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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1896
Page
1
For sale or exchange a 15 acre cultivated ranch with orchard house barn and stock-ranch suitability. Includes crop town ground and a good spring. Crops grow without irrigation. Farming tools included. Located thirty miles from Payson in Gila County. Will sell cheap or exchange for Mesa property. Call at this office.
Directors announce a new reservoir with an 18 000 acre foot capacity to serve 20 000 acres around St Johns. The plan includes a 170 foot thick dam 44 feet high, a 160 foot wide canal, rock faced embankment, and two limestone cement outlets. Funding includes 10 000 shares at $10 and a $5,000 Mormon Church donation. Joseph O. Stradling leads construction with work to finish this winter, boosting settlement and population.
The United States sues Southern Pacific and others over title to 700000 acres opposite Tehachapi Pass and along the Colorado River corridor from Los Angeles to Yuma. SP claims via Texas Pacific Railroad succession and has sold parcels to about 20000 bona fide settlers. Government contends otherwise.
The case centers on lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Rail road Company later overlapped by the Texas and Pacific line. After forfeit in 1886 for noncompliance, the Government argues Southern Pacific as successor is a trespasser and seeks quieting of US title plus $2.50 per acre from the railroad for lands sold to bona fide settlers whose titles are also to be quieted. The Circuit Court and Court of Appeals ruled for the United States. the Supreme Court now weighs the matter.
The Twenty third Ohio included Rutherford B Hayes W S Rosecrans and Stanley Matthews among its officers William McKinley started as a private in the same regiment Queen Margherita of Italy quiet at Monza writing a drama Major Edward Schofield Wisconsin governor elect son of a Pennsylvania farmer He began as a printer 14 and rose to major prior to his lumbering success in northern Wisconsin.
Ex-city marshal Dick Cogdell recalls Earp as fair and honest with a clean record in town, while Police Clerk John Martin cites his referee nerve at prize fights and unscared integrity, and Detective Bedford Wood notes no prior dishonesty before the prize fight.
A Durango Democrat report recounts varied mining luck including a Denver telegram halting a $200 half ownership, Dave Brown of Aspen turning $75 and a quarter of an Aspen mine into wealth, and Dick Swickheimer becoming a millionaire after cash loans and a lottery ticket.
The Times of Wichita recalls Wyatt Earp as a fearless deputy under Marshal Mike Maegher in the early 1870s. Earp, tall and ministerial in appearance, earned a Killer reputation while aiding Maegher and later Duck Cogdell in Deadwood and Dodge City era efforts to suppress outlaws.
A 1900 discussion in the Scwatitic American suggests dividing the year into thirteen months. The plan would have twelve 28 day months and one 29 day month, or 30 in leap years, aligning days of the week with dates and simplifying calculations. Objections arise from sentiment but novelty and utility are noted.
A leading local merchant, famed for aggressive advertising, naps through sermons on Sundays. A visiting clergyman and his wife disrupt the nap, prompting the merchant to quip that lack of advertising keeps people idle. The note then praises Prof Netherton and the public school’s progress under his leadership.
Public notice from LL. W. Counts of Phoenix Tempe and Mesa Stage stating fares will remain as before after July 1 and that railroad fares will not be advanced.
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