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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09

ar. Thomas W. Ciawson, who re-
ureo from h service of The Messenr
ger on October I, 1889. has re-enlisted
his services with this paper. his posf-
tfon being that Of travelling represen-
tative and staff correspondent. He IA
authorized to collect subscriptions for
the Daily and Weekly Messenger. make
advertising contracts. etc C~ourtesiea
extended TO him by friends and patrons
throughout the state VIII be appreci-
ated by The Messenger.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH.

Richmond, Va, March 5.-John Wes-
tervelt, his wife and 6-year-old daugh-
ter, were burned to death in the de-
struction by fire of their home on
Chaffn's Bluff, six or seven miles from
Richmond, early this morning. A IL
year-oid son was the only member Of
the family that escaped. Nr. Wester-
Welt was originally from New Jersey.
where he has a father and brother still
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

stand up Every White Man to His Duty
i'm this Hour should the Proposed
constitutional Amendment Affecting
suffrage be ADOPTED. and Why, Is the
Most Important Issue in North Caro-
lima Politics..
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
Be Careful

No woman can be too careful of
her condition during the period be-
fore her little one are born. Neglect
Or improper treatment then endan-
gers her life and that of the child. It
lies with her whether she shall suffer
unnecessarily, or whether the ordeal
shall be made comparatively easy.
She had better do nothing than do
something wrong.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A LENGTHY AND IMPORTANT
SESSION YESTERDAY.

Slow Headway Being Made In Pub
lie Road Observation-Disclosures
er McEachern Talks Out in Meet
ing"-Status Of the work-Plans For
Importance Considered.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
News, Notes and Comments.

A Washington telegram of Decem- Der 18th says: The supreme court was again crowded this morniug to hear the concluding arguments in the Porto Rican-Philippine case. Among those who secured points of vantage in the area preserved for the bar were former Secretary of State Judge Day, former Secretary Carlisle and many members of the house and senate. Attorney General Griggs oc- cupied practically the entire day, closing the case for the government. The appellants will close tomorrow.
 Ed. Cudahy Jr., the 15-year-old son of the well known pork packer of that name, has disappeared from his home at Omaha. He left home early Tues day night to take some books to the home of a neighbor, few blocks away. He has not been seen since. The entire city detective fo ce has been at work on the case since last night. It is believed that the boy was kidnapped for ransom.
 1t is reported in London that Gen erol Knox has been forced to abandon the pursuit of DeWet. owing to the situation created in Cape colony by the Boers crossing the Orange river. It is said that 309Q republicans have entered Cape colony and similar number has reached Phillipstown. The report adds that DeWet, with 350O, is northeast of Lllybran3, an' an attack on Windburg is momenta- rily expected.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
SECURED RANSOM HONEY.
The Cudahy Kid Returned to His Home in Omaha After His Father
 DePo,!tcd S25,000

Omaha. Neb.. Dee. 20 Ed. Cud- ahv. the l5-year-old son of mil lipnairc packer. who was kidnapped yesterday, has been returned to his home and his i.!nappcr5 are veal thier by $25.0ll. In response to a letter received -c5terlay, offering to restore IL" boy on the payment Oi the above named sun and containing full descriptions, Mir. Cudahy last night secured S45,01] in gold, placed it in buggy with a red lantern and entered it alone and unarmed. He drove out Sherman avenue, five miles from the city, to a place where white lantern hung from short sticks be- side the road. He alighted, deposi ted the sack and returned home without seeing any one. This morn ing at one o'clock the boy returned home in hack unharmed. The river runs neara point where the money left. 1t is supposed the kidnappers had been watching from boat. The boy says he was seized on the street by two men who accused him of be ing fugitive from the reform school: they claimed to be deputy sheriffs and hustled him into a closed car riage, threw a baby shirt over his head, gagged him and took him to a lonely cottage west of South Omaha, where he was kept prisoner and re- leased this morning and returned home in a hack.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
OLD DOG NED RESCUES BABY.
Dies After Carrying Child in Basket Home to Weeping
 Mother.

