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Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
ORDINANCE NO. 28O.

Providing for the Government of the
 Phoenix Fire Department, and Re-
 pealing Certain Ordinances.
 The Common Council of Phoenix do ordain as follows:
 Section 1. The Phoenix Fire De partment shall consist of three (3) Hose companies, one Hook and Ladder company, one Engine company, and such other companies as may here after be organized and admitted. Each company shall consist of not more than twenty-five members. all Of whom, being ir good standing, shall be members of the general department and shall have a voice and vote in all it's deliberations; provided, that pre- vious membership of six months shall be necessary to vote for department officers. The department, however, shall always be the judge of it's own membership.
 Sec. 2. The officers of the Phoenix Fire department shall be chief, an assistant chief a president, vice-pres- ident, a secretary, a treasurer, an en- gineer, q stolzer, a janitOr, an executive committee of three, consisting of the chief, the president and the secretary and such other officers as may be here after provided for; all Of whom shall be members of the department for at least one year, and shall be elected by ballot on the second Monday of Jan uary of each year, and whose term of office shall begin on the first day of the following February, to hold for one year, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
 Sec. 3.-The chief, or, in his absence or inability 70 act, the assistant chief, shall have command at all fires, drills, Darades, etc, over all officers, mem bers and employees of the fire depart ment, and all apparatus and appurte- nances of the same. It shall be his duty, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to take any steps, and to perform any act, that, in his judgment, is necessary for the preservation of life and property. He is hereby vested with the power and authority 10 sus- pend any officer, member CT employe cf the department, who, during the progress Of any fire, refuses or reglects to perform the duties assigned to him.
 Sec. i. The president, or, in his ab- senca or inability to act, the vice-presi- dent, shall preside over all meetings of the department, and he is hereby vested with the usual and full parliamentary powers to conduct such meetings,
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
CHlNH CROWDED OUT.
The Russians Have Taken Posses
 sion of r!anchu:ia.

Shanghai, Dec. 9.-John Bartlett, for merly United States minister to Siam, has returned here after visiting Picking and the principal Chinese ports. He says the situation in China IS one of a most critical nature and that Man churia is no longer Chinese, but Rus sian territory.
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
GILLETTE.s LoCAToRs.
The Will Apply for Acquisition Papers
 for Him.

Las Vegas, N. M, Dec. SD. H. Howard "a cattle dealer of Abilene, Kan, who is $40,O ,OO0 short on Gillett, the Kansas plunger, passed through Las Vegas this morning enroute from Mexico to Topeka, where he will ask the governor to issue requisition pa pers for LL3e transfer of Gillett into the custody of the Kansas authorities.
 Howard and two detectives have been on GiHett's trail for ten days. They discovered his whereabouts in Chihuahua city.
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
POOR WOMAN INHERITs WEALTH
Fortune in SwitzsIland Awai Mrs
 Klein Of Evansville, Ind.

Evansville, Ind, Dec. 9.-The wife o1 Jacob Klein, a teamster, received word today from Switzerland that her gran J. father had died leaving her an estate valued at $1O0,000
 An attorney will be employed tCi go to Switzerland to l-ok aftec the estate.
 Both Mrs Klein and her husban d were overcome with joy when thsy re- ceived tho news. They are very poor.
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS

is due not only to the originality and simplicity of tile combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co. only, ard we wish to impress upon Sll the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the CAT lFoRNIA FIe SYRUP Co. only, Knowledge of that fact will assist one n avoiding the worthless limitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the CALI FoRNIA FIG SYRUP Co. with the medi- cal profession, and tke satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of it's remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get it's beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company
 CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
 SAN FRANCISCO. Cal
 LOUIsvILLE. KJ. NEW YORK. NY
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10

aged and restrained on the threshold of the new and beneficial movement it is making toward more active exter- nal policy"
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
Sold at Half=pfice till Sunday, Dec. llth.

improved opened in the $10 for $5 Ladies 
 
  them live out town 
 Office BUILDING Address all let CTS to J.. E. Office From a n p 5:30 D and $ p nl n. m.
Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
MAYER WHIPPED SOMEBODY.

