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Graham guardian., 1897-11-05
ESTABLISHED FACTS.

Concerning Graham County, Which are
Well Worth Serious Consideration
by those Seeking new Homes, or Men
Seeking Profitable Investment for
Capital.
Graham guardian., 1897-11-05


Well Worth Serious Consideration
by those Seeking new Homes, or Men
Seeking Profitable Investment for
Capital.
The agricultural resources of the
ella valley are both varid and ex.
tensive, comprising an area OF
arabic land Of which there is at
present tributary to canals and
bitches, 10000 acres which is
capable of being irrigated. The
principal products are alfalfa, wheat,
corn, barley, oats, vegetables, de-
cidious andcertain classes of citrus
fruits.
This is the natural home of
alfalfa, of which from A to crops
are grown yearly, yielding from s
to 5 tons per acre. 1t is not as
stocky as that which comes from
the Salt River valley and is pre-
ferable for either horses or cattle.
Wheat, barley and oats grow
prolifcly, the former containing a
very large amount of nutrition.
Yellow dent, white gourd and
other large varieties Of corn yield
productivity, vegetables are large
and solid and come to maturity
two months earlier than in the
eastern and middle states.
The valley and hill lands are
adapted to all OF the products Of
the temporal zone, and many of
the fruits of the semi-tropfcal
countries. The apples equal in.
size and flavor the prize winners
of the eastern states. The seed
ling fruits are unexcelled in size
and general excellence. Apricots
and apples both grow with a sur
prising rapidity. The peaches in
appearance and taste are identical
with those which come from the
famous orchards of New Jersey.
Canagrie grows wild, some of
the tubers being as large as good
sized potatoes. Tests now show
that canagrie root, which flourish.
es near Thomas, In the lower por-
ton of the valley, contains large
er per cent of fannie acid than any
ever sent to the extract works |
from either Arizona or New Mexi- |
co.
Farming lands can be purchased
at from $50 to 500 per acre, in
Guiding improvements and water
rights.
Uncultivated land without water
right is free to any settler under
the United States homestead law.
This class of farms will eventually
become valuable when the canal |
facilities have been increased.
The cost of maintaining the ca
nails which are owned by the farm.
ers varies from 80 cts. to $1.00 per
acre per year.
The following are, the market
values of the products of the soil |
at the ranch, there being ready |
sale for everything raised in the
Graham guardian., 1897-11-05
PROCLAMATION OF REWARD.
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

To all to whom these presents
shall come:
WHEREAS official information
has been received by me from the
District attorney of the County of
Graham, Territory Of Arizona, that
Augustine Chacon, who was con.
victed Of murder and sentenced to
be executed at the May term Of the
District Court. 1896, at Solomon
vile in the County of Graham, the
judgement of said court afterward
being affirmed by the Supreme
Court of the Territory, and the
SAID Chacon being re.sentenced to
be executed on the 18th day of
June, 1897.
AND WHEREAS / am official,
ly informed that said Augustine
Chacon did, on the 9th day of
June, 1897, escape from the jail at
Solomonville in the said county of
Graham.
NOW THEREFORE, i, b. J
Franklin, Governor of the Ter.
rltoy of Arizona, by virtue Of the
power and authority in me vested,
do hereby offer FIVE HUNDRED
($500) DOLLARS REWARD for
the apprehension Of said fugitive
from justice and his detention inI
any Jail In the United States.
IN TESTIMONY
THEREOF, / have this
twelfth day Of June set
my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the Ter
to be affixed.
Done at Phoenix, the.
Capitol, this twelfth day
of June, A. d. 1897.
By the Governor,
B. ]. FRANKLIN. |
CHAs. M, BRUCE,
Secretary of the Territory.
Graham guardian., 1897-11-05

