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terms. Attract everybody. SOC to
80. III. GUTMAN & CO.,
Twelfth and Main Streets.
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FOR RENT,

FOR RENT"
s rooms with modern cOnVsniences
at 1866 Main street.
STORAGE Warehouse at Main and
Tenth streets. Money advanced. APP
uly to JAMES I. HAWLE4,
Real Estate and Loans, 1908 Main st.
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mARr1N,s FERRY NEWS.
The Daily Chronicle OF wheeiing's
Progressive Neighbor.

The following Is the programme OF
the twenty-eighth annual commence
ment Of the Nj. Pleasant schools. to be
held In the school hail next Friday
evening, June s:
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JAMES A. HENRY.
Real Estate Agent, Collector, NotISr2
Public and Pension Agent No. lAl
Main street,
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INTER STATE LEAGUE.
srANDiNo OF CLUBS.
YESTERDAYS GAMES.
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To-DAYs GAMES. y.
FORT Wayne at Wheeling:
'' New Castle at Toledo.
Youngstown at Dayton.
Mansfeld ut Columbus.
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The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
Men of Mighty Feet.

Was the great west inhabited by
race Of giants in prehistoric days? Il.
B. Laird, who was in Kansas City re-
Gently, claims to have evidence that it
was. He is a New Engllnd geologist,
who has spent many months in max
ing investigations in the canons table
lands and gorges of Arizona. lie left
for the east with his evidence in the
shape of a yolumnous typewrittGn
manuscript carefully put away in
handbag. He declined TO make public
the full purport Of the document.
Mr.. Laird makes no boast at having
had hand in the investigation. but
says the discoveries were made by a
guide who has been a resident Of VIII.
Jams, Ariz., for many years, and who
has been in every nook and Granny Of
the mountains in that district, The
claim that there existed in prehistoric
times a race Of giants is old, but proofs
are not found every day. In this case
they were found in the shape Of i'm.
mense footprints which have become
hardened in the limestone formations
of the district.
TO substantiate his statements Mr..
Laird carries with him several photo
graphs, showing by comparison with
the foot of a miner the relative size of
the giants foot. Some idea of its
great size can be gained when it is
seen that the depression in the rock
strata, caused by the great toe is more
than twice as large as the miners foot
The fact that animals in prehistoric
periods were of such immense size is
advanced as an argument that man
was also abnormally large. Laird is a
firm believer in this theory. Kansas
City Jourp"l.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
The Sheen Ate His Shoes.

Vegetarian shoe leather is the latest
fad for those who decry the slaughter
of living creatures used for food. But
according to the London Telegraph the
new shoes have their disadvantages,
and cites the following instance as
narrated by their wearer; He says
that kind gentleman gave him pair
of these articles, which he found very
comfortable. The other afternoon,
while quietly resting himself under
the shade of n tree. How long the
siesta lasted he does not quite know,
but he was awakened by a peculiar
sensation IN his feet, and, TO his In
tense amazement found two sheep
quietly nibbling at his new boots and
enjoying the feast immensely. About
half of the uppers had gone. The
sheep evidently thought they had come
across new and delicious vegetable,
and forsook the ordinary grass in its
favor. When the wearer was able to
shake the animals off he returned
home in a pair of sandals, and writes
that in future he will, when amid pas
toral surroundings, wear ordinary
leather. The others are too tempting
to herbiyorous animals.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13

