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Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
RECRUITING AT NEW YORK.

NEW YORK-The work of enlisting
men in this city to take the Boer side
in the war is in charge of two agents
who operate in a saloon near police
headquarters. The leader in the
movement is Gustav Simon, Boer re-
Gently arrived from the Transvaal AS
ISOLATED with him is young German,
Henry Scharff, who has lived many
years among the Beers, and who
reached New York a week ago from
Pretoria. Simon owned in Johannes
burg several hotels and saloons, these
were closed up when the war began,
and being incapable of active service
in the field he came here in the inter-
est of his country. Scharff, his COM
panion in this work, was among the
first to come out from the Yukon coun-
try with news of the Klondike gold
fields, and has mining interests there
and in the Transvaal. Since his re-
turn to the Transvaal from Alaska,
he has been in the confidence of the
Boer leaders, and he has been sent
here on this special mission. A num-
Der of people, chiefly young men, have
gone to the Transvaal. Some two
hundred left week ago and sixty
went just before Christmas.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENIN GS
From Everywhere will be found In
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody

WASHINGTON-Ge Otis has issued
a decree authorizing the celebration OF
civil marriages in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON-Th total catch Of
seals by Canadian sealing vessels dur
ing the past season was 35, 344, as COM
pared with total for the preceding
year of 1882.
WASHINGTON-Th subscriptions
to the LaWton fund up to date amount
to $17,323 The total subscription list
now amounts to $31, 4O4, including out
side contributions.
The British steamship Benedick has
been chartered at Philadelphia to load
coal for Lisbon, Portugal. The YES
sci will carry $500 tons of Pennsylva-
nia-mined coal, which will be the first
shipment of the kind ever made to a
Portuguese port. Heretofore British
mined coal has had undisputed claim
to the trade of Portugal.
John Mitchell, president Of the
United States Mine Workers, said: "The
coming convention will demand, and
the delegates fully expect to receive
a substantial advance in wages for coal
mining. There is every assurance
that we shall have our demands
granted by the operators" Mitchell
denied report that there is extreme
suffering among Indian coal miners.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
PEANUTS FOR POULTRY.

The peanut is one of the best foods
that I have ever fed to poultry. 1t far
excels corn, wheat or oats. for laying
hens, as we'll as for growing chicks. ]
submit the following reasons:
1. Hens or chicks will not get so fat
on them as they will on corn or wheat.
2. Hens will lay more eggs and
chicks will grow faster than if fed on
corn or wheat.
8. They are health giving food to
all kinds of poultry.
4. They will grow on most any kind
of soil, from the poorest white sand to
a sandy clay.
5. They will get ripe further north
than the very earliest corn.
6. You can raise more peanuts to a
given space of ground than you can of
corn or wheat, and it is less work TO
raise them than to raise corn.
7. They are the best food to throw
in the scratching shed, with tops and
all. Hens can be kept busy all day;
they will work for them and lay, too.
8. When you go to raising peanuts
you must be sure to get the right kind
The little Spanish are the best to plant.
Some seedmen offer the Spanish peanut
but it is not the little Spanish that /
am raising. l have tried several of
them and they never got ripe, until l
made a trip through the south and
found the right thing, that is, the little
Spanish which l have planted ever
since.-C. A. Strohm.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
CHINESE AT WAR.

SAN FRANCISCO-The Hip Sing
and the Suey Sing tongs, both high
binder organizations, are openly at war
in Chinatown. The first night of hos
tilities resulted in one murder and an
attempted killing. HON Teong, a Chi
nese cook, who had been a member of
the Hip Sings, was shot and fatally
wounded by a couple of Suey Sings as
he stood on the corner of Sacramento
and Stockton street early in the even
ing. He died at an early hour.
The police were informed by the
wounded man before his death that
the men who did the murder are Chin
Wing and Ny All Poy, both of whom
escaped. The latter is said to have
killed another Chinese about q year
ago. Soon after the shooting of Teong,
a gambler belonging to the Hip Long
Society was pursued by three armed
members of the Suey Sing Tong, but
succeeded in securing police protection.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

