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Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

M. Loubet was reelected President
Of the French Senate.
The new Japanese Cabinet has been
formed, with Count Ito as Premier.
Count Esterhazy was unanimously
acquitted by the court-martial in
Paris.
Emile lola is to be prosecuted by
the government for his part in the
Dreyfus agitation.
The Rev. C. H. Dobson, whose nom
de plume is Lewis Carroll, author Of
"Alice in Wonderland" is dead.
Gen. Gonzales Munoz, the new cap
tain-general of Porto Rico, died i'm
mediately after his arrival there.
In connection with a proposed loan
of 920,000,000, Great Britain is asking
for the restoration of Ii Hung Chang
to power.
China has agreed to the demands of
Germany regarding indemnity and
reparation for the missionaries killed
near Kiaochau.
The American contractors and canal
engineers en- route to Nicaragua have
arrived at Colon and will inspect the
Panama Canal.
At Sydney, N.S.W., steamers which
have just arrived report tribal war
in the New Hebrides. There is consid-
cradle bloodshed.
DR.. Jameson, the Transvaal raider,
will not return to England at present.
He intends to- become a candidate for
the Cape Parliament.
The capital of Tmboyna, one of the
Molucca Islands, has been completely
demolished by an earthquake. Fifty
persons killed and 200 injured.
A Bombay dispatch says: The plague
returns for the past forty-eight hours
record 142 new cases and los deaths.
There is a general exodus of the popu-
lation.
An article, said to be inspired by
the Pope, advocates the formation of
an Italian republic, and asserts that
either the Vatican or the Italian mon
archy must go.
A big sensation has been caused in
Rio de Janeiro by the police report
on the conspiracy to assassinate Presi-
dent Moraes, November 5 last, many
persons being implicated.
Latest advices from the Orient state
that the Japanese transport steamer
Nava of 2510 tons, bound to the Pes
cadores, was wrecked December "a
and about eighty lives lost.
1t is reported that the whole region
on the Beloochistan frontier, India,
where Capt. Burns's expedition was
massacred, is in revolt. A regiment
has been dispatched to the scene.
The Spanish gunboat Algacia has
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shark Carries a Message Five Years.


While strolling along the shore Of the
Delaware Bay, near Fishing Creek, N.
j., five years ago, Miss Beulah Bate and
three young women companions wrote
their names and addresses on four slips
of paper, sealed them in as many bot
ties, and cast them far out into the bay.
For days and weeks they watched and
waited for tiddngs Of the bottles, but
none came, and they had almost forgot
ten the incident.
A day or two ago Miss Bate received
a long letter from the captain of an
English man-of-war, stating that while
coasting along the coast Of England
one Of the seamen fell overheard and
narrowly escaped being devoured by q
huge shark. After hauling the man
aboard, the sailors secured the shark,
and found in its stomach the bottle
containing Miss Bates message. Miss
Bate is now student at the State
Normal school in Trenton, and has be-
come quite a heroine among the more
romantic Of her Observation-Disclosures
phia Record.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
WASHINGTON NOTES,

The House has passed the Urgency
Deficiency Bill carrying S1,7741, 843.
Representative r. c.. Bland has in
troduced new free coinage silver
bill.
The bill to permanently locate New
Mexico's capital at Santa Fe has been
favorably reported.
Germany has notified the United
States OF her willingness to negotiate
a treaty of reciprocity.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Sound Money League will meet
in Washington February 2.
The new sealing regulation proves
very annoying to Canadians and
Americans living near the border.
President Dole of the Hawaiian re-
public is on his way to Washington
to forward the cause of annexation.
The Senate has confirmed as Arizona
postmasters, J. T. Coulter, Flagstaff:
W. o. Kellner, Globe; J. ]. Hodnett.
Tempe; A. J. Griswold, Nogales.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has filed with the State Depart
ment a claim Of $1,000,OOO for damages
against Spain because of the Weyler
press censorship.
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections decided against the
claim of H. w. Corbett to a seat in
the Senate under the appointment Of
the Governor of Oregon.
The Third Assistant Postmaster
General has ruled that the punching
out of a date in postal card DESTROYS
it's character and renders the stamp
imprinted upon it valueless.
The customs receipts on January
IL were $3.50 1924, the heaviest since the
new tariff went into effect Treasury
officials confidently predict that the
new law will provide a surplus of
revenue from now on.
Attention has been called to the fact
that daughters of three members of
Cleveland's Cabinet have committed
suicide. A daughter of Bayard, former
Secretary of State, suicided by drown
ing; daughter of former Atty.-Gen.
Garland blew out her brains with
pistol, and a daughter of former Sec
rotary of the Navy Herbert jumped
out of a window.
The President stands firmly in favor
of International bimetallism, as prom
ised by the st. Louis platform He
considers the negotiations with the
European powers only temporarily sus-
pended on account of the peculiar
conditions of affairs in India, and it
is the Presidents intention to again
send his ENJOYS to Europe as soon as
the conditions are favorable for con-
tinuing negotiations.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
TIMES AND MINING.
What the San Francisco Miners As
ISOLATION Proposes to Do.

