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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
His Money Order Was Not Cashed


 His Money Order Was Not Cashed. An employee of post office in a ueighbOTing county tells of a very amusing ciTcumstan6s which recent ly happened m the post office there. 4 man came into the office one day and said he wanted to send some money to a friend m Oregon. The blank application for a money order was handed out to him when he fumbled around in such a manner as to plainly indicate that he did not know what to do with 1t. Alter watching his movements with 1t for some tune the official very oblig- ingly said: Shall l make 1t out for youi" "Yes, wish you would" the man replied. Il can write just as we'll as not if I would try but | never tried much" he added. The application was filled out, the order issued and given to the applicant, aud the incident was supposed to be closed, so far as the post office ottic ial was concerned. About three or lOuI hCCho dAAtA VI aihs nOHNNNii hhC man returned to the office and throwing the order down in front of the official remarked very lndig- nantly that he had just received a letter from his friend in Oregon, who said he had not received the money, and the holder of the money order wanted sn explanation why his Uncle Sam had not turned the money over to his friend He was asked if he had sent the order to him, and II 1t had been returned. "Orderl No, didn't send him any order. I didn't have any to send. All you gave me was this receipt for the money, which l have carried in my pocket ever sInee." He was iu- formed of the nature of the piece of paper be received in exchange for his money, and was told to send it to his friend and the money would be paid him for it. With somewhat of an incredulous look on his face be left the office, muttering some thing to himself, which sounded like well like something that would not look we'll in print.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
THE LEGISLATURE.
Echoes from the Seat of Future Strife and Dissension.

Strife and Dissension.
 The twentieth legislature of Ari- zroua went to the matinee performs ance of Hamlet" Saturday after noon. It did not attend in a body, like brass band, but nearly every member of the body who was in town went % the theatre. They listened sttentively to old Polonious when he gave Laertes that we'll worn advice. When he told the young man that his habit should be as costly as his purse could buy, but not expressed in fancy, Mr. Ashurst looked down at the creases in his brooches legs and pulled up his col lar a notch. When the youth was told: "The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel" the mind of pr. Wright went back to the eighteenth assembly and dis rupted caucus.
 Morris Goldwster, of Prescott, seems the probable caucus nominee of the democrats for presi lent of the council, although Hunt of Gila, is willing to preside, says the Re publican, of yesterday.
 Candidates for clerkships never so plentiful nor so industrious. w. D. Berry, of Prescott, seems to have his tightening rod further in the air than anybody else for clerk of the lower house, and W. B. Kelly, the Arizona Bulletine man from Solo monville, has well launched boom for sergeant-at-arms of the council.
 There is plenty of prospective law in manuscript in the pockets of several members. The inevitable prison removal bill will be intro duced. and there are schemes on foot to make more counties. lt IS proposed to divide Pima county, ere ating another with Nogales as the seat of government. Yavapai county ! is considered too large, and Jerome wants to be the seat of new county government A bill will probably ! be presented for a law to take enough territory from Cochise county on the north and Graham on the the south, to create new county with Wilcox as the capital An effort may be made to extinguish Pinal county, allowing Pima and Maricopa counties to absorb its ter ritory. with Florence in Maricopa.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
ARMY JEALoUsIES.

New York, Jan. l0.-A dispatch 10 the Tribune from Havana says The appointment of Cubsns to i'm portant offices in Havana is soon to be made. Perfecto Lacorta. presi- dent of the Havana punta, will be made mayor; General Manocal will have a poSition under General Lud~ low. Some friction exists in the army over the government of Ha- vana.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
HulL.s H.AlrH cERr,rnoArr
Or NhY a PAesix Newspaper Aan Pesspeaed tsis aon.s~ard
 Trsp.

