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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
FOUND GUILTY.
Judge Thomas Lays Down the Law to
 Train SteaIers.


 Train Stealers.
 LEAvENwORTH, Kan, June 14.-Judge Thomas, of the United States district court, found Capt. John A. Ralston, Color Sergeant Frank E. Woods and Commissary Ed Hart, leaders of the band of Coxeyites who seized Union Pacific train at Watkins, Col, and were captured at Ellis, Kan, guilty of contempt in that they interfered with a road in the hands of receivers.
 It was argued by the attorney for the defendants that there was no contempt of court inasmuch as the defendants were guilty of no actual violence and had no notice that the railroad was in the possession of. receivers, but were merely stealing a ride.
 Judge Thomas held that the actions of these ''commonwealers" in boarding a Union Pacific train in large numbers over the objections of the train men and in insisting upon riding on the train after being ordered off was equivalent to actual force and consti- tuted an interference with the opera tion of trains in the hands of the re- ceivers which could not be tolerated and that these acts amounted to a con tempt of the court. The sentence of the court will be announced hereafter.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
MICHIGAN MINERS GO OUT.
CONDITION OF PEACHES.
They Will Practically Be Failure
 Apples Promising,

Apples Promising.
 WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The report of the statistician of the department of agriculture for June says that glance at the per centages of condition ot peaches on June 1 is sufficient to show how disastrous the season has been thus far. The returns at this date relate principally to bloom in the more northern districts, and where conditions are high it would be toe early to form an opinion as to crop re. suits. As fruit does not recover from low condition early in its history, as other products do, it is safe to construe the extremely low figures into practi. cal failure of the crop.
 The condition for 1894 in the states producing the commercial crop, as com pared with 1893, makes poor showing for this year, as follows: New Jersey, 1893, 1O4; 1894, 95. Delaware, 1893, 93; 1894, 15. Maryland, 1893, 93; 1894, 21. Virginia, 1893, 63; 1894, 15. Georgia, 1893, S2; 1894, 2. Ohio, 1893, "A; 1894, 43. Michigan, 1893, s6; 1884, TO- California, 1893, S3; 1894, S5
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
ADDITIONAL DIsrATCHEs.

SENATOR QUAY was before the in- Ivestigating committee on the l6th and told them that he had bought sugar stock for speculation and would do so lagain.
 EX-CoNGREssMAN Thomas Bayne, of Pennsylvania, committed suicide at Washington on the 16th. Dependency, caused by consumption, was the cause.
 ADMINISTER WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS died on the 17th, at Tea Neck, N J., from typhoid fever, followed by meningitis.
 NEWS of collision in the sea of Azov
 between the Creek bark Egyptus and the Russian steamship Maroussia has been received. Both vessels sank. Four of the crew of the Egyptus and Itwenty-two of the crew of the Marcus sia, including all the officers, were drowned.
 AT the session of the supreme lodge of Workmen in San Francisco on the l6th, Atlanta, Ga., was chosen as the place for the next convention. A pro- posed new ritual for the order was de- feated A ritual for the use of the grand lodge Degree of 'Honor was adopted.
 A FIRE occurred in an abattoir at Jersey City, N. J., and 5000 live sheep and lambs were cremated. Loss, some- where about $500, ,000 insurance, about lone-third. Seven hundred men are thrown out of employment by the fire.
 TIE American whaler bark James Allen was wrecked off Atka island, 200 miles west of Alaska. All the crew
 but two are missing.
 TIE total number of deaths result ing from the explosion that occurred in a mine at Karwin, Austria, few days ago is 232. The mine was still
 burning on the 18th and it will not b possible to resume work for six months.
 AN anarchist plot was reported to. have been discovered to blow up the public buildings in Washington, the leader being a French Canadian, who for years has been closely identified with the Chicago anarchists. No ar rests have yet been made and the po- lice refuse to reveal their full informa- tion.
 NoRsEMAN CLARK and a woman named Jennie Siley took refuge under a tree in a thunderstorm at Lyons, Ia., on the 17th. The woman was killed and the man fatally injured by a bolt of lightning.
 IN Streetor, H., while laboring un- l in, ,f ing to sunstroke, Herman Richter cut his mothers throat and attempted sui eide. He will recover.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

THE telephone system now in vogue in France is to be introduced in this country by syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists, who have purchased the American patent rights from the French inventor. If the expectations of the purchasers are realized the system will revolutionize one branch of the tele- phone business in the United States. The prime object of the incorporators is to introduce the French system in hotels, apartment houses, country resi- dences and railroad service. It is hoped that the use of the new telephones will enable many of the large railroad com panies to do away altogether with their private telegraph service.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


