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Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
TEST OF A ROLLER GIN
Gratifying Results of a Trial in
 Texas.

Washington, Feb. S.-An official direction of the office of fiber investi- gations of the department of agricul- ture at CuerO, Tex, upon Texas grown Egyptian cotton, has just been con- cluded with most successful and grat- flying results. For several years cul- tural experiments have been carried on in Texas by MT. W. H. Wentworth, from the Egyptian seed distributed by the department with a view to the production in this country of Egypt an cotton. A serious obstacle to success has been the need of a proper gin to separate the seed from the lint, the ordinary gin injuring the cotton to a ruinous degree, but this has been over come by special form of gin. The engineer expert of the agricultural de- partment states that the cotton pro- duced from the Egyptian seed plant in Texas is stronger than the native Egyptian, as is indicated by the yield per hour in ginning. This was sev- enty pounds per hour the first day and seventy-six and nine-tenths per hour the second day. The manufacturers of the gin used claim only fifty pounds per day as the output of the native Egyptian. The lint from this test will be examined and further re- ported upon.
 The imports of Egyptian cotton are steadily increasing and now amount in value to over s5,000,000 an nually. With the ginning question settled those who are interested in the growth of Egyptian cotton in Texas claim that production in this country ! is assured.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
COnfeSSes Himself a Train-WrssGGkk-
 CT and Murderer
INPLICATES HANY OTHERS
Makes Known Details of the
 Rail Road Strike
H Only Expected Reward is the Continuation of Worthless Life. Ex-PreSident Cleveland inter ested Him self In the Murderer

San Francisco, Feb. S.--Salter D. Worden, convicted of wrecking a mail train bearing guard of United States soldiers near Sacramento durin g the great railroad strike in 1894, and in whose behalf the supreme court of the United States declined to take favorable action on his plea for new trial, has confessed his crime to Gov ernor Budd, with view to receiving a communication of the death sentence from the executive of the state.
 Worden's confession covers 3,700 words and gives the full details of the crime, telling that he with several others had been ordered by a com mittee of strikers to remove the rails near the Yola bridge for the purpose of wrecking the train carrying troops He gives the names of his accomplicas and makes known many details of the work of the strikers heretofore un- known to the general public.
 Ex-President Cleveland interested himself in Worden's behalf out of sympathy for the mother of the con- demned man, and Governor Budd de termined to probe the matter to the bottom before deciding the case, with the result that Worden made a con- fession in the presence of the gov tentiary, and a stenographer.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
BOOKKEEPER IN DISGRACE.
Benjamin Kramer, a Trusted Emp oye :,
 Charged With Embezzlement.

Chicago. Feb. S.-Detectives are on the trail of Benjamin Kramer, once the confidential clerk and trusted bookkeeper of John P. McGrath, tai Tor, but now said to be fugitive from justice, with charges of embedding some s2,000 of his employers money hanging over him. The specific amount mentioned in the warrants is sued for Kramer's arrest is S1, 400, but the police say that later investigations have disclosed a shortage of a much greater sum.
 Kramer was absent from the store yesterday afternoon when one of Me Grath'S customers called to leave an order. In the course of his conversa- tion with the customer the tailor took been pending for some time between them. To his surprise, the customer announced that he had settled the account in question a month before and he exhibited receipt. The books kept by Kramer showed no record of the transaction and McGrath at once sent for an expert accountant.
 Kramer failed to return to his desk that day and before night a shortage Of 5000 was discovered. When the bOokkeeper entered his office he four d a stranger at work in his place, who ln answer to a question announced that he had been engaged to examine the books. And I have already dis covered shortage of several hundred dollars" added the accountant.
 Kramer studied the situation for a few minutes and then left the estab- lishment. Warrants were sworn out before Justice Foster and placed in the hands of city detectives. According 1 to McGrath, Kramer's downfall is di- rectly traceable to his gambling pro- pensities. He is 40 years old and is well known among the Germans oi Chicago.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
CANAL WORK FINISHED.
The First Installment Work on the
 Arizona Canal.

