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DYING WORDS OF GREAT MEN.

I feel as if 1 were myself again. Walter Scott.
 An emperor should die standing Vespasian.
 The best of all, God is with us.-Jo ohn Wesley.
 Clasp my hand, my dear friend, die. -Alfieri.
 It matters little how the head lieth Raleigh.
 I'm shot if I don't believe I'm dying De Stael
 A dying man can do nothing easy-- Franklin.
 My beautiful flowers; my lovely fowers.-Richter.
 James, take good care of the horse.- Winfield Scott.
 Many things are becoming clearer to me.-Schiller.
 I feel the daisies growing over me- John Keats.
 What, is there no bringing death ?- Cardinal Beaufort.
 Taking leap in the dark. Oh, mys- tery.-Thomas Paine.
 Let the earth be filled with His glory. Earl of Derby.
 It is small, very small (alluding to her neck) Anne Boleyn
 Let the earth be filled with His glory. Bishop Broughton.
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Judge Street, since becoming chief justice, has made an enviable record courts. The rapidity with which business has been dispatched is highly commended by litigants and tax payers.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-12

The Phoenix police are now making good headway in the crusade against lawless characters. Keep it up until all these criminals are driven from the city. ..--....
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Pubrcation Office: 3S Adams Street. Tel sphone No. H.
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New York Life Insurance Go.

Inter Insurance Co.,
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  it e3O OOOn in the 
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  has at fec $49,OOOOOO Othar charge the has
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 $9.752,OOO than
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The sufferer from bronchitis, with the cough so annoying, should get rio of it by applying to Dr. Swetnam.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-12

in your pocket, if you buy SeAll1zng's Best baking pow der, and use only one heap ing teaspoonful to a quart of flour. s.
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Entered at the postofflce at Phoenix, Arizona, as mail matter of the second slaAs.
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The Arizona Republican.
The Treasure TSTritOry'S Chief Newspaper.

CHARLES c. RANDOLPH.
 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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stories are told about other prominent
CaIifOrnians. but little credence can be
given to any of them.
But the fact remains that the camels
were brought here. On all the points
connected with this part of the story
the old timers agree.
1t was in the old days when the Com
stock was in it's glory. The days before
the railroad; when Virginia City was
almost as important a town as San
Francisco. Old timers heave deep signs
full of heartrending meaning when
they think of them.
1t so happened that a certain group
of mines about twenty-five or thirty
miles out of Virginia City was panning
out piles of rich ore. 1t was impossible
to put up a mill close to the mines on
account of lack of water.
Mules were put to the work, and dur
ing the winter months did fairly well,
although to feed and care for them was
a terrorizing expense. 1t must be I'M
derstoOd that as dry, rocky and barren
a desert as there is on the face of the
earth lay between Virginia City and
the mines. To use a vehicle of any
kind was out Of the question, and so
the ore was carried in bags slung over
the backs of the animals.
