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JOB WORK. y y, '% Everything from a Dodger to 1 9 a Fancy Ball Programme % $ turned oat in rlxe most artistic style. VOL. IV. Fraser, Dagg & Co, GENERAL, MERCHANTS, iSSSSSSSSSSS&SSSSSSSSSSSS We carry a complete stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, AND SOLICIT A SHARE OF YOUR PATRONAGE. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOB ‘Superior” Stoves and Ranges, Hamilton Brown Sloe Co’s tine cl Sloes. insure against Fire with m in the Insurance Company of North America, U It/ If you want prompt service and fall value for your money, let us demonstrate that we can give both. Store closed on Sundays. FRASER, DAGG & COMPANY, WINSLOW, ARIZONA. IWTHIII -■ HTLIUS KRENTZ. GEORGE A. WOLFF. Krentz & Wolff PROPRIETORS OP WINSLOW MEAT MARKET! DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Fresh and Salt Meats, Sausages, Fruits, NUTS AND VEGETABLES, AN© SALT flg, H £ <§• K- Gamsand Oysters !n season. Closed Sunday at © el. rn. This Space is Reserved for G. R. BAUERBACH. ‘•An Investment in Knowledge Pays (lie Best Interest” Fresno Business College, Normal School and Central alifornia Conservatory of Music, Is the Best School In the Country in which to Make the Investment Thoroughly equipped in all departments, Fre pare School Teachers, Music Teachers, Stenog raphers and Book-keepers. For Catalogue and. particulars, address RAMSEY, FAST & RAMSEY, 2©3<3. rresno; Callfornia,.j • ..... ,jC * v,,' " WINSLOW, NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897. j J. H, BREED. u. Z. BAND. Breed-Rand Mercantile Co. : ■ £ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. ' s Our Store is fall from cellar to garret of General Merchandise, : Consisting of ( FLrua AND MILL STUFFS, HAHDWARE, SADDLERY AND HARNESS, CnOCERIES, GRANITE-V?ARF. LEATHER GOODS, GRAIN AND HAY, CROCKERY, TENTS AND AWNINGS, DRY GOODS, COOKING RANGES, INDIAN BLANKET®, CLOTHING, HEATING STOVES, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, GENTS FURNISHING, SPORTING GOODS, STATIONERY, NOTION *■, GUNS AND PISTOLS, TOI LET ARTICLES, BOOTS AND SHOES, AMMUNITION, PAINTS AND OILS, HATS AND CAPS, MINERS EQUIPMENTS, HOUSE FURNISHING, TRUNKS AND VALISES, RANCH SUPPLIES, ETC., ETC. IN ADDITION TO OUR REGULAR STOCK WE ARE UNPACKING EVERY DAY SEASONABLE GOODS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER TRADE TO WHICH WE INVITE INSPECTION. THE ONLY IRON We have in the fire is cur merchandise business, to which we give our undivided attention. Our experience has taught us, that to serve our customers long, we must serve them well, and to serve them well, we must furnish them only with such goods as will bear out honest prices and honest representation If you have been dissatisfied else where, try us with your regular trade. One price, one treatment, accorded all. Breed-Rand Mercantile Co., WINSLOW, ARIZONA. ■ L.. 111. I i .1... . .—... ■■■ Mil. ■ JUaiL J. F. WALLACE, Editor add PrPi'Bietor. I Entered at the postoffiee at Winslow, Ariz., as second class mail matter. EVERY SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year ; $3 00 1 Six months : 150 Single copies 10 ADVERTISING RATES. Display, per inch per month, $1 00; reading: notices, per line, first insertion, 10 cents; each subsequent insertion, 5 cents: per line per month, 25 cents. COMMUNICATIONS l Ercfrithe surrounding country of local in terest solicited. Editorial Notes. The Yukon river is closed by ice from November to the latter part of May. ; The Klondike mining region is in the latitude of Iceland and lower than Greenland. It is 2,509 miles from San Francisco to St. Michaels,and 1895 miles from St Michaels to Dawson City. Speaker Reed has made arrangements with a magazine to write an article upon current economics and political sub jects every two weeks for a year. The new postal law is now in effect which makes good all losses of money sent in registered letters where the sum ten dollars or less. It is announced that George W. Van- derbilt proposes to build in Asheville,! North Carolina, a hospital for the treat- 1 ment of consumptives and persons suf- i feeing with contagious diseases. He | will donate SIOO,OOO as a starter for the j institution. ! Much satisfaction is expressed in England over the probability of a sot- J tlement of the sealing controversy by the conference. The exact date of the conference has not been settled, but it I will probably meet during the