Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-09-08
LOYAL W. HILL.


New York. but has spent the greater
nortion of his life in Michigan He
was educated at the Portland Union
school and taught eight winters. He
attended the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor for two years, taking
the regular law course. His first cleo
tive office was that of school Inspector.
Afterward he was elected township
clerk. Justice of the peace and for
eight years he was 4 member of the
county board of supervisors. In 1884
he was nominated for county attorney.
year when the Democratic and
;ireenback parties united and carried
the state. He received 1I3 votes more
than was given to James G. Blaine in
his county and in his own township
where there was large fusion ma
ierftv he received two-thirdS of all
the votes cast He was representa-
tive in the legislature for 1SS1-S, serv-
ing on two important committees, jul
dietary and taxation. In 1891 he re-
moved to Puyallup. Washington, and
in 1892 was elected mayor and the fol-
lowing year city attorney; he also held
the position of trustee of the Puget
Sound University Both of the posi-
tons last named he resigned after
coming here and deciding to locate per-
manently. He was admitted TO the
Circuit and Supreme courts of Alicht-
gan in 1879. and TO the United States
District and Circuit courts in 1885, to
the various courts of Washington in
1891 and TO the Arizona District courts
in 1895. He has been in active law
practice for about twenty years. He
has always been a Republican and a
har6l-wOrker for the success of the
party. He is Il splendidly equipped
candidate for probate judge and should
ne he nominated by the Republican
convention ON Saturday next he will
be almost certainly elected.
VEGETABLE GEMS.
Among other queer things found in
the Philippines are vegetable gems.
There are not many of them, though.
The bamboo is empty normally. One
might cut open Il Jungle of the giant
grass and find unaltered hOllOwneSS.
But once on Il million times or more ac-
c;dent brings to light in the bamboo
stem Il gem. Nature has nodded into a
lump little of the fiinty material
which makes the outer stem so hard. |
The nodule usually presents the ap-
pearance of an opal, and several Speci- |
mems are i'll the museums which repro |
duce the characteristic lines of that
gem. These noduleS are known as ia |
baccer. 1t is interesting to note that |
the first chemical and mineralogical eX-
of them was made by the |
James Smithson whose munifience es
III blished the first of the scientific bu-
reauS of the American government.
In the condition in which the fruit is
known in the United States the milk
inThe cOcoanut is considered its only
content. The really ripe nut, however,
is filled with Il white spOngy mass, rich
in the finest oil which the nut pro-
duces. This sponge is exposed to the |
hot sun for two or three days in a
wooden trough until thoroughly pulp
ed. The last of the oil is then extract
ed by squeezing the soft sponge in the
hands. Very rarely this careful hand
ling has developed the presence of
small spheres which have much of the
ustre of the pearl. Eight or ten of
hese cocoanut pearls, all discovered in
he Philippines are treasured in Europ-
lan museums. They range from the
size of n pinhead to that of q very
small Nsw Yoris sun.