Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-08-28
THURSDAYS DAILY. ugust 22.
Members are requested to atten he Woodmen's lodge tonight.

he Woodmen's lodge tonight
 The Woodmen's lodge meets to- night. 4 full attendance is desired.
 Sheriff Rufruer has prisoners at work cleaning the court house yard.
 4 spin on the wheel before break fast is now called a bicycle cocktail.
 Born, in Prescott August P, to Mir. and Mrs. Frank Chartrand a son.
 The rainfall at Whipple to-day from lO:f0 a. m. to l2:3O D. m. was los inches.
 Articles of incorporation of the Ixtapan Del Gro Mining Company appear in this issue.
 The maximum temperature at Whipple yesterday was S6 and the minimum 60. Rainfall, .0S inches.
 The professional card of E. NJ. Sanford appears m this issue. His office Is located in the Otis build ing.
 The Tempe normal school will open September 3. Yavapai county will furnish several students for the | next term.
 Born, near Prescott, August 22, to MT. and Mrs. Abort l.. Lee, ten-pound son. Mother and child doing we'll.
 Billy Murphy will leave in a few days for Fools Gulch to take position with the Planet-Saturn Min ing Company.
 Twelve passengers left from Pres colt on this mornings excursion for California. There Were about twenty five from Phenix.
 Prescott and the country sur rounding it were visited by heavy rain showers to day, the finest of the season by all odds.
 The Syndicate circus will not come to Prescott. They refused to pay the railroad a rate sufficient to pay for transportation from Pho- nix here.
 Dr. \. c. Fenton has sold his fine sorrel trottiug mare to James John son, Of Albuquerque, and she was was shipped there to-day. The price paid for the mare here was S35O.
 Contractor Wm. Murphy has com pleted his contract on the city well without obtaining any water, Par ties who have seen the well say it might make d good powder house.
 Judge J. J. Hawkins had n lively encounter with bicycle op Mount Vernon Avenue this morning. Before he gave up the contes! with it, he said, 'he got 50 be could ride the blamed thing SIX hundred feet without failing oI" tie will "try, try again. until h. get it un- | der control.
 1. P. Burnett went down tD Pnenix a few days ago to visit a brother who resides there. While wander ing along the dry bed of Salt river yesterday, he discovered what Is described as a perfect mummy, or petrified man. It takes Prescottite ] to unearth the hidden resources of the Salt river valley after all.
 F. G. Parker has commenced work on his new blaming null near the 1 depot He expects to have lt com pleted, ready for occupancy about 1 the first week in September. In ad- dition to the machinery at present in his old mill, he purchased con- siderable machinery in California during his recent visit there, which will be added to it, greatly lncreas- Ing the capacity of his mill.
 w. E. Fuller, advance agent of the Wallace circus and mrnagarie, one of the four bigs shows now on | the road in the United States. ar rived in Prescott this morning to look over the field here, with view of bringing this show to Prescott. It requires twenty-two sixty-foot cars to transport this show, and the expense of bringing 1t from Phenlx ! to Prescott Is so great, that MT. Fuller wants a bonus from our peo- | pie to be able to make the town. | Hs has received considerable en- couragement among our people. | Prescott has never yet seen a real good, first class circus. PERSONAL MENTION.
 Mrs. c. P. Hicks left on this morn ing's train for California.
 pr. D. Pentland has returned from a professional visit to Congress.
 Judge J. NJ. Sanford returned from his trip to Phenix this morn ng.
 c. c. Mckinney, a miner from Lynx creek was caller at this office to-day.
 Father Schmid, of Ohio, is visit ing his friend, Father Quetu, m l Prescott.
 Hon. Thomas Davis is about form ing a law co-partnershiP in San Francisco.
 Miss Gertie Schiedt daughter of Mrs. o. T. Stull, left this morning to visit relatives at Vallejo.
 Thomas Sutton, the confectionery salesman, is Tn town rakIng m numerous orders for the firm he represents.
 General Passenger Agent F. A. Healv, of the s. F., P. x r. railroad left this morning to accompany the excursionists to California.
 c. A. Dake, G. Arthur Allen, Mrs. c. P. Hicks, Mrs. Sam Hill and Miss Cora Dwyer, left for California on this mornings excursion.
 Ex-Mayor Monihon, of Phenix, came in yesterday on the day tram He is here looking up evidence in regard to Indian depreciation claims H. W. Snider came in this morn ing from Phenix. Mir. Snider has