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Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
MINING NOTES.

The discovery of a gold and copper property in Tonto Basin by J. M. Brown has created some excitement in Jerome, says the News. It is reported that B. A. Edgington has purchased a one-sixth interest in the claim for $500 cash. An assay of the gold ore showed BPS per cent copper. The gentlemen who are interested in the property have concluded to incorporate and are now having the papers prepared. The property is undoubtedly very promis- ing one, and when opportunity offers the News will give it's readers a full write-up of it.
 There is a new smelter proposition at hand. The new smelter proposes tc use crude petroleum as fuel and to do business in Prescott, if it materializes.
 The expert" who wants long bonds on mining property at prices ranging from $50 and a half to $100 and de- mands about d million of ore in sight, invariably speaking of my people, is very much in evidence nowadays. The miner, prospector and mine owner has right to know who my people are. and whether they have capital in fact, or are of the illusionistic kind, who imagine they have a. bank account somewhere in a mythical banking house. Bonds and probable purchas- CTS, with a good prospect and a poor prospector on one end of the string, and dangling to it's other end a lot of mine promoters" who don't know a mine when they see one, and don't in tend to acknowledge it when they do see a good proposition, are bad thing for capitalists, bad for mine owners. and bad for poor Jack who has worked for years on beans and hope.-Mining Reporter.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
AMERICAN SINGERS FAULT.
Mime. Marchesi Says They Lack Art
 istic Sense and Concentration.

Madame Marchesi, the famous singer and teacher, said during a recent in terview:
 What has my experience taught me about woman? That she is too variable and not energetic enough. She should unite force with the gentleness which makes life bearable. What are the best voices? There are beautiful voices in all countries. American women are admirable, and I am devoted to them. have but one reproach to make con cerning them, and that is not of their character, but of their education, which little fits them for an artistic career. The majority come to me knowing no language but English, with a keen understanding of business and the practical side of life, but com plete ignorance of art. They are some what fickle and not extremely serious in their work; they like variety in pro- fessors as well as in everything else; they have not the application of girls selves so naturally. It results that who have received classic and artistic training and one more influence which determines their professional caliber is their puritan heritage. Inherent sup pression of all emotion, constant effort at self control, are the enemies of sen timent, poetry and theatrical abandon to which the Latin nations lend them Americans make light opera singers more often than dramatic artists. They are not accustomed to intellectual la bor as we understand it over here; they seldom finish their studies. From a Paris Letter.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
IN THE JEROME DISTRICT.
A New Stock Company Is Being Or
 ganized There.

E. A. Powers, a mining superintend- ent of many years experience in the United States and old Mexico, and who up to a few days ago had charge of the how famous Cochiti mine in New Mex 4co, came to Jerome last week and will remain here as the superintendent of the United Verde Extension proper ties. He is a man who has been very fortu- nate in the discovery of mineral, and miners who know. have informed the News that if there is ore in this prop 'erty Mir. Powers will expose it.
 At the Black Hills group Superin- tendent Brown is placing in position two hoists, one on the upper and one on the lower shafts. This machinery has been delayed in arriving in Jerome and consequently the work on this prom ising group of claims has been very slow as the depth already attained made the work of sinking very slow, but now that the proper power has ar rived the work of sinking will be pushed as fast as it is possible to do it, through easy working ground, such as is encountered in the workings of this group. Good ore continues to be en-
  property, some of which can be seen in the office of Merrill Bros, in the Clink- scales building.
 la the case of Hendy vs. Clark ct al. for the possession of what is known as the Little Oak Creek Spring, located under the rim of Mingus mountain, little southwest of Equator Hill, Judge Sloan, who has had the case under ad- Visement for a few days, last week de- cided that the spring was the property of MT. Hendy-the Copper Chief Min ing company. The right of MT. Camp bell in this spring was purchased by MT. Hendy for the Copper Chief Min ing company. Campbell had used the water for irrigation purposes on his ranch. Smith ct al located a mining claim. taking in the spring, and con- tested the company's right to the wa ter. excepting at the point where Camp bell took it out of Little Oak creek, which was at point some distance be- low. the spring, and also that the com pany had only the right to use it at that point during two or three months in the year. The judge, however, de- cided as above, that the company had ;i right to all of the water, and at all times of the year. Messrs. Clark and partners have not yet decided to appeal the case.
 Some of our local business men are organizing a stock company to work some promising claims near Jerome. Their intention is to organize under small capitalization, and to put all money received for stock into legiti- mate development work. The property is said to be worthy of an expenditure of money for the purpose of explora- tion.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
VEKOL MINE.

