The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-07-29

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 around said institution. A kitchen is to be
 built, water tank repaired, etc
 Mason, the boot and shoe merchant, has a
 thousand and one useful articles for sale in
 addition to feet wear, of which he has the
 largest stock in the territory.
 Harry Smith, step-son to Nathaniel
 Ross, of Phenix, arrived in Prescott on Tues day, and has gone to live with Mir Shull, at
 the old Jeff Davis potatoe ranch.
 With three days delayed mail, the tele- graph out of fx. and possessed with large amount of laziness, we find that making a newspaper, on this 2Sth day of July, A. D. ', 1881, an uphill business.
 We hear from some of our business men that there IS likelihood of branch R. R. being built from Prescott to the Atlantic & Pacific very soon. This will be happy event in the history of Prescott. Joe Dauphin, who has been in town for some time, left this morning for Groom Creek, where he goes for the purpose of de- be one of the best Ill that vicinity.
 The attention of our Board of Supervisors is directed to the condition of the public highway north of Fort Whipple. It is in dangerous condition, and some one is liable to receive great injuries in passing over the same.
 The laws of the last session arc now printed and in the hands of the Secretary. On tomorrow they are to be distributed all over the Territory, and here will end the last chapter of growliny in regard to big heap of diity trash.
 MT. Hawley. the recent appointed Gauger for Arizona, finds that there Is no salary to the office, and has refused to file his bond Here is an honor that goes unheeded and neglected. What kind of a man can Flaw ley be to let such honors pass!
 The Cumberland mill, at Maricopa, was attached for small sum, and when the day of sale arrived the Sheriff's fees amounted to about three times of that of the original debt, or over Sl 900. It costs to sell quartz mills under the hammer in Arizona
 Rev. Mir. Winde., . good Christian gen. tleman, has returned with his family from trip through the mountains east of Prescott Mir. Windes has the chills and fever, bad fortune to be possessed of. Might just as well have silver mine, 1000 miles from nowhere.
 Charley Spencer, the Wallapai guide, in- terpretcr and scout, and man who has done | much to keep those Indians under subjec- | ton for several years, Is on visit to Pres colt. Charley, so long as life hangs to the | body, will remember the Wallapai's. He car. res marks that will go down with him to the | grave.
 Doctor Ainsworth is the owner of beau 1 tiful bay gelding which was formerly the property of It. Scott, Camp Verde. If we | were at our old tricks and as we'll up to | catching good horses with a 70 cent rope, Doc would be minus $200 in good horse flesh. AS as 1t Is, however, there Is no dan- ger.
 Those persons in town who use large quan- titles of wood during the winter months should lay in a supply now. Wood can be de- vered at this time of the year cheaper than 1t any other. There Is plenty of good grass n the hills for the stock, the roads are in yood condition, hence the preference forthis season of the year.
 The Board of Supervisors as Board of Equalization will finish up their work on Saturday of this week They have had ong and tedious work before them, and as let We have go, the first complaint to hear bout their actions. We are under the i'm 'ression that their equa]iziDg has given uni ersal satisfaction.
 Business with Prescott merchants has in- reascd in the last six months about 90 per cent With thousands upon thousands of new omers to our county, upon the advent of he iron horse, what will our mercantile rade grow to3 AS trade centre Prescott lands prominently ahead of any other oint in Northern Arizona Genl Fremont has written his daughter, rho, by the way, Is a regular hero, and ught to be Governor, to put his house in rder, as he intended to make the Territory c mother visit. We know all about the Gov rnors travelling when coming in the di- Il ection of his post of duty, and we conf. V ently expect him early in January, 1883. About two millions of pounds of grain = ave been contracted for to go to the R. R. ow 1t seems to us, as the trade between {, rescott and the line IS enormous, that mer- :, iants, railroad contractors, freighters and T le Supervisors should throw in and build 'od wagon road, so that all this freight ay be easily and cheaply hauled in.
 IMPROVED. John Sorg, an enterprising 'ntleman who has recently purchased several IL ts and buildings on Granite Street, has ;, ted up his hit saloon in the most modern VI yle. The paper which represents wild dians on the plains, herds of bafaloes, II Ountaln scenery, etc, etc, adorn the walls '" d was purchased expressly for Mir. Sorg, w .. New York. al
 m WAIVED PICTURE--A man representing Washington paper, about the time of the + tempted assassination of President Gar n, Id, being anxious to procure picture of e wOuld-be murderer and tindiag it i'm ssible to procure one immediately, struck on the novel idea of having Jay Gould pied for Guiteau. It was good. S;'' Some one who had little to do last eve ib ng took the bolt from one of the turn ,,f les on the Plaza, thereby leaving an open in 7 where cattle and other animals similar ,,r the one who committed the deed, could n ter. This IS low business, and the person hr ight doing auch an act should be allowed 2 minutes in which to pack baggage and we tho city, in Scaldy, prominent member of the ca. ie race, and quite a mischief maker, ising many fight between his brother Ot sister friends, and only jumping in when III , foe IS down, had his little life pretty VI ,rly knocked out of him by falling in Gran te'
 Creek few days since, being swept \. wn the creek for a distance of six or seven Ea ndred yards on to dry land, where he r.: s found laying on hls back, panting for wi tath. This IS not the first trouble he has 1T had, for he has been drunk and had re tin cans tied to him than any other thi 7 in the Territory but Scaldy was pretty