The argus., April 02, 1896, Image 1

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year.
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.constitutes a small outlay, and may save you
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tis a business maxim: "a business which can
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low.1 Gentlemen, send us your brands.
Volume I.
HOLBROOK. ARIZONA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896.
Number 17.
THK RAILHOADS.
Atlantic & Pacific R. R. Co.
J7IMK TAHLE.
WSSTWABD
STATIONS.
No. 1 No. I
Ka 10 p Lv . -Chicago ...A r
OUpj 7 a; Lv Knuu City Ar
10 OOp! 6 OOp
1 p. v lua
7 Cup 4 OOp
V Ma ISpi int.... Denver. ..-Ar
Oriel lip Lv..Albuq'rque..Ar
4 Hai I OSpl Wingate.
Oai 1 pi Gallup-
13 2Ua 10 4Ua....Holbrook -
II ipi Ka Win. low
8 o, 7 Z7al Flantaff.
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8 Za 4 &p
9 Ida i tho
12 $0p 8 lop
1 -p lup
0 Sip) 05a Williams.
2Up 11 VO
O Oup 12 45a
7 40p 1 45a
S Op 4 90a
12 (Up 11 k.'p
10 Ouaj 8 Vp
8 30a 7 p
4-ai I t&p
Ash Fork
.Kingmaa.
.Need lea
Hlake-
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Ar. . Btnto.. .Lv
Ar.. . . JJojave ..Lv
1 & 5 4a
4 4ua 7 SOa
25a 9 Ua
11 45a l AOp
12 l' 2 lOp
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10 OPa
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Train No. S. wcfetbonnri. and train No. 4,
eastbonnd, are fast limited trains, carrying
first-class passengers only and equipped with
Pullman's latest and most elegant sleeping
cars, reclining chair cars, with an attendant
to look after the pasteugers' comfort and
new dining ears through without change be-
. i , i . ' i
lween l-os Angeles ano inirogo.
In addition to the regular daily equipment.
a Insurious eomDartment sleeping ear. eon
taining two drawing rooms and seven family
rooms will be attached to No. 4. leaving Los
Angeles on Tuesdays and Chicago on Wednes
days of each week.
Trains Nos. 1 and 2 carry Pullman Palace
sleeping cars through without change be
tween l.nicago ana om rraarunhniia an
annex car between Barstow and Los Angeles.
Pullman Tourist sleeping cars through with
out change between Chicago and San Fran
cisco, and Chicago and Los Angeles every
day; twice a week between Los Angeles and
St. Paul; once a week between Los Angeles
and St. Louis and Boston.
SCVLV1EB OB WINTER.
The Santa Fe Route is the most comfort
able Railway between California and the East.
The Grand Canon of the Colorado can be
reached in no other way.
The meals at Harvey's Diuiug Rooms are
an excellent feature of the line, and are only
equalled by those served on the new Dining
Cars which are carried on all limited trains.
DON A. SWEET.
Geni Pass. Agent, Albuquerque, N.M.
H. C, BUSH,
Aas't Gent Pass. Agent, San Francisco. CaL
C. W. SMITH.
Receiver and Geni Manager.
S.F,P.JP. Railway.
TIME TABLE No. 15.
In effect December 25. at 12JK a. m.
ao'TH da'T
Uxd. I Pass
No. 11 No. 1
won H DAT
STATIONS.
Pass.' Mxd
No.
.2. No.2
2 OOp
2 Wp
2 45pl
7 OCa Lv...Ah Fork- A r
7 lía! Meath
7 2a; Wicklow
7 46a' Rock Butte
8 11a .Cedar Glade
I Valley
8 Sa! -Del Rio
8 55a: .-Jerome Junction.
9 12a .Granit
9 2ttal Masaicks
9 45al Prescott
20p 12 Olp
S Oip 11 I7a
4 4Mp 11 18a
4 .p 11 OUa
4 lOp 10 ia
5 &T.p 10 10a
a o?p
Tip
S S5p
4 I3p
4 SOp
5 OVp
a 2hp
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4ip
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9 5ra
9 Ka
8 a
8 15a
7 45a
2 W.
2 40p!
Ko.41: I i No.42
7 OTia 9 SSa! Prescott
7 SOa 10 22a .....Iron Springs..
7 Wa 10 25a' Suminit.
8 01a 10 Km' -Ramsgate
8 90a 11 t Skull Valley ..
