Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-17

CaptaIn 0. Broughton, depart ment commagder for Arizona of the G. 4. R., returned yesterday from making an official visit to the Flag staff, Williams and Jerome grand army posts. He will leave in day CT two for the southern part of the territory to he absent until spring.
 The entertainment given at the opera house Saturday evening con tained some very interesting features, while a portion of it was amusing only to children. The champion balancer did some very clever acts balancing articles on his chin from a piece of writing paper to a large table. The vitascope pictures were up to the usual stand ard of su3h pictures, while the dogs and ponies did some clever tricks.
 T. A. Dunshee, of the Buster mine, is in town.
 Mrs. Elwin F. Tarr, of Jerome, is visiting in Prescott, the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Harry Brisley.
 Charles Lazure and Miss Daisy Jones of Cottonwood, were married last week.
 Mrs. Bertha Spears left yesterday afternoon for Castle creek hot springs for the benefit of her health. She was accompanied by her sister. Mss Anna Schuerman.
 The Brisley Drug company, which dispensed such delicious summer drinks during the past summer, has just placed heating apparatus in its drug store and is now prepared to serve all kinds of hot drinks.
 The ladies of Prescott who are in terested in the Florence Crittenton Rescue Home are invited to attend the meeting to be conducted at the M. B. church tomorrow at 2 o'clock by Mrs. E. M. Broadbrook, matron of the home at Phenix.
 A. Blumberg and Miss Sophia Wollenberg will be married tomor- row and will leave on Wednesday morning for MT. Blumberg's former home in Germany. They will be absent for four or five months and will visit the Paris exposition during their trip.
 R. k. Monroe, general post office inspector, with headquarters at San Francisco, and B. H. Hall, inspector for this district, arrived in Prescott on Saturday and made an inspection of the post office here leaving for Phenix on Sunday afternoons train. Mir. Monroe makes a tour of this kind once year. They found the Prescott post office in A shape.
 Julius Jacoby and Roland Bay who recently purchased for this county the patent of an improved ice cream freezer, took nine orders in one day recently for the machine. They have ordered a half dozen machines as samples and will soon commence an active canvass of the county for their sale.
 The fire department was called out this morning between g and 10 o'clock for an incipient blaze in the Golden Eagle hotel. The timely discovery of the fire, and the prompt ness with which the department an swered, enabled it to be extinguished with but little damage.
 Mrs. B. M. Broadbrook, matron of the Florence Crittenton Rescue home for girls, at Phenix, came up yesterday morning in the interest of that institution and will conduct a meeting at the Methodist church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, at which time she desires very much to meet the ladies of Prescott who are interested in this noble work.
 Funeral services over the remains of the late Christine Johnson were held in the Methodist church on Saturday evening at 5 o'clock by Rev. H. w. Peck. Although but brief notice had been giren there was large number of friends in at tendance. The choir of the church rendered music appropriate to the occasion. The remains were shipped on Sunday morning to San Fran cisco for interment.
 It is reported that the man who ar rived in Prescott last week claiming to be an evangelist, and who held services at one of the saloons Friday night, became so intoxicated that he was denied the privilege of speak ing, the proprietor of the saloon not being willing to have so sacred a calling or cause disgraced in his place. Letters received from King man, where this man claims tC have held services, are by no means complimentary to him.