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". . f& . -ih(nf fr"1 6f - - V-fr-34ji w.-M'pW'. 'r -W -"-6y-w- - --9?tfwsi T7- " l-T ' V-'-'Y ' J" TL""'!w ' -f'ftiW -S. - "WV" f i t r cj w ,f,r ,', f?fffr' ? & ' Urrftt THE WEEKLY ORB. ft . !' ".j. VOLUME III. BISBEE. COCHISE COOTY, ARIZONA TERRITORY, SUNDAY, MAY i, 1898. NUMBER 29. , tTTI-'Tv.' 1 y. (Vi i ,7s Jfe Wi'f r Siltsx and wheat are on the upward move. Silver is quoted at 58, May wheat (1.20. ' Girr. Long and hit Bisbee volunteers " , ""will make it rather warm for nny ma . rauden that may try to invado our little -camp. Flosb and a few otlior staple articles f food are going up in price as a result f the war. Tho Bisbeo market is al ready affected by the raise. Tiikbk won't bo any naval demonstra tion in Cuban waters liy the European , towers. If any such exhibition is given in that neighborhood it will bo by the United States. 4k Weylcx sdiould hurry up if he wants to get to Cuba ahead of the American aimV, The exe ci-es won't be post poned, and they may have to bo opened wilhtuthir ftwt'atnnie. 'A Tub U. t. nitnitor 'Jeiror has won the fiist niiv.il battle of the pre-ent war by capturing a Spanish gunboat. Spain is liable to bo seized with moro Terroi before Uncle .cam net through with her. : Pray for thu pood of the cause, for safety at honrc, for copious summer rains, for the building of the Nacosari railroad, the opening up of our mining resouices, and liiabee will then bo atricily in it. V If Spa nihh bonds continue to tumble in price people will soon be able to use them for cleaning windows. The own ers of those securities hold on to them imply becau-o they can't get anybody U help tl em let go. BiSDKB-has the honor of boing the ' yf jcnlytortJi in Cochise county that has t- - refunded to the call for volunteer" for cavaliy eivicc. Bite has hi' nibbed the fourteen allowed Cochise count), ami could furnish fifty more if necessary. Wxn between te two cniel ronper , producing countrie the Unitetl States and. Spain on top of the trtat electri cal demand will occasion a "boom" in the price, finderprehen. ordinary con . ' ditious, notevttn gold midn is so uni- S' X'S -T formly profitable. The R o Tinto com l," Atx, ' ,"r 'rv 'f Spaip announces a 40 per mint. " . ' dividci.d fr 16P7 j-cjcntifio Ticss. "w Tnn armies of the united nation are now being concentrated in the south, on the same ground where the hostile . armies of a divided nation fought the greatest war known to the history of ' the world. The enormous strength of such a combined fighting torce, in the light of what was done when it was divided, is hard to estimate, but it is r sufficient if brought to the test to shake the foundation of every national power j- on erfrth. r Ax eastern paper was somewhat sur prifed at tho patriotism t-hown by the west in the recent offeis by the govern orsof the western states to furnish vol unteer troop". The paper seemed to think that becue the west was united against the money shaiksof the cut that they would fail to suppoit the tov eminent. The west today contains more pattintic citirens who are willing to vo the front in prnport'on to its pop ulation than doos the wet. A wibk Ppiinish joutli, when called "' upon by his fxther to chpo-e a profes- 1 sion, said : "I decline to be a professor and go hungry; to be a statesman and become a target forass.tssins; to be a ptiect nud Uveas a piisoner; to be n ; sohlier and perish in Cuba or tho ' Fhilliiipines. I would prefer to be a '- titled and honored lord, to whom gold flies, and to whom Spain given glory in lifo, and fatno after death in a word I would become a bull fighter." T y Thk religion that niakts people pay their debts; the leMgion that keeps people from speaking ill of their neigh bors; the religion that makes no dis tinction between wealth and povcity; the icliginu that makes penplo honest tird upright: tho religion that makes men manly in i"womeii womanly; the re.igion that is a part of people' every "day life, exemplified in kind deeds, loving nets, cheeiiug wciih, is tho ro ligion that ip needed today. Somk AmtM'icaiis cxitrus1 d'satisfac- , Hon liccau'-o the American squadron doesn't tail in and captme Havana without delay. '1 ho Spanish ami Amor ienn navies aioof com pimitively equal stieugth, and for ou- squadron to en gage thu Spanish forts would more than likely lesult in the lo-ts of several of our vemds and the probable crippling of others, wh uli won! 1 give Spain's nay decidudly the bist of it. It is tho in tention of this government, no doubt, to uptiiri llnut'iu with laud lorcus without riskiiij,' ihe lois of any watshlpd. Oampaon's tlcet is blockading Havana, and that ii Tvht it is thers for. THE MAINE AS AN ISSUE. The destruction of the Maine in Ha vana harbor, is rapidly