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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
A STAMPEDE or SHEEP.
q Herders Corpse Buried Beneath 1s1o(
 of the Dead Animals.

q Herders Corpse Buried Beneath HOO
 of the Dead Animals.
 TACOMA, Wasb., Oct 2.-A very po- culiar fatality occurred Tuesday on tho eastern slope of the Cascade mountains, near the line of the Northern Pacific railroad. An experienced sheep herder was busy with herd of 5000 sheep, and was urging them toward the snow line, where they could secure fresh grass Some of the leaders showed . desire to proceed in another direction. and the herder, Andrew Nelson, started to head them of. As he did 30 a crackling sound in the brush near by start led the leaders, and they rushed pell.mell down a gentle incline, and past Nelson. The herd began stam- peding and the herder was knocked down and they began pressing in upon him, stumbling over the falling ones and piling up until he was smothered to death under the increasing weight Eleven hundred of the sheep were smothered and trampled to death, and their bodies are still piled up on top of NelsOn's corpse.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
ARRESTED FOR GAMBLING.
Chicago Society Women "Run In" for Rum
 ming a Regular Pool Room.

Chicago Society Women 'Run In" for Rum
 ming a Regular Pool Room.
 CHICAGO, Sept BOA woman's pool room has been discovered and raided by the police. Seventeen women, all said to be members of south side SO. ciety, and attired in silk clothing and wearing diamonds, were arrested, to. gether with colored boy and an in. spector for telegraph company. When the police broke into the pool room in the building at 35l Thirty. Third street, the occupants were bus fly engaged in examining the entry cards at Oakley, Windsor St. Louis and the Ideal park races, and in plac. ing bets. With the appearance of the police the room became a scene of pandemonium. Some of the women fainted. Others screamed and tied handkerchiefs over their faces In five minutes the police had collected cards, dropped by the occupants, containing the entries at four race tracks, to- gether with tickets for bets placed on the horses The ticker was thcn torn from the desk and a telephone from the wall. The telephone, it was discovered, had no connection, except with another in the basement The patrol wagons were called, and all the occupants were taken to the Station avenue police station, when an attor. ney, who was sent for, provided bail for the prisoners.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
POLITICAL DRIFT.

OThcre is more money per capita in circulation than in 1873, and lower prices, which would take less to do business with.-Cincinnnti Commercial Tribune.
 OThe report that Bryan proposes 10 spend some time later "outside the enemy's country" indicates that he is going to see how it works in Mexico.- Chicago Tribune.
 D1n North Dakota McKinley's ma iority is estimated at 6,O0O. The dem- ocrats of that state seem to concede that the state is pretty safely repub- lican.-Iowa State Register.
 vIf free silver would start factories, furnaces and shops into activity, why is it that their owners, practically to a man. are opposed to the cheap money programme ?-Chicago Journal.
 1"The people have no money to come to see me-" says Bryan. Therefore must go to see them." That is true. People who would spend money to go very far to see Bryan are not the kind that succeed in getting ahead.-Cleve- land Leader.
 DUncle Richard Dland's cheerful voice is also missing from the popocratic chorus. If these assertions continue it will be only a little while until the whole free silver outfit consists solely of Mir. Bryan and Jake Coxcy.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
 DTo many people it is startling proposition that Texas may go republic an this year. Texas has given 100000 democratic majority. But so has New York, and New York this year may go from 3oO.oOo to 5Oo,oOO for Mckinley. At least Texas is considered good fight ing ground this year. If the states electoral vote is not cast for Mckinley, it is at least possible to elect number of "sound money" congressman in the state that will be worth striving for this year.-Iowa State Register.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
TERRIBLE OHIO TRAGEDY.
A Drunken Brute Fatally Injures a 17 l Year-Old Girl and Then Suicides.