9 00a II acial Eirkland
9 2ha 12 12p!.... -Grand View..
9 4a 12 flol Hillside
2 Wp 4 lOp
2 OSp SWp
2 Olp. S Sop
1 Kip S Olp
1 lap; 2 ftip
12 rp 2 lip
12 12p, 1 4Kp
11 52a 1 2U
10 16a 12 fcipi Date Creek . .
. 11 (Is 12 i'.'o
10 5a' 1 OHpi Martines 11 10a 12 22p
11 10a; 1 SOpi Congress 10 9W 11 sua
11 Ka.' 1 4api...-Harqua Hala ... 10 45a II 10a
12 soot 2 05di Wi
k icaeni
nburg .
10 2" 10 40a
1 Wp1 z Ilpi vulture
1 27 p 2 45pi.Bot. Spr'gs June'n.
2 OOp, I Obpi Bcard'ey
2 22p larinette
2 Up: 1 2Rp! .Peoria
1 OOp 8 SHp: Glendnle
8 25pr 9 47p' .Alhambra
2 4-h! 4 OOp! Ar....Phenix ....Lv
9 Mns 10 Oña
9 45a 9 45a
9 22a; 9 10a
8 4a
9 00a 8 Xa
8 50a; 8 25a
8 41a! 8 00a
8 sua' 7 40a
Trains Nos. 41 and 42 run on alternate days.
Information as to what days same will run
will be furnished by agents on application.
No. 1 makes connections at Ash Fork with
A. A P. vest i billed limited No. S from the
east. This is the finest train west of Chicago.
No. 2 also eannects with A. 4 P. No. 2 from
the west.
Persons desiring to stay over at Ash Pork
will find the best of accommodations at Fred
Harvey's hotel.
No. 2 makes close connection at Ash Fork
with A. A P. trains Nos. 1 and 4. A. A P. No. 1
reaches San Francisco 10:15 a.m. second morn
ing. A. Jt P. No. 4 is a vest bu led train
throughout, llrhted with pint eh gas. dining
ear running through. Los Angeles to Chicago,
liiningcars under the management of Fred
Harvey, with his unexcelled service, care and
attention to his guests.
Nos. 1 and 2 connect at Jerome Junction
with trains of U. V. A P. Rr. for Jerome.
Connecting at Prescott with stage lines for
all princiiml mining camps; at Congress a it h
stage lines for Haniua Hala. Station and Yar
nell: at Pheuix with the Maricopa A Phe
nix By. for points ontlwS. P. Ry.
This line is the het route to the Great Salt
River Talley. Por information regarding
this valley and the rii b mining section tribu
tary to this road, address any Santa Fé Route
representative, or
GEO. M. SARGENT.
Geni Ft. and Pais. AgU, Prescott, Aria.
GEO. T. NICHOLSON'.
Geni Pass. Agt Chicago, 111.
jf. J. FRET.
Geni Manager, Topeka, Kan.
It. E. WELLS,
Asst. Gen'l Manager. Prescott. Aria.
IRA P. SMITH
Commercial Agent, Pbwuix, Arix.
K. COPELANÜ,
Gen'l Agent. El Paso. Texas.
PROFESIONAL CARDS.
C. 0. ANDERSON,
ATTO R N F, Y-AT-L A W,
HOLBBOOI. - A B1ZOXA.
F. W. NELSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
'vnnuiv, - ABIZOXA.
E. H. SANF0RD,
ATTORNKY.AT-LAW,
PkXaCOTT. - ABIZOXA.
W. M. PERRILL,
XMal'ot Attorney Nevajo County
HOLBBOOK, - ABIZOXA.
Win practice in all courts of Arisona.
T. W. JOHNSTON,
ATTORNEY.AT.LAW,
ruacoTT. - ABMOXA.
- Will practice In the Courts of Navajo,
Apache, Coconino and Mohave Counties.
K. E. MORRISON,
. ATT'ORN'EY-AT.LAW,
(District Attorney Yavapai County.)
Office in Court House. Prescott. Arisona.
Ko. 4 !fo. 2
J. P. WELCH, M. D.,
"PHYSICIAN ic 8ÜBOEOX,
KOLSBOOS. " ABIZOXA.
