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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
THE END IN SIGHT.

London. May 19-Thc latest news from South Africa and details of past operations tend to confirm the view that the end of the war iS within measurable distance. From krOon- stadt comes a story to the effect that a peace party k being formed at Pre- toria. while reports from Pretoria itself indicate discouragement at the recent reverSeS and the possibility of an early suing for peace.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
DE1I0CENTIc CONFIDENCE.

Washington, May lG.-TIow confident tI.a democrats are of clectin" a ma ioritv of the next house in November ..av hc judged from jhe fact that the trends of several democratic candi- Haras for speaker are beginning to work for them. Among those already ga-n more OF less hacking are Repre- -s.r-a ives Richardson of Tennessee DO. ArasDEd of Missouri, Bankhcad oi tlalama and SulZer of New York.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

Unless he intends to pay the mdem- nity demanded. the Sultain of Turkey might save the time and expense of sending d man over here to study American warships. If he puts of payment long enough he may have a chance to look as some of them him. self without leaving COnstantinople.- Omaha Bee.
 Kaiser William declares that the triple alliance keeps the peace of the world. and that the globe shakes when ever the dreibund sets it's three-fOld foot upon the sod. The kaiser over looks the fact that there Is a nation on this side of the Atlantic which not only does not tremhle when the drei- bund frownS. but which does not as an abstruse proposition. even admit that the triple alliance is an actuality Chicago News.
 A recent dispatch from London quotes John Henry De Nilliers. chief justice at the Cape of Good Hope. as saving that the Dutch wOmenfOlk in South Africa are at the mercy of the brutal KaffirS. all the able-bodied Boers being absent at the front. This leaves the farms in charge of the wO- men and children. and he says that crimes against the women by the kaf frs are of daily occurrences. and thls is one of the most hideouS features oi the war. It k one of the Severest tests of the patriotism of the BoerS that they will remain in the trenches while they know that peril of the most hor rible kind overhangs their loved ones at home" Ii is to be hoped that Dt Vnliers exaggerateS the situation. Tn, Roer women. as rule. know how tC handle q gun. and it is tO be presumed that they can take care of themselves to some extent.-AIinneapOl Tribune
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
BADEN-PoWELL's REPORT.

London. May 21.-Colonel Baden Powell today reports fully the relief of Mafeking. The British loss was only six killed and twelve wounded. One hundred and fifty prisoners were taken. Thirty Boers were killed and one wounded. General Hunter k pushing on to Mafeking with supplies. lie k also making arrangements for a hospital train to carry the sick and wounded to Kimberley. The queen today approved the act making Baden Powell a ma iCr-gcGcral.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
TRAGEDY AT ST. JOSEPH

St. oseph Mo. May 1G.-As the result ri, her of malice or the careless hand ing of a revolver. Tim Riley was fataL
 iv shot early this morning by Charles Hughes. and iS dying at the home or his aSsailant at Jackson and Bartlett streets. Both are employees of SwIfJ x Co. Hughes is under arrest. He says the shooting was accidental. Friends of Riley say it was intentional.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
CnMPLAINTs mn CrRA.

Havana. May l5.-Sevefli complaints have been recently received from small towns alleging Jlla5 fine mayors are making an Illegal T'Se of their n',i lions with a view of securing iilvH re-clecti0,IS. it Nclrn7. almost ,A, entire body of citizens refused Ip vol. because of an alleged improper hci@V day bound over a yUnn@ man named N The national par.y a-s-aE;, that iHt mayor of Briucal hr tr!od Iy ia' courts for endeayorjn- to st,al 1is elections
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
ROERs SURRENDEEING.

Frankfort Drift. May 15.-Gcnera Rundle completely cirekmated am attempt of the Borrs jo come south again and the enemy are rct!rin" before the persistent advance of iho British. Many have been captured oI are surrendering There Were lIp "i these yesterday and today. among them President S:eyn'S hrorher. Ihe I.adybrand district is clear of Roers They evacuated Nafrking's NrE and are now near Iindipy.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
SMITH INDIGNANT.

Washington. May lS.-Senator Chan dler has received a dispatch from Gov ernor Smith of Montana presenting a formal protest against the appointment of W. 4 Clark as senator by the lieu tenant-eOvernOr during the governors absence from the state and alleging that such appointment indicates collu- sion and fraud.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
A LIVELY SKIR3HNSH.

