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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-01
ADMIRAL KAUTz UPHELD.


uls AGta arc Euuorsca Dy tno sAmoAh
Commission.
Auckland, New Zealand, May 27--
The Samoan commission, consisting OF
Bartlett Trip, former United States
minister TO Austria Hungary, Baron
speck Won Steunberg. representing
Germany, and c. II. Eliot. c. b., rep
resenting Great Britain, arrived at
Apia, Samoa, May 10, and held its arst
sitting three days later. Nothing was
disclosed regarding the deliberations
except that Admiral Kautz had been
upheld in landing marines to help
In quelling the recent instruction.
Mataafa sent the commissioners a
letter of welcome, and expressed hope
that they would satisfactorily end the
troubles in Samoa.
1t is understood Mataafa will obey
the unanimous order of the commits.
sion, though it is doubtful whether he
will order his followers to disarm
unless the Malietoans are first dis
armed. The Mataafans will probably
dispense to their homes IL ordered to
do so, but th,y will never recognize
Malietoa as king, and doubtless there
will be further trouble in the future IL
his kingship is maintained.
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HOMEWARD MOVE.
All the Philippine Volunteers Will Start
Home by End of July.

All the Philippine Volunteers VIII Start
Home by End of July.
Washington, May 24.-The war de-
partment is proceeding on the theory
that by the end of July not a volun-
teer soldier will be left in Manila and
General Otis report yesterday that the
transport Warren has arrived advances
the time when the homeward move
ment of the volunteer troops will be.
gin.
Already notice has been issued that
mail for the First California and Sec.
ond Oregon volunteer regiments should
not be sent to Manila, but to San
Francisco.
In anticipation of the prompt return
of volunteer troops in the Philippines,
the secretary of war has telegraphed
instructions to General Shafter, COM
mandipg the department at San Fran
cisco, to establish model camp at the
Preside for the accommodation of
about 10000 volunteers from Manila
pending their muster out.
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SEVEN NEGROES LYNCHED.
Mexicans Hang Three and Shoot Four
Others.

Diaz, Mexico, May 25.-There great
excitement in the town of Sandiaio,
ten miles from here, over the lynching
of seven colored laborers on the Next.
can Central railroad. Jose Santo,
Spanish negro, attempted to assault
the wife of Senior Dupley, ranch
owner, and escaping from the planta-
ton was tracked by bloodhounds and
In company with nine others was cap
tured in a hut on the river bank oppo-
site Eagle Pass. The regulators did
not wait to prove the guilt of any of
the negroes, but hung three of them
and shot three more who were at
tempting to escape. The officials are
swearing in deputies as race trouble is
threatened in the colored quarter.
/ Four of the negroes killed are Ameri-
cans and have all served sentences in
/ the Texas penitentiary.
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sixteenth Going to Philippine,.

st. Louis, May 25.-one battalion of
the Sixteenth infantry, which did mag
nifcent work in the campaign before
Santiago in the Spanish-American war,
has left jefferson barracks under
orders to proceed to the Philippine
islands. Four companies, f, G, and Nj =,
compose the battalion, which is under
the command of Major George f. Kir-
win. The other companies of the regi-
ment stationed at Fort Riley and Fort
Leavenworth will join the four com.
psnies from here at San Francisco.
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Presidents Summer Trip,

Washington, May 27.-President Nc
Kinley has decided to go as far west
this summer at st, Paul, but whether
he will go on to the Yellowstone park
and the coast much depends upon cir
cumstances such that it is now inn
possible to make decision. Nor is
the date of his visit 10 St, Paul vet de-
cided. He intends to be there as the
Thirteenth Minnesota, First South
Dakota and other regiments arrive
from the Philippines, when great re.
ception WILDE granted them.
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Mra Crnren.s Defeat.

San Francisco, May s6.-Judge Trout
of the superior court has denied the
right of Mrs. Nettie r. Craven-Fair to
intervene in the contest of the will OF
the late James G. Fair. fled by his son
Charles. Judge Trout held that the
alleged widows petition for the right
to intervene. Ia the contest was not
filed within year after the probate OF
the will. as the law directs, conse.
quently she is deprived Of becoming a
party to the contest fled by Charles L.
Fair,
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DEWEY AT HONGKONG.
saluted by Ships of all Nations Upon His
Arrival.

