THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1902.
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farm and other property, also 10.ii0
cash, wants kind, reliable husband. Hart,
47 Park Avt Chicago.
THOUSANDS of (rood men and women
with money want to mnrry. We can
bring jrou together. Send name. M.
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purchased. Loans on policies. Call on or
write The Putnam Co., 604-6 N. T. Lire
Bid It., Omaha, Neb.
brass Forwnnv.
BRASS and aluminum cnstlng, nickel plat
ing and finishing. Specialty Mfg. Co., 41
K. Main St.. Council Bluffs.
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Absolutely new. Guaranteed for two years.
On exhibition at 1611 Farnam.
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A special consignment of Btude
baker buggies, wagons and car
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LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
. Notice Is hereby given that there will be
a special meeting ot the mayor and council
of the city of Florence, Nebraska, at the
city hall In said city of Florence on
Wednesday, the 4th nay of June, 1802, at t
o'clock In the evening, for the purpose of
equalising siuewala assessments and levy
lug special assessments to pay for repairs
on the following sidewalks uuiing the fiscal
sear beginning the first Tuesday In May,
,190a and in front of I ho following lots and
.parcels ot land In the city of Florence, as
surveyed, platted and lithographed. The
following being a description of the lots to
be assessed and the amount agalust each
. lot respectively, to-wlt;
, Lot H, block 8, 121. Si; lot , block 8, $3.97;
lot 1 block o. lti.46; lot 4. block 6, 614.10;
north H lot i, uioca 5, J10.06; lot 2, block U,
1J.7; south lot 8, block 22, U.ao; lot 6,
.block 22, 18.62; lot 1, block -24. 112.22; lot a,
block 23, 114.11; lot 1, block 14, 16.4U; lot 2,
'block 26. tn.-JI. lot 2. block 26. S14.46: lot .
block 2tt. 1.3H. lot . block 36. 11.02: lot 2.
block 32, 11.18; lot 7, block 32, 72 cents; lot
8, block 34. $16.08' lot 4, block 43, I2S.U; lot
;(, block 43, 16.!:; tot u, block 46, $10.;; lot
7. block 46. 167.06: north 66 feet, block 126.
(13.30; south 132 feet, block 126, 20.S6; lot 7.
(block 128. 320.83.
Given by order of the mayor and council
of the city of Florence, Nebraska.
CHARLES A. SMITH,
,' 4wka E4S City Clerk.
NOTICE.
' Notice Is hereby given that at a regular
meeting of the mayor and council ot the
city of Florence, Nebraska, held on the
6th day of May, 1302, tn following estimate
waa made of the probable amount of
money necessary to be raised In said city
' for current expenses, aa Delow specified,
during the fiscal year beginning the first
.Tuesday In May, lWi. and ending the first
Tuesday In May. 19t3. which estimate is
based on the entire amount ot revenue of
aid city during the last fiscal year:
KSTIMaTJ: Or EXPENSES.
For Improvements of streets, public
grounds and building 850 00
For Hoard of Health 26 00
For officers' salaries i,iu6 00
For tire department 200 00
For city hall contract ,, 134 00
For printing and stationery 36 00
For water rental . 7b0 00
Incidentals 150 00
Total $3,278 00
tor wmcn an appropriation ordinance
may be passed at a meeting of the council
aner iour wrens' publication of this notice,
Given by order of the council.
JOHN tt. PAUL,
Attest! Mayor.
CHARLES A. SMITH,
wks EAS City Clerk.
SALE OF BONDS
Notice Is hereby given that an Issue of
even ten-year library bonds In the sum
oi nve nunarea dollars each, num
bered from one 10 seven, both inclusive.
bearing Interest at the rate of five (5) per
cent, payable annually, with coupons at
tached, bearing date of December 1, 1801,
will be aold by the city of South Omaha at
Subllc auction In the council chamber Mon
ty, May 26. 1902, at t o'clock p. m. The
said bonds are general bonds of the city of
Bouth Omaha and are Issued to provide
.fund for the purpose of purchasing the
necessary grounds for the library build-ins-
to be donated to said rJtv hv Amlrew
Carnegie, said bonds are not to be aold
for lene than fane and accrued Interest.
No person will be eligible to bid unless
previous to the date of sale he has de
posited with the city clerk, a certified
check In the sum of three hundred ($300)
dollars. Checks of unsuccessful bidders to
be returned to them.
The right is reserved to reject any and
'all blda and to delay or postpone, aa may
be deemed beat of said srU
Bale of bonds must be completed and
payment made for the said bonds in full
within twenty daya after the delivery of
j vi uuiitja iu purcnaver.
1 Dated South Omaha. Nubraska, May 19,
"ft 8HRIGLEY,
May) d6t City Clerk.
