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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
NDKINLEY TAKES A BOAT RIDE.
Rests From His LnBors by Running
Down the Potomac

Washington, July 28.-Presldent McKin-
ley this afternoon took a brief respite
from his arduous labors Of the past few
months, and enjoyed a trip down the Po-
tomac on the naval tug Triton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
GARCIA LETTER DIsCREDIrED.

NoinmuHicatiOn the Work of
Aewspaper Correspondent.
santiago de Cuba. July 28-It now turns
o5 WA. Ihe letter alleged to have been
'''ssed by Gen. Garcia to Gen. shafter,
C', aiming Of the eatment accorded the
c..'iAs c--'As and advising Gen. Shafter of Cen.
nav..,l-s resignation, was prepared by a
wt, tSper correspondent named Arms.
Cas.i'i1' g.en acting on the staff Of Gen.
..lr - ~ IS not clear that Gen. Garcia
'-i saw the letter. e'''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
roiavieja Confers Win the Once,

h50 i"', July %, 4 p. m.-Gen. PoIavieia
O1e.r rong conference to-day with the
main regent. The strictest reserve Is
aimed as TO its purport
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
relations of Spain and the United

relations of Spain and the United
States"
Senior Gullon, Spanish Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, recently intimated
to United States Minister Woodford
that the Spanish government desired
the recall from Havana of Consul
General Lee, and that the american
warships which have been designated
to convey supplies to Cuba for the re-
lief of the sufferers there should be
replaced by merchant vessels in order
to deprive the assistance of the recon-
centrados of an official character.
Minister. .Woodford cabled the request
to the Washington government which
replied, refusing to recall Gen. Lee
in the present circumstances or to
countermand the orders for the
dispatch of the swar vessels, maxi
ships are not fighting vessels.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Six thousand dollars for improving
roads in the Yosemite Valley was ap-
propriated by the House.
Gen. Miles considers Spain likely to
strike without warning, and believes
the country should be prepared for
war.
Secretary Gage has sent to the House
an estimate of an appropriation Of
$15O,ooo to improve Yaquina Bay,
Oregon.
The Senate has confirmed J.sP. Mil
Ter of Indianapolis to be Consul at
Calais, France, and w. T. Fee of Ohio
Cienfuegos, Cuba.
The Senate Commerce Committee
gave hearing on the Frye bill estab-
ishing department of commerce and
industries with a Cabinet seat.
Congress is rushing the work of ap-
preparation in order to secure an early
adjournment, and better progress has
been made than for a quarter of a
century past.
The Senate has passed the Bacon
resolution for the erection of bronze
memorial tablet commemorative of
the officers and sailors who lost their
lives in the Maine disaster.
China has at last been supplied with
money-order system, and the regu-
lations have been reported to the
State Department by. United States
Minister DENLY, at Pekin.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
"a Nj - - ,a1
jutant-general with the. rank of brig
adier-general; w. H. Peck has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lompoc, Cal.
The Naval Committee has agreed
on items of 81 100000 for the purchase
of smokeless powder, $4,000 for the
erection of buildings for the manufac-
ture Of powder machinery, 100000.
The authorities at the United States
Naval Academy have informed the
cadets that the annual practice cruise
to Funchal, Madeira, in June, will be
abandoned this year on account of
the Spanish complications, unless the
situation clears up sufficiently toleave
no ground for apprehension of trou-
BILE.
The Epoca, a sober minded, conser-
vative paper, says: ''We believe that
just in the same menner as the Wash
ington government acted in the case
Of Senior de Lone, which was case
much less grave, so should Senior Gu
lien declare the case of Gen. Lee. The
relations of that officer with the in
surrectionists and his maintenance in
Havana are prejudicial to the good
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

be made at Susanville, in the same
county, with the Nevada, California
& Oregon Railroad, which runs north
from Reno. In that event, it would
form cut-on line for business be-
tween Oregon and Nevada.
The Mexican government has de-
clared the coast waters from the Mex
ican line to the 26th degree of lati-
tude, 400 miles down the Lower Cal
ifornia coast, open for fishing pur-
poses. The San Diego Sun says that
the fishing companies, whose head
quarters are in that port, are prepar-
ing to send fleets into. those hitherto
"unfished" waters, which are known
to be fairly swarming with barracuda,
Spanish mackerel, rock sod, pompino
and a dozen other varieties of the
finest fish in salt water.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

Tne cities of the country are going
more and more deeply into debt for i'm
provement and to less and less extent
apparently are disposed to paysas they
go. They are being run on the method
Of the improvident railway corporation
which will never devote current earn
lngs to Improvements that can In any
wise be deemed measurably perman-
ent and charged to capital account.
Meantime 1t is to be noted that the
market for these securities is large to
the point almost of being Unsuitable.
They are preferred. by investors to the
securities Of almost any private cor
poration, however well buttressed
financially 1t may be.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
A DEPARTMENT RULING

