Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-24
FRoM SATURDAYS DAILY.

Business is improving.
 The mud is drying rapidly. The phonograph has gone.
 Railroad news is encouraging,
 No news from Sheriff Lowry. Get your Sunday dinner at Hotel
 Burke.
 Good music at the Saxerac every
 evening.
 District court was adjourned to-
 day until Monday.
 Monday will be observed by the
 school as holiday.
 Ben Block buys hides and pelts.
 See his advertisement.
 Old man Peters was taken to the
 nsane asylum at Phenix to-day.
 c. E. Boyce has the beef con
 tract for the railroad camp at Ash
 Fork.
 No mail from southern California
 yesterday on account of failure of
 the train to connect.
 Monday will be legal holiday. It should be properly observed by a
 suspension of business.
 c. E. Boyce, who came into Pres colt Thurday, reports force of DO men at work at Ash Fork.
 Ben Block has men and teams fil- ling a contract for 1000 cords of wood at Blackberry smelter. Rev. F. W. Meaney will hold ser vices at the opera house tomorrow at II o'clock. No evening services will be held.
 The Methodist church, since the building of its spire, presents fine appearance. The spire is being painted to-day.
 County Treasurer Oliver has a miscellaneous lot of personal effects belonging to odeceased persons which he will sell at auction next Satur- day.
 The executive committee of the republican league club will hold meeting tonight at o'clock. All members are requested to be pres ent.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. E. church will hold meeting at the parsonage next Monday after noon at 2 o'clock. Business of inn portanec will be transacted and all members arc requested to attend.
 Frank Alley, representing the Phe- n1 Mining Report, arrived on last | nights stage from Phenix and will | make a thorough canvass of this | county in the interest of that jour nal. As already announced in these columns, the Report, although a new enterprise, starts out with every | prospect of success.
 "If the Courier's correspondent ever sees fit to announce his identity a yell of surprise will resound from the Pheniz Gazette to the sanctum of the JOURNAL MINER and back again, which will be liable to burst the diaphragms of the yeller. Courier. Why, bless his statistical soul he revealed his identity year ago.
 Referring to the readiness with which people enter into advertising schemes when presented by outside the Phenix Herald very aptly says: "Perhaps in course of time the public of Phenix and the valley will learn that their home papers, that have their money and interests all here, will be able to do them as honest and efficient work as can be done in the way of adver- Using the county, and that they are able to earn the support that Is due them for the unpaid labor they are all the time performing for the This remark is made in view of the fact that it appears the community has again been vic timized by a fellow proposing to give the valley write up" in cer- tain prominent eastern journal of the country who got considerable cash advertising and many cash on the strength of his all of which he pocketed. skipped and has not since been heard of"
 A petition was in circulation to- day for an increase of the mail ser vice on the Black Canyon route from three times per week to six times a week. It is receiving the signatures of all to whom it is presented, as the route isa very important one. Mayer, Curtis, Big Bug, Gillette, Agua Fria and other places on the route are important and the service asked for is a necessity, as it will be a great convenience to several hun dred citizens. The camps along the route are constantly increasing in and the necessity for in- creased service is becoming more every day. The route is i several miles shorter than the one over which the mail is now carried, and the increase of service to six , times a week and the carrying of , the through mails by this route will ( not only accommodate the people , along the line, but the terminal points will be benefited by getting their mails several hours earlier ' each day. It is hoped that the de- partment will take favorable action , m this patifion