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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26
LOCAL BREvlrIEs.

Work has been resumed on st. Marks
Lutheran Church and will be pushed
enerRetically until the handsome edifice
is compile ted.
There will be meeting of the or.
dinance committee in the Office Of the
clerk OF the Council this morning at IL
o'clock
A regular meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary to the railroad department. OF
the Y. NJ G. A. will be held this even.
ing at s O'Clock at the residence of Mrs.
Blackenship, 5l5 Luck avenue s. W.
| The repairs to the building of the
Virginia Brewing Company were com.
pleted yesterday afternoon. The dam
| ago caused by the wind to the plant of
| this company amounts to about $3.50.
L. R. Kent, who is under Indictment
for forgery and who was not to be
found on the day set for his trial, has
reappeared, released his bondsmen and
his trial set for May.
The case of Engledove vs. Fishburne
and others is still on trial in the circuit
court.
Fred Weber. formerly manager o. the
Southern Hotel, has accepted tho posi-
ton Of steward and manager of the
Hotel Int rmont, at Big Stone Gap. and
will assume charge next Monday.
G. Powell holland, president OF the
Shenandoah Improvement Company,
was in the city yesterday.
William Clayton, who was stabbed
Saturday night by Warwick Elan, is in
precarious condition. The hearing of
the case was continued until Friday,
May 5, to await the result of Claytor's
Injuries.
Q The Fidelity Loan and Trust Com
pany yesterday sold the building known
as the Oppenheim house to Messrs.
Simmons Il Winch for SIS.
John NJ. Miller, Jr., chashier of the
First National Bank of Buchanan, was
in town yesterday.
Miss Lucy Belle Smith, OF Hillsboro,
Ohio. is the guest of Mrs. N. p. Foard,
323 Highland avenue.
DR.. T.. B. Stone has left Roanoke to
pass year at the Boston Marine Hos
pital. His position there is species of
scholarship given him by his high stand
ing at the Virginia Medical College, of
which he is post graduate.
Charles McGehee, of Fulton county.
Pa, brother of James B. McGehee. is
in the city attending to his numerous
real estate investments.
The city treasurer has received sew
eral thousand dollars Of license taxes in
the past few days. and largo portion
OF it has been paid in gold.
j. II. Fitzgerald, of Middlesborough,
Ky, arrived here on train No. 9 last
night.
j. H. Bricker, bridge foreman from
Shenandoah, is stopping at the Felix.
William De Jarnette, Of Rsdford, is
at the Hotel Roanoke.
DR.. w. L. Hill, of Baltimore, is in
Roanoke.
j. & Morris and wife, OF Richmond.
arrived in the city last night.
D. G. Randolph and w. C. Bowling,
OF Lynchburg, are at the Ponce de
Leon.
G. f. Fringer, of Lithia, is in town to-
day.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26

Very neat 7room house on Seventh
avenue s. W. Lot 5Oxl30 feet. Price,
5000: $3.50 cash, balance $25 per mon tn.
This is fine opportunity to get a mic Q
home or easy payments.
Coco Lewis Addition lot, so feet
trout, $500.
Eight room house in the Southwest,
bath room, not and cold water, finished
III hard oak, good stable. lot 5Oxl30
feet, (cCrner) $4,000
Corner lot in the Lewis addition, look
100 feet. Price 81 300, on easy terms.
Nice house on Church street, lot 45X
40 feet. Price SO 500: $500 cash, b al
ance on easy payments.
Splendid l0-room house in the south
west part of the town, furnished in
hard wood, bath, gas, hot and cold
water, all possible conveniences, terms
easy.
dwelling, SIX rooms, on Center
avenue, 10. 5Ox13O feet. Peics 81, 500
5000 cash. balance SIS per month.
Splcniii lot on Center and Loudon
avenues, 5oXi30 each, for s 0 cash; bal
anca Sl5 per month.
One { room house, CONVEX ient to the
shops, $1,000; SIS cash, balance Sl2 pei
month. Very cheap.
Good Gro IN house on Fifth avenue
- 49, 49, 'Voi oh cosy IOimp'
FARMS.
Splendid farm, about $50 acres, u
miles from Thaxton's, in Bed ford county
ron dwelling, 4-roLm servant house
nice yard, two tenant houses.
One farm. large stable and grapary
splendid young orchard, all kinds o.
improved fruit, we'll watered, pie nty o.
wood, miles from Bedford City Price
$1,000. Very cheap.
Fifty two and one-half acres, miles
from city, acres in wood, Is acres in
bottom land, balance in clover. Price
$40 per acre.
Fifty sores OF the best land in Roam
oke county 3 miles from city Price
$50 per acre, terms easy.
WANTED.
We have customers for several Lewis
Addition lots. Will pay cash for tn,
right lots. Please list your property
with us.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26
Wnrn I.inNH.