Jerome Wendfelt and family, of Jas per county, one day during this week moved to @ farm in Pulaski county, Ind. After all arrangements to start had been completed they placed in the charge of their eldest daughter for safekeeping a baby boy aged seven months. The daughter, in company with her younger brothers and sister drove ahead of the remainder of the family.
 Upon the arrival of the Wendfelt family at their new home the baby was missing. Farmer friends started back in search for the child.
 As the sun was setting Newfound- land dog came trotting up the wagon road carrying basket in his mouth. He stopped before the grief-stricken mother, laid 1t down before her and lifted the cradle quilt with his paw, re- vealing the baby.
 The oldest daughter had given the baby to one of her brothers to take to its mother. He laid the child down under lilac bush and covered it with a quilt.
 Ned, Newfoundland dog that be- longed to the family, discovered the sleeping child and brought it back to safety. Then he lay down and died of exhaustion.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
CLEVELAND 0E DEMOCRACY.

Grover Cleveland has at last been induced to talk politics. It was brought about by the Atlanta Consti- tuition and in an interview, the only democrat who has succeeded in the race for president for forty years, said:
 "In my opinion" said Mir. Cleve- land, "the great need of the demo- cratic party is the return to its first principles. The democratic party has not been fatally disorganized, but it sadly needs rehabilitation on purely democratic lines"
 "What is the matter with the party?"
 It has in my humble judgment, simply wandered off after strange gods. A large mass of democratic voters saw this before the last election. They re- mained quiet but when the time came to vote they said:
 This is not democracy, and refused to support it.
 As 1 see it, it is the duty of dem ocrdts everywhere to aid in the reha bilitation of the party. There are some signs of an insisteuce upon the neces- sitv of return to democratic doctrines in the south, but they are not so gen eral as I should like to see.'
 What of the future was asked:
 With a sincere return to its old time doct,ines, the old victories of the democratic party will certainly be won.'
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
GAY WELLESLEY GIRLS.
Mad Franks Are Played by the HOyden Students of the Fa-
 mons School. ed. %,

The girls at Wellesley college are playing high jinks these days, and never before were the class exercises preliminary to commencement so marked by the spirit of deviltry. There have been several cases of Kidnapping of late, but the climax was reached when the president of the sophomore class, Miss Frances Hughes, of New York, was spirited away in the after noon and kept prisoner by juniors for several hours. Miss Hughes escaped her captors at dusk, and, clad in a cy- cling costume, led the Mother Goose procession in the tree day exercises.
 Six other sophomores were surprised by juniors while watching the latter class in their secret ceremony of burn ing of forensics in the west woods near the college, and they were roughly handled. The college gardener found them late at night, bound and gagged and blindSolded, lying beneath tree inthe woods, where the juniors had left them while they carried out their cere- monies at a distant point
 Upon their release the six girls set out to effect the release of their class president, who had been bhndfolded and led away. They traced her to the house of Mrs. Pierce, a former profes- sor, and by a ruse succeeded in get ting her into a carriage and driving back to the college in time for her to take her place in the exercises, but she did not have time to attire herself in evening dress. The girls consider the prankS great fun and the junior class is determined to stop at nothing to gain its ends. The binding of the six girls and the deserting them in the woods was reported to the faculty and a rigid investigation has been begun
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
4 Visit to Arlington.

In a recent letter to the Phenix Re publican, c. c. Randolph describes a visit to Arlington cemetery, as fol lows:
 "I spent a few hours at Arlington today, and was amply compensated for the trip. Here is a natural ceme tery that has no equal in the world. Over 400 acres are dedicated to the memory of the honored dead, and the heart is indeed dead that does not thrill at. the sight of the names of Sheridan and Sherman and the other national heroes that mark imposing monuments near the historic Arling ton house. One of the first monu- ments that attracted my attention in walking from the railroad station to the mansion was that of Major Bras mus Gilbreath, formerly of Whipple barracks, who died two years ago in Porto Rico. Captain John G. Bourke, who will be recalled by many old timers in Arizona, lies buried near him. The Grave of General Abner Doubleday, who commanded the fede ral troops at the first battle of Bull Run, is close by. I rode over the Bnll Run field a few days ago. At Manassas there is a confederate monument. The entire field is cover ed by growth of scrub oak. I saw the remains of intrenchments erected by both sides in that memorable con test. The entire region round about Washington is full of memorials of the civil war, and some day when there is nothing more interesting to write about, I shall try to give pen picture of them"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
Our Nations Progress.