Receiver c. J. Hall of the Arizona canal has inspected the improvements of the canal, and to Republican re- porter he said he was very much pleased with the work done. A large crew has been employed for some time in overhauling the big ditch, consist ing of thirty-five teams and over 100 men. Speaking of the work, MT. Hall said:
 ''The original capacity of the canal has not been reached by us in our ef- forts so far to improve it, but we have greatly increased the resources of the ditch for carrying water. The work just completed gives the canal a ca pacity of about forty thousand inches. This is four times as great as the consumption of water demands at the present time, but the bondholders are determined to put the property in the best of condition. He will fol- low the work just completed with other improvements, and a gang wilk- be worked constantly until the canal Is in first class condition. have sev- eral improvements to suggest to the bondholders.
 "The best interest of the bondhold- CTS lies in giving the consumers of water the best service possible, and it is fortunate that the capitalists feel this way. They know that their prop erty will go hand in hand with the prosperity or failure of the ranchers, and it is their desire to help the ranch CT all they can. To this end the canal will be placed in such a condition as to give the ranchers the best kind of service. I think the ranchers appre- ciate what we are doing, and I admit that they still have many just griev- ances which it is our aim to remedy as we can They have had a great deal to put up with, and I think the old company appreciated this and did all their poor circumstances would permit to alleviate the condition. The ranch- CTS have certainly shown remarkable forbearance, and the philosophical way in which they accepted the adverse conditions was admirable indeed.' Water will be turned into the big
 ditch again tomorrow, and the cis- terns, tubs and washboilers which
 have done such valiant duty for the past ten days will have a rest. It is
 estimated that the work done during
 the past ten days cost the bondholders ! $5,000, and the amount to be expended 1 this year on the ditch will be very
 large. A gang will be maini aimed
 permanently to keep the canal in
 good order. The ranchers cannot
 complain of the treatment they are receiving, and they would be ungrate-
 full if they did not appreciate the
 value of MT. Halls work as receiver.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
NEVER APPLIED FOR A PENSION
Veteran Who Was Wounded Thrice
 Saved From Freezing.

New York, Feb. S.-Charles McGov- ern, 70 years old, who says he was wounded three times while serving in the federal army in the civil war, and ultimately rendered unable to work, but has never applied for a pension, sought shelter in a doorway at Ninth avenue and Forty-second street early yesterday. He might have frozen to death had not policeman taken com passion on him and locked him up.
 When he was arraigned in the West Fifty-fourth street police court Mag istrate Pool sent him to the Grand Army headquarters with recommen- dation that he be cared for at sol diers' home The magistrate received a letter in the afternoon from the Grand Army office to the effect that McGovern would be provided for.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
STOLE TIGER GUN.
Nabbed While Trying to Get More Money on the Pawned Weapon.

New York, Feb. 8.-Harry Pense. negro. who says he lives in Phila- de1phia, was arraigned in the Jefferson Market police court yesterday on a charge of grand larceny. General William D. Whipple, a retired United States army officer, who was formerly stationed at Governors island, was the complainant. He charged Pense with stealing his $4OO double-barreled tiger rifle from the storehouse in the base ment of his residence, the Ritchfield flats, at 235 West Forty-third street, on the afternoon of January 28.
 The rife, which received the high est award at the Moscow exposition in 1888, the general prizes very highly. He took it with him on his trip around the world, and brought down many tigers with it while in India.
 When General Whipple missed the rife he notified the police, and De- tectives Lawless and Thompson were put upon the case. They visited the pawnshops in the city, and finally were successful yesterday afternoon, when they entered a pawnshOp at 45 Carmine street. As they entered they saw Pense holding the gun and dick ering with the pawnbroker to get more , money on it. He had pawned it sev- eral days before and, not satisfied with the loan he had then got, had l come back.
 Magistrate Hammer remanded him to police headquarters until Friday l The police expect to make another ar rest in the meantime
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
WON BY WORK.
Holmes Shot a Splendid Up-Hiu
 Race.