 THE Virginia republican committee has adopted resolution stating that 1t deems it unwise to call congressional conventions in that state to make nom- nations for the fall elections.
 IN the Rhode Island state legislature George Peabody Whetmore was unani- mously elected United States senator to succeed N. F. Dixon.
 MR HAvEMEYER denied the stories fore the senate Investigating commit tee.
 A REPORT in favor of giving to Col. H. l.. Moore, the democratic contest ant, the seat for the Second Kansas district, held by Funston, has been made by the subcommittee on cleo tions.
 THE house committee on banking and currency concluded to choose a subcommittee of five by the unusual method of ballot to prepare another currency bill. The committee will report its measure to the house not later than June 27.
 THE house committee on pensions have decided to report a measure based on the bill introduced by Representa- tive Bryan, of Nebraska, to restore to the rolls widows of soldiers who had been dropped because of remarriage and whose second husband had died.
 BY the advice of his physician Presi- dent Cleveland on the l4th started on a cruise down Chesapeake bay as far as the capes, in order to enjoy the sea breeZes.
 SENATOR CoCKRELL presented num- Der of petitions in the senate recently from Missouri, asking that the tax on whisky be not increased in the pending tariff bill.
 CAPT. THOMAS on the 14th still held the Salvadorian refugees aboard the Bennington at La Libertad. The state department was waiting for the organ ization of some form of government there before taking action on the de- mand for the surrender of the refugees.
 LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE, of England, died on the 14th.
 TERRENCE V. POwDERLY, ex-general lhdSICI "OIh ol IliC iNLiS Ol Labor, has issued for private circula- tion among the members of the order, a statement containing the inside his tory of the movement which compelled his voluntary retirement. It forms a pamphlet of thirty-four pages, and is review of the circumstances leading up to the events of last fall, which have proven so momentous to the Knights of Labor.
 THE Coxey bill for good roads and non-interest-bearin bonds which Sen ator Peffer introduced in the senate, has been introduced in the house by Representative Geary, of California. An amendment has been added to make it compulsory for every state, territory, county and township to give work to every unemployed person in its limits at sl.5O day for common labor and s3.5O for labor with team, eight hours a day.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
PROHIBITlONIST TICKET.
The Complete Ticket of the Kansas Prohi-
 bitionists.


 bitiOnists.
 EMPoRIA, Kan, June 14.-The fol- lowing ticket has been nominated by the Kansas prohibitionists in conven- tion here: Governor, I. o. Pickering, of Olathe; lieutenant-governor, H. c. Doughart, of Hiawatha; secretary of state, J. M. Howard, of Wichita; asso- ciate justice, Judge Silver, of Topeka; auditor, J. P. Perkins, of Columbus; treasurer, James Murray, of Baldwini attorney-general, NJ. V. Van Bennett, of Cherokee; superintendent of public instruction, Mrs. A. Alison, of Cupa; congressman-at-large, Maj. Holsinger, of Rosedale.
 The platform declares in favor of the suppression of the liquor traffic and of lotteries, policy shops and gambling dens; for woman suffrage and liberal pensions; for money issued by the gov ernment in sufficient quantities; for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16 to l; against national banks; for tariff as defensive measure only; for government control of railroads, telephones and express companies, or ownership, if necessary; for national and state aid for irrigation, and against the issuance of government stamps to wholesale and retail liquor dealers.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS,

A FIRE at Yamagata, Japan, province of Usen, destroyed 1,200 houses, and thirteen people lost their lives during the confagration.
 AT Monroe, La, on the night of the 18th fires were discovered in two va cant houses. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the party who had done the work. After making a circuitous route, they went to the house of a white man named J. H. Day, a party who has been strongly suspected of having done such work before. Cir cumstantial evidence pointed conclu- sively to him as having been the in cendiary. Day was arrested and put in jail. Later in the night he was taken out and hanged to the limb of a tree.
 A DISPATCH from Castlebar, Ireland, said that passenger boat returning to Westport Quay from Achil island with eighty harvesters who were to be shipped to Scotland capsized and it is believed that fifty of the harvesters lost their lives. Eighteen bodies have all ready been recovered.
 FIRE in New York recently caused a loss of S25O,OOO in the wholesale paper district.
 THE pump-house at the Alverton coke plant of Mcclure & Co. at Greensburg, Pa, was blown up with dynamite shortly after midnight on the 14th. The explosion was terrific and the building was completely wrecked. The strikers are held responsible for the outrage and the perpetrators are said to be known.
 AT Cramphill, N. J., Johann Kauff- man arose from his bed and with some sharp instrument cut the throats of his wife and three children. Then, washing the blood from his person, he dressed himself neatly and committed suicide by hanging. Late in the after noon the five dead bodies were found. Poverty was the cause.
 DURING street parade of summer spectacle at Philadelphia section of one of the terra cotta balconies of an office building fell upon the crowd on the sidewalk beneath, crushing the heads of an old woman and little girl and injuring a number of other bystanders.
 FIRE in Panama recently destroyed about 15O small cheap dwellings, caus- ing losses of S35O, 900.
 TIE prolonged drought in South Da- kota was broken on the 14th by vio- lent thunderstorm in which nearly an inch of water fell. The crops are safe with an adequate rainfall hereafter.
 CHARLES KENDALL and Dave Smith met horrible death at Louisville, Ky, recently. Smith, a colored vault clean CT, had been lowered in a bucket and was overcome by the noxious gas. In trying to rescue him Kendall, who was white, failed to secure the rope about his body and when overcome was help less. Both were dead when their bodies were recovered.
 CLEARING house returns for the week ended June 15 showed an average de- crease as compared with the corre- spending week of last year of 10.5; in New York the decrease was 26.9; out side, 9.8.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
SWEPT AWAY BY FLOODS.
The Village of Grant, Ore, Carried Into tn,
 Columbia.


