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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1898
Page
2
The piece notes a professional boxer is described as a pneumatic fighter and mentions edge tool workers consolidating with a $2,000,000 capital. It comments on a renewed bustle that will affect women and criticizes a submarine vessel lacking improvement over the provocateur.
An opinion notes New England manufacturers struggle while cotton plants thrive in the South. It argues that risky investments can fail at home as easily as in distant ventures like the Klondike. It also mocks Japan’s cautious stance by suggesting a more aggressive posture.
A special dispatch notes a Cincinnati man experimenting with a flying device described as goose styled. The report suggests plausibility of such an unusual aviation effort.
A Nebraska man seeks “one wife” in a curious ad suggesting future orders if the sample pleases. An Alabama man dies by his own hand on a wedding day, a grim note amid the era. The adulteration of wheat with corn meal is blamed for widespread concerns, though corn remains a wholesome component.
The two convicted bigamists Bates and Ratcliffe are described as finding their proper place in the penitentiary rather than in a dime museum, underscoring their criminal notoriety.
A mock solemn note on how proper speech would describe George Washington as “the English country gentleman who vanquished the armies of the English king” reflecting satire of high society language.
The Chinese Minister in Washington asks why European powers would not partition Turkey instead of China. The remark highlights China as wealthier yet weaker than Turkey and suggests experienced agents prefer easier prey when faced with a hard task.
Despite his stalwart Americanism, Ambassador Hay is well thought of in England. The public may come to acknowledge that the English admire a man who stands up for his own country, as they always do for theirs.
The report notes a total of 18,218,400 tons passing through the canals at Sault Ste Marie this year, up more than 2,000,000 tons from last year. The article implies continued expansion as years go by.
The passage notes a threatened jury strike in New York unless given breakfast as a device to correct injustice. It also asserts that the jurors later found the accused guilty on oath and with a full stomach, claiming this shows the verdict was just.
The late Dr. Thomas Evans, a renowned American dentist in Paris, exemplified a motto to “learn to do one thing better,” a principle that led to his extraordinary success and earned him sixty three decorations from European monarchs.
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute dedicates an agricultural building. A speaker argues it is better for Alabama to invest in training each student now than to later spend much more on convicting them. He notes illiteracy is costly and education reduces crime with no color line in the issue.
Congress passes a bill prohibiting American citizens from pelagic sealing and forbidding fur seal imports from waters named in the act. The measure aims to bolster efforts to halt deep sea sealing by urging other governments to suspend the practice. It directs officers to seize and destroy seized skins.
The text notes that young men born and raised on farms increasingly move to towns and cities, describing it as an unhealthy and unprofitable trend for many families and communities dependent on rural life. It frames the shift as a broad social pattern with negative economic and social effects.
The article argues farming is safest and most reliable work, warning city life leads to regret. It calls on farmers and farmers institutes to foster increased interest and a stronger esprit de corps among practitioners.
The article argues wealthy Americans should spend large sums to build castles in the United States rather than charity or foreign properties. It praises the trend as beneficial to circulation and the national economy, noting maintenance stays domestic and avoids ostentatious imitation of British aristocracy.
The piece questions a strict concealed weapons ban arguing it disarms honest citizens and leaves them vulnerable to criminals. It proposes arming threatened individuals while condemning law-breaking and critiques the growing prominence of sport in public life and education.
The article explains piano leather, the costly covering for piano keys. It notes it comes from buckskin skins prepared largely in America, sourced by a German agency from gray deer near the northern lakes. The Kutzchmann family runs six tanneries in Germany, with the largest in Thuringia, selling at $15 to $18 a pound.
A condensed roundup notes the Fair estate wins a San Francisco water front case. Other items report the Columbia River Canneries Company formation with 500000 capital, Seals scarce at San Francisco, Rosalie returning from Alaska with dust and Klondikers, and Fontana Co plans a 25000 cannery at Hanford employing 500. Also mentions a shooting injury to Col George B Sperry, Indian land title wins, ship and railway developments, and public notices from state officials.
