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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1s.-John l..
Hergst. better known ~ young Mitchell.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-19

The s.Howard Calendar
VIII be appreciated, by your friends -
Christmas gift. Get one.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-19

Latest styles wall paper at A. "A. Eek
strom's. S2l South Spring street.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
OLD INDIAN LEGEND.

Prof. Forbes will leave in the
morning on on outing to the Babo-
quivari peak. He will not 60 pre-
pared to climb that famous rock
but will make preliminary exam
ination of it preparatory to future
action in that direction. The rock
has never yet been surmounted, its
precipitous sides making such a.
chlevement almost impossible. In
dian legend is however to the con-
trary. It is told that at one time
in days gone by. number OF Pa-
pago Indians with their women
and children were driven by a gang
OF marauding Apaches to the sum
nit of the rock and there held un-
Til starvation compelled their death
They did not, as expected, surren-
der TO their bloodthirsty foes, but
like the Jews in the temple at the
taking of Jerusalem, by Titus, they
killed their women and children
and threw their bodies over the
cliff and then followed with them
selves. This act of courageous
desperation on the part of the Pa
pagoes so inspired the Apaches
with superstition and fear that they
at once broke camp and it is said
that for more than one hundred
years afterwards an Apache never
| stood within the shadow OF that
great rock.-Citizen.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

A correspondent of "Greater Los
Angeles scores few points in fa-
vor Of buttermilk. He says. "Few
people know the value of butter
milk. A proper and constant use
|of buttermilk will entirely cure the
constant cr~ving for stimulants to
which many persons, from long use,
have habituated themselves Have
it'handy and when the appetite
says whisky or other stimulants,
drink half a tumbler Of buttermilk;
the craving desire will be satisfied,
and the stoma sh will be much ben
efitted and strengthened instead OF
weakened. There are many good
effects from the free nse of butter
milk. It alone will often cure sour
stomach, and permanently. The
Tactic acid needed by many persons
is supplied by buttermilk much
more largely than by any other
known food or beverage. One Vi
tai and important use of butter
milk is the prevention of valvular
Justification of the heart, from
which in this country so mary
person die, especially old persons.
There are many other peculiar So
called heart diseases which Tactic
acid, if partaken of freely, prevents.
The So called fluttering of the
heart, consequent upon a disorder
ed, dyspepti. stomach, can Ie en-
tireIy rem we'd by a free use of
buttermilk. There are many other
feelings thus cured, all
Of which have their seats in the
stomach-melancholy, the blues,
etc"
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
from paying rent. Oh, no, it don't

from paying rent. Oh, no, it don't
take money to run g. newspaper J
It is sometimes necessary tho the
entire force economize This they
can easily do by eating dried ap-
Piles for breakfast, drinking hot
water for dinner, and swell up for
supper. At night they can sleep
on the press-bed and cover with
the office towel. A few fiery edi-
torials will provide all the heat
needed.
But money - scorn the filthy
thing.
Don't let the pure, innocent edi-
tor know anything about it. Keep
that for sordid tradespeople who
charge for their wares. The editor
gives his bounty away. The Lord
loveth a cheerful giver. He'll
take care of the editor. Don't
worry ahou. the editor. He'll get
the paper somehow, and stand up
for you when you run for Office,
and lie about your pigeon toed
daughters tacky wedding, and
blow about your simil-headrd sons
when they get job shoveling
smoke.
Then when you die. after having
stood around for years and sneered
at every effort the paper has made
for the advancement and prosperity
of the town and people, rest as
sured that your betrayed wife and
weeping children, will be amazed
when they read in the local paper
What model man has gone gilt
tering through the golden gate to
glory. Even the cherubs on the
tombstones in the cemetery will
open their eyes in wondrrm-nt
while the minister reads the touch
ing tribute. Hutch
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
YOUNG PHARAOH'S PLAY
THINGS.

