Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-08-21
7HB CITYAND COUNTY. s,vy Items From Our Own Town and
 Surrounding Country,
wpDyESDAY'S Daily, August 8.

Those who use water from tha
 .s,urce should consider the dange
 tofollow the practice.
 Josa Nunas who started on
 sboot-em-up tour of Congress a fey
 J.v. aco had his trial before Justic,
 M W. Moore and was fined S25
 win the alternative of twenty-five
 days in jail.
 A gentleman from Phenix, who i:
 one of the party in camp at IroI
 Springs, says he knows personally
 of 300 citizens of Phenix, who are
 in camp in the hills around Pres
 cOtt
 Twenty-eight excursionists from
 Prescott and Phenix will leave on
 tomorrow mornings train on the
 $ F. P. & P. road for the east
 General Passenger Agent Healy has
 arranged for a special car clear
 through to Boston for this party.
 John Clarke, of Lynx Creek left a
 box of very choice peaches at the
 JoURNAL-MINER office to-day. They
 were the Lady Ingold variety, va nety vary rare in this section, but of very superior flavor and juiciness, and oi a rich dark red color such as
 artists love to paint.
 Friends of Judge H. c. Thomp- son, the owner of what Is known as the model ranch of the Salt River Valley, will be surprised and pained to learn that he has become hope lessly insane, and has been taken to the private asylum of Dr. Clark, Of Stockton, California. The cause of his malady is softening of the brain.
 After the sun had sunk from sight beneath the western hills last even ing. a magnificent rainbow was painted on the eastern heavens. While it was thing of beauty, the weather wise say it was an omen of dry weather, so that we may get a shower, as the weather here goes by eontraries.
 The longest train ever hauled in tbe United States passed across the line into Mexico on Friday, being niaety-two new cars for use in the construction of the Vera Cruz jet tues. This is an incident Of the boom of prosperity which prevails in a country that Is on the much dread al Ssiiuar hasis r-Ev
 During his visit hare yesterday, Superiu;ea len: E. A. Nlu5la, of the \. M. x A. a1l Sonora Railroad, pail l ,.s,5 D ths $. F., P. & P. ~haps, n company with Passenger Agent r. \. Haaly, adj WaS ye,v mach interested aul I'ea.nd with them.
 Dirk Je-sen went fox hunting yes tefday evening for the young fbx that had taken up its abode in the plaza, aud succeeded in running him out from his hiding place into a box. Just as he did So, fl. Lemon put in an appearance and claimed the fox, it proving to be a pet owned by him.
 NJ. G. Burns, who returned last evening from a trip to the mines south of Prescott, says that it rained OR him every day during his absence. On Monday the Turkey creek sec ton was visited by a heavy rain storm, lasting two or three hours, the water running down the hereto fore dry creek beds in raging tor rents.
 John Mitchell and Harry Jones, who robbed a woman on Granite street on Monday night, while she was asleep, had their preliminary eEamInation to-day before Justice Moore. on d charge of burglary, and were each held to appear before the grand jury, bonds being fixed at S5J0 m eIch case. They effected an entrance to the woman's room by cutting q hole in the screen door, and then CnhOoking it on the inside.
 Lightning plays queer pranks, but about the most amusing Is that which 1t introduced at Fleetwood, near Reading, Pa. Two millers standing in a door were knocked down by blit. Each jumped up on recovering, and demanded to know why the other had knocked hun down, and then fell to pummel- lug one another. l. was not until alter the battle was over and satis- factory explanations were offered, f that each found that he had been humping the wrong man.-Ex.
 Arthur W. Smith, chief of the de- partmeat of Public Comfort, has arranged with tue Pullman Sleeping Gar Company for three hundred sleeping cars, 10 be parked on the railroad sidings in and about At ianta during the Cotton States Ex- position, and has arranged with the city Tor the necessary sanitary ser Uce. These sleeping cars will ac- comm0date between 1000 and 5000 people, and the berths vi l be rented at al per night. Mir. Smith has secured from the Southern Railway sldIngs enough to accommode one tnlrd of these cars, and expects to place the rest with the other roads. The quality of frait grown in the immediate vicinity of Prescott IS universally spoken of in high re- gard bE strangers. In maturing, the peach, apple, pear, plum and apri- cot seem to retain their sub stance ana flavor more than can be noticed in lower attitudes and though sub !eet to a strong and long degree oi heat the humidity Of the noun 1ain ar preserves rather than ab- sorbs the life of these fruits. The irult raised on the ranches of A. s. Slough and Thomas Wing at the Foint of Recks, where their orchards are simply encased with immense de P9slts of granite, produce variety ol Irults incompatible to the eye or lo the taste. On Lvnx Creek the orchards of John Clarke and J. c. boolett annually give better fla 'orAd peach and a more abundant yield also. while at the hydraulics a small number of trees planted a generation ago are yet thrifty and generous in yield. With consid- eratIOn and aaro 4bo ,,;-; ;,,y. ,,e Fr,,;t