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Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
Arizona CattIemen
 At Stock Association

E. B. Moore of the Sulphur Springs Cattle Co. and W. H. Neel of the Isham & Neel 4-Bsr ranch, have gone to Denver to attend the annual con- vention of the National Live Stock Association which will meet in Den- yer today and continue during the week. Both Neel and Moore are mem bers of this association, which has a large membership in Arizona. It is the expectation that some eight or ten stockmen from this county will attend the convention, among them being A. A. Packard, J. J. Riggs and J. V. Vickers. One of the features of the convention will be ,the national live stock show, which will be held in Denver next week
 It is expected that as many as fifty members from Arizona will attend this convention.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
Leap Year Dance
 February 14th

The Leap Year dance to be given by the ladies of Tombstone Is assum- ing shape and its success is now as- cured. A dark corner in the hall will be arranged for couples who wish to propose, or rather we should say, that A fortune telling booth will be arrang- ed and the fortune will start like this: the lady breaking the silence with. "If you marry me you will live long and happy life, etc." It is nos asserted by some of the bachelors that February l4-St. Valintine's Day was selected because of the supposed "mushy sentiment" that is prevalent on that date. However, it is q most appropriate date, the kicking bachelors to the contrary, not withstsnding.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
What Ails You?

Do you feel weak. tired, despondent have frequent headaches, coated tongue, bitter or bad taste in morning, heart burn" belching Of gas, acid rislngs in throat after eating, stomach gnaw or burn, foul breath, dizzy spells. poor or variable appetite, nausea at times and kindred symptoms?
 yoO-ssve any considerable number of tbs>above sraptoms you are suffering from SilioasnSs Ns{pid liver with indi- gestIon,sr,ssspep pI. Piercs.s Golden Medical Q.sooye-x is made gp of lhe most valus ble nedlcIQal principles known 70 medica scLenee Tor the pelUaaent cure oi slch abnormal co.dItloDs. It Is most efficient liver invigorator. stomach tonic, bowel regulator and nerve strengthener.
 The Golden Medical Discovery is not A uatept medicine or secret nostrum, fulI list of its ingredients being printed on its bottlewrapper and attested under oath. A glance at its formula will show that 1t contains no alcohol, or harmful bablt-forming drugs. It is fluid extract made with pure, triple-rehned giycerine, Q, proper strength, from the roots Of the following native American forest plants, viz Golden Seal root, Stone root, Black Cherrybark. Queens root, Bloodroot, and Mandrake root
 The following leading medical authorities. .raoug . host of others. eNtOi the foregoing ro.ots for the cure of just such ailments as the .hove syrnptoms indicate: Prof K Barthqlow. E D Of Jefferson Med College Phila PrQk H e Wood A D.. of niv.of Pa PrOt kd~ln Hale N b. of Hshnemann Med. College: CoIcago; Prof John King, M: D. Author of Smerican Dispensatory: Pro, yno M sud esI' M D-, Author of specihc kedicines; Prof f.arence Johnson. M- D.. Med Dept Cniy of kYs Pho, Finley EIlingwood. M. D.. Author o, N.tsria Medics and Prof in Bennett Meoi- e.i College. Chicago Send name and sa- Srs.s on Postal Card to Dr. R V. Pierce. Buf- S.io N Y and receive ire booklet swing s,fr,cts from writings of all the above medl- esi .utbors and many others endorsing. ID tht .,-a-gesf r,Dssible terms each and every ln- sS-.dient of which sGolden Medical Discov- Y Pter-e,s Pleasant Pellets regulate and ,,vizorate stomach liver and bowels Iney - be u.ed tn conjunction with "poloen EeS,c.I Dfsroyery f bowels are much con sin.ted Tbsy'rs tiny and susar-costeo
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
And Still They
 Continue to Disagree

Two more divorce cases were filed during the past days. Sarah J. Will Hams of Douglas wants a decree of divorce from D. A Williams. The couple have considerable community property consisting of the Grove saloon in Douglas, valued at 10000; property in Port Arthur and Beau mont, Texas, valued at s2e, 900, besides considerable each in the banks of Douglas and mining stock and mining property in Mexico. They were mar. ried in Tombstone in August, 1905.
 Myrtle E. Biting of Bisbee petitions the court for a separation from Martin Biting. They have one child. a little girl, of the age of four, which the plaintiff asks for with the de- cree
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
Files Suit For
 $15,OOO Damages