Washington. May 16.-A dispatch to- day from General Macarthur at Ma mia. confirms the loss of nineteen killed and five wounded in an Ameri- can detachment of thirty-one soldiers at Catubig The detacnment was on outpost duty. and the Insurgents dis covering their position suddenly came upon them with an overwhelming force.> The Americans fought deSper- ateiy against the fearful odds. Rein forcements were immediately sent to their aid. and arrived just in time to save the detachment from annihlation- On their arrival the FilipinoS retre3ted- Over 2O0 of the attacking party were killed.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
rder has now been restored.

Order has now been restored.
 At Seville a mob threw stones at the building of the Military club. shat tering the windows and the gas lamps. The gendarmes succeeded in disperS- ing the rioters after a hard fight, dur ing which several citizens, two gen darmeS and police Inspector and two members of the municipal guard were wounded. X force of infantry and cay airy soon cleared and occupied the streets.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
FRAUDULENT UsE OF MAIL.

New Albany. ind. May i6.-Frank Sellers. of SellcTSburg. nine miles north
 aG here. was arrested today by Deputy
 United States Marshal Fife and Mar
 Shal Holland on a charge of using the
 rfrilS to defraud. Sellers is 25 years nli and a member of one of the most prominent families in southern Indi- ara. He is a merchant. and. it is al- Ic~ad. had false afIidavits prepared representing himself to be worth many thousands of dollars which he mailed ta manufacturers. and thus secured ] la9.e orders on credit. Post office in sn,-tprS have been working on ! tIa ease for months.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
WILL PROSECUTE OFFENDERS.
The Crooked Postal Officials of Cuba Need Expect No Clemency from
 the Administration

Washington. May 20.-Statements that there is any disposition on the part of the administration to conceal or minimize the post office scandals in Cuba are in striking disregard of the facts. The policy of the president is directly the reverse of this. From the day of Neely's arrest the instruc- tions have been to conceal and palliate nothing.
 With the first information the presi- dent sent for three members of the cab. inet. the secretary of war, the post master-general and the attOrney-gen-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
REPORTED RELIEVED.

London. May 1.-The announcement was made in the lobby of the house of commons this afternoon that Mafe- king had been relieved. The report caused tremendous excitement. The war office has as yet no confirmation of the report.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

The Supreme court of the United States refused to entertain the Ken lucky gubernatorial question for lack of jurisdiction. This leaves the ques- ton to be settled by GOebelism n Kentucky. and that will be that ma- ioriticS cut no figure in that state. ex- cept such majority represents G0e ism
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
HE COULD NOT SWIM.

Carlinville. Ills. May 1T.-Sunday afternoon. about , o'clock. Frederick Mack. aged about 5O years. was drowned in the creek near this city. He and four friends were in boat and it went down with them. The others could swim and got out. but were unable to save their friend.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

Ee expressed to them his desire
 le powers of their departments
 Hoe exercised to the fullest de5
 the prosecution and punishment
 guilly. At every cabinet meet-
 ,e the developments have been
 | and the determination to stop
 ling short of the most complete
 i'e and correction has been reit-
 II his been emphasized by the
 i've steps taken. Governor
 has been repeatedly assured that
 Eernment at Washington will
 1m up in all measures to reform
 Organize the service. He has SUiged to push the investigation estO spare no effort which will Ting the guilty to justice. He has been tiven to understand that personal con SherationS don't stand in the way of The matter might have been left in General Woods care. but in his desire to make the work thorough the president decided to send Assistant POstm3Ster-General BriStOw To Havana. His instrUctionsEto Mir. Bristow are in exact line of the policy adopted in the beginning. They confer lpon that official all of the authority necessary to make the inquiry sweep ng and effective
 So far from helittlin" the scandals he president and members of the cab net have treated them as most serious. There is to bc no cXcuSing and no When the length and lrnadth of the offending in the Cuban mail service is known the people of his country will realize that the ad- has dealt with entire fair less in the matter of information about he frauds
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
BoERs REPORTED CAPTURED.

London. May 21-It is reported this evening that the British have captured the entire BOer hesicEin@ force at MafckinZ and that peace propositions are now being prepared. This is moi confirmed at the war office. however. Later in the evening the war office de nied that Kruger had sen, ro Salisbury any communication with reference to nnlIt..
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
PEACE PARTY F0RlIING.