l A long. lean, lank feliow. thinner than snowfall juice to a mas with a tarsa1tala lalce appetite, cams sWinglng aP che street from the de- pot Nedsesdey aftarnoon, And from the unhappy east og his Bill Nye-liks features. one would think that As hsd bsssa radeiy awakened from a ' pipe dream just as he was being hahded a milhOA hy . wealthF uncle.
 Anyone who ever saw Paul HaIl folded up in chair. zith his les ted In hard knot, down ia iks old Press Club rooms On Madison street. Chicago, swapping copy Fighs stua wifh Geoe Field. Opie Read and the rest oi that gang of smosa SorshipP~rs, would never mistaks the oEnership of that six foot of condensed perpel diealarn.
 Beca0sa of the peculiar power of shis perpetual peneil pasher. the Republican man. At Pbenix. 9ersaad- sd hIm tO eome to Prescott oa an assignment Paul came up with hls smiling persistent face A0d a pockst fuil of print paper, gathered up his story and started to go back en the afternoon train. He didn't 20. When be attempted to board the train s railroad employe gently touched him on his anvaccinats.d left sud said:
 here be yoa goin'f-
 To Phenix, sir. l would now wend my way, Providence permit ting" came from the peak of pauI's elongated form.
 -Let's see your health certiEeats." demanded the blue coated official.
 Health certi6catei H-, man, do I look as bad as thatf I'm no candidate for a ride i1 the baggage car" Then in aa aside he said to himsolf. -It can't be that my notes on this story are So rank as to have caused this trouble"
 "Why, hang It all, man, you kun search me. I aint takin' any of your blankety blank old small pox with me. l didn't own Phenix; swear to you, sii, that I have not even tampered In the least with the in- ternal mechanism of that municipal organization"
 ~That is none of my business; you'll have to get health certificate or walk
 But my dear sir, if there was cue lonesome. lingering mierobe of that noted dimple digging disease iR my possession when came tc Sou, 1t has certainly been fumigsted into everlasting sleep bT yozr heated breath ere thisr
 The train moved gently out of town and as Paul stood gazing st is, he said words of many syllAblss and their choleric coioring would have easily put rose hue on q fresh kiln of brick.
 The next day Paul possessed him self of certificate showing that his health was not ill, pinned it upon his breast in plain view of sI who cared to read, and carried his notes into Phenix. This is the first time in his carear that Hull was ever seooPed, and by a conductor, at that.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
A. Efron's New Suits.

Suit was filed in the district court today by \. Efron of Cynthinana, Kentucky, against 4. Efron and Ida F.Miller, for the recovery of 1850, on a promissory note. The complaint also charges that the bill of sale ex. ecuted on January g to NJ. Lantiu was fraudulent and done for the pur. pose of defrauding the plaintiff 1T this action and other creditors, and asks that it be set aside. E. NJ. San ford and 4. J. Bledsoe, are attorneys for the plaintiff.
 Later in the day another suit wal filed against the same parties, tht complaint being substantially tho same, alleging fraud, in which Ros enwald & Wiel of Chicago, are th' plaintiffs, the amount sued for being $4S7.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

The French police think that Count EsterhazY is headed for the United States.
 There is one justi6able comment that may be universally made on the embalmed beef proposition. It is tough.
 Ex-United States Senator Freder- ick T. Dubois, of Idaho. was mar ried in Chicago to Miss Edna Max field Whitehead, of Dolan, s. D.
 Over a hundred million new American coins, worth over $27 ,000,- OO0, were added to the circulation last year.
 A democratic senator who ha: made study of the election return: of last November says the party lost heavily where silver and Bryan were l the most prominent.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
A Goose Bone Prophet.

Elias Hartz, eighty-two years old, is one of the best weather prophets in Berks county, Pennsylvania. He has long string of goose bones and his weather prognostications are largely governed by them. In the collection is a goose bone for every year for the last quarter of a century and he has dried the goose bone for the winter of 1898 and says: This bone is nearly all blue, with very little white, top or bottom. The blue is for cold weather. You see this bone indicates an early and hard winter, to continue late in the spring -EX,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
SENATORIAL FIGHT.

