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company was in excess of their true value, asking that 250,O00 tons of tail ings previously added to roll be stricken therefrom, also filing an affi- davit to the effect that the mill, etc, belonging to said company was worth not to exceed $10,000, it was upon motion ordered that value of Nam moth mine be reduced to 5000; value of Raven, Mars and Remnant mines reduced to original assessment; value of mill reduced to $l0,O00; the matter of tailings added to roll referred to District Attorney.
 A. F. Barker, representing Mrs. Enghart appeared and asked that prop erty assessed to said Mrs. Enghart, and previously raised, be reduced to original assessment. Ordered reduced from $4O0 to $210.
 Said A. r. Barker also asked that value of improvements on 22 foot front on Main street, Wheat's Addition, assessed to L. M. Jacobs and hereto fore raised, be reduced to $200 Upon motion it was so ordered.
 Angelina Charoleau appeared and asked for reduction in value of land being practically worthless. The Board being satisfied that said raise was un- just, it was ordered that the total value of real estate assessed to said Angelina charoleau, be reduced to s3,l7s.
 E. Pierson appeared and complained that iaise on real estate belonging to him was in excess of true value. Ordered to stand as raised.
 The Walter c. Hadley Co.,, by John 5. Isgrig, represented that the raise previously made on the Marion mine and mill, pipe line, pump, etc., was ex- cessive and in advance of true value. Ordered reduced to $7 7,500
 An affidavit having been filed by Gabriel RobIes, setting forth that 40 l head would cover the total amount of cattle owned by him in Pinal county, it was ordered that his assessment be reduced to that number
 ". R. Stone appeared and objected to raise on real estate. Ordered re- duced from s475 to $S25.
 Upon motion the Assessor was directed to correct error in assessment of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.,, by changing the total to read S476,- sl6.64.
 D. c. Stevens, representing J. L. Clark, appeared and asked that land assessed to said J. L. Clark be reduced to original assessment. It was so ordered.
 Upon motion the Board adjourned to meet tomorrow at 10 a. m.
 E. ". KERSEY,
 Attest: Chairman. F. A. CHAMBERLIN, Clerk,
 By THos c. PEYrox, Deputy
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OFFICE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.
 FLORENCE, Ariz., Aug. g, 1S99.i The Board met pursuant 10 adjourn ment.
 Present-R. ". Kersey, chairman i; J. r. Mayhew and c. F. Cook, mem bers; c. G. Powell, Deputy Assessor, and F. A. Chambcrlin, clerk, by Thos. c. Peyton, deputy.
 Minutes of last meeting were read and approved.
 John Zelleweger appeared and filed an affidavit to the effect that he was not possessed of the number of cattle to which he had been raised. Upon motion ordered reduced to original assessment.
 Thos. II. Mcclellan appeared and filed an affidavit that raise in value on real estate assessed to him was unjust and excessive. Ordered reduced to amount originally given.
 J. N. Brown appeared and made an affidavit to the effect that raise in value real estate belonging to him was not warranted by value of land also that raise in number of cattle was unjust and that he was not the owner of the number of cattle as raised. Upon motion it was ordered that the value of real estate assessed to said J. N. Brown be reduced to $2.3SL per acre, and number of cattle reduced to 1700 head.
 It appearing from representations made by F. c. Mckinney that the num- Der of cattle owned by said Mckinney did not exceed 40 head. Upon motion it was ordered that assessment be re- duced to that amount.
 An affidavit having been filed by Charles Trinkner setting forth that the number of cattle owned by him did not exceed 50 head. Assessment was ordered reduced to that figure.
 J. Pheby, representing Silver King Mining Co.,, appeared and asked that assessment of said company be re- duced to amount originally given in.  Ordered to stand as raised.
 Richard Draper filed an affidavit to the effect the number of cattle owned by him was not in excess of 25 head. Ordered reduced to original assess ment.
 Geo. P. Blair, manager Mammoth Collins Gold Mines, Ltd, appeared and represented that the value as raised ga patented mines belonging to said
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Articles of incorporation
Mammoth-Collins Supply Com
 pany.
