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

J. R. Young IT,, the eight-year- old son of Col. J. Roe Young. Indian agent at Sacaton, was run over by a ear aud killed at Tempe yesterday.
 The number of frst-class bilks that have developed in Prescott dur ing the past year or two almost makes one lose all confidence in hu- man nature.
 Prof Thomas E. Dalton was yes terdsy appointed territorial super intendent Of public instruction to hll the vacancy occassiOned by Ihe resignation of Prof. F. J. Netherton.
 The Friday Night club has very geRerOusl ' decided tO postpone their regular dalce on May =, for one week in order tO give place to the ladies leap year ball. The latter will be given Tor the beUeft of the kindergarten.
 The maa Sweeney, charged with making a gun play al a mine re- gently, was discharged yesterday, the testimony no justifying the charge.
 The south vest wind which has been blowing for several days stopped last night. It is blowing harder than ever to-day from the north though.
 The first ear load of apricots for this season for the eastern markets will be shipped from Phenix over the :. F., P. & r. railroad the latter part of this week or the first of next.
 John W. Hays, a native of New York, aged 26 years, died at the county hospital this morning of an attack of grippe and rheumatism combined. Deceased had lived in this county for two or three years, being engaged in prospecting and mining.
 Superintendent John Burns, of the |. V. & I railway, was in town to-day. In pesking of the recent accident on he road whereby boiler, for th United Verde Copper Company TO ed of a car and down an embankm 0t, be states that the boiler Is prs ,ticslly not damaged any, but can je placed in good con dition again Or a very small sum. The boiler w,ighs twenty-four tons.
 The Willis ms News says that Lieut.. Clay and party, during their recent trip north made surveys of the country. with a view of estab- fishing a -ystem of heliOgraph signals on the mountains, and to ascertain the points where water could be most readily obtained,so that iu the event of hostility with the Indians, be white men will be prepared to meet them with their own weapons.
 Jack Nuttar, with . gang of men, will take from the gulch the i'm mense new boiler which went over the mountain side during transpor- tation over the United Verde & Pacific railway. The boiler is now in a very bad place and in an awk- ward position to handle, but when Jack goes after things of that kind he generally succeeds in the under taking.-Jero me News.
 The eonteD.s of Dr. Reynolds of fee was taken out yesterday and sold and the proceeds applied on rent due for the office. The general belief now is that the doctor has skipped and that hs was simply toying with the truth when be told friends that he intended to return. or course 1t vas au oversight pure and simple On his part that prompt ed him to leave without the for mality of settling a number of un- paid bills.
 John Lawier is keeping the s. F., F. & P. railroad pretty busy just now transporting cattle for him. He shipped uine car loads yesterday from Del Rio 70 Kansas and ship ment of thirty car loads more was made to-day for the same destina- ton from Kirkland and six car loads to PheniX. Tomorrow twenty car loads will be shipped by him from Kirkland to Kansas, and on Friday 1t will be followed shipment of eighteen car loads, making an aggre- gate shipment for the week of eighty-three car loads by Mir Lawlsr alone.
 An idea of the extent of the cattle business in southeastern Arizona may be gathered from the follow ing figures: There will be shipped from Tucson 500 cars, from Wilcox l20O, from Benson 500, from Geron- imo 200 and from San Simon POO. The average capacity of a car IS 35 head, so tha. the total shipments will amount to 94,500. These figures are in round numbers and are likely to be below rather than above the real figures Citizen.
 Among ths Knights of Pythias grand lodge lfcers now in Prescott are Fred Fle shman, G. C.; %. DIM. Gaddis, Y. C. C.;C A. Bush, G. K. of K. and s. and B. A. Fickas, su- preme representative. The delega- ton from Phenix consists of Hans Herlick, Frank Philips, Frank COyle, H. Hooker. W. Street, D. A. Smith, and L. B. Hayes. Those from Tucson are J. J. Blinkhorn. Harry Drachman, NJ. Lamont and B. Worthen.
 The Political Study club" held very interesting meeting at the resi- dence of it's president, Mrs. T. W.