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COCONINO SUN.
ONE MILLION ACRES
Restored to the Public Domain -Old A. LP.
Land Grant Between Needle and
Mohave Open to Settler.
Uncle Sam shortly will restore 1,000,
(WO acres In Southern California to
the pubic domain, to be subject to en
try under tho general land laws of the
United States within sixty days after
tho official notification to tho public.
By this wholesale re-creation of pub
lio domain, unprecedented in amount
of land involved, thero will be placed
at tho disposal of tho public, subject
to tho government's land laws, a huge
and diverse tract, offering an oppor
tunity for a great inrush of tillers of
the soil to tho commonwealth of Cali
fornia. The million acres in question, com
prising much valuable land, lie along
tho line of tho Southern Pacific Rail
road between Mohavo and Needles, on
the Colorado River. Notification of
the intended restoration has just been
received by the local United States
Land Office from the Department of
the Interior, through Commissioner
Richards of the General Land Office,
and the officials here are busy
preparing for tho rush for tho land
which is expected to set in on tho day
the great domain is laid open to entry.
It will take some busy days to get
everything in readiness for tho on
slaught, and tho Land Office in tho
Potomac Block will bo tho goal of
regiments of " anxious inquirers" and
sacks of communications, as soon as
the news is spread. At least Uncle
Sam's worthies up there are putting
themselves on the defensive in prepar
ation for such a siege, and not at all
doubtful that the blow will fall heavily.
Somo time ago tho United States
Supremo Court decided, in tho suit
generally known as No. COO, that the
United States holds an equal undivid
ed moiety in all odd-numered sections
which lie within tho conflicting place
limits of the famous old grant made to
the Atlantic! and Pacltlo Railroad by
act of July, 1860, and that tho South
ern Pacific Railroad Company holds
the other equal undivided moiety
therein. Tho Southern Pacific was
called upon to make its selections of
secti ns, and choso accordingly. Tho
sections remaining to tho government,
which are to bo restored to the public
domain, arc the sections numbered 3,
7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 35, in every
township falling within tho conflicting
place limits of tho grant, except where
the railroad company has in the past
sold such sections or portions of sec
tions, in which case it will bo allowed
to perfect title for its grantees.
Any entries on said lands which
may have been allowed will be per
mitted to stand, and may bo perfected
If no superior adverse claims are pre
sented; but all prior applicants, who
havo not been allowed to perfect,
notice is to be given that, whatever
the claims they assert, their applica
tions confer no rights on them, and
that on the day set for restoration, tho
lands will bo opened to entry and dis
posed of without regard to such ap
plications, " which shall be held to be
rejected."
Within two months the government,
by this big breaking up of tho old
" A. and P." grant across the desert,
will make room for unnumbered new
colonists, whoso settlements should be
tributary to this city. Los Angeles
Times.
PenHenttarv Outbreak.
A report from Yuma Sunday gave
meager details of a jail delivery Fri
nay night. Two brothers name Steele
escaped from the penitentiary and suc
ceeded in getting a start of several
hours, but were captured the following
day by prison guards, and are now
doing penitence in the dark cell.
Their escape followed an attempted
escape of two convicts about a week
ago, when " Billy" Doheny, a guard,
shot and killed one, and perhaps mor
tally wounded another prisoner. It
is reported that tho two jail breaks are
the only tangible results of a premed
itated plan of the majority of the pris
oners to effect a general prison delivery.
Tho Steele brothers woro being .held
at Yuma pending tho securing of requi
sition papers for their return to 'San
Diego, on the charge of horse steal
ing. The papers had been issued, and
Constable Marks was on the way from
Sacramento with them. The men are
deserters, also, one from tho cruiser
New York and tho other from the
training ship Mohican.
SEVERE ATTACK Of GRIP
Cured by One Mettle of Chamberlain's
Couth Remedy.
" When I had an attack of the grip
last winter (the second one) I .actually
cured myself with one bottlo of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy'" says Frank
W. Perry, editor of the Enterprise,
Shortsvlllo, N. Y. "This is the
honest truth. I at times kept from
coughing myself to pieces by taking a
teaspoonful of this remedy, and when
the coughing spell would come on at
night I would take a dose and it seem
ed that in the briefest interval the
cough would pass off and I would go
to sleep perfectly free from cough
and its accompanying pains. To "say
that tho remedy acted as a most agree
able surprise is putting it very mildly.
I had no Idea that it would or could
knock out tho grip, simply because I
had never tried it for such a purpose,
but it did, and it seemed with tho
second attack of coughing the remedy
caused it to not only be of less severe,
and I had not used the contents of one
bottle before Mr. Grip had bid mo
adieu." For salo by all druggists.
The Benefit of AdvertHlni.
An exchange says: A newspaper
reflects tho business interests of a
town in its advertising columns. A
business man looking for a location
always examines newspapers to see if
his particular lino is represented. If
he is a druggist and sees no advertise
ment by tho druggists ho concludes
there are none, or, if there are, they
are all dull. If he is a doctor or a
lawyer, ho looks over tho professional
cards to see if his profession is repre
sented. Prospective buyers like an
invitation to como and trade with
merchants. A card of the professional
man is just as essontlal as the sign in
front of his door. It is not a question
of being able to get along without it.
A hardware man need not heat his
store to keep things from freezing.
He might havo a booth out on the
street or at a skating rink, and do a
lot of business, Instead of paying rent
at his store and buying fuel to heat it
with, but it might not be economy to
do so. Advertising Is not a luxury,
but rather an economic proposition
recognized by all the best and most
successful business men tho world
over.
So Sweet ewnd Pleexaln In Tbl1 I
Mrs. C. reterson, 625 Lake St., To
peka, Kan., speaking of Ballard's
Horehound Syrup, says : "It has
never failed to give entire satisfaction,
and of all cough remedies, It is my
favorite, and I must confess to my
many friends that it will do, and has
done, what is claimed for It to speed
ily cure a cough or cold; and it is so
sweet and so pleasing in taste." 25c,
50c and $1.00 bottle at Pioneer Drug
Store.
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