Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-06
FRoM FRIDAY's DAILY.


 iting Prescott.
 Walnut Grove will celebrate In n dependence day. Hon. Levi Bashiord returned yes. 5 terday from his trip east. The democrats have concluded tc ratify tomorrow evening.
 J. W. Sullivan came in from Will hamson valley last evening. The board of supervisors met to- } pay as board of equalization. K. Barrett and D. McCool will have for Castle creek tomorrow.
 Judge Kibbey is expected in Prescott next Monday to hold court.
 A very pleasant party has been made up to go to Williams and Flagstaff.
 A. G. Oliver returned on today's train from attending the Chicago convention.
 J. N. Rodenburg has been ap- pointed as special deputy sheriff, by J. K. Lowry.
 J. F. Brnce sold his interest in the livery stable to his partner, George Merritt, today
 Mason's Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, Glassware and Crockery, Ut the B.-B. Co.'s. If
 A subscription was being taken up today to pay for the services of the band on the Fourth.
 The Episcopal Sunday school had their picnic today at J. E. Wings ranch. They had a very pleasant time.
 October 2lst of this year has been declared a legal holiday, it being the anniversary of the discovery of America.
 J. l.. Hall, T. B., opened his Tragic meat market next door to the post office. See his advertisement in this issue.
 J. M. w. Moore and party found petrifed wood all along the Little Colorado river during their recent visit up there.
 The Fourth of July will be cele- brated in due and patriotic form at the Senator and a dance will be given there at night.
 The water question in Prescott will never be satisfactorily solved until every consumer is required to use a meter and pay for what he uses.
 Geo. H. Curry has gone to Cali fornia. He will remain there short time when he will go east. He expects to be absent about two months.
 Major G. w. Vaughn went outsto Ash Fork to-day to start work on the construction of bridges. Track laying will commence soon in earn est.
 A. A. Moore came up from Wal l uut- t&rove to-dey He says the en- | gineering party of the S. F. P. X P. railroad was at Catoctin when he | came in. Their camp is just this side.
 The United Verde Copper Com pany has arranged to make tele phone connection between the office and their shelter. Four instru- i ments will be used, which they have already ordered from Mir. Jones, the agent of the telephone company.
 Mir. and Ms. Charles Rice, of the Keystone saloon, have a nice suck ling pig and a fatted kid which will be cooked by the latter and served to the patrons of the place on the Fourth of July as a free lunch.
 Henry Johnson, an employee at Parker's sash factory, this afternoon met with an accident while running the steam shaver, that was almost a miraculous escape from a very | serious injury. He was adjusting a moulding when his hand slipped and his thmb was nearly cut of, sustaining besides other slight wounds.
 President w. O. O'Neill, of the territorial Worlds Fair Commis- sion, IS doing good service towards getting a proper exhibit from this territory. It is labor of love, but MT. O'Neill works with the same vim and we'll directed energy in the mat ter as if he were drawing salary equal to that of the director gen eRal. He says that the question of freight rates for exhibits will be serious one, as the Commission has not yet succeeded in securing satis- factory rates.
 J. M. w. Moore had an experience during his recent trip to Coconino county, that was anything but pleas ant. Accompanied by w. H. Smith, | formerly of Copper Basin, he went ou on a prospecting trip, leaving G. Arthur Allen in charge of their camp. They were about eightl miles from camp when Smith and f Moore became separated, the for mer being in charge of the animals. The latter concluded to enter a box l canyon, whose walls were very near EDtLltttldi anu lOSc tO ~ of several hundred feet, and explore its depths. It was a comparatively easy matter to get down, but when he had concluded his exploration of it and decided to return he found the task a difficult one. To scale the perpendicular walls was feat which looked to be next to impos- sible. He decided to follow down the canyon, in the hopes of finding a place of egress, but he had not gone far until he came to preci- pice or falls, over which it was i'm possible to go except at the expense of his life. He then realized that he was literally walled in there, with out food or water and with no means of making his whereabouts known to either of his companions. The sun was rapidly sinking towards the western horizon and had already commenced to cast the shadows of !, the walls of the chasm across what scanned tO he his prison Rv dili-