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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05
ALMOST A TRAGEDY ]!
4 Shooting Serape, all About Nothing, al Ierome.--hO Fatal Results
 Anticipated.
4 Boiler Maker Takes a Shot at the
 Companys Shipping Clerk.

As Deputy Sheriff John Munds came iB from Ash Fork on this mornings train, with a prisoner, he heard vague aud indefinite rumOTs of a shooting scrape which occurred at Jerome last night, but was unable to obtain any particulars. On hear ing the rumor, the JOURNAL MINER telegraphed for particulars, and re- ceived the following special:
 JEROME, Feb. 10. K. Oleson was shot at o'clock last night by Joe DuTkin. It seems that Durkin had been drinking considerably, and came down stairs from the office in the depot, and started to go home. Oleson followed him down stairs to go home also. Durkin turned around to Oleson and said, Where are you goingi' and ordered him back, and when Oleson refused to do as he was ordered, DuTkin shot him. No III feeling had existed between the two men, and Durkin claims that the shooting was purely accidental. Durkin IS boiler maker and has been employed hero for several months. Oleson has been employed as a shipping clerk for the United Verde Copper Company. The doe tor thinks Oleson will live.
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What the Examiner ss1s.

Miss Hollis faced a very critical
 audience last night in the Bijou
 theatre as Stephanie de Mohrivart
 in "Forget-Me-Not." It was an am
 bilious effort, and the part of Step hanie is one that no actress of meagrc 'yperience could hope to represent .lithfully. She gave such decided evidence of talent, intelIi- gence, grace, quickness and adapta- bilities, that she justified her ambi- ton. The part is deep enough to take in many degrees and varieties of histrionic ability; undeveloped tal- ent is apt to rattle about in it, bu. it Is always sure to give true talent a chance 10 be recognized. The character is vividly alive to the finest ends of its finest nerves. It is full of changes, variety, light and shade, sudden flashes of emotion, sudden lapses into complete emo tional indifference, and it is not possible for an untrained actress, nor even for brilliant and finished one. to represent all its phases, even if she understands them all. Miss Hollis showed last night that she did understand them, that she con- prehended the nature of the woman she represented and was keenly alive to the meaning of all her Ines.-S. F. Examiner.
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l our farmers came to me and claimed
 that l had made a misstatement. I
 thought l was going to catch it" from both sides, but he said: You
 got your figures wrong; you didn't
 make that "leak" big enough; it was Nl6.SO that a certain merchant said
 was the lowest figure at which hay could be put down in Jerome" Sol
 make the correction, oH his assertion
 because l know nothing about that,
 individually. One ranchman, with
 a barn full of hay, says he will haul lt to Prescott before he will take so
 little for it. Now as to sending
 away for goods, hadn't We as well
 send our money away and get the
 benefit of it, as for the merchant to
 send it awayi What good does it
 do to give 1t 10 some one else to send
 away and make a big per cent on it Everybody looks out for number one; why not the farmeri
 The merchant gives us no cash, why should we give it to himi We don't mind being told about sending away Tor things. It is a matter of neces- sity with us. Even some of our mer- chants wives and daughters do the same. As to cheap and shoddy articles by mail, those who get and Use the articles are the better judges of that. Make profit on the goods, make aproft on the produce, and then cry out because they cant have every dollar in cash, in order to make profit on that!
 Now, in regard to the cutting of prices. Readers cf the JOURNAL MINER remember that critised some of our farmers for that six months ago. For reply they say that in order to meet certain obliga- tions on time, they have some times to do this. Let us remember also that they were all the time con- fronted with the tale of hay laid down at Sl250 and SIS and frac- tion. happen to know some thing about the cutting of the price of grain. One of cur ranchmen, owing a merchant a bill, and being anxious to pay 1t, took up a load of grain which should have brought him Sl.75 per hundred, but the merchant whose debtor he was refu sed to give him over Sl.S5. Our farmer, instead of hauling his grain home again, as he should have done, turned It in on his debt. Did he cut the pricei Not at all; yet, when the next man came with grain, the merchant said: "I can get it for Sl.35, and that is what l will give"
 Our farmers should organize a protective league, and while the merchants are over heard saving: "They are going to thresh their grain in the valley soon, and we must get together and see what we will give" the farmers should get together and see what they will take.
 But why multiply words9 If the Verde and Flagstaff road can be built, it very likely will be built. and if We find ii an advantage. whose business is It but oursl It | does no good to say We can't do | this, or We can't do that, so long as We turn right around and go and l do it.
 Those who think the farmer can't | get his supplies any cheaper else where, have a right to their opinion. They have only to stand still and see him do it, for many of them have Cone it all along, and are likely to doing it for some time 10 come.
 Now, a word about the fellow with the cranky" scales. What made him think he was the onef There was nothing said about Jerome in .he New Years letter.
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OUR UPPER VERDE LETTER.

