Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-24


 Wm. Button of the Button Mining company of Minnehaha left for the east this morning on mining business. He was accompanied by his wife and will be absent couple of months.
 John Shea, the victim of a mining accident at Bisbee recently, it is said will lose his eyes. Shea was one of the Fourth of July drillers in Pres colt.
 R N. Fredericks yesterday pur- chased the lot on the west side of the plaza adjoining Sam Hills store, and 8 lot in Goose Flat, both belonging to the Bacon estate for $500.
 The warmest day of the season at Tent City, Coronado Beach, Cal, this year was 82 degrees at noon; at 8 D. m. of the same day it was only 76 de- grees, and by the sea, too-what a paradisel
 A steamship from Alexandria, Egypt, discharged 37,OOO bags of cane sugar at New Orleans the other day. Things might, however, be worse. No outsider has yet begun shipping beer to Milwaukee.-Chica- go Record Herald.
 By the premature explosion of a blast John H. Baker, IT,, was killed and Willie Pemberton badly hurt at their mining claim on the Salome, about twelve miles from Upper Salt rlver in Gila county, on Saturday, July 13.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals-J T San ders, Jerome; Taylor Gearbash, Pres colt; John Hanlon, Crown Point; Geo n Millner, Zonia, Ariz; c H Henning, McCabe; Geo H Gillespie, Huron, Ariz; Jas R Liston, Bradshaw; c c Stuckey, Walker; J W Thurber, Will Hams; F A Davis and wife, Prescott;
 Reports from various sections give evidence that the beet sugar industry of Southern California is experienc- ing 8 season of unprecedented pros Perity. For the first time in the his tory of the industry all of the factor iee are in full operation. It is esti- mated that more than S1.OOO 900 will be paid during the coming three months for beets, labor and supplies.
 This is about the time of year when the man with the old last years straw hat exchanges it at some restaurant or other meeting place of men for some brand new, up-to-date piece of head gear belonging to some one else and never noticed the difference. But the other fellow never fails to notice .h.-Boston Herald.
 Our contemporary this morning even attacks the Journal Miners thermometer. It has been known for years that the Journal Miner was not being run to suit its contemporary. and we may be compelled to break the thermometer just to please the Courier.
 Surveyor General Christ received a telegram yesterday from his son, George Christ, Jr., who is in Wash ington, to the effect that he had just come from an interview with the sec retary of the interior, and that he had been assured that General Christ would be reappointed immediately upon assembling of congress.-Tuc- son Star.
 Dr. Miller, a former resident of Prescott and for two years superin- tendent of the insane asylum, died at Flagstaff on Monday. He had been seriously ill in Phenix, but was inn proving and left there hoping that a higher and cooler altitude would fla cilitate his recovery. He leaves a wife and one son, the latter having been in this county for some time. 1hedoctor was en route to New Mexico and was taken sick on the train with pneumonia, being taken of the train at Flagstaff on Saturday night, dying at S:3O last night.
 Another refreshing shower visited Prescott this afternoon.
 It was the hot weather. Now it is the pesky fly that is getting in his work.
 Jesse c. Moore of DanviIle, H., has been appointed Indian agent of the Colorado River agency in Arizona.
 Holder of ticket No. 659 has not called at H. W. Laskey & Companv's for his wheel. Second drawing will take place Saturday night at s o'clock.
 A cat brought to Iron Springs from Phenix become dissatisfied with the place and returned to its home in Phenix afoot and alone.
 A bicycle with railroad attachment has put in an appearance. A young zssn necently made the trip from Phe- sBix 4o Prescott on one of the ma chimes.
 ahe case of J. Stanley Brown vs. John H. Hise was dismissed today in the district court, and the case of Dague vs. E. S. Butler ct al was con tinued for the term.
 That eighteen-ton block of granite has been placed in position in the front of the Prescott National Bank building over the doorway. While it is quite massive looking it does not impress one with its magnitude as it did when on the wagon being trans ported to the building.
 Miss Nellie Checker, the pleasant and efficient cashier at R. H. Burmis- ter & Sons Co.'S mammoth grocery store, is enjoying her well earned and much needed vacation which she is spending in the country. - Adolph Mosher is enjoying few days rest from the city delivery wagon of the BIB company. MT. Mosher has put in several months on the wagon without the loss of day. and has well earned his rest.
 c. H. Bushnell, a forest ranger in charge of the Crowned King section of the Prescott forest reserve, who | recently resigned his position on ac- count of haying more important and | more lucrative business is in town | today. While resigning his position MT. Bushnell intends remaining in Arizona.
 The Congress House, under Mrs. Ed Creelman's management, is one of the most popular hotels in Prescott. Nice rooms, newly fitted up, the best table boand and pleasant and courte- ons treatment are the inducements at | the Congress House. Try it. 7-23tf. 70 In pigeon hunt, near Phenix, the other day, by Jos. W. Holmes of Kincyfnan -nr CoI1b of Nau- Orlaaos