Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-11-22
FBom Wednesdays Daily.


 pie Creek this morning.
 Father Eugene Pickard will leave for Fl Paso in the morning.
 Abe SrOor, well-known merch- ant of Congress, IS in town.
 Deputy Sheriff Pete Borchs came up from Congress this morning.
 Attorney E. M. Sanford leaves on tonights train for the east, on pro fessionsl buiiness.
 Adams, Gus and Flora Veil will leave tomorrow morning for St. Louis.
 Lena Purdy was elected queen of the PheRix carnival. She received 1869 votes.
 And now it is reported that the carnival queen election Tn PheniI will be contested.
 The senior member of the Burke invites the public to be present to- night at the blowing up of the Name on Lake Hickey.
 United States Attorney R. E. Nor, rison and Judge E. NJ. Sanford re- turned thIs morning from a brief trip to PheuiK on professional bus mess.
 A Mexican was killed by a fellow | countrym n neaE the Monte Christo 1 mine last Monday. He made his es- cape after the killing, but a deputy sheriff is on his trail
 A mn who IS accused of making murderous assault on anc ther man at Congress last Saturday, was lodged il the county jail yesterday to awais tbe action of the grand jury.
 Dayt C JnnOr and D. J. Shea, of Jerome, returned this morning from attending the Cobre Grande stock holders meeting in Phenix.
 1t has only been four days since the grand jury adjourned, but there are already three cases pending on examination before another grand jury.
 Colonel and Mrs. William Christv. and Mrs. T. D. Bennett came up from Phenix this morning to attend the funeral of the late Richard Bennett.
 The latest news from Flagstaff is to the effect that the excitement over the recent Indian troubles there has about subsided and things have resumed their normal course.
 The recent grand jury, it is said, returned an indictment against King Ussery for grand larceny and be is in custody at Globe. A. A. Johns has gone to Globe 10 bring him here for trial.
 J. s. Cook, of WilliamsOns valley, was in town yesterday with a four horse wagon load of potatoes from his ranch. The potatoes are un- usually large and fine this year and he reports a yield Of seven tons to Ihe acre.
 4 miner came in today from the Mud Hole mine on Lynx creek. and after wading through Cortez street. remarked: Well, guess I'll go back again; there IS no place like home after all.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. R Hotsenpiier, estimab,e people whose home is at the C3TnucOpla mine m Cherry creek, have returned from a visit 10 Ohio Mr HoJsenpiler has been de- velopiog some very good looking mining claims n that district for years and will resume work on the same at once.
 T. D. Bennett, assistant United States attorney, and a brother of the late Richard Beunett. killed Sunday night, arrived in Prescott yesterday. NIT. Bennett's mission IS particularly sad one indeed. com ing as he does 10 witnesses the last sad rites ot a brothers earthly ca reer He has tha sympathy of all in the bereavement which over takes him.
 Squire Hill, pillar of the Lower Agus Fra country, Is visiting Pres colt on business matters today. He says he Is a red-hOt expansiOnis., and that his section is reaching out and going ahead so wonderfully under the benefcent principles of this doctrine that the new order of affairs Is generously welcomed aud IS particularly noticeable ID the mining element.
 The north bound train this morn rug had a narrow escape from what might have proven serious wreck While coming down the grade ID Bells canyon the engine struck a big boulder which had been lOOs- ened by the rains a0d fell by the side of he track One cylinder of the engine was pretty badly smash d up aud some of the car steps were torn away. but the train did not leave the track. Had the boul- der lodged few inches nearer the track 1t would inevitably have de ralled the train over high embark ment
 E. A. Jordan, of the Verde valley, IS visiting Prescott, this being his annual trip. He gives a generally good account of affairs in that pro-
 duclng section aud, like many oth- CTS, believes that valley Is yet in its infancy ss an industrial center for
 both inning aud agricultural pur. suits.
 The mete1ric showers came along all right, from rain standpoint and one of the heaviest downpour: n years soaked into the ground many inches. The ethereal spectsc ulsT phenomenon was drowned out evidently, So far as this section va:
 concerned. and the only material Il
 luminstion We witnessed was al the
 Comet on Gurley street, which wa:
 as bright and glowing as ever.
 The preliminary examination O
 Charles Walker for the murder o
 Richard Bennett. took place las
 evening in the court house beior,
 Judge Moore. Evidence submitte,
 was on behalf of the prosecution
 the defense offering nothing what
 ever on behalf of Walker. The wit
 nesses examined threw nothing ad
 dltional Lew or startling in connec
 ton with The tragedy. Judg