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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1894
Page
1
The store offers new neat fashionable dress goods flannels and full lines of ladies and gents furnishings. Hardware and grocery departments stocked with choice goods. Agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows. Lines best and prices low. Special orders promptly attended.
Senator Chandler proposes an international monetary conference to adopt a silver standard if no ratio is agreed. In Arizona, Yuma prison reveals granite as a profitable, near-term use for inmate labor, enabling public building construction. A Baltimorean jokes about manners in a Chicago car, highlighting social foibles.
The San Francisco Examiner notes strong Arizona support for statehood as Congress resists admitting the Territory. It praises Arizona’s growth, public schools, irrigation successes, and agricultural development, while acknowledging revenue concerns but urging local funding for the government Arizona wants.
Territorial Treasurer Fleming reports the Sea Songood & Meyer case in the New York Court of Appeals was dismissed, yielding a $10,000 deposit to the Territory. The original issue bonds totaling $500,000 at 5 percent interest are now held by the Territory awaiting a buyer, with par offers unlikely in the near term.
The Star recalls Arizona's public school system starting in Tucson twenty three years ago with a boys school taught by John A. Spring and no girls. The next year a girls school opened by Mrs. L Hughs. From that small start there are now hundreds of schools and teachers, though a quarter century has not passed since the first opening.
The article notes dog and cat saliva carry many bacteria and that a rare fatal form in cats can kill rabbits and guinea pigs within a day. It warns lapdog affection may pose risks and highlights potential intestinal worm eggs in dog saliva.
The Prospector notes that the territorial administration's economic program aims to ease taxes for Arizona residents, signaling a lighter fiscal burden as reforms take effect.
The National City Record notes rapid railroad interest to Yuma with Braman proposing a line if land subsidies rise. A separate push claims a Mexican concession for a Mexico route, while Carlson and Braman vie for priority. The piece urges concentrating effort on one scheme to avoid division and delay.
Governor L C Hughes attended a Board of Prison Commissioners meeting to explore self sufficiency for the territorial prison and to run it on a strict business basis. The quarterly session noted the prison’s excellent shops, praised Superintendent Gates, and commended commissioners S C Bagg and A G Williams for prompt, business like dispatch of work.
A report alleges Gunsight mine operators employ Waxteins at one dollar per day, force residence at the company boarding house, charge one dollar daily, and provide only five days of work each week. The piece calls such conduct thrifty titled gentlemen unfit for the country.
A group of about 50 people in Southern California arranged to use a steamer company barge for a month long trip down the river to the gulf and a return steamer when ready.
The Yaqui colonists, pleased with the new lands granted by the government after leaving Topolobampo, intend to invite friends to join them there and establish settlement along the Yaqui river.
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