Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-08

stOIul1 anu uurlnS last night about half an inch of snow fell.
 J. J. WIagovich returned this morning from an official visit to Phenix.
 'Possum and sweet 'taters at the Comet Cafe at o'clock this even ing.
 T. J. Gates oi the Comet Cafe has just received a consignment of prairie chickens.
 District Attorney Ross left for Chaparral this afternoon in response to telephone to investigate a rape case. Parties not known. Lieut.. Williams furniture arrived at Whipple yesterday but was i'm mediately reshlpped to Mississippi where the young lieutenant has been ordered to take charge of the state national guard.
 Miss Lulu Warren, sister of D. J. Warren, will be married this even ing at the residence of her parents in Pbenix to Ralph B. Quinn. D.. J. has gone down to attend the wedding.
 The daily arrival of western mail Is very irregular at present. It reaches Ash Fork about : o'clock m the morning but does not reach Prescott till the arrival of the train due at 4'20 p. m., but which is al ways late.
 Irvine Sanders, the well known freighter, met with a very serious accident yesterday about three miles south of Prescott. MT. Sanders jumped of his wagon, while 1t was n motion, to fix the brake and fell under the wheel which passed over his leg breaking it in two places.
 \. F. Robertson, of Joliet, Hi nois. jumped from a Pullman car on the Mohaye desert recently, and all efforts to fud him have proved unayailing.
 The next promenade and dancing concert al the opera house will be on "Wednesday evening. December Sth, by the fuli Whipple band of twenty-four pieces under Professor La Guardia. Do not forget the date. as the night has been changed so as to allow every one to attend.
 F.. w. Mitchell, stenographer and type writer Tn General Passenger Agent G. NJ. Sargent's office, left this afternoon fer Pinos Altos, New Mexico to take position with D. IS. Gillette. Mir. Mitchell has be come very popular among the young people during his residence in Prescott and he will be greatly missed by them. He will however carry with him their best wishes.
 The following officers were elected November 29, 1897 for the ensuing term by Prescott Lodge No. l, K. of P: Paul r Hastings, c C; k F. Watson, Y C; John R Walls, PreI; J H Robinson, NJ of "; R NJ Ling; M of F.; Wm Bunte, NJ of f; II l. Kaiss. k of E k $; \ Moser, NJ at A. H I Andrews, Trustee.
 Foct pads are still plying their vocation in Phenix, and all efforts of the officers to arrest them seems futile. The latest hold up was Bertram Smith, a son of John |. T. Smith. He was in a buggy going after his sweet heart to take her to a church social, when two men stopped him, made him get out of his buggy and submit to being searched. He had nothing of value, so was permitted to proceed. He secured the services of two men to act as body guard for him and his girl to and from the social.
 Genz Leander, one of the burglars caught in Los Angeles for the rob bery of the Lemon jewelry store at Prescott, was arrested in this city few months ago for stealing a watch. He was sentenced to the county jail for six months, but he only served about a month. He was a confirmed morphine fend, and he suffered So much by being deprived of the drug, that he was removed to the county hospital. He made hIs escape while being tranferred.- Phenix Herald.
 This afternoon Territorial Secre- tary C. H. Akers and wife celebrated the sixth anniversary of their we'd ding. They had as guests of honor to a dinner party on the occasion J. ]. Wragovich and wife, of Prescott, who were also welded on this day six years ago. It was therefore a double anniversary. Other guests presont were Geo. NJ. Sargent, Dr. Duffield and Harry Tritle.-Pnenlx Herald.
 Sometime last night burglars en- tered A. Blumberg's store through a back window by prying the shut ters apart. All investigation this morning revealed the loss of several pair of ladies and gents gloves, silk handkerchiefs and other notions. The loss being nominal it is evident that the burglars were frightened away in some manner before making a wholesale job of it.
 Phenix papers in their report oi the railway accident near Williams speak Of the i'll lated train reaching the foot of the hill before being wrecked. It lacked just about thirteen miles of reaching the foot of the mountain. Had 1t remained on the track and continued its mad flight down the steep grade Of the mountain side, til 1t reached the foot of the mountain, and had It's speed continued to accelerate, ID the same proportion that it did dur inc the three or four miles that 1t travelled it would have appeared as a flash as it passed Ash Fork and would have secured sufficient mo mentum to have carried It to Call fornia.
 J.H. Butler, a conductor on the Maricopa * Phenix railroad pleaded guilty in the district court at Phe- nix 10 shooting a tramp named Mitchell, who was attempting to board his train. He made the statement that he did not see young Mitchell when hr fired the shot. he was watching the man Grimes, who was attempting to board the train. He shot at nobody. but hred the pistol at the ground. Just as bo DuIIad the trigger young Mitchell ran from behind the ware