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Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
CLERKS AND THEIR sALARI..5.
An Important Decision By the Court
 of Claims.

Washington, April 24-The court of
 claims has just decided the Belche1
 case, which lis regarded in the depant-
 ment of justice as one of considerable
 importance and wide-reaching in it's
 effect. Belcher was a post office clerk
 at Augusta, Ga. In 1889 congress pass
 ed an act for classifying clerks in all
 first and second-class post offices in
 the country. This had never been
 done before and such clerks were des- rgnated Gn the various post offices ac-
 cording to mere local usage. This act of congress was designed to have certain salaries sppertain to tEe cer-
 tain offices designated in the act and to have them uniform throughout the country. The post office carried thu act into effect and inauguratsd the custom of having a postmaster send to the department a rcater of the clerks of his office according to tha legal designations of offices which had salaries appertaining to them higher than the department could afford to pay, the designations were amended in the post office department so as to bring the salaries within the amount proport.onate to the business Of the post office. The clerk was then paid of according to the salary of the office for which he was designated.
 Tn lshis case Belcher was designated as a mail distributor and g salary as- signed him, as the law provided, of S1 100 per annum; but as the office of Augusta could not afford a superin- tendent of delivery, which was 2 high CT grade of office, he performed the duties of that, and at times other of fees both above and below the rank and salary of distributor Alter leaT- ing the service he brought suit against the government for the difference ba- tween the salary for which he was designated and paid, claiming that, as he performed duties which would or dina1ily be performed in post offices by superintendent of delivery, he was entitled to the salary of a super ntendent of delivery during the years )f his employment after the act of 8S9 took effect.
 This case at once became very i'm ,ortant because, if his contention had 3een held to be correct, any employe | 9f a first or second-class post office Gnce> July 1, 1889, who had. performed 1 lutIes apPsrtaining to an office high 1T in rank and salary could have sued l he government for the difference ha- | ween the salary of the position for | which he was designated and the po | ll:on for which he claimed to have | lone such duty. This would have | made a very great difference, probably o the extent of several million dol. ars.
 The court of claims held in this case hat a man must accept the salary ap- to the position he bore pcn the roster of his post office, and nless the case is appealed to the su- reme court, that settles in favor of he government "a rather dangerous ase.
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
THE CURRENCY PROBLEM.
An Idea Concerning the Outcome of
 the Conference of Republicans.

Washington, April 24.- A close friend of the president said today that so far as the administration was con cerned, thsre was TO desire that the conference of republican congressman at Atlantic City should adopt any de- tailed programme for financial legisla- tion by the next congress, and a mem Der of the caucus committee who is recognized as one of the leaders of the house says that, in his opinion, the recommendation Of the committee would be general, following as far as possible the scheme broadly outlined by the president in his message to the congress of 1897 and 1898. This scheme, concisely put, is as follows:
 That when any of the United States notes are presented for redemp- tion Tn gold and are redeemed in gold, such notes shall be kept and set apar. and only paid out in exchange for gold"
 This, it is said, is as far as the re- pubEcans in caucus committee Will care to go in making recommends I4OAo, IIIG Iu6d DSIuS lIIdt IL NOuIu pC unwise politically to attempt much more than this.
 While the suggestions of MT. Hanna and the Indianapolis commission w:lI be received respectfully and discussed fully, the first consider alton with the committee will be not to satisfy the advocates of any particular project for currency reform, but to secure the best positive results, with a view al ways to the permanent interests of the republican party. That is to say, the committee will go just as far in the direction of reform as they believe the people demand, or will permit.
 The administration view appears in the following statement by a gentle man who has every faculty for know ing what is going on at the White House, and who is one of the presi- dents closest advisers in all questions relating to finance.
 "The president has grown tired" he said, "of attempts from the outside to dictats the financial policy of the ad- mihistra5ion. He is not particularly impressed With the work of the h.
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
APT QUOTATIONS.

Proverbs, aXions and wise sayings have been uttered by Confucius and other wise men from time immemorial, but flaw people realize how many there a-a of them. c. 1. HCl0d & Co.,. of Sar- sap2.illa fame, have oyer two thousand and they have originated the ingenious pan of serving them up in delectaJIe shape in thousands of newspapers, with each one nza'uy turning a point as to the merit of their well known medicine. The extensive use of these proverbs is original and credit2ble to Hood 6 Co.
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
APPRECIATED BY THE CHAR
Assurances of Sympathy With HIS
 Universal Peace Ideas.

