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Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

son report the safety of the party of
eight, headed by Jack Folger, an old
Alaskan, who started from Rampant
City to the Koyukuk, and who it was
feared had perished in blizzard. Six
of the party returned to Rampant City
but Folger and one companion pushed
through to Peavey. For twenty-one
days they subsisted on dog meat.
Nordvig and Wilson report scurvy
among the Alaska Union party of Chi
cago at Union City. Seven men are
affected. Two miners belonging to
the DIETRICH party of San Francisco
have frozen their feet so badly that
amputation will probably be neces-
sary. An unknown prospector was fro
zen to death on the Alantana river
near Arctic City in the early winter.
Mr.. Wilson gives the population of
the various towns on the Koyukuk as
follows: Jimtown ESQ; Burgman City
25; Arctic City, so; Peavey, $50; Union
City, 100 or less
The North American Transports
ton and Trading company is about to
move their headquarters from Peavey
to JimtOwn n account of the rich
prospects on Davis creek, tributary
of the Koyukuk, and, although no
large amounts have been taken out,
every one is satisfied. One man
cleaned up $500 last fall, which is
the largest amount known. Pans
have run from 5 cents to as high as
$11.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

Six hours in the schoolroom racking
over hard problems and reciting the
half-learned lessons in fear of censure,
four hours more of study at home
while the weary little mind wanders
to che playground TO which the body
Is not permitted to go for the elixir pre-
scribed by nature. All this is done
with the purpose of crowding more ed
ucation than formerly into the school
years of the average child. The at
tempt might as well be abandoned.
Too much of modern school systems
consist of process Of jamming hard
facts into little heads until either the
head bursts or the contents become
jumbled into a confused mass.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
BLINDED WITH VITRIOL.
Thrown Into Mrs. McVean's Face by
an Unknown Woman.


st. Louis-CiB detectives are look
ing for an unknown woman who
called at the residence of Mrs. M. e.
McVean, a widow, and threw vitriol
in the lady's face, binding her and
causing burns that may result fatally.
Several weeks ago, Mrs. McVean
caused a sensation by appearing at
police headquarters with a box of
candy, which she said she had received
through the mails. She charged
prominent young woman of this city
with having sent it to her because she
was jealous of the attentions paid
Mrs McVean by a well known physi-
clan.
Mrs. McVean is unconscious and
blind; her family and physicians will
not permit her to be seen.
Before becoming unconscious, Mrs.
McVean told her sister, Miss Mollie
MeGraw, that strange woman whom
she described, called her to the door
by ringing the bell, and threw the
contents of a bottle into her face. No
other person than Mrs. McVean saw
the acid thrown. No one saw the
strange woman about the place.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
ROLLING IN GOLD.
The Treasury and Banks Are Well
Supplied.

New York-A special to the Herald
from Washington says:
There is more gold in the posses
sion of the Treasury and the banks
now than at any time for many years.
The total gold held by the Treasury
three years ago today was $127, ,0OO,-
900. The total today is more than
$241, 100000. The total gold held by
the national banks on May q, 1896,
was $157, 7,771, 800. These banks held on
the date of last call, Febraury 4, 1899,
1921, ,915, ,795. This shows an. increase
of $114, 100000 in the gold held by the
Treasury, and $164, 100000 in that held
by the national banks. 1t is assumed
that the amount of gold held by pri-
vate banks has increased in the same
proportion, though no accurate statis-
ties can be obtained. There is also
considerable gold in general circula-
tion as the government for some time
has been paying ont gold very freely,
SO as to relieve as far as possible the
demand for paper currency.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
BADLY CRUSHED WOMEN.

