Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22

PRICE The land office job held by the editor Ot this paper seems 10 be a thorn in the flesh of the Taxless l Footing Howler.
 | Ifyou want to hear the Andrews | Opera. Company you must speak quick to Viii GilS rap as the seats are nearly all sold at present
 By virtue oI putting in lower bid than any one else the JOURNAL MINER was yesterday elected to do the printing for the city for anoi her year.
 l Tomorrow, Washiugtou's birth day, is legal holiday. il will be obsorved a. such by the schools, post office aud other public offices. and by the banks.
 D. not fail to get ticket for the opera next Monday night. It is se.- dom that our people are favored with the opp rtunity. right at home, to witness such a 6ne company as this.
 The city council awarded con- tracts as follows yesterday: Wood. T. B WhIteside, S350 per cord; feeding prisoners, Geo. Schuerman. l5 cents per meal; printing. Daily JOURNAL MINER, S3S4 per year. 
 A. Blumberg, of the New York Store. has returned from his trip east purchasing goods. He was hut by the blizzard while there and says he is glad to get back home to Ari- zona's genial sunshine.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. ! F. church will give a Martha Wash ington tea at the church tomorrow evening Admission free. Refresh memts will be served free. Mem bers of the church aud congregation are all invited.
 The Taxless Footing Howler is- sues a special edition this morning devoted almost exclusively to "toois" about the ''taxless" and the"Journal- Murphy Such "small' strokes of enterprise are really cOmmsndable. and We congratulate the HoWler on its complete success in this line. In placing that land office salary at S40OO per year, the Footing Howier came within about S3JO00 of the truth. This, however, is consid- erably nearer than the Howler usuolly gets to real facts
 Morse Darnell came up this morn- ing from Pinos Altos. J. P. Dillon has gone to the country an assessing trip.
 The Misses Wollenberg left for Phenix this afternoon. c. P. Collins aud L. C. Leonard left for San Frandisco tbis morning. E. \. Jenkins. of Phenix, and W. NJ. Welsh, of Denver. are guests of Hotel Burke.
 O. W. Ingram, c. H. Ingram and \. B. Noble, who have spent several | days in Prescott on mining business, left on this afternoons train for Phenix.
 The United States supreme court on Monday reversed the decision of the territorial court of Arizona in the case of the Henrietta Mining company vs. ]. l. Gardiner. U
 1 A. Emanuel, the painter and paper hanger, has just received the new sample books of the celebrated ALFRED PEATS val paper Call for samples. Electric phone No. 179. Governor Murphy has appointed Miss Mabel Gray to a years scholar ship ID the Dread cooking school of Worcester. Mass, one scholarship being allowed to each state and ter ritorY. A. D. Brush, general ageut for | Leonard * Rice, the big lubricating oil firm of New York, is making his initial trip through Arizona. Mr Brush has taken the place or Jack Miller, who formerly represented the firms interests n Arizona, but who died recently at Hotel Adams in Phenix, of pneumonia. MT. Brush is a very pleasant gentleman and will no doubt prove himself a worthy successor to MT. Miller.
 This month the change in the running of passenger train crews will go into effect on the Santa Fe l lines. The crews will be run through 1 from Needles to San Bernardino and l the relief crews from that point to 1 San Diego. Barstow will cease to i be division point for the engine crews. It would seem that the 1 Santa Fe IS aiming to form more | direct and quicker connections with San Diego as a result of the new line of oriental steamers, the success of which has been assured.
 The gover ment is constructing a new road from San Carlos to Fort Apache with Indian labor. One of the objects is to reach the timber from Apache where a saw mill will be started on lumber for the con- struction of buildings for the h. dians. All the work of constructing the road, building the saw mill, get ting out the lumber and building the houses is to be done by the h. dlans.-CitiZen.