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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
TRAIN ROBBERS CINCHED.
Three of the Fairbanks Hold Up, Of to
 the Penitsntiary.

Tuesday in the United States court at Tucson, Brown and the two Ow- ings brothers were sentenced to terms in the penitentiary, Brown for ten years and the others for four years each. This virtually breaks up that notorious gang of railroad train rob- bers, nearly all of whom were impli- cated by the dying confession of Three Fingered Jack, who was shot by Express Agent Milton during the hold up of the train at Fairbanks last February.
 George Owings made an open state ment at the trial, telling the story of the conspiracy from its inception to the date of the robbery. It seemed, from this statement that the man Brown was the originator of the plan and the organizer of the gang.
 It was in this affair that Milton was injured so badly that it was feared one of his arms would have to be amputated. Sc far the surgeons have succeeded in saving it and immediately after the sentence was passed Milton started for San Francisco to undergo another operation in which an effort will be made to engraft an animal bone in the now powerless arm.
 Alvord, Styles and Brown are under indictment for the Cochise train rob bery and it is not at all unlikely that the present imprisonment sentence oi Brown will be his lightest. The sen tences just passed were upon convic ton of attempting to rob the United States mails Gazette.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
RELIGION AND PHILANTHROPY

''I do not want to see a minister dressed up too much, like a dude, but let his apparel be in keeping with the dignifed calling" is a dictum which Bishop Bowman gave out recently.
 Nearly e16,OOO,OOO was given by Americans, during 1899, to religious, charitable and educational institu- tiOns. No such sum was ever given before in the whole history of the country.
 One of the most successful of evan gelists now preaching in London is Gipsy Smith, He was born in a Clip sy tent. reared in the lanes and fields of rural England, and knew nothing of books when converted.
 The First Baptist church in Dover, Pa, has converted a building hereto fore used for church social affairs into a shirt factory, where church mem bers are given preference in employ ment. Five per cent. of the wages is to revert to church work in the town.
 In Brooklyn Sheriff Walton has ap- pointed 70 deputy sheriffs, who are members of churches, to look out for children in the streets who do wrong. They are to deal especially with small boys who smoke cigarettes, play craps and buy beer at saloons. The plan was suggested by Mrs. Marcus Wood. of the Young Woman's Chris tian association.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
4 New Railroad Time Card.

The new time card will go into eff feet November 7th on the Santa Ft and also on the s. F., P. & P railroads when the former road will place its limited train in service. Instead oi being tri-weekly, as heretofore, the limited will be run daily and the regular train will also be continued, making two trains each way daily over the Santa Fe road. The new time card is so arranged that two of the west bound trains and one east bound passes Ash Fork within a few hours of each other, making it pos sible for the S. F., P. & P. railroad to make reasonably close connections with them.
 They will be approximately as fol lows: Regular west bound train, time unchanged, arrives at 12:10 and leaves at 12:35; west bound limited 12:55 D. m.; east bound limited, II :55 a. m. The time of the east bound regular train is also unchanged, ar irving at ash Fork at 5:30 and leaving at 5:55.
 The time schedule for the s. F., P & P. has not been definitely decided on vet, but approximately the north bound train will leave Phenix at II: :3( D. m., passing through Prescott about 6 a. m. and will reach Ash Fork about S:45. Returning it will leave Ash at 1:l5 and pass through Prescott at 3 D. m., arriving at Phenix at 9 D. m
 By this it will be seen that the only lay over at Ash Fork will be pas sengers from the west on the regular east bound train, who will have a lay over from 5:30 p. m. to the next morn ing, when they can come south on the freight or till 1:15 if they come or ! the passenger train.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
IN THE sUPERLATIvE DECREE

The fastest flowing river in the world is the SUtlej, in India. Its descent is 10 . 900 feet in 1s0 miles.
 New Scotland Yard is the largest police office in the world. It is capable of accommodating 5000 police officers.
 The largest insect known to ento- mOlogists is a Central American moth, called the Erobus strix, which expands its wings from 1 1 inches to IS inches.
 The United States leads all countries in the amount of mileage of telephone wires. Sweden heads the list in the number of telephones. having 113 to each 10000 of it's population, while the United States has TOT to each 10000.
 Payta, in Peru. about five degrees south of the equator, has the reputa- tion, according to Prof D. c. Fairchild. of being the driest spot on the globe. On an average. a shower of rain occurs at Payta only once in two years. But the interval between showers is often longer. In February last, when Prof. Fairchild visited the place, the first rain fallen in eight years had just -wetted the thirsty soil, having lasted from ten p. m. until the following noon.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24

