Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-23
FROM FRlD AY's DAILY
Local:: al::e'lents arc scarce.

| The di fferent feed yards of tn city are nightly crowded with team
 from the mines.
 The Sel lator mill was closed dow
 last week for want of water. Tn company is taking advantage of tn stop by in creasing the capacity o the mill b y adding ten more stamp:
 Henry Murphy is supposed t, have made very rich strike nea Jerome. It is 8 copper mine, car ries gold and silver, and the ore il identical to that of the United Verde group.
 Treasurer Oliver informs us that no bids have been received up tt date for the purchase of the schoo bonds offered, although yesterday was the last day on which propo sals were to be received.
 Geo. Banghart has leased hi. ranch in Chino valley, to Jame. Howey, who will shortly take charge of it. As soon as broken arm will permit him to travel, MT. Banghart will leave for visit to his old Canada home.
 Wm. Beaver, who resides with his mother, about two miles south of town, was arrested to-day, charg- ed with being insane. He has al ways been of unsound mind. but of late has commenced to develop a dangerous tendency, and his friends have wisely concluded to have him taken care of.
 This office is in receipt of a pam phlet from the treasury department at Washington entitled, Arizona, its commercial, industrial and trans portation interests" being a report made to the chief of the bureau of statistics of the treasury depart ment by Wm. E. Guild, of Florence. It contains very much valuable in formation concerning the territory.
 Companies B, c, H and I, of the 9th infantry, will remain for the present at Whipple. The latter is the company of Apaches and it will probably be transferred to the 1lth infantry and remain stationed at some post in the territory. The headquarters and band of the 1lth infantry will be stationed at Fort Huachuca.
 Col. A. O. Brodie writes from Mount Tabor, N. J., in a very en- couraging manner of resumption of work in the building of the Wal nut Grove dams. A meeting of diff ferent stockholders was recently held, and it was decided to start the work again, confidence being felt by all in the plans of the company being successful.
 w. E. Landgrebe, of the Bon Ton barber shop, has quite a novelty in the shape of an old fashioned cap and ball pistol. It is a double-bar- reled nine-shooter arrangement, the cylinder having a capacity for eight balls, while underneath the barrel from which they are discharged is a murderous-looking barrel for shooting buckshot. It has every appearance of being an old-timer, and is certainly curiosity to most people.
 Large oaks from small acorns grow, is an old adage. but it is exemplified in more ways than one, in its appli- cation to human affairs. 4 laborer on striking Prescott, broken in purse, went to work in this office turning the crank to our cylinder press at S10 week, graduated in ten days to dig a well 150 feet deep for S1C), which he accomplished in fifteen days, and yesterday quit the latter to accept the superintendency of building the Jerome cable line at S250 month.
 Hotel Burke arrivals-James liar ris, Mrs Pedley, Catoctin; D P Boot ley, w Weber, F McMahan, San Francisco; F Pedley w E Pedley, Mrs Woodruff, Catoctin; D l. Col lins, Trinidad, Col; J Dowd, Vir- ginia City; DC Sears, Philadelphia; W Cooper, Apache; Will Curry, Bradshaw; J c Gremminger, Agua Fria; Mrs Humphries, Senator; R H Burns, Ned Shehan, R k camp; H E. Shroeter, Senator; l. Dugan, Agua Fria; F H Baldwin, Juniper; CE Le Wall, Chicago; Thos H Sutton, Los Angeles Miss Fannie Belford, Denver; R Wright, Pitts burg; A l. Burchell, Williams; J H hoovey, Flagstaff.
 Dr. and Mrs. Maus have returned from their trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The doctor is some what eloquent in language in his de- scription of this wonderful and frightful gorge. He says there is not locality he has visited in either the old or new world that shows such a freak of nature to exist, or can claim any comparison to it, and will eyer cherish the trip as the event of his travels. The Coconino forest and the country around the canyon he also pictures as beautiful and as worthy to visit.
 B. F. Murphy is in receipt of letter, dated Chicago, Sept. IA, from his son, F. NJ. Murphy, which gives very encouraging news of work being soon commenced at Ash Fork on the s. F., P. & P. He further stated that all business affairs con nected with the building of the road had been so arranged as to ensure the work to be prosecuted without a days delay when once com menced. Several heavy contract ors have also written to Prescott on matters connected with this road, so it would seem short time now only remains ere work is earnestly commenced.
 The victorious fremen were met on Saturday night at the depot by about 200 or 300 citizens of Prescott accompanied by the Whipple band and escorted up town. A huge bon fire was also built near the depot and while the possession was moving giant powder was exploded. Our people showed their enthusiastic ap- ,,raoi ation of tho xx,,n,r-. to.n, aud