Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-03

inspector or customs, was welcome visitor in Prescott yesterday after nineteen years absence. He dis covered considerable improvement.
 Mrs. Herbert Gage arrived in Prescott today. where she was met by her husband. They are stopping !, at the Williams House, and will to- morrow depart for their home at the Congress mine.
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 1 THURSDAYS Daily, September 27.
 The present spell of weather is 1 like several candidates-gloomy.
 There were only three passengers on the incoming noon train to-day.
 "Thank God I have no record. ."- J. C. Herndon in his ratification speech, Sept. l7.
 The county jail has a crop of twelve prisoners for the November grand jury to handle. Several applications are being made for houses by intending loca- tors in the city. But there are none empty.
 Railroad material continues to arrive aud be forwarded to the front. Flat cars seem to be in de- mand.
 A. G. Oliver, executor of the last will of Ole Peterson, has filed the same with the clerk of the probate court.
 Laborers to work on the grade of the s. F., P. IS r. are being sent up from Phenix, seventy-ive leaving there on a recent day.
 The alarm of fire turned on this morning at 5:30 was for blaze m the Radlcwesky barn in West Pres colt. It was due probably to several bobos who were smoking m the building.
 The Examiner may have cut of Colonel Wilson, but We wonder II 1t looks anything like tho ''cut" given him two years ago when he ran against Bob MorrisonG
 Prof. Gale, the banjo professor, Is said to make that instrument fairly | talk. and is such 8 clever instructor | that his services should be eagerly | sought after.
 Some unknown mineral in the ore treated at tho smelting works at Ward, New. changes the color of | the haIr and beard oi workmen un- til they appear to have green glass adornments on both head and face.
 s. F. Mcguire and wife have sold all their real estate aud other inter ests m Jerome to Dosne and Horace Merrill. The well-k known mercantile establishment at the above place will hereafter be presided over by the Merrill Bros.
 Work on the Jerome railroad still | progresses. Both engines are in iaily use, and over twenty miles Uf steel rails have been laid. The road IS said to be well surfaced. and rides very smoothly.
 John Rhoadhamer has moved his grading camp to Wickenbu9g, with Mike Rice as foreman. The work at this point it is said will be heavy and will take several months to finish.
 District Court is to meet in St. Johns next week. It may also be said that several aspirants for office will b. tried on the side tbere, for during recess Herndon is to address several political juries.
 The Lynx Creek steam shovel is still steadily at work, and is proving q success mechanically as we'll as financially At present they are moving the plant forward on better ground, and in few days it will be again in steady operation.
 The organization of the repubi- can league was perfected last even ing by the election of s. M. Cullom as president; H. A.Van Tassell, first vice president; r. $. Emmal, second vice president; Jos. Calies, treas urer, and Joe Morrison, secretary. The league starts with a member ship of 50
 The Courier claims to be better than its party, and opposes class legislation. The democratic party since 1t came in power has done nothing more pronounced than to favor trusts and combines, even go- ing so far as to prostitute the courts in a miscons, ruction of the inter state commerce law, whereby the corporations were allowed to do as they pleased and workingmen were landed in jail for no just cause whatever.
 At present there are foar corpora tions taking advantage of the tax exemption clause passed by the last democratic Legislature, and building railroads in the territory, and yet Santa Fe, Prescott aud Phenix road, which is destined to be of greater benefit to the territory than all the others comblned is the only cue that the Courier and other democratic papers has 1t in for. Can 1t be pos sible that they are so narrow-minded as to oppose the road merely be- cause US pIcSiueuA udfk kSio " DC brother of the republican candidate for delegate to Congress '
 J.D. Tomlinson, the purchaser of the Jennings mides on the Hassa- vampa, has torn down the Red Buck mill at Walnut Grove, and is pre- paringto to move the same at once to its new location. He intends to have twenty stamps dropping on ore from these mines, and in his venture has the best wishes of the commu-1 nifty back of him. The location of the new plant being right at the door of Prescott. will serve in a great measure to give this immedi- ate section prominence in mining, and at the same time be a source of profit that this city should directly | experience.
 The Courier, that able defender of the peoples interest, is very out