Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-02-08

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should be supplied.
Their opponents commended that
much good is being accomplished by
the work OF the department.
Pettus, the venerable Alabama sen
ator, stood with the latter class and
appealed 10 his fellow youthful
senators not to forget the days when
they enjoyed the violets that grew in
the flower box on the front porch.
The bill was not completed.
ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. president
Roosevelt evidently intends to make
things hum around the White House
in the near future, for, having Just
finished a series of sparriDg lessons
with Donovan, he has now signed up
with Mike DIVER, the heavy weight
catch as-catch-e can wrestler, who is at
present one Of the acting instructors
of the Atlanta athletic club. Dryer
will go to Washington in response to
a letter received from Secretary
Loeb. to give the president some
points on catch as-catch can wrestling,
as we'll as boxing. Before going to
Washington Dryer expects to meet
Jack Munroin in wrestling
bout of the rough-and- tum bic kind,
after which he will be at the service
of the president. Dryer taught Presi-
dent Roosevelt boxing and wrestling
when the president was governor of
New York He found the governor
and his son apt pupils in the cart and
on the mat.
] PEORIA, Ill, Feb.2 "A daring at
tempt, having for its object the ulti
mate delivery of John Lane and Percy
Warner, the alleged bank robbers, who
on December IL, entered the Peoria
national bank and knocked the teller,
Fred A. Bracken, down with the butt
of a revolver, and who escaped with a
sum of money but we're captured the
day following, was made this morning
at the Peoria county jail.
The effort was frustrated by two
deputy sheritfs, who were aroused by
an unusual noise. They Investigated,
and found an unknown man, sup
posed to be Chicago pal of the two
men, whose trial is now in progress,
but he escaped under cover of dark
ness, and has not been apprehended.
! CHICAGO, Feb. AT the end of
the third days play of the billiard
tournament for the national cham
pionship, Charles f. Conklin, of Chi
cago, and Wilson NJ. Sigourney, of
San Francisco, are tied for first hon
ors, both having won both games they
participated in.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The post
office appropriation bill was still IN
der consideration when the house
adjourned today. The provision for
special mail facilities on trunk lines
was retained in the bill
a mild sensation was created by
Baker, of New York, who said that the
voting of mail subsidies was the way
to kill the democratic party. Baker
/. denounced certain members of that
party for having foisted Judge Parker
on them as their candidate for presi-
dent, saying that his candidacy had
been melted and manipulated by
monopolies.
On a point order, SO, 600 to be paid
to the Oceanic Steamship company ior
carrying the mails to Tahiti was
stricken out. After a protracted de-
bate 1t was agreed to, alloting SO, 0OC
out of the appropriation for the trans
portation of foreign mails, for carry
ing the mails from San Francisco to
Tahiti under contract.
VIENNA, Feb. 2.-Serious distur-
Dances are 1epotted today at Cracow.
, Tonight thousands of workmen are
gathered at the monument of the poet,
Wicziewicz., where Deputy Dzsilski
leader of Calican socialists, made a
speech denouncing the emperor OF
Russia, whose portrait was torn amidst
the shouts of vengeance The police
; dispersed the demonstrators. Fifteen
persons we're seriously wounded and
5 many we're arrested.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The Tribune
tomorrow will say that the actual es
! Enlistment of the school of journal
ism at the Columbia university, which
Jos, Pulitzer has endowed, will be
deferred until the donors death.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The inter
state commerce commission, today,
forwarded to the attorney general {
report of the Investigation of tn,
charges that the Atchison. Topeka an6
Santa Fe railroad company had beef
granting rebates to the Colorado F1e
and Iron company.
The report shows that the law mad
been violated in these transactions anc
referring the whole matter to the de