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4 HOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1896: Volume I. .Number 52. r V I- I- -A J THE BAILBOAD8. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. (wimo ninwow.) . C "W. SMITH, Receiver. -vt,.1sm1 Timo Card 2ío- 43, Effect Nov. 4, 1896. STATIONS No.1 No. 5 No. J Chicago kinum City...., Denver.... Li Junta....... Albuq'rqoe...... - Wingate. ........ Gallup.'. .... Huibrook. "Wiuslow.l flagstaff.. Wiliian. , Ash Fork. 10 25p 2 p 8 OOp 40a á JOo 9 S5a 1 45a! 7 10a 11 tip 12 Xp 8 Ma 5 lOp 8 top 11 I'M 12 S5p 1 Sp ill 2Hp 9 lln 9 sup 50pj 7'ÍÓp 8 45p 12 4Ua -Ar 1 40a Aih Fork .Prescott '. Fhenia ... 7 15a 7 O0a Ar -Ar 10 Sip 1!) 30a z cup OOp Ask Fork ..1 Lv 6 50p 8 4Sp 1 40a 4 OSa 5 43a 7 60a 0 lia Pnwi Serin, 20o Z la 4 10a 8 00a Ainginaa edles Blake... Bardad.. DuMt. 11 Cup i ma 2 Sua 10 0&a 4 40a 1 1Z tip, U 10a 7 40a 50pk Bwitow Ar 8 10a 4 Xp 2 lOp JJojuTC Ar Loa Angeles.... ...Ar i'aoñ 6 OOd Sao Diego Ar 2Sp 13 4Cp aa Francisco.. .Ar 10 15a 1UIVAIÜ1. STATIONS. No.ílXo.í 4 OOd . No. 4 Chlcaro Kansas City Denver La junta Albuquerque Vi ingate Oallup Hoibrook..'. Winslow Flagstaff; Williams...'. Ash Fork ...Ar 10 OOp ...Arl 7 Mal....... .,Jít oo. ...Ar 12 Osp!...... .'.Ar 4-.pl ...Lv 4 40p lOp ',1 43a 5 40n til Vm 10 50p V 00a 4 10a 4Sa 12 20a 11 03p ill 0a SOai 8 06a tf p 7 lip 5 Bop ....Lrfi 56al & 33a A ib Fork.... Prescott Phenix Ar 8 00a!. 2 80aj. 7 aopi. 5 SOp 2 40p 7 SCa fcv . ..Lv Ah Fork Peach Springs Klngraaa ........... . Needles Blake. Bagdad Daggett. - Barvtovr Mojave Loa A areles San Diego San Francisco. ..Arl B 25a 5 SSaJ. SOp 4 05a 1 20a' S OOp 2 00a 10 2bo 12 4ia ..Lt ill SOp! 7 40p 10 00a 8 uop; tip, a up x wpi $ fp12 40p S 20a ...Lv ...Lt 10 15a! l ssa 8 00a 2 Sip ...Lvi -7 40al ...Lv! A SQpl Trains Nos. 2 and 4 are limited trains, ran nine semi-week ly. No. leaves Chicago Wednesdays and Saturdays, passes Albu gnerque t ridays and Mondays, arriving at l.os Angeles, Saturdays ad i ursdays. 1 rain No. 4 will leave Los Anarelra. Mondays and Thursdays, passing Albuquerque, Wednes days and Saturdays, arriving at Chicago, - Fridays and Mondays. - Pullman Palace Sleenlnv Cars dally throtirh between Loa -Angeles and Chicago ul vi imams ana sos f rancisco, Pullman Toorlot SieeDins- Cars daily through between Chicago andSan Francisco and Chicago and Los Angeles. Toarlas ears leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Los Angeles every Thursday, running through to Kaasgz City, Chicago aad Boston. ' - The Grand CaBon of the Colorado can be reached only via this une. Ask for a beautifully illustrated book wbicb will be mailed free. Dos A. Swf rr. Goal Passenger Agent, Albuquerque, N. U, S. F., P..& P. Railwau. WITH TH tc A. T. & S. K. J. FL 'a THE SHORTEST AND ' QUICKEST BOCTE To Denver, Kansas City, St, Louis, and Chi- cago and all points xASl si. .'- . S. V. P. éc r; TIME TABLE In affect Nov 8. 1896. Monntalo time is standard used V' SOUTH BOUND. I I NORTH BOUND. No. Si i No. I I I No. 2 1 No. 4 Pass Pass Pas-I STATIONS. Pass 7 lip 8 15p 7 00a Ash Fork . Bock Butte Del Rio Jerome Junction Preseott - Prescott Summit Skull Valley Kirkland Date Creek Congress Wickenburg Peoria Glendole Alhambra Phoenix 5 S0p 4 41 p 6 00a S 00a 4 00a 5 no. 2 SOa 2 90a 1 4a 7 55al ip 9 I5p io 5p! 8 SOaJ 9 05a 43p 8 28p 2 40p 2 SOp 10 SOa JO S5p 11 4Sp 12 4Ha 1 09a 2 28a S Hal 10 45a 11 22a 12 S5ol i aup, 12 55a 12 48p 12 ISo 12 2o iz 3-p a lup 2 SOp S 45p S 16p 5 fep 9 4Sp 8 OOp 11 12a 11 lHp 4 Ote 10a 24a J'J via iu zup 9 28a 9 4p 8 12p 7 5tp 7 45p 7 Sop 8 11a 8 S9a 8 4aj 7 SOa Stta 7 00a Dining station. THE SCENIC ROUTE OF ARIZONA. The best route to California. The only north and south line in Arizona to the Grand CaBon of the Colorado, Petrified Torest,Cliir Dwellings, Great Pine Forests. Salt Biver Taller and numerous oiher Point of interest. Through tickets to all points in the United States, Canada and Mex'co. -' Nos. 1 and 2 Connect af Jerome Junction with trains of V. T.