Washington, April 24-The secre- tary of state has made public the fol- lowing note addressed to him by Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa- dor, expressing, by direction of the czar, his majesty's sincere apprecia- \ $ion of the messages which have reached him from societies and pri- vate citizens of the United States at testing popular sympathy with his majesty's proposal for an lnterna- tional conference looking to mutual disarmament and universal p:ace:
 Russian Embassy,
 'Washington, April r, 1899. 'Mr. Secretary of State:
 Since the publication Of the circu- lar of the 12th of August of last year, which his excel.ency, Count Moura- vieff, addressed to the representa- tiives of the foreign powers accredited at St. Petersburg, numerous evidences of grateful recognition have come from the United States to his majesty, the emperor, my august master, in the form of addresses, letters ard tel9- grams.
 "His majesty, the emperor, is pleased to see in the unanim1ty of the sentiments which attend the courteous acquiescence of all the governments in taking part in the conference of The Hague an additional pledge for the success of efforts tending to cause th-a growth of the fruitful principle of uni versa1 peace in the mind and in the public life of all nations.
 Deeply affected by the expressions which have reached him from the United States, and which prove how completely the ideas of peace, founded upon the development of the moral and material welI-being of the peo- pies, find warm response in this great country, his majesty, the em- peror, has deigned to charge me to
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25

convey his most sincere thanks to all those who have sent his imperial maj esty the expression Of their sentiments with regard to 90 highly human.,1r-an an achievement
 "In hastening to fulfill this order Of my august master, I beg your excel lency to be pleased to accept the as surance of my highest consideration
 "C. CASSINI"
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
THE CUBAN FAYMASTER.

Washington, April 24. = Major Francis B. Dodge of the pay depart ment, recently relieved from duty at Denver, has been selected by the war department to disburse the S, ,OG0, GOO allowed by the government for the payment of troops in the Cuban army. He will leave for Cuba tomorrow.
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
KILLED A FARM HAND.

New York, April 24.--John Rooney, 32 years old, was shot and Killed in Bedford Westchester county. Mrs. Loring is alleged to hays killed Rooney. He was employed by her husband as a farm hand. Mrs Loring is in custody. MT. Loring is in busi- rsss in New York and Fway from home most of the time.
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25
MANHATTAN CLUB SOOT ATTIRE.
Lower Floors Full of Smoke and As
 tOria Windows Full of Faces.

New York, April 24.-Frank Hof. member of fire patrol No 3. was crossing Thirty-fourth street on a sur face car early this evening when he saw shower of sparks puff from one of the chimneys of the Manhattan cubs house at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street. He made for the nearest fire box, at Fifth avenue and
Arizona republican., 1899-04-25

Why worry over a hot stove when you can get so many good things az the bakery, fresh and fine?
 New England Pumpkin Pies w 10c Hcme Made Mince Pies ....... .1Oc Fresh Green Apple Pies ...... 10c Delicious Lemon Meringue Pies 15c Cream Puffs, reduced to.... ~ 20c Fig Roll, per cut... ............10 10c Cocoanut Kisses, doz.... ........ 10c Macaroons, per pound ...........50 soc Marble Cake, per pound ........... 25c Creose Biscuit, per pound ....... 20c PretZels, per pound .......2 20c Maple Slices, per doz.. . 15c Sweet home made Doughnuts, dog. 10c Hot Ginger Bread, per cut ........ 10c
 We always have something fresh and good for you to take home
The evening times., 1899-02-09
ANXIOUS TO LEAVE THE ARMY
Regulars Who Claim Their Enlist
ment Was for the War.

