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Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
STOLE A RESTAURANT.
A Waffle Wagon Which Informally
 Changed Owners.

J. Masui. who has had considerable experience in justices courts lately, sometimes as complainant and some times as defendant, went before Jus tice Kincaid yesterday morning with a wierd story of woe. Somebody had stolen his waffle wagon with the stove, dishes and all other culinary appurte- nances thereto. This theft, taking all the circumstances attending it, was one of the most curious ever commit ted in the territory A few years ago man stole saw mill in the Pinal mountains, moved it to another local ity, sold it and was on the ocean en route to London, where he expected to live in luxury on the proceeds, be- fore the rightful owner of the mill discovered his loss.
 The theft of the waffle wagon, ac- cording to Masui's story, was a bolder performance. He bought the wagon with all it's belongings some time ago. short time, but abandoned it for a | more exciting and remunerative job. He put the waffle wagon in barn and hadn't seen it for a month until Thursday night, when he was going | through Chinatown and saw waffle wagon which bore familiar marks. | The proprietor was all Italian of the American name of Joe Kelsey. Kel- 1 sey said he had had the wagon two ! weeks. He was renting it of a Jap ! anese at $1.50 a week. His landlord l had offered to sell it 10 him for $20
 but Kelsey could never get that much 1 ahead.
 Upon Kelsey's description of the l Japanese a complaint was made against M Smsunomiyo. Deputy l Sheriff Galpin arrested him and when l he was brought into court in the af- | ternoon Kelsey said he was not the
 man. He was discharged and detect i've work was resumed. Last night Officer Galpin arrested a Jap named
 Imoto. He was the man wanted
 Imoto was locked up and will be triei today. He admits everything charged
 against him and alleges more. Ht
 says that Masui stole $100 from hin
 and that he informally levied upo1
 the waffle wagon to make himsel good.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
THE CASE OF MRS. STILLS.
Young Wife Alleged to Have Been
 Abducted Found.

,Warrensburg, Mo-, Sept. 24.-The latest developments in the Stills ab- duction case are exceedingly sensa- .tional. Relatives of the accused par ties persuaded Prosecuting Attorney N. M. Bradley to go to Jefferson and investigate He was taken into the woods ten miles from the scene of the alleged crime and shown a woman in company with a gang of young men who claimed to be the missing Mrs. Stills. When questioned she admitted that she was the wife of Andrew Stills, but had left him willingly to go with Hull, McKeeben and Jackson and did not want to return to him. MT. Bradley says he satisfied himself that the story of the abduction and out rage of the wife told by Stills is un- true, but many persons here are not satisfied with the revelations made by friends of the accused. Constable Hudson says he found that Mrs. Stills was with her mother at White Sul- phur Springs up to Il o'clock Satur- day morning. A liveryman at Leeton says positively that he took Mrs. Stills to the home of her mother and was paid by relatives of the three ac- cused young men for doing so.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
MRS. LUETGERT'S THREATS.
An Attempt by the Defense to Have
 Them Admitted.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-The testimony for the defense in the Luetgert trial today was for the most part that of witnesses who said they had seen Mrs. Luetgert in the vicinity of Kenosha, Wis, within a few days after the date on which it has been claimed by the state that she was murdered.
 An effort was made to introduce evl- dence regarding threats that Mrs. Luetgert is said to have made of leay- ing her home.
 When this question was first brought up the court ruled that threats of this kind when made less than one week prior to the disappear ance of the woman would be ad1nissa- ble, but that he could not permit tes- timony on this point dating back fur ther than week. A witness for the defense who heretofore testified re- garding the intention of Mrs. Luet- gert to leave home, had heard he1 make threats several months prior tt May 1 and the court threw out theil
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
HAS LEAPED INTO FAME.
All Sorts of Good Things Seem to Be
 Coming.

