Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-18
THE CITY AND COUNTY
EsVT Items From Our Own Town an
 Surrounding Country.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From NedncSoSN haliN
 In the last three days there have b.an one fatal and two serious accl- dents in mines close to Prescott, viz, tbs Congress, the Del PaSco and the Standard.
 L. A. Willard, Jerome; Homer Hi1on, Skull valley; Minor Jordan, Phenix, and Chas, Mineth, Fools Gulch, are at the Winsor today.
 Jerry Ashton, the beautiful little child of Mir. and Mrs. Ashton, today fell from the porch at their resi- dence and broke his arm. The little sufferer had the fracture reduced by Dr. Davis and is now resting easy.
 Clint Turnbull made application for position as type setter on this paper today, and presented the credentials of aa Arkansaw poultry farm, where he said he used to set hens for living.
 Among the instruments filed for recOrd today is deed from J. F, Shropshire to Lon D. Hall for a one half interest in the Queen City mine in Tiger district. Consideration, nominal.
 Snme very delicious apples are on the Prescott market, coming from tho ranch of Guy Bennett on Wal nut creek. Capable people pro- nounce them excellent. It Is hard to beat Yavapai in mining or farm ing products.
 A report Is in circulation that l.. F. Hale has been cured of rheuma- tism and Is now seized with the Yukon illness and will leave San Diego for the north at once. Pres colt will be we'll represented in the hegira northward and We trust they will all strike it.
 Walter Smith. one of the geolo. gical experts of the Hassayampa, and at present stationed at Jersey Lily, has gone back to camp. He came in to get a fine tooth comb for Foreman Clark, who is suffering with Klondyke bugs.
 John Jackson, whose surname alone is sufficient to carry him in any country, and who ranks highly as a mining man, has gone down to Giliette's bunauzaS to take charge of the treatment of the ores of that mine. The property Is right on top, and IS unquestionably a big producer for the future.
 Each of the four Phenix papers run through the alphabet in selecting initials for our townsman, R H. Rurmister. The Gazette refers tn hin as q H., the Herald as T. H, tue Republican as k. R., and the Review as C H. If they will con solidate on plain Colonel Burmister, every thing will be smooth at this end of the line.
 Postmaster Horne is wrestling with delicate problem today in his official duties, having received a let ter from Ireland bearing the simple address of Aunt Jennie" Prescott, ArizonS He does not know to whom to deliver the letter, being acquainted nevertheless with many Jennies, and desires Aunt Jennie to show up at once. as there may be Klondyke millions in it.
 Pete Hanson, who travels under the glittering ttle of the "Brcak-of- Day-Kid," has quit the gang on Montezuma street and left thls morning for the Klondyke. Pete sattracted to that center not Tor the love of riches or fame, but be- cause 1t will soon be everlasting night up there and he will conse- quently be able to work perpetual shift at any game he deals. Walter Comstock, ticket clerk of the s. F., P, tS P. R'y- at Phenix, has resigned to accept position in the operating department of the s. F.P. R. k, at Gallup, with c. F. Perry, train master. Mir. Sloan, local manager of the Postal Tele- graph Co, at Phenix. succeeds Mir. Cons ock. Mir. Comstock will be remembered as the bright young stenegrapher in the assistant gen eral managers office at Prescott during 1886.
 A photograph of the three graces of ths Yukon. Messrs. Merwin, Fur ner and Krietzbaum, of Prescott, has reached this city. Accompany ing the picture was a letter from Seattle which stated that they had Outlayed Sl600 in arctic supplies and would leave on August l for Daw- sou city. They felt very much en- outraged aud gave the new Fl Do radO big name, saying m sub stance that the mad rush was on m all its fury aud that the riches were not exaSgeratted in the least.
 Word reached Prescott yesterday ol latal accident which occurred at Congress Monday, and in which a miner lost his life. While Antonio Bertoghon, miner employed at the Congress mine. was at work Tn the :Do-loot level stoping, large rock
 ieil from the top of the stope, strlk- ing the unfortunate man on the head, fatally iniuring him. As soon as possible he was carried from the mlne to the hospital, where every thing possible was done for him, but after couple of hours, during winch time he was unconscious, he dled. The funeral took place yes terday. No fault is found with any person on account of the accident, as It was one that could not have been foreseen. There was no cave m, but the one large rock falling, which fell upon his head.
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