Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-31

The following interesting items concerning the Grand Lodge Knights of Py ,hias of Arizona were gleanad from the report of Harry Drachmau, grand keeper Of records aud seals. The lodge has I'll mem bers with l5 subord nate lodges in ! the territory. The total receipts for the year were S9,53Is2; the amount paid out for sick benefits was S 976, and the total assets are 1 Sl6.770 S4 The Phenix lodge has ] the largest membership and Tucson the next. The Prescott lodge is the wealthiest, and Benson Is uext ID that respect.
 ] One of our local officers who has been m the country sInce the bed rock was lad for the building of ] Salt River Is authority fo. the state m mt that Amador Lucero an ac count of whose capture IS given m our dispatches today, aud wh killed ! the section boss al Ash Fork, is a relative of Pedro Lucero. Pedro, it ! t will be remembered. IS wanted for the murder of the Austrian at Weaver camp some months ago, and ! it Is believed that he, along with ! lunOcente Gonzales, who was gath cred 10 his fathers by the six-shooter process in the long ago, played a leading role in the murder of Fred Stanton and the massacre of the B ruey Martin family, as we'll as the wholesale butchery of Cyrus Crib his and companions. The Lucero blood seems to be impTegnated with crme and the very name in this country has become signal for sus- : picioDs.-Herald.
 The secretary of war last week ordered the commanding officer at Fa-t Wingate, \. NJ, 10 dispatch an iequste force of troops imme- dist''ly to the MOqui Pueblo Indian villages in Arizona to assist in over coming resistance to the work of disi fecting aud quarantining the villages where smallpox is prevalent.
 E iitor Hughes of the Star, is abolt to make a fortune out of his copper mine. He has battled for Arz0na a good many years and is entitled to a fortune.
 Washington M. Jacobs is dead in Los Angeles. The deceased was born about slxty-fve years ago and came to Tucson in 1880, where be eng ged In the business If an as- saver. He was at one tune justice of the peace. Mir. Jacobs was inter ested in mining and owned valuable mloiug property ID Sonora just be- yond the line Star.
 England, according to Lord Charles BeresfOrd, is anxious that Admiral Dewey shall visit her shores ou his homeward trip, and be the subject of demonstration that will show heir appreciation of his scien- tie work at Manila.
 New Jerseys average receipts from corporation fees amount to 5000 a day. Few communities udNN tl AtdltLcAA so tuutu lTOH duN species Oi prostitution as that Dallas News.
 Tom O'Rourke, manager Jf the Lenox Athletic club. says he will of- fer a purse of S5OOOO for a fight be- tween Fitz and Sharkey if the champion IS successful in his com ing fight with Jeffries. This Is the largest purse ever offered for a bat tie.
 Two Georgia newspapers, the Atlanta Constitution and the Savannah News, unite in doubting the advisability of making silver the leading issue in the democratic platform of 1900.
 The latest proposition to establish a trust effects the drug jobbing trade and the project is being pro noted by Elliott Burris. New York attorney. It is proposed to include ninety-oue concerns east of the Rockies and north of and including Memphis and Richmond, whose com bined capital IS estimated at Sl7,- 0O0000.