Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-19
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Virginia family of Marshalls. His
 father died at Colfax, New Mexico
 a few days prior to hIslynchiDg.
 About HOO postofiices through out the country were asslgued to the money order class January 3, This makes, approximately, 25,OUO
 postoffices a. which money orders may now be obtained or cashed.
 Horizontal Bill' Morrison has retired from the Interstate Com merce Commission. Mir. Morrison is 73 years old and proposes to re- main permanently out of politics and engage in the practice of law.
 Nine-tenths of the people of Okla homa are said to favor statehood, but bitterness has been injected into the movement by the rivalry of five towns for the location of the capital.
 An Associated Press telegram from New York says: The World" says that E. W. White. the banker, re- ceived word yesterday that Prof. A. J. Keeler. Fred. Cook, Kingsley and Thomas Field, lost their lives m Arizona. The dispatch came from Earnest Waters, and says the mur- dered men had a large amount of gold in their possession and were killed by Navajo Indians.
 4 special from Washington says Uncle Sam is short of powder for his high pressure guns. There ls left in the entire country barely enough to supply his vessels for a a ten hours fight. The powder mills of the United States, with their present facilities, would require nearly a year to produce enough powder to supply the ships for an other ten hours battle.
 The big port of Chalmette below the City of New Orleans with its hundreds of thousands of dollars invested iu cotton congresses, wharves. etc, has gone into the hands of a receiver on account of its inability to meet Sl,0OOO00 in- terest on bonds due July l, 1897 and January l, 1898.
 Florida will be obliged to abandon orange culture forthwith. The orange orchards of that state were nearly swept out of existence three years ago and now the report comes that terrible freeze there has com pleted the business; even with the smudge firing the extensive pine apple fields were destroyed as well as the orange orchards,
 4 New York telegram says Russell Sage, the huaucier. who for nearly half century has been one of the foremost forces in Wall street, has been shOTn of his power. The men through whom he ruled, with whom he made his combinations, have turned their backs upon him. With fortune of S5OOOO,OOO he is no longer a power Tn Wall street He has been dropped from the directory of the Mercantile Trust company, and the Gould interests are turned against him.
 President Largev. Of the State Savings Bank, of Butte, Montana. and one of the best known citizens of that town, was shot and killed in the bank building by Thomas J. Riley. He followed me too long," exclaimed Riley when he arrived al the county jail, and I killed him. He kept promising me work, but he did not give me any. and l could not stand it any longer. Now, if you want to hang me for it, all right. Give me quick trial, and end it.
 The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Phenix National Bank was held yesterday afternoon after banking hours, for the election of officers. E. B. Gage was reelected c. J. Hall was promoted to the ice-presidency and as gen eral manager, C. B. Knox, formerly teller, was advanced to be cashier, and Leslie Larimer was advanced to MT. KnOx's former position. The board of directors are: J. A. Elem ing, G. B. Richmond, B. Heyman, T. ". PembercOn, F. $. Belcher, D. NJ. Ferry, F. NJ. Murphy.-Herald.
 Fred G. Hughes appeared before Justice Meyer this morning and hls examination on the charge of em- bezzlament from the Pioneers which was coutinue1 l from yesterday was today. The justice saw fit, from the evidence produced, to fix his bond at 5000 to appear be- fore the next grand jury. He will be examined tomorrow on the second charge, that of embezzlement from the county-Tucson Citizen.
 Tuesday night at the Elks' hall was instituted lodge of Fraternal with forty charter members. The following officers were elected: W. T. Smith, past president; A. J. Stoner, vice presi- dent; j. G. Spangler, secretary; W. K. James, treasurer; pr. H. E. Dr. Wm. Duffield, pr. W. H. Battiu, physicians; O. J. Gilkerson, C. L. Longstreth. ser geant; C. L. Mann, NJ. at A.; F. M. Depsew, l. D L.; E. Jamison, O. D. Herald.
 Rioting has occurred in Havana. The disquieting feature of the sItua- lion is the horrible condition of the poor in Cuba. According to Gen eral Lees advIces. no less than 200,- OOO people on the island are in the last stages of destitution and are wholly dependent upon charity. To feed these people on a ten cent ration per day would cost S20.0O0 a day, which sum is double the So far received in contribu- tions.
 Senator Cannon, of Utah, has in troduced the following resolution in the Senate: Resolved, that the President is requested, if in his opinion it is not incompatible with the public interests, to transmit to the Senate at his earliest convent ance, a statement showing what measures are in force by this govern ment ID the Island of Cuba, and in