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Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
BELIEVED TO BE SUICIDE.
Other Light Thrown on the Death of
 James B. Braswell,

James B. Braswell, an old resident of Phoenix, died at 1 o'clock on Thurs day. His death was believed at the time to be due to alcoholism A phy- sician had been sent for. but before he arrived the old man had passed away. The usual certificate of death was issued, but inasmuch as it fa1ed to describe any other circumstance than the obvious one that the man was dead and that there need be no apprehension of a premature inter- ment, Dr. William Dufield refused to issue a Burial permit Thus a cor oner's inquest was made necessary. Justice Johnstone impaneled 9 ju V yesterday afternoon and went out to the family residence on Grand avenue. The funeral was already in progress and in another hour the body would have been buried.
 It was believed that the inquest would be merely formal proceedins the viewing of the body, the rendering of verdict and the issuance of A ner- init Of burial.
 But while at the house the iury gathered information. that death might not have resulted from natural causes Braswell had been in. the city from Monday night until Wednesday. He was taken home by W. R. Reno, to whom he said on the way that he would never see him alive again. This statement alone created no suspicioa Of an intention to commit suicide, but after Braswel1 was dead two bottles partly empty were found in his pock- cts. One had been filled with lauda- mum and the other with paregor'c c It was subsequently, learned that shortly before starting home he had purchased two such bottles. The ip- quest will be coccluded at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Braswell was 62 years old and was a native of South Carolina. He had served in the confederate army. Af- ter the war he emigrated to Kansas, and twenty years ago moved to Pres cott- He came to Phoenix ten years ago. He was married twice and is said to have been the father of twenty four children. He was a brick1ayer and had been contractor He was an industrious and skillful workman. but for several years hn had given way to the habit of drinking.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

we think that is new bulb, and ex- pect a blossom there in the spring."
 Its so very smooth and hard" commented the New Jersey man.
 "Well, that's not the natural bark" :" said the captain. "When it was first planted 1t created so much interest among the amateur botanists that we had to paint and sand the bark in order to preserve it from those who wanted to clip off specimen shoots" :"
 f'Does it grow fast?" asked the stranger.
 "Not very fast" replied the truthful informant. Indeed, we are not quite sure that it is going to stand our cli- mate. MT. Lowell, the specialist who planted 1t for us, says he believes this species will live for several hundred years. I think 1t was planted upside down, myself, but that doesn't seem to make any difference with it."
 "Is-that-so?" said the New Jer- sey man.
 ''I think it is."
 Well, now, do you know, I must write home to the folks about that I'll come around and see it first in daylight"
 ''Yes, do; Pm sure you'll admire i. more in the sunlight"
 Wont you come across the street and have something?" said the New 1 Jersey man.
 ''No, thank you, I never drink" sait the captain.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
WAS TOLD IN A DREAM.
J. J. Gardiner's Injury Accurately De
 scribe dthe Night Before

There is something after all in dreams in spite of arguments which the learned of all ages have urged against them. It Is well enough to reason "that, if in the great number of things which we dream, we should dream of nothing that is about to hap pen, it would indeed be strange" Last Wednesday morning J. J. Gardiner fell down the stairway leading to the engine room of his mill He received such serious injuries that his life was for the time despaired of. While he lay at his home apparently lowering between life and death, knock was heard at the door. The physician had left orders that visitors should not be admitted so that no one responded to the knocking. It was repeated and became insistent. When some one finally opened the door and told the visitor of the doctors injunction, she said: "I must come in anyhow. am Mir Gardiner's sister and dreamed last night that he was badly hurt. :" Then she proceeded with a relation of the dream, which was singularly a minute description of the accident, such as was afterward published. The lady lives long distance in the coun- try and was SO strongly impressed by her dream that she determined to
 come to town. At the time she related it at her brothers bedside she
 had not been told by any one of the character of the accident.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