Weather. Crops and Business Discussed as We'll as Prices of Products.
 UPPER VERDE, Jan. 29.-I Regular
 Correspondence. Somebody has
 promised us storm and 1 see it
 coming. As I write 1 can see from
 my window the clouds which com
 pletely envelop the Black hills, and
 I can hear the batter of the impa-
 tient rain drops on the roof.
 My brother of the Mining News"
 talks up, doesn't hei That's all
 right. The controversy is no new
 thing; it has been going on for some
 time between the ranchman and the
 merchant, and having nothing else to do, l thought I'd take a hand in it, too. The assertion that we can buy everything in Jerome as cheap as any where else in the territory doesn't interfere much with the ranchman in our part of the valley, who is feeding a large and growing family on Phenix flour at $2.30 per hundred; nor does it hurt the other neighbor who has just got back from Prescott with load of supplies. It does not trouble the party in Je- rome, who orders bacon and hams from Prescott and claims to have found it a great saving. Understand 1 me, friends, this is what our people | claim. was told two days ago by a | farmer just back from Prescott, that | the same brand of four for which | we pay $4.00 per hundred in Jerome was selling in Prescott for $500. It | may be you can buy -four in Phenix for $4.50 per hundred, but you can buy good four there for S230. know two parties who have recently done so. Phenix doesn't concern us much, we don't want to go to Phenix for supplies. Prescott is good enough with four $l.00 less on the and sugar $200 less on the sack, and everything lower in pro- portion. The road over by Cherry creek IS a pretty good road.
 l am very glad that the merchant who said he could have hay laid town in Jerome at $l2.50 has taken t back, because I didn't believe it when he said it. 1 don't know whet- IT the one who told me it could be aid down for $500 and a fraction, las gone back on that or not. It loesn't make any difference one way ,r another.
 After my letter came out one of
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RunaMar Accident.

J. w. Sullivan started out to Will liamson valley this morning on the stage. When near J. H. Lees Ameri- can ranch the team ran away and NIT. Sullivan was thrown out sustain ing very painful if not serious in- juries. He was brought to town this afternoon about four o'clock and taken to a room at Hotel Burke suffering intense pain. He had no use of his right arm, but the exact nature of his injuries was not learned at the time of going to press.
 The driver of the stage is said to have been drunk at the tune.
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ATbOr Day Proclamation.
 TERRITORY or ARIZONA,
 EXECUTIVE OFFICE.


 To THE PEOPLE or ARIZONA, GREET. INC:
 By virtue of the law of the Terri. tory of Arizona, the Friday follow ing the first day of February in each year has been designated as Arbor Day, and as such is Co be observed as a legal holiday, and the governor is directed to make procla- nation of the same.
 The county school superintendents oi each county are required to prescribe a course of exercises to be observed by the public schools. And 1t is made the duty of the authorities in every public school to assemble the pupils under thelr charge and to have and to hold such exercises as shall tend to encourage the planting, protection and praser- vation of trees and shrubs and the best methods to be adopted to ac- complish such results.
 In this arid region of almost per petual growth, with a climate so benign, the possibilities of the soil so generous, where plant life under the vItalizing power of irrigation, develops so rapidly and comes to such a high state of perfection, and the desert can be transformed into the vineyard, orchard and forest growth, augumentinR rainfall, re- tarding evaporation aud thus creat- ing natural reservoirs, this day and its purposes are most significant. Therefore, |, Louis C. Hughes, governor of the Territory of Ari- zona, pursuant to law, do hereby recommend that
 ARIzONA's ARBoR DAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
 7TH, A. D., 1896, Be observed by the people of the Territory as an annual festival of the year, when parents and children alike will participate in the planting of trees, vines, shrubs and flowers, in beautifying school grounds with living monuments of their school days. In the promotion of forest and orchard growth and cultivation; in the adornment of private and public grounds, places and ways, and in such other efforts and under takings as shall be in harmony with the character of the day.
 "He who plants a tree,
 He plants love,
 Tents of ooolness spreading out above. WayfArers he may not live tO see.
 Gifts which grow are best;
 Hands that bless are blest;
 Plant, life does the rest. Heaven and earth helps him who plants
 tree, And his work it's own reward shall be-" Done at Pheni1, the capital, this 29th day of January, A. D., 1896.
 LOUIS C. HUGHES,
 Governor. Attest:
 CHAs. NJ. BRUCE, Secretary.
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A Family Liniment.

