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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Robert T. Lincoln ha. been elected

Robert T. Lincoln has been elected a director of the Pullman company.
 Dan Lamont is Co be made presi- dent of the Northern Pacific rail- road.
 The president has appointed Charles Page Brian, of Chicago, as minister to China.
 Joseph Nj. Shotwell, manager of the Merchants Exchange, of San Francisco, Is dead, Anti-Toxine is furnished free, for the treatment of diphtheria, by the board of health, of San Francisco, to all who are unable to purchase.
 Joseph E. Kelly, of Dover, New Hampshire, has pleaded guilty of murder tn the first degree for the killing of Bank Cashier Stickney, of the SomerswoTth National Bank.
 Miss Jennie Lincoln, daughter of Robert T. Lincoln, and Warren Beckwith, young business man of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, were married recently at Milwaukee.
 A. G. Guilam, manager of the Jones-Nixon Publishing Company, of St. Louis, and democratic candi- date for state senator at the last election, shot and killed himself on Thursday. No reason known.
 Arthur Tweedy, British Vice Con- sul at Santo Domingo, capital of the Republic of Santo Domingo, has been arrested there on a charge of obtaining S6,0O0 by fraudulent pre- tenses.
 A passenger train on the Louis vllle, Henderson and St. Louis road. was derailed and entirely consumed by fire ninety miles from Louisville. No lives were lost and no one wss seriously injured.
 Durrant's attorneys on Thursday applied before United States Circuit Judge DeHaven for writ of habeas corpus. The application was de- med and the judge also refused to to grant permission 10 appeal from this decision.
 California murderers are making strenuous efforts to escape the penalty of their crimes. One thou sandth part of the effort made against the commission of crime would have saved them their present conditions.
 A tract of land has been pur- chased near Matoon, Illinois, on which it is proposed to establish a home for dependent locomotive en- gineers, their widows and orphans, by the Engineers Brotherhood.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
CurfeM WIll Ring

While it is not known, perhaps. to many of our citizens that there is a curfew ordinance in existence in Prescott, such is a fact. 1t has remained for years as a dead letter on our clty statute books.
 On Tuesday, October 9, a com mittee from the W. C. T. U. waited on the city authorities and requested the enforcement of this ordinance, They were courteously received aud next Monday was fixed as the date for its being put into effect. This date was fixed in order that parents and children might have due notice thereof, and govern themselves ac- cordingly. It applies to all children under sixteen years of age and pro hibits them from playing or loiter- ing on the streets or alleys after 9 o'clock at nlght.
 It seems strange that a curfew ordinance should be needed to keep children of the streets after 9 o'clock, as one would think that parents would adopt a curfew regu- lation, yet It is a fact that boys from nine to eleven years old are seen out as late as midnight.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
A New Departure.

The Maricopa county board of supervisors has instructed its clerk to advertise for bids for the court reporting of that county. In refer ring to this matter, the editor of the Gazette says:
 "We feel assured that the board of supervisors will not endeavcr to carry out the order. The appoint ment of a court stenographer is a prerogative of the court, and one that should be exercised bT the judge only. The people of Arizona are cognizant of the fact that the laws of Arizona give supervisors too much power already, but when they propose to trench upon the privil- eges of the court, 1t is time thatfa halt should be called. The super visors of Maricopa county are fair minded, reputable men, and some scheming attorney has evidently misinformed the board as to their power in the premises. The court is the law. The Gazette has been made aware of this fact much to its chagrin in times past, and our advice to the present democratic board, is not to monkey with an Arizona judge. Their "inhereut power" is as endless and as limItlcss as the shores of the ocean, and very few of them ever fail to exercise it in an
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
CONCERNING HOME RULE.
A Prescott Man Corrscts aA Error Rs-
 gzFdihg League No. Members.

