Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-13

T. O n. M. tOHlSut' NOIh III JHe
 second degree.
 James H. Hill, the architect, and family will leave tomorrow for Los
 Angeles to reside.
 The regular meeting of the terri
 torial board of equalization will be
 held in Phoenix tomorrow.
 w. J. Berry has been appointed de
 putty recorder at the Seven Mile
 house, on the Lynx Creek road.
 Coconino county delegates have elected a solid Wilson delegation to attend the territorial convention.
 The labor union convention was still in session today. They are not giving out any of the proceedings.
 The same Chinamau that struck the policy game for S2400 about a month ago made another winning of $500 on Saturday night.
 Mrs. Mary Beatty, aged B years, died while taking a bath in Phenix. She was very feeble and it is suppos- ed that she tainted while in the water and was drowned.
 Mrs. Charles Clark, wife of the section foreman at Franconia, was found dead in her room one night last week. Death was probably caused from heat.
 Col. J. F. Wilson has received word that Apache county on Satur- day elected a solid delegation to the democratic convention favorable to his candidacy for delegate.
 Mrs. L. L. Wyatt, very bright newspaper woman, formerly connect ed with Phenix papers, has returned to the territory after an absence of seven years. She is now connected with the Tucson Citizen.
 Mir. and Mrs. David Roberson, of McPherson, Kansas, came in on last evenings train for brief visit with the editor of this paper. They are en route to San Francisco to attend the Knights of Pythias convention.
 President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation creating the Mt. Gra- ham Forest Reserve in Graham coun- ty, setting apart nearl V the whole of the mountain not already appropriat- ed by the Fort Grant military reser- vation.
 Major Dowell will vacate Granite Dells this week, being unable to ob- tain a satisfactory lease of the place. Major Leavell has rented the resi- dence formerly occupied by Hon. R. E Morrison and family and will To- cate permantly in Prescott.
 A telegram from Denver says that General Funston, commander of the department of Colorado, is con- fined to his home by illness, having undergone an operation for fistula. The condition is not alarming and his friends expect that he will quick y recover.
 Judge Hanson Kennedy left on Sundays train for a visit to his old home at Carlisle, Kentucky. He was met at Ash Fork by Dr. Fralick and Justus Gobel, who will accompany him back to the old blue grass state. Judge Kennedy expects to return within thirty days.
 Jim Lewis, who was stabbed on Saturday evening by Billy Miles, is reported resting easy today with prospects for his recovery. The knife penetrated through the skin and flesh into the abdominal cavity and cut into his liver about two inches. The doctors are more hopeful today than at any time since the cutting was done.
 The Curtiss Comedy company closes a successful engagement at Phenix this week and will leave Thursday night for Dennison, Texas, to play a three weeks engagement there. The company will be replaced at the park in Phenix by Mir. Curtiss' other con- pany, which has been appearing at Fl Paso during the summer months.
 The following is the weather re- port received at the depot this morn ing: Ash Fork, clear, calm, cool, had little rain last night; Cedar Glade, clear, calm, cool, had light shower last evening from to s; Jerome Junction to Phoenix, clear, calm, mild, no rain last night; Poland Branch and P. & 5. Railway, clear, calm, mild. no rain last nigkt.
 In accordance with instructions sent out from the mother church, there has been a change of the | church readers in all the Christian Science churches, the changes hay ing taken place on the same date. Mir. and Mrs, E. w. Wells, who have | been first and second readers in the Prescott Christian Science church, have been succeeded bp MT. and | Mrs. NJ. E. Spalding.
 Rev. and Mrs. E. w. Meaney came | in on Saturday evenings train. They | are on their return trip to their home | in Los Angeles after an absence of about a year. Part of the time was spent visiting in England, and they | have also spent some time in New York and Santa Fe visiting friends | and relatives. They expect to remain | here for few weeks, during which | time Mir. Meaney will conduct ser vices in the church of the Advent.
 A telegram says that the Navajo | Indians never have been in such | misery as now since 1868 when Kit | Carson had them rounded up in a corral at Defiance. Extreme heat | and drouth in the Navajo country | has ruined the ranges and the ponies, cattle, sheep, and goats are starving by the scores daily. The Indians have had little else than horse meat to eat for some time and | unless the government comes to their assistance must starye during the winter.
 During the four years and four months incumbency of the edi- tor of this paper of the office of | receiver of the United States land of flee, the total receipts aggregated | S92, ,433.33. Of this amount SS3,353.05 | was received for sales of land and | fees and commissions, S642662 for l the sale of public timber and S2,- 653.66 in the settlement of timber trespass cases. No commission or compensation of any kind are allow ed for the transaction of the latter