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The St. Johns herald., 1900-10-13

J. R. Eaton of ofspringersille. was transacting business in the county seat Thursday.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-10-13
Official Proceedings
hfinu essof the Board of Supervisors, Apache County
St Johns Apaahs Q ounty, .Ariz.
 ' ..- October 2d., 1900.

--A A- ss;fs s.s[
 : The Board resumes session at 2
 P. M., full Board Gand clerk pres
 ent. ..al
 Claim of E, SsPerkins
 for County printing s27O.S5
 N. Gonzales interpreters fees 200
 Felipe s.,Salazar, register
 ing 29 names, 5SO
 F. L. Davis, cleaning clock
 Recorder 1.OO J T. Patterson, making du.
 plicate assmt. roll 100 J. c, sorrenson, Drinking
 water'for Go. 15.OOI Isaac Earth, Supplies fur ,. D. asEre and mfleags 36.soj Miss Clara Earth Board ing prisoners E. 5igs 1&s@ 52.50 {, St. Johns Drug O., sup plies furnished Cos 2A 1890 The H.. H. McNeil SO, | supplies furnished HoY 53.05 | Edw. Beeler, sheriff, sup niles furnished possev 11.75
The St. Johns herald., 1900-10-13
WALTER BAIRD

Main.brands-on horses W slash. on Isfs tAirA On Cows W slash. on left ribs.
 Also runs the following brzndE
 Horse Brands. HX bar and DK.snIsfs saLsa
The St. Johns herald., 1900-10-13

The proclamation of the Elec- ton 'ass required sbylslsw having been received hg the Board, it is hereby ordered. that said. procla- nation be published in.S the st. Johns Heraldafer at least 10 days before said Election.
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The St. Johns herald., 1900-10-13

.'' week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
How to Grow Stout.

Columns Of conflicting advice have
oeen written from time to time for
the benefit of women who wish to get
thin, and as it is not enough for the
woman who desires to put on little
extra flesh to draw her conclusions
from the reverse side of the feshy wo-
mans instructions. che is coming in
for goodly snare - GO lnsel, too,
which is all excellent IL a lay, but
the regime of exercise and diet which
Is advised for perfect development
from the standard of too much or too
little flesh is usually an absorbing
process which leaves very little time
for other things, and the average wo-
man soon wearies of it if she has the
courage to attempt it at all. The sim
pie recipe, Eat vegetables and plenty
of butter, drink milk and sweet cider;
take cod liver oil, go to bed early,
sleep some during each day and laugh
as much as possible" will often help
the thin woman immensely. Cream
may be substituted for the cod liver
oil if preferred.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
An Artistic NIil;iner.

"Hyacinths were never in great
favor" said the French milliner, who
has wee shop but big clientele. ac-
cording to the New York Commercial
Advertiser. THE pink and white ones
are charming for black hats or for
entire flower bonnets, but the blue and
purplish blue are the most popular.
Why is it? Hyacinth blues are pretty,
but no shade is more trying. Women
who should wear shades of green and
red and rose-heliotrope come in here
and order cold-gray straw hats trim
med with blue hyacinths. They order
them but they do not get them from
me. That is why my place is still in
the side street, while Nine. Flamboy-
ant, who began when l did. is on the
avenue. Nine. Flamboyant went in
debt at first, to be sure. but she is
famous now. make money, oh, yes,
but am proud of all of my customers:
everyone wears becoming hats, not
merely fashionable ones.' She
Strengthened out the shining petals of
satin chou and gave def touch to
the cluster of clover and sweet peas
on the crumpled brim. "A young lady
came in one day last week and wanted
a coral bonnet. Madame said, 1
cannot make it for you. You have
enough color already. You have coral
colored hair and rose-colored cheeks.
No, madame, / will not make you a
coral bonnet Did she grow angry?
Well, perhaps she did. 1t did not dis
tress me. assure you. waited upon
some one elsa charming lady, who
knows that l have taste and con-
science. When returned to the other
she apologized and implored me to
make her hat of another color. No,
madame ! said. / do not wish to
make you hat. 1t would not be
artistic, and do not wish to put my
name inside of inartistic hats But
you can design it yourself. she said.
All, that is better. will undertake
the commission with pleasure. ! said
This is it" and the milliner held up
"a poem in green leaves. violets and
biffon. The pale chiffon will frame
g rose colored face she said. crit
taking away from its color
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Hints ~ to the Teeth.

