lon Harmon returned Yesterday
from the coast where he has been with
a trainload of cattle. He returned via
Wilcox, where he was negotiating the
sale of his big barley crop to j. H.
LIeberman & Co.
W. L. Van Horn, the athletic cashier
of the Bank OF Tempe, was out to the
double buttes for target practice yes
terday morning. He returned on his
wheel in fifteen minutes, distance OF
over three miles.
A number of young people went out
to Andy Stewards ranch twelve miles
south of Tempe last evening for a
straw-ride. There we're twenty.one in
the party and they report having had
an excellent time, but got home little
late.
Miss Adine Bury, one of the fairest
of the Normal school girls, walked over
the bridge yesterday horning and took
the stage for Phoenix where she will
shend Saturday and Sunday at home.
Miss Allie Gray also Sundays at the
residence of her parents near Phoenix.
Little groups of men could be seen
all forenoon yesterday on the various
street corners of the town fixing up
the fences for positions on the board of
directory of the Tempe canal. This is
one of the best conducted canals in the
valley and it is run at nominal cost.
M. Wormser has been at the head of
probably be reelected.
Two transient gentlemen of Tempe
were in Phoenix on Tuesday and being
lately from the effete east they took in
the gaming halls of the capital city as a
matter OF curiosity. The game Of
"seven or eleven" took their fancy and
they soon figured out a satisfactory
system to reduce the proprietor of the
''game of cubes" to penury. 1t is need
less to say the system was faulty and
the young men returned to Tempe sew
eral dollars poorer with system for
sale.
The Tempe hotel, one OF the best and
most favorably known houses in central
Arizona. both as a lettering place for
travelling men and a home for families,
changed hands yesterday although the
shifting of ownership will hardly be
perceptible by the many patrons of the
popular hotel. For the past year
Smith & Powell have conducted the
house and built up large trade-the
leading hotel of the town. Guy Powell,
the junior member of the firm, has
purchased the interests of his former
partner, G. o. Smith, and will hereafter
assume entire management from bar
room to kitchen. Many improvements
have been made and AL Young, the
best cook in the southwest, will have
charge of the culinary department.
Mr.. Powell is a popular young man
both at home and abroad and will keep
up the reputation of the house.
Arizona republican., 1893-10-01
A Lengthy Operation.

1t does not look reasonable that six
to twelve months should be needed to
make a billiard ball, but a frst-class
ball cannot be manufactured in less
time, owing to the tendency of carved
ivory to shrink. If it shrank equally a
ball could be cut and polished in few
hours, but it does not, the shrinkage
being greater in the direction of the
width than of the length of the tusk. A
ball must thus be roughly shaped,
then kept for a number of months, I'M
til the shrinking process has been com
pleted, when the fine cutting and pol
ishing NAV be done
Arizona republican., 1893-10-01
Beats EN- All.

The United States is the first nation
in the worlds history to have three
cities of over 1,00C, GOO each.
Arizona republican., 1893-10-01

Any lady desiring the position of
cham bermaid can obtain position by
addressing Guy Powell, proprietor Of
Tempe hotel, Tempe, Arizona.
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Valuable Boards.

