Arizona silver belt., 1899-10-12

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 Only three of the Spanish vessels sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila bay, and subsequently, raised will be of any use.
 Admiral Dewey is in Vermont this week and tomorrow, the 18th, will be given q reception at the state capital, Montpelier. and on Saturday will be present at the public demonstration to he given in his honor in Boston.
 X cable message from Manila an noun"es the loss of several hundred horses and mules on the transport Siam by the pitching about of the yes sel in a typhoon encountered the Fist ultimo.
 The Crocker estate company, com posed of the heirs of the late Charles Crocker. has made gift to the employ. es of the Southern Pacific railroad oi the Crocker homestead at Sacramento to be used as hospital for Southern Pacific employees.
 President Mckinley and cabinet left Washington on the ith inst. for three weeks tour through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nisconsi and Iowa Admiral newey politely de clud the invitation to accompany the presidential party.
 X report comes from Williams that work on the Grand Canyon and Will Hams railway is progressing. Thirty miles of grading and bridging are completed and ties and rails are on the ground ready to be placed in position, This will take the road to the Val Yer. de and Nyack company's mines and enable work to begin on the new smel. ter at Williams.
 They say ] Pierpont Morgan is the financial packer of the plan to make the Dewey arch permanent. It is cal culated that the cost of reproducing it in marble and furnishing the ap' breaches will be something like s. OOO. coo. but that is not likely to stag ger Nr. Morgan and his associates ir this enterprise They will be equal tc the emergency.
 The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of Septem Der. as compiled from the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin records amounts to S12,IIS, 500 The totals for the nine months of lsgS was sS9. 9.l6i, ,000 and for the same months of 1899, e99, ,dtS, $50. II will be seen that the 1899 losses so ial exceed those of the same months o 1898 bv over sl0.00o.OO0.
 Signor Marconi's system of wireless teiegraphy was successfully tested ir New York harbor. Messages aggre gating 1000 words were sent from tht steamer Ponce cruising over tho course to be followed by the Columbia and Shamrock to the station at Nave sink Heights. \. j. Signor Maroon has received advices that the last wire less station established in France is il perfect communication with the parent station in England. a distance of more than llO miles.
 Conquering Bear, q prominent Sioux chief from Pine Ridge agency, was al most instantly killed one day last weel at Omaha by falling from street car In company with another Indian Inc started down town on trolley car At a crossing the other red man go of. and Conguering Bear did not no ticc it until the ear was under ful headway. He then jumped and was thrown violently to the pavement fracturing his skull. He lived but { few minutes.
 \ Pretoria dispatch says the secre tary of state of the Transvaal govern ment in an interview given by him t( the Associated Press. says: 'Th' Transvaal government is awaiting tht next imperial dispatch which ought tt contain the final proposals of t'rea Britain. The British agent, Conyng ham Greene. informed me that the dis patch is in course of preparation. but some days will elapsc before it i ready. In the meantime the Transyaa forces are moboiizing and going to th' front. The government, however, ha' issued strlct instructions to comman dants and all other military officers in no event. to enter British terri tory.n
 \ peculiar monetary condition nov prevails. says the Washington Post There is q considerable demand iron the south and southwest for silver dol lars. There are plenty of them in thu treasury. but there seems no way O getting them out. These will only b released upon the deposit ofsilver cer tificates, and these being mostly il small denominations are so thorough / ly distributed througi out the countr, that they cannot he gathered togethe for substitution, even were they no needed, as they are, for use as currer cy. The banks in the large cities ar