TO THE TAXPAYERS OF DOUQLAS
COUNTY ATTENTION.
The Board of County Commissioners of
Douglas county, Nebraska, will alt aa a
board of Equalization for the pwroo. of
equalising the assessment or Isouglas
county for the year Out, In the commis
sioners' chamber at the court house,
Omaha, beginning Tuesday, June 10, 10,
at 10 o'clock a. ra., and continuing from
day to day up to and Including June 80,
1M (18 days, not Including Uundays). All
persona owning real or personal property
subject to taxation should ull and ex
amine their assessment, that any eraprs as
to valuation may be adjusted by said board
as the law provides.
By order of the Hoard of Countv Com
missioners. HAKKY C. MILLER,
MayM 120t Oounty Clerk.
STAMIOFES
MK1AB0UTS
ass verytblns; else'
VBHICILARLY STYLISH.
HARSE$1" TO MATCH TUB
VEHICLES.
Drummond
Garriago Go.
8th and Harney Sts.
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cppositi
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Myyj??!SW and id
(AsjrssyTtoU try, asftatteredas" the banners that "they wave. '
See thewmhands saluting Theysalute.the grave
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herayeoWlh ,.,
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put presslng all arod itlthere throng the mighty dead I,
,Aye; brhtan srridid'spiritslj Theirbattle lines-'are drawnj
,nd Comrade waits for.Comraie.sldejjv. gatcf-,.. ,
INDIAN FARMING IN ARIZONA
How the Koki Tribe Eaise OTops of Corn
. and Plenty of 'Watermelons.
METHODS OF CULTIVATION IN VOGUE
Modem Innovations In Fsrmlsg
Spurned by the First Settlers
How the Grain la Ground
and Cooked.
la hla original state the North American
Indian waa generally more of a farmer
than most people are willing to believe.
Long before the whites came to tbla con
tinent he waa. In many localities, reaping
tolerably food crops. In the eastern por
tions of the continent they were usually
planted and tended by the women, the men
occupying themselves at hunting or ognt-
lng. Thus the relegation of the farming to
the women waa merely a division of labor
made necessary by the condition of tribal
society In certain regions at that period.
Their only grain was what baa since been
called Indian corn, not because it was de
rived from India, as its name indicates, but
because It waa discovered In the possession
of the aborigines here, who. In their turn.
through the mistake of the first Spaniards,
had been erroneous v termed Indians. The
proper name for this corn is maize, of
course. Just where it originated cannot
now be positively determine!, but It is sup
posed to hay been found on the table
land ot Mexico and to have spread from
there over the entire western hemisphere.
However that may be, the red folk had
long been supplied with It when first en
countered by the whites, and were some
times able to furnish It for subsistence to
the starring settlers. The methods of cul
tlvatlon employed were simple, but they
Droduced good crops. Each region had
different ways ot preparing corn for eating
but the limits of this article preclude any
extended description of this side ot the
matter.
The cultivation was In the main similar.
The method may be studied today among
the Mokla of America, who have changed
less from their original condition perhaps
than any other Indian tribe within the
borders of the United States. They are
still planting and tending malie after the
custom of their fathers who never saw
plow. i
Moat Wants Hot Field Workers.
Costrany to the habit of the Algonqulns
and othnr Indians of the regions east ot the
Mississippi, the Mokl and his immediate
kin exaated none, ot the field work from the
worn a. The men tended the crops while
the women looked after the household at
fairs, ery riuch as our own women if. ex
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and also built the house, which, It may bo
added, was a very good one.
When the corn was brought to them they
ground it, as they still do today, and then
they made it Into peculiar, but excellent,
nutritious bread. In their arid country
there was little game to hunt, so the man's
time was free for his farming, leaving the
women, who, unlike the Indian women of
the east, were in no danger from enemies
or other tribes, in the villages on the mesa
tops.
These bleak summits, several hundred
feet above the plain, have not a blade of
grass to show, nor can anything else grow
there. One must look below for all the
farms, and there your eye perceives them
scattered along for miles like fragments of
some huge checkerboard. Wherever the
soli offers the conditions which the Mokl
farmor, In his long experience, has found
advantageous, there lies a farm.
Owing to the extreme dryness of the ell
mate his method of procedure Is dif
ferent In some respects from that ot his
eastern brothers, who were favored
with timely and abundant rains. All the
latter had to do was to stir up the soli and
plant the corn when occasional attention
kept It In good condition, but the Mokl la
compelled to devote very close attention to
his crop. The ground with a layer of sand
upon it is considered desirable, and the
writer has passed fields. In good condition.
growing apparently in nothing but sand.
