Mesa free press., 1899-04-07
GENERAL NEWslTEMS
News Of the state, Nation
The. next thing will be trust trust.
A bar iron trust is the latest. This
c indnnd hard ~ u
and the World

| boundary line that will stay put.
The people ~ofSthis country use 1900
tons of gume annually just chew on
that.
A crowd OF .shelEgame sharks has
followed that $3,OOO,OOO over to Cuba.
Now there, will be fun.
Helen M. Gould is one woman in
thirty-five or forty million. There is
none other that Is just like her. y
Ambassador Choate arrived in En-
land just in time to look after things
while the queen is on her junket over
in France. 49, -
jesse James, Jr., has declined prof
liable offer to go ON the stage. 1t
would probably be more hereditary for
him to hold one up.
-TAecording to an Exchange e"Ha-
vapa is getting -aaccustemed to the
sway of the police" SWAY" probably
misprint for ."club."
The baking powder trust has been
completed and prices may naturally
be expected to rise. Where. does the
yeast trust come in? ksH #s5
Bob Ingersoll. says that Bryan's
Eday is over. but what is going to be-
come of Ingersoll, especially when he
dies, nobody knows.
f. Parson, Kan, is about to hold an
old maids convention to discuss the
subject "Man." Oh, the poor, miser-
able wretch, but won't he get it,
though? eef ar -. e. M ~
Latest advices from the Philippines
say that Admiral Dewey is in excellent
health. This will be good news to
Everybody excepting Ag. and his de-
luded followers. z 1sa k- 4
Cristobal Colon-The preliminaries
for. raising the sGristobal Colon are
nearly completed. The Swedish Com
pany which undertook the task are
confident of success.
Lotteries sForbidden-Gen. Brooke
has issued an order 8forbidding the
sale or possession of lottery and rattle
tickets of any description, under pen
atty of confiscation and fine.
The Buffalo Express is authority for
the statement that a London actress,
having reached the age of SO, and not
havings@had her diamonds stolen in
forty years, has concluded that she
might as we'll die.
The McLeid bill permitting munici-
pal ownership of street railways for
Detroit, passed the Michigan senate
and will become law when signed by
the governor, as the house has already
passed it.
Cleveland, O.-The Otis Steel Com
pany of this city will advance the
wages of about 600 of it's employees 5
per cent, commencing May 1st. The
increase is made voluntarily on the
part Of the company.
Massachusetts ought to be in favor
of the annexation of the Philippines.
There will be a market in the islands
for about 100000 pairs of shoes
when we shall have civilized those
barefooted Filipinos.
Even if Admiral Dewey has lost a
chunk of his liver, we want to be put
on record as expressing the belief that
he has his original amount, of nerve
right with him; and that hesis keep
ing it in action,s everybody knows.
Bad Tea-The number of pounds re-
jected under the act of March 2, 1897,
and previous acts, during the Calen-
dar year 1898, was 1,858,373 pounds.
The amount admitted to entry during
the year was approximately 68,O4O,-
963.
General Wheeler Mum-General Jo-
seph Wheeler refuses to discuss the
battle of Las sQuasinas. II think he
said, "thes statement which 1 sent to
the war department, and which the
department has Seen fit to publish,
covers the. whole ground of contro-
verSy.'
The German Reichstag has fatty re-
fused to. grant the emperor's request
,fep the addition of 1000 men to the
army A few more rebuffs like this
and William may begin to believe
that he is only little more than hu
man, after all, says the San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
General Toral, who surrendered
Santiago, has been sent to a Spanish
prison. His soldiers were exhausted
and had nothing to eat but rice. II
the man who lost Cuba is wanted,
Weyler should be notified, declares
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Remarkable Find-Three weeks
ago Charles Officer, a Council Bluffs
banker, lost in Omaha a package con-
tanning $4,000 in fifty-dOllar bills. He
offered $1,000 reward for it's return.
Later an unknown man returned $4,000
saying a messenger boy had found
the package and secreted it in an ash
barrel.
Cuban Army's Strength-The Cuban
army has 1929 men all told, except
commanding officers. General Gomez
originally reported $4,000. General Ro-
loft, inspector general of the Cuban
army, was to have presented an accu-
rate muster roll to Governor-General
Brooke but he has not done so. AS a
creature of the Cuban Military As
sembly, he has Joined with it against
General Gomez.
Congressional Bills-A larger num-
ber of bills were introduced in the re-
cent congress than in any previous
one: 1457 bills and joint resolutions
became laws out of a total of 1S,469
introduced in both houses. There
were only two direct vetoes during the
congress, one of these applying to
senate bill and the other to house