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The times., 1899-07-14
kirch SUI Liberty.

New York, July 13.-Joseph H Kirch.
the military prisoner who escaped custody
on Governors Island last night, has not
yet been recaptured. Post Commandant
Roberts OF the Fifth Artillery. is conf
dent that the man is in hiding somewhere
about the island and that he will soon be
recaptured Armed guards were seor n
ing every nook and corner Of the island iris
morning Officers dwellings were ran
sacked from attic to cellar, bayonets were
thrust into the mouths OF the big Rodman
guns and pyramids of cannon balls were
torn down. Soldiers in row boats also
searched among the wharf piiings.
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DIED.

KRAMER-On Thursday July l3. at p. m.
MATILDA $. widow OF the late Rev. samuel
Kramer in the eightieth year Of her age
Funeral from her late residence. 6S4 4 Street
southeast. Saturday, July Is. at $50 a. IN. IN
terInent at Mount Olivef, Baltimore. II
MASTIN-Ou Thursday. July I3. 1899, at 4s33
A. m, WILLIAM z NASTIN. beloved husband
OF the Late Anna r. Nastin.
Funeral services from the residence Of his son.
in-law, William ~ Streeks. S2I Spruce Street.
T4e Droit Park northwest. Saturday, July u. at
$50 p. m Relatives and friends respectfully in
vited to attend iyIs-2t-em
BoGAS-DepaTted this life Wednesday. July
u, 1893, LUCINDA BOGAN-
Funeral from Zien Baptist Church. FOur-and-a.
half and Streets southwest, Saturday. July Is
at , O'Clock. Friends and relatives invited to
attend. Item
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4 Rather Drowned.

Thomas Powell, eo!ored, thirty years old. who
employed by the Washington Asphalt Block
and Tile Company, was drowned in the Eastern
Branch while bathing off Malone'S wharf At
the foot OF south Capitol street about o'clock
yesterday afternoon The man. in company with
several companions. had been in the water for
some time, when he was suddenly seized with
cramps anu ssLk before aid could reach him
The body had not been recovered at late hour
last night The police boat crew will make an
other itteript TO it this morning.
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Warned Not to Talk.

Brigadier General Burlington. the new Chief Of
Ordnance OF the Army. has followed the example
of Adjtuant General Corbin in issuing order
TO the officers and employees of the Ordnance De-
partment, that they must not furnish any in
formation about ordnance matters to any per-
son not officially connected with that department
General Burlington goes a step further than Gen
eral Corbin in stating that disobcdieHce of the
order will result in Recommendation to the
Secretary OF War that the person persons vio-
hitting it be dismissed from the Government SER
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SAVED HER FROM DROWNING.
Out of Gratitude an Old Lady Wills
Her Rescuer n Fortune.


Her Rescuer n Fortune.
New York, July 13.-The will of Mrs.
Maria Elizabeth Cleveland. giving the bulk
OF her estate of about 100000 to Marvin F.
Seattle. of Pittsburg. has been admitted to
probate by Surrogate Varnum. Mrs. Cleve-
land was seventy-five years old when she
died in March. 1897. at Nice. She was the
widow of Augustus Cleveland, who died
in 1873, and she had spent her later years
abroad. mainly in Paris. Her VIII gave
her jewelry TO her sister. belueathed s3.100
to servants. and left s11, 900 to charitable
institutions in this city. She provided that
the rest OF her estate should be held in rust
so that my beloved friend Marvin P
Seattle should have the income for life,
with the remainder to be left over 20 his
children. She says that he. at the risk OF
his life. saved her from accidentally Drown
ing. Seattle, who is a young man, was
abroad about two years prior to her ieath
and it is said that the rescue from drown
ing occurred while they were boating
abroad.
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The RntterY,s nInrch.

Light Battery 4 of the District Of Columbia
National Guard, will leave Washington tomorrow
to be absent at the annual encampment for
ten days The order was received yesterday anu
everything is in readiness for the outing Inc
men will meet at the Centre Market ArToFy at
y,da ,bnut o'clock The route will be by
way of the Conduit road far as the Chain
Bridge. when the march will be continued on
the Virginia SIDE of the river. Ihe boys VIII
,,irf, IN S5ickersyiIle, where the camp will be
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r,rv., Practice Neglected.

