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Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26
ANOTHER EMPLOYMENT.

It is reported that the territorial board of control, despite the promises and pledges the managers of the State of Arizona Improvement company pro- fess they secured months ago from Mir. McCord in the event that he should become governor of Arizona, have thrown another impeachment in the way of that company in it's efforts to secure possession of the convicts of the terri tory under the lease given by ex- Governor Hughes, for the purpose of building a canal.
 According to the report the board of control, of which Governor McCord is chairman, refuse to withdraw the ter ritory's appeal from the district court and ratify the contract, unless the com pany will agree to place S20,0O0 worth of machinery at the canal heading and put up good and sufficient bond for the completion of the mammoth enter prise before the conyicts are to be turned over to them.
 The machinery item is of course in significant, as the machinery will be absolutely essential to begin work with. The bond stimulation, however, is an important item, as the amount neces- sary will be very large, and it may at fhis time be difficult to obtain it.
 It is said the board of control insist upon this condition, as the territory, in the contract as it now stands, has no recourse whatever in the event that the canal should never be completed. As the territory's remuneration for the use of the convicts is to be made in water rights, it is necessary that there be canal to render the rights of any value. The company will probably arrange the matter satisfactorily to Governor McCord and the board of control who, in that event, will ratify the lease. Yumsn Sun.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26
where it empties into the Ynqui river

where it empties into the Ynqui river. On August l 6 heavy thunderstorm came mp and the food threatened to sweep the aroya in which they were camped. The men hastened to remove their outfit to a place of safety and while thus engaged they were fired upon by about thirty Indians posted on the cliffs above. The Americans returned the fire and stood of tho Indians until nightfall when they pulled out into the hills, abandoning most of their effects and their fourteen burros which had been turned loose early in the day. Next morning they recovered five burros and hastened back to the Mormon settlements in western Chihuahua. The prospectors were unable to say whether the Indians who attacked them were Yaquis or Apaches.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

Governor McCord deserves the thanks of the stoekmen of Arizona, for the ap- pointment of E. O. Stratton, of Tucson, and J. A. Marshall, of Phoenix, mem- bers of the live stock sanitary board. MT. Stratton, it is understood, succeeds Colin Cameron, as chairman. With the reorganization of the commission and the appointment of a new secretary, we hope there will be no further cause for complaint among the eattlemen of the territory.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

The 5000 nugget picked up on top of the ground in Big Bug district can be seen in Jeweler Cook's show window. It rests on a card, on which is written; {; "Klondyke? Nit! Big Bug" When this nugget was found The Courier printed cut of it. During the Rich Hill excitement, near Prescott, $500,- 900 was taken from one acre of ground in Weaver district, and gold is coming from that region in no mean quantities to this day. y.--Couriar.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

On the fitst page of this issue we re- produce an editorial from the Phoenix Herald under the caption of "Arizona's Financial Ills and Their Remedy" which is right as far as it goes, but in referring to the extravaganza of the Nineteenth legislature the writer disin- genously avoids mention of some of the greatest sins committed by that body against the tax payers of the ter ritory, namely, the net authorizing the issue of SlO0,OOO capitol bonds and the acts levying additional taxes to provide for expensive and unnecessary improvements to the Territorial Uni yersity and Normal School, and which together with other similar measures of prodigality swells the appropriations and indebtedness to be saddled upon the territory to the enormous total of S233,S79.37. The Herald man must have badly scared conscience if, hay ing found fault with the legislature for excessive appropriations for current and contingent expenses, he silently approves of legislation which without any valid excuse adds more than S170,- QUO to the indebtedness of the terri
 
 picion that the Herald's inconsistency in this matter arises from the fact that of this S170, 900 of the peoples money so generously voted away by the Nine- tcenth legislature, Maricopa county is a beneficiary to the amount of almost $12O,000.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

Mir. 0. c. Strong, principal of the public schools at Anderson, Cal, says: q have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm and have found it an excellent remedy for lameness and slight wounds." Lameness usually results from a sprain or other injury, or from rheumatism, for which Chamberlain's Pain Balm is especially intended and unequalled. It affords almost i'm mediate relief and in a short time effects permanent cure. For sale by II. 0. Hitchcock, druggist.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26
ATTACKED BY INDIANS IN
 THE YAQUI COUNTRY.

