Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-06-24
FROM FREpAY's DAILY.

Public schools closed to-day.
 Election of school trustees takes place one week from tomorrow.
 A new safe for the Prescott land office arrived on last nights train.
 Geo. $. Porter has an advertise ment of clearance sale in this issue.
 School boys and girls will now have an opportunity to play until September.
 H. D. Ross says that the assessa- ble property of Coconino county will amount to nearly SS.000,0O0.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says that Col. Albright, of the Democrat, is prospective millionaire. His mine at San Pedro promises to de yelope into bonanza.
 Mr. Gilroy, after a regular watch of over 1000 days in the Palace saloon, without missing a single day left yesterday for two weeks lay of in San Francisco.
 4. E. Baermann, who successfully demonstrated on Sunday night how easily 1t is for man to shoot him self while fooling with s pistol, is getting along nicely and is on the highway to recovery.
 Hotel Burke arrival: J c Mead, St. Louis; c F Meyers, Albuquerque: Thomas II Haskins, San Francisco; Heane Hall, Sierra City; k Hutch inson. Montana; T ] Norris. H D Ross, John Hicks, Flagstaff; Wm Rhoades, Chino; Mir. Sparrow and wife.
 The Courier, of recent date, says: "Mr. Bullock will hardly forget his promise to build 36-ineh gauge railroad from Prescott to the Brad shaws. He was never known to for get a promise" It might have ad- ded, or to forget to make promises.
 Our contemporary says that Tom Bullock has purchased the rails for the branch road to Jerome and the company's chief engineer has sent in for beef" This would indicate that the road will be built.
 Hon. x. O. Murphy, secretary and acting governor of the territory ar rived on this afternoons stage. Governor Murphy comes up for q brief time only on private business, but may return again to participate in the Fourth of July celebration.
 Fort Marcy, at Santa Fe. is en- terely abandoned by the military. This post was established in 1916, and is an historic spot. The gov ernment should establish a soldiers home in this territory, and old Fort Marcy is we'll adapted for such an institution.-Albuquerque Citizen.
 According to our contemporary this morning it Is the ''long winded. ranting. canting, silly railroad writer of the subsidized sheet" \ few days since it was the thin space railroad writer" that was wound up" and previous to that it was the writer of railroad talk from Phenix" that seemed to he thorn in the flesh of BULLOCK ~ to.
 \ company is being organized to prospect the coal fields in Willow creek valley northwest of town. Two coal experts visited the place recently and unhesitatingly de- clare their firm belief in the exist ence of coal there. Within the next l year we expect to see from 100 to 1 200 coal miners at work, although | the rather remote possibility exists | that the coal may not he found in | quantity sufficient to pay for work ing.
 The following very kindly expres- sion which Is duly appreciated, comes from Brother \. X. Morford. of the Phenix Herald: The Herald notes with pleasure the entire new dress assumed by the MINER, its change of form and general improve lnent for the better, all of which in- dicate q fair degree of prosperity | with Bro. Martin. whose long and | faithful pull for the territory de- i serves all the good things the busi- ness and his friends in politics can bestow upon him"
 The Prescott. Arizona, JOURNAL MINER is no longer in love with Bull | lock, Wilson & Co, the telegraph | line men of that territory. The edi- | tor of that paper made the oninous prediction last week that he would l be publishing paper in Prescott after the cows had rubbed down the | last pole of fine Bullock Wilson line, and when the very mention of the names of those who once owned such thing would be an offense to the country.-Albuquerque Demo crat.