The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-04-08

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 Indian territory began on the 1st from many different points in southwest Texas. It was estimated that no less than 5000 car loads of cattle would be
 shipped from the section around San Antonio to the Indian territory graz ing lands by April IS.
 THE Texas house passed the senate bill appropriating s25,o0O to buy the San Jacinto battlefield and improve it for a state park. It was understood the governor would approve the bill.
 CATTLE men in Oklahoma and the Indian territory have commenced ship ping cattle to Europe. The first ship. ment went via Galveston, Tex.
 NEARLY Sl2,000 had been raised in St Louis up to the 2d to aid the flood sufferres in the south.
 Ar Kansas City, Mo-, the other night Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard shot and killed Frank J. Jackson, laundry man. There was bad blood between the two men, Jackson being jealous of Goddard on account of the latter's many visits to Mrs. Jackson. Dr. God dard ran drug store for Mrs. Jackson | and his visits were said to be on busi- ness. Jackson was fond of morphine l and whisky and did not live with his wife, but managed her laundry on a salary.
 FIVE hundred employees of clothing manufacturers in St. Louis struck on the 2d. Last fall the price paid for making q coat was reduced from 85 to 30 cents. It was promised that the old rate would be restored in the spring, but as this has not been done the workers struck.
 A TEST case to decide the right of the order of Modern Woodmen to exclude liquor sellers from membership was de- cided at Lacrosse, Wis, recently, the judge sustaining the orders right to exclude any individuals and to be at all times the sole judge of the qualif- cations of its members.
 TIE steamer City of Columbia, one of the largest boats on the Chattahoo- chee river line, sank in 30 feet of water at Smiths Point, near Columbia, Ala. The pilot accidentally steered the boat upon n rock. The steamer and cargo, consisting chiefly of flour, are loss. HENcEFoRTH the headquarters of the National American Woman's Suffrage association will be in New York in- stead of Philadelphia, the transfer having been made on the 1st. The work will be in charge of Mrs. Carrie Chapman-Catt, chairman of the com mittee on organization and campaign. hao14l a~< in Pennsylvania, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 1st, involving n loss of one life and property loss of s2o0, 900. Thirty business houses and a dozen residences succumbed to the flames. Ar the Fifth Avenue Athletic club at New York on the 1st Oscar Gardner, of Kansas City, knocked out Jack Grant, of New York, in the ninth round. A SPECIAL from Toledo. O., said that a gigantic farmers trust was being or ganized in this country. Several branches were secretly organized. and the order is strictly oath-bound. It originated at Lancaster, Pa, and was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey as the Agriculturists' National Protective association. It is patterned somewhat after the anthracite coal combine.
 TIE diplomatic representatives of the powers at Constantinople have re- ceived instructions from their respcc- tive governments to open negotiations with the porte for a definite with drawal of the Turkish troops from Crete.
 THE full-blood Cherokees held mass meeting recently ten miles above Fort Gibson, I. T., on the Grand river, for the purpose of uniting the full bloods in ncw political party to op- pose the Dawes commission in any agreement looking to n change in their present form of government. They are to have another meeting to decide on their course of action.
 HUaH MILLER, 25 years old, under arr rest for setting fire to four-story brown-stone apartment house in Brook lyn, admitted that in 1891 he had fired eight houses in which ten people had been burned to death. Miller coolly related the details of his awful crimes and then declared that he was 8 victim of pyfomania, caused by excessive ciga- rettc smoking.
 CRETAN refugees at Athens, Greece, have appealed to the heads of Euro pean countries to raise the blockade of Cretan ports in order that food sup plies may he admitted and avert the famine which threatens thousands of helpless men, women and children in the island. The Red Cross society has