Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-24
THE CITY AND COUNTY. EsVSy ItsmS From OaF OEn Town and
 Surrounding Country.
WEDNESDAYS Daily, April l7. fs.l.., ra,.a fracE

The EpwOrth League VIII give
 box social at the parsonage thi:
 evening.
 Prescott should rustic for cele- brltion on the Fourth, and now is ths time to do 1t.
 The building trades are actively engaged just now. A number ol buildings are being erected in differ ent parts of the city.
 Work of fixing up the track is now going on. IL win soon be as smooth as the flibustering work of the late eighteenth legislature.
 Smith and Bashford disposed of their cattle at a good price. Cattle raising in Arizona is a paying prop oSition, that is only in its infancy.
 After today Gurley street creek will cease to exist. The artisans of the water works are repairing the pipe at the corner of Gurley and CorteZ streets.
 There are number Of able-bodied tramps infecting the streets. They importune the passer-by for fnan- cial ald aud if refused pour shower of raledictions on the head of the citizen.
 The finishing touches to the water problem appear in our contemp. this morning. They are about as long, too, as the proposition has been gigantic.
 Murray McInernay, the cycle ex- peri, had his good disposition thoroughly punctured yesterday by renting four wheels for an hour for one dollar and then staid up all night and expended seven dollRrs in repairs.
 General A. J. Sampson, the cham pion of northern Arizona and one of the best orators in the southwest, is here for few days. Mir. Sampson has great many friends in Pres colt who will be glad to shake his hand.
 J. D. Moore has disposed of his cattle to good advantage and made a handsome profit on the transact ion. If his horse will only have sense enough to win the race next Sunday, Mir. Moore will be in the seventh hea ven."
 Horace Sleater, Phenix crack wheelman. made a one fourth mile run at the park last Sunday in :269, a rate of a mile in l:464. The per formance was remarkable, taking into consideration the terrific wind blowing at the time.-Republican.
 The merchants and mining men of Prescott and Yavapai county should read Samuel Hills letter in this issue. We should be repre- sented at the Denver Mining Ex- position, and funds should be forth coming to make the Yavapai ex- hibit worthy of her citizens.
 An irate landlord of Prescott, who escapes the income tax pen atty, attempted last evening to collect a years rent from @ wayward but dignifed tenant. but being uG- successful slugged him to the extent of a two years occupancy of the property.
 George Broker, while in town this week from Sycamore Creek, said cattle were commanding a good !. price now a-days, there being several buyers in that section of late. He expects that range animals !. will reach Sl4 a head before the ! season passes, while with feeders the rate Is very good.
 The funny man of the Los Angeles l Express is responsible for the fol 1 lowing: "Arizonians, when visiting l Los Angeles are either "held up" by l enterprising citizens of the footpad l persuasion or if they should be | lucky enough to escape that misfor- tune they invariably blow out the gas ! and furnish the coronor with extra l work" The alleged funny man IS not in order, or else he must be . ''doing" the Fiesta to the extent Of f forty a day and each and every one of them is -four fingers"
 It is about time fore some one to | a committee to arrange for a | 4th of July celebration. In past years l Prescott merchants have contributed l generously towards a fund for the . proper celebration of the great l national holiday. We should not ] be hind the times this year and i should arrange for attractions that would induce people from outside towns to spend their Fourth" here. The railroad people would nc doubt, make reduced rates for that day. I
 4 gentleman of color-one of our patent leather shine artists-has been playing the policy game for several weeks. He never changes hls ticket-it Is always 4-il-if. When a change of numbers was suggested by a friend he said Noah you doaDt. 1 done gone cotched him on my las birthday in New Ahleans. Mex Friday I'll be jes' fohty-fOh and she am dead shuah to come. Seer
 EDIroR JOURNAL-MNER-We owe it to Colorado, we owe it to our selves. that Yavapai county should send an ore exhibit to the Denver Mining exposition that shall be second 10 none. Let merchants, mining men. miners and everybody, who are interested in the welf re of this county, put their shoulders to the wheel, get move on them selves and surprise the mining world with the value and magnitude of our mining resources. To start the ball rolling 1 will head the list with a SlO0 subscription toward a fund for this purpose. Who will followl We must select man to represent this county, representa- tive man that everybody has con- hdence in and respe t.
 SAMUEL HILL.
 PERSONAL NEWTON