Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-01-18


 Charles E. Lantry left for the front yesterday.
 s. F. Mcguire and Geo. Hull are in from Jerome.
 Dr. G. W. Vickers came in from 1 Congress last evening.
 The gun club will have a live pigeon shoot next Sunday.
 Miss Viola Reeves has returned to Walnut creek, to teach school. Con Cleary and c. T. Lewis, of i Ash Fork, are registered at Hotel Burke.
 Samuel Hill has new advertise ment in this issue which speaks for itself
 The new elected city officers were sworn in this afternoon by Recorder s. E. Bright.
 Rosa Kirwaggen, who was a short time ago not expected to live. is now recovering.
 The W. c. T. U. meets at the resi- dence of Mrs. T. W. Otis, Friday at 3 o'clock, Jan. l3.
 i A cold wave is reported in the northwest which is making itself slightly felt in this section. H. Houser, engineer for B. Lan- try X Sons, left for Rhoadamer's camp this morning, after a brief visit to Prescott.
 John O'Connor, the s. F.. P. x P. sub contractor, was in town to-day. ] He reports his work completed to 9 point opposite Verde station.
 At a meeting of the board of fire delegates on Tuesday evening it was decided to give the annual ball of the fire department on February =.
 The s. F., P. x P. Railroad com pany has an architect at work pre- pairing plans for a depot building for Prescott 24 by 100 feet. The general offices and the machine works of the company will be located in Prescott.
 Tomas Romero brought in an inn mense mountain lion scalp to- day from Walut Grove, which he filed with c. H. Akers, clerk of the | board of supervisors, for the bounty. | He killed the animal while it was in the act of killing a horse.
 The United states Supreme court has ruled that patent is not void because of the death of an in ventor between the time of his appli- cation for a patent and its issuance by the Patent Office.
 Mamie s. McWhirter, widow of Louis B. McWhirter, the Fresno lawyer who was mysteriOusly killed few months ago, has commenced suit in San Francisco against the Connecticut Mutual Life insurance Company to recover Sl5,0O0 due on his life insurance policy.
 J. Marshall Morgan came in to- day from his ranch in Kirkland val ley, being his first visit here for about six weeks. He has been stay ing to his work on the range so closely that he is quite bronLed, while a six weeks growth of beard adorns his face.
 E. D. F. Bracket and wife arrived last night from Kansas City. The latter will remain here for a few days, enjoying our climate, when she will return to the land of bliz- cards and cold weather. MT. Brack- cit will take a position on the $. F., P. X P railroad with Contractors LantrE
 F. w. Wood. of the McNeill com panv of Phenix, has purchased the old Miner press. of c. A. Dake, and shipped it to Phenix to-day. The ] MINERS water motor, which was knocked out by the pres ent city councils high water rate, was also sold to Mir. Wood, and took it's departure for Phenix along with the Miner press. As the mo tor passed the electric vapor engine, which succeeded it as a motive power, on being taken from the office, it remarked water you do- ing heref" and shed a great big, silent tear, being the last drop Of the city councils ] O-per-month- water that passed through it. Whether this parting tear was on behalf of it's cruel fate from the hands of the water committee, or whether it was out of sympathy for ] its successor, the gas engine, Of course could not be determined.
 The Phenix R republican of Tues day morning arrived in Prescott all covered with gore. Through infor- nation alleged 10 have been i'm parted to it by a stage driver, it had killed of Sheriff Lowry, one of his deputies (name not giyen), and | Jerry Barton. The latter figured in the article as resisting arrest, and shoots and kills the sheriff and his deputy, and in turn is shot and killed by one of them. or course there is not the slightest founda- ton for the story, and while 1t IS looked upon generally as huge joke perpetrated on the Republi- can by some one, Mir. Barton does not appreciate its humOr. Whatever trouble he may have had Tn former years, during his residence 1 in Prescott he has been a law-abidipg, quiet, peaceful citi- zen, in fact there are none more so than he has been, and to take ad- vantage of a pure fiction, to recount his former troubles, is not appre- ciated by him. It must have been very guIible reporter that allowed himself to be imposed on m this way, as the terrible tragedy was all legged to have happened on Satur- day, aud was not published in Phe- nix until the following Tuesday Such an event would have been telegraphed all over the world be- fore Tuesday had it happened.