Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-02-17

against that, would be as if the certif-
! Gates called for dollars same as il; they
come IN for redemption, and il there
were no dollars behind them he would
be compelled TO redeem them in gold, or
with whatever else he might have. 1t
would take about two years to coin the
silver for that purpose. There is not
enough silver on hand for that purposes
because the certificates issued against
silver already coined are up to within
five or six million of the total 1t
would not do to issue certificates on
uncoined seignorage as they would be
greatly discreGited in the public mind.
They would call for silver dollars, but
there would be no silver dollar to redeem
them and it might become necessary
to redeem them in gold if at ALL
WASHINGTON, Feb. Holiday was set
aside by special order ia the house,
for eulogies on the late representative
ONeill Of Pennsylvania and the late
senator Stanford of California, but on
account of the death of representative
Houk, Of Ohio, the order was vacated
till Monday afternoon, and the house
adjourned, out of respect to Houk's
memory.
LONDON, Feb. 10-Bar silver 291S
pence.
BERLIN, Feb. 10. The Russia
German treaty has been signed by both
countries.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.-The
condition of Colonel Jonathan ID.
Stevenson is somewhat improved this
morning, so much so in fact, as to admit
of hope of his recovery.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1O.-The navy
department today, rec we'd the follow
ing cable dated at r JaneiFo, Feb. 9,
from Admiral Benham. This morning
there was a sharp engagement at Arena
Point. This point Is a projection of
land near Nitcheroy and is good place
to land for operations against the latter"
SWANSEA, Feb. 9.-Ten manufacturers
OF tin plate, who employed about
5000 hands, have slosed down de-
spite the passage of the Wilson bill in
| the American house of representatives.
The depression in the tin plate industry
seems to be on the increase.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Git is definitely
ascertained that Voorhees, intends to
report the Wilson bill back to the sem
etc Thursday. He states positively
that the bill will be reported in sub
stantiaily the same form as it passed
the house. There will be an exception,
however, of sugar, iron and coal, which
fea hn z oh -
changes will becUme comparatively i'm
material. The purpose OF Voorhees,
thus made known puts an end to re-
ports that a plan is on foot to con-
struct en- entirely new bill.
SPOKANE, Feb. "a desperate case
of sandbagging occurred last night.
John Lipstoe is at the hospital. hover
ing between life and death. He has
one great cash upon his head and an
| other across his throat, and the blood
that gushes at times from his ears and
mouth shows how fierce was the attack
| UPON him. Lipstoe is an Hungarian
| farmer living nine miles west of this
city. He started home about 10 o'clock.
Two miles beyond the smslter two men
attacked him. At o'clock this morn
ing he " 8 found lying by the road
side in the SNOW pool Of blood around
his head and another thirty feet away.
VICTORIA, B. c., Feb. 9.-The steamer
Estella is supposed to have been wreck
ed off CamOell river, but there is yet
{ o clue, save the fact of floating wreck
age and chopped feed, and of life boat
bearing the name Estella being found
in the water. She was on the way,
,T.,hr
the captain to Haslam's logging camp,
Campbell river, Vancouver island which
she should have reached Sunday night.
Reports from Nanaimo say there was
and explosion on board February 4.
The feeling here is that she was lost
in the tide trips near Cape Nudge,
where the Standard went down two
years ego. The Estella was new and
cost $4,000. No bodies have been re-
covered and no survivors heard of.
CARSON, New, Feb. 9-About 7 p.m
today, when the Virginia and Truckee
mail train was mile out of town, the
express car was smashed in and box
containing the money to pay the wages
Of the section hands along the road to
Reno was demanded of Jack Page, the
Wells, Fargo & Company express mes
senger, at the point of a shot gun.
t is customary to Fay off the men on
the 10th of the month. George Mills.
paymaster of the road, boarded the train
at the depot this evening with TIN box
cOntaiug the money, TO the amount of
not much over $1,000, though the exact
amount could not be learned.
The train moves slowly, going out Of
town. IL is evident that the robber got
sboa the train when it was nearing
the outskirts of town, getting on be-
tween the mail and express cars. When
sbOnt mile out of town the rear door
of the express car was suddenly smash
ed in and man with the shot gun
demanded the tin box of money, which
he knew to be IN the car.
The rObber then took hold of the bell
cord and gave the engineer the signal
to stop the train, which Was done as
soon as possible. After securing the
box, the robber jumped from the train,
starting toward town.