From the report published in re- cent number of the Fl Paso Herald of q party of Arizona prospectors having been attacked by Indians on the Bavispe river, it would appear that prospecting in the Yaqui country is not so safe as has been asserted since the treaty of peace between the Mexican government and the Yaqui tribe was ratified. Campbell, Cochise county cowboy, and companion named Dooley fell in with four other Arizona prospectors and together proceeded down the Bavispe river to a point near
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

Michel Angiolillo, the anarchist who assassinated Senor Canovas del Cas- tillo, prime minister of Spain, suffered the death penalty by being garroted on the goth inst. No sympathy will be wasted upon Angioillo by right minded people. He was not e subject of Spain, and Canovas was to him simply the representative of law and order against which his fanatical mind re- belled. Had his victim been the pres ident of France or the queen of Eng land, he and his fellow anarchists would have gloried in his crime. Nevertheless, those who are familiar with the cruelties of Spanish rule, the atrocities perpetrated upon it's victims prisoners of war and persons sus- peeted of erime--have had their sen. s.oilit;es but little disturbed by the tragic death of Canoyas. Under his iron rule the horrors of the inquisition were repeated. Men against whom only the mere suspicion of crime rested were subjected to the most in human tortures, bound with spiked iron chains, lacerated with barbed whips, the nails of their hands and feet forced with spikes and the flesh torn by pincers. What more damnable story of barbarism con be lodged against nation claiming to be civil ized, and what people have so great provocation to rebel against their rulers than the subjects of Spain?
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

A little republican rot is thrown out to Arizonans in a recent dispatch from Washington that ''it is understood that the president looks with favor upon the admission of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union" Not even the few gold bug traitors in the two territories will believe this. - Prescott Courier.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

of the eastern gold bug press, rejoicing over the decline of silver, as though the heavy shrinkage in the value of one of our great commodities was mater for congratulationl Their course might be in a measure excusablo if it were necessary in order to vindicate the Republican position on the silver question, bat it is not. It is In fact inconsistent with Republican profess sions which have shown at least sem blance of friendship for silver and an alleged desire to promote its larger use and to restore bimetallism by interna- tional agreement.
 The ridicule of silver indulged in by the Eastern Republican press can be ascribed to ignorance and passed over with contempt, but the course of the western cuckoos who echo such twad- dle is indefensible. They rejoice that the silver mining industry, which was the chief factor in the development of the great west, has been destroyed. They rejoice that the noise of the stamp mill has ceased in our noun tains; that the fires of our smelters have been extinguished; that once prosperous towns have now no other inhabitants than the bats and the coyotes. They rejoice that many mil lions invested in the mining and reduc- ton of silver ores has been utterly lost, and that thousands of industrious miners and their families have been brought to poverty and distress.
 We need not go outside of Arizona to witness the deplorable effects of the decline of silver mining. Look at Tombstone, once the bonanza silver camp of the southwest, now a collec- ton of crumbling buildings inhabited by only few hundred people who live upon the memories of its past glory. Look at the present deplorable condi- ton of Pinal county, whose great sil- yer mines formerly added many mil lions to the nations wealth. Look at Mohave county, the treasure box of northern Arizona, which has longest withstood the depreciation of silver but must succumb to the inevitable. Look at Pima and Yavapai counties, where years ago there were dozens of four ishing silver camps now practically abandoned. And last but not least in the list is our own Globe district, which had its rise from the immensely rich discoveries of silver in 1875 and 1876, and which for seven or eight years proved enormously profitable.
 The years of activity in silver min ing were by far the most prosperous ones ever experienced in Arizona, and notwithstanding the growth of copper and gold mining, of agriculture and the live stock industry, the territory has not since regained the ground lost when silver mining waned. In 1883 the assessed value of property in Ari- zona was over S36,000, 900, which, within eleven years, had declined nearly So, 1000, 900, and is today moro than S5. 900, 900 less than it WAS four teen years ago.
 These are regrettable facts which our overzealops Republican contem- poraries would do we'll to ponder, and should dispose them to the better use of their talents and space in serious effort to secure a more honest and economical administration of territorial and county government, and to build mp those industries which promise to restore measure of the prosperity which Arizona enjoyed during the era of silver mining.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

If anything is to be done toward the celebration next January of the tlftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold by Marshall at Coloma, Cal, it is time to go about it, says the Mining 6 Scien- tifc Press. So far as erecting monu- ment is concerned, the Sl.300, 900, ,000 in gold contributed by California is n pretty good monument itself.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26
BUSINESS POINTERS.

