Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-16
HE CITY AND COUNTY
HSy Items From Our 0En 7OEB an Surrounding Country.

Mrs W. s. Goldsworthy returned f77aay from her visit east.
 n. E. Peery, the Stanton merchant znd miner is in town today.
 fresh tot of homemade Missouri zesAet cider just in at s.29;i
 Bus Hirsh6eld, of Phenix, ha:
 ehe to San Francisco to get mar
 
 pr. J. S. Barrett left today foI week's trip to San Francisco on
 epOrtant business.
 The customs receipts of the gov
 nment for January were S3,000Oo0
 ere than for December.
 Phenix hotel keepers will unite in
 hting an ordinance imposing li-
 sse on them in that city.
 Miss Alice Day, the obliging post
 ee clerk, was the recipient today q handsome gold nugget.
 marriage license was issued to1ay to Thomas Cooney and
 esa NJ. White of the town of
 agoner.
 he latest news from Johnson lsnyon IS to the effect that repairs ca the tunnel will be completed to- 1orrow, February 10.
 The costumes for the Red Mems s1squerade ball are going of rap idIy. Call early at Shumate's if you 44n't want to get left.
 Mrs. Thomas Watson, Of Homo lH|n, daughter of Claus Spreckles,
 H sued her father for the recovery a[ kl.500,OOO worth of property.
 The Jerome News in its last issue sFpropriated about a column of
 ing news from the JOURNAL
 rER without a word of credit.
 The recorders fees for January
 re, for regular business, S524.40.
 fras, S29.l0; total S553,50, or about
 20 more than for the same month e< 1S97.
 q deed has been filed for record I.|.n B. C. Williams to Frank Her. se for one third interest in Iron
 f1ng, near Jerome, consideration
 .O0. Correspondent Pittock. of the Re eobliean, Is writing about chickens.
 f. Pittock is a very versatile writ sl 2nd there Is no subject which he Ennot write about. Ihe only record entered this fore
 pn by the clerk of the board of apervisorS was the approval by the tirman of the bond of D. Pent-
 contractor for the care of the
 igent poor.
 Miss Nellie Brown, of the millin- 2 department of N. Goldwater & |ps-, who Is taking a between seas !
 vacation, Is assisting her friend 1
 s Alice Day in the postoffice 1 9ring the absence of Postmaster iDrne.
 It is announced that the reason he blood hounds fail to take the III of criminals is that they have en spoiled by rabbit hunting. onder If the officers have been abbit hunting too!
 D. J. and J. L. Marr came in from R Verde valley last evening. They port extremely cold weather there, e river being frozen over, the sec time within their memory.
 Work on the Big Bug railroad is spected to commence about March k 4 number of contractors are Ready in Prescott figuring on the 7pTk, ana bids, IL Is said, will be till February 15.
 The change in the grade of the s.
 F. X F. railroad, al the foot of Eat Is known as the amphitbeater, 4s been completed, and trains com eneed running over 1t yesterday. e long bridge, with its reverse afye. Is now left some distance Bay from the road. Zoe Mulhatton will probably not Isit Ash Fork, as that place seems e have been already worked by the ewspaper prevaricator. Our con this morning states that man reported at that office that .Rn were standing around saloon srs in Ash Fork asleep with ten sllar bills in their hands. Joe Mul- stton will not attempt to discount Us B. B. Brajevich, the enterprising , 'nit dealer opposite the postoffice, ss purchased E. H. Frederick's bit store on the west side of the laza and took charge of the place .1sy. He will make important eanges to the place by moderniz- .g 1t and will consolidate the two |eres at that place. It will proba- Iy take three or four days to make |se contemplated changes and eff .et the consolidation of the two |ores.
 That there Is a great demand for : Hws from the Klondike was evi- 2nced during the past few days 'em the fact that although large amber of extra papers containing ae interview with A. P. Smith were Ented they were all sold within 70 or three days, and the demand sl continues. The WEEKLY oURNAL-MTNER containing the inter Iew was printed today and limit 6 humber of copies can be had. Bob Hughes. an old time Arizona liner, returned last week to Yuma rom Klondike. He say the frozen orth Is all right for a man with 3enty of money to pay the enor- eous expenses of prospecting and eFeloping mines, but that the wage 4rner and poor prospector is a feat deal better of in the land of srpetual sunshine. He says that se pay dirt was all located when he 'ft there in November. and unless <w finds are made the many people eE rushing to the new Eldorado sll be disappointed.