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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
No Superstitions About Them.
Kansas City Journal

al WONDER" said Government Secret
Officer McManus the other day, as he
scrutinized the face of half-dollar
through microscope, az wonder how
many people there are who would be
superstitious about half-dollars and
quarters if they knew how many
'thirteens' there are OH them. Have
you ever thought about it? If you
haven't, take this one, or any other
half-dollar of late coinage or quarter
of any year and count them up.
"Count tho number OF letters in the
words quarter dollar and you will
find there are 13. Then, there are 13
letters in E Pluribus Unum,' l3 stars
on each side of the quarter, 13 bars on
the shield on the eagles breast, 13
leaves on the olive branch, IS spear
points and 13 leaves on the sheai
around the head OF the woman on the
heads side.
However" Uncle Sans man phil
osophically concluded as he glanced
away from the counterfeit half-dollal
which he held in his hand, 81 have
never heard of anybody refusing to &C
cept one on account of the thirteen
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

new team of trotting horses OF Lew
Stall Now Hizzoner will give them
all dust.
MUNICIPAL.
The Prohibtionists threaten to
bring out a ticket next fall. Their
last ticket had nine votes. But come
along, brothers; the more the merrier
SOCIETY.
Mrs. jim Meeth, the wife of the pop
ular bartender, is to give high-fve
party at her house next Tuesday, in
honor of her niece, Miss Myrtle Scrag.
giles of Bakerstown.
SPORTING.
The Epworth league young people
are going to have a croquet set put ur
in the vacant lot back OF the Method
ist church next week.
POLICE.
Janitor Mundell and two tramps
who we're arrested last night for refus
ing to leave town gave all the windows
at the police station a much needed
bath to-day. The hobos hated to
work, but the janitor pounded them
with the soft end of the mop until
they took different view of things.
MrSICAJ
Bill Martin, the enterprising gro
Ger, is learning to play the trombone.
Nothing doing.
SUDDEN DEATHS.
Nothing doing.
ELoPEMENTs.
Nothing doing.
EMBEzZLEMENTs, GRAND LARCENY, ETC
Nothing doing.
MURDERS.
Nothing doing.
OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS.
The entire local staff of the Eagle
and Banner, including the city editor
and the reporter, have resigned be.
cause they are expected to work under
q smart Aleck from the city who
thinks that a little jay two-by-four
newspaper can be run on the same
plan of metropolitan daily in city
of 100000, where there are things
that happen every day, and where the
editors and reporters are all paid
money for their work instead of orders
on the clothing and grocery stores
taken for advertising. There have
been no murders recorded in Willard
vile to-day, but there will be if this
idiot doesn't leave town.
Mr.. Spencer sat in train bound for
the city that afternoon.
81 am going back to the mipe," he
told the conductor. "The pace down
here at Willardville is too fast. I'd
have nervous prostration here in a
week. Little old Chicago is good
enough for me-"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
DRIFTWOOD
Gathered From the Current of Passing Ac
tualities

Gathered From the Current OF Passing AC-
Qualities.
Five hundred thousand women over
Is years of age are employed in the
factories and workshops OF Great
Britain.
Shoes were worn in Egypt 2,20O
years before Christ. Mention OF them
has been found in an Egyptian papy-
rus that old
The orange is native of Africa.
1t was introduced into Europe in the
Sixteenth century. 1t was vastly in
ferior to the cultivated orange of to-
day.
A Congressman once franked to his
home fre-proof safe weighing 5000
pounds. He bought it at public
sale after it had been condemned by
the government.
Bengal, India, with a territory of
2O3, ,473 square miles, has population
equal to the total population OF the
United States. 1t is one-quarter less
in size than the State of Texas.
The members Of the Ancient Order
OF United Workmen of the State of
West Virginia are considering the
nrOnosifion of arectipp a hama for ola
infirm and disabled members OF the
order.
Mr.. Justice Taylor of Wilmington,
O., was nineiy-two years old last
month. He is probably the oldest
man in active business. He has voted
the Democratic ticket for seventy-one
years.
The government finds it difficult to
enlist good carpenters in the navy.
The pay ranges from 81 200 to 81, 800
year. There are plenty OF appli-
cants, but only few can pass the ex-
animation.
A quarter OF century ago Russia
was dependent upon other countries
for her warships. Now Russia has ten
ship yards on the Baltic and Black
seas and in them ten warships ranging
from 6,OOO to $4,000 tons each are be-
ing constructed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
Objectionable Church Methods.
Council Bluffs Nonpariel.

