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Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

How would it be if our Arizona leg
islators would lead the way in giving
our farmers and fruit growers
chance for while We legislate to
allow railroads to go untaxed, we fail
to legislate to make our great wealthy.
mines pay anyshing7 like the tax on
their product that the farmer does ON
his: we legislate for the benefit of al
most everything but the farmer Is it
not time that he be recognized in leg
iSlation somewhere?
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Major Ben Butterworth, well kI own
on this coast as a pioneer stage line
manager, is i'll and not expected to
live but a short time AT his winter res
idence in Thomasville, Georgia.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

One of the largest of recent live
stock sales has just taken place in
western Texas where the firm of the
Western Union Beef Co. on the 10th
inst sold 5000 steers to Clinton An
derson of Wyoming for $4,000, an
average of S21-S714 per head. The
Western Union Beef Coils the largest
live stock concern in the United States
and the re appears from the above
transaction to be nothing small about
Clinton Anderson. The price above
noted is better than our stockmen in the
Territory are getting for small lots
of cattle probably in better order than
those Texas steers
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Some interesting features are clear
ly brought out by the 1897 report of
business failures to Bradstreet's. First
and foremost is a heavy falling off,
alike in number and in liabilities, of
those individuals, firms or corporations
succumbing to the pressure of unfav
orable circumstances, surely indicat-
ing return of prosperous conditions
i'll general business. In the next place
must be mentioned a drop in the per
centage of assets to liabilities shown,
as compared not only with last year,
but with 1895 and with 1898 of panic
memory, indicating thereby a return
20 more or less normal conditions.
Finally, there is to be noticed a reduc-
tion in the percentage of what might
be termed the commercial death rate,
as compared with every year since and
including 1898.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The democrats and assistant dem
ocrats are trying hard to make it ap-
pear that the financial position of the
President, which is in strict accord
with the platform upon which he was
elected, furnishes a reason for the Sen
atOrs who are popularity known as ::aSil-
YER republicans TO break their pleas
ant relations with him, but so for as
can be learned it is labor wasted.
Some of these would be mischief max
ers may be surprised when Senator
Wolcott makes his promised speech,
explaining the trip of himself and col
leagues to Europe in behalf of inter
national bi-metallism- Just before the
Senate took its holiday recess Mr.. Vol
colt said that he hoped to beready to
make that statement about the middle
of january. ..-.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Florida's disaster of Sunday night
last is to be deplored. That such a
large business as that State has been
doing in oranges and pine apples
should be suddenly swept out of ex-
ness of that entire section of the
TTnion
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Eastern papers find the animus of
a valuable silver mine in Colorado.
China is now the principal silver con-
sumner of the world.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The TamInany President of the New
York Police Commission announces
that I'VE want the laws broadly CON
strued and literally enforced" Just
what degree of broadly" he had in
mind and Just the extent of 1iberality
that is to be used in their enforcement
will only appear in the course of time
I,hs. guoted( sentence is extremely
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Foreign trade accounts says Brad
streets will show large excess of
exports for 1897 over the imports of
that year.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

China is said to be anxious for
peace 1t looks as though Russia,
Germany and England We're also anx-
ious for piece.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

They had a $1,000 fire in Dawson
City by last reports. \ Sack of flour,
straw bed and two bottles of smuggled
Oregon cologne were burned.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Alaska will come in for considerable
legislative attention from Congress
during the session
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Ignacious DonnelIy always manag-
es to make himself notorious whether
it be Il nondescript monoscrypt on
Shakespeare, as u wild eyed political
agitatOr, Il candidate for nomination
for the Presidency. or a tough old
newspaper man in love with his type
writer whom he wants to marry
Nothing interferes with DonneIIy's
egotiSm.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Cuba seems to have taken a back
seat in favor of Ohio for news and
sensations.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The claim that the annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands to the United
States will be the death of the beet
sugar industry in this country is bit
of trick to pull the wool over the eyes
of the people and thus secure protests
to annexation. The sugar of the Ha-
waiian Islands is already admitted to
our markets duty free; its position in
the market could not be made more
formidable to beet sugar if those
islands We're part of the country In
fact this attempted deception of the
farmers in this matter is an evidence
of the desperation of the anti-annexa-
tionists and will ultimately go against
them when it is understood.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The treasury figures for the first
half of the fiscal year show that had
normal conditions prevailed the def
cit for the first half of the fiscal year
1898 would have been more than four
or five million dollars and perhaps less
than that. The excess of receipts in
the last four months of the fiscal year
1897, above the normal for the Wilson
law, was about S3S.00O,0OO This, of
course was due to the excessive i'm
pOrtations in anticipation of the en-
actment of the new law and all of them
would have come in during the past
six months but for the extraordinary
conditions which brought these unus-
ual importations in advance of inn
mediate requirements
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The Governors report is at hand
and full of useful information on the
Territory. That an edition of 1000
copies is furnished by the government
is fortunate for it means the distribu-
tion of much authentic information on
the Territory. 1t is neatly illustrat-
ed, contains much fresh information
valuable alike to our people here and
the home seeker. The illustrations are
from photographs of new subjects, the
statistics have been carefully collected
and include much that is new and i'm
pOrtant. The report is a most credit
able one to the Territory as well as to
the Governor.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