ksSothk keAAue Nos MemuerSs
 The poverty of the attendance at the home rulers convention at Pres colt last Saturday night is shown in the circumstance that Jos. Dough erty, a life long and consistent re- publican, was made a member of the executive committee of the Home Rule League of Arizona No. l." Mir. Dougherty VAS not present. As soon as he found out what they had done to him, Mir. Dougherty addressed a communication to the JouRSAL-MrNER, saying that the use of his name was unwarranted, that he was pleased with the existing order of things, and was not m sympathy with the purpose of the meeting.
 It was stated in The Republican yester lay that the participants had no other object in view than to pre- cipitate a new way of selecting ter ritorisl officials, hoping that soms- thing might come to them out of the wash. A gentleman from Pres colt yesterday said that the state ment was true as to all persons present except General O'Neill, Hon. John c. Herndon and United States Attorney Ellinwood. The motives, whatever they may be, Of the first two. arc evidently disinter- ested; both have given the popular election scheme a fair test and were oyerthrown; so, said the Prescott man, they cannot hope to attain office by the vote of the people. They are honest, but misguided. Mir. Ellinwood's motive, though not disinterested, is unselfish. Mir. El- linwood has been fettered to an office fo- several months, presenting the spectacle of a man bound to a corpse and whose position grows more and more unenyiable as the days go by, unless the corpse has been embalmed. In mediaeval times when this punishment was frequently applied, the Egyptian art of em- balming had been lost, and the modern system of preserving the bodies of the dead had not been uncovered.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
AKansa. Man nenerea.

or the many thousand addresses
 delivered in her honor throughout
 the world on the occasion of her re-
 cent jubilee, Qaeen Victoria has se-
 lected six to be preserved in the inn
 perial institute and printed for the delectation of her subjects. One of the six is the orstion Of Joseph G.
 Waters of Topeka, Kansas. This is not only a tribute to the genius of the eloquent and witty Kansan, but a manifestation of the good iudg- ment of the queen. It was indeed a great speech, eulogy on a good monarch, mans tribute to q wo- man ''who, for sixty years, has been a sweetheart to the universal lover the most illustrious of wives, the highest exemplar of a mother, the ideal widow" But throughout 1t breathed the spirit of the American who, fin honor of his own land, thanked God that it was not as an Englishman, good as he is, but as an better than all, that he joined in the empires jubilee" MT. Waters justly may be proud of this mark of esteem from so high a source. and that pride will be shared by Kansas men and women who. for thirty years, have been cheered and delighted in his utterances.-Kan- sas City Star.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

A Mexican near the NJ. & P. depot IS lying at the point of death from fright received a few nights ago. He saw ghost, or thought he did. which IS the same thing. Some of his neighbors saw it, but though they were less nervous than he, thev were badly scared, and terror was prevalent in the neighborhood. On Friday night the residents of that community determined to 'layn the ghost, or move out of the neighbor- hood. The next time it appeared they surrounded it and captured it. It turned out to be a goat, part of the property of the Mexican circus. The proprietor had attached a tall upright stick to each horn and made them the frame work for a sheet, which gave the apparition its ghost. ly appearance. The sick Mexican knows this, but his ailment has passed from the mental to the phy- sical stage, and doctors are doubt ful of the result,-Phenix Republi- can.
 Having had it's assertions in refer enee to various propositions success fully refuted, and having had it's so called arguments successfully met by the JoURNAL-MNER, our contem- porary resorts to its old time meth ods of false inuendos, insinua- tions, etc, in regard to this paper. As the advertising col umns of this paper are crowded with live, paying advertisements. and the news columns are limited. We have DO space to bandy words in personalities, or to reply to vague iusinuations.
 A large crowd witnessed the game of foot ball between the Prescott and Whippie teams Sunday after noon at the grounds north of the electric light plant. The contest was stubborn, and, but for Whip ple's error in the kick to center. the the score would have been even. However, the Prescott's won by a score of 6 to i. There was good playing on both sides, number of the boys quitting the game with llmps, scratches and bruises galore.
 Fitzsimmons refuses to fight with either Jackson or Corbett.
 Fifteen hundred cloak makers are. on strike in New York.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Pfunrhslmrr,. Philo.nnhr.

