Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-09-26
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.
WFDNFSDAY'S DAILY.

a protracted visit in California.
 Mrs. W. c. Campbell returned a few days since from her visit to Cali fornia.
 W. H. Hendrick of Crown Point was initiated last night into the mys- teries of the Red Mems order.
 Sam Hill has men at work clearing away the debris from his lot, prepar atory to rebuilding.
 W. W. Vanderbilt telegraphs that he will be in Prescott tomorrow, en route to Mexico on mining business.
 Dr. and Mrs. W. G, Lentz went to Phenix last night after visit of sev- eral days with relatives in Prescott.
 Born, in Prescott, Sunday, Septem- Der Is, to Mir. and Mrs. G. T. Milner, a daughter.
 Miss Agnes Conlon of Prescott and her sister, Mrs. Mckay of Fools ,AGulch. have gone to San Francisco for sit of three or four months.
 Joseph Farrell of Skull valley came up on yesterdays train and was ini- tiated in the order of Red Men last night.
 Judge and Mrs. W. c. Campbell are domiciled in the residence of Judge and Mrs. J. J. Hawkins dur ing the latter's visit in the east.
 Miss Jennie Pedgrift left on this afternoons train for Jerome, where she goes to take a position with the telephone company.
 MT. and Mrs. H. H. Cartier have adopted Mertile Neptune, the three year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. Frank $. Neptune.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. NJ. Murphy will | arrive in Prescott tomorrow. A spe- cial train will go up to Ash Fnrk in the morning to meet them.
 The question of the validity of the poll tax law will come up before Judge Sloan at Flagstaff this week for judi cial settlement.
 The lodge of United Moderns meets tonight and full attendance of mem bers is requested, as M. H. Harlan, an organizer of the order, will be in attendance.
 According to the Tombstone Pros pector, William Ames and David Bean, miners, were killed last Satur- day by an explosion in one of the Gold Rock mines.
 N. B. Noble, the well known mining man who has extensive interests in | this section, is expected in Prescott 1 on tonight's train. Mir. Noble has been absent about year.
 N. c. Webster shipped twenty-five ! head of mules to Phenix today to place them on pasture, being short of | work here. He still has between twenty and thirty animals at work.
 J. Hewlett, aged 31, died on the train between Prescott and Phenix on Sunday night. NIT. Hewlett, accom- panied by his wife, was en route to | Phenix to spend the winter. The re- mains were shipped to his former home in Michigan.
 ''The Journal Murphy crows be cause the Courier is not publishing the county democratic platform. - Platform Courier. Mistaken in the sound. No crow about it; simply a pertinent remark that the bogus plat form business did not work
 "The Jornal-Mmphy should know that there can be no bogus demo cratic platforms. Platform Courier. Yes, since exposing the bogus one in its contemporary the Journal Miner has learned that Yavapai county democrats will not stand any bogus affairs of this kind.
 Rev. Caton. who was to have charge | of the services at the the South Meth | odist church this week, failed to ar rive on account of having been called l home. Services, however, will be continued right along, being held at | 3:30 p. m. and at 7:45 p. m. All are cordially invited to attend.
 Thomas Sutton, the genial repre- sentative of Bishop & O.. of Los An l geles, is in town with big line of samples of good things to eat and l with supply of political buttons to | suit any shade of politics. The but ton business Is a sort of side line with | Mir. Sutton.
 J. W. Wilson has received big stock of goods which he Is arranging on shelves, show windows and tables in an attractive form for inspection and purchase by his customers. Mir. Wilson now occupies a store directly across the street from the Journal Miner office.
 The following is the list of dele gates elected last Saturday in Je- rome to the republican county con vention; c H Dollison. J B Hoover. w H SlOter, T E Campbell. H CI Rolfe, J A Knoblock, \ W Calkins. F D Myers, J B Weber, D o Donohue. P P Hastings, c E Nathhorst.
 Complaint has again been made that boys have been tampering with the mail boxes and destroying the time cards on them. As there is penalty of $500 attached to the crime of tam pering with these boxes, boys as well as others should be careful about de- facing them in any way.
 At the meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church. held on Tuesday, the following were elected its officers by exclamation: Mrs. H. D. Aitken. President: Mrs. H. II. Cartier, Vice-president: Mrs. R. NJ. Ling, Secretary; Mrs. W. c. Campbell, Treasurer. All the officers were reelected to positions formerly held by them except Mrs. H. H. Cart ter.
 The Journal-Miner would like to inquire of the district attornev's apologist just where. in the constitu- tion of the United States. in its cor ner stone or elsewhere. or in the dec laration of independence, which it now h.n.s it may be, the expression oc- - '-cV1-s Tliat all men are created free and equal" It cannot be found in any genuine copy of the above docu- ments. It may occur in some bogus one.
 About II o'clock last night pc destrians on Washington street were startled by big flash of light in front of the telephone office. followed