Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-11-29

promises to become quite lively.
 c. W. Granger, of St. Louis, is st the Burke.
 A. Gardner. of PheuIx, was an ar rival on this mornings train. 1 Nose Drachman, of Phenix, IS in town on carnival business.
 NJ. S. Taft left for the Sterling mine this morning.
 Today's train is four and one-half hours late.
 R. NJ. Robertson, of Tempe, died of heart failure Sunday evening. T. A. Dunshee came iu from Pine creek yesterday evening.
 Tim DSyer, aged 47 years, died at the county hospital yesterday of pneumonia.
 Horace Merrill of Jerome is in town en route home from a visit to Los Angeles.
 N. Johnson and Herb D. Pent- land returned yesterday from their hunting trip with two antelope. E. E. Ellinwood came up from the south this morning and stopped of in Prescott for day on professional business.
 Will Ments, representing the AL buquerque Citizen, arrived in Pres colt on Saturday afternoons train and left for Phenix yesterday. Chas. Mauderfelt and Johnny Munds were a tie at yesterdays turkey shoot, each bagging seven turkeys.
 Knights of Pythias lodge will meet tonight for work In the third rank. All members are requested to attend.
 R. A, Sweet, the Chicago capital i ist, who is interested in mining in this section, will return to the east tomorrow morning.
 R. K. Coleman spent Sunday in town with his family. He says that he has ten miles of the Grand Can yon railroad track laid.
 H. T. Andrews, guardian of the estate of Louis and Crook Marion filed his annual account iu the pro bate court today.
 W. G. Press, who is working the Storm Cloud group of mines in Maple gulch. arrived on last even ing's train.
 4 rumor that a tesmster was killed on Lynx creek yesterday by the overturning of a loaded ore wagon could not be traced to any authentic source today. Report was that a horse was also killed.
 c. 4. Griscom, jr., manager of the New York office of the American Steamship line, arrived at Castle Creek Hot Springs today, where he will spend several months recuper- ating. He is accompanied by his wife and physician.
 Captain Weeks reports that the sewer and water system contract Is about completed. He has his men at work today putting the finishing touches on 1t and by Wednesday evening expects to have it ready to turn over to the city.
 MT. snd Mrs. Wm. Kent came in today from the Hassayampa and with their children will leave to- morrow for Pomona, California, to reside permanently. They are es- timable people and their departure from this section, where they resided for a score of years is 10 be re- gretted. Mir. Kent will probably re- turn again, being identified quite heavily in mining.
 At an election of officers held on Saturday, November D, for Aztlan lodge No. 1, F. and A. M., the fol- lowing were elected: R. H. Heth- erington. worshipful master; 4. D. Barnhart, senior warden; W J Mar tin, junior warden; Geo. H. Schuer- man, (re-elected) treasurer; R. N. Fredericks. (re-elected) secretary. Installation will be held on St. Johns day, Dec. P, at Sp.m.
 The United States court of ap- peals has decided that suicide does not invalidate life insurance policy unless it can be proved that the in- surer contemplated suicide at the time of taking out the policy. The lower courts have often held Shat the suicide clause is void, because suicide is presumably an insane act, and no man can by any contract make himself responsible for acts that he may commit when insane.
 James Barnes, now the recognized authority on all the heroic phases of American history, has written for the December number of McClure's Magazine the romantic story of Colonel John Laurens's special mis- sion to France in 17Sl. It is a story that has almost never been told; yet Laurens's mission is believed to have been the one thing that sayed the cause of American independence at moment when it seemed to be lost. The article will be fully illustrated by Howard Pyle.
 Every newspaper man can vouch for the truthfulness of the following paragraph, for every pencil pusher in the land has heard time and again the old but silly statement, 1t don't pay to advertise" and listened to the appeal, Don't mention it, it would ruin me" The paragraph Is as follows: Ask some men for an advertisement or few locals and they will say they do not believe in advertising-a paper is never read" Let one of them be caught kissing bis neighboT's wife or struggling along with a jag, and if the printing office is in the garret of a seventeen story building. he will climb to the ! top and beg the editor to keep quiet, not to publish it in the paper Assumption News.
 Sheriff J. A. Johnson returned yes terday from a trip to the Navajo h. dian agency at Defiance. He had talk with MT. Hazlitt, the agent over the recent troubles. and ar- ranged to have the horses, saddles and arms of the posse, which were taken to the reservation by the h. dians, returned at an early date. From an Indian who arrived at De- fiance from the western portion of