January 10th, ISos The Dr. J. H. Mclean Med. Ca
 St. Louis, No. Gentlemen: lam a firm belie,m in Dr. J. H. McLean's yaluahl. medicines ; have used several kina Of them with the most satisfactov ral,4Tte XIT;.t,;r, .t,, t.e
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05
The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great in Iesvs eni1g power as fhe Royal

A Washington telegram says that the long contest over the Silver Bond bill is at an end in the Senate, that body having passed the free silver substitute for the House bond bill by the decisive vote of 42 to B, a majority of seven for free silver.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05

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Armenian

Those Armenian resolutions adopted by Congress will probably be regarded by the governments of Great Britain. Austria, France, Italy, Russia and Turkey, as one of the most extraordinary eases of inter national meddling on record. Yet, there is very little doubt that every word in those resolutions is in ac- cord with the public sentiment of this country.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05

have used than twenty bottles of Volcanic Oil kndf my family and my farm animals. no other as h doe work promptly and thoroughly.
 Yours truly,
 ". ]. VANCE
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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05
CHAS. A. DAKE, ale and Retail Dealer ir

CHAS. 4. DAKE, Wholes ale and Retail Dealer in
 GENERAL
 MERCHANDISEl! Comprising a Full Line of Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Notions and Furnishing Goods, Butter, Eggs, Dried Fruit, etc. Hay and Grain of All Kinds. The Standard Brands of Smoking and Chewing Tobaccos
 Always on Hand. Goods and Prices Guaranteed in
 Every Respect. Every Article Purchased Delivered to any part of the City
 Free of Charge.
 CHAS. A. DAKE, Montezuma St. Prescott, Arizona. Telephone No. 19.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05

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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-07-19
a Wall From London.

Tho following, by the ocean cable
comes from London. aud is the
comment Of the Times upon the po-
lillcal and financial situation OF this
country, for which that journal feels,
1t may be unnecessary Ia add, Il pure
aud disinterested affections:
IL; is always well 20 know the worst.
and England certainty inust feel graf
iiieh for The cxtreunc frankness cf the
majority in control of the Convention.
We take note Of The fgcf that one of
the historic Americas pIrties is fairly
captured 10y mon who glory in dis
honest acts and ayoE their desire to
rcpndiatc national and private debts"
This il rot. y determination not
to be robbed by Shyloclis is not re-
pudiation OF honest dcbta. No nn-
tional and no private debts have been
or will be repudiatcd by any free sil-
yer declaration put in force. What
will be done is this: All moneys OF
tho Government shall be maintained
by the Government Mt their face value;
the bonds Of the United States shall
be paid either in silver or gold, at the
option OF the Government, ms the con-
tract reads, and the miserable spec
tac!e shall not again bo presented OF
n rich Nation, with plenty OF money
to pay the interest ON her bonds, rob-
bing her own people by buying gold
i'll England to pay bonds payable
either i'll silver or gold, while the fools
or scoundrels at Washington force
the Government to mid in the depre-
citation Of silver by infamous legisla-
ton i'll order to make moro marked
the difference commercially between
tho fraudulent values OF gold and sill
yer, and thus permit the bondholders
not only to make their pound OF flesh
but to draw tho blood of the people as
well l.-Sacramento Bee.
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which was gold cross with the in
scription. no Crown OF Thorns. No
cross OF Gold" II was exactly forty
minutes before the demonstration
subsidized.
Throughout all Mrs. Bryan sat to
the right of the platform. although
Il bright look of pleasure lightened
her features, she did not appear cx-
cited by this wonderful demonstration
in homer of her distinguished hus-
band. No one in the crowd seemed
to recognize her.
The Clerk took up the announce
mcnt OF the vote rs follows: Black
burn ~ Pattison 96, Stevenson 3,
Hill |. The whole number OF votes
WIS 7sG, and the Clerk announced
that 5l2 were necessary for choice.
Chairman White said the proceed
ings had reached such a stage it be-
came necessary to announce his con-
struction of the two-thirds rule. 1t
was that two-thirds OF the votes given
were necessary to nomination.
On the fifth ballot California swung
solidly into the Bryan column fol-
lowed by State after State until his
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ELKO, NEVADA, SUNDAY, JULY L. 1896.