He thought it all over many times, and
the next night he ran across one of the
guys who had been in the game.
Come up to my room, said Lane;
I've got something l want to show
you
The other fellow went along Lane
took him up to the room, and then
shutting the door, pulled out a re-
volyer and said he wanted to know
something. The other guy put up a
kick when the gun was flashed on him,
but Lane quickly made himself under
stood.
"'You and your crowd Of thieves
said Lane, have got away with my
pile. That's all right. l got the ex-
perience, even If did have to pay for
It. Now. I'm going to get some of that
money back. You just sit down and
teach me how to deal cards so l can
win
THE guy sat down, and for twelve
solid hours these two fellers did moth
ing but shuttle and deal cards. The
slick guy dealt seconds, stacked the
deck in sixteen different ways, marked
cards as he played them. and in just
about nine times out Of ten he would
fool Lane completely. Then he began
to explain all the tricks. He sharp
ened Lanes thumbnail so he could
mark the cards and filed of the skin of
his thumb so he could feel the marked
cards as they came out Of the deck.
Lane proved to be an easy gambler,
and when his teacher left him that
night he had learned the manipulation
of every trick known to the gamblers
trade. Then he started in to practice
them, and he spent weeks and weeks
in dealing out imaginary hands of
poker. Then he started out to play
a little poker. He didn't have enough
confidence at first to try any of his
games when playing, but he invariably
practiced marking the cards. A good
gambler, I have been told, can mark
all of the big cards in the pack within
twenty minutes after the first hand is
dealt. Lane told me he could beat that
and / believe him.
"By and by he started in to deal
himself some Of the marked cards, and
he invariably won, as he played his
games where he was the only dlshon-
est man. His nerve came with his
success, and In year or two he was
like a veteran. He played like fash
Of lightning. and never aroused a sus-
picion OF his actions. lie simply toyed
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
Torpedo Boats BY Rail.

Probably the queerest thing so far
established in the case of the French
submarine boat Goubet, is her trans.
Oortation by rail from the docks OF
Paris-Saint-Ouen to the arsenal of Tou-
ion. The Echo de Paris dwells at some
length upon the advantages Of carry.
ing a fotilla Of small torpedo boats by
the same method. In one day they
could be sent from the Mediterranean
TO the British Channel, or from the
channel to the Mediterranean. In case
Of war between France and England,
1t says, the boats moving on land
would have an advantage over the
British ships, obliged to effect their
concentration via Gibraltar
The Goubet was carried upon an or
dlnary fifteen ton car, but with the
creation Of speci means of transpor-
ation boats very lch larger than the
Goubet might be ca ed by rail. zone
Hundred submarine boats no larger
dian the Goubet could keep Pas-de-
Calais free from any attack by an
English feet. And one hundred Gou-
Oets would not cost fifteen million
danes"
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
LANES LOSS OF NERVE

Jim Lane is in town, near" said
the little man with the scrubby beard
as he threw down a winning king full
and raked in the stack Of chips from
the middle Of the table.
Who's he?" asked q man across the
table.
Jim Lane" answered the first
speaker, was the nerviest and best
gambler in all probability who ever
stacked a deck of cards in this great
and glorious poker-playing country.
He knows every trick that was ever
played with cards and can work those
same tricks better than any other man
! ever saw or heard Of. l don't mean
sleight-of-hand tricks. ! mean the reg
ular professional gamblers tricks, the
tricks that are played to win money
dishonesty. He must be 80 years old
If he's a day, but you wouldn't think it
If you were to put your eyes on him.
He's got a little, thin, boyish face, and
a light mustacbe that will never grow
any larger than it is, and altogether
he has about the most innocent APP
pearance you would strike from New
York to Frisco. I've crossed the con-
tinent by stages, winning my car fare
at the great American game, and l
never saw his equal in the lamb-like
innocent way. But, oh. how that little
fellow has fooled the best of them! In
fact, think he was only caught at the
game once. and then the man who
caught him didn't dare to squeal be-
cause he was working the same identi-
cal game. Jack Hale. who was known
all over the west as Dopey Hale,
caught him. At that game Jim Lane
lost his nerve. He never got it back,
either.
Lane was q natural born gambler
He couldn't keep away from the cards,
just the same as an opium fiend hangs
onto his dope. It's a disease. An old
uncle down in San Bernardino county
had died, and the bulk of his fair-sized
pile went to Jim, The young fellow
started in to spend it right and left,
until he struck a stiff poker game at
the old Fleming house in Frisco one
night. There were a lot of slick guys
in the game, and they let the young
chap win just enough the first night
to get the fever in his blood; the next
night they made his pile look sick, and
the rest Of the week they kept him
busy writing out checks to square him
self. Then the gang who 1eeced him
left town.
"A bartender in the house tipped
him off one night as to the character
of the people who had got into his roll.
He went home and thought it all over.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
Nhat Is Yonr weightg