The Hawaiian treaty is said to have
one vote in the Senate more than
enough to pass it.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Mr. Langdon and Mr. Donald Grant
of the Verde Canal Company, will ar
rive in Phoenix i'll Il few days to look
up the business of that great enter
prise in which ley are largely inter
ested-
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13
ABOUT CAAIPHOR.
How the Odoriferous Drug Is Obtain
ed From the Trees.

How the OdoriferouS Drug Is Obtain
ed From the Trees
Notwithstanding the comparatively
HsrrOw limits of its natural environ
nlSnt, the camphor tree grows We'll in
cultiy. ion under widely different con-
ditiOnS. has become abundantly
naturalized a. Madagascar. 1t flour
ishes at Buenas = yreS. 1t thrives in
Egypt, in the Canary Is IDS, in south
ern France and in the Sal Joaquin
valley in California. where the sum
mers are hot and dry. Large trees, at
least 200 years cid, are growing in the
temple courts at Toxic, where they are
subject to a winter of seventy to
eighty nights of frost, with an occaS
ional minimum temperature as low as
u degrees to 16 degrees F. The con-
ditionS for really successful cultiva-
ton appear to be Il minimum winter
temperature not below 20 degrees f,
fifty inches or more of rain during the
warm growing season, and abundance
of plant food, rich in nitrogen In the
native forests in Fohmosa, Fukien and
Japan camphor is distilled almost eX-
clusively from the wood of the trunks,
roots and larger branches.
The work is performed by hand
la Dor, and the methods employed seem
rather crude. The camphor trees are
felled, and the trunks, larger limbs
and sometimes the roots are cut into
chips which are placed in a wooden
tub about forty inches high and
twenty inches inches in diameter at
the base. tapering toward the top like
an Old-fashiOned churn- The tub has
a tight-fitting cover, which may be re
moved to put in the chips. y bamboo
tube extends from near the top of the
tub into the condenser. This consists
of two wooden tubs of different sizes,
the larger one right side up kept about
twO-thirdS full of water from con-
tinuous stream which runs out of Il
hole in one isde. The smaller one is
inverted with its edges below the wa
ter, forming an air-tight chamber
This air chamber is kept cool by the
water falling on the top and running
down over the sides The upper part
of the air chamber is sometimes filled
with clean rice straw, on which the
camphor crystallizes, while the oil
drips down and collects on the surface
of the water. In some cases the cam
phOr and oil are allowed to collect to-
Sether. and are afterwards separated
by liberation through rice straw
or by pressure. About twelve hours
are required for distilling Il tubful by
this method Then the chips are re-
moved and dried for use in the fur
mace, and Il new charge is put in. At
the same time the camphOr and oil
are removed from the condenser. BY
this method twenty to forty pounds of
chips are required for one pound of
crude camphOr- Scientific American.
The HERALD is in receipt of an
elegantly printed descriptive pamph-
let of the Illinois Steel Co. said to be
the largest iron manufacturing con-
Germ in the world The plant is locat-
ed at Joliet When the great Chicago
drainage canal shall have been COM
pleted the plant should be able to re-
ceive Lake superior iron ores by an
all-water route and the least possible
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