OF THE-

We, John 4. BlauroelS, Cole Saunders and A. L. Carpenter, desiring to incorporate ourselves under the provisions of the laws of tho Territory of Arizona, and especially an Act of the Legislative Assembly thereof. entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations, :" approved March sth, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the lawful enterprises, basi- ness pursuits and occupation hereinafter specified, do make, subscribe and acknow- ledge according 10 law, these articles of incorporation and declare:
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The amount of the capital stock of thi corporation shall be Thirty Thousand Del- lars, divided into three thousand sbares at the par value oi Ten Doilars each and T [, time when. and the condition upon eliel it is to be paid are as follows. viz; she whole thereof immediately upon maaius the subscription therefor, and 5he said stocs shall be fully paid before being issued aaa non-assessable thereafter.
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The enterprise. pursuits, business and
 occupation in which this Company proposes to engage, is to acquire by purchase, and in any other lawful manner, real estate, lands and ell kinds of property, real, personal or mixed to lay out, construct and acquire by and accept, hold, possess, enjoy, operate and use franchises from any State or Territory of the United States, or in any county or municipal or private corporations, wagon roads, canals. mills, factories. houses capital stock and bonds of corporations, ehattels goods, wares and merchandise, choses in action, to transact any and all kinds of busi- ness which may be transacted by natural person; to hold. use and enjoy the same and to alienate. soil, lease, demise and dispose of same any part thereof. as well as of any other property this corporation possesses, be seized of or be entitled to; to borrow money and contract to repay the same at such time or times as it's Board Of Directors deem pro- per and see fit; and to hypothecate. mort gage or pledge all or any part of the prop erty which this corporation may hereafter acquire; to secure the payment of such money with interest. or to secure the pay ment of any debt of this corporation, with such interest thereon ns it may be legally obligated to pay and to conduct general merchandise and trading business; to buy and sell gold. silver, copper, lead and other mines to form subsidiary companies to work them, and to erect quartz mills, smelt- ing furnaces or other reduction works for the treatment of all kinds of mineral ores.
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OFFICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
 FLORENCE, Ariz., July %, ls99.{ The Board met pursuant to adjourn ment, full Board present.
 Minutes of yesterdays meeting were read and approved.
 Upon motion, there being no further business, the Board adjourned to meet Thursday, August 24th, 1899, at 9 a. m.
 R. ". KERSEY, Attest: Chairman. F. A. CHAMBERLIS, Clerk.
 By THos. G. PEYToS, Deputy.
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The name assumed by this Corporation and by which it shall be known is "The Mammoth-ColIins Supply Company" and the time of the commencement of this corpo- ration shall be the day of the filing of these articles in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Pinai. Territory of Ari. zona. and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five (2O years thereafter.
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M

The highest amount of indebtedness er liability direct or contingent to which this corporation is at any time to be subjected or to subject itself. is the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars.
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VII.

The stockholders in this corporation and their private property. shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this corpora tion.
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The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish bylaws, and make all rules and regulations deemed ex- pedient for the management of the affairs or this corporation and the officers thereof
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The place were this Corporation proposes to have its principal office and place of busi- ness is tho town of sinmmoth, County of Pinal. Territory of Arizona
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The amount of tEe par seine af share of the Cspitai stccl. oi this oosI,aas tioa ..hail be ten dollars
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525O Reward

By authority vested in me sy the Board of Supervisors of Pinal county I hereby offer reward of S25O for the arrest and convic- tion of the person or persons who murdered one James Lee at Shultz, Pinal county, Ari- zona, on or about September 14th. 1sss
 ". c. TRUMAN. Oct. 22-tf Sheriff.
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FLORENCE AND
 GLOBE STAGE LINE.
c. c. HoCKETT, Proprietor. Three Trips week. Daylight Travel

Leaves Mesa a. m. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. Arrives at Florence at II go a. m. Leaves Florence at D. In.. arriving at Globe at D. m.. the following day
 Leaves Globe a. m. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Arrives at Florence at Il a, m. the following day. Leaves Florence for Mesa at D. m. Arrives at Mesa at D. m. Stages stop over night at Riverside. Good accommodations given the travelling public. Stages connect with stages for Dudleyvlle, Benson, Mammoth, Oracle and Tucson. JoHNsos BRos Agents at Mesa.
