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The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
SOME OF THE PLHNS
Some Concerns viii Be Squeezed
and Some Will Be Benefited,
But the " Water" " VIII
+
Be Retained

NEW YORK. June 23.--Tt lis planned
to put the Distilling company Of Amer
lea, commonly known as the whisky
trust through drastic process OF re-
organization. in which, If the plans
now formulated are a success. there
will be shrinkage of over $35. .000. 900
in the securities of the company.
According to the official statements
made today, it is proposed to form an
entirely new company In New Jersey.
which will take over the business OF
the whisky trust Back dividends will
be paid by bond issue. and IL Is the
intention Of the new company to sta@s
with fresh working capital and a clean
slate
The present capitalizatiom of the
Distiiing Company of America consists
Of $3I 100000 of preferred stock and
SAC. AIT 900 OF common stock All Of
this will be retired and scaled down in
a new issue OF stock. amounting to ap-
proximately $32 000. 900
Plans are also arranged for the ~
iJnalng of the present bonded ind hit
,G1pss OF the company This consists
nf s., $50 600 Of the Distiliing Con-
pan, y per cent bonds. which were
sued a year ago when the comp1ny
was n financial straits. In addition,
there Ia an underlying issue of $1.S73,-
00o Of the American Spirits Distiiliag
Company per cent bonds. Both of
these issues will be refunded. or retired
by cash payment Out of the new issue
of bonds of the proposed company the
back dividends on the preferred stock.
amounting to So 500, 900. representing
an accumulation of three years. Will
also be paid.
The total bond issue proposed Ia S16,-
600 600 This amount. It In axn0uuoed,
viii be sufficient to take up the out.
standing bonds and back dividend. as
well as provide ample funds for q
working capital The new stock issue
will be In the neighborhood Of $S2, ,0O0..
900. as compared with 1928 900 900, the
original capitalization OF the company
when il was formed, nearly three years
ago -
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
SUIT FOR $4,000
BGf5re a New York Jura For
3redCh OF Promise and tho
Breyet Vile Still Holds
the Fort

NV YORN June % Christian
Rato Iff. OF Texas. loved Mrs. Aimee &,
Mercer, OF Jamaica. I. Also he adj
mred a woman half Mexican and halt
Indian, who was his housekeepers ont
on the ranch Mr. Balduff finds 1t
hard to live up to his front name now
that a jury in Long Island City has
told aim TO pay Mrs. Mercer $50 000 for
breach OF promise.
Evidence tended to show that Mr.
Raldnft was worth s500.0tl0 and thar
he was a speculator In cattle. hides
and wool
The plaintiff is a widow, SS years OLD
aud 1t the time Of becoming engaged
Ia Mr. Balduff she said she was con-
ducting a profitable millinery business.
Balduff admonished her to remember
him in her prayers. she said. Follow
ing his engagement, Mrs. Mercer testi-
led. he told her that he had been liv-
ing with a half-breed Mexican and
Indian woman, who had been educated
n a convent On hearing this, Mrs.
Mercer says. she wanted to break the
enga cement, but was persuaded not to
do 80, MIR. Balduff assuring her that
mediateiy upon his return TO TexaE
he would show the woman the door. }
When the news OF the engagement
was broken to the halfbreed she turnet
around. so the letter stated, and mad
a wreck of Mr.. Baiduff's home. Sh'
broke the furniture and chinawaTe, ans
wound up by asserting herself as tn
queen OF the whole outfit.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
THE LIGHT OF DENVER
BY ONE COMPANY
Rival oonCerns Consolidate ana
There Is Fear That Light WIN
Cost More

DENvER. Col. June 23 The two
lighting companies of the city are
practically consolidated. II was an
nounced today that the stockholders OF
the old Denver Gas and Electric com
pany have bought controlling inter
est In the Lacambe Electric Light COM
pany. The members OF the old com
pany have bought their interests IN the
new company as individuals, and not
as representatives of the old company.
but In owning controlling interest OF
both companies, 1t means practically q
consolidation. The people OF the city
feel that the deal viii mean that the
price OF electric lights In the city VIII
be advanced. In fact, It is claimed by
the old company that the present
prices are so low that they preclude
the possibilit Of profit
Through the CONTAMINATION OF tnis
deal, the old company will gain the
contracts for lighting the streets or the
city. which contract extends over q
period OF twenty years. The LacomDe
COMPANY was formed two years ago
and later secured the contract for
street lighting. Since then the swe
companies nave peen III hsie"s
greater part OF the time.
Members of the city council are said
to be investigating the Lacomoe CON
tract and the law to see whether OF
not the present deal could be stopped
One of the sections of the franchise 10
the Lacombe company reads as foi-
lows:
THE grantee herein shall not sell OF
convey the electric light and power
plants, or either of them, hereby au-
thorized to, or combine with any per,
son, firm or corporation now engaseu
in the business of providing or vendine
electricity for lights, heat and power
purposes In the city Of Denver:
Some of the aldermen think that tnlF
paragraph will prevent the consoiioA'
ton.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