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 If you want clothing made to order and guaranteed to fit at REASONABLE PRICES, call on me and I can please yoI. New samples just received.
 G. s. VAN WAGENEN. Why bother with your subscriptions when Eugene Middleton takes sub scriptions for any paper or book pub lished at publishers prices. Don't send away for your job print ing. We do high grade work at most reasonable prices. Call and see our samples.
 When in want of good whishey call for Tom Howe.
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 Sole Agent for Globe. For n refreshing drink try II. c.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

The Anaconda, Mont, copper mines give employment underground to 5000 men, whose wages amount to Sl0,500 a day. Six thousand tons of ore are daily handled, yielding Ut the smelters between 100000 and 12,000, 900 pounds of copper monthly.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-08-26

Capt. w. l.. George, an old and respected citizen of Maricopa county, died at his home near Phoenix on the 20th inst. The Phoenix papers pay a high tribute to his character.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
May Be chrIs.Ian,a nIalnr Place.

ELLENVILLE, n. Y, oct 16.-Sher-
iff Watson of this place believes that
Wallace Christian. who recently at
Wurtsboro shot and killed a lumber
merchant from New York city named
Pritchard and fatally wounded a dep
uty who was with him while they were
endeavoring to serve a legal paper on
him, is hiding in the woods at Ulster
Heights. nine miles from here. 1t is
said that a man answering the descrip-
tion of Christian has been seen several
times in a desolate part Of the woods.
The sheriff, accompanied by Deputy
Avery, went on a tour Of inspection
and found a hut built OF Shrewsbury
brush and skins. In front of the place
a pile of Goals was seen, which would
indicate that the hut had lately been
occupied Sheriff Watson is making ar
rangement5 to thoroughly search the
woods
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
STARTLING CHARGE.
Eli Shaw is Arrested For His
Mothers Murder.
GRANDMOTHER WAS A VICTIM ALSO.
Police Apprehend Him at His Cousins
House Entertaining Sweetheart
Whom He Was to Have
Married To-day.

CAMDEN, N. j., oct. 16.-En Shaw
was taken into custody by the police
officials yesterday and formally charg-
ed with the murder of his mother, Mrs.
Shaw, and grandmother, Mrs. Emma
Zane, which occurred in this city Tues
day morning. The arrest was based on
newly discovered evidence, including
the finding of a 80 caliber revolver, OF
which two chambers had been fired, at
the bottom of a chimney. The pistol
was thrown into the chimney through
a stove hole in the room in the third
story which had been occupied by
Shaw
The police also discovered upon close
examination of the floor of Shaw's
room several blood prints.
Shaw was found at the home Of
cousin entertaining his sweetheart,
whom he was to have married today.
He was not told that he was suspected
Of the murders until he arrived at the
city Jail. Chief Of Police Dodd then
charged him with the crime and show
ed him the revolver. Shaw protested
his innocence, and in answer to the
question as to the ownership Of the re-
volver said il belonged to him. He was
then told Of the blood spots on the
floor of his room. He grew pale and
reeled against the side Of his cell, talk
ing incoherently.
Prosecutor jenkins rigidly cross-ex-
amined Shaw for three hours and a
half. When he left Shaw's cell, the
prosecutor said that he felt sure he
had the right man. The motive for she
crime, he said, was doubtless a desire
on the part of Shaw to inherit the prop
erty belonging to his grandmother and
mother in order to be married. His
salary was small and he had made ar
rangements to rent an expensive house
The prosecutor stated that he had 9
large amount of evidence in his pos
session which has not yet been made
public, which warrants him in believing
that the revolver had been thrown il
the chimney by Shaw.
1t is now believed that the murders
were committed two or three hours be
fore Shaw gave she alarm.
Physicians who examined the WON
ems bodies soon after Shaw gave tn
alarm have stated that the congealini
of the blood on the women clearly dem
onstrated this fact.
Since the murders Shaw has been a
the home of relatives. and has persis
tently stated that the crime was com
mitted by burglars. He said he wa
awakened early in the morning Of tn
murders by a noise down stairs an
went to the second floor TO investigate
His mother followed him and pushe
ahead to see what was the matter
He said he heard a shot and saw hi
mother fall. In the back room, he sai'
he saw the forms of two men, He the
gave the alarm and when the police al
rived the body of his grandmother wa
found sitting in a chair In the fror
room. Shaw at the time OF the murder
was recovering from an attack OF ty
phoid fever and has since been und'
the care of physician.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
BROKE ALL RECORDS!
Lieutenant Wise's Fast Ride
From Washington.
He MADE NEW YORK IN QUICK TINE.
Covered the Distance Despite Bad Roads
In Considerably Less Than Twenty
eight Hours, Eight Hours Bet
ter Than Previous Time.

