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AllIZONA ENTER TK ISE. FLORENCE" - - JUNE 1(5, 1888. rl'RI.IHHKD IVXKY SATURDAY, IT FLORENCE, PINAL COUNTY, A. T. BY II. C. O. V. KKOWN. Thk Florence Cnnal Company will nhortly lot a contract for the construc tion of an immense rewrvoir covering two thousand acres of land, ot a point about seventeen miles south of Flor ence. Upon the lower Bide of the ropervoir the embankment will he about twenty feet hight.ightly timbered upon the inside. Into this reservoir all the surplus water of the canal will be turned and stored for use below during the scanon of scarcity, and its construction insures a permanent sup ply of water as fur as the railroad and even beyond. This company is pur suing a highly commendable course in its great undertaking, and is push ing the work of construction with an energy that is born of faith in the out come and the presence of unlimited capital. The present summer will witness its entire completion with many miles of laterals that will ramify ft vast extent of tillable land between the Gila river and the railroad, besides which that portion already construc ted will be put in thorough repair. F.very land owner along its cour.se can receive plenty of water early in the coming fall, with which to put their land under the proper conditions for cultivation. The water now flows a distance of about twelve miles south of Florence and consumers within that distance can be served at once. 'With its system of storage reservoirs com pleted, the Florence canal will stand among the gilt-edge investments of the country and its construction will make thia valley one of the choicest portions of the great west in everything that contributes to health, wealth and pleasant homes. Theke is greater activity displayed in the mining districts south of Casa Grande than in any other portion of the Territory at the present time. Several large mininsr companies are developing excellent properties and new ones are being formed for like purposes, and no less than fifteen or twenty corporations will soon operate the rich mines of that section. Up to the present time all developments made give the most complete satisfac tion and the mines prove greater in quality and quantity than any one had reason to expect. No less than half a dozen quartz mills arc soon to to be built in that quarter and there are enough well developed properties to warrant the erection of double that number. The southern portion of Pinal county is destined to form a very important factor in the production of the precious metals of the United States, The usual summer weather of this portion of Arizona now prevails and the toilers in the field; upon the works of improvement ; in the mines and in the shops, brave the heat, of the sun that some have claimed to be unbear able, with a fortitude and apparent comfort that is scarcely equaled dur ing the corresponding season in any of the eastern states. The thermometer tells us at midday that the temperature has reached one hundred degrees or perhaps a few degrees higher, and yet the dry atmosphere seems cool and agreeable and in nowise oppressive. With the growth of trees and the var ious crops of the ranchmen, the tem perature of summer will be consider ably modified in the future, and that season will become a most delightful portion of the year. ARIZONA NEWS. Io Not Forget to Catrli on This Time. The nomologists of Arizona, and par ticularly those of this valley, have much to learn in the successful culture of fruits. The experience gained in California or in the east cannot always be relied upon under the peculiar con ditions existing here. Varieties that flourish well in California sometimes fail entirely in this valley under like treatment, while inferior species there prove superior here. The methods of cultivation and pruning are also some what different and the labors of tlie next several years must be more or less of an experimental nature, the results of which will affect the future practice in this line. It has been sufficiently demonstrated, however, that all the fruits of the temperate zone thrive ex ceedingly well here, while many of the iemi-tropical fruits do as well as in Southern California. The grape, al J mond, walnut, fig, pear, apricot, peach plum, prune, nectarine, pomegranate, quince, and perhaps a few other kinds, attain a rare degree of perfection here, onw of tlrerrr producing several crops during the same season. The cultiva tion of raisin grapes is evidently de it ined to become the leading industry of the valley, as the grape grows un usually sweet here, and it can be cured easily and without artificial process during the warm and dry summers that prevail. And yet, as we have said, the experience of the next few years must give the text from which all the future success must be taken. It is really astonishing to what depth of fiendish barbarity a civilized