Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-03-25
FROM THURSDAYS DALI Y.

FROM THURSDAYS JAIL Y.
 Thelegislature will adjourn to-uight
 There was heavy rain shower last
 night.
 Murray McInernay left for Pheni,
 this morning.
 Eva Haskell was voted the mos
 popular school girl at the Catholic fair
 Mrs. Thomas Long received the gold
 watch at the Catholic church fair ias,
 night.
 St. Patrick's ball enriched the Ire as
 ury of St. Joseph's Academy by abou,
 S75 or $50.
 The examination of Lauterio Agui-
 lar, for stabbing McCray, will take
 place tomorrow.
 The Tombstone Prospector says tha,
 Special Agent Hawk expects to leave
 this territory soon.
 The Catholic fair closed last night,
 1t netted several hundred dollars for the church building fund.
 Rev. H. H. Cole has resigned as pas.
 tor of the Congregational church in Tucson, to accept 8 call in San Fran cisco.
 E. M. Sanford returned on this uorn- lng's train. after an absence Of two months in Phenix, Washington and Albuquerque.
 A postal card received recently an- noances that the Apache County Leader will shortly make its appear ance st Winsiow,
 Deputy Marshal Geo. E. Brown, brought in Wm. osteriie this morning from Garland's Station, and placed him In the county jail, charged with the theft of about 80 from w. J. o'Neill.
 Hotel Burke arrivals--G. H. Hirsch- field, Ireland: l.. Dugsn, Agua Fria; S. DeBow, San Francisco; J. Van Scoy, Seligman; A. w Lewis. Cincin- nsti; H. M. Echeiberge, Big Bug A. H. Connors, W. Connors, city. D. J. Sullivan has been appointed land agent at Prescott for the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. Mr. Sullivan is ex-receiver of the Uninted States land office here, and is thoroughly familiar with land matters, and better selec- ton could not have been made by the company. |
 L. B. Gabbert retu rned last night ! from his trip to the Verde in search of l tine Mendeliff exploring party. He ] found them csmped at Captain Sharp's ranch on the Verde. They had expe- rieneed no. hardships during the storm | and were ready to start on to Camp Verde when he left them.-Republicsn.
 The man who will put down a num- Der of wells in Wallapai valley will have fortune thrust upon him. Not the least doubt in the world exists but that at depth of about tive hundred feet all the water necessary 10 irrigate the whole valey can be obtained. Let some en- man of means put down an well. .-Mohave Miner.
 The plans accepted by the Waiaut Grove Water Storage company for their new enterprise embraces the build ing of three dams. The. msin storage dam, which will be located at the site of the former one, will be twenty feet higher than the former one and will be HI overflow dam. The estimates sub mitted for their storage dam, large DOT lion of which will be of solid masonry, apd e.en with this increased night are less than the cost of the former dam.
 An English gentleman, Mfr. Gil more, has been experimenting with the poppySn lndio, Cal. and believes that he eau produce opium equal to the im- ported. He tried 8 small patch and was astonished at the iaxuriant growth ' but for sand storm that ruined the crop just before harvesting the experi-t nent would hsye undoubtedly turned put successfully. NIT. Gilmore will put n n second crop, and it is to be hoped will be successful in his undertaking md establish the fact that the produc- ion of opium as 8 commercial proposi- lon is practicable Rural Californian. Alter reading every day in the year ,early, in the Phenix papers, about the l, of the Salt river valley as q ruit producing section and of the im- , nense quantity raised, an item which I appeared the other day in one of the s papers there reads rather sstrange. It c avs: "The fruit famine in Phenix ' vas relieved Sunday by the arrival of r bout two thousand pounds of fruit rom Maricopa. The stands were kept pen all that afternoon and very large ortion of the fruit was sold out before ightn