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Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

ANOTHER large snake was killed yes terday morning near the Gazette office. This IS the second one that has been killed within two dsye, apd although Of harmless specie. the represe ntatives are altogether undesirable to have around.-GaZette.
 The snake above referred to was un- doubtedly nothing more than the Arizona Pine snake (Pityaphis sayi) and should nos have been killed. They are the largest non-venomous serpent Tn the territory and should be protected rather than destroyed. They are the friend Of man and not his enemy and should not be killed in mere wantonness. They live almost wholly upon the rodentl of the country and rats and mice find Tn them a common enemy. Besides being harmless they are strangely beautiful, and ordain ed for a useful purpose. The antipithy to them and their kind IS horn of that ignorance and superstition which lorded the human mind when lioht was rather darkness visible and their 1.-the and graceful forms were made the evil genius of man. But the Nine teenth century is fir apart from the Ninth and it's repellant associations, and "the seed of the woman" IS TO longer doing a divine duty when it bruises the serpents head. or course there IS dls- tiuguished difference between the non- yepomous and the venemous reptiles, but it can safely be said that the latter in this territory are confined wholly to the genus crotalus-i the rattlesnake family. superstitions and old wives tales to the contrary notwithstanding. UT the crctalus there are perhaps SIX or seven varieties, distinguishable by habitat, coloration and size. but all bear ing rattles, the great characteristic feature of their genus. For these, what ever their purpose, we have no word of pity; they are dangerous to man and as such should suffer extirpation at his hands, but for the non- poisonous ser pents we make a plea for their preserva- ton because of their beauty and useful | ness.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
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Tax Sale PostpOued.

Following is the full text of the law postponing delinquent tax sales sixty days:
 Extending the time for the sale of prop
 erty for delinquent taxes in the year 1895.
 Sec. 1. The tax collectors of the sey- eral counties of the territory of Arizona are hereby severally authorized and di- rected to postpone the sale of property advertised to take place during the month of March, A. D. 1895, of proper ty assessed in the year 1894, until the 2oth day of June, 1895, without sddi- tioDal penalty; and on said last named day said tax collectors shall severally proceed in the same manner and with the same force and effect as they would have done in said month of March if this act had not been passed; provided, said postponement may be made from time to time until said 25th day of June 1895, by giving notice thereof at the time and places now advertised for said sales severally and that said sales shall be commenced on said last named day and continue until completed and final ly completed within three weeks there after.
 Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage.
 Approved March 21, 1895.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
New Officers.

Governor Hughes yesterday complet- ed the list of officers for the new county of Navajo by the appointment of J. H. Breed for supervisor and E. H. Webb for county surveyor. Both appointses are democrats, and of the nine officers five are democrats and four republicans. The county itself is undoubtedly rspub- lcan.
 The governor also appointed the eleventh member of the immigration board, J. T. Leseur, of the St Johns Herald.
 The only county yet unrepresented on the board is Pinal.
 The parity of the two political par ties has been pretty well preserved in making up the board considering that it was to be non- partisan commission.
 There are four republicans, five demo- crats and two democratic editors of in- dependent newspapers. .-Republican.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
The Exodus.

The exodus from Tombstone for the new gold camp continues. Wednesday night no less than twenty persons left in the night for the scene of operations. They left in all kinds of conveyances, ana vied with each other in getting first on the ground.
 The find made by Frank Engle was the objective point, and he was follow closely on hIs way thither by several parties. He gave them all the slip, how ever, and no doubt reached his bonapzs and located it before any one reached i.. As far as heard from no one had found him or his location.
 The whole country is beir g prospect ed and locations made by the dozens, and the county recorder would feel elst- ed were it not for the fact that he is drawing salary instead of fees at present. t.-Prospector.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Bobbed mp Serenely.

A despatch from Del Norte, Mexico, says 8 woman calling herself ''Teresa de Covra," and claiming to perform mlra- cles, has so excited the people here that they are simply crazy. The Mexican government ordered her arrest and the religious fanatics opposed the order, and as result one man was killed ID fight at Mulato, and Teofilo Vasquez, the "Jefe politico," was wounded.
 This is the same woman who was the cause of bloody revolt st Temoohic about fourteen months ago, and which resulted in the authorities making the woman leave the country. She crossed to Nogales, Arizona, where 1t is claimed by the Mexicsns that she performed wonderful cures. She disappeared from Nogsles, and two weeks ago made her appearance in the village of Fl Palyo, where four hundred armed men are protecting her.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

IN the Noven Der elections ir Georgia there were two candidates for congress ID the field. Meesrs Black and Watson. The former was elected on the returns but the latter declared same 10 be fraud ulent. Black accordingly resigned and a new election was ordered. Black and Wsts on again entered the field and an interesting campaign is in progress. There was a good deal of the man about Black for the reason that he refused to hold his seat in the face of evidence that it had not been fairly obtained. In this respect he differs much from the majority of his party.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
THE IMMIGRATION BOARD
The Governor Has Already Given
 It a Task.
A Proposition to Make an Inexpen- sive Advertising Medium
 For Arfzana.
Republican.