J W Ross and R NJ Clark to Tho, O Riley deed, S10, Southern Bell May Flower and Independence mines Verde dist.
 Thos O Riley to D F Connor and T Shea, deed, same mines.
 Chas W Jones to David J Jones, S1 ] inst Golden Thread mine, Martinez dist.
 Jas Gillispie locates Jennie mine, Banning creek dist.
 Prescott National Bank to J W Wilson, deed, SIS, 5,165, lots 19, 20, and g in blk ', Prescott.
 Joseph w. Wilson and wife to Prescott National Bank, trust deed, Sl3,OOO, same property.
 G A Treadwel ct al vs T G Norris, decree of court, Buster mine. Peck dist.
 Anna Thomas releases mtge to Walter Pillar on lots 9, 10, II and F and part of s in blk 1, Jerome.
 Clarence L Ferguson to James L Thorpe, deed, S917, land in Sec g and 16, twp 14 N of R 2 W.
 H A Strodthoff releases mtg on Rafael Lopez lots 9, 10, II and 15 and part of s, blk 1, Jerome. E 7Mingus Mountain Copper Co locates twelve mines in Black Hills dist.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
RELATING TO THEATERS.

Wiesbaden harbors a woman who has been a prompter in a theater for SO years.
 The electrophone appears to be rap idly coming into favor in England. AL ready there are many places in the leading thoroughfares of London where one can enter, and by the pay ment of small fee, be switched on for a quarter of an hour to any of the prin- cipal theaters, music halls, etc
 Greece and Spain intend to establish national theaters. King George has promised to provide the money for the Greek theater, at Athens, and is draw ing up the regulations for it. The Spanish minister of fine arts proposes to encourage a national theater at Madrid by having the state offer S4O,- 900 year in prizes for plays, operas and zarzuelas.
 Mrs. Fiske's season of 34 weeks in Becky Sharpe" ended in Philadelphia May 5. She played IS weeks in New York and visited ten other cities. The tour was enormously successful, the gross receipts aggregating more than $3OO,OO0. Mrs. Fiske's next tour will begin in October.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24

The democratic press and campaign orators universally refer to the Yava- pal county railroad bonds as being illegal. In order to substantiate their assertions will some of them answer the following questions:
 When did said bonds become il- legal!
 Were they illegal at the date of their issue, or did they become so later?
 If they were illegal at time of issue why was it that Yavapai county paid interest on them for. eight years, and also made a payment of S27,0O0 on the principal9
 If they were illegal at date of issue why was it that some of these politi- clans who are shouting about their illegality now did not raise their voice on behalf of the taxpayers?
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Our contemporary keeps rendering decisions on the Yavapai county bonds and asserting that the supreme court of the United States has de- clared the bonds illegal, whereas the supreme court has never officially heard that such bonds are in ex- istence.
 Another man has been convicted of the murder of Goebel. For a repub- lican to have been in Frankfort on the day of that assassination is suti- cient evidence to a Kentucky jury that he killed Goebel.
 Chairman Jones, of the national democratic committee. states that Mayor Phelan, of San Francisco, says there is no doubt about the state of California. The mayor is wrong. There is some doubt as to whether McKinley's majority will be 15,OOO or 25,OOO.
 The Tucson Star speaks of the wonderful act of a Tucson democrat accepting the one-dollar end of a ten to-one wager that Mckinley will carry New York. This is equivalent to admitting that Bryan's chances are only one in ten of carrying the state. A republican who offered to wager S10O to S30 that Mckinley will be elected also found democrat to take that bet. No one can be found, though, who is willing to take even chances.
 A fair, impartial and truthful his tory of the Yavapai county railroad bonds can be had on application to republican headquarters on Gurley street. If there is any one who is in doubt about this question he should apply to the central committee, se- cure a copy of this statement and after reading it carefully decide for himself whether there is any ground for the position taken by the demo crats on this question.
 In an attempt to explain why the democrats in congress opposed the anti trust resolution introduced last June in that body, Col. Wilson shows the insincerity of the demo cratic party on this question. The excuse given is that the resolution took away the rights of the states to govern their internal affairs. This is the same position taken by Mir. Olney under the Cleveland administration and the latter is now a supporter of Mir. Bryan. NIT. Olney claimed that the trust question must be dealt with by the states themselves. The in consistency of charging the national administration with fostering trusts, while claiming that it is a question solely for the states to deal with must be apparent to every one.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
TOLD OF FAMOUS AUTHORS.