-4 P. By. for Jerome.- ' Coneeetiag at Prescott with stage lines for an principal mining camps; at Congress with Congress Gold Co. K. B. for Congress end stage lines for Harqna Hala Station and nr- neu. at rumii witn tne uartcopa A Pnos- nix By. for points on the o. P. By. Also with O. IL T. n.juy. PIiiui NMiuvHnM mmAm . 1 .k 17 W wlt . i Santa Fe Route fust trains to all points east y'jitsd west. Trains for California leave Ash 4r"""jrk at 4:50 and B:4 p. m- arriving in Lus Angeles next afternoon at 1 .-20 and San Frra- eisco second morning at 10:i5. Train for the lut leaves Ash Fork at 6:25. F. M.MUBPHY. . "GEO. H. SARGENT, Pres't A Gen'l Mg r. Geni Pass'r Aent. Prescott. Aria. - Prescott. Afix, B . WKLLS. Assistant General Matuujor. Preseoit, Arisona. - A CMtI ' w nsMi CHALCEDONT LODGE NO. 6. F. A A. -S1-. Holbrooke Arizona. Kegvlar stated communications at 7:S0 p on Fourth Saturday of each . By order of . , ,. R. C. KINDER, W. M. J. H. BOWJIAN. Secretary. . frtf CARPENTER SHOP North side of R. R. track, east of the shop of Wm. ArmbroiU er. All kinds of carpenter work at short notice. Repairing a specialty. Give me a all if you have work needing immediate at- Itf l U. ItiitUMAN.' Notice. If r. 8. E. West of Snowflake. is oar author ised agent for that section of the e.ranty, and 1 antoorieed to receive and receipt for nib f JiltiluPi a aae Aaot a. BLAZING SUN AND TIIIKST, TlTld Description of the Great Salt Valley Five Hundred Feet Below The" Level of The Sea, and ' Deadly Hot. Many volumes have been written on that peculiar piece of earth, Death Valley, where so many fellow travelers went to never return, leav ing; their bleaching bones to, mark the spot where they succumbed to the oppressive heat, poison dus water and other elements destructive to life, and yet in reality little is known of the- queer place. Col. T. W, Brooks of Pomona and ilr. C. if. Johnson 6f "New York, made a journey to this awful valley, which is the lowest spot of earth on the American continent, where they went on a mining expedition, travel ing the entire length of the valley. and through parts &f Nye and Lin coln counties, Nev. ' The Colonel is a great traveler and sn old-time min ing man, and has made many such trips, but to Mr. Johnson it was a new feature of life, and one of haz ard and torture; traversing the dead man's trail, crossing the expansive sand deserts, crystallized salt, beds, 500 feet below the ocean, and often without water. As Colonel Brooks remarks, it is truly regretful that this phenomenal country cannot be seen by. the thou sands of people who read of its in describable wonders. He says that when the descriptive powers of our most able writers have been exhaust ed in an effort to convey to the pub lic a correct impression of the pre ciptuous depths, grandeur of its confines, combinations of all known minerals, end adding to this the solemnity of awe, of torture, of death to the many travelers, the reader's most grasping immagination is still vague and as far short of the reality as is the possibility of an ox drinking the waters of the San Fran cisco bay. An indefinite idea of the exceed ing grandeur of the salt precipice, miles in length, that is situated at the head of Death Valley, as the sun shines upon it each day of the 365 of the year, may be obtained by directing one's thoughts' or immag ination to the sublimity of Niagara Falls, when its dimensions have been multiplied by p&e hundred, and the water is converted into transparent icicles with the reflecting brilliancy of ten thousand chandeliers,' and thus by some unnatural expanse 'qf the imagination an appreciative sense of the stubborn fact is had; of the deep brown or oxide of iron color, the crystalizing salt, extend ing over fifty miles in the. lowest depth of Death Valley. There is nothing, not anything, that has a name or a shape, more