Regarding the recent ruling in the
Interior Department and the General
Land Office, concerning the amount
of work required on each mining
claim before patent would issue and
the date when such order goes into
effect, Commissioner Hermann states
that all claims upon which work was
done before December Is, 1897, will
be approved. He also states that it
will suffice if, in application for pat
ent for a group of claims, work or
improvements aggregating in value
$500 for each claim can be shown to
haYe been put upon the group as an
entirety. Were $3.50 expended upon
one location and $3.50 on another,
jointly owned with the first, both
would pass.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

In fact as we'll as in fiction the life
of the rural neighborhood has always
centered in the postoffice Some writer's
have even pictured it as a sort Of TEN.
pie to which every citizen joyously
went to offer daily sacrifice of Cos
sip. The report of the First Assistant
Postmaster General suggests that this
representation of the matter was some
what overdrawn, and that busy men
and wofnen would willingly Keep away
from the postoffice-if the postoffice
could come to them. Experiments IL
rural free delivery of mail matter were
carried on during 1897 from forty
three offices In twenty nine States. The
mail-carriers supplied their own equip
ments, and the miniature postoffice
travelled In carts or buggies or on bi-
cycles, according to the carriers funds
and the state of the roads-warrant-
ed. Some Of the carriers covered ten
square miles of territory every day,
but to deliver each piece of mail mat
ter cost the government, on an aver
age, only one and two-thirds cents.
The result proved that the carriers
bag conveyed the essential charm of
the postoffice. Like other energetic
and successful men, the farmer was
glad to stay at home and give his time
to his own business. He made things
easy for the carrier by putting up let
ter-boxes, and he rewarded the govern
ment's enterprise by writing more let
ters and buying more stamps. To car
ry on the new service at forty three
postofices cost not quite twenty-four
thousand dollars. This year the de-
partment will spend at least twice as
much money in this way, and from
such carefully-planned beginnings the
service will undoubtedly be rapidly ex-
tended. All experience sustains the
Postmaster Generals conclusion, that
1t would be difficult to point to any
like expenditure of public money
which would confer greater benefits.
To keep the loneliest farmhouse in
touch with the everyday life of the
vaster world, is to break down the bar
riers that, ISOLATION imposes, and to
strengthen the nations reserve force Of
public-spirited citizens and happy men
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
MINING NOTES.

The payroll at the Yellow AsteI
mine at. Randsburg is $4O0 day.
The steamer Trave, which sailed
for Europe last week, took out 325, ,00C
ounces of silver.
BarstoW, the new mining camp To-
Gated in Inyo county, is now giving
steady employment to 100 men.
The Yellow Aster Mining Company
of Randsburg has struck 15-foot
ledge of ore assaying $92 per ton.
This is the biggest strike in the Rand
district, and in itself is enough to
make good camp.
The 10-stamp mill at the Helvetia
mine, San Diego county, is now work
ing on ore which assays at $22 per ton.
This is very old property and has
but recently been pumped clear of wa
ter which for years filled it.. =
Placer mining in Yavapai county,
Ariz., is on the increase, and some en-
couraging results are the consequence.
Nuggets varying from so cents to 500
in value are not uncommon. Miners
are reported as doing well through
out that section.
A number of old mines in the Ca
liente and Walker Basin section of
Kern county, which were abandoned
by the Mexicans years ago, are again
being operated by Americans, who
have SO far met with encouraging
success. ~"
The Randsburg- Santa Fe Re-
duction Company has begun active
operations in the. erection of their
plant Forty men were put to- work
February Is, grading for the railroad
from the main line of the Santa Fe
Railroad to the mill. They are also
breaking ground for the foundation
of the mill.
The steamer Mohave from the sui
phur mines in Lower California,
brought up 1OG tons of sulphur ore
The ore is being shipped to the Mex
lean Sulphur Company's asphaltum
works at Ventura, Cal, where it will
be experimental with and thoroughly
tested. Almost any piece of the ore
brought up will readily burn when a
match is touched to it. Some of it is
almost pure sulphur. Forty men are
at work developing the mines and
and, about two hundred tons of high
grade ore are now on the banks of
the Hardy River awaiting shipment.
s. G.. Lines Of Winchester Is inter-
ested in new dry process for crush
ing ores. With this new invention it
is believed may of the gold mines
around Winchester can be made to
pay. Heretofore in all gold mines the
question of an adequate water sup
ply for crushing ore has been a very
serious one; the development and
pumping of the necessary water in
many cases being very expensive. BY
the new dry process water is dis
pensed with. All the miners are anx
ious to know the particulars of the
new invention. A new mill testing
the process will soon be in operation,
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
TIMES AND MINING.
COPPER ON COPPER RIVER