being can descend when he permits his passions to go unbridled. Last Sunday, at Sunset, Texas, a prominent physician named Dr. V.'iley, stripped his wife of all her clothing and beat her unmercifully. She escaped from the house into the streets entirely nude, her lord and master chasing her and firing a pistol at her as she ran. At last she found safety in a neighbor's house and her "protector" was dis armed and placed in jail. Mrs. Wiley will die and the fiend whose inhuman ity took her life should die also, like a dog ujion the end of a rope. It is reported that James G. Blaine has written still another letter declin ing to accept even the unanimous nomination for president by the Re publican National Convention, should it be tendered him. This ought cer tainly to settle the question of his can didacy to the satisfaction of the most carping mind. General Sheridan's aged mother died a few days ago without the knowl edge of her illustrious son's serious illness. And now in his critical con dition, the news of his mother's death is studiously, kept from the dying soldier. The spirit of enterprise that has be gun so auspiciously the reclamation and development of this valley promis es to increase in vigor and strength during the coming several years, until the present desert becomes an attrac tive succession of cultivated ficlds.vine yards and orchards. The aggregate work involved in this transformation is a stupendous one, but the rich re ward is a sufficient incentive to its ful fillment in the shortest space of time possible. Several hundred thousand acres ofland will be reclaimed, and the present season will witnesss the clear ing and cultivation of more than fifty thousand acres thereof, and the entire amount will be cultivated within three years. The present value of cultivated land with water right, in this valley, ranges from thirty-live dollars to one hundred per acre, and at the lowest rate a created valuation of nearly two million dollars will be the result of the present year's progress. But the larg er portion of these new lands will be set out to vineyards and orchards, giv ing them a much greater value than above quoted and marking a far better ratio of progress. This is no fancy . picture of the imagination, but it is the reasonable, logical and tangible result of the building of the great canal and the contingent settlement of the lands along its course. Every day witnesses the arrival of persons in search oflan d along the canals near a lorence, ami at tlie pres ent rate of filings nearly all the most desirable tracts will be entered before the end of the present year. Equalization. The Territorial Board of Equaliza tion met in Prescott on Monday, the 4th instant. Board consists of Messrs. L. H. Orme, Geo. K. Criswell and the auditor of the territory, Mr. John J. Hawkins ; clerk Mr. H. T. Andrews. Soon after organizing the Board took up the statement of the Prescott, and Arizona Central railway, when the road and its entire property was asses sed at $5.151, 62 per mile, being a total valuation of $377,613.75. The New Mexico and Arizona railroad was as sessed as follows : Eoad-bed per mile, $5,01)0: rolling stock, tools, etc., etc.. $1,301 per mile ; total, 6,301 per mile '; of this, 35 4 miles are assessed in Co cliise county, amounting to $223,067. 85, and 52 4 miles in Pima, amounting to $330,190.84. Prescott Journal. Yuma had ripe grapes on June 2d. Tobias Olsen died at Phenix last Sunday. B. A. Fickas is a candidate for the Phenix postmaster. O. F. Black and Carrie La Course, both of Phenix, were married last Monday. A Mexican in llienix lias a young chicken with two perfect heads, four eyes and four legs. Teodero L. Suarez a Mexican, com mitted suicide in Wilcox last week, because of ill health. J. C. Waterman has purchased 160 acres of land near Silver LakqfTueson, which ho will cultivate. The new city hall at Phenix is com pleted and the Herald suggests that it be dedicated on July 4th. C. K. Wores has completed a five stamp mill in connection with his sampling works at Tucson. The Tucson Citizen will move its office on July 1st to the building form erly occupied by the postofl'tce. Mr. J. O. Dunbar, editor of the Phe nix Gazette, is the happy father of a bouncing baby boy, born Sunday, June 3d. The wife of Mr. Fred W. Ward died at Oeeanside, California, on June 4th. Mr. Ward, is a son of Mr. J. L. Ward, of Phenix. A fire occurred in Nogales Sunday week and destroyed all the buildings between the Point saloon and Ephraim's store. Prof. R. L. Long, of Phenix, has been elected principal of the normal school at Tempo, vice Prof. H. B. Far mer, resigned. Hon. S. W- Carpenter died at No gales a few days ago, after a long ill ness. He was a prominent democrat ic politician of Pima county. The fund3 of the IT. S. Court at Phenix have been all exhausted and certificates are now issued contingent upon an appropriation by