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The St. Johns herald., 1895-02-14

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would proceed with the execution.
 The attorneys rested confident in the strength of the appeal to delay the hanging. Word was received yesterday that formal stay had been issued by Judge Rouse.
 The appeal is based upon two principal grounds. The first is in sufficiecy of evidence. the defense alleging the there were no wit nesses to an assault by the prisoner upon the engineer or fireman or another employe of the plundered train, an act necessary 10 have been performed in the commission of the crime of train robbery within the meaning of the statutes. The oth- CT ground is that the capital pun ishment fixed by the statutes of Arizona for the crime of train rob bery is unconstitutional in that It is excessive.-Republican.
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Snowflake Items.
SNOWFLAKE Ariz. Feb. 10, 95.

SNOWFLAKE Arg. Feb. IO, go. EDITOR HERALD;-During the past week we have had fine weather for the farmers and most of them i'm proved tue opportunity to put in wheat, of which we expect larger crop than ever before.
 About an inch of snow fell last night and today is cold and some wind and clouds.
 Our compliments to the Holbrook Postmaster twice Tn the last two weeks, our mail sack has had the Apache lock on it and none of the way keys would unlock it so our mail goes to Apache and returns 8 couple of days later.
 Our public school is in full blast, keeping four teachers busy.
 J.H. Richards of St. Joseph spent a few days in town last week. The people are very much divid- ed over here on the division of the County majority perhaps favor it.
 Respectfully.
 ADREM.
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feating statehood and betraying the land they live in, will now have the pleasure of spending many moons in Arizona under system of government at it's best dis tasteful and disastrous. The men who labored for the right, battled that another star might be added to the flag of their country, can only hope on for light that is breaking far in the distance. Poor old Arizona, how she has been ma ligned, mistreated and betrayed and all for the dispicable purpose that a few political traitors might continue to hold office and wax fat on the added burdens of the toiling |citizens.-Phenix Gazette.
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THE Tucson Citizen says: If the reports concerning Sheriff Fly, of Coehise county are true he ought to be indicted and fired from office. If they are not true then | a gross wrong is being done the man. He was, 1t is said, in Wilcox at the time of the late railroad robbery, and although it was we'll known in that town, and to Fly among others, that a robbery was in progress, he made no attempt to go to the rescue of the train notwithstanding the hold up was within hearing and was a whole hour and halfin con- summation. It is further said that when he did wake up to a sense Of his duty 1t was nine o'clock on the following morning before he left the town and took up the cold trail of the robbers. In 1880 when army headquarters were at Wilcox and the Sixth cavalry were pursuing the renegade Apache they came within sight of the retreating hos tiles late one afternoon and by determined push could have over taken them, but the officer in com mand had evidently lost no Apa- ches, for under orders the troops left the trail and went into camp for 24 hours at Soldier Holes. At tine expiration of lime the troops were again started and compelled to make a forced march to the line. It would seem in the present in stance that history occasionally re peats itself.
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THE county division consplrators, seem to be laboring under the de. fusion that the circular appearing in the last issue ofthe HERALD, and signed by nine.leading citizens and taxpayers in southern and eastern Apache county, was unauthorized, and that the gentlemen whose names appears subscribed to that circular would not have allowed their names to be used chad they for a moment questioned the state ments contained therein"
 We will state. tor the information of the deluded committeeman who spreads himself in the fast issue of the WinsIow Mail, as we'll as for the enlightenment of the taxpayers and voters of Apache county, that the names of all the leading citizens and taxpayers which were sub scribed to our address to the tax payers of Apache county, in oppo- sition to dividing the county, at this inopportune and unfavorable time, were subscribed by authority, and we will state further that the state ments contained in our circular are founded upon the county records and we are pared to substantiate them.
 It is currently reported bere that the smart and cunning statlstician who made up the erroneous and ex- travagant array of figures which appear in the e-circular of the coun- ty tydiVisionists, thought that no one would take the trouble to look over the records, and that his extrF or dinary statement showing the rela- tive resources of the proposed two new counties would go unchal- lenged. But, "the incest laid plans of mice and men gang oft aglee."
 Tho committeeman has evidently never read the bill proposing to di- vide Apache County or else he is willfully trying to mislead the peo pie, as to the mannerin which it is proposed 10 divide the indebted ness.
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Rogers StlIl Lives.

