The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-02-13
From Thursdays Daily.

to-day. A. H. B.yle.s has been appointed . notary public for Cochise county.
 Stock cattle are locking well in Ysvapa county.
 w. w. Hutchinson is home again iron hls stock ranch at F.,rt Rock .z
 Frank Delany is putting up new brick residence north of Knob point.
 IIudson's fast freight team arrived in Prescott yesterday. ......s...-
 Flagstaff IS to have G. A. K ball on the 23l instant.
 The flyer lumber mill at Fiagstad will start up again Tn few days.
 Chinese New Year and St. Valentine's $ day both come on Saturday next.
 The dudrs have the honor of being the first to respond to tbe alarm of tire to-day.
 Miss Maggie Simpkins and ", F. Dela- ney left by the stage for Ash Fork this morning.
 H. Bucksbaum. the genial recorler of Mohare county, Is in Prescott on private business of course.
 Miss Daisy Wiuants wishes it to be un- ders,ood that she has withdrawn from the Emerson Dramatic Club.
 The three peaks of old San Francisco mountain are decksd in robe of white, resembling the Arctic regions
 Mir. D J. Monroe, of Stoidard; was upon our streets to-day. Also Mr. Myers, ex- Supervisor.
 Governor Tritle, We understand, has pur- chased the judgment of F. ". Blake % the Lynx Creek shelter.
 George Emerson is to assume the role of a metropolitan Miss iu the next perform an.e to be given by the Prescott Amateurs.
 Samuel Hill has filed mechanics lien On the Chinese joss house vu Granite str,et for services rendered.
 Jack Black ourn has furce of carpen- ters at work on his residence, n ,rth Non- tezuma street, making valuable improve ments to the saiae.
 Assistant Territorial Secre tary B.,stwick, with a corps of assistants, IS engaged in ia catalogue of the Territorial Library
 Clay Mradur writes from Ell Paso del No te that he is now located iu that city, aud that he cont, mplated sn early return .o Arizona.
 Twenty. seven mining locations from Cas- le Creek were to-day filed in the office of he County Recorder. All were dated the first of January.
 Miss M nnie Grove is visiting with Bliss Carrie Johnson in West Present. Miss Grove IS an excellent young lady and always welcome in Prescott.
 Frank Ingoldsby, the we'll known Press ,ott ar,ist, will have charge of the work oi decorating Howey's Hall for the press ban luet; fact which warrants the statement that it will be first class.
 X masquerade ball to take place on the night of the ad djournnent uf the Legisli- tHre, will, we understand, be given under tho auspices of the Prescott C,unter Jumpers.
 The MINER does more and better job work than any ,ffice ia Arizona. This is patent tact Our office, like many mefro- po.itan institutions, is kep. busy night and day.
 About 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. an alarm of fire was soun led from the Court House, being occasioned by the burning out of one of the ch;mneys ui tha; building. The fire department was promptly on the ground, bu: their services were Tot re quired.
 Sunshine and Silver IS the name of a Tucson paper which tries to crack Assem- bIyman Wardwell over the knuckles for his support of the Women's Suffrage bill. Gen. Wardwe.i vii! come out like refined gold. the fact that he has Sun shine ani Silver to kick against.
 J. H. Lee, an Arizona pioneer and one of our heavy sock raisers, leaves fo the eastern S,ates in a few days, during which time he will take in the New Orleans Ex- position and also look after some blood ed cattle for his American Rlnch. sir. Lee is good citizen and we wish him a pleas pnt journey and safe return.
 For the benefit of the overworkel and half-starvel off ;ers of the different coan- e,.s m Arlzyna, we will state that the rrob- abilities are ve-y slim for the pass .se of the pill reducing official fees during 1885 and thereafter The general opinion among the members of the legislature IS that two years hence IS sufficiently early to inaugurate this lnoie of retrenchulent.
 Now tha. self aegrsndisement and blow inc is in season, We of the MINER will step aside and follow strictly in the footsteps of trnth, despising as we do romance, and state for the benefit of enr readers that the circulation If the Daily MINER is 5G0, while .ha. of the Weekly IS nearly l200. Da you see, adrcrt;sers, the advantage to be gained Dy patronizing the pioneer journal.
 When Il man IS III office, If that ot!ice ,erchance is one to which Is a,tachssi in iuence, responsibility, position, etc, the incumbent Is constantly annoyed with d lass of hypucrits who stoop to toadyissn Let the office holder step down and out. hen he learns fur the first time that the ,loated, would-be friends were only par