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Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
KILLED BY COWBOYS.

Engle, N. M: w. I. Spradling, a
wealthy cattleman controlling stock in
this and Chloride, was killed by cow
boys near Fairview in revenge for his
murderous assault upon Miss Nellie
McKinstry. Spradling, without provo
cation, made threatening remark to
the woman as he was riding by, both
being on horseback, and followed 1t I'D
by firing revolver at her point blank.
The shot took effect in the woman's
neck and she fell from her horse. Cow
boys nearby started after Spradling,
who semptied his revolver at them. A
fusilade from Winchesters in the hands
of the pursuers brought him to the
ground with six bullets in his body and
head. He died almost instantly. The
injured woman came here from Marion,
Ind, to act as housekeeper for Sprad-
ling. She will recover. No cause for
the trouble is known.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
STATE OF ANARCHY.

London: The La Buan correspond
ent of the Reuter- Telegram company
cables that reliable news received
there direct from Manila says that an
indescribable state of anarchy prevails.
The Americans, according to these ad-
vices, occupy a radius of fifteen miles
there; around the town of Iloilo they
they occupy a radius of nine miles, and
around Cebu they occupy a small ra-
dius. The rest OF the country, it is
added, Is in the hands of the Filipinos.
The correspondent also says it is re-
ported the Filipinos have murdered
the crew of the steamer Saturnus.
The Saturnus of the Compania Mari
TINA, coasting under the American flag.
was beached under the insurgent
trenches at San Fernando and burned
August I'd.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
EXPENSE OF THE ARMY.

New York: A special to the Times
from Washington says:
The Fifty-f1fth Congress appropri-
ated for the maintenance of the army,
including all expenses except those for
the construction of Notifications, about
$50, 100000 It had authorized the pres
ident to raise an army Of 100000 men,
and it was supposed to be allowing The
use of money enough to keep those men
in the field. as it could not be assumed
that the force asked for would be un-
necessary
"If the War Department were to
regulate its expenditures according to
the sum appropriated by Congress it
would spend for the army about &c.
100000 a month. Two months of the
fiscal year have almost passed, and in
those two months the army has cost
more than $31, 900, 900. At that rate the
appropriation for the army will not
last until December. Some of the
money, it is explained, is going out to
meet contracts entered into last year,
and the average expenditure will be
smaller after a month or two; but it
will have to be much less if the $780,
600, 900 is to last until a deficiency bill
can be passed.
Secretary Gage was asked whether
he thought it would be necessary to
sell bonds to provide money with which
to maintain the army. He replied that
he thought not If Congress had au-
thorized the expenditure of more than
$50, 900, 900 for the army in the fiscal
year it is the Treasurer's opinion that
the income from the customs and in
ternal revenue would be sufficient to
meet every demand, but the trouble
appears to be not the difficulty about
raising money, but the authority to
spend it.
"The estimate submitted to Congress
for the army asked for$144, 600, 900 for
the year, on the assumption that 100,-
900 men would be allowed to be main
tanned in the army. The cutting off of
the $64 ,000,0 900 seems to have been ILL
judged, for if the expenditures continue
as they have been i'm July and August
the appropriation will not be half
enough. But the treasury will not sell
bonds to remedy the matter. The
only remedy will be the consent of
Congress that more than 100000 900
may be expended"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

1t there are more idle men in villages
now than formerly, it is due to the fact
that the larger towns in the vicinity
have absorbed the Industries which
were once local. The village shoemaker
Is no more because the shoe factory
with Its machinery can make a really
better shoe for less price than the me-
chanic who did everything by hand.
The harvesting machinery has taken
the place of armies Of laborers. In the
villages near large towns the larger
establishments and the railroads have
taken the business, because they can
do 1t cheaper. 1t will be found that
considerable villages within twenty or
thirty miles Of a city no longer have
bakers, because those who retail bread
can purchase 1t cheaper of the exten-
siye bakers In the city. Not many years
ago the butcher in the village slaugh-
tered and cured the meat he sold. Now
the farmer sells to dealers, who in~turn
sell at the large stockyards, and the
dealer in the village purchases his
meats from the packing houses in the
large cities. So with other branches
Of industry. Articles which were once
made in the homes or in the villages
are now manufactured exclusively by
the larger producers In cities, who have
capital to introduce labor-saving ma
chinery. Not many years ago there was
a carriagesf factory In every village, but
they have passed away because they
cannot compete with the extensive es-
adjustments, and the repair shop is all
that remains. Inherent aversion to
earning bread in the sweat Of the face
is responsible for the loafers in village,
country and city. There is a good deal
Of land in the vicinity Of villages that
needs better tillage. The systems Of
electric roads which are certain to con-
meet the villages and the farmers with
the larger cities seem to promise much
for both. There are many people in the
cities who will choose the village for
their homes when the cheaper trans.
portation of the electric railway, at
convenient hours, will enable them to
attend to employment in the city.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