A Pennsylvania preacher advertised
that he would give cash bonus to
everyone who attended services in his
church. Long before the doors opened
the crowd had gathered in numbers
far in excess OF the seating capacity OF
the church. Each person present was
handed an envelope with penny in
closed with request that this talent
ehould not be laid away in napkin
but should be so invested as to bring a
return OF anywhere from a dollar up
for paying off the church debt. When
churches thus enter into competition
with shows and lotteries and the world
ly forms of entertainment they cease
to be churches.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
DAILY SCHEDULE OF WILLARDSVILLE
EAGLE AND BANNER.

The city editor looked at the sched-
ule as though he were looking at .
Chinese puzzle.
81 want those things looked after
every day." said Jimmy.
"Pretty long ways over to the court
house," said the city editor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

A YOUNG man of Breslau, Germany,
named Ebers, the son of poor parents,
was studying for his matriculation at
the university. In order to encourage
him at his work his mother and sister
worked with him. All three went up
for examination, last month, and
passed with honors, the mother com.
ing out first on the list.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

BOsToN has discovered that the shirt
waist is immodest, but, curiously
enough, proposes to remedy the i'm
modesty by removing the shirt-waist.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

"OH, mamma" exclaimed 4-year-old
Bessie, looking up at the starry skies
one evening, "what a pretty place
heaven must be when it is so beauti.
full wrong side OUT"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
Lumber and Shingle Capacity.

The following compilation shows by
counties the States lumber and shingle
mills with daily capacity, as given in
the annual review of the Pacific Luns-
Der Trade Jonrnal:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
GA ToE IA.
''::::''' S.; q; &Mz7! :, 4; 1; :; K:

THE first ingredient in converse
ton is truth; the next, good sense
the third, good humor, and the fourth
wit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

BERNHARDT's tribute to the Ameri
can girl is almost as true and graceful
az the American girl herself.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
ACCIDENT
AND
HEALTH
INSURANCE.,
The Fidelity Mutual Aid Association

The Fidelity Mutual Aid Association
WILL PAY you
If disabled by al accident $50 to 800 pe
month,
If you lose two limbs, eos to 1000,
II you lose your eye sight, S2OS 10 81 200,
If you lose one limb, Ss3 to %, 900,
II you are ill $4,000 per month,
If killed, will pay your heirs, S2Os to %, 600
If you die from notural cause 500.
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You cannot lose all your Income when
you are Sick or Disabled by Accident.
Absolute protection at a cost of $l.OO to
$2.25 per month.
The Fidelity Mutual Aid Ass0ela.
strongest Accident and Health AssO.
citation in the United States.
1t has S6 900 90 cash deposits with the States Of
California and Missouri, which, together, with
an ample Reserve Fund and large assets, make
its certificate an absolutel guarantee of the solid
ity of its protection to its members.
For particulars address
J. l.. NJ. SHETTERLEY,
Set retary and General Manager.
San Francisco, Cal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
MAsH1NcToN STANDARD
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY EvERss BY
JOH N MILLER M u RPH Y :,
Editor and Proprietor.


Advertising, four squares or upward bv
the year, at liberal rates.
Legal notices will be charged to the
attorney or officer authorizing their inser-
tiOn.
Advertisements sent from distance,
and transient notices must be accompan-
led by the cash.
Announcements of marriages, births
and deaths inserted free.
Obituary notices, resolutions of respect
and other articles which do not possess a
general interest will he inserted at one
halfthe rates for business advertisements
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
IT IS
EASY
WORK

when you are well, to
rub and scrub, but
when the back aches
and the head throbs;
a woman's work is
hourly torment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
HABITS OF THE ANT.
go TO THE ANT" A WISE IN
JUNCTION.

Many of Their Habits Like Those of Man-They
Build habitatons on Geometrcal Principles
and Fine Roads to Them-They Bury Their
Dead in Cemeteries of Their Own, and with
Funeral Rites-They are SkilfuIl Civil Ensi
neers, for Their Sze-Destroy vermin and
Produce Cross Fertilization Of Plants.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07

tie Tried City Style on the Wil!ardville Daily
EagIe"-Duties of the "Staff' Scheduled
The City Editor Meets Suggestions Of the
New brains" Slow the Plans Worked -
A Strike the Resuit-The brains Takes
the First Train for Chicago, in Accord
With Suggestion of the Strikers.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
THE EARLY MARKETS,

