Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-06-17
FRoN THuRspAys DAiLy.


 WEDNESDAY. JUNE l7. ISol
 FRoN THuRspAs's DAILY.
 General McCook and staff are X,
 whipple.
 Summer rains will be welcomed next month.
 D. ]. Sullivan has s new advertise ment in this issue.
 Shakespeare Circle meets tonight al Mir. and Mrs. j. J, Hawkins.
 Joe Wilson spoiled Si0 suit oi summer clothes working at to-day fire.
 J. P. Bruce has purchased half interest in Geo. l.. Merri;t's livery stable.
 Csvansugh X Williscraft. of the City Mest market, have sn advertise ment in this issue.
 Dress psrades were commenced again at Whipple last night snd will be continued during the summer.
 The 9th Infantry band from Whip pie will give concert in Prescott on Saturday evening from 6 till : o'clock.
 Concerts are now given st Whipple by the band on Monday, Tuesday. Thursday and Friday of each week from s:30 ,o 9:SO P. m.
 Eldridge H. Booth, former resi- dent of Prescott, son of N. B. Booth, former special agent of the general land office, arrived on to-day's train.
 W. S. Head says that work on the ditch at Camp Verde is being pushed ss rapidly as possible. IL will be completed the latter part of this month or early next month.
 General McCook, who arrived at Whipple this afternoon. is accom- panied by his son-in-law, Lieut.. Baker, and his three charming daughters, Mrs. Lieut.. Baker and the Misses McCook.
 John 4. Riley, connected with Bradstreet's Commercial agency, brother of Jas. Whitcomh Riley. the Hoosier poet, accompanied by his wife, arrived on to-day's train and are stopping at Hotel Burke.
 This is the best time of the whole year to purify your blood, because now you are more susceptible to benefit from medicine than at any other season. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best medicine to take. and It is the most eeonomical-i0 doses One Dollar
 John A. Riley, manager of Brad streets for Albuquerque, has receiv- ed a merited promotion. and has ] been made division superintendent | for the Albuquerque and Pacific l coast offices, with headquarters al Los Angeles, says the Albuquerque Democrat. The gentleman named is brother of the famous Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley.
 The Albubuerque Democrat refers to Joaquin Miller as an old bachelor. Joaquin wrote an article recently on How to marry happily and stay mar ried." The Democrat thinks that on the hypothesis that the less you know of a sub ject ehe better you can write upon it, Joaquin ought to treat the marriage question very in- terestingly. The Democrat is mis- taken. as Mir. Miller has had e1peri- ence in getting married. but no, " : staying msrried.
 Cigarette sinoS;ag bY boys is d dAE lreroUs pastime. Whether tG- day ire was caused by it or not wili pTobably not be known. but a wss prevented yeSler- ,3sy. on north Granite >tnsat, bs a -~ w-s-@a- whQ >9iS,>.> cred tss fg-f 3 .sis ln its tnianCN, So& '''-se7s'f' tRa oF three cigarette-smoking boys lest;ng the building. Boys who are smoking cigarettes iu out buildings should be raised out Of their boots or turned over to the propef authoI4Ces to deal with them. Major Elderkin, chief commissary of subsistence of the department Of Arizona, has recommended that im- mediate steps be taken ia construct st each post (by labor of the troops if necessaryl . we'll ventilated root cellar. of suitable capacity for the storage apd preservation of potatoes, onions and other specially perishable stores. This suggestion is prompted ! by the frequent reports from boards of survey in that department upon decaying and deteriorating fresh vegetables and the serious losses sus- tsined by the government, through the imperfect facilities for storing ank keeping snch vegetables in the hot climate of Arizona and New Mexico.
 Last summer a friend of Chief Justice Gooding, in Evansville. In diana. who had the exaggerated ideas concerning Arizona that so many eastern people have, sent his honor s thermometer. that he might be able to take record of the temper ature daily here. The judge. how | ever, during his residence III Prescott ! IOunU the temperature so ulilu anu equable that he found but little work for the thermometer. Since locating 1 in Phenix he begins to appreciate the kind act of his Indiana friend and few days since wrote to his | successor, Judge Wells, in Prescott, saying, flor Gods sake send me that thermometer" Judge Gooding's | friends are now engaged in getting | gas pipe attachments fitted 10 the top of the tube of the thermometer | So as to adapt it to the requirements !! of the Phenix climate and will for ward it to hinr in day or two.
 The JOURNAL MINER has been the ! recipient of numerous compliments on its improved appearance. Quite