The resolution submitted by the
Nevada Representative provides Cor
the admission of Cuban sugars at 35
per cent less than the Dingley tariff,
in consideration Of reciprocal ar
rangement on the part OF Cuba, and
invites the Cuban Republic to become
a State In the Union. 10 include such
other West Indian islands belonging to
the United States as may be deemed
advisable.
| The subject of Cuba's admission TO
the United States has been before
Congress In one form or another for
many years. and there 10 more reason
at present than ever before to believe
that the island will before long become
an integral part of the United States.
1t is proposed to press action on the
House resolution II the opportunity Is
afforded at this session, in the hope
that IL It can be adopted In Its original
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
CORONATION FIN BEGlNSRECIPROCITy HIS FAILEQ
Roosevelt admits Defeat and. There Gan Be
No Treaty. Negotiated

could be drawn In Washington en-
tirely.
II Is stated now, however. that this
can not be done. and that any draft
OF a treaty must go to Havana and be
returned before 1t can be submitted to
the Senate.
This, of course, can not be accom-
plished in the short space OF time in
tervening before adjournment. IL the
estimates OF the leaders that Congress
will adjourn by July 4are correct
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
DESTINY TO
ENTER

WASHINGTON, y. G., June es-tn
view OF the developments Within the
pas, few days. aud the certainty OF the
defeat of sne Cuban reciprocity bill. it
Is reasorshJg ssrtah that the move
ment which 81 now so small as to be
scarcely noticeable. will steadily grow
until some day fight will be made for
the admission of Cuba to the United
States. ~ .y -
L II will be of mach greater import
ance. and It's effect Will be more far
reaching than the one THE year ever
reciprocity. Several resolutions have
been introduced looking toward this
end, the more prominent being one in
troduced In the Senate by Senator e.
kins OF West Virginia, and one In the
House by Newlands of Nevada. Al
though Mr.. Elkins Is q Republican and
the Nevada Representative p Demo
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
.DETAILS OF 4 Big SWINDLE
Plunder to the Amount Of $4,000 Captured
in CHICAGO

He then sent the woman from Paris
to Cherbourg. from which place she
sailed to New York She arrived in
New York. April 90. registered at the
Belvidere hotel, and next day left for
Chicago.
Jaekkel arrived at the Belvidere two
days after Mrs. Wernecke had started
for the west, and made inquiries about
her and her two children. boy 10
yeas old and a girl OF IL.
The woman came on to Chicago and
deposited $3S.000 In safety vault
She was shadowed by detectives, ar
rested and the money recovered By
keeping close watch of the woman
Jaekkel was located,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
Wcdzel Killed Babu
Bu Sucking It's Blood

SULLIVAN. Ind, June 2s.--Ia.t
night a weasel came into the hcuss cf
William Woodard. 1t rleasalits si1lA
and climbed upon the bed where ~
infant child OF woodard W2a 1asep1ne
with It's mother. The weasel MI tnA
child In the hand and sucked AW1y to
little ones life blood. The tA1d1tx
was not awakened. The child died ~
day from the loss Of blood d !, q
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
MexICans Are White
SauS a Supreme Lodge

PORTLAND. O"e. June 2o.-beiore
a.Iiournment the supreme lodge ~. y.
= w rendered 1umc.oa3 dec's'ohs
upon points of lodge laws. The aues,
ton was raised whether apanla,u ',
Is white man within the meaning o.
tho regulations. and it was heia tnaI
he is. In Arizona and New Mexico
the question was raised whether Met.
lean was q white man. The decision
was that the Mexicans OF Spanish ue
scent are white but the Mexicans Oh
Indian blood are not.
Effort was made to unite vernon
with the Quebec jurisdiction put IN.
stead Vermont and New HampSn''e
were united.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 2s.--It
has been determined that no reciprocity
treaty with Cuba can be submitted at
the present session OF Congress.
1t was at first planned that in the
event of the failure of the administra-
ton managers In the Senate to secure
favorable action in the Cuban sugar
bill. treaty would be drafted at once.
This was on the understanding that
Senior Quesada. the Cuban minister
here, had full powers and that treaty
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
POLITICS IN NEBRASKA
CENTER ON W. j. Bryan
An Effort viii Be Made to Induce
Him TO lake Nomination For
Governor

