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The Florence tribune., 1898-12-24
Notice for Publication.
tHomestead No. 2928.)
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
 TUCSON, Arizona. October 90- ieQe

F, LAND UFFICE, F
 TUCSON, Arizona, October 20, 1898. ! NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
 following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in supA port of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver United States Land Office, at Tucson. Ari- zona, on November 2sth. 1898, viz: Jose E Lopez, Dudleyville, Pinal county, Arizona for the lot 5. SE14 of Nw14 section 6, townshtp 6south, range 16easts
 He names the following witnesses to prove hiscontinuous residence upon and cultiva tion of said land. viz: George Scott, Charles Swingle, Henry Young and William Swingle all of Dudleyville. Arizona.
 oct22-St EUGENE ]. TRIPPEL, Register.
The Florence tribune., 1898-12-24

ST. LOUIS Dispatch: It has cost the country many lives and much humiliation to repay Gen. Alger's cam paign contribution.
The Florence tribune., 1898-12-24
825o Reward

By authority vested in me by the Board of Supervisors of Pinal county I hereby offer reward of s250 for the arrest and convic- tiOn of the person or persons who murdered one James Lee at Shultz, Pinal county. Ari. zona. on or about September l4th, 1898.
 ". c. TRUMAN. oe'' sS-u Sheriff
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This deck will be four inches thick aft
and three inches thick forward. The
ship will be propelled by two triple ex-
pansion engines each in it's own water
tight compartment, having cylinders
1915, 81 and Is inches in diameter Eight
boilers, two in compartment, provide
working pressure of 1870 pounds.
Blowers in the fire room maintain a
forced draught.
The Alabama will boast of two fight
ing stations. One of them will be just
beneath the chart house. and will be of
steel ten inches thick. The cost of the
Alabama will be fully a million dollars
less than the government anticipated
when 1t advertised for bids, 1t would
be necessary to pay. She will, too, be
one of the first ships finished un-
der what Is called a speed bounty.
In other words, no matter how fast she
goes, the makers will not receive
penny extra in the way of bonus.
Despite this fact, it is declared that
she will be the best finished and the
most commOdious in point of accom-
mcdations for officers and crew of any
or the vessels Of which the government
IS the present proprietor. The number
or men she will carry, exclusive of Of
ncers and including marines, will be
b00. Although her speed is estimated
at IL knots, those who have been watch
ing her construction are Of the opinion
that she will do much better than that,
though that is fairly fast speed. Said
an official of the Cramps to me the
other day:
Keep your eye on the Alabama We
nave turned out some crack vessels for
the government, but there is one which
VIII bear watching. Mark you, she will
create great sensation when she gets
INTO running trim, as did her famous
old namesake that flew the stars and
pars IN my opinion, when completed,
the Alabama will be the best battle
snip ever built. In appearance 1 do not
think she will be equal to some of the
other ships of war, but when it comes
10 speed and utility and conflict, give
me the Alabama. She is like one of
those girls that never would shine in
the butterfly circles of society. but
who knows how to look after her home.
1t will be great day for shipbuilding
IN the United States when she is
launched
The Cramps are reticent as to the
probable length of time which will be
necessary to cor sumo in completing the
Alabama, but it is certain that thew
are pushing work upon her very rap
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through an armor citadel of steel. Be-
low on the main deck, behind case
mate armor amddships, four more Of
these six-inch rifles will constitute a
hroadside battery. Forward of these
guns, one on each side, with six inches
OF armor plate for protection, two six
inch rifle PARROTS will be located. The
secondary battery IS placed in such
portions of the ship as need 1t most.
The armor belt, sixteen and one
half inches thick,a will protect
the hull at the water line.
Its mean depth Isl seven and one
half feet. This belt will extend from
the stern to abreast the after barbette,
and will maintain niaximum thickness
