Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-06-21

orchard where he lives and his re- port on the condition of his trees may be of interest, not cnly to fruit growers but to weather observers and archaeological students as well. His trees are some eight or ten years old and have been prolific bearers during favorable seasons. The cold snap during the latter part of April and first of May nipped them, though, and while the freezing weather killed all of the fruit on the lower branches on the trees, that on the tops of the trees was not injured, demonstrating that warm stratum of air existed just a few feet above the surface. Mir. Clay says that. be has been pruning his trees down to keep them from growing to great height, but from his experience this year he proposes hereafter to let ' them grow just as tall as they will.
 From Fridays Dsny. Herb. Mea1ay came in from Je. rome yesterday
 s C. WyncooP came in from Jerome vesteriay.
 E. R. Hunter, of Denver, is reg istered at Hotel Burke. Wm. H. Button, the Minueh aha mining man, IS In town. ! Iudiratious of the summer rainy season set in today.
 ! Miss Wiunifred Gould left this morning for Kansas City. ! Invitations have been received in Prescott for Miss Ma ige Gould's wedding
 ! A. J. Herndon has aooeatsd posi- ton as agent for large life iusu-, ance company.
 The pr,seut term oi court will provo a rich harvest for the sherif's office.
 A man named Daniels. and his family, from Seattle, moved into the Frank Parker house today,
 A. B. Gibson of Nogales, and J. :. Ambrose of Phenix, were among the arrivals at the Burke this morning.
 D. T. Lucas, financial manager for Lantry Bros, at Ash Fork, is in town as a witness in the LuceTo murder tual
 United States Marshal W. M. Griffith aud his chief office deputy, Wells, left for Pheni1 on this after noon's train.
 The JoURNAL-MNER has a ther- mometeF, and the highest point registered by it this seAson has been SS degrees.
 Mrs Mary 4. BrowG has gone to Phenix to assist her daughter Mrs. Geo. Alkire, whose husband is criti- cally III.
 Mrs. s. E. Blake, accompanied by her little grandson Frank, left on this mornings train for Santa Ana, California.
 A hold up Is reported to have ocv cured in the Granite street section on Thursday night. the victims be- ing two drummers and the amount of cash which e1C hanged hands be- ing g..
 Policeman Giles captured two men on Thursday evening for fast riding, being compelled to shoot one of tuem through the leg before he would be taken. Judge Bauder yesterday assessed their sport at S25 each.
 4 merry-go round opened up for business last evening on the open lot on the east side of the plaza and the small boy and his little sister were there in force.
 Territorial Treasurer T. W. Pemberton and family came up from Phenix this morning to spend tke summer. They are domiciled in the Geo. R. Parker residence in West Prescott.
 The JOURNAL MINER claims that it does not indulge in "vituperati,e or personal journalism. The JoUBNAL-MINER is a tolerably clean paper in that respect and worthy of credit for 1t, too.-PheniK Herald.
 Supervisor Dumas, who is in town, reports that a white man recently stole pony from the Indians near Camp Verde. The Indians trailed him up, recovered their pony and marched the thief back to camp Verde on foot.
 MT. and Mrs. Geo. P. Harrington, accompanied by two of their grand children, returned yesterday from the east. Mrs. Harrington will spend the summer with her husband at the Crowned King mine.
 Joseph H. Dickson, oopyicted 9 year ago Of grand larceny and sen fenced to two years in the'peniten- tiary, will apply to the governor of the territory on June 24, for pardon. His petition has been signed by large number of citizens.
 W, A. Davis. the we'll known Phe- nix undertaken made a flying visit to Prescott today, coming up on this mornings train and returning this afternoon. He and Mrs. Davis will form part of party of bouttwenty Pennsylvania excursionistst, who will leave Phenix on Monday for visit back to their old homes in var ious parts of the Keystone state.
 The crop of kid criminals seems unusually large this term of court. TFeTe are four boys in jail. none of whom seem to be over twenty years old, charged with serious crimes. Three of them have already pleaded guilty or have been convicted.
 The London Anti-Yaccinationists who, by their vigorous agitation recently succeeded in securing the repeal of the compulsory vaccina- tion law, will meet with difficulties in getting their lives insured. Out of seventy insurance offices that have replied to a question whntha- th~--