Der way uf der dransgressor vos liart, bud der harter der way der beddor der bisooole riders like id, ain'd idl
 Do best vay to keep seegkret is not to knowed i'd
 dold young lady frient uf mine dot she had bee py her bonnet in, und she wanted to knowed uf Id vos on straight righd away qvick.
 A sdill tongue may make a wise head, bud most peoples would radder be a chackass mool den leef deir tongue mid ouid ekksercise.
 Money vor der rood uf all evil, und der most of us vos always looking fer druuble.
 Men vot doand laf aind always gee nuses und philosophers Sometimes dey vos yust nursing boil py der back uf der neg on, alretty yet-New York Sunday World.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
PuplIc schooI Ttrrn.

Teachers reports for the month of October 1892, on file in the office of the county school superintendent show that the enrollment of pupils Tn the various country schools ranges from 9 to 9 pupils with daily average attendance ranging from S.5 to 227.
 Congress school shows an enroll ment of l28 pupils with daily aver age attendance of lO7.
 Jerome school shows a: enroll ment af IA pupils with de. aver age attendance of S2.
 Camp Verde school shows an en- enrolment of 39 pupils with daily average attendance of 36.5.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
ChiefofBIIks.

There are many grades of villains, various classes of impostors and numerous kinds of bilks abroad in the land, but chef of these is the man who accepts a newspapdr for a month. year, or for five years, and never pays a cent, and when bllI is presented him, refuses to take the paper from the office, or says he never ordered it. Some of these men live near Phenix. and the news papers should set aside a column of space in which to publish the names of these pirates. The law is very plain on the subject, and the accept ance of paper for three days, un- less it is marked sample copy" is sufficient contract for its payment. Phenix Gazette.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

Prof. Charles W. Shields, of the Princeton University, is on trial for signing a petition for the granting of a liquor license. If the decision is against him, he threatens to with draw from the Presbyterian church.
 Scientists say that George Pull man will be mummy in time. His casket is encased in a lead lined mahogany box, wrapped in tar paper and covered by au inch of asphalt. This is covered by three feet of concrete, and over this eight steel rails are laid transversely. The rails are bolted and the grave walled in. Inside of all this lies the embalmed body.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
AnnIher Frnnn.i,Inn-

NIT. Pritchard, of the Pacific Min ing and Smelling Company, has submitted another proposition in regard to the erection of smelter. This is, that our people give bonus of $l0,000 for the erection of a smel- ter, to be given at the rate of g 50 per ton on all ore worked, the com pany to own and operate the plant. This IS counter proposition to the one submitted by our people, offer ing to pay bonus of $5,0O0 in this way. The committee and NIT. Pritchard are still Gguring, and the committee is on the right track, and that is to insure the operation of the plant after it is completed. The erection of a shelter, if it is to remain idle, would be an injury, rather than a benefit, to the town. What we want is one with smoke rolling out of the smoke stack daily and the bullion being drawn from its base.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
NAPoLEoN's VALUE or VICTORY,
It Finds a Striking Counterpart in Re
 cent World TriumPhs.

It Finds a Striking Counterpart in Re-
 cent World TriumPhs.
 Napoleon knew wall the value of a victory. After Austerlitz, the world seemed his. Fame invited, fortune favored, everything stimu- lated his aspiring ambition. With growing power he gathered the fruits of victory. Aud so has 1t been. Success succeeds. 4 notable illustration of this truth is furnished by the great victories won at the Worlds Fair in '93 aud the Cali fornia Midwinter Fair in '94 by Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder. Ever increasing sales and popularity have been the result. The people have promptly ratified he official verdicts that declared Dr. Prices, for leaven- ing power, keeping qualities, purity and general excellence, the fore most baking powder in all the world' Quite as quickly as the great emperor do they know the value of a victory that means world wide supremacy.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
A Confederate Father.

