Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-11-07
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY. WaIcnpnn rain

FROM SATURDAYS DAILY. Welcome, rain.
 Local "Wiggins" predict snow. Telegraph line to Phesix is down., A rain shower set in at 6 o'clock this morning.
 Johnny Coyle left for Jerome this morning. Crowder won the TUnto basin race on Wednesday. At $7 per barrel apples are co nsid- cred cheap in Prescott. John BrOss, an old resident of this county, died yesterday at the age of 72 years.
 Rev. G. H. Adams has established a Spanish Methodist mission in Tucson, with Rev. David Ava as minister.
 Try some of Aitken's chOice Oregon cider. A sample of it sent to this office .e day was relished by the entire force.
 The Courier repeals the herd law, passed by the last legislature, by one gentle sweep of its pen, in Il three line item.
 Geo. w. Sines received a k .ndsOme life-size Crayon portrait of himself to- day, which now adorns tkc Sazerac saloon.
 Money is SO plentiful down in Phe- nix that the sporting fraternity there recently transferred $l 300 on the result of foot race.
 MT. Strauss IS sort of Lord Bur chard Sac vile West when he under takes to dictate to officials and voters of Yavapai county what tO do.
 M onder why His Highness Strauss does not write another letter, advising the district attorney to take action in the matter of fraudulent registration in this county :?
 The Yavapai county democrats have adopted cut of an American eagle as thelr vignette, and have filed it with the county recordei There is no law to prevent the ticket from being scratched, however.
 Our district attorney was supposed L. be gentleman of intelligence, who understood his business, but Lord Sackville Strauss seems to think he needs advice, and tenders it accord ingly.
 Hon. Morris Geldwater, senior mem Der of one of the largest mercantile houses in Arizona, returned last night from trip east, where he purchased an immense stock of goods for the holiday and winter trade.
 Affairs in Yavapai county must be sadly out of joint when it has to have sponsor "away down South" in Pima, to advise its district attOrney what 10 do, and its voters how to vote. Verify, verify, His IIighness Strauss Is great in his own concsit.
 Mir. BrittOn and other membe rs of the Boaz mining company arrived from the cast recently, and will go out to the company's mill and mines at Mime haha. The mill was expected to start up yesterday.
 Rev. G. l.. Pearson and family were accorded royal reception last even ing, from our citizens. at the Methodist parsonage. The place was thronged from z o'clock until 10, the gnod peo- ,le attending leaving with the minis tcr's family substantial tokens oi their good will.
 People breathe easier since reading the communication, of R. w. C. N. Tn this mornings paper. This gsnt!eman not only decides the presidential con- test, but draws" out the moral truths taught by the campaign-from Sack vile West standpoint.
 The beef cattle brought in by <. X. Moore, for the Prescott market, on Thursday, got away from the corral du- ring the night, before being delivered, and he has not been ablo to find them since. He will probably have to return to the range for another round up.
 J. w. Wilson X Co.'s clothing store is & credit to frontier town. Their stock of goods, both as to quality, quantity and variety, will compare fsvorably with that of any metropolitan establishment in the same line. Re cent improvements have been made by which an attractive display of goods can be made.
 Mark Smith claims to have given Arizona better mail facilities than it ever before enjoyed. Have them re- moved again, fer heavens sake, Mark. We used to get our mail from Prescott in four days, and now We get it in six. Remove some of the postofiices along the road, and give the mail coach Q chance to get through.-Prospector.
 The ladies connected with the South Methodist church request the JOURNAL MINER to extend their thanks to these citizens who responded % promptly and literally with their means for the improvement of the church building. A new carpet has been purchased and laid, and . general invitation is ex- tended to all to attend services to- morrow night.
 It was . Democratic legislature that passed the obnoxious law which com pels man to attend court as . witness without compensation A man who happens te zee any infrActiOn Of the law must either go into hiding, and thereby aid in the conmission of crime,