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Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
FOR SALE.

Ten acres with house, water right in town ditch, two miles west of city: also COWS, ? heifers, 1 hose, 1 horse wagon and harness, 1 stack wheat, chickens and farming implements, will sell cows separate or will sell all to- gether at bargain.
 35 acres, small house, good barn, nearly all in moderate stock of al- falfa, 411a miles from Phoenix, part time given.
 10 acres with good brick cottage. water right, lots of fruit; bargain at $1 ,G50. Five miles out. Part time. One lot near street car barn for $100. One fine business lot. 50 feet front, on Adams street, near in, $3,500. A nice herd of milch cows for sale.
 l.. l.. PLANK,
 No. IF North First avenue.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Los Angeles. Sept. 19.-Livestock per Ib, beeves, 3q414; lambs, per head, $1.59@2.25: sheep, per cwt., $3.0e@ LOO; calves, per tb, 2adGC3.
 Kansas City, Sept. 19.-Cattle-Receipts GGO0 best firm others weak; native steers, SS.55Qu5.50; cows and heifers. $1.25M4. 75; stockers and feeders, sS.O0@49O; bulls. $2. .5NQ4.2O.
 Sheep-Reccipts, 40Gc: steady: lambs, $4.0c@5.15; muttons, s3GOG14 4.00
 Chicago, Sept. 19.-Narive beef steers, &. .10M6.3O; trade in stockers and feeders good; cows, heifers. etc., fairly active at unchanged prices, and calves were steady; western range cattle were in ex- cellent demand at steady prices, fat steers and heifers selling particularly well.
 Native sheep. $S.GC@45O: common to choice, S4.25; western range sheep, 8 roc 4.25: feeders, $290Q4 10: rams, S200GJ3.C0.
 Receipts-Cattle, 19,000; sheep, f2,000.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
STATEHOOD. SILVER ETC.
The Yuma Sun Peers Into the Ad-
 jacenf Future.

It is difficult for those who know him to believe that Mulford Winsor brewed the following concoction whose ingredients in tSe absence of a qualita- tive and quantitative analysis appear to be statehood, unlimited silver, jum- bled figures of rhetoric in bloody and mangled English. MT Winsor has the reputation of being able to express himself. concisely and intelligently but the Phoenix Herald at it's worst seldom mixes things more hopelessly than the Yuma Sun in this disquisition on something or other:
 "No, Arizona will be admitted to state hood when-and no sooner-the cham rions of silver have thrown off the power of the money kings and stand upon the necks of their now mighty and greedy, for awhile yet triumphant adversaries. When that day comes, and its com ng is not far distant, Arizona will be freed from the grasp of the mountebanhs set to sacredly guard our interests. With the dawning of the light the hypocrires who steal our bread and pick our pock- cts, whilst smilingly asserting their love for Arizona and begging the votes of those they would crush with iron heel will slink back into the recesses of their luxurious but comfortless, cheerless chambers, their merciless hearts eaten with the greed for gold they can no longer satiate, and Arizona, with the bloom of new life mantling her cheeks, the smile of beautiful maiden wooed and won by the man she loved, upon her
 lips, silvery diadem bearing the legend Sixteen to One,' upon her smooth un- Wrinkled brow, will take her place among her sisters, lovelicr than them all, in the mansion of states, under the protection of a government which recognizes the justice of equal rights to all, special privileges to none.'
 MT Winsor was evidently not in a normal condition. No man is when he comes under the domination of the free silver sentiment, which the Sun intimates is going to prevail shortly. Some connection between this happy event and statehood is hinted at, but the precise character of the relation MT. Winsor in his delirium neglects to describe.
 The intolerance of the silverites when they get on top is disclosed. Not contented with overturning the money kings, they are going to stand on their necks awhile and get even for past wrongs. When the silverites are thus roasting on the cerebrums of their enemies, somebody, the Sun does not say who, is going to free Arizona from the grasp of some mountebanks who have been secretly set to guard our interests" This is the first time in history that mountebanks were ever set to guard anything. They have all most invariably been given jobs with out much responsibility. But with the money kings weighted down with silverites standing on their necks, the mountebanks thrown out of employ
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
THE ACQUISITION.
Threw no New Light on the Belcher-
 Powers Tragedy.

