Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-01

Tassell to transact all business foI
 him during the formers illness. Mir
 Van Tassell can be found at the
 office of The Bashiord BurmisieI
 Company.
 Companies G. and F.. llth infan-
 try, of Whipple passed through town today on their practice march to eight mile spring on the Copper
 Basin road. They left Whipple at : o'clock returning about he middle of the afternoon.
 A few plants of the new "Austra- lian Salt Bush" which is now at tracting so much attention, was grown last year at the Experiment Station at Tucson, and made a re- markable growth with but single irrigation during the season. Small packages of seed for trial will be sent to those in Arizona who apply to the Director Experiment Station, Tucson, Arizona, and agree to report the result of the trial with the seed.
 The Arizona Baptist Association l Is to hold its annual meeting m Pres colt on Friday, Saturday and Sun day of next week. Pastor Smale says that the Baptist churches of the territory will be represented by a strong delegation. Rev II. (. Woods. of Colorado Springs, and Rev. w W. Tinker, of Los Angeles, are expected to be present. Our people should extend a cordial wei come to this association, many of whose delegates will be seeing Pres colt for the first time.
 Alfred Ireland, of Company C., Ilth Infantry, U. s. Army, dIed this morning at o'clock of pneumonia, after an illness of only four or five days. Deceased was a native of Green County, Tennessee, and was forty-fye years old. He had served for twenty-five years in the army. He has a wife and three children re- siding in Syracuse, New York. He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Prescott, and was a regular attendant at all of it's meetings. His funeral will take place to- morrow afternoon at , o'clock. under the joint auspices of the military authorities of Whipple and the Prescott Odd Fellows. lnterment wlll be iu the Odd Fellows cemetery at Prescott.
 Lord Sholto Douglas and his valet John COker passed through Pres cr.t on this morning's train gu route Co PheniX. on their One thousand mile trip on the back of cayuse." Io one or two parties who were at the depot. who knew them they stated. that their announcement of making the trip by burro was all fake. They stated that they would leave the train at Glendale and C. cure burros there and ride them into Phenix. Lord Sholto created a fund ol merriment, for the usual 1 hangers on around the depot, while l the train waited there. He was at tired in a pair of skin tight pants and tooth pick toed shoes. with l "weskit" shirt and hat to match an ideal suit for bronco riding. while 1 his strut back and forth on the depot | platform was an imitation Of circus clown. This Is about as jolly pair of fakirs as ever attempted to play a gul!ible public.
 Dr. Peters has returned to Fools gulch.
 Col. A. O. Brodie went south yes terday.
 E.B. Gage went to Congress this morning.
 Henry Goldwater went south this morning.
 Judge F. H. Fall returned to Con gress this morning.
 Mark Murphy will go out to the 1 Hillside mine to- morrow.
 J. (. Herndou returned this morn ing from attending court in Flag >taH.
 J. W. Morse, formerly ne of the | owners of the Silver Flake mine. | left thls afternoon for Los Angeles, accompanied by his family.
 John kOontZ, miner, left this | afternoon for Gunison county, Colo rado, to examine and report on a mining property there owned by | two citizens of Prescott
 C. c. Osborne. official representa- tive of The Great Wallace Shows arrived in town this morning. This immense aggregation of saw dust speciaiItIes Is negotiating to appear here m May.
 MT. and Mrs. W. :. Morse and | 1 air .rr W,llnrl Mnr.n l,ft n., Ahi-