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Mohave County miner., 1900-05-05
Muhare County Miner,
Published Every Saturday.
BY SMITH & SAWYER.

RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
One year, strictly in advance, 3 00$
Dix months, (: rs
Three months 100
Advertising rates on application.
Mohave County miner., 1900-05-05

CENTRAL
BANK

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA.
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The evening times., 1900-02-10
AT LAW OVER A CORPSE.
Relatives Fighting for Possession of
the Remains.

CHICAGO. Feb. 10.-John Faulkner
died in Mexico few weeks ago. When
the news of his death reached his relatives.
Victor BastiaE. Mrs Faulkner's brother
in-law, decided he was entitled to the body
while Mrs Faulkner disputed him. Each
was determined to receive the body when
it arrived in Chicago, and for three days
two undertakers waited at the station for
the train on which the remains had been
shipped. The firm employed by Bastian
secured the body and prepared il for burial.
Just as the funeral services had been read
and the body was about to be removed to
waiting hearse a constable. armed with
a write of replevin sworn out by Mrs
Faulkner. appeared upon the scene and
seized the body. 1t was taken to Mrs.
Faulkner's home and there remains under
the protection of squad of police.
Bastian has sworn out a warrant enjoin-
ing Mrs. Faulkner or the undertaken from
burying the body, and there the matter
rests. An attempt will be made to prevent
service of the writ until Sunday and the
police have been asked to furnish an eS-
cort for the body to the cemetery on that
day to prevent forcible seizure by the Bas-
tians.
The cause of the trouble is the will Of
Faulkner in which he disposes of his life
insurance equally between his widow and
the Bastians. Mrs. Faulkner It Is said
holds that the provision for the Bastian
family should not have been made.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
SICK AND DESPoNDENT.
\ Woman Commits Suicide Because
of LII Health.

WILMINGTON, Del. Feb. 10-WeaTy of
life because OF the tortures OF dyspepsia,
Miss Mary Robinson, aged thirty-two years,
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with pistol at the
home of her father, George F. Robinson,
loo West Tenth Street.
Pinned TO her dress was this note: Il
am sick and despondent and tired of liv-
ing in misery. Goodby, father. Frank,
Les and Ed. God bless you all. You
have been good and kind to me.-Mame."
About 2 O'Clock Leslie, brother of Miss
Robinson heard a noise as of a falling
board in the second story, but he did not
hear a pistol sound and paid no attention
to it, Shortly afterward he happened to
90 TO the room of his sister and found her
body lying on the floor. For some time
Miss Robinson had been despondent and
often talked of killing herself. Her father
and brothers always cheered her up. This
morning she asked her brother Edward
what was the easiest way TO die.
Miss Robinson was to be married next
Wednesday to Frank Matthueson. an cleo
trician at Dupont's Mills, and the Frank
mentioned in the note referred TO him.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
SAVED FROM THE MOB.
4 MotOrman Who Killed n Child Mar
rOwIy Escapes Vengeance.

NEW YORK. Feb. 1O.-John Bruke of
16j East 102d Street, motorman of a Third
Avenue electric car which killed Paul
SprOckoe. eleven years old. of 45 Oak
Street, at Chatham Square yesterday after
noon, had a narrow escape from an infu-
rated mob, which declared that he was
responsible for the tragedy. He was saveI
by six policemen, who were hurried from
the Oak Street stationhOuse.
The boy was struck while crossing Cat
Fam Square by a sOuthbound ear. but the
motOrman did not see him fall under the
car.
Louis SilverstOne. a clothier. Of 100 Park
Row, was in a bootblack's chair and saw
the accident. He ran into the street. call
ing on Bruke to stop, but the motorman
took no heed and did not check his car
until Policeman Hahn jumped on the track
at Baxter Street, three blocks below
Bruke insisted that his car had struck
no one but a man in the crowd that gath
cred saw the mangled body near the rear
truck.
The crowd rushed at Bruke. but Hahn
got him into store and held him there
until re-enforcements came to drive the
Tevengeful mob away.
The boys body was taken to the Eliza
beth stationhO and later was sent 10
the morgue.
Mrs. SprockOe wondered why her little
son did not return home. She became
nervous and went in search of him
Then she heard that a Doy had been kill
ed by a car in Chatham Square The pO-
lice directed her to the morgue when she
asked them to describe the boy Thither
she went. trembling. and nearly tainted
when she identified the mangled body as
that Of her little son.
Bruke was held by Coroner Bausch
The evening times., 1900-02-10
A HIGHWAYMAN KILLED.
shot While RobbinG Nictiut in ~
Chicago saloon.