Showing Why People Should Not Talk
Loudly When in Public.
They were standing up in street car
and Cabling as fast as their tongues
could go.
!. "By the way" exclaimed the one in
the military cape, Ibid you know that
Charlie Hawkins was engaged?
The woman in the gray hat gave an
exclamation of surprise.
"Why, now she cried. "Whom to?"
"Oh, nobody that you know, or that
anybody else knows. for that matter.
She works in store, or something Of
the sort. l do think Charles mother is
real good about it, for she declares she
likes the girl-says she is sweet and
pretty, and all that, but l believe she
does it Just to hide her real feelings"
The woman in the gray hat nodded
sagely.
'.I shouldn't wonder at ALL" she an
nounced. 81 had heard he was going
with that girl. Mabel Thompson, isn't
it? But, of course, 1 never thought that
there was anything in it. I suppose
they'll live on our street, because
Charlie owns house there; but I'll tell
all the neighbors who she is. Look out,
Louisa, the girl beside you's going to
get up-hurry and take her seat" Then,
in a lower whisper, rather stylish
looking girl, isn't she. I'd like to know
who she is"
The stranger stopped on her outward
way, and turned with flashing eyes. Il
don't believe, that you would" she said
icily, "but I've no objection to- telling
you. My name is Mabel Thompson"
And she swept from the car, leaving
two crushed crimson ladies behAnd her.
They have since decided that it Is dan
gerOus to discuss unknown perJons in
public places.-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
With the coming Of

bncc, factories. With the coming OF
American families, American dress
makers, milliners, governesses, school
teachers. boarding house keepers and
sewing machine operators will find
openings to employment Nothing Is
said of climatic dangers, which are
tger present, and which American for
tune seekers will do well to remember.
This writer thinks that Porto Rico
should be avoided by young men with
cut capital and with no knowledge Of
the Spanish language. 1t presents no
opportunities now, aud there are few
lropes that there will be any in the i'm
mediate future.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
PENSIONS FOR CALIFORNIANS.

Pensions were granted to CaHfor-
mans as follows: Original-Isaac r.
Mcintosh, San Francisco, So. Increase,
Patrick Jones, Los Angeles, So to $12.
Reissue special, March 6, Especial
act,) Thaddeus M. Joy, San Fran
cisco, $50. Reissue and increase, Jo-
seph A. Moore, Soldiers Home, Los
Angeles, $6 to So. Original widows,
etc.-Reissue, Susan P. Cooper, Oak
land, So. Original, Adam B., Simmons,
San Bernardino, $40; John c. Wells,
San Francisco, So. Increase-John
Lesson, Soldiers Home, Los Angeles,
So to $12; Sidney E. Harris, National
City, $50 to $50; Patrick F. Nelan, Re
presa, Sc to So. Original Widows, ETC.,
Elizabeth Henry, Los Angeles. So:
Frances E. Cressey, San Francisco,
So. Increased-Ge0rge HI. Andrews,
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Baron Won Morenheim was former
ly the Russian ambassador at Paris
He was relieved from his position De-
cember, 1897, and was succeeded by
Prince Onrossoff, who was previously
Russian minister at Brussels.
Madrid-The Spanish government
has concluded loan of thirty million
pesetas with the banking house Of Ur-
quijo. The money has been handed
over and will be devoted to paying
the arrears due the Spanish troops
who have served in Cuba.
The Esperanza mine at Ell Orc.
Mex, one of the famous mines of that
country, was bonded to an English
syndicate, which puts up 100000 for
freight money. The price of the
mine is fixed at $3,OOO,OOO in gold, and
the option expires on April 25.
London-The Brussels correspond
ent of the Daily Mail says that the
disarmament conference, which will
meet at The Hague on May 1S, will
be composed of three sections, dealing
respectively with disarmament, arbi-
traitors and "other matters"
Paris-Th Euclaire confirms the re-
port that the government inquiry re-
garding the explosion of the naval
powder magazine at La Goubran has
shown that it was not of accidental
origin, and much credence is now
given to the rumor that it was an an
archist outrage.
London-A special dispatch from
Madrid says Premier Silvela, in an
interview just published, spoke in
favor of the intervention of France
for the purpose of obtaining permis-
sion from the United States for Spain
to resume direct negotiations for the
release of the Spanish prisoners held
by the Philippine rebels.
The Canadian government officials
have seized the Beaver line steamship
Lake Ontario, now under charter by
the Atlantic Steamship company, up
on the claim that the steamer was
landing dry goods belonging to a Den
yer, Colo, woman, on which the duty
had not been paid. The agents of the
vessel were required to give bonds,
and the ship was released.
London-The Evening News pub
fishes a sensational Dreyfus story. 1t
declares that the former Russian am
bassador, Count Won Mohrenheim, is
the real culprit who sold both Russian
and French secrets to the German
government, adding that the Russian
government itself is convinced of his
guilt, and that it is only to avoid a
public scandal greater than the Drey-
fus affair that he is unpunished, fur
.ther than the intimation that he is
mot to show his face within the Cars
domains.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
A LIVELY VOLUNTEER.

