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Vol. 3.
WANTED!
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At Highest Market Prices, all kinds of Poultry and
Farm Produce.
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co
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New Goods constantly arriving at bed rock prices.
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w. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention t© land cases-*
* TEMPE, - -ARIZ
.J. WILLIAMS,
'cleotio Physician and Surgeon.
WljbL ATTEND ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
|70 hranio diicasea of women a specialty.^
Office : Kimball House,
Arizona
Vila.
yy LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
of Cdleste. Phila
Uelphia, Cl 4»» 1882.
OB«e and Residence Rooms It, ti. and 15.
Gettoa Block, Hiawix. Office Honrs-7 to 9 a
jb., 1 *o * and 6 to 8 p. m.
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gR- CHAB. H. JONES,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
fEWB, Arizona
Offiee atMeineman & Gill Block. Office Hours
to j» a, m v Bto 4 and 7toßp. m.
FT. POMEROY,
.
Notary Public & Conveyancer.
J**al papers Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
MBSAOITY, - - - ARIZONA
|J J : JESSUr,
DENTIST.
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All work warranted?and prices very
©eson able.
Dffoi—Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
TJR. J. W. BAILY,
r ' . —DIALER IN—
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Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
FANCY AnD TOILET ARTICLES.
Ipongea, Brushes Perfumery, Ete*
MESA. ARIZONA,
"* R. WILSON
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The only Second Hand Store in
Southern Arizona. very variety
of goods sold at bed-rock prices.
Give us a call. '
Wasnington St.
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Mesa Free Press.
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£. L. GRAY, °roprietor.
Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
|jgirMeatß delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pomeroy Bloc Hlain Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
A. L. FISHER’S
PlußDii, Teipe & Mesa Stages
I Making direct connections with
J the Goldfield Stage. |
MORNING STAGES.
L’ve Phoenix 7.00a.m. Leave Mesa 1:30 p.m
Leave Tempe 9:00 a.m. Leave Tempe 2.30 p.m.
Arrive Mesa 10:00 a.in. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
L’<a Phoenix 3:30p.m. Leave Mesa 6.30 a.m
L’ve* Tempe 4.30 p.m. Leave Tempe 7.30 a.m
Arriy® Mesa 5.30 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 9 30 a.m
CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
l§§rLeave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commercial Hotel or Frank Phil
lips
W. A BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
B COLDER.
Estimates Furnished on Short
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Notice.
MESA, - - - Ariz
l/l/M. PASSEY,
UNDERTAKER.
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Undertaker’s supplies. Imported
' 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 Next Door to Mesa City Bank
MESA CITY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, OCi'OBb.R 5, 1894.
ZenosCo-Op.
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The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
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*
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for tlie
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Famous F».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.
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
—GO TO
B. F. Johnson,
Sons & Co.,
AGENTS FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins. Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y,
American Fire Ins’ Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ “ “ “ “
Niagara “ “ ‘ “ “
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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. •
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Feed & Livery Stable.
P. METS, Proprietor.
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THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
RAILROAD
The Great Middle Route across
the American Continent in connec
tion svitlnthe 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 he 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 Ancient Indian Civilization of La
irnna 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 interest in
the ruins of the pre-historie cave and cliff
dwellers. View the longest cantilever bridge in
America across the Colorado River
T. R. Gabei., W.A. Bissell, j
Gen’l Superintendeut Gen Pass Ageut |
Albuquerque, N M San Francico and |
II S VanSuyck. Albuquerque j
Qen’l Agent, Albuquerque N M I
’•’lie Creation.
From Beresus a learned Baby
lonian, who wrote about the year
260 B. 0., the following curious
account of creation is taken: “In
the beginning all was darkness and
water, and therein were generated
monstrous animals and men of
strange and peculiar form. Some
of these la'ter were menlike crea
tures with two wings, and some
even with four. Some had one
head and two faces; others two
heads with a single face between
them. Sometimes a single body
would have heads both of the male
and female. Besides the above
there were men with heads and
horns like go its, men with hoofs
like horses,and some with the up
per part of a man joined to the
lower part of a horse, like centaurs.
