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Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE Empress of IndiR'' has just shot of cannon into a mob of starving people In the streets Of Calcutte, Ihdia, and blew the fife out of 150O people st 8 single round. "Her Gracious Ma jessy ,sthe Queen.' and the Empress of India, are quite different persons on different occasions, very much angel on s2o 100000 exhibition in London, much tiend with the s5aFving people of India. But then ps,hsFa the 'Em- prsss" wasL't responsible for shst gun going of. IF not she should hold to strict account her subordinate who was, otherwise the world will regard the musderoos eos es the one great atuiu on the closing dsys os her lllustrious reign.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
MORE COLD FIELDS.

Nicaragua the Next in Line With
 Valuable Discoveries
 NEW ORLEANS. Aug 12.-Reports have reached this city that big fuds of gold steamers have brought gold dust in proof. MT. Sepense, we'll known ciAi, gan of Houston, Texas, arrived on the steamer Fulton and confirmed the re port, and says the region is very rich. He has secured some valua able claims.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
A DARING ROBBERY.
D. A. sprague's Safe Robbed of Val
 abIes at Mesa Oity.

D. A. Sprague's Safe Robbed of Val
 abIes at Mesa City
 Word reached Phoenix this morning of daring robbery which was perpe- srsted at Mesa last night and which was as successful ss could be wished by the perpetrators.
 The cffics of MF. D. A. Sprague, the real estate man, which Is located In the front of the buildiug occupied by the MeSa Free Press off ;s, was entered last night by thieves and the safe rihed of it's conten:s The thieves undoubt btedly knew the combination to the safe as ii was opened by the com bination and af- Ser they had taken what they wanted the com binetion WAS changed and the door closed, with the result that when Mir. SpFsgue ettem pted to open it this morning it would not answer to the old com binstion.
 The tirsb evidence of the robbery seen by Mir. $ prague was the cash drawer ly- ing on the floor of the offics with 6 nun Der of valuable papers scattered about 1t. When MT. Sprsgue had closed his safe last night the cash drawer contain ed no money as he had that afternoon in the bank $500 which he had from the safe, buo it contained five or six bhousand dollars worth of notes, moFtgsg es, etc all of which are miss ing.
 A peculiarity of the robbery is the fact that Judge Morton, one of the edi- tors of the Free Press, wss asleep in the rear room of the building and was not s awakened by the robbers. The officers have been informed of the robbery and are on the look out for the thieves.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
Summary of Condition in Arizona
 Sc ectiOn

Summary of Condition in Arizona
 Section.
 High temperatures have prevailed pretty generally during the surshiny days of the past week. But frequent thunder storms have served to cool of the atmosphere at night and the storms being occasionally followed by partly cloudy or cloudy dsys have kept the mean temperature for the week at about normal. FoE the most psrs the rainfall has been light and has covered very small areas. In some favored To- cslites in the mountain and plateau districts the showers have been Of such frequency that crops not yet metured, such ss cofn, besns and potatoes have made rapid growth and the prospects are good for en average, OF better than average yield, while the ssme staples on other farms near by have suffered ee- vereIy and still others are practically ruined by the drouth.
 The Tonto Basin country particularly
  orop, OF having its growth so retarded by the dryness that it cannot mature before frost.
 The remarks in the last par ragraph gre Glso applicable to the corn, bean and wird grass crops in the Santa Cruz valley in eastern Pima county.
 In Yuma county, she southern part of Moi8ve county. and the western part of Pima county the dfouth continues and only such vegetation Ra can be irri- gated remains green. The water supply in she small noun tain streams and irFigsting dieches has to fairly plenty during the l week. The flow in the Salt and Gila l .ivers ard she largs canals continues 1 low but steady and she amount of water l is sufficient for stock and absolutely l necessary irrigation.
 Correspondents reports from Graham | bounty iudlea69 that farmers and stock 1 nen in ths Upper Gila vsllsy have rea- son to feel we'll satisfied with their crop and the bright prospects for | ihs balance of the season. Good crops | ,f wheat, barley, alfalfa and potatoes have been harvested, the second czop of oosatoes is beina planted and reugs yrass and she thiEd crop of elfslfs are ,umipg on nicely
 Ia southern Nsvsio and southern Apache counties, wheat, oats and the econd crop of alfalfa are mostly har- -ssted. Some fsIds of wheat have ,sen damaged by rust.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
THE GOLD STRIKE.
All Reports From Coffee Crock are
 Varjf;ed

