Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-17

! 'Shr many tnermOlnotars
 registering l0i in the shade.
 k. c. Brown. the energetic news.
 paper man, arrived yesterday f,on,
 the south, and will take in ali of the
 Northeru Arizona points of interest
 A call for primaries to select dele.
 gates to the republican county con.
 ,ention has been issued for August
 <sth In the various precincts in the
 county. The county convention has
 been set for Sept. Eth, one day ahead
 or the territorial convention.
 A gun play took place last nj ht
 'n the Palace saloon, by the owner
 oi crap game pulling down on a
 player with his 45. Usually in this
 game the player does all the "shoot-
 ing' but a reverse was very near the
 the order last evening.
 Billy Williams, the genial Bi0
 Dug miner, came in from the above
 district yesterday with several
 samples of ore. He has struck it
 nch in the Alta mine, and from the
 size of the vein and the assays given
 oi the ore, has very promising
 mine.
 Tom Malloy, brother of John
 Malloy, recently killed sccidenta ally near Jerome, arrived in Prescott
 to-day. He is deputy sheriff of
 Maricopa county, and left Phenix
 for Jerome last Friday evening, to
 take charge of the effects of his ,le- ceased brother.
 Mir. +. D. Wyckof, wife and child, and Miss Evans, arrived in Prescott last Saturday, and will remain for several days. MT. Wyckof is en route to Riverside with his family, where he will follow hereafter the musical profession, and will partici- pate in the concert in Prescott next Friday evening.
 Judge Andrews is considering to- day the business grievances of Vigus X Gilman, as arbitrator. The judge has diminutiye Homestead trou- ble to handle, and wants it under stand that no anarchists need prowl | around his sacred chambers to inti- midate him into rendering an unjust decision.
 The new registration law, com polling all Chinese to have their pictures taken, along with other rules the Chinese act calls for, as published in this paper, meets with general favor, particularly among our photographers. Suppose they will discard their white camer as and make Chinese cheap pictures a speciality.
 A bronco horse sale is going on to-day at Shull's stables. The ani- mals are being sold at auction bv ! l.. Fisher, and balonging to the Brown estate, of which C. Conger Is Much amusement was had there to-day in bronco busting, and prices were usually good. The sac will probably con- .mue tomorrow.
 Martin Maire's swimming pond, formerly the dam of tue water .rVTAs. presents a beautiful and ! emptiug appoarauce to all It has more water in it now than eyer be- ore, although the present IS the Irvest season ever experienced in . ms section. What is the matter . with having such men as MT. Maier , n the city council, to solve at least , he yexatious problem of water.
 Judge French released Brog. May { ,n a writ of habeas corpus last Sat Irday evening, with bail fixed at Sl0,O00, which was at once given by R. H. Burmister, J. A. May, W. W. and M. J. Hickey as t ureties. The action of Judge French ( S generally approved, and from the ( 'vidence furnished, together with past precedents to govern as noticed n higher tribunals, the legality and 2 ustice of the action taken in this ase cannot be questioned.
 The disgraceful conduct of sew { ral young hoodlums at the base $ all game yesterday was the reason { vhy seleral ladies left the grand l tand before the termination of the t .ame. Complaints were sworn out 1 o-day against them for the use of bscene language, but on promise rom them to hereafter behave, they we're let of. If repeated, they hould be severely dealt with, and O the fullest extent of the law.
 "When a bolt of lightning strikes {; bed of sand" says an exchange, lit 3 ,lunges downward for distance, {; ess or greater, transforming simul- n aneously into glass the silica in the | material through which it passes. | Thus, by its great heat, it forms at r ,nce a glass tube of precisely its | ,wn size" This is probably what f s the matter with the Prescott | They were unfortunate f n encountarirg a deposit where n irhtning had struck at some past f late, and left its everlasting decep- V ion in a glass tube through which T ur city council has been vainly look ng for water for some time past.
 The board of supervisors, we hear r gill submit unique proposition to c he Ol IcotOtt ~ ehO l V election. It will be wheth- r or not the taxpayers of Prescott c vill approve the setting aside of 90 t eet of the public square, on all V ides for business purposes. The uestion undoubtedly will receive s thorough dissection in commercial T fife. and in view of the new railroad ( making the town prosper consider bly. do our lively board put out his feeler for due consideration. As n energetic board our commission IT'S are right in it, and never turn l heir hand unless there is something n sight. We would recommend t hem to close deal with some dy- ,amite firm to make it rain here s bouts. on behalf of the whole coun- ", and levy an additional tax to over the entire expense.
 The San Francisco Chronicle has l f.llo,r;ny ooneerninQ an eStim-