New York-On board the transport
Sheridan, bound for the Philippines,
is Thomas Conneff, formerly the mid
die distance champion runner of the
world. He has carried emblems of both
the New York and Manhattan Athletic
Clubs to victory in international and
home championship contests on the
cinder track. Conneff was one of the
first men up San Juan Hill and he
served with distinction in the Santa
go campaign, earning his corpora's
chevrons. Connect is member of the
Sixth Infantry.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

At a recent competition in designs
for book covers in London, prizes were
mitted by ssMiss Matthews. 1t was
not until some time afterward that it
was revealed that Miss Matthews"
was the Princess Victoria of Wales,
daughter of~the heir apparent to the
British throne. None Of the other COM
petitors, nor the judges, nor any Of
her own family, had any idea that she
was among the competitors.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
A MURDERER's ESCAPE.
Gets Out of the Penitentiary in Shoe
Box.

Indianapolis-John Ferriter mur-
.dered Policeman Charles War here
two years ago. He was sent to the
Michigan City penitentiary for life.
A dispatch from there says he has
made sensational escape. He was in
the shoe department, and soliciting
the aid of his fellow convicts in the
shipping department., they boxed him
up in a shoe case. The box was
placed upon the delivery wagon and
carted to the depot. AS soon as the
driver was well outside the peniten-
tiary limits, Ferriter broke out of the
box, knocked the driver off the wagon,
stole his overcoat and took to the
woods.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

In the old parable the harvester who
began work at dawn and he who came
at the eleventh hour each received a
days wages-one penny. Britannia's
new postal system is based on the same
elastic plan. The penny stamp which
carries letter across the street in Lon
don will carry it to Hong Kong on the
other side of the globe, or to fortyfour
other parts of the British Empire. One
could hardly ask penny to go farther
or to accomplish more.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
DESIGNS ON THE ADMIRAL.
People Trying to Get
Him to Their Festival.

ashington-Admiral Dewey will
be in Washington on May 20 if the
plans of committee of prominent
citizens do not fail. An imposing del
egation will wait on the Secretary Of
the Navy and ask him to authorize
the Admiral to accept an invitation
from the city of Washington during
the festival to be held here during the
latter part of May.
Secretary Long will refer the re-
quest to the President at Thomas
vile, and if he gives it his approval,
Admiral Dewey will, no doubt, accept
and be here in time
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

A weil-informed writer in Leslie,s
Weekly, in adyerting to the opportuni-
ties which Cuba and Porto Rico proffer
to American wage -earners, speaks en-
couragingly of Havana. Clerks and
salesmen will find ready employment,
but q most essential qualification to
success is a knowledge Of the Spanish
language. American typewriters and
stenographers are in demand, but wom-
en- workers i'll these occupations may
hope for employment only with Amer
lean firms. The Spaniards and Cubans
still retain their prejudices against tn.
employment Of womep, except in to
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
RLACK SAND

An assay of some black sand, taken
from the Kotalinqua river, Alaska,
was lately made by Dr. Willis E. Ev-
erette of the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, d. G. The results may be
termed marvellous They showed, as
reported, that one ton of it contains
$776 worth of platinum, besides iron
oxide. gold worth $102.S4, two pounds
of tin. two pounds of copper and one
troy ounce of iridosmine. The great
value is said to be in it's yield of plat
mum, which is extensively used in
electrical construction and dentistry.
Platinum is found only In the Ural
Russia, from which it Is
exported to this and other countries.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
REOPENING OLD MINES.

