Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-09-01


 te-' skins, the seasons catch on the S., George and St. Paul islands. She also had 6 number of otter pel.s aud other fur. The value of the entire cargo IS es- timated at two million dollars. The revenue cutters Thetis and Bear st lsst
 reports were in the Artic and all on
 bosrd we'll No seizures have been
 made this season though 1t IS reported
 by the Alssks commercial company that
 several British schooners have been talk
 ing seals within the prescribed limits.
 MORALES, August 29.-Ofieers arrived
 this evening from SonOrs with Manuel
 verdugo, supposed to be the murderer
 of Louis Cohn, dry goods merchant of
 this city. VerduRo was arrested on .
 telegram st Ortiz Station near Gusy- mas Monday last and the evidence is
 very strong against him, Bloody cloth
 ing ths same that wss worn by the pris-
 ener the day before the murder was
 found in the room occupied by him
 while here and which be left without
 turning over the key. There is strong
 talk of lynching when the prisoner is
 turned over to American officers
 WAsHISGToE, August 29.-Asa Will
 lisms, concluding his testimony before
 the house committee on fisheries to-day
 said ID the whole time the Alaskan com-
 pany, of which he is a mem Der, had the
 privilege of taking seals the company
 had paid over eight million dollars to the govern msnt or & sum exceeding by
 over 6 million the price paid for Alasks
 with Seal island included. To open the | fisheries to all corners would be to ruin the fur seal fisheries in s short time.
 Committee adjourned subject to call.
 DEs MoISHs, August 29.-Gso. O. He
 berlina was nominated for secretary of state and Daniel J. Ocdenstein. of Mont
 gomery, was nominated for auditor. The platform adopted endorses the national platform and the nominees of the St. Louis convention. oongrstulstes the people of Iowa on the passage of the Mills tsrif bill for the reduction of taxes on neceesaries and deIounces the republicans for preaching 6 new doc trine which means a continuance ot the existing war tar The fifth plank in the platform says that the democratic party now ss heretofore declares itself opposed to prohibition and strongly condemns the same ss inlurions alike to our busi- ness interests and the cause of temper ancs. A resolution of sympathy with Gen. Sheridsn's family vas adapted.
 WAsHIsGToS, August 29.-Repre- sentative Ford's committee on contract labor returned to Washington this ev- ening. Ford said hs did not think a report would be made until the entire | investigation was completed. There was yet important testimony to be ts- ken, but what the committee has already | gathered convinced them thst the laws rslstins to contract labor have been 1 violated 10 an alarming eItent, becsuse | of lack of machinery to enforce them. | Another fact is that naturalization ps- | pers are being issued trsudulenily to | sn alarming extent. Also, that New | England fishermen about whose rights. | said Mr. Ford. we have heard SC much | are really made up of aliens 10 the ex- tent Of 70 per cent. The committee has I not yet agreed as to what legislstion It will recommend, but if each alien were to declare bis intention of emigrsting to | America at least one month before do- ing SO 1t would enable the nesr-Amer- icsn consul, Mir. Ford thought. to sscer- tain If man was a criminal or psuper, and some of the committee favored 6 head tax of one hundred dollars.
 SAS FRANCISCO, August 29-The will of the late Chss. Crocker was filed iD the Probate court this afternoon. IL | was eIecuted Msy 2nd, 1887. Mrs. Mary A. Crooker, widow of the deceased, IS appointed sIecutHiK- The petition for probate states the estate is worth some thing over tweuty-ive and . quarter million dollars. Real estate S2.S0O,- OOO; stocks sLd bonds Sl2,000,0O0; &C., counts fl ,5O0,OO0; promisory notes $6,- 6O0,0O0; cash S50O. 900. The tsstator declares the entire estAte is common property and his wife is entitled to hslt. In addition she is bequesthed two resi- dencss with furniture, etc, one in this city and the other in Sacramento. A number of relatives are left amounts ranging from ten thousand to thirty thousand. Provision is also made for family servants. TeststoF mentions the names of G number of relatives to whom he leaves nothing ss he had sd- vsnced during life all he intended be- ouesthing them. To his son Geo. Crocker he leaves all he had advanced tO him for his business. One quarter of the residue is left 10 the two sons Charles and Vim. Fl, Crocker and the remainder IS to be invested for his daughter, Mrs. II, B. Alexander of New York.
 WAsHIsGToS. August 30,-A substitu- tute for the Wilson retaliation bill wss reported to the house thIs afternoon and notice gwen that it vili be called u2 Satur1 Jay. The substitute provides that the president may by proclamation, sus- pend transportation across territory of the United States of goods in bond, i'm ported or exported. from any foreign { country from or to British dominions in North America. The bill also provides { that the president may issue . procla- nation whenever he IS satisfied there are any disoriminstiyes in the use of the Willard or other Can sdisn can sls. where upon the bills shall be collected upon every foreign vessel and her cargo pass ing through Ssult, St. Maria or St. { Clair fats canal. There was no division ( ln the Committee upon the ordering of ( a favorable report upon the substitute. {
 Washington, sAug s0-The committee ( on foreign affairs to-day received the re port of the subcommittee on the retail ! Istion bill. The chairman said ths. in lhese questions the committee had al ' ways acted without regard to partisan .hip and he hoped it would continue to . io 60. The committee unanimously ( adopted the amendment to the bill re- ported by the subcommittee. It is un- [ the bill will be called up for . action on Saturday next, ECHIcAoo Aug. 30-This morning loot pad vsylsid Ford SohunemsD, 6 we'll knoEn grocery man and when he 1 attempted to defend himself was shot | md died. The murderer escaped, The [ pockets of the murdered man were rlfi- 2 ed, Besides his money be had a gold watch, diamond ring, stud and scarf pin III of which were taken, The men ran . ,vsy immediately afterwards. There 6 s no clue to the murderer.
 WAsHISGToS Aug. 90-Word has been 2 received from Eagle Rock, Va. Co the 2 .ffeot that the President will not return ' o Washington until Saturday. WAsHISGros Aug SO-The senate re- s tuned consideration of the President's a etaliation message this morning snd s ieorge proceeded with his speech be- D 'un yesterday. He denied the correct less of the assertion by Edmunds ibs, ii