NEW YORK, oct. 1G.--Lieuterant H.
A. Wise, u. S. A.. a member OF the New
York Athletic club, broke the Wash
ington-New York bicycle record by
more than eight hours when he finished
his ride yesterday.
Lieutenant Wise left Washington at
$40 a. m. Thursday, making the dis
tance, 2S9is miles In p hours and 80
minutes The best previous record was
&c hours.
Aside from the record breaking per-
formance, the n. Y c. AS new cham
pion gains prominence because of the
miserable condition of the roads
through Maryland So bad were they
from Baltimore to Havre de Grace that
Il took four hours for Mr.. Wise to make
25 miles, and on no part of the west
ern end OF the journey were the roads
I'm such shape that tandems could be
used in pacemahng.
The record was made possible only by
the remarkable time made after Phila-
delphia had been passed Five miles
between Railway and Elizabeth were
made in 16 minutes. Equally as good
time was made between Elizabeth and
Newark
Mr. Wise spent "a Of the p hours in
the saddle. Before daybreak yesterday
morning he was "all out" and IL was
thought that it would be absolutely
impossible for him to go any further,
! but he revived and finished strong.
"The greatest credit for the new rec
ord is due my pacemakers," Mr.. Wise
said to a reporter. "All the pacing
was voluntary, but no price could have
made il better. I was pulled along IN
splendid time and with hardly break
did not have time to thank the men
who accompanied me at various stages
but they are responsible in great meas
ure for the time made"
Messrs. whiting ana Thompson paced
! Mr.. Wise from Washington 10 Balti-
| more. From there to Philadelphia mem
bers of the Wilmington Bicycle clut
carried Wise along. From Philadel
phia a tandem team, manned by Davi
son and Tuthill and Gabriel and Nc
Doneu on singles, aided by severa
members Of the New Brunswick wheel
men. took the pace. From New Bruins
wick to New York, Mr. Wise says tn
pace was terrific.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
GOOD DIVING.
It IL the Chief Essential TO Marriage
at Himia Island.

It Is the Chief Essential TO Marriage
at Himia Island.
At Himia and other of the Greek is
lands in the Mediterranean diving for
sponges forms a considerable part Of
the occupation OF the inhabitants. A
visitor to that rather unfrequented re-
gion. writing of the island customs,
says: "Himia, which is q little island
directly opposite Rhodes, is worthy of
notice on naccountof the singularmethod
by which the Greek inhabitants get
their living. On the bottom of the sea
in this locality the common sponge is
found in greater abundance than in any
other part of the Mediterranean. The
natives make it trade TO gather these.
and derive a good income, their goods
being always in great denand among
The Turks, who use an incredible num-
Der of sponges in the ablutions pre-
scribed by their religion. A girl in
IIimia is not permitted to marry until
she has brought up certain number of
sponges and given proof other skin by
taking them from a certain depth. In
some Of the other islands this custom is
reversed. and the father Of q marriage
able daughter bestows her on the best
diver among her suitors. lie Who can
stay longest IN the water and lrfiizs up
the biggest lot Of sponges marries The
maid"
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
Ex.JupoE vNcENT sPgAKs.
Says the Prosecution Has Only Thrown
Mud at Luetgert.

