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Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12

Following Is list of United States grand jurymen who have reported so far: A. T. Cotton, R. w Kersey, M. ". Harter, c. ". French, J. G. Keat- ing, P. R Brady Jr., ". II. Merritt, Florence; c. L. Dickson, I. c. sayler, ohas. T. Martin, M. Borques IT., II. ", Nash, J. F. Montgomery, Vim. Sidow, Globe; J. M. Porter, Fort Thomas; Joseph Reeves, solomonville; E. D. Futile, J. R. Lassiter, John J. Birdno, Stafford. Florence Tribune.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12

Will TreYaythen returned from Chicago last night
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12
LOCAL NEWS.

HoUsE FOR SAIE.--A good adobe house, with improved grounds, Apply to the Sultan Mercantile Co. tf
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12

The United Globe mines will lus on Q force Of miLe next week.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12

$. A. PaguaA manager of the Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smclung Co, and A. c. Pcndletou madc tine trip to San Carlos and return this week, over the freightng road, to ascertain how much damage WAS done by the late lood The road ia washed out considerably, bat i, is in better condition than they expected to find it. and teams wtl be able to come over it without much trouble. The scarcity Of teams at Ft, Thomas is the greatest difficulty to contend wi5h,
 A man who campod in Kane Spring canyon on the night of the high water last week, had al, his camp outfit and clothing washed away, aud claims Co have lost 52s0 iU money. He was glad to escape with his life. One oE Lig horses was thrown violently against the rocks and died next day. The mail carrier passed through tao canyon when ho was making bis camp and warned him not to stop there, bat the man said he would take chances, which ho did, and the result was disastrous,
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 II. w Nash, J. r. Montgomery, Wm. sid5w, g. c. saylcr and Caas. Dickson, federal grand ja-ars, ra- turned from Florence on Thursday An indictment was f3lul agljass Esauals- co Reina, who held gp Che Casa Gmndo stage Oct, ?, and be was indicted also in tho district court for robb.ug Eugene Middleton about @ year ago. at the same place When Gene went to the jail to identify him, the Mczi- can immediately recognized him and said, "You wear better clothes than T. D
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-12

] wish to inform the public that sm back again and ready to repair watches, clocks and jewelfy My 1 lace O business is in the tailor shop, with Mr. Bond,
 JOSEPH 4. WINsLOw.
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will communicate with the Connecticut
webs, and they will reach along the
coast of the sound till their lines are
continuous with those Of WeStchester
county, New York. Then between New
York and Boston there will be unbrok-
en- electric communication. Thus the
first battle between the power of the
locomotive and the power of the dyna-
mo is likely to take place along the
line of the Consolidated railroad, con-
Meeting Boston and New York.
Already the steam railroad people
understand this, and are preparing
themselves to supplant steam with cleo
tricity. The Consolidated is not the
only trunk railroad that is getting
ready 10 take this step either, for it is
understood that the Pennsylvania s
management proposes soon to operate
its branches by wire. The Consolidated
road, however, has gone further than
any other steam line. since it has en-
gagged a competent electrician at a
high salary. has built two extra tracks
from New Haven to New York for the
special purpose of introducing electric
traction, and has had many of its new
cars built light, so as to be better
adapted to the new traction method.
Trolley men generally understand
that many problems have yet to be
solved before long-distance electric
traction will be success, not the
least of which is the leakage due to the
fact that trolley wires have to be left
bare. This will render it imperative
that power-houSes be built at short in
ltervals along such trunk lines as use
electricity, and some experts say the
expense of constructing and maintain
ing an adequate chain of power-houses
and the necessary wire between New
York and Philadelphia, for instance,
will be greater than the cost of oper-
ating the same stretch of road by
means of locomotives.
Mail, Express and Freight BY Troll
ley.
While the steam lines are getting
ready to fight the trolleys with their
own weapons, the latter have already
invaded the field Of the former in other
ways than by competing for passenger
traffic in suburban regions and be-
tween towns. Late last autumn sixty
two lines in the United States and Can
ada were carrying the mail, fifty-eight
on government contract; thirty-five
lines had inaugurated express service.
and fifty-five were hauling freight. Six
lines hauled steam road freight cars
over electric rails, thirty-seven had
special freight car service of their
own, nine had special express cars, five
had special mail cars, and eight had
combination mail and express cars
These figures, the latest availab BILE,
should all be increased to be accurate
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New York, March %, 1S95.-The story
of the trolley wire, properly told,
would be one of the most marvellous
romances of material progress ever
penned. But the time for its complete
recital has not yet come for electric
traction is yet in its infancy. Before
another decade has passed, the dyna-
mo is likely to be complete master of
land transportation in America.
Six years ago there were no success
full trolley railroads in existence. On
the first of January. 1895, trolley wires
stretched over 9,OOS miles of surface
tracks or more than two-thirds of all
the lines in the country that may
properly be termed street railroads.
AS motive power for anything that
runs on rails the horse and the
patient mule have about fulfilled their
mission, for, of the 3,519 miles of
street railroad not operated by the
Eroliey 662 miles are run by cable and
Ga miles by steam motors, leaving
only 2,243 miles over which the jolting
horse car still rolls, tinkling along
after the old style.
The First Success With the Trolley.
Success with the trolley was first
achieved in Richmond. Va, by Maurice
FLYNN, once well-known in New York,
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10y reason of his connection with the
politics of this town. Other men had
Nainly tried to make the trolley go in
other places, but Flynn, whose public
career had been brought to a close.
had unbounded faith IN the devices of
Frank ]. Sprague, the electrical in
Ventor, and the two devoted months of
closest application and thousands of
dollars 10 the erection of power houses
and the putting up of wires in Rich
mond. It was an intensely excited
group that gathered in the new power
house one day, little more than five
years age. All the preliminary work
had been made-everything was now
in order for the first working test. On
the rails outside stood a car. from the
roof of which The strange wheel
tipped trolley-pole slanted UP to the
wire. Presently the pistOns Of the en-
CINE began TO travel back and forth,
and the dynamoes to drOne. Then the
men took places in the car. The
motorman turned his lever. the car
moved.
The TroIIey's Growth Begins.
Although the practicability of the
trolley was abundantly demonstrated
on the first day of its operation in
Richmond. it was months before it was
certainly known that it could run
economically. and during that time the
most careful records Of the cost of
administration in every department
were kept. Not a week passed during
all the first year-perhaps not day
that someone, interested in the intro
duction of trolley roads elsewhere, did
not visit Richmond for the purpose OF
studying the roads there. Within
half year scores OF surface railroad
companies in scores of cities had de-
cided TO abandon animal power for
the surer. cleaner wire, and many
new companies had been formed to
build roads 10 be operated by it.
AS rapidly as these companies could
be financed the building of the new
roads md the transformation of the
old ores was begun. Men who had
never been suspected of unusual in
jtiative force and executive power
suddenly developed these character
istics and travelled by way of the
trolley from comparative financial in
Significance to opulence. 1t is speak
ing within bounds to say that since
1889 literally hundreds Of great for
tunes have been made out Of electric
traction Moreover, the work of ex-
tension is yet going on more rapidly
than ever, Notwithstanding the depres-
sion that has LOrne down upon us for
almost two years; for, while The an
nuai average OF new electric mileage
has been but a little over SS0 1,441
miles were first operated in 1894. The
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AN ITALIAN INTERIOR. 1896.