All Reports From Coffee Crock are
 Verified.
 BEDDING, Aug. 13.-William Maitland of the Nash mines on the head of Coffee creek came down last night on his wsy to San Francisco and co7ro borstes bhe report of the last rich strike. Another gentlemen also cams in to say that it was fact that Carter, the miner left in charge of the Graves brothers proper ty on Morrison Gulch had taken out S22, ,OOO more gold after the brothers had lsft for San Francisco. The rich strike continues to bs the topio of converse tion around the hotels and public places.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE papers are full of talk about John McLean's gold bond. MF. Me Lean is, as everybody knows, candi date for Senator from Ohio upon strictly silver platform, yet be requires the obligations which are made to hin to be payable in gold. A copy of E bond given in his favcr by the Coinm bia Athletic Club of the District Of Oolumbie has recently been published in the Ohio papers. aud carries MT McLsan's name as the beneficiary and agrees SO pay the sum named to him in 'sRold coin of She present standard weight and fineness;" also the interest in Hike gold coin."
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

TWEEN Mr Mckinley sent oommie- sion to Europe to plead again for inter- national bimetallism, two classes of men confidently prophesied ignominious failure. Both must be somewhat dis couraged by the results attained and promised. The hope of inter- national bimetallism Is not dead. The between making silver 8 base metal on the one hand, OF making it in it's depre clated state cur only money metal on the other "-Neac York World.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
NI. & P. Excursions.

Excursion tickets to the Yosemite aow on sale, good to November 30th.
 Commencing July 10th the seaside excursions over the M... P. < s. P. to California seaside resorts will leave Phoenix st 5 o'clock @. ID city time, ar irving in Loss nReles ab 9 9. m., same dsy. BreakfGse in Phoenix and supper in Los Angeles. What is the use of rid ing two hundred miles further when you can get quick time via the route a above mentioned?
 For further information lnquirs st 9 Center Street, PhoenIx.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Gov. MCCoRD has struck the right lead in the management of Territorial affairs. The people want excessive taxa tion and indebteduess stopped sndstop- ped as soon BE possible. This can be done by the assessment of property that has he etofore eeosped almest entirely OF with mere nominal val uation. Let ouE Board of Equalization stand by the Governor manfully in the matter and they will have the backing Of the people h She premisee.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Col. M. J. EGAN, of Clifton, attorney 10. the great copper company that has made that locality famous, is in town looking after the interests of his con- psny before the Beard Of Equalization. The Colonel is one of the noblemen of the land, and one whom the people of his district and of the Territory had hoped to see on the bsncn could he have been induced to have his name sent up to the Attorney Generals office for appointnent.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
THE following is q

item, which shows whao
 | Weaver district in Yavspsi coGSS
 which the HERALD has frequently di-
 recsed attention; IS. l.. Fuller, who
 hae been in She Weaver district, says
 that placer miners are taking out in all,
 between $2,0O0, and 5000 per month in that district. Fsir-sizsd nuggets,
 worth from $2.5O up to $5 and BIO are still found quite frequently, and not long since one was found worth $200. ]" This Is very accurate statement of the situation in the Weaver district. except shat it should have been added that shere is not over twenty miners regu- iarlyse work in this district, if there ie that many, and these are principally Mexicsns, who work she plGceFs in the crudest and most inefficient manner. thorough placer miner who under ssends his business can readily average $100 per month there and not work very hard either. h any other region of country and under any other oir oumstances those placer mines would be drawing miners from all ovsr the county. A system ssio working with the proper improved machinery OF by hydraulic mining would make that dis trict one of the best placer mining re- eious now in the southwest or on the coast south of Puget sound.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

