Territorial reforms and a youth pardon urged by press
The territory’s press urges revisions to Arizona law, taxing and regulating Pullman and express firms, poll tax receipts for voting, court appointed attorneys' fees, repeal of the current fee bill, abolition of occupation tax, immigration bureau creation, cigarette sale ban, and a territorial historian. A 15 year old received a pardon recommendation after a two year sentence for a minor offense, with Prospector noting the lad’s return home.
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Arizna
Pulliaan
Express
Bureau of Immigration
Arizona
Kansas
Navajo Blankets Made Useful Trade Aid
The commissioner of Indian affairs buys 15,000 Navajo blankets for distribution to Indians at other agencies and offers a contract for all they can manufacture in the coming year. The Navajos are described as self supporting and among the wealthiest Indians in the United States.
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs
United States
Yavapai County Sees First Oranges Of The Year
Yavapai County reports its first orange crop. At Castle Creek Hot Springs eighteen young trees planted under four years ago now bear fruit. Experts deem the fruit as luscious as Southern California’s best, signaling a notable local agricultural achievement.
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Yavapai’ County
Sean
Castle Creek Hot Springs
California
Man seeks meaning in woman as law curbs drum evangelism
A humor filled exchange notes a boy’s first sight of a woman and a father’s blunt lesson. The California Supreme Court rules the Salvation Army may not drum beat for recruitment on public streets. The ruling limits the charity’s street tactics and stock in trade.
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Supreme Court of California
Salvation Army
Army
Wealth and Poverty Diminish The Rothschilds Says Prospector
A Prospector notes the Rothschilds have intermarried so long that their brains are insufficient to govern their vast wealth. He sees a grain of hope that great wealth and gross poverty ruin those who revel in it.
Christmas Money Orders Sent Abroad
During the Christmas season a total of 131 960 money orders were sent from the United States to the Old World. The transfers were mainly remembrances from "the old folks at home."
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United States
Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company Opens Arizona Office
The Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company announces its office in the city and moves toward final plans for the diversion dam. The project promises vast irrigation gains for the Salt River valley and Arizona, enabling large-scale settlement, statehood prospects, and attracting foreign capital. Governor Henderson and Arizona lawmakers receive praise for supportive laws and policy toward settlers fostering investment.
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Republican
Hudson Reservoir and Canal .Company
Letc
Salt River Valley
Apzona
America
Oklahoma
India
Hudson
Arizona
United States
Gol. Hendershott
Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company
Arizona irrigation firm touts water certificates to deter speculation
The company issues 50000 circulars nationwide promising rigid adherence to the Desert Land Act. Each water certificate covers 20 acres with a cap of 160 acres per buyer at 2.5 dollars per acre yearly rental. Subscriptions go to Farmers Loan and Trust Co. New York. The plan highlights perpetual water rights at 12 dollars, with 5 paid at entry and 7 in nine years, plus strong engineering support and praise from editors in California.
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Arizona
Farmers Loan & Trust Co
New York
Trust Company
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
United States
Godspeed
Choice land rush near Arizona tightens supply
Local land scramble accelerates as remaining unoccupied tracts around Arizona vanish quickly. Tribune notes fierce appetite for available plots and warns supply may run dry amid rapid appropriation.
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Arizona
Tribune
New York Constitution Bans Free Pass for Public Officers
The new state constitution of New York prohibits public officers from using any free pass or free transportation and bars franking privileges or discrimination in passenger, telegraph, or telephone rates.
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New York
New Coin Box Pleases Clergy with Velvet Drops
A newly invented contribution box gains favor among clergymen. It accepts coins through slots, the larger pieces drop onto velvet while smaller than two bits trigger a bell.
Investigations Cite Gaps in New York Election Inspectors
Good government clubs report nearly two thousand election inspectors in New York City failed to comply with the law due to ignorance. Eastern observers praise the return of Orierte remains to soil for burial as a notable achievement. Forty two snow plows operated throughout Thursday by a Chicago street railway company. Carnegie Steel workers face an average wage cut of fifteen percent under the new scale. A new company aims to harness the Susquehanna River for electric power similar to Niagara. London’s population is about 5,947,300 and growing by 105,000 yearly.
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New York City
Ching
Orierte’s
New York Lane
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