Sound teeth not only add to ones
comfort, but they prevent disease.
Many diseases of the eye, ear and cav
tiles Of the head are traceable to UNI
sound teeth, and there is not disease
to which the body is liable that is not
aggravated by an unhealthy condition
of the teeth. Eye diseases are espe-
cially common as the results of poor
teeth. These affections may vary from
a simple dimness of sight to total
blindness, the symptoms. however,
usually disappearing when the teeth
are attended to. Poor teeth are, more
over, common cause of indigestion,
for good digestion can take place only
when the food is thoroughly masti-
Gated and this demands sound and
healthy teeth. Proper care of the teeth
during childhood often means proven
ton of much trouble later in life. A
physician desiring to ascertain the per-
centage of children who cared for their
teeth properly, distributed printed
slips in school, having the questions:
do you cleanse your teeth with a
brush every day." do you cleanse
your teeth with brush twice a day."
OF 700 pupils only fifty cleansed their
teeth twice day, 275 used the brush
sometimes and IT'S did not even own a
brush.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

There could be no doubt about it..
The descriptions of all witnesses were
too positive to leave any room for
doubt that the man seen skulking and
hurry1ng to and from his own house
and Potsdam between $50 o'clock in
the afternoon and $3.50 o'clock in the
evening was the very man whose wife
had been shot and beaten and whose
father-in-law had been murdered.
The cfrcumstantiaI evidence all
looked very black, but when clear,
strong and questionable motive for
his wanting his wife out of the way
was brought out, the case against
Burt was complete. And that motive
was supplied by the handsome coun-
try girl, Edna Delosh. Miss Delosh
went to work for the Burts in May.
BY July Burt was making love to her
and begging her to marry him. He
told her he would go west and get a
divorce and importuned her so that
on that condition, she promised to
marry him. But his infatuation out
stripped his patience.
So Howard w. Burt was tried. con-
victed of murder in the second de-
gree, and sentenced to imprisonment
for life. And it is on the appeal from
the sentence that the appellate divis-
ion of the supreme court has had re-
peated before it the strange story of
this strange crime
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

becoming The green leaves will
match her eyes, which would be beau.
tiful If they were a shade darker.
They will look so when she wears
this hat. In the back, where her hair
will show, you see the chiffon and
violets are of deeper tone. 1t will
make her hair look Titan. She thinks
1t is Titan now, but it is not. It is
more the tone of fresh, new carrots.
But this will deepen it. 1t is charm
ing hat in itself, but it will make
handsome woman of this lady, who is
what shall | say?-of-of a some
what rustic style of beauty
AS for those hyacinths," with q
wave OF the hand toward a mass OF
them resting in bed of greenery,
they are for clear compilations and
fair skins, whether blonde or brunette.
Hyacinth blue is cold and cruel. 1t
has no sympathy, no warmth. 1t is
unresponsive and unfeeling. The very
dark and the very fair have sufficient
decision of type to wear it. but when
one is between the two and has not
fine complexion, one had better
ADOPT some other tone''
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Tent Built Like an Umbrella.
An Indian tepee, with it's lodge pc

An Indian tepee, with its lodge pole,
in the course of it's evolution in pas.
sing through the hands of modern
inventor, has become transformed in
to an umbrella tent. The main orig
inal features are all there; the CEN
trail pole, the supporting side poles,
and the canvas cover There is this
difference, however, that the modern
inventors tent folds up conveniently
when camp is to be struck, while the
Indians and even the modern army
tent are not nearly so conveniently
set up and taken down. Duncan
Downs of West Superior, whose unique
tent is illustrated here, conceived the
idea of building a tent for hunters,
campers or army use, exactly on the
plan of huge umbrella. Two sliding
collars, controlled by ropes and pull
leys, serve to open and close the tent.
The upper collar is adjustable at any
point to permit changing the height
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Tip on Summer Decorations.

There are no more dainty patterns
in wall papers this season. Severity
and strict soberness are the watch
words of the wall furnishings of
dwelling rooms, and the white and
gold era fades away in abundant
shadows. According to the dealers in
wall papers, old fashions are to be re-
vived. The colonial primness is in
favor, and when modern house is
dressed up in the primary colors as
TO wall papers it has dignity that re-
minds one of the square coats and
knee breeches of a past generation.
One of the patterns used in the new
home of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is
made up of verticle stripes in various
colors. They are red and green, yell
low, blue and violet hues that make
a striking combination. Other pat
terms are of flowers of the old fash
Toned kind-hollyhocks morning glo-
ries, honeysuckle, dahlias, etc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
ovERREAcHED HERSELF.
Woman Said an Armies Man Laid
Hands on Her.