pector from Duluth, reported dead in
the Kotzebue country, has written
home telling of the sufferings of those
who have been at Cape Nome. July "a
from Anvil City on Cape Nome, Mr..
Morrison wrote, over 100 miners and
prospectors must have persisted in the
Kotzebue district. Six of the party he
was with died, and the remainder came
very near dying. His entire party was
sick and nearly starved when a relief
expedition rescned them. Speaking of
experiences with scurvy Mr.. Morrison
says:
Our arms and legs swelled terribly,
turned black, our teeth became so loose
You could easily pull them out. My
limbs are all drawn up, but am do
ing well and can walk short distance
without crutches. We left our winter
quarters in the Arctic regions on June
6 and were stuck in the ice till July
IL. We are now at Cape Nome, 12O
miles north Of st. Michael. There is
no gold in the Kotzebue country"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

"Jubilacion' is the convenient
euphuism for a Spanish custom which
has had protracted existence in Cuba.
1t signifies the receipt Of salary for
services which should be performed,
but are not-the recipient hiring sub
stitute to do the work for which he
himself is paid. A professor Of the
Havana University, whose salary was
six thousand dollars a year, has been
living in Spain for the past seventeen
years, while his duties in Cuba were
performed by another for pitifully
small pay. 1t is said that nearly all
the professors Of Havana University
thus farm out" their chairs. A recent
decree Of the United States authori-
ties, however, has abolished this dis
honest practice, and henceforth sal
aries will be paid only to those who
earn them.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
LONDON TO DAWSON.

Chicago: A special to the Tribune
from Victor, B. c., says that from Lon
don, England, to Dawson City, on the
Klondike, in seventeen days, is the rec
ord made by mining engineer from
South Africa. He left London for
Southampton by train, caught an At
lantic liner, in which he crossed the
ocean in little over six days.
The trip from New York to Vancou-
yer was made in four days. From Seat
tie the trip to Skaguay was made in
less than three days. Close connections
were made with the White Pass and
Yukon railroad and the lake and river
boats, and he was landed in Dawson
seventeen days from London.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

In Science DR.. Judd Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture states that no less
than fifty different species Of birds are
engaged as weed destroyers, and there
are more than sixty species Of weeds
which they help to eradicate. The
blackbirds, the bobolink, the dove, and
the English sparrow do much good in
this way. but the English sparrow, in
spite Of the services it renders in con.
suming weed seed, is a pest because
of its despoiling buildings, and because
Of its extensive pillaging Of fruit and
grain. The native sparrows, on thd
contrary, have no such noxious habits,
and are much more efficient as weed
seed destroyers." Goldfinches destroy
weeds which are not touched by other
birds, the thistle, ragweed, and dande-
lion being their favorites. "a million
weeds can spring up on a single acre."
Cultivation can do much to eradicate
these noxious plants, but probably the
most efficient check on their unbound.
ed Increase is to be found in the seed
eating birds.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

Any large pecuniary transaction Is
sure to give occasion for many smaller
onea, and to stir the financial waters
far and wide. On April 30 the United
States paid to Spain the $2O,OOO,OOO
provided for in the treaty Of Paris.
This payment was promptly followed
by easier conditions in New York, by
the drawing Of many American bills on
London, by fall in the Paris exchange
with the shipment Of gold from London
to France, and by perceptible stiffen-
ing in the London money market. In
a miniature way and within narrow
circle, similar changes are caused by
the dropping of a single dollar into the
general circulation.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

