Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-05-16
LOCAL NOTES.
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.

LOCAL NOTES.
 FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
 Read the new time schedule to-day.
 Ed. s. Wright returned from Pheni,
 today.
 Rev. Geo. Newton left for San Fran
 cisco to-day.
 Lieutenant Moves, of the Ninth In
 fantry, has been assigned to duty al West Point.
 DIG A. Dorman and wife, of the holiness band, have gone to New Haven Connecticut.
 The Kansas board of railroad com. missioners contemplate visit to Pres. colt this month.
 Barret post G. A. R. is making prepa rnrions for an appropriate celebration of Memorial day.
 Captain Russell's company IS ex' pected to arrive at Whipple during the early part of next week.
 Captain w. F. R. Schindler left to- day for California, to attend the grand lodge Knights of Honor.
 Geo. w. Sines has been out at Verde station to-day, experimenting the erec' tion of his new building there.
 w. H. Smith, of William valley, the jolliest cowboy that rides the range, is in town, having fun with the boys.
 Col. l.. F. Eggers has accepted the invitation from Tombstone, and will deliver the memorial day oration m that city.
 A false alarm of fire was sounded this afternoon, to get the boys out for practice, at which the dudes scored the record for first water.
 A. E. Foote and c. T. Dunavan are in town from the Vixen mine, and re- port very bright mining prospects all along Lynx creek.
 Hon Robert Connell drove the last spike in the MOntezuma street sidewalk this afternoon, after which he made q speech and treated the boys ;O beer and cigars.
 Ed. Austin had fine four-year-Old lilly on the streets to-day just fresh from the alfalfa pastures of the Salt river valley. She tipped the scales at lO9O pounds.
 At the last m aeting of the city cOun- cil the insurance of the city hall build ing was awarded to ID. F. Mitchell, at a special rate of two per cent. The policy heretofore carried on the building has been $l0,OOO
 l.. HI. Wilson was thrown from his horse to-day, by the animal falling down with him, and was quite seriously hurt. He is being attended by Dr. B. B. Hal sey, who says his injuries are not dan gerOus.
 Joseph Dickson, of St. Louis, presi- dent of the Etta Mining and Milling Co.,, arrived on last nights train, and will go out to the mine tomorrow in company with Judge J. Hawkins, the business manager for the company in Prescott.
 The Gazette says Judge Herndon never had so many good things said about him before in his life as was said in the Phenix convention, and he blushed like school giil, under the splendid array of compliments received from his numerous supporters.
 Charles Smith, great big overgrOwn boy, who has been in jail, charged with breaking into car of the Atlantic and P acific railroad, was yesterday released on a writ of habeas corpus, through the effort of John Foster, Esq an attorney from Linden, Kansas. Mir. Foster left for home this morning with ihe young man in charge.
 c. D. Brown left this afternoon with supplies and men to continue work on the artesian we'll in SOl's Wash, south west of Martinez He has recently re- csived a new drill for use in the boring outfit. He is confident of striking water soon. J. T. Shull came up from Phenix last evening, in company with c. B. Lewis, his Mesa city partner in the horse raising business. They brought up eight head of fine horses for the Grey Eagle Stable; also fine Norman Percheron stallion, which weighs 1850 pounds.
 James E. Wing, of the Granite Dells | ranch, has brought in some specimens of rye grown on his place which he to harvest May lSt, which is fully five feet in length One bunch contains forty -four stalks, and another forty stalks, from single grains of seed. He has about ten acres of this grain | which is fully headed out, and which he is cutting for hay.
 E. H. Witherell came in at midnight | last night to secure medical attendance for his oldest boy, Robie, who was thrown from a horse yestarday afternoon and received serious injuries. The horse he was riding was run into by another maddened and bucking horse, khrowing him to the ground with his horse on top of him. The horse which ran into him had his leg broken, and had to be killed this morning. The ac- cident was caused by saddle turning on the other horse, causing him to be- come frightened and start to bncking
 The Chautauquans.
 The regular meeting of the Chautau- qua circle was held, on Saturday, at the | residence of Mrs. E. M. Sanford. Roll