Below, however, was a good soil, the sand
merely acting as a mulch.
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Planting Is done with a dibble, which is
a stick with a sharpened point and a
shoulder at right angles on one side for
receiving a foot pressure. With this im
plement a hole several Inches deep is made
Into which the grains of corn are dropped.
When there are showers, and these corns
rather frequently during the growing sea
son, all the men having fields In the same
neighborhood are called out by the proper
official, no matter what the time of day or
night, and they descend to the valley, there
to assist each other In guiding the shower
waters In and out amongst the growing
crops, wherever such procedure Is possible.
With their hoes they rapidly construct
little earth dams across the streamlets and
"washes" and thus cause the flowing waters
to be concentrated for better manipulation.
And, of course, these operations are con
sidered when the crops are put in, it is
generally possible to secure considerable ir
rigation In this manner from passing show
ers that would otherwise be of slight serv
ice. Some of the Indians of the south
west, particularly those of a bygone day,
extended this prlncple Of Irrigation to the
utilization of living streams, and in many
places are still to be seen the remnants ot
Irrigating ditches, which often stretched
across the country for miles.
The corn that was grown centuries ago
was often larger and finer than that of to
day, a fact that is established by the speci
mens found In ruins. The reader wonders
Just here, no doubt, how grains of corn
could be preserved so long, even in the dry
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air of the southwest, but when it Is ex
plained that this corn was rendered into
pure and indestructible carbon by the burn
ing ot the house or other shelter where it
vib stored, the matter becomes clear
enough. Some of the grains of corn thus
made Into charcoal by the cruelty of an
enemy, or the misfortune of a moment, are
as large and full and well developed as
any that can be found even In the Iowa of
our day, proving that the old methods ot
working and irrigation were entirely effec
tive. The Mokl corn comes up bushy and not
very high, but It produces a generous num
ber .of ears, not large, to be sure,, but
abundant enough to make up for deficiency
in size.
Harvesting; and Storing; Crops.
Besides the corn, they also grow water
melon, peppers and squashes, and In fa
vored spots cotton and peaches. On the
uncultivated stretches, which occupy the
main portion ot the region, flocks of sheep
are grazed, and donkeys and "burros," If
one of the latter so far forgets himself aa
to Intrude on a cornfield and regale his
palate with the juicy plant, one of his ears
is cut off as a punishment. A second of
fense causes the loss of the other ear, giv
ing the animal a grotesque look.
The corn, having at last ripened under
the glorious autumnal sun of Arizona, in
spite of the drouth and raven and donkey,
the latter snail-paced steed ia driven down
to the fields sod there laden with the golden
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and purple ears In bags, with which he
ascends to the summit of the mesa In re
sponse to the loud "sho-o-o-o" of the
driver and an occasional punch with a
stick.
Many a man takes a load himself by the
shorter trail and lands It at his home with
out apparent fatigue. So accustomed to
this climbing up and down are they that
their muscles are hardened and their lungs
developed till It Is done with little effort
All the houses have flat roofs and on these
the corn Is spread out to dry and harden
for storage in the rooms set aside for the
purpose, wheve the ears sre not thrown In
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a heap, out are most careiuny isiu up wuu
precision and regularity.
At least a year's supply is always kept
on hand to guard against a failure of crops
and consequent famine, but nevertheless
they usually have a good deal to sell
Watermelons are also plied up In storage
In the same way as the corn, In the
eluded Inner rooms, and so thoroughly dry
and sceptic is this wonderful sir of Arizona
that the watermelons sro easily kept over
till the following Februsry st least. The
writer has seen them and eaten them in
that month, but as thsy wera perfectly
sound it is likely that they could endure a
month or six weeks longer.
Preparing Corn (or Food.
In preparing corn for eating the Mokl has
his own methods, similar, however, to that
of other tribes in his own condition and
kind ot culture, and learned not from any
white man, but from his fathers and his
grandfathers and his many times grsat
grandfatbers. First it is reduced to meal.
The mills used, like those of the gods.
grind slowly, but they grind In a fashion
that is perfectly satisfactory to the Mokl.
A mill, or metate, In this region, con
sists of a thin flat slab of sandstons set up
at an angle ot about SS degrees, sur
rounded b a curb of flat stones or boards
to prevent the meal from scattering.
Usually there are three In a row of these
grinding slabs, back of the higher slds of
whtch the operators, ths young girls of the
household, kneel and, with a rubbing stone,
crush the grain, each carrying ths process
one step further till the requisite degree
of fineness Is arrived at cn the last stone.
This work is usually accompanied by
singing of a peculiar sortr a shrill high
nots, varied and vibratory that suggests
ths song of the priestesses la ths opera of
Aids. This singing goes on and on in a
monotous wsy. filling the surrounding air
with Us weirdness, till one Is halt ready
to believe himself a denizen of another
world.
