Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-20
Froa ruesaAys Daily.

Joe Mayer, the mlnIng rustIer from Big Bug, is in town.
 Prof. J. F. Blandy has returned from his Southern Arizona trip.
 If you want your rupture retained get Sl0 truss al Brisley's.
 The snow IS melting and clouds are gathering again, pretending another storm.
 John Jackson left for Chaparrsl today to take charge of the Provi- i,epce mill,
 J. 4. ErnOt, prominent citizen of the Agus Fris valley, was a welcome caller at this office today.
 Phenix papers are again agitatinG the question of brewery for that town.
 The W. C. T. L. will meet on Thursday afternoon, January 2l, at 3 o'clock p, m-. in the back parlors of the reading room, north door office row. All are cordially invited.
 Miss Scarborough, of Prescott, ar rived on the afternoon train Sstur- day. The lady hopes to get clerk ship in the council.-Gazette.
 James Shirley, the euterprising mining man. has rented the build ing formerly occupied by the county republican central commit tee, near the Congress house, and will it 1t up in elegant style as mining office
 Thomas Mcdonald, one of the former owners of the Bald Butte mine Is said to have gone 10 Bands burg.
 s. C. Rogers writes to the JoUR NAL-MINER, under date of January Is, that the recent snow fall st Walnut creek, was the heaviest eX- perieuced ID thirty years. He also writes that Mrs Rogers IS very sick
 James W. Cart one of the veal thiest sheep men of Navajo county has concluded to make PheniX his future home. The gentleman has been wintering his sheep in this val ley for years and thinks 1t much more to his taste 10 live here. MT. Cart will clip 5O,OOO pounds of wool this spring Gazette.
 The San Francisco mountains are clad iu an elegant mantle of snow. Never before have they been noticed so completely covered as at present. They look like sn i'm meuse bank of snow. Not q tree IS visible nor can a spot of black of any kind be seen anywhere as IS al- most always the case no matter how deep the snow.
 The territorial penitentiary should certainly ba removed from Yuma this winter. PheniX Ur any other place in the interior would be much more preferable than on the California border. Yuma will un- doubtedly become beautiful country and will soon recover from the effects of prison removal Mohava Miner.
 A telegram from Yuma says that Murat MaSterson, democratic as- semblymau elect from that county, mas wired his ,resiguatIon to the board of supervisors, he being absent on q mining deal of great magnitude .ai unable tO be there. This will ae-,essitate the governor calling new el.ction, after ten days notice, to elect his successor.
 Through the courtesy of the weather observer, at the Nhipple hospital, and of Richard Tea, we are able to give the following summary of the recent storm: Total snow fall. 1925 inches; total precipitation in rain. 39l inches; maximum tenn perature, Janlsry l7, 3S degrees; minimum, same date, < degrees; maximum, January IS, g degrees; minimum, : degrees.
 PheniI papers announce the death in that city last week of John Hatch, an old time printer of Cali fornia. He died in the county hos pital and was buried by the frater- nifty. The writer knew Hatch very intimately years ago in San Fran cisco. when he was holding cases on the Call. While holding his cases there he filled them for years with a sub, while he devoted his time to mining, having an office tn the Thurlow block He had fine col lection of mineral specimens, which he exhibited at the Centennial expo sition, and afterwards at the Worlds fair. At the latter place he placed
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