The squatters on Hawaiian public
homestead laws are operative there
and entitle them to 100 acres each, will
probably have their trouble for their
pains. Hawaii, like Porto Rico, Guam
and the Philippines, belongs to this
country, but will not become a part Of
1t until Congress enacts the necessary
laws. In the meantime the Hawaiian
laws, even including those of customs,
are paramount.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
GENERAL NEWSITEMS|
News Of the State, Nation
and the World

The st. Paul Globe in it's leader ad-
vocates the nomination of Admiral
Dewey by the next national Democratic
convention.
With the price of matches going up
it is to be feared that the man who
wants to borrow light will become
more exacting.
Washington: Both Gen. Brooke
and Gen. Wood have denied to the war
department rumors of riots and dis
turbances in Santiago.
A lawyer in Chicago has been sent
to Jail for incompetency. The public
would be safer if some of the other
kind were sent there.
The Spanish steamer Alphonso XIII
which sailed for Spain from Havana
has on board 432 Spaniards, who are
being repatriated at the expense of the
Madrid government
OF late the masons at Havana have
asked for an increase in wages. The
other day 1000 workers held confer
ence, at which a strike was agreed to.
They ask $3.50 day for ordinary work
and $3.50 for special work The Ameri-
can masons working in the city have
gone on sympathetic strike, and 5000
men are now idle.
The stage between Salmon City and
Red Rock, Mont, was held up half a
mile inside the Idaho line, eighty miles
from here. by four men. H. T. Reil-
nein, manager of the dredge company
working on the old McNutt property
near Salmon City, Idaho, was a pas
senger. He had more than $4,000 in
gold dust, which he was bringing to
Dillon. The robbers took it. The rob-
bers then mounted horses, which were
concealed in the timber, and escaped.
Sheriff Pile and Deputy Stoler have left
for Bannock in pursuit.
Mrs. William Y. Perot, charged with
having abducted her daughter, Gladys,
from Baltimore, ,and for whom extradi-
tion papers were sent from the United
States, has been formally freed from
custody in the Bow street police court,
London, and the case was thus ended.
The proceedings were confined to for
extradition proceedings, which were ac-
complished by mutual agreement, after
Mrs. Perot had promised to land her
daughter over to the care of William
H. Perot, the grandfather. Mrs. Perot
drove away from the court smiling,
accompanied by her sister and Gladys
Perot and the child will sail as soon as
possible for the United States.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
END OF THE WORLD.

st. Petersburg-Reports from South
ern Russia say that a current belief on
the approaching end of the world Dis
causing a panic among the uneducated
classes. At Kharkova, the capital of
the government of that name, work
men are leaving in large numbers,
wishing to spend what they consider
their last days at their village homes.
The factory owners have asked the po-
lice to stop this immigration in order
to prevent the ruination of their busi-
ness.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
Ian Maclaren has been telling his

Ian Maclaren has been telling his
Liverpool congregation how the secu-
lar spirit pervades the Christian
church in the United States. Men, he
says, are devoted to money-getting to
a degree which he could never have i'm
agined possible, and even our churches
are conducted to a considerable extent
as large business concerns, money
making permeating everything. This
is rather ungrateful indictment, COM
ing as it does from thrifty clergyman
who is understood to have carried home
a large sum Of money as result of his
shrewd combination of preaching and
lecturing in the United States.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
FOOD FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

Washington: The Commissary De-
partment Is now working busily to
provide for order and subsistence for
the new army of the Philippines. The
bulk Of the material must be purchased
in this country and shipped from San
Francisco.
When it is realized that 100000
pounds of food will be consumed every
day by the men in the Philippines
some idea can be gained of the quanti-
ties which will have to be provided for.
The first order for $4,000 men has been
made up. This is only preliminary and
similar orders will follow, so there wilt
be no intermission in the supplies.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
Cameras i'm Church.