announced: Bland oil, Boies. 33,
Matthews 80, Mclean 46, Bryan $50.
Not voting, 1872.
Bryan had assumed the lead and
the favorite Ind dropped back Ill
the race. The reading clerk got 10
further than the announcement Of
Bryan's $50 votes before there was u
repetition of the scene of yesterday
when the eloquent young orator closed
his speech. Tho Coliseum swayCd
will enthusiasm. Cheer followed
cheer. State standards were again
uprooted and carried to the Ncbraskan.
Louder and louder the whiri OF sounds
swellcd. Men and women went fran
tic. Newspapers and umbrellas were
furIonsiy whirled through the air.
Suddenly two Young girls dressed in
pink appeared on the table back OF
the alternates' seats. They held a
large silk tiag, on one side Of which
shone the clcar-cut features Of Bryan.
To and fro it waved, while 10000
throats screamed. Tho bands played
but could not he heard Tho dance
of purple state guideons about the
Nebraska delegation continued for
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Wo take il that the election OF Me
kinley will mean II Bacchanalian
orgy OF protection. Tho erection OF
high fences with barbed-wirc crests
will at once begin. Tho war on the
American farmer and the American
workingmnn will be promptly de-
clared. They will be required to line
up while tho protected mnnufactur. :.
ers go through their pockets and take
what they want. Arc tho people pro-
pared to go back to tho old regimen
Arc they ready to pay 80 per cent.
moro for their dry goods and thcir
clothing, not to mention other neces-
saries Of lilo. in order that tho mil
lionaires OF Pennsylvania may hold
high jinksH-Mempl,is Commercial
Appeal.
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several minutes.
Then the delegates started in Indi-
an style to parade the standards about
the hall. Kansas, Mississippi, Nebras-
ka, Georgia, Nevada, Colorado, North
Dakota, Arizona. New Mexico. Louis
lam. Oregon, North Carolina, South
Carolina, District of Columbia, Wyo-
ming, Idaho, Alaska, Minnesota and
Michigan were in the procession.
Frenziel men fought for the standards
OF other delegations. California was
first wrcnched away from those who
attempted 10 hold it and checiI the
Bryan stampede. The delegates
fought for tho Illinois standard
where Governor AItgeid was reso-
lutely guarding the banner.
\ hurried vote was taken. Bryan
carried the day, and the Sucker State
banner joined the parade.
The first fight occurred over the
possession OF the Buckeye State
standard, but McLcan's friends,
though battered and shaken. held the
fort. Tho storm rolled on aud on. \
big Bryan flag was brought into the
coliseum and milk white banner on
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NUMBER 70.

vote swelled to 492. Montana and
Oklahoma made the total 50i, two
thirds Of all the vUtes cas-. Mclean
Of Ohio, standing on chair and wav-
ing his cane, shouted sOhio with
draws the name of Mclean and casts
forty-six votes for Bryan Governor
Stone, OF Missouri, in deliberate
tones read u letter from Blnud with.
drawing his name and Cnst the
entire vote of the State for Bryan.
Van Wagner Withdrew Boies and
Iowa's vote went solidly for the Ne.
braskan. Kentucky followed with
the withdrawal OF Blackburn and it's
entire vote went for Bryan, Arkan-
sas and West Virginia changed their
votes to Bryan. Senator Turpie, of
Indiana, Withdrew Matthews and the
boosters went into the Nebraskan's
camp. Turpie moved to make the
nomination unanimous and Chairman
White declared the motion carried.
Another wild scene followed.
Guideons were torn from their sockets
and carried about. Boies and Bland
banners and flags of all descriptions
joined in the rallcy about the stand
ard of Nebraska. The standards OF
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
New jersey and all the New England
States were left standing.
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How bryan Was Nominated.

