Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-30
FRon TuEspAY's DAILY
 Try a Mercantile at Aitken's.

Try "Mercantile at Aitkens.
 Seventeen tons of onyx await ship ment from the depot to California
 Only one more day to pay city taxes before they become delinquent.
 W. o. Harrell has sent lumber out to Jerome with which to erect new saloon building.
 D. w. Pritchett has opened q second hand furniture store on the southwest corner of the plaza. 1 Engineer Burns, of the s. F., F. & F. railroad, returned from Albuquer- que yesterday and left for the field this morning.
 The Prescott Good Templars will throw open their free reading room tonight to the public. It is located on Cortez street next door to Tom Scholey's saloon.
 A correspondent of the Courier says that T. $. Bullock will com mence building his north and south railroad on his return from Europe about October 10th.
 Rosh Hashannah or the Hebrew New Year, 5652, will commence at sundown on Friday evening, Octo- Der 2d, the holidays lasting two days, October 3d and 4th.
 Bob Burdette says God wasted : mud when he made the man who takes a newspaper from the post office for two or three years and then has the postmaster to mark it refused" in order to avoid paying | for it.
 Dr. Waite's Prescott friends are becoming alarmed at his prolonged absence and silence. Nothing has been heard from him now for sev- eral days, and as he was known to be affected with the matrimonial fever, fears are entertained that it may have taken serious turn. J. c. Snow, of Big Chino valley, has been experimenting with rais- ing alfalfa without irrigation, and succeeded in getting three crops this year. Water Is found very near the surface there, and it does not take alfalfa long to push its roots down to moisture.
 The final arrangements for the movement of troops from Whipple have been made, and they will leave Saturday morning. Two compa- nies from Huachuca will leave that post so that the four companies will meet at Albuquerque and pro ceed to their destination together.
 The Coconino Sun has entered upon the ninth year of its existence. Under the management of MT. Funs- ton the Sun has developed into a good newsy paper and is always eagerly looked for among our ex- changes.
 The record of cures accomplished by Hoods Sarsaparilla can never be completely written. The peculiar curative powers of Hoods Sarsa- parilla are successful when every thing else has failed. If your blood is impure, your digestion out of order, try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
 Flagstaff papers complain of the tramp nuisance. Tramps gre prac- tically unknown in Prescott, all though the town supports few local ''bums." They fare too well here, and besides are too lazy to tramp" It requires a small amount of energy to make even respectable tramp.
 A man named Buchard. who was brought in from Jerome on Satur- day, suffering from dysentary, died at Martin Matters lodging house last night. Deceased was a native of Canada about p years of age and came to Arizona about year ago. He was employed as a wood chop per at the great copper camp. His remains will be buried tomorrow.
 The Coconino Sun says that movement is on foot in Flagstaff for the closing of the stores at $ o'clock p. m. from October 1st, 1891, to April lst, 1892. 1t is a good move and one worthy of adoption by our Prescott merchants. If people learn that they have to do their purchasing before o'clock or wait until the fol lowing day they will soon become accustomed to it.
 There are many people who be- lieve, or affect to believe, that there i is no place of punishment in the hereafter. Even these skeptics, how ever, concede that the man who re- fuses to pay for his newspaper will | have the flight feathers of his angel | wings scorched of. Of all the mean | things charged against old Satan the sin of taking a newspaper and then refusing to pay for 1t was never laid at his door. As wicked as he is painted there are some things which he won't do.
 Hotel Burke arrivals: s Prout and wife, Senator; L Minser, Mrs F F Friant, N H Mcfarland, Copper Basin; E s Waddles, St Joe; NJ Nichols, Tombstone; c Conger, Camp Wood; D Connor, Silver Belt; J H Dickson, Kirkland Valley; A Surprenant, D Narcotic, Jerome; J M Morgan, Kirkland Valley; A L Barney, R B Burns, Albuquerque; R l. Greene, NJ D, Kansas City; s G Levy, San Francisco; J s Cook, Williamson Valley; W T Lomax, Chino; T A Conlee, Chino; w A Senator.
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