from that point forward to the forward
barbette, gradually dtapering to four
inches at the stem.,1ee
From the top of the side belt up to
the upper deck the sides will be pro-
tected by five and tone-half inches of
hardened steel. backed, below the main
deck, by belt of cornpith cellulose
and full coal bupkers. Athwartship
bulkheads twelve inches thick will run
inward to the barbettes from each end
Of the thickest part of the side armor,
and on top of the four walls, so form
ed, fiat protective deck, 2.31 inches
thick. will rest. Below, and within the
space embraced by this heavy steel
box, will be placed the engines, boilers,
magazines and shell rooms.
Slanting decks, running from the top
OF the heavy, athwartship bulkheads
to the stem and stern, will form the
continuation of the fiat protective deck.
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and the battleship, even to the unprac-
the smokestacks, will be greatly les
sened by the absence of the double tur-
rets. 1t is declared by naval experts
that the Alabama will be a beauty,
and it is further claimed that as
speedmaker she will outclass even the
Iowa. The general dimensions and
principal features Of the Alabama are
as follows: Speed, II knots an hour;
length of load water line, 1868 feet; ex-
treme beam, u feet 2.5 inches; free
board forward, 10 feet So inches; free
board aft, Is feet 6 inches; normal dis
placement, 11,525 tons: mean draught,
% feet 6 inches; horse power, $4,000 ca
pacity of coal bunkers, 1900 TONS
Her armament is ample, as will be
observed from the following: Batteries
main, four thirteen-inch breech-load-
ing rifles; fourteen six-inch rapid-f1re
breech- leaders. Secondary battery
seventeen six-pounder rapid-fire guns
four one-pOunder rapid-fire guns; four
machine guns, one field gun. The four
above water torpedo tubes are placed
two on each broadside amidshipS, and
will fire through an arc Of 60 degrees.
The four thirteen-inch guns are mount
ed in pairs in two balanced barbette
turrets of HarveyiZed armor, fifteen
inches thick, augmented on the slanting
faces by two more inches.
Two of the siX-inch rifles will be plac-
ed amidships on each side. firing
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majority Of the first-class torpedo boats
were built either by us at Poplar, or by
Messrs. Thornycraft, at Chiswick, not
more than ten years since, and I should
by no means regard them as out of
date. The Americans have no destroy
ers afloat-hence their purchase of
swift armed yachts, to serve as such,
though not so efficiently Spain has
torpedo-b boats not to be surpassed in
the world"
In all important navies the building
of torpedo-b boat destroyers Of thirty
knots or over is a feature of the pro-
gramme; but there is a great difference
of opinion as to whether craft of such
high speed will render the service ex-
pected Of them. Some2experts maintain
that it would be prefera BILE to sacrifice
several knots in order to strengthen the
hull and improve the Availability and
sea-keeping qualities of the boat The
experience Of the Pluton, Furor and
Terror is, therefore, looked forward to
by experts with considerable interest.
In view of the results obtained by M.
Nornland, at Havre, who, in the case of
the Forban, attained 312 knots (the
length Of the boat is IA feet, and the
tonnage 1859, and by Messrs. Yarrow,
with the Russian Sokol, which is cred
tied with a maximum trial speed of
29.7 knots, the length, of the boat being
100 feet, the tonnage 24o, and the horse
power 4,400, the British Admiralty set
a higher standard Of speed than the 81
knots previously accepted; and the Des-
perate, the first of the new class, with
a speed of nearly 301a knots, was
| launched at Chiswick in February 1896
But even the Desperate did not mean
finality, for she will be outpaced by
the destroyers now completing. She is
stationed at Chatham, and, compared
with the Spanish Pluton, she is Is feet
shorter, foot less in beam, and inches
less In draught; but in tonnage and en-
CINE power both craft resemble each
other. Assuming the Pluton to give
chase to the fastest United States bat
tleship, the Iowa.. the latter, with it's
speed Of 1914 knots, would be quickly
overtaken; and the Indiana and the
Massachusetts, is knots, would fare no
better Nor would the swiftest cruisers
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,pondence The St. Paul Globe.

Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
LONDON, April 20.-Naval officers
here assert that the United States navy
will find a foe worthy of it's steel in
Spain's torpedo flotilla, and that 1t will
play a most important part in the war.
1t is fact not generally known that
many of the chief torpedo boats and
swift destroyers owned by Spain were
built in English shipyards, a. circum-
stance which enables your correspond
ent to put before American readers i'm
portant facts and figures. For pur-
poses of comparison 1 will remark how
these naval hornets line up alongside
some of Great Britain's craft Of this
type.
1t is universally recognized that the
Spanish torpedo-boat flotilla is a factor
of the utmost consequence. In the
opinion of experts, who were special
Iy consulted, these craft are thoroughly
up to date. Taking them individually,
they can invite comparison with any
In the world. The flotilla consists of
the Pluton, twin screw, launched last
year at Clydebank; the Furor and Ter
TOR, twin screws, built at the same place
In 1895; the Ariete and Rayo twin
screws, constructed at Chiswick in 1887.
and the Azor, single screw, launched at
Poplar in the same year. Their prin-
cipal dimensions can best be given In
a form.
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SPaIWS FINE TORPEDO FLEET
Belief in London That 1t Is Far More Formid-
able Than We Reckoned

pacity, the Pluton, Furor and Terror
carry each two fourteen Founders, two
siX-pounder Maxim Nordenfeldts, two
one-pounder Maxims, and 100 tons Of
coal. Each has a complement of sew
enty men and has two torpedo tubes.
The Ariete is furnished with four three
FOUNDER quick-firing guns and two tor
pedo tubes. The Rayo is similarly arm
ed, and the Azor has, beside the rapid
firing guns, an extra torpedo tube,
three in all. The complement of the
smaller boats is about twenty men, 1t
may be noted that the first three of the
six boats are classed as torpedo boat
deStroyers. In point Of speed the Plu-
ton will have her equals in fully fifty
torpedo boat destroyers ordered by
Great Britain, of similar dimensions
and tonnage, and there are seventeen
of these that are to be two knots fast
er, and one, the Empress, is credited
with the estimated speed of thirty
three knots. Many Of our boats are OF
deeper draught. None of the thirty
two or thirty three-knot destroyers,
however, have yet been taken over by
the British government, so that the
Spanish Pluton can compare with any
afioat. Fer purposes of comparison it
may be noted that Chill has four Bir-
kenhead-built destroyers, with a speed
of over thirty knots, and the Argentine
Republic has one from Poplar that eX-
ceeds twenty-Seven knots.
Spain has other torpedo boat de-
stroyers in the Audaz and Osado. built
at Clyde Bank in 1897, and belonging to
the same class as the Furor and Ter
ror. They have three tunnels, not I'M
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like our Crane-an 1897 boat-now at
Portsmouth, which has maximum
trial speed of thirty knots, and sea
speed of, say, twenty-seven knots, SIM
liar to the Bat, Chamois, Flying Fish,
Star and Whiting-some of our fastest
torpedo boat destroyers available for
service or actually in commission Be-
sides her destroyers,: Spain has twenty
torpedo craft of the irst-class, and
three of the second-the majority of
which were built at Chiswick and Pop
lar-none Of them earlier than 1895,
and the majority of them in 1887. None
OF the English-bui boats owned by
Spain have less speed than 2O1a knots
One must set a destroyer to catch
destroyer, and the United states can.
not excel, or even rival the Spanish
f1otilla. America has no torpedo-boat
destroyers, though the purchase of fast
yachts (armeO are designed to do SINH
lar work. Within the last few days the
United States government has purchas-
ed in London, of Messrs. Yarrow, two
twenty-knot torpedo boats. The fastest
torpedo-boats at command at Key West
are three which were built two years
ago, ITO feet long, 1875 tons, $500 horse
power, speed 27k knots. These craft
only carry four quick firing guns, but
they have three torpedo tubes Three
other boats, launched also in 1896, 100
feet long, 1875 tons, 1000 horsepower.
have maximum speed of 241s knots.
Speed" commented representative
of Messrs. Yarrow, in conversation on
Saturday, lis not the only consideration
In torpedo-boat. Much depends upon
the crew and much upon the manage
ment of the torpedoes."
HAS the Spanish navy the reputation
Of efficiently training crews?"
Il can form no opinion, nor can I say
whether they are experienced in tor
pedo practice"
Then, with war, the chapter in ma
val history about to be unfolded will be
entirely new, and correspondingly in
structive?"
I'VE cannot tell what use may be
made of the craft. OF course they were
designed to attack battleships, cruis-
ers, or merchantmen; and they might
also be employed to blockade ports The
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RUSH WORK ON THE ALaBaJI1a
Pushing to Completion One of the Finest of
Uncle Sans New Warships

