Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-05-30
THE CITYAND COUNTY! EsWg Items From Our Own Town and
 Surrounding Country.
wednesday. Daily. May ss:

close next week,
 Read Sam. Hills new wind mill advertisement in this issue.
 Work was com mmeuesd yesterday on the grade of the Jerome railway.
 The JouRxAL-M MINER editor went ont to Hassayamps district today.
 Ira Moore has started a general merchandise store al the Red Buck mine.
 The Hook < Ladder Company has received new uniforms for it's members
 Sheriff Lowry has gone to the Verde valley on q semi-annual round up of jurors.
 Alex. Harris has filed his stock hand for record. His range is in Kirkland and Peoples valleys.
 It is stated that all the fire con- uAnies. except the Hook < Ladder, refuse te participate in Memorial Day exercises.
 q. A. Stoney, of Jerome, was in town today purchasing lumbar for a new building which he proposes to erect at tl+e above place.
 Mrs. N. M. Raymond will give her soiree this evening, on account of ball which will be given on Friday evening. Every one invited.
 A forest fire south of town, in the vicinity of the HSSsayampS. still continues. Another one is in pro- gress near the divide on the Copper Basin road southwest of town.
 Aninteresting communication on the subject of How to catch gig or. ''Going broke on Chaparral mines Is now in preparation by Robert Prior, ard will shortly be given to the public.
 Friends of the Methodist Sunday School are invited to attend the picnic next Saturday. Only twenty five cents for the round tup. Child ren under six years, free.
 While Private Shaw was extract ing a loaded shell from his gun, at Whipple, yesterday it was accident ally discharged, shooting him through the hand, causing a pain ful wound.
 Church notices are inserted free in this paper when handed in. The news gatherer will not agree to go skirmishing around for them though, just for the privilege of publishing them.
 Plans and specifications for the new county hospital building can be seen at the office of tho clerk of the board of supervisors. They were prepared by Architect F. C.. Parker. Bids for .he construction of the building will be opened on June |.
 The acting hospital steward at Whipple attempted to commit sui eide yesterday by the use of nor phine. He failed in the attempt A hospital steward made a similar at tempt a few years ago, while another one who had been discharged from the position succeeded ia accom- plishing the act.
 Our contemporary claims the authorship of the item, which ap- pesred m this paper, relative to the fellow who finds fault with there being nothing in the paper. 1t appeared as original in the Williams News, hence the credit to that paper. 1t struck the fellow square m the face, too.
 1t is said by some wise ones that the 20th century will be a great improvement in the matter of floods and other electral phenomna in the upper air, and that floods, such as swept down the SuSquehanna, in Pennsylvania. and the Genese, in New York, will not then occur. Are they trustworthy prophets7
 Last Saturday and Sunday were gloomy days for the dwellers on the Susqnehanna river; a down pour of rain, resembling cloud bursts, caused great suffering of the inhabitants and destruction of property. What with cyclones, tornadoes and heavy rains i: is no wonder that the peo- pie Of the east are a. .xious to migrate toward the Pacific Coast, where such elemental disturbances arc unknown.
 PERSONAL MENTION.
 Ira Moore IS up from the Red Buck mine.
 l. NJ. Morgan and F. NJ. Wiley are up from Kirkland valley.
 W. G. Stewart is reported to be in the last stages of consumption at Pasadena, California.
 Col. A. o. Brodie has gone to Walnut Grove. He expects to be absent about a week.
 A. J. Herndon returned yesterday from his visit to California, and received s cordial welcome from his many friends. 1t is said that he will shortly publish book, entitled "Forty Days at the Fair. or What