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Year: 1873

THE military orders to drive the miners from the San Juan country have been revoked and the miners are now focking there with renewed hope and vigor from all directions. We hope the day has passed when the whim and caprice of savages and the malignant prejudice of fanatics will be considered and approved against common sense and justice. Heretofore miners, farmers and stock raisers have been ordered around and even compelled to leave their homes without the least benefit to the Indian or any one else, and if a protest was made, the reply came that the ruff tianly frontiersman desired to rob the poor Indians, and that settled the question. The whole upper Gila was this year included in the White Noun tain reservation; the Indians never occupied it nor ever will. Through the efforts of Delegate Mccormick and the protest Ot our last Legislature the matter has been taken under ad- visement and we believe 1t will be exempted from the reservation, but it hangs still over 1t like a cloud and prevents immigrants from going there and discourages those who are there from making permanent improve ments. In this matter there should not be any delay It is question of the greatest Importance to those who are settled there, because all they

 have IS invested, and the Government

 has been fully advised by disinter-

 ested parties, from General Crook down, that it was not needed for the

 use of the Indians and 1t was a great

 wrong and hardship to the settlers to take 1t from them.
Year: 1873

WE have found since our last issue

 that our report relative to the murder

 of Lieut.. Amy, was incorrect in sev-

 eral particulars. We obtained the 1n-

 formation from a Mexican who

 brought the dispatches here from

 Grant, and have no doubt that he in-

 tended to tell the facts, but his excite

 ment and giving the information in

 Spanish, and filling up gaps that he

 did not understand with his own iml

 agination, caused quite a deviation

 from the truth. The facts as subsk-

 ouently related to us by an eye wit

 ness are these: The Apaches b e-

 came angry with their agent, Major

 Larrabee, and attempted to kill him

 with spears. He ran from them Ito

 the quarters of Lieut.. Amy, who i h.

 mediately took six men and we ht

 with him to the agency. The Lietl- tenant with Larrabee entered the lat- ters tent leaving his men on the ouAk

 side; presently he and Larrabee cama out at the door of the tent, Amy be- ing ahead; just as they came out the Apaches fired at them three balls hit Amy, killing him instantly. Four of the soldiers ran at the first fire j; one of the two that remained leveled his gun to shoot at the Apaches, bud was prevented by Conception. About forty shots were fired by the ApachesI but no shot was returned on our sid4 and consequently no Apache wal killed as at first reported. Our informt ant states that Eskimenzin with his band had left the reserve some day$ previous to this killing, having bel come angry about something, but a$ to the number that left after this af1 fair, he was not informed, but at thd time of his departure, about half an hour after Amy was murdered, only a portion had left. It is our custom to publish nothing relative to Indian until we have the most ample reason to believe the reports are true, but even with all this cau- tion, mistakes and erroneous state ments will creep in. In the present instance the action and treachery of the Apaches were far worse than we at first reported, because they sought tO ia lze the life Of tkair q Onnt who was constructing ditch for their benefit entirely by citizen labor, that will cost at least $2O,0OO, and who in his zeal and lack of knowledge of their treachery and cunning is re- ported to have placed the most inn plicit confidence in every thing they told him, and who in good faith was trying to treat them as though they were Fenimore Cooper Indians in stead of treacherous savages, as they are.
Year: 1873

THE latest information from the

 Rio Grande shows that Col. Mckenzie

 left Fort Clark for the purpose of

 chastising the Kickapoo and Lipan

 Indians who have made Mexico a

 cover for years to depredate on the

 frontier of Texas, and that he fol-

 lowed them sixty miles from the

 border into Mexico and killed nineteen and wounded uwenty-nine. That he

 did just right no fair man can deny.

