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8 . v- L 4 : : . . . iat- 1 . . . .- - - . . . 1 VOLUME XVI. ST, JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY. ARIZONA TERRITORY, SATURDAY. AUG. 4, 1900. NUMBER 46 if 5 . sr.-. V I t I A. & B. SCHUSTER, GENERAL MEEGHMTi HOLBROOK, A. T. Carry Stock si Fall and Complete ot Ranch and General Supplies. ReTere prckasls: elsewhere get our Prices, f! M A M VI AMI Wli 411 All General Merchants, St. Johns & Springerville, Keep Only the Best Quality of Goods at LOWEST CASH PRICES: Dry Goods, trrocerics, E'VEE-YTIIinSI C3- rFOTntsTID I2ST .A. FIRSTCLASS ESTABLISHMENT. The Bank of Commerce, In ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., DEALS IN FOREIGN EXCFIAN3E AND ISSUES LETTER8 OF CREDIT. . Solicit Aceounis nd Oflrs to Depositors Every. Fucillty Couslstout Vvith Profitable Banking. , ; DIRECTORS r H. S. OTHtO. President J. C BALDRIDGE. LuraW W. C. LEONARD. Capitalist. B. P S HDSTER, Vice Pr sident A. KISEMANN. Eiseinann Bros , Wool . W. S. Sl-RICKLER, C. -ahiiT A. M. BLACKWKLI., Gross, Bla.-kwell & Co . (Jrocers. H. J. DMEEaON. Assist Cashier. W. A. MAXWELL, Wholesale Druggist. Depository for Atchison, Tnpeka & Santa Fe Railway. FIRST NATIONAL BANK United States Depository. Authorized Capital $500,000 Paid in Capital 150,000 urpius 50.000 TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Joshua S. Ravnolds President M. W. Flonrnojr .-. Vice President Frank McKee ... (ashler C. A. HfcwkB .- . Assistant Cashier Depository of the Atchison, Topeka & GUSTAV nnnmn 11 M LHIttH UUll Keep constantly onliand a large and well selected stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Boots sljolL Shoes And everything usually found in a First-Class Establishment. Any article not stock will be furnished on special order and on short notice. GANDELARIA BROS, GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Ranch Supplies of And of tlie Best Qixality. Low Perics and Courteous Treatment Your Patronage is Earnestly Solicited. Juan. CaLndclaiia. Rpsalio.'Candelaria. A.mbrosio Candelaria. ST. JOHNS, A. T. Hardware, Boots, Shoes Santa Fe and Santa Fe Pacific railroads. BECKER, Tl H U any Description wm WANTED SEVERAL BRIGHT AND JIOI1ES persons to represent us as Mana gers in this and clofif-1)3' counties. Sal ary $900 a year and expenses. Straight, bona-fide, no mdre.no less salary. Posi tion permanent. Our references, any bank in any town. It is mainly office work conducted at home. Inference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envel ope. TnE Dominion Company, Dept, 3 , Chicago. ST. JOHNS HEBALD. Published every Saturday PERKINS-HOWE Co., Publishers & Proprietors. E. 8. PERKINS, Business Manages. E uered in the Postottlce at St. Johns as second class mutter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One vear. ,$2.50. Six months $1.50 Three months. $1.00 ADVERTISING RATES. 1 inch 1 mns. $1. 2 mos. $1,50 3 mos. $2. 6 mos. $3. 1 vear $o. 2 inches 1 mos'. $1,50 2 mos. $2,50. 3 mos $3. 6 mos. $4,50 1 year $7,50. Rates on large contracts given on ap plication. Official Proceedings Mfatf.es of the Board of Supervisors, Apache County. St. Johns, July 9th, 1900. The Board of Equalization met pursuant to adjournment at 10 o'clock a. m. Present: A. V. Gibbons, chair man, L. J. Brown, Benigno Lopez. J. T. Patterson, clerk. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. The B'rd now proceeds to equalize the fol lowing taxes as follows : Si. Johns. Jimtj' Gonzales, ordered ... assessed, 500 sheep, $ .1000.00 Clemente GujMeres, rais ed on value of horse3, 40.00 Ordered assessed wag on, 20.00 Ordered assessed horses lo.OU Raised on value of land 50.00 Raised on value of im provements, 60.00 Raised on value of lots, 40.00 225.00 700.00 140.00 R. D. Greer, ordered as sessed, 50 st'ck cattle, Concho. Lacy Greer, ordered as sessed, 10 st'k cattle, . J. FI. Greer, ordered as sessed, 12 st'k cattle, 168.00 40.00 Ordered assessed 2 sad dle horses, Reduced on lots and im provements, $175.00 Eagar. " Stance Greer, ordered assessed, one-half inter- -est, mower and rake, 30:00 Ordered as'ed 100 sheep 200.00 Oidered assessed, 27 A. farming land, 405 00 Ordered assessed, 40 A. grazing land, 50.00 Ordered assessed, im provements, 200.00 St. Johns. W. 0. Gibbons, reduced ? on