From recent statistics the following
interesting facts have been ascer.
tained The heaviest men of all are
butchers, who average within a few
ounces of 40 pounds; next to them
come hotel-keepers, whose average
weight is 167 pounds. Clergymen are
the third heaviest people, Weighing 164
pounds all around. But healthful
open-air work, not too laborlous with
good living, is a great fattener, too
Masons and bricklayers weigh 1862
pounds, or only two less than the cler.
gymen. Farmers, lockers and barris.
ters are all a good average weight, the
first weighing 161 pounds, the second
160h pounds, and the third 100 pounds
Commercial travellers turn the scale al
1853 pounds, and, what would hardly be
expected are three pounds heavier than
blacksmiths, who weigh only 155
pounds. Bankers, insurance agents
and merchants are all very close to 154
pounds; carpenters and coopers stand
at 1853 pounds; teachers and manufac-
turers are slightly over 151 pounds; la
borers, druggists and shoemakers av.
erage 148 pounds; clerks and shopmen
only weigh 147 pounds. The tailor
comes last, Weighing but las pounds
Scottish-American.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
A BUSINESS POINTER.

Several Washington merchants are
afraid to invite the trade of suburban
people for fear it might offend seme
Il their city customers who don't con-
dder it "the proper thing" to be seen
n store with country people. They
want the cash Of country people when
che same can be secured without any
outward sign Of a desire to reach out
Tor it, One Of the largest hardware
Hrms in the city recently refused to
advertise in the columns Of the OITI-
vEN and gave the following reason;
"We're not out after suburban bust
hess for the reason that we consider
the trade Of the people Of Virginia and
Maryland not particularly desirable "
Gustave Hariig, the hardware man OF
500 aud GIL H Street, N. E., is of a
different opinion. Hewants the trade
Of country people and he is getting it.
When you deal with him you are deal
ing with a square business man and a
TREND. Dec. 10-4t
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
InE SUBURBAN CITIZEN.
instructions - Subscribers.

PosrAoE-The postage to ell parts Of the
Omited statee and Canada is paid by the
publishers.
hsMIrrANoEs OF small sums may be made
with compare We safety In ordinary letters
BUNS Of one dollar or more must be sent by
registered letter or post-ofilce monty order
stherwise, we cannot be responsible for same
GRANGE OF ADDREss-sub wishing
their address changed must invariably give
their former as well as new address.
MIS- ING NuMBERs-It occasionally happens
shat numbers OF our paper sent 70 subscribers
Rre lost or stolen IN the mails. In case you
dc not receive any number when due, write
"a postal card, and we will cheerfully fur
ass a duplicate Of the missing number.
MvsS IMPORTANT OF ALLr-In every letter
chat y,N write u. never fRil TO give your full
address Nlainly written, name, post~offioe.
county AZ, State.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
The Intellectual Cook.

A woman from the Middle States
who recently moved to Cambridge,
Mass, went into her kitchen the other
night after the cook had gone to bed.
On top OF the cook book lay the light
literature that the cook had been read
ing. 1t was entitled "In Tune with the
Infinite"
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
claims the Record for Long Tramps.

Claims the Record for Long Tramps.
A Paris gymnasium instructor claims
the record for long tramps, having
walked $1,000 kilometres, or about 35,-
600 miles, on ordinary roads. Among
his trips were Paris to st. Petersburg,
in 3S days, Paris-Geneva-Venice and
Paris-Berlin. He tried to walk to Ma
drid but was stopped by the Spanish
authorities when he reached BARGE
Iona.
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13
Wanted.

The City Mission Of Washington,
D. c., is in need of cast off clothing
and other articles helpful to the poor
and suffering. Careful distribution
to worthy applicants, regardless of
creed or color, insured
Please address,
The CITY MISSIONARY,
II llS Florida Ave-, N. w
The suburban citizen., 1900-01-13

Washington City OhouIc
include all tho territory
and people within the
lines Of the District OF
Columbia
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

