Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-04-15
FROM FRIDAY DAILY.

FROM FRIDAY DAILY
 James Sherley left this morning for
 ten days trip to Kansas City.
 The many friends of Chester Thoma
 ex-reoeiver of the U. s. land office {
 Prescott, will be sorry to learn of h
 demise at his old home in Kansas.
 | While the days are warm and pleas
 aut-the thermometer often getting O
 to. ss high ss so degrees in the shade
 the nights are still cool enough to forn
 ice in sheltered places.
 Yuma county takes the persimmor
 every time. She has sn official tha
 occupies the position of legislator, pro
 bate judge, clerk of the court, and clerl
 of the board of prison commissioners all at once.
 It is stated that F. w. Blake ha,
 attached all the property in Prescott and vicinity belonging to Frank Mur- phy, to settle suit for something over $2o 900, which he has brought against the last named gentleman.
 "What is the chief end of manf'
 asked Braintree, Mass, Sunday school
 teacher of one of her boys, and instead of giving the answer in the cstechism
 be replied: "rhe chief end of man is whats got the head on. New York Tribune.
 It will no doubt be very gratifying to Arizonsns to learn that the squaw and child of Geronimo, the notorious Apache, have been baptized at Mobile. Bap- tism will make good Indians of the Apaches if the person officiating will just hold them under the water long enough.
 The joint session of the board of super visors of Yavapai and Coconino coun- ties will probably close this evening. All the matters in controversy between the two counties having been definitely settled, and nothing further remaining 10 be done until Coconino. issues its bonds to take up its share Of the old county indebtedness.
 Early last fall, the trustees of the Prescott sshool district established a rule that any school in which no pupil was either absent or tardy for twenty days should have half | holiday, in reward tor their punctuali- Y. In accordance with this rule, the chool of Miss Lily Banta had holi- lay this afternoon, being the first and | 'nly school thus far entitled to such | ecognition. The showing thus made } highly creditable both to Miss Banta | nd her pupils.
 The feeling IS becoming genera mong the stockmen of northern Ari- 1na, that at last there is glimmer of ope for better prices, and for the first me for several years there are very ibstantisl reasons for this belief. The rcessive marketing for the the past 70 years, the clearing out of large nges chiefly in the Indian Territory Id the decline in the producing ca 'city of American herders are among ese reasons, to which must be added C e increasing demand for export since ( e inspection law, which is being wig ' ously enforced, went into effect. The c atistics show that last year foreign took $3o,O00, 900 worth more American beef than in 1889, and the every reason to expect that within g next five years our annual exports of tile and fresh and canned beef will mount in value to not less than $10o,- U O,OO0. Stock raising must, therefore, regarded as one of the country's ost promising interests. e As a practical effect of the workings ,r the new county license bill, in Yava- i, i, the story of an Irishman will be an F as affecting the long list of D nniless and disconsolate contractors, le d related by reverend gentleman of tl is city: Two Irishmen landing in l r, w York, and going to luncheon at rtain restaurant, where they ordered
 beef-steak. The waiter appeared Ih it in due season, and also brought r' ne mustard, as a matter of course. s ,on his withdrawal, the following V nversation took place: Patrick ? nd ye iver ate any musthard, Din- z. '" Dennis-"No, Pat. I've aten n sthArd; but musthard, mo-" Patrick V Suppose we thry some, it costs noth- :, ?" Upon this, he takes full spoon ., the mysterious compound, and upon V ceiving it into his mouth, was natural. very much startled; but he managed VI keep hls countensnce, though he n uld not hinder the tears from coursing u wn his cheeks. Dennis seeing this H i'd, "What are ye wapin for, Pats" Ii tricK-"My poor father died some N ars ago, and the mimory of him d me over me at that moment, and I b, uld not refrain from tears. Here, W nnis," reaching him the mustard and ia ,on. Dennis then partook, and Of ci arse went through the same panto- fe me, whereupon Pat, with much sym h. shy, exclaimed. "What are ye wapin Dennisf" Dennis-"I Wa. wspin, spslpeen. because ye didn't die the pi me time yer father did" th
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