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Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
MIR. ELLINWOOD'S STRUGGLE. He Gees to Headquarters and Prays
 for Relief.

Washington, Dec. 17.-(Sp-c al.)- United States Attorney Ellinwood was in the city yesterday On his way to Arizona from New York, where he has been transacting some business for a Mohave county (Ariz.) mining company. MT. Ellinwood, accompa- nied by Delegate M. A. Smith of Ari zona, called at the department of jus tice regarding the acceptance of MT. Ellinwood's resignation as Unite1 States attorney, which he submitted nearly six months ago. He was in formed that nothing would be done in the matter until after the holidays.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18

be occupied by the auditori stage The stage will be as the building and will be tA feet deep, large enough to accom1 date the most extensive scenery. TN(U stage will be siNty-five feet high and the dressing rooms will be under it. The emsions of the audito ium taking up the rest of the first floor will be 62x691h feet.
 Two large stairways will lead from the main entrance to the gallery and balcony on the second and third floors. Work will be begun on the new opera house about January l. There will be six other exits. It will be finished within six months.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
TT IS A GO THIS TIME.
A New Opera House Will Ger tainly Be
 Built Soon.

Manager s. B. Patton of the opera house will leave tonight for Les An geles to procure material and make other arrangements for a new op -ra house, whose erection he will shor.y begin. MT. Patton has been eng ged in this matter for long time, but has kept his plans to himself until row, when success is absolutely assured.
 The opera house will cost $30,000. Of this amount Mr Patton has alrsady secured subscriptions in the way Of bonuses amounting to s12,00o. These are not ordinary subscriptioHs whicl the subscribers might draw down at pleasure. They are all secur.1 by contracts, affording all the remedies appertaining to a mortgage in the everlt of an attempt at enforced col lection The subscribers are:
 s. Goodenow, Los Angeles, $1, ,5G0; B. W. Wells, Prescott, $1, 1,0G0; Isabella Horner, $1,000; E. M. Dorris, S1,000; A. RedewiH, S1,000; James M. Creigh- ton, $500; Neil Mcintyre, s450; J. w.. Walker, $750; T. A. Fulton, $330; F. B. Moss, $500; Mary J. H Hckey, s2O0; T. A. French, $200; A. M. Futile, $50; M. H. Sherman. s750; B. N. Pratt, s175; J. M. Ford, $500; Lulu J. Pc ter, $500; J. w. Evans, $500; William Go : lett, S1O0; Mrs. Kate Kearney, $200; isaac Orosco, $1O0; P. J. Cole, s25O.
 Besides these there are several per- sons not now in town who have sig nified their willingness to subscribe, so that it is possible that the bonus fund will reach $15,OOO, or half the estimated cost of the building.
 The opera house will occupy two lots on the Goodenow property on the north side of Washington street, be- tween Third and Fourth avenues. It will have a frontage of siXty-two f5et on Washington and depth of 137Zz feet.
 On each side of a spacious main entrance from Washington street there will be two storerooms, each with frontage of twenty-two feet and a depth of thirty-sIx feet. The rest of the first floor, the width of the build ing and with the depth not taken up by the storerooms and entrance, will
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
TO EQUIP GLASGOW TRAMWAYS
Westing ghouse Electric Company Has
 Been Awarded the Contract.

F.,ttsburg, Dec. 1.-The Westing- house Electric company received ca blegra1n from Scotland yesterday to the effect that the municipality Of Glasgow had awarded it the contract for equipping the traction tranTways and power houses with machinery. This is the biggest contract of the year in this line.
 The Glasgow tramMays are seventy miles tn length. Commissioners f,om that city were here last year inspect ing American traction lines
 The Westinghouse Electric and Ma chine company has also received a contract for a street lighting plant for Malaga, Spain.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
An Inspiring Theme in tie
 Senate Yesterday
A QUESTION 0F REVENUE
The House Rejects the Sen
 ate's KIondyke Relief Bill
Passage of Delegate Smiths Bil Amending the Act Giving the c va. & W. a Right Of Way over San Carlos Reservation.