A wealthy man went out hunting He was accompanied by an honest farm CT and his son. The hunter accidentally peppered the unfortunate boy, who howled like dog whose tail has been crushed under the wheel of furniture van, whereupon his father said Co the youth:
 Don't howl that way or the gentle man will not let you go along with him next time. New York Sunday World.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Good Adv,ee-

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. Learn how to tell a story. A we'll told story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room. Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in the world. keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your pains and aches under a pleasant smile. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Don't cry. Tears do well enough in novels, but they are out of place iu real life. The good humored man or woman is always welcome. but the dyspeptic or hypoehondriae is not wanted any where, and is a big nuisance as welL-Ex.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
A Partial ConveraatIon.

Mrs Cumso - Dear, do you think your health has been improved by rid ing the wheelg
 Mir. Cumso-You bet. l have di- gestion like an ostrich. sound wind and the strength of horse. tell you the wheel is great thing.
 Mrs Cumso-oh. how glad I am that your strength has been increased. Would you mind bringing in hod of coal?
 A knowledge of tho limitations of the linotype machines and an unwilling hess to shock the sensitive nerves of many readers prevent further details of the conversation. There is already too much invasion of the family circle by a venal press Omaha World. Herald,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Joseph Williams, fireman of the

Joseph Williams, fireman of the Northern Pacific Trsnscontinental train, committed suicide by jump ing into she fire box of his engine. Before the engineer could pull him out, his head and shoulders were consumed.
 The London Telegraph, in an edi- torisl on the "inflammable condition of the dispute between the United States and Spain" says: "A rash act might at any moment bring war, which could only mean ruin for Spain" The paper foresees that the United States will be bound to interfere to stop the conflict in Cuba.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

"In about 2s0 years, '" said the scien- tist, "vhen the worlds population ex- ceeds 5,994, 900, GOO. the earth will be unable to find nourishment for her people, and they will be forced either to cannibalism or starvation"
 And just think, papa" said the daughter. what trouble therell Do for us to get through the crowds on the bi- cycles "-Yonkers Statesman.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
She Wa. We'll On

"Yes, said the model wife as she sat in her chair at II p. m.. sewing on her husbands clothing, ''it is well enough for me. Mine is indeed an easy lot. But there is my poor husband at this moment working like navvy on his wheel and perspiring like stoSer in the hold of an Atlantic liner. "-Bos. ton TranScrint
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
His Fate.

Whats become of your brother?' asked the oyster waiting to bo fried to @ companion who was destined to orua. ment half shell.
 "Oh, believe hos gone into tho in- terior of turkey" said the one address ed.-Yonkers Statesman
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

A conservative estimate places the potato crop of Colorado at To- 900 cars, 25.OO0O00 sacks, 250,000,- pounds or I25.0O0 tons. Loaded in- to standard box cars, the train would be over 50 miles long, and it would require POO locomotives to pull it. At present prices the far mers will receive $l,500,000 for the crop.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
War in a Newspaper omss.

The Phenix Republican gives an account of the manner in which G. w. McFarlan attempted to collect a bill from Dr. Hughes paper in Phe- nix. The argument used was a 45- caliber six shooter, an instrument which has been effective in this line before. Dr. Hughes branched out in the newspaper business. The bill itself, as published in The Republi- can, is urique. as will be seen from the following purported copy of it;
 PHESIx, ARIz., Nov. g, 1897. II. A. Hughes, (The Arizona Demo crat,l to George ". McFarlia, debtor.
 To = days labor mechanical
 workl done and performed
 on The Arizona Democrat,
 between the 18th day of
 October and the 9th day of
 November, 1897. at S2.50
 perday. 55 co To writing, editing and pre-
 pairing numerous. varlous
 and sundry villainous edi-
 torials against NJ. Fl. Me
 Cord, for three weeks, at
 Sl0 per week. 5000 To correcting snd editing nu-
 merous viilainous and scur-
 rilous editorials prepared
 by said Hughes for three
 weeks, at s per week. b 60 Total to date.............. .SlO0 co Credits to date. s 36 % Balance due. e........S 63 9 To amount due on account of
 Thomas Collins, hereto an-
 ne&eu ...-..... Q OO IolSl ude.. .-..............S 6S 70
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
A DIalec,io succes..