Congress. City Attorney James Reillv has been removed from office by the mayor and council of Tombstone, and C. Granville Johnston appointed in his stead. A man was killed by the cars about a mile south of Tempe, Monday. From papers in his pocket it is supposed that his name was John Carr, of Los Angeles. II. Goldberg k Co., of Phenix, have made assignment for the benefit of their creditors. One of the Phenix papers had it, "for the benefit of their customers." It is reported that a new time table on the Southern Pacific will go into effect next week, the cast bound train arriving at Casa Grande about 9 a. m., and the west bound about 8 p. m. Globe people say that there is a first rate route for a railroad between their city and Phenix, by crossing the Pinal range north of Silver King and then keeping south of the Superstition mountains. Herald. During an altercation with Richard Jenkins, at Coyote, near Springerville, Apache county, on Friday morning of last week, William Magee fatally wounded Jenkins and shot Robert Thomas through the right leg acci dentally, necessitating its amputation. The coroner's jury exmierated Magee, the testimony showing- tht lie .acted in-self defense. While lassoing a horse near nag staff on Monday of last week the an imal became frightened and pulled the rope that was coiled about George Thomas' left arm so that he could not disentangle it, and he was dragged for a long distance over the rocks and nearly killed. He was found uncon scious the same evening and taken to Flagstaff. It is believed he will re cover. Henry Arey, superintendent of the Maricopa vineyard company, was in this city. It is learned that the sec tion of grapes are in fine condition and that the pump which is evidently working from the Santa Cruz river, at that place subterranean, supplies more than a sufficient amount of water. This fact has resulted in the decision on the part of the company, of putting out a larger body of land in grapes for next vear. Ari.onan. 1 PNEUMONIA." At New Orleans, La., on Tuesday' (always Tuesday), May 12th, 1888, the 216th Grand Monthly Drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery occurred un der the sole management of Gen'ls G. T. Beauregard of La., and Jubal A. Early of Ya. To those interested the returns are very attractive. The First Capital Prize of $150,000 was won by No. 55,315, sold in fractional tenths at $1 each sent to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. Two-tenths were paid to M. A. Kelly, Pittston, Pa. ; one to Mrs. G. E. Coleman, St. I-ouis, Mo. ; one to J. W. Yates, No 612 G. St., N. W., Washington, D. C. ; one to a depositor in the La. Nat'l Bank, New Orleans, one to the City Nat't Bank, Dallas, Tex. ; one to Dr. R. Quinney, Anderson, Tex. ; one to Geo. II. Ashe, Galveston, Tex.: one to American Nat'l Bank of Kansas City, Mo. ; one to A. Phillips, 1 thro' T. W.'House, Houston, Tex. No. 21,492 drew the Second Capital Prize $50,000 ; it was also sold in tenths at $1 each ; three paid to Anglo-Califor-nian Bank, L't'd, San Francisco, Cal. ; one to Mrs. P. T. Robinson, 428 Dry ades St., New Orleans, La. ; one to Col. R. II. Porter, Birmingham, Ala. ; one to J. B. Blincr, Dcnnison, 0.; one to Mrs. Frances A. Hoke, Emmitlsburg, Md. ; one to H. Bunning, Moweaqua, 111. ; one to John Harrington, Hough ton, Mich. No. b;,349 drew the lhird Capital Prize of $20,000, also sold in fra-ctional tenths ; two were paid to1 the City Nat'l Bank of Cairo, 111.; twt to M. Waligurski, New York, and the rest went elsewhere. No. 84,352 and 90,405 drew the two Fourth Prizes of $10,000 each which were sold in frac tions and scattered all over the world. On July 10th the grand drawing takes place when the First Capital Prize will be $300,000, whole tickets costing $20 and fractional parts proportionately Do not foreet to catch hold of this chance. ny no Cil Terrible Sconrj. It Rightful ame' "If we may judge from the past, the same bitter wail of over-production will greet us this year after the. fruit ing season. It is an annual cry which acts like a deluge of water on the spirits of the enthusiastic fruit grower. AVe have given the subject of over-produc tion considerable thought,' investiga tion and study for years, and have reached the conclusion that there is no such thing, so far as it relates to well grown and well and carefully packet! and shipped fruit. The basis of all the trouble in this direction lies only in the over-glutted markets teeming with inferior fruit. Over production of inferior fruit is the evil which exists, and the only one covering the ground of over production. Within reach of New York and Boston, two of the greatest markets for the absorption of fruits, hundreds of men are making money in fruit raising, and they have no difficulty in obtaining the highest prices for their products. This result is simply because the fruit these men raise is number one in size and ap