The St. Johns herald., August 26, 1886, Image 2

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ST. JOHNS HERALD.;1;0"' and v"1
, . from mnnv sources.
Published every Thursday.
2JV THE Ai'ACHE COUXTY FCBLISIIIXa CO.
BARRY MATTHEWS,
KDITOK AND MANAGER.
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nuhsequcnt insertion.
Legal notices will he inserted nt J2.00 a square
ten linps of this typelfor the first insertion and
J1.00 a square for each subsequent insertion.
Stock brands will ! inserted one brand on out.
one year, $10; each additional brand on cut, same
owner, $5: each additional brand or character,
"bar or connected letters, requiring engraved
"block, one year, !.
All communicationH should be addressed to
Thk Hr.RAX.n, St. Johns. A. T.
Subsckiition fi.00 cr year, in advance.
.200.00
St. Johns. Thursday, August 26.
Tjuktken day's work, $155. Al
most twelve dollars per day. Gen
erous hearted Commissioners to
give the county almost one days
work of one man.
Jerome B. Collins was shot and
killed by Ben Williams, a cattle
man of Arivaipa Canon, on Sun
day, the 15th, at Fort Thomas. The
cause which led;to the trouble is
not definitely stated.
Six of the Chicago anarchists
have been convicted of murder in
the first degree, the penalty of which
is death, and one received a verdict
.of fifteen years in the penitentiary.
It is to be hoped this will give a
wholesome check to an organiza
tion which advocates a subversion
of all forms of law.
The Critic as usual tells a half
story, and tries to injure by intima
tion, when it can find nothing else
to serve its purpose. Don't fret,
the only violation of law you are
liable to be guilty of is one of those
peculiar offenses which arc com
mitted when no witnesses are sup
posed .to be present, and in which
the onlv danger is detection.
Don't Hatter yourself that your
report and letter disturbs the se
renity of our life or wellbeing. If
you :an stand it, we can, and shall
not give it further attention or re
membrance. We have been told
that it betrays the worst possible
judgment to fight a game with
$1,000, in order to bent a bank with
u $5.00 bank roll.
A dispatch from Nogales of the
21st instant says news lias just
reached here that while negotiations
were pending between the Mexican
authorities and Geronimo, noar
Arispe, the Mexicans quietly sur
rounded the Indians, and now have
them where there is no possibility
of escape. Geronimo has been no
tified that the only terms will be
unconditional surrender. Captain
Lawton has been notified, and, is
now moving towards Arispe.
Barney Martin, with his wife
and two children, of Weaver, Ari
zona, started on July 20th, for Erie,
Pa., for a visit. Not being heard
from a search was instituted re
sulting in finding the charred re
mains of -the entire family between
the Vulture mine and Phoenix.
Martin was known to have s four
thousand dollars with him, realized
from the sale of his ranch. He was
waylaid by robbers, the entire fam
ily murdered and the remains burn
ed to cover the crime. Stjtr.
We have never pretended to be
a capitalist, few newspapermen are.
and it seems we are even denied
possession of a reputation. We
take pleasure in testifying that we
have every reason to believe the
.Secretary, II. F. Banta, is a part
owner in a cotton umbrella, a few
pifeks of monte cards, and a spicy
rcputation. We merely make this j
statement that all may know he is
a property holder, and feels an in
terest in other people owning and
spending dollars.
We have never stooped to abuse
officials. That is an indecorum
wc have never been guilty of. We
try to state facts plainly as thoy ex
ist, and after so giving them to the
public, it remains with that final
tribunal of our body politic to pro
nounce judgment. Tis the people
we aro trying to serve, and it is our
,duty and our right to give into their
jiauds all things as we find them.
We have assurances of apprecia-1
On the 18th of August the Cin
cinnati Enquirer chartered a spe
cial train on the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton Railrond in order
that the delegates to the Demo
cratic Convention assembled at
Toledo, might receive its mammoth
daily at the breakfast table. The
distance, 202 miles, was made in
three hours and fortj'-seven min
utes, almost sixty miles an hour.
This fact is illustrative of the vim
and enterprise of the paper.
