Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-18

On tonight's train. He expects to rs-
 turn in about a month.
 Advices from Flagstaff state tbas U has been showing there today. l The San Francisco pesks have taken on their msntel of white for the writer.
 | Hotel Burke arrivals today were: Abe Newbury and Charles F. Scott,
 New :ork; D. Baird, C. J. Lex and Ike Houser, St. Louis; c. C. W. Brown, COshocton, Ohio, and F. L. Morgan, Los Angeles.
 The present storm could not have been manufactured to order 10 bet ter advantage, to increase the water supply, than it has come. The storm seems general throughout Northern Arizona.
 Mrs. R. L. Tea of Whipple, and her sister, Mrs. i. Grogan of San Luis Obispo county, California, are said to have recently inherited a S20,OOO ranch in California which Is being offered for sale.
 The FL Paso Herald notes the pas sage through that city recently, of an east bound freight train com posed of six sections and an aggre- gate of l0l cars, loaded with Cal ifornia fall products, including dried and canned grapes, peaches, apples, pears, and the like, and wines and wool. It is all through freight billed to New Orleans and New York.
 Today, Friday, the so-called un- lucky day, falls on the the 18th of the month. the so-called unlucky number. The dual combination IS just as likely to be productive of good luck as otherwise.
 J. H. Tibbitts, the mining engis nrer, has gone south to examine and | report on some mining properties in which R. c. Flower S Go, of New York, are interested. He re- gently made an examination of the properties of the Arizona. Eastern & Montana company in this county. A new department has been es- tablished at the territorial univeT- slty-that of domestic science. The branches are cooking and sewing. MissK stherine K. Barker, of Cali fornia, has been engaged as iustruc- tress, and rooms have been especial- lv fitted up for the uss of herself aud class.
 The Prescott foot ball team will hold meeting at the Western club rooms next Sunday at 1:3O o'clock. All members are requested to attend. The boys have gotten a good team together and all that is needed now is for them to stick together and pull together and down" anything they tackle" in the shape of foot ball.
 4 man named Perkins. who was driving a wood wagon for NJ. H. 1 Gould, met with a serious accident on Wednesday. While driving under the Granite street bridge his horses became frightened and ran against the structure dislocating his collar bone and otherwise iniuring him. The storm which started on Wed nesday morning has continued, in spssmodic showers ever since, the rainfall, however, being quite copi- ous. pr. Day reports an inch of rainfall during Wednesday and We'd nesday night, while during the sue ceeding twenty-four hours it was certainly greater.
 The Nogales Vidette says that perhaps the largest single transac- ton in cattle in the history of this industry in Mexico is now being closed. The deal involves the pur- chase of l5,000 head of range cattle, and an outlay of nearly SjO0,OOO in money. The purchases are being made for export to Cuba in the in terest of the firm of Utget, Lay & Co, of Havana and New Orleans.
 The Belgian hare fad, which has had such a run in Los Angeles and Denver, has reached Arizona. 4 Prescott banker and Pheuix com mission merchant figure as the ad- vance guards of the industry, each ] of them having established a rab- bitry ID his respective town. The Belgian hare IS a very prolific sni- nal from forty 10 sixty being pro duced tIom a single pair in 8 year, and its meat IS said to be finer than chicken or turkey. The animal IS nearly the size of the Arizona jack rabbit.
 The Werner company of Akron, ! Ohio, announces the early appear ance of a new book which will inter est the women folks. The author of the booE. Mrs F. L. Gillette. has through fifty years of practical e1- perience, and the medium of the famous White House Cook Book . made her name a synonym for per fected cookery; therefore, this, her latest work, which appears under the sppropr1ste title of ~Mrs. Gil lett's Cook Book" promises to have a widespread sale,
 The cosmic shower of stars that appear every B years is set for No vember l4th may appear on the nights of the 12th to the 18th. The earth's position, as indicated by the moons first quarter, may" be in the southern sky, may" indicate the earth's most northern position on November 10th ss S:90 p. m., hence the shower may take place on the last date. lt is now admitted that these showers are caused from solid l