The live bird match between George Work of New York and J. H. Holmesd of this city was won by the former yesterday. The shooting was at 100 live birds to each shooter for $250 side and the birds The contest came off at the park in the afternoon and was witnessed by a big crowd. The score was 91 to S7 in favor of Work. who showed that he belongs to the cracker-jack class and is familiar with the use of a shotgun.
 The birds were a good lot and a strong wind blowing from right to left made some of the bir6s veritable screamers. Some very neat stops were made and both Holmes and Work were frequently applauded.
 | Holmes drew much the hardest lot of birds and shot an uphill race. He had but ten .'incomers, while Work 1 had twenty-eight. Holmes drew twenty-two drives and Work only eight.
 The rest of the birds flew as follows: Right quarter, Holmes 29, Work 2S;; left quarter Holmes 35, Work 32; twisters, Holmes 1, Work 4. In the 1 first twenty-five Holmes dropped six, missing the 4th 7th, 11th, 17th, 18th and 20th, three dead out of bounds Work dropped three, missing the 2nd 18th and 10th, one dead out of bounl
 In the second twenty-five Holm dropped three, the 32nd, 34th and 41s\ all dead out of bounds. Work dropped, two, missing the 31st and And. In' the third twenty-five Holmes dropped two, the 54th and 69th, one dead out of bounds. Work dropped three, miss ing the 52nd, 55th and Goth, two dead out of bounds. In the last twenty five Holmes missed two, the S2nd and 99th Work missed one, the S5th. Holmes longest run was 16; Works, 24 Each man killed 46 of the last 50.
 Although the audience was composed almost entirely of Phoenicians who would naturally have liked to see Holmes win, no favoritism was shown in any manner and a hard kill by either contestant received equal ap
 plause.
 The officials were Mont P. Chubb; referee; J. M. Aitken, scorer, and Drs Jessop, puller.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
NEW UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
Hon. Robert B. Morrison of Prescott 1 Nominated Yesterday.

Washington, Feb. S.-President Mo Kinley today nominated Robert E. Morrison of Prescott, Ariz., to be United States attorney for the terri tory of Arizona. There has been con- siderable delay in the appointment of United States attorneys for both Ari- zona and New Mexico to succeed the democratic incumbents, both of whom have held office for several months af- ter the expiration of the four years named in their commissions. It was explained that Attorney-General Me Kenna anticipating his removal to the supreme bench for several months, was unwilling to make any other changes in his department than were absolutely necessary for the good of the service
 It is announced that Attorney-Gen- era1 Griggs will proceed as rapidly as possible to make all appointments in- cident to a change of administration. | Ever since the end of the Mckinley Bryan campaign MT. Morrison was a prominent candidate for the office to which he has just been appointed. He was strongly endorsed in this territory and had influential support from other states and territories. so that he seemed from the beginning a likely contestant. The appointment of his father, Judge A. L. Morrison, as col lector of internal revenue for New ! Mexico and Arizona, it was thought might interfere with his chances of success.
 MT. Morrison, though still a young man, occupies foremost place in the Arizona bar. He came to the terri tory in 1886 and settled at St. Johns He was for some time district attorney for Apache county and came into DO, litical prominence in the campaign oi 1890. Soon after that he removed te Prescott and was subsequently elected district attorney of Yavapai county.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
HELD FOR ROBBING A MAIL BOX
Hogan Says He Was Trying to Pro-
 vide for His Wife Honestly.

New York, Feb. S.-Commissioner Shields yesterday held James P. Ho- gan, accused of having robbed mail box in Toledo, O., under $3, 500 bail for preliminary examination next Monday. Hogan, who is a brother of the notorious mail robber, Tim Hogan, was tried upon similar charge in the United States criminal court last pear, but escaped conviction. De- tectives in the employ of the American Bankers association kept him under surveillance, however, and they say that he is a member of a gang of street letter box robbers who have op- erated very successfully in western cities. Hogan was arrested by Post office Inspector Jacobs and Detective George s. Dougherty at the corner of Forty-first street and Second avenue yesterday. He was shoveling snow as an employe of the street cleaning department. Hogan said that he had not been out of New York city since his trial nearly year ago.
 T am trying to make an honest liv- ing" he said, land to provide for my wife, who is dying of consumption. have never been in Toledo, where it i: said I robbed a mail box( in my life He was taken to Ludlow street jail
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09

of conspiracy, an allegation vigo ously MT. Plowman's plurality on the face of the returns was 2.967. The major ity reviewed the figures so as to give Aldrich plurality of 342 Two speeches were made on each side, by Messrs Taylor of Ohio. and Mann of Illinois, and by Fox of Mississippi, and Settle of Kentucky for the minority. It is expected a vote will be reached tOmOrrOW
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET.