Havana, Feb. 9-Two hundred privates
of the Tenth regiment of regulars have
signified their desire for discharge, on the
ground that they enlisted on the same ha-
sis as the volunteers. for two years or for
the duration of the war. with the promise
that they might secure their discharges as
soon as the Peace Treaty was signed. Col
onel Pearson, who is popular with the men,
hopes to persuade most of them TO with
draw their applications.
Commodore Cromwell has ordered that
no prayer be said over the graves of the
Maine dead This action was taken after
Commodore Cromwell made a personal
though vain endeavor to persuade Bishop
Santander to permit a Protestant ceremony
in the Colon Cemetery.
The friends of the disappointed candi-
date for the position of postmaster of Ha-
vana have made so bitter an attack upon
Major Rathbone, Director of Postoffices in
Cuba, as to bring the matter before the
authorities in Washington. A number OF
cable dispatches have passed over the wires
today Major Rathbone's offence Is that
he insisted upon having an experienced
man at the head of the Havana Office, the
affairs of which he has greatly improvld
The politicians have endeavofed 10 control
the appointment. and notice was recently
served upon Rathbone that paper in New
York and another in Chicago would de-
mand his resignation unless he acQuiesced
The Postoffice Department in Washington
will have to decide the matter.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
money FOR EQUIPMENT
OF STREET RAILROADS
Notice by Suburban Syndicate
of $4,000, New Stock.
Belt and Anacostia Railways to
Have Rapid Transit.
As Soon as Capital Is Subscribed the
Work VIII BE Pushed and
Completed This fear.

The City and Suburban Syndicate yes
terday recorded notice of the action taken
by the directors of the Anacostia Railway
on February authorizing an increase of
its capital stock. i
The increase is from 1000 shares, par
value $50 per share. asgregating 100000,
to 10000 shares, aggregating So. 600, 900.
This nearly s2,00o, 600 additional capital
is to be used by the syndicate when raised
in putting the underground electric sys-
TEN on the Anacostia andfBelt lines, in
pursuance of the plans Of the syndicate
heretofore outlined in The Times.
1t was learned at the office of the syn
dicate on G Street this morning that the
work of equipping the two lines with the
new motive power will be begun as soon
as practicable. 1t is understood that the
first operations viii be begun early in the
spring and that it is hoped that the lines
will be running before the end of the pres
ent year.
1t cannot be learned who are likely to
be the subscribers of the new capital, but
il is regarded as certain that majority
OF the stock will be retained in the con-
troll of the syndicate.
Comment was heard among business men
today over the chances that this new sub
scriptioR OF stock offers to Washington
capital seeking investment.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
Life Saved by Swamp-Root
The Great Discovery That
Cures Kidney and Bladder
Troubles.

Statistics prove that more people are
brought to the grave by diseases OF the
kidneys and bladder than by any other
disease.
For many years medical science has
been trying to discover some remedy that
would positively overcome these danger
Gus troubles
But not until recently was the discovery
made Doctor Kilmer, the eminent ply
sician and scientist, after years of study
and research. and after test on test that
never varied in the grand result, announc-
ed the discovery of Swamp-Root, which
has proven itself most wonderful cure
for all diseases of the kidneys and bladder
While Swamp-R Root has proven such a
remarkable success in curing kidney and
bladder diseases, it has also proved equally
invaluable in the cure of blood diseases,
rheumatism, liver and stomach troubles
and in the regulation and cure of all uric
acid troubles
swamp Root has been tested in so many
ways, In hospital work in private practice
among the helpless too poor to purchase
relief, and has proved so successful that
a special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of The Daily Times,
who have not already tried it. may have a
sample bottle sent absolutely free by mail
Also book telling more about Swamp
Root and containing some of the thou
sands upon thousands of testimonial letters
received from men and women who owe
their good health In fact, their very lives
to the wonderful curative properties of
swamp Root. Be sure and mention The
Times when sending your address to DR..
kllmer & Co.. Binghamton. N. Y.
This great modern discovery is for sale
at most drug stores in 50-cent and 81 sizes.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
MILLIONAIRE FLOOD Welded.
Son of the bonanza kig and Miss
Mande Fritz Married.