The children of the old Pharaohs
of Egypt had their fun as we'll as
the boys and girls Of to-day. We
know that they played marbles and
other games and recently ths ex-
plorers in the ancient tombs of the
Egyptian rulers have found other
playthings. Among them il a
complete compuny of wooden SOL
diers fifteen inches in helght. They
are dressed in the uniforms of the
body guard Of the ancient Pharaohs
and armed with lances. Probably
the soldiers in tho army that pur-
sued Moses into the Red Sea and
were drowned when the walls Of
water closed behind the Israelites
were dressed in just such way.
No doubt mauy young princes and
princesses played with this COM
pany Of wooden soldiers. marching
it up and down and back and forth
and planning what great battles
they would fight when they grew
to be kings and queens And per-
haps the young prince who enjoyed
the soldiers most of all may have
died end the wooden army might
have been buried with him, to be
found thousands of years later.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
A traveller tells a funny story

A traveller tells q funny story
about the neat capture of two
thieves which he and his COM
panions effected in q small town
near the City of Mexico. They
had one of the wing rooms Of the
inn, into which doors opened from
the path and the yard. The up-
per part of each door was arranged
Venetian blind fashion, for tran
som ventilation. Early in the
morning they were awakened by
slight noises, and saw, at each door,
dirty, yellow hand on long arm
searching downward for the lock.
His companion hit npon the plan
of trapping the knaves with an old
lariat lying on table. They looped
each end of it and silently shared
the two wrists !; then pulled the
rope taut, knotted it, and left the
thieves dangling outside the doors.
The stoical fellows uttered no
sound, struggling vainly to sever
their bonds with long, ugly knives.
The travellers eujoyed the situation
and went back to bed. At day
break the landlord found the ras-
Gals and set up howl that brought
the whole town in an uproar to sec
the Indians, fattened against the.
doors, utterly unable TO got loo SO
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
A DISSERTATION.

"It takes money to run a news
paper" says the St. John Kas.
News
Could anything be more absurd :
The statement is an exaggeration.
1t is an all wool yard wide waop-
per. It has teen disproved q
thousand times; 1T is a clear case of
air fancy.
It doesn't take money to run q
newspaper or people wouldn't climb
the "golden stairs" to the Office to
get copy of the paper free. It
is charitable institution; beg
ging concern, a highway robbery.
B'Godfrey, a newspaper is a child
of the air, creature of a dream.
1t can 60 on and on, when any
other concern would be in the
hands of receiver aud would soon
wound up with cobwebs in the
window.
"Money is the root of all evil." !"
Give yonr job printing to some
travelling scallawag and then come
and ask free publication for the
church notices. Get your society
letter heads printed out of town
and then flood your home paper
with beautiful thoughts in resolu-
ton of respect and cards of thanks
They make such spicy reading. aud
when you pick it up fillsd with
those glowing and vivid lnortuary
articles. you are so proud of your
little paper. Selah
It takes wind to run q news
paper. 1t takes a scintillatlng.
acrobatic imagination, half dozen
white ties and a railroad pass to
run newspaper. An occasional
invitation to free lunch, to be- paid
for in a half column write up. helps
to fill up the paper-likewise the
editor. But money-Heevens to
Betsey and six hands round, who
ever needed money in conducting
u newspaper Kind words are the
medium of exchange that do the
business for the editor-kind word
a. j church so ial tickets. Never
give money to an editor. Make
HIM trade it out. He lkes t.
swan.
Money is a corrupting thing
The editor kuows this and what ll'
wants is your heartfelt thanks
Then he Can thank the print.i
! and they can thank the boarding.
mistress and she can move to kee
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
ARIZONA CLIMATE.

sIn state that embraces nearly
114,OOO square miles and ranges in
altitude from few feet above the
sea to almost $4,000 feet on its
highest mountains, it is natural
that there should he wide diver Z
sity of climates. It is so in Ari-
zona. Therefore, to attempt to
describe in detail the climates Of
various localities would be task
not only far beyond the scope OF
our present work, but also largely,
beyond the range of statistic data.
There are however some climatic
features common to nearly the
whole of the territory and it is our
purpose to consider them.
Speaking generally, the climate
of Arizona is arid; that is to say,
there is a notable deficiency of
moisture This in itself i'm plies a
clear atmosphere, a low degree Of
humidity, sunshine strong and al
most continuous. Consequently,
the days are hot, the nights cool
and refreshing. These are the
prominent features of Arizona's
climate. Professor Boggs.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

In The San Carlos reservation,
since the segregation of part OF the
land, considerable prospecting has
heen done and several mining camps
have been started. The ore is mostly
copper carrying gold. In one dis
trict where large bodies of galena
ore have been discovered there are
evidences of work having been done
centuries ago.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

