Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-06-06
THE CITY AND COUNTY! EsEsy Items From Our Own Town and
 Surrounding Country.
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 Uniform rank, K. of F., meets to- night.
 Another shipment of cattle will be made from Del Rio tomorrow. : The live merchant, who takes an interest in the town, always adver- tises.
 Cook X Lee, the Prescott jewel. ers. have 6 new advertisement m this issue.
 Stuffed Mangoes, something delicate and dainty, at the Bashford Burmister Company's.
 Heavy rains are reported during the past few days in several of the valleys around Prescott.
 The board of supervisors meet to- morrow to open bids for the cree ton of the county hospital.
 Ettie Dewitt and Walter Smith were the recipients of Prof. Gales medal at the soiree on Tuesday night.
 Ed. Austin yesterday received the papers for the new postofice to be established at Austin, in the Santa Maria country.
 The special school tax becomes delinquent to-day. Collector C. P. Hicks reports the tax coming iii lively to-day.
 The Prescott band entertained the 9th Infantry band at the opera house yesterday, at which refresh ments were served.
 4 hog war is reported on south town. Seven or eight hogs charged with depredating potato patch are reported to have been killed.
 Governor Hughes Memorial Day proclamation reached this office too late for publication prior to the day which he proclaimed to observe.
 4 ball game between the Pres cotts and wha: was called the Scrubs yesterday, resulted in a score of 17 to 6 in favor of tho former.
 Conductor Brown reports heavy rain storm yesterday at Cedar Glades. The water holes were all filled.
 Five train loads of cattle passed through Ash 1 ork yesterday, en route east from California, and two or three more tra ms pas sed there to- day. The drouth in California Is the cause of these unusual ship ments.
 The Gurley street sidewalk, be- tween the Congregational church and the school grounds, should be widened. It is narrow. sawed of affair at present, scarcely wide enough for two parties to walk on side by side.
 Commencing tomorrow, the train on the division south of Prescott, leaves for Skull Valley at s a. m. and returning will arrive at noon. Arrangements are being made Tor carving the mail and will be com pleted in a few days.
 Thomas Wing is putting his pie nic grounds at Granite Dells ranch, in order for Fourth Df July cele- bration. It looks very much, at present, as though our citizens would be compelled to leave town on Independence Day to get an opportunity to give vent to their patriotism.
 A fire last Saturday partially destroyed the building in Albu- querque, owned by Thomas Hughes, proprietor of the Albuquerque Citizen, and in which his office Is located. Although his office was partially damaged, this excellent paper appears, as newsy as ever. While regretting the damage gus tained, the JOURNAL MINER cOngratu lates Friend Hughes that his loss was not more serious.
 4. W. Callen hBs ma ie arrange ments for the erection of a stamp mill on Arastra Creek to work the ores from hls mine, which he IS now working with an arastra. Mir. Callen has shown unbounded faith in his properties and has staid by them through sunshine and storm, and although working under disadvan- tages and without capital has con tinued to develop his properties, acting on the principle that mines gre good only to be worked and not to lie idle awaiting a purchaser The persistence with which he has stuck by this section in general and ''Callen's Camp" in particular, is worthy of imitation by other miners and is deserving of the greatest sue cess, and the JoURNAL-MINEe sin cerely hopes that he may achieve it.