London. May 1S.-The Times extra this afternoon prints a Hro0nsta3t dis patch saying thaj a peace party is forming at Pretoria which is expected 70 be able to stop future rcsiS ance on ihp part of ihe H0ers.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
sFrENpIEU CUT OF THEIR SAY
 INGS.

Guthrie. May 1G.-Nr. and Mrs. Geo. 2a~is. ofNIalhaH. this county. are anX- icl~ly looking for a Smooth-talkinG 4-angcr who gave his name as A. Craudv. He visited them and traded them land in Missouri for fine Okla la,ua farm. He claimed to hold the Missouri land under an old Spanish grans. and produced numerous docu- nents to prove it. but when his dupes went Co Missouri they found no land. Davis and his wife lost inc savings of a life time in the transaction and a~a loft uanuiIcs> in their old age.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
nrILER's VICTORIOUS MARCH.

London. May 1G.-General Butler wires that he has occupied Gle1coe The BoerS have evacuated their strong 70 t-EarSbcrg positions and the Free S.a-erS are retiring through the i.rakeHSbUrg passes. Butler has now -,capymed almost all or the British territory which has been administered r.r six months by tine TranSvaalers a. though it were part of the repuh g.. they holding courts and levyin2
 -.rs. His success. therefore. has DO. .i ie:Il as well as military consequences F5ir residents of northern Natal who .sr their homes on the approach oi fIo BncrS will speedily return.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
ENGINE WRECKED.

The new fifty-seven-hOrse-pOwer en- zine used by the city in pumping water into the reservoir was completely wrecked today. The engine had been working perfectly and Engineer Love was standing beside it when he heard q terrific report and saw that the crOsS-arm had broken. He jumped to shut off the steam and a large piece of the cylinder hit just where he had been standing. Had he been a few seconds longer in getting away he would certainly have been killed.
 When the cross arm broke there was nothing left to control the piston and that crashed into the cylinder head. Utterly grinding it to splinters and otherwise badly demOlishing the en- zine Almost the entire machine is ruined.
 The old engine will be placed in posi- ton at once and the water supply for the city kept up. We are unable to tell what the damage will be to the city. but it will be considerable. as a new engine must be secured tO take the place of the wrecked one.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.

Duquin. Ills. May 17.-An Illinois Central engine exploded near here to- day at noon. IL is reported that sev- eral people were killed. Ii is impos- Sfhle to get details now.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
WATERING RELIEVED.

London. May 1S.-News was received here today that Mafellin@ is relieved. There is great joy in London. Not only the relief of Mafel5ing but the capture Of R6taa and other events re- gently verified. iustilieS the belief that the war k practically over.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
DENIED THE FLOOR.

Washington. May 21.-The senate this afternoon refused to grant the privileges of the floor to the Boer dele gates. In the house Republican Leader Payne offered resolution adjourning congress- on Wednesday,, June e.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
PEACE ENvoYs ARRIVE.

Hoboken. \. l.. ny 15.-Thc B0er peace envoyS arrived here today and were given a warm welcome by thou sands who had gathered to meet them. Great preparations have been made for their reception here tonight.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
HAD NO JURISLICTION.

Washington. May 21.-The supreme court decided today that it had no Jlr- isdiction in the Kentucky gubernator- ial wrangle and dismissed Taylor petition. This iS a victory for the democratic governor and SuStainS the legality of GOebel'S election.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
CoNFESsES HIS CRIME.

Sroci1hoIm. May lS-Philip NordlunG. arrested as being the man who mnr- dered seven people and wounded five others on the steamer Prince Carl has confessed and Sav= he deliberately plannd the crime
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
BOERS REINFORCED.

