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! DeWitt’s Little Early Risers purify j I the blood, clean the liver, invigorate j bi | the system. Famous little pills for w I constipation and liver troubles. F. J. \C. O. ANDERSON. Editor and Proprietor.Wattron.trglt;SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne year................-...................?2 50Six month»................................. 1 0Three months............................... 1 00Advertising rates made known on application at this office.SVTURDAY, DEC.LOCAL AND PERSONAL,Tlie Doings of The Week i Holbrook and Surrounding Country.The circulation of the Ladies’ Home Journal for 1899 reached the enormous aggregate of 9,815,826 copies, an average of 817,986 copies for each of the twelve issues of the ^ year. It has been shown by a com- j ^ preheusive postal canvass that each ! Journal is read by eight persous; j consequently, these figures reveal j the astonishing fact that each issue j T! is read by about one person in every j eight or ten in the United States [ who can read and write English.laMr. Elisha Berry, of this place, ai says he never had anything do him j so much good aud give such quick j ti relief from rheumatism as Chamber- h Iain’s Pain Balm. He was bothered I vlt; greatly with shooting pains from hip | The A. C. M. received a car load to knee until he used this liuimeut, i P of apples receutly. j which affords prompt relief.—B. F. JulJno. R. Hulet is visiting at Snow-i Baker, druggist, St. Paris, Ohio. jJ'flake this week.Nat Greer is away on a trip to the Southern part of the territory.Burton Mossman spent Saturday in town.For sale by F. J. Wattron, Druggist Iand still our delightful fall weather ■continues.Col. Mose Tate was in from the range last week. He says be is getting younger every day.The Jim outfit was in town Saturday. They say stock on the range is in good condition.Gov. N. O. Murphy passed through Holbrook Sunday on his way to Washington, where he will work in the interest of statehood for Arizona.Exodus of Cattlemen From u Northern Arizona. ] frW'm. C. Barnes, chairman of the cattle sanitary board of Arizona, is 1 u] T. S. Bunch was up from Flagstaff \ in with a shipment of steers which ! . Tuesday on business, returning home | he S(dd h«r»- Mr. Barnes has been ;. J . ; running his cattle from the north- ;the next day. ern Arizona range to the Maxwell! tlWe are approaching Christmas grant in New Mexico and will run \ tl ’ them there this winter. He says' the cattle business in northern Arizona is about ruined between cattle-tbieves and sheepmen. “We had j it heavy losses in our’section this lost : ai year from drought. Along the j al Santa Fe Pacific the loss has been | fully 50 per cent. The Aztec com- j alt;pany expected to gather between I 35,000 and 40,000 head and they cleaned u p about 16,000 head. The big outfits are all pulling out of our part of the territory and they are going for good. Iu southern Arizona it is different. There are not (so many sheep and it has been a We note through the Phoenix ex-' good year. I believe there will be chaDgrs that W. C. Barnes will re- .,a3 or more cattle to come fromsign as chairman of the Live Stock 1 that section next spring than there, . T , : was last. Northern Arizona will be uSanitary Board of Arizona on Jan. 1. ;turned OTer to tlie sheepmen and | dJohn Conner and A.M. Boyer went { when they get through it will be . to Winslow Monday to put the jail j g,?od fo,r nothing for a few years.. , , i The only solution to the problem iscage in the jail being fitted up at j have the iands ieased by the gov-that place. ernmeut, then the sheepmen andMr?. Louise Cross returned last! cattlemen can take what they needweek from Snowflake, where she has j and P®«®. ea«b own... .. ... ground. If some such plan is notbeen visiting several months with adopted tij0 COUutry there will be- | her daughters. j come a uesert again. ”—Denver jH. A. Larson was in from Gordon j Stolt;dlmaB-canyon Saturday. He reports every j The above is a somewhat strange thing lovely out there and the stock ! statement eminating.from the source looking well.it does. Mr. Barnes is an old resi-. dent of this place, has made his Joseph Brewer of Pinedalejs here j money in thiscountj) has repeatedlybeen honored by his community with public offices-in other words-•on his way to Denver where he will have an operation performed on his ■eyes. He is now almost totally blind.F. M. Zuck went to Flagstaff Saturday morning returning Sunday. Mrs. Zuck has been visiting with Mrs. S. H. Fine for a couple of weeks at the same place.The Argus will in the near future Tun an educational column and con-this section has made him, andplaced him in the position amongmen that he now enjoys, aad it seems-at least unkind of him to give thissection this reputation consideringthe above facts. That the largocattle concerns are going out is true, jand it is for the reason that this im-1 nmediate section is not by nature a ^, , ,. , , ., cattle country and has beeu over-!tributions from the teachers of the. . , , . , m b, . . , , . , stocked by large concerns. They;ucounty and others interested in ed- ], . ... , ... . . .. . 1 have met with loss aud reverses, the iucational work are solicited. i , . ... ... i,| reward of every wild speculation. \ “Mrs. R. Churchill, Berlin, Yt., j Thousands of head of cattle remain ®says, “Our baby was covered with j here and will forever. If the large running sores. DeWitt’s Witch Ha- companies leave, their places will be zel cured her.” A specific for piles , filled by many small cattle owners and skin diseases. Beware of worth- i who will reside here and have agri-less imitations. F. J. Wattron.Harry Woods and family arrived from Deming, N. M., Wednesday morning, and will spend a couple of weeks visiting with his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Woods, and other relatives.cultural or other interests besides, and the money received from their cattle sales will be put in circulation at home. There has been some * cattle stealing here in the past, but i *-this specie of crime is now extermi- I The Woods family wilYhave a family j nated through the efficiency of our jd reunion at Christmas. sheriff’s office. The sheepmen like1 the cattlemen of this section are The committee on Christmas tree ^good citizeng and sWd not be | b arrangements desire to state, that j placed jQ the category with cattle. | every one wishing to put presents, thieveg Thefe has beeH nQ gtrife p on the Christmas tree, should bring ! tetweed sheepmen and cattlemen in I n the presents on Saturday before | thig section and t|jeir relations have Christmas to the hall where they ahvayg beeQ amicablo. In 8pit6of! will be received by the decorators j ,he gloomy predictions of Mr. Barnes i and hung on the tree. i tbftt tbjg sectjon wju jn a few yearsJ. B. Stookwell was at Holbrook j be a howling wilderness, we will j r Monday circulating a petition for j venture to say that long after Mr. j ’ his appointment as Live Stock In- Barnes and the writer of this article a •pector for Holbrook and Winslow, are buried under the daisies, north- c Mr. Stockwell is an upright, intelli- j ern Arizona will still every year be * gent and consciencious young man shipping thousands of head of cattle ^ and would fill the office with credit; and mutton to eastern markets, and to himself and satisfaction of j wool by carloads will roll out to the community. ' eastern mills
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Holbrook Argus
Holbrook, Arizona, US
Sat, Dec 16, 1899
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