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We Lead,
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That old, reliable and ponular house, the
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Is in the lead as bajgain-givers. Good goods and low
prices is oup motto.
In Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes,
Hats, of best quality and up to date styles, we lead in
bargains for the people.
OUB GROCERY DEP ARTMENT is complete, and is
always stocked with a full line of fresh goods.
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C3-o to tlxe Co-Op. fox Baigalns
FRUIT CANS,
Mason FTuit Jars,
ROPE KND OIL
And Everything Else that people want in the Harvest and
Fruit Season at , ,
0 S, BTIPUY’S HARDWARE STORE.
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SALE.
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We are going to sell Ladies Oxford Shoes for the
Also Men’s Hats at Actual Cost.
We mnst make room for our Fall Stock.
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IHE PEOPLE’S STORE
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Just Arrived
Full line of Beds and Bedding, Camping Outfits and
Wall Paper. Our Stock of Linoleum, Mat
tihg, and Carpets is Complete.
©elect G-ood-s sura.A
Oorrrpetltion. ip. Piices.
All kinds of Spring Cots, iJcuble, 3-4, and Single.
COURTEOUS TREATMENT AND LOW PRICES.
PASSEY & METS
DON’T FOKGET 10 DO TO
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A.Hunsaker’s
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when you come to town; We the boys who always
give you the worth of your money.
We Are Headquarters
in Mesa for Dry Goods, Ladies and Gents Furnishings
Hats, Boots and Shoes, Millinery, Silks and all fancy
notions included in the Dry Goods line.
We Do a Strictly
cash business. Our Prices are beyond competition.
Don't Forget the name.
H. HUNSKKER.
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We are Headquarters for
jGreperal Hardware
Wagons, Buggies and Wagon Material. Iron and Steel
WILBUR-MULLEN HDW CO
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MESA CITY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900.
J. H. KIBBEY. A. J, EDWARDS
Kibbey & Edwards
LAWYERS.
Rooms 1,2, 4, 6 Btei\eggf,r Build’g.
19 21 S. Center St. Phoenix, A. T.
Articles Os Incorporation.
! Be It Known that we, L. Salter and .T. G.
Peterson do hereby acknowledge «nd subscribe
to the following Articles of Incorporation
under the provisions of Title XII of the Revised
Statutes of the Territory of Arizona.
ARTICLE I.
The name of this corporation shall be The
Peoples' Store. The principal place of busi
ness shall bo in Meaa City, Maricopa County.
AriZ' ha.
ARTICLE 11.
The general nature of the business transacted
shall be a general merchandise business, ac
quiring and diepot-ing of real ostate, personal
vnd other propeityand to transact any and al!
businees which may be transacted by a natural
person, Ao borrow money and t> contract to
pay the same at such time or times and with
such rate or rates of interest as to its Hoard of
Directors ma; seem proper and fit, and to hy
pothecate. mortgage or pledge all or any part
of the property which this corporation may
hereafter acquire, to secure the payment of such
money with interest, or to secure the payment
of any debt of this corporation with such in
terest or interests thereon as it may be legally
obligated to pay.
ARTICLE 111.
The capital stock of this corporation shall be
the sain of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) di
vided into two thousand shares of the par value
of five dollars ($5.00) each. No capital stock
shall be issued until paid it shall be
non-assessable.
ARTICLE IV.
The corporate powers of this corporation
shall be vested in a board •*>! three directors
who Bhall be stockholders duly entered as such
upon the books of the corporation, and said
Directors shall be duly elected by a majority
vote of the stockholders at the annual meeting
of stockholders to be held oh the 15th day of
January iu each year. The following named
persons shall constitute the Board of Directors
of this corporation until the 15th day of Jan n
a-y, 1901, or qntil their success or be elected
and qualified, viz: L. Salter, J. G. Petorson and
Florence Balter.
ARTICLE VI.