The Golden Jubilee and the great
mining exposition which will follow
it are absorbing all the energies of
the San Francisco Miners Associa-
ton, which gave the semi-centennial
its first impetus, but when these af-
fairs are over the association will
take up other lines of effort, and
promises to be a very great aid to
the prosperity of the industry in
many ways.
The active president of the asso-
citation, It. J. Parsons, gives the fol-
lowing general outline Of the new ca
reer which is planned for the organ
iZation:
The San Francisco Miners Asso-
citation has started an effort to slim
ulate the growth and prosperity of
the mining industry in California,
mainly by advertising it's possibilities
and greatness to the world.
The plans for this work are yet
very general. They will develop in
detail as we go along, and will, /
hope, grow as we progress, as the
plan for a semi-centennial of the dis
covery of gold grew out of the idea
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of this association to celebrate the
event with large parade and other
suitable exercises, and develop into a
plan for an exposition in connection
with a great Golden Jubilee.
The jubilee and exposition will
command all the energies of the as
ISOLATION until they are over, and
then active steps along other lines
will be taken, plans for which will be
considerably developed meantime. The
first work will be to get the associa-
ton thoroughly organized and
strengthened. It's membership is now
about 265, composed mainly Of manu-
facturers and merchants directly in
terested in the mining trade, and
hence in the prosperity of the indus
try. Individuals pay dues Of SIS a
year, commercial and manufacturing
firms $50, and mining companies SIS.
We wish to largely increase the mem
bership from among all who have an
active or merely friendly interest
in mining. We will show many bust
ness men the direct benefit of identi-
| flying themselves with the association
and helping it along.
We want to establish a headquar-
tiers supplied with publications, etc.,
of interest to miners, and to make 1t
a rendezvous for mining men when
they come to the city. 1t is our idea
to maintain there bureau of mining
information which shall do the Stats
tical and scientific work of the Min
ing Bureau, which will afford ready
practical information to mining men
and to strangers.
A permanent exhibit may be main
tanned, displaying as we'll as possible
the mineral resources of the State.
This exhibit would correspond to that
of the horticultural and agricultural
resources of the State by the State
Board of Trade. One purpose Of the
association is to advertise San Fran
cisco as the mining center of the Pa
cific Coast, and manufacturers of
mining machinery and supplies might
maintain private exhibits there.
What this institution will become
depends ON developments in the near
future, but we hope to make it a
grand advertising bureau for the in
dustry. From it literature might be
circulated all over the world.
All these plans will be discussed
during the preparations for the jubi-
lee and interest in them developed.
So many have already become deeply
interested in our plans that am con-
fident that we will find the enthu-
siastio cooperation needed. The en-
tire State is interested in the mining
industry and wishes to see it flourish.
T. J. PARSONS.
From the data at hand it is esti-
mated that the output Of the precious
metals in Washington for the year
1897 will amount to about one and
one-half millions of dollars, which is
substantial increase over any pre-
ced1ng year.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
Canadian Mines.

