Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-06-29
FRos WEDNESDAYS DAILz.

FRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILz.
 The rainy season will soon
 here.
 wm. Munds of Oak Creek, is
 town.
 The tendency of cattle men is
 relieve their ranges.
 Mrs. H c. Thompson left f,
 Denver this morning.
 There will be private picnic ,
 Chino valley tomorrow.
 NJ. J. Riordan has returned {
 Flagstaff with his bride.
 Flagstaff believes in booming he
 Fourth of July celebration.
 J.R. McKinnon, of Williamso
 valley, has filed his stock brand fo
 record.
 McNeill's job office in Phenix ha
 been consolidated with that of tn
 Gazette.
 Grasshoppers are reported yer
 nunerous in some of the valleys o
 this county.
 Dick McNary has been appointe,
 oyerseer of district number F. Cop
 per Basin district.
 The WEEKLY JouRNAL-MrNER, is
 published today. Extra copies car be had at this office.
 The sun has passed the summer eolstice and the days will grow shorter from now until Decem-
 ber Fl.
 Miss Mary Otis left Oberlin, Ohio, yesterday, and is expected to hrriye at home on Saturday, to spend her vacation.
 I T. W. Johnston is making an ad- Hilton to his house, and when con- pleted he will have one of the finest residences in Prescott.
 The supervisors today accepted kae report of J. s. Merritt. overseer bf road district number 2I, and Allowed his bill for SI2.50. Il Next Saturday, June D, is the Bay fixed upon by the Knights of Pythias as decoration day of the >rder. A meeting of the lodge will De held at 6:3o PM.
 Major J. G. c. Lee, chief quarter master of the department of Ari- bona, is expected at Whipple on Friday. General McCook will be hnable to come as expected. Services at the NJ. E. Church on night were preceded by bervice of song in which the congre- ration joined. This will hereafter ee feature of the evening services |n that church.
 There will be a special meeting of |he Prescott baseball club this even hg at Aitken's at S:30 sharp. All hembers are requested to be pres |nt as business of importance will kome before the meeting. F. H. Eaite, president.
 Lieut.. W. X. Glassford. formerly 6gnal service officer at Whipple, has kone to Paris to study ballooning Ind various matters connected with he signal corps of the French army. Be will be accompanied by his wife |nd child, and will be absent for sev- |rai months, possibly until the com ng spring. The trial of G. w. Hunter alias >usie Wilson occupied the entire ime of the district court during the norning session to-day. Argument ,y counsel is in progress this after bon, and the case will probably go b the jury this evening. W. l.. Vail. formerly manager of he Phenix Republican, but at pres 'nt occupying similar position on he Phenix Mining Report, came in ,n to-day's stage from the south, md was a welcome caller at this his office. He is en route to Needles, California.
 The bondsmen of J. A. Guild, city assessor and collector, became sus- ,icious recently that his accounts yere not all straight, and demanded he books of him. They were in Testigated by the finance commit ee of the city council and short Ige of about $500 was discovered, which will be made good by the who will be secured by MT. Guild.
 At a meeting of the city council ast evening the resignation of James A. GuIid as city assessor and collector was accepted, and R. N. was elected to fill the The position of city clerk and auditor was declared vacant, on account of the absence Of W. c. Foster without leave, and $. E. Bright was nominated by the mayor io fill the position, and was confirm .d by the couhcii.
 Martin Maier has men at work now on another new enterprise which will prove quite a conven- ence to the town as well as 8 pecu- liary benefit to him. He is having the old dam of the city water works out and will put up an awning over portion of it and start swimming bath. He has sent east for bathing suits. He proposes to have the place fixed np in good order.
 W. x. Price arrived yesterday from Phenix with a load of fruit and other products of the valley. l In his cargo was lot of fine ripe apples, the first received here this season. A lot of choice peaches, nice juicy. we'll favored fruit was also found, and last, but not least, a | lot of as fine Tempe creamery but ter as can be found anywhere. The latter was packed in ice, and arrived here as fresh and as solid as it was when it left the creamery. Mir. | Price is making a success of his fruit and butter express line, as he meets with ready sale for every thing that he has.
 A would be prophet of Athens, Georgia, says: "The crop weld through this country in 1892 will