Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-12-23
From Friday $ Daily.

R. R. Oliver. St. Louis, is a gues of Hotel Burke. C. H. Akers has filed his bond as notary public.
 H. Oleson, of Jerome. is registered at Hotel Burke.
 Reese NJ. Ling returned last night from a visit to the country.
 T. s. Bullock returned last night from his visit to Phenix. F. NJ. Murphy leaves Chicago to night for Prescott.
 B. F. Sloan. of the SalvatioN army m Pheuix, Is m town.
 L T. Stoddard Is in from his Cop per Mountain mine.
 Mrs. D. Levy has returned from Der visit 10 California.
 The Sunset telephone line is to be extended to Crowned King.
 Bishop Brigham Young will dedi- cate a new Mormon temple at Mesa City tomorrow.
 The Palmer dramatic company are booked to appear at PattOn's opera house December 2S.
 Prof. P. D. Baruhart came in this morning from his Colorado river mining camp.
 The board of supervisors are in session thls afternoon, allowing some claims.
 W. F.. Jackson, formerly station agent at Wickenburg. has gone to Chicago, to take a position with the Santa Fe company.
 There seems to be an epidemic of membranOus croup in PheniI. Sev- erai cases have been reported and two deaths have occurred, both of girls about nine years of age.
 II. NJ. Merriwether, of the Co- Operative Mining Company, which Is operating property near Rumble Bee, Is m town.
 The ladies cf the s, NJ. W. of r. Club are to give masque-domino ball on New Years eve.
 The Pullman cars for the night run on the $ F., r. x r. railroad are en route from Kansas City, and will be placed in service next week.
 R. Biedler, the Baltimcse cspi- talist. who Is interested iI the Var nell mine. arrived on last nights train, and left for the above mine this morning.
 The Pullman car containing the California delegation, on their re turn from the irrigation con ,resS, passed through on this afternoons train.
 The private car ot John F.. Frost, land commissioner f the Santa Fe road. was attached to this after noon's north bound train. M;. Frost was returning from attending the irrigation congress at PheniI.
 The rag bal given fast night by the Women's Relief Corps, was a decided success. The attendance was large. the music was good and every body seemed to enjoy them selves. Miss McRae, Harry Camp bell and Crook Marion were awarded prizes for the best sustained char acters. The latter were dressed as veritable hobos.
 The irrigation congress passed a resolution favoring the cessiOn of the public lands of the nation to the respective states or territories only upon conditions so strict that they shall absolutely insure the set clement of such lands by actual settlers in small tracts and abso- lutely prevent their monopoly in large bodies under prIvate owner ship.
 The recorders office is having quite boom in the matter of ab- stracts of title for mining claims, there being upwards of thirty appli- cations on file at present. Many of them are in cases where applica- tions for patents have been made, and where 1t IS desired to secure final certificate before January l, 1897.
 A team, attached to heavy lum- Der wagon, varied the mOnotOny of Moutezuma street this afternoon by attempting to run away. Joe Rob erts started in pursuit, overlook them, and climbed into the hind end of the wagon and got hold of the lines, just ss a Mexican succeed ed in getting them stopped.