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Tombstone prospector., 1897-08-06
BISBEE NEWS. Daily Happenings at the Great Copper Camp. Budget Of Interesting Items from our Regular Cor.
 respondent.
BIsBEE, Aug, , 1897. COVERINGS.

COVERINGS.
 Col. W. 0. Land is in town from the ranch fer few days visit.
 Mis. Minnie Da.i. is now convalesc. ing, and there seems no doubt now o' her recovery from a very severe -pell of sickness.
 The weather in Bisbas has been quite sultry for several days now hut the almost regular evening showers do much 10 cool of and freshen the atmt sphere.
 W. H. Brorhy and James 5. Dougla lei. Bisbee on special train yester- day afternoon, wiLh New York AS their destination. Mir. Brophy goes on his regnlar trip 10 purchase the new line Of stock for the coming season and he will probably be away until October N'. Douglas also goes to New York ou iu7iness matters but he is lisev to re- turn much sooner than bis trsveling companion.
 Three Of Bisbee's young ladies left on this morning train for short vaca- ton but owing to their unusual re ticence we were unable to learn whence they were going or hsw long they intended 70 stay. This is rather unfortunate % we wished very much to give 6 det ai!ed account Of their pro posed trip and 10 assist theul on their journey by few remarks on new much Bisbee would feel the loss even for . sh5T: period c: three 0! he. zee. prominent bel'es. However tho oppor. tunity i, nov lost and all we csn do is to wish them jolly time on their unpnfed journey. Since writing the above have been informed that the party was bound for Huschucs. No wonder they were quiet.
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Granting of Autonomy to Cubans Re-
garded as Proof of the Sincerity
of the Liberal Cabinet.
EFFORTS TO AID SUFFERERS
COMMITTEES FORMED TO FURNISH
WORK TO RECONCENTRADOs.
Evidence that SPANS Financial Con-
ditiOn Is Bad-Crew OF the Conn
petitOr to Be PnrdOned.
special to the 1ndianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-At the White
House and State Department the leading
topic to-day was the official notification by
Spain that she was prepared to grant
autonomy to Cuba Nov o. and to put in
force a variety of reforms on the island.
The general expression among adminstra-
ton officials was that Spain, by this demon
stration, was offering proof that she is sin
cere In her desire to restore peace on the
island and that she is going to show to the
orld that she will go much more than half
way in a movement toward complete con-
Citation. What the result will be depends
entirely on the spirit in which the PROPOSE
ton is received by the insurgents. High
officials in the administration express the
belief that the Cubans have gone so far
and made such substantial progress in their
revolutionary efforts that they will accept
nothing short of absolute independence In
asmuch, however, as Spain proposes to
grant the Cubans substantially all they
asked at the beginning, it is thought the
insurgents will lose a great deal of SYM
pathy if they refuse to accept the terms
offered by the Madrid government The
effect of the new departure on this govern
ments attitude towards Spain and Cuba
more conservative even than he would
otherwise have been in his message to Con-
gress and in his recommendations on the
subject.
The Spanish minister to-day received the
following cable message from Captain Gen
eral Blanco: "A protective committee for
reconcentrados has been formed with great
success by General Bernal in Pinar del Rio.
The committee is aided by very general
cooperation but especially by the tobacco
planters. who agree to contribute 81 for
every bale of tobacco harvested. This rep
resents help to the amount of from $50 900
to 100000. The greatest activity is dis
played all through the island in the forma-
ton of like committees, the success and i'm
mediate efficiency OF which 1t is hoped will
prove the best possible remedy for suffering
among the reconcentrados under the present
circumstances
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON Nov. 12.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, 5000. 1876, 3S7; gold re-
serve, S155, 1886, 1872.
Secretary Alger has issued regulations
governing the use and occupation of lands
within the limits of the military reservation
of st. Michael'S Alaska.
John A. Craft of Charlottesville, Arthur
NJ Hood of Indianapolis, Lewis Land of
Curtisville and John w. Corder of Princeton
have all been admitted to practice before
the Interior Department.
