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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1894
Page
1
The store in Mesa advertises a wide selection of new dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishings and related items. It highlights stocked hardware and grocery departments and promotes Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Vanton Clipper Plows as agents.
The Atlantic & Pacific promotes a Great Middle Route across the American Continent, highlighting its connection to the railways of the Santa Fe Route to bolster national transportation links and commerce.
H M Porter advocates a federal law to fund ten arid belt states with 200000 dollars each to locate reservoir sites on headwaters of major rivers. A commission including governors and surveyors general would survey sites, grant land for water works, and allow land sales to irrigators to reclaim grazing land. Glass brick innovation in France for building without windows then noted for insulation and use in meathouses, hospitals, and baths.
A humorous dialogue reveals a young man’s claim he cannot marry because he lacks thirty thousand dollars a year. The scene then shifts to a verbatim local note about bicycle regulations and street safety, followed by reports from Steubenville and Hammondsville on religious revival turmoil, a quip about birth costs, and a Washington note on missing income tax funding.
The conservative Populists favor stripping platforms to the initiative and referendum. They argue laws would originate with the people and be referred to voters, citing Switzerland as a model. They warn that without legislative work, boodlers and boodlee could lose work, impacting cities and alms houses.
The American Lawyer notes several high attorney fees in New York, with $260000 and $250000 cited for two lawyers on famous cases, plus other fees from $25000 to $100000 earned by avoiding litigation. It argues net gains favor settlements over court fights. The Kingman Miner reports growing Grand Canyon dam interest and irrigation plans to irrigate Walapai valley, with projected population growth and high taxable property in Arizona. Apache county sees good rainfall for stock feed, aiming at a lighter cattle loss this winter after four years of declines. St Johns Herald.
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