The absence of fogs and nightly dews is a ormidable obstacle to the destructive and unsightly scale-bug. and the fruits of the valley are all bright and clean. All the agri- cultural products of temperate and semi tropic zones are easily grown here. the long seasons giving a succession of crops that double or treble the productive value
 f the land.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03

the indefensible position of doing noth- ing itself or allowing any one else to improve this great natural reservoir site.
 2. We firmly believe that the inter- ests of humanity dictate that the In- dians should be gathered on the reser- vations, have lands allotted to them in severalty, and that they be furnished with farming implements and an inex- haustible supply of water for irrigation of their lands, to the end that they may become self supporting. By this means will home life be furnished for the Indian and he will more rapidly advance in civilization as a conse- quence. He will abandon his nomadic life; his children will be kept at home and educated in neighborhood schools, instead of being sent to large Indian schools at a distance where they are kept (as it would seem) for mere purposes of show. After being iu- structed in the arts of civilization for a time they are returned to savagery to become more unhappy and discou. tented than if they had never received the questionable advantages. We feel that the present policy of the Indian department is all wrong in this regard 8. The Pima and Maricopa Indiar reservation contains $50, GOO acres of as fertile land as lies within the bound aries of Arizona, and is admirabl, adapted for homes for these people, as well as the wandering Papagoes, wht are now compelled to prey upon tn, herds of our farmers and ranchmen fo subsistence.
 4. The construction of storag
 reservoir at the Buttes by the Govern
 ment offers plain business proposi
 ton for the correction of these evils Resolved, that the Secretary of tn
 Territory be instructed to transmit
 copy of the foregoing Memorial to ou
 Delegate and Delegate e-elect in Cor
 gress, and also copy each to tn
 President of the Senate and Speake
 of the House of Representative.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
FRANCE NOT DEGENERATE.
MRx O'ReH Denies the Charge That His Country Ta Retro
 grading.

In spite of what may have been written to the contrary, France has, ever since the disaster of 1870, quiet ly and steadily regenerated herself. and succeeded in organizing an army which the greatest German military authorities declare to be the most formidable and the best armed in Eu- rope; and l will add this, in justice 10 France, that she has not gathered together and trained that army of 100000 men to attack anyone, but to protect herself, says Max 0'Rell in the London Mail
 The Germans know all this, and strain every nerve to remain at peace with us. seeking our friendship more and more every day. That army in the hands of Napoleon III. might be a danger to Europe, but not in the hands of a nation now mistress of her destinies, who would use it only if compelled to do so for the defense of her honor or her territory. De generation, forsooth! Let me assure you that there is no degepration, ex- cept in the imagination of few writers in search of the sensational. The France of this century, the France of Gay-Lussac, Lavoisier, All fred de Musset, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Ernest Renan, Pasteur. that France, greater than ever in all the arts of peace, now more formidable than eyer in the art of war, is well worth a kind word and an act oi courtesy at the hands of the grea. 1 English people.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
HOUSE MEMORIAL NO. 4. To the Senate and House of Representa- tlves of the United States in Con-
 aress Assembled.

We, your Memorialists, the Nine teenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully rep resent that the National Irrigation Congress, held in Phoenix, Arizona, on the 1lth of December, A. D. 1896, unan- imously adopted the following:
 Whereas, The Pima and Maricopa Indians, tribes numbering in the aggregate ten thousand souls, have been deprived of the waters used by them in irrigation before the advent of the white race in America, through the appropriation of such waters by settlers on the headwaters of the Gila river; and
 Whereas. Through the loss of such waters the lands once cultivated by these tribes have become barren and worthless, and the members of such tribes have become a charge on the Government. and forced by the loss of their fields into lives of degrada- tion and penury and
 Whereas, Such tribes have from the ear Hest days been the friends and allies of the white race; and
 Whereas, The people of the United States have pledged themselves by solemn treaty to protect such tribes in their property and property rights; and
 Whereas, The Government of the United States has and now is engaged i1 the ex- Dendifure of hundreds of thousands of dol ] lars for the construction of works of irriga- tion for the reclamation of lands belonging to other Indian tribes; therefore, be it 1 Resolved, That this Congress do approve 1 the proposed construction. under the plans ! of the U. s. Geological Survey. of the Buttes reservoir, in Pinal county, Arizona, recently | reported, to again reclaim the lands of these tribes. believing that by so doing can the Government alone honorably redeem the broken pledges made by it to these people, | and thus preserve from further want and l degradation two of the surviving Indi5n tribes of the American continent that have | always been the constant friends of the white race.
 Resolved, That we approve the proposed construction of such reservoir not only as just and philanthropic but economical l and good policy. as in comparatively shors time the expense of maintaining such In- dians as Government charges will far exceed | tie cost of the irrigation works required to make them self-supporting and self-re- specting community.
 New, therefore, your Memorialists, the Nineteenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, desire to go on record as earnestly endorsing the above recommendations of the Sixth National Irrigation Congress for the following reasons:
 l. The reservoir site referred to having been withdrawn iron entry by Government authorities, cannot now be utilized by any private corporation, and the Government therefore occupies
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
THE CASA eRANDE VALLEY.
$nforration for Those Seeking Homes
 In the Garden Spot of the West.

