Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-22


 Ed. Laube and wife are recent
 arrivals from Colorado to this see
 ton. They have come with the m.
 tention of remaining permanently. . THURSDAYS DAILY. January l6.
 The Woodmen's lodge meets to-
 night.
 "The Octoroon" at the opera house
 tonight.
 Employees of the Peck mine were
 pad of yesterday.
 The Pavtoa Comedy Company
 will present this evening the great
 four-act American comedy, "Fogg s : Ferry
 Don't fail to secure your seats for
 the Payton Comedy Company this
 evening.
 Sheriff RulTner went south on this
 mornings train In search of horse
 thieves.
 \ rain storm would be hailed with
 delight by every body now and par
 t;cularly 5y miners. Jerry Barton has sold hi s saloo at Congress, but it Is said he vii open another one soon.
 Last night was the first night for nearly three months that the ther- mOmeter did not reach the freezing point.
 Be sure and get your seats in ad- vance for the benefit of the foot ball team at the opera house to- morrow Friday evening.
 By attending the opera house to- morrow evening, you will ass st the foot ball team to pay its debt and also see the great play, "Rose Gar land, cue of the greatest of eastern successes.
 Boy a ticket for che theatre to- morrow evening aud help out the 1 foot ball club. The boys are in debt l and should be encouraged. The | Payton company has very geuer- Y! ousIy rendered them benefit.
 Tomorrow evening the great l comedy, Rose Garland will be l presented at the opera house by the Payton Comedy Company for the | benefit of the Prescott foot bali team.
 Quite a number of parties who | live ia town can be seen going out I every morning up Granite creek, with the necessary parapherualIa Tor placer mining. some Ot them, it IS said, are doing well.
 Fred. Haas and Miss Minnie Mil 1 fer were married yesterday by Pro bate Judge Hicks. Mir. Haas Is an employe of the $. F., r. & P. rail road, and the couple Eo to Phenlx to reside.
 There was a lively scrap in the Owl saloon last evening. It lasted about ten or fifteen minutes, and both of the "scrappers,' as well as the floor of the saloon, were cOv- cred with gore. Business went on just the same, though.
 Several of the young ladies of Prescott have arranged for a leap year theatre party for the foot ball 1 benefit tomorrow night. Over a dozen of them have already pur- chased reserved seats for themselves and their "beaux" for the occasion.
 Runaways are becoming contagi- ous. Scarcely day passes without one m Prescott. while three occurred recently in the vicinity of Chapar- raj. two with quite serious results. The last oue was the team oi l. T. ! Stoddard and occurred yesterday. No one hurt.
 Frank Baldwin, of Juniper, and i Miss Viola Reeves. of Prescott. were last evening at the residence of the brides brother-in-law. F. w. by Rav. c. L. Pearson. The young couple have the best wishes of host of friends. They will leave shortly for the home of the groom.
 Word comes from Congress that the man who has been iii at Fools | Gulch with small pox, died yester- day morning at : o'clock. He had almost recovered from the dread 1 disease but the disease had left him so weak that he had not the power to make a full recovery. He was buried immediately after death.
 The services at the NJ. E. Church ha--rr ,r-,ff .FY,rA.I ,,l r. ] The Baptists and Con- gregationalists also report good at tendance and interesting services. lt Is not every town of the size of Prescott that can fiji three churches and one theatre every night for 8 week, but that Is just what IS hap pening here this week
 The examination of Theodore Bowles on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon took place before Justice Moore to-day resulting in h.s being held to answer to ti @ grand jury with bonds fixed at 500. In default Of bonds he was con- mitted to jail. Bowles is the man who made the murderous assault on MT. Pesnell on Lynx creek on Christ mas day.
 You can get almost any thing you want now for a day or two at W. C. NortOn's store for the asking of it and taking 1t away. This afternoon about three o'clock a new partner was added to the business in the person of a boy, just arrived from fairy land, and as 1t Is the first born in the Norton houSshcld, the head | of the family don't care for expense. Mother and child are getting along nicely, while Papa Norton-well, he's out of sight.
 At the meeting of stockholders of the Prescott National bank on Tues day, the following board of direc- tors were reelected. Frank NJ. Mur- Phy, Morris Goldwater. Russell C. NnoIruF Tl V Era4arfaE= AVp, E ]