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Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
Glass Legfslatiou.

EDIToR CITIzEN:--Your article in your issue of the 18th inst. headed" An Am- endment Wanted" was read with much pleasure as a move in the right direc- tion, but the law referred to in regard to the sacredness of stock property is not the only law upon our statute books to savor of class legislation.
 Merchants are taxed upon the value of their whole property given under oath, yet they are taxed in addition for the privilege of selling this property S15 per quarter If less than SS000 in valUe is sold, and If more S20 per quar- ter. 1 know of one whose territorial and county tax this year is S6224 and he pays S60 in addition for the privilege of selling this property yearly. This is exclusive of and outside of all liquors, as he does not handle them.
 Now this is class Legislation, and no chicanery or argument can make it any thing else. In order to be consistent the farmer and cattleman should pay upon all their sales likewise.
 1e interested legislators that made laws to bear lightly upon yourselves, remove the beam from your own eye, then maybe you can judge of the mote in thy neighbor's eye.
 Appeal to the coming legislature to do justice in this matter and repeal all class laws. Sincerely yours.
 s. R. DELoNG.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
DROUGHT IN WYOMING.

Rain had net fall. n for some sixty
 days, and for some sixty more there wss
 DO necessity that it should fall. 1t IS
 spells of weather liks this that set the
 western editor writirg praise and proph-
 ecy of he bosudless fertility of the soil when irrigated-snd of what ap Eden it can be made-with irrigation; butthe spells annoy the people who are trying to raise the Eden. We always told the transcient eastern visitor, when he ar- rived at Cheyenne and criticised the des- ert, that anything would grow here with Irrigation, and sometimes he re- piled, unsympathetically, tbat anything could hy-with wings. Then we would lead such man out and show him six, eight, ten square miles of green crops; and be, if be was thoroughly nasty, would mention that Wyoming contained ninety-five thousand square miles, all waiting for irrigation and Eden. One of these eastern supercivilized hostiles from New York was breakfastiLR with the governor and me at the Cheyenne club, and we were explaining to him the glorious future, the coming empire, of the western country. Now the governor was about thirtY-two, and until twenty five had never gone west far enough to see over the top of the Alleghany noun tains. 1 was not pioHeer myself; and why both of us should have pitied the New Workers narrowness so hard I can not see. But we did. We spoke to him of the size of the country. We told him that hls state could rattle round inside Wyoming's stomach without any iEcon- venience to Wyoming, and he told us that this was because WyominR's stom- ach was empty. Altogether l began to feel sorry that I had asked hIm to come out for a hunt, and had travelled in haste all the way from Bear Creek to Cheyenne expressly to meet him.
 "For purposes of famusement," he said ''I'll admit anything you claim for this place. Ranches, cowboys, elk; it's all splendid. Only, as an investment, l pre- fer Delaware and Hudson. Am to see any cowboys?"
 "You shall," said; and I distinctly hoped some of them might do something to him flor purposes of amusement"
 "You fellows come Hp with me to my office," said the governor. "Pll look at my mail, and show you round" So we welt with him through the heat and sun.
 "What's that?" inquired the New Yorker, whom I shall call James Og- den.
 "That is our park" said I. "Of course it's merely in embryo. It's wonderful how quickly any shade tree will grow here vii" checked myself.
 But Ogden said "with irrigation" for me, and I WAS entirely sorry Ee had come-Owen Mister in Harper's Nigga zine for January.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
"But evil is wrought by want of