Manila, May 25.-The United States
cruiser Olympia has arrived from Ma
Mia, with Admiral Dewey on board.
She was saluted by the ships of all
nationalities.
Admiral Dewey, Captain Lamberton'
Lieutenant Brumby and United States
Consul Wildman were received by a
guard of honor of the Royal Welsh
Fusileers, when they landed to visit
the governor of Hongkong, Sir Henry
A. Blake, Major-General Gascoigne in
command of the troops, and Commo-
dore Powell commanding the naval
forces. The visit was afterward re-
turned by the officers mentioned.
Admiral Dewey is in bad health, be-
ing too i'll to attend the queens birth
day celebration. The Olympia is 60
/ ing to dock here and will remain ten
/ days or more.
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New York, May 24.-Slosson won the
second game in his match against
Schafer, after an exciting fiji ", the
score being 400 to $50. The style OF
play was cushion caroms, and the
Student" was well known to be more
expert al this than at the balk-line
play, at which he was beaten last
Monday. Before the game the betting
was all at even money, although little
money changed hands on the result.
The score: Shaefer, 359; average, 4
1886; high runs, So, "a, %. Slosson, 500;
average, 4 52-S7, high runs, "a and 81.
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London May 2S.--Advices just re-
ceived from Guadaloupe, the French
West Indian island of the Leeward
group, report a recurrence of serious
rioting between the native population
and British sontraet,labor immigrants,
which eliminated in the recent fire.
Continuous fierce fighting is said to
have taken place on the plantations,
and the police and military, it appears.
cannot suppress the disturbance. Sew
eral fatalities are reported.
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To Rebuke Edward Atkinson.

Emporia. Kan, May 26.-An endless
chain letter has been started by a
Kansas man TO rebuke Edward Akin
son. Original letters from c. H. 0s-
borne of Kingman, Kan, were received
today in Emporia, requesting the re-
cipients to write card to Edward At
kinson as follows:
please do not slanSer our president,
our soldiers and our country
The recipients are also requested to
write ten loyal friends similar cards.
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Refused the Money.

Havana, May 27.-Majo Fitz-
hugh Lee, military governor of the
Havana-Del Rio department, has wired
Governor. General Brooke at Elvedado
that 200 Cubans of the command of
General Rodriguez, near Mariana, dis
persed, after resolving not to take the
SIS per man. Some of them sold their
arms and others took them to their
homes. kilograms from different
points say that the Cuban army in the
western provinces will adopt the idea
of those in the Orient, declining TO give
up arms or accept American money.
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AUTONOMY DESIRED.
This 10 the Burden of the Talk Of tina
Filipino Commissioner


Manila, May 23.-Autonomy il the
burden Of the talk of the Filipinoa, and
1t is thought that the kind they wish
fer would be little different from the
scheme of an American protectorate
which they talked OF before the war.
Senior Palermo. who has succeeded
the irreconciiiaoie Masin2 IS president
of the Filipino so-ealled cabinet, Is a
student and writer of ability. He
once drew up a plan of autonomy
under Spain which the Spanish govern.
ment promised to adopt, there then
being a troublesome rebellion on foot.
The American commissioners, in study
ing the question of the Philippine gov
ernment, have found several good
points in this scheme, Palermo is now
the strong man in Aguinaldo's party.
All the moneyed leaders of the insur.
rection see that it is hopeless and are
anxious for peace. Those who want
money think they may profit by har.
RAISING the Americans awhile longer.
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For a neMex Sta1ne.

San Francisco, May as -Subscrip-
ton books were opened Friday for con-
tributions for the statue it is proposed
to erect in Golden Gate park in honor
of Admiral George Dewey. The sub
scription the first day aggregated $685..
900, comprising $4,000 from Claus
Spreckles and SIS, 900 each from Mayor
Phelan, John w, Mackay and "a
friend" 1t is the hope of the promo
tiers to erect suitable statue of Cali.
fornia marble at cost of Sl00, 900. A
committee of artists are now at work
on design,
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Cnhans 49, n, ~. -.

Havana, May "a. Colonel Acea, rho
was at one time . 1.aaaber OF the star
of the late Antanio Maceo, disbanded
his force of 900 men, who had been
stationed near Alquizar, province of
Pinar del Rio, the men going quietly
to their homes with their arms rs
solved neither to accept the money of
the United States, nor to wait lonoar
in condition Of suspense.
The Cuban chiefs in the occident Or
western provinces, will probable do
eide to adopt The same course,
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Had a Running Fight.