Kehout as being quite the funnisA. thing conceivable and he acquiesced eagerly
 The watch was deftly abstracted from the person of the unconscious young woman by man who has great future in front of him. Kehout was made custodian. He began laugh ing but was able to check himself in an hour or so, and, although break ing into an irrepressible giggle now and then. on the whole managed to hold himself in hand. This was diff cult, especially when the girl began crying about the watch, but he is a man of great will power.
 Through an error of forgetfulness the watch was not returned to Miss Lans that night, and when Kehout walked in the morning and found it under his pillow he was attacked by a fresh paroxysm, which he conquered with difficulty. All day Sunday he wrestled with his mirth. People on the sidewalks were astonished to see him stop and double up and slap his legs and come within an ace of pitch ing head foremost into the gutter. Sunday night he was walked every hour by a fresh Spasm of mirth. 
 On Monday Miss Lans, having been told that Kehout had the watch, swore out a warrant charging larceny, and he was locked up. Then he let go all hold. No man could be expected to l resist such exquisite fooling. He lay in his cell and laughed until the | rafters of the station rang. Any men 1 ton of timepieces made him worse | When the turnkey said he was going off watch Kehout rolled on the floor 1 and shrieked.
 l Yesterday, being told the true state of the case, and having been given hel
 watch. Miss Lans withdrew hel charge, and Justice Dooley discharg | ed the wildly hilarious prisoner. By
 that time he was entirely speeches.
 and his sides ached terribly, but hs
 laughed on. A physician who was il
 court diagnosed his case and tool
 him in charge.
 Kehout is all right now, but is lia
 ble to be set going at any time by ref
 erence to the roaring joke of the watcl
 and the chain.-Chicago Inter-Ocean
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

At the next city election Captain Fly McDonald will be the fusion candi- date for chief of the bureau of infOr- nation He is training for the duties of that exalted post now, and it is only necessary to cite single instance of his extreme usefulness to strangers in this city to prove past all controversy his eminent fitness for the office he will soon ask at the hands of Phoenix electors.
 That instance is as follows: Cap tain Hy Mcdonald stood on Washing ton street at the south corner of the eity hall square last evening just at dusk, when a stranger from New ter sey, who had only arrived that morn ing, asked the captain to please name for him that tall, brown, stiff, smooth parked plant, growing so erect and rigid behind him.
 The captain was startled for a mo- ment, but recovered himself quickly.
 aAh! that thing there; Oh, yes that's our new species of cactus."
 .'Cactusr' ejaculated the New ter sey man. "Well, I've been down in Mexico and Central America. and thought I had seen about all the diff ferent species of that plant" he added.
 "Of course, you didn't see any cactus like this In your travels" said the captain. Its a brand new species We call it the Schwatzum sahuara. You see, it's quite different from the common sahuara"-
 A "I noticed that" interrupted the
 ew Jersey man.
 Yes," continued the captain dryly Y"this plant cost us $250, and the fed eral government paid the freight hill on it. To tell the truth, it's rather an experimental plant yet, and we don't know whether we will be ab1E to create new cactus species or not It was planted few months ago You see that round thing on top? We'll
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
ALMOST FATAL MIR I'll.
A Joker Who Though. His Joke So
 Funny That He Almost Died.

Two doctors and professional nurse have put in long, hard night with Charles Kehout. He was suffer- Ing from a disease technically known as lexus cachinnatis It is a form of hysteria that is very uncommon. The victim begins laughing, and in a little while discovers to his alarm that he cannot stop. The three stages of it are incessant laughter, madness, and death. Kehout suffered for three days and was rapidly approaching the sec ond stage, when relief came in the form of hypodermic injection of nor phine. He is now in deep slumber, his coral lips curved into an infanti'e smile, which is merely a reminiscence of the demoniac merriment that pour ed out of him. The thing began in this way:
 Kehout and others attended a New Years party. They chased the glow ing hours with flying feet. Firing of this, one of the royal spirits always to be found at such gatherings sug- gested that Miss Frances Lanss watch and chain be stolen in jest. This struck
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
ABRAND NEW CACTUS Valuable Information Conveyed
 to a Stranger
 TBE SCHWARTZUM SUAHARA
Captain Mcdonald Describes Botanical CuriO

An ExperlmentaI Plant That Cost a Lot of Money-The New Jersey Man Is Going to write to the Fclks at 4Rme About It.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
URGING THEM TO COME.

