Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-26
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oo8o Wcodhs HttoNtuter fat | Fred ZOebel and \. L. Griffin left this morning for California.
 Mir. and Mrs. Geo. H. Cook left on , this mornings train for California
 for a little recreation.
 The Phenix Herald announces the
 arrival there of Judge R. F. Wells of Prescott.
 Mrs. Florence Huckabey has been appointed sdministratTiK of the estate of her late husband, Thomas
 Hackabey.
 Joseph Broguirue, proprieto: of the Union saloon, has gone to Cali fornia to visit his family, bis little
 son being sick there.
 Geo. Waddell, who came in Yes-
 terday from bis mining camp. re-
 ports q very heavy rain storm in that
 section on Wednesday. He says the roaring of the food in Gro Fino
 canyon could be heard for miles.
 Mrs. II. T. Smith return, d last evening from 6 four months visit to
 relatives in Edinburg. Illinois. ! Supervisors Schuerman and Beat
 son went out today to examine the Copper Basin road which was badly
 damaged by washouts on Wednes-
 day.
 Today's Santa Fe west bound
 train was nine hours late on account
 of wastouts. The :. F. F. X P. did not wait for it's arrival but came
 through on schedule time without eastern mail, or passengers from the east.
 A motion to suspend execution of ! judgment in the case of Joseph
 Tamboriuo pending the appeal of
 his case t) the supreme court, was argued and submitted yesterday in the district court.
 4 telegram from Salt Lake tells of he shooting and killing there of | E. C. Morris, formerly 8 member of Toney's Rough Riders, by J. H. Benbrook, a sporting man well known in Arizona. Jealousy over woman is given as the cause Of the tragedy. Mir. Benbrook was the partner of Put YAney, also formerly resident of Prescott, in saloon in Salt Lake.
 Wonders will never cease m min- ing affairs of Arizona. As q result evidently of the big rain storm Tn Prescott ou Wednesday. Frank S. Jackson. an employee of this office, I yesterday picked up a S2.40 gold !. nugget in the alley back of this office. Placer location notices are now in order iu this locality, which ! has all the symptoms Of q young klondike.
 J.H. Brown, who with his son has a ranch south west ot Prescott, was in town this morning and in- formed the JoURSAL- MINER that Wednesdays fool had practically washed away the labor of twenty four years on his place. They had, with a great deal of labor, built double stone walls along the banks of the stream to keep the waters from encroaching on their land. These walls, together with a large portion of their lands, fruit trees, etc, were all washed out, the water even entering their houes.
 The grand jury of Santa Cruz county found two indictments against Allen T. Bird. editor of the Oasis, for libeling the supervisors, and filed two scathing arrsignments against W. P. Harlow, district al torney. for kidnapping and malteas- ance in office. Harlow ordered a deputy sheriff to arrest four citizens of Nogales and force them across the ! line into Mexico, when they were taken and immediately shot by the authorities of that republic without trial. The parties indicted are those who secured the removal of Col lector of Customs Chenoweth, whose friends hope that the actioo of the grand jury may reopen his case at Washington.
 In an interview in ChicS ,e Gen. Ii. c. Otis. on his return from said: Major General Ous has not been unduly optimistic , rather the opposite. l know cases , where be had opportunities of mak , ing highly favorable reports of his operations. but modestly re- I trained from doing so. He and hls , officers oo not look with favor on , reports, which with all of being fair, are apt to be exaggsrs;ed. Gen. Otis has the situation yell in hand. as be stated. From an army of 5000 men the in suYgentS have undoubtedly been re C duced to scatterei 10000. and capital ls on the back of | a pony. What Otis started out to do he has done" Ii
 Mir. and Mrs. Jos. Mayer came Tn from Mayer yesterday
 Isaac T. Stoidard came in yestc,. , day from hts mlniug camp.
 E. F. Ellinwood came in from Fiagstatf this afternoon. It
 Mir. and Mrs. \. C. Shekels re- turned on this afternoons train from c their visit east.
 John : Jones came in from the Little Jessie yesterday He reports , scarcity 0f rain in that section.
 The case of Charles F. Harding |, rs Sundance Gold Mining Co. has c peeu reset for August 2
 Heavy thunder storms hung around the r, Hu aus surrounding h Prescott i0t.r. a
 Ed. N. Bake returned yesterday . rom a couple of weeks spent in the ' ' I
 Mrs. M. B. Hazeitine. accompanied ler husband Co California yesterday. They will spend a month ou the . coast. {.
 Rev. W. A. Brewer. of San MateO, c left this afternoon ,or { PheniX after short visit in Prescott b
 Billy" Bunte came in a couple of T iavs ago from the Grand Canyon mine for a brief visit with his fam | lv.
 Henry E. Clifford of Arizona City, . .l- pra=..ft ln =f