"But evil is wrought by want of thought,
 As well as want of heart.'
 By want of thought mothers allow daughters to become frail and puny. Over-study in girls induces uterine disorders and weaknesses, and blights their future happiness as wives and mothers. Joined to proper hygienic care, pr. Pierce's Fsvorlte Prescription is priceless remedy in such ailments, It's value becoming even more apparent every year. Using it, the wan, debilt- ated school girl gains color, flesh and spirits, losing those deaihIy headaches, tormeusing backaches, languoi, dejec- tion, and other sympatoms of functional irregularities and nervous debility. It never harms the most delicate girl.
 Robertside, Huntingdon Co, Pa. World's Dispensary Medical Association :: Gentlemen-I cannot sufficiently ex- press to you my gratitude for the benefit your medicine has conferred upon my daughter. Of late she has suffered no pain whatever. It is simply marvellous. You have just reason to call it your Favorite Prescription" and to stake your reputation as physician on it. A favorite prescription it is, indeed, to you and to thousands in thls land, and I believe will be to suffering women the world over.
 Yours gratefully,
 THOMAS THIRLwELL.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
THEY TOOK THEM IN.
What an Innocent Pair of Strangers
 Did to the Local Gamblers.


 The sporting men of Phoenix are, without question, among the "squarest" of their profession iD the west. They therefore furnished the easier mark for a pair of travelling "fim fam" men who yesterday made one-day stand in this city. The men were rough iu dress and appearance and had few of the marks of the professional "sport," yet, at few short minutes at the Reception they managed to rake in no less than Sl235 cold cash. Their speciality was craps, that game of all games most dear to the African heart. After losing few hundred, the dice appeared to do their bidding and they did their deadly work. They came Tn in the morning and left in the evening, going west. The mere fact of the winning would be of little signifi .ance were it not for the fact that at Tucson two days ago from Dick Berry they raked ln nearly S2000, by just the same tactics. Similar plays to the ex- tent of 5000 each are reported from Flagstaff and Prescott.
 It is believed the men have loaded dice of the particular kind used Tn the games at which they play, ard these dice are su ubstituted while they play for the dice of the game. An accemplice or advance agent is now known to have been here few days ago spotting the groung for the precious pair Of rascals Their work YVES very smooth, and the very men who were victimIZed, men of long experience m the wiles of the card sharp, cannot explain how the thing was done. Needless to remark, the gam ble- some stranger is now looked upon with distrust at the local gaming tables Gazette.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

THE great electrical wizard has by a decision of the supreme court, been shorn of a bright feather of borrowed plumage and his world famed phono- graph will henceforward bear another name. Whatever the merits of the case may be the decision of the court is such as to leave DO doubt in the minds of the public that Edison IS not the only cleo tricisn in the country, but that science ie also indebted to others for at least a little of It's knowledge of the subtle sub- stance that can girdle the earth in an instant.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
GIoha News.
Doings fin and about Globe. Marriage
 of Pi eminent Society People.
Silver Belt.

DSIt.
 At the residen ce of Probate Judge G. M. Allison, on Wednesday evening, Mr. Edward Young and Miss Josephine Hydman were united in marriage, Judge Allison performing the ceremony. The contracting parties are estimable young people who nave made many friends daring their short residence here, and the Belt joins with others iE the con- grstuIa Iations and best wishes for their continued happiness and prosperity. MT. and Mrs. Young have gone to housekeeping in cosy home on Mes quite street.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pascoe opened their new dining room ana kitchen OF Monday, and they now have one of the best appointed restaurants in the Ter ritory. The dining room is B feet by 3 feet, large enough to seat 200 people, and it is tastefully decorated and fur nished. The kitchen, 23x1S feet, is a model of convenience, furnished with s new range from the Home Comfort Range O., of St. Louis, and a steHm table, from which meats. vegetables etc. can be served piping hot. The Psscoe restaurant enjoys an enviable reputation for the excellence of it's cuisine which is we'll deserved. A sumptuous dinner will be served on Christmas day.
 Mss Elvira Borquez and MT. Eugene Middleton were joined in wedlock on Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, at the r-sidence of the brides parents, Mir. and Mrs. M. Borquez Probate Judge Allison officiated, and after the magic words were sDOkan which unitad the hearts and destinies of the loving pair, they were warmly congratulated by the relatives and friends present.
 The bride IS attractive in person, and
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
HELD HIMSELF UP.
Odd Developments in the Bowie Stage
 "HeId.Up."