Cant. j. NJ. h Davis Inspector General of the
Department Of the Gulf, has made an interest
ing and valuable report on his inspection OF the
coost fortifeatious in that department. The War
Denartment refuses to make public the cont ents
of the report bat It is learned that Iap'aih
navis encountered the same conditions were
discovered By Captain Crosi5r in his inspection
of the fortifcations OF the North Atlantic coast
Thf. principal recommendation made by Captain
Davis was that there should be a great increase
in target practice. He found that target prGc-
flee with the heavy and light defence guns had
been greatly neglected.
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A Tariff Order Amended.

The War Department has amended its recent
order for the remission of the duty OF 81 per
head 10000 cattle to be imported into Cuba
for breeding purposes that they be ex-
ported from countries other than the United
States rs the former order prescribed. This action
was taken TO avoid a precedent in the matter Of
tariff discrimination in Cuba in favor Of the
United States, which in view of the peculiar re-
Iations existing between the two countries might
cause complications with other powers.
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Appointments to West Point.

The following candidates for the Military
Academy at West Point have been appointed this
week: Steubcn Godbey. Kentucky; Victory c.
Phillips, Arkansas; John G. George. Texas;
George W. Maddox, Kentucky; Frederick 5. Bull
lock, alternate; Thomas F. Seifridge, san Fran
cisco, Cal; Nathaniel G. Symonds. alternate;
James A. Mars. Illinois; Robert VI. Danford,
alternate.
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THE PENSION ENQUIRY.
The C. 4. II. Committee Concludes Its
Washington Labors.

The pension committee OF the C. 4. r.
has completed its work and adjourned. II
will report to the next encampment of the
order. which will be held in Philadelphia.
The members declined to give out any
statement as to the result of the investiga
tiCn into the management of the Pension
Office they have been conducting for the
past two days, and also declined to say
whether they had made any recommenda-
tions to President Mckinley regarding
Commissioner Evans. They called on the
President yesterday afternoon and remain
ed with him nearly an hour. discussing
the pension situation and the G. \. R. in
general
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ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Admiral Cromwell in Town.

Admiral Cromwell. commandant of the naval
station at Havana, is in this city on leave Of
absence. As the Navy IS represented at Havana
by only one small craft, the naval station Is To-
Gated ashore. and arrangements being made
for some extensions and repairs TO the buildings.
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Expected mt IA Bible Conference.

Winona Lake. Ind. July 1S.-Former
President Cleveland is expected to attend
the Bible Conference to be held at the
Assembly Grounds August 20. and Presi-
dent Mckinley is expected here on the
same day.
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METROPOLITAN RAnROAD

METROPOLITAN RAILROAD
On and after Sunday. July 16. 1899. the
Metropolitan Railroad Company will give
and receive free transfers at the following
junction points on its lines:
Brightwood Railway, Seventh and U
Streats northwest.
Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway.
Thirty and o and P Streets north
west.
Washington and Great Falls Railway.
Thirty sixth and Prospect Streets.
Six tickets for twenty-five (25} cents will
be sold as before. good for one fare in the
District Of Columbia only; five t5) cent
cash fares will be collected on all lines
outside of the District.
1t Is the intention to give one continuous
ride from any point TO any other point in
the District. in one direction. but the COM
pany reserves the right to withhold trans
fers on transfers which could result In
continuous riding on single fare.
F. L. HART.
General Superintendent.
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OPPOSED TO TAYLOR.

Talk of Nominating Ticket Com
posed of Negroes.
Lexington. July 13.-Several negro lead
ers met here tonight and decided to issue
call on tomorrow for a convention of ne
groes to nominate State ticket composed
exclusively of negroes. Editor Benjamin.
OF the local negro paper. says full state
ment will be issued tomorrow.
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iypewriterS Rented,
$3.50 per month.
Delivered uith table.
The Typewriter Exchange.
1905 F Street N. w.
EDUCATIONAL.