A Clergyman in England Is advocat-
ing the use of a concealed camera in
the pulpit, which could be snapped
with button, unknown to the congre-
CATION. This innovation, he thinks,
would prevent much Of the snoozing in
church, as the camera would take a
picture of the congregation, and the
sleeping ones would be caught. Then,
he says, by showing these photographs
to the backsliding ones, they would be-
come so shamed that they would not be
liable to repeat the performance. The
suggestion is novel and deserving the
ingenuity of a Yankee; but we should
think that the surest way Of keeping
the congregation awake lies in preach
ing interesting sermons.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
FISH MANURE FOR SUGAR FIELDS

Ketchikan, Alaska-(W Wired from
Vancouver, B. C.)-Claus Spreckels OF
San Francisco, has purchased a fish
cry on Prince Of Wales island, and
yesterday tug arrived with men and
material for the building of a large
plant. The first step will be the con-
struction of large fish guano works.
The product will be carried direct to
Hawaii, where there is a large market
for it.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
The great expansion of British and

The great expansion Of British and
American colonies in the tropics has
set medical and other scientific men to
studying the conditions of life and
health in those lands. and has led to
the foundation of schools for the study
of tropical diseases. 1t is coming to be
recognized that tropical countries have
hitherto been insalubrious largely be-
cause no scientific effort has been made
to deal with the disorders peculiar to
them. Now that such effort is to be
made, the fevers and plaques of the
equatorial zone may be brought into
subjection as fully as some of the
scourges Of northern lands have been.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

London-Special precautions are be-
ing taken at Southampton and other
English ports in regard to the bubonic
plague and yellow fever. All vessels
arriving from Spanish and Portuguese
ports are vigorously examined by the
medical officers.
The Jamaican government has Of
fered contingent of 300 native militia
for the support of the white troops Or
dered hence for service in the Trans
vaal. Wonderful enthusiasm has been
manifested in regard to enlistment for
service in South Africa. When vol
unteers were called for an entire regi-
ment responded.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

the millionaire, who died on August
II, has been filed for probate. The
petition states that the estatae exceeds
$500, 900, but it is known that the estate
is worth at least $2,OOOOOO.
The will, which was a Photographic
one, leaves the bulk of the estate to his
wife, and divides much property among
relatives and freinds. Several chari !.
ties are handsomely remembered.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEERS.

Seattle-Negotiations are in progress
for bringing the Washington volun-
teers from San Francisco to Seattle in
a body, after their muster out. Two
steamers will probaly be chartered.
Levi Ankeny, the well-known banker
Of Walla Walla, has offered to bear
the entire expense of the vessels char
tered, which will amount to about $1O,-
900.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
BIG CORPORATION.

Fresno-A million dollar oil COM
pany has been Incorporated, to be
known as the Corbett Oil and Develop
ment Company. The shares are di-
vided into 10000 of the par value of
500 a share.
According to the articles of incor-
poration the amount of stock actually
subscribed is 100000. The following
are the directors: J. Brownstone, G. w.
Terrill, F. T. Newell, H. e. Corbett
and c. l.. Meracle, all of Selma.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
SEVERE FIGHTING.

Cape Haytien-Severe fighting took
place recently in the neighborhood of
Monte Christie, Santo Domingo, be-
tween the government forces and the
revolutionists. 1t is said the former
lost heavily, while the latter, owing
tc the advantageous positions which
they occupied, only suffered slight loss
The revolutionists are reported to be
continually receiving reinforcements.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
HISTORIC WARSHIP.

Washington: The Navy Department
does not look with favor upon the sug-
gestion to have the historic warship
Constitution take, part in the Dewey
demonstration at New York
It Is stated that the venerable craft
is not in a condition to undergo such
service, and that she Is far too valu-
able as relic to subject her to the
risks of trip from Boston.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

amazed at the marvellous immunity
from disaster which prevails. Such cpl
sodes as that Of the Paris serve by
their very rarity to emphasize the per-
fection Of skill and system to which
modern methods Of transportation have
attained.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

When one considers the dependence
that must be. placed upon the accuracy,
the fidelity and the correct judgment
of an army of officials and employees to
whom are committed the details of our
transportational systems, both on land
and sea, and when one recollects the
fallibility of the brain and its suscepti-
bility to arrangement, he Is simply
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
PAYING DEAR FOR A DEER.

San Jose-Joseph Jugum, an Aus
trian, pleaded guilty to having killed
a female deer and was fined $3.50 by
Justice Walalce, in default of which he
will serve 250 days in the county Jail.
The arrest was caused by the Fish and
Game Protective Association.
Some 800 newspaper correspondents
at Rennes are up to their ears in tons
of opinions and a few facts.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
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.