California has taken Il new depart
ure; she has demonstrated that des-
pite the ability and cunning of her
lawyers she can hang Il murderer.
Never before in the annals of crime
has the case of any criminal received
such Il stubborn, unsparing defense as
that of Theodore Durrant. but moth
ing would avail; his guilt was estab-
lislied beyond doubt and more than
two years of almost Superhuman eff
fort to save him avai1ed nothing. The
technicalities of law enlisted in his be
half We're numerouSly new in fact or
application. but they all went down be
fore the established fact of his guilt
The result of the legal contest in his
case is far reaching; eight other muir
derers are in San Quentin prison today
for execution which has been delayed
by the possibilities raised by the Dur
rant case. Those possibilities have
been swept away and California will
redeem herself. Among those await
ing execution and depending for es-
cape on the success of Durrant is
WOrden. the heartIess man who with
the deepest cowardice and hardest
malice cut the supports of Il railroad
bridge and sent engineer Sam Clarke
to Il horrible death in the wreck of
his train. thereby. The country will
heave Il sigh of relief when such men
as Durrant and Worden receive their
final quietus. The sooner the country
can demonstrate that such men cannot
escape the hangmanS moose the soon
er she may feel Il restored confidence
in tn safety of her homes and citizens.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

President Mckinley is thoroughly
4 alive to the meaning of the present
attitude of the great powers of Europe
towards China. He knows that they
are after commerce as well as terri
tory. The United States wants no ter
ritory as far away as China, but it
does want to keep the valuable Chin
ese trade it already has and to add to
it, and, while not intending to get mix
ed up in any European deals or
bibles, it does intend to take what
Eeps that may be necessary to
kQerican commercial interests
"a nEhe United States has
Shina which must be
fins ir that coun-
nd solely "a view
1Y4g every move made by the
VTers of Europe in or towards
khina In other words. we have moth
! ing to do with the relations of China
and other nations so long as our treaty
\ rights are respected
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

One thing which has contributed to
the prosperity of the country has been
the extremely satisfactory condition of
the farmers the past season. We have
had in all sections abundant crops
and our farmers have realized large
prices for them. Conditions in other
countries have been such as to create
Il large demand for our agricultural
products abroad. the demand in our
home market has increased with the in
creased millions paid to our wage
earners and prices of all farm products
have reached high point, which has
brought hundreds of millions of dol
lars into the pockets of the farmers
to enable them to pay off the debts,
lift the mortgages and undertake i'm
provements which they have not been
able to do for many years The rise
i'll prices came so early that the farm
ers themselves have realized the en-
tire benefits from the advances. Ac-
cording to the figures on the wheat
crop it seems that from the latest es
innate the yield has been JOB 1000, 600
bushels greater than it was last year.
The farmer had not only this increase
in the number of bushels to sell this
year over last year. but he netted at
least twenty-five cents per buShel more
for it than he did last year.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

v f-e-l littCus or costive eat Gas
clret. { idy cathartic. cure guaran
iced. % cents, 10 cents.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

will through the jungles of Manhattan
island and surrounding country.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13
GOLD PRODUCT OF THE WORLD.

Ours is the greatest gold producing
country in the world. The product
of the several countries for 1897 is es-
timated as follows:
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Our esteemed contemporary the Tue
son Citizen seems to have lost hope
in our chances for Statehood within
any reasonable time and ably advo-
Gates the next best measure, home
government On this measure the
Citizen says: The bill provides
that all Territorial officials shall be
elected by the people and that said of
icials shall continue to be paid by the
government as, now. 1t does not en-
tail one dollar of expense on the people
of Arizona and it gives them the ines
Unable right of self government. No
man knowing these things will sign a
protest against it. Advocating this
measure is no reflection on the pres
ent administra ton. which it is ever
the wish of the "Citizen'' may be a
good one, but to cut loose from the per-
nicious system of spoils patronage
Statehood, however much we may de
sire it, we cannot hope for at present
State representatives in Congress re
SOlutely refuse to put Us on the same
footing and give us an equal voice in
the affairs of the nation but they will
accord us the privilege asked for by
the bill now before Congress- We CON
fidentially believe thatat the next gen
eral election in Arizona we will have
the privilege of saying who shall adj
minister the affairs of government" "
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