 THos. ARIoB, Agfn Tt at Globe.
 SHIELDS & PRICE. Agent at Florence
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IS WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day of September. A. D., 1898.
 JOHN A, BLAURoC1, lsEArl
 COLE SAUNDERS. lsEALl
 A.LCARPENTER. lsEAIl STATE OF NEW YORK,
 COUNTY OF NEW YoRK.s
 On this 9th day of September, A. D., 1893 before me, ". L. Murray. Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared J. A. Blaurock, Cole Saunders and A. L. Carpenter. known to me to be the per- sons described in, and who executed the foregoing instrument. who acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein ex- pressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 9th day of September, A. D.. 1898. [sEA1l ". L. MURRAY. Notary Public,
 NY.Co, My commission expires March sOth, 1899. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.
 COUNTY OF FINAL. LEA. Chamberlin, Recorder, in and for the County of pinal, Territory aforesaid do hereby certify that the annexed instrument wes filed and recorded at request of J. H.  Carpenter, on the 14th day of Sept, A, D. 1898, at 1 o'cloch, P. m., in book No. l, of 1 Article of Incorporation, Page 157. WITNESS my hand and official seal, this 1 l4th day of Sept, 1893.
 lsEAbl F.A CHAMBERLIN, Recorder. i TBos. c. PEYToN, Sept. 2s-l0t Deputy.
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NOTICE

On and after December lst, 1886, all meat bought in my shop must be paid for at time of delivery. lam compelled to make this order for self-protection.
 d5-tf G. E. ANGULo.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-28
DOGS BEATH
Saves a Church From Financial Dis
treSs and Dissolution.

Saves Church From Financial Dis
treSs and Dissolution.
A little church in a rural district of
Pennsylvania has been saved from dis
solution by ths happy demise Of dog.
The parish was once large and prosper
GUS one, but the congregation dwindled
and debts gathered, until some five years
ago the place was closed on account of
back pay to the rector. The main sup
port Of the church was an old lady, whose
family attended 1t for more than 100
years-it lies in one of the old, aristo-
cratic sections Of Virginia-and all of
whose small property, 1t was supposed.
would go toward it's maintainance But
on her death a great surprise was sprung.
The little old lady had loved her church
and parish, but q small poodle dog had
claimed her affection more She left her
entire fortune 70 keep this pet so long as
he should live, the money going to the
church upon his death, which long-looked
Tor event has occurred. The debts can
now be paid and the dusty pews re-open-
ed. There is hardly another case on
record of one small dog being the main
denator to the support of a house of
worship. -
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OF the accused was apparent, but when
through specious pleas of the prisoners
counsel befuddling charges by the court
or lurking suspicion of doubt in tha
minds or some juror, it was difficult to
specify agree upon verdict, the COM
prom1ser on the jury was always ready
with his suggestion of a second degree
verdict. This was an easy way ont of
a dilemma that resulted in many a red
handed and in some cases self-confessed
murdered escaping with a sentence of
twenty years in state'prison. These mis-
carriages Of justice became 30 fragrant
that the legislature recently passed g.
law increasing the maximum penalty for
murder in the second degree TO thirty
years Imprisonment
In the state of New Jersey there is no
county that holds such a record of crime
as Camden. 1t is not merely that muir
ders nave been committed, or that the
victims have chiefly been women: but in
several Instances there have been ele-
ments OF mystery and failures of Justice
that have attracted widespread atten-
ton.
The first OF these celebrated cases. and
one which still remains a mystery. was
the killing of Annie LIE Coney, a buxom
country lass, who lived with her uncle
Chalkley LIE Coney, on a farm near
Merchantvihe. On Sept. 8. 1889, neigh
Dor, coming TO the house on errand.
found Annie lying on the floor with her
throat cut from ear to ear. There were
signs Of a struggle and of robbery. Her
uncle was at work in the fields.
