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STILL IN THE LEAD!
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No such haragains of as are offered by
B. F. JOHNSON, SONS & CO
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A large and carefully selected stock of summer
goods just in.
Shoes for all, and a choice line of Family Groceries
constantly on hand.
Gome one, come all and be convinced.
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co
Cm.rO.m-
Q J. WILLIAMS,
~cl*Bti* Physician and Surgeon.
Sf\fL ATTEND ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
fprClMwto dIHMN •! mw e
Dias : Kimball House,
Arizona
fJ M. SABIN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN * SURGEON-
Omci —Two Doors East of Postoffico
Sei4>n Robson Street, First Door
9mUi ok Miitt.
Mbea - - Arizona
JMT LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
: HOMCEOPATHIST,
MiHM tl MahnwmutMedioal College. PhiU
delphia, Claes lUtt.
•It* Mid lUiidac*' Rooms 11, M Mid 16.
Cotton Block, Pimii. Offios Hoor»—7 to 8 *
a., 1 to S Mid fi to S p. a.
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CH\S. H. JONES,
•PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
f—»» . . . . % Arizona
•See aHiistaM A Oill Block. Office Hours
•artWOWffi.. f to 4 Mid 7 to S p. m.
P T. POMEROY,
Rotary Public A Conveyancer.
papers Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
ICBBA CITY, - - - ARIZONA
JJT J.’/IStSOr,
DENTIST.
All work warranted’and prices very
Nlffi Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
pmUNE A McCABE
ATTORNEYS AT-LAW
Bpocisl attention given to land,
fStsr and mining cases.
Practice in all the courts,
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D* j;w. RAILY, _
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Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals.
FANCY Ann TOILET ARTICLES.
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Mesa Free Press.
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W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE, - -ARIZ.
THE
CENGRBL MARKET
£. L. GRAY, °roprietor .
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Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
Meats delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Poneroj Bloc Main street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER.
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - Ariz
A. L. FISHER’S
| Making direct connections with )
the Goldfield Stage. |
MORNING STAGES.
L*ve Phoenix 7.00 a.m. Leave Mesa 1:S0 p .m
Leave Temps 9:00 a.m. Leave Tempo * .SO p.m.
Arrive Mesa 10:00 a.m. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
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L’re Phoenix S:3op.m. Leave Mesa 6.80 a.m
L’ve Tempe 4.30 p.m. LeaveTenipe7.Boa.m
Arrive Mesa 6.80 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 0.80a.m
CARRY PASBEUQERJB ANDEXPREBB.
Leave orders at Fashion Stable,
Obtnasorcial Hotel or Frank Phil
•» lips
notice; .
ATI persons knowing themselves
to, be indebted to Gray A Weiler
areVequested to call and settle at
once..
MESA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1894.
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The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Meso can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
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Which contains new, neat and
fashionable dress goods, flannels,
ludies’ and gents’ furnishing good*
and everything usually found in a
well furnished establishment.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’ts
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for tlie
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Famous Feather bone 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. V.
American Fire Ing’Co.,of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ " " •* “
Niagara “ “ 1 “ “
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FARM INSURANCE A SPECIALTY.
i H. BARNETT,
Dealer in
Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Glass, etc.;
Perfumery, Fancy goods,
Stationery, Toilet Articles
and Tobacco.
Mesa, Arizona.
ILsZEESS-AT
Feed & Livery Stable.
P. METS, Proprietor.
THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
RAILROAD
The Great Middle Route across
the American Continent in connec
tion with the railways of the “Santa
Fe Route.”
Liberal Management
Superior Facilities
Picturesque Scenery
The Grand Canon of the Colorado, the most
■Hbllme of Nature’s work on the earth, indes
cribable, can eaailv be reached via Flagstaff,
Williams or Peach Springs on this road. To the
Natural Bridge of Arizona and Montezuma’s
Well you can Jouruey most directly by this line.
Observe the Aneient Indian Civilization of La
arnna or of Acolla, “The City of the Sky.” Visit
the Petrified Forest near Carrizo. See and
marvel at the freak of Canon Diablo. Take a
hunting trip in the marmfloent pine forests of
the San Francisco Mountains. Find interest in
the ruins of the pre-historic cave and cliff
dwellers. View the longest cantilever bridge in
America across the Colorado River
T. R. Gabel, W.A. Bissell,
Gon’l Superintendent Gen Pass Agent
Albuquerque, N U San Francloo and
H S VavS&Tdl. Albuquerque
Oenl Agent, Albuquerque N If
Reclamation of V<aml.