CHICAGO. Feb. 10.-Frank Spencer. who
wore clothes marked "A. c. Davis" made
by sharp & Co." New York. was killed at
midnight while holding up F. H. Barmm
in Wosterman's saloon, 1859 West Madison
Street
Bsrmm, an attorney, had sent Sommer-
feldt. the bartender, down in the cellar for
wine. The side door was opened and in
stepped the robber, revolver in hand.
Put up your hands" he said TO Barmm.
Up went the lawyers arms. The attor-
ney's watch and money we're being trans
ferred when Sommerfeldt came noiselessly
up from the cellar. The robbers back was
toward the bartender and the bar
Sommerfeldt moved on tiptoe behind the
bar. seized a revolver. and shot Spencer
through the head. Barmm at the same
instant pulled the weapon from the
wounded thief's hand and shot him twice.
The big dog then bounded on the scene.
He seized the dying robber by the throat,
bore him down and bit him until life was
extinct.
Spencer lived at the Great Northern Ho-
tel dressed in the best Of taste and had
s164 on him when killed He was a splen-
didly formed man of forty years. Under
the name of Pat O'Keefe he was sentenced
from Jefferson county, Ohio for burglary
in 1887. He was arrested here for bur-
glary in 1898, during which he beat one
man unconscious with a pistol. In Decem-
Der. 1894 he was arrested in Pueblo. Col,
for safe blowing, and served four years in
the penitentiary. Last December he shot
and killed a policeman at Kittanning Pa,
and was fugitive when killed.
The arrest of a supposed accomplice
was made at the great Northern.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-At the store OF
Sharp & Co., tailors, Fifth Avenue Hotel,
the man who bought a suit of clothes in
the name of "A. C. Davis" January 13,
was remembered we'll.
so far from looking like a robber." the
salesman said, 'he appeared more like
elubman than anything else"
The suit he had made for him cost $50.
Being a stranger, he paid $40 deposit
when he ordered the clothes and the bal
ance when they were finished.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
USES FOR OLD RAILS.
An Increase OF 100 Per Cent in the
Price of Scrap steel.

An Increase Of 100 Per Cent i'm tn e
Price of Scrap steel.
PITTSBURG. Feb. 10.-Owing TO the in
crease in the production OF open hearth
basic steel, scrap steel has increased in
price 100 per cent during the last six
months and the shortage has become a
sore point with scrap-metal dealers. The
railroad companies are reaping golden har-
vests, however. Many Of these are ex-
changing rails bought at $50 and less. Of
light weight, after several years use, for
heavier weight rails.
The Carnegie Steel Company during the
week cleaned up $4,000 in old rails
throughout the country at s23.50 a ton.
These rails are shesred into lengths Of
about FIVE or six feet. mixed with pig
IRON and other scrap and charged into the
open hearth furnaces, where the whole
mass is melted and made into open hearth
steel. This is of a superior quality to
Bessemer steel and the demand for ii is
increasing The price of the two grades
of steel have gradually been approaching
each other, and open-hearth steel finds q
reader market. Rails are among the best
scrap materials that can be had.
a mill was recently started here to re-
roll old rails. The neck or part between
the 1ange and the head of the rail is cut of
and made into steel for shoehorns. II is
said that Massachusetts shoe-manufactur-
ers use 30 600 tons of material each year
for this purpose. The fiange of the rail
is rolled into merchant barsteef the top
or head of the rail is rolled into wire
and made into nails, etc. These are but
few Of the methods adopted 10 use old
rails. hence 1aeir enhanced value from
$3.50 TO $24 per ton in one years time.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
GRANDsoNS OF Ii HUNG CHANG.
They Enter Vanderbilt College q"
study American Customs.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 1O.-T. y.
Sung and c. H. Sung. grandsons of Ii
Hung Chang. have arrived in Nashville 10
commence the study of the English Ian
guage and American customs.
The young men are to be educated at
Vanderbilt College, and since their arrival
a day or two ago have attracted much at
tention.
The boys are sympathizers with the re-
form movement in China set on foot by
party of young men desirous of effecting
radical reforms in Chinese politics and
government. For the present the move
ment has failed. or is at a standstill
while a number of ambitious lads are pre-
pairing themselves to conquer the nation
at some future date.
1t Is learned through these young men
that a colony of progressive Chinese will
come to the United States to study civil
ization in the Western World.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
NAVAL LEGISLATION NEEDED.
The Work of Designing Battleships
Remains at a StandstiIl.