Our Nation and the Nineteenth Century Was the subject of the lee t,we delivered by Rev. F. B. Long at Dake's opera house last evening. It was high compliment 10 the reverend gentleman that a larger audience was present last evening than on h. Pre- vious evepiag, sli3Niag thas those Wao heard his Hcst lecture were 10. only plcase,t and I-, -rle~i to hear the second one. but that they brought their friecd with the,n.
 As a sort oF i1.-5 lection io the evenings entertainment, Miss hmelia Block rendered a vocal solo in a very Ecautiful and pleasing manner 10 the audience, wIiie t.4e Prescott orchestra also rendered a few selections. which elicitvd great applause from those present.
 Rny. Long cofarsl ilia subject of his lecture ln remarkably instruc- tive way, commencing with the history of the country at the very dawn of the nineteenth century. during the days when President Washington had control of the administration of the government and following its history down 70 tine conclusion Of the peace treaty with Spain, dwelling with great force upon the progress which has been made along industrial lines during the century just closing and the wonderful achievements made in esSBblishiAg ILaef as d power Of the world. His fecfGre was reFslete, with a high order of patriotism through out, and in most eloquent words he drew a picture of the future, when the benelicent influence of the United States would be more thoroughly felt throughout the world.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
FINDS SWEETHEART AT LAST.
Ranohman Discovers His Intend ed Bride in New York Hospital.

After a search of two years a ranch man named Morris, from San Antonio, Tex, has found his sweetheart, Lucy Reed. She is 8 patient in Bellevue hospital. A tall westerner applied late the other night for admittance at Bellevue. Though greatly disappoint- ed when told the hour was too late for visitors, he was nevertheless ra- diant with happiness when assured that Lucy Reed was still patient there.
 'I have searched for her for two years" he told the attendant, "and at last I've found her. My name is Morris. Lucy and grew up together in San Antonio. We were boy and girl sweethearts, and later became en- gagged to be married. Our wedding day was set two years ago, when Lucy disappeared.
 From one town to another I tracked her, until finally I found she had come to New York. Tomorrow I shall see her and persuade her, if I can, to return home with me as soon as she is we'll"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
4 Midnight Tragedy.

John P. Bauder is around town today with his neck bandagcd to hide terrible knife wound across his face. while a woman known as Ciaudie Cline lies on a slab in an undertaking establish ment, as a result Of trouble between the two last night.
 The wounds on Dauder's face were inflicted by the woman with a razor. She evidently intended to strike him on the throat with the hope of sever ing his jugJlar, but missed her aim, striking him on the side of the face and jaw instead. The wound re- quired six stitches to be taken in it.
 After cutting him in this manner and probably thinking that she had dealt him a death blow, the woman took a dose of poison, from the et fleets of which she died soon after ward.
 The tragedy occurred about o'clock last evening.
 Bauder's wounds. while very pain ful, ae not considered dangerous. Just what the trouble was that lel up to this culminatiOu was not learned.
 An inquest was held on the re- mains of the woman last night and a verdict rendered that sic came to her death from an overdose Of poison. taken with suicidal intent.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
California Press Opinions

An attempt is to be made in Chi cago to corner the cattle market. This sounds like bull movement on the part of the stock jobbers.-Oakland Tribune.
 A Massachusetts democratic con gressman yesterday repeated the farce of introducing a Kruger sympa- thetic resolution. When will some people learn to mind their own busi- ness.-San Jose Herald.
 General Mercier explained yester- day to his own satisfaction how easy it would be for France to invade Eng land. X far greater Frenchman than Mercier spent some years planning the same thing-and it didn't go.- San Francisco Bulletin.
 Edward Everet5 Baie says journal ism is the biggest drudgery he knows of, and that mo man of common sense or brains would go into it. A super ficial survey of the journalistic field appears to justify the thought that Dr. Hale's belief is not confined to himself alOne.- San Francisco Host.
 The Los Angeles county poor farm at Downey would seem to be a pretty profitable institution. The orange crop will net the county some 5000 this year. and the hog ranch Sl0OO more. The dairy turns out about SIP worth of milk every day, and the po- tato and vegetable crops are some thing remarkable Riverside Press.
 The adulteration of food and drink has become alarmingly common. There are few things of general con sumption that are not more or less eX- posed to fraudulent treatment of some sort. It is bad enough when the fraud takes the form of some harmless substitution, but in many instances it is far more serious -Sa- cramento Bee.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
Rev. Long'S Lecture.