J. H. Robinson, an old miner who
was sent to Alaska by a company or
ganized at Los Angeles for the pur-
pose of stalking claims along Copper
River writes from Odiak. The letter
is a repetition Of the stories already
told of the hardships to be endured,
and corroborates former reports of
the falsity of stories told of fabulous
wealth along the river.
Robinson writes that he ascended
the stream as far as possible, but
found no traces of gold. He did find,
he says, pieces of copper float as large
as mans hand, and SO pure that it
could readily be Whitfield with a
knife AS the snow was eight to f1f-
teen. feet deep at the time of writing,
Robinson explained that it was i'm
possible ito follow this float or do any
prospecting for lodges
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

Rev. Edith Booker is delivering lee
ture through Kansas on 'sWhat Is a
Man?" A man, dear Edith, is tender,
shrinking creature, whose wide fawn
eyes look out into the great whirl about
him with startling inquiry-an inno-
cent, trusting dove, nesting upon the
neck of a hard world-a sweet field
dover, lifting up Its face for the sun
light Of your womanly affection. That
Is what a man is. Edith. You yourself
are the sturdy oak. Don't forget that.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
THE WEDGE.

Work is steadily progressing on the
Wedge mine at Randsburg, with a
force of fifteen men. Most of the work
being done is in drifting on the $50
and 250-foot levels. A considerable
amount of ore has been stopped out.
There are now fifty tons of ore on the
dump waiting for the mill to be re-
paired which ore runs from $100 to
$15O per ton. This ore will be mixed
with ore Of lower grade. 1t is ex-
pected that the mill will start up
again in about week and a $4,000
gold brick may be looked for by the
middle of the month. AS soon as the
$4,000 borrowed from the stockhold-
ers for the development Of the mine
shall have been repaid, the company
expects, to begin the payment of divi-
dAndS
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

s...
The advocates of woman suffrage are
likely to find some of their strongest
opponents among 2the women them
selves, rather than among the voters
of the other sex. In New York and
Massachusetts there already exist
strong organizations of women who are
vigorously opposing the extension of
suffrage to their sex and in Illinois there
has recently been organized a society
having the same object in view. The
Illinois association has issued a PAM
phlet In which it sets out the reasons
for taking grounds adverse to woman
suffrage. The pamphlet says: eve
wish to emphasize what we believe 70
be the truth, namely, that If men are
supreme in the material and political
world there is no other power which
has the means of moral control so near
ly at hand as woman. 1t is the COM
pensation which she owes the State fot
the protection which she enjoys in the
home, and for immunity from public
labor and service, that she should rear
her children with right habits and in
still into their minds true principles and
8oble ideals Of life, and she cannot do
this while she is managing political
machines and besieging legislatures" :"
This is probably putting their case on
the highest possible grounds, for the
day has long since passed when the
privilege Of suffrage is made to depend
upon intelligence or superior mental
endowments. The point this organiza-
tion insists upon is that Of duty, and
although it may not be at all necessary
for woman who votes to run political
machines or ,besiege legislatures they
believe there is conflict between a
woman's duty as wife and mother and
her duty as a citizen at the pills with a
ballot in her hand. How strong such q
sentiment will be to counteract the
movement in favor Of suffrage which
has already acquired good deal Of
momentum in some of the States, 1t is
difficult to say, but that many women
feel it to be of moment is evidenced by
the formation of these anti suffrage or
ganizations.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18
EASTERN NEWSITEnS.