Washington, Dec 17-A spirited debate was precipitated in the senate today by the submission by MT. Plat of Connecticut Of the report of a spe- cial committee of the senate and house appointed to investigate the use of al cohol in the arts. It developed that a wide divergence of opinion exists among the senators as to the pract.- cability from a point of view of the government revenue of reducing the present tax upon alcohol used in the arts.
 MT. Hoar of Massachusetts, who favors such a reduction, expressed an opinion that if congress would lay aside political considerations and deal with the liquor question courageously and honestly by imposing an addi- iionaI tax of "a dollar a barrel on beer, the question of the governments rev. enue would take care of fsself.
 MT. Vest of Missouri opposed the additional tax on beer. At the sug gestion of MT. Hawley, chairman of the military affairs committee, the bill passed by the house for the relief of the miners in the Klondyke region was taken up at once. The senate bill was substituted for that of the house and a conference was ordered, with Messrs Hawley, Carter and Coclrell, ccnferees.
 THE HOUSE.
 Washington, Dec. 17.-The house today completed the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill excepting the para graph relating to the civil service. The bill as reported albolishes the assay office at Dead,wood, s. D., "a d the hints at Carson, New, and New Or leans. Today representatives from the two former states made a vigorous and successful fight to continue the appropriations. for Deadwood and Carson City The appropriations com mittee was bearen in each instance.
 The house refused to accept the sen ate amendment to the bill for the re- lief of the miners on the upper Yukon and h was sent to conference.
 On motion of MT. Smith, democrat of Arizona, bill was passed to amend the act granting the right of way through the San Carlos Indian res ervation to the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad, so as to extend the time for the construction of the road for two years.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
THE CHA VALLEY ROAD.
The Right of Way Through San Car
 los Reservation.

Washington, Dec. 17.-(Spec:al)- The committee of the house today re- ported favorably a bill granting right of way to the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad through the San Carlos reservation in Arizona Pres ident Garland of the railroad has been in the city during the last two weeks in the interest of this measure. There is no opposition to the bill in either house.
 An effort was first made to get a right of way through the reservation two years ago and it was reported from time to time that it had been obtained or would soon be obtained. It was attempted, though, by means of departmental order, the consent of the Indians having been first se- cured One hitch after another pre- sented itself until last spring it began to be suspected that President Gar land did not want right of way at all, that it was not his purpose to ex- tend the line beyond Geronimo, for the reported reason that he was in terested in freighting enterp ise across the reservation from which he was deriving a greater profit than he could hope to receive if the road were built. His seeming apathy regarding the right of way began 10 be criti- cised by newspapers and others in the Gila valley and at Globe and at length a new railroad company was formed involving in network of roads one from the valley to Globe.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
MURDERERS DAY.
Its Observance in Tennessee and
 Georgia

Covington, Tenn, Dec. 17.-William Johnston was today hanged for the cold-blooded murder of Farmer Walter Boyd at Idaville, Tipuon county on August last.
 A GEORGIA AFFAIR.
 Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17.-Grady Rey- holds and Bud Brooks were executed today for the murder of M. c. Hunt of Belton.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
THE DRAGONS RECoNCILED.
A Pathetic Meeting at the Mclean
 Hospital

Waverly, Mass, Zee. 17.-It is re ported that thete is a complete recon cfliation between Edward Parker Dea- con and his wife, Mrs Florence Dea- con, at the Mclean hospital, where the former has been confined since last September.
 Mrs. Deacon has given up her home in Paris and came here about ten days ago so as to be near her sick husband. The meeting, it is said, was a most pathetic one, and Mrs. Deacon was much impressed. He con- versed in a rational way and the phy-
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
SEVEN YEARS FOR A BANKER.
Made False Showing to the Comp
 troller of the Currency.

Salt Lake, Utah, Dec. 1T.-Seven years in prison was the verdict i'm posed upon Banker J. H. Bacon hy Judge Marshall of the United States district court today. Bacon was last night found guilty by a jury of mak- comptroller of the currency while president of rational bank in this city
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
AN ARIZONA POSTMISTRESS.