The officers of this corporation shall consist
of u President and a Secretary-Treasurer. The
following named persons shall serve as said
officers until the 11th day of January, 1901, or
until their successors are elected and qualified,
viz: J, G. Peterson, President, and L. Balter,
Secreta ry-Treasnrer.
ARTICLE VII.
Th» highest amount of indebtedness to which
this oompany shall at any time subject itself
shall bo the sum of Five Thousand Dollars.
ARTICLE VIII.
The private property of its stockholders shall
be exempt from the corporate uebts of this
corporation.
ARTICLE IX.
These articles may be amended at any time
by a tw -thirds vote at a meeting of the stock
holders, called in accordance with by-laws to
be hereafter adopted said amendment to be
filed with the Recorder of Maricopa County
Arizona Territory.
In witness whereof we havo hereento set our
hands this 6th day of August, 1900.
L. BALTER,
J. G. PETERSON.
Territory of Arizona, )
Pounty of Maricopa, 1 8 . ’
Before me, Frank T. Pomeroy, a Notary Pub
lic in and for the County of Maricopa’, Terri
tory of Arizona, on this day personally appear
ed L. Salter and J. G. Petersonknown 1 to me
to be tlie persons whose names are subscribed
to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged
to me that he executed the same for the pur
poses and consideration therein expressed.
Given under m y hand and seal of office this
Ist day of August, A D 1900
Fbank T. Pomehoy,
Notary Public
My Commission Expires April 28,1900.
tiled and recorded in office of County Re
corder of Maricopa County, Arizona, this 2nd
day of August, 1900.
(Seal) F, VV. SHERIDAN,
County Recorder,
By C. W. Barnett, Dep.
lOct 1. R. stamp cancelled.
First publication Aug 17.
A. P. SHEWHAN,
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Attorney - at-Law,
MESA CITY, ARIZONA.
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Will practice in all the Courts of
Arizona. Legal papers carefully and
correctly drawn. Notary Public.
‘SO DIFFERENT.”
V. V WRIGHT Proprietor
Shaving;, Shampooing,
Hair Cutting:, Etc
GTVE ME A CALL.
MESA
Feed and Livery Stable
P. METS. Proprietor
MESA FREE PRESS
A. P. SjIJEWMAN, Publisher.
person is authorized to contract bills
on account of this paper except on written
Order of the Pnblsher.
Advertising rates made known on application
SW" Subscription, $2.50 per yoa^
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Delegate to Congress
N. O. MTTKPHY,
COUNTY TICKET.
For Councilman
JERRY MILLAY
For Assemblymen
B. A. FOWLER,
SAM 11ROWN,
A. P SHEWMAN,
THUS. ARMSTRONG, JR.
For Sheriff
F. W. SHERIDAN.
For Deasurer
M. W. MESSINGER.
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For Recorder
GEORGE A. MAUK,
District Attorney
A. J. EDWARDS.
For Assessor
C W. BARNETT.
For Probate Judge
N. A. MORFORD.
For Supt Pubbc Inst'n
J. W. STEWART. !
For Surveyor
w. a. Hancock.
For Supervisors
F, H PARKER,
J. T. PRIEST. ’•
RECLAIM THE ARID LANDS
The western half of the United
States today supports a population
ranging somewhere around 5,000,000
people, says the Irrigation Age.
Much of this population has been at
tracted by the cry of gold and the
capital invested today in western
mines is enormous. Yet it is not a
tithe of the amount which the yalue
of the mineral laden ore of the West
warrants; only these minerals are
locked largely in the g f asp of the arid
belt. Water is what is needed, Hills
and mountains of extreme richness lie
undeloped and desolatp, surrounded
by barren deserts or sag< brush plains.