The detailed report Of the geological
survey upon statistics of mines and
minerals for the year 1896 has been
issued. 1t gives Canada's total min
eral production for the year at $22,-
100000, an increase of 1875 per cent.
in ten years, the production in 1886
having been S10,000,000. The increase
of mineral production for the same
decade was 40 per cent. The annual
production per capita is So in the
United States, against $3.50 in Canada.
In the production of gold, British
Columbia stands credited with over
81 per cent, and Nova Scotia with
over 18 per cent. The Northwest
Territories, including the Yukon dis
trict, come third, with 10 per cent,
and Ontario fourth, with about 5 per
cent, while Quebec contributes much
under l per cent.
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captured off the coast Of Cuba, near
Manzanillo fishing smack from ia
maica, having on board a cargo of war
material, medicines and clothing.
The japanese warship Kasagi was
launched at Cramps shipyard on
Thursday When the fleet of which the
Kasagi is a factor is completed, Japan
will rank third among the naval pow
ers Of the world.
A committee of the Congress of
Nicaragua has reported adversely on
ex-Minister Lewis D. Bakers contract
with the government of Nicaragua to
settle it's claims against the United
States and others.
A terrible storm broke upon the
Fiji Islands on November II, and again
on the 18th, the wind attaining veloc-
ity Of eighty-five miles an hour for
some time. Several small vessels were
blown ashore and wrecked.
Prof. Schenck of the Vienna Univer-
sity claims to have made the mar
velous discovery of the secret of in
fuencing the sex of a child. I he pro-
lessor points with pride to family
of six boys as an illustration of the
practicability of his theory.
The Mexican government has can
celed the valuable concessions of the
Mexican Southeastern Railway Com
pany on account of the failure of the
company to comply with the important
terms Of the concession. The company
was composed of Cleveland, O., men.
In Havana Spanish rioters attacked
and partially destroyed the Offices of
three newspapers of pro-Cuban SYM
pathies, and threats were made against
Americans, who had to seek refuge in
the United States Consulate.
The British torpedo-boat destroyers
Bart and Handy conveyed by the dis
patch vessel Alacrity, have been Or
dered from Hongkong northward. The
homeward orders of the British first
class cruiser Edgar have been counter
manded
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
Monaghan Pheasants.

The State Board of Fish Commits
sioners has sent coop Of Monaghan
pheasants here for propagating pur-
poses. The birds were brought from
Oregon, where they are very numer-
GUS. The State law protects the
birds, imposing severe penalties upon
any person who, prior to March 1,
1899, shall hunt, pursue, take, kill,
destroy or have in his possession" a
Monaghan pheasant.
The pheasant is distinctly a prairie
bird, and is seldom found in or about
timber. They like the tall grasses,
ferns, stubble fields and low bushes
and are great favorites with the
sportsmen. The plumage of the cock
almost rivals that of the pea-fowl in
beauty. His prevailing colors are
gold and bronze, with touches Of
black. He has a clear, white r
around the neck. The head, and
pear part of the neck is of bluish
green or changeable shade, similar to
that of the mallard duck.-San Diego
Tribune.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

A microbe Is willing to travel third
class, as In chewing-gum, though it
may prefer a f1rst-class trip, as in
cream. A Philadelphia paper gives the
history Of several cases Of diphtheria:
A child with piece Of gum in her
mouth met a child who had just been
taken Ill. She divided the gum with
the family when she reached home. The
momentary contact, with the gum as
a vehicle, gave the disease its oppor-
tunity. Eternal vigilance is the price
of health
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
Orange Orchards.

According to German official who
has been investigating the subject,
Italy, including Sicily, has 7,730,00O
orange trees in bearing. OF these
4,359,000 are in Sicily, 1857, 900 in
the Southern Mediterranean district
the remainder scattered. 1t is gen.
orally agreed that the new tariff will
permanently affect the imports Of for
eign oranges into the United States,
The orange output of Tulare county
this year will exceed $50 carloads, and
the area now planted to oranges and
lemons will exceed 1000 acres. The
principal districts in which citrus
trees have been planted are about
Porterville, Lindsay, Lime Kiln,
Exeter and Orosi.-California Fruin
Grower.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
Rainfall and Crops in Southern
California.