The Moors hold by their boards when they
swear. In order TO give weight 10 their oath
which after this formality they rarely Violate.
The length OF beard seems to weigh with
them more than the stock Of brains.
Admiral Keppcl was sent TO Alglers to de-
mand satisfaction for the injuries done TO his
Britannia majesty's subjects by their corsairs !;
the dey, enraged at the boldness of the am
bassador, exclaimed THAT he wondered at
the nsolencc OF the English monarch in send
ing him message by foolish, beardless
boy.n
The admiral, somewhat nettled, replied
that ''if his master had supposed that Wis
dom was to be measured 10y the length of the
beard, he would doubtless have sent the dey
n he-goat.n
This answer so cnrnged the dey that he or
dercd his mutes to attend with the bOwstrings
saying that the admiral should pay for his
boldness with his life. Nothing dauuted by
this threat the ambassador took the dey to n
window, and showing him the English fleet
said, "lf 1t was his pleasure to put him to
death, there were Engllshmen enough In that
fleet to make him = grand funeral pile
The dey, who wore a long beard, took the
hint from the man who had none Youths
Companion.
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beauties Of tho solid south to the Ex-
position. Four days will be spent in
Chicago The railroads have reduced
rates for this occasion to such an ex-
tent that very poor must the veteran
he who cannot afford to make the ex-
cursion.
The conventional features Of demon
stratiors such as these, the parades,
the speech making, the singing and
drilling will 10 relieved by the formal
convention Of the United States Con-
federate Veterans, which meets dur
Ing the daytime-amusemen and
spectacular outburst of patriotism be-
ing reserved for the evening hours
and will decide upon some correct
vefsion Of events that happened when
the Union was at stake. This done
the story will be elaborated into his
tory Of the civil war and Ia TO form .
text book for the schools of the south.
1t has long been grievance on the
farther side Of tho Mason md Dixon's
line that Confederate soldierp have
not been justly dealt with in school
historisA" At Birmingham special
committee will take charge Of the mat
VI, and the veterans will rive
~ work the prestige of their
sauotlon. ssThe adoption Of An
inpartial history Of the United
etstsar = ths object ained at In this,
neesrdlNg Va The prcgxAm.
Ano4h6r Wuek " Be accomplished h
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|eonaS6a ~ ai1Ahee1 soldiers an4
~ ppNAh \ ful1 u G1aS
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Good Nows.

Congressman John Allen tells this
story: "a widow in my district de-
sired position in tho agricultural
department.. There was no vacant
place. and l was compelled to inform
my constituent that could do moth.
ing for her until vacancy arose
But she persisted in her efforts to
obtain position, and for two weeks
thereafter met me at every turn.
Ono morning | had just finished
breakfast. when was told that she
was awaiting me in the reception
room. So assumed Il pleasant de-
meanor. and entering the room, said,
in sympathetic voice: 'Wcll, my
good woman, what news? Good
news she said good news. Mr.
Allen We'll said |, that is pleas
ant; what is the news" oh, she
said, good new. Mr. Allen, good
news; q woman in the agricultural
department. died yesterday" -
Argonaut
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northerners as well as titled foreign
ers, suggested that feature of this
reunion be q series of tableaux, in
which each of the southern states
should have as representative the most
beautiful young unmarried lady with
IN its borders, the preparations have
been making on really imposing
rcale. To cap the climax of effect
Mrs. Grant, widow of the general, has
been formally invited to the reunion.
The beauties already selected and
the states they will represent arc:
Virginia, Miss Elizabeth Clarke of
Newport News; North Carolina, Miss
Kate Cantwell of Wilmington; Ken
lucky, Miss Sara Simrall of Lexing-
ton; Mississippi, Miss Nellie Fewell OF
Meridian; Florida, Miss Elizabeth
Pasco of Monticello; Tennessee, Miss
Meta Orr Jackson of Nashville; Ar
kansas, Miss Lily McGee of Van
Buren,; Alabama, Miss Carrie Toney
Cochran of Eufaula; Georgia, Miss
Caroline Gordon, daue liter of the dis
tinguished senator, and South Caro-
lima, Miss Leila Laurens Chisolm of
Charleston.
These young ladies personate the
south in this series of scenes:
First-1he states are on the stage of
the winnie Davis Wigwam, specially
constructed for the oc aston. Each
young lady holds banner, on which
is worked n coat of arms of her state.
The time is the fall of 1860 and the
states are excited over election eews,
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The Mon on the Locomotlre.

The exactions that modern railroad speed
make on the physical stamina of railroad
men is demonstrated in the fact that seven
men are required TO take the Chicago flyer
out and seven back. The running time be-
tween New York and Chicago Is twenty hours
and the average speed Is fortyeight miles an
hour. Each engineer and engine runs three
hours. Machine and man return with slow
train to the starting point to relieve the strain
on both. Then the engineer Is given forty
hours rest before he goes on the flyer again.
This rest Is absolute, no work of any kind
being required OF the engineer. Though the
average speed Is forty-cight miles an hour,
the locomotive must at some points be driven
at sixty or more. The physical strain on the
men in the cab at these bursts of speed Is
something terrible The engineer has fifty
things to look out for and Is being shaken
aud twayed all the time The fireman is con-
stantly feeding the insailate furnace. Ga
the run of the Empire State express three
tons of coal are shorelcd from the tender into
the furnace between New York and Albany.
1t is not wonderful that the engineers OF this
train are given alternate days for rest aud
recuperatlon. Fast travel not only wears out
rails and machines but human creatures
lives.-BostOn IranScriDt
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HOW HE HAD FUN.
Ius fuliod ia Hi: Weapon with whic
to Tackle Clerk.