The Secretary of the Interior,
in his annual report for 1899,
speaking of the irrigable area
of the arid region Of the United
States, says:
THAT this vast acreage. cap
able OF sustaining and comfort
ably supporting under a proper
system Of irrigation population
Of at least $4,000, 900 people,
should remain practically des
ert, is not in harmony with the
possibilities of the future. >
Wouldn't our government be
acting more like christian, civ
ilized country, if it were to stop
killing a people who are en-
gagged in identically the same
kind of a warfare that our fore
fathers waged against England,
Cighting for their liberty and in
dependence,) and expend the
money which this unjust war is
costing the people to make com
Portable homes for them-those
who have been born and reared
under the protection of the stars
and stripes-who have fought
her battles-who have aided in
building up and making this the
foremost and most powerful ma
ton of the world. Are they not
entitled to more consideration
than the semi civilized people
of the Philippine islands? Would
not the money be better expend-
ed? Would it not promote more
genuine happiness? Would it
not provide COmforta ble homes,
right at our own doors and with
in our own borders, for our nat
ural increase in population for
the next hundred years? And
finally, as a business PROPOSE
ton, would it not add more 10
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22
A Village Blacksmith Saved His Lit
tie Sons Lite.

Mr.. H. H. Black, the we'll
known village blacksmith at
Grahamsville, Sullivan Co., N.
Y, says: "Our little son, five
years old, has always been sub
ject to Group, and so bad have
the attacks been that we have
feared many times that he would
die. We have had the doctor
and used many medicines, but
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
now our sole reliance. Itseems
to dissolve the tough mucus and
by giving frequent doses when
the croupy SYMPTOMS appear we
have found that the dreaded
Group is cured before it gets set
tied" There is no danger in
giving this remedy for it con-
tains no opium or other injurious
drug and may be given as con-
fidently to a babe as to an adult.
For sale by W. R. Campbell. y
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

Mr.. John d. Rockefeller S an
nual income is S42, 100000, says
the IcOnoclast. This means that
Mr.. Rockefeller receives daily
the sum of $164, 1913. Mr.. Rookie
feller stands up every Sunday
and teaches about the Carpenter
of Nazareth and claims to be his
servant. MIR. Rockefeller adul-
terates his oil, squeezes out all
competition by running prices
down below cost-saving few
pennies meanwhile by the afore-
said adulteratiop-then, when
the competitor is squeezed dry
and ruined. Mr., Rockefeller puts
the price back to his old figures
and his income merrily increases.
This statement ;c not surmlse.
1t is a fact based upon dOcumen-
tary evidence once possessed by
an eastern trade journal whose
editor was afterward bought by
the Standard Oil Company. The
Standard Oil Company pays the
editor a stated sum per month
to say nothing about the Stand
ard Oil Company, and at certain
intervals pays the editor GER
tain sum to say something com
plinentary about the aforesaid
company. These are some of
the methods of Mr.. Rockefeller
who is the humble servant of the
Caryenter of Nazareth, and
teaches about him in the Sun
day school.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22
A Mystery Solved.

Nose and Herbert Drachman,
of Tucson, and J. L. Pernet,
Arbuckle's representative in
Mexico, arrived in the city this
morning They will transact
business today and go quail
hunting tomorrow. These gentle
men, in company with Kid Wild
ing, were duck hunting near
Casa Grande on Tuesday. One
and half miles this side of the
Florence reservoir, Nose Drach-
man discovered the skull of a
man who had been dead pre-
sunably two or three months.
The skull was taken to Casa
Grande, where Jack Mccoy and
others identified it as that of
Burt Alvord. the highwayman
who held up the Southern Paci-
fic train and later escaped from
the Tombstone jail in company
with Billy Stiles and Bravo
John. 1t is generally supposed
that Stiles killed Alvord, and
the finding of this skull varifies
that theory. The skull was
identified by black tooth and d
scar or fracture on the skull.
This clears up a mystery and
removes all doubt as to what
became of Burt Alvord, the peace
officer who turned highwaym
Phoenix Enterprise.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

One of the first acts Of the
coming legislature should be the
repeal of the poll tax law. We
do not believe it right to dis
franchise a man because he has
not $3.50 to pay his poll tax.
Under the constitution of the
United States a poor man is sup
posed to have equal rights with
the rich. The poll tax law makes
d distinction. 1t says unless you
have $3.50 in legal money you
cannot vote.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

The coming Legislature should
amend the revenue laws Of the
territory, so as to make the bur
den of maintaining the terrific
rial government bear equally on
all. Those who are worth their
millions and whose incomes are
from one to twelve millions an
nually, from properties situated
within the territory, can better
afford to pay their just proper
ton of taxes than the man who
only owns few acres OF land.
or a few head of stock, and are
barely able to keep body and
soll together by working from
twelve to fourteen hours a dav
and practiCing the severest econ
omy. Equalize the onerous bur
den of taxation. Make the rich
and poor pay their just proper
ton.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22
Sheepnen Show Gratitude.