A Drunken Brute Fatally Injures . IT,
 Year-Oid Girl and Then Suicides.
 HOLGATE, O., Oct. "A terrible dou- ble tragedy occurred two miles south of this place, in the home of Mrs. J. P Kicker, a widow. The family consists of the widow and two children, her daughter, Anna, F years old, and a son. Another inmate of the home for some time past has been boarder named Nathan E. Spellman. The lat. ter came home in beastly state of in- toxication and was reprimanded by Mrs. Kicker. Spellman, while the son was at school and and Mrs. Kicker was out attending to the stock, went to the house and found the daughter ironing. What followed can only be surmised. Anna Kicker was attacked and her skull crushed. Spellman then under took to destroy his own life by hang ing. This attempt being failure, he resorted to method more successful. Lying on his back across a bed, his head hanging so to almost touch the floor, he drew razor across his throat, severing the jugular vein. Anna Kicker, at last accounts, was alive, but unconscious, and there is no possible hope of her recovery. Spellman is dead
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
THE EXCHANGE WON.
Greers Mills & Co.'S Litlgation Defeated
 the KanEas Supreme Court.

Greer, Mills & Co.'S LitlgatSon Defeated hy
 the Kanras Supreme Court.
 TOPEKA, Kan, Oct a-The state su. preme court has issued an order re- fusing to allow the suit of Greer, Mills & Co, live stock commission agents, against the Kansas City Live Stock ex. change, to be certified on from the court of appeals for review. The plaintiff sought to enjoin the exchange from expelling it from that body for its refusal to pay fine imposed upon it. In the appellate court it claimed that that section of the rules of the exchange giving it authority to assess fine was unconstitutional It was also charged that the exchange was an illegal body. The court, in deciding the case, said that if the exchange was an illegal organization, as charged, then a member of it had no right to come into court and ask for relief. The court is satisfied with the decision of the appellate court and has refused to hear the case, and, so far as the courts of Kansas are concerned, the exchange can expel the plaintiffs at once.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08

| for the maintenance of "the existing | gold standard" and, again, when Vii.
 liam J. Bryan was nominated for pres.
 jdent on free silver platform, the Chi. | cago bankers could not believe all that was told them about the force of the silver idea in the north and middle west | Knowing so we'll what would be the re. suits of free coinage, they could not be- lieve that any great number of people
 would embrace the idea as Q panacea for all industrial, social and economic
 evils. They began to inquire. From
 the sources where the encouraging in- formation comes now. their country correspondents, they learned it was all too true that the little disk of white metal had become political fetich. Naturally. these same bankers have been keeping their eyes on the silver movement ever since. The transaction of business between the city and the country bankers has been carried on to the accompaniment of questions and an- swers relating to politics. Such inter- course was perfectly free and honest. because the parties to it were all on the same side of the question, the side of sound money.
 The reports from the country, which were somewhat dispiriting in June and July and through part of August, began to take an encouraging step before the first of September. Since then the hue of encouragement has decpencd day by day until it has become almost rosy.
 This process of sounding the senti- ment of the west through the country banker has been exceedingly simple and therefore reliable in results. Every country banker has intimate business relations with the farmers at this sea- son of the year, and the farmers are supposed to be the most vocferous sil- yer men. The country banker is also intimately associated with all others who are close to the farmer, the stock buyer. the grain buyer, the horse trader and the storekeeper. He has every facility for getting at the real sentiment of the voters who might, for fun. If for no other reason. deceive the regular political canvasser. After sounding the voters all through the Mississippi valley in this way. the coun- try banker says there is no doubt of the subsistence of the silver wave. Plausible suggestion set it in motion and monetary enthusiasm has been the propelling force. Cool deliberation and logic have acted on it as oil would on wind-troubled lake.
 The silver movement has had many of the characteristics of prairie fire after a period of drought. In the beginning 1t was spark. The spark made little blaze. Wind did the rest. The dead, dry stubble of thrashed-out and for gotten theories fell in the way of the fire and burst into flame. which gath cred force as it travelled before the wind
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08

adopted. The background will be of colored enamel, and the shade will cor. respond with the different college col ors. Thus the pin for Yale will have blue background, for Harvard, crimson. and so on. The letters A. R. C. l.. will in all cases be engraved near the staff of the pin. The word Mckinley will run lengthwise. The design has been made by Forrest Grant, of the Univer. sity of Chicago, and was awarded by competition. Mir. Edward J. Henning, of the University of Wisconsin, who has charge of the national college cam raign, has established headquarters of the American Republican College league in Chicago at the Auditorium hotel. from which place this official college pin and campaign literature will be supplied to all the colleges of the United States, as soon as their institu- tions are opened.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
REPORT ON TIE INDIANS.