Governor Hughes will in few days issue circular request to the members of the board of immigration commits sioners of each county. requesting stat counties for his next annual report to the secretary of the interior. The in- formation sought will include the pop ulation of each county, number of schools, pupils and teachers; churches and frsternsl societies, the real and as- sessed values of all property, the acre age of land under agrlculture and horti- culture, and the value of the product of farms, ranges and mines; the irrigation canals and their capacities, the oppor- tunIties for homes and investments, the climatic advantages and the general progress of the country during the year.
 It is the intention of the governor to secure exact statistical information of tbe respective counties and give each county a separate place in his annual report and to secure publication of an edition of 5000 or more copies at the expense of the federal government. These reports will be published and sent throughout the world without any expense to the territory.
 This will be but one of the many fruits which will result from the new board of immigration commissioners, and while the cost to the counties of these commissioners will be nearly nominal. the territory will get many thousands of dollars in printing through the department at Washington And thus it appears that Arizona will have inaugurated system of sdvertis- ing it's resources at little or no cost, which xIll be far in advance of any state or territory in the Union.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Give the Farmer Facts.

The average planter has but little use for finely spun theory, whether 1t per tains to the relation of his condition to politics Cor whether it deals with the best ways and means of growing the pest crops. What he wants Is fac S, No ore has realized this mora than the great seed firm of D. M. Ferry & O., Detroit, Mich., who for forty years have been studying the wants and condition of planters, large and small, and as t result have created the largest seec business in the whole world. WlthCn' ioubt, trict adherence to the policy ,f dealing in facts represent thn s-cFtt )t their success. They know their seeds are right before they are sent to the many thousand deslers from whom the planter gets them. The dealer kno"s s
 bis to be fact requiring DO further luestiou, and the planter tnos It to oa "a sbstantigl fact when harvest tina come. Another iilust atio2 cf the va!ue 1f this method is found in Fer:y's Se'd Annual, in which there IS nothing CGt facts. Facts that prove O. the greatest yaluz to every planter, that can b. had from DO other source. There are nc worthy facts left out, and no unworthy theories let in Ths uoos is sent free "a avery one who asks for lt. 4 eestal ,srd with your name and address sebi the firm will bring 1t to you.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Who the Dead Miner Was.

The miner who died Monday morning on Washington street under the name of Peter Dunlap appears now to have been Peter Dunfry, a well-to-do prospector aged 46 yeerF, He came from Pima county and leaves house and lot in Tucson, four horses and a wagon in Phoenix and mining claims in Silver Bell and Olive camps, Pima county, and in the Harqu8 Halas. Some years ago he sold the Apache mine in the Catalina mountains for $50, 900 and deposited his receipts with Lord & Williams, two Tucson bankerF, through whom he lost over Sll,OOO. He did not die from drink as has been stated, but from a sickness of some considerable duration. Ills estate is believed to be considerable and should be looked after by his frends.-Gazette.
 ''Pete" Dumyhy was an old timer here we'll and favorably known to every min- ing man in the country and the an- nouncement of his death will be sur prise to all. He was a quiet, u nob- strusive man, a good miner and good citizen. He was unmarried and about 50 years of age. He leaves property here valued st about $500.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

along the lower side of his orchard, for instance, where the waste water from his trees will keep it irrigated, for the green food is an almost absolute neces- sity if he has team and COWS. Since the establishment of packing house ln Los Angeles it has been demonstrated that pork can be produced on California alfalfa at a lower price than can be done in the best corn sections of Illinois or Iowa, and if few weeks feeding of corn IS given to top off with. the quality is as good as the best eastern pork.
 There is enough really good alfalfa land in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties lying idle today to produce food sufficient to fatten hogs enough to eup- ply all the pork products now being con- sumed on the Pacific coast. When will the owners of the great ranches still lying idle and unproductive take hold of this opportunity to turn into gold the latent forces which lie dormant in their soils?
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

ANENT the birthday of Prince Bis mark country papers are pu blishing his portrait in Napoleonic quantities. In the text he is generally characterized as the "Iron Chancellor" but unless sp- pearance sadly belle the man of blood and steel, he must be a wooden chancel- Tor. Certainly many of his supposed portraits have the sem blance of a rude blocking out by apprenticed hands and iustesd of bying what he really is, one of the foremost men of any age and na- tion, he looks a dull, unneaning, phleg- matic Dutcbman. High art may be re produced in living pictures, but the country papers fail to reach even the mediocre in the reproduction of a picture of the great German.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
GREAT FORAGE PLANT