BIO JACK SMALL.
The following story was published
several years since, nevertheless we
believe there are many of our readers
who never read it. We submit the
story for your judgment, hoping that
you may laugh and wonder, as many
others have, when reading the quaint
speculations of Big Jack.
CHAPTER II.
I do not think you will get a just
idea of Big Jack Small and the men
of his profession, who are very
numerous in the great west without
I tell you that the sage-brush ox-
teamster seldom sleeps in a house
does not often sleep near a house
but under his great wagom, wherever
it may halt, near the valley spring
or the mountain strerm. His team
is simply unyoked, and left to feed
itself, until gathered up again to
move on, the average journey being
at the rate of eight miles per day
rue days more than that, some
less.
Twice a day the teamster cooks for
himself, and eats by himself, in the
shadow cast by the box of his wagon.
Each evening he climbs the side of
his high wagon very high it some
times is heaves his roll of dusty
bedding to the earth, tumbles it
under the wagon, unbinds it, unrolls
it, crawls around over it on his hands
and knees to find the uneven places
and punch them a little with his
knuckles or boot-heel, and and
well, his room is ready and his bed
is aired. If it is not yet dark when
all this is done, he gets an old news
paper or ancient magazine, and, light
ing his pipe, lies upon his back, with
feet up, and laborously absorbs its
meaning. Perhaps he may have one
or more teams in company. In that
case, the leisure time is spent smok
ing around the fire and talking ox,
or in playing with greasy cards for
fun. But generally the ox-teamster
is alone, or accompanied by an In
dian, whose business it is to pull
sage-brush for a fire where wood is
scarce, and drive up the cattle to be
yoked.
In Jack Small's train there is us
ually an Indian, though you may
not always see him, as sometimes,
when the team is in motion, he is off
hunting rats, or away up on top of
the wagon asleep; but at meal-time
he is visible, sitting about the fire,
or standing with his legs crossed,
leaning against a wagon-wheel.
The early training of Mr. John
Small, having been received while
following the fortunes of his father
in that unruly western quest the
search for cheap rich land, had been
carried forward under various com
monwealths, as his parents moved
from State to State of our Union
out of Ohio, and in and out of the
intermediate States of Indiana, Illi
nois, Iowa until he dragged into
the grave, and ended his pilgrimage
in Nebraska, while waiting for the
locomotive of that great railway
which was to make him rich. A
training so obtained has made Mr.
Small something of a politician,
with a keen ear for distinguishing
the points in the reading of a State
statute, and a high appreciation of j
the importance of State lines; while
the attempts at teaching and thej
example of his worn-out pious
mother have turned his attention to
the consistencies and inconsistencies
of religious forms: so that Mr. Small's !
heaviest and highest thought dwells
upon the present state where he -resides,
and the future state where he
is promised a residence. His great
est intellectual joy he finds in talk
ing to a politician or a preacher.
Of course he has smaller joys of the
intellect in talking ox with the other
teamsters, or in "joshing over a
srame of cards; but he does not find
solid comfort until he strikes a mas
ter in politics or a teacher in relig
ion. "What I'd like to bo sure of," said
he, one day, "is this yere: Kin a
American citizen die, when his time
comes, satisfied that he leaves a re
public behind what'll continue as it
was laid out to; an' that he's goin'
to sech a country as his mother '
thought she was goin tot Now, 1
them's two of the biggest pints in
imo,,;i, a.i ,irn m -k'n f T
I han't.
not doubts
ubts nbo'it 'oui both!j
letter from my sister I
t Now, yere's a
in Iowa, an' she says she's sick an
goin' to die; but that she's happy
because she's coin' where mother's
gone, to be happy feriver and iver. An'
yere's her husband he's a lawyer.
an he's rejoicin', in his part o' this
letter, over Grant's election, because,
he says, that puts the Republikin
party onto a sure foundation, an'
secures the support o' Iiepublikin
principles feriver and iver in Ameri-
ky. Now, you see I've knocked
round a heap yes, sir, knocked
aound a heap, an' seen a good deal,
an' seems to me, some people knows
a mighty sight for certain on power
ful slim proof. An' yere, my sister
wants me to be a good Christian, an'
my brother-in-law wants me to be
a good Kepiiblikin, when, ei you
pan me all out, I'm only a bull
puncher, an' haint mor'n half learned
the science o' that!"