An appeal has been made to the
people of the Territory through Gov
ernor McCord for assistance for Gu
ban sufferers Let it not be made in
vain What grinds American generos-
ity. however. is the fact that the
United Stat permitted the popula-
ton of Cub: o be starved into such a
hopeless, ipless condition before
saying to Spain: You can go no far
ther in this matter without fOrible in
reference on our part. The United
States government permits this atroc-
ity to be committed and then prac-
ticalIy asks the people to contribute
TO the relief of the misery created. If
the United States had done their duty
to humanity. to say nothing of duty to
themselves, they would have refused
to allow Weyler TO continue this mon
strous crime of the age two years ago,
as soon as his purpose became appar-
ant, and backed up the demand for
its cessation by force if necessary
The horrible crime that has been com
mitted may be better understood when
the case of the concentrates camp
at San Domingo is known where seven
thousand people We're huddled into
the camp and four thousand of them
died within two months These hor-
rors were known to the United States
officials and yet were permitted; and
this was only one of those terrible
f.ln1ne that hold starvation md brad
pestilence and death Wholesale The
survivors are helpless and still starv-
ing and sllivering, homeless, penniless.
Let the people of Arizona do her duty
by them nobly. This is not the time
to stop and ask who is to blame. or
how they came into that condition
To withhold our hand at this moment
would be to add fuel to the fires of
destruction that Weyler kindled,
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Yet our gold product, though the lar-
gest i'll the world, is of small value in
comparison with the results of the far
mers' toll
While it is worth SCI, 100000, our
corn is worth S491 100000, our wheat
$31O,GOO00O, and even our lowly oats
$132, 100000.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Notwithstanding the persistent eff
forts of portion of the democratic
press to prevent contributions, the
Presidents manly appeal for dona-
tions for the relief of the poor Cubans,
who are suffering for the necessities
of life by reasons of the condition of
the island and not for any faults of
their own. has touched the charitable
hearts of the country and substantial
relief is pouring into Cuba by every
steamer. Arrangements have been
made for Miss. Clara Barton, Presi-
dent of the American Red Cross. to go
to Cuba with a staff of assistants TO
help the United States Consular agents
in distributing the aid among the suf-
ferers. The President is much graf
flied at the prompt response of the
country to his appeal for aid.
Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-01-13

Hon. G. w. Kretzinger, the noted
railroad counsel of Chicago, who ar
rived in this city on Saturday evening
last on his way TO Los Angeles, return
ed to the city last evening with a
number of the officials of the S. F. P.
& p. road and other friends, together
for many years been fully acquainted
with this valley and has been some
what interested in property here His
family have spent two or three winters
in Phoenix Mr.. Kretzinger is at the
head of the law department of the
Santa Fe system and one of the most
successful practitioners among the
host of legal lights of Chicago.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-09-30

The Fifth Legislative assembly Of the
state OF North Dakota proposed the
following amendment to the COnsti-
tuition Of the state by
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Be 1t resolved by the house Of repre-.
sentatives Of the state Of North Da.
kota,, the senate concurring.
That the following amendment to the
constitution Of the state OF North Da-
kota be adopted by the Fifth legisla.
tive assembly Of the state Of North Da-
Ikota, and submitted for approvalt to the
Sixth Legislative assembly, to-wit:
AMENDMENT.
Section seventy-six i76) OF article
three ~ Of the constitution Of the state
|of North Dakota, is amended SO a. to
read as follows:
1.-THE governor shall have power in
conjunction with the board OF pardon
Of which thegovernor shall beex.o@cio
member and the other members of
which shall consist OF the attorney oen-
era: of the state Of North Dakota. the
chief Justice OF the supreme courtsof
the state OF North Dakota and two
qualified electors who.shall be appoin-
ted by the governor, to remit fines and
forfettures, to grant reprieves, commu
tations and 4pardOns after conviction
for all o6enses except treason and
cases OF impeachment; but the legislR.
tive assembly may by law regulate the
manner In which the remission ofIinea.
pardonA, communications and r~eprieyes
may be applied for;
Upon conviction for treason the gov
Arn0r ahn1l hAvo nnu,nr IN SnonnnI <hn
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-09-30
Evidences u Property.

II ann - . nns,v 49,, 81.
.s,,.ssS1sn1s nI 49, - ID. sn =,
puDLisners q Our Business budgetss g
|St. Louis publication, A. N. Powell.
sent the following brief anenrnt ~ +
hua,naa. ontlnnL IS n.,si. 100 "a
n.M.s1sS-AsS. - ~ nAAo aau
FrAmsey county:
The city Of Devils Lake is witnessing
the erecttonsofs number of substan-
|ttal brick business blocks and costly
residences-sure evidences OF pros.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-09-30
state Fnuds.

The sernisanunal report OF State
Treasurer Nichols, for the term ending
June 50, has just been published It
shows sa4bys2o.& in the various funds,
deposited as follows: M 8
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eICer y. y sectl0n provided, shall Pc
assessed 10 the county CITY, township,
Town vlllage or district IN which ~ ts
slGuaSed, ! q manner prescribed By
law, Inc lranchlse, roadway, roadbed,
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erty or messages, shall be assessed by
the state board OF equalization at their