- ~
Nine lives were lost in a fire at
Charleston.
The Brooklyn elevated railroads
will adopt electricity as motive
power.
Dennis Doren, New York, general
superintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, is dead.
The homestead of the late ex-Presi-
dent r. B. Hayes at Fremont has been
levied upon to satisfy a Judgment OF
$5000
VIM. Singerly, banker and publisher
of Philadelphia, died suddenly of heart
disease superinduced by overindul-
gence in tobacco.
Then people dead and twenty-five
injured at the laboratory explosion
at Kalamazoo, Mich, other bodies be-
lieved to be in the ruins.
Judge Hazen Of a Kansas district
court has decided that a bicycle is a
necessary tool of trade, hence is not
subjectyto be levied upon in an exc
cution for debt.
Railroads in competition with the
Canadian Pacific are relieved from the
observance of the long and short haul
clause Of the interstate tariff law; the
joint traffic case decided.
James Corrigan has begun suit
against ]. D. Rockefeller to recover
26OO shares of the Standard Oil Com
pany, worth 81 200, ,O00 He claims they
were taken from him by fraud.
The Yale University boat crew has
received challenge from the Allge-
meiner Allster Club Of Hamburg,
Germany, to participate in the inter-
national regatta, to be held in Ger
many next July. The challenge will
not be accepted.
The dispatch-boat Dolphin has been
f1oated in the dry-dock in ethe navy
yard at New York, where she has
been undergoing repairs for several
months. It is the intention to have
the Dolphin ready to gosinto commits
sion by March 81.
The Transcript prints an interview
with Arthur T.. Lyman, treasurer OF
the Lowell Manufacturing Company,
concerning a proposed consolidation
of manufactures OF ingram carpets
in this country, with a view of con-
trolling that market. i
Gen. Lew Wallace the eminent
author has announced that at his
death the city of Charlottesville, Ind,
will come into possession of his hand
some study, which has just been com-
pleted at, cost of $4,000 It will be
used as public library.
It was said at the Brooklyn navy
yard that the rapid firing guns just
received had been expected for a
year, and that no special significance
was to be attached to their arrival at
this time. Work is being rapidly
pushed forward on the cruisers Chi
cago and Atlanta and also on the
drydock.
Every street railway Of Importance
in the city Of Chicago will be consol-
idated in short time, if the report
now circulated in financial and mu-
nicipal circles is to be believed. Steps
in that direction have already been
taken. The scheme contemplates the
abandonment of the cable lines for
electricity.
Statements regarding the oil situa-
ton in Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia fields show that an advance has
taken place, owing to decreased pro-
duction during the winter. The Stand
ard Oil Company has been compelled
to advance the price to induce oper-
ators to part with theft holdings
Others than the trust have been pur-
chasing oil. Stocks held by the pipe
line people are lower than ever before.
Nearly all the wells in the Elkfork
field w. Va, have closed down.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

The japanese method Of liberating a
white pigeon as part o. the ceremony
OF christening battleship marks dis
tinct Improvement upon the American
custom of breaking bottle Of wine or
whisky over the prov of the vessel as
1t glides into the water. Not only is
there some suggestion of poetry in the
Japanese style of conducting the affair,
but there is no such temptation for off,
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

A French scientist has discovered
that the sting of hornets Is perfect
antidote for snake bite. All man has
to do when bitten by snake is to run
into hornets nest. This is not calcu-
lated to make whisky less popular for
the purpose.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

Once there was small boy who
bought newspapers at 5 cents apiece
and sold them at the same price. sjust
to get to holler." The same cogent and
convincing reason apparently holds
good In the case of some orators.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

cials to make way with one of the es-
sentials of the christening process
which resulted in the mysterious disap-
pearance of bottle of rare old bourbon
sent to Secretary Herbert to be used
at the launching of the battleship Ken
lucky a few months ago.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

A contemporary says: 'The new law
cutting down the cost of marriage IL
censes makes US feel like indulging in
a few extra wives" Perhaps, every
thing considered, it would be just as
well to repeal that law right away.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

A cablegram announces that home
for poor authors and poor writer's is
soon to be established in Antilles,
France. This undoubtedly is very
worthy charity; still, it should be re-
membered that some Of the poorest au-
thors in this country are independently
wealthy
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

"a music bath is an excellent treat
ment for tired mind,' says a medical
Authority. But, of course, such a bath
shouldn't be taken where the Wagner
Ian waves are running mountain high.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

A Pennsylvania rope factory is to be
removed to, Kentucky. We have all
along been confident that the lynching
business in that State would sooner
or later attract outside enterprise and
capital.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

The Western Union Company threat
ems trouble for Spain because of the in
reference of the Havana officials with
Its telegraph company. The first thing
the Spanish authorities know they will
ind out that there is a wide difference
between bluff1ng our mild-mannered
government and one of our up-to-date
corporations.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

The prize-ring and the university
seen, to have little in common, yet it is
asserted that well-known pugilist ex-
pends his winnings in sending two sis
ters through college. 1t would be easy
to make fippant comment; but un-
fortunately he is not the only man who
has done evil deeds and expected some
how to balance them by good ones.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

A secular paper asks what. the world
would be IL 1t were under the domin-
lon of the professional philanthro-
pists. Well. it isn't under their control,
and it never will be. The greatest men
In the field of philanthropy are strictly
amateurs-hard-h headed business men
who recognize the claims of humanity
On those who are permitted to prosper.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

Srhe fools of the world" as a writer
suggestively terms them, spent last
year at the Monte Carlo gambling ta-
bles no less than seven million seven
hundred thousand dollars. The figures
are official, and show that to keep this
particular road to ruin in good repair is
expensive business.
Mesa free press., 1898-03-18

Another advance is to be made in the
price Of castor OIL The small boy will
not grumbIe If 1t gets clear cut of his
mothers reach