 Self-preservation is the first law of nature and if friendly and neighbor- ing government harbors within its

 borders theives and murderers and is powerless or refuses to restrain them from depredating upon a friendly nation, then the law of self-preserva- tion rises above all other laws and would warrant Col. Mckenzie or any other officer in following them even to the halls of Montezuma. With one voice the American people will sustain and if need be fight for this proposition. But at the same time it is equally necessary that we should be just and exact no more from our neighbors because they are weak than we are willing to give ourselves; and we must not forget that according to the declaration of the commissioner of Indian affairs treaty has been made with Indians on American soil and a reservation has been set apart for said Indians bordering on the Terri tory of Mexico and not stipulation was made in that treaty to prevent said Indians from depredating on Mexican soil. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that scarcely day passes that 8 wall does not come up from that unfortunate country, for the murder of men, women and chil- dren and the loss of property by savages said to come from and go to the reservations upon Amer1can soil. Now while 1t is the duty of our gov ernment to protect her own citizens from outlaws of every kind along the border, it is equally its duty to see that outlaws are not harbored upon our own soil to do unto our neigh bors the very acts that we complain of. The nearer nation or an individual follows the golden rule the stronger and more powerful either becomes. We of Arizona have had an unwritten understanding with Sonora for years past and until the Chiricahua Reser- vation was made, that our troops were at liberty to follow Apaches across the line and into Sonora as far as they pleased, and the same privileges were granted to Mexican troops; and 1t has often been done by the forces of either government and frequently they have made common cause and fought side by side. We mention this fact to show that Col Mckenzie has done no more than has been done along and near the Arizona border by and with the consent of the people of Mexico.
Year: 1873

EIGHT Apaches crossed the road about a mile beyond San Xavier on Monday evening going south. Their appearance made quite stir among stock men. The Papagoes brought in their horses, and several trains of mules have been closely guarded since. That they are out in search of plunder there is not doubt; just where they will strike is not yet known but prob ably they will levy contribution this time on our neighbors in Sonora over about Altar. Nice enterprising boys these Apaches in the language of Cachise, "they are only going to get a horse or two a piece, and a little fresh hair from about the sum- init of the head of some one.
Year: 1873

Our volcanoes are quite aetive at the present
time The summit crater OF Mauna Loa ana the
lateral crater OF Mauna Kea are both sending forth
lava in abundance. The sight obtained ~ eitner
crater is said to be most grand and well worthy
visit


THE KING C0NvALESCING.


"bulletin,r issued this morning. states thnt the
King is much improved in health. The A0uerttSe
calls upon the Ministers to give the country the
guarantee OF safety and independence tnat tue
settement of the succession to the throne alone
can ri
Year: 1873

SAVED BY sAw.-Daniel Ferner, carpenter,
WNvorking on the new bCtdng Of Joseph s. Evans


West Chester, was saved from fearful fall on
wednesday, by his saw. While on the EDGE Of
the scafiolding saving plank, his saw caught.
when he lost his balance and would have p0ne
over falling TO the ground q distance of three
stories, but for the fact the end Of the saw stuck
was restored and he saved
Year: 1873

CORRECTION Through a mistake of the Sec
retary, the annual meeting Of the Delaware State
Medical SOciety has been announced to take
place on the Second Tuesday In May. Tue meet
Ing will not be held until the second Tuesday in
,lune
Year: 1873

THEY say that the chief astronomer at
the Washington Observatory was dread
fully sold few days ago. A wicked boy,
whose Sunday School eXper fence seems
only to have made him more depraved,
caught FREELY, and stuck it, with the aid
of some mucilage, in the center of the
largest lens in the telescope. That night,
when the astronomer went to work, he
perceived a blaze of light apparently in
the heavens, and what amazed him more
was that it would give a couple of spurts
and then die out, only to burst forth again
in a second or two. He examined it
carefully for few moments, and then be-
gan to do sums to discover where in the
heavens thateXtraordinary star was placed
He thought he found the locality, and the
next morning he telegraphed all over the
universe that he had discovered a new
and remarkable star of the third magni-
tude in Orion. In day or two all the as
tronomers in Europe and America were
studying Orion, and they gazed at it for
hours until they were mad, and then they
began to telegraph to the man in Wash
ington to know what he meant. The dis
cOverer took another look, and found that
the new star had moved about 1S,000,0 ,000,-
600 miles in twenty-four hours, and upon
examining closely he was alarmed to per-
ceive that it had legs! When he went on
the dome the next morning, to polish up
his glass, he found the lightning bug
People down at Alexandria, seven miles
distant, heard part of the swearing, and
they say he infused into it much whole
souled sincerity and vigorous energy.
The bills for telegraphic dispatches
amounted to $4,000, and now the astrono-
mer wants to find that boy. He wishes
to consult with him about something
M0r AdLer
Year: 1873