Commissioner BrowninG Ssys the Red Man 10 Becoming an Adept In Handicrafts- Restriction of the Sale of IiquOr Urged. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-Commission- ST of Indian Affairs Browning has sub. mitted his annual report He says that with no outbreaks during the year ths education and civilizing of the Indians has progressed and the main effort now is and for years must be to get the In- dian on his allotment so as to become .elf-supporting. The Indians are be- :oming adopts in handicrafts and re- eeived last year in pay from the gov. ernment over SS0O,000 for work done. The commissioner reviews the steps taken by congress to extinguish the claims of the Ogden Land Co. to the lands of the Senecas in New York state. The question of the fishery rights of the Yakima Indians in the extreme northwest is still troublesome because of the infringements of the whites upon Indian rights which have not been succe ssfully protected.
 Education has progressed rapidly in the government and industrial train ing schools. There were enrolled in all schools 2S, 352 pupils The commis- sioner praises the work of the field matrons. He suggests that the com. missioner appointed to treat with sev- eral tribes of Indians for their lands be continued to clear up the work. Nearly all applications for Indians for exhibition purposes have been refused. The commissioner lays stress of need of legislation to restrict the sale of liquor in the Indian reservations.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
ONE HUNDRED DEAD,
Further Details of the Awful West Indi
 storm in florida.

Further Details of the Awful West Indian
 Storm In Florida.
 PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. 2-Railroad communication with the eastern and middle parts of the state has just been re-established, and narrowing tales are being received of the West Indian storm which recently swept over the peninsula of Florida and struck the coast about Cedar Keys, which is said to be most completely wrecked. From there it swept in northeasterly course, its diameter being about 40 miles across the state, doing fearful damage at the towns of Gainesville, High Springs, Newherry, Lake City, Bronsford, Callahan and many others. Brick and frame buildings were blown down and near Callahan several chil. dren were killed in schoolhouse which was wrecked. The wind is re- ported to have reached velocity of 100 miles an hour, and there was widespread destruction in the pat h of the storm. It is impossible yet to learn how many persons were killed, but it is believed the dead will be fully 100 and that many others were in piured
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
CANNOT LAND HERE.
Our immigration LaWs Win Prohibit Ar menians ColOnizing in America.

Our Immigration Lava Win Prohibit Ar
 menians ColonizinE In America.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 30-The atten- ton of Commissioner Stump, of the emigrant bureau, was called to the movement looking to the colonization in this country of Armenian refugees Mir. Stump said that Secretary Carlisle and himself had been fully advised of such a movement, and various appeals had been made from Lady Henry Som- erset and from Frances Willard and English and American relief associa. tions asking for the cooperation of the government in furnishing these stricken people an asylum in the United States, but while the sympathies of all good people must be aroused in their behalf, the officers of the government must enforce the laws as they exist The matter was being investigated, and if any lawful means could be found they would be exercised in behalf of the refugees. The law on the subject, however, strictly inhibits the landing in this country of all persons likely to be- come public charge, and also ''any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with money of another, or who is assisted by others to come" This be. ing the case, although Mir. Stump did not so state, it seems altogether proba. ble that the law necessarily was found to be an insurmountable obstacle in the way of relief in the manner pro- posed
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
IOWA 50 YEARS OLD.

