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FLAGSTAFF. DECEMBER 26. 1903.
No. 52
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FOREST RESERVE GRAZING.
100.000, Sheep and 30,000 Cattle Allowed
On the San Francisco Mountains Forest
Reserve-Limit ror Orand Can
yon Reserve 9.000 Cattle.
Forest Suporvisor P. S. Breon has
received Instructions from the depart
ment, allowing- the grazing of 0,000
head of cattle and horses in the Grand
Canyon forest reserve. The grazing
season has been extended to June 30,
instead of to May 31. as heretofore.
All non-residents who desire to
graze cattle or horses in this reserve,
will be required in addition to the
regular grazing application, to show
by affidavit, that they are the actual
owners of the stock applied for, and
that the stock is not held by them
temporarily in the interest of any
other person.
He was also directed to require the
herding of the stock of any permit
holder, whenever necessary, to pre
vent more stock from entering the re
serve than is covered by the permit,
and also when herding is necessary
to prevent injury to the reserve.
These rules apply only to the Grand
Canyon forest reserve. Applications
will now be received for those de
siring to graze stock on this reserve.
On the San Francisco mountains
forest reserve, the department has de
cided that 100,000 head of sheep and
goats may graze during the season of
1904, under tho same conditions as in
1903.
Thirty thousand head of cattle and
horses will be allowed to graze for the
season of 1904, which is a raise of
10,000 head over the number allowed
last year.
It is the intention of the department
to grant permits covering this in
crease mainly to the small holders,
rather than to increase the number
allowed the large holders.
Herding of cattle or horses may be
required, whenever necessary, to pre
vent more stock entering the reserve
than is covered by the permit. Also
in every case where herding is neces
sary to insure tho conditions under
which permits are issued.
Grazing applications for this re
serve should be filed at once.
Important ta Mlnlnt Men.
Commissioner Williams, of the gen
eral land office, thus gives the view of
the department concerning character
of annual assessments on mining
claims.
"All improvements made on a min
ing claim having a direct relation to
the .development thereof may be taken
into consideration. Any building,
machinery, roadway or other im
provements used in connection with,
and essential to, the practical de
velopment of the claim will enter into
and form a part of the expenditures
for improvements. Necessarily, how
ever, improvements of the character
indicated must be associated with ac
tual excavations, such as tunnels,
cuts, shafts, etc., to clearly show that
they are intended for use . in connec
tion with the claims In consideration."
A house in which to live may be con
sidered a necessity j jbut it Ip doubtful
If the house could be charged up
against actual expenditures on one or
more claims, for If this were so a per
son might locate .twenty claims and
build a $2,000 house in the center of
the group; ostensibly for the benefit
of the entire group. The next year be
might build a bars or add to the
house another $2,000 worth, thereby
holding the claims a second year,
though not a dollar was spent in the
development of the group. The prin
cipal involved is the same for one lo
cation or two. A hoist building or a
blacksmith shop, gallows frame or
other construction or machinery for
the actual benefit of one or more lo
cations niay be properly charged up
to annual assessments. Mining and
Scientific Press.
FALLS A HUNDRED FEET.
Medicine Man Killed.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Nevin tele
phoned to the sheriff's office this
morning that he would bo over this
evening with the Indian who killed a
fellow Indian named Frog at Cotton
wood on Monday night. He said the
fight was the result of bad feeling that
had existed for some time between
two tribes of Indians who were camped
near Cottonwood, one tribe being
what is known as the Apache Mojaves
and the other the Tonto Apaches. The
bad feeling was over the medicine
men of the respective tribes. Frog,
who was killed, was the Apache Mo
have medicine man and the slayer,
who goes by the name of Tonto Char
ley, was the medicine man of the Ton
to Apaches, and a quarrel arose be
tween them when Charley shot at
Frog who started to run. Charley
fired two more shots, the last one
stribing Frog in the thigh cutting a
large blood vessel and the wounded
man bled to death before the flow
could be stopped. Charley is said to
have been considered a dangerous
character. Journal Miner.
Interesting Flsures of Naco Receipts.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1903, the total value of exports and
Imports that passed through Naco
was $7,460,096. These figures com
pared to Nogales show that the latter
had a total of $7,078,438. Douglass
had only $1,572,822.
The exports and imports, $4,078,410;
Nogales, export, $1,480,386, imports.
$5,597,952; Douglas, .exports, $372,
316, imports, $1,220,506.
The comparison between the three
points shows that Naco, though not
having the railroad facilities of No
gales, has a greater total.
An official report received here
from the City of Mexico states that
the government has just appropriated
the large sum of $60,000, which will
be used to erect a new custom house at
Naco. Bisbee Miner.
Pardon Granted.
Acting Governor Stoddard Wednes
day granted a pardon to Richard
Cross, a ten-year man at Yuma.
Cross was sent from Yavapai county
for manslaughter In the killing of a
man by the name of Biron Jones at
Jerome. Making allowance for good
conduct his time would expire on
Christmas day of this year. For the
last five years he had been employed
as bookkeeper in the office of the su
perintendent of -the prison and it was
on -the recommendation of the super
intendent that the pardon Is granted.
The pardon though only Intended to
restore to citizenship becomes effect
ive the day before Christmas.