pearance, is earefully and attractively packed and shipped and may be relied upon, every package of it, as being as good at the bottom of the box or bar rel as at the top. "There is no use disguising the fact that the grumblers among fruit grow ers are those who are too indolent to properly do the necessary work for the best success." American Garden. '.Sea York TOttjia, . Many a strong,- well-built man leaves home to-day ; before night he will have a chill and in a few hours will be dead ! This is the way the dreaded pneumonia takes people off. The list of notable men who are its vic tims is appalling. ' It sweeps over the land like a scourge and destroys poor and rich alike. Everj'One dreads it. Its coming is sud den, its termination usually speedy. What causes it? Pneumonia, we are told, Is invited by ft certain condition of the system, in dicated if one has occasional chills and 'Severs, a tendency to cold in the throat and lungs, rheumatic and neuralgic painfl, extreme tired feelings, short breath and pleuritic stitches in the side, loss of appetite, backache, nervous un rest, Beaming sensations, or scant ana discolored fluids, heart flutterings, sour stomacli, distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin, loss of strength and virility. These indications may not appear to gether, they may come, disappear and reappear for years, the person not realiz ing that they are nature's warning of a com id g ea lam 1 1 y . r In other words, if pneumonia does not claim as a victim the persons having such symptoms some less sudden but quite as fatal malady certainly will. A celebrated New York physician told the Tribune that pneumonia was a secon dary disorder, the exposure and cold being simply the agent which develops the disease, already dormant in the sys tem, because the kidneys have been but partially doing their " duty. In short, pneumonia is but an early indication of a bright's diseased condition. This im paired action may exist for years with out the patient suspecting it because no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity and often it can be detected only by chemical and microscopical observa tions. Nearly 150 of the 740 deaths in New York City the first week in April (and ki six weeks 781 deaths) were caused by pneumonia! The disease is very ohstinate, and if the accompanying kidney disorder is very far advanced, recovery is impos sible, for the kidneys give out entirely, and the patient is literally suffocated by water. The only safeguard against pneumonia 13 to maintain a vigorous condition of tha system, and thus vreveni its attacks. bv using whatever will radically and effectually restore full vitality to the kidneys, fop if they are not sound, pneu monia cannot be prevented. For this pur pose there is nothing equal to Warner's safe cure, a remedy known to millions, used probably by hundreds of thousands and commended as a standard specific wherever known and used. It does not pretend to cure an attack of pneumonia, but it does remove the cause of and prevent that disease if taken in time. No reason able man can doubt this if he regard? the personal experience of thousands oi honorable men. --feisefcsiB - When a physician says his patient Ifas either bright's disease "or "pneumonia he confesses his inability to cure, and in a measuK be. considers his responsibility ended. In many instances, indeed, per sons ara reported as dying of pneumonia; heart disease.'apoplexy and convulsions, when .the real 'cause of death and sc known by thel-physician. is this kidney consumptiorr.'Vrhousands of people. hav it without knowing it ; and perishuof it because . their .physicians will not . tell themltlie S-fa'cts L''The same fate awaits every one, woo win .not. exercieouiB juug- meat lu ouuii t uiwtwi. ways Leads! Full stock and cheap prices at the store of the U b Ob HUDSON'S BAY PEOPLE. CALL and EXAMINE GOODS and learn prices. Everything in the line of GENERAL MERCHANDISE A Stab In the Iark. A Good Investment. Next Tuesday the Republican Na tional Convention will meet in Chicago to nominate candidates for president and vice-president and, upon com pletion of their labors the machinery of a rigorous political campaign will be set in motion, with all its contingent prevarications, calumnies and bom bast. We sincerely hope, for the hon or of our nation, that the mud artist will for once be relegated to the shades of oblivion and that argument upon the governing principles of each party platform will form the basis of the contest, instead of personal detraction. The hurrah excitement that some times carries even thoughtful men gainst their better judgment into a mob-like whirlpool of heedless action may meet with occasional success, but the people are gradually withdrawing from its temptation and exercising- a calm and deliberate right of suffrage a reformation that promises much good to the whole country. Jay Gould is