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VOL. VIII.
FLOKENCE, FINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, L899.
NO. 29.
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DS: ANCIL MARTIN,
JjJTB AND EAR. PhoenlxUriKma
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THE ARID WEST.
SENATOR WARREN'S ADVOCACY OF
ITS -CAUSE COMMENDED BY
HIS CONSTITUENTS.
SUrto tngimer Elwoed Mead Tells of trie
Possibilities of irrigation.
ilF-rovu the Denver Republican.l
Senater Warren's return from
Washington to his home in Cheyenne
after the adjournment of congress was
the occasion of a dinner in his honor,
at 'Which' his zealous advocacy of the
cause of the went "'as strongly eout
tn:r.!ed. u address upon "The l0hsiWV.-...'S
of Irriff utiou" was mado by Elwi-'id
Mead, state engineer of Wyoming,
which was in part as follows :
"The possibilities of irrigation em
brace uiauy things which tiaiu will cut
permit ma to consider. What they
have of achievement, of wealth and of
population for this region nothing but
tbe vision of a prophet: will enable me
to forecast. The wonderful trans
formation already wrought in the ap
pearance, resources and popular esti
mation of the value of the arid west
makes it difficult in many respects for
future possibilities to surpass past
acUlevments.
IKRIGATION AND CIVILIZATION.
"Draper says that 'civilization de
pends on climate and agriculture.'
After my recent visit to Arizona I was
ready to endorse the latter part of the
proposition. The long stretches of
sandy desert with the gigantic cactuses
standing as fitting sentinels over its
desolation made me woDder that the
Indian had ever consented to make
that region his habitation. The miles
and miles of alfalfa fields covered with
their unapproachable green, which in
places have supplanted the desert,
made it a matter of surprise that so
many .white men had stayei away.
Tbe misery of the crucifixion thorn
above the ditch and the beauty and
bounty of the orange grove beyond it
mark the entire span between the
barbarism of past ages and the highest
achievement of nineteenth century
civilization.
"The irrigation ditch is tbe con
spicuous feature which separates the
B'.g Horn Baaiu of Capt. KonneviUc's
time from the Rig Horn Baaiu of to-day.
A change which marks tbe displace- i
ment of a tribe of Indians, which, by j
common cob&fLt, w ere the most adroit J
and in. hi -inoiH llnefe'i ol th:s con
tinent by the establishment of com
munities of farmers who are reclaim
ing the land and creating homes under
an Irrigation system which is known
of and admired beyond the borders of
our own country for the stability,
justice and enlightened principles
which form its basis.
"Thesuccessof irrigation has already
gone beyond the stage of experiment,
but to develop its possibilities there
must be legislation and adequate social
and industrial organization. The
greatest obstacle which confronts us is
the ignorance or indifference which
prevents the enactment of one and
development of the other. In this
respect onr condition would have been
far better if the first settlement had
been made on the Pacific instead of
the Atlantic slope; in California in
s tead of Virginia.
RECLAMATION OF THE WEST.
"Our growth in population and
wealth for the last 300 years has hot
been in the direction of preparation for
the reclamation of the arid west but
directly against it. The importance of
the agriculture of humid lands has
made tbe reclamation of the arid half
of this country seemingly of little eon-
seqKTice and has caused those who
know nothing of our necessities to re
gard our claim for needed aid and the
enactment of laws suited to our con
ditions to be both nnnessary and im
pertinent.
"It ia the preponderance of ignor
ance and indifference which constitutes
our greatest daDger. The trouble is
not to secure a development of some
kind, but to secure the right kind
which will result in the largest and
best use of our resources and end in
naking irrigated agriculture as stable
and prosperous as that dependent on
rainfall. The difficulty which con
fronts us now is not so much a lack of
resources as the opportunity to make
the best use of what we have.
"It is easier to obtain money to build
a canal than it is to secure the definite
abrogation of tbe doctrine of riparian
rights, which, so long as it is not abro
gated, is a perpetual menaee to the
value of the canal and the homes it
creates. The trouble is not so much
to dispose of the public land as to
secure the enactment of the land laws
which will put those lands in the
hands of the men who are willing to
undergo the privations of pioneer life
for the sake of enjoyinz landed in
dependence.