The experience of southern California
 farmers, says the Los Angeles Herald, with alfalfa demonstrates that Is prob; ably the best forage plant in the world.
 While this plant has been cultivated so
 extensively south of the Tehachepi as it has been in Tulare and Kern counties the results have been sufficiently satis- factory to induce it planting to a much greater degree than formerly. While it does extremely we'll oa the moist and ssmi-moist lands of our lower valleys. yielding usually from five to six crops on such soil, it's greatest productIveness is shown on irrigated lands, where eight and nine cuttings IS the rule rather than the exception. As green food for horses and cattle it has no superior, and as E steady food for hogs it has no equal
 While our farmers have not been able to put alfalfa into the stock at 90 cents per ton, price recently quoted by { Colorado authority as the actual cost ir that state, it has been produced at price sufficiently low to rule every com
 peting grass out of the market. Nc fruit grower has so small ranch tha
 he can afford to do without at iegst { small patch of thIs valuable fodder plant
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

THE street committee is doing gocd work and Tucson for the first tune in her long and cbeckered history is about to have a system of paved sidewalks. The present city government was elected on 6 nineteenth century wave which neith- CT stands still nor goes backwards, but moves irresistably oaward. The result within wear will be a tremendous stride jn the right direction. In tbis good work the auth 7rities are ably sec onded by the property owners, who cheerfully incur the expenses incidental to public improvement. The trustees of the Methodist church were the first to move in the matter, and now on every surveyed street may be seen the evi dence of contemplated change. Our citizens are deserving of commendatiOn for their enterprise.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Importau. Land Decisions

Furnished by W. D. Harlan, Land Attorney, Washington, D. 0.
 The pending adverse proceedings suspends the running of time allowed pre-emptor, by statute, for the sub- mission of final proof. The amendment of rue 5 of practice permits the claim ant, if he so desires, to submit proof during such proceedings, but no statu- tory right is lost by failure to take sd- vantage of said amendment.
 An actual discovery of mineral with in the limits of mining claim is pre- requisite to the location.
 When a legal mineral location has been made on land returned as egri- cultural the slight presumption in favor of the return IS overcome and the burd- en of proof shifts to the party attacking the mineral claim.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
LAST YEARS GOLD INCREASE.

Colorado, says Harper's Weekly. did
 not distance California and become the
 first of the gold producing states, as was
 predicted during the latter part of 1851, the Denver Republican canvhssed the gold mining districts and footed up the
 returns for the year at ll,235,5O6, an increase of three and three-quarter mil lion dollars over the yield of 1855. Wells, Fargo. & Co.,. the bankers and express men who carry practically all the gold and silver out of all the mining camps of the west, published larger estimate in their forecast of the official figures ln circular dated December 31. 1891.
 They put Coiorado's yield at s22, ,l75.- POT, and Callfornia's at SIG, ,690,646 From the United States mint at Denver
 have Just obtained the official figures that have been sent to the director of the mint, at Washington, D. c. They are as follows: Gold, Sl0.6l6, ,463; silver (estIma ed at 63 cents an ounce, the average p-1ce in 1894, Sl4,96l ,525; lead, B, l99, ,175, copper, S76l ,575.
 These figures are disappointing tc those who believe that they know Colo rado to have uncovered the richest gold mines in America, but to those who have no other information than the figures give them the increase in gold production from four millions in 1S9O and seven and half millions Tn 1893 to nearly ten and ree-quarter millions Tn 1891 is sufficiently great to seem almost So too is the lightning like change the state has made from a silver to a gold camp.
 California is still the leading gold state. It has been credited with an ad- vance from twelve and a half millions ID 1893 to more than fourteen millions Tn 1894. The gain during the last year was due to the new working of old mines, idle for dozen years, but now worked again under the new hydraulic mining law. Both in California, as everywhere else in this country, IL IS the quartz niniug that yields the heaviest returns This needs so great an original outlay that there are said to be hundreds of mines ID California, unproductive, un- developed, or aitc tcgether idle, that are the property of men and companies without the means to work them. The improved modern machinery used in quartz mining is what makes this more profitable than ever before, and it IS in- yestment ID these mines that has in creased, and will in years to cone in- crease the gold output of the state. The Utica mine, which turned out Sl, ,309,- 9S7 51 iE 1893; the Kennedy mine, in Amador county, which yielded s662,- 62; and the North Star mine, at Grass Valley, which produced S335, 756.- 94-were all old mines that had been reopened or worked by perfect methods. According to the San Francisco Chron- icle, "the state mineralogist says that more attention is being pad to mining than for twenty years past Mn from
 the east are looking over tte gold fields, and there have been more inquiries for
 mining properties during the past year than at any time during the proceeding two decades"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

