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VOLUME 7. ST. JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA TEBBITORT, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1891. NUMBER 31 The Devil and the Lawyer. There runs a quaint legeivl of ancient-day lore, Of a quarrel 'twixt Heaven and Hell, O'er the tonndary linet the clamor grew high, But how It ran no cue could tell.

St. Peter he swore he had ouce mapped it out With the tools of a stray engineer, But the Devil he paid, with a quizzical smile, That it "couldn't be right, it was The angels grew of sitting on clouds, And. watching the endless dispute, So they packed up the harp and folded their wing. And floated away with the lute. There came no decision, St.

Peter grew mad, And sad the long look on his face, When the Devil suggested an admirable plan, That a jury.should hear the case. And each a lawyer should bring the next day To decide who hsd been in the rfeht So the taint ttruktd his chin, and upward he flew, While the Devil took downward his flight Bright and early next morning the Devil appeared And knocked at the heavenly dcor. While far out behind, were stretched out in line, Five huudrcd of lawyers, and more. All alone stepped the salat from the portals of geld, As he heard the clock strike eleven, sadly he sighed to his smiling old foe, "There's not even one lawyer in Stock Notes. From private sources we learn that the first train of cattle shipped by Shipp Bros, from Hackberry was wrecked near Winslow and one hundred head of cattle killed.

No person was hurt, however. Mohave Miner. The New Mexico Stock Grower says: A leading Texas cattleman, who has held his own all throng!) the cattle squeeze, says he has lately gone in debt for land and cattle for the first time. Platicville, comes forward and records the top price for cattle. Three days ago Thomas Howlett Hold twenty-six steers for $77 each.

fPliMt lvnvn firmrrliK 1 1 tn l)oni'nc Packing Company. They were al falfa fed and brought $1.75 a hundred, Stock Grower, Tlo Fhyd County, Texas, Times, says: prices of cattle huvend vanced at least 30 per cent above Just year's quotations, and the outlook was never better for a still farther advance in price. It will pay to hold for better prices. A reaction in the cattle market has at last set in, and the stockman will bo able to realize a handsome dividend on his investment, A spring roundup has commenced on the San Auguslin plains for the purposes of branding calves and of collecting 500 bead of which have been bought by Mr. Baldwin, who proposes driving, instead of shipping them to Nebraska.

It is intended to start the herd on the trail by the lSth instant. Stock Grower. W. H. McBroom came off victor in his suit against the Scottish Mortgage and Loan company.

He recovers the amount of usurious interest and interest upon that, which amounts all told to about $15,000. It is announced that the Scottish company will appeal the case to the territorial supremo court. Stock Grower. Stockmen of Dakota, and especially of the late Sioux reservation free land district, are finding it difficult to gut cattle. All the loose cattle in the eastern part of the state, Minnesota and Iowa has been pretty well picked up, and ranchmen nre now going to Texas and other southern points.Pierre (S.

Herald. There is still an active inquiry for steer cattle, natiyes, and many small bunches are being picked up. Xargo deals are not numerous, for the reason that holders are not anxious to let go. Future prospects are so bright that prices have been advanced to a notch a little above tho views of the average buyer. There will be more trading bye and bye.

Cheyenne Journal. There are several parties negotiating for the purchase of the famous Jinglebob (Chisum) ranoh, in Chaves county, and we are informed that the property will prol ably change hands again in a few days This time, it is said it will be divided into small holdings by the prospective purchaser and sold to settlers in which case the country will be. greatly benefited. Stock Grower. William Green, the all-around sporting man, and old-time cattle buyer of Hastings, was in Las Vegas this week, on his way to Fort Sumner, to negotiate a deal for a big bunch of steers.

He is buying for North Dakota parties, who accompanied him on the trip. He also has commissions to purchase for several Colorado parties, and is in the market for some stock cattle, the first inquiry for such stock we have heard for some time. Stock Grower. A dispatch from New York sa-s "Within the month of April the advance in the wholesale prices of meats of all descriptions has aver aged 4c per pound, and this in crease, it is the opinion of representative retail dealers', is likely to be maintained throughout the summer. It is predicted, though, that when the summer is over prices will be normal.

