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The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02
A LOOK BACKWARD. 4 STEP FORWARD

Most wonderful changes have been
 wrought throughout the southwest
 within the last quarter of a century
 but nowhere is progress and prosper
 ity more manifest than within the con
 fines of Arizona. A dreaded desert,
 worthless, uDhabitable plain domi-
 mated by bloodthirty savages were the peculiarities that served to direct
 attention to Arizona but few decades hack. The most fertile imagina- tions did not conceive the possibility of wealthy empire on the uninviting plains of the great southwest, and one to have suggested the feasibility of a railway across the then barren stretch would have called forth ridicule for himself and been compelled to rest under the approbium of romancer, if not lunatic.
 The American is intrepid, and is often heard of in places where condi- tions seemingly forbid-the more haz- ardous the earlier his arrival upon the scene. Arizona's supposed inn penetrableness was talked about back east, and there were not few who, like the modern Missourian, were skeptical and to be shown, ard, accordingly. sailed around the Horn" and finally settled down on the Colorado river, founded the town of Yuma and pros pered to an extent that pioneers are entitled to. They were monarch--or they so presumed-of all the eye sur veyed, and were that rapacious that when the Southern Pacific attempted to run an engine across the river at Yuma it was met with armed resist ance, and not until wise councillors intervened did they consent to accept the commercial infringement. The great trunk line continued it's way eastward through the southern sec tion, while the grand old Santa Fe spanned the northern section and wended it's way to the Pacific coast. | With these two trunk lines in oper- ation the reclamation of Arizona was assured. From that day forward the possibilities of Arizona became more and more apparent, and as her won derful resources were brought to view | capital sought investment, people came in quest of homes, the Indian became subdued and his hunting ground and scalping arena were transformed into fields of golden grain, cities have sprung up and whose church spires point heavenward evidence the fact that a God-loving and God fearing people are in possession of their own. Upon the hills where signal fires burned brightly and warned the way farer that danger lurked upon his trail are now located schools and col
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02

It isn't altogether the number of ships there may be in our navy that will make the world respect this na- tion. There's something in the fact that those ships are backed up by about s0,0O0,000 of people who will not be imposed upon.
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02

The United States employed l0,555 men in distributing mail last year. The cost distributed among 1,40O lines was s63, ,59i, ,0O0. In 373 accidents to mail cars, eighteen clerks were killed and twenty-eight seriously injured.
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02

Arizona is suffering temporarily from severe drouth, but the rainy season is now due and there will soon be an abundance of water in all the streams.
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02
For Probate Judae.

I hereby announce myself as q candidate for the office of Probate Judge of Coeonino county, subject to the nomination of the Republican county convention. A. E. DOUGLASS
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02
Open for settlement.


 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
 United States Land Office, Prescott, Ariz., May 10, 1904. Notice is hereby given that supple mental plats of the surveys of the fol- lowing townships, viz: Fps. 2l-22 and B N. R., : E., Tp. 2l N, R. 6 and 8 E. have been received at this office and will be officially filed June 20, 1904, on and after which day and date we will be prepared to receive and act on applications to make entries in said townships.
 FEN s. HILDRETH,
 Register.
 J. M. w. MOORE,
 Receiver.
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02
For Treasurer.

hereby announce myself as candidate for the ofiee of Treasurer of Coconino County, subject to the action of the Republican county convention. JosEPH R. TREAT
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02
SATURDAY, JULY ?, 1904.
County Recorder,

hereby announce myself as candidate for reelection to the office of County Recorder, subject to the nomination by the republican county convention. HARRY c. HIBBEN.
The Coconino sun., 1904-07-02

