The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-06

REV. l. N. MERRIFIELD has returned to Guthrie, Ok, from three months trip to South America looking up To- cation for cooperative colony on the Hooking Backward" plan. He suc- ceeded in getting conditional grants to 900,000 acres in Venezuela and Colum- bia.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities of the United States for the week ended November 80 showed an average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of go; outside New York the increase was 5.7.
 THE failures for the week ended No vember 30 Dun's reporD were 2s9 in the United States against 27l last year. DUN's Weekly Review of Trade on the 1st said the success of the govern ment loan had not perceptibly affected business. Wheat was l Ii cents higher than week ago and western receipts exceeded last years. Corn had ad- vanced fraction There was larger demand for iron, but the prices were weaker.
 Gov. FLOWER, of New York, has re- fused to issue acquisition papers for John D. Rockefeller and others of the Standard Oil Go. to the governor of Texas on the ground that the papers presented are not sufficient.
 THE Colorado land board has decided to annul the contract under which 1O,- 900 acres in, Montezuma county were leased to the Chicago Consolidated Land & Water Co.,, Chicago concern at the head of which is John V. Far well. Unless the company defeats the action of the board in the courts it will lose ditches and other improve ments.
 TIE Chicago police arrested seven young men recently who they claimed to be members of ''The Thieves Pro- tective and Mutual Benefit club" They made club house of deserted cottage. Membership was only possi- ble to one who had been at least four times under arrest and served at least one term in the Bridcwell. A search of the house revealed a large quantity of stolen clothing and plunder.
 A BIG consolidation of broom manu- idCluICES was oh iuC ~Obh dl Amsterdam, N. Y. It is a stock com pany and will be known as the Ameri- can Broom & Brush Co. The factories represent one-fifth of the entire prod uct of the broom and brush industry of the United States.
 A DISPATCH from New York of the 29th said that the bankers who united 4, la L. c- of the new government bonds sold S3, 900, 900 of them at ll03. They had previously sold S5, 900, 900 at 1l0 and had but S2,O00,O0O more to offer at 1l9T. What price they will ask for the rest of them had not been announced. If they succeeded in selling the whole is- sue at 119 to 119H they would make over Sl, 900, 900 clear profit on the trans action.
 Ar South Bridge, Mass, on the 29th the Worcester football team was to play game with the South Bridge team and in crossing over a railway track in wagons train struck the South Bridge wagon, demolishing it and scattering its occupants in every direction, three members of the eleven being killed outright. The Worcester wagon escaped by miracle.
 SECRETARY SMITH has received tele gram from Gov. West, of Utah, con. cerning the Great Southern Ute In. dians fighting settlers in San Juan county. The secretary referred the telegram to the war department with the suggestion that Gen. McCook be notified of the alarm.
 LYNDoNvILLE, Vt, was visited by fire which caused loss of about S20O, 0OO
 TIE director of the mint submitted his annual report on the 27th, being composed entirely of statistics.