Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-13
FKIDAY's DAILY.


 from her visit to Tombstone.
 Ed. L. Gobin, the old stand by of the Peck district, is in town
 Don't forget the lecture at the NJ. E. Church next Tuesday night.
 Joseph Mayer and Jesse Davis came m on to-day's stage from the south.
 c. A. Rathbun the we'll known boot and shoe man is in town at Hotel Burke.
 Mir. and Mrs. Geo. E. Brown left Tor their ranch on the lower Agua Fria today.
 Now is the time to act on the proposition of lighting up the plaza with electricity.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. R. Spence. of Palace Station, are guests of the Williams House.
 +. w. Sisson, treasurer of the Arizona Lumber and Timber com pany, of Flagstaff, is in town.
 The applicants for teachers certi- ticates at the recent examination all passed the ordeal successfully.
 The boarding house at the Hen rletta mine burned down last night. Gui ShamP was the proprietor of it..
 J. Marshall Morgan. S. P. Behan and Grant Carter have gone to Kansas City with a train load of cattle.
 C. B. Geuung has brought suit against the Virginia Gold Nj. & M. Co, to set aside a deed to the Genung Spring.
 T. B. Carter came in today from Walnut Grove. He says that there are over thirty men working on the Walnut Grove dam.
 The Bank of Tombstone has been reorginized as the Tombstone Bank. The change was made to avoid taxa tlon under a law recently passed by the legislature.
 A Granite street woman called Etiie lodged a complaint against a neighbor named Dora today for battery. The latter pleaded guilty and paid a fine of 5000, imposed by Justice Andrews.
 A man. whose name was not learned, fell sixty feet down shaft at the Boggs mine yesterday and sustained fracture of one leg, be- sides bruising himself up other wise pretty badly.
 J. J. Donahue, Coconino county's efficient sheriff, made a flying visit to Prescott last evening, coming in on the evening train, transacting considerable business and getting away again this morning.
 Hotel Burke arrivals: w H Hard ing, East St Louis; C K B Amock, St Joe, Mo; w H Hall, Del Rio: J NJ Sanford, Williams; Frank E Pen hart, Bonneville, Mo; k Mickey, PheniX: A L Moon, Los Angeles.
 Property owners on Mob Hill have organized an independent fire com pany. They will have one of the old carts, belonging to the fire de- partment, on the hill and in case of an alarm for fire in the eastern part of the town, will turn out and ex- tinguish 1t.
 Herbert and Robert Pentlaud, two very popular young men, gave a pleasant party to their young friends last evening. Over fifty in vitations were sent out and there were but few that were not ac- cepeed. The young folks had a very enjoyable time with various games as we'll as in the discussion of an elegant collation provided for the occasion. The young men showed themselves to be admirable hosts.
 Court house officials are making an effort to have the new electric light introduced into the various ffices there, claiming that there will be less expense to the county by the introduction of electricity, besides the convenience and lack of a fire taking place. The board of supervisors will undoubtedly con sider thls matter favorably, and while they are making a change a few arch lights around the build ing would not only add to the beau " of the building, but it would give a guarantee to the public that the records and other property would rems in secure from molestation.
 Mrs. Celia Saunders died yester- day at the ripe old age of S5 years. Her husband died a little over a year ago. aged 94 years. The couple had lived on the frontier all their lives. neither of them ever having seen a railroad or train of cars until 1886 when the P. & A. c. railroad was under construction to Prescott. They leave three children to survive them, Messrs. T. D. and Irwin Saun- ders and Mrs. s. c. Miller. The funeral took place this afternoon at two o'clock from the residence of $. C. Miller. Interment was in Simmons graveyard west of town. Rev. C. J. Chase conducted the services.
 Mrs. W. c. Potts and her little daughter, Miss Quenie had a mar TOW escape from being killed or at least seriously injured on Wednes,, dav evening. Mir. Potts had hitched up a team preparatory to taking a ride and Mrs. Potts and Queenie were in the carriage. Before NIT. Potts could get in, the team became frightened and ran away. Mrs. Potts jumped from the vehicle, and in do- ing so her dress caught on the step but fortunately it tore, and thereby saved her from being dragged un- der the wheels. The little girl also jumped bravely from the buggy while the team was going at a break neck speed and very fortunately es- caped serious injury. The team ran into a wire fence, cutting one of the horses quite seriously. n-- EFeNx