Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-03-03

J.E. Anderson will leave for the railroad
 camp tomorrow,
 l Scarlet fever has broken out wi.a fatal effect st St. Johns.
 Mrs. Crook and sister, Mrs. Rsed, have
 gone to Csliforpis on visit. l The marrige certificate of W. r. Wilber
 and Mrs. T. .. Sprsgue was flied for record
 to day.
 A bill of sale from Ben Robinson to Ke-
 xiah Robinson for twenty -four head of cat | t.e has been filed for record. We are in receipt of late Idsh spers,
 through the courtesy of H. L. Terrence, ty DO formerly of this place. Mrs. Msjor Russell's sister, with her hus- band and children, arrived from shc east
 recently and will settle on Oak creek. John Aitkeu, the popular young drug clerk of the corner drug store, lief. tod Y
 for brief vacation, during winch be wiil
 visit California.
 Owing to the sickness of Supervisor
 Dougherty the meeting of the Board Of
 Supervso~ announced for to-day was post-
 poned until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
 Deeds were filed for record today from
 Wi.mot T. Cox to the Consclidatei NJ. and
 NJ Co. for one hall inteIest in the Regen- erated mine for 5000 and one~hslf of Funk Hammock mine for 1000.
 T.W. Otis and Superintendent J. J
 Hawkins, of the County. Board of Examin- CTS. are holding session of the Board to- day. The on'y applicants :or certificates are ". Q Custer ard J. NJ. Green.
 An exchange says that it is a notori ous | and remarkable fact that most of the inc l mates of the Arizona Penitentiary are young men from eastern states, who have | been convicted for their first attempts st | stage rob6ing and killing.
 The Albuquerque Journal says Prescott Ariznps, has big hearted, pubic spirited clzsn m MT. J. L. Fisher. In all public | and benevolent enterprises in that country Fisher comes right te ,te front and quietly 4 ,.s his xboie dutv
 Fsom a private letter received from Alex andra it s learned that the water is about sl out of the Peck mine and contractors will shortly commence.work on the Cross- cut 10 the Occidental. The Del Pasco mill continues to run steady and produces lots of gold bullion, and times in that camp are generally good.
 Pbenix has peculiar case of ''drunE" on her hands. Two days since acbap was locked up in the city prison, too drunk at the time to be tried, with the intention of sobenng him of Each day since then, in- stead of being in condition to be tried, be is evidently further from it than ever, and 1t is now supposed that be b d struck new brand of whisky-"forty day" instead of ''fo .ty -rod."- Herald.
 Oar contemporary prostitutes the use of its columns this morning to the publication of a scurrillous communication from & specimen of the genus homo, or more prob- ably burro. from the way he brays. who signs himself s sDisgusted Republican" and who shields himself from personal respon- sibility behind this nom de plume. We will wager the price of years subscrip- ton to tbis paper that this coatemptible specimen of the mule family IS not re. publican in the first place, and second that he has not the physical or moral courage to use the language toward the parties per sonally, which he does in aa indefui.e way behind the fortifcation of his assumed sig- nature. We wilI further wager that he steals, begs or borrows the copies Of this paper which he reads and which he refers to so sneeripgly, and he would do the same thlpg with his clothing and provisions if his owardly nature vas not afraid of the law.
 The ongin of the name of the town of IS not generally known, excep, to a few. The incident which gave it its name, is as follows. On Independence Day, centennial year, 1876, small party, known as the Boston colony. consisting of Geo. c. Webster, J. A. Wilson, Robert Kennedy ana others, while rraveiing through the country, went into camp on the site of the present town, At that time there was no habitation near. Oveifowipg with the patriotism characteristic he true American citizen and particularly of the Bostonian, they decided 10 celebrate ,he dsy Tn American style. To d so they cut down a tall rine sap'ing, stripped it of It's foliage ard bark and erecting |; in pc. pendcular position. uniurled from il the stars and stripes. On breaking camp | they left the flagstaff standing, and few years later, when the line of the railroad | was located there and c town established, It was given the name ot Flagstaff ID honor of the liberty pole still standing, which had been cree ed by this Boston colony.