Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-12

Professor and Mrs. Fords little
 boy received a severe shock aud had
 his hands badly burned last night
 by taking hold of an electric light
 wire at theold opera house.
 Nose Drachman has been appoint
 ed a member of the territorial ! board of equalization. vice II. D. ! Underwood, resigned.
 The fly crop is unusually large
 this year and of the most aggravS-
 ting species
 Mike Rice has accepted the posi- ! ton of under sheriff m Graham county. It is needless to say that
 the duties which fall to his lot will
 be performed with a conscientious fidelity that will reflect credit upon himself and the office where he is employed.-Tucson Citizen.
 Sheriff Rufner returned this af ternOon with man named Charles Ferguson, indicted by the last grand jury for resisting an officer.
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 The following item was taken from the Saa Francisco Chronicle of recent date the subjects of 1t be ing former residents of Prescott: Mrs Johanna Rodenberg of llO Hyde street procured warrant yes terday in police court . for the ar rest of her husband on a charge of insanity. He has been insane from drink"
 Lee Johnston has filed his stock brand for record. His range is in Chino Valley,
 A. L. Kicker has filed his bond as justice of the peace of Upper Verde precinct.
 Charles W. Pugh has sold his Wilcox News to Horace E. Dunlap, a brother of Burt Dunlap of Graham county. MT Pugh will devote all his time aud energies on the South western Stockman.
 The new engine for the Congress Gold company arrived by last nights train and was put together m the Prescott shops to-day and left for Congress this afternoon. It is a very complete engine, being con structed on the plan of a switch engine, and is equipped for oil burn iug. E. B. Gage, general manager ot the Congress mine, Mir. Prescott, inventor of the oil burning ap- paratus and MT Phillips su attache of the Brooks engine works, where 1t was built, went out on it to Con- ] gress, the throttle being manipulated 1 by Harry Elliott.
 Fl. :. Phillips, of Dunkirk. New 1 York. Is registered at Hotel Burke. l He is connected with the Brooks !. Locomotive Works, and came out | with the new engine for the Con | gress road.
 D. B. Gillett returned last night ] from a visit to Mexico.
 W. O. Harrell, of Jerome, is in town.
 Col. NJ. J. Eagan, of Clifton, came in on last nights train.
 L. B. Miller and J. W. Pullar, two 1 popular railroad men of Wlnslow, are in town. The former is a con ductor on the road and the latter IS foreman of the Winslow shops.
 Billy Murphy, foreman of the Planet Saturn mines in Fools gulch, left for home this morning, after brief visit to Prescott.
 Bruce Perley, of PheniI, is in Prescott, on business.
 Morris Goldwater came up from PheniH last night.
 Mrs. Perley, mother of Bruce Per ey of Phenix. left on yesterdays rain for San Diego, where her daughters are.
 Mrs. Sholto Douglass left on yes .erday's train for California.
 Gus Williams, of Prescott, for nerly of this city, Is at the Com His wife has been in the ,ity the past week and Gus comes to pay her a visit.-PhenIx Gazette.
 A. G. Kennedy returned last night rom . brief visit to Denver, accom- panied by his wife. and they will ake up their residence in Prescott.
 President Howard Billman, of the will be in Prescott three ,r four days in the interest of the He Is stopping at the Hotel Burke. and would be glad 1 O see any who may be conIem- ,latiug enterning the university thIs all. or going elsewhere.