No two seasons in Southern Califor-
MIA are near enough alike to be
classed as similar. In weather con-
ditions each year is law to ITSELF
Yet there are certain broad laws
which seem to govern the question In
a general way.
One of these laws is that q good
deal more than half the rainfall
comes after the first of January. An
other is that droughts are much more
likely to be experienced before that
date than after it. A third law is
that an inch in January is worth
more than two in December one In
February worth more than three in
November, and one in March -Eorth
more than four in October. The late
rains are the most important. and
February and March are the most
likely of all months to bring plenti-
full rains.
Taking the records for twenty
years, only an average of one season
in five is credited with more rain be-
fore New Years day than after that
date. Out of this period, one in ev-
cry three has shown as poor record
as this season. Of these, the winter
of 1867, with less than an inch of
rain when January opened, produced
quite fair amount later On, and
farmers with crops in the ground
Jared we'll. In 1882, New Years
dawned on very dry country. but
before May day there was enough to
insure good crops Of hay and grain.
The same was true of the following
year. In 1867 there mad been only
few light showers up to January !,
but that year was one of our best. |.
In the twenty years, seventeen
showed a record of about inches or
less on New Years day, yet not one
of the twenty failed in producing
crops of grain of pretty fair acreage.
Los Angeles Express.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

At the rate express cars are being
robbed it may become necessary before
long to build them for defense. A car
with portfolios, made impregnable to
bullets, could be held like fort against
a gang Of desperadoes providing it had
men enough within to do the work.
Train robbers usually have dynamite,
but he must be a foolhardy man to
carry that explosive while under fire.
II Is the defenselessness of the express
car which makes losses from train
hold-ups so frequent and heavy.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

If the word Of prominent Swedish
official is true, Emperor William takes
to himself the proud credit of having
crushed Greece, and now, by way of
keeping his hand in, is thinking Sc
rlously of crushing Norway. 1t is a
marvellous thing that, under the enor-
nous weight at Berlin, this long-suf-
fering old planet doesn't bulge out at
all its weak spots and crack all along
its sea lines.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

How dear to our hearts Is the old
yellow pumpkin, when orchards are
barren of stufing for pies; when peach
es and apples have both been a fail
ure, and berries of no kind have greet
ed our eyes. How fondly we turn to
the fruit Of the cornfeld-the fruit that
our children are taught to despise-the
old yellow pumpkin, the mud-covered
pumpkin, the big-bellied pumpkin that
makes such good pies.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

True kindness is not exhausted in
comforting happiness Of every kind;
and he who makes his presence in it.
self a source Of gladness to all who
come under its influence has learned a
secret In which much Of the welfare
and Joy of humanity is EMBODIED.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

There Is one social dishonor about
which no one thinks it worth while to
say much in reprobation, but which
does more harm than any other known
to us-we mean the dishonor of repeat
ing conversations, opinions, circum-
stances, not made under promise Of Sc
crecy, but which high sense Of honor
would treat as confidential, If haply a
high sense of honor were the rule.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

The Afridis were found to be abund-
antly supplied with excellent rifles of
British manufacture. Europe's meth
cd of arming uncivilized races and then
aghting them Is foolish business.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Some Twenty-Five New-Englanders
with coats Of arms are now saying that
all other w-EnglandeIs who pride
themselves on colonial descent are
snobs. And yet coats Of arms didn't
cut much Of a figure about the time
the colonial fathers were getting in
their best ticks for the country.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Such title is about as valid as the
title to travellers watch obtained BY
the persuasion of a revolver on lonely
road, but 1t is urged by Great Britain
with that Pecksniff1an regard for the
sanctity Of treaties which has marked
the foreign policy Of that nation ever
since these treaties began to establish
her colonial aggressions.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Two Boston poets have entered into
an agreement to walk across the Allan
tic, wearing pneumatic boots. 1t is too
bad that only two poets can be induced
to make that trip.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
Extraordinary.