When bilious take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by all druggists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

made, total distance perhaps of about 4OU
feet. When the upper AVENUE is reached ii
will be endeayored to place the shafts
where they Will interfere the least with
traffic on the street.
Work of Construction Force.
AS soon as a shaft is abandoned by the
excavators the construction force takes
possession and proceeds with the building
of the sewer proper. The diameter of the
finished sewer is to be 81 feet. The con-
struction is of the usual brick and concrete
type required by the engineer department
of the District for this class of drains. 1t
will ultimately extend to 18th street and
Pennsylvania avenue. having numerous lat
eral feeders extending into the low-lying
section on either side of the avenue
This sewer will form a part of the low
level service that will lead into the new
sewage pumping station now building by
James B. Stannard at the foot of New Jer-
sey avenue southeast. Its level is far below
that OF the river. and consequently it can
not be utilized before the completion of the
pumping station, which is expected to oc-
cur during 1905. The work is being done
under the continuing contract system by
the warren F. BreniZer Company, and the
present apprOpriat ton covers it's completion
as far as AZ street. This much will be ac-
compliShed in July. 1t is expected that
Congress will at this session make provi-
sion for its continuation. so that the work
VIII not cease. The entire cost of the sewer
will be about $165, 600.
The sewer will drain the cellars of many
residences and business houses that now
nave to be pumped out whenever they are
hooded Indeed. to some extent ii will do
away with the possibility of their becoming
Hooded at all. 1t will also obviate the liza.
DlIty or Hood by back water from sewers
IN the low section which now often occurs
men there is sudden downpour of rain.
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Will Start Seagull Farm.
rom the Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonian.
The thousands of seagulls which have
been making themselves at home in the
eastern part of this city and on the water
front for the past month or more show no
signs of returning to their accustomed
haunts along the coast.
An old retired whaler, who lives by the
Ladd tract, where the gulls most do con-
gregate to hunt for earthworms, etc. has
an idea of capturing and combining lot of
them and keeping them to produce eggs
for market. He had visited the arctic re-
gions on both this coast and the east coast,
and has seen whole schoonerloads of eggs
of gulls and other seagoing birds gathered
about Labrador, in the Farallone Islands
and on the coast of Alaska and sent to mar
ket. He has many time Toasted on omelet
of gulls' eggs, which find ready sale in
many markets. He says they are not so
delicate as hens eggs, having slight tinge
of fishy taste. but they are wholesome
and nutritious and are much better than
no eggs at all, which of late has formed
part of his breakfast very often. He be-
IIoveS that if the gulls were kept here in
confinement awhile and properly fed their
eggs would be good hens eggs and
much larger. Gulls are great producers of
eggs, as he has seen miles of land and
rocks covered with them. He proposes to
fence in a piece of land along a slough, in
GLIDING a section of the slough, and to con-
fine there as many gulls as he can procure,
and imagines that in little while they
will become tame and can be treated the
same as barnyard fowls.
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The First Riding Lesson.

From Country Life in America.
The pupil of a good riding master is usu-
ally disappointed at not being allowed to do
more in the first lesson. He expects to
mount the horse at once, start off with a
trot and wind up with a canter. He is a
little annoyed upon finding that the first
lesson consists almost wholly of oral in
struction and great part of it on foot at
that. If the master is conscientious he will
not permit the anxiety to be off and doing
to interfere with proper understanding of
the A B of the art. Should the beginner
apply at one of the big riding academies in
New York for instruction, the first lesson
will begin with the leading by groom Of
horse brideled and saddled, into the CEN
ter of the ring. The riding master and the
pupil take their stand close by and the
former begins to explain painstakngly the
various parts of the saddle and bride and
their purposes. Before anything further Is
attempted, the pupil must be able to answer
simple questions in regard to the pommel
and the cantle, the curb and the snaffie and
to know the uses of the two bits.
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The Irish Joke.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
large percentage of Irish jokes, when
they are Analysed depend upon a speakers
ignorance or disregard Of the proper mean
ing of a word. or upon the foolhardiness
OF using a word not correctly understood.
AS an instance of this trait of the Irish
character there is the following story of
witness. He was asked by counsel: Now.
my good man, is not all this you have been
saying merely an hypothesis" well" said
the witness. If your honor says SO. sup
pose it was" Come, how." persisted coun-
sci; or your oath do you know what an
some part of the inside of a pig. but I'm
not exactly sure what part it is. He was
probably thinking iof the aesophagus. but
none but an Irishman would have been so
blind to its incompatibiuty with the matter
In hand The haunting thought comes in
again here as in the consideration of all
Irish humor. Was the man really as in
congruous a fool as he seemed? To assist
In solving, or stiil ftftl er complicating,
might be set down here on the plea that If
they do not help the reader to the solution
or this subtle question, they will at least
arouse his suspicion.
Judge Burton, a very old and infirm
stipendiary. was engaged in trying case.
when an equally old pand infirm witness
came into court to give witness. By mis-
take he took the passage leading to the
bench, whereupon counsel cried: "Come
back, sir. Where are you going? Do you
think you're a judge?' Indeed. SIR" said
the aged one. glancing toward Judge Bur-
ton. Il fear l am fit for little else" The
other runs in the following way, and seems
to hint that when you puzzle an Irishman
he can be as puzzling as you are. Sheridan
l., Fanu once asked an Irishman what was
the English of "Carrigtuohil." 81 never
heard any English or Irish name upon 1t,
only 'Carrigtuohir Alone" was the reply.
4 know" said LIE Fanu, ut has no other
name; but want to know the meaning OF
the name. well. now, your honor" he
replied. Il never heard any meaning for it.
only 'Carrigtuohir alone" II know;
.carrig' means dock" persisted LIE Fanu:
but what does :tuohir mean?" well,
why it's called 'Carrigtuohil,' unless it's
because Mr.. Coppinger lives below there
In Barry's court"
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AT ONE OF THE SHAFT.