Senator Sweet of Idalw has in
* troduced the following bill : That,
i subject to all rights, inchoate or
perfected, all lands of whatever
nature oi.d rights thereto, including
1 water rights now tte.ionging to the
United States, situated in Ne
braska, Nevada, South Dakota,
1 North Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton, Oregon, Wyoming. Idaho,
Colorado, Kansas and California,
I and in New Mexico, Arizona, Okla
homa and Utah, are, with full and
( complete juris liction thereover,
granted to said several states and
territories, the grant to each of
said states and territories is to be
of the lands contained within its
present boundaries and territorial
limits The President shall issue
j letters patent for the same to the
! several states and territories when
ever any of said sta'es and terri
tories shall, by act of its legisla
ture, accept the disposition of lauds
as herein provided within the time
specified.
This act shall in no manner affect
any Indian lands nor lands held in
trust for or for use by Indians, nor
shall it apply to Alaska.
The Governors of Utah, Arizona,
Oklahoma and New Mexico shall
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within reasonable time after the
passage of this act, call special ses
sions, if need be, of their several
legislatures to pass upon provisions
of this act and questions herein
submitted to them, and may, from
time, call such other sessions of
their respective legislatures as may
be rendered necessary.
The benefits of this act shall not
accrue to any state or territory
which shall not have accepted the
provisions thereof within four years
from its approval, as soon as prac
ticable after the issuance of- letters
patent to any state or territory for
lands therein situated, and from
time to time thereafter as occasion
may require, it shall be the duty of
the Secretary of the Interior, at the
expense of the United States to
cause to be delivered to the proper
authorities of such state or terri
tory all maps, records, books and
papers, or certified copies thereof,
in case it may be necessary to re
tain the originals in the General
Land Office, which may be neces
sary to such state or territory for
the proper control, administration
and disposition of such lands.
No state or territory accepting
the cession of lands herein provided
shall in any case sell, lease or dis
pose of said lands in greater quan
tity than 160 acres to any one per
son, corporation or association, nor
shall any such state or territory in
any manner impair or abridge the
homestead privileges now granted
to soldiers and sailors under the
land laws of the United States.
Also the following: That to. en
courage reclamation of arid lands
and the cultivation and sale thereof
in small tracts to actual settlers,
there is hereby reserved for pur
poses in each of the states to which
the desert land law of the United
States is applicable one million
acres of surveyed public arid lands
in said states respectively. This is
to be eelected by each of said stales
within ten years after the passage
of the act, and from the date of
such selection to be thereafter with
held from other disposal, except as
hereinafter provided; provided that
any lands so reserved which shall
not be reclaimed within five years
| from the date of their selection or
( as to whieh the state has not ex
pended $3 per acre in works in-
tended for reclamation of such
lands, as now required by the
United States desert land law from
the claimant thereunder, shall be
released from such reservation and
become subject to the disposal as
other public lands of the Uuited
States.
After proclamation by the presi
dent any state accepting the con
ditions of the act is authorized to
make all necessary regulations
governing the manner or extent of
reclamation and to make all con
tracts to cause lands to bn so re
claimed by act nal settlers. As
rapidly as the state may furnish
proof that any of the lands are so
reclaimed and occupied by actual
settlers patonts shall issue to the
state for said lands, provided that
the states shall not dispose of more
than 160 acres of land to any one
person, and the net proceeds de
rived by each state from the sale
of said lands shall be held and ex
pended as separate funds to aid
the work of reclaiming lands so
reserved, the surplus, if any, shall
be devoted by the state to raclaim
ing its other arid lands. All lands
exclusive of timber and mineral
lands, which will not without irri
gation produce some agricultural
crop shall be deemed arid lands
within the meaning o* the act,
which fact shall be ascertained by
affidavit of two or more witnesses
tiled in the Land Office of the dis
trict in which such land may be
situated at the time of selection
thereof.