Oakland, Cal.-The City Council has
fixed the tax levy at $1.21.
Vancouver-The steamer Empress of
Japan sailed for Hongkong and Yoko
hama. Among her ITS passengers were
a large number of missionaries for
China, Korea, Japan, India and Siam.
Mill Valley-W. S. Jones, assistant
engineer on the steamer Pomona. was
killed here by the accidental discharge
Of his gun. He was hunting, and on
climbing over an obstruction his gun
was discharged.
Santa Rosa-Owen P. Hoddy, a vet
eran printer and newspaper man, died
here. He formerly conducted news
papers in Cloverdale, Calistoga and
other places, and was well known
throughout the state.
Jesse Brown, an alleged accomplice
of Homer S. Perry, who was arrested
at Redlands several days ago on a
charge of forgery, was arrested and is
now in Jail at Ukiah. It is said that
Brown found check for $3.50 in the
road, drawn on the Wells Fargo Bank
in San Francisco. Brown, who is
half breed, is alleged to have forged
Huff's name and received the money.
This is stated to be the first case of In
dian forgery on record.
A San Jose dispatch says: DR.. Spon-
oglc, who was removed from the super
intendency of Agnews asylum, de-
clines to vacate the position, and ex-
Senator Morehouse, his attorney, will
sue out writ of certiorari against the
Board of Managers to have the late
proceedings in San Francisco reviewed.
This action, so Morehouse says, will
be followed by one against Governor
Gage to recover 100000 for alleged IL
bel and defamation of character.
Police Judge Treadwell of San Fran
cisco makes most effective game war
den by his severe fines on those who
violate the law by selling game out
of season. Several market men in
that city were found with mallard, teal
and other ducks in their possession,
and were fined 500 each. A pot-hunter
is the pariah of sportsmen at any time,
but when he kills out of season he is
io
willing to offer his ill-gotten game for
sale. There is local timely warning
in this item that it will be we'll to
heed.
The announcement from Santa Bar
bara that a mining claim was regis
tered there last week for a find just
over the summit of the Santa Inez
range, back of Snmmerland, revives
the interest once centered in that To-
cality. That there is gold in the San
ia lnez range is we'll known, and mas
much as the locality is within easy
walking distance of supplies, and we'll
watered, and as the Transportation"
element cuts no figure in it, it is safe
to say the taking up of this claim was
an honest proceeding, and that men
with means, time and knowledge of
the profession would do well to pros
pect the whole range. There is
greater likelihood of paying returns
there than San Rogue offered, and
without the suffering incident to work
in the latter.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

Dawson City is growing rapidly, in
more ways than one. A discouraged
explorer sends home the grim news
that the place has three graveyards
now, zone chock full and the two 9TH
ers filling fast"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
AID REQUESTED.

Sacramento-Secretary of War Root
has addressed a CIRCULAR letter to Gov
ernor Gage asking him to call upon
the people of California for aid in re-
lieving the suffering people of Porto
Rico The letter states that a great
multitude are absolutely destitute in
Porto Rico and a lare amount of sup
plies are necessary.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

The number Of children and youth in
the United States is q, ,O82,472. That Is
why 1t is impossible to figure out that
a new juvenile publication will not
make it's conductors rich Immediately.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08
UNEQUAL.

"Was it fair ightY asked the
French duelist's friend.
NO" was the answer. 81 was foolish
to be drawn into it. My opponent Is in
a business that needs advertising
while am not."-WashingtOn Star.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

The Sultan Of Sulu seems to be su-
perior sort Of person. Spain paid him
$4,000 a year for recognizing Spanish
sovereignty, and it is said the United
States is to pay him the same amount
for recognizing its right to rule, though
he is to do all the ruling. How would
you like to be the Sultan Of Sulu?
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

In spite of the formation of glove
trust young men will do well to re-
member that it will still be possible to
get the mitten on the same old terms
and in the same old way.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-08

A San Francisco dressmaker ate
some candy that she received by mail,
but it Is thought she will recover. This
proves that candy which comes by mail
is not necessarily fatal If you keep
antidotes handy.