Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-10-21
Geographic Sparks.

Chicago, Oct. 4.-The restoring
host of Zion City began its move.
ment upon New York today. At in.
tervals of half and hour, train loads oil
followers of John Alex Dowie left the
| North Shore city. There were eight
trains in all, bearing over three thou
sand of the crusaders At the
/ blowing of the fire whistle every in
habitant of the city was ready to
kneel, and TO pray for a safe journey.
Over seven thousand men, women and
children gathered at the railroad sta
ton to listen to the final instructions
of their leader.
! Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. l4.-ln the
circuit court Chancellor Sneed, in
habeas corpus proceedings, decided
the case of L. r. Early VS.. William
Bradford, holding that the plaintiff,
Early, could not have the custody of
his child wife, Artie Bradford, aged
u, and daughter of the defendant.
Early sought her on the ground that
they were married in Fannin county,
Ga. Under the Georgia law a bride
must be IA before her legal marriage.
The wife stated in court that she did
not want to live with her husband,
but had been persuaded by him to run
away and marry. Father and daugh-
ter left tonight for their home.
Early is 40 years old.
Port Arthur, Tuesday, Oct. l3.-The
review, by Viceroy Admiral Alexieff,
on Sunday of seventy six thousand
soldiers, was the final act of last week
of the "war game. This force is
massed on the plains outside of the
city. II is officially announced that
the entire forces within easy operat-
ing distance of Port Arthur number
one hundred thousand men. Sundays
spectacle demonstrated that the re-
ports regarding reinforcements arriv-
ing in Manchuria underestimated the
real increase. Higher officials believe
that Japan is overawed by the demon
STATIONS of Russia's strength. No
steps toward the evacuation of Man
churia have been taken.
New York, Oct. 14.-It developed at
the ship building hearing today that
Leroy Dresser made an effort yester-
day to communicate with Schwab.
Counsel for the latter tried to show
that Dresser had thought to plead
with Schwab but Dresser, who was on
the stand denied that that was his
purpose and renewed the charge that
the withholding of the Bethlehem COM
psny's profits by Schwab had wrecked
the ship building combination.
Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. Al. d.
Park, of Rockford, Ills, zen route
home from North Dakota, announced
that he had closed deal for thirty
two thousand acres of land in South
Western North Dakata for the Dowie-
ties from Chicago. He proposed to
colonize the land and to establish
Zion in Bowman and Billings coun-
ties.
Paris, Oct. 14.-France gave a royal
reception today to King Victor En-
manuel and Queen Helena of Italy.
From the moment the train bearing
the Italian sovereign stopped at Boise
de Boulogne. until the nations guests
were safely conducted to apartments
at D'Orsay palace, Paris rescuuded
-aith acclamations of welcome.
London, Oct. I'm. jacques Lee
baudy, the emperor of Sahara. is still
stopping at his hotel in this city. and
thousands of kilograms addressed to
him are received every day from all
parts of Europe. The emperor, how
ever, steadfastly declines to read or
open them, and as result of this he
has to pay for an extra room, which is
now almost filed with these unread
messages. His majesty few days ago
wrote a letter to President Loubet, in
which he solemnly renowned his
rights as French citizen, but unfor-
tunately, the French government has
no intention Of allowing him to re-