Newspaper Page Text
V«l. *. We Lead," OtDers Follow old, reliahje aud ponular house, the Zbhb lUMoi Is ia the lead as gain-giver*. GOOSI goods and low priced S is otif niotio. In Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes, l£aU, of'best quality and up to date sjtyles, we lead in bargains for the people. * CK/R GROCERY PEP.iKTMEXT is complete, and is £,l ways' stocked with a full line of iresh goods. 09 to tlx© *C3o-©p. fox Bsixg'a.ifis " • - — ~ t ~ —:-sn— .. . • ~ .... * , . .v.s*w;< 4 *v£v :ra.l .i HARDWARE. F«ui line o.t Cook Stoves and Hesters Grand* Ware. 1 f "r * Agents for Canton (Clipper Plows and Mitch elf Wagr.jag . * ~ paints and Oils. ...«. * -*• • The -* .4- •Mt Farmers’ Exchange WES ■ SHOES - SHOES. - 5*5 frown’s Shoes at the Lowest Prices. Our Stock of Men’s Hats are Going at Cost. v. “* ** Cajl £nd jgeJ, our Prices on Groceries. JJtjtLli—J-ALI---S JZJS!!——- " ------ Tust Arrived * Fuji line of Hammocks, Cots, panjpipg Outfits and Wall Paper. Our Stock of Linoleum, Mat ting, and Carpets is Complete. Select f&oo£% arx«l 'Ooxxa-petlticn. in. Fxices. All kinds of Spring Cot's, Double, 3-4, and Single. JCOJUKTEOUS TREATMENT AND LOW PRICES. PASSEY & METS j: ■* ir ' DON’T FORGET 10 (IQ TQ when you come to town; We are the boys who always give you the worth of your money. Are Headquarters in Mesa for Dry Goods, Ladies and Gents Furnishings ‘tjata, Boots and Shoes, Vfiflinery, Silks and all fancy notions included in the Dry Goods line. ‘ ffe Do a Strictty cash business. Qnr Prices are beyond competition. Don't Forget the name. g. HUHSgpR. Buggies! vAn Kinds. All Prices. Call and see them. m W.T.1.. WILBtJR cSfcCSO -T .. ; w7 .. . ST? Mesa Free Press. MESA CITY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, MAY 11,1900. ..... <V -±M-- J. H. KIBBEY. A. J, EDWARDS Kibbey & Edwards LAWYER Rooms 1,4, 6. Steinegger Build’g. • * 21 S. First Ave. Phoenix, A. T. . Knock-Ont Props "luna ndoon-keeper, and used to think that rock and rye, or whiskey and quinine ssarasii and colds. j of my acquaints I Vwfljj wl knees were of the A V same opinion. jWW <?>»» Kow I know somethingatleaat a thousand times better. It is Acker’s ' English Remedy for Coughs and Colds. A good while ago I began Akr |- to cough and found out t=ii then that rock and rye jJJ was no good. I got worse and I was beginning to think that the trou ble would run into consumption. I didn’t Jake any stock in patent -medicines, but somehow or other I tried Acker’s English Remedy. One bottle did the business sot me—knocked that cough out completely— and it has never come back again. There is never a day passes that I don’t say a good word about this wonderful medicine. I al most forgot to say that I am stronger and fleshier now, since taking the remedy, than I was before the cough began. I write this letter voluntarily-and cheerfully and am glad to do it.” (Signed) Chris. Humble, Saloon-keeper, Pocatello, Idaho. Sold at 25c., 50c. and $1 a bottle, throughout the United States and Canada; and in Eng land, at Is. 2d., 2s. 3d., 4s. 6d. If yon arenOt satisfied after buying. return the bottle tc your druggist,*&Hd get your money back. fye authorise the above guarantee. W. a. hooker A go., Propriety time Peek For Sale by J W. Bailey, Druggist. A, P. SHEWMAN, Attorney - at-Law, At ESA CITY, ARIZONA Will practice in all the Courts of Arizona. Legal papers carefully and correctly drawn. Notary Public. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Barnett, deceased Notice is hereby given by the under signed Administrator of the Estate of William Barnett, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first .fcbip notice to the sai4 Administrator at the office of J. H Barnett, in Mesa,Maricopa County, Arizona, the same befug place for the transaction of the business of said estate in said County of Maricopa. Charles W. Barnett, AJnainistrator of Estate of William Barnett, deceased. this 2£th day of April, 1900 First pub Apr 27 PASTURAGE SALE. Notice is hereby giyen that I have in my" pasture on miy farm about 2 1-2 miles southeast of Mesa City, Arizona tjjp iolloWing horses which have been in said pasture more than 