The following interesting account
OF Bryan's nomination Is from the
telegraphic report of Fridays con-
vention proceedings:
After the fourth ballot the Penn.
sylvanin delegation lilel out of the
hall for consultation.
Bryan cmblems began TO blossom
out ON the floor and in the galleries.
The dark horse had plunged into the
race SO late there were no portraits OF
him to be found in the city large
enough for convention purposes. The
morning newspaper which printed IL
full page picture of the convention
star orator was in great demand.
Copies were stuck up on canes in
the galleries, and Mississippi hung
one sheet to the standard of that
State.
Buck Hinrichson asked leave for
the Illinois delegation to retire for
consultation. The issue was whether
to stay by SILVER Dick" or follow the
Ncbraskan.
The result of the ballot was then
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Chicago. July il.--ll:l5 4. Nj
Tho convention was called to order at
II A.M. Senator Jones, OF Arkansas,
moved that speeches presenting can.
dilntcs for Vice President be limited
TO Ave miuuics. Carried.
y. NJ. O'Sullivan OF Massachusetts
presented the name Of George Fred
Williams Of Massachusetts.
Nlnrstou presented tho namo OF
John u, Mclean, Of Ohio.
Currir presented the namc Of Judge
Walter Clarke. Of North Carolina.
huric presented the numc of Ar.
thur Scwnll. oi Maine.
ShuwnltCr presented tho name of
Jn hph G. Siblcy. Of pcnnsylvnnia
Thomas. Of Colorado. seconded the
nomination uf Scwull.
i delegate from Texas, stated from
tho floor that on call az StNtcH, Texas
will vote for Bland.
\ telegram was read from Bland
stating thnt both candidates ought
unt iO bc taken from wCst Cf the Miss.
issinri river aud asking that his name
be Withdrawn.
Tho convention nominated Arthur
&cwGDl. 81 Name. for Vice President
sad adjourned sino-dic this after.
uOpn.
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VIII Chnngc IIcnhuuMricrs.

CHICAGO, julia ]3.-Mcmbcrs of the
Democratic National Committee are
unanimously in favor Of establishing
carbohydrates at Chicago. Many
wish the main headquarters to bc re-
moved from Now York to Chicago.
Tho committee discussed this propu.
sition nt un Informal meeting this
morning
Senator Jones OF Arkansas before
leaving for Washington. said; "lhcrc
will bc another meeting of the Ma.
tional Committee some time during
the next three wccka, ut which tho
subject Of changing headquarters will
bc more fully considered. You will
be safe in saying that in nll probabil.
ity the campaign OF 1896 will be di,
rcctcd from headquarters located in
Chicago. am in favor OF changing
from Now York for many reasons"
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isryniI Suits Ncvndn.

Tho 1SDErESpEsT was tho first pa.
per in tho State to put tho namo Of
tho next President at tho head OF It's
editorial columns. Tho Reno Jour.
nal, Reno Tribune, and Silver state
fly tho Bryan flag ut their mastheads.
Tho other silver party papers will
doubtless follow suit as tho nows
comes from every section OF tho State
TINT the nominations OF Bryan and
Sowall have given satisfaction TO nll
clnsscs Of silver men. In Reno md
Carson National salutcs wcro fired
Saturday night mud at Reno Bryan
club OF over u hundred members was
formed. Tho Lyon county Times
says that Bryau's nomination gives
perfect satisfaction IN Dayton md
TINT IL endorsed by tho Populists no
will receive nt least l50 Of tho 100
votes Of TINT precinct. Tho silver
state Is we'll pleased with the no,nin-
alton and advocates his endorsement
by tho Silver party convention TO DO
held in ST. Louis on tho 22nd.