The inquisition into the death of Minnie Powers and William Belcher was concluded in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday. The jury found that Belcher had murdered the woman and committed suicide. As to the motive nothing more was discovered than was known the instant the dead bodies were found. It had been thought that two letters mailed by Belcher shortly before the tragedy might throw some light on this point. The justice had seen the postofice authorities about these letters, which were then in a mail box at Washington and First av- enue. He was promised that the let ters would be opened and examined when they were brought in. In the rush of getting off the mails on Sat1r- day night the matter was forgotten and they were sent out. On the afternoon of the killing young man told the coroner that about the time the shoot ing occurred he saw man leaving the rear of the Powers house and he thought he would know him if he saw him again. But he failed to see him.
 Among the effects of the dead wo- man were lot of letters, the accumu- ation of years. Some were from girls in various parts of the country applying for rooms in her house of prostitution. There were several from ne woman and her husband, who had
 ,th evidently lived there.
 Among the letters were many from
 eorge c. Israel, whose strange infatu-
 on led him to address the Powers
 man in the most endearing terms.
 sweetheart," My Darling etc. Her
 Jdy will be buried today. The neral of "the Cockney" occurred
 asterday.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
RAILROAD CARS.
What Some of Them Cost and What
 They Weigh.

An ordinary passenger ear on a steam railroad costs from $4,0O0 to $5,- 900 and weighs 3S,000 pounds, or 19 l tons. A mail car, which costs from
 $2,000 to S2,500 and is shorter by about
 oDe-quarter than the ordinary passen-
 ger coach, weighs 32,000 pounds, or 16 tons. A baggage car, without the bag gage in it, weighs 2S,000 pounds, or IA tons, and costs about as much as a mail car. A sleeping car, with obser- vatory attachments, literary annex and culinary department, costs anywhere from $10,000 to $20,OO0. The average weight of a sleeping car is from 20 to g tons.
 A full train in. motion, as a little figuring will show, is no light affair.
 The ordinary weight of the railroad locomotive for r'>paSSenger service, in-
 elusive of tender, but not of fuel in the
 tender, is 40 tons. One baggage car weighs IA tons, and one mail car 16 Itons. bringing up the weight of the To- comotive and the baggage and mail cars to 70 tons. Six passenger cars at an average of 19 tons, weight of bag gage, of fuel carried, weight of train made up locomotive and eight cars
 would be 1S4 tons, or 368,000 pounds, exclusive of the passengers and mail matter.
 Pulling 184 tons along rails at the rate of 50 miles an hour or more is an achievement which has not been easily
 brought about. and the more the prob
 lem is studied the more clearly it is
 understood how far the mechanical work on railroads has been pusncu.
 There were by the last figures report
 ed 36,G00 locomotives in use on the
 American railroads, 26,000 passenger cars and 5000 mail and baggage cars. These figures seem large until com-
 pared with the number of freight cars
 on American railroads, and then they seem insignificant, for the number of
 freight cars in use is 1,250,Oc0
 Freight cars among the railroad men
 are divided into four classes-fat cars,
 such as are used for the transportation of stone, machinery and lumber; box cars, such as are used for the transpor- tatiOn of grain. fruit and ordinary mer-
 chandise; stock cars, such as are used for the transportation Of livestock, and cars such as are used for coal oil- these used for oil being supplied with
 tanks. The average weight of a fiat or gondola car is seven tons The car costs from $500 to $400. Box cars weigh a ton more and cost $1OO more each. Stock cars weigh eight tons each on the average; coal cars weigh three tons each. It costs about $200 to build coal or oil cars, and they are de-
 signed to carry five tons apiece. The
 weight of 50 coal cars is 15O tons, and
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
FRUITS.

Cur stock is the largest in the city This week we are offering fresh black berries, black figs, German red prunes, Hungarian plums, fresh every morn ing. Late Valencia oranges, Bartlett pears, Solway peaches, six varieties of California apples. New car just arrived. Nowhere else will you find the assortment we carry
 VEGETABLES.
 We are in daily receipt of aspara- gus, wax and lima beans, horse-radish rcot. bell peppers, sugar peas, Prescott cabbage, etc.
 POULTRY.
 We can give you just what you want Broilers, spring chickens and roasting fowl always in cold storage at our store Turkeys dressed to order promptly. Doing large shipping business in this line, we always have a large stock of poultry and can give better selections than any competitor
 FISH. Never before have the people of this town been favored with such an as scrtment of ocean game. Large ship merits received every day. We sell the best San Pedro and San Diego fish, in cluding barracuda. halibut, black bass. rock cod and surf fish at 15 cents per pound.
 Economical housewives say that fisE is cheaper than fresh meat, as it gees further
 OYSTERS.
 We have made arrangements for daily shipments of extra sized Berwick bays in bulk, packed especially for our family trade, 20 cents per dozen, 2 dozen for & cents, dozen for 50 cents. Exclusive handlers of Eagle Brand and cocktail oysters in cans.
 We are headquarters for oysters in Phoenix.
 BUXTON & co.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
SALT LAKE CITY AND RETURN.

