The argus., December 26, 1895, Image 2

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Published rrery Thursday at Holbrook,
fiaVajo County Arizona, bjr -
LBEBT F, PASTA. Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at ta PQatofBee at Holbrook. Ariz-,
as aaeood-elaaa mall matter. '
SUBSCRIPTION TA TEA
One year 12 SO
.Sin nuatlu 1 50
'I kree mouths. 1 OU
A Jverti&iuc rates made known on appiica-
fion at tala office.
V-ecretary..
Treasurer..
Auditor
Att'jr Oenl
QVViciAi. piRECTOKY.
COXOBRS8IOXAL.
.Representative in JComjraa N. P, Murphy.
............. ........... ...n. ...... . . iu ew-'ott
ixtcimti DipirratnT.
Oovernor Louis C. Hug-hea. Pbenix
.Cha U. Brave. ... - "
..P.T.Cole "
C. P. Leitcb "
.T. D. Satberwalte. Tucson
Stjpt Pub. Inst.F. 1. Nether-ton. Ilesa City
Aoj t uenerai...Bawara oca warts. . .f aetux
judicial. DiPimrir-wFUiii court.
Chief Justice.'.!. A. C. Baker. Pbenix
Assote Justice.. J. D. Betbune. Tncaon
T ..Owen T. Bouse Florence
" -..Joba J. Hawkins.. .Presrott
Clerk i. L B. Alexander... Pbenix
DUTUCT COUBT. FOUVTH JVDICIAI. DLBTBICT.
Indn John J. Hawkins. . Preasott
Clerk 0. 1. Flake. ....... Hplbrook
ATAJO COCVTT.'
Sheriff C. P. Owens
Under-Sheriff . .. . . .Jtobert H afford
Probate Judc F. M. Zuek
,i Utrlct Attorney W. M. Pen-ill
" rasMrer K. W. Sawyer
!1. W. Bowman, Cbalrmaa
J. H. Breed
W. W. Willis.
XJIUKSDAY, DECEMBER 26.
COÜXTY FUNDS.
It has been, and is now, the cus
tom (without authority of law), for
the count j treasurers of the several
counties of this territory, to deposit
funds under their charge in some
bank local or foreign. This too
seems to hare been the custome pre
vailing in the state of California,
and only the other day the question
of its legality iras brought to the
attention of the attorney-general of
that state. The statute oi Cali
fornia allows more lattitude to treas
urers of that state, than our statute
upon tho same subject. Neverthe
less, the attorney-general of Cali
fornia rules against the practice and
says it is clearly a violation of sec
tion 87 of the county government
Act of California. On this subject
our territorial statute, section M2,
civil code says:
"The county treasurer must keep
all moneys belonging to this terri
tory or to any' county of this terri
tory in his own possession until dis
bursed according to law. He must
not rilare the same In the rxs session
of any person, to be used for any
-rpose; nor must be loan or in any
- jarférmse or permit any person to
' use the same, except as provided by
Aaw"
."Except as provided by law," is
the authority by which county treas
. uxers of this territory attempt to
.circumvent the law, and to absolve
hemselves from blame in doing' so.
The exception above quoted refers
to "special dppostsJ" and the county
treasurers of thjs territory have been
deluding themselves with this idea
that an "irregulalor deposit" the
manner in which county treasurers
now deposit was equivalent to a
"special deposit." We will now see
the difference between an yrregular
deposit" and a "special deposit."
Bouvier, in his Law Dictionary, de
fines a special deposit as "a deposit
made of a particular thing with a
depository; it is distinguished from
an irregular deposit." Bouvier fur
ther says: "When a thing has been
SDecisJlTdannsited wifh Ai
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87 of the County Government Act,
(of California) and .he certificate of
deposit so taken cannot be consid.-
ered as money in tho hands of the
treasurer."
