Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
THE CITY
 ANDCOUNTY
WEDNESDAYS DAILY.

Mrs. W. S. Pratt, son and daugh
 ter, returned last evening from t6eil
 visit to California.
 The Prescott Hotel has big list oi
 arrivals daily.
 Read the big removal sale adver tisement in this issue.
 Ex-Governor NJ. H. McCord. oi
 Phenix, has recovered sufficiently from the effects of his recent accident so that he is able to be around again
 Recently a man won SI2.OO0 from the Palace gambling saloon at No gales, and 1t was not a good gaming day, either.-Enterprise.
 Downing, who was acquitted of the Cochise train robbery, Is now in iail at Tucson, to be tried by the federal court.
 A telephone line has been com pleted between Bisbee and Naco. the new-12wn on the border of Arizona and Sdora.
 Ben >Rybon and Joe Askew have taken a lease on the Sorg block on the corner of Goodwin and Granite streets.
 The funeral of the late John Dick son occurred today from his late resi- dence in Skull valley, under the di- rection of Funeral Director Borders. Interment was in the family burying ground in Skull valley.
 Born, December 17th, to Mir. and Mrs. Frank Barr, a son.
 Sam Hill is moving his immense stock of hardware into his new store on the west side of the plaza, winch has been built on the site of the one burned down in the big confagration of July.
 Ed Barthel is expected back from the east tonight where he has been engaged in purchasing stock of gents furnishing goods.
 F. E. Jones has returned from his trip to Los Angles where he went to purchase a stock of Christmas goods. |
 Mir. and Mrs. Craft have returned | from a trip to Chicago.
 Ed. Barthel and John Stocks have 1 purchased a fine stock of gents fur nishing goods, the first invoice of | which they expect to arrive tomorrow. | They have secured commodious quar- i ters in the Lawler block, in which | they will open an Up-to-date store in | this line, very soon.
 Col. W. R. Wallace returned to Prescott a short time since with an | oil expert named Kaufman, and the two made a thorough examination of i the alleged, but yet undeveloped oil | fields near the Black Hills. The in dications of the existence of oil in that i section were considered so good that l NIT. Kaufman has gone east to pur- chase machinery to prospect the field. | Mir. Kaufman expressed the opinion that oil or gas or probably both | might be found there.
 Nathan Levy went to Jerome this morning on a brief business trip.
 A. W. Edwards left yesterday for California to spend the holidays with relatives.
 R. E. Wells and family left this morning for Los Angeles, where they expect to reside. During their five years residence in Prescott, Mir. and Mrs. Wells have become warmly at tached to a large number of our peo- pie, who very much regret their de- Darture. As assistant general mana ger of the :. F.. P. & F. railroad. Mir. ., Wells was very popular with the em- ployees of that road who were under { his control.
 Harry Brisley has just received a very interesting letter from an uncle in Durham, in South Africa. It is in teresting in its contents. as it tells of the affairs of that country more in de- tail than Is told by the average news paper accounts. It is also interesting in the way it was written. The writer of it was an English soldier, and dur ing the Kaffir war he had the mis- fortune to have both of his arms blown of by the premature explosion of a bomb, which was being prepared to drop down from a cliff among lot of Kaffirs. The letter was written by holding the pen holder between his teeth. Not only does he write in this way, but for years he maintained himself and family by fine carriage painting, holding the brush in the same way. In recent years he has not been under the necessity of doing this, however, having realized neat sum from mining interests which he secured.
 McClure's magazine for January will contain the first installment in the Memoirs of Clara Morris, entitled Recollections of the Stage and Its People" This chapter describes the famous actress first appearance be- fore a New York audience and tells wildly of all the trials and triumphs on that crucial occasion. Apart from its sentimental value as the autibiOg- raphical work of our greatest actress. the dramatic intensity of the writing gives to the article literary charm worthy of its high historic interest.
 THURSDAYS DAILY