An aba idoned mine which was
being worked evidently 30 years
ago, has been discovered near the
Mountain Springs, seven miles from
Hillside and SO Mills west of Pres
cott. The mine was well develop
led and is rich in gold. The ore is
red iron OK de. It was discovered
by two m,u named Macomey a.
Waters,
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

why is it that women think it
necessary to form a club before
they are willing to appear in SEN
sible clothes?
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

A Maine man man followed a
der track two days, and then dis
covered that the deer had been GO
ing the other way. That hunter
a.uaL be an ex- det"ctive.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

A singer in Venezuela was sent
to Jail for refusing to r..spon to IN
encore. A singer who would re-
fuse to respond to an encore in
this country would be sent to an
insane asylum.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

The Kinzua viaiuct. near Alton,
Pa, was designed and finished in
eight and onc-half months with
out the use of scaffolding or even
a ,lny ladder. 1t is 2,lOO feet
long md 800 feet high.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22

!|Sants Fg, PlsseOttd Phoenix
AttiBipn, lopekat Santa Fe
RAILROADS
The Shortest
AND Quickest Line
ANITA rE, PRESCOTT - PHOENIX R.R
TINE TABLE

(Mountain Time 10 Standard Tinle)
Leave Phoenix, north bound. at 80 m and
30 n
Arrive at Prescott. north bound, at 2 25 p m
and 80 m.. and 2 IS p m and 2 80 m.
arrive atsAsh Fork, northhound. at s 30 p m
nd 90 m
Leave Ash Fork ,southbound,7 Is pm aid . m
Leave Prescott, south bound, 10 IS IN and
10 80 . M, and 10 IS m and 10 IS am
Arrive At Phoenix. south bound. at : 90 . m
an 6 p m
Dining station At Skull Valley. Connections
made at Jerome junction.
Connecting At Prescott with stage lines for
all principal mining camps, at Congress juno
tion with Congress Gold Co for Congress
and stagel!nes for Hsrqua Hala Station and
Yarne,l. AT Phoenix with N q P r R for all
points on the 8 P System. also with RvKR R
Close connections made at Ash Fork with
Santa Fe Route fast trains to all points east
and west. Trsins for California leave Ash
Fork at 9 SO and sl5 p m, arriving Los
Angeles next afternoon at l 20 and San Fran
cisco second morning at TO- IS. Train for the
east leaves Ash Fork at 6 % I'm
GEO. M.SARGENT, G.P A.
FMMURPHy, Prescott, A T
Pres. &Geni Mgr, Prescott. REwELL;.
GILLETT, Asst Genl Mgr, Phoenix
Genl Agent, Phoenix, ArixUnA
.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22
LIZ. ". W. BRAcK.

DR. ". W. BRAcK.
Physician and Surgeon. Office and
residence ut the late residence OF
+. L. Patterson, Mesa, A. +
Diseases Of women and Obstetrics
Speciality.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-01-22


i Out in Kansas they do unusual
things. A Kansas girl of II not
long ago won the prize in an un-
usual contest in competition with
.wo men. She had learned to turn
a horse shoe in blacksmith shop,
and at an entertainment for the
benefit of the church she matched
herself against two of the best
blacksmiths in the city, Three
portable forges were placed on the
stage, and each contestant was al
lowed a helper to blow the bellows.
Both men and the girl wore the
leather apron peculiar to their call
ing. The men smiled indulgently
at their girl rival as they waited
for time to be called, but became
anxious, then alarmed, and finally
discounted, when she turned a
perfect horseshoe before the audi
ence and judges in less than four
minutes. The curtain dropped on
pretty tableau of glowing forges
and the smiling girl victor, who
speedily appeared among her girl
friends daintily clad in white.
A country guest at a certain
London hotel, having dread of
pickpockcts, went to the clerk and
handed him a twenty pound note
to put in the safe. Asking for it
next day he was thunderstruck
when the functionary to whom he
had given the money coolly denied
any recollection of the matter.
Whereupon the sountryman went
to lawyer. SECT another twenty
pound note, +" said the lawyer, sand
60, accompanied by friend back
to the hotel. Apologize to the
clerk for your mistake; say 1t was
defective memory; attribute it to
Observation-Disclosures; deposit the
twenty-pound note in the presence
Of your friend md come lack to
me.." The mystlfed ruralist OBJ
served instructions to the very let
ter. "Now," said the lawyer, "go
la. K llone to the clerk and ask for
your twenty pound note. Know
ing that your friend saw him re-
ceive it, he will give you back the
second one. Then take your friend
with you the next day, appro, c !
the clerk, ask him boldly for that
twenty pound note, and as there
was no witness to your receipt OF
the second note, he will be bound
10 return that ALSO" The ruse
proved completely successful, much
to the qualification of the country
man.
Iron County register., 1897-10-21
THE NEW CITY OF wEARE

