Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-09

interest of the company.
 Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Finn have gon,
 to Phenix for the benefit of the form
 CTS health, who is just recovering
 from an attack of pneumonia.
 The final report of the twelfth cen
 sus, made public today, gives tn,
 population of the United States anC
 insular possessions as S4, 4,233,069.
 W. W. Wood, the building con
 tractor, has moved his office from tn, Otis building to room 2l, BashforC building.
 City Assessor Alfred Averyt's con dition is reported a little better to- day, but he has been very low since his relapse.
 Captain L. D. Phillips went out to- day to the oil fields to note the pro gress being made on the erection ol the derrick.
 Major Wm. Dewitt has rendered his resignation as city engineer and J. F. Mahoney has been appointed to the position.
 The estate of the late Samuel Hill as shown by the appraisement recent ly filed in the probate court amounts to s93, ,S6229.
 NJ. W. Jones, former employe of the Phenix National bank, arrived in Prescott few days since and has ac- cepted position as bookkeeper at Smiths meat market.
 A. Armitage and Alice Moreley were married on Monday, March 31, at the Episcopal church by Rev. F. T. Bennett. The bride was given away by Fred Philpot.
 Percy Williams of Salt Lake city arrived in Prescott a few days since to take up his residence here. Mir. Williams was recently appointed SUI perintendent of the Blue Dick mine.
 It is said that no public man is SO generally popular with newspaper men as Senator Hanna. Perhaps that is because he knows and appre- ciates their work, as few men do.
 Simon Alderete had his preliminary examination before Justice Connell last evening and was held without bail to appear before a grand jury on a charge of murder, for the killing of J. R. Ward.
 The greatest meat contract on rec ord has just been made with the Brit ish government by the London branch-of the American firm, which undertakes to supply 50O,G00 pounds of canned sliced bacon and 220,000 cases of canned beef.
 Carl Rees, of Jerome Junction, has purchased the old Marion ranch in Chino valley, from Fred Venator, and also added to his landed possessions today by filing a homestead entry on 160 acres of land adjoining the above ranch.
 G. W. Smith, who was in the city the other day, gave it out as solid fact that he is no longer connected with the Santa Ee railway as general master mechanic of the coast lines. He has returned to San Bernardino, Cal, and reports now say that he will hereafter devote his time to boring for oil.-Albuquerque Citizen.
 Information received at this office today from Nogales is to the effect that everything is moving lovely at the Sonora NJ. & NJ. company's mine; that the mines are first class and the of the smelter is almost com pleted and it will be running within a week.
 Communications received at this office for publication must be accom- panied by the name of the writer. A received today was to the waste basket. as the writer's name did not accompany it. A nom de plume may be used for the signature as published, but for the editors information the genuine name of the writer must be known.
 Dr. Pope, mention of the arrival of whose remains at San Francisco, to- gether with those Of his wife, who died in mid ocean, was made yester- day, was formerly stationed al Whip pie, where he was very popular. He was an excellent physician and served in Cuba during the Spanish-American war and was the physician who made inc discovery of the first case of vel low fever during that campaign.
 The Navajo Indian, commonly called Christmas, has been found and arrested and. is now in jail at Winslow. He was discovered by Wm. Lee, who was north of town after a load of wood. MT. Lee only noticed him when he was a few feet of him with a large club drawn as though ready to strike. Mir. Lee at once faced him and the Indian cried out: Don't kill me-" MT. Lee took charge of him and took him to town and turned him over to Marshal D. B. Hawks, and today he had a preliminary hearing and was bound over to await the action of the grand jury, which convenes next Oc- tober The Indians name is John Stott. He declares that he has not eaten anything since he killed his wife on March F, and his appearance veri- fled the story, he being just able to walk, and is almost naked and very weak.
 The first authoritative article on the remarkable experiences of Miss Ellen Stone, the American Missionary, will be contained in the May number of the Woman's Home Companion, with heretofore unpublished pictures. The author is the Rev. Dr. James L. Bar ton, corresponding secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, which organization took foremost part in securing her release from the Bull garian brigands. He tells in a graph ic and thrilling manner of the events which led up to Miss Stones captiv- ity, the awful fate which threatened her, how the ransom for her release was raised, as well as the statement of the curious part the affair played in the diplomatic history of the world. It is an article of more than ordinary interest.
 Professor John J. McCook, in the Outlook, estimates that there are now 56,S96 tramps in the United States, a gain since 1870 of 235.4 per cent three and four-ffths times that of population. He says that these men cost the country at least SIl.0G0010 a year, and produce nothing. In ,!eal-