Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-17

m town today and left Tor Phenl
 this afternoon for a visit to thei
 daughter, Mrs. Margaret BarringeI
 who has just returned with her bus
 band from ten months weddinI
 tour around the world. MT. Bar
 ringer Is one of the ownrs of tn
 Pearce mine and he and Miss Ben
 nett were married last fall, leaving
 immediately afterwards for a triJ
 around the world, returning tC . PhenIx last Wednesday. A. E. Hinton is in town.
 Mrs. Emma Wilcox will re-apeI the Home Kitchen today with
 o'clock dinner.
 Frank Condron, who has been sicl
 at the Castle creek hot springs foI some time, was brought to Prescott
 on Sunday morning, and an opera.
 tion was performed on him yesterday
 at the Mercy hospital. His condl
 tion is said to be quite serious. : Don't forget to attend the Good Templars' social tonight at the Odd Fellows hall. Only p cents.
 The P'escotts put up poor game
 Of base ball yesterday, and the Vol
 unteers won by a score of 22 to7. A telegram from Los Angeles says that Mrs. E. T. Daggs was di- vorced from 4. J. Daggs last Satur- day by Judge Shaw. Non-support and a typewriter girl in Mir. Daggs' office in Phenix were set forth as the grounds of action.
 ] The county central committee of Coconino county met in Flagstaff a few days since and voted on whether they wanted the Territorial conven> tion at Flagstaff. The vote stood three for the convention at Flag staff and twelve aginst having it ! there and the secretary was in stTucted to so inform Secretary w. C. Barnes. of the territorial com mittee. The objection to the con- vention there is want of room for proper entertainment of the dele gates.-Herald.
 A deed from A. c. Cordiner 10 Jerome B. Hoover for lots and 4, | block E, Jerome, consideration Sl, was the only instrument of inn portance filed for record on Satur- day.
 Dr. J. Miller was on Saturday ap- pointed superintendent of the Phe- nix insane asylum. Dr. Miller held the position under Governor Mur- phys former administration.
 Another of those electric dry storms occurred on Sunday after noon. There was considerable thun- der and lightning, but no rain. Lightning struck twice at Whipple. Once 1t struck one of the buildings Tn which were quartered some of Captain Donaldson's men, stunning two or three of them. Another bolt struck pine tree just back of where Captain Russell's men are quartered, setting the tree ou fire. 4 septinel who was stationed near this place YVES somewhat stunned. but not seriously. Ee eisctlicity came in on q number of telephone wires to the central office, but did no damage.
 c. H. B. Carter yesterday received another letter from his brother, Lieut.. J. D. Carter, of the Rough Riders. It was written from San tisgo before the departure of the volunteers from that place. In it he stated that nearly all of the rrgi- ment had been sick with fever him. self included. While some of them had been quite seriously i'll, all were recovering when he wrote, and there 1 had not been single death among the ArizOnans.
 Harry Graves, seriously, if not ] fatally, stabbed J. p. Brady. a sec tion foreman, last Saturday at Hack 1 berry. 4 German attempted to stop the knife wielder and received a slash across the back of the hand !. which severed the tendons and will | render the hand useless for life. ] The knife wielder was arrested and . held in 5000 bonds
 T. G. Barlow-Massick's condition IS said to be improving quite rapidly now.
 President F. NJ. Murphy. of the s. ! F. P. & r. railroad left on Sunday for a weeks visit to his family in Los Angeles.
 Sam Goldwater came up from Phenix yesterday.
 A. J. Head, the lumberman, has gone to Jerome on a business tripl
 Mrs. D. c. Thorne leaves on to- nights train for New York.
 Mrs. Oscar Oneal of Date Creek is in town.
 The Prescott choral club will meet tomorrow evening at the residence of Judge and Mrs. E, Wells. A full attendance is desired.
 E. A. Cutter and John A. Black of the territorial board of equalization spent Sunday in Prescott.
 F. X. O'Brien has returned from a business trip to Denver.
 Mrs. E. M. Blake is slowly recover ing from her attack of typhoid fever.
 Subscription papers for the O'Neill monument fund are being gc l'
 H. NJ Meriwether left for the east yesterday.
 Col. Wm. Christy left for Phenix this afternoon after a three days visit in Prescott.
 Secretary Chas. H. Akers came up yesterday from Phenix to spend a few days with his family and enjoy our mountain breeZes.
 L. B. St. James is still circulating among his Prescott friends.
 The uniforms for the Whipple troops have arrived and will be is sued to the men at oace. Orders have also been issued, it is stated, for the Oklahoma troops to leave for Whipple today. If this infor- nation Is correct they are due to arrive here on Wednesday.
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