day, 5000 feet being the distance hurrowed
since the work was started al I'd and K
streets southeast, seventeen months ago.
is built In. a narrow ra lwiy is constructed.
upon which a small car runs, car ng tools
in and out and Transporting the large steel
bucket in which excavated material is
loaded and hoisted to the surface. Fresh
air has to be suppl ed from the surface by
means of fms and pipss AT short inter-
walls along the walls Of the tunnel candles
are placed for ilium natipn. These serve
also to keep the tempera ure at an agree
able stage during even the coolest weather.
Two forces of men are employ d, the first
coming on at o'clock in the morning and
quitting at $50 pm. when the second sh IT
begins The latter stop work at II O'Clock
at night.
The roof of the tunnel will psss but two
inches below the found ton of the old canal
at I'd street and Pennsylvania avenue, and
by means of the delicate spirit level fxed in
the boring shield the depth and or de of the
work may be judged with the greatest ac-
curacy. The present course Of he tunnel is
straight and leads directly up Pennsylvania
avenue, but it has made several turns be-
fore rea ching this pont. The depth of the
work below the surface vii! decrease
slightly it proceeds, but tie rise in the
grade is only about one inch in each 100
feet.
A new shaft Is carried down every 2OU
feet or so. except in the present section
which will be extended beyond the old
canal before another surface opening is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
COLLARS AND HEADACHE.
Moreover, They Are Bad for Ones
Nerves, This Man Says.
From the Dallas News.

