Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-29

lection. Gazette.
 Pete Behau, who has been making
 warfare on the gamblers at Fl Paso
 was accosted on the streets there by | W. \. Morehouse, the proprietor oi
 a gambling house, who led him into ! conversation. While Behan'S head
 was turned MOrehouse seized the
 opportunity of getting in a few hard
 blows ana running away before
 Behan recovered from his astORish.
 ment.-PheliX Republican.
 The Holbrook Argus was sold this
 week to De Roster X Burbage. It Is
 said that the paper will be run as a ! democratic sheet, and that De RosieG
 Is looking after the nomination oi
 treasurer and Burbage Is after the
 nomination If district attorney of
 Navajo county. A. F. Banta, the
 retiring editor of the Argus, does
 not know just what he will turn his
 attention to next.-Coconino Sun.
 Percival Lowell. Alvan G. Clark.
 Miss Clark and Miss Leonard, all of
 Boston, Mass, arrived last night and
 gre stopping at the Bank hotel. MT.
 Lowell two years ago erected the the Lowell observatory here and was highly pleased with the result of the
 observations taken. Something over
 a year ago he ordered a 24-iHch tel,-
 scope. which Is now in position
 ready for use.-Coconino Sun.
 4 passenger who arrived from California, via the Southern Pacific,
 this morning, tells of small hurri- cans al Volcano Springs, Saturday,
 about midnight. The wind picked
 up the cots on which the men were sleeping, dumping them unceremon- iously out and scattering their bed clothes in all directions. The force of the wind was so great that it
 broke windows, sash and all Tele- graph poles went down like straws, and the sand which the tornado picket up cut the mems faces, bringing the blood. After half an hours blow. the rain commenced 10 fall.-Phenix Herald.
 Smoothly and silently last Satur- day, a slick forger worked of about SlO0 worth of cheeks in this city. They were United Verde cheeks from Jerome. Greene, the natter, and the H 4. Diehl Shoe Company were left for S36 each. Wakelin and Keefer, the druggists. invested SIS S5 each. The young man who showed the spurious checks was apparently m i'll health, vet his actions show that he was not in PheniX entirely because of its salubrious climate. He went out apparently the same evening. or rather on the Sunday morning train, toward the north Gazette.
 There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the national irrigation congress at the Windsor Hotel. Denver. Colorado, on Thurs day and Friday, July 90 and 3l, to devise ways and means for holding the fifth session of the congress. which convenes in the city of Phe- nIx, Arizona, next December. This implies issuing a general call for the congress at PheniN, providing a pro gram, the selecting of subjects and speakers to discuss them, an itiI- erary that shall appeal to the peo- pie of the arid west, all of which should in the largest measure ref ct the trend of irrigation thought and development during the past year.
 The Phenix Gazette says: If Flagstaff and Prescott would move in the direction of suitable water works for their respective towns. they would secure a large portion of the summer travel that goes to Los Angeles. Both towns named have grand summer climates We would like to inquire what the question of water works has to do with summer visitors. Each of the towns has an abundance of water to accommodate the entire population of PheniN for domestic purposes, or for any pur- pose for which they might need i. during a temporary residence. It Is tho permanent resident who sui iers from a shortage of water with which to irrigate hIs lawn and grow ing trees to besutIfy his home.
 Joseph (. Perry iucarcerated himself In the county tTeaSurer'S office yesterday morning. He uu- locked the door as usual and closed 1t after him when he went in. The lock is spring arrangement. and later when he got ready to leave made the discovery that his Key wouldn't it the lock from the in side He called up the central tele- phose office and asked to be put in communication with the sherifTs 1 office about sixty feet on 3 bee line l from where he was standing. He | was rescued from his perilous po- si;iOn aud impending starvation by l Sheriff Flynn Star.
 Ed. C. Montgomery" says the | Silver Belt, "a scout who has trav- ersed the deserts of Arizona for 25 | wears. and who knows all the Indian | chiefs, is authority for saying that the Kid. the most dreaded of all the | Apache desperadoes, has cast his lot | with the Yaquis. and is a sub chief | of the tribe. He IS now a family | man, having two squsws and three | children. Montgomery claims that he Kid has not been in Arizona for several years. and that there is no probability of his ever returning. Nasse. says Montgomery, is the most dangerous Indian in the south west and that many of the murders attributed to the ubiquitous Kid were in reality the work of Masse."
 On Thursday night of last week he infant son of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Aspiuwall died after sn illness Of ,niv a few days. and was buried on Friday afternoon. His twin sister. who was also sick, died on the night ,f the afternoon her brother was buried, and was buried the follow ug afternoon at four o'clock. It vas a pitiful sight to witness the rrief of the parents. who were al