Rev. H. B. Long delivered a very eloquent lecture last evening at Dake's opera house on the subject of "Laughing Earthquake" As a foun- datiOn for his theme he told of a Japanese description of an earthquake on an island off the Japanese coast by which the face ofthe island was trans formed. Crevices were produced in the island from which, according to the story, laughing gas issued affect ing the inhabitants of the island and producing the most convulsive fits of laughter. From this the name was given to the temblor, which produced the result of the Laughing Earth quake" Rev. Long then dwelt on the beneficial results to the human race of mirth and laughter, the latter he claimed being as divine as a tear or any other emotion. The lecture was replete with humorous illustra- tions which caused frequent quakes of laughter among his audience. The lecture might appropriately be termed an eloquent and practical discourse on the gospel of laughter.
 The lecture was preceded by a brief musical program in which Miss Criley and Mrs. H. D. Ross each rendered a vocal solo.
 Another pleasant feature of the oc- casion was the presence of lady ush- CTS who showed those present to their seats as they entered the hall. and an other and still better feature was the large attendance, the hall being over half full, which is an extra good au- dience in Prescott for a lecture.
 Tonight Rev. Long will deliver a lecture on Our Country and the Nineteenth Century" which will be preceded by orchestral and vocal mu sic. Those in charge of these lec- lures have the promise that the hall shall be much better warmed this evening than last evening.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
No. 497 Application for a Patent.
U.SLand Office. Prescott. Ariz

U. S. Land Ofhce, Prescott, ArlZ-,
 Nov. 4. 1900.
 Notice is hereby given, that W. N. Kelly and A. A. Johns whose post office address is Prescott, Arizona, have this day filed their application for a patent for 15O0 linear feet of the Mammoth mine or vein, bearing gold and silver, with surface ground 600 feet in width. situated in Big Bug mining district, county of Yavapai. and Territory of Arizona, and designated by the field notes and official plat on file in this office as survey number 14g7, located in section No. 1, township F forth of range No. 1 west of G. and $. R. meridian, said survey N. 14y7 being as fol lows.
 Beginning at corner No. 1 the northeast corner of the claim. identical with the loca- ton where a granite stone SxSx30 inches Is set one foot in ground and a monument of stones alongside. stone marked NJ. No.1-l497. A cross on granite rock in place marked B. R. NJ. No. 1-1497 bears north 25deg 20 min west 7.S feet. A cross on a granite rock in place, marked B. R.. M. .NO1-1497 bears south 3 deg 40 min west 72.5 feet. Quarter section corner on north boundary line of section 1. township 12 north. range 1 west. G. and :. K. B. and meridian bears north 25 deg 23 min east 2747.1 feet.
 Thence south 51 deg 30 min west 1000 feet to north side monument of stones 2x2 feet whence initial location monument bears south 60 deg east 300 feet. Same course 800 feet to corner No. ? which is also corner No. Belcher lode lot No. A.
 Thence south 60 deg east 300 feet to west center end monument which is also the east center end of Belcher lode. Same course 300 feet to corner No. 3 which is also corner No. f of the Belcher lode.
 Thence north 51 deg 90 min east 1500 feet to corner No. 4, identical with southeast corner of claim.
 Thence north 60 deg west 3OO feet to east center end, monument of stones 3x3 feet. Same course 300 feet tO corner No. the place of beginning.
 Magnetic variation IA deg east.
 Area of lode 19. .226 acres.
 The Mammoth vein extends north 51 deg 90 min east 80 feet and south 51 deg 20 min west 1130 feet from the discovery shaft.
 The claim is bounded on the east by the Marguerite lode, unsurveyed. on the south by United States land, on the west by the Bel cher lode, lot No. A. and on the north by the New Year lode, unsurveyed.
 The amended notice of location of the Mammoth lode is recorded in book 55 of mines, records of Yavapai county. Arizona, and the notice of the original location in book 36 of mines, pages 441-442, same re- cords.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any portion of said Mammoth mine or sur face ground are required to file their adverse claims with the register of the United States land office at Prescott, in the Territory of Arizona. during the sixty days period of publication hereof. or they will be barred by virtue of the provisions of the statue. FREDERICK A. TRITLE, JR., Register. First DublicatiOn Nov T. "
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
injured Hgs3aad Asks fer Divorce.