Ito Puiiod IL I,i- wonpon with Which
to Tackle n Clerk.
"You can't always tell how green
a man may be by tho color you may
think he Is" said tho drummer,
sententiously. and the hotel clerk
ran his eyes up in to Interrogation
points, s,pys the Detroit Free Press.
NO" he went on, as if tho clerk
had put his question into words,
mo, you can't was In New York
and one night l went down to sleep
by the sea-"
"On bench in Battery parkt"
inquired the disingenuous clerk
.Of course not" retorted the drum
mer; "down at one OF the ar-by
seaside resorts. Well, as l was
saying, when got there and had
registered at one OF tho swell hotels,
q country-looking citizen stepped up
and took my place before tho book.
He wrote his name and looked up at
the digniiiod and imperious young
man behind tho counter.
"'Got any rooms. young feller.'
he said, fer about one dolyer per
day"
Certainly not, was tho naughty
and disgustcd reply.
:" 'How's your rates, anyhow
"'Wen. you can get suite for q
hundred dollars day he said with
the air of one man expecting to see
the other man drop dead.
"'Good enough responded the
countryman. without turning hair.
'l'll tako that kind for five days and
! pay in advance. Cun you change n
bill for meo and he slapped down
a new thousnnd-dollar William that
must have looked u yard long to the
clerk. Whether it did or not he
grew rcd in tho face: said hc'd have
to sec tho landlord; couldn't raise
over q hundred and fifty In change
to save his life that early in the
season; and while he was trying to
apologize the countryman stuffed the
bill in his pocket and went across
tho street to another hotel.
"That evening talked with him
on the beach, and he said he was
nicely fixed at So day for month.
Then he lnughingly told me that he
carried that bill along with him to
slug highfalutin hotel clerks with.
and he called it Thousand dollar
billie. because it knocked them
every time
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when n messenger comes in with the
announcement that Lincoln has been
chosen President Thereupon South
Carolina steps to the front of the
stage, declaring that she will resist
The other states show alarm and are
in doubt what to do, when Mississippi
steps to South Carolina's side, fol-
lowed by Florida and after that Ala
bama. Then-the remaining states ad-
vance in the order OF their secession.
When all are come to the front the
Virginia and the curtain falls to
the music OF "Dixie."
Second time. after Gettysbure)-
The eleven states are seen dressed
in black, knitting and working for the
soldiers.
Third time, after the war)-Now
Maryland. Missouri and Kentucky ap-
pear among the southern states The
fourteen young ladies appear in Greek
costumes. The tableaux is 1.-The Solid
South" 1t concludes with repre-
sontation OF the blue and the gray
clasping arms about, with "Colum-
bia" statuesque above with the legend,
limited We Stand" This scene is de-
signed to leave no imputation of dis
loyalty in what has gone before
Confederate veterans have certainly
never prepared to revive memories Of
the lost cause on a more dignified and
impressive scale. The stars and
stripes and the stars and bars are
everywhere. The Winnie Davis wig
wan looms at The corner of First ave-
nue. and Twenty-third street sea OF
color with its floating banners md
bunting. Business houses are prepar-
ing for a general holiday, the hotels
have arranged to accommodate throngs
from all observation-disclosures alone sends
10000 yeterans-while the most emf
nent sons of the south, including Sena-
tor John B. Gordon of Georgia, lieu
tenant-general of the confederacy, and
Gen. James Longstreet, from historic
Gainesville, are to come with escorts
of old soldiers. birmingham also
awaits Gen. w. l.. Cabell, who en-
erges from the retirement of his Texan
home in Dallas to lead his old COM
mand. George II. Stewart, too, will
be there, as well as Jubal A. Early,
who heads u party from Lynchburg,
Va The demonstration extends over
two days, after which the veterans,
with their families, will leave for
trip to the Words Far, visiting on
the way some of the more noted war
prisons 1t is likely that the Worlds
FaAr dill ectory will formally invite the
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Druidicxl Remains In France.

