Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-03-11
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 Th, s,. AlcCsrty has leased the Bellevue hoss-.
 T. $. Bullock has gone to Mexico from Phenix.
 A good programme is promised for tonight at the Opera House.
 Arrangements are being made for a ball on St. Patrick's day.
 Companies A and F, Ninth infantry, are expected to arrive at Whipple on to-morrow's train.
 s. F. McGnire, formerly salesman at J. l. Gardiner's store, is seriously Ill in San Diego, California.
 The body of B. T. Luccock was ship ped east this morning. His brother. H. H. Luccock, accompanied 1t.
 The public schools were closed this afternoon, in erder to give the children an opportunity to see Uncle Toms Cabin.
 The Mohave Miner says that it is ru- mored that 0. M. Funston will take change of the Flagstaff Champion the first of March.
 A cool wind set in Wednesday even- ing from the southwest, and clouds overcast the sky during the night. re- sulting in a slight snow fall.
 The Phenix Herald says: "Editor John H. Marion. Of the Courier, feach- cd Phenix to-day, having left Prescott Saturday. It is said that he comes to start a new Democratic daily here."
 The entire population of Yuma has taken refuge from the flood in the peni- tentiary. Arizonans hats water worse than poison, and would ratker go to Jail than take bath.-Los Angeles Times.
 Since taking charge of the Williams House, Henry Spaulding has taken in several permanent boarders, while the list of transient guests is on the in- crease. He furnishes his patrons with good accommodation. while the table service is not surpassed in Prescott.
 The body of the late George Lount arrived in Prescott on Tuesday even- ing, it having been his request prior to his death, that his remains should be buried beside thoee of his child in the Masonic cemetery. They were buried this afternoon, being followed to the grave by members of the Masonic lodge.
 Dr. J. A. Park and Robert Drynan came in last evening from their mining property in Crook Canyon. MT. Drynan was somewhat astonished to find himself the hero of a bear story in the morning paper, the scene of which was located on Ash creek, when he has not been within thirty miles of that place for months.
 "Josh Whitcomb" was presented to . crowded house last evening at the Opera House, by the Uncle Tom'z Cabin Company. The corlpany gave an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" matinee this afternoon, sno tonight they s5ill give 6 new p.ece. They have played % good business ia Prescott. There ass few coFanAnie=- nave stsr visited TnIs 7uwn that could draw erowaed houses for three performances in sue oessioa, as they nave.
 A letter to the JoURNAL-MIFER from Chas. s. Faulkner, of Kansas City, conveys the intelligence of the death of his father, Wm. H. Faulkner, which occurred at the above piece, on Sum- day, February Sth. Mir. Fslkner was Identified with the Dixie Mining com pany, andlwas president of the Quartz Mountain Mining company. The dis ease which carried him of was dropsy of the heart. Deceased was promi- nsnt menber Of the Knights Templar
 Postmaster Archibald and bis assist. ant, A. J. Head, have been kept busy wrestling with mails since Tuesday evening about five o'clock. They opened the general delivery for short time on Tuesday night, when it was closed, to allow of distribution, until noon on Wednesday, when they took another breathing spell for an hour and delivered mail through the general de- livery. The office was again opened once during the evening and for an hour this morning. They have gotten the best of it now, however.
 We are pleased to note the sign of prosperity in our contemporary, The Financial and Mining Record, of New York. which is shown by an increase in :size to thirty-two pages, and it's handsome and neat appearance in new type. This is weekly publication which claims to give more complete, and tersely arranged reports of the pro- duction, consumption, and commercial movement of the money metals than any other periodical st home or abroad. 1t contains articles of exceptional value for reference and of pertinent in- terest on all industrial matters, includ- ing mining, pertaining to the develop nent and g rowth of the country.
 Lawyer Johnson tells the Phenix Herald that Diamond Jo Reynolds will had been properly. duly and legally made sometime ago; with the excep tian of bequests to personal friends, the property all goes to heirs of Mir. Key. holds, in accordance with his ideas of propriety and as he undoubtedly had the right to direct. There arc four executors and the will must be probated s- A