P. P. Daggs, who is looking after the interest of Chris Loss in the Vekol sil- mine, forty miles southwest of Casa Grande, was in the city on business as sOciated with the re-establishment of a mail route from Casa Grande to Ve- kol and renewal of regular mail facil- ities in the district, says the Tucson Star. There will be 100 contributors to the postoffice at Vekol when the office is reopened.
 The Vekol has had many vicissitudes during its existence dating from 1885 to 1892, and again during the past two years. Our townsman, P. R. Brady, Sr., was associated with the proposi- tion during the first period. The dump amounts to 10000 tons, indicating that the output has been all of S2,000 900. Workings show anywhere from fifteen to thirty miles of opening With the
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30

money produced by the sale of the family plate, is expected to yield an amount sufficient to assure to young Lady Peel and to her little boy a sum of s5,OOO a year. This is, however, not to be turned over to Lady Peel herself, but to be vested in the hands of trus- tees for the exclusive benefit of herself and of the child, with the understand ing that not a penny of the money is to go to Sir Robert
 While one cannot but feel certain amount of sympathy with Lord Peel and the other members of his family in thus seeing the family treasures dis persed to the four corners of the earth through the insane and almost crim- inal extravaganza of that disreputable baronet, who gave to the public his autobiography in a novel entitled "A Bit of a Fool' yet the decision of the court must be commended since it is a mortal blow struck at system which permits the infant owner of some mag nificent country seat to literally starve because the law of entail-that is to say, the dead hand'-prevents him or his trustees from selling, for his main- tenance and benefit, any of the treas ures with which the place may be crowded, the condition of affairs being all the more cruel since the child is in no ways responsible for the extrava- gance which has encountered the prop erty. It is probable that this Peel case will now be followed by a number more of the same kind, and that many peers and bearers of ancient names who have been living in the most straitened cir cumstances, owing to their inability to sell art treasures, books, etc., which constitute family heirlooms, and which fiil country seats that are close ed up on the score of expense, will now ask and obtain permission to sell, at any rate, a sufficient quantity Of these heirlooms to afford them an income commensur ate with their position in life.
 Old Admiral Sir Harry Keppel the father of the English fleet, and who is considerably over so years of age, has just sailed from England for Borneo, where, in his young days, some seventy years ago, he stormed so many pirati- cal strongholds and established the sovereignty of Rajah Brooke. He is a director of the British North Borneo company, and is going out on business connected herewith. - Marquise de Fontenoy in Washington Post.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
IRVING'S WAY WITH CALLERS

q was scared half out of my wits the first and only time I ever met Sir Henry Irving" said an actor now play ing at one Of the city theaters.
 Tt was in New York, during his first visit of '96, and I was anxious to ask him about a young relative of mine who was then a member of his London Lyceum company. A mutual friend scribbled line Of introduction on a card, which I sent up at his hotel di- rectly after he returned from a mati- nee performance. I was shown to his apartments and found him seated by a table with his chin on his hand.
 ''iIe murmurod some sort of greeting, E;CtiCEed me to 2 chair and fixed me with his eyes. which, as you know, are extraordinarily somber and piercing. lis eyebrows, moreover, are the most remarkable I ever saw in my life. They are enormous, jet black thatches. and in moments of concentration the outer ends go up and the inner ends go down, giving his face a Mephistophe- lean expression that is absolutely hyp- notic. I was nervous to begin with, because I have always regarded Irving with almost superstitious reverence and when I began my little tale those terrible eyebrows bent down on me like an incubus.
 'The more I tried to be brief and clear the worse I wobbled, and all the while Irving's strange scrutiny was growing fiercer and more intense. He Ssai af ing eyes of his seemed to bore me through like two augers, and before I reached the point of my errand I lost my head entirely and jumped up to beat an ignominiOus retreat. 'Stay!' he exclaimed, imperiously and for over a minute he continued to glare at me in absolute silence. Then suddenly he smiled and scribbled something on a piece of paper. You will pardon me, he said, suavely, T was trying to recall name and have just remembered it. May I trouble you to repeat what you have been saying?' At that I realized that he hadn't been seeing me at all, and Sasped with relief Then I went over my request. He listened attent- lively and gave me the information I desired. It turned out to be a charm ing interview l don't think he ever dreamed what q bad quarter hour I put in. n."-Chattanooga Times,
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
Mines and MininQ

fall in silver, so came the suspension in operations, due in some measure to , other causes. There was a process in troduced to save the precious metals but this did not prove wholly success ful. Wilfley tables were placed on the property as part of the plant. Up 10 about a year ago P. B. McCabe, for merly of Tempe, was managing affairs and with his retirement came suspen- sion of operations.
 MT. Daggs is of the opinion that the present entanglement will be unraveled and with liberal capital properly in vested it will be possible to accomplish financial gains in the prosecution of mining and milling at the above fla nous mine.
 The Fl Paso Smelling company has a dozen men working on gold bearing ores three miles from Vekol
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
OUR BRAVE MARINES.