Blank notes and deeds for sale at
the GUARDIAN Office. II.
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that having, Notwithstanding sundry
slips. lived honestly ID the main. i fee
some confidence; and also sometimes
aek mygeM, in private how, ii can be
that creature whose free will is at
the mercy Of so many external circum-
stances should be responsible Tor his
actions In an existence to which he
never asked admission. And from this
point to that of believing that even the
most guilty may be absolved before
the bar OF transcendent truth is not
far.
But the other day among the pil-
lows. ill in body but of sound mjnl.''
as the lawyers say when they write
under the diction OF the dying. l did
not feel the slightest temptation to
play the esprit fort after any such
hooking fashion The awful problem
of human responsibility presented IL
self to my mind imperiously. i ex-
perienced no craven terror, for the alb
surd and barbarous idea of an implac-
able God infiicting everlasting pain
never effected a lodgment in my brain.
Not at all; and yet one of those light
ming flashes of memory, which occur
only at the most solemn hours of life,
illuminated the remotest perspective
of my career, and, involuntarily, / drew
up my inventory, struck my balance
why did / not use the right word p
examined my conscience. 1t was the
usual thing-not much evil, not enough
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again waved his arms about and then
sat down.
"It is too great for speech" he said,
hopping his brow.
"The incline?" / ventured.
"No, sir, the scenery" he thunder
ed, with punctuating puffs between
each word. ga little walk like this
occasionally is what a man needs to
keep him healthy, sir. l came of a
race of walkers. The Blazems, sir,
had tramped from England to India
had there been no water between the
two places. Fork over some grub. 1t
is Q o'clock"
Eyes, SIR resumed the major, this
/ is easy walking to what have done in
my day. The hardest climb | ever had
was on one of those Swiss glaciers.
I was alone, for / always prefer to
travel without guides. AS far as the
eye could see there extended a mighty
bed of ice, as fiat as mirror and
without single object on it to relieve
the monotony. After walking for
three hours it dawned upon me that L
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you, privileged person, who have
ways had your daily bread, whose
sents were good people You who b!
not even practiced the essentials OF a
tue, though instructed in them from /
fancy, both by precept and example,
you who have had abundant leisure I'd
cultivate your mind, and ponder the
counsels OF your heart. and who have
vet been neither wise enough nor good
enough-have care. Your debt to
misfortune is not yet paid--and who
knows but misfortune awaits you there
beyond the grave-in the gaise of q
strict and merciless creditor?
Such were the thoughts by which I
was disquieted upon my bed--between
sheets already hot with fever. Such and
so indestructible is the instinct nay.
the need within uS-of absolute equity,
Nor can / quite rid myself of these
thoughts, amid all the comfort OF my
convalescence, in this warm and sooth-
ing atmosphere, under the triumphal
skies which arch above the summers
end.
Thou keepest thy secret, oh great
DEATH But when the hour of my
agony shall have come, indeed. Know
now In what mood my soul shall stand
up before the eternal justice, and have
prepared beforehand my last prayer:
''Oh, God, forgive me my happiness."
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writing these lines under the golden
sky of a clear September afternoon,
among noble trees, whose verdure the
rainy summer has kept wonderfully
fresh. l am in the slightly languii
but perfectly serene physical condition
which convalescence induces, and
which has a sweetness all it's own. l
experience a sort of reawakening and
"Reminiscences of every faculty; and,
Just now, while performing my hum
bred PAGES along the garden walk, |
found myself murmuring that exqui-
site line which sounds so very aston
ishing and unexpected on the lips OF
Agrippa d'Aubigne's fierce Huguenot:
Une rose d'automne est plus qu'une
autre EXCUSE.
1t will be seen, therefore, that my
funereal ideas have been effectually put
to flight. But three weeks ago, | do
assure you. was very much less easy
in my mind, as lay on my four-poster
between two physicians, who, after hav-
ing made a great mess of ne, we're
jauntily observing to one another:
Nothing to do now but keep up the
strength. A little nourishment.
And after much grave deliberation
they proceeded to accord me the priv
ileges of three pruneS and a boiled
egg!
All the time / was saying to myself:
What If it had been this time? Might
there not have been few days hence
vacant chair at the academy" Let me
be perfectly honest. l am no stole, and
nv smile-if smiled--was sickly.
Yet can truthfully say that what APP
palled me was not the thought of phys
ical suffering. nor even of actual death.
am pretty we'll used to bodily pain,
and suspect that we leave life as we
enter it, unconscious. If my will had
not been made before, / could have die
tated it. believe me, with perfect cool
ness. Of course the sky is beautiful,
| and there are several people who love
me tenderly, and have abundantly prov
| ed it. and all this is very sweet. Still,
| l had no very keen regret for life. not
| having much that is new to expect from
| it. IL | could not think without GER
| tain sadness of the few to whom my
| life would mean real grief, and the
| one to whom it might mean despair,
| I also reflected that, after all, it was not
| my fault: and it was not this either
which troubled ne most sorely.
| No. Wat caused the real anguish OF
! those hard hours was the mystery that
| confronted me-the silent, awful mys-
! terry. There it was-with its sphinx
claws fastened upon my breast, it's OPP
pressive weight. its gloomy eyes; its
ironical and savage lips, fairly pouting
with the clew to the riddle, and yet un-
nifyinp1v closed. But in spite of that
| cruel siIence, never, never has the in
stinct within me protested more indig-
nantiy than In that dark moment.
against the notion Of ceasing to be.
| Never did feel the horror Of annfhila-
| ton and the need Of ultimate justice re-
| belling 50 fiercely Within me-
must confess that % not 0rdina-
| riIy conceru my1elf mnch about tn
:as IS e !. .| &; = & IS q 81 /;
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He Got on q Sprinting Glacher ana
That's Why He Didn't Get Along.
We started out in the esfly morning
from the hotel, the major carrying a
pair of field glasses ~ light overcoat,
an umbrella, and book describing the
glories of califoryda ! contented my
self with carryir1g small hamper, and
more than onfce found myself wonder
ing how my companion dared attempt
the trip.
Pooh pooh" he said, in answer to
one Of, my questions concerning his
abilitH to get through the performance
credhtably. Pooh, pooh, sir! I have
SCALED the Himalayas and the noun
,lains Of the Moon assembled P0po-
catapetl, and have crossed the Sahara
on foot. Why, sir, could run UP
little hill like Tamalpais blindfolded,
and not even pause to wipe my fore
head"
We said no more on the subject, and
| finally reached Larkspur, where we be-
gan to make the ascent.
At the station the Thermometer reg
istered 20 degrees, but by the time we
| had finished the first quarter of the
ascent it seemed about a thousand.
| Presently we arrived at point about
half way up the mountain and the
major suddenly came to a halt. He
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Cleveland administration was William
c. Whitney, and the social history of
Washington shows no entertainer so
lavish as he In the next administra-
ton was John Wanamaker, who rented
the house which the Whitneys had oc-
cupied and did great deal of lavish
entertaining.
Mr.. Cleyeland's second cabinet was
a poor mans cabinet" Mr.. Olney
was man of large professional in-
come, but not a man or property. Mr.
Carlisle had never had more than his
salary as a Congressman, except an
occasional legal fee. Secretary Her
bert was the traditional poor South
erner. In fact, all of the cabinet were
men of modest means.
In the, present administration the
President, the Vice President and the
members Of the cabinet are we'll able
to fulfill their social obligations.
OF course. the President comes first,
with a series of four great receptions
at the White House, and with state din
ners at intervals, at which he is ex-
pected to entertain individually every
member of the diplomatic corps, the 400
members of the House and Senate and
a great many department officials and
distinguished visitors. The Vice Pres
ident entertains or not, as he sees MT.
Mr.. Hobert is wealthy and fond OF So
ciety, and he is planning to entertain
handsomely. The Secretary of State Is
expected to entertain the diplomatic
corps at breakfast on New Years
morning. Secretary has home on
Franklin Square which is better plan
ned for fine entertaining than any other
in Washington. Secretary Alger is a
very rich man, and he is very fond
of entertaining Secretary Gage and At
torney General Gary are both wealthy
So is Secretary Bliss.
Among those not in the official cir
Gle who will entertain well the first is
Mrs. George Westinghouse.
| In the diplomatic circle no home is
more attractive than that of the British
ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote. The
British Embassy building belongs to the
| British Government. 1t was built fol
| entertaining, and it contains fine ball
| room. The Chinese Minister is usually
1 an entertainer. though the mopbing Of
| the legation by curious strangers has
| discouraged some Of Mr.. Wu's prede-
I cessors. The Mexican Minister, Senol
Romero. and his American wife, enter.
| tain freely during the winter.
| There are not many entertainers in
the official list this winter outside the
| cabinet circle. Senator Elkins viii
| give the usual number of diners at hi:
! fine home on K street The Hannas
/ will probably give one splendid enter
| tainment at the Arlington, with the
President as the guest Of honor. Sena.
tor Lodge is another statesman whose
dinners are notable.
/ The wife of Senator Foraker has
daughter to introduce to society, but
she will spend the early part OF The
winter in her old home, Cincinnati.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris Is one o.
the most interes<ing figures q Wash
instou. All f6o romance which sur
rounded The M6SriaGe ~ Nellie Gram
15,n l|neok1 r = Z y sloEy a ~ leF'
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THE SOCIETY OUTL COX IN WASHINGTON

