Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-10-19

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 J. Ii. Boyd, the we'll known miner is in town.
 W; A. Freeze and family have ar rived in Phenix.
 Ice formed last night an eipbtl of an inch thick.
 NIT. and Mrs. T. ]. Butler left fo, Chicago this morning.
 Don't forget the dance at vii. hanson valley tomorrow night A. Q. Brodie returned last nigh, from a campaigning tour through the county.
 The Tombstone Prospector has a new head. t is a sort of a peonle'. party head.
 C. H. Akers, the next sheriff oi thls county, returned to-day from 4 trp to the country.
 Major Vaughn returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to the :. F .sP X f. graders camp.
 J. l.. Fisher is having his brick warehouse re-roofed with iron roof ing, as preeaution against fire. The Bashford- Burmister Company has a new advertisement in this issue. Read what they have to say
 Mrs. W. H. Throne returned yes terday from visit to Napa, Cali fornia, where she owns a fine fruit orchard.
 M. $. Taft, of Stoddard, and R. II. Ferguson, of Williamson valley. have each filed his oath and bond for record.
 Denver had a snow storm, October l2, which accounts for the cold wave experienced here during the past three days.
 The Prescott Athletic Club will meet tonight at g o'clock at the truck house. All members are re- quested to be present.
 Read the new advertisement in this issue of Sam. Hill. MT. Hill carries a large stock of goods and believes in letting the people know it.
 N. A. Morford has retired from the management of the Phenix Herald. and the name of George A. Mintz now appears as publisher of that paper.
 John Lawler is buildinga brick addition to his building which he recently purchased from the county. It will be occupied by Assayer Heth- erington.
 A. C. Burmister has just added another fire insurance company to the list represented by him, and is now prepared to write fire insurance policies in the best companies in existence.
 4 mortgage of S50,OO0 to secure bonds issued by the Virginia Gold Mining Company has been filed for record. The mortgage is on the Yarnell mines owned by the above company.
 Philip Richardson has completed his work on the pump on the north west corner of the plaza. It is in thorough repair now. The we'll is forty-nine feet deep and contains thirty-two feet of water.
 Justice Andrews received tele- gram yesterday asking him to go to Yampai to hold an inquest on man killed there. As Yampai is out of his jurisdiction, he telegraphed to the Prescott Junction justice to attend to the business.
 Joseph Dougherty received car load of canned fruits yesterday, and is now busily engaged in unloading the same. The stock is among the finest and freshest ever to reach Prescott. and will be retailed at prices sure to satisfy everybody. Go and take look at these goods.
 The republican and democratic candidates met in joint debate at Camp Verde, on the night of the l1th instant. They had an agree ment to meet the republican candi- dates at Cherry last night, but failed to keep the engagement. An invi- tation on the part of the republican candidates, tohave their democratic opponents make the canvass of the county with them from now until election day, was also declined.
 Our enterprising citizen, Martin Maier. wishes to thank the fire boys and the citizens in general for the hard work done in saving his prop erty at the city dam from total de struction by fire. He realizes fully that only through their efforts his loss is but nominal, while it would have been very heavy had they not succeeded in checking the flames at the proper time. MT. Martin wishes to correct the statement that the fire originated in a wagon load of wood. 1t caught instead in the rub bIsh further up the fodu'
 The city authorities deny that the water was shut of from the mans ;,,, i'm West Prescott yesterday. The JouRxAL-MrSER willingly and cheer fully gives them the benefit oi the the denial. The mayor and his two water lieutenants have enough oih- c;al sins of omission and commission in answer for to the people of the city without having something charged to them that they are not guilty of. The fact, however re mains that whether the water Mas shut of yesterday. or whether it was was not, the Q. K. hose company lslleu nnSa to get any water through thelr hoJe sIf for several minutes. some say Thn T an hour. others fifteen minutes. The aro,,sa r given is that the fire plugs
 ll.-,,,aI mn with mud.