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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
What VIII Tanner Do?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Tanner was
at the pension office at the usual hour
this morning and remained there until
about noon, when he left, going, it was
esesfd, to the White House, but he had
not appeared there up to l o clock.
Gossip as to his successor is now engaging
all attention. To-day eX-COngressman
William Warner of Missouri, eX-cOm
mander-in chief of the q. A. R is be-
lieved to be most likely appointed. He
is said to have lett Kansas City in re-
spouse to Geographic summons to meet
the secretary of the interior. The other
candidates are those named last night:
extension Agent Poole of Syracuse,
n. Y; Gen. Charles F. Brown of Gin
cinnati and Gen. Powell of
Illinois. The impression of yesterday
that Corp. Tanner would be provided
for in some way by the administration
still prevails, but just where cannot be
learned, if indeed, it has been decided.
Western paper published statement
that he would enter upon the practice
of law after leaving the pension office,
but a close friend of the corporal S says
that is entirely gratuitous.
1t is said to-day that Gen. Alger did
not telegraph to the commissioner ad
visng, or urging him not to resign. If
he expressed any view at all upon the
matter it was verbally and to a third
party Governor Foraker's position is
also said to have been misrepresented
by yesterday reports. To-day infOr-
nation on the subject is TO the effect that
he not only did not advise Tanner not to
resign, but gave him advice directly to
the contrary
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13

the official correspondence IN the case,
President Harrison had written letter
to the commissioner conveying in cordial
terms his esteem for Mr.. Tanner. And
l am glad it is so, too, continued sec
retarv Noble. Reference was made to
the published statements of an I'M
friendly feeling between the secretary
and commissioner. Mr.. Noble said that
there had been no break IN ms
personal relations with Mr.. Tanner ana
that there was nothing personal III the
causes which led to the seYerances OF
their official relations. The secretary
said it was entirely due TO differences OF
opinion in regard TO matters OF oIiclai
administration The secretary called at
tention to a letter received this morn
ing from Secretary Tracy 10 contradict
the report of an interview which IS
SAID to have taken place at the "hlte
House. Secretary Noble said that the
story of q wrangle between himself and
Seer etary Tracy was made out of
whole cloth and was true neither in word
nor thought He added that the same
cordial relations existed between himself
and Secretary Tracy as between the other
members of the cabinet.
Commissioner Tanner so far has made
no plans for the future. He Will con-
tInue to live in the district for some time.
He has a lease for year of the residence
in Georgetown which he now occupies,
and it is furnished With furniture which
he brought from his home in Brooklyn.
Speaking about the Tanner case to-
dav, Private Secretary Halford SAID:
''You know that the president Is not
believer in much talk, and don I IKE
to say anything about the pension o1hce,
but there are one or two mlsstatements
that ought to be corrected. No issue
was ever made by Secretary Noble TO the
president as to whether be or Mr.. Tanner
should go. Next there was never any
formal cabinet consultation about the
matter and there was no disagreement
whatever among the members, much
| less any exchange of incivilitIes. Inc
president mad several times during the
summer made suggestions to Mr.. Tanner
which he hoped would have good
effect, as he feels very kindly toward
him personally. The question was not
at all in the presidents mind whether
one of two persons should go.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The presi-
dent to-day made the following appoint
ments:
Richard C. Kerr of Mississippi, to be
register of the land office at Jackson,
Miss.
Joseph w. McClury of Missouri, to be
register of the land office at Spring
field, Mo.
Scott SHETLAND of Washington Terri
tory, to be receiver of public moneys at
Vancouver, w. 7.
Walter L. Stoblers Of Washington Ter
ritory, to be agent for the Indians of the
Yakima agency, IN Washington Terri
tory.
Warren D. Robbins of Idaho, to be
agent for the Indians Of the Nez Perces
agency in Idaho.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
LAREDO.

Mexican National Car and Machine Shops
Growing-New Enterprises on Foot.
Special to the Gazette
LAREDO, TEX. Sept. 2.-The Mexican
National general car and m ichine shops
are being daily augmented by large num-
bsrs of machinists, who are purchasing
Iproperty and improving it.
The board of trade is now in CORE
spondence with parties desiring to locate
wooden and grist mills, and mattress
factory and flour mills.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
John RHafdy, T'p 1'zs'' "A Agent
Held to Answer for Murder.

Special to the Gazette.
SUNSET, Ten, Sept. 12.-Sheriff L.
L. MELONS of this county and his Deputy
7. [. Garrison arrested a section hand
here this evening by the name of John
Ames. Ames is charged with fatally
wounding a man at Beicher night before
last, the man dying last night about 10
o CLOCK, aud Ames will have to answer to
the charge of murder, which from all ac-
counts is u clear case against him. The
officers have taken him to Montague and
will place him in the county Jail.
We are having more rain the past two
weeks than viii be beneficial to the cot
ton crop, and viii doubtless do consider
able damage if it continues very much
longer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
Joshua.
Special to the Gazette.

