Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-27
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 that President Mckinley will meet the Mexican president at Chicago and invite him 10 cOme to Washing ton as his guest and the guest of the nation.
 Fourteen car loads of cattle were shipped from Mayer yesterday over the P. & F. road. Eleven of them went to Ash Fork and three to Phe- nix. The train did no, reach Pres colt till 9:30 o'clock st night, caus- ing some of the passengers Co reg istsr a complaint.
 E. G. Collier, a former Rough Rider, has been arrested 10 Los An geles, charged with having commit ed a robbery al Las Vegas. Collier was a Globe miner His home is m Alabama. He was traced by means of watches which be secured in the robbery and sent to relatives
 The word Journal Murphy" is used fifteen times, aud "Murpby gang" i've times, while 'tAxless' aud the other attendant words are used sd infnitum. ia our eoutem- porary this morning 10 convince its readers of the calamity stricken con dition of the country. If such ex- pressions Ss these, used ID place of argument, IS not ample presumption of American ignorance 10 Arizona then we are simply mistaken.
 Chaplain Winfield Scott will com mence bis labor as pastor of the Baptist church tomorrow, and will preach appropriate sermons morn ing and evening.
 Mileage Statesman" was trotted out again this morning as a power ful argument that hard times are be- ing experienced under the present administration. This venerable argument has grown gray ia the service of our contemporary but when a regular eliocher is desired it is brought into service.
 "J. Ernest Walker is expected home from Virginia where he has been spending the summer on the 3Oth of this month. PheuiA paper. Mir. Walker was very fortunate in postponing the spending of the sum mer till the 30lh of this month, as he will have pleasant weather for it. !
 Mechanics hook and ladder eou pany will hold a special meeting this evening at s o'clock and Assist apt Foreman Geo. A. Giles requests that all members attend as business of great interest to the company will l be transacted.
 Governor Powers returned last l night from surveying the townsite l of Sybil, one-fourth mile north of 1 the new Val Verde smelter He re- ports the work on the smelter, board . ing and other houses progressing rapidly. The camp promises 10 be iu all respects up to date and first class.
 The usual services will be held iu I Marina street Methodist church to- I morrow by the pastor, Harcourt W. Peck. The subject Of the evening sermon will be The Best Loved and Most Hated Book, the Bible" being the second sermon of the first series, the subdivision of the subject for !. this sermon being Why Men Love, and if need be, Die for the Old Book"
 Next Thursday evening, Sept. 2S, l the Arizona mission conference of l the Methodist Episcopal church l will meet at the First Methodist church, Prescott. Bishop William X. Ninde will preside over its ses- sions. A cordial invitation is ex tended to all.
 The residence of MT. and Mrs, . s. F. Beban was thronged with la ! dies yesterday, with B sprinkling of . gentlemen, the occasion being the . exhibit by Mrs Behan Of her hand | painted China ware. Mrs. Behan . not only maintains her reputation . for this class of work. but shows . constant improvement and her ware . not only elicits enthusiastic praise from those who see 1t, but also finds ! ready sale. She has no difficulty . in disposing of sll she can paint,
 The civil seruice examination of | applicants for the position of mail . carrier ia Prescott, took place in the . court house this morning before Fl. . P. Reynolds, secretary of the eX- amining board in Pheni1, F. A. Tritle jr., register of the Prescott l land office, and Matt Loring, of the l Prescott postofice. Only three ap , plicants presented themselves, being | J. G. Van Heutum, J. s. Freeman and Monroe Redden. The positions are worth $500 for the first year and ! $500 the second year.
 The life and experience of Pearl !. Hart, the female bandit who made her debut in public print some four months ago, will appear in one of Jus UJOulul1 nloS SoEiuCo tb oiAifC next week. Illustrations will be as sociated with the story of the River sido hold up in which Pearl was the leading participant. She is smoking perfectos and is still wearing the jeans. Her trial will take place at Florence early iu November. Boote, her partner, is located in jail there. There was no suitable room for the woman and she was sent to the local bastile on that account Star.
 The Tucson Star says that W. R. Patterson. the we'll known cattlemap came over from PheniI this week and passed through to Willcox, where he secured 1000 head of cat tie from Monk brothers. The beeves were shipped to southern California, MT. Patterson expects to gather a lot here for the coast market. He says that be found the cattle in southern Arizona to be in better con- dition than ordinarily. In the Chino valley, near Ash Fork, he and a younger brother have a large flock of sheep on the range.