20 days since the acruing of charges for pasturage against them, and that they are described as follows, , One sorrel colt branded M, amount due S2O put in by Mariana (a Mexican). Two sorrel horses, both put in by Antonia Lopez, due each, one branded PS; no brands on other. One light buckskin horse, no brand, unknown owner $3 15. ‘ One blue horse, unknown owner, due $5.25. One buckskin hope, unknown owner, due $5.65. One buckskin horse branded h, un known owner, due $5.25. One sorrel colt, put in by Cetts Norega due $3.60. ' One yearling colt, unknown owner, due $6.60. One bay horse, unknown owner, due $3.00. That due notice has been given as re quired by law, and that said pasturage charges a*e wholly unpaid. Public Notice is hereby given that I will at 10 o’clock a. m. on Saturday, Jlay jt?ih, 1900, sell all of the above mentioned r animals and stock to the highest’ aqd beat bidder. Sale to tqke place at my said ranch, about 2 l-$ miles southeast of Mesa City, Arizona. Charles Bauer, MESA FREE PRESS • A. P. SHEWMAN, Publisher. 43T* person is authorized to contract biilß on aotoonnt of this paper except on written order of the Pnbleher. Adverdslns rates made known on application Bubsoription, $2.50 per year. A WORTHY OFFICIAL. Secjretkry and wife will leave tonight o* an eastward visit of a codfile of months. Secretary Ak« rs has been a careful, competent federal official. Every day iu the week he is found at his desk at the capitol, and always kind and courteous to patrons and visitors. The overwhelming poli tical victory of Mr Akers in the lat<- terntoiia! convention wherein he car ried twelve o.f thir r een counties solid, demonstrates the a»n!i:y and standing of the man President Mc- Kinley appointed secretary of Arizona &»:ci« .aiy Akers has conducted his office in ap honorable clear headed manner, and both demoerats and re - ■: a t publicans speak m terms of praise of him, both as an official and as a man- I —Gazette. SCRIP FOR WATERING PLACES The action of the Wyoming cattle men in taking up watering places by placing government scrip on the forty acre tracts on which such water is located, are doing a wise thing and their example might with profit be more generally followed by Arizona cattle growers. Land scrip costs several dollars per acre but it affords ! the means of securing almost imme diate title to the desired land. In view of the possible changes in the land Ir.»vs, it would be well for cat tlemen to insure their tenure of the range they occupy by procuring an absolute title to all unappropriated water snd to lands where water may .1* • .w» £ *1 |A be easily developed.—Range News. A COLOSSAL SWINDLE. g .- i* i % * ' * Last week the Qasis editor met u gentleman recently returned from Cape Nome and other parts of Alaska, who asserted most positively that the alleged rich mineral discoveries in that region have mostly been greatly mag nified, and tha* the wonderful finds are no ipore frequent and numerous than they were in Arizona, Sonora, Colorado, aud elsewhere, when those regions were virgin ground. He stated that the money received by transportation cotnpanies alone for carrying people and merchandise into the frozen north will exceed by many millions the entire mineral output of | All the rich finds are mag- i nified, and glowing accounts thereof circulated far and wide to draw people tp the region, to leach which they must travel oyer the steamship lines of the transportation companies. In other words the whole thing is a gi gantic bunpo game by which the steamship companies profit. Were a private individual to resort to similar methods for obtaining money he would be jailed for false pretenses. The law cau reach a single man. But it can hot reach a steamship company.