The Winslow mail., April 30, 1898, Image 1

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WINSLOW, NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1898.
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COMMUNICATIONS
From the surrounding country of local in
terest solicited.
The long drawn out case of Barth vs.
Apache County has at length been de
cided by the Supreme Court of the
Territory in favor of the plaintiff. We
are not well enough versed in law to
attempt a criticism of the decision,
even if we doubted the honesty of our
judiciary, which we do not. On the
contrary, we are of the opinion that
any decision they may hand down, is
the law as they honestly and conscien
tiously understand it. The case has
reached a final decision, unless Apache
county apf eals it to the United States
Supreme Court, and that would cost as
much as to pay the judgment. Navajo
county, as we have before stated, will
have to pay a little more than half this
claim. The Mail warned our Super
visors sometime ago p.bout this suit, in
connection with saddling an additional
$30,000 debt on the county for a court
house and jail that we could get along
without until we are more able to build.
Told them it would increase the rate of
taxation, which was already a grievous
burden to many of our small tax-pay
ers. What we said then has come to
pas 3. The rqte of taxation will have to
be materially increased in order to pay
interest and create 3 sinking fund to
meet our obligations as they become
due; or do the Supervisors propose to
let those who come after them meet the
claims they had no hand in creating as
begt they may. It is an easy matter to
issue bonds-r-but a different matter al
together when it comes to paying them.
The worst feature of the matter is that
the assessable property of the county
is not increasing in the same ratio as
the interest .bearing.debt. Outside of
Winslow we doubt if there will be any
increase. It must be borne in mind
that this increased rate of taxation is
not for one year, but is to continue for
a series of years, or until all indebted
ness contracted is paid. It should not
be forgotten either, that an excessively
high rate of taxation, not only keeps
capital from coming in, but has a ten
dency to drive it out.
A Louisville, Kentucky, Duteher has
discovered a chemical process which
he claims will freeze articles better than
ice, and will in time displace the frozen
wator for cooling purposes, He places
a mixture of chemicals beneath an ice
box. The vapors which arise float
through a hole beneath the box and a
heavy frost forms about a metal box
inside of which is meat, etc , and there
jt is kept at a regulated temperature,
War Earnestly Began.
Spanish Forts Silenced.
The City of Matanzas
Captured.
U. S. Fleet Ordered to
Bombard Cuban
Ports.
Just as we were going to press, at
noon Thursday, news was flashed across
the continent that the American squad
ron, under command of Capt. Samp
son, had demolished the forts protect
ing Matanzas, the most important port
on the northern coast of Cuba, and
nearest to Key West, Florida, our base
of naval supplies. The object in at
tacking and capturing this point first
was, undoubtedly, for the purpose of
placing a land force on the island and
furnishing arms, ammunition and pro
visions to the insurgent army and feed
ing the starving Cubans. Matanzas is
only a few hours run from Key West,
and jt is probable American soldiers
are already in Cuba, or at least will be
inside of twenty-four hours.
Hostilities have now begun in earn
est. So far everything has been favor
able to America. Our navy have cap
tured nine prizes on the hign seas.
President McKinley has issued a
proclamation clearly defining what this
country will consider legitimate prizes.
In this proclamation he allows all ves
sels that were in American waters re
ceiving or discharging cargoes, or ves
sels loaded and leaving foreign ports
before the declaration of war, until the
32st of May to complete their trips.
No power can have any just cause of
complaint at this, It is extremely lib
eral. Naval officers think too liberal.
As we went to press news of an en
gagement between squadrons off the
Phillipine Islands, was hourly antici
pated.
It is reported that Sampson has or
ders to commence the bombardment of
every important port on the Cuban
coast.
It may be that Arizona will need her
fighting men at home. The Papagoes,
since the withdrawal of the troops from
the southern part of the territory have
made a raid across the line and attack
ed the Mexican village of El Plomo.
It appears the raid was not made for
the purpose of murder, but for cattle
stealing, which business they have been
carrying on quite extensively for sev
eral years, until they were checked by
a detachment of troops sent out from
Huacbuca. As soon as the troops were
withdrawn they began operations again.
The tribe is said to be several thousand
strong and are well armed.
There is another danger threatening
us on our southern border. According
to recent arrivals from Mexico, the
middle and lower classes in that coun
try are iu thorough sympathy with
Spain in the war just commenced. It
is feared that desperadoes who infest
the border of both countries, may or
ganize guerrilla parties for the purpose
of pillage and robbery on both sides of
J the line. Our militia may have au op
| portunity of displaying their valor,
| whether they are called to the front or
not.
Dr. J. M. Ford, chairman of the ter
ritorial republican central committee,
has tendered bjs resignation and sever
ed his connection with that body. In
his letter of declination, he says: “Be
ing a bimetalist, I cannot stultify my
self by supporting a cause that, iu my
judgment, is against the best interests
of the people of Arizona. The declar
ation made by the Secretary of the
Treasury that the gold mdard shall
be rieidly maintained, and that in less
than one year after the pledge of the
republican party in its St. Louis plat
form, to do all in its power to promote
the cause of bimetalism, should sug
gest to every honest advocate of bimet
alism that the time had arrived for him
to sever his relations with the party
advocating the single gold standard.”