Senator Plat, of New York, had a long
conference with the President to-day in
which the New York political situation was
gone over, and the senator indicated what
he would like to have done in the matter
of appointments
The Japanese legation makes official
denial of reports that Nicaragua has ten
dered to Japan the franchise of the Mica
ragua canal 1t is stated officially that no
negotiations of any kind have occurred be-
tween Nicaragua and Japan relative to the
canal.
1t is not possible to confirm here the state
ment coming from Berlin to the effect that
the United States has offered to mediate be-
tween Germany and Haiti in differences
arising from the arrest of German subject
Lueders. 1t is gathered, however, that while
no such proffer has been made, overtures
have been made to this government to in
tervene, but without success.
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Sea offers Disappearing.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-Capt. c. L.
Hooper, of the revenue-cutter service, COM
handing the Boring sea patrol fleet, has
made report to the secretary of the treas
ury on the subject of the sea otter banks
of Alaska. Captain Hooper reviews the his
tory of the otter from the earliest times,
and arrives at the conclusion that they not
only have been greatly reduced in numbers
during the last ten years, but that they
have actually changed their habits, and no
longer are found. as formerly, on or near
the shore. He also states that the. 1,165
natives on the Aleutian islands are almost
wholly dependent the otter for the neces-
stiles of life, and will be left destitute if
the. animal is eXterminated as seems immi-
nent if no steps are taken for their preSer-
walton. Captain Hooper is of opinion that
the principal parts of the present hunting
grounds are wholly within the territorial
waters of the United States, and therefore
the preservation of the otter would not ne
eessitate the cooperation of any other coun-
try.
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EDDIE M'DUFFIE HURT.
Crack Eastern Cyclist Unable to Fin
ish His Race with Michael.

Crack Eastern Cyclist Unable to Fin
ish His Race with Michael.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Eddie McDuffie, the
crack Eastern cyclist, was badly hurt in
his match race with Jimmy Michael at the
Coliseum tonight The men were in the
sixth lap of the fifth mile and going at
hair-raising pace, when the Boston boy
wabbled. His wheel struck the rear Of his
pacing triplet and, falling heavily he slid
fifty feet along the track and rolled off into
the Enclosure. He could not stand when
picked up, but after vigorous rubbing and
the administering of stimulants, he plucklly
remOunted his wheel 1t was evident how
ever, that he could not continue the race
and in the eighth mile he retired Michael
then cut out some warm work for his pac-
ers and entertained the crowd until the fin
ish After the third mile records were
smashed. The indoor mark for fifteen miles
was held by Tracy Holmes, of Chicago,
events were witnessed by a crowd of eight
thousand persons, which comfortably filled
the Coliseum. Michaels time in the big
event is given in the following summarizes:
Michael McDuffie Race, 15-mile Match;
purse, $1O0O-First mile, 209 1-5; second,
All; third, 6:12 3-5; fourth, SIP As: fifth,
1913 rs; sixth, 1928; seventh, 14:24 1-5;
eighth 1872 is; ninth, 1882 3-5; tenth, 20:37;
eleventh. 22:45 So; twelfth, A:49 2-5: thir-
teenth, 1852 20; fourteenth, 1900 3-5; tif-
tenth, 81 07 rs.
The record for fifteen miles held by
Holmes was 32:49.
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OYSTER SHOOTING.
Case Which Seems to Call for {
Writ of Habeas Corpus.
I .oil;sville Courier-Journal.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
We should like to know under what au-
thority of law Mr. Hardin May, a colored
citizen of Louisville, was arrested for shoot
ing an oyster Certainly the game laws of
Kentucky do not apply to oysters, and
while there is probably more prOVOcatiOn to
shoot oysters here in the summer months
there Is nothing on our statute books pro-
hibiting oyster shooting all the year round.
We are not aware that it was the business
of the officers of the law to impugn or even
inquire into Mr.. Mays motives in shooting
the oyster which was set before him in the
GraySOn-Street saloon with his glass or beer.
In nothing is there greater variety or
taste than in popular preference regarding
the oyster. The ways OF treating, serving,
cooking the oyster are countless, and II Mr..
May likes his shot why should he not shoot
it? There are some who prefer slaughtered
oysters to live ones, and if Mr.. May chose
to kill his with a pistol shot instead OF
knocking it in the head with beer mug
or cutting its throat with the free-lunch
knife why should he not have done so?