GRAND ISLAND Neb. June 23.--
Delegates eO the Democratic-P PopuliSt
State convention, to be held hera to-
morrow, began to arrive today.
William J. Bryan, ex-senator Allen.
former Attorney General Smythe. and
others prominent in the council OF the
fusion forces are expected this after
noon.
Nobody cares to predict the result oil
the convention, but all agree tha- l.
will be clear sailing if Bryan accepts
the nomination for governor, which
he has heretofore refused,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
SEVENTH WEEK
OF THE COAL STRIKE
President MitCheII's FddreSS 10
the Public Read Aloud in tie
Coal Towns

WILKESBARRE. Pa. June 23.-The
seventh week of the anthracite coal
miners strike began today very
quietly.
The big towns of the coal region
show no outward evidence that the
strike is on, but in the small mining
settlements the men can be seen on
all corners idling away the days, walt
ing for something to turn up.
Interest today is centsred in Presi-
dent Mitchell's address 10 the public.
which was read aloud in al! the mining
towns.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
4. st5s4e~s
MILITIA ON GuAm
AT TOR0TO fiRMORY
s4s sHs the Street Cars ACe Not
Running and Negotiation
Goes On ..ssI

TORONTO, Ont. June 23.-The
street railway made no attempt to run
cars this morning.
About 1900 militiamen arrived at an
early hour and are quartered at the
armory.
A polonged conference was held dur
ing the night between the offcers 0f
the company and the Board OF Trade
committee. and today there is a possi-
blity OF settlement
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

LONDON. June 70. .--King Edward
and Queen Alexandra arrived In Lou
don from Windsor at noon to-day His
majesty appeared to be in his usual
health.
With the return OF the court to Lon
don. the festivities OF the coronation
may be said to have commenced, ana
eacn day until midnigh: of Saturday
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
ON the RAID
RTThCK SOLDIERS
GoupIe of Our Men ScrlOusIu
Wounded and the Moros Ahead
a Rifle

MANILA, June 23.--Fiye soldiers OF
the Twenty-seventh Infantry. forming
the advance guard escortmg a wagon
train half a mile from Camp Wears
Island of Mindano, were attacked today
by ten bolomen.
one soldier had his arm badly cut
eno another was seriously wounded.
The Moros captured rifle and es-
capcd uninjured.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
Railroad Accident
Collision OF ENGINES

STEUBENVILLE, o., Juno 23.-TwO
engines on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
railroad collided at Mingo Junction to-
day during a heavy fog. killing two
trainmen and injuring several others.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
KIM and 0u0e0 Have Arrived In London and
Ceremonies 6nSue

will furnish its quota Of attractions.
which promise to make this week
memorable.
From today. special ambassadors,
envoys and princes. invited to join in
the festivities, become guests Of the
king.
Royal personages are arriving today
in great numbers from the continent
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
ENGINES DESTROYED
BY FIRE AT FRESNO
Southern Pacific Round House
BtFRed and Much Propertu
Consumed

FRESNO. Calit., June ga big
fire In the Southern Pacific round :
house caused damage amounting to
$4,000.
At the time OF the fire there were ten
locomotives in the roundhouse, all
equipped for next days work.
Of the ten, four were destroyed.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

PHOENIX, Ariz.. June 23.-The fol-
lowing telegram has been received from
Washington by b Heyman. chairman
OF the Statehood committee of the
Board OF Trade:
Statehood fight abandoned for this
session on general agreement TO grant
1t next session. b. A. FOWLER"
Mr. Fowler was a member OF the
last Territorial legislature, and has
been in Washington watching the
Statehood fight His dispatch is re-
gardsd here as an assurance that State
hood Will be granted next winter with
out doubt
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
Metal and Moneu Market.

