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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Geneveive, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Governor and Mrs. Markham, of California, died last Sunday. She had been sick for some time, having had the measles, which developed into typhoid fever, and for four weeks she had been in a semi-unconscious condition. The protracted illness of his child has not only interfered with Gov. Mark hams official duties, but has effected his own health.
 Beta A. H. Kaesman, residing in Baltimore, Md, has filed a suit in the United States court in New Or leans, against Brownlee W, Taylor for Sl00,O00 for breach of promise. She claims that he became engaged to her in June, 1888, but has post poned consummation of the nuptials from time to time upon various pre- texts. In April last she learned that had clandestinely entered into marital relations with another. Taylor is also charged with circula- ting reports affecting defendants good character, knowing them to be false. Taylor is we'll known here and stands high in business circles.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
RAILROAD TALK.
How the Proposition Looks on the Out
 side.


 All over the Coast the proposed building of road from the A. < P. via Prescott south, is receiving more than mere idle newspaper mention, and from the tenor of the press all over the ountry on the matter of the Santa Fe system being directly interested we take it as au- thoritative that but short time will elapse before actual work will commence. The Albuquerque Dem- ocrat, journal published at one center of the Santa Fe system, has the following to say:
 "Itis stated.as strongly probsble that within two years the Atchison, Topeka x Santa Fe will have an outlet to the Atlantic x Pacific from Benson. It is significant fac, that some of the stockholders in the Copper Queen mine are also fnan cially interested in the new north and south road"
 Bradstreet, also, New York fl nancial publication, likewise con tains an article showing that out side of the benefit of way points the road is to be built south from somewhere on the 4. & P. to con meet with its Benson branch Such authorities are unquestioned and argue conclusively in favor ol the construction of the road at some near day in the future.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
THE RAILROAD.
The Rnxinees Corps Camped Four
 Miies from Town.

Chief Engineer Burns, of the ;. F.. P. X P, and party of fifteen sur .yeyors made camp last night four miles from town on the old Hesser ranch. opposite the Point of Rocks. The survey made 50 far aud np to within four miles of their present temporary camp. runs to the west oi the line of the F. X A. C. from Chino valley and Is a shorter and more direct route than the latter road has. From their present camp it is Engineer Burns intention to run directly south to the foot hills mort of Prescott, over which easy grades can be had, and come down through the Campbell ranch to Granite creek, which stream will be crossed near the Sampler. From there the route to town is familiar to all. They expect to reach Pres colt not later than Monday evening. and after completing surveys in town, which will undoubtedly take up the rest of the week, retrace their steps directly down Granite creek. on the east side, to Chino valley, in | the hope that shorter route and better grade may be lad. The sur vey route already laid out from .
 point opposite Witheryille shows that they will shorten the distance i from that point to Prescott by at least two miles.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
erea. seuII,pg Watch.

HAMILTON, Ont, June 27.--1he great sculling match between John Corbet, of Chicago. and Dennis Don ohua. of Toronto, takes place al four o'clock this afternoon. The distance is thr miles with a turn and the course has been laid out at Rock bay on the north shore of Burlington bay opposite this city. The stakes are $500 side with S1.O00 added money. On this occasion Corbet makes his debut as . professional, having been ruled out of the amateur ranks several months ago. He has been training hard for the race at Pullman. His. and proposes to make the effort of his life. Donohue is re- garded in Canada as the coming champion of the world He went as high as it was possible to go in the amateur ranks before becoming a professional and his top speed has never been demonstrated. He Is a powerfully built young fellow, sew eral years the junior of Corbet, and has spent most of his life on the water
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
Athlete sparts.

