Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-06-20


Stephen M. White was interviewed ss
be passed through today for California.
He said he was not seeking either presi-
DENTAL or vice presidential nomination
from the democrstic party.
HUNTIEGToN DEPor, W. A, June u.
Forty miles east of Charleston on the O.
g. 0. road, masked men bourded the
Washington and Cincinnati express
train lest night. They crswled over
the engine tsader into the cab with re-
volvers drawn. The engineer stopped
the train. He was commanded TO cut
loose the express car. This WIGS done.
The passengers were awakened and
lights were extipguished After ten
minutes work the bandits became fright
ened and escaped to the mountains.
WASHINGTON, June 12-The frisnds
OF Speaker Reed. in Washington, said
tooey that they would continue to fight
to the end. The speaker has been in tele-
graphic communication with his friends
at st. Louis. He asked them to go in
to the fight and they have responded
that they all will stick to him. The
speakers most intimate friends are ib-
dignant at Manley and cay his admission
OF defeat will demoralizs the fight.
Folsom, Csl., June 12-John Craig
three times 10 urderer. was hs1ged at
Folsom prison at 1902 q. NJ. today.
There could not have been L more perfect
execution. The condemned man was
completely resigned to his fate and walk
ed TO the gsllows coolly as though going
to a Wedding. Craig shot into eternity
without SO much Is short breath or
twitch of muscle snd except his slowly
decreasing pulse beat there was nothing
to indicate that be was not killed in
stantly. Al 1913 eleven minutes after
the rope Yves sprung the physicians an
nounced him dead. Craig murdered
his wife and his father-in-law and
mother-in-law st Los Angeles two years
age.
New YORK, June 12-One and three
quarter millions of gold will be exported
tomorrow.
LONDON, June PA special from
Bombay sage the British second class
twin screw cruiser Bonsventure, flagship
OF the east Indian squadron, flying the
flag of the Rear Admiral Edmund
lost seventy men by sun
stroke on voyage from Colombo to
MAssevA. June l2-The advocate gen.
eral in an address for the prosecution
today at the trial By court martial Of
General Bsratieri, the Italian command
er, defeated by the Abyssinians at ADO
va, March LIST, with loss OF about
twelve thousand five hundred men kill
ed and wounded, demanded that the
general be sentenced TO ten years 10 the
fortress with attendant penalties.
PITTsBURG, June PAT a fire this
in a tenement house 10
City. Mrs. Zooneshondia
GarOeis, aged Is, was killed by jumping
from window. Frank Garbeis, eyed
), was suff Jcsted to death. Lottie
Garbeis, aged II, was internally burt
and may die. Frank Garbeis was badly
burned. The fire was caused by the
ex plosion of q barrel of oil.
LONDON, June 12-The Marquis Of
Salisbury IN the house of Lords today
TO Lord Roseberry said that
for long time he had been of the opin-
ion that sooner or lster it would be ne
cesssry to take steps to reclaim for
Egypt the territory lost in 1892 end 81.
Many reasons counselled delay but the
government was suddenly confronted by
the, fact that kassala was threatened.
There was every possibility its fall would
be followed by frightful catastrophe.
The expedition up the Nile he contend
I'd was ordered because the government
'elt the interests OF Egypt were at
stake.
SAN FRANCISCO. June l1-Gold in
nuggets and gold In veins in such pro-
'usion and obtainsble over so large an
area as has never been known in ali the
.ich end remarkable finds in California
md Auetr8lia is the substance of the
eports from that section of Kern coun-
y which lies little north OF and due
,ast from Mojaye, and about forty miles
distant from the city.
In this desert and billy region placer
ind quartz oiggiDgs are COW being
worked, said George K. Weeks of the
Californian, in an interview
q this city, that for richness and extent
xceed anything previously recorded 10
he mining history of the world.
The development OF this region is said
o have only begun, yet it Is known that
he auriferous deposits extend for at
east twenty-five miles east and west,
While its latitudinsl boundaries have
lot yet been defined.
At the present time there is said TO be
steady influx OF prospectors, including
U many cases entire families. Mojsye's
otel accommodations are entirely ina
equRte, notwithstanding that from
hree to four stages leave there daily, |
ull Of pilgrims for the latest gold hun
er's Mecca. From fifty TO one hundred
sopls depart daily from there and this |
.uman current mas been maintained for !
ONE time.
IL has long been known that this re-
ion is promising field for the pros
ector and for mining operations on q |
srge scale, but lack OF water has hereto.
ore been an effective deterrent. This
bstacle 10 comfortable living hos now
cen 10 great extent overcome. 1t is
rue that the nearest point from the
mineral belt at which water is obtain
bic Is twelve miles, but as it's use for
LAGER mining is unnecessary in view of |
be fact that dry Washing" is very sue