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Ruspess SUSPENSE gopbna opd corruption all

shipments of that same charcoal for
years. The thing is easy. You see my
neighbor across the street. He cables
his buyer in New York to ship a thou
sand tierces of lard. The buyer gets
the consignment on board ship and
mails to Havana manifest calling for
one thousand barrels of potatoes. Here
the custom house inspector allows the
importers drays to haul away the sup
posed barrels of potatoes, a cargo. upon
which there has been this difference in
tariff prices: A fierce of lard weighs
five hundred pounds, and the duty is
cents a pound; a barrel Of potatoes
weighs only one hundred and fifty
pounds, and the duty is only cents a
pound. The duty on the cargo OF lard
would have amounted to 1000, but the
amount paid for the cargo of potatoes
was only $4,000, a saving of $1,000 In
consideration Of this saving the custom
house inspector, of course, receives his
reward"
Such is the way business has been
conducted in Havana for years. Rob
berry of the Government has been so
systematized that it has become sci
ence. With a termination of this state
of affairs in sight, the extent of bribery
now is almost beyond belief In stay
of a week or so a man who keeps his
eyes open can see score of cases to be
explained only on the hypothesis OF
bribery of officials. The largest and
most valuable cargoes dwindle to al
most nothing under the skillful hand
ling of the importers and the officers of
the port. The approaching end of va
rious sinecures is causing the particl-
pants in benefits accruing from the
present system to neglect no opportu-
nifty. It is a case of steal quickly, crab
everything in sight, for soon we will
have to cut and run" Meantime. port
duties have been trebled, obsolete rules
have been revived and new rules
created Importers who do not or will
not stand in with the custom-house
inspectors have been obliged to suspend
business. For instance, the port duties
on a ton of flour, valued at $40, amount
to s42 so. A case of a dozen cans of
beans valued at 80 cents is taxed 50 go
These exorbitant duties have been
imposed with the object of excluding,
as far as possible, all shipments of food
the Interior motive being one of which
the world at large is ignorant, namely,
the disposal of quantities of provisions
in the hands of the military govern
ment The statement that, during the
war, the Spaniards In Cuba had no
supplies was quite erroneous As a
matter Of fact, the Spanish military
government, foreseeing the war, made
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Orphan Asylum were led out and sta
toned by the two globes.
The two attendants worked in con.
cert. Every time q, ticket marble feI
on one side of the room it's correspond.
ing prize marble would fall on the
other. The boys would in turn shout
out first the number of the marble anC
then the amount that had been won BY
the ticket it represented, depositing the
marbles on the desk of a clerk who sal
in front of the table.
Every fifteen minutes the globes would
be turned over, in order to further mix
their contents.
The cool of the morning had passed
by this time. The day was hot, as
nearly all Havana days are. The men
at the valves perspired and famed
The boys voices grew husky. The in
creasing crowd listened nervous1y and
anxiously for the announcement of the
number that had drawn the first prize
Finally the marble that represented il
fell from the globe. A recess of ten
minutes was taken. The boys were led
away and two more took their places
The drawing was resumed until all the
prize marbles had been exhausted
1.-The last" cried the man at the smaller
globe. Senior Espinosa arose and said
as he rang the bell for the last time:
THE days drawing of the Government
lottery of Havana is over. You have
seen that it was just and fair
The prizes are distributed to the win
ners from the office of the Secretary of
the Treasury on the day following the
drawing.
In speaking of the lottery, the Condo
de la Reunion told me to-day that the
receipts had fallen off very materially
since the American occupation of East
ern Cuba. Santiago, he said, was for
merly one of the best markets for the
sale of lottery tickets.
II do not very well see,' said the
Condo. "how the United States Govern
ment can dispense with the lottery
without causing great dissatisfaction
throughout Cuba. We are as much ac-
customed to buying lottery tickets as
postage stamps. Savings banks have
never been a success in the island. One
was tried several years ago in Havana,
but it failed miserably and it's president
committed suicide. Cubans are accus-
toned to putting their spare money
into the lottery as an investment. Any
man who plays continuously and per-
severingly is almost certain to get back
more money than he has paid into the
lottery, besides always having a chance
of winning a prize that will make him
comfortably rich for life
The Condo de la Reunion, who is a
large plantation owner and one of the
leading autonomists in Havana, voiced
the Spanish and Cuban opinion Of the
lottery.
It is exceedingly doubtful whether
American eyes will ever view this time
honored institution in the same light.
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LAST DRAWING OF THE HAVANA LOTTERY
he AmericoDs has ended cubus big gambling institution

picture is a long, semi-circular table,
covered with crimson velvet. At the
center of the table sat Senior Ramon
Espinosa and the Condo de la Re-
union, who, as representatives of the
Treasurer preside at the drawings.
gates from six of the municipal depart
ments of the Government.
Although drawings invariably begin
at 1870 o'clock in the morning. a crowd
began to gather on the benches in front
Of the platform long before that hour
and chatter over the tickets which ap-
parently each one had brought with
him.