Capital is slow to venture into such
places, even with great mineral wealth
in sight. Gold is not the only metal,
tons of which are locked in the rocky
besom of the western Sierras, but ail
the family of baser metals are richly
represented and the question of trans
portation enters largely into their
mining. Railroads will not follow
miding camps alone. But reclaim
the arid lands of the West; give to
them a settled agricultural population,
and railroads will quickly pierce the
desert. And here too will be a source
whence to feed the men and the mules
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that work the mines; feed them at
reasonable rates. Many a torrent of
great volume rushes down the slopes
during the period of melting snow and
spreads away in a glistening stream
across the brown plain, but before a
crop can bo raised, its volume has
waned and its bed become dry sand.
Yet store this water in a mountain
reservoir and it would afford a paren
nial supply capable of irrigating land
whose fertility has never felt the
washing, weakening power of rain.
Then, along with the agricultural de
velopment would come mining de
velopment. '
There are many regions where irri
gation has transformed the agricul
tural lands and railroads have been
quickly built, whore adjacent mines—
the necessisies for man and beast and
transportation at hand— have been
simultaneously developed, adding vast
sums to our mining output which
might have otherwise lain always dor
mant for—well there’s no telling how
lont-.
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The question that is being con
sidered by the people of Arizona at
I present is the business side of politics
The people are looking at the busi
ness, sensible side of this question,
and are voting for Arizona and her
interest. No fair man can give the
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subjpct proper consideration without
ajnving at the conclusion thwt the
election of Governor Murphy is almost
a business necessity. We all want
statehood and the way now is clear to
secure it. We feel that the people of
Arizona have too much regard for the
interests of Arizona to Jet this golden
opportunity slip by. Let us elect
Gov. Murphy, get Arizona admitted
and then tight our political battles out
after our admission.—Gazette.
The Populists have not formally
tiled any ticket but will content them
selves with voting for the candidates
of the two old parties which they have
endorsed. The Prohibitionists have
made formal nominations for Delegate
to ConSrass, Councilman:, one member
of the Assembly, Assessor, ar.d one
member of the Board of Supervisors.
In addition to this they have endorsed
various candidates of the old parties,
but such endorsements do uot appear
upon ihe official ballot, and the voter
will have to pnk than out from the
party ticket of the otd parties. The
Socialises have died a ticket, but they
make nominations for the Assembly
only It will thus be seen that great
care will need to be used by the voter
or he may make a mistake in voting.
The official ballot should be well ex
plained to all electors.
The Knights of Pythias dedicated
their hall last Friday night at Phoe
nix. There was a large attendance,
about 80 Knights and their relatives
and invited friends going down on a
special train. The visiting Knights
were met at the depot by the Uniform
Knights and end a brass £>and an d
were escorted to the new hall. The
program was then taken up, and
Judge Webster Street delivered an
able and eloquent address on the aims
and objects of the order. Supper wai
risen announced, and the guests sat
down to a sumptuous repast prepared
by the well known Coffee AJ’s res
taurant. Dancing was then in order
and was indulged in until 2.30 when
the visitors It ft for home on their
special train. Jhe event will long be
remembered by all who were present.
The commit) ee on water storage
have bqen holding meetings at Phoe
nix lately. A committee has been
appointed, consisting of W. H. Cotje,
8. M McCowan and F. H. Parker has
been appointed to look up the irriga
tion laws and t nine a complete set of
irrigation laws aud submit them to
Prof. M ade, the well known Wyom
ing authority on irrigation. Then
they will be pri: ted for general dis
tribution and a < jpy introduced into
the coming legislature.
The ninth annual session of the
National Irrigation Congress will meet
in Chicigo on Nov. 20-23, 1900. It
is believed that this will be the best
and most influential irrigation congress
ever held, and it is to be hoped that
every merchant and manufacturer in
the United States will have present a
representative. Interst should be
taken in these meetings to make them
successful and it behooves every one
interested in the reclamation and set
tlement of our arid lands to get to
gether and help the movement along.
