Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-01

while the 0elendant was aDScnu SerN- ing as an officer in the Volunteer army of the United States, his wife and O'Melveny became crlminally in- tmate. The captain learned the facts on the day of the tragedy, his wife making full confession. The killing | followed. The defendant pleaded the Utah statute, which justiiies the act of husband who kills his wiie's Seduccr, and also set up the plea of ln- sanity.
 1 According to Prescott, tine money of the Aztecs consisted of Quills full of gold dust and bags of chocolate grains. Before the introduction of coined money into Greece, SkewerS or spikes of iron and copper were used, six be- ing drachma or handful
 At d meeting of Methodist min | isterS in New York, Miss Helen Clark, of an evangelical band told them that | there are more heathen in New York than in Tokio asserting that there are l,3o0, 900 people in New York without any religious affiliations
 He Is a dangerous foe who fights 1 with the bible in one hand and the sword in the other, Old Paul Kruger, cheering his people in the desperate defensr of their independence, is a heroic figure that will live in history whether he stands or falls.
 i Governor Stanley. of Kansas, has been releasing some of the convictS in that state on condition that they will not drink intoxicating liquor, nor gamble. nor violate any law, nor Shirk labor. He finds that the plan has so far worked well,
 Chicago always keeps in the lead. It has just produced the banner bank rupt of the United States. He failed the other day for Sj, 100000, with nom- inal assets of 5000 His name, ap- | propriatcly enough. is Owings, ! The most famous among New York's multi-millionairc citizens is Andrew Carnegie, the steel and armor plate king, of Pittsburg His wealth is es- timated at Sl0e,O0O, 900. Last week he began the construction of what prom iSeS to be the most imposing residence in New York
 A Brussels date of January 24, says nearly 100000 signatures have been ap- 1 pended to the address promoted by | NJ, Le Jeme and other members of the 1 Universal Peace Society, asking Presi, ! dent Mckinley to mediate. which win be forwarded to Washington in the course Of a few days.
 King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, has sent message to the Scandana- yian citizens of the United States, which they mast have received with gratitud1 and pleasure. He says: Tell those of my two peoples who have taken up their abode in the United States and their descendants, that follow their path with love and interest, and that feel their joys and sorrows as if they were my own. Oscar is an amiable monarch, a poet, scholar, an artist, and . gentleman.
 Details of Miss Helen Gould's bene- faction Co the naval branch of the Young Mems Christian association, of Brooklyn have just been made public. She has given sl25,OOo to the institu- ton and has secured the title to ad- joining property for site for q new fiye-story building. The new building will be memorial to Miss Gould's father and mother It will have a frontage of ninety feet and will com bine the features of a mission, hotel and gymnasium. There will be a good library, swimming tank, baths and a restaurant, where meals can be se- cured for a nominal sum-
 A Vancouver, E. C., dispatch, says; Senator Campbell of Cariboo, and company of contemplating San Francis cans have begun work on a new portion of the Mocene property, in the famous old gold district and will de- yelop it largely on new plan. They will expend S200,000 on carrying down a large shaft to the bed of a prehis- toric river, which is supposed to con tain immense wealth. Other parts of the river which have been found have been very rich. The drifting and shaft will in all be nearly 1000 feet of straight ahead work before there will be any particular return for what will be done. IT is expected that the work will take year, and when completed will show more pay than was ever be- | fore discovered in the country. X correspondent with Bullersarmy, writing under date of December 2l, and giving details of the battle of Co lenso, says: "The Boers position was excellently planned, their trenches and emplacements were we'll hidden. All day we were fired at by guns whose position we could never find, and we were never sure exactly where