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Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

With the advent Of the wireless tele-
graph the question comes up, who is
to have control of the ether, and what
rights have different individuals In 1t?
is the ether that pervades all space ra-
dating from my land also to be mine,
or will a new rule Of property have to
be adopted, giving the public the right
to this medium? Ether penetrates all
matter. Can the Wireless Telegraph
Company send messages across my
land and right through my house with
impunity, and can If wish put up a
receiver and tap their wireless service
on my own land? Will be justified
in posting my land with notices: mo
Trespassing In This Ether?" Can an
-enterprising advertiser send out mes
sage on the ether waves so that any
one with a receiver on his place will
get the message use Skim Milk
SoapY Will l be able to keep pace
with all the rumors that are "going
around" by putting up an aerial con-
ductor over my house and listening to
what the ether waves are saying7
Wait and see.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Our conspicuous cOuntrywOman, Mrs.
Anna George, who emerged from GER
tain judicial proceedings in Canton,
Ohio, amid the splutter of fireworks
and the explosion of bombs> at once
announced that she would take the lee
ture platform with discourse on wom-
ans rights. 1t would appear that Mrs.
George is much more in the mood to
discuss wOman's wrongs, and this Opin-
ion is strengthened by a conversation
with reporter, in which the lady says:
l want to say that my misfortune and
bitter results should be warning to de-
signing men. Oh, if l could go into every
home and tell each wife, sister or daugh-
ter, and warn them against trusting any
man with their virtue! would warn
them to be careful of their associates;
to guard themselves against this tempta-
ton that dragged me down.
This, says the Chicago Post, is most
excellent advice, and we hasten to give
it our most cordial support. The more
we consider Mrs. Georges carefully
chosen words the stronger are our con-
victions that a woman should exercise
the utmost caution in the disposition of
her virtue. There is, we believe, very
general sentiment in feminine circles
which acts measurably as a preventive
of the misfortunes and bitter results
so eloquently portrayed by Mrs.
George, but we have no doubt that the
lady's emphatic warning will greatly
stimulate this sentiment and demon
strate the utter futility of yielding to
temptation. But as to the other propo-
sion, the invasion of every home by
Mrs. George, we have few unchival-
rous misgivings. While we yield to
none in our admiration Of Mrs. Georges
good qualities we must reluctantly say
that we are not quite prepared to see
her walking up the steps and pulling
the doorbell. 1t seems to us-such Is
our unmanly suspicion-that the spec
tacle Of this new champion Of woman's
rights sitting in the midst of our wives,
daughters and sisters instructing them
as to the proper feminine conduct
would be somewhat disconcerting, and
we think-to borrow the adequate ex-
preston of polite circles-that any
young woman approached by Mrs.
George with suggestions as to moral
behavior would be justified in "burst
ing into tears and calling cab"
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
HYPNOTIZED BY A MINISTER.

COLFAX, Wash.-G. j. Dahike, a
Baptist minister, has been lodged in
Jail here, to be held until officers ar
rive to take him back to Kansas for
trial. He is accused Of having hypno-
tized Mrs. G. w. Funk, wife of prom
inent Hillsboro. Kas., grain dealer. He
is accused also of having drugged her
and then abducted her. The minister
was arrested while holding revival ser
woes at Sollice Junction, near here.
Funk, who came from his Kansas
home to recover his wife and punish
the minister, interrupted the revival
services by selling Rev. Dahike and
slipping pair of handouts over his
wrists.
After hearing before the Justice of
the Peace at Oakesdale. Dahike was
ordered committed to the county Jail
in default of $1,000 bail.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
JAPANESE FOR HAWAII.

VICTORIA, B. C.-Advices from Yo-
kohama state that nearly 1000 laborers
will leave Japan during the current
year, under contract to work ON the
Hawaiian plantations. This is the re-
suit of permission given by the United
States government for the importation
of Japanese to the new island terri
tory, under contract, to assist in the
cultivation of seven new and immense
sugar plantations, and to Offset in a
large measure the large Chinese popu-
lation already in the field.
An attempt to augment the Chinese
force of laborers by smuggling in COOL
les is understood to be contemplated
and trouble may result.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
SHOT AS SPIES.

VICTORIA, (g. C.)-Kobe papers of
May 16 contain the news that the fate
of the party of scientists, missing for
upward of a month past, has been
disclosed. They had landed near To-
sang, on the Lao ung peninsula, to
pursue their Investigations of earth
quake phenomena, and mountain fora,
when they were made prisoners by a
party of Russian cavalry and shot as
spies without the semblance of a trial.
Their Photographic and other scien-
tific apparatus was destroyed There
were eleven professors in the party,
one German savant, and ten native
Japanese. whose homes were in Kobe
and Toxic. The Japanese authorities
will make thorough investigation.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
WAS AN ESCAPED LEPER.

