Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-21
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 CITY AND COUNTY.
WEDNESDAY, S DAILY

 several days on account of washouts Special Agent A. F. Leach left thi: morning for Williams on government business.
 Rev. Leon O. Lewis will go to Phe- nix tomorrow to attend camp meet } ing.
 w. D. Britt, brother of Mrs. Leon o. Lewis, has returned to his home at Columbus, Georgia.
 The sheriff has appointed four dep- uties at Jepome. He must be antici- pating some extra business in his line at the big copper camp.
 S. c. Rogers was in town yesterday from Charmingdale. He is engaged in marketing thecrop from his Charm ingdale ranch. He reports fine rains in that section.
 Capt. L. D. Philips has returned from trip to Denver. He was de- tained on his trip by washouts, five days being spent in making the trip from Prescott to Denver.
 c. W. Bartholomew, the Colorado mining man who has been in this sec tion since last February, expects to leave in few days for Denver, and will not return to Arizona again until October or November.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals August IS: c H Prahen, Hillsdale; J W Smith, Setave; Max Alwens, Maxton; B W McManus, Phenix; c W Platt, Kirk land; E Trenberth and wife, Mrs Dan Reams, Mrs A J Peterson, Providence, w Colbeck, Copper creek; L D Phil lips, Denver.
 The railroad people come up smil- ing after each washout and repair breaks made by floods with prompt ness. They repaired all breaks yes terday which occurred the previous day and had their tracks ready for trains to pass over last night again. They are now ready for the next cloud burst and are waiting for it.
 The bullet which Millie Grannon fired into her body either by accident or design was yesterday extracted from her thigh. The bullet, it is said, passed through her body from the front to her spinal column and was dehected by it downward to the point from where it was extracted.
 As the pote says: 'opporchunity knocks at ivry dure wanst. On some miI-s dures it hammers till it breaks down the dure, and thin it goes in an iver afterwards it worrucks f'r him as night watchman. On other min's dures 1t knocks an runs away, an on tn dures av some min it knocks, and whin they come out it hits thim over the head wid an ax.-Mr. Dooley.
 Frank Reno, a former resident of Prescott, but who has been away from here for about six years, arrived here on last nights tIain from the north. MT. Reno is now a deputy United States marshal and brought Mexi- can to Jail from Coconino county, who is charged with starting forest fire there. MT. Reno is very popular young man and has received a hearty welcome back to Prescott by his le- gSn of friends here.
 Geo. H. Cook went to Phenix a day or two since.
 Frank Mulrein will leave tomorrow for San Francisco where he will spend hIs vacation.
 Jules Baumann will leave tomorrow for Los Angeles on mining business. He expects to be absent for about a week or ten days.
 General A. J. Sampson, of Phenix, and United States minister to Ecua- dor, arrived in the east d few days since as the bearer of a personal mes sage from the President of Ecuador to President Mckinley.
 The s. F., P. X P. railroad has had a pretty heavy tax levied on it during the past ten days by the floods of water which have bumped up against it, at different points. There will probably be let up on the ''taxless toot" squawk for short time in con- sequence of it.
 The Prescott Electric company has completed its line to Del Rio and es. tablished communication today with the Del Rio pump and Jerome June. tion. This company is covering the telephone field in this section of coun, try thoroughly. A line to William. and Flagstaff is contemplated in the near future.
 The man Vivian, who was arrested at Bedding, has established an alibi and has proven to. the satisfaction O Sheriff Munds that he is not Fore man, the Jerome murderer. He prov ed that he was in San Francisco ol June 6, the day the murder was com mitted. The singular part of it that the description of Foreman tal lies exactly with the description C Vivian, height, complexion, color ( hair and eyes, and even to the loss ( two fingers from his right hand an a mashed thirl finger on the lei band.
 It is rumorel in railroad circl, that it is the in.eation of the Sant Fe to build branch line to Eldorad Canyon to point on the main lir near Ibex, eight miles west of il Needles The fine will pass up il valley to Searcli- h; and will the veer around to the west and pass C up to the Canyon. This line wouI open up one of the richest mining r, gions on the Pacific coast and wou prove to be big paying short lin Besides Searchlight and the CanyC it would reach the mines of the riv section that are now inaccessible. this road was built the business Eldorado Canyon would maintain while the profits would come fro the itermediate business of Scare light and the river mines.- Moha Miner.
 Recent floods, in addition to dal aging the pumping plant at Del R has also, it is stated, washed out small section of the pipe line. Arizona flood is no respecter of p sons, but just sweeps everything ! 91-.