Manila, May 25.- The Twenty-sec-
ond and Twenty third infantry, while
escorting the signal corps which was
picking up telegraph wire from San
Miguel to Balinag, had running
fight for the whole distance. They
lost one man killed aud one officer and
twelve men wounded The American
troops reached Balinag at o'clock in
the evening. They captured thirty
rifles and twenty prisoners. The Fill
pinos lost heavily in killed.
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TREAcHERoUS SERVANT.
Filipino in the Employ of General Wheaton
Attempts to Murder His Master.

Washington, May %. A Manila
newspaper, the American, of date of
April 16, received at the war depart
ment, contains story of an attempt
to assassinate General Wheaton, which
seems to have escaped the attention
of the American newspapers cores
pondents at Manila, or to have at
tracted the blue pencil of the censor.
This item reads:
Last Friday evening Brigadier-Gen-
eral Wheaton, while away from head
quarters, was attacked by one of his
native servants, who made at attempt
upon his life. After attacking him,
stones and other missiles were thrown
at him.
1.-The general was brought to the
city last night for medical attention,
and then it was discovered that he had
three broken ribs. However, he re-
fused to go to the hospital and return
ed to his command an hour later"
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WIFE WITNESSED DUEL.
Saw Her Husband Wounded on the Field
of Honor


Paris, May 25.-A duel has been
fought on the lille de la Grande iattle,
between Satullo Mendes, the French
author and dramatic critic, and M.
mar. The quarrel which led to the
m.eting grew out of discussion on
saturday last during an antre act at
ne Theatre de la Place du Chatte,
hen Sarah Bernhardt produced her
version of Hamlet and played the title
role in a black costume, and with
blonde hair. NJ. Mendes and Vanar
engaged in dispute as to whether
Hamlet should be fat or thin.
This is Mendes fourteenth duel. The
encounter was stopped four times I'M
Ger the belief that Mendes was wounded
and the fifth time it was stopped found
lin with an ugly wound in the abdo-
ulen. Madame Mendes came to the
ssene without her husbands knowl-
edge and awaited the end of the duel
ii a carriage nearby. There was an
affecting scene between the husband
and wife when the fighting was fin
iShed
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Chicago, May 26.-Judge Tuley has
announced an important decision in a
garnishment case which will revolu-
tionize practice in justice courts of
>garnishmentproceedings, Judge Tuley
ruled that creditor could not tie up
more wages of the debtor than was due
when the writ was served on the
employer. Future wages he declared,
could not be garnished, as the law was
not intended to permit creditors to
pursue debtors.
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smashe d the Worlds Record.

New York, May 2s--At the twenty.
fourth annual athletic meeting under
the auspices of the Intercollegiate
Amateur Athletic association. one
worlds record was smashed. This was
ON the running board jump, and A. c.
kraenzlein of Pennsylvania. was the
one who did the trick. On his first
jump, the Peunsylvanian e,vered %
feet 10Y inches, but eclip, his own
worlds record on "a feet ga inches on
his second attempt, covering "a feet 4 y
inches
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-01
FLoGGING OF NEGROES.
whitecaps Creating Trouble at Griffin
Georgia.

Griffin, Ca, May 26.-The logging
of four colored operators of the Kin
caid mills on Monday night by White
caps has led to sensational develop
ments. Wednesday night another
negro was taken from his house and
severely beaten and cut. These negroes
are law-abiding citizens. Yesterday
the superin tendent and others at the
Kincaid mills were notified to leave at
once or they would 'be dealt with
1t now transpires that there has been
club formed here known as the La
borers' Union band, with the purpose
of driving the negroes out of the eoun-
try. The baud has about 500 members,
large number of whom are boys un
der age
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Lower California, Rich Plaeers.

San Diego, Cal, May e7.-The Trib-
une's reporter who has just returned
large shipment of gold from the new
San Rogue placers, stating hat the
governor of Lower California told him
personally that the first consignment
of Si5s, 900 in bullion and dust had been
sent to Quay mas to be forwarded to
the Selby smelling works, San Fran
cisco. The gold was taken overland
to La Paz and shipped by the Martinez
steamer line TO Guaymas
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yoRllTowN PRISONERS.
subject to Outrageous Indignities ~ tns
Hands of Filipinoa.