Kansas City, Feb. Seattle re- ceipts, $500 natives; 400 southerns; western steers, s3.4O@4.6O; western COWS, $2.5O@3.75; native steers, s3.75 @515; bulk of sales, $4.4O@4.9O; na- tive COWS and heifers, s2.25@4.30; stockers and feeders, s3.25@5; bulls $25O@4.50; sheep receipts, $500; lambs, weak to 10 cents lower; west ern, $4.65@5.50; western muttons, $375@4.30.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
AN ARIZONA POSTMASTER.

Washington, Feb. S.-(SpeciaL)- A postoffice was established at Nor ristown, Maricopa county, with Lee H. Landis postmaster.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
PRICE OF COPPER.

New York, Feb. S.-Lake copper quiet at $10.90@11.
Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
WHEAT.

Chicago, Feb. S.-May wheat at 9614.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20

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Electric Seal Capes, with high storm
collar, lined with Dresden Silk. 10 inches
long, S49S and 10 per cent. discount.
EiderdOwn dressing Sacques, colors
Red, Blue, Gray, Pink, at 9Sc and 10 per
cent. discount.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
REGULARITY OF INDIA's PLAGUE.
Two of the Richest Communities the
Worst Sufferers.
From the Times of India.

From the Times of India.
During the plague epidemics in Bombay
one of the most striking things about the
mortality statistics was the EXTRAORDINARY
ly high death rate among the Bhattias and
the jams. This mortality has remained a
problem. Why should it be that precisely
the two communities that are the richest
in our presidency should have furnished
proportionately the very greatest contribu-
ton toward deaths by plague? We gen
orally associate with wealth a sense of
comfortable living and tolerably clean sur
roundings. What then, could have made
the members of the rich Bhattia commun-
lily and of the richer Jain community,
furnish a larger number of victims of the
plague than have done even the lowest and
most "insanitary" classes among the Hin
docs? May il not be that in the ways of
living of these two communities, dame
tricaily opposed as they are in one respect,
we find a solution that meets the case per-
fectly? There are among the Bhattias two
sharply divided religious sections-the or
binary people and the Marjadis. These
Marjadis are an extremely peculiar race.
'Mariad" originally IN Sanskrit, means
limitation, and the Marjadis are probably
people who voluntarily set a well-dehned
limit to their intercourse with the profane
outside world, and are thus people bearing
a limitation that, in their own belief, con-
fers on them a superiority.
A Marjadi wife, after she has taken her
bath for the purpose of cooking the family
meals. is. until everybody else and then
herself have taken their meals, polluted
by the touch even of her husband, or her
brother, or her own baby-of all, in fact
except that of a brother or sister Mar
iadi similarly bathed. We are not at all
exasgerating 1t is one of the common
est occurrences for a Bhattia husband,
squatting or sitting on a low wooden stool
on the floor, to be served by his wife with
his dinner in a way and with a distance
and stiffness that would be considered by
most other communities a deadly insult
TO marital rights. But the Bhattia hus-
band-particularly The husband of Mar
jadi wife-ls as near as possible to the
Shakespeareari ideal of patience sitting on
monument. But though the Bhattia hus-
band does not rebel, the Bhattia baby
does. and nowhere else can one see a
baby crying its very heart out with such
tremendous energy as in Bhattia house
hold whore the young Marjadi wife has
bathed Tor the kitchen. II Is true that the
baby is at last taken up, after il is quite
undressed, but the struggles it has to &c
through to reach its mother are quite pa
thetc If, indeed, they are not very comic
al the same time Where the plague comes
In in these seri-comic affairs is that n
Marjadi is, besides being a self-oontrolled
mother and a self-respectlng wife, waste
ful user of water during all the time she
is engaged in preparing meals. Every two
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20