We would like to ask the Jail
Commissioners two or three ques
tions, since they have invited a con
troversy, but we have neither the
training or disposition to do it in
the spirit and language of that re
markable transmittal letter. Uni
versal talk savs. that a member of
your Board was the real party in
interest upon the jail contract, and
that said contract was tendered to
the Commissioners in the name of
W. B. Leonard because the Board
could not act upon a bid made in
the name of-ono of their number;
that your Board, therefore, virtually
voted upon a contract bid made in
the interest, and for the benefit of
a Jail Commissioner. That the
said nominal contractor, when his
bid was accepted, immediately de
livered the contract over to your
Treasurer, for whom it was origi
nally intended.
That said sum of $8,000, con
tract price, was never paid into the
hands of W. B. Leonard, the con
tractor. It is said that the plans
and specifications have been lost,
and cannot be produced. The jail
has never been delivered to the
county, or any official steps taken
to accept it. Are these facts true?
No body accuses' you of any thing,
but thu people wish to know all
about it. You say to the Governor
he has been "grossly imposed" on,
and yourselves ''maligned and mis
represented. Pray tell us in what
respect? No one has done more
than ask for a report from you, and
the Governor has only been asked
whether or not you should make a
report, and to whom you were offi
cially responsible, himself, the
county or both. Every thing may
yet be satisfactory, if you can make
the explanations wanted.
A special from El Paso dated
the 21st instant snys it has just been
learned that yesterday the second
chamber of the supreme tribunal
of this State took up the case of
A. K. Cutting, and after fully re
viewing the entire written evidence
argument was begun. This did not
last long, for the attorneys pro ann
had previously come to an agree
ment that the two months impris
onment already suffered by Cut
ting should be a complete purga
tion of his crimes. This makes it
certain beyond a doubt that the
sentence which follows shortly will
conform to this agreement among
the attorneys. The case was heard
within closed doors. The court
holds that both Judge Casta neda
and Judge Zubia did exactly right
in trying and sentencing Cutting,
but under the circumstances the
courts think that he has now by
two months of confinement suffered
enough, and they will order his re
lease to take effect probably Ivy
Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week. The six hundred dollars fine
is also to be remitted, but the court
expressly re-affirms all that has
been said in favor of the right of
Mexico to try offenses committed
in the United States, therefore the
status of the case is an interna
tional question is not and will not
bo in the least altered by the re
lease of Cutting. It will come up
again directly on the question of
indemnity. Consul Brigham says
that he does not see how the re
lease of Cuttingat this stage would
change anything but the personal
comfort of Mr. Cutting. It was not
so much a question of the personal
liberty of Mr. Cutting as a broad
principle at stake between two gov
ernments, and as ho understood
that the court had expressly af
firmed the validity of the law which
Secretary Bayard had rightly said
that the United States could never
pormit to be enforced, it was likely
that the point would come up again
I in the question of indemnity, which
j he thought would have to be paid.
An El Paso dispatch to the Albu
querque Journal dated 23d instant
says A. K. Cutting, the man who
has so near' plunged in war two
neighboring republics, has been re
leased. At 11 :30 o'clock Mr. Cut
ting was taken once more before
; Judge Castenadas, where the offi
cial minutes of the Chihuahua Su
preme Court, which had arrived in
this morning's Mexican mail, were
read to him, which recited the de
cree releasing him from further cus
tody. The decision of the court is
based entirely upon the fact that
Medina, the offended party, had
waived his right to a civil suit for
damages, the court holding that
this ended the proceedings oi the
State.
When asked by the Court what
he had to say, he replied :
"As long as I am not further de
tained as a prisoner, I accept my
liberty, and request that a copy of
the decree of the Supreme Cout be
given me for my future use."
This the court consented to in
Spanish.
Judge Castenada sent a copy of
the decree to Mr. Provincio, the
mayor, who sent back word that in
person he would give Cutting his
liberty, accompanied with some
wholesome advice.
Cutting with his friends took up
the line of march, and was at once
taken towards the calle principal.
As they passed out of the double
doored entrance to the carcel, "the
bastile on the Rio Grande," Cutting
remarked to one of his fellow pris
oners, jokingly, "The next time I
enter the place I hope I will have a
good lot of American guns with me,
and then the Mexicans will sing a
different tune to what they do now."
This was picked up by some
sharp-eared bystanders, and anger
at the expression soon found vent.
At the corner of the street, where
the street cars pass that go to El
Paso, Cutting and his friends step
ped into a saloon to wait for the
next car, and Mayor Provincio and'
Interpreter Danton came in. C
U
ting fook occasion to say, with a
finger-scornfully raised :
"I will meet the five principals in
this matter later."
This was said in an impressive
manner just as a man might say :
"When I get you alone, we will
have this thing out."
