Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
California; Richard T. Connor for the 1;s,r;ot of Min1aanfo


 district of Minne nesota.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-The presidsn, appointed the Right Rev. Bi hop Whip. pie, of Minneeots 9 member of the board of indian commissioners. WASHINGTON, Feb. l5-White ribbon con vention opened today, the principal object being to call the attention of con. gress and the president forcibly, if pos slble, to the polyglot petition having 6.OG0, OO0 signatures of women in favor of prohibition and the opium traffic. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-The house bill passed unanimously giving consent to an additional judge for the ninth Paci- flo slope judicial district.
 The principal candidates for the ad- ditionsl circuit judgeship created on the Pacific slope are Judge Ross, st present judge of the southern California district, and Judge Wallace, of the superior court uf San Francisco. Senator Whit. is supporting Ross. Judge Bsllinger, of Ort gon, is also ms ntioned. The house went into committees of the whole on the appropriation bill. The bill contains provision for tbree new battle ships and twelve torpedo boats. The senate finance committee agreed to report favorably the house bill re- pealing the tenth of cent discrimina- tion duty on sugar imported from the bounty producing countries.
 DENVER, Colo. Feb. 15-An agreement has been reached between the Union | Pacific and Rio Grsnde Western Rail roads today under which the former will give side trip to Salt Lake, and the latter stop-overs on the round triI and the highest first class one way tickets.
 l TowANDA, Feb; 15-A boiler exploded ID Cobb's saw mill th,s morning. Theo dore Pencile, fireman and John Mack teamster, were instantly killed; Franh Myers, a mill hand. was fatally injured | ATLANTA, Feb. 15-SpecIals from South Georgia report an unprecented snow storm. Fruit and V getsbles sre killed, and animals are frezing to death The people are suffering. At Thpmas vile, great winter resort, sleighs ars out for the first time in the history cl the city.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. l4-An old law has been discovered upon the statut. books by free silver men which the! declare gives them ground for hope tha they can. bring about the coinage O silver in an indirect way through th, use of Mexican dollars. The law wal passed in 1857 and is section 3567 of th, revised statutes. It is as follaws:
 Pieces commonly known a quarter eighth and sixteenth of the Spauist dollar and of the Mexican dollar shsl bN receivable at the treasury of tho United States and its several offices and at the seve al post offices at tt, rates valuation following: Fourth of ( dollar, or piece of two reals, at tweD ty cents; eigut of collar or a piecs of one real, ten cents, and s xteeDtt of a dollar, or half resi, at five cents The coins shall be reissued firm the treasury but be recoined into United States coin.
 The law has never been repealed and the silver men in congress assert it ii possible to send metal to Mexico fol coinage and reimport it into the Unit. C States and present it at the treasury They assert the validity of the law ls beyond question and point to the statute resurrected by Secretary Car lisle which practically compels tn. treasury to redeem national bank Dote in gold as evidence that thers are more intricacee in the monetary system than has been realized.
 l The first step, the silver men say, it to secure construction of the law by some competent authority. They fesI that Attorney General Olney wonld rule against them and are try irg to devise 6 plan to secure the opinion from the judiciary committee of the house. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal Feb. 15-The steamer Mariposs from Honolula brings advides to Feb. 8. Liliuokslna wat arraigned on the fifth charged with treason. She refused to plead anC denied the right to try her as the mili tary court was she said a violation ot the present constitution. Witnesses testified that she was aware of the re oellion. She denied tcat she would discourage rebellion if she knew of of il admitted that if success she would have had new cabinet. Her diary frequent ly mentions Rudolph Spreckles as prom. ising assistance. It is believed that the court will find her guilty but will rs lease her on her own recogniZapce Tbe next case will be that of Janah ksDion.ol whom it Is said the ex-queeu | intended to sbdicate m favor of and sc 10 keep Kaiulani from the thron. l. is said the government Is afraid Vii is vii call the marlnes on Philsde phia to in. terfere if it decides to hang Vim Sewarc The court convicted 62 mn acquitted two. No executions have taken place | yet.
 LONDON, Feb. 15-The first levee of the Prince of Wales was held this ever 'nR and was largely attended despite . cold storm. Among those presenSed !c the pr nee was Wm. c. Ralstou of s. Francisco.