sick wags on as usual! and the world .Yuma Sentinel. Two old prospectors, Andy Hunter and Ike Goodwin, met in Yuma a few months ago for the first time in many years. Andy Hunter was in town on a visit, being in the employ of Geo. Nor ton, on the Mohawk canal. His friend Goodwin had just arrived from Califor nia where he had succeeded in getting "broke." Hunter goodnaturedly divid ed his wealth with his old friend, and after a few days sight-seeing the pair separated, Hunter returning to the Mohawk canal and, Goodwin starting to ward Mexico on a prospecting trip. Hunter continued to work on the ca nal until a few days ago, he received a letter from his pard Goodwin, inform ing him that he had struck it rich. The mine Goodwin found is two miles south of the line, in Sonora, Mexico. He wrote him even better news ; it was that Good win had received fifty thousand dollars down and the balance, two hundreds thousand.to be paid by the 30th of June. The letter concluded by telling Hunter that one-half of the property was his and to huiry'up and join his old-time friend. On Monday morning he receiv ed a telegram from Tucson to meet Goodwin at Gila Bend, where convey ances had been sent to take the fortun ate men and an eastern mining capital ist to the rich strike of golden wealth. Andy Hunter is an industrious and worthy man ; his many friends through out Arizona will be highly gratified to learn of his good fortune. The news which comes from Ger many concerning the Emperor's health is more hopeful ; it might be said indeed that it has just begun to be hopeful. Pro fessor Yirchow has carefully examined the matter discharged from the Em peror's throat, and has failed to detect any sign of cancer in it. In addition, the invalid's general health has improv ed, and for the first time since he left San Remo, he has been able to take ex ercise out of doors. While every foot of European soil is resounding to the tread of armed battalions, the lifi jof the German Emperor is worth a million of men to the cause of peace. The Globe. The Phenix Arizonan tloats an in verted eagle over its national ticket. Sometimes fails -of its in:M-.i.r'.mi. intent. The insidious and dastardly attacks made upon the reputation of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters by per sons who seek to palm off cheap and fiery tonics as identical with it, for "the same thing under another namr,' or "equally as good," in most in stances react disastrously upon the unprincipled traders upon popular credulity who attempt them, convey ing their specu'a ions into ruinous failures. The Bitters is a pure, whole some and thorough medicine, adapted to the total cure and prevention of fever and ague, bilious remittent, dys pepsia, constipation, biliousness, de bility, nervousness and kidney troubles. Its every ingredient, unlike those in the imitations of it, is of an' ascer tained standard of excellence; and while they, by reason of their fiery properties, react injuriously upon the brain and nervous system, of both those organs it is a sedative and invigorant. Refuse all these harmful imitations. The Copper Trust. Kansas City Record. The copper trust is one of the most ambitious attempts that have ever been nxade to extend the principles of combination over the entire world. But the trust, in consequence of the world-wide character of its engage ments, is being subjected to a strain which may prove fatal to its success. The artificial advance in the price of copper which the French syndicate has succeeded in establishing has led to a considerable iucrease in the average output of quite a number of the cop per mines, while it has had an almost equally mar.ked effect in reducing the customary use of his metal. In con sequence of this increase of supply on one side, and decrease of demand on the other, the amount of copper avail able for use, but undisposed of, tis augmenting. This supply is already abnormally large, though the oper ations of the syndicate have only been extended over six months of time, and have yet about two years and half to run. It becomes, therefore, problemati cal whether it is strong enough to maintain itself by purchasing and carrying all of the copper that will be offered at the price agreed upon. It is said that the copper mining com panies of this country which have en tered into a contract with the French syndicate are abundantly protected in their engagements by securities of an unquestionable character. But as a very good authority, the London Economist, points out, it is well to remember, "in considering these guarantees, that there are such things as contracts in restraint of trade which the law refuses to recognize or enforce." Wm. Sparks, better known here abouts as "Timbeline," had a lively time with a bear on or near his ranch about ten days ago. Mr. Sparks had set a trap for a mountain lion, and on visiting it found that a bear had been caught