value of lot, " ' "'2500 Eigaiv Adan Greenwood, orderi - -: -ed assessed 6 acres in V. Eagar entry, 90.00 SpringerviHe. N. Gonzales, raised on value of imp, 100100 St. Johns. Richard Gibbons, rais-. ed on value of imp, 50.00 Ordered assessed 500 sheep, 1000 00 1050.00 The Board now takes recess un til 2 p. m. jBoard resumes session at 2 p. j m. Full Board and Clerk present. Ellen C. Greer ordered assessed 100 st'k horses iOOO.OO W. H. Gibbons ordered assessed 250 sheep, 500.00 Ordered assessed 15 A. land at Eagar, 87.50 Ordered assessed 1 lot . . , 40.00 40 00 667.50 JE1 Tide.. Fredrico Gonzales or dered assessed: hh goods Raised on value' horses, 20.00 '20.00 40.00 40.00 50.00 75.00 100.00 100.00 Bernardo Gonzales or dered assessed imps, Andteis Gonzales raised on value of imps, St. .John's; T. D. Harris reduced on house and lot. Spririgerville. ttobt. Harper raised on value house and lot, John Hall raised-on val ue of imp, Alpine. 0. G. Hamblin ordered ; assessed imp, Springerville. J. L. Hulsey ordered as sessed carriage, . Nutrioso. , Jacob flamhlin ordered assessed lot ami imp, Ordered assessed one half interest binder, 100.00 50.00 150 00 40 00 190.00 The Board now adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning A. V. Gibbons, chairman. J. T. Patterson, clerk. BOXERS NOT A REPRESEN TATIVE TYPE'. The Great Bulk of the Chinese Peaceful. Agriculture Their Principal Occupation. Irrigation Methods are Crude. The most wonderful feature in the physical geography of China is the existence of a vast, region of loess in this portion of the Empire. Loess is a very solid but friable earth, brownish yellow in colr and is found in many places from 500 to 1000 feet- deep. The loess hills rise in terracs from 20 to several hundred feet in height'. Every atom of loess is perforated by small tubes after the manner of root fibers, only the direction of these little channels is always from above downward!so that lnaveage in the loess masses invariably ver tical. The loess region of Chir.a is perhaps the most broken coun try in the world, with its sheer cliffs, and upright walls, terraces and deep ravines. Owing to the ease with which it can be worked, caves made at the bases of straight cliffs, afford homes for millions of people in the densely populated northern provinces where the Box ers have thus far been most active. Whole villages cluster together in carved .out chambers, some of which extend back more than 200 feet. The capabilities of defense in a count rj? such as this, Hiere an invading army must necessarily become lost and absolutely bcwil dered m the tangle of interlacing ways and where the defenders may always remain concealed or have innumerable means of escape is peculiarly significant at this time when consideration' is being given to a conquest of China. It may not be generally known that the Chinese' were the discov erers of coal as a fuel. The Vene tian traveller Marco says, "It is a fact that all over the country of Cathay (China) there is a kind of black stone existing in the beds ol the mountains which they dig out and burn like firewood. This stone burns better and costs less." The rivers of China are her glo- rv and there are few countries in at Eagar, Ordered assessed imps; irripli the world so well watered and none with such splendid natural water transportation facilities. The three greit rivers of the-Empire are the Yang-tse-Kiang (Child of the Ocean), the Hoang Ho (Yel low River) and the Chu Kiang (Pearl River or Canton River). Of these the Yang-tse-Kiang is much the largest, flowing thru ex tensive and fertile plains and final ly emptying into the Eastern Sea, after traversing a distance of over 2,000 miles. Its discharge is esti- mated at one million cubic feet per seco.nl.. The banks-of the Yang- tse are crowded with , town's and villages, the most famous ofwhieh are Nankin and the new treaty port of Hankow. The Hoang Ho or Yellow River is noted especially for its frequent and violent floods. lis current is very rapid us course sinuous, nearly approaching the length of the Yang-lse. The Pearl or Canton River while not nearly so large as I he others, is a stream of greiu importance and i. numerahle vessels trade upon its waters. At some points it spreads into large likes; in others it pass- es between narrow gorges which i" a movable breech. The entire part dammed Would afford large storage containing the lock mechanism and the . . r .. ...f; ... mm.,, mi.; chamber for the cartridges may be capacity tor irrigation. 