It will be surmised from this
hint of Mr. Smalls character, taste
and disposition, that he was highly
satisfied when the Rev. L. F. Signal
requested the prvilege of a trip with
the ox-team for the purpose of
roughing it against the dyspepsia.
Mr. Sighal said he had been recom
mended to come to Mr. Small as a
humane and intellegent person, and
having heard that Mr. Small's wag
ons were loaded lor a Jong trip to
the southeastward, he would very
much like to accompany him as an
assistant, being willing to rough it
as much as his constitution would
stand.
"All right!;' said Jack. "Heave
yer boddin ngnt up tnar on top o
the wagon, an' come ahead. But,
I say, did y'ever play billiards?"
"I have yes, occasionally, at the
house of a friend; never in any pub
lic place. Yes, sir."
"Did y'ever play bull-billiards, I
mean witn tms Kind ol a cue, witn
brad into it T Make a run on
the nigh-wheeler and carom on
the off-leader, yer know?"
"Ah! you mean have I ever driven
oxenf Well, no, sir, not in that way
though I was brought up on a
farm in Pennsylvania, and have
drawn logs with one yoke."
"All right. I'll teach yer how to
punch bulls, an' you kiu convert me
an' the Injin. I've been wantin'
that Injin converted ever since I
hed him. He's heerd a little about
Christ in a left-handed way, but
we'll go fer him, on this trip!"
Mr. Small, while making these re
marks was striding with long strong
strides, up and down the road on
either side of his wagons, with whip
on shoulder, making all ready for a
start; looping up a heavy chain here,
taking up a link there, and inspect
ing shortening or lengthening the
draw of brakes, etc.; while his team,
strung out and hitched in the order
of march, were some standing and
some lying down under the yoke, on
the hard shard-rock road beneath
the hot suuamsr suu. His Indian,
yclepad Gov Nye, was standing with
his legs cro33ad near the ankle, stoic
ally watching the preparations, well
satisfied for the present in the com
fort of a full stomach and the gor
geous outfit of a battered black-silk
"plug" hat, a corporal's military
coat with chevrons on the sleeves
and buttoned to the chi n, a pair of
red drawers for pantaloons, a red
blanket hanging gracefully from his
arm, and a pair of dilapidated boots
on his feet.
Gazing bashfully upon this scene,
and to catch a word with Mr. Small,
the Rev. Mr. Sighal turned his hands
each ifneasily over the other, and
said:
"Mr. Small, I cannot heave my
bedding up there."
"Can't! Well, give it yere to me;
I'll h'ist it fer you."
"But I have not brought it yet.
It is just here, almost at hand, where
I lodge."
"Well, well, rustle round an' fetch
it! Biz is biz with me now. I must ;
git up an dust. Yere, Gov, you go
him all the same me he talk.
T.i,Ai.Tn,-n snth TOrh'll hlr.
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carry what you've got." i
"Thank you. You are very kind
XwArmA " Dl! v rA laaVAnt AS Via '
(? follow hv fh tror.
v - w J o
i .a. .
geous roa man, aown me steep strcti
of the mining-town. !
While he was gone, Mr. Suiail,
having all things in readiness, pro-land
...
ceeded to straighten his team so as
to tighten the chains and couplings
whereby the great wagons are made
to follow each other, in order that
he might bo sure that everything
should draw even, strong and true.
Presently, Mr. Sighal and Gov came
panting and trotting round the cor
ner, out of the street into the road,
each having hold of the end of a roll
of bedding; the reverend carrying a
black overcoat and purple scarf over
his right arm, and Gov having his
royal red blanket on his left arm.
Mr. Small, taking the roll, poised
it on ead on his right palm, steadied
it with his left, and shot it to the
top of thV high wagon-box as if it
had been a bag of feathers.
"Thar, Gov, heap jump up heap
fix 'em little rope no fall off.
You sabe!"
"Yash me heap sabe!" said Gov,
tossing his precious blanket to the
wagon top, and slowly climbing up
after it over the wheel and side.
"All ready, Parson?" said Mr.
Small, interrogatively, as he picked
up his baton of command.
"Yes," timidly, "I I believe I
am."
