Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-22
From Thursdays Daily.
.BScLUTEN PURE

The O'Neill monument bill has si
 last received its finishing touches
 aud slumbers among the slain. Judge E. M. Sanford came uI
 from Phenix this morning where he
 had been on legal business.
 If the elements are any indication
 of official doings, the legislature
 down below must be having a windy
 closing of its life.
 Hon. R. F.. Morrison was a pas
 sanger on this mornings train from
 Phenix where he has been m attend
 ance at the sGpreme court.
 T. L. Harris returned this morn
 ug from few days visit with his
 relatives and friends in. PheniX. Mrs.
 Harris will remain in PheniI a few
 lays.
 D. NJ. Clark of the steam laundry
 eft this morning for California
 While absent he will purchase seV -ral new machines for his bushes Df late models, and otherwise en large the capacity of the plant.
 Rudyard Kipling is improving rapidly. He will not call for a show
 town of the Phenix Republicans hand in the Jack pot" game of health, so oar contemporary will have to shuffie up again.
 Mr. Xarrel, one of the Yavapai representatives ID the 18th legisla- lure, visited the old halls yester- lay and seemed to be somewhat amused at the proceedings. He probably recalled a few scenes of a similar kiud occurring two years ago. Gazette.
 Mir Barrett, one of the sufferers from the Big Bug fire, is in town to- day. He will probably rebuild and l again go into business. He gives no !. version of the origin of the fire, be- cause, as be says he knows nothing more than what has already been 1 ,aid.
 General Charles F. Eagan, well . luown to all Prescott people, and gho for years was stationed al Nhipple, will be in Prescott in a eE days. He will remain for some inc, having mining interests here to oOk into. He will receive a hearty ,resting from his former acquaint- ! ces here.
 Arizona has had some pretty ough legislatures, and DO mistake; ,ut the Dead d-beat Twentieth will go Iown to history as q little bit the 7Orst. It IS said that certain mem ,ers do not wait to be approached, ! ut freely offer themselves foI sale n the open market, and that three ourths of them are owned body nd soul by the corporations.-Flor- nee Tribune. RsPPy has been there nd ought Co know.
 What might have been a serious , ccicent 10 Ben Belcher wa, mar owly averted this morning by sheer lrk. He was extracting powder rom a shell with a pen knife when lgnIted, causing an explosion. A ortion of the charge struck hlm m he face, near the eyes, and 1t was , ,ared for a time that his eyesight as gone. Later today a favorable port was received from his house nd aside from a scared face, be is l, Il right.
 Major Dewitt, in charge of the lunel work north of town, states ( at ram or ro rain, Prescott IS as Ired of a bountilul supply of water ' he coming year. Since the drift I as been run across the creek a sub $ .rrauean chanel has been run into a hat has its source of supply from [ filler valley. The present contract 'ork al that point Is about com leted also. A new pump IS about C D be placed at the site north of l own. the machinery there now be a ig inadequate to handle the volume | [ water on hand. s Senator Clark of Montana, the C wner of the Jerome mines, IS erect ] lg a million dollar residence in New [ ork City. Mir. Clark can dig and | ark of six dollars annually from C Tizona, untaXed, yet a farmer who h Its two tons of hay pays taxes on e to its full value. Such is the law a rizona has for corporations and I ,rporate greed-Gazette Mir. e lark Is l6 Co Ter, and 1t seems c ,kes Sl6 out of Ysvapai to where g leaves Sl here 10 scrap for. The f. resent legislature, which Is demo !, -atic from soda to hook" can an ! vere the corporation argument q DoVa