Thepoet Whittier planned the Quaker meeting house at Amesbury, Mass, and silver tablet has just been placed upon 1t in his memory.
 It was related of John Keats, by a Mrs. Crafty, that when he could just speak, instead of answering questions he would always make a rhyme to the last word people said, and then lauob. ''
 It is reported that an American pa- per once eontainedAthis announcements. 'Mr. Browning has declined to furnish us with poem in exchange for a thou sand dollars. We find ourselves more than ever unable to understand Mir. Browning"
 Grant Aliens story, 'Hilda Wade" was being published serially in the Strand Magazine, and the last chap ters had not been written when the author lay on his deathbed. His friend and neighbor, Dr. Conan Doyle. hearing of his anxiety on this score, went to see him, took notes of what he wished done, went home and wrote out the final chapters as the author would have written them himself had he lived.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
FOR THE SUPERSTITIoUS.

To pin bad luck drive a rusty nail in the front doorstep.
 Never let the moon shine on fresh meat; it brings bad luck.
 If you are walking or riding along and see a mist rising from the ground it is a sign of the presence of spirits.
 If you meet a stranger in the road you must turn round, make a cross- mark and slightly change your direc- tion for good luck.
 Horseshoes, when nailed on doors or posts for good luck, are placed with the round part uppermost. No witch or evil spirit can enter when they are so nailed.
 It is bad luck to sweep the dirt out of a house at night; sweep it up into a corner and sweep out in the day time. If obliged to sweep it out at night, take a coal of fire and throw it first in front of you.
 If the right shoestring becomes ac- cidentally united it is a sign that woman is talking evil. To prevent the evil make a cross-mark, put your foot on the mark and retie the string Journal of American Folk Lore
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
SOME LEGAL NUTS FOR
 DEMOCRATS TO CRACK

If they were not illegal at date of issue, at what particular date did they become so and what particular act or circumstance caused their ille- gality?
 As taxpayer of Yavapai county, the editor of the Journal-Miner is just as much opposed to the payment of anything that is not just and right, whether it is technically legal or whether it is technically illegal as any one, and he is open to be convinced on this bond question.
 The simple ipse dixit of few poll ticians, however, is not convincing to his mind.
 Answers to the above questions. might throw some light on the sub ject of which he is not possessed to- day, and they could not fail to be of interest to every honest voter.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
Mining Intelligence.

NJ. A. Lawler was in town Saturday from his Treasure Vault mine. He says the shaft is down IF feet and he still has nine feet of pay ore at the bottom of the shaft.
 The Williams News says that many men were made happy in Williams this week by the final payment in full of all labor claims against the plati- mum syndicate which so many wise acres promptly jumped upon, con demned, "knocked' and complicated so that they could not do business This result is complete yindication of their honest motives aHd intentions They are by no means discouraged, but will go right ahead.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
THE C0BRE eRANDE CASE.
On Account of Irregularities it is Sent
 Back to kTizpe for Trial.

L. H. Chambers. one of the attor- neys for the Cobre Grande company, last night received a telegram from the city of Mexico advising him that an adverse decision had been rendered by the supreme court of Mexico against the Cobre Grande in its litiga- ton with V. C. Greene. The de cision, however, does not touch upon the merits of the case.
 The company had brought suit in the federal court at Arizpe against Greene for possession of the Cobre Grande mine and obtained a judg- ment and order of possession. Greene took the case to the supreme court on a writ of amparo, claiming that the enforcement of the order of the federal court would be an infringe ment upon his constitutional rights. since he had not had proper notifica- ton of the action against him. No other question was involved in the writ or in any way brought before the supreme court. The writ is sustained
 The tedious litigation in the federal court will have to be gone over again Republican.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
ODDS AND ENDS

The department of agriculture will plant 100000 rubber trees in the Hs- waiian islands.
 In 1899 the receipts of the public baths in Philadelphia paid 65 per cent. of the running expenses.
 Thirty-six foreign vessels, having an aggregate tonnage of 57,556, met with disaster in American waters last year.
 The California entrants sold in this country are so carefully cleaned that they command better prices than Corinthian entrants.
 The fishing industry of North Caro- lima yields an annual product worth over S1 ,OOO 900 at no cost to the state, as the fish commission pays its own expenses and turns from Ss,OOO to S1O,OOO into the state treasury every year.
 The water supply of Porto RicOy be- cause of its abundance and freshness from the mountain streams ought to be pure and good for use. But it is far otherwise. A thick bed of rank vegetation is ever decaying beneath the new growth rising above it, and the water Altering through the rot ten mass becomes not only steeped with the lye of decaying roots, leaves and grasses, but is full of insects and worms.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
WHIMS OF KINGS AND QUEENS