Philadelphia, Dec. 9.-Peter MaheT bested Ed Dunhorst in 8 one sided six round go at the arena tonight.
The herald., 1898-08-09

be watched as a public enemy, for such
he is. He is neither Republican, Demo-
crat nor Populist. He is neither flesh, fish
nor good red herring. He is what In
gals would denominate IAN impossible
incident" He is despised by no one so
much as by the boss whose nod is law and
whose wink is command. He wears his
heart upon his sleeve. Is ready to sell
out his master for reward, and is toler-
ated only because of his guilty know
ledge of behind-the-door intrigues. He
is the bane of all political parties. His
stock in trade is political corruption.
He will live and flourish so long as there
is a demand for his wares, field for the
exploitation of his arts. The adoption
of the Australian ballot system Of vot-
ing curtailed his powers, and confined his
operations to the party caucus. Throw
about the primary the safeguards which
now protect the ballot box. and his oc-
cupation will be gone. Remove from
the partisan committees the power to
changs precinct lines at WILL and the
temptation to gerrymander them will
disappear
Politics may not be made altruistic by
statute but the evils of political manip-
ulation may be ,,ntnimized by law.
The herald., 1898-08-09
ToDAY's NEWS TODAY

Publishers Of evening newspapers have
lodged a complaint with the government
that the war and navy departments sys-
tematically discriminate against them,
in the interest of the morning papers,
in the giving out of important news.
They cite the Sampson report, and other
matters of great public concern, that
have been withheld in this manner
Their grievance, and the vigor with
which they assert it, is not helpful to
their contention that they print today
news today" But it is not conceivable
that there is any design in the discrim-
nation. Evening papers do not go to
press in the evening, but more often in
midday, and important department
news seldom develops until their forms
are closed. Department and bureau
chiefs are not expected to hand over to
the press all important correspondence
before it is digested. They usually re-
quire a little time to consider the meas
ure of public interest involved in pub
licity. Their caution is quite natural.
and is praisworthy. The less the twi-
lights chirp about discrimination the
more plausible will be their contention
of "today's news today"
The herald., 1898-08-09
A REMARKABLE CHANGE

We are about to go hotfoot after Porto
Rico. We apparently want IL awful
bad.
Santo Domingo is right by the side of
Porto Rico, in the same latitude, only
little nearer to our coast. It is four or
as good in every way.
Only few years ago, when Grant was
president, Santo Domingo wanted to
come under our flag and we rejected her!
The offer was repealed by the senate of
the United States, though Grant was
warmly in favor of the annexation. The
senate was then almost entirely Repub-
lican, and Senator Sumner, leader In
his party, fought hard against the prop
osition. Sumner was chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, and sue
ceeded in keeping Santo Domingo out
Santo Domingo was entirely free. indie
pendent and unencumbered She was
under a republican form of government.
and her president and all her people, as
for as known, were In favor of joining
their fortunes with the greater republic
of the United States. The inha bitants of
Santo Domingo were peaceful, fairly in
telligent and far superior to the Haytien
portion of the island, from which they
are separated by an almost impossible
range of mountains. In origin and char
acter the inhabitants of Santo Domingo
are not unlike the people of Porto Rico;
probably no better, no worse. 1t looks
this war Is Porto Rico. If so. 1t will be
a most costly purchase. The cost of the
war will be somewhere between five
hundred and a thousand million dollars,
and that will be the price Of Porto Rico.
The herald., 1898-08-09
ANOTHER ALGER BLUNDER

There seems to be a fatality connected
with all of the more important move
ments of the secretary of war. 1t is
now said the military camp at Montauk
Point, Long Island, to which General
Skaters army is being transferred, Is
absolutely destitute Of wholesome drink
ing water, the only resource of the loca-
ton being a brackish pond, impregnated
with the saline elements of the sea.
Pure air and wholesome water are the
primal requirements Of the fever-strick-
en- soldiers, the absence of them In east
ern Cuba the only excuse for the re-
novel of the army to the mainland. To
find a spot on the whole Atlantic sea-
board where they are not accessible
must have taxed the genius Of the Sec
rotary of war.
The herald., 1898-08-09
o.. n la.fI"II. ~
M'LAUGHLIN AND REFORM

