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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1899
Page
2
The piece references a coveted $30,000 pink gemstone and jokes about a chewing-gum trust. It notes Wald Morton & Shewman as publishers and comments on “two fires” toasting a person. Arizona tone per the Mel City Mesa Free Press column.
France states it will not include a dedicated women’s department in its exposition and signals a limit to the scope of the event.
Modern inquiries increasingly cast the Keely mystery in a sour light as new evidence sullies the once celebrated discovery. A famed wild camel’s fate looms as a cautionary symbol of failed escapes and the era’s evasive hoaxes.
The piece notes Englishmen’s insularity and distance, contrasting it with the wide expanse of the British Pacific island empire. It suggests a general insular tendency observed in discourse about distant realms.
The Kaiser delivered a sample Krupp field gun to the Sultan and the Sultan possesses 152 more of the same model. W. Hohenzollern acts as the advance agent of prosperity for the Krupp gun factory.
A storefront displays a broken English phrase promising good service. The piece notes English cultivated in late Spanish colonies as a proposed new dialect, suggesting Havana embraces evolving language forms.
The tale recalls Earl Poulett, disowned by his father, who plays his organ beneath the late sire's window. A vivid contrast is drawn between hollow juvenile pleasures and the arc of this striking act of vengeance.
An examiner debunks the long standing belief that engineers whistle and jump to safety by reversing levers. He asserts the engineer shuts off steam applies air brakes opens the sand box and jumps. If afraid to jump the engineer risks death or hero status.
The piece praises the Australian ballot as a vast improvement over prior methods and notes its rapid adoption across states. It argues for further precision, suggesting voting by machinery as the next step toward more accurate elections.
The text argues that unlike Britain's, the United States also spans the world from Alaska to the Philippines with possessions across diverse climates. It claims these territories lie within easy sailing distance of each other and are productive and full of future promise.
A French invention merges gun and camera into a portable device with a four inch bore and leather covered barrel. It uses a breech box with levers to shoot twelve frames as it tracks a bird or moving object, reloadable like a regular camera. The article notes burglary and justice implications as potential unintended uses.
The Watchman notes a type of person who seeks martyrdom by always sacrificing for others. They shoulder too many burdens and show stress in appearance. Promiscuous charity can do harm, as some mothers Überdo labor for their daughters, sparing them from needed care.
The letter argues cartoonists should replace the long nosed, patchwork Uncle Sam with a true American type. It condemns the current caricature as unrecognizable and states other nations like Great Britain have fitting symbols. The piece urges artists to craft a universally recognizable figure that commands respect and reflects Courage and enterprise.
London Truth recounts a tale of a wealthy heir who marries after hearing a telephone voice, believing she is his perfect match. He sends money to aid her move and status, only to die by suicide days later, leaving the note I have made a mistake. The piece argues many marriages arise from trifles like voice, looks, or manner, not real compatibility, and misery follows.
The article surveys giant artworks from Tintoretto in Venice to Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, noting 84 by 34 feet for Paradise and 133 by 43 feet for the Sistine ceiling. It also mentions John Martin's Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still and large Royal Academy portraits, with Val Prinsep’s Delhi gathering near the east wall.
The article states 100000 elephants are killed each year to supply ivory. It notes Great Britain uses the product of 30000 elephants, totaling about 1200000 pounds of ivory.
A selection of brief Southern California and Arizona items report political moves, legal challenges, gopher migrations signaling rain, railroad expansion, pensions for Californians, a tragic suicide in Indiana, water development pushes, and Clifton smallpox response with guards and arrests, reflecting regional concerns and notable events.
In Tacoma Washington two armed highwaymen hid on a bicycle path two miles from the city and robbed seven men between 8 and 11 PM. They used aprons from a candy maker to bind prisoners, then tied hands and feet and left them in bushes. One man escaped by rolling and untying another with his teeth.
At about seven o'clock two men, likely the same pair, held up T. O. Abbott a prominent attorney near his residence but he broke free and escaped. A prior alarm was raised though the robbers fled.
A vast rockslide at Rucuerja near Albaceta, Madrid province destroyed numerous houses and killed many. The Madrid correspondent notes Don Carlos bans Carlists from the forthcoming Cortes election. London plans telephone service competition seeks $10,000,000 start. A Toulon powder magazine blast suspect faced alleged persecution by a corporal. James Brown Potter to sue for divorce while Mrs Potter shines in The Musketeers. Italy relays insult over Sanmun coaling demand risking China Italy rupture. Russia and the United States protest seeking compensation.