The Big Miners Convention in Phoe-
 nix January 24.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

\Afo o&e to sell three and oue-quarter " QIltS acres trifa over mile northe ast
 of Washington md Center streets, E- and one and half block from
 car nne, or will sell you one half Of it.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

2 to sell two twenty-acre tracts, To- cate.i at Glendale upon terms Of
 payment to suit the buyer.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

fon&c, to trade 1,sOo-gallon galvanized QiilS iron tank for a good family milk
 COW.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
Youngstown
ats2S North Second avenue, opposite Ford
 hotel.

Mfoo&e to trade a twenty acre tract, locst- w diItS ed at Glendale, for rentabie house
 and lot in Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

Several exchanges have published urgent calls upon miners and operators to prepare for and attend the conven- tion in this city next Tuesday week. This is from the Prospector:
 Tombstone should not be lax in the matter of taking an interest in the
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
TEN PAGES.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1898.
The Money in 1t.

IN instances the Pacific coast press
has done what it could to encourage
an indiscriminate rush toward
Alaska each coast city figuring out
what share it could get in the profits of
the stampede and each helping to
spread the rumors of remarkable discoN-
cries in the klondike field. The rivalry
has gone so far as to have entailed
newspaper warfare over the merits Of
the respective towns as Quitting points.
OF course. there's money IN II for some
of these cities-although the tide of the
penniless, when the return migration
sets in, may bring corresponding bur
dens to all Of them. For the present,
however, the stampede is a money-mak-
ing venture for these coast cities. The
San Francisco Chronicle figures it out
this way: Lucky the city that gets
the most of these people To outfit, for
200, 900 men. spending 5000 apiece circu-
late $50, 600 600. If only 100000 or 100000
come. the business will be worth a big
ger fight than san Francisco, with all
its enterprise, has vet dreamed of put
ting up for IT," San Francisco is one
of the cities that has done what it could
TO swell the Alaskan procession.
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
Gcrmany's Excuse.

rHE department Of state at Wash
ington never has been in doubt
as to the motive of the German
authorities in excluding American pro-
ducts. Frequently in recent years at
German ports the rule of exclusion has
been enforced. That this policy Is
studied effort To please what is known
as the "agrarans" in Germany is only
incidentally probable. the German em-
pire has strong elements in its CON
servatives' and its national liberals
who are as well pleased as the agra
rians over thurst at any importations
from this country, deeming IL merely
tit for tat with our tariff methods.
American meats have been summarily
held up at German ports of entry more
than once in recent years There always
follows diplomatic bluster, Germany
claiming that its action is taken on sani.
tary grounds and as the result of official
inspection. When the Dngley bill was
passed there was loud talk in Germany
of retaliation. il Vas urged in Berlin
that our tariff was a severe discrimina
zion against German products. Of course
the sanitary excuse is not readily ac-
eepted in this country. We can retaliase,
If we want 10. and bring ON a com
mercial war. but that viii harm both
countries-it will help neither.
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
Not in Montana.

