Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-21

I , had dealings with Staynor, which haC } resulted in the worse for Meyer to the
 tune of about S100O00 Staynor was in J debted for about half that sum to Meyer and after going into insolvency com
 promised the debt, leaving balance O many thousands of dollars unpaid
 When Staynor and Ives became squeez ed for funds Staynor thought himself oi a novel and effective expedient for re capturing old Meyers confidence anC
 making him contributor to the scheme
 in which he had embarked with the
 thieving Napoleon. After drawing or
 the mineral range fund of which Ives d
 Co. had made themselves depOsitors, i'm
 medlately after they had got control oi
 the road, Staynor presented himself tC
 Meyer Tn high moral attitude. He de
 clared to Meyer that he had come tc
 perform what he considered his duty as
 christian and an honest man; that he
 was now happily in funds sufficient to
 discharge the last cent of his obligations
 and that 1t was for that praiseworthy
 purpose he had called. Meyer from that
 time on gave implicit confidence to all of
 StaynorS declarations and was soon per
 suaded by him to give his aid to the syndicate formed by Ives and StaynOr.
 He agreed to receive from them when purchased and brought to New York, a total of six thousand shares of Cincinn- att, Hamilton Dayton common stock at
 an average price not to exceed 115 per
 cent. and to carry 1t for them. receiving
 ) per cent. for the use of his money. an
 arrangement which was practically q
 loan by Meyer to that extent on the
 stock, since 1t was agreed that Ives and
 Staynor should cast vote upon that at
 all elections of the road and at the
 stockholders meetings. The agreement
 was carried out by Meyer to the letter
 The stock was held in his name during
 all the existence of the swindling firm
 of H. $. Ives & O., and when the ineviU- able exposure and crash came it was
 still so held. The exposure of Ives and
 Staynor's unscrupulousness and daily
 mention of his own name in connection
 with them, and his keen sense of dis grace drove Meyer to his grave in a few months. Within three months after ' Meyers death, there was put into oper- | ation through Ives agency the scheme
 to impOverish Meyers estate and to open
 up to himself and his confederates that
 mine of several million dollars.
 Julius Dester, president of the Gin cinnaJi, Hamilton & Dayton Road, was seen tonight concerning the Suns story regarding Ives. Dester said: T saw the document referred to when it was in the possession of T. Fl. Ramsay, of Cincinnati, attorney for the Meyer es- | tate. noticed the signature particu- | larly, but don't care to say anything | about the story. In my opinion the en- | tire story came from WOodruff's lips. At any rate the story is second or third hand"
 DENVER, Sept. 1.-The Republicans Santa Fe special says: In the state con stitutiOnal convention to-day, the dis cussion of the article submitted by the committee on the judicial department was continued. The convention is pret- ty evenly divided on the chief questions at issue. which is, whether the supreme judges shall be elected by the people or appointed by the governor. It now looks as If there would be reconsidera. ton of the clause relating to Irobate and county courts, and possibly com promise, whereby the supreme judges shall be first appointed and afterwards elected every two years. When the statehood movement took formal shape fast winter ninetenths of the popula- tiOn favored it, until the legislature adopted plan of apportionment, which by many was alleged to be unfair to- those counties accustomed to sending up Democratic majorities. On this ac- count many democrats have been luke warm in their feelings on the subject, but the action of the committee to-day in reporting in favor of an apportion- ment based on on the registration list. is by the majority considered just. The convention will endorse this apportion ment, and should its labors result in the formation of strong liberal constitu tion, it is more than probable that, re- gardless of party, the people will sup port 1t. At any rats the adjustment of this question practically wipes out any home opposition to statehood that may have arisen since the last legislature. It is probable that after the constitution is formed it will be laid first before con gress for its approval, with the request that an enabling act be passed, before the question of adopting it be submit ted to the people. There are reasons peculiarly local in character why such mode of procedure would not be wise.
 CHICAGO, September 14-Betweer eight and ten thousand people rushed from the Exposition building tonight, falling over each other down stairs, and from the gallery, and many jumping through windows in their hurry to es- cape. A fire had started in one of the big booths near the center of the huge structure and the glare of the flames and the crash of the plate glass caused panic. Men, women, and children joined in the mad rush for the exits, which were fortunately numerous enough to prevent fatal rushing. With i in five minutes the excited thousands of | people were safe outside the structure, and few minutes later the flames were 1 extinguished. One-fourth of the inte- l rior of the exposition is in ruins.
 HURON, $. D., September lit has been raining here since Thursday night, 1 over three inches of water having fallen. | A like report comes from all points in | South Dakota. The result is believed | to be a great corn crop next year, it be- | ing the wettisU September for fifteen years
 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1.-The Times DenOcTdJ MeFTIClidL, NlSSlSSl ppl Specldl | says. The most recent reports of the | race troubles in Jasper county show they are assuming larger proportions. On Sunday night last crowd of masked men congregated at a small Negro church, seven miles west of Baulding, and held mock service and fired the building. Near the church was negro shock house and this also was fired The dwelling house of Alfred Lossiter and another negro were also visited, and after a discharge of firearms causing much alarm. these two dwellings were also fired. The dwelling house of Mr. Burnett, white man, was also visited Mir. Burnett and family were much abused. but no bodily harm was offered them. Several negroes have been arrest ed in Newton county for melting the trouble. Two of them confessed there