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1 f rf --3 .r VOL. IX. FLORENCE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST J, 1900. NO. -It I SJ -:.r ' a. k a a -V 3k ,v v a. ,.a ! .J A,V -3 , .fi rr. W praa. f S ,;a 4 t.4 M i f-jJ CT- JB? J..: IOi!i!l!!ll!!IIi!i!!!l!nli!!!l!!!!!!lI!in!iI!!iii !!!' -DEAl.KU IS- 1 GENERAL MERCHANDISE, I Corner Main anl Eighth Streets. New, Fresh and Clean, FLORENCE, ARIZ. 1 have just returned from San rYancisco, whnro 1 bought a la rye and well selected stock of ry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Aud NOTIONS for sjtot rush at very Tow figures, nnd Tiroposeto tfive " my customers the henofit of my oureluises. Call ami be convinced. A. F. BARKER. si2uiiiiiiiiiiiQiin?uiimniiiniiiRnii8nnn2!innuysinimniniiinuiu!i!iiniiii j;iti2i iff-- j!Lj I 9 . P. 6 .. "is 6' t 3 SAM PEDRO LUMBER COMPANY L. W. EL3OT, General Manager, Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers in Oregon Pine or Douglas- Fir REDWOOD, SPRUCE, SHINGLES, SHAKES, ETC. 1 A N j N f Yards and Wharves at San Pedro, Cal. City Office. 4 4 and 4!W Douglas B!ock.Tna A,,010a corner 3rd and Spring streets, " ' J -ilJ1,-i 11 J VJ"1- Branch Yards at Long Ueach, Conrpton,' California. and Whittier, MINING AND MILLING LUMBER A SPECIALTY. We carry the largest anil most varied stock of Mining and Building1 Lumber on the Coast, and are prepared at all times to execute orders on shortest possible notice. Our Milling Department is unsur passed and we guaiantee satisfaction in all our manufactured work, which includes all kinds of Redwood or Pine Tanks. We invite correspondence and the ob taining or our prices before you purchase elsewhere. JStt .sti. 4t- jii ji't. :V. ', 'itf w i? SiJ'iJ' Jiv '?i5:i?:;-n viv?-iii ''? 'IV H. . - W . 'iv- , Vi'S- . " ' 'iv !. 'IV 'ik B. Heyman Furniture Co. Phoenix, Arizona. WHEN YOU WAS'J TO BUT - Furniture, Carpets, Crockery, Wall Paper, Send to us for prices, samples and cata logue. The largest stock in the south- west to select from and our prices are always as low as the lowest. B. HEYMAN FURNITURE CO., Wholesale and Retail. ORIGINAL IRRIGATORS. But Their Industry Has Now Desarted Crowded Out by the White Man A Shameful Neglect of the Nation's Wards. ! Four hundred years ago, according to' the narrative of that intrepid Spanish adventurer, Cabeza dc Vaca, the portiou of Southern Arizona now occupied by the Gila Indian reservation, grew luxuriant crops of fruit and maize for the friendly Pima Indians. This explorer describes them very much as they are to-day. They oc- ; oupied the same lands as at present and were industrious farmers and irri- j gators, as they continued to be for many J'ears after the acquisition of Arizona by the United States. Tiic'y have raised corn, wheat, pumpkins, beans, sorghum and vegetables hi pro- f ubion ; they havelived in small villages and held their lands in severalty and they are expert weavers of fine blank ets and cotton fabrics. All this has been accomplished through irrigation, practiced by them since before the dis covery of the new world. What is the situation in this reserva tion to-day? Those philanthropist who bewail the passing of the Ameri can Indian may well turn their at tention to the destitute condition of the Pima Indians, brought about by the push of the white settler aud the criminal neglect of the Government, whose wards the Indians are. The Piraas have always been friends of the whites and enemies of the Apaches. They gave aid and succor to the early white pioneers, and their tepees were always open to peaceable whites or Indians when hard pressed by the savage foe. It is to-day their boast that their hands have never been stained by the white 'man's blood. It was under these conditions that they were joined about a century ago by the Maricopas, who came as fugitives from the more powerful Yuma tribe. When the belligerent Apaches broke out upon the warpath, the troops of the United States often obtained sub stantial aid and subsistence from the gentle Pimas. Their agriculture has been carried on entirely by irrigation with water diverted from the Gila river. The tribes have always sup- I -1 cream V k pure, creaoi of tartar baking powder The perfect purity and great leavening strength of Dr Price's Baking Powder . assure the finest, most delicious and wholesome food. Its exclusive use is a safeguard against alum and other baking powder adulterants. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is not only the most efficient and perfect oi leavening agents, but promotes the hsalthfulnessof the food. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO-CHICAGO. Note. There are many cheap baking powders madt oi alum. Liebig, the celebrated chemist, says that alum disorders the stomach and ' occasions acidity and dyspepsia. 'iv Il 'li? w t. 'if w 'ik- l? Vi? W 5i? W rt" Florence Hotel, L. K, DRAIS, .