and had walked off with the whole outfit. He started in pur suit with a Winchester and trailed him for some time before coming upon his bearship. When he did find him bruin was mad, and in stepping back to avoid an infuriated rush Timberline fell, face under., down hill. The bear lost no time in taking advantage of the situation and seizing Timberline at the under side of his thigh gave him a lively shaking up. The victim of this rough usage, however, held fast to his rifle and managed to throw in a cartridge. He twisted around and just as the bear let go to take a fresh hold Mr. Sparks fired, the ball enter ing the brute's mouth. This ended the battle. But Sparks was badly hurt, one of the tendons of hi3 leg bruised and bitten severely. He bound up his wounds as best he could and walked half a mile to a spring, where he washed and again fixed up his injury. From here he walked five miles and a half to his camp, subse quently mounting his horse and rid ing into town. He received medical aid six days after the occurrence. The wound is healing nicely, but it is thought that he may suffer a slight stiffness of his leg as the result of his battle with bruin. Clifton Clarion. Their Work Was Worth Something. The cows of a Georgia farmer got into1 the pea nolo.. cf ma neighbor -and de stroyed about ten bushels of peas. There upon the latter farmer presented an ac count claiming $6 for ten bushels of peas at sixty cents per bushel. The owner of the cows examined the account and then said: "Look here, my cows ate up ten bushels of your peas, but you know the rules in gathering peas is to give one half for the gathering. So you see my cows were entitled to five bushels of those peas for picking them. Therefore r only owe you for five bushels at sixty cents, and that makes $3. Here"s your money. ' ' And at f 3 they settled. Chi cago News. . The Psychology of Handwriting. The North American Review prints a series of the autographs of Napoleon, written at various epochs in his eventful life. Starting in his early years with a' bold and clear signature, it retains most of these characteristics in the days of his greatest successes; but parallel with the declining fortunes of the great man is a degeneration of his autograph, until at the end we have nothing more than the rudest, characterless scrawl. The auto--graphs cannot but suggest tli3 ravaging changes in the nervous system that were the physiological concomitant of the tur moil raging in the hero's mind. Science. School Teachers. following information is fur in regard to the teachers' ex- Thc nished cursion to San Francisco, Tickets will be for sale at stations on the Southern Pacific railroad from July 10th to 15th at two thirds regular rate, this rate however not to exceed that from El Paso which is $42. Tick ets will bo good to arrive in San Fran cisco not later than July 18th and for return not later than September 15th. On the Atlantic & Pacific railroad rates will be from Holbrook, Wins low, Flagst aff and Williams $42. Pres cott Junction, $41 ; Peach Springs, $38.75, and Hackberry, $37.35 for the round trip. On the Atlantic & Pacific parties desiring to go must make ap plication to the agents at the stations named in season to enable the agents to procure the tickets from the main office at Albuquerque. Drew & Bamrick are the mail con tractors to Silver King and Pinal. The best slock and quickest time made. Condiments Promote Digestion. The value of the various condiments in the preparation of combination dishes is great. Used with discretion they stimu late the appetite and promote digestion, red pepper being specially valuable in this connection. The various herbs and spices are exceedingly valuable; salt is absolutely necessary tofeiealth, despite all contrary assertions of the food cranks, and the condiments employed in making salads promote the digestion and assimila tion of all food eaten at the same time. Chicago Times. Spiders That Captnre Birds. The tarantula of South America is so large and powerful that it attacks birds. Bell, the naturalist, found a web stretched across a tree in which were entangled two birds, one in the clutch of the spider. In some places they often bite the feet of horses and cause their death. A natural ist in the Amazon country reports seeing the native children leading about the huge spiders by threads of fibre wound fibout their bodies, as boys do dogs in our own country. C. F. Holder. Provoked Her" Sympathy Husband (groaning) The rheumatism in my leg is coming on again. Wife (with sympathy) Oh, I am so sorry, John. I wanted to do some shop ping today, and that is a sure sign of rain. The Epoch. A new feature that promises to be an important one in the meat markets of the east as well as those of the Pa cific coast, is the introduction of Mex ican beef cattle. During the last two weeks over two thousand head of this elas3 of stock have been sent across the