Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-02
From Thursdays Daily.

] The little boy of z. \. Mechanism,
who has been quite sick for some time,
and not expected to live. is somewhat
improved today.
| II. II. Carter has taken quite num-
Der of horses from his Yaeger canyon
ranch to the Verde valley. on account
of the shortage of range feed ut his
lone place.
Delegate Wilson has introduced n
| bill to authorize the Arizona Water
company to construct a power plant
on the Pima Indian reservation in
MaricOpa county.
The JOurnal-NIiner is now using a
Merganthaler machine ana has greatly
/ increased the amount of reading mat
/ ter. The IN. now has Il metropolitan
appearance.-Jerome News.
Our contemporary. by using Mr..
/ Swayback as n fictitious character this
morning announces its policy in n
/ very frank and candid manner. so that
/ parties hereafter need not be mistaken.
The Phenix telephone exchange has
| just adopted the system of ringing
/ for its subscribers calls instead of
/ having patrons perform that service.
This system has been in vogue in
/ Prescott for several months.
]. L. Mari. a prosperous rancher of
| the Verde valley. who, with his neice.
/ Miss Edna Mari. has been spending n
few days in Prescott. returned home
today. Miss Mari is quite well known
to many of our young people. having
attended school in this city for some
time.
| ]. w Pierce. one of the most extern
Sive and prosperous sheep men of
| Apache county. and who has been driv-
! ing his sheep through the eastern part
Of this county on their way to the
mountain ranges from the Salt River
valley. is in Prescott today. purchasing
large bill of supplies for his camp
The Prescott post office has received
supply OF the stamp books and is
now prepared to supply them to all
who wish them. Icy are in sizes
containing twelve, twenty-fOur and
| fOrty-eight stamps, and are sold at a
price l cent above the face value. The
stamps are separated by sheets of
parafine paper to prevent sticking.
The books are of very convenient
size
Mrs. Brantley, n cOlOred lady who
recently arrived from Chicago with
her son. who has been in poor health
since last September. at which time he
was struck in the side by Il base ball.
left this afternoon with her son for
PheniX. Mr.. Brantley is hardly eX
pected to live. as the doctors say an
abScess has formed on his liver. but
the loving mother is doing all in her
power to saveSAis life.
c. NJ. Bass and Miss LaIla De Mar
were married last night at the resi-
dence of Mr. and Mrs. NJ Z. NORM
in East Prescott. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. F. L. Bennett, only
Il few intimate friends being present
The couple are very popular and the
best wishes of a host of friends 90
out to them. May their cup of hap
pineSs he filled to overlooking is the
wish of the JOurnal-Miner.
The Pullman private car Haslemere.
i'm which H. b. Clifford and party
came from the east. was brought in
this afternoon by the Z. * E. train.
Mr. Clifford and party left it ut Dewey
this morning and We're driven across
country in private conveyances. to
Jerome. where they will inspect the
big copper camp. and will leave to-
morrow for the east on their return
trip. The private car will go north
from Prescott and the party take
charge of it ut Jerome Junction.