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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14

went to Hampson's ranch. No particu- lars of what happened at the time of the killing have been received. Smith has had charge of cattle owned by the Turtle Cattle company at Morenci for several years.
 The Patterson mill in Gold Basin was destroyed by fire on the afternoon of April 30th, and the origin of the fire Is unknown. The mill was on the trail between the boarding house and the Cyclopic mine, and the probability is that some one in passing threw a cigarette into the in1ammable material surrounding the building. The ma chinery and material in the building is total loss The rock breaker fcl! from height of twenty feet and was broken into two pieces. There was no insurance on the property and the the loss is considerable. .--Mohave Miner.
 In the appraisemcnt of the Fort Lowell lands the mesa lands have Ieen held at the price Of 10 cents per acre. Those in the valley ran all the way from $l to $5 per a:re. All unoccu- pied and unentered lands will be put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. No price less than the ap- praised value will be accepted. Par ties occupying entered lands will be compelled to pay the price for which the land is assessed, but no more, as such lands will not be put mp at public auction. Every forty acres on the reservation was given an appraised value. A schedule of the appraise- ment may be seen at the land office. - Tucson Citizen.
 Prof. Devol returned to-day from Phoenix where he has been for two weeks looking after the swine inter- ests of the Salt River valley. He reports that the ranches upon which swine plague appeared are now all under strict quarantine and the dis. ease is abaling rapidly. With close observance of the quarantine regula- tiOns which he has established, DO further heavy losses may be expected. In fact the outlook is now very bright and the ranchers who are very willing to do everything iu their power to stamp out the disease. only regret that the quarantine was not established two months since.
 Shortly after 8 o'clock this morning two masked men entered the White House saloon, held up Wint House, the proprietor, aud forced him at the muzzle of revolver to open tic safe. One of the robbers took the valuables from the safe, but in his hurry dropped sack containing s200 or more belong ing to Bert Kipgsbury. The plumber secured consisted of about $500 in coin, a gold watch and chain. faro box, four pistols, q carbiue and a bottle of champagne, the last thing taken. The watch and chain and $75 of the money stolen belonged to Mir. House, and the balance of the money to Messrs. Kingsbury & Crooks. Globe Silver Belt.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14

T o. F.-FLAGSTAfF LODGE. NO. Il, l. meets every Friday evening in Masonic
 J. w. WEATHERFORD, N. G. CHAs. CLARK, Secretary.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14
DRoposALs FOR MILITARY sr7pp,1rs

DROPOSALS FOR MILITARY SUPPLIES J at Road StatiOns.-Ofiice of the Chief Quartermaster, Denver. Colorado April IS, 1S98. .--Sealed proposals in triplicate, will be received at this office until Il o'clock A, M. on May IS, 1898, and then opened in the presence of attending bidders, for furnishing Fuei Forage and Water. at Road stations in the Department of the Colorado. during the fiscal year commencing July 1. 1896. Blank forms be furnished on application to this office. or to any Post QuarJerinaster in the Dppart- ment. The Government reserves the right to re'ecf aRRy TS 1T S! S|Hs Sr any part par slhereSf
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14

NfOUNTAIN LODGE, NO. 15. K. OF P.
 WI meets every Wednesday night in their castle hall in c. A. k. hall. All visiting brothers invited to attend. c. H. CoBLR, K. of R. s.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14

EIRsT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH U North San Francisco street, Thomas O. Moffett, pastor, Sabbath services: Preachlnn Il a. m. and 8:15 p. m.; Sunday school, 10 u m.; Y. P. 5. C. E.. prayer meeting 1915 D, m Mid-week conference pnd prayer, Thu rsda V evening. A cordial invitutlon'is extended to all.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

FIRST NJ. E. CHURCH, CORNER OF ! Church and Lareux Streets, B NJ. Dan ford Pastor. Preaching at II a. m. and D. m. Sundays; Sunday school at 10 n. m.. Oscar Gibson, Superintendent. Class meetings at l2:l5 D. m. Epwortb League 6:3O D. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:3O Everybody welcome.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
Solid Truth.

