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Volume I.
HOLBROOK, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896.
Number 24.
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THE RAILROADS.
Atlantic & Pacific R. R. Co.
TIME TABLE,
EASTWARD.
W EBTWABO
No. 4 No. 2
STATIONS.
No. 1 No. I
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Train No. S. westbound, and train No. 4,
astbonnd. are fast limited trains, carrying
first-lass passengers only and equipped with
Pullman's latest and most elegant sleeping
ears, reclining- chair ears, with an attendant
to look after the passengers1 comfort and
new dining ears through without change be
tween Los Angeles and Chicago.
In addition to the regular daily equipment,
luxurious compartment sleeping ear, con
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 ears through without change be
tween Chicago and San Francisco, with an
annex ear between Barstow and Los Angeles.
Pullman Tourist sleeping ears 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.
SUMMER OR WINTER.
The Santa Fé 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 Dining Rooms are
an excellent feature of the line, and are only
equalled by those served on the new Dining
- Car which are carried on all limited trains.
DON A. SWEET.
Geni Pass. Agent, Albuquerque. N. M.
H. C. BUSH.
Aas't Gen'l Pass. Agent, Saa Francisco. CaL
C. W. SMITH.
Receiver and Geal Manager.
S. F., P. &P. Railwau.
TIME TABLE TSTo. IS.
Ia effect December 25, at 12.03 a. m.
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ho. Si! No. 1
STATIONS.
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Trains Nos. 41 and 42 run on alternate days.
Information as to what days same will run
rill be furnished by agents on application.
No. 1 makes connections at Ash Fork with
A. A P. vestibuied limited No. t from the
east. This Is the finest train west of Chicago.
No. 2 also eanneeta with A. A P. No. 2 from
the west.
Persons desiring to stay over at Ash Fork
will find the best of accommodations at Fred
Harvey's boteL
No. 2 makes close connection at Ash Fork
with A. A P. trains Nos. 1 and 4. A. A P. No. I
reaches San Francisco 10:45 a.m. second morn
ing. A. A P. No. 4 is a vestibuied train
throughout, lighted with pintch gas. dining
car running through. Los Angeles to Chicago.
Dining cars 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 principal mining camps; at Conn reas with
stage lines for Harqua Hala, Station and x ar
Bell; at Phenix with the Maricopa A Phe
nix Ry. for points on the S. P. Ry.
This line is the best route to the Great Salt
River Valley. For information regarding
this valley and the rich mining section tribu
tary to this road, address any Santa Fé Route
representative, or
GEO. M. SARGENT.
Geni Ft. and Pass. Aft- Prescott. Arls.
GEO. T. NICHOLSON.
Geni Pass. Agu, Chicago, I1L
J. J. FRET.
Gen'l Manager, Topeka, Kan.
R. E. WELLS.
Asst. Geni Manager, Prescott. Ariz.
IRA P. SMITH,
Commercial Agent, Phoenix, Aria.
B. OOPELAND,
Geni Agent. El Paso, Texas.
PROFESIONAL CARDS.
C. 0. ANDERSON,
ATTOR N E Y-AT-LA AV,
lOUKXH, - AHIOH.
F, W. NELSON,
ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW,
wixsiow. - Anion.
E. M. SAN FO RD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
rmxscorr. - auioia.
W. M. PERRILL,
Xiatot Attorney Jisvajo County
ouaoog, - ABixoaa.
Will practice in all coarta of Arizona.
T. W. JOHNSTON,
ATTO K M KY-AT-LAW,
AKZOB-A.
Will practice la the Courts of Navajo,
Apacha. Coconino and Mohave Counties.
R. E. MORRISON,
ATTOByBTV-AT-LA-W,
(District Attorney Yavapai County.)
Office ia Court House. Prescott, Arizona.
. J. P. WELCH, M. D.,
PHY8ICIAN Ac BÜRGEOX.
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STATEMENT OF
3F
Kirst National Bank
ALBUQUERQUE, A". 31.,
At the close of business, Thursday, May 7, 1896.
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts $ 587,828.49
Stocks, Bonds and Securities 92,114.38
Bank Building, Furniture and Fixtures 40,318.00
United States Bonds $250,000.00
Cash on hand and Exchange 386,591.56
Cash Resources 636,591.56
Total.! $1,356,852.43
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock $ 100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 59,208.15
Circulation 90,000.00
Deposits 1,107,644.23
Total $1,356,852.43
RUINS OF FORT DU CHARTRES. !