man said if they could not agree they
had better quit. Eddy, with an oath,
told him to quit, throwing deck of
cards in his face. The colored man
rose, and is said to have told Eddy that
he had been abusing him all night and
better quit.
Eddy then threw box of poker
chips in the negro's face. Johnston
whipped out a pocket knife with a long
blade, opened by a spring, and stabbed
Eddy in the left side, in the region Of
the heart, that cut having caused
death. Eddy stood up and tried to pro-
tect himself with his fists. The infu-
rated negro slashed again and again
about Eddy's head and face With the
knife in his hands, he then ran out of
the door. With blood streaming from
his head and side, Eddy walked into
the front of the saloon, went to the
bar, took off his glasses, wiped them
and fell back on the floor, dying. He ex-
pred few minutes afterward.
Officers found that after the stab
bling Johnston went Immediately to his
home. where he has a wife and child.
He told his wife he had to return to
town, and has not been seen since.
Both parties are well known in Red
ding. The dead man was a horse
dealer, and had been connected with
several feed stables here 1t is said he
leaves wife and family in San Fran
cisco and well-to-do brother in Port
land. Or.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
ESTOPPAL OF PIEROT.

CINCINNATI, ON. Pierot was ar
raigned before United States Attorney
Bundy on charge of violating the
laws Of neutrality M. Pierot has been
known as a recruiting officer here for
the Beers for some time, and through
him many men have been transported
East. He claimed today that he was
engaging these men for the Hospital
Corps and not for enlistment in the
army. He was advised by the United
States District Attorney that he must
stop engaging men, even for the Hos
pital Corps, or he would at once be ar
raigned for contempt of the United
States Court that issued the order
through Attorney Bundy.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

In the Cornhill Mr.. Paget gives an
account Of the early rising habits OF
the imperial court Of China. "At z
a. m. every morning the halls of audi
ence are opened, and at 3 a. m. the
cabinet councils are held" "The court
entertainments take place at 8 a. mi
and at 10 a. m. the work OF the En-
peror's day Is over" The British Med
ical Journal, commenting on this,
states that the habit of early rising
which is regarded by so many elderly
people as virtue is in reality to be
traced to physical and not to moral
causes. ITO be drowsy in the evening
and wakeful in the early morning Is
rather characteristic of age and is prob1
ably to be attributed to the hardening
of the arteries and the less ready ac-
ton of the vaso-motor system" This
sign of degeneration is crystallized as
a characteristic of the body polite IN
China.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
SHOT HER BETR.- Ter.

MERCED-C. F. Thomas, a reporter
on the Weekly Star, was this evening
shot and MORALLY wounded at his Office
door by Miss Margaret Silvey, whom
he is said to have betrayed. Thomas
and Miss Silvey went to Fresno several
weeks ago, and on their return they
claimed to have been married. They
lived together until week ago. The
girls parents did not believe the mar
riage story. They finally induced her,
a week ago, to return to the r home,
and then she confessed that no cere-
mony had been performed. Later it
developed that Thomas has wife back
East.
This evening: at 5 o'clock, Miss Sill
vey went to the Star office, and calling
Thomas out into the hall, shot him
with a revolver, infiicting a fatal
wound. She was only prevented from
firing a second shot by employees in the
office.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

After q review of the origin of that
penal institution a writer in La Revue
de Paris gives the number Of exiles sent
from Russia to Siberia. There were
9OO, 900 from 1904 to 1864 AIS, 900 from
1864 to 1888, and $4,000 from 1853 f.
1898. He states that the system has
given Siberia proletariat that lives
In nendicity, vagabondage, and crime.
Transportation gives little correction
to the criminals and exerts no civiliz-
ing influence on Siberia, nor does it add
to the security Of society,"" That has
been officially admitted by the Cars
government by the decree of May IS,
1850, which adopted the principle that
transportation to Siberia should be linn
tied, and established a commission to
devise a way Of encouraging a profit
able COLOMBIA ton for Siberia. Siberia
Is not the sterile region that the novel
list and dramatist picture 1t. The land
can flourish 100000 men, and free
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
Irving's View of the Stage To-da,