For the information of voters the
ward lines are given:
First ward-South of the Railroad,
east to Roanoke street and Franklin
road.
Second ward South Of tho Railroad
east of Roanoke street and Franklin
road to Jefferson street.
Third ward-North OF the railroad,
east Of Henry street, to Fourth avenue,
to Gainsboro road, to Peach road to city
limits.
Fourth ward-South of the railroad,
east of Jefferson street.
Fifth ward-North OF the railroad
west OF Henry street, to Fourth avenue,
to GainsborO road, to Peach road to city
limits.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26

JAPANESE Liver Pellets are the best
family medicine for liver complaint and
constipation. so pills in vial 25 cents.
Sold at Christian & Barbees.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26

We have just gotten back from the
Eastern markets with all the later
novelties in Fabrics, Shades and Trim
mings in goods of all kinds for the later
spring and summer trade.
Minute Descriptions
Are impossible.
IAN all fusion to the material is all our
space will permit:
Black silk Genadines, figured and
. striped, in the new chiffon effects.
t>siu and figured China Silks in new
sc. "a.
~ Changeable Silks for shirt
Wa SITS and trimmings.
Reseda Greens and Heliotrope in
dress fabrics of all sorts.
New Changeable Effect Woolens in
great variety of styles.
French Broche Satines, very new,
both light and dark grounds, neat
Dresden igures.
Printed Figured Swiss in new styles.
Our Prices the Very Lowest.
The New Printed Dimities, tinted
and white grounds-very desirable.
Ginghams in Scotch and Domestic.
Percales in new shades.
Printed and Plain Cotton Crepes,
New Shirt Waists.
New Blazer and Eaton Suits just
opened, skirts are made in the late
Umbrella Style. The Jackets have the
Large Full Sleeves.
New Capes, in Tan, Green, Navy and
Brown.
New Hosiery in Tans. Cardinal and
,Eancies for Ladies and Children.
Everything New in Complete
Assortment.
PRICES THE 10 WEST.
HGiI0nimus & Brug1,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26
A Drain Approved.

A Drain Approved.
The board Of public works and city
engineer inspected the Henry, Luck and
Commerce streets drain yesterday and
will report it in good condition and ap.
proved for acceptance by the city
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26

A. L. JAMESON q Co., coal dealers, Headquarters
for Atlantic dynamite and Judson powder.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-26
HBIROuIaUS & 3RUGH'S,
2OS Commerce Street.
Dress Goods!
Dress Goods!
THIS MORNING.
'Wo ask your attention to few NOR @
lines on the subject of
Dress Goods.


We have just gotten back from the
Eastern markets with all the later
novelties in Fabrics, Shades and Trim
mings in goods of all kinds for the later
spring and summer trade.
The oasis., 1893-12-21
ARILONA'S ADVANTAGES.
SURFACE STREAMS SUPPLEMENTARY
 RESERVOIRS.
Her Mines of Water for Irrigation Better
 Than Her Gold Mines.
[Republished by Requestl To the Editor of THE OASIS:

