Mesa free press. [volume], September 07, 1894, Image 1

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VOL. 2.
To ttie Public.
o
For the next Sixty Days we will sell our entire
stock of General Merchandise at cost.
Now is the time to lay in supplies, as the railroad
tie-up may continue.
All bills due the firm must be settled on or before
the Ist day of September, 18,94.
fcVours Truly,
B. P. Johnson, Sons & Co
Vpt* ■cT r '- ; /v •
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praf’ossloxx&l Caxdo.
0 J. WILLIAMS,
-oteetio Physician and Surgeon.
VlfcL ATTEND ALL PROMPTLY.
|o*JhNnlo dlimiii of women s ip6cislty*«®f
Orvici: Kimball House,
. _ Arizona
OPHNU
H. SABIN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON*
Olfios —Rooms 1 and 2 Pomeroy
Block, Up SUirr *
Rml tsro
Blocks North of Co-Op* store, east
■ldo*
, H MJL . _ Arizona
yy LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
maiaq-T at Hahns man Meiikial College. Phlta
delphia, Class 1881.
•fise and Reßidtnce Rooms 11, 18 and 16,
Cattos Block, Piukxix. Office Hours—J to 9 a
■a., 1 ta S and 6 to 8 p. m.
CHAS. H. JONES,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Fbmpb, • - •- Arizona
• OHm at Heineman* GUI Block. Office Hours
—4 to 9 a. hi., 3 to t and 7 »o 8 p. m.
P T. POMEROY,
Notary Public & Conveyancer.
Logo! papers Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
MMA CITY, - - “ ARIZONA
U J. JESSUr,
DENTIST.
All work warranted’and prices very
ea&onable.
Opf«>—Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
T)E. J. W. BAILY,
—DEALSR IN—
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
FANCY AnD TOILET ARTICLES.
Songea, Brashes Perfamcry, Kte*
MESA, ARIZONA,
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
Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE, - -ARIZ.
THE
CEHCRKL MARKET
E. L GRAY, °roprietor.
Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
<§FMeatß delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pomeroy Bloc • Main Street,
MESA ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON, i
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER.
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - Ariz
A. L. FISHER’S
Tempe d Mesa Stages
I Making direct connections with )
the Goldfield Stage. |
MORNING STAGES.
L’ve Phoenix 7.00 a.m. Leave Mesa 1:30 p.m
Leave Tempe 9:00 a.m. Leave Tempe 2.80 p.m
Arrive Mesa 10:00 a.tn. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
L’<® Phoenix 3:3op:m. Leave Mesa 6.30 a.m
L’ve Tempe 4.30 p.m. Leave Tempe 7.30a.m
Arriv® Mesa 6.30 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 9 30a.m
CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
Leave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commercial Hotel or Frank Phil
lips
l/l/M. PASSEY,
UNDERTAKER.
1 Undertaker’s supplies. Imported
r coffins and caskets always on hand.
Coffins made to order on short
• notice.
Furniture repaired and job work
done at live and let live prices.
WM. PASSEY,
5 I Next Door to Mesa City Bank
MESA CITY, ARIZONA, FR D vY, SEPT. 7,
ZenosCo-On
** »•«-**
The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
>«4 -4
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’t*
■v • "
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for ttie
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Famous 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. 00. of Brooklyn, N. Y.
American Fire Ins-Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ “ “ “ “
Niagara “ 44 4 44 44
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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.
THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
RAIL ROAD
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
sublime of Nature’s work on the earth, indes
cribable, can easily be reached via Flagstaff,
Williams or Peach Springs on this rond. To the
Natural Bridge of Arizona and. Montezuma’s
Well you can journey most directly by this line.
Observe the Ancient Indian Civilization of La
gnna 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 magnificent pine forests of
the San Francisco Mountains. Find intereet 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 Superintended Gen Pass Agout
Albuquerque, N M San Francico and
H S VanSlyck. Albuquerque
Gen’l Agent, Albuquerque N M
Weroniino to Itefurn.