Irving's View OF the Stage To-day.
1.-THE greatest marked development in
the theater In the last twenty-five
years." said Sir Henry Irving slowly,
and in that strikingly measured man.
ner, sis that it is no longer necessary to
vindicate the stage. There was time
when it was. Another great change,
and one that has helped the actor i'm
mensely is the growth in the number of
strong, honest and capable critics. The
actor must have publicity and honest
criticism and, in proportion as he gets
that, the necessity for 'vindication'
ceases. He then takes his place accord
ing to his merit, that is, he takes his
place in his time. But an actor is never
sure what another time will think of
him. An actors rewards are peculiar.
l think it was Mr.. Archer who said that
beautiful pictures, statues and fine
buildings, no matter how much you adj
mire them, never cause you to throw up
your hat or applaud very vigorously.
In walking through an art collection
you simply make pencil mark along
side of the name of the pictures that
Tease you. The methods of express
~ approval of acting are stronger,
.ut the thing that produces the ap-
prevail has passed away with it's
creation. "--Ainslee's.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD.
Output Largely Increased During the
Year


Charles L. Tut, president and gem
eral manager of the Colorado Reduc-
ton Works at Colorado Springs, COL,
was at the Van Mugs, Los Angeles, last
week. He is on his way to San Fran
cisco, to meet a party of Boston capt.
talists, with whom he expects to make
tour through Southern California.
Mr.. Tut has made a large fortune in
the Cripple Creek district, being one of
the first to set a stake in the now fam
Gus camp. In connection with Spencer
Penrose, a brother of Senator Penrose
of Pennsylvania, he located some of the
richest producers of the district and
the output of their various properties
has made both of them wealthy.
Speaking Of the present and future of
the great gold camp, Mr.. Tut said yes
terday: "The output for the year is
phenomenal, and sounds like an Alad-
din's lamp story. The total will ex--
coed twenty million and the outlook
for the future is brilliant. The in
crease for '99 over '98 is more than
$5,000,0 900. Our plant alone treated
100000 worth of Cripple Creek ore,
an increase of more than a million
over 1885," Mr.. Tut predicts that the
year 1900 will be a record breaker in
the production of mineral all over the
country
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
HIGH-PRICED CATTLE.

A bunch of fourteen Shorthorn cattle
lately sold in Chicago at 81 per 100
pounds, or about $11575 each. They
were part of lot of ninety bought last
February at $4.60 per 100 pounds, at an
average weight of 1850 pounds, or
$4S.3O each. The price paid was the
highest since 1892, and the highest
price for October since 1884. Undoubt-
eddy the feeder was well paid for his
eight months feeding. Nelson Morris
evidently does not intend the farmers
shall have all the profit, in feeding,
however, as he has just bought 1000
bead of Kentucky cattle at SIS per 100
pounds, to be delivered in November
They will go into his export trade,
probably. An Indiana farmer has paid
$5.l5 per hundred for forty-two head
of range steers from North Dakota.
They were polled Angus and weighed
l446 pounds each as an average for
the lot of forty-two Probably few
months feeding on corn and oil,cake
will make 81 cattle of them. WeD
lleVe 1t is better for the farmer that
he should sell his corn in this way
than to send it to England to be fed
out there in Germany.-Ameriean Gull
tivator.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The Alleged Cost of Vote in the State
of Montana.

WASHINGTON-S Chandler,
Privileges and Elections, said that the
committee would begin it's formal in
quiry into the contest over the seat of
Senator Clark of Montana Friday, Jan
uary 5. Counsel on both sides of the
controversy will be heard on that date,
and they will be followed, Saturday
and Monday, by the witnesses for the
compliments. OF these about twenty
have been requested by telegraph to
appear at the time mentioned. After
these have been heard, it is understood
that the defense will name the wit
nesses which it may desire to have
heard in rebuttal.
The indications are that the hearing
in the case will consume considerable
time. Several Montanans have indi-
Gated willingness to come to Wash
ington to testify, but the committee is
determined to hold the list down to as
narrow limits as possible, because Of
the expense of bringing persons so
great distance. Among those who
will probably be asked to attend are a
number of members of the Legislature,
whose names have been mentioned in
connection with the charges of bribery.
The first point taken up in the in
quiry will be the charge that thirty
bills of $1,000 each were presented to
one man to secure his support of Mr..
Clark. The counsel for the prosecu-
ton includes ex-senator Edmunds,
representative Campbell of Montana,
ex-Representative Hartman of Mon
tana and Jere Wilson of this city. For
mer United States Senator Faulkner of
West Virginia is so far the only coun-
sci of record in behalf of Clark.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

