Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-01-25
FROM MONDAYS DAILY.

FROM MONDAYS lAlLY. Flagstaff is talking electric light. The backbone oi winter has been broken.
 Flagstaff has brass band, with J. B. Fillmore as leader
 Miss Amelia Rush has been quite sick for several days.
 Rev. Smithey preached to fair sized congregation last evening. The new minister for the Congrega- tional church is expected here this week. W.O. Hueon and Florence Grove will be married tomorrow at Flagstaff. The new tariff schedule increases the freight on flour and feed about *lOO l per car load.
 Application to the post office depart ment to have mails leave here for Phe- nix in the morning has been made. J.W. Sullivan will ship three car loads of beef steers and one or two car loads of mutton from Chino valley to- morrow.
 During the absence of County Treas urer w. c. BashfOrd, the office will be in charge of H. D. Aitken, deputy county treasurer.
 MT. and Mrs. W. C. BashoId, A. C Burmister and Miss Virginis Evans will leave on the first train, for an extended trip to the leading cities of California. The payMaster, who Was due at Whipple on the lst of the present 1 month, has not yet put in an appear auce, and the heart of the soldier Is grieved thereat
 Supai Chief Navajo has arranged to meet Col. Brayton at Prescott Junction, for conference in reference to his re- !, gently ordering the Duke party away from the northern part of the county. The passenger and express ear of tine ! Prescott & Arizona Central railroad was derailed at Prescott Junction, on
 Sunday, and passengers, ma,i and ex- press were brought to Prescott in box
 car.
 John Duke and party will leave short
 ly for the northern part of the county,
 to make improvements on the stock
 ranch recently taken up by them. They
 will go prepared to stand otf old Nava]",
 the oupai chief, should he attempt h's former intimida:ing tactics ci ordering
 them away.
 Dr. J.C. Moves and wife, oi Oshkosh,
 Wisconsin, and MT. Bryant, wife and child, of Nebraska, arrived Un yester- days train, for brief visit to Prescott,
 and are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. k
 H. Burmister. Mir. Bryant + promi-
 nent banker of his state, while Mrs.
 Moves was schoolmate of Mrs Bur
 mister. They are pleased with the de
 lightful climate of Prescott.
 Ben Rybon wore an unusually bright
 and cheerful expression of countenance
 this morning, although 8 careful ob,
 server could notice slight shade of sor-
 row mingled with 1t. On being inter.
 viewed in regard to this admixture oi
 emotion, he said that it was occasioned
 by the arrival of twelve pound Joy at
 his house, when he was asexpecting girl
 having already three protective dem,
 ocratic voters in his family.
 The board of fire delegates held a
 meeting on Saturday evening, and de'
 cided on giving ball on the 22d of
 February. and appointed tine several
 committees. A meeting 0: each of the three fire companies is called for to morrow evening and express their opin ion as to whether it shall be d masquer Jade or not, and the fire delegates vii hold another meeting Wednesday eve
 ming to take final action.
 The telegraph operator and the editor of the Courier are 10th informed
 as readers of this paper know. that Vt
 never claimed that $l.31 telegram
 was an overcharge, but merely remark
 ed that it cost Us + cents per mile
 taking the distance in direct line
 We do say, however, that on it's receip it was checked for eleven words, ant
 that the following day we were handed
 what purported to be repeat of 1t checked thirteen words. For aught wt
 know of telegraph tariff it may have
 come half rates.