 'Held-Up."
 It is now claimed that the driver of the robbed SolomonvilIe and Bowie stage held up himself.
 The robbery occurred, as before re- lated, eight miles out of Bowle, on the night of the 18th of this month. So much of it all agreed on. Who commit ted the robbery is the question on which there is division.
 The driver told that certain man, who he had seen playing cards at Bowie, did the work. This man proved to be a party named Eastman. East man was followed up by Deputy Marshal Al Ezekiels, and it has finally been proven beyond all doubt, that he did not do the robbery. He proved himself in Wilcox on the 12th, on the morning and evening of the 18th, at the time the robbery WIS said to take place. In fact he accounted for himself through out the day. A stage driver from Will cox to Fort Grant also recognized him, and saw him about the time of the robbery.
 There are no tracks leading away from che declared scene of the robbery. In fact, matters look dark for George Gale, the drIver of the robbed stage.
 This morning, after the examination of the Grant stage driver. Comm issioner Satterwhite held Gale in to await the grand jury, which meets the second Monday Tn March.
 MT. Eager, owner of the Bowie and Solcmonville stage line, telegraphed to know the amount of the bonds in which his driver is held, implying that he vii be responsible, so far as the driver is concerned.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
NEW YORK'S MONUMENT TO
 GRANT.

A number of people, says the Chicago Inter- Ocean, are inquiring lately in regard to the prospect of the completion of the Grant monument in New York city. It will be remembered that some years ago Sl50,000 was raised for that monument, and at that sum the sub- scriptions stuck fer some time. After ward General Horace Porter was elect through his efforts and the efforts of his friends the sum of $40, ,00O in addition was raised and the monu- ment is TOW being erected.
 It is an enormous structure and General Porter and his directors de- termined to use only the very best of granite. Ii took some time to decide from just what quarry the stone would come. It has been under contract now for come time, and will be con- pleted, so General Porter promises, by the first of Decem Der, 1895. Mir. J. Q. A. Walker. of this city, in order to satisfy himself and other friends ID re- gard to the monument, last November wrote to General Porter and received the folio wing reply, which will proba- bly render easy the minds of those who have expressed anxiety on the subject:
 NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-J. Q. A. Walker, Esq, Masonic Temple, Chicago, Ill., Dear SIr--I received your letter and am very muck obliged to you for the psius you took to Inclose me the para graph about the Grant monument.
 The monument IS an enormous struc- ture, having ID it over 1000 tons of dressed granite, every stone of which is without the slightest possible flaw. Nc granite quarry in the country would
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
HERBERT BROWN - Aannx.
OWNERSHIP OF WATER.

In view of the contemplated legisla ~ finn m inc water interests of the terri
 tory by the coming legislative assembly the following extract from paper read by Major Dutton of San Antonio, at the
 recent irrigation convention in Texas, will be full of interest. Among other excellent things he sand:
 ssLet us now advert to those aspects of irrigation law which relate to what Is sometimes called the ownership of wa ter To those who are not familiar with the subject it might seem a dangerous tbipg 10 permit sn individual or corpo- ration to divert all the water of 8 river and sell it to community which is Rb solutely dependent upon 1t for it's sub- sistance. It may seem at first like a monopoly of the most sweeping charac- ter, putting the community completely in its power. But the reality is quite otherwise.
 "Wster in its natural channels is the property of no man. 1t is sometimes called common property but he word property in this connection Is mislead- Ing and self contradictory, for property implies an owner. Under the common law and under the still older cigil law any ore may take water from a flowing stream prorided that in SO doing he does not ipjure another nor commit a trespass. But this right Is not unlImt- ed and in fact is limited in general to necessary and reasonable uaes, all of which have, through centuries of lltl- eation, been pretty well ascertained and defined by the courts. It does not ex- tend to the right of diverting without explicit permission large part or the whole of the water into canal. The sovereign power has al~ays assumed to regulate by statute the conditions, limi- tation and procedure under which the water may be diverted. One of the earliest questions brought before the courts in the irrigating states was what was the nature and extent of the rights acquired by a canal owner who had law fully diverted the water of stream ln- s-- his conal The water did not belong to him before he captured 1t; did it be- come his property afterSards? The de- cision was that it did not. The law simply gave him the right to divert the water and transport it to it's deetinaticn, but did not invest him with its owner ship, which If it existed anywhere re- mained just where it Was before. He no more owned the water than railroad owned the goods It carried. and in fact was si@ply a common carrier of water to the irrigators who used 1t. As he did not own the water neithe- could be Sell 1t, for s man cannot sell what he dues not own. But as 8 carrier Of water he WAS rendering service for which he was entitled to charge a payment, and like all other common carriers he was smenable to the principle of the com mon law that his charges must be reas- oneble and just. We have only to place this vlew of the case in relation with the numerous decisions of the supreme court of the United States affirming the power of states to regulate the charges of common carriers to appreciate that it is the ditch owner and not the irrigator who is inside of the cinoh and that it is the farmer aud not the ditch owner who hRs his hsnds op the cinch strap"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

