The San Juan times. (Farmington, N.M.) 1891-1900, 1899-05-26
General News.

General News.
Jerome, Arizona, suffered a 100000
fire yesterday, the third within IS
months
English capitalists have invested
81, AGO, 900 in cotton aud yaSn mills in
Massachusetts.
The hou,e of the Texas legislature
has passed a bill Gxing tax Of one
per cent on al personal incomes in 4
.ctss of $4,000 year
The labor troubles at Pana, Illinois
have come to an end. All negro lab
orers are to be discharged and only
union miners employed.
AS a result of ex-senator P2tfsr' 5
return tothe Republican parry, the
popuists are calling hin traitor, the
Democrats political freak, and tho
Republicans think he il a pretty level
headed old fellow after all.
At the request of the St cretary Of
the interior, Secretary Ager has
agreed TO order troops to the Moqui
Indian reservation in Arizona to force
the Indians to suomit to vaccination,
The troops will be sent from Fort
Wiugatc, New Aexco.
Extensive Improvements are being
made by tho s lnta Fe Railroad com-
pany on the branch liue connecting
DeNing with Silver Clty. Eight now
overhead steel bridges sill no put in
and q contract has been let for three
miles of new track Just north OF
Whitewater
The Missouri legislature has passed
a bill putting heavy tax on all classes
of goods handled by department stores
IN st. Louis, Kansas Clty and St.
Joseph, which crapoy fifteen or mure
persons 1t is said the constitutional.
itY OF tho measure will bs tested IN the
court6.
The following committee ofarrange
nent for he Rough Riders reunion
ut Las Vegas has been appointed,
The members of the committee were
all Rough Riders; ". II. II. Leweilyn,
chairman; Messrs. Muller, Curry,
Griffin, Coleman, Luna, Green, Kelly,
Ballard, Dame of New Mexico, Day
Of Indian Telritor!; Alexander of
Arizona; and Mc9innjs IF Oklahoma
Diplomatic relations WILDE resamed
between this government and that
Of Spain, ou June !, nest, when
Minister Beilamy Strer viii reach
Madrid and freseht his credentials AT
the royal palace. Duke 0'Archos, rs
new Spanish minister, will arrive here
ABOUT the same Gme that Minister
Storer reaehes the spanish cali al,
and present their credentials stimuli
tSneously.
The situation in Havana ia cau,iug
great anxiety, Iue Mi ray Of the
Cuban army stIll Eetaaes . surrender
their arms 10 tlrcSA meric ns and un-
certainty as o the acipn of the Wash
ington government leaves BrJoko's ar
rangement for the handing over of tue
arms to Cupan mayors, in the air
The feeling of Cubans is too bitter to
lot them give mach ear 10 tho pacific
proposals of Gomez.
EX- United States Senator ". A Pet
fer. one of the founders of the PoputlSJ
party, and VINO for years wa u3A..u
cred the chief exponent OF PoFuism,
has returned TO the RepuDlican !Old.
Tho apparent settlement OF many of
the questions which were the cause oi
the organiza ion Of the old Alliance
contributed to the chau ge ia tnepoilt-
ical attitude Uf Senator PETER. III an
interview on the 18th, lust, MIR. PETER |
said: Il have always been Republl
can except en- one main ques ion th5
money question. That seems to have
settled itself now. The PopUlist party |
has been eliminated nationally by the
Democrats; those of us who don't want
to flop by ourselves will have 10 vote
our convictions as best we can The |
old simon pure A Alliance man who left
the Republican party never was headed
for the Democracy and heis not now"
Schilling;s