"It is those facts which give signi
ficance and value to the stopping of
the wheels of legislation at the close
of the last congress by Senator Warren.
It aroused the people of the east from
their indifference to this question and
showed them that at last the people of
the arid west had a cause. It united
and inspired the people of tbe west to
further effort in behalf of their section
by showing them that in the halls of
congress they had an able, zealous,
and effective advocate."
Tho Camp Verde Murder.
iFroin the Prcwott Courier.
District Attorney Ling returned
from Carnp Verde Jei-rterduy morning
at o o'eloek. From him tbe reporter
gleanod the following correct aceoint
of the double murder at that point
last Sunday evening: About 10 p. m. a
stranger walked up to tbe store; U. M.
Rodgers, C, D. Wingfield, Capt. Boyd,
Lew Turner and Dick Iopkin3 were
seated on the porch engaged in con
versation. The stranger sat down and
chatted for half an hour, keeping well
in the dark most of the time. Rodgers
got up, ciosod the front door of the
store, barred same on the inside, came
out through a room used as a sitting
room and asked the stranger if he
could do anything for him. The
Btranger replied, "You get back in
there, Mack 1" Bodgers turned back
into tbe sitting room and ran through
the store into the baok room where
the guns and the safe were. The
stranger followed him to the back
room and fired, the bullet entering the
back o f Bodgers' neck. He fell to the
floor and expired. Wingfield was in
the bedroom when the shot was fired,
lie ran out through tbe sitting room
onto the porch, the stranger following
about four feet behind him and fired.
The bullet strnck Wingfield a short
space above the small of the back.
Wingfield fell mortally wounded and
died about 3 o'clock the next morning.
When Wingfield fell the stranger
stood between Capt. Boyd and 'Wing
field. The other two men ran away at
the first 6hot. Boyd started toward
Wingfield, when the stranger said, "I
might as well kill all you s s of b s,"
and fired at Boyd, tho bullet goic,j
through the right Ic?, two inches above
. tUa knetf. T'he stranger then walked
oft the porch, made no attempt to rob,
but went on to 1ns horse, which was
tied about one-eighth of a mile from
the s!,ore( in a southerly direction. lie
threw tvfo shells from bis pistol as he
walked, wb ich shells are now in pos
session cf officers. Ilia horse is shod
only on one foot. The trail of the
horse leads in the direction of Ton to
Basin, at all times oh the main road.
posse was in pursuit by daylight
Monday morning. At 8 :2ft p. m.,Tues'
day no word h&'X beu received from
posse. ' Now comes some evidence lead'
ing up to the probable cause of the
murder. Two weeks ago, some Apacb'e-
Mohave Indians, camped- near Ft.
Verde, lost some posies and went to
Bodgers and Wingfield for advice.
Bodgers wrota note for the Indians
to the justice of the peace at Jerome,
The Indians took the trail, after see-
Dg the justice, captured two men and
recovered their ponies. During the
examination of the two- men before
the justice, the fact was- brought out
that Bodgers had written the note. One
of the men named. Oscar Wade, after
his discharge, stated that he would get
even with Bodgers. Later on. an
acquaintance of Wade, who knew him
in Globe and Jerome, received a letter
from, Wade, written at Flagstaff, in
which letter Wade stated that he
would be in a canyon near Camp Verde,
with easy money to divide. It is
thought that Wade is the man for the
reason that he singled out Rodgers and
Wingfield to be his viotims, shot !
Bodgers fijhi. He did not shoot to
kill in shooting at Boyd, as he stood
within a few feet of Boyd when he
fired. The only news heard from the
posses was brought in by Sain Parker,
who stated that he met the second and
third posses twenty miles from Camp
Verde following the trail of the horse
with three unshod feet. The mur
derer is described as follows : Is about
32 years old, five feet ten inches high,
dark moustache, brown hair and eyes,
short growth of dark beard, fine voice,
quick, nerveous eye, weighs 175
pounds, wore a white hat and dark
clothes. He worked in Globe eight
months ago and is said to be wanted
in Texas for murder. He had eiffht
hours the start of the first posse and
was unable to get a change of horses
before he reached Strawberry. The
trail showed that he galloped his
horse for 30 miles. The posses, head
ed by Sheriff Munds, are made up of
cowboys who know every foot of the
country lor a hundred miles every
way. The whole population of tbe
Verde Valley turned out to the fu
neral of the murdered men. Rev.