Chillicothe, Mo-, Sept. 24.-The un- sought fame of Miss Edna Whitney of this place, who was barred from par ticipating in the contest to select a maid of honor for the queen of the Kansas City Flower parade, because of her occupation of cigar maker is likely to bring that young woman more offers of various kinds than she can possibly accept. At present she is entertain ing proposition from the manager of the Mackay Opera company to be- come featured member of that or ganization. She has not said that she will accept; neither has she said that she will go on the stage; but as the offer is said to have been a iattering one, it is thought she will take it. She has just consented to De the queen of the Topeka carnival, and has sold the right to use her picture in the adver- tisement of a new brand of cigars So far there have been no proposals of marriage, so far as the public knows, but these will doubtless come in time.
 The Mackay company has endeav- ored to get a booking in Kansas City on the strength Of Miss Whitney $ connection with the company, but SC far no arrangements have been made
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25

hobos under a tree drinking beer, which was being carried to them by Isenberg. Finally Isenberg and an other one proposed to come up town. They were followed by the officers. Their maneuvers aroused the suspi- surveying a site for a burglary. They were arrested and Isenberg was ssn- fenced yesterday to forty days iCl the city jail. His companion, who pre- tended to have sore hand, got thirty.
 Marshal Hooker captured two more of the crowd yesterday. All of them were supplied with razors, rings and glass pens similar to those found on Isenberg. This sort of merchandise is put up by Chicago house in lots called in trade terms, "hobo outfits 9 The rings are cheap, but showy The seller always displays only one at a time. He represents it to be valued family relic which he is compelled by hunger to part with, and he usually gets a dollar, sometimes more for it.
 An impression is given out regard ing the razors that they have been stolen from a barber shop. Barber shops usually have only good razors so that interruptions purchasers jump at a chance to get one at any price below s. The razors are worthless for any other purpose than to sell
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
FIVE CHILDREN BURNED.
Locked in the House by
 the Parents.

New York, Sept. 24.-A special to the Tribune from Columbia, s. C., says:
 Andrew Smith and his wife, colored, living near Donalds, Abbeville county locked in their house six children the youngest of whom was IS months old and the eldest years. The parents went to church. An hour later neigh bors heard frightful screams coming from Smiths house, the interior of which was in flames. Negroes made heroic efforts to save the children, but it was impossible to reach them, and all perished. It is supposed that an oil lamp, left burning, was over turned. When the parents returned a pile of bones and ashes was all they found.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
CONDITION OF COMMERCE
The Yellow Fever Imposes Q
 Check on the Gulf States.
A Falling Off of Activity in Central and eastern States But On the Coast the Distr button ot Goods Is Unabated.

New York, Sept. 24.-Bradstree' s tomorrow will say: There is a check to the onward sweep of demand in staple lines throughout the ss uth. The yellow fever quarantine, which ex- tends from Texas to Georgia, has brought the wholesale business to a practical standstill throughout the greater portion of the region en- braced by the gulf states. At centers of distribution in the central, eastern and western states, the recent activity in dry goods, hats and hardware has fallen off, but at the west and on the Pacific coast the buying by interior merchants and the free distribution of merchandise, continue to be feat ures.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
HOBO MERCHANTS.
The City Jail Being Filled Up With
 Members of a Smooth Crowd.

The police yesterday morning made a raid on the most scientific lot of hobos that ever infested Phoenix The day before George Isenberg, a young man, was arrested for vagrancy He had an assortment of razors, cheap rings and glass pens. He told tough luck story which involved a young wife at St. Louis, where he had lost employment, since when he had been travelling west in the hope of finding something to do. He accounted for the razors and rings by saying they had been given him at Ash Fork by a sympathetic stranger. His story was not unreasonable and he was dis charged. He intended, he said, to go at once to Tucson.
 Late on Thursday night Of ficers Bailey and Hale were in the neighborhood of the block. They came upon a crowd ot
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
GOVERNMENT FOOT BALL.

Washington, Sept. 24.-On repre- sentations by Col. Ernst of the West Point military academy and Captain Cooper of the AcnapoIIs naval school, that foot ball contests between rep resentative elevens Of the two insti- tlltions are demoralizing and tend to distract the other students from their duties, General Alger, secretary of war, and MT. Roosevelt, assistant sec retary of the navy, have decided to allow no more such games
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE JOB.
Was Lost in the Governors Crop and
 War Stories.