third or ■ fourth week in October. j - Our Congressmen have proven them selves able financiers. Tho loss to the United States on account of the de- j preciatiou in silver since 1878 amounts i to the enormous sum of $221,588,178.07. As silver continues to go down the lose goes up. This is good financiering or. | i the part of our law-makers. No one disputed the dictum m a Chinese physician who had been called to attend a celestial who had fainted in a store at Portland, Oregon when the doctor caid, after filling the prostrate man’s mouth and nose with red paint: “Him blow out paint, kite all same not yet dead- him nc catch ’im wind, no blow out paint, him h9ap dead.” The coroner bad a job. The death of the Spanish Premier and the consequent reorganization ot the cabinet will not materially changs ; the conduct of the war in Cuba. The new Premier has said that Weyler will | continue at the head of affairs on the I TsTaud: which BOie-aS* that war will con tinue to be made' on old men, women j and children, and that American citi-: zens will continue to be snubbed and j imprisoned without the formality of a j trial. An exchange says capitalists have tons of food and no appetites; laborers 1 have tons of appetite and no food. Our national bankruptcy is not caused by laziness or lack of laborers. Our farm ers raise yearly 2,500,009,009 bushels of 1 grain, 1,300.090,h? pounds of sugar, $2,250,000,000 worth, of cattle, 1,1*00,000,! bales of cotton, and yet they are poor. Western farmers alone are $3,500,090,- 000 in debt. John L. Sullivan, ex-pugilist and j champion, has declared his intention to run as an independent candidate for mayor of Boston. His chances of elec tion are said to be good. Intellectual and aesthetic Boston would feel greatly | humiliated if her government should I be directed by a prize fighter. In case he is elected they should invite the crowned heads of Europe to visit the “Hub” and have John L. to tender them the freedom of the city. General Weyler has announced that he Writ inaugurate another campaign ] against the insurgents in the provinces of Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba in September. He is also pre paring a decree, to be issued before he enters on this campaign, declaring to the world the.t the Western provinces are pacified. Spanish military men I claim that the withdraw-al of troops from the west will add strength to the j revolution. Weyler has a hard time of * lit He Whips the insurgents and ends j j the war about once a month, but they j won’t stay whipped. The West Badbn (Ind.) Journal very ; ■ truly says: Every town has its different ! j class of citizens. Some pull on every i 1 string that will benefit themselves and | their neighbors, and sometimes if they | do not see much for themselves, but do 1 | see that their neighbors will be bene-1 ; fitted, pull just as hard. Others never | pull unless they can see the direct ben- ; efit to themselves, and sometiihes let 1 go if they think their neighbors will be benefited. They are too selfish to be of any benefit outside of simply adding oneYo tiife population and con- i suming the amourt of food necessary for their existence}. The temporary injunctions issued | against the coal mine strikers in Penn sylvania have been made permanent. I The courts have thus declared that ■ ; people have no right to parade thepub | lie highways, or to hold meetings to discuss the labor problem, the means I by which they earn a bare subsistence, j It is legitimate,' however, for tho mine operators! who are getting rich off the labor cf these same men to meet in finely furnished parlors and discuss ways and means to frustrate the out rageous demands of arrogant labor. I The ’wave of prosperity” has com-i pellod the United States to put more j money in circulation, and Assistant [ Secretary Vanderlip has authorized and j directed the bureau of engraving and i printing to print and deliver to the , treasurer certificates tc the amount of j sixty million dollars in denominations of *IO.OOO each. There H but J.lttd* * M ■I I ■ I -* UI IUBTt-JCMWWW likelihood of these certificates ever getting into general circulation. They were, perhaps, ordered for the conve ! nience and benefit of the Rockefellers, Havemeyers, “Uncle Collis,” Russell | Sage, Aunt Hetty Green and people of that stripe. The poor people will never get to look at one, much less own it. The leaders in the coal mine strike have issued a call for a