Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-12-07

FKIDAy's DAILY.
 Dr. F. H. Waite is quite sick.
 Royal Arch Masons meet to-mor- row night.
 Money was reported scarce by collectors yesterday.
 Jones sells the holiday goods. Read his ad in this issue.
 G. W. Hull has sold lot in ,Ie- rome to J. A. Brown, for SlO0.
 Every day brings new arrivals of capitalists here who come to in spect our mines.
 G. Hathaway is out collecting road taxes to pay for the work that IS being done on our streets. (. C. Hall, the only Lum, left on this mornings train, after day spent m interviewing our merchants.
 A glass of delicious soda water given with every sale of 50 cents worth of Holidoy goods by Jones.
 Rev. c. l. Chase and wife arrived on last nights train. Mir. Chase will hold services as usual in the Nj. E.. church next Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Ehle will celebrate their golden wedding next Thursday, December Sth, at their residence on Montezuma street.
 R. C. Woodruff and Paul Morton. ol the railroad party, went out shooting this morning. NJ. F. Mo rin, one of our local sportsmen. ac- companied them.
 | j. A. Knoblock has received the contract from the :. F., r. &P. railroad to run their commissary at Point of Rocks, and yesterday sent out fcur-horse wagon load of pro- 1 visions.
 The Eastern Star Chapter elect ed officers last evening. After the close of the regular business lunch was served to the members and their friends present.
 The testimony in the May mur der case was closed this morning and argument of the ease. by coun. sel, is in progress this afternoon. It will be given to the jury some time this evening.
 The report was circulated on the streets to-day that Jay Gould had died at 9 o'clock this morning. The rumor was confirmed this afternoon by the receipt of telegram by F. Nj. Dickey.
 The following are registered at Hotel Burke: David Connor, Je- rome; II E Lantry, Ash Fork; F l. Wright, A l. Butler, Chapparal; W II Hall, Chino; Harry Richards, Ottowa, Canada; H II Wheelock, St. Louis: D C Thorne, Santa Maria. |
 Col. D. B. Robinson, president of 1 the :. F., F. x P. railroad, has sew cred his connection with Aransas Pass railroad and has given up all | his other interests, and after Janu- uary lst he will devote his time en- tirely to our new railroad. making | his headquarters in Prescott.
 Frank Wright brought in a bar of | gold valued at S2,5O0. yesterday. from his Little Jessie mine. In ad- dition to this amount of bullion, he | brought in to the sampling works 1 about S6,O00 worth of ore and con centrates for shipment. This en- tire amount of over SS,000 has been taken out of the mine since Novem- Der l2th. or in eighteen days, by | force of only five or six men.
 Material for the telegraph line of the Santa Fe. Prescott X Phenix railroad has all been contracted for and nearly all of it except the poles has been received at Ash Fork. Some difficulty has been expert enced in securing poles of the quail tv desired, but it is expected that they will be procured in time to have the line in operation by the first or middle of February.
 Ed. Pentland has opened a shop for the repair of watches and jewelry in the office formerly occupied by his father as dental shop on the north side of the plaza. Mir. Pent- land was for years connected with the jewelry store now owned by Cook X Lee, and has good reputa- tion for good work in his line. He solicits the patronage of his friends and the public generally and will guarantee to give satisfaction.
 F. NJ. Murphy drove the railroad party out to Whipple last evening, where they met number Of the officers stationed at that post. To- day they were taken out for drive around town for a short distance in the country. They all expressed themselves highly pleased with the beautiful location of our city. The weather during their visit has been delightful. The party will leave tomorrow for Phenix, going via Los Angeles, where a brief stop will be made.
 Col. Vincent, assistant adjutant general of the army. from Washing ton, D. C.. left on this mornings train, for California, after making a thorough inspection of Whipple Barracks. He expressed himself very favorably towards Whipple as an excellent location for a large post. Just what his recommonda- ton in the matter will be, of course, was not learned, but from the en- thusiastic manner in which he spoke of the location, and the climate, it is believed that he will recommend the construction of new buildings at once. An officer who is promi- nent in this department, recently recommended that new buildings be erected and that the post be made regimental one.
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