Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-23
From Mondays Daily.

The first snow of the season feil here yesterday.
 The Choral club meets tomorro-. Tuesday evening at Mrs. N. Levy's.
 Mike Pagan who is said to have been seriously i'll with pneumonia is improving today.
 The trial of Raphael Ochoa on a charge of stealing a calf, is being tried today in court before jury.
 The official count of the ballots of the recent election was commenced today. The democratic ticket is ahead.
 Dave Sinclair came up from Tar nell on Saturday and left this morn ing for a visit to his old stamping grounds in Missouri.
 We are pleased to state that Mrs. Thomas Roach is greatly improved and will soon be able to return to her Turkey creek home.
 It is reported that William Owens a Rough Rider, who enlisted from Arizona, has died recently from fever at Moutauk Point.
 The Good Templars meet tonight at 7,30 in Odd Fellows hall. All memb=rs should attend and visiting brothers and sisters are cordially invited.
 The baseball games between Pres colt and PheniX ended with even honors. Phenix won the first and Prescott the second. A case of hoss and hoss.
 J. NJ. Aitken, Charley Allsbach and A. c. Gilmore have returnsd from a trip to the Verde country. They brought down three deer on the jaunt.
 Messrs R. F. Fredericks, F. G. Brecht and 4. A. Johns, who have been attending the session of the grand lodge of Masons at Globe, have returned.
 Johnny Roddin, 6 Rough Rider, who has many friends in this city, is still confined to his bed, suffering with a fever contracted while in Cuba. He has been ill now for over month, and has the wishes of many for a release of his ills.
 Walter Gregory, the newspaper man, and of,the Phenix Herald, is paying our city a vislt today. Wal ter is Rough Rider, and carries in his make up symptoms of the Cuban fever that so many of the boys are afflicted with. His many friends in this city are pleased to see him again.
 The Reflex, 6 new weekly paper published at Mayer, has made its debut on the journalistic stage, and is presided over by Bro. Gardner. It is neat and newsy and reflects handsomely on the progress of Mayer and tributary country. May Mayer and its spokesman grow and prosper is our wish.
 The people of Oregon are con- siderably agitsted over the question as to the adoption of a state flower; Up to the present writing "the old time squash blossom" seems to be ID the lead. but there are some back counties yet to hear from.-Los An geles Times. Arizona IS all right Tn the above line. Its a daisy or a cabbage.
 The body of Thomas Steen, one of the oldest inhabitants of Mohave county was found in the valley be- tween Tillman's and Gracey's camp. Thursday of this week Steen was at Tillman's the night before and stat ed that he would leave the next morning for the Klondike mines. It is thought that he started across the valley and becoming i'll died be- fore help reached him. MT. Steen had been i'll for several months past and while in Chloride was reported to be ''flighty."-Mohaye Miner.
 The Silver Belt says: We are in receipt of a letter from President Wm. Garland, in which he states that the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad will be completed by the 18th or 10th of November, and the company is ready, if the people of Globe desire it, to run a free excursion into Globe on Thanks giving day. The Southern Pacific will probably cooperate and make reduced rates from California points if it is decided to give the e1cur- sion.