1 lie Lh:- . , . , . , 5 . 1 J taken out to be replaced by another nese, howeVHr, have not practically similar piece. This is designed for rap worked out irrigation in its diflVr id firing, where loaders are employed, - , . i ... and although it has gained a certain em phases as completely as would amount of &vor inEupeiti8notUke he expected of su.:h an agrieultui- ly to receive much notice from Ameri al people. ; can sportsmen. r . ii- ' The magazine fowling piece proper is Irrigation, nevertheless, is prac- receiving more attention than for years ticed to a considerable extent thru past. Especially has this been the case the use ot the waters of the Grand .thf bir.d a,nd tl.,e rail hrs this fall. The single trigger gun has Canal and by wells. 1 he brand failed to take here, except as a novelty, Imperial Canal is a work of great and the fowling piece with auxiliary . . ;,. , r. , ;. chambers on each side of the barrel to magnitude. U was contncteit in . , . , ., ,., , p hold two extra cartridges, aid not ap- the7'h century and enlarged in pear to sell at all. The truth is the the 13th century. It traverses the . di : i a . .ii. Cereal Plain and flows with but a slight current lor a distance of 7U0 tniles. While Imik for purposes of communu-ation l waters are ined largely for irrigation, ami thousands of drains and creeks hjLve been made U connect with it along iis r. uie. The mode-! of irrigation are an cient, and crude. One of the most picturesque is by means of the wa ter wheel which is used where the land to be watered is well above the channel of the river. The wheel is turned bv the force of the current, and is perhaps thirty feet high. Its bii'-kets being sections of bamboo which as they are rais ed by the stalely motion of the wheel, empty their troughs or ditches. . contenrs into Hollow bam- boo pipes or tubes are sometimes ..... ... ll''cl,i u...o,ioK ve smokeless powder has all changed the the fields. They rest upon wood- situation. A comparison of a gun of en supports ami branch in every years ago and one of to-day will .. . show material differences in the mech- direclion from the source of sup- anism Df the breech, the thickness of ply. The chain pump is also a ' the breech, and the construction of the ...... ........ i-1.- . ; body and action. All these changes are common means o III ng water, , . -, j ' designed- to withstand the greater the chain running up from the wa- strain of the nitro of smokeless pow- ter on a slant and being provided ders' I.!, . i i The smokeless powders have also with little buckets at intervals, j been extensively Pused in rifles, espe- whieh as they reach the highest , cially those of small caliber. The ex point and begin to descend dip- ' perience in actual game shooting with . , . these arms has been about the same as charge their contents. I hese ma-, in war. The bullet perforates without chines are worked bv buffaloes or killing. In the Maine woods a fine deer sometinies.bv human labor, a man was we" ithin sh J0 1 man, and it was noticed that the tip of working a crank with his feet one antler was split in a peculiar fash something after the manner of rid-' ion. so as to distinguish the animal. He , . , . . ... fired and apparently hit the deer just ing.a bicycle. I he mostj.nmitive back of The hullet cn, and laborious method is the an j clean through the deer, and away went cient well sweep, such as is seen ' the animal- Three weeks later, in an- . i i v r to.-,y on many mi .mo i.e.n jiiig- land homestead. uiiy Hj. Mitchel.; I his irorning 1 reminded Jones th.if liu ,Mx-ii !. u m.i.n. Vllf.v I V. will,. ,11V. WV UtlllC "Did it vex him?" "Oh, no j it reminded him to re- mind me that I owed him $2." "You had a lot of visitors last week, didn't you?" "Yes, but when the went home we sent our three daughters with them." ''Tliu TiiH;m out tvuftt !in liolil-' ing a green corn dance 'Yes; if it were a green t-ucuni- her dance I could understand it." . . Chicago Record. - am n . ... 