- - Proprietor. Newly Furnished and Refitted. Willborun ? STRICTLY FIEST CLASS. Table nupplied with the best the market affords. Elesrantlv Furnished Rooms AND AtL MODERN APPOINTMENTS, Bar Constantly Supplied With the Choicest Wines, Liquors t and Cigars. Patronage of Commercial men and the gen eral public respectfully solicited. The Valley Bank, PHOINIX, ARIZONA. Capital, Surplus, $100,000 25,000 Wu. Christy, President. . M. H. Shebm ah, Vice-President. M. W. Messisqeh, Cashier. Receive Deposits, Make Collections, Buy and Soli Exchange Discount Commercial Paper and do a General Banking Business. Oflice Ilours, 9 a. m, to 3 p. m. COEKKSI'ONnERTS. ., American Exchange National Bank, N. T. The Atilo-Caiiforuial3uuk, San Francisco. California. Am. Exchange Nat'l Bank. Chicago, JJJ. l'irst National Bunk. Lo Alludes, liauk of Arizona, 1'ioscatt, Arizona ' ported not only thensetves, but have shared their world's goods with the poorer Indians to the south of them not favored by irrigation. They have learned readily at the Government In dian School, and their progress to wards modern civilization has been regarded as one of the encouraging features of the Indian problem. Cur ing the last ten years their irrigating water their life blood has been taken away from them and they are, perforce, lapsing into indolenee, misery aud vice. The waters of the Gila, above them, have been diverted by white settlers, and instead of waving fields of green, they now, during the summer, look out upon the dry parched earth. Year after year they plowed, and sowed and irrigated their crops, only to see them wither and die before maturity, owing to lack of suSicient irrigation water in the dr3rer months. A few who are favorably located at points where water appears in the dry bed of the Gila can still mature their crops; others can eke out a bare existence by hauling wood or other precarious em ployments, while the larger- number have become more or less dependent upon charity or have degenerated into thieves and vagabonds. About 0,000 of these Indians are de pendent for their subsistence upon the lands of the reservation which con tains 350,000 acres while the water sup ply in the Gila last year, owing to use for lands above, has not been sufficient to irrigate 1,000 acres belonging to the Indians. Fully half the cropa planted have not produced enough for seed, notwithstanding the great fertility of the soil. Two acres per Indian of irrigated land has been shown by competent authority as ample land for their use and comfort. Government engineers have pointed out the solution of the problem through the building of a storage reser voir on the Gila which will supply water not only for the Pimas, but for thousands of other Indians whom the government could then move to this reservation and commence the process of education and agricultural civiliza tion. Statesmen have urged upon the government the necessity for such action, from standpoints of justice. humanity and even economy, but thus far Congress has turned a careless ear to such entreaties. liad the Indiaus been private American citizens, they could have claimed, their rights and enforced them, but being wards of the nation, others have come in and taken their -water to which they have bad undisputed title for' four years, tention to new wards thousands of miles distant, while its original friends and allies are left to steal and beg an existence or starve. The United States has expended large sums of money for the introduc tion of irrigation on the Indian reser vations where it is desired to educate the Indians into agricultural habits as a means to his civilizaMon. Here is a tribe of Indians who have for cen turies been eugaged in a rieullure by irrigation, and who were, until recent ly, the only successful irrigators in Ari zona. They are now deprived of their water through the agency of the white man, directly encouraged by the United slates government. Is it not an imr perative obligation of honor upon the American people that their supply should be restored to them? The only means lies through the construction by the government of a storage reser voir on the- Gila. And instead of the uncertain possibility of elevating a savage or hostile tribe, the necessity presents itself of preventing the de struction of a civilization already at tained among a friendly and in times past hospitable people. to create large holdings. In no c:i.se has a State escaped from the rankest and most impolitic management of public lands entrusted to them. No one should approve of a Territorial management of Dalioual irrigation works- or national lauds after the scandals that have occurred in such matters as the Swamp Land orgies. A party piatfrom is not apparently deemed a very serious, affair by the politicians. We hope" that it is not serious in this case. More Dollars than Sense. From the Los Angeles Times. A census taken just now would show a very, considerable reduction of the population of Arizona and a corres ponding increase in that of California which is evidence of the good suu;-e of the people of Arizona. A RANCH GIRL'S TRIBULATIONS. Irrigation In Politics. (From the Los Angeles Saturday Post.) The Republican party platform just adopted recognizes the duty of the Government to take up the development of irrigation in the arid West. This is good. The vast area of desert in the West and Southwest can never be re claimed except by the nation. The only way that a very large amouut of gooi but dry land can be made pro ductive and inhabitable in the West i& I by intelligently planned