Mesa free press. [volume], January 18, 1894, Image 1

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Vol. 2
1894
Si Finds Us in lie M !
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SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR CASH!
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A full line of General Merchandise constantly in
stock, and ws will not be undersold.
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co.
Card*.
£% J. WILLIAMS,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon.
WILL A.TTKND ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
diMMes of women a specialty.
Otfici: Kimball House,
* Arizona
fj B. BA.BIN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON-
Doors East of Postoffice
-Robson Street, First Door
Swath «f Main.
Mam - - Arizona
yy WHENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMOEOPATHIST,
frktwH of Fl»hn®tnan Medical College. Philo
doiphia, Class 1882.
OQco m 4 Btsidencs Rooms 11, 13 and 16.
Cotton Block, Paoevu. Office Honrs—7 to 9 a
m., 1 to • and • to 8 p. m.
JJB- CM AS. H. JONES,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
foMri, ...... Arizona
OSes at Hsineman tt Gill Block. Office Hours
—8 mli. at., Bto 4 and 7to 8 p. m.
J| M. GILBERT, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
#esh«b —Orel Zenos Co-Op Store.
M«m City, A. T.
g J. JESMUr,
DENTIST.
AM wwrk warrantedjand prices very
BMUMBahU.
Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
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QETKUNE k McCABE
ATTORNEYS-AT-L A W
Sp««Ul attention given to land,
*£k«t and mining cases,
Praetien in all the courts,
IT,Mrs - iRIZ.
TKIPFEL & SON.
Aims, Tumi, Minin? Engineer and
Metallurgist.
m l Butra, Oiril Engineer Deputy Coun
ty tsrrijsr and Deputy U, 8, Land Surveyor.
Do all kinds of
Architectural, Mining
and Civil Engineering.
.Contracts taken tor buildings and es
timates furnished for aM work, fly
draalic and Canal work a specialty.
On*n, f—or Bloek MESA CITY.
Mesa Free Press.
P T. POMEROY,
Notary Public & Conveyancer.
Legal papers Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
MESA CITY, - - - ~ ARIZONA
J. W. BAILY,
DKALKR IN—
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals.
FANCY AnD TOILET ARTICLES.
Songes, Brushes, Perfum ry, Ete*
MESA, - - ARIZONA.
THE
qencral market
GRAY & WEILER, Proprietors
Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
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delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pomeroy Block, Bain Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER. : i
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice. t
MESA, - - - Ariz
HUNSAKER’S
Phcenix, Tempe&Mesa Stages
I Making direct connections with l
I the Goldfield Stage. )
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MORNING STAGES.
L’ve Phoenix 6-30 a.m. Leave Mesa 6:30 a.ru.
Leave Tempe 8:30 a.m. Leave Tempe7.3o a.m.
Arrive Mesa 9:30 a.m. Arrive Phoenix 9 a,m ;
EVENING STAGES.
r Leate Pi.oßnix 3 p.m. Leave Mesa 1.00 p.m.
Leave Tempe 4 p.m. Leave Tempe 2.80 p.n).
Arrive Mesa 6.30 p.m. Arrive Phoßnix 4 p.m.
CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
Leave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commoroial Hold or Frank Phil-
Hps
MESA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, JANUARY IH, 1894.
ZenosCo-On.
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The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
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Which contains new, neat and
fashionable dress goods, flannels,
ladies’ and gents’ furnishing goods
and everything usually found in a
well furnished establishment.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’is
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for the
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Fa mo U S Fv.atherbone Buggy
Whips and the
Unexcelled Canton Clipper
Plows.
Our lines are of the best and our
prices as low as the lowest. Special
orders given prompt attention.
CALL AND SEE US.
ASSIGNEE’S SEE!!
TTie Whole Stock of
Patterson & Brundage Bros ,
Will be sold at greatly
Reduced. Prices.
A Tremendous Cut
Will be made in the prices of
HATS, BOOTS, SHOES and Fan
cy Dry Goods.
Remember the place,
Patterson & Brundage Bros.
MESA CITY, Ariz.
GEO. PASSEY,
Assignee
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MESA-
Feed & Livery Stable.
P. MET&, Proprietor.
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; R WILSON
The only Second Hand Store in
Southern Arizona. Every variety
| of goods sold at' bed-rock prices.
Give us a call. ,
Wasnington St.
phoenix. - ariz.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
'. Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
- TEMPE, - 1 -ARTZ
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Citrus Fruits and Temperature.