Washington, Dec. 17.-(Spe cial.)-- Miss c. de la Osa was appointed post mistress at Lochiel, Ariz., vice Vir- ginia Harrison, resigned.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
THE MESA BOYS ARE FREE.
The Jury in Five Hours Found A Yer
 dict of Not Guilty

SteeS, RlSSS 2nu Da1iy, the Mesa boys charged with the murder of Andy Grant, the hobo, at Jones' win cry, near Mesa, last October, were ac- quitted in district court yesterday af- ternoon. The proceedings of the last day were opened by the closing argu- ment of Judge Kibbey for the terri tory. At the end of his address the defense seemed to be shattered, if not quite destroyed, and the most that the friends of the boys hoped for, not withstanding the admirable defense of Messrs. Flannigan & Willis, was a failure to find a verdict.
 The case went to the jury at half past ten. The mothers and other rel- atives and friends of the youthful de- fendants hung about the court house or jail during the dragging hours. As time passed bringing no mess age from the jury room the tension increased and anxiety became almost unIbe2r- able. These women had been able to sit through the trial with composuTe, for result was not imminent until
 
 verdict had been found. The court house was soon filled and the jury men filed in and took their seats Then those slow processes of the law began which cruelty waiting friends of folks who have been tried for seri- ous chimes A bailiff walked wish tho greatest deliberatfon to the jury Sbox The foreman rose slowly and pro slowly extended his hand paper in it. The bailiff took it .s handed it to the judge, who Op4 it and seemed ito read it with the
 most care and deliberiaition, and 4- handed it down to Deputy Cfef< Knapp, who seemed to peruse it's c0n: tents for needlessly lcng time. At length he asked the gentlemen .Is this your Eax5ia ?, The geatlsmen appeared to be unable to answer the with seeming reluctance that it was All this was fast and prompt enough, but this is the way it seemed to the boys mothers. Then the deputy clerk began to read: "We, the jury, l find Henry Steele, John Riggs and Eugene Daily the re3d- CT was apparently unable to make out the next word aIsd there was a hesitancy of centuries. Finally he added, mot guilty" What the rest i of the verdict was nobody heard, for a scene involving a great deal of noise began. The mothers sprang from their chairs. Each clasped boy in her arms, one crying, 'tOh, my boy! My dear boy! My dear boy! Praise the Lordr' One more thoughtful wo- man leaned across the naiIi g of the jury box snd cried, God will bless you for this, gentlemen! God will bless youv Then she 1Rr hack to her boy and hugged him rapturous.y. An older brother of ona of the de- fendants walked back and forth, his face contor,ed with joy and with ] streaming eyes. But the mothers and relatives were not the orly weeping ones; some of the lawyers and jury mems eyes wee wet. But the defeni
 ants were dry eyed. They were too thoroughly surprised and scaral to cry, but they looked as if they would never go a hunting hobos any more. Thomas Prescott, the court bailiff. who was about the size and age of the ds- fendants, narrowly escaped amid the indiscriminate hugging a d kissing which was going on.
 l SEVEN YEARS FOR A BANKER.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET.

Kansas City, Dec. 7.-Catge re- ceipts, 4,500; best grades steady; others weak; Texas steers, S3@4.20; Texas cows. s2.10@3: native steers, $3.30@ 5-25: native cows and heifers, $1.50@ 4.25; stockers and feeders. S3@4.50; bulls, $2.15@3. 50; sheep receipts, 2,000; market firm; lambs, $3@6: muttors, 2.25@430.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-18

THE METAL MARKET. New York, Dec, 1z Bilver certif- cates, 5eh@57;' sii7 fs, 5eM.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
A EiSHY MYSTERY.
How Does Il Come About That Fishes A
Found In Such Queer Places?

