Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-30
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as governor of Arizona. K. B. Burmister sang a beautiful
 solo last evening at the Congrega
 tional church.
 The Bashforsi BurmisteF Co. hay new advertisement in this issue
 which tells of a special prOgramm
 for this week of a sale of children
 Dongola and heavy pebble goa
 shoes and children's ties and slip
 pers. Read it.
 | Sheriff Ruifner, Deputy Mundi
 and two guards left on Saturday
 evenings train with seven prisoners
 for Yuma, and one man for the Phe
 nix insane asylum. Those destined
 for Yuma were: L. c. Miller, sen
 tenced to lie imprisonment for
 murder; Richard Cross, ten years for
 manslaughter; Abc Thompson, rob
 bery, five years and six months; | Chas. Canaris, grand larceny, three
 years; F. Kane, grand larceny, two
 years and six months; b. Johnson,
 grand larceny, two years and six
 months; E. Valdez, grand larceny,
 thirteen months The insane man
 was Manuel Morales.
 Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sessions are in town from Cherry creek.
 PaIker's attorneys have filed notice of ar appeal to the supreme court and have been granted thirty days tO file bill of exceptions and state
 meut of fact.
 Harry Fulton, a prominent citizen of Flagstaff, Is visiting Prescott. Miss Mimi Martin arrived in
 Prescott yesterday from Pasadena, where she has been engaged in teaching.
 George Merwin has returned from a visit to Phenix He has secured q complete outfit for prospecting and I will start out 500 in search of an- other bonanza.
 The jury on Saturday evening re- turned verdict of guilty of grand larceny in the ease of the Territory vs. Cyatana Miranda and Ignatio Aguirre.
 Ella Green and Katie Cochran, aged respectively II and I3 years, were drowned on Saturday while bathing in tho San Pedro river, near Bisbee.
 Secretary c. H. Akers and Assist ant Secretary Harry Tritle came up from Phenix yesterday morning, re- turning again on this afternoons train. MT. Akers will take charge of the office on Thursday. Chas. Behm. the we'll know stock man and miner, is in town. The steel Hume for the Verde ditch arrived yesterday and has been ship ed out to its destination
 A tandem bicycle, ridden by Nj. Ballenger and Worth Rybon, came into collision last evening with an- other bicycle on the plaza. One wheel of aeh vehicle was badly shattered, but fortunately no one was hurt.
 The forthcoming Fourth of July celebration promises to be the big gest event of the kind ever held in Prescott Indications now are that there will be very much larger at ten,iancr than has even been antici- pated. Word comes from every N mining camp in the county that people aro making all arrangements to attend the celebration. The Adams hotel in Phenix has not been closed for the summer as Fefroneously rcportrd by a Phonix paper.
 The public is invited to attendthe funeral services in Masonic hall on Tuesday afternoon at ? o'clock. The Rev. G. L. Pearson will oficiate. Miss Gertrude Wyckoff gave an other talk on Chinese missionary work at the Congregational church yesterday morning, and in the even- ing her sister, Miss Grace, delivered au address on the same subject. Both were very interesting, and werc listened Co by large audiences. B. R, Crapo. an old time resident oi this county, died at his home in Skull valley yesterday. Sunday, June p. Deceased has been ailing for several years, having had one or two very serious spells of illness. He has had liver and kidney trouble, but recently consumption manifested itself, and last week he suffered from . severe hemorrhage. De- ceased was 56 years old, and leaves 8 wife and two daughters. The funeral will take place tomorrow. CTuesday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock in Prescott, under tho auspices of Stie Masonic lodge, of which deceased was a member. Grand Army veter-
 ans will also attend in a body, as deceased was also member of that order,
 Prescott will make a forward
 movement tonight when the Pres
 colt Electric company will turn the
 current on their new street lighting | Iine, giving our city a greatly inn
 proved appearance at night. In
 addition to the sixteen lights taken
 by the city, the railroad will place
 one and probably two in theIr yards. I Ben Belcher of the Fourth of July
 committee is receiving a big bag
 full of letters daily from the various
 miuing camps of the county, and
 from each place tie good word
 comes that big representation will
 be on hand.
 Tho fourth nt July finance com
 mittee has had exceptionally good
 success iu raising funds for the cele- bratlon. Nearly 5000 has been
 raised with only two or three days
 wo k on the pat of the committee, They were met with only four re- fnsals in tho town, while several people made liberal subscriptions
 voluntarily, without even waiting ' n --an