abrupt, uneven, or topsy-turvey, than tnis mass of salt as spewed from the unknown depths of the earth. The projecting points, one above another, are generally oblong, and of all dimensions, from one inch to five feet, and as the inner pressure of the unknown forces have thrust and crowded the mil lions of varied forms and sizes of fragments promiscuously to the surface, it presents a distressing con fusion. The salt is of the ordinary hardness of stone. It is here that a wagon road is built without the use of a plow, pick 6hovel or ax, but at great expense the high parts are hammered down' and make it possi ble for the traveler to pass. Messrs. Brooks and Johnson credit themselves with being the most un fortunate party that ever visited Death Valley, excepting the many who perished in this forbidden spot.1 Their trip, as Colonel - Brooks ex presses it, was one of hellish disap pointments, hazzard'of - life, hard ships, and once a narrow escape from drowning in the' Big ."Tehunga. The wind blows longer and harder than he ever knew it before, at times making it necessary to cabla the wagons and balast the blankets to prevent being blown .out of exist ence. - " ' The toughest part of their jour ney wa3 the long drives of fifty to sixty miles between water stations, over the terrific sand beds, moun tains and unbroken roadways. At times their water supply was com- j pletply exhausted, mules given out, and they compelled on one occasion tf abandon the wagon and lead the mules a distance of twelve miles to water. Colonel Jirooks says of his inex perienced New York companion, as a desert traveler, that he is a' com position of the best material the blazing sun of the desert ever shown upon, walking twenty miles a day through the intense beat, rising at 1 o'clock in the morning and travel ing until 12 the following night. The two gentlemen went to Death Valley expressly to secure a most -valuable quartz mine, said to have a value of $4,000 per ton, and upon arriving upon the ground at the extreme head of Death Valley, found, .to use Colonel Brooks' lan guage, thai it was not. wortha 2-cent postage stamp. Arizona Sentinel. A. Georgia Election Story. One election story is that an itin erant Georgia preacher, who had one horse and a large family, was so confident of Bryan's election that he said' tó 'one of the members of his congregation: "I dón't bet an' I ain't a-goin' tor bet; but if anybody would just make-believe that they wagered a hos3 ag'in that air creetur o' mine that Bryan won't be elected, an' then keep their - counsel erbout it, it would be all right with me, an' I'd consider between me and him that my hoss wuz staked a 'gin his!" "All right', brother," said the member, ."we'll jest look at it in that light, an' if McKinley is elected I'll have two hosses an' you none." It was "a go," but the following Sunday the congregation was amaz ed to seo the preacher tramping .to town, where ho arrived, way-worn and mud-bespattered, and mounting the ' platform straightway began preaching against the evils of bet ting. "Yes," he cried, "there are men in this here congregation so lost ter right an jestice that they would bet ag'in the one hoss of a poor man, take it from him, an' make him walk ter glory f er the balance of his days! If. such a man is in the hearin' o' my voice today, let him tremble! Ho can't take that election hoss ter heaven with him. If he could ride it plumb into the pearly gates the Angel Gabriel would holler 'Whoa!' an' while the tremblin' wretch dis mounted, he would hear these words, like the knell o' doom: 'Whar' did you get that hosst' " After the sermon and the bene diction some one took the parson by the arm, and led him out into the grove, and handed him a bridle (and there was a horse connected with it), and sqid: ' "Here's ver darned old hoss! Pray fer me on yer way home!" Ex. They do Everything Backwards. The Chinese do everything back ward. Their