Yeesterday was the date set for the execution at Florence, of Oscar Rogers. the convicted train robber. He Is still alive and unless he dies at some other date the shade ol Mathuselah may blush for shame.
 Rogers was convicted at Florence a month ago for participation, along with Frank Armer and Donovan, in holding up a south ern Pecifc train near Maricopa, one Sunday night Tn last Septem- Der. He was duly sentenced his counsel, Messers. Davis and Blen- man. gave notice. of appeal. The appeal was perfected so far as the defense was concerned, but it hap pened that about that time the court reporter was seized with ill- ness and the papers in the case were not brought up to the supreme court. Under the Arizona statutes an appeal carries with it a stay of execution and the attorneys for the defense having done all that could be done, awaited developments.
 Since the opening of the legisla- ture MT. Davis for the defense has been at the capital as a councilman from Pinal county. Mir. Blenman his associate has also been in the city since last Monday.
 Two days ago they received a tel egram from Florence saying that in as much as the Cease had not reached the supreme court and that no stay of execution had been issued the sheriff of Pinal county
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bery, and it is not unlikely they made for them. The mountains have many fastnesses, and are i'm pregnable in many places. As the robbery occoured between s and 9 o'clock they had till daylight be- fore pursuit could be made.
 At daylight this morning posse took the trail. It was headed down the Sulpher Spring valley toward Mixico. The officers be- lieving they knew the point the robbers were making for. took a short cut. An early capture is ex- pected. Two of the men are said to have been recognized. Both are Bisbee men, one of them by the name ofWalker. They bought the dynamite in Wilcox. It is said two of them held the horses, while the other two robbed the train.
 How much the robbers got away with there is no telling.
 Tucson came in for shortage this morning of $17.5O. It may have been 5000 or many times that amount. That they got something in certain.
 The news of the robbery through the messenger got to Wilcox at 10 o'clock. He got out officers and a force of men and returned to the car. The robbers had been gone twenty minutes.
 The train arrived in Tucson this morning over three hours late.
 The express car was not so badly wrecked but that it could be taxen to Los Angeles.-Citizen.
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Bandits Still at Large.

It. is was impossible to learn yes terday what success, if any. had been met with by the posses in pur- suite of the bandits who held up the overland last Wednesday night near Wilcox. Word received on Sunday morning from ex Sheriff $ colt White, at Tombstone, was to the effect that he was hot on the trail of the robbers who, he thought, numbered only two.
 But, as everyone knows who has been there, the country through which the trail of the bandits leads is a wild stretch and one in which it ,:s just as difficult to capture man fleeing from justice as it is for one without a gun to attempt to bag a jack rabbit. If the bandits reach the Tonto Basin they are safe from the hands of the law it is be- lieved till, after a time, they be- come tired of themonotony of their life and venture into civilization, when the authorities will gather them in.
 Wells Fargo & Co. Lost only about five hundred of the eighteen thousand Mexican dollars the rob bers used in opening the com pany.s big through safe.-T Tucson Star.
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STATEHOOD DEAD.

The bill for Arizona's admission is dead, killed by the men who have passed in Arizona as its friends" killed by set of politi- cal demagogues who will ascertain their standing in the territory when the people have an opportunity to to be heard killed for few petty officers to subserve the interests of schemes and treasury looters. Let it die, let it sleep in the grave pre- pared by it's frieds and utilized by gang of cormorants who heralded broadcast over the territory that republican success was statehood's hope. When the sod covers this measure, which Is dear to the heart of every progressive and hon. est man in Arizona, the death knell of our dearest hopes is sounded. Political intrigue and party infamy has done it's work-the memorial state should bear this inscription; Sacred to the memory of a delud- ed people who were betrayed by imported hirelings and disreputable office hunters" There never was towering outgoing wave that was not felt on the receding shore; and the men who lent themselves last November to the conspiracy of de
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Territorial Items.

From the Tombstone Epitaph.
 Two men at Wilcox were brag- ging on Friday last of their part of the train robbery, but being taken in an alibi was proven for them and they were released.
 And the very latest news coming over the railroad wire is to the ef- feet that Wheeler and George did not go south at all. but are now safe in the TOnto basin county.
 Two men blew up the safe at Williams, on Friday night last and secured all there was in it. They then went to to the railroad station and held up the agent for $60 and bottle of brandy.
 A reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of those who mur- dered Frank NJ. Doll and John Doll, his son, at Alma. Pinal coun- ty, in the early part of last January, has been offered by Gov. Hughes.
 The shaft on the corner of Ere mont and 5th street is down about ten feet in a cement formation. It is believed that this character of formation will be found to depth of about 30 feet before a solid feat ure is encountered.
 The railroad companies should provide their trains with bicycles. It would have been an easy matter for bicycle to have kept up with any train robber in the country over the Sulphur Spring valley last Wednesday night.
 A recent land decision reads that work done outside the boundaries of a claim, for the purpose of facil- itating the extraction of mineral therefrom, is available for holding the claim as though done within the boundaries of the claim itself.
 A telegram was receieved at the Sheriffs office on Saturday night from Broad and Graham, dated at Bisbee. In which the .imformation was conveyed that they had beer to the San; Bernardino ranch and found osign or.traee of either the train robbers or pr q any, of the posses is search of them. 1..4ra. :..ss.
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Snowflake Feb. 9th 1895.
ADREM.