The sheepmen Of New Mexico
and Arizona have written com
missioner Hermann of the gener-
al land office at Washington to
thank him for a continuance Of
the grazing privilege IN the for
est reserves of those two terri
tories. The secretary of the in
terror had prepared an order
which provided that all sheep
on the reserves of these terri
tories should be at once exClud-
ed and further grazing strictly
prohibited.
Just before this order was to
have gone into effect, Commis
sioner Hermann made a strenu-
Gus appeal to the secretary in
behalf of the sheepmen, and the
order was modified so as to pro-
vide that temporarily no more
permits for sheep grazing in the
reserves shall be issued pending
an investigation to determine
whether or not the sheep injure
the forests, but permits already
issued shall remain in full force.
Meantime the superintendent
of forest reserves for Arizona
and New Mexico has been called
upon tor report and largely
upon his recommendation will
depend whether or not further
grazing will be permitted, or be
discontinued altogether.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

the permanent and material
wealth of the country. than the
whole Philippine archipelago
after it is conquered and sta
BILE government established? No
lives would be sacrificed. No
families broken up. The money
expended would eventually be
returned to the people an hun
dred fold.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

American soldiers in Pekin are
said to have unearthed indisput-
able proof that the Chinese were
the first discoyerers of this con
tinent. According to these an
cient documents found in the
archives at Pekin. the Chinese
visited this continent in 400 A.
D., centuries before Columbus
was born. From these docu-
ments it is thought they landed
in what is now known as Cali
fornia and Lower California.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

A mob at Limon, Col, took
the negro murderer, Preston
Porter, from the authorities and
burned him at the stake. There
is no doubt but the negro richly
deserved his fate, but If the oc-
currence had taken place in one
Of the southern states, tre-
mendous howl would have been
raised all over the north and
east about southern barbarism.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

Another amendment ought to
be made to the revenue law.
The section compelling employ
ers to pay the poll tax of all
their employees should be repeal
ed. It looks too much like the
Mexican system of peonage to
suit an American. .
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

The Les Angeles Herald,
speaking Of the defeat Of Gov
ernor Murphy, says: ARIZONA
is entitled to statehood, regard
less of the result of election,
and it would be a shrewd polit-
ical move if the republicans
would take the initiative in this
direction. The democratic con-
troll is based on a very slender
majority, and the people Of the
territory are appreciative when
they receive justice. Statehood
and prosperity will make Ari-
z0na republican.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22
No Bargain.

Colonel J. F. Wilson writes
the following to the Star:
[ noticed in the Star d tele
gram quoted from the Los An
geles Times, or from the Arizona
Republican, giving an alleged
contract that Mr.. Smith and [
had made, ] to be Governor, etc,
and other positions allotted.
[ write to say to you that there
was no truth whatever in that.
Not a single name was ever
mentioned, or single position
ever named in our conference
We discussed the necessity of
the withdrawal of one of us for
the safety of the party, and that
was all. He declined all over
lures tending to his withdrawal,
SO | said to him, that being the
case, I shall take the RESPONSE
bility upon myself and sacrifice
all ambitions or interests that [
may have, and quit the canvass
and save the party if I can. .
That was all there was to do,
and all there was to it.
Truly yours,
J. r. WILSON.
The Winslow mail., 1900-11-22

John Lewis of Phoenix whom
his many friends better know by
the name of "F'Ore Paw" has
outranked all discoveries OF
strange things in Arizona, His
most valued pocket piece is a
petrifed or oxydenized oyster,
found recently along the Aqua
Fria, a few miles above Frog
Tanks. It was discovered in a
prospect hole fifteen feet below
the surface. The Republican
saws there is no doubt that it is
an oyster, with nearly half the
shell attached. This discovery
proves that the sea used to
cover a considerable part Of
Arizona, for everyone knows,
who knows anything atall about
such things, that the oyster IS
not land bird, and if he were
he would choose some other land
than the arid wastes of Arizona.