~ HE fact that Cradle the man to
whom Cashier Quinlan lent
immense sums of money was
mentioned in the dispatches as having
figured in Montana, gave local interest
to yesterdays Chemical bank story.
The truth is that Cradle never figured
in matters of much account in Montana.
He was, as represented in the dis
patches, on friendly terms with some
of the Burlington people and he had an
eye out for opportunities along their
line that reaches Billings. The scene
of his recent heavy operations, how
ever, was Edgemont. place in South
Dakota, $50 miles from Billings.
From Edgemont the Burlington peo-
pie have a branch line that reaches the
Black Hills country. Near Edgemont
mineral discoveries have been made
within IA year or two that have been
very highly recommended by experts
the region is believed to be unusually
promising. Edgemont is also within
easy reach of the older properties well
known in the mining world and expert
enced men say that the selection of the
place for mining operations seemed to
he a good one. The grindstone busi-
ness. which was another venture of
CRADLES. near Edgemont, is said to
have been warranted by the stone
found there, Edgemont grindstones
have found a market in Butte and Ana
eonda. and they have been pronounced,
after thorough tests, to be Of superior
quality,
or course. there's no telling what
manner of operator Cradle is, the only
fact known in this region to a number
of people is that the man who appears
To have made dire trouble for Cashier
Quinlan. has, in fact. dickered as
described the scene of some OF his
heavy ventures being at Edgemont but
as far as men in these parts who know
him are aware Cradle has not operated
in Montana
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
The Onicial Count.

" FTER rejecting some of the votes
n that were deemed to have been
l illegally cast, the county COM
commissioners find that the vote for the
special election recently held Was 2S99.
The proposition submitted To the people
of Deer Lodge county at this special
election was that there be issued and
sold bonds Of the county in the sum of
s100. 900. the proceeds to he used for the
building of court house.
The vote was large, il was greatly in
excess Of the poll Of average special elec
tons. ana the total II nearly three
thousand is an evidence that through
out the county the interest taken in the
question was general It appears that
2.9SS votes were cast OF these, 2,272
were in favor Of the bonds and 1l6 We're
in opposition. making the majority 1,556
votes. Thus the result is that precisely
seventy-siX per cent. of the total vote
was i'm favor Of the bonds-that happens
To be "A patriotic number. The majority
ls by a good margin more than double
the total opposition vote.
There is reason To believe that Deer
Lodge bonds issued under this substan-
tial endorsement viii lind a ready mar
ket at good figure. Now that this
important preliminary matter is out of
the way. the citizens of the county will
hope that their new court house may
soon be under roof and ready fer occu-
pancy. The site. secured at unusually
adNantapCutS terms. WAS acquired hy
the county commissioners some time
ago. a better selection could not have
been made--in fact the ample grounds
are ideal far the proposed county
building.
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Non-IDteTference in the Affairs of tho
Hawaiian Islands.

Washington, Feb. 3.-During the dis
cussion of the appropriation bill i'm the
senate Mr.. Cullom yielded to MIR. White
of California for the Introduction of
This joint resolutions
Resolved, That Of right ii belongs
wholly to the people of the Hawaiian
islands to establish and maintain their
own form of government and domestic
policy; that the United States ought in
no wise interfere Herewith, and that
any intervention in the political affairs
of these islands by any other govern
ment will be regarded as an act un-
friendly to the United States.
The resolution was passed by the
senate on May 81 1894 having been re-
ported by Mr.. Turpie af the committee
on foreign relations. Mr.. White asked
that the resolution lie on the table.
Senator White said today after in
Producing his resolution for non-inter-
vention in Hawaiian affairs by other
powers that he would call the resolu-
tion uD tomorrow and ask the senate
to pass on it without debate.
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
FRESHMAN GETS A LESSON.
Bryn Mawr Girls Teach u Sportive Har-
ward Youth Manners.

A Chicago young man now in Cam
bridge found recently that he could not
make fun of the Women'S colleges with
immunity. In his letters to his sister
he had spoken of her college as an in
cubator several times and said he Won
dered when the chicks would hatch and
il they would take a postgraduate in
"A brooder His sister didn't care much
for that sort of thing from a brother
who was a freshman himself, albeit a
Harvard freshman. nor. did the other
Bryn Mawr girls, to whom she repeated
his remarks.
on the day of the receipt of letter
from him saying he was coming down
to inspect the apparatus" the mem
bers of his sisters class held meeting
i'm her room. on his arrival, two days
later, he was ushered with some cere-
mony into the reception room.
After waiting 20 minutes a girl came
In hurriedly, looked fairly at him and
said oh" Then she left abruptly. In
five minutes later a third girl did like
wise. and in another five minutes II
happened again. This continued Tor
just one hour, when all of the ~ girls
that had said oh" together with
as many more. all strangers, came IN IN
a body, and said OH and filed out
Then the freshman's sister came H.
nv which time the youth Was ready 70
colIause. and asked him how he liked
the chicks. and if he didn't think they
could peep prettily. after which she IN
,.ifad him to a spread i'm her room with
the chicks. where they demonstrated
they could pick UP crumbs as Weu as
uesI
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
MARTIN ON TRIAL.
The Prosecution Opens Its Case Wit
ncssss say That Most of the strikers
Were shot in the Back.

