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The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09
FLAGSTAFF AND WILLIAMS. Both Towns Want The Grand
 Canyon Railroad. selected From A. Redcwel's Very Newsy Letter Published in the Arizona Daily Gazette
 of the ith.

FLAGSTAFF. Sept. D. Rivalry is ramnani between the towos If Will Iams and Flagstaff. The projected railroad ,o the Grand Canyon is the cause of the trouble. Both towns a't offering Inducements to railroad com. panies, demonstrating how they pos sess the better grading facilities or the shorter distance or the finer view of natures greatest wonder--lhe Grand Canyon.
 Whichever town is selected as the starting point, il will materially help the other, and in fact. the whole of Northern Arizona. The thousands oi tourists that viii come to visit the can- yon will see aud hear of the great min eral and agricultural wealth of the surrounding country principally fav- apai and Ma,ieopa counties.
 The Grand Casjon is rich in min eral--sold, copper and coal are found all along it's banks and in the adjacent mountains, aud the development of which. by capitalists, is mere matter of time. This railroad proposition means a great deal for the advance ment of Northern Arizona. It is grai- flying to know that various surveys of the road have already been made.
 The pretty towns of Williams aud Flagstaff have sheltered some four hundred people from Phoenix aud VI cinily this summer. If proper and ample accommodations would be fur nished at reasonable rates, the tide of travel. during the summer exodus would be divided from the coast to the beautiful cities of Prescott, Will jams aud Flagstaff, where no better climate or purer or cooler invigoratiug mountain air exists.
 If the Arizona Lumber Company, of Flagstaff. and the Saginaw Company, of Williams, would only build q hum dred or more plain little cottages that would rent from SIP to Sl5 per month, they would all find ready tenants dur ing summer by Phoeniciaus.
 The railroad companies can be de- pended on to contribute their share by way of excursion rates. This applies particularly to the $. F. F. X r. rail- road company, who aim at securing the good will and trade of it's patrons, and, with this object in view, are do- ing ,heir utmost 10 make the most sat- isfactory rates.
 Messrs. George U. Young and c. N. Stark, editors and managers of the magniiicenily illustrated Williams News, are doing great deal for the advancement of their town with their ably edited and newsy paper.
 Messrs. Jones < Jackson of THE SUN.DEMocRAT of Flagstaff are like wise indefa,igable in their exertions Ut helping out their town. Their paper has been enlarged since the combine of the Sun with the Democrat. It is more newsy and has larger circula- tion. These gentlemen deserve undi- vided patronage of the people of the beautiful skylight city.
 All these journalists are very friendly toward Phoenix and Phoenicians and favor the erection of the capitol build ing, as you have seen by their edito- rials on the subject.
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The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09
Electric Bitter..

Electric Bitters IS a medicine suited for any season. but perhaps more gen. erally needed when the languid, ex- hausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often ayerted long and perhaps fatal bilious levers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and free jag the system from the malarial poison. Headache, indigestion, con stipatiou, dizziness yeild to Electric Bitters. soc and q per bottle at Dr. D. J. Ornaments drugstore.
 P1is to sfoD Hssdachs. ''0ns cent doss."
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09

l Time Table No. ?. effective May 3ist 1 1s9s Mountain time is standard used
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09

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The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
POPULIST MONEY.
KANSAS STATESMEN DEVELOP
A NEW CURRENCY SCHEME.
The Legislature Is Coasidering a New
Financial scheme Introduced by State
Senator Campbell Wants a State Cur
rency That Would Mean Ruin.