How Does Il Como About That Fishes Ar
| Found In Such Queer P1acesF
81 would Like to have some scientist
| explain to me-" said West slider OF an
| investigating turn Of mind, show on
bodies of water where there is absc.
lutely no channel from or to any other
pond or river. I don't mean by that
| natural lakes. but places where the
rain, filling excavations, has produced
small ponds. Such places would be ex.
pected to remain free from animal life,
barring insects forever, but they don't.
The phenomenon can be studied out
On the West side, and put in consider
able time last summer specializing on it
"Out west of the old limits, in that
wilderness which lies on the border of
Cicero, are several big quarries, and
two or three which have been long
abandoned. One Of these abandoned
euarries in particular afforded me much
research and study. It has been filed
up-partly from the water usually
found after a deep excation Is made.
and partly by the rains of Is years, I'M
til the water is at least 20 feet deep.
There is almost no vegetation, except
ing few sparse tufts of grass, round
the rocky shores; the white stones and
yellow sand or hardened clay stretches
away on all sides, and the general
aspect of the place is as horrible and
forbidding as the shores of the Dead
sea. The water is almost black. and
exhales sickening odor. No wonder.
for it has been the burying ground for
years of all animals which have died in
the neighborhood, and the drowning
place OF innumerable kittens and pup
pies. Here and there the corpse Of
some beast can be seen eating on the
sUrface-along the shores are many
skeletons. It is wonder that none of
the murderers who in the past years
have gone to so much trouble in hiding
the bodies of their victims thought OF
weighting the bodies with rocks which
lie strewn so thieldy on the shores and
then hurting them into these black
waters. That quarry hole, according TO
the people who live near, has never
been dragged for any purpose.
I'm this hideous sink of stagnant
water are live ashland hundreds of
them. The boys Of the neighborhood
cast their nets for them and catch them
in great quantities. only trust that
they do not eat them. I have, at diff
ferent times. caught many of the fish,
and found that, without exception,
they have sickened and died almost i'm.
mediately when transferred into clean
water. In that hole they live and in
that liquid putridNy they thrive.
These queer inhabitants Of the
water are like catfish in one regard
absolutely scaleless and as Shiny as an
eel. Yet they have the form of heavier
scaled species of fish "-ChicaUo News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19

The goldfish is not as tender an ami
nal as Is imagined. for n handling and
moving them from one pond TO another
they are dipped up in nets and carried
about in baskets, much like corn or po-
fstoes. Sometimes they are out Of the
water 30 minutes, and seldom Is u thar
they are injured. How long they VIII
live depends altogether Oh their treat
ment. IN the government aquarium q
Washington Is goldfish that Is Known
10 be 50 sears O. age, and IL il not per-
ceYfihly larger thar when hrs; placed
there There IS said 70 De N the Royal
aquarium az Rome. Italy. fish that q
more than 100 years of age, but i las
grown slightly IN the last . years.
It's color Is the same. except slight
change with fke s---onx -IoLisDa polls
Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
TAKE THE MISSOURI
L a

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lily Ticket Office liz North Main street
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We can sell you through Railway
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We are agents for the following lines
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We also make q speciality OF p-Ansid
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
Great tsIr~s

A southern California bsby-burro-
ing owl. FIVE weeks old. cate hsi IA
weight OF raw beef az 3 single meal
md does not suffer in the slightest Do
gree from dyspepsia Il taxes thr-.
square meas OF this SIDE daily. and even
then appears 20 lie hungry al Bedtime.
An observing physician believes that
valuable digestive ads for the human
stomach can De extracted from tbsGr
owls OF large appetite. which viii be
more e5cacio1s possibly than are the
pcpsi2 preparations EoTv secured from
the Intervals Of pigs Should tss-s ~,
lief be confirmed the market for CALI
forria owls ought 10 be considerable.
Ez5 the demand for the birds nigh,
warrant TIE cslaoiishnen. o. owl
yzcss.-Bo-soa Eodge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
THE 1ALLEST RAILROAD.
n Ii Built Among the Mountain NGsrge
of Peru.