Hands Of Filipinoa.
New York, May 25.-The following
special cablegram from Manila Is
printed here;
Manila. May ss.-The first intorma-
ton about the shocking manner IN
which the men from the Yorktown
have been treated by their Filipino
captors has been obtained. 1t is fur
nished in an exclusive interview with
General Lawton, who found melan-
choly evidences when he captured San
Isidro, that the American prisoners
had been cruelty abused and subjected
to outrageous indiguities at the hands
of Aguinaldo's barbarous soldiers.
General Lawton, after thirty days OF
successful campaigning, is resting with
six thousand men at Candaba. He said
to the correspondent in describing his
victorious march of a months dura-
uion:
at panied me when we got into San
Isidro, to See on the walls of the pris-
on there the names of the fifteen
Americans from the Yorktown.
From Colonel Ray, the Spanish ofn-
GERS whom we rescued, | learned that
one of the American prisoners escaped
from his captors. His freedom was
short lived for he was afterward re-
captured He was stretched on the
ground before his fellow prisoners
and given twenty lashes.
ave found a letter near San lsidro
written by one of the Yorktown crew,
saying that they were being kicked,
that their hair was being pulled out
and that they were cruelty treated in
various other ways and praying then
fellow countrymen to hurry to theiI
release.
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PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA.
One Question United States Would Like to
Discuss.

London, May 23.-The correspond
emit of the Daily Chronicle at The
Hague says: THE United States would
like to discuss questions affecting pri-
vate property at sea, and it is not true
that such questions have been ruled
out of the conference. An Anglo-Sa H
delegate declared that if the cor err
ence should do nothing but agree t. 'Hq
establishment of international arai.
tration of an optional kind AM eE-
tended to the sea the same resi-
which is paid to private property on
land in time of war, it would do
much"
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Soldiers From Manila.

San Francisco, May 25.-The Aus
tralia has arrived from Honolulu and
brings word that the United States
transport Solaee al rived at Honolulu
May Is from Manila, via Hongkong.
She had on board a large number of
soldiers and sailors whose terms of
service has expired, and many invalid
ed and incapacitated men. Among
her passengers is General King. Ma
jors Purdy and Nickerson were pass
engers on the Australia.
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MRS. COFFIN DEFEATED.
Suit For HsIf Interest In Famous New
York silver Mine.

Denver, May 81 Judge Butler, in
the district court, decided the suit OF
Mary A. Coffin against A. Il, Reynolds,
Byron A. Shear and Isaac l.. Johnson
to recover half interest in the cele-
brated New York silver mine at Creole
worth about 81 900, 900, in favor of the
defendants,
A half interest in the mine was given
Mrs Coffin by George II. Smith, who
discovered it. She parted with her in
terest in April 1892, for $4,000. She
claimed that Reynolds, Johnson, Shear
and Colin Timmons conspired to in
veigle her out of her interest in the
mine, the value of which she did not
adequately know, but with which they
were acquainted.
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Wouldn't be q Celebration.

Williams Bay, Wis, May 24.-Mem.
bers of the executive committee of the
Worlds Unity league held peace con-
ference in this city. c. o. Boring pr"
sented the subject of a new Fourth
July. He offered a suggestive pro-
gram, to include meetings ia public
places with orations on the, meaning
of the day, emphasizing the blessings
OF peace, followed by socia} re- union.
and games of various kinds, ,sith ZEN.
eral illuminatious for the eveui1~
Gunpowder and noise be would elim{.
nate
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CHANGES IN CIVIL SERVICE.
Order WIN Soon be Ready for Presidents
Sipnufure

Order VIII Soon be Ready for Presidents
signature.
Washington, May 2s,-At Fridays
meeting of the cabinet the final changes
in the civil service order were approved
and the order will be ready for the
presidents signature as soon as the
changes are Incorporated into the final
draft of the document. All the mem
bers of the eabinent expressed them
selves as satisfied with it. 1t is said
the order will exempt 400 of the 65,-
900 propositions in the classified
service.
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Calumet, Micn., MAY 4o.-During a
sermon delivered by the Rev. H. G.
hunter at the First Congregational
church Sunday he took occasion to
criticise the national administration
Tor Its Philippine policy and It's course
during the Spanish war. Charles Tom
ma, volunteer in the Thirty-fourth
michigan, who was in the audience, in
corrupted the pastor, saying: ANT
man who talks like that is traitor to
ma country and his flag and refuse to
listen to him" He then left the church
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Tea Growing in southern states.