and, when finished, will be one Of the
king pins which uphold the honor Of
the American flag.
The Alabama will be different from
the battleships Indiana and Massachu-
sets, with which those who have seen
the North Atlantic squadron are IA
miliar. The double-dec turrets that
mark the battleship ordinarily will be
missing. The smokestacks will no long
er be arranged fore and aft but accord
ing to the style Of our English cousins,
athwartship. This will remove the
somewhat topheavy appearance which
has been considered the one drawback
to the graceful outlines of the Indiana,
the vessel that Fighting Bob" Evans
termed the finest fighting machine
afloat.
Heretofore there has been a very
marked difference between the cruiser
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A Cheap Farm and a Good One.

Do you want good farm, where you can
work outdoors in your shirt sleeves for ten
months In the year. and where your stock
can forage for itself all the year round? II
SO, write to P. Sid Jones, Passenger Agent,
Birmingham, Ala. OF DR.. R.. b; Crawford,
ing Chicago, Ill.
Do you want to go down and look at some
of the Garden Spots OF this country? The
Louisville & Nashville Railroad provides tho
way and the opportunity on the first and
third Tuesday Of each month, with excursions
at only two dollars over one fare for round
eral Passenger Agent Louisville. KY, for
particulars.
Do you want to read about them before
going? Then send 10 cents in silver or
postage stamps for copy of Garden Spots"
to Mr.. Atmore.
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er-in-chief commands the fleet, the.
second in command the van division,
the third in command the rear division
and the fourth in command the center
Twelve or more vessels, not including
dispatch boats or transports, is called
a fleet, and a naval force of less than
twelve vessels is a squadron or a di-
vision. The smaller or lighter vessels
constitute the light division, and the
transports the convoy.
Their are three main formations
which govern all the maneuvers.
These are the line, the column and the
echelon.
The line is, as it's name signifies,
when the ships are ranged on a line
at right angles to the course. 1t is in
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given ship and those of
the flagship when the
the speed of both
is the same. The eco
efficients Of helm are
the ratios under vari-
GUS conditions of speed
between the angles
of a given ships helm
and those of the flag
ships helm when both
are describing the same
circle.
To observe distances
properly the comman-
der must also know the
masthead angles of
every other ship In tn :
command, both for
open and for close or
der. Open order is
when the vessels are
two cables length or
OIA Paf hAr,- oNo~f o,aI
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HAS SENSATIONAL FEATURES