Pinal county was organized in 1875 from portions of Pima, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, and contains an area of ,s6s square miles, or s,4SS,520 acres, one-third of which could be made productive by systematic storage of the surplus water now running to waste. Next to Maricopa it is the most important agricultural county in the Terri tory. It Is traversed from cast to west by the Southern Pacific railroad, end branch of the great Santa Fe system is now ap- proachlng from the north. The objective point of this road is a connection with the Sonora road of the same system. The Southern Pacific is also building in this direction from Tempe, and it is confidently believed that work will not cease until the Deer Creek coal fields are reached and con- nection is made with another branch of that road running from Bowie to Globe and now completed to Fort Thomas.
 Thus it will be seen that Pinal county is the theater of railroad building at the pres ent time. and inside of year Florence, the county seat, will be
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
MsteoroloaIcaI Statistics.

The signal service of the general govern ment maintained station at Florence from 1874 to 1882. The reports covering the period from July. 1880, to April, 1882, gives the fol- lowing statistics, which may be taken as safe guide to the prevailing temperature given during the series of six years:
 4ooo A4oo.. af,~ nft-.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
PRICES OF LAND,

Improved lands, with government title and water right. can be bought for from S20 to $50 per acre, according to location and im- proyements. In the immediate neighbor- hood and to the south of the Casa Grande ruins there are thousands of acres covered with heavy growth of mesquite timber yet open to settlement. These are among the choicest in the valley. Water in inexhaustl- ble quantity is found at a depth of from twenty to thirty feet; in fact, a river seems to be flowing underneath. Here is a splen- did opportunity to take up and improve land with pumping system of irrigation, which is said to be successful on small tracts.
 However, with the completion of the San Carlos reservoir, pumping will be thing of the past. and it is only mentioned here for the purpose of showing what can be done, and to magnify the further fact that what was once considered
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
AN us1sHAB1rApIE DESERT

in truth the most productive land on the globe. and that there is water in abundance o bring every foot of it under cultivation, only waiting for the magic wand of capital to develop it. There is no water-storage scheme on the Pacific coast that has one half the natural advantages and so few en gineering difficulties as tho San Carlos reser voir. Here nature has built the abutments in ever-living rock, and all that is left for man to do is to put in the headgate, the bluffs which form the gorge being only separated by paltry 22O feet. A country is drained through this narrow canyon 200 miles square, representing 40,o0O square miles. or larger than Maine and Massachu- setts combined. The rainfall is sufficient to i'll the reservoir twice year, and the land to be brought under cultivation is practi- cally limitless. This may read like fairy tale, but is is every word true, and has been
 erifled time and again.
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
suNsTRokE IS UNKNOWN.

In fact. in a residence of twenty -one years in Arizona the writer has only known two persons to be overcome by the heat, and they recovered. Their condition, however, was more the result of whisky than heat. The air is so dry here that registered temperature of no degrees is not as oppres- sive as 80 degrees in St. Louis or New York. The Signal Service bureau has recognized this fact. and reports the difference between the apparent and sensible temperature to be fully 90 degrees. At nearly all times there is pleasant breeze; the nights are inyari- ably cool in the summer, and out-door labor is performed without serious discomfort to either man or beast on the warmest days Very seldom does the thermometer get be- low the freezing point in winter, and in the gardens of Florence to-day are castor bean plants two years or more old,
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
LOCAL TIME TABLE. Mountain Time.

For time at other local stations call on Agent.
 Dining Station. CONNECTIONS: Jerome Junction with U V. & P. Ky, for Jerome; P. & E. Junction with P. & E. R. R. for Huron and Mayer < Mayer with stage to Grown King and other mining points; Prescott with stage lines>for all the principal mining camps; Congress Junction with stage lines for Congress, Harqua Hala, Stanton and Yarnell; Hot Springs Junction with the c. c. H. & 6 l. Co., for Castle, Creek Hot Springs, the all-year-round health resort; Phoenix with the M &P. & s. K. V. R. R. for points on the S. P. system.
 H. P. AEEwALT, Gen. Pass. Agt-
 Prescott, Arizona,
The Florence tribune., 1901-08-03
A RAILROAD CENTER.

At present it contains a population of bout 150O, hut with the completion of these
 railroads and the San Carlos reservoir no city in Arizona can approach it for natural advantages, and a large increase in popuia- tion will follow. Florence is at an elevation of I492 feet above sea level, situated near the Gila river, twenty-six miles northwest of the railroad station of Casa Grande, with which it Is connected by an elegantly equipped daily stage line. Going and com ing stages run by the old Casa Grande ruins, and passengers are allowed short time to inspect them. There are many handsome private residence in Florence, several brick stores, good hotel, an excellent graded school employing four teachers, churches, secret societies, O Commercial Club two newspapers, and the handsomest court house in the Territory. Here is held the United States Court for the district composed of Gila, Graham and Pima counties. The streets are lined witi shade trees. which impart an air of com. fort on the warmest days.