examinations; English lessons to foreigners
For terms etc. address MISS G. VI. BALL. SO
2lst St NV. iyl2-I2t
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ie man Or woman who does not drink Heu-
.cls tsarszen I'd Senate Beers is behind the
l.raz fo- OF Heuriehs phone 6Si.
aiifaTt0r c tl.Eg Co.
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RHEUMATISM and Gout cured by Medi-
cal Gymnastic. Consultation free. Call at
the Gyrnnastic Institute. 20 Third Street
northeast. JOHN e. RUEBSAM. DR.. NJ Pb.
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OFFICE OF the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company-A dividend OF 81
per share will be payable on the 2iTH
DAY OF JULY. 1893. to the stockholders
Of record at the close OF business on the
lfTH OF JULY. 1888. at the Office OF thei
Treasurer Of the company. 6i9 Fourteenth
Street northwest, Washington. ID. C.
The transfer books will be closed from
the 18TH DAY OF JULY to the eth
OF JULY inclusive
JEREMIAH NJ WILSON. President
CHARLES G. BEEBE. Treasurer.
Washington. ID. c.. July 10. 1899.
ju12. f3. IA 16, 1921, 1924
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

other points in Maryland and in West vir-
ginfa. To secure the advantage of listing
in this Directory, all contracts must be
signed prior to July 20.
Call contract department. telephone No.
1893 ty14.ls.Is
THE CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART
will be closed to the public from JULY
18TH to SEPTEMBER nth. 1899 b.
order. f. S. BARBARIN. Curator.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
The firm OF C. A. Snow & Co, which
was for a period Of fourteen years COM
posed of Chester A. Snow and Edward G.
Siggers. has been dissolved
Mr. Siggers is located in handsome Of
ices In the National Union Insurance.
Building. 9fs F Street northwest. where he
will be pleased to great any local clients
jyf2-6teru
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
NEWS
noiio Captured.

Manila, Feb. I3-The United States gunboat Petrel arrived late this evening with dispatches from Brigadier-General NJ. P. Miller Co Major-General Otis announcing that lloilo had been taken bv the com biDed military and naval forces Sat urday morning. General Miller on receipt of his instructions from Ma nila sent the native commissioners ashore from the United States trans pori St. Paul vii h a communication for the rebel governor Of Hoilo call ing upon him to surrender within the time stated and warning him to
 ake DO demonstration in the in
 terval. The rebels immediately moved their guns aud prepared to defend their position. ThereupOn the Petrel fired two warning guns and the rebels immediately opened fire uPon her. The Petrel and Baltimore then bOmbarded the town which the rebels, having set on fire, immediately evacuated. The Amer iean troops were promptly landed aud extinguished the fire in all cases of foreign property, but not before considerable damage had been done. It is believed the enemy's loss was heavy, but no American casualties are reported.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
PROPOSALS WANTED.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, at his office in the city of Prescott, territory of Arizona. will receive proposals for the purchase of seveuty-fve per cent. water and sewerage gold coupon bonds, until l2 o'clock m., on the l4th day of March, 4. D. 1899, each of said bonds being of the denomination of one thousand dollars, interest payable semi-annually in New York City. place to be designated by purchaser, said bonds to run for a period Of fifty years.
 The City of Prescott reserves the right to begin liquidating these bonds after ten years and as funds may accumulate in its treasury ap- plicable to that purpose beginning Rith No. l.
 A certified check payable to the order of the City of Prescott for per cent. of the amount Of the bid must accompany the bid, which is to be forfeited in case the successful bid der shall for any reason fail to ac- cept or pay for said bonds.
 No bid will be considered for less than the par value of said bonds.
 The successful bidder to designate the style of the bond and the City of Prescott to pay for engraving same. The successful bidder to have the option on remainder of authorized issue on same terms as those sold, provided the city shall deem it necessary to issue same.
 The right to reje.t any or all bids is hereby reserved.
 JOHN P. BAUDER,
 2-l4td City Clerk.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
A er~es Frr.eA Et~h.r.

