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Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
GuBERNAToRIAL APPOINTMENT.

Jackson, Miss, Dec. 4.--Gov. McLaurin has appointed Hon. Thad Woods, of En- terprise to succeed Circuit Judge 8. H. Terrell, recently appointed to the su- prene benchs for the term beginning May 10 next.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
FRISCO RESULTS.

San Francisco Cal, Dec. 4.-Weather fine; track fast.
 First Race-Five furlongs, 2-year-olds. Roltaire, 103 (Gardner), to l, won; Tor pedo, second; Murcutio, third. Time, 1:07k.
 Second Race-Seven furlongs selling SaIvable, 1OS (Martin), 9 to 2, won; Walter J., second; Crafty, third Time, 1:2SE.
 Third Race-Six furlongs. Bellicose, 1OS (Shields), to 10 won; McLight sec
 Fourth Race-Mile and an eighth, sell ing. Captive, 107 (Martin), to 2, won; Ostler Joe, second Fred Gardner, third. Time 1:56.
 Fifth Race-Six furlongs. Imp. Santa Bella, IA (Coady) Il to 5, won, Good Times, second; Sport McAllister, third Time 1:15.
 Sixth Race-Five furlongs, 2-year-olds. Dunboy, 105 (Martin), to 2, won; Scotch Rose, second; Sly, third. Time, 1:OlA.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
THE TURF.
NEW ORLEANS RESULTS.

New Orleans, Dec. 4.-Perfect weather for outdoor sports today drew out a large attendance. The track was still heavy and very lumpy, and rank outsid- CTS won two of the five events. Rapa- latchie, before the second race, ran away two miles in a breakaway, went to the post at 20 to 1, and won easily. J. H. Grafton another 20 to 1 shot, also won the third event all the way. The other races went to well backed horses. The original three first races were declared off and new ones got up. Summarizes
 First Race-For 2-year-olds, selling, five furlongs. Henrica, 100 Q1irsch), to g. won; Double Dummy second, Vencedor third. Time, 1:07.
 Second Race-Selling, seven furlongs. Rapalatchie, S9 (Songer), 20 to l, won; Will Elliott second, Pitfall third. Time, 1:38.
 Third Race-Selling, six furlongs. J. H. Grafton, 96 (F. Morris), 20 to 1, won; Frank Jaubert second, May Ashley third. Time, 1:21
 Fourth Race-For all ages, selling. Banquo H., 95 (Clay), Il to 5, won; Wis count second, Robert Bonner third. Time, 1:21R.
 Fifth Race-Selling, six furlongs. Liz zetta, 1O4 (Ross), to 5, won; Billy Jordan second, Jim Hogg third. Time, 1:2lh.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
TODAY'S ENTRIES.

New Orleans, Dec. 4-Entries for to- morrow's races:
 First ace-Three-quarters of a mile, selling. Issie O., 104; Jim Hogg, 93; Timberland, 97; King Michael, 106; I'm age, S9; Rapalatchie, 99; Martha Smith, 102; Mrs. Bradshaw, 94; Mr. Dunlap, 1O1; Whiff, 99.
 Second Race-One mile, selling, 2-year- olds. Sugar Cane Ben Cuna, 97; Pom mery Sec, Vencador, Ivory, Elkin, 100; Koenigin, 105; Otto H., Elyria, 10S.
 Third Race-One mile, selling Moloch, e1: Loyal Prince, 93; Newhouse, Willie w, 96; Old Dominion, Trixie, 101; Miss Rowett, ,7104; Sidkel, 105. M
 Fifth Race-Seven- -eighths of mile, selling Remington, 97; Bridgeton, sam mic Young, Mollie B., Princess Rose, Pa- mini, 102; Devault, 105; Loudon, 107
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
FORTIFICATIONs BILL.
t Has Passed the Senate Appro.
 prating $1O,763, ,SSS.
Denver News.l