Washington, December 3-The So
cial season in Washington depends for
It's gayety son SO many things that at
this time of the year all the men and
women who make business of pleas
ure begin to inquire anxiously about
the outlook for entertainments. Cab
met people and others in official life
help to make or mar the season, and
entertaining is so intimate part of
an administration duties that men
have been appointed to the cabinet for
no better reason than that they were
rich and able to give fine balls and
dinners. Society has even unmade adj
ministrations. It was a social ques-
ton, you will remember, which broke
up Andrew JacksOn's cabinet and
caused the resignation of all OF it ex-
capting one.
The last four years were not very
satisfying to society. In the first
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day bout Balaam an de ass: yo' could
almost imagine yo' heard de ass a.
talkin' .-Harper's Weekly.
A Good EXCESSIVELY weren't you
on hand yesterday to cut the grass,
John?"
Very sorry. but had to parade
with the unemployed. Life.
A Brilliant Success.-"was your tour
a success?" asked the friend.
WAS it SUGGEST" asked Mr..
knight Stande. the eminent all-round
histrion. WAS 1t a success? We all
got back, didn't we?"-Cincinnati En-
quirer. IS
The Contrary Sex.-Parson Johnson
SO dis little chile am gal. Do dc
udder one belong to de contrary sex?
Mrs. Jackson--Yais, pahson, OATS
gal, too.-Judge.
A Clever Ruse.-"Yes. I always let
people know that my wife is Republic
can and I'm Democrat. 1t saves me
lots of explanations"
''In what way?"
"Why, when people hear us raising
merry turmoil, they think, OF course.
1t is only party dispute. "-Clevelap
Plain Dealer. s4~~~~.-. =
Mutual Indignation.-ft (indigS
nantly)-Your father said that / was as
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CARS TWO BEST SOLDIERS.
Pretender to Throne Of France and Pre-
tender to Throne of Spain.
Learning to Fight They Hold MILF
tary Rank in Russia and Arein
Training for Their "Call" Spain
and France Watching Them.