Historie Relie Slowly Uolng to Dust Over
In Randolph County.
Over in tbe northeast corner of Ean
dolpn county. 111 , covered with under
growth and weeds, but one little (rate
remaining with the croinhlinjr walls of
the outer bastion, is all that is left of
one of the historic fortresses of tbe
American continent. It is the rnins of
old Fort dn Chartres, one of tbe cbain
of fortillcations erected by the French
for the purpose of repel intr the attacks
of tbe red men and later the redcoats.
Away back in 1718 this point was first
selected and constructed. It took its
name from the fact that it was con
structed under the charter direct from
the French king and was built of wood
in ancient blockhouse style. That was
all that was needed at a time when ar
tillery to breach the walls was bard to
pet and impossible to transport over
the dreary waste of the western conti
nent. It became the most flourishing
of the posts and the surrounding' region
soon settled up with thrifty subjects of
far-away France.
Villages sprang up around tbe post,
the necessity for greater protection
than a farmhouse causing the people to
group themselves near fortified posts,
that the thirsty Indian might not shed
their blood in the ever-recurring raids
on the "pale face." In time it was
fired, however, and nearly all de
stroyed. It was abandoned in 1773. Tbe
Tillages were swept away in tbe floods
which buried all of that portion of
what is now tbe great state of Illinois.
Prior to this final abandonment, how
ever, under the administration of
Chavalier Macarty, the post was turned
into a regular fortress with heavy ma
sonry quadrangle, inner and outer
bastions and scarp. This was done
principally for tbe purpose of resisting
the attacks of the English, then at war
with France on this continent.
St. Ange Do Belle Rive succeeded tbe
Chevalier Macarty in the command of
Fort Chartres and retained possession
of the fort and country until the arriv
al of Capt. Sterling of tbe British army
on Jnly 17, 17G3. when St. Ange and his
troops took possession of the present
site of St. Louisi Mo.
This fortress built at so much ex
pense in the wilderness of America,
and at the same time so strong and
durable, has been declining since its
abandonment. In places the walls
are torn away and almost even with
the surface and will all be a mass of
ruins in a few years unless tbe govern
ment takes steps to protect it. Every
summer relic hunters from all over the
state visit this fort and dig within its
walls for relics. Chicago Chronicle.
stomping Games at the TnUerlea.
The emperor end empress were ex
ceedingly hospitable and kind hosts,
anxious to amuse their guests; but for
this purpose, unfortunately, romping
games wereoftcn chosen, which, though
certainly undignified and ill-suited to
those beyond school years bad not,
however, the character attributed to
them by public report, nor the licen
tious freedom believed in by the Fau
bourg St. Germain, and contemptuously
sneered at by its aristocratic inhabi
tants. The mistake lay in doing on n
large scale what ought to be tolerated
ouly among intimate friends and very
young people. But the mean ingrati
tude of those who enjoyed all the gen
erous kindness lavished on their guests
by the imperial hosts, and then dis
figured the truth to sneer at them with
their enemies, was too contemptible to
be even mentioned with patience.
Annu I Bi jknell, in Century.
1 nave ball a notion to gire up trying
to be a man," sighed tbe New Woman.
"What!" shrieked the others.
There is t.o use trying. I have made
tbe most strenuous efforts possible to
feel half scared to death when I go into
a dry goods store, and I just can't do it."
Indianapolis Journal.
Bis Own Jonah.
In a spite of bravado the whale
thought to dive beneath, but the buge
ocean steamer caught him and dug a
bole in bis backbone.
The whale shuddered.
That's the greatest bard ship I ever
tried to under go," be cried. X. Re
THE CONDITION.
THE -
THE TH0UBLESÜ3IE HUNS
Their Unsightly and Unruly Colo
nies in Pennsylvania.
Mining Towns That Are tike the Slums
of Our Great Cities Lawlessness
. and Bloodshed on Sunday
and Fay Day.