Woman Said an Armless Man Laid
Hands on Her.
This is story of actual occurrence
The principals are high-born society
woman and Waterman in the Navy
Department. On recent holiday, when
the pr1.a4 .s-l~ So4i
' bins the State, War and Nay Depart
menus was closed Ito all save favored
few, she presented herself at the
Navy Department entrance. He barred
the way. She gave her name and said
she wanted to see Mr. So and So, nam
ing well-known army officer. The
messenger said the building was closed
to visitors, and that she could not come
in that doorway under the rules. He
added however. that if she went
around to the War Department en-
trance she could send her card to the
official she desired to see. She was
visibly vexed, but was compelled to ac-
cept his suggestion and walk around
to the main entrance on the avenue.
The suggestion worked all right, and the
lady was soon ushered into the pres
ence of the official. She told of her ex-
perience, and added the statement that
the Waterman had insulted her grossly
by placing his hands on her. The Off
Ger was naturally indignant, and at
once laid the case before the captain of
the watch. That official said he would
investigate the matter. and that if the
doorkeeper had offended in the manner
described he would be dismissed.
Shortly afterward he returned to the
officer and said he was satisfied the
principal charge was not true, for the
simple reason that the Waterman who
was complained of had no hands, hav-
ing lost part of both arms in an acct
dent, their places being supplied with
an iron contrivance ending in hooks.
The officer remembered the man and
was entirely satisfied with the explain
alton. What he said to the lady is not
known, but his faith in the veracity of
the fair sex is not so strong as it was
Washington Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
They Wear on.

The ancient lady clerk, whose term
of departmental service began, not
with the era of the Hyksos Kings of
Egypt, but with the beginning of the
regime of the lamented General Spin
ner, had just stopped behind her desk
screen the other afternoon to dab her
nose with chamois-skin powder rag
preparatory to -minute-t
parture-when the new male stenog-
rapher, who was audibly checking off
an account for one of the auditors,
sang out:
"Flour-two hundred weight!'
Insulting creature" muttered the
ancient lady clerk hastily restoring
the powder rag to it's receptacle, and
then all of the subdued ancient male
clerks in the room staggered in way
that was real rude, to say the least
Washington Post.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
READS LIKE ROMANCE
CHASTITY STORY OF BURT
BRIGGS MURDER.
Light Thrown on the Mystery by a
District Attorney-The Love He Bore
Young Girl Impelled Burt to
Commit Murder.

Like one of the weird, ghostly mar
ratives that emanated from the i'm
agination of Edgar Allen Poe, or like
a chapter from Gaboriau is the true
story of intrigue and crime which
has just been laid before the third de-
partment of the appellate division of
the supreme court in New York state.
This remarkable story is told step by
step in little pamphlet prepared for
the court by the district attorney of
st. Lawrence county. The murder
around which the whole tale lies was
committed at Z o'clock on the evening
of November 10, 1897, in the township
OF Pierrepont, five and half miles
from Potsdam. N. Y. The tragedy
was committed at house known as
the Burt home, owned by Howard W.
Burt, a well-to-do farmer, 40 years
old. In the house with Burt lived his
wife, 81 years old; Asa w. Briggs, a
paralytic, SO years old, who was the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Ewes Apple Tree.

Among the other strange things in
the Island of Ceylon is the Ewes ap-
pie tree or 1.-The forbidden fruit" the
flower of which has fine perfume.
The color of the fruit, which hangs
from the branches in very peculiar
manner, is very beautiful, being orange
on the outside and deep crimson
within. The fruit itself presents the
appearance of having had a piece bit
ten out Of it. This circumstance. to-
gether with the fact of its being a
deadly poison, led the Mohammedans,
on their first discovery of Ceylon,
which they assigned as the sight OF
paradise, to represent it as the forbid
den fruit of the Garden of Eden, for,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Beaten to Dea tn.

Drunk, and tainted by Mrs. Emma
Evans. who had long been known as
his wife, William Harmon of Newark
N j., turned upon her and beat her to
death. The woman's daughter, Maude,
had lived with them for several weeks.
While drunk Harmon declared she
would have to go. His wife declared
Maude would stay and they finally
quarreled. Harmon threatened murder,
but his wife laughed and called him a
coward Frenzied by her taunts, Han
non knocked her down with a chair.
Then he seized an iron shovel and beat
her head and face until she was dead
and unrecognizable.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

STRUNG UP BY THE THUMBS.
gers were disjointed, and he was cut
and bruised in many parts of his body.
Finally, Mr.. Gottfried, almost dead
from suffering, agreed to pay over all
the money he had and eighteen rifles,
promising to make up the deficit later
on. One of his servants attempted to
aid him and was beaten until life was
almost extinct.
Meanwhile the premises were being
looted and the women terrorized.
Again Mr.. Gottfried protested
against the robbery, reminding the
colonel that he was not only an AM
erican citizen, but a representative of
the republic.
"All right. Tell your goyernment to
send ships up into our mountains,
jeered the insurgent leader.
The rebel colonel then told Mr.
Gottfried that if he would renounce
in writing all intention to lodge a
claim against the government of Peru
the rifles would be returned, but Mr..
Gottfried declined.
An armed rebel guard was kept
around the house for long time. At
last. one night when when Mr. Colt
fried's wounds had partly healed, a
sympathizer crept to his side and whis-
pered:
BE warned, senior. The colonel
means to have your life. Dead men
tell no tales. am to be your execu
toner, unless
The hint was enough. The Gottfried
family found means of secape and fed
to the snow-clad mountains of Huay-
lillas. There they met some of Mr..
Gottfried's overseers, who were also
fleeing for safety, and all took refuge
in an old mill, amid piles of straw.
where they remained for over a
month. At length friends aided them
to reach the coast.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION:
Clever italian Lad who Doesn't Believe
Improved Machinery Is Curse-Put
ths Piano on an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Notes Of Progress
Plano on an Automoblle.