JOSHUA, TEX, Sept. 12.-Mr. J. W.
Redeker,. formerly of Fort WORTH but
now OF Joshua, and Miss Luella Sum
meEasof Meridian, Bosque county, were
ulsFTied yesterday evening at the resi-
sGence OF the groom S father in joshua
Heavy rains have fallen here in the
last few days, which have checked cot
ton picking. The army worms are COM
hitting depredations on the crops in
some sections, but very serious damage
Is not feared,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
Austin.
snac5.,+ IN the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
AUSTIN, TEX, Sept. 12.-The comp
trolIer to-day bought $4,000 Tarrant
county bridge bonds for the school fund i.
The statistics of Waco just in show q
population estimated at "a 200 and tax
able property at Sc 200 600, against a
population of 1000 in 1870 and a taxable
wealth Of $500 600.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
IT IS ACCEPTED .
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON Sent u. 1850.
To Hon. James Tanner. Commissioner Of Pen

TO Hon James Tanner, Commissioner OF Pen
sions.
DEAR SR-Your letter rendering your
resignation of the office of commissioner
.ot tensions has been received and your
resignation is accepted to take effect on
the appointment and qualification of your
successor. do not think it necessary in
this correspondence to discuss the causes
which have led to the present state of af-
fairs in the pension office. You have
been kindly and fully advised Of my
views upon most of those matters. 1t gives
me pleasure to say that so far as 1 am
advised your honesty has not at any time
been called in question ,Tand beg to re-
new my expression of my personal good
will. Very truly yours,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13

To the President:
The differences which exist between
the secretary of the interior and myself
as to the policy to be pursued IN the ad-
ministration of the pension. bureau have
reached a stage which threatens to en-
barrass you TO an extent which [ feel
should not fall upon you to suffer, and
as the Investigations into the affairs OF
the bureau have been completed and
saxh assured both by yourself and by the
secretary of the interior the result con-
tains no reflection on my integrity as an
individual or as an officer, l herewith
place my resignation in your hands to
take effect at your pleasure, to the end
thatyou may be relieved of any further
embarrassment in the matter. Very
respectfully yours, JAMES TANNER,
Commissioner.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31
The Elixir of Life

Dr. Paul Gregory, writing to the
 Tucson Citizen from Nogales, gives his experience with the elixir, as fol-
 lows:
 A remarkable case has occurred
 here i'll the case of Julius Lindem- fer, an old German resident. Hewas taken three months ago with ty- phoid iever-a we'll defined case.
 After he had been sick two weeks I was called to him. I broke the
 fever, after which he was prostrated with debility, and nothing seemed to do him any good. l kept him on quinine, iron and arsenic, in sol- ution with simple syrup, alternat- ing 1t with solution of strychnine Both of a grain 10 q teaspoonful for he had paralysis of the left side. We all expected him to die at almost any hour. At this stage Dr. Stevens, pr. Chenoweth, the new druggist here, and myself con- cluded to try the last resort-the renowned elixir of life. Getting the articles, and preparing them fresh and carefully, about an ounce was hypOdermically injected in each arm, leg and sides. When this was done his pulse was 100 per minute small and hard, skin dry and un- healthy, respiration 20, temperature S3, and without any feeling in the left side. In one hour his pulse was so per minute. Temperature normal, also respirations and strange to say he could use his left leg, which he did while we were with him, by order of Dr. Stevens -o draw up his left foot, which he readily did, and has continued to improve most rapidly ever since:
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31


 panies, and all equipments now
 subject to car trust liens. All the
 security of old bonds will be pre-
 served so that the new bonds will
 have the collection of all existing
 liens, with the addition of the con-
 pletion and betterment of the pro.
 perties from the new capital pro-
 posed to be raised. The directors
 say that all interests have been
 carefully considered and it is be-
 lieved it will prove equitable to all.
 They appeal to all classes of se- cHrity holders to come forward and
 protect the property from disaster of bankruptcy, and state that the non-success of the proposition will inevitably result in foreclosure with all its attendant misfortunes. - Journal Miner.
 The halter is very close to the necks of the five Apache Indians now in the county jail and convict. ed of murder. One of the slayers of Diehl recited the details of the killing in horribly brutal and boastful way. He told how he sighted his victim from the rocks above and what a splendid shot he made with a pistol, and laughed with fiendish glee at the hellish crime. Like the others convicted of killing farmer Jones' near Dud- leyvilie, he said he shot the white man without any reason or cause, ard only because he wanted to kill somebody. They were all given a fair and impartial trial and were accorded all the benefits and privi- legeS of our somewhat lax laws, but there was not one circumstance in their several crimes that appealed for mercy. The effect of their pun- ishment after so long a time had lapsed since the crimes were perpe- trated, will be most beneficial upon other Indians, who will realize that justice will surely follow the com of crime and that the res- : ervation limits afford dno safe refuge for the fugitives-Florance Enter prise.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31