Kansas City, Feb. 9.-James L. Flood.
son of the California Bonanza King. HIM
self ten times q millionaire, and MISS
Maude L. Fritz, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John Fritz, of SIS Forest Avenue. were
married in the home OF the brides parents
yesterday Thousands of violets and or
chids were used in the decorations.
Miss Francis Liliis was the maid of
honor. and Walter Fritz. brother of the
bride, the best man. The Rev. DR.. S. NJ.
Neel of the Central Presbyterian Church.
performed the ceremony. A wedding break
fast was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flood and the wedding
party left for New York in Mr.. Food 5
private car. They will go to St Angus
tin, Fla, and then to Europe. They will
live permanently at the Waldorf-Astoria
in New York after their return.
The bride wore white brocade. Simply
made, over white taffeta and literally COW
cred with billows of old point lace. Around
her waist she wore belt of pearls. She
was resplendent in Jewels. On her head
was tiara of pearls and diamonds, and on
her corsage was the bridegroOm's gift-a
lace pin of diamonds and black pearls. In
addition to this she wore another lace pin
3,
white bars formed Of diamonds, the red OF
rubies, the blue field of sapphires and the
stars of diamonds. She carried bouquet
of parma violets
The brides gofng-away gown was of
Marlborough green cloth. over which she
wore a long ulster of cream -colored broad
cloth, with collar of Russian sable. Her
hat is trimmed with the same fur and yio-
lets.
III hx- 10 i~u,.l
far the handSomeSt and most costly ever
worn at wedding in Kansas City. There
were not less than S100, 600 worth of dia-
monds, rare pearls, and turquoises in her
golden hair and half hidden beneath the
fiounceS of lace.
Chief among these was the magnificent
tiara of diamonds and pearls, a present
from the bridegroom last Christmas, which
is worth a small fortune. The centre of
the base Is pure white diamond of about
four carats, and around it are gracefully
set 125 other diamonds.
The bridegreom's bridal gift which was
worn in the corsage, is one of the rarest
combinations of jewels. 1t is pin pen
dant somewhat the shape of the fieur- de-
lis The ground is incrusted with large
white diamonds, and in each of the tre-
foilates is set a great black pearl. while
a larger. pear-shaped pearl hangs from the
base This pearl is known as the Storm
Cloud" and is classed among the rarest of
these jewels owned in America. The belt
cenfining the bridal gown was strung with
hundreds Of pearls caught up in places
by wide bands Of turquoises.
The most valuable of all the wedding
gifts, of course, is a diamond necklace, the
gife of the bridegroom's sister. Miss Jen-
ME Flood, which is in the keeping of Tif-
fany. 1t is made up of strands of diamonds
which come together in the front and
form network of brilliants. Its value is
s100, 200.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
SIXTY-MILE FOX CHASE.
Longest Hunt That Ever Took Place
in Pennsylvania.

BelIefonte, Pa, Feb. 9.-One of the most
remarkable fox chases of the season took
place here Tuesday. Saturday it Iained
and froze so that the mountains and fields
We're covered with a sheet of ice. Monday
night a few inches of snow fell, and Tues
day morning Col. Samuel McMurtrie turn
ed loose his pack Of hounds for a chase.
The dogs were not long in starting Rey-
nard on Muncy Mountain, not far from
Bellefonte, and the chase led north to Bald
Eagle Valley, where a 12-mile circuit was
then returning to the mountain east of
Bellefonte, when he took direct wester-
Is course. To regain the vicinity whence
he was started the chase had to cross a
gap, through which the public road leads
from Milesburg to Bellefonte. When on
the peak of the mountain, which at that
point is 900 feet high, with the dogs in
close pursuit, the fox took a header on
the ice and slipped and rolled down the
steep mountain precipice. the whole pack OF
hounds in full chase the same way.
A farmer was coming to the county se1t
in his sled, and happening at that point
just when the chase landed in the road
the fox slid under the sled. So c,osa were
the dogs that hardly had Reynard gone un-
der the sled until they jumped over the
same TO tackle the fox on the other side.
But Reynard was too sharp for them.
When the chase made such precipitous
descent on the farmer he halted his team
TO see il out. The fox had gone under the
sled, but not coming out the farmer sup
posed he had been caught and perhaps
killed, and with the intention of himself
securing the brush drove the hounds off
and jumped from the sled. Reynard, how
ever was only taking a breathing spell
and hardly had the man landed on one side
of the sled until the fox was out on the
other, and UP the ravine like a streak
The hounds were again put on the trail
entering into the spirit of the chase as
fresh as if just started. West along the
mountain, through Buffalo Run Valley
over Colonel Reynolds ofine farms the fox
went with the hounds in full pursuit, un-
ill the middle of the afternoon, when Rey-
nard. by an adroit doubling when the dogs
were very close, evaded them two miles
south OF Bellefonte. and took direct
course for the mountain where he was
raised in the morning. finally saving his
brush by escaping in the rocks, a deeI
den, where it was impossible to get al
him. The chase during the seven hours
continual running covered almost sixty
miles, the longest ever made in Pennsyl-
vania.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
SALT WATER FOR FIRES.
Underwriters scheme to Protec
New York Skyscrapers