On account of the Mormon confer ence to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, the s, F. P. & P, rail- way will sell tickets to Salt Lake and return at the low rate of $63.90 for the round trip. Selling dates, September 29, 30 and October 1. Tickets to be limited sixty days. Continuous pass age in each direction. Further infor- nation can be had by writing or call ing at the s. F. P. & P. office.
 E. w. GILLETT.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20

only gave him an opportunity to work harder than ever Under his manage ment the bureau of American Repub- lies presented possibilities which none had dreamed of when it was created
 MT Smith had many warm friends in the territory. Mrs. Smith was a sister of Mrs. Richard H. Barker of Phoenix
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20

of their contents, if all filled, 250 tons, which. with locomotive and caboose added, make APO tons as the weight of train. It may be added, roughly, that the weight of loaded trains, passenger, coal, or freight. ranges from 200 to $50 tons. The lighter the train the greater the speed; that's the railroad rule.- JndiananOliS Journal
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
MONEY. STOCKS AND EXCHANGE.

firm at 4@41z per cent; last loan per cent; prime mercantile paper. 4@5 per cent; sterling exchange stead with act ual business in bankers bills at 4.83A@ ASA for demand and 4.S1%@4.s2 for sixty days; posted rates 4.S3@4831a and 4.S50 4.S51s; commercial bills 4.S1; silver certifi- cates, 6Ola9611a; bar silver, 607s; Mexican dollars 47as; government bonds, steady; state bonds, dull; railroad bonds, easier.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20

In play new this season one of the actors is made to say the whole Span ish navy could be vanquished with no better missiles than an armful of snow balls. The audience always applauds this statement, but a soldier from one of our warships who saw the perform ance stopped to See the manager after the. show and said: "It took good men and we'll armed ships to do up the Spanish fleet. and anybody who says the job was easy insults the American navy" Upon this it was promised that the objectionable line should be cut out.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
..JUST RIGHT

Is the way your glasses should be fit- ted to your eyes. The best are none too good for those having impaired sight. Science has made rapid progress and re- markable discoveries within the past few years in the art of correcting errors of refraction by the proper adjustment of glasses. Eye trouble is the cause of more discomfort and distress than any other known cause. It produces head ache, dizziness, blurred vision, smarting eyes. twitching of lids, floating specks.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20

nervous prostration. etc., etc. If you are afflicted with any of the above a;I- ments do not put off having your eyes attended to. Prof. Paul Ramser. with George H. Cook, the jeweler, is strictly up-to-oate in his scientific manner of fitted spectacles. Have your eyes tested by him and be convinced. Examination free of charge. First door west of post office.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
BASE BALL
Where Games Were Won and Losr
 Yesterday.

At Boston-Boston z: Louisville, 1.
 At Washington-Washi s; Chi cago, 5
 At Philadelphia-Phila s: Cin- cinnati, o. Second game-Phladelphia g; Cincinnati, l.
 At Baltimore-BaItimore, F; Cleveland, 6.
 At New Yo1k-New York ?; St. Louis, 1.
 At New York-Brool1lyn Il: Pit sburg 10 Second game-PittsbUrg, 6; Brook lyn, ?.
Arizona republican., 1898-09-20
THE PRICE OF COPPER.

New York, Sept. 1a.-Copper quiet, with 1925 bid and 1237ls asked.
The herald., 1898-06-04
THE BIGGEST FLAG
To Float Over Morro When It Is
Captured

NEW YORK. June. s.-The Stars and
Stripes, In the shape Of the largest flag in
the world, will float over Moro castle.
Havana, when Blanco surrenders. The
immense flag designed for this duty is al
ready prepared and may be seen draped at
the front of an empty store room at 147
Fulton street. A patriotic Wall street
man has had the great flag made. 1t meas
ures 120 feet in length and 43 1-3 feet in
width, and it is believed that 1t breaks the
record for size. 1t is so big that special
bunting was made for it In Boston. The
bunting measures AZ inches across In the
rough. Made up in the flag, allowing for
seams. each stripe measures forty inches.
It took full piece of 40 yards for each
stripe. except where they run into the
jack.
The jack measures 40 feet in length and
covers the space of seven stripes. The
stars are not very large; from point to
point each star measures IA inches. They
are arranged in alternating rows Of seven
and eight, according to army regulations
The flag will cost 1920. Big as it is, it can
be packed in large travelling trunk and
will not weigh more than 200 or 250 pounds.
The herald., 1898-06-04
IN THE HOUSE
Getting Ready to Receive the War
Revenue Bill