M1l'0Wilfciw,-'i.''t ,u.ii
William J. Condon, Santa re Cnihteer.
Tails Tram Enllne In Johnston
Canyon and Meets Death
on Rocks Below.
The Winslow Mall of Saturday
says: At 11:10 o'clock Friday morn
ing, William J. Condon, one of the
best known freight engineers running
out of Winslow, met his death in a
shocking manner in Johnston Can
yon. The story of the accident is related
as follows: Friday morning Mr.
Condon with his monstrous freight
engine was assigned as pusher to help
an extra freight coming east, from
Ash Forks to Supai. There Is a very
steep grade between these two points,
especially between the stations of
Fatrvtew and McLellan, besides
which there are two high curved steel
trestles, the one this way being near
the mouth of a tunnel. As the train
was going through the tunnel it broke
into two sections, and left Condon's
engine at a full stop on the center of
this high bridge. "Billy," as he was
favorably known, being a good
hearted boy, if ever there was one,
seeing what happened, got off his en
gine and went to help the train crew
to get off the track the heavy Iron
draw-head and couple up the train so
as to be able to proceed with the
train, having but a few minutes to
make the side track at McLellan for a
scheduled train going west. This done
Condon walked back to his engine.
He had made one step on the tender
of the engine when his hands slipped
off the handle bars of the engine,
causing him to fall backward over
the high trestle to a distance of over
100 feet.
His railroad companions seeing
him fall rushed to his assistance, but
to no avail, as poor Billy Condon in
his fall had given up his life to his
Maker.
His remains were brought to Wins
low late Friday night, and Under
taker Parr prepared them for ship
ment to his home at Los Gatos, Cal.,
where his remains were accompanied
by his heart-broken young wife and
Mrs. Colon Campbell and Mr. Frank
Thomas, the Santa Fe company pay
ing the expenses.
William J. Condon was born in
California 34 years ago, and has
been in the employ of the Santa Fe
railroad company for the past fifteen
years. He was an active member of
the Winslow local lodge of Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. De
ceased was married to Miss An
toinette Daze, the youngest daughter
of Mrs. Mary Daze, on May 7, 1902,
and to her as well as to his dear
mother, sisters and brothers In Cali
fornia, the heart-felt sympathies of
this community are extended In their
sad bereavement.
Mossman hi a Jfaaattal.
Burt Mossman, well known all over
the territory and one of the principal
cattle holders pf the southwest, is in
a hospital at McMillan, N. M., laid
up with an arm which was recently
broken in two places. The Injury
was sustained by a fall from his
horse, the Animal he was riding step
ping in a gopher hole. He will prob
ably be able to travel In a few days,
and plans to spend the holidays in
the east.
Mossman was the first captain of
the Arizona Rangers and has for
years past been identified with the
cattle interests of the territory, for
several terms serving on the sanitary
board of the territory. He has many
friends In Phoenix who hope for his
speedy recovery. Phoenix Gazette.
DM Not Want Them.
About nine years ago a Mexican
left Phoenix abandoning his wife and
several children. After he had been
gone a couple of years word came to
Phoenix that he was dead and in the
course of time his wife remarried.
Early this week husband No. 1 re
turned. When husband No. 2 .heard
of it ho feared for his hide for the
first husband was a man not to be
fooled. with. The second husband de
cided to propitiate the first one right
at the outset. He put his wife, the
children by the first marriage and the
accumulated children into a wagon and
drove to the place where husband No.
1 was staying. He called to him as
soon as be was within hearing and
pointing to the load told him that he
was welcome to it and further apolo
gized for the marriage. But husband
No. 1 had not come back for a re
union. He told his successor to take
the family back home. Phoenix Republican.
Assets. Bat of Specimens.
A press report from New York says:
At a meeting opened with prayer
stockholders of the defunct Golden
Rule Copper company, capitalized for
$2,000;000 to operate a mine said to
exist near Tucson, Ariz., ways and
means were discussed for realizing
some return for the investment by
citizens of Yonkers of the $125,000 in
vested. The shareholders found that
the only asset, practically, Is one roll
top desk, valued at 25, and a bag of
specimens. Most of the investors are
church folks. One of the speakers
charged the company's officers with
fraud and declared one of them un
loaded his personal stockholdings on
the Investors while the plant was prac
tically worthless.
Buy Burros,
The Williams News says: Mr. and
Mrs. E. Lamb returned home last
Saturday evening from a visit at
Prescottwith their son Clarence and
family. Mr. Lamb went on down to
Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa on busi
ness, and speaks In glowing terms of
the valley's prospects. He has made
arrangement for the purchase of
twenty-five burros, ten of which are
large Pintos, to be used on the Bill
Williams mountain trail the coming
season and In the early spring wil)
have them brought up.
Casa Grande Ruins.
In his annual report Secretary
Hitchcock recommends that an ap
propriation of $3,000 be made for the
further investigation of the Casa
Grande ruins, in Pinal county.
The custodian, be says, states that
widespread interest has been mani
fested in the "ruins, and recommends
an appropriation for the excavation
of the mounds and ruins on the res
ervation, the work to be performed
under the supervision of the bureau
of American ethnology.
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