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The evening times., 1900-04-21
"ZAzA" STILL RUNNING.
Manager BeIascO Declares There Is
No Danger of SuPPressiOn.

NO DanSer OF SuppressIOn.
LONDON. April PA correspondent to-
day interviewed Mr. Belasco in regard 10
the row over the play OF ''Zaza.'' Mr. Be
lasCO said:
'Mr. Redford the examiner of plays. at
tended the production of the play and ex-
pressed his complete satisfaction. He did
not question the moral aspect of the pro-
ductiOn. There is no possibility of the
suppression of the play md there will be
no alteration in the book from the New
York version. Mr.. Redford does not com
plain because the. manuscript of the play
was not furnished 10 Lord Chamberlain. -
The play arouses enthusiasm nightly.
and the sale of seats is heavy.
The evening times., 1900-04-21
A BATTLE WITH CROWS.
a Farmer Attacked by n Flock of IN
Enraged Birds.

n HIT -NEIHVENFU ON u r IOCh OF Iht
Enraged Birds
KALAMAZOO. Mich. April 21.-Lemuel
Hindes. Of oshiOmo township. four miles
west of here, while at work in his field,
was attacked by large flock of crows and
frightfully injured.
Hindes was distributing a wagon load
Of fertilizer over the field. and before he
had warning a flock # apparently / 200
or more crows flew into the field from the
direction Of Kalamazoo. uis attempts 10
drive them away with a pitchfork were
futile. and they attacked him viciously
He killed quite a number. but the re-
mainder of the flock pecked his face and
neck in terrible manner. His cries at
tracted his wife, who came to his rescue
with a shotgun, with which she killed q
score or more.
The evening times., 1900-04-21
SPECIAL NOTICES.

A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
for the election OF directors Of the Wash
ington Safe Deposit Company viii be held
on Friday. the 9th day OF April. A. D. 1SO0.
Polls open at u N and close ST ! O'Clock
p n SAM CROSS.
mh2S-dtoep2t.fnc.sm IN Secretary.
The evening times., 1900-04-21
THE COMMISSIONERS REPLY.
4 Letter to ". {. Dodge Relative 10
Naphtha street Lighting.

NhPhtha street Lighting.
The Commissioners have sent a reply to
W. c. Dodge whose communication on
naphtha lighting was recently published in
The Times. that in their opinion the best
interests Of the District are subseryed by
the contractor. owning and caring for the
burners and tubing used in the naphtha
lanterns A-
A day has also been arranged for a hear
ing at which time Mr. Dodge and others
viii be given an opportunity TO state their
position before the Board OF Commission
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The evening times., 1900-04-21

The Death of Mrs. Stneey B. Lewis.
Mrs. Stacey B. Lewis. of 1907 L Street.
died at Waterville, Me. Tuesday, April l.,
and was buried there on the 18th. Mrs.
Lewis was formerly OF Galveston, Texas.
but resided In Washington for over twenty
years. She was eighty years of age. Mr..
Frank J. Lewis her son. and his family
have been living at Wateryille during the
winter.
The evening times., 1900-04-21
THE BRIDGE-JUMPER BETTER
Marie DInse Nearly Able to Leave
the Hospital.

NEW YORK. April 21.-Marie Dinse. of
S12 West Twenty-third Street, who jumped
from the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday after
noon and who was taken to the Hudson
Street Hospital, is rapidly recovering Dr.
Bailey. the house physician. says that the
woman will be able TO leave the hospital
tomorrow morning.
When the woman awoka this morning
she asked if she were under arrest When
{ policeman told her that she was and
that she would be Obliged to go to court
when she left the hospital. she said: III
that is so I wish they had left me in the
water" She also said she felt very sick
The woman received large bunch OF roses
this morning
The evening times., 1900-04-21

You rred not be a judge decide that Heu-
riehs Mserzen, Senate, and Lager arc pure and
wholesome Cali for Heuriefs al any hotel or
restaurant in the city. and you viii easily discern
the superior srslities OF these malt ard hop bev-
erages- 'Phoi : 6S4, Arlington Bottling Co, for
4 case
The evening times., 1900-04-21
CHURCH NOTICES

THE EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
OF SPIRITIT TITAIISTS-IncOrpoTated October ,
1899. holds services every Sunday at J. 30 D. m o
Schnidt's Hail. H6 gth St NV. Mrs Julia War
neke will give tests. Good speaking and Music
Seats free
The evening times., 1900-04-21
EDUCATIONAL.