 A dispatch from Washington says:
 The fortification bill which passed the senate appropriated the liberal sum of SIC, ,763, ,SS8. After the committee on coast defenses concluded it's investiga- lions the house committee on appro- priatlons availed itself of the informa tion obtained by the senate coast de fense committee and the house commit tee also followed up the investigation and concluded to appropriate the sum of $5, ,845, ,S27, This was beyond all pre- cedent, new departure in the line of ooast defense, but the senate was not content with this, and after due con- sideration in the committee on appro- priations the senate increased the amount by S4,91S,051.
 Senator Squire was invited to sit with the senate committee on appropriations during their review of the subject, and the matters in question were thoroughly considered Tn the committee, so that the main question ofimportance of hay ing this large appropriation made was conceded without objection in the sen- ate' and the bill passed unanimously.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

GENERAL WEYLER has issued procla- nation iorbidding the exporIation ot tobacco from Cuba after ten days The large tobacco manufacturers of Tampa are much perturbed over the embargo, as they have large quantities purchased but fear they cannot get it out of the island within the time specified. This move on the part of General Weylel is regarded as one to throw the cigar ma kers out of employment, and by this means cut off large revenue from the Cuban cause Almost the entire Span ish population of Tampa have forwarded a vigorous protest to Madrid against the enforcement of the proclamation.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

was acquiesced in by all Democrats, as a matter of public policy, but if Mir. Cameron has abused this high conf dence, and has imposed upon the Gov ernor a Republican and partisan, there should not only be revocation of the appointment of Mir. Pugh, but Colin Cameron ought also to be compelled to step down and out for abusing his trust. As the Gazette says, such appointments reflect upon the intelligence of the Demo crats in the Territory. However, we trust that the Gazette is mistaken, or that Gov. Franklin was unacquainted with the partisan Republican character of MT. Pugh. In either case, the matter will no doubt be adjusted properly and sat- isfactorily. Mistakes will occur in the best regulated families. but they are generally susceptible of repair. Eradi- cate 'em
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
PLAY TRUNIPS.

Several of our territorial contempora- ries, for evident want of another sub ject, are writing abusive articles reflect ing on President Cleveland. Well, "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise" Of what possible effect can these calumniators of a great man expect their articles to produce. Do they sup pose the reading public to be as ignorant as themselves? It must be this, else they would turn their faciie pens to more glorious use. Newspaper readers (and this means all the people, of the present day are too enlightened to swal- low such rot. Grover Cleveland's rec ord as prIvate citizen and twice presi- dent of these great United States, stands to-day without parallel in the history Of the country, present conditions and those existing one hundred years ago being considered. This being the case, why must the newspapers break out at intervaIs-like an eruption of pips-into calumniations and abusive comments on his administration of public affairs |? Again, by what right do these newspa- pers arrogate to themselves the func- tions of public mentors? The people who read such trash only scoff at it? No other effect does it, or can it, have The public form their own opinions of public men from their public acts, and slanderous newspaper attacks meyer convince, but invariably disgust.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
A CERVANTES HERO.

General Weyler, of Cuban fame, be- lieves his mission to be, to whip the de- tested yankees. What sort of an opin- ion can this clustering hidaIgo have oi the United States. anyhow? With one hundred and fifty thousand men, fully equipped with artillery and ammuni- tion, in Cuba, he has failed lamentably in crushing the rebellion there, and yet he thinks thls force would not be made quate to cope with the entire United Sta es, and punish us for our meddliDg. As a fighting nation, our reputation abroad must be great.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

THE Arizona Gazette complains of the appointment of c, W. Pugh as sec retary of the live stock commission of the territory, and attributes his appoint ment to the influence of Colin Cameron, the Republican chairman of this com mission The Gazette says: "Pugh is a Republican of the offensive partisan stripe," and calls on Governor Franklin to revoke the appointment. The HER ALD has heretofore refrained from all endeavor to in any wise interfere with the acts or appointments of the Cover nor, recognizing him as the head of the Democracy, and the highest public func- tionary Tn the Territory, and feeling that in all cases he would sustain tue honor of the Democracy and his own self-respect as the highest member of that party. The fact that Governor Franklin retained Colin Cameron, 9 known Republican, on the live stock commission, in view of MT. Cameron's capability and his past experience, and also by reason of the urgent request made on him to do so by all the stock men of the Territory regardless of party,
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
THE ARID LANDS.
The Agricultural Development
 in Apache County.