State Chairman Mclaughlin of the Re-
publican. party, speaking for his party,
has declared against boss rule, corrup-
ton in politics and the domination of
corporations If sincere in his declara-
ton, Chairman Mclaughlin should be
applauded by every respectable citizen
in this state. But was he sincere? Could
he have been sincere In the face of the
notorious fact that the Republican party
of this state is the very embodiment OF
all that he condemns? Where shall we
look for boss rule and corruption in poll
tics, if not in the Republican party? In
which party alone is found the domino
ton of corporations?
This declaration sounds well, and has
excited some praise from the feeble
clutch at a ray of reform in the dun
geon Of Republican politics. But 1t is
meaningless. Chairman Mclaughlin Is
helpless to carry out a reform which
means the humiliation of the very party
for which he stands. He speaks for him
self. He does not speak for the slate
makers the corporation agents and the
push of the Republican party. They
have already scorned his advice and re-
pudiated his reform movement, and since
they rule the Republican party, what
hope is there that the party-b bound Re-
publican lambs will ever have an op-
portunity to sip of McLaughlin's reform
milk? Chairman Mclaughlin should re-
form the Republican party before he Of
fers 1t to the public to reform a gov
eminent which it has made corrupt.
Chairman Mclaughlin knows the full
Significance Of the continued boss rule.
The herald., 1898-08-09
MATRIMONY

A woman Is a partner in her husbands
joys and sorrows and gets the largest divi-
dends In the latter.
A man leaves the earth for awhile after
he marrles, but In a terribly short time
he appears carrying 1t on his shoulders.
An Atchison woman is not only a poor
cook and housekeeper, but she does not
laugh at her husbands jokes.
The popular idea of very sensible wo-
man Is one who refuses to turn over to her
husband all the money she earned before
she married.
An Atchison father says the only time he
gets a front seat in crowd Is when one of
his daughters Is married to a 25-cent young
man and he does not want a good view.
When there Is company the boy of the
family usually says something that re-
suits in his mother giving him f1ag-rais-
ing as soon as the company has gone.
If a married man compliments pretty
woman in the presence of his wife. his wife
reproves him. and if the wife is not pres
ent the pretty woman thinks 1t is her duty
to reprove him.
man doesn't feel that his territory Is
being infringed upon when some one com.
pliments his wife, but he does feel that his
rights are being usurped when others than
himself scold her.-Atchison Globe.
The herald., 1898-08-09
VALE CUBA LIBRE

president McKinley's friends" says
an exclusive Washington special to a
Republican contemporary, declare that
he has become an enthusiastic imperial
list since the war began" and will be
content with nothing short of the ulti-
mate annexation Of Cuba.
If this be true, the fate Of the island
is sealed. 1t will be quite within the
power of the executive to render lin
dependence" odious, to proselyte the pa
triot leaders to the doctrine. and to CO.
cree the people. Garcia is said to be
already reconciled to the absorption of
the country by the United States. Go
mez is too old to more than feebly pro-
test, too weak to obstruct, powerless to
resist. The provisional government to
vance agents that will be sent into the
country by the administration, under
one pretext or another, can be depended
upon to do the rest. 1t will be easy to
dissipate the theory" and produce the
CONDITION" The weakness of the oppo-
sition in congress to territorial expan-
sion was demonstrated by the vote on
the Newlands Hawaiian resolution. Re
inforced by the active assistance of the
executive, and the Teller disclaimer will
become Renaissance. The author of
1t himself seems to have been converted,
for he declares that wherever the Amer
lean flag Is once raised, there 1t must for
ever remain"
The herald., 1898-08-09
THE "PUsH" Is BEATEN