NEw YORK, June 2l.-Mexican dol
lars. 421ac; silver. SO a Copper.
II 90 and l2.42La.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

Senate. Quay Of Pennsylvania acted
as the agent Of the 4erritoral dele
gates. 1t was finally agreed that the
bill should be reported to the Senate
at the next session. before the hOti-
days. and that a vote should be taken
without any effort at tilibustering
This Is satisfactory to the friends Of
the Territories. It means Statehood
next winter almost beyond peradven-
ture. There is a safe majority of ten
ir the Senate in favor of the bill, and
1t Is not improbable that 1t will pass
the Senate as 1t did the House, without
the formaIity OF roll call
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-19
BURIED IN RUINS.
Number at st. Pierre Now Es-
timated at $4,000.
Six Thousand MadeTheir Escape
or We're Rescued.
5000 WE'RE DROWNED.
Red Tape Tnterferes With I'm
loading of Supplies.
Bodies of American and British
COnsuIs Identified.
Mont Pelee Continues to Throw
Out Cinders.
5000 WE'RE DROWNED.

New York. May 1s-The first official es-
innate of the results of the explosion of
Mont Pelee have been announced, says
Fort de France dispatch to the World.
This gives IS 900 as the number of people
buried in the ruins of st. Pierre. Six thou
sand persons were rescued by. steamships
or fed to places Of safety. Three thou
sand probably were drowned. This is the
most complete estimate made so far. The
relief steamers now on the scene are the
American ships Cincinnati, Sterling and
Potomac and Longfellow; the French crui-
ser Suchet and the British supply boat Ma
diana. Owing to red tape it has been
found impossible, up to the present time,
to unload the supplies sent by the Cham
Der of Commerce of New York.
The bodies of Thomas T. Prentis, Ameri-
can consul, and James Japp, British con-
brought here for shipments. Both bodies
are bruised by the fall of lava and stones
almost beyond recognition
STILL SCOUTING CINDERS.
Paris, May 19-Gov. L.'Huerre of Mar
Unique has cabled to the colonial min
lister, NJ. de Crais, announcing that
Mont Pelee continues to throw up inn
mense quantities of cinders which, Ow-
ing to a change in the direction Of the
wind, are now covering the southern
districts of the island.
Violent explosions have been heard at
lie Carbet.
l. 1t SOf fGA4iOl LLL QCticIEQ t44GLC -
no danger of an outbreak on the part Of
the population of the northern districts
of the island, as alleged, owing to the
people being out Of work.
AID NEEDED FOR SIX MONTHS.
Washington. May 19.-Seeretary Hay
today received the following cablegram
from United States Consul AIcAlister at
Barbados, W T., dated today.
Sixteen hundred deaths St. Vincent;
four thousand destitute. Immediate
wants supplied. Aid needed for six
months This authentic"
The navy department received the
/ following dispatch from Commander
/ 11cLain Of the Cincinnati:
Fort de France, Navy 19.-Water
barge not needed. Ashes and volcanic
/ dust falling thickly here. Now like
1 thick fog.
The Potomac is reported to have
/ reached st. Lucia Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-19
MURDERED FOUR.
VIM. Austin Then Shot Himself
TO Death
Because He Couldn't Marry a
Thirteen Year Old Girl.

st. Augustine, Fla, May 19.-Crazed
by his infatuation for little Abitha Nc
Culloch, a 1S-year-old girl, VIM Austin.
aged 25, today killed the girl three other
persons and then committed suicide in
the farm house of VIM. Wilkinson, near
Hastings, Is miles from st Augustine.
The dead:
VIM WILKINSON, aged 81.
MRS. WILKINSON. his wife
MISS ABITHA McCULLOCH, aged
13
MISS WILKINSON, sister of Wm.
Wilkinson
VIM. AUSTIN.
The crime was discovered by John
Keller, who found the five eorpses, scarce
" cold, and but one living witness to
the tragedy-a helpless infant. Austin
had been madly infatuated with the
McCunoch girl and, it is said, killed the
family because his advances We're re-
jected and his desire to we'd the girl was
opposed. Austin went to the Wilkinson
house Friday night and proposed mar
riage. He was rejected, but vowing he
would marry the girl, hurried to this
city and procured a license. He went to
church on Saturday night and told
every one whom he met that he was to
be married that night About Z o'clock
this morning several pistol shots were
heard, but no investigation was made
When Wilkinson failed to appear at a
neighboring house where he was en-
gagged in harvesting a crop Of potatoes,
John Keller a farm hand, was sent for
him and discovered the tragedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-19
THEY WANT HARRIS.
Clay County Populists Instruct
For Governor.