Senior Espinosa touched a bell on the
table as a signal that the drawing had
begun. A clerk unlocked a big wooden
box and from it took out six long
strings of wooden marbles. Two pub
lie crferS announced to the crowd that
the marbles were numbered and repre-
sented the tickets which had been is
sued. If any one has any doubt as to
the fairness of this distribution" they
said, "let him come forward and ex-
anime the marbles; If not, let him COM
plain of no unfairness." No one &C
copied the invitation. Every one
seemed convinced that the drawing
was the model of fairness the criers
proclaimed it to be.
The marbles were taken off the
strings and deposited in a basket in
front of the velvet covered table From
another box several smaller strings of
marbles were taken. Each one of them
was marked with the amount of one of
the premiums. These smaller strings
were counted in the presence Of the
audience by the supervisors of the
drawing.
A negro took his place in front of a
large, odd looking apparatus that was
not unlike an American spiral grain
conveyer. The ticket marbles were
thrown into it, and the negro began to
turn a crank. The marbles rose higher
and higher, jangling and clashing as
they went, until they finally dropped
into an enormous brass globe on one
side of the platform. The prize marbles
went by the same process into another
globe on the other side of the platform.
The object of this, Mr.. Espinosa ex-
planned to me, was to thoroughly mix
the marbles, so that no one would have
the slightest idea of their position in
the globes, and thus preclude any pos
sibility of cheating.
Attendants took their places in front
of the two globes. By means of valves
attached to- each they allowed the
marbles to fall out one at time.
From an anteroom at the rear of the
platform two boys from the Havana
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remaining ones always had a longing
for human companionship. They would
wander into the villages and frequently
would let the children be lifted on
their backs for ride. Any village
would gladly have taken care of one or
two of the old camels, but they made it
troublesome for the horses. For some
reason a horse dislikes the smell of a
camel and so after a few days, to the
intense grief of the children, the ami
mails had to be driven out on the
desert again. Should a prospector
without a horse happen to be camping
in a lonely spot and one of the camels
come along it would exhibit all the
signs of perfect friendliness. Unless
the man drove the camel away it would
remain around the camp for weeks. 1t
always foraged for its own food and
water but simply yearned to be near
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| both its prizes and income have from
| time to time been paid in gold or silver
or paper currency, as the price of the
! different kinds of money was most adj
| Vantageous for the Government.
The accounts were last kept on gold
| basis in 1892. During that year the
| amount of revenue paid into the treas
ury from the lottery was 1885,, 124
Since then, according to the reports
in the Treasury Department, the earn
| ings of the lottery, paid sometimes in
| silver and sometimes In paper, have
! been as follows:
1893 ..........$ 81 811 598 1896. 81 036, 769
1894. ........ 1,58S744 1897......... ,446 ,564
1885 1,218,422
Drawings usually took place three
| times a month. For each 900 tickets
were offered for sale at SO each for
the entire ticket, or so cents each for
any one of the twenty sections into
which it was subdivided Three
quarters of the receipts were distrib-
uted in premiums and one-quarter was
retained by the Government, which took
also all prizes drawn on unsold tick
cts The first prize at each drawing
was $4,000. From that amount they
ranged down to 500 prizes of $50 each.
By a complicated system of agencies
that reached to every village of Cuba,
lottery tickets were on sale every
where There agents hired sub-agents
to peddle tickets in the streets and pub
lie places.
One Of the favorite methods for re-
concentrate children to earn a few
cents a day was to sell tickets for some
sub-agent Their shrill voices crying,
Good numbers; sure to win prizes"
could be heard on every corner. Lot
terry tickets were far more easy to OBJ
tain in Havana than postage stamps.
1t is scarcely an eXaggeration to say
that every one more than 10 years of
age in Cuba played in the lottery. In
every position of the mercantile, pro-
fessional or social life of the island
one found the same green and purple
tickets with their big black numbers.
