Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-08-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World

IT'S said the commercial traveller
fears he will lose his grip if the form
alton of trusts continues.
One fiery fighter will be substituted
for another when Joe Wheeler takes
the place of Fred Funston.
Observation-Disclosures of War AL
ger has rendered his resignation. to
take effect at the pleasure of the Pres
ident
The automoists do not know whether
to call the machines he or she. We
are betting that "she' goes, whether
the vehicle does or not.
The stories Of wealth brought from
the Alaska fields recently are evidence
of renewed activity on the part of the
transportation companies.
The Shah of Persia, who has but 800
wives, has gone crazy. To the man
who has matter Of merely one wife,
this does not seem so ALFRED curious.
Melba is not coming to this country
next season. She must have made an
unusually good haul that last trip or
nothing would prevent her from ap-
pearlng IN our midst.
Albany, N. Y.-Mr. and Mrs. John
Davis, who are making a trip across
the continent in an automobile, left
for Amsterdam. Wheelmen by the
dozen guide them from town to town.
Manila has only one small brewery,
but SO long as the waterway lis open
to St. Louis and other "interior
points We may rest assured that the
raging Filipino thirst will be assuaged.
1t is said of Robert Bonner that
er owed one Were everybody like the
late editor of the great family story
paper it would be rocky sailing for
the banks.
Jacksonville, Fla.-The United
States District Attorney here has been
warned from Washington to beware
of filibustering expeditions from the
and other Central American countries
Corsets are going out of fashion in
Paris, according to dressmaker's Or
gan, but it fails to state whether
w
not believe the men of Paris can ever
be prevailed upon to surrender their
stays.
The Washington Post prints conspic-
uously an article booming Governor
Roosevelt of New York for vice pres
idential candidate. The Posts story
has created considerable excitement
here, owing to the general belief that
it was inspired by some high political
authority.
Postoffice department officials ex-
pect to ask for an appropriation from
the next session of congress for the
use Of automobiles in collecting mails
at all first-class postoffices. The pur-
pose is to ask permission to use the ap-
preparation of $4,000 for horse hire
allowance.
A French naturalist says that if the
world were to become birdless man
could not inhabit it after nine years
time. In spite of all the sprays and
poisons that could be manufactured for
the destruction of insects, the bugs
and slugs would simply eat up or
chards and crops.
Milwaukee reports that she has
fifteen candidates for governor in her
midst. But do not step so high, Mil
Waukee, nor look so naughty; Los An
geles has 275 candidates for Superior
Judge, with messengers still coming
in from the outlying wards. You're
not so voluminous, Milwaukee.
Toledo Blade: The Washington cor
respondent of a New York paper floats
the rumOr that the President is con-
sidering the project of submitting the
question of independence or annexa-
ton to the people of Cuba. Whether
this rumor is true or not, it is manifest
destiny that Cuba will one day become
part of the United States. Whether
the fullness of time has come may be
doubted, but the final outcome may be
set down as certainty"
Washington-The war department
has received the following cablegram:
Observation-Disclosures General, Washing
ton: Captain B. A. Byrne, Sixteenth
Infantry, with seventy men surprised
united robber bands, Negroes, number
ing $50, killed lis, wounded many,
captured a few rifles and revolvers,
many hand weapons, large quantity of
stock, fighting at close distance.
Byrne's loss one killed, one wounded, ;.
names not given. This action very
beneficial for quiet of Negros.
"OTIS."
Governor Bradley of Kentucky will
not call a special session of the legis
lature, neither will he send troops to
Clay county under present conditions.
He reached this conclusion last night.
He thinks the legislature would not
enact legislation relating to the judi
ciary necessary to reach the Clay
county situation, and he doubts if the
military would do any good there. A
well-knoWn mountain official told the
governor he thought the whole thing
could be settled by introducing a bet
ter grade of whisky into Manchester to
take the place of moonshine liquor
there.