Alleging that he has been crippled for life by injuries sustained from an accident, while working for the Denn- Arizona Mining Co.,, Rex M. Mac Evan has filed an action in the district court for damages in the sum of sl5 ,Oe0 and costs of suit.
 The complaint alleges that plaintiff stepped on the cage at the mine and was suddenly dropped on the "chsirs" of the ll00-foot level with such force that he sustained 6 broken knee cap and left him incspacitated for wcrk, where free knee action is required. E. J. Flsnigan is attorney for the plaintiff.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

A report comes from Benson that sn investigation is being made of the A A. McGinnis suicide. several friends believing the same to have been scci- dental or otherwise. The bullet wound in the head is said to have entered on the left side, back of the ear, and came out on the right side. The circum- stance has given rise to much discus sion, and a thorough examination is to be made.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
Establishing
 Soup Houses

Following the example of Los An- geles, where there have been estab- lished three soup houses to feed lO,OlD idle men, the ladies of the Christian Temperance Union of Fl Pass have decided to establish a soup house in that city to feed the hungry. A committee of ladies waited upon the city council and asked for financial aid and were allowed $50 per month for ,!.ree months from the city, and many other donations have been re. ceiyed.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
Chas. A. Wallace
 Gets inc Position

Chas. 4. Wallace, formerly under sheriff of this courty. during the ad- ministration Stewart Hunt. has been appointed assistant license clerk of the city of Los Angeles. The appoint ment was gwen to MT. Wallace as Q result of A civil service examination in which several applicants were en- tered. Mir Wallace ranked first in the examinations and was given the place.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

It has just been discovered that within the past year John D. Rockefeller has contrib uted to the relief of 2000 of the lowly poor of New York. This much, at least, ought to be deducted from the big fine,
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

American girls have in vested S9OO,OOO,O00 in for eign titled husbands. The re- turn flow of gold is compara' tive small. Why not take a hint from the Bank of Eng land and mark up the girls 7 per cent.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

James R. keene is report ed to have won S3OO,0O0 on the turf. For the benefit of the boys who are anxious to pick winners it should be add ed that Keene didn't win the money betting on other mems ponies
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

It took S65, ,000,O00in clear. ing house certificates to meet the demand for currency throughout the country dur ing the late furry,
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

Ii those Moors are so hard to subdue, armed with obsO- lete guns, what will they be when civilization steps in and provides them with modern shooting irons?
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

The language of Britain is susceptible of infinite shades of meaning. For instance, that which is a Trace war in San Francisco is a disturb ance" in Vancouver.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

By turning on the light President Roosevelt undoubt- edly"i intended to make some of the big corporations turn off the water
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

King Edward was terribly shocked at some of the sing ing that he heard when he re gently visited a music hall. Edward has become one of the worlds incest and most lovable old gentlemen.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

Tucson has rifle team of four that extends a challenge to the territory. They will shoot for money or the ter ritorial championship.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

The Tucson chamber of commerce has just issued a handsome little booklet descriptive of that city. which is . very creditable piece Of work.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26
\ Master Shop Mechanic.

Master Mechanic of several large factories in the East desires position as mill wright. Would prefer position in south central Arizona.
 LAWRENCE W. BAKE, Gen. Delivery. Bisbee, Arizona. j5m
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-01-26

