Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-03-27

4nC 1ONd1 ORblOu Dl1l pdSStO but legislature and is now the law of Ari- zona.
 The mandamus case of Donald Campbell vs the Prescott city coun- cil was argued today and submitted to the court.
 The Phenix Gazette is of the opin- ion that laws are the results of swaps and trades. This is not question of opinion but one of well demonstrated fact.
 Cecil G. Fennell came in last even ing from California where he has been for several weeks looking over the oil fields there.
 The contractors of the Del Rio pipe line have been compelled to shut down entirely on account of failure to receive their pipe.
 Dr. Miller will retire from the su- perintendency of the territorial insane asylum on April and will engage in the practice of medicine in Phenix.
 S. N, Kemp, of the Los Angeles Type Foundry left this morning to visit Jerome printers, and stock them up with "sorts," new type and the latest improved machinery.
 The water has been drawn from the Granite Dells lake and considerable improvement is being made in it pre- paratory for the summer picnic sea season.
 An Indian mail carrier who carried mail between Flagstaff and Tuba City is in the county jail in Prescott, charged with purloining registered letter from the mail sack and extract ing therefrom S70.
 S. R. Beloate, the hustling life in- surance agent representing the New York Mutual Life insurance company of New York, arrived in Prescott yes terday from Phenix, having made the trip by private conveyance.
 The O'Neill monument bill was de- | feated in the council. It was amend i ed providing an appropriation of S5,- 900, instead of S10,000. A further | effort to amend, by inserting Phenix instead of Prescott, was lost by vote of 6 to 6. The bill was then defeated | by similar vote.
 Joseph Seep, the well known finan- cial man of the Standard Oil compa- | ny, is in town with c. P. Collins. Mir. | Seep probably draws more big cheeks in the course of year than any other | man in the United States, the amount | aggregating each year pretty close to Sl0O,OOO,OO0.
 While Prescott appreciated the friendly feeling for this county, mani tested by Assemblyman St. Charles and Councilman Burns, of Mohave county, the Journal-Miner has not heard of any bouquet given them as stated by the Phenix papers.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals March 9, 1901: Miss c Delisle, Phenix; J. w. Hanson, NJ Davis, Mrs E B Chalk. San Francisco; S N Kemp, Ben Nail and wife, Los Angeles; J R Molera. San Francisco; c G Fennell, New York; R NJ Vail, San Jacinto; c F Morgan, San Francisco; Chas P Bond Boston; c NJ Sabin, Chicago; c Nicer. koff, Denver; D W Bartholdi, Jerome.
 It is estimated that one hundred and twenty-five people went out to Lonesome valley on Sunday to make placer locations for oil. Every livery rig and saddle horse in town were pressed into service.
 Mrs. J. R. Lowry has consented to become candidate for school trustee at the urgent solicitation of number of her friends. Mrs. Lowry has had years of experience as a public school teacher and is thoroughly competent to manage the affairs of school gov ernment.
 Several ladies were engaged on Wednesday in trying to get petition signed for the pardon of Tom Ketch- .um, sentenced to be hanged on April 26. They did not meet with much success, and, therefore, through their friends in the legislative house had a bill passed applying to his case. changing the death penalty for hold ing up and robbing trains to life sen tence where no lives were lost. The house passed the bill on Wednesday [ evening, but the council killed it. The z latter move was proper and right ' Albuquerque Citizen. C
 The attorneys of Tom Ketchum. who IS under sentence of death in New Mexico, will appeal his case to the United States supreme court. on the constifutionality of the law i'm posing the death penalty for train robbery. The clause in the constitu- tion upon which they rely is that ' ''cruel and unusual punishment" shall not be inflicted. In case the officers Of New Mexico are not permitted to q hang Ketchum, it is alleged that they have promised to turn him over to officials of this county for trial on a charge of numbering Wingfeld and Rodgers at Camp Verde.
 ''O'Brien Moore, well known in this ' city, has taken editorial charge of the a Tucson Citizen under its new manage n ment. E. $. Ives and Charles NJ. c Shannon are now the owners of the Citizen" The foregoing appears in the El Paso Herald of last Wednes- 1hC lSuOIdDC6 of the purported change. The only papers that seem to know anything t about this piece of news are those of ? Fl Paso, Phenix, Los Angeles, togeth- a CT with the inimitable Tucson Star.- p Citizen. Mrs. W. c. Campbell entertained a number of ladies at her residence yes terday afternoon, in an informal man. ner, in honor of Mrs. Noble Prentis, O of Kansas City. Mrs. Prentis is quite n prominent in woman's club circles in V Kansas City, and also takes a deep Q, interest in charitable work of various nj kinds, and gave an informal but very V interesting talk to the ladies present, in reference to these subjects. The " ladieT were particularly interested in V her ,iescIi',tion of the Old Ladies' c Hon of tnat city, probably one of d the most celebrated institutions of the N kind in the United States.