THE capture of the American merch- ant steamer Virginius by Spanish iron- clad in West Indian waters Is matter of history to which current events: as reported in the daily papers, lend pecu- liar interest. The Virginins. tillbust- CT, loaded with arms, and manned by Englishmen, Americans, and Cubsns, was captured, after being riddled with shot, and was taken into the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Sixty or seventy officers and men were h9ndcuffed and marched to the city prlson, and the governor ordered that ten should be shot each morning at sunrise until the last of these revolutionists-or sympa- thizers with the evolution-should be killed, and meantime seized the lines Of telegraph for the government, forbid ding the operators to send despatches' One of these operators, however, dis- obeyed and outwitted the governor; sent a message to Jamaica; and thus, after twenty of the prisoners had beens slaughtered, secured for the others the protection of the British men-of-war Dauotless and Destruction. The story of this occurrence is told, and very well told lin the gulse of fiction), by William Drysdale, in Harper's Young people for March 26th.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Were the Laws Pasted by on the Last Day by the 18th Leg islative
 Assembly Legal!
TUCsoN, March 9, 1S9;

TUCSON, March p, 1885.
 ED. CITIzEN:-It appears to me that the failure of the Eighteenth legislative assembly to pass the spproOri -tion bill was not the greatest Error committed by that body for, if have been informed rightly, the assembly of that body ad- journed peremptorily at 12:30 o'clock c. m. on the morning of the 23d day of March, without having had the pro- ceedings of the last day read to them and approved. Without this having been done neither tue speaker nor the chief clerk have a right to certify to tn sm, and the proceedings of the as- sembly upon that day have certainly not been legally passed.
 This is very grave matter, and should be passed upon before the proceedings of that day are embodied in our laws, for there were some very important measures passed upon that day, au d may entail unfathomable litigation upon our people.
 One of the bills passed by the house upon that day was the enc creating the county of Navajo. l would like to hear from some of our legal lights upon this matter, for believe it should be agitat- ed before It is too late.
 FRED G. HUGHES.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

THE amended school jaw IS not With out its advantages in the interest Of edu- cation. Under its provisions sisters, cousins and aunts of the trustees can be appointed only by and with the consent of a full board. Hsd such a law Eeen in force years ago our public schools would have been benefited by it. Trus- tees have been repeatedly elected who had nc earthly interest in the pubic schools beyond their use to pension OH dependent relatives on the pay roll o1 the district, qualification being a matter of secondary consideration Tucson has had more than her royal share of 1t, hut under the new law we trust that the end has been reached in this direction ana that relationship to a trustee instead or being the first consideration will not be at all.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

NEWSPAPER subscriptions are infalli- ble tests of mans honesty. If man be dishonest, he will cheat the printer some way-sa that be has paid when he has not. and sent money which was lost in the mall, or will take the paper and will not pay for it on the plea that he did not subscribe for it; or will move off out to California, or back to the states, for instance, leaving it go to the office he left. Thousands of professed Christians are wonderfully dishonest and the books of the newspaper man will tell fearfully on the final settlement of the judgment day.-Ex.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

SINCE the county officials have learn ed that the county classification bill, cutting down their salaries, passed both houses to take effect January l, 1897, they lock better natured. The clause was dropped off iD enrolling, and the bill signed is rot the bill that went through the house and council. The bill as signed actually wiped out the present term of the assessor, altogether after the people had elected au assessor for two years, and he hsd served part of the term. Such Legislation was cal culated to make our officials look sour The bIl passed not being signed at sll, il 10 Dks questionable whether the classlfi- cation of untieS will become law al all under the proposed conditions.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Guide to the Yukon.

The CITIZEN is in receipt of copy of Wilson's Guide to the Yukon," which is now ready for distribution. The book contains the first reliable and accurate information yet published concerning the Yukon basin and the interior of Al aska
 In it are set forth at length descrip- tions of the different routes into the country, the expenses necessary to be incurred, the outfit indispensable to those making the trip, advice as to con- veyance, etc., all of which makes the book one of great value.
 There are maps of the 40-Mile and Birch Creek (60- -Mile), mining districts, also maps of the routes into the Yukon basin.
 The book will prove a valuable guide to anyone making this trip or thinking cf making it, besides giving much lnfor- nation in regard to the best places to the different tributarles of the Yukon and the general character and contour of the country.
 The book contains thirty half tone illuC orations taken from along the route. Price, paper, 75 cents. For sale by the Cslven company, Seattle, Wash.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
Destructive Forest Fire.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. March BOA special to the Post from Cloverport, Ky. says that the most destructive forest fire ever seen here is now raging few miles back of Cloverport. Ore person is known to have perished and the property loss it IS said will run into the hundreds of thousands.
 ENGLISH, Ind. March 30--Forest fires in the southern part of Indiana continue to do much damage.
 ELLIS, Kss. March BOA fire has con- sumed half the town of Hayes City. It is spreading rapidly.