KroOnstadt. May IJ.-Several Boer eOmmandOs from Natal are reinf0rc- ing the enemy on the British front. Roberts is giving his troops 8 couple Of days rest while waiting for supplies and endorsements to reach him.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

san Francisco. May 1T.-It was dis covered that three deaths have occur red within the past week. alleged to he due to the plague. Six sick people were isolated today.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
EX-SENATOR HILL DYING

Denver, May PIN. ?. Hill, a for mer United States senator fom Colo rado and owner of the Denver Republi' can. is supposed to be dying this after noon. He has wasted away to seventy pounds.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

J.F. VAN MOLL.
 Tho temporary organization was then made permanent. and the chairman an nomccd the following committees:
 RpSolutions-P. w. O'Sullivan. W. s. Adams. Geo. West. Otto StrOdthOff. C. P. Hicks. Claud Thompson. l.. Will liams..
 Committee on Selection of Delegates for the Territorial ConventiOn-E. A. Tovrea, Wm. MundS. w. !. MulvenOn. David Connor. NJ. ]. Hickey. w. F.. WickS. II. GOldwater. r. H. Perkins and ]. E. Hooker.
 The convention then stood at recess until 1 o'clock to allow the committees to prepare their reports.
 At 1 o'clock the convention reassem- bled and Chairman r. W. O'Sullivan. of the committee on resolutions. made the following report:
 Resolved. That we. the democrats of Yavapai county. in convention as Sembled. are unanimously in favor of the nomination of William T. Bryan for president of the United States; and who. if elected. will restore the great principles of liberty upon which this republic was founded.
 Resolved. That we endorse and ap- preciate the very able efforts of our delegate-tO-cOngress Hon ]. F. Will son, who on all occasion has ably and fearleSSly champiOned the rights of Arizona in the halls of congress. and we assure him that he has the full con fidence of the democratic party of Nayapai county.
 Resolved, That we endorse the Chl- cago platform of 1896. and request that the territorial convention endorse the same. with additional blanks tO meet new issues which have arisen since.
 Resolved, That in recognition of the stalwart democracy and steadfaSt feality to the democratic party of Yavapai county. and the territory of Arizona, which has ever characterized Hon. T. c. Norris, we. the representa- tives of the democratic party of said
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
WATERING REPORTED FALLEN

London. May 15.-A special dispatch from Lorenzo Marques says large force of B0ers has been captured by the British at Mafekin@ Pretoria. it is added. reports that Mafeking has fallen.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
A PRISONER CRENIATED.

Norfolk. Va. May 21.-The Roanoke iail was burned today. Walter Dillon, a prisoner confined in one of the cells. was crematcd.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

Rev. Sheldon having announced that he intended tO take mp the servant girl problem leads the St. Louis Glohe- Democrat to suggest he should take as his text: Lord. keep thy servant an-' other week"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
~HIGHwAYMAN AT WORK ~

Stockton. May 1S.-A lcne highway man held up the Yosemite valley stages last night and got S2na in cash from the messengers.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
WILL WITHDRAW FROM NATAL

Lorenzo Marquez. May 1S.-A Pre- toria dispatch says that Kruger has ordered all the Boer commanders tf retire from Natal into Inc Transvaal
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
THEIR CHARTERS REVOKED.

Austin. Tex. May 20.-The charters of oyer one thousand domestic and for eign corporations doing business in Texas were today declared forfeited by the secretary of state because they had failed to comply with the law in the matter of paying their respective franchise taxes to the state. Each of thc defaulting companies was notified of the forfeiture and many of them will. it is expected. have their charters restored by paying the prescribed pen altv assessed against them.
 ALL ENGLAND JUBILANT.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
REFUSED AT WATERING.

Lorenzo Marques. May 1G.-It is re ported that the Boers were repulsed with great loss in the fighting at Nafc5ing on May 12
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
FIRED THE CONSUL

I-rbSon. May 15.-It was stated here today that Kruger has ordered the Psrtu-eSe counsel to leave Pretoria.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

The number of cases Of the bubOnlc plague officially reported at Sydney, V. s. w.. Is 216 Of these seventy three have proved fatal.
 The San Francisco board of superviS- ors has passed resolutions asking con gress to acquire the redwood forests of San MateO and santa Cruz counties.
 Hotel Helen. in Chicago. was de Stroyed by fire Tuesday night and two persons burned to death. one missing and fourteen injured.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
RELIEF COLUMN DEFEATED.

London. May 17.-It is reported that the B0erS have defeated the relief col umn forty miles south of Mafe6ing.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

London. May 21.-The relief of Mafe-
 king was officially confirmed this after noon. Lord Roberts rrpoted to the war office the march of the Mafekins relief column. Just before the arrival of the relieving force at the beieaguered city it was attacked in the thick brush by strong force of Boers under Com mandant NIahouey. The BOers were repuised with heavy loss. The British lost forty killed and wounded. From
 this place the relief column went
 straight to MIfekinG.
 The official announcement of Mafe kings relief has caused renewed out bursts of yhc spontaneous transports of delirium which prevailed last Fri day and Saturday. The demonstra tions caused by the relief of LadySmitl pale before the scenes now being en acted. The empire iS en fete and most of thc people of the United kin@dan are taking a holiday in honor of the defenders of the little prairie outpost OverStained feelings have found vent in au expression of heartfelt cn thuSiaSm.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
C0RBETT FOR cONGREss.

