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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15
WILL TEsT CIVIL SERVICE

An important case IS in the United States Court at Milwaukee, inas- much as it will test the validity of the civil service law in many of its features, and hence its decision will be far reaching ir its effect. The case, as telegraphed, is substantially as follows: The complainant tCol. Charles w. Carr, superintendent of the sub-postal station at Engle- wood, a suburb of Chicago, and who seeks to secure a permanent order restraining the postal authorities from reducing him to the ranks. A temporary order was issued by Judge Jenkins a week ago. The decision of Judge Jenkins, being the first to be rendered, will serve as a precedent and will, to that extent, determine the status and rights of government employees throughout the country. The controversy hinges solely on the question whether sum- mary changes in the position of government employees can be made where the position is one which
 omes under the civil service law. On June 27th last, President Mo Kinley announced an amendment 10 the civil service law of 1888, and which provides that no removal shall be made from any position open to competitive examination, except for just cause upon written charges filed with the head of the department through an appoint ed officer, and of which the accused shall have full notice to attend and to make defense. The postoffice department at Washington, from which the order for Col. Carr's trans fer was issued, joins issue in the present proceeding, and insists that this rule applies only to dismissals from the service, and not to transfers or reductions in the ranks.
 In speaking of the arrangements made between a committee of the bankrupt Massachusetts Benefit Life Association and the New York Life Insurance Company, in regard to re- insuring the members of the former in the latter company, General R. Allyn Lewis, of Phenix, general agent of the New York Life Insur- ance Company, says: Your article states thnt the table of rates sent out were simply the regular rate card of the New York Life Insur- ance Company. This is incorrect. These rates are lower than any other on-participating rates of the con- pany, and are applicable ONLY to members of the defunct Associa- tion." Now, for the benefit of the policy holders of the defunct com pany, will General Lewis kindly state just what the exact difference IS between these cut rates and the
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Uruguay rebellion has been suppressed.
 The fve-year-old daughter of Thomas Hawkins, a farmer at Greenwood, California, near Ukiah, was burned to death and the house destroyed.
 A severe hurricane visited Port Arthur and Sabine Pass, Texas, Sun- day night blowing down many build ings and killing thirty people.
 NJ. F. Reginer, chairman of the democratic county committee. at Monmouth, Illinois, shot and killed Simon Frandsen. a young butcher on Monday. The latter paid atten ton to Reginer's daughter against his wishes and was warned not to do so. After Reginer shot at him Frsndsen went home and got shot gun and returned, but missed Reginer, who then killed him.
 After five months of a bitterly contested trial, the famous Agnes Craven case has been submitted to the jury, and that body retired to deliberate upon the answers to the three momentous questions referred to 1t. These are: First, Were the two pencil deeds in controversy signed by the late Jas. G. Fairi Second, If so, were they duly acknowledged by himi Third, Was a conspiracy existing between Mrs. Nettie R. Craven. Mrs. Elizabeth Haskins and James J. Cooney, which had for its object the footing of the Fair estatei
 A Chicago telegram says. The fourth week of the Luetgert trial commenced today with the cross examination of Professor G. V. Bailey, and the attorney was soon involved in a dispute with the wit ness, which called for the interfer- ence of the court. The professor startled Attorney Vincent by stating that he had discovered six sesamoid bones in a single hand while a stu dent at the University of Paris. The attorney declared that surgical history contained no reference to more than one sesamoid on hand or foot. The witness admitted that he knew that, and had kept the dis covery a secret because be was writ ing a book on the subject. He was granted until tomorrow in which to examine some sesamoid handed him by the defen 1ant's attorney. At l1:30 Juror Fowler was taken sud denly i'll, and court adjourned.
 Rev. E. T. Howard, alias Hayward, the EnglishmaD convicted at Clarks- vile, Tennessee, nine years ago for fraudulent use of the mails, has just escaped from the Ohio peuiten- tiary.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15
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Admiral Hatch started up the river on Wednesday morning on the schooner McCord with a full crew and a cargo of provisions and tools for the purpose of establishing a wood camp on the upper end of the prison farm. He took twenty-four men with him who are willing and anxious to cut their way to liberty by having their time reduced one month for each ten cords of wood produced. Some of them have as high as 300 cords to cut to regain their freedom. but they all started in with a willingness that means business. Trees are now falling right and left, and the territory will have to buy no more wood for the prison, which makes saving to the taxpayers of about twelve dollars a day Sentinel.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