Guthrie, Okla, Sept. AT. A. Sniggs of Ava came here last week to consult Governor Barnes about get ting clerkship in the Ava land of flee. S1iggs had his speech commit ted to memory He called at the gov ernor's office, and after giving the proper grip and password to Private Secretary Werner, he was introduced to the governor. Sniggs is a G. A. R. man and a farmer. Governor Barnes is also a veteran and takes great pleasure in talking to his far mer constituency about their big crops. Comrade Sniggs soon forgot all about his being a candidate for office. The time passed rapidly and Comrade Sniggs looked at his watch and saw that it was time for him to leave. He shook hands with the governor and went to his hotel. Shortly after reaching there he stood apart from the crowd and said: Well I'll be blanked I didn't say a danged word to the governor about. that job of mine D and he hadn't. It was then too late to return, as the governors office had been closed. The next day was Sun day, a day upon which the governor does not receive political callers. Comrade Sniggs took the train for home yesterday morning, and will write to the governor about the job The oldest politician in Guthrie said that in all his life he never before had heard of such a thing
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
WAS HE MURDERED?

Elmira, N Y., Sept 24-rhe body oi Edward B. Holden, carpenter. was found hanging from the limb of a tree in the woods yesterday. He had hired a horse and carriage to go tc Millport Wednesday afternoon. The horse and wagon were found near by The wagon was covered with blood and Holden had two gashes on his right arm above the elbow and four or his wrist, evidently made with a knife but no knife could be found. His wife said he had $167 when he Jeff home
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
WILL PAY IN CASH.

San Francisco, Sept. 24.-Mrs. Jane Stanford will pay in cash seven lega- cies of s100,000 left by her late hus- ford Uathrop of this state, Charles Stamford of New York, and five other eastern relatives of the late senator. Mrs. Stanford claimed the right to pay these legacies in real property but Judge Coffey today ordered that the legacies be paid in cash, that be- ing the intention of the testator.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
AT EDWARDS, MISS.
OREGON SHORT LINE IS AHEAD
In Its Dispute With the Union Pa cific.

Omaha, Neb, Sept. 24.-The order of the Union Pacific -eanceling all the tariffs with the Short Line on October 1 has precipitated an extraordinary controversy There is a very lively dispute over the possession of some thing like $75,OO0, held by the Oregon Short line, and claimed by the Union Pacific The controversy is the re- suit of different opinions held by the two railroads regarding their proper pro rata of moneys derived from through traffic over both lines. The Short line officials have an entirely different opinion regarding the divis- ion of money received from traffic over both lines from that entertained by the Union Pacific officials.
 Tn order that neither road should get left when the break came, each took out its share of the receipts from through business figured on its own basis. AS each road has been insist ing on a basis that would give to it the greatest gain the divisions refuse to come out right. For instance on some shipments the Uinon Pacific has maintained that it should have 60 per cent of the receipts and the Short line 40 per cent. The Short line has con tended for 45 per cent, and allowed the Union Pacific 55. As each road has made the division of its moneys or it's own particular basis there is 2 marked discrspancy in the accounts
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET.

Kansas City, Sept. 24-Cattle re- ceipts, 1000; good grades steady, oth- CTS weak; Texas steers, $1.75@4.25; Texas cows, s1.50@3.20; native steers, s3.50@5.25; native cows and heifers, $1@415; stockers and feeders, S2.50@ 4.35; bulls, s2.2O@3.4O; sheep receipts 5000; market steady; lambs, $3.500 5.3O: muttons, $2.25@3.SO.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
PRICE OF MONEY.

New York, Sept 24-Money on call firm at eA@3 per cent; last loan, 211a per cent; closed, 2@21a. Prime mer- cantiIe paper, 4A@5 per cent. Ster- Ii g exchange, firm, with actual busi- ness in bankers bills at S4.S5 for de- mand and at $4.S21h@4S2 for sixty days; posted rates, $4.S3@4.S4 and S485A@4S61a. Commercial bills, S4S1. Silver certificates. 575s05S: silver bars. 57: Mexican dollars, 431a
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
RICHARD MANSFIELD SUES.
Is Trying to Collect SS91 05 From
 Manager Brigham.

