Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-23


 E. B. Modem is on the sick list.
 School election one week from to- day.
 B. NJ. Belcher is laid up with la grippe.
 The Home market has a live lion cub on exhibition. ] Dr. H. F. Belmont, of Chicago, is a guest of Hotel Burke. W. N. Kelly was taken quite sick with la grippe last night. Agua Fria school district is we'll represented in Prescott today.
 Geo. H. Cook returned last night from business trip to Jerome.
 Governor McCord is expected in Phenix from his visit east on Mon day.
 H. J. Allen, of Jerome, left this morning for brief visit to Los Angeles.
 Miss Cora Cond-on, of Walnut Grove, will leave tomorrow morning for Stockton, California, to attend school.
 Warren Day and Carl Behn, of this county, have been appointed notaries public by Acting Governor Akers.
 Judge H. T. Andrews is being mentioned in connection with the election of a school trustee next week.
 Herb. D. Derwin, a former popular young resident of Prescott, and as popular as ever though not a resi- dent of Prescott, is paying a visit to his old friends here.
 Acting Governor c. H. Akers has appointed Dr. E. A. Butler a mem Der of the territorial board of med ical examiners.
 A special train went out to Jerome this morning with F. NJ. Murphy, E. B. Gage. Lloyd Griscomb and D. NJ. Ferry. The party will return this evening.
 A deed has been filed for record from G. W. Hull to J. H. Clink- scales for a fifty foot lot on the Maine mining claim, Jerome; con- sideration, S2O0.
 J. A. Noble, formerly superintend- ent of the s. ?. Company at Tucson, has been promoted, and Is now division superintendent of the Salt Lake division of the Central Pacific railroad.
 The Epworth League of the West Prescott Methodist Church will give a Basket Social" next Friday even ing, March 25th. The entertain will be held in the church.
 A special train load of cattle, of fourteen car loads, passed through Prescott last night . en route to Kansas from the Salt ! river valley. |
 Mrs. Richard Baxter of Wicken- burg, died in Phenix on Thursday of heart failure, superinduced by Deceased was a sister of James Roarke, who died only a short time since of the same disease. Both were well known in Prescott.
 Rev. Scarborough, of Tempe, presiding elder of this district, and Rev. Claude Thompson, of the Verde valley, will be at the NJ. E. Church South tomorrow morning and even ing. A cordial invitation IS extend ed to all to these services.
 H. s. Mitchell, division superin- -endent of the Memphis Route" | with headquarters at Fort Scott, Kansas, is paying his first visit to Prescott. He is an old frieud of Geo. NJ. Sargent, G. P. A. of the s. F., r. & P. railroad. l,
 Lionel Saltmarsh and John Palis- ter, two well known English min ing experts, have been in this section Tor several days on mining business. They visited Jerome thIs week in company with Prof. G. 4. Tread we'll, returning on last nights de- layed train.
 Major Weston, formerly chief of subsistence of this is now stationed at New York. He reports to the authorities that the supplies of food in New York are so abundant that from this depot alone an army of 250,000 men could be fed, whether in Florida or Cuba.
 Probate Judge Hicks and the other two members of the county board of examiners are engaged this afternoon in trying to uuravel a snarl in the management of school affairs in Agua Fria district. Nearly every resident in the district is in while the examination, which is being held in the court room, attracted large number of spectators.