line to find purchasers in California and Kansas City. Under the present rule such cattle have to pay twenty per cent of their value in custom fees, but as the prices they realize in the United States are far above those they bring in Mexico, the custom tax is a matter considered of little importance by the Mexican shipper. Hoof & Horn. Pinal county in both her mining and agricultural industries is verging on a boom, and the fact that she has a vast area of agricultural land, and rich producing mines is a good indication that the boom will be long contin uing. Star. The small-pox has all disappeared from Prescott and no new cases have developed. It is still a matter of doubt whether the two imported cases were really small-pox, but whatever the disease was ithas entirely disappeared. During the past season two naturalists, G. W. and E. G. Peckham, have found that wasps remember the locality of their nests for ninety-six hours. There are in the country nearly 400 colleges, with about 8,000 professors and 35,000 students. The next session of the Arizona Mis sion of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in the Marina Street M. E. church; Prescott, Ariz. September 25th, 1888. Bishop Thomas Bowman, D.D. , L.L.D.,will preside. Bishop Bowman resides at St. Louis, and is the senior bishop of the M. E. Church. The presence of refrigerated dressed beef in Los Angeles is already making itself felt in that city. Prices have declined until shippers are beginning to feel that they have taken a big con tract to try to compete with the dress ed beef monopoly, and in the mean time the monopolists are said to be putting refrigerated beef down in southern California at a figure which must represent an actual loss, in or der to drive out shipments of live stock, when their old tactics of send ing the price up out of sight will give the public a taste of what monopolistic greed is. Hoof & Horn. can be found at this mammoth establishment. ONE PRICE TO ALL and cash to everybody An immense stock of and more coming. READY MADE C L To Suit Any One. DTIIHG, Family L!fo of the Eskimo Who Dwell r.ear the Great Inland Ocean. In the summer each family has its own home, but in winter two or more f amilies live together for the sake of in creased warmth and economy of fuel. The summer residence is a tent made of sealskins with the hah- Scraped off, giving much the appearance of yellowish parch ment, which is stretched over poles of driftwood arranged in the ordinary cone shape. . The. door always faces toward the water by whose side they are camped, and at the opt U- Bide of the tent is the .bed,.. coMjXi-rd .M;- moss covered with sealskin. Aehhey sleep with head point ing doorwajd, they 4-ti-.-Krily lie down hill, owing to the nai'iral . !ope of the land toward "the shore, - Thu .js not seem either a comfortaMe o . hcslthy po- . sition, but apparently thy are-iwuo the worse for it. On either hide of t:u d:r- way is their larder, consisting of (--d-"' ingly repulsive looking piles cf bfJil meat and blubber, -which give forth 'an olor ' that Samson himself, with his hair auto longest, could hardly wrestle with sue cessfully, so overwhelming is its strength. The winter habitations are made en tirely of snow, and are generally built under the sheltering lee of a rock, in the drift that accumulates there. The build ers begin by marking out on the snow a circle about fifteen feet in diameter, which represents the inner side of the -walls, and with a saw or long bladed knife they cut out blocks of snow, from three to six feet long by a foot thick and high, from inside the circle they have marked; then, placing the blocks around' the circle, they carry the walls up spir ally (not in tiers), until they meet in a keystone above, at a distance of about nine feet from the excavated level of the floor. The result is, except, of course, as to color, the production of a gigantic bee hive, over the door or in the center of the roof of which is set a big block of fresh water ice to serve the purpose of a win dow m lighting an interior that, although stainless white at first, is soon blackened by the ever smoking, evil smelhng lamps the inmates use. The furniture of these human hives i very simple, as may be readily supjxsed. It consists of a bed place or divan along the side of the "igloo," opposite the door, and two fireplaces, one on either hand as you enter. These are made of firmly packed snow, and raised about three feet above tlie floor, the divan having its outer edge faced with a pole to prevent it from crumbling away when used as a seat in the day time. The beds are made up in the following manner; First, a layer of moss spread over the snow; next, a layer of sealskins; then a layer of bear1 or deerskins, and finally the sleeping bags, which resemble exaggerated pillow slips, only that fur takes the place of linen, and tlie fur is double, so that there may be hair both