The German emperor does not like long sermons, and the court chaplains are obliged to condense their dis courses so that the delivery will only consume IS minutes.
 The king of Sweden sets aside ev- cry second Tuesday on which anyone of his subjects may call on him. The only formality required is to send in one's card, the visitors being received when their turn comes in the order of arrival
 King Christian of Denmark loves to romp with his grandchildren and he may often be seen seated in a diminu- tive pony carriage, trusting himself to the care of a very youthful coach man, or he sometimes acts as the willing horse of very young driver.
 Margherita, queen of Italy, al though not ostensibly in favor of equal suffrage, does all she can to encourage women's work. The gold medals recently presented to her la dies in waiting who have completed sc years of service were designed by a woman
 King Oscar of Sweden has had his life insured, the premium being 37,- 900 kroner (s1O,3oO) per year. He was Fl years old on January 21. The king still retains his love for the sea, to which he was apprenticed in his youth, and every August he makes a long cruise along the bold and TO- mantle coast of his northern king dom.
 Future generations may perhaps read an account of the life of the en- press of Germany as written by her self. The empress is in the habit of writing daily in her diary. No one ever sees the contents. At the close of the year new diary is opened and the old one, which has locked clasp, is consigned to the iron safe con< taining her majesty's domestic jew elry.
 If the young empress of Russia lived in America, says the Rocky Mountain News, she would be a leader of the suffrage movement. She believes that most, If not all, the great reforms which have taken place in the world have been brought about, if only in- directly, by women Under her i'm perial patronage societies for the higher culture of women are not only growing daily more numerous in St. Petersburg. but they are rapidly spreading throughout Russia.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
4 DsAcing Class.

Prof. J. $. Gales and wife and John Friels and wife will shortly start a dancing class and expect to give a grand opening ball in the new Dougherty hall in West Prescott about November 10th for the purpose of completing the organization of the class. There will be three instructors on the floor and all desiring to learn the art of graceful movement can do no better than to avail themselves of this opportunity. Prof. Gales has heretofore engaged in this vocation with very satisfactory results, while Mir. Friels is also an adept in the art Parties desirous of joining the class should hand their names in as early as possible to either Mir. Gales or MT Friels.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

Eastern electric light plants this summer will be used in the manufac- ture of ice during the months when lights are needed
 Aninventor has recently devised an H. luminating sign which is sunk flush in the pavement consisting of a large dead light bearing a sign secured in a metal ring and cOnical reflector, at the bottom of which is located an in- candescent light.
 It is proposed to utilize the River Cellina and part of the River Piave in Italy, for the generation of electrical power for transmission to Venice. The Cellina is capable of supplying 10000 horse power at a distance of 59 miles. The Piaye scheme offers 27,OOO horse power conducted 43 miles distant and the amount could even be increased, says the Electrical World.
 A tree was encircled by a rope some 25 feet from the ground, and it so ohanced that an end of the rope stood out from the bark of the tree so that during the earlier part of a rainstorm the tree was damp from the top to the rope encircling it, while the lower portion was kept comparatively dry. The tree was struck by lightning in this condition, and the lower part only was damaged. The damage followed downward a path which the twist in the fiber of the wood made easiest.
 A bill has been introduced in the New York legislature requiring the regis tration of electricians, says the Flee trical Review. The bill is in the na- ture of a protection against fire, as it is to prevent incompetent persons from tampering with electric wires in all buildings where electricity is used. The electricians who wire the buildings are now held responsible for their work, but they claim that after they have finished it, in many instances, in experienced persons are called in to do odd jobs, and leave the wires in such shape that they are a menace.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
Shot by Mistake.

A sad accident occurred near Will Hams on Wednesday, when Matthew Grose accidently shot and killed James Yuree. The two boys, who were the the closest of friends, were out hunting in the vicinity of Bill Williams mountain. They had got separated, one going one way and the other in the opposite direction around a hill.
 After they had been separated some time Yuree lay down beneath tree to rest. His companion, Grose, com ing near him, saw his hat behind the tree and thought that it was cub bear. After watching this object for some time he took aim and fired Upon approaching the object he found that he had shot Yuree through the head, killing him instantly.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24

On Saturday last Joseph Brown re- ported to the sheriff's office that he had found the remains of a man about eight miles from town. on the east side of Eldon mountain. Deputy Hogan and Harry Hoxworth went to the place and found but the skeleton and clothing of what Mir. Hoxworth believes to be the remains of Wm Hieman, a tie cutter in his employ in in January, 1899. One cold night Hieman left the main camp to go to a camp two miles further on and nc trace of him could be found, although a diligent search was made through the heavy snow that covered the ground at the time, and it was be lieved at the time that he perished from the cold. \ loaded revolver and D cents in money was found near the skeleton. Hieman was a comparative stranger here and stated that he came from Colorado Coco nino Sun.
 Governor Murphy swimming friends in this campaign by his manly hon. orable course. He has refrained from personalities and hasnOt resented in the least the malicious personal att tacks made on him. The people of Arizona believe in fair play and they will vote for the man who does nc, in- dulge in abuse of his opponent.