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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1897
Page
3
A crowded miscellany of reports on politics, economics, health and society. Mentions Gen Lee Cuba, wheat prices, yellow fever, New Orleans, Arizona New Mexico, Klondike, and local officials. Includes editorial wit, trade data, and notes on cattle, goats, roads, and governance.
A Bradstreet summary notes warmer weather and yellow fever in gulf states tempered by rising U S trade. Chicago leads a five year high, with Kansas City Omaha St Louis and St Paul showing demand growth. Bank clearings reach a record weekly total, while failures and stock activity reflect market volatility.
Notice lists numerous names of addressees with a call for advertised letters at the Phoenix Arizona post office dated September 22, 1907. Names include Adem Batra John Beatty HF Tortram Wm Bootley J C Chrishalm Austin B Chample Chas B Dyst Mrs Anon Ford Pearl Hemi John E Hanley Jack Harper Mrs BJ Harlow Willis Hutcheson R J Jowell and others with international sounding names. Public notice from W E Tromas P M calls recipients to claim items.
The weekly crop bulletin reports lower but comfortable autumn temperatures across Arizona with frost in the vicinity of Fisgetiff on the 16th and cool nights in Navajo County. In Gila and Salt River valleys crops are advancing. Little Colorado district suffers delayed harvests due to rains. San Simon plains show prosperity while Graham County reports mixed outcomes with farm losses along the Gila but overall good yields.
Mrs. Anna E. Hakes of Whittlesey Ohio describes a long ordeal with a sore spreading from her foot to her knee. After trying many salves she used Hood's Sarsaparilla and reports complete healing and improved health. She endorses Hood's as cleansing the blood and restoring strength.
Arizona cowboy J J Holland bursts into the Journal reporters room to pitch a wild tale about a branding and a near miss with a prominent East Ninth street businessman. He boasts of West experience, claims a Geronimo capture, and leaves amid laughter and a bill for a doctor he never paid. The piece blends tall tale bravado with small town color and a roadside memory of the event.
The hawaiian senate met in session on the 8th and, after reading the president’s message and a protest from opponents, adopted a unanimous resolution approving ratification by the president of the treaty between Hawaii and the United States concerning annexation. The text followed Washington’s June 16, 1897 agreement, with the treaty appended.
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