Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-08-01

Word comes from Yuma that the Sen tinel office and plant of that city have been destroyed by fire. The Sentinel is one of the oldest papers in the territory The Journal-Miner extends sympathy, as it is in a position to know how it is itself. ~is,i
 A. G. Oliver has received the follow ing notice from Washington: Wanted. | by the U. $. government. paskers to go to the Philippines or China. Pay-Pack- masters, s1OO a month; cargodores s6O a month; packers. $50 a month. Ra- tions and transportation furnished
 Prof. A j. Matthews will leave to- morrow afternoon for Flagstaff to meet | Prof Taylor of the northern normal school there and some of the members of the board to arrange the course of study and plan the work of the next school year in the two normal schools. Kay Barrett is directing the work of removing the debris from the Burke ruins and is making an excellent show | ing. Mir. Barrett for years in San Fran cisco was superintendent of a large wrecking company and says that he ! feels perfectly at home again. Dr. and Mrs. Lentz, of Phenix, sailed on July 10 for Europe. The doctor will
 attend the dentistry association at
 Paris from August to Is. after which 1 they will visit Germany and Switzer-
 land and other points of interest in Flu
 rope.
 Messrs Burke X Hickey have men | floa ,-i 1 debris from the old Hotel Burke. The
 new structure which they propose to
 erect will take in the lots south of the
 former building. The new building will
 be modern in all of its appointments.
 People who suffer because their
 grocerSman gives short weights and
 measures might be comforted in. adopt ing the Chinese belief in purgatory. The
 celestials believe that the devil pun , ishes such offenses by hanging the
 guilty ones on big hooks over ros ring
 furnaces.
 , The report of the United States grand [ jury was quite brief. Five charges
 were investigated. resulting in three in- : dictments. Two of these were for vio- lation of the Edmunds act and one for selling liquor to Indians. Two cases were dismissed and one was referred to
 the next grand jury.
 , The residence of Mir. and Mrs. V. A
 Stephens on Granite street has beer I sold to the proprietor of the Phenix sa- , loon for $30O0 cash and the new owner { has taken charge. Considering the To-
 cality and the condition of the build
 ing, this price is simply astounding.
 J.sgErnest Walker. one of the leading :. and most. reliable real estate and loar = brokers of Phenix, and who is nov . staying atIron Springs, has s1oo,OOO tC
 place on Prescott property. Address
 him at Iron Springs, Arizona, or call a : this office. If v The fear of cholera and the plagu, ! renders many of the natives of Indi: = heartless. A correspondent writes tha when a member of a family is attacked
 by the disease he or she is shut in tn '' house with a pitcher of water, and lief
 to die
 All reports from Cape Nome say tha if the country is awfully unhealthy ant
 everybody there is sickly. Takin. 7' everything into consideration we thinl g Nome is d very good place to keep ava! r from and we hope that Arizonans vii n give this regiop wide berth
 E Jesse Philips died at the county hos T pital today and will be buried tomorrow
 at o'clock from Logan's undertakin. t parlors. Deceased was well known. il l. Prescott, having resided. here for y number of years. While he was aIway e known by the above name his. .correc y name was John Wesley.
 Fred Rief is one of the most philo e sophical and good natured sufferers il O the city, and is sailing along as smoth 1t ly as ever in his tonsorial parlors. Whil Q giving patrons excellent service, lik t many others is anxious to get back t,
 his old stand, which he states will b
 one of the best equipped in Arizona. . Captain w Bade Di Wismar. the wei : : known explorer is ganizing and ex u peditipp to start next month for Fran Joseph Land, to seek traces of Andre II and to obtain intelligence of the Duk
 of Abruzzi. Cornelio Manzi, the Italian k writer and traveller. will accompany tn y party.
 Mrs. Florence Foltz, the clothes
 cleaner, has located at 219 north Marina " street, opposite the Catholic churcl
 where she will be pleased to see her olt O patrons and any new ones who hay, T anything in her line of work @ Reports from Yuma are that on Jul, ,. 25 Riley's grocery store. the Yuma Sen e tinel building and plant. Reception sa
 loon, Chinese laundry. Gilroys saloon . Milton's hardware store. Vendome ho s tel and Milton's residence were all de r stroyed by fire.
 The Arizona Miner had it's second Q baptism of fire in the recent confiagra
 ton. It comss smiling, as. usual. iron l the flames although it must be ad. , mitted that its present smile is not a. t broad and cheerful as it might be, but l it will be all right again within 8 9 month. S- r-.;
 Mrs C. $. Scott, of Phenix, who came I up to Prescott a few days ago to visit } her sister, Mrs. Wm. Matthews, also l uf PheniX, but who has been visiting l friends here for some time, returned ? home last night and was accompanied
 by her sister.