SAN FRANCISCO-Will Horne,
a peddler of buttons, was arrested on
Market street, at the instance of
Health officer O'Brief, who discovered
that the man was an escaped leper
from the pest house. Although he has
but one arm, he resisted arrest so Wig
orously that it required the efforts Of
three policemen to subdue him. He
was placed in padded cell at the re-
ceiving hospital and will probably be
returned to the pest house.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
WILD AND WEIRD STORY
OF AN ALLEGED PLOT.
Cuba to eB Burned Up by the Irrecon-
cilables.

NEW YORK-The Herald says: In
a private letter received from distin-
guished Cuban, now resident of the
United States, is a most sensational
statement of the plans of the irrecon-
cilable Cuban leaders. The writer is
a conservative and is in a position to
know what is going on at present in
Cuba.
The information is as follows:
"The latest story from Cuba, which
/ have every reason to believe, having
been told me by a prominent Cuban
whose intimacy with the leaders in
Havana lends authority to the state
ment, is that the former revolutionary
element has decided to make a virtue
of necessity and gracefully, to outward
appearances, accept American inter-
vention.
AT the end of two years. however,
if Cuban independence is not acknOwl-
edged, and the government transferred
to the Cubans, the torch is to be ap-
piled from one end of the island to the
other, by which means all foreign in
vestments will be destroyed. When 1t
is considered that the wealth of Cuba
is dependent on agricultural develop
ments, chiefly cane and tobacco, and
that firebrand malfciously applied in
a dry cane field would cause the de-
struction of thousands of dollars in a
single night, the enormity of the plot
becomes apparent"
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
GOT MARRIED ON THE SLY.
The Wedding of an Eccentric Homo
lulu Heiress.
N FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO-It has just
leaked out that Miss Hell
en- Kinau Wilder, Honolulu heiress,
who has gained fame through her hui
name work in the Hawaiian islands,
and her eccentricities abroad, was Sc
cretly married on May 16 ito Horace
Joseph Craft, manager of the Pacific
Cyclery Company at the Hawaiian cap
ital. The wedding took place at mid
night at the Honolulu Theological
Seminary, the officiating clergyman
being Rev. JOHN Nau, native theolog-
ical student. The bride went immedi-
ately to her home after the ceremony.
On the following day she took passage
on the steamship Australia for this
city, arriving here on May %.
Miss Wilder has been noted in Hon.
olulu for her eccentric acts Recently
she arrested Attorney General Cooper
of Honolulu for abusing a horse, and
despite his protests, carried him to the
station and made him put up bail that
he would not repeat the cruelty.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Admiral Dewey declares that under
no circumstances will he be candidate
for the Presidency next year, for he is
a sailor and has no politics, and Dewey
processes himself totally ignorant of
party intricacies and affiliations. Sew
eral times in the history of the republic
the army has furnished an incumbent
for the Presidency. Not so the navy.
And it is a remarkable fact that, on the
whole, the army men who reached the
chief magistracy by party nomination
had never been affiliated with the par
ty which nominated them. Andrew
Jackson's selection to the Presidency
came before the methods of nomina-
ton low obtaining were in vogue. He
was defeated in 1924, to be triumphant
ly elected in 1923, not alone because of
the glamor of his military renown, but
because of deep-seated conviction in
the popular mind that he had been de-
frauded in 1924. Zachary Taylor was
taken up by the Wings in 1913, not be-
cause he was Wing, but because of
out Of the great reputation he made in
the war with Mexico. He was the
owner Of slaves, yet received the cor
dial support Of Northern opponents Of
slavery. Great as is the prediction
Of the electorate of the republic for a
military hero, Scott, who won laurels
In both the war Of 1912 and the war
with Mexico, was beaten in 1852. In
1868 Grant had no more historical iden-
tity with the Republican than with the
Democratic party. He was no more
identified as politician than is Dewey.
Yet it seemed natural to the whole
country that the Republican politicians
Of that year should take him up as
their leader. He was willing, as twenty
years before Zachary Taylor was will
ing. Dewey is not willing, and without
his consent no party would venture to
nominate him.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
DREYFUs OVERLOOKED.

FORT DE F.ANCE, Qsland of Mar
tinique-When the dispatch boat Goe-
land, bearing the superintendent of
the prison and the commander of the
marine artillery, who were designated
by the French government to notify
Dreyfus of the revision of his trial,
arrived from Cayenne, at the Isle du
Diable, Dreyfus was waiting on the
shore. Although endeavoring to
maintain his self possession, he received
the official intelligence with a coun-
tenance radiant with joy.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
WAR ROMANCE.
Henry Ballantyne Is Married to His
Former Wife.