meeting of all labor organizations to be held in St. Louis next Monday. The result of that mooting, should it be generally at tended, may terminate in a course of i action that will be far reaching in its effects. It is evidently called for the j purpose of bringing about concert of Lection. Labor leader if are beginning to realize the fact that they are unable to win a fight by striking in detail, while by making it general, including every branch of industry, it would b 9 impos ! sible to hold against them. All busi ness would comS to a stand still. This course may not be determined on at St. Louis, but unless there is a halt called, they will bo driven to just such a course through self-protection. The action of our Board of Equali zation in ignoring the raise of the Ter ritorial Board, particularly o£t waste land, was perfectly justifiable. The members of the Territorial Board were, without doubt, actuated by the best of motives; but it is evident they are per fectly ignorant of land values in this and Apache county. The railroad lands ! in either county, in their present con dition, are perfectly valueless, and we are glad to get taxes from the company "at the valuation placed on them by our i assessor. The railroad company reaps ! no benefit, whatever, from these lands. ! They are grazed by our stock men the ; same as government land, and are a \ | source of continual expense to the ! company. We are not an advocate of ] exempting corporations from taxation. | On the contrary, we are decidedly op ! posed to it,’ but w© do like fair play | and just treatment. We think the rail- ! I road company are paying a iiberal tax \ on these lands at the old rate of valua tion. Os course, when these lands are 1 brought under cultivation by means of irrigation, they will become much more valuable, and should be made to bsar j their just proportion of the public | burden, and no more. Very rich sulphide ofe, off the s£nc character as the rich ore taken from [ the Monte Christo mine, has been struck , i in the Douglas min© on Groom creek. ! The Douglas is located one and a half . 1 miles up the creek from the Monte Cristo and id being worked under bond j and lease by Hank Abbott. To say that | ; this ore is the same as that now being taken from the Monte Cristo is to say | that it is almost in credibly rich in sil ver.—Prsscott Courier. Charley Chambers, a cowboy from the valley, states that it was reported that a man was running wild in the • Dragoon mountains. A party of pros- I pectors bad seen the unfortunate man j who appeared to be demented bW fleet of foot and eluded Capture. Ho had : been seen several times near the pros pectors’ camp, but would immediately ■ get in hiding when anyone would move toward him. The prospectors will try to overtake him at first opportunity 1 and bring him to town if possible. It Is not known who the re-oluss is.— Pro3- Tariff Trusts. The Republic stated weeks ago that the Dingley bill would breed more i trusts in restraint of trade than had : sprung up under its predecessor, the i McKinley bill. It was not expected, ! however, that activity in that line would so soon follow the enactment of the | measure. Within the last ten days two of the most powerful trasts in the j country have been formed. One is the ; Malt Trust, with a capital of $25,000,- 000, and the other is the Glucose Trust, capitalized at $40,000,000. Both of these interests are allied with the brewing industry, and in this relation is found an explanation of the haste that char acterized the efforts of the beer manu facturers to form a combine the week following the passage of the Dingley bill. A Brewers’ Trust may be looked for within a short time. The manufac turers of beer cannot long hold out against such powerful combinations as the Malt Trust and the Glucose Trust. Business exigencies will force them to pool their interests and concentrate their energies under a common head ! for the cheapening of production in j order to preserve their profits. Os course, the formation of the two trusts named means the closing up of some establishments in that line of trade and the throwing out of employ ment of hundreds of skilled laborers who have been provided with profitable work through the season of dulness. The cheapening of operations under a combination of the capital involved will not reach the point where profits to stockholders will be as great as be fore the trusts were formed unless prices are