Then ths meal Is taken la hand by ths
housewife. She mixes It In a largs bowl of
water, adding a small quantity ot wood
ashes for a leaven, and seats herself be
side ths oven where a Ore has been prwvl
ously kindled. This oven Is composed of a
long, fiat, smooth stons and adjuatsd In a
horizontal position with ons edge against
i ths wall, the other resting on a second
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neath a chimney, so that a firs may bW
built beneath.
Dipping her hand Into ths prepared hat-i
ter she sweeps it across the surface of thai
smooth hot stone, spreading a film over thai
entire top, which la immediately baked. i
Upon this to more films are usually'
spread, the whole forming a thin sheet, re-'
sembllng very coarse wrapping paper of au
soft, bluish color. In size shout one foot by:
two or three. This Is peeled oft and folded
up and stacked on a basket tray. It la,
palatable and nutritious and In combination
with peaches or wstermelon Is agreeable
and refreshing.
The Mokl an F.plcure. '
It la doubtless equally refreshing In com
bination with mutton stew or rsbblt stew,
two favorite dishes of the Mokls. Tha
writer cannot speak of these- combinations',
from actual test, however, for tha reason
that he developed an unreasonable squeam- j
Ishness because of the manner ot eating they
stew. A large bowl of stew being placed on tha ,
floor In front of the guests with a tray of,
plkl (peekee) or native bread besldo It, a
fragrant of the latter, broken off and held'
between the thumb and forefingers, la I
scooped, like a dragnot, through ths stew
toward the operator, ths object being to !
capture as many of the meat particles as
possible, and It la then deposited wall back
In the mouth In order that ths fingers re-1
lleved of adhering stew by ths Hps may b
returned clean .to tha attack.
"When In Rome," they say, "do as the) i
Romans do," and ths same Idea might with
equal philosophy be applied to the Moktj
country, but the writer was not equal to Its;
application and the delights of mutton stew'
a la Mokl were never revealed to him.
Perhaps this absurd prejudlos agslnst s
delectable dish was intensified by ths dls-j
covery that the Mokl Is not at all partlcu-,
lar as to how ths sheep departs from the)'
living state, and if one dies from any cause)
It is usually eaten without conjunction. A!
plentiful addition of red pepper will dig-1
guise a rather high flavor. In. fact the
Mokl, as ths young lady said ot her dear .
brother, "la quite an epicure; hwll eat
anything." F. S. DELLEKDAUGH.
Equitable rays First.
Miss Gertrude Goodrich, daughter of tha
late Dell H. Goodrich, whose recent death j
came as a sudden shock to his many '
friends, has just received from the Eqults- '
bis Ltfs Assurance society, through Its
stats agent, II. D. Neely, ths bond and
first payment of 250 on the policy re-1
cently written. This policy was issued to 1
Mr. Goodrich April 2, 1302, and is known J
as a continuous installment. Proof ot I
death was mailed on May 19 and yesterday
the annuity bond and first payment were i
received In Omaha. This bond provides
for the payment to Miss Goodrich ot J250
each year as long as she lives, and is ths
best and safest form of assurance issued
by any company. It was tha last policy
written for Mr. Goodrich and the first
paid. The prompt payment made by the
Equitable Is proof sufficient that its poli
cies srs Indeed equal to "sight drafts at
maturity."
The Great Pan-American Shows.
Connected with the Great Pan-American
Shows there is in all probability the grand
est Hippodrome ever seen on any ellipse
since Rome exploited the first. Scores ot
fearless horsemen and horsewomen, teams '
of horses, blooded and in their prime;
Arabian and Kentucky thoroughbreds, fleet
of foot and handsome. There are Roman, ,
standing and chariot races, two and four
horse; there are steeplechases, hurdle races,
flat, trotting, racking and running races;
there are pig and pole, sack and wheel
barrow, man vs. horse; whipped dog, In
dian vs. Indian pony, obstacle, pony and
monkey, clown, mule and goat races, ele
phant and camel, deer and hound, man vs.
man and woman vs. woman races. In a
word, all kinds of races ever run will be
duplicated and many novel ones Introduced
at the Great Pan-American Shows at Omaha,
Monday, Juns 6.
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daily.
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Shampooing and hairdressing. 15a, at tha j
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A. A. Hubermann. onlr diamond Imnorter i
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ChleasTO ISO Miles Nearer.
Ths "Transmissourt Limited" on thai
Northwestern Una only makes ths trip ia!
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Omaha 6 p. m., arriving Chicago T nextj
morning.
City office, 1401-1402 Farnam st
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