To be Founded on the Yukon River Be-
tween the Boundary Line aud st. Mich
ReIs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-In view of the
reports of the expected founding of a
new city in Alaska to be known as
Weare, on the Yukon river, between
the boundary line of British Columbia
and ST. Michaels, with the design of
making it the capital of the proposed
new territory, it may be possible that
the interior department may find it
necessary to locate the new land Office
there instead of at Circle City, where
it was originally contemplated.
Official reports have reached here
that Circle City, until lately practic-
ally the only settlement on the Yukon
river, has been to all intents and pur-
poses abandoned.
w. L. Diston, os Illinois, recently ap-
pointed surveyor general of Alaska, has
telegraphed the interior department
that he is now en- route for Sitka. The
department has been notified of the
presence at Sitka of the recently ap-
pointed register and receiver of the land
Office lately established at that place.
Hereafter all surveys of mineral lands
in Alaska, including, of course, the
Yukon region, and all other parts of
the territory, must be reported to the
Sitka office
Iron County register., 1897-10-21
LINCOLN TERRlToRY.

Proposed New Territory TO be Set on In
Alaska - According to the Suggested
boundaries Ii Would beR Very Rich One
Albeit Somewhat IHhOspItAbIe tn Climate
and Remote from Civilization.
UNALAsKA, Sept. 50. VIA SAN FRAN
CISCO, Oct. 15.-Should the proposed
territory of Lincoln be created by the
division of Alaska. it will have as its
southeastern boundary Mt. st. Elias.
From that point the eastern bound
ary will run directly to the
Arctic, which ocean will form the
northern boundary. The western
boundary will likely run down the
coast line below St. Michaels to the top
of the divide between the Yukon and
Kuslkokwim rivers. The boundary on
the south will follow the sixty-second
parallel east to the Copper river, where
it will cut down to Mt st. Elias.
Should the division occur, and the
boundary lines mentioned prevail.
Alaska proper would then include the
Aleutian islands, the coaling stations
of Dutch Harbor and Unalaska and the
balance of the Alaskan peninsula. the
island of Unga and its quartz mines,
Kodiak island, Kani peninsula. and the
placer mines of Cook inlet, Prince
William sound, and the placer mines
along the Copper river, the towns of
Wrangel. Sitka, Juneau, Dyea, Ska
quay and the passes on the overland
route to the Yukon.
Within the new territory would be
the rich placers of the Yukon as far
east as the international boundary
line 1t would also include the numer-
Gus settlements and trading posts from
st. Michael to Circle City, aggregating
a population at present of over 5000
whites and s, 900 natives.
Iron County register., 1897-10-21
! HANNA.s INSTRUMENT.
working the Pension Scheme ON ths
Ohio Voters.

