Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-17
TONE OF THE ARIZONA PRESS.
Extracts From the Territorial Papers
 Of General Interest.

.
 Maricopa was Joseph M. Kinds.
 Mir. Kinds is the commissioner sp-
 pointed by the postoEhce depart
 ment to take charge sud organize
 the postoffice service in the Philip
 pines.-Herald.
 ! 5. NJ. Cullom, internal revenue collector for Arizona, will probably ! return to Phenix in the morning. Mr. Cullom has been here for sev- ! efal days past looking for counter ! felt Teveaus stamps n cigars, of which th-4- 4r-e 4t41-. f1 circulation. Ii IoauG uO-e in ] Tucson.-CitiZer.
 They do queer things in Prescott, occasionally. One day recently an old prospaetor started out in the stsees in a Mother Hubbard garb and the chief of police took him in AAd locked hIm up. And yet you will hear of equal rights, the liberty of Inaa as guaranteed by the coas;I- tuition, and the great broad liberal spirit of the west all talked about ia
 Prescott.-Gazstte.
 The case of Wiihslmia Zoeekler against the Sovereign Lodge, Wood men of the World, was completed iu the district court yesterday after noon the IGrF bringing in s verdict for the plaintiff. Ia 1895 B. F. Zoeckler joined the Woodmen. talk ing out sn insurance policy on his life for 5000. On the morning of September s, 1897, he was found dead in his room with bullet wound ID bis head aud a revolver nearby on the hoor-Herald.
 Considerable excitement and uu- pleasantness was caused on yeSter day forenoon by the seizure of the ca, tie belonging to 8. A. Packard by custom house officials while they were being shipped to Kansas Over 2000 head were held by the govern ment officials Tor reasons which were not divulged although they were subsequently, released, upon the payment by Ar. Packard of a sum of money presumably duties A pecul- far feature of the matter IS that Mir. Packard absolutely refused to re- csive the cattle upon their release and permitted them to be turned out at large without apparently talk ing any interest ID them.-PTos- pector.
 Hon. Mark Smith and wife have returned 10 Arizona and taken up their residence in Tucson.-Herald.
 Colonel Frank Hatch arrived last night from New York. He will b. ID Phenix several days, when he will leave for San Francisco.-Herald. T. E. Pollock, vice president of the Arizona Central bank of Flag stsH, was in Phanix yesterday on business. The bank has just re- gently amended it's articles of in- corporation to provide Tor the main tHDsnce of a branch bank al King man.-Herald.
 Geo. Schuerman was m Jerome yesterday from his ranch on Oak creek. To News reporter he said that during the past week the thef- mometer had fallen to forty degrees below freezing point, aud that the frost had killed all the fruit on the Verde river and 10 the foot hills of the Mogollon mountains excepting oa one ranch on Beaver creek. The loss IS a heavy one tothe rsuchers- Jerome News.
 There was no quorum present at the meeting of the Press association at Solomonville on Monday. C. W. Pugh of the Stockman, Feeder and ! Farmer, aud c. W. Pittock of a Los Angeles morning paper, were the only ones present, ss Editor Kelly Of the Bulletin is in PheniX, en route for Jerome.-Enterprise.
 The stsndpipe of the Tucson water works vii be completed in . few days IL will be eighty feet high and the capacity will be 500,00O gallons.
 George Fi6eld, better known as "Punch-the- Breeze" IS one of the best boosters ID Arizona when 1t comes to talking climate and the way he swells a sucker is caution. Il came to Arizona 8 years ago 10 die of old age" says the veteran hack driver, 'and here am yet
 The boards of supervisors of Pima and Santa Cruz counties met this afternoon in joint session, and made a valiant attempt to agree, but | failed. The estimates of the two ! boards on the valuation of Pima county's property are widely at variance and the boards cannot ind common ground.-Citizen. ' E D. Harrington. the special pen sion agent with headquarters at ! Washington, D. C., came in yester- day. He is here to take evidence ID several pension cases, ID which the government is not entirely satisfied that the claims are gOod.-Enter
 prise.
 ] The case of Henry Wilson, who
 was indicted for murder, for the killing of Henry Davenport in . Wlckenburg, last fall, was called ID ' the district court this afternoon, aud the remainder of the day was e1- ! hausted in the getting of a jury. ! Considerable interest attaches to ] the case, Wilson at the time being an officer and the attendance upon the trial is large.-Herald. ! In the case of Cattle Inspector F. ! B. Moss vs. The Phenix Wholesale ! Meat Co. was tried this morning be- ! fore Justice Johnstone and jury. The suit was brought for th collecs. ton of the inspectors feas Of twenty
 i've cents per head on si1ty-sight
 head of cattle, the total amount be- ing Sl7. Attorney-General Aims
 worth appeared for the plaintiff and
 Attorney Thomas Armstrong Jr.,
 for the defense The jury gave the verdict 10 the plaintif.-Herald. . County Attorney Tom Flannigan A. l. L n