The Mayor and Danton instantly
cried out : "This is a new offense."
Several of the Mexicans stepped
toward him, but the car having op
portunely arrived, Cutting's Amer
ican friends closed in around him,
and hurrying him to the car, he was
as rapidly as the time table would
allow driven across the border.
The Board of Supervisors called
upon the Jail Commissioners for a
report, and the open talk upon the
streets of St. Johns, was that they
did not intend to make one. One
member of the Board publicly de
clared in the Herald office that he
intended to make a clipping of the
law, and send that to the Supervi
sors for a report. In view of these
facts, we wrote a letter, wholly lm
personaljStating the facts and status
of the-case, and asking what were
the duties and responsibilities of
the Commissioners. The answer of
the Governor to those interrogato
ries has been published in full. We
desired to obtain an official state
ment for the benefit of the Commis
sioners, and for the information of
the general public. The letter of
Governor Zulick has accomplished
the only result intended namely
brought out a report such as it is.
The money of the people had been
in the hands of these Commission
ers for a period of three years with
out an accounting, and because a
public journal, in the interest of
the people, asks for a showing the
audacious questioner is called a
"mischief maker and busy body."
No charges were made, and no cor
ruption intimated but a simple
request made in behalf of the peo
ple, that they should be shown how
matters stood. If it be mischief
making to ask that the people be
made acquainted with the manner
i v j i. : : .-. -r o -ri-i
the Herald will continue in the
business so long as there is any
thing to enquire about.
Such enquiries can only make
mischief for those who have a rea
son for not accounting, and every
citizen has a right to be a busy
body in all matters of public con
cern. It is the privilege of every
American citizen to ask and know
how the agents and officials of the
people are discharging their duties,
and no conscientious, honest officer
will ever object to making his acts
and conduct public. More partic
ularly is this the highest trust and
duty of public journals, upon which
the people must, to a greater or less
extent, rely for information in the
various matters of which their offi
cers are made the trustees. Any
other view of such duties and re
sponsibilities are subversive of the
very highest principles upon which
all government is based, and would
lead to a condition of affairs which
imposed no check upon corruption
and would eventually bring us to
anarchy and ruin. The so-called
official letter of transmittal is some
thing without a precedent in its
line, and as an official document
manifests so much of disrespect for
the Executive, that its tenor can
only be excused upon presumption
of the ignorance of the writer.
The uncalled for personalities
we shall pass with the merited con
tempt they deserve, well knowing
the good citizens of the county will
find their best answer in the charac
ter of the writer. The showing in
the account is as the Critic re
marks, the cleanest of them all
the Commissioners were not only
just, but they were even generous,
advancing the county $13.75 of
their own hard earnings. Tliis bal
ance sheet reminds us of a wagoner
who in stopping his team called
"whoa," in so loud a voice, that the
team ' not only stopped, but went
backward. We would like to know
if the Secretary will forward the
plans and specifications with their
report, so that they may also show
the building was constructed accor
ding to contract.
Tim Critic. Knnks "of the inx-
- payer's right to interrogate their
servants the officials of the coun
ty.' This is unquestionably true,
it is the right of the Critic, or any
other citizen of Apache county to
question the ways and doings of
the Supervisors, and every other
official whom they place in power
or position. At the same time we
deny the right, personal or other
wise, for one citizen to make an ex
parte statement of the acts of an
other, and upon the basis of per
sonal prejudice, ill-will or even
opinion, denounce such persons as
thieves, perjurers, suborned cliques,
faithless, treacherous, dishonest
and corrupt officials and knaves,
etc., etc. Such statements are nec
essarily warped, prejudiced and one
sided, and partake more of the na
ture of libellous utterances than a
desire to subserve the public good.
