Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-12-26

back u. return certificates tO prevent th
 certificate being sold. He says; II my opinion the law needs but fel amendments. and those of minor charaC ter. Ir conclusion, I wish to say, i
 my opinion, the restriction net has no
 been a failure. as it IS so often asserted
 but to the contrary, it has fully realize,
 the reasonable expectations of it
 friends"
 San Francisco, Dec. l9.-AssociateC
 press Yokohama advices give particular
 of the arrest of Calvin Pratt, a forge
 who secured about fourteen thousand
 dollars from the Pacific bank of Sar
 Francisco, and who IS wanted in Denver
 for similar offence. He was arrested
 as soon as he placed foot ashore at Yok-
 ahama. He was readily identified from
 the description forwarded by Chief of
 Police Crowley of San Francisco. The
 day after his capture he was examined
 before Japanese public prosecutor, but
 refused to answer any questions except
 to sGy that his name was Philip Chet-
 wind. notwithstanding the fact that he
 travelled under the name of John Moran.
 In the hand valise which he carried was found a medal in which the initials .C. 1" were inscribed. A second examinR- ton was to be held Dec. ,, when the prisoners baggage, in which money was supposed to be hidden, would be opened.
 A. DavydOn, Russian minister to Ja- pan, died in Tokio Dec. 3d from apo plexy. Among the funeral cortege were two regiments of the Japanese Imperial guard, in accordance with a special order from the Emperor.
 San Francisco, Dec. 19.-The case of Jung An Lung, on appeal from the U- ;. district court to She U. s, circuit court, was submitted to Judge Sawyer this afternoon. Lung was a former res ident of this country, but left for China after having obtained return certificate which he claimed was stolen from him in China. Subsequently he returned here, ard a writ of hRbeas corpus was sued out in his behalf in the U. $. district court. The district attorney intervened and denied the jurisdiction of the court on three grounds: first, the Chinaman was not restrained of his liberty, because be could go any where in the world ex- cept the United States; second, all such cases come under the jurisdiction of the port collector; third, secondary evidence relating to the Chinaman's prior resi- dence was inadmissIble when the law prescribes the certificate as the sole means uf identification. The plea was overruled by U. s. District Judge Hoff man, and Judge Sawyer today affirmed the judgment of the lower court. He concluded the decision by saying: "In order to present all these points and ob- tain ruling on them l shall sustain Judge Hoffman anu let the case go to the supreme court on these points" District Attorney Hi.born immediately gave notice of appeal. This is a case on which much congressional anti Chinese legislation will depend: hence it is con- sidered of great importance.
 Wikesbarre, Pa, Dec. 19.--It IS defi- nitely decided that the accident at slope No. l, Susquehanna Coal Co.,, at Nanti- coke, was caused by the caving in of roof and the rushing in of large body of water which had accumulated on the surface from natural drainage. This water brought with it a vast quantity of coal dirt, which blocked gangways and passages, and cut of the escape of number of men in the upper left. The cave was caused by a blast. Of the men now in the whether they are alive or dead cannot be told. If they have been able to obtain fresh air they are undoubtedly alive and there is good hope of recovering them. Measures for the relief of those still in the mine were begun as soon as the other men had been brought to the surface. Two gange of men wero set to work excavat- ing from different points to where it is believed the men are imprisoned. A party, 50 strong, commenced work from the foot of the air shafts. This is the nearest point to the place where the men are, but great difficulties are encountered. The rescuers are working with the great est possible energy tonight; the gangs are relieved every few hours and sixty men have been constantly at work since last evening at 6 o'clock. This evening it was believed they had penetrated to within 90 or 60 feet of where the i'm prisoned men are. Another party are working from the direction of the slope towards the same point. They have far ther to go but have better facilities. There is little ground for hope, but the efforts will not be abandoned until the fate of the imprisoned men is determin- ed. Officials of the company state that there are 2i men in the fatal slope, not % as IS generally understood. They say further, the disaster was precipitated by the collapse of the passage way of the tunnel to the extent of , feet, caus- ing depression which brought down into the tunnel 20 foot vein of lake quick sand. By the vacuum created by this depression, and through heavy tissure Tn the roof mass of culm esti- mated at 50,OO0 tons with contents of pond oi water over head containing over 2O,00O,000 gallons of water poured in flooding both No. and ? slopes and choking up the tunnel and carrying with 1t 52 miners who were at work there. Of these men 24 were, in all probability, caught before they could gain the chambers that fetched upward, and they are supposed to be in the quick sand and culm.
 San Francisco, Dec. 19.-Monsignor Capers work, "The Pope Vicar of Christ, Head of the Church" has been issued. The subject is one on which the author has lectured ID all the principal cities and towns in the United States.
 DALLAS, Tex, Dec. I9.-News WAS re- eelyed here at 20 this morning from Montgomery county that tbe greatest excitement prevails there over the as- sembling of several hundred armed men who determined 10 lynch the negro Jackson who, few days ago murdered the family of Robert Smith after having robbed the house. The sheriff has the nal errraw.faa L. L.. T.----