IT begins to look as though Prescott would really have smelter before long. Phoenix Athe thing may msteris lizs in good Shape. There should be a shelter in that locality also one here at Phoenix and another at Tucson, though the latter city has had ssmpling works for several years which is good substi- tnte for more extensive plant.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE following from the Chicago
 Times-Herdld will be appreciated by the serlier citizens of Arizona who know General Miles 50 be she man he is: "The slurs, eneers and abuse of Gen-
 eral Miles by & certain class of papers
 are not slcne disereceful; they are bru tai General Miles is 8 great soldier, at
 the head of the standing army of great country. He is not In any sense cham
 OF show soldier; not a tin soldier, but
 born soldier. It is not against him
 thes he was not educated St West
 Point OF in some other military school
 It would not be Sgaipss him had he
 been educated as West Point OF in some
 otbsR military school, but is it not ip
 his favor, greatly in his favor, that he
 has been able, without the aid of such
 instruction as are imparted at military
 institutions. to attain to tbe high rank
 he holds? He was a dry goods clerk
 thirty six years SEQ CD 8 small salary
 He enlisted ss a private. The young
 men who made up the com peuy elected
 him their Captain. The Governor thought he was too young and ewkard
 to be intrueted with the command of company. and so commissioned another as Captain, making Miles Lieutenant Ia was not long. however, before he began to show unusual mettle as 6 fighting soldier, and was leading regi- ment A few months later he was oom- msnding brigade and later on he had commanded a division Before the great struggle was over he had con- handed as various times an arm corps, | and won the rank of Major General 1 When these hlppant, snare young fel4 | lows, and old fellows toe, feel like sneeR- !; iug 6t the GepeFal-in- Chief Of the Unit- | ed States Army in these later days we | suggest to tbem that they look over the | history he made during the WRF, the | work he did, the promotions he earned, the wounds he received. This abuse Of General Miles, permit us to repeat. Is utterly discredisabie to the men who in- u!ge in it-disgrsceful and brutal. As so as WAS the war made upon General Russel A AlgeF, the present. Secretary of War, few years ago, another oi5izeu soldier who went rom the ranks to Mejor-GsneFal by the Sighting sonts."
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

NEW YORK state by ar act of its last Legislature established 8 Commission to examine and secure for the State voting machine, should it find one that is practicable. The Commission began it's sessions iu Albany on the 1Osh in stsnt for the inspection of machines and requires the machines to be set up and operated sn indefinite time till they are satisfied us to it's points, and have re- ceived all necessary inform stion. The Commission is going into the work ex- hsustively and will in the end thorough ly satisfy itself of the pFaoticabiliey of of such machines and if one is found that answers all demands will no doubt secure it's construction for that state
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
A Remarkable Cure flor Cronic
 Diarrhoaa.

h 1862, when I served my country Bs a private iu Oompsny A, 1675h Penn- sylvania Volunteers. I contracted chronic diarrhoes. It has glvsn me great dasI of trouble every since I have tried aozsn different medicines and several prominent doctors without any psrmaoent reliat. Not long ego friend senb me a ssmpis bottle of Ohamberlain's Colsc. Cholera eud Dsr- rhoea R Rmede, and after that bought and book a 50-csnt bottle; and now [ can say that q an entirely cured I cannot be rhankfnl enough to you for this great remedy, ana recommend it to all suffering veterans. Ii n donbs write me. Yours gratefully, Henry Stein berger. Allentown, Pa. Sold by en druggists.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE testimony in an important patent offics hearing now being made as 90 the character of firm of patent office solicitors goes to show that up ward of one half the ''pstents" worked through by the firm were not patentsble cured by them were of such character that the inventor could never get the money back he spent in obtaining the patent. Is all means that getting a patent on an invention don't mean much in the great majority of cases.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

MIR. BURMIsTER, she new member of the Board of Equalization from the north, Is one of ths successful business men in the Territory and 8 member of one of ouR oldest mercantile firms. He has never given his time to public posi- tion before now and cares nothing for it except es citizsn who feels hat the public welfare is his welfare and inter- est. Mr. BurmisteR is the proper man in an imporbant place.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