STUDENT in Columbian College wishes 70 pre-
pare students for entrance examinations. Ad-
dress BOX 357 this ofice apsl-St
The evening times., 1900-04-21

SECULAR LEAGUE. Masonic TeInple. sundavs ;
p. m, April p. Mrs. Kicker on sCreeris vs..
Civilization May q, Prof Frencifs illustrated
lecture on India 1t
The evening times., 1900-04-21

THE manifest destiny OF the United States as
described in Revelation. will be the theme OF
the discourse by Evangelist A. F. BaIenger. sun
day, AS, in the Church Of the Blessed Hope sth
st. ne, between + aRi 6. Il
The evening times., 1900-04-21
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE nAy

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Al
druggists refund the money II II fails to cure.
T. " Groves signature is on each box 25c.
The evening times., 1900-04-21

KEDNEN Is deceptive sisezse-
ANA III IL thousands have 1t and dor't
TD0EIRV 2 know it II you want quick
M - - results you make no
snStake by using Dr. Kill
1er,s Swamp Root. the great kidney remedy.
At druggists in ffty-cent and dollar sizes Sem
pie bottle by mail free; also pamphlet telling you
how to And out il yoa have kidney trouble.
Add sss DR.. Kilmer 4 Co.. BinShamton. n. Y.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05

fangs in his face. As for himself, he was unable to move d muzc.e. Some thing, he could not tell What' seemed to hold him in a spell, and his limbs were as rigid as though he had been suddenly transformed into an ossified man.
 Hall awakened in such fevered condition that he swooned away. When he was next conscious of himself, he plastered his hair to his scalp, and shifting about uneasily, attempted for the third time to rise to his feet, when his hand came in contact with a cold, slimy substance and frigid shivers shot through his frame. His terror was intensified, and the belief that his dreams were not all haliucinations were confirmed. There, beside his re- clining form, lay rattlesnake skins lit- tering a nest profusely strewn with the rattIes of side winders. His story he knew he must tell, so he bagged the rattles If he dies of snake-bite, the cause of death can be produced. The rattles he has placed in the front win dow of R. w. Chamberlain's jewelry store. where he takes all {1Oubting Thomases to verify his weird story.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
LANDING IN ENGLAND
Declared By General Mereier to Be Within the Range of Easy Pos sibility and He Calls Upon the French Government to Provide the Means By Which it May be Accomplished

Paris, Dec. 4.-General Mercier caused deep sensation in the senate today during the debate on the naval bill by pointing out the ease with which England could be invaded. He demanded that the government in troduce into the plan for the mobiliza- tlon of the army, navy methods for the rapid authorization and debarka- tion of an expeditionary corps. Pres ident Fallieres intervened, declaring that such proposals were out of order.
 In the course of an extraordinary speech General Mercier said: Tn view of the possibility of a war with Great Britain the use of the army is not sufficiently taken into account Times are not the same as they were a hun dred years ago. Steam, the navy, the telegraph and railroad have rendered the problem of the invasion of Eng land much easier of solution. More over, England herself is no longer the same.
 ''The Transvaal has shown that tha British army, although brave, is not equal to the task which England ex- pected it to perform. The British navy is powerful, but it has many coasts to defend. France, therefore. is numerically England's equal at cer- tain points and is even her superior in instruments of destruction.
 History furnishes many instances of mutiny in the English navy at the moment of battle. Landing in Eng land Is, therefore, not beyond reaIiza- tion. This is not only my opinion, but that also of high naval officers. The British premier recently expressed significant fears. and, if the principle of landing is admitted. the practical means of execution may be decided.''
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
BAD YEAR FOR ACTORS
Made a Target by Death and
 Disaster.

