Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-05-13

it's regular semi-monthly dance thu evening at K. of r. hall.
 John Lawler is making snotLe
 shipment to-day of eighteen O twenty car loads of cattle. The.
 will pass through Prescott this even
 ing.
 Rev. D. NJ. Wynkoop has recalled
 his appointment: at Jerome for mex
 Sunday and will preach m his owl
 church at II a. m. At night th'
 children's day programme will b'
 rendered.
 Robert Brow is making extensive
 alterations to the Palace saloon anc
 restaurant by adding private dining
 rooms in the rear of the saloon, anC
 by repapering and repainting a DOT
 tion of the place.
 Eastern Star chapter had very
 interesting session last night al
 which three or four new member:
 were added to the order. After the close of the business meeting a pat atable lunch was served.
 Henry Ferguson escaped from the territorial prison on April 30 He was sent from Maricopa county cen victed of burglary in the second de gree, and under sentence of five years from December D. 1894.
 The Western Union Telegraph Company has just had an elegant new counter placed in the Corner Drug Store for the convenience of its patrons and its operator.
 The Ladies Relief Corps will have charge of the evening exer- cises on Memorial Day. They will be held in PattoD's opera house and will consist of literary and musical exercises, and will be free to ali.
 The Mining Exchange has re- ceived its new cabinets and JIry have been placed in position iu ' be headquarters of the exchange, aUG are now ready for receiving ore, The exchange IS located iu the Drlck building south of Goldwaters' sore.
 Dr. Day received a telegram this morning from John Ellis, at Wick enburg, saying: Come dOwu on first train; Shaw has arm and leg broken" Who John Ellis the se:Ider of the message IS, or what par, icu- lar Shaw met with the above serious mishsp, was not known to the doctor but he went down on the m ,rning train prepared to set the broken limbs.
 Thursday word came that George Staples, a ranchman living about 45 miles southwest of Winslow ID Co conino county, had committed sui eide. Justice Prime went to the scene with a jury and determined that Staples had came to his death by his own hand. The suicide was d most deliberate one, the deceased placing a double -barrelled shotgun to his head and dischsrging 1t by pressing the trigger with long stick The whole top of his head was blown oG.-Coconino Sun.
 Sam Hill, proprietor of Prescott's mammoth hardware establishment, has a new illustrated advertisement m this paper, which was suggested by the approach of the fly season. From a business stand point, there are no flies on NIT. Hill, and what is fgurativ ,ly true of him, he offers to make literally true of all others wlo purchase his fly protecting screens. In the time of peace. prepare for war" is an old and trite aiage, and an equally true cue is ''in time of peace from flies. prepare for the fly season by purchasing screens from Sam Hill"
 Coyotes are loyal to their chil- dren. Farmers in the state Of Wash ington captured three coyote pups, placed them III sack and continued blowing. Papa and mamma coyote hoycrsd about the plowed field, talk ing care to keep ou, of gun shot. When the rancheEs were furthest away from the imprisoned pups fol lowing the blows. the parent coyotes dashed for ihe prison sack, and when the ranchers returned they saw the coyotes skurrying away in the dis tance, carrying the sackful of their beloved offspTingS. There are some good points even about coyote sOmetimes.-Ex.
 Another day has come and anoth- CT train has arrived in Prescott from Ash Fork without the return of pr. Reynolds. 1t Is learned that pre- vious to his departure he shipped two or three boxes, puTporting to contain books, to his address in San Francisco, stating that be intended them for q friend of his. It may be just possible, that after leaving here, he de ,ided to go to San Francisco to deliver these boxes iu person to his friend, as his friends here can not make themselves believe that he intends to remain away. He was but recently elected county physi- clan. and took an active interest in all that was going oD Tn the town.
 Dr. J. P. Delsny, the eye specialist, seems to be meeting with good sue cess in the matter of fitting lenses to weak eyes. It is a singular fact that of about three persons out of four the same lense will not fit both their eyes, hence ordinary glasses which fit the sight of only one eye are tiresome. Dr. Delany remedies this by taking the measure of each eye separately and then adjusting a glass to each eye. With one of his eye measuring machines he took the measure of the JouRNAL-MINER's ed itorial eyes, and from this measure meut fitted a pair of glasses to the optics which thus far has given eX- cellent satisfaction. They do not produce the tired feeling to the eyes which was experienced from using a pair fl ordinary glasses, pr. De lany evidently seems to understand his business. He has filled orders for a large number of special glasses here and so far as known has given