NEW YORK, June 27.-A dispatch from Manchester says: Sporting men and patrons of athletics from all parts of the country are gathered here to-day to witness the great meeting between the big team of athletes of the Manhattan Athletic club. of New York. and the English amateur champions. The American contingent comprises Mortimer Rem ington, who will wear ~cherry dia- mond" in the sprints and quarter mile run: H. l.. Halleck, who is en- tered in the high jump; Malcom W. Ford, who before the day is over will give the Englishmen few points in broad jumping; C. l.. Nicoll, the ungs,inly walker but who always gets there: C. A. J. Queck- berner. the weight thrower; Luther Cary, the great record hunter; J. $. Roddy. the middle distance rnaner; If. l.. Dabman, Americas half-mile champion; E. D. Lange, the walker, together with A. B. George and W. F. Young, both noted athletes. The Americans are expected to capture the bulk of the prizes.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
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The east was visited again sby heavy storms last Saturday, as will he seen from tke following tele- grams:
 HoLsrEIS, Iowa, June 2S.-Anoth- CT most disastrous storm occurred yesterday. Lightning and hail have done irreparable damage in this section to crops and cattle. The district stricken by hail is three miles wide and ten miles long. Bar ley is almost totally destroyed. Wheat and oats are damaged. Cushing and Correctionvilie were flooded. Two children were drown. ed at Correctionville. and lightning killed Chris kinne. The whole country in this vicinity is picture of desclation and rain. HoX, cat tie and horses in large numbers an' seen floating down the river
 Sioux CIrY. Iowa, June 2S. A mail clerk on the road arrived here and tells of train on the St. Paul road which is water bound at Hornick with crew aud twenty-three passen- gers aboard. He says there Is no prospect of getting the train out for a couple of days He waded through miles of water to reach here.
 DEs MorSEs, Iowa, June 2s.-A heavy rainstorm strutk this cit v this afternoon. Rain fell at the rsse of nearly three inches an hour, soon flooding the streets. For a while the wind blew seventy miles an hour. Trees were broken and some streets are filtered with branches. Several buildings were unroofed aud other wise damaged.
 Reports from the surrounding towns show that the storm was even more severe north and west of Des Moines. Considerable damage was done to grain.
 ENPoRIa, Kas.. June 2S-Word is just received in this city of great damage caused by the heavy rains of Thursday in this and adjoining counties. Many farms have been utterly flooded and barns, imple- ments and entire crops washed away. On the farm of John Statler, on Jacobs creek. large orchards were destroyed. The storm also did great damage to buildings.
 At Taylor's ranch many fat hogs and a lot of poultry were lost Peo- pie were compelled to fee for their lives to high land and property was destroyed. All farms about this place are submerged.
 At Soden's mill, just below Elm poris, the river is out of its banks and has spread over the country for miles. In the food as 1t passes may be seen all kinds of wreckage-barns, parts of all kinds of farm machinery, wheat ill abundance, and here and there piece of driftwood Of wagon bed or a dead animal The flood is now srIbsiding.
 DENVER, June 2S.-News is received of destructive cyclone which passed over the country twenty-five miles east of this city on Thursday night. Houses were blown away, trees up- rooted and carried away and crops for many miles completely ruined. \ dozen persons were injured, but none seriously.
 At Clark's ranch hail fell for twenty minutes and killed about 250 sheep. Mrs. ], W. Adams, living two miles northwest of Deer Trail, says that hailstones killed innumerable chickens and ducks,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
The Texas supreme court h,

The Texas supreme court has rendered decision in famous rail- way case from Valrude county brought by attorney general, now Governor Bogg, and involving the question whether railroads are en- titled, under the constitution of 1876, to land grants on account of siding and switches. The court be- low gave judgment for the state. The supreme court reversed this on account of informalities, but holds with Bogg that the grants should not have been made on account of the sidings and switches. Through this decision, the state will recover over 6,0O0l000 acres to which patents have been improperly issued.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
Arironn,. Railroad Pro.pee,..

That this railroad proposition is becoming a serious question. is evil denced by the interest taken in it by the railroad men and the actual in- vestigaiions made by them. Arizona is going to have railroads and plenty of them. in the very near future, and Phenix is going to be the center, be- cause she is in the proper place and has the material resources to back her.
 There IS going to be no foolish ness about the matter now. for they have got to move to take advantage of this twenty-year exemption act. There are four railroads heading this way. and it is only a matter of time tilf they arrive. The building of the San Diego. San Quintin X Yuma road is an assured fact, and anyone who knows anything, knows that It will not stop at Yuma, but will build on up the river to Phenix.
 The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phenix railroad. which is now being sur veyed. will have trains running into the capital city before another year rolls around.
 The managers of the Mineral Belt road say they will have that line built in here before another eighteen months passes.
 Last but not least by any means, inc Calabasas road will be built, and may be the first one to enter the val lev vet, for those Englishmen have the money to build two or three such. roads, and they are not afraid to spend some of it when they see sue h an opening for making a paying in vestment. The country over which this road will be built is very level and the road can be built more eheapIy than any of the other pro- 5eeted lines.
 The land from Yuma to Phenix, on the north side of the river, is quite level too, and the San Diego road will have a much better route this way than the Southern Pacific has on the south side of the river. Not only will it have better route to build over, but it will open up one of the greatest farming countries m the territory. There are thousands of acres of fine fruit land between here and Yuma, being redeemed by the building of canals, that will only be used for raising alfalfa and stock until there is railroad built through on this side. Now is the time to build and the San Diego, San Quin- tin & Yuma people recognize this fact, and will build the road. There is greater future dawning on Ari- zona than the average man who does not search for the facts in the case has an idea of. We are just coming into notice and our true worth is be- ing realized.-Phenix Gazette.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
< rarmers eenysu,inn,

SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 27.-A con vention of the farmers of central New York opened here to-day. It is held in response to call adopted by the various farmers organizations of the district and which declare that the agricultural classes have suffered great injustice from obnox- ious legislation and that redress is demanded not only by attending to their wants, but by a selection of some of their members as candidates by the leading parties. The address takes strong ground against third party movement saying that nothing but exceptional reasons have in. duced them to support independent nominees. The convention will ad- journ this afternoon.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Tacoma, Washington, is to have . Sl0O,0O0 park.
 The prince of Wales life is insured for SS00,00O.
 The Gulf of Mexico has risen over & foot since 1852.
 The cost of burying the late Grand Duke Nicholas of Russs. was $200, 900.
 The one part of the world in which no native pipes and no native smok- CTS have been found is Australia.
 A French army surgeon suggests the introduction of shoes with rubber heels as 6 means of lessening fatigue.
 \ hotel for the exclusive use of colored people is the latest innova- tion in Boston. No white trash ad- mitted.
 There are eighteen counties m Pennsylvania that have no debt. The combined debt of the other counties is &S,979,972
 In the great animal market at Hamburg, Germany, giraffes sell at S7,0OO a pair, chimpanzees go at SSOO apiece and select lots of Sumatra monkeys at Sl,000.
 The output of whisky from the Kentucky distilleries last year amounted to 25,00,0O gallons, nearly S.OO0,0O0 gallons more than the average annual product.
 An Ohio woman is a candidate for a position in the railway mail ser vice. If she succeeds she will be the pioneer mail woman in the railway branch of the service.
 At a newspaper exhibition in Paris there are 5000 specimens of journal ism from all parts of the world. A vast number of newspapers of Amer ica did not show up.
 Base ball playing on the house roof is the novel though dangerous way in which a number of factory hands in New York spend their din ner hour. A long cord Is attached to the ball and then tied to the chimney, so that the ball cannot get ont of reach.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
Can Manage Their Own Ana,r..

BALTIMORE, June 27.--Copies of the resolutions recently adopted by the American Catholic Union, which recently met in secret session m Mil waukee, have been received hers by leading ecclesiastics closely identi- fled with Cardinal Gibbons, and their tone has given considerable satisfaction, especially as 1t Is in full accord with the views of the Lu- cerne movement recently semi officially expressed in behalf the Cardinal. The resolutions strongly protest against the foreign move ment declaring that no special rec ognition of distinct nationalities on the government of the church in this country should be given in so- much as it would give the church a foreign aspect and render 1t not only an object of suspicion, but absolute ly odious. that the rights of Ameri- can Catholics in this country are paramount to all others, and that their welfare should first be con suited and their spiritual wants sup piled, that the Catholics of the Uni, ted States are abundantly able and determined to manage their own affairs, and that all liberty-loying Americans should protest against any interference of agents of foreign organizations whether they be off, cial or unofficial. The substance of the resolutions have been cabled to the Vatican.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
4 Reception to p,.Aer Sleho,.on.

MILWAUKEE, June 27.-Rev. Dr. W. H. Nicholson, of Philadelphia, who was recently elected bishop of this Episcopalian diocese, arrived here yesterday afternoon and is to-day in consultation with the standing com mittee. No official statement re- garding his acceptance or otherwise of the bishopric has yet been made. 1t is thought, however, that he will accept. Tonight a reception will be tendered him at the Deanery when the Episcopalians of this dio- cese will be offered an opportunity of meeting one of the most brilliant and eloquent Episcopalian diyines of this country,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
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Sarah Meeownn's nafftnSr
 NEw YoRK, June 27.-The case of Sarah McGowan. who seeks author tv from Archbishop Corrigaa to in- sfitnte a suit for divorce against her husband, has been placed m the hands of Rev. Dr. McGyrk, of st. Paul's, whose office in ti,is dio- eese is that of .Defender of the marriage tie.' Mrs. MeGowa4n, who is only tweniythree years of age, comes of wealthy family. She IS rich in her own right, having been left quarter of a million dollars a few years ago by her grandfather, John McGrane, the wealthy con tractor. Ex-Congressman John liar dy was her guardian up to the time of her marriage. This event took place last October, her husband be- ing Tom McGowan, a young and n well-to-do real estate man. At one time it is said that she was en- gagged to Mayor Grant. The young couple lived happily enough for a few months, and then their domestic harmony was broken. For some time past they have lived apart. The husband is as wealthy as the wife. Both are good Catholics and dread resort to {, e courts without the authority of the church. The wife claims that she was insane at the time of the marriage and that she did not realize what she was doing until sometime after. She
 now seeks the authority of the church to bring suit for annuiment of the marriage, on the ground that at the time she was lncapabie'oi l giving consent. In corroboration of this she states the fact that q couple of years ago she was sui. ferer from nervous prostration, and
 compelled to become an inmate oi
 a retreat for a time. Her witnesses
 are confident that upon invastlga-
 ton an ecclesiastical court will, so
 far as the church is concerned, pro
 nounce the marriage void ab initio ] just as a similar court of the Epis copsl church did recently in the
 case of Bishop Littleiohn's daugh
 ter. Mrs. JeIks Monsignor McDon
 aid, secretary of Archbishop Corri gan, says that insanity of one of th' contracting parties yoids the mar
 riage in the eyes of the church just
 as it does in the civil courts.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
Territorial Items.