compass points to the south, instead of north. The men wear skirts and the women wear trousers; while the men wear their hair long, the women coil theirs in a knot. The dress-makers are men, the women carry burdens. The spoken language is not written, and the written language is not spoken. Books read backward, and any. notes are inserted at the tQp. White is used for mourning,and the brides maids wear black instead of being maidens, these functionaries are old women. The Cñinese surname comes nrst, ana uiev snaso tneir own hands instead of the hand of the one whom they greet. Vessels are launched sideways, and horses are mounted from the off side. They .commence dinner with dessert, and end with fish and soup. Exchange. In 1892 Mr. A. L. Goldwater, who owns three retail drug stores in New York City, having learned of the great value of Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy for colds, croup and whoopr Ing cough, ordered a supply for his customers. It met with so much favor that he soon found it necessary to order more, and during the winter sold over two gross of the remedy. He says it gives the best satisfaction of any cough cure .he has ever han dled. For sale at0 cents per bat ile bjf F. J. Wattron. " TELEGRAPHIC tfEWS. Late Telegrams Condensed Readers of The Argus. for The Dakota Sioux Falls, 5. National bank D.r has closed of its doors. Bob Armstrong defeated Frank P. Slavin in New York, on she 25th ult. in the fourth round. Mabley & Co., one of the oldest retail mercantile houses in Detroit, Mich., have failed. Liabilities, 370,- 000. Ex-President Harrison's residence was burglarized on the 25th ult., and a gold watch and a small sum of money secured. John L. Sullivan is suffering from a cancer on his right hand, and the amputation of his arm is thought will be necessary. A. J. Lawrence & Co., stock brok ers of Pittsburg, Pa., made an as signment on the 28th ult. for the benefit of creditors. The New York Herald's ,corres pondent at Bio do Janeiro tele graphs that Señor Vasquez, the min ister of war has resigned. , Rev. James Miller, pastor of Grace M. E. church of Bloomington, 111., was found murdered and robbed at Dacatur, 111., on the morning of the 26th ult. A Melborne cablegram says the government statistician estimates the wheat yield of Victoria at 7,000, 000 bushels, which will barely sus ficó for local wants. One of the oldest, best-known and most distinguished members of the order of Knights of Pythias, Martin Luther Stevens, died on the 25th ult. at his residence in Brook lyn. The president has appointed F. D. Hill of Minnesota, consul at Santos, Brazil, to succeed Henry C. Smith, removed, and Iiev. J. L. Corning of New York, consul at Munich, Ger many. Commander G. W. Pilgrim has been detached from the Bennington and Commander H. E. E. Nichols has been detached from Mare Island and ordered to command the Ben nington. The Southern Pacific company is replacing fifty-two-pound rails with sixty-two-pounders, between El Kio and Indio, Cal., the object being to make faster time over that part of the road. The Davis County, Mo'., Savings association, the oldest banking in stitution in that county, closed its doors on the morning of the 26th ult. Liabilities, 5109,000; assets, $169,000. A Findlay, Ohio, dispatch says the Wire-nail Mill company of Salem, Ohio, will work its Findlay plant next week and ' the week following on double time, employing 200 addij tional men. Eeports from Fort Duchesne, Utah, says that an explosion occur red at the St.. Louis Gilsoute As phalt um company mine on the 25th ult. by which three men were killed and several seriously injured. The entire plant of the East Clayton, Ohio, Brick ,Making com pany, burned on the morning of the 28th ult. The loss is estimated at $100,009; insurance only 22,000, One hundred men are thrown out of employment. . A Eichmond, Va., dispatch' says that about one hundred men em ployed at the