Thompson preached a very eloquent
sermon.
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HOYAt BAttfNq POWPE
THE TEXAS RANGERS
Old Institution to Be Leglblated Out
of Existence.
Has Lost Caste of Late Yearsi n
Has Dwindled Down 14
si Mere Hanrtnl of
Old Timers.
"We are going to lose what has al
ways been to me the most character
istic of the men of Texas, if a bit of leg
islation now pending manages to pass,
said Frank I!. Lamar, cf Austin, in that
state. "The proposition is up to do
away with the Texas state mngers, a
body of rough and ready fellows who
were a cross between the gentleman
cowboy, the policeman and the 'tough
man' of the plains. At one time there
was a bunch of these fellows, ivho liked
the rough and careless lives they had
to lead. They were the most irregu
lar of regulars, but they were a ver- ef
ficient police force for the state, and
they have a record of very many good
deeds performed in the line of duty,
as well as one of some pretty rough
fun.
"They came into being just after the
war as a sort of mounted police for
eur frontier, to guard the then sparse
ly settled country from the 'greasers
who came over from Mexico to steal
cattle or smuggle goods from one coun
try to trie other. They bated greas-'
ers, Indians and squawmen as his Sa
tanic majesty is said to hate holy wa
ter, and would rather kill one than eat
a square meal or kill a rattler. They
bad a sort of uniform, but the prin
cipal feature of it was the saddle of
their horses, and whenever one had;
made a good bit of money it was a
saddle that he first thought of pur
chasing. Some of these were gorgeous
in the extreme,, all covered with Bilvei"
ornftnipnts and filigree work of all
sorts. Each of them carried a navy re
volver, a carbine, a !.-o and a blanket
when he was on duty. Their ponies
were the" tough little bronchos of the
plains, and they could ride like the
devil, shoot to kill, riding or standing,
and endure any hardship. They feared:
neither (jod, man. nor ihc devii, cu h&
been well said of them, and each had
a lot of notches in the butt of either his
carbine or his revolver, generally in
both, as proof of the individuals they
had killed in the line of duty, each
notch indicating a life taken. It was
generally the life of a man whom the
community could well spare. They
thus marked the passage to their last
account of horse thieves, smugglers, In
dians or 'bad men,' who were the worst,
as they were the most cowardly and
treacherous, of the whole bunch.
"Of late years the 'rangers' have
rather lost caste and they have dwin
dled down to about 50 in all, drawing
pay from the state. The country has
become so generally settled and the
tough element so well subdued that
there seems now no longer any place
for them in the police scheme of the
state. I am not the only old Texan
that is sorry to see the rangers go, for,
even though they have of late lived
rather in the imagination of the people"
than in fact, they were so thoroughly
feared by thieves and ruffians that their
past reputation has served to keep these
yeople on their good: behavior. We
all fear that with the passing of this
body there may return frontier troubles
and perhaps the old-time thievery and
smuggling.. But I suppose the state
officers and legislators know best about
the matter, and we will have to ac
eept their dispersion whether or no.-
But one thing I do know, and tliatisthat
the women who have to live on the
ranches will regret the passing of the'
rangers. They rarely Bad any use for
them, but when there was any trouble
and the rangers were around, the wom
en folks knew they were nafe. Manv
a woman owes her life to tbe timely ar
rival at the ranch of &ne or more of
these members of our frontier police.
They ve been mighty good friends to
the Texans, but as they have outlived
their day iu helping along tbe scheme
of civilization I suppose they must go.
They will be mightily missed by the
early settlers of the state, those men
who aided to develop the big ranches,
some of whom are bigger than the
states up east here." N. Y. Times.
