Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-26
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NIT. and Mrs. Geo. W. Middleton
 went to Les Angeles yesterday tc attend the free harbor jubilee.
 According to the Tucson Star. D
 M. Rlordan Is president of the KIus
 of Arizona gold mines.
 Mrs. NJ. E. Wilson of Jerome. ,ook
 advantage of the excursion rates to
 the Tree harbor jubilee to visit Los
 Angeles.
 Mrs. L. Wollenberg and her two
 daughters have gone to California on
 account of the illness of Miss Eda
 Wollenberg.
 ! C.. A. Kessler of the Boyle. Kessler
 grocery house, and also manager of
 the Capitol mills at Phenix. is m
 town On business.
 Contractors should not overlook
 the advertisement of the United
 Verde Copper company which is be
 ing published in the JoUKSAL- MINER. H. J. SistS, formerly of Lynx
 Greek, has been arrested in Phenix,
 says the Republican. on charge of obtaining money by fraudulent rep
 resentations.
 Tom Campbell took advantage of the gun club excursion from Jerome to visit Prescott and visit his sister who recently returned from the east and ihcidently to shake hands with his many friends here.
 John H. Hise was brought ia from the Monte Cristo niue yesterday afternoon quite seriously i'll with pneumonia. He is being cared for at the Sisters hospital. His eondi- ton today is more favorable than it was on his arrival yesterday.
 la an engagement at Quenunga, Philippine islands, on Sunday Col. ] John Stolzenberg was among the killed. He was in command of the 1 first Nebraska regiment He was A graduate of the military academy l and held the rank of captain in the i regular army. He served iu the reg ular army m Arizona and New Mex | ico from 1887 to 1890.
 A shooting scraps is reported 10 have occurred yesterday morning on the east bound passenger train be- tween two passengers, one of whom Il IS alleged charged the other with buncOing him out of some money. One man fired three shots all of which went wide of their aim, while with one shot the other is said to have punctured his assailant's wind pipe and when the train reached Ash Fork the man vas reported in a dying condition.
 Tue CoconIno SuH says that a big forest fire has been raging in the ' timber south of Flagstaff during the past week and it has burned over , many miles of timber and grazing | land. A force of forest rangers, aided bE a number of ranehers, have been lighting the fire aud have kept { It away from the ranches. The or ' gin of the fire Is not kDown. but it ( vas DO doubt started through the ! ,arelessness of some camper who ] eft his camp fire burning. The i penalty IS a heavy one for setting ( he forest fires, whether it be care ! essly or purposely done, and camp c ITS should see that their fires are '1tinguished before leaving camp. |, The government intends plosecut- 4 ng ell such cases. n
 1.-the operation of the s. F. P. & ( ?. railroad had depended entirely S 'n Chief Clerk W. H. Smith, of the general managers office oday, there would have been a gen. ral tie up of the line from one end O the other The fact is MT. Smith O ss not 10 evidence to any great ex- ent toiay, around railroad head O quarters, although be is usually a here early aud late, in sunshine and s tOrm, IL was not the blinding torn of dust that kept him away oday, bvt a bright ray of domestic that came to his home in 6, he shape of uine-pound girl. Be- tt 1g the first occasion of the kind fC hat has happened in that particular B ,mith family, he is naturally excus- ble in abserting himself from ousi- ess for day. The JoURNAL-MNER ends congratulations, and may the D oung lady live to be a blessing to b s parents and an ornament and e, seful member of society. c,