raised. Too many establish ments will be idle to bring profits un less the prices of the commodities con trolled are increased. But the price of : labor will remain the samevif, indeed, I they do not fall immediately. There I can be no doubt about their reduction ;in the end. This is one of the business i purposes of trusts. The question of j morality does not enter into the busi- I ness proposition. Trust magnates are i not any more immoral than the rest of humanity. It is the effect of their op erations, and not the intent that is im moral. The attention of the defenders and apologists of the McKinley administra tion is called to this matter. Their i claim is that the Dingley bill was - en- I acted for the protection o's American labor. Here are two instances that fur nish indisputable proof to the contra ry. The high tariffs laid to encourage these “infant industries” have enabled | them to enter into combinations for the stilling of competition and the lim iting of production. A natural and in evitable result is to increase the ranks of the idle and cut down the wages of those left with employment. If the Hfe'jpub'lhAii'-ofcftn make anything else out of the situation The Republic would like to reprint their arguments so as to rekindle hope in the breasts of tens of thousands of American citizens who see high prices and low wages ahead for the masses and enormous profits for the favored few so thought fully and ingeniously cared for in the Dingley bill. —St. Louis Republic. A remarkable freak of lightning oc curred last Saturday at Seligmau. It had been raining around on the hills during the day.-but no rain had fallen in town. About four o’clock in the af ternoon a blinding flash of lightning struck the railroad yards, where several ■ hundred men were at work, with a deaf ening report, and knocked every man down. When they recovered from the shock it was found that two mules had been killed and the driver partly para lyzed in the lower limbs. Another man who had received a severe shock recov ered sufficiently to resume work in a short time. When the quitting hour arrived, he mechanically put his hand j into his vest pocket to get his watch, but it was gonS. Ho went to the place where he had fallen, and'there lay bis watch. It had been melted into a mol ten mass. The mhn was burned across the breast by the' electrified fluid, but no other evidence was visible of his narrow escape from sudden death.— Williams News. The greatest Case of dog eat dog that j we have ever hefffet of, says one of our exchanges, was that df a young man | who loved to smoke a good cigar, and an insurance company. The young i fellow bought 2,080 extra fine cigars i and had them insured for their full ?alue, Srrfoked them up and then de manded the' insurance, claiming that they had been destroyed by fire. The case was taken to court and the judge decided in favor of the young man. The insurance company then had the young man arrested for setting fire to his own property and the same judge ordered that ho pay a fine and go to iai l for three months. Mr. Ed Drew: who covered himself i and Arizona with gicry by winning first ; | prize in the cowboy roping contest at 1 ! Salt Lake, is now on his way home with , a bunch of saddle horses purchased in j I Utah. Tie is expected to arrive in Gfa- j ham county, where part of the horses j are contracted, about the ?:"th instant. [ Ranee New*; j iSSSS'SU' - - x x.' sssss£ i SUBSCRIBE FOR | | The Winslow Mail g v Devoted to thv Interests of and Navajo County. Stealing 1 was Justifiable. “I heard the late Judge John B. Grace of the court of appeals of Kentucky set aside the verdict of a jury once un der circumstances that to mypaind did him infinite credit,” said Representa tive John S. Rhea of that state. “It seems that a poor woman, who was on the verge of starvation and who was the sole support of four little chil dren, went into a neighbor’s smoke house and purloined a piece of bacon. The proof was positive, and the jury reluctantly returned a verdict of guil ty. When the finding of the jury was read, Judge Grace, w’ho at that time presided over the fourteenth judicial district, rising to-his feet, said in the most emphatic tones: “The court orders that the verdict in this case be set aside, and I want tode clare hero that in all cases where nii unfortunate woman is on trial for steal ing food, taken to keep her offspring from starving, it will require thirteeff men to convict her of the crime in this court. The defendant is discharged | from custody. “The announcement was greeted with I applause from the spectators, and the general sentiment was that Judge Grace had acted not only as befitted a chival rous man, but that his ruling was right Theft to keep innocent babes from per ishing of hunger can scarcely be celled a crime.”