'I he China berry tree is being discussed by those who proless to Pending the adoption of governmem know KoniethriiS about it for its laws for the islands, it has been charge, that the government there has permit posMble value commercially. Mr. ted the importation of large numbers o' W. D. Wood, an authority on trees Japanese laborers, the idea being tc says. "As a soil renovator it has no nsh thfTj Tbet!1(;coaT?ract labo1 laws of the United States become op equal in this country, the berries erative. which it bears being very rich. in fertilizing elements." Those win are familiar with the China b'ern bear willing testimony to the fet lilizirrg elements to which Mr. Wood refers. Under the tret where berries have, fallen may al ways be found a heap which is tin equal of almost any compost heaj in richness as a fertilizer. In ad dition to this the berries and tlx bark of the tree-are a most excel lent tonic for horses. From j small sprout a large tree will grow in two or three years. ; fcrUNS ARE WW CHEAP j Changes in Sporting Weapons by Smokeless Powder. Materials and Mechanism ond-XIand Piece Figure In the Reduction. With every prospect of a fine fowling and hunting- season the sportsmen are looking around for the latest things ii. guns. It looks as if perfection had been nearly reached so far as structural fea tures are concerned, and the great prob lem is which are the best ot certain fair ly new devices grafted on old standards. 'I'lin nnlv rpnTlv newitcm is a mm which American sportsman is satisfied with "the performance of the average high- graJ American doubIe-barreled gun. , Possibly never before were guns so cheap as at present. It is said that thr cut price fever is responsible for this, and that the second-hand guns so ex tensively advertised -are second hand in the same way as the bicycles -were when a ride around Central park had roughened the tires a little and so cn- -abled the dealer to sell them at "second hand" prices without breaking- his price agreement. Certain it is that many of the guns at reduced prices shew little or no wear, and equally certain it is that the fairly large profits cn these goods will permit a smart dealer to make a good thing out of the second hand sales. The type of gun has changed also, owing to the use of smokeless powders. A few years ago when the everyday shooter knew noth ing but black powder as a sporting ex plosive, the lowest grade Belgian bar rels were good enough for guns made to sell at six dollars, and for ordinary ! amateur shooting filled the bill. About thg worgt that happened in case of an overcharge was that the barrel was j bulged at the breech or muzzle, and a 1 badly burst gun was the exception. other camp, tne animal was shot by an other man and identified by the split point- and the wound mark which had j healed. An old-fashioned bullet would I have stopped the deer within 3C0 yards. In the same camp a deer was secured i without a visible wound. It was shot at, threw up its head and dropped. Just as the guide reached it, knife in hand', it rose, but its throat was cut before it escaped. At first the impression was that the knife caused the muscles to re act, but investigation showed that the bullet struck the base of the horn and was deflected, the shock stunning the animal. N. Y Sun. WHITE MEN IN HAWAII Statement That They Are Able to Stand the Heat Their Labor Pre ferred by PIcntcrs. " D. A. Eay, Senator Cullom's private secretary, who was associated with tht Hawaiian commission in a clerical c- Pacit3j f in CSo. He lately re turned from a three months' visit U ..Hawaii, where he conducted certain ii; i vestigations in behalf of the commis sion regarding different phases of the oriental or contract labor problem. 'I am convinced the government has A PURE MAPI CREAM OF TARTAR POWOCX 'DR. BAKING Highest Honors, World's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair Avoid Baldng- Powders contalnLajr alum. Thc7 are injurious to health. not permitted anything of the kind said Mr. ilay, "and believe it has exer cised the' greatest care in admitting: only such laborers as seemed absolute necessary to meet the imperative de mands of the sugar planters. "When, a large planter went to the officials aa said it was necessary for him to sacarc additional help or suffer a heavy fiaaa ciaT loss, and an investigation proved the truth of his statement, he was per mitted to secure such a number