Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-23


 o preemption claim upon the time and al e tention of the Senate, to be enforced a h soon as the pending measure shall haS D been disposed of.
 9 The House vote on the resolution c Q the minority report of the Electio 5 Committee declaring Cannon electe } to a seat, the report was rejected B 79 to l2l This was a party vote witt ] the exception of BelShover, COlquit, Gas : sidy, CObn, Holman, Musgrave, MurcL ? Rice (MO.A. Mattson and Turner (Ky., ! who voted in the negative with the Re ; publicans; and Campbell (Pa.) in thu affirmative with the Democrats. Tn, majority resolution, declaring that nei ther Cannon nor Campbell are entitled
 to a seat were adopted without a divis ion. Adjourned.
 The House Committee on the Pacific
 railroad to-day directed an adverse re- port on Representative Bingham's bill
 proposing an appropriation of S50OO0 to enable the Secretary of War to purchase the Pacific telegraph line and Its
 branches.
 The petition will be referred to the House Committee on Indian Affairs charging that funds intended for the education Of Indians are being used for advancing sectarian interests | Oregon State Convention.
 SAN FEASCIsCO, April 2L-A Portland dispatch says: The Republican State convention met yesterday, c. M. Fulton
 was nc minated for Congressman; M. c. George for Governor; F. z. Moore r Secretary of State; E E Earhart for Treasurer; Supreme Judge. W. P. Lord; State Printer. W. H. Byers. The platform ic addition to the usual blanks regarding economy of administration education, legislative control to corpor- ations, etc. holds that the wool raising | and manufacturing interests of the State demand the fostering cIre of govern m snt; that the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty Is an imposition of government on | the people and should be abrOgated; 1t | deplOres the assassination of Garfield and regards the Presidents veto of the Chinese bill as unwise anl unjust, and condemns the policy which prompted 1t as opposed to the principles of the Republican party as expressed in the platform of the last National Republican convention, and demands it's represent atives in Congress to persist in ad- vocating restriction of Chinese im- migration.
 Tornado.
 PITrsBUFG, April 2l.-Yesterday a tornado in Fayette county levelled many buildings, killing one person and injur- ing Dany, some fatally.
 Fears for the Safety of Melville
 New YORK, April 2l.-Specials from Irkutsk confirm the loss of the Rodgers and the comparatively comfortable con- dition of the crew. Fears are expressed for the safety of Melville and party now searching for De Long. Terrible storms have swept the country since his de- parture.
 Heavy FTosts
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 2l-RepOrts from Haywood, HptOn and Landerdale counties, Tennessee and Mississippi, and Crittenden counties, Arkansas, are that the frosts yesterday, Saturday and Sun day nights, killed all the cotton up in those counties, necessitating replantng and setting farmers back about two weeks.
 General Buen Dead
 SARATOGA, N. Y, April 21.-General Buell. died this morning.
 Jssse's M.sdeeds.
 CHCAGo, April 2l.--A special to the Times from Kansas City gives an ex- tended interview with Jesse James widow. She tells of their courtship which lasted five years and was opposed of by her parents. who lived near Kan sas Ciry, but contrlved to prevent an elopement This was in 1869, inst after Jesse. who was her cousin, had been de- clared an outlaw with a price on his head. He visited her there, and she him at his mothers in kearney. Once they hid in the yard when PinkertOp was after him. They were married at her sisters in Kearney, on April 2i, 1874; went to Sherman, Texas, making the honeymoon on the proceeds of the Blue 1 frff n. in the Hot Springs robbery. Gads Hill l netted him only g O, and reports about l the proceeds of his robberies were greatly exaggerated They went from Sherman to Dallas, in September. l Mrs. James returned to Kansas City | that winter, while Jesse took part in the Corinth, Miss, and Muncie. Kansas, af- l fairs. They went to F lgefeld. Tern.,and ! Baltimore. Jesse, she says, was not in | the Huntington, W. Va, robbery. They | went back to Nashville, and while there | the Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Otter vile, Mo, rnbberies were perpetrated. | She says Jesse was not in them. He | was dealing in fast horses and lands till | March. During that tune Jesse was a delegate to the Hite Convention which nominated Governor Foster He was in the Glendale and Burlington raids. In March went t0 Kansas City and lived till September first. The Blue Cut rObber, was planned here and the outlaws lived in the house but afterwards moved sev- L. {. Joseph, where he was killed. She says he did not take part Tn the kansas City Exposition robbery nor the stage robberies in Colorado or Texas.
 Compensatirg GaIdsld's Attendants.
 WAsHINCTJx, April 20.-The House Committee to audit the expenses of P es:dent GarfeId's illness has made a report which was reierred to the Com mitiee of the Whole. It allows Mrs. Garfield s50OOO. less any amount the President had received for his salary; Bliss, s35,OOO; Reyburn, s10,OOO; Mrs Edson, SI0W0; Crump, s3,OOO; Secretary of the Navy, S1, 1,SS2; Undertaken Spear, Sl ,S3j; c. \. Jones, of Elberon, sl, ,O92, and other amounts from 50 cents to sl00. It retires Barnes with the rank of maior-seneral, and authorizes tho promotion of Woodward to the rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel.
 Blackburn and Springer of the minority. do not object to the payment for services, but oppose the exorbitant figures and say the amounts paid should come from the unpaid salary of Gar field. They also oppose the retirements and promotions recommended by the majority and moved to recommit the lll.