st. Petersburg. Nov. S0.Czar Nicho-
las knows that the two best soldiers in
his army to-day are the pretenders
to the thrones of Spain and France.
They are both in training for the con-
dict which they believe will come when
The Spanish people throw down An
onsos branch of the family and >tne
French get tired of republic.
So Bourbon and Bonapartse await
heir nations call and serve the Czal
Is colonel AMI lieutenant TO two Hus-
Iian dragons.
TWO KINSGs.
Tnen Lieut.. De- Bourbon, of the
Twenty-fourth Dragoons of the Rus
sian army, meets Colonel Napoleon
Bonaparte, of the Forty-fourth ORA
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was making absolutely no progress,
though at first was at a loss to under
stand the reason.
Happening, however. to stand still
for one moment, l found that the
glacier was slowly slipping from be-
meath my feet, and that, although |
had been going through the motion of
walking, in reality had made no pro-
gress whatever. / therefore commence
ed walking in a direction at right
angle to the one had been taking,
and after short while succeeded in
getting, not on terra firma. but on
glacier tIrma again. But that was the
ktoushest yak I ever had.
ha me5or had no sooner nnished
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good. I repented of my sins; / re-
GREETED all the opportunities of we'll
doing which / had lost. And the
priest who might have heard my con-
fession, and who will probably hear 1t
some day-for | know nothing more
beautiful and affecting, and at the
same time more natural, than what is
tacnically called Christian confession
would undoubtedly have absolved
me; nay, even--who knows?-have dis
covered in me a imam of good will, ;"
humble before God, and, to use the
admirable expression of Bossuet,
"meek-in the presence of death"
Such, then, being my dispositions,
ought ought not to have felt reassur-
ed in the face of the misery? | did not
so feel, and now at last | come to my
deepest, most bitter, most cruel anx-
iety.
Going back over my past life, / was
compelled to admit that, despite my
share of sorrow and suffering, ! had
been treated with extreme liberality by
nature and by destiny. / had enjoyed
more. and suffered less. than most men
do. / had rubbed elbows with poverty
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and distress, but / myself had been
what is called fortunate. And now,
when about to quit the life which had
been 50 kind to me, was pursued by
! thought OF the innumerable number
Of my brothers for whom life Is very
That death, which ! was rather
pluming mkseif on being ready to ac-
cent with kesignation-ho how many are
the unfortlnat who desire, nay inn
More. Il 4 d deliyerarce! And the for
1nfI3shla e6tiou arises. "doeaf not the
ofher m .if there Il another Owe
9fb1n' Is thepe unhappy c0esz r
lhssg e tIse 6 8 r q ' fox
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ny IA cONvALESCENr.