Every pood citizen of Arizona
will indorse the following from the
San Francisco Chronicle :
The War D» •partment has de
cided to transfer Geronimo and
his Apaches from Mount Vernon
barracks in Alabama, where they
have been in custody for scveial
years, to Fort Sill, in Oklahoma
Territory.. There are nearly 300
of Gerouirno’s Apaches, and they
will lie taken to-Fort Sill, and after
a period of surveillance there, will
be returned to their old reserva
tion in the mountains of Eastern
Arizona.
Once again, ns heretofore, the
Chronicle, on behalf of the white
citizens and residents of Arizona,
protests earnestly against such
action on the part of the United
States Government. It would be
bad enough to try to locate Gcr
onirno and his band at Fort Sill,
but when it is added that this is
only a period of probation, and that
if tiny behawe themselves for a
short time they will be returned to
their old hunting-grounds and for
mer residence in the White Moun
tains of Arizona, we protest against
inflicting such a curse upon the
people who have built up and de
veloped Ariz na and made it nearly
if not quire, ready for Statehood.
We do n -t forget that Geronimo
has been depicted as a thoroughly
civilized and converted Apache,
even teaching a class m Sunday
school and impressing upon the
pupils the iessons of the Ten Com
mandments and the Sermon on th
Mount.- but none the less do we
believe him to be just what he has
always luen, one of the most cun
ning, patient, hypocritical and
hloodthirsty savages and villains
that ever cursed the American con
tinent.
If the War Department insists
on inflicting this outrage on Ari
zona we do not see that there is
anything for that Territory to do
but to stand on its innate and in
herent right of self-defense and (
take measures to protect itself j
against Geronimo and his promising
300 Sunday-school scholars. The
Chronicle cannot tell the people of
Arizona anything about Apaches.
The knowledge that cruel and
treacherous race has been burned
and seared into the consciousness
of Arizona until the scars are in
effaceable. Thus much, however,
we may say, that the Government
of the United States has no more
right to turn 300 Apaches loose in
Arizona, with the fiend Geronimo
at their head, than it would have
to stock Arizona with so many
man-eating tigers, and that the
people of Arizona will be fully
justified in adopting any means of
self-protection, no matter what the
consequences may be.
Chicago Inter-Ocean : 11. T
Magner of Prescott, Arizona, at
the Palmer, sneers at the idea of
speaking of Arizona as “a desert ’
after coming across Colorado and
Kansas, “ where,” said he, “ the
country is as barren as if swept by
a fire. The corn is destroyed and
there is not a vestige of green in
either state, the trees even droop
ing and looking seared by the hot
winds that have been blowing over
the country for a couple of weeks.
Out in Arizoaa it is altogether dif
ferent. We never have a crop
[ failure, as we irrigate. Our fruit
) crop is splendid and we will outdo
the world in grapes this year.”
894.
The Republican says the Santa
| Fe is preparing, as an incident in
! searching a north and south line
through Arizona, to materially
alter the line of the New Mexic
& Aiizona railroad. The informa
tion upon which this announcement
is made may be considered semi
official. The company proposes to
abandon the road between Benson
and Calabasis and connect the lat
ter point with Tucson. The work
will be fall and will be
completed it is estimated, almost
simultaneously with the arrival of
the north and south ro d at Phoe
nix. There will then remain a gap
between tile two ends which will
be filled with the greatest possible
expedition. The change does not
involve the construction of much
additional mileage. Bensou is
about seventy-five miles east of
Tu eson and Calabasis about sixty
miles due south. A line between
the latter points will he easily con
structed and besides furnishing a
much more direct route for a trans-
Aiizona line will lie free from the
difficult grades of the present road
south or Benson. Since the build
ing of the Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix was begun it was suppos
ed, though never officially announ
ced, that an object was to join the
N. M. ife A. at Benson. The diffi
culty of that route is apparent to
those familiar with the contour of
the country, a difficulty se great as
to bo almost impracticable. On
the other hand a route from Phoe
nix to Tucson by the way of Flor
ence presents a minimum of natural
obstructions to Arizona railroad
building.
News from Globe is that the Old
Dominion Company while elosing
down the smelters, has not by any
means stopped work upon the won
derful copper mines of its group.