of men, as would do the work, but no more,aa care was taken ih drawing the con tract so that at the expiration of thecr term of service the men should be re turned to their native country. I am. persuaded the government is dealing: fairly with this country. "It has been frequently said that oriental labor is necessary in doing the work of cultivating and gathering- th& cane, and that white labor is incapable of standing the work," continued 3fjr Eay. "I looked into that subject thor oughly, and am convinced that cot only is the white man capable of standing; the work in question, but that he can do the work better than the 'brown mar, as the Japanese are called. The climatic conditions which, it has been said, the white man cannot stand, are? a myth. It is unquestionably hot in. the cane fields at times, but hotter weather is to be found in this country. "The best proof of my statement is found in the result of actual experi ments that have been conducted on one of the large plantations, to which 11 Americans were taken from California,. I saw a number of these men, and all of them declared they had not "suffered from the hot weather as much-as Xm California. Contrary to the generally accepted opinion, the planters pre'ferr white labor to oriental." X. Trib une. Tea Service of Colas. Empress Frederick of Germany possesses a curious little tea service. The tray is made of an old Persian half penny beaten out. The teapot was once a German farthing, and the tiny cups are made from coins of different Ger man principalities. Chicago Times Herald. STARTLING RAT STORY, A London District Foat Ofnce GloactS! aad Houses Overraa fcr the Rotleats. About a year ago an important dis trict post office in London was ctosedL It had been opened for stamps, raooeyr orders, post office orders and telegrams till midnight, and it was in the ceter of a thickly-populated district. Ooe? day the doors were shut and a card af fixed, stating that it was closed for re pairs. Weeks passed and it was not re opened. The postmaster general re ceived complaints by the score. But the weeks became months, and stiH the doors remained closed. And the pee-' pie around wondered why. The truth is at last out, and some of tde families residing- near ksow it to their cost. The post cfuce in ques tion had to be closed because it ha become the happy hunting ground of vast hordes of rats, who consumed let ters by the bagful, and many postal or ders, money order forms and ether of ficial papers. The rats forced the post office to be closed, and after numerous, attempts to rid the place of the rodents it was found possible to do so ocly by putting down entirely new cement foundations and entirely retimbering; the place. As nearly as possible tke1 post office had, but for its mere sheH to be rebuilt. That done, the troubles, of the immediate neighborhood becaiae accentuated. Driven from the post of fice the rats have journeyed to the sur rounding houses, which are now in fested with. them. The correspondent from whom the above information comes has had sev eral cats in his place, and they- have done something to keep things down; but, to use his words, "to go home is, to find the wife and the maids with fly ing petticoats rushing up the stairs;, servants won't stay in the house escspf for a very short time, mats and pictures, some of the latter several feet up thef walls, have been consumed, my wire is terror-stricken, and when I reach: home at night I often find her locked,, half starved, in an upper room afraidt to move about and too nervous even to go near where the food is kept untiTIT. come in." The informant states that his experience is similar to that of many residing near him." London News. A City Built of Lead. The name "Leadville, Col.," does not imply that the dwellings and paving-are made of lead, but there is a city in. Africa where that mineral is used suc cessfully for building purposes. Byra,. is the town of this rather extensive, town, which has over 300 buildings built jf pure lead. Three very fine public buildings, with beautiful ornamenta tions, have been constructed from pure lead. Besides durability the cheapness of the mineral is a great consideration- Thus the construction of any of these very elaborate buildings never excaeis the cost, of $?0,0LV). Y. Herajd.