New York. May 1.-The ''tenderloip'
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
"C. <. THOMPSON. "L. A. WILLARD. "G. C. WEST. ~C. r. HICKS. w. $. ADAMS. "O " STRODTHOFF

F.. A. TOvrca. chairman of the com mittee appointed to select names from which the convention should select their delegates to the territorial con ventinn at pheBiN. May 23. submitted the following list of names and they were uncommonlypj D pitti pjfi pffi1 were unanimously elected:
 II. Goldwater. J. C. HcrndCn. w. J. Mulvenon. J. E. Hooker. r. W. O'Sul livan. VI. J. Hickey. Jake Marks. A. A Johns. r. F. Jones. Chas. Martin. E. C. Averyt. Morris Asher. R. \. Fred cricks. George Schuerman. !. R. Beat sen. T. |. Carigan. J. C. TOvrea. Pete Boscha. F.. A. TOvrea. W. <. Adams W. NJ. Adamson. Wm. Munds. David Connor. Tom Elders. Robert Mitchell I. A. Thompson. II. NJ. Gibbs. Chas Hooker. F. ]. Van MOll. George T. Miller. T. M EarhaIt. A. A. Moore. J. w. Norton.
 X. \. Moore suggested that the dele gation be instructed tO use all honor able means tO secure the elctiOn of Hon. J. W. Norton as alternate. but as the delegates thought 1t would he asking too much of the convention to ask for q delegate and alternate to -he national convention. the suggestion was not adopted.
 NI~ Norris was called for by the con vputinn and thanked the delegates ;ly for their action on his behalf after which the convention adjourned
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were found in the hold of the steam
ship. The bringing up Of the charred
corpses from the hold Of the burned
vessel was a grewsome sight, and the
appalling horror of the situation made
strong men used to scenes OF death
turn away. Some of the bodies were
intact, although the features were un-
recognizable. In some instances only
the trunks were recovered, or q few
charred bones.
Following is a description Of the
vessels destroyed or injured:
Kaiser Wilhelm der GrosserLength
over all, GAS feet; beam, GG feet; depth,
43 feet; draught. 2G feet; gross ton
mage, $4,000; horse power, $4,000;
launched in Stettin. Germany, in 1897.
She is driven by triple expansion en-
gines.
The Bremen was launched about the
same time as the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. She was 525 feet long, 60 feet
beam and 35 feet deep. She was Of
10000 registered tonnage, 10000 tons
displacement and % feet draught.
Here engines were Of 1000 horse
power.
The Saale was built of steel at Glas-
gov in 1886 and registered 1924 tons
net and 1864 tons gross. She was 43S
feet long, IL feet beam and 34.7 feet
deep. She was q single screw vessel
with four decks and four masts. She
had triple expansion engines.
The Main was Of steel, with twin
screws, built at Hamburg in 1890 and
registered 10000 tons gross.
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Our Adopted Islands.

A weeks scouting in Northern Luzon
resulted in fifty Filipinos being killed
and forty wounded. One American
was killed. a. sfsg ss
The Model and Training School at
San Juan, Porto Rico, was destroyed
totally by fire. causing a loss of
$4,000.
The organization of the Supreme
Court of Porto Rico was effected.
Senor Jose Varela has been appointed
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Gourto of
the province of Santiago, Cuba. sue.
ceeding Senor Echeyrera, deceased.
The following postoffices in HaWAtl
were advanced to Presidential grade
with the accompanying salaries: Hon.
olulu, $1,000; Kohala, $1,000; Hilo
$21O0.
The following postoffices in Porto
Rico were advanced to Presidential
grade with the accompanying salaries
Arecibo, S11O0: Ponce. $4,000; Maya.
guez, $500; San Juan, S2SG0.
The new Hawaiian Territorial Gov
arnment was formally inaugurated on
June II. when Governor Dole took the
oath of Office and delivered his inau.
gural address.