This is more particularly true of a
public journal. In the first place
a publication intended for the in
formation and approval of all bet
ter classes of the community should
be impersonal in its life and deal
ings bury self in the higher pro
position of public service, and dr n
from its hands as an object of re
morse the gall-tipped pen, v hi. h
passion offers as an instrMme-u? i'
vengeance. If a wrong i
an offense has been :,
calmly and dispassi n-jkiy d-i:
cention to the same and point 10
out, if necessary, in detail. Show
up carelessness, neglict or crimi
nality in office, without other com
ment than is necessary to properly
fix and define the offense commit
ted, and then leave the people and
properly constituted authorities to
name the crime and the criminal,
and to affix the punishment. In
vective and hard names are always
the off-spring of spite and ill-will,
and no man, we care not who he is,
uses them while in the prudent,
conscientious, faithful effort to cor
rect wrongs and abuses. The peo
ple will soon discover whether a
journal is honestly trying to dis
charge a disagreeable duty, or mere
ly using type and press to further
nrl q Kftrn nt coif infl nnssinn. Tf
'the utterances of a paper are con
servative, just and truthful it will
attract and finallv win the eom-i
mendation of all good citizens, ir
respective of clique, clan or party,
and even those whom it most se
verely checks will learn to respect
it, when they discover its criticisms
are honest, truthful, just and free
from malice.
An individual has the right to
ask of another reparation for a
wrong, or the explanation of a real
or supposed grievance, to how much
greater extent then does this privi
lege extend to the people,who .are the
sovereignty, to demand of officials
how they have used the talent which
has been committed to them. The
people are supposed to speak and
find ansVer through the pTess.
Second, Vindictive, personal war
fare through the press, sets a bad
example and foments strife through
out an entire community, and
makes of this boasted molder of
of opinion, this civilizing evangel
of morality the most unscrupulous
factor of evil and wickedness.
For these reasons, among others,
we shall endeavor only to speak of
public matters and officials in res
pect to the relation and responsi
bility they bear the people.
The Herald will be published in
the interest, and as far as we know
how, the best interest of the entire
community. We shall persistently
call attention to every wrong we
believe to exist, and at the same
countenance no libellous attack
upon the humblest citizen of the
county, Of the people, for the
people and at ail times with the
people.
STOCK BRANDS.
ST. GEO. CREAGH,
Cattle brand same ns in cut on right side; oth
er brands 74 on left ribs.
Horse bran 1 9 on right thigh.
Post office ad jgdres.s.Spriugerville, Apache
county, Arizo Sail ua Territory.
AZTEC CATTLE CO
(LIMITED.;
Cattle branded same as cu
on both sides.
Horsp brands:
-ZsHBSAi MSB on left shoulder.
Range: Apache and
Vo..nr.nr PnnntlE
Post Oflice address: P "ACTA on right flank.
Holbrook. ArizonaBJbESfl
HENRY WARREN OcwtnAu Manaocr.
MILLER, GOLDBERG & PUTNAM.
All Cattle
THIS Bit AND KEPT UP
Some cattle and horses have other brands on
them. Horse brand: Pitchfork on left thigh.
Also cattle 121 , i WtfH on lcft
branded figg ou lc" icle aml fiB thigh.
Range: Littlle Colorado River, west of Holbrook.
Post Oflice Address: Holbrook. Arizona.
Show Low, Apache County, Ariz.
Cattle brand and ear mark same
as cut.
$100 KEWAKI.
The undersigned Avill pay the above reward tc.
any person or persons who will denounce and
prosecute to a couviction, any party or parties
(except our own employes), for driving, killing
or otherwise handling our stock.
Our cattle are branded on the left hip as shown
ahovu, wth split in W ear; our horses have the
same brand on left shoulder.
IIUNING .tfOOLEY,
Show Low. Arizona.
-aat;w.iKn "inn
SMITH, CARSON & COMPANY.
Cattle brand same as cut, on left side, and A
on tnc right jaw. . Ear mark left ear f rubbed.
Horse brand, on left hip.
Post OtUee address: BprinsoTTlUc. 4rizona.
RAILROAD!
Atlantic & Pacific R. R.
Through line between the Pacific aoast and tiie
East, in connection vritk
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC,
ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FX,
ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO
Railroads, thereby forming the best aud shortest
line between the East aud West, with all raodora
improvements and conveniences for safety and
comfort. Pullman palace sleeping cars, without
change, arc run between St. Louis, Kansas City
and san Francisco.
TIME TABLE
Trains on this Road are run on standard time
"Mountain Division,"
Arixona Exp.
Leaves.
STATIONS
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a. 60 a m
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3.10 p m lvj
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. Albuquerque, .
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Gallup
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. ..Holbrooi.. .
. .-.Winslow
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. -Flagstaft....
Williams...
...Ash Fork ..
.Peach Spring-..
Truxton ...
..Hackberry ...
Hualapai. ..
...... Ileal
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. . Drake
. . . Yutva ...
. . .Francouia...
Powell
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Fenner
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Amboy
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. ..Hinckley
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1130 am
10.50 am
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9.00 a so.