Editor Herald:-By especial re- quest l send you the following ac- count of the gratifying results of a Surgical operation performed here on Tuesday Jan. 22nd:
 A cancerous tumor weighing 8 pounds, was taken from the left breast of Mrs. Sophia Johnson, aged 63 years, by J. s. Wolford M. D., late of New Jersey.
 The medical operation was most skillfully performed by tho above named Surgeon, in the presence of Bishop Hunt, James Flake. Mrs. Louisa Oakley and several other. The patient was under the infu- enco of chloroform only nine mln- utes.
 The tumor had grown rapidly and almost entirely during one and a half years.
 Dr. WoIford expected to meet pr. Platt of St. Johns nere, but as Dr. Platt could not be present; he was obliged to performed the work alone.
 The aged lady is progressing nicely and with blessing of heav en and the careful nursing of friends, hopes soon to be around again.
 M. J. WEST.
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Train No 20 Held Up.

The danger of hanging the fact that a man is under sentence of death, his end to come in but ten days hence, and that another man will be thirty years older before he sees freedom again have no deter ring effect on train robbers.
 Lart night train 20 west bound passenger, due here about mid night, was held up and the express safe robbed. More damage than the footing of the safe, the destruct- ton of the safe proper, and the blowing of a good piece of the ex- press car roof skyward was not done No one was hurt and not a shot was fired.
 Four men did the work. The affair is related thus: Just out of Wilcox a man made the demand of a breakeman using a six shooter as persuaders, that the train be cut in two back of the baggage car. This was done and men on the en- zine compelled, engineer, P B Zeig- Ter, to run out four miles and stop. Meanwhile Express Messenger Mitchell had noticed that all was not right, that the train was cut in to; and he realized that a hold up was at hand. He accordingly bundled all his local money and valuables into package, dropped them from the car and followed them himself, securing the door after him, He went back. found his package, made Wilcox and gave the alarm.
 The train was brought to a stop about four miles west of Wilcox. The plunderers then went to the express car door andt ried to rouse the messenger. No messenger All within was quiet. They then produced dynamite to bring out the messenger and open the car, They opened the car. This done they found the car ten antless and the safe locked. NJ ore dynamite was produced, more was done. Seven shots of the explosives were made be fore the safe gave way.
 There was the money, the gold. twenties, and the crisp greenbacks. These they possessed themselves of with joy and alacrity.
 A grim joke was played by the robbers. Amonge the coin was 5000 "dobe" dollars. As Mexican money has little value in less than ton lots, and as the robbers had no use for the stuff, and so they made . heap of it, put stick of dynn- mite under it and touched 1t off. Only 700 of 5000 dollars have been found. They went through tele- graph poles, cars, and flew every where. 70
 The whole job took anhour and ! quarter.
 The Chiricahua mountains are not far from the scene of the rob.
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"LET the republicans aid Cleve- land" advises the Globe-Democrat. It's mighty poor man who doesn't believe that one good turn deserves another.
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IF MExico would send a conquer ing army over the Central American states it woul1l- put aquietus on numbcrless revolutions and on the whole be a blessing to the suf- fering people of these petty repub- lies
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TIE Phoenix Gazette says: How beautifully do our republicans ex- emplify in politics the sentiment of the injunction, "Unless ye. are one ye are not of me-"
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MEXICO has issued her ulfimatum to Guatemala. The latter must either put up or shut. up.
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THE Phoenix Gazette says: Coun- cilman Aspinwall, of, Apache, made his maiden speech In the council yesterday, and a good strong one it was.
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CONGRESSMAN Breckinridge's nacity indicates that when a man has just been thrashed by woman it is wise to keep out of his way.
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IT has been stated by the relief committee that S1 100000 has been distributed to the Nebraska drouth sufferers.
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TIE bayonet is relied upon to punch a period in the story of the Brook lyn strike.
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REGULAR in combination, pro-
 : portion and preparation Of ingredi- ents, Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses great curative value You should TRY TT.
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THERE were six democrats in the Tennessee legislature who voted against the bill to count out Evans.
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"IT is q lon g lane, etc. The Chi nese are reported as having scored a victory over the Japs.
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THERE'S a heap of trouble on de ole mans mind.
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A New York policeman arrested a lady for smiling at him, says the Syracuse Evening News, This of course is an artrocious crime in reform" New York. According to Loxow testimony this lady would have been all right if she had smiled" with him.
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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-12-28