Sacramento, Jan. l2-The iegis- lsture in joint session took three ballots for United States senator to- day. The leading candidates se- cured votes As follows; Barnes, 10; Bulls, 10; Burns, 26: Grant. 26. BallA lost two votes from yesterday and Grant and Burns each got one of them. They adjourned till to- morrow.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

ot hfs. He praised the quality os the much talked of beef frrni.hsd the army and said tAas wish the sz- eePsion of so0as cans whieA wer. tainted and consequently thrown away, tae bel was of good quality aad be himself had used tks usss both ia var and ia his owa fsnilx.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

The appointment of captains and inspectors of police for Havana, has been made. Some are former Span ish officials, but most of them are Cubans. The patrolmen will be mostly former soldiers in the Cuban army.
 Jesse DeLong, the we'll known borseman, died January II at his home at Niles, Michigan, of la grippe. DeLong was owner oi many celebrated running horses and was known on nearly every trscl east of the Mississippi.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
nFNFRAI IINApPs

Spanish commander during the battle-l occurred the night of the 2d to change the situation-first, what was credited as Spanish sortie met with repulse second, the weather became cooler, and, to use an expression common at Camp Wikoff, "there was a better feeling all along the line" Hence the idea of re- trograde was abandoned
 What little time could be spared On the 2d from bettering the trenches, get ting food and lodging Spanish bullets was devoted to accounting for the gaps usde in the ranks the day before. On the lst Rents division loss was 5S4 killed and wounded out of 5, 0s0, includ- ing details. Its distribution is shown by the following table;
 BATTLE LOSS IN KKST's DIVISION JULY l.
 Killed. Wounded. Strength
 on Ofi- Ofi-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
THEY CENsURED PAGAN.

Washington, Jan. 13.-The war investigating commission today pas sed a resolution of censure of Gen eral Eagan for the language he used yesterday when be appeared to answer the charges made against the commisssry branch of the army by Msjor-General Miles and return ed to him carefully prepared type written statement which be left with the commission.
 Brigadier-Genersl Leonard Wood was the star witness before the wal investigating commission today. Re said never in the history of anI country had there been so success ful a campaign with so small a los'
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
A Bogus Agent.

A letter has been received at this office that a man named Shaw has been taking subscriptions and adver- tisements for the JOURNAL-MISEs. The man, whoever he is, is fraud, as ID man of that name has ever been employed to solicit business, or authorized in any way to do so, nor is any such man even known at this office.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
MAIL CLERK FOR MANILA,

Fort Worth, Tex, January H. Roy Fetheringill and J. H. Montrief. two railway mail clerks, in con formity to orders from the depart ment at Washington, left here today for the Philippines. They have been detailed for service in the new mili- tary postal stations recently estab- lished in that country, one Of which is at Iloilo. Trey sail from San Francisco on the 14th inst.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
CONDITIONS IMPROVING.

Washington, Jan l2-Ths secre- tary of var was much graii6ed this morning by the receipt of tAe follow ing cablegrAm at 7:S0:
 Manila, Jan. I2-Adiutsnt-Gen- eral, Washingt--: Conditions ars apparently improving. The citizens feel more serious Many natives are returning. The city is quiet and business is active. Signed OTIS"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
SAMOA HAS A NEW KING.

Washington, Jan. l0.-Ofheial in- formation has been received to the effect that MataAfa has been elected king of Samoa to succeed MAlietoA. The election was held without trouble and is highly satisfactory to the island people.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
THE YORKTOWN SAILS.

San Francisco, Jan. l0.-The gun boat Yorktown sailed for Manila to- day. She will go under a full head of steam all the way. She carries full instructions to Admiral Dewey and General Otis in regard to the situation in .he Philippines.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

Grip has become so prevalent and SO virulent in its attacks in eastern cities that business firms are send. tug out announcements to the effect that customers must be patient in waiting for goods ordered, as theiI employees are nearly all down with the disease.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
A CRUISER ON FIRE.

Seattle, Jan. I0.- News by steamer from Japan says that the Japanese cruiser Kaimon Kan took fire at sea and reached Annoy partial wreck. Several of the crew were burned to death and many severely injured.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
WILL VISIT THE POPE.