NNSh,iJ, vdlucs iidilii- ton Lewis, better known as Jim Ham," delivered him. self of some disagreeable re- marks on the subject of a woman witness. Mir. Lewis remarked, among ot h e things, that "an oath means nothing to a woman, and, as Horace Greedy has truthfully | expressed it, When a woman starts out to perjure herself, all hel! cannot keep her rel cord" It's a good thing wo- men cannot vote in Illinois, a good thing for Jim Ham," Still, We should be able to get some consolation out of the recollection that whenever our navy has been tried in battle the other fellow has come of second best. This is a rule
 that is absolutely without ex- ception, as far as important
 engagements are concerned.
 Our fighting ships may be
 death trars but they are death
 traps for the other fellow when
 he tries to investigate them.
 Some wit has it that the genius for accumulating taint- ed money is not so strong in
 the feminine descendants Of
 rich men as the genius for
 accommodating tainted titles. 5 Mexican laborers have de- $ veloped marked hostility to- ward the Japanese immi- l grants. The whole eastern = shore of the Pacific is being
 made too hot for them.
 Mayor Tom Johnson's new d grand daughter will bear the n name of Signora Frederico = Mariani. That's rather g 't highfalutin name to have in :. the family, but Mayor Tom o doubtless will be able to square }, it up with the plain people
 NJ. Metchnioft, the scient,
 ist, says people who want tc
 live long should drink milk
 and refrain from worrying . And yet, after all we have reat about milk, it is difficult t . see how anyone can drink i
 and not worry.
 There is being an awfu r. row stirred up about protect. et ing the composers from tn y music machine makers bu r. not a word about protectin.
 the public from them.
 Admiral Brownson mus |, feel pretty bad to find that hi 2, resignation was childish n disloyal and reprehensible, T T when he only meant it to b. d accommodating.
 'i "It costs money to be bad r. Greene and Gaynor hay, | spent a large fortune in keep 2 ing out of jail," says the Bal a timore Sun. And it wa, '. money worse than throwI a q away at that.
 T F. Augustus Heinze hai 7, found that the apex theory t will not work in Wall street e San Francisco builders re. s port that there are great pos
 abilities in concrete as sub : stitute for lumber. Between :. concrete and scientific for ? ? estry few trees may yet bt 1. saved for the benefit of pos 4 terity.
 ! Harry Thaw must be sorry E that his second trial is mol 1: coming of in Virginia, wher,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-28

Long Reach and Sea Reach make up
the remaining one hundred miles 10
Cape Pillar and the Pacific. In this
western section OF the strait are raj
most constant gales from the heart
of the Pacific. AS one captain who
knows the. place put 1t. There isn't
anything to stop the winds from New
Zealand, and they seem to roll up in
force. Ike a SNOWFALL, by the time
they get to the western entrance and
whoop' down the reaches"
But with all the inhospitality OF the
passage. It's rugged beauty has not
gone unpralsed. DIR. Darwin. in his
record of the Beagie's journey, re.
ferred tosthe many great glaciers as
being "like, a hundred frozen Niaga-
ras., Other travellers have describ.
cd Cape Froward as one OF the great.
est headlands In the world, like
Glbraltarswlth a thousand feet added
TO Its height" Cape Virgins has
touched responsive feeling In Eng.
lfshmen because the precipItious
shores that flank 1t are, white and re.
semble the cliffs of Dover.
or the regularly navigated passages
Of the Strait of Magellan that called
Smyth Channel, the route OF the Eng.
lish steamers, Is the best known and
has the most beautiful scenery. The
passage OF Smyth Chanel calls for
careful navigating, hut is by no means
SO desperate an undertaking as might
be inferred from an account of It re-
Gently published.
When passing what is known as
the English Narrows," this story goes,
the danger Is so great that every
passenger is required to lie on deck,
with life preseryer adjusted and pre-
pared to step into a llfeboat at a Civ
en- signal All lifeboats are prepared,
the sails made ready and everything
In order for a moments notice. 1t is
usually 8 o'clock in the morning
when the passage Is made, and the
impressiyenessa of. the sight may be
imagined; not word is spoken during
the critical moment. Every officer
of the ship is at his post, complete
silence reigns and the anxiety on the
faces of, the passengers Is an inter.
esting psychological study for half
an hour. most ofsthem appearing to
have. an Intense, interpretive expires.
stont as II praying inwardIy. The
Narrows passed. all begin to talk at
once, and then the breakfast bell
banishes the first effects of the mem.
orable' experience"
On. one trip which the writer made
through the English Narrows the life
boats we're being painted. and on an.
other most Of them we're full OF hen.
coors. He noticed an "introspective
expression as II praying inwardiy" on
the faces OF several .passengers. but
considered 1t was due to the nasty
cross swell which begins to cut in
at this point from the turbulent Gull
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-28
The Straits of Magellan
- AaTa iIta
NaAe