-he Stonehenge, described in q
recent instnllment OF "Notes for the
Curious" is usually set down rs he
ing the most wonderful relic OF the
Druida In France. however. there
arc remains Of that peculiar Celtic
people far more extensive than the
Stonehenge. or even all the Salisbury
plains relics taken together. These
French ruins are near the town Of
Carnac. Brittany, and consist of three
groups of stones. running parallel to
each other, and extending from the
seacoast across the country in an
east and west direction for eleven
miles. Each OF these three groups
are regularly divided into sections
composed of eleven pillars Of rough.
unhewn stones, each of which is ten
feet high.-St Louis Republic.
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CONFESSION OF A THIEF.
It May Result In RESTORATION of =
Treasure of Art.

Treaanre OF Art.
Especial Correspondence.
The sensation which was created in
London seventeen years ago by the
theft of the Gainsborough portrait of
the Duchess of Devon hire has been
revived by report that the thief has
confessed. The painting was pur-
chased for trilling sum in 1899 by a
picture rcstorer named Beutly. Bently
sold it to famous collector named
Wynn Ellis. As part of the Ellis
collection the picture was put up at
auction at Christie's on May G, 1876,
and n grent struggle for its purchase
ensued. The then Earl of Dudley ran
the price up to $40, 900, but it could not
shake off the persistent ngent of
Messrs. Agnew, who secured the pict-
ure for Elo,00o, the highest price ever
paid for picture at Christle's. The
dealers at once placed 1t in their gal
leries at 30 Bond street, and London
went wild over the pictu e. 1t monop-
olized tho conversation OF the day, and
at public receptions women dressed
nfter the fashion of the beautiful
pts.Eted duchess. Cn the night of May
"a. s'nly eighteen days after it came
into Messrs Agnew's possession, it
WA lett, as usual, at / p. M, on the
walls of the gallery. In the morning
il had been cut from the frame and
stolen. Th Scotland Yard detectives
took the matter in hand, and the own
crs offered FL 900 for it's recovery. In
the course OF time the thief opened
negotiations for the return of the pict-
ure, but MS he made it condition
that he should not be prosecuted and
the English laws against compound
ing felony are very severe, nothing
came of It. Now Adam Worth,
q criminal of international reputation
among the police. who is an inmate
OF B-lgian prison, says that he stole
the picture in hope of getting ransom
for it without risk. He failed, and for
years he had the stolen ducheis s, like a
white elephant on his hands He
was OF American birth, about 80 years
old at the time, and n robber by pro-
fessicn. A boldly planned felony put
him in POSSESSION of a60, 900, with
which he lived like . king among the
worry people he had previously robbed.
Tho picture was . constant menace to
his safety, but he could not make up
his mind to part with it. One scheme
suggested itself to him. of painting
another picture over the Gainsbor-
ouRh, having It put up at sale, buy
ing II In. and then, In the process Of
cleaning It, discovering the real pict-
urs. Hut for this he needed accom-
pltceA and he was afraid TO risk It
At last he landed In the Belgian
prison, and, there being nothing to
lose now, has made partial confess
sion, which he promises to supple
ment with the story of what hnally
became Of the picture.
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~XvK BUT REcKLEsa.
.sEAssa-Irua Ja1ars- HAsInse41ans q
Aattls With InAznA