Rapidly Mr. Small strode forward,,
drawling out in the indescribable
rhetoric of his profession, "You Ro-
w-dy! Turk! Dave! Gee, Brigham!"
then suddenly, "Who-o-o-ah ba-a-ck!"
"See yere, Parson! Got anything
to eat aboard?"
"No, sir. I presumed I could buy
provisions at the houses where we
stop."
"Houses, h 1! O, excuse me, par
son; Thar haint no houses to speak
of, an' ef thar was, bull-teams don't
hev nothin' to do with houses, 'thout
they're whiskey-mills." Then shov
ing up his hat, and scratching his
head with a vigorous rake cr two of
his finger-nails, he pulled the hat
down on hi3 nose, and leaning back,
looked at the Rev. Mr. Sighal, and
said, S'yre, Parson, I'll grub ye, but
my grub's lightniu beans," bread,
coffee, an' can-truck. You go into
camp an' buy le'me see well, buy
a small sack o' oat meal, t wo papers
o' pinoly, a pound o' black tea, an'
half a dozen cans o' condensed milk.
That'll put ye through. Yer kin
easy ketch up with the team. Gee,
Brigham! Git up, Dave! YouRoauy!
Bally! Haw thar! Roll out! .Roll
out!" And the slow line moves over
the rocky road at a snail's pace, the
wheels grinding almost impercepti
bly, to the top of the not large
stones, and then dropping off at the
other side with a sudden fall and a
jar, which, though the fall be but an
inch or two, makes the loading talk
in various voices as it settles more
firmly to its place.
Up, slowly ah, so slowly, so dusti
ly! up and up the mountain, by
the cañón road, pausing at intervals
to breathe the panting heard, Mr.
Small grinds and crushes out a solid
shining line, with his many wheels,
in the porphyry and granite dust.
The dry mountain summits rise on
either hand, capped with the un
daunted rocks, which have defied the
artillery of heaven before man in
and color stood to witness the shock
the. rays of the sun converging
upon the head of Big Jack Small, as
he marches stoutly up by the side of
his teampto pause for its clicking
step, then up another march, and
then pausing again, lifting the serpent-coiled
baton above his head,
shouting anon the name of some
toiler of the yoke. Thus he gains
the summit, and halts to draw the
rearward brakes.
"Ah, Parson! H'ist them things
thar to Gov. Gov. you fix 'em N ow
7 j
we're off. Plenty time, though, Par-
son, to look at the scenery. You see
that round peak yonder-way off? 1
That's jest eighty-two miles from i
A 'i . ; t
yere. wnu l bcu liíci--ij
pvlvania, kin
yeT Gee, Uri
rham!
qh a-a-up!
More rapidly, and w.th mucn ,
olinkinsr and clanking of yoke-rings,
. , Sli iiAinii Ki,v. '
HOOKS, auu cuaius, uuu mo iuuu
n ' , W15 ' of the friction of
'of wheel-tire and break-block, the
A rlMtrti trkA fl fl"kn of iVlAl
ci nr ,h mountain, the
V' J I V - savav va. '
s . 1 3
big wagons rocKing, reeling, uuu.
eroaniair, as they crowd each other
round the curves oi iae uecuvnj,
above all, the driver's voice echo-1
-a. ,1 . J 1 : :, ,
ing along the cañón the drawling
words of command and encourage
ment.
Mr. Sighal is behind, out of sight;
pausing mayhap upon some bold
outcrop of earth's foundation stone,
to gaze far around and across the
uplifts of the grand furrows where
the forgotten forces have plowed
the field that now lies fallow in the
wisdom of a plan wise beyond all
that is yet written or revealed.
O sen-ant of faith, look well! It is
the aristocracy of nature upon which
you gaze. Sublime it is in the re
poseful grandeur of its indifference
to commerce, agriculture; or the
petty avenues of human thrift.
Locked in the coffers of the rocks
are the wages of its early days
of labor. Stern and forbidding is
the giant land, sad and unsocial;
but rich in the abundance of that
which renderes even man unsocial,
stern and forbidding.
At the foot" of the mountain the
team halts where the water sinks
and the dry valley begins. It is but
short work for Big Jack Small to
draw out the bow pins, release his
cattle and drop his eight yokes in a
line with the bright heavy chains
linking them together in the gravel
and dust.