 The Indians are beginning to de- liver barley to the traders at San Carlos.
 s. X. Patton, the architect and contractor of Phenix, is building a Sl2OO0 brick hotel in Williams for c. E. Boyce.
 The Aztec Cattle company is ship ping thousands of cattle from ranges in Apache and Coconino counties.
 Ed. Rose. who arrived in Globe on Wednesday, stated that grass hoppers had invaded Pleasant Val vey, and threaten the destruction of vegetation.
 Speaking of the premature move for the admission of Arizona to statehood, the Nogales Herald re- marks: In the light of census facts it looks as though we are manifest : ing desire to be pulled to green
 The Citizen, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, remarks that, ''at the rate of one thousand feet of lumber per acre, which is a very low estimate, Arizona has 1.430, ,O00,0 900 feet of the finest lumber standing in, the forests awaiting the woodman's axe.'
 The Nogales Herald says: A north and south railroad will give the peple of Arizona admirable and convenient resorts--the northern part for the summer, and the south ern part for the winter. In this re- gard, Arizona is one of the grandest political divisions of the United States.
 The capitalists who secured Mili- tary plaza, for big hotel site, have asked and been granted an exten- sion of 90 days time for beginning work. It would be unfair to hint - et. the big hotel will not be built, but little crystal tear appears in Tueson's right eye, all the same Exchange.
 A tenderfoot from the effete east who is supposed to have "a pull" on the administration at Washington has been trying to oust Gen. Jim Chatham from the Nogales post office and secure ''the posish" him self. The people of our border city resent the interference of the cheeky stranger, and republicans and dem ocrats joined in a remonstrance to the department at Washington, ask ing that Mir. Chatham be retained ss postmaster.
 Secretary N. O. Murphy will de- liver the oration at Prescott on the 4th of July. The Secretary has never laid any claims to proficiency as an orator, but when he delivered the address at the Territorial fair, last fall, he completely knocked out all the medium orators and greatly expanded the optics of the big guns. Since that time he has been in de- mand on all occasions where vigor- ous and clean-cut oratory is rcquir- ed, and he is regarded as one of the best speakers in the territory.--No- gales Herald.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-01
A.BIe NUGGET.
A Specimen Valued at Over s6oa--
 Found in Arizona.

The St. Louis Globe Democrat, in a recent issue, has the following to say and eyinces much interest over the finding of nugget that attracts but little notice here as the finding of such riches Is of common occur ence among the miners of that sec ton of the county:
 Mir. Alfred Berke, of this city. who has just returned from trip to Prescott, Arizona, brought with him one of the largest, if not the lar rest, specimens of virgin gold ever seen in this city. The specimen is a nu .get five inches long by three inches wide, and a little thicker. than mans hand. 1t is pure gold, with very little rock or alloy of any kind, and weighs thirty-seyen ounces and one pennyweight. Mir. John Roland, who saw it, says it will run at least twenty-three carats fine, and at that value it is worth S666. The nugget did not come from mine, but was picked up about six months ago by a Mexican in a gulch on the Ante lope mountain, Arizona, in the Big Bug district, twenty-two miles south of Prescott. The nugget is owned by the Bank of Arizona, at Prescott, ] and it is their intention to send it to i the Worlds Fair at Chicago. Mir, Berke tried to buy it. but it was not for sale. Wanting to counteract the report that nothing good eau come from Arizona he. after considerable persuasion, and after giving writ ten agreement that 1t would be re- turned, secured the nugget. Charlie McLaren and several other experts were shown the specimen by Globe Democrat reporter, and they ali said | they had never seen anything like 1t
 Mir. Berke says that nuggets have been found in large quantities ia the Antelope mountain, but the one hs has is by far the largest ever found
 He says that in 1861 gentleman we'll known in that region as "Olc Man Peoples" took a party of mer through the gulches of Antelops mountain and was driven of by th' Indians. Before leaving, however he gathered, in a gulch about twety
 five miles east from where this mug get was found, about S20000o 'yortl of nuggets of various sizes. Hesay' the hills of this region are very ricl aud Mexicans with nothing but { crude pan make from S4 to 5 day There are no railroad facilities neal this section. but it will be opened a. soon as the Santa Fc, Prescott A Phenix road is built. lie says ther, are men who own mines that hay, worked them, but have bsen com pelled to quit, owing to lack o capital. The foot hills are onl, worked in this primitive way, owing to the lack of transportation iaeili ties and capital, and he thinks tn, new road will revolutionize thai country.