In other words, section 542 of our
territorial statutes expressly forbids
county treasurers placing county
funds in the hands of any other per
son, "except as provided by law,"
which meajs a "special deposit,"
and, if a "special deposit" is made,
the title remains with the county
treasurer, and the bank is prohibited
from using this class of deposits;
and furthermore, the banks must re
turn all such "special deposits," in
the very same kind, i e gold, silver,
paper and checks, but not in the
shape of certificates of deposit,
which are not the "thing in kind"
nor are they rash,
iv.tTTTy vue cieppsit is irregular,
As wien money Is" deposited in a
bank, if it be lost the loss will be
borne by the bank. This will result
from the same principle; the loss
.will fall, in both instances, on the
pwner of the thing." This distinc
tion between a "special" and a "gen
eral" or "irregular" deposit is uni
versally recognized both by the
courts and hy business men. Now
"we all now a "certificate of deposit,"
jinder our statutes, js a negotiable
instrument, the same as that of a
promisory note. Section J2 of our
civil code reads:
"The obligee or assignee of any
written instrument not pegotiable
by the law, merchant, may transfer
to another, by assignment, all the
interest he may have in the same,"
-In making these deposits," says
.the attorney-general bf California,
j"the treasurer parts both with
specific money itself and with the
title to it. Both PfOTiej and title
pass to the bank; and the bank
promises to pay to the order of the
treasurer the respective amounts of
uoney specified in the certificate.
does not undertake to return the
itical money or thing deposited.
is clearly insolation of section
ES-KIM-IN-ZIX INCIpENT.
The bureau of Indian affairs at
Washington recently received a tele
gram from San Carlos saying: "Es
kiminzin, one of the most noted
chiefs of the Apaches at San Carlos
reservation, Arizona, is dead. He
was long conspicuous in the affairs of
the tribe, and was regarded as a dar
ing leader of the Apaches in their
attacks on whites many yearsago."
Es-kim-in-zin was chief of the Ari-vai-pa
Apaches, and most certainly
was a "noted" chief in his day. . On
the 13th day of July, 1871, he led an
attack on Captain Smith's company
of infantry, then en route from Camp
Lowell to Camp Bowie, escorting a
government wagon-train loaded with
arms, ammunition and stores. The
wily savage expected to make a big
haul by the capture of this train of
supplies, but was foiled in an unex
pected manner. At the Ciénaga, or
to be more correct, about three miles
east of it, and thirty miles east of
Tucson, (the point selected for the
attack), Captain Smith with the main
body of his command were then
about one mile in advace of the train
of wagons. The "rear guard" in
charge of a non-commissioned officer
did as they usually do, when ao com
missioned officer is present, climbed
into the wagons, all of which were
covered wjth sheets. Es-kim-in-zin
took in the situation or thought he
had and seeing the soldiers so far
in advance of the wagons, supposed
with proper management there could
not be any difficuly in the way of
capturing this rich booty of mules,
arms, ammunition and stores. At a
point on the road where a dry wash
runs parallel with it for a short dis
tance along the north side and not
over twenty yards away; in this arro
yo the red devils lay concealed, un
der the immediate conduct of a sub-
chief. Eskiminzin with thirty of his
"gee-string" warriors were posted be
hind a knoll, perhaps a half mile or
nearly so further on to the eastward,
intending to intercept Smith's com
pany should t become necessary,
Supposing no armed force with the
wagons and no one to opoose them
but the "mule-skipers," the sub-chief
had orders from Eskiminzin not to
use his rifles, but make the attack
with bow, arow and lance and only
when absolutely necessary to use pis
tols. The object was to avoid mak
ing any loud noise, thereby warning
the soldiers in the advance. This
"order" of Eskiminzin saved the lives
of the whites, and accounts for only
slight wounds received.
