Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-29
THB CITY AND COUNTY Tsvy Items From Our Own loSn an
 Surrounding Country.
From Wednesdays Daily.

afternoon To Nhlch all are lnNlleu'
 Al. Head IS having lumber placed on the ground at his new yard op- posite J. I. GsrdneE's store.
 Thomas Holland has filed notices of the locauou of two water rights for record.
 The corn husk prophets are away of on their mild weather predic- tions for this winter.
 Mrs. I.C. Harley leaves for Tucson today to spend the holidays with her children.
 D. \. Campbell is in from the the Buster mine to spend the holi - days with his relatives.
 The mercury at Phenix dropped to twenIy-three degrees above zero this morning, but no damage Is re ported
 J. S. Cook, the we'll known rancher of Williamson valley, was in town today and smiled on the JOURNAL MINER.
 Mrs. Chapple, aged 23 years, wife of William Chapple, editor of the Saturday Evening Press, of Phenix, is dead.
 A deed has been filed for record from 4. E. Joscelyn to Joe Mayer for lot l9, block II, Jerome; consid- erstion S350.
 Eight degrees below zero was the record at Whipple this morning, being the coldest of the season. and a record breaker for at least period of ten years.
 B. Sues has been acquitted of the murder of young Lynch, in Phenix. He established a complete alibi. The killing of Lynch is as great a mystery now as ever.
 A light engine going down a steep grade on the Dragoon mountains collided with a double header freight going up the grade the other day instantly killing the head engineer.
 Miss Bertha Schuerman, daughter of Geo. H. Schuerman, has been quite sick in San Francisco. but a telegram received yesterday by Mir. Schuerman statei that she is now convalescing.
 The closing exercises of the pub lie schools, for the holiday vacation will be held at the high school building on Friday morning al l0:3O o'clock. The mayor will deliver an address to the children.
 R. D. French, the commercial traveller, is at home with his wife and baby for the holidays. There are few men on the road who can show up larger business for the year than NIT. French.
 Thomas Downey. who was hit by a locomotive near Piedmont yester- day, was brought to town on this mornings train, but died ou the way to the hospital. Deceased was over 50 years old and formerly lived in Yuma where he was employed large portion Of the tina on st.-aIn heats Judge R. NJ Ling, Harry Kai>s and Johnny Wilson bagged 100 quail in Kirkland valley on Monday. Kaiss returned home yesterday morning and circulated a report that the Judge had lost himself. but he showed up last evening all rig h.. It IS a cold day when the Judge gets lost, or that he loses anything worth keeping.
 C. E. Newton, son of Mir. and Mrs. Byron Newton, and nephew of Ms. and Mrs. T. E. Peerey, of Stan ton, arrived on last nights train from Los Banos, California. He will go down to Stanton tomorrow to spend the holidays with relatives, bis parents having been there for two or three months. The family formerly resided in Prescott. It seems after all that the editor of the Phenix Republican was not indicted for publishing that alleged picture Of Dr. Hughes. From In- formation previously published iD that paper the inference was drawn that an indictment had been re- turned. While investigating the affair thoroughly the grand jury came to the conclusion that the re- semblanee between the picture and the doctor was sufficiently marked to be justi6able portrait hence no indictment was returned.
 We live in a country of which the principal scourge Is stomach trou- ble. It IS more wide spread than any other disease, and, very nearly more dangerous.
 One thing that makes it so dan gerous IS that 1t Is 50 little under l stood.
 If it were better understood, it would be more feared. more easily cured, less universal than it Is now.
 SO, those who wish to be cured, take Shaker Digestive Cordial, be- cause < goes to the root of the . trouble as no other ID dicine does. . The pure, harmless. curative herbs . and plants, 0t which it IS composed, are what Tender 1t so certain and, at . the same time, so gentle a cure.
 It helps and strengthens the stom- ! ach, PuFi6es aud tones up the sys- tenn. Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to $L00 per bottle.
 From Thursdays Daily. Palace opening tonight.
 Colin Timmous is in town. Col. R. A. Sweet, the Chicago min ing man, is in town. M; G. Burns is in from his Cherry Creek mi0ing camp.
 SIX below zero was the record the mercury made this morning. l
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