factory of the Virginia and North Carolina Wheeling com pany went out on a strike on the 25th ult. on account of a 10 per cent reduction in wages. The Ohio Falls Car Manufactur ing company, at Jeüersonville, Ind., resumed operations on the 1st inst. They now employ 400 men and the force will be increased to 2,500 by Jan. 1. The works have some large orders to fill for Mexican railroads. Hattie Spafiford, a domestic of Grandvillo, Mich, has just come into possession of an estate valued at over $1.000,000, by the death of .her fa'ther at Helena, Mont. The father and mother were separated, I the girl remaining with her aother- A West Point dispatch saj"3 a fur lough has been granted by the, sec retary of war to the Military ,Acad- emv band, under the conduetorshiu of George Essigke, from Jan. 10 next to Feb. 4, to make a concert tour of the principal . cities of the United States. The dead bodies of Herman Mey ers and Nora M. Hichardson were found lying .on the ground on Downey street, Indianapolis, on the morning of the 26th ult. It is be lieved ho betrayed the girl under promise of marriage and then killed her and himself. A revolver was lying close to his body. Ex-Bánker Anthoney Kozel, who failed in Chicago last May for $114, Q00, was locked up in Joliet prison on the 24th ult., he having confessed to fraudulent practices in handling the funds entrusted to his r care. Kozel is the first banker sent to the penitentiary in that state for mis using funds entrusted to his care. A Hiawatha, Kan., dispatch says that Miss Carrie Lieben good, who; submitted to an X-ray test on Jierj foot, has had to have the member amputated at the ankle, as the re sult of the experiment. Within. a. few days after the test was conduct ed by Professor Blake, of the State University at Lawrence, abcesa after abcess formed, tho pains finally bo coming unendurable. The Mexican Central railway's business is so heavy they are unable to handle it on account of the short age of power. They already have several engines from the AU?hinson, and are after more. President Rob inson is east now, presumably -to ar range for more power. The busi ness on this line has been on the in crease for several months, and it seems to be permanent. A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man., says that wheat Í3 being rapidly sent down to the seaboard, but about 40 per cent of the crop is being retain ed by the farmers in expectation of higher prices. With tho advent of Sifton as minister of the interior, a new emigration policy will be adopt ed, which will rapidly fill up tho prairie provinces. It is estimated about five thousand people have emigrated from Eastern Canada during the summer and oue hundred from Michigan. ' ' An Ei Paso dispatch of the 25th ult. says Captain Derby, represent ing the Unitecí States, and Señor Ybarrata, chief engineer of the in ternational dam commission of Mex ico, agreed yesterday upon a report recommending the construction of a dam and , reservoir across the Eio Grande at that point for the storage of flood waters for irrigation pur poses. General Manager Frey of the Santa Fe railroad is at El Paso in consultation with CoL Anson Mills, the United States boundary commissioner, relative to the cost of moving the Santa Fe tracks back from the river to the foothills, to get tho railroad out of the way of the reseryoir, which is to bo twenty seven miles long and fifteen miles wide. It is understood that Colonel Mills and Mr. Frey agreed upon the cost of removing tho tracks. .Report comes from Tuscogee, Ala., that Henry Dáwson, a negro, was recently hanged at that place for murder. He was a large 200-pound-er and when the trap was . sprung fell so hard he almost broke the rope. Fifteen minutes after the fall he was cut down and the physicians pronounced him dead from strangu lation. His body was turned over to his friends for burial, A negro named Ruben Rice now comes for ward with the