The Arizola Oasis says:
Sunday morning at the same
time the self registering thermome
ter .at Arizola read 19£ degrees
above zero, at Riverside, California
the same kind of an instrument
registered one and one-half degree*
lower; and the associated press re
ports orange groves at that place
quite severely touched by the frost.
On the same day tin? Oasis editor
made a careful examination of or
ange trees at Arizola, and found
that the frost hid j,touched them
very slightly. These facts make it
patent that this part of Southern
Arizona is safer for citrus fruits
than the famed Riverside region;
that the latter is subject to just as
great a degree of cold in winter,
and that owing to other climatic
conditions the frost does not take
that hold upon citrus trees here
that it does at Riverside.
The fact above noted is due to
the exceeding dryness of the Ari
zona climate. It has long been
known that oranges in Southern
California would pass unscathed*
through a degree of frigidness thai
in Florida would kill them, and
that has been accounted for by th>
uffereuce between the humid Flor
ida Climate and the seiui-arid eli
mate of Southern California. Reas
ooing upon the same philosophy it
has oemi held that wiclj its muo
iryer a m > pherc Southern Arizona
js naturally safer for citrus fruits
than Southern California; and the
cold of this week has proved
the truth of the position of those
who have so contended.
. As yet citrus culture in Southern j
Arizona is in its infancy; but it is
destined to a great and profitable
development. In the Salt River
valley the Arizona Improvement
Co., has demonstrated just wlmt
can be done; and there is a big
held for the industry in the great
Casa Grande valley. Citrus cult
ure, intelligently and scientifically
followed, as at Riverside, Redlands
and elsewhere in Southern Califor
iia, can be made very profitable
piore, Windbreaks should he gr iwn
o shelter the growing citrus trees,
md attention should be paid to
trees adapted to the climate. In
this connection ic might bn well to
take, a leaf from the experience of
our neighbors in Sonora, and plant
«uch as have been so successful
with them. * '
Mr. Armeny will resume work
on. the turquoise 1 mines in the tur
quoise district in Cochise county.
He has great faith m the value of
these mines. He is the owner of
the. torquoise. mines in the Burro
mountains In Nriw Mexico. The
turquoise in the rough .brings $350
to SSOO per pound, and is shipped
by express in fruit cans. The out
put is about tea pounds per week.
This output is the result of five
men’s work, which is better than
any gold mines in the territory;
Some very fine turquoise has been
found in the country, but no de
velopment work has been done to
speak of.—Ex.
The expenses of conducting the
insane asylum have, been reduced
by S7OO per* month. If Governor
Hughes' administration aocomplish
-1 es ,a proportionate .reduction of the
expense of running the other pub
lic institutions of the territory, he
can laugh at all attacks made by
the Gazette-Zulick wing of his
party.—-Tribune. And that is just
what the administration is doing.
The report of the mining renour -;
ces of the country prepared by J
chief I)ny of the division of m-ning
statistics of the Geological survey
shows the high water mark in
mineral productions was reached in
1892 both in this and every other
country. The total value of. all
mineral products that year was
$184,787,768. This is twenty mil
lions greater than for any previous
Among the large gains was
877,130 tons in pig iron with ag
gregate product of 9,157,090 tons
valued at $131,161,039. Gold
showed a slight loss, the year’s
product being valued at $33,000,
000, was 1,596,375 ounces. Copper
gained 56,465,666 pounds, making
an aggregate of 352.275,742 pounds
valued at $37,977,142. Lead gain
ed 10.856 tons, aggregating 213,
262 tons valued at $17,051,860.
There was a loss of 7,000 in zinc.
Alluminum was almost doubled.
The j ear’s product of zinc aggr*-*-
gatedß7,26o tons, valued at $802,-
729. Quicksilver 27,993 flasks
valued at $1,245,989. Tin from
mines in California 160,000 pounds
and aggregated for the year 162,-
000 pounds valued at $12,400.
Nickle 92,252 pounds valued at
$50,739. Aluminum 259,705 lbs,
valued at $172,825. Bituminous
coal increased eight million tons,
making a t >tal of 113,237,845 tons
valued at $125,195,139. Petro
leum is declining rapidly. In 1891
there were fifty-four million bar
rels produced, but in 1892 there
were only 50,632,136 barrels at a
value of of $26,034,195. Tn 1893
natural gas fell off both in quanti
ty and value. Its high water mark
§Was reached in 1888 when the pro
duct was valued at $22,629,870.