THE Davenport Qowa) Gazette vouches
for the absolute truth of the following,
though for obvious reasons all names
are suppressed:


One of the leading citizens of North
Davenport had an only daughter, who
was betrothed to a young man of fair
promise, clerk in leading commercial
house at Dubuque. His visits to the city
were regular, and arrangements had been
made for an immediate union, when the
bride-elect was stricken down with ty-
phoid fever, and, in spite of all that skill
and care could do, died. The Gazette re-
porter says: "We saw her in the coffin,
dressed for the bridal of death, not for the
consummation of all earthly love. We
witnessed the agony Of her lover as he
bent in speechless, fearless abstraction
over the satin-lined burial-case."


After the melancholy journey to Oak
dale, the young man returned to Dubuque
Nervous fever set in, and peculiar hallu-
cination seized him that his lost one was
present in the room draped in the same
garb which had enveloped her clay. All
remonstrance was in vain. He minutely
described her dress, her appearance and
her position in his chamber Even when
his parents or friends. would sit or stand
where he declared her to be he saw her
glide away and take another place. This
went on for weeks, and the patient was
gradually sinking under the physical and
nervous excitement, when friendly ruse
was tried to cure him of his ecstacy.


Coming to Davenport, his mother found
that the funeral garments were purchased
of G. & NJ, and made by Mrs. B. She
procured the material, had it made up in
fac-s5male, and, returning, young lady as
near in height and appearance as could be
found was dressed to resemble his de-
ceased love, and during one of his fevered
and brief slumbers was introduced into
the room, taking her seat in shaded cor
ner.


His awakening was anxiously watched,
and sanguine hopes of removing his hal
lucination were indulged in He woke at
length, and, turning his eyes in the direc-
ton of the pious fraud, stared with fixed
eyeballs for few seconds, then raising
himself almost upright in his bed, flung
his arms aloft, and shrieking irf an un-
earthly voice: "My God, there are too Of
them" fell back and expired.
Year: 1873

I want to give simple remedy for a
felon. Burn copperas on shovel until
it is soft and can be made fine. Then mix
small quantity of it with enough of the
yolk of an egg to make a plaster Only
mix enough at once for one plaster, as it
soon becomes hard. Put a new one on
whenever it gets stiff, and the felon will
soon come to an end. So many people
suffer SO long with felons, l think any
thing that will help shorten their career
ought to be knoWn.-Cor Western Rural.
Year: 1873

1t is easier to be good business man
than a poor one. Half the energy dis
played in keeping ahead that is required
to catch up when behind will save
credit, give more time to business, and
add to the profit and reputation of your
work,
Year: 1873

AN apple tree in Blackstone, Mass, at
tracts much local attention from the fact
that two good-sized apples, touching each
other, have grown directly from the
trunk, few feet above the ground, and
so close to the bark that it is dlEcult to
distinguish any stem.
Year: 1873

An Indiana editor lays down


his shears for a few minutes to


write a doubleleaded editorial.


in which he plaintively remarks:


1--WE are the recipient of half a


peck of nice onions, two water


melons, and a bottle of ginger


beer from one of our subscribers.
The gifts were like the shadow
of a rock in a weary land. We
are glad some one remembered
us in the midst of our labors
and cares, and evinced that re-
membrancc in so delicate a man.
ner. We dotc on onions and
love melons dearly; and so long
as the fragrance of the former
and the grlpes of the latter lin.
ger about us, we shall hold the
kind donor in affectionate re-
membrance. Of ginger beer we
have never been able to speak
enthusiastically, but may say
that our children enjoyed it
greatly, while the empty bottle
added not a little to the effective
force Of our Office armory.
These little acts inspire us to
renewed exertions, but our
subscription price will remain
he same"
Year: 1873