Hicks -I understand Scribblcr is making barrel of money.
 Wicks-Not from his writings?
 Hioks-Yes, he has written book in the golf dialect Philadelphia Record.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
The Promenade onnns,,

The promenade concert and ball, gwen at Dake's opera bonse last evening. under direction of the WEipple orchestra, was an event coupled with genuine success.
 The hall was we'll filled with a throng ot pleasure seekers, and Terpsichore, the muse of dancing, smiled nenignantly on all present, for, did not the god of music hover over Prof. La Guardia anti his if teen musicians, directing the sylvan straIns that made the concert B pleasing and enjoyable eventf Be- tween the dances the orchestra dis coursed classic and stirring selec- tions as fitting aeeompal iment to the chat and laughter of the merry makers as they promenaded the hall. Prof. La Guardia is remarkable counterpart of Sousa, the famous band master, and Is rapidly reach ing the front rank as acomposer and leader. The evenings programme was as follows:
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
A Pointer For the Detectives.

''I saw you looking at folding bed yesterday. Do you think of moving in- to Q fatg"
 ''No. My rich uncle, who has made me. his principal heir. is coming to wis it us s"-Cleyeland Leader.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

TED.-TRUsTwORTHY AND ACTIVE Gentienen ar Ladies to travel tor resoon sthie, established house in Arizona. Monthly enoe. EnelOse self addressed stamDei an vslnre The Dominion Company, Dept Y, Chicaco,
 Q-e0wt6
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

''' - s-' IIUIHt sweet Home
 Those m attendance last evening voted the concert Snd ball happy innovation and look forward with pleasure to a repetition which will follow within two or three weeks.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Their Worst Fault.

What is the worst thing about rich. E?" asked schoolteacher of boy.
 "Their scarcity" he replied and was immediately rewarded with a prize.- Tit Bits
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
Something Brilliant.

Waggs-Cholly Saphead got off a bright thing at tho club last night Wiggs-Nol What was it?
 Waggs-His silk hat. - Brooklyn TSfa
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

Shelf it wasn't for the old bache- lors, there would be no flirts.
 He--H it wasn't for the flirts, thero would be no old bachelors. Chicago News
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
He Could Not.

Schoolmaster-For what were the ancient Romans chiefly remarkable? Well, Corker?
 Corker-Please, sir, they understood Latin. Punch.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

kSIkllN STAR.-tiolden Ruie Chapter No. Inoots in Masonic Hall on the frst Thursosy
 Nrs' 1. 4 JOHNS. Worthy Matran. sa.f. N. hLAhE Secreiary
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17
4. MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor
Secret SocletleS.

IVANHOE COMMANDERY No. |7e l KNIGhfc rEMPLAR. Stated con
 n clays firsi FridSy oi esch month. Pilgrim |t Sir Knights oourteously invited. F. G. BRIGHT, F. C. \. BRIGHT, Recorder.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

DkkSCOTT ChAPIkR k. A. NJ. No q Stated communics tiOns the hrft IS Saturdays of each month at . o'clock P. '. Visiting companions cordially invited |Eznd. S. F. BRIGHT N. F. ! A fEEpERICKs, Secretary. EaEiEing Committee-R N. frederteks, A. G
 E Norris GoldwAteT
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-17

.s n YNi6nTs UF PYTHIAs Prescott Lodge
 n No. l-kegular meeting of this lodge % every Monday at 6 p. In. at k. of f. f Hall. Soioul ming knights in good stand re cordially invited to attend. J.. H. ROBINSON, G. C. llRfsY E. kAISS, h. of k. d S.