statement that J)$v? son is not dead, that as soon as the wagon was'outside of town the lid of the coffin wa3 pried off 'and whis ky and p.thcr restoratives applied, with the result that the supposed corpse was resuscitated and after an hour or two was recovered sufficient ly to walk. The evidence as" to the truth of the statement is that the negroes having the remains in charge ! have left the neighborhood and no evidence of a new made grave can j be found about the Buchanan place where Dawson . was to hare been buried. Subscribe for the Aaaus, the only live local paper ia Navajo county. . THE TOL.TECS. One of The Most Ancient Kacos on. The American Continent. c-,Of the races which inhabited the American continent before the white men undertook, to civilizo it, says the El Paso Herald, the Toltecs are; worthy, of notice, or. the. civilization -they brought, prestraably,frpm Asia or some unknown' part of -the world. -It has always leen a mystery where they .came from, and will possibly always to so, but the fact remains that they hare, left to the thinkipg people, lasting remembrances of a civilization .wjdeh va unexcelled at the time they arrived on the Ameri can continent. The pyramids' of Egypt, which tourists travel thou sands of miles to inferior,, if anything, to what can be seen in Mexico by those who are., ambitious " of taking in the sights, of th.7rld.' The pyramids of the Sun and. the Moon, which were built by the Tol tecs, are to be seen today in Mexico. The. -former is eollossal in its pro portions, and equals in architectural skill anything which Egypt can prc duce. Its length is 840 foot, breadth 609 feet, and its height in propor tion to the rest of -its eollossal di mensions. It was built by thesd people to perpetuate their idea of religion. The pyramid of the Sun was supposed to represent day, f.ufl the pyramid of the Moon represent ed night. The latter was 600 feet long and and 510 feet .wide. In each of these splendid structures an idol was plac ed cf gigantic proportions, which it was supposed would overlook and protect thepeoplo from tho influ ence of thoévil spirit, which was supposed ty' remain around .when ever it was ciouay. The Mexican government about four years ago sent a party to in vestigate and report'.on t he discover ies which it was expected would be ' made in the . pyramids. They , were thoroughly explored and a report given which corrolorated the rat ing of the ancient historian witE Re gard to these pyramids. The expe dition which went to Palenque a few years ago, sent by the French government, disclosed the fact that there was nothing which Egypt could produce which Palenque could not discount. Tho Toltecs certainly gave the world something to think about when they built the?,e stupendous . monuments to their' everlasting grandeur and 1 civiliza tion. Religion and PoJJif e.3.. "The church," said the assertjs young man, '"has always lagged be hind the movement of the people." "lut, tut, retorted the consarra tive citizen. "This has been a great season for political bolting, uasa t it!" "Certainly." 'Well, the church had an epidemia of heresy trials two or throd years ago;" PROFESIONAL CABOS. C. J. HARDIE, A. B., M. D. Late Resident PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, City and County Hospitals, Chicago, and Mexican Central Kailway Hospital. .. CUCi a HOTEL, HOLBBOOX. - C. 0. ANDERSON, ATTpHNrcy-AT-LAW, HOLBBOOX., - . 4BIZOSA. F. W. NELSON. -É1.XTQ I XEY-AT-LA W. WTJfSI.OW. - ABIZOBA. E. M. SANF0RD, V'-TT O HXE "ÍT--A. '1'- LV. V. PBESCOTT, - AtiJKA. W. M. PERRJLL, Uiat'pt Attorney 3fa,-jrBj? Cpunty. HOLBBOOX, - AHIZOH.A. Will -practice in ail cpurts of Arisona. T. W. OfiNSTON, - ATTQJJXíSY-AT-I.A'W, Will practice in tl:e Courts of Navajo. Apache. Cocouiiio-and Mfhave Couutleai' ' R. E. MORRISON, (District Attorney Yjyv&pal County.) Office in Court Uiunc, Vreauott. Arizona. J. P. WELCH, .M. 0., . PHYSICIAy 3c SURQ-SOXji