Some years ago reports became cur
rent here of fraud and corruption in the
administration of the lottery. As re-
suit an ingenious system of conducting
the drawings was devised that is said
to be the only one of it's kind in the
world.
The drawing on Monday took place in
a low. one-story shed in the courtyard
Of the Palace of the Treasury. The
shed is plain enough on the outside, but
is handsomely furnished. A large, high
tribune, or platform, occupies about
half the room On the rear wall hangs
a lifesize portrait Of the boy King of
Spain, in the uniform Of a Captain
General Of Cuba. Directly beneath the
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! immense shipments of food 90 all parts
of the island, stocking every store, and
consigning goods to all the importers
and jobbers. And now, with the end of
it's domination in sight, the Spanish
military government has still on hand
about 25, 900 sacks of flour, Is, 900 barrels
of beans, 10000 boxes of Norwegian cod
fish and 1000 cases of condensed milk.
These goods are offered at prices be-
low cost, are sold, in fact, at any figure
with the idea of turning everything
into cash before the time comes to give
an accounting. At the same time the
stock in the hands of private dealers is
1 spelling for want of purchasers at even
reasonable prices. And the Govern
ment, as long as it has a pound of food
left, will continue to undersell the deal
erS.
Thus the expulsion of a rotten gov
eminent is being marked by an epoch
of shameful intrigue, of under handed
dealing and OF wholesale lying an!
cheating Individuals are foIloWinS
the example set by the Government,
and many merchant in Havana, hon.
est till now, will never be honest again.
No one asks questions. and each sim
ply pockets the money that comes his
way.
The feeding of the reconcentrados.
has been a source of gain to nearly ALL
who handle the money contributed
for the purpose. During the blockade
and up to the present time enough
money has been contributed in Ha-
vana alone to feed every one of the
citys 10000 reconcentrados three
square meals a day. For instance,
cents a day buys enough food
for each hungry one. 1t is sufficient to
give each quart of soup and half
a pound of bread daily. The money
was contributed by private subscrip-
lions gathered by the Governments
agents-enough money to spend $1,000
daily in giving the 10000 poor their
cents worth of food. But instead
of a quart of soup and half a pound
of bread daily, the reconcentrados re-
ceived a quart of soup and half
pound of bread weekly. In other words,
the cents for each starving one was
expended once every seven days in
stead of every day. The balance,
which was a magnificent amount, was
put down as expense" This matter
will probably never be investigated,
although there are reliable witnesses
in the city who will testify that one
merchant alone has made $4,000 as his
share of the profits of feeding the poor.
officials. who were In poverty before
the war are now buying city real es-
tate
gibson WILLETs, r
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From the first it was apparent that
the mule plan was not a success. In
the summer it took about two mules to
carry water for the one that carried
ore. And all the While the animals
Kept dying. The intense heat and dry
sandy air was too much for them and
they fell by the Wayside 50 fast that a
new band was required almost weekly.
But the ore had to be carried to the
mill, for there was millions in it."
AT this juncture some genius sug-
gested that the miners buy camels for
the work. SO the camelS were bought
at great expense. Some of them were
obtained from the veteran Snowman
+. L. Barnum, and about twenty came
direct from Asia Minor under the care
of an agent dispatched from Virginia
City
From the first the camels did all
that was expected of them Each
morning they would eat a meager
breakfast of any old weed that hap
pened in their way, drink few gallons
of water and were ready for business.
Two bags of ore, each containing be-
tween 800 and 500 pounds, were
strapped to the back over the hump of
each camel.
When the train was ready all started
off at once, striking a good swinging
gait that was kept up until the mill
was reached. The drivers had nothing
to do but follow the train. No stopping
for water, no urging, no beatings. The
faithful beasts did their work willingly.
When the ore was dumped the camels
took another big drink and were turned
loose, being permitted to make their
way back to the mine at their own
pleasure Very rarely did one of them
fail to be on hand the next morning
ready to take another load to the mill.