Let US suppose ourselves to be in Fer
rara in 1896. and let us visit the apart
ment of the Marchese. At the entrance
we find the doorkeeper, by name
Querio. who will let us pass. After go
ing UP the stone stairs we find a bench
in little room, a chessboard. and a
saddle truck, inside of which are all
the neceSSarieS for saying mass during
a Journey. In a little closet next door
on a straw bed sleeps Matteo. whose
wages, always behind. amount to ST.
a month. His duties consist principally
in preparing the lamp fer the gaming
table of the chevaliers. and in watch
ing the door for his lord, which is near
at hand. Let us enter.
The walls are frescoed all over with
children playing: in front of the fire
place, fixed in the wall. are two iron
candlesticks; under the chimney hangs
the shovel, which is more like spade,
and the andirons; in front stands a
seat The bed is composed of boards
on treStleS and a bench at the foot Of
it. The mattress is stuffed with cotton
covered with two sheets of three
widths, and over this a cover of green
serge, lined with linen and stamped
with lilies and roses. The walls are
hung with Flemish tapestries. almost
new and representing greenery with
birds. Those at the neaQ OF the Deo
have six figures.
On the floor lies a carpet five brac-
clos wide with designs of animals and
branches of roses. In the middle OF
the room stands a table of cypress
wood and a chair covered with some
rough cloth; around the walls are six
benches. The room contains besides a
painted chest, an hourglass. ward
robe, and on the floor large brass
clo inc hn Tn
closet openig into the room are three
benches, another brass basin. and hour
glass of iron with a bell.-The Scottish
Review.
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Why Not