In conversation with a gentleman in
this city, who has followed the grocery
business for fifteen years, he said in
speaking of the money question:
Those who are opposed to the free
coinage of silver and more money.
argue that the volume of money has no
effect upon the prosperity Of the people:
they admit the dollar is harder to get.
but contend that it will buy double the
amount of goods. I want to tell YOU X
is mistaken idea. l can pass along my
shelves and point out a great many
staple articles that are practically the
same price as they were when wheat
Wis bringing dollar bushel. The
f1:QeS. - said, ''is plain enough te
me; tie railroads can and do hold up
freight charges, and the big trusts die
tate prices on nearly if not all staple
goods, and the retail grocer must of
course sell accordingly" Concluding.
he said, Il am in favor of more money.
and l don't care what it is made of so
it has Uncle Sans guarantee back Of
ii. MO. World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
The Arkansn. KieL..

The Arkansas Kicker is among the
latest list of comers to the Populist
fold of able newspapers. 1t is published
az Hardy, Ark, by w. S. Morgan, secre-
tary OF the Z. R. P. A., and George A.
Puckett- These names are sufficient
guarantee that every issue will be like
the initial one-a hummer. There ara
about 200 Populist papers in the coun-
try at the present time all doing noble
service for the cause of humanity as
enunciated by the Peoples party plat
form and the number is constantly in
creasing. The Kicker makes the third
paper launched by Bro Morgan in as
many years and they are all doing
splendid work. Bro. Pickett is a very
able writer and has long been the per-
sonal associate of Bro. Morgan.-Ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
A GRAND DOCUMENT.
AN OLD-LINE DEMOCRAT RE-
VIEWS SITUATION.
fIe Answers n Series of Questions That
Are Now UppermOst In the Minds of
Millions of Democratic and Republican
Votera

The following letter and questions
were recently addressed to Judge x. B.
Saunders, of Bolton, Texas. The judge
has been one of the old line democrats,
and the questions were propounded to
him by some of his old time friends:
Sparta, Bell Co., Tex.
Hon. X. B. Saunders, ESQ, Bolton, Tex:
Dear Sir: Relying upon your frank
ness, intelligence, integrity and patriot
ism and on our long acquaintance with
you, and further, knowing you to be a
plain man of the people, take the lib
erty to ask your view on the following
questions:
l. Are you monometallist or bimet-
allist? Are you in favor of our nation
establishing the ratio of 16 of silver to
! OF gold, and undertaking to maintain
it without reference to action on the
part of England or any other country?
z. Do you believe that majority Of
the democratic party in Texas and the
United States is in favor of the free
coinage of silver at the old ratio of 16
to L, and if so, do you believe that this
majority in spite of the influences of
the money power. backed by the presi-
dent, John Sherman and eastern lead
ers of the so-called democratic and re-
publican parties, will be able to have
their will expressed in the national
platform?
8. Is 1t your opinion that the present
method, principles and practices of the
president and his co-workers are in ac-
cord with the time-honored principles
OF democracy, and if not, are they in
accord with any existing party? If so,
which one?
4. Upon a calm and impartial sur
Vey OF the present political field which
one of the parties is the one, in your
opinion, that nearly accords with the
democratic party as organized and
maintained by Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson, and what is the duty of the
citizen under the present political con-
dition of parties and the country?
3. Do you consider the present con-
dition of things as menacing any great
evil to our government and country?
II so, how and why? Your early
answer will oblige
Your friends,
!. X. WALKER,
]. NJ. CRAMER,
G.. w. COLE,
and Othore
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