Working the Pension Scheme ON tM@
Ohio Voters.
The insolence and arrogance OF re-
publicanism as q result of indulgence
are illustrated in the conduct of the adj
ministration in establishing an annex
of the pension bureau in Ohio at this
critical iuncture in the political career
of Mark Hanna. A force of % clerks
has been specially detailed to expedite
pension cases for voters in this pivotal
state.
"a pension for vote" is the principle
upon which the Hanna managers win
proceed from this time forth in their
quest for support from men who were
brave enough and patriotic enough to
risk their lives in defense Of the union
and whose names are not now on the
oyerburdened pension rolls at Washing
ton. The movement is. of course, an in
suit to the high-minded and manly old
soldiers, who resent all efforts to coin
their valor into dollars, but it is of q
piece with the entire political career of
Hanna. He has underestimated the in
telligence of the American people from
the moment of his entrance to politics
What he has accomplished has been due
to the use Of Doodle and the mistakes
of rival political managers.
But in thus attempting to attach the
pension bureau to his train he will dis
cover that he has committed blunder
from which he cannot recover in time
to save himself. The nation win never
be willing to believe that the voters of
Ohio viii at the polls indorse so despica-
BILE a use of funds which, in theory, at
least, were set aside by the American
people as token of national gratitude
to the men who fought for the preser-
vation. unimpaired, of a government
representing the highest aspirations Of
free and intelligent race.
No surprise can be felt by those who
have watched Commissioner Evans adj
ministration of the pension bureau that
he should unprotestingly lend his aid to
the furtherance of Hanna's scheme in
this way. With brazen effrontery, as
founding in its assertion and shocking
to national pride, this man Evans has
boasted of the number of ''the boys" he
has scared for" since he was placed in
charge of the pension bureau. Though
in full knowledge of the fact that ma
tional revenues are at lower ebb than
they have reached in a decade, and that
a treasury deficit necessitating the
issue of gold bonds is inevitable. he
has swollen the pension rolls beyond all
precedent and cooily announces that he
will require at least Sc. .ooo. 900 more than
was appropriated by congress for PEN
sion purposes. When it is remembered
that this appropriation is $l4l 100000
for the current year, fairly adequate
idea may be had of the enormity of
Evans insolence. To be sure he is only
the instrument in the preparation of
this outrage, but the reflection that he
missed only by very narrow margin
the nomination for vice president on
the ticket with Mckinley shows to what
depths of degradation the party which
once elected Abraham Lincoln presi-
dent has been dragged by Haunaism
and syndicate politics.-St. Louis Re-
hin
Iron County register., 1897-10-21
PUBLIC RoRBERY CHECKED.
The Crooked Framera OF the DingIey
Monstroaity.

The Crooked Framers OF the D1ngley
MOnstrosfty.
Perhaps it would be nearer the mark
to attribute the ruling of McKinley's
mugwump secretary of the treasury
making the Dingley bill retroactive to
ignorance rather than to dishonesty.
The bill was signed by the president
at 4:e6 o'clock on the afternoon of Sat
urday, July "a, 1897. At that hour the
custom houses of the Atlantic ports and
about three-fourths of all the other Gus
tom houses of the country had been
closed. Secretary Gage held that the
government could not recognize frac-
tions of day, and that the bill must
take effect and become law from the
very earliest hour of the day on which
it was signed. He accordingly ruled
that all entries and Withdrawals hqui-
dated at the old rates on July "a under
the Wilson duties must be reliquidated
at the higher Dingley duties.
Mr.. Cages ruling made difference
to importers who had received goods
through the custom houses on that day
prior to the signing of the bill Of near
ly half million dollars. Many Of them
case was presented to Henderson Sum-
merville, general appraiser, for an opin-
ion. His written decision, after review
ing the case carefully, concludes thus:
"Our conclusion is that the compact
of July "a, 1897, did not become oper-
ative as law until six minutes after
four o'clock p. m. of said day, when it
was approved by the president; that it
was not operative by relation of any
previous hour of the day, but that the
tariff act of August 2s, 1894, remained
unrepealed and in force until the pre-
else moment when said act of July "a.
1897, was approved, and that goods i'm
ported and entered for consumption in
the forenoon of said July "a, 1897, or at
any hour prior to the time of approval
of said act), would be governed as to
classification and rates of duty by the
tariff act of 1894 and nat by said act
of 1897"
This decision accords exactly with
the position taken by the Times when
Mr.. Gage first made his absurd and un-
just ruling. Appraiser Summerville's
finding is in harmony with common
honesty, common sense and common
law. The retroactive idea IS entirely
republican, and therefore dishonest. It
fixes an obligation before the condi-
tions constituting it have been consum-
mated. Tom Reeds republican house
inserted this legal paradox in the Ding
ley monstrosity before it went to the
senate. AS lawyers, its sponsors and
trainers knew that it would not hold
water, but they were guilty of the po-
litical dishonesty of trying to make
capital with their employing trusts by
running a bluff on the importers.
Cages void ruling displays his mental
caliber and indicates the tendency of
the republican administration to ex-
tract by hook or by crook. and when
ever the occasion offers, every drop of
blood and pound of flesh it can from the
taxpayers.-Kansas City Times.