Briefly summarized, the measure pro-
rides for the issuance of paper cur
rency to an amount equal to l per cent
of the assessed valuation OF the state.
These notes are to draw interest at the
rate of ! per cent per aunum, though
no date is fixed for their final redemp-
ton, nor is it stipulated that they are
to be redeemed at all. They are to be
divided out among the several coun-
ties in amounts proportionate to the as
sessed valuation of each, and are to
be expended by the county commits
sioners in payment for work upon the
roads at the rate of $1.25 per day for
man and 81 per day for man and
team. 1t is also provided that state,
county and municipal salaries shall be
paid in them, and that in no case are
they to go fer less than par. To give
them value they are made receivable
for taxes, both state and county, and
it is provided that when they shall have
been sent to the state treasury in pay
ment of such dues they shall be de-
stroyed
Senator Campbell says he is. well
aware that the federal constitution for
bids the making cf anything legal ten
der except gold or silver, and he does
not declare in his measure that the
state currency shall POSSESS any such
quality. but to assure its circulation at
par he has inserted a clause which re-
cites that if any man shall practice
device" which has the effect of de-
Dreciating the currency, he shall be
deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor and
fined and sent to Jail.
Let US imagine a case which shows
the futility of such an attempt to make
this money go" II is not legal tender,
for Senator Campbell has expressly so
declared The man who refused out
right to take it would therefore not
be guilty of any device" to depreciate
its value. The man who worked on the
road and was hungry for meat would
perforce be compelled to sell it for
some price, and the instant he COM
menced to talk anything less than par
he would be guilty of the crime OF de
vice" and go hence to Jail.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Failures of 1895.

There were 1908 commercial fail
ures in the United States in 1896, with
average liabilities If Sl4,992. This is an
increase Of less than 2,000 in the NUM-
Der of failures over 1895 and increase of
less than 5000 in average liabilities
The number of failures to the number
Of firms in business is as 1913 to 900
while in 1878 it Was as 155 TO 1000.
showing a relative decrease in the
number of business disasters last year
as compared with 1878. And the aver
age liability in 1878 was also larger
than last year, being S22,369.
Many OF the failures of 1896 come
from crippling losses of previous years.
Many that were able to weather the
financial storms OF the three previous
years, could not carry themselves any
longer and had to succumb. Of course
there is a large element of mismanage-
ment to account for disaster, and mis-
management was sure to shcw quicker
in years like 1896 than in years like
1892.
The clearing away of these unsound
concerns can not but be a blessing to
the financial world as whole, and the
building up process which has slowly
begun to exert itself, will find the very
best of foundation upon which to place
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Blind POstmau.

In this game the first thing to be
done is to appoint a postmaster-gen-
eral and postman. The table must
then be pushed on one side, so that
when the company have arranged
themselves round the room there may
be plenty of room to move about. The
postmaster-general, with paper and
pencil in hand, then goes around the
room, and writes down each persons
name, linking with it the name of the
town that the owner of the name
chooses to represent. AS soon as the
Fowns are chosen, and all are in readi-
ness, the postman is blindfolded, and
placed in the middle of the room. The
postmaster then announces that a let
ter has been sent from one town to
another, perhaps from London TO Edin-
burgh. If SO, the representatives OF
these two cities must stand up and, as
silently as possible, change seats.
While the transition is being made, the
postman is at liberty to secure one OF
the seats for himself. If he can do so,
then the former occupant of the chair
must submit to be blindfolded and take
upon himself the office of postman.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
GAMES FOR EVENINGS.
Acting Proverbs.

In this game each player fixes upon
proverb which he tells by actions in
stead OF by words. The first player.
for instance, might come into the room
holding cup in his hand; then, by
way of acting his proverb, he might re-
peatedly make an appearance of at
tempting TO drink out of the cup, but OF
being prevented each time by the cup
slipping out Of his hands, thus in dumb
show illustrating the proverb, There s
many Slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
The second might come into the room
rolling stone Or something to rep
resent it. After rolling it about for
some time he takes it up and exam
ines 1t with establishment, as If some
thing were wanting that he expected to
find on it; thus making it clear that
his proverb is: "A Rolling Stone
Gathers No Moss"
If really good acting is done this
game may be made exceedingly inter-
esting.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Foul 1srOotf.