The retail butchers of Washington market of the first as they say, have added 5c per pound to their old price. An exchange says: In Denver there seems no limit as to where the price of beef will land. It is still climbing if itkeeps up, poor people will have to find something to eat that doesn't cost so much. Choice steers-dressed sell for nine cents a pound, cows eight and a half cents by the carcass, hind quarters at the packing houses eleven and a half cents, while loins bring fourteen to sixteen cents. For wholesale prices these figures are remarkable for this point.

The presence of northern men in New Mexico inquiring for stock cat tle is a most encouraging sign of the times, and substantial evidence of the truth of the statement made in dispatches some time since, that the favorable prospects for the cattle business had tempted investment again, and farmers and others who had sold out their she stock during the depression were in the market again. Stock Grower. The Mexia, Texas, Ledger says "A train of twelvs cattle cars passed the city Saturday evening en route to New Orleans. There was nothing remarkable about this train except that these cars were loaded with the products of a Texas institution meat from the Fort Worth packing compan'. This meat will go to Liverpool, England, The hogs slaughtered in this Texas institution are mostly shipped here from Kansas, but we trust the time is not far distant when Texas can furnish her own meat for her own packer.

Chicago. May 1. Within the last month there has been an increase in the wholesale price of meat throughout the country. In Chicago the advance in both wholesale and retail prices has averaged 33i per cent, Talks with several local meat dealers in Chicago indicate that there will be no decrease in prices before July 1, and before that time the tendency may possibty be toward a still larger increase. The cause of the advance is said to be the scarcity not only of good cattle, but a general scarcity of cattle of all grades.

The rise in the price of corn has compelled stockmen to feed their stock chiefly with grass. The National Stockman in speaking of the advance in cattle, says: "The best thing in connection with the situation in cattle is the fact that the position in prices which is now held has been materially unchanged for some weeks. To make a sudden, even if great advance, would show nothing in particular as arguing solidity in the market, but to not onty make a great advance but to hold it substantially, and to really increase it, means, "business" to cattlemen. We do not question that the turn in the long lane has been safely -made, and that the advance steps, recently taken, are not to be retraced." Nebraska as one of the best live stock feeding states of the Union was becoming known by stockmen everywhere when last 'ear's failure of crops greatly checked feeding operations, but this season she will make good her losses of the past year, by producing a great abundance of feed, and the feeder that i3 wide-awake and ready to take advantage of the present low prices of live stock will buy without limit and sell later at a good profit to the stockman who is not awake to the situation of affairs at present. The man who has managed to bring his live stock through to the present time is in luck and will receive his reward in getting good prices for all the breeding stock he has to spare.

Nebraska Farmer. From all over the west conies the cry of shortage of bulls on the ranges and the calf crop bids fair to be much curtailed on account of the parsimon' of some ranch owners who depended on their neigh-bore' bulls for service last year and seem disposed to continue the same plan for the coming season. Good pure-bred bulls, saying nothing of grades, have been in abundant supply the past two years at prices which the ranchman could easily afford to paT, so that the men who brand far less than the expected nnmlipr rf Jliie Rnrlnrr no one but themselves to blame for their loss. It is a policy so shortsighted that it passes wonder that men claiming anv business sense whatever would adopt it. Gazette.

-Breeders' The Omaha stock yard management propose to make an effort lor southwestern business this year, and as a basis for their work show up the increasing business of the past few years, and tho very satisfactory results which have come from shipment of stock to that point. That market, situated as it is, in the center of great corn belt, be a splendid stoeker and feeder market, and we believe it will be to the interest of southwestern stockmen to give it a trial. It is certain, that a division of shipments to the various markets will help the cattle growers, as it has been too often demonstrated to the loss of shippers that a great fall in prices always follow large receipts at Kansas City and Chicago. Las Vegas Stock Grower. Trampled by a Mule.

R. Bloxton returned resterday fronYNogales, where the past week he has been called to nurse his brother-in-law, Frank Lauranee, who was badly injured by a mule at Sanford's Sonoita ranch, on the 25th of April. The animal was not vicious, but was standing with a rope attached when Lauranee approached to examine its mouth, which was sore. The mule jumped when the sore was touched, and in such a manner as to entangle the rope around Lauranee and throw him under its feet. This frightened it 3'et more, and in endeavoring to loose itself from the young man, it kicked and trampled him terribly.