While the automobile has been
reaching out into various fields of in
dnstry and crowding the horse from
the shafts of the cab, the fire engine
and the delivery wagon, it was hardly
expected that 1t would assume the
place Of the trudging pedestrian who
pulls cart behind him. The inven-
ton Of a clever Chicago lad, whose
father runs street piano, however,
has opened up a new line of thought
and has at the same time relieved
the head of the family of much work.
The boy has been employed for the
last two years in west side factory
where automobiles are built, some of
them to be operated by electricity and
others by gasoline. The lad kept his
eyes wide open while toiling at his ap-
pointed tasks and kept constantly be-
fore him the idea Of learning how to
build an automobile which could be
utilized running his fathers street
piano. He inclined toward the gaso-
line type, as 1t was cheaper than the
others, and he failed to see where the
electricity would come from were he
to succeed in building an electrical
machine.
Finally he set to work upon the de-
vice, putting in all his evenings and
spare time. He bought the parts from
time to time with his own earnings
and such money as his father could
spare from the receipts of the piano
and fitted them together as he had
seen the workmen do at the factory.
He had acquired good working
knowledge of the principle on which
the machines were constructed and the
result was eminently satisfactory.
The piano was loaded upon a little
wagon constructed for the purpose,
and the operating mechanism was fit
ted into a box at the rear. Now the
ftinerant musician goes forth daily on
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Actresses. Faces.

1t is mistaken idea that actresses
are as general rule handsomer on
the stage than off, writes Franklin
Fyles in the Ladies' Home Journal.
The reverse is as likely to be true.
Nevertheless, all theatrical faces have
to be painted. 1t may be assumed safe
ly that none of the complexion is gen.
uine. An exceptionally clear and pink
skin may require no falsity. A dark
one may chance to suit the character
to be assumed.
But these exceptions to the rule are
rare The glare of artificial light
would make most faces CHASTITY white
or unDleasantly sallow if bright hues
were not laid on. The art of coloring
a pretty visage just enough and not
OVERRIDING it, is one which all actresses
should learn. Many do not, and SO
we see beauty disfigured instead of en-
HANGED. Others are very expert. There
are two distinct processes One makes
use OF SOlored pnMdaSs apnIied dry
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Playing with the Bow.

A small school boy who had been
sent homo by his teacher because his
sisters had the measles was noticed by
that teacher at the next recess playing
with the other children on the school
ground. Johnny, didn't tell you not
to come to school while your sisters
had the measles?" Yes: but l am
not going to school, l only came to
play with the boys before it begins. -
Commercial Tribune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Automoblle Service in sudan.

New automobile service in the SUI
dan, between Hayes and Bammako on
the Niger, has been recently inaug-
8urated, and a communication from
Hayes, dated the Bird of February,
states that Gov. Chaudie has just re-
turned from a voyage, in which he had
laid out certain new territory and in
the course of which he inaugurated
the new automobile system for the
transportation of passengers and mer-
schandise between these two points.
The governor and party left from
sBammako the 22d of January and ar
rived in two days at Xiii, making
about, ninety kilometers per day on
six hours run. From this point he
passed to Toukouto, and finally ar
rived at Hayes the 9th of January,
the whole trip taking thus about five
days, says the Scientific American.
Upon his arrival the governor ex-
pressed himself as greatly pleased
with the rapidity and facility of the
new system and recalls the fact that
on a former trip to the Niger it re-
CURED fifteen days to cover the same
route. BY this system the Senegal is
brought into connection with the Nj
ger the district passed through being
one which had not been reached here
tofore by water or by railroad. on ac-
count OF the rapids Of the Senegal and
the mountainous mass called Fouta-
;Djalon. which separates the Senegal
from the Niger. The automobiles for
this system were constructed by
Paris firm and were installed under
the direction of NJ. Felix Dubois. Chi
.cago News
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

-hls .foune..S , !, e 40
lever instead of with his back bowed
Under the strap with which he for
merly tugged tn, piano. His wife sits
up behind, ready to leap down and
pass the cup when her liege stops his
machine to play few tunes and the
baby rides like queen in front be-
hind his father.
The gasoline required to run the au-
tomobile does not cost much and as
long as the little engine holds to-
gether the Italian has novelty which
attracts fully as many pennies to his
wife's cup as do the tunes he grinds
ont.