Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-10-30
THG CITY AND COUNTY. SsVSy Items From Our Own Town and
 Surrounding Country.

Attend the social this evening at the residence of Judge and Mrs. R. M. Ling.
 Buy ticket to the cricket picnic next Saturday. Round trip includ- ing admission to grounds only % cents.
 Parties attending the picnic at the Point of Rocks on Saturday can obtain hot tea and coffee on the grounds with DeMers.
 Three Tonto basin cowboys re- gently laSsoed bear and then b. at him to death with rocks, according 10 story in the Phenix Gazette.
 Johnny Coyle anl Billy Mehan will open a saloon in the room now occupied by A. Averyt as soon as tn 6 latter moves to his new quarters.
 Take advantage of the last oppor- tunity of the season to enjoy a days outing, and attend the grand excur- sion to the Point Of Rocks on Satur- day.
 Tickets for the grand excursion on Saturday are on sale at the Corner Drug Store. Fifty cents for the round trip, with admission to the grounds and privileges.
 The most beautiful spot in the Point of Rocks has been selected for the picnic on Saturday. Plenty of shade, and numerous and beauti- ful hooks and corners for private picnic parties.
 The Arizona Copper Company, of Clifton, is successfully treating ore as low as 3 per cent in copper. This shows what improved machinery will do for the mining industry of the country.
 Lee Simpson, thirteen -year-old boy, was arrested yesterday charged with stealing purse containing S30 from his teacher, Miss Brothers. Despite his youth he has been in the justices court twice before, this season, charged with petty thefts.
 Nj. Wollenberg has rented the building on the north side of the plaza, at present occupied by J. Weltmer, d will move the ladies department of his store there on November 1. He will continue on the west side oI tho plaza with clothing and gents furnishing goods. "A train man coming from Pres colt on the Owl last night says it showed yesterday in the city among the pines. ."-Gazette. The train mans eyes evidently deceived him ss there was nary q snow m Pres colt yesterday. There was a very little Sleet. Lawrence Lemon, indicted for the l killing of Thomas Shean, was ar ralgned to-day and plead no' guilty. ! Trial was set for Thursday, October l 24. The case of Cobarubias, charged 1 with burglary, went to the jury l early this morning As the Citizen | - goes to press, they are sill delibera- | ting.-1 ucson Citizen. From reliable au. hority the Fri bune is able to assure its readers | that work on tha extension f the | Santa Fe roat to Florence will | shortly commence. The Mancopa | Snd Phenix roal will be completed | to Mesa City the coming week, and !, it is believed that work on that road | will be continued until Florence is rsached.-Florence Tribune.
 George Becker's Zombro is mak- ing a record for himself in California this season. The Gazette says: "Zombro has again been heard from. this time, at Santa Ana, California, where on October 17th he won in three straight heats. The best time was 2:l4. On Saturday, October 18th, be again went and duplicated his former trot by winning three straight heats, best time, 2:l5.
 Inspector Waterbury wrote a good strong letter yesterday to the de- partment setting forth the urgent necessity of better mail facilities for Northern Arizona, and advising the letting of the mail contract to the northern railroad at once. This, in our opinion, will have the desired effect and ought to be followed up with strong, urgent letters from business men in Prescott and Phe- nix, asking that it be done. This would aid MT. Waterbury in his eff forts to aid us and would be pro- ductive of beneficial rrsults.- Gazette.
 Parties who visi ted the city's new well yesterday state that the drift is full of water and there is about eighteen feet of water in the well. The drift is twenty feet long, seven feet high and four feet wide, cap able of holding quite a little water. The amount, 1t Is true, IS small com pared with the necessities of the | city, but as yet no effort has been made to utilize 1t. At the present | time every gallon of water counts, and why pump has not been placed ID this well and the water pumped into the mains is beyond the ken of thirsty public. Just who is to blame for 1t, too, is not exactly ! known. Mir. Riley, who did the last | work on this we'll, says that close to | 4yOOO gallons runs into the we'll every | twenty-four hours. This is just | 4.OOO gallons more than no water at | all, and instead of its being allowed | Co remain in the we'll it should be | pumped into the mains and reser- Voir.
 J: 4. Yates, representing the J. | W. Butler Paper Company, of Chi | eago, is in town.
 H. NJ. Alexander came in last ! evening from his Sycamore creek l ranch for medical treatment.
 k. R. Coleman came in from the | south this morning but will return again to Phenix on this evenings l train.
 B. J. McQuim. after an absence of several weeks at Frog Tanks, is back again in Prescott circulating among h's many friends here.
 ,F. J. Netherton, superintendent