Your true sportsman may have Wither-
ing contempt for oyster shooting, for the
oyster, whatever may be its multtudinous
merits, is not a bird that affords any
brilliant opportunity for the wing shot, al
though they say the church fair species or
oyster would try the skill of the most ex-
pert marksman. Still, If Mr. May cares TO
shoot oysters instead of pigeons, or qualls,
or glass balls that is his privilege. Ger
tainly there is a vast difference between
shooting oysters and shooting craps sport
to which so many of Mr.. May race are
addicted, and the officers of the law ought
to discriminate between them.
Again, it may have been neither as sport
nor as preparation of the oyster for sup
per that Mr.. May shot it. Many man has
been acquitted on plea of self-defense sup
ported by weaker evidence than that which
the bare statement of Mr.. Hardin Mays
case suggests.
The oyster that frequents our saloons is
sometimes a very formidable creature. In
q single-handed contest with one OF him 1t
is now and anon a case of life or death. he
is occasionally an excellent marksman him
self and has been known to hit spot no
bigger than a mans nose at thirty feet. III
that was the sort of oyster that Mr.. May
got the drop on why should the law con-
Germ itself?
But even If it were not that sort of oys-
ter the plea of self-defense may still hold.
1t is we'll known that oyster hunting on
Grayson street is a rather perilous bust
ness 1t is almost impossible for man
to secure a mess of oysters in the one-oys-
ter-with- each-drink haunts of the bivalve
without getting at least half shot. Mr.. May
may have been half shot alreadA when he
sighted that last oyster, and in Vheer self
protection against the other half pulled his
gun and opened fire.
Looking at the case from any view posi-
BILE we do not see why 1t is not one in
which a writ of habeaS corpus for the ac-
cuSed would hold.
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to meet Nov. q, week in advance Of the
assembling Of Congress. AS the House is
fully organized by the appointment OF all
the standing committees. 1t will be expected
to get down to business as soon as il re-
assemblies for the regular session on Mon
day, Dec. 8. Ordinarily ii requires month
to organize the House, and the month of
December at the regular session sees prac-
ucalIy nothing in the way of legislation ac-
complished. But the organization of the
House at the special session this year will
save valuable time. and it is almost certain
that at least one OF the regular apprOpria-
passed before the Christmas recess is taken.
Most Of the members who have already ar
rived in town express the opinion that the
coming session will be the shortest regular
long session of Congress in years. Ordi-
narily the long session lasts from six to
ten months Mr.. Hopkins, of Illinois, one
of the prominent Republican leaders. pre-
diets that Congress will have completed its
work and adjourned before May /. The SUBJ
committees of the appropriations committee
announced by Chairman Cannon to-day are
follows:
Sundry Civil-Cannon, W. A. Stone.
Northway, Sayers and McRae.
Observation-Disclosures. HemenWay, Moody,
Dockery and Livingston.
District of Columbia-Grout, Pitney, Bng
ham, Dockery and Allen.
Pensions-W: A Stone, Barney. Belden,
Allen and Bell.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Pituey, Pugh,
McRae and Bell.
Deficiencies-Cannon, Northway, Barney,
Sayers and Livingston.
Permanent Appropria tions-Moody Grout.
Pugh, Allen and Bell
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CIRCUS ON A STEAMSHIP
Barnum & Bailey's Show En- Route to
Europe for a Two Years Tour.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Barnum &
Bailey's circus has embarked on the steam
ship Massachusetts for Europe, where it
will remain for two years. No trouble was
experienced in getting the animals aboard
the ship. The ten big elephants were hoisted
aboard in huge boxes, and the lions and
other savage beasts were drawn up the wide
runway in their cages. The horses, zebras,
camels and other tame animals walked
aboard. Five hundred employees of the cir
Gus will care for the menagerie. 1t will cost
$450,000 to carry the circus to Europe, and
the steamship will be nine days route.
Special cars will be made to transport the
circus as the English and continental
tracks are narrower than the American
will have six cases of wine, boxes of
oranges and other fruits for her own use.
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WILL BENEFIT MEXICO.