 PORTLAND, Ore, June IA tele- phone message from the Dalles yester- day morning states that almost the en- tire village of Grant in Sherman coun- ty, has been swept away by the flood. Only the elevator and few buildings on the high land remain. The distillery owned by Goodall, Walker tS Co.,, went out yesterday. Twelve men were in the building when it was carried off its foundations. All were saved, one man, after the buildings were well out in the streams, being rescued by boatmen who saw him floating with the build ing.
 Grant is place of about 200 inhabi- tants, located on the Columbia river on the Union Pacific railroad, III miles east of Portland. The distillery was built about eighteen months ago and the plant was worth in the neighbor- hood of S75,OOO Its capacity was 25O gallons of spirits per day.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

TIE Cosmopolis Colonization associa- tion, a voluntary organization of labor unions, has signed contract with the Land of Sunshine Co.,, of Chicago, for 2,56O acres of land near Merced, Cal, f, which will support 1Os families, who will have houses and live on a street in form of a circle, the area within to have public buildings and park. A square plat of 36O acres is to be the communal pasturage and vegetable garden. Outside of this square will be 1O9 farms of nineteen and half acres each devoted to fruit culture.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

AN old woman who owned half an acre of ground at Nenagh, county of Tipperary, Ireland, died recently with out leaving relative or specifying an heir. Soon after thirty men fought with scythes and pitchforks around her hut Eventually they broke down the door, upset the body and beat each other with the candles which had stood around the body. When the fight was ended two men lay dead at the door step and five others were too seriously wounded to walk from the scene of the conflict
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

THE reigning sensation in Paris, France, is Miss Arniotis, who is known as the female Sandow. Her feats of strength are wonderful. Her strength is the result of a careful attention to hygienic laws When she appears on the stage any person in the audience is at liberty to put her strength to the test in any way that he may choose. She lifted an upright piano from the orchestra and threw it into the ring. Then carried two men seated astride a barrel with one hand, a feat which she executed with ease and grace.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

MRS. KUPPENER a member of sui eide club organized six months ago in the rear room of saloon at New York one day lately was found lying upon the floor of her home dying from the effects of carbolic acid, the means of suicide agreed upon when the club was organized. The same night, after hear ing what Mrs. Kuppener had done, Mrs. Moran drank carbolic acid, dying the next morning. Hugh Donahue, an- other member of the club, arrived at Bellevue hospital about the time Mrs. Moran did and died ten minutes before she did. He had taken carbolic acid. The next morning, Tom Connor, an other member of the club, was found running about in Madison street, near Twenty-seventh. He was taken to the insane pavilion at Bellevue.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

EUGENE GERMAN, United States con- sul at Berne, Switzerland, has sent the department of state an account of the workings of commission for the unemployed, created by law. A committee of seven, made up of rep resentatives of labor unions, employers and the municipal government, under takes to provide employment for sub scribers out of work, or to maintain them when awaiting employment. Subscribers when working pay eight cents per month dues. Subscribers out of work for two weeks are entitled to benefits ranging from twenty cents to thirty cents per day, about equal there in purchasing power to our dol lar here.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
DECOY LETTERS.
A Decision Which Will Make It Difficult to
 Catch Postal Thieves.

