Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-11-08

| -9NAAS ANNassN ahooNa to~hiShNs
 Hotels are crowded these days.
 Wales Arnold of Camp Verde, is
 in town.
 | The late Harry Elfers was a mem
 ber of the Grand Army.
 Sheriff and Mrs. Lowry have re-
 turned from their trip east. | A. T. Cornish. county treasurer
 of Coconino county is in town. l NJ. Pagan writes that he will re-
 turn to Prescott in a few days.
 Judge W. H. Stillwell, formerly
 of Tombstone has located in Phe-
 nix.
 The president has signed the bill
 providing for suspending assess
 ment work on mining claims for the
 year 1893.
 Parties having mining machinery 1 for sale can find a purchaser by
 consulting the advertising colums
 of this issue.
 A. Barry, civil engineer. we'll
 known throughout Arizona and
 ex deputy Sheriff of Phenix came in ] on yesterdays stage from the south. J. B. Fitch was shot at twice at Wilcox recently. His would be
 assassin fired through a window.
 One bullet passed through his arm.
 Dr. !. NJ Marshall, the Flagstaff dentist has recently returned from a trip east, and wIll be in Prescott again in few days to attend to the wants of his customers.
 J. w Dougherty returned at noon today from his trip east. He l was accompanied by his mother and 1 his two sisters, Mesdames Webber | and Burcheding and his niece Miss Webber..
 Chief of Police Miles Archibald | yesterday arrested Wallace Hamil- l ton for stealing blankets. He had | his trial this morning before Jus tice Andrews and was sent to the county jail for ten days.
 Wright's Myrrh Tooth Soap pre- serves the enamel, and prevents the decay of the teeth. Gives beautiful lustre and whiteness, and cools and refreshes the mouth. Try 1t. For sale by W. W. Ross. Corner Drug Store.
 NJ. Goldwater x Bro. will have a special blanket sale next Thursday, at which blankets, quilts and com forts will be offered for sale at prices never heretofore dreamed of. Read their announcement in this issue.
 William Dulin returned last even ing from a visit to Lynx Creek and Big Bug mining districts. He says that he has been all through the best mining camps of Colorado and other places, but he has never seen any camp so prosperous and prom ising for the future on the same amount of development work as the Chaparral section. This camp is on a regular boom.
 There seems to be a sort of switch ing of in the marriage epidemic that seized Prescott about a year ago, and instead of ceremonies being ln order a healthy discussion now of the proposition is prevalent in the It seems to be settled lct at any rate that Miss Postle and 'Silas Miller" are both correct in their ideas, and that the only hope we have to see the wedloek boom again in force is to leave this ques- ton of physical endurance to ar or a compromise com mittee to definitely settle the ratio
 Parties in need of trees either for fall or spring planting should send their orders at once to Hiram Bow hall. Gainesville, Ohio. Quite a of orders have been sent to him recently and any one wanting only few trees by sending the order now can have it shipped with one of these orders at very small expense for freight. MT. Bowhall can be de- pended upon to send good trees at prices and it is just as safe for a party ordering to do so without catalogue, if he has not one convenient.
 Two Mexicans this week took the oath, claiming that they were indigent witnesses. They were allowed ten dollars each. On the of their orders to Treas 1rer Cornish he offered them a S20 gold piece, and to his astonishment one of them took from his pocket s S10 gold piece and rendered it as change. The readiness with which some people take the papuer's oath Tor the sake of getting a few dol ars from the county Is subject of ! good deal of comment.-Coco- lino Sun.
 Speaking of the trial of Murray the Yuma Times says: Thirteen witnesses were examined on the part of the prosecution. Among them ex-Superintendent ! Meade, Superintendent Gates, As ,istant Superintendent Shaw, Sec -etary Trippell of the prison, B. Heyman and others. The articles which ex-Superintendent McIuernay vas alleged tc have packed up and .aken away from the prison were produced in evidence. The only witness for the defense was MT. Me Lnernay, who made a general denial )f the indictment aud also that the articles produced in court were the iame ones packed up by him before le turned over the prison to Mir. Meade in April last"