In the early forenoon the unsus
pecting train approached the. place
' f attack, all was still as it usually
on the desert; the'red devils lying
the arroyo not .sixty feet from the
road; the wagons arrived opposite
the point of ttack;-not a living soul
in sight excepting the helpless and
unsuspecting drivers; when, with a
surpressed yell the Apaches sprang
out' of the arroyo and poured a volley
of arrows into tho train. At the
first yell of the Apaches the "rear
guard" got out of Jhpse wagons in
much less time than when they leas
urly crawled into thpm, Header, did
you ever observe a man crawling out
of a covered govern men wagon T No,
well, he usually shoves himself out
feet-foremost; so did this rear guard
and as a consequence, nearly every
one received arrow-wounds' in the
legs but no place else on the body.
However, one soldier was killed in
this fight, but he was shot whilest
standing behind a front wheel, the
bullet passing between the spokes of
the two front wheels; he was burned
at the crossing of the San Pedro riv
er. It was at this juncture of the
fight "Old Skimmy" as he was usu
ally called was foiled in his attempt
on the wagon-train; for so soon as
the rear guard had gotten out of the
wagons, and began to use their needle-guns,
the noise made was so great
it reached the ear of Captain Smith,
and without-, a moment's hesitation
the Company was started back on
"double quick" time. Es-kim-in-zin
as before stated, was now to carry
put his part of the pre-arranged po-
gram by making an attack on the ad'
vancing soldiers under Smith, and
endeavor to stop or at least draw
them off and prevent them going to
the assistance of the rear guard; but
tho Captain was not to be so easily
deceived by this ruse of the" wily
savage. As the troops came down
tho road on the run, Eskiminzin
made a desperate charge on them
from his place of concealmen behind
the knoll, then gradually falling off
and away from direction of the train,
but as before stated, all to no pur
pose, the Company simply firing a
volley at Eskiminzin, wounding him
in left arm, and keeping right on for
the train. Eskiminzin notwithstand
ing his wound, seeing the failure of
his ruse, made a dash after the troops
to prevent the annihilation of his
sub-chief and party then making a
desperate hand to hand fight at the
wagon-train with the rear . guard.
The affair terminated as usual in
such cases, discipline and stamina
prevailed; Eskiminzin with his band
of marauders fled back to the Grant
reservation; and as was origionally
intended, the affair was laid to the
Chiricahuas under old Cocheis.
The casualities of this "incident"
were: one soldier and 20 Apachses
were killed; several soldiers were
wounded, a majority of them in their
legs. Quite a number of Apaches
must certainly have been wounded,
but how many I never learned.
Query: How did Es-kin-in-zin be
come acquainted with the fact that
Goverhment would send that train,
loaded with arms and amunition,
from Camp Lowell to Camb Bowie T
He knew this fact, for a long while
afterwards he laughingly told me
all about it.
The Yuma Sentinel tells of a faro
dealer named Harry Chandler who
enticed Daniel Landrigan, an un-
soqhisticated consumptive stranger,
to put up f 100, his all, to start a faro
mi il TiT'll a-tl 3
game, men rom wuiiams,inana-
ler's silent partner, won all the
money and closed the bank, then
both men hurried for the depot to
catch a train; Landrigan followed
and reproached Chandler for his
treachery when Chandler struck him
over the head with a revolver. Lan
drigan died the following Thursday.
People who imagine they "know
it all", will do well to read the follow
ing lines; and even people realy in
possession of brains may profit some
therefrom. Under the caption oí
"running a newspaper", the editor of
tho Albuquerque Daily Citizen, says
"The man who knows how to run a
newspaper better than any other man
is always to be found at the old
stand. But if he would just put his
hand at the business he would soon
find out that there are about a million
things more to look after than he ever
dreamed of. Running a newspaper
is not such a picnic as some wise
people imagine. It requires some
thing besides heavy standing and
talented looking. Newspaper men
may look as if they were loafers, but
if they are worth a farthing to the
paper they can do twenty-four hours
of work in twelve hours, and feel no
more tired than a cast-iron Indian.