the News.
you may not know 1t, old fellow, but
there is very intimate connection between
the high collar and the headache" said an
opservant man, land 1 have proved my
1aith IN the statement by refusing to wear
collars of the high sort. 1t is a bad bust-
ness my boy. High collars choke up the
veins and arteries and interfere to some ex-
tent with the circulation of the blood in the
neck and head. Do not understand me to
be knocking any particular brand of high
collars. So far as the appearance of the
high collars is concerned, confess that I
! like it.
I'm my own case 1t has been a great
blessing in at least one way for fellows
with long necks. you know, do not look so
well when you harness them up in low COL
lars. My neck is. long long as a cranes
and the high collar has kept me from leay-
| ing 100 much OF it exposed. Why, I've got
SO much neck that when | first began tn
wear low collars 1 was almost ashamed To
venture out into the street / felt like was
but half dressed. and the feeling was not so
far wrong at that. for the low collar does
leave good part of my anatomy open and
aboVeboard. as 1t were. But this fact does
not bother me now. l simply don't care at
all. Exposed neck is a whole lot better than
| headache you know. old chappy. 1 was
speaking of headache just now. That's
what wanted to tell you about The high
collar does something more than interfere
with ones circulation. 1t scratches and
| trrltates the skin. keeps ones chin at an
unreasonable. uncomfortable and unnatural
angle. and causes one to acquire nervous
| frigidity of habit.
When you meet your friend who is in the
haoit OF wearing high collar pay particu-
lar attention to the way he moves and holds
his head. 1t isn't at all natural 1t is all
due to the high collar. Mark you. there are
high collars and high collars Some of them
q n aNh Ynf Low, fg.,.
are about as far from 1t as 1t Is possible to
get without engulfing the whole head. But
of course. every fellow to his own liking In
these matters. l wear low collars because
they are comfortable. and because 1 believe
the high collar is a producer of headaches
and bad thing for ones nerves generally"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Record Made for Rapidity.
OLD AND NEW JAPAN.
The Industrial Plutocrat Not Known in
Days of Yore.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
OF old Japan there were few violent con-
trasts between rich and poor. and, in fact,
the industrial plutocrat was unknown. The
nobly born were rich. If rich at all, only in
land and rice and they were not envied. as
they seem to belong to the natural order of
creation. But today the tradesman and the
manufactu who were once almost the
lowest of mankind, infinitely below the till
ers of the soil, are becoming insolently rich
and are the real lords of Japan. while. the
children of Samurai are glad to get small
clerkships from those whom their fathers
despised.
1 have been spending much time in dark
est Toxic of late. and the microscopic mis-
cry to be found there would make a story
appalling TO those who fancy that Japan is
nothing but swaying lanterns and softly
falling cherry blossoms. Buying and SELL
ing is conducted on such an infnitesimal
scale among these submerged wretches that
the sum OF sixpence will provide a hand
some stock for a hawker in popular lines of
food.
walk tie streets at night for the want of a
half-penny to engage lodgings on a damp
floor swarming with verrnin, one hears the
doctrines of Proudhon and Ferdinand Las
sale discussed volubly. Their works have
been translated into little pamphlets and
read to the illiterate by the occasional
scholar who carries a few thousand idea
graphs in his brain.
Japan has come so far" they all say;
why will ii not be well to go the entire
route or at least SO far as the ideal state?''
Poor. hungry. bedraggled dreamers. But
they are not alone. for the Japanese of all
ranks outside of the bourgeoisie and the
great mobiles are asking the same thing
With eminent practically they ask: Why
Is 1t not as easy to get a government that
represents the best conception of man as
to worry along with a makeshift that is
manifestly imperfect?
Before Japan lies the sinister shadow of
an Irresistible conflict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
OLD WAxWoRKs SHOW.
Removal of Nine. Tussaud's Establish
ment Celebrated.

From the London News.
Tomorrow it will be just a hundred years
since old Nine. Tussard brought from Paris
and set up in the Strand her waxworks
show, the world-renowned outcome OF
which, the great exhibition in the Maryle-
bone road is now managed by her great
grandson, Mr.. John T. Tussaud. The event
is to be celebrated by banquet to her
memory.
Nine. Tussaud was already famous in
Paris before she came to England. 1t was
with two of her waxen reproductions,
seized by the people for a parade through
the streets of Paris, that the French revo-
luton was started. The soldiery attacked
the figures. Two days later followed the
memorable storming of the BastilIe. Model
Ing wax had been the fashionable craze OF
the court and the rich. 1t was caught from
a physician of Berne, named Curtius, who
turned to fine art his remarkable skill in
modelling anatomical specimens, and was
invited to Paris by the Prince de Cont.
Nine. Tussaud, nee Marie GreShOltZ, the
child of soldier, was his niece and adopt
ed daughter. first his pupil, and finally his
master. There were few personages whose
names are famous now in connection with
the revolution who did not 'sit" to the
young artist in wax. The heads of some
she had to model after the guillotine had
been employed upon them. She gave les
sons in the art to the kings sister, Nine
Elizabeth among other illustrous persons,
and was imprisoned with Josephine de
Beauharnais. afterward empress Even in
those early days NJ Curtius had Cham
Der of Horrors"
But after the revolution Nine. Tussaud
left France forever. Nor did she at first
find times in this country much more pro-
pitious. After trying the Strand, she moved
to Blackheath. then a popular resort; but
at last had to go on tour from town to
town. 1t was not till 1885 that she was
able to settle permanently in London. and
that was largely due to the success of her
model of the popular singer. Nine. Marie
Malibran. who died suddenly at the Bir-
mingham musical festival in 1896. Nine
Tussaud died in 1850, at the age OF
ninety years. Both the old quarters in
Baker street and the present palatial home
of the exhibition have been visited by many
royalties. who have there admired their
own models and those of their ancestors
and some have made the amusing mistake
which many ordinary mortals make of
imagining some of the lifelike figures to be
real.
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SUPPLEMENTAL SEWER
NEW DRAINAGE SYSTEM ALONG
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
Portable Engine, Derrick and a Pile Of
Earth the Only Visible
Objects.