To the EdltOf or HE OAsls.
 DEAR SIR:-In arecent letter l wrote of the New Domains" Uncle Sam offers to those wishing pleasant and profitable homes in thelrrigation Dis tricts. Some further points, more in detail may be of interest tO your readers.
 As a cadet at West Point the course of study gave a great interest in geol- ogy and engineering, and have spent good deal of my time during what mighthaye been otherwise m0notonOus service in Southern Arizona military posts, in q rather comprehensive study of the topography and possibilities of that territory. As the best and most reliable information on this part of our country is buried in the ponderous fo- lios of the Smithsonian and the little known records of the Weather Bureau, observations made in person on the ground may be of some interest and possible value to newcomers and others. To the average tourist, hur- ried across the territory on the trans continental roads through dust and summer heat, the suggestion of Arizo- ma as a hopeful field for homeseekers might appear very amusing, but to a person who is familiar with the mar vels wrought by Irrigation, and who will investigate without prejudice, the facts about AriZOna's climate and water supply, it offers as much of promise as any other part of the irri gated portion Of the country, and far exceeds most of them in advantages. The large area of good lands, FREE to homesteaders and those taking advan- tage of the desert land act, under the various canal systems, should be util- ized, and when they are new era will dawn on Arizona. Information on these lands can be had however by ad- dressing the canal companies, who have water rights to sell at low rates to bring the lands under them into profitable cultivation. wish to call attention to a NEW field Of even great CT promise, though little known and without an apostle with water rights to sell to make its merits known. It is the territory which can be irrigated by PUMPING from the subterranean reservoir caused by tbe flow of the Santa Cruz river into the great valley beginning at Tucson and running west to the Maricopa divide and north to the Gila river From Arizola west, north and northeast the junction of the Santa Cruz and Gila valleys is a great open plain, nowhere more than few miles from the Southern Pacific railroad, and this plain is only few feet above q vast subterranean supply of water gathered from the head waters and water shed of the Santa Cruz river, and from sipage from the Gila river for several miles below Flor ence. The Santa Cruz waters sink in- to the sands at the upper end of the plain at Rillito and are saved. The soil of this plain is of vast depth, ,and rock is rarely found above the water level, and then only near the rim of the plain being the accumulation of long ages of erosion of mountains around, washiugs from which have gradually filled in what was probably once a deep arm ef the sea Srlse-
The oasis., 1893-12-21

a cost of ten or twelve cents per horse power per day of ten hours near oil supply
 Thus your homesteader could after digging his well. put in pump and sixteen foot windmill for(s200 plus $50 plus $50 for pipes and belts siO0, which is cheaper than water rights for forty acres. He could add four horse power for use in occasional light winds for s100 more. or he could put in . pump and gasoline engine for $500. Each one of these outfits will, by reg ular use, irrigate 160 acres.
 The canal at Arizola cannot supply one hundreth part of this vast plain with water. don't intend to create any idea of antagonism to the canal system, which is excellent and has q splendid storage reservoir. but to open the eyes of would be homeseekers to take advantage of these beautiful fruit lands outside of the canals territory. This would help rather than hurt the canal. and Arizola as distributing point would also profit greatly
 This is not the only pumping irriga- tion district in Arizona. The Sulphur Spring valley, the San Simon valley, the White River Basin and Sang in Cochisc and Graham counties are sim liar in character; but the waters are deeper, the altitude greater and the climate less favorable for delicate fruits, like almonds, figs, dates, olives, and citrus fruits.
 Pumping for irrigation is not new. having been practiced for centuries with crude appliances in Oriental ir- rigation regions --and now with modern appliances in parts of California, New Mexico and Arizona Yet now right in sight of Arizola, lies the finest field as yet undeyeloped, ill the world for pumping irrigation, by virtue Of it's FREE LANDS, readily accessible water, healthy and suitable climate and loca- tion along and near to a great main through line of railroad.
 If these facts were generally knowh there would be a rush of enterprising homeSeekers for these free lands like to Oklahoma, and your town would re- fleet the prosperity of region equal to any in California and superior to it in point of healthfulness of climate; and l have thought it only fair, when other regions are boasting of and boom ing their advantages, to offer you this unsolicited testimony about one of Arizona's available advantages for homeseekers. l spent two of the pleas antest years of my life in Southern Arizona, and a study of her resources has been a matter of recreation, and continual surprise at their extent and astonishment at the general ignorance concerning them.
 Light on her merits is all that Ari- zona needs.
The oasis., 1893-12-21
R. B. BRYAN.
Lieutenant 2nd U. s. Cavalry. JEFFERSON BARRACKS, Mo,
 October 13. lS93

In Cochise county, Judge Sloan, iH Territory ys. Soto, an agreed tax case, decided that where taxpayer has been assessed and did not appear before the board of equalization when public notice was given that the board was in session, he cannot be relieved by the action of the board of supervis- ors at a subsequent meeting; that board of supervisors has no legal au- thority to lower an assessment when it is once made.
The oasis., 1893-12-21