H.-Patton politician for revenue only
has been most unceremoniously rele-
gated to the rear. Yesterdays primary
election did the business for him. For
a long time he has been casting covetous
eyes, on the forthcoming Democratic
countysconvention, hoping to use it as
Stepping stone to the state convention.
He deemed 1t necessary to attend these
political functions in order to maintain
his political prestige"
Patton first prospected the Ninth ward
of this city, but, finding the atmosphere
there unfavorable to the tender flower of
his hope, he moved out to Cahuenga pre-
cinet. He has been a resident of Ca
huenga six. weeks. Fortified with
poc3zetful of letters from his staunch
SUPPORTER, Conkling, whose friends are
his &siends and whose enemies are like
wiseshis'n," Patton Immediately began
to do politics among his guileless subur-
ban neighbors.. But it seems they were
not quite so guileless as he imagined,
and, despite the fact that Patton has
lately been claiming seat in the forth
coming convention as his right" they
turned him down. They acted wisely
in SO doing, and they thus proved their
loyalty to the Democratic party. Pat
ton will not sit in the forthcoming coun-
ty convention unless he manages to
sneak under the tent-flap with proxy,
and that event is not probable. The
party will be relieved of his malign and
communicating presence, and 1t will be
commended for casting him aside, to-
gether with the rest of the push" ele-
ment. The Democracy of Los Angeles
county, thus relieved of an incubus
which has been weighing it down for
long time, will step forth rejuvenated
and disenthralled, and will set its pace
for victory.
The herald., 1898-08-09
THE PARTY PARASITE

Interest in politics is commendable.
It is. not only privilege, but duty, to
participate in the selection of public
servants. through the nstrumentalitles
which custom provides.
Jealous devotion to party, also, when
not obviously selfish and mercenary.
and when not in the interest of a faction
palpably in search of spoils, is also to
be commended.
But the man who devotes all OF his
time to politics; the man who has no
other business occupation the man who
haunts campaign headquarters day and
night, dancing attendance upon the
bosses. as a dog is wont to sit behind his
naster at the dinner table, waiting for
bone to be thrown to him-the distinct
welH professional" politician-he is to
The herald., 1898-08-09

the corruption and the corporate domi-
nation of the Republican party, and
knowing this. he realizes the desperate
situation In which his party is placed
by the cry for reform which has gone
forth from the rank and file of his own
party, and the campaign which has been
inaugurated by the reform parties In
this state.
1t is not so much that Chairman Nc
Laughlin is a reformer as that Chair
man Mclaughlin desires to avoid the
defeat of his party at the polls. With
his usual political sagacity, he has
studied the sincere and patriotic reform
movement which Is being waged by the
Democratic, Silver Republican and Pop
ulist parties in this state, and he has
seen this movement eliminate in the
unanimous choice of James G. Mcguire
for the standard-bearer of these parties.
He has seen Maguire's candidacy hailed
by the people of this state as the signal
for the Inauguration of the real reform
about which Chairman Mclaughlin has
been specializing.
Chairman Mclaughlin saw what every
other citizen knew-that the Republican
who accepts the nomination for governor
must accept it from the hands of bosses
or secure it through agents of corpora
tons, or get it by means of corruption
A man thus nominated would be doomed
to defeat unless the Republican party
can successfully masquerade with some
sort of reform movement. He there
fore proposes Though not without the op-
position Of the same bosses and the
rings) to hoist the banner of reform,
and attempt to prevent defeat by MAX
ing the good people OF this state believe
that the leopard has changed his spots.
That the Republican party needs re-
forming no one doubts; and If this move
ment on the part Of Chairman McLaugh-
lin shall result In a thorough clean sing
Of the party. instead Of a slight white
washing for campaign purposes, the
party will reap much-reeded benefit.
AT the same time the people will secure
the real reform by electing Mcguire.
The herald., 1898-08-09
VVIVCONlS HUN OONAU BALLARD.