WASHINGTON, June 3.-Charman
Dingley of the Ways and Means Committee
today introduced a resolution providing for
the procedure In the House when the War
Revenue Bill is brought back. The adoption
of the resolution makes 1t in order to move
non-concurrence in gross In the Senate
amendments to the bill and to agree to a
Committee on Conference asked for by the
Senate on the disagreeing votes Of the
two houses. The House without further
delay shall proceed to vote upon the mo-
tion, and II the motion prevails Commit
tee of Conference shall be appointed without
instructions.
The house today consumed much time,
but without result, considering a bill to
authorize the president to restore to his
rank and duty Major Jos. w. Wham, pay
master of the army, who was suspended in
1890 upon half pay until 1904, through court
martial proceedings and executive action.
Forty-nine private pension and reliefe
bills passed, and at 2:40 o'clock the house
took a recess until p. m.
The evening session was devoted to bills
granting pensions and correcting military
records. Among those favorably acted
upon was one pensioning Nancy Berger.
of Pennsylvania, the widow, 105 years Of
age, of a soldier of 1912. More than sixty
bills were considered. It being considered
as probably the last pension session of the
present session of congress, there was a
great struggle of members to have their
respective measures taken up.
The herald., 1898-06-04
NEVADA ORPHANS
Brutally Abused by Managers Of the
Home

CARSON, New, June 3.-The investiga-
ton of charges preferred against the man.
agement of the Nevada State Orphans
home was commenced before the board
this afternoon. Partial testimony by the
prosecution indicates a condition Of af-
fairs existing at the home which is hardly
conceivable. There are charges of serious
indiscretion on the part of some employees
of the institution, and there are also ac-
cusations of viciousness and immortality
involving both officers AM inmates.
Superintendent Beebe is accused of fall
ing to maintain discipline. He is also al
legged to have permitted immoral conduct;
to have discharged employees without just
cause, and to have excused his conduct
by asserting that the management of tho
home was a matter of politics with him.
Charles B. Day, a former employe, who
signed the formal complaint, testified that
one boy was beaten black and blue and
forced to stand for an hour in a tank of cold
water. Bob Heritage, another boy, was
taken from bed at midnight and compelled
to stand in Icy water up to his waist and
to pump water from the we'll to keep 1t
from freezing. He worked for IS hours
with only bite to eat at noon. Other evil
dence was Of similar nature The charges
Of immortality will be taken up tomorrow.
The herald., 1898-06-04
Pigeon Killing

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-The state
live bird tournament began today on the
grounds of the Olympic club. Among the
expert marksmen from the interior who
participated were Kibbey and Inglesbee Of
Merced, Merrill of Stockton, Fox and Rice
of Visalia and Leighton, from near Los
Angeles. The first event was sx-bird race,
in which Merrill, Jackson, Vaughan, Leigh
ton, Kibbey, Haight and Golcher divided
the money, amounting to s547.5O, all max
ing clean scores.
In the ten-bird match the money was
divided by Feudner, Maskey, Merrill, In
glesbee and Wales.
The California smokeless powder race was
warmly contested, the purse being shared
by Haight, Rice, Maskey and Kibbey.
The miss and out" race promised to last
until dark, but Haight, Kibbey, Burnett
and Feudner, who remained in, divided the
money, taking $42.50 each.
The herald., 1898-06-04
GERMAN EDITORS
Not Very Decided in Opinions Regard
ing War