are entirely covered with linen The
blue denim ones. trimmed with white
braid, resembling tho blue and white
delft which ia the latest popular fad in
china. arc perhaps tho prcttiest. al
though the rose OF yellow duck are love
ly with certain coloringA
All white ones are also very effective,
trimmed with blue and white braid aud
tassels, also touched with blue, with
blue nails, the latter being covered with
fine Bolton cloth The white linen braid
and tassels may be- made to match the
material by working in cotton Of the
same color as the covering The sketch
represents tall table for a palm pot
The low tea tables may be made after
the same design; the legs may be either
round or square. Old rose linen. white
linen braid, white buttons Of Bolton
cloth and design embroidered in white
cotton on top are the materials used in
this table
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DAINTY Toilet Aeeessoriea.

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white SWISS, tucked with insertions u
yellow yalenciennes Lace, and narrow
frills Of tho same Lace are much worn
with dark Costumes The effect Is pretty
and dressy. Swiss can be bought BY the
yard, all ready To be converted into there
modish accessories. This ,anis cuuibina
tion Of sheer material and yellow Law
can be- bought by the yard. Wild. enough
TO make tho full vests which arc a Tea
ture Of this season styles
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satin striped grenadlns ribbons threaten
to sup.rse.is feather boas for warm sea
sons wear at least. These ruchez can ~,
made at home, or can be- purchased ~
the yard AN advantage, since thu-o sold
IN the stores are frequently too short
The grenaline ribbons keep their .etnl
stiffness. are a. becuiuins ~ tha feather
boa. afford a light protection for the neck
in case Of draft and do nct get that dra.,
glsd and utterly detected book cotnrn n
To feathers exposed 10 dampne-s.
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in star SHAPE. the point. outlined with
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ENGINEERING BY A MOUSE.
The skiilfui Plan by which lie Got Him.
self Out Of . Deep Hole.

while digging holes for telegraph
poles ut Byron. Me-, said a Western
Union man, II became interested 10
watching the ingenuity and persever.
ance Of a mouse. He fell into one Of the
holes. which was AZ feet deep and
20 inc hes across. The first day he ran
around the bottom Of the hole, trying 10
find some means Of escape. but could
not climb out. The second day he set
tied down to business. He began stead
lily and systematically to dig n spiral
groove round and round tho inner sur.
face Of the hole with a uniformly as.
cending grade. He worked night and
day, and as he got farther from the bot.
tom he dug little pockets where he
could either lie or sit and rest. Interest
ed witnesses threw in food.
cat the end Of two weeks tho mouse
struck rock. This puzzled him. For
nearly day no tried to get under,
around or over the obstruction, but
without success. With unfiinching pa.
thence he reversed his spiral and wen,
ON tuDneling his way in the opposite
direction At the end Of four weeks ne
reached the top and probably sped away
to enjoy his well earned freedom. His
escape was not seen. When his food " ~
put in In the morning. he was near the
surface. but at night the work was seen
to be complete, and the little engineer,
whose pluck and skill had saved his
life, had left. New York Sun.
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ablest diplomats ut the capital. He u
tains ut the capital Of another country,
and the success Of his mission is Of vital
Importance to Venezuela. Venezuela's
diplomatic relations with England have
been broken of since 1887, when that
great absorber Of little nations took pos
session Of the territory within tho old
Schomburgk line, declaring it to be
British ground. Then the Venezuelan
minister at London, DR.. Rojas. was re-
called
For three generations the Andrads
family has been prominent in the polit-
ical and military life Of Venezuela. and
the minister comes naturally by his tai
ent for statecraft. He is q scholar, a pro-
found thinker and a shrewd student Of
men and public affairs. For many years
he has been u leader in the politics Of
his country and has served in the senate
and house and as president Of the state
Of Zulia. For ~ years no lived in the
United States Of Colombia and studied
law. He then visited the various repub-
lies Of North and South America and
the different countries Of Europe, study
ing the people and institutions until he
knew them we'll He speaks English.
French, German, Italian. Spanish and
modern Greek tiuently. and his rich ex-
perience in different parts Of the globs
has well fitted him for intricate diplo-
matte work. He is courteous, gentle and
model listener and makes friends
wherever he goes. He first attracted at
tention in this country as member Of
the Venezuelan and marine commissions
and as delegate to the pan American
congress.
As minister he has made no effort to
excite popular sympathy with his cause
and his courtesy, tact. discretion. erudi-
ton and diplomatic skill have made u
most favorable impression at the stats
department, it is said. In the opinion d
Washington officials Venezuela's mo-
mentous mission could not be in better
hands