Underwriters scheme to Protect
New York SiSyscrapers
New York. Feb. 9.-At the public hearing
yesterday by the aldermanic committee in
structed to report on plans to give sky
scrapers better fire protection, F. c. Moore.
President of the Continental Fire Insur-
ance Company, appeared TO advocate the
adoption of the proposed salt water auxili-
airy supply system.
Jacob Levy said East Side property own
ers would oppose the adoption of the aux
iliary salt water system FOR 5he business
sectiG2s of the city If the cost were to be
assessed against the entire city.
William J. Tanning, counsel for the Ho-
tel Association, said that the hotel pro-
prietors would object TO paying any part
of the expense for putting in the auxiliary
system unless their property would enjoy
its benefits. They thought the assessment
for the work should be levied only on the
districts directly benefited.
Mr.. Moore said that in putting the aux
iliary system of pipes to give the entire
lower portion of the city ample fire pro-
lection would not cost more than $500 900.
With the pressure that could be furnished
by the New York f1reboats. Mr.. Moore said.
streams could be thrown over the highest
buildings.
William Dalton. Commissioner of Water
Supply, submitted letter to Mayor Van
Wyck yesterday. which was read at the
meeting, in which he pointed out that IL
the salt water plan were adopted it would
be necessary to put in mains and hydrants
capable of withstanding pressure Of 200
pounds per square inch. He said that per-
manent berths would have to be assigned
to the fireboats at the termini of streets in
,l, 4,a 1ai, iosI nnI hot
space must be found under the street pave
ments for the extra fire mains where they
would be readily accessible for inspection
and repair.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
Il" CAR IN A BLAZE.
Mystcrious Fire That Threatened
Disaster.

New York Feb. "a Third Avenue ele
waited car caught fire yesterday. The pas
sengers became aware of it between sta
tions and would have fed from the car in
panic that might have cost lives, but for
the conductor, who herded them inside.
closed the doors and kept them there until
the station was reached.
By this time the car was full OF smoke
and the floor seemed about TO burst into
flames. The fire was in the woodwork
under the rear platform and about the rear
truck.
I:ow it started nobody knows. No such
accident ever occurred on the line before
but it is probable that a burning cinder
from a locomotive engine lodged in the
wood where it was dry and that the wind
of the onrushing train famed IL into a
blaze.
1t was train bound to the City Hall. At
1I7th Street every seat was filed and peo-
pie were standing in the aisies. At 1f9th
Street the people in the forward car were
shifting smoke ard pale clouds We're no.
ticed about the lamps. The conductor in
vestigated. The passengers looked under
every seat, but there was no trace of fire
and the train proceeded on its way. taking
aboard passengers at every station.
The new passengers smelled the smoke
and started the alarm again. and presently
everybody was standing up and looking for
a chance to escape.
The smoke had begun TO be choking and
the floor was hot. Despite the storm the
windows were thrown up. Still there was
on sign of flame, and though women
screamed and men tried to break the solid
phalanx on the rear platform in a rush to
the next car, the panic was only tentative
At 115th Street the puzzled conductor
caught flash OF the flame under the plat
form. Others saw it also.
For hideous moment it seemed as il the
people would break out of the flying car
and hurl themselves over the gates But
Conductor Jerome was equal To the emer-
gency. He forced the men on the platform
into the car, slammed the door and held it
fast.
There was really nothing else TO do. The
terror stricken people inside We're packed
too closely to permit of their fcharging on
the closed door or of iniuring each other in
the panic. and the car came safely to 106th
Street, where the passengers crowded out
of it like stampeding cattle.
There was. of course. nasty crush at
the doors but nobody was seriously hurt
The car was uncoupled and the engine
whirled it down to the yards, where the
blaze was extinguished.
It was about 6 O'Clock when the traffic is