Then there were bulls with wings
and human heads, dogs with four
bodies and with Ashes’ tails, men
and horses with dogs’, heads, crea
tures with ~ heads and bodies like
horses, but with claw£ like lions
and tails like fish. Besides these
there were other monsters showing
a mixture of the forms of other
beasts.
Moreover, there were monstrous
fish and reptiles and divers other
creatures which had borrowed some,
thing from each others’ shapes, of
all of which the likenesses of which
are still preserved in the Temple of
Belus. A woman ruled all these
monsters, and her name was Oinor
ka, which is the suno as the Chal
dae Thalatth and the Greek Tiial
assa. Then Bel us appeared. He
split the woman in twain and of
one-half of her he made the heav
ens and of the other half the earth,
and the monsters winch she had
ruled he caused to perish. And he
split the darkness aud divided the
heavens from the earth and put all
the world in order. Belus then
commanded one of the gods to cut
off his head aud to mix the blood
which flowed forth with the earth
and to form inm and beast there
from. !So min was made and was
intelligent and was a partaker of
wisdom. Likewise Belus made the
stars, the sun, the moon and the
plauet.s.”
Specimens from the Black Oak
mine on exibicion at Prescott are
as large as a man’s hand and are
resplendent wDh the yellow metal,
which shows all over the rock, no
matter which way it is turned. At
a depth of only 75 feet from the
surface there is a vein of the rock
three feet in width. The mine is
a new find, was located on the
twenty-third of last May Mr.
Bradley, is situated just sixteen
miles frem Prescott, in Slate creek
I district. He now has twenty tons
of the ore sacked for reduction at
Harlan’s mill. The rock also car
ries considerable tellurium which is
also visible to the naked eye and is
valued at about five dollars a pound.
A recent Chinese writer states
the average earnings of workmen
in that country are twenty cents a
day, and that half of this is enough
for a family of five, after Chinese
fashion. The new Penal Code fix
es the value pf labor impressed into
the public service at fourteen cents
a day. But these are minimum
rates. In cities carpenters and
masons get thirty cents a day with
out food; - farm hands $17.50 a
year without food; clerks and ac
| countants $lO to S3O a month with
j out food. A soldier’s pay is $5
j a month without board, but half of
l this is paid in rice.
| An ice cave has been discovered
in Coconino county about six miles
south of Flagstaff. The entrance
jto the cave is from the side of a
j cliff. The cave itself is at a great
depth from the surface. Huge
icicles suspend from the roof, and
beneath them have been formed
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what may be called ice stalagmites.
These have been joined together
and form a great ice body. The
ice is formed from water which
percolates through the roof and is
as nearly purts as possible by any
process of tilteration. It is said
that a commercial use will be made
of the ice. The cave has not yet
been fully explored. This is an
addition to the list of Arizona won
ders.
in the Agua Fria, Hassayampa
and Verde rivers, and some of their
of their tributaries, Dr. Comstock
has been engaged all summer in
making geologic and mineral collec
tions, and in studying the resourc
es and structure of Arizona geology,
He has worked out a great break
in the strata which he has now
traced from Durango in Mexico, as
far northwest as the Colorado
Canyon, and other breaks of im
portance have been also detected,
These features, lie says, have very
close relations to the supply of
artesian water, a subject to which
Dr. Comstock is giving much at
tention.—Star.
The fad of concentrating troops
in large cities to protect the rich in
their holdings is another step to
ward the centralization of power.
It is by far the most radical move
in this direction that has yet been
made. Rich and poor alike should
be afforded protection, and to with
draw the strong arm which sup
ports the law on the frontier in
order to afford additional protection
to the accumulations of millionaires
in large oities is a glaring wrong
which will be recoguized by reason
able people if they will stop to
consider its effects. —Prospector.