Probably there is no one thing in bee
keeping that has had more care anu
study given 1t by apiarists than ioui
brood, and probably no study which mas
given as little satisfaction. for we are
put little nearer a solution OF the tr9e
cause OF the disease than we were "heh
Qulnby wrote about 1t in the early siA-
Ties, says Gleanings. When a coiohy
mas this disease a few of the larvae uio
soon after the bees seal them over lne
Gaping to the cell soon has sunReh
appearance, quite often with pin hoie
IN the center, though not always SO,
as some claim. Upon opening the cell
the larva is found stretched at fuil
length in the cell, having brown ap-
pearance, while all healthy larvae OF
pupas are white II touched, this deau
brood is Of a salvy, soapy nature, anu
gives off an offensive s1aoll. From the
first few cells the disease spreads rapiu-
ly till the combs become putrefylhs
mass, generally during the first season.
and nearly always during the secohu'
the stencil at this stage often DelnS
smelled rod or two from the hive. n
few of the larvae mature into bees anu
the population of the hive decreases I'LL
they become a prey to robbers, When
the honey is taken off by these robbers
only to carry the seeds of the malady
TO the robbers hive, for the disease Is
spread through the honey as we'll as
from anything cc2ing in contact WIN
it. The cure Is to drive out all re t,re. poe
from the affected hive and keep thrN
smut up in an empty box until they
are nearly starved, so that they shaii
have diGested all of the diseased honey
They can now be hived in new hlVe
containing comb or comb foundation
without carrying the disease with them.
If they are to be hived in an empty
hive this starvation process has peeh
proved unnecessary, as the diseased
honey is all used up in comb building
before any larvae are Matched to when
it can be fed. Great care should De
taken that no bees get all the contents
of the old hive before the combs are
rendered into wax and the honey ana
hive scalded. Other cures have Deen
recommended, but most Of them are
Intellectual, except in the hands or an
expert
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
The Boy King of Spain.

The words of the old poet, Born to
command, trained up in sovereignty"
describe Alfonso XIII., the 10-year-old
King of Spain, who at his birth sue
ceeded to the throne. Yet authority
has its disadvantages, and there are
| times, no doubt, when the youngest
sovereign in Europe envies his boy
subjects, writer in the English Il
lustrated Magazine pictures Alfonso as
a pale, thin and delicate-looking little
fellow.
1t was during his daily drive that l
first saw him. With his fair hair in
clined to be curly, his blue eye, and
his face gentle in it's expression OF Ian
guor, the little king reminded me of
that Philip w, made famous by the
! pencil of VelasqueZ. The thin lips
were almost bloodless, the features
seemed too fatigued to possess any
| definite expression except for the far
off look of dreaming and patience in
! the eyes.
He smiled, nevertheless, continuous
" and rather drearily, and looked un-
| mistakably bored. He seemed to be
! going through his afternoons drive
as he would go through any other Of
his innumerable royal duties, obedient-
" but mechanically. He was dressed
| in q sailor costume, his head bare-a
small head, moreover, giving no prom
ise of intellect; and the little boy, look
ing like one in the first days of con-
voloscanre from some almost fatal
fever. still smiled mechanically as the
carriage rolled slowly on. Alfonso XIII.
has an English governess among other
instructors. but his education is under
the direct and personal supervision of
his mother. His exalted rank prevents
| his indulging in the usual sports of
boyhood. and one OF the stories related
of him has d pathetic side in this re-
snect. He was seen che day gazing
| with uncommon interest out of one of
| the windows of the royal palace in the
direction of the Manzanares. He was
asked what he was looking at, and he
pointed out couple of urchins who
were busy and happy making mud
pies, and Alfonso XIII begged, even
with tears in his eyes, to be allowed
to go and make mud pies with them.
| He was little consoled by the informa-
ton that etiquette forbade kings to in
dulge in pastimes. so unexalted. At
other times Alfonso takes his monarchy
more seriously. and frequently clinches
an argument by announcing autocrat-
| ;caIIy az am the king"
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Avnid Too Much Grain Raising

Avoid Too Much Grain Raising
During the past few dry seasons the
farmers have plowed up the low pas
ture land and there are many 160-acre
farms in this section that do not have
more pasture than will suffice for two
or three COWS and the calves are sent
10 the butchers block as early as DOS
sible, as there is no room to keep them
during the summer months. This move
has been detrimental in many ways.
First. it has caused a large increase in
the surplus grain used, it has cut down
the home consumption of grain. still
further glutting the markets, and it has
put many farms in bad shape for a wet
season, when much of this ground will
not grow even grass. To use a homely
expression, ''It is best not to carry alf
YOUR eggs in one basket" The time
has gone by when grain raising will.
one year with another, prove success
full: Just as old-fashioned business
methods have given way to newer and
more modern means, so must the farm
er watch for and guard against waste
and improbable crops. There is no
royal road to riches, but care and judg-
ment will help to keep the wolf from
the door and lay by nest egg for old
age and Observation-Disclosures Journal
Ua)
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Jen. Davis still Their Idol.

