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Vol. 2.
1894
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SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR CASH!
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A full line of General Merchandise constantly in
Stock, and we will uot be undersold.
B- F. Johnson, Sons & Co.
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Gardes-
CJ. WILLIAMS,
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Eclectic Physbipn and Surgeon.
VIU. ATTEN* ALL CALIFS PROMPTLY.
MTChronic diseases o t women specialty.^
Owes: Kimball House,
. - Arizona
FHYSICIAN A SURGEON*
OffKi —Two Doors East of Postoffice
Besitfonco—Robson Street, First Door
AMtkg'lCala.
Mma - - Arizona
jy LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
QtftdatU of RahiMtinan Medical College, Philo
delphia, Class *BB2.
•Clce sad Residence Rooks 11, IS and 15.
Cotton Block, Phienix. Office Hours—7 to 8 a
sa., Ito S and 6toß p. ssvk ." . , <
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PMTMCIAN A SURGEON,
wmkm,'- . - • - - Arizona
•flee at Heineaan A Gill Block. Office Hours.
—S to •a. m., Bto 4 and Tto I p. m.
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PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
Eenes Co-Op Store.
Mesa City, A. T.
JJ J. JE^fcjOr,
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DENTIST.
-AM work warranted and prices very
—Porter Bleek.
Phoenix, Arizona.
gpMUNE A McCABE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Special attention given to land,
wpifr ApA/uniiig eases,
Practice in all die courts,
rfeMPt ’ ' ARIZ.
TBIPPBL * SON.
Auk, Tsirrna, Mining Engineer and
Metalurgist.
trass L Turrsb, Civil Engineer Deputy Coun
l|BTnijnmrsnirrrrTi*i C, S, Land Surveyor.
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Do all kinds of
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anJCioil Engineering,
Contracts taken for buildings and es
ti mates furnished for a 1 ! work. Hy
iraulic and Canal wprka specialty.
Vries, *PMseffir Block CITY
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Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE,. - -ARIZ
|jl T. POMEROY,
Notary Public & Conveyancer.
Legal papers Carefully % Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
MESA CITY, - - - - ARIZONA
JQR. J. W. BAILY,
—DEALER IN
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals ,
FANCY AllD TOILET ARTICLES.
Brushes Perfiim ry, Ete*
MESA, - - ARIZONA,
THE
f.ENCRAL MARKET
> GRAY & WEILER, Proprietors
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. Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
M§F*Meats delivered to any j.jai i
of the city and vicinity.
P««eroy Slick, • Main Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. V. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER.
t Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
. MESA, - - - Ariz
DESERT LAND C /NAL PROOF. NOTICE
FOR PUBLICATION
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United States Land Office. j
Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 31st, 1804. |
Notice is hereby given that Addis Perkns of
Fboenix, Maricopa County, Anzoua, has filed
notice of intention to make Droof on her desert
land claim No. 1848, for the SWJ Sec 20, Tp 1 N
« R 6 E, before the Clerk oi the District Court at
f.. Arixona, on Saturdey, the 17th day of
March. 1894.
She names the following witnesses to prove
the complete irrigation an t reclamation of said
l * 1 ind: Charles C Dana, Frank Dana, Asa St lohn
Gaylord and Luthe- ’ Toney, all of Mesa, Ari.
zona, and John Baggiaore of Phoenix Arizona,
r. FRANK W WALLS,
Register
MESA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1891.
ZenosCo-Op.
The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa cun be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’fc,
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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’ts
are stocked witli the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for tbie
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Fa m 0U S Fcatherbone 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.
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
—GO TO
B. F. Johnson,
Sons & Co., ®
AGENTS FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins. Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y,
American Fire Ins 1 Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ “ “ “ “
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FARM INSURANCE A SPECIALTY.
J H. BARNETT.
Dealer in
Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Glass, etc.;
Perfumery, Fancy goods,
Stationery, Toilet Articles
and Tobacco.
Mesa, Arizona.
Feed & Livery Stable.
P. METS, Proprietor.
R. WILSON
The only Second Hand Store in
South, rn Arizona. Ever) variety
of goods sold at bed-rock prices.
Give us a call.
Wasnington St.
B PHOENIX. - - ARIZ.
’ NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
■ Commuted Homestead Entry No. 1822,
United States Land Office, I
Tucson, Arizona. Jan 13, 1894. [
Notice is hereby given that the following nam
f ed settler has filed notice cf his intention to
1 make final proof in support of his elaim, and
t that «aid proof will be made before thK Clerk of
[ the District Court at Phoenix Arizona on March
t 3rd, 1894, viz, Charles H. Smith, of Mesa, Mari
s copa County, Arizona, for the SEJ Sec. 30, Tp 1
jS R 6 E. He names the following witnesses to
e | prove hi» continuous residence upon and cultr
[ vation of said land, viz, Alexander Lucy, John
i L Anderson, Henry Darlington, and Thomas H
. Maitisou, all of Mesa, Arizona.
„ * Frank W Walls,
First publication Jan 18, 1894 Regist
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A Puzzle in Primounciallon.
The following rather curious
piece of composition was recently
placed upon the blackboard at a
teachers institute in Vermont, and
and a prize of a Webster’s Diction
ary offered to any person who could
read it and pronounce every word
correctly. The book was nit car
ried o!f; as 12 was the lowest num -
ber of mistakes in pronounciation
made.
A sacrih gious son of Belial who
has suffered from bronchitis, having
exhausted his finances, in ord *r to
good the deficit, resolved to
ally himself to a comely, lenient
and docile young lady of the Mt
lay or C tucasiau race. {He accor
dingly purchased a Caliope and
coral necklace of a chameleon hue
and securing a suite of roo ms at a
principal hotel lie engaged th‘*
head waiter as his coadjutor. 11-
then dispatched a letter of the
most exceptional caligraphy extant,
inviting the young lady to a mati
nee. She revolted at the idea, re
fused to consider herself sacrificable
to his desires and sent a polite not i
of refusal, on which he procured a
carbine and bowie knife, said that
he would not now forge fetters hy
meneal with the queen and went
to an isolated spot, severed the ju
gular vein and discharged the con
tents of the carbine into his ah lo
men. The debris was removed by
the coroner.
The mistakes in pronunciation
were made on the following words:
Sacrilegious, Belial, bronchitis, ex
hausted, finances, deficit, comely,
lenient, docile, Maylay, caliope,
chameleon, suite, coadjutor, calig
raphy, matinee, sacrificable, car
bine, hymeneal, isolated, jugular,
and debris.
Mohave Miner: There were six
teen car lo :d* of ore shipped from
Kingman last month. The average
of each car was fifteen tons. The
ore would average about S3OO per
ton, or $72,000 per month. If this
rate of production is kept up for
for the year, Mohave county will
have produced it* the neighborhood
of $1,000,000. For the first month
in the new year this is a .remark
able showing, as usually there is
not much ore shipped in at this
season.
An exchange tells of an Advent
ist who prophesied that the end of
the world would come at a eeriain
date; *.ut, on his ascension robes,
climbed to th- too of a straw stack
and waited s oc the crack of doom
He got tired of waiting and, for
getting himself, fell asleep. Some
boys discovered the man and
touched a match to the straw, and
woke him. Gazing around on the
flames, he exclaimed: “In hell, just
as I expected.”
The census returns on mortgage
indebtedness will surely cause a re
vision of public opinion in the mat
ter. Instead of the West being
loaded down with mortgages, as the
world has been told for years, it is
■ the East as well. New York has
* $268 of mortgage debt per capita;
Kansas $l7O. The District of
Columbia has $226 per .capita, Cali
ifornia S2OO and Colorado $206.
i Arizona has but $39 per capita.
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An industrious statistician comes
, out with the startling announce
- ment that the population of the
1 world, which is estimated at 1,400,
j
• 000,000 if divided into families of
1 five, could all be accommodated in
i
Texas, each family with a 5-acre
lot, and have 50,000,000 lots for
parks, etc.
Our house servant is a Japanese,
polite as are most of his race.
Among his duties is taking care of
the chickens. One day he chanced
to find a nest of fine eggs at the
barn, away from the chicken yard,
contributed by a hen that had
escaped from the others, and as a
consequence the eggs w,jre not fer
tile. In ignorance of this fact,
however, an old lady of our house
hold—a widow—immediately put a
hen to “set” on them. Biddy
stuck to business, but to no pur
pose. When th i require l time
had more th in elapsed, the Jady
was very much put out and puzzled
that no chickens had been hatched.
Turning to the Jap, she said “What
do you suopose is the matter of
those eggs, George?” George
(bowing low): “Excuse me, ma’am,
excuse me, but l t’ink [bows again]
I t’ink that hen was a widow.’
Widow satisfied. — California Re
view.