Somi- Centennial Celebration of the State sl Burlington-A Serious Accident.
 BURLINGTON, Ia., Oct. 2.-Fifty years ago Iowa became state and previous ly 1t occupied aprominent position among the western territories. In honor of this semi-centennial anniver. sary 2O,oOO people gathered in this city yesterday to inaugurate an eight-days' celebration. Burlington was selected as the place of holding the celebrat ton on account of it's prominence in terri. torial affairs, being for number of years the seat of government. This, the opening day, was Governors day, and was honored by the pres. ence of Gov Drake and his staff, several ex-governors, Vice President Stevenson and large number of other prominent citi. zens of the state and nation. At 1O:3O grand parade, consisting of the gov. ernor and staff, and prominent guests, escorted by four companies of the state militia, citizens in carriages, and numerous handsome floats passed through the principal streets, crowded with masses of people and profusely decorated.
 During parade the reviewing stand, containing Vice President Stevenson, Gov. Drake and many other prominent people, collapsed, throwing all to the ground and injuring some 30 people. Vice President Stevenson and Gov. Drake escaped with slight bruises. None are fatally injured except two men named Burris and Wicken, the extent of whose injuries cannot he aScertained vat
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
Their Lives for a Free Ride.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 1.-Two freight trains collided Wednesday night at Philson, on the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road, l24 miles east of Pittsburgh, mak- ing one of the worst wrecks in the his- tory of the road. Up to one o'clock yesterday 12 tramps had been taken from the wreck, six of whom were dead. Trainmen say that number of men who had been attending the Bryan speaking Wednesday and who were on their way to their homes in Myersdale, Pa., were riding on the bumpers, so it is thought that there are many still under the wreck.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
KILLED BY JOY.
. Woman Dies Upon Seeing Son She Had
 MOurned as Dead.

AyyIsroN, Ala, Oct. News of 6 strange and pathetic death comes from Pocirun, 30 miles north of this city. Five years ago young man named Charles Vincent left home mysterious. Iv, and during the years which fol. lowed there came no tidings of him to his anxious parents, who finally gave him up as dead. Last Sunday young Vincent, who had been out west, came home, intending to give his parents a pleasant surprise. His mother was visiting at neighbours when he reached the house. so he sent another peirhbor to tell her that man wanted 10 see her at home. She came home immediately. and at the sight of her son. whom she had so long mourned as lost, she swooned away. Every effort was made to resuscitate her, but she died yesterday without having re- cained consciousness.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
The Leatiyllle Strike.

LEADvILLE, Col, Oct. 2.-As a result from the miners meeting last night the majority have decided to remain quiescent until after election. If Nc. Kinley is elected the present intention is to abandon the strike. If Bryan is elected the hope is that the price of silver will advance and the managers will at once concede all demands of the union. Notwithstanding this deci- sion, there are many Of the conserva. tive miners who feel sore over the dc. lay of five weeks, while the unruly element are more aggrieved over the decision and eager to adopt radical measures at once.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
ERIN'S FLAG NOT BARRED.
A Massachusetts Judge Decides That Ire-
 land Is Not . Distinctive Nation.

A Massachusetts Judge Decides That Iro-
 land Is Not Q Distinctive Nation.
 LAWRENCE, Mass. Oct. 2.-July Contractor Patrick O'Brien was arrest ed for displaying an Irish flag on . portion of the staging of a ward school house July 4, under the statute forbid ding the display of any foreign flag upon public building. He was found guilty and Judge Stone, of the police court, fined him slO. An appeal was taken to the superior court Yester- day Judge Hopkins ruled that Ireland was not country in the meaning of the statute governing the case ,and had no flag except thatof the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland. The case was accordingly dismissed.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
A LUCKY ESCAPE,
Balloon Bursts and the AerOnaut Tumble
 1000 Feet to the Ground.

Balloon Bursts and the AerOnaut Tumbles
 1000 Feet to the Ground.
 NASHVILLE, Ind, Oct 1.-John w. InneSs, an aeronaut of this city, had 8 thrilling experience in a balloon ascen. sion at a republican rally at Manila. Atau elevation of 2,5O0 feet his balloon burst and be fore he could disengage his parachute he was drawn down. ward by the falling balloon. After falling 1000 feet the parachute opened and the balloon and parachute then turned a series of aerial somersaults, through ali of which 1nness still clung to the ropes The mortified spectators stood aghast, fearing at any moment to see Inness mangled at their feet, but he alighted safely and without a scratch. The balloon he used has, it is said, killed four men and two women.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
CANNON IN THE AIR,
New Feat Brings Death to a VenturesoI
 Aeronaut at Paola, Kan.