IS RAH ALTHEA," the demented wife of Judge Terry, who was killed in hls assault of Justlce Fields rome four ehrs ago, is again before the public. When she was committed to the insane asylum the management of her property was entrusted to Porter Ashe, well known society man of San Francisco and SUD- posed millionaire. He appears, howev- CT, through charges recently made, rot ooly to have mismanaged the property entrusted in his keeping, but to have appropriated considerable of the same for his own use and made DO accounting therefor. The charges against Ashe have been made by hes. H. Williams. Jr., who has had Ashe relieved and himself appointed temporary guardian. If the charges he makes against Ashe be proven it is liable to go hard with the latter and Le may end up with a term in San Qu-ntin.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

GOVERNOR HoGG of Texas has for some time been after the Standard Od mag mates, and as they were out of the bounds of his jurisdiction he made a requisition of Governor Flower of New York. But the latter refuses to turn them over, and rightly so. The meD, it appears, have never been in ihe state of Texas and consequently could have con- mltted DO crime in that dire tion. Hogg is begging after little n toriety which he is rot liable to get through Standard Gil channels.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

undertake to finish the monument be- fore Dec. l, 1895. It is now about forty-five feet high, and will be finished on time. Paragraphs are put out from time to time which are entirely erroneo- as and probably done simply for the sake of making a paragraph. l have denied everything here, and the matter is fully underetood. After the monu- mept is entirely completed we will DO doubt see paragraphs going around for years afterSard saying it is scarcely begun. I inclose you one of my denials. which will show you the real status of the work. It will not be worth while to make any more denials. No one can follow up at the present day the activity of journalism. Thanking you again for your kindness In writing me, am, yours truly, HORACE PORTER, President.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

DIPTHERIA is committing fearful rsva- ees iu some of the inland towns in New York. In the New York infant asylum at Mount Vernon more than eighty chil- dren were down with the disease, and sixteen of these cases proved fatal. So far as learned nc effjrt was made to use newly discovered remedy although every other means to stamp out the di- sease were taken. If the new remedy is as efficacious as represented the oppor-
 untity to test its merits vas never more opportune.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

