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

night.
 The May case is still on in in
 district court.
 Mrs. A. L. Moeller left for Sa,
 Francisco to-day.
 W. H. Lake, sheriff of Mohav
 county. is in town.
 Mrs. Mitchell. the dressmaker. i
 sick with pneumonia.
 Rev. C. J. Chase and bride ar due on to-night's train.
 An army officer is at Whippl, making a thorough inspection Q the buildings there.
 Peter Marx, prominent citizer of Walnut creek, paid his respect: to this office to-day.
 General Thos. F. Wilson. l.. $. at. torney for Arizona, is expecte ed iu Prescott next Sunday.
 The W. c. T. U. will meet in the NJ. E. church at 3 o'clock Friday December 2d. A full attendance is desired.
 J W. Dougherty has his new well down thirty-two feet and has struck water. He proposes to sink thirty feet more.
 Colonel H. A. Bigelow's condition was reported quite critical this afternoon and it is feared that he cannot live long.
 A requisition has been made for funds for holding term of United States court in Prescott commenc- ing December 18th.
 Engineer Howe came in yester terday from the railroad camp near Point of Rocks He says that work is progressing finely there. but more men and teams can find employ ment at once.
 An order has been issued recently in army circles whereby monthly of troops in the service will be inaugurated hereafter. Here tofore the custom has been to pay off every two months.
 A telegram from Washington says: At the war department to-day it is learned that the headquarters of the of Arizona, now located at Los Angeles, Cal, will be chang ed to Denver. If the change is made, Colorado will be included in this department.
 Colonel F. C. Hatch. former resident of Prescott, and whose friends here number legion, ar rived yesterday evening with F. NJ. Murphy and party and has been ousify engaged to-day in hand shak- ng with his friends. Colonel Hatch S popular wherever he is known.
 Our citizens should lose no time n providing as per agreement for he right of way and depot privi- ege for the Santa Fe, Prescott X Phenix railroad. The company is pushing the work of grading and ,nly a short time remains until .hese facilities will be required here.
 The loss by yesterdays fire was lot so great as was supposed at first. The piano. which was sup posed to be badly injured by water. escaped uninj jured. The fur liture and all the contents of the house, while pretty thoroughly irenched with water. was not dam aged to any serious extent.
 Contractor H. E. Lantry, of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phenix rail toad, came in to-day from Rhoada- mer's camp, near the Point of Rocks. He says that large num- per of men and additional teams will be given work work there on application. There are at present 10 men at work and thirty-five nore will arrive there to-day, put the number will be increa sed to ,00 if they can secure them.
 Palmer & Key, the we'll known Pacific coast type founders, have ssued a circular to their patrons, n which they say: ''In view of the ,act that some of the daily news papers of this city have been print ng some sensational articles rela- i've to the transfer of our business O the American Type Founders company, and intimating to the rade that the prices of type are to .aised and credit abolished, we ieem it advisable to inform you hat prices will be lowered on December first, next, and that the .redit system will continue in vogue IS heretofore to established print ITS. In the course of few months ve expect another reduction in the prices of type, as arrangements are now being perfected whereby cost ,f manufacture will be considerably essened.
 Arizona has produced about every kind of precious metal that has ever been GlScOVereu III mOtueI edfth. Mines of every description almost nave been found in some portion or other of the territory. But the lat sst discovery has been made by j. M. More, more familiarly known as Uncle Jimmy" near his home in Kirkland vnlley and it consists of a veritable honey mine. Mir. More came in two days ago with several buckets full of the honey obtained from it, one of which he left at the JOURNAL MINER office. The honey is of q superior quality. The honey was found in the crevices of the rocks near his residence and in order to obtain it MT. More said he had to fire several blasts in order to reach the recess where it had been stored. He found three separate caches ot honey in the rocks and two or three more in trees, from which he se- cured a large amount of honey and in some instances succeeded m cap