Really, it now seems as . though
President Cleveland had imbibed,
among other things, a little Ameri
canism while on that last "duck
hunt." His proclamation of the
17th instant has the true American
ring to it ; and it is cause for national
rejoicing, to see both branches of
congress, regardless of a flasty party
spirit, stand patriotically at the
President's back in this matter. The
question now involved and to be for
ever settled, even if requiring years
of bloody war to do it is, whether
this government shall practically as
sert and by force of arms enforce,
the principles of the Monroe doc
trine; or upon the other hand be
dominated, spit upon, sat down on
and otherwise perpetually snubbed,
at all times an places, by any and all
sorts of governments little con-
temptable principalities or by any
of the "great powers." This is no
petty question of party politics, but
is one of all the people, regardless
of sale lines, races or classes. If
Englanq wjth her cormoratic greed
for grabbipg pp the whole earth,
had rather risk a war with the "great
Republic of the North," than fore
go - her nation's propensities for
grand larceny, she should be accom
modated to her heart's content; and
the sooner the war. the better for
this country. On r . ,Agland
can gamble-thr4 " 'énd of
such a war, Kr , "claim
the earth.
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Looks Well for Wool.
Both the growers of wool and the
dealers in it are agreed to ask the
restoration of so much of the McKin-
ley tariff as relates to that commodi
ty, and this reminds the Philadel
phia American that our hottest tar
iff battles have been fought over
wool. It was the woolen duties in
the tariff of 1821, and still more in
that of 1828, which finally alienated
the south from the protection poli
cy, to which it gave its support for
the first thirty-five years of the gov
ernment. The wool-grower was the
worst sufferer by the horizontal tar
iff of 1846, for while that tariff laid a
heavy duty on imported wool, it let
in woolens so cheap as to deprive the
wool-grower of the only market worth
his having. The tariff of 1868 re
adjusted the duties on both, at rates
which were thought satisfactory to
both classes of producers. But the
makers of woolens in New England
became infatuated with the notion
of manufacturing for export. So
they united with the free-traders in
1883 in cutting down the duties on
wool, and thus divided the ranks of
the protectionists to an extent which
is indicated by the disasters of the
decade which followed. Now they
are agreed to protection of home
grown wool, as they find that free
wool no more fosters exportation
than did free cotton. Albuquerque
Daily Citizen.
A Big Job Even for a News
paper Man.
People along the Colorado river,
from El Dorado cañón down to
Yuma, will this coming year see one
of the greatest low grade (also high
grade) mining booms ever known,
perhaps equal to the Cripple Creek
boom. The depression in silver is
what is bringing it forth. Gold
bearing mountains are now being ex
amined that at one time the pros
pector would not deign to notice.
They were then not looking for low
grade gold mines. As far as the eye
can see can be traced from El Dora
do canon to Yuma, those large low
grade ledges, porphyry dykes the
same as those of Cripple Creek, Co
lorado. And where to-day you see
the barren mountains you will in
1896 hear the stamps drop. Mills
will then for years to come, crush
away on an endless chain of ore.
The expert is quietly coming,
makes inspections, takes his samples
back with him to the cities, later on
he returns once moré, and when they
go to that expense it generally
means a deal for somebody's proper
ty. The capitalists want large low
grade gold mines, something that
they can figure on right down to a
cent. We have them here, and we
have the necessaries to work them
with fuel and water.
The Needles Eye, in order to place
this section before the people of the
north, south, east and west as to
what it really is, in the way of min
ing, without exaggeration, has made
arrangements to have a reporter, one
who is a practical mining man, to go
over the whole section and report
things just as he finds them on de
veloped and undeveloped properties.
His field will be that endless chain
of low grade ledges, on both sides of
the river from El Dorado canon to
Yuma. This paper has adopted this
plaq for the reason that every day we
receive letters from different sections
inquiring for large mining proper
ties, and as we have such properties
here capitalists will soon be with us
for investment. Needles Eye.
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SEWIXG MACHINES,
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HOLBROOK,
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Lard and Bacon,
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Navajo Blankets and Indian Curios.
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North Side of Railroad Avenue,
HOLBROOK,
ARIZONA.
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