Among notable features is the re-
opening of a number of mines in the
northern part of the state which were
abandoned in early days because the
methods then in vogue were unsatis-
factory and Improbable. The San
Francisco Chronicle says that explo-
rations recently made in some of these
properties have uncovered bodies of
high-grade ores, and which demon
strated beyond question the value of
many lodges formerly condemned.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

The sophomore class at the State
University gave minstrel show. This
proves that baseball and football are
not all that can be learned at our
great educational institutions.
There are just four cases of small
pox in Mariposa county, Ariz.. of
which Phoenix is the county seat. and
no more, according to the Phoenix
Gazette, but judging from the size of
the scare one would suppose there
were forty at the least So @s-,
Oregon Coal Fields-Thirty thou
sand acres of coal land, about thirty
miles from Seattle, are to be exploited
on a grand scale by the Seattle and
San Francisco Railroad and Naviga-
tion company, which will build road
from the mines to the coast at an
early date.
The Otay Press hit certain promi-
nent members of thelegislature hard
blow when it said: "It is reported that
a boy was recently born in South Da-
kota with two tongues and no brains.
years ago he would now probably
have been popular and useful mem
Der of the state legislature.
San Francisco-Julius Kruttschnitt,
general manager and fourth vice-pres-
ident of the Southern Pacific, has is
sued orders to have all the apostro-
phes and plural SIS dropped from the
stations of the Pacific system that are
named after individuals. This is to
be done for the sake Of uniformity,
brevity and the preservation of the
name originally intended.
Prominent Maccabee Dead-Deputy
Supreme Commander of the Macca-
bees, w. J. G. Henry, died at the
Olympic hotel, Tacoma, of kidney
trouble, after a long illness. Six
months ago he went north from Pas
adena, where he had been engaged in
fraternal work for several years. He
was thirty-second degree Mason, a
member of the Knights of Pythias and
Redmen, and the second higher officer
in the Maccabee order.
The papers have recently noticed
that an excursion launch was built at
Terminal Island, by company in
which J. G. Elliott was the prime
mover, the launch being named after
him. A few days ago circulars of
invitation were sent out to the chris
tening of the launch, which takes
place in San Pedro harbor. It hap
pens that J. NJ Elicit, the well-known
banker, is a property owner at TerS
minal Island. He has been kept
busy during the past few weeks ex-
planning that he is not the Elliott who
is going into the ocean transporta-
tion business.
The lessons of patriotism emanating
from the example of the Rough Riders
evidently has not been lost on the
rising generation in Arizona. Some
boys 10 and IL years old, at Bisbee,
recently, seeing forest fire approach
ing flag pole from which the Stars
and Stripes were floating on near
by mountain top, started at once to
rescue the flag. When they ap-
preached the fire was burning around
the pole. The rope had caught fire
when they hauled Old Glory down,
and one corner of the flag itself was
scorchel, but they secured the flag
and escaped with it through the burn
ing brush. 1t is safe to say those
boys will be Rough Riders in the next
war.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

Supposing it's true that all the meas
actr IF his life come before drown
Ing man, with some men there wouldn't
be time for this If 1t wasn't a slow
death.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
A statementsof losses in this country

A StatementsOf losses In this country
by embezzlements, forgeries, bank
wreckings, and the like, during the
year 1898 gives an aggregate of to-
ward six million dollars. Only twenty
one thousand dollars of the amount is
credited to the postmasters. In the
great company Of the officials thus
commissioned, temptation to steal
Government property made few con-
quests. 1t is of course blot on our
public service record II. any office hold
er proves faithless, but with large op-
portunity for wrong-doing, the delin-
quents are the rare exceptions to the
rule of honest men serving the Gov
ernment fndustriously and with no dis
position to plumber the people.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

Profane swearing, the Mississippi Su-
preme Court has just affirmed, includes
the use of the word damn" unaccom-
panied by any other expression, and is
subject to fine. No other source of
revenue would be needed by the State
If that law was strictly enforced.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

'It does not pay to spend two thou
sand dollars on twO-dollar boy" a
Western father once observed to Pres
ident Eliot of Harvard University.
True! but as each boy may ticket him.
self with his own value, the conclusion
Is just enough.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

A contributor to a current magazine
wants to know ''if engagements should
ever be broken off," 1t seems to de-
pend very largely on whether broken
engagements or divorces are considered
the more Objectionable.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

According to the automobile people
after the horse is stolen or otherwise
disposed of the stable won't be locked,
but instead used as repository for
those vehicles.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

San Diego, SIT to $24; Joseph e. Weed,
Riverside, Sc to So. Restoration and
G. Young, dead, Kel-
SEVILLE, 81 to Sc. ncrease-Samuel
B. Kyle, San Bernardino, So to $40:
Alexander Penrod, Los Angeles, S12
to SIT. A pension was granted today
to Theodore Van Alstine of Tucson,
Ariz., a widow of a soldier of the
Mexican war.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