A violent, but not very protracted rain storm, ragged in and about Phe- nix last night. A great deal of thun- der and lightning was crowded into a very brief space of time An un- der ground thunder bolt hit The Republican office, made the incau- | descent lights blink and burned out a motor. Another inexperienced bolt invaded the Western Union. It | followed an unused wire in and burned it of, and enveloped the front end of the room in a blue flame. A stranger was standing at a desk writing a message, which he was in hurry to send of. When he saw the flame, he shot out the door and did not return. The storm seemed to be heavy in the south west, but no report of damage along the line of the railroad was received. The east bound Southern Pacific express arrived at Marieopa almost on time.-Republican.
 Governor McGord in his address at Prescott yesterday evening. touched up the statehood qvestion in way that indicates much earnest ness on his part in this matter, and he should receive the thorough sup port of the people of the territory on that question. He reviewed the possibilities of the territory for development in a masterly way; gave an interesting resume of the advances of the country at large in its material development in the past 100 years, and ended with 8 neat compliment to the builders of the s. F., F. & P. road. Altogether, the governors speech was a profitable one for the people to listen to, and though it touched upon none of the mooted questions of labor, it gave splendid example of the results of intelligent, persistent, successful labor, both in the material develop- ment of the nation and our own ter ritory.-Phenix Herald.
 A report comes from White Hills that two men perished on the desert NAANS PAaNS duu DO06IlS Ferry last week. The names of the men are supposed to be James Shea and James Rogers. A man named Mcguire was with them when last seen. The report has it that the mail ride: found Rogers ehe,.. ten miles from the river lying beside the dead body of Shea. He took Roe CTS to the river, but he was past recovery, and died soon afterward Mcguire made his way to the river and IS all right. The men had been drinking heavily before leaving the White Hills and were unacquainted with desert country. The desert. between White Hills and Boneli,s Ferry IS one of the worst in Ar;- zona, and more men have perisbed on 1t than on any of the others Scarcely year passes that a victim is not claimed by this long stretch Of sandy country.-Mohaye Miner
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

The Castle Creek Hot Springs and Improvement Company this morning filed with the county re- corder a map of the new toll road from Vulture Siding to the hot springs. Herald.
 The coroner's jury in the case Of B. F. Zoeckier met this morning m Justice Kincaid's court, and ad- journed to meet on the morning or the 10th instant at nine o'clock. The delay is caused by the attor neys in the ease not supplying the coroner with the names of the wit nesses to be examined before the jury.-Herald.
 Judge J. II. Kibbey has one of the oldest, perhaps the oldest book in the United States, printed from movable type. 1t is copy of the old canonical laws printed iu Latin in l479, thirty-six years after print ing was invented. The pages are not numbered but there are about one thousand. The work is em- bossed by hand work, making it book of rare value.-Gazette.
 United States District Attorney Ellinwood expects to devote his time in future to building and man aging railroads, and this morning filed with the territorial secretary ! notice of his intention to construct two lines of railroads in Arizona. One from Phenix to Globe, via Tempe, Mesa and Pinal county, a distance of about a hundred miles. The other from Queen Wash, Final county to Florence, distance of fifteen miles, to connect first line with Florence.-Phenix Herald.
 The flood caused a great deal of damage at Duncan and vicinity last Sunday. Several hundred acres of corn, squash and vegetables were washed away. A large number of cattle were drowned. The rising water caused them to collect in punches on the high places along the river bottom, and when the big flood came 1t swept them away, At l Clifton no particular damage was done, so far as learned, except that the abutment at one end of the sus- pension bridge was partly under mined. Graham Guardian.
 J. A. Kurtz, yesterday met with two accidents which he construed to be warning against labor. He was assisting in some improvements going on about his residence. He picked up a pile of old boards to carry them somewhere else and a protruding nail plowed a furrow two inches long on one of his fingers to the depth of the bone. He had the wound dressed and again as- saulted the lumber pile. A scorpion stuDg him on another finger, where upon he left of work, believing if he persisted the house would fall upon him for a third hint.-Pheuix | Republican.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

