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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1883
Page
2
A scanned notice lists weekly and daily newspaper subscription prices in various terms and markets. It names agents in San Francisco New York and other cities and notes advertising office locations. The item also mentions a date of April 19, 1953 and includes scattered brief news briefs about a legislative deadlock, stock drops, a chicken raid, Grand Canyon tourism, an execution date, dynamite financing, and Albany’s house cost.
Reports from Market Street Wharf describe Sam Francisco Hackmen as an intolerable nuisance. Papers call for abatement and action to curb disturbances and disorder at the dock area.
Tar Calumet and Clecla Copper Mining Company of Lake Superior has declared dividends totaling $500,000 for the first three months of the year.
New Years reflections note a sharp contrast in the lives of Peter Cooper and A T Stewart, two deceased city magnates whose legacies define wealth, philanthropy, and social influence. Cooper’s inventive spirit and Stewart’s mercantile empire shaped eras, leaving lasting impressions on industry and civic life.
Sraman Leren, a Jean nette survivor fresh from Siberia, lost $500 of his hard earned wages to a pickpocket on the Jersey City ferry as he crossed the river. The theft involved a pocketed sum pulled from his hip pocket during transit.
A sweeping late blizzard hit the southwestern territories and states including Kansas and Arkansas. In Little Rock the storm's ferocity resembled a tornado, causing property damage estimated at $58,900.
A special train of fifteen sleeping coaches will visit San Francisco on August 4. The train originates from Boston and travels via the Central and Uneen Pacific roads. Return trip will use the southern route.
The government plans a relief venture to locate Lieut Greely and his abandoned party near Fort Conger on Grinnell Land at 84 40 N. Lat. Greely, who left in 1881, prepared cautiously for a rescue rendezvous despite the De Long disaster.
General Kantz, coomander of the Department of the Pacific, stationed at Angel Island, has been superseded and, with his wife, has gone to Europe.
A Williams Ranch dispatch reports a meteor struck the Garcia residence killing L. Garcia his wife and two children. Every window in town shattered the meteor covers an acre and remains steaming.
Steven Carr of New Mexico urges a cigar manufacturer to locate in Groncerows and Silver City. Four or more newspaper reporters trail President Arthur during his pleasure trip to Florida, noting his schedule.
General Stonman is cited as the fifteenth governor of California since 1849 while Governor Tritle is named as the ninth governor of Arizona since 1862. The text contrasts customs in Arizona and England involving turning up shoes and releasing materials.
A violent incident raises alarms as dynamite detonates near the Hub post office. Authorities believe an attack on government targets occurred amid escalating tensions and ongoing clashes. Residents report smoke and audible blast, with emergency crews responding to the scene.
Arthur, reported by the Cincinnati Commercial Cazetta, portrays a gruff snob who grows sullen on a Florida trip and makes things unpleasant for himself and others, souring the outing with his behavior.
The coast knows him as Old Sam Brannan as he prepares to erect smelting and reduction works on his mining property on the Yaqui river near Guaymas.
In a city advance a surgical experiment transplanted a portion of the conjunctiva from a rabbit eye onto the inner surface of a youth’s eyelid. The procedure showcases pioneering Ophthalmic techniques and seeks to study healing response and tissue compatibility.
The Silver City Enterprise reports tracks of a child found along the Indians heading toward Mexico after the murder of Judge McComas and his wife. Authorities fear the young son was taken into captivity as part of the attack.
Oxst of the most convenient and useful books of reference we have ever had the pleasure of examining is the Annual Statistician published by L P McCarty of San Francisco To professional men of all kinds it is indispensable Published at 34 per annum.
Exenisn police and government officers constantly discover explosives just in time to prevent catastrophe. Probabilities suggest similar discoveries would have occurred for thirty years if they had been looking.
Chass Nack reports from Alma that mining in the Mogollons is routine with Clairmont nearly abandoned and the post office moved to Mineral Creek. No Indians seen. Cooney Company to begin work soon with Mr Cooney due at Alma tomorrow with a force. Silver Hat No 2 idle on promising property in the district.
The Citizen notes Indians are depredating within eight miles of Fort Huachuca. Troops avoid hunting in that region but search along the railroad line at Willcox and expect them in a palace sleeper train. Guards watch closely, dodging a corner when the locomotive is called the in jun.
The Ohio campaign will again center on temperance with restrictive measures sought this fall. Voters respond to last fall’s radical proposals, favoring caution over drastic changes. Public sentiment leans conservative, and the outcome hinges on how parties handle the temperance question and political tensions from last year.