Meantime, Mr. Sighal arrives in
camp with each hand full of frag
ments of vati-colored stone, he hav
ing tired his wits at prospecting for
silver.
"Hullo, Parson! Hev you struck
it rich?" interrogated Big Jack, as
he let down the grub-box and
cooking utensils from the wagon
top to Gov Nye. "That's a bad be
ginning, Parson."
"Why so, Mr. Small?"
"'Cause," said Jack, jumping down
from the wagon and coming up to
take a look at the rock in the par
son's hands " 'cause ef you ever git
quarts on the brain, you're a goner!
That ar meetin'-house in Pennsyl
vany'll put crape on the door-knot
shore! an' 'dvertiz fer a new parson.
But ye'll not git quartz on the brain
not much s'long's yer don't find no
better stones than these yere." said
he, after examining the collection.
"Ah! I wa3 merely guessing at the
stones to amuse myself. Are they
not quartz fragments?"
"No sir-ee," said Jack, as driving
his axe into a pine log, he made the
wood fly into splits and splinters
"not much. Them's iron-stained
porphyry, greenstone, black trap,
an' white carb'nates of lime. Hold
on till we git across the valley an'
git agoin' up the next mountain, 'n
I'll show you some good quartz.
Some bully float-rock over thar,
but nobody haint found no mine yit
never will, I reckon; I've hunted
for the derned thing twenty times.
Yere, Gov, git a bucket o' water.
Parson, d'ye feel wolfish?" added Mr.
Small, after he had his fire lighted
and was proceeding culinarily.
"Wolfish!" exclaimed Mr. Sighal,
with some surprise.
"Yes hungry," explained Jack, as
he sawed with a dull knife at the
tough rind of a side of bacon, cut
ting down one fat slice after the
other upon the lid of the grub-box
near the fire.
"Not unusually so."
"Haint et nothin' seace mornin',
hev ye?"
"No; not since early morning."
"Must do better'n that?" said Jack,
putting the frying-pan upon the fire.
"I usually eat little, for fear of
eating too much."
"Well, s'pose yer heave away them
rocks, an' ruu this fryiu'-pan jest
fer appertite. Nothin' like facin' an
inimy, ef yer want to git over bein'
- . , - v.- !
.. ,
Mr. Sighal immediately complied,
and, squatting by the fire, poised the
frying-pan upon, the uneven heap of
burning sticks in his first lesson at
camp-life.
"I don't allow yer kin eat much
It:- Anl- tvqtralarl
weVe t to
,
! cross the valley through
cross me vaiiey mrougu iuo
, , , , , j ,
?ust, an make long drive.
Git a
lot of that alkali into ye, an' you'll
i hanker after fat bacon!"
Ah?" said Mr. Sighal, carefully
balancing the pan on the fire,
j "Yes, sir" with, great emphasis on.
1U ; . Hllbali nw' for hanriti crAAa
"
together like a match yoke o leaders.
Does thar seem to be any coals
a-makin iu that fire, Parson?''
"The wood seems to burn; I infer
there will be coals."
"Inferin' won't do, Parson ! We've
got to hev'em, 'causo I must bake
this bread after supper, for tomorrer.
Alius keep one bakin' ahead," ejacu
lated Mr. Small, as he .finished
kneading bread in the pan, and
quickly grasped the axe, poceediug
to break up some more wood. "Yer
see, Parson, a bull-puncher hes to be
up to a little of every sort o' work,
in the mountains. Gov you look out
fer that coffee-pot, while I put this
wood on the fire. Drink coffee, Par
son? No? Well, then, make yer some
tea in an empty oyster-can haint
got only one pot fer tea an' coffee.
"No, Mr. Small do not make .any
trouble for me in that way. I drink
water at the eveninpr meal."
"All right then this hash is ready
for bizness!"
The Reverend Mr. Sighal, sitting
cross-legged on the ground, received
the tin plate and rusty steal knife
and fork into his lap from the hand
of Mr. Small, and then Mr. Small
sat down cross-legged opposite him
with the hard loaf of yellow yeast
powder bread, and the sizzling fry
ing pan, between them, surrounded
by small cotton sacks, containing re
spectively salt, pepper and sugar.
"Now, Parson," said Mr. Small,
"pitch in!"
continued.