Dr. Ford, in taking this step, has proven
that he has the manliness to place prin
ciple above party.
The Ohio State Senate, who have been
investigating the methods employed by
Hanna to secure his return to the U. S.
Senate, have said that the election was
secured through bribery and fraud. A
large majority of the American people
were of that opinion from the start.
His seat wil be contested, aud it re
mains to be seen what action the hon
orable body, of which he is a member,
will take in the matter. If it should
sustain the verdict of the Senate of his
own State, Hanna wili be relegated to
that obscurity from which he never
should have emerged. His career as a
leader has made one of the darkest
pages in the political history of this
country.
Tne following is from the pen of a
Missouri editor: “Drink and the gang
drinks with you, swear off and you go
it alone, for the bar-room bum who
drinks your rum has a quenchless
thirst of his own. Feast and your
friends are many, fast and they cut you
dead; they’ll not get mad if you treat
them bad, so long as their stomachs are
fed. Steal if you get a million, for
then you can furnish bail; it’s the great
big thief who gets out on leave, while
the little one goes to jail. Advertise,
the dollars will come; quit and they
fail to arrive; for how are men who
have money to spend going to know
you are still alive.”
The war scare has had a peculiar ef
fect on the markets in this country.
There is no sale for beef cattle, while
; wheat has scored an important ad
vance. Wool is a drug on the market
with no quotations at any price, while
| cotton, which has been slow of sale, at
a nominal price, has sprung into sud
den activity at enhanced figures.
“The religion that makes people pay
their debts; the religion that keeps peo
ple from speaking ill of their neigh
bors; the religion that makes no dis
tinction between wealth and poverty;
the religion that makes people honest
and upright; the religion that makes
man manly and women womanly: the
religion that is a part of people’s every
day life, exemplified in kind deeds, lov
ing acts, cheeriDg words, is the religion
that is needed to-day.”—Ex.
A cattleman of Kern county, Califor
nia, is authority for the statement that
the United States government has se
cured options on enough cuttle in the
west to sustain an army of 100,000 men
for twelve months. Contracts have not
been closed, but prices have been fixed
and the government will be supplied
with ample quantities of beef at a mod
erate figure. It is stated that the fed
eral authorities have taken this precau- j
tion to prevent the cornering of the
market by the big packers. The gov
ernment had a severe lesson in war
prices during our late unpleasantness !
and is taking no chances.
The Arizona Bulletin says: It is true
that several school districts in Graham
county, and no doubt some districts in
all the counties of Arizona, draw more
school money from the county treasury
than the amount they pay into the
county treasury in taxes for all pur
poses. This is in no way to the dis
credit of the people of these districts,
for it is a public duty to educate the
poor as well as the rich, but such a con
dition is to the discredit of a school
system that will permit the creation of
achool districts where there is no real
necessity for them.
The Phoenix Herald very correctly
says: The man who owes yon an honest
bill and refuses to pay it is not only a
sneak thief but a coward who gives you
no chance to protect yourself or prop
erty. That sort of individual is not
wanted in public office, no matter what
hi 3 politics; he is not wanted in the
community ; he is not wanted any where
on earth where honest men do business.
April the Most Fateful Month,
April appears to be the fateful month
in the history of this country. The war
of the revolution began in that month,
the battle of Lexington having been
fought April I9tb.
Washington was inaugurated and our
constitutional government began April
30, 1789.
The war of 1812 was declared formally
on the 19th of June, but the first im
portant act of our government which
preceded and Zed to it, was the act
passed April 4, laying an embargo for
nine days on all British vessels in
American ports.
The occupation of Mexico by this
country began ir the fall of 1845, but
the first blood actually shed in the
Mexican war was on April 26th, from
which date the military history of the
conflict really be.gan.
The Black Hawk, Cherokee and Sem
inole wars were declared in April.
The firing on Fort Sumpter, which
ushered in the civil war, was on April
12, 1861, and Lee surrendered at Appo
mattox, four years later, on April 9th.
Lincoln was assassinated April 14th.
And now the most critical time since
the civil war, the present conflict with
Spain, began in April, 1898. April cuts
a conspicuous figure in the national
history of this country.
What an endless source of study and
research would be necessary to enable
one to understand such a simple thing
as a drop of water! Even what little is
known about it is intensely interesting.
A drop of water is inhabited. It has
its flora and fauna. If reduced to a
temperature of 32 degrees above zero
it gains in bulk ten per cent and then
solidifies or turns into ice. If reduced
to eleven hundred degrees below zero
it loses about 97 per cent of its bulk,
but the weight remains the same; at
this temperature it becomes the hard
est substance in nature. It would be
about six times as hard as the finest
steel, and with it your name could be
scratched upon the purest diamond that
was ever mined. Raise the temperature
to 212 degrees and it turns into vapor;
apply heat to the vapor until it is de
composed, then you have oxygen gas
and hydrogen gas. Stick a match to
| either of these gases and they burn.
| Take the drop of water, and put it on
the fire thus created and it is extin
guished.—-Atlanta (Ga.) Dictator.