"
Until Congress passes upon the question
of sheathing for ships of the Navy no fur
ther progress can be made toward the de-
signing of the new battleships and ar
mored cruisers authorized more than a
year ago. The sheathing subject is now
before the two naval communities, and
whatever action may be taken will prob
ably be provided in the annual Naval APP
preparation bill, which usually does not
pass both houses until well along aear
the close of the session
Admiral Hichborn says that Il will be
useless expenditure Of money and waste
of time to begin the plans for battleships
which may be entirely changed by the
course Congress may pursue. The failure
of the naval experts TO have completed de-
signs for these vessels within a year from
the time they were authorized may have a
serious effect on the proposed increase pro-
gramme approved by Secretary Long and
the Board of Bureau Chiefs.
Admiral O'Neil the Naval Ordnance
Chief, has received no intimation as yet
from either naval committee relating TO
the probable time when the armor question
may come up for consideration. Testimony
on the cost OF armOr making. the eOnstruc-
tion of a Government factory, and practi-
cally all facts pertaining to the whole ar
NOR subject have been so eXhaustfvely pre-
sented to each committee that the naval
officials contend no new light can be
thrown on the question, and that so far
as the firms are concerned they stand as
they did one year ago and will not bulge
an inch.
Until Congress is willing to authorize
the purchase OF plates II will be mad
visable to authorize further war vessels.
as ii would be useless to provide for them
when they cannot be built without the
armor.
Admiral 0'Neil states that good Harvey
armor can be purchased for about S4l2 a
ton, but that the new armor treated by the
krupp process cannot be had for less than
$547 a ton. He strongly advocates the lat
ter armor for the Navy, and says that with
this grade ships can be afforded better pro-
lection and have armor placed over all
area of the ships, owing to the plates be-
ing lighter than those treated with the |
Harvey process.
The battleships OF the Indiana class have |
side armor of eighteen inches around the |
belt. but IL is not proposed 10 protect any |
of the new vessels with armor heavier than !
hfteen inches. which, II is believed, VIII |
give the same il not more effectiveness, |
owing TO its superior tensile strength and |
resting powers.
Admiral ONeil contends that the Ameri |
can Navy. which has assumed a position
among the nations of the world for supe-
'ior armor and ordnance cannot afford TO
accept An inferior plate for the finest ships
I Is TO build, even though the price is con
,iderably in excess of that paid for armOr
the sides OF the Indiana type OF
'essel. There is no division among the eX-
'erts on the armor question, but unan-
nous sentiment that Congress should au-
horize the purchase OF the best armor in
he market.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
A WOODEN INDIAN BRAVE.
Charged With Electricity, II Wres'
tics With Max PfundhcIIer.

NEW YORK. Feb. 10.-MaN Pfundheller
wrestled with wooden Indian. very
serious and painful encounter it was, for
the wooden Indian was armed with cleo
tricity. deadlier weapon than ever live red
skin bTandshed.
Mr.. Pfundheller keeps cigar store, No.
PA Washington Street. HOboken. The gau-
dy wooden Indian stands before the store.
In his uplifted right hand the Indian pa
tiently holds bunch of wooden perfectos.
An electric light rises from the middle of
the bunch.
On Thursday night il was raining Being
about to shut up shop Mr. Pfundheller
went 10 turn off the electric light, which
throws a brilliant halo around the Indian 5
head. Unluckily for Mr.. Pfundheller. the
electric fluid was leaking and when he
seized the lamp he could not let go.
For as he stood on the wet pavement the
electricity ran through him and held him
there.
Mr.. Pfundheller shouted and writhed and
struggled The wooden Indian held him
fast. The cigar dealers shouts attracted
a crowd. kind but thoughtless man
seized Mr.. Pfundheler to drag him from
his captor The kind man got shock that
hurled him to the ground.
A lineman finally released Mr.. Pfund-
heller by turning the switch in the cigar
store
The evening times., 1900-02-10
DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION.
Coal Fleet at Lambert's Point Must
Anchor Outside the Channel.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 10.-For long time
masters of vessels, especially Of the regu-
lar liners, entering this port have been
very much annoyed by the large fleet OF
vessels at anchor OFF Lamberts Point
awaiting cargoes of coal. These vessels,
it is claimed, are often anchored very near
the channel, some of the larger ones being
compelled to anchor almost directly in the
track.
So serious did the obstruction become
that the transportation officials here made
formal complaint to the Board of Harbor
Commissioners which body at its meeting
yesterday afternoon. in conjunction with
the transportation men. considered ways
and means for remedying the blockade.
Representatives of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, the y. Y, p. and N.
Railroad Company, the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company and Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat Company
appeared before the Commissioners and
urged that immediate action be taken.
After some discussion the Commission
ers agreed to secure a tug upon which one
of the harbor masters shall be detailed 10
see that the channel is kept open and
vessels are assigned such anchorages as
will prevent their interfering with traffic.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
A FORTUNE FOR HIS NIECrS.
Two Girls i'm Ireland lie Heirs o.
John McCIeIlaud