The oldest person in Arizona 'is
Mrs. Lida Couit of Signal, who says
she was born in 178G, making her
110 years old. Her grand father
came to America in a very early day
and belonged to the Holland navy.
Mrs. Couit remembers seeing Lafay
ette in 1821 when he came over to be
present at the ceremonies at the
completion of the Bunker Hill mon
ument; she also remembers George
Washington when he was president
of the United States. She lived
many years in New York city when
Canal street was out in the country
and Madison avenue was a body of
water. At . that time they used
boards to cross the ditches below
Canal street. She has been in Ari
zona for twenty years. Phenix
Gazette.
The president has sent the follow
ing nominations of non-commissioned
officers to become second
lieutenants, to the senate: Corp. H.
A. Sievert, Twelfth infantry; Corp.
F. P. Shaw, Twenty-first infantry;
Corp. R. S. Truman, Sixteenth in
fantry; Scrg. W. B. Cochran, Fifth
infantry; Serg. H. A. Rethers, First
infantry.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES.
TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Executive committee J. H. Kibbey. chair
man ; R. L. Loug, secretory : T. vv'. Uine. A.
O. Brodie. T. P. Carson, W. AL Griffith, Her
bert Broa-n.
Apncke county J. L. Hubbell, A. Gonzales,
Geo. H. Crosby. Joe. Udall. C. 1. Kempe.
Cochise county Allen T. Bird. A I. fioyee,
W. F. Mi hols, A. L. Grow. W. A. Place.
Cocouiuo county E. S. ClarK, C. M. Fun
stou, N. G. Lai ton, F. W. Smith, E. F. Green
Gila county G. M. Allison, G. T. Peter. T,
A. Puseoe. W. M. Griffith, F. W. Westiueyer.
Gruhara county M. J. Ean, U. L. Smith. H.
Weech. Alexander McLeun. E. A. Cutter.
Muriuopa rouiity Jas. McMillan. T. W.
Hine. Lincoln Fowler, W. S. White, L. H.
Goodrich.
Mohave county H. H. Wotklns, F. L. Smith,
J. K. Hulsey. J. L. Kelson, David SouthwieK.
Navajo county J. H. Bowman, W. C,
Barnes, Jas. Mahoney, Jessie !i. Smith, A. F.
Bunta.
Pima county Charles R. Drake, Herbert
Brown. J. A. Zabriskie, Geo. Christ, K. H.
Paul.
Pinal county W. B. Roed, T. P. Carson, O.
H. Carpenter, W. F. Cooper. E. W. Child.
Yavapai county A. O. Brodie, Chas. H.
Akers, I. L. Robinson. John 3. Jones, Thos.
Yuma county J. W. Dorrinston, O. F.
Townseud, F. S. Ingalls, F. E. Ewlue, Frank
Wightmun.
NAVAJO COUNTY COKMITTBB.
J. H. Bowman, Chairman; W. H. Clark,
Secretary and treasurer; F. W. Kelson,
Bauerback, Joseph Frisby, Members.
NATIONAL REPUBLIC AX DELEGATES
A subscriber asks for the number of dele
Kates the several states and territories m ill
be entitled to in the St. Louis convention.
The following- is the apportionment:
Alabama .22
Ala-ska J
Arizona. 6
A rkansas .16
Missouri S4
MontaOa.
Nebraska .16
Nevada. 6
New Hampshire . 8
New Jersey 20
New Mexico 6
New York 72
North Carolina 22
North Dakota. 6
Ohio ...M
Oklahoma 6
Oregon 8
Pennsylvania ...... .64
Rhode Island 8
South Carolina 18
South Dakota.....: . 8
Tennessee . .' 24
Texas .'. 30
Vermont. 8
Virginia. 24
Washington 8
West Virginia 12
California ....IS
Colorado , , . 8
Conneticuit. 12
Deleware. 6
Dist. of Columbia. .. 'i
Florida 8
Georgia .26
Idaho. 6
Illinois 48
Indiana 80
Iowa 28
Kansas 20
Kentucky 26
Louisaiana 16
Maine -.12
Maryland 16
Massachusetts... SO
Michigan. 28
Minnesota is
MississiDoi:.. : ..18
W iscousin 4
v yoming a
Total, 910; necessary for choice 4U.
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