At length the Dead sea is to be
navigated, and two sailing boats
one rather large and heavy for car
go and the other smaller and neater
for passengers, have just been
conveyed from Jaffa to Jerusalem
by rail and whence to the Dead sea
by road. The boats belong to the
sultan, as does also the Dead sea,
which forms part of the crown
property, and it is Abdul Hamid’s
intention to turn to good account
the salt, bitumen and sulphur that
abound in its waters and on its
shores.
Skinner, who is running for the
legislature again from Graham
county, remarked in a speech in
the house two years ago that “but
one person in six reads newspapers.’
Skinner is the same man who is so
strongly “forninst” railroads that
he rode all the way to Phoenix in a
buckboard and came back the same
way. Why on earth the Demo
crats of Graham county want him
on their ticket again is a mystery.
There should be a sufficient num
ber of intelligent men there with
out nominating a mossback.—Pros
pector,
The weekly bank statements how
a reserve increase of $817,150; s ’
loans decrease, $357,550; specie
increase, $148,400; legal tender,
increase, $345,400; deposits decreas
ed, $1,294,600; circulation increase,
$30,600; banks hold $60,749,874
in excess of requirements.
i A Hi * l»euf.
i
. J. L Pritchard, an old and ex
, perienced mining man, formerly of
, Colorado, who has been investigat—
! ing the mineral districts of Arizona,
recently gave his opinion of Ari
zona as a mining region.
“Why, bless you,” he remarked,
“even experienced mining men have
no conception of the mineral wealth
of Arizona. One of the biggest
mining deals of the year was closed
just a few days ago at. Phoenix.
‘Billy’ Hearst of the San Francisco
Examiner, and J. M. Wilson, an
other ’Frisco capitalist, took a 90-
days working bond on the Arica
group of gold mines, 35 miles west
of Ehrenburgon the Colorado river.
E. H. Hillier was cashier of the
Hartford bank in Phoenix before
it busted up, and C. M. Gray, his
partner, was one of the original
owners, with Kirkland and Coch
rane of the Harqua Hala group
that Hubbard and Bowers, to whom
the property was sold by them,dis
posed of for $1,250,000. J E.
Teeter* is a large viticulturist at
Mesa City, and has interest with
Gray in one of the claims. The
purchase price has been fixed at
$175,000, of which $125,000 will
go to Hiller and Gray, and $50,000
to Gray and Teeters.
“Only about 500 feet of develop*
ment work has been done, but free
gold ore has been exposed through-*
out in a broad and well defined
lode. The outcroppings all over
the mountain indicate a fabulous
amount of ore, and when the largo
staff of men that have been put at
work upon the property there seems
every chance of the mines making
a showing as good as the Harqua.
Halas.
“There is only one drawback,”
added Mr. Pritchard in concluding,
“it will take about SIOO,OOO to
put up a mill and water plant, for
water is scarce and will have to be
piped about 18 miles from the
Colorado.”
The Deadly Mohaye Desert.
A party of cattlemen out on the
Mohave desert recently catue across
the trail of two men and two burros.
The aimless, zigzag course of the
trail showed that those who had.
made it were lost, and th§ cattle-.
men at once set out to find them.
Here and there along the path ta
ken by the wanderers holes of from
throe to five feet in depth had been
dug in the dry sands. Late in the
evening the cattlemen came upon
a young man lying under a mesquite
bush, beside a hole dug six feet in
the sand, murmuring in delirium
and at the point of death. He had
been without water more than three
days and had lain down to die. A, .
mile further on they overtook an
old man, who, delirious, was crawl
ing on hands and knees toward a
pool of brackish water, besides
which stood the two burros. The
burros, being released, when he
gave up, had found their way tQ
water, and the old man had follow-,
ed them in a last despairing bnrst
of strength. The two men weru
miners, who had lost their way a
week before. . Both men recovered
after a few days of care at the ranch,
but mummified corpses and bleach-,
ed bones often met in the desert
tell of many travelers whose similar
experiences have no such happy
ending.
The Asiatic war may foroe open
sealed ports, develop new wants
and call for new energies in Amer-»
ican industries and market^,
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