Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-03-11
Faom SATURDAYS DAILY.

There IS A"uNe pnouoefePh ih sS"N
 Snow is rapidly disappearing today.
 Royal Arch Chapter meets tonight.
 J.w. Sullivan lsft for home to-day.
 Superintendent Murphy left for the Congress this afternoon.
 The Phenix mail stage via Congrsss failed to reach Prescott last night. The mercury got down to within eight degrees of zero this morning. Both branches of the legislature meet st 10 o'clock now, instead of at 2 as formerly.
 Flagstaff sheep men will commence moving their sheep to their mountain ranges April list.
 c. A. Allen bid .n the Legal Tender mine, on Big Bug. to-day, at sherih's 1 sale, for s2.5oo
 J E. Anderson, an old time resident of Prescott, came in on yesterdays
 stage from Phenix.
 Superintendent Jones. of the Pres colt and Arizona Central railroad, will arrive home next week. The boys had good evenings coast l ing last nig ht, the only good ecasting they have had during the winter. John F. Briggs, former typo of Prescott, was married in Phenix re- gently to Miss Letiitis Mccullough. The board of supervisors advertise in this issue for "proposals for the care of the indigent sick and dependent poor" John Kennedy, the cattle man of Globe, who was drowned in the Verde river recently, was brother-in-lsw of Roland Mosher. of this place. Miss Jennings, one of the teachers in the public school, has been quite sick for some time. Her position in the schools during her illness has been filled by Miss Florence Gould.
 T. B. Carter, of Walnut Grove, had occasion to visit the land office yester- day, and in coming down the stairs, which were covered with snow. he slip. ped and fell, and sustained quite sen. ous injuries.
 Messrs. T. O. Barlow Msssicks and H. A. Swan were in from the Lynx creek hydraulic works to-day, and were being shown around the town by G. A. Allen. They report the hydraulic works running satisfactorily with . good flow of water.
 Mention was recently made in this paper of the loss by drowning of 200 sheep belonging to Peck brothers, of Flagstaff. The sheep were only under lease to them it now seems, the owner being Robert w. Bell, who will have to stand the loss, about s5,000. Mir. Bell has been singularly unfortunate of late, by fire and water and theft. The board oi supervisors met yes.lr- terdsy. The county treasurer was allowed three per cent of all moneys collected. F. M. Murphy Was allowed S25 i9r repair of Antelope Hil ros 1, and A. r. Williams ss6 % ioT repair of roads in district NJ. l2 The hospital anasszsa was considered. Board met again to-day.
 II. s. Van Beuen and Lieut.. Brodie are in Phenix. awaiting the opening of communication to visit California on business. The former informed parties in Phenix that work would be com menced towards rebuilding their big dam within thirty days. They will be in Prescott some time during the pres- ent month, and expect to remain here all summer.
 During the recent high water in Phe- nix, Daggs brothers, of Flagstaff, came very nearly losing 1000 head of fine Merino bucks, waived at 10000. They had been driven on an island in Salt river, and the herder expected to camp with them there until the following day. He suddenly took notion, no, through any apprehended danger from water though, to drive them to the main land. and within less than two hours after doing so the water was so high that it could not have been crossed, and few hours still later the island was flooded.
 Warren Weaver, the versatile repre- sentative of Gordan Brothers, merchant tailors of San Francisco, arrived on to- days train, and is stopping at Hotel Burke. MT. Weaver has been water bound, mud-bound and snow bound at frequent intervals and at various places during the past few weeks. but has suc- ceeded in reaching Prescott, and has with him the largest and finest lot of samples for suits or parts of suits that has ever reached the place, and any one in the ::habit of sending away for clothing who does not give him his oider, simply gets left.