A recent number of the American
Magazine of Civics contains an interest
ing article on the Pennsylvania Huns
by W. F. Gibbons. These troublesome
residents of the Keystone state arc not
genuine "Magyars, not, strictly speak
ing, of the Hungarian race, but Slavs,
like Russians and Poles. Their first
introduction in Pennsylvania was the
work of employing corporations, which
imported them to cheapen labor. Tbe
law soon interposed a barrier against
this importation, but the immigration
of Huns was not interrupted. Tbe
wages they get in Pennsylvania, al
though too small for Americans to live
on, are greater than they receive at
borne, so they continue to arrive. Coal
miners meet them in Ne-.v York and
offer them work in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Gibbons cites the census tables,
showing that at the latest enumeration
Pennsylvania contained 24,001 Huns,
and the United States but 03,423. The
Pennsylvania Huns are mostly collected
in the comparatively small anthracite
coal regions of the Wyoming and
Schuylkill valleys. A single county.
Lucerne, contained in 1890 as many
Iluns as theentire state of Ohio. Since
1800, despite-iard times and the return
of many immigrants to their own conn
try, the number of Huns has largely in
creased. The mining towns where these peo
ple live are like the slums of our great
cities. The streets are filled with gar
bage, and riots,of ten resulting in homi
cides, are expected on the Sunday after
every pay day. Of course most of the
original inhabitants have left. They
did not stand upon the order of their
going, but got out with dispatch. In some
towns only a few voters remain. The
murder of a Hun by one of bis own race
creates no demand for justice in the
minds of his surviving countrymen. "If
the survivors be approached," 6ays Mr.
Gibbons, "and urged to call in the law
they will grunt expressively and re
mark with more or less distinctness:
'Dead Uungari no good.' Indeed, an
ordinary murder passes "almost with
out comment."
But these people are not incapable of
learning some lessons in the school of
experience. They bave been cheated
and blackmailed outrageously by dis
honest officials at the mines and by
English-speaking miners, but they have
gotten their eyes open at last and are
extremely alert. They have learned
the art of saloon keeping and tbey are
getting into politics. Mr. Gibbons says
that already in some communities there
is "tbe shadow of the coming Hun
garian political boss." "In every list
of honorary vice presidents at the great
political meetings prominent places are
given the men bearing such names as
Arscnius Tsrnoievitch or Kubo Zlotlor
zinski." Huns have been made post
masters in some places and have begun
to elect their own justices of the peace.
It is noted as a hopeful indication that
they have begun to leave the company
houses and the boarding houses and to
establish themselves in homes of their
own. Some of them have grown rich
that is, rich for Huns.
The second generation is not, in Mr.
Gibbons opinion, an improvement on
the first. He states that the immi
grants, with few exceptions, could read
their own language, bnt that then
children are taken from school and put
to work before they have made much
progress in rudimentary education.
Few of them go to the public schools
and there is a slim attendance at the
parochial schools. These are the inevit
able results of the great reduction of
wages in the coal and coke regions.
Almost every evil is productive of
some good. Tbe Huns are better off in
Pennsylvania than they were in their
own country. But it will strike the
general reader that Pennsylvania has
paid, is paying and will long con
tinue to pay a heavy price for the
betterment of the Huns' condition.
Washington VcmK
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
XAVAJO COUXTY.
Call for a Special Meeting:
Holbrooe, Ariz., May 1S96.
"We, the undersigned, membe:3 of
the Board of Supervisors of Navajo
county, Arizona Territory, do hereby
call a special meeting of said board,
to be held at the office of said board
in the town of Holbrook, said county
and territory, at 2 o'clock p. m., on
Tuesday, May 5th, 1896, to consider
the petition asking that a Sanitary
District be made of Winslow, and
such other business as may come be
fore the board.
John H. Bowman.
J. H. Breed.
J. H. Willis.
Holbrook, Ariz., May 5th, 1896.
- 2 o'clock p. m.
The Board of Supervisors met at
2 o'clock p. m., pursuant to call of
this date for a special meeting.
Present: John H.Bowman, Chair
man ; J. H. Willis and J. H. Breed,
members.
The board 'then considered the
petition from the residents of the
town of Winslow, praying that a
Sanitary District be established in
accordance with Act No. 9, of the
Laws of Arizona for 18S9: and, it ap
pearing that there are more than
fifty (50) qualified electors who re
side within the limits set forth in
said petition, the said petition is
hereby granted.
It is hereby ordered, that a Sani
tary District, comprising the follow
ing described land, namely:
The southwest quarter of section
numbered twenty-four, and the
northeast quarter of section num
bered twenty-five, in Township
Nineteen North, Range Fifteen east,
and the southwest quarter of section
nineteen and the northwest quarter
of section thirty, in Township Nine
teen North, Range Sixteen east, all
of the Gila and Salt River Meridian,
in Arizona Territory, to be known as
the Winslow Sanitary District of
Navajo county, Arizona, be and the
same is hereby created in compliance
with Section 5 of Act No. 9 of the
Laws of Arizona for 18S9.