It is understood that work for some
time has been handicapped by the
fact that the stopes were not ex
tensive enough. Sixty men, com
prising about-all the married men
on the force, have been retained
and are now busily doing develop
ment work, running new levels
farther into the ore body and sink
ing the main shaft a hundred feet
more. It is understood that the
company does not design working
in the near future any of the rich
ores below the 350 foot level.
Above this level the ores while less
rich than below are of a j[free car
bonate character, readily run thro’
the water jacket furnaees. The
doeper ores must be treated by
some other and more expensive
method, by reason of their higher
percentage of sulphur. It is under
stood that the bullion output will
be resumed as soon as a sufficient
amount of new ore has been ex
posed to stoping in the new levels
now being run, while in the mean
time the more distant ore bodies
will be explored by means of a dia
mond drill.—Prospector.
Recent reports from the Bull
Dog mine, Superstition district, are
most encouraging. There are about
12 feet of the ledge that averages
S4O in gold per ton, and there is
plenty of water to run the mill.
Capt. Jack Newman, who owns an
interest in the southern extension
of the claim, was in town this week
and is strongly impressed with the
productiveness and permanaucy,
not alone of the Bull Dog, but the
whole Goldfield camp. It will un
doubtedly prove with development,
the best gold producing section in
the territory.—Tribune,
PiiUniaii Binder Fire.
The Lfhtr Commission appoint
'd by Pn sidi ut Cleveland, had
George M . Pullman on she stand
for nearly Hwee hours, and ilie
spectacle he presented before the
Commission had finished with him
could not have been gratifying to
those who have been accustomed to
regard him as a great philanthro
pist and as an employer having at
heart the interests of his workmen.
Mr. Pullman testified that he
had put in bids f.-r cars for the
Long Island Railroad at something
between .S3OO and S4OO per car
Imjlow actual cost, because he had
made up his mind that the com
pany would contribute that much
rather than have the men in his
employ idle. This was very well
on its face, but Judge Worthington
one of the Commissioners, brought
out the fact that the company’s
original capital stock of $1,000,000
in 1867, had is.creased to $36,000-
000, and that company bail
paid dividends of 12 per cent du
ring the first two years of its or
ganization, per cent during the
next two years, and 8 per cent an
nually since, and at the same time
had accumulated a surplus of $25,-
000,000.
The question was then asked of
Mr. Pullman whether he did not
think that a company which paid
dividends of $2,800,000 a year
could afford to share the losses of
its employes who had worked for
it for d long time, to which he re
plied that he knew no reason why
the profits of 4200 stockholders in
the Pullman Sleeping-Car Compa
ny should be taken to pay wages in
the manufacturing business. In
reply to another question Mr. Pull
man said that while the wages of
the operatives were reduced the
salaries of superintendent and fore
man were not, because it was not
good poticy to reduce the salaries
of high officials, as men of their
caliber were not easily replaced.
It is not difficult to see that Mr.
Pullman’s chief concern was for the
stockholders and their dividends,
and not for the workmen at the
celebrated town of Pullman. In
that town there have been many
strange things done under the guise
of philanthropy. It seems to be
established that rents were rather
above than below the average, and
it is certain that the library, on
which so muoh stress has been laid
cost $3 per year for adults and $1
per year for each child. This is
certainly not the generosity which
Mr. Pullman’s admirers have claim
ed for him.
With the merits of the strike at
Pullman wo do not concern our
selves at the present time, but the
testimony of George M. Pullman
himself before the Labor Commis
sion shows tha* he has appealed for
public sympathy and respect on in
sufficient grounds. The two facts
of a payment of $2,800,000 in
dividends in a single year, on the
one hand, and a reduction of 50
per cent or over in the wages of
operatives, on the other, cannot be
explained by the subdivision of the
Pullman interests into separate
companies or corporations, and
such, wo apprehend, will be the
finding of the Commission.—*
S. F. Chronicle.
Many of the mines sold these*
days are bought by men who bond
or lease and then take the purchase
money from the mine. In most
cases the original owner could just
as well do this himself.
No. 52.