coming to the fore as tho casus belli 'between the United States and Spam. There has been complaint that President McKin ley has been disposed to relegate the loss of our ship and our men to a second place in tho pending controversy. But nothing of the kind has been done or attempted. A correspondent of the New York Tribune thus points out the status of the Maine question in connection with the president's attitude: 'In treating tho Mino disaster as evidence of lack of control justifying intervention rathor than a3 a primus casus belli, the president has placed any action which may be taken above and beyond all criticism by foreign powers, anil prevented any false sym pathy for Spain by her offer to arbitrate the question of fact and amount and to abide by tho award. Doubtless Spain would have address d such a note to all the towers, and accomptnie 1 it by a declaration that evidence existed as to internal causes, and in this ago of arbi tration Fomo of the powers would have 'onsidered that the United States were bound to accept the proposition, which would have resulted in two or three years' delay, and meanwhile, having made that the basis o our grievances, all intervention would necessarily have been suspended dining such arbitration. That contingency, however, is elimi nated by using the Maine for tho pres ent only as the strongest Utile in the chain of evidence which conclusively proves not only Spain's inability to con trol Cuba, hut that such lack of control is an unceasing menace to the lives and ptopeity of our citizens. Our claim against Spain for indemnity for our ship and the lives of the sailors remains iinptejudiced, as well as our right to make it the basis of hostile retaliation if Spain refuses pioperly to recognize the atrocity of the act. Furthcimore, the president has acted in accordance wit't precedents established by his illustri ous predecessnis. '! Jiia view of the case has already gotten into the heads of many of the piesident's criticp. He clearly stated in his message that one of the reasons for intervention was the inability of F ain to protect the ships of a friendly nation while in Spanish harbors in Cuba. Ilint was the cue taken up by the Kenate when, in the preamble to the tcsolutions of the senate foreign rela tions committee, it was set forth that: " 'The abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of tho people of the United States, havo been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they havo, in the do. sttuction of a Uniied States battleship with 2(i(i ot its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Ha vana, and cannot longer be enduted.' "Thus it is e'early discovered that the Miiiuu question, instead of becom ing bf secondary Importance, is in real ity the one thing the one act that ban forced the United Mates to its present portion. With the momory of iha torn and ragged mass of iron rust ing in the mud of Havana's harbor, and the recollection of the seventy Ameri can sailors who-c bodies still rest in that shattered battleship, comes a feel ing of revulsion and hatted for a nation that cannot "protect a 'friendly visitor. The explosion under the Maine has simply hastened the crisis." Tin: United States now has a squad ron in tho Philippines that is surpris ingly largo, when one considers the size of tho American navy. It consist? of nine vessels, seven of which can fight, whilo two aie ured as colliers. The fighting whips are the projected cruisers Ulvmpia, Baltimore, Boston and. Pal eigh, the gnuboiits Concord and Petral tho revenue cutter MtCullougl , which has n cnnsideiablo armament, includ ing a toipedo tube. Tho Olynfpia is considered about tho best and ino.it powerful ctuiser of 1 et class in tho bei v icc, whilo the others aro heavily armed. Comparison with Spain's fleet in the Philippines shows that the spiadrou under Conunoi'oro Dewey is fai bitpeiiur to it. A Spanish diplomat in London views th naval Munition in this way: "The A meiiuau navy is worked by a motley ciow of black men, yellow men, mid sailors of all notions. Well olficcicd, it is true, but what is this to the ciow of n Spanish ship, all of one nationality, under strict discipline, and lighting for their veiy kingdom?" The Anieiican nation is rathor "motley" when one stops to think about it. We are made up of all soils of ueoplc ii6horo as well as afloat, hut when it comes to an issue thoie is a union li ml to heat. The f!ag that tluhled over the wreck of the Maine would lo k almighty pretty floating above tho battlouieuts of Moio Castle. . WHERE PRIZE MONEY GOES. Spanish vessels and their cargoes cap tured by the naval vessels of the United States during the war with Spain will be condemned by prize courts and sold. All the officers and crews participat ing in