Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-16

Judge R. E. Sloan is in St. Johns holding term of court.
 Cal Wilson has taken charge of the Palace cafe.
 Jacob L. Henkle is in town from his Bradshaw mountain mining camp. Will Lane of Camp Verde was in town today on business.
 Judge Sloan will hold a term of court in Navajo county next week, commencing on Monday.
 JIG. Snow has cut four crops of al- falfa this year from his ranch in Chino valley.
 H. c. Vincent of Williams, but a former resident of this place will take charge of the Congress house October 10.
 A. W. Bailey, formerly of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, has been engaged as manager of the Adams hotel in Phenix for the winter.
 Rev. H. W. Peek returned this morning from his visit to California where he attended two Methodist conferences, and to Tucson where he attended the Arizona conference.
 The Phenix Enterprise has the fol- lowing good words for Dr. .Vickers. territorial auditor: "As auditor, mem Der of the board of control and of the board of equalization, Dr. Vickers has been the most active. He has ever been obliging, courteous, and has kept the office open to the public during business hours" Passenger travel over the Santa Fe is already taxing the capacity of equipment. During the past week or two westbound trains have frequently been compelled to use two big en- gines to haul them or have been run in two sections. The limited will be put on regularly in November and the business of the road promises to be larger than ever before.
 A big oil tank for the Santa Fe railroad company is about completed at Blackberry. The company is us ing oil burning engines now as far east as Seligman.
 Prescott hotel arrivals, Oct. s, 1901: J W Smith, Octave; \ c Webster. Phenix; Geo H Gillespie, Huron; J F Swift, San Francisco; Isabelle Green, Los Angeles; O E Tyler. Los Angeles; J F Cunningham, Los An geles.
 O. E. Tyler, a Los Angeles pho tographer, ! arrived on last nights l train for the purpose of looking over the town with the view of locating here. Mir. Tyler has been in the em- ploy of Schumacher's celebrated gal lery in Los Angeles for several years and hence is well up in thevery latest improvements in photography.
 The machinery for the pvritic smelter of Slate Creek Mining com pany has arrived at the depot and will be shipped immediately to the Blue Dick mine. where it will be To- cated. The smelter will have a daily capacity of forty tons. Superinten- dent E. c. Campbell was in town to- day to look after the shipment of the machinery.
 Mrs, Clara Breen of Phenix re- turned to this city last night from San Francisco whither she went sev- eral weeks ago to undergo a surgical operation at Lanes hospital. The trouble was alleged to have been brought on by the blundering of cer- tain Pheaix physicians in treatment and operation for strangulated hernia. Dr. Stillman of Lanes hospital per formed the delicate operation and Mrs. Breen Is here in her full health and strength, an attest of the wonder ful skill Of this eminent surgeon.
 The present dusty condition of our streets iS bv no means a good adver- tisement fer our water system. The first impresSion obtained by stran- ger is tha' he city is either short of water or else the citizens are lacking in enterprise. Neither conclusion would be correct as there is an abun- dance of water and the citizens are more than filling to have it applied on the streets. It seems like a fair and just business proposition for the city council tO permit of the use of the water free for sprinkling the streets If the business men are willing to pay for the latter expense.
 T W. Boggs is in town from Big Bug today
 William Lloyd left this morning for New York.
 Mrs. Ed. Il.cE and Mrs. P. c. Will der left for tae est this morning.
 Mrs. P. Ga, I'd Miss May Mor- Morgan left s..- morning for Okla homa City.
 Mrs. J. P. nlian returned last eve ming from -E -5s' visit to Cali fornia, mucl s..-ae ! in health.
 Charles R caa.o ID on this morn ings train fryn the south. He will go out to Mayer tomorrow.
 Governor \. o. Murphy will de liver an address in favor of statehood at meeting to be held in Albuquer- que on Monday.
 The Elks added four more to theiI herd last night. They were J. B Dumas, Fen & Hildreth. C. W. Jones and Charles Esscr.
 A man namai sIndian John" ha. has been arrestc' in connection with the murder of rrlca Profit at Biz Bug. He had partial hearing yes terday, when farther hearing wa. postponed until next Monday.
 H. W. IaSkey. the energetic and liberal clothing merchant. will pre- sent a lucky customer with a magnifi cent grarhOphone on December 18th The instl ;Imont k of the latest mak, and discUurses the clearest music O any similar make.
 The San Diego correspondent O the Los Angeles Times says that ''th' case of ''Col." Hesser, charged witt the murder of Reiss POlleranO. ha been sci for November F." Th "Col." lesser spoken of was formerl, resident of Prescott. where he wa familiarity known as "Baldy" Hesser.
 A Souihern Arizona man who has dacidly German afca,,t in .r,oa l-inrr g