Notice having been filed of the
withdrawal from the bond of C. C.
Bowles as constable, of Frank Hicks
and F. T. LaPrade, sureties upon
said bond of said Bowles, and it
further appearing to this board that
the bond of said C. C. Bowles as
constable of the Winslow precinct,
does not comply with Section 10,
paragraph 3081 of the Revised Stat
utes of Arizona for 1887, as the said
bond required to be given does not
amount to more than one thousand
dollars, the clerk is hereby instruct
ed and directed to notify C. C. Bow
les, constable, that unless his bond
is properly made and filed within
the statutory time, that is within ten
days from the date of the notice to
him of the withdrawal of the sure
ties upon his bond that his office
will be declared vacant, and his suc
cessor appointed to fill such vacancy.
In the matter of the expense of
the examination into the sanity of
Myron Ellis, the clerk is hereby di
rected to make out a verified claim
against the estate of said Myron
Ellis, insane, and file the same with
the guardian of said Ellis.
Upon motion the board then ad
journed until 10 o'clock a. m. tomor
row. Attest: John H. Bowman, Chair
man; F. W. Nelson, clerk.
Holbrook, Ariz., May 6th, 1896.
10 o'clock a. in.
The board met at 10 o'clock a. m.,
pursuant to adjournment of yester
day. Present: John H. Bowman,
chairman; J. H. Willis, member; ab
sent: J. H. Breed.
The minutes of yesterday were
read and approved as read.
In the matter of the arrest and
prosecution of Indians for crimes
committed within the Territory of
Arizona, the board of supervisors of
Navajo county, Arizona, on the 6th
day of May, 1896, passed the follow
ing resolution:
Whebeas, the prosecution of In
dians on Indian reservations and un
der control of U. S. Indian Agents,
within Navajo county, in the terri
torial courts, as provided by Act of
Congress, approved the 3rd day of
March, 1885, for crimes and depre
dations committed hy said Indians,
has occasioned an expense, the pay
ment of which is unjust and onerous
to the tax-payers of Navajo county,
and
Whereas, the other counties of
Arizona are likewise affected, there
fore: Be it Resolved, that we respect
fully petition and request the con
gress of the United States to place
the prosecution of such Indians in
all cases within the exclusive juris
diction of the United States courts
within Arizona Territory, and
Resolvetl, that we request the
Hon. E. E. Ellinwood, U. S. District
Attorney for Arizona to forward
these resolutions to the proper de
partment at Washington, and invite
his eo-operation to secure the legis
lation herein asked for.
John H. Bowman, chairman; J.H.
Willis, member.
Board of Supervisors of Navajo
county, Arizona:
It appearing to the board that the
precinct of Winslow is entitled to
two constables, and a petition hav
ing been this day filed with the clerk
of this board praying for the ap
pointment of Burr Williams as eon
stable in and for said Winslow pre
cinct, said petition is hereby grant
ed, and Burr Williams is hereby ap
pointed constable in and for Wins
low precinct No. 1 of Navajo county.
In the matter of a sanitary officer
for Winslow sanitary district, in
compliance with Act No. 41 of the
laws of Arizona for 1891, both con
stables having been appointed to
their offices by this board, Burr Wil
liams is hereby designated as Sani
tary Inspector of and for said Wins
low Sanitary District.
Holbrook, Ariz., May 6th, 1896.
In the matter of the bill now pen
ding in the congress of the United
States for the creation of a fifth Ju
dicial District in and for the territo
ry of Arizona, the following resolu
tion was adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of Navajo county, Ari
zona, on the 6th day of May, 1S96,
namely:
Whereas, tho amount of business
in tho United States and territorial
district and Supreme courts of Ari
zona, is more than can be properly
attended to by the present number
of Judges, to-wit: four (4), and
Whereas, the business in ' said
courts is steadity increasing so that
the present number of Judges are
unable to properly and promptly
hear and dispose of the. cases
brought in said courts, and
Whereas, the unreasonable delay
in the trial of criminal cases in said
territorial district courts, is the
cause of great expense to the various
counties of this Territory, by reason
of said counties being obliged to
keep the persons charged with crime
confined in the county jails many
months awaiting for sessions of said
courts, threfore
Be it Resolved, By the Board
of Supervisors of Navajo county,
Arizona, that we urge upon congress
the great necessity for the prompt
passage of the bill now before con
gress for the creation of a fifth Ju
dicial District for the territory of
Arizona, and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of this
resolution be forwarded to the Hon.