CHICAGO. oct. 16.-The intensely hot
weather yesterday had but little effect
upon the attendance at the Luetgert
trial. The courtroom was packed, and
hundreds Of persons were unable to
gain admittance.
Attorney Vincent chief counsel for
the defense. continued his address to
the jury. His arguments were princi-
pally directed toward the reasonable
doubt" as to the death of Mrs. Luet-
CERT. He vigorously attacked the police
officials for their alleged browbeating
of witnesses, particularly in the case
Of Mary Siemmering, whom. he declar-
ed, the defendant had treated more like
a daughter than an employee.
The witnesses for the prosecution
were held up TO scorn, and ex-Judge
Vincent declared that the prosecution
had done nothing but throw mud at his
client, while the defense had been en-
gagged in scraping It Off.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
Prisoners Break Away.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct 16.-Dur-
ing the State Firemen's convention here
last week the police arrested Henry
Evans of Scranton, David Sullivan Of
Pittsburg and Lawrence Sullivan fot
Philadelphia. charged with being pick
pockets. They were committed TO jail.
Yesterday they were ordered before the
court for a habeas corpus hearing. JAN
Warden Boland had the three men in
charge and was escorting them from
the jail to the courthouse when all
three made a dash for liberty and es-
capped. Boland is a heavy man and
could not overtake the prisoners. 1t Is
believed that the men are notorious
cronks.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
Chnked adm to Death.

KENDALLVILLE. Ind, oct. 16.-
Near Brimfeld a small town near this
city. Adam Huffman, one Of the largest
landowners in northern Indiana, was
murdered and hired man may not re-
ever. Two masked men entered Huff
mans house ostensibly to rob him.
The hired man was first gagged. The
robbers then went to Huffman's room,
covered him with four guns and or
dered him to give up his money. When
Huffman refused, the men placed one
end OF a rope around his neck and the
other end was made fast to the bed.
They began a terrible two hours tor
ture by pulling him until he would
strangle. This continued until the rob-
bers saw that Huffman would not give
in. and they then choked him to death
and escaped.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
eEps OF EuRopeAN soLDIERs.
National characteristics Reflected in
the Different Military ReGuiatIons.

National characteristics Reelected in
the Different Military Regulations.
The soldiers bed differs notably in
the different European armies, Nthe
principal varieties being given below,
and in them may perhaps be sean the
reflection of national characteristics,
says the London Mail. In England the,
bed is hard; the soldier lies on q thin
mattress that rests on caRygS stretched
over a frame. In Spain the soldier has
only a straw bed, but he is allowed
besides this n pillow, two sheets, tsvo
blankets and a covered quilt. sometimes
even a cover for his feet. II is almost
sybaritic. In Germany and Austria he
has a simple straw bed, with one or
two covers, neither sheet nor mattress.
In Russia until recently the soldier
slept with his clothes on, on a camp bed;
but now ordinary beds begin to be
used-the result of contact with more
civilized countries. After this It can
not be doubted that the French sol
dier's bed is the best OF all, with its
wooden or iron bedstead, O straw bed,
a good mattress, sheets, a brown woolen
coverlet and an extra quilt for cold
weather. Thus the bed Of the French
soldier is the softest of adj soldiers
beds, as that Of the French peasant is
acknowledged also to be the best OF
all European countries.
Evening journal., 1897-10-16
Vineyard Lod TO Drunkennoss.

LITTLE ROCK. oct. 1e.-A letter
from a prominent citizen Of Warren
says: "Onc Of the largest and most val
liable vineyards in Bradley county has
just been destroyed by a mob of en-
ragged citizens. For several years a
beautiful vineyard has been growing
about eight miles south of Warren, the
product Of which has been converted
into native wines. It is alleged that
the sale OF the beverage has led to
much drunkenness among young men
and boys. Neighborhood gatherings
have been disturbed and orgies become
Of common occurrence. A meeting of
citizens was held at Farmerville. at
which it was resolved that the vine
yard was the primary cause Of the dis
orders, ana the citizens proceeded in a
body to the vineyard and destroyed It,"