and too often when he has left his fam
lily in easy circumstances. These mat
ters may seem unimportant and insig-
nificant to the casual observer, but they
as surely mark the corruption of the
hour, the decadence of simple, honest
patriotism; the political, moral and So
cial drifting of the office-holding class
from the well defined landmarks of a
glorious national past, as the light fol-
lows the rising of the sun The people
OF our great nation can never be too dis
trustful of any innovation, however
small, upon the wholesome rules and
checks thrown around our institutions,
or guard with too great diligence the
inestimable privileges bequeathed to us
by those grand old masters who stoe d
at the cradle Of our government
The liberties of a people are never
subverted at once, and the principles Of
free government are only changed by
successive insidious steps. The limo sa-
tion of today is too apt to become The
precedent of tomorrow, and one by one
the fundamental props of the system are
stolen away until at last the whole Sys-
tenn tumbles into ruins. I sincerely be-
lieve that if Mr.. Cleveland is ever nom
mated for president in violation, as it
will be, Of settled American principle,
he will be the candidate Of the COM
bired republican and democratic mo-
nometallists, for their creed on this
greatest OF all present questions is
identical
And 1 further believe the success of
that combination would be absolutely
ruinous to the best interests of the
country, if it did not result in the
destruction of our system of free gov
ernment. Then let the thoughtful.
earnest men of all parties unite with
the great party of the people and pre-
sent an unbroken front against this
combination of money changers and
sweep them from cur great political
temple, which they have so long made a
house of merchandise. You have the
power if you but will it.
You have a weapon that comes down
as still
AS the snowflake that falls upon the
sod;
That executes a freemans will.
AS lightning does the will of God.
A weapon from which neither bolts nor
locks
Can shield the traitor,
The unbought ballot in the ballot box"
Unite and you can scatter your politi-
cal enemies like autumnal leaves.
Justice may sleep, but never dies; the
| cause of the people may have been de-
| layed by their apathy and want of con-
cert, but the hour of triumph will sure
ly come. The finger of destiny is point
| ing to it as surely as the needle to the
pole. The cup of political iniquity of
those who would rsaisessas bond slaves
of a foreign and native moneyed aris-
tocracy is full, and when that hour of
| triumph shall come, when their shields
and lances are broken, and under the
| purer regime of the people our coun-
| try shall be restored to it's ancient way
of national prosperity and permanent
| glory
Then shall the press the peoples rights
maintain,
| Unawed by influence and unbribed by
| gain;
Here patriot Truth its sacred precepts
draw.
Pledged to Religion, Liberty and Law. -
Very respectfully,
| x. B. SAUNDERS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

The railroad companies don't want
the government to build railroads for
its own use. but have bribed legislation
to have the government to build the
roads and then turn it over to the cor
porations. But this is not paternalism.
A parent would not give all the good
things to one or two children, but d.
vide them among all the children. After
all, what is government ownership but
the children gcing into partnership to
build roads for themselves?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
NOTES AND COMMENT
Flashes of Thought from the wor,s !.
Thinkers.

Lnluk0rB.
1t is said that England has invest
ments In the United States amounting
to $3.1s3. oo.000. The amount might be
doubled proitably II England win dron
forever any further bullying tricks in
the New World.-Gl Globe Democrat.
Yes, it might be doubled profitably
for England. As a matter :. of fact
America is in much less danger from
England's bullying tricks" than she
b from her insidious buying tricks. .
The warlike appearance Of the world
y taS lsaslRS 1ag1sst NsrxxAsEs =.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

AS public policy concentration Of
wealth is as unwise az the concentra-
tion and support Of . large army q,
soldiers. Both open up the avenue. to
an abuse of power, and are useIesf
2RReHdsgss rs cur qlYilisstien.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

The old greenbackers used to be
charged with wanting to print tbs
public debt to DEATH" it would seem
now that the Sherman-C -Cleveland-Car.
Isle, plan of issuing bonds is to print
prosperity to death.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
for GRIP.

