Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-02-18
FROM MONDAYS DAILY,

rkOM MONDAYS DAlLfs 1 Another storm.
 1 Slight rainfall to-day.
 1 ". c. Bashiord aud Sam Hin left fol
 Phenix yesterday.
 There will be dance at Miller valIe,
 school house next Friday.
 1 Mrs. F. B. Jacobs, ot Flagstaff. has presented her husband with son. Yesterdays shooting score WAS Ferguson Is, Carlisle 10, Pierey ', Ait
 ken, J. Nj. G. Marks 6, Curry ,, Stew. 1 art 5. The JouRSAL-MISER congratuiates MT. Smith, of the Mohave Miner. on the accession of son to the staff of the paper. IL was born February 9th An exchange says that it don't ie- quire much of an athlete to jump a
 board hill. Guess some of onr local
 restaurant keepers can attest to the
 truth of this assertion.
 Messrs. Aitken, Moriu, Frilie, An
 drews and wehbeT returned at o'clock
 this morning from their Chine valley duck ranch. They hagged l2l ducks during their trip.
 A live bnffaio hail went vest over the Atlantic and Pacific railroad few days since, en route to San Francisco. It was from Baif.lo Joaes' ranch, knaa Garden City. Kansas.
 A memorial bas been passed bs the legislature requesting Congress to seg- regate certain coal fields from the reser- vation and the setting apart of aband- oned forts for Indian school purposes.
 The Walhpai Indian who assaulted Mrs. Harris, st Walnut creek, several days since, has been arrested, aud will arrive on to-night,s train. He win draw his ratiops from the county instead of the government, fer the next few months at least.
 Our very much esteemed eontempo- rary. the Phenix Herald, is in error in accusing this paper of growing about its contract with the overHmeatfer the second story of it's city ball. Fact is the JouRsAL-MIsEe referred te the transaction as | piece ol particularly discreet fnancisring on the part ol Phenix. Whea the present legislature ad- iourns the famous Texas code adopted hy the Huh legislature, witf iso the cheapest thing ia ths territory. About all the provisions it contains have been repealed, and Teyis, of CocIiise county, has given notice of the introduction af a bill to repeal the cover. iu the meaa- time hill is before the legislature to reduce the price from Sio to s2 per copy.
 eve have novel way of farming. Last year l planted ten watermelon ga. ds right out on the plains. paid no attention to them till one day was riding by and the whole earth was ooyerei with vines aud melons. There | were 3l nieloas aud three of us couldn't the tmallest one. am going to 1 plant an the seed can get hold of his year. said cowboy recently to I he Midland Gazette.
 Heury Goiiwater, one of Prescattts ealing merchants. arrived by stage ast night. He had very marrow escape at Smiths mill. Being told to snter the stage quickly, as the restive horses would start immediately on be- ng harnessed, ha did so and took q e .eins. Like flash, the sieeds ran away, flashing iutiously round aad round in circle and gradually ap- 10-foot perpendicular em- Mir. Goidwater jumped and the stage went oyer. Singularly | horses and coach landed right | side up with no particular damage. Phenix Heaslad.
 A man may use wart on the back of his neck for collar button, ride in the back coach to save the interest on his money until the conductor gets round, stop his watch at night to save wear and tear, leave his s'i'' and "t'' without & dot and cross to save ink, pasture his mothers grave to save corn--but man of this sort is a gentleman and scholar compared with the fellow that takes newspaper tSo or three years and when he is asked to pay for it puts 1t back in the office and .ias ii marked "relused." When a man wants his | paper stopped he ought to have the | manhood to pay up and inform the editor that his paper is no longer