St. Paul, Minr., Jan. 1.-The sec retary of Archbishop Ireland made
 au authorized statement today that
 the Archbishop, in denying that be had been summoned to Rome, did not wish it understood that he would not visit Rome. On the con trary, he will leave St. Paul for Italy in March or April, and will be
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

In Wikoff's brigade the last column of figures shows the combined strength in officers and men. Rents loss on the lst was TX per cent On the Sd this division lost IOS officers and men.
 GEORGE l.. KuMER-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
A GOOD RAIN STORM.

Los Angeles, Jan. 1.-The rain ceased to fall here this morning, but the weather is still threatening. So far 1.7 inches have fallen, making a total for the season of 249. I'm mense good has been done by the rain. Two Italian fishermen were drowned at San Pedro last night during the storm which caPsized the sloop. @
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
EGAN ON MILES.
The Commissary General Calls Gen. eral Miles ALI Kinds of a Liar.

| he CommsSary 0enerai CalIS Sen-
 eral Miles All Kinds of Liar.
 Washington. Jan. l2.-Commis- sary-General Egan in the course of his testimony before the war in vestigation committee this after noon called Major-Genersl Miles, commanding the army, "A liar who lied in his throat, lied in his heart, lied in every part of his body" who perpetrated gross scandal and who should be drummed out of the ser vice and imprisoned and should be avoided by every honest man and barred from every club. He char acterized his interviews as filth"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

The Reservoir and Citizen com binations face each other tonight for the last time, when the latter as sume the municipal responsibility of running the machine for two more years.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

.INARES' rsr- 'sonal part in the Santiago cam D .paign is some thing If a Inys- .tsry. The Span-
 iards seemed to
 lack an aggres- .ave leader. yet .Linares was Of-
 ten at the scene of danger The .Cubans said that
 be was al Las .tiuasimas when they exchanged shots with the .owa,u- sk. =
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

gone several months The visit, howeveE, is purely volsniArF and is made because svery archbishop is expected to Eisit the Pope ai least once in ssEea ye&TS Archhishop IrelABd's lzss Sisit to Rome was in 1892 He is not going. however. especially to discuss Cuba, the Phl- ippinss or disarmament. but may be called upon tO speak ol the two srst named beeaase ons is under the protection of aud the other Is pari of the United StAtss at this time. MURDER EVERY THREE DAY
 Butte. Mont, Jan. ll.-Another horrible murder was committed h Butte last night, the fourth since the krst of the year. The body of An unknown man was found in a guleh a short distance West Of the city. Ills head hsd been smashed to a pulp. evidently with . club. and the body dragged from the roadway to the galch. The object of the murder was evidently robbery as the pockets had been riHed. The victim was apparently poor wood chopper. There Is no clue to the mundererS.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

A private soldier who fell at Santiago, Charles D. Jacobs, of Louisville, is to have $45, 900 monu- ment.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

TTHR ARIZONA JOUKNAL-NIN t-h ls
 | published ev-ry day in the ear eAN' " Sundsys and legal Lo.ldAfs-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

Entered in the Post0tAcs at Prescott as ss'c
 ond class matter.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
HEAT; HUNGER; "HELLI'
Three Evils Braved by Shatcrs
 Soldiers on July 2.
WAR AT ITS WORST, THEY SAY.
VEctors From the Captured Ridge. GeaeraI LinaTeS al the Froat. SharpshootinE on Bsth sides - A Night Attack RePuised.

lCoByrgbt lS's. by the Authorl
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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
ARIZONA JOrRNAL-AlNER

