Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-03-07
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.
R. BAEHR for house painting and paper banging. Telephone numbers l6S and 97.
From wedne days Daily

John Kinney is ln town today.
 Flagstaf's water supply is getting scarce.
 See the burnt leather work at the Bashford-Burmister Go.
 Today IS Ash Wednesday, the commencement Of tue Lentsn sea- son.
 A. W. Edwards left on Sunday mornings train for a brief business Irlp to Los Angeles.
 Don't fail to see the exhibition of burnt leather work at the Bashlord- Burmister Go.
 Be sure and go and hear Rev. J. A Elliott of Kansas City, preach at the Baptist church tonight.
 Reserved seats for Too Much Money" will be on sale tomorrow morning at the Corner Drug store.
 Babe Algernon, who returned to Phenix from Prescott recently, is back m his old quarters there in the jail.
 Be sure aud get your seats tenor HOW for "Too Much Money" which will be at Dake's opera house Fri dag evening, March ?.
 Gel. and Mrs. 4. O. Brodie arrived in town today from the Crown Point mine for brief visit, and are stay ing at the Johnson house.
  Too Much Money" one of the most popular comedies on the stage today, will be al the opera house Friday evening, March 2
 Hanley and Jones, accused of ra- Zor stealing, were discharged yes terdsy evening, the evidence not be- ing considered strong enough 10 hold them.
 There are over two billions of money now in circulation in this country. This meaus a per capita of over BPS, more than in any other country in the world.
 The Hunt Stock company arrived dA Prescott this afternoon and will play three nights engagement at the Prescott opera house, commeue ing on Monday evening.
 The s, F., P. & P. railroad is haul ing water to the Wicklow "Y,'' this side of Ash Fork. for Kilgore & Sterl5ng's sheep, numbering about 5000 head.
 If rain does not come within a ( 1, f.. A -. zona will suffer materially the com ing year. Thousands of COWS will die on tho rangs for wan, of food and water.
 Twenty-eight car leads, or about 750,000 pounds of wool have been shipped over the s. F., P. & P. rail- road en route east this spring. It has come from Phenix, Congress aad Mayer mostly and constitutes the bulk of the spring wool crop. There are few more car loads left yet for shipment.
 Contractor Webster will get his afus.k back 10 Prescott, and will re- sunse work again on his street grad ing contract about March b With the exception of one slight storm it has beer clear, dry weather ever since the gOrk was stopped.
 Free mai delivery goes into effect tom orrow. There will be two col Iections and two deliveries daily There will be delivery in the morn ing of all mail from the south. and
 h f,ff na ing from the north aud by stages Collections will be made about ? p m. for the south bound train and about 6:30 p. m. for the night train A postoffice inspector is expected here next Sunday.
 The Kentucky courts will now have a pleasant time hunting oui precedents for declaring that thu ballots at the last election were partly legal aud partly illegsl-lega as regards tLe election of the legis .IotOrs who have chosen MT. Black lburD tn the senate, aud at the sami time illegal as regards Governo Taylor, who was voted for on th' same identical ballot.
 4 correspondent writing iron Walnut creek, weo. by the way, for got to sign his name. has sent in al elaborate account of the celebration .there of Washiugton's birthday ant the closing Of the public schools a the sam time. 4 dance was givel .on the occasion which was attended by people from "all the eountr around" as well as from Ash For and other suburban towns to Juni per. The supper was furnished b, Mrs. George Denny.
 Miss May Roberts came very nea becoming an accidental felodes yesterday afternoon. She was doin something with a pocket knife whe 1t slipped in Der hands and the blad entered her arm near the wrist, cut ting large blood vessel from whic the blood poured in a great stream She tainted at the sight and loss c blood together, but assistance va at hand quickly and the flow c blood was stopped, and she is toda but little the worse for her expe -Tience.
 Jerry O'Neill, an old time and we sknoEn miner of this section, died tC day at the residence of 4. B. Boyle after an illness of only three week with some form of liver complain Deceased was a native of Ireland aged 56 years. For the past thirt years he has been engaged in minin in Yavepai county, and as is cha acteristie of the class was an intell gent, big hearted man and a goo citizen, who would never do any ou a harm and who would go out of h way to do good turn to a. fello man. Of course during this lon residence in the county he hecan well known to the majority of i citizens and none who knew him bU will have a good word for him an Uh0 Tvill fool finOo 0f sOrrouy an