Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-07-26

Mrs. Anna McGowan is engaged in renoyating the Williams House, and Is putting in new furniture and carpets. She gives her personal su- pervision over the house now. and sees that the comfort of her guests is not overlooked.
 A careful analysis of the water used by Martin Ma,er, in the manu facture of ice, reveals the fact that 1t is absolutely pure. No iInpuri- ties of any nature whatever were disclosed by the analysis. The water is.all condensed and for this reason, the chemist analyzing it says that the ice is purer than any natpral lake or river ice.
 A lot of old guns are stored at different parts of Arizona belonging to the territory, and Adjutant Gen eral Schwartz IS attempting to dis cover way to get the money cut of them. If he succeeds he wlll apply the money to fitting up the varicus armorles of the companies through out the territory. The guns are the old 50-caliber needle guns that are out of date, but would bring something at auction. Anyway they had better be sold than lay in store and have the storage accumu- late.--Phenix Gazette.
 The Methodist church was struck by lightning on Saturday afternoon during the electric storm that pre- vailed. The bolt struck the roof near the front, and after tearing of a square yard of shingles went down the wall, tearing out the adobe and scattering 1t over the floor. For tunately an iron rod was in the pathway of the bot and it carried the frisky plaything down into the ground. Had it not been for this conductor there is no telling what the result would have been.- Tomb stone Prospector
 J. P. Moffett, deputy sheriff of
 Marlcopa county and deputy Uni ted States marshal, who followed Miller, the stage driver who is charg- ed with robbing the United States mail, arrived from Phenix last even ing with several witnesses in the above case. Mir. MofTett took up Miller's trail three days after the robbery and followed it for thir- ten days arriving in Holbrook, it1cf ,ra h,,,r l,ab.,,l l,,,,, ..,I ...l. the arrest. The testimony against the prisoner is very strong.
 Superintendent w. B. Jones, of the r. X X. C. Railway, has gone east, on business connected with his road. On his return. which will be prior to August lst, 1t is stated that he will settle with the county treas urer for tho delinquent taxes due from his company.
 From the Tombstone Prospeetor it is learned that General D. K. Nardwell Is in jail. He was cited to appear before the board O. super visors. He appeared and was asked to deliver over the keys of the court house which he holds as janitor. He refused to recognize the board as legal board of supervisors and declined to deliver, whereu, ,lon he vas committed to jail until he shall deliver over the keys. As he swears he will never give them up under this order, he stands committed for life. He was fined S50lu addition to the sentence If lying was a penitentiary offense, this old blow hart would have spent the greater portion of his life behind the bars"
 The towns of Bisbee and Fairhank both suffered from the rains Satur- day Bisbee narrowly escaped a flood similar to that of three years ago, while Fairbank suffered as se- rously, if not more so, than at that time Nearly every building in town was flooded with water and the bottom land on all sides was a raging river. The railroad track is covered with debris and sand. The stage was obliged to connect with the train at the Grand Central spur, two miles from town. At Bisbee tho bridges were washed away, al though no damage was done to speak of outside of this.-Tomb- stone ProSpector.