A DYERTISING Rate made known .Sl Il A application to this ofiice or 'o '-- following sgencles;
 E. Katz. advertising agency zS' len pc Court. Sew York
 L. r. Fisher, San Franci-oo-
 ,rb.re the pap-sr is kept On He
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

z CNIGHTs OF PYTHIAs Prescott L'si.-' AA h So. l-hegal2F sueetlrg of this io,ie' &srtX eVory Mou.lAy At D. ln- N h oi 1. 1& Hall Soiss1l uils kniEhts m gutd htAl" are cordially invited e. sftcnd-
 h. D. WATSON. t- C.. C. N. BASS, K. of k.as ;.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-20

plays adavs IL cous. Icruoil h
excess Of the supply Of plpys worth
seeing and that they continue to cNist
only goes to show thai thaaNe-E"i"a
has developed into such q "id spread
habft and the appetite is so Unsuitable
,hat managers and plavvrit'rs would
hc M bad fix were IL mot that Almost
any old thing may be thrown "H 10
iemporarily satisfy the craving.
'Ih cuckoo" is onl of the cilss ol
plays, Of which the cay Pansidns
was perhaps tho earliest and me ricN-
crest OF later DAY exponent poo Which
wife ana a husband both gu on on an
INDEPENDENT lark each an but gets ais
covered 10y the other an neither mas
the experience Of a kind 90 cncuuiag
is petition. az hast not urtH some
tiWc after the last curtain closes m
C.drnt SO TAR as tn audience is roh-
tcru"d with domestic harmony restored
ard everybody breathing a eiEh ui re-
Nof. Like most of It's predecessor lhlS
on BE- from iho French Zoo French ,'u-
edN Do indiscrctions ~ u wife cor nus
band Ii. ~uhjep4s nr m.rHweul Iur q
ta-4 4---r----t
90 h-} syn etliues seem TO be- Tor httul
spells When the public BE- dramafi ais
starving hl8 money TO burn aid i,
manos ihat playhouses BE- kept open
gt amy cost to Whatever SIAN lard they
may have assumed
compared io mani ~ s kind 'ln.
cuckoo I7 1oft and sappv 4 ldcks zc-i
aud rho ncN trimmings eith which the
old theme is embellished arc 80 eNtraV.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-20
TO SEC!RE A GOVERNMENT POSITION.

Naturally positions under the gov
ernment arc in demand. and it Is not
altogether an easy matter to secure an
appointment 20 one" writes Barton
Cheyney in the October Ladies' Home
Journal 1T must be remembered. i'm
connection with this. tha, large num-
Der Of men and women are ambitious Co
serve their country and the army OF
applicants is growing year by year.
IL one can perform well some kind OF
work that the government wants done.
and can ascerta n the governments
needs In this respect. entrance 10 the
service is not So difficult. But it would
be practically useless Tor one capable
or doing clerical work TO attempt
TO secure position in the government
service. II one. however has any prac-
tical ira ning-is a baokkeeper. "A sten-
ographsr and typewriter or lawyer.
or is sch0oled I'm any special line OF
work he viii have fair chance Of
appointment But he should have "a
very good knowledge OF whatever kind
~ work he put. forward Goa support af
his claim FOR appointment. for the COM
pct tion b. rN.eedmgly sharp ana the
onteffant are many
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-20

agant as TO suggest that the stock ~
plausible material tnat shall be reason
-nhlX -neM- and-freSla- -l1a-Eul9---a4.s -l4a+r
Thomas PenfCld, an easy going hus-
band, is blind 10 the growing infatua-
ticn OF his wife with the frieud of the
family and incidentally is himself some
what carried off his feet by the wiles of
an adventures. Tho wife and the friend
go away together and the devices that
arc introduced TO interrupt their So
journ include an African king on a vis-
il 90 England. a cheeky man servant
and trained lion thas breaks loose
from a menagerie. The husband mean
while who has taken advantages Of his
wife's absence to seek out the adVen-
turess spends the night in police
ststion as a suspicious character. All
three parties turn up the next morning
at home i'm the fashion usual to this
sort of farce none the worse for wear
but considerably alarmed at the turmoil
they have been the centre of and the
consequent threat ened exposure Of their
indiscretions. As the play unfol1s laugh
ING places become more frequent than
would naturally bet ttfc.tgfit frof~tbf-