Mr. Edward D. Tyler, the we'll spending the winter in Phoenix, for | his health and rest, said at the Hotel Adams yesterday afternoon that this had been a year of unusual disaster for actors. MT. Tyler had just received a letter from New York, in which it was stated that the last operation per- formed on the foot of Mr. B. H. Soth- ern had not been as successful as it had been hoped it would be. Three bones had been removed, and it was the opinion of the writer that MT. Soth- ern would never be able to appear on the stage again.
 The same letter mentioned the illness of appendicitis of MT. William Faver- sham, which has lately been described in the associated press dispatches. MT. Favershaml is one of MT. Tyler's near est neighbors and an intimate friend At the date of the letter the actors deoth was hourly expected, as the re- suit of an operation which had just been performed. As death has not yet occurred, MT. Tyler is hopeful that his friend may survive, for he is a man of magnificent physique, and his mode of life has been of the kind which fa- vors men when they have to draw upon their strength.
 In connection with the illness of these two actors, MT. Tyler spoke of the death on November 18th, of Joe Ott, who will be remembered in the West as the star in "The Star-Gazer." For two years previous to his death he had been playing at the New York theater.
 Another stricken actor of the year isr Roland Reed, still alive, but as good as dead, for he can never walk again, and it is doubtful if he can ever talk.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
A BRIEF HOUSE SESSION.

Washington, Dec. 4.-T7he session of the house today was brief. The real work will begin tomorrow when the house will consider the army reorgan- izatiOn bill which MT. Hull, chairman of the military affairs committee re- ported today. He explained the urgent necessity for immediate action upon the measure, as under the present law, the army must be reduced to 27,- 900 on July l next, and asked unani- nous consent for consideration of the bill tomorrow, but MT. Sulzer objected, so MT Hull introduced a resolution for a special order for the consideration of the bill tomorrow with a provision for vote at the end of six hours general debate
 Objection to the swearing in of MT Connor of Iowa, successor of Senator Deliver. which was raised by MT. Bailey yesterday was removed today by the presentation of a new set of credentials from Governor Shaw, and MT. Connor took the oath.
 Three bills were passed under a call of committees, the most important being one to provide for detail of net to exceed 100 retired army officers and 300 non-commissioned officers as mil itary instructors in the public schools of such cities as adopt a system of military instruction. The others were -to prevent the failure of military Justice,' and to legalize an issue of S250,000 of bonds of Pima county, Ariz.
 Mir. Driggs of New York introduced a resolution requesting the secretary of war to investigate the practice of hazing at West Point, more particu- iarly the hazing of Oscar Booze of Pennsylvania, who died from the ef- fleets yesterday.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
THE TOP PRICES
Arizona Oranges Leading in the New
 York Market.

The Fruit World. a journal pub lished in Los Angeles and San Fran cisco. and the mission of which can readily be understood from it's name, in. it's issue of Dec. ?, pays a deserved compliment to Arizona oranges. It also quotes the market price of them in comparison with other oranges, some thing that is not intended as com pIiment, but a cold statement of fact. The prices quoted are for the pre- ceding week and are reported by tele- graph from eastern auction rooms.
 In New York Arizona nave!s sold during the week at from $3.1O to $6.25 per box. averaging S4.55 per box.
 California, and other navels, sold at from $315 to S4.3O per box, aver aging $3.43. Commenting the World says:
 but the texture of the skin was fine and the fruit sweet. California navels were fairly colored but less palatable than the Arizona navels."
 The above is simply the recording of facts for the use of growers and deal CTS, but it places Arizona a long dis tance in the lead of any other district as to the quality of her oranges. The only other question for prospective growers to settle in their minds is the productiveness of orange trees in this section. That is also settled and the records are available to anyone who is
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
THE CANAL REPORT
FaVOrS the Nicaragua Route
 as the Most Feasible
And Links With the Recommendation the Words "Ts be Under the Mau- agement and Ownership of the United States"

Washington. Dec. 4.-The president today transmitted to congress the re- DOT of he ssthmian canal commfs- sion. After going into details regard ing the Panama and Nicaragua routes, the report concludes as follows:
 Tn view of all the difficulties of Cb- taining the necessary rights, privileges and franchises on the Panama route and assuming that Nicaragua and Costa Rica recognize the value of the canal to themselves, and are prepared to grant concessions on terms which are reasonable and acceptable to the United States, the commission is of the opinion that the most practicable and feasible route for an isthmian ca nal to be under the management and ownership of the United States, is that known as the Nicaragua route.'"
 The estimated cost is $2OO, ,45O, GOO. and is greatly in excess of any previous es- innate. due to increased dimensions and other features not hitherto con sidered.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05