ACCORDING to the Sur Judge Davis has determined on his Clerk of the Court but does not intend making SD immediate change. The HERABD sin oeTely hopes She lucky individual is the Hon. Herbert Brown the worthy editor of the Citizen one of our best and ablest of our citizens and newspaper men,
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THERE is very sensible move among bicycliste to furnish their bicycles with gongs snd COW bells in response 50 sn uncslled for ordinance requiring them to go to the useless expense of putting bells on cycles in city like this where streets are level, straight and wide. An ordinance requiring bicyclists to go at rate of not over six miles per hour through business portions of the streets if enforced would be all that is necessary, the lamps are also all right, but the bells are 8 useless nuisance and unneces- sary expense thrust on our citizens.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
REAL nsrARE rRArsFERs.

Reported for the Herald by Phoenix FiEis Guaranty and Abstract Go.
 Aug. II. John B Montgomery and wife to Miss JosIe Galss, deed, los F. blk ', Montgomsrey's add, S200. H 0 Lane to Charles H Akere, deed, lot l blk ?, Simms' add, (sub s30Oo mte) S25OO.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE Ohio Pops according to our tele- graphic reports last evening, had regular Irish waAe of time at their convention. It is very difficult to manage a party Tn which every mem ber wants an office.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE effect of the new tariff bill is al ready apparent. R ports from every section of the country show an imme- diste and percsptible renewal of busi- ness activity end manufacturing.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
secure it's construction for that stat

Of the thirty Senators who will go
 ous of office in what has sometimes been
 called "the next bstch," fifteen are Democrats, eleven are Republicans,
 three are silver Republicans and one is
 8 Populist. The loss to the Dsmo-
 cratic side probably will be more seri-
 ous than to the Repu blicsne, not mere
 ly in numb bers, but In respect to the
 men who go out. Among the Dsmo-
 erats whose terms expire are Arthur P.
 Gormsn of Maryland, Charles J. Faalk-
 ner of West Virginia, John L. Mitchell
 of Wisconsin, and David Turpie ot h.
 diana. Turpie has already announced himself as candidate for re election two years hence, but he, like Faulkner, German snd Mitchell, is by no means sure of reelection, for the three states from which these Senators come were carried by the Repu ublicens by large mf joFities in November lsss. West Virginia gave 10000 Republican ma jority and now has Republican Gov ernor in office. The present Legiala- ture has majority of 21 CD joint ballot. 1 Maryland was carried for Mckinley by | a ms jority of more than 3O,OOO. It also | has Republican Governor and the | present Legislature Is Republican by more than two to one. Wisconsin was carried for Mckinley by majority of more than 100000 Republican Gov ernor was elected by nearly 100000, and the Republicans control the Legisla- ture by nearly five to one. Whatever chance of Democratic success there may be in Indiana, there is less than in the other three states named
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE Territorial Board of Equalizs-  tion is going about it's business in 8 business way and from it's actions it is judged that the Board intends to pro- teot the interests of ell concerned so far as it can, and especially the interests of the tsx-psying public of the Territory.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THERE is scarcely question that the feliew Durrant needs hanging and the public is rapidly settling to 8 point in that case where 1t begins to think that she law or tho lawyers OF something else in that connection in California needs like limitation.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

"DIcK" CRocKER, thug and sport, will probably be the TRmmapy candidate for Mayor of greater New York. A few dollars cover up IT altitude of sins.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
s. F. P. &P. Excursions.

June 17th, July l, 18th Doth August l2 and 26sh pi-monthly excursions to Fleg staff, round trip $15. 20, limited to 50 days.
 Further information will be furnished by applying st the Santa Fs office, No. A West Washington street.
 B. w. GILLETT, General Agent s. F.. P. $ P. Ky,
 Phoenix, A. T.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
Zaeems to be g great deal of

seems to be a great deal of pulling and hauling over the Sanitary Commission business, especially con- corning the Chairman of the Commits sion. The work done and being done for the stock interests of Arizona should mission just as it stands. The Terri tory cannot afford to have mistake made In this matter
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