SIOUX FALLS, s. d., Feb. 10.-The es-
tate of John McClelland, wealthy pio-
neer, who was killed by falling elevator
Margaret Hamill nieces, who live in Ire
land
There has been stiff fight made by nu-
merous claimants, but Judge Wilkes holds
that the McClelland and Harnill women
had made the best prima face case. A
bond for $4,000 was furnished by William
Vaneps, who was appointed administrator
The evening times., 1900-02-10
SUING FOR ATTORNEY FEES.
Representative 0Imsted the Defend.
ant in Harrisburg Suit.

HARRISBURG. Pa. Feb. 10.-Represen-
tative T. E. Olmsted, of this district, has
been sued for $500 by W. R. Peoples,
Lycoming county lawyer, who claims that
amount for professional services Mr. Ohm
sted, who is the leading corporation law
yer in this locality, made a speech in 1893
against the Niles tax bill, which was
backed by the Changers and aimed princi-
pally at railroad corporations. Peoples al
leges that, at the instance of the Repre-
sentative, he made trip to Centre county
and gathered information concerning prop
erty owned by Leonard Rhone. a prominent
Granger
The purpose Of the information. which
was used in the Representatives speech
was to show that the farmers were not
suffering from excessive taxation and that
the corporations paid their share of the
taxes. Peoples wants $500 for his trouble.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
ADRIFT ON ICE.
skater in Distress Appeals Tor Aid
in Vain.

in vain.
MATTEAWAN, n. Y, Feb. 10.-Samuel
Bishop, fisherman, and some companions
report seeing a man floating down the riv-
er Thursday on a huge cake Of ice.
Bishop says he was on the river taking
up his nets. He and his comrades heard
some one calling. They glanced out and
distinctly say the figure of a man floating
away on the ice
The man had on skates. and went from
one side of the huge foe of ice to the other
crying for help. They watched him until
he foated out OF sight.
A conductor on one of the New York
Central trains which arrived a little later
at Fishkill Landing said he had seen the
man about mile south of the Fishkill Sta
tion. AT that time the man was waving
hat to attract attention. s
The evening times., 1900-02-10
An Army Transport Romance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb 1O.-The
transport Logan arrived from Manila last
night. On the voyage OF the Logan from
New York to Manila, Lieut.. Ed o. Perkins,
OF the Twenty ninth Volunteers. became
engaged to Miss Nena e. Richmond, one of
twenty-three trained nurses who were
taken from New York. Perkins was a
gunner on 50 Olympia at the battle of
Manila Bay
The evening times., 1900-02-10

James W. Alexander,
Louis Fitzgerald,
'Chauncey M. Depew,
VIM. A. Wheelock.
Marcellus Hartley,
A. ]. Cassatt,
Cornelius n. Bliss,
Henry 6. Marquand,
Geo. H. Squire,
Thos. D. Jordan,
{. B. Alexander,
Charles S. Smith,
Thomas S. Young,
The evening times., 1900-02-10
BAD FEEDING

'Tis the one great cause OF
rickets. The food is deficient
in fat for the blood, and in
mineral matter for the bones.
Such children have profuse
sweating Of the head and great
restlessncss during sleep. The
ideal remedy is Scott's Emulsion
with hypophosphites of lime and
soda. Here is. fat to make the
blood rich, and mineral matter
to make the. bones firm and
strong. . ---.-
AT Ill druggists; soc. and sroo.
SCOTT s y2f EE. Cfer ia" y York.
The evening times., 1900-02-10

TERED iron standing berths are fitted with
mattresses and pillows. About per cent
OF the number of troops carried is the al
lowance for siek-bay berths, and small
detached bay is provided for infectious
cases. A eommodious bathroom is attached
TO each sick bay. The dispensary is sepa-
The evening times., 1900-02-10
EMBARKING THE TROOPS
The System Followed in Transport
ing British Soldiers.

The Old Method Condemned and Sup
planted by the PreSent-Ships
That Have n Total Of s5s.00I.
Modern COnveniences on Vessels
for the Wen and Their Horses.
The evening times., 1900-02-10
DIRECTORS.
OFFICERS.