An important improvement now being ac-
complished for the benefit of the city of
Washington. one that is literally burrowing
its way, is the supplemental lowlevel sewer
for the drainage of that section of the city
adjacent to Pennsylvania avenue from the
treasury to the Capitol. 1t is an interest
ing bit of work, yet it escapes the attention
of the great majority of citizens for there
is but little of the development to be seen
above the surface of the ground. There is
only pile of earth, a portable engine and
derrick mounted on a railway and a small
tool house on the surface to indicate the
point Of the sewers progress underground.
The derrick is located at the mouth Of
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shaft sunk to depth of twenty-five feet.
from the bottom of which the excavation
for the sewer branches off in the form Of
tunnel six feet in diameter.
The excavation has been pushed as far
as the Peace monument, shaft having
been dug at the northeast corner of the in
closure of the Botanical garden. The STRAIT
um at this point is a loose gravel. through
which water rapidly percolates and floods
the hole to a considerable depth, notwith-
standing the fact that a powerful steam
ejector is constantly removing it. This re-
quires all the workmen to wear high and
heavy gum boots. pair of which the re-
porter-photographer donned while visiting
the underground thOroughfare.
most unique mode of tunnel excavation
has been introduced in this work which Is
familiar in most of the larger eastern cities.
but is now used for the first time in WASH
ington- 1t involves the use of powerful
circular steel shield, with diameter equal
to that which 1t is desired the tunnel should
have This circular frame. open at both
ends, is equipped with six hydraulic jacks,
which are used to force 1t forward as work
men remove the earth from in front OF IT,
A sleeve extends backward from the shield
several feet. and when the latter has been
moved forward as far as possible the lag
ging, temporary wooden lining Tor the
tunnel. is placed in the sleeve and fastened
in place 1t Is against this wooden lining.
which has a thickness of five inches, that
the hydraulic jacks of the shield operate.
Record Made for Rapidly.
Mr. John Harmon, who is in charge Oh
this work, made a record for fast tunnel
boring with a force of men. using one OF
these machines. in the city of Providence in
1902 1t was found necessary to hurry the
work he was then engaged on. and during
one day they carried their tunnel a distance
of twenty-one feet The work here Is pro-
crossing at the rate of about ten feet per
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Robbers Make Use of This Herb.
From the Boston Globe

FrOm the BOStUn GIODe.
In New Caledonia there is said to be an
herb which has the rare property Of re-
vealing ones secrets. It is known as the
datum stramonfum, and has white flowers
and rough berries. full Of dark grains.
They are treated Of in the current number
of Annals of Hygiene and Colonial Medi-
cine A person who has swallowed the tea
made OF this herb will after falling asleep
tell where his money is hidden, and will
also arise and go direct to where his treas
ure is concealed Robbers often use this
tea as knockout drops with which to rob
their victims.
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Towne-'T understand Melba was engaged
to appear at a swell musicale recently and
she got 81. 900 for only one song"
Browne-"Ah! / think l understand now
what my wife meant when she said she got
that last bonnet OF hers for mere song
Philadelphia Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Thousands OF situations have been OBJ
tanned through the want columns OF The
Star.