ss3noot-Ifu4 SA060- 6ADGaleozA0n1 81 .
nsttis Win Isn.n&
Few men In the West hayo had Is
many thrilling experiences as ..Sheet-
Iron Jack" His life has been .
border play.
His escapades, wore they all known,
would fill volume. He has foughs
to preserve the peace, and has been
hunted as an outlaw, that in his cap
ture personal property might obtain
chameleon like. but his bravery has
never been questioned, says the San
Francisco Examiner.
Jack obtained his sobriquet OF
"Sheet-Iron Jack" in battle fought
between the Pluto and Snake Indians
and Company A. Ninth United States
infantry, and Company G. First
United States cavalry, at Stems
Mountain in April, 1866. Tho
troops had been after tho Indians for
several days. The Indians, closely
pressed, took an imprcgnable. as
they thought, position on tho noun
tain. How to dislodge them was a
question which perplcxed Captain
Munson, tho commander of the
troops. Jack. being scout, was
consulted. He volunteered to at
tract the Indians while the greater
| body of the troops approached the
summit of the mountain from the
most inaccessible side. thus surpris-
| ing them. Jack, taking few picked
men, proceeded at once to march
upon the enemy, who was not aware
of the proximity of the troops until
Jack appeared The Indians opened
fire on Jacks band. A shower of
arrows fell about the intrepid men
and bullets whistled the song o'
death. Jacks men faltered and
sought security behind rocks.
Prior to breaking camp il the
morning Jack slung large frying
pan or skillet over his shoulder. 1t
was made OF sheet iron. When he
saw the cowardice of his men, as lie
termed it, Jack unfastened the frying
pan and. placing it in front of him
as u shield, proceeded to move slowly
on the enemy. He crawled up the
steep incline OF the mountain. As
he advanced ho kept firing. while
lcaden hail beat tattoo upon the
skillet and arrows plowed the ground
about him.
The Indians, occupied with Jack,
were completely taken by surprise by
Captain Munson. Seventy-fve bucks
were killed and many squaws and
pappooses captured.
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Mat ...p. sh.u .l,v.. n. eonfed

Mat kesps then alivs. Tho eonfed
srste soldiers have stood loyalty BE-
eide their distressed comrades, and 1t
birmingham measures for systematic
and concerted action in place OF
sporadic benevolenco will be devised.
Monuments to mark the graves of dis
tinguished confederate dead are to b
subscribed for, and it is proposed to
ipaugurate q prize competition among
sculptors to secure the most sppropri-
ately artistic design IN mortuary
bronze and marble.
''There is to be no suggestion Of dis
loyalty" says Senator Gordon. Moth
ing can show more effectively the pat
riotism of the southern people than
their enthusiasm over the coming re-
union. The blue and the gray were
never more hnrmoniously blended than
they will be at Birmingham.
Camp w. j. Hardee, No. 30, of ths
United Confederate Veterans, acts as
host TO the visiting thousands. The
Winnie DAVIS Wigwam," as the mon
ster auditorium built for the gather
ing is christened, has been constructed
under its auspices, and every arrange
ment in the way of hotel and other
accommodations is now perfected.
birmingham had under the old cor
porate limits at the time of the last
census about 27,000 inhabitants. The
city's boundaries were extended last
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January, and some. so, COO people now
live within the corporate limits.
monster procession is also being
planned. Addresses will be made by
the visiting commanders, and mem
ories Of the war will be revived from
the southern standpoint. The public
school children are to join in grand
chorus State officials and southern
dignitaries generally will be present t
in numbers, for the power OF the
United Confederate Veterans is so
great that to speak at Their reunions
is almost n certificate tf eminence in
the south. 1t was organized only
three years ago at New Orleans. Its
avowed purpose is strictly soeial, lit
erary, historical and benevoent. Ac-
cording to its constitution, the object
of its existence is to unite in general
federation all associations of CON
federate veterans soldiers and
sailors-now or hereafter to be
formed, to gath,r authentic
data for an impartial history
of the war between the states, to pre-
serve relics and mementoes and to
cherish the ties of friendship that
should exist among men who have
shared common dangers, sufferings
and privations. State organizations
are authorized and ure styled divisions.
The general commanding is now Sem
ator Gordon. The present headquar-
ters are at Atlanta, Ga. No organiza-
tion in the south has grown or pros
pered more than this. Texas will
probably capture the reunion for next
year. Her veterans come to Birming-
ham in thousands, not merely, it is de-
clared, for the reunion, but with an
eye to the future, and with the inten
tion of having the gathering of 1874
within her borders. But they can
hardly eclipse in Importance the COM
ing birmingham reunion, in which the