Unlike Others of Her Class, There
VIII he No Double Deck Turrets
and the SmOkestacks Are to be
Athwartships Two Fighting
Stations of SteeI-The Hull Will
BE Protected by n Water-Line
ReIt of Maximum Thickness of
Sixteen and Half Inches.
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
PHILADELPHIA, May 5. Under
orders from the war department work
Is being rushed on the Alabama. Now
on the ways at the Cramps shipyards,
she is rapidly approaching completion,
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brought into line by an oblique move
ment of the center and rear divisions
or by the movement illustrated in Fig,
ure 6. -
The most approved order of battle
with naval strategists is the column for
vessels carrying their batteries in
broadsides and the line for vessels
whose offensive powers lie in the rar,
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maintain the same speed under varying
circumstances"
Two very important things that it is
absolutely necessary that a commander
OF vessel should know are the CO.
efficient Of speed and the coefficients
or helm. The coefficient Of speed is
the ratio between the number of revo-
buttons per minute of the engines Of
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Une advantage.
G o m m anders of
squadrons are al
ways putting the
v e S s e | 9 in their
fleet through evo-
] u t / O n S, and the
fleets are drilled as
regularly as a regi-
ment. of infantry.
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natural order when the van is on the
right and in inverse order when the
van is on the left.
Figure / shows the formation of the
line in natural order.
Single column (Figure p Is when each
ship follows in the wake of the leading
ship. Double column is when the two
leading ships are on a line at right
angles to the course and at a pre-
scribed distance from each other, and
the two columns are parallel. The col
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pedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers
were built In England. These crate are
the most talked of engines of destruction
employed by Spain In the present war.
Scarcely can the subject of our possible
Is at once remarked that the Spanish
fotlla is an important factor. While
something has been printed in America
about the flotillas strength, Spain has
so jealousy guarded all information that
the following account written by an
English expert, who interviewed the
builders of Spain's chief torpedo boats,
will shed much new light on their power.
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Rear Admiral S. B. Luce, retired, in
an article printed in Hamersley's
Naval Encyclopaedia on NAVAL Tao
TICS" says on paper tactics apNar so
simple that it seems impossible that
mistakes should be made. If the
weather were always pleasant and the
sea smooth; if signals could always
be read with certainty and correctly
interpreted; If several ships of the
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fours, in natural order heading north.
Figure Z, columns of vessels abreast
by squadrons in natural order, head
ing north.
Figure g. in echelon of squadrons.
natural order, heading north.
Naval tactics are very similar to
military tactics, and the formations
are made IN about the same way. The
fleet LIS, for example, in line heading
north, and the commander signals,
fleet by squadrons, wheel to east
The movement is effected as in Figure
9. If the fleet is in column, it may be
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red and white, and the numbers to be
signaled are flashed out by combining
these colors. This system is known as
the Ardots system.
The battleships and cruisers of the
North Atlantic squadron are likely to
move on Porto Rico about as above in
dicated The armament of these ships
and the number Of officers and men
they carry are as follows:
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close order when they are one cables
length or 100 fathoms apart Distances
between vessels are reckoned from
inainmast to mainmast
The fleet is divided into three divis-
ions Of one, two, or three squadrons
each, each squadron comprising not
less than four vessels. The command
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Burned in a Forest Fire.

Special to The St. Paul Globe.
STAPLES, Mimi, May Mrs Holiday. a.
iady seventy-six years of age, who lives about
three miles south Of Staples, while trying
TO put out a, forest fire, became enrapt in
the names, and, before help could reach her
was burned to death. She leaves husband
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-08
A SPEED OF TWENTY KNOTS

Easily Made by These Ocean Wasps
Boats of the First Class and
Sent n Destroyer to Catch n De-
Spanish Boats Were Built by the
EngIish-TOrpedo Boat Destroy
ers Which Make Thirty Knots an
Hour.
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line is somewhat sim
liar to the eche lon. In
the echelon the vessels
steer the same course
ranged on a line bear
ing four points. In the
indented line they bear
two points.
The orders from the
flagship to the other
vessels IN the SOU : dron
are announced by flags
which are hOisted on
the signal yard. There
are 10 square flags and
three pennants in the
code. The square flags
represent numbers, and
the pennants are re-
peaters. Other flags
stand for letters and
are defining signals.
The code took is CLASH
fed and the defining
ciOpoIo indicate under
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49, 49, t44S i
and end-on fire. The
single line, though, by it's
liability to be broken or
doubled up, is considered
the weakest Of all recog-
nized orders Of battle, so
tacticians have doubled
the line (Figures 10 and
I'D and added a reserve
to strengthen any par
ticular portion at will.
The French, with a view
to the formation of a
strong line, as well as for
facility of maneuvering
and a system Of mutual
support, have introduced
into their system Of tao
tics the peloton OF groups
of three vessels acting
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-08
BATTLESHlPS IN ACTION
TACTICS ADOPTED BY NAVAL
STRATEGISTS
And How the Different Maneuvars
Are Made-The Signal Code Now
In Use-Line, Columns and Eche-
lon the Main FOrmations-Euc
Fleet Divided Into Three Divis-
iOns-Naut1cal Terms.

When the caravels Of Spain used to
light the British adventures on the
Spanish Main, 400 years ago, the order
of battle used to be to get the two
nghtlng ships as near as possible to
each other, and then give a broadside
with the cannon. The captain very
often used to take the tiller himself,
and, watching favorable opportunity,
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umn is in natural order when the van
is leading, and in inverse order when
the rear squadron or division is leading
1t was while maneuyeringi in double
column that the Engliss hattlesh1p
Victoria was sunk by the battleshIp
Camperdown in the Mediterranean in
1898.
gle, as shown in Figure A. The echelon