The armored train is an element of
strength to the force that controls it
and at the same time it is a ticklish
thing to run and to trust to, for it
would take but little to throw it off
the rails or to blow 1t into the air with
event spreading carnage among its &C.
cupants. Then again, it is both gain
and detrinent to the army which
depends upon it, inasmuch as while it
makes an almost impregnablc cover
for the soldiers its frequent use soon
renders these soldiers very poor fight
ers in the open.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

Bicycle enthusiasm, which reached
its highest mark in 1896 and 1897, is
now distinctly on the decline. 1t was
predicted then-and the universal favor
with which the wheel was regarded
justified the belief-that it would con-
tinue to grow in favor and become an
established institution. Within certain
limits it will undoubtedly do so. 1t is
not now the exacting and absolute
fashion, and hence loses that great de-
mand. 1t has fallen to the prosaical
place Of a practical convenience and
utility. The enthusiasm Of fashion
able rivalry has vanished and as a
measure Of recreation it's use has
largely fallen away. 1t has been found
that the wheel has its inconvenience
and dangers, and is not altogether the
health. promoter that was urged at one
time. Still it remains for many thou
sands, and possibly hundreds Of thou
sands, an inspiriting and profitable ex7
ercise. But the novelty has worn of,
the fashion craze has gone and the
wheel is simply regarded from prac-
teal standpoint with legitimate and
limited demand.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

A Berlin paper says that "the Amer
leans begin earnestly to think of the
political and economical annexation of
South America" Another German
newspaper says that "the suspicious
doings of the Americans" in South
America SHOULD be watched careful
ly" The London Saturday Review, a
consistent hater Of America and all
things American, asserts that "the
dream of tue far-seeing American to-
day Is South America for the North
Americans All Of which Is as anus
ing as the funniest ''piece" in the fun
niest Of the comic papers. We never
met an American who would have this
country take the whole or any part of
South America as gift. Did you?
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
BLIND MANS SELF-DEFENSE.

: BALTIMORE-Fra B. Living
ston, the blind man who, late Christ
mas night, strangled his wife, Dora
Livingston, and on the following day
paid man a dollar to lead him to the
Police Station, has been discharged
from custody by Judge Stockbridge
The evidence before the Coroner's jury
showed that Livingston had been at
tackled in the middle of the night by
his wife, and that he choked her to
death to save himself.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
KANSAS SCANDAL.

Editor Sentenced to Eleven Months
Imprisonment for Libel.
TROY, Kan.-Pool Grinstead, editor
of the Wathena Star. was sentenced in
the District Court to eleven months
Imprisonment in the county Jail under
conviction of criminal libel. The
conviction is~an outgrowth of legislat-
i've scandal, the editor having accused
State Senator John Fulton of Brown
county of accepting bribe in connec-
tion with the location of a new state
insane asylum. Grinstead will edit his
paper from the JAIL
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
PERKINS FAVORS A QUARANTINE
LAW.

Senator Perkins has received a COPY
of the resolutions passed by the Cham
Der of Commerce of Los An
geies some time ago, pro-
testing against the admission into the
state of infectious fruit. The resolu-,
tons, he says, were presented to the
Senate, and by that body referred to
the Committee on Agriculture. A bill
is being framed providing a quarantine
that shall protect California fruit, and
will have the support of the California
Senator when presented.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

sands of spectators at the Pretoria
railway station when the British, who
were captured at Nicholson's Neck, de-
trained. The people were ordered by
the Boer commandant to bare their
heads and they did so. The British
astonished, returned the salute"
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
A LIMA, O., FAGIN.

