Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-05-25

proved instantaneously fatal, rather
than leaving him as it did, in such a
helpless condition depending entirely
upon charity for his future existence.
At the meeting of the Elks' lodge
on Wednesday evening May Is, the
lodge was honored by the presence of
DIR. Miller, of Flagstaff, district deputy
grand exalted ruler of the order. The
district deputy is required to visit
the lodge in his jurisdiction once q
year, and DR.. Miller is now on his
official tour. He delivered an inter
esting and instructive address to the
members, relating some of the i'm
portant changes which have been
made recently in the working of the
order. The evening was quite windy,
and a number of the Elks who never
miss a meeting being democrats, and
being engaged in doing politics and
attending cancuses during the even
ing, the two causes combined to make
small attendance. After the regular
business of the evening the lodge re-
solved itself into a social session, and
partook of a bounteous supply of re-
freshments provided.
Col. B. W. LeaveII returned last
Friday from a short visit to Phenix
where he went to receive and mount
the two gatling guns recently assigned
to Arizona by the general govern
ment. The guns are ten barrels each
and are of the very latest and most
approved pattern of gatling guns.
They are now mounted and stored
away in the Capital building in Phe-
nix and are ready for use on a mo
ment's notice, or ready for shipment
to any point in the territory, where
they might happen to be needed. The
of these guns by the terri
tory is very important one, as in
cases where the National Guard might
be called out, as during the strike at
last year, they would add |
very materially to its efficiency. 1t is
to have one gun remain |
in Phenix under the
charge of a detachment from the COM |
pany of the national guard there and !
to locate the other at some point In
the eastern part of the territory, where
a militia company is located and place
it in charge of similar detachment |
from that company.
In connection with the desired alb
sence of the dreaded bed bug writer .
in the June Delineator gives the sound |
if somewhat Irish advice that especial /
must be made before his .
arrival" Beds are to be taken apart !
and washed at intervals with carbolic |
water, and "Dalmation powder" freely
Inserted in the crannies. Frequently .
opening beds and bedelothes to the
air and sunlight and all cleanliness,
ire also enjoined and the writer as
3ures the houskeeeper that "unless
me lives in an apartment house and
mas undesirable neighbors'' all will
be we'll with her and her beds, as
'bedbugs cannot thrive where cleanli-
ness exists. s" Precautions against in
-asions of moths and silver bugs are
llso included in the article. AS to
moths, the writer says: 1.-THE prin-
,ipal thing is to use something that
has a strong odor. Moths are over
,ome quickly by any powerful odor
md will not enter a chest where it
AN be perceived. g" Turpentine is
recommended as having a clean odor,
rot unpleasant in the attic and much
o be preferred to moth balls; and,
'est of all, by hanging the garments
tut of doors for half an hour the odor
5 removed entirely.