New Feat Brings Death to venturesoms
 Aeronaut at Paola, Kan.
 PAoLA, Kan, Oct. 2.-At the Miami county fair here yesterday George An- derson, the aeronaut, who was shot from a cannon suspended from a ball. loon, missed the parachute and was killed in l.500-foot fall. Anderson was employed by Prof. Bozart, and St. Louis was his home. Ten thousand people witnessed the awful accident. Anderson refused to put on the safety belt with rope attachment, and relied only on a cotton clothes-line cord tied to his wrist for safety.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
SOLDIERS IN THE PooRHousE.
Milwaukee SOldiers' Home Inadequate to prOYide Entertainment for Xcferana-

Milwaukee SOldiers' Home Inadequate to
 Provide Entertainment for Veterans. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2.-For the first time in many years the Milwaukee sol diers' home is crowded to the utmost capacity, and Gov Wheeler has been notified by the board of managers not to admit any more applicants for the present. The same condition exists in the Wisconsin state home at Maupuca. with the result that many of the vet erans are driven to the poorhouse. There are at the present time about 20 old soldiers who are inmates of the Milwaukee county alm shouse, although there is state law which says the vet erans shall be cared for properly.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
Women Saw Wood for Prizes.

MENoMINEE, Mich, Oct. l.-Cedar River women took part in wood-saw. ing contest for a silver pitcher and dia. mond ring. Mrs s. E. Rue won both contests. Her husband recently put in ten cords of hard maple, but dreaded to tackle it. His surprise was un- bounded when he fonnd that his ener. getic spouse had sawed every stick, and all he had to do was to pile the wood. Other wood piles whereabouts are rapidly yielding to the new wom- ans saw
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
Iowa CaDitalist AasiCDS.

ATLANTIC, Ia., Oct l.-F. P. Whitney has made an assignment His assets arrregate S520,000 and his liabilities Sl60,GG5 Included in the assets is Kan as City property valued at S20O, 900, and among the liabilities is s6O,OOO mortgage on the Whitney building in Kansas City.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
MOVES TO INDIANA.
Missouri Military Academy Win Locat
 There Temporarily.

MlHsourf MmtRry Academy VIII Locate
 There Temporarily.
 MEXICO, Mo-, Sept. 3o-A. F. Fleet, who was owner of the Missouri mili. tary academy in this city, that was burned last Thursday morning, will, reopen his school at Culver City, Ind, |, next week, having leased the Culver military academy at that place from H. IL Culver, of the Wrought Iron Range Co.,, of St Louis This move is temporary. as an effcrt is being made by the people of this city to have Col Fleet remain here and rebuild the building.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
A Crank After Mrs. Cleveland,

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-The police of this city have received communica- tion from Philadelphia, asking them to keep lookout for crank who had left that city saying he was going in search of Mrs Cleveland The man is said to be demented, and for fear that he may cause trouble, the police in all of the eastern cities have teen asked to keep watch for him.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
An Increase of S2,OOO,OOO for the Mont
 and S25 100000 in Three Months.

and Sa5,OOO,OOO in Three Months.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2..-The compara- tive statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the government for the month of September shows the total receipts to have been s24,5s4, PA and the expenditures s26, 579, 535, leaving deficit for the month of ,995, 29l. The deficit for three months of the present fiscal year is S25, l94, 129, as compared with deficit of s9, ss4, ,65s for the corresponding months last year. The receipts during the last month show loss as compared with September of last year of nearly sa- 300, 900 from customs and about S5s0,- GOO from internal revenue.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
FORGED CURRENCY FAILS.
Gen. Weyler's Attempts to Uphold Cuban
 Bank Notes Fruitless.

Bank Notes Fruitless.
 LONDON, Sept 30.-The Times has a letter from its Havana correspondent describing the forced currency issued in Cuba, in the course of which he says: Both the customs house and the Span. ish bank itself refuse to accept the bank notes. It is, therefore, ridiculous to hope that Sapt Gen. Weyler's de- cree will maintain them at par" The correspondent predicts that within a few months the bank notes will be at 50 per cent. discount