cedented size and ACCESSIBILITY, from which an inexhaustible supply may be drawn for irrigation
 The plain itself Is perfectly adapted to irrigation, having very gentle slope of six to eight feet to the mile to the north and west from ArizOla, and composes the finest body of orchard and agricultural land in the world. And the land is almost all of it ABsO- LUTELY FREE.. The water below varies from ten to twelve feet at Saca- ton, where the subterranean reservoir overnows so to speak lby springs flow ing into the Gila river to thirty feet at the half way house from Arizola to Florence: and even at ArizOla the gen. eral level of this vast reservoir is only about fifty feet below the surface. have visited wells at many points in the valley and along the rise of the valley toward Tucson, and the depth of the surface of this subterranean lake corresponds so closely with the rise of the land as to prove that it's surface is practically level from Mari copa to Rillito: some ninety miles. A lake ninety miles long and twenty to fifty miles wide to draw upon, FREE LAND, perfectly adapted to irrigation and climate making possible the choicest fruits, nuts, and raisins, what more is necessary A live, enterprisng person lman or woman) and a power and pump to lift the water.
 "Ah, there's the rub" hear you say -"power and pump to lift the water. This must be very expensiye!r Not so, however, for powers and pumps can be installed to pump water for even forty acres at less cost than the water rights for that amount of land, and can be run at less cost per annnum than the usual sl.25 per acre for an nual water rent paid the canal com panies.
 have been studying on this matter for year or so, to solve the problem of pumping plant which man of small means can put in on small fruit orchard (say forty acres, which will he found LARGE enough when once in bearing to tax the energies of good sized family and run when water is needed without having to depend on the canal managers, and which shall still not cost so much to run as the annual water rental" There are plenty of sources of cheap power that can be used at Arizola, such as wind mills, horse powers and good yapor en- zines. The trouble was only to find the right pump for utilizing these powers. On q recent visit to the Worlds Fair 1 found the pump which fills every need. The properties of a good pump for irrigating (by wind power when the wind blows and by horse power or yapor engine when the wind does not blow are: first, to pump enough water; second. to be cheap at first cost; third, to pump with efficiency when the mill runs slow or fast; fourth, to be simple and easy to keep in order; fifth to give a column of water of continuous flow Co avoid the great loss of power from starting the whole column of water at each stroke, as is necessary with plain lifting pumps. Every engineer will recognize the difficulty of filling al these requirements in one pump, but every fair minded engineer will acf- ucgledge upon investigation that the rriplo plunger pumps made in San
The oasis., 1893-12-21

Francisco hy r. W. Krogh & G.. and at Seneca Falls. \. Y., by the Gould Manufacturing Co.,, do meet each of these requirements and by a still simpler, cheaper and more efficient pump of the improved rotary type, made by Turner Machine Co. of Brook lyn, New York-capacity ten thousand 10000 gallons per hour costs s2O0 laid down at Arizola
 This is unsolicited testimony, as in my study of the problem I have se- cured catalogues and prices from all the leading pump makers in the coun- try and give you the result of the most thorough impartial investigation 1 have no axe to grind" and this writing is unknown to the makers of these pumps.
 Now for the power.
 lst, wINDMILLs. The Weather Bu- reau at Washington has kindly sup piled me with data relating to wind movements which are of great import ance in relation to our problem of cheap powers for pumping water from this subterranean reservoir so bounti- fully filled and kept from evaporation by nature. The winds at Tucson, Ar izolaFlorence and Maricopa are unique. rising with the sun and growing stronger as the day progresses till sun down, when they gradually and gener- ally cese to blow. The average velocity is six or seven miles per hour, in the forenoon and eight to ten in the after moons. Occasionally higher winds occur but not of a destructive nature, as the hundreds of windmills running in this locality can testify. A sixteen foot steel windmill of the geared type giving belt power) will furnish in these winds an average power daily equal to that of three or four horses working ten hours day, without at tendance or cost beyond the oil for lu- bricating. This will work a pump of the kinds named and of a capacity of one hundred thousand gallons during EACH DAY. This is enough for l60 acres. Mills and forty foot towers can be put up at Arizola for s2O0
 2nd. HORSE POWERS, to be worked by two or four horses or mules can be laid down at Arzola from Chicago for sl00.
 3rd. yAPOR ENGINES of reliable and tested and guaranteed capacity giving about four T actual horse power any horse power up to fifty may be had) can be laid down at Arlzola from Phil adelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, or San Francisco for about s325.00to S350 co. and will work steadily without danger and WITHOUT ATTENDANCE, using gasoline. at a cost per ten hours of FIFTEEN CENTS per horse power. This is the cheapest reliable source of power for daily use. Many thousands
The oasis., 1893-12-21
ARIZOLA'S LOVELY CLIMATE.
WEATHER REPORT
For Week Ending Wednesday. December
 20. 1893,