Above the Maxim's deadly roar,
 The Mauser's leaden sleet, Above the clash of angry steel
 Is heard their tramping feet. A rose of fire above their heads,
 The bursting shell careens.
 But onward, to the rolling drums, Go marching the marines. In Porto Rico's field of cane
 They left their hero dead; The victims of Cardenas Bay
 Wore blouses piped with red. When Dewey raised the starry flag Above the Philippines They helped him plant it firmly there His columns of marines. They fought at Guantanamo
 A hundred sleepless hours In burning sun and chilling dew, Hot winds and drenching showers, And flung away their caps and belts, Their knapsacks and canteens, To better use the sword and gun Oh, glorious marinesI Far off among the cocoa-palms
 And mosses ankle deep Our fallen soldiers of the sea
 Are camped in dreamless sleep. Beneath the plantain's dusky leaves, In unfamiliar scenes, They wait the last great bugle call, The battle-worn marines. When on that final muster-day
 They rise in grand review, The angel at the golden gate
 Will straightway let them through. He will not ask that gallant file
 What limp or bandage means; They need no passports but their scars Our country's brave marines.
 -Minna Irving in Leslie's Weekly
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
HOW IS YOUR WIFE |?

Has she lost her beauty? If so, Con- stipation. indigestion. sick headache are the principal causes. Karfte Clover Root Tea has cured these ills. for half a century. Price 25 cents and 50 cents. Money refunded if results are not sat- isfactory. pr. G. H. Keefer, Druggist.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
MORE WHEN NEEDED.

The plaim people will look with favor upon the movement to reduce the ex- pense of congressional funerals. We could then afford to have more of them. Minneapolis Times.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY & CO.,,

F. J. CHENEY W CO.,
 Proprietors, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be- lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm.
 WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, O.
 WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all Drug gists. Testimonials free.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30

Porter & Co.'S nrst-cIass stages make close connections with arriving trains, as also with trains going to Bowie. Special accommodations pro- vided for trips to and from Globe.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30

looms at DraytOn manor to admit Ot making adequate provision for her child and herself. Her application was strongly opposed by Sir Roberts uncles and cousins. wko, failing his son, are the next heirs to the Peel estates and art treasures, and who pointed out that the present condition of affairs was en- tireiy due to Sir Roberts own insane extravaganza. his relatives having on three different occasions combined to settle his financial difficulties and to place him, figuratively speaking, on his feet again.
 In spite of this opposition of Viscount Peel, ex-speaker of the house of com mons, and of the other members of the Peel family, the court decided in favor of Lady Peel. It disclaimed all sym pathy for Sir Robert Peel, whose con- duct it condemned in the most scath- ing language. But it took the ground that it was carrying the law of entail that is to say, the so-called dead hand" system-too far, if mother were, in consequence thereof, to be left without the means of either educating the next heir to the property or even of keeping him from actual want. On for the sale of the valuable collection of paintings, which comprise several Van Dycks. the library and the statu- ary, which, in conjunction with the
Arizona republican., 1899-12-30

Women's n erves are very delicate and are readily inAu- enced by certain con- ditlons. Nervousness Is a real affiction: 1t Is a grievous af- fiction.
 In women. nerv- ousness is usually associated with those diseases peculiar to their sex. IL may be que to sromash dis order. however. or 1t may be due to hered- lty.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
Harris-Yates.

A large company of relatives and friends
filled the NJ. e. Church at Kabletown on
Tuesday evening last to witness the marri-
age of Miss Mollie a. Yates, daughter of
Mr.. r. a. Yates, to Mr.. George Newton Har-
lis. The ceremony was performed by Rev
]. d. Wolff. pastor of the church. Mr. John
p Rissler attended the groom as best man.
The bridal party was headed by the ushers,
Messrs. Charles Rissler and c. w. Yates,
brother of the bride. These were followed
by the maid of honor, Miss Estelle Yates,
accompanied by the best man. Then came
the bridal party, completing the party. which
proceeded to the altar promptly at o. o'clock
Miss Mary Kable presided at the organ and
rendered the wedding marches most artisti-
cally. After the ceremony the bridal party
drove to the home of the groom in Kable-
town, where most delightful collation., pre-
pared by their friends, was served. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris were the recipients of many
handsome presents. The congratulations
and good wishes of host of friends will
attend them on their voyage through we'd
ded life
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
The hardware store of Mr.. Capper. of Win

