Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-18


 Prescott in the interest of the geolog-
 ical survey, has ascended Mount
 Soufriere twice since his arrival there
 in company with other scientists.
 They entered a dense, dusty fog, which impeded their progress as they made their way up the percipitous trail, around the awful cliffs, with ex- traordinary. courage and perseverance,, and reached the edge of the crater on the east side, reaching an altitude of 3200 feet above the sea, carrying with them a barometer. They heard water boiling and sputtering in the depths of the crater, but nothing could be seen through the fog, though the party waited consider able time. The ascent occupied four hours.
 From Saturdays Daily.
 w. H. Burbage, Winslow attorney is in town.
 Harvey Lee of the Phenix Repub- lican is in town.
 Miss Jesse Smith has resigned her position as teacher in the Tempe Normal school.
 Captain A. F. Brown, of the Cali fornic powder company, is in town on his periodical visit.
 Mrs. T. W. Otis is in Naco, Ariz., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Blake, for a fortnight.
 Miss Louie Gage of Tempe is vis- iting her sister and brother-in-law, Mir. and Mrs. R. B. Burmister.
 Attorneys, E. S. Clark, J. E. Jones and E. NJ. Doe of Flagstaff are in town on professional business.
 E. B. Modem has moved his office into the Bashford block while the city building is being remodeled.
 Judge c. N. Sterry and T. J. Nor ton, attorneys for the Santa Fe rail road, arrived in Prescott last evening.
 A prisoner was brought in yester- day by Assessor Willard from Huron to serve a ninety days sentence in the county jail.
 The Monday club will entertain at the home of Mrs. Wm. Claypool next Monday. 1t is the regular annual meeting of the club.
 Work has been commenced on the remodeling of the city building on the south side of the plaza, and in transforming it into two story build ing.
 A man died in Jerome a few days since as result of being hit on the head with a cane. The man who committed the assault has been ar rested charged with murder.
 Today is the 125th anniversary of the adoption of the American flag, and at the request of the Women's Relief corps flags have been dis played on all flag poles in town.
 Chas.A. Walcutt, constructing quar- termaster U. S. A., arrived in Prescott last evening for the purpose of look ing over the ground with a view of improvements to Whipple.
 "The Mount of Transfguration," the fourth in the series of sermons on the "Mountain Scenes of the Bible," will be the theme at the Baptist church tomorrow evening at o'clock.
 Fred H. Potter, a capitalist of Saginaw, Michigan, father of Fred H. Potter, jr., has been visiting his son in Prescott for a few days and | left yesterday for California for a visit.
 The B. B. company has a whole barrel of watches displayed in one of | their show windows. There seems to be enough of them to watch" tue whole | territory, but they will probably all be disposed of in Prescott within a short time.
 Prescott was honored this year by | being called upon to furnish the ad- dresses at the closing exercises of each of the territorial normal schools. Judge R. E. Sloan delivered the ad- dress at Flagstaff, and Hon. R. E. Morrison at Tempe.
 "God in Nature" will be the theme | of sermon at the congregational | church tomorrow morning by Rev. H. B. Long. In the evening at 7.30 the annual children's day exercises will be held. The regular choir will be assisted by Mir. Collier, baritone solo, ist, and Mir. J. E. Barkley, cornetist. Everybody welcome.
 Rev. J. L. Lines, the Baptist Sun day school missionary for Arizona, has arrived in Prescott with his col portage wagon, and will probably | make his headquarters here this sum mer. He will speak at the Children's l day exercises at the Baptist church l tomorrow morning.
 The Prescott Electric company has purchased the telephone exchange and the entire line owned by the Jer- ome company. The line extended to Lonesome valley where it connected with the Prescott line, forming long distance between Prescott and JeI- ome. The Prescott company is reach ing out for business all over the county.
 c. B. Linn has inaugurated a new departure in his line of business, giv- to patrons an opportunity for profit able investment. He has 1000 pack ages of goods in envelopes that have one price. 25c, and in these en- velopes the prizes contained are as high in value as S10. For further in formation read wfat he says on the 1 first page.
 The editor of the Journal-Miner last night held a conversation with F. L. Wright at Martinez over the tele- phone line of the Arizona State Tele- phone company. The line was in splendid working condition and Mir. Wright's voice sounded as natural as if he had been standing in front of the party addressing him instead of be- ing fifty miles distant.
 While Rev. G. H. Adams was asleep in his room recently at Cananea, some one entered and stole his vest. The only thing of value in it was a watch of special manufacture, the dial of which was illuminated, on account of the defective eyesight of MT. Adams and it also had striking to enable him to tell the hour. He had Sl00 in his trousers