Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-08-22

le berland district have been suspended g for some time SIX thousand men ar' l: tbrown out of employment by the stop It page of the works, and large number o of them have earned nothing for a year h Hundreds of families of iron workers
 are on the verge of starvation. Sc a serious has the situation become that 2 the authorities have decided to start | public works to give employment to r many of the idle men.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. I5.-The following r appointments as United States guagers, v in California, have been made: John
 R:ordan, James Mcclure, San Francisco; John Midley, Sacramento; Wm. Do- boyne, Santa Rosa; Edward WSil. Elk 3 Grove; Charles Merrill, Placerville. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 15.-George , Mueller, who issued the alliance wheat
 circulars, says:
 "We have recelved replies from the , secretaries Of the alliance ip southern
 Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
 and Kansas, all telling us the alliance
 voted favorably on the suggestion. Not
 an unfavorable answer was received" LEwIsvILLE, Ky, Aug. 15,-The
 Frank Ingram. Lumber Co. made an
 assignment today; liabilities about S5O,- 900; assets nearly the same.
 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15,-rhe failure of
 John Thysop, au extensive operator on
 change, is announced today.
 CHICAGO, Aug. 15,-Stickney, the well
 known railroad man, has disposed of his tract of 655 acres of land to twenty | packers of this city, not including Ar
 mour Swift and Morris, and they pro-
 pose to open immense stock yards on l the new location. SAN FRANCIsCo, Aug. 14--Judge c. G. | w. French died at the Lick House last evening, aged Il years. He was B native | of Massachusetts, but came to Califor- mia in 1850. He was justice of ArIzona from 1875 to 1884. NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The last mail | fror2 Panama brings copy of the mani | fssto issued by the executive council l of the Chilian revolutionlsts of June | | 10th last The manifesto accuses Balmaceda of | lying when he stated that men-of-war | | Of every nation were in pursuit. of iL | | surgents' vessels and had captured | | .ome of them. The acts of Balmaceda, | both military and civil, gre mentioned | | in sarcastic manner and the manifesto | | concluded: Tt only now remains to | attack the tyrant In his own den, and | the hour draws near. The dictator con- templating the fate that threatens hls | essayed need of intrigue to delay the | evil day and proposed armistice to the | ol rtx hn can admiral leaders of the revolution is | rejected with contempt. We ask our friends to have entire confidence in the | outcome"
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The acting secretary of the treasury has directed | that the CEinaman named Chang, alias Woo Lee, who was convicted at New Orleans of unlawful entry to the United States, be delivered to the collector of customs at San Francisco for his de- parture to China. The collector so in structed has submitted to the United States attorney the questian of the lia bility of the steamship Hutchinson for aiding in the immigration of the China man.
 TRoY, N. r., Aug. 15.-Rev. D. Hop-
  men of the Protestant Episcopal church, is dead. He was aged seventy-one.
 BERyE, Aug. 15.-The International Geographical Congress is closed. London is decided upon as the place for the next meeting.
 ST. CLOUD, Mrnn., Aug. 15.-The late storm proved to have been more serious than at first supposed. All the corn and standing grain in Its path was utterly ruined, immense hail storms crushing them to the ground. Grain in shocks also suffered severely. Men in the fields are badly bruIsed. In some places the hail was from fifteen to twenty inches deep. No estimate can be made of the dam age.
 WnLMAR, Minn Aug. 15.-The hail storm which passed over the eastern portion of this country cut down stand ing grain. The storm rooted up trees and broke down sheds.
 KANSAS CITY, Aug. 15.-The Stars Joplin, Missouri, special says special meeting of ths Southwest Missouri and South west <Kaus as Lead and Zinc Asso- citation wIll be held in Joplin next Mon day to take action on a letter received from A. V. Weisse, the gentleman who was sent to Belgium and Germany as the agent of the association to bring the facts concerning our zinc industry to the attention of the smelters of these countries. MT. Weisse in his letter says that the smelters whom he has met are dumbfounded at what he has shown them. The analysis of the sample of ore e, ,cha a1 Inv fn here and there over the district showed | that the ore ran from 54 to 61 per cent metallic zinc. It was with great difficulty that MT. Weisse convinced the foreigners that the samples represented are ordinary commercial ore. They said that the profits that would accrue from the scientific smelling of 1t under ordinary circumstances would be more than satisfactory.
 Mr. Weisse has asked the association | to get through freight rates to German ports and quote to him as soon as possi- ble, in order that the smelters shall be able to estimate the cost of our ores to them delivered at the smel;ers. The opening Of the new market, it is believed, will bring about a very considerable sd- vance in the prices Of ores.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-The bark Nicholas Thayer, which arrived last | eight rom Kodiak with a cargo of salmo,, brought down 127 fishermen who struck because the canneries re- fused to take all the salmon caught. the men claiming this was the agreement
 under which they shipped. IL is claimed by those interested in the canneries that l the agreement was to take 72,000 fish | per day and half they accepted over this would have to be thrown away and the | canneries could not stand tine loss. The | | fishermen claim that the run was a com. | paratively poor one at the beginning of | the season. It is expected the strike !
 will have an important effect on the | | output of the Kodiak canneres this | seas Dn HIS but sixteen fishermen remain l | iu that vicinity. The canneries will en- l aaar-ar ta E b tha