Clay Center, May 19-The Populists
of Clay county held their convention
Saturday and elected delegates to the
state, congressional and judicial con-
ventions.
If a coalition is effected as laid down
in the resolutions, ex-senator G. w
Hanna VIII have the undivided support
of Clay county for lieutenant governor.
Granting that D. J. Hanna, of Hill City,
should receive the nomination on the
Republican ticket for the office to which
his brother aspires as an independent,
the people of Kansas would see the
biblical version of house divided
against itself truly exemplihed.
The following are the delegates to the
Topeka convention June "A W. D. Vim
cent, J. G. Cowell. e. L. Carson. Chas-
Kelly, T. G. Ryan, Geo. Mccormick. W.
A. SchOonoyer and M J. Watson.
The resolutions adopted by the con-
vention are as follows:
We denounce the new election law
passed by the last legislature as an un-
Just, unfair, dishonest and diSgraceful
attempt tc disfranchise d large number
of voters in this state. It should be re-
pudiated at the first opportunity by
every man who believes in fair play
common honesty and decent politics. It
is the duty of all voters who are op-
posed to this infamy to make such rea-
sOnable concession as Will enable them
to make a united effort at the polls 10
wipe it off the statute book and place
the seal of condemnation upon those
who are responsible for it; therefore,
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that the delegates we elect
to the state convention should use every
honorable n cans to effect a union of all
the opposition forces to the Republican
party and the most practical means
toward the accomplishment of this end
is the nomination of an independent
state ticket with Senator ". A. Harris
as the nominee for governor. We are
but little concerned with party names
but pledge our renewed efforts and in
creased energy for the principles we
have advocated from the beginning of
our party, and we are not ready to sur
we are assured that it viii never waver
in its advocacy of reform. While we are
anxious for victory we are willing to
suffer defeat with right principles rath-
er than seek success by abandoning
/ principles.
Resolved, That the cruelties and inhu-
man treatment inflicted upon the Fill
pinos which is now being daily un-
! earthed, confirm Us in the knowledge
! that we have been right and are right
in bitterly opposing colon1alism and i'm
( perialism.
Resolved. That it is the sense of this
convention that Hon. W. S. Glass should
be nominated for judge of this Twenty
first judicial district as an Independent
candidate, either by mass or non par
tisan convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-19
TO name BAILEY.
Such Action Conceded by Wash
ington Republicans.
Trouble Over Cuban Reciprocity
Feared at Wichita.

St. Louis, May 19.-The Globe-Demo-
crat today publishes the following from
Washington
All the Republican members of the
Kansas delegation viii leave the last OF
the present week for the purpose of at
tending the Republican state conver-
ton Mr.. Bristow. fourth assistant
postmaster general, will also attend the
convention.
While there is no particular uneasf-
ness among the members of the delega-
tion, there is much concern over the
action the convention may take upon
the question OF reciprocal trade rela-
tions with Cuba. When that question
was up for consideration in the house
there was division among the Repub-
hcan members. Mr. Long made a de-
termined fight for the Ways and means
proposition, while other members op-
posed it. On the final vote the delega-
ton was evenly divided. In the mean
time congressional conventions have
been held in the state and without ex-
ception resolutions have been adoDted
by them declaring in favor Of the Pres
ldents policy of reciprocity with Cuba
It IS no secret here that the house,
members, with the exception Of Mr.
Long, are not in favor Of reciprocitv.
Some of them voted for the measure
because they considered themselves
bound by the action of the Republican
caucus. while others voted aqainsr III
after the measure had been amended
holding that the radical amendment re-
heYed them Of the obligation of sup
porting the caucus decision
But the matter has been complicated
again by the action Of Senator Burton
IN refusing to support the administra =
tlon policy on the Cuban question. Full
" aware Of the fact that the congress
s1onal conventions had all declared Tor
reciprocity, he took up the claims Of
the opposition and has been persist,s-1t
in his declarations against the pending
and proposed Legislation in this di. ec-
ton. 1t is not known whether he viii
oppose a reciprocity resolution in the
convention but the indications are that
he viii do so. or viii at least endeavor
to have such resolutions toned down to
be as mild a. possible. Any effort Of
this kind viii meet with opposition bv
other elements of the party
1t is conceded here that the Republi-
cans of Kansas win nominate Mr.. Bail
ey for governor. Senator Burton is
strongly opposed to Bailey and It is but
natural to expect that the triumph OF
the Bailey forces VIII be followed by the
adoption of resolutions which win be
in direct opposition to the senator's at
titude on the Cuban question