Not Very Decided in Opinions Regard
ing War
NEW YORK, June 3.-A dispatch to tho
Herald from Berlin says:
The editor of the Vossische Zeitung, in
an interview. says:
1--WE cannot help wishing the United
States success in the main, hoping they
may put an end to the miserable state OF
die elende wirthschaft in Cuba, but we
should not be sorry to see the Yankees re-
ceive a couple of denksettin (sharp SOU
venirs). let us say, first. AS for the ques-
ton Of the future of the Philippines. that
is serious matter, still in state of
liquefaction. 1t is premature even to talk
about it,
The editor of the Berliner Neue Stem
says:
This is a serious business. Its first
effect has been to interfere with COM
merce all the world over. From the point
of view of a dispassionate outsider. !
looked upon the declaration of war by the
United States as it can only be looked
upon. as trespassing upon the sphere OF
power of a European monarchy.
"If the United States gains the day
promptly they will turn longing eyes after
time toward the West Indian islands and
Canada. OF course they do not admit this
but they are quite honest in so doing, fol
they do not themselves know it now. Thus
England's course in encouraging the Unit
ed States may be very clever from a short
sighted and temporary point of view, but
judged from wider perspective I cannot
but think that 1t will not be SO wise ar,
ter ALL"
The herald., 1898-06-04
No Exemplary Damages

SAN FRANCISCO, June s.-The su-
preme court has reversed the judgment of
the superior court Of San Joaquin county
In favor of Charles Trabing, a boy wha
secured verdict for $250O against the Cali
fornia Navigation and Improvement COM
pany. The boy boarded the steamer Mary
Garrett without ticket. He was hand
cuffed to post put off at Antioch at mid
night, and sustained considerable hardship.
The supreme court finds no fault with the
sufficiency of the complaint, the reversal
of judgment being based on the ground
that the court erred in not instructing the
Jury that exemplary damages could not be
awarded, as requested by the defendant s
attorneys.
The herald., 1898-06-04
AS Agreed To

The amendment as agreed to follows:
That the secretary of the treasury shall
Immediately cause to be coined as fast as
jossible into standard silver dollars, to an
amount not less than 81 600 900 per month,
which shall be of like weight and fineness
and of like legal tender and quality as those
provided for under existing law, all the
silver bullion now held in the treasury.
That the secretary of the treasury is
authorized and directed to issue as said
silver is coined, silver certificates of similar
design and denominations and of the same
quality, payable and redeemable in like
manner as those authorized by law, to the
amount of the gain or seigniorage derived
from the purchases Of silver bullion by
the treasury under the act of July IA, 1890,
until the sum of $42, 900 900 shall have been
issued
That all said moneys so coined, including
the amounts of the gains or seigniorage
SO coined, shall be used both for the re-
dempt!on of the treasury notes heretofore
issued under and by virtue of the act of
July IA, 1890, and for the redemption of the
certificates issued under this act.
Move to Strike Out
Aldrich moved to strike out the commit
Tee dneHuueHt pTONlulHB lOT tHt ISSUE VI
legal tender notes, and substitute the bond
provision offered by the Republican minor
ity Of the finance committee. Upon this
motion he demanded the yeas and nays.
Before a vote was taken, however. the
subject was discussed by Stewart. Daniel
and Mantle.
Mantle expressed his general approval OF
the substitutes for the bond proposition
but announced his apprehension that the
issue of greenbacks might prove prece-
dent that would some time arise to plague
the friends of bimetallism.
Fairbanks, Republican, of Indiana, sup.
ported the provision for bonds and time Ger.
tificates, taking the position that future
years should pay part of the expenses OF
the war. He attacked the proposition to
substitute greenbacks and to coin the
seigniorage as deliberate attempt to in.
fiate the currency and imperll the presen,
gold standard.
Money, Democrat. of Mississippi, ant
Bate, Democrat. Of Tennessee, expressed
The herald., 1898-06-04

IN his
join the
second call
The
old Ninth battalion
Guiding the Ninth battalion being LOCATED in Chicago and throughout
the battalion When Major John c. Bucker
Captain Marshall designated acting marshal For
his command Is fully
Ninth
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The herald., 1898-06-04

luton at Monte Cristo had been defeated;
that Gen. Jiminez fed at the first fire Of
the government troops. taking refuge on
board the Fanita, and that all tho others
who landed, with the exception Of three.
had been killed.
The Haytien general, Morales and seven
Dominicans. who shipped here. are among
the killed. Another person was killed on
board the steamer Fanira. which put to
sea Immediately and escaped.
The herald., 1898-06-04
Suspected of Spying

ATLANTA, Ga. June 3.-Jos. Castel-
lanos and Frank Miller, who are believed
to be spies, were brought here from
Tampa in charge of Lieut.. johnson of the
Fourth Cavalry. Castellanos is Span
lard and has Travelled all along the Allan
tic Coast. Miller is said to be an Engllsh-
man. No papers were found on them.
The two men were locked up in the m!li-
tary prison at Fort Mcpherson.