Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-18
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 This is perfect spring weather.
 How about recognizing the board of tradei
 Chaparral will give a St. Patrick s ball A telephone message wss re- ceived last evening from there for a lot of green ribbons and green neck ties.
 The joss by fire to Lawler and EredericSs, on their Granite street property has been adjusted at Sl,- 0lO on the building and 800 on the furniture.
 J. NJ. Aiken has presented the Prescott gun club with some nice photos taken with his snap shot kodak. They are on exhibition at Aiken X Cos cigar store.
 The Gazette reports a sale of two car loads of fat cattle near Phenix the other day at S275 and says that those well informed think six weeks will suffice to raise to s. possibly higher.
 The special tIain load of cattle reached Ash Fork yesterday evening in nine hours and twenty minutes from Phenjx, and inside of twenty minutes more were speeding east ward towards its destination at Strong City. Kansas.
 A telegram received in this city yesterday from W. H. BeardsleY, who Is in the east, says he will re- turn abont the latter end of the month with sufficient capital to liquidate all indebtedness against the Agua Fria Construction com pany.-Republican.
 Assessor St. Claire yesterday re- turned from the hills in the north ern part of the county, where he has been asse- sing property. He is de- termined to get all sheep in the county listed and 70 that end has two deputies riding in the northern part of the county and one deputy in the eastern. The deputies will visit all shearing corrals. There arc several thousand head of sheep now in the county.-Republican.
 Tbe railroad is doing good busi- ness at present. Passenger traffic Is good both ways, while the freight business has picked up remarkably within the past few weeks. This moring's train from the north brought in twelve empty stock cars which were dropped here and taken through to Phenix by special train. They will be loaded there with cat tie, tomorrow, and will be returned on Sunday in a special tram.
 Mahara's minstrels played to a good house last evening. They gave a very good performance, but it might have even been better. as much of the funny business of it was a repetition of their perform ance of a year ago. The singing by the troupe was excellent. The open ing piece of the performance was both new and novel and elicited great applause from the audience Taking 1t all in all Mahara's minss strels are as good as any on the road.
 The JOURNAL MINER has nailed a few more floating lies" by publish ing from the Congressional Record what Mir Murphy really did say while advocating the passage of the school land bill over the presidents s veto. The bill IS simply copy of one previously passed for Oklahoma, and had the approval of the general land office, also was approved and signed by Hoke Smith. If Hoke Smith signed the bIll, what in thun- der can be the matter with it any wayl"-Hollbrook Argus
 W. o. O'NeiIl came in this morn ing from the east.
 T. G. Norris came in from the north this morning.
 Gus Shamp came up from Skull valley this afternoon.
 H. C. Reno left for the east this afternoon on a business trip. D. B. Gillett, the mining man, left for Tucson this morning.
 Judge F.. W. Wells and John Law Ter went to Phenix this morning. Wm. Gwynn, of the s. F., P. X F. engineers office went south to-day.
 John McKinnon came in today from Mexico where he resides at present.
 J. NJ. Freeman, of Greedy, Cobra