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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1897
Page
1
Fragmented OCR shows a local government notice about the City Attorney office and public filings or petitions. The text references Arlington and a block or city area, indicating a municipal legal action or appointment process in the territorial land business context.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention the Santa Fe System serving Kansas City Chicago and St Louis with few readable specifics. The source lacks clear dates figures or outcomes but suggests railroad routing or partnership notes in midstream form.
The message lists northbound travel times from Phoenix at 7:50 PM to Prescott at 3:20 AM and Ash Fork at 6:58 AM. It notes leaving Ash Fork southbound at 7:45 AM and ends abruptly with incomplete times.
Undertaker William Passy offers imported coffins and caskets on hand with quick order options. Coffins made to order on short notice and furniture repair plus job work provided at affordable prices.
Notice declares the saloon keepers and liquor dealers partnership dissolved by mutual consent. Mess J. & Lee Brizzee take ownership of all firm property and assume debts and collection of accounts. Dated Mesa City Arizona May 7 1897.
The item details the formation and leaders of the sugar trust, its immense profits and salaries, and its payroll and wealth estimates. It also includes a humorous anecdote about two eastern women and a Chinese laundryman, plus a De Motte Indiana marriageable maids league backing home newspapers.
General and Mrs. Grant visit Berlin and learn from Bismarck about the Russo Turkish war terms. Mrs. Grant asks why Germany cares and Bismarck replies with a dry joke explaining Russia has taken too much Turkey and Germany is helping digest it.
An old darkey aboard a fragile dugout struggles to float as Uncle Sam relief expedition nears. The captain asks his need and the reply comes, Nothing but wings, boss.
The Canary Islands host a peculiar plant known as the fountain tree that forms natural pitchers to collect rainwater. Each pitcher can hold several gallons of water, creating sizable natural reservoirs in the landscape.
An eastern company agent and Thomas Higgins Johnny Keating A T Sowle and others bonded adjoining Copper Queen claims for a year and a half. They must start work within 90 days and operate a double shift continually until period end.
The widow of Dr. Ruiz an American dentist killed in a Spanish prison in Cuba filed a claim for 3150,000 against Spain.
A wartime era piece notes tea drinking as a social staple among New York clubs and naval officers alike. It contrasts tea with whisky, citing regulations on stronger drinks and recounts a naval wardroom scene where a captain and officer order tea to soothe cold weather.
The piece cites a proposed cold storage plant to tame Yuma climate and rumors of Phoenix schemes. It mentions a sponge roof to be soaked with water nightly to induce rapid evaporation and a frost by late morning, reflecting sensational local speculation.
C D Lane, owner of the For Tuna mine, traveled home from Old Mexico and reports purchasing a new mine for 3,000,000 dollars. He has paid 100,000 so far with the balance due in thirty days. The Sentinel notes his past mining success and community contribution.
The article notes that artificial white diamonds have not reached jewelry size, while large rubies of equal color and brilliance have been produced. A microscope reveals natural rubies are full of tiny cracks not visible to the naked eye, whereas artificial rubies show minute bubbles or gas holes on the rubber band.
The Yellow River, named the Sorrow of China, is described as the most destructive waterway in world history. It has altered its course four times in under a century and shifted its delta up to 800 miles, flooding vast plains and causing immense loss of life and property.
The Black Warrior Copper Co increases activity at Webster gulch with shaft work at Dadeville 100 feet deep. An 18 inch surface tram from Geneva to the Montgomery claim is added. Over 25 men now employed, with John Whyte praising progress and ore return. President James A. Fleming expected back about the 20th.
Mrs. Kate M. Heath of National City California is credited with starting the custom of decorating soldiers graves after visiting cemeteries in 1864 while living in Columbus Mississippi. Memorial day traces back to that act of garlanding Union and Confederate dead. A California visitor arrived to install Shields Price harvester described as a marvel, requiring twenty eight horses and five men, to thresh harvest and bag grain in one pass at Kenilworth wheat fields.
Notice records Hanning Stolander's wedding with Quebacha who leaves the domestic hearth for her native wilds. The item notes she finds married life too hot and hints at evolving proprieties among locals.
Fragmented notes describe a syndicate forming to buy gallons at around $1.200.00 total cost. The text mentions Kentucky and a general price per gallon, with references to graduation timing and numbers that imply a large-scale purchase.
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