WilkcsbaIrc Pa, Feb. 3.-Taking of
testimony in the trial of sheriff Martin
and his deputies began in the Luzerne
county court Attorney McGahren
presented the case for the common
wealth Andrew silver was the first
witness called. He proved the death
of Mike CeZlak, saying that he saw him
lying dead in the road at Lattimer with
a bullet in his head. He saw the sher-
iff draw his revolver and heard it snap
and then the shooting commenced.
The second witness was John .ahan,
who WAS at the time of the strike the
president of the Harwood local union
of the United MincworkcrS of Ameri-
ca He told Of the meeting, where it
was agreed To march 10 Lattimer at the
invitation Of the miners there. his
counscls of peace and the start The
armed At West Hazleton they We're
stopped by the sheriff, who ordered
them IL dspersc. Mahan protested
that they were breaking no law. where
upon ono of the deputies grabbed the
American nag he bore and tore it in
halves.
RrN. Father Richard Aust, pastor of
St Stanilaus Polish Catholic church at
HaZleton. chairman of the prosecuting
committee. was called to prove that
many of the strikers Mere shot in the
back He said he had examined a
in detail what their wounds We're.
Rev. Carl Hauser, pastor of the Lulh-
eian church at Fire island. said H. ha |
examined several and found all OF them
Mere shot in the side an back. Charles
Guscatt. principal Of the Lattimer
school said he was teaching school
when he heard an unusual noise. and
going ~ the window. he found that d
number of men. some ~. were aliSh:-
ifg from an electric eaf. They were
deputies He saw the deputies Inc up
l.. the side of the road and form with
rifles ready. The strikers We're In this
time some 200 or 500 yards away They
we're marching five ami SiN abreast aud
were quiet and orderly. Witness could
not see that they carried any Weapons.
AS they drew near the Shrrin adXan, yd
"a meet them. AS ne reached thr first
man \ dozen ar sb. formed a sars nI
half circle around him Hv did not
hear thu shrrlif say anything Nor did he
sue him read any papcr minute after
, The Eut Nret StUprrI those behind
- ts7s 8-as -f
The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-04
\ Kentucky Senator.

Z yESTERDAY Senator Lindsay gave
" notice that during to-days ses-
sion he would have something 10
say on a matter which is personal and
IN which he thinks several of his senate
associates viii find themselves inter-
ested
1t may be that the senator from Ken
lucky Will say word personal in refer
ence to the resolution recently adopted
by the Legislature in his state. That
resolution was described in the dis
patches as having been passed amid
manifestations of great enthusiasm. 1t
is Il legislature that has democrats and
To spare-the membership of the two
houses includes 90 democrats. SS repub-
licans, one populist and two national
democrats" there was a grand uprising
for silver last year in Kentucky
Apparently, Senator Lindsay was dis
posed Ia heed, in part in least, the ex-
pressions coming from his state-he
voted for the Teller resolution. lie said,
however, that he was not bound to an
swer the demand of the legislature
which was that he range himself for sill
yer or resign-his plea was that he was
not elected by the present Legislature.
Whatever merit there may be in this
excuse, it is a fact that, with exceptions
which are constantly becoming fewer. the
democrats in official lfe'are recognizing
the fact that the Chicago platform gov
erns their voice and their vote If Sena-
tor Lindsay is wise he will tell the sem
ate to-day that he proposes thus to feel
bound. Otherwise Kentucky must he
msrepresented until March in 1901.