The English language needs revision.
It's often said of men they're mot
worth row of pins" when pins have
heads that prevent their going too far,
besides having good points other ways.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

1t is estimated that 100000 persons
die every year in this country from TAX
ing poisonous medicines" but this
must be mistake. A person usually
dies oily once.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

Mr. 'Howells ought not to worry about
the destiny of the letter "R" in litera-
ture What is wanted is a sweeping
reform which win prevent the misuse
of the other twenty-five letters.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

The formation OF q bridge trust
would indicate .hat these things hav-
ing occupied al the land are now try
Ing to get over the ws5cr.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

With seedless grapes snd orsegcs al
ready a success. ia; tine science nay
proceed 30 far as to produce secdless
appeCdicius.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

The Publishers Weekly has issued
a summary number, giving the list OF
new books that appeared in the United
States during 1898. As this list comes
closer to being officially accurate than
any other, it's totals are worthy of no.
tice. 1t shows the total number of new
books for the year to have been 1886,
a decrease of ~ as compared with 1897,
and The smallest number since 1894.
These figures indicate new editions of
old works, as we'll as foreign works I'M
ported for sale in this country. Fiction
naturally leads the list, the number Of
new novels being 724; new law books,
At; religious books, 4O6; educational
works, 1854; juveniles, 356. 1t is strik-
ing fact that we still get most of our
fiction from England. The novels of
the year, including republished edi-
tions, numbered 900, and only 358 of
these were of American origin. In all
the other lines that have been named,
including juvenile, the books are chief
ly American. In other words, our adult
fiction readers get the bulk of their
reading from foreign sources, while our
boys and girls are perforce more patri-
otic. Unfortunately the Publishers
Weekly is compelled to put low esti-
mate upon the juvenile fiction Of the
year. 1t remarks that scarcely book
in this field possesses lasting quality.
But really notable books of any kind by
American authors were unusually rare
in 1898, and the total number of Amer
lean books would have fallen far short
of the usual figures if it had not been
for the large output of crude war vol
umes toward the end Of the year. Yet,
if our dereliction may be ascribed to
the war, what excuse has Great Britain
for showing a total of only 1916, as
against 1926 FOR the preceding year?
APPARENTLY France has far surpassed
both the great Anglo-Saxon countries
by isuing a total of 14,7S1 books, as
against 1900 in 1897. Perhaps this
may be explained by saying that the
Saxons have been doing things while
the Latins have been talking.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

On the day of Senator Morrill's fun
e;al 1t first became generally known in
Washington that Representative Ding.
ley o. Maine, the chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee OF the House,
and the Republican leader on the floor,
had been taken i'll with pneumonia.
Two weeks from that day both houses
of Congress adjourned after the read
ing of the journal, on account of his
death. Both of these men came from
the same section Of country, but be-
longed to the whole nation. Unlike
Senator Morrill,, Mr.. Dingley died at
the time of his greatest activity as q
public man. No member of the House
was laden with more cares and respOn-
sibilities. Even the hours that should
have been given to recreation, Mr..
Dingley devoted to public affairs.
Among men on the floor Of Congress
who have become eminent without be-
Ing eloquent orators, Mr.. Dingley stood
first; and no man ever owed less to ar
tificlai aids. His information was so
exhaustive and his habit of mind so
exact that his associates ''plnned their
faith to his opinion, and his political
opponents gave him sincere respect.
Men Of solid qualities like his survive
in the regret and gratitude of their
race long after their lives here have
ended. The title Of "Great Commoner"
applied TO Pitt may not cling to Mr..
Dinglcy, but his public service goes far
to establish his claim to it. He was
strong IN the beauty of his life, strong
in his sagacity and sense of right,
strong In the breadth and accuracy of
his knowledge; and his strength is the
lustre of his history. His death Is q
loss to his country.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31
MORE TALES OF SUFFERING.

Scurvy, Death by Freezing and Other
Alaskan Allurements.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

Seattle-Messrs. Nordyig and Will
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

"TEe usefulness Of tears is an estab-
lished fact" says the New York jour
nal. Every married man knows s,:at.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-31

In thc matrimonial game the mar
who wejs an hei:ess expects to be
eheckmated.