Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-08-01

w. c. O'Neill is billed to address populist mass meeting in Pheni1 next Tuesday evening. As Mir. O'Neill is in New York. he will have to do his talking by telephone or telegraph.
 Tna asscssment roll shows only ten dairy COWS in Ihe county. An eu erpn sing by of Prescott has herd of :wenty-one bei0nging to citizens or Prescott, whiek he herds daily iu the mills ea { of town.
 Dr. W. B. Cotton's hi spirited horse, attached to a buggy, rubbed his bridle of yesterday afternoon. and raced against time for the stable. On the way the buggy col lided with post. wrecking it pretty badly, The horse was uninjured.
 T. w. Otis has been so much annoyed by cows breaking into his yard and destroying trees, shubbery, etc, that he has invented new COW catcher. H, has not applied for a patent on IL, hut as soon as he catches t few COWS, he may do so.
 Mir. l.. l.. Hendricks. of San Frar- cisco, is now associated with C. w. Moore in the mercantile business. The firm name will now be the Moore Mercantile Company. Mir. Hendricks has taught school in this county for several years past, and bears the name of being a very deserving, energetic young man. Look out for their ad next week.
 The Albuquerque Citizen turn ishes the following item of Arizona news: "The skeleton of Andy Di- mond, the famous Arizona outlaw has been dug up near Phenix, and cleaned bY medical student. The skull has very retreating forehead, the occipiJal development Is abnOr maj, and the jaw is massive. The outlaw was buried with his boots and hat on."
 Joe Engle had narrow escape from death this morning. He and his brother Eugene were engaged in cleaning out we'll for NJ. Wollen- burg. Last evening they fired a shot of giant powder in the well and this morning when Joe went down into the we'll he was overcome with foul air. His brother secured the assistance of J. A. Guild and Geo. Smith, to get him to the top and he was unconscious for some time after being rescued.
 Mark Twain has never written anything more striking than the article "In Defense of Harriet Shel- ley,p the first installment of which appears in the July number of the North American Review. As the titles implies, the paper IS in the nature of a vIndication of the mem Ory of the poets wife from bio graphical misrepresentation, and even those who are not specially interested in the subject cannot fail to be attracted by the manner in which it Is treated by the famous humorist.
 The case Of Dr. Dutcher vs. John Shivers has been on trial to-day in the district court. Considerable in- terest is manifested in the case and there is a large attendance of spec tators. The doctor has brought suit against Shivers for Sl76 for services attending tho latter's wife during her illness last spring. Shivers, m his answer to the complaint, pre~ senis claim of S50,O00 damages for alleged neglect or malpractice. Nearly every physician in town has been subpenaed as witness Tn the case. The testimony closed this af- ternoon and the case, after argu- ment by respective counsel, will be given to the jury this evening.
 John McCarty and Joe Day, two professional hunters and trappers, are in town. For the past four years they have been engaged ex- clusively in the business of hunting wild animals, and last year scored record of about 40 mountain lions. They brought in with them on this trip about 100 tanned lynx skins, besides several wild cat skins, beaver skins, wolf skins, etc, which they have sold for rugs. They use Swed. ish blood hounds in hunting, oi which they haye a kennel of six. They say that they are superior to any other kind of dogs for hunting lions, or other animals of the cat specie. In their first experience they used Siberian blood hounds, and the first lion they encountered injured three of them so that they all died. Thei: lion skins are tanned and shipped to New York.
 PERSONAL MENTION.
 A. K. Lee has returned to Pres