From the French of Francois Coppee.
For the third time within year !
have been seriously ILL., Even to a
poet-a creature who is officially light
minded and superficial. and so ticketed
by serious folk-little accidents of this
sort afford food for reflection; and the
other day as lay signing and SILVER
ing in a fever fit, an idea occurred to
me unworthy-a very common idea;
the most common of all, in fact-the
idea of death.
Be it understood that / am now on
my feet again. have come out to my
little place in the country, and am
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WHAT SHE WANTED.

They gathered closely around the fair
victim of the broken forks. She was
sitting on the back breadths of her
jaunty cycling skirt and looked dazed.
Give her air, gentlemen" said the
tall gentleman with composite collar
They drew back little
More air, gentlemen said the fair
victim.
They drew back a little farther.
"Still more,' she murmured
They retreated to the sidewalk.
A lovely lawn, gentlemen, . che said
Then they all turned around and
looked over the fence
The Victim sprang nibly to her feet
thrust III 4 pin here end there and theu
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homely as your puppy.
she falso Indignantly Why, how
can father say that My puppy Is
anything but honsely New York Jour-
nal.
Patent Extinguisher.-'sYo Your wife
seems to have very sanguine disDo-
sition."
s.sanguine? Well, {ir. she is the
kind Of woman who yQuld expect %
put fire cut by throwing watermeions
at 1t Detroit Free Prs
Some Doubt About he--i SUD
pore Il your father fou1 me mere e
would kick me out az "a door
g. !. @ I eonx kne ga 'n
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goons, he salutes him gravely as his
superior officer, and wherever and
whenever the two young men meet the
Bourbon pays Difference to the Bona
- R1at hat has happened before
If the two Families -.
lSPANIARD.
one fault that the
les Of Prince Jamie
They say he drinks
vas educated in Eng
ndness for "booze" is
he Spaniards to that
his little non-Spanish
Prince Jamie is very
anxious to play for
to play it more sue
art played bye Bonnie
he raised his standard
of Mar for his father,
German.
he has five first given
;, are Jamie John Charles
hiliA He was born in We
In Switzerland, IN 1870. His
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CURRENT FUN.

The Height Of Oratory.-Mrs. john
son--Am Parson Jackson ve'y elo-
quent?
Mrs. Whitewash (ecstatically)-
he eloquent? Oh. my! 1 wish YOU
could hab heard his sermon las Sun
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mother, who died about four years
ago, was Princess of Bourbon Parma.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Col. Napoleon Bonaparte is more
solid aid dignified officer than
Jamie. He is thirty-three, and has
sown his Md oats. He is the second
son OF Prj&Se Napoleon, son of the
great empa nhvother, Jerome, King
If w ITS therefore second
CONS nnarte, of Balti-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-03
WEEKLY CROP REPORT.
Weather Too Cold for Good Results In
Several Localities.

Weather Too Cold for Good Results In
Several Localities.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The weather
bureau, in its report of crop conditions
for the week ended Aug. 80, says: In
the lake region and New England the
week has been too cool and in the states
Of the Central valleys too dry for best
results In the Middle, South Atlantic
and Gulf states, and generally through
the Rocky mountains and Pacific coast
regions the week has been favorable
Early corn is maturing rapidly in Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and South
Dakota, but it has made slow progress
in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon.
sin and Minnesota, and the late crop
generally needs warmth and moisture.
Spring wheat harvest is nearly com.
pleted in Minnesota and North Dakota,
and thrcshing is general. In Washing
ton and Oregon the weather has been
especially favorable for threshing the
heavy wheat cop which has been har'
vested in these states.