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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

The American engineers are be-
coming veritable moles, judging
from the way in which they bur-
row of late. They prefer to go I'M
der city to running around it, to
tunnel under a river to bridging it.
This is a notable improvement,
facilitating rapid transit and rem
dering life more secure.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

San Antonio sends her condol-
ences to Philadelphia and Cincin-
natl and New York and those other
sun stricken cities in which the
wrath of the sun god has come
upon the people with fatal effect.
The man who counts the cost be-
fore he enters up in any undertake
ing has seldom to count the losses
afterward. There is no end Of
foresight in a little calculation that
prevents the need of hindsight.
The California courts hold that
the woman who knocks a man
! down with her umbrella cannot
have him arrested for falling in the
streets, even if he clutches at the
hem of her garment in falling.
So long as fat cattle multiply on
the farms of every state in the
Union it is idle to expect that the
Texas stockman will enjoy the
monopoly of beef raising in the fu-
ture that he has in the past.
Bismarck, likesome other men of
iron and blood, mellows and soft
ems as he grows old. There are
not wanting indications Of this
fact alike in his speeches and in
his reception of old friends.
Cleveland has entered the tariff
ring as he did the silver arena, and
he will compel the Democrats in
both branches of the legislature to
come down like Crockett's coon
before he pulls the trigger.
Culberson will enter the APP.
preaching Democratic convention
with nearly half of it's vote behind
him. If he can secure the adop-
ton of the majority rule instead of
! the two-thirds he is fixed.
The modern war minister looks
aghast at the manner in which
Japan and China are tearing each
others threats without any formal
declaration of war and wonders if
this is oriental pOliteness.
The trend of American develop
ment is southwark. This means
that the south will soon be found
in the ranks of the National pro-
tectionists. The progress is in
that direction rapidly.
The sun scorches the east and
the west and the north and the
south, but it Stays none in this
happy land of Texas. The sons OF
the sun are held in remembrance
by the sultry old dad.
That Mexico-C Chinese treaty, that
has been so criticised in some
American papers, exists only on
paper. Mexico is not treating with
China, but she is Smelling out sill
yer for the celestials.
The fellows who attempt to put
Grover in a hole will find it a
worse opening for the President
than the bretheren Of Joseph found
the pit which they opened for their
young man.
| Gladstone's mental vision is ap-
parently as clear as ever, but the
cloud is upon his optics and may
not lift. The grand old man is
not recovering his eyesight as was
anticipated.
Diversified farming is the only
hope and assurance that the Texas
hoe handler has of making it pay
With the two-thirds rule govern
ing the approaching state conven'
ton it is anybody's nomination.
The calamity howl is only the
left over echo from the halls Of
Populistic gatherings.
Japan understands the advant'
age of getting in the first lick in a
scrap, and lands accordingly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

The profits Of war are more con-
vincing arguments to the Ameri-
can and English than the losses of
peace. So long as war between
China and Japan can be made to
yield a profit to these commercial
rivals so long will the voice be for
peace and the activities OF trade
pronounce for war.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

The congressional representa-
tives of this state have only a
divided interest in her welfare
while in session, but the state rep
resentatives have an undivided in
terest in every bill that is present
ed at Austin. More care should be
taken in the selection and election
of state representatives, as upon
the wisdom, fidelity, clearsighted-
ness and practical horse sense of
the state legislature depend in
great measure the welfare of the
state. So far as unwise legislation
can injure a state in so far Texas
is at the mercy of her representa-
tives and senator's. 1t is manifest
ly the wisdom and the duty Of all
good citizens to see that the best
possible timber is sent to the state
house.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

for any disgruntlement on the part
of the protectionists. The Post is
not up to the times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

U- All contracts or bills must be ap-
lroVed by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

The calamity howl over the de-
struction of Kansas crops had hard
ly reached Texas before it was fol-
lowed by awhOop, announcing that
the rains had come and that the
old state was on the topmost wave
of prosperity. That state can howl
louder on smaller provocation than
any other on top Of sod.
Chiffon has been on still hunt
for the senatorship, and now he
announces that he has a majority
of the nominees for representatives
on the Democratic ticket pledged
to his candidacy. If this is true
Horace must be a slick one, and
Texas is not to be congratulated on
that genus OF senator.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

Announcements for State and County
,tdcers ten Dollars In advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

Health, a new Journal devoted
to practical Hygiene, reaches the
LIGHT from the New York office of
publication. 1t promises to be Of
value, as may be gathered from
its primary table of contents :
Health and High-life; Nature
Cures; Malarial fevers; Health
Culture in the Home; Cycling for
Health; How we Live in Summer
Time; Dress in its Relation to
Health; Physical Culture for
Children; Fruit in its relation to
Hearth The Emotions and Health
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-01
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The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
Florence Canal Reservoir.

