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GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION.
Recommends a Day for Thanksgiving
and Praise In Accordance With
Day Proclalned by President.
In accordance with- an honored pre
cedent and custom, the President of
the United States, has proclaimed
Thursday, November 28, 1901, a day
of thanksgiving and praise.'
Whle our country mourns for the
great American, the foremost citizen
of the world, who by divine decree
which we must not question, has been
taken from us, we submit humbly to
the will of God and rejoice in His love.
'Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth."
Although we may not understand the
inscrutiable ways of Providence, we
are taught to believe and feel that the
nation, and the people of the world,
since the first great Crucifixion, are
made better and stronger by such
sacrifices, and that we have all been
brought nearer to God with a clearer
knowledge of our responsibilities and
a quickened ability to perform the
duties required of us, public and
private. It is our duty to accept with
contrite spirits the awful lesson, severe
and uncalled for as it seems to us, and
profit by its teachings.
We should rejoice and be happy that
the republic, resting upon the imper
ishable principles of the Constitution,
is unshaken, and that he, to whose
keeping more than all others is now
entrusted the Nation's honor, is
"worthy and well qualified" with
splendid courage and ability to direct
the affairs of this, the greatest of the
governments of men. We should re
joice and give thanks for the grand
achievements which have elevated our
nation to the first place, and won for
it the respect and admiration of man
kind. We should praise God that our
legislators are aroused to the necessity
of destroying anarchy and better pro
tecting the liberties of the people. We
should render joyful praise and grate
ful acknowledgements to the Giver of
all good for unexampled national and
territorial prosperity; for bountiful
harvests, the great production of pre
cious metals from our mines, for profit
able grazing, the rapid development of
our wonderful natural resources, the
remarkable growth of all commercial
interests throughout the country, and
the Divine grace and favor which
enable our citizens to peacefully pursue
their different vocations in health and
happiness.
I therefore recommend and request
the people of Arizona to suspend busi
ness and observe the day appointed, in
their homes and churches, with appro
priate services of thankful praise for
the blessings we have received, and
prayers for the continued care and sav
ing guidance of the all-wise God, the Su
preme Ruler of the Universe, in whose
hands the destinies of nations and of
men are as grains of sand.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great seal
of the territory to be affixed at Phoe
nix, the capital, the 11th -day of No
vember, in the year of Our Lord, nine
teen hundred and one.
srai,. N. O. Murphy,
Governor of Arizona.
Isaac T. Stoddard,
Secretary of Arizona. .
Prehistoric Civilization.
Antiquarian researches have shown
that at oije time, of which we have no
historic account, the valleys and mesa
lands of southern New Mexico and
Arizona teemed with a busy population
who followed the peaceful pursuits of
husbandry. Ruined cities proclaim
that fact and other relics of their
handiwork. They possessed a high
degree of civilization and were un
doubtedly destroyed by a race of
savages whose descendants have been
the bloody foes of a later civilization
in the southwest. Their fixed habita
tions show that they lived by tilling
the soil and that they practiced the
methods now in vogue, is shown by
extensive irrigating canals, reservoirs
and storage dams in the mountains.
Many of them are as extensive and
perfect specimens of engineering skill
as those now being constructed by the
aid of capital and which will again
make this section capable of sustaining
a dense population. In the works now
being undertaken capital is but walk
ing in the footsteps of a prior civiliza
tion. It is making no new experiments
and running no risks.
SNAKE LIES.
By Prominent Lletrs Lied Especially
for the Sun.
"Gess it's going to rain to-day,"
casually remarked an acquaintance to
old John Lance the other day as that
old gentleman slomped up to the liquor
fence and made irrigation signs at the
slave with a white apron on.
"Gess it's goin' ter rain? Well, I
gess, young feller, that your gess is
eaquil to a durned bad reckin. Rain?
Why, this 'ere wallopin', seapin',
shiftin' atmosphere ain't goin' ter have
enough moister inter it fer the next
month ter cool a feavered gnat's eye
lid. I know it. 'Corse I know it.
"Snakes hev a way of kinder findin'
out whut's goin' to happen if yer watch
'em. Was Iookin' at a few of the intel
ligenter kind a few days ago, an' I saw
sumpthin' that made the hull system
of weather clear to me. Yeas, I did,
b'gosh. Know whut them snaix wuz
doin'? Naw; 'corse yer don't. Well,
sir, they wuz all hangin' round a water
hole. Severil of 'em would dip in and
soak their innards with water, then
back up an' a big feller that looked like
a hired man would grab him up by the
neck and jounce him down onto his
tail until he'd grow fat by bein' short
ened up by the jammin' on his tail end.
Then he'd go back and fill up agin. I
saw a lot on 'em round with big bulges
on 'em, too.
"This wuz a curious proceedin' to
me, an' putty soon I seleckted one of
'em out thet hed the biggest lump a
sticken' outen his skin, forked him on
a stick and jabbed a hole inter his
lump, an' I'll be thusty fer a month if
a gallon of water didn't leak out of his
tank. Yeas.
"Oh, it was condensed water, yer
know. They packed it down by the
jammin'. All on 'em was loadin' up
their tanks to cross the desert. Yes,
sir. Can't fool no snaix on whut's
comin; they got a hunch all the time.
Why, yer kin tell frum the way they
wiggle how far they are goin' ef yer
know anything about 'em.
