Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-11-14

The campaign is over, politics will be relegated to a back seat now, and miners are requested to send the news from their camps 10 the JOUR NAL-MNER.
 ] About twenty-five men are en- gagged in grading for the new race track. The track, buildings and fence will cost fram S6,000 to $500 when completed.
 Democratic roosters are cOnspicu- ols in democratic papers this year by their absence. The birds do not seem to be in trim condition for exhibition this year.
 Jailor Meador frustrated the at tempt of two men to escape from jail last night about o'clock, They had the bars of the windows sawed when the discovery was made.
 Selling of A line of artistic vases and fancy baskets, also large lot of pretty match safes, ink stands, etc, etc, from the stock of A. P. Smith & O., and now being sold at half their cost. Come early and take your choice.
 HARRY BRlSLEY, Druggist,
 n5-3t Hotel Burke Buil!ing.
 Charles Dickens, the eldest son of the famous novelist, has written a most entertaining articleDn Public Dinners in London.n for the Novem- Der number of the North American Review, in which he contrasts this class of entertainment as it existed in the last generation with those of the present day.
 The Pheaix Gazette figures out the people who voted the republican ticket as follows. "Ths churches voted the republican ticket; the saloons voted the republican ticket; the tin-horns voted the republican ticket, and, as far as we can ascer- tain, the Salvntion army were l headed in that direction. It might l have added that a great many demo- crats voted the republican ticket, too.
 "Haak" Miller, son of Mr. and | Mrs. s. c. Miller, of Miller valley, drove six horse team of fine iron grey horses to tho polls on election day, with twenty one voters in his wagon. Out of the twenty-one, eighteen put in their ballots for Oakes Murphy and the republican ticket. Friends of MT. Murphy have presented the young gentleman with a suit of clothes.
 This year have been threshed in this valley no less than 39l000 pounds of alfalfa seed, aud much more is to come. The product is clean and bright and finds ready sale in Phenix at seven cents a pound. Much of it is shipped abroad, one carload lot going to California. It is sacked in new cotton sacks holding l60 pounds. The regular thresher of the Phenix Hay and Grain company is now at work upon alfalfa land north of Phenix.-Gazette.
 Prof. Edward w. Boggs, of the university of Arizona, is engaged in experiments relating to irrigation. Several important lines of investiga- tion are being followed, with a view to obtain data such as eau be relied upon by engineers in their work. Much loose generalization has been iudulged in by writers in the news papers without any real basis of { facts to rest upon. Careful tests made by instruments show that the ( quantities of water raised by pump ing may be heavily overestimated by the too common methods of Jumping to conclusions Accurate work may sometimes be slow, but it Is sure, and yasts sums of money may be saved by foresight and prudence in such matters Gazette.
 The many friends in Arizona, of William B. Riddle, and he has host of them, will be pleased to learn that he has just been promoted to succeed MT. J. A. Hanley as freight traffic manager of the Santa Fe road, with head quarters at Chicago. MT. Riddle has been with the Santa Fe system since 1878, when he began as a freight brakeman. He subse- quently served as station agent until 1882, when he was appointed chief clerk of the general freight office of the Atlantic & Pacific. In 1886 he was promoted to the assistant gen eral freight agency of the latter, ( holding that position until 1887, when he was made division freight and passenger agent. In 1888 he was appointed as,itant general freight agent of the Atchison, To- peks < Santa Fe proper and was promoted to be assistant freight l traffic manager in 1890. The Santa Fe company seldom overlooks or ( fails to reward merit and genuine worth.
 PERSONAL MENTION. w. O. Harrell came in from Jerome last evening.
 w. w. Bass, the Grand Canyon | stage man, is in town. MT. Ames, one of the race track is ou the sick list. J. NJ. Prince, a prominent citizen If Winslow, and J. w. Morton, of San Francisco, were callers at this ( office to day. Hon. N. O. Murphy left Phenix thls morning for Prescott. He will come via Los Angeles probably and , arrive to morrow or Sunday.
  R.N. Fredericks aud F. G. Brecht will leave for Phenix tomorrow to attend Masonic Grand Lodge which ' meets there next week. Rev. b w.