Mesa free press. [volume], October 12, 1894, Image 2

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Friday, Oct. 12, 1894.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
poet, is 4oad.
California has trees that have
been proved by scientists to be
3000 years old.
W. F. Cooper, editor of the
Florence Tribune, has been ad
mitted to practice as an attorney.
The word “mugwump” occurs
several times in Eliot’s translation
of the Bible. In that book it sig
nifies a great chief.
J. F. Wallace has retired from
the St. John’s Herald, and is suc
ceeded by Art McDonald. The
Herald is a good paper.
Judge Fuller, of the IT. S.
Court of Private Land Claims, will
take testimony in the Peralta
grant case at GuadaJahara, Mexico,
on the 22nd inst.
Hiss Frances Willard devotes
eight hours of the day to work,
eight hours to sleep ana the re
maining eight hours as she ex
presses it, to doing as she pleases.
The Yuma Times is now on the
road to fortune and fame, It has
been sued for libel by one Allen,
whose mining methods it had criti*
cised. Allen wants $50,000. The
Times had better just pay it and
save trouble.
The citizens of Globe have sent
n a protest against the removal of
he troops from San Carlos. Every
citizen of the territory ought to
join them in the protest, and if
their protest don’t count they
ought to organize, equip and drill
companies of rangers for self pro
tection.
Farmers south of town are loudly
complaining of the renewed depre
dations of large bands of Indian
horses from the Sacaton agency.
It seems that these horses come
upon alfalfa and grain fields at will
and without restraint from Indian
or ageDt. The farmers whose crops
are totally destroyed, have no re
dress, except through a long and
tedious manipulation of red tape at
Washington. These horses could
destroy every grain and alfalfa
field in the valley before the of
ficials could get time to look at an
application for damages. We had
always supposed that it was the
Agent’s business to exercise a
general supervision over the In
dians and their stock and see to it
that adjoining settlers were not
trespassed upon. The trespasses
to which we refer are made at a
distance of at least twenty miles
from the agency and earnest ap
peals to the agent seems to have
very little effect. There was, so
we understand, little or no com
plaint from trespassing Indian
stock until within the past year
and the farmers propose to join in
an inquiry at the Department
whether this thing shall be allowed
to continue.
The Indian language is rich in j
traditions concerning this country. <
The different tribes of course have I
different traditions concerning the i
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remote history of the country, and j
each tribe occupies in its own tra— |
dition a most central and impor
tant position. The traditions of
different families of the same tribe
often differ materially, is is shown
in the traditions respecting the
origin of the name of the Super
stition mountain, the huge pile
that serves as a landmark for more
than a hundred miles in Southern
Arizona and at whose northern
base nestles one of the richest min
ing camps in the territory. Antonio,
the great war chief of the Fimas,
gives the following upon this sub
ject: Many, many, many years ago
this great valley, embracing all of
the Salt, Verde, Gila and San
Pedro, was filled with thousands of
people. There were large cities,
thousands of farms where the peo
ple raised much corn and other
crops, and had large herds of cattle
and horses and were happy and
contented. By and by a great
flood came. It began to spread
over the valley suddenly, then ris
ing to a great height. The people
with their dogs, horses and cattle
fled to the high mountain, but
many were overtaken and drowned,
only those nearest the mountain,
mainly reaching its summit. The
waters rose high up on the moun
tain as the horizontal marks
around its perpendicular cliffs now
plainly show. After rising almost
to the summit the waters receded
only a little, to be again raised by
the Great Spirit. But with ail his
power the Great Spirit was not
able to raise the waters over the
summit of the mountains, and
after repeated trials, finding he
could not do this, he turned all the
Pimas on the summit, together
with their dogs and cattle and
horses into stone, and there they
are to this day. No Pima now
will venture to the summit of this
mountain.
Wint. Sears is making a win
ning canvass for County Recorder.
He is a young man of energy and
industry, of unswerving honesty
and integrity, and is thoroughly
qualified for the position. Voters
will make no mistake in casting
their vote for him if they want a
faithful and an efficient officer.
11. B. St. Claire
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR COUNTY
ASSESSOR.
The genial sun of Indiana first
shed the light of day on the present
Republican nominee for County
Assessor, Mr. H. B. St. Claire in
1858. He is a genuine .. Hoosier
and was a “school master” for three
years on leaving college in his
native state. His education began
in the public schools and ended in
an Indiana University. He left
the business of teaching to go into
the post office of his native town as
deputy postmaster where he served
several years, then removed to the
State of Texas where he acted in
like capacity for a time, then en
tered into the mercantile business,
subsequently coming to this Terri
tory in 1884. Here he invested in
the stock business at once and has
also been interested at one time
and another in some of our best
mercantile firms giving much of
his time and attention to that busi
ness and amidst it all he has found
time to handle a good deal of real
estate, buying and selling property
for himself, however. At present
he is devoting his time to his stock
and is ranching in the valley near
Phoenix. In all his varied pursuits
he has made a success of it every
time.
Mr. St. Claire has never sought
public office of any kind and has
never held public office; his great
energy and perseverence has been
turned entirely to his varied busi
ness, his interest in politics being,
only of a passing nature ami solely
with a view to securing good pub- i
lie service.
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Mr. St. Claire is peculiatly and !
unusually well equipped for the of
fice of assessor; it is not probable
that (here are ten men in the
county so well qualified by experi
ence to till the office for which he
has been nominated. In the first
place he has a latgr rxptrier.ee in '
varied mercantile business and that,
his judgment has been first class in
the business is evidenced by the j
fact that he has been uniformly
successful. Again he has a stock- j
man’s experience of ye,.rs standing !
in growing, feeding and handling
gtock, in which business he has
also been successful. Last but not,
least Mr. St. Claire has owned and !
handled a large amount of city and j
country property at one time or j
another, for a man who was not |
properly in the real estate business, j
and his judgment has not led him j
estiay in a single instance as to thei
value of the property. There are
very few men in the county so in
timately acquainted with these
three great sources of our business
and wealth and there are very few
that have exercised such unifurm
good judgment in all these connec
tions. Among all our citizens
there are probably none that would
make a more capable and thorough
assessor than Mr. St. Claire and
the people generally will recognize
this fact at the polls and vote for
him.
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