more apples than any other state in the union, and together raise more than any foreign nation, not even excepting Russia. In Kansas there are 15,O00,0OO apple trees all in bear ing, which bring as many million dol lars into the state if they produce only a barrel of apples each year. Here the first man to plant an apple or chard was looked upon as crank; he is now a millionaire. Missouri has several of the largest orchards in the world. One of these contains 2,300 acres; the other contains 3OO000 trees Throughout ithe state there are sev- eral orchards of 800 acres each. All apple orchards are profitable if care fully attended to. It is estimated that any twenty acres set out in apples should, in the course of several years of fruitage, yield an average income of $4,000 a year.
 It is stated that the apple crop of this country has run to 210,OO0 bar rels in a single season. In cold stor- age every winter anywhere from 6,0O0,O0O to 1O,OOO,O0O barrels of the apple crop of the season before are carried over In order to secure better prices.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
THE FIRST DEBATE.

Washington, Dec. 4.-The consider ation of the ship subsidy bill began ir earnest today and material progress was made. What is popularly known as the ship subsidy bill was made un- finished business of the senate instead of the Spooner Philippine measure and discussion of it was opened by Mir. Frye of Maine, chairman of the committee on commerce, from which the measure was reported. He ad- dressed the senate today for more than an hour and half. He had not concluded when the senate adjourned.
 Senator Frye's speech kept the sen ate so late that it was found imprac- ticable to proceed with the considera- tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, as had been intended.
 The resolution offered by MT. Chand- on May 9, last, to refer the credentials of William A. Clark and Martin Maginnis, appointed senator's from Montana, to the committee or privileges and elections, was called uu by Mir. Carter of Montana, but went over until tomorrow.
 Senator Fairbanks of Indiana in troduced a bill to admit Oklahoma to statehood, with two congressional rep resentatives.
 Other bills were introduced as fol- lows: To permit Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn to accept the dec- oration of chevalier from the govern ment Of Sweden and Norway; by Ser ator Stewart, for the constructing of the supreme court for the Philippines with five judges, whose salary shall be s2O,O00 per annum; by Senator Clay, for the free admission of articles man. ufactured or controlled by trusts
 Among the nominations sent in fer confirmation were those of ". D. By mum of Indiana, commissioner to re- wise and codify the criminal and peral laws of the United States: Wm. H Johnson of New Jersey, first assistant postmaster general.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
A SUIT WITH MANY PARTIES
Decree in the Case of Atherton vs.
 Cotton ct als.

The case of J. c. Atherton vs. Edna W. Cotton, her husband, w. J. Cotton. ct als, was tried in the district court yesterday. The let als'' are the Ma tional bank of Arizona, J. w. Evans, E. G. Ferguson and Stanley McCor- mick, son of the founder of the Me Cormick reaper works, Chicago. Their part in the suit will appear later.
 In October, 1896, the plaintiff, the principal defendant, T. W. Brown and Charles H. Gordon entered into a part nership for the operation of what is known as the Belle Gold mine, near Wickenburg.
 Atherton was the ohly member of the party who had any money. He agreed to put up $2,500 within eighteen months for the development of the property. To secure him for three fourths of the investment, Mrs. Cotton executed a deed to the Cotton ranch, northeast of the city, and it was placed in escrow in the National bank of Ari zona to be turned over to Atherton at the end of eighteen months if he had not been reimbursed to the extent of three-fourths of the investment. Brown and Gordon executed documents or greater or less value, and they were also put in escrow to secure Mrs. Cot ton for their share of the risk which she had assumed to Atherton.
 The partnership was not happy one. Within a year Atherton had put in about S1, 600, and when his partners wanted him to buy a mill and he re- fused. the association came to an end. He offered to contribute the rest of his S2,500, but no mill His personal belongings at the mine were set off outside the property and he was de- clared out.
 At the end of eighteen months he ap- piled to the bank for the deed to the Cotton ranch. Mrs. Cotton, however, had previously instructed the bank not to give it up. Atherton began suit to compel a specific performance of con- tract The other defendants came into the suit in this way: Major Evans and Ferguson held a mortgage on the Cotton ranch. ante-dating the escrow deed, and Mccormick held a deed to the property dated some time after.
 The. orders of the court at the con- clusion of the trial yesterday, were that the bank should turn the deed over; to the court, and the motions of Evans and Mccormick that the case should be dismissed as to them, were denied.
 The decree, though, settles the vari- ous contentious of all the parties. The Evans mortgage is first recognized. Atherton, the plaintiff, comes in next with an established claim of about s1,200 three-fourths of his investment. to be satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of the ranch after the mortgage has been paid. Mccormick comes in in his natural order He is given the first right to redeem the property.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
HE SAW SNAKES
He is Not Yet Sure They Were Not
 Real.