Discrimination Tonnage Duties Sus-
pended by the President.

pended by the President.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-The President
to-day issued the following proclamation:
Whereas, Satisfactory proof has been
given me that vessels of the United States
in ballast which proceed to Mexico with
the object of devoting themselves to pearl
fishery and fishing on the Mexican coasts
or for the pcrpose of receiving and carry
ing passengers and mail, or of loading cat
tie, wood or any other Mexican product
and which shall go directly to ports open
to general commerce, so that thence they
may be dispatched to their destination, and
steam vessels of the United States are ex-
empted from tonnage duties in Mexican
ports, now therefore. I, William Mckinley
President Of the United States of America,
by virtue of the authority vested in me by
the act of Congress, approved July IA, 1897
cent to Suspend Discriminating Duties I'M
posed on Foreign Vessels and Commerce, :
do hereby declare and proclaim that from
ard after the date of this. my proclama-
ton, Mexican vessels in ballast which pro-
coed to the United States with the object
of fishing on the coast thereof or for the
purpose of receiving and carrying pas
wood, or any other product of the United
States, and which shall go directly to ports
open TO general commerce so that thence
they may be dispatched to their destina-
ton and Mexican steam vessels. shall be
exempted from the payment of the tonnage
duties imposed by Section 42l9 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States. And
effect until otherwise ordered by the Presi-
n the limited States
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Sale of Trotting Horses.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 12-The second
days sale at the Chenille race track to-
day was record breaker. AS was the case
the first day, the well-bred horses brought
the money, while the others had to go for
what they could bring. Jasper Ayres, by
Iris with a four-year-old record of 2:11A,
was sold to r. W. Robbs, representing a
2:1OA, who was owned by the late General
Caldwell brought the next largest price,
being sold for $1,310 to Volney French. the
driver for G. H. Anthony, his old owner.
He will be campaigned next season. Jose
phine, 2:14a4, a four-yea' old by Iris. went
to William File, of PittsDurg, for 1000. The
sale will end TOMORROW.
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HAVANA, Nov. 12-Dispatches received
here from Madrid confirm the previous re-
ports to the effect that the prisoners cap
tured on board the American schooner
Competitor in April. 1896, will be Included
IN mine general amnesty decree soon to be
of the Competitors crew was to have be-
gun on Monday last but was postponed on
account of the sickness of the president of
the court.
Socorro Ferez, under sentence of irnprison-
merit for life, has been liberated His re-
lease has produced a bad impression. and
general Indignation is expressed.
John Kovel and Charles Peterson British
subjects who have been detained on
charges of completely in the insurrection,
were liberated to-day and placed in the care
of the British consul.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The rush of foot
ball enthusiasts from this city to Boston
to see the Yale-Harvard game was unpre-
cedented. All trains from the Grand Cen
trail Depot for that city were crowded to
their utmost capacity. All berths in the
IL and 1870 clock trains tonight were taken,
and as no more sleeping cars could be OBJ
tanned the overflow had to be satisfied with
chair cars. Among Stock Exchange brokers
some money was placed on the Yale-Prince-
ton match on Nov. 20 at 100 to 90 against
Yale. The odds on the Harvard ale match
tomorrow remain at 100 to 50 against Yale.
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CHILLICOTHE, o., Nov. l2.-Dr. P. K.
Drummond. one of the best-known practi-
TONERS in the county. is in JAIL having con-
fessed TO assisting in stealing the body of
Carlton w. Kelley, from a cemetery at Lon
dondsrry last Saturday. The body of Kelley
was secured by mistake, as the faculty de-
sired to have that of Samuel Jones, who
killed himself by drinking three bottles of
peppermint
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FROM COOKS INLET.
Arrival of Four Gold Diggers with
$4,000 in Nuggets.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov 1.-THE steamer
City of Topeka arrived here to-day from
Juneau, Alaska, with $4,000 in gold, the
property of four men--J. NJ. Hardy, F.
Erickson, NJ. McBeth and j. McLellen-who
have been mining in Cooks inlet They
estimate the total clean UP of Cooks inlet
this season at $4,000.
