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The morning call., 1893-07-09
A FOUR-CENT CHECK.
The Curious Piece of Paper Owned
by a Broker on Wall Street.
Boston Transcript

Boston IranScrlDI
A well-known Wall-street broker has
pasted up in a conspicuous place IN his
office bit of paper which Is regarded as
one of the financial curositles of the street.
It is a certified check for cents. drawn on
one of the national banks OF New York.
This 4-cent derelict-the bank account
ants prubably have Il stronger name for
it-has now been tout" several years, and
it is probably constant cause Oh lrrlta-
ton to the bank people, who now must OF
necessity take balance 4 cents out OF the
way as true one.
of this check used to induce the teller to
certify it, but they were undoubtedly po-
tent ones, as may be learned by any one
who will present for certification check
for any way near a like amount, even
though the drawee's name be good for
10000 times the amount at the bank at
which it is presented. The teller would
nrobably hold it, and give Cashiers
check" for like amount in place of it.
Ii the party didn't like that he could cash
or do the other thing.
The bank would most likely pay cor
siderable premium to get hold of that A
cent check, as once did the "Old Lady of
Threadneedle street," in an instance of
this kind recorded by a writer in the Lon
don Notes and Queries for July /, 1882.
BY some misadventure note for l penny.
stamped with the promise to pay" Of the
Bank. OF England. got into circulation In
1918, and for many years gave the cashiers
much trouble with their accounts. About
fifteen years ago." says the writerln Notes
and Queries. "it was brought to the bank.
but the owner, not unwlsely, would not
take a penny for it. and l believed the
bank settled the transaction by giving
him
The morning call., 1893-07-09

employed in business here if we are to
control such commerce as | have alluded
TO. The days of doing a wholesale bust
ness on retail basis have gone past. We
cannot do such business as l have sng-
gested with Australia and South America
aud China and India and Japan on the
basis of steamer day." Our traders must
be in position to be worthy of receiving
as well as extending large measure Of
commercial confidence. If we are to be
the great commercial entrepot of the Pa
cfc and to control large foreign connec-
ton our people must have adequate means
at their command. That is business that
is altogether different from supply I'M
small country dealers If our merchan is
buy by the bale they cannot expect TO
supply those who will buy by the two or
three bales NJ. j. FLAVIN.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

% G d

almost all parts Of the world, varying con-
siderable in quality and value. The
nure white shell is found in the
East Indies, and the next is what
is termed the yellow-edged ma
Mia, found at the Manila Islands;
another kind of she'll in this line comes
from the Pacific islands, and is of very
beautiful but dark hue. Few shells con-
tanning fine qualities of the substance in
question are native to this country. though
large numbers of the inferior grade are
obtained. In the production of these but
tons machinery of comparatively simple
mechanism is employed; that is the ma
teral is cut bv lathes into round form, and
the buttons have holes drilled in them by
sharp instrument, or, if holes are not
used, the buttons are made with shanks,
which are attached to them with strong
glue.
The morning call., 1893-07-09
MINES OF FOSSIL INSECTS.
Found in a Marvellous State of Per-
lection Near Pixies Peak, Colo.


It seems wonderful that things so frag-
gile. so minute and so easily destroyed as
mere insects should have been preserved
in rocks for millions upon million of years
in such perfection that the very hairs
which fringe the wings of certain very
small varieties are visible to-day beneath
the lenses of the microscope. Embedded In
the scraps of stone which make up the col
lection referred to are to be seen the
fossilized forms of all the principal species
that fly and crawl at the present time.
In this shape are found the eptombed
remains of an ancient host, so varied in
structure and so closely resem bling their
descendants of this century that they
mag be said to include practically every
group in the range of the insect world as it
is now known. To the imagination they
repopulate the past with buzzing swarms:
atfording evidence by their variety and
the surprising numbers in which their
remnants are found of the fact that an
GENTLY all sorts Of bugs. obnoxious and
otherwise, were vastly more plentiful than
now. In fact. there were numerous kinds
In the early days of creation which have
since vanished from the earth.
This was so even 50 late, comparatively
speaking. as few hundred thousand years
ago, during what was called the tertiary
epoch. At that period there was a shallow
lake in a little Colorado valley near Pixies
Peak, which is overlooked by noun tain
known modernly as Topaz Butte. tn ,ugh
designated by early miners as Slim jim.
Streams into which insects fell carried
them to the lake. which has since van
ished. They were buried beneath layers
of volcanic sand and ash. which fell into
the lake from some neighbnring eruption,
being thus preserved. so that now geol-
ogisls dig out their fossils with pick-ax
and hammer. One little hill. which was
formerly an islaud. bearing to this day the
erect trunks Of giant petrified seQuoia
trees. has been found mine of these bugs
of antiuuity
The morning call., 1893-07-09
ALONG THE FRONT.
Japanese Laborers Refused Landing
ThOrrald'S Condition.