CHICAGo, June 14.-Judge Grosscup, of the United States court, rendered a decision which will make it more diff ficult for post office inspectors to ob- tain evidence against violators of the postal laws. It was in the case of James Palmer, a letter carrier, who was charged with stealing from the mails. The court decided that a test or decoy letter, which was used to entrap Palmer, was not in the mails in the legal sense at the time it was alleged to have been taken by the carrier. The jury was instructed to bring in verdict of not guilty, and Palmer became free man. The letter in this case was not regular ly transmitted through the mails and was not postmarked.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
Gen. Basil Duke Against Breckinridge.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jnne 14.-Gen. Basil Duke, of Louisville, editor of the South ern Magazine, and brother-in-law and chief of staff of Gen. John Morgan, the famous confederate raider, has assured Maj. Henry Clay Mcdowell that he will stump the Ashland dis trict for him and against Breckinridge if the latter should be renominated. Maj. Mcdowell lives at Ashland, Henry Clay's estate. his wife being grand daughter of Clay, and he has practical ly consented to be the republican can didate if Breckinridge should be re. nominated. Gen. Duke is a stalwart democrat.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
fIiuate and Crops Just RIpht.

Oklahoma has thousands of acres of ther finest farming land in the world, waiting for you or anybody else with little cash and lots of gumption. Clima and crops are just right. Farms will cost more next year than this To find out If this IS the country you want, ask for free copy of Ok lahoma folder. GEO. w. HAGENBUCH, P. G T. A., Santa Fe Route, 1050 Un.ou Ave-. Kansas Citv Mo
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

WASHINGTON is discussing with in terest the rumor of the engagement between Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and Henry Kyd Douglas, adjutant-gen- eral of the state of Maryland. Mrs. Sartoris, before leaving the city to join Mrs. Grant in New York, denied that there was any truth in the re- port, but since her departure one of her intimate friends has stated that in a letter recently received from her the engagement is admitted.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

SHERIFF McCAPEs, of Dixon county, Neb,, has burned the homes of squat ters on an island in the Missouri river opposite Vermillion, S. D., after driv- ing the people away. The ownership of the island has been in dispute be- tween the two states.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
Two to Fifteen pays, Pleasure Tours.

Forty-eight pages, six maps, describes fifty tours, costing from three to thirty dol lars. A copy will be sent free, postpaid, to- any address on receipt of two two-cent D stamps, by GEORGE H. DANIELS, General Passenger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

A PETITION bearing 6O,OOO names and representing many religions has been prepared for presentation to the Chi cago board of education, recommend ing that reading books, consisting of selections from the sacred Scriptures in use in the schools of Toronto, Can, with the approval of both the Catholic and Protestant churches, or similar se- lections, be put in use in the public schools without delay.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

TIE work of year is represented in new map of this country, Canada, Mexico and part of the West Indies, being issued by the general land office. The map is deemed the most complete yet issued, and over 14,OO0 copies will be distributed. It shows the extent of public surveys, Indian, military and forest reservations, railroads, canals and all private land claims.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
To Clenns. the srstem

Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious or when the blood is impure or slug gish, to permanently cure habiUual constipa- ton, to awaken the kidneys and liver to healthy activity, without irritating or weak ening them, to dispel headaches, coldsc or levers, use Syrup of Figs.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
Fatally Wounded His son-in-Law.

WEST PLAINS, Mo-, June 1S.-In a quarrel near Houston, Texas county, Thursday, man named Cox shot and fatally wounded his son-in-law, named Riddle.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

Mss JENNIE MAYO, a belle of Middle sex, Vt., was secretly married a few days ago to Thomas Strong, of Castle town, Vt., negro hotel porter, by the pastor of the African Methodist Epis- copal church. Last summer Miss Mayo and her mother went to Saratoga and the two met at Congress hall, Sara toga. Miss Mayo is 24 years of age.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

DRoPsY is dread disease, but it has lost, its terrors to those who know that H. H. Green & Sons, the Dropsy Specialists of Atlanta, Georgia, treat it with such great, success. Write them for pamphlet giving full information.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

"JoHNNIE," said the teacher, "is jackass biped or quadrupedl" "Please, sir" said Johnnie, "that depends on the jackass."-- Scranton Truth.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

'No, GERALDINE; a landscape done in oil isn't necessarily keros(c) )ene. ."-Buffalcs Courier.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

JOHNNY, add seven apples to two apples,, and what will you havep-''Colic, sir."-- Harper's Bazar.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
Halls Catarrh Cure Is Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

A RELIC of lost race-the empty pocket book.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21
ORDERED TO RESUME WORK.

SCRANTON, Pa, June 1s.-The orders have been issued for the mines of the Delaware x Hudson Canal Co. to re- sume work at full time for an indefi- nite period. The order affects 10000 men at the mines, and will greatly help the railroad employees. It is said that the coal trade will be heavy for some time to come.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

SOUTH MCALEsTER, l. T., June 1s.- The Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad trainmen have been requested by the Indian territory striking miners not to handle scab coal. The railroad men have considered the miners proposition favorably and express themselves as being willing to help the miners out, and they will strike rather than handle