Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-26
Wednesdays Edition
It was d quiet Christmas.

l City election rext Tuesd y.
 Murray McInnernay came up iron
 the Verde last evening.
 Bring your orders for printing Nov
 Year cards to this office.
 The storm broke on Monday night
 but another is already brewing.
 Last nights dance was a cenp!et
 success. We congratulate the o. K
 boys.
 The mail and express have bsez
 loaded with Christmas presents fo
 several days
 Oliver Ditson, the we'll known BOsteI
 music dealer and publisher, is dead
 He was v years old.
 Geo. H. Schuerman, of the Pi0nee Hotel, has lots of fresh eggs for sale a1 50 cents a dozen. d26t6 The water in the dam of the Walnu Grove Water Storage company, at Wal nut Grove, raised twelve feet during the recent storm.
 Ed. w. Stephens, son of J. Q. Ste phens, came in Monday evening from Los Angeles, to spend the holidays with his friend, in Prescott.
 Jes ph B. Tappan left this morning for his home at Williams, from where he will leave in day or two fer visit to friends in New England.
 W. B. Jones, superintendent of the Prescott X Arizona Central railroad, who went east several days age te meet his wife, left Hannibal with her home ward bound to-day.
 Ladies intending to receive" on New Years day can have the fact an. nounced in this paper by sending in their names, not later than 2 o'clock Monday afternoon December 3lst.
 City authorities should com plets the good work which they have commenced on Mccormick street, by having a side walk built from the new street crossing to connection with sidewalk at the Curtis property.
 J. E. Anderson, chief engineer of the Walnut Grove Water Storage company, has about forty men in his employ pre- pairing to put in the new service dam fer the company. The dam will be- thirty-three feet high.
 We have been requested to an- nounce that owing to the inclemencyI of the weather and the impOssibility oi fording the Verde river, the Camp Verde tournament has been poDt pOned. Due notice will be given q II the date hereafter
 Robert Brow came up from Walnut Grove on Monday evenisg, in anticips tion 0! spending pleasant ChristmAs with his wife and friends. His antici pations of joy were turned into the ex- perience of sorrow within few hourS after his arrival by the sudden demise of his wife
 F. w. Blake was nearly buried with express packages last night, recsiving a double amount from the east, with one days from the west NOtwithstandr | {, ing that the train arrived an hour and a half ahead of time, it took him until after eleven o'clock to enter up the in- voices on his books.
 Julian Piercy, of Phenix, formerly . resident of this place and we'll known and popular here, met with vegy e. riouS and painful accijenta fsw days ago. He was en route to the Centen- nial mining district, with twe or three friends, and just after balting to make camp &, Agua Fra, bs ~.s kicked on S.e. side O, ,n,s ssad by one of the horse....ss;ps . wound tsm which it is fe"rd he~j4 lose one sN Ii
 P. L. Kas Der had q susessful eneu. ing of his Vt nes-.aloon, "rhs Fa.h;o, on Monday evening. The hpad;n~ oc. cupies the entire lot between Ae Yav.. pal pharmacy and Bashfosa IBurmis- ter's store extending to the all.v The internal finish to it is gorseoua ;r ,h. extreme, and it is justly clainea to he the finest saloon in the sOuthve,s Al restaurant in connection with i vmh.Il opened ill few days. |;
 Attention of mining men, m. pectors and O hers is called ts tha c..a in this issue of Geo. J. Rockwell. r;,- ing engineer, assayer and metallprv;.. who has opened an office in office r.- east side of Gurlcy street. MT. Ro.l. we'll has had several years experie,c. in his line of business in Mexico and O, the Pacific coast, and comes to PrescoA. we'll recommended, and solicits shar. of the patronage of the public ia h;a special profession.
 Mrs. Robert Brow was taken suddenly i'll on Christmas morning. about 2 20 o'clock, and died at II 30 am. De- ceased.had been up with friends, until nearly midnil Int, in apparently the best of health and spirits, looking forward to a happy celebration of the Christmas holiday, little expecting the sudden and dread sumMens which called her from earth to the unknown beyond. The cause of death was paralysis of the respiratory organs and brain. The fu- neral took place from her late resi- dence, on Mentezuma street, at l o'clock this afternoon.