Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-12
THE CITY AND COUNTY. seWSy Items From Our Own Town and
 Surrounding Country
kENESDAY'S Daily, February D

Maximum temperature, SS; mini num, l5.
 Lorraine Hollis Company at Pat lon's opera house this evening.
 Lorraine Hollis company at Pat fpn's opera house tonight m "A Eong Lane" Prices 50c, 15c and feseryed seats Sl.0O.
 The prices for the Lorraine Hollis Engagement are 50 cents 75 cents sod Sl.OO.
 The city's chai n gang has fifteen members now.
 Arbor day is being advertised for Friday, February 6 by territorial papers. It should read Friday, February :.
 1t IS reported that the postal Authorities have declined to accept Nr. Lawler's postotice proposition and will invite new bids. The price was too high.
 Judge J. H. Wright is having his rtsldence raised aud remodeled gen efally. When the alterations are eonpleted be will have a beautiful residence. IL Is located on one of the most commanding places in Iown.
 Will s. Moore, who will be re- nembered as having resided here dnring the summer of 1894, Is re ported to have died in San Fran disco last Saturday, February l, of Consumption. MT. Moore married Miss Prouty, sister of Mrs. F. A. Healy just year ago.
 Territorial Auditor C. P. Leitch Nss married at Phenix last night to Miss Hattie Schriver. Mir. Leitch is a first class gentleman, while his bride is a most eStlmable and intel ligent young lady, and the JOURNAL MINER extends its most hearty con gratulations to the happy couple.
 The Lorraine Hollis Company. consisting of fourteen people, ar lived on this mornings train and are guests of Hotel Burke. A gen tieman who was at the depot on their arrival says there are five Of the handsomest women with the froupe that has ever visited Pres cott. Members of the Old Frawley end Palmer companies are now with tAiS company.
 Charles R. Williams, well and savorably known throughout North ern Arizona, died at San Diego, California, January 30. MT. Will iams was the first general freight and passenger agent of the A. & r. railroad. He resided in San Diego for several years, where he was the Ration agent of the Southern Cali lcrnia railroad, and later was station agent of the A. & P, at Kingman.
 Joseph Cough, aged 45 years died vesterday at the Sisters hospital after a somewhat protracted illness with cancer. Mr. Cough has been engaged in mining in the Hassa- yAmpa district and was the owner of the Husted claim.
 Tim Webster, the young colored nan arrested on Monday evening uas given fifteen days in the chain gang yesterday, by Judge Ling. | Webster has always been a hart aorking young man and has never Heretofore been Tn any trouble, but I aot too many different brands of whisky aboard on Monday.
 The Hook and Ladder company Elected the following officers last , sFening: D. W. Pritchett, president and foreman; Ward Pritchert, frst Assistant foreman; Otto Miller, sec ond assistant foreman; Will D. ' Tinker, secretary; Wm. Bunte. treas urer; D. W. Pritchett >nd l. P. Bur nett delegates. The meeting night was changed from the first Tuesday fo the first Saturday in every month.
 Judge Harmon, attorney general, hss arranged with the Board of COntrol to have the United States pay 75 cents a day for the board of ail United States prisoners sent to r khe penitentIary. He has also de- sided to instruct the several judges % the bench in Arizona to send all United States prisoners to Yuma Formerly they sent mary to San Quentin and many prisons through out the country. A little money nay thus be made on each man, Resides soon there will be means to | untilize his labor.-Gazette. A letter was received at the sher- | ITS office this morning from Jerome | but 1t contained no further particu- l lars of the shooting scrape there 1 than the JoURNAL-M MINER had last | epening. Oleson, the victim of the 1 shOoting, is in a critical condition. | Ihe letter stated that Jakey Brown, Hho shot and killed Charles Ward, ] iE May last, was with Durkin at the i time and gave him the pistol from | which the shot was fired.
 Major and Mrs. J. M Watts l entertained the Mandolin Club l sod a large number of other l lsdies and gentlemen at their l residence last evening. The above | musical club rendered a number of l selections Tn their usual highly | plasing manner and an elegant colla- l Hon was discussed by those present, and a very interesting game of l aQuotations" was played. The lat ! ter proved mighty amusing. 1t con- sisted in familiar quotations or proverbs being written on little ! dips of paper. and then the slips ! being cut in two pieces, and the l several pieces being distributed pro- miscuously in out of the way places The person taking one slip was required to search until the other part of the quotation it contained nas found, thus completing 1t, So Pleasantly did the time pass, that it nas nearly midnight before the Quests commenced to leave.