N. O. Murphy, and that he be re
quested to use his utmost endeavors
to secure the passage of said bill.
Í ) John H. Bowman,
Seal. Chairman.
) J. H. Willis, member.
Board of Supervisors of Navajo
county, Arizona Territory.
Attest: Ft W. Nelson, Clerk.
Upon motion the board then ad
journed. .
John H. Bowman, Chairman.
Attest: F. W. Nelson, Clerk.
Cy Williams, the jolliest of hotel
keepers, who for many years has
been a fixture at Maricopa, is dead,
shot through the body in a brawl.
The deed was done by Geo. A. Wil
liams, no relation of the dead man,
but a miner who was temporarily
stopping at Maricopa on his way to
California.
Eepulican Platform.
To the Republican Convention of
the territory of Arizona:
We, your committee on resolu
tions, beg to submit .the following
report:
Be it resolved, That -we announce
our allegiance to the time honored
principles of the Republican party,
so ably propounded by the states
men of the party for the past thirty
five years. We denounce the dis
integrating and destructive policy
of the Democratic party, as taught
by Grover Cleveland, by the pur
suance of which policy the richest
nation on the face of the earth has
been brought to the verge .of bank
ruptcy. We declare that it is the unani
mous demand of the people of the
territory that silver should be re
monetized and restored to its place
in the currency of this nation and
as a money metal accorded it
by the founders of the republic.
We assert that we are for free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, and we hereby
instruct the delegates to the Nation
al Republican convention to use
every means in their power to se
cure a clause in the National plat
form favoring the free and unlimit
ed coinage of silver.
We believe that Arizona has suffi
cient population, wealth and in
telligence to entitle her to the
panoplyof statehood and we peti
tion the American congress in a
spirit of fairness and justice to
grant us this boon.
We are unalterably opposed to
the appointment of offices of men
who are not residents of the terri
tory and declare for the principle of
home rule.
We recognize in the Hon. William
McKinley, of Ohio, the most dis
tinguished champion of the Repub
lican policy of protection to Ameri
can labor and American Industries,
as also the policy of reciprocity with
other nations, and we hereby en
dorse his candicacy for the presi
dency of the United States and in
struct the delegates to St. Lonis to
vote for him upon the first ballot
and upon all ballots.
Resolved, That the labors of Hon.
N. O. Murphy, our delegate to con
gress, in his Efforts to secure us
state hood, has our most cordial
approval.
J. M. FORD,
R. E. MORRISON,
C. W.WRIGHT,
BEN HEYL,
J. L. KNUDSON.
Among the Karl y Settlers.
Early and authentic history of
early explorations of Arizona is
rather vague but among the accept
ed works is Casteñado's account of
Coronado's expedition to Arizona
from 1540 to 1542. They left Mexico
on Easter Sunday in 1540 and arriv
ed at Tucson in May of that year.
They named the place ''Tucson"
which in Spanish means Jason
washing gold on sheepskins as Jason
did at the island Colehis, on the re
turn of the Argonauts from the
Trojan War two hundred and fifty
centuries, more or less, ago.
. The Spaniards under Coronado
were 300 in number and they were
accompanied by 800 Aztecs, 1,100 in
the party.
They arrived at Casa Grande and
there celebrated St. John's day
(June 24, 1540) at that place. They
then crossed th.e Gila and traversed
the desert to Salt River near Tempe,
at the butte as it is described and
spent the early days of July at "Ojo
de la Sierra," the Hole-in-the-Rock,
236 years before the Declaration of
Independende.
The earliest American in Arizona
was Sylvester Patti, who with his
three sons was trapping on the Gila
in 1824. They later got wrecked on
the Colorado, captured by the
Spanish and imprisoned for three
years at San Diego, California.
Pauline Weaver with a big piece
of charcoal inscribed his name on the
inner walls at Casa Grande ruins in
1836, thus establishing beyond a
doubt thai; he was here at that date.
After the purchase of the territory
from Mexico, Col. Pos ton was the
first American "to come to Arizona.
He arrived early in 1854 and ' has
spent most of his life here since
that date, being the only one of the
earliest pioneers left Arizona Ga
zette.