regular rates of the company for the same kind of policyf II the JOURNAL. MINER has formed an erro- neous opinion m regard to the ar rangements made, which still looks shady" despite General Lewis ex- plar ation it wants to be put right in the matter.
 Governor Tlllman, of South Caro- lima, is abroad again with his pitch fork, stating that he does not see any real signs of prosperity. In a speech in New York state the other day he likens the wave of business and farm activity which is now sweeping over the country to-a hot air balloon ascension, and predicts that it will collapse with a mighty thud. The wheat boom, be asserts, is merely speculative, and for the aid of Mark Hanna; that when wheat goes up it is at the expense of the people of the east who buy bread. If MT. Bryan were to be voted for today he would be elected, he says, by an overwhelming vote. In the first place, if Mir. Bryan were to be voted for today he would stand no more show of being elected than the man in the moon; but will the governor state just where he standsi Last year he hurled denun- citations at the gold power because the farmer was getting a low price for his wheat; now he says the high price of wheat will cause suffering among the people who buy bread. But Mir. Tillman's remarks are not worthy of serious consideration. Any man that makes such a state ment as that the present great wheat movement affecting the whole world to the extent of hundreds of mil lions of dollars, is "merely Specula- tive" and designed to aid Mark Hanna, is either fool or kuave. The Senator is not thought gener- ally to be fool, and it is hardly polite to call United States Sena- tor knaYe. Still, we wish to give the Senator the benefit of the doubt and will leave the verdict to the people.-Ex.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

Several of our exchanges announce the death of the Apache Kid. Be- fore taking it for granted that the Kid is dead, We would like to hear from him.
 New claim ants for big slice of the City of Washington have turned up in the persons of the heirs of one Henri Jacques Marie Poole, a French adventurer, who is said to have received a grant for the land from George Washington. They would probably sell their alleged claim very cheap.
 Of all the silly stories of the silly season, that which surrounded Pres 1 ident Mckinley with detectives while he was in Ohio was about the sIlfiest. One of his first official acts as President was to order the gov ernment detectives who had acted as body guard to MT. Cleveland given more useful occupations. If he didn't want body guards in Washington he certainly wouldn't want them when he was among his old friends and neighbors.
 "The present prosperity of the United States" says the Kansas City Star, rests on a much broader foundation than the advance in the price of wheat. This has contrib uted much to it. But the improve ment in business got under way before the allowance in wheat start ed; before it was generally realized that Europe would require more than the usual quantity of wheat from this county. If it should turn out that tue crops of the world are not as deficient as many people suppose them to be, the prosperity in this country will continue to grow; more men will find employ ment; more tarm products will be consumed; more clothing bought, and the people will go on enjoying more and more of the good things of life"
 The JOURNAL-MINER gives space in this issue to an alleged reply to ar article recently published, m regard to an arrangement made between the funeral directors of the Massa. chusetts Benefit Life Association and the New York Life Insurance company. The article is from the trenchant pen of General R. Allyr Lewis who is the general agent fol the New York Life Insurance com pany in this territory. The mair point to this reply is that a "cut rate" insurance has been offered bN the New York Life. As the genera has the advantage over the writer oI having the rate cards of the com pany his statement can not be sue cessfully contradicted. The alleged special offer made to policy holder' of the bankrupt company was ordi nary straight life ''psy as long as yoI live and when you die participate in no profits" The rate card sem to catch the unwary policy holders of the NJ. B. L. A. were practically the same, as the same kind of in surance offered by other companiei hence we still fail to see where any advantage can accrue by reinsurinG in the New York Life, in preference, to other more conservative and nor, economically managed companies.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15
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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