each capture will receive shares of the prize money. The law governing condemnation of prizes provides that when the court shall determine that the prize was of superior or equal foice to the vessel or vessels tnakiug the capture, the entire proceeds of the sale shall go to the cap tors. When tho court shall determine that the prize was of inferior force, one-half the proceeds f the sale shall go to -the captors and 'one-half to the United States. Tho commanding officer of a fleet or squadron lecoivcs one-U'entieth part of nil prize money awarded to any vesst-1 or vessels under his immediate control. Ihe commanding officer of a squad ron or division under the command of a commander-in-chiel re -eives one-fiftieth of the amount awarded to the govern ment when the government receives a share. The fleet captain is cnti'ed "to one hundredth part of the a wauls made to any vessel or vessels of the fleet or squadron with which he is serving ex cept in case whore the capture is made by the vessel in which he is serving and in that case he shares in pioportion to his pay with the other officers and men on board the vessel. The commander of a single veael is given one-tenth of the money awarded to his vessel if it was acting at the time of the capture under the command of the commanding officer of a fleet, squad ron or division and three-twentieths if it was acting independently. After these deductions the remainder of the prize money awarded to a vessel is distributed among the officers and crew of u vessel in proportion to their respective pay. All vessels of the navy within signalling distance of the vessel or esaela making the captme under such ciicumstnucea and in such condi tions as to ren ier efficient aid if required share in the prize. TALE OF TWO CITIES. LATEST FROM TEE HUM WAsnis'QTOtf, April 3011:10 a. m. (Special to Tub Orb.) Word has Just been received at the navy department that another fort bad been bombarded on the Cuban coast. The Spanish guns were silenced. No particulars as yet. Kty West, April 30. (Special to the Otu) Word has just been received here that that the flag ship New York with Adairal Sampson on board, was fired upon by the batteries at Mariel. The New Yotk with one of the monitors re turned the fire, silencing tha forts in twelve minutes. The ships fired eleven shots in all, completely demolishing tho fort and silencing the guns. Kky Wesp, April 30. (Special to Tu Orb.) Two Spanish gunboats under cover f datkness attempted to sneak out of Havana haibor last night, but a couple of shots fiom tho blockading fleet made them change their minds and put back into the harbor. Hamptox Roads, Va., Apr. 30. (Spe cial to The Oed.) The flying iquadron with the flagship in tho lead and the other cruise '8 following closely, left the harbor this morning under sealed or dm. The vessels ran out several miles due east and then turned in a southerly direction. Havana A deputation from the pro duce exchange, reinforced by a number of wholesale) s and importers, waited upon tbe captain geneial, tendering to him all supplies needed for the army, and for all who mav need food, prorat ing actual cost among puichaseis. whether tho government, the retail dealers or consumer; and notilying him of a new legulation of the exchange, providing for the expulsion of any mer chant wl.o ehal), under any pietext, advance the price of commodities re quited by the army or the people. St. Lotus When the necessities of the government became urgent, the Mis souri mulo trust advanced the price $25 per head. Analysis of ihe bids sent to Washington disclosed the fact that them was scaicely a cent's diffeience between the highest and lowest offer. All bids weie rejected, and theiu is a big slump in the Misouii mule maikut. Tor venfication of thet-c twin items see ou- telegraph news columns this uiuining. Must we go to Havana for object le.i eoiis in patiioti-m, in self-sacrificing de motion lo flag ami home aud country? In common honesty and a decent legard for the eternal fitness of things, must we yield the palm to our Latin foes? Los Angeles Herald. A good war story comes from Nogales : A popular young business man down theie was between two horns of a seri ous dilemma. He was in love and he wanted to go to war. One day this week he confided to some fiiends that he couldn't 'hind thestiain any longer, and that he meant to piopose. "If I am accepted 1 won't go to the wai. If not, )ou can count on me." said he. Wednesday he appeared with beaming f.ue and announced to the boys tha. he had decided not to go to war. Tho in feience is that he pleaded his love suc cessfully, and theie will no douDt bo heard tho ringing of ineny woddiug bull in Nogales eie long. It is euggcbted in San Fiancisco that Spain might w oik one of tune's revenges by sending privateers up to tho uoith Pacific to captiiio Klondyke steamers laden with gold for the United btatcs. Hawkins, Drake and tho other English seamen two or three centuries ago made a b isincss of capliiiufg the big Spanifh galleons laden with thu silvc:.