St. Joseph, Mo-, Sept. 24.-Richard Mansfield, the actor, filed suit against Manager Brigham Of the Crawford today for SS9105. He played here last fall on a $500 guaranty, and received only $608.95. Manager Brigham alleges that it was represented to him that there were seventy people in the com pany, all of them trained actors. He says the company was composed of only about forty, and that twenty five or thirty of them were picked up on the streets of St. Joseph. He alleges that the company disgusted the audi ences at the Crawford, and that the place was damaged to the extent of $1 ,000.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
INSANE THROUGH FEAR
Murderer Staffleback Made a Maniac
 by a Mob.

Columbus, Ky, Sept. 24.-Ed Staffie- back, of the notorious family of mur. derers in jail here, has gone stark mad through fear of lynching at the hands of a mob. Ed Stafleback is convicted of murder in the first de- gree for killing Frank Galbraith, one of several persons supposed to have been murdered in the den of the Staff1ebacks at Galena, in this county The constant talk of lynching heard on every side has caused him to be- come raving maniac. .--..
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
KILLED BY A BICYCLE

London, Sept 24.-The Hon. Barry Somerset Maxwell, the eldest son and heir of Baron Farnham, died yester- day at Castle Saunderson as the result of a bicycling accident on Tuesday last, when the young man collided with 8 wall. He was born in 1s76-
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
BASE BALL
Where League Games Were Won and
 Lost Yesterday.

Boston, Sept 24-The Bostons beat the champions today ana took the lead in7 the race for this seasons cham p1onship Boston, 6; Baltimore, 4.
 At Broollyn-Brooklyn, 10; Phila- deiphia, g.
 At New York-First game, New York, Q; Washington, T. Second game New York, 8; Washington, 4.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
HAS TOO MANY INSANE

London, Sept; 24.-According tq official report, while the populati4 London is 14.59 per cent of tha of England, the city's propQ the insane is 1887 per cent Shaw, an expert, declare ent London methods inc
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
PEACE IN URUGUAY.

Washington, Sept 24.-A cable gram received at the state departmepx from United States Minister St at Montevideo, announces the p mation of peace there.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
MRS. FANNIE HALL FOUND DEAD
Believed to Have Been Killed by HeI
 Husband
A $5O,000 FIRE.

Muskogee, I. T., Sept. 24Every business house in the town of Alton fifteen miles west of here,. was de- stroyed by fire this afternoon Tho Frisco depot was among the buildings destroyed. Fifteen cars loaded with wheat were also destroyed. The loss is over $50,000.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25

and it is said the Short line has taken snap judgment in the controversy by holding out something like $75.000 of the disputed money.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25

evidence. Tomorrow the defense will make a strong effort to get the court to alter his ruling on this point.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
MOONSTIlNER AR

Little Rock, Ark, United States marshS brought to Little R the leader of the murdered Cap Tay Pope county Augus the distillery at N took place. ,Rewas will be paid for |
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
MOVES ALONG THE GROUND.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 24.-There have been three deaths and three new cases since the report of yesterday, and the bulletins today report forty-one cases, six deaths, nineteen discharged and sixteen under treatment now. Dr.. George A. Ketchum, president of the board of health, remarks that those sick of the fever are dwellers in one story houses, that is to say they sleep on the ground floor. He infers that the fever moves along the ground
 Rev. Father Daniel Murray, aged 30, died this morning. the fifth victim of yellow fever.
 AT EDWARDS, MISS.
 Edwards, Miss, Sept 24-There were twenty-three new cases of vel low fever reported SC far today, mak- ing a grand total of 123
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
BURIED EIGHTEEN
Avalanche RHsLel Down From
 An Alaskan Summit
ON THE CHILKOOT PASS
Snow Slide Which Anticipated
 the Season
Latest Reports From Skaeuay Say That the Waiting Prospectors Have at Last Surmounted the Difficulties of the Pass.