Groncia Desmocracy asserts Georgia cannot be carried by any party on a free trade platform in 1884. The article foresees a pivotal shift as the tariff issue dominates public discourse, threatening to upend fifty years of party leadership and their guiding government role. The horizon darkens with predictions of a unified national political realignment.
The passage notes side issues attaching to past questions yield change. Slowly the reign of old politics gives way to a new political era in the county's history.
An Apache conflict editorial laments delayed pursuits and unanswered questions about executions and captures. The paper calls for concerted military moves by both American and Mexican forces and harsher measures to subdue revolted Indians, urging clarity and decisive action.
The Glabe Democrat reports the Tehuantepec ship railway is not abandoned. Projector has returned home and work proceeds vigorously. A strong syndicate begins additional surveys with four field parties and a large labor force. Minatitlan on the Coatzacoalcos chosen as Gulf terminus. Eads chief engineer, survey approved by Mexico. Open before end of 1887.
Report claims Senator Fair’s son, drunk, tried to adopt his father to abuse his mother. Fair denies the report and cites letters showing the son in Paso Robles at the Atlantic House with three guests yesterday. Wheat at $1.724 cents, barley $1.20. Northern Pacific slaughterhouses planned for dressed beef shipment. Snow blocks Cheyenne railroads and state lines. Saratoga paper mills in San Jose burned Sunday night, destroying stock and machinery. Lora insured for $50,000 with $15,000 declared. Likely incendiary fire.\
The Immigration Act failed to ensure steady work and high wages for Chinese labor. Demand has fallen, miners discharge workers, and San Francisco sees rising unemployment among Chinese. A Portland contractor remarks Scandinavians are more profitable, and Onder donk of the Canadian Pacific shifts to white labor, hiring about 4,000.
The Takoma smelter halted Wednesday after high output intervals. Over twenty one hours 16,000 pounds of copper bullion. forty one hours 29,000 pounds of copper and 17,000 pounds of matte. Matte at 84 percent copper yields 43,280 pounds in forty one hours. Old Dominion record stood at 21,909 pounds. Only one thirty ton water jacket used. ore not optimized for a record. Globe challenges the world to equal it.
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors met in Proefix on April 16 1883. A bid to sell ten acres for hospital purposes was discussed with offers from Holcomb Dennis Batzs and Montgomery. vote to consider bids postponed to afternoon. Printing bids awarded to N A Morford for 62 50 per quarter. H H McNeil rejected. Afternoon session awarded hospital furnishing contract to H Fink after bond. Board accepted Bulsz and Holcomb land bids per vote split. notices ordered for county courthouse and hospital bids. six dollars approved for indigent medicine. adjourned to May 2 1883.
A long list of unclaimed letters in Phenix Arizona Territory includes Bobanon Mrs Boyd G W Blake J M Cummings Jos Cate TR Campbell Joes Daugherty Jos Gilliland Gretty James Gowett JS Hennessey Thos Hamilton J W Johnson Irving Johanson P E Johnson EB A Johnson Frank Kimball W A Lord Oliver D McIntosh Chas R Miller Morgan Mctiuinness Pat McGuire Harry Preston H 8 Paret W F Porter Julia Pierce Emerson Reed J A pe Rieff W Thompson Don Wilson John A Whittemore W B Eduar Andrade Pedro Ortis Trinidad Palma Antonio Romo Juan Salo Concepcion Salo Santos Valdez Call for advertised letters Gro E Mowrey P M COURT PROCEEDINGS April Term 1883 Hon D H Pinney Justice. In Fowler vs Bryan stay of proceedings for ten days. Peralta vs Kirkland administrator made party forty days to amend. Mary H Sullivan vs David Neahr injunction modified two parties receive half water use. injunction continues regarding Agua Caliente springs. forty days to submit briefs. findings may be filed in vacation with same force.
The County Treasurer Geo F Kemper will advertise tax bids for surrender of county warrants issued before April 1881 for the general fund.
A fragmented reminiscence on ambition and ruin, tracing a once capable engineer’s collapse under dyspepsia and mental strain. The piece cites patients and doctors, noting self blame, poor health, and a claim that a tonic named Gox-Tome provides relief, with prices listed.
At the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster won the highest medal, with endorsements from medical professionals in the United States and Europe. The article notes widespread adoption by physicians and surgeons, asserting the plaster's merit and leading position among external remedies. Seabury & Johnson, Chemists of New York, are cited in the promotion.
A writer discusses Spelling Matches and newly coined terms like Antisepliic Anti pyretic and Ansipesiint. The piece highlights mis-spellings and a proposed remedy named SalieyHesa pronounced SalieylIca promising relief from rheumatism gout and neuralgia.
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