make the baby fat2 For the
thin baby is delicate, and is not
half so cunning.
Give the thin baby SCOTS
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with
Hypophosphites.
SCOTS Emulsion is as easy a
food as milk. 1t is much more
effective in making thin babies
fat, and they like it.
If all the babies that have
been made fat and chubby and
well by SCOTS Emulsion could
only tell their story to the
mothers of other sickly babies!
There wouldn't be enough to
go round.
Don't be persuaded to accept substitute!
Scott & Bovine, N. " All Druggists. SOC. and ST.
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now, for at the time they were made
ten more lines contemplated carrying
the mails, seven were preparing to
carry express and twelve freight.
No doubt there viii be still fur
Their increase as soon as the proper
changes in state laws can be made,
for in some states, notably Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island and Massachu-
setts-au states in which trolley de-
velopment has been eXtensive-electric
freight and express service has hither-
to been prohibited.
There has been much talk of trolley
roads in strictly rural regions for the
transportation Of crops from the farms
to the stations of steam railroads, but
this plan, though it seems an alluring
one, has nowhere been put into actual
operation SO Far as have been able to
learn. The express service has been
best systematized in st. Louis; the
mail service in st. Louis, Philadelphia,
Toronto and Brooklyn. The freight
service has yet to reach the period of
rapid development, but it is beginning
in states as widely separated as Maine
and Washington. Perhaps the most
novel adaptation Of the trolley has
been made in st. Louis, where fully
equipped ambulance car is in opera
ton. or shortly will be.
Revolutions Accompanying Trolley
Development.
No such enormous development as
that achieved in electric traction could
possibly take place without working a
revolution in more than one contribu-
tory industry. In this case there has
been a great increase i'll the building
of very large and stationary steam
engines, running much more rapidly
than any others at All similar in size
and weight, excepting those of ocean
steamships. Great impetus, too, has
been given to the manufacture OF wire.
1t is estimated that three miles of cop
per filaments Care needed for every mile
of track, and the wire in actual present
use would more than reach entirely
around thu world. Add to this what
has been discarded as worn out, and
the necessary surplus, and it is likely
that the trolleys have already used up
quite $4,000 miles. For heavier rails,
too, there has been a great demand,
as it was early discovered that the
old type used by the horse railroads
would not do at all under the new or
der.
The wheels of horse cars merely roll
over the rails. thus wearing them bur
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slightly; but the wheels Of the trolley
cars bite the metal at every turn ana
the light old-fashioned rails were soon
worn out. For this reason rails weigh
ing ninety pounds to the yard have
had to be substituted for the thirty
five pound rails that were amply ade-
quate under the old system. 1t Svas
feared for a time that the additional
expense thus rendered necessary
would be so great as in some ca ses to
compel a change back from trolley to
horse power.
OF course there have been enormous
demands for dynamos, switch-boards.
cars, railroad ties. and sieepers and
wooden and iron poles. and equally OF
course, the brains of hundreds, perhaps
thousands of inventors, have been set
to studying how TO improve the vari
Gus apara tus so as to make it possible
to operate the roads more cheaply and
satisfactorily.
An Industry Wiped Out.
While the trolley mas stimulated GER
tain industries, and spurred the genius
of the inventor, it has worked great
hardship in several directions. The
president of one OF the most success
full trolley roads in the United States
told me a day or two ago that an aver
age of at least ten horses were en-
ployed to every car in operation under
the old system. The total number Of
street cars now in use is 41,009, OF
which 22,477, or more than half, are
electric. At least 400. 900 horses would
be required to haul these cars, were 1t
not for the introduction of the trolley.
AT the beginning Of the trolley extern
sion the value of good railroad horses
averaged $125 each, but they have since
been bought for from S25 to $40, or
from one-fifth to one-third of their for
mer value. AS fast as the companies
adopt electric power, they throw their
useless horses upon the market at
whatever price is offered.
As the average life of the tailroad
horse is but about four years, the an
nual demand was formerly for about
$4,000; the present demand would be
apparently for about 100000 had not
the trolley stepped in. AS a matter of
fact, however. the farmers cannot sell
now more than from 10000 to 5000 a
year, and the call is RAPIDLY decreas-
/ ing. Unquestionably this has had much
to do with the present distress in re-
gions where horses are the staple.
Added to falling off in the demand for
horses, there is also a much smaller
demand than before for hay, oats and
other fodder.
In the development of the trolley,
the storage battery hass been quite lost
| sight Of save by a few enthusiasts,
but it does not therefore follow. that it
will never be heard of more. Inventors
are working at it and dreaming over
it, and when it is so perfected as to
| it is now done, there will be another
revolution; but till then the progress
of the trolley, overhead. underground
or by the rail, is sure to be continuous
rapid and triumphant.
DEXTER MARSHALL.
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been noticed that the trains run light
er than ever before, while the trolley
cars, with their more frequent sched-
ules and cheaper fares, are crowded.
The Battle Royal Between the Loco
motive and the Dynamo.
Now the trolley men are getting
ready to put up a big fight with steam
for long-distance transportation. 1t
will be but d short time belo- the cleo
trio webs will begin to come together.
That centering at Boston will touch
the one spreading from Providence; 1t
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IN FRENCH INDIA.