"Snake bit me when I wuz young,"
explained the old man as he dumped a
stirring dose of pisen remedy onto his
palate.
AID FOR ARIZONA INDIANS.
Governor Murphy's Report Suggests
How the Indians Can Be Made
Partially Self-Supporting.
A Washington press report says:
Governor Murphy of Arizona, in his
annual report, advocates the sale and
settlement of large Indian reservations
within the territory, with the possible
exception of the Navajo reservation in
northeastern Arizona, and the govern
ment construction of reservoirs for
water storage for irrigation in suitable
localities, with canals leading to the
lands alloted to the Indians.
The governor says of the latter ac
tion, in which Indian labor could be
largely utilized, that it would help to
make fanners of the Indians, and that
a further maintenance of the tribal
relations, as now conducted, and the
retention of reservation agencies
around which the Indians cluster and
live in idleness on government rations,
most seriously retarding the civiliza
tion of the Indians, would be unneces
sary. A number of localities in the terri
tory are dissatisfied with the census
returns, and the governor alleges that
great injustice has been done to
Phoenix, the capital, in fixing its pop
ulation at only 5,544. Its registration
for the city election of last May, he
claims, indicated a population of this
year, of at least 10,000. He attributes
the discrepancy of figures to the enum
eration in the summer, when the peo
ple were at summer resorts, and to the
careless work of the enumerators. He
says from the school census and other
reliable sources the population of the
territory is now at least 135,000, as
against the census returns of 122,012.
Within the last decade 545 miles of
canals have been constructed at a cost
of 51,508,469, and irrigated land has
been increased by 119,595 acres.
Among other things the governor
especially and strongly urged the ad'
mission of the territory to statehood.
Shot Into Dynamite.
John McNally, aged 14, tempted fate
Sunday at Bisbee by shooting into a
box filled with sixty sticks of dyna
mite. He was instantly killed by the
resultirig explosion, his head being al
most torn from his body.
McNally and a younger companion
had found the dynamite on a station,
thirty feet below the surface, in the
shaft of a mine owned by F. M. John
ston. Reared in a mining camp, they
fully knew the nature of the stuff.
When they had returned to the sur
face McNally announced his intention
of shooting at the powder to see if it
vrould explode. The other lad had
barely reached shelter behind the dump
when McNally fired the little squirrel
ifle with which the lads had been
hunting. The explosion threw Mc
Nally's body forty feet from the shaft.
Luckily no one was working in the
mine at the time, for the shaft was
wrecked by the explosion, the timbers
being torn into splinters.
An Unfortunate Accident.
Last Saturday at Cottonwood, Lloyd,
the six-year-old son of Lee Van Deren,
met with a shocking accident. He
reached for his hat, which was hang
ing over the muzzle of a shotgun which
was standing on the porch. He pulled
the gun downward, the hammer strik
ing the floor and discharging it. The
load struck the little fellow in the palm
of "the right hand, almost tearing it
away, the fingers and thumb hanging
by shreds. The parents brought the
child to Jerome at once and Dr. Cole
man dressed the wound. The child did
not whimper during the ordeal, and has
since displayed more nerve than the
average grown person. Dr. Coleman
has slight hopes of saving the hand
from amputation. Jerome News.
A Remarkable Sight.
The western sky in the early even
ing presents an interesting sight. It
is the remarkable series of planetary
conjunctions. The three brightest
planets are close together in the sky.
Jupiter has for months been slowly
overtaking Saturn, and, just before he
reaches him, Venus, whose eastward
motion is much swifter, catches up
with them both. She passes Jupiter on
the night of the 17th, and Saturn on
that of the 18th. The two are about a
degree apart, while she is three degrees
south of them, so that all three planets
are crowded into a space no larger than
the belt of Orion. The group which
they form will be by far the most con
spicuous thing in the evening sky, and
will remain in sight for two hours and
a half after sunset.
Though these three heavenly bodies
seem so near together, their real dis
tances from us are, of course, vastly
different. Venus is very much the
nearest, being but 74,000,000 miles
distant. Jupiter is more than seven
times as far away, his distance being
540,000,000 miles. Finally, Saturn is
almost 1,000,000,000 miles from us as
far beyond Jupiter as Jupiter is beyond
Venus.
Jupiter and Saturn are closest on the
27th, when their distance is less than
the moon's diameter. They will be
very near one another throughout the
last week of November.
Moqui Indian School.
In a notice of the Moqui Indian
school, the Native American says that
Charles E. Burton was appointed to
his present position of superintendent
and acting agent of the Moquis in
July, 1899. When Mr. Burton took
charge of the Moqui schools, there was
an attendance of -160. The present at
tendance reaches nearly 500.
The Moqui school was established in
1887. About 1886 it was placed under
charge of the Navajo agent at Fort
Defiance. In 1898 it was made a bonded
school and the reservation placed under
the charge of the superintendent, who
acts as agent.
The cost to the government of the
Moqui and the three day schools is
$100,000 per year, outside of the cost
of the new plant now in course of con
struction. The Blue Canyon boarding school
was seperated from the Moqui agency,
August 27, and made a separate bonded
institution.
Takes Place To-Nlght.
John Thompson, the great comedian
and character actor, will appear at
the Bank Hotel hall to-night, and
introduce his "star troupe" of comic
characters in his original comedy .
"Around the World in Eighty Minutes"
Everything in the show is funny and
you will enjor two solid hours of
laughter. General admission 50 cents,
children 25 cents.
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