Admiral Evans, With his sixteen
batueships In his personally conduct
ed ocean-to-6ceans aightsaeing, peace
making trip. has been running only
one day behind his schedule, and ac.
cordingly shonids,.pIck tip's Cape SVir-
gins on January 81 says the New York
Tribune. This will he in reality. the
most niomento,is' point In the entire
journey, for this; barb Of barren land
is at the eastern, entrance of the
Strait Of Magellan, and IL trouble has
any favorite abiding place in all the
seven seas 1t Is right in these: same
deep narrow and storm racke1 wa
tiers.
A ship lost there is likely to.-sfis-
appear completely, with no survivors
to tell what happened. Only. since the
days OF capable steamships has the
strait been navigated with any degree
OF safety, and even Nowadays pilots
and nayigators OF the region fall once
In a while, I'd come back with their
charges Persons who look az things
through blue glasses. however, should
receive some comfort from the know
ledge that the batueship fleet will be
IN the strait during; the summer of
that latitude, and that at this season
the sun rises at about $3.50 q. m. and
docs not set until about $3.50 d. m.
There Is besides'an hour or more of
twilight. giving a day Of from fifteen
to seventeen hours. With the powet.
full searchlights, OF the fleet at work.
1t Is likely that this little known sec.
ton Of the world viii receive the
greatest illumination 1t has ever. OK.
perienced. m ,Ef5.
The entrance from The Atlantic
side ie twenty. miles wide, between
Cape Virgins on the mainland and
Cape Holy Ghost on the island Nof
TERRA del Ftiego. From here, the
course is land thirty-ftre miles west.
ward to Cape Possession, where be.
gin what are called the First Mar
rows. These are about two: miles
wide. with current OF from six to
eight knots. The, First Narrows are
ten miles long and open iipon. a vide
reach through which. as the shippers
say "a straight run" Ia made OF
TWENTY-FIVE miles to the entrance of
the Second Sarrows, which aresat,oiit
three miles wide and; fifteen miles
long. with q swift current. Next
comes Famine Reach of eighty miles
to Cape Froward, tfeSgery tipt6e Of
the continent. Here il a, bend, and
The trend of the strait achanges from
southwest to northwest Into the Pa.
cihc. West of Cape .F'roward lies the
stormiest and most fos-ridden part of
The strait. FroSard Reach, thirty
miles long. IS succeeded by the an.
proprlately nabled Crooked Reach,
where the channeIS Winds inwand out
among the sea.washed noufitains,
This twisting. nearly 1abyryinthine
passage IL afteen miles long. Then
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-28

thirty miles from the Second Mar.
rows the people OF this place are pre-
pairing to entertain the battleship
fleet. Accordingly. the jack tara may
be able to spin yarns, when they
reach San Francisco. of how they
Toasted on Famine Reach. Besides,
1t Ia about as interesting an outpost
of civilization as white men have es.
tablished anywhere.
1t Is the southernmost city in the
world. Like most of tho others in
that part OF the world. 1t successfully
bore the names. OF most of the saints
OF the calendar. until at last one John
Byron. an English navigator and the
grandfather of the poet came along
and called 1t Sandy Point" Inas.
much as the immediate surroundings
of the town are more suggestive of
sand than saints. the English name,
changed only to its Spanish equiya-
lent, Punta Arenas. has survived.
Punta Arenas lies about half way
between the Atlantic and the Paci-
fic, and the densely wooded hills sur
rounding the city do much to mitigate
the rigors OF what would otherwise be
very severe winters. by cutting off
the heavy winds that sweep up from
the Antarctic. The range of temper
ature Is not great. for while the Their
mometer does not often go great
deal below zero. Fahrenheit, In win
ter, in summer II rarely registers
above mean of forty. This gives the
city one of the mildest winter eli
mates, and one OF the coolest sum
mer climates, as we'll, Of any poin,
of similar latitude In either hemls-
phere. Although this month is prac.
tically midsummer south Of the equa.
tor. there Is little doubt that, after
experiencing the heat OF the tropics
the men of the feet will be doing a
del of shivering. even In heavy win
ter overcoats.
The geographical position of the
city makes It a natural coaling point
for most OF the West Coast steam.
ers. Two years ago the discovery OF
rich aurifcrous deposits in closely ad
jacent parts of TERRA del Fuego turn
ed II into one of the liveliest bonanza
mining camps of recent times. Expe
ditions were fitted out and sent thers
from almost every country OF South
America, while the South African
mining camps. then at low Obj OF
prosperity, contributed numerous
picturesque contingents. The rush
was. perhaps, the most cosmopolitan
in history. and the characteristic yo
latility Of the predominating Latin
element kept the excitement fast and
furious.
In the first days of the rush. IL was
knife aud revolver. revolver and
knife. UP one street and down another.
For fully two months every man wa
his own law, and the cutters fairly
ran with blood. shed in the fiercest
racial riots South America has ever
known.
The gradual realization by the ar
gonauts of the fact that the Tierra
del Fiegan Greek bottoms consisted
OK gravel mixed with gold instead OF
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GET ONE AND &ET BUSY.