Most a wonderful improvementin in the above important science has been talk ing place in this county during the past twelve months. Our readers can hardly fail to notice it. Rarely an issue of the HERALD but contains one or more mo- tices of final proof. These, we should remember, mean more valuation to the taxable property of the commonwealth and a new home blocked and carved out of the waste land of the United States government transferred to the county. From an accurate and reliable source, we learn that g 900 acres of land have been reclaimed during the period mentioned. Of course, all these acres are not under cultivation, but they are every one of them susceptible of cultivation. as the estimate is based on reservoir capacity. and the reser- voirs are either already completed and full of water. or they are far advanced in construction, and will be complete within the time for sowing the next crop. This is encouraging. Apache county should we'll feel proud of the progression thus exhibited by her citi- zens. With the excep ton of Maricopa. and possibly Gila, no other county in the Territory can make the showing ID this line that Apache has.
 The St. Johns Irrigating company, one of the largest in the county, are contemplating the construction of ditch from their big reservoir three and a half miles south of St. Johns, the ditch to run along the upper edge of great mesa southwest of town. This construction will cost the company the sum of S, 900, and will, when completed, add to the cultivated land of the county five thousand acres of the very finest agricultural land in the county, or, for that matter, in the Territory.
 All in all, this county is rapidly forg- ing ahead. Our people are not asleep. They realize the value of the natural resources so abundantly spread around them, and are utilizing them. Keep at it. Ere many years land will be as scarce in Arizona as it is in Kansas, The old cry of No water" has now been exploded. Water is in abundance. Confine it here lies the whole secret.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

of the Democratic party must you look
 for relief You may cry to your god
 Mckinley, but your voice has no effect.
 Body and soul, he is for the owners of gold. The baleful influence of the yel- low demon has taken possession of his every faculty, Call, if you will, 'Mc- Kinley and Free Silver" and mocking echo is your only answer. Continue in your hallucination, and ruin and ret will be your end. But light is break ing over the financial horizon-a second star of Bethlehem. It's pale pure rays are streaming above us and eoncentrat- Ing over Chicago. By July :, it will have reached it's effulgence. Guide your course, then, by this beacon, and relief will be granted you.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
APPROPRIATIONS,

The present take-all-in-sight-and-a- little-more congress is furnishing the people spectacle of incompetency and profigacy in the disbursement of the public funds never before equalled ; prohigate for the reason of their neglect to first provide the revenue from which to meet the demands of their appropri- ations. Their only apparent business is for each member or coterie to pass their special gift bill by allowing their oppo- nents to pass theirs. The result of this plan is the senseless passage of every thing and anything in the shape of an appropriation. This is reciprocity ex- emplifed.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Your Physical Condition

Needs attention at this time. If you are tired, weak and nervous, It is clear that you're blood IS impure, and with out doubt there has been too much over-work or strain on braIn and body. The course of treatment for such con- dition is plain and simple. The blood must first be purified so that the nerv- ous system, and in fact all the organs will be fed upon pure blood. Intelligent people without number have testified that the best blood purifier, nerve tonic and strength imparting medicine Is Hoods Sarsaparilla. Nervousness, loss of sleep and general debility all vanish when Hoods Sarsapariila Is persist ently taken; in a word, health and hap piness follows after trking Hoods
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
KOLBROOK ITEMS.

Henry Smith and MT Gibson left here this morning, going south, MT. Smith to inspect some cattle he expects to ship in & few days, and Mir. Gibson to buy sheep.
 r. H. Labertaux came in from Ra. mer's, at Canon creek. last night. He will commence shipping steers in a day or two.
 R. c. Longrnore is in town shipping his wool. This is about the last clip of the season to be shipped this year.
 J. D. Houck sold part of his sheep in Kansas City Monday. They brought him $I 734 each, net.
 Mrs. Ellen Greer, one of Apache county's oldest residents and heaviest taxpayers, came in on No. l to-day. She has been spending the winter in Provo, Utah, where her younger chil- dren, as well as her two oldest grand children, have been attending school the past winter.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Drew, from Pleasant Valley, are spending few days in town.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
The Wool Situation.
lEXchange.I