PHoEN1x is busy building this suG- mer. A number Of new buildings are in course of erection and several more are now in the shape of plans and will soon materialze.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

HON. A. E. CUTTER. of Graham ooun- ty. the new member of the Board of Eouelizstion from thet section of the Territory, is an old time Republican and B business gentleman in whom the people have great cor fidszos.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

IT ie reported that the Mexican Gov ernment will immediately begin the consideration of changing its financial basis from silver to gold.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Hanna.
 "It is awful to contempl plate the results of Hanna being done out of the price of 10 sking Mckinley President Some innooents may obj aot that if Sherman IS too sensible to hold office he must be too sensible for She s mate, but as s matter of fact no one has yet estimated how incompetent man must be bsfore she Senate is closed to him. Tn this he shares the advantage of she House of Lords.
 "We are rather sorry if Secretary Sherman IS to be superseded Us Tn his own rough way he expresses 8 phase of American feeling which it is important for us to know"
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

IF THE promise of the harvest fields is fulfilled it will be hard for theorists to persuade 6 thriving people that they need monetary penscea to keep tbem out of the poor houee.-Neao York HorId
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

IF some of the Arizona miners who ars suffering from "Kloudy keclitis" would take rocker and 6 shovel over into the Weaver district, in Yavspsi county, for 8 season they would ges over their mslsdy in short order. In the Weaver district plsoisr gold has been taken out regularly ard steadily for more than forty years and all that time in the most slipehod, unsoientihc manner. If company of real miners lave go use for KIonkyke.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
THE COFFEE CREEK FIND.
More Gold in Quantities Being Tax
 nOut

O
 Out.
 BEDDING, Cal. August F. The news has been received here that $4O,OOO more in gold dust was taken out ysster- day as Coffse creek from the pocket out of which she Graves brothers took taeir S42,000 last Saturday. Another rich discovery is reported on Morrison guloh two miles from Coffee creek, and it is said the miners are taking out $40 to bhe pan.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
A SPANISH MINE

BIg FIhu RepOrted Of @ Lost Bpan.
 fsh Mine.
 LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. 11.-It is reported that the famous old Spanish mines have been rediscovsred. For two years the Pearl silver mining con- psny have been searching for the hid din mine. At the end of 8 drift eleven feet from the main shaft an opening hss been made into another shaft said to hsvs been worked by the Spanish in the seventeenth century.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Nuw THE farmers will take hack st the sugar trust by way of beet-sugar production.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE Gazette seems to want to bs paid of in Mexican coin. The Repu blicsn party is making sn honest effort to pat silver on basis that will make it more than is now is in Mexico OF can ever be under similar conditions in any country on earth. With bimetslliem adopted by the United States and European countYy silver will again take it's placs as money ea extensively ss business can use it. and with a substantial valuation shat it osn never again attein in sny other way. The idea that the United States can make silver tske psr value is as much of dream as that Mexico can do so; and we see what Mexico is doing fn the premises daily. Her business men are in the thross of dissolution to- day in the attempt to do business on silver currency alone.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

IT will probably be twoo or three days before the M. & P and $. P. are again in 8 paesabIe condition.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

BocTH-TUCKER is preparing to carry out Salvation Army colony scheme which ke has had under consideration foR some time. He proposes to go ahead with the work SO soon ss his plans are approved by the governing board in London, whither he has gone to lay it before that body. Here is an opportunity to make sn effort to cut up some of the large areas of land now ly- ing idle in this valley into small farms and put them into the hands of worthy and responsible people who will make Of the valley and the people who may occupy those homes.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Elk CoNGREs SHAN ROBERT J. TRACE WELL, of Indiane, has qualified as Comptroller of the Treasury. This is the position that wss held under the Cleveland administration by Robert B
 Bowler, of Ohio, who obtained some un- enviable notFlety by setting himself up ss higher authority than the courts OF an aes of Congress, only to tumble ig- nominously off his self elected pedestal. Mir. Tfscewell Is very different sort of an individual, end will perform the duties of this fmpoFtsnt office in the same careful ard thorough manner that he served his constituents in Congress.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE crops of the valley are ell under cover end they are large erG fine.