—Washington Post. “Lucky” Baldwin’s luck has turned and his fortune is melting. He made a loan the other day that swells his in debtedness to the Hibernia Savings bank of San Francisco to $2,500,000. and the chances are that this bank will eventually absorb all of his estate. The great ranch in San Anita has been & white elephant for “Lucky.” It is a great thing as a show,as water i 3 brought up to every tree, but every orange on the tree costs money. The old man now talks of going to the Klondike to retrieve his fortunes, and if hi 3 old time luck stays with him ho may live to snap his fingers at the Hibernia bank. —Salt Lake Herald. Editor Hall of the Lyre came in con tact with an individual at Bisbee yes terday who took exception to a little innocent item that appeared in the • Lyre, and as a consequence the editor’s uor&r 'v t- vas disarranged and his hair, always parted in the middle, a little ruffled; however, it is bard to down ah editor and Hall invites the sensitive > gentlemen to call at the sanctum at any ! hour. The notoriety the inefensed in dividual will now receive will doubt less cause him to think that the cure or remedy was worse than the aisease. Moral: Speak to the editor kindly you will more likely accomplish your ob ject and your wishes will always be respected.—Prospector, “What do you think of silver Mexico now?” asks a northern paper. There is something more than a silver Mexico,; there is a manufacturing and agricul tural Mexico which is making money even now.—Mexican Herald. Labor Day Proclamation, Territory of Arizona,) Executive Department. S The laws of thir United States designate the first Monday in September of each year as a ■ le<ral holiday to he known as Laftor Day. When we reflect that labor is the found*- tion and creator of all wealth; that upon it depends all happiness and all excellence; that it is labor that builds up great states and carries on the commerce of the world, the wisdom of this enactment is apparent, ans especially is it so when applied to the people of our territory whe are laboring to develop its various resources and establish for “hem selves happy homes Our busy and ihdus-- trious communities contain but few drones, hence nearly all can be classed as laborers— the mechanic, the merehant, the farmer, the divine, the miner, the lawyer, the physician, t he banker, the teacher and the clerk, as well as he who performs the more severe task of daily manual labor, are laborers in the best sense of the word, for while many earn their daily bread by the sweat of their face and others by the work of their brain, they are all toilers. A general observance of the day so wisely j set apart by congress will tend to promote a higher appreciation of the dignity of labor and the great part it is taking in the build ing up ol our territory and the great repub lic of which we hope soon to become a slate. To bring labor of all kinds into closer rela tions with itself and with other interests, to inculcate a friendly feeling and hearty co operation between labor and capital, thus encouraging good Will between all classes of the community with a view to pleasant and reciprocal relations in the great object of this observance ol l abor Day - . Now, therefore,' I, Myron H. McCord, gov ernor of Arizona, do proclaim and declare i Monday, the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hubdred and ninety-seven, a i legal holiday- and do most earnestly recom ‘ metid that all business of whatever nature except such as ti c nsc s ities of the com munity require to be carried on, be suspend ed on that day. th it all w ho desire may have an opportunity to ol.se. ve the day in a i»j n , per befitting the importance of the occasion, j Let us net forget that Labor Day is as im -1 portarit audio future generations will be- I come as suggestive and inspiring as the reli gious and patriotic holidays that our people j so loyally and religiously observe, Doric at Phoenix, the-capitol, this IGthda* ; of August, A. D 183?. MYRON K, MZ* ORI\. Governor of Ariz r- I CiiAKi.ES M. Akers, Secretary of a>»ww* • NO. 34.