Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-04-20

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 per month. This action taken in accor-
 dance with the act of August 4, 1888,
 will favorably affect the pensions of
 some six or eight hundred disabled vet
 erans.
 FLAGSTAFF, April 11.-Lewis Wolfiey,
 the newly appointed governor, was hung
 in effigy here tonight amid great excite
 ment. The citizens of northern Arizona
 are said to be indignant over his veto of
 the proposed new county bill creating
 the county of Coconimo, which was ve- toed yesterday.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, April LA posse
 under U. S. Deputy Marshal Warnek
 and Revenue Agent Brow, captured the
 moonshiners' stronghold on Carr's Creek, near Hindman, Kentucky. The leaders of the outlaws had been warned, and had escaped. Five men were cap | tured and four illicit distilleries in the
 neighborhood were located.
 l Los ANGELES, April 1.-The second | trial of Arthur Weyerman for the mur-
 der of his brother. Bernard Weyerman,
 ended in the superior court this after
 noon in his acquittal The jury in his
 first trial disagreed.
 Los ANGELES, April 11.-Division Su-
 perintendent Beale of the Atlantic & Pa
 cific, who arrived this afternoon says the
 report of an accident near Peach Springs,
 Arizona, last Monday, has absolutely no foundation, and that no one was killed ! or injured as reported.
 | WASHINGTON, April 11.--Second As sistantant Postmaster General to-day
 began opening bids for carrying the U. S. mail on about 1900 stage and steam
 boat routes in the several states and | territories. About 25,OO0 bids were re- | ceived.
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April 11.-Four young children of Sebastian Merdam, a German farmer, while playing in the | field ate some roots of wild parsnips, | which had been plowed up. Three of them soon died in terrible agony, but the other, little girl, is still living and may recover. Copyrighted by the Asso:istec Press.
 APIA, Samoa, March 3O-The little group of Samoa and Navigator Islands which few months ago attracted the attention of the civilized world by force of civil combat between two native na- tions and the consequent possibility of serious complications between the great powers of the United States and Ger many, has been visited by disaster more appalling than all the wars ever ever waged here. In attempting to effect a solution of the Sa- moan difficulty and to protect their respective interests on the island the United States and Germany have lost | nearly 15O lives and S3,O00,O00 worth of property.
 The most violent and destructive hur- | ricane ever known in the South Pacific passed over the island March 16 and + and as result fleet of six war ships | and ten other vessels were ground to | atoms on the coral reefs in the harbor or | thrown on the beach in front Of the little city of Apia, and 142 officers and l men of the American and German navies sleep for ever under the reefs or lie buried in unmarked graves thousands of miles | from their native land. The United States frigate Trenton, the flagship of the Pacific squa17es- -wkich arrived here from Panama, March 11th, lies within a stone's throw of the American consulate | a total wreck. The United States war ship Vandalia which arrived from San | Francisco February g, is buried out of sight between the Trenton and the shore. Her scattered freight and smokestack rise from the water to mark the spot | where the gallant vessel struck and lay | for twelve hours before the awful cur rent of water swept four officers and | thirty nine men from her decks and rig ging Her commander, Captain c. M. | Schoonmaker was among the first who | perished in the waves. The other off cers who met their death were Paymas- | %or II IT nly | E. Sutton of marine corps and Pay Clerk John Roach. The United States steam CT Nipsip lay for several days along side the Vandalia with her bow high on the beach and within few feet of the waters edge The vessel was thought | to be badly damaged, but was hauled of
 few days after the storm and is the } only war ship afioat in the harbor. The | officers and crew are living aboard. All of the Nipsic's officers are safe but she lost five men by the swamping of boat,
 and two others who jumped overheard were also drowned. The American
 men-of- war were swept ashore almost at
 the same point
 It was on the little gunboat Eber
 that the greatest loss of life occurred. | The Fiber had compliment of six of | ficers and seventy-siX men. Five men were ashore during the storm. When | the vessel struck the reef she sank com | pletely out of sight and moment later | there was not vestige of her to be seen. Every man on board was lost except one
 officer, Lieut. Gaedeke, and four sailors. ] The other five officers and sixty six men were either killed instantly when the vessel was crushed to pieces
 or were drowned in the roaring torrent of water that broke upon the reef A
 small part of the Eber's prov was after wards washed ashore near the American
 vessels This and a few piecies of wreckage near the point where she struck are the only portions of her that
 have ever been seen since the moment she went down. Just on the edge of the | reef about 100yards west of the Trenton
 is all that remains of the Adler, the flag ship of the German squadron. The Adler was washed on top of the reef and
 turned completely over on her side. She
 has remained Tn that position since and is entirely out of water, nearly every man
 aboard was thrown into the water when
 she struck but only twenty were drown
 ed, and all the officers were saved. The
 mud flat about quarter of a mile east
 
 storm was raging and the vessels fight
 ing for their lives, the Olga came in col
 lison with nearly every man of war in
 the harbor and is badly damaged above
 the water line. It is believed that she can
 be lowed off. No lives were lost on the
 Olga. The only other man of war in the
 harbor was the British corvette, Canti-
 lope, which arrived here in February.
 Her machinery was very powerful and
 she was capable of steaming at the rate
 of sixteen knots an hour. She narrowly
 escaped going ashore at the same place
 with the Adler, but just as she was
 about to strike the reef she let go her anchors and in the face of terrible wind sailed out of the harbor and put to sea.
 The merchant vessels which were wrecked were principally small crafts Nearly all of them were thrown on the