inside and outside. Into these bags, of which each adult lias one, the Eskimo, stripped to the bare buff, creeps for the night, and sleeps very comfortably. Up to the age of- 10 the children share then- parents nag; alter that tuey aro pro moted to having one of their own. Their fires are nothing more than lamps rudely fashioned out of soapstone, and so arranged as to be self -supplying, a mass of blubber being hung in such close proximity to the flame that the fat is converted into oil, which, dripping into the bowl below, is consunied by means of a moss wick. As the lamp has no chimney, and both oil and wick are of the poorest, the result ia the reverse of brilliant, neither light nor heat being ob tained in what we would consider a satisfactory quantity. Just above tho lamps a sealskin is stretched to prevent the heat thawing the roof away, a precaution that seems hardly necessary, seeing that the ordinary temperature of these enow huts is 27 degs. at the roof and 24 degs. at the level of the beds; in other words, from 5 to S degs. below freezing point. In order to keep out as much cold as possible, tha doorways are very low and narrow, a fact which explains the curious phrase with which the hosta epeed their parting guests, namely: "Tabourke aper niak in atit" that is: "Good-by; don't bump' your head." J. Macdonald Oxley in American Magazine. Always a full line of and the choicest CANNED GOODS. A specialty. --o- Our stock of is complete. And in fact everything re quired by tlie Ra.neli man, Miner, Work ingman and Na bob always on band. Don't forget to call at J. D. Rittenhouse's, Main Street - - - Florence. Orders by mail carefully filled PrsvattM of Sloat fcy Eafrar. It rcsul'. a.cpc-iAlvreport made ta tho FrerchVninister of agriculture that eurar if i J aciit r.gsut for preserving Iiu-iS, L .1 S-;;s?t.:j Rome advantage over trii. la fact, fc:Jl r.b&crbs a portion of iixo feumbre eubstaaces and of tae flavor of Yl:cn sxi esiolysis is made of (i K!utt a c F lie ill'; dissolved by water cout&hd i.i t-c.t, wo find elbuminoid bodies, cr. t'ttra substances, potass and phcivhoi-iO Salt deprives meat of th- 6'jb3tan'c- eo much tho mora reaaiiy ia proportion cs t enters the cb 6U09 moro deeply or acts for a longer tima. It then resui.i that tho meat. when taken from the saline eclutioa, has lost nutritivp el? acuta if -genuine to-xrtance.- ?r-- -4 v- Fowaerea cagar, on uiotauvrarr, ixmg less soluble, produces lesa, liqmd, - IS forms exound tho rrter.s a" Solid ensst. rvhich removes very little wau.'- from it end does cot alter to tote-. T9 pre served, it eufiices to imai ?rre tho meat in water beforo using It. Alu'icu'l) thia treatment costs a littlo mora then ervation by ealt, account muss feo ie&af of the final result and of the lam prcf vented, which offsets the differences j cost between tho two preservative agents We think that navigators might profit -by this. Kevuo Geseralo cle Is Marino-Marchando. Where Qalntno Comes From. The mountains of Peru constitute what might be appropriately called "Quinine land." There the cinchona reaches per fection when it is cot disturbed by tha axes of tho cascarillerosor bark searchers, and there the rich lanceolate leaves of the healing tree reflect the golden beam3 of a tropical sun. Almost constantly ex peditions leave Cuzco and other Peruvian cities in search of the cinchona tree. The most of these are conducted with great Becresy. for the discovery of a good group of cinchonas is sure to make tlie fortune of the leader of the party. Rival dis coverers watch one another like hawks. They try to bribe the sepia colored casca rilleros who have sold their services to othera, and very .often Peruvian gold brings a whole season's preparations and. toil to naught. PMladelpliia Times. A London coroner has raised the quca tion whether a man can cough himself to pieces. A broken rib was found in : deceased lunatic, when medical evidence was brought forward to show that under certain abnormal conditions bone3 may be broken by muscular efforts, or eveit by a violent fit of coughing. Arkansaw. Traveler. London Houses Growing More Modern. For a long while the . London house never changed then- appeatanc. Now, when a house needs rebuilding, the front of it is apt to be remodeled, not in th staid old style which has prevailed hitherto, but according to modern fashion.. New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Narrow Escape. . Jones was so awkward the other even ing as to sit down on a gentleman's silk hat, cr ashing it flatter than a pancake. -- "And to think," was his comment, "that it might have been the new ona I've just bought!" Judge. Speed of the Electric Current. Experiments on the speed of the electrin current prove that if a proper conductor could be wound around the globe a signal parting from it at any point of it would return to the starting point in one-half a second. Chicago Herald. '-si.