Twelve Japanese who arrived in this
city on the steamer Australia about ten
days ago are being held on board the Mari
posa till word can be received from Wash
ington releasing them or ordering them
back to Honolulu, whence they came.
The Japanese are aborers and were re-
fused landing because the question of their
admission to this country comes under the
laws governing contract labor.
Immigrants have been permitted to land
here without question heretofore, but the
Government now seems determined to test
its right to refuse landing to foreign work
men, whether they be Chinese or japanese.
The little brown men are not pauperS by
any means, as each is supplied with fair
amount of money which they have saved
from their earnings while employed on
plantations of Hawaii.
Charles Th0rrald, son of Captain Thor
raid, is in very critical condition and is
not expected to live. About two month S
ago Mr.. Thorrald ran a darning- needle
through the palm of his hand, blood
poisoning set in, swelling the member so
fearfully that few days ago DR.. Morse.
his physician. deemed it necessary to
amputate his forearm just below the
elbow. Mr.. ThorralG has never recovered
from the shock and is now lying at the
point of DEATH
Wharfinger Short. who does duty for the
State at Mission Wharf l. thought to do
charitable act by purchasing from a
financially embarrassed stevedore fourteen
sacks of coal. MIR. Short paid 81 for the
fuel. On investigation he found that the
sacks contained nothing but cobble-rocks
and broken pieces of asphalEum pavement.
Edward Williams, seaman OF the Brit
ish ship Ulrica, which arrived in port yes
terday from Liverpool, fell from the upper
main topsailyard on May 26. and died
from the injuries sustained few hours
after the accident.
Williams was buried at sea. He was a
native of London. aged % years.
The morning call., 1893-07-09
His Wants Were Few.
New York Weekly

Tramp-Please, mum, would ye be so
thread?
Mrs. Suburb-Well, Yes, can let you
have that
"Thankee. mum. Now you'd oblige me
very much if you'll let me have BIT OF
cloth for patch"
"Well, here is some."
"Thankee, mum, but it's different
colir from my travein' suit. Perhaps,
mum, you could spare me some OF your
husbands old clothes that this patch will
match"
'Well, declare! I'll give you an old
suit. however. Here it is"
"Thankee, mum. see it's little large.
mum, but if you'll kindly furnish me with
a square meal, mebby / can fill 1t out.
The morning call., 1893-07-09
VAIN EFFORTS Al SECRECY.
They Are Often Made by Those
About to Wed.
Toledo CommArcial,

It is remarkable how many people have
a chronic objection to allowing the public
to kno " that they are about to wed. Most
Of those who enter tn9 probate Office to
secure licenses go about 1t as if they were
on the threshold of committing heinous
crime against the laws Of the land instead
of entering upon what is popularity sup
posed to be career Of bliss and happiness.
Let reporter enter while he is In
scribing his name in very shaky manner
The morning call., 1893-07-09
CITY REALTY.
Negotiations for Factory Property at
North Beach.

North Beach.
Sol Getz & Bro. of IS Post street. made
the following sales last wesk: Lot 75y120
on the east line of Ninth avenue. 275 feet
south Of ii street, for $4,000; lot 25x120 on
east line of Sixth avenue, $50 feet south
Of California street. for $1,000; lot 50x120
on east line Of Thirty-sixth avenue 200 feet
south of street, for 5000; lot 50x10O on
south line of X street, 107 :6 feet east of
Twenty-ihird avenue, for $500.
Joost 81 Wooley report increased
activity in inquiries for cheap, accessible
homestead lots. Lots along the Mission
road are in considerable demand, and
MANY new buildings are being planned
and put uD there. The firm has several
large sales of North Beach waterfront
property under way that will be used at
once for factories. and add materially TO
the activity and prosperity of that dis
trict.
The morning call., 1893-07-09
A Patriotic Celebration.
Washington Star