As recorded by the Voluntary Ob- server of the United States Weather Bureau at this point:
The oasis., 1893-12-21

Tbe black diamond is SO hard it eam not be polished.
The oasis., 1893-12-21

An entirely clear sky is denoted by a cipher and numerals denote tenths of total obscura- tiOn by clouds,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

SENATOR DoNNELLY gets a big
puff in a leading Chicago paper,
which says, "The people Of Min
nesota cannot estimate Donnelly
as scholar, because they do not
know enough. The outside world
looks upon him as man Of won
derful ingenuity, wonderful per-
spicuity and wonderful scholar.
ship. Strange people out there" It
is not distressing to us to hear
words of praise for the Sage, but
1T is surely to be deplored when in
timations are made, that the stand
ard of literary merit in Minnesota
is below the level of that center of
plugs, thugs and anarchists. Should
Cesar's column ever be built, there
is no more appropriate place in the
United States, for its appearing
than in that literary (?) wind bag,
Chicago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

The national president COM
mends the efficiency of a Princeton
lady and appoints her as one of
her aides for the ensuing year. See
following clipping from Mime
apolis Tribune:
NATIONAL AIDES IN MINNESOTA.
In her latest general order, Miss
Belle Gray, national president of the
L. A. S., took occasion to commend the
efficiency of Mrs. Rose Patterson, oil
Princeton, MIMI; Mrs. L. ID. Forbes
of Royalton; Mrs. Sarah E. Lyons, OF
Minneapolis, and Mrs. Christa Smith
of Jackson. and to appoint them as
aides on her staff.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

5CTATE OF MINES oTA. COUNTY OF
~ Mile Lacs-ss. In Probate Court, Special
Term, Thursday ], Feb. 18th, 1898. 4s8.S3
In the matter of the estate Of Maria u. Lyman
4 decease d. ss {sa gsSs
81 On receiving and filing the petition Of Edward
g. Gale, of the county Of Hennepin and State Of
Minnesota, representing, among other things, that
Maria i. Lyman, late of the county of Bernar-
dino, in the State of California, on the Both day
of October. A. ID. 1892, at the county of Bernar-
dino and State of California, died intestate and
being an nhabitant of said county at the time.
of her death, leaving goods, chattels, and es-Sf
tate within this county, and that the said petit
toner is the attorney of the heirs of said deceased
and praying that administration of said estate be-
to David Percy Jones granted 5ss5
L 1t is ordered, That said petition be heard, be-
fore this court. on Thursday, the 10th day Of
March, A. D. 1893, at O'Clock p NJ, at the pro-
bate off ce, in the court house, in the village Of
Princeton in said county.
1t is ordered, That notice thereof be given to
the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons in
terested, by publishing this order once in each
week, for three successive weeks prior to said day
of hearing, in the Princeton UNION, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Princeton, in
said county.
Dated at Princeton the 18th day Of February, A.
D. 1893 By the Court: 4
I r. w. FREER, n
E[sEAL.] Judge of Probate.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

W. N. ROACH, Democrat, was
elected senator for North Dakota,
on the 61st ballot. Republicans
desert their party and aid the De-
mocrats in giving the toga to Mr..
Roach.
The performances out in these
newly initiated states, are wonders
of the first magnitude. A treaty
to annex them to should be
formulated and ratified without de-
lay. Kansas, though older, should
not be excluded.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

JAS. j. CoRBETr's picture as
given in the Sunday papers, either
fatters Gentleman Jack, ''or other
wise he is a good looking thumper.
Belonging to religious society,
we have refrained from taking any
interest in prize fighting, but Jim's
picture has won us, and we hope
he may knock Mitchell into 9
cooked hat.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

The famous Briggs case in the
Presbyterian fold will probably
result in a schism. Should the
general assembly decide against
DR.. Briggs, he, with many others,
will withdraw from the befogged
dogmas of the old church and
form new Presbyterian church,
advanced in ideas, and in ster
with the Worlds progress.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-02-23

FRIDAY, the pneumatic tube for
mail transit, was given it's first
test in Philadelphia. It was pro
nounced success. The speed at
tanned was IS feet per second OF
over a half mile per minute with {
low pressure. Only a short time
now, and these tubes will carry
our mail flying light,' all over
our country. What next?