sod ~ Dru=siffs or s.zt r-er<id cn sse<rf - r,s
= er hfor ~ ney - essafs.f, szssef - q. - .zlF
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

The silver conference at Washiagton
acted wisely. There IL no habe az 1ue-
go AEaukh TIE ~ Rsesss< -----s
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
Clothes or No C,othes9

A man who has been living among
the natives on the west coast of Japan
is advocating the abolition of clothes.
All summer long he ''moved i'll the
best society the place affords clad only
in d fundoshi, q garment which it We're
base hattery to call a sash. So garment
ed, he was both perpetually dressed and
undressed. always ready for dinner or
for stroll on the beach or for swim
on to go to bed OF to getup The amount
Of time saved is remarkable. In year it
amounts to over two months. '"Think, ;"
he exclaims, how often we in America
lie abed too long because dressing is
such Il borel IL we were already dressed,
we should arise and go about our bust
ness. But dressing deters us-getting
into clothes and arranging them about
us in accordance with the unreasoning
demands of the public until we stand
concealed i'll worrying tubes of cloth. :
We disturb ourselves too much also
when we go to bed. After an evening
In our restricting garments, we are nat
urally much in need Of repose, so we
start off for bed, thinking how sweet
will be the sleep that is upon us. But
we are III clothes which must be removed,
and the removing awakens us SO thor
oughly that the sleep we might have
mad is banished for an hour longer. -
San Francisco Argonaut.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
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North's Social vagaries.

There has been a good deal Of gossip
in the English papers about the social
vagaries of the late Colonel North, the
Nitrate King. When he returned to
England with his millions, he bought a
great estate at Ethan and filled the
house with articles of luxury and all the
modern appliances that riches can pro-
cure. His stables were full of thorough
bred horses, he had we'll stocked dog
kennels, and his game preserves afford
ed grand sport for hundreds Of persons
every season. He used to go there on
Friday and stay until Monday, keeping
the place as crowded and as busy as q
summer hotel Every night he dined at
the head of an immense table in the
company of men and women who We're
invited there by such loose commands
us Come along and bring your friends, )"
or Come down and bring some nice
people with you"
People i'll that part of Kent, or even
well dressed strangers driving that way
from London, We're i'll the habit of drop
ping in to luncheon without an invita-
tion, and even without previous intro
duction. 1t was only necessary to say
Il am friend of Lord So-and-so." On
one occasion n member of that years S
Oxford crew was eating quietly at about
the middle of the long table, not daring
to speak to the pretty girl seated beside
him, when ne was startled by the colo
onel crying out from his end of the ta-
BILE, II say, young fellow, if you don It
. kiss that girl next you I'll throw 4
banana at you.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20


There are many curiosities in Paris
which it is not given to everybody to
see. Thus i'll the old Cluny museum, on
the Boulevard Saint Michel, there is q
most realistic pcesentment of his satanic
majesty inclosed i'll an artistically carved
case. The exterior of this article of fur
niture, for such it is. is decorated with
u finely painted head Of the Saviour,
but on touching a spring the picture re-
calling heaven is replaced by the figure
of the evil one. Satan is seen inside q
niche advancing with terrible grimaces,
while at the same time sort of musical
box or small organ inside the case emits
tempestuous sounds.
The figure of satan i'll the Musee
Cluny is only shown with the greatest
reluctance, as the conservators ordered
it to be kept hidden, owing to the fact
that on one occasion when it was being
exhibited to the public a lady tainted
away and nearly died of fright when
she saw the devil advancing toward her.
Paris Letter.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
The Chinese Religion,