The total production of silver was
fifty-eight million ounces at a valu
ation of $75,989,900, the amount
of increase 877,130 ounces for the
year at an increased valuation of
the product for the yesr, $7,751,-
054.
The sting of a bee is composed of
two spears of polished horn held in
a sheath. One gets an idea of the
sharpness of the weapon by a very
simple comparison. The edge of a
very keen razor, when examined
under the microscope appears as
broad as the back of a thick knife,
uneven and full of notches.
An exceedingly small and delicate
needle similarly scrutinized resem
bles a rough bar from a smith’s
forge. The stvng of a bee viewed
through the same instrument, shows
a flawless polish without the least
blemish or inequality, ending in a
point too tine to be discerned. In
the act of stinging, the spears, each
of which has nine barbs and is
| grooved with a channel for the
passage of the poison, emerge from
the sheath. One of them is plung
ed Into the flesh of the victim, the
, other following, and alternately
they penetrate deeper and deeper.
The venom is forced to the end of
the spears by much the same pro
cess as that which carries the poi
( son from the tooth of a snake
when it bites.
i Thi3 is the way a Sandy, Mohave
[ county justice of the peace perform
• ed a wedding ceremony recently:
. “If anybody knows any reason why
j this man and woman should not be
. married they will now make it
» known or forever after hold their
r mouth.” A number of the guests
i present opened their mouths—not
; to offer objections but to laugh.—
Ex.
Over Charged
| The Tombstone Prospector Hay-:
“A recent issue otthe Glob -1) miii
crat contains a Washington dispatch
which for a chain of falsehoods is
unequaled by any Washington news
sent out this season. It relates to
cli trges said to have been pi averred
! against Gov. Hughes.
In the first place it accuses Gov.
Hughes of having a wife who trav
els through the territory advocating
women’s rights and temperance.
Secondly, it accuses the governor
of having been attorney-general /
under Cleveland’s former adminis
tration, and of having a' that time
in an official capacity buncoed notn-i
body out of SIO,OOO
Another charge is that !v* did
some work for the government and
charg'd four times too much for it.
Also that after Harrison remov
ed him from his office of attorney
general he was disbarred f.-om prac
tice in the territorial cqurts.
The dispatch states that Col.
Hoge, who was appointed consul
to Amoy, China, and who was re
called when about to sail from Sin
Francisco, is doing all in his power
to trouble the governor. It. is
claimed that Gov.- Hughes caused
him to be recalled.
These are specimens of the char
ges upon which the president is
asked to remove the governor, only
»ne of which is true. The gover
nor’s enemies are indeed hard up
for ammunition when they seek to
damage a man’s character Gy Recus
ing his wife of being a temperance
ad vocate.
Mrs. Hughes is a woman of
whom every Arizonan should feel
proud. She does advocate woman
suffrage and temperance but she
does not travel around the territory
as stated. She remains quietly ,at
home and attends to her knitting,
while the governor travels around
the territory and saws wood.
There are about 4,700 national,
3,000 State and 1,300 private
banks in the United States, a total
in the neighborhood of 8,000, some
what diminished since May by iso
lated- suspensions and insolvencies,
but still in excess of 7,800. The
gross deposits in National banks
o? the United States amount to sl,-
500,000,000; in State banks $650,-
000,000, and in private banks to
$100,000,000, a total of $2,250,000,-
000. The gross deposits in Amer
ican hanks are. equal to about 60
per cent, of all the gold coin in the
world The National banks of the
country had loans in excess of
$2,000,000,000 at the date of the
Comptroller of the Currecuy’s re
port on July 13. The Sta,te and
private banks at the same time had
loans to the amount of $1,500,000,-
000 additional, the two combined
equivalent to SSO to each inhabi
tant of the United States adults
and minors.
There are now fifty-five pupils
in attendance at the Territorial
University. The people of Arizona
are gradually realizing the fact
that they have an institution of
learning in their midst where their
sons and daughters can receive a
i first-class edneation, and that at
- but a small percentage of ihe cost
: entailed in sending their children
- abroad. The fact that Arizona has
i such an institution in operation
■ will give us a standing abroad that
■ could be obtaiued in no other way,
i and the citizens of Arizona should
: take a pride in its proper inainte
nance and do all in their power to
promote its,success. —Tribune.
No.