Port Townsend, Wash, Sept. 24.- The tug Pioneer, which left Puget Sound on September 12 with the bark Shirley in tow, for Skaguay, returned at 1 o'clock this morning, having made the run down in ninety-eight hours
 The Pioneer brings the story of snowslide which occurred near Sheep camp, on the Chilkoot pass last Sun day morning, in which eighteen men are said to have lost their lives. One body is said to have been recovered. that of a man named Choynski, a cousin to Joe Choynsd, the prize fighter. The men supposed to be lost were packers on the Dyea trail. There are many here who do not believe the story, as it is very carry in the season for snowslides.
 The officers of the Pioneer say the story was brought to Skaguay Sunday evening by three men, who told it in. such way as to leave no doubt as to it's truthfulness. They described ths avalanche as consisting of rocks, ice and dirt, the mass having been loos- ened by recent unprecedented hard rains which have been falling contip- uously for the past month. All the bridges on Skaguay river have beelk washed out and the river is a ra91nE terror.
 The steamer Al-ki, a week over1l from Alaska, arrived this morning &t 4 o'clock. She carried a large list e men returning from Skaguay who xere unable to cross the pass.
 NOTHING OF THE SLIDE
 Seattle, Wash, Sept 24-John Vance, government instructor in the Indian school at Neap bay, was on the steamer Al-ki. He was at Skaguav last Friday. He said: "Prospectors and miners who have been congregas- ing at Skaguay for the last seyeh weeks are all over t.11 summit TaeY have had hard tussle, but got there. all right. The trail was almost a solid mass of mud, but could be travelled. MT. Vance heard nothing of the srcw and rock slide reported from Port Townsend today.
 FOR THE NORTHWEST TRADE.
 San Francisco, Sept. 24.-The grow. ing importance of tho trade with the far northwest has caused the Alask1 Commercial company to provide for new steel steamer between San Francisco and St. M1chael,s The contract for its construction was signed today with the Union Iron works. "A provision is made by which the vessel must be ready by April She will accommodate 800 passengers MRS. FANNIE HALL FOUND DEAD. Believed to Have Been Killed by Her
 Husband.
 1 Guthrie, Okla, Sept. 24.-Mrs. Fan nie Hall, an accomplished and we'll l educated woman, was found dead near l her home at Pawnee yesterday. l Today a coroner's jury returned a verdict that the woman was shot and killed by her husband, Frank Hall. who has disappeared. Mrs. Halls parents live in Denver.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-25
Attack Upon a School House
 Intended for a Hospital
PROGRESS OF THE DISEASE
Believed to Have Been Corral
 ed at New Orleans.
A Discovery Made That Yellow Jack Creeps Along the Ground Avoid- ing Second Stories Death Of Priest at Mobile.

New Orleans, Sept. 24.-Mayor Flower today ordered a force of po- licemen to guard the Beauregard school which mob made an attempt to burn last night. Only portion of the building was burned and it is still possible to use the structure as hos pital for the treatment of yellow fever patients. It was shortly after mid night that the mob applied the torch to the school house and thereby car ried into execution the threat that had been repeatedly made during yester- day evening. When the iremen ar rivd on the scene their hose was cut, but the department worked pluckily and with the assistance of squad of police ultimately succeeded in ex- tinguishing the flames. The burning of the school created intense indigna- ton here, and the outrage was bitterly denounced.
 Throughout the evening before, Sister Agnes and a humber of Sisters of Charity, together with help from the hospital, had been putting the building in order for the reception of yellow fever patients. The school board in the meantime removed from the building every desk and other ar ticle of furniture and the hospital people moved into the building cots and other necessary adjuncts for the treatment of patients. At nightfall Surgeon Bloom of the hospital, and the sisters and others had been warned that it would be better to leave the building. They did so and threaded their way through a dense crowd of panic stricken citizens. Then a small force of police was ordered to the scene. While the police were en- gagged in attempting to quiet the riot ous crowd in front of the building, two incendiaries with ive-gallon coal oil cans proceeded to the rear and quickly had the building in flames.
 It is believed that the work of the board of health is productive of good results and that the fever is not spreading, but on the contrary is being confined to localities. Thus far there have been few less than a hundred cases, and fiji cen deaths The death rate is in the neighborhood of 15 pel cent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
A WELCOME GUIDE.

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 Your rcorrespondenee kindly solicit. ed. Yours very truly, Ambrose Martell, proprietor Peoria Banner Nurseries. office and sales grounds, Nos III to IF s. Jefferson ave, Peoria, III. 2-23-d &sw tf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
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