Typhoid fever has broken out in Dawson City, Alaska, and men are dying amid the gold for which they toiled and sweat and bled.
 The striking coal minors are con- sidering a proposition to resuu1e work at 65 cents per ton.
 Colorado democrats nominated a Cleveland democrat for justice of the supreme court.
 Col. Jack Haverly, who made SI, 100000 in the show business and then lost it all in stocks, will return to his old business again.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

The Uruguay rebels are within two days march of Montevideo, the capital city.
 A drouth in Missouri threatens the corn crop.
 A new ocean cable is talked of from Vancouver to Australia.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15

E@THE cool weather has caught US littleun s awares, and our summer dress goods not nov ing rapidly enough to suit us, consequently we must push them.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-02

Graded School at Broussard.
The citizens of Broussard and
vicinity met last Saturday and took
the initiatory steps toward the estab
lishment of a graded school.
Among the gentlemen present were:
Prof. r. J. Morrow, School Direc-
tor Aurelien Olivier, r. U. Ber-
nard. M. Billeaud, ST., Ed St.
Julien, Adolph Gerouard, Messrs.
Montet and Bryan and several other
leading citizens of that community.
The School Board will be asked
to make an additional appropria-
ton and should this not be suffi
cient, the citizens will make up the
difference by private subscriptions.
It is the purpose to employ a COM
petent teacher to take charge of the
school with Prof. Morrow, the
present teacher of the Broussard
school.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-02
LAFAYETTE LA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER g. 1897
For q modified Quarantine.

The following petition was pre-
sented to the Board of Health Of
this town at its meeting Tuesday
night:
To kA< Ro~. Maye> asd zeson Cornell apS
Board IF Health and Police Js,y 81
tie Parish ssd zoso's ef Zafay<ft<.
We. the undersigned railroad men and
citizens In mass meeting assembled, do here
by petition the Hon. Mayor. Town Council,
Board Of Health and Police Jury to modify
the quarantine restrictions ~ they wese pre-
vious to Wednesday, the 32nd, 1897. Hop
ing that you will take favorable action ut
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-02
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF the Board-No Fever at Roy.
ville-Abs0lute Quarantine
Against the East.

SOAASAAA~
Against the East.
The Board of Health held an i'm
portant meeting Thursday night.
The following members were pres
ent: Drs. ]. d. Trahan, T. B.
Hopkins, G. A. Martin. p. M. Gil
rard and Mr.. ]. J. Davidson. In
the absence of the president. DR..
Trahan was elected president pro
TEN.
DR.. Roy Young made 4 clear
statement to the board concerning
the rumor about the existence of
suspicious cases of fever at Roy
vile. DR.. Young stated positively
that there was nothing at Royvil.e
or vicinity that bore the remotest
resemblance to Yellow Jack and
facetiously remarked that the coun-
try was distressingly healthy. DR..
Young added, however, that he and
the other Royville physicians court
ed an Investigation and would be
pleased to assist the Board of
Health in establishing the absolute
falsity of the rumor which was
causing some injury to Royville and
no little vexation to the people of
that town. The board approaching
the generous offer of DR.. Young,
appointed Drs. Trahan and Hop
kins as commission of experts to
visit Royville and report the result
of their investigation to the board
with view of quelling the excite
ment produced by the circulation
of this rumor.
Mr.. Ed C. VOORHEES, addressed
the board in very respectful Ian
guage. He said that in asking the
board to establish absolute quaran-
tine against Iberia, St. Martin aud
Vermilion parishes he expressed the
wish of a large number of citizens
of this town.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Voor-
HES remarks the board considered
the proposition of declaring abso-
lutte quarantine against the parishes
decided to recommend to the Coun-
Gil the adoption of quarantine regu-
lations permitting no intercourse
with St. Martin, Iberia, and Yer
million parishes and all other par
lshes or towns receiving goods from
New Orleans.
Hon. VIM. Campbell made a
short talk pledging to to board his
best efforts to organize and main
tain a VOLUNTEER force.
Mayor Caffery stated to the board
that Mayor Daboval of Rayne
wished to know if the Lafayette
board would be willing to meet the
Acadia board in conference for the
purpose of considering the advisabi-
lity of running local train from
Lake Charles to this point. Mr..
Caffery informed the board that a
train was now running from Lake
Charles to Acadia and it was sug-
gested to extend the run to Lafa-
yette. Mr.. Caffery was authorized
to communicate with Mayor Dabo-
val and inform him that the con-
ference would be agreeable to the
Lafayette board.
The Board then adjourned.
The City Council met immediate
ly after and adopted the .recommen-
dations of the Board of Health.
Graded School at BrOussard.
The citizens of Broussard and
vicinity met last Saturday and took
the initiatory steps toward the estab-
lishment of graded school.
Among the gentlemen present were:
Prof. r. J. Morrow, School Direc-
tor Aurelien Olivier, r. U. Ber-
nard, M. Billeaud, ST., Ed St.
Julien, Adolph Gerouard, Messrs.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-02
Watches repaired 1T Biossat's.