THERE app. ars to have been two cases sgaicst Debs and bis associates, one by the government and the ether by the Santa Fe railroad system. As the same offenses carried with them the same punishments, Debs will be obliged to serve twelve months in Jail and his con- ferees six months instead of three. The whole safety of Debs and his associate committeeman lie in sn appeal to the supreme court. There is said to be 8 large sized doubt in many minds as to whether said appeal will die.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest U S. Govt Renor R@z!a!:'!!! !!:'!! Bssi9g Bsxdsgz
 ABSOLUTELY PURE
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quickly responsive to frost. It does
 not grow well in California. Yet ir
 Yuma in John Gandolfo's garden, saw @ tree as full of fruit almost as eggs in a basket, That burden of fruit was so great that 1t broke one of the limbs down. Ia the gardens of John Gan dolfo and J. w. Darlington may be seen the finest lemon trees in the United States. While for esrliness, they are ripe a month before California.
 THE BLAIsDELL PROPOSITION.
 The Yuma Light & Water Co.,, is the style ot the firm that has more enter prise than any concern in Arizona. They generate electricity, irrigate lands, clear lands and furnish the town with water. They arc at present expepding more than their income, but this will not be for long.
 Yuma heights comprises 2000 acres of finest meea land. Of this 12O acres has been cultivated, with most gratifying results. They have ten acres in citrus fruits, sll thriving. The results are being closely watched, and to date all is satisfactory, and probably hereafter. When the growing of citrus fruits on the tract has been demonstrated for 8 year or two the land will put on sale. The company will furnish the water. The water is brought from the river, pumped through 26-inch pipe. Early lemons will be particular feature of the tract. It is expected lemons can be gotten to market ahead of the Siciley lemons. The same company have graded and macadanized a handsome driveway and street to the tract, known es Orange avenue. Several have been built along it. The avenue is 100 feet wide. Rows of shade trees have been planted on either side.
 Another pumping enterprise is the Carpenter company, with a pump that supplies dozen or two thrifty ranches below town.
 The climate of Yuma of winters oan- 1ot be excelled the world over, (unless ID Tucson, which it almost equals The winter sun is just as genial, and the Jays are so exactly the proper degree of beauty and balminess that one csnnet wish for better. They must have Yuma winter weather in heaven.
 For hotels the town has but one-the 5. P. It is under new management, Marshall & Curtis. With the names 'ne might coniure up couple of portly oily well-fed landlords; but Marshall S Curtis are nothing of the sort. Two adies they are, and No. hotel people; heir house could not be better man. Iged if they were hotel men of a hun fred years experience.
 The prison is feature of Yuma that lm0nnta fn a0 rntrrn night about as we'll be said to be feature # the prison. That prison IS another tory ' too long for today. Of that ster issue will say something.
 Yuma, Dec. IS. P. H.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

farer, one sees numerous houses and
 cablns-nest homes clinging to the
 almost perpendiculsr sides of the
 mountains. Thess may be called the suburbs of Blshee, as the business and principal residences are down ID ths canyon. So it would not require much imagination to compare this aspect of the place to a Swiss village with it's mountain chalets.
 Water is sold to the consumers here and delivered for nickel to ten cents a bucket by wagons. Besides this, Mex icans and burros convey water to those houses on mountain sides which are inaccessible to the regular wagons. It IS at first comlcal sight to see these little animals climbing up like goats with big bags of water on their backs. Supposing bag should bust-the man at the wheel might be washed of his pins and crash through a roof way be- low. A bur-o gets on @ big jag of the agua purs.
 There is an atmosphere of peace and kindly fellowship. One meets with nothing but courtesy and politeness. There appears to be none of those quar- rels seen occasionally in towns. In fact 1t is hard for any one to fall out in Bisbee. It is trimmed so high by noun tain walls. But one might climb up on the side and fall down into Bisbee.
 The Copper Queen Co. will make it's annual stoppage this week for the holi- days. and all hands will have an oppor- tunity to visit their freinds and Ego fishing"
 After the mine and it's various works, the Copper Queen library is the best institution. It is of inestimable value, and is highly prized and pstronized. The library occupies handsome and spacious building and many newspapers from home and abroad and periodicals literary and scientific works are on it's shelves and tables. All corners are free to use the reading room and reading matter.
 The writer is not attempting to write up Bisbee. These are few impressions caught on the fly, and it may prove of some interest to know how it strikes Q stranger. He hopes when engagements permit of a more extended visit, he may be permitted to write fuller sketch.
 Bisbee claims population of 1900. Water is to be piped from reservolr in the mountains to the houses of the town. But the labor of the burros will not be displaced by this improvement, as they will continue to carry water Co the out of way places where pipes will not go.
 The arc electric light is now used in the Copper Queen Library in place of
Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

BECAUSE the United States is free country that is no reason for the admit snce of every bowling anarchist that seeks foothold here. The latset obnoxious arrival is the fellow Mox- bray who for want of better job in the chain gang, ia engaged is ID ''ex- pounding the principles of anarchy in English" The government should put a plaster over his mouth ana send him hack