 A decrease beyond all precedent in the Australian wool clip for 1895 is re- ported to the State Department by Daniel w. Maratta, United Statei Con- sul General at Melbourne. For several years past the clip has been falling of. In 1891, when the down grade con- menced, the number of sheep in New South Wales, for example, was 61 .531, 4l6, while last year they numbered only 47 ,433, ,332. Between 1894 and 1895 alone the decrease was 9,500,O0O sheep, a greater number than in any previous year. The decrease during the drouth of 1892 was less than 4,UJ0 GOO, and even the great drouth of 1S84 ieiS New South Wales with only 6,25O. 900 fewer sheep. The decrease during 1895 resulted from two causes-a disastrous drouth in many districts and the fact that the clip ofl89t was unduly augmented by the great shearing strike of that year, which, by delaying shearing, gave the clips ofmany stations oomuch growth. Mir. Maratta says that the very heavy losses in sheep cannot fail to direct at- tentlon to the possibility of further decrease ofthe 1896 yield compared with the attenuated clip of 1895.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
THE HEAVEN Is WORKING.

The people are beginning to realize that tho thirty years of Republican rule in the United States, which made mil lionaires of the favored ones at the ex- pense of the many, has actually placed the government in the power of these moneyed monopolists. The glamour of prosperity with which their vision was yelled, in the past few years, has been rudely dispelled. They see now the depth of their degradation, and from out their wallow of despond they call loudly upon this same party to come to their relief. Too late, poor deluded fol- lowers of truculent faction; the prin- ciples of the Republican party are too firmly intertwined with the interests of the gold hoarders. They dare not swerve from their allegiance to Wall street. The gold octapus has it's many golden tentacles glued so firmly about them that only by the annihilation of the one or the other can relief come from that direction. In the silver wing
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Immigration Commissioners.


 Governor Franklin in recognizing the validity of the law creating the board of immigration commissioners shows him. self to be sound lawyer, as well as ap. preciating the importance and useful ness to the territory of the board of commissioners. There is no one law on our statute book which can, and will he of more benefit to the material in- terests of the territory than this, if it's intent and purposes are carried into ef- feet, for it means the investment of millions of foreign capital in Arizona's undeveloped resources; it means the coming to Arizona of thousands of fam lilies, who are seeking homes this &C., complished, the natural result will be the increase of our taxable resources millions of dollars. and with this in- crease of taxable properties, will follow the reduction of taxation, as the tax now upon us will be distributed, Tn a measure, among the new developed wealth resources and the new settlers who will come to abide with us,
 When the law was enacted the press of the country declared it to be one of the most practical means ever suggested for the development of new country and the appointment of newspaper men as commissioners the proper agents for the work, as they are from the nature of their business. well calculated 10 set forth the resorces of their respective localities. It will be matter for gen. eral congratulation among the people, that this important law, has been rec ognized by the governor, and that the taxpayers will receive the benefits therefrom.
 In the interest of the general good the Star sincerely hopes that the unfair, unjust, pettifoggIng opposition of a handful ofpolitical starvlings, and petty jealousies will not be allwed 10 longer stand in the way of the enforcement of this law, and that the territory may receive it's fullest benefits.
 The governor has again placed his foot down on the obstructionists to the best interests of the territory and the people will heartily commend him for the same.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

DID we not say a week ago that Mir. Mckinley was nearing the breakers We felt the mist from them, and thus our prophetic utterance. Silver is in the swim with a vengeance, and it's course is so great that it cannot be crushed out. It is swallowing up all other issues. Illinois has swung into the silver ranks; Iowa next, and now Ohio comes in with roar and a thud that will shake the Mckinley boom to It's very destruction. South Carolina has declared for free coinage, as also Mich igan. Kentucky will be next. Then keep your eye on the Chicago conven- tion. There will be but one measure silver. The logic of the times is draw ing the Democracy that way, and if the majority of the great party have their way, the Chicago convention will de- clare quivocaily for free coinage by nominating a candidate who will go be- fore the people squarely on that issue.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
OUT OF TUNE.