The Fever In Now Orleans.
Daily reports from New. Orleans
have not been very encouraging
during the past week. The last
bulletin from DR.. Oniphant to DR..
Trahan is as follows: seReport for
- hours ending 9 p. m. (Sept. soy
~ cases, 3 deaths. Total cases.
228; deaths, z8.
Watches repaired a, Biossat's,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-02

w. w. LESLEY, M. D.,
H. E. Toll,
r. DOMENGEAUx,
F. w. COURTNEY, NJ. D.,
Committee.
The resolutions were read and
unanimously adopted.
On motion of c. F. Latiolais It
was resolved that in the event of the
failure of the committee to secure q
conference with the parish and
town authorities, that said authori-
ties be invited to attend the meet
ing at the Crescent Hotel the fol-
lowing day, Sept. ~.
An adjournment was then taken.
MONDAYS MEETING.
At 8 O'Clock Judge Guilbeau
called the meeting to order.
Mr.. VIM. Clegg, chairman of the
committee appointed to present the
resolutions to the constituted au-
thorities, made his report. He
stated that the Board of Health had
postponed action until the result of
the conference of physicians is
known. AS to the Police Jury, that
body had held no meeting.
A motion was made and carried
to tender the thanks of the meeting
to the committee.
VIM. Kelly moved that the ex-
istence of the committee be ex-
tended twenty-four hours. This
motion was carried.
F. c. TRAY stated that he had
presented a petition to the Board
of Health asking for modification
of the restrictions on the trains.
He said the petition was signed by
166 persons.
On motion of Mr.. Latiolais a
committee composed of l.. G.
Sicily, J. M. Jones, o. p. Guilbeau,
was appointed to wait upon Health
Officer Trahan and have that gen.
tleman appear before the NEE ting.
The committee left the hall and a
few minutes later returned with DR..
Trahan.
cross questioned on matters of
quarantine. He answered all
queries satisfactorily and enlight-
ened che meeting on all matters
pertaining to the quarantine es-
tablished by the parish authorities.
Secretary Latiolais wanted to
know why it was that no freight was
admitted into this town but that the
pay-car was permitted to come in
and pay off the comp&ny's en-
ployes in currency. DR.. Trahan
replied that the municipal authori-
ties were the proper ones to furnish
this information as they had allowed
the pay-car to come.
At this juncture the secretary
read, at the request of Col. G. c.
Brown, long protest from a labor
organization of New Orleans.
, Mr.. Brown was called upon to
express his views. He said that he
believed the agreement entered into
with Mr.. Owens was safe and prac-
ticable and afforded ample protec-
ton to the people of this parish.
Judge Coffey got the floor aud
urged upon the railroad men the
necessity attending the meeting
which would be held the following
day.
Upon motion of Mr.. Sicily the
meeting adjourned.
TUESDAYS MEETING.
Judge Guilbeau opened the meet
ing. The crowd in attendapce was
much smaller than the night before.
J. M. Jones, member of the COM
mittee to wait upon the town aud
parish authorities, stated that they
had failed to obtain an audience
with the Police Jury as that body
had failed to meet, and as the