The hardware store of Mr. Capper, of Win
chester. was broken into Wednesday night
by cutting one of the large show windows.
The police, on the alert, saw the thief and
gave chase but he eluded the officers and
escaped out of town. Constable James w.
Stottlemyer, of Winchester, who was out in
the country serving some papers, met man
six or seven miles from Winchester inquir-
ing the way to Charlestown. When he got
back to Winchester, the description given
tailed with the appearance OF the man he
met, so he and assistant chief of police Clay
ton Hollis came here Tuesday night and ar
rested the man on the street. He gave his
name as Charles Thomson and Martinsburg
as his home. He refused to accompany the
officers back without requisition, and was
jailed by Justice Howell pending the neces-
sary proceedings.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
Will Remove.

1 wish to inform my friends and the
public generally that will move in the
new room now being fitted up for me in
the Hagley building Ia few doors from
Racket store) about April 1st 1 antici-
pate very large spring trade, and will
use my best efforts to raise and maintain
the standard of custom garment making
to the highest level possible, in order to
counteract the many spurious limitations
of legitimate tailoring that have been
foisted upon the public. AS to my new
samples for the coming season, is hardly
necessary for me to dwell on them. All
l can say is that used the very best
ability and matured experience in select
ing complete assortment of styles and
qualities. promise you also in the fu-
ture, as in the past, the same courteous
and liberal treatment, and last, but not
least, aperfect fit. Yours &C.,
n + PrTNI>rpp
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
Church Items.

Rev. L. R. Milbourne will preach at
Riverside next Sunday. at p. m.
Business meeting of the Charles Town
Baptist Church will be held next satur-
day, at II a. m.
The United Brethren Conference, at
Winchester, adjourned Saturday. Next
meeting at Ha-risonburg, Va.
Services in St. James Catholic Church,
Charles Town, on the 4th Sunday of
each month. at 1870 a. m.
Evangelistic serviceswillb be held every
night this week in the lecture room of the
Baptist church, conducted by the pastor
The Baltimore Conference, NJ. E.
Church South, will meetin Mt. Vernon
Place Church, Washington City. April S.
Rev. L. R. Milbourne will preach in
Charles Town next Sunday morning and
night After the morning service the
Ordinance of Communion will be OBJ
served.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
The Non-Absorbent Bread and Pastry
Board,

In no part of the household realm has
such advancement been made, as in the
variety and production of convenient and
laborsaving appliances for the kitchen.
A desirable BREAD AND PASTRY
BOARD is one of the most important
health and labor saving devices yet to be
introduced, as the ordinary wooden board
is unhealthy. laborious and wasteful, and
IN every respect unsatisfactory. 1t there
fore gives the agent great pleasure to of
fer to the housewives of this vicinity the
patent Non-Absorbent Bread and Pas
try Board, the triumph of simplicity and
perfection, an ideal board on which to
prepare bread, pastry and other food.
1t is hygienic and sanitary, having a
highly polished metallic lSneading and
rolling surface. microbes nor disease
germs cannot enter. 1t is easily and
quickly cleaned with a damp cloth, no
scraPing nor securing being required, as
dough will not adhere to it. No more
flour is required than is necessary to tenn
per the dough, the good results of which
are well known. while butter, lard and
liquids can be mixed without being alb
sorbed. No bad odors from previous use
nor soft 6brous surface to become rancid
and foul. Being extremely light and at
tractive, it is acknowledged by all to be
superior to the heavy and expensive
slabs frequently used, thus making it the
only practical, non-absorbeut board
ever offered for domestic use.
H. L. KIRBY, Agent,
Bolivar, w. Va.
A. D. BARR. Sub-agent,
For Charles Town and Vicinity.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
An Excellent Combination.
c. E. REIN1NcER.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFOREIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVHLE, KY. NEW YORK, N. 2.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price SOC. per bottle
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
Prompt se,tlement.
R1roN, w. Va. March 4, 1899.

RIPoN, w. VA. March 4, 1883.
Mr.. w. o. Norris, Agent Maryland Life In
surance Co., Charles To wn, W. Va.
DEAR S1R:-I take this opportunity to
thank you for the prompt and satisfactory
manner in which your company settled the
death claim of my son, Henry Wilt, which
was paid inside of one week from the time
this claim was sent in. Your company has
been SO well and favorably known in this
locality that any comment on my part would
be useless. Yours truly,
WIN. WILT,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-03-21
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