WE CLIP the following extract from Gov Wolfey's annual report to the Secretary of the Interior:
 Morally and politically they are i (the Mornons) unwelcome and a dangerous element. Morally their teaching and encouraging, if not actually practicing poIygalny is against all established christian law moral or religious.
 Arizona had law disfranchising all who practiced, taught or encour- aged polygamy. The first legisla- tive act signed by my late predeces- sor was the repeal of that act. I request that Congress repeal the re- pealing act and re-establish the above Territorial law"
 We have been resident of Ari- zona for five years, and have watch ed the Mormons closely during that time. From our observation and experience, we are compelled, in justice to tham, to say that they are as class, as good citizens as are to be found in the Territory. It is rare, indeed, one of them is called upon to plead before our courts to a violation of any clause of our penal statutes. They attend strict ly to their own affairs, and meddle not with the business of their neigh bors. When Gov. Wolfley asks for their disfranchisement he seeks to par large class of our best citizens from exercising the right assured | by the constitution to every Amer ican citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31

A hurried examination of the names attached to the petition for Judge Wright s removal shows, that with possibly one exception, there is not name on 1t from Apache county, which represents any worth, moral, social, or financial and many of them are the names of persons who have been charged by the grand juries of this county with viola ions nf the penal statutes of the Terri tory.
 Though q Democrat, died in the wool, having but little confidence in, or respect for Republicans, as such, and their opinions; yet. we are constrained to say, and we say 1t cordially, that the President and Attorney General, in this matter, have ignored partizan politics, con suited the good of the community, and been prompted solely by the healthy motto-"Justitia fiat, ruat conlnn1 D
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31
Territorial Clippings.

Flagstaff Champion states that
 Mr. Humphreys, of Williams, has
 purchased 2,500 head of sheep from
 Ddggs Bros, at the rate of $3 per 1 head.
 The Nogalcs Herald says thlt the average editor regards the ef-
 forts of d delinquent subscriber to be a Christain q good deal as he does the effort of q little child to catch fish with pended pin cast into it's mothers washtub.
 The Tombstone Prospector says The news of the slaughter of Mex ican troops by Yaqui Indians in Sonora has been confirmed. The latter caught two companies Of soldiers in swimming and killed them all while in the water. Four thousand troops have been ordered to the front.
 Ire StOckman reports that the work of boring for artesian water, at a point on the Dos Cabezas road six miles east of Wilcox, is about to be begun by Messrs. Wilcox and Dumont, under agreement with cit izens of Wilcox. Those interested are sanguine that the experiment will prove successful.
 The report was received here last night that Indians scouts on the San Carlos reservation, last We'd nesday, shot and killed an Indian and badly wounded another who resisted arrest. A Chiricahua re- negade, who was among the num- Der wanted, made his escape.-Sil- yer Belt.
 Twelve indictments have been re- turned into court by the United l States grand jury, against four ol the parties DOW in jall charged with the Wham robbery. Three indict- ments each were against Warren Follett, Lyman Follett, Thos. N. Lamb and David Rogers. Tucson Citizen,
 The following named persons were convicted at the present term # the District Court, and sen enced to the Penitentiary at Yuma or the term of one year each Sam. Tel Turner, burglary; ; E. II. Vii jams: grand larceny; and Fong An h. grand larceny. They were aken to Yuma last Wcdneaday.-I Florance Alta.
 Adam Berg came in from Lower Sulphur Spring valley last evening. 1e reports that the roundup in that { ectian will be finished within a 'eek. Stock is looking we'll and $ he outlook for the coming winter i
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31
IngratitUde.
coelunl.