Little Rock special: Six years ago
this month the Arkansas legislature
passed bill appropriating $3.50 for a
painting OF Jefferson Davis, and in
structed the sergeant-at-arms to hang
it over the speakers chair, a place
formerly occupied by portrait of
George Washington Today Jacob
King, of Stone county, introduced the
following resolution relative to the pic
ture:
BE it resolved by the house Of rep
resentatives Of the state of Arkansas,
That Hon. Jefferson Davis picture be
removed from where it now hangs and
placed to the left of the speakers stand,
where General George Washington S
picture now hangs, and that General
Washington's picture be placed over
the speakers stand, where Jefferson
Davis picture now hangs"
The house by an overwhelmingly ma
jority rejected the resolution.
Mr.. King says he was in the Confed-
crate army and was with Gen. Lee at
the surrender at Appomattox, and in
troduced the resolution at the urgent
request of his constituents.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Followed Diversified Farming.

A successful Ohio farmer writes the
Practical Farmer as follows: we
own a farm of seventy acres. About
ten years ago we decided to make
speciality of swine growing. We IN
vested in thoroughbred stock and Duiit
up a good-siZed herd. Having every
thing in first-class condition as re-
CARDS cleanliness, shelter. etc, we
hoped to be exempt from cholera. But
when the time came for us TO realize
upon our investment, the cholera
swooped down upon US and knocked
herd and calculations clear out. we
have since followed diversified farm
ing with good success, until this year,
when our wheat proved a failure. we
raise corn, wheat and clover in regular
rotation; keep hogs, sheep and cattle.
Two years ago we set out patch Of
strawberries and raspberrieS, from
which we sold this season S95 worth,
which helped to fill up the hole left
vacant by the wheat failure: besides
consuming and canning twenty
bushels of large, luscious fruit, such as
friend Terry talks about. 1t must be
tough season if we have nothing to sell
at a good price. How many farmers
depend on one or two crops as source
of income and deny themselves the
many luxuries that the farm will pro-
duce, if only an effort is made in that
direction. In addition to having ber-
sion a good patch of melons should be
grown by every farmer who enjoys
good thing"
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05

says they take him on glass-whieh Is
absurd, you know, for a person of his
size-and then he says they only take
his face. If so, what becomes OF the
rest of him? He can't take his head
off any more than the rest of us can.
| don't believe a word of it"
Neither do l." cried all the others,
and then they went home.
The Elephant thought for long
time
We'll, Of all the ignorant Fowls
he said at last.-Grace Hartmans, N
! Little Folks.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
1t Meant Protection.

1t is simply impertinence on the part
of the free traders to be blathering that
the Mckinley policy is to tinker the
tariff, and that there was no issue be-
fore the people last summer but that
of gold" Three times in three sue
cessiye years the Democratic tariff
was condemned, and that tariff inflicted
paralysis upon the country and was
the direct cause of hard times. Now
the Democrats who imposed this mis-
chief upon the people talk about tink-
ering the tariff. If the congress is not
balked by the silver crowd. there will
be another Mckinley law, named for
Mr.. Dingley, of Maine. That is what
the whole nation knew the election OF
Mckinley would mean-just that sort
of law-one for more revenue and more
protection. He said SO. All his friends
said SO. They all were perfectly aware
that vote for Mckinley was a vote
for a protective tariff. There were
no false pretenses-no disguises about
it. There never was more candid
campaign so far as the Republicans
were concerned.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Acting RHYMES.

A word is chosen by the company
which is likely to have a good many
other words rhyming with it.
The first player then begins by 81
lently acting some word that will
rhyme with the ono chosen; for in
stance should the selected word be
flow, the first actor might initiate an
archer, and pretend to be shooting with
bow and arrow, thus representing the
word bow" or he might with an imag-
mary scythe cut the long grass (mow) !;
or pretend to be on the water in boat,
and make use of an imaginary boat
(row). AS each word is acted it should
be guessed by the spectators before
the next one is attempted
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
STRONG AND WEAK spELLrNo.
PecuIiaritics OF tiio Two Great Glasses
of Dnbb era In OrthoEraphy.