— Oasis. The water question is one of the greatest importance to this valley and city. It would seem to us that instead of wrangling over a mooted question as to whether or npt the grazing of the forest reserves has anything to do with the constantly decreasing water ; supply of the valley, our people should make a united stand for more water through federal storago. Water de velopment is what is needed, and this seems the only way to get enough of the life giving fluid for the parched lands of the valley. A movement in this direction, made in a manner as determined as is that centered against the grazing privileges would do a world of good and iu a direction when real results might be accomplished. This is the bung bole of the situation, while the matter at issue now can lie .compared as the spigo L . —Stockman. s j The Murphy artesian we)) is about I down to th** 600 foot mark, and still the much desired and hoped for sup- i • 0 / | ply of water has not been found or discovered. The supply of 7-inch casing is exhausted, and it is some what doubtful and problemalical if ehe well will be sunk any deeper. Probably the tools will be taken out and a surface well drilled down 200 feet for surface water. It is thought that if the county would offer a sui* ( table reward (ot t.h'j discovery of an artesian well that Mr. Murphy might possibly be pefsuaded to drill on down deeper, but nothing has as yet been done by the Board of Supervisors in that line, although the matter is of vital importance to all. A public meeting of our citizens should be called at once, and steps taken to re quest the Supervisors to pass a resolu tion giving a suitable reward in ca c .e artesian Water is discovered, provided ; the flow of water is in accordance with the act of the legislature. Some thing should be done at once by our people, as the discontinuance of the work now would be little less than a calamity, ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. A special to the Times-Herald ftom Washington says the total eclipse of the sun, scheduled'for the morning of . May 28, is regarded as an astron omical event of the first caliber by the experts at the Washington Naval Observatory. M an y weeks have been spent in preparing for the phenomenon. Sky charts and United States maps have been carefully studied, with the result that the chief astrouemers have decided to equip two expeditious— ! one for Pinehurst, Moore sounty, N. 0 , and another for Barnesville, Pike 1 county, Ga. To the other N or * j h Carolina station Prof. Skinner will pilot a corps of twelve astronomers, and a like body will accompany Prof. Milton Upd> - j grass into Georgia. There are two reasons why the Washington gi».;r gazers have selected these distant points tor viewiug the coining eclipt.**. First, desire to sef up their instru ments in the very center of the path of totality; secondly, a careful exami nation of the wdather charts indicates that they were much more likely to escape cloudy series at this season of the year in Georgia and North Caro lina than in Virginia, along the coast, from which the phenomenon may r.lso be observed iu the event of a clear atmosphere. MESA LITER ARY CIRCLE. • The Circle met last Monday even ing at the home of Mrs. Belle Pomeroy Mr. Lulu C. Macdonald acting as j President and Mrs. l)elia A. Smith as Secretary, | Prayer was offered by M rs * Stevens. Roll call was answered with quotations from Longfellow. Minutes of the last meeting were read and £vPP rove d- Several new members were received into the circle. A poem entitled “The Bridge,” by H. W. Longfellow, was read by Miss ! Melissa Stevens, and the same was sung by Miss Otillie Maeser. The current events were then given by Mrs. Belle Pomeroy, after which another of Longfellow’s poems en titled “The Reaper and the Flowers” was read by Mrs. Celia Smith and a musical selection entitled “Good-bye at the Door," was rendered by Miss Otillie Maeser. Cake and lemonade was then served and an interesting program prepared i for the next meeting, whioh will be in two weeks. It is very probable that congress will decide tb set apart the Petrified Forest as a National Park. It is one of the most remarkable natural curios ities in the world, rivaling the ite and Yellowstone valleys, while not I many •biles away is riiat colossal ! wonjer, the Grand Canyon of the i Colorado. A government *xp* rt thus j writes of evidence to s|iow that thf trees grew beside some inland *ea. • j After falling they became waterlogged, I and dur tig the decomposition the culi " .