At Phoenix last week a we'll known citizen who is generally pretty we'll posted, remarked to the Oasis man: '..You folks at Arizo- la and Casa Grande are altogether too modest about the unfailing wa- ter supply you have in the great reservoir of the Florence Canal. Why, the water stored behind that dam exceeds in volume by one- third that stored by the far-famed Sweetwater dam, near San Diego, and were the Arizola dam in South ern California it's merits and advan- tages would be advertised far and near, illustrated descriptive articles setting forth the glories would ap- pear in all the magazines and peri odicals and entire columns of the daily press would be filled with it's praises, while the country weeklies would give it liberal attention; the water would sell for one thousand dollars an inch, and the land it ir- rigates would command two hun dred dollars an acre. You should remember these things and keep presenting to the world the various details and phases of the water storage system you enjoy, until it is as widely known as the Sweet water or Bear Valley systems in California, and of as great value to your country and community as are those systems to theirs. There you have a dam that cost $130,000, inn pounding body of water that cov- CTS eighteen hundred acres of land to an average depth of twelve feet, supplying sufficient water, if hus- banded as in California, to irrigate ten thousand acres of land or to carry thirty thousand acres through the two months when the Gila is dry; and yet the world knows noth- ing of it. Blow about it more. Talk of it more. Advertise 1t more. Let the world know what a good thing you have, and invite every body in to share it with you."
 Pondering the subject the editor concluded that a good way to pre- sent the matter would be by quot ing the words of the gentleman The Oasis.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

AND now the republican money sharks think the southerners should be made to foot the pension bills, says the Prescott Courier. This is the old testament idea of "the sins of the fathers being visited upon the children" as rather small per- centage of southern taxpayers even had anything to do with the late unpleasantness. However, the rem- nant left would probably agree to foot the pension bill if the other fellows would replace property de- stroyed and values wiped out of ex- istence.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE United States Geological Survey. says the report of Director Powell, has carried on topographi- cal surveys in twenty-eight States and Territories in 1893, covering an area of about 26,0OO square miles, at a cost of $423 022, or less than $20 per square mile. Since it's or ganization this department has sur veyed an area of 573,OOO square miles, in forty-seyen States and Ter ritories. The hydrograhic force has been tabulating statistics as to the value of running streams, and in round numbers foots up their value at s600,OOO,O00.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
Dnn,f Pnt if Off.

The necessity of spring medicine is universally admitted. This is the best time of year in which to purify the blood to restore the lost appetite, and to build up the entire system, as the body is now peculiarly susceptible to benefit from medicine. The great popularity attain ed by Hoods SarsaparllIa, owing to it's real merit and it's remarkable success, has established it as the very best medi- cine to take in the spring. It cures scrofdla, salt rheum, and all humors, biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, kid ney and liver complaints. catarrh and all affections caused or promoted by low state of the system or impure blood. Don't put it off, but take Hoods Sarsa- parilla now It will do you good.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

The weather must be counted mean for this portion of the conti- nent. Sunday evening the skies nearly cleared, but yesterday after noon strong wind from the west brought dampness with it and the probabilities are for week or so of storm. It we'll satisfies the farmers who already have been treated to the equivalent of good irrigation. Phoenix Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

A COLLECTION of tools used by workmen in building the pyramids of Egypt are on exhibition by fa- nous Psychologist. These indicate that many tools credited to modern ingenuity were in use when Moses was troubling the Pharaohs, says the Age of Steel. It is also an nounced that furnace has been un- earthed somewhere along the Nile, in which the hot blast was used for centuries before the modern Neil son formulated the same idea.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
A DESPATCH dated Phmnix March

A DISPATCH dated Phoenix March 17th says: The Territorial Live Stock Sanitary Commission has been at work for the past week in this valley Investigating the epi- demic of glanders among horses near Tempe and Mesa. Over fifty head have been condemned and killed and the carcasses cremated. Flooded stock valued at $12,000 was killed on one farm. The dis ease has been traced back to impor- tations two years ago from Kansas.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