irrigation works, honestly constructed aud honestly administered. The lands thus made available can be sold to actual settlers for enough to pay the cost of a judicious development and application of water. We were grieved to see that the last sentence of this part of the platform requires that the management of such national works and the distribution of the water to settlers or others be left with the States and Territories. Persons well informed ont his subject and who are disinterested are unan imous in the opinion that the man agement, expenditure and control should be in the nation. These public spirited men are absolutely opposed to State or Territorial control of public lands, water or expenditures for con struction. The experience of this country is uniform that the executive system of no, State or Territory is strong enough- to properly manage such public lands as have been turned hundred t over to them. State management of and the government turns in. public land has been incompetent aud differently away, even, directing its a j c,ytr.r,upt ; Its. teutleuey has always baeji They ain't a sagehen on the crick That's havin1 troubles come us thick As me, I reckon ; every day I hit some aggervatiu play That comes jes' like a cuttin dart To rip the stitches of my heart! Don't see a thing at home but spats Seuce pop he j'iued the Democrats. Ma she's a Strom- McKinley man. An' pop was, too. fust time he run Fur President, an' goodness me! But how they whooied un'duuced whon Lc Was 'leeted ! Huizged each other jes Like crazy lovers do, I guess. But now they scrap like dogs an' cats Scnce pop he j'ined the Democrats! Ho says the trusts has got their feet Right on our necks, an try'n to eat The vitals out o' Uncle Sam Like vultures, an' he'll jes' bednni If he kin line up with a mob That eats the corn gives him the cob: He thinks they're wuss than pesky ruts Sence pop he j'ined the Democrats. Mu tells him ol' Bill Bryan uin't Noways related to a saint, m An' he'll git back by sayin' Bill McKinley ain't no sugur pill. Than he'll git riled an' she'll git hot, Both suyiu' 'tother's talkia' rot. An' so they have their daily spats Scnce pop he j'ined the Democrats. Ma threatons at divorce, an' he Jes' grits his teeth an' says ef she Feels like jumpin' from the track They ain't no strings to hoi' her back ! An' so they'll chaw the rag an' fight From morning' plum jam up to night A-poundin' at each other's slats Sence pop he j'ined the Democrats. But what's a eatin' me, my beau 'S a strong Kepub. from head to toe. 'An' pop caiat argy him to drop Hiscraziuessao' make a Hop. Los' time he come pop kicked so hard. It sent him half way 'cross the yard, Jos'like them circus a-jrybats. An' I say, durn tho Democruts! Denvor Post. fideutly expected to reach 25 t per annum, and at the same ti vide a surplus enabling the t merit of the plant' to a thonss daily capacity, the net earnin which should be from $4,00 fS,000,('00 per annum." "Twt per cent per annum," and "$ to $8,003,000 per annum!" T pany should not encounter mv culty in selling its stock to th b'.-lieve its statements, at $8 p TO THE DEAF. A rich lady cured of her l and noises in the head by Br, son's Artificial Ear Drums, g' 000 to his Institute, so that de: unable to procure the Ear Dr' have tiiera freo. Address No. Nicholson Institute, 7S0 Eightt New York. There is always a story in ci. about some one. There is i confidential lie whimpered thr community about some brot every one is admonished to sa; : about it, and finally everyboi it but the brother in question have a friend who is made tbr of silly gossip, it is your dut him about it. If you keep allow your friend's reputati stained and trampled under fi out a chance to defend him are doing a great injustice. believe in hatching up tn , any one, aud we hate to si ; convicted of a crime iu the : of the people without a chan plain the matter. It would 1 thing if lies were left painte ? atmosphere in which they v and the liar's picture at them. There wouldn't be ; told, but the atmosphere woi"': of word pictures, and what a collection it would be. (Na Fellow. , The political fight in Ariz( on. Mai-k Smith is now a ; for delegate to Congress chances are good for his nc With Mark Smith in Con zonans need have no fear 5 interests will not be thoroi tected. Mohave Miner. A Flaming Prospectus. From the Mining Review. The Greene Consolidated Copper Company, "owner of the great Cananea copper mines" in the State of Sonora, Mex., is doing some very tall advertis ing in Eastern papers at this present time. It des-Tibes the property as "known to "be one of the greatest cop per properties in the world," and is inviting subscriptions to its stock at $8 per share. Its capital stock is an nounced to be $5,000,000, divided into 500,000 shares of the par value or $10 each, of which 100,000 shares are for treasury purposes.. In one of its an nouncements, a copy of which we have received, it is stated: "Before the year has expired, with the install ment of the imptovetnents now go ing forward and referred to in the prospectus (to be had upon application), the earnings of the company are co i In every f ancf vr "Jr. mnv hH tm- the -tint Mde I BtftndarA 1 out:. I that' make; horses