A msn who had just sold a mine con
verted himself into a temperance lec
ture in a restaurant last night. He was
so drunk that all his faculties except
the power to swear with fluency were
benumbed. His vision was especially
affected. He mistook a dish of dough
nuts for roast rabbit and refused to ac
| cept the word of a sober companion
! and the whole staff of waiters to the
contrary. The manners of the man who
sold the mine were so offensive that
many other guests who were occasional
drinkers went out and signed a pledge
that they would never sell a mine,
j Others mentally resolved that they
would never take another drink.—Re
! oublican.
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Jay Gould bequeathed bis son George
$5,000,000 which, according to the laws
of New York, would be liable to an in-
I heritance tax. But it was lately decided
that the sum named was not subject to
the tax, that it was not a bequest, but
the payment of a debt that the father
owed his son for service. George’s ser
vices must have been valuable. It would
take a farmer making SSOOO a year, one
thousand years to earn as much-
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Fitzhugh Lee.
The Los Angeles Times paid the fol
lowing deserved compliment to the man
who so fearlessly upheld the dignity
and manhood of America in Cuba dur
ing a trying time:
As Consul-General to Havana, Gen
Fitzhugh Lee has acquitted himself
with unusual credit. Placed in a posi
tion of grave responsibility by Presi
dent Cleveland, he has discharged the
duties of that position with such signal
ability and such wise discretion thatne
has won the hearty esteem and admira
tion of every patriotic American. He
is no longer Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia,
but is entitled to be known hereafter
as Fitzhugh Lee of America.
The reception of General Lee, upon
his return from Havana, was a sponta
neous popular endorsement of his ser
vices in Cuba, and a splendid tribute to
his worth and ability as a man and an
American, His progress from Key West
to Washington was an almost contin
uous ovation. All along the route the
people by thousands greeted him at
each stopping place, and showered upon
him their congratulations and tokens
of admiration. 'These demonstrations
were not due solely to the fact that Gen.
Lee is a map of the South. If his route
had been through northern territory,
the public demonstrations would have
been as hearty. In this popular ver
dict, “Well done, good and-faithful ser
vant,” there is no sectionalism, no par
ty ism. Gen. Lee has served the Amer
ican people well and faithfully. The
American people appreciate the service,
and honor the man who has rendered
it as a highminded, loyal and patriotic
American.
At one of the stopping places along
the route to Washington, Gen. Lee said:
“I cannot talk to you now. In fact, this
is not the time to?talk, but the time for
action.” In these words he sounded
the key-note of the situation. The time
for action is at hand. We have had
enough -of -talk—perhaps more than
enough. It is time to begin to “saw
wood.” And the great American peo
ple are ready for the sawing job.
There are a (thousand and five hun
dred millions of people upon this earth
to-day. Can you teach them, or any
of them, how to make two blades of
grass grow where only one grew before?
how to smother a sigh with a smile, to
turn a frown into a laugh, to distin
guish facts from fancy, to turn a cloud
into a rainbow, to turn despair into
hope, to cast an intelligent ballot, to
have more pleasant homes, to wear more
comfortable clothes, to guard against
sickness, to lortify their bodies against
disease, to live within their inoome,io
honestly earn and procure more of
life’s luxuries, to give all others every
right they claim for themselves, and to
lead more honorable, manly lives than
some of them now do? If you can do
this, Providence made no mistake in
permitting you to be born in the nine
teenth .century.—Ex.
At Globe, Arizona, a couple of weeks
ago Sunday proved to be a notable day.
The fir9t thing in the morning—very
early in the morning—a man separated
a couple of fighters at a dance, for
which he was shot through the body
and died later in the day. In the after
noon a boy was playing with a calf,
which infuriated the cow mother, and
she gored the child, causing his death.
In the evening a saloon keeper went
into his back room and found one of
his patrons dead; the death was attrib
uted to asthma, as Globe whishey was
never known to kill. What further
tragedies would have occurred in this
quiet town if it had been afflicted with
the accursed boleta system only the
imagination of the nephew of the sage
of Pinal mountain can conjure up.—
Lordsburg Liberal.
Assessor Spring says the cattlemen
are beginning to turn in their assess
ments, and that the indications are
that the number of head will be as large
as last year, at least. The Board of
Supervisors have raised the assessment
from $8.50 to $lO per head; so that if
there be no shortage in the number of
cattle, the assessment roll will be in*
creased by fully SIOO,OOO from this
source alone. Besides this there is a
likelihood of an increase in real estate
in certain parts of the city, where
tual valuation has gone up two apd
three fold.—Tucson Star.
NO. 18.