AS the evening falls. the lights shine
through the little easements of pearl
shells, and the sound of the guitar or
violin is borne upon the breeze; the
bell of the cathedral tolls for vespers,
and the yelled figures of the women
can be seen on the shore hocking to
the sacred edffice. 1t was here that st.
Francis Xavier preached; his memory
is yet fragrant through the land, and
most Of the people still are Catholics.
Presently the moon rises over the
Chants and light up the distant ruins of
the robber fortress on a lofty and
seemingly inaccessible buttress, and
throws an overwhelming beam of sill
yer upon the silent tide Of the river
Soon the town ds in repose and free
from all sound, save the challenge of
the sentinels each hour, or the bark Of
the wretched dogs that turn over the
refuse heaps for bones and fish offal
The friendship of the French gov
ernor for the agent rose out Of an adj
venture with a panther which haunted
the purlieus of the old monastery on
the headland which served as a
country residence for the former. The
brute was the terror OF the household
and destroyed all their pet animals,
but no one was found brave enough to
encounter it until the agent undertook
to "sit up near the carcass of the
last kill" and, with the moon in his
favor, gave the quietus to the panther
with an express bullet.
The governor could never be too
grateful, and his pretty little brunette
daughter, in the white muslin dress
and broad straw hat, who had lost her
pet rabbits through the depredations,
smiled sweetly and admiringly upon
the Englishman. Thereafter he was
always a persona grata, and hero in
the small social circle of Selambique;
welcomed to the exclusive sat homes"
of the wife of the colonel OF infantry.
and invited to participate in the ar
rangenent of the ceremonials and
sports of the annual fete.-The Gentle
mans Magazine.
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THE GROWTH
OF THE TROLLEY.
Notwithstanding Objections, it
Has Come to Stay.
COMPETITOR TO STEAM.
WIRE ENOUGH IN USE TO GIRDEE
THE EARTH.

Electric Traction is Yet In It's In
fancy, Although the Progress
Made During the Last Six Years
is Something Most Remarkable.
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sidered, there was occasionally a de-
crease instead of an increase in profit.
The owners of several small roads,
however, could combine their proper
ties to great advantage, and so, ever
since 1889, the consolidation process
has been going forward without inter
mission. The present system employs
less men to move the same number of
passengers than would be required
under the old order, but the increase
of business more than makes up for
the apparent falling off in the number
of employees; for-I have it on the
authority Of one of the best posted
trolley ma hates in the United States
the introduction of electric traction
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is invariably followed by an average
increase of about so per cent. in the
number of passengers carried.
Some of the electric railway cornbi-
nations have become exceedingly
powerful, operating hundreds of miles
of track, carrying myriads OF pas
sengers, employing men enough to
make an army and being capitalized
to the tune Of millions.
What Cities Lead in the Trolley.
It is hard to say in which of the
great cities the trolley has been most
notably developed. Baltimore is at the
front with the first underground cleo
trio railway in America; the Brooklyn
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hind most other cities as regards the
trolley, New York being by all odds
the most backward of all. Probably
the most extensive single suburban
and intra-municipal system is that of
the New Jersey Traction company,
which connects Jersey City (New
York;, Hoboken, Newark, the Oranges
and other cities and towns in the state
whose population is chiefly suburban.
Before this year is completed, unless
disaster overtake it, this gigantic cor
poration will greatly increase its mile
age and compete still more holly than
now with the steam road for the
enormously profitable passenger traffic
of the region it has preempted.
Wherever the trolley tracks parallel
those of the old steam lines, it has
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in opposition to one another instead of
in business harmony, but still profit
ably, because horse roads may be
operated on much smaller capital than
trolley lines. But it was apparent, soon
after the introduction of electric
traction, that the old competitive
scheme would not do. Long lines,
running many cars, could be operated
much more economically. But the ex-
pense Of running short lines by wire
was found 10 be about as great as by
horse power-sometimes greater-and
when the increase of capital was con-
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surface system is a marvel of intricacy
and extensive mileage; the sys Nem that
interpenetrates Minneapolis is a model
of rapid transit and systematic opera
ton; the lines in st. Louis are a con-
slant joy to the people there, who erst-
while were dependent upon the mule
for street car motive power; the Phila-
delphia system covers many miles and
represents millions of capital; and sys-
TENS quite as perfect, though less ex-
tensive. are to be found in scores of
smaller cities east and west, north and
south.
New York and Chicago are far be-
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total capitalization of the trolley roads
cannot be given with absolute ac-
curacy, but Mr.. Blake, editor of the
Street Railroad Journal, probably as
we'll posted upon this subject as any
nne in the country, places it between
s5GO OO0. O6O and 5000, 100000 1t is
worthy of note that the trolley roads
have maintained their earning power,
generally, in spite of the hard times,
and fr come cases have shown a
steady increase.
Concentration of Lines.
The modern tendency towards con-
rentration Of business interests has re-
ceived great impetus from the intro
ductiou of the trolley. Before 1889
nearly every city supported several
street car companies, often conducted