CHICAGO-A special to the Chron-
icle from Highmoor, S. D., says that
the return to that town of man and
woman divorced five years ago, but
who are again husband and wife, adds
a romantic story of love and war.
Five years ago Henry Ballantyne
and wife, of Highmoor, agreed to sepa-
rate. They had been married not
quite twelve months. BaHantyne was
a prosperous grain buyer and owned
several good farms. These he deed
ed to his wife. The few hundred dol
lars he was able to scrape together in
cash he put in his pocket, and left to
begin life afresh in a new location.
AS soon as he had gone, his wife
sued for divorce. There was no de-
Tense, and a decree was granted. The
land given her by her husband she
sold to advantage, and by shrewd re-
investments accumulated within the
next few years a comfortable fortune.
The past winter she spent in South
ern California. On her way home, a
month ago. she stopped temporarily in
San Francisco. On the street there
one day, she met an emciated figure
in army blue, hobbling along with the
aid of a heavy cane, in vain search
for employment. 1t was Ballantyne,
discharged from the United States vol
unteer service and invaded home
from the Philippines, after fever
which left him in such poor health as
to destroy his usefulness as a soldier.
Ballantyne was about to pass his
former wife without speaking to her,
but she. when she saw his wasted form
and miserable condition, felt all her old
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
REMARKABLE DETECTIVE WORK
BY A YOUNG WOMAN.

SAN FRANCISCO-Bert Stead.
man, 17-year- Old girl, has just &C.
complished a remarkable detective
feat. She was correspondent for q
small weekly paper when a woodchop
per known as French Pete mysterious
ly disappeared some time ago. She
believed the man was killed, and with
the aid of her father followed I'D a
number of clews with such success that
Sheriff Taylor of Marin county acting
on her information, has arrested James
DER on a charge of numbering the
missing man. Miss Stedman, who
went into the camps of the woodcnop-
pers in the foothills, reports that these
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
FUNsToN's REGIMENT.

KANSAS CITY-The Star received
the following cablegram regarding the
muster-out of the Twentieth Kansas,
General Funston's regiment, from its
special correspondent:
Observation-Disclosures signed by
nine-tenths of the officers and men of
the Twentieth Kansas regiment urg-
ing muster-out and discharge from the
service in San Francisco have been for
warded to the Star and to Senator Ba-
ker. ~
(Signed.) - STEELE"
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
MINING NOTES.

The Wedge mine, Randsburg, has
just had run of thirty tons of ore
at the Red Dog mill, which yielded
$500, averaging over $50 per ton.
An electric power plant will be con-
structed this season at the Madrid coal
mines, near Cerrilos, N. M. The Co.
chit Gold Mining Company is back of
this project.
The English syndicate is said to be
after the Elkton property in Colorado
on value basis of 100000. There
is large body of ore blocked out
and ready to handle.
Another strike of copper ore is re
ported in the South Bisbee mines,
Ariz. The strike was made at $50
feet. The shaft will be sunk to the
700-foot level, when levels will be
started.
The owners of the asbestos mine
near Bakersfield, CAL, have suddenly
realized that they have bonanza. An
inspection of the mine has resulted in
New York parties making them an Of
fer for the entire output.
There is much excitement in the
Boise Basin country, Idaho, over the
discovery of rich gold ledge three
miles west of Idaho City. The dis
covery is in a section that has been
famous for deposits of placer gold.
A run of ninety-fve tons of ore from
the Winnie mine, Randsburg, was
made few days ago at the Barstow
mill, which yielded 1887. This is the
second run of ore from that mine
milled at Barstow. The first of forty
tons, made a couple of weeks ago, gave
$538.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

The terrible fire In a fashionable New
York hotel recently recalls the lesson
of story recOunted some time ago. A
man had been washed overheard from
q vessel during a storm so fierce that
his rescue seemed impossible. A tim
orous, seasick "landlubber," whose fear
Of the water had been the scorn Of the
sailors. leaped overheard, caught the
man by the hair. and supported him till
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

ladies wishing to add to the COM
fort of the audience would do it by re-
moving their hats" This was printed
as a poster in London concert-room.
Despite the appeal, the nuisance does
not appreciably abate. Mr.. Birrell once
begged class of schoolgirls to be gen.
tlemen. Many Of their mothers, unfor-
tunately. might profit by his paradox.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Another burglar has been caught who
posed, when In private life, as COM
mercial traveller. Strictly speaking,
the title is not altogether amiss in Sig
nificance. The burglar travels, and no.
body supposes that he travels for his
health.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
FEMALE ALDERMEN.