10 Ii Built Among the Mountain NGsrgea
of Peru.
The Peruvian Central, .Transandine,
Or Oroya, railroad begins six feet above
tide water at Callae. From Lima, eight
miles ahead and 500 feet higher, it
winds up the narrowing valley of the
Rimac, past great haciei'das and for
gotten ruins. At Chosica, SO miles from
tho sea, it has gained but $500 feet
in elevation, but within the yard lin
its of that station begins the four per
cent. grade, which is steadily main
tanned for 70 miles. The Eimac's gorge
becomes deeper and more contracted,
the little bays and benches of cultiva-
bic land rarer. At the hamlet Of San
Bartolome serious engineering begins.
The overhanging hillsides on the right
displays the first "V'-the Characters
tic device so frequently necessary to
overcome the headlong valley. The
maximum gradient (allowed by con-
tract of 211 feet to the mile has in many
places been stretched, and the actual
gradient is sometimes nearer five per
cent. But even this was insufficient to
meet the exigencies of the quebrada,
whose floor often exceeds that slope.
Tho only way TO get ahead was TO run
back few furlongs or miles at full
grade. and then to shoot forward on the
upper arm Of the zigzag. Some Of these
"V's" run back and forth like slopang
shelves in the high walls of the main
gorge; some double and twist far up
lateral valleys. Not to confne the mat
ter to single points, where the road
has to give five miles to gain one, the
total percentage is astonishing. From
Callao TO Oroya the length OF the track
is 221k kilometers; of these, 7eK Zone
mile in every three) are consumed in
overcoming the rise-a9d this besides
the unprecedented maintaining of such
a maximum grade.
Four miles above San Bartolome and
its tropic side valley is the great bridge
of the Aqua de Verrugas, or water OF
warts. This noble cantilever. built in
New Jersey. has length Of $50 feet
and height OF 26o. The old bridge was.
in its day, the highest in existence
anu was IAtdHb " bt- - bhdS Gnu
the center pier was sunk at 12-foor
pit. This pier was washed out by
eloudburst in 1859, and for year traffic
was maintained by a cage swinging
on cables across the gap. The present
structure has been left far behind az
10 height by the bridge over the river
Loa, on the 6O0-mile Antofagasta line
in Chili-the longest OF narrow-gauge
railroads, and, with its 3o-inch track.
the tipsiest. The Aqua de Verrugas
is not TO be laughed down as a super
stition. OF the grim reality in these
poisonous springs, which i'll the unwary
drinker with frightful goitres. one may
see visible proofs in plenty. The build
ing of the Nerrugas bridge cost ter
rible mortality, and the cemetery Of
Bellavista is full of its victims The
strange and frequently fatal disease
of the warts" which haunts many cor
ners OF the Cordillera, seem TO have
relation TO certain mineral strata II
IS alike unknown, in this part OF Peru,
below 5000 and above 1900 feet.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

-~Does your wife enjoy her whist
.club?" Cant say-but do; she comes
home SO used up she doesn't say word.
Chicago Record.
-Stunning.-Gosling-"What do YOU
think of this new tie of mine?" Wig
gins-'My boy, it's not a tie. It's a col
ored supplement-
Chair TIL wonder why women
wear such accursed hats, anyway
Chair 72-''Never heard OF a woman who
had blessed thing to wear, did you?'
Detroit Journal.
what are you crying SO for. Nellie?'
sob, it's nothing, Lucy. I want my
husband to buy me a new bonnet to-
morrow, and am simply practicing g
ittle."-Tit-Bits.
-He-"Have you heard my new song
The Proposal?' She-''No-what
key is it written in?" BE miner
Il will. And now you can transpose ii
TO the key OF a fat Life.
kept His Head.-ObersteA, Jr.-
HE said he'd lick me for two centsl"
Oberstein, Sr.-Mein gracious. and
what did you say, my son?" Oberstein,
Jr.-T asked him for q so per cent. re.
duction."-Truth.
-'sYou cawn't set down no Axed rule
o. conduct in this life" said old Virgins,
the Barlew Now orator. Samson got
into trouble cause he got rs hair cut,
and Absalom got into trouble cause he
didn' t."-Tit-Bits.
An Unconfrmed Rumor.@Johnny
,-"Papa" Papa-"Well?" Johnny
-"Some of the boys in school say that
President Mckinley is going to have
Mark Hanna's birthday made national
holiday. Is ittrue ?"-Brooklyn Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
FIRE FIRE FTRE FIRE

Yes. there was fir IN rear Of build
ing where cur ticket office Is located.
Our ticke. office is Still there-i14 North
Main street: We are ready for business
a IN. old stand Tickets TO all paints.
Our train service is still first-class, our
:ire tl.e quickest i: viii be 20 your ai-
Manage To cal and see US before COM
ple,!ng arrangements for your trip. St
Lol.s Express leaves Wichita daily a,
Si0 .. N. arriving IN S. Louis a. 7:l5
next morning. Night Express leaves al
30 for Kansas City. St Louis and all
points cas- Colorado fast Line, leaves
Wicri:a a. SIS y. n. arriving a. Pusb-
% next morning at |. 80. Colorado Springs
SIS. Denver al II aoca- Remember the
Miss u-i Pacific City Tscke- Office is To-
Gated at Ia North Main street
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