Huntley-My wife Is one of the most
remarkable women in this town.
Bosworth-How are you going 10
prove it?
Huntley-A new house was built IL
our street two months ago, and she
has never been through 1t yet.-Vovs
land Leader.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

The Kentucky woman who wants to
be nominated for President by the Pro-
hibitionists should first take the pre-
caution to establish a residence in some
other State.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

An Illinois woman wants $4,000
damages for fractured heart. Which
also goes to show the feminine love for
fine figures.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

A correspondent writing to a Wash
ington paper begins by saying: Il am
only a woman" Why "only" Wom-
an nowadays holds the center Of the
stage; why should she apologize for it?
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Russia and Austria seem to be de-
veloping an enormous appetite for Tur-
key. Only two such powers as these
can tackle so tough a bird.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

A sickening feature Of the African
iand-grabbing is the canting hypocrisy
which attempts to base the title to
stolen territory on treaties" with the
various negro potentates in the district
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Some men get married when they go
into q lions cage. Others put their
heads into the lions mouth when they
get married.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

"What the States want in their pop
ulous country DISTRICTS says the Lon
don Spectator, apropos Of the Hazleton
riots, ''is well-trained, well-discip-
lined, well-paid, and well-led police. If
Luzerne County had been in the charge
of an experienced chief constable from
an English or Scotch county, supported
by body Of English police, he would
have prevented disorder without re-
course to the methods which the Amer
lean sheriff considered absolutely nee
essary." During the twenties and thir-
ties of the present century, strike riots
and mobs were dealt with In England
almost exactly as they are dealt with
now in America. There was no organ
lied and expert police force, and those
who wished to riot were given per
fectly free hand up to certain point
that is, up to the point where they got
on the nerves Of the peaceful inhabit
ants and appeared to be threatening
the foundations Of public order. Then,
as in America now, special constables
were sworn in and armed and the yeo-
manry-answering to the American NIL
litia-were called out. When once they
were sworn in or called out, their OBJ
ject was to give as sharp and quick
lesson as possible; and they cared very
little whether the mob was actually
committing any illegal act when they
encountered it. cit was not till we got
q really welI-OrpanfZed DO1ice force -
the Spectator AYERS, land maintained
law and order thoroughly and consis-
tently, and not merely spasmodically,
that we were able to put an end to a
state Of things under which every
strike carried with 1t the proba bility of
bloodshed. If the States want, like us,
to put down the scandal Of bloodshed
in peace time, they must follow our
path"
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Somebody suggests that Santa Claus
be dispensed with as a Christmas adj
junct. He might have put his foot fur
Their In 1t by also suggesting the stock
ing be abolished.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

At the present rate Of determination,
the kanragoo will be extinct in Austria
liza In q few years. It's on its last legs
now.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

Housekeepers in suburban towns, IN
isolated farm houses or in crowded cit
les, should turn a deaf ear and cold
shoulder to the swindlers who sell
cheap household utensils for cash to be
delivered in future. Cash should re-
main in the purchasers pockets until
the goods are delivered unless the Or
ders are given to known employees Of
creditable firms. A gang Of such swind-
lers have been successfully working
some of the suburban neighborhoOds Of
Philadelphia by selling cheap utensils
to be delivered promptly when cash &C.
companied the order. Those who paid
the cash are still waiting for the deliv-
cry, and are likely to wait till the crack
Of doom. 1t Is to be hoped that the
smooth-tongued knaves will fall into
the clutches Of the law, but whether
they are ever caught or not those who
were gullible enough to trust their cash
to canvassers Of whom they knew moth
ing deserve little sympathy. Their ex-
perience should serve as warning to
the residents of neighborhoods which
the scoundrels have not visited. They
are sure to work new neighborhoods as
long as they can find gullible victims
anywhere. Any householder anywhere
who is approached by a honey-tongued
stranger with proposition to take
cash order for an article to be deliv-
cred in the future should set the dog on
the scoundrel, and go into the house
after a shotgun to reinforce the dog.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

With most people getting ton Of
coal is too serious a matter for any
dealers to treat 1t In too light way.
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

A book agent killed himself In Ala
bama the other day. Couldn't he find
anyone else to do it2
Mesa free press., 1898-01-28

"Home rule" as defined by Spain is
rule of Cuba conducted by the Span
iards at home.