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. ' 3 i. .mi "M)WMWmi 144. ' J WJ me " -KW' .-J Hbc Coconino Sun r0L. XXII. FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER 18, 1905. No. 40 yp . i (Nte rL ia?f Jf vm J5' "5; I O. r V MASONS MEET Grand " Lodges' Mold Sessions Here. Many In Attendance. Next Meet ' Ins to Be Held In Phoenix. The grand lodge F. & A. M., the Royal Arch Masons the Commandery and the Order of the Eastern Star held their sessions here this week commencing Tues day and closing Thursday. All the lodges in the territory were represented except two. The meetings were held in the court house and in the masonic hall. , Tuesday the visitors were taken to' the Cliff dwellings, the ladies of the Eastern Star going out in the morning and later they were joined by the members of the other orders in time to take luncji under the cedars.' Wednesday evening was spent looking ,through the.big'telescope at the Lowell observatory, a sight which delighted the visitors'. j Thursday night the local lodges Order of Eastern Star and F. & A. M. entertained this visitors a,t the masonic hall where an literary and musical program was enjoyed. Later in the evening an elegant banquet was served in McMillan1 hall followed by dancing. Friday morning they were taken to the Grand Canyon by special. train where they will remain until today, going from that place toJ their homes. Every member of the gfand' lodge said that- it was one of the' most enjoyable sessions of the grand lodge ever held in the terri tory and they had enjoyed every minute spent in Flagstaff. The next session of the grand lodge will be held in Phoenix November 1906. The following are. ,the. grand of ficers elect J?k& A. U Grand Master, Edwin Seymour Miller, Flagstaff; Deputy Grand Master, Herbert. Brownr -Yuma; Senior Grand Warden, Cyrus Grant Jones; Junior Grand War den, Fletcher Norris Doan, Flor ence; Grand Treasure, Richmond Nickels Fredericks, Fresco tt; Grand Secretary, George James Roskruge, Tucson; Grand Lt'ct uter, Francis Anthony Shaw7, Phoenix; Grand Chaplain, Fred erick Tro'tman Bennett,' Prescott; Grand Orator, Ygnacio Bonallo, Nogales; Grand Marshal, Frank Thomas, Phoenix; Grand Stand ard Bearer, Louis Ezra Divel bess, Holbrook; Grand Sword Bearer, Joseph Hoppley, Tucson; Grand Bible Bearer, Henry Al fred Morgan, Willcox; Grand Sen ior Deacon, Frederick Gustave Brecht, Prescott; Grand Junior Deacon, John Florence Nichols, CliftQn; Grand Senior Stewart, Samuel F. Dennison, Jerome; Grand Junior Stewart, Lloyd Leasley Gilman, Bisbee; Grand Organist, Charles Daniel Haney; Grand Purcivant, Ralph Henry Cameron; Grand Tyler, John Henry Baldwin, Phoenix. GRAND CHAPTERS. P. P. Parker, of Phoenix, G. H. P.; 0. M. Rouse, of Tucson, D. G. H. P.; A. D. Barnhart, of Prescott, G. K.; F. M. Zuck, of Holbrook, G. S.; J. M. Ormsby, of Tucson, G. T.; G.J. Roskruge, of Tucson, G. S. The Grand Chapter of the Ari zona Eastern Star elected the fol lowing officers Thursday: Grand matron, Lillian Sweeney, Phoenix; grand patron, H. A. Morgan, Will cox; assistant grand matron, Bes sie Grosetta, Tucson; assistant grand patron, J. S". Cromb, Clifton; grand secretary, Sarah Martin, Globe; grand treasurer, Holland Merrytnan, Phoenix; grand con ductor, Anna Morgan, Willcox; assistant 'grand conductor, Rosa line Clark, Flagstaff. .Among the visitors to the grand lodge were C. A. Rouse, Harry Drachman,' George J. Rosk'ru'ge, J. W. Ornish', of Tucson lodge No. 4; Francis A. Shaw, George H. N. Luhrs, Frank Thomas, Arizona lodge No. 2, PHoenix; A. D. Carhart, A. A.' Johns, Mor ris GoKKvat'er, W.- N. Frede ricks, F. G. Brecht, Aitlan No. 1, Prescott. , Fletcher' M. Doan, Gila Valley No. 9, Florence; '"A. L. Crow, King Solomon No. 5, Tombstone; James S. Cromb, J. E. Nichols, Clifton No. 8; Herbert Brown, Chas. M. Smith, Yuma. Louis J. Owens, Corinthian lodge No. 18; S. J. Dennison, Verde, No. 14; Fred Bennett, Atlas, No. 1; C. J. Jones, A. S. Frankenberger, ,Tempe, No. 15; H. A. Morgan, Wilcox, No. 10. 4 E. A. Sawyer, W. J. Phares, W. A. Parr, W. J. Kickman, K. C. Creswell, Chas. L,. Flinn, B. L. Holmes, Winslow lodge No. 13. Frank J. Graff, Lloyd L. Gra ham, Perfect Ashler, lodge No. 12, Bisbee; F. M. Zuck, L. E. Divelbess, Chalcedony No. 6, Holbrook. E. S. Miller, S. F. Quay, A. E. Douglass, Julius Herman, George C. Slorse, .Wtni'Triedlein, J. A. DavenpqrL' Eli Giclas, R. H. Camerpn, Harry C. Hibben, R. W. Boyle,.F,-J. Jack) W, HAn, derspn.T. E. Pulliam, E. Kapanke, C. A. Haffley, Geo. W. Glowner, Wni. Mclntyie, T. E.' Pollock, G. 