The camel train was q strange sight
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Whlle en- route across the desert. From
distance the general effect was that
or scene in Persia. There was moth
ing lacking, the intense blue sky, the
binding white sand and the distant
mountains showing dimly through a
seeing the sight for the first time.
has stopped and rubbed his eyes, Won
dering II he were not suffering with
some temporary mental alteration.
But all this changed when the rail-
road came. Then the camelS' work was
over. The iron horse displaced them,
and once more the owners began tC
puzzle over a serious question. What
was to be done with the camels?
The herd had been increased by sew
eral young ones. Nearly all the in
fants, however, died the first winter
Then an effort was made to sell the
whole lot. But Barnum did not want
them and nobody else cared to load UP
on camelS.
For months the patient beasts waited
around their old corral ready and will
ing to do any work that might be given
them. But there was none for them to
do and finally the owners turned them
loose to get their living as best they
could.
1t was several months before they
Yentured far from their old home. but
In time they managed to wander all
over the deserts of Arizona and even
into Mexico and New Mexico.
At first me of the bold COWBOYS
thought to have fun with the meek.
sad-looking camels that crossed their
tracks. But they never tried it a sec
ono time. 1t was always somewhat diff
hcuit to make a cow-pony get near
enough to camel to throw a rope over
its neck. But the trick was often done
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saddle to have good laugh at the
antics of the beast.
But about a moment later the cow
boy generally thought the country had
been struck by a cyclone. His horse
was jerked from Under him and usually
dragged to death unless the lariat
fortunately broke. The cowboy bumped
the ground pretty hard and in some
cases came to in time to witness the
end of his horse or possibly see the
bruised animal lying on the sand and
the saddle following a camel into the
distance. A cow-pony could no more
hold one of the Comstock camels than
it could steam engine, and the cow
boy who found this out by experience
learned lesson that he never forgot
AS the years went by the cameIs de-
creased in numbers and in spite of the
fact that they were running wild the
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Special to The Sunday Call.


4 AVANA, Oct. 27-Business in
Cuba is in a state of suspense,
Of complete stagnation. No
progress in any industrial
branch is to be expected I'M
til the political status of the
island becomes fixed and stable Gu
pans, Spanish and Americans. mer-
chants OF all nationalities, are simply
waiting for the Spanish troops to get
out and the American soldiers to come
In. Meanwhile the era of progress is
being postponed by the eternal manana
OF the Spanish Evacuation Commission
ers. The American Commissioners find
little to do except to go fishing and
shark hunting, while the patriotic Span
ish officers of all ranks are trying to
fill their pockets with the loot that is
to be carried off when the final manana
comes around.
Robbing the people, cheating the Gov
eminent, stealing public funds, picking
private pockets, fleeing the lambs
called strangers, plucking the geese
called promoters; these are the occupa-
tions of the Spanish military officials,
of the Spanish civil authorities and of
Spanish and Cuban merchants at pres
ent.
Corruption is practiced openly, even
ostentatiously, like the charity of the
hypocritical. If one doubts this he has
only to walk down to the machina, the
Custom-house wharf to find the proof.
Here he may see, as the correspondent
did the other day, blacks at work I'M
loading sacks from the lighters. The
sacks were labeled charcoal" but the
process of piling them in heaps on the
wharf scattered a fine white dust. This
does not mean that white charcoal has
beeen invented, for when the CORE
spondent dipped his fingers in the white
dust and tasted it he tasted flour. The
sacks were consigned to Spanish i'm
porter in Manzanillo-a thousand sacks
of -four marked as charcoal. The infer
ence was clear that some one was
cheating the Government out of import
duties, or that the Custom house off
Gals were permitting the Government
to be cheated.
Later, on presenting a letter of intro
duction to a well-known Cuban mer-
chant in Havana, the correspondent
mentioned the flour which had comein
as charcoal Tut said the merchant,
that is a mere item. That man in
Manzanillo has been receiving monthly