Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-21


 population this year of about 475.
 Manager Mitchell denies that he has been bounced from the Cobre Grande management or that any trouble has existed there of any kind.
 B. D. Treadwell left this morning for Mexico on mining business. Mrs. Treadwell left for San Francisco for visit with relatives during his absence.
 J. NJ. Elder came in from Jerome yesterday on mining business, which will keep him in Prescott for some time.
 Charles P. Traylor. who recently sold some mining claims near Harqua Hala for S6,0O0, left yesterday for visit to his former home in Texas.
 George Carrun, x-city marshal of Winslow, has been lodged in jail at Holbrook, charged with embedding S33O belonging to the town of Wins low.
 Cecil G. Fennell returned last night from an extended visit east. His present visit is to look after the Val Verde smelter and get it ready for operation.
 Judge H. T. Andrews has rented offices in the Bashford block, and Robert Hetherington will occupy the rooms vacated by him on the east side of the plaza.
 J. P. Dillon is moving into the room in the Lawler block recently vacated by Barthel X Stocks. Wells. Fargo & Co. will move into the room vacated by MT. Dillon.
 According to law passed by the last legislature it becomes imperative for every city council to publish the proceedings of its meetings and the reports of all officers made to it on and after September 1st.
 The present season has been the most favored one for rain since the summer of 1883.
 Mrs. Clara Breen, of Phenix, who left this city on Thursday last to un- dergo surgical operation at Lane hospital, San Francisco, is reported doing nicely in that institution.
 An ice famine in Flagstaff for the past few days has caused the local iceman to draw on the Ice Caves nine miles south of town. Nature has been very kind to these people to fur nish them natural ice in the middle of August.-Gem.
 W. A. Drake, J. H. Emmert and E. B. Gage all left for the east last week. | It is said that the occasion of their visit there Is an important railroad meeting at which the question of the immediate construction of the rail road to the Crowned King is to be considered.
 John Kinney returned yesterday 1 from a visit to relatives in Iowa, and | from hobnobbing with statesmen in | that and other states in the east. He | reports having had a very pleasant l visit but glad to get back to Arizona. He was accompanied on his return l by his seventeen year old daughter and son.
 The street supervisor made vio- lent threat to improve the condition | of the streets, but before he could | carry the threat into execution it be- | gan to rain. It has rained so much lately that the streetsare covered with | water, and the street supervisor now devotes his time sitting on the side walks fishing for mountain trout and | cat fish.-Flagstaff Gem.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals August I9: J NJ Elder, Prescott; w B FoIsvth. Los Angeles; E D Seaton, Meyer; Edward Heckson, Virginia; Geo F More, McCabe; Wm Gnall, Williams: E l. Hayaman, Great Falls, Montana: E Pasquelletti and wife, Sacramento: F T Hurley, Phenix; c S Smith, Je- rome.
 This pay day went of quietly. One "Hungrygarian" concluded to get playful along the row, but the second old timer he ran against hit him on the top of the head so hard it sprain- ed both his ankles and he subsided. Muldoon got his usual rake of out of the generous and stimulating public. The boys all found their jobs ready for them when they went back, and all went merry as marriage bell.- Globe Times.
 The government closed its case last evening in the examination of Joe Bush and Edith Simms, charged with violation of the Edmonds act. The defense will have an inning to- morrow morning and in the meantime in default of S1,OO0 bond they are spending their time iD jail Bush says that his name is not Bush but Schaef.
 Our esteemed friend, Charlie Dris- coll, while going to his lodging apart ments last Monday night, fell over an embankment and was considerably chunked up about the head and body. Charlie is in his sixties, and carries a bum leg besides, as the result of ' mine explosion in which eight or ten ( men were killed. Charlie has graced , the Arizona legislature in the capacity of member and chief clerk, and is l identified with the pioneer days of Arizona, from start to finish. His { many friends in Globe are glad to : 1N<'AA eh1e hAo III yOA lCo ctl uOb S6GlOuS. l I Globe Times. f The city council is composed of | fnanciers. The Journal Miner editor C was called before them yesterday and J convinced that he was about ten per cent better of than be had been esti- C mating his holdings. He-was only one of about a dozen or more who C were there by invitation from the I council, and as far as observed every | one came away convinced that the I city council was right and they were s wrong. If raises are made in the as a sessment of every taxpayer in propor- V ton to the lift given the writer there I should be no scarcity of revenue, next V year. C Seven tenths of all the large tracts of demonstrated oil lands in Ken River, and nearly all in the Sunset and McKittrick fields in California, ! has been tied up for the purpose of l consolidating into one great company, ! and it is proposed to put the price of l oil at sixty cents in the field at once. . or S1.00 per barrel delivered in San I Francisco. On the strength of this O it is said that the Spreckles Sugar e Refinery has contracted with the I'm