Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENIN GS
From Everywhere will be found In
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody

A seat in the New York stock ex-
change was sold for $40, 400, the high
est price ever paid.
Reports from Orange river state
that 107 dead Beers were taken to KAT
firskop after the battle at Belmont.
Capt. J. C. Ayers, u. S. A., Of the
Ordnance Department, was killed in
Washington, ID. c., by fall from his
bicycle and being run over by a team.
This is about the time Of year when
every married man begins to work like
a mailer so as to earn enough to pay
for all the presents his wife will give
him this month.
It scares female suffragist who
thinks woman ought to be like NH NH
thinks women ought to be like men
half to death if she discovers she has
a moustache coming.
Great special bill at the Orpheum Los
Angeles. The Great Camille D'Arvill,
A Beautiful Art Portrait of this Great
Artist will be presented to each one who
attends Wednesday Matinee, Dec. 20.
Special dispatches from Lorenzo,
MARQUEE, dated Tuesday, December 5,
say President Kruger is only prevented
from going to the front by the objec-
tons from members of the executive
council. Mrs. Kruger, it is added, IS
ILL.,
The announcement is made in a spe-
cial dispatch from Bloemfontain, dated
Sunday, December 8, that President
Steyn of the Orange Free State, has
Joined the Beers at Modder river. His
appearance, the dispatch says, caused
great enthusiasm among the Free
Staters.
A syndicate of Eastern mills has con-
summated a deal at st. Louis for $780,
900 pounds of so-called territory
WOOL" for a sum said to aggregate
more than $25O,OO0. Sixty cars will be
required to transport it to it's destina-
ton in the East. 1t is the greatest
sale of wool ever made in the West.
Governor Roosevelt has gained a
name for the minimum use of the par
doning power. He has committed more
sentences than his immediate prede-
cessor, but has firmly established the
precedent of refusing to interfere with
sentences in second convictions Of ev-
cry sort, and in all cases concerning
brutality to women.
At Newkirk, o. T., Clyde Mattox, the
slayer of five men, was convicted Of
manslaughter and sentenced to twelve
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. The crime for which he was SEN
fenced, his fifth murder, was the kill
ing of Lincoln Sweeney, a rancher, with
a reputation as a dangerous man, dur
ing bar room fight at Ponca last
spring. After the killing Mattox es-
capped to the southwest, and was after
ward arrested in Los Angeles. For a
previous murder, Mattox was sentenced
to hang, but President Cleveland COM
muted the sentence to Imprisonment
for life. and President Mckinley, at a
later date, pardoned him.
O. M Wellborn testified in his own
behalf in the United States district
court. He asserted that he had not
received the mony that was paid by
the government upon false vouchers, and
that the money had been received and
appropriated by others-not, however,
of his own knowledge. He added a
new fact that had not been mentioned
at the former trial, and that was that
he had enlisted in the First Texas vol
nnteers, and went with the regiment
to Cuba to fight the Spaniards. He
returned to Texas with his regiment
and re-enlisted with the Ninth infan-
try for the Philippines, and came to
San Francisco, where he was captured
while on his way to Manila.