Charles Aeryun--born in 1s2I--wns brought up te the navy, going hrst iB 1887 to the Naval school af BraSt. As e youth be sailsd rosnS the world He touched Ai Athens: tOaobed at the then savage coasts of New Zealand; made skstches. a few uf which, in days wbsn his greater work was most cf it done. hs usad As material for sone of his stoh- ings. Art even then occupied him. and deeply interested as be soon got to be in it be seems Co have had . Botian that it was less iignifsd than tbs profsssion of Che navy, and after awhile he ohoss de- liberAtely the less dignihsd-beeauss it was the less dignifed He would have us believe 90 at any rnts. He wished his father Co believe % And in isAb. hay ing served ereditshiy End become Q lieutenant he resigned his oomuisSiun.
 A painter be could not be- The gods. who had given him even in his youth poetic vision and Q frznness of hand. had denied him the true sight Of color. and remember seeing hanging up ia the salon of N. Burty. who knew him. a large impressive pAstelof a snip eioav- ing her way through wide deep wAtsrN and the sea was red and the sunset sky was green for &sryon was oolor hlind He would have Co be sn sngravsr. He entered the vorkrOom of one N Biery. 50 whom in after times. As his wont was. be engraved some yerses of his writing-appre0istive verses. sincere and unfnished-''s toi, Blery. mon m4itre." !" The stchings of Zeamaa. tes Dotchmsn. gave him the desire tO esoh- He copied with freedom and interest several of Zeeman's Best little plates and addressed him with praiso< on An- other little copper. like the one Co Blery-''to Zeeman. peintre des mate lots "-Pall Mall GaEetta
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15

strated pronounced ineapacity for efficient service in that position. There is not a man 10 the army, from tbe rawest recruit up to the officer next below hun in rank, who could fad a wholesome lesson in hts department since the war of 1898
 Right along the same line oi thought is the following from the New York Suu:
 Tt i. surprising that in all this country there should exist a single newspaper or a single individual that is not outraged and mortified by the disgrace which Gen. Nelson A. Miles is bringing on the army oi which hs is commanding general. During the whole Of American his tory there has never been an eI- ample of unsoldierly conduct on the part of an officer of high rank Sd disgrsceful as that exhibited by him in melting newspaper assaults ou the army and furnishing them with documentary ammunition for the purpose which military usage and requireme it, whica even deceney, not 10 say patriotism. should have kept for proper military investiga- ton. He IS de6Iing an Cffice made illustrious by the greatest American Enldiers.r
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
The aerny Naster.-

The writer has examined many brains of persons morally or intellectually be- low the averRge-snch as murderer negroes and others sunk in ignorAnoe- He has invariably found the layer of yssicular, or gray matter. Co be thicker than that of Daniel Webster's brain Elephants. porpoises. whales. dolphiEs and the grampus all have this layer thicker than. the most intellectual men.
 Another great objection to locating mind in the gray matter of the brain is that this substance is found in the in- terior part of the spinal cord and in all the Derye oenters throughout the body. So that. if mind is situated in it, it is not confined to the brain, but dwells in the spine also. and is distributed All through the human frame
 Still snothsE objection lies in the fact that wherever the gray matter exists near the surface of the brain it consists of three distinct lAyers, separated by . white substance. and the outernost lay CT Is white, not gray.-Dr. Jossph S1mIBr ia Pvtualur Suivuce Monthly.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
The New Apportionment.

The new apportionment bill in, trOduced by Morris Goldwater gives each county one councilman, and apportiUns the members of the house as follows: Apache county, onei COconiuO, one; Cochise, two; Gila, two; Graham, two; MarieOpa, i've MOhsve, one; Navajo. one; Pima, two; Pinal, one; Yavapai, five. and Yuma, one. This change from the present apportioument takes one from Cochise, and adds one to GIla, and adds one 70 Marleopa, takes two from Pima, takes one from Pinal, and adds two 10 Ysvspai. The bill gives Yavapsi and Maricopa couu- ties ten of the twenty-four members ot the house.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
Roo~ |. wAleA SaDolso- Va. Ser.

Rooua Tn Which Na1o1eOa Was Bern.
 His greatness still eonsecrates the place. Push back the jeAlouEies and iei in the light upon the mean beginninsa of SO stupendous a destiny. Here is the sedan chair, battered and faded. but . relic. and 90 sacred still This is tbs bed on which he was borB-hardly big ger than a couch Hsre is madame's escTitoire, where she must have dope those household accounts (yeariy more difficult to halanoel with a little old frail child Ht her side sometimes. pluck ing At her dress and looking up awed Ishe is the ons person in all the world os whom be is sfraid) into her fAce Here is her spiDet. with its yellow notes. which she played perhaps while those little kings and queens Co be danced to her music, and the one born great (the others only have greatness thrust upon theml Etood apart unchild- like and solitary The very chAirs and tables are the same There is the mar row strip of bedroom which was hia
 ''I should have been fhe happiest man in the world. |" be says to MOntholon, six and forty years later. with an in- come of @, 500 a year. living as the fA- ther of family, with my wife and son, in our old home At AJaccio "
 PuIl Mall Gazette
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS

Councilman Goldwater has intro duced a bill in the legislature pro viding for board of public works aud equalization, to take the place of the present board of control. board of equalization and capitol commission. It divides the territory into four. districts and provides for the appointment of one member from each district and one from the territory at large making it com posed of five members, all of whom are to be appointed by the gov ernoT. The districts are composed as follows: First, Mohave, Coco nino and Yavapsi; second, Navajo, Apache and Graham; third, CochIse, Pima and Gila; fourth, MaricoFa, Pinal and Yuma. The members are to serve without bond and are to receive S per day and actual eI- penses going to and from meetings. Sessions of the board are limited to four days 10 each month except in cSses of emergency. Authority is given them 10 employ 8 clerk at S75 per month.
 The board is clothed wIth all the duties and powers now vested in the boards named above, Five hundrs d dollars are appropriated for sta- tionery and office supplies for the first two years.
 Members are allowed to travel on passes, but any member doing so and putting in a claim for railroad fare, shall forfeit his office and be guilty of 6 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined double the amount so charged or collected or attempted to be collected, and costs, and the amount so recovered shall be placed in the general fuud of the territory.
 Section twelve of the bill is as fol- lows: "Within sixty days after tbe appointment and organization of he board of public woIks and equaliza- ton, it shall be its duty to prepare or cause to be prepared plans and specifications for the erection of a territorial penitentiary or prison at or near the city of Prescott in the county of Ysvapai. Such plans shall be for stone or brick walls and building, and shall be SO made as 10 utilize all the material which is now used in the territorial prison st Yuma. Such plans and specified tions shall provide for the erection of 6 territorial prison on ground to be donated to the territory (not less than eighty acres), and stone to | e native stone supplied without any cost for the material. The board shall present such plans and specif- cations as it may adopt, together with its estimate of the cost of cree ton and the cost of removal from the present location to the site chosen at or near Prescott, to the governor who shall transmit the same with his message to the next legislature. For the purpose of carry ing into effect the provisions of this section, there is hereby sppropriat- ed out of the general fund the sum of two thousand (t2.OOOO0) dollars which shall be paid as other monies gre paid, or verified accounts al lowed by the board, and approved by the territorial auditor, who shall draw his warrant on the territorial treasurer therefor.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
MILES SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED,

Because the JOURNAL MINER point ed out the fact that General Miles had done far more to bring the United States army into disrepute, and to cause it's demoralization than had General Eagan, for daring to express such sn opinion some of the small caliber papers of the territory have said all sorts of unkind things about us. That the JOURNAL MINER is not alone in its opinion of Gen eral Miles, IS evidenced by the fol- lowing editorial from the Washing ton Post:
 "In resolving to call halt in the cratic, unsoldierly. demoraliziug, and intolerAb!e career of the com- msnding general of the army, the president, ss commander-in-chief, performs a duty which. though in- eyitably unpleasant, is absolutely imperative. Failure to act in this strange, unprecedented case would be utterly subversive of military dis cipline and would directly tend to the creation of conditions incompat- ible with the maintenance of ST army that would not speedily de generate into sn armed mob.
 "The duty of the commander-in- chief to stop the disgrsceful e1hibi- ii ons in which the commanding general has been the principal actor, to put period to gross violations of the spirit, if not of the letter, of military law, is not rendered less i'm perative by long delay of its per formance. An excess of indulgence toward the offender, of which he sp- pears to have taken every adysnt- age, does not call for nor would it excuse further toleratiou.
 "rhere was surprise among mili- tary men, not less than among con servative civilians in and out of of- ice. that General Miles was not ar rested and brought to trial when, in Porto Rico, before hostilities had been ended by the protocol, he be- gan to unload on the newspapers his charges, suspicious, and animadver- sions against the administration. But neither Miles nor bis friends wIll be likely to urge that the consideration shown him at that time gave him warrant for continuance in 6 line of conduct subversive of discipline and palpably inimicsl to the interests of the service.
 If the proceedings that have been decided upon should result in the permanent deposal of General Miles from the place in which he has so conspicuously failed to commend himself to the appreciation of bis countrymen, neither the American people nor their army will have cause for regret He has demon