EYES, said young Mrs. Milder. "Charley
was ont rather late last night, but didn't
have the heart to scold him. He was en-
gagged in a patriotic celebration."
"How do you know" asked the woman
whose husband was out with Charley.
because he came home with lot of
rcd white and blue pieces of ivory.
don't know what they are for. but the
colors show thew have something to do
with patriotism.
The morning call., 1893-07-09
Pearl Buttons.
New York Sun,

The impetus given of late to the Ameri-
can manufacture oil pearl buttons gives in
terest to the statement that what are
known 10 the trade by that name are
made from the shell of the mussel and
the oyster-the inner lining of the shell OF
mollusks being an irridescent substance.
often of very beautiful tints. and known
as mother of pearl. these shells. found in
The morning call., 1893-07-09

Snow appears white because it Is an
aggregation of an infinite number OF
minute crystals. each rejecting all the
colors of the rainbow; these colors.
uniting before they reach the eye, cause it
to appear white to every normal eye.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

AS long ago as 1888 years before Christ
Alexander the Great employed mirrors to
convey signals by the light of the sun.
Since the time of the great warrior the
idea has been reduced to a a science and
called Photography.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

THERE is nothing which Will so quickly and ef-
fectuatly remove the bad taste produced by smok-
ing or chewing tobacco as piece OF Whites
Yucatan Gum.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

"I have seen, at one time and another,
all sorts of things hanging on washlines,"
said a citizen. ''but to-day. for the first
time. saw among the shirts and stockings
an American flag"
The morning call., 1893-07-09

A Russ ian farm averages thirty-fye
acres, requiring three men to cultivate it.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

The Greeks stained quartz to so close an
imitation OF emerald that 1t was almost
impossible to detect the fraud.
The morning call., 1893-07-09

zoe, 9Oc and $l.lU-FlNE PERCALE SdIRI
WAISTS, plain and fancy effe ts.. ..........
.............reducedf from rs, $780, $500
Slo5 ST. As Sl.65-FANCY FRENCH PER
GALE SHIRT WAISTS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
......,...r reduced from 1928 $2.75 and $500
$3.50, $3.50 and S4.O0-CoLORED Sill
WAISTS. every color, also black.
reduced from $500, $50, Sc. 90
81 90, SIS 90, S6.OO-PLAID SILK WAISTS,
the newest thing in silks.
.............reduced from ST 90, $780, $1O.O
$500, $500. $700-PARIS SILK WAISTS.
finest heavy silks, all colors Observation-Disclosures.
,.......re reduced from $1,000, $3.50. $1,000
25c-JERSEY WAISTS, your choice OF hun
dredS. zoe
81. 80, $500, $4.0O-FANCY BOLERO JACK
ETS, beaded and embroidered .............
.......... red uced from $3.50, SO 90. LOO
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
AHEAD sI7,GO0.

This amount is just what the Ter r;torial prison will be ahead when the United States pays in what IS due from it for the care of its prisoners. It IS an established rule, in fact the law, that every reservation Indian IS the ward of the U. $. government, no matter whether the Indian remains on the reservation or not. For the cost of the trial, conviction and imprison- ment of each one of them, the govern ment is responsible.
 Prison Superintendent Gates has Tn hand the figures now due from it, for the care and keeping of the Indians in prison, and which must be paid.
 It is not just that the Territory of Arizona should foot the bills, which belong to the U. s. government to pay. Mir. Gates deserves great credit for the manner in which he has worked up this case. The $l7,000 is the net amount which the prison will receive after all expenses for collecting the same are paid. Reliable and able attorneys-a are willing to collect the debt on a contingent fee, making the case a sure one for the prison.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
A GOOFD PAPER.