Washington, May 27.-SecretarY
Wilson, who has inst returned from a
trip through the South, says it is only
aquestion of few years when the
south will produce all the tea used in
the United States. Tea farms will be
started in every southern state as
soon as it can be done. The fin
est varieties will be secured in the
orieut an irri cation resorted to in or
der to force the growth of tender
ShnnfS
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DRuG1ED RECRUITS.


Sehsatioh III eeFuahS Sauseu by Arrest
OF Two physicians.
Berlin, May es.--A sensation has
been caused by the arrest of two ply
sicians in Elherfeld and Renischeid,
towns of Rhenish Prussia, charged
with Systematically dragging recruits
so as to exempt them from milf airy
service. 1t is asserted that four of the
persons TINS treated have died from
the result of drugs administered to
them. The prisoners offered bail in
the sum of $4,000 marks, but was re-
fused.
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EVERYTHING SATISFACTORY


of Pc lection.
Washington, May es-The follow
ing dispatch was received by Lieu
tenant Colonel Brainerd of the com
missary department at Manila, in re-
ply to a message sent by him to In
spector General Mallory at Malolos,
asking for any suggestions as to the
improvement of the service. He has
forwarded it to the war department
for information.
Replying to your dispatch of yes
terday, subsistence department is
rendering ideal service. If you con
tinue to keep here beside division COM
missary, two commissaries, one avail
BILE to make issues and the other to
make sales, and continue to furnish
ground cutfee when required, methods
and conditions could not be improved.
l state these as the result of inspec-
ton
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RAN ON A REEF.
American Liner Paris Goes Ashore In q
Fog,

Falmouth, May 23.-The American
line steamer Paris, Captain Watkins,
from Southampton and Cherbourg fot
New York, struck on an outlying
ridge off the manacles early Sunday
morning at point half mile from
where the wrecked Atlantic transport
liner Mohegan lies, and five miles from
Falmouth. Lifeboats and tenders were
soon literally swarming around the
vessel rendering assistance. A major
ity of the passengers, who numbered
$50, were brought to Falmouth. where
they obtained lodgings for the night
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REFUSED TO MARRY HIM.
Califol n, Man stabs HIS Sweetheart and
Then Himself.

Caiifol n, Man st.bs HIS Sweetheart and
Then Himself.
San Diego. Cal. May 2s-A Coronado
lodging house was the scene of dou-
BILE tragedy yesterday, and two lives
are in the balance as result of the
iendish attempt of Beneditc Bergman
to murder an elderly matron, Miss
Elizabeth Berkeley.
Bergman. Infatuated at Miss Berlx-
ley's refusal to marry him, stabbed the
defenseless woman three times in the
breast as she lay in bed. He then
rushed to his own room and cut a deep
cash in his throat. Both will die
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scLosE UP THEIR OFFICES.
No More Consulates at Porto Rico and the
Philippines.

NO NnOTc AT oEto AhAtO AhN WIG
Philippines.
Washington, May 24.-The state de-
partment has cabled to United States
Consul Hanna at San Juan, Porto Rico,
and to United States Consul Williams
at Manila to close up their offices on
July /. After that date neither OF
those officials will be in the service OF
the United States, and the consulates
will be abolished.
Congress omitted appropriatioas 81
their maintenance, owing t. The 10
quirement of Porto Rico anj lie
Philippines as result of the war, aud
the state department has been i, latn'
ing the officers at their posts for some
time past in the capacity OF special
agents.
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GOVERNMENT FOR FrLIPINos.


TasAiart May 23.-A dispatch re-
galged E- -zuila states That the
United se commission
has sr 'tates Phiiipp'l no commits,
$50. Omitted to the Filip.ls- Govern.
'-'fiss-s a draft Of the form Of D., -.
,5sl~ INT the president is graasra5 49,.
taol'sh. According s9 this plan q e4e
ernor-generai will be appointed for
Islands by the president. There will IS
ca binet aud later an advisory corncl
val be elected by the people.