The Coconino Sun, in an editorial in last weeks issue, refecting on the low price of wool and the sheep raisers' dis tress thereat, says: "They, however, are very hopeful that the next adminis- tration will wipe out the wrongs inflicted by the Democrats. Now, isn't it about time this old chestnut was relegated to the misty past? In Apache county there are quite as many sheep raisers as iE Coconino, and nearly all Democrats, at that. Our sheep raisers' sorest dis tress lies in the miserable waste of printers ink ringing changes on that old Economist-Republican gag, as above quoted. It took for a while, when it was new, but to-day it is sadly out of tune and carries no force to an intelli- gent wool grower. Strike new chord.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
The Biggest Fool at Large

Is the individual who persistsntly neg lects his health, and the means of pre- serving it. Many persons who are not constitutional idiots do this. They are genuine objects of compassion as well as censure. 4 failure of appetite, loss of sleep and flesh, impaired digestion an uncertain state of the bowels and symptoms of biliousness are so many warnings of the approach of disease. To disregard them is ahiect folly, which of- tended nature in tue time punishes severely, if not fatally. That genial and thoroughly reliable preventive of bodily mischief in the shape of chronic disease, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, will, if re- sorted to in time, avert those disorders, to the removal of which it is also fully adequate. Among these are chrome indigestion, liver complaint, kidney trouble constipation, nervousness, rheumatism and malaria.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

IT is not wise "to quarrel with one's bread and butter," is an old. old max i'm, but oh ! how true. And yet. every day of our lives we see it traversed with the most reckless abandon. In nearly every instance, though. the reckless one is afforded many weary days for atone ment, atonement that comes too late All that is then left is the aftermath of dead sea fruit-the cold, cheerless ashes of miscarried ambition.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

THE Prescott Courier denounces the Tucson Star for its publication of an ar ticle attributing gold-bug propensities to Attorney General Wilson In this instance, the Courier's action in brand ing the assertion as false, is proper and correct. Every one who knows General Wilson-and his friends are legion- know him to be the most pronounced of free-silverites-frst, last and all the time; and by what stretch of imagina- ton any person or paper could conceive such heresy on the part of the General is beyond our ken. Free coinage of sill yer and no compromise, is General Will son's watchword. We know whereof we speak, and We speak it fearlessly and defy successful contradiction.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Arizona Funding Act.

The House Committee on Territories on May 2l, reported favorably on the bill amending and extending the pro visions of the Arizona funding act. It authorizes the funding of all outstand- ing obligations of the Territory till January l, 1897, al! evidences of indebt- edness authorized by Legislative enact- ments of the Territory bearing a higher rate of interest than authorized by the act of 1890. shall be funded, with inter- est which has accrued and may accrue until funded, into lower interest bear ing bonds.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
A Pretty State of Things.
New YOIk Times.l

"Tea- buyers may always safely as- sume that any tea with a pale green color is an adu!terated or faced tea-as it is known to the trade"
 Andyet that is the kind of tea that we drink most of! We understand, more over, that this aduIteration is largely of poisonous nature.
 He IS a murderer who kills one for revenge. He is a general who kills many for glory.
 What is he who kills or injures many for gain.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
GALATEA REVERSED.

Since the Rev. Anna Shaw has found the long g-sought-for, the. ideal man, this world, to us at least, is a gloomier place. In our cursed ignorance, with never a thought to the vast and seemingly Im- probable scientific discoveries of this twentieth century taking place about us every day, we derided the idea that such being of the genus homo was ex- tant and accordingly had firmly decided to swagger and bully our way through life on the old lines; and now, in the very zenith of our amiable ambition, the above report comes with the clap of impending doom. It cannot be false, for dId not inc Rev. Shaw discover him? And is she not known to the world as cOnnoisseur in male ideals? Besides, if more convincing proof is necessary, note the diabolical (pardon the express sionl and deliberate mode of description she enters into, i. e.-found the male ideal, in ancient San Francisco; name of Griggs (decldedly a plebian), and in personal appearance, handsome. As if 1t was not enough 10 laud the moral per factions of her wonderful discovery, she must add the personal also. Out upon you, Anna, you have brought humllia- tion upon our sex, and you have satisfied us beyond any doubt that we have been unjustly initiated against by the Gre n