- of MjxIco and Pern. Wnaio inclined to belii ve that the Sp.m.sh fleet in thu Philippine Munds will Lo covered with so much D w y) after their engagement with tho Ameii can fleet that it will succumb to nut. Washington, April 30. Special to The Orb. The navy department has given out notice that the Flying squad ron had been ordered to join Admiral Sampson's fleet in the Cuban waters at once. It is thought the fleet is prepar ing to meet the Spanish fleet that is now on its way from the Cape Verde islands. The Minneapolis and Columbia are still on patrol duty along the coast of New England. Nkw York, April 30. (Special to The Orb). Considerable anxiety is again being felt.foi-Jho steamshjp Paris jvhiclj I was due in the harbor here yesterday. She has not as yet bacu spoken off the coast of Newfoundland. A steamship l the Guion line which left Southamp ton after the Paris, is expected in to morrow aud may bring woid of the Pari'. Hong Koxo, Apiil 30. Special to Tntt Orb Reports received here late last night states that the American fleet whicl-i left here a few days since were sighted off the north coast of the Philip pines. The insurgents have sent out a vnssel to communicate with them and warn the i of the tiap laid for them by the Spanish fleet. News Is expected hourly of the meeting ot the two fleets and u fie ice battle is expected. The American fleet has only four cruivers, two gunboats and two store ship with vmall armor, while the Spanish fleet has four cruisera, five guiibaaU und thr?e transports. Tho American cruisers are much better equipped than tho Spanish. Washington, April 30. (Special to Thk Onu.) Unofficial word has been received here from Manila, via Hong Kong that the American fleet undercom mand Admiral Dewey had reached the Phillippines and had attacked the Spanish fleet and that they were now engaged in battle. Advices are expected later and the news awaited here with intense anxiety. Washington. April 30. Ihe plane of the war depattment tor sending aims and ammunition to tho insurgen t army in Cuba under escort of United States troops bae been piaetically completed. Tho seizure of the port, it is said, will bo made by Pear Aduutal Sampson tod iy. The insurgents have been noti fied of the day and the place selected for the attack, and thev will assemble in foice near the point fixed on. It is understood that a portion of the block ading fleet will make a formidable demonstration against Havana or some other impoitant place in oider to draw the attention of Captain-General Blanco away fiom the main opuiattous, while tho second division will make a dash on the pori that has been selected as a bane. Many transpoits are now held in readiness to move tho t oops to the islands. Five thoimud msn aie to be lauded at Hi at. They will take C0.000 Wn -buster and Remington rifles, to gether with a large number of machines guns, wliuh will be turned over u. in iusurentf. mj' I Hi Iillrrr n '11111111 Consolidated Mining Co, m Goods Dep?J!tiiHt MrWw9 s WSkK fflm( i2os S &mjv9sm Large and Handsome Assortment Ladies' wrappers, 20 different designs, 75c to $2.50 each Misses' dresses, 75c to $3.00 each Ladies' underwear special values in knit goods and white muslin underwear for summer use Millinery the latest styles in straw hats for ladies, misses and children Infants' wash hats and lawn caps Gents' Fnshi 1 MOS SIIUII hum FTS v I'M rasitllis n ImSffr nil HH olid I fllliwii infill ilKiiil pgpvi UljIbO I I I Straw Hats Neckwear Hosiery and Underwear i HI Following are a few special values selected from carload just received: Woven wiro cots, -vith spring supports, $2.50 each Woven wire matt t esse, $3.00 and upwards, nccotdine to fctyle and sits Single iinn beds, complete with woven mattresses, ftl.oO each Centre tables, 85c each nnd upwaids Couches, $7.50 to $30.03 Pcd l-ounges $13.01) to $28.00 Folding Ueds, $14 50 to $-10.00 We havo a full line of novelties ii. this depnrtmsnt, conslstinscof Ms li cinu Cafes, Wall Buckets, Knels, Comb and Urush Uacks, Mir iam. Hlaekintrfets, Fi anted Pictures, Hat Ranks, ,fnpannu Goods CROCKERY AND QLASSWARE-Our spring stock has arrive I THE WALDORR Z3estaru.xa,:ri.t Main Street, Bisbee, Arizona. Otto W. Gcisenhofer, Prop H Bin in i 01 lor foils i Mm Frsh oysters and all kinds of game in person. The tablt supplied with tha ! the market afford " - v r f W.'l I St' Sift? - 44 'Vtfl $??'J "Jt "ifc ,-i .' ffc? tk yr w i' i K&i&l rjff Tfall m-,. m jf, - ; .a c rTirtarT ft I ,aj&' .Ch Hy-' ; fii ?& Z &" wS