Ernest Hall, a young man of exem- plary habits, had an experience on Sunday that almost drove him to hard drink. It was one which usually comes to those srongly addicted to alcoholism, and consisted of a vision in which myriads of snakes assembled about the victims head and barred their fangs before the rivited gaze of the mortified dreamer
 Mir. Hall rode his wheel for hours in the afternoon, seeking a spot where he could be alone with himself and his thoughts. He rested his bicycle against a tree, and reclining at the foot of the tree, fell asleep. The young n an is still trying to decide as to whether the subsequent events, which robbed 11im of several months of his life were all visionary. He saw snakes writhing and coiling at his feet, while others depending from the limbs of trees, seemed bent on burying their
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
LAST OF THE APPLES
Final Picking of Arizona Crop on the
 Local Market.

A local fruit dealer had on sale yes terday a few very choice Ben Davis apples, which came from the upper Verde The apples were the last of the Arizona crop, which was short this year. Apple growing has not as yet become a common industry, al- though large quantities of fine apples are raised in Verde and Skull val lays. Some of the apples raised there have exceIled the California and Ore gon fruit, and doubtless with plenty of water central Arizona could be made Into one Of the finest apple countries in the world.
 Oregon, California, Washington and Colorado have recently come into tthe market with quantities of apples which are astonishing considering the short time the raising of the fruit has be- come a staple industry in these states. Fifteen years ago there were scarcely a thousand trees in the California apple district, where there are now probably over 100000 acres planted with apple trees exclusively, and the value of the crop may be anywhere from S2, ,OOO, eco to $3,OOO,OOO. Apple cuI- ture began in that state in the spring of 1882. The man who planted the first trees proclaimed that he never ex- pected to eat any fruit from them. The same man now ships the produce of nearly fifty thousand trees of the same variety. Missouri and Kansas, which twenty years ago produced hardly anything at all in the way of fruit. today yield the banner apple crops of the world. They produce
Arizona republican., 1900-12-05
A BUSINESS LEGISLATURE
Is What Arizona Needs Says Assem-
 blyman 0. L. Geer.

MT. O. L. Geer, who is engaged in mining and merchandising at Mar tinez, or Congress junction, as the place is more frequently spoken of. spent yesterday in Phoenix, return ing home last night.
 Mir. Geer was one of the successful candidates at the last election. being chosen by the people of Yavapai to look after their interests in the next sessicn of the territorial assembly. A Republican reporter called upon him at the Hotel Adams last evening and naturally the subject of the next leg islaitive session was referred to.
 MT. Geer said that he had little to say at present except that he hoped the two bodies would succeed in or- ganizing with a competent official and clerical force. He believes that the session will be very important one. The eyes of the east are upon Arizona and he knows personally of many in vestors looking forward eagerly to her admission as a state. The work of the coming legislature will be more closely watched and criticized than ever before and he believes its proper conduct will have a great influence on the question of statehood in many ways.
 q ann not a politician" said MT. Geer. "and have no political aspira- tions. I was induced to run for the office by those who seemed to think I could be of some service to the county, and of course ann proud of my election, though the office will be to some extent a personal sacrifice. All I want to see is a good, creditabls working body" He said that he knew most of the councilmen elect and be- lieved they would prove very compe- tent men. Of the lower house he could say little as many of them he knew only by newspaper mention.
 Asked about industrial affairs in his own neighborhood he said every on the new mill at Congress mine is being pushed and the most notable thing about the mine is the faith of it's owners, as evidenced by the many improvements. They are conservative men and they must have a big thing or they would not be spending so much money on the plant.
 The Octave mine is proving a suc- cess, according to report, even beyond the expectation of its owners. At Fools Gulch it is believed that work will soon be commenced on a new mill to take the place of the roller mill which was not a success. Since the late rains the hills are full of prospec- tors and mining men generally ars cheerful and prosperous.