6. Mara
5.30 am
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3.14 a ui
1.40 am
1.14 am
12.50 pm
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.Mcal Stations.
Through tickets to all principle cities east snii
west on sale at. the following stations:
Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff,
Peach Spsings, Kingman, Prescott,
The Isecdles, Daggett, Mohavt,.
and Albuquerque.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
Via Laguna to th Indian village of Acoma, 14;
miles.
Via Wingate to Fort Wingatc, 3 milts: Zuni, 4.
miles.
Via Manuelito to Font Defiance (Navajo Agtx
cy) 25 miles; Canon de Cueile, 65 miles; Keaut.
Canon, 90 miiei.
Via Navajo, ;r.-wcekly stages to, St. Johni,;t4
miles: fcpnugen me. 86 miles.
Via Holbrook, tri-weekly stages to Fort Apache.
95 miles; Snow low, 50 miles; Taylor, 35miles
Moqui Indian villages (no regular stage) 90 mile.
Via Winslow. to iirigham City and Sunset.
Via Ash Fork, daily stages to Prescott and.
Whipple Uarraeks. 54 miles, daily stages from.
Prescott to Phumix, and tri-weekly btages from.
Pre.seott to Fort Verde.
Via Pcaeh Springs to the Grand Canon of th
Colorado, la miles
Via Kingman, dailj stages to Stockton Hill, 10.
miles; Mineral Park, 16 miles; Orbat, 14 miits
Via Yncea tri-weekly stage to bigual, 40 milei
Via The Needles, steamer to Yuma, Colorado
river agoncy, Fort Mohave. Mohave City, Hardy
ville, .-uizona, aud El Dorado canon, hovada..
W. A. BISSELL,
D. B. ROBINSCN, Gen'I Passenger Agt..
Gcn'l. Manager, Albuquerque, N. M.
Atlantic and Pacific
AND
Southern Pacific R. R.
THE
NEW SOUTHERN ROUTE
7R0K
THE TtKISSOURI RITES ,
s TO
Kansas Colorado New Mexico.
OXjX) MEXICO, '
CALIFORNIA AND OREGON.
THS
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fa
T I M. E-TA B LE .
Southern Division. I
iast trrlT
SOUND. STATIONS. HOUND..
6(HIm Ar- Kansas Cut Lr. 10 10 pm
5 20 a m Atchison 10 25 p m.
205 am Topeka 12 50 a m.
11 25 am Kmporia., 4 OOam
7 50 am Katou 4 10 aim
G 03 a m Springer. 5 W a m
2 45 a m Lt. vppai Ar- 8 53
2 20 a m Ar. veB" Lt. .9 30'a ra.
3 20 p m . ..Hot Spring! 10 05 su.
11 .15 p-m Glorieta 5 12 42 p m
10 30 pm Lamy ; 140pnt
12 00" p u ... Santa Fe SUOpn
iiJ7pm.. .Cervlloi t 2 47pm
8 m p m Lv. villiirt Ar-'
8 15 p m Ar. " auac Lt.? 4 15 p m
6 30 pm. . . Albuquerque.. r 10pr
6 uO p m A. ik P, Junction ! 7 19 p m
3 ol p ni cocorro ID J-i p r
2 a m .San Marclal. 11 55 p m
11 23 u in ... ...Kincon ' 3 45ara
10 33 am . . .Nutt r 5 07 a ra
9 40 p m Doming ; 6 20a m
Stop for me Trains on New Mexico Lisr
are run or. ".v. -i;.italu Time."
r W. F. WHITE.
G. r. aud T. Agent. Topeka, Stw.
WM. C. NIXON,
Agent, Albuqcerque,, X. X,
THE SCENIC yNE OF AMERICA
Denver &R.o Grande railroad.
IN
Colorado, Nevr Mesioo & Utah.
DENVER AND RIO GRANDE
18 THX
FAVORITE ROUTE
For passengers and freight, between all ik
most important cities and mining camps in Col
orado and Utah. Over l.oa mllt of staudar
and narrow-guage, splendidly equipped a3i4
carefully managed.
THE DENVER AVD RIO GRASDE IM
PRESS is operatod in connection with the Bail
way, and guarantees prompt and t Indent air-,
vice at reasonable rates.
D. C. PODSE. Gfi'l Manager,
F. C NIMS, Gon'l Paw, atod Tkt A jf .
Dearer, CVV
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