At first Francis Iingo a colored farm
hand, was arrested, but he easily proved
an alibi. Then the uncle, returning
from the funeral of his niece, was ar
rested LIE Coney had a stauch friend
in Edward Burrough. the county clerk,
and it was largely through the latter's
aid that he was acquitted The trial
lasted a month, and 1t was the greatest
legal battle that had been waged in
South Jersey since the Hunter trial. 1t
was in this trial that Samuel H Grey,
present attorney general of New Jersey,
one OF the counsel for the defense, gained
reputation as one Of the foremost Grim
inal lawyers of the state
One Of the sensational incidents of the
trial was the physical collapse of the
venerable prosecutor Of the pleas, Rich
ard g. Jenkins. While making a mas
terly summing up of the case to the jury
he fell senseless. He never rallied from
the stroke. Within an hour lie Coney
was free and on his way back to the
farm. There he ploughed and sowed and
reaped as Of yore, and If he knew the
secret Of his niece's murder it died with
him, more than a year ago,
Scarcely o yeax had passed ere the
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for Prince Homeless, he proved to every
body's satisfaction that. the night when
his friend lost his ear he himself was at
d neighbor's dancing, gambling and drink
Ing till breakfast. His four servants
were with him, too. They furnished mu-
sic for the dance and afterwards turned
acrobats for the amusement of the tipsy
gentlemen.
FRIENDLY WITH GYPSIES.
HanpibaPs horses and carriages are val
ued at $4,000 forms, and he is known to
carry an equal amount of gold and silver
with him all the time, yet the knights of
the road never trouble hin-they know
better. When travelling he spends his
nights IN the carriage, the hussars and
servants sleep under canvas, the horses
ore put out to grass, the dogs, half-bred
wolves and fierce hyenas, do the watch
Ing. There isn't gypsy in the king
doms who would tackle them. nor would
the worst devil-may-care stand up be-
fore Hannibal's pistols.
His easy mastery Of outlaws, however
does not make him their enemy. This
scion Of one of the proudest grandee
families sometimes spends days and
weeks in the society of gypsies and pig
thieves, and when recently the brigand
Baron Hakonya gave battle to the Pan
dours Prince Homeless is said to have
fought disguised In the first line. Ha-z
konya was killed in that engagement,
the band scattered and Janos, the late
lamented cut-throat's chief of staff, now
masQuerades as HannibaPs coachman and
aims dispenser.
But the height of his popularity prince
Homeless" achieved in the frontier dis
tricts among the SerYians, who ascribe to.
him all the legendary deeds of Mako,
kings son and hero of ballad. It is i'm
possible to say what they admire most
in him, his generosity or his physical
prowess, his courage or his love of fair
dealing. Probably all these virtues ap-
peal to the unsophisticated with equal
force.
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natural history from their long travels.
1t Is also fact that some regular
comets do not appear, again at thei
stated time. but that at such PERIOD
there arc myriads of shooting stars
proving by indirection that the comet
was the fellow that went to smash, an6
not the earth. Such copious fall of me.
teors is predicted for the middle Of tn
coming November. I'd v
Thus far everything connected with the
tIamps of the universe has been perfectly
harmless. Now Scomes the but" The
course of some off the comets revolving
around the SUM not only closely ap-
proaches the course Of the earth but
crosses 1t, just like the intolerable sur .
face crossing of railroads However on
the heavens there appears to be no rule
Of right Of way, where one train has to
wait till the other Is passed. The earth
certainly will not wait in Its course till
some tramp comet is passed, hence the
collision and smash-according to Herr
Falb. The comet which, according to the
Vienna professor, will collide with the
earth on Nov. 10, 1899, is the one discover
ed by Tempel, in Marseilles, on July g.
1862, and 1t really appears as If this par
ticularc tramp star Is bound to have a
tussle with the earth. It's course is made
in thirty-three years and sixty-six days,
and according to all probability 1t will
Il
morning hours of Nov 13 at point where
the earth is bound to be at the same time.