A. R. Johnson. who created a small sized sensation in Albuquer- que a few days ago and received a severe "roast" in the Citizen, was in town Wednesday, presumably in search of his deserting wife, Mrs. Johnson, who is known here as Georgia Mcdonald, did not desire to see her husband, whom she says has in times past treated her shame fully. Marshal Bowers warned Johnson not to do anything rash, under penalty of becoming a town boarder and stopping in the little cottage on the hillside. Mir. John son took the good advice and "pull- ed his freight" westward without calling on the one so dear to him. Cleaner.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THERE is tribe in Central Africa among whom speakers in public debates are required to stand on one leg while speaking, and to speak only as long as they can So stand It would be a great blessing to the American people if Congress would adopt some such rule. A great deal more would be accomplished and the country would be much better ofr
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE we'll known English mining engineers, E. J. Lock, J. c. Potts and Clayton Smith, who have spent month in the Picacho placer mines, pronounce them the richest on the Pacific Coast, says the Pros pector. The company's plant cost nearly $300,000. It will start up about the first of April with full force of men.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

IT may not be generally known, but it is fact, nevertheless, that, on an island off the mosquito coast, Nicaragua, Central America, there is a species of ape very much re- sembling the African gorilla, both in size and in it's sunny disposition, says Goldthwaite's Geographical! Magazine. How it came there is only a matter of conjecture-for it departs unduly from the character istics of the American monkey tribe.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

ACCORDING to the last census the white races of the nine South At lantic states, who pay nearly all of the taxes. says the Albuquerque Citizen, had 20 per cent. enrolled in the public schools, while the negoes had IS per cent of their population enrolled. In the south central states the proportions were p and 19 res- pectively, Comment is unneces- sary.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
4 Noble Stream.

The Salt is one of the greatest rivers of the west. In an elaborate article, enforced by maps, in the last number of the Irrigation Age, F. H. Newell, of the United States Geological Survey, brings out some very interesting facts. Our Salt River is given a conspicuous place in the diagram showing the "dis- charges of the large rivers of the United States" it's maximum flow being superior in volume to any other of the great inland basin and and plateau lying between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Its greatest discharge is rated at 100000 second feet, far beyond the maximum flood of either the Up per Missouri or the Snake River prong of the Columbia.
 As compared with the Gila River, of which the Salt is supposed to be a tributary, the difference is mark ed indeed, the ordinary flow of the Gila being only tenth of that of the Salt, and the maximum dis charge of the Gila being less than
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THERE are said to be some splen- did gold properties in the country embraced in the big bend of the Colorado river. Prospectors who went there from White Hills last summer made many locations and there is fair prospect of inducing capital to invest in them, says the Kingman Miner.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE next meeting of the Ameri- can Medical Association will be held at San Francisco, on the first Tuesday in June, 1894, instead of on the first Tuesday in May, in or der to permit of discussion of the Code by the various State Societies that meet just before the meeting of the National Association.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

SAYS the Arizona Gazette Coun- ty Surveyor Colton, of Pinal coun- ty, will leave in few weeks for northeastern Gila county, where he has a government contract to sur vey and stake several townships of land lying along the border of the San Carlos reservation. The survey will be very important one, as it will definitely establish the western lines of the San Carlos reservation, hitherto only known as intersecting prominent points in the mountains of the vicinity. Mir. Cotton is one of the most competent, careful and honest surveyors who ever drove a stake for the governmental this ter ritory.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
THE St. Louis Republic says:

HE St. Louis Republic says: President Cleveland is quoted as saying that the Bland bill "would be destructive of the repose which now surrounds the financial system of the country" This is almost a guarantee that the President will sign the bill. He will put an end to the ''repose" from which the bu- siness interests of the country are now suffering.
 "Every Senator," roars the New York Herald, "who assents to the passage of the seigniorage bill should be made pay the full penal ty of his delinquency" What is the full penalty? Boiling in oil or drowning in wine?
 Compared with other Congresses, this one has not been a sluggard. But then other Congresses have not had a prostrated commercial sys- tenn calling for settlement of doubts. There is no apology for this Sena- terial delay.
 With Mrs. Lease on the Atlantic Coast of this country and Benjamin Harrison on the Pacific Coast there should be no trouble about main- taining a parity.
 Kossuth's name does not mean much to the young men of 1894, but it was enough to affect interna- tional politics 40 years ago. Eng land was almost afraid of his en- thusiactic reception among the English people and the United States was one great body of Kos suth votaries. The Kossuth hat has never quite disappeared from the fashions, And Hungary is not yet free.
 Powell Clayton and Poker Jack Mcclure are opposed to the plan of representation in the National Re- publican Conventions which will represent Arkansas according to her Republican voting strength. Voting strength is something that Powell nor Jack has..ever used in his business.
 Captain Coxey and his army of unemployed were to leave Massi- lon, Ohio, last Monday to march to Washington and demand reform. Captain Coxey was the last Popu- list candidate for State Treasurer of Ohio. It was doubtless the result of that election which convinced him that reform was necessary.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE current report is that the populist party in Arizona is sick, nigh unto death, and will cut no figure in the future politics of this Territory. The fact is the child died "born'n."
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