falsehood and SANDER will ultimately re-
act upon their guilty authors. During the
state campaign about to open, Judge Ma
guire will manfully meet every criticism
and refute every falsehood used against
him by his opponents that may seem worth
his attention. His efforts in the main,
however, will be to present to the people
certain live issues that demand solution,
and urge upon voters the necessity of such
action as will insure healthy reform in
legislative policies, retrenchment of pub
lie expenditures, freedom from corporate
greed, and such other measures as will
tend to make California the most prosper
Gus commonwealth in the Union.
Though formally nominated for governor
by Democrats and Populists, Hon. James
G. Mcguire will in reality be the peoples
candidate. Men of all political shades lex
cept fossilized Republicans will rally
around the Mcguire banner with degree
of unanimity hitherto unparalleled in tho
history of state campaigns 1t will be
such a campaign of education as California
has never yet had. 1t will also be the most
important of any that has been fought ous
IL any state for many years. Not only ara
we called upon to elect a complete state
ticket, but also legislature that will
choose a United States senator, and we
must likewise elect seven congressman to
represent us in the national legislature
during what is likely to be critical period
in the nations history. And last, but not
least, we will be expected to adopt or
reject several constitutional amendments,
and joint resolution providing for the
adoption of new state constitution in
lieu of the mistit organic law which has
too long retarded the growth and bur-
dened the productive enterprises of tho
Golden State.
Under these conditions the independent
voters should use all honorable means for
placing James G. Mcguire in the position
for which he is so admirably equipped-the
office of chief magistrate
RALPH HOYT.
Los Angeles, August 5, 1895
The herald., 1898-08-09
A NOVEL NAVAL ADJUNCT

A distinct triumph of the navy depart
ment is the ship Vulcan, the success OF
whose achievements is briefly noted in
our dispatches this morning. 1t is the
floating machine shop of Admiral Samp-
sons fleet She follows In the wake OF
the warships, prepared at moments
notice. to set to rights any defect in the
elaborate machinery Of modern battle
ship or cruiser, or any injury received by
them in contest with the enemy, or other
WISE Her mission is, therefore, of the
very first Importance to the well-being of
our naval forces.
1t will be seen from her equipment as
we'll as from the purposes for which she
Is in commission, that the Vulcan" is
peculiarly American-the outgrowth of
modern intelligence grated on freedom
of thought in the attainment of practical
results in all the departments Of useful
labor, mechanical or scientific.
Noting the following features of her
equipment, we feel assured that not one
of the great navies of Europe is supplied
with an adjunctory warship so equipped
for the work she has to do, if indeed any
Of them, except England, can boast of
vessel of her kind at all.
The Vulcan was fitted up by the gov
eminent at an expense of 100000. AL
though not intended for fighting pur-
poses, she carries two rapid-fire six
pound guns. Her bow is stock room.
supplied with every article incident to
the ship carpenter machinist and steam
boat builder. Back of this are black
smiths shop, foundry and machine shop.
The foundry is complete, and being pro-
vded with a cupola, castings can be made
on the boat. She has two steam cranes
with ten-foot arms. which are especially
designed for moving weights from a
man-of-wa-, and for transferring ma
chinery to a disabled ship. There are
|'also plate bending rolls, punches, shears
lathes, planes drills, milling machines
and other machine tools, by which hulls
engines, boilers, and even heavy guns
may be repaired at sea, and even during
an engagement. There are also evap-
orators and dstillers OF capacity equal to
a daily output of ten thousand gallons
of water. This last, together with her
large coal capacity, makes the Vulcan all
but indispensable to our fleet. The
luxury of fresh water. daily supplied to
the crews of warshlps in a tropical eli
mate is priceless one. The health and
fighting qualities of officers and men are
wonderfully enhanced thereby.
The personnel of the Vulcan is excep-
tionally fine. She carries a large COM
plement of first-class mechanics. Her
repair shop has some of the finest en-
gineers in the country. Says the Scien-
tific American: TT is doubtful if any YES
sci has yet started out to war with so
large a complement of well-trained, WELL
educated men" 1t is said that out of
her entire crew of two hundred men
ninety-two have the right to wear the
officers cap
This is ship of which Americans may
we'll be proud. She is tribute to the
country and the age we live in. Hell
mission is one not only of patriotic use
fulness but it points moral to the worlG
In that it illustrates the futility of at
lacking a nation that carries it's foun-
dries out to sea and its machine shops
into the fight.