WILL THEY MEET?
Now, the cardinal question is whether
earth and comet will really be at the
same time at the same place. Once
before, on Oct. 49, 1882, half the earth
was thrown into CONSERVATION because
statements of astronomers had heen mis-
understood. Quite correctly a comet was
to cross the course, of the earth on that
date and 1t did, but the comet did not
strike the earth itself, for our globe did
not arrive at the dangerous crossing until
fully month later. OF all the astron-
omers of renown, Herr. Falb is the only
one who predicts for the ominous Novem-
Der day collision of the two bodies and
not crossing of courses, though, as has
already been shown, the course of
tramp, both heavenly and earthly, is be-
yond all computation.
III such a collision takes place. what will
happen? 1t is an undisputed fact that
matter is not solid, and if the earth
should pass through the tail of the Tenn
pei comet there will, no doubt, be an I'M
usually fine display of shooting stars a
harmless exhibition. which the earth had
once before in June. 1861, when at But
sura, in India, a meteor zoo pounds In
weight fell and was preserved.
Or course, If the earth, with a velocity
or ,200 miles an hour, should collide with
another compact body of equal or greater
weight then there would be a smash
and the end of things
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Thirty Lives Taken for Which No
White Man Has Been Hanged
Two self-Confessed Murderers
Lying IN One jail Who Have Not
Even Been Indicted - One Man
Shot Dead by Woman.
There was once saying in Philadel-
phia, They will hang you for a cherry
over in Jersey" That was many years
ego, when Jersey Justice was syn
onym for relentless enforcement of the
law. Things are different now. Crime has
increased and criminals have gone I'M
punished until it now is the rare excep-
ton in murder cases for the murderer to
pay the penalty Of his crime on the gal
lows. says the New York Herald.
1t Is not surprising that this condition
of affairs in Camden county recently led
an outraged public to plan the lynching
of a negro who had twice been arrested
for the murder of white women, but who
escaped punishment only to be arrested
later while trying to entrap white girl
1t was a wise judge who 'railroaded"
Francis Lingo to state prison for twenty
y
disgrace of lynching.
Hanging as a punishment for murder
seems to be played out in South Jersey.
This may account for the many horrible
tragedies that have occurred in that sec
ton of the state in recent years. This
may be the reason two self-confessed
murderers are now lying in the Camden
county Jail, and the slow moving machi-
merry of the law will not even have them
indicted by a grand jury until next fall
Advocates of lynch law would find good
excuse for lawless acts in Camden coun-
ty. The blood of Annie LIE Coney, of Mrs.
Annie Miller, of Mrs. Zane and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Shaw, still cry aloud for VEN
geance, while of male victims there are
nearly a score whose slayers have escap-
ed the gallows.
The criminal records in South Jersey
show that murderers have enjoyed re-
markable immunity from capital punish
ment in recent years. No white man has
been hanged in Camden county since Ben
Jamin Hunter was dragged, drugged and
helpless, to the gallows, on Jan. 10, 1879.
+ Hunter and an accomplice murdered
James Armstrong, a Philadelphia music
publisher, to get $4,000 insurance on
Armstrong; life. That was one of the
most sensational murder trials ever held
in New Jersey, and it was a battle royal
between Richard 8. Jenkins one of the
ablest prosecutors of the pleas in the
country, and an array of brilliant legal
talent. headed by George M. Robson, who
was secretary of the navy under Presi-
dent Grant.
In the two decades that have passed
since that remarkable trial and execution
over thirty murders have been commit
ted in Camden county, but only three
men have been hanged, and they were all
negroes. There have been only two exc
cutions in Gloucester county. Burlington
county, with a record of eleven murders
in the last seven years, has hanged only
one murderer, Nine murders have been
committed in Atlantic county in the last
ten years, and only two murderers paid
the death penalty, while three were al
lowed to go free, and in one case the
murderer was never discovered. Neither
Salem nor Cape May county has had a
hanging in the last ten years.
In most Of the cases, where the guilt