TIE statue of Benjamin Frank lin which stood in front of the Elec- tric building at the Worlds Fair has been presented to the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE proposed Alliance Confer ence at Birmingham was attended by only half dozen men, and af- ter a brief caucus it was decided to postpone the conference till after the fall elections.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THos. A. EDISON is in row with the directors of the Edison Phono- graphic Company and has applied to have a receiver appointed, alleg- ing insolvency.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Tucson papers announce that a petition is being circulated asking that the Frank Kibbey case be dis missed. The jury in two trials have disagreed, and the cost of pros ecution has been very great.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE past year was a fairly pros porous one for the Gloucester fish ing interests, the value of the total
 catch being $9, 100000 and the cod fish receipts over 44,O00,000 pounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE foreign trade of the Domin- ion of Canada for the fiscal year 1893 is the largest on record, being $247 ,694,0OO. as compared with $241 ,365,OOO in 1892. The exports were s118,619,00O, the greatest in the history of the Dominion.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

DR. BELLE BUCHANAN, who ap- peared as witness for the plaintiff in the Pollard Breckenridge case, says that the society people of Washington are aiding Miss Pol lard financially and that her attor- neys are acting without compensa- ton.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

The Santa Fe road has decided to increase the comforts of their tour ist sleeping cars by replacing the hard wooden seats with spring seats and backs, and also by improving the toilet arrangements.-Albuquer- que Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Pollard Breckenridge suit promises to prove one of the most expensive ever tried in the District of Columbia Court.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

A BOX ofearth has been sent from the grave of General Lafayette to the Daughters of the American ke-
 public at San Francisco, in which to plant tree of liberty,
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE estimated profit from the South African gold mining indus try during the year 1892 is $4,000,- 900 sterling. The diamond min ing industry, apart from the Wes selton mines, has this year yielded a profit of $1 ,5OO,O00.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Matlock Committee in Tex, as has issued an address to the fac, tion of the Democracy it represent ed, informing them of the settle ment of all factional differences and advising them to attend the regular democratic primaries.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

IT is expected that the Phoenix and Prescott Railroad will reach Phoenix next August. It will pass through rich mineral country.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

A SALOON man by the name of Fritz Giginger, at St. Joseph, Mo-, was told in a joking way to go and kill himself. He immediately car- ried out the order.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

F. J. NETHERToN, Territorial Su- perintendent of Public Instruction, has made the following appor.ion- ment of school moneys for the en- suing year:
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Appropriation Bill for the Navy Department, reported from the House Committee on Appropri- ations, asks for S27 7,6S7 ,93O.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE State Superintendent has de- cided that devotional exercises can- not be enforced in the public schools of Indiana.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

MR. HARRIS, Congressman-at- Large from Kansas, declines a re- nomination and the friends of Jerry Simpson are booming him for the place.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded the Arago Astronomy Prize to Mir. Aspah Hall and MT. Barnard, the American Astrono- Tnors
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

AN examination of the Boston savings banks shows that deposits fell off only about seven per cent during the past six months.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE wreck of a freight train on the Nickel Plate Railroad, near Fit. Wayne, Indiana, resulted in the death of two tramps and loss of $1O,OOO.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

IT is estimated that the new tar if bill will raise s30,000,000 more than will be needed for Govern ment expenses.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29
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a hundredth of that of its neigh boring stream.
 The exhibit must be considered as an important one indeed for the Salt River Valley, as it definitely shows that for the great plains of south central Arizona, embracing millions of fertile acres, the noble Salt River carries far more than enough water to irigate all.-Phe. nix Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

IN the matter of Federal patron age Missouri complains that, not withstanding her staunch Democra- cy, she is behind Illinois.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

ENocH RAMSEY, of Denver, III {, is puzzling the doctors, having liv- ed a month paraiyzed from head to foot.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE Executive Mansion of the Cherokee Nation, occupied by Chief Harris, was burned on the 18th inst.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

MRS. w. K. VANDERBILT has pur- chased for $9OO,oOO crown that at one time belonged to Empress Eu- genie.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE per capita circulation of currency in the United States is now $25.55 as against S25.57 a month ago and s24.32 year ago.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

THE president, vice-president and cashier of the defunct Excelsior Springs Bank, of Missouri, were ar rested on the 18th inst,
The St. Johns herald., 1894-03-29

JOHN D. RocKAFELLow has given $j0,000 more to the University of Chicago to be spent at once for books.