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Twenty Insurgent. KiTea

HAVANA, Nov. 12-The Spanish cavalry
came upon the camp of the insurgents I'M
der Gen. Alexandra Rodriguez on the Re-
galada farm, province of Havana, and in
the engagement killed twenty insurgents
capturing a quantity of side arms, together
with the Announcements of General Rodri-
guez and quantity of baggage and letters
Considerable excitement has been caused
by the report that the Dauntless has sue
ceeded in landing two filibustering expedi-
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-TWO thou
sand people witnessed a good game between
the Baltimores and All-Americans to-day.
The All-Americans suffered their first de-
feat since their arrival in this city. Balti-
more batted Powell heavily in the first
inning but he did better after that. The
Americans could not hit Horton. Score:
All-Amric'ns i 90 900 0 % 6 2
Baltimore .....5 0 0 0 0 80 2
Batteries-Horton and Donahue; Powell
and Smith.
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thing short of independence. and declaring
that autonomy would not be worth the pa
per 1t was written on.
The same correspondence confirms the re-
port that General Castillo was betrayed by
a false friend TO the Spaniards. who sent
portion of the Civil Guard to lie in wait for
him and shoot him as he was leaving the
supposed friends house
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New Indiana POstmasters.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12-Fourth-class
Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day
as follows: Lockport, Carroll county, Har-
Vey Bloom, vice L. d. Temple, resigned;
Union, Pike county, r. F. Frederick, vice
A. Il. Kline removed
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WOOdford Confers with Moret

MADRID, Nov 12.-United States Minis
ter Woodford had cordial interview TODAY
with Senior Moret, minister of the colonies
and it is believed that he assured Senior
Moret that the United States government
is satisfied with the measures taken thus
far by Marshal Blanco. The government
mas received, for the Queen Regent, the ca
pled request of the Union Constitutional
party in Cuba that her Majesty would de-
cline to sign the DEGREES establishing auton-
omy IN the island, but the request will be
ignored, and the action of the party is re-
garded as unimportant if the government
decides to carry out its programme loyalty
and sincerely. '
A dispatch received to-day from Gen
Primo de Ribera the Governor General Of
the Philippines, now in the island of Luzon
says that the native battalions are most eff
ficient, and that it is needless to send Eu-
ropean reinforcements.
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General sullivan to Retire To-Day.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S-Gen. Thomas
c. Sullivan, commissary general of sub
sistence, will end his active career in the
army tomorrow, as he will then have
reached the age of sixty-four years, the
legal age of retirement in the army Cen
eral Sullivan has had a long and active
career and retires with an honorable record.
He is a native of Ohio.
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Dr. Edward Everett Hale told a Boston
audience on a recent evening that the de-
posits on which Boston had been built were
largely deposits from the glacial drift. This
seems to be in direct contradiction of the
belief held by the solid men of Boston that
the deposits referred to were all in the Bos-
hoTl
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ASHLAND, Pa, Nov 12-While watch
Ing the Pawnee Bill Company load its
stock at GiraFdville Station last night
Enoch Davis, aged nineteen years; Henry
Jones' aged twenty-one: Edward Davis,
aged twenty-five and Frank Grady, aged
twenty-foar, were struck by an engine
Enoch Davis and Henry Jones were killed.
The last two We're seriously injured.
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south Bend, 4; Chicago regiment, 0.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 12-The
elevens of the First Regiment, of Chicago.
and the Commercial Athletic Club, South
Bend, met here to-day in one of the clean
est games ever played in the State. The
game resulted in the defeat of the Chi
cagO men by q score of to O.
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LONDON. Nov. PA dispatch to the
Daily Chronicle from Havana summarizes
statements by Generals Maxine Gomez,
Aranguren, arrange and the late Adolfo Cas-
tillo, all opposing the acceptance of any,
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Pardon DEGREES Approved.

MADRID, Nov. 12-The press generally
approves the decree pardoning exiles from
Cuba and Porto Rico. All foreigners will
be handed over to the care of the consuls
of their respective governments.
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Chance for Fame.
PittSburg

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Undergraduates who may never attach
the letters A. NJ. or LII. d. to their Names
may acquire the right to use a portion Of
the alphabet by joining their college foot
ball teams