Chinese religion has never had the
ties and fanaticism of other religions.
Like the Jews, the Chinese had very
vague ideas of future rewards and pun
ishments and Of life after death. Their
ancestor cult had no mythologic motive
like that of India or Japan. The Chi
nese, like the Jews and ancient Egyp-
tians, had the philosophic conception
that continuation of life lies not in the
Immortality of the soul, but in the per-
petual remembrance of the righteous by
mankind The Chinese could not perse-
we're with metaphysical problems, and
SO did not advance.
Confucius appeared at q time when
the Chinese felt the need of religion
but the greatest of their religious re-
formers was Lao-tseu, who was born
about GOA b. c., on half q century be-
fore Confucius. He introduced the word
Tao, way" for the idea of divinity,
which previously was confused with the
visible sky (Schang-ti). Tao is the ele-
ment from which everything comes and
TO WHICH everything IetlIliS. 1Ido-tsetl
also taught that the departure of the
soul from the body was no disaster for
us. But he was too vague to be Il con-
vincing reformer Confucius was not an
original thinker like Lao-tseu; he culled
what he liked from the older writers,
and allowed people to believe what they
chose When consulted, he spoke i'll al
oracular manner, and while satisfying
no one he offended nobody. Mature.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20

all Illinois shouted Abraham Lincoln
into the presidency. | heard the song
of John Browns soul sung in bated
breath and in secret gatherings of his
his sympathizets. and four years later
on these distant shores almost caught
the echo of its refrain when armies
chanted it for their battle anthem. l
enjoyed the eloquence and friendship of
Baker and Starr King, and Butler and
Bingham. and Garfield and Conklin,
and the noblest Roman OF them all,
James G. Blaine.
"Who, then, is there in all this land
that shall dare to ask me to betray
these memories because of a difference
of opinion concerning the conditions
under which silver dollars shall be
coined?
WHO shall dare tell me it is my duty
to leave the path along which my
youth and my manhood marched, and
where, when the evening bugle shall
sound the final reveille my age shall be
found still marching? Rather will i
turn to the republican GODDESS the same
steadfast face that | bore when my
locks, now Whitening, were black as
the ravens wing, and say to her as
Ruth said to Naomi: Whittier thou 60
est, | VIII go; and where thou lodgest,
l will lodge; thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God. where
thou diestil will die, and there will i
| he burjel ;; -
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
A Good Excuse.

After the Duke of Wellington S vic
torious campaigns the University of
Oxford complimented the duke himself
and his principal officers by comforting
upon them the honorary and not very
appropriate degree of doctor of civil
laws. At that time the fees were
heavy, and cne of the distinguished sol
diers, who had gathered more honor
than profit in the wars, declined the
proffered degree in the following verse: !:
Oxford, / know you wish me WELL
But prithee let me be.
can't, alas, be d. G. L.
For want of S e. d.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
A sympathetic Youth.

aPapa," said George, Pm so sorry
sometimes about all the trouble l give
mamma. :"
''She HASN'T complained. .
"No, she's very patient. But she
often sends me off to the shops for
things, and they are a good way of, and
I know she gets cross waiting when
she's in Il hurry.
"Not often, fancy"
ooh, she's nearly always in hurry.
She gets everything all ready for baking
and finds at the last minute she hasn't t
any baking powder, on she gets a pud-
ding all mixed and finds she hasn' any
nutmeg or something, and then she's III
an awful stew, cause the oven is all
ready and maybe company coming, and
can't run very long distance, you
know, and feel awfully sorry for poor
mamma y
"Humph! Well. what can we do
about it?"
II was thinking yoE might get me a
bicycle boston Traveller.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-20
A Wise Fish.

Iii Java they have a species of fish
that carries a very useful gun with him
wherever he goes. This queer fish is
called the jaculator and his weapon is a
combination air and water gun, which
nature has provided him with. The jacu-
lator has the power of puckering the
mouth into a small, round tube and
squirting water through it. He is such
an expert gunner that when he observes
q beetle or q fly on twig above the
water he invariably knocks the in
sect from his perch, even though the
distance be five or six feet. There are
seven other varieties of these water gun
fishes, which are known as 'sportsmen" !"
and sgunners" on account of their
queer habits. st. Louis Republic.