LIMA, O.-James Poorman, arrested
here, has been conducting a school OF
crime, according to the stories of Ag-
gle Seaman, aged 8, and others. The
Seaman girl said that Poorman in
structed her to mingle with crowds in
retail stores and to pick up articles
from the counters. How we'll he
schooled is evidenced by the fact that
none were detected, but when the po-
lice searched Poorman's room they
found two trunks full of plumber, jew
elry and small articles of value.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
IRISH AID BOERS.

PHILADELPHIA is a gen.
eral movement among the Irish here
to aid the Beers in their war with Eng
land. A call ives sent out for spe-
cial assessment on every man Of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, of which
there are $4,000 in this city. A return
of $4,000 is expected, which will help
to swell the general fund of $1,000, 900,
which organizations throughout the
country seek to raise.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
BOERS GETTING SUPPLIES.

NEW ORLEANS-The British con-
sui here is authority for the statement
that New Orleans has been one of the
chief ports used by Boer agents for Sc
curing supplies for use in the Trans
vaal, and that British ships have been
used largely in their shipment.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12

AS has been suspected all along, the
kissing bug" nonsense that spread
over the country last summer was
started by a couple of yellow newspa-
pers in the East. The men who In
vented the story have confessed.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
FORTUNE FOR CHARITY.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-The will of
the late Josephus Forbes bequeaths
$3.50, 900 to be divided between st.
Pauls Episcopal church and the La
dies Seamstress Friends society, the
latter to receive one-third of the es-
tate.
ST. Paul's church is directed to erect
a chapel on the site where the old
Forbes mansion now stands and also
to erect a home for aged women.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

CALCUTTA-Almos three million
persons are receiving famine relief.
The government is spending nearly
two lakhs of.rupees daily. 1t is esti-
mated that the cost of the relief to the
end of March will be three crores of
rupees. Owing to the rapid increase
in the number of people seeking relief
the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, invites "a
closer scrutiny of the claims of the at
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
PREACHER CAUGHT A SNEAK
THIEF.

MARINETTE, Wis-Dr. Schepler,
pastor of st. Paul's Episcopal church,
interrupted his Christmas service long
enough to catch sneak thief who was
carrying off holiday gifts from the par
sonage with a lot of stuff under his
oyercoat. Putting aside his robes, he
gave chase, caught the fellow and after
a tussle, turned him over to the police
and then returned and finished divine
services
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
CHINAMAN WOULD BE A CATHO-
Lie.

SAN QUENTIN-Hogh See, a Chii
nese who is to be executed at the pris-
on here Friday for the murder of one
of his countrymen at Tulare, has sent
word to Father Sullivan, the chaplain
at the prison, that he wishes to en-
brace. the Catholic faith and die as,
Christian.
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
TURKS FORBID TRANSPORTATION
OF ARMS.

WASHINGTON-The Ottoman lega-
ton IN this city announces that by vir
tue of recent decree of the Porte, it
is declared that such arms as are de-
barred from importation into Turkey
will be confiscated from this time on
when they arrive at the custom houses
of the Turkish empire 1t is announcer
that the Turkish government will in
no way hold itself under obligation to
pay the value of such arms to the as
signees. Is,
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
WIND-UP OF SEVENTH
A Fatal Cutting ARRAY Occurs in a Sa-
LOOM

REDDING-W. E. L. Eddy was
stabbed to death in saloon by Will
lam Johnston, colored, who escaped.
There were many witnesses to the af-
fray. The white and colored man had
been playing seven-up for two hours.
Eddy is said to have abused Johnston
continually until finally the colored
Mesa free press., 1900-01-12
PLENTY OF FOOD.

LONDON-The Daily Chronicle pub
fishes the following from Cape Town:
Herr Schlesinger, an agent of the
New York Equitable Assurance Associ-
alton, says the Beers possess immense
stores of food imported by speculative
capitalists under belief that mining
would be allowed during the war.
"He says also that there were thou