The artesian well proposition has at
last reached Tucson and one well is
being sunk cut on the mesa for the
(irst test. There is good reason to
believe that flowing water will be
reached at less than 500 feet. Even
should it be necessary to go down
1,000 feet, te test should be made, for
the development of artesian water in
| this basin and valley would mean
| millions of developed wealth for this
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, commercial center.
i lion. C. M. Ftazier, Frank Parker,
|N. A Morford, M. W. Messenger
and A. P. Showman addressed the
| electors of Lehi. H. Siipjdiis? pre
; sided and there was a good attend
i a nee
POPULATION. ’
The census bureau has made public
the returns of the population for the
Territory of Arizona. The population
of the territory in 1900 is 122,221, as
• ompared with a population of 59 030
in 1890. This shows an increase
during the decade of 62,592, or 104.9
per cent: The population of the ter
ritory in 1870 was 9,658
The population in 1900 is more
than twelve times as large as the
population given for 1870, in the 6rat
census taken after its organization as
a territoay in 1863.
The total land surface of Arizona is
approximately 112,920 square miles,
the average number of persons to the
square mile at the census of 1890 and
1900 being as follows: 1890, 0.5;
1900, 1.
Only four out of the sixteen incor
porated towns in the territory have a
population of over 2,000. They are
Jerome, Phoeisix,Prescott end Tucson*
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The Prohibition Party will hold
a public meeting in Mesa next Mon
day night. Good speakers will be in
attendance.
Dr. Chandler, while in the east an 4
Washington, D. C. has been looking
after the interests of this valley quite
a good deal and has done valuable
work. The Secretary of the Interior
has been interviewed and has promised
substantial aid in irrigation matters.
AMENDMENT TQ
ARTIICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Mesa City Bank;
This certifies that at the Annual Meet
ing of the Mesa City Bank, duly held in
accordance with law at Mesa, Maricopa
County, Arizona, on the lQth day of
October, A D 1900, at which meeting
more than three fourths of all the
of said incorporation was represented,
Article YI of the*Original Articles of
Incorporation of said Bank was amended
so as to read as
ARTICLE XI.
“The affairs of this Corporation shall
be conducted by a Board of Directors
consisting of nine stockholders who shall
be elected annuaally by the stockholders
on the second Tuesday in January of
each year; but in case the Annual Meet
ing of said stockholders shall not be
held at the tipie herein specified the
same may be called to be held at any
time thereafter on request of one or more
stockholders; any director or officer
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elected from the Board of Directors
ceasing to be a stockholder shall cease
to be a dirsetor or officer of this corpora
tioD.”
That said amendment fwas duly adopt
ed unanimously by the stockholders at
said meeting, more than three fourths of
all the stock: of said corporation being
voted in favor of said amendment. That
the President of said corporation was
also then and there instructed and
authorized to sign and acknowledge this
amendment and have the same recorded
and puUished as required by law.'
Witness my hand this 10th day of
October, A D 1900.
John L. Waking.
President of said Bank.
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Territory of Arizofa j ss
County of Martfcopa. j
Before me, A P Shewtpap, a Notary
Public in and for said Cmirity'Arizona
Territory, on this day personally ap
peared John L WBring. kpown to me to
be the person whose name is subscribed
to the foregoing instrument as president
of the corporation, the Mesa City Bank,
described in the foregoing" instrument;
aud acknowledged to hie that he exe
j cuted the same tor said corpb+atfqn foif
the purposes and consideration therein
expressed. Aud the said Johfi L-Waring
being by pie first duly deposes
and says that he is President of said
Bank and that tiie above amendment to
the Articles of Incorporation of said cor
i poration were duly adopted as above
j fully set forth.
j Given under my hand aud spal of of
I fice th s 17th day of October. A D 1900 f .
A. P. Shewman,
Notary Public.
I JVly Corn Expires May 16, 1902
| Filed for record in office of County
j Recorder ts Maricopa Cdhnty, Arizona,
; this IBtb day of October, 1900
F W Sues i dan,
County Reeoftjpf
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