Jerome smelter has resumed operations and the Fortuna mine near Yuma produced 64000 dollars in bullion in January. Newhall dry washers near San Francisquito yield well. three adjacent claims to the Etta mine in Cherry Creek are bonded to Montoauk Gold Co of Prescott for 27000 dollars. Chloride mines in Mo have reached 200 feet. ore value has doubled since surface. Fred Herrera reports gold from Santa Cruz placers. Jerome copper mine frame, eighty feet high, with large Oregon pine timbers. Virginia Dale dry washing shows up to 20 dollars per day per man. Tombstone veteran Ed Cummings, known as Judge, died of pneumonia at 46. Klondike fever grows, outfitters busy, hundreds head to Alaska from Los Angeles. Senator Mining’s twenty-stamp mill near Yuma crushes fifty tons daily. mine depth 200 feet with 100-foot and lower levels extending, and a new drift uncovers a rich ore body.
Pittsburgh election leaned Republican. Frances Willard of the WCTU died in New York. Supreme Court approves sentence for ex banker Spalding. Maher stops Smith in Philadelphia. Appeals Court bans cast iron pipe trust. Brown dropped from Chicago Congregational Association. Pittsburgh fire toll 18 dead 31 missing. Kansas Pacific sold to U P for 6.303 million. Olatha residents denounce ex Gov St John. St Louis bans prizefighting. Richard Powers sets pistol record 96 of 100. Maj Dick to step from race. Lake Erie men feared adrift after ice fishing storm. Yale faces YWCA criticism. Mormon war talk at Salt Lake. Theosophical Society to meet in Chicago. Suffragists celebrate 30th annual at Washington. Kansas Pacific eastern division sold for 4.5 million. Gompers counsels textile strike averted. Latimer trial details emerge. Ohio GOP convention anti Hanna wins. Cuban independence resolutions pass. Middlesboro smallpox epidemic closes town. Cassius Clay contemplates divorce from Dora. Russian Jewish colony in Lyon County Nevada prospers. thirteen families moved by Occidental. plans for ten more. 150 colonists on 5300 acres.
The General Land Office regulations revised December 15 1897 require patent applicants to spend at least 500 dollars of labor or improvements on each lode in a group of claims. Applicants must file a Surveyor General certificate proving the expenditure and accurate plat and notes to identify the premises.
On December 15 a man digging for a cabin foundation uncovered rich gold on a side hill above El Dorado Creek near Dawson. He reported the find to Dr Savage who, with Benjamin Olson and Enoch Emmons of Tacoma, located the first three claims. A stampede followed as others rushed to claim sites.
The California State Mining Bureau and its museum relocate to Union Depot at Market Street foot in San Francisco. The Pioneer building on Fourth Street had a long running rent of 250 dollars monthly. the new site will cost 100 dollars per month. The Jaynes mines in Yuma county will resume operations with 25 to 30 workers under new owner H. W. Blaisdell. Ore will be processed by the cyanide method.
Navy bulletin on rumors, civil service annual report with 49 145 applicants tested 28 598 passed. Vandervort Tongue case in the House seated Tongue from Oregon. Nominations sent to the Senate including postmasters in Arizona California Redlands and Santa Barbara. Spain disavows de Lome remark. Polo Hernandez named minister. Conferees seek unity of Democrats Populists and silver Republicans. Military Affairs panel blocks church worship on bases. Senate bars loans to bank officers without written proposals.
The dispatches report mixed world news including the Veendam wreck, deaths of notable figures like Osman Pasha and Rt. Rev. Selwyn, Colombia and Spain political tensions, rioting in Paris, trade and colonial matters, raids on Cuba, and trials connected to the Dreyfus affair.
News reports confirm the battleship Maine was destroyed last week with no official cause given. Captains request a lighthouse tender to salvage debris as investigators begin inquiry amid rumors of possible foul play and rising casualty figures at Key West.
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