The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-05-10
H0LBROOK ITEMS.

Mat McCarty is in town from the Mo-
qui villages.
W. II. Burbage, Esq, is in Albuquer-
que on business for his firm.
Henry Kinsley, Esq, recently lost by
theft, very fine saddle horse.
Don Patricio O'Reilley has taken po-
sition" on the A. & P. section.
DR.. J. D. Sullivan, of the Moquis, was
in town Saturday and Sunday
Friday and Saturday last, this section
received an old-fashioned rain.
Quite a number of Moquis and Nava-
jos were on our streets last week.
Messrs. Brown & Kinder shipped last
week some freight for the Moquis.
BY Terrill has leased his saloon for
term. By says ranching is his forte.
There is every indication of a build
ing "boomlet" for Holbrook this season.
Adamson &, Burbage were the success
full bidders for the government contract.
Major Folger, the irrepressible, still
benignly and placidly smiles over the
counter.
Mrs. Trimble, wife of Tom Trimble,
left here last week on a visit to relatives
and friends in Texas.
Horse thieves visited Snowflake re-
Gently, stealing three head of horses
and made good their escape.
viii. c. Barnes, Esq, is preparing to
erect an adobe house upon one of his
lots facing Railroad avenue.
A. V. Greer, our venerable and wor-
thy assessor, was grimly interviewing
our people one day last week.
Walter Darling was a passenger on the
west bound train, en- route to his old
stamping ground in California
An itinerant fakir exhibited his in
sipid wares, to gaping audience at the
school house last Tuesday night.
r. J. Bailey, of the firm of Bailey &
Arnold, was in town the latter part of
the week admiring our city sights.
The season is three weeks earlier than
last year; as result, the cottonwoods
have assumed their summers garb.
Julius Wetzler, late with A. & B.
Schuster, has gone to Keams' Canon,
where he will clerk for T. V. Keams.
Tom Bunch left last Thursday for
Phoenix, to be present at the Democrat
ic Convention, as delegate from this
county.
Col. G. o. Brown, of Washington, D.
c., returned to Holbrook on Thursdays
train. The Colonel is one of our "big"
stockmen.
Mr.. R. G. Kinder and wife are off on
a trip into the mountains, they will
visit Payson, Yavapai county, before re-
turning home.
Mrs. Chaffee, wife of Maj. o. P. Chat
fee, returned home from Kansas City
this week. The lady has been visiting
friends in the east.
There are some people who mourn,
not SO much for the defunct STANDARD"
but, more for their lost sheekels. All
there, you rascal.
T. G. Norris, Esq, of Flagstaff, pass
ed eastward last Friday, en- route for
Phoenix, where he goes as a Democratic
delegate from Yavapai.
The country is full of horse and cattle
thieves; notwithstanding they were ut
terly annihilated and wiped out, by our
officers and others sometime ago.
The Colonel 90 skipped via Ell Paso,
and parties in that place are the sadder
if not the wiser for their business rela-
tons with the oilytongued Colonel.
NJ. T. Webb, our popular railway agent
has returned to his post of duty. Mr.
Webb, accompanied by his estimable
lady, have been recreating at the Bay
City.
Mrs. Maggie Lynch and her sister,
Miss Walker, have taken their depar-
ture for Peach Springs; sequentially,
several of our young fellows look sad
and dispirited.
DR.. VIM. 7. Daily passed through on
west bound train last Tuesday. The
Doctor goes to Phoenix to attend the Ter
ritorial Democratic Convention and will
make himself heard and felt in that body.
a private letter from Snowflake says
Loco jim" made his escape from Jos.
Kay, last Friday night, while encamped
at the tank, 20 miles east of Snowflake.
The Indian tapped 10 on the head with
a rock, and then took leg-bail.
In this era of trusts" it is not so
much sugar or beef "trust" that our
soul yearns for, as it is "hash trust"
Any one who can convince our landlady !
Of the goodness and charitablaness to |
be found in the latter trust" will con-
fer an inestimable boom upon one who |
suffers in silence.
That RiuhyVaV of NOfiOnS