or three minutes Marjadi male or female
will wash his or her hands; on the leasC
provocation will he or she take bath; al
togther they use water so plentifully that
damp is an almost invariable concomitant
of a Marjadi household. Add to this
that native houses are in many cases very
i'll ventilated places and we get an idea
how the plague must find very favorable
conditions in dwellings from which-dryness
and ventilation and cleanliness have been
to a great enough extent excluded.
With the jams it is just the contrary
Followers as they are of a creed that en-
joins on them abstention from killing even
the meanest of living things, many of
them are very naturally abnormally I'M
clean in their personal habits. For as al
MOST all water contains some infusoria, or
at leaH some germs, the jams, as a rule
abstain as much as possible from the use
of water for personal purposes. They
battle very infrequently and are extremely
economical of the use of water, except
where they cannot help it, 1t would seem,
therefore, that the Bhattias and the James
those by their prodigality and these by
their parsimony in the use of water, create
conditions where extremes meet. Damp
in the one case and filthy habits in the
other supply a favorably environment to
the propagation of the plague And hence
the high mortality among these two COM
munities 1t would be a good thing If
efforts coud be- made to spread among
these people the knowledge that personal
eanliness, and dryness, and ventilation
are very great projections against the pla-
que Perhaps even the Bhattias and the
jams may then, for once, give their adj
hesion to science. AT least we may very
profitably follow in the footsteps of the
merry British tar, who unconscously
treading on the bedding of a Marjadi
lady on boaad a steamer. and being told
by her that she was a Marjadl, wonder
ingly eyed her, and finding her quite
plump and in good health asked her Tum
kayeko mar jad? Jack interpreted Mar
iadi as two words, and naturally wanted
20 know why anyone so young and pretty
should be willing to die so young. We
may, equally with the frank-hearted sail
or, ask the Marjadis why they are so very
eager to die. Perhaps the wondering ques-
ton may teach them the method of IS
cane.
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large ong as among the guests will be
many officers of the regiments stationed
here.
Mrs William B. Stillwell gave lunch
eoh at Bannon Lodge last Wednesday, the
guests being Mr.. and Mrs. Beverly Royd-
ster of oxford, Va, Mrs. Charles d. Bald
win. Mrs w. r. Powell, Mrs. j. F..
Brooks, Miss Rosa Seward Of Petersburg,
Va Miss Carrie Hobgood of oxford, Va,
Miss Halle Williams of Boydton, Va. Miss
Ehie Bloodworth and Miss Edith StillwelL
Mai. Dickerson of the Sixth Missouri en-
tertained al camp Tuesday afternoon Mrs.
John S. H0wkins, Mrs. J. b. Chestnut,
Mrs &c. Moreii, Miss Dickerson Miss
Wright of Thomasville and others.
Miss Mary F. Lowell and Mr.. Robert
Sidney Cope will be married Wednesday
az noon in the lecture room of the indie
pendent Presbyterian Church.
Miss Mary Owens and Miss Margaret
Thomas arrived Tuesday morning from
ClarkesvHle, where they spent the SUM
mer Mrs. Thomas and Miss Mary Ander-
son Owens came with Miss Sallie Owens
Wednesday evening. 1t is a matter for con-
graduation to many Savannahians that
Miss Salle Owens is so much better after
her recent illness.
Mrs. T. NJ. Cunningham, Jr., and Miss
Woodbridge returned last week from New
York, where they have been making
pleasant stay at the Marlborough.
Mrs. John Malloch has resumed her Fri
day afternoons. Mrs. ]. A. p. Cristield
and Miss Jones will be at home this VIM
ter as usual on Thursday and Mrs. Waiter
Hartridge and Miss Katharine Hartrldge
on Monday afternoons.
Miss Anulette Stubbs Is expected from
New York next Tuesday.
Miss Elizabeth Haskell and Miss Sallie
Haskell went to Columbia, S. c., last week
to attend the state ball. which took place
Thursday evening. Their visit was a de-
lightful one and they returned Friday in
time for the military ball here.
Mrs Frank G. Strachan and Mr.. Henry
Strachan returned from New York on the
City of Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. A NJ. Bell returned during
the week from a month in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w wylly and Miss
Wylly left last Thursday for Fort Reed,
Fla, where they will spend the winter.
Mrs John NJ. Egan and the Misses
Egan will be at home Mondays at 22S
Gwinnett street, east.
Mrs Thomas Scurry wife of Mai.
Scurry Mrs. Borberdean of Austin, wife
of Maj. Rotterdam, and Mrs. B. F..
Wright of Austin wife of Capt. Wright,
all of the First Texas. are at Mrs. Will
sons on Whitaker street.
Mr. William Blackford of Baltimore is
at the De Soto.
The Misses Berrien of Jacksonville, who
have been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Falligant,
left the city Friday.
Mrs. N. Paulsen entertained the Helm
ken-Seiler wedding party last evening
with an oyster party at her residence.
No. % Liberty street, west. Those pres
ent We're Mr. and Mrs. Otto Seller, Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Pau,sen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Seller, Mrs. N. Paulsen, Mrs. She