healthful heat of the body only tt
 destroy that body by the viciou.
 use of its poisonous fangs, is the
 usual symbol ot ingratitude but i
 will not do justice to an illustration
 of it recently had in this county.
 It is quality so despicable in 2
 man, and what we are about to re
 late is such an extreme illustration
 of 1t, that we almost lose our pa
 tience in thinking, or writing of it.
 About seven years ago, when he was
 practically raupar, c. E. Cooley,
 was taken up, given partnership
 in the cattle business by Henry
 Tuning. For much ot the inter-
 vcning time up to about year ago,
 he was carried along, tolerated. per
 mitted to hang around, by the
 Hunings. When, however. he ceased to have even the semblance of usc-
 fQlness, became a positive dead weight and drawback, owing to his conduct and habits, and in addition became personal V objectionable. he was gently turned loose, permitted to dfift for himself. and was given $10.O00 in cash-that being 5000 more than he ever owned, earned, or dreamed of possessing.
 When R. E. Morrison failed in his effort to trick the Mormon pop ulatinn of St. Johns with his little green ticket dodge, and his pet An, tonic Gonzales was beaten for school trustee, one Joseph Hollis ter was turned out of the St. Johns pubic school, and like Cooley, be- gan to drift for himself. When he had no place to lay his head-was drifting from pillar to post-thc same Henry Tuning gave him the position of school teacher at Show Low, at fair salary.
 A special agent of the United States Interior Department subse- quently made adverse reports against Tuning for having 1,5C0 acres of public land unlawiully fenced, which dwindIed into about thirty acres enclosed only be- cause it was necessary to make a continuous fence; asked the De- pertinent to cancel his homestead | entry, and the entries of about six other claims which Tuning & Cool ey had bought from the original en- trvman.
 An examination of this agents original report showed that every piece of information-every vague lntlmation of a suspiciOn-in all of these matters emanated from Cooley notwithstanding the fact, that he was a party to, and beneficiary of, every one of those purchases, and in some instances, managed and completed the sale and purchase done.
 He went so far in one case. owing o his supreme influence over Chas. an original entryman. as to persuade Strader to repudiatc all of he statements contained in his original final proof-induced him O occupy the self-stultilying posi- ion of having committed perjury It his final proof, or lied in his re- ent testimony.
 Hollister, 10 pay Tuning for his ,indness to him, jumped his home tcad entry, on which he swore here was at least $6,OQ0 worth of This was also done nder Coolcy's instigation. The : Register and Receiver, promptly de- :, ided adversely to Hollister, and {. aid among other things. "lhat ' tuning had done more than the q INV required him to dn." We will C hatch this worthy pair against all | omers, !
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31

some vague notion that 1t was GU
 riously shaped missile used by tn
 natives of Australia, possibly als'
 by a local tribe of Indians.
 We remember many years ago t
 have seen and heard a play calleC
 "A Boomerang" and the moral ant
 point of 1t was, that some mischie
 makers, for purposes of persona
 villainy, circulated a vicious scan dal as to man and woman, which for time, almost wrecked the live! of both. But truth crushed to tht earth arose, and then the scandal mongers were swallowed up and de stroyed by the maelstrom which re suited.
 That is our conception of a boom erang. A weapon, which, in the hands of an adept, is of great eff ciehey, but used unskilfully by q fool, Will fly back, and punish tn, fool for isfolly.
 The recent so-callcd charges against the Hon. James II. Wright Chief Justice of this Territory, filed with the Attorney General at Wash. ington, we are reliably informed will prove to be "boomerang" up on the valiant knights who charged Of course, here, where they were known, the statements of thesC characters would pass by the hon est man as an idle wind, which he would respect not; but, it seems, that away off wonder in Washing ton, the stench from these carrioE penetrated the air, and stunk in the nose of the Republican President and Attorney General, both of whom are gentlemen themselves, and ap- preciate that quality in officials, even though they are Democrats. Before Judge Wright's arrival there, the appointing power had been flooded with letters, petitions and affidavits from responsible and re- liable private citizens, from county officials in Apache, Mohave and Yavapai counties, many of them unsolicited by Judge Wright, or his friends, signed as numerously by Republicans as Democrats, and some of them going to the extent of saying, that his removal, at this time, would be a public calamity.
 Upon his arrival, cordial recep- tion was offered the Judge, and be- fore he opened his lips, was inform ed, that even when the clouds of these ex parte attacking affidavits were the darkest, no suspicion against his integrity ever entered the Attorney Generals mind. When he was seen, talked to, and his nu- merous proofs read, he was compli- mented on his record, and told to return to his post of duty, and con- i tinue the good work.
 The tripartite conspiracy was led by T. $. Bunch and R. E. Morrison of Apache county, guided, inspired and controlled by E. NJ. Sanford. of Yavapai county. Bunch's motive was simon pure cussedness-his in- stinctive aversion to anything, or person, of responsibility and de- cency. Morrison, in addition to Bunch s course of action, bad this further reason for his conduct, he feared that the painful necessity would be forced upon the Judge of sending him tn the penitentiary for some of his official or other delin- quencies. Sanford gratuitously in suited the Judge some time since. md the Judge, we respectfully sub- nit made the mistake of personally him, instead of sending him to jail, and he has been trying Io get even.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-10-31

HoN. c. R. DRAKE received the appointment of Receiver of Public moneys at Tucson. There being no honor in this thing, and, unless there is something substantial, we have no congratulations to offer friend Drake.