The recent escapade of a former resident of Prescott. her arrest in Phe- nix with a male companion, the hus- band of another woman, she being the wife ofanotherman, which has beenthe subject of so much sensational news paper talk and which was. .soprofusely illustrated both in Los Angeles and San Francisco, found the commence mencement of the last chapter, in Prescott today by the filing Of papers in the district court entitled Charles NJ. Binford vs. Clare Binford. The complaint sets out the simple grounds of desertion and an absolute divorce is asked for by the plaintiff from the defen- dant. Mrs. Binford has been away from her husband the statutory time for desertion and he preferred that nothing should appear on the court records of a more serious nature.
 The defendant is still in California, though it is said that she will shortly leave for the east with her mother. It is expected that the summons in the case will be had upon her before leaving, and the case may yet come up for hearing at the present term of court, probably in February, at the adjourned term of the present session.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
Under Death Sentences.

There are in the Kansas state peni tentiary at Leavenworth forty men under sentence of death who have not been hanged because for years no governor has been willing to sign the death warrants required by law. In view of these facts Governor Stanley has recently instituted an investiga- ton of the entire subject of capital punishment and its relation to mob law in the several states in the union. He has intimated that if his investi- gation indicates that the abolition of capital punishment has a tendency to increase lynch law he will recommend the enactment of law enforcing the death penalty in Kansas, with a pro vision requiring the sheriffs to carry out the sentence without death war rant signed by the governor.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
LaiiStsd in the Army.

Because of a disagreement with his sweet heart, F-eiclick L. Lecl;ir, d college graduate anl Methodist min ter Of Sv'err-,. New York, has aban- doncd his -''es-i1n ani enlisted in the regular army. He Was to be mar riei on Christmas ..tr.
 Last Oc.oh"r, hn -aVs. hc la.l a dis agreement Vi ;. ...- s,,niACir.. w'Iich resulted in tls '-.tEia.c oiT e. ;heir engagement. |l.:i h. fc.l as # inc could not staGl i'as. tn--ar and en- listed. It. k a ca5 ar;... of Victoria college, Montreal. His .atia.y in the army will be Si3 d ri1 n. He will be taken to Ft. Woo tya1r~Ja. Le- clair k 3) years ol3.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
SUM MONS.

Territory of Arizona, ss.
 County of Yavapai, In the Justices Court of Wagoner Precinct.
 Yavapai County, Arizona.
 FRED. W. BAKER, Plaintiff.
 yS. ARIZONA MINING AND SArELTING
 Co.,, Defendant. To John Baker, General Manager of said
 Company:
 You will take notice that you have been sued in the above court on six charges, as follows. to wit: On charge No. 1 for Two Hundred and Ni1ety-nine (S2q9.C0) Dollars. On charge No for Two Hundred and Ninety-nine (S299.0O) Dollars. On charge No. 3 for Two E lndred and Ninety-nine (S299.O0) Dollars. On charge No. for Two Hundred and Ninety-niDe (S299.OO) Dollars. On charge No. } for One Hundred and Sixty five (Sf65.OO) Dollars. On charge No. 6 for Fifty (S50.O0) Dollars.
 You are hereby commanded to appear be- fore me at my office, in Wagoner Precinct, Yavapai County. Arizona. and answer the above several charges, within days of the first publication of the above summons if served in this precinct: if out of the precinct and within the county. in ten days; if out of the county and within the territory. 70 days; in all other cases. 20 days. If you fail to ap- pear judgment will be taken against you for the several amounts claimed and costs and accruiug costs.
 Given under my hand this 10th day of November A. D. 1900.
 Justice of the Peace. First publication Nov 23-F-4t