Before he could release himself from the rope he was trampled and kicked from head to foot, and his left leg broken at the thigh. He was taken to No-gales, where he is slowly recovering from his injuries. Citizen. mf The Solomonville Bulletin advertises that it will receive anything that can be eaten by man or beast barring pumpkins in payment of subscription. New Camp, Arizona's mining interests are among the chief industries ot the territoiy.

To touch the pulse of its prosperit'' is to note the mines and mineral properties both de veloped and undeveloped, scattered through its great domain from the forest covered hills of Yavapai to the dry and treeless mesas of South ern Pima, and from the extreme east of Graham to the extreme west of Yuma, Everywhere the miner's pick has made its showing and the mining outlook is constantly bright ening. From the chloriding pro positions worked by a couple oi hardy toilers to the great camps furnishing employment for hun dreds of men, the improvement is ever noticeable, and new camps are springing up where a short time since the patient working of 2 or 3 prospectors might have been noted. The next camp to be opened will be in the Quijotoa country, about twelve miles south of Quijotoa in the properties known as the Kahn and Brooklyn mines. A 20 stamp mill with a capacity of 50 tons of ore every 24 hours is now ordered in Denver, and will be on the ground in readiness for working by July 1st, Mining men will at once recognize the properties as those of the Cababi Mining Com pany, and in which J. A.Conlee has been interested.

To Mr. Coulee even'thing is due for the new camp. During the past year he has worked zealousy and well, and found him self much aided in his efforts by his well merited record of a practical mining and milling man. He has been, instrumental in the opening of crouner prosperous camps in me territory, none of which have "gone by the boar." First was the furnace and mill of the San Xayier, opened in '82. In '85 Mr.

Coulee opened the Humboldt properties, now said to be among the best paying in Arizona. The camp he opened last was the Lela mill, three miles miles from Casa Grande in the Ve- kol district. His present labors promise at least as well. The mines are all on the same lead, but the ore is of two grades. The vein is 4 feet thick, and 3 feet of this is free milling and 1 foot is refactory ore.

The free milling ore is friable and runs about $25 a ton. It will be shipped to smelt. The refractory ore is much richer, though much more difficult of reducing. It is gold amalgamating and concen trating rock and contains almost no silver. Of the lead there is from 40 to 50 per cent, and in gold it runs $100 to the ton.

Mr. Conlee estimates the cost of working the free milling ore at $5 a ton, and the refractory at $40 a ton, either yielding very handsomely. Water will be sunk for, and probably found 400 feet down, that being the depth of the well at Quija-toa, the two places being about of a level. The greatest depth the properties have been worked is about 100 feet. Something like 2000, feet of development work is the present total.

There is now on the dump from 400 to 500 tons of ore, in the proportion by bulk, of 4 the free milling ore to 1 of the refactory. About 40 men will be employed at this camp, 30 in the mine, and 10 at the mill. The mines were worked by Mexicans for man' years, coming into the possession of Americans about 8 years ago. The new property is owned hy a corporation, known as the Calabio Mining and Milling Compan'. Tucson Citizen.

P. Smith, appointed postmaster at Wilgus, Cochise count', Arizona, vice W.W. Smith, died," is the re way the official notioe of changes in the P. Department is given out from Washington. It should read, murdered hy Apaches, Prospector, The Advance In Beef.

The advance in the prices of meats has become general through out the country the increase being from two to five cents per pound on nearly all cuts. When, two years ago, some of the best posted writers warned the public, and cautioned the stock iaisers, they were laughed to scorn and their predictions were held up to ridicule as the croakings of alarmists or the utterances of monopolistic tools. Sound reasons for the predictions were brushed aside by mere assertions and were met by some would-be authorities with the statement that the ratio of beef cattle to population was stead ily increasing, notwithstanding the heavy dralts made for the export and the numerous causes cited as tending toward a decrease. The unprecedented marketing of calves and cows and the great increase in the practice of spaj'ing heifers were pointed out as certain to produce shortage before the lapse of three years, even if there was no increase in the exports of beef This increase, however, has been very great, and, combined with the causes named above, has produced the exact result predicted by the few and scouted by the many. From every quarter of the county come reports of high price for beet, and there appears no prospect of an early decline.