London‑The Bombay correspondent of the Morning Post reports bubonic plague in unprecedented severity with 912 official deaths last week, far surpassing prior mortality figures.
Spokane reports the richest gold ore yet found in Republic Camp on the Colville reservation at the Flaghill claim. Telluride ore yields $18 987 per ton at twenty feet. Camp crowds grow daily and mining men predict 5000 to 10 000 people by midsummer and year end. A sensational strike also at Bunker Hill mine on Palmer mountain in Okanogan county with fourteen ounces of gold from sixty pounds of rock.
J P Bauscaren retraced to the Koukuk mining region in the Arctic Circle. He describes a 2500 miner expedition last spring and notes Indians have mined gold dust valued at 1000 to 1500 dollars yearly. He plans hydraulic mining with water sluicing on Tramway Bar.
Fifty people escaped a near fatal crash when a Halsted streetcar failed to notice an open bridge on North Halsted. The motorman braked and reversed but the front of the car jammed on the bridge abutments. He warned passengers and jumped to safety in the river. several injured but no deaths.
Illinois forms a soap trust while dispatches cite a deadly blow to the commonwealth. Aguinaldo and a Missouri prosecutor spark international and domestic comment as Cuba edges toward modernity with a tobacco trust. The Senate repeals the Minnesota sugar bounty law and President McKinley plans a Georgia vacation. Dewey may not seek the Presidency, while Turkey lures American methods. Spokane reports a smallpox scare after a streetcar incident and mayor Olmsted declares the case.
War Department explains troops en route to the Philippines receive refrigerated beef where possible and ship cattle on hoof where refrigeration is insufficient. Canned roast beef is not issued as travel rations, with only a small remnant of war supply left and no new purchases planned.
Philadelphia Captain Torrence of the British tanker Tan carville in port after firing on three mutinous sailors during a January outward voyage to Belfast. A hurricane drove the ship as a propeller came loose revealing a tense mutiny. Torrence ordered confinement and fired. One sailor died and another went insane.
Captain Torrance faced Board of Trade scrutiny over his actions but was upheld by the board. He remains reticent about the affair and says he acted to save the ship, a measure he believes necessary under the circumstances.
San Francisco man George H. Holden brings 110 head money claims from Dewey’s fleet officers and men. Total head money equals 187,500 dollars with 100 per head for Montijo fleet. Prize money for Dewey’s officers and men totals 400,000 dollars plus salvage from three vessels. Distribution via U S district courts. Holden comments on Admiral Dewey’s health and workload.
The Twenty third Kansas Volunteers en route to Leavenworth from Santiago passed through Kansas City. A fight near St. Louis led to private Williams being stabbed to death by private Jorge Ray after an earlier assault. Ray is under arrest. Private Burt Moore of Kansas City died on the train from fever contracted in Cuba.
Gen M Gomez held a two hour talk with Gen Brooke on paying the Cuban army the 3 million dollars offered by the United States as a condition for disbandment. He aims to disband troops with or without the disaffected and pleases U S military authorities who trust he will meet Porter. Distribution of cash may begin within a fortnight.
George Beatty, co owner of Beatty Brady Glass Works at Dunkirk, is arrested on six complaints three alleging firing workers for union membership and three alleging coercion to discharge a union member. He posted bail for all cases. Arrest organized by Indiana Federation of Labor members D. F. Kennedy and B. H. Campbell with advisor Carrick.
In St Scholastique Quebec Samuel Passlow and Cordelia Poirer await execution for Poirer's husband murder. Passlow attempted escape last night after being moved from his cell. Poirer requests her parlor organ be moved to the jail for her death service. The hangings are arranged back to back with a heavy curtain between them at St Scholastique tomorrow.
A fragment from a Syracuse Herald poem notes a boy on a burning deck fearing to reach land because he would be kissed.
Jose Rayle a Mexican rurale was shot by seven men led by the outlaw Chappo while attempting to arrest cattle thieves near Neji on the Tecarte ranch. Rayle died from his wounds after the incident, and a party including the governor set out from Ensenada to pursue the desperados.
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