Here is anew outbutst of the


Western salutatory mania :


with our publication we want
to please everybody, but never
having acquired the knack Of
placing each persons ADVERTISE
ment at the head of the column,
we don't expect to. We don't
mean to be very "touching' in
our personal remarks, but, if as =
reform educator, or anything of
the kind, we displease any par.
ties, it may be well for them to
consider the fact, before taking
means of summary vengeance in
their hands, that our weight is
always over one hundred and
fifty pounds, and that in the many
leisure moments we have had
the pleasure of entertaining in
our earlier career, we went heavy
into the practice of hosting two
hundred pounds anvils over our
head, holding bags of -four at
arms length, and other feats for
muscular development. This is
not told as a dampener to any of
the pugilistic spirits of this COM
munity, but to let people know
that we are independent aud
fearless"
Year: 1873

ITS sign ofstorm-to tread
on anybody's toe that has corn :;
you waken the baby on wash
day to call a baby ugly in the
presence of its mother /; to spit
on the parlor carpet when your
wife sees it ; to speak i'll Of your
wife relations,
Year: 1873

tOrilY attained OF course opinions vary very widely
as to the future course Of gold though we think the
prevailing idea is that the powerful clique who have
for weeks controlled the gold market have the
power to advance the price when IL shall seem
good to them to do SO. Whether this view
of the case be correct or not the fact that
for some time past gold has been shipped
abroad for ordinary business purpose az
well perhaps as for purposes which were not ordi-
nary together with the mystery with which the Sec
retary manages TO surround the question Of the
amount of gold held by the Government. tends to
cause nervous feeling the part of those who re-
luire coin for legitimate purposes. And the fact
that merchants continue the practice of borrowing
instead of buying gold for their immediate neces-
sites is a subject of remark among men of conserv
atiye tendencies. They argue that only such mer-
chants as have on hand large stocks Of
imported goods can afford 90 another
Black Friday and yet the borrowing of gold on


heiTpa creates the most neccSstOu short interest
and one that is the most easily alarmed in time Of
panic. Again. if the calculations Of those statis-
ticians who have considered the question of Treas
ury gold be correct then the Government is not in
condition to render much material aid in case of an
emergency. The rate OF discount of the Bank Of
England was reduced to per cent at the weekly
meeting of the directors this morning. The Bank
gained in bullion for the week ESJ46O7. The rate
of discount in the open market is ! per cent
below the quotations. at bank, while money
at the Stock Exchange on Government securities is
reported per cent below. These influences had
Oppressive effect on the gold speculation here and
the declined from Js to 1l5s, with little more
activity. There was q recovery to 49,. the late
dealings being at 115}Gll5s. The Treasury sale Of
S1OO0OCO gold to-day netted 1875 TO 1851; bids
were made for nearly three times that amount, at
1861 to 1551. On gold loans the rates 3, p,
and per cent for carrying. The Assistant Treasurer
dlsbursed $1,000 in redemption Of $40 bonds and
Sls5OOO on account of interest The days business
at the Gold Exchange Bank was as follows: Gold
cleared, SOL $4,000; goL balances S1,5I765O; cur
rency balances, Sl.796,7O7. The following were the
nnntatin-
Year: 1873

The Herald copies portion Of one OF our
editorials, on a Constitutional Convention, OF
last week. and says II does not represent the
views O, the people OF the County. We say it
does represent the sentiments of nine -tentlls
Of our people. The Herald represents no one
ON this side OF the river, and five should
Judge of its cfIa,ts in srousing the people OF
Sebastian on the question Of Constitutional
Convention. no one on that side They have
had the call, at their masthead. the Reform
Central Committee. for month urging the
people to assemble at once and demand a Con
stitutional Convention, but rs yetHot ripple
has crossed the peaceful bosom Of Sebastian
County, notwithstanding the continued
"howlngs Of the hungry pack who wait for
the crumbs TO be swept from Governor
Brooks Kitchen


The Herald intin,ates that the writer OF the
article was an aspirant for office. This is not
SO In any respect. The writer never was II
candidate for Office, nor has he had any as
pirations for one. lie Is not like the Herald
outfit, always waiting for something in the
shape OF an Office ta "turn up" We know
your itchings for fat things and would grab
at a bone from Baxter's table, just as soon as
most any other hungry fellow. Your holy
herror Of such things don't 90 down where
you are so well known. We thought at the
time 1t was a mistake In Baxter. giving the
Independent a bone" instead Of the Herald,
as it Is twice as hungry and could howl much
lsuder. Hold up little. IL there IL a"bone F"
in the kitchen you shall have it,
Year: 1873