LONDON-During the report stage
of the London local government bill
in the House of Commons, an amend
ment, moved by the Right Hon. Leon
ard Henry Courtney, Advanced Liber-
al, member for the Bodain division OF
Cornwall, declaring women are eligi-
BILE to election as aldermen and coun-
cillors, was adopted by vote of 1916
to ISL.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
One Ear Best.

A well-known professor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ear than
with both. 1t takes the full compile
ment, however, to hear the alarm clock
at $50 q. N.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

If the colonies Of Australia federate
under the name of the United States of
Australia, as has been suggested, 1t will
be no longer possible for us to monopo-
lie the abbreviation q. s. A. A rival
ry for the use of it would show that
our federal system Of government is
having many imitators, and as COM
pliment would Offset any inconveni-
ence that might result.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

1t is not believed that there is any
thing In wireless telegraphy that will
make It any easier for nervous ladies
10 open kilograms without thrill Of
apprehension.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

love for him revive. She hurried him
into carriage, and to her hotel, where
comfortable quarters, good food and
the services of a competent physician
soon produced a marked improvement
in his health. Last week the two were
remarked and have just returned to
Highmoor together.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

men have a system of justice of their
own and form sort of Malta society
which removes" Objectionable persons
whenever it is thought necessary. The
evidence she has collected against the
prisoner is said to be very strong.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
MARKETING THE WALNUT cRol

MARKETING, THE WALNUT CROP.
The walnut growers of Southern
California have shown their good sense
by combining to obtain fair prices for
the crop. The seven walnut associa-
tons have agreed to make no consign-
ments to firms, and to sell only fob
in California. Prices will probably be
left to the future and will not be named
until the extent of the crop is known,
in September.
The walnut growers are to be con-
graduated on the good sense which
they have displayed. Other horticul-
turists should do likewise.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

The Santa Paula Chronicle denies
the statement recently made in the
Fruit World that the apricot crop in
that valley is very heavy aud that
growers are selling at SIT ton. The
Chronicle says that no sales have been
made. so far as it has been able to
learn, for less than $25. while the best
fruit is being held for "better than
500" The new cannery at Ventura is
expected to sustain prices in that vi
entity at least to the minimum farther
north. which the Chronicle says is $35.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

help came. The hero, though inordl.
nately timid, had schooled himself In
mind and will against such a possible
emergency. Residence in hotel or an
apartment in some form and at some
time will possibly come to most read
ers. They cannot too early master a
few simple rules, which may save the
loss of limb or Of life. After engaging
room the occupant should at once
learn Its situation in respect to halls,
stairway and elevator, and note wheth-
er there Is fire-escape. If there is,
and only rope is provided, the direc-
tons for its use should be studied. He
should remember that a towel in his
hands will lessen the friction Of the
rope upon his flesh, and that a wet
towel twisted about his face will delay
suffocatiOn from smoke. He should
elry or papers are most important to
save. By occasionally impressing such
simple precautions upon the mind,
ones actions in case of sudden fire will
become almost automatic. Along many
other lines such self-training may be of
vital service: What to do In case ones
clothes catch fire; when the brake Of a
bicycle fails to act on q dangerous
grade; when companion is struck by
lightning; or when resuscitation is re-
quired when drowning is barely es-
capped; or when Give" wire drops and
must be crossed. 1t is neither neces-
sary nor desirable to lie awake nights
planning escapes from potential dis
asters; but to refuse to consider them
is the device of the ostrich who thinks
himself safe from danger when his
foolish head is hid in the sand.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

A sshorror social'' is the latest freak
among society ladies'. Each lady Is ex-
pected to bring a resemblance of what
bhe most breads. Empty pocket books
and dead mice are common contribu-
Hons
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

II every man who falls in love with
Miss Helen Gould is to be arrested,
he bachelors might as well be assessed
it so much head without further cere-
nony.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Dewey says that Farragut showed
linn how to do it. How Farragut
would have rejoiced to know that SO
treat an opportunity awaited SO apt a
kupil!
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Another case Of the marriage Of pro-
essional thieves In jail From social
'oint of view this sort Of thing is open
5 serious criticism.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

A rascally engraver engaged to coun-
erfeit money is like any other rascal.
he better the impression he makes
be more dangerous he is.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

|Rudyard Kipling says the hardest
|ork he ever did and the hardest he
Yer saw done is that Of work on a
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

|rhe organization of a company to
|nfrol the trade In peanuts cannot be
|Iled q grand-stand play.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Every American scheme that has
zen tried on the Filipinos has been
hccessful, excepting the war balloon.
Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23

Many q pointer Is given to an indi-
'dual at times solely that he may not
to the dogs.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-05-25
TWO WOMEN
Restored to Health by Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Ms. PATRICK nANEHY.
yi GAVIN u-rttac.

Mrs.. PATRICK nANEHY.
West Winsted, Conn, writes:
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