Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-03-13
Aooa's Sas.sapas-fIla
TUESDAYS DAILY.


 land yesterday and reports the Kirk land valley in good shape after the plentiful rainfall there.
 Peter Hermann, of Agua Fria, was lodged in jail in Prescott yesterday with charge of disturbing the peace against him.
 The Japanese social to be given by the Rebekah lodge at the Odd Eel lows hall tomorrow night promises to be very enjoyable.
 With the legislature in session and band of safe crackers in her midst, Phenix is in most unenviable position these days.
 Prescott's old, reliable clothier, Ed. Block, wishes to speak to our readers and has new advertisement in to- days issue. Our people know that when Mir. Block makes promise he will keep it, so don't fail to see what he has to say.
 The office room of the Prescott Ho- tel is being considerably enlarged to accommodate the rapidly increasing patronage of this justly popular hos teiry. The bar and partition have been moved back, making over double the room formerly used fer an office room. Murray is bound to have everything needed for the comfort and conve- nienoe of his patrons.
 
 The will of the late David w. Shivers, of Chino valley, was approved and admitted to probate today. Mrs. J. L. Fisher was appointed admins tratrix, with the will annexed. The will distributes the estate among the children, who are, Mrs. J. L. Fisher, of Prescott; Mrs. Harrington, of Phenix; Mrs Forse, of Tempe, and John Shivers, of Chino vallay.
 Pheni1 has just had safe-cracking experience, the safe of Walter Hill & Co. having been blown open on Sun day morning. No booty of any value was secured and the only loss sustain ed was the wreck of the safe. The work was evidently done by green hands, who were frightened away be- fore the job was completed.
 The man named Maher, who yield ed the knife with such telling effect on another man named Manning, at McCabe, had his hearing before Jus tice Crawford at that place yesterday, and was bound over under bond of 5000 to appear before the next grand jury. Manning is still in a critical condition.
 z. The Bashford-Burmister company have a change of their advertisement today that it will pay you to read. This firm has one of the largest gen eral merchandise stocks ever brought into the territory and have some new lines they wish to tell you about. If you read you may profit.
 Our officers should keep a close lookout for suspicious looking charac- ters, as the territory is having more than her share of lawlessness of late. No quarter should be shown law breakers in Arizona, for they are a class that we can we'll get along with out.
 Allen Jones, of the Emperor mine, met with painful accident a couple of days ago. While pouring gasoline from a can the fluid became ignited, badly burning him about the hands and face. He may thank his stars he was not monkeying with a bucking gasoline engine or the sulphur smoke that usually permeates room where such a machine is might have com bined with the gasoline flames and ended his life.
 D. J. Holdridge, who has been em- ployed in the auditors office of the s. F. P. & P. and P. & E. railways, has accepted an important position with the New York Betting company, a large institution in New York City, and will leave for that place the latter part of this week to assume his new duties. Mr. Holdridge has been a trusted employe in his present posi- tion for the past five or six years, and is not only one of the most popular young men in the general offices among bis fellow employees and the officials of the road, but is equally popular and well liked by our people gener- ally, and Prescott will lose one of her best citizens. Yet. while the Journal Miner regrets losing Mir. Holdridge from our midst, it joins his friends in congratulations for the new and en- larged duties and responsibilities and wishing him success.
 Geo. Broker, one of the old Hasssay- ampers of Yavapai county, and also one Of her best citizens, was in from his Sycamore creek home yesterday i and made the Journal Miner a pleas ant call. George has read the Jour ual-Miner for so many years that he says he can't do without it, and fol- lowing. the precedence he set many years ago, paid his sub scriPtion a year in advance. If-all | subscribers were like George, the newspaper man would be able to get at least two changes of sox a year, have a good square meal once in awhile, and put on other airs too nu- s-e-0ASt-o " Ihs7tAsAOn,
 Prescott hotel arrivals, March II, 1901: CIV Towsley, Denver, Col; R Grigsby, Phenix; F NJ Townsend, Los Angeles, Cal; Miss Nellie Anderson, Jhas D Hazerigg, Geo Andrews,'and wife, Ed. Andrews and wife, Florence Clayton, c A Parker, Fritz Huffman and Fred Freeman, Andrews Opera Co; R M Fulton, Kansas City, Mo; A B Mitchell, Yolger mine; Wm Park, Williams; co Stuckey, Walker; 70 H Allabach, Meath;J B Gillespie, fhenlx; Jesse A Robinson, Big Bug; A B Clinkscalcs, Jerome.
 See that you get the original De Wits Witch Hazel Salve when you ask for it The genuine is a certain cure for piles, sores and skin diseases. Brisley Drug Go. and W. W. Ross.