'H. Coffin, R. F. Bonberg, F. S. Breen, E. Lee Blair, J, S. Amund sen, A. N. Taylor, John E. Adams, N. G. Laj'ton, Harry Hendersoi, C. C. Hutchinson, Flagstaff lodge No. 7V Among those from other juris dictions, were: U p. Fortz, i-aurel, 467 ,Vhite havenj Pa.; Walter Young, 348, San Bernardino, Cal.; M. I. Pow ers, Mason's Home 192, Iowa Falls, Iowa; George W. Vickers, Homer 167, Ohio; Frank Thomas, Anchor 443, St. Louis, Mo.; Owen Rouse, 344 Moberly, Mo. THE MORMON CASES Enter Plea of Guilty and Will be Sentenced on December 7. at Prescott. On December 7th Justice R. E. Sloan in Prescott will pass sent ence on nine Mormons who are resi dents of Navajo and Apache coun ties. They have all pleaded guilty to the charge of polygamy and by so pleading they acknowledged their guilt. Eleven ' prominent -Mormons were indicted by the federal grand jury in Prescott last spring. At thaftime it was though they would make & determined fight to prevent their being guilty. Two of the Mormons who did npt plead guilty, have retained an attorney and give promise of fighting the matter in the United States court. In confessing their guilty they expect clemency from the court on the ground that ,the3' entered into polygamy before the Ed monds act, and that it would have been inhuman on their part to have discarded those wives in ex cess of those allowed by law, by whom children ha'd been born. Of the Mormons under arrest Joseph Fish, charged with having three wives, is president of the Mercantile Co-operative company at HolbrookVJ esse Smith ot Snow flake, alleged to have four wives, is a prominent man in that sec tion. David K. Udall is the head of the "stake" or Mormon colony at St. Johns. The remainder are farmers and are all highly spoken of as ex emplary citizens. They are Jos eph Smith, Snowflake; Henry Tanner, St. Josephr Silas Smith, Snowflake; J. W. Brown, St. Johns; John P. Rothlishinger, St. Johns; Jacob Butler, St. Johns. Levi M. Savage of Woodruff and Andrew W. Gibbons of St. Johns were the two who will fight the charges against them. Agency Improvements. J. E. Maxwell, agent and farmer for the .Navajos at Leupp, four teen miles north of Canyon Diablo, was in town yesterday. The government is spending four thousand dollars in the erection of buildings for this agency, An ap propriation has been made for the purchase of one hundred and twen ty bucks, and Mr. Maxwell would like to hear from some of the Ari zona sheep growers who have this kind of stock to dispose of. Mr. Maxwell is expecting an engineer at an early date to examine and re port on a reservoir site and an irrigation proposition at the agency. Leupp has recently been made a postoffice, and J. G. Walker, a bright, educated young Navajo, has been appointed as postmaster. Weather for the Week. The following data for the week ending at 9 a. m. today (Nov. 18) are furnished by Observer A. E. Hackett, in charge of the local office of the U. S. weather bureau: The mean temperature of the week was 36.8 degrees, 3.1 de grees above the normal and 2.7 degrees higher than the mean for the corresponding period last year. The highest temperature was 0 degrees, on the 15th, and the lowest, 24 degrees, on the 14th. The highest temperature recorded for the same period dur ing the oast 8 years xv,as 64: de grees, on the 17th, 1904 anil the lowest, 3 degrees? on the 12th, 1808. 4 The .total. .precipitation for the week was .11 inch. The'prevaU irig winds have been easterly, the average cloudiness was 34 per cent, and the mean relative-' hu midity, 81 per centr " . Presbyterian Church Items. Subject of the, morning sermon: "The Church and the Individual." Evening sermbrii "Why Not a Christian?" 'All invited. Let" us have' at least one hun dred out for Sunday school'tomor row. Rally day, November 26. Let everybody plan to come. ' A beautiful American revision Bible was presented to Mr. Reid by our Sunday school last Sunday, in token of appreciation of his work as superintendent of the school. 1 Prof. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick observatory, Mt. Ham ilton, Cal., accompanied by his' wife, visited the Lowell observa tory on Friday. Prof. Campbell' is on his return from Spain where he observed the solar eclipse on August 30, being in charge of the . eclipse expedition ot the Lick ob- ' servatory. After the eclipse Prof, and Mrs. Campbell made a tour of Europe visiting the principal observatories including the Na tional observatory at Poulkowa, near St Petersburg. They just escaped an indefinite detention in that country b- the railroad strike , which took place the day they reached the border of Germany. Prof. Campbell is noted for this work in the study of the motion of the sun with reference to the stars. M. E. Church Anneuncments. Preaching n- a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Epworth League 6:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. We extend to all a cordial invi tation to attend our services. A. M. Lumpkin, Pastor. 1 a jf f4 2