The recent large purchases of range cattle br the Western packers indicate a conviction on the part ot those engaged in the dressed beef industry that there will be no decrease in the prices now prevailing, but rather that they wilL.ad yance still further. High prices for beef will lead to the substitution of cheaper food, and mutton is likely to become, in a measure, substitute, as it has in Great Britain. Those who are always ready to lay every grievance at the door of the dressed meat magnates of the West are Billy enough to have stated that the advance was directly chargeable to them, when the fact remains that range cattle are considerably higher price than they were a few months ago. Some of the journals which make it a point to distort facts in order to appear to be argumentative, de liberately falsify and change relia ble figures in order to support their position. Such journals, and even prominent stockmen who know better, have stated the Western dressed beef companies control the prices of meats throughout the country and have brought about the present advance without any reason but to put more money in their coffers.

Such statements are too riduculous to be worthy of serious contradiction, especially in view of the facts presented above, showing the best of reasons for higher prices. From Helena, comes the report of a large sale of three and four-years old beef cattle at fifty dollars per head, which is the highest price paid for beef cattle for several years past. This is one case of many which shows that there has been a marked advance on the ranges, which necessitates an advance all along the line. The advance is due to natural and legitimate causes, and will be governed by the legitimate demand of trade. The National Provisioner, A Black Range, N.

correspon dent writes The Stock Grower We have had our annual Indian scare. Luckily no one was killed this time, but it will take some of us all sum mer to get our wind again. The red murderers are traveling this season under passes signed by ranchmen living near the reservations. A fine business that, and a nice slate of affairs at the agency where it is allowed. One of these days the government will have another "Sand Creek" row to investigate; this sec- tion is ripe for it and is only wait- ing for a Chivington to lead.

Scren Dollars Fairly in Sight Within the last six das prices-for cattle have experienced an ad vance of from twenty to thirty cents per 100 lbs. There was a small increase in the receipts as compared with the previous week, but the total was 19,000 less than for the corresponding week last year and was short of the demand. There was a loss during last month of 58,000 head, while the decrease since Jan, 1 is in excess of 100,000 head. The foreign market shows an improving tendency and the indications are that exporters will soon again be in the market for a liberal proportion of our good cattle. If they were now taking from 6,000 to 8,000 head per week, as they were but a short time ago, it is safe to say prices would be at least fifty cents per 100 lbs higher than they now are.

The outlook is as encouraging to-day as at any time since prices started up ward. The number of fat cattle to come on the market during this month and next is unquestionably much smaller than was generally- supposed, and if prime beeves do not in the meantime soar to $7 it will be by reason of unexpected weakness in the foreign demand. Nothing has occurred to check the advancing tendencyin the sheep market. Apparently the situation is as strong to-day as at any time since prices began to climb, and they are 75 cents higher today than they were three weeks ago. Although the receipts are larger than eyer before at this season they do not equal the requirements of the trade, as is evidenced by the rapid ad yancejn: prices: Qhoics $6 85, while lambV.ofrWponcls: ing quality are selling around $7.50.

-Breeders' Gazette. The first funeral rite eyer per formed by the Wallapais after the American fashion took place yes terday. One ot the several squaws of Charley's harem passed over the silent river Tuesday night, and couriers were sent out to notify, all the relatives of the deceased, and actiye preparations were at once made for the funeral. Horses were gathered and the funeral pyre prepared. But Charley had been converted to the customs and usages of his white brethern, and concluded he had other uses for his ponies and blankets than offering them as a sacrafice, and ordered a grave dug and the body consigned to the silent tomb on the hillside, where the cactus blows and the coyote will howl a requiem over the grave of the first of the tribe to be placed beneath the sod.

Mohave Miner. In a paper recently read before the American Philosophical Society R. Meade Bache announces that from experiments by himself and others he is led to believe electricity may soon be applied to the purification of water. The exact method by which this result is to be accomplished is not divulged, but it will consist of such an operation upon the predatory bacteria as will destroy the dangers now prevalent in the drinking-water they befoul, Every consideration of good health adds emphasis to the hops that Mr, Bache is not a deluded prophet. Electricity will score its grandest triumph if it eliminates the perils that lurk in contaminated water.

Some of the ranchers on the south side of the riyer are making a sue cess of wild oats and grain mixed for hay making purposes, The start that wild oats has in that part of the valley will ere long make it one of the priucipal hay producing crops of central Arizona, where till very recently it has been almost unknown. Its capacity for spread ing over a country is something ma "The population of Willcox could be doubled in a short time were it not for a total lack of residence houses. Stockman..