Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-13
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From Mondays Daily.

A. J. Hudson IS m town from Ash Fork.
 Gus Heyman is in town on hi: periodical visit.
 The thermometer on Saturday registered 12 degrees above zero. Born, to Mir. and Mrs. G. G. Mason, in Prescott, December 9, a son.
 F. NJ. French, of Los Angeles, ar rived at the Burke this morning from the south.
 D.J. Warren returned this morn ing from attending the Phenix carnival.
 J. c. Herndon returned this morn ing from a professonal trip to Phe- nix.
 P. W. Strahan, a prominent citi- zen of the Verde valley, is in town on court business.
 T. H. Sutton, the seller of sweets, IS in town taking his orders for Christmas candies.
 H. E. Wilcox of Jerome. came up from Phenix yesterday and stopped of for day in Prescott.
 Ed. Shumate has returned from a trip east, where he was called by the illness of his father.
 Major John Reese has been grant ed a pension of s per month, and Allen E. Smith 0f Prescott, has been granted one of S.
 George B. Scammell has been ap- pointed a special aide on Governor MurphV's staff with the rank of cap tain.
 Miss Jennie Smallwood has given up the dining room in the Colds worthy lodging house and left yes terday morning for Winslow.
 Governor N. O. Murphy passed through Prescott on Sunday morn ing en route to Washington td work for statehood.
 A special meeting of Mechanics Hook and Ladder company will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. An members are earnestly requested to attend. Geo. Giles, assistant fore man.
 Mrs. Hike of Topeka, Kansas, niece of Postmaster J. W. Akers, spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. Akers on her return from a visit to Phenix, en route to her home.
 s. c. Miller, the ever good natured resident of Miller valley, was in town today on a business visit and crack ing jokes with his friends. AL though living but mile from town Mir. Miller is seldom seen on our streets.
 The city council will meet tonight, at which any citizen interested wIli be permitted to express his views on the proposed ordinance in reference to the sewer system. Action will also be taken on the petition against grading Montezuma street.
 A saloon keeper at Fools Gulch whose name was not learned, was quite seriously cut in the face last Friday night in a quarrel with young man named Kirkland. The knife struck him on the side of the head near the right ear and slit his cheek open clear to his mouth.
 W. B. Clark, the freighter, has re- turned from a visit to Stanton, and has closed contract with the Oc- tave Mining company to freight the machinery for its forty stamp mill from Congress Junction to Stanton, also to haul fifteen miles of pipe for the Octave company's pipe line from Kirkland to Peoples valley.
 A fire in Nj. E. Morin's bottling works at 2 o'clock yesterday after aoon was the occasion of a are alarm. The OK. hose company did prompt and efficient service by l getting a stream of water on and l extinguishing the blazs before it had made much progress. The loss | was about $l5C. Origin of the fire is unknown.
 A number of forged cheeks pur- porting to have been issued by the | United Verde copper company were ! discovered in Prescott today. The ! forgery was very neatly executed . and might have passed even the bank officials but for the discrepancy between the numbers on them and | the numbers of the company's 1. checks. The perpetrators of the forgery have not been apprehended.
 The editor of the JoURSAL-MNER is delighted to have his attention | called to the fact that he owns two lots in capital addition to Phenix, on which a 5000 house is being erected. Prier to reading the in formation in the Courier this morn- ing he was not aware of either, being the owner of the afaresaid lots or house. Such news is very "com- fortin'."
 Dwyer's second hand store was burglarized on Saturday night. En- trance was effected through a win dow, a pane of glass being broken, through which the burglar reached 1 and unfastened the window catch. ! A box containing watches, revolvers and other articles was taken into ! the yard and relieved of its contents. i
 Justice Tom Shultz held a ses- sion of his court today in the trial | of case entitled Geo, Smith vs. ! PheniX Construction Go. The de- | fendant was the contractor for i putting in the sewer system in Pres colt, and during the period of its construction the plaintiff fell into a man hole in the rear of his place of business, sustaining quite serious in juries. The action was brought to | recover $279 damages, the at- torneys for plaintiff being Ross & l O'Sullivan. The case IS being tried | before a jury,
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