Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-04-04
SArURDAY's DAILY.


 staif, where he will remain over Sun day.
 The Salvation Army in Prescott raised S22 90 for the self denial fun,
 last week.
 Peter Olsen is on the street again
 after being laid up for several day ! with pneumonia.
 : The sale of tickets for A Pret
 gel, next Monday night, are going
 of quite rapidly.
 | The Whipple thermometer regis
 tered thrirty-three degcees above
 zero this morning.
 Major Matthews. Surgeon, U. s
 A.. has returned to his post at Fort
 Wingaie from Whipplc.
 Tucson talks of closing her pub | lic schools on account of the prev
 alence of diphtheria. The land office will be moved on
 Monday to the K of P. building on the east side of the plaza.
 Jake Levy, representingal eastern wholesale clothing house. and a friend of J. F.. Morrisol. is in town
 Miss Grace l.. Ford, of Neponset, Mass, arrived here last night for a visit to her friend, Mrs Charles A.
 Green.
 Col. ]. F. Wilson will leave on Monday for San Francisco. His wife will accompany him on his return.
 General Passenger X ,ent F. A. Healy, of the S. F.. P. & P. Railway, received a new 5,OOO-poIld safe for his office today.
 Captain Everts, of Whipple, has sufficiently recovered to be able to attend to his duties again, as post surgeon at Whipple.
 Dan Hayes and Milt. Ralston. of San Bernardino, California, are visiting their old friend, P. L. Kast- her, of the Hotel Winsor.
 There was quite little sprinkle of snow last night, after which the clouds disappeared, and to-day has been typical Arizona day.
 Rev. W. Fl. S. Demare of Wal den, New York, brother of Rev. s. D. B. Demarest, of this place, is ex- Peeted to arrive this evening.
 B. Y. P. U. meeting in the Baptist church Sunlay evening at 7:30, in with the usual service. Topic: Am l my Brothers Keep CT 2"
 The passenger traffic over the Santa Fe has been greater the past | fortnight than for years. The cheap | rates to California is the cause of i 1t, as the greater number are bound westward.
 The first annual commencement of St. Joseph's Academy, yesterday were attended by large and appreciative audience. A lengthy report of them is crowded out of this issue.
 Yuma wants that observatory now. She has just been told by a Mexican astronomer, according to he Times, that she has a clearer atmosphere than the City of Mexico, which has an elevation of oyer 1000 'eet.
 The Congreg tional church, which las been short on preachers for several weeks, owing to the absence 'f the pastor, promises to be we'll supplied tomorrow, the prospect ,eing good for the presence of hree.
 Register Ross and Receiver Butler a regular "land office " business to-day, taking n less than hree final homestead proofs. The , parties making final proofs were ". H. Denny, John Bozarth and )sman K. Walker. At the meeting Of the Dude hose | Company last night, the following tficers were elected: J. M. Aitken, 1 brennan; J. P. Dillon, assistant fore lan; Morris Goldwater, secretary nd treasurer; Morris Goldwater and { !. r. Dillon, members board of fire q elegates. Thomas J. Keogh, the advance | gent of A Pretzel" Company, lade a great hit here during V ormer visit with the "The Black lag" Company, and those who | \ card him in the above play will l ot fail to go and see him in "A . retzel." Mir. Keogh is not only an t Icellent actor, but a genial and I T leasant gentleman, and is as popu- n 1T of the stage as he is on.
 Rev. Allen Hastings, a Congrega- n onal minister of St. Louis, Mis- t, ,uri, arrived here yesterday, and is b opping at the Williams House. W IT. Hastings spent several months c gre about eight years ago for the Ii 'neit of his health, and was so e 'eatly benefited by his visit, that , Is accompanied on this trip by o co. P. Morris, one of his parish 5. ners, who comes to receive the m 'neft of our climate. n Services will be resumed at the tf congregational church on Sunday. hi being the tirst Sunday in April, 6, e Sacrament of the Lords Supper Ill be administered at the morning mi rvice. A brother of the pastor, s. e Rev. w. H. S. Demarest, of J. alden, New York, is expected to- ID, y, and it is hoped that he will d; each Sunday evening. Services io e held at II o'clock a. m. and 7:3O tb clock p. m. S. D. B. DEMAREsr. pt The weather havidg cleared up, th of. A E. Douglass had his astro- m miOal instruments up to-day to el 8 top of the bill just south of the M y reservior, from where he will Tn ke observations this evening. He s not yet tested the atmospheric tr, nditions surrounding it, but says D, at in all respects that and the hill Pl st south of it, on Banning creek, co , the best sites that he has yet Tl ited, for the observatory. There DO no doubt that he will find the pa nosphere about as pure and clear Es tnpU m alra if ann r,loa.