The Arizona Gazette's Worlds fair edition Is a good one. None have been better. It does justice to the terri tory and to every county in it. While it spends a good deal of ink on some proposed irrigation schemes, and but little on some that have accomplished wonders in showing what different sections of Arizona can do when SUD- piled with water; yet upon the whole it is a valuable production, worthy of careful reading. It is free from some of the objectionable features which characterize toe many snch publica- tions, and as a whole it deserves much credit. It is ably edited, some of it's best articles being from the pens of Professors Collingwood, Boggs, Gulley and Tourney, of the Territorial Uni versitY of Tucson; H. V, Jackson, Dr. Scott Helm, J. H. McClintock, Judge J, M. Murphy, George w. Meek and others. It is to be regretted that it could not have been issued earlier in the season, so as to have been seen by the thousands at the great fair from the frozen and icy east. Everyone should send 1t to their friends.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
GIVE TEsEEH A FA EM 2

There is no good reason why the Territorial prison should not have a farm of its own, upon which the majority of its inmates, who claim that they can do nothing else, can be employed in doing something towards making that institution self-supporting. On prison farm they can be employed the year round, raising all of the vegetables, hay, grain, melons and fruit neces- gary for their own consumption and the use of the prison, thus sav- ing thousands of dollars to the ter ritory, and also bettering their own condition, physically, as we'll as removing them from the influences and curses of an idle prison life. Besides these important reasons, it would also teach the majority of them, who now rather enjoy being fed on good food, with nothing to do, that the prison is not mere playhouse, supported by the people. for their amusement. There is
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
ET BE As FETS.

The Los Angeles Herald has a bad
 case of spasms, over the fact that like
 many others, under the pressure of
 financial matters, the San Diego x
 Phoenix Railroad Co.,, for the present,
 has been obliged to suspend operations
 in its construction. The trouble with
 the Herald is, that it cannot see any
 good in any project that does not
 center in Los Angeles. If it is posted
 on the section of country through
 which the San Diego road will pass,
 it knows fall we'll that there is no railroad line of the same length pro- posed or built, to or from it's town, that has any such country, any such area of rich valley soil, as that which lies along the proposed line from San Diego via Yuma to Phoenix, nor any that bears any comparison to 1t, And this is just where the shoe pinches, and brings out of the Herald an ex- hibitiOn of the narrow minded view which it Is always inclined to take, of any section of the coast which does not pay tribute to it's contracted To- cality. It has never been able to see any good in the fertile valley of the Colorado, a fine portion of which lies
 within California, and which, when once settled and developed, will be one of the richest and favorite sections of the state. The exhibitions of such onesided and narrow minded views of one of the best portions of the coast, and of project which would open 1t to settlement and development, not to say of the spleen that prompts them, will not help Los Angeles nor injure in the least the San Diego & Phoenix railroad, nor the magnificent stretch of country through which it passes, embracing as it does an immense area of rich valley soils, along the Gila, Salt and Colorado rivers, and in the finest valley on the coast, supplied as they are with an abundance of water for irrigation, and destined to becoma one of the most thickly settled aud wealthiest portions of the west. To those who know these facts, the spasms of the Herald are, to say the least, amusing. Meyer mind; San Diego may not build the road, but it will be built, and with less talk, wind and efforts than the long wished for line from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, and over 6 country far superior to that oyer which that road will pass.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
Notice to Tax payers.

Notice is hereby given that the Duplicate Assessment Roll" of Yuma County for the year 1893, is now in my possession for the collec- ton of the taxes levied therein, and that said tax will be delinquent on the third (3rd) Monday of December next hereafter, and unless paid on that day or prior thereto, i've per cent will be added to the amount thereof as penalty. Taxes must be paid in my office, in the village of Yuma, between the hours, of 9 o'clock a. m. and , o'clock p. m., every day, except Sundays and hoIi- days.
 ALTHEE MoDEsTI, County Treasurer and ex-oficio Tax
 Collector.
 YUMA, A. T., Sept. l2th, 1893.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
PURELY VEGETABLE

-Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They're a compound of refined and concentrated botanical extracts. These tiny, sugar-coated Pellets the smallest and the easiest to take absolutely and permanently cure Constipation, Indigestion, Sick and Bilious Headaches, Dizziness, Bill lous Attackzss, and all Arrangements or the liver, stomach, and bowels.
 They cure permanently, because they act naturally. They don't shock and weaken the system, like the huge, old-fashioned pills. And they're more effective. One little Pellet for @ corrective or laxative - three for a cathartic.
 They're the cheapest pills you can buy, for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is re. turned. You pay only for the good you get.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
ORDINANCE NO. B.