Speaking il broll AL general
way. and admitting that every one
is liable to iaiJspcli worI OF tho
Enr, sh language IL soma time In
his life. spe.ltrs. says the loath's
Companion. may be divided into two
c.assos-the "sti ong spoilers and
the .weal. spoilers. W hat 'strong
smelling" means may be illustrated
by the photographed maxim and
practice OF an excellent gentleman
who is now dead. His rule was:
Never misspell word for the want
of putting in enough letters. Act
ing on this principle he spelled glrl
gearle, do doe. and get gette. This
trait would seen ID Indicate liberal
disposition. and this gentleman was
certainly very liberal minde / man.
His strong spelling" aid not prevent
him from serving the public accepta-
bly, in several capacities.
Another strong speller always in
sisted upon writing the wore
..pcraps" thu; perhapse. Though
he was frequently demonstrated with
| sd &c Sat"i to4I tAI' I-o'O "'''
ID iin::l ol the Tcccl h. continued
to spell it that way. A thoroughly
..st"cng spol!cr" always seems to be
accorded certain sympathy and
cvca admiration by thcsc who ordl-
~, orc.! c2:-cct.y, while "weak
Jal'S""f ctwGv- is"oh~4 "t. z
What =. .,zlling n.e.sas may
re illustrated by the case OF gentle
nan WHO recently wrote 'cn:huai-
Gsrl" thus: oatheusam, and who gen
c;aly spelled suggest" sojcst. The
same gentleman is known to have
spoiled pcralty pclonty. but u pc
culiarity o. His case is that he never
misp-onounce5 Z word. and always
appears in conversation what ho Is,
cultivated gentleman.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Against Trusts.
washington correspondence New York
Tribune)

wv dSulUStU CUIICSDOHuSiCc ANcN VI N
Tribune)
The fact that large and powerful
trusts, combinations, syndicates and SO
on, to control the output and prices OF
various commodities, exist and flourish
in free trade England, and that like
combinations exist and flourish in this
country to control and regulate produc-
ton and prices Of various articles
which are not affected by the tariff or
by foreign competition, is sufficient
and conclusive answer to the charge
that a protective tariff necessarily en-
courages and fosters such combina-
tions,' said prominent and influen-
tial member of the house of represen-
tatives who has long been a careful
and thorough student of economic sub
jects, in conversation with a Tribune
correspondent today. But" he added,
1T is undoubtedly fact that manu-
facturers in certain lines of industry
who are protected to a certain extent
against foreign competition by the
tariff and who have entered into such
combinations have taken that fact into
consideration and used it as factor in
their calculations. In framing the new
tariff l trust that Chairman Dingley
and his colleagues in the committee on
ways and means will be on the alert,
and not fix single rate of duty at a
figure which will promote the designs
of such a combination OF discourage or
prevent the freest competition among
American manufacturers. We certain
ly do not want another Sugar trust
tariff, or any other tariff that will de-
serve to have the name of any trust
applied to it,
There is pretty good reason to believe
that the members of the committee on
ways and means-those of the majori-
ty, at least-fully sympathize with the
views above expressed, and that in
framing the bill they will be guided
by a determination to guard as far as
possible against any provision which
would give special privilege to any per-
son or combination of persons or him
der or prevent free domestic competi-
ticn.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05
Canned Beef-Germany has prohibit

Canned Beef.-Germany has prohibit
ed American canned meats, and Ameri-
can packers are as mad as wet hens
about it. Perhaps the German INSPECT
ors have learned to discriminate De-
tween canned beef and canned horse
We are Of the opinion that nothing
would 90 as much to extend out foreign
trade in food products as honest goods,
Our own people-at least all of them
who are up to that sort of stuff-hayc
long ago prohibited American canned
meats from their tables. The last can
of beef tongue" opened by this writer
contained, besides the tongue, a wad Cd
hog hair as large as snal, apple
lx.
The McCook tribune., 1897-03-05

1t has been announced that Presi-
dent Mckinley would wear at his in
auguration a suit of American-made
clothes, meaning suit made of Ameri-
can wool, woven in American mills,
and cut, fitted and put together by
American tailors. An English paper
undertakes to make fun of the idea,
and has a caricature representing Mr..
Mckinley in baggy, questionable,
ill-fitting suit. This is all the funnieT
because the English are notorious fol-
lack of taste in dress, and for having
the worst clothes of all the great ma
tions, so far as style and fit of gar
ments are concerned.