American Farmer. Almost every
vocation is overcrowded with
laborers. Contrary to general
opinion, we think agriculture is
less so than any profession. Statis
ticians say that at present- there is
less food per capita than ever be
fore in the history of civilization,
More producers with fewer middle
men and wealthy idlers is likely to
lie the history of the future. Agri
culture is in a state of progress,
with brighter prospects than any
other vocation. It would nob be
strange, if as a result of these hard
and troublous times, there should
set in an exodus from city to
country larger than the stream that
once ran strongly in the other way.
It is scarcely possible to be too
careful in these days when the
weather changes in a night from
tropical warmth to arctic cold
about encouraging the insidious ap
proach of deadly pneumonia. In
New York city this malady har
vested about 4,000 victims in 1891,
the next year 5,841, and in 1893
carried off 6,476 people. It became
an epidemic. The mortality among
those attacked was frightful. Some
doctors contend that the disease is
contagious, which of course in
creases the danger. The only
safety lies in avoiding places where
pneumonia prevails and in ceaseless
vigilance against taking cold.
When Andrew Millar, the pub
lisher of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary,
received the last proofsheet from
Dr. Johnson, he wrote him this
brusque note, “Andrew Millar
sends his compliments to Mr. Sam’l
Johnson, with the money for the
last sheet of the copy of the dic
tionary, and thanks God he has
done with him.” To this the doc
tor replied, “Samuel Johnson re
turns his compliments to Mr. An
dre v Millar and is very glad to
find, as he does by this note, that
Andrew Millar has the grace to
thank God for anything.”
Mining and Scientific Press: The
search for the lost Pegleg mine has
not been abandoned, notwithstand
ing the lives that have been lost
and the suffering endured in search
for this mysterious property. An
other expedition is said to be
quietly fitted out in Los Angeles,
which, it is claimed, is in possession
of newiv discovered evidence as to
the whereabouts of the mine. Men
of means are reputedly backing the
venture, and the expedition is to
have every auxiliary to a successful
search that money can command.
What the British fiovenuneut has
Bone.
Moreton Fre wen, editor of the
London Economist, in an article in
the December, 1893, number of the
National Review, published ii
London, on the silver question tells
the British government what it has
done substantially as follows: “l'h»
fall of prices can only be charged
to the contraction of money, and
illustrating it by the total yield
and average price of wheat for the
past three years, as follows: Jr.
1891 the quantity produced whs
304,1000,000 bushels and the aver
age price was 41 shillings and 8
pence; in 1892, 300,400,000 bushels
! and the average price was 29 shill
ings and 1 pence; in 1893, 288,100,
000 bushels and the price was 2 )
shillings and 5 pence. Hero is a
fall of 40 per cent, in the price and
5 per cent, decrease in production,
notwithstanding the large .increase
in population. We (English) have
destroyed our landed interest, i*o -
lated ourselves fiom the effective
demand of 700,000,000 of our best,
customers by reducing the ex
changeable value of their roonev-
We have crippled the United States
so that her export trade is profit
less; and, therefore, in America as
well as in Australia and the con
tinent of Europe, the sum repre
sented by our. investments is in
great peril from the prospective in
solvency of debtors. The evil of
shrinking prices legislated currency
contraction admits only of legisla -
tive redress, and failing in this in
creasing leanness seems to be the
melancholy conclusion of the nine
teenth century.—National View.
Senator White, of California, has
introduced in the senate a bill ap
propriating $250,000 to be expended
under the Department of Agricul
ture in the investigation of plans
for reclaiming our arid regions.
The appropriations should be an
nual, and the experiments should
be conducted over a wide area. An
exchange suggests that the approp
riation be $250,000 for each state
and territory.
The Kiowa and Comanche In
dians have assumed a warlike atti
tude and threaten to drive the cat
tlemen and their stock from their
reservation because they have re -
ceived no grass lease payment since
October. Wire fences are being
cut and cattle butchered by mal
contents, and the situation will be
come alarming unless they receive
$60,000 due them.
Senator Allen has introduced a
bill repealing all laws enacted re
lating to coinage or the use of
silver since January 1, 1873, and
to re-enact all the laws relating to
silver and in force previous to that
time authorizing and directing the
issue of United States legal tender
notes, and to prohibit the further
issue of United States interest bear
ing bonds.
An association of ladies has been
formed in Liverpool for the purpose
of persuading shop keepers there to
provide seats for their employes, to
be used when not engaged in the
performance of duty. The ladies
are said to be meeting with gratify
ing success. This seems in imita
tion of a similar effort made in this
country several years ago, which
met with more or less success.
Coconino county has the largest
area of pine timber .of any county
in the territory.
No. 26.