OF Penas. but then the outward evi.
dences of heartsickness and seasick.
ness are much the same to care.
less observer.
With all precautions and the hard
earned knowledge of this link between
the oceans. the fangs OF the Magul.
haens are ty no means drawn. In
the current list of missing" at the
New York Maritime Exchange today
there are three supposed victims reg.
istered. The Adolf OBrig sailed from
New York on April 10 for San Fran.
tcisco. The ship Arthur Sewall was
towed out of Philadelphia on April
/ 3. with Seattle as her destination,
Neither has since been heard of. nor
has any one of the crews turned up.
Indeed the rate for reinsurance on
the Sewaii was advanced to 90 per
cent. on December 7. This almost
unprecedented advance Is n simple
businesslike way of writing "finis" to
the tale of vessel. Another presum.
able victim at the present time is
the British bark Sllberhorn, which
sailed from Newcastle, New South
Wales, on June IL last for Pisagua
Chill. She was to follow the south.
ern route across the Pacific and then
to make up the west coast of South
| America. 1t Is thought that she was
caught In the storms Off Cape Pillar
! and joined the hundreds of other craft
| that have gone down In the almost
! unfathomable channels off Terra de-
Fuego.
A search through the records oil
Lloyds reveals year after year the
same round of terse records. About
the only time that Punta Arenas fig
nres IN the news is when the mari
time journals print a fifty-word dis
patch from that place stating that
so many men have been rescued In
the strait or that traces have been
found OF floating wreckage from some
long lost vessel The stories of the
survivors are monotonously alike;
either they were picked up in an oper
boat or they were nearly starved Il
death on land before Chilah' light
house steamer or some other patro
vessel found them. So many are III,
wrecks that, instead of "the Land O.
Paris" Terra del Fuego might wei
be called "the Land of Missing
Ships"
It Is because of this danger thai
most sailing ships go around by wa,
of Cape Horn, which means an add
ton ITO, their journey of about one
thousand miles, more OF less, accord
ing to the course they lay; but this
lengthenipg OF the voyage is accept
ed In preference to the pcrils of tn,
strait. The storms off Cape Hbff
are. In the opinion Of many naylga
tors, the worst in the world. Bit of
the Horn a'ship has fighting chance
In the open sea which is denied hel
In tho narrow and tortuous winding.
from Cape Virgin to Cape Pillar.
Still, With all it's history OF hare
luck. starvation and missing ships
1.-THE strait has q thriving city OF near
3ly ten thousand inhabitants-Punt.
Arenas Despite the fact that 1t /.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-28

telegram: bad news. He says, Il
can't eat" His friends persuade
him. He eats hearty meal. In
two hours no Ia dead. 1t Ia true
story. know OF score OF such
canes.
And from all this what can wa
learn? We can learn this: that or all
the factors that affect good nutrition,
the most Important Ia eupeptlo think.
Ing, the most important is that we
keep our minds right. We must not
eat when We are hurried, excited, an.
gry. grieyed. anxious. worried or
shocked; for food at such times Will
do us only herm,-will perhaps send
Iiis With indecoroua promptitude to
that bourne from which no traveller
returns" Food taken under such
conditions will not digest; but Will
promptly begin 10 decompoao form.
Ing poisons that Will produce anyone
or more of numberless multitude OF
symptoms. ranging from simple head.
ache TO death from heart failure."--
w r. G. Latson. M. d.