The Importance of the new organization,
considered as an element In our political sys-


TEN. can hardly be over-rated. BY political,


we do not mean to use the word In its medern


party sense rs synonymous with partisan, but
In its legitimate meaning. as the science of
government. The Farmers association pro-


poses to ignore all politics in the modern and


popular sense Of the woodland to conhne it.
operations to the promotion OF the welfare OF
the community. Ifstr;ctly confined within


the sphere of action, great good will flow


from IT, II rs is feared, the members permit
old hacks to enter the portals Of the lodges,
they may soon find themselves ut the mercy
of these venerable schemers. without know
ing how this disastrous result was accom-
pished The railroad combinations now be-
ing rapily affected, are, In our humble opin-
ion. tho arch enemy to free government by
the people. The tendency is to Capitalization
of power and we have already seen enough
to convince any thinking man, that this gov
ernlnent will soon be absolutely under the
control of these immense monied monopolies.
II this new organization of the people can
succeed IN DrtahlHS Tue rceptcI VI thc h"h


road King, 1t will have accomplished vast
good for the future of our government. In
order to do this, they must first honestly and
sincerely ignore old political parties and par
ty lines The Railroad monopoles have been
built up to their present huge proportions
by means Of the Republican party. The party
whip has been assiduously applied to all who
would dare to speak for the people against
the monopoles. The Railroad interests have
been carefully allied with party issues and
by their means have succeeded In becoming
masters of the political and financial siflla-
ton. Money Is the god before whose gllded
throne the people of our country are, alas !!
bowng with an Eastern devotion. Railroads
command the money, and credit mobiliers
are now common, not only in Washington.
but every state capital Discourage this
idolatry and break these false gods, and teach
the better lesson, that money Is not virtue
and people found cultivatinG taste for
money ale apt to neglect virtue-and without
national virtue and integrity in adhering to
the principles Of our Constitution and the
spirit Of true Repubicanism, we must soon
see uur sot ernmcnt a failure. '''
Year: 1873

An attempt was made to assassinate Gen.
Joe shelby. a somewhat noted rebel general
during the war aud cousin Of Gen. Frank i.
Blair, Wednesday evening. while the general
with his two little boys were driving from his
residence to Aulvile. On the evening men,
toned some unknown party fired into the ear.
riage from the bushes and wounded the gem
erul In tho hin,
Year: 1873

Att meeting Of the Board of School Diree-
tors for the District of Van Burcn, the fol-
lowing action was had:


WHEREAS, The County Treasurer having
furnished to this Board statement OF the
amount Of the special school tax paid into the
Treasury BY the County Collector, amounting
to S20I3 60 in Currency and sllSSSo IN state
Scrip, this Board Is OF the opinion that the
County Collector has fallen into an error as 10
the proportion of Currency to Scrip collected
believing so large a proportion OF the taN'
(being over one-third) could not have been
collected before the decision of the supreme
Court was rendered making the special school
tax payable in Currency.


In order to avoid doing injustice to the Col
lector on the one hand and to satisfy those
taxpayers of the District who believe Il
wrong has been done, on the other. dH tax
PAYERS living within the bounds of this Dis
triet are requested to bring their tax receipts
to the Office of the Secretary OF the Board IN
order that the date of payment and amount
of Special School Tax paid may be obtained


l.. G. WHITE, President.


CHAs. +. HARVEY, Secretary.
Year: 1873

Many of the national banks Of the country had
been in the habit OF sending mutilated notes for
redemption TO the First National Bank Of WASH
ington, that institution acting their agent for
the purpose. This gave il the continuous use Of
from 100000 to $7C1,000 some Of which was
loaned out at eight per cent. interest and the re-
mainder used in current business. Since tbs sus-
pension numerous packages Of mutilated currency
have been received by the express company,
which, not knowing what TO do with them. has
been informed, in response TO an inquiry Of the
Comptroller of the Currency, that the better way
would be to ask the owners of the currency what
disposition shall be made Of it, as the bank in its
present condition, would not act in the premises
The express company, Therefore, awaits telegraphic
responses from tie parties directly interested.