An ordinance to provide fees for village recorder, attorney and marshall
 Be it ordained by the Mayor and Com mon Council of the village of Yuma, Ari- zona:
 Section l. That the village recorder, attorney and marshall are hereby author ized and empowered to charge and collect from all parties convicted before said re- corder for violation of any village ordinance and territorial laws the same fees as are al lowed justice of the peace, district attor- ney and sheriff for the prosecution of vio- lators of the territorial laws.
 Section ?. Tkat in no event shall such fees be charge against the village, except there be money in the village funds derived from fines collected by said recorder, and then the fees of said officers not collected from defendant may be allowed by the Mayor and Common Council,
 5ecticn3. The village treasurer shall keep all money paid him by the said re- corder collected as fines in a fund called the fine fund.
 Section 4. This ordinance shall have eff feet after it shall have been published three weeks successively in the ARIZONA SEN TINEL.
 Approved September 4th, 1893.
 A. FRANK, Mayor. (Attest.) J. L. POWELL,
 Village Recorder. I, J. L. Powell, recorder of the village of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance No. B was passed by a unanimous vote of the Common Council, approved by the Mayor and recorded by me in a book kept for that purpose, In witness my hand and seal of said village herewith affixed this 4th day of September, 1893.
 J. L. POWELL. Village Recorder.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23

The Irrigation Market, edited by Col. Richard J. Hinton, the spec ialist on western interests, presents in a condensed form the financial side of our regional growth in the main lines of industrial endeavor. The Irrigation Market is our mis- sionary in the east, and it's purpose is to present briefly all the in dustrial interests and reclamation of the Arid West. The people of the west and southwest are all in- terested in the work of The Irriga- tion Market, and every one should write for a copy to the office of publication, No. 61 Broadway, New York.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
THE GOVERNORS REPORT

Governor Hughes report to the Secretary of the Interior is the most comprehensive, and by all means the best, that has ever been made by any governor of Arizona
 The important but thread-bare sub- ject of irrigation is handled in a mas terly manner, and one that must con- mend itself to the Irrigation Congress, soon to assemble at Los Angeles. The arid land question is one that has had careful study at the hands of Gov ernor Hughes, and will command the attention of congress. Statehood for the Territory, is gone into in all of it's details, and the results painted by 8 masters hand.
 The question of improving the Ool- orado river, and the thorough manner in which he goes into the matter, shows that the governor has given this most important subject very thorough investigation, and is fully alive to the vital project of its inn provement by the national govern ment, the grand results which will ac- crue to it, as we'll as the vast benefits to be derived by the Territory, in cheap transportation to more than three-fourth of its area, the acme to be desired above any other that can be given US for the same expenditure of money.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23

Wild geese began their south ward flight to the mouth of the Colorado on the 1st inst, 10 days earlier than usual. Wild ducks can be seen every morning wend- ing their way to their winter quarters at Montague Island and vicinity. The first flock noticed was on the 18th of August. Old timers say that this indicates a cold winter at the north, and a wet one in this vicinity.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23

plenty of good land in the valleys near Yuma that can be utilized for this purpose. Such a farm would be God-send to the prison, and an immense saving to Arizona, without incurring but avery small expense to put the project into suc- cessful operation.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23
TIMBER CULTURE. FINAL PROOF.-NOTICE
 FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
 TUCsoN, Arizona, August 23rd, 1893. Notice is hereby given that William L. Scott of Yuma, A. T., has filed notice of intention to make final proof before the clerk of the District Court at his office in Yuma Arizona, on Monday, the 9th day of October 1893, on timber culture application No. 568, for lots and and the S. of N. W. Of section No. 5, in Township No S., Range No. 16 w.
 He names as witnesses: Thomas A. Fulton, Reinhold Klenk, both of Tacna, Yuma Co.,, Arizona; Charles Landon and John Fred Nottbush, both of Yuma, Yuma Co.,, Arizona.
 HERBERT BROWN, Register.
The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-23

At La Paz, up the Colorado river, in 1877 the cotton planted there by Lieut.. H. Dodd stood from 15 to 20 feet high and was loaded with large white balls. This shows that cotton can be raised on the rich bottom lands along the Col orado with success.