COPPER-LINED STOMACHS.
Remarkable Gaslrononiioal Peats
ol as Esslishmss ss4 si
Amerleeia.
John Collins, who has lately distin
guished himself by swallowing 91 peb
bles and has come out of Peterbor
ough infirmary, where he has been in
confinement as the consequence ol this
feat, no doubt thinks he has beaten the
record. He is mistaken, however. A
much more remarkable feat is recorded
in the museum of Guy's hospital, where
they have some scraps of pocket knives
that have been swallowed by one John
WAHIU&.
'Pure
co., wrw votm.
Cummings, nn American sailor, ne
and his mates went to a fair and rw
a mountebank doing some wonderful
Most of them were greatly i in pressed
by the performance, but tuinn-iiigs
marie litrht of it, and declared he could
do the same if he liked. On being
dared to do it, he took out bis own
pockctknife Mid boiled it. His ship
males were naturally delighted. They
plied him with grog and aiTectMiiratHy"
encouraged him to still farther achieve
ments. Cummings boldly declaf-ed his!
readiness to swallow all the pocket-1
knives on shipboard. Three were in
stantly offered him, and he actually
swallowed them all. One of the four
he seemed to have permanently appro
priated, and for six years he expert-'
mented no more in this way. Even
tuallj', however, he tried a few moro
of these somewhat indigestible articles
of diet, and, it was said, would Bwal
low a knife with the utmost indiffer
ence.
When Cummings told his story to the'
doctors, as, of course, he had to do in
the end, they thought him a mono
maniac and were inclined to pay no at-1
tention to it. External examination,'
however, showed that a. metal point
had perforated the a1 of the stom
ach and induced the hospital author
ities to administer powerful solvents in
order, if possible, to get rid of the ob
structive fragments of this singular
dietary. Terhaps the stomach which
had held out against pocketknives gave
in to the doctors' strong medicine. At
all events, the man died', and they have,
on show at Guy's some 40 or 50 scraps
of metal blades and bits of hp.ndlrs and
other component parts of pocketknives
all testifying to the truth of the story
the man had told and proving, indis
putably that he had long been in the
habit of amusing himself or astonish
ing his friends or perhaps- turning an'
honest penny occasionally in this-original
way. Collins cerliiuiy hrni beaten'
him by coming out of the infirmary
alive. London News.
THE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW'.
There's been a lot to say about t he roan be
hind the fun,
And fulks has praised- him highly tor the'
noble work he-done;
He won a lot of honor for the land where'
men are free
It was him that sent the Spaniards kltln''
back across the sea.
But he's had his day of glory, had his little'
spree, and now
There's another to be mentioned he's the''
man behind the plow.
A battleship's tv wonder and an army's'
very grand.
And warrin's a profession only heroes under
stand:
There's somethin' sorto' thrill iu' in-a flag?'
that's wavin' high.
And it makes you want to holler when the"
boys sro marchin' by ;
But when the shoutin's over and the flghtin's-
done, somehow
We find we're still depending on the man be-"
hind the plow.
They sine about the glories- of the man be
hind the gun.
And the books are full of stories of the won
ders he has done:
The world has been made over by the fear
less ones who fight ;
Lands that used to be in darkness they have
opened to the light :
When God'sehildren snarl the soldier has to
settle up the row,
And folks haven't time for thlnkln' of they
man behind the plow.
In all the pomp and splendor of an army on?
parade.
And through all the awful darkness that
the smoke of battles made:
In the halls where jewels glitter and wher
sboutln' men debate.
In the palaces where rulers deal out honor
to the great,
There is not a single person who'd be doln''
bizness now
Or have medals if it wasn't for the man be
hind the plow.
We're a-bni!din' miehty cities aod we're1
firainin' lnftv Tiefe-tits
We're ft-wioiiin' lots of glory and we're
set tin' things to rights ;
We're a-showin' all creation bow the nor Id's
airairs snouid run:
Future men'll gasze in wonder at the things
that we have done.
And theyll overlook the feller, j 1st the same
as we do now.
Who's the whole concern's foundation -
t uat s tne man behind tbe plow.
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