Where there are no adverse
claimant decision of the Register
and Receiver as to what are arid
lands shall be final, provided that
this act shall not be construed to
authorize the leasing of lands or
the disposal or use of them by the
states in any way whatever, except
to secure their reclamation, culti
vation and settlement. This act
shall also apply to Montana and
Kansas and to states that may be
formed out of the territories of Ar
izona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Utah when admitted.
The name of Tommy Gates is
interwoven with the splendid oon
dition manifest now in the Yuma
penitentiary, for to him more than
any other belongs the credit of
placing the prison upon the excel
lent footing which now character
izes it. Concerning the prison the
Prospector says : The Yuma peni
tentiary is misnamed. It should
be termed the “Arizona Reforma
tory.” To a certain extent a man
is deprived of his liberty, but bis
surroundings are so arranged that
his mind is turned from the
thoughts of strife and devilment to
the more civilized side of existence.
He is obliged to bathe at regular
intervals, to wear clean clothes;
everything around the establish
ment is scrupulously clean. The
library is supplied with all of the
latest and most valuable literature,
which is eagerly sought for and de
voured by the prisoners. They are
taught to respect and treat each
other as fellow men do. Their
moral standard is raised from the
moment they get into prison, and
that the influence is beneficial is
shown by the records of the prison,
for not over half a dozen prisoners
have ever been returned to the
prison after being released. If
their treatment were severe and
brutal, as in most prisons, such a
record could not be shown. Nearly
all of the discharged prisoners of
the past ten years are now leading
lives of usefulness and are good
citizens,.
i j Silver in Coming,
1 We are pleased to give place to
the following, as we consider, very
! conservative and sensible editorial
from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
“It must be very gratifying to
the friends of silver coinage to note
the progress of public sentiment in
favor of silver money on both sides
of the ocean, the 'governor
of the hank of England ntidl such
statesmen as Balfour dec.are in fa
vor of the full enfranchisement of
silver it is an assurance that tho
single gold standard will not slwaya
be maintained If president Cleve
land had urged congress in his
message to provide for the unlimit
ed coinage of silver at the establish
ed ratio of 16 to 1, without rnf.-r-,
ence to the wishes of other nation#,
we would by this time, be much
nearer universal recognition of
silver as a standard of value. Jf
the president and congress had ta
ken ground in favor of unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver
there would have been no possi
bility of organizing a formidable
army of tramps to besiege congress
and make the nation tremble with
serious apprehensions of trouble
Every nation that has repudiated
silver as a money metal has had
the same sea of troubles to encoun
ter which the United States is now
experiencing. Wo are upon the
threshold of the tribulations which
England experienced in 1816,
when she declared gold the only
money standard. Her highways
were crowded with tramps, work
ing people were thrown out of em
ployment, business was paralyzed '
all who were in debt were driven
into bankruptcy; the landed estates
became the property of the few,
Germany demonetized silver in
1873, with an experience sitpilar to
that of England, and but for the
strong arm of imperial power the
opposition would have ended in a
revolution. The farmers of Ger
many are intensely anxious for the
full restoration of silver. The
United States may prosper with
either a high or low tariff. Her re
sources ate so great, so infinite in
variety, that the only thing which
brings het* people to beggary and
want is the absence of an instru
ment of exchange, an agent to dis
tribute the riches of the peopla
Neither the McKinley tariff law
nor the proposed Wilson bill is
responsible for the present unsatis
factory condition. With an ample
supply of money a business boom
would very soon be inaugurated.
Every idle laborer would find work#
every labor-savins: machine would
be brought iuto requisition and our
inexhaustible resources would be
taxed to supply the needs not only
of our own couivtry but of the
world. Our immense silver de
posits will, in spite of the
tion of presidents and bankers and
Shylocks, be utilized in making the
world’s exchanges. *
The moonlight excursion on the
laguna by thd steamer Aztec last
Saturday night waR a great success
and all had a glorious time. The
steamer and ferry barge (which was
used for dancing) were decorated
with Japanese lanterns. While in
port he steamer ill make 'excur
sions up thef Gila river every Sun
day. The river is now navigable
for quite a distance. —Yuma Times
After July Ist no. more postal
, notes will be issued; but money
’ orders will be issued for any a
mount at about the same rate that
postal notes were soli.
No. 38.