-.**>*- »c4c*. - \Y '+t&ff+i • •'»*—- • -^r structure of the wood was entirely re : placed by silieia from the sandstone j in the walls surrounding this great.in | land sea .Over Jtbjs area qf i eight miles square the tree? lje scat tered in all positions in fragments of all sizes, the broken sections some times resembling a pile of cart wheels. A phenomenon per haps unparalleled, and the most re markable feature qf the Park, is natuial bridge formed by a tree of agarized wood spanning a canyon 45 feet in width. Tue Park was dis covered in 1853.—Copper Eva. \ STORY OF A SLAVE. To be bound hand and toot for years by the chains of disease is the worst - form of slavery. George D. Williams, of Manchester, Mich., tells how such a slave was made free. He says: “My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over in bed alone. After using two bottles ol Elec tric Bitters, she is Wonderfully improved and able to do her own work.” This supreme remedy for female diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, headache, backache, faint ing and dizzy spells. This*miracle working medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly, run down people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold J. H Barnett, Druggist. The house and senate at Washing ton have passed the bill opening the Navajo reservations in New Mexico and Arizona to mineral entry, says the Albuquerque Citizen. The lands thus opened are very rich in minerals especially copper. Many persons from Colorado &re interested in the newly opened lands. Many persons from Colorado are interested in the tiewly opened lands. Both houses agreed to a conference for the adjustment of settlers claims on the reservation and to permit mining north of the 36tfi degree of latitude and west of the 111th degree of longitude. An ejforfc was made E riday to have the bill ~ - grossed and presented to President McKinley for signature before his de parture, but without success, and the formal opening of tj}e renovation therefore be delayed several weeks. A big rush of miners will probably follow the signing of the bill. * ' ky PREVENTED A TRAGEDY. Timely informatjop giyen Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre vented a dreadful tragedy and savedjwo lives. A frightful cough had long kopt her awake every night. She had tried many remedies and doctors but steadily grew worse until urged to try Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle wholly cured her, and she writes tjiis inarvelouk medicine also cured Mr. Long of a severe attack ot Pneumonia. Such cures are posili ve proof of the matchless merit ot this grand remedy for curing all throad. chest and lung troubles. Only 50c and SI.OO. Every bottlq guaranteed. Trial bottles free at J. H. I Barnett's D ug Store. The city council of Phoenix hftf decided that the saloon singer girl is necessary to the town and refused to expell from her exalted place oty the saloon platform. They ebe is a goose that lays a golden egg for the city every three months in thq shape of a license.—Jerome Hustler. The ancients believed that rheumatism was the work of a demon within a man. Any one who has had an attack of sciatic or inflammatory rheumatism will agreq that the infliction i- demoniac enough to warrant the belief. It has never been claimed that Chamberlaiu’s Pain Balm woiid cas* out demons, but it will cure rheumatism, aud buudretls bflar testi mony to the truth oi this statement. One application relieves the pain, and this quick relief whioh u is alone worth many times its cost, rqj s|j.le,qY J W Baiiy, Druggist ' ** Dr. D L. Lucas, the dentist, is now at Florence. I consider it not only a pleasure .but duty I owe to my neighbors to tell about the wonderful cure effected in my case . by the timely use of Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and"* Diarrhoea Remedy, i was , taken very badly with flux and procured a bottle ot this remedy. A few doses of it eifected a permanent cure. 1 take pleasure ip recommending it to others suffering from that dreadful disease.— , a W Lynch, Dorr, W Va. This remedy ij is sold by J. W. Baily, Druggist. 1*• . * JVc. 32