IH-Fre psazz.
7hydT eI}giH1 D.
William Alexander d. TGaS4G
iSaRtSo l. VanC Cise 4ruarE
RcglSta F Jackson dior
EdwardW Ianber, MI EdwardCu D. raialD D5ra7os
The evening times., 1900-02-10
'1.'' The Equitable
Life Assurance Society
- Of the United States
Of the United States.
DECEMBER 81, 1899

Outstanding Assurance 81
Assurance Applied for in 1899 +
Examined and Declined z
New Assurance Issued d r..
Assets December 80, 1899
Assurance Fund ($2 I6, 3S4,975 .oo) and all
other Liabilities ($2,688834.o3)
Surplus -
Paid Policyholders in 1899
The evening times., 1900-02-10

JOSEPH BOWES Mgr for Maryland and the District of Columbia
ow.. Washington D. C.-I36 Street W.
o''es Baltimore MEqufabIe Building
H. W. FITCH, Cashier.
The evening times., 1900-02-10

The noncommissioned officers of each
company are then called to the front, the
company divided into groups according to
capacity of mess tables, each group placed
in charge of noncommissioned officer
who is given the number of his mess and
directed TO march his detachment on board
and stow their sea kit bags and overcoats
in the battens over the mess table. At
the gangway each group is met by an as
sistant and pilOted TO their table. So
methodically and rapidly is this system
worked out that a battalion of over 0nn
men have arrived and been placed ON
board with all accoutrements slowed in
place in but little over an hour.
Southampton is an ideal place to en-
bark troops so far as gelates TO docking
The dock frontage is sufficient for thirty
six large transports TO lie alongside and
load, while the dock fronts are covered
with great sheds. into which trains from
the main line can be switched. Twenty
one thousand officers and men GOO
horses, and seven batteries of artillery. to-
gether with wagons, stores, and field
equipment, were embarked between the
Goth and oath of October from these docks
Complete infantry brigades with their
auxiliary trains sailed on the 20th 21st.
and 22d. 5000 men going out on the Goth.
about 5000 on the 2lst and about 900 on
the 22d complete list of vessels and
tonnage chartered by the Government up
to December 20 shows 159 ships of Isl. col
tons
The evening times., 1900-02-10

Levi P Morton,
August Belmont,
Thomas T. Eckert.
James H. Dun ham,
Sidney D. Ripley,
John ]. McCook,
John E. Searles,
Samuel NJ. Inman,
Geo. W. Carleton,
E. Boudinot Colt.
Joseph T. Low,
Alanson Trask,
J. F. De Navarro.
The evening times., 1900-02-10

AT Ill druggists; soc. and sr.O0.
SCOTT s r2f EF. Cfer ia" y York.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-17

Kansas has been Dragging a
good deal about her wheat crop
this year. A recent announcement
from there said it was the biggest
wheat crop ever raised by Kansas
or any other state. The official
state report places the yield at a
little over, 100000 bushels.
This is doing very we'll for Kan
sas, but let 1t be noted that Mime
sofa, even in this year Of Compare
tive crop failure in the northwest,
has raied about &c. 000. O90 bushels
of wheat. Thus tho North Star
Star state in it's leanest year OK
CO eds the SunAower state in its
latest year.--Minnespolis Tribune
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-17
Off the Track.

A wreck on the Bingham Lake
branch of the Omaha road occurred
Wednesday afternoon at about 4
O'Clock which might have proved a
serious loss to property and life, but
fortunately no one was badly hurt.
The accident happened at a small
town called Jeffres, in Cottonwood
county. A freight train, consisting
of several cars, ran off the track. The
engine, in charge of Engineer Nelson,
was turned upside down beside the
track and several cars were derailed.
Engineer Nelson land his fireman
Theo. Thompson, of this city, recei-
we'd few scratches only, while the
brakeman did not fair quite so we'll,
his collar bone was broken and bruised
internally.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-17
Railroad Farm Lands for Sale

|: In northern Wisconsin the Chicago, St.
aul. Minneapolis & Omaha Railway has
tor sale. at low rates an 1easy terms of pay.
ment. about 100, 900 az res of choice farm
lands. Early buyers will secure the advan.
tage OF locations on the many beautiful
strc., ms and lakes, which abound with fist,
and furnish q never ending and most excel.
lent water supply, both